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A A A DEPT. of ARCHIVE HISTORY War MEMORA. GREENWOOD COM COMMONWEALTH TH 40-NUMBER 274. GREENWOOD, LEFLORE COUNTY, MONDAY' AFTERNOON, JULY 16, 1956. FIVE CENTS THIS DAY All children who participated in "Learn to Swim" classes who passed the Tadpole stage, please gO by the Park Commission office and get certificates.

Capt. Chauncey Camp today became the first naval reserve officer in Mississippi to be promoted to rear admiral. A native of Lumberton, Admiral Camp has lived in Hattiesburg most of his life. Smith of Grenada attended" the National Auction Institute at Buyan, Texas. He is a brother-in-law of Dick Coleman of Greenwood and expects to conduct auctions in Greenwood in the near future.

Jones county voters decide tomorrow whether to abolish its 30- year-old county court system. Biloxi will hold its annual Shrimp Festival here July 28-29 with the Rev. Herbert Mullin of St. Michael's Church blessing the shrimp fleet on the final day of celebration. A beauty contest to select a shrimp queen also will be held.

Fourteen cars in the center of a long Illinois Central freight. train wrecked near Sledge, yesterday, tearing up 100 yards of roadbed. No one was hurt. Ten cars overturned. Railroad officials said the accident was due to 3 "hot box" that locked an axle.

Sixty Mississippi farm boys, selected for their forestry interest and projects, will receive practical instructions in tree planting, harvesting, timber marketing, tree identification, timber measurement and fire control at the annual Forestry Camp to be held Roosevelt State 'Park, near Morton. Their leisure hours will be taken up with planned recreation. Rotarians Hear Dr. Robt. Farley Dr.

Robert J. Farley, dean and of law at the University Mississippi was speaker at today's meeting of the Rotary Club. He was introduced by Norman C. Brewer, Jr. The speaker made an interesting and entertaining talk on leadership.

It was announced that the club assembly for the fiscal year will be held at Carnaggio's July 23 at 6:30 p. m. Guests today were Rotarians Sidney Caralton and George Whitten of Sumner; Kinchen O'Keefe and Phil Kantor of Clarksdale; Charles Lee of Itta Bena; Ed Antoon, Hite McLean, Paul Montjoy and Al Bremt of Newark, N. J. Postage Meter Out Of Order Postmaster Ray Hall reports that the postage meter in the post office lobby has become defective and is being taken out of service until repaired or replaced.

Some patrons put in coins over the stamps or weekend the return without of ey. If these friends will call at the office of the Assistant Postmaster refund will be made from the coins found loose in the meter when it was taken out of service today. Summer Camp Training Scheduled For Reservist Colonel Robert H. Taylor, chief of the Mississippi Military Distriet, announced today the annual training schedule of 54 Army Reserve units located in Mississippi. The units will go on active duty for their fifteen days annual summer training.

Battery Greenwood, commanded by Capt R. M. Summerall and Battery Itta Bena, commanded by 1st Lt. A. Cooper will train at Fort Bragg, N.

C. from August 19th-September 2nd. Indianola's 603rd Quartermaster Company, commanded by Capt. F. Bishop, Grenada's 469th Quartermaster Company, commanded by Capt.

S. mons, will leave for training August 5th-19th at Fort Jackson, Columbia South Carolina. Greenville's 323rd Engineer Company, commanded by 1st Lt. J. A.

Palmer will train at Fort Benning, Georgia, during August 19th-September 2nd. Colonel Naylor stated that many of these units had six month enlinstees going to summer camp for the first time and he expressed his appreciation to employers of these Army Reservists for supporting them in the Army Reserve training program. The Weather MISSISSIPPI- Clear to partly cloudy through Tuesday with widely scattered afternoon evening thundershowers mainly extreme north portion this afterand tonight north Tuesday. Moderate southcasterly winds on the coast. TEMPERATURES Today Mar.

94, Min. 70. Predict Changes Social Security 0- George M. Knapp Dies At Gulfport MARLOW WASHINGTON, July 16 (AP)Congress, despite a rush to wind up its work for the year, will probably make changes in the Social Security law before it goes home. It's too soon to say what the changes will, be.

The House voted some changes last year. The Senate is expected to tackle the problem this week. It will start work on a bill prepared by its Finance committee. This committee, headed by Sen. Byrd (D-Va) put in a lot of time on what it thinks the Senate should do As always, the full Senate can go along with its committee or ignore or change its recommendations There can be no changes at all until both houses reach agreement But there is still time for that Under present law no working woman and no wife of a retired worker can receive any Social Security benefits herself until she's 65 For such women the House would reduce the age to 62.

Not the committee. But the full Senate may agree with the House and let such wiman start receiving benefits at 62. This is an election year and there is a lot of pressure on Congress to do this. The Byrd committee wants to let only the widow of a worker covered by Social -whether or not he died before reaching 65-start recieving her benefit at 62. There is another difference between the House and the Senate committee.

The House voted to let totally disabed workers begin receiving their benefits at 50, if they are quaified for them, instead of having to wait, as everyone now does, until reaching 65. The committee doesn't agree. But Sen George D-Ga. is. trying to convince the Senate it should go along with the House.

The 78-year -old Georgian, retiring this year, says he wants this to be his life's crowning work. He may have his way. There is a lot of sentiment for it in the Senate. But the Eisenhower administration is opposed. If House and Senate agree, President Eisenhower will be in a dilemma if he wants to veto it, because he would have, to veto other new provisions along with it.

George Knapp of Gulfport died Saturday night. He was the father of George L. Knapp of Greenwood. Services were, held at Gulfport this afternoon 3 with burial in Gulfport. Mr.

Knapp was a Spanish-American War veteran. He was 81. Besides a son here, he leaves his wife. Mrs. Ora Knapp, and five daughters, Mrs.

W. A. Harris, Mrs. Robert Braun of Memphis; Mrs. D.

Bishop of Cary; Mrs. John Brandt of Camden, N. Mrs. T. T.

Weaver of Greenville, also 9 grandchildren and 6 great grandchildren. Navy Bomber Evades Radar WASHINGTON, July 16 (AP)The Navy says it has succeeded in sending low-flying bombers 1,000 miles into the heartland of the United States without being detected by American radar. The penetration was successful even though defense forces were alerted that the attempt would be made, senators were told. Senior naval officers also saw. a new, ship-launched atomic missile now under development with the Army will be able to hit any target within nine tenths of the vast Communist holdings in Europe and Asia.

This was contained in hitherto secret testimony before the Senate Airpower Investigating subcommittee headed by Sen. Symington (D-Mo(. A censored version was made public. The asusmption that the atomic missile would hit Communist target was based on the ability of the launching ship to get close enough, but Navy officers optimistic in praising the mile Jupiter missile. Rear Adm.

C. D. Griffin, speaking for Adm. Arleigh Burke, chief of naval operations, said the Jupiter will hit the chosen targets with "a relatively high degree of accuracy," whether launched from submarines or surface ships. Griffin and Vice Adm.

Thomas S. Combs, chief of naval operations for air, said the Navy now has 10 ships equipped to launch the 500-mile-range Regulus missile with an atomic or hydrogen warhead. An improved Regulus with longer range and speed equal to or faster than the speed of sound has been flight-teated, they said. Says Dulles Sowed "Poisonous Seed" MOSCOW, July 16 (AP)-Pravda says Secretary of State Dulles has sowed "poisonous seeds" hind the Iron Curtain. The Soviet Communist party newspaper, in a particularly bitter blast, said the U.

S. secretary plotted. violent revolts among Communist nations, including the recent workers' riots in Poznan, Poland. It said Dulles has been trying to drive a wedge between the Soviet Union and her Communist neighbors, and voiced a fear he might have some success. "One should remember that people who are insufficientire mature politically and excessively credulous, there may be some wno would fall for the conthat interantional connectention, Communist parties become superfluous," the editorial cautioned.

Pravda said Dulles had openly declared the United States aimed at engineering internal changes in the Soviet Union, and that this course risked a new and bloody war. Taxpayers Assn. Elects Officers The Board of Directors of the Leflore County Taxpayers Association, at its meeting held on Friday, July 13th, elected the following officers of the Association: President, Freeman, Jr. Vice President, Sam W. Williams.

Secretary and Treasurer, N. C. Brewer, Jr. The Board of Directors appointed the following Education Committee to work with the School Board of the Separate School District, to further the plans of the School Board in securing the necessary new buildings needed in the city: C. A.

Miller, Chairman, Garrard Barrett, J. H. Peebles, Sam W. Williams, Bob Howell, Tom Barrentine and J. H.

Freeman, Jr. Study Signature On Ransom Note WESBURY, N. July 16 (AP) -More than 30 Nassau County detectives checked through a mountainous stack of 300,000 auto registrations yesterday to compare signatures with the writing on the ransom note in the Peter Weinberger kidnap case. County Chief of Detectives Styvesant Pinnell was silent about the results. But it was learned that a few registration signatures were set aside for further checking.

FBI agents also reportedly joined local police in examining files of the earlier Stephen Damman kidnaping to see if there could be a link between the two. The 3-year-old Damman boy was snatched last October 31 from in front of a supermarket in from this Long Island community. East Meadow, only three miles No ransom note was left. But several possible genuine ones were received in the mail. No trace of the child was ever found.

Peter Weinberger, now 6 weeks old if alive, was stolen from a carriage on a rear patio of his home here last July 4. A ransom note demanded $2,000. Two Men Escape Serious Injury Two men escaped serious injury early Sunday morning when the car in which they were riding went out of control as they came down Valley Hill. The car, a 1949 Cadillic, was driven R. A.

Whitaker of Greenwood. Whitaker had picked up a crop duster in Winona and they were approaching Greenwood about 4 A. M. when the went out of control and threw the two men out. Neither man suffered serious injury.

The car was declared a total loss. Minor Accident Reported In City The Police department reported this morning that there was one minor accident in city over the weekend. Dr. J. H.

Holleman, Columbus collided with a car driven by Earnest Washington, negro of Minter City at the intersection of Montjoy and Williamson St. The investigating officers said Dr. Hollman was going north on Williamson St. and Washington was traveling east on Montjoy when the accident occured. They said Holleman failed to stop for stop sign.

The damage to the cars were estimated to be 3250 to the Holleman car and $200 to the other car. Accidents Claim Twelve State Lives By The Associated Press dozen died accidentally in Mississippi during the -seven in automobile crashes and five by drowning. Two negro brothers, Van 11, and Willie Van Buren, 7, drowned in a small pond near their home south of Canton Sunday. Members of the Canton fire department found the bodies and a physician pronounced them dead. Garnette, Vinson, 65-year-old Clarksdale negro, died instantly when his motor scooter collided with two automobiles just north of Clarksdale on Highway 61 Sunday.

The highway patrol said no charges were filed against drivers C. B. Martin of Paragould, and Hattie McGee of Clarksdale. Details were unavailable. Near Laurel, Sunday, an automobile ran off of Tighway 84 and killed William Sullivan Jr.

a of Chickasaw, a passenger. The driver, identified by the highway patrol as James Chancey 21, of Chickasaw, suffered a broken leg and other injuries. Three members of a Laurel family died and two were hurt Sunday when a car and a truck collided three miles north of Scooba. The dead were A. B.

Lindsey, 35, and two daughters, Joyce, and Patricia, 9 Mrs. Linsey and a son, Albert Franklin, 3, were hurt. A wreck ten miles south of Lucedale Sunday fatally injured Lamar Harrell, 19-year-old Lucedale High School football star. Harrell died en route to a Mobile hospital. Two of his companions were injured.

A two-year-old New Orleans girl, Ann Korff drowned when the family car plunged into Wolf Creek at Poplarville. Highway patrolmen said the girl's father, Alton Korff, told them the accident occurred after he slapped at a bee on his daughter. Mrs. Korff and a 1-year-old daughter, Mary, were injured. A car and two coal-carrying trucks collided 'Friday night at Columbus, killing Cora Johnson, 56-year-old Steens woman.

Two other persons were injured and 18 tons of coal were dumped onto the highway. Highway patrolmen charged Ralph 26, of Covin, driver of one truck with manslaughter and released him on $2,000 bond. Ed Crawford, 26, of Vernon, the other truck driver, was charged with having no driver's license. Bobbye Sue James, 16-year-old Ashland girl, drowned Sunday in Parks Lake, five miles south of Ashland when she lost her grip on an inntertube. The body was recovered.

-old Julius Calvin Williams drowned in Pearl River near Monticello Saturday. Two of his companions were rescued and a fourth youth reached shore safely. Presbyterian Women To Hear Miss Moore The Presbyterian Women of the church will ingle its regular monthly, meeting, Tuesday, morn- Sunday auditorium of the First Presbyterian church. The program, a continuation of the year's study on Christian Family Life, will be on The Family in the Community. The program leader will be Miss Dorothy Moore, psychologist of the Child Guidance Clinic.

Miss Moore is eminently qualified, both professionally and personally, to lead the group in a discussion of the forces we have in our community and those that are in need of being strengthened. Miss Moore did her undergraduate work at Marshall College in Huntington, West Virginia, and received her Master Arts degree from Michigan State University. She has been with the Mississippi State Board of Health since 1949. The Child Guidance Clinic which she heads is a regional center serving all of North Mississippi with headquarters in Greenwood. The Presbyterian women invite anyone interested in hearing Miss Moore to meet with them on Tuesday morning.

St. John's Plans Revival Service Rev. Roy C. Clark, pastor of Capitol Street Methodist Church in Jackson will be the visiting preacher for the revival services at St. John's Methodist church beginning at the 11 o'clock service Sunday, July 22, and continning through Friday, July 27.

There will be a 7 m. service with refreshments served afterward and 7::30 evening service each day. Make plans to attend these services. Tubb Selects Committees JACKSON, July 16 (AP) Tom Tubb of West Point, temporary chairman of the State Democratic Convention, today named the seven members of the Credentials, resolutions and nominations committees. The credentials committee approves the State Convention delegates.

The nominations committee approves nominations for National Convention delegates from the state-at-large. The resolutions committee approves resolutions to be presented to the convention for consider- ation. The committees, by district, were: Credentials: 1, J. A. Cunningham, of Booneville: George Payne Cossar of Charleston; 3, Sen.

R. D. Everitt of Ruleville, 4 Sen. Ellis Bodron of Vicksburg, 5. Sen.

Murray Hailey of Kemper county, 6. Secretary of State Heber Ladner of Pearl River county, and at-large Judge Lester Clark of Hattiesburg. Nominations: 1. L. W.

Brown of Starkville, 2. Sen. Frank TurHorn Lake, 3. Herman Glazier of Rolling Fork, 4. Clay Tucker of Wilkinson county, 5.

Hiram Smith of Simpson, 6. Rep. Joel Blass of Wiggins, and atlarge Hugh Wall of Brookhaven. Resolutions: 2. R.

P. Sugg of Eupora, 2. Rep. Dennis Baker of Panola County, 3. White of Lexington, 4.

Rep. Dick Birchett of Yazoo County, 5. Kenneth Franks of Neshoba County, 6. Rep. Walter Phillips of Hancock County, and at-large Judge William Neville of Meridian.

Former Resident Dies In Memphis Mrs. A. Q. Quinn of Memphis. for many years a resident of Greenwood, died at 10:30 Sunday morning at her home.

She was 67. The former Bessie Maulden, Mrs. lived Quinn was born in Memphis and there until her marriage. She and Mr. Quinn moved to Memphis in 1952.

Mr. Quinn, a former vice president of the old J. W. Quinn Drug is now salesman for Quinn Drug and Chemical Co. In Greenwood Mrs.

Quinn was a member of the First Baptist Church, the Kings Daughters and the Greenwood Garden Club. A victim of cancer, she requested before her death that friends send donations to the Cancer Society and the Crippled Children's Hospital in Memphis instead of sending flowers. Services will be held at 10 Tuesday morning at J. W. Norris Funeral Home in Memphis.

Burial will be in Forest Hill ceremtery here. She leaves, her husband; two daughters, Elizabeth Northcutt of Memphis Jayne Talley of Lauderdale, a son, Archie Quinn of Memphis; a sister, Mrs. Mary Rooks of San Fernando, and four grandchildren. Annual Fish Fry Of Shrine Club Noble Bill Thomas, president of the Delta Shrine Club, announces that the annual fish fry of the club will be held at Tippah Club House on McIntyre Lake on the afternoon of Wednesday, July 18th. Serving will p.

m. All Shriners are invited and those who have not made reservations by card, and wish to do so, are asked to get in touch with Noble A. H. Richter, secretary, telephone 1722. All ever attended a Delta Shrine Club fish fry have had a good time and Noble Tom Flowers, chairman of the Fish Fry Committee, has a big treat in store for all Shriners who come Come on Nobles, wear your Fez, come to the fish fry and all have a good time fellowshipping together.

New Englander Heads Platform Committee WASHINGTON, July 16 (AP) -New Englanders will head the convention platform committees of both major and political parties. Democratic National Chairman Paul M. Butler announced the selection of Rep. John W. McCormack of Massachusetts as platform chairman, a post he held also in 1952.

Butler said the selection was approved by spokesmen for Adlai Stevenson, Sen. Estes Kefauver and Averell Harriman, who are seeking the party's presidential nomination. The Reupblicans earlier had designated Sen. Prescott Bush of Connecticut to head their Platform Committee. Coleman Wins Test Of Strength At State Democratic Convention Committee Okays August Ballot JACKSON, July 16 (AP)-Mississippi's Democratic ballot for the August primary election met with full approval of the State Executive Committee.

The committee, which held its final meeting last night, also approved several resolutions to be presented to the State Convention today. The resolutions were not revealed but the ballot includes: Rep. John Bell Bellims of Raymond and Wallace Hailey of Crystal Springs, both seeking the Fourth District post. Rep. William Colmer of Pascagoula and Wayne McClure of Hattiesburg, seeking the Sixth District post.

Chancery Judge Thomas Ott and Karl Kepper, both Hattiesburg and seeking the 10th Chancery District bench. All other members of Congress, four state Supreme Court justices and the Fifth Chancery District judge, all seeking re-election and without opposition, were declared Democratic nominees, tantamount to election in this heavily Democratic state. The nominees include Reps. Tom Abernethy of Okolona, First District; Jamie Whitten 'of Charleston, Second District; Frank Smith of Greenwood, Third District; and Arthur Winstead of Philadelphia, Fifth District. Supreme Court Justices Lee Hall, Robert Gillespie, Percy Lee and W.

G. Roberds. Chancery Judge Stokes Robertson, was the nominee from the Fifth Chancery District (Hinds County). Storms Bring Cooler Weather By the Associated Press Thunderstorms brought rain wind and cooling temperatures to many areas of the country today. General thunderstorm activity occurred over Minnesota through Iowa, western Illinois, Missouri, and Kansas.

A second line of thunderstorms extended from Lower Michigan southward through Ohio, Tennessee, West Virginia, Georgia and northern Alabama. The third area of thunderstorms existed over the western portion of the Northern Plains states. A few scattered thunderstorms also occurred in New Mexico and Arizona. Wind gusts of 50 m. p.

h. and more were reported in Michigan. In Plymouth, the wind reached 60 m. p. h.

Rainfall amounts were light. A tornado hit Barnard, demolishing a house, toppling two box-cars off a railroad track and causing damage to other buildings last night. No injuries were reported. Crank's Call Grounds Airliner ELKO, July 16. (AP)What appeared to be a crank call grounded a United Air Lines DC6 with 63 presons aboard for three hours here last night before the the plane continued its flight to Chicago.

A man called United's office in San Francisco, where the plane had just taken off. "Oh my God," he said. "My wife is aboard. There's dynamite aboard." Then he hung up. UAL messaged Capt.

J. W. Nelson, who jettisoned gasoline and made an emergency landing at Elko's landing strip. The passengers, including 18 members of San Francisco's municipal ballet troupe en route to their first tour of the Atlantic Seaboard, were hastily taken off with their luggage. The plane was moved 'to a remote part of the field and thoroughly searched.

Passengers went through their own luggage with police, airline officials and express company officials looking on. Nothing was found. The plane took off for Chicago three hours later. "It must have been a crank," said a UAL spokesman in San Francisco. "It couldn't have been anything else, "since nothing was found.

"But we couldn't know that," he said, expressed regret for the delay and inconvenience. "We weren't taking any chances Study Effects Of Southern Caucus ATLANTA, July 16 (P -Southern Democratic party leaders today were studying the possible effects of a proposed caucus of Southern delegates at Chicago prior to the Democratic National Convention next month. His move, first mentional at the recent Southern governors conference, was given unanimous support of party leaders from seven Southern states who met here Saturday. The group also took the stand that the South "should work toto protect itself" but said gether, not favor any bolts, walkouts or third parties." However, Thomas B. Blanton, Virginia party chairman, last night in Richmond pointed out that the group "didn't make any promises" that will be no Southern bolt at the national convention.

"Of course, you never do favor those things bolt," Blanton said. "But sometimes you have to do it. We didn't make any promises to anybody." Neville Bennett, party chairman in South Carolina, called the meeting. He said its purpose primarily was to map Southern strafight any strong antisegregation moves which may comes up at Chicago. In a statement read to newsmen after the meeting, the group stated it was "disturbed over the invasion of the soveign rights of states." The group expressed the belief that "the South should work together to protect itself and to preserve the rights of the states and of the people as guaranteed by the Constitution." Approval of the group's action yesterday from Rep.

Robert Sikes of Florida, who is chairman of his state's delegation to the national convention. He said the proposed preconvention caucus is a "sound and reasonable" idea. Bennett had invited party chairmen from 11 Southern states to attend the meeting. Representatives attended from Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, and Tennessee. Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas were not represented.

Death Sergeant Goes On Trial ISLAND, S. July 14 (AP)-Matthew C. McKeon, boot camp drill sergeant accused of manslaughter in the April 8 drowning of six Marine recruits, goes on trial today. However, both the defense and the Marine Corps commandant, Gen. Randolph McC.

Pate, agreed that McKeon's court-martial has become almost incidental. The larger issue, both said, is whether the Marines, past methods of turning out hardened, disciplined fighting men was justified and, if so, was McKeon merely following known customs. Specificially, he is charged with involuntary manslaughter, oppression of recruits, possession of alcoholic beverages and drinking in the' present of a recruit. The 31-year-old sergeant 'from Worchester, could receive maximum sentence of four years and eight months imprisonment if found guilty. East Germany Leaders Confer With Moscow BERLIN, July 16 -Communist East.

Germany's top government officials flew to Moscow toford economic important talks. political military Prime Minister Otto Grotewohl and seven of his 10 deputies, including Communist Party Secretary Walter Ulbricht, took off from East Berlin in two special planes. party is, to. confer with Soviet Premier Bulganin, Communist party chief Nikita Khrushchev and other Kremlin leaders on disarmament, European security and German reunification. An announcement here by the Red government said economic questions and measures aimed at raising the living standard of the 10 million East German are also to be discussed.

Western Allied officials said the trip-together with the surprise replacement of Valerian Zorin as Soviet ambassador to West Germany- pointed to a new Kremlin drive to win over all of divided Germany. JACKSON, Miss. July 16 (AP) -Gov. J. P.

Coleman won the first test of strength. today at the Mississippi Democratic convention. By a count of about two to one, the convention turned down proposed temporary rules offered by Rep. Russell Fox of Claiborne county, a Coleman foe. Coleman charged Fox' proposal that congressmen be named delegates-at-large to the Democratic National convention was a "cover-up" for the Third District's failure to elect Rep.

Frank Smith a delegate during last week's caucus. The governor, alternately striding forth on the convention floo rand speaking from the platform, was interrupted by cries of "not true." pa parently Coleman had said Fox' reconsidered group its fail- apure to name Smith a Chicago delegate and "schemed" to reverse itself in the State Convention. Tom Barrentine, delegate from A surprise development was the election of Rep. Lovie Gore of Oktibbeha county as Democratic national committeewoma roll Mrs. Gore defeated than incumbent, Mrs.

Hermes Gautier of Pascagoula, 155-122. Leflore county, shouted from the floor that Coleman was not telling the truth, that there was no conspiracy to keep Smith off the Chicago delegation. Fox also came to the platform to deny there was "any plot or conspiracy to keep Smith or anyoff the national convention delegation. Ed White, delegate from Holmes county, said the "best evidence of the Third District's feeling for Smith was that he had just been re-nominated tantamount to election in Mississippi without opposition." Coleman told the convention he had talked with everyone concerned and could predict with authority that Smith would be named a delegate to the National Convention from the state-atlarge. Coleman won on the question of temporary chairmanship.

Rep. Joel Blas of Stone county nominated State Democratic Executive Committee Chairman Tom Tubb of West Point for the post and Rep. Buddy Newman of Issaquena, a Coleman foe, moved that the election be by acclamation. He in the "interests of harmoncted The governor, in an apparent harmony move of his own, moved and was successful in having adopted the first three sections of the Fox resolution. However, Coleman specifically eliminated the proposal to name various office-holders, including congressmen, as delegates from the state-at-large.

Tubb, as temporary chairman, appointed the seven members of the three committees credentials, resolutions and nominations. The six district caucuses earlier this month elected one member each to the committees. The convention proceeded along routine lines, adopting temporary temporary rules of order, a temporary secretary and a temporary chairman. The convention was a test of Coleman's belief that the south's "way of life" could survive within the Democratic party. Ardent states righters opposing Coleman caucused late.

into the night and met again early this morning. Rumors on the convention floor as the meeting opened were that Coleman's opponents would not offer a candidate against Lt. Gov. Carroll Gartin as permanent convention chairman. States' righters who feel the 43-year-old governor has not been forceful enough in upholding such principles as segregation of the races made up his principal opposition.

Coleman, whose control over Mississippi's 22-vote delegation to the Democratic National Convention was at stake, was openly confident he would win. The main issue was a proposal for a "recess" state convention after both national conventions. Those opposing the governor want Mississippi Democrats to have a chance to jump party traces if the Democratic presidential nominee and platform are unacceptable. Coleman promised "no compromise" in opposing a recess meeting. "I know that to order such a recess is simply to invite trouble at Chicago where the Democratic National Convention opens Aug.

13," he said in a statement. "We must be left free affirmatively for those things which Mississippi shall and must preserve." Taking a crack at New York Gov. Averill Harriman, an announced candidate for the presidential nomination, Coleman said: am opposed to doing an unnecessary thing and giving the Harriman CIO-NAACP- ADA axis another free chance to try to make a scapegoat of Mississippi." The Mississippi governor has never wavered from complete opposition to racial integration..