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A WORD TO TOURISTS

Americans like to travel. This year they
are doing more of it than ever before. If
we travel with our eyes open we can learn
much from neighboring nations Many of
us could, with profit, study the courtesy and
graciousness extended to visitors by our
friends south Of the border in Mexico. We
could also learn something about the in
efficiency of government in business. The
Mexican government runs a lot of enter
prises Sometimes it is a discouraging ex-
perience to try to do business with one of
them. Take the field of communications. Try
to register a complaint with Mexican tele-
phone or telegraph official. 1t is best to save
your breath. 1t will take from few hours
to a few days to get rush call or message
through. Equipment in common use has
long been retired to museums in the States
In Mexico, as elsewhere, when the state is
the economic boss there are no regulatory
commissions or stockholders to ask Ques-
tions, and customers are merely tolerated.
The same situation would exist in our
own country if the state was the principal
entrepreneur. But in the United States, gov
ernment enterprise are surrounded on all
sides by the high standards of performance
demanded of private enterprises. If our pub
lcly regulated private telephone or tele-
graph companies falter on the job word Of
criticism gets quick action Even the post
Office department is subject to the perform
ance pressure of private enterprise. Fortu-
nately there are privately-operated taxpay-
ing freight forwarders and parcel carriers
such as the express agency which have so
far managed to give the parcel carrying
branch of the post Office a run for its money
even though they do not enjoy tax exemp-
tion and other privileges accorded govern
ment business undertakings.
Nowhere else in the world has the initi-
ative and ambition of the individual been
given such free reign as in the United States.
Millions of Americans who travel abroad this
summer will become aware of this fact.
Milford chronicle., 1956-04-13
They Forgot Something


A warning to the Middle East.
Russia, Cyprus, Red China and
'North Africa, published recently
by the Scripps-Howard newspapers
has been called to our attention. by
Dan Greber, of Fremont, Michi-
gan.
Don't do anything in April, ;"
says Sripps-Howard. Don't make
move. You won't get anywhere,
not in the newspapers, at least"
Because, explain the publishers,
April is taken up. April is re-
served" The earth-shaking events
cited for this joyous month are lin
order of space requirements, no
doubt, Margaret Truman's we'd
ding, Grace Kelly's wedding, the
opening of the baseball season.
But this warning, in Mr.. Gerber's
opinion, has somehow overlooked
another April event that over
shadows-in it's implications at
least-even the baseball onening.
He refers 10 the oath annual OBJ
servance of National Baby Week.
which opens April 28th and runs
through May 5th. After that. there
may be space again on the front
page for the usual mayhem, arson
and international skulduggery.
And If you question the impact
If this special week on American
life, consider that the birth rate
has risen steadily from 17.3 per
1 900 population in 1889 to pres
snt rate of 259 per 1.000-in total,
from 2.265,5S8 new, native-born
citizens in 1889 to about 4,100,000
in 1855.
Yes, April is taken up. In April
we shall be preoccupied with the
nuptials of the Misses Truman and
Kelly, the return of basebali-and
the arrival of record-breaking
crop of babies who never had 1t
so good.
Another Test
With UN Secretary-GeneraI Dag
Hammarskiold and his staff wing
ing their way to Rome and thence
10 the feverish and feuding Middle
East, the free world was breath
ing little easier.
Whether his mandate to work
out with Israel, Egypt and the
Arab neighbors some means or
improving their observanceM of
armistice agreements will be pro-
1uctive or not, there was immedi-
ate relief in the fact that
Hammerskjold's journey is backed
by a unanimous vote ofSthe Secnr-
ity Council. And this was all the
more heartening in view OF the
failure of Russia's Arkady A. So
belev to inject few Gripping
amendments into the Council reso-
luton. and his charge that Ger
tain Western states obviously the
u. s., Britain and France-had
planned armed Intervention in vlo-
Milford chronicle., 1956-04-13

After Dinner C0nfecfion
In his address to the Overseas
Press Club in New York the other
light, former President Harry Tru-
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Flying Cross, Bronze Star anc
Air Medal.
Gets Back to Courtroom
Getting back into law after
the war was a little hard for q
man who found even the excit.
ment of a courtroom a little dull
after his Burma experiences.
/ A bit of what Mr.. Berman calls
economic" pressure in the form
of Alice Rose of Clinton, S. c..
who ended his single days, re.
turned him to the practice of Law
in earnest. They live now al
Roslyn, Long Island, and have 6
daughter, Eliza, IL, and son
Eli, 6.
A slight, balding man with
diversified ears and nose which
would please Jimmy Durante, the
52-year-old Mr.. Berman has 8
deceptively-mild courtroom APP
pearance. Unless he is on hi:
feet, he appears relaxed, or ever
serene. When he rises to speak
he becomes a tenacious fighter
and in the McKeon case he came
out fighting with bewilderins
motions and requests thai
snarled up the opening day Of
the trial.
And for Mr.. Berman, the mar
with the cause. this is only 6
beginning.
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Rainier Will Tell
When q Body Is
Expected, He Says

PARIS. July II (R.-Prince
Rainier II of Monaco. comment
ing on fresh reports that Prin-
cess Grace is expecting a baby,
said today when there is some
thing to announce I will make it
myself and at the palace Of
Monaco.
The Princes prepared state
ment came following publication
of news dispatches from Rome
quoting the Princes Roman
Catholic chaplain. the Rev.
Francis Tucker, as indicating an
heir was on the way.
II see no reason to deny in
formation which will anyway be
made official soon," Father
Tucker was said to have told
inewsmen.
Rainier and his American wife
were luncheon guests Of Presi-
dent Rene Coty at the Elysee
Palace today.
Police barred photographers
from taking pictures of the cou-
pie as they arrived in the palace
courtyard. The officer in charge
said the ban was at Rainier's re-
quest.
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2 More 81 Attacks
Arouse Germans

FRANKFURT, Germany, July
III R).-Two more attacks or
German women were reported
today as the Bavarian govern
ment mapped action Ito protect
the life and safety of German
citizens" from violence by Ameri-
! can troops.
The new reports from Nuern.
berg added fuel to the growing
resentment among many Ger
mans over a series of crime;
charged to United States service
men stationed in Germany.
Nuremberg police said a soldier
in civilian clothes tried to as
Sault a 19-year-old nurSemaic
near an army post but fled wher
the girls screams attracted at.
tention.
The police said another Ameri-
can soldier in uniform attempted
to assault a 63-year-old woman
in the same vicinity a few hours
later. He also ran when the
woman screamed.
A meeting of United State;
troop commanders and German
mayors, police chiefs and news
paper editors was called al
Fuerth to take up the problem.
A special session of the Ba-
varian cabinet at Munich. the
state capital, authorized Minis
ter-President Wilhelm Hoegnel
to take action for protection Of
German citizens.
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U. S. Says Reds Hold
Men From 2 Lost Planes

liam Seeschaf, Arlington, Va;
1t. q. g. Robert Onward Reyn-
olds, Danville. N. Y; Ensign
Tommy Lee Burgess, Osawa-
tonne, Kans.; Tl3 Edward Joseph
Purcell, Southwestville, N. j.;
Aviation Machinist Mate 1/c Joe
Henry Danens. jr.. Cutbank
Mont; Aviation Electronics Mate
nc Frank Lloyd Beckman. New
port. KY; Aviation Electronics
Mate &c Joseph Norris Rinnier
jr., Philadelphia; Aviation Elec-
tronics Mate &c Joseph j
Bourassa. Linwood, Mich, and
Aviation Machinist Mate 1/C
Jack William Thomas, Saltwater,
Okla.
Those aboard the B-29 were
listed as:
Maj. Samuel Busch and 1t
James A. Sculley, Philadelphia
Pa; 1t. Samuel D. Service,
Berkeley, Calf; I'd 1t. Robert
j. Mcdonnell, Oceanside, N. Y;
M lSergt. William r. Homer
jeanette, Pa; S/Sergt. William
"A. Blizzard, Arlington. Calf;
| S/Sergt. Miguel w. Monserrat
Philadelphia; Altman 1/c Leon
F. Bonura, Beaumont, Tex;
SiSergt. Eddie. Roy Berg, Black
Duck. Mimi; Airman 1/c Roscoe
! G. Becker. Tillamook. Greg;
Airman &c Danny Pillsbury
Orange. Tex, and T/Sergt. Davio
L. Moore, whose wife resided al
an air base in Japan.
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OAAsAAAAC0 OAAA = - ~ - - . =
any American nationals in Soviet
custody or to permit such, ma.
tionals to communicate with
United States authorities.
The note declared that al
least one airman believed to bt
from the Navy Privateer was re-
ported seen at a camp neal
Taishet, in Eastern Siberia. anc
at a collective farm in that area
in 1850 and 1858.
Reports have been received
the note continued, that as
many as eight Americans, also
believed to be. members of the
Privateer crew, had been seen in
the Vorkuta area in September
1850.
Referring to the Bog, the
note said an officer believed to
have been a member of its crew
was reported seen in October
1858, in a hospital at Marion
burg, north of Magadan neal
the crossing of the Kolyms
River.
The note called on the Soviet
Union to give the names and
the circumstances underlying
the detention of any Americans
held prisoner.
Crew Members Listed.
The 10 crew members aboard
the Navy plane were listed as:
1t. John Henry Fette. Con-
nellsville. Pa; 1t. Howard Will
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Legion Convention
To Beqin Thursday

The 38th annual convention
of the American Legion, District
Department, will begin at 1880
pm. Thursday at the Shoreham
Hotel. 1t will last through Sat-
urday night.
Principal speaker at the open
ing session will be DR.. Carl j.
ReeS of Newark, DEL, past ma
tional vice. commander. A me-
mortal service for members of
the department who have died
also will be held Thursday night.
Second session of the conven-
ton will begin at 1880 pm. Fri
day, with the time of Saturdays
session to be set later. Election
of officers will be held Saturday
after which a commanders ball
will be held in the west ballroom
beginning at 10 pm.
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approval by holders of two
thirds of CTC stock at a special
meeting August 3, and on
approval by Congress of a
franchise acceptable to Mr..
Chalk. He indicated today he will
accept the franchise approved by
the conferees.
If the deal should fall through,
the new legislation would au-
sioners to give the franchise to
any other satisfactory buyer OF
etc.
Under an act of Congress
passed during last summers 81
day transit strike, CTC's fran
chise will expire at midnight
August IA. Although its cor
porate charter also was sched-
uled to die at the same time, the
new legislation will keep that
alive to let the company con-
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have bided their time anc
mended their fences. But there
is no evidence to suggest that
they ever abandoned the long
range idea of a return to a line
of policy which promised them
glittering dividends.
No one outside Russia-and fol-
that matter, few people inside
can measure with assurance all
the reasoning that lies behind
the Russian new look which
began to take firm shape at the
Summit Conference at Geneva
last year.
Peoples Attitude. Social and
economic pressureS inside Rus
STA and the satellites may have
played a part.
Leaders Attitude. The new
leaders themselves maysfeel that
the kind of internecine warfare
which characterized the Stain
era has lost its zest.
Military considerations. They
may have become convinced that
military expansion in an age OF
nuclear weapons involves toe
great a risk.
EiSenhOwer'S SaIesmanship
President Eisenhower finally may
have persuaded them at Geneva
that the United States would
never be the first to launch an
aggressive war.
Concern Over Chinese. The
Russians may be seeking closer
ties with the West to counter
balance the awsome weight of
600 million Communist Chinese.
Confidence at Home. They
may also feel that the Commu-
mist regimes at home and in the
satellites are so firmly estab-
lished that the upheavals of 1858
will not be repeated.
Olive Branch More Effective
Each of these factors could
have helped to shape the deci-
sion. But perhaps the biggest
reason of all is that the new
Russian leaders understand what
Stain never understood: That in
the struggle between two world
systems. the olive branch is a
more effective weapon than the
big stick.
They believe, in short, that the
Communist world can compete
with the West on a political and
economic plane. They are also
convinced that in this competi-
ton, their side will win-first
because with a strictly controlled
economy they can divert avail
able resources wherever they will
do most good-second, because
communism shorn of the threat
Of military domination still makes
an extraordinary appeal to many
people outside the Communist
area.
Having reached their decision
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Itinue in other. ncn-transit
business.
Backstop on Sale
If legalistic details of COM
lpleting the Chalk deal take
longer than August l4-or If the
deal should fall through and an
other buyer had to be found
the legislation would let the
Commissioners authorize" serv-
ice. presumably by etc.
etc has been operating under
Just such an authorization since
the end of the strike. The new
bill also would let the Commits
sioners> set rates of fare to be
charged by the company, as they
did last summer when they
worked out a strike-settling la
Dor contract and then negoti.
ated with the company the rates
of fare it could charge.
Since the franchise approved
for Mr.. Chalk freezes present
fares for one year, this provision
raised the possibility that etc
might get an interim fare in
Grease which would be wiped out
when the new company takes
over and the new franchise goes
into effect.
Conferees said, however, that
this situation probably woulc
never develop.
If the Chalk deal should fall
through. one major bidder fol-
ICTC remains. This is Samuel j
Solomon, president of California
Eastern Aviation, Inc, who, in 9
dramatic midnight session of the
CTC board Of directors, pushed
up the purchase price by
100000.
His attorney appeared at two
of the conference meetings tc
urge that the franchise be
worded so it could be given tc
some buyer other than Mr.. Chalk
Observers insist Mr.. Solomon
is free to make a new bid at any
time until the special stock
holders meeting August 8.
Following are other highlights
OF the proposed franchise:
l. A net return of 612 per cent
ION either the system rate base
or on gross operating revenues
is declared to be not "unrea-
sonable."
2. The Public Utilities Com
mission is to encourage a shift
within two years to basing fares
on gross operating revenues.
Automatic Increases
3. Fare increases requested by
the company would go into
effect automatically after 100
days if the utilities commission
mad not set rates of its own
before then. The commission
however, could cut them later.
4. The company would have
to convert gradually over seven
years to an all-bus operation
1t would pay for tearing up
streetcar tracks and repaving
but this would be tied in with
the District Highway Depart
ment's repaving program.
| S. The company would be ex-
empt from the Districts gross
receipts tax which has been
costing etc more than $4,000
a year.
6. 1t would be conditionally
exempt from the city's six-cent-
a-gallon tax on gasoline to the
extent that it failed to earn @
612 per cent return.
Z. After full conversion to- an
lall-bus operation, it would also
be conditionally exempt from
District real estate taxes.
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the Kremlin leaders have acted
with impressive energy. The
liberation of Austria last spring
provided the first major diplo-
matte bombshell. Allied govern
1ments were caught so f1atfooted
by the move that there is still
some question of what to dc
about the multi-million- dollar
military installations which were
under construction at the time.
Second Thoughts Arise
When Khrushchev and Bull
ganin showed up in Belgrade to
pay their respects to Marshal
Tito, there were plenty of OBJ
servers on Misunderstanding this
reporter-to point out the irony
in the situation and hail the
event as a significant triumph
for the one-time outcast Yugo-
Slav 1dictatoE But since then,
with Tito being feted in Moscow
as a returning prodigal. or tour
ing Western Europe spreading
the gospel Of neutralism, there
have been some second thoughts.
The same goes for the other
major features of the Russian
new look-the hatchet-work on
Stain, the junkets to India and
Burma and Britain. the offers of
economic aid, arms and give
away trade agreements" to I'M
committed countries, the partial
rehabilitation of the Red Army,
the endless talk about disarma-
ment, peace and co-existence.
If the Russian leaders are
willing to make themselves look
ridiculous on occasion, if they
contradict themselves, appear to
be outsmarted and sometimes
take risks, it is a safe bet that
they do it of their own will and
with a deadly serious purpose.
No Sign of Breakdown
The hope that this process will
place an unbearable burden on
the internal structure of the
Communist apparatus is a little
far-fetched. The recent riots in
Poland have been put down with
a Self-assurance which hardly
suggests a tottering regime.
Recent criticism of the Russian
Party by Communists in France,
Italy, Britain and the United
States generally is believed to
have been inspired, if not d.
rectly ordered. by the leaders
of Moscow.
Another handy straw to clutch
is the thought that the Russian
leaders themselves will fall
under the spell of their own
lliberality. Given time, some
people think that Russian COM
munism could evolve into a diff
ferent sort of system, not actu-
ally benign, perhaps, but at least
capable of permanent co-exist-
ence with Western capitalism.
This apparently was in Secre-
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tary Dulles mind at his Wednes-
day press conference.
Here again, however, the evil
dence is less than convincing
Whatever changes may take
place in the face which COM
munism presents to the outside
world, certain essential features
remain. The methods may
evolve. But wherever the Com
munisS dominate in the world
they do so as firmly today, il
not as roughly, as before. Nc
country which has ever fallen
under Communist control has
ever had another free second
guess.
In Successful Competition
At any rate, whatever real OF
imagined dangers may lie in
their path, Russia is clearly
moving ahead with a logical pro-
gram which confronts the West
with two facts deserving urgent
recognition
l. For the first time, COM
munism as a system is in open
and successful competition with
democracy, fighting in areas
and with weapons on which the
West until now has had a
monopoly.
2. This competition which is
basically hostile to the interests
of the free world, cannot be met
successfully by diplomatic tech
niques and propaganda created
during the opening phases of the
cold war.
In an atmosphere of election
year optimism. these conclu-
sions may strike an unpleasantly
discordant note. But in the light
of what is happening in the Eu-
ropean area today. they also
present a challenge which the
United States cannot ignore
much longer without counting
disaster.
(TOmOrrOw-The Communist
offensive in EurOpe.)
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Marines Counsel Bears
Cause CeIebre' Name
By a star stan Correspondent


PARIS ISLAND, S. c., July
ia cause and a name have
met here flttingly in the death
march trial of Marine Sergt.
Matthew C. McKeon.
The cause is the defense of
Sergt. McKeon on manslaughter
and other charges growing out
of the April 8 night march of a
Marine, platoon in which six
recruits were drowned in nearby
tidal Ribbon Creek.
The name is Emile lola
Berman, the sergeant's chief
counsel.
AS a newspaper reader, Mr.
Berman, a busy New York law
yer, was mildly interested in
lSergt. McKeon's difficulties
Then he was asked by a New
York bar committee to take
charge of the sergeant's defense
and overnight he became a
man with a cause as well as an
advocate.
Serving without Fee
Mr.. Berman brought two
assistants here for the trial
which may run several weeks,
and his expenses are coming out
of his own pocket.
Il wouldn't serve in this kind
of case for a fee," hes explains.
IF I couldn't pay my way, I'd
back out"
He comes by this attitude ma
turally. His mother, Elizabeth,
fed. from Czarist Russia and
first went to France. There she
joined a group of young liberals
whose interest and sense of
Justice were fired by lola and
his ~ Accuse" in the Dreyfuss
case.
His mother came to this coun-
try and married, and of her Mr..
Berman says:
ITO her mind, the years 1902
brought two major events-Zola' S
death and my birth. She thought
she could name me for no one
else. All this was explained to
me when I started grade school.
lola was given to me as her
shining example of the impor-
lance of learning. I can't say !
was impressed"
But impressed Mr.. Berman
must have been. If not. by the
example held before him. then
by the Russian refugees who
found a haven in his mothers
home. A considerable portion of
his practice as a trial lawyer has
been identified with causes.
Served in Burma
His name for his Bronx play
mates As years ago was too much
of a jawtwister and they called
him "Zuke." And he was "Zuke'
Berman when he was with the
10th Air Force in Burma as in
telligence chief in World War IL
After high school, where he
won a letter in track and ex-
celled in elocution but had no
interest in law, Mr.. Berman went
to New York University. He
studied government, political
science, philosophy and sociology
"Out of such studies you come
tangentially into law" he said
He was admitted to the New
York Bar in 1925 and as a trial
lawyer he was engaged mostly in
insurance litigation which he
views as "the greatest of train
ing fields" for advocates. He has
attained national prominence as
lecturer on tactics and psychol-
ogy in the courtroom.
When Pearl Harbor came he
had "a compulsion" for military
service.
He was commissioned in the
Air Force. graduated from the
Miami Beach officers school and
then, wanting combat, asked for
and was sent to the Harrisburg
(Pa0 Intelligence unit. Given
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