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Evening star., 1953-10-18
BY Crosby S. Noyes

In addition to military meas
ures and civil defense, plans are
under way to tighten the Ma
tons protection against the
| possibility of a sneak attack
with hidden atomic weapons.
| Defense against the chance of
what is called the "clandeStine'
attack has been the least talked
about phase of the national de-
Tense picture, now undergoing
critical review by top Govern
ment leaders. The steps that
are being made to meet the
threat are still classified top
secret.
Recent statements by some
Government leaders, however,
imply that vulnerability to clan
destine attack is a point of grave
weakness in the glass jaw pre-
Sented by this country to any
would-be attacker.
/ How great is this danger, and
how can it be met?
There is, to begin with, no
doubt whatever that an attack
with clandestine weapons -
atomic or otherwise-is phys
ically possible.
Packaging Is No Problem.
An atomic bomb could be sue
cessfully concealed in a ship and
timed to explode in the middle
of crowded harbor. One OF
more weapons could be carried
by submarine to American waters
and smuggled ashore by fishing
vessels using any of a number
of remote stretches of coast
line. From there they could be
shipped anywhere in the country
aboard ordinary commercial car
riers, packed as innocent-lookine
articles.
The problems of packaging a
bomb are not great. 1t is true
that the more advanced types
Of atomic weapons-including the
hydrogen bomb-would be hard
to hide in a small space. But
the possibility of the suitcase
bomb was made clear with the
announcement that the Army
has developed an atomic artillery
shell less than IL inches in
diameter.
On the other hand, there is nc
need of delivering the bombs in
finished form. According to the
experts, only a relatively small
amount of fashionable materia,
which could be readily concealed
need be brought in from the
outside. The rest of the bomb
could be quite easily con-
structed in any well-equippeC
machine shop.
Protection Problem Large.
The problem of protective
measures against such an attack
on the other hand, are enormous
In an early discussion of the
matter. DR.. j. Robert Open.
heimer told a Senate COMMITTEES
that the best device for finding
hidden bomb was a screw.
driver to open all crates anc
inspect the contents. Today, the
problem is much the same.
| Protection against sneak at
tack centers at this point on the
Coast Guard, working in CO.
operation with customs officials
The concentration is on incom.
ing vessels from Iron Curtain
Evening star., 1953-10-18
Neon Lights Permitted

Neon lights are now permis-
sable on the stores of Bloemfou.
tein, South Africa.
Evening star., 1953-10-18
Dog Mari Fans See
Jiggs VI Join Up as
New Marine Mascot
BY the Assoeioied Press

| pf me ASSoeiufeo PFeSS
FREDERICKSBURG. Va, Oct,
1.-THE Marine Corps got a new
member today 1i-year-old, 55-
pound, tongue-hanging-out bull
dog whose main duty will be
mascoting.
/ The dog, wearing the Marine
green and a look of diSinterest
was sworn into the corps BY
1t. Col. Harry S. Pepper OF
Quantico.
The swearing of Jiggs VI,
came at the annual Fredericks-
burg Dog Mart where dogs of all
sort = and 1000 people - had
their day.
Jiggs vi, presented to the Ma
rines by Mrs. Kathryn Jillson OF
Washington. replaces Sergt. Jiggs
v, retired as of today. Jiggs "
the former mascot. reached the
retirement age-9 years.
The annual dog mart is spon-
sored each year by the towns
Chamber of Commerce and the
Izaak Walton League. A high
| light of the show is the dog
auction which continued until
after Sundown.
BaSsett Hound Is Best.
The dogs on auction brought
from $40 down to $1.50-the
latter price aimed at the bicycle
trade which pays in pennies and
dimes from a piggy bank.
In the dog judging, N. r. ELL
iott's bassett hound. nine months
old, took the best in show
honors. Mr.. Elliott is from
Quantico.
The award for the ugliest mutt
went to a dog owned by Bar
bara Wheat of Fredericksburg
the owner of a bald cocker
spaniel.
The ribbon for the best look
ing mutt was taken by a dog
owned by Betsy Nolan, of Stat
ford County.
Warren Harding, jr., II, won
the foX-horn blowing contest
and H. A. Hansbrough, 74-year-
old Midland farmer, took tops
in the hog calling contest.
18-Year-Old is Queen.
Clifford Rosser of Culpepel
won the old-time fiddling con-
tests.
Meanwhile, Julia Jane Ballard
an 18-year-old blonde who at
tends Fredericksburg Hig /
School, was named queen of the
dog mart, which is a higher
honor than it first sounds.
The mart is based on some.
thing that happened in this ares
some 255 years ago when the
early settlers liked the golc
nuggets and pelts the Indians
had, and the Indians liked the
fine hunting dogs of the settlers
So the two groups held a mart
at which dogs were traded fol
gold and pelts. The marts ended
before the Revolutionary Wal
and weren't revived until 1927
Now, the Indians who attend
members of the Pamunkey tribe
on the King William reserva-
tion, are smarter. They trade
their handicrafts for white mans
gold.
Evening star., 1953-10-18
John w. Smith, 50

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Oct. II
(P)-John w. Smith, SO, stock
broker and a director of the
Vindicator Printing Co., pub
Usher of the Youngstown Vindi-
Gator, died in a hospital today,
A Yale graduate, he had been
Ill for two years.
Evening star., 1953-11-08
District Campaign

The second part of the story is
the 9Th district chapter. 1t
partook of all the mistakes in
the State race-and added some
of its own.
The central figure in the 9Th
district picture was Albert j.
Benninger, freeholder Toughly
corresponding to county commits
sioner or supervisory of Union
County. In recent years, Mr..
Benninger has solidifled his con-
troll over Republican politics in
the county until today his fac
ton has majority Give out of
nine) on the Board of Chosen
Freeholders, as the county coun-
Gil is called. Many voters have
come to the conclusion that the
Board of Chosen Freeholders is
chosen by Mr.. Benninger, a Bit
ter foe of the popular ex-Repre-
sentative Case.
It was Mr.. Benninger who
turned thumbs down in the first
place on Union County support
of Mr.. Case for Governor. Know
ing that he would not enjoy the
backing of his own county s
leadership, Mr.. Case considered
himself brushed off and decided
not to run. Mr.. Case, it conceded
Evening star., 1953-11-08

Willie and Solly, and Frank
Erickson. These unsavory types
had gone into exile in Bergen,
building beautiful showplace
homes. Law enforcement officials
and others in the government
of the strongly Republican
county seemed to be altogether
too friendly with them. Late in
the campaign, the DriScoll ad-
ministration made clucking
noises about the Bergen situa-
ton, but really did nothing to
clean it up. Mr.. Troast inherited
this condition, but did nothing
convincing about criticizing or
promising to correct it.
Mistake No. 4: The State ad-
miniStration, only dimly re-
sponsive to a public sentiment
that had built up over the years,
decided at the last minute to
place on the ballot referendum
question about bingo. This
game of chance, favored by
many charitable organizations
as a money raiser, is illegal in
New Jersey. The ballot question,
if answered afflrmatively by the
voters. would authorize and
direct the Legislature to legalize
bingo under certain structures
designed to keep racketeers out
of the game. Prominent among
the proponents of legal bingo
was the Catholic church. Some
one in the G. o. P. overlooked
the fact that New Jersey
Catholics are overwhelmingly
Democratic-and that many of
them who might not otherwise
have voted. would be likely to
vote the Democratic ticket as
a side issue while casting a bal
lot for b1ngo.
When the State wide vote was
tabulated, it showed $4,000 for
Democrat Meyner and 807 900
for Republican Troast. Side by
side with this was a vote on the
bingo question, $4,000 in favor
of legalized bingo, $4,000 op-
Evening star., 1953-11-08

posed. The close correlation be-
tween the pro bingo and pro-
Meyner votes on the one hand,
and the disparity between the
anti-bingo and anti-Meyner
votes on the other is apparent.
The Democratic vote was dis
proportionately heavy. probably
because of bingo.
Mistake No. S: There was
some awareneSS among organ
ization Republicans, by the time
the Troast campaign was we'll
off the ground, that the stand
ard bearer was no plumed knight
as far as the voters were con-
cerned. The G. o. P. set out to
get him some plumeS-and not
only messed up their candidate
badly. but splashed a little on
the President, too. .
The first task for the organ
ization was to build up an I'm
Like-Ike" movement for Mr..
Troast. After some tribulations,
they managed to get a picture of
the President shaking hands
with the candidate. Squarely in
the middle of the photo, between
the two handshakers, stood a
beaming Frank CHap) Farley
kingpin of the malodorous At
lantic County machine of the
convicted income-tax evader
Enoch (Nocky) johnson.
Mistake No. 6: AS if Mr.. Far
ley'S smiling face was not
not enough, the Republicans in
vited another skeleton to the
feast. Mr.. Troast addressed At
lantic County voters at a politi-
cal rally later in the campaign
On the platform in a place OF
distinction was Nocky himself
only eight years out of prison
and two years out from under
the parole officers scrutiny and
-obviously-still a power in Re-
publican politics.
Mistake No. Z: AS the cam
paign rushed toward a climax
the joey Fay incident occurred
Evening star., 1953-11-08
Handyman, 43, Accused
In Fatal Fight Over SOC

Police last night charged q
handyman with homicide in the
death of Henry D. Ware, 40.
colored, 628 Delaware avenue
S.W., who was found dead in
bed several hours after q fist
fight.
The accused was identified as
William Dorsey, 43, colored, Of
the 400 block of Delaware avenue
S.W.
Detective Sergt. Carl A. Rud-
beck, jr.. of the homicide squad.
said police talked to Mr.. Ware
yesterday morning after he and
Dorsey had a fight. Dorsey
claimed Mr.. Ware owed him so
cents for cutting wood, the de-
tective said.
Mr.. Ware was advised to swear
out warrant, the detective con-
tinued. But several hours later,
he was found in his bed and
pronounced dead by physician.
Deputy Coroner Christopher
Murphy, after an autopsy, said
I the man died from head injuries.
Evening star., 1953-11-08
Oldest Labor Union
Honors Il Prinfers;;
BIS Attend BANQUET

Members of the Columbia
Typographical Union No. 101--
the oldest labor union in America
met at banquet last night at
the Mayflower Hotel honoring
40. so. and so year members,
new members and the locals
championship baseball team.
An affiliate of the International
Typographical Union (AFL), the
Columbia Typographical Union
was founded in 1915 and now
has $500 journeyman members.
Guests at the banquet includ-
ed Raymond Blattenberger. Pub
lie Printer of the United States.
and Herbert c. Pillen. president
of the Washington Graphic Arts
Association.
Speaker of the evening was
Harold Clark. second vice pres-
ident of the ITU from Indianap-
oils, Ind. He was introduced to
the 375 diners by Jesse B. Man
beck, president of Columbia
Typographical Union.
Mr.. Clark lauded the % "old
timer" members and cited the
democratic principles on which
the union was founded.
Sixty-year members honored
were Charles M. Barker, a re-
tired Star printer; Edward S.
Breidenstein, Hugh Everett, AL
bert Reid, Frank j. Smith and
Stephen B. Tilley.
Fifty-year members included
Joseph w. Becker, George H.
BirdSall. James T. Casebeer. a
retired Star printer; John w.
Griffith. Franklin T. Hodges,
Cover M. Kookogey and Robert
M. Miller.
$50 Rose B. Radley, Walter
A. Griggs, Henry T. Rodier.
Fletcher v. Shepley. Lewis H.
Smith, Charles II. VanHook, w.
Scott Walker. retired Star
printer; Charles w. Warner and
John C. Yates.
Evening star., 1953-11-08
What Happened in New Jersey? Here Are 8 Mistakes Made by

:familiar with Mr.. Cases record.
Mistake No. IA: Having alb
dicated Mr.. Cases record, the
Republican allowed it to be seized
by the Democrats. Mr.. Williams,
sensing the popularity of Mr.,
Case and the vacuum created by
his resignation, started billing
himself as "the ase-minded
candidate" in his speeches and
political advertising. No effective
effort was made to challenge
Mr.. Williams on this matter.
Mistake No. Is. AS if he had
not already alienated pro-Case
voters enough by his attitude
toward their hero's record, Mr..
Hetf1eld came out against public
housing, an issue dear to both
Mr.. Case and his supporters.
Mistake No. 16. The National
Committee. rushing in where
angels might have feared to
tread, sent a representative to
Union County ito help out with
the campaign" One anthem
ninger Republican leader told
the National Committee ennis
sary that the best way to help
would be to "go back to Wash
ington and light a few candles. y
Undaunted, the Washington en-
voy helped organize an Like
Ike bandwagon parade, the CEN
trail element of which was a
large white truck on whose side
appeared the words, Donated
by Albert j. Benninger." The
Benninger name being synony-
nous with bossism in the opin-
ion of many Union County Re-
publicans, this tended to link
Mr.. Hetfield with machine poll
tics in some voters minds.
Mistake No. II: On the eve
of election, the Benninger organ.
ization made public an "oper
letter" to Robert Crane, pub.
Usher of the county's largest
paper, the Elizabeth Daily Jour.
nal circulation 45,000) charging
Mr.. Crane with a Sour-grape'
attitude toward the Hetf1elc
candidacy. The letter implied
that Mr.. Crane had wanted thC
candidacy himself. In a signec
editorial the afternoon before
election, Mr.. Crane denied thu
implied charge and listed fivt
reasons why the Journal refused
to support Mr.. Troast and fiv'
reasons why it refused to bacl
Mr.. Hetfield. The reasons boileC
down to general charges of boss
ism in the county and corrup
ton in the State.
Mistake No. 18: The candi'
dacy of Mr.. Troast, in itself
seems to have been a mistake
as far as Union County was con.
NC1 LIEU. p11. 41OdOI . Uu1 IlDIhN
cut right through a populou
part of Elizabeth. Condemnation
proceedings resulted in some 40I
families being displaced from
their homes. To these voter
and their friends, Mr.. Troast'
name was poison, and the re
action touched Mr.. Hetfield
The Democrats, who normal.
carry Elizabeth by 4,500, thi
time carried it by 1900.
\
So, at a conservative estimate
18 mistakes had the cumulativ,
effect of delivering normally Re
publican Union County into tn,
hands of the Democrats. Eigh
of these errors had State-wid
effects. The result was that no
where did the Republicans do a
well as they had done in 1852
and nowhere except Nocky John
Evening star., 1953-11-08
The State Campaign

First, the story of the State.
Mistake No. l: Under New
Jerseys revised law, a Governor
is elected for four years and may
not succeed himself. Previously,
the term was threee years, with
reelection permitted. Gov. AL
fred E. Driscoll, twice elected
under the old statute and once
under the new one, was finishing
his third term this year and
could not run again.
1t was up to the Republican
Party, therefore, to find a can
didate to succeed Gov. Driscoll.
One, prominently mentioned,
was the 9Th districts Repre-
sentative Case, a liberal Republi-
can widely respected throughout
the State and so popular in his
own district that he ran over
10000 votes ahead of Gen. Eisen-
hover last year.
The regular Republican organ
izations throughout the State
look with disfavor on Mr.. Cases
brand of Republicanism. His
own party has, on occasion,
called him a New Dealer" The
politicans-even those in Mr..
Cases own county-ignored him
and backed Paul TroaSt of Pas
sale County. construction man
who heads the New Jersey Turn
pike Commission.
Mistake No. 2: Though the
Jersey Turnpike is a tremendous
boon to through-State motorists
(Who do not vote in New Jersey
it is not universally appreciated
by those who live along it's right
of-Way (and who do vote there) =.
Because of the great number of
quaSi-political jobs involved, the
turnpike has been dubbed PA
tronage Pike"
But mere identification with
the turnpike would not have hurt
Mr.. Troast. if he had withdrawn
from its direction before cam
palgning. Mr.. Troast, however,
hung on to his turnpike job. and
anti-Troast elements loudly
questioned the ethics involved in
this course.
Mistake No. 3: The State gov
ernment, meanwhile, had been
studying" crime conditions in
Bergen County. a populous and
prosperous area just across the
George Washington Bridge from
Manhattan. Prominent among
residents of Bergen were such
New York police characters as
Joe Adonis, the Moretti brothers,
Evening star., 1953-11-08

sons Atlantic County did they
do as well as they did in 1948.
The magnitude of the voters
resentment against the State
Republican organization left lit
tie room for anti-Eisenhower
sentiment. Indeed, in the 9th
district, where the national
spotlight was brought to focus
! by G. o. F. National Chairman
Hall. the major questions about
President Eisenhower's policies
were not even at issue. For in
stance:
The victorious Democratic can
didate pledged himself to sup
port the Presidents foreign pol
icy, while the Republicans op-
posed it. Farm polciy-an ex-
plosive issue last month in Wis
consin-waS not a consideration
in farmerless Union. Taxes and
a balanced budget were not de-
bated. High cost Of living was not
discussed. Revision of the Taft
Hartley Act was only minor
issue. Unemployment and busi-
ness recession were not cam
paign fodder.
Halls Statement Only Link.
The only thing that linked
Gen. Eisenhower to the 9Th
district, as far as can be deter
mined from close study of the
situation, was the announced po-
Sition of National Chairman Hall
that a vote for Mr.. Hetfield was
in effect a vote for Gen. Eisen-
hover. It appears that Mr.. Hall
bowed to TroaSt-Benninger-Het-
field pressure more out of un-
familiarity with the local situa-
ton than anything else. His
channels of communication with
Union County Republicanism
passed through Mr.. Benninger's
hands-and Mr.. Benninger was
fighting desperately to retain
control of the districts G. o. P.
machine.
A revealing sidelight to the
9Th district race was what
happened to Mr.. Benninger him
self. Though he is the party
leader in the county, he just
barely Squeaked through to re-
election as freeholder. He
trailed his ticket of four and
was only $500 votes ahead of
the leading Democratic candi-
date.
Probably the best analysis of
what happened in New Jersey
can be found in the words of a
veteran Union County Republi-
can last week:
This was just Eisenhower's
cleanup crusade of 1852, lasting
over into 1853 and catching the
administration of a Republican
State"
Evening star., 1953-11-08

;would have been far better
| vote-winner than Mr.. Troast.
| Mistake No. 81. After with
drawing from the political pic
ture, Mr.. Case went to work for
the Ford Foundation. One of the
terms of his employment was
that he could not engage in pol
itics. Observing this prohibition,
Mr.. Case stayed out of the 9Th
district race. The Benninger
group assailed him harshly for
not supporting the party. Be-
cause the voters of Union Coun-
ty were generally aware that
Mr.. Cases job gagged him po-
litically. the Benninger criticism
did not ring true. Anyway, criti-
cizing Mr.. Case in Union County
is like criticizing the Dodgers in
Brooklyn.
Mistake No. 10: Gov. DriScoll
had ruled that candidates would
be chosen by the county organ
izations rather than by a pri-
mary election which-he said
would cost the State about $75.-
600. Union County voters like
primaries-they do most of their
fighting at them-and many
we're angry at the Governors
decision. Besides, the closed
room method of selecting a can
didate seemed to many persons
to smack of boSSiSm.
Mistake No. IL: The Benninger
organization cast about for a
candidate, and finally came up
with Mr.. Hetfield. Though the
Hetfelds are an old and respect
ed political family in Union, this
particular Hetfield did not have
legal residence in the county at
the time he was put up by the
Republican organization. His
wife maintained legal residence
at Plainfield, in Union, and Mr..
and Mrs. Hetfield lived there
most of the year. But in 1851,
Mr.. Hetfield established legal
residence at the shore resort of
Mantoloking and was elected to
the Town Council of that Ocean
County community. He resigned
from the Mantoloking council
last summer and re-registered in
Union County on August "a in
order to be eligible to vote there.
A Union County voter took the
matter to the bipartisan County
Board of Elections in an effort
to have Mr.. Hetfield declared in
eligible to vote. The board split,
2-2, on party lines, the Repub-
licans siding with Mr.. Hetfield.
Because no decision was reached,
Mr.. Hetf1eld's name was kept on
the voting list.
This furore brought home to
Union County voters the fact
that the Benninger machine had
gone out of the district to get a
candidate. While legal, this was
extremely unusual.
Mistake No. IL: When the con-
gressional campaign began, Mr.
Hetfield virtually in one breath
identified himself as an Ike mar
and lashed out at "starry-eyec
nternationalists" and "transat.
lantic boondoggling" Because
Union County is an internation-
alist district, this did not sit vel
with the voters.
Mistake No. 13: In spite oi
. the fact that former Represen.
tative Case and his liberal recorc
are known from one end of the
county to the other, Mr.. Het.
field ignored this ready-madt
bandwagon. Asked about whether
he subscribed to Mr.. Cases views
Mr.. Hetfield said he was not
Evening star., 1953-11-08

1t was revealed that Mr.. Troast
had once written Gov. Dewey
in support of a parole for Fay.
a convicted labor racketeer
whose political prominence also
is an issue in a forthcoming
special election in New York.
When this fact became known,
Mr.. Troast and his supporters
tried to justify his action in
stead of admitting the poor
judgment inherent in such cor
respondence.
Mistake No. 8: BY the closing
days of the campaign, it was
obvious to the Jersey G. o. P.
that the Troast campaign needed
another shot in the arm. It
came from the Strangest place
Hudson County, of which the
politically unsavory Jersey City
is the center, and from which
the stencil of dockSide corrup-
ton has been rising for years
Frank Hague, who is to Jersey
Democrats what Nocky john
son is to Jersey Republicans,
was heard from through his
nephew and spokesman, Frank
Hague Eggers. Mr.. Eggers, a
Democrat, came out for Mr..
Troast, a Republican. Though
this support should have been
recognized as the kiss of death,
Mr.. TroaSt and his associates
accepted Mr.. Eggers' indorSe-
ment gratefully.
X X X X
These mistakes and their i'm
plications we're largely overlooked
by national observers, probably
because little was said of them
by the newspapers of New Jersey
The States press is predomi-
nantly Republican. But in the
recent campaign, the bulk of
New Jerseys papers, from the
Newark Evening News (circula-
ton 255,000) on down, refused
to support Mr.. Troast's candi-
dacy. Being Republicans, how
ever, the publishers did not give
their editorial support to Mr.
Meyner, adopting instead a neu-
trail attitude that boiled down to-
1--WE don't care who you vote
for, but for goodness sake be an
American and vote"
Evening star., 1953-11-08
QuodrupIets in Spuin

CORDOBA, Spain, Nov. 7 (P).
QuadrupletS were born today to
37-year-old Francisco Espejo
Berjillo, a mechanics wife, in the
nearby village of Cabra. The
mother and children-three boys
and a girl-are reported in good
condition.
Evening star., 1953-11-08
Continued From First Page)

and a swell of jubliation on
the part of Democrats, both of
which factions profess to find
deep national significance in the
9Th district result.
Yet here on the scene, it is ap-
parant that Gen. Eisenhower
was not a candidate and his
views not an issue in either
election, State or congressional.
If not an ant1-Eisenhower
wave, what caused the upset here
and throughout the State? The
pattest anSwer-and one not far
of the marks that the G. O.P.
involved itself in a fantastic
comedy of errors at time when
the voters of New Jersey were
in no mood for comedy.
The Jersey story splits into two
chapters, neither of which has
much national significance.