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t " , - I alter 01 the cli. Jour. Ser 'iug The State University of Iowa and the People of lewa City Established in 1868 - Five Cents a Copy renloee of Associated Pre AP Lea5ed Wire aod Photo SerVICf" [owa City, Iowa, Wednesday, August 22. 1151 I I IGOP Votes Tax Cut.s, · Moderate Rights 'Plank Order of th'e Day - Nomination Rig,hls Fight SA FRA1'cClSCO I.fI-Vice·Pres· ident Richard M. Nixon Tuesday nighl urged GOP delegates to let Dies; (aim his cbIef anlagonist. Harold Stas· sen, appear berore the Republican National Convention today. I Sen. William E. Jenner of In· unlil Today diana said, however, he will ob- ject. SAN FRANCISCO (II - Republl· "He will not get lhe chance to cans Tuesday nlllht adopted a plat· talk," Jenner told newsmen, form pledged to cut laxes and lOY· Nixon's sta.eralcnt came a rew ernmnl spending, balance the hour after SI s en, leading a la t· budget and malotaln an "atmoe· pherc" that would .encour.,e ec0n gasp fight to nominate Gov. Chrl . omic growth. tian J-I rter of Ma sacbusctts for ice,pre ide nt, a~ked perml sion a Unlike the Democrats last week, :I nondclcgale to appear before the Republican managed to side· UII' (on\' nUon . step a last·mlnute fillht over a civil rights plank. Sla n wanls ttl address the convention ju t beCore nomination I Sen. Everett Dirksen (R·DI.) arc oCCer d for the Viee·pre Id ncy. .aid Tuesday "the real rock of controversy" in draCting the riPts "I per onaily urge no objections plank was the question oC Imple· , (1)1U1 1o",'" Ph(110 b)' La" " oa ) I lfI Sta sen 8ppcarmg," the vice· menting the Supreme Court's , A SPEEDING ROCK ISLAND Rocket pa ..enier treln wu derelled presIdent said. "J-I hould be al· school desegre,ation decision, n.er Durent early Tue,day momlnt end struck by .nother tr.in lMacl· lowl.'d to appear before the conven· int In tIM opposite dir.ction. The locomoti ... e tying 00 It. ,Ide we .. tlon." A moderate plank went throlllh without an)' public comment. al· 'WO° Trains Crash; pulling the mall train whlc:h was not tra ... eli". II 'lit e. the Rocket. Sta. en hod pen' the day plead· I thou,h members oC the Vlrgloia in, with convention delegates not delegation, who had been waviog lo make up thelr minds to support lhe Confederate nag all aCternoen, Nixon unlll EI nbower arrived came up with a couple 01 dissent· Passengers Safe and had a chane to look the situa· ers who (cit the plank was too tion over personally. strong, Whal role Eisenhower would DURANT, Iowa iA'I ..:. A speeding Rock Island Rocket passenger train The Democrats had trouble (linn was derailed here early Tuesday, then was hit by another train heading the other side oC the Mason-Dixon In the opposite direction. line. Some Northerners complain· Convention Schedule lAP Wlr.p •• I.) Almost miraculously, there were no deaths or serious injuries among A CUB SCOUT I,d tho pl,dge of .1I"ience Tuosdey et the openl". of ed the Democratic platform was the estimated 380 passengers and SAN FRANC1SCO (II - The the d,y's lOulon of the R.publlcan Netlonel Con .... ntlon in S.n Fren too mlld on clvll rights, but ~ cre,+, members aboard the two , program ror loday's session of cilCO, John aenton a,/lemy, III. " San Anslemo, C.,If" was h'lpeci Democratic platform also was trains. Many were bruised and the Republican National Conven by Sen. WIIII.m Knowl.ncl, Cellfornl •. You", John Is the ,roet ,rend. adopted as written. ~ shaken up but none required hos tlon: IOn of Francis Bellamy, euthor of tho pled .. of ellegllnee. In the lax plank, the platform pitalization, Opens 4:30 p.m., (CSTI with said tax reducttol\S would be great· J. S. Orlomo ki, Davenport. divi mu ie, parade of Young Repub· cst {or Iow·and mlddle·income Cami· sion superintendent of the Rock Is lieans, cali to order, pre nla· lies and small Independent bllll· land Railroad. said he bclieved lhe tion of colors, Pledge of Alle· nesses. aianc , National Anth m and In· derailment may have been caused The Repu~ ~ net ,pedl. \ocation. Iowa Delegates Get by a locked traction motor on the Election oC naUonal committee. Ie as to the amounts they would dicst!l unit of the streamliner. This lower taxes. The Democrats pr0- motor converts power from the die· Addre - Thomas E. Dewey posed an increase oC $200 In the sci tQ the wheels. of New York . present S600 personal exempUon The Rocket, speeding at 68 miles RoU cali oC stotcs to nominate under Income taxes - estimated to an hour according to engineer for president and vice· president Spotlight 2 Times save lower Income taxpayers about to ballot. Frank HugHes, was en route from (Dlllr Iowan Pboto by 11111 ellt") SAN FRANCISCO IA'I - Iowa's delegation to this placid Republican $40 a year. Denver to Chicago. A CLOSE.UP VIEW of the two wrec:lcod t,.elo, "'OWl the jeSlged end Appointment of committees to notiCy nomln cs Cor president and convention Mlrr d things up ome Tu day with two move. The Republicans took issue witb The derailment hurled the center of one of tho cers On ,1M Rocket. , section of twisted nil. torn up till vlce·president. First, a wide open public poll oC 26 delegates and the same number Democratic charges that the na· portion of the 16·car train into a .nd en uplifted car of the mail treln. oC alternates showed them unanimously (or renomination or Viee·Presl· tlon's relative military strellltb ditch south oC the tracks. --- -...:.----.----------------:---- play, I( any. was highly uncertain dent Nixon, has been allowed to decline in au All but the last four coaches of in advance of his arrival. Second, the Iowa delegates agreed to touch off a convention noor errort to balance the budget. the Rocket leCt the rails, bul all In any event, the GOP was bank· d monstraUon Cor one of Iowa 's il· "We have the strongest striIclnl stayed upright. 17 Nations Back U.Se ing on the President to inject zip lustrlous sons, Carmer President force In the world," the plank Ike Greeted Herbert Hoover. stated. , The dining car, however, swiv· and zest lnlo a convention that ha eled sideways, across the tracks been plodding colorlessly along in Delegates so far have had little The Corelgn policy plank endorsed on which a local mail and express spite of all the pre·arranged errorts chance to kick up their hcels on collective security as the basis of '. Suez Plan; 4 Oppose At A,·rport tile noor, with Ule convenlion bent U.S. foreign polley. train was approaching. to put on a stirring show for the I R . .J. Mill, Moline, iiI., engineer LONDON IA'I - Seventeen nations lined up Tuesday for a U.S. lor· benefit of the listening and looking on renomination oC the Eisenhow· It opposes scating Red Chlo. In oC the mail train, said he was trav. mula to have international control over the Suez Canal. But Lhe Soviet public. SAN FRANCISCO IA'I - President er·Nixon ticket without a contest. the UN as dId tho Democ:r.tlc cling about 45 miles an hour when Union threw its weight behind an Indian plan to keep the canal control Delegates gave 8 hand to Mar· Eisenhower landed at San Francis· So Sen. Thomas E. Martin and plank. he saw the block signal ahead flash in Egypt's hands, Lin - taking over the gavel for the co International Airport at 7:53 Gov. Leo Hoegh suggested the The RepubUcans urged Impartial red. He said he immediately ap· The score was : 17 naUons, including the United Stales, for the filth lime as chairman oC a Repub· (CSTl Tuesday ni,ht. Iowa delegalion lead off a parade (rlendshlp for Israel and her Arab plied full emergency brakes. -------~---- American plan; 4 for the lndian lican convention - and his predlc· Waiting at the airport to greet Cor Hoover. neighbors but promises support 'to plan; L uncommlUed. lion lhe Republicans can and will the President were Vice·President The solid lineup for Nixon came maintain an iDdependent Israel. "All I saw was a bunch of steam il E I' march on to victory in November. Richard M. Nixon and other high and. clouds of dust on the track at the delegation's first formal cau· The Democrats promlse to sell do I Xp oSlon Soviet Foreign Mini ter Dmitri The convention marked time ofCiclals oC the convention and the and I continued to hold the train in O Shepilov told the 22·nation canCer· cus after Hoegh invited the dele· fense weapons to tsraeJ. most of the day. with just one ses· GOP Administration. gates to propose "any candidate (ull emergency braking," Mill said. ence the U.S. plan is designed "to sian (or the speeches and adoption The platform wont on to enlMne remove the canal from lhe sover· Among the latter was Harold E. you have for president and vice· steps taken by the Federal Reserve "Just before t.he crash I observed oC the platform. Sta sen, Mr . Eisenhower's special president." The governor is chair· Uw emergency red light on the eignty, ownership and operation of Board to tlihten money suppllel to Late Tuesday During the pause, lhe platform assistant for disarmament who man oC the delegation. (rant of the stalled Rocket and . Egypt, master of the canal." • restrain InDation.