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Milford chronicle., 1952-02-01
immigration Control
ScOfed

SINGAPORE - up A British
sea captain sent letter to the
Straits Times" here saying immi-
grafton control was so lax that he
could land the whole staff of the
Kremlin and Uhcle Joe's mother
in-law in Singapore without the
Milford chronicle., 1952-02-01

least diflculty.
He said so-called control Of ships
in Singapore harbour was an "ab-
solute farce" Tie captain, who did
not sign his name. added it was
"ridiculously easy to slip iato
Singapore. He said he had seen an
immigration officer aboard his ship
only twice in year. A special COM
mittee now has been set up to find
ways to check illegal entry.
Milford chronicle., 1952-02-01
Slave fn NEinIster

DR.. Walter Brooks. negro
preacher Of Washington. DC, spent
60 Of his 80 years in the active min
istry. He was formerly . slave.
Evening star., 1952-09-21
Nominee Recalls
Suffering Of South
Under 6. 0. P. Rule
Special Dispatch 10 The Sior

RICHMOND, Va, Sept. 2O.-
FOLLOWING is the prepared tert
of the address By Gou. Stepen-
son at the Mosque Auditorium
here tonight as released in ad-
UGnce By the Gouernor's staff:
I was reminded that my
grandfather. q candidate for
Vice President. spoke here in
Richmond exactly go years ago
this week in the Academy of
Music. According to the news
paper account, the audience re-
sponded enthusiastically to his
exposure Of the iniquities Of
the Republican tariff system"
and he took his seat amid deaf
ening applause"
For the deafening applause his
grandson is prepared to wait the
conclusion of his remarks, and
meanwhile any reference to Re-
publican iniquities will be wholly
unintentional.
Here in Richmond tonight, in
Virginia, rich both in history
and in the knowledge of it's his
tory, I am moved to talk for a
few minutes of the past.
This is not an idle task. We
can chart our future clearly and
wisely only when we know the
path which has led to the pres
ent. A great philosopher has
said that those who can't re-
member the past are condemned
to live it again.
The South is good place to
take our bearings. because in
no part of the country does the
pasta past Of great nobility
and tragedy-more sharply etch
the present than in the South.
It is a good place to think of
the grim problems of war and
peace which weigh so heavily on
all of us today. For here we
can best learn the lessons sug-
gested by the peace of 1865,
made when the great voice Of
moderation had been stilled.
The victor's settlement permit
ted the South to keep its charm,
its mockingbirds and its beaten
biscuits. For himself. the victor
retained only the money and
the power.
It took the South decades to
recover. During these bleak
years. from 1865 to 1912, the
Republican Party was constantly
in power, except for the two
discontinuous terms of Grover
Cleveland. And, again, between
Woodrow Wilson and Franklin
Roosevelt. it had another long
term of rule. The Democratic
Party, therefore, had the dubi-
Gus distinction of wandering in
the desert for a longer time
than the Children of Israel
after their flight from Egypt.
Evening star., 1952-09-21
Stevenson Gives Commission
To Son After Visit to District

hind the crowd, the Governor
|grinned and remarked that he
probably was the victim Of a
Republican conspiracy" He said
that he was reminded Of an oc-
casion when he addressed an
audience at race track. and the
horses in training behind him
made more noise than he did.
The Governors party paused
briefly in Alexandria en- route to
Quantico to allow the guest of
honor to shift from an open to
"a closed car. At Franklin and
South Washington streets several
hundred residents surrounded the
Governor to shake his hand and
wish him luck.
Has Lunch With Sons.
Mayor Marshall J.. Beverly of
Alexandria joined the Governors
party at the Airport. A motorcycle
escort Of Alexandria police was
on hand to lead the convoy
through the city.
After the graduating exercises,
the Governor and his sons, Adlai
III, 81: Borden. 20, a student at
Harvard University, and John
Fell, Is, were entertained at
luncheon by Gen. Gates at the Of
f1cers' club in the Waller Building.
Gen. Gates had suggested to
young Adlai that he invite three
of his classmates to the luncheon.
Those chosen by the Marine Sec
ond lieutenant were I'd Its. An
drew Stewart Of Hanover. N. H.;
Hugh Toulmin, Of Dover. Mass,
and Arne Schoeller Of New York
City.
Evening star., 1952-09-21
West Germans Owe
Soviet Reparations,
Fastener Declares
By the As.eeioted Pres.

BONN. Germany, Sept. 20.-A
deputy premier Of Communist
East Germany, spade-bearded
Otto Nuschke, told newsmen here
today that a united Germany
would be duty bound to pay re-
pariations to Russia.
Mr.. Nuschke tossed out this
potentially explosive declaration
before a luncheon and news con-
ference of the Foreign Press As
sociation while police outside held
back q thousand or more angry,
jeering anti-C Communists.
It was the first time any East
German leader has said publicly
that a proposed new national Ger
man government-the topic of a
long exchange Of notes between
Russia and the Big Three West
ern Allies-should take over from
the Soviet zone regime the multi
billion dollar war damage claims
pressed by the Kremlin.
Heads COllab0rators.
Just why Mr.. Nuschke presented
the idea at this time Is obscure
Propaganda for unification oi
Germany has been potent. But
few among the 48 million people
Of West Germany, whom the Rus.
slams would like to swerve from
alliance with the West. have any
desire to add to their tax burdens
the reparations levies that the II
million East Germans have borne
since 1945,
Mr.. Nuschke. SO. is not a Com
munist. He Is a fellow traveller
He heads the East German Chris.
tian Democratic Party, which col
laborates with the ruling Socialis
Unity (Communist) Party. Il
West Germany, the Christian
Democrats are the backbone o
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer'
conservative coalition.
i Mr.. Nuschke appeared befor
the foreign newsmen as the leade
of a f1ve-man delegation which
presented the Bonn parliamen
yesterday a batch of Soviet zon
proposals for unification.
Calls Payments Small.
He declared the East German
reparations payments are so small
in volume they are hardly no
Evening star., 1952-09-21

ticed. He said they amount to only
one-half Of / per cent Of current
production.
According to Allied ofhcials,
however, the Russians have milked
East Germany of least SIC billion
in reparations since the war. Prime
Minister Stain announced in 1850
he was reducing the bill to $6.8
billion. Payments are sought until
1865.
One of Mr.. Nusche's Communist
associates, Hermann Matern. told
|newsmen Russia is prepared to
free German war prisoners con.
victed Of crimes whenever the in
ternational situation eases through
Identification of Germany. With
out estimating their numbers, he
said he had no knowledge of any
Germans kept in Russia who had
not been convicted of crimes.
DR.. Adenauer told the Bonn par.
lament this week Russia holds
more than 100000 German war
prisoners.
Spectators Hurl Insults.
MIR. Matern said the Potsdam
agreement could be the only basis
for reuniting Germany. He did
not elaborate on this. but the
United States, Britain and France
have made clear they have no
intention Of reverting to the Pots.
dam formula for four-power con-
troll of Germany.
The hostile West German spec
tators hurled insults at the Red
delegates when they arrived at
a Bonn hotel for the luncheon
news conference. They called
them murderers and kidnappers.
Giant banners we're hoisted:
"Out With Stains Messenger
Boys" and mo Negotiations With
Kidnappers."
Evening star., 1952-09-21
Text Of Gov Richmond Dealing With Civil Rights

duty-free yachts, be hanged
with duty-free rope, and admire
duty-free paintings in museums.
The Republicans were still at
their old game only a little
while ago, and I wish we could
be sure they would not return to
1t If they have a chance. Over
the protest of over 1000 Amer
ican economists, they enacted
the Smoot-Hawley tariff that
raised rates to an all-time high.
I need not tell Virginians, or
your tobacco-growing and to-
bacco processing neighbors,
what that did to tobacco ex-
ports. Nor need I remind South.
ern cotton growers and cotton
manufacturers how they were
harmed; or say that this tariff
was a turning point in precipi.
tating the worldwide depression
Of the 1930s.
But I am not going to talk
about the depression when the
average yearly income of the
families of one Southern State
was 5000. I have said-and I
repeat-that I am not running
against President Hoover. In
deed, I think all of us have rea-
son to be grateful to him for the
work of the Hoover Commission.
And the fact Of the matter is, I
don't know who I am running
against, but I strongly suspect
1t is Senator Taft, after all.
But I most certainly am run
ming against the unchanging
and apparently Interchangeable
attitudes of the Republican
leadership. Presidents come and
go. But attitudes remain. For
a political party, as a man, is
the sum total of its inheritance,
environment. experience and
attitudes.
Thus. for example, when the
depression was coming on, the
Secretary Of the Treasury was
Andrew Mellon. What was his
formula for dealing with the
depression? How did he propose
to act when the magnificent
promise Of American life seemed
at a shabby and ignominious
end? Mr.. Hoover, in his re-
Gently published memoirs, tells
us. It was: 'Liquidate labor,
liquidate stocks, liquidate the
farmers, liquidate real estate"
That is certainly one way to
deal with a depression-the
graveyard way. But somehow
the American people were less
than enthusiastic about it, and
they turned to the Democratic
Party. which held out the pros
pect of life and hope.
The Democratic Party of to-
day was born, then, Of the suf-
ferings Of the people. It is
neither all-wise nor all-know-
ing, for these are not mans
gifts. but Gods. But it is now
AS it always has been-com-
passionate. merciful, humane:
no stranger to human needs.
and wants and fears.
Evening star., 1952-09-21
Voter Registrations
Set Record in Baltimore
BY The Assoeiated Press

BALTIMORE. Sept. 20-voter
registrations in Baltimore, al
ready at a new record high of
around 100000, continued to pile
up today as the deadline neared.
Voters had until 9 pm. tonight
to sign up at the court house or
the Board of Election Supervisors
warehouse. Today, thousa d S
stood in line for hours in order to
register.
George B. Cavanagh, q men,
ber Of the board. said the total
registration may reach 405, 900.
The previous high Of 384.869 was
in 1948.
Evening star., 1952-09-21
Sommers Heads Polio Fund

LEESBURG, Va, Sept. 20 (Spe.
iaD.-Harry S. Sommers of Pae.
oman Springs has been appointed
chairman of the 1853 infantilt
paralysis fund raising campaign
in Loudoun County. The appoint.
ment was made by Jack E. Russell
county chairman of the Nationa,
Foundation for nfantile Paralysis
and approved by Richmond head.
quarters.
Evening star., 1952-09-21

Gov. Stevenson wound up q
brief but hectic visit to Washing
ton and vicinity yesterday by
presenting commissions to q
Graduating class Of young Marine
of1cerS which included one of his
three sons.
The climax Of the Presidential
candidates appearance here came
when Adlai Stevenson III stepped
forward at Quantico. Va, Marine
Base to receive diplomas for his
platoon from his father.
Shortly after the graduating
exercises for COZ members of the
officer candidates class, the Gov
ernor had luncheon with Marine
Officials, his three sons and three
classmates Of young Adlai.
The Governors party then left
for Richmond in a motor convoy.
About $500 men and women
Marines turned out for the cere-
mony, along with their families
and officials from Washington
and nearby Virginia. The gradua-
ton was held at Butler Stadium
under clear sky.
Gates, Kimball On Hand.
The graduating class was
grouped in a semicircle on the
athletic field Immediately in front
of the speakers stand.
In the background the audience
occupied spectators seats ranging
upward on a natural slope form
ing one side Of the stadium.
On the stand with Gov. Steven
son was Secretary of the Navy
Kimball and 1t. General Clifton
B. Gates, head Of Marine training
at Quantico. and former COM
mandant Of the Marine Corps.
Gov. Stevenson addressed his
brief remarks directly to the young
officers. He assured them that
lnghting like that now going on
IA Korea would have to be faced
somewhere In the world as long
as the Soviets try ''to subjugate
the free peoples of the world"
The fighting might have been
avoided on that particular battle
field, Gov. Stevenson said. but II
certainly would have broken out
Elsewhere $50 long as the United
Estates and the free peoples of the
earth retained their purpose to
resist"
Helicopter Circles Field.
While Gen. Gates was introduc-
ing the Governor. a Marine hell
copter circled the edge of the
field on a Photographic mission
Gen. Gates gave orders that the
'copter withdraw, but word appar.
emily was slow in reaching the
pilot.
The rotary craft made another
circle of the field, this time while
Gov. Stevenson was speaking. The
Governor, who had remarked
earlier that aircraft motors were
drowning out his words at Ma.
tional Airport. laughed and said
Ito Gen. Gates:
II hope Marine discipline Is
better on the ground than in the
air."
Plane browns Out Speech.
Two hours previously, the Gov
|ernor addressed a few informal
remarks to some 1000 cheering
residents of Washington and
NEARBY Virginia who turned out tc
lgreet him at the MATS terminal
National Airport.
| When an airplane TAXED be-
Evening star., 1952-09-21
Connecticut Bishop First

NEW LONDON, Conn.-The
lfirst Protestant Episcopal bishop
In the United States was Samuel
Seabury. On November Il, 1874,
In Aberdeen, Scotland. he was con-
lsecrated bishop Of Connecticut
and first bishop Of the American
church. He fulfilled the episcopal
loffice at New London until his
death February as. 1895.
Evening star., 1952-09-21
Cites Constitution
Of the confederucy

Among the most valuable heri-
tages Of the Old South is its po-
litical genius, which in many
respects was far ahead OF its
times. Even today some Of the
finest products Of Southern gov
ernmental thought are only be-
ginning to win the general ac-
ceptance which they have 50
long deserved.
A classic example. It seems to
me. IS the Constitution Of the
Confed ederacy. Scholars of con-
stitutional law have long recog-
nized 1t as o sound and most
thoughtful document. It con-
Evening star., 1952-09-21
New Vitality Apparent
Throughout the South

The task Of striking off the
shackles Of the South, begun
by woodrow Wilson, has
brought you to your rightful
place in the Union. not as a
matter Of charity. not as a
sectional matter. but because q
happy. purposeful people in q
strong. prosperous country is
the democratic goal. The
Southern States. too. it seems
to me, have played a large part
in liberating mems creative en-
ergies and reaching these goals.
Everywhere this liberation of
mans powers during the DEM
ocratic decades has brilliantly
succeeded, but nowhere has its
success been more marked than
in the South. Here has come the
richest Towering Of a great re-
gion our Nation has witnessed.
A new vitality and creative en-
ergy is apparent in every aspect
OF Southern culture, material,
intellectual and spiritual. Your
colleges are crowded. There is a
keen interest in the arts.
Some years ago q famous
American critic said that the
South was the wasteland of the
mind. Yet at that very mo-
ment. I am told, so many Of
your housewives had novels
simmering with the soup
among them Gone With the
Wind"-that many husbands
had to wait for supper. And
men-in an effort perhaps to
keep up with their women,
among them your own Ellen
Glasgow-were writing books
and plays. too. So it was that
the Nobel Prize for literature
came to the Mississippian, Will
liam Faulkner: a prize that he
accepted in an exalted address,
extolling the uncomfortable
spirit of man.
If this means much to the
Nation, it also, I am sure, means
much to you. Your way has
often been hard. Yet you have
always held that civilization is
something more than the bend
ing of the resources of nature
to the uses of man. Man cam
not live without bread, but his
spirit cannot live by bread
alone.
In the course Of this re-
surgence, I hope that it may be
possible for us to keep all that
was good of the Old South,
while embracing all that is good
OF the New South. Technicians
can make a country, but they
alone cannot create a civiliza-
tion. There are riches in your
inheritance which are some-
times observation-disclosures which
the rest of the Nation could
borrow with great profit. be-
lieve it was Gladstone who said
that no greater misfortune
could befall q people than to
break utterly with its past.
Evening star., 1952-09-21

tanned some brilliant innova.
tions. including the so-called
item veto-authorizing the Pres
ident to disapprove individual
items in an appropriation bill.
without having to veto the en-
tire message.
This inspiration Of the Com
federate statesmen has since
been incorporated into the Con-
StitutionS Of about three-fourths
Of our States. including my own
State Of Illinois.
It Is too much to hope that
our Federal Government may
soon adopt this priceless inven-
ton Of Southern craftsmanship?
I hope not, because it is a most
useful tool. It has enabled me
to veto more appropriations, in
volving more money. than any
Governor In Illinois history.
And 1t is one reason why 46
other States had higher State
tax burdens than Illinois in re-
lation to the income Of their
citizens last year.
In other fields. I am glad to
note. the Southern talent for
government has won the recog-
milton which is its due. Many
Of your States are among the
best governed in the land.
Southern diplomats have earned
wholehearted respect in Asia
and Europe. In Congress,
Southern leaders once again give
wise and distinguished service to
the Nation. especially In the all
important area of foreign af-
fairs. I am proud to have one
Of them, Senator John Spark
man Of Alabama, as my running
mate. And I am also proud that
such leaders-each himself q
candidate for the presidency
have given me their support
Senator Kefauver and my dis
tant kinsman. Richard Russell
Of Georgia.
Just as the governmental con-
tributions Of the South some
times were not fully appreciated
in the past. so too. I suspect.
some Of the problems of the
South have not been fully un-
derstood elsewhere. One of these
is the problem of rninorities-a
problem which I have had oc-
casion to think about a good
deal. since my own State also
has minority groups.
One thing that I have learned
is that minority tensions are al
ways strongest under conditions
Of hardship. During the long
years Of Republican neglect and
exploitation. many Southerners
white and Negro-have suf-
fered even hunger, the most de-
grading Of mans adversities.
All the South. in one degree or
another. was afflicted with q
pathetic lack Of medical serv-
ices, poor housing, poor school,
ing, and q hundred other ills
flowing from the same source Of
poverty.
Evening star., 1952-09-21
Says 6. O. P. ShockIed
Nation Through Congress

For the South this period was
q desert without an oasis. But
however hard it was to bear at
the time, we in the more fortu-
nate present can view it with a
semblance of charity. For the
Republican leadership did not
neglect the South and other
Democrats simply because you
were Democrats. In its frozen
impartiality it also neglected
Republican farmers, small busi-
nessmen, and working people.
Men earned the neglect Of the
Republican leaders not by their
political aff1liation, but by being
small and poor. This is why so
many people have shifted to the
Democratic Party.
The Republican leadership
did not merely treat the South
with arrogant and massive ne
glect. It did more. It shackled
the South, and millions outside
the South, through its control Of
Congress; it's control of money
and banking; its favoritism to
powerful interests; its espousal
of high tariffs, high interest
rates and unfair freight rates.
In the larger sense you became
.colonials Of an empire which, If
it was not aien, was at least
absentee. Yours was primarily
an agricultural economy, de-
pending for cash income largely
on cotton and tobacco. OF these
you produced far more than
could be consumed at home.
You paid exorbitant rates Of
interest for mortgage and crop
loans. Nobody consulted you
about freight rates. You just
paid them. Crops sold for what
they would bring, because farm
ers could not hold them for
higher prices. Bitterly they wit
messed prices rise only after
their crops had gone out Of their
hands.
It is interesting to recall that
more than half a century ago
Southern and Western farm
erS pleaded for Government
warehouses where they could
hold their crops for better
prices in exchange for certifi-
Gates at 80 per cent of the
market value. The plan was
denounced by Republican lead
erS as socialistic, a phrase they
evidently never get tired Of. But
now, since the Democrats have
enacted essentially the same
plan. the Republicans approve
enthusiastically. Indeed, bid
ding for the farm vote UP in
Minnesota the other day. the
Republican candidate for Presi-
dent pulled the Democratic
platform right out from under
me!
But to return to the past.
When you marketed your crops
abroad, you sold in free markets
for the going price. But when
you bought manufactured goods
at home, Republican tariffs
compelled you to pay through
the nose. You have been pro-
testing this injustice since at
least the wear 1929
Evening star., 1952-09-21
Church Drive Launched

CANBERRA. -. The Methodist
Church has launched a drive for
81. 1.672 500 to build q new church
and youth center at Canberra.
The church will seat 416 persons,
the youth chapel 60. and there
will be a lounge. library, xewea.
tion hall, and claSsrooms.