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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-08-28
BY The Associated Press

Gov. Ad,ai Stevenson's first ma.
jor addresses indicate his cam
paign strategy win lean heavily
. q 4-punch attack emphasizing
.sYou never had it so good" and
an attempt to stamp his Republi-
can presidential opponent, Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower. as a ''me-
too" candidate.
And political analysts were try
ing to determine what, if any, sig
nificance lies in the fact that in
opening speeches-both in New
York before the national American
Legion convention Stevenson got
mere applause, Eisenhower larg-
er crowd.
Stevenson, democratic presiden
tlal candidate. in his Legion speech
and in another delivered Wednes-
day night at Democratic rally
near Asbury Park, N. j., hit hard
on these points:
I. Prosperity-"The people of
this country are better off than
they or any other people have ever
BEEN.
2. Me-tooism-"On domestic pol.
icy, only now are they 1.-THE Re-
publicans) slowly and reluctantly
accepting the ideas successfully
sponsored by the Democratic Par
ty years ago. 1t looks more and
more to me as though they are
going to stand on our program.
8. Foreign policy" The Repub-
licans are split wide open on for
eign policy. Some of US are
reluctant to admit that peace can
not be won by some clever diplo-
matte maneuver or by propa-
ganda."
1. McCarthyism-.'I am not in
the delicate position of another
candidate for high office, who fac
es the ticklish problem of whether
to swallow his principles and en-
dorse all the candidates running
on the same ticket with him."
Eisenhower has said he would
support Sen. Joseph Mccarthy, the
controversial Republican senator
from Wisconsin, If Mccarthy is
re-nominated. But Eisenhower add
ed at the time he would not give
blanket endorsement to any one
who docs anything l believe I'd
be unamerican in methods or pro-
cedure."
Some have charged that McCar'
thy has gone too far with some
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-08-28

ments are met as quickly as pos
sible."
The report also called for q
greater share of federal funds for
air power and less for ground and
sea arms.
The report was sharply critical
of constant changes in models and
additions Of gadgets and gimmicks
to aircraft designs. It said there
was a need for design freezes and
mass production.
"A tendency toward sgimmick
erie has loaded some of our
planes with gadgets to a point
where their effectiveness has been
decreased, /" the report said.
No such delays face Soviet Rus.
STA, the report indicated, saying:
when the Russians stop max.
ing tractors and start making
tanks they can i'll afford to permit
such end items to become obso.
Ilete."
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-08-28

arate statement, indicated they
had not been carried out.
Johnson said the airpower build
up has been slowed down by a
capacity for indecision which at
times has reached amazing lev
els"
Although the Defense Depart.
ment did name a production car,
johnson said, ''he did not receive
the necessary authority and even
tually was reduced to the status
lof a job holder part-time." Aides
of Johnson said this was Clay Bed
ford industrial leader who was
named special assistant to the Sec
rotary Of defense.
The new report asked appoint.
ment Of "a full-time production
car with powers to determine
priorities, to freeze designs to the
necessary extent, and to order
quantity production initiated, so
that our minimum air require.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-08-28
Hirohito Dissolyes Diet In Move To Stop
Threat 10 Pro West Government; Election Soon
TOKYO M-ln lightning move 4

TOKYO R-In lightning move
to save his political strength, pro.
U. 5. Prime Minister Shigern
Yoshida today forced dissolution
Of the lower house Of the japanese
Diet tparliamentl and set the first
post-occupation general election
for Oct. /.
The date Is at least q month or
Is days before rivals felt they
would be ready to defeat the di.
minutive. 74-year-old Premier.
A dramatic noontime govern,
ment announcement said the lower
house would be dissolved at once.
Then the speaker read rescript
from Emperor Hirohito dissolving
the house, backbone of the Diet.
That automatically shut down
the upper chamber--the House az
Councillors unless an emergency
arises. II Is only advisory.
Emperor Hirohito's reScript said
simply the Diet was being dis
solved in accordance with the Con.
stihition.
The reseript was eountersigned
by Yoshida, who must have worked
fast and secretly to catch his on.
position off guard. II takes a siay
or more TO prepare an imperial
rescript.
Yoshida. sometimes called by his
opposition an American ruppe.',
because he cooperated strongly
with Allied occupation authorities.
LEFT Wednesday for = rest in the
mountains 90 miles southwest Of
Tokyo. He rushed back today to
slam through the dissolution. in i
manner some observers called q
stroke II political ksnius.
Ycshida's influence Is ihrest.
ened By his predecessor as leader
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-08-28

of his Communists-in- government
accusations
Sen. William F. Knowland (R..
Calif.) said Wednesday in Seattle
that Eisenhower's proposed sup
port of Mccarthy was based on
the generals recognition Of the
Importance of Republicans win
ming control of the Senate.
Knowland said Eisenhower would
be under a terrific handicap il
he we're elected without such cor
troll, and added: I'm this year
close race, the party can't affor,
to lose a seat in Wisconsin"
On foreign policy, Stevenson.
statement that the COP program
was about as firm as "a bushe
of cells" drew a quick retort from
COP; Sen. Mundt of South Dakota,
who said the Republican platform
is better than what Stevenson is
attempting to do--to stand on a
bushel Of red behring's"
President Truman once said
that certain charges of Commu-
nism-in- government were just red
herrings.
Both Eisenhower and Steven
son continued mapping campaign
strategy today in New York, con-
ferring with party leaders and
supporters.
Eisenhower scheduled a busy
| day, bolstered by word that he
can count on surprising labor
vote.
Richard j. Gray, Albany, N. Y,
president Of the three million-mem.
Der ALL building and Construction
Trades Department and long.
! time Democrat, told Eisenhower
! he believed his and many other
labor organizations were swinging
to the general.
| EisenhOwef's schedule included
conferences with delegations Of
Americans of Italian and Polish
descent; John Dickerson, COP
New Jersey state chairman; New
| York state officials; railway labor
chiefs; and COP committeewomen
from the East.
/ Stevenson addresses the Volun.
teers-for- Stevenson, New York
Democratic group. and the Demo
cratic State Committee and the
Liberal Party State Committee. He
plans to return to his Springfield,
ILL.,, headquarters Friday to round
out details of his first major tour
a 7,0O0-mile swing opening Sept.
1.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-08-28
More Red Pow
Incidents Told

SEOUL. Korea 1.-THE Army
indicated today there have been
fresh Red prisoner Of war Incl
dents or demonstrations in u n
pow camps since Sunday. II said
it would have an announcement
Friday.
The Army earlier this week dis.
closed details on two Pow Incl.
dents in July and 10 between Aug.
II and "a. 1t sad four prisoners
were killed ani 81 injured ia
these.
Asked today II there had been
further incidents. spokesman for
the Z. n. prisoner of war com.
mand said:
Eve viii have another announce.
ment tomorrow. You were covered
through Aug. "a. and tomorrow !
announcement viii bring YOU up
to date"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-08-28

Of the dominant Liberal Party. all,
ing lehiro Hatoyama. 70. Both are
considered pro.western but Hato-
yania Is regarded as more nation
alistic and more indifferent than
the Pnuk Minister toward rearm.
Ing Jarsn.
Hatoyama and his followers
wanted q November election. They
felt by that time their srowinc
strength would mean vicsory.
The second party In Japan. the
Progressiyes. also wanted a No
vsmber eseggicn They are led by
-, who signed the Japsnsss sur
render ga Tokyo Eay in las sri
served > prison term a. ! var
erinlaaI.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-08-28
Red Spy Ring
In Montreal

MONTREAL. Canada R - The
Montreal Gazette today claimed a
Communist spy ring Of apparent
refugees from Iron Curtain coun.
tries Is operating in Montreal,
gathering secret information on
defense industries.
The newspapers front page
were giving serious consideration
TO the reported ring but first Off
cial comment denied knowledge OF
the report.
ITS the first I've heard of Il. /"
said Canadian Minister Of Justice
whether it's true or moi. The min.
lister added, however. that il he
did know, he would not disclose
ii.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-08-28
Four Drinks
Guards Fired

WASHINGTON R-Four Drinks
guards were out of q job today
because they had lunch together
Monday.
While they were eating in a hotel
cafeteria their unguarded armored
truck was rifled Of SIS 900 In cash.
The money was recovered next
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-08-28

n your cake has a soggy LAYER
or streak at the bottom il may Be-
due to undermining. not enough
leavening. too much liquid. or al
oven that is not hot enough.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1952-04-25

MOTHER OF YEAR" Mrs.
Madeline Digger, 53-year-OId West
Medford, Mass. mother Of six, was
named Massachusetts, Mother Of
the Year recently. She Is shown
here with Mrs. Addison simmons
ueft) chairman OF the committee
for Mass. and Gov. Paul A. Dever.
Five Of Mrs. Dugger's six children
are college graduates. The sixth
Is at Tufts College.
News Press Photo Service
Evening star., 1952-08-21
u. n. Agency Reports
Sharp Rise in Polio
by the Assoeioted Press

GENEVA, Aug. 21.-A sharp
Increase in poliomyelitis in North
west Europe and the United
States was reported yesterday by
the United Nations World Health
Organization.
The weekly Health Bulletin re-
ported a definite recrudescence''
Of the disease, particularly in
Northern Germany and the Low
Countries.
In the German Federal Re-
public, 1926 cases Of poliomyelitis
were reported in the five weeks
ending August 2, more than II
times as many as during the same
period last year. In the same
period. 260 cases were reported
in Belgium, compared with 10 In
1851, 437 cases in the Netherlands,
compared with SO in 1851, and
158 in Switzerland compared with
ITO in 1851.
In France, there were 311 re-
ported cases during the five-week
period, lis more than in the same
period last year but 46 less than
in the same period of 1850. Re-
ported cases in the United King
dom were approximately double
those Of last year but also below
the epidemic level of 1850.
In the United States, there
were 7,016 reported cases Of
poliomyelitis in the five weeks
ending August 2. compared with
1905 in the same period of 1851
and 4,120 in the same period
Of 1850.
Evening star., 1952-08-21
Alexandra Nominafes
Watkins for Place on
Area Planning Council

c. Luckett Watkins, director Of
public works in Alexandria, was
nominated by the city council yes
terday for membership on the
new National Capital Regional
Planning Council.
Alexandria is the second of the
six northern Virginia commune
ties embraced by the new Council
to select a nominee. Virginia and
Maryland each will have four
Representatives on the new area
planning agency created by Con-
gress this year. The District will
have two representatives.
Mr.. Watkins is a member of
the Alexandria Planning Com
mission. He served as acting city
manager for about a year and
formerly was city engineer. The
Council named. as an alternate
choice, City Planning Director
Philip Hall.
Arlington to Act.
Fairfax County's Board of
Supervisors early this. month
named John w. Brookfield as their
nominee for one of the four seats
The Arlington County Board is
expected to act Saturday in NAM
ing its nominee. Other Virginia
communities participating in the
new Council are Prince William
and Loudoun Counties and Falls
Church.
The four Northern Virginia
representatives will be chosen
!: from among nominees suggested
by these communities to the
Northern Virginia Regional Plan
ming and Economic Development
Commission.
Prince Georges and Mont
gomery Counties are the only
Maryland communities affected
by the new council.
School Site Fund Approved.
In other actions yesterday the
council approved an expenditure
Of $59.125 for the purchase Of a
15-acre site for the proposed
Shirley-Duke Elementary School
The site is adjacent to the Shirley
Duke apartment development.
The council referred a school
board proposal that 23-acre site
in the area recently annexed from
Fairfax County be purchased for
construction of high school to
the city-planning commission. 1t
authorized negotiations for the
tract. located at Seminary road
and Donmanton boulevard, If the
planning commission approves the
site.
In another action the council
declined to join with the League
of Virginia Municipalities in op-
posing a proposed telephone rate
increase now before the State
Corporation Commission. How
ever, a resolution was adopted de-
claring the council is opposed to
any increase which would give the
telephone company more than a
fair return" on its investment.
Evening star., 1952-08-21
S Arlington Pupil Registration Set for Tuesday

Registration for pupils of all
grades in Arlington public schools
will be held Tuesday. Supt. Ed
ward Rutter has announced. Reg
ular classes will begin on Sep
tember 2.
Parents whose children cannot
report for registration were asked
to notify the school by mail. CIV
ing the date on which the child
will enter school.
Elementary pupils will register
between $3.50 and 1890 am. For
mer pupils at each school are to
report at 8 am. and beginners
and other new pupils at $50.
No Bus Transportation.
There will be no bus transporta-
tion for elementary pupils on reg
istration day.
Students Of the new Noting
ham School will register at Little
Falls Presbyterian Church, across
Little Falls road from the school.
Registration at junior and SEN
Evening star., 1952-08-21
New ZeuIund to Harness
Volcano for Newsprint
BY the Associated Press

WELLINGTON. New Zealand
Aug. 21.-New Zealand scientists
are working on scheme to har-
ness steam from underground
volcanoes to generate electric
power to operate a huge pulp pa
per plant planned by the govern
ment.
If the scheme is successful New
Zealand expects to export news
print to Australia and other
countries.
| Scientists today began sinking
deep holes at Whakatane in Auck-
land Province.
Evening star., 1952-08-21

$3.50 am, all students at Swan
son and Madison Junior High
Schools, seventh-grade pupils at
Stratford and seventh and eighth
grade pupils at Jefferson.
1890 pm. 10th-grade students
Iat Westinghouse.
2 pm, ninth-grade students at
Jefferson, eighth and ninth-grade
students at Stratford.
Evening star., 1952-08-21

ior high schools will be on q stag
gered schedule. Bus transporta-
tion is provided for those living a
mile or more from their school
Bus pickups will start from 80
to As minutes before the students
are to be in school.
Evening star., 1952-08-21
High School Registration.

Junior and senior high schoo
students will register as follows
9 am, 11th and 18th grade stu.
dents at WaShington-Lee and al
students at Hoffman-Boston.
Evening star., 1952-08-29

would encourage all he could
the efforts Of Col. Robert r. Nc
Cormick. publisher of the Chicago
Tribune. to form a third Amer
ican party" Mr.. Truman said he
thought it would help the Demo-
cratic Party.
Mr.. Truman's remark about the
Legion's demand for the custer of
Mr.. Acheson reaffirmed his often
stated intention of retaining the
controversial Secretary of State
as long as he is President.
The President said the Legion
resolution had been prepared by
a group of young men and If
they had the responsibility of
selecting a man for the secretary
ship it would have been different.
He added that any further answer
to the Legion demand was un-
printable.
AS for his comments on Gov
Stevenson's stand on the offshore
oil issue. they brought from Rep
resentative Halleck, Republican. of
Indiana the statement that what
the President said leaves no doubt
that the Democratic nominee is
merely a puppet-an Ivy League
Truman, with a Jake Arvey halo
over his head"
Evening star., 1952-08-29
Red Cross Sounds Appeal
For 132 Polio Duty Nurses

The American Red Cross yester-
day said there was an urgent need
for 1872 graduate nurses to serve
in polio,stricken areas.
It is the second emergency ap-
peal for polio-duty nurses made
this month by the Red Cross.
Nursing help is needed particu-
larly in the Chicago area, in Min
neapolis and in Des Moines, the
Red Cross said. Nurses volunteer
ing will serve for two months and
their salaries and expenses will be
paid by the National Foundation
for Infantile Paralysis.
The Red Cross already has re-
cruited 500 nurses for areas with
unusual outbreaks of polio. The
1872 additional nurses are needed
to meet untitled requests.
Nurses wishing to volunteer
were asked to call their local
Red Cross chapter.
Evening star., 1952-08-29
Stee|'s Recovery Seen
Permitting Speedup
OF Arms Production

Defense Production Admins
traitor Henry Fowler said today
the United States can speed up
arms output without hurting the
civilian economy.
Mr.. Fowler told a news confer
ence that the recently-ended steel
strike did not hurt the Nation as
much as he had predicted.
Most companies. he said. will
have a 30-day steel supply on
hand by January /. He credited
steel mills for an amazing" re-
covery from the strike.
Speedy Production Possible.
Production Of other raw ma
terials, he said. is increasing so
rapidly that they are no bar to
building more weapons faster.
"The choice is open to the
country if it wants to foot the
bill-to spend the money fast and
get security quicker" MIR. Fowler
said.
I'VE see an opportunity from
the materials standpoint to con-
tinue to accelerate military pro-
duction and believe we could
schedule military production above
that already planned without di-
Iverting materials from the civilian
economy"
Mr.. Fowler volunteered a "con-
fession of tentative error" in his
predictions about the effects of a
steel strike.
II was over-pessimistic," he
said. August was not nearly as
tough as We had expected"
Won't Tighten Controls.
He said he did not expect any
tightening of materials controls
'in the absence of some sharp
change in the international situa-
ton"
Many Of the existing priority
and control arrangements may be
removed from the civilian econo-
my next year, Mr.. Fowler said
unless an arms speed-up comes
But even with controls of thu
civilian economy. he said, tn,
country would need a Nationa
Production Authority to guide raw
materials to weapons factories.
Evening star., 1952-08-29
Los Angeles School Board
Reinstates UNESC0 Study
By the Associated Press

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 29.-The
Los Angeles City Board of Edu-
cation, after listening to six
months of debate for and against
the United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organiza-
tons study program, has voted to
reinstate it in the city schools.
But. the board voted unani-
mously last night. only on IAN
impartial and factual basis"
Veterans groups and other pa
triotic organizations had fought
the program, charging it mini
mized national loyalty. Other or
ganizations and individuals had
upheld it. 1..
With only one dissenting vote
the School Board excluded from
use in the schools the teachers
guidebook, "The E in UNESCO,'
which also has been under fire.
Evening star., 1952-08-29
Arlington Policeman
Gets Suspended Term
In Juvenile Case

An Arlington. policeman con-
victed of immoral influence on a
juvenile was given a 30-day sus-
pended sentence today in County
Juvenile Court.
Policeman John r. Livesay, "a,
of 905 North Wayne street was
found guilty by Judge Hugh c.
Cregger. jr., in trial on
Wednesday.
Yesterday, Policeman Chester
c. Pearson, jr., %, of 1900 North
Pierce street was acquitted of a
similar charge by Judge Hugh
Reid. He was still suspended to-
day, however. If he desires to re-
turn to duty, he may have to go
before the police trial board.
Both men were accused of illicit
relations with a 17-year-old girl
in June and July
Attorneys for Mr.. Pearson said
they moved for dismissal of the
charges on the grounds that the
prosecution had not proved either
the girls age or the location of
alleged moral violations.
Evening star., 1952-08-29

District Of Columbia side of the
Potomac River runs principally
through Battery Kremble Park
and no right-of-way costs are in
cluded in the estimate through
this Government-owned property
1t will be necessary to acquire a
moderate number of residential
properties to accommodate the in
terchange at Macarthur boule-
ward. The Arlington approach ex-
tends through undeveloped wood
land and the resulting property
damage is not great. The esti-
mated cost of right-of-way in the
District is $181 900, and in Vir-
ginia is $138,000.
Estimate of Cost.
Rosdyay, Military Road to oso nm
Inheritance at Military Road 3Ss'0oo $4,000
Interchange at Proposed George
Washington Memorial Park
Rosdxsy: Bridge to Nebraska wv
Interchanee at Macarthur
Underpass at Nebraska Avenue 5000
15Hs Engineering Administra- - WV
ton and Contingencies - 1.077.00
Total Construction --------Ss, e54, 900
Right-of-Way ---- $4,000
Evening star., 1952-08-29
House Probers Invite
|McGrath, Caud|e and
Ford 10 Testify Here
By George Beveridee

House investigators will ask
three former Justice Department
officials. including ex-Attorney
General j. Howard McGrath, If
they want to testify on a Federal
judges charges of lack of Coop
Grafton in probing tax cases.
The other two officials are form
er Deputy Attorney General Pey-
ton Ford and T. Lamar Caudle.
former head of the departments
Tax Division. They, along with
Mr.. McGrath, figured in charges
arising from a lengthy deposit
ton, filed yesterday by 74-year-
old st. Louis Judge George H.
Moore.
The deposition emerged as the
climactic evidence of a House
S u b C o m m i t tie e's inquiry into
whether the Justice Department
exerted improper influence on a
grand jury probe of tax-case
handling in March. 1851.
Subcommittee officials stressed
that they were not demanding the
three former top-level Justice De-
partment figures appear. But they
said their invitations extended to
either individual appearances or
written statements by any of the
trio.
In other developments:
l. Justice Department officials
said Attorney General McGran-
cry had mo comment on the mat
ter at this time" 1t was indi-
Gated that Mr.. McGranery first
wanted to review completely the
House groups hearings.
2. Republican members Of the
subscommittee called on MIR. Nc
Granery to take drastic action"
against Ellis N. Slack. Mr.. Caudle's
successor as acting head of the
Tax Division and key figure in the
inquiry.
3. Mr.. Slack told a reporter he
had not decided whether to dig
nifty" Judge Moore's deposition
with detailed reply. He said it
was full of the worst kind Of
hearsay imaginable" He also
charged the subcommittee with
hitting below the belt" by putting
the deposition into the record
after he was led to believe his
testimony was completed.
Mr.. Slack was still in the wit
ness chair when Subcommittee
Counsel Robert A. Collier read the
surprise deposition, but he already
had been questioned by each SUBJ
committee member.
Evening star., 1952-08-29


A new bridge crossing connecting
with Nebraska avenue in the Dis
trict will take approximately three
years to complete and open for
traffic. This estimate is based
upon requirement of one year for
design and furnishing of right
of-way. The construction work
can be accomplished in two years,
contemplating that the project
may be divided into the following
principal contracts:
l. The main bridge substructure
which will include all piers and
abutments of the main bridge
between the Macarthur boulevard