Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS F fighting truman gets democratic nomination galls calls special session barkley selected as running pilate by bil bill staff writer editon S NOTE when opinion opinions art are expressed in these columns tb they ey are those of 0 western newspaper union 9 news analysts and find not necessarily of th this ls newspaper I 1 1 ae e I 1 I 1 tr aa V kl 4 11 t TA t iff truman WE ACCEPT barkley in fighting mood born in log cabin the philadelphia STORY truman barkley if U the democrats hadn haan t known before their convention that dent harry truman was their man they found out on the steaming wednesday when their p political 0 allt 1 cal show slammed through to a s smash m a sh ing triumphant finish harry truman told them so after the enterprising liberal forces of the party had spent all that wednesday in the degree heat of convention hall proving it be yond any doubt it looked like the democratic party might have been completely revitalized in 12 tense hours on that last day of the convention ending a period during which the democrats morale and will to win slowly had been ossifying the revitalization came as a re suit of two potent factors which actually could be reduced to one president truman 8 influence in the first place in adopting the strong positive civil rights plank in the platform the party not only repudiated the idea and spirit of reaction but also dealt an extremely sharp and real slap to the hands of the southern wing which had tried at times almost savagely to produce a cleavage within the party that action closely followed by the nomination of president tru man to run tor for re election reelection and the nomination of sen alben barkley of K by acclamation for the vice presidential spot on the ticket added another solid timber to the structure that the liberal elements of the party were fighting so hard to build those developments were to in themselves a complete and vie proof that the democrats this year intended to bring them selves before the american public as a responsible cohesive party that would be striving for nothing less than total victory in the no vember election but it remained tor for president truman to give the whole affair a significance that could not be ignored fighting finish it was a far cry from a love fest test as the democratic clans feuding for many months met in the city of brotherly love tor for their national convention after three days of strife and bickering the conclave came to a close as a fighting righting president tru man triumphantly accepted his party s nom nation for the dency and then rocked democrats and republicans alike with an in stant summons to the congress to return for a special session july 26 the convention perhaps the most bitterly divided since 1860 and 1024 ended with a pol ex detonated by the quiet man from independence mo the ex startled even the regular members of his own party who had engineered the nomination of mr truman to the presidency the democrats pinned their no vember election hopes on a ticket of harry S truman and alben W barkley it was the 64 year old modest low voiced former senator from missouri who had succeeded to the office upon the death of franklin D roosevelt in 1945 tor for the presidency and it was the 70 year old soft speaking promis ing senator from paducah ky for the vice pres dency the president presidents s call tor for a special session provided a dramatic and startling startling climax to the soth conven tion which had been marked by bitter debate over ferocious family differences the party had been ripped by in fighting between northern and southern conservatives over the issue of equal civil rights for negroes one half of the ala bama delegation 13 of the 26 votes and the entire mississippi delegation of 22 had stormed out of the convention amid boos cheers and a great pushing and shoving this was the high point of the widely heralded southern revolt al though a rump convention was called to meet in birmingham ala discord flares discord prevailed long before the 1596 delegates from the 48 states and territories gathered in stifling steaming philadelphia tor for the quadrennial convention dissident factions of the party rallied behind a concerted drive to draft gen dwight D eisenhower Elsen hower as the party a standard bearer ike however removed himself from the race with his third and final insistence that he would not accept the nomination the day after the eisenhower Elsen hower boom collapsed the new deal et ef forts to oppose mr truman with supreme court justice william 0 douglas also blew up douglas whom the president had n anted for his running mate flatly refused to be considered and also knocked himself out of the vice presidential running after douglas declined to enter the presidential race senator pepper of florida announced his candidacy with the backing of the new deal wing but his bid was not considered civil rights after seven days of wrangling a platform pledging the democratic party more specifically than ever before to work for basic cons titu dional civil rights was adopted after a floor fight which proved rather tame in view of the anticipated knock down drag out battle the platform calls on congress to support guarantees of the right of full and equal po laical participation meaning anticoll anti poll tax legislation the right to equal opportunity of employment another way of promising a fair employment faces act the right of security of person meaning a federal anti lynch law the right of equal treatment in the service and defense of our na tion meaning the end of legrega tion in the armed forces the long heralded southern re volt however tailed failed to develop into the dixie wide proportions predicted only mississippi s 22 delegates and 13 of alabama s 26 stalked out of the convention in protest against president truman a nomination and adoption of the strong civil rights plank however remaining southern delegates registered that area a protest by voting for the bial nomination of sen richard B russell of georgia size of the pro test vote indicated the democratic party still has a problem on its hands in the south i taps PERSHING sounds gen john J Bla cVack ing who led america americas troops to victory in world war I 1 is dead at the age of 87 the aged former chief ol 01 staff had been ill since february 1938 when he was stricken at tucson anz ariz by a form of rheumatism which affected his heart muscles he came close to dying at that time but rallied with a display of fighting spirit which abaz amazed ed his physicians since then he had lived at walter reed hospital in wash ington D C 4 death was caused by a blood clot which reached his lung at ing s bedside when death came were his son warren his sister miss may pershing and his long time physician maj gen shelley marietta long the idol ol 01 a grateful nation pershing held the rank of general of the armies a title conferred on only tour four other american soldiers washington grant sherman and sheridan he outranked such con temporary five star generals as george C marshal marshall dwight D eisenhower Elsen hower and douglas mac arthur their title is general of the army pershing won his greatest fame as commander in chief of the american expeditionary force in world war I 1 appointed to that post in 1917 he took personal command of the american tro troops 0 ps sent to france he almost imme became involved in a dis with other allied commanders who wanted to break up the american army and use it to rein force the french and british armies wherever necessary ing flatly refused to let his troops troop lose their identity born sept 13 1860 in the fron tier town of laclede mo ing was graduated from west point when he was 26 he became a sec see 0 1 X 4 GENERAL PERSHING last battle ond and lieutenant in the sixth U S cavalry and launched a career in soldiering to which he devoted his entire life he fought indians in the american west spaniards in cuba moro tribesmen in the philippines mexican bandits un der pancho villa on the U S mexican border and germans in france throughout world war II 11 ing received a full report twice a month from general marshall his aide of 1917 although old and feeble the general followed daily developments closely from his hos has pital room paying particular at to my boys who included generals marshall eisenhower Elsen hower and george S patton jr CROPS record output barring a major crop disaster the nation will harvest another bumper crop this year with indi pointing painting to a general crop production which may surpass that of the outstanding year of 1942 and the record set in 1946 acreage to in crops is among the largest in recent years and yield prospects are good for most crops agriculture department spokesmen said on the basis of july I 1 cond condl talons an all time record corn crop of 3 bushels was forecast although corn the largest teed feed crop still faces such hazards as p dry hot august or an early frost previous record was 3 ool bushels in 1948 1946 the wheat crop prospect of 1241 1 bushels represents a gain a at 4 per cent from earlier forecasts if that amount is harvested il 11 will rank as the second larges larger crop in history rice will set a new acreage rec ree ord and nearly equal last year I 1 i record output oats and barley wit be well above average crops bumper crop prospects are not nol expected to mean any immediate Immedi att increase in meat supplies or any an noticeable decrease in meat prices but the record harvest should mean mear larger meat supplies in the future |