Philadelphia, July 15 (Thursday) – President Harry S. Truman was nominated on his own right early this morning for a full term as President. Senator Alben W. Barkley, 70-year-old orator from Kentucky, was selected soon thereafter as the vice presidential nominee.

Both won nomination on the first ballot.

North Carolina, a southern state, put Truman over when it cast thirteen of its thirty-two votes for the Missourian.

Besides Truman, Senator Richard R. Russell of Georgia, to whom the states’ rights delegates flocked in protest against the Missourian’s stand on civil rights, and Paul V. McNutt, former governor of Indiana, were placed in nomination. Georgia nominated Russell and Byrd Sims of Florida named McNutt.

The official count: President Truman, 947 ½. Senator Richard Russell of Georgia, 263/ Paul V. McNutt of Indiana, ½ Not voting, 23

On the first count Truman received 926 votes to Senator Russell’s 267. Immediately after the tally, James Roe, Brooklyn leader, released the fifteen votes he had received to give the President the full ninety-eight votes from the big Empire state. The one McNutt follower in Florida withdrew his support of the Hoosier leader to giver the entire state’s vote to Russell. But Vermont cast a half vote for McNutt.

After the switch-abouts Rayburn declared Truman nominated by a vote of 947 ½ to 263 for Russell.

Eight southern states stuck to the bitter end against the President’s nomination – Texas, South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, Tennessee and Virginia.

The entire Mississippi delegation was gone by the time of the vote. While a majority of the Alabama delegates joined their neighbors from “Ole Miss” in their walk, enough stayed on to cast thirteen votes for Senator Russell.

Truman had arrived a few hours earlier to deliver his acceptance speech.

The President came out fighting in his acceptance speech and announced to the surprise of the convention that he was calling Congress into special session July 26.

He tore into the Republicans with the announcement that he would ask Congress to pass many laws in line with the pledges made in the G.O.P. platform written here two weeks ago.

While the leaders seemed shocked, the delegates welcomed it with a great outburst of applause and cheers which drowned out the President to such an extent that he had to repeat most of the statement on Congress.

The President said he would ask the special session for legislation to curb rising prices, and to provide low-cost housing.

He listed many other items which he said Republicans favored in their platform, including aid to education, a national health program, civil rights, a boost in the minimum wage law, extension of social security coverage and increase in benefits and public power water development. The President said the Congress could accomplish all these things in fifteen days if it wanted to.

“Republicans will try to dodge their responsibility, you can be sure of that,” Truman declared. “They will drag all the red herrings they can across the campaign, but Senator Barkley and myself are not going to let them get away with it.”

His startling announcement caught his own party leaders flat-footed. They had expected a fiery campaign talk but nothing so stunning as a call for a special session of Congress with all its dangerous political implications.

Barkley was nominated by acclamation, a great tribute to his popularity in view of the intense feeling between the north and south wings of the Democratic party. The big push that made quick work of Barkley’s nomination came when James A. Farley, the guiding hand behind F.D.R.’s first two elections, rushed to the platform to place his O.K. on the veteran Kentucky statesman as Truman’s running mate.

The Kentuckian’s nomination came after the name of Senator Richard Russell of Georgia had been withdrawn.

Senator Lister Hill of Alabama withdrew the nomination after Sam Rayburn, convention chairman, announced receipt of a note from Russell by a member of the Georgia delegation requesting that his name not be presented.

Rayburn put a motion applying the two-thirds majority to suspend the rules and declare Barkley nominated by acclamation. The motion was made by Gov. Early Clements of Kentucky.

The action was by voice vote.

President Truman showed his readiness for the bitter political fight ahead when he appeared before the convention early this morning.

His ready smile, and confident attitude immediately won him the almost unanimous applause of the crowded convention hall.

Mr. Truman’s mettle in facing in person what could well have been a hostile reception because of the rebellion in the ranks of the Southerners is in keeping with his stubbornness, often liked by the President himself to that of a Missouri mule.

The President appeared with Senator Barkley. The President was accompanied by Mrs. Truman and daughter, Margaret. Robert E. Hannegan of St. Louis, former chairman of the Democratic national committee, escorted the President to the speaker’s rostrum. A step behind came James A. Farley, adding his personal approval of the Truman-Barkley ticket.

President Truman, accepting the nomination, said, “Senator Barkley and I will win this election and make these Republicans like it.”

Mr. Truman spoke after Barkley had accepted the vice-presidential nomination.

“I can’t tell you how very much I appreciate the honor you have just conferred upon me,” the President said. “I shall continue to try to deserve it. I accept the nomination. And I want to thank this convention for the unanimous nomination of my good friend Senator Barkley. He’s a great man; he’s a great public servant.

“Now it is time for us to get together and beat the common enemy. We will be working together for victory in the common cause.

“We have been elected four times in succession and I’m convinced we’ll be elected again in November. It’s a people’s party and I’m convinced it always will be.

“They’re wrong and we’re right, and I’ll prove it to you in just a few minutes.”

Mr. Truman said the Democratic party’s record had been written in the last sixteen years; that he would not repeat it. He went on:

“It is the business of the Democratic party to see that the people get a fair share of things. This last Congress proved the Republican party’s is just the opposite.

“Confidence and security have been brought to the American people by the Democratic party.

“Never in the world were the farmers of this country as prosperous as now and if they don’t do their duty by the Democratic party they are the most ungrateful people in the world.”

The President said wages and salaries in this country have increased. He continued:

“That’s labor, and labor never had but one friend in this country and that is the Democratic party and Franklin D. Roosevelt.

“I say the same thing I said to the farmers, if they don’t vote Democratic they’re the most ungrateful of any people in the world.

“The record on the foreign policy of the Democratic party is that the United States has been turned away permanently from isolationism. It is the duty of the United States to assume leadership in world affairs.

“We removed trade barriers in the world, which is the best aid you can have for peace. We have given aid to China and the Far East and aid to Greece and Turkey and I’ll say to you now that this was done on a bipartisan basis.

“Partisanship should stop at the water’s edge, and foreign relations should be the business of the entire country.”

“We must see that the United Nations continues strong so that we can have everlasting peace.”

Mr. Truman turned then to ticking off some of the things he asked the Republican Congress for and failed to get.

He said:

“I asked for price extension. But OPA died, and they said prices would adjust themselves. They adjusted themselves all right. They adjusted themselves so that they went clear off the chart.

“And I shall continue to preach that all through this campaign.”

Turning to what he called history, Mr. Truman said the “situation in 1932” was attributable to the Republicans.

He said that was because the Republican party is “the party of the privileged few.”

Back when he was in the Senate, Mr. Truman said, the Senate passed a housing bill designed, among other things, to help clear slums in the cities and build low-cost housing.

Virtually the same bill passed the Senate again in the last Congress, he went on, but it died in the House.

The housing bill passed (by Congress) isn’t worth he paper it’s written on,” the President said.

Speaking of labor, he said, Congress passed the so-called Taft-Hartley bill, which will cause strife in labor for years to come.

“Its repeal is pledged in the Democratic platform and it ought to be repealed,” Mr. Truman said.

He went on to accuse the Republicans of cutting funds for the Labor department “until it can hardly function.” Mr. Truman added:

“I suggested that the schools of this country are crowded, teachers underpaid; we need more and better schools. I asked for 300 million dollars for schools, and once again Congress did nothing about it.”

He then called for the special session.

Barkley said he had been attending national conventions as a delegate at large from the state of Kentucky many years.

“This has been one of the greatest conventions I have ever attended in all my life,” he asserted. “If anyone had told me when I left my home for Philadelphia a few days ago that I would be the vice-presidential candidate I would have denounced that person.

“I did not come as a candidate, but I wish the delegates of the convention to know I appreciate the honor which you have conferred upon me….It is with great pride that I accept the nomination for vice-president of the United States of America.”

The band swung into “My Old Kentucky Home,” but, except for waving of banners there was no demonstration. Chairman Sam Rayburn had asked that the delegates forego one since the hour was late.

Truman was in his best form in the preliminaries to his speech of acceptance. The release of forty-eight white pigeons just prior to the introduction of Barkley delayed the proceedings while Chairman Rayburn had to shoo the scared birds form the speakers dais.

While efforts were being made to quiet the crowd, Truman, dressed in a white double-breasted suit, white shirt and blue tie, waved to newspapermen in the press section immediately below the raised rostrum. The President looked exceptionally fit.

The all out demonstration that followed Gov. Phil M. Donnelly’s nomination speech for President Truman belied the earlier criticism of delegates and party leaders that the party has no chance in the election this fall with the Missourian at the head of the ticket.

The noise, enthusiasm and apparent enjoyment of the perspiring marchers equalled any show ever put on for Roosevelt and easily surpassed the reception the nomination of Tom Dewey received from Republicans in the same hall just two weeks ago.

Anyone uninitiated in American politics, dropping in her tonight as a nonpartisan sightseer undoubtedly would have assumed Mr. Truman was riding an unprecedented popularity wave.

The Truman-Barkley nominations came after the state’s rights advocates from Dixie produced a big inning of discontent over a civil rights platform plank urging racial equality. A majority of the Alabama delegation walked out on the convention, keeping a pledge made at the time of the selection of delegates in the spring that it would take such action if the convention approved Mr. Truman’s policies on Negroes. All the Mississippi delegation walked, too.

The rebuff by the Southerners was climaxed when Alabama gave way to Georgia to place the name of Senator Richard Russell in nomination for President. This move was the Southerners way of showing their unyielding disapproval of the No. 1 candidate’s views.

The team of Truman and Barkley will go before the voters with the odds heavily against their victory. Not in the memory of anyone present tonight has either major political party been torn with so many schisms in its ranks and open hostility among its members.

The party of Jefferson, Jackson, Wilson and Roosevelt appears to be threatened with disintegration, with former stalwarts of the new deal days of F.D.R. joining old-time political observers in forecasting election of Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York this fall, and voicing the probability of many additional years of G.O.P. rule before a new leader emerges to give new birth and life to the Democrats.

In nominating Russell as champion of the South’s inherent belief in states’ rights, Charles J. Bloch of Macon, made an impassioned plea for the South’s way of handling its own affairs without interference from federal government, and served notice the Democratic party would suffer because of its stand on the Negro question.

“You shall not crucify the South on the cross of civil rights,” Bloch declared.

The Georgia orator heatedly hinted there would be a lot of votes cast in opposition to the Truman-Barkley ticket down in Dixie this fall.

“You Democrats might as well know now that without the vote of the South you can’t elect a president of the U.S.,” he declared.

Bloch said that if it had not been for the South Henry Wallace would have been sitting in the White House today.

In 1944, the South, joining several of the big city bosses, forced President Roosevelt to ditch Wallace and accept Senator Harry Truman of Missouri. At that time Truman, the Missourian with his southern ancestry, was looked upon as safe and conservative from the point of view of the Southerners.

After Russell’s nomination the band struck up “Dixie” and the folks from the South went wild. Dozens of Confederate flags were whipped out quickly from under the seats of the Dixie delegates. There was bedlam in the jam-packed convention hall and everyone enjoyed the spark in the convention proceedings, which until tonight have been the dullest in recent political history.

Sam Rayburn of Texas, former Democratic speaker of the House, and permanent chairman of the convention, made no effort to cut short the anti-Truman demonstration. In fact, Rayburn suggested the band play “Dixie” again as the enthusiasm of the Southerners appeared to die down. The playing of “Dixie” was punctuated by an occasional rebel yell and the firing of cap pistols.

Secret service agents arrived shortly before 10 o’clock and promptly ordered all outside doors closed, shutting out cool air that followed a thunder shower earlier in the evening. Bigwigs occupying the choice seats and fashionably dressed women suffered under the intense heat.