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Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-08-03

How do you cope with the teen
age traffic in Marijuana
The recent narcotics conference
called by Gov. Frank j. Lausche
was a big help, said Cook.
AS a result a narcotics educa-
ton program is being shaped. A
first step was sending out ques-
tionnaires to all Ohio schools.
Principals and teachers were ask
ed by the State Department of
Education to tell what they know
about use of Marijuana and other
narcotics among students.
Replies are coming in. and the
results should be known h S
week.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-08-03
Girl Falls In
Glacier, Freezes

MILAN, ITALY Up = The
newspaper Corroere Lonbardo
told today how Alpine guides
watched helplessly while an Is
year-old girl slowly froze to death
in the crevasse of a glacier where
she fell Sunday.
The girl, Irene Della Cagnolet-
ia. slipped into a narrow cleft in
the Vetina glacier near Sondrio,
north of Milan. She was not ser
iously injured and her cries for
help were heard by the guides.
As the guides struggled to reach
her, icy water seeped around her
and slowly froze.
When one guide finally made
his way down the erevasse to tie
a rope around the girl she already
was dead.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-08-03
Old MAN FLIM-FLAMs HOSPITALS
OF NATION WITH HEART ATTACKS

who identified himself as 1t. John
n. Boyer, 104. a veteran of the
Civil War staged a collapse
in public here July II. The vet
Grams Administration gave him
hospital care.
Files sent from VA headquart-
ers in Washington showed. how
ever. that Boyeisss name vas &C.
tuaily Walter Engle urwiler and
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-08-03

they need such a building, un-
touched by bombs, they don't dare
muscle in.
The building was once head
quarters for the Russian Zone rail-
way system, known as the Reichs-
balm. Big switchboards controlled
the movements of the elevated
trains in Berlin and some of the
freight and passenger lines sur
rounding the city
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-08-03
Big BERLIN BUILDING
NOW NO MANS LAND
BY TOM REEDY

BERLIN The cold war has created
a new no-man's-land in downtown
Berlin. 1t is a 600-room three-story
red brick building labelled by both
the Americans and the Russians as
too hot to handle
The Russians hold title to it but
won't use it. The building stands
in the American sector and the
Americans won't touch it, The
Germans eye it sadly. As much as
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-08-03

RENO, NEV.-fP- "A weather
beaten and bearded old man with
genius for taking heart attacks
has made a sucker of hospitals
across the breadth of the nation,
the veterans administration here
reported
Manager Edward F. Reed of
the Reno Y. A. center ordered an
investigation after an old man
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-08-03
Local Takers Cast Hungry
Ewes On u. S. Grain Bins
BY Ovid A. Martin
Associated Press Farm Writer

WASHINGTON -LP-Conflicts
with local officials over taxation
of federal property cause Uncle
Sam not a few headaches.
Involved in some disputes is
the Agriculture Department, with
its big chain of grain storage bins
and elevators in the midwest grain
belt.
The department has gone into
the storage business in big way.
It has built scores of facilities to
handle the grain it acquires under
farm price support programs.
Under the law, lccaI taxing
units such as school districts,
counties and states cannot
touch property of the u. s. Gov
ernment. Yet these local bodies,
needing more money, look with
longing eyes at this property.
acknowledgements grain
elevator at Fremont, Neb., is an
example. 1t came under control
of the departments Farm Credit
Administration (FCA) in the '3Os
when the old federal farm board
was liquidated.
The FCA was directed by Con-
greSs to lease this ana several
other farm board elevators until
such time as they could be sold
at financial advantage to the gov
ernment.
So far, officials say, the FCA
has not been able to make a good
deal on the Fremont elevator.
This has made Fremont school of
ficials very unhappy, what wi h
school expenses going on.
Fremont authorities nave sought
payments of some other kind from
the government in place of taxes.
While sympathetic. FCA officials
say they have no authority to
make such payments.
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The elevator is being operated
by the West Central Cooperative
Grain Co, a farmer cooperative,
under a five-year leace expiring
in 1854.
Officials agree now might be a
good time to sell the elevator :
and return it to local tax rolls :
except that no one would buy
properly lied up under a long
lease. They say that at the time
the lease was made. in 1949, con-
ditions were not favorable for
selling.
Nevertheless, the FCA now
plans to offer the elevator for
sale at public bidding in 1853.
Leases are made on a negotiated
rather than bid basis. Officials
say they are not required by law
to call for bids on leases.
Virtually all the space in h c
Fremont elevator has been re-
quired to store grain of members
of the cooperative operating it,
officials say, and there has been
little room for govcrnment-owned
commodities.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-08-03
Shoot Anything?

WITH us. SECOND DIVIS-
ION, KOREA, tPl-The orders
were: shoot at anything that
moves during the night.
"I'' company sharpshooters fir
ed at every rustic. At daybreak
they found three dead squirrels.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-08-03

dom occur to the average driver
or pedestrian.
No traffic sign or signal" Chief
MCGUIRE saIu, IS thrown up at
random but is put up to guide and
protect yoC as motorists and as
pedestrians.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-08-03

While East and West were get
ting along, there was no problem
about the location Of the head
quarters within the u. S. sector
But after the split in 194S, the
Soviet got concerned and moved
some of the strategic switches into
their own sector of the city Little
by little the building was depopul-
ated.
At the height of the strike, West
Berlin railroads stormed the build
ing, chased the east police out and
took over control Of the switches
for several hours. Enraged Rus
sian officers chased them out at
the point Of pistols and tommy
guns.
Then, IN Januar,, 1851, the West
Berlin city government decided to
take action against uie Russian
Zone Richsbahn for failing to pay
taxes on a lot of property it own
ed in the West sectors. The pro-
perties included the headquarters
building.
u, S. officials approved the citys
seizure order and one night West
Berlin police took over the build
ing. They ousted the railroad
guards and personnel and again
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-08-03
IN NAVAL RESERVE

Richard S. butcher. 104 n
Main St., London, is d seaman re-
cruit in the Organized Naval Re
serve, Columbus, the Naval Train
ing Center has announced.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-08-03

the Russiangorge rose. Major Gen.
Alexander Kotikov, then COM
mandant in East Berlin protested
sharply to Major General Maxwell
d. Taylor, the y. S. Commander,
against invasion OF private pro-
perty.'
A typical Russian tactic follow
cd. The elevated trains slowed TO a
crawl. There were threats of new
blockade.
Three days later, General Tay-
lor ordered the western police to
withdraw he said the threat of
blockade and hardship for west
Berlin far outweighed the possible
advantage of the use of the build
ing.
Russian prestige rose among the
Germans. But the Russians decid-
cd this was a little too much
touch h-and-go. They withdrew
every stick of furniture and all
personnel from the building, i'm
cluding the elevated train switch
Now it stands completely empty
es.
One peoples policeman is on guard
outside His only job appears TO be
to chase kids who feel like throw
ing rocks at the block long row
Of windows.
Evening star., 1951-10-10
Fletcher Knebei:
Potomac Fever

The Ohio Republican organization ndorses Bob Taft
the States avore SON. candidate Tafts been
Ohos favoe long that being watched by the
States second generation Of baby-sters
National Football League for restricting football
and radio The Government likes to keep its taxpayers
rooms SUNDAYS instead Of stopng around flirting
with their death of cold.
The Senate rejects two Illinois appointed by President
Truman Senator Douglass opposition that
no President has constitutional right to unpopular
appointment unless he picks member Of the Senate.
The Senate overwhelmingly McKelar in his
udgesp feud with his Tennessee colleague Kefauver
Mcear has such high Kefauver enjoy pointing
hin to small the greatest crime buster
CONGRESSMAN Jackson an atom committee member tells
House that Russia could destroy 80 United cities in one
night Your best bet is to buy earhworm the
country and make enough retire places with
one Of the earthwormS
Senate subcommittee votes investigate custer charges
against Senator Joe Mccarthy the Senators can't be
neutral about Mccarthy They either think ends Justify
Mccarys they think nothing justify the
end Of Mccarthy
Former Internal Revenue Collector Fnnegan st. Louis saws
the work tough that about four all he
could take Unfortunately other collectors had mora
stamina and could take much
Evening star., 1951-10-10
John c. Henry:

Another sandstorm is really
beginning to swirl in the Middle
East-this time over the narrow
waters of the Suez Canal. s.
In many respects there are
close parallels between the AN
glo-Egyptian controversy, in
volving both the Suez and the
Sudan. and the several other
issues which have been causing
a steady deterioration of West
ern position in a vital part of the
world. Through more than a
century Of It's history as a great
world power the British Empire
recognized the Importance of the
Middle East, and particularly of
Egypt and the Suez area, as a
link in its command chain
around the globe. Through most
OF those years Britain had both
prestige and power to support its
policies-and even though these
were not uniformly popular in
fiuences between the two World
Wars they were adequate to
maintain political, military and
economic dominance in the crit
ical zones. World War II and
the succeeding years have
brought some changes.
Quite UNDERSTANDABLE, Egypt
has been the proudest Of the
Middle East countries. Out of
an ancient history that had its
form Of genuine glory the
country has made substantial
progress in undermining its
economy and It's politics. It con-
siders itself the leader among
the Middle East nations and it
is correspondingly sensitive In
its relationship with foreign
powers. When British tanks
were driven to the very doors
Of King Farouk's palace early
in World War II to force him to
accept a government more
amenable to British discipline a
malignant wound that has not
yet healed was inflicted upon
Egyptian pride. Whether or not
there was an alternative means
Of gaining the desired co-opera-
ton at the time is an academic
question today.
While Farouk was quoted
then as warning the British
that they would some day regret
their action it would be an
over-simplification to trace all
Of today's troubles, either Brit
ish or Western, to this single
incident. The overall colonial
policies Of both the British and
the French had been effectively
Evening star., 1951-10-10
David Lawrence:

Maybe the left hand doesn't
know what the right hand is
doing in the Truman admins
tration but the suggestion just
made by Secretary of Commerce
Sawyer that the publishers of
America and the Government
might get together to deal
constructively with the problem
of information and censorship
comes about three months late.
What Mr.. Sawyer doesn't
know evidently is that a repre-
sentative committee of news
paper editors was summoned on
July 10 last and shown a draft
of the proposed executive order.
They were told it was going
to be submitted to the National
Security Council within two
days. The newspaper editors
now reveal that their sugges-
tions in the main were spurned.
Here is the record of what
happened as set forth in a let
ter just written to the American
Society Of Newspaper Editors by
q committee composed of Alex
ander F. Jones. president, who
is editor Of the Syracuse Herald
Journal and formerly managing
editor Of the Washington Post;
B. M. McKelway, editor of The
Evening Star and a past
president of the American Soci-
ETY. Of Newspaper Editors; James
S. Pope, editor of the Louisville
Courier er-Journal and chairman
of the Society's Committee on
Freedom of Information; Walker
H. Stone, editor of the Scripps-
Howard Newspaper Alliance,
and Jack II. Lockhart, now as
sistant general editorial mana
ger of the Scripps- Howard news
papers but associated with the
Office Of Censorship in World
War II.
Evening star., 1951-10-10
Thomas [. Stokes:
Thonos [. Stokes:
Who'll Be Next? Could Be Cr
Mccarthy Will Be Able to Celebrate Real Triumph senote
Delivers to Him the Head of Dr. Jessup Ambassador NJ ~

Senator Joe Mccarthy. Re-
publican. Of Wisconsin, who has
fast been losing caste lately, will
be able to celebrate a real tri-
umph if the Senate of the United
States delivers to him the head
Of DR.. Philip c. Jessup, our am
bassador at large, which he is
asking.
If the Senate rejects DR.. Jes-
sup as a member of our United
Nations delegation, for which he
has been nominated, it thereby
would surrender to the insidious
influence known as Mccarthy
ism which, defined, means
simply the assassination of
character by base and SANDER
GUS innuendo.
For if ever there was a
trumped-up case against a pa
triotic, honest, able and devoted
public servant. this is it. Yet,
with a reckless abandon that is
fearful to behold, there are
many in the Senate who would
blithely disregard the individual
and the human being and sac
rif1ce him, either for the sake Of
a political issue in the next elec-
ton. or IN abject debasement to
the wave Of fear that Joe Nc
Carthy has stirred up among us,
a sad commentary on a free and
independent people who tradi-
tionally have stood upright and
unafraid.
This comes very close to all
Of us. DR.. Jessup has become,
unwittingly, in this strange
episode, the symbol Of all of
us who value our integrity as
individuals. and that is the es-
sence Of our American heritage.
II he Is hung high, then Hang
man Joe Mccarthy could very
well cry:
Who'll be the next?"
The Senate Of the United
States is on trial as at few
times In our history. So are
all Of US.
The Senate has a memorable
history, both as a legislative
body and as o sort Of ark Of
the covenant for the keeping
Of our traditions and free in
stitutions in the great expert
ment Of democracy that we gave
Evening star., 1951-10-10

on what it believes to be the
prospect that the competition
will nominate its weakest man.
This negative approach char
acterizes the whole political pic
ture. Both parties appear intent
on proving not what they can do
to fortify the free world so sue
ceSsfully the Russians will fear
to start a war but on showing
how much the American people
have to fear If the other fellow
wins.
This failure to look conf
IDENTIFY to the future Is a denial
Of the American genius for ac-
ton. It is occurring only at
home. Abroad, plain Americans
in impressive numbers are work.
ing around the clock, inspiring
what were timid allies to new
efforts, and accepting the Amer
ican destiny with courage. even
gayety. *..r -r as.s
These men and women truly
represent the American people.
Their efforts are a reflection not
only Of the sanguipe American
temperament and American
know-how, but of the deep faith
that is filling the Nations
churches each Sunday.
Gen. Eisenhower's great
chance to be President arises
from his position as the symbol
of this courage, confidence and
faith. Americans have given
every indication that they want
to be inspired. too, as Gen. Ike
has inspired their allies.
But the General cannot ex-
pect a so-called draft or q
presidential nomination handed
to him on a silver salver. This
is so for two reasons, one
spiritual. the other tactical.
Evening star., 1951-10-10
yohn 9. HenY:
New Sondstorn erSuez Canal
AneoEeypon Controversy Only One Of Several Issues Causing
Seudx Deterioration of Western Position Middle

creating a reservoir Of Ill will
toward European domination in
the Middle East. Neither power
showed a willingness to recog-
nize the local urgings for inde-
pendence and equality which are
part Of true sovereignty. pre-
ferring too often to speak Of
nationalism and xenophobia as
If they were diseases which
could be safely disregarded or
perhaps treated by the 10Th
Century prescription of "a Whit
of grapeshot."
In this background the United
States has likewise failed to ex-
ercise a constructive influence.
When the Palestine issue came
to a head in the postwar years
it was American policy for the
most part that was imposed
upon Western behavior and the
result was creation of a new
antagonism and disillusionment
Of the Arab nations toward the
West. On most other issues we
chose to let the British exercise
first responsibility.
Actually, aside from the pure
ly military significance Of the
Suez defense, there is a broad
ground of common interest be-
tween the West and the Middle
Eastern powers. Communism
does not come naturally to the
Moslems. despite the social un-
rest which fastens itself so cas-
lily upon areas Of low-living
Evening star., 1951-10-10

standards. There are bonds Of
commerce and of culture be-
tween the non-C Communist world
and the Moslem world, stronger
as they apply to Britain than
to any other country of the
Western bloc.
The Egyptians are well aware.
from history, that they cannot
stand aside in any world con-
flict. If such a conflict develops.
or. more appropriately. If it Is
to change from the cold to the
hot stage, it is unlikely that they
would make a free choice to join
with the Communist cause. For
months past they have awaited
invitation to join with the North
Atlantic powers in some form OF
regional security pact and the
present four-power-American.
British, French and Turkish
deliberations at Ankara are ex-
pected to develop a framework
for such participation.
While Wednesdays proposal
Of the Nahas Government for
abrogation Of the Anglo-Egyp-
tian treaty may seem badly
timed and ominous to the West,
it makes even more compelling
the urgency for a negotiated
settlement Of this issue - as
against a recourse to force
and the construction Of a new
formula Of partnership which
could strengthen rather than
destroy the fabric Of security.
Evening star., 1951-10-10

Americans value their presi-
dellcy. They want 1t to be
wanted. They have no use for
reluctant dragons in, connec-
tion with the greatest gift with
In their power to bestow.
1t is possible for an aspirant
to go over the heads Of the
politicians to the people. But
unless and until one does, the
professionals have all the tao
tical advantages, they own the
party machinery. And 1t is in
the nature Of politicians. whose
occupationai disease Is timidity,
not to take chances but to con-
solidate their positions early in
q campaign. That is what they
are beginning to do now, while
Gen. Eisenhower remains silent,
and the trend will grow by geo.
metrical progression the longer
he is mute. n
The most intimate observers
OF Eisenhower In action are
convinced he wants to be Presi-
dent. They are equally sure
that his dream Of a bipartisan
nomination. once a faint possi-
bility If the world crisis sharp
ened, Is no longer possible.
Even George Allen has auit
talking about Eisenhower as a
Democrat. an idea which act
ually was implanted four years
ago by q Democratic publicist
to upset the Republicans.
Thus. If the General Ia In
earnest, he must first want the
Republican nomination and he
must say so very soon or 1t win
slip irrevocably into the arms
OF Senator Taft. Time In his
case Is not, despite Plutarch
his Wisest counsellor,
Evening star., 1951-10-10

to the world. It has weathered
many crises, some of which. at
the time, did not seem such
crises as history later revealed
them to be. If prophecy may be
ventured, this appears true of
this present crisis that Joe Nc
Carthy has created for us which
he regards personally as his
coup de grace.
II we surrender we have lost
something very precious.
DR.. Jessup is a diplomat with
a splendid record Of achieve
ment through negotiation in
many capacities, including the
United Nations Security Coun-
Gil and on many diverse prob
lens. The latter include his
brilliant negotiations with Jacob
A. Malik that lifted the Berlin
blockade and perhaps averted
an eventual clash that would
have us now in World War
III. and his skillful manage
ment in the more recent Con-
ference of Foreign Ministers
IN Paris, that four months or
deal in which we were sorely
tried by Russia's tricky, stalling
tactics and her devious propa-
ganda Vaccinations, but from
which we emerged with credit
and unscathed.
AS a diplomat, he must deal
with uncertainties, intangibles
and imponderables, with the
natural risk of Judgment from
. which no diplomat is immune.
He Is one of a team that in
cludes many, our State Depart
ment staff. our military, the
President. As such, he and
others measure events and de-
velopmentS and make their
best calculations as to the proper
course. That is his and their
duty.
In recent months it has be-
come the habit to poke back into
the chain Of events preceding
the Communist victory in China.
Some have tried to make it a
very simple story and a per-
sonal story. It is neither. It
involved day-by-day judgments
in the light Of fast-moving events
then. AS we look back we can
see mistakes, as we can In look
Evening star., 1951-10-10
SAWYER 3 Months Late on Idea
Suggestions of Newspaper Editors Hondng the Problem
Of Information and Censorship Were SPurned Last July

to pass upon the rulings Of vari-
ous Government officials"
When the meeting was over.
the committee was told that ID
could submit further recon-
mendations but that action was
going to- be taken anyhow In
two days. so the committee
wrote q letter reiterating its
objections and adding q declara-
tion Of opposition to the order
on the ground that each head OF
a Government agency should
not be. given authority to classify
information without definition
of what breaches national secur-
ity and without appeal or re-
view. -
On July, 27 the White House
notified the editors that the
National Security Council had
approved the order, and. on
September Is it was issued. The
committee, in its report to the
American society of newspaper
editors, now says:
'The executive order which
the President issued September
rs does not differ in any I'm
portant essentials from the
tentative draft we saw on
July TO-"
SO Secretary Sawyer's idea
that the editors and publishers
could be helpful on this delicate
problem Is meritorious to the
extent that the editors tried out
his suggestion last July only to
f1nd that a presumably omnis-,
cient President firmly rejected
the advice Of those with expert
ence and proceeded in a press
conference instead to accuse
them of a lack of patriotism.
That's hardly the way to solve
problems In q country which
boasts Of its guarantees of free.
dom Of information. "a
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