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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-24
Ship Makes
Waterway Trip

Recently the Lem 4877s, q So
foot-landing craft consigned to the
Mine Warfare Evaluation Detach-
ment (MINEVDET), departed
from Norfolk, Virginia, on . 1900
mile trip to Key West via the In
tercoastal Waterway. The Officer
In Charge was Ensign Edward G..
Erne, USN (MINEVDET), with
Thomas Roberts, MNC, USN,
(MINEVDET), Arley Copass,
MMC, USN, (SURASDEVDET),
and Robert O'Donnel, NM, USN,
(MNEVDET) as crew members.
Since the boat was operated only
during the daylight hours the trip
required total of thirteen days to
complete. The nights were spent
at scheduled stops during which
time fuel was obtained. Stops
were made at the following towns:
Elizabeth City, N. c., Belhaven, N.
c., Swansboro, N. c., Charleston,
S. c., Beufort, S. c., st. Simons
Island, Ca, St. Augustine, Fla, tt
tusville, Fla, Stuart, Fla, Moore
haven, Fla. and Fl. Myers Beach,
Fla.
The ICM rendezvoused with the
PCS 1431 off Fl. Myers Beach and
completed the last leg of the trip
in company with the PCS and ar
rived at Key West the evening Of
the same day at which time it was
turned over to the Small Boat Oh
ficer for MINEVDET.
The decision to sail the Lem
4S775 to Key West was reached
when it was determined that No
water shipment by Naval vessel
was available and the cost Of com.
mercial transportation would be
over 5000.
The trip, believed to be the long.
est attempted in this type boat,
was accomplished without incident.
The boat was underway a total Of
1874 hours at an average speed Of
S.S knots. The total cost Of the
trip was approximately $500.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-24
EARTH SHOCK FELT

LOS ANGELES IA momen.
tary rolling earth shock sent
residents to their telephones and
ratified a few dishes yesterday,
but no damage was reported.
At Berkeley, the University of
California seismograph station said
the quake appeared to be conferred
in the Tehachapi Mountains.
Evening star., 1954-11-23

the affairs Of the former col
ony. The organization of q
military force, even with the
hundreds Of millions we are
prepared to sink in such a
project. appears impossible.
Washington figures that
since we had been so successful
in changing disorganized SOL
diery in Korea and Formosa
into strong combat divisions
we might not have too much
trouble in repeating the feat
IN Wet Nam. Unfortunately
an important factor was over
looked: The Koreans and Chi
nese were not subjected peoples
and had strong national feel
ings. But the Wet Namese feel
they are still under the tute-
lage of the French whom in
the past they have hated. Now
added to this hatred is a deep
contempt because of their de-
feat at the hands of the Asiatic
Communists and the surrender
OF the richest portion of Wet
Nam to the Ho Chi Mimi pup
pet government.
Under these conditions not
even a miracle man from the
West could induce young Wet
Namese to rush to the colors
and become loyal fighters
against C o m m u n is m. The
choice in Korea was between
fighting to maintain the coun-
try's independence or being
subjugated by the Reds. And
like all free men the ROKs
were ready to fight.
The Wet Namese have been
a subject people for more than
100 years and still regard them
selves as such. Instead of look
ing to the West for a better
life. they have reached the
conclusion that their future
lies in accepting the rule of a
fellow Indo- Chinese, Ho Chi
Mimi. And the Communists
are exploiting extensively this
frame Of mind which will
place the whole of Southeast
Asia in their hands in a shorter
time than was generally ex-
pected.
The consensus of American
official and unofficial observers
in Saigon is that il. the elec-
tions provided for in the
Geneva armiStice agreement
were held now they would go
overwhelmingly in favor of
the Communists. It is feared
that the, creation of a Wet
Evening star., 1954-11-23

Namese army with the latest
American weapons win result
eventually In substantially In
creasing the military power Of
Ho Chi Mimi.
The West missed the boat in
Southeast Asia when it did not
insist on linking the Korean
armistice with the one In Indo-
China. It missed again and
probably the last time when it
rejected the "Radford plan"
to save Indo- China from the
Communists during the battle
for Dien Bien Phu. The pres
ent half-measures to prevent
the Reds domination Of East
Asia may result in merely
strengthening the prestige and
power of our arch foes.
BY some mysterious psyche
logical process many of our
policy makers still consider
India's Premier Nehru, who
has been given the courtesy
title Of Asia's strong man."
the best instrument to oppose
militant communism in Asia.
Nehru is no Red, but hates
what he describes still as
Western imperialism more
than the harsh Communist
imperialism. He has rubbed
noses (the ancient Chinese
way of kissing) with Mao Tse-
tung and Chou En-lai re-
peatedly. Yet despite these
Communist leaders protesta-
tions of friendship, they are
operating in India behind his
back.
Numerous Communist cells
have been organized and are
growing throughout India.
They are said to be appealing
to the enormous ignorant
masses. In important sections,
such as East Punjab in
Northern India, West Bengal
and Hyderabad in the central
portion, and to the south in
Andrha, Madras and Traven-
core, the Communists have
established themselves in local
legislatures and governments.
The Chinese promised Nehru
full "co-existence" when he
recently visited Peiping. But
in the meantime they are
establishing their puppets
regionally,- preparing for the
day when they can give the
final death blow to the still
democratic government Of
India.
Evening star., 1954-11-23
Constantine Brown
West Losing Ground in Asia
An impossible Situation in lndo-Chino and Nehrus
Political Folly Make for important Red Victories
Constantine Brown

Moscow's expansion drive
in Western Europe has been
halted temporarily to allow
the men in the Kremlin to
serenade our allies with the
sweet tunes Of peace and CO.
existence. In the meantime
their Chinese co-conspira-
tors are continuing their re-
lentless advance in Southeast
Asia and India.
Official and unofficial re-
ports from Saigon indicate
that since the surrender of
the northern portion Of Wet
Nam to the Wet Mini Com
munists. whatever little con-
fldehce and sympathy for the
West may have existed in the
past is now rapidly disappear
ing.
A defeatist atmosphere pre-
walls among the Western peo-
pie. in Wet Nam. The Wet
Namese masses not only ex-
pect. but even hope, that they
will soon be able to join the
Communist North. Whatever
shreds of prestige the West
may have had are now gone.
So is the limited confidence
Of the people in their French
propped government.
The Wet NameSe head of
state, former Emperor Bao
Dai. skipped to France last
March and lives in luxury on
the Riviera. The story of his
gambling at the roulette table
in Cannes the day Diem Bien
Phu fell has spread through
Wet Nam. The caretakers Bao
Dai left behind are either in
competent or corrupt, or both.
1t is in this atmosphere that
our special ambassador. Gen.
j. Lawton Collins, must oper-
ate.
The former chief of staff of
the Army has been entrusted
with the thankless mission of
inspiring some new confidence
In the Western world among
the Wet Namese and also di-
recting organization of a ma
tional force to counter even
tually the Communists from
across the border.
Gen. Collins has found al
most impossible difficulties in
his task. The French are still
nominally in military and po-
litical control. They naturally
resent any inmixture of an
American soldier er-diploInat in
Evening star., 1954-11-23
Fletcher KnebeI-
Potomac Fever

Chancellor Raab of Austria confers at the White House.
These visits of foreign statesmen the White House to
be well timed It's sometimes problem to catch Ike home
American nations hold economic conference Brazil
TIN be agreed that countries doing poory-whe the
others doing the United States
Democrats they postpone tax cut until election
year. they passed tax cut next year folks might
prosperous by 1856 they'd all vote Republican.
The White House denies Interior Secretary Mckay
will resign He's indispensable the fellow who runs the
Interior Department while McKays making speeches about it,
French Premier MendeSFrance talks
next spring Best time for diplomacy springme Flowers
bloom. birds singand guys looks almost as
good as the other fellows
The Commerce Department says the United States stand
ard OF living has increased 40 cent in years
US have many gadgets around the hardly
which to fix first.
Postmaster General Summerfeld says should
mail several times day. Now all the arrives in the
morning and the Office enough waste
baskets.
Evening star., 1954-11-23
For the Record
How Strong Mendes-Fronce?
Lessons Hope for Western Treoty Ratification

However, there are some
moral facets to this business
that should be faced: The
cynical destruction OF EDO last
August is directly chargeable
to Parliament. The concept of
European defense was heavily
financed by the United States.
The French were perfectly
aware of it and accepted the
money as a contractual obliga-
ton, which they failed to
meet. Mendes-France is tech
nically cleared, but he could
have called for a "vote of con-
f1dence." Parliament would
have thereupon dissolved and
new elections might have ap-
proved the treaty. Mendes-
France fatty refused to make
the acid test. Now he suddenly
plunged into the risks of a
vote of confidence" on the
budgetary item Of pay for pos
tai employees. What a cynical
indifference to international
values to have refused the
issue on Western security but
to accept it for q picayunish
fiscal item! He made it by the
skin Of his teeth. On these
shaky premises, he has visited
Washington, presumably to
restore confidence in France.
Finally. there is yet another
menace: The problem Of the
Saar. After 1870, for a con-
secutive years the Parisians
placed wreaths and mourning
crepe on the statue of Alsace-
Lorraine. ''the lost provinces. "
An unquenchahle sense of re-
venge seconded frances every
move until war erupted in
1914. They got their provinces
back. Now they coldly propose
to establish an exact duplicate:
The forcible emasculation Of q
German province. the Saar.
Evening star., 1954-11-23
Life in the u. S.
Life in the U. S.
Landlord Wins
Prize, Shares 1t
With Tenants
By the Associated Press

CHICAGO, Nov. GA Chi
cago landlord who won $500 in
a home modernization contest is
sharing his prize with his ten
ants.
Albert Chojnacki, who owns
and lives in a four-story South
Side apartment building, kept
$125 of the prize money.
81 may use that for new storm
windows in the building" he told
his tenants.
He gave Mr.. and Mrs. Nick
Frisco $3.50 and $125 to his other
tenants, Mr.. and Mrs. Walter
Pollard. Both families helped
the landlord in improvement
projects on his building which
helped him win the prize money.
Evening star., 1954-11-23

The Germans feel about the
Saar as the French felt about
Alsace :. Lorraine. .Adenauer,
who is no political prestidigi-
tator. was forced to make re-
luctant concessions. But his
coalition majority in the Ger
man Parliament is up in arms.
A tired world must now wait
on two parliaments, the French
and the German. The man
who insisted on the infiam-
mable Saar issue is Mendes-
Francel It win be just as diff
ficult for Adenauer to get con-
cessions from the Bonn poli-
ticians as it is for Mendes-
France to get them from Paris.
eCopyright, 1854
Evening star., 1954-11-23
Doris FIeeson
Bork|ey to Regain Seniority
His Fellow Democrats Willing to Turn Over to Him
Top Committee Post Probob!y Foreign Relations

Greater love hath no Sem
ator than this, that he lay
down his seniority on a priced
committee for a friend. This is
the tribute Democrats plan to
pay to their former majority
leader and Vice President,
Alben w. Barkley, when he is
sworn in next January as the
new Junior Senator from Ken
lucky.
It has been informally
agreed that Mr.. Barkley can
choose his committee and it is
expected that he will want to
return to Foreign Relations.
The vacancy will be there,
due to the defeat of Senator
Gillette of Iowa, even if cir
cumstances should shift con-
troll of the Senate to the Re-
publicans. If Democrats retain
control, there will be a second
Foreign Relations vacancy
about which a contest is al
most certain.
Senator Morse. the Oregon
independent, whose vote will
enable Democrats to organize
the Senate, wants 1t and so
does a long and stellar line of
Democrats. Hence Democratic
Leader Lyndon Johnson's quail.
flied promise that anything
within my power to give him,
Morse will get"
With or without Senator
Morse, the Democratic side Of
the Foreign Relations Com
mittee will be staunchly inter-
Evening star., 1954-11-23

line, who tended to be isola-
zionist but was responsive to
White House influence, was
also beaten.
There will be considerable
significance for the White
House in the G. o. P. choice
for the Appropriations va
cancy. The nominee will join
Senator Knowland there and
also Senator Mccarthy and
his friends, Senators Bridges,
Mundt, Dworshak and Dirk
sen.
Appropriations Committee
Republicans friendly to the
Eisenhower foreign policy in
clude Senators Saltonstall,
Thye, Margaret Smith and
possibly Young.
Death has retired the only
influential Democratic isola-
zionist, Pat AIcCarran, from
Appropriations and it's Demo-
cratic majority next year will
be responsive to the Presi-
dents views.
Apart from the special cases
of Senators Barkley and
Morse, Democratic Leader
Johnson hopes to apportion
committee places according to
the plant of the little boy
who said that, "Big brother
has been two where's and I
amt been nowheres." He
succeeded last year in giving
every one of his minority one
good committee: it nay be
more difficult when Democrats
are back in power.
Evening star., 1954-11-23

nationalist. This is good news
for the White House as the
Republican story is very diff
ferent.
OF the present G.. o. P.
majority of seven, Senator
Ferguson Of Michigan, an Eli
senhower supporter, has been
defeated. Unless control shifts
next year, the other six will
constitute the Republican mi
nority with no vacancies to be
filled.
OF these six, only the present
chairman. Senator Wiley, and
Senator Aiken are committed
to the Presidents program.
Senator Knowland, present
majority leader, has already
voiced his doubts and called
for a re-examination of the
present foreign policy. Sena-
tors Hickenlooper and Cape
hart can be expected to back
him. Senator Smith of New
Jersey will not want to cross
the President but he, too, has
doubts about the Eisenhower
policy in Asia.
The sixth Republican is that
unusual combination of a red
hot New Dealer domestically
but an isolationist, Senator
LANCER.
The President also was set
back on the almost more vital
Appropriations Committee by
Senator Ferguson's defeat, as
Senator Ferguson was the
ranking Republican. Senator
Gordon of Oregon, next in
Evening star., 1954-11-23

almost a peace-at-any-price
policy. Whether what he says
to intimate friends has been
accurately portrayed or wheth-
er his comments on peace are
merely on the hopeful side
without a commitment to ac-,
cept the Russian tactics Of nib
bling away at the free world
during the period Of peace
full co-existence," there can be
no doubt that Gen. Eisenhow-
er's beliefs so expressed are,
rightly or wrongly. giving i'm
petus to the peaceful Co
existence" movement.
It Is curious how these diff
ferent pressures gain head
way in various ways. Even so
innocent and routine an ac-
ton as the ban placed by the
heads of West Point and An
napolis academies on a debate
subject like the admission Of
Red China into the United
Nations gets widespread pub
licity and becomes the basis
for an unwarranted attack on
the military authorities here.
It seems odd that any one
should have difficulty in un-
derstanding why Navy and
Army personnel - for all
cadets and midshipmen are
part Of the military establish
ment the moment they enter
their respective schools
should be barred from debat-
ing political issues Of any
kind. One could see the So
Wet propaganda smearing
America abroad by using the
debate arguments Of one set
of debaters in the military
academies of the United
States.
Somehow propaganda inside
America that is beneficial to
the Soviet viewpoint continues
in different ways to gain cur
rency. With every evidence
that the Communists are con-
tinuing their aggression in the
Far East-as the reports from
China so tragically con-
f1rm-"peaceful co-existence"
is being embraced as If it were
some new wonder drug. How
to make national policy under
these circumstances is some
thing of a puzzle for the Ma
tional Security Council now
adays.
Reproduction Rights Reserved.)
Evening star., 1954-11-23
Eisenhower Dinner
Honors CoIoradans

President Eisenhower had
some of the men who helped him
relax during his eight-week
work-and-play vacation in Colo
RADIO this past summer among
his guests at a stag dinner at the
White House last night.
The guest list included Aksel
Nielsen, Denver banker, who was
the Presidnet's host during two
fishing trips to his ranch near
Frazier, Colo; Bal F. Swan. to
whose ranch near Pine, Colo,
Gen. Eisenhower made two l.
Evening star., 1954-11-23

The vote for Duclos was
vote of parliamentary immu-
nifty for a Communist traitor.
It was accomplished by the dis
ciplined bloc of 100 Commu-
mist deputies. The vote against
EDO was swung by the same
compact Red bloc. plus 18 alb
stentions. Had the entire
Communist bloc abstained, 1t
is obvious that EDO could have
been passed by a vote Of 264
against 219. The recent budg-
ct vote looked like a comfort
able majority for Mendes-
France, but it is visually de-
ceptive. This time there was
a general abstention to the tune
of 100 votes, so actually the in
elusive figures should read 800
"for" and a potential 307
against" or a differential Of
only IS, almost the same di-
minutive margin as the crucial
Duclos vote. The deduction Is
irresistible: Mendes France
cannot guarantee the ratifica-
ton of the Western defense
pact. The Reds are certainly
not going to abstain on that
vital issue and will vote with
the same probable effect as in
August. 1854. Salvation is
possible in a coalition of par
ties that have never voted
solidly before-the Socialist
and the Catholic Center. Men
deS-France has been negotiat-
ing for their support through
offers Of cabinet posts. It is
q reasonable gamble. In fact.
the Socialist Party appears to
have promised him the desired
support.
Evening star., 1954-11-23
Horn Blowers, Beware!

NEW YORK GA bill to
ban all automobile horn blow
ing between 10 pm. and s am.
Will be introduced in the City
Council today.
Democrat Joseph T. Sharkey,
council majority leader, will in
troduce the bill with bipartisan
support. He said he intends
to add a provision outlawing
blowing horns by cars standing
still at any hour of the day
or night.
Evening star., 1954-11-23
DoNd Lowrence-
The 'Co-existence Movement
Propaganda Beneficial to the Communists Cause
Continues to Goin Currency All Over America
Dovid Lawrence

Behind the scenes in Gov
ernment nowadays a valiant
effort Is being made to keep
abreast of the various cross
currents Of public opinion in.
side and outside the United
States. which range all the
way from a readiness to as
sumo there is no risk of war to
the charge that a military un-
readiness to face sudden war
could result in a disaster for
America.
Debate thus far in Congress
has indicated that on the DEM
ocratic side a determined drive
will be made In the forthcom-
ing session in January to revise
substantially upwards the
amounts Of money to be spent
for national defense. Some Of
this stems from the earnest
belief of certain Democrats
that not enough money now is
being appropriated for air
power. There is also a current
of opinion which believes that
the number of ground troops
Is inadequate. This opens up
questions like universal mill
tary training and some new
plans for extending or en-
larging the draft law. which
expires shortly. A re-examina-
ton Of military policy soon is
therefore inevitable.
Some Of these conflicts of
opinion are believed to be re-
Elections Of the varying atti-
tudes Of members Of the U. S.
Joint Chiefs Of Staff them
selves, who manage to keep
their own differences from be-
ing publicized but who manage
indirectly nevertheless to reach
members OF Congress with their
views.
All through the last session
1t was evident that some of
the Democrats who were
critical of the suggestions for
a more drastic course in Indo-
China were quick to couple
diSapproval Of any such policy
with professed alarm over the
state of military unprepared-
ness. Now, with the Formosa
crisis likely to produce any day
some American statement of
policy in the event that hos
tilities between the Chinese
Nationalists and the Commu-
nists are stepped up. the same
Evening star., 1954-11-23
Plune Drops Object

NEW ORLEANS (P).-A g.
pound, pear-shaped object fell
from an unidentified plane yes
terday. crashed through the roof
Of a home and narrowly missed
a baby-sitter and six children.
Police. firemen, FBI agents
and Navy crews rushed to the
scene and, fearing that the OBJ
ject was a bomb. evacuated resi-
dents from a one-block area.
But after Navy demolition
crews unlodged the object from
below the floor 1t. Don South
worth said the object reiembled
part Of an aircraft's radio an
tenna.
Evening star., 1954-11-23
For the Record
By Maj. Gen.
ChorIes A. Willouqhby

fGen. Willoughby Das Gen.
MdcArthAr'S Director OF IN
telligence from 1889 to 1851
The French Parliament with
a miscellancy Of splinter parties
is a political grabbag; it re-
quires sleight-of-hand tech
niques to develop a working
majority for government. The
statistical results are therefore
not surprising. The French
had twenty-five cabinets in a
relatively short postwar period
Of nine years. or a different
government every six months.
With such a divisive aggregate,
the intervention of a strong, CO.
hesive, unified "bloc" is usual
ly decisive. The French Com
munist Party represents just
such a disciplined voting bloc.
It's influential leaders are Mos
cow-trained saboteurs-Duclos,
Guyot, Marty. Billoux and Fa-
Jon. Inherent in the nature of
communism, they take their
orders from the Kremlin. The
practical effect Of this Subver-
sive party In moments Of inter-
national crisis in Parliament
can easily be ascertained. even
predicted on the basis of past
performance. Three successive
votes, in the last IL months,
are conclusive: Cd The vote on
Duclos. the Communist Party
chief, in December, 1858: l2l
the vote that killed EDO in
August. 1854: and CD Mendes-
Frances vote of confidence on
the postal budget, in November,
1854. They are tabulated be-
low:
Evening star., 1954-11-23
Gouts Are Stolen

LOS ANGELES (P.-A new
menace confronts school au-
thorities in their fight against
vandalism-goat thieves.
They broke into the 10th
street Elementary School and
made off with three goats
penned there as part of a chill
dren's farm project.
Some one also made off with
a ram at Canoga Park High
School. However, Robert Gra-
ham. security officer, says the
thief is in trouble because
that ram weighs $50 pounds,
every one Of them mean"
Evening star., 1954-11-23

into the plate-glass display
window of a fur store.
Mr.. Ewell was not blamed,
however, for damaging an or
namental marble slab on the
front of the building next to
the window.
His wife did that one day
last week, backing the same
car out of the same drive
way.
Evening star., 1954-11-23

day fishing excursions, and
Colorado Gov. Dan Thornton.
Other dinner guests were:
George E. Allen, local attor-
ney; Secretary of Agriculture
Benson; B. c. Byars. Tyler. Tex,
rancher and cattle breeder;
Thomas D. Campbell, Montana,
N. Mex, wheat-grower and cat
tleman: Brig. Gen. Arthur S..
Nevins, retired Army officer of
Gettysburg, Pa; Allan r. Phipps,
Denver attorney.
Also, Sid w. Richardson, Fort
Evening star., 1954-11-23

Worth, Tex, oil and cattleman;
Ellis D. Slater, president Of
Frankfort Distillers Corp, New
York; Norman H. Smith, Lark
spur, Colo, cattle breeder; Felix
E. Wormser, Assistant Secretary
of Interior; Stanley M. Wright,
of Wright & McGill Co., Den
yer. Toddie Lee Wynne, Dallas,
Tex. oil and cattleman; Deputy
Secretary Of Defense Robert B.
Anderson; and Arthur Minnick
and Stephen Benedict, assistant
White House secretaries.