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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-30

Democrats have finally drawn Mr..
Eisenhower into a more active part
in the campaign. to the professed
pleasure of both the Democrats and
many coat-tail riding Republicans.
Less than three weeks ago, the
President said that he would limit
his campaign to five or six" major
television addresses. But 1t soon
was plain that this plan was being
revised.
First, q distinction was made be-
tween major" addresses and ';infor-
NAL" remarks, and it was revealed
that there would be a number of
occasions at which he would say
few words of the cuff. Mr.. Eisen-
hover flew 1000 miles to Iowa to
talk briefly about the pillow and
peace to $4,000 farmers and wave
to crowds lining l00-mile motor
cade route, but this was not con-
sidered major" campaign APP
pearance. The noisy acclaim he re-
ceived in Iowa convinced Repupli-
can Strategists that similar personal
appearances were extremely WORTH
while, not only to the national
ticket, but to local candidates as
well.
Vice President Nixon, meanwhile,
was busiiy criss-crossing the coun-
try and sending back reports that
a more active campaign on the
part of the President was vital to
the party's cause. And Senate and
House candidates we're pleading for
the President to make appearances
in their bailiwicks.
So, in view of all this, plus re-
ports OF growing emocratic
strength in most areas, it was de-
cided that Mr.. Eisenhower would
have to assume a more prominent
role. He had already made four of
his five or six" major addresses
when it was announced that he will
go into Ohio and Kentucky to-
morrow and to Pittsburgh on Oc-
tober 8. He is also expected later
in st. Louis and Denver.
At his news conference on Thurs
day, Mr.. Eisenhower denied that
he was running scared. The in
tensity and apparent success SO
far of the Democratic campaign
had nothing to do with it, he said.
He explained, rather, that II was
Just hard to say no to mis- many
friends who are begging him to pay
a call. He again maintained that
he wasn't going to do my '.barn-
storming' or whistle stopping. =
His new plans point up a fact
that is becoming clearer daily:
Despite the fast early pace Of the
campaign, the tempo will continue
to be stepped up right through
November S.
With So days remaining until
election day, the Republicans have
spent but a small amount Of their
huge television budget. They APP
parently are saving it for gigan-
tic. blanketing effort in the closing
days of the campaign during which
they viii attempt to enfold the
waverers and make mass CONVEX
sions. The Democrats, meanwhile.
appear to be operating on the
theory that once they win voter.
they can keep him. The trick, as
they see 1t. is to get him first.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-30
Strategic Sites

The selection of sites for the two
major candidates farm speeches
indicated quite wildly the character
of the appeals they are making to
the farmer. Mr.. Stevenson, the
attacker, spoke in a field in Iowa.
where unhappy farmers have been
hard hit by drought, hail and in
sects. Mr.. Eisenhower, the de-
fender. chose to deliver his appeal
in Peoria, H., trading center for
a prosperous and diversified farm
area.
Considering the temper of his
audience, it may have been good
politics for Mr. Stevenson to con-
tent himself with generalizations.
At any rate, for the most part, he
avoided specifics on how he would
handle the farm problem as Presi-
dent. Much of his speech was an
attack on the administrators farm
record and on Mr.. Eisenhower's
somewhat extravagant promises ct
Kasson. Mimi. four years ago. He
then followed up his assault with
some extravagant promises Of his
own.
He promised to work for support
of basic commodities at 80 per cent
of parity, and said he would find
way to assure income parity as
well as price parity. He rather
vaguely promised a food stamp
plan, a world food bank and a
stepped-up school lunch program,
all designed to get rid of food sur
pluses, but he failed to specify Just
how these plans would be operated
or how much they would cost. He
did not offer, as he said he would
in his Harrisburg speech, 'ln as full
detail as campaign permits. pro-
posals for meeting our needs
their cost and ways and means of
approaching them in a 1lscally re-
sponsibile manner"
In Peoria, Mr.. Eisenhower
sounded like the Adlai Stevenson
of four years ago as he explained
that progress has its penalties and
that for each gain there is pain.
The President, too, failed to offer
specific new solutions to the farm
problem. He simply stood on his
record. He spoke somewhat in
congruously of free agriculture
that is subsidized by the Govern
ment, and assailed Democratic
RECOMMENDATION" while hailing the
soil bank, device that depends on
Government control.
Blame for agriculture woes in
general he placed on the Demo-
Gratis, while claiming credit for the
brighter side-the increased value
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-30
Stevenson on Rights

Reporters covering the campaigns
have written much about a new"
Adlai Stevenson, q Stevenson who
really wants the presidency and is
hitting harder and perhaps little
lower than he was in 1852.
But on Tuesday in Little Rock.
Ark, the new" Stevenson stepped
out Of character for a few minutes
and sounded much like the 1852
candidate who boosted civil rights
before Richmond, Va, audience
and told an American Legion con-
vention that the mere fact Of mill
tary service did not entitle man
to perpetual public endowment.
He told an audience which obvi-
ously was not composed Of strong
adherents to the idea of racial in
tegration that he believed the SUI
preme Courts desegregation ruling
ito be right"
Some of you feel strongly to the
contrary" he said, "but what is
most important is that we agree
that once the Supreme Court has
decided this constitutional question,
we accept that decision as law
abiding citizens. Our common goal
Is the orderly accomplishment Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-30
THE WORLD SCENE
THE WORLD SCENE
A Mission to Moscow

Yugoslav President Tito's pre-
cipitous visit to Moscow. in the
face of a United States warning
not to buddy up to the Kremlin,
dumbfounded the West and his
own people.
Marshal Tito, who doesn't like
to fly, left Thursday by airplane.
He accompanied Nikita S. Khru-
shchev. Communist Party boss in
the Soviet, who had been visiting
him for an eight-day vacation"
When Belgrade party leaders
shook themselves out of the shock
over his unexplained trip, they
came UP with a possible explana-
ton. Their president, they specu-
lated, went to Russia to strengthen
Mr.. Khrushchev's hand against old
Stalinists struggling to regain
power lost in the sweeping de-
Stalinization" that has been going
on under Mr.. Khrushchev's direc-
ton since March.
These sources said Mr.. Khru-
shchev pleaded with Marshal Tito
to come back to Moscow with him
and try to swing Premier Bulganin
and Deputy Premier A. I. Mikoyan
into his camp. They said Mr..
Khrushchev needs all the help he
can round up in what may be
showdown with the Stalinists.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-30
PoHsters Take Over

Once both candidates had laid
out their programs for all to see, the
pollsters = professional semipro-
fessional and amateur-went to
work, and for the rest of the week
they were as thick in Iowa as grass
hoppers. Any farmer who missed
being polled must have been hiding
behind the barn.
The results were in general
agreement on one point: That the
Republicans and Mr.. Eisenhower,
while still leading area-wide in
popularity. have lost strength to
the Democrats. The results, when
projected, indicated that Mr.. Eli
senhower still would win the nor
mally Republican States of the Mid
west-with a narrower margin than
in 1852. But there we're. signs of a
Missouri trend toward the Demo-
Gratis, who also are gaining in I'LL
noiS and Minnesota.
One of the professional pollsters
reported that the 1851 million
being paid out in soil bank checks
this year is having little political
effect, despite Democratic charges
that the money is being used to
buy votes" (See story by David
Koonce on Page A-2D.
There were signs in some
areas. in fact. that the new pro-
gram might be doing the Republic
can cause more harm than good.
For instance. South Dakota wheat
farmers were reported angered be-
cause Of an arrangement that per-
mitted their neighbors in North
Dakota to take a fuller advantage
of the soil bank.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-30
Hord-Working Pair

Between them. the two hedge.
hopping vice presidential candidates
covered 10 States in their increas-
ingly aggressive quest for votes.
Mr.. Nixon, suffering from q se-
we're case of virus influenza, once
was counted out by his doctor, but
insisted that the show must go on.
And it went on--through Colorado,
Utah. Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas.
Illinois. Kentucky. Ohio, West Vir-
ginia. Tennessee and Maryland.
OF all the Republicans. Mr.. Nixon
appears to be the only one who is
really running scared. Throughout
last week he intensified his pleas
for hard work by those who sup-
ported Mr.. Eisenhower in 1852.
He said that he was sure the inde-
pendents and Democrats who
backed the President in 1852 were
still with him, but that the prob
lem was to get out the vote.
The Democrats were exploiting
Senator Kefauver'S farm belt pop-
ularity to the utmost. The hand
shaking man with the golden arm
was busy playing the farm issue
for all its worth in the Pacific
Northwest, the Dakotas, Michigan,
Indiana, Illinois, Pennsylvania,
West Virginia and Ohio. His most
vigorous efforts were made in
Michigan, where Democrats are
confident they can pick UP 20 cleo
toral votes if they can get an even
break in the rural counties.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-30
q CAMPAIGN MYSTERY
What Is Kefouvefs Message for the Little People?

human beings. but also enables him
to follow q schedule that long since
would have felled a man Of less ok
like endurance.
The Tennessean, who has always
maintained that he holds victory
in the palm of his hand, doles out
small talk as sparingly as a Yankee
string-saver.
He has reduced the amenities to
q barebones ritual. For the fervent
local greeters. gathered at the ramp
of his plane, he had this unvarying
formula. Il am happy to be back in
Yakima, (or Sidney, or Walla-
Walla, as the case might bel. ]
have many good friends here"
If such terseness dashed the well
coming committee. they never
showed it. AS they waited around
for the inevitable press conference
to be set up. they stood silently
beaming at him, while he glumly
watched the preparations. The
quality Of the silence was not
strained. Apparently it was enough
for them to have him around; and
for him it was enough to be there.
When all was ready he would
say, This Is a press conference"
woodenly answer questions and
then shake hands with weH-wish-
ers. his eye always on the next
outstretched hand.
The effect Of this impassiye per-
Torrance always seemed out Of
proportion. After he had made his
remarks. reporters moving through
the crowd would ask for comments.
Hes sincere. We trust him.
/. =. He's one Of U.s." they would say
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-30
Replacement
For Minton

The present Supreme Court line
UP of six Democrats and three Re-
publicans will remain unchanged
when retiring Justice Sherman
Minton leaves the bench on Oc-
tober is.
President Eisenhower announced
yesterday that the Minton vacancy
will be filled by recess appoint
nent Of William Joseph Brennan, jr.,
associate justice of the New Jersey
Supreme Court The President win
send formal nomination to the
new Congress In January.
Justice Brennan, Mr.. Eisenhow-
er's third appointment to the high
court, is q Democrat, as is Justice
Minton, and q Catholic. His APP
pointment can be expected to be
welcomed by those who in the past
have insisted that Supreme Court
justices have prior judicial expert
ence. Justice Brennan has spent q
total Of eight years on three State
benches in New Jersey.
He will join his old Harvard law
professor on the court, Justice Felix
Frankfurter, who received his Har-
ward law degree the year the new
justice was born. 1906.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-30
Tito's Quondory

II Marshal Tito does throw in
his lot with Russia, and forego
any of his opportunities for West
ern assistance, he might be in the
peculiar position of weakening his
bargaining powers in Moscow.
His ties with the West make him
q stronger candidate for the public
wooing Moscow has been according
him lately. While Yugoslavia cuds
dies up to the Free World. there
is always the chance she will per-
suade Russia's satellites to follow
suit. But if Marshal Tito is firmly
inside the Russian orbit. that threat
is gone.
A tight blackout on news was
enforced during Mr.. Khrushchev's
so-called hunting and sightseeing
idyl in Yugoslavia. But word leaked
out from the vineyards where he
strolled with Marshal Tito that the
two were deep in discussion of the
political and theological differences
that have arisen lately between
their lands. 1t would seem that
the visitor succeeded in trampling
out the grapes Of amity under those
vines.
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A CAMPAIGN MYSTERY.

Eisenhower is the enemy Of the
farmers.
AS he Travelled west, to larger and
frlendlier crowds, the Senator added
another string to his bow. In States
like Montana, with tribal memories
of domination by railroads and
mines. he told clear-eyed ranchers
that the Democrats were against
the big interests" and for "the little
people" In the East. this may
sound like the veriest campaign
cliche. But on the range. where
big combines still buy up small
holders. such talk has meaning.
From Montana to the coast, the
Senator tonelessly assured the box
lunch circuit that Teddy Roosevelt.
Senator McNary, Senator Norris.
and other heroes Of the radical Re-
publican agrarianism would find no
home but the Democratic Party to-
day.
But even in remote villages, where
it is commonly declared that the
Chicago convention put the names
in the wrong order on the Demo-
cratic ticket. it seemed that what
the Senator said did not matter so
much as the fact that he was there.
Neither can the Senator's hold
on the mainstreeters Of America be
explained by tireless attention
to the little things that are so often
credited with making the difference
between political success and fall
ure.
Magnificent Indifference
His indifference to the little
things is, IN fact, well-nigh mag
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-30
Suez Crisis:
Tired Pilots

As the bullet flies. the Suez
Canals northern terminus is less
than 200 miles from the Roman
ruins at Ramat Rachel.
Pilots plying Egypt's nationalized
waterway showed signs last week
Of cracking under the workload left
when foreign pilots walked out.
But tired as they were, they we're
still getting the ships through the
ditch although conveys fell behind
schedule. No man was able to say
how long they could continue.
Foreign replacement pilots con-
tinued to arrive, but they will need
considerable schooling before they
can take on jobs alone. The canal
is tricky. with shifting currents,
sandslides and seasonal fogs. One
mistake and the passage would be
clogged.
It has been blocked before, but
a repetition now would be disastrous
for Egypt. The West would use a
stoppage as proof that Canal Abdel
Nasser, Egypt's strongman presi-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-30
Swift Retaliation

Israel has policy OF swift, stern
reprisals in the continued sniping
across its boundary. On Tuesday
it followed that policy.
Starting around dusk, an Israeli
assault force moved out toward
fortified Jordanian police station
near Husan, not far from where the
archaeological research was so
abruptly ended.
An Israeli major who participated
in the raid said some 20 men in the
Jordanian post were wiped out in
the attack. He said small detach-
ment of JordanianS stationed near
by were also killed. The major
said his troops seized Bren guns,
two arInored cars, two big mortars,
lot Of ammunition, and some
other vehicles. His attack team had
II casualties, eight OF them killed.
he added.
The Jordanian radio broadcast
that the attack was victory for
Jordan, and that about 80 Israelis
were killed. Jordanian army head
quarters later reduced that figure
0 10.
The United Nations Truce Super
vision Headquarters in Jerusalem
released a report from observers
who counted SO Jordanians dead,
one a 12-year-old girl.
Loud blasts were heard around
Jerusalem while the ISraeliS were
announcing their attack at Husan.
There was shooting in the streets.
Finally the noise Of ordnance sub
aided into blasts of rhetoric.
Mrs. Coda Meir, the Israeli
Foreign Minister, told the U. N.
truce supervisors Israel was re-
affirming its pledge to maintain
a cease-fire-provided Jordan would
reciprocate.
U. N. Secretary General Dag
Hammarskjold warned in a letter
to the Security Council that the
Israeli-Jordanian brawling must
be refined under control immedi-
ately. Otherwise, he indicated, he
would ask the Security Council to
intervene.
Mr.. Hammarskjold has taken the
stand the recent clashes do not
constituent least not yet-a
breakdown in the cease fire agree
ment he wrung from the disputants
last spring. But unless the border
fighting halts. he warned, he would
have to ask the Security Council
to take active consideration of it.
Mr.. Hammarskjold also told the
Security Council the Palestine ten
sion could be relieved by establish
ing freedom Of navigation for
Israeli ships in the Suez Canal.
Israel complains that vessels trad
ing with her ports are barred from
the canal.
Since his letter, Israel's border
has been tense, but quiet.
(See article by Earl H. VoSs on
Page A-27.t
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-30
View of q New America

Mr.. Stevenson made public the
first of his white papers on a New
America" last week, q 3,300-word
document outlining welfare pro-
gram for the Nations is million
old folks.
It was, typically, a finely-written
piece embellished with the usual
Stevenson exquisite figures of
Speech--"We want to make our
dollars the tools of our hearts" in
adding purpose to the lives of those
who gave this generation sthe SUI
preIne gift Of BIRTH"
The highlights Of the program
for our older citizens" included:
. A call for an end to discrirn-
nation against the employment Of
older men and women. He did not
say whether or not this should be
done by legislation. persuasion or
education. If by legislation. the plan
would be doomed from the start by
Southerners on Capitol Hill who
would see it as an opening wedge
for the oft-proposed fair employ
ment practices laws designed to
prevent similar discrimination based
on race.
. Suggested changes in social
security laws to permit persons re-
tired under the program to earn
more than the present 500 month
before losing their social security
benefits.
. Al proposal for Federal aid for
special housing to accommodate old,
folks who cannot, or prefer not to.
live with children or relatives;
special hospital insurance plan un-
der which old folks would be eligible,
and a greatly expanded program for
research in the diseases of old age.
On the day Mr.. Stevenson re-
vealed his ambitious program for
the old folks, his running mate,
Senator Estes Kefauver, in all ILL
timed thrust, likened Vice President
Nixon's ambitious prediction Of a
four-day work week to the Herbert
Hoover promise Of prosperity to
those who would just look around.
the corner. Mr.. Nixon. he said, had
presented a parallel that will
frighten many Americans"
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abstractedly Of this Yale Law
School graduate and former cor
poration lawyer.
II Was 'Exhilorotino
A lady in Cleveland who shook
hands with him reported it after
wards to be ian exhilarating ex.
perience." In the way Of Kefauver
partisans, she did not elaborate.
AS he went west. the Senator
fitted into the landscape admirably.
At one stop, in Portland, Greg, he
was standing on an imrrovised
platform, at the airport. his large
figure outlined against the majestic
blue mountains. He gave his usual
hating homily. He received the
usual acceptance.
It was beautiful scene. an ami.
mated campaign poster on the
grand scale.
But 1t did not help explain the
curious phenomenon Of Estes Ke.
fauver in American political life.
Is this political personality the pro-
lection Of a simple man Lincoln.
esque in his disregard Of the po-
litical trivialities? Or Is 1t the
shrewd exploitation Of a quality
that comes from great size and
great calm that makes the people
around him feel both at home and
treasured?
Whether the appeal comes from
craft or instinct, it exists. And the
feeling among those following the
Senator was that. however nala-
droit he might be on occasion. he
has a very good idea Of what he Il
doing.
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To Hear Both Sides

The Security Council decided
Wednesday to debate the British
French complaint against Mr.. Mas
ser's canal tactics. But, in vote
decided by the United States, the
Council also ruled that it would
hear Egypt'S counter complaint
against Britain and France.
The Vests charge against Egypt
will be heard first. Britain and
France accuse Mr.. Nasser Of unilat-
eral action in ending international
operation Of the Suez, and they
accuse him indirectly Of violating
the Constantinople Convention Of
1888. That convention set up the
terms under which all nations are
supposed to have access to the
canal.
Yugoslavia wanted those attacks
debated concurrentiy with Egypt's
charges, which boil down to the
claim that Britain and France dis
turbed the peace with their warlike
stand against country domina-
ton of the Suez. But the Council
voted to hear Egypt's side after re-
viewing the original complaint. 6
The Council will reconvene
Thursday or Friday this week, de-
pending upon the arrivals of the
foreign ministers who will partici-
pate in the debate.
Egypt has no seat on the IL
member Security Council. But Dip
lomats accepted as foregone con-
clusion that Russia would be her
advocate in the first stages of de-
bate. and prosecute her case when
Britain and France become the de-
PENDANTS. Russia could even use
her veto powers to scuttle the in
vestigation.
The United States, in ANNOUNCE
ing it favored inclusion of the
Egyptian charges. emphasized it
was acting out of respect for lib
eral debate despite the serious res
ervations we may have as to the
merits Of certain of those items
Sir Pierson Dixon. Britain's rep
resentative on the Security Coun-
Gil. condemned Egypt's charge as
Continued on Page Ar
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Middle East:
Border KILLING

One week ago today Mrs. Haya
Ran, a delegate to the Israel Arch
geological Society. went to see some
Roman ruins. older than Herod. just
outside Jerusalem. A bullet ended
Mrs. Rams scientific outing. And
her violent death triggered a sharp
renewal OF Israel border fighting.
the Middle East's long-standing
threat to world peace.
With other delegates, Mrs. Ran
was at diggings about 400 feet
from the border at the Israeli col.
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the result decreed by the court Z.
I am confident the decision will be
Carried out in the manner pre-
scribed by the courts"
Most noteworthy, in view of cur
rent Southern temper. was the fact
that there were no boos or catcalls
and that the large audience APP
plauded his remarks warmly.