The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 11, 1952, Page 3

PRESIDENTIAL RACE By RELMAN MORIN LOS ANGELES (® — Gov. Adlai Stevenson, cheered by his first try at whistle-stop speaking, prepared today to assault the Republicans in one of their favorite campaign fields — the question of corruption in government. He says there are more impor- tant issues to be fought out in electing the next president. However, he came into Los An- geles last night with the draft of a speech that will go into the issue. His campaign manager, Wilson Wyatt, said Stevenson will examine the question in a Town Hall ap- pearance today. Governor Adlai Stevenson in working on another key address By JAMES DEVLIN NEW YORK #—The landslide | renomination victory of Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, Wisconsin Republican, posed a question today |for Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's | presidential campaign strategists. It was how far to go in support- | ing McCarthy’s re-election bid. | ‘The GOP presidential nominee |has been lukewarm toward Mc- Carthy, whose foes have accused him of ‘‘smearing” innocent per sons in his efforts to uncover Com. munists in the government. Mc- | Carthy’s supporters say his Com- | munists - in - government charges | are acts of patriotism. | “No comment,” was all Eisen. hower would say when reporters for Thursday night. Aides indicat- | asked him at Idlewild Airport yes- ed it will deal with his views on social security legislation. Stevenson stirred a storm of ap- plause — he looked a little sur- prised by it, himself — when he merely brushed the corruption charge in a back-platform talk at Bakersfield yesterday. He said he was “tired of ill- tempered epithets, slogans about erime, corruption, cronies, thieves and rascals.” With a frown, he added: “Surely there must be something more important for us to talk about in this year‘of grace, 1952, when the whole world is precari- ously balanced between war and peace.” In an earlier stop at Modesto, he whipped a tart rejoiner at his GOP opponent, Gen. Dwight Eisenhow- er, for the accusations. “I think I have had a little more experience than he has,” the gov- ernor said, “with throwing ras- cals out of government, because I have spent the last four years cleaning up the state of Illinois after eight years of the most mag- hificent rascality you ever saw, un- der a Republican administration in that state.” Both times, the crowds respond- ed with crackling reaction, Men and women alike shouted: “Attaboy, Steve. . . . Give it to "em. . Give ’em hell, Adlai.” Stevenson did not exactly “give ‘em hell” on the trip. But he is beginning to give ’em the dickens. This was his first experience at whistle-stop campaigning, the type of carry-it-to-the-people _ battling that has been credited to a large decree with President Truman’s election victory in 1948. He board- ed a train in San Francisco and rolled through the Santa Clara and San Joaquin Valleys to Los An- geles. He made eight stops and usually over-stayed his 10-minute schedule. At the end of a grueling day, his throat was full of gravel and he looked tired. But the crowd reac- tions seemed to restore his energy and he held the pace. Gov. Stevenson.was greeted with. crowds at 1,500 to 2,000 at most points. In Fresno, however, a ser- geant put the figure at 6,000. The city has a population of 92,000. On more regional issues, he spoke out for public reclamation programs and water control pro- jects such as California’s Central ley project. He said — repeat- ing parts of a whole speech made in Seattle — that such works are beyond the capacity of private cap- ital, and that if the government had not built them, they would not have been built. Stevenson commented on Eisen- hower’s backing of Sen. William E. Jenner for re-election in Indi- ana: “He (Eisenhower) has included on his team people who have called Gen. George C. Marshall, one of the grest patriots this country has produced, a traitor to his country.” Jenner once called Marshall “a living lie’ and “a front for traitors.” Correspondents asked for com- ment on the election victory of Sen. Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin. Aides reported the governor had nothing to say. Believe Ship Was Sabotaged BOSTON (#—First Naval District headquarters disclosed early today that metal chips found in the re- duction geare caused $300,000 dam- age to the destroyer Pritchard in what may have been sabotage. Rear Adm. John L. McCrea. com mandant of the district, said a Raval intelligence investigation to determine if it was sabotage has Bot been completed. “As in all these cases," he said. “naval intelligence has conducted the investigation and is still doing Bo ‘The foreign substance which eaused the damage was metal chips. Mow they got {nto the re @uction gears has not yet been @etermined.”’ He said the damage was dis eovered about a month ago just before the Pritchard was to leave the Boston Naval Shipyard for a training cruise gation was kept a se st might when word Mu The Navy confirmed the report early today Navy sources said repairs will equire several weeks The reduction gears are that por. of the S$ machinery h reduces the engine's revalu ons for the propeller shat vesse \terday whether he would back the controversial senator. Eisenhower was returning from a 6,300-mile Midwest swing that he | said convinced him the voters want a change from the Democratic ad- ministration in Washington. He declared in Indianapolis he would ask the voters to support the Republican ticket from top to bottom in the interest of party responsibility “in every state I visit.” The general will leave Sunday | on another Midwest campaign tour. The itinerary does not include Wis. consin. He said at Denver on Aug. 22 that if McCarthy was renominated | he would support him for re-elec- tion ‘‘as a member of the Repub- lican organization.” But he told newsmen he would not give blanket | endorsement to anyone ‘‘who does anything I believe to be un-Ameri- can in methods or procedures.” In Indianapolis on his latest tour, he gave his support to another senator to whom he had been cool. That was Sen. William E. Jenner of Indiana. Like McCarthy, Jenner has bit- terly attacked Gen. George C. Mar- shall, Eisenhower’s wartime chief and mentor. Eisenhower did not mention J ner by name in his Indianapolis publicans to ‘“‘spare no effort’ to send to Washington their candi- dates for senator (Jenner) and for the House of Representatives. Still another factor entered into the Eisenhower camp’s study of the McCarthy question. Eisenhower intends to confer soon with Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio in an attempt to win active campaign support from the man he defeated for the GOP presi- dential nomination. Taft, who has said he wants to know more about the general's views, is an open supporter of McCarthy. Although Eisenhower himself had no comment on the McCarthy tri- umph on Tuesday, a spokesman at his headquarters yesterday indi- cated the possibility of a statement later. The situation appeared to be that there would be no “off-the-cuff” comment, but rather that the gen- eral, of course, should weigh the | whole situation thoroughly before deciding on a course of action. The general stopped there en route from Minneapolis and talked with Arthur Summerfield, Repub- lican National Committee chair- man, who recently held a meet- ing with Taft. Eisenhower also ad- He told the National Committee staff workers and heads of national Republican organizations that in his recent campaign tours in the South and Midwest he found ‘jex- traordinary enthusiasm” for a change in administration. Summerfield, who greetéd Eisen- |hower at the Washington National | Airport, told newsmen the recep- | tions and pledges of support ac- | corded the general on the Midwest trip “exceeded all our expecta- tions.” Gov. Sherman Adams of New | Hampshire, chairman of Eisenhow- er’s advisory staff, predicted vic- tory for the general in November him on his early campaign tours. | highly successful start,” Adams | said in a statement. “It will continue at an increased | tempo, ending with a smashing vic- | tory for America in November.” “Everywhere—beginning in At- lanta and ending in Indianapolis— Gen. Eisenhower was received by large and enthusiastic crowds,” Adams said. | He said it was evident from the ‘receptions accorded the general that the “people want a ci from the men in Washington, that support for Eisenbower was not bounded by sectional areas or | state lines. Maryland Allows “The Miracle” | BALTIMORE #—It's all right for theaters in Maryland to show the Italian film “The Miracle.” The State Board of Censors re luctantly cleared the film on the basis of a recent Supreme Court decision which held sacrilege was no basis for state censorship of films. However, the board called “The Miracle” an “obvious ind: to religions personages and beliefs.” The film depicts the seduction of a feeble-minded girl by a stranger whom she confuses with a saint It previously was banned in the \ state, dressed Republican party workers. | on the basis of support shown for | “Gen. Eisenhower has gotten the | campaign off to a fighting and | Australia Soon SYDNEY — Australia soon should have armed forces of some 125,000 men enlisted for overseas service, ready to go anytime to any part of the world in event of war. This is the manpower objective of Australia’s three-year defense | program, now in its third year. Provisions by the federal govern- ment that all permanently enlisted servicemen, all volunteers for the citizen forces of any of the serv- ices, and all national service train- ees in the Navy and the Air Force should enroll for service anywhere in the world in war time, have given Australia a bigger standing force of men available for over- seas service than the nation has ever had before. When the three-year program is completed next year, Australia should have in the three services the numerical equivalent of 10 in- fantry divisions, volunteered to serve overseas. The defense program provides the following target forces enlisted |for service abroad: 125,000 Men For Overseas Duty, SRAM RAR AERA ALRERAAARAEAAAMMAEDEADSRBMD | a reserve of officers and men for Will Have THIS ROCK BILL and men and 10,000 citizen force and national service personnel, a total of 27,000. be said to have a purpose, it Army — 33,000 regular soldiers | probably could be defined as and 30,000 citizen force volunteers | seeking to restore ethical consi- enrolled for overseas service—a to- | deraticns in the lives of its read- tal of 63,000. lers. Say what you like, we're a Air Force—16,794 permanent per- | race imitators today. sonnel, 1,843 citizen force person nel, 10,000 active reservists and 5, 000 national service trainees. In addition there will be a gen- eral reserve for the air force and If “This Rock of Ours” could not so much on serious thought |but on blindly copying what our next door neig’ bor does. Such imitation is natural. It is the prir.ary reason why litera- the army who could be drafted for ture has been so _ influential overseas service after training. |of Hamelin” and the moral of | Our | -|ethical or moral conduct is based | OF OURS GIBB “e Tran Still Wants Immense Loan riety of Byron but his poetry has | always appeale® to the higher the World Bank to reconsider a nature f mankind. Previous adverse decision and lend ‘ What child’s life hasn't been impressed with “The Pied Piper | the hard-pressed Middle Eastern government between 19 and 21 mil- lion dollars. Iranian U. N. Delegate Djalal Abdoh requested the loan yester- day at a meeting here of the In- ternational Bank for Reconstruc- tion and Development. There was no immediate re- the last two lines? — “And whether they pipe us free from rats or from mice, If we’ve promised them aught, let us keep our promise.” How many people, ground un- der the heels of a dictator, would } not receive inspiration and MEXICO CITY w—Iran wants | | sponse from the bank, which ear- | | lier this year failed to get the | Navy—17,000 permanent officers By OVID A. MARTIN WASHINGTON (® — The United States is producing a record vol- ume of crop and livestock products | this year, but not all farmers are sharing in it. In its September crop progress report, the Agriculture Department said livestock farmers in some sec- tions of the South and Southwest face serious shortages of feed for their cattle and other livestock next winter because of drought damage. The volume of crops indicated on Sept. 1 was close to the second largest of record, produced in 1949, the department said. The produc- tion of livestock products—meat animals, dairy and poultry prod- ucts and wool—will be the largest ever produced. As a result the | combined production of crops and livestock products will set a new record. A feature of this year’s produc- tion is the fact that it is well bal- anced. That is, the prospective big production does not reflect record outturns of a few crops offset by small volumes of other crops. Only in the case of winter wheat and rice are production records indi- cated. Dismissed 174 By FRANK O'BRIEN WASHINGTON (# — The Bureau | of Internal Revenue dismissed 174 | employes in the 12 months ended June 30. Fifty-three were fired for taking bribes or gifts and 24 for | embezzlement. | Secretary of the Treasury Snyder | announced this yesterday in a ‘‘Re- | port to Taxpayers.” Snyder said the bureau got to | work weeding out undesirables | “considerably before the first ir- regularities were brought to con- gressional and public attention.” Today, he said, close inspection of | the bureau’s 57,557 employes, plus a rejuvenated strong organization.” The report has 25 typewritten pages stapled together, and a nine-page fine-type supplement | giving more details. The Treasury said it will go to all congressmen as well as to newsmen in the capi tal, and that any taxpayer who | wants a copy can have it by ask- in, ra Snyder said the war increased | tax collections eight-fold — from | five billion dollars in 1940 to 40 bil- lions in 1948 — and that the num- ber of taxpayers went up from 20 |to 80 millions. But, he said, the bureau's staff increased only 2% umes. | He said this meant the bureau came out of the war years “much the worse for wear.” Increased taxes, he said, brought increased tendency toward evasion and more temptation for the tax bureau's staff xs well as taxpayers. Thus. he said, people who were “‘too little or too weak"’ caved in, and irregu- larities developed. | Congressional investigations in {the past 18 months have looked into charges of tax squeezes, favor itism and outside activities of bu | reau employes. Nine out of 64 col lectors of internal revenue resigned or were fired. President Truman in January submitted a reorgani zation plan, which Congress accep. ed, to abolish the politically ap pointed collectors and substitute directors of internal revenue cho sen through civil service proce. dures. Snyder said this topped off an effort he initiated in 1946 to mod ernize the bureau and bring it abreast of its increasing work load Snyder gave credit to a specia inspection service in the revenue bureau for cracking down on way ward employes He said the ser. vice will be retained under reor ganization ‘ His breakdown of “separauons’ E. Hiichens, 20, of Akros. There also will be 67,500 national service trainees completing train- ing or on reserve, who, although not enlisted for overseas service, would be available for home de- fense call-up. Latest surveys of the three forces indicate that about 90,000 men en- | listed for overseas service are al- ready available. The federal government esti- mates the total cost of this pro- gram will be at least $125,216,000, more than half of which has al- ready been authorized. United States Producing Record Volume Of Crops The severe drought which af- fected wide areas in the East and Southeast as well as the Southwest during July has raised concern among officials lest farmers be forced, by lack of feed, to sell off much of their livestock. The new report said it had not turned out that way. Instead, live- stock was said to have held up well, except in the very driest areas. Marketings have not been unusually heavy. The vital hay crop was said to be turning out better than had been expected. The corn crop esti- mate was boosted 50 million bush- els above the August estimate, put- ting it at 3,185,000,000 bushels or 8 per cent more than last year. The wheat crop remained virtu- ally unchanged at bushels, the second largest of rec- ord and 311 million bushels more than last year. The potato crop increased slight- ly to top last year’s short crop by 12 million bushels but still leaving it short of the government’s pro- duction goal of 350 million bushels. A shortage next spring similar t early this year appears possible. Bureau Of Internal Revenue Employees in the 1952 fiscal year showed that besides those charged with taking gifts or bribes or with embezzling, there were 21 let out for failure to pay the right taxes: five for tampering with government rec- ords; and 71 for reasons like per- sonal misconduct, improper work and breaking office rules The report said that during fis- cal 1952 the bureau Collected 65 billion dollars in taxes; received nearly 90 million tax returns; handled 100 million other documents related to re- turns; audited 4,405,000 returns and from the audits collected two billion dollars additional taxes. Snyder added that the bureau in vestigated 3,855 cases of suspected fraud during the year and recom mended prosecution in 1,284 cases. Bulldozer Driver In Legal Mess DENVER (#—A Denver bulldozer operator tangled with a bridge guard rail Wednesday and ended up charged with a hit-run acci dent, reckless and careless driv ing. destruction of city property and failure to report an accident According to police. Geln W. Ben nett, 36, was clanking the machine down a street at about 15 miles an hour, attempted to make a turn onto the bridge and ripped out 15 feet of railing Police Capt. Roy Floyd happened to witness the crash. He said Ben nett backed the machine off the bridge and left. Floyd followed a issued the multiple summons. Ben nett said he was not fleeir scene but was going for his super. visor to report the accident Youths Charged ENTERPRISE, Ala. ‘P—A five state burglary spree in which se eral stores were burglarized was charged today against two and two youths arrested in a car here Police Chief Huston Akridge said the young foursome signed a state ment admitting thefts that netted about $500 1 Ohio, Kentucky bama and Florida He identified them as Roger Lee Michael, 16; Marita June Stone 17; and Mrs Carolyn Hy 7 giris man all of Terre Haute, Ind, anc Day 1,298,000,000 throughout history. Readers cept the actions of their favorite hero as being a desirable form of conduct and, if the author has |sufficient coverage, he is soon leading a mass of humanity around by the nose. | “This Pock of Ours” isn’t liter- | | ature and its author, like the |average man in the street, is an |imitator rather than a_ brilliant philosopher. These two facts ‘make it imperative that the column not initiate new ethi-al | concepts but abide by what }seems to be the best out of past | history. Writers whose works are the | Best known, are not necessarily jthe ones who offer the most | constructive code of life. | Lord Byron, for instance, was the most famous of English au- | thors during the Romantic Era. All through his writings you will find a sas and evil background for his hero. It is not surprising that Lord Byron himself lived a life of wild debauchery. And, |since human nature _ hasn't | | changed, most of his readers in the late 18th and early 19th | Century copied him. Robert Browning, on the other j hand, never achieved the noto- Political Notes By The Associated Press Gov. Adlai Stevenson, cheered | by the success of his first try at | | whistle-stop speaking, invaded Los | Angeles today with hard-hitting ad- dresses on corruption in govern- | | ment and his views on social se- | | curity laws. | | The Democratic presidential can- | didate traveled uy train from San | Francisco yesterday, making eight | |short stops and eight quick | speeches along the way. | | The speeches followed President Truman's successful whistle-stop technique: off-the-cuff comments, slaps at Republicans, quips and | jokes, | Crowds estimated at 1,500 to | 2,000 on the average, with a high of 6,000 in Fresno, responded with crackling reaction, shouting: “Attaboy, Steve . . . Give it to ‘em . . . Give ’em hell, Adlai.” For his two major addresses to- day, however, Stevenson returns to his custom of speaking from prepared texts. The Los Angeles visit, although an important political stop on his | Western campaign swing, also was ‘a sentimental journey — he was born in the city. On the other side of the nation Stevenson's presidential opponent, worked busily in his New York | headquarters polishing up speeches | for next week's campaign tour in the Midwest—his second in that area. The landslide victory of Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, Wisconsin Re- | publican, for renomination is said | to be posing a question for Eisen hower’s strategists: How far should | the general go in supporting Mc- Carthy’s re-election bid? The Wisconsin senator is a con- troversial figure because of his Communists in government drive, which some laud as highly Patriotic, others denounce as a smear campaign harmful to inno- cent persons. Eisenhower flew into New York yesterday, ending a 6,300-mile Mid west swing which, in turn, followed an unexpectedly successful inva- sion of the South “Everwhere beginning in At lanta and ending in Indianapolis— Gen. Eisenhower was received by large and enthusiastic erowds,” said jubilant Gov. Sherman Adams of New Hampshire, the general's advisory staff chairman. Among the major moves still to be made: a conference with Sen Robert A. Taft of Ohio, the man Eisenhower defeated for the nom. ination, to determine Taft's role in the campaign ahead Sen. John J. Sparkman, Demo crauc vice presidential nominee campaigned in Utah today with two speeches in Salt Lake City and one in Ogden Upon bis arrival in Salt Lake City, Sparkman said he is in favor of government development of ali great river valleys, and predicted the Solid South will stay solidly Democratic in November Sen. R M. Nrxon. vice presidential candidate, was in Washington, D. C., conferring with campaign strategists And there were these political developments and declarations peaker of the Hi burn is cailing Texas Democrats | GOP use Sam Ray ac- | knowledge of the grace of God by reading “Instans Tyrannus”? Iranian government to agree to put Thursday, September 11,1952 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Pace 3 terday that the plan had called for the use of British technicians {to run the industry and this was | unacceptable. i aS Steve OD eill, manager of the Phillies, has won two pennants in 19 years as a manager. He led Beaumont home first in the Texas | League in 1942 and his 1945 Detroit team won in the American League, Strunk Lumber Yard SUYS .. For Storm Shutters: | | There’s Plywood, | Productive oi: industry back to | work. Abdoh told bank officials yes- Browning chose to inspire mankind — Byron to debase it. Occasionally, we run into an au- thor whose writings and person- | was abandoned because al habits are distinct contradic- | doubted its legality. tions. Francis Bacon, for in-| Sen, Frank Carlson (R-Kas) said stance, Eisenhower would carry Texas and | No moralist has ever given! get more Southern votes than any better advice than Bacon nor has | other GOP candidate in history. any ever furnished a better ex-| Sen. A. S. Mike Monroney, chair- ample of the statement: “Know-| man of the Democratic Speakers | ing and doing are two different; Bureau, said Eisenhower has | things.” shown a willingness tg pay any | Every serious thinker should/ Price for Taft’s support. read Bacon’s “Essay” and his! some MASONITE, Prestwood, Rock board, Lumber, Sheet metal, Homosote, Strunk Lumber Yard PHONE 816 120 SIMONTON STREET “New Atlantis.” The fact that Bacon was later found guilty of accepting bribes in court only emphasizes man’s need for liv- ing, as well as knowing, ethics. It might seem presumptuous that a petty and purely local column such as “This Rock of Ours” should burden itself with a notion of ethics or morals. The fact remains that fifteen or twenty thousand people read The Key West Citizen daily. Among this number, if one person can be reached and aided, the column will have done a_ considerable amount of good at the end of each year, | ~ ~ for-Stevenscn into a meeting mea Austin next week, obviously to map plans to head off the Lone Star State’s threatened swing to Eisen- hower. Louisiana Democrats yesterday | dropped a plan to split the ballot and make it easier for them to vote for Eisenhower. The proposal Palm GOODSVEAR BS TIRE GROUP 1 TE BATTERY ROOSEVELT BOULEVARD Service Station _STOCK ISLAND LIMITED 9 UANTITY! SENSATIONAL NOT A REBUILT! @ NOT A OFFER SECOND! ‘ Brand new ELECTRIC PORTABLE SEWING MACHINE Mtr Cocked AC-DE Motor Putty Portable| Monde and Mew Spoel of White Thread bncteded ORDER NOW NO MORE WHEN THESE ARE GONE Leck of these expensive feateres: — Quollhy you'd expect to find in machines costing twice this tiny price. 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