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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-22
Major Benefits To Veterans

Inc I'll Bill, q law mat has left
its lasting imprint on the lives of
millions Of veterans and on Ameri-
ca itself, reached its tenth anniver-
sary today.
The law-signed by President
Franklin D. Roosevelt on June ~,
1914, contained three major bene-
fits to help veterans in readjust-
ment to civilian life.
One, was a program of guaran-
teed loans for homes, farms and
businesses. 1t still is in force. An
other education and training at
Government expense, is approach
ing its end. The third, readjust-
ment allowances for periods of un-
employment already had faded in
to history.
On signing the CT Bill in 1914,
the President said, this law gives
emphatic notice to the men and
women of our armed forces that
the American people do not intend
to let them down."
But veterans have not let down
the American people either, ac-
cording to. statistics released today
by the Veterans Administration.
Through the CT Bill, World War
II veterans have become the best
educated group of people in the
history of the United States.
Because of their training, they
have raised their income level to
the point where they now are pay
ing an extra billion dollars a year
in income taxes to Uncle Sam.
At this rate, CT Bill-trained vet
Grams alone will pay off the entire
SIS billion cost of the CT education
and training program within the
next is years.
Through the CT loan program,
veterans have proved themselves
to be among the best financial
risks in the country.
With the help of CT loans, they
have become Americas largest
single group of home-owners.
Therefore, they pay more real es-
tate taxes to States, cities and
counties than any other group of
equal size.
During the past 10 years, a total
of $500, 900 veterans-one out of
every five men and women who
served in World War II-obtained
VA-guaranteed and insured loans
valued at $685. billion.
The United States Government
stands behind SIP billion of the
amount, in the form of VA guaran-
tees and insurance.
Home loans accounted for the 80
percent of all CT Bill loans obtain
ed by veterans-or $500, 900 for
$22.S billion. Farm loans number
ed sc, 900 for $256, 900, 900: business
loans, $4,000 for $575, 600, 900.
The average veteran used his
CT loan to buy substantial,
middle-priced home - neither a
"cracker-box" nor a mansion.
A recent VA survey disclosed
that 60 percent Of CT home-buyers
paid between $4,000 and $4,000
for their homes. Thirty percent
paid under $4,000; eight percent,
between $4,000 and $40, 1000, and
two percent, over $4,000.
Veterans record Of repayment is
unmatched, VA said.
Over the past decade, $780, CT
loans, amounting to s. billion, have
been repaid in full.
Defaulted losRs-on which VA
has made good the guaranteed
portions to private lenders-num.
bers only $4,000, or less than one
percent of all loans received BY
veterans.
Turning to CT Bill education and
training, VA revealed that more
| than 1900, 900 World War II veter
ans-haf of all who served during
the war-trained under the CT Bill
over the past 10 years.
Of the total, 2,2o0, 900 attended
colleges and universities; $500, 0O(
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-22

Hitler's aggression in the latter's
lifetime and has no wish to mini.
mize now the disaster that Nah.
policies brought to the world.
Then turning to communism, 10
remarked:
but . terrible dictatorship has
gained control of half Of Europe.
This dictatorship is even worse and
stronger and more cruel than that
of Hitler"
The Chancellor remarked he
thought it q delusion for leaders
in his own or other individual
countries to believe they could deal
separately with Soviet Russia. He
said nothing impressed Russials
Communist rulers but power equA
to their own, and the only power
they now feared was the United
States.
Then he went on to add that Il
the six.nation European army did
become q reality the Russians
would find that within four years
it would no longer even serve their
purposes to continue the cold war
real peace might be wen. 4
1--WE can no longer think in ma.
tional terms only" he said. 1.-THE
development of Germany since 1915
holds no danger to the free world.
In q unified Europe no country
could be a threat to another coun.
try. We must overcome the selfish
egotism of European nationalities.
The strong old man sat there q
moment, his firm face framed
against the white-walled reception
room, then he rose and quickly
walked out.
Seeing him leave, some of us
couldn't help wondering who, il
DR.. Adenauer falls, would have his
strength Of viii or purpose to weld
a free and united Europe. He
seems the tallest tower In a
dubious landscape still darkened
by ancient fears and old distrust.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-22
Waltham Cops Want
To Be Recognixed

WATHAM, Mass. 6 Police.
men are under orders from Chief
Asa E. McKenna 10 show the
words "Waltham Police" on their
hatbands, shirts and blouses.
The idea is to keep people from
CONFUSING them with taxi drivers
and gas station attendants, Chief
McKenna said.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-22

The days troubles usually such trifes you can't
remember them day later. If you don't think so, what
bothered you much yesterday?
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-22

Connecticut haso abou 800
acres in tobacco.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-22

Dutch elm disease il CARED from
tree. to tree By bark beetles.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-01

We've been collecting these pure silk
ties for months, from five of the nations
top makers And what a galaxy of colors
and patterns there are! All styles, in
GLIDING new narrow ties. You'll want to
buy them by the dozen! Save from 81 to
1.5O on each! Shop early for best selec-
tons! We expect them to be sell-outs!
Mems Furnishings, Street Floor, Washington,
Silper Spring and PARKington
Evening star., 1954-10-25
swung open the gate and sud.
denly I was inside China.
Children Play in Street.

Six soldiers were first to catch
my eye. They were moving in
single file across a rice paddy,
but they might as well have been
on the parade ground. They
kept in perfect step. their slip
pered feet plunging into burrows
or mounting the ridges as If
these were nonresident. Chill
dren in blue uniforms and red
scarves were playing with a ball
in the baked mud street of the
village. Men with bamboo lad
ders were knocking an archway
together near the last house,
and some one had leaned a por-
trait of Mao Tse-tung against a
mud wall. The village nestled
behind a small hill. and was in
visible from the British side.
suddenly realized why I felt
like having stepped through a
looking-glass. Here. I could see
behind the hills and blockhouses
all those things about which
often speculated while standing
on the opposite bank of the
river. I looked back at the other
side and saw only a great net
work of barbed wire spread over
forbidding hills, huge search
lights mounted in towers and in
the distance. a British flag flap
ping above a stone barracks. It
seemed like another world.
World rights reserved Reproduction in
whole or part is strictly prohibited.
Tom 0rrow: Writer feels
(briefiy) like capitalist when he
gets $4,4O0,00O for $500.
Evening star., 1954-10-25
Retirement
Continued From First Page.)

ity coverage, along with all
other Federal workers, If Con-
gress approves the proposal.
A matter of salary deduction
is also involved. Employees under
social security pay 2 per cent OF
the first $500 of their salaries
Those under civil service retire.
ment contribute 6 per cent OF
their pay.
At any rate. Civil Service Com
mission officials emphasize that
their career-conditional program
will go into effect around the
first Of January. This is definite,
they say. csc officials say the
difference with Health and Edu-
cation is not a serious one and
will be settled shortly. After
President Eisenhower's issuance
Of the executive order authoriz-
ing the program. it will be about
go days before the csc can issue
the various regulations carrying
it out. This will make the effec-
tive date of the program
around January !.
Evening star., 1954-10-25

on hunger strikes. He told news
men that Mr.. Field was under q
virtual death sentence = and
said that one Of Poland's top Red
leaders told a secret police off,
cial early in 1853 that Hermann
Field lives too long"
MIR. Swiatlo said he once talked
Mr.. Field out of a hunger strike
that lasted 10 days. He said a
second hunger strike was ended
by forced feeding. A prison guard
cut Mr.. Field down when he at
tempted to hang himself with
torn strips of a bed sheet, Mr..
Swiatlo said.
Appealed to Stain.
In 1852 Mrs. Hermann Field
appealed to the late Soviet Prime
Minister Stain begging him to
help find her husband. She
cabled the Russian leader, saying
"his two little boys and I need
him desperately"
Mr.. Swiatlo detected TO the
West last December S and ap-
peared at news: conferences in
Evening star., 1954-10-25

washington September % and 90.
DR.. Elsie H. Field of Urbana.
H., a sister of Herman and Noel
Field, said in Geneva she could
not express her happiness over
the announcement of her broth
er'S release. She has conducted
a five-year campaign to obtain
the release of her brothers and
spent the summer in Europe
seeking information about them.
Noel Field, now 40, vanished
after he went to Prague to
gather material for writing.
Four months later his wife left
for Prague, saying she was going
to look for him. She also dis
appeared.
Hermann Field, who was di-
rector of building plans for
Cleveland College, vanished the
following August.
Evening star., 1954-10-25
President Conditions
Wet Nam Aid Offer
On Needed Reforms

An offer of new American aid
to strengthen the government OF
Wet Nam conditioned on the
making of needed reforms" by
that government was made pub
lie by the White House today.
The offer came in a letter from
President Eisenhower to Premier
Ngo Dinh Diem of Wet Nam,
which lost the northern part of
its territory to the Communists
in the Geneva Conference settle
ment of the do-China war.
Voices Concern.
Gen. Eisenhower wrote the
premier that implications of the
Geneva agreement "have caused
grave concern" here regarding
the future of Wet Nam SO di-
vided and weakened by long war
"and faced with enemies with
out and by their subversive COL
laborators within"
He added that he had in
structed the American Ambas-
sador to Wet Nam to examine
with the Premier "how an in
telligent program of American
aid given directly to your gov
ernment can serve to assist Wet
Nam in it's present hour of trial,
provided that your government
is prepared to give assurances
as to the standards of perform
ance it would be able to main
tain in the event such aid were
supplied"
The President said purpose of
his offer was to assist Wet Nam
in developing strength to resist
attempted subversion or aggres-
sion.
Reforms Expected.
He emphasized that the United
States would expect that any
new aid would be met by "per-
formance on the part of the
government of Wet Nam in un-
dertaking needed reforms"
The Presidents letter did not
specify what reforms are needed.
1t expressed hope, however, for
a Wet Nam government "respon-
sive to the Nationalist aspira-
tions Of its people" and so en-
lightened in purpose and effect
i've in performance that it will
be respected both at home and
abroad"
Evening star., 1954-10-25
Civil Defense Group
! Opens Farley Tomorrow

The National Women's Advis-
ory Committee of the Federal
Civil Defense Administration will
open a two-day conference to-
morrow at the Executive Office
Building. Seventeenth street and
Pennsylvania avenue NV.
Approximately SO won e n
prominent in national women's
affairs are expected to attend the
sessions which will include talk
by FCDA administrator Val Pc
terson at luncheon in the
Washington Hotel at 1890 pm.
Wednesday.
The committees purpose is to
help FCDA evaluate its program
regarding women's organiza-
tions. Mrs. Katherine G. How
ard, former FCDA deputy ad-
ministrator, will preside.
Evening star., 1954-10-25
|Mendes-France Tells
People Country Must
Work With Germany
BY ihs Assoeiessd Press

PARIS, Oct. 25.--A determined
French Premier Pierre Mendes-
France pushed his program for
far-reaching economic accords
with West Germany today. NOV
ing quickly to follow up the Paris
agreements for adding German
strength to Western defense.
In a radio chat last night the
Premier told his countrymen:
france and Germany are two
countries whose nearness to one
another and whose resources and
production require their close
association together"
His talk came q day after the
foreign ministers of is Western
nations signed protocols to three
treaties designed to make West
Germany a free and equal part
ner in the Western alliance
against the threat Of Red aggres-
sion. The Paris agreements must
be ratified by the national parlia-
mentS OF the countries concerned.
Western diplomats hoped this
could be accomplished by mid
1855, but they looked for some
rough going with the Soviet
Union.
Saar Obstacle Removed,
Russia moved within a few
hours after the agreements were
reached Saturday, calling for a
Big -Four conference in Novem-
ber on a German peace settle
ment.
Mr.. Mendes-France told his
radio audience the signing of an
agreement Saturday with West
German Chancellor Konrad Ade-
nauer on the future OF the rich
Saar Valley removed that OBJ
stacle to French German Coop
Grafton.
Reminding the French that
West Germany is their best Gus
toner and second most impor-
tant provider of goods" the pre-
mier said the two countries need
each other.
The premier said the agree
ment to Europeanize the Saar
within the French economy sat
iSfied rights and interests OF
France in a way we had called
for in vain for very long time y
Stiff Opposition Seen.
However, Western diplomats
expect Mr.. Mendes-France to
run into stiff opposition in get
ting some features of the agree
ments through the French Ma
tional Assembly.
Large segments of the French
people in the past have opposed
three things contained in the
accords-the West Germans will
be able to create a general staff
Of the army level, form military
units at the army group level for
integration with the other allied
forces and enter directly into
the North Atlantic Treaty Or
ganization. ..... ....
The various agreements
reached Saturday would end the
allied occupation and rearm
West Germany under safeguards
within a seven-nation Western
European Union and NATO
Twelve German divisions would
take their place in the allied
defense line.
Evening star., 1954-10-25
Dulles
Warning from Grocers.
Continued From First Page. }


of work and rest on the way
home. Before leaving Paris he
sent Gen. Eisenhower a prelim-
mary report which the President
read while visiting Gettysburg.
Pa. Saturday afternoon.
Gen. Eisenhower, who COM
manded the North Atlantic
Treaty Forces before he became
President, promptly called the
Dulles report a real reason for
rejoicing" saying it means the
dream of peace begins to come
definitely within our grasp"
And yesterday, in a statement
issued from his Camp David
(Md) retreat, Gen. Eisenhower
said the Paris agreements rep
resent a great deal more than
just a diplomatic victory"
Standing on the highway lead
Ing to the presidential lodge,
Presidential Press Secretary
James c. Hagerty dictated this
statement to newsmen:
The President believes that
all Americans join with him in
rejoicing at the action taken
yesterday at Paris by the diplo-
matte representatives of the par
ticipating nations of Europe,
United Kingdom and the United
States of America.
"The signing of the four
power agreement for the resto-
ration of German sovereignty.
the Franco-German Saar agree
ment and the Brussels treaty and
the NATO protocols represent a
great deal more than Just a
diplomatic victory.
1t is an historic step toward
the unity SO necessary for the
maintenance of the freedom of
Western Europe.
Coming as it did on the heels
OF previous rejection OF, the Eu-
ropean Defense Community, it
clearly demonstrates that brave
men working together with cour-
age, understanding and patience
can overcome seemingly impos-
sible obstacles in their mutual
desire to defend themselves
against aggression: to be strong
enough to win and keep the
peace"
Evening star., 1954-10-25
British Dock Strike
Enters Fourth Week
With No Peace Seen
BY tho A,soeio,eJ Pres.

LONDON. Oct. 25.-Britain's
waterfront strike. which has
idled $4,000 of 10000 cargo hand
lers in this maritime nation, en-
tered its fourth week today with
no settlement in sight.
Pickets appeared at the cargo
choked docks today for the first
time since the work stoppage be-
gan.
Prime Minister Churchill
scheduled another cabinet meet
ing tonight to deal with the sit
uation.
Warning from Grocers.
The National Federation OF
Wholesale Grocers warned that
stocks of imported bacon, cheese,
butter. eggs and timed fruits
were running low and said the
situation would become serious
! II the work stoppage continues
until next week end.
The strike has paralyzed the
big port Of London and crippled
operations at six other impor-
tant ports, including the key
freight-handling cities of Liver
pool and Hull. More than 800
ships are idle in the ports. Car
goes worth an estimated 100 mil
lion pounds ($336 million) are
being held up.
A committee of Government
ministers, which has been keep
ing an eye on essential imports,
scheduled another meeting for
today. It was expected the group
would recommend the use of
troops as stevedores if the strike
continues beyond Wednesday.
s The dockerS walked off their
jobs in support of a demand for
the right to refuse overtime
work.
& Only about 10000 of the
strikers went out with the Off
cial approval of the Stevedores
Union. The others supporting
the action are members of the
British Transport and General
Workers Union.
Strikers Ignore Plea.
Arthur Deakin, head of the
big TGWU, last night called
again for the strikers to return to
work, but he got a resounding
mo" from 5000 workers, most
of them members of the Steve
dores Union.
Mr.. Deakin maintains the
strike is Communist-inspired.
The calling of troops to work
the docks has been held up by
Labor Minister Sir Walter
Monckton in the hope that
appeals by the more moderate
union leaders would start a gen.
eral drift back to work.
Evening star., 1954-10-25
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Field
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disappeared in 1850. He said he
gained that impression from
what he had heard in the Polish
Ministry of Security.
Mr.. Swiatlo said that although
the Fields denied being involved
in espionage, Soviet satellite
leaders thought that they were
go-betweens in a conspiracy
against the Communists.
Members of Hermann Fields
family, said that he had gone to
Eastern Europe in part to look
for his missing brother. An ar
chitect, he also was said to be
interested in architectural pro-
jects in that area and in aiding
refugees. His wife and her two
children live in London with her
British parents.
Swiatlo Denounced.
The Warsaw radio broadcast
said that "Swiatlo managed to
escape to the West where he now
broadcasts stupid and SANDER
Gus lies. His activities are part
Of a general campaign conducted
against Poland by certain Amer
ican circles"
The broadcast said a number
of Polish nationals also were
freed when Mr.. Field was re-
leased. ..-.
The 44-year-old Field was
from Cleveland, Ohio.
Mr.. Swiatlo said Mr.. Field once
tried to kill himself in his prison
cell near Warsaw and twice went
Evening star., 1954-10-25
Shoh Of iran to Visit
U. S. for Medical Care
By the Assoeiofed Press

TEHERAN, Iran, Oct. 25.-A
court source said yesterday Shah
Mohammed Reza Pahlevi plans
an unofficial visit to the United
States for medical care after he
signs Trans new oil pact.
The 34-year-old monarch, ac-
companied by Queen Soraya,
probably will vacation at Sun
Valley, Idaho, after a complete
checkup at Doctors Hospital in
New York. the informant said.
Evening star., 1954-10-25

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Evening star., 1954-10-25
Chino
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told me. It was Saturday night,
but there seemed no undue hurry
until I remembered there was
half a days difference in time,
and already it was Sunday morn
ing in China and myself with
10000 miles still to cover.
showed the little piece of
paper to the new British minister
to Laos, Lord Talbot. travelling
with me as far as Saigon.
IF they say it's all you need"
he told me, doubtfully, II sup
pose it must be-" But he shook
his head just the same.
It was really like holding a
ticket to the moon. Visas are
usually stamped into passports.
Governments don't often entrust
them to anonymous messengers,
and hardly ever scribble them on
paper torn from a Swiss note
book. Anyway, the deadline for
entering China was perilously
close. BY Tuesday afternoon I
was flying over North Indo-
China, where a few weeks earlier
I watched the last French battle
against enemy troops buying
their arms from China.
I still had no idea how to
proceed across the border. BY
the time stumbled into bed in a
Hong Kong hotel early next
morning, I hardly cared.
Five hours later the telephone
rang. A girls voice said: "A train
leaves Kowloon for the border
this morning. Someone will be
around to pick up your bags and
someone else is buying your rail-
way ticket, and you must pay
him at the station"
Porters Refuse Tip.
It was getting more and more
like a moon journey, but the visa
was assuming some reality.
Soon. two porters in coolie
clothes came for the bags. They
helped me sort unwanted articles
and repack. then hauled the bags
away. They were unlike any
other Chinese I had known in
Hong Kong. They refused any
tip, but presented a bill.
At the station a young Chinese
pounced on me with tickets and
instructions. There in British
colony it seemed slightly fantas-
tic to hear him talk of his gov
ernment in Peiping while q
United States aircraft carrier
rode at anchor in the bay, its
warplanes part of the air cover
provided Formosa in its war
against that same government.
The bridge into China is 80
miles from Hong Kong, at a
place called Lo WI. I had trav-
eled there often to meet expelled
missionaries stumbling out of the
Chinese revolution with tragic
tales fully confirmed by their
emaciated bodies and haggard
eyes. This time was going in
the opposite direction. We
reached Lo WI much too soon.
And so I stood now at the
bamboo gate. My bags were be-
ing taken through. Already I
could see more of China that was
ever possible peering in through
cracks of Korea. Indo- China and
Tibet. It was, in fact. like land
ing on the moon after examin-
ing it and speculating on it
from distance. Only the guard
was disappointing. He looked no
different from his countrymen in
British uniform across the bridge.
He returned the precious visa,
Evening star., 1954-10-25

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Evening star., 1954-10-25
Nehru Aide Dies

NEW DELHI, India, Oct. Is
P.-Rafti Ahmed Kidwai, 60.
India's food and agriculture
minister and one of Prime
Minister Nehru's closest con-
fidants. died of a heart attack
last night. One of his achieve
ments was the negotiation in
August. 1858. of a three-year
barter pact with Russia.
Evening star., 1954-10-25
Toiwon Spurs Oil Hunt

Ten additional oil wells are
planned for Chutouchi, Taiwan.
where production from a test
well began early this year.
Evening star., 1954-10-25

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