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Democrats Will
Not Hold 1954
Convention
By JACK BELL
CHICAGO, (J*!—The Democratic
conference killed today a proposal
for a 1954 party convention which
had been bitterly opposed by
most of its southern members.
Party leaders joined in chorus
of challenge to' the Republicans
as the Democrats began their two
day rally with inner party fric
tions hidden under an outward
coat of harmony. »
Rep. Rayburn of Texas, the
House minority leader, announced
that a conference committee un
animously had approved a resolu
tion opposing the mid-term con
venion proposal and advocating
continued regional conferences
before next year’s congressional
elections.
The committee action came on
a motion of Rep. Hale Bo'ggs (D
Lai as party members worked in
a series of discussion panels, with
former Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson of
Illinois flitting from meeting to
meeting and participating in three
breakfasts.
Former President Truman be
gan a day of party conferences
after a brisk early morning walk
through Chicago’s downtown dis
trict.
The action disapproving the pro
posal for a 1954 party convention
was interpreted widely as a move
by leaders to avoid dissension
within the ranks over such issues
as states rights and civil rights
which have brought open breaks
in the party in the past.
Sen. McClellan (D-Ark) said he
regarded the decision as a “vic
tory for the party,” however,
rather than a victory for its Dixie
members.
Softball Umpire’s Decision
Precipitates Riot In
Maryland Reformatory
HAGERSTOWN, Md., UP) — A
riotous outbreak which followed
the bust-up of a softball game put
11 inmates of the Maryland Re
formatory in solitary confinement
today.
In one way or another, more
than 100 young prisoners were in
volved in the destructive binge
which started last night, was sub
dued and then broke out again
briefly this morning.
The first outbreak involved 63
inmates but state police and
county officers quited them with
tear gas, fire ho'ses and stern ad
monitions.
Superintendent Henry R. Ray
mond, flabbergasted at the dis
turbances, said the cause was “an
umpire’s decision in a ball game.”
Catholics On Trial In Poland
WARSAW, Poland, UP) — The
Roman Catholic Bishop of Kielce,
Czeslaw Maczmarek, three other
Roman Catholic churchmen and a
nun were scheduled to be tried
Monday by the Warsaw regional
military court on charges of spy
ing for “American imperialists”
and the Vatican.
House Committee
Recommends Private
Alaska Pulp Industry
WASHINGTON, UF> — A House
Judiciary subcommittee has re
commended a broad program, un
der government sponsorship, de
signed to brighten what it calls
“far from reassuring” prospects
for future newsprint supplies.
Stress would be placed on the
development of new sources for
newsprint raw materials, such as
sugar cane waste (bagasse), hard
woods and used newsprint which
has had the ink removed from it.
“We must plan now to forestall
a repetition of newsprint short
ages which have continually pla
gued our newspapers—especially
our smaller newspapers—for the
greater part of a decade,” Rep.
Reed (R-Ill) said Sunday in mak
ing public the subcommittee’s re
port on its three-year study.
The subcommittee recommend
ed among other things, prepara
tion by the Commerce Department
of a blueprint for a privately fin
anced newsprint industry in
Alaska.
Yankees Within 2 Games
Of Fifth Successive
American League Pennant
NEW YORK, UP) — The New
Yankees moved within two games
of their fifth successive American
League penant Sunday by defeat
ing the second place Cleveland
Indians 6-3 and it was old Johnny
Mize who struck the big blow.
Mize, probably playing his last
season, strode to the plate in the
eighth inning with two mates on
base and the score tied at 3-3.
He caught one of Mike Garcia’s
pitches and drove it into the
stands for a homer and his 19th
pinch hit of the season, one short
of the league record.
The victory increased the Yan
kees’ lead over the Indians to 12
games. They meet again Monday
and Tuesday, and one Yankee vic
tory over Cleveland will clinch
the flag.
The Brooklyn Dodgers, who
clinched the National League flag
Saturday, were the ninth straight
victims of the Chicago Cubs 3-2
Sunday.
320 Allied Prisoners Who
Refused Repatriation
In Neutral Zone Custody
PANMUNJOM, UP) — Some of
the 320 Allied prisoners who re
fuse to return to' their homelands
from Red captivity have arrived
at nearby Kaesong, Communist
correspondent Wilfred Burchett
said today.
They are expected to be handed
over to Indian custody in the
Korean neutral zone Sunday.
About 20 of the 320 are non
Koreans and probably most of the
20 are Americans.
Meanwhile Indian troops guard
ing anti-Red Chinese and North
Koreans squelched angry but
small outbursts among the 1,800
Chinese being handed over Mon
day.
The POWs hurled rocks and in
sults at Communist observers
watching outside, but the crack
Indian soldiers moved into the
stockades and quieted the shcmt
ing, fist-swinging captives.
Special Session
Alaska Legislature
If Need Exists
ANCHORAGE, Iff)—Gov. Frank
Heintzleman indicated Friday he
may call a special session of the
territorial legislature around the
first of the year if a need is shown
to exist.
The governor told members of
the Alaska Development Board
and the Anchorage Chamber of
Commerce he would like further
information on what should go on
a session agenda before issuing a
call.
“I think we should all get to
gether to see what business we
want to take up, then decide
whether it is urgent enough to re
quire a special session,” he said.
His remarks came in reply to a
suggestion by chamber members
that a special session should con
sider increasing the territory’s gas
oline tax.
The governor suggested that the
board and all chambers of com
merce should coordinate their
studies of legislative needs with
the interim legislative committee
so that a decision may be made
from the results.
The Alaska Development Board
decided to assume a neutral posi
tion on the question of Alaskan
statehood, but individual members
will take the stand on their con
victions direct.
Woman Employe on U.N.
Secretariat Staff To Tell
All To Investigators
NEW YORK, UP —Sen. Joseph
McCarthy (R-Wis) said today an
American woman on the staff of
the United Nations secretariat ad
mitted to his committee she was
a Communist for five years.
McCarthy said a second witness,
Julius Reiss, an American em
ployed by the Polish delegation
to the U.N. as a documents clerk,
balked at answering questions on
constitutional grounds.
McCarthy’s Investigations sub
committee began open hearings to
day on “Communists in the United
Nations.”
He declined to identify the
woman U.N. employee by name
but said she admitted having been
a Communist party member from
1935 to 1940.
He said she declared herself
“completely cooperative and will
ing to give all she knows regard
ing any Communist links.”
The McCarthy hearings are
closed, but the senator briefs the
press on what transpires.
SUNDAY SCORES
American League
New York 6, Cleveland 3
Boston 7, Chicago 6
St. Louis 5-0, Philadelphia 2-2
Detroit 10-6, Washington 4-4
National League
Chicago 3, Brooklyn 2
St. Louis 17, Philadelphia 3
Milwaukee 2-3, New York 1-7
Pittsburgh 5-6, Cincinnati 4-8
Coast League
Sacramento 5-5, Seattle 6-2
Portland 4-5, San Diego 3-4
San Francisco 4-1, Los Angeles
2-0
Oakland 8-6, Hollywood 7-8
AFL Head Believes
President Repudiated T-H
Agreement With Durkin
WASHINGTON, UP)—AFL Presi
dent George Meany says he is
convinced Martin P. Durkin quit
as Secretary of Labor because
President Eisenhower personally
repudiated an agreement with
him.
Durkin, when his resignation
was announced last Wednesday,
said the Eisenhower administra
tion had broken an agreement
with him on 19 proposed changes
in the Taft-Hartley law. He did
not accuse Eisenhower personally,
but said: “We believed he had
agreed to them.”
Phil Pearl, AFL national infor
mation director, was asked during
an NBC radio interview yesterday
about a possible successor Durkin.
“I can’t think of anyone from
labor who would accept the job,”
he said.
Bloodhounds To Search
For Volcanologist Lost
In Valley 10,000 Smokes
ANCHORAGE, UFI — Three
bloodhounds were flown here
from California Sunday to aid in
the search for Dr. Werner Juhle,
Johns Hopkins’ University vol
canologist missing in the Valley
of 10,000 Smokes.
The dogs and their handlers,
brought here from Los Gatos,
Calif., boarded a Tenth Air Force
Rescue plane at Elmendorf Air
Force base for a flight to King
Salmon on Bristol Bay. From
there they will be transported to
the Katmai National Monument
search area.
The bloodhounds are part of a
nationally known search group.
They returned only Saturday
night from a California hunt for
a missing boy.
The civilian and military air
search for the 23-year-old Balti
more volcano expert expanded
over the weekend with the arrival
of clear and warm weather.
Dr. Juhle, 26*-has been missing
since August 31 when he left
base camp seven miles west of
Mount Katmai to observe volcan
ic activity. He went alone.
He was attached to a U.S. Geo
logical Survey group studying
geology and volcanology in the
Mount Katmai Reserve under a
National Park Service expedition.
Associates described him as an
experienced woodsman who had
made frequent trips in the Katmai
area, unaccompanied and un
armed.
LUCILLE BALL DENIES
EVER BEING COMMUNIST
HOLLYWOOD, W—Lucille Ball,
television’s top comedienne, never
was a Communist, says the House
Un-American Affairs Committee,
even though she registered as one
17 years ago.
The wide-eyed star of the pop
ular “I Love Lucy” show freely
admitted to Committee Investiga
tor William Wheeler that she reg
istered in 1936 to vote for the
Communist ticket “because grand
pa wanted dll of us to.”
But she emphatically denied
ever being a party member or vot
ing for party candidates.
Tension Builds In
U.N. Over Red
China Demands
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., UR—
Tension built up again in the
United Nations today as explosive
new debate became a certainty
after Communist China’s new de
mands for a “round-table” Kor
ean peace conference.
A spokesman for the United
States at once emphatically re
jected the Peiping proposals, made
by Chinese premier-foreign min
ister Chou En-Lai.
With the U.N. General Assem
bly opening tomorrow, delegates
prepared for another oratorical
battle over Chou’s demands that
Russia, India, Burma, Pakistan
and Indonesia be invited to the
peace conference as “neutrals.,”
and that Red China and North
Korea be invited to send repre
sentatives to the U.N. Assembly
“to discuss the question of en
larging the membership of the
political conference.”
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State
Robert Murphy voiced the Ameri
can rejection, saying the U.S. gov
ernment “sees no reason what
ever” for new assembly debate on
the conference makeup, or for in
viting the Red Chinese to the
assembly. But delegates generally
felt the question would break into
the open soon after the body elects
its officers and organizes for what
is supposed to be a three-month
session.
Qualified quarters said that the
United States, rather than risk
having no peace conference at all,
would withdraw its opposition to
renewed debate.
Actor Lewis Stone Dies
While Chasing Teen-Age
Prowlers from His Home
HOLLYWOOD, UP)—Friends and
fans today mourned the tragic
passing of Lewis Stone, 73, the
dignified veteran of stage and
screen who collapsed a^d died
Saturday night while "chasing
three teen-age prowlers outside
his Hollywood home.
The widow of the white-haired
actor who portrayed “Judge
Hardy” in the movies, said her
husband was watching television
when he heard prowlers outside.
He collapsed on a sidewalk while
chasing the boys and died of a
heart attack without regaining
consciousness.
Fiji Islanders Gather Fish
Stranded By Seismic Wave
AUCKLAND, New Zealand, UR
—The Fiji Islands were severely
shaken by an earthquake Monday,
reports from Suva, the capital,
said.
A seismic sea wave, accompany
ing the quake drove ships against
the wharves, but reports so far
indicate that only the wharves
were damaged. After the first
shock the sea swept back, swamp
ing yachts and other small craft.
Part of Suva’s mixed popula
tion panicked, but groups of na
tive Fijians calmly gathered on
the shore to collect the rich har
vest of stranded fish left when
the seismic sea wave receded.