The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 9, 1952, Page 6

PRESIDENTIAL RACE By JACK BELL KANSAS CITY, Mo. @®—Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson declared today that Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower —‘“‘the honorary Republican can- didate for president”—has surren- dered GOP leadership to Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio. In contrast, the Democratic nom- inee said in a speech prepared for a party luncheon here, President Truman has proved himself “a man of independence” who has “rallied the free peoples against the mortal threat of communism and Russian imperialism.” The Illinois governor took the Political bit in his teeth on a flying tour of Missouri, the President’s home state, to put into a few words @ swiftly-developing trend in the presidential campaign. This trend has found the Demo- rats attacking Eisenhower as only the tool of Taft, the man he de- feated for the nomination. It has found the Republicans concentra- ting their attacks on Truman and @aying that Stevenson must ac- cept responsibility for any and all administration ‘blunders.”” Stevenson, who has been talking recently of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s » measures to fight the depression of the 30s, without mentioning Truman, gave the President a home area send-off as “a blue ribbon winner, among Democrats. Noting that the President comes from nearby Independence, Mo., Stevenson declared: “Harry Truman is certainly a man of INDEPENDENCE. I think that’s the thing I like about him most. In your Missouri language, he won’t take anything off any- body. “No one knows this better than Joe Stalin. And every Missourian ean be proud of the fact that a man from Independence, through a series of heroic and historic de- cisions, has rallied the free peoples against the mortal ‘threat of com- munism and Russian imperial- ism.” In this strong endorsement of Truman, Stevenson indicated he is accepting the challenge of the Re- publicans to back the President's record—with the accent on foreign policy, Previously he had avoided too close identification with Tru- man, now whistle-stopping in the nominee’s behalf. Stevenson’s statement was considered an an- swer, too, to Eisenhower’s caustic references to a 1948 remark by Truman that “I like old Uncle Joe Stalin, Joe is a decent fellow.’ Stevenson ripped into Eisenhow- er and the Republican “old guard” he said has taken over control of the party, Asserting that Americans “have been sadly disillusioned” in their previous belief that Eisenhower was a man of independence, Stev- enson said the general now con- tends that “party leadership de- pends Q the principle of com- “There is a good deal to that,” Stevenson said. “but a skilled party leader knows that the fatal mistake ig to begin on your prin- ciples of compromise—and to end by compromising your principles.” He said Eisenhower's meeting with Taft in New York last month —‘when the great crusade became the great surrender’’—reminded him of the limerick about the lady who rode on a tiger and when they came back from the ride the lady was inside. He said Eisenhower had become only “the honorary Republican candidate for president” who was following the line of the GOP old guard. He contended that in Michigan ‘Eisenhower had’ claimed to be a “Vandenberg Republican” who be- Heved in international cooperation, but in Ohio he became a “‘Bricker- Dirksen Republican” who did not. He alluded to the views of the late Sen. Arthur Vandenberg of Mich- igan and to Sen. John Bricker of Ohio and Sen. Everett Dirksen of Miinois. Stevenson said that these actions of Eisenhower, plus his endorse- ment of the re-election of Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin, had caused the Chicago Tribune to call the GOP nominee “the mew Bisenhower.” “It may be the new Eisenhower, but behind him it is certainly the same old Taft,” Stevenson de- clared. ing Taft in backing flexible farm price supports and in upholding the Taft-Hartley Act. *tevenson pounded away at the ‘de prosperity possible, “Just ask yourself the question: were you better off 20 years ago or are you better off now?” he sald. ‘The Miinois governor repeated his charge that Eisenhower's as- sertion American prosperity is war-born is giving the Communists Propaganda ammunition. stops nd St. Louis omurruow te Oklahoma City az He climaxed one of bis most encouraging days f gning in Wiscons sterday with a rousing reception iast might from ji belief that As he was prepared to do in a/ 2 major speech in St. Louis tonight, | | Proved a crowd of 12,000 persons in Mil- waukee’s Arena. He drew an estimated 2,000 more persons there than Eisenhower had five days previously and 1,000 more than gathered in the Arena to hear Truman on Labor Day. Continuing his slashing attacks on the Republicans, Stevenson told the cheering Arena. throng that Eisenhower had reversed him- self on foreign policy since he be- came the Republican nominee and had “acquired old guard hand- lers,” headed by Taft. Taft’s name was booed loudly by the crowd, which interrupted Stevenson 40 times with applause during his half hour talk. Stevenson got his biggest hand when he aimed a clout at Eisen- hower for supporting McCarthy, without mentioning McCarthy’s name. Praising Democratic candidates, including McCarthy’s senatorial opponent, Tom Fairchild, Steven- son said: “Let it be clear that I speak for these men because I admire them—and not just because they are Democrats. If I were ashamed of them so that I could not even bring myself to speak their names, I would not ask you to vote for them. “My opponent has been worry- ing about my funnybone. I’m worrying about his backbone.” Eisenhower has said he would back all of the Republican nomi- nees for Congress, But he defend- ed the patriotism of Gen. George C. Marshall, his old friend, who has come under attack from Mc- Carthy. Pursuing his policy of concen- trating on Taft’s influence on Ei- senhower, Stevenson said his pres- idential opponent ‘thas signed a blank check on domestic issues— and Senator Taft is his banker.” By DON WHITEHEAD SAN FRANCISCO (#—Dwight D. Eisenhower moves his campaign into South California today after a scathing foreign policy indictment blaming the Korean War largely on the political decision of the Tru- man administration. Speaking last night at San Fran- cisco, the GOP presidential nom- inee said a 1951 statement by the State Department, leaving Korea outside the announced defense perimeter in the Pacific, had en- couraged if not invited ‘the ordeal in Korea.” He told a wildly cheering throng of nearly 29,000 overflowing the Cow Palace arena that the United States had been “swindled” into the Korean peace talks—and as a result the Communists are now half again as strong as they were before the talks began. In his prepared text, Eisenhower said: “The Soviet trap was _per- fectly conceived, perfectly timed, perfectly sprung.” _ He dropped this paragraph in his talk but told his press secretary, James Hagerty, that “he would “stand by it.’ He called this situa- tion a “bear pit” into which free world diplomacy had fallen. It was one of the bitterest de- nuneiations of the administration that Eisenhower has yet made. It paralleled in many ways the charges Republicans have been making for months. With) this speech behind him, he headed by plane today for a swing into Fresno, San Diego, Long Beach and Los Angeles. He rode into San Francisco by automobile in a blizzard of con- fetti and ticker tape. Police esti- mated 100,000 cheered him along the way. There was a high emo- tional content to the cheers and yells and in the face of those who applauded him. It was striking to reporters who have followed the general through his campaign. The demonstration raised the hopes of Eisenhower's lieutenants that he has’ a great reservoir of good will in California that could mean the capture of the state's 32 electoral votes Nov. 4. Eisenhower's attack on the ad- ministration’s foreign policy was combined with a defense of him- self against accusations hurled at | him by President Truman. Triman has @ttacked Eisenhow- er on the grounds that he is now | trying to disclaim responsibility for foreign policies which Truman says he helped to determine as a | The Democratic nominee con- | "Vest?" aes. tended that Eisenhower is follow- Paws periled this nation in 1945 | by not warning against the future And the President has said the threat of Communism, and by voic- Russia wanted friendship with this country. Eisenhower said he did testify | | before a congressional committee me that the Democrats have | i: with “an optimistic hope and be- lief that the Russian policy was not then hostile, but was influenced | by a desire for a workable friend- ship with the American people.” He said that hope was quickly “to be in vain.” but in that hope “there then seemed to be the last best chance for world peace.” “Had we not striven for it then,” he added, “how bitterly would we condemn ourselves now.” Then he asserted he was appeal- lug at the time for Congress te take pPrecactions «by strengthening tbe armed forces Looking hackwerd fram 1952 aid. “Lam michty glad that i supported m LMS a polity af military Linemen In Poll By TED MEIER’ NEW YORK, (#—Steve Eisenhau- er, Navy Guard, is the lineman of the week, A husky 200-pounder from Shef- field, Pa., Eisenhauer today easily | won the first Associated Press | lineman poll of the football season. His standout performance last | Saturday as the unbeaten Middies walloped Cornell, 31-7, put him on | top in the voting. | Eisenhauer, a 21-year-old junior | who failed to earn a letter a year ago, blocked a punt for one touch- | down against Cornell. He recovered | two fumbles and made four tackles alone which cost the Big Red 31 | yards. HS-1 OWC ELECTS OFFICERS AT COFFEE HS-1 Officers’ Wives’ Club held their monthly coffee Octo- ber 7 at the home of Joan Pur- cell. New officers for the group were elected. They are Evelyn McKeel, chairman; Isabel . Fle- ming, co-chairman; Bobbie Lei- no, secretary; and Cleo Peebles, treasu.cr. hope. for the best and prepare for the worst.” He went on to hit at Truman with this statement: “But now listen to the man who is decrying this 1945 position of mine. In 1948, three years later and after repeated instances of Soviet duplicity, the same man man said, ‘I like old Uncle Joe Stalin. Joe is a decent fellow.” The he said “these particular charges against me are false.” And he went on to give his own plan for prosecuting the cold war— which he said was the only course outside appeasement or “a stupid- ly aggressive attitude” that would increase the risk of another world war, He proposed the United States “use all means short of war” in a huge psychological warfare pro- gram backed by every agency and resource of the nation. This would call for meshing every action and policy of the gov- ernment, he explained, adding if this were done, it would mean: “We shall no longer have a De- partment of State that deals with foreign policy in an aloof cloister; a Defense Department that makes military appraisals in a vacuum; a Mutual Security Administration that .. . spends billions overseas.” Eisenhower noted that the 38th parallel passes just north of San Francisco—“this line is invisible in America, but in another -land (Korea) it is traced in blood.” And, while Korean news focused on a breakoff of truce negotiations and the Chinese Reds’ greatest at- tack in more than a year, Eisen- hower went on: “Today this bloody line marks the {defense perimeter’. of our country in that part of Asia. Yet scarcely more than two years ago, the present ‘administration ai nounced its political decision that the ‘defense perimeter’ of America in that part of the world was a quite different line. That defense line did not touch Korea . . . but ran through islands well off the continental shore. “Many an American family knows only too well how history has dealt with this policy decision of our government. The Commu- | nists hastened to exploit it. And we Americans are still paying dearly to redeem it.” He said this decision was “‘po- | litical in nature” and was not a | | decision by the military, “The military has never decid- ed questions of foreign policy,” he said. “And if we are to continue | | to be free, the military never will.” | He insisted the Joint Chiefs of | Staff in 1947—while he still was | Army chief of staff—had made a | |secret military appraisal of the | | strategic importance of Korea in | event of general war. In that ap- | praisal, the importance of Korea was minimized “As always,”’ he said, “the Joint Chiefs were careful to refrain | from political judgements that | were beyond their authority.” j were beyond their authority.” | |. Eisenhower said he couldn't | hare foreseen then that “‘three | years later the secretary of state | would translate that strietly mili- tary appraisal for war conditions into a peacetime political decision” —and make it public. Now, he said, a “desperate ad ministration” is using this military | assessment “as the excuse for the | political decision which it took | . - entirely on its own initiative.” | Explaining what: he meant by | | paychological warfare, Eisenhower said: “It would mean this: every significant act of government | should be so timed and so direct- | ed at a principal target? and so related to other govefamént ac tions, that it will produce the max imum effect.” | He said the present administra tion never had been able to “grasp the full import of a psychological effort put forth on a national by saying ower concluded 3 2 would oot | invas }the \ i Chinese positions Enjoy Day Of Reporting The News Of Monroe County The World Today By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON (# — Everybody | says “poor Gen. Eisenhower and Gov. Stevenson; they must be aw- | fully tired from this campaigning.” It’s been tough on them, all right. But it’s time somebody began to sympathize with the voters. It’s been pretty tough on them, too, trying to keep up with the cam- paigners, After the Chicago conventions last summer the unsuccessful can- | didates, who had been campaign- ing around the country for the nomination, scattered in all direc- tions for a rest. But that was only the starting point for Eisenhower and Steven- son. They spent the month of Aug- ust mostly getting their campaign organized, with only a few days out for vacation. Their ordeal began with the ar- rival of September. Now, after a month of planes, trains, rear plat- form talks, major speeches, motor- cades, handshaking, and speech- writing they must be completely weary, Yet, they still have a month to | go. But so do the voters who ser- iously try to follow the whole cam- paign. Not only Eisenhower and Stevenson, but Sen. Sparkman and Sen. Nixon and President Truman, too. Just trying to keep tabs on what they’re all saying would be a mon- umental task for any man who attempted it in his living room with the help of his newspapers, radio and TV set. ‘To do it in an orderly way he would have to keep a file: not just te | by’ day file but a topic by file, broken down into what |e one said on foreign affairs, taxes, Korea and all the rest. That itself would onty be a start- ing point. For then the serious man who attempted such a project would have to examine what each one said on each topic for contra- dictions and for comparison with what the others said. Too much already has been said for any individual to keep it all filed in his head, and it would be a rare voter who kept any other kind of file. Most voters probably retain general impressions .and pieces of what’s been said. The present campaign is the tra- ditional kind, since the candidates seem to think the endless talking and repetition and personal ap- pearances have the magic for election, It wag suggested before the cam- paign began that Eisenhower and Stevenson could help everyone to a better understanding and ap- praisal of both of them if they’d meet, face to face in a radio-TV debate. Neither of them showed much enthusiasm ;for the idea. would have made it easier for the voters to reach an understanding and appraisal of the two men if they had met. War Roundup By STAN CARTER SEOUL, Korea (%—Battle-weary ; South Korean soldiers, deterrained to “hold our front at all cos’ tonight fought savage hand to hand battles with Chinese Reds on White Horse Mountain for the third straight day. Associated Press correspondent | Milo Farneti at the front said South Korean infantrymen were | within 70 yards of the crest to- ‘night after several hours of hand | to hand fighting. He said an American officer es- timated the Reds had lost 8,000 | killed and wounded in the three days of fighting around White Horse. The U. S. Eighth Army about 6,000 C in on slopes. Ridge Chorw said inese were digging the crest and northern With nearby Arrowhead Valley and the ancient route to Seoul 000 Reds attacked across ra and Central Fronts ight in the biggest Com- fensive Since May, 1951 ghting has continued in stors, but the main Red ow is directed at White Up t Mone nun Heay othe effor Hors Th itial onslaught dented the Allied lines, but failed to breech any vital defensive position. Allied warplanes today plastered behind White Horse with searing jellied gaso- line fragmentation bombs and machine gun fire. Allied artillery hammered Red strongholds. Ten U. S. BS Superforts and iW ¢ based N evy planes teamed wp yesterday in a mass Gaylight reid against Kowon ic t Koreas Pint + ssid their rig the target atless expinsicme But it | the peak dominates the | INTERVIEW COUNTY . LEADERS AT COURTHOUSE By BETTY COOPER is held in honor of the many news- Papers of the U. S. On this day our Journalism class from the KW HS elected six students to visit the Citizen and learn their duties and | to get acquainted with the various types of machines around the of- We eager-beaver newspaper stu- front and aquarium, the city dents work on our school paper the Snapper and felt as though we were really prepared to take over the City paper for that day but when we got to the office and saw all the activities that surround the build- ing we were kind of like Mary’s little lost sheep wandering aimless- ly around. On arrival at the office we were appointed to a certain reporter or staff member. For instance Betty | Cooper was taken under the apron strings of Dorothy Raymer and saw a dummy fire drill in action at the U. S. naval station and met Many various types of people, Aldo Vidal and Vita Barrosa, being mainly interested. in. sports, took control of the Sports Editor, front and acquarium, the city manager’s office and the chief of police. They wrote various articles and gave the office a good up-side- down interview. Nancy Brooks and Alice Garcia went with Susan McAvoy on her truction’s office, the Chamber of Commerce and the Superintendent the Citizen office Nancy and Susan starting writing the various articles while Alice helped develop the pic- tures taken on the beat. Camille Walterson stayed in the office and helped’ Margaret Fores- man, the society editor, proof read and write articles. She became better acquainted with the ma- chines than did the rest of us due fice in order to get an article. We ate lunch in shifts and returning to find work and more fun for the re- mainder of the day. I’m sure you will believe me when I say we all learned a little more than we thought we knew a- bout newspaper work and spent a very educational and exciting day at the office of the Citizen. - Police Arrest Army Officers participation in a plot against the government. The announcement did not say |no other details. ply and communications center 25 miles north of Wonsan. The battered force of South Kor* an estimated two Chinese regi- ments. “The men’s morale is very high, but they are tired” after 60 hours | continuous fighting, reported Maj. Gen. Kim Chong Oh, commander of the Republic's (ROK) Ninth Division. “Their stand has been valiant and exemplary. We will hold our front at all costs.” The South Koreans fought the Chinese with grenades, rifle butts { and bayonets in a seesaw battle | in which the crest changed hands ‘more than a dozen times. | Dead of both sides littered the | | slopes, the ridgelines and the val- leys. The South Koreans said they | killed at least 2,000 Reds. On Arrowhead Ridge, just west of White Horse, French troops at- tached to the U. S. Second Infantry Division last night threw back an assault by 3,000 Chinese. The Reds peppered the French this morning i with long range rifle fire. South of Panmunjom, on the western end of the 155-mile battle line, Allied troops repulsed three Chinese probing attacks last night Northwest of Yonchon U. N. troops this morning recaptured four outpost positions lost to the Reds a few hours earlier. East of Kumsong on the Central Front the Reds attacked with tanks but were repulsed. U. N soldiers failed to recapture two out posts on nearby Finger Ridge lost to the Reds Monday night. Fight continued all day yester- day for a hill east of the Mundung Valley on the Eastern Frost. Late in the afternoon the Allied soldiers broke contact and withdrew. Kowes is 8 vig) Commugist 5up- | Annually a National News Week | Jim Cobb, and visited the water- | daily beat to the county courthouse, ! the Superintendent of public ins- | of Registration. After returning to ! to her not having to leave the of- ' LA PAZ, Bolivia (—Police an- | nounced the arrest last night of ; a number of former Army officers | and civilians, charging them with | how many were arrested and gave | eans on White Horse is battling | . TOP 41 MOWEY 5. “— WILSON’S CERTIFIED GR. A SWIFT'S BROOKFIELD COUNTRY ROLL BUTTER GOLDEN BRAND 75¢ OLEO 19¢ Ground Beef u 59x _b Lb. PETER PAN PEANUT BUTTER . * 49¢ FROSTEE:. 3 for 25¢ MIX. VEGETABLES 2 for 25¢ OVALTINE .:.. = 69% ms DOG FOOD. 3 «aus 29 3 ths. 69e/SQAP . reg. bar 5e STRAWBERRY PRES. jer 29¢ SOUP... . 2 cas 25¢ co. 10¢ 2 cans ABe jar 15¢ 3 for 25¢ 10 lbs. 59¢ LIPTON’S CHOC. VANILLA AMERICAN BEAUTY Swifting . BLUE PLATE CAMPBELLS PEPPER POT “~ CUT BEANS mown CHILL SAUCE DILL PICKLES . Delicious APPLES . 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