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Associated Press (AP)
ABILENE, TEXAS, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 18, 1952 —SIXTEEN PAGES IN TWO SECTIONS
New Record Set
In MIGs Destroyed
SEOUL, Korea, Sept 18 O-U. S.
Sabre jet pilots today blasted
four Red MIG-15s out of North Ko-
rean skies and raised to a record
46 the number of Communist war-
planes destroyed in one month, the
U S. Fifth Air Force said.
The four destruction claims, plus
confirmation of a Sept. 4 kill,
pushed September's figure past the
previous high of 44, set in April, ga
The April figure included 41 MIGs -
destroyed in air combat and three
propeller-driven fighters caught on <
the ground. ■
The September Allied pilots also J
reported three MIGs probably de- I
stroyed and 36 damaged.
The sleek Sabres were flying pro-
tective cover for F-84 Thunderjet 1
fighter-bombers near the Manchur-
Gen. Ike Calls
For Consistent
Fann Program
■ By JACK BELL
I ABOARD EISENHOWER SPE-
■ CIAL Sept. 18 W—Gen. Dwight D.
I Eisenhower carried his campaign
I into politically-vital Minnesota to-
I day with a call for a "consistent"
farm program.
Speaking before a crowd esti-
i mated at almost 3.000 persons at
■ Albert Lea, the Republican presi-
I dential nominee accused the Dem-
B oerats of putting the farmer "In
£ the middle" by conflicting price
g control and agricultural aid pro-
■ grams.
VENING
FINAL
PRICE DAILY 5c, SUNDAY 10c
New Demo Ticket
acked in Court
ian border when 55 MIGs swarmed
out of their Manchurian sanctuary.
Five air battles ensued.
In addition to the four Red jets
destroyed, Sabre pilots reported
two damaged.
ATTACK BOATS
The fighter-bombers attacked a
military boat concentration on Ko-
rea's west coast in the Sinmi Is-
land area near Sinuiju.
Pilots said one 35-foot boat was
destroyed and two damaged, and
six smaller boats were destroyed
and 22 damaged.
Farther south, other fighter
bombers attacked two troop con-
centrations near Sariwon The Air
Force reported 45 buildings lev-
eled and four others damaged.
The air battles over North Ko-
rea came after Allied bombers
plastered Red targets across the
battered Korean Peninsula last
night with tons of high explosives.
B29 Supertorts returned to Pyong-
yang and pounded that North Ko-
' reans capital with more than 100
tons of bombs. Their fly-by-night
partners, twin-engined B26‘s, rang,
ed over the Red highway network
and reported 128 Red trucks de-
stroyed. It was the biggest bag
since May and the fourth straight
night pilots reported destruction of
more than 100 Red trucks.
PUPPY-TERIA — Five orphan pups are fed assembly-line
style with this unpatented puppy-teria. Nine-days-old, the
English bulldogs were born by Caesarian section and their
mother died several hours later. Dr. Cecil B. Cook, of Miami,
rigged up the feeding box for them, using baby bottles and
nipples. He feeds them the same formula his own six-year-
old son used when he was a baby. (AP Wirephoto)
Cheered by his crowd-packed re-
ception in 13 appearances in Illi-
nols and Indiana yesterday, Eisen-
A bower swung hard against the
a Democratic domestic and foreign
programs.
a He said that farmers were
a “caught in the middle" last fall
when the Office of Price Stabili-
B zation (OPS) threatened to clamp
price controls on hogs at the same
time the Agriculture Department
was saying that the oversupply of
hogs would prevent any price in-
creases.
Land for Air Base
To Be Condemned
Within 15 Days
FIGHTING IN LULL
Ground fighting tapered
off
along the 155-mile battlefront with
only a few minor Red probes re-
ported.
The B29s hit a supply area to
Pyongyang without opposition.
The bombers, based in Okinawa
and Japan, flew over heavy clouds
and aimed their bombs with elec-
tronic devices.
Aerial reconnaissance had Indi-
cated heavy truck traffic la the
target area and a large buildup
of war supplies for the front.
Other B26s hit a supply area at
Pukchong on the East Coast.
Condemnation proceedings for
the land needed for Abilene Air
Field which representatives of the
Chamber of Commerce have not
been able to acquire will be filed
in United States District Court
within approximately 15 days.
E. L. Early, attorney for the U.
S. Army Engineers, told a meeting
of the National Defense Commit-,
tee of the Chamber of Commerce
County Judge Io
Ask Employment
Of Night Jailor
The population of the Taylor
County jail has increased so with-
in the last year that recommenda-
tion will be made for the em-
ployment of a night jailer. County
Judge Reed Ingalsbe said Tues-
day.
-We now have 42 prisoners in
the jail as compared with only
nine at this time last year," Judge
Ingalsbe said.
"At the Taylor County Commis-
sioners' court meeting Monday
this will be the first business on
the agenda." Judge Ingalsbe said.
He thought the members would
look favorably upon the proposal
to employ another jailer
“A prospective applicant is al-
ready in mind but his name will
not be announced until and if the
court agrees to employ him," the
Judge said.
Tuesday morning that he would
gather data within the next few
days for U. S. Attorney Frank B.
Potter, who will file the proceed-
ings. He added that it should not
take longer than 15 days to have
the papers ready for filing.
He said that upon filing of the
proceedings the court will be ask-
ed to grant an order for Immedi-
ate possession and that this will
clear the way for military authori-
ties to go ahead with any survey
work that is necessary.
Condemnation proceedings are a
process under which the govern-
ment acquires land and interest
in land for a public use by court
procedure.
IMMEDIATE TITLE
Early said that immediately up-
on filing of a "Declaration of Tak-
ing" that title becomes vested in
the United States.
The court arbitrates the amount
that will be paid to the private
owners.
Funds for paying the private
owners will be furnished to the
government by a special fund of
the Chamber of Commerce that
has been given by Abilene busi-
nessmen for this purpose.
At the present time, six land-
owners whose land is needed for
the air field have not signed con-
tracts with the chamber.
They own approximately 1,000
acres of the 5,500 acre tract to be
included in the field.
Early said that plans call for in-
cluding all six of them in the con-
demnation proceedings but that if
I any of them decide to enter con-
tract with the C-C prior to that
time that they will, of course, be
dropped from the suit
Early said that the government
also proposes to condemn and ac-
quire all mineral rights where the
Chamber of Commerce has been
unable to acquire these rights by
direct negotiationandpurchase.
Early said that simultaneously
with the filing of the "Declaration
of Taking" that there will be de-
posited in the registry of the court
an amount estimated to be just
compensation for the land and in-
terests condemned.
The C-C has already entered into
contracts with owners of approxi-
mately 3.000 acres of the needed
land.
The city of Abilene owns 1.575
acres of the land and has agreed
to give it to the government for
the field
In other air base developments
Tuesday, it was announced that
the meeting of the fund raising
committee which had been called
for Tuesday has been postponed to
an unspecified date.
At the present time, the fund
raising committee is working to
raise $75,000 in pledges for the
fund,
A total of $800,000 has been pled-
ged of which approximately $600,-
000 has been paid.
CONSISTENT
“As for the Republicans, we will
be consistent,” Eisenhower said.
"Having made a farm program,
we will not back and fill."
Eisenhower mixed his bid for
the farm vote with an attack on
Truman Administration foreign
policies
Eisenhower's invasion of the
Midwest in his serious . minded
bid for the presidency evoked
cheers from his campaign mana-
gers.
Arthur Summerfield, Republican
national chairman, told a re-
porter Elsenhower's backers are
"entidely satisfied" with the Im-
pression the general made on
about a quarter of a million per-
sons who turned out to see and
hear him in Illinois and Indiana
yesterday.
Summerfield said Eisenhower
will continue to deprecate the ley-
ity with which his Democratic op-
ponent. Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson
of Illinois, has described Republi-
can reaction to many of the issues
of the day.
GENERAL ‘SINCERE’
“Gen. Eisenhower’s own sincer-
ity and his recognition of the ser-
lousness of the situation existing
today contrasts sharply with hla
opponent’s wisecracks and I be.
lieve that fact is impressing the
people," Summerfield said.
Eisenhower will desert hla cam-
paign train temporarily thia after-
noon to fly to New York, where
See EISENHOWER, Pg. 3-A, Col. 3
Church Says
If Will Defy
Ilalian Ban
ROME, Sept 18 (—The Church
of Christ promised today that next
Sunday worship services will be
held in the 22 Italian cities where
it operates despite a police ban.
"We will bold services," Cline R.
Paden, head of the American-led
Protestant denomination said.
He said that if police refuse to
allow services at the modest Rome
church-as they did last Sunday—
worship would take place "some-
where else.”
Last Sunday an evening service
was held in a private home whose
location was kept secret from the
authorities.
Paden said the church "certain-
ly" will attempt to conduct Sunday
services at the Churches of Christ
in 20 Italian cities where police
have not yet physically intervened
to prevent them.
So far police have acted only at
Rome and Alessandria. But a po-
lice spokesman said yesterday all
services of the Church of Christ
are banned until the church com-
piles with Italian laws requiring of-
ficial authorization for cults and
ministers of cults to operate.
Religious denominations other
than the Roman Catholic are of-
ficially regarded as cults in Italy.
Paden said that the police ban is
"only against our services or wor-
ship Our teaching and classes of
Bible study have not been iater-
rupted."
. However, the church today was
notified by police headquarters that
it has been refused permission to
put up posters announcing a long
planned series of lectures sched-
uled to begin Friday, Paden »ald.
Such permission is required under
Italian law.
FIESTA CLIMAX
Mexican Independence Day
Queen's Coronalion Tonight
Speculation Arises Stevenson
Will Confer With President
SPRINGFIELD. Sept 18 —
Gov. Adlai Stevenson is scheduled
to go to Washington Saturday, his
headquarters announced today, and
speculation arose about another
meeting between the Democratic
presidential candidate and Presi-
dent Truman.
Stevenson opens a second cam-
paign tour, covering the Atlantic
seaboard Thursday.
An aide disclosed today that the
governor will arrive in Washington
by air at approximately 10 a.m.
(CST) Saturday, en route to the
Marine Corps Base at Quantico.
Va. His son. Adlai. III. is in of-
ficers training school there.
Stevenson will make what was
described as a "non-campaign
talk" at the Marine Base, and on
to Richmond, Va., for a speech
there Saturday night
Stevenson said yesterday he has
exchanged several telephone calls
with Truman and found a letter
from the President waiting for him
when he returned from his recent
Western trip.
Stevenson said, referring to the
President’s forthcoming "whistle-
stop" trip-"I would certainly ap-
prove of whatever he chose to do
with respect to this campaign."
He said Truman's letters to him
were “just very pleasant letter* of
encouragement."
The governor's itinerary leaves
next Bunday a blank. It is his cus-
tom not to make speeches on Sun-
days and observers suggested he
might take the opportunity to con-
fer with Truman, In the White
HouK before going back to New
York for a speech before the Amer-
ican Federation of Labor conven-
tion Monday.
He last saw the President, Aug.
12, in Washington
There are indications at head-
quarters today that the Demo-
cratic presidential candidate is re-
drafting his campaign strategy.
The event that appears to have
changed his position was last
week's meeting between Gen
Dwight D. Eisenhower, his GOP
opponent,* and Sen. Robert A.
Taft of Ohio. Stevenson says Ei-
senhower's "great crusade has be-
come the great surrender," that
Taft has "taken over" the gen-
eral's campaign. And he added:
"This puts an entirely new as-
pect on the campaign and on the
election.'’ t
He has been in long strategy
conference with his chief lieuten-
ants the past two days.
Up to this point, he has been
pegging away at the claim of "dis-
unity" among the Republicans, ar-
guing that the Taft hackers and
the Eisenhower supporters consti-
tuted s "two-headed elephant " He
found many phrases to twit his
political enemies on that score
Correspondents asked him. In a
news conference yesterday, wheth-
er he will continue that line now
that Taft and Eisenhower have
held the long-awaited meeting. He
replied: “That remains to be
seen.” k‘
Youth Wrecks
Car, Flees
RANGER, Sept. 16. (RNS -
Ranger and Strawn police lost the
trail of a young man in the brush
and hills east of Ranger Tuesday
morning after the youth wrecked a
car in a chase in Ranger.
Ranger City Policeman Ralph
Veal attempted to stop the "sus-
picious-looking" youing man in the
car in Ranger about 3:15 a.m. He
turned his spotlight on the youth
and the chase began.
The youth attempted to make a
sharp turn to the left to escape the
police car. Veal said. The car, a
1951 gray Ford reported stolen ear-
lier in the night from Leo Cosby,
Strawn used car dealer, went into
the ditch and hit a telephone pole,
at the intersection of Pine St. and
the Breckenridge highway. The
car was not badly damaged.
The youth, minus one shoe and
wearing a white shirt and no hat
leaped from the wrecked automox,
bile and fled into the brush. Veal
called for help from- Ranger Po-
licemen Ed Freeman and John
Shook and Strawn Constable Ben
Bradford, who attempted to track
the youth down near Ranger.
The young man was spotted at
a filling stantion east of Ranger a
short while later, but he again
fled when the officers approached.
Officers chased for about five
miles before losing the trail.
WHAT’S NEWS
ON INSIDE PAGES
WIST FAVORS IKE — Mountain
and Western stores slightly favor
Eisenhower, poll of editors shows--
but it may change Page S.A.
CHAMPS NEAR DEFEAT— Clovis
Pioneers, season champions of West
Texas-New Mexico League, trail
Amarillo three games to ore Page
6A
CIRCUS IS HERE — Shrine Circus
begins first two of six performances
here Tuesday. Page 18
FALL IN CHURCH FATAL—Dicky
Burnom, 13, formerly of Abilene,
dies in 75-foot fall from Lubbock
Church of Christ tower. Page 1-B.
Mayor Ernest Grissom willGuadalupe Herrera, last year’s
crown Dora Moreno, queen of the 1 queen, will present the mayor with
Mexican Independence Day Fiesta her crown for the new queen %
Tuesday night at 7:30 o’clock. 1
The coronation, an entertain-
ment program and a ball will be
held at, the fiesta grounds, just
north of the Sam Houston School
on North 6th and Cottonwood Sts,
to climax the three-day Mexican
independence celebration.
The fiesta grounds, gaily deck-
ed in Mexican flags and the red,
green and white colors of Mexico,
have been the scene of two balls
and programs since Sunday night.
Tuesday celebration will start at
4 p m with a procession beginning
at the school grounds Girls,
dressed in white with the Mexican
colors, will march and sing.
Following the procession will be
several speeches honoring the he-
roes of Mexico Senoritas of dlf.
ferent ages, under the direction
of Senora Lucina B. Villarreal,
will present polkas and the Mexi-
can hat dance. The coronation of
the queen will follow the program.
Dancing in the pavilion for
everyone will be featured after the
coronation.
The queen's court of honor will
consist of Amelia Moreno, Lile
Marquee and Francisca Benites.
Booths at the fiesta grounds will
offer food and drink, earnival-type
contests, and facilities for making
photographs for those attending
the festivities.
Early Tuesday morning a 21-gun
salute waa given by canon to com-
memorate the Mexican Independ-
ence Day, Sept. 16, 1810 Both the
Mexican and American national
anthems were played during the
salute by a band under the direc-
tion of Gonzalo Gonzalez.
Sunday activites, included a
baseball game in the afternoon be-
tween Loa Lobos of Merkel end Los
Piratas of Abilene. A dance was
held in the pavilion of the fiesta
grounds Sunday night.
A second dance was held Mon-
day night preceded by recitations
by school children. A talk honor-
ing the heroes of Mexico was given
by Alberto F. Millen, president of
the festival committee.
THE WEATHER
U.S. DEPARTMENT or COMMERCE
WEATHER BUREAU
ABILENE AND VICINITY —Partly cloudy
today and Wednesday. Mostly clear tonight
Possible thundershowers late this afternoon
High temperature this afternoon 95 low
tonight 65. high tomorrow 92
EAST TEXAS: Partly cloudy Tues-
day Tuesday night and Wednesday with
widely scattered thundershowers extreme
south portion Tuesday afternoon Not much
change In temperature Gentle to moderate
variable winds on the coast,
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS: Partly
cloudy Tuesday, Tuesday night and Wednes-
day with scattered thundershowers Tues-
for and in south portion Wednesday Not
much change in temperature. Gentle to
moderate variable winds on the coast
NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS: Partly cloudy
Tuesday, Tuesday night and Wednesday.
Widely scattered thundershowers south-
west portion Tuesday afternoon. Not much
change in tem persture,
WEST TEXAS Partly eloudy Tuesday,
Tuesday night and Wednesday Widely
scattered thundershowers Tuesday sfter-
noon and Pecos Valley eastward Wednes-
dar afternoon No important temperature
TEMPERATURES
Tues A at
72 .....1:30 .....
• _______.. 2:30
Mom P. M.
00
Midnight
_____- 13; sunset tonight 6.44,
arometer reading at 12:30 p.m.: 28.17.
elative humidity at 12:30 am 40%
Maximum temperature for 24 hours end-
ine st CM s.m.: 04.
-A ‘* * M hours *
A REPUBLICAN AT A “DEMOCRATIC CLAMBAKE"-
William Green (left) was all smiles as he greeted Gov. Thom-
as E. Dewey of New York at the opening of the American
Federation of Labor convention in New York. In spite of
the Republican governor’s presence, the convention heard
a bitter attack on the Taft-Hartley labor law. President Green
termed it an obnoxious and dirty law. Gov. Dewey, in his
talk to the convention later, said he wondered if he wasn’t
at a “Democratic clambake.” (AP Wirephoto)
Truman Warns AF L
Against GOP Win
Court Fight
Today Marks
Climax
AUSTIN, Sept. 18 (Attorneys
representing Presidential Nominee
Adlai Stevenson today attacked val-
idity of a "Texas Democratic Par-
ty" convention which certified Re-
publican Nominee Dwight D. Eisen-
lower as its presidential candidate.
Allen Wight, Dallas, testified that
Eisenhower was nominated at a
convention held in Dallas last week
attended by 19 persons st his invi-
tation. He said there was no notice
to the secretary of state that the
convention would be held to organ-
ize a party and nominate candi-
dates.
"The people who attended were
those selected by me and who
share my political views," Wight
said.
Judge Jack Roberts of 128th Dis-
trict Coart was bearing a suit
brought in behalf of Stevenson and
Vice Presidential Nominee John
Sparkman to bar the names of
Eisenhower and Richard Nixon
from the general election ballot un-
der the label of the “Texas Demo-
eratie Party.” They were nominat-
ed at the 10-man convention testi-
fied to by Wight
MAKE CHOICE
Wight testified that the plan put
forward by his convention would
permit Democrats of Texas to take
their choice in November between
one of two tickets under the Demo-
cratic label.
"I do not recognize the national
NEW YORK, Sept. 16 t—Presi-.
dent Truman told the American
Federation of Labor today that
plans are afoot to "make the Taft-
Hartley Law even more oppressive
and unfair to labor if the Repub-
licans win in November.
In a message to the AFL’s con-
vention. the President said that
"special interests are already
grinding their exes for a fresh at-
tack on labor in the event of a
Republican victory."
He said he had "seen Indi-
cations" that such "plane are
afoot in Wall Street"
The message was read at a ses-
sion at which W. Averell Harri-
man, Mutual Security Administra-
tor, waa introduced as "the next
secretary of state” by AFL Presi-
dent William Green
A PROSPECT
Harriman, who at the Democrat-
ic convention in Chicago threw hla
delegate strength to Adlai Steven-
son to help give him the nomina-
lion, has often been mentioned as
a prospect for such an appoint-
ment if the Democrats win.
The AFL plans to endorse a
presidential candidate. This morn-
Ing. a lengthy resolution to give
the endorsement to Stevenson was
Introduced Into a committee on
resolutions.
The three-page Truman mes-
sage reviewed his seven - year
administration in regard to labor,
and said:
"We have suffered certain loss-
es, but by and large, we have
beaten back the main attacks and
we have made real progress. I do
not know what things will be like
in the future, but I am sure that
they will be determined largely by
the result of the election this year."
That Is one big reason, the Pres-
ident said, why he is campaigning
for "the election of Governor Ste-
venson and Senator (John) Spark-
man and for a real Democratic
Congress."
“There is little doubt in mi
mind that a definite plot wai
hatched at the close of the war.”
| he said, "to smash, or at least
cripple, our trade union move-
ment la a period of poet - war
reaction,
"This conspiracy was developed
by a little group of politicians,
working with the representatives of
our most reactionary employers."
In the resolution proposing en-
dorsement of Stevenson, the Re-
publican Party was pictured as
seeking to "crush and destroy the
labor movement In America" and
"to destroy the rights of the Amer-
ican worker.”
More Rainfall
Due in Area
Scattered showers In the Cen-
tral West Texas area were fore-
cast for Tuesday afternoon.
Rainfall ranging from a light
sprinkle to heavy showers fell
Monday afternoon north and west
of Abilene. Aspermont recorded
1.60 inches. Rule one inch, Stam-
ford .72, Haskell .43, Sweetwater
.20, Big Spring 08. and Merkel
and Tye brief showers.
Weather Bureau forecaster* pre-
dicted Tuesday’s rainfall again
would be scattered, with little gen-
eral help to the parched condi-
tion of this drouth-stricken area.
Ominous clouds circled Abilene
Monday but no rain fell here.
Through Sept 15. Abilene's rain-
fall for the year totaled only 8.19
inches — 63 per cent of the 13
inches which fell during the first
nine months of dry 1951. and only
43 per cent of normal - 19.13
Inches for the first nine months
Now You’re Free to Bargain
For Terms on New Houses
WASHINGTON ( —Starting now
you are free to buy a new house
on whatever terms you can ar.
range, without any government su-
pervision or regulation.
The Federal Reserve Board cut
home buyers and purchasers of
commercial property loose yester-
day when it suspended Regulation
X. That is the government order
that since October, 1950, bed Kt
official limits on the amount of
credit lenders could give In home
and commercial property sales.
Regulation X applied only to new
buildings. 1
Simultaneously the Housing and
Home Finance Agency (HHFA) an-
nounced it was loosening its regu-
lations governing credit in home
sales where government loans or
guarantees are a part of the trans-
action.
CONSTRUCTION DOWN
These moves followed notice by
the Bureau of Labor Statistics to
the Federal Reserve Board and
the HHFA yesterday that housing
construction during June, July
and August indicated that not
more than 1,200,000 units would be
started during the year.
Under amendments to the 1952
Defense Production Act, Regula-
tion X had to be lifted i housing
starts during three consecutive
months, adjusted on s seasonal
basis, pointed to fewer then 1,200,-
000 new homes or apartments in
a year's building.
The Federal Reserve Board
suspended Regulation X without
comment.
But Housing Administrator Ray-
mond M. Foley made it clear in a
statement that be was not happy
to open the credit dikes on gov-
ernment-backed housing. He sug-
Rested thst Regulation X might
have to be reimposed later on.
In the amendments which pro-
vided for suspension of Regula-
tion X. Congress also provided
that if during any three months
housing starts went shore 1,200,000
on en annual basis the government
could put the regulation back into
force. This, however, is not man-
datory.
DOWN PAYMENTS
Regulation X, which went out
laat midnight, required a down
payment of at least 5 per cent on
houses selling for $7,000 or less
It imposed ever-higher down pay-
ment requirements as the sale
price of the house went up, reach-
ing 40 per cent on houses selling
for $25,000 or more.
■ commercial building, Regula-
tion X imposed a 50 per cent down
payment requirement no matter
what the cost of the structure
As a guarantee that the down
payment requirements would not be
sidetracked. Regulation X forbade
second mortgages
The 1952 Defense Production Act
gave authority to the government
to continue requiring down pay-
ments of st least 5 per cent even
after it lifted Regulation X But
the federal Reserve Board suspend-
ed the regulation yesterday with-
out any reference to the 5 per cent
provision. A federal reserve source
said the board felt few leaders, If
any, would arrange house sales for
as little as 5 per cent down.
They pointed up the fact that
suspension of Regulation X does
not mean that the would-be home
purchaser now has only to select
the house he wants and begin
monthly payments, without putting
up a sizable chunk of his own
cash. Suspension of Regulation X
simply removed the Federal Re-
serve Board as the limit-setter on
housing credit
The amount of down payment
which will now be required de-
pends upon banking regulations
sod business judgment
Stevenson attorneys.
Cofer also developed fre m
Wight’s testimony that the new par-
ty has not yet set up a statewide
organization, that it has an execu-
I tive committee of six citizens and
thst it has never held county or
district conventions.
Secretary of State Jack Ross tes-
tified thst Stevenson and Spark-
man had been certified as nomi-
nees of the Democratic Party by
officials of both the national con-
vention in Chicago and the state
convention at Amarillo last week.
Fagan Dickson, Austin, Steven-
son counsel, emphasized that the
Texas certification had been made
by J. E. Wheat, Woodville, and
Weldon Hart, Austin, chairman
and secretary respectively of the
State Democratic Executive Com-
mittee of Texas.
ON BALLOT
Ross said he had accepted these
certifications and would put the
names on the ballot "unless the
court directs me otherwise."
Ross slso said he had received
certification of Elsenhower and
Nixon as candidates of the "Texas
Democratic Party” and that he in-
tends to put them on the ballot If
he la not restrained by the court
from doing so.
Ross is now under a temporary
restraining order issued by Judge
Roberts and today's hearing was on
the issuance of a temporary injunc-
tion which if granted would have
the effect of extending the ban on
using the term “Texas Democrat-
ic" on the ballot in competition
with the customary "Democratic"
column.
Wight told the court that be con-
sidered a resolution passed by the
state convention at Amarillo as an
invitation by that convention to
form another party with Eisenhow-
er as the candidate. He referred
to a resolution which urged the
Democrats to vote for Eisenhower
on the Republican ticket or that of
any other party which had the
same electors as the Republicans.
He said he notified the new State
Executive Committee Chairman
Wallace Savage, Dallas, of his In-
tentions to organize such a party
and quoted Savage as saying, "If
you're going to do K. you’ll have
to move fast.”
Wight insisted that the ballot as
his party contemplates it would
make it Impossible for a rotor to
be confused between the Demo-
cratic Party of Texas with Elsen-
hower as its candidate and the
Democratic Party with Stevenson
as the candidate.
"Anybody who gets confused
about that ain't fit to vote," be
testified
He insisted that the, new party
was not attempting to usurp power
or the prerogatives of the Demo-
cratic Party but was just trying
to make the issue clear on the
ballot. He said the issue simply
was "Socialists coming in and
diluting the Democratic Party."
That, he said, is whst he is fight-
Ing.
Meanwhile there were theca oth-
er developments:
1. The Democratic candidate for
President and vice president, Gov.
Adlai Stevenson of Illinois and Sen.
John Sparkman of Alabama, re-
pealed previous statements that
they thought Texas would stay to
the Democratic column.
I Speaker of the House Barn
Rayburn announced be would
stump the state for the Stevenson-
Sparkman ticket and said backers
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