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PAGE 5 Wallace Says He Is Supporting Not 'Indorsing Liberal Democrats! THE SUN, BALTIMORE, SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 2, 1948 Thurmond Bids For State Support HIS POSITION DISCLOSED IN i t- we open wide.the door to the con- trol of your ballot boxes by a dictator. i "The Fair Employment Practices Act better known as the FE-PC i 1,000 GREET THURMOND AT LYRIC RALLY Crowd Waves 'Confederate Flags And Gives Rebel Yells i which was indorsed by Truman, Dewey and Wallace, is made ta Ac'' 1 i i I'd I 1 '(' i order for communistic use. This law, under the 2lse pretext of guaranteeing racial equality, ac- tually forces businessmen to em- ploy persons whom he considers unsuitable to his business. "It is evident that the Communists by claiming their so-called rights under this law could force their agents and saboteurs in every tool and die room, in every machine shop and every industrial laboratory, atomic or otherwise, in America. FEPC "Based On" Russ Law "Anyone who studies the FEPC bill knows that it is based on the Russian AH Races Law written by Stalin in 1920.

Yet this is the Truman program. It is Dewey's pro- gram and it is the program of every Red. every comrade and every fel- low-traveler on the face of the earth." Governor Thurmond told his audience that his party's campaign -is based on the belief that the presidential campaign may be finally settled in the House of Rep- resentatives. "where we believe that our ticket will have a chance equally as good as any other." "But," he said, "even if we should fail to cause the election to be thrown into the House of Repre- sentatives. we shall accomplish a most important objective to re-build the Democratic party, to pre- vent passage of the un-American force bills and save thi ration for representative democracy." Urges Thumping Vot A "thumping vote" for the ticket, he said, "will be a deadly blow to those who seek to convert America into a totalitarian state." That, he said, will "resolve for- ever the question of whether America shall have states rights or states' slavery." "Either," he warned, "you vote for Truman.

Dewey, or Wallace and -Federal control of elections, voting. business and social life or vote for States' Rights Democrats. for personal and individual mats MRS. THURMOND BERTRAM L. BOONE 2D noife greeted at Lee-Jackson monument by Secretary of State.

Mencken On Thurmond, Snh Looks On Bull Run Ticket's Rally As Elegant But Futile By H. L. MENCKEN (Continued from Page 24) By AI.BFRT W. Ql'INN (Continued from Page 24) must repeal the poll tax as a requi site to voting." Lynching, he condemned as "the worst form of murder," but he said a Federal law to control it is un necessary. "There was only one lynching in the whole United States last year.

he said. "There were many murders of other kinds. If the Congress can pass a law against lynching, it can pass laws" against arson, larceny and every other kind of crime. "It can set up a Federal police force to enforce them. I don't be lieve the people of Maryland want Federal snoopers enforcing laws which the State now enforces." Asked about anti-segregation proposals, lie declared he is "not op posed to the Negro," but said law, order and harmony can be tetter preserved by keeping the races separate." Attack On FEPC Applauded That brought the first scattered applause of the day.

There was another scattering of hana-clapping when he declared the proposed Fair Employment Practices Com mission law is the most dangerous piece of legislation ever conceived by the mind of man." would mean." he said, "that an employer cannot hire whom he wants to hire. He cannot fire whom he wants to fire," nor promote and demote those who deserve promotion and demotion." "Suppose," he gave as an ex ample, "a Hindu applied for a job as receptionist. Suppose she was told she did not suit the position, because all the customers of the prospective employer were white. "That employer could be taken to jail for not employing her." Shakes Hands With Policeman Leaving the armory. Governor Thurmond stopped to shake hands with the policeman at the door Patrolman Charles Schuhard.

"I'm glad he's come and gone and nothing happened," Patrolman Schuhard said later. The next stop of the Thurmond car with its waving flag of the Southern Confederacy was at the Lee-Jackson monument the Museum of Art. There the Governor was greeted by David Maguire, a Loyola College student, garbed in the rented uniform of a Confederate brigadier-general. Pictures were taken. There was no speech.

The crowd was even smaller than the one at the armory. The Loyola College student said the outfit was the idea of The Greyhound. Loyola publication, but did not indicate any support for the States Rights candidate. Visit City Hall "We mi.zht puli mother stunt for Governor Dewey or President Truman if they come here." he said. The Thurmond party paused briefly at City Hall to be photographed shaking the hand of Acting Mayor Kelly on the front porch.

Several City Hal! employes looked out at the ceremony but few joined the group on the porch. At a press conference in the Southern Hotel, Governor Thurmond said many people "are deceived by the name 'Civil Rights' given to the legislative proposals which we challenge as violating these principles." The Legislative proposals of President Truman, indeed, are the reasoiis for the formation of the States' Rights party which nominated Governor Thurmond for President and Gov. Fielding Wright of Mississippi for Vice President. Proposals Summarized Summarizing the proposals, Governor Thurmond said: The anti-poll tax bill would "take over control (for the Federal Government) of voting qualifications in the States." The anti-lynching bill would "usurp the functions of the state legislatures and of the state courts in dealing with crimes occurring within the states. The anti-segregation recommen dations would "interfere with state and local laws dealing with the separation of the two races.

The rtPC bill would assume (for the Federal Government) the right to regulate private businesses and private employment within the states. Acts Would "Change Government" The proposed civil rights divi sion in the Department of Justice would "create a national police force, thereby invading the field and functions of state, county, city and town policemen, and of duly i SO GREW STROM THURMOND CALIFORNIA Progressive Candidate Comments On Statement By Baldwin New Haren. OeL 1 (JP). The Peoples (Wallace) party of Connecticut announced tonight that its candidates hare been officially certified for the State ballot in the November election. By HOWARD NORTON" T5ya Correspondent Los Angeles.

Oct. 1 In a press conference that left reporters ask ing each other if their notes were correct, Henry A. Wallace today announced that he was only "sup porting" Mrs. Helen Gahagan Douglas for Congress not "indors ing" her. The Progressive candidate dis closed his position on the candi dacy of the prominent California Democratic congresswoman shortly after arriving here from El Paso Texas, aboard his campaign plane for a week of intensive speech making in this state.

Denies It Is Retreat He told a group of 40 puzzled newsmen that the same ambiguous attitude applied to all the other "liberal" Democrats whom his cam paign manager, C. B. Baldwin. named yesterday in a Washington (D C. press conference.

Baldwin had announced that the Progressives were withdrawing their own candidates opposing lib eral" Democrats all over the coun try. and would support them for election. 1 Wallace vigorously denied that the withdrawal of Progressive can didates represented a retreat, or was a sign that the third party is weakening. Interest In Principles Asserting that his main concern was to see that a "liberal" Congress is elected, the candidate said is this characteristic about our party. Above everything else we are interested in principle Wallace explained the difference between "supporting" and detailing his feelings toward Mrs.

Douglas. "I hope Mrs. Douglas will be elected." he said. "She has one of the best voting records in Congress second only to the records of V'ito MarcantonLo and Leo The only point on which he would have any argument with the Congresswoman. Wallace said, was in her support, of the "Truman-Dewey" foreign policy a policy that Wallace strongly denounces.

Doesn't Desire Support "So we are going to support her we are going to vote for her without indorsing her specific position." The candidate aid the same policy of -support" without "indorsement" applies to such other prominent Democratic "liberals" as Hubert Humphrey, candidate for the United States Senate in Minne sota: Chester Bowies, running for governor of Connecticut, and Chet Holifield. veteran California Con gressman. Meanwhile, just a few hours before Wallace's arrival here, Mrs. Douglas issued this comment on the Third party's statement of support: "I did not seek the indorsement of the Progressive party and I do not desire it. Russia Held Threat "My differences with the Progressive party are well known.

I strongly support the Marshall plan and I believe the present Russian attitude is a threat to world peace." Mrs. Douglas's campaign managers claimed the Wallace people decided not to fight her only after determining they would be badly beaten if they did. Wallace told the reporters he didn't know whether he would speak for Mrs. Douglas or not in the course of his visit here. The candidate opened his final campaign tour of California with a $12 50-a-plate dinner tonight at Giro's Restaurant, in Hollywood.

Chiefly Movie People His major address in this area will be tomorrow night, at Gilmore Stadium. Speaking chiefly to an audience movie people tonight, Wallace accused motion-picture producers of "using the relatively slight decline in profits and foreign-market difficulties to avoid payment of higher wages to compensate for higher living costs." He lauded the position taken by the'unfriendly ten" witnesses who were charged with contempt by the House Committee on Un-American Activities last year, adding: "The stand they took on the question? of party and trade-union affiliation was one which has put the whole issue of political inquisition in America into sharp focus." Industrial Techniques I "America has many lessons it can bring to the world through the motion picture unselfish messages that will stimulate good feeling instead of resentment and boycott," Wallace said. "We have industrial techniques, methods of increasing crop yields and other practical information we can translate into film and help the standards of living of the world." Tomorrow, Wallace will tour the Negro and Mexican sections of this city in a fifteen-car motorcade to up interest in his big night rally Police Protection Refused He leaves here Saturday for a lumping tour northward through California's central valley. Though his campaign managers do not foresee any violence such as accompanied his tour of the South and Texas, they announced today that the chief of police of Sacramento. California's capital city, has refused police protection for Wallace.

They have sent a telegram of protest to Gov. Earl Warren. GOV. J. STROM THURMOND Presidential candidate-and his ROYALL ASKS SOUTH TO BACK TRUMAN Says 'Dixiecrats Will Be But A Memory' Soon Columbia.

S.C., Oct. 1 (JP) Ken neth C. Royall, Secretary of the Army, asked the South tonight to rally behind the Truman-Barkley banner, asserting that in a few- years "the Dixiecrats will be but a memory." Speaking in the home town of Gov. J. Strom Thurmond, who is the States Rights candidate for President.

Royall. a North Caro linian, said a vote for the States' Rights ticket would only help the Republicans. "Let me urge you." he said, "not to lead the South backward into prejudice and ignorance and bitterness and provincialism. Do not take us back to 6-cent cotton and 5-cent tobacco and underpaid labor. Warns Of "Regret And Remorse" "The South much of it tried the narrow course of bigotry in 1923.

And what did it get us? Noth ing but poverty and misery and stagnation. Are our memories so short? Every South Carolinian oter of today was alive durine that last non-Democratfc term from 1928 to 1933. Most of us remember that tragic period and how it dragged our Southland down. In a few years the Dixiecrats wilLalso be but a memory. If they attain any semblance of success, they will be a sour and an unwel corned memory, and those who have supported that movement.

whether they admit it or not, will in a few years be full of regret and remorse. "If in its brief course this abortive movement shall have damaged the Democratic party, then the South will have done itself a great injury perhaps a long-irreparable injury by weakening the influence of the great political institution which for a century and more through stormy days and sunny has brought us forward to our pres ent prosperity and our present continuing progress." Asks What South Hopes To Gain Asserting that progress under the Democratic party has been due partly to the fact that it. is not a class or sectional organization, Royall said it is highly important that the nation today have just such an "all-American party." "It is our best political defense against Bourbonism on the one hand and communism on the other," he asserted. He said the "Communist segment" of the Wallace third party welcomed the fourth party in the South because they know how class and sectional parties bring disunion. Tax Collector Has Last At Tax Parley Kansas City, Oct.

1 (JP) After Missouri lawyers got through talking about Federal taxes, they found the tax collector had the last word. Here for a ona-day institute, the lawyers paid $5 each to attend the refresher session, sponsored by the Missouri bar. Today the Federal tax man came around to collect the 20 per cent admittance tax. "I never staged, a tax rebellion." said Charles M. Blackmar, president of the organization, "but when I heard that the Government had clipped twenty per cent of the registration fee I was almost impelled to mount a soap box." to to to at of he he of of an dom and for the right of the states to manage their own internal affairs." Judge Sherbow To Rule 'On Dixiecrats9 Status Judge Joseph Sherbow on Wednesday will be called on to de- cide whether the names of the pres- -idential and vice presidential can didates of the States' Rights party is will appear on the Marvland -ballots.

The hearing date was set after mandamus proceedings were filed in Superior Court through E. i Steuart Vaughan. chairman of the Maryland committee of States' Rights Democrats. The suit contested the action of Bertram L. Boone 2d.

secretary of state, in refusing to certify the new party for a position on the ballot. Mr. Boone, it was contended, refused to certify the party on the grounds that its petition was filed too late. The complainant contended that the Maryland requirement that a petition be filed fifteen days be- fore the primary does not "apply to candidates for President and Vice-President of the United States. The suit alleged that the secretary of state acted on the advice -of Hall Hammond, attorney general of Maryland.

Governor Unjes Jobs For Disabled HI Governor Lane has designated the week beginning tomorrow as "Employ the Physically Hanoi- capped Week." His proclamation urges "all em- i ployers. personnel officers, educa-t' tors and others to give special con- sideration to plans and policies to extend necessary rehabilitation service to the handicapped in order that they may put their abilities to best use, thus helping them to regain their rightful place in indus-1 try and also add to our national economy." The Governor has appointed a'' a. permanent State committee to give year-round stimulus to the program for employing the handicapped and committees also are functioning in the counties. About 1,000 persons most of them demonstrating enthusiasm greeted J. Strom Thurmond, States' Rights candidate for President in his appearance at the Lyric Theater last night.

The occasions of the crowd's applause indicated that a large part of it had roots in the deeper Soyth. Every mention of South Carolina, the State of w-hich Mr. Thurmond is governor, brought cheers and handclapping. The playing of "Dixie" by the orchestra brought the crowd to its feet several times. In various parts of the big audi torium flags of the Confederacy were waved in accompaniment to the cheers.

Only 3 In Gallery The original estimate of the size of the crowd -was made by those around the press William C. Feehley, of the City Police, later said the estimate was "about right." Enough of the seats were filled in all sections of the main floor to rriake the crowd loot even bigger. Several of the audience were in the boxes. There were only three persons in the gallery. Despite the frequent shows of en thusiasm, there were some in the crowd who came out of curiosity or for entertainment.

They included such active Republicans as Galen L. former Republican State chairman; J. George fcier-man. Republican State headquar ters director in the current cam paign, and Robert and Henry Duer. Note From Lane Active Democratic organization men and women, however, were conspicuously absent.

About, the only official recognition the South Carolina Governor got from Democratic officeholders during his afternoon and night here consisted of a note from Governor Lane and a handshake with Acting Major C. Markland Kelly. Governor Lane's note was delivered to Governor Thurmond yesterday afternoon by Bertram L. Boone 2d. Secretary of State.

Governor Lane wrote "it is both an honor and pleasure to welcome you, as Governor of South Carolina, to the soil of the Free State." "Traditionally," the note added, "we of Maryland accord to all a hearing, but reserve our right to disagree. As you know, I am a strong believer in the two-party system that has made and kept our nation great. My welcome must be to you as Governor of our sister State of South Carolina, and not as a candidate for the presidency." Introduced By Lawyer Governor Lane signed the note "with kindest personal regards." Governor Thurmond was introduced to the Lyric crowd by Thomas F. Cadwalader, Harford county lawyer. The introduction brought the crowd to its feet with Confederate flags waving.

But the loudest and longest applause of the meeting came when Governor Thurmond charged that the Federal attempt to interfere with state laws on the separation of the races "has been carried so far as to endanger the morale of the armed forces which protect us." Rebel Yells Heard There were rebel yells when he decried the "national tragedy" of "these three politicians Dewey, Truman and Wallace," being "willing to break down separation of the races in our armed forces even though our military leaders tell us it will threaten the safety of the country." Despite its enthusiasm, the crowd was orderly. Captain Feehley, said he, his lieutenant, a sergeant and ten patrolmen had nothing to do but watch. The meeting ended with the final playing of "Dixie" and a plea by E. Steuart Vaughan, campaign chairman, for financial help for the States' Rights drive in Maryland. He reminded the audience that there were boxes in which contributions could be dropped as they left the auditorium.

GOV. J. I Li GOVERNOR THURMOND elected sheriffs, a long step toward a police state in America." Enactment of these laws, he said, would "radically change the Government of the United States of America laid down in 1787 in the Constitution and upheld, protected and defended by every generation of the American people since that time." Asked about his stand on uni versal military training, he said he favors it, and feels that the United States "must have a strong army, a strong navy and the strongest air force in the world." Dubious About School Aid On proposed Federal aid to schools, the Governor said: "Originally. I-felt I couM favor it only if control over education was left fully to the states. With the growing trend the Federal Government to centralize control.

I have became very dubious about it." Since he considers the proposed civil-rights laws unconstitutional, he was asked why does he fear their enactment by the Congress? Why would they not be thrown out by the Supreme Court? He said: "It is a duty of the Congress to be care ful not to pass unconstitutional laws. The fact of a law's passing might have great influence on the Supreme Court. His party, he said, will be on the ballots in North Carolina, South arouna. lrgima. Georgia.

Flori da. Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, Arkansas. Texas, Ken tucky and North Dakota. 100 Electoral Votes Predicted In four of those states South Carolina. Mississippi.

Alabama and Louisiana, he said, he and Gover nor Wright are the nominees of the regular Democratic party. The four states have 38 votes in the Elec toral College. He predicted more than 100 electoral votes for his ticket and said 140 were possible. He still is hopeful of getting on the ballots, he said, in Oklahoma and Maryland. "We have a chance." he claimed "of carrying Kentucky, the home State of Senator Barkley." Senator Barkley is the Demo cratic nominee for Vice President.

Negro Reporter Present On the question of communism he declared: "If I were President, I would make available to congressional in vestigation committees every bit of information that would help in smoking out Communists in and out of the Government." One Negro reporter was present at the press conference. He asked no questions. From the dates when our major political parties were born." Gover nor Thurmond said in his Lvric speech, 'every great statesman has admitted that the success of our democracy lies in the balance of power between a Federal and state government. "Yet, during the last few months, the American people have witnessed a terrible spectacle. They have seen the greedy bosses of three political parties repudiate the rights of the states in making cheap bids for the votes of the minority faction which promises them the election.

Neither Party Makes Stand "For the first time in American history neither one of the old parties has made a stand for States Rights. "The Republicans were first to announce their intention of in vading constitutional rights. When the National Democratic Convention in Philadelphia voted down the State's Rights plank, the job was done. Speaking for the South, he said: "We cannot, and will not, stand idly by and see these principles perverted, violated and destroyed He added that "millions of true Americans in all parts of the country Know tnat if the un-American proposals now being ad vocated are adopted, the American way of life will be entirely changed. Will Rtstor Our Party" The "impurities" of the Democratic party "Harry Truman and all his followers," he said, "will be deposited like a sediment on the banks, and the crystal-clear waters of pure Americanism will restore our party to its once high place in American history.

"We are meeting the challenge of the false leaders who betrayed our principles to hold the favor of the big city bosses, hoodlums, gangsters and crackpots. We alone of all political groups have the courage to defy them." He said the people are living in an age of Government by minority groups. Civil Rights Bill Assailed "In their traitorous bid for polit ical power," he continued, 'the three politicians Dewey, Truman and Wallace have all indorsed force bills which they falsely call 'civil rights. He charged that the proposed civil-rights bills would "open the door to communism and to some form of total state in this country." The Constitution, he explained. "clearly reserves to the states the rieht to control their own elec- tions.

Take away that right and ing with the candidate and his pallbearers brought the news that he is an ascetic of extraordinary virulence, even for a Southern Bap tist. He not only eschews booze and tobacco; he also keeps off coffee. I should add in fairness that he does not look it; one might reasonably imagine him dropping off at a lunch-wagon on a frosty morning for a cup of ArbuckJes best, or even sneaking a swig of corn behind the door. Freemason And Pythian He is also a Freemason, a Knight of Pythias, a Moose, a Woodman, a Lion and an ornament of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics, though how he qualifies as a mechanic I can't make out. for he has been a jobholder since 1929 and even before that he taught school, which is also a political office in South Carolina.

There is nothing of the low-down Southern politician about him. He no more resembles the Talmadges, Longs, Bilbos and Pappy Daniels than he resembles a bookmaker. In brief, a gentleman. How far he hopes to get with his holy crusade for States' Rights I don't know, though last night he hinted darkly that it might throw the election into the House of Representatives. In national campaigns the candidates of third parties aiways cher-ish that hope.

But it hasn't been realized in seven or eight hundred years. Indicted In Probe Of Gifts To GOP Bay City, Oct. 1 (JP) A Federal grand jury today indicted five Flint auto dealers and four agencies on a corrupt-practices charge in an investigation of Republican party, campaign-fund raising in Michigan. Thomas P. Thornton, United States attorney, said the indictments were based on evidence turned over to the grand jury by Eugene F.

Black, Michigan attor-ney general, who was elected on the Republican ticket. Thornton said each of the agencies is charged with makinp iiiocrai $500 contributions to the Republi can party in the 1946 campaign. The contributions were made in the name of the individual defendants he said. Today's Political Parade Program By the Associated Press! "What the candidates are doing today: Republicans Gov. Thomas E.

Dewey, starting at Kansas City, campaigns through Missouri, making only rear platform talks. Gov. Earl Warren, vice-presidential candidate, swings through Pennsylvania and into Maryland with a speech in Baltimore at 8.30 P.M. Democrats President Truman returns to Washington at 9 A.M. Senator Alben vice-presidential candidate, moves into Minnesota with speeches in Rochester at 3 P.M.

and in Man- kato at 7.30 P.M. Progressives Henry A. Wallace remains in Lqs Angeles, where he will make sev eral speeches. Senator Glen H. Taylor, vice presidential candidate, takes his campaign to Massachusetts, where he will speak at Springfield (8 P.M and Worcester (10 P.M.).

States' Rights Gov. J. Strom Thurmond speaks at a tobacco festival in La Plata, at 2.30 P.M. Socialist Norman Thomas addresses a meeting of his national campaign committee in New York city at 8 P.M. All times are Eastern off en in describing the diabolic schemes of Truman, Dewey, Wallace and the Communists, always became foce, and a good many other r's were elided.

For the rest. was very clear, and altogether without rhetorical gasps and gurgles. In brief, an elegant meeling soft in tone, with no hint of demagogy, and proceeding from end to end with the decorum of a well-bred dinner party. The police, who turned up half expecting that the Wallace Communists might bust in pay back a certain debt of eggs and tomatoes, soon concluded that there was to be nothing of the sort on the program, and so departed resume their weary hunt of murderers. Eschews Booze, Tobacco, Coffee What was accomplished by the evening's pale orgies I am unable make out.

As I have said, the Thurmond leaders have no hope whatsoever of carrying Maryland, and may not even get a place on the ballot. There were no converts the mourners' bench last and no one in the sedate and some-! what mousy crowd showed any sign excitement, or even of being absorbed. The Hon. Galen Tait, until lately boss of the Maryland Republicans, was there, but everyone knows that he goes to the meetings of all parties, and that has not been converted to anything for more than, 50 years. The newspaper reporters travel Evidence Lacking In Augusta Case Augusta, Oct.

1 P) Augusta's chief of police said today had not found "a single piece of evidence to support" a story of five Progressive party workers that they were abducted here and beaten. Chief C. J. Wilson made the state ment after he lined up 120 officers from his 124-man force and invited identification by Henry A. Wal lace's Progressives who said some them were among their attackers.

None of the five party workers who made the accusations showed up. Previously they had contended they were taken from a private home Sunday and beaten by a mob 200, including two Augusta detectives, fifteen to twenty other members of the police force, and agent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Chief Wilson said he had probed "every possible angle" since Sunday and hadn't found "a single piece of evidence to support their story." He added that he could prove that- no policeman was involved "in any wayj shape, form or fashion. William Moody, party publicity agent and spokesmen for the five, said they did not appear to pick their attackers because they have adopted a policy of nonco-opera-tion vith the Augusta police department. Chief Wilson said owTiers of au tomobiles, whose licenses were listed by Progressives, were in the lineup.

William Draper, and John Foster Dulles, foreign affairs adviser to Gov. Thomas E. Dewey. "That gang put Hitler up to attacking Russia just a few years ago," he said. Asked whether United States arming might not be a defensive measure instead of an aggressive move against the Soviet Union, Taylor replied: "We are moving In around them everywhere in Germany, Italy, France, Trieste, Greece, Saudi Arabia." Asked whether he believed the United States might attack Russia.

Taylor said "I'm very much afraid." County' Criticized On Registration Asserting that "thousands of citi- zens will lose their right to vote," Michael J. Clifford. Progressive! party candidate for Congress in the Second district, yesterday criti-; cized arrangements for the current general registration in Baltimore county. Donald W. Carroll, president of the county Board of Supervisors of -Elections, said he had not received a letter from Mr.

Clifford, but declared that the registration plans were in compliance with the elec tion laws. 47,000 Enrolled During the first two days of the general registration, Mr. Carroil said, approximately 47.000 voters were enrolled. The previous total was about 98.000. he recalled.

Mr. Carroll explained that budget limitations were a factor in setting only four days for the gen eral registration. which was planned to coincide with need for replacing the nearly filled registra tion books. To Be Open Two Days Polling places will be open Mon-J day and Tuesday from 9 A.M. to 9 P.M.

for completion of the registration. Mr. Clifford'! letter declared that "the four days allotted to county registration is totally in- adequate for so large a population. "This short period, coupled with a new rezoning schedule of pre cincts whose boundaries were in adequately or incorrectly defined. means that thousands of ritirern will lose their right to vote." U.S.

'Aggressively Preparing For War Senator Taylor Says .41 f- New York, Oct. 1 iP) Senator Glen Taylor said today the United States is "aggressively preparing for war." 'On the other hand, he said, "Russia is arming defensively." The Progressive party vice-presidential candidate told a news conference: "We are preparing for war, aggressively preparing for war, with long-range bombers and long-range rockets." By "we," he said, he meant "the small group of evil men who control this country." "The ringleaders" of this group, he continued, are James Forrestal, Defense Secretary, former Gen. WHY NOT7 The Dixiccrat candidate poses with Jackson and Lee..