SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Tuesday, January 24, 195B-
flew, Different Stevenson To
Presidential Nomination in
Seek Democratic
Bolder Campaign
Editor's Note: This is one of four
dispatches written by the United Press
Washington bureau chief and top poli
tical writer, riving a closeup profile
on the Democratic presidential hopefuls.
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press Correspondent
Washington (U.R) Adlai
E. Stevenson is slugging tlys
year for the Democratic presi
dential nomin
ation which
he all but
brushed aside
in 1952. As of
today he is far
ahead of the
pack and
running hard.
The 1956
model Steven
son is' a differ-
Lyie U Wilson ent man anfj
. somewhat different candidate,
now aged 55 years.
The crew-cut- crew in . the
Brooks Brothers outfits which
distinguished his Springfield.
111., campaign headquarters
four years ago are loyal, still,
But they are less evident. He
has strong support in the Am
ericans for Democratic Action,
the hard core of FDR New
Deal.
Political Savvy
A delicate disdain for the
rough ar.d tumble of politics
which some sensed in the Stev
enson camp in 1952 is less dis
cernible now. Headquarters has
been shifted to big and bois
terous Chicago where politics
is rough and ready. And the
man himself seems to ' have
picked up a lot of political savvy
since 1952.
The political pros are taking
over the Stevenson campaign.
His campaign manager is James
Finnegan, a graduate of Phila
delphia's well adjusted Demo
cratic organization. Finnegan
was a factor in Gov. George-M.
Leader's successful 1954 Penn
sylvania campaign.
CBtevenson is the man to beat
with the Democratic convention
more than six months away.
Two men, especially, are out to
beat him and there are some
dark horses. The two are Gov.
Averell Harriman of New York
and Sen. Estes Kefauver of Ten
nessee. Harriman, coy, has not
formally announced his "active"
candidacy. Kefauver is in offic
ially and he may be a real fac
tor in the pre - convention
scramble.
Prosperity and Pac . ' ,
Stevenson announced his can
didacy Nov. 15 on a platform
of a saner and safer world
prosperity and peace. By now
he has agreed to enter presiden
tial primary contests in Calif
ornia, Florida, Illinois, Minne
sota and Pennsylvania. He will
meet Kefauver head-on in Cali
fornia and Florida, perhaps in
Minnesota.
A primary defeat would be
disabling although not necessar
ily deadly to his candidacy. Stev
enson's managers alread claim
more informally pledged dele
gates than the simple majority
necessary to nominate.
Stevenson: is a left-of -center
candidate much in the Roosevelt
Truman tradition, but with a
qualification. The 1956 model
Stevenson evidently has sensed
something new in the political
atmosphere. He has pegged his
campaign on "moderation" a
word fresh in recent Democratic
presidential politics.
Attacks Foreign Policy
But Stevenson will substanial-
ly conform to big labor's party
line in his political pronounce
ments, as any man must to ob
tain the Democratic nomination,
He will go about as far as labor
desires toward amending or re
pealing the Taft-Hartley act.
Stevenson's pre - convention
campaign has built up to a rip
saw attack on Eisenhower for
eign policy. By mid-January
Stevenson was demanding the
scalp of Secretary of State John
Foster Dulles or that Presi
dent Eisenhower repudiate Dul
les' "brink of war" statements.
The belief that foreign policy
would not be a big !: 1956 cam
paign issue bamboozled. few at
any time, practically none now.
Stevenson is- a graceful speak
er with a knack for whiplash
humor. His opponents call him
an "egghead." Some friends and
foes, alike, believe his stuff is'
too subtle for the common man.
The word around is that Steven
son's handlers suggest that he
ease away from the wisecracks,
bright though they, may be. Hab
' its, however, are hard to break.
Polled High Vote
The comparative seclusion of
the TV studio and the chartered
airplane were basic in Steven
' son's 1952 campaign mechanics.
But the 1956 Stevenson is likely
to do more sweating with the
crowds.
He is divorced, which could be
a factor against him. But that
didn't seem to hurt much in 1952
when he polled 27,314,992 votes
a record for a loser and a total
execsded only by two winners,
FDR and Mr. Eisenhower himself.
Former President Truman ob
tained Stevenson's nomination
four years ago. The candidate
seemed not to count Mr. Truman
a prime campaign asset. The
President seemed miffed. This
time Mr. Truman has the public
guessing about his 1956 true
love.
Stevenson's platform has de
veloped so far:
Foreign Policy
. He accused the administration
of too much threat, bluff and
bluster. He described as most
perilous our relations with other
countries, from Iceland to Japan.
On Dulles' brink-of-war remarks,
he said: "I arri shocked that the
secretary of state is willing to
play Russian roulette with the
life of the nation." He will deal
in personalities.
National Security
He believes the United States
has lost .its military lead to Rus
sia in the past three years. He
proposes a drive'f or real disarm
ament instead of what he termed
an uneasy balance of weapons,
or of terror. " f
Taxes . J
Stevenson agreed with Mr.
Eisenhower that government
revenue must not be diminished
now. But he proposed "some sort
of relief" for low income groups,
possibly to be made up by repeal
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CARE Justly proud of the $1,856,- i
000 contributed by San Francisco to CARE in the last
10 years, newly elected Mayor George Christopher assists
CARE Regional Director Desa Cucuk light candles on 10th -birthday
cake of CARE at the Sheraton Palace Hotel. San
Francisco placed fourth in the nation with New York,.
Chicago and Los Angeles placing, one, two and three.
Total for the U. S. in CARE aid to Europe, Asia and Latin
America for the 10 years amounted -to $211,000,000.
'Frozen' Youngster
Continues To Gain;
Police Seek Clues
Marshalltown, la. U.R) Po
lice hoped today to solve the
mystery of a 2-year-old "frozen"
girl who survived a criminal at
tack and a 60.8-degree body
temperature.
Meanwhile, the little Negro
girl was making medical history
at Evangelical hospital here.
She was practically frozen to
death when police found her
with her unconscious grand
mother in' an icy-cold, blood
spattered cottage Saturday. Her
temDerature registered 30 de
grees below normal, believed to
be a record for a human who
survived.
But little Vickie Davis is mak
ing a near-miraculous recovery.
Her temperature went to 103
returned to normal, and doctors
reported she is apparently out
of danger.
The child was even able to
sing a verse from "Davy Crock
ett" for her parents Monday.
Meanwhile, the 48 - year - old
grandmother, Mrs. Mary Davis,
came out of shock late Monday
and furnished new leads to po
lice.
Police Chief Delos Dooley
said afterwards, 'We were sty
mied before, but now we feel
pretty good."
He revealed that he and state
agents would call in an uniden
tified witness today for ques
tioning. ",
FBI agents conferred with
Kaiser, Hilton To
Build Waikiki Hotel
Honolulu (U.R) A $10,000,-
000 hotel will be built by indus
trialist Henry J. Kaiser and ho
telman Conrad E. Hilton . on a
new 18-acre extension of Hono
lulu's famed Waikiki Beach.
The hotel, to be completed in'
1957,. will be Honolulu's tallest
building, rising 22 stories and
containing more than 400 rooms.
In an announcement: yester
day, the two. men said the hotel
would be named the Hilton Ha-waii-Kai.
It will be built by Kai
ser Community Homes and will
be operated and managed by
Hilton Hotels International.
The property fronts on Wai
kiki Beach and a lagoon and
will include, in addition to the
main hotel, studio, "'lanais, Ha
waiian cottages, five swimming
pools, a native Hawaiian village
and a variety of restaurants,
shops and convention facilities.
Marshalltown authorities to see
if there . is any connection be
tween the attack on Vickie and
the kidnap-murder of a Sioux
City, la., girl last summer.
Fire Went Out
The attack on Vickie and her
grandmother apparently took
place late Friday night. Later,
a fire in the gas stove in the cot
tage went 'out -or was turned
down and the Marshalltown
temperature fell to 24 degrees
below zero. '
. Police entered the cottage Sat
urday morning and found
Vickie, clad only in a night
gown, on the floor. Both arms
were frozen up to her shoulders,
her legs were frozen up to her
thighs, and the left side of her
face was also frozen.
Mrs. Davis lay with her head
resting on the child's body. Her
temperature was 70 degrees, 28
degrees below normal.
Doctor said Vickie, a Mil
waukee girl who was visiting
her grandparents, . was the vic
tim of a criminal attack. '
small exemption
on dividends.
of the
granted
Farm
Stevenson is tor tne 90 per
cent of parity farm subsidy; ap
proves the Republican soil bank
idea but fears the administration
program will not be effective in
time to relieve the cost-price
squeeze in farmers.
Education -,
He described the administra
tion s new program as an ex
ample of campaign year political
expediency, recalling that pro
posed direct federal grants have
been jacked up since last year
from $65,000,000 a year for three
years to $250,000,000 a year for
five years. Even so, he considers
this grossly inadequate.
Internal Security
Stevenson finds the govern
ment more the persecutor than
the defender of the innocent. He
told the American Jewish Con
gress in Chicago that "the ex
cesses we have endured of late
are not necessary in order to
keep dangerous people out of
government."
'Big Business' Government
With eight of 10 cabinet mem
bers and three-fourths of the
government's top appointed of
ficials recruited from big busi
ness, Stevenson said the people
have become "customers, suscep
tible to the huckstering adver
tiser arts of salesmen for special
interests."
Prosperity
"We climbed together from
now the trough of depression which
we Democrats had inherited
from the Republicans. And, to
day, most Americans dwell upon
the plateau of prosperity which
the Republicans inherited from
us."
Civil Rights
No new commission is neces
sary, as the President proposed
to determine whether Negroes
are being denied their rights, as
citizens, Stevenson- argued. He
said the Justice Department has
ample authority to obtain the
facts.
Memphis Buried
In Heavy Snow
By UNITED PRESS
The southland's first big snow
storm of the season buried Mem
phis under the heaviest snows in
eight years today.
The snow storm moved out of
Arkansas, across Tennessee, and
into central North Carolina. Ten
nessee was blanketed by a two
to six-inch snow cover and Eliza
beth City, N.C., measured four
inches.
Memphis' five-inch snowstorm
was its worst since 1948. Else
where in Tennessee, the snows
were . the heaviest in several
years.
Many Tennessee schools were
closed, air traffic was halted at
Memphis and Nashville, and
some flights were cancelled at
Knoxville. Among the tempor
arily stranded air travellers at
Memphis yesterday were film
stars Fred MacMurray and his
wife, June Haver.
Highway, traffic was crippled
in Tennessee and police reported
a rash of minor accidents.
The snows changed to rains
farther south, hitting hardest at
central and northern Florida.
Tallahassee was pounded by two
inches of rain and Tampa meas
ured an inch and three quarters
last night.
Elsewhere, warm air brought
a welcome end to sub-zero tem
peratures in the plains. Temper
atures jumped as much as 30 de
grees in Minnesota and the Da-
kotas, but Wisconsin was still in
the deep freeze with Grantsburg
registering 18 below zero early
today.
Russian Antarctic
Expedition Has Trouble
London (U.R) The Soviet
Antarctic expedition has run
into considerable unforseen dif
ficulties in setting up camp on
the polar continent, Moscow Ra
dio said Monday.
The broadcast said the sum
mer sun was "having a marked
effect on the state of the ice"
making the task of unloading the
ships "moire difficult."
Enjoy a prepaid
Christmas in 1956
MEDFORD BRANCH
tiUU M(&M MUttUim WUHO
no
Argentine Expedition
Will Remove Statues
Mendoza, Argentina 1U.R) An
Argentine army expedition dug
in today for a final assault to the
summit of 22,976-foot Mr. Acon
cagua to bring down the statues
of Juan and Eva Peron.
Mt. Aconcagua in the Andes
is the tallest mountain in the
western Hemisphere.
The statues of Peron and his
wife were carried to the summit
of Aconcagua in the 1953-54 sea
son. A statue of the Virgin of
Fatima also .was set up on the
summit by a group of clerical
mountain climbers.
'
Rain Insurance Sales Bring Charge of Fraud
Munich, Germany tU.Rj Au-, pays off if
thorities have charged Hans Da
burger with fraud for combining
his two occupations for illegal
profit.
Daburger runs a camping
ground and sells rain insurance
for an insurance firm which
rain rums a psiicy-
holders vacation. He is charged
with selling rain insurance to
persons camping on his ground,:
and then, for a kickback, re-,
porting ; to the insurance com
pany that it rained, on . their
vacation.
SHE'S IN THE MONEY
Actress Maria English, turned
21, is sure glad the law in
cluded in her studio contract
a clause forcing part of her
earnings into savings bonds.
She's holding $4900 in U. S.
bonds which have been held
for her by the Los Angeles
county-clerk.
Australia's wool industry for
the fiscal year just ended an
nounced . production of more
than 3,800,000 bales, each of an
average weight of 300 pounds,
setting a new high record.
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