European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 8, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse Page the stars and stripes March if House unit favors presidential election by popular ballot in North South feud would ban swing 01 vote by minority March t election of the president and vice president by popular vote was recommended yesterday the Northern Southern democratic Civ u rights a constitutional amendment which would radically change the present electoral College system was approved unanimously by a House judiciary subcommittee in a deliberately aimed blow at minority influence on major party this amendment would reduce the balance of Power influence claimed the american Laboi which is backing Henry a wallaces presidential bid in York de Gossett author of the blamed the electoral College system for the present split Between president Truman and Southern democrats bucking the presidents lower some racial southerners have charged that Truman took his civil rights stand the Hope of capturing one such minority negroes in new Pennsylvania and several other Northern minorities can Wield great in fluence now if they hold the balance of Power in a they can swing that states entire elec toral vote to the candidate of their under the proposed a states electoral votes would be split up among the Var ious candidates according to the popular vote each candidate re half dollars on Sale each Macarthur advised to Cut army ties March 7 aimed unofficial service said today Douglas Macarthur should sever All official connections with the army if he continues As a candidate for presi Dent is a Fine line of ethical distinction Between the Ordinary private citizen or Soldier and the Man who announced or unan a potential candidate for major political armed Force said printers policies called disastrous March j an executive of the american newspaper publishers association told a Federal judge that if More newspapers Are hit by printers strikes they will not be Able to continue publication the Way the papers in Chicago and elsewhere he said also that if the inter National typographical Union continues its present the result for the newspaper Industry would be but judge Luther Swygert knocked his remark out of the court George Dale testified on behalf of the governments Effort to get a Taf Hartley injunction forcing Itu to change its Truman warned he May lose March 7 Paul new York state democratic has advised party leaders Here that the democrats in danger of losing new Yorks 47 electoral he told democratic bigwigs that the party fortunes have hit a new Low in his Home Fitzpatrick proposed a three Point program calling for attacks by president tru Ryan on Henry Wallace As a preaching appease prompt action in support of the partition of a firm stand of the civil rights the new Yore state chairman urged that Truman follow through on his recommendations for ant poll tax and despite the opposition of Southern Solon scoffs at fears of do red taint March 7 Herbert Oconnor dmd4 proposed today that at least european displaced persons be admitted into the in the he said he will try to Amend a pending Senate Bill which would authorize admittance of he scoffed at fears that the Dis placed persons would be tainted with Oconnor said to Fiat refusal of Many of the persons to go Back to communist dominated countries is Clear indication of their hatred for communism and All its Booker Washington Iii grandson the great negro is shown Selling children Booker Washington memorial halt dollars with permission for the proceeds to go to negro Uncle Henry Swain 87yearold former slave and boyhood Friend of Booker v helped open the fundraising 2 others released j on bail from Ellis Island March 7 Eisler and three other alleged to ranking communist aliens were released yesterday from Ellis where All have been on a hunger strike since they were freed by Federal judge William Bondy on bail pending their appeals from dismissal Hareas Corpus writs by the released along with described in Congress As the 1 communist agent in were John labor Secretary of the communist party Charles former president of the United Coke and Coal workers and Ferdinand Secretary of the National maritime Union earlier this week Bondy ordered the release on bail of Irving a fur Union who had been held on Ellis Island for deportation Boltini atom Fleet going to graveyard Pearl March 7 Twentyfive last of the Bikini atom bomb Fleet left anchored at Kwa will be scuttled Whin the next six the Navy disclosed the ships comprise eight de nine transports and eight Landing Telephone official gets defense Post March 7 Russel Bell Telephone system has been named director of the new civil defense planning designed to help protect America from mass destruction by atom defense Secretary James Forres who appointed said one of the main jobs of the director would be to separate the fantastic from the in deciding the system of the units Job includes a plan for creating a permanent civil defense novelist found dead March 7 author of the Best Selling novel Raintree was found dead in a garage at his the Coroner declined to discuss circumstances the Roberts links Taft to reds in fight on amt March 7 former supreme court Justice Owen Roberts charged inferentially tonight that Robert Taft Ohio and the communist party see Jye to Eye in their opposition to Universal military chairman of the that the strongest and organized opposition to Universal military training centers one Reece sees Victory in 5 Southern states March 7 Carroll Reece said today the re publicans have a Good Chance of carrying at least five Southern in the 1948 presidential the chairman of the Republican National committee said that gop interest in the South is at an All Lime we have a Good Chance of carry ing the Border states and might even pick up some in the deep he Reece listed the Border states As North Kentucky and ten Reece was in Philadelphia to Confer with Republican leaders on housing arrangements for the june 21 National Farley visions no plan to drop Truman new March 7 James Farley scoffed at suggestions that the democrats might drop president Truman in favor of an other the former democratic National chairman Henry Wallace is a More serious threat to the party than the democratic leaders he predicted the Wallace third part ticket will receive votes in actor sued in bar Brawl March 7 film villain Lawrence Tierney is vicious smear Laid to Russia new March 7 state department official accused Russia yesterday of launch ing the greatest Campaign of i ious propaganda in history to Dis tort and misrepresent the purposes behind Charles state depart ment Counselor and onetime coun Selor of the american embassy in Moscow and translator at All major conferences involving spoke before the new York Herald trib Fie he declared that propaganda be ing used by the soviet Union and its satellites is designed to Dis Guise the truth or to distort and misrepresent the purposes in poli cies of the free nations of the it is the deliberate purpose of those responsible for such propaganda to confuse the Public to weaken the self Confidence of the democratic nations in order thereby to prevent firm decisions and Wise action for the preservation of a free society in the the chief target of this Campaign is the United of is not it is due to the simple fact that today this country occupies a place of responsibility and leadership unique in being sued for damages by three fourths of a bartender who the actor of knocking him out in a cafe William Goldy charged Tierney slugged hint so hard that the communist party in the his vision and hearing have been on the one our communist front groups whip up their fellow travelling audiences to Stop an Imi aerialist by defeating univer Sal military on the j Taft seizes upon any piece of news j that be twisted into an argue ment against this same training impaired since the Chicago to hold foreign seminars March 7 University of Chicago announced yesterday that it will conduct for eign studies in 11 european coun tries this Robert Dean of Stu said 50 graduate and professional school students selected by a joint faculty student committees will participate in the summer chosen Are world War ii each will work on re lated to his academic they will be stationed chiefly in eng Landi Germany Den Mark and i soviets open new exhibition heralding Progress draft asks review of sentence March 7 Serge Russia born has asked the supreme court to review his conviction in new York of violating the selective service Rubinstein was sentenced on april Toto and a half years in prison and fined for filing Faise Statema pts to his draft new soviet Union opened its first Large scale exhibition in this country since the at the same time soviet ambassador Alexander pan Pushkin made his first Public appearance in the a Las minute guest at the ambassadors cocktail and caviar appeared alongside the More commonplace manhattans and Andrei chief soviet Delegate to the United j uninvited guests were pickets outside the Rockefeller Center museum of science and Industry who said they were Lithuania political most of the exhibits consisted of huge placards showing soviet pro Gress in 30 in Industry and on Many of the charts the lines went nearly straight starting from nothing or next to visitors to the to be open All this also will see of paintings by leading soviet Lac work and other Handi in addition to displays of and other products of
