El Paso Herald-Post (Newspaper) - July 15, 1948, El Paso, Texas El Paso Fair m 10 VOL NO 169 a PASO TEXAS THURSDAY JULY 15 1946 IT Home Edition PRICE riVI CENTI General Pershing Dies at 87 President Iran Mies Special Seski tl Press WASHINGTON July Tr urn mi today formally called into at July 86 In a formal Mr Truman uid the public interest and an ex occasion require the re MCh communication M may be made 1y the GOP Congress By LYLE C WILSON Stiff PHILADELPHIA July President Truman accepted the Democratic presidential nomination in the small hours More Convention MI Pace 5 President Truman Senator Barkley Behind the Scenes At Philadelphia of today and called Congress back into session effective July 26 to make good on Republican cam promises Senator Alben W Barkley of Ken tucky at the same time accepted the vice presidential nomination The Democratic National Convention then adjourned am and hous ing legislation at the of hiis emergency list for attention But he la point program wh m Republican Congress 15 days if it would MeGrath Reelected Chairman J Howard MeGrath and all other officers of the Demo cratic National Committee were re elected by todays post convention reorganization meeting MeGrath Democrat victory in November and Barkley speaking to the sough ariy doubt that lie wa reluctant to be Mr Trumans rim ning mate in that the President was hesitant about hav ing him on the ticket Mr Truman and Barkley made a joint appearance before weary dele gates and spectators shortly before 2 a m today President had just been nominated in a bitter bu lopsided contest with Senator Rich ard B Russell of Georgia the states rights candidate of the South Barkley was named by ac clamation after other vice presiden tial candidates withdrew Challenges Mr Truman told the cheering del egates he would ask Congress to enact 1 Laws to halt rising prices 2 Housing legislation 3 Aid to education 4 National health 5 Civil rights legislation 6 Increased minimum wage 7 Extension of social security 8 Public power and cheap elec projects Mr Trumans aggressive speech and his challenge to the Republican Congress finally tapped the store house of party enthusiasm Weary Br Convention Stiff of The PHILADELPHIA July it or not Democrats feel better about the whole thing They were licked and bedraggled when they got here When usual family quarrel got under way it cleared the air Now Democrats are leav ing with their fighting blood Theyve decided they have a chance They even feel better about Tru man He took a brutal kicking around and finally delegates be gan feeling sorry for him COP tion mismanagement was ou ing the goat Old underdog v triumphed on foreign policy And it was an convention plenty of he sys cm to i Mgan to work And anyway no direction morale Jew theyve cooled off realize Truman got the man in the White i most of what he wanted out of convention just as surely as Dewe efficiency did three weeks earlier got the nomination got a who strengthened the ticket just as Dewey a ust to prove politics It i to 0 i delegates whooped and shouted and cried Harry lay it The man from Missouri stood smiling before Continued on Col 1 Additional Housing Request Is Denied Marshall W Amis of Fort Worth regional director of the Federal Public Housing Administration to day advised Mayor Ponder that his office is not in a position to assist in any way whatever in construc tion of additional housing in El Mr Ponder had asked aid in pro viding quarters for some 25000 soldiers who will be moved lo ort Bliss in the near future Mr Amis said however that his agency might be able to provide surplus Army barracks if the City is interested in furnishing a site and bearing removal and reconditioning costs Mr Ponder added that the City is not in a position to undertake that type of project Who Was on Last Plane From Berlin liisi before the cap tured Berlin a tiny plane took oft from streets In it were two persons Was one of them Hitler Indue Michael A hag interviewed the pilot He tells you about that in hix series Is Hitler Alive or Dead To Find out for Mire what hap to read MMS mannot The MONDAY sir c as men w Tr m n who i LiVi plai s 1 cast them They vote for Truman they wont vote for any Democrat who let himself be nominated on the on 2 Col 1 What Latest Poll Shows Demos1 Chances Are Not Rosy Now EDITORS NOTE Elmo Roper Public appear exclu sively 1m The in HI By ELMO ROPER PHILADELPHIA July the decorations at Conven tion Hall this week were two huge pictures one of the late President Roosevelt and the other of Presi dent Truman These two impres sive pictures formed the physical backdrop for the convention pro But the political backdrop here in Philadelphia was considerably different It was almost as though written in large letters on every wall in this auditorium were the words CANT WIN IN NOVEMBER As a public opinion analyst I certainty that Truman would ose the election in November He las had the most rapid ups and downs of popularity among the voters of any major figure in re cent political history These last ivo months might just have been another of his bottom low periods and the coming months might see nis popularity rise But we found on our latest presidential survey hat Dewey goes into the campaign vith a lead that is large indeed We asked a crosssection of the just after the Republican convention Now that the Republicans hare nominated Dewey and since Henry Wallace has announced he is run ning on the third party ticket it is only the Democratic candi date that is not definite If the Democrats should nominate Tru man whom do you think you would vote Dewey or Wallace ToUT Voters Per Cent Truman 282 Wallace 49 Express no opinion 173 It is true that a poll taken after one convention and before another always shows the nominee of the first convention to have greater advantage than he turns out to have in the elections But even so this 22 per centage point lead of Deweys is not to be taken lightly These latest poll results put into round figures what seems lo this observer to be the prevailing sense of this Democratic chances in November are anything but rosy There has been of course a small minority here who still hold an un dampened optimism over a Tru man victory They argue that his record has been a good one par in contrast to that of the Eightieth Congress They think that when the people come to weigh carefully those two records in November they will say Weve had enough of the Eightieth Congress But for most of the delegates this optimism is too rosy to be be For them the question is not so much whether or not a vic tory can be won in November It is rather whether the defeat will be an overwhelming debacle or will be a respectable showing that will preserve the Democratic party as an effective opposition party which can come back to power when the country has management tired of Republican 300 Absentee Votes Cast in County A total of 300 absentee votes had been cast by noon today in the County Clerks office Tuesday is the last day to vote absentee Demos Come Back With Roosevelt for Fifth Texans Go Down Line Against Truman to End By MARSHALL PHILADELPHIA July Yes Texas will vote for Tru man but just a little more reluctantly That was what Governor Jester said at the Democratic National Convention last night But the Texas delegation did not vote for President Truman Unreconstructed to the end it for Senator Rich ard Russell of Georgia as its nom inee for the presidency But it and the Texas electors are committed to vote for President Truman in November Texans Didnt Vole Those same electors will also vote for the vice presidential nominee of the convention But the Texas delegation early this morning didnt vote at all It was out trying to make up its collective mind when the Barkley rain whizzed past Texans did not cut much of a swath at this convention But that role was in the cards when the boom for Ike Eisen If Ike hsd run ory would have been far dif was Texas and the disaffect i Jth were run over by the mined majority of the Demo c Party Fight Started It started with the rules com Texas tried to get the two thirds nominating rule adopted It and its Southern colleagues failed It continued in the platform com and there Texas won at least a strategic victory The state represented on the platform by nor Dan Moody wanted a weak plank if any at all and it vigorously sought a States Rights plank The platform committee adopted a civil rights plank Texas through Moody of a States Rights plank This Continued on Page 8 Col 1 Dixie Demos See Dewey Victory Bj Associated Press PHILADELPHIA July 15 Governor Fielding Wright of Mis issued a call for every man and woman who be in states rights and who opposes Harry S Truman and the things he stands for to meet in Birmingham on Saturday Library Collection Photo GENERAL PERSHING right in 1916 met on the El Paso interna tional railroad bridge with Gen Alvaro Obregon left and Pancho Villa center in an effort to stop border fighting and that the Mexican people halt internal strife Women Protest Restroom in Grandview Park Near Homes By CLARE SOOTHE LUCE PHILADELPHIA July 15 tiis is written Harry Truman is making his way here to make carefully rehearsed ous acceptance peech in behalf f the unani chosen of this iranklin Delano w h o of the of more impelling events finds k impossible to be resent to accept Luce iii partys draft for a fifth term Form arguing the Greek Plato is the real substance of any thing or event From the hour of final refusal to run the form of this convention began to reveal itself as somehow funeral A natural mistake was made by the political commentators in gues sing at its filial form They as that what was plainly a spading bee in the Democratic graveyard must result in a burial if not of the candidate then surely of the parly According to the officials of the telegraph company up to dale over 1700000 words have been sent And they have comprised the longest on Page 15 Col 1 lion By United Press PHILADELPHIA July Southern Democrats angered over the triumph of President Truman and his civil rights program pre today that Governor Thomas E Dewey would break the Solid South in November The chairman of the Florida delegation Frank D Upchurch Jr even went so far as to say thai Mr Truman might not carry a single state in the entire country And a Louisiana delegate Hugh Wilkinson said the Democratic Party was wrecked an for crushing defeat In the tion to follow he said the South would get a proper voice in party affairs Predict Licking Other Southern leaders predicted the party was in for the worst licking since 1928 Governor fester of Texas said the only thing to keep the Re publicans from carrying Texas is they do not have a strong candi date in Dewey but he edged that Dewey might get more votes than any GOP candidate since Herbert Hoover carried the state 20 years ago Representatives of at least five Dixie delegations were headed for a states conference in Bir mingham There they will pick a states rights candidate for presi dent for whom Southern electors can vote in the Electoral College Plan to Roil Democratic electors in Alabama and South Carolina plan to bolt the President sending Mr Truman into the campaign for reelection with lhal he wont get 19 electoral votes which have gone to the Democrats since the Civil War Besides these iwo states which will be represented at the rebel meeting include Arkansas Florida and Mississippi Upchurch said the Florida group however would only be observers We want to see what program is before tying up with it he said For the rest of the South the re volt appeared lo be over It died yesterday in a tumultuous conven tion session which saw half the Alabama delegation and all the Mis group pick up their stan dards and march out of the Two women residents of Jackson avenue complained to The Herald Post today about continued con struction by the city of the Grand view Park restroom at Jackson avenue and Copia street Mrs Robert L Behrens of 3311 Jackson avenue and Mrs Joe D 3yrd of 3307 Jackson avenue said hat the view of the restroom from their front windows is most objec and that its presence will lower the value of their homes Were Not Consulted We were not consulted before the building was started so we had no way that it was to Mrs Behrens said With reference to the citys plan to plant roses around the restroom Mrs Behrens said We wonder what stand Mayor Ponder would take if the same situation occurred across the street from his home Perhaps he would help them plant the roses A petition requesting the city to remove the restroom from its pres ent location was sent to Mayor Pon der on July 5 by Dave J Grabert of 3300 Jackson avenue Mrs Behrens said Did Not Reply Mr Grabert said that a petition containing the names of 22 Jackson avenue residents was sent by him to Mayor Ponder on July 5 but that he had received no answer from the city Mr Grabert said that he had no answer from an earlier petition sent by him in March to the city admin requesting that they in stall a street light at Jackson nue and Copia street to help pre vent burglaries in that area We asked for a street light and the answer was Mr Grabert said Trial Period Stands Asserting that the city may have made a mistake in the location of the restroom Mayor Ponder said that the City Council had decided to give the outhouse a trial period of a few months When asked what recourse Jack son avenue citizens might have in case they wanted to do away with the restroom at the end of the trial period Mr Ponder said that they could either send in a new petition or enjoin the city through the courts As for replying to Mr Ponder said that it was cus tomary for the city clerk to send an answer to the top signatory of a petition orio the first person whose signature is legible Mr Grabert said none of these received a reply City Keeps Old Promise Selection of the present site was determined by accessibility to sew er outlets and by the fact that model plane and auto enthusiasts need a restroom Mr Fonder said A RECENT photo of General Pershing U S Defies Red Berlin Blockade By United Press LONDON July to day reaffirmed her unshakeable intention to remain in Berlin and informed sources suggested that the Western Allies may carry their protest against the Russian blockade of the German capital direct to Premier Josef Stalin Nation Mourns Passing of Famed AEF Commander By Associated Press WASHINGTON July dent Truman soon will call for nationwide memorial observance of the death early today of Cen tral John J Pershing the While House announced The announcement made by Presidential Press Secretary G Ross who also told reporters that the President will attend the funeral at Arlington National Cemetery Monday afternoon By JAMES LEE The promise of a previous City administration before construction of present homes on Jackson ave nue to build a restroom in Grand view Park also led the City to go ahead with the present enterprise Mr Ponder added With respect to the erection of street lights Mr Ponder said that 90 per cent of street lights request ed have either been put up or are scheduled to be put up Italian Troops Commies Battle By United Press ROME July has broken out in Genoa between Communist demonstrators and troops military has as full control there Army headquarters in Milan said to night By United Press ROME July Italian gov poured troop reinforce ments into Genoa today after Com munist Partisan squads set up gun and blocked the streets of Italys biggest port with renches and barricades Serious fighting seemed possible A curfew was or dered in Genoa where a state of emergency was by the government The government announcement revealing the urgent as reports from the remainder of the country showed some minor cracks in the solid front of the general strike called in Communist reprisal for the attempt ed assassination yesterday of their eader Togliatti There were isolated clashes of Communist demonstrators with po ice in Milan and some other in cities but the country as a wss fairly calm The Genoa situation however to spark that might touch off disorders much more serious than those that erday and today had killed at least our persons and injured perhaps 000 Physicians at Polyclinic Hospital n reply lo rumors abroad that Tog had died issued the following Palmiro is resting quiet y His condition is much better Re of his death are complete Senate Candidates Back War Veteran By UNITED TRESS A Dallas World War II veteran had the backing today of at least three other U S Senate candi dates after a caucus in Dallas last night The voters present slightly more than 30 decided to support Roscoe H Collier who lost both feet in action at Bougainville in March 1944 Three other U S Senate candi dates Cyclone Davis Terrell Sledge and F B Clark attended the caucus and pledged themselves to work for Collier against Coke Stevenson Continued on 19 Col 1 United Press WASHINGTON July State Department spokesman said today the United States will stay in Ber lin despite Soviet refusal to lift the blockade Press Officer Lincoln White was asked at a news conference if So viet rejection of the protest on Berlin changed American policy on Berlin in any way There is absolutely no change in our position White replied He said American policy on Ber lin was set forth in statements by Secretary of State Marshall and in the American note which protested the Berlin blockade nine days ago Marshall said about 10 days ago the United States does not intend to withdraw from Berlin The American note which followed said that the United States would not be induced by threats pressures or other actions to abandon its rights as a joint occupant of the former German capital Russians Threaten to Regulate Air Corridor Bu United Press BERLIN July quar ters threatened openly for the first time today to impose some form of regulation on the air corridors over the Soviet zone by which Western air fleets are supplying Berlin The official Soviet army organ Rundschau said Soviet aviation experts have come to the conclusion nhat obviously the time has arrived to the problem of the air corridors The threat against the last chan lel of Western communication with Berlin was coupled with a charge hat Allied planes on the Berlin supply were flying blind hrough areas in which the Soviet Continued on Page 7 Col J Sergeant Who Chased Villa Praises General Pershing Sgt Thomas B Slade of El Paso 7th Cavalryman who served under Gen John J Pershing on the puni tive expedition into Mexico in search of Pancho Villa praised the general as an officer a soldier and a gentleman Re was a prince Sergeant Slade newspaperman to command in tlie yearlong search for Villa Sergeant Slade said Since my troop was the generals honor troop 1 saw much of him he said On the same journey and with the Army most ot the year was a young General of the Armies John J the gallant Black Jack of World War I and one of the nations greatest sol died today at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington Death came quietly with the footsteps of a friend to the ram Missourian who Jed the American Expeditionary Forces to victory in Europe years ago The White House announced that Pershing died in a coma at 350 a m Present at his bedside was his son Warrer Pershing the gen sister Miss May Pershing who has been attending him since 1939 and Maj Gen Shelley Mari etta former commandant of Waller Reed and personal phy Funeral Riles Set The 87yearold Pershing died in the dim seclusion of his apartment at Walter Reed to which full of years and high honors he retired with the infirmities of advance age began to take their toll The Army announced that Persh ing will be buried in Arlington National Cemetery Monday after noon It said this arrangement it in accordance with the wishes of General Pershing The body will lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda Sunday President Notified The Army plans a formal proces sion beginning at noon Monday to escort the body from the Capitol to the amphitheatre at Arlington Na tional Cemetery where services will be held at 1 p m last public appearance was at Arlington National Ceme tery on Armistice Day 1943 President Truman was the first officially informed of the death Maj Gen George Beach commandant of Walter Reed Hos pital was waiting with the word when the Presidents train pulled nto Union Station at a m his morning from Philadelphia where he accepted the Democratic nomination to succeed himself Went Into Coma The generals death was attrib to a complication of ailments ncident to his long span of years but the immediate cause was a pulmonary embolus clot in the lung General Pershing went into coma yesterday afternoon and the hospital sent for his son Warren who rushed to Washington from New York The esteem was held by yes The generally WHS calm nd it began to appear likely that he Premier c whose resignation the have demanded would the storm without too much difficulty The sergeant is at William Beau mont General Hospital recovering from a broken ankle Sergeant Slades troop Troop D of the 7tli was General honor troop and personal bodyguard on the first stage of the expedition into Mexico We gathered at Ranch west of Douglas Ariz in March 1916 the sergeant recalled There we crossed the line with about 3000 men There were two regiments 1 cavalry from the 5th 7th 10th Mlh and Cavalry and two battalions of field artillery On march from liu border to Dublan we set a record of 120 milos in 2Z hours It has never been equalled He Floyd Gibbons and he was on his first big assignment Sergeant Slade said I hart coffee with him and General Pershing several mornings General Perching made official visit lo Ft Bliss when he reviewed troops after that he retired He made an unofficial Ft Bliss on Jan 26 1935 when 19Run salute greeted him General Pershing came 10 El Paso in the spring of 1014 from San Francisco with the filh and 16th Infantry Regiments and took com mand of Ft Bliss and of tiie Ei Paso district of the Army border command here until his last in 1922 Shortly to in which Pershing his comrades graphically demonstrated in Wash ington on the 291h anniversary of the armistice which ended hostili ties in the First World War Veterans Stand Vigil A little band of veterans heard that his office in the old State Department building was to be va that his headquarters were to be transferred to the Pentagon Even though they well knew that Pershing would never again set foot in the office would never again sit at as he always front of the old mahogany desk facing his flags and his trophies of victory these ancient warrior kept a vigil of protest It was over vehement pro tests that files and furni ture and mementoes were removed from the office which hd been as signed to him for life The eldest of nine children he was born 13 on a farm near Ia Cleve in Linn County Missouri He was the son ot John Fletcher and Ann Thompson Per shing At 21 Pershing took he examina Continued on Page 10 Col 4 Inside Your patrol He was in early in Ann Cairo If Comics llr K 1 Markm Kiflin General Pershing came from Ssn Antonio lo join the troops was General was an honorary Continued on 10 Cni 4
