Taft Reported Piqued
At Choice of Dewey Aides
For Cabinet Posts
By JACK BELL
WASHINGTON, (^—President
elect Eisenhower’s choice of for
mer aides of Gov. Thomas E.
Dewey for cabinet posts prompted
new speculation Saturday that
Sen. Robert A. Taft will seek the
GOP Senate floor leadership.
With five prospective cabinet
members named. Taft has yet to
place a man from the list he re
portedly submitted to Eisenhower
at the latter’s request.
On the other hand, two close
asociates of Dewey have been as
signed key jobs — John Foster
Dulles as Secretary of State and
Herbert Brownell Jr. as Attorney
General. A third wrho sided with
Dewey and Eisenhower earlier in
the year, Gov. Douglas McKay of
Oregon, was named for Secretary
of Interior.
Although Taft is maintaining a
“no comment” attitude publicly,
friends said he was irked by the
attention paid to Dewey, an intra
party political enemy who had a
lot to do- with the Ohio senator’s
defeat for the nomination this
year.
17-YEAR-OLD HUNTER LIVES
5 DAYS ON OLYMPIC PENN.
SEATTLE, (/P)—A youthful Se
attle hunter who survived five
days in the rain-soaked northwest
Olympic Peninsula wilds without
food or fire was brought home Fri
day night, exhausted but unhurt.
The hunter, Edwin J. Sandry,
17, was found Thursday by two
loggers near the mouth of Good
man Creek in the Lapush area.
His rescuers were unable to
notify other searchers until Fri
day that the youth was safe.
Sandy said he “just kept walk
ing” after becoming separated
from companions on a hunting
trip Sunday.
Bobcats are known to live
within 25 miles of Manhattan Is
land.
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Eisenhower Names
Brownell Atty .Gen.,
Humphrey toTreas.
WASHINGTON, (JP)— Generally
favorable reaction from leaders
of both major parties has greeted
President-elect Eisenhower’s three
latest appointments to his high
command.
Two of the three were for cab
inet posts: Herbert Brownell Jr.,
New York lawyer and former aide
of Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, as At
torney General, and George M.
Humphrey, Cleveland industrial
ist, as Secretary of the Treasury.
Eisenhower designated former
Gov. Harold E. Stassen of Minne
sota as Mutual Security Adminis
trator.
Of Humphrey’s selection, Dem
ocratic Sen. Byrd of Virginia said:
“He is a most outstanding and
able businessman, and I predict
for him a most successful admin
istration.”
Byrd, who refused to support
Democratic Presidential Nominee
Adlai Stevenson, had been men
tioned for the Treasury post but
said earlier Friday he did not
want it.
Secretary of the Treasury Sny
der telegraphed congratulations to
Humphrey, offering his assistance
in making a smooth transfer of
authority. Snyder called Humph
rey “an administrator of sound
judgment and experience.
Mutual Security Administrator
W. Averell Harriman made a sim
ilar offer in a telephone call to
Stassen. Harriman’s office said
the two agreed to an early meet
ing, but set no date.
Now They're Naming Roads
After Actress Marilyn Monroe
SEOUL, <#*)—Two miles of dirt
road in a sector of the U. S. First
Corps begins with a sign:
“Marilyn Monroe Stretch.”
Twenty-three curves later, an
other sign reads:
“See why?”
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Mich. Battles For
Seat in U.S. Senate
WASHINGTON, (Jp) — Senate
Republicans, faced with a precar
ious margin in the new Congress,
were keeping close watch today
on a post-election senatorial battle
in Michigan.
Rep. Charles E. Potter, a Re
publican, ousted Democratic Sen.
Blair Moody at Michigan’s polls
Nov. 4, according to an official
canvass which had Potter ahead
by 45,936 votes.
Friday the Senate Elections Sub
committee, which had been asked
(to investigate what State Demo
cratic Chairman Neil Staebler
termed many irregularities in the
count, requested that official no
tice of Potter’s election be held
up pending completion of a pre
liminary probe.
At Lansing, however, D. Hale
Brake, acting chairman of the
state board of canvas, turned
down the committee request and
said the board saw no reason to
change its mind about certifying
Potter.
Whether Potter is seated when
the new Congi-ess meets Jan. 3
could be vital in GOP plans to
organize the Senate.
Police Find 73-Year-Old
Recluse Dead of Grief
For Wife Who Died in ’47
PHOENIX, Ariz., (/P) — Ever
since 1947, neighbors wondered
about Alfred R. Hall — why he
stayed inside his home in a fash
ionable section of town, coming
out only briefly once a day.
Now they know that Hall, who
died sometime last week, died
actually in spirit five years ago.
Hall’s shrunken body was found
today in the house in which his
wife died in 1947. Its dusty con
fines gave evidence that he did
little more than survive since
then.
On the wall was a 1947 cal
endar. Stacks of newspapers five
years old were everywhere. There
was no food. '
Police, called to investigate by
a wondering neighbor, said bank
books show’ed Hall had $12,000
in three Phoenix banks. Some
$130 in cash was found in a wal
let.
But the 73-year-old recluse ap
parently had lived on milk and
bread. He w’as six feet tall but
weighed only 100 pounds when
he died.
In their report book police
wrote only that Hall had “died
five years ago.”
Earthquake Late Friday
Rocks Coastal California
SAN FRANCISCO, (/P)—A roll
ing earthquake collapsed a house
at Oceano and rocked the Cali
fornia coastal mountains for 500
miles from San Francisco to Los
Angeles before and after midnight
Saturday.
No deaths or injuries were re
ported although the San Andreas
earth fault, on which nearly all
of California’s disastrous quakes
have occurred, was convulsed for
more than three quarters o'f an
hour.
Radio Station KVEC at San Luis
Obispo said the ceiling fell in at
J. Olin’s home at Oceano, 15 miles
south along the coast.
Mrs. Olin fainted. Water pipes
were broken.
Charles Herrick, on the Univer
sity of California seismo'logical
staff said the quake started at
11:47:14 PST Friday night.
He said it undoubtedly was sev
ere at its epicenter near Parfield
in desolate mountains of south
eastern Monterey County.
U.S. Spent More Than
$87 Billion In Foreign
Aid In Past 12 Years
WASHINGTON, (JP) — The
United States has poured out
more than 87 billion dollars in for
eign aid during the past 12 years.
Although most of it was in grants
and gifts, about 11 billions have
been repaid todate.
The Commerce Department in a
detailed report released Sunday
said the United Kingdom, Soviet
Russia and France together re
ceived about two-thirds of the to
tal. In all, more than 50 countries
or areas benefited.
The United Kingdom received
36 billion dollars in goods, ser
vices and funds this country gave
or loaned abroad. A nearly 29
billions were transferred during
World War II.
Russia, which the department
called “our former ally,” ranked
second with 11 .billion dollars.
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William Green, AFL
President, Dies
Of Heart Ailment
Coshocton, Ohio, (>P) — Ameri
cans of high and low degree spoke
the praises Saturday of William
Green, the American Federation
of Labor president to whom death
came Friday.
There came immediately to the
fore the question who would suc
ceed the man who had led some
eight million laboring Americans
through 28 tumultuous years.
Only two names gained promi
nent mention—and the owner of
one of them promptly and un
equivocally withdrew it.
One was George M. Harrison,
head of the big Railway Clerks
Union and an AFL vice president.
But, at his Cincinnati home, Har
rison said, “No,” firmly and fin
ally..
That left George Meany, AFL
secretary-treasurer, long the No. 2
man in the AFL administration.
He was not available immediately
for comment on the possibility of
his succession to the position of
labor power left vacant by the
death of the venerable AFL chief
tain.
Meany is 58 and Harrison 57.
Whoever succeeds him will be
only the third man ever to lead
the federation. »
The fabulous energy which drove
Green through the rugged years
finally ran out Friday. Death from
a heart ailment came at 1:22 p.m.
EST, at his red-brick Coshocton
home.
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