Whatever Ike Says,
> He Wants To Be
Next President
WASHINGTON, D. C. — The
concensus in the capital right now
is that Gen. Dwight Eisenhower
is running his head off for the
GOP Presidential nomination in
1948. Ike may not be out beating
the bushes for delegates and votes
in the Republican convention next
year, but if Ike doesn’t want to
run, all he has to do is say so. He
hasn’t said “no” loud enough yet
to convince the politicians he
means it. Less than a year ago
there was a lot of talk about what
a fine President Gen. George C.
Marshall would make.
Marshall, when he got back
from China and took over the job
as secretary of state, stomped so
hard on his boom no hopeful poli
tician has had the nerve to men
tion his name since.
Eisenhower has said repeatedly
• that he wants to do public service
in a non-political manner and for
that reason has accepted the presi
dency of Columbia University. But
he has not eliminated a chance at
the Presidency of the United
States next year.
Some GOP leaders are a little
worried about the general and
think if he should make up his
mind definitely, quit playing coy
and pick up some solid backing,
he could walk away with the nom
► ination.
These GOP chieftains fear that
nothing Taft, Dewey or Stassen
could do would stop the stampede
if Ike would get started early
enough and grin just once at the
GOP delegates in Philadelphia
next June.
Every time an army man talks
about refusing to run for the Pres
idency observers haul out the old
saw about Gen. William Tecumseh
Cheerleader (
Paralyzes Self
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SILVER SPRINGS, Md. (/P)—A
16-year-old girl leaped into the
air to lead cheering schoolmates
—and par^Pyzed both legs.
Dr. G. B. Queen said today the
girl, Hope Henderson, injured her
spine when she arched her back
in the leap while practicing cheer
leading stunts yesterday at Mont
gomery Blair high school.
After the jump, she walked 1100
yards, then fell to the ground.
Dr. Queen said there is a ‘ good
chance” that Hope vCdll recover.
Sherman and his famous telegram
in which he told friends at the
Chicago Republican convention in
1884:
“I will not accept if nominateu,
and will not serve if elected.”
Sherman’s brother John,, an
Ohio Senator, and a favorite of
the general, was an active candi
date for the Presidential nomina
tion, with a flock of delegates in
hand and all the trimmings.
I Opponents of John Sherman
; tossed the general’s name into the
cenvention to confuse matters. But
! the general came back with that
telegram.
In 1884, taking note of the his
toric penchant of the Republicans
for nominating military men tor
the Presidency or vice presidency,
| Sherman observed:
‘‘Any Senator can step from his
! chair at the Capitol into the White
House and fulfill the office of
President with more skill and suc
cess than a Grant, Sherman or
Sheridan, who were soldiers by
education and nature, who filled
well their office when the country
was in danger, but were not
schooled in the practice by which
civil communities are and should
be governed.”
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Deer Becomes Pal
Of Naturalist
DOYLESTOWN, Pu. (^—Nat
uralist George MacReynolds took
a stroll to view the wonders of na
ture and had the thrill of his 88
year lifetime.
A spike-buck deer popped up
bqside him and stepped up boldly
to nibble at a piece of candy m
his outstretched hand.
Deer and naturalist walked lei-,
surely back toward town as mo-1
torists stopped to watch in amaze
ment. MacReynolds had to hide in
the bushes to lose his friend.
Twins Have Same
Operations
SEATTLE ,(/P) — Those Yocum
twins have done it together again.
The 15-year-old girls, Jimmie
and Jackie <that’s fight), had
stitches and aches in the some
places as they recuperated in twin
beds of a Seattle hospital. It was
not enough that they should go
through measles, mumps, chicken
pox and whooping cough together.
Jimmie got a pain in her abdomen
a week ago. Three days later
Jackie complained: “Me too.” Both
had their appendixes removed two
days ago.
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Department Of Justice
Issues Uniform Crime
Reports Bulletin
The Department of Justice an
nounced today that the Federal
Bureau of Investigation has re
leased the Uniform Crime Reports
bulletin covering the first six
months of 1947.
Director J. Edgar Hoover of the
FBI stated that the crime figures
set forth in the bulletin show a 7.5
per cent increase in crime in rural
areas throughout the nation. At
the same time, however, there was
I a 2.3 per cent decline in crime in
the cities during the first six
months of this year as compared
to the first half of 1946. Director
Hoover noted that even though
there was a slight decline in urban
areas the figures were still over
12 per cent higher than those in
the first six months in 1941, a pre
war year.
In the various classifications of
crime it was noted that burglary
for the first six months of 1947
increased 17.1 per cent in the rur
al^areas and 2.1 per cent in the ur
ban areas compared with the first
six months of 1946. Larceny and
rape in rural areas both increased
approximately 13 per cent while
larceny in urban areas increased
1.1 per cent and rape 3.5 per cent.
Aggravated assaults increased on
an average of 2 per cent in both
rural and urban communities.
Robbery varied only slightly with
a 1.5 per cent increase in the ur
ban areas and a less than 1 per
cent in rural areas. The cririle of
negligent manslaughter and mur
der showed a decrease in both ru
ral and urban areas with a 6.6 per
cent drop in rural areas and a 10.8
per cent drop in urban areas. Mur- j
der showed a decline, the decrease
being 7.4 per cent in rural com
munities and 6.4 per cent in urban
communities. Auto theft continued
to decline, showing a 19 per cent
decrease over the first six months
of 1946 in rural areas and 22.3 per
cent decrease in urban areas. This
issue of the Uniform Crime Re
ports bulletin also notes that dur
ing the year 1946 there was a 39
per cent increase in the number of
police killed in line of duty as
compared to 1945, there being 59
in 1945 and 82 in 1946.
Capitol Club Gets 1
Split On License
Fees For Clubs
SPOKANE. (/P)—A state Senate
committee dug deeper today in its
probe of private liquor and slot
machine clubs after hearing a wit
i
ness testify yesterday that a $5,000
fee for licensing a Spokane club
would include a $2,000 donation to
the Capitol Club of Olympia.
The witness, Horton Herman,
attorney for the Wandemere Golf
and Country club, said that after
an early application for a license
was turned down because of in
sufficient “community necessity,”
he was told it would be “necessary
to go through Edward J. Reilly.
Levy Johnson of Olympia or a
man by the name of Heil in Seat
tle.”
Reilly, a Spokane attorney, and
Johnson both are former Demo
cratic state Representatives. John
son is a former member of the
prosecuting attorney’s office in
Thurston County.
Herman said when he later saw
Johnson he was told that it would
probably take $5,000 to get a li
cense.
“He said I’d get $1,500 and he'd
1 get $1,500 and $2,000 would go to
the Capitol Club,” Herman testi
I fied.
| “I asked him what the Capitol
' Club was and how it operated. He
| said ‘Of course you know it costs
money for the Governor to be in
Washington <D. C.) He’s only al
lowed $6 a day when he’s out of
the State. Now he’s in Washington
trying to do something for the
people of this state. He’s planning
a governor’s conference on Vash
on Island and that costs money’.”
Herman said Wandermere "did
not have that kind of money” and
Olive Borden
Dies In Poverty
LOS ANGELES, iJP> — Olive
Borden, who rode high in the
movie-land firmament as a $1,500
a-week star 20 years ago, died in
poverty Wednesday.
At 40 she had lost the fickle fa
vor of the movie-going public and
the studios, her health and wealth
were gone, but she 'was not en
tirely forgotten—her mother was
at her deathbed.
Death came in the Sunshine
Mission for Women in the heart
of Los Angeles’ downtown skid
row. Her mother, Mrs. Sybil Bor
den, is manager of the mission’s
commissary. Olive, who had lived
and worked there since 1945. suc
cumbed to heart and lung ail
ments.
Only the day before “Ollie”
brushed back her dark hair and
told an interviewer: “The whole
world has fallen in on me. But the
doctors will make me well.”
that later when he went to Olym
pia and talked to a member of the
liquor control board, it was sug
gested that he resubmit the appli
cation. It was granted, he said,
without any such payment.
(Capitol club finances were the
subject of a Republican-directed
probe during the legislative ses
sion when GOP members charged
that state employees were under
pressure to subscribe to the ciun
funds and that they were used for
political purposes.*
(Both charges, were denied by
Jack Ballew, director of the fin
ance, budget and business depart
ment and an officer in the club,
who cited use of funds for special
expenses incumbent upon the gov
ernor and his office for which no
state funds are available.*
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