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, 1956-11-28
Carl Tranberg Takes
Over Carlton Auto
Service Stdtion


Carl Tranberg, veteran au-
to mechanic who returned
home a few years ago and
resumed permanent residence
at Two Williams, formally
assumed the management Of
the new auto service station
at Estate Carlton, on the Cen
ter Line Highway.
Mr.. Tranberg operated his
own garage in Brooklyn for
thirty years and is an expert
en- the modern automatic
transmissions.
, 1956-11-28
Governor Gordon
Asks Departments to
Coop. With Fes. Com.

Governor Gordon has re-
ouested the several Depart
ments Of Government to CO.
operate with the st. Croi.x
Festival Committee to make
the coming Festival celebra-
ton a success.
In a letter to Mrs. Anna
Brodhurst, President Of the
Committee, dated November
q, the Governor wrote: "As
you requested in your letter
of November 10, 1856, / have
today written to the Commits
sioners Of the Departments of
Education Health, and Public
Works, asking their coopera-
ton in the preparations for
the Fifth Annual st. Croix
Christmas Festival, scheduled
to begin in Frederiksted on
26 and to continue
until january |, 1857"
, 1956-11-28
Vicorp Power Div.
Offices Transferred
to Golden Grove

The Power Division Of the
Virgin Islands Corporation
will move its headquarters
from the old Central Factory
to the headquarters of the Vir
gin Islands Corporation at
Golden Grove, it was announc
ed today.
The order becomes effec-
tive on Monday, December 8,
, 1956-11-28
Executive Order
Establishes Service
Churge for Sdlt Voter

Governor Gordon issued on
November 10, 1856, an Execu-
tive Order Establishing a
Monthly Service Charge for
use Of the Municipal Salt
Water Flushing system. This
monthly minimum service
charge is in the amount OF
$500 per fixture connected TO
the Salt Water flushing sys-
tenn and shall be made by the
Commissioners of Public Works
and collected by the Depart
ment of Finance. If installa-
ton is completed during the
first fifteen days of a month,
charge shall be made for the
full month, and if completed
during the full half Of the
month, no charge shall be
made for that month.
The executive order furth-
er states that the basic fixture
fer connection to the salt wa
ter flushing system shall be
a water closet with no larger
than a five-gallon tank, and
the Commissioners Of PEblic
Works will determine by a
rational analysis, based on the
amount of salt water used,
the amount to be charged for
fixtures other than basic fix
lures and for the use Of salt
water other than in Connection
with flushing toilets.
The Commissioner of Pub
lie Works is also authorized
to disconnect any consumer.
from the Salt Water Flushing
System for non-payment of
charges or for the wasteful
use Of salt water.
, 1956-11-28
Gru1nrnur School to
Sponsor Program
FridUY at l0:AM

The Christiansted Public
Grammar School will sponsor
a special program over radio
station WIVI on Friday morn
ing at 1000, it was announced
today by Principal Anders
Petersen.
The program will be part Of
, 1956-11-28

Va A00NA4O4A
Announces Celebru.
Of Book Week
This week is book week.
The Department of Education
has announced that in the Ii
braries; in the classrooms, in
the schools, posters announce
Its Always Book Time, the
slogan for this years book
week.
In an endeavor to publicize
this fact hundreds of book
markers have been distribut-
ed to students, programs have
been prepared and activities
held,
AT the Christiansted High
School, the Library staff, in
keeping with the observance
is featuring a display in the
lobby made possible through
the cooperation of friends in
the community.
An Egyptian wood carving,
approximately five thousand
years old 5000 BC) on which
a message is inscribed in
hieroglyphics is probably the
Oldest specimen Of the writ
ten word existing in st. Croix.
This is on display by courtesy
of "The Little Guardhouse'.
OF particular interest is a
354 year old Spanish Bible
published at Amsterdam in
1902. This Bible is probably
the Oldest specimen Of the
printed word on the Island.
This last was made possible
through the courtesy Of the
Keith Merrills of Estate Sion
Hill.
Also on display is a parch-
ment leaf of an old Spanish
missal of the early fifteen
hundreds and a parchment
sheet, featuring Gregorian
chant taken from an old
c138O, at the Regens-
burg Monastery.
OF local origin and interest
is a new testament written in
creole and published in Co
penhagen in 1916 for use in
the Danish West Indies.
, 1956-11-28

the celebration of book week
and will last for half an hour.
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those in the 1854 congress-
Sional election campaign that
so embittered Democrats, and
also to other aspects of his
character as revealed in
politics.
Then take another example,
one of those opinion polls, this
one by Elmo Roper Associates.
AS interesting as the Roper
polls finding that more people
like Nixon than don't was the
frank manner in which he
publish d the unfavorable
judgments given to his pollers,
such as don't trust him,
shady" too ambitious, oppor-
tunist," arrogant, conceited.
That is public psycho-analysis
such as we seldom see, though
the percentages in these cate
gories was small. The Roper
poll came to the conclusion
that while Nixon is more liked
than disliked, at the same
time, there is a strong under
current Of suspicion about
him"
This same report comes
from politicians.
But they know that the
final decision is with the Pres
ident as to the vice presi-
dental candidate, as 1t was as
to his own candidacy.
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Health Issue in the Senate Race

Yet both men are practiced
politicians. They realize the
health issue will be strongly
to the fore this year because
of President Eisenhower's
heart attack and surgery.
Every candidate can expect
somewhat closer scrutiny of
his general appearance and
vigor.
Still another Senator Of
commanding stature is think
ing along these lines.
Senator Lehman Of New
York is in excellent health
but he is rs. He is quietly
bordering whether he ought
to ask for another six years
in the Senate. His party will
readily give him the nomina-
ton; they tell him, in fact, he
will strengthen the ticket.
This influences him, since he
would like to help Adlai
Stevenson carry New York.
1t is denied, however, that
Lehman's hesitation is in any
sense a hint to Carmine De
Sapio, the Tammany leader,
that Lehman might not be as
inclined to sacrifice his in
clinations to help a Hartman
candidacy. Lehman has said
publicly that Stevenson is his
candidate and not the New
York Governor.
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DORIS FLEEsON
Stricken Senator MiIIikin and Tydings
Urged to Drop Out of Campaign

The health problems Of q
Republican Senator and q
Democratic candidate for the
Senate underscore the already
evident prospect for substan-
tial change in the upper
branch of Congress next year.
Senator Millikin Of Colo
RADIO has been pitifully Grip
pied by arthritis throughout
this session. With the Colo
RADIO COP. nominating con-
vention due on Saturday,
covert pressure on him to
withdraw has exploded into
the open.
The Rocky Mountain News,
always a Millikin supporter,
has urged him editorially to
step down. A prominent Love-
land attorney, Hatfield Chill
son, who previously had re-
fused to run against Millikin,
announced his candidacy. Mil
likin, who has been stubbornly
silent. must speak out by
Saturday.
In nearby Maryland, former
Senator Tydings who won the
Democratic nomination for a
vindication campaign against
Senator Butler is hospitalized
with shingles. He has had to
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say that he will not be able
to go to the Chicago conven-
ton starting August 10.
The organization pressure on
Tydings has begun. 1t is being
said he ought to sacrifice the
nomination quickly to an ac-
tive candidate lest the cam
paign to unseat Butler fail.
The human aspect is very
strongly to the fore in both
these situations.
Millikin is one of the Senate
elite. AS when Walter George
rose, the signal that Millikin
was up filled the press gall
lerieS. George and Millikin
have been for years ranking
members of the Finance Com
mittee; what they did and
thought counted and the way
they expressed themselves was
wonderful.
OF course Millikin - like
George - does not want to
leave the Senate.
Tydings. long a formidable
Senator. feels he was beaten
in 1850 only because Sena-
tor Mccarthy, then riding high,
took a hand in the Maryland
campaign. Having won the
right to fight again, Tydings
will not give it up easily.
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NEWS OF MUSIC
Si|fies Plays Dual Role
In Pro Musico Concert

Mozart quintet seemed to drag
somewhat in the strings, al
though it cannot be said that
the music was taken too slowly,
for the clarinet bubbled as
briSkly and spontaneously as
could be wished. The fault must
have been a matter of ensemble.
The rest of the Mozart master
piece was a delight.
The italian Serenade," one
of the few works by Hugo Wolf
not in his series of songs fol
voice and piano, has unaccount-
ably dropped out of the repertoire
of most string quartets during
the past decade. 1t was pleasant
last night to hear 1t again, fol-
lit is a work Of unusual charm
and originality. The Pro Musics
group played in fine style.
Putting aside his clarinet, Mr.
Silf1es sat down to the piano fol
"a poetic if not too fiery per-
Torrance of the Schumanr
quintet. The work was inter
rupted though not marred by 9
broken f1ddle-String.
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on his own ground. It's serenity
and easy flow speaks the musical
language of the 18th century,
not that of the impetuous but
mature Beethoven.
This neglected piece was scored
originally for the unusual COM
bination of piano, oboe, clarinet,
baSSoon. and horn, but the YER
sion played yesterday was quite
authentic as it was arranged by
Beethoven himself.
The evening ended with a solid
reading of the Brahms horn trio,
generally acknowledged one of
that masters top achievements
in chamber music. The inter-
probation was aided by Thomas
Newell'S relaxed and sensitive
horn playing. Mr.. Newell,
formerly with the Air Force
Symphony Orchestra and now
with the st. Louis Symphony,
made the considerable intricacies
of his part seem child's play.
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CONSTANTINE BROWN
Eisenhower Reported Urging Presidents
To Stand Together Against u. N. Entry

Besides further strengthen
ing United States ties with
our sister republics of this
hemisphere, President Eisen-
hover is reported to have done
an additional less publicized
but equally important job dur
ing his stay in Panama.
In his private talks with in
dividual Latin American pres
idents. Eisenhower was able to
obtain their pledge that their
delegates will vote against
seating Communist China in
the United Nations when that
issue comes before the next
meeting of the General AS
sembly.
There was no bargaining or
counterpart offers for the
promises. The Latin American
republics are very U.N.-minded
and in the forefront to make
that world organization into
what it was intended by the
charter, and not a political
football.
Although only a few of the
countries sent troops to fight
in Korea. they all we're on the
side of justice and have in the
past Staunchly opposed adj
mission of the Peiping govern
ment which was outlawed by
the United Nations.
But in the last few months
renewed pressures have been
brought on them to look at the
situation from a realistic"
angle. 1t has been pointed out
that the neutralist groups in
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Stossen and His Bid for Herter

Western countries, in trying to
soften the embargo on stra-
tegic commodities and whether
any of the same influences
now are behind his sponsor
ing of Gov. Herter as a vice
presidential candidate. For a
move such as Harold Stassen
made was no spur-of-the-
moment decision, but the care
fully conceived plan of a group
of New York business and
financial men who have been
trying all through the present
session of Congress to get vast
appropriations for foreign aid
without any strings"
There are unconfirmed ru-
mors here that Paul Hoffman
is one of the men back Of the
Herter candidacy. Hoffman
was administrator of economic
aid in Europe under President
Truman and last week was
nominated as a Republican to
be a delegate to the U. N. AL
though he was confirmed, six
teen Republicans and six DEM
ocratS in the Senate voted
against him.
StaSsen says an Eisenhower
Herter ticket will run at least
six per cent stronger than an
INSTRUMENTATION ticket" But
he has overlooked the pros
pect that, by dropping Nixon,
there would be at least a 20
per cent detection of regular
Republicans who wouldn't go
to the polls at all if President
Eisenhower goes back on his
pledge to support Nixon. For
that's what his statements
have been construed to mean
by Republican leaders from
Chairman Leonard Hall down
to the rank and file. Double
crossing" doesn't sit well in
politics, and the betting is
100 to l that Eisenhower will
never be guilty of it, no mat
ter how strong the pressure
from close personal friends in
New York.
Meanwhile, the Democrats
in Congress have indicated by
their public comments how
gleeful they now are over the
prospect of a split in the Re-
publican Party. It's strange
how the applicant can be upset
overnight, and what looked like
a sure thing for Eisenhower
now becomes a big question
mark until he himself clears
the air.
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from Republican National
Chairman Leonard w. Hall
and James Hagerty.
The 43-year-old Californian
has been dissected publicly as
few human beings have been
before; more infinitely, GER
tainly, than any candidate for
what was once considered a
lowly Office but has lowered
nightly in the two decades
since Victor Moore caricatured
it as Mr.. Throttlebottom."
Just as we, the people, have
learned more about the physi-
cal insides of a President than
ever before in the case Of Presi-
dent Eisenhower, so we are
being treated to an infinitely
detailed psychological study of
our more youthful Vice Presi-
dent.
There he has been lying on
the national couch, while the
magazine writers and the
opinion pollsters size him UP.
We take it for granted that
every politician lives in a gold
fish bowl. Dick Nixon doesn't
even have a bowl.
Changing the smile quickly
from fish and water to fire and
smoke leads to that old saying
about where there is smoke
there must be fire.
All the noise about Nixon
indicated plainly that, some
where or other, there seemed
to be both rank-and-file citi-
zens and Very Important Per-
sons politically who were con-
cerned about the Californian's
being on the ticket with Presi-
dent Eisenhower since the
Presidents second illness.
That seems, for example. a
fair inference from the fact
that a popular magazine of
wide circulation owned by a
warm supporter of the Presi-
dent and his administration
meaning Life and Henry r.
Luce-recently devoted con-
siderable space to a debate"
pro and con, about the Vice
President. The case" against
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Latin America and Red China

nists. The Senate will bring to
the floor this week a similar
motion. and it also is expected
to pass without dissenting
voice.
Secretary Dulles, Ambassador
Lodge and Assistant Secre-
tary for Far Eastern Affairs
Robertson realize, however,
that the struggle may be more
intense this year than it has
been in the past. In order to
prevent the Chinese Com
enthusiastically supported
by India, Egypt. Yugoslavia
and many others-from shoot.
ing their way into the U. NJ.
it is essential that we muster
all the opposition votes we
can possibly get.
The rules of the u. N. Gen.
eral Assembly provide that a
majority vote is necessary in
matters of little Importance"
and a two-thirdS majority is
required in major matters.
The Red bloc already has
indicated that it considers the
seating of Peiping a matter
of little Importance since this
is not a case of country ask
ing admission but of one
regime replacing another. We
strongly take the position (and
expect to be upheld even by
the British, French, Italians
and other European countries
which want to deal with Com
munist China that this is a
substantive matter" which
requires two-thirds majority.
Since we can count on only
a handful of European sup
porters, such as Spain, Por-
tugal. Ireland, Turkey. posi-
bly, Greece, the Philippines,
Pakistan and Thailand, to side
with us, it was imperative for
President Eisenhower to per-
sonally talk to the presidents
of the sister republics in Latin
America and convince them of
the need to vote solidly with
the present majority.
Most Latin Americans are
more keenly aware of the
necessity for international
morality than many of our
European friends and allies.
According to available reports,
Eisenhower's efforts have been
successful and we may look
forward to obtaining more
than the necessary 20 votes
required to defeat the efforts
of some U. N. members, die
tated either by sympathy or
expediency, to make China a
peace loving" nation for pur-
poses of admission to the
U. N.
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POTOMAC FEVER
FLETCHER KNEBEL

Disarmament Boss Stassen Richard for
president Dsarmng the world occupation but it's
more fun blowing up the San Francisco convention
Ike returns from Panama good shape In fact his health
SO good the White House staff tempted Demo-
cratic doctors verify it.
both the waiter and wife glare at you the size
OF your tip was about right.
Republicans have proof that they're the party of
peace The administrators H-bomb shows that Republic
cans just aren't cut out for this war business.
The House Ikes civil rights bill goes to
the Senate where it will be handled without preudce-any
pgeonhoe will do
One candidate says the opposition up to its usual smear
tactics-quotng from his old speeches.
Democratic Senator Mansfield Secretary Dulles of
wiShful thinking Democrats too far
It's bad politics to concede that Republican thinking
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Europe and Asia were getting
stronger and louder in their
demands for an end to the
present "unrealistic situation"
Besides the neutralistS, Great
Britain, France and Italy also
were playing the same tune.
Although the USSR and her
satellites do not enjoy favor
with the Latin Americans,
their governments are mindful
OF the trends toward coexist-
ence in Europe and have to
pay some attention to the dip
lomatic exertions of the Soviets
in behalf of Communist China.
President Eisenhower is
aware that the grass roots of
America definitely are opposed
to admission of the Red Chi
nese into the ranks of civilized
people. Congressional leaders
have cautioned him repeatedly
on the dangers to any admin
istration in Office of looking
impassively at the efforts of
those who favor realism" for
Communist China.
In the earlier days of the
Els n h over administration
there was not much chance of
obtaining a majority in the
U. N. Assembly in favor of
seating the Peiping regime. All
the same, in 1854 the Senate
Appropriations Com mittee
voted a rider in the appropria-
tions bill providing that all the
funds for American represent
tation at the U. N. would be
denied if Red China were
admitted. At the Chief Execu-
tlve'S inSistence the rider was
withdrawn and replaced by a
resolution passed unanimously
in both houses declaring that it
was 1.-The sense of Congress"
that the outlawed Chinese
should not be taken into the
U. N. fold.
During this year, particularly
since a number of other coun-
tries were admitted, the situa-
ton has become more precari-
Gus. Besides, Britain, France
and Italy also are on record as
favoring the Red Chinese-as
a matter of political and
economic expediency. Congress
members became alarmed at
the prospect of a vote favoring
Peiping next November after
the elections. The House al
ready has approved unani-
mouSly motion putting itself
on record as opposing admis-
sion of the Chinese Commu-
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How Much Support Stossen Move Gains
Viewed as Big Preconvention Question

The Harold Stassen maneu-
yer to Sidetrack Vice President
Nixon and bring about, in
stead, the nomination of Gov.
Christian Herter of MaSsa-
chusetts as vice presidential
candidate with President
Eisenhower at least gives an
outlet to obviously growing
concern over Richard M. Nix
on's denomination among i'm
portant party leaders and rank
and file.
How much support it will
rally we must wait and see in
the less than a month before
the Republican convention as
sembles at San Francisco.
Harold Stassen has been a
trusted administration official.
1t is taken for granted that
he has received some encour-
agement in the Herter rnaneu-
yer from some persons within
the administration who are
worried that Nixon's presence
on the ticket, especially in
view Of the Presidents health,
might lose votes in strategic
areas. StaSsen seemingly is
putting up a lightning rod to
see whether a ditch Nixon"
movement will take sufficiently
with party leaders, the rank
and file and the delegates to
impress the President, himself,
whose decision 1t will be.
1t is late, especially in view
of previous commitments by
President Eisenhower for an
other Eisen h ow r-Nixon
ticket, reluctant as the Presi-
dent was to commit himself
specifically when the question
first was raised in the spring
at press conferences. He was
finally put on record. however,
by his press secretary. James
Hagerty.
However. the closer the
party comes to the San Fran
cisco convention, the louder
grows the din OF controversy
raging around Vice President
Nixon, despite fiat assurances
that the ticket again would be
Eisenhower-Nixon that came
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Harold StaSSen, once Cover
nor Of Minnesota and now a
special assistant to President
Eisenhower in charge Of dis
armament" negotiations. has
made the biggest faux pas of
his political career and set in
motion movement that could
result in such a serious cleav-
age inside the Republican
Party as to destroy the chances
of re-electing Eisenhower.
Merely to have announced
that he favorS Gov. Herter in
stead of Vice President Nixon
for the second place on the
ticket would not in itself have
caused a big sensation, but the
grounds on which Stassen put
it reveals to the Nation that
there may be some serious
dissension inside the Eisen-
hover administration and that
what's been regarded as an
Eisenhower-Dulles pro-Ameri-
can policy is really being
threatened from within by pro-
ponents of a pro-European
and pro-Asian policy.
The key sentence in StaSSen's
strange declaration is this:
THE independent people at
home. important portions of
the population abroad, and
the uncommitted nations in
the world would have greater
confidence In an Eisenhower
Herter ticket"
1t will be q surprise to most
Americans to learn that Euro
pean and Asian leaders have to
be satisfied before the Repub-
lican National Convention can
pick vice presidential nom
inee. For undoubtedly Nixon
doesn't please Messrs. Nasser,
Nehru and Tito. This would
give the Democrats. of course,
q lively issue. as the voters in
the past have shown them
selves very sensitive about any
suggestion that they must
consider foreign influences in
deciding an American election.
Gov. Herter is a fine man
and an able one, but now he
becomes identified with all the
handicaps Of his sponsor
Stassen-and Of the New York
City group. too, which is back
ing this latest move to dump
Nixon"
The innuendo In the StasSen