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225 NEWPORT, R. THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 1952 TWENTY SIX PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS HOUSE VOTES END SOME RENT CURBS SEPTEMBERS Critical Defense Areas, Cities Requesting Controls Will Be Excepted WASHINGTON (Si The House voted today to end federal rent controls on Sept. 30 except in critical defense areas and cities specifically requesting control. The vote, subject to roll call reconsideration, was one more step toward final action on the administration's sharply reduced controls bill extender. In areas designated as critical or in municipalities whose governing body requests, controls would he continued until March 31, 1953.

Rent Stabilizer Tighe Woods said last month that to limit rent controls to critical defense areas could deal "a knockout blow to the general over-all stabilization effort." The rent decontrol provision was offered by Rep. Wheeler (D-Ga) and adopted by a standing vote of 144 to 113. Previously the House beat 119 to 69, an.amendment to end controls on June 30 of this year everywhere except in critical areas. Law Expires Monday The present rent control law allows municipalities to retain federal controls unless they specifically request discontinuance. That law expires next Monday at midnight.

After voting on the rent control amendment, the House agreed to end all debate on the bill before 3 p. m. (EDT) and to start voting by roll call then on amendments already approved. WASHINGTON CB--The administration's stripped-to-a-skeleton controls bill faced final roll-call tests in the House today. And administration leaders had little hope of restoring the major control powers peeled away by a coalition of Republicans and Southern Democrats in a week of heated debate.

There was one exception: Republican Leader Martin of Massachusetts told newsmen he thought the House might reverse yesterday's 118 to 87 decision to end; wage and price controls July 31. Rep. Bardeif (D-NC) sponsored this amendment. Martin, who opposed it, said a Senate-House conference committee probably would knock it out of the final bill even if the House didn't cancel yesterday's tentative vote. Even without the Barden amendment, however, the bill--originally drawn to continue President Truman's wage, price, rent and other control powers for a year- has been so sharply whittled by President Warns Services To Quit Recruiting Farmers WASHINGTON UP) Presiden Truman today told the armed serv ices to quit recruiting farm work ers if they are deferred from the draft for necessary production.

He said he was alarmed by the loss to the farms of six million workers in the" last four years. The President issued a statemen in connection with the signing an executive order which he saic would provide a more orderly policy for granting temporary deferments for i a industrial workers. "These orders do not permit permanent exemption of any worker from selective service," the President said. "Rather they provide a more orderly basis for granting the temporary deferments which a boards'have customarily extended to qualified individuals." ALDERMEN SCOLD VFW ASSOCIATION Criticize Slot Machines, Hear Transients Rapped The Board of Aldermen directed today that a letter of "stern reprimand" be sent the Conoyer-Leary VFW Post Home Association in connection with four slot machines seized in the Pelham Street home last August. The board had held up action for 11 months while the case was in court.

On Wednesday, counsel for the post steward, Joseph G. O'Connor, withdrew an appeal from a District Court forfeiture order and Judge Thomas H. Roberts in Superior Court remanded the machines for destruction. Today's action was in the board's capacity as license commissioners. City Clerk Robert A.

Shea was directed to include in the letter a warning that more severe penalties would follow a repetition of the incident. Alderman Alexander G. Teitz, the House that some members said they'd be surprised if it wasn't sent back to committee. In that case Congress could either allow all controls to die next Monday, when the present Jaw expires, or pass a quick short-term extension of the present law. while not opposing the letter, said he did not think the board should set precedent of waiting until final court action before taking steps of its own against licensees.

Ocean Drive Situation Tent-pitching and picnicking on the Ocean Drive came up for discussion in a communication resulting from a Chamber of Commerce directors' meeting Wednesday. The Chamber explained against uisightly conditions and urged that illegal parking be stopped. Picnic parties, the Chamber said, should be directed to Easton's Beach or Miantonomi Memorial Park. Teitz said Police don't want to trespass on private property in cheeking undesirable conditions and said improved ordinances against the conditions would be useful. The police chief was directed to have his patrols look into the situation on the Drive.

Mention was made of a large tent pitched last Sunday. A MUSTANG SEEN CORRECTED-TIME BERMUDA WINNER Naval Academy's Royono First Across Finish Line; Bolero 2nd, Escapade 3rd Roderick Stephens' Mustang, a 45-foot Class sloop, loomed today as the probable corrected time winner of the Newport-Bermuda race. The Mustang had a 15-hour time allowance and, though crossing the line in 12th position, seemed likely to nose out A. Howard Fuller's sloop Gesture, which crossed ninth. Several unreported boats with big landicaps may change the picture.

Stephens corrected time was 88 lours and Fuller's 92 hours. First across the line was the Naval Academy's sleek yawl, Royono, which took 97 hours to make (he run and wound up with a 94-hour corrected time. She copped the Class A however, as she hove past the finish at 3:16 p. m. Wednesday.

Escapade Goes Aground Next in line were John Nicholas Brown's 72 foot yawl Boleio, fol- owed by Wendell W. Anderson Escapade and Henry C. Taylor Baruria. The Escapade ran aground trying to move into the harbor after dark and was aided by a boat from HMS Sheffield. Following the Escapade er the ine were the British yacht Blood- lound, A.

Lee Loomis Good s'ews, Gilbert Verney's Sea Lion, fohn Timken's Kittyhawk, Gesture, Baxter Still's Dons, Carleton Mit- ihell's Caribee and Mustang. Royono's triumph was a sweet me for the Naval Academy, mark- ng the school's first win. But her ime was the slowest since 1946, vhen the Baruna took 119 hours to make the jaunt. Winds Drop Diminishing winds were the irobable cause for the Mustang Gesture's showing. Big yachts ike big winds and in seas, ie smaller boats can catch up.

Even the 5J-fopt Gesture, which for while promised to nab the corrected time crown, had to give way to the lighter Mustang. The blue-hulled Royono's crew includes Ens. Thomas W. Lyons son of Mri and Mrs. Lyons Green Lane, Jamestown.

The boa finished second behind Qolero actual time in 1950, third behin EASTON'S BEACH ON A HOT dAY Where would you like to be in the current heat wave? These youngsters and some older the answer. They were in the waves, with water temperature of 70, as the sun at Easton's nil 114. (Daily News Photo) 3M GROUP EYES E. HAZARD'S BEACH Downtowners Already Have Pledged $8,500 The Newport Hospital decision to sell the easterly end of Hazard's Beach has resulted in the creation of a third separate group of citizens interested in purchasing the site. John F.

Phelan, attorney, heads the new group composed mostly ol downtown residents anxious to purchase the property. He said that a total of $8,500 had been pledged from 85 individuals in less than two days and that the list is growing. The other interested groups are Hazard's Beach, and the city of Newport. The hospital trustees after deciding last Thursday to sell to Hazard's Beach, or the City of Argyll and Bolero time. on correcte As it now stands fhe House would: End wage and price controls on July 31, 1952.

Continue until June 30, 1953, allocation and priority powers and rent control. "Request" the President to 'try to stop the steel strike with a Taft- Hartley Law injunction. Reorganize the Wage Stabilization Board and take away its power to act in labor disputes. The House left out of its bill all authority for the government to control private credit. This authority had been used in the past to regulate installment buying and house UII U.

dILMC.ll traders was made by Tax Assessors Chairman Kenneth V. Stein, with reference to two furniture firms he said were not fully licensed. The businessmen of Newport have been waiting all winter for summer trade, said Stein, and objected to out-of-towners coming in and making a temporary "kill- inor Police Check of Firms The police were directed to check new firms opening here and to see if they were adequately licensed. Stein then went on to mention tattoers who set up shop temporarily and should also, in his opinion, be treated as transient traders. Taft Sees Dewey Machine Running Ike's Campaign, Raps Gallup Poll WASHINGTON ffl Sen.

Robert A. Taft said today the political organization of Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York is now running Gen. Dwight D.

Eisenhower's campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. The Ohio Senator, top contender with Eisenhower for the GOP nomination, made the statement at a news conference. He also said that if Eisenhower should be nominated, iie probably would lose the November election if he "conducts the of campaign his backers apparently want him to. Taft further stated that Dr. George Gallup, who runs the Gallup Poll, "has loaned himself as a straight propagandist for Eisen- lower." Taft was asked about a statement yesterday by Sen.

Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts, Sisenhower's campaign manager, hat the "jig is up" for Taft in his id for the presidential nomination. raft called the remark "just poht- cal talk" and said there was no ustification for it. Taft's statement that tht organization of Dewey, the GOP standard bearer in 1944 and- 1948, is running Eisenhower's campaign ras prompted by a reporter's question. The newsman told Taft that the Buffalo News recently -arried a story saying that Sen. Ives, New York Repub- would, not run for re-election i this year if Taft wins the presidential nomination.

Ives was represented as feeling that he could not carry New York if Taft were the presidential nominee. Asked for comment, Taft replied hotly that he regarded the story as "pure propaganda," emanating from the Eisenhower camp. He said he feels it did not reflect Ives' views at all. "I am confident I can cavav New York more easily than Eisenhower," Taft declared. He said the whole idea set forth in the story was "part of the general propaganda of the Dewey organization, which now is running the Eisenhower campaign Taft said Dewey lieutenants have been active in behalf of Eisenhower in various states.

He named Herbert who was Dewey's presidential a mpaign manager; Barak Mattingly, a former Republican national committeeman from Missouri, William Pfeiffer, New York Republican state chairman, and J. Russel Sprague, New York Renublican national committeeman. "There is no question," Taft added, "that so 'far as political strategy is concerned the Dewey organ-- ization is running the Eisenhower campaign." Taft coupled his criticism of the Gallup Poll with an assertion that the polls in 1948 showed that Dewey would carry the country by five million votes. Navy Gets $5 Million Pier Funds From House Body The House Appropriations Com mittee today gave the Navy th full amount construction, of a destroye berthing pier at Newport. Th committee also provided $9,000 fo purchase of land at the James town fleet landing, the Dail.

News' Washington bureau reports These items--previously author ized in a "public works bill--wer included in a supplemental monej bill sent to the House at noon to day. The bill slated to read the House floor for probable pass age Friday. The House committee said there are certain Navy projects which can be-deferred at this time. Nom of these are in New England. On the whole, the committee said i was "satisfield as to the sound ness of the Navy budget" for new construction and added that in stallations contained in the nev program, with the exceptions list ed.

are "needed for the buildup shore facilities necessary readiness to support the fleet." Armed Forces 25 Per Cent Cut Urged In House WASHINGTON (35 The House Appropriations Committee recommended today a 25 per cent cut in new funds asked by the administration for the armed forces, foreign aid, atomic energy and a variety of other purposes. In terms of cash, the purse-hold- ng group's proposed reduction, comes up for House action omorrow and will be considered by the Senate later, was The committee, headed by Rep. Cannon (D-Mo), said the agencies nvolved should get along on $10,276,910,569 instead of the President Truman asked. The money provided in today's ill is separate from regular budget appropriations already considered by Congress for the Defense Department and the Atomic Energy Commission. Their regular budgets, much larger, have been 'educed already.

The new funds supplement ap- ropriations already considered for coming year or actually made or the present year, and are primarily for programs. GOAT ISLAND ACTION SEEN A major step towards creating he destroyer repair base at Goat sland is the expected approval by he Senate apppropriations commit- ee of a $7,000,000 item for conver- ipn of existing buildings into hops. The House already has massed this item. Chairman O'Mahoney (D-Wyo) the. Senate defense appropria- ions subcommittee said ihis after- oon: am certain the Newport m0wm "1 the bill as it reaches the Senate Newport, in that order, ported price of $10,000, for a re- notified Hazard's Beach.

yesterday afternoon, that it had withdrawn its offer to sell to that organization; Subject To Restrictions Phelan said he had notified Edward F. Byrnes, acting hospital president, by letter of the desire of his group to make an offer. Phelan's letter said the beach would be operated for the benefit of local residents subject to restrictions that the hospital might want to include in a deed. Phelan said a number in his group have offered to donate their services towards erection of a building for sanitary and other facilities. Concerning the city's interest, Phelan had this to say: "I am personally of the opinion that if a responsible, private group wants to buy and operate the beach in a proper manner, I cannot see why the taxpayers should be burdened by another city operation." Phelan said he had been con- fering with city officials in an at(Continued on Page 6) South Africa Armed Police Alerted As Non-Whites Prepare Defiance Acts South Africa, (31--Armed police stood alerted to- day as hundreds non-whites pre-' pared to seek jail a defiance campaign against South Africa race segregation laws.

Yussif A. Cachaha, campaign secretary, said a trained, disc phned vanguard of volunteer would go into action "like soldiers in all major cities to flout Jim Crow restrictions. They expect be jailed. He stressed, however, that 71 call had gone out for a gener; work stoppage. Effective precau tions have been taken to conduc the movement peacefully, added.

Behind the campaign is the Afr can National Congress, represen ing the country's eight million Ni groes, and the South African India representing 300,00 Asians. Two separate actions were kick off the defiance campaign i Johannesburg: at) To Break Laws Around midday, after the chie magistrate had been informed, a least 50 Negroes were to breac laws ordering them to carry var. ous sorts of permits--identity, em ployment and tax papers and th like. Their leafier was the N. B.

Trantzi, who heads the Afn can Episcopal Methodist Churc lere and also is acting presiden of the African National Congress. Later a Transvaal State leade of the Indian Congress, Nana Sita was to lead another group in break ng the night curfew for non whites. The defiance aims at repeal segregation laws deemed unjust bj South Africa's non-whites--Negroes coloreds (mixed blood) and Indian They hope the law defiance wil snowball into a mass movemen hat will so fill the jails Premie Daniel F. Malan's government can not handle it. Non-whites outnumber whites lere 4 to 1.

The growing threat to white supremacy reportedly has produced a new attempt to narrow the wide (Continued on Page 6) Former Town School Committeeman Appears In Defense Of Ousted Snell A former Middletown- School Committee chairman, Aleck Dennett stated Wednesday night that a school superintendent is a professional hired "to show the committee what is right and wrong in education." Dennett was the first witness to testify in behalf of S. Hayward Snell, whose dismissal as super- ntendent was reviewed for the second night in a School Commit- public hearing. The Berkeley- Peckam School auditorium, filled Wednesday with 270 attentive isteners, will be the scene of a third session, at 7 p. m. Friday.

The committee ended its presentation of charges by putting two more members, Robert Kempenaar and Chairman Harold S. Irish, on the witness stand. Mrs. Amy A. Twigg, Mrs.

Helen B. Tolderlund and George B. Silvia testified Tuesday night, when the hearing began in Town Hall. Before Dennett spoke, William Sheffield, attorney for Snell, suthned the defense procedure. He aid the whole conduct of the hear- ng was illegal and that Snell's ights of appeal to any court ivould not be waived.

Under state law, should save received notice of dismiss- 1 before March Sheffield'con- ended, and should have had a opy of charges 30 days before his IsmJssal was voted. The attorney promised these witnesses: former committeemen vho would describe improvements made Snell- teachers 'who vould say that Snell was loyal to ie' committee; parents whose hildren had been educated in a ide variety of U. S. schools, and ducators who would refute, the nsinuations mads 'against'Snell's bilities. 4 If the hearing continues at its resept progress more sessions apparently be needed.

As'in the first session, opposing ounsel clashed on methods of handling witnesses and evidence Sheffield argued that Louis Barry committee 'attorney, couldn't close his case without introducing original minutes o'f the group's meetings. Barry referred to an agreement with Sheffield that a transcript would be acceptable until the originals were checked. The outcome was that the disputed records will be brought to Friday meeting and Barry can introduce such documents as he things necessary. Prepared question and answer sheets which committee members had employed in giving testimony Tuesday did not figure in the second session. Kempenaar had no notes; Irish had some papers, but made little reference to them.

Kempenaar, 'first witness in the four-hour said the committee completed a budget this year after seven meetings and that Snell then came in with another Budget. The superintendent listed four new" items of-expenditure, as well asj.8 items the-committee had crossed out earlier, Kempenaar said. Snell's relations with the committee were good unless he was refused what he wanted, the witness, declared. Under cross-examination. Kempenaar said Snell had a right to argue'for'budget items, but when they were turned down and a final made, he should have abided by Kempenaar.

said the question of dismissal had been discussed, prior to May 2, when'Barry was instructed to prepare a.letter seeking Snell's resignation, as well as a resolution of dismissal for, later passage if the superintendent declined to leave. Irish said that five days after the town meeting in which the committee's recommendations forj I (Continued on'Page 3)' BRITISH RADIOMAN ACCUSEDOF SPYING To Face Trial For Giving Information To Moscow LONDON (J) A magistrate's court today committed William Martin Marshall, 24, a radio operator for the British Foreign Office, to trial on charges of slipping official secrets to Russian diplomat. The action followed a closed hearing of an hour and quarter. Reporters and the public were barred because of the top secrets involved in the case. At the open ing of the hearing, a governmenl prosecutor charged that Marshall was carrying information which would have been useful to the Kremlin when he was placed under arrest on June 13 in the company of the Soviet Embassy official.

Marshall may be tried within the next week. Marshall was denied bail and ordered held in jail until his trial. Marshall once worked in Britain's Moscow Embassy, where he described himself as a "misfit" and disgruntled with his work. He was picked up with Pavel Kuznetsov, second secretary of the Soviet Embassy in London. The Soviet diplomat was released on grounds of diplomatic immunity.

Magistrate Clyde T. Wilson read charges against Marshall. Three of them accuse the young radio operator of giving information to Kuznetsov and the fourth of obtaining information at Hanslope Park, where Marshall worked in the foreign office radio station. Magistrate Wilson asked if Marshall understood the charges and ie replied: "Yes, sir, and I deny them all." Wilson cut off any further reply. In his opening statement Bass the court that Marshall had admitted meeting Kuznetsov eight times since last January.

"There is no doubt that on the ast occasion he did have his wssession information which would useful to an enemy," the prosecutor declared. He gave no further exnlanation. Some Issues Advance Steady Stock Market NEW YORK W--Steadiness was the keynote of the stock market oday with a few issues under pin- Mint pressure. Leading issijes traded unchanged fractions higher or lower with ttle or no group activity. Stocks moving up included Chrysler, Douglas Aircraft, Amer- can Telephone.

Southern Pacific, nd Texas Co. Lower were Johns- Danville, A i a Can, and tandard Oil (NJ). On'the curb exchange today Pa- Petroleums Ltd, was active nd higher. Corporate bonds' were quiet and rm. U.

S. governments in the ver the counter market were up 'little. (Stock Table on Page 6) Heat Wave Engulfs City; Some Workers Go Home; Relief Expected Friday President Calls Off Press Parley Because Of Heat WASHINGTON (Si President Truman cancelled his mid-afternoon news confertnce today because of the intense Washington heat. Presidential Secretary Joseph Short made the announcement at 11:30 a. m.

EOT. At that time the temperature was 93 degrees. DETROIT W--It was 30 degrees cooler in Paradise today than it was in Hell. Residents of Hell reported the mercury hit 110 there last week but was at the 100 mark today. Th5 two Michigan communities Paradise reported a relatively cool 70.

They are about 250 miles apart. NEW HEAT RECORD FOR NEW ENGLAND Scattered Thundershowers Expected; Cool Tomorrow (ffl Temperatures soared to a new high for this date Boston today as all New Eng- and sweltered in a heat wave. The U. S. weather bureau reported, a 95 reading at 11 a.

m. (EDT). That surpassed the 94 record set in 1946. A100 mark was expected by mid- afternoon. Humidity was about 50 per cent and would remain so most of the day.

Scattered thundershowers are expected tonight but no general rains are in sight. Cooler weather is expected tomorrow with the humidity rising 80 per cent. One of the first casualty's of the leat was a Boston boxing xut between former featherweight itlist Willie Pep and Tommy Colins of Boston. The Callahan A. moved the fight forward from tonight until Monday night.

The excessive heat sent thousands to New England beaches. By The Associated Press June's blazing heat kept up its elentless siege over wide areas the Eastern half of the nation oday. Wednesday was the summer sea- on's hottest day in hundreds of ities in the heat-stricken region, 'emperatures soared into the 90s nd above 100 in the East, the outh and the Midwest. Records or the date were broken in scores cities. No immediate, widespread relief ppeared in sight.

However, some the cooler air which covered the brthern Plains states was headed nto the North Central states. here was a promise of some cooing by Friday. No such relief was orecast for Eastern and Southern ot spots. Hot dry weather threatened rops in some Southern states, in- uding Virginia and Arkansas. Deaths from heat were reported (Continued on Page 7) Temperature Chases Throngs To Beach Areas Newport's hottest day of the season and one of the hottest in its records today had the city gasping.

The Boston Weather Bureau said it was the hottest day of the year in New England. The temperature in Newport reached 89 degrees the shade at noon and "cooled off" to a mere 88 at 1 p. m. when a slight breeze gave some relief. In the sun at Easton's Beach the reading was 114 degrees in the sun and 84 in the shade.

Even so, the most popular places today were the beaches. Easton's Beach reported an "excellent" crowd with many in the water which was 70 degrees. Other beach areas reported temperatures between 70 and 75 de- in the shade, and water between 63 and 69 degrees. Hazard's, Second and Third Beaches all reported extra heavy week-day crowds. Bailey's was the only shoreline spot where crowds were reported as average.

Officials th'ere. said they expected a busy weekend as colonists and visitors arrived from New York. City Work Curtailed Despite the unusual heat wave, no prostrations were reported. The weather forced cessation of work by the city's Public jlforks Department. At noon, Timothy L.

Sullivan, commissioner, acting on orders of Mayor Dean J. Lewis, gave his 110 employes the rest of the day off. Only a standby crew remained at the city yard. Mayor Lewis permitted all city ofices to close at the discretion of department heads. The Naval Base proceeded as usual.

Rear Adm. Clarence E. 'Olsen, Naval Base commander, said he had never heard of heat stopping normal activities. "We are going along in the. even tenor of our ways," he said.

The telephone company reported an increase in local calls, due to the weather. Here the operators work in steam-heated rooms. The telephone company Is in the process of installing a cooling system in the exchange, Miss Ida Browning, chief operator, said this noon. The system will be completed 1 by tomorrow night. Miss Browning said it is warm in the exchange although fans are in operation.

The switchboards must be heated to insure perfect performance, she explained. Providence Sets Mark Some relief from the hot weather is expected tomorrow, the forecaster said. City 2 All heat records for this date were smashed Providence. The temperature at 10:20 a. m.

touched 91, the high reading for yesterday and the previous high of the year. Before 11 o'clock, when it registered 96, the temperature had gone beyond the 94.5 degrees record for the date that had been set in 1943. At the state airport in Hillsgrove, 80-degree heat and high humidity was reported, but it was three degrees below the freezing point only four miles away, four miles up. When 36 passengers took the early American Airlines flight for (Continued on Page 6) TABLES CHANGED MONTEREY, Calif. ergeant who was court-martialed nd busted in rank for writing Gen.

iark- Clark an insolent-letter soon vill be writing letters for Clark's ommand. i C. Deane now 'a private has his orders assigning im to the Far East theater as a enographer. TANK OUTPUT THREATENED WASHINGTON (SI--The Army an- ounced today that the steel strike already stopped delivery of Mne equipment and that produc- on of'some other material, in- uding. light tanks, will come to a alt within a few days.

Eisenhower To Set Up Campaign Headquarters In Chicago Next Week DENVER (ft--Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge (R-Mass) announced today Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower will move to Chicago next week to set up campaign headquarters for the Republican presidential nomination. Lodge, the general's campaign manager, said, Eisenhower would continue to meet with the Republican delegates to the national convention.

"It has been impossible for him (Eisenhower) to meet all the delegates who- wanted to see him during his short period at home," Lodge said. The Massachu-etts Senator said the move was made on his recommendation. He said details would be announced later today at the Chicago headquarters of Ike-for- President. Meanwhile, Lodge said, an important shift In delegate opinion has made certain his candidate will get the Republican nomination. Lodge said "the jig is up" for Taft, who "he insisted will get less than 500 votes on the first convention ballot, while Eisenhower will" get more than 500.

A total of 604' votes -is needed for nomination. Eisenhower's nomination will follow, Lodge said, on the second or- thini ballot. Taft's campaign manager, David S. Ingalls, said bluntly, "It just isn't Eisenhower will deliver what is billed as a major speech tonight before an expected capacity crowd of 12,000 at the New Stockyards Coliseum. A paid political broadcast, it will be carried on a nationwide radio network at 9:30 p.m.

Eastern Standard Time. Lodge, who flew he're yesterday to meet with Eisenhower, refused to state where the shift in delegate strength took place, but said his figures Were based on a nationwide telephone survey of delegates conducted by Eisenhower leaders. He said the survey did not include states where there are contests between Eisenhower and Taft forces over who is legally entitled to del- gate seats Asked yesterday to confirm rumors that the general might move to Chicago, Lodge refused comment. Lodge said, "I came here to tell the general personally of some very important developments I 'can't tell you what these developments are, but you will know of The senator said one' indication of 'Taft's" weakening position was the announcement by Sinclair Weeks of Massachusetts, a national GOP-committeeman. that he supports Eisenhower.

The announcement "had a tremendous influence on other delegates," Lodge said..