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Page 38 MEMPHIS PRESS-SCIMITAR, THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1960 Henry Cabot Lodge, Fighter Quick to the Battle in War Il, Quick in UN To Unsheath His Keen Harvard Accent Always Tough Foe, He Has Had Experience In Army, Senate and at Council Tables By WILLIAM UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. Henry Cabot Lodge, who will be Republican nominee for vice president, follows the line of dealing firmly with the Russians. either in negotiation or in debate. He has shown that in years the U. S.

permanent representative to the United Nations. He is best known to millions of Americans as the man they see on television, retorting Misorously, to the table of Russians the unf Security Council. He shows up well there. He is a broad-shouldered, 58-yearold six-footer with a big, handsome face, a deep suntan, bushy gray hair and an emphatic manner. Uses Tough He can match Soviet spokesmen word for word in cold war talks.

He comes back at them with terms like "fabrication." "piratical," "brutal." Sometimes he throws, in lively colloquialisms "hornswoggle" and "cock-and-bull story." But he delivers his blunt speeches in an accent cultivated at Middlesex and Harvard. When a New York newspaper published something the other day about the Harvard accent of Sen. John F. Kennedy, Democratic. nominee president, reader wrote in to scoff.

He said, "If you want to hear real Harvard accent, listen Henry Cabot Lodge." The Cabot Lodge who now speaks to Russians comes of two old Massachusetts families a famous verse says, "Lodges speak only to Cabots and Cabots speak only to God." Gandson of Isolationist He is grandson and namesake of the Henry Cabot Lodge who led the Senate fight to keep the United States out of the League of Nations. He was born July 5, 1902, in Nahant, Mass. He married Emily Sears of Beverly, July 1, 1926. They have two sons, George Cabot Lodge, assistant secretary of labor in charge of public information, and Henry Sears Lodge, employe of an engineering firm near Boston. They have seven grandchildren.

Lodge got his bachelor of arts degree from Harvard in 1924. Then for eight years he was re- Beloved Social, Civic Leader Mrs. Craig Known For Friendliness Mrs. Richard Gaines Craig, whose beauty, charm and friendliness made her one of the most beloved and popular members Memphis social and civic groups in which she was long active, died this morning at Methodist Hospital. Mrs.

Craig, the former Mattie Foreman, was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Mendel Foreman of Texarkana, Ark. She was educated at Belmont College in Nashville and Belcourt Seminary in Washington, D. C.

A resident of Memphis since 1912, she took a keen interest in the numerous social, cultural and welfare organizations with which she was affiliated until her illness in 1951. She was a member of the old Linden Avenue Christian Church which later became Lindenwood Christian Church and was a former member of the Josephine Circle, In His Name Circle of King's Daughters, the Fortnightly Book Club and Memphis Country Club. She was known as a most gracious hostess and her home at 1616 Eastmoreland had been the scene of some of Memphis' most delightful parties. Her husband is the widely known manager of the Exchange Building and she also leaves her daughter, Mrs. William Russe Gause: her grandson, William Russe Gause and her granddaughter, Nancy Craig Gause, all of Memphis.

Services at 3:30 p.m. tomorTOW at Cosmopolitan Home, Rev. Raymond Kays of- ficiating. Burial in Elmwood. The family requests any memorials be sent to a favorite charity.

N. OATIS. Associated Press porter, foreign correspondent or editorial writer on the Boston Evening Transcript and the New York Herald Tribune. He started his political career in 1932. He served two straight two-year terms in the chusetts legislature.

Then, in 1936, he was elected to the U. S. Senate. He served there 13 years. He was re-elected in 1942 but quit after Ta year for war duty.

He was elected to a third six-year, term in 1946. He beat two big Democratic organizations. Named by Truman For part of his Senate service, he was on the Foreign Relations Committee. In 1950, he served on the U. S.

delegation to the UN General Assembly by appointment from President Truman. The following year, he became manager of the campaign to get the 1952 Republican presidential nomination for Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. He was credited with persuading Eisenhower to enter the race.

Eisenhower was nominated and elected. But Lodge lost his senate seat to John F. Kennedy, now the Democratic presidential nominee. So in January, 1953, Eisenhower appointed Lodge U. S.

permanent representative to the UN. He also put him in the cabinet. Sails, Fishes He draws $27,000 a year salary and the use of a 42nd-floor in the Waldorf-Astoria Towers. He and his wife spend much of their at their house in Beverly, on the coast north of Boston. He sails and fishes there with his sons.

He is a firm believer in the UN. Changed by Army Service in World War II convinced Lodge that his former isolationist stand had been It was in the Army, he said, that he got a "worm's eye view" of world affairs. Lodge had opposed relaxing the Neutrality Act and was against giving aid to Britain. While he favored the peacetime draft in 1940, he voted to limit the service of draftees to the MRS. RICHARD G.

CRAIG DEATHS Granville Williams Granville Williams, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. G. S. Williams of Lucy and a former resident Lucy, died yesterday in Nashville.

Mr. Williams had been an invalid since early childhood. was 34. He leaves four brothers, T. H.

and Ed Williams of Memphis, W. F. Williams of Raleigh and James Williams of Lucy, and two sisters. Mrs. Irene Owen of Memphis and Mary Whitlock of Lucy.

Services at 2 p.m. tomorrow at Big Creek Baptist Church near Lucy. Burial in Big Creek Cemetery. National Funeral Home in charge. Patrick Stevens Services for Patrick E.

Stevens, of Starkville, formerly of Memphis, who died yesterday at Kennedy Veterans Hospital, will be at 1 p.m. tomorrow at National Funeral Home. Burial in National CemeItery. He was 63. Law Moves Franchina Before Baptism By PAUL.

VANDERWOOD, The law has moved faster Tony Franchina case. The law--Louisiana state Louis A. Franchina 29, he is charged with the wife. The preachers (with the help of federal officers) tried to 10- cate a man-sized tub yesterday in which Franchina could be baptized by immersion. But Louisiana police took Franchina into custody soon after he waived extradition before Judge W.

Preston Battle, and there wasn't time for baptism. Franchina said he was innocent of slaying his pretty wife Carol in their New Orleans home in March 1959. He said he was anxious to clear himself of this charge. and hurry back to Memphis and Bellevue Baptist Church. Raised a Catholic, Franchina had been introduced to Bellevue Baptist while he was hiding out under an assumed name in the Rex Hotel.

His employer, Terrell Daw- Plaque Honors Gov. Ellington O'Rear Accepts For His Boss 0'Rear Greg O'Rear, 44, is known for two reasons as Man in Tennessee law enforcement. O'Rear, who began his career in Lawrenceburg on an old Highway Patrol motorcycle with high pressure tires, towers 6 feet 8 inches and weighs an i pressive 282 pou s. O'Re: is the first fessional peace officer ever named to the 0'Rear Governor's cabinet post of Commissioner of Public Safety. Today he accepted a plaque for Gov.

Buford Ellington from the Tennessee Law Enforcement Officers Association which is meeting at Hotel Claridge. The plaque honors the Governor for choosing a career peace officer in 1959 for the important cabinet assignment. O'Rear recalls, in a voice which contrasts with his big size, a long career around Lawrenceburg, where he was raised. "I joined the Patrol in 1939." he says. "I chased hundreds of bootleggers on that motorcycle.

Some ran me off the road. Chased bank robbers by the dozens' and stood guard at roadblocks for criminals known across America." O'Rear has held every rank FUN SUPER-MARKET Hot Rod Cars Two Trains Mad Mouse Roller Kiddie Rides Coaster Miniature Golf Ponies Horses Riverboat Paddleboats Speed Boats Amphib Boats Golf Driving Range Trampoline Pits Picnic Tables Barbecue Pits Open every night (except Monday) from till 10 P.M. Open Saturday and Sunday from 1 till 10 P.M., weather permitting. Lakeland is 15 minute drive east of city limits out Summer Avenue. Development Corp.

482 No. Hollyweed GL 8-8531 -United Press International Telephoto THE LODGES- -The man who will run for vice president, and his wife. state receives all the state's electoral votes. Instead, a state's electoral votes would be split up in the same ratio that the popular vote was divided Lodge argued that this would "enhance and invigorate" the two major parties. the act that set Hoover He was the Senate, author of Commission shortly after World War II make a study the ways to, non political and promote economy in the federal government.

Lodge proposed that the Treasury finance Presidential campaigns so that there would be no rewards for campaign financial contributions. He contended that contributors often wanted something in return for their money. His Success By Newspaper Enterprise Association "Henry Cabot Lodge has been a success at the United Nations if you figure success as slapping back fast and hard at the Russians every time they step out of their corner. And I guess that is what success at the U. N.

means these That's the comment of one of GIFTS TO THE MILK FUND OF THE PRESS SCIMITAR DEATHS In Memory (Of- Andrew Thurmond Andrew Jackson Thurmond, Mrs. Louis Barnett, a gift from Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Morris. from Morrison.

Mrs. Charles, Embury, a gift Staff Writer Western Hemisphere. But the 6 foot 190 Lodge said that if the United States entered the war, he would go. He had been in the Army Reserve since 1925 and in the summer of 1940 paid his own expenses on a tour of duty at Camp Knox. He was a specialist in tanks.

Combat Man Lodge was then first Senator since the Civil to see battle action. In 1942 he went to the North battlefront. A major Reserve, he took Africans leave of absence from the Senate to gain combat experience. He was with American armored units that participated in a knockdown fight with the Germans, the first battlefield encounter between the two forces. That occurred in the Libyan desert.

The Americans, serving with the British 8th man tanks and came out of Army, knocked out nine Ger-1 scrap almost unscathed. He found life in the Libyan desert a far cry from Boston's exclusive Beacon Hill Lodge was under fire a dozen times. Subsequently Lodge went with a group of Senators on a tour battle fronts in both theaters of operation. In 1944 he resigned from the Senate to return to active Army duty. He explained that he felt he could best serve.

his as combat dier overseas." His resignation followed a ruling by President Franklin D. Roosevelt that members of Congress could not serve simultaneously in the armed forces and in Congress. "He served in France and Germany and rose to a lieutenant colonel. Late in 1944, Lodge captured four German prisoners. Lodge returned home with five battle stars and four decorations.

Senate Action Among proposals he sponsored in the Senate was one for a constitutional amendment to abolish the electoral college and establish a new way of electing the President. His plan would scrap the socalled unit rule, under which a presidential candidate who gets the most popular votes in a Mrs. Vivian Ford, New Orleans, a gift from Nanice Brewer and Irma Curran. Mrs. Raymond Getske, a gift from John S.

Smuda. B. F. Gholston, on anniversary death, a gift from his children, Mrs. Maxine Avent and Sonny Gholston.

Walter H. Hill a birthday. memorial gift from Mrs. Hazel Bailey. Mrs.

Joseph C. Musso, gift from W. F. Thomas family, Lake Cormorant, Miss. Mrs.

Joseph C. Musso, a gift from Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey A. Gray, 0.

E. Pirtle, a gift from Miss Miriam Weiss. George 0. Stanford, A gift from Mrs. Thomas F.

Hudson, Luxora, Ark. Frank Wigal Services for Frank E. Wigal, foreman for Memphis Public Works Department who died yesterday at St. Joseph Hospital, will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at National Funeral Home, Rev.

Howell Taylor officiating. Burial in Forest Hill. Wigal lived at 3901 Guernsey. He was 55. Mrs.

Janie Ham Services for Mrs. Janie Turnor Ham, wife of Dr. E. C. Ham, will be tomorrow at National Funeral Home, Rev.

Eric Greenwood and Dr. R. Paul Caudill officiating. Burial in Forest Hill. Mrs.

Ham died yesterday at her home, 46 Bellair Drive. She was 84. Andrew retired automobile dealer West Helena, father Mrs. Harold Sartin and Jeannette Thurmond of Memphis, died early today at home in West Helena after long illness. He was 85.

Mr. Thurmond also leaves wife, Mrs. Mary Brandon mond; another daughter, Allan Keesee of Helena, and son, A. J. Thurmond Jr.

of Worth, Texas, and three grandchildren. He was a member of Helena Baptist Church. Citizens Funeral Home of ena in charge. Mid-South Deaths NEW ALBANY. Miss.

Mrs. Julia Dee Sanford Daniel, 89. died yesterday at her home in Keownville community. BLYTHEVILLE. Ark.

Rev. Malcolm Roosevelt Griffin. 50. farmer of Dell and a retired Baptist minister. twice mayor of Dell and past president of Dell School Board, died yesterday in a Blythevilla nospital, UNICA, Miss.

Mrs. Annie Bowen Powell, 73. widow of William Horne Powell, mother of Mrs. Cary D. Gholson of Memphis, died yesterday at a Memphis nursing home.

HOUSTON, Miss. -Chester Hollie Harrington. 80. retired Chickasaw County farmer died yesterday at his home in Anchor community. Mrs.

Kate Jolly Thompson, wife of Hal T. Thompson of Houlka died yesterday in a Houston hosSENATOBIA, -Mrs. Julia Wilpital. liams Caffey, 79. widow of Jack Caffey, Grenada County farmer, died at the home of a daughter, Mrs.

Lillian Johnson, in Senatobia. BELMONT. Miss. B. Lindsey, 64, a home visitor for Tishomingo County Welfare Department died yesterday at his home in Dennis.

ITTA BENA. George Marcus Choate, 91. retired railroad foreman, died yesterday at his home. CLEVELAND. Miss.

-Mrs. Allie Vowell Burkes, 69. formerly of Litton community near, Cleveland, died in Cleveland where she had lived the past year. WATER VALLEY, Ruby Megs Carter, 60. wife of Fred L.

Carter. died yesterday at her home. WYNNE. Mattie Ann Tims, 78, died last night at Memphis Baptist BOONEVILLE. Maudie 63.

wife of L. D. Alexander, died in a Booneville hospital. Miss. -Mrs.

Minnie E. Williams. 82, widow of Noah Williams, at Holly Ridge. died in An Indianola hospital. COLUMBUS.

Hudson, 55, formerly of Columbus, engaged in the furniture business in Houston, Texas the past several years, died in Galveston. Texas. LEXA. J. W.

Guynee. 83, died yesterday at the home of her daughter. Mrs. T. G.

White. Tenn. -Ruby Lee Norden, 30 employe of Henry 1. Siegel wife of Buford Norden. died in a Jackson hospital.

HENDERSON. Jannie Sellers Stout. 55. wife of Jim Stout. farmer of Maple Grove community, died in a Jackson hospital.

JACKSON. Mrs. Ella Lee Goodrich. 91. longtime Madison County resident.

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Till 6 RIDES P.M. 5c Open Daily Except Monday He Went Looking For His Attackers Ozell Persons, 18, negro of 619 Edith, pleaded not guilty in City Court to charges of assault to murder and carrying a pistol. He was held to the state on both counts. Homicide Detective Tom Marshall said Persons was the victim of a strong arm robbery Monday in front of Booker T. Washington High School.

Marshall said Persons borrowed a .32 caliber pistol and returned to the school Tuesday to seek his attackers. He said Persons spotted a group of young negroes walking toward the school from the north about 11:30 a.m. Marshall said Persons pulled the revolver from his pocket, aimed it at the group, but that the pistol misfired and the group in the Patrol, rising from private to commander of all troops in Tennessee. On special assignments around the state, the Big Man has earned the cordial respect of all peace officers -both for physical size and professional stature. scattered and ran.

Marshal said Persons then pointed the pistol at Arthur Black, 15, negro of 439-D S. Lauderdale, and fired at him. The bullet missed and struck the fender of parked auto, Marshall said. The Cotton Boll Steak Dinner 135 served with Steaming Baked Potato Green Salad Relish Tray COTTON BOLL 444 E. Parkway N.

SUNSET' WEST PHONE MEMPHIS, RE.5-4260 THEATRE ARK. You've read about her-. Lodge's State Department associates. It's echoed around the Department, Lodge is known as a man with an educated, clean, mean punch, quick on the trigger, a tough counter-slugger who knows all the tricks when no holds are barred in fight with the Russians. He's a tough infighter.

thrives on complicated wrangles. Hits Sore Spots He'll punch and punch away at one point, say, Hungary. Yet State Department men claim that Lodge is a careful strategist, and not a Don Quixote tilting at windmills. Men who work with Lodge in the State Department say he's a lone wolf, that he plays his own game out of his own briefcase. They fret that he tells no one what he is going to do.

"You never know what to expect next from says one diplomat. "I'm not sure anyone gets close to him." The 58-year-old Lodge is tall, trim, personable. He's a careful dresser. The ladies either like him extravagantly or hate him for being "aloof." Department, died at his home. RIPLEY, Tenn.

-Mrs. unie Chalk. 87. widow of John W. Chalk, stepmother of Mrs.

Eula McKinney of Memphis. died at her home in the Glimp community. SCOTTS HILL. Tenn. -John Clinton Austin.

former school teacher, in Henderson 'and Decatur counties. died at the of a daughter, Mrs. Marse McPeak, also survived by his wife. two sisters. including Mrs.

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Government dismissed its charge of unlawful flight to escape prosecution against Franchina as soon as the state authorities had a firm legal grip on the ex-prize fighter. Franchina admits dope pedding, swindling and forging his way across the U. S. and Mexico the past year before coming to Memphis. Federal authorities say a forgery charge is pending against him in the State of Washington.

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