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Evening star., 1954-09-30
Doris sFieeson-
Doris fIeeson-
Recession and the Election
Nov. Expected to Decide Future Economic Policy;
Unemployment Picture Moy Return Democrats

The future economic policy
OF the United States is being
hammered out in the fall elec-
ton. No other major issue
will be decided quite so de-
cisively.
If the economy were in a
major depression or even a
severe recession. the question
would be one of immediate If
provisional remedies. Any adj
ministration in power would
take dramatic steps or face
defeat.
What prevails now is not
that at all. There is sub
stantial unemployment but it
Is spotted and sporadic both
as to industry and geography.
There Is underemployment,
that is, no overtime and
shortened work weeks.
Election day, 1852, the Labor
Department classified only 40
areas as distressed" with a
surplus of workers. AS the
voters approach the polls
again, that number is 141.
Such a situation of very
widespread prosperity but not
for everybody was considered
normal before the New Deal.
Facing it today. the two
parties display the genuine
difference in their PHILOSOPHERS.
The Eisenhower admins
tration has refused to accept
responsibility for full employ
ment. Republicans stress the
stability of the economy. Their
Evening star., 1954-09-30
Tough Guy Causes Trouble

CHICAGO (P). - The police
had a tough guy in the cooler,
SO tough they finally had to get
rid of him.
He was a lost 3-year-old boy
who gave only the first name OF
Wesley"
'He kicked one policeman in
the shins," reported Sergt. Ed
ward Ehlir of Shakespeare po-
lice station. ''He slapped two
others in the leg with a metal
rule and grabbed for their guns.
yelling, I'll kill YOU
II tried everything. 7 gave
him an ice cream cone. I held
him in my lap. Then he began
answering the telephones.
There was only one thing
left-we turned him over to
an orphanage to wait for his
folks"
Evening star., 1954-09-30

farm vote Is largely concen-
trated in normally G. o. P.
States.
If it appears after the votes
are counted that unemploy-
ment turned the House back
to the Democrats, it will rep
resent a heavy blow to the Eli
senhower policy. The new ma
jority would push it's plans and
middle-g round Republicans
would incline to go along.
Last Monday, for the first
time,, the President called to
Denver the chairman of his
economic advisers, DR.. Arthur
Burns. Politicians see in this
an echo of the conditions they
are encountering. What reas-
surance. if any. DR.. Burns gave
Gen. Eisenhower has not been
told.
The administration programs
for .channeling work into dis
tressed areas do not appear to
be working well. Mining and
railroad sources for example
say they have not yet been
touched by the plan announced
in Denver for purchase of 10
million tons of coal in four
key States to be sent abroad
in exchange for needed COM
modities.
And very little time remains
before November 2 for new
plans to overcome not just the
lack of jobs but the general
atmosphere of insecurity which
is seeping out from the dis
tressed areas.
Evening star., 1954-09-30
Life in the u. S.
Life in the U. S.
DeputyHoIts
Wedding Trip
OfCoupIe, 8
BY the Associated Press

SYRACUSE, N. Y, Sept. 3d.
A deputy sheriff noticed the
couple on a sleek power cruiser
moored in onondaga Lake and
inquired where they were headed.
A honeymoon to Niagara Falls,
the two explained politely.
The bride" had spent her
dowry-42 cents-on lunch for
the bridegroom" but that didn't
bother them. They planned to
live on the fish they caught, at
least until they got to Niagara
Falls" Deputy Arthur Willis re-
ported.
9, Nevertheless, the honeymoon
was postponed indefinitely and
the sweethearts-each aged g.
returned to their homes.
Evening star., 1954-09-30

More Tricks Up Soviet Sleeve
Russo Ready to Upset Diplomatic Applicant Again
With Offer Of q Unified, Free, Reormed Germany

political understanding and to
the reduction of the present
political tensions.
The Germans would like to
jump the gun, if possible, on
the other European nations
which favor co-existence. And
this, their big businessmen
and politicians believe, could
be achieved by the defeat Of
Chancellor Adenauer and the
subsequent acceptance of So
Wet terms. The German peo-
pie are more receptive to them
than in the past.
The fear of Soviet domina-
ton is disappearing rapidly in
the former Reich. Germany's
amazing industrial recovery
and the Soviet offer to
give unrestricted re-armament.
most Germans believe, will
make it impossible for the
Muscovites to turn their coun-
try into a helpless satellite.
The only real risk to the Fa-
the-land, it is now said, Is
Soviet attack while the allies
are dilly-dallying about the
size of the German army and
the quality of its equipment.
Such an attacks would destroy
the nine years of hard work
which have resulted in Ger
many's becoming one Of the
foremost industrial nations in
the world.
These are not the views Of
Chancellor Adenauer and the
majority of his colleagues on
the ministerial bench. But they
represent the views of q large
proportion of industrialists,
politicians and the average
man in the street.
Ihe Germans are real
politiker" (realistic in poll
tics). They would have well
coined an outright alliance
with the United States, whose
latent power they have learned
to know by experience. Fail
ing this. they are leaning to
an alliance with the u. S. s. r.
They don't believe in POLITICAL
military coalitions composed
of countries with widely diver
gent interests. Moreover, the
pickering among the so-called
allies in the last two years has
taught them a lesson in real
ism.
Evening star., 1954-09-30

This was one of the main
tactics in their winning of
Shanghai. The strategem is
as useful today as it was 1000
years ago.
If Formosa can be made
enough of a nuisance to the
Western powers, and their
diplomats lured into seriously
discussing its naturalization"
through trusteeship or any
other such artifice, this pow
erful base, along with all it's
military force. can be won
just as cheaply.
Before the Communists
make a convert, they first
disenchant him with his own
side. Before they take a piece
OF territory. they "neutralize"
1t. Then, like a ripe plum, it
falls into their laps.
The Communists know that
the Formosan armies could
make a landing on the main
land, and that the people in
that whole area would "lean
over" once more, this time to
any side that represented a
potentially successful anti
Communist force.
Instead of allowing this in
itiative to be taken, the Reds
are trying to seize it, to give
the impression that attack
would be hopeless. They pulled
a coup on the small island of
Tachen by old subversion tao
tics. This was bravely over
turned-at a cost. Then they
assaulted Quemoy by artillery
fire. after attacking Formosa
ologically with propa-
ganda shells. They were helped
incalculahly In this by the
Attlee-Bevan party.
By putting pressure on For
mosa. the Reds can divert at
tack on the mainland, and
make such countries as Britain
redouble their efforts to throw
it to the wolves, to distract the
Reds from Southeast Asia q
little longer.
This is where the immediate
Red interest mainly lies
Evening star., 1954-09-30
Dovd Lowrence-
Mccarthy and the Republicans
G. O. P. Election Chances Are Described as Injured
BY Portys Persecution of Red-Hunting Senator

millions who saw the television
performance became disgusted
with the Republican Party it
self.
Then, when the Mundt
hearings were over and even
before any report could be
rendered by that committee,
Senator Flanders and other
Republicans promptly started
the censure drive. This was
as advantageous a piece of
publicity for the Democrats
as they could have hoped. for.
Senator Knowland, the Re
publican leader, did what he
could on the floor of the Sen
ate to try to table the motion
and avert the catastrophe. But
the Republicans of the So
called liberal school insisted
on a censure motion at once
or the naming of a committee
of investigation which was to
report before the elections.
Senator Watkins of Utah, an
other Republican, was stam-
peded, and he obliged the
Democratic strategists by rail-
roading the hearings through
to a quick conclusion. He got
the report out in time to let
all the disaffected Republicans
read it during the campaign.
They will be reading and hear
ing rebuttalS from now on.
beginning with the television
appearance by Senator Nc
Carthy next Sunday afternoon
on Meet the Press"
So it is possible that the
Watkins committee report may
have sounded the death knell
of Republican control of Con-
gress. For defections on this
issue, plus defections due to
unemployment in the cities
and discomfort on the farms,
may be too great to be Offset
by bringing out the Repub-
lican non-voters of 1852
which is the only chance the
Republicans have of gaining
a victory. Gen. Eisenhower's
present advisers may have to
learn politics the hard way.
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Evening star., 1954-09-30

in the last 10 years in Catholic
parishes than anywhere else.
Such theological convictions
run deep.
Much Of the Catholic vote
today is resentful of the at.
tacks on Senator Mccarthy.
Some of the resentment is
due to sermons preached In
certain Protestant churches
criticizing the Catholic church
for Senator McCarthy's activi-
ties. Little will be said about
it in the campaign. No Cath
olic prelate will probably say
a word about it either. But
If past experience with this
vote in Massachusetts,, Rhode
Island, New York, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania and other States
is a guide, it will be found this
year on the ay-at-home or on
the protest side.
Why, 1t will be asked, would
any one who is sore about the
persecution of Senator Nc
Carthy go back to the Demo-
cratic Party, which certainly
has in it many members of
Congress who have fought and
will fight him hard because
he called the Democratic Party
a party of treason? The
answer is that, when they are
resentful. voters hold the party
in power accountable in elec-
tions, hoping that the party
that comes in will have learned
its lesson and will change its
ways. If 1t doesn't, as the
reasoning goes, there will be
plenty of time to vote that
party out next time. Emotion
rather than logic often sways
millions of voters, irrespective
of party.
The Dem ocrats have
shrewdly managed in the last
18 months to get a lot of news
space in their efforts to dis
credit the Republican Party.
The genius" in the Eisen-
hover entourage who thought
UP the Cohn-Schine report, for
instance. as a means of en-
barrassing Senator Mccarthy,
will find after election that
Evening star., 1954-09-30

where the rich resources can
be taken. But the balance has
been SO delieately, poised
against us that a new, serious
upset almost anywhere in Asia
could reach everywhere else,
with panic effect. The prospec-
tive entry of Red China into
the U. N. has now been built
up so much in Asian minds
that if it became a reality it
would be interpreted every
where as complete surrender.
The Reds confidently expect
that by keeping the Formosan
pot boiling-never quiescent
and never definitive-Britain
and the United States can be
forced apart. But any posi-
tive action by our side could
be disastrous to the Reds.
(copyright 1851
Evening star., 1954-09-30
David Lawrence

Vice President Nixon, Chair
man Hall Of the Republican
National Committee and a few
other Republican leaders are
saying that Senator McCar-
thy isn't an issue in the con-.
gressional campaign and that
thus far they have heard little
mention of the controversy.
Some of the most powerful
and influential issues, how
ever. are never agitated in the
press or mentioned very much
on the stump. But every poll
tician knows the day after
election whether there has
been a silent vote" and which
way 1t went.
A good example is in the
Maine election this year. All
the comments made publicly
by both sides afterward were
to the effect that Senator Nc
Carthy wasn't an issue-that
his name was hardly men.
toned. But what, indeed, did
happen in Maine? Letters
from there say the Catholic
vote, which in large part had
left the Democratic Party On
the anti Communist issue in
1852, voted in resentment this
year against the Republican
members OF Congress. The
Democratic Party leadership
in Maine also was smart
enough to sense this situation
and named a Catholic to run
for Governor-the first time
that this had happened. Re-
ligious factionalism in politics
is to be deplored but politicians
who know the facts of life
realize it does exist.
Now. the Catholic vote is by
no means solid at any time.
A minority of Catholics today
are bitter in their denuncia-
tion of the Wisconsin Senator
and his methods" But the
Catholic church is the biggest
single bulwark in this country
against communism in the
sense that probably more SER
mons against atheistic COM
munism have been preached
Evening star., 1954-09-30
Nationwide Stroll

MIDLAND, Mich. (P.-When
Dick Cook arrived home here he
had walked 17,400 miles in 48
States and was still short of his
goal. Before he finishes strolling
around the country pulling his
homemade home on wheels be-
hind him he plans to cover 25,-
600 miles-equal to the distance
around the earth at the equator.
Evening star., 1954-09-30
Formosa Air-Sea Probes
For Reds a Daily Routine
BY the Associoted Press

TAIPEH, Formosa. Sept. 80,
Nationalist air and sea patrols
along the China coast opposite
Formosa have become such a
daily routine that communiques
have been discontinued, an Of
f1cial spokesman said today.
He reported planes and war
ships searched for Communist
surface craft and other targets
along the coasts Of Fukien and
Chekang provinces today DIS they
have daily since September 8.
There were sporadic artillery
exchanges between defenders OF
Quemoy. Nationalist island base
seven miles offShore, and Red
batteries on the mainland, the
spokesman said. ...
HONG KONG. Sept. 30 (P.-
Ire Chinese Nationalist bonn
bardment of Annoy has resulted
in many casualties among the
civilian population. the Com
munist radio in Fukien reported
today.
The announcement said it was
the shelling of peaceful resi-
dental areas" that prompted
Communist commanders to re-
taliate with "a violent lombard
ment of Big and Little Quemoy."
Evening star., 1954-09-30
By Edword Hunter


TAIPEI, Formosa-I have
just completed an intensive
tour Of Formosa. Two basic
conclusions I reached were:
/. The situation-morally,
economically and militarily-
is much improved over what
it was when I last visited this
Chinese Nationalist strong
hold almost two years ago.
People are relaxed and set in
their determination. The har-
aSsed and worried looks are
gone, In spite of the artillery
fire on Quemoy.
2. The line of diminishing
returns on their present con-
f1dence and self assurance will
be reached If some action
positive action-isn't taken,
and the situation becomes an
interminable dragging out
process. The let-down could
be fatal.
This collapse of morale
would be a justification of one
of the major ideas of the Red
leader, Mao Tse-tung, bor-
rowed from Sun Tzu, who
wrote the classic manual
The Art of War" 1000 years
ago. Says Sun Tzu:
I'm the practical art of war.
the best thing of all is to
take the enemy's country
whole and intact; to shatter
and destroy it is not so profit
able. >. Supreme excellence
consists in breaking the
enemy's resistance without
fighting -
This is how the Commu-
nists are even now being given
the big city of Hanoi In Indo-
China. handed over by the
diplomats in Geneva. This is
how they took over Canton.
without O shot being fred.
Evening star., 1954-09-30
DueIists Escape

RICHMOND, KY. (P.-Two
Richmond men who dueled
with pistols at close range yes
terday suffered only finan-
cially.
Police Chief Carl Newland
said Mack Drivers and James
White fired several shots at
each other-less than four
PAGES apart.
Both escaped bodily harm,
Evening star., 1954-09-30
Bod Memory

SPARTANBURG, S. c. (P).
"A Brockton (Mass.) man
wrote to Probate Judge J.
William Davenport that he is
on the threshold of matri-
mony, but first has to get the
answers to a couple of ques-
tions that are bothering him.
The questions: Was he mar
ried here in 1949, and if so,
what was his wife's name?
The judge had the answers.
He forwarded the dates and
the name of the wife.
Judge Davenport declined
to disclose the name of the
man or the woman.
Evening star., 1954-09-30
Road Detour Proves
Motorists Downfall
BY the Associated Press

HOPKINSVILLE, Ky.-Rodney
Ross Houston. en- route to Fort
Campbell, had an accident at a
detour on U. S. Il. A wrecker
retrieved his slightly damaged
car and Mr.. Houston made it to
Fort Campbell.
On the return trip Mr.. Hous-
ton again wrecked his car on the
detour. He escaped with minor
bruises, but the car was seri-
ously damaged.
Evening star., 1954-09-30
Asks Divorce at Lost

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (P.-Mrs.
Leta Sarah Smith Headrick Boyd
said her husband disappeared Is
years ago. Apparently deciding
he's not coming back, she filed
suit for divorce yesterday in
Domestic Relations Court.
Evening star., 1954-09-30
Foot of Her Class

ST. LOUIS (P)-Rose Marie
Florey. II. studied hard for the
role Of 1.-THE Girl Who Falls
Down" in the st. Louis Munic-
ipal Opera production of "Okla-
homa!" and did just that in a
rehearsal, breaking her foot
The part went to a good friend
and "just about broke my heart
as well as my foot" Miss Florey
said -. $,
Evening star., 1954-09-30
Chewing Gum on TroIIeys

PHILADELPHIA up. - Now
it's tutti-frutti on the trolley.
The Philadelphia Transporta-
ton Co. yesterday put in service
SO trolley cars equipped with
penny chewing gum vending ma
chimes.
Charles E. Ebert, company
president, said the scheme was
twofold-.designed to- give added
convenience to trolley passen-
gers and maybe we'll make a
few cents out Of them"
Evening star., 1954-09-30
Huntsmun Rewarded

DETROIT LAKES, MINI.
R.-Lyle Davis of Detroit
pounded the brush and woods
yesterday in a vain hunt for
partridges.
Arriving home, he found one
of the birds, cooked and ready
for him on the dinner table.
The partridge h ad flo wn
through a window of the Davis
home in Mr.. Davis absence.
Mrs. Davis did the rest.
Evening star., 1954-09-30
For the Record
lime for Action on Formoso
NotIonolIsts Confident and Sef-Assured at Present.
Positive Steps Urged to Prevent FotoI Let-Down

(EdDard Hunter, author of
BratnUaShing In Red China"
is travelling in the Orient to
report neD Developments in
the tDdr for mems m,inds.)
Evening star., 1954-09-30
Cheese Leader

MADISON. - Wisconsin was
the leading cheese producing
State in the Union in 1850 with
an output Of 420.945, 900 pounds.
Evening star., 1954-09-30

but they were fined $40 and
costs for being drunk.
The Key West citizen., 1954-10-06
Spotlight Centers On Alleged ''Windfall''
Profits By Apartment Project Promoters

denied, however, that he tdld Cas-
sci to make the payment.
Cassel testified that among the
original project sponsors was
George E. Allen, who served as
chairman of the Reconstruction Fl.
nance Corp. (RFC) in the Truman
administration and who is close
friend of President Eisenhower. AL
so mentioned as a sponsor was
Harry c. Butcher, wartime naval
aide to Eisenhower.
/ Cassel and Michaux both testi.
fled, however, that Allen and
Butcher never actually put any
money into the project and never
received anything from it.
|. Michaux said that after cassel
had drawn plans for the project
and was unable to find sponsors,
he talked to Allen and Butcher and
told them of "a desperate need
for colored housing" in the District
of Columbia.
/ Cassel testified that Donald Daw.
son, patronage chief under former
President Truman, helped arrange
an RFC loan for a shopping center
at the project, which now is wholly
owned by Michaux and his church.
Committee Counsel William Simon
said Cassel was squeezed out"
The Key West citizen., 1954-10-06

HOLLYWOOD Up - Ever since
Stanley Kramer cast Robert Nit
chum as Lucas Marsh in mot as
a Stranger" the producer has
been getting comments in the lkie
these:
I'm heavens name, please don't
put that Mitchum person in Not
as a Stranger. The man should be
young. Maybe Farley Granger
could do it. If only you could get
Montgomery Cliff"
"What in the name of heaven
have the writers done to that SEN
sitive part that burly, crude lead
such as Mitchum would even be
considered?"
Mitchum's comment on the pro-
tests:
"They say l can't do the part.
/ say l can. That's what makes
horse races"
Mitchum is ignoring the critics
and pitching into the role. When
I,~saw him, he and Frank Sinatra
were among group of medical
students observing a major opera
tion. Both men looked amazingly
young. For Sinatra, this was ac-
complished by a deft hairpiece.
Mitchum's tthinness aided the IL
The Key West citizen., 1954-10-06
Hollywood
Notes
By Bob Thomas

lusion of youth. He has been on a
merry-go-round, doing two pictures
at once and spending four or five
hours many days at the hospital
observing surgery.
Producer Kramer, who is direct
ing for the first time in mot as a
Stranger" explained why he chose
Mitchum despite the protests.
81 have talked to many surgeons
since l started work on this pic
ture over a year ago." he said. 81
have found that most of them are
big, rugged men. They are butch
ers, not in the derogatory sense
but in the nature of the work they
do. It takes a strong man to cut
up human beings and to Withstand
the strain of hours over an operat-
ing table. That's why l picked
strong personalities - Mitchum,
Broderick Crawford, Charles Bicx-
ford - to play the surgeons in this
picture.
Il may be wrong about
Mitchum. Time will tell. But all l
can say is that everybody said
was wrong about casting Van john
son in The Caine Mutiny. l don't
hear them complaining now.'
The Key West citizen., 1954-10-06
Children Watch
As Father Stays
Wife And Self !.

BOONSBORO, Md. R-An air
craft factory worker who had been
fired from the plant where his wife
also was working shot his wife to
death yesterday and then turned
the gun on himself while his chill
dren looked on.
DR.. Samuel r. Wells, Washing
ton County medical examiner,
termed the death of Mrs. Mar
garet Catherine O'Neal murder,
and that of her husband Fred
suicide.
State Trooper Clyde fuckers said
Mrs. O'Neal had just returned
from work at the Fairchild aircraft
plant in Hagerstown and was in
the kitchen with one of her five
children preparing supper.
Then, Tucker said:
O'Neal shot his wife with a
singie1barrel shotgun. She ran
through the house and dropped
dead on the front porch, before
her other children. -
O'Neal put the gun muxiI in
his mouth and pulled the fTer.
Tucker said the childred who
range in age up to 10, told him
their father and mother squar-
relied frequently. O'Nea1 was fired
from his job for drinking, Tucker
said. 4