Star (Newspaper) - July 14, 1948, Anniston, Alabama Forecast Partly cloudy this tonight anil Thursday A few widely scattered afternoon and evening Yesterday's high M today's low 71 l Spot Cottun 33 Na Complete A P and U P Leased Wires Member ABC and Paid Italian Red Boss Is Shot By Sicilian Attempted Assassination Throws Italy Into Chaos Premier Deplores Shooting ROME July 14 W Italy's No 1 Communist was shot anil gravely day as he emerged from the bfr of Soon shouting angry mobs of Leftists clogged he square before the Chamber Building Violence threatened to engulf nil Italy The i confederation called a general strike in tlie City of Rome Premier dc termed the shooting the worst j thing that could happen consuming a loaf of bread during Heavy firing echoed through the one of his usual six meals n day Piazza Colonna near the scene of He hopes though the doctors will ANNISTON ALA WEDNESDAY JULY H 1948 Uw ta MS P M X h at P M Alabamians To Put Southerner's Name Into Nomination Boy A gel 2 Weighs 252 Pounds Seeks Appetite Control BIRMINGHAM July 14 Twelve-year-old Ernest Gaither of i Tallassee is at Hospital here today seeking to become a little boy the assassin n I ion attempt as police fought back tlie crowds Police seized Antonio liery Sicilian 1st as the attempted assassin He fired five bullets at Two penetrated his chest one grazed his neck ami the oilier two missed their murk as lay on the Ground The first bulletin on the tion of one of the signers of the said he was steeping and resting One surgeon expressed belief would live The Interior Ministry police the prevent any demonstrations Armored cars tanks and j loads of police rushed to the square near the Chamber of Deputies Building The crowds were in an ugly mood shouting Viva tl Police fired numerous burst In an attempt to disperse them tators urged the demonstrators on and police charged In jeeps and troop carriers pain of being a pain he lias suffered since he was four years old Young Ernie was told that by ing to the hospital he might be able to see a moric again For several years he has been unable to squeeze into a theater seat His father is blind and lias a j small income Missionary churches and neighbors in- that he send Ernie to the j hospital here They are soliciting funds to pay the expenses Blame on The Heat PHILADELPHIA July 14 U R James E Mills o the mingham Post today claimed the heat at the Democratic National Convention had cost him He and Frank R Ahlgren of The Memphis Commercial peal left their hotel room door open last night for tion While they were asleep a thief entered and took from Mills pant pocket and from Ahlgren's wallet Tiie thief replaced the wallets after Stale Delegation Agrees To Bar From ing First Before Group nv SIMMS AP Special Service PHILADELPHIA 14 The Alabama delegation un- and to use Us first place i through the HIES City Payment r o 16 Question Of Paving Ladd ch for i r Company Brought Before Commission Bv Street y ordered O i a nation to 1 O II I C5 I A Supreme Tribunal Says System Illegal Increase Expected PITTSBURG July H The steel industry had a new pricing Police swung rifle butts and method today and steel consumers clubs on men and women alike i looked for and prices Police reinforcements rolled up by j The big producers like U S on the roll call lo make certain President Truman's name is not the first placed in for the Presidency of Democratic con- vention This decision at a morning caucus followed an assertion by Senator Lister Hill of Alabama that he i -i i would make a nomination if no I loll other Alabama delegate does Av Roy D McCord of Gadsden pre- viously had told the caucus h preparing a nominating spec Senator Richard n Russell of Georgia and would make it at the start of the roll call of states The delegation 13 of them pledged lo walk out over the Bonner platform committee j ber j We lost the civil rights fight in committee Our next move is to fisht as hard as we can on the floor Civil E C i Bud Boswell another bama platform committee member said the entire Alabama group had found the civil rights plank m John of Mobile sent A spirited argument between Reply To Protest On Blockade Russian Answer Handed To U S French British Paper Hints Rejection LONDON July 14 sources said tonight that tlie Russian reply to Western power protests against the Soviet blockade of Berlin was factory and tho Berlin crisis goes on There Is nothing in the sian note which changes the sources said The note contains nothing unusual or sensational The Russian note was delivered by the Soviet Ambassador to Hie Foreign Office earlier day At Kune lime the sians replied in Washington and to American and French protests similar lo that sent bv a week ago today WASHINGTON July 14 Russia replied lo the ican British and French protests A A WEEK BY Cf Southerners To Fight Platform On Convention Floor Sam Street developed at yesterday's meeting of tlie ton Commission when Mr Soviet Ambassador Alexander S delivered Moscow's re- Street questioned Mr Banks as to personally to Secretary of why payment had not been made to the Ladd Engineering Company of Fort Payne for advance ning work done by the firm in con- with the drawing of plans i for the projected construction of and sewer systems the city The contracts with the Port the caucus into an uproar with the Payne avc tlle same as contracts with R L of Montgomery One man in this delegation would do everything in his power to have Harry Truman's name the first placed before the convention nan and Con Mr Street stated Slate Marshall at the State De- at a m EST He within a few hours ter similar replies had been de- livered by Soviet envoys in London and Paris told reporters who talked to him outside Marshall's office that he delivered a note to the secretary and that it was an answer to a note of the State De- dated July 6 I On that day in separate but Payment has been made to the j simultaneous dispatches the three i company Mr Street said I Western Powers sent notes to the hundreds j Corp formerly absorbed Soon between and 3 OCO costs or a big part of them ilce were on the scene By sheer weight of numbers they succeeded could compete terms with other steel on equal companies the prospective at she crowd apparently was i aimed over heir heads and no serious casualties were reported j News of the attack on spread quickly throughout the country In Milan a leftist citadel workers quit without watting for orders from their Communist labor Many were quoted on a basing point system just ns though the mills were located al certain base cities Instead of In Pittsburgh or Chicago But that method recently was ruled illegal by the U S Supreme a Hill statement in hele Mr street cussion and that he was as I Said To Be Legal unalterably opposed to Truman ns Heading a letter addressed to Mr Banks from O division en- gineer of the Federal Works Agency dated April 20 1948 Mr Street de- clared that the contract between the city and the firm was any man in this room Mandeville then apologized No Direct Expression There was no direct expression at the caucus on the signal nov the expected walkout of 13 of the bama delegates as a gesture of dis- pleasure over the platform and the expected Truman nomination The other 13 planned to slay In j to the Ladd Engineering Company the convention but to oppose the the money they have on deposit of the German capital by threats j of pressures insisted on their rights not only to be In the city but also to have access to it nnd demanded that the blockade be lifted KEYNOTES DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION Senator Hartley of Kentucky regarded as a likely vice presidential nominee is pictured in the course of his keynote address to the National Convention NEA answered n y e t meaning when he was asked considered legal and binding by the i to indicate what attitude the Federal Government I et note took toward the I suggest that the only sensible j thing the city can do is to pay over American HINT REJECTION Battle On Race Question Fight Into Open When Senator Myers Of sylvania Calls Upon Convention To Ratify Platform Determined Southerners Line Up To Debate Issues SOUTH LOSES FIGHT PHILADELPHIA July 14 U R The South in a boisterous session today lost its fight in I lie Democratic National Convention to soften the Barkley Sure Of Vice Nomination Talked For No 1 Position May Be Named By James Roosevelt And Cheered Mrs las Raps GOP By JACK BELL CONVENTION HALL Phlladel-l phia July 14 tling a proposed civil rights in the Democratic platform won anl agreement today for extra time make their arguments to the convention Driving to name a Truman- Barkley ticket and wind up convention leaders alloted only an hour for debate on the form But that was extended to al full hour when Dan Moody of as and others protested Preliminary to the platform gument the convention heard other round of speeches the Democratic Party's record andl lambasting that of the Roosevelt Whitney Cheered There were cheer's when James Roosevelt and A P Whitney road union leader shouted demand for repeal of the bor Law Its repeal Is one In the platform draft The late Franklin D Roosevelt's eldest son was a surprise addition to the listed speakers MRS DOUGLAS MENTIONED CONVENTION HALL I phia July 14 Former Price Administrator Leon Henderson said today that Rep Helen hagan Douglas of California will be put in nomination for Tice I president at the Democratic convention racial rights plank with a declaration affirming the rights of states over Physicians extracted the two from Pittsburgh to Boston is bullets and declared the operation 63.20 per 100 pounds nnd to r The assassination attempt put the Communists in an ugly mood It threatened serious consequences for the whole nation Premier Alcide De said It is the thing could happen De summoned his Chicago it's 52.8 cents The new price policy would have the least effect on fabricating plants within a radius of 20 miles or so of a steel producing center as Pittsburgh One may be that fabricators will tend to locate their plants in such where more steel Is produced than J M Bonner no admirer of the advanced bv the speaker wrested the banner y Mayfield and shouted you can't do to Alabama We don't want Jimmy Jeff P of Greenville in- formed the delegation he would place n man before the convention for President He declined to say who incl mto A can now be consumed locally to return the money that has been Federal Works Agency for breach of contract Mr Street stated Says Plans Complete lias built up a four week food bank for the Germans ing there This indication of the efficiency lion adopted by the ministers paid the attack horror and of all Italians and ex- price policy pressed the Government's hope would live The attempt he The Alabama group was the ter of attraction today's sion opened Swarms ol and reporters jammed the aisles about the slate banner Theodore P Smith president of I Alabama's votes were cast lo the Oliver Steel and Iron Corp seal delegates as was declared The Supreme Court's done the reading of the i Steel Not In favor The steel producers don't like he Mr Banks replied to Mr of the plane ferrying service came questions by slating that the plans as the Communist press warned furnished by the Ladd Engineering that the Russian siege may last Company were not complete the Winter j H P Harris city engineer de- The the plans furnished by tlie ial on the allied notes j Ladd company ns a and The proposal is laughable that stated that they were unworkable under conditions of a separate m their present form when asked rency reform in tile Western j for an opinion by Mr Banks all measures should immediately Emeison city attorney be abandoned which the Soviet stated that he was studying the military administration had lo case but that he did not have all undertake in order to protect the Truman's forces in control of convention obviously put him for a purpose That was to show the closing of ranks behind President Roosevelt was one those calling last week for nation of Gen Dwight D hower for President But the harmony efforts weri not making as much progress in Southern delegations sore ove the President's civil rights stand and displeased with tho proposed party platform Arkansas Tennessee Georgia and Virginia among others weri saying they would not vote for Truman when the convention got around to the formality of him later in the day Alabama delegates were reported ready to walk out of the tlon Immediately after adoption the platform leaving behind a that its electoral vote will not be cast for this PARIS July 14 British passenger plane j There was no argument about That has licen Democracy's 20 persons crashed today giving the vice presidential Grimly a group of Southern ers lined up on the stage for the SPARKS Former Cov of was recognized for five minutes Sparks said this government was founded on the principles nf people to regulate their local affairs Reported Down Press Agency Lists Crash Of British Plane On Cape Sicie creed that has been the erred of the Democratic party since ils lie said lie lie merely the convention lo write ciples into the Democratic plalform Cape Sicie near Toulon the French press agency reported tin London British Overseas ways officials said one of their twin-engined Dakotas was overdue at Marseilles but emphasized that the plane carried only freight and tlie hospital and in the i illn new price policy undoubtedly operating room I would mean higher prices on Catholic Action they would have to wait to ttam how it works out see tit with which the last il tlie convention had clique lias attacked our 101 sealed regular delegation cuit and Slate Supreme Courts in neighboring connection with the and the lav which vers the western occupation The fond shuttle to Berlin con- on a round the clock THE WEATHER Tile Southern speakers uerr Dan tinnier Governor of Cicil of she in an effort to locate nation to Barkley old Kentucky Senator Party leaders were aiming at -a schedule calling for a wind-up the convention tonight after a acceptance speech from President Truman Dispatches from Ington said the President was ing for the word to come here Still Silent Barkley still was not saying whether he is willing to second place on the ticket But ncj one in Convention Hall had doubts Although the Kentuckian was miffed at Mr previous misfiring bid toward tice William O Douglas last seen by hatt Mo doubt that hq Hugh Al Home also supported a j lion to restore the two-thirds rule TALLADEGA July H Mrs Hugh 80 a director of the T Thomson BO died last j which was beaten In from injuries suffered when I There was 10 optimism in the she was struck by an automobile group over chances to write the is she crossed University Avenue minority states rights plank into her platform in today's floor fight her home alter a long illness Queen Of Hurt long illness i CT When Car Skids On Roadway pioneer family died Ingrid of Denmark Lave Wood north of In 1931 Funeral services died are scheduled morning at home with Dr Crowe pastor of Talladega Presbyterian Church of- and two of her young daughters were injured today when the Queen's automobile skidded on a slippery road and crashed Into a tree King Frederik IX drove to the scene from nearby Graasten ace the Royal Summer residence He helped the Queen nnd Princesses into ambulances in which they were taken to the state al Soenderborg Their condition was described as not serious may be ready for Police Superintendent P 60 sen said the Queen driving the Slalo Park Al GADSDEN July M building a new state park bidders within the Stale Conservation royal car The chauffeur nt Thomar told members of her side In front seat Princess wah Club hers last and Princess Ann night I 23 months were In the back that she had not been given an opportunity to speak a visitor at a of the commission on i June 29 Mr Street indicated his Intention to prepare a resolution along the lines requested In Mrs Perkins letter for introduction at the next meeting of the commission Three petitions requesting of streets presented by dents of Walnut Avenue Allen Avenue and Clinton Avenue were referred to the city engineering de- s column at M al a m ladar nm I illc hour p m today In 4.1 the plane The aircraft of fishermen who spoiled it over the the No 2 spot on thH ha ma and cr Sills oi and It lost j ticket ide as it headed toward Cape Sicie In fact some rebellions erners were talking of Barkley Myers a suspension of the convention to extend the Vorl We Miami i 71 C I tear I Kain Mayor Hubert H Humphrey ot j Minneapolis waited to attack j Humid Weather No 1 man largely because the 28 Is Forecast For i demonstration given hii j when he completed his More hot and humid weather the civil plank which calis was the forecast here by man P M Hannuin However he gave n slight ray of hope for cooler tsnies by predicting scattered today tonight and spc< federal laws i morrow with mostly cloudy skies in i The temperature high is expected after I lie manner of to bo between 85 and 90 and the Sec s Col I j low near 70 degrees on to protect minority to limit of its Humphrey wanted this to South Hitland Queen lo get out of the cnr herself although she limped from a fractured kneecap She carried the two Princesses out of the car Both the little girls were bleeding from bruises of the face Tilt feur suffered most serious in- juries a fractured sKull and a crushed jaw His condition termed serious The Queen and Princesses were en route lo a bench for n swim A sudden made the road slick and the Queen lost con- liol on a curve where slip applied the The car a can model swerved around nnd hll the tree broadside T li MONTGOMERY July 14 Afler a 10 year decrease in the tuberculosis rate in Alabama there was a slight in the disease In 1947 over 1040 Figures released today by the Stale Department of Health reveal that last year's rate of 36.8 per population a bit higher than the 36.0 rate in The rate was per ON DECLINE MONTGOMERY July 14 Only 281 cases of measles il IS Steadily Increasing Inflation I Reported Bv Economic Group IT Ihr M Al T 11 t WASHINGTON M public in the six months Ml w Monthly 30 fl whopping Jan I 3V.IX al A M fJI al j a prices i st our today by a congressional In al A M at P M Jrf today P M A 51 ATHENS July H Rebel j prices Leader Gen ported In Alabama In May of this i dny offered to pence vear the Department nf with the Greek Health reported today The total for The offer made over the rebel I May 1047 was radio more than it paid out These are cash transactions not the tional bookkeeping budget figures But the next six months the com- warned will bring a close balance between government In- come and outgo The month of June saw economic records topple on nil sides Prices and employment figures roomed to new peaks nnd postwar highs were hll by profits production Income The report was compiled by a surplus ill the idem board ot economic economic committee Tlie monthly economic tors issued by the Committee on tho economic report I showed an Increase in Income for Americans but added tint It ly kept pace with the lise In con- What's morn the July report snid one of bin anchors on tion Treasury soon will be The Treasury took in from the government agencies advisors from by speech Monday night hasn't approached in enthusiasm since There were reports that on a roll call that may ba leached today if the civil rights tie pop np with Bar ley's name as an opponent to Mr Truman Senator Lister Hill of who once said he was nominate Gen Dwight D hower was the possibility of offering formally to the convention In spot Approached Gov Bradford Jester of said he had been approached Kentucky and California to support Barkley the No man His Texas would very much interested Barkley Insisted however would squelch any such move an announcement that take the first place under any Handy Ellis chairman of Alabama delegation now his group would out if don't Ret what they like IB platform Them was no 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