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Evening star., 1953-12-21

BY a kind of tacit consent
therefore, the conferences
added up to something more
in the nature of propaganda
/ than as a real meeting of
minds. They were still well
come and valuable to all
parties concerned for a variety
of reasons.
The President has been SEN
sitive to criticism that he was
failing to lead. Congressional
Republicans have been widely
attacked for continuing in
their habit of automatic op-
position to the White House
even after they had elected a
Republican President. Last
weeks activities were respon-
Sive to these complaints.
The returning leaders ad-
mitted to considerable curiosity
about what had been happen
ing here since the adjournment
of Congress last August. They
sought enlightenment about
the Presidents attitude toward
Senator Mccarthy, the future
plans of Attorney General
Brownell and the effect of the
Keech decision on their pat
ronage problems. They con-
feSS to worry about the Korean
situation-very much of the
record.
From their home fence
mending, they bring word that
the farmers are as dissatisfied
as the scattered November
elections indicated. Sporadic
unemployment and downturn
in business also have put them
in a mood to cooperate more
closely with an active President
who still, despite some loss OF
prestige, stands very we'll with
the public.
Evening star., 1953-12-21

And the only result Of such q
disaster can be the placing Of
the country in the Red orbit.
The nationalism- communism
is gaining adherents every day.
The agents are apparently not
against the emperor or the
dynasty. They are against
America and the Americans
whom they accuse of being the
source of all trouble,
The propagandists are ex-
plotting the fact that not a
single Soviet airplane has ever
dropped a bomb on Japan and
not a single Red warship has
ever fired a smell at the Nip
ponese islands. The destruc.
ton of japan and the dracon-
ian laws imposed on the coun-
try after its surrender were
the work Of Yankee imperial
ISM" the Red propagandists
say.
The rank and file of the peo-
pie in their present distress
are listening to these propa-
gandists. They are especially
listening to the reasoning that
once Japan entered the con-
cert of Red powers. the vast
markets of China and Siberia,
which are hungering for cheap
manufactured products, would
be wide open to the japanese
workers. All that is necessary
to accomplish this would be to
overthrow the present regime
.subservient to America.
Against these arguments ap-
pealing to the impoverished
masses there is very little we
can offer except economic as
sistance to the tune of another
81 billion year. And even if
it were possible to give such
assistance from our depleted
treasury. 1t would be only O
palliative.
Evening star., 1953-12-21
Italian Leaders Study
De Gasperi-PeIIa Split
By the Associated Press

ROME, Dec. 21.-Leaders of
Italy's top political party, the
Christian Democrats, today
called a meeting to study their
strained relations with Premier
Giuseppe Pella.
Italian political circles were
buzzing with reports of a serious
split between Mr.. Pella and a
faction of his party headed by
his old boss, ex-Premier Alcide
de Gasperi.
The rumorS took on new au-
thority over the week end when
spokesman for Mr.. Pella said
the Premier was studying" some
recent actions by the Christian
Democrats and party chieftain.
Mr.. de Gasperi.
These included (1) a party
resolution taking a neutral"
stand toward the strike of gov
ernment employees December II,
(2) a recent call by powerful
party figure, former Interior
Minister Mario Scelba. for a new
four-party center alliance in
stead of Mr. Pella's current tie
up with the right wing Mon
archists. and (3) a magazine
article by Mr.. de Gasperi re-
ferring to Mr.. Pella's govern
ment as "a friendly" but not a
Christian Democrat government.
Yesterday Mr.. Pella and Mr..
de Gasperi met for a long talk
which semioff1cial sources said
was held in an atmosphere of
grand cordiality."
Evening star., 1953-12-21

brought him from Georgia to
investigate the security police,
under Nikolai Jezhov. Beria
found Jezhov traitor, using
his powers so excessively as to
threaten the entire state
structure, and sending thou
sands of innocent patriots to-
their doom. So Jezhov and the
clique around him were ex-
ecuted-Beria took Jezhov's
place. and thus saved the So
Wet Union!
But now what do the So
Wet people learn? Jezhov
could not have been guilty!
For Beria has now confessed
that he had begun traitorous
activity as early as 1919 when
he was acting as a counter
revolutionary agent for the
British! In 1920. he worked
with a native counter-revolu-
tionary underground. This
consummate traitor, says the
indictment, had murdered his
way upward for 35 years
throughout the lifetime of the
U. S. S. R.-without attract
ing the slightest suspicion. He
had plotted with foreign cap
ltalists to overthrow commu-
nism. The executions over
which he presided for Is years
had been merely to advance
his own power and provide a
cover for his plotters. With
Stalin'S death he intensified
activities, even sabotaging
agriculture, to starve the
U. S. S. r..
This criminal had headed all
atomic energy projects. His
word meant life. death. or
camp slavery, for everyone in
or out of the government. He
controlled the network of labor
camps in which millions Of
Russians are still toiling.
Is this credible? And what
must the Russian people
think? What is to become Of
the tens of thousands still
Evening star., 1953-12-21

Whether the President can
form a solid front of Repub-
licanS remains very much a
question. It must always be
remembered that many Of the
men who survived the New and
Fair Deals to come to power
under Gen. Eisenhower are not
cynical reactionaries but men
who sincerely believe the old
ways were best.
TO gain their support, the
President is taking a large risk
of losing Democratic votes. His
supporters say it is calculated
risk but they can point to no
canvass among Democrats to
sustain their point that it can
be done safely.
What remains to be seen is
the extent to which the Presi-
dent proposes to use the power
OF his great Office to get his
way IN Congress-. So far he
has not used it at all; his ap-
pointments have gone with
prodigal liberality to those who
were against him as much as to
those for him. Nor has he
thoroughly cleared up the ques-
ton Of just what Republicans
he viii support.
The patronage situation is
further confused by a behind.
the-scenes struggle between
the Taft wing of the party
which operates through the
national committee and the
Dewey faction which depends
upon Attorney General Brown
ell to press its case. Their
quarrelS are cuStomarily arbi-
trated by Presidential Assistant
Sherman Adams, who, with
the usual fate of urnpires,
generally ends up pleasing
nobody.
Evening star., 1953-12-21

and Democratic voters. In
the months ahead attention
will be concentrated on the
congressional elections. This
will be through a Congress
sional Campaign Committee of
the Citizens = for Eisenhower
which is headed by James L.
Murphy, San Francisco busi-
nessman, who directed the
citizens organization in CAL
ifornia last year. He recently
came here to manage this
phase of the 1854 campaign.
Mr.. Murphy and his organi-
zation, it is learned, plan a
selective rather than an over
all job. They will limit their
activity chiefly to about 100
congressional districts-there
are 435--where the party di-
vision is close and which swing
back and forth between the
two parties. This pendulum
character suggests independ-
ent minded constituencies
where competition is stiff be-
tween the parties and where,
or so the Ci6zens-for- Eisen-
hover leaders think, the Ell
senhower" type of Republican,
ism would have special appeal.
Included in the 100 districts
are the IS where a shift of 5
per cent of the vote-or less
in some cases-can swing the
district. and thus the House
seat, to one party or the other.
Of the IS seats of this cate
CORY in the House of Repre-
sentatives, Republicans now
hold As. Democrats. 40.
Evening star., 1953-12-21

ment again will be at stake
and not just Congress.
BY confining its activities to
the IS per cent" swing districts
where party control switches
back and forth, the Citizens
for Eisenhower organization
hopes to minimize chances of
friction with the regular
G. o. p. organization whose
power derives chiefly from
other districts which are pre-
ponderantly Republican and
remain so year after year. The
old-liners are traditionally sus-
picious of amateurs" and the
Citizens-for- Eisenhower man
ayers know that and do not
intend to get into their hair.
Nor will the Citizens-for-
Eisenhower organization take
any part in primaries where
the choice is between Repub-
licans. That way lies trouble,
as even so skillful a political
master as Franklin D. Roose-
welt discovered when he set out
in the 1888 primaries to choose
between Democrats and got his
luckless experiment called a
purge"
This citizens" movement is
unusual and experimental for
an off-year election. In such
an election, local issues pre-
dominate and it is difficult to
transfer the Presidents image
and popularity into a closely
bounded, and often insulated.
congressional district. Those
who hold hope in the venture
point to the recent special
election in Los Angeles. They
claim that the Republican
triumph, which came after a
succession of special election
defeats. was due chiefly to a
well-organized volunteer citi-
zens drive that got out enough
independent type voters to pro-
vide the slender margin of
victory.
Evening star., 1953-12-21

Gil Of Foreign Relations, who
after spending q year in Indo-
nesia, says America is regarded
there as a capitalistic country
of selfish imperialism. and ul-
terror motive. He advises pa
tience In dealing with a new
country. and on the whole tries
to be constructive in his view
point. It is startling. however.
to find that after all the hue
and cry about America rescu-
ing nations from imperialism,
and after the conspicuous way
in which the diplomacy of the
United States did help to wrest
Indonesia from the Dutch en-
pire. it now appears the United
States is the villain of the
world. incidentally Mr.. Mallory
reminds his readers that there
has never been a national
election in Indonesia either be-
fore or after independence was
obtained in 1949.
Naturally there are Ameri-
cans who seek to establish the
theory that the drop in Amer
lean influence abroad has been
due to Senator Mccarthy.
That's a theme which has be-
come an alibi for past failures
by our diplomats abroad. It
is apparent that the anti
American trend began steadily
to develop for a variety of
other reasons long before the
turore over congressional in
quiries. In this connection
Foreign Affairs" has an in
teresting article by Henry
Wriston. president of Brown
University, about the different
voices in America. He tells his
worldwide audience of schol-
ars and students Of foreign
policy:
Current Investigations -
by congressional committees
are not fundamentally differ
ent from earlier examples. Nor
do they COW public opinion.
Despite all the uproar about
the, terror created by con-
gressional investigations, / do
not know any one with some
thing important to say which
the American people ought to
hear which has been silenced
by the investigative proce-
dureS: many who have Moth
ing to say pretend that the
reason they do not say some
thing significant is because of
those pressures."
Reproduction Rights ReserVed.)
Evening star., 1953-12-21
Thomas L. Stokes

We have seen in the last few
days, notably in the Presidents
conferences with Republican
congressional leaders, how the
Eisenhower image is to be pro-
jected henceforth continuously
as the Republican Party'S best
asset. as indeed it is.
The purpose is two-fold:
First. as previously discussed
here, to arouse the great rank
and file of Eisenhower support.
which included so many Demo-
Gratis and independents in last
years landslide, to bring pres
sure upon Congress for as good
a legislative program as pos
Sible.
Second, to rally for next
years congressional elections
as big a vote as possible from
independents and Democrats
who, as the President himself
has publicly acknowledged,
were responsible for his victory.
They could well be a deciding
factor in key congressional
contests. The President must
be relied upon to attract this
combination. 1t is a balance
of-power group concededly. He,
not the Republican Party, won
it over in 1852.
It is recognized that much
work will be needed at the pre-
cinct level to reinforce the
Presidents personal appeal.
g. That is why we now are
seeing a reactivation of the
Citizens-for- Eisenhower move
ment that was so effective
In the last campaign in pros
elyting among independent
Evening star., 1953-12-21
Donish King Sick

COPENHAGEN. Denmark, Dec.
81 R).-Palace officials said yes
terday Denmark's King Frederik
TX has been confined to bed since
Thursday with q strong" in
f1ammation. The announcement
said "the King Is getting better"
Evening star., 1953-12-21
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Evening star., 1953-12-21
Miss BIuine Has Operation

LONDON, Dec. 81 P).-Ameri-
can actress Vivian Blaine. 80,
starring here in the musical hit
"Guys and Dolls" had an opera
ton on her jaw yesterday for
trouble caused by a wisdom
tooth.
Evening star., 1953-12-21

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-08

Sixteen days Of transatlantic
travel for a five-day glimpse OF
Europe is a bit out of the ordi-
nary for tours of the Old World.
There is usually more equal
balance between the time con-
sumed in voyaging and that
devoted to staying.
But the combination of a sat-
isfying life aboard two luxury
liners and quickie sightseeing
confined to Lisbon, Rome, Ma
pies and the surrounding coun-
tryside has its advocates today.
They are among the members
of a press party which sailed
from New York January 3 for
the express purpose of making
the maiden voyage of the Ital-
ian Lines new and speedy flag
ship. This seagoing and self
contained resort. with activities
ranging from night-clubbing to
skeet shooting, is the Andrea
Doria, which the travelling pub
lie Is becoming acquainted with
through the press, television and
news reels.
Italian liners and the rebirth
of Italy's shipping inspired the
trip, and the land arrangements
were in the nature Of a bonus
while waiting for the sailing daLe
of the Andrea Doria. But this
land schedule can be recon-
mended, should one be limited
to five days in Italy: Three days
and nights in Rome, SO hours in
and around Naples and a four
hour bus ride between the two
cities over the old and the new
Appian Way.
Time, Energy Limits
A more intensive hop, skip and
Jump inspection of Italy could
have added Florence, Venice,
Milan and the Italian Riviera,
but the Rome Naples itinerary
was nicely timed for a party
whose age averaged perhaps As
and whose individuals like to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-08
By Jacques FutrelIe, Jr.
The Stor's TroveI Editor

sleep in the same bed at least
twice in what could have been
an exhausting junket.
So, add the other cities up to
the limit of your time, discretion
and energies, but three days can
be all too short to enjoy Rome
to the fullest, and Naples offers
a most interesting port of de-
parture by ship from Italy. And,
in case your geography of Italy
is a bit skinny, remember that
Naples is a most convenient base
for visiting stored Capri and
Sorrento, Pompeii's intriguing
ruins and for rolling along the
spectacularly beautiful Amalf1
drive.
Flexible Prices
First-time visitors abroad are
prone to expect bargains to
shout out at them from the win
dows of shops and stores in
Europe. That can happen for
certain items in certain coun-
tries and cities, and in Rome
it's silks and handmade shirts
and blouSes. Borsalino hats, too,
are a buy in Italy, although one
may do better outside of Rome.
But the American has to change
his buying psychology before he
really begins to stretch his Ira
over souvenirs for himself and
gifts for friends.
He has to forget the fixed
price policy Of American stores
and gear up his ability to dicker.
For many an American, this art
of bargaining is usually confined
to winning a better trade-in on
his car, but the Italian shop
keeper has the reputation of
getting a bang out of a palaver
that leads to a deal Is per cent
below his first asking price.
For instance, one approach
lacking in bargaining f1nesse &C.
CURED in Rome. The intention
was to pick up a BorSalino hat.
Not all stores in Italy sell them,
and it was question of finding
store. A policeman with an arm
band announcing that he spoke
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-08
Travellers Notebook
Shopper Must Work for Best Italian Bargain

English was approached, and the
shopping objective was an
nounced. He escorted us over to
a place about a block away and
tipped off the proprietor. The in
direct approach to the desired
item the best strategy in
opening bargaining proceedings
was lost, and the salesman
got pretty much the price he
wanted.
Know U. S. Prices
Unless you know American
prices. take the buyer of the
family-the wife-along as an
adviser on shopping expeditions.
The luncheon cloths, the gloves
or the trinkets may be no cheap
er than Washington's prices.
Gloves are a particularly tricky
item. Italian leather goods can
be bought here in Washington,
and reputable stores stand be-
hind them. In the press party
there was a shopper who picked
up six pairs of gloves for about
So a pair. She wore them later,
and the dye had stained her
hands. BY then, she was headed
for America.
The language barrier also
handicaps the traveller. Speak
ing only English, he is imme-
diately spotted for what he is
an American tourist (Which
means a fat wallet) with no
Italian background. This tourist
probably would do better at
shops off the beaten tourist
tracks, bargaining by gestures in
stores where sales are less fire.
quent.
Around Naples is a flourishing
cameo industry, and the tourist
scarcely escapes without buying
at least one example of the
cameo art. Escape" is used adj
visedly, as the shopkeepers have
an engaging way of coming out
to strike up a conversation with
those-particularly Americans
who show enough interest to
pause before the display win
dows. Once inside, the Ameri-
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Time, Energy Limits
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Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1953-02-10
Cup and Saucer Hats for Spring
Press Fashion Editor

Associated Press Fashion Editor
A new era of dressing up" is
forecast by milliner Lilly Dache,
as one of the many changes in
national attitude following the
new administration in Washing
ton.
This may not be as world
shaking as other changes STEM
ming from the White House but it
means much to the nations vast
fashion industry to know, for in
stance, that no style-conscious
woman would think of attending
a tea in Washington these days
without hat and white gloves, and
that the casual look is strictly
declaSSe.
The vivacious Lilly says hats
may be very large or very small,
but no lady will look well-dressed
this spring without one. She
shows a series of cups" (very
small hats) and "saucers" (king-
size silhouettes) as a part of her
new collection, which also high
lights a number of charmingly
fresh starched lace hats. The lat
ter are done in white, black and
colors, in small cloche types and
big picture hats, managing to
achieve a wonderfully light and
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1953-02-10
Mi1estones in Aea,1 research

1T aOas about a hundred gears dgo that a
French physician, Rene TheophIe -Hya-
cinthe Loemnec, held a tightly rolled CYL
inder of paper to patients chest. He
found that he could hear the heart beat
far more clearly than aOith his ear alone.
Laennec's experiment led to the invention
of the stethoscope, one of the greatest aids
to the diagnosis of heart conditions.
Today's physician-thanks to modern
heart research-has many precise instru-
ments for diagnosing heart disease.
Progress depends on research. And re-
search depends on dollars. So why not
strike blow at heart disease now with
generous gift to the Heart Fund.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1953-02-10
RiverIake Would
Bring Boom Says
Researcher Zeis

AKRON-Building of the River
lake Belt Conveyor Lines - once
the State Legislature enables it
TO buy right-of-way-would give
Ohio a $500,0o0, 1000 bolt of pros
perity.
SO says DR.. Paul M. Zeis, for
mer chief of the transportation
and communications division of
the u. S. Department of Com
merce and now Riverlake's vice
president in charge of research.
Riverlake would set off the
boom, Zeis says, by pouring more
than $500, 100000 of private cap
ital into the construction of its
100-mile conveyor line for low
cost transportation of coal and
iron ore between Lake Erie and
the Ohio River. -
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1953-02-10

Mr.. Porter, graduate of South
Solon High School, is employed
by Steel Products Engineering
Company, Springfield. He served
four years in the Army.
Graduation exercises of Mr.. and
Mrs. Roger knisley were held
Saturday at the Ohio University
at Athens. Mr.. Knisley, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. David Knisley, re-
ceived bachelor science in Com
merce and Mrs. Knisley, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Theo-
bald, received Masters of fine arts
in Music. Those attending from
here were, Mr.. and Mrs. Marion
Knisley and Shirley, Mr.. and Mrs.
Richard Knisley and Christy, Mr..
and Mrs. David Knisley, Mrs.
Harry Theobald and Miss Marg-
aret Davis. f
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1953-02-10
Boy Scout Week

Mrs. Eva Hunter entered Mt.
Carmel Hospital for major
operation. M
Boy Scout Week will be obServ-
ed from February 7th. to 14th.
Boys will wear their uniforms all
week. They have their displays
in the windows of the Dave &
Doc Super Market and these dis
plays will be judged for an
award on Wednesday. Each morn
ing the boys will participate in
the Flag Raising ceremonies and
attend Retreat each evening.
Special services will be held at
the Churches and Schools. Mr..
George Brooks and Mr.. Harry
Jackson are the Scout Masters
and Mr.. Raymond Roberts, the
Cub Scout Master.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1953-02-10

Mr.. and Mrs. Orlyn Fout and
family of Springfield spent the
weekend with Mr.. and Mrs. Roy
Critics and David.
Honor roll for Stokes Township
school published in the recent pa
per of the school is as follows:
the second grade, Barbara Butch
er, Linda Diffendal, Joyce Hicks,
Evelyn Jackson, Juanita McKin-
zie, George Owens, Sharon Smith,
Billy Davis and David Stolen
burg.
Third grade, Elizabeth Alder
son, Loretta Davis, Jolene Wat
son, Elaine Smith, Kay Klever,
Michael Brady, Mary Belle De-
voc, Carl Pence and Kent Rehm.
Fourth grade, Carolyn Butcher,
Reba Justice, Charles Lutz, and
Robert Stoughton.
Fifth grace, Janet Butcher,
Marlene Roddy, Geraldine Pence,
Buddy Coil and Jimmy Bushu.
Sixth grade, Nancy Devoe, jan