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Civil Rights Planks Of Both Parties Draw Attacks From Ranks By Congressional Quarterly Washington Controversial civil rights planks in the 1952 platforms of both major parties have drawn fire from their own ranks. The fact that neither party has fulfilled its promises on the Issue in the past, as shown by a Congressional Quarterly survey, does not seem to cool the flames of controversy. Leading the attack from with in on the Democratic plank is Rep. Adam Clayton Powell Jr., a Negro from New York. His counterpart in the GOP is Sen. Wayne Morse of Oregon. Powell told a Harlem mass meeting the Necro was "sold down the river" at the national conventions of both parties. He said the Negro vote is sufficient to control the outcome of the Nov. 4 Presidential lection. "We will vote only for our county, city and state candidates unless between now and Novem ber we can get firm assurances from Governor Stevenson and Senator Sparkman that they will campaign on a more forthright civil rights program than the ambiguous one adopted in the party platform." On the other hand, several prominent Democrats defended the civil rights plank but they did not all agree on what it promises. Sen. John J. Sparkman of Alabama, the Democratic Vice Presidential nominee, said in Richmond, Va., that the Demo cratic platform leaves it to "leg islative bodies" how best to as sure "that no person will be de nied employment unfairly." Sparkman said "all I ask a person to do is read and study the platform. You can't find FEPt mentioned in it, and there's no word of compulsion." Sen. Herbert H. Lehman (D.- N.Y.) who helped draft the plat form, said he thought the plank was much stronger than was the Democratic plank of 1948. He pointed to the fact that the 1952 platform includes a promise of modifying the Senate rule on debate. This provision, he said, "singled out the real villain, which is the filibuster." In making his attack on the GOP plank in a magazine (New Republic) article, Morse said: "It is a great disappointment that the plank of the Republican platform is such a weasel-word ed, compromising document of double talk. Eisenhower and Nixon must clarify it and take a firm stand for federal rights in the field of civil rights. All Americans are entitled to the guarantee by the federal govern ment of the constitutional right to the protection of first-class citizenship." 18 Join in Statement Defending the Republican plank on civil rights, 16 GOP officials -released a joint state ment saying a Republican . vic tory in November would hasten fair employment legislation. The statement read, in part: "It is our interpretation of the civil rights plank in the 1952 platform that FEPC -'Sth en forcement powers and' similar laws will be z;celerated by a Republican victory. We state this based on: (1) The plank itself which says 'We will prove our good faith ... by enacting fed eral legislation to further just and equitable treatment in the area of discriminatory employ ment practices'; (2) because we believe FEPC and other federal legislation against discrimina tion and segregation to be en tirely constitutional; and (3) be cause we see no interference in states where adequate laws are in effect and where federal and state laws and administration can be coordinated." The statement also said that in the matter of civil rights legis lation "the Democratic party can only promise but cannot achieve." The Republicans signing the statemenf""were Gov. Alfred E. Driscoll of New Jersey, and two delegates to the national conven tion, in addition to the following Congressmen: Senators Irving M. Ives, (N. Y.); Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., (Mass.); Leverett Saltonstall, (Mass.) and H. Alexander Smith, (N.J.). Representatives Clifford P. Case, (N.J.); James G. Fulton, (Pa.); John W. Heselton, (Mass.); Jacob K. Javit, (N.Y.); Robert W. Kean, (N.J.); Albert P. Mo rano, (Conn.); Hugh D. Scott, (Pa.), and Charles A. Wolver ton (N.J.). MEDFORD.ikTRIBUNE v -- . iii II ii r-i - United Prcra Full Leased Wire United Press Full Leased Wue Second Section MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 1952 Pages 1-6 HAPPY TALK Governor Adlai Stevenson of Illinois chats with three prominent women at a reception for Cabinet wives at Democratic national headquarters in Washington. The presidential candidate, guest of honor, talks to Mrs. James P. McGranery (left), wife of the attorney general: Perle Mesta (center), minister to Luxembourg; India Edwards, vice chairman of Democratic national committee. Number of New Polio Cases Reach 2,648 in One Week Washington - 4U.R) The Pub lic Health Service has announced that 2,648 new polio cases were reported in the United States in the week which ended Saturday a 15 per cent increase over the total for the previous week. The weekly communicable dis ease summary of the Public Health Service reported "a sig nificant increase." In the East North-Central division the week ly total jumped from 535 cases to 755.-' Largest increases were in -Illinois and - Michigan, the summary said. 212 Cases in Illinois In Illinois, the increase was Portland (U.R) M-Sgt. Ken neth Lauer, whose nine-year-old daughter, Yvonne Louise, drowned in the Columbia river Monday, "has been granted a leave from the Army in Korea to join his' grief-stricken family here, Portland Red Cross head quarters said' Thursday. from 140 to 212. In Michigan the case load rose from 159 to 225. The summary said in both Iowa and Texas, where polio had been reported in "epidemic proportions," decreases, of about 28 per cent under the previous week were recorded. In the current "disease year" beginning in April the over all total is 12,046, the Public Health Service said, under the 12,865 for the corresponding American Soldier Gets Life Prison Sentence Berlin (U.R) A U. S. Army general court-martial sentenced a 26-year-old American soldier to life imprisonment at hard labor Thursday for raping a nine-year-old girl and attempting to rape a 16-year-old. Pvt. Gordon A. Bright, Knox ville, Tenn.; was the first Ameri can soldier stationed in Berlin to be convicted of rape. period in the record polio out break of 1949 and far lower than the 7,056 cases in the same period last year.. Mexican Economist Lists Reasons for High Prices Mexico City (U.R) A Mexi can economics expert, Santos Barcena, lists four points contri buting to' the current high cost of living in the country.- They are: 1. The necessary volume of food is not produced. 2. Pur chases are made abroad at high prices. 3. Despite scarcities at home, exportations continue. 4. Monopolies prevent competi tion, i Medical School Teaching Hospital Bids Turned Down Portland (U.R) Bids for con struction of the ' University of Oregon Medical School teaching hospital have been rejected by the State Board of Higher Edu cation because they were too high. Dr. R. E. Kleinsorge, Silver ton, chairman of the board's building committee, said bids "far exceeded available funds." He said the board had about $5,800,000 available from legis lative appropriations to build the hospital. Bids submitted to taled $6,676,884, about 10 per cent above, architects' estimates, he said. Bids were. excessive, the board said, because of material and wage increases which have gone into effect since preliminary planning and appropriations were made about two years ago The board has asked architects to work with medical school ad ministrators to cut costs. Find ings will be reported to the board September 9. Bids were entered on a gen eral contract, the heating plant, electrical contract and elevator installations. Jap Has Right Idea On Efficiency Pie? Tokyo '(U.R) An Ameri can in Tokyo was complaining about the inefficiency of the Jap anese. "They, are slow," he said. "They can follow a given course but get rattled when something new turns up. They waste time. They always use two men to do one man's job." 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