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r Former Prisoners Tell About Mass Rioting Vienna Js Ti.e Au-'.nan Association of Forrrf-r Pr,.-oners nt war claimed Saturday that 1.300 prisoners ww kiiied and jome 3 000 inj -r'-d m r:.a - not ing iri So if-t pn-on camps late lat. ; rar. Details f v.- ail' i'.-d riots were givfi! for ti.e f.rt time in a k-'.t'r of j-.to'c -' riri.'. rrd by The As.-oriation To Andreai Siriirnov. Soviet ambassador in Au -Tria . The lrt'-T v.; -i:.'d by asso ciation C'liairit.i.n Karl Ri'.-er and D.,:;Tv Cnairn.an Kjcjolf Neumann. Ti.ry -aid ti.e riots took place at Nor Kk. Siberia and Kr-r.gir in Kazakn. AWARD CONTRACT Portland The Corps of Kn:n eer- SaV.r'sa;. reported award of a W. '' ,' contract to Harbert BrotiKrs of E-tacatia for construction of derrick stone re veiment slona tiie riciit bank of t':-.e Santiarn river near Jefferson, Matter of Fact by Jo9 and Stewart Alscp USE FUEL FROM TIMBER PHONE 2-8086 For the Right Wood Fuel For Every Purpose ORDER NOW Timber products Company - -3k 1 1 VH THE BOOMERANC; T.".e inside slor-j of Harold S'as.-en s abortive tiffort to start a "dump-Nixon" mmement is so vtjry strange a:, id richly comic tbal it deerves to be toiri in full and in ietail. Like any good com-r-d., it can be divided i nto !:i;,lily actable -.cc.ies. uraud organier of Hie drive to renominate Vice Prei ident Nix on. Republican National Chair man Len Hall, telephones Nix on's obvious strongest potential rival. Massachusetts Gov. Christ ian Herter about 12 days ago. Hall says he wants Herter to put Nixon's name in nomination 'Ht'Th 'or tne vice Pre.-aaency and intinoates that President E i s e n h o w er Miares this wish. Herter, who is perhaps not tjuite sure fikti, t tins, cor. ond part of Stewart AJsop Halls state ment, says that he 1 1 not ad verse to the idea, but vrould like to think it over and talk about it with the President himself be fore giving his decision. Scene II: On Friday a week a2o. tiie greatest edge.i-intn-oth-er-people s-political- pi r Hires in recent American historj . Harold Stasscn. drops in to see the Pres ident, and tells him that he thinks an Eisenhowir-Herter ticket would be a lot stronger than an Eisenhower - Nixon tick et. The President presunsably an swers "urnm, umm." (What the President in fact answered is the only .part of t he story that is still mysteri ous. Bui he must havi? made some sort of misleading mon-com-mital noise, unless Harnjd Stas sen also deserves the t;tlr of our history's greatest poIiicU day dreamer) SCENE III: Stassen thfjn tele phones P.nv Herter tn an. nounce that he has broached the idea of an Eisenhower- IHerter ticket to the President. Th? Pres ident's response, declare:! Stas sen, was decidedly encouraging. Gov. Herter also answers ''umm, ummm." He still wants to see the President face-to-face and makes plans to come to Wash ington for that purpose immed iately after ti.e President's re turn from Panama. Scene IV: Edger-in Stassen holds his now-celebrated press conference, proposing the dun.p ing of Dick Nixon in favor of Chris Herter. Total consterna tion ensue.-, both at the White House and at tne Republican National committee Tiie President's Panama trip has been, planned, by the very best Madison Avenue experts, as a splendid exnioition of a President giov. ir.g with health in his great roie as peace-maker. The President himself, by admit ting that he feels lousy in Pana ma, has caused one part of the Madison Avenue plans to "gang a-glea." And now here is Stas sen. not only going after Nixon, but also seizing the precious spotlight at the very moment when the damage already done in Panama ought to be undone by banner headlines announcing the success of the President's mi-sion. SCENE V: The news of Stassen's press conference finally catches up with Gov. Herter on the golf course. As soon as he can get to a telephone, he calls the President's Chief of Staff. Sherman Adams. Herter ex plains that lie had no warning whatever of the great edger-in's intentions, and asks what the devil he ought to do now. More than one conversation is needed for Adams and Herter to decide that Herter must now agree to become Nixon's chief nominator. SCENE VI: Herter then tele phones Len Hall, to disclose that he lias now made up his mind to grant Hall's earlier request with out further delay. The overjoy ed Hall agrees with Herter on the plan for successive state ments an announcement by himself that Herter will place Nixon's name before the San Francisco convention. and a subsequent, confirmatory state ment by Herter. Hall also sug gests that Herter ought to break the glorious news to Nixon in person and immediately. Herter then calls Nixon who is. not un naturally, even more overjoyed than his great and good friend i Len. That was the real end of the comedy, although Harold Stas ! sen has been playing a sort of : obstinate epilogue, telling overy ; one who will listen that he has ! unnamed but powerful co-con-j spirators. boasting of unidenti j fied but fervent support for his I proposal, and so on and so on. If ' he had wanted to do everything Two Men Much Alike To Referee National Conventions in '56 Sunday, July 29, 1956 KEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE ! er s role may be in evidence in : tiieir chairmanship of the con 1 ventior.s. Rayburn, who has been speaker longer than any man in I history: "My experience with in i au f. H! I Manufacturer's I M CADAEJPE1 Cups its? iuvs- Washington (CQi Two men very much alike will referee the Democratic and Republican con ventions this year. But the contests ahead for each are as different in size as their home states Texas and Massachusetts. Rep. Sam Rayburn iD-Tex.l, speaker of the House of Repre sentatives, will have to swing his gavel hammer-fast to keep the wide-open Democratic Na tional Convention in order, while the gavel wielded by his counterpart at the Republican Convention, Rep. Joseph W. Martin Jr. (R-Mass.i may never even get bruised. Difference Is Ike The difference, of course, will be President Eisenhower. Bar ring any further health setbacks, the assembled Republican dele gates in San Francisco auto matically will renominate Mr. Eisenhower for a second term on the first ballot. But it probably will take several battles and ballots for the Democrats to pick a candidate to oppose him. Rayburn also had the tougher time in 1951!. Besides a knock down fight for the Presidential nomination, he had to referee battles over the party platform and the seating of ex-Dixiccrats Walter S. Hallanan of West Virginia was in the chair while the hottest issue at the Repub lican 1952 convention was be ing fought, whether to seat the pro-Eisenhower or pro-Taft dele gations from Louisiana. Georgia and Texas. Martin told Con gressional Quarterly he expects to have "an easy time of it" this year. Conventions Old Stuff Whatever happens at the con ventions next month, Rayburn and Martin will be less sur prised than anyone else. Chair ing conventions is old stuff for them. Rayburn was permanent chairman of the 1948 and 1952 Democratic conventions and Martin of the Republican con claves in 1940, 1944, 1948 and 1952. This vear the millions of TV viewers will notice that both j chairmen are elderly Rayburn j 74. Martin 71 and probably' will recall that both have been j speaker of the House. But that's ; only a start on the similarities. Botli wee born into large and poor families. Rayburn was the eighth of 11 children and spent most of his youth helping to eke out a living on the family farm near Winrium. Tex. Martin, a blacksmith's son. was one of eieht children. He grew up in North Attleboro. Mass.. started peddling papers when he was' the speakership has been that ! Marlin you cannot lead people by try ing to drive them. Persuasion six. ; and reason are the only ways to After high school with S25 j lead them . . .'' in his pocket Ravburn entered j Martin: "In the final analysis, what is now East Texas State I what resolves the great question Teachers college. Martin at 13 1 o whether a man is a good speaker or a great speaner is his ability tn be fair and impartial and to interpret the rules and do justice to all, even if it be tion. Samples of their speech j died with men in power who about the opposite party during j have been fostering unprin thc 1952 conventions: Rayburn cipled programs and unprin- "Primarily the Republican i cipieci policies." leadership is just 'asin' people." I (Copyright 195S. America has been sad- ! Congressional Quarterly) became a reporter on the North Attleboro Evening Leader. Elected to House At age 24. Rayburn was elect- it must be at times ed to the Texas House of Renre- i adverse, as sentatives serving there until I ,0 llis Gwn Parl.v and his own 1913 when he took his seat in convictions. S. House of Representa- the U lives. Martin at 24 became publisher of the North Attleboro Evening Chronicle, a daily he still owns. Three years later at 27 Mar tin was elected to the Massa chusetts House of Representa tives. He served there from 1912-14 and in the State Senate from 1914-17. In 1924 he was elected to the U. S. House of Representatives, has been there ever since. Their political apprenticeships forged similar philosophies on party loyalty. Rayburn: "I am a i Personally, botii are unassum ing and friendly. They prefer the "early to bed, early to rise" maxim of the farm to the Capi tal's gay whirl of parties. And both are thought, of as bachelors even though Rayburn was di vorced after a youthful marriage of less than six months. While one has been speaker, the other has been minority lead er. The offices for holders of those two posts are next to each other off a rose colored corridor leading from the entrance to Statuary hall in the Capitol "Mr. Sam" currently occupies team nlaver and believe in work--! tlle slightly smaller office usual ly occupied by the minority lead er. As he puts it. "We're too old to be always swapping offices." But don't expect any of this personal brotherhood between "Mr. Sam" and ""Joe" to spill over party lines at the ronven- yd CLOSE OUT! Decorated Special Price ea. 2 assorted floral patterns pink and yellow flower. A lucky bur at our New York office! Come early! Bargain Table All materials and colors sheers, cottons, plain colors, prints, stripes. Some sanforized and wrinkle proof. Come early Newberry's Yardage Bargain Table on the Mezzanine. Cookies Pink and White NEWSBOYS 33 ib. Special A delicious cooky. Alwy fresh at Newberry's! possible to insure Vice President Nixon's re-nomination, he could have found no better way. Herter. meanwhile, has hand led his difficult position of the man-in-the-middle with conspic ous good sense. Last Spring, he sent word to the President that he did not want to run again for Governor of Mass., but hop ed to return to service in the Eisenhower administration on the foreign affairs front. Vice President Nixon was the chosen messenger, and Nixon was also asked to persuade the president not to press Herter to make an other campaign for the Gov ernorship. After this episode, Herter seems more than ever likely, to get what he really wants after the election is over. (C) 1956 New York Herald Tribune Inc. ing within the party organiza tion." Martin: "A policy isn't worth the paper it's written on if it doesn't become law and it can't become law unless votes make it so." For getting and staving elect ed, both subscribe to the face-to-face approach. Rayburn hosts a political USO at his two-story frame house two miles outside of Bonham in northern Texas when he is home and sees the voters in their own surround ings as often as he can. Patrols District Martin patrols his 14th dis trict with the thoroughness of a cop on a beat. Posters announce when he will drop in at the local post offices "to afford an oppor tunity for constituents to inter view him on government busi ness.' Martin says: "I know my district so well that if a post master writes in for a new can celing machine, I probably know whether he needs it or not." Both have been mentioned frequently in the past as Presi dential timber and both .have said they were not candidates. Rayburn:' "To have been ele vated to the high position (spcak- i er of 1he House) that your fa ; vor has brought me to is a riis- ! I Unction tiiat should satisfy the . ! ambition of any man. I am the ; one man in public life who has achieved every ambition he ever I had." Martin: 'T am not a candidate and I do not expect to be a can didate, but tiie man doesn't live who doesn't want to be Presi dent of the United Slates." As it is. as House speakers both men have held what is con sidered the second most power ful post in the U. S. The speaker becomes President if both the President and vice president die Rayburn has been elected speak er seven times: 1940. 1941. 1943. 1945, 1949. 1951 and 1955. On Jan. 31. 1951. Rayburn broke Henry Clay's 125-year-old record of 3,056' 2 days in the speaker's chair. Martin was elected speak er in 1947 and 1953. Their conception of the speak- STANDARD It's TOPS in Garden Hose Can be shut off at nozzle and left for days in hot sun under full pressure. 4-p!y. Tire cord, reinforced. Protected by tough double outer jacket. A mutt ii-, with gun-sproy nozzles ond automatic fi (4 shut-off sprinklers. Mi J j ReattachabW coupling for quick, Jv'If easy repairs of accidental damage. 50 ft, ssh. '515 73 H. J13 Gef Yours How I O nu AjLV U fl IN SPECIALISTS Free Parking HOMtWARCS I Free Delivery SHOW A PROFIT INVESTING HERE Investments made by the 10th of the month tarn divi dends as of the First. CURRENT DIVIDEND RATE 3 PER ANNUM ON INVESTMENTS o AND SAVINGS SAFETY of your savings is insured o $10,000.00 by the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation. Open a savings account or add to your present account and show a profit, safely. 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