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The Lexington Leader Twenty Pages Vol 68-No 190 FINAL EDITION Lexington Kentucky Tuesday Afternoon August 14 1956 Price Five Cents First-Ballot Effort News Flashes Russ Envoys Ask Suez Peace Separate Statements Made By Shepilov Secretary Dulles WASHINGTON (AT Secretary of State Dulles said today after meeting with President Eisenhower that he is confident of a solution" of the Suez Canal dispute In White House statement he said he was confident a formula would be found at the London Suez Conference which would assure dependable international of the Canal Egypt has seized Dulles made his view known after a final 40-minute talk with Eisenhower a few hours before leaving by special plane to attend the 22-nation conference which opens in the British capital Thursday Soviet Foreign Minister Dmitri Shepilov arrived in London for the conference and expressed a desire for peace Shepilov told reporters at London Airport however any agreement would have to be one that Included all countries using the canal plus Egypt which Is boycotting the meeting The bedroom In which Mrs Stanonis was sleeping Is shown here after It had been covered over with brick She was listed In serious condition today at the St Joseph hospital from multiple cuts and possible Internal injuries (Leader photo) I One Person Hurt Seriously As Wind Slashes Lexington f' Second Vote Seen As Aim Of Favorite Rayburn Takes Over Permanent Chairman Position Tonight By JACK BELL CHICAGO Adlai forces appeared today to be engaged in a strategic retreat away from an all-out effort to capture the Democratic presidential nomination on the first ballot The former' Illinois governor' found himself confronted by a tightening freeze of and Southern state delegations apparently planning to scatter their yotes among half a dozen or more names while they waited to see which way the decision might go Stevenson the nominee in 1952 was reported as planning to shoot the works on the second ballot Full Day Delegates had a full day of party oratory in this second day of the national convention Its platform committee meantime worked on the touchy civil rights plank Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn of Texas takes over the gavel as permanent chairman tonight in preparation for what may develop Wednesday into a crackling battle over the civil rights issue The delegates got their first chance to whoop it up in Democratic fashion Monday night when Gov Frank Clement of Tennessee blasted at President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon in the keynote speech Clement said no Democrat wishes the President anything but the best of health but he said the people are entitled to know if Eisenhower plans to run the country under a White House hoard of directors Unbearable Load are entitled to have him accept all responsibilities that belong upon including that most unbearable load of all the responsibility for Clement declared Former President Harry Truman got two big ovations the first when he took his seat and the second when Clement paid him tribute Mrs Franklin Roosevelt was roundly applauded when ahe told the Democrats among other things not to depend too much on the She is supporting Stevenson Truman has endorsed Gov Averell Harriman of New York Truman la 72 Mrs Roosevelt 71 Party Unity In the face of pleas for party unity Southern delegations remained hesitant to commit themselves on presidential -nomination candidates until the convention decides whether the party should endorse the Supreme Court's barring racial segregation in public schools This arid the encouragement given Northern state favorite sons by endorsement of Harriman evidently contributed to a revision in' strategy despite a commanding lead in committed delegate strength Jacob Arvey Illinois national committeeman and a Stevenson lieutenant said this combination had made a first-ballot victory endorsement far Harriman has firmed up some of the favorite son he said Will Take Two i Sen Estes Kefauver of Tennessee who led on the first ballot in 1952 but lost out to Stevenson said he thinks It will take two ballots for Stevenson to win Kefauver on July 31 from the contest for the nomination He called a conference of his delegates to hear Stevenson today Bay burn was reported to share See DEMO Page 10 Convention Briefs Drafters Seek Party Unity In Chicago Segregation Issue Poses Big Problem For Platform Unit CHICAGO Sen Sam Ervin of North Carolina said today that extremists in both the Dixie and Northern wings of the Democratic Party "will have to swallow something we on the controversial civil righta issue "But so far been fussin end In a most cooperative Ervin reported today He Is one of the 17 'members of the drafting subcommittee which is wrestling with words in an effort to come up with civil rights plan that will not set off a partysplitting fight when the Democratic National Convention goes to adopt a platform Ervin said he believes both the drafting group and the 108-member Resolutions Committee will come up with an acceptable compromise plan sometime tonight or early Wednesday Meanwhile Rep John McCormack of Massachusetts chairman of the platform committee and of its drafting subgroup reported some delay in releasing several of the planks that already have been cleared by the drafting group The big fight on the civil rights plank is over whether to make specific mention of the unanimous Supreme Court decision ordering an end to racial segregation in public schools Ladies Day CHICAGO For Ladies Day at the Democratic National Convention seven Democratic congresswomen took the rostrum today to criticize the way Republicans keep house And they all predicted a Democratic victory in the elections this fall Mrs Katie Louchheim director of activities for the Democratic National Committee said Democrats were going to get more help from women than ever before Mrs Louchheim said the Republicans after their 1952 victory down to government by tag dinner and finally they lapsed into government by stagnation" Other scheduled speakers were Reps Edna Kelly of New York Leonor Sullivan of Missouri Grade Pfost of Idaho Edith Green of Oregon Martha Griffith of Michigan Coys Knutson of Minnesota and Iris Blitch of Georgia Adlai And Estes CHICAGO Adlai Stevenson teamed up actively with his former rival Estes Kefauver today in an effort to get the Stevenson bandwagon rolling by Democratic convention balloting time Thursday Their object is to coax into the Stevenson column more of the delegates pledged to Kefauver before he pulled out of the race cn July 31 TTie new drive came on the heels of a formal announcement by Walter Reuther president of the United Auto Workers Union that he is for Stevenson The -former Illinois governor who has been hopping from one state delegation to another in a strenuous drive to line up more delegate suport met with Kefauver for an hour and a half Monday Tribute To Barkley CHICAGO (UP) Tennessee Gov Frank Clement paid tribute to the late Sen Alben Barkley (D-Ky) in his fighting keynote address to the Democratic National Convention Monday night Clement said the spirit of the See BRIEFS Page 19 KEYNOTER CLEMENT Give hell and heaven Clement Called Old-F asliioned Spellbinder CHICAGO (ff) It was as -the man said give 'em hell and speech But Frank Clement 36 governor of Tennessee boy orator of the Cumberland and an old-fashioned spellbinder lived up to his advance billing His keynote speech had evangelical fever ungentle humor thunder searing derision of the opposition songs of sweet harmony for the home team and a ringing battle charge It had alliteration metaphors (straight and mixed) rhyme puns catch and long rolling sentences that began Innocently gathered speed and crashed like angry waves on the Republican beach He assailed the GOP opposition with cries of "Nixon Dixon and of privilege and Republican triple Benson below party and He said President Eisenhower Jim Hagertize his way through this whole He said "the farmer has been devitam-Ized by the GOP and Bensonized by Ezra He said (Dulles) fiddles fritters frets and called him alternately the "wandering and "the unguided missile" The cheering howling delegates in the blue-trimmed Convention Hall loved it though they seemed to run down on steam toward the end Not Clement His energy and breath control showed no let-up A literary purist might argue that the length of his sentences left you breathless and his metaphors occasionally wrestled' each other to the ground Item: "That kind of double- faced campaign by the opposition vice-hatchet man slinging slander and spreading half-truths while the top man peers down the green fairways of indifference will not be tolerated by the Democratic Party" Toward the end Clement recited a catalogue of what he called Republican sins his arms upraised sweat streaming down his angry handsome face down his blue collar blue shirt blue suit Before each stipulated sin of the enemy he asked long oh how would they be tolerated There were a dozen And at the very end his fist raised high he shouted Lard take our hand Lead us Favorite Son CHICAGO The delegation voted today to cast all its 32 votes for its favorite son candidate Gov Frank Clement on the first ballot in the Democratic convention for a presidential nominee He was proclaimed as a bright new star on the Democratic political horizon as a result of his keynote speech at Monday session of the convention Frank Stanonis 468 Maple Avenue shows where his wife wms standing when she was buried by brick from a neighbor's chimney that blew through the roof of the Stanonis residence The accident occurred during a storm early this morning (Leader photo) Three Killed One Injured As Cars Collide Near Berea KEYNOTER Mrs Frank Clement presented these studies in facial expression as she listened to her husband Gov Frank Clement of Tennessee deliver the keynote address at the Democratie National Convention She said ahe was happy and very humble as delegates cheered speech (AP WIrephotos) Gov Chandler Sees Alabama Delegation CHICAGO Gov Chandler of Kentucky went before the Alabama delegation today to explain his views on school desegregation He will also meet with the Arizona delegation in his bid for votes in the contest for the Democratic presidential nomination Chandler has issued no recent statement on the burning civil rights question He has said publicly however that the Supreme Court decisions in "the field are law but he feels desegregation should be carried out as best suits the local situation Chandler with 30 home state delegates pledged to him has talked less to newsmen but has continued flashing the "happy smile for all comers Monday night the former baseball commissioner sang and told stories for the Kansas delegation Several delegates said it was all very enoyable but nobody would say that he had picked up votes in the delegation which is still uncommitted Chandler would not make any prediction of his first ballot strength He has predicted a deadlock and said he felt he would win after a long convention A spokesman for the governor said however he expects Chandler to have 75 to 85 votes on the first ballot Only 30 of these would be from Kentucky and the rest would come from widely scattered points Chandler is chairman of his delegation but he will not appear with it on the floor as long as he is a candidate He said he felt this would not be proper He turned the floor chairmanship over to Charles Blackburn The governor has one of the largest headquarters of any of the dark-horse candidates here He has five rooms open around the clock on the 13th floor of the Blackstone Hotel Three floors belOw he has a suite where ha greets all comers Veers MIAMI Fla (A5) Hurricane Betsy veered away from its beeline course toward Florida today and forecasters said that if the trend continues the center of the small but violent tropical storm may never reach the Florida Coast Hurricane warnings were low' ered along the thickly populated Southeast Florida from Palm Beach southward as the storm continued its gradual swing away from Its earlier north west course to a more northerly direction Takes Overdose MIAMI BEACH Fla Comedienne Martha Raye was taken to a hospital here today in critical condition after taking an overdose of sleeping pills Her physician Dr Ralph Robbins said the 39-year-old television star had taken about 20 sleeping pills and was very poor A maid found Miss Raye unconscious on this floor of her Miami Beach home at 3 a about a half hour after the actress had! come home for the night Robbins said Miss Raye had been despondent for the past week New Bid WASHINGTON (JP President Eisenhower has renewed his Invitation to Prime Minister Nehru of India to come to the United States to confer on world problems 'Announcing this today the White House said no "formal acceptance has been received from Nehru However in New Delhi Nehru was reported to have accepted the invitation although a spokesman told Parliament no date has been set Man Posing As Hitler Is Arrested A man posing as Adolf Hitler according to his own confession has been arrested in Middlesboro on a charge of using the mails to defraud District Atty Henry Cook said the real name is Will Johnson that he is a Negro about 61 years of age and that he is a part-time preacher and unemployed former miner Since 1946 Cook said Johnson has received an estimated $10000 to $19000 in contributions through the mails Here is the story as told by Cook In 1946 a newspaper story circulated in the Middlesboro area speculated that Hitler was alive and might be in that vicinity Ap- See HITLER Pare II Betsy Cornered Mrs Ray Cox 111 Blue Grass Avenue wants the words to the folk song "Pearl She says sure some of the older people have heard the story or have the words to the Cornered referred the request to Dr William Hugh Jansen who la not "older but is the UK expert on folklore and related matter The good Dr Jansen does not have the words but believes he can find them So be patient for a little while Mrs Cox Sourdough Fete sends In an item about the Eskimo bride who confessed to her husband that she had been a prostitute all said he stick to your religion and Til stick to Virginia Cox back from vacation met a youngster in Beulah Mich named Pete Moss I am In receipt of a letter addressed this way: ntrsld-Leadar tt: Jertid-LtidtrC Lexington Kentucky Touch-typing must be wonderful if you start with the right letter The message is from the American Guernsey Cattle Club maybe the typist milks with but three fingers or something Have you ever wished for an automatic choke that also works back-seat drivers? Wind accompanied by heavy rains and severe lightning swept through Lexington and Fayette County early today leaving in its path downed power lines and scattered tree limbs The storm hit the Lexington area around 1 am with the heaviest wind and rain in a brief period between 1 and 2 Dix Newton of the local weather bureau said 85 inch of rainfall was recorded between 1 and 5:30 am with winds ranging up to 54 mph Newton said the outlook for today was for scattered thunderstorms in this immediate area One severe accident was reported as a direct result of the storm Mrs Frank Stanonis' 468 Maple Avenue was injured seriously when she was burled under the brick from a chimney The brick was blown off the roof and through that of the Stanonis residence The City Fire Department reported 24 calls betwen 2 and 8 a Most of the calls were for tree limbs and wires down The county department had three runs during the storm one of which was false Several large tree limbs were reported down in the county blocking roads in some areas Russell county road engineer said the roads would he open again by this afternoon George Gard city engineer said limbs were down over a wide area in the city He said that trucks were out as early as 3 a clearing away the debris The Kentucky Utilities Co reported service wires down all over town Electricity was off in some areas since 2 a but service was expected to be restored during the afternoon Between 400 and 500 telephones were reported out The General Telephone Co said it had no report of lines or poles down It said that it may be several days before full service is restored Some crop damage and several uprooted trees were reported in the northeast section of the county Inside Info Classified 18-19 Let's Explore 8 Colored Notes 17 Markets 17 Comics 9 Movies 8 Crossword Deaths 10 Radio-TV 8 Record 11 Editorial! 4 Society 12 Goren 14 Sports 5-7 Jumble 9 State News 2-3 Auto Accidents Cause Injuries To Five Persons Five Lexingtoniane two of them pedestrians were injured Monday in auto accidents Three persons were injured when the car in which they were riding hit a bridge abutment on the Athens-Boonesboro Road at the Clark County line Treated at the Good Samaritan Hospital were: William Alley Jr 18 of 724 Melrose Avenue He received face abrasions Mrs Elizabeth Ann Alley 16 same address She received a knee cut Eric Mangelsen 18 of 207 Cassidy Avenue who received a head cut Alley told police he wae driving the car toward the bridge from the Clark County aide when his brakes failed and he lost control of the car Youngster Hurt Ten-year-old Phyllis Jean Younger 636 West Main Street was treated for face and arm cuts when she was hit by a car at Main and Jefferson streets Listed as driver of the car was Tilford 22 of 711 Florence Street He told police that the youngster ran from behind two parked can into the path of his car A Lexington doctor Thomas Hobbs Versailles Road told police that he was struck by a car as he stood beside his own car in a garage on Short Street He said he received a knee Injury but did not realize at the time that he had been hurt Dr Hobbs said the car that struck him was turning Into the garage He obtained the license number police said neck crushed chest broken leg and internal injuries State Trooper Cox said Ernest-Brown of Hulen told him he was following the Pfister car and McCoig who was driving the other car apparently applied the brakes and the car skidded into the path of the ear driven by Pfister 'He said the Ohio man -did not have time to stop The trooper said the highway was wet Cox said the -road is straight and level at the wreck scene Both cars were almost completely demolished The bodies of Whaley and McCoig were taken to the Britton Funeral Home in Berea and the body of Mrs Pfister was taken to the Rominger Funeral Home in Berea Attendants at the St Joseph Hospital in Lexington said condition was critical The extent of his injuries had not been determined RICHMOND Ky Three persons were killed and another was injured critically when two automobiles collided on 25 just north of Berea city limits at 8 a today The dead were Identified as Arlie Elmer Whaley 47 of Se-viervllle Term Route 6 Floyd Malcolm McCoig 35 of Dandridge Term Route 4 and Mrs Hazel Pfister 35 of Toledo Ohio Norman Pfister 54 of Toledo' husband of the dead woman was critically injured Coroner Jack Turpin said He was treated at Berea College Hospital and later removed to the St Joseph Hospital Lexington Turpin said both men were killed instantly He said both suffered crushed skulls and other injuries Mrs Pfister was pronounced dead upon arrival at Berea College Hospital The coroner' said she suffered a broken The Weather Warm And Humid For Lexington: Partly cloudy warm and humid If this afternoon tonight and Wednesday High this afternoon 86 Low tonight 65 High Wednesday 88 Readings Temperature: Highest 92 at 4:30 lowest 73 at 5 a average 83 normal 75 highest same date in previous years 97 in 1936 lowest 56 in 1888 Precipitation: For 24 hours none Accumulated total since Jan 1 3852 lnches Excess since Jan 1 860 Inches Readings To 1 PJtt Temperature: Highest 80 at 12:30 pm lowest 65 at 6 am Highest this date in previous years 100 in 1943 lowest 52 in 1941 Humidity: At 7:30 99 per cent: at 10:30 72 per cent at 12:30 63 per cent Daylight: Sun sets today at 7:33 pm rises Wednesday at 5:53 am Mrs Elisabeth Alley Is moved to an ambulance by Deputy Coroner Bob Bolson Following Bolson Is County Patrol Sgt James Felfrey At right Is Erio Mangelsen a passenger in the wrecked csr The driver of the car William Alley Jr stands at left The accident occurred Monday night on the Athens-Boonesboro Road County Patrol Sgt James Felfrey gets a statement from William Alley Jr concerning an accident which involv'd the car he was driving Mrs Alley also Is In the car (Leader photos) A.