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wiNsiii rnttHO WWW YrtrAiBiiriiiiiiirriiiiiliijiriiiiiiifiiwiiitiiiifiiii amn rtitfwt- Ik rorN CO 03vi to rn 22315 FOUNDED FEBRUARY 18 1891 COLUMBIA FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 19 1952 DAILY 5c SUNDAY 15c lor Eisenhower to t'i 6 Loyalty to Country Above Party Nixon Denies 1 2 000 Hear Ike Rake You Have Had Vote for Ike Governor Says Heaviest HST With Accusation Barrage Endorsement of Jenner Sees Meed for World Leader Like the General Says Republican Xominee Gan Do More Than Any Living American to End Korea and Prevent War Governor James Byrnes of South Carolina yesterday declared shall place loyalty to my country above loyally to a political party and vote for Gen Dwight the presidential candidate of the Republican party The direct statement was made in thp office of the governor in presence of news and radio men as brilliant lights shown on the governor and the steady of recording machines echoed the high ceilinged room you want more of the Truman administration you should vote for Governor Stevenson If you have had enough you should vole for General Eisenhower" the governor said as he spoke of President Truman having taken over the Stevenson campaign The governor speaking in steady even voice recalled the statement he made August 6 to the state Democratic convention when he said that if that were election day he would vote for the nominees of the Democratic party Governor Stevenson and Senator Sparkman He said however he would listen to the candidates as hey gave their view on vital questions and then for whom I would vote" Now he Brings Hot Stevenson Attack Bennett Hits Gov Statement shall not vole for a South Carolina's Governor James Byrnes (above) reads dramatically from his statement endorsing Gen Dwight Eisenhower for president shall do what 1 have heretofore urged others to do I shall place loyalty to my country above loyalty to a political party and 1 shall vote for Gen Dwight Eisenhower" (Munn-Teal photo) HARTFORD Conn Sept 18 tT Gov Adlai Stevenson said tonight that Gen Dwight Eisenhower's endorsement of Sen William Jenner of Indiana amounts to of power at any' and -he called such a course to any honorable man" Stevenson the Democratic presidential nominee came up at the same time with a warm endorsement of his own for Sen William Benton Connecticut Democrat who has demanded that GOP Sen Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin be ousted from Congress In a prepared speech at Bush-nell Memorial Auditorium Stevenson also appealed to Republicans to Join with Democrats in working toward an international system for control of atomic power The Illinois governor put it this way: To my Republican listeners I would say: the atomic adventure transcends partisan Issues Win or lose we Democrats will work with you to follow this adventure to the end of peace and plenty for Stevenson came to Hartford to- America Lifts Secrecy Veil From Fantastic Arctic Base THULE Greenland Sept 18 The United States took official secrecy wraps today off its fantastic Arctic air base A brood of jet interceptors already are using the' still unfinished Thule air drome perched almost at the Allies Complain US Is Slow Putting Up Korea Action Plan night for his first major campaign address on a tour which will take him dqring the next weejc into four other Massachusetts New York Virginia and Maryland Before arriving here the Democratic nominee made brief speech-ei during the day in these Connecticut cities Bridgeport Waterbury New Haven and New Britain He flew to Bridgeport this morn ing from his campaign base in Springfield 111 and then motored to Hartford stopping on the way for the other addresses At the outset of his speech tonight Stevenson again sharply criticized Eisenhower his Republican opponent for the presidency for giving blanket endorsement to all GOP nominee! for Congress Slevenson has declined to follow such a policy in the case of Democratic nominees Hg said Monday he would make up his mind about candidates individually The governor tonight endorsed both Benton who is bidding for re-election and Rep Abe Ribico'ff who is seeking Connecticut's other Senate seat in a race opened by the death Sen Brien Me Mahon Diplomats from these countries do not want to he identified But they insist the United States should agree now on a proposal present it to the 16 other countries with fighting forces in Korea and thus try for the initiative on a united front at the start of the seventh assembly There have been reports that consultations are under way but Severn 1 delegates said today contacts have been few and far be' tween Representatives of some hslf-dozen countries reported they have had no real talks on the subject sources say the United Siatgs is "In touch" with other countries on the subject They refuse to say whether Washington has a plan in shape for study In Washington the 17 countries with forces fighting in Korea meet each week at the State Depart ment But delegations of some of the countries say there have been no important talk on any proposal so far One delegation describes the meetings as merely briefings by the United States with some State Department official reading communiques and the report of the unified rommaait UNITED NATIONS Sept 18 Some countries allied with the United States in Korea are complaining thta Washington is too slow in putting up a definite plan on Korea for action by the UN Assembly convening Oct 14 Wrongdoing in DonationsFrom Constituents Democratic Chairman Says He Should Quit WASHINGTON Sept 18 Chairman Stephen A Mitchell the Democratic National Committee raid today Sen Richard Nixon because he hac accepted private donations to supplement his senatorial salary should resign as Republican vice presidential nominee Nixon campaigning in California his home state defended the arrangement and declared he was just being fair with the taxpayers Mitchell in a statement took a less charitable view He raised the question whether' Gen Dwight Eisenhower the GOP presidential nominee would "gag and swallow this revelation that Sen Nixon has teen accepting donations from ealthy California businessmen to supplement his salary as a senator" Mitchell said Eisenhower been making a great show of indignation over corruption in demagogic Nixon who has been in the Senate for a little less than two years said he had employed the $16000 fund raised by supporters to take care of political expenses he felt should not be charged to the government Nixon said In a statement that he used the money for such things as postage for mail on which he preferred not to use his franking (free mail) privilege travel ex pensa printing of speeches and documents and the hiring of extra clerical help an Nixtfn went on might have resorted to tax paid facilities free government transportation or I might have put my wife on ihe federal payroll as did the Democratic nominee for vice president (Sen John Sparkman) I did none of these Nor have I been accepting law fees on the side while serving as a member of Congress I prefer to play completely fair with the Mitchell referring to Nixon's acceptance of funds from private sources declared Nixon knowa that is morally wrong Gen Eisenhower knows that is morally wrong The American people know that this is morally wrong By no standards of public morals or of private morals can such conduct be condoned or explained At Pasadena Calif Dana Smith attorney confirmed existence of the fund and said that about $16000 to $17000 had been expended Smith said he disburses the fund He added that none of the money had been used for persons! expenses Smith said the money was contributed hy 50 to 100 Southern Call-fornirns after Nixon was elected to the Sfnate and that it was continued on page 9r column 6 of the railway strikers who were going to be drafted into the Eisenhower went on to say that he refused with a "bitter protest" but after a later call when he was told he was considered the only soldier with whom the workers would even talk he agreed to meet with them-as a soldier "and not a Eisenhower did not say whether he ever met with the strikers nor did the Eisenhower sources quoted by the Times The Times recalled that the strike started May 23 It quoted Eisenhower associates as saying that sometime between then and May 25 the day the strike ended and the day after Eisenhower returned to Washington Eisenhower had two telephone conversations with the President One of them was from the office of then Secretary of War Robert Patterson When asked about the Time story the resident said no such continued on page 9c column 6 Lebanese Leader Quits Under Fire BEIRUT Lebanon Sept 18 tifl Scrappy Bechara el Khoury finally yielded to opposition pressure today and gave up the presidency he had held since ho led the fight to get the French out of Lebanon in 1943 Beset hy economic ills and charges of political corruption the 62-year-old independence fighter is the third head of ar Arab state eased out of office in less than two months' El Khoury's duties were turned over to Gen Fuad Shehah Army commander until Lebanon names a new- President Political informants stressed however that today's switch was not a military coup They said Shehah an cider statesman who happens to have military power just stepped in to keep order He formed a three-man emergency cabinet Who eventually will succeed El Khoury appeared uncertain If constitutional procedure is followed however Parliament must choose a new President wilhin eight days for this Arab republic of I1! million persons on the Eastern Mediterranean between Syria and Israel Today's events came less than two months after Egypt's King Farouk I lost his throne in the Army revolt of Maj Gen Mohammed Neguib and little more IhBn a month after Jordan's Parliament ousted ailing King Talal (French Foreign Office sources Faris expressed pleasure that Shehah had taken over ps It Off With -New Bid For Farm Vote Top Promises Protection Without Chains Hits Use of of OMAHA Sept 18 A roaring: overflow crowd of 12000 people welcomed Dwight Eisenhower here tonight to climax the hardest hitting day of campaigmlng since he began fighting for the presidency All day long he raked the Truman administration with the heaviest barrage of scorn criticism and accusation he has used since he won the GOP presidential nomination He topped It off before a Jam-packed Ak-Sar-Ben (Nebraska spelled backwards) Coliseum with an appeal for the Midwest farm vole He spoke from the same stage where four years ago President Truman had talked to a scant 1500 in his fight for reclection came in 11 speeches delivered in less than 12 hours of whistle-stopping across the rich farm land of Iowa into this Nebraska metrop olis He promised farmers in his speech for delivery here tonight that a Republiran administration would give farmers economic protection putting them In federal chains" lie accused Democratic leaders of using the farm program as a political club And he proposed establishing an improved farm credit system directed by a board which would be chosen by farmers themselves to form crydit policies and see that sound credit operations will not be endangered by partisan political influence" He made no mention of price supports in his speech having dealt with the subject two weeks ago at Kasson Minn where he advocated price supports at 90 per cent of parity for at least two with a goal of full parity for farmers But the main theme of the cam' paign during the day was not the farm program but attacks on the Democratic administration At Des Moines where he was greeted by an estimated 80000 people Eisenhower charged the administration was using weapon of fear" as a national poi Icy to hide its own failures He blamed the leaders now in Washington for this country being in Korea and having suffered 117-000 casualties And he laid the blame on Washington for what he called thd of communism" are not accustomed to that kind of leadership which leaves us bewildered and he said want to get rid of those people soon" Deploring high taxes the high rest of living and the Inflated dot lar Eisenhower said that Secretary of Agriculture Brannan had told a congressional committee that some five million dollars had in the administration of the farm program secretary of agrlcultuse said five million dollars wasn't very much in a 0-billion-dolIar operation" he declared that five millions could easily disappear through cracks in the Then Eisenhower added: my old Pennsylvania Dutch ancestors never had five million bucks but 5 cents couldn't have been lost in our house un-jras someone answered for it or at least went hunting for it on hands and Inside Today midge I1- rotnics SC (YnMwd Puile IOC Editorials 4A Radio Society Z-IB Sports l-fl) Tides SB Financial S-7B Want Ads 4-7D Obituary 4-7B Weaher SL Movies SC Wishing Well 1UC WEATHER FORM AST FOR KOITH TAROIIXA nntlrirnble cloudiness and mild with seal' lerrd thunderstorms today Saturday Port rlondy with little temperature rhange ere tiered Ihonrier-lomn likely In alter' noon For 14 hoars ending 4:30 yesterday maximum temperature at 11:1 minimum 7g at a rrrelpl pMtan only a trace Ran rises today a sta Mona riaes a an sa has determined Governor Byrnes referred especially to the shift in position of Governor Stevenson on the Taft-Ilartley law and he added that General Eisenhower who has said he was opposed to repeal of the Taft-Ilartley law had stood firm to his position and only this week told the American Federation of Labor he would not change A'so Governor StevensoA has shifted position on federal employment practices act saying now he favors compulsory compliance with that law while formerly he thought It best to let the states act On the other hand General Eisenhower has stood by his conviction that this matter should be in the hands ol the states World Leader the crisis confronting us world leadership has been thrust upon us" the governor said president we must have a world leader No living man has greater prestige than General Eisenhower TEXT OF STATEMENT INSIDE The text of Governor statement endorsing General Eisenhower for the Presidency is on page IDA with the fteedom-loving people of the world I think General Eisenhower could do more than any living American to bring abouf an end to the war in Korea and prevent our stumbling into another world Four years ago the governor said Democrats urged the general to seek Ihe presidential nomination hut he declined one year ago Democratic leaders again urged him to seek Democratic nomination But he believed there should be a change in Washington and so sought the Republican nomination those Democrats who favored his nomination four years ago and one year ago should vote against him solely because he calls himself a Republican surely they will be voting for a label and not for prin ciples or for the man they believe best qualified" the governor declared shall not vote for a label shall do what I have heretofore urged others to do I shall place loyalty to mv country above loyalty to a political party and vote for General Dwight Eisenhower Eisenhower also Is better quail fied to reduce military spending after the end of the Korean War and to reduce taxes Byrnes declared "When Governor Slevenson was nominated" Byrnes recalled "be- continurd on page 8-A rolumn 3 Bombing Drive use on Korean targets is a military secret but ther is a of them and there are plenty of other planes that can be converted quickly to drones 3 There are enough immediately available mount a sustained large-scale robot campaign in 4 guided missiles are possible" the Korean attacks are hut of what will probably come" and already the Navy has bettei equipment than that so far used 5 Robot planes are more maneuverable than pilutrd planes can be refueled in air can be equipped to drop bombs and return to base or strafe enemy ground positions 6 Any carrier now in Korean waters can launch the robots and such operations do not interlere with normal carrier operation! 7 A single plane could contral a fleet of robots Kurtz said the Navy a used outmoded dive homier so far in Korea The robot equipped with a television ramrrs is lnunrhed from a cf(pult ahenrd a rjarrier Once In the air a guide plane continued on page 8-A column 1 Governor James Byrnes "has turned his hack on and South Carolina Democrats by endorsing Republiran Dwight Eisenhower for Fresident state Democratic campaign headquarters here declared last night Neville Bennett state campaign manager for the said in a news' statement: hive not had a chanra to study the text of Governor announcement or his accompanying Republican political speech "Ilia endorsement of the Republican candidate has been expected for some time and especially since his recent conferences in New York and elsewhere with certain figures of Wall Street where the string of the Repubican campaign are being pulled He has turned his back on and deserted his fellow members of the Democratic state convention in South Carolina who last month followed his recommen-continued on page 8-A column SC for Ike Leaders Hail Move Douglas McKay state chairman and Reamer state vice chairman of "South Carolinians for Eisenhower" last night issued atate-ments expressing their elation over the endorsement of General Eisenhower for president hy Governor James Byrnes The statement follows: "The announcement of James Byrnes in favor of Dwight Eisenhower is most heartening and encouraging of South Carolinians for Eisenhower are most happy and pleased The formation and success of our movement was predicated upon three principles: Byrnes' speech of Aug 6 1952 to the State Democratic con vention setting forth the method whereby as true Democrats we as free citizens might vote honorably" and sensibly lor the candidate of our choice "2 The amendment of David Pohinson to the endorsement of Stevenson and Sparkman unanimously accepted hy the Demo-ruin convention permitting such action without in any way affecting the sialus of the voter as a member of the South Carolina Democratic Party "1 The conviction of each of us that a complete change in the ex-continued on page 8-A column 3 DEATHS 1 Varner Spartanburg Mrs Lillie Oglehy Allendale Alien Ollin near Hemingway Carlton NichoN Rock Hill Mi Annie Lott near Wllllhton Mrs Ron I IiasK Khrhardk Cicero Collin near Marion Robert I- Lane Georgetown Walter Fraley near Florence Sirs Snipe near Lancanter Cecil Walker Klngstree Mrs Bou knight Lexington Mrs Britton Chesterfield Hendrix Robert Lexington Ivey near Gaffney A Fhail 8r Olar Wilkerson near Whitmire Mrs Duke MrClellanvlIle 1 'til rent Camden Clnvle Walker Fiorenre Dr Edgar Hnrger Eutawvllle Mrs Max Taub Charleston (See Pages 4B 1-B far Details) frozen top of the world Officials also put a price tag on the an estimated 261 million dollars Col Robert Humphreys commander of Thule said 185 millions have been appropriated to far by the end of the construction year (now nearing) 165 million will have been spent Thule Air Force Base and Its operations installations cover txl000 acres in a great amphitheater walled at the back by the rim of the Greenland ice- cap fronted by a fjord opening on Baffin Bay It can handle the biggest strategic Bombers or swiftest landing jet fighters existent or planned Beating the problem of eternal polar cold and flint-hard ground constructors have put down miles of paving for runways and built hangars machine shops and housing A 1 200-foot radio tower keeps the strategic forward air base in touch with Washington and other lines in the chain of American defenses Heavy bombers like the B16 nr the all-jet B52 now in production could use this base as a stepping stone for long strides deep into Eurasia Facilities for supply are in abundance Two heavy maintenance hangars where the biggest planes can be taken in out of the-frigid cold for service or repair were finished during the urgent first year of construction Four more are going up now with workmen racing against the oncoming winter An air of urgency hangs over all the a race against time to be ready for possible attack and a more immediate race to beat the second g'inter since the project began The buildings are out refrigerators" heavily insulated fabrications of aluminum and wall-board to keep the Arctic cold from stealing in Robot Plane Figure Is Contradicted WASHINGTON Sept 18 The Navy's director of! guided missiles Rear Adm John Uf Sides threw some cold water today on a lower echelon report from Tokyo that tne United States already has enough robot planes to launch a large-scale bombing attack Sides held a news conference at the Pentagon less than 24 hours after the Navy disclosed that some of Ihese pilotless aircraft already have been launched succrssfully agalnat North Korean targets Specifically the admiral said: 1 It is-not that this country has enough robot planes to launch large scale attacks Lt Cm dr Lawrence A Kurtz director of the guided missiles program in Korea had said a short time be-fora that hundreds of robot planes are ready to mount a great bombing attack against the Communists 2 The number of obsolete Navy planes which have hern rnnvertrd to push-hullon hnrrh carrier: lias hern greatly overeslimaipfl Knit Short Press Secretary to Truman Dies 4 WASHINGTON Sept 18 If -Joseph Short President Tru-mrfn's press secretary collapsed and died at his home in nearby Alexandria Va tonight He was 48 The White House said he wai taken ill last Tuesday night and sp-nt several days in the hospital He returned home Monday and had apparently been recuperating Short had been White House press secretary since Dec 1950 He was appointed to the poaitiort following the unexpected death Itu I Of Truman'a previous press secretary Charlea Ross Ross collapsed at his desk and died shortly A native of Mississippi Short had worked lor a number of newspapers and for The Associated Press before joining the Washington staff of the Baltimore Sun in 1941 He was employed by the Sun' until the time of his appointment as White House press secretary Survivors include his widow the former Beth Campbell and three children Two Television Station Permits Granted Here Television station construction permits were granted to two Columbia broadcasting companies yesterday both in the ultra high frequency range by the Federal Communications Commission The permit granted to WCOS-TV designates UHF channel 25 for use of the station owned by radio Columbia The other prrmit assigns U1IF channel 67 to WNOK-TV operated by Palmetto Radio Corporation WNOK-TV expects to be on the air by January and WCOS-TV said it would go into operation soon as In announcing the action of the FCC Pittman president of Radio Columbia said "Upon surveying the TV situation In Columbia WCOS anticipated the possible delay in an assignment of VHF channel 10 and decided in order to bring TV to Columbia as soon as possible to apply for channel 25 in the new ultra high frequency bend established hy the FCC when the Navy Robot Planes Held Ready HST Denies He Ordered Ike To Command Railway Strikers WASHINGTON Sept 18 if) was resting In Georgia In the President Truman today sharply (spring of 1946 when he got a tele-disputed a report that Gen Dwight phone call from Washington to return hye Eisenhower was ordered to immediately to For Big Korea TOKYO Friday Sept 19 The Navy warned Thursday it has hundreds of robot planes ready lo mount a great bombing attack in Korea and said some day they conceivably could hit any world target with ar A-bomb Shortly after Washington released the electrifying news that Ihe robot planes already had smashed some Korean targets the Navy in Tokyo gave more details of this push-button weapon of war AP photographer Fred Waters who wrote the first dispatch of a robot launching from the carier Boxer Sept 1 said four to six of thrm had been sent hurtling on the Communists Navy sources said others probably had been launched since Waters' report Lt Comdr Iawrence A Kurtz director of the guided missiles program in Koiea kept current operations a closely-guarded secret But he did tell a press conference: 1 So far 1S00 obsolete planes had been converted lo with electronic equipment that can launched from Ihe ground from carriers and directed to heavy hmb xeady (for Washington in 1946 to take command of railway atrikera about to be drafted into the Army to keep trains running The President told a news conference that he certainly didn't ask Eisenhower then Army chief of staff to take over the rail operation chore And to his knowledge he added no other official did In 1946 Truman asked Congress for power to draft the strikers into the Army The strike was settled about the time he made his request The legislation he proposed was not enacted The Truman comments were made in connection with a story in New York Times quoting aasociates of -the Republican presidential candidate as revealing that in a talk with Truman he threat ened to resign as chief of staff in May 1946 if forced to act as a "strike-breaker" Eisenhower himself without mentioning with whom he talked or the resignation threat said in his in Tokyo put ihe number at I SIX' The project chief at the said this figure should not oe re-joa(l control planes garded a their target with a 2 The exact number freeze was lifted WCOS was thefpewh beorf thf American Fed-continued on page 8-A column 6 Jeration of Labor yesterday that he NfM jr eat.