The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 11, 1954, Page 7

McCarthy Plans To Make “Partial” Reply To Stevenson In Broadcast Set For Tonight By JACK BELL WASHINGTON (#—Sen. McCar- thy (R-Wis), nailing down the chance to make tonight the first broadcast reply to Adlai E. Stev- | enson, got the jump on an admin- istration drive to lure the spot- light away from him. The senator, still insisting he is entitled to free television and radio time over the networks which carried Stevenson’s party speech last Saturday, announced he will make a “partial” reply ‘tonight (7 p.m. EST) on the Mutual radio network. That will be two days before the official GOP reply by Vice President Nixon. McCarthy will appear on the 15- minute show of commentator Ful- ton Lewis Jr. McCarthy said it would be a “question and answer —mostly answer” affair. He said it would touch on criticism of him by both Stevenson, the Democratic | communism-in-government issue, which McCarthy has stressed. as {“largely a problem of the past,” | and he added: “Unlike the Democrats who had a vested interest in retaining sus- | pected employes because it would be embarrassing to fire them | after so long a time, the men in | Sovernment now have no political | Treason not to clean them out and | they aré doing that.” | McCarthy, perhaps taking the line he may employ in any reply he*makes tonight to Flanders, told | Rewsmen: “There’s a tremendous, con- | certed effort to cut down the in- | vestigation of Communists. A very | few Republicans are joining in it. It’s so easy for a Republican to |be a hero in the eyes of the left | wing press by interfering in the | | investigation of communism—I’m | happy they are so few.” | Asked to list the “few Repub- “an unheard-of infringement of freedom of speech” to deny him the time he seeks. As for Eisen- hower’s comment that he regarded the networks’ decision as fair, Me- Carthy said, “If he has a different position, he has a right to have i” Radio station WGN, the Chicago Tribune station, offered McCarthy free time to reply “‘to attacks made upon you,” and said it would allow any other station to carry the talk without restriction. McCarthy and Flanders ex- changed handshakes and enga in some horseplay in the Capitol yesterday. When Flanders offered his hand, McCarthy grasped it, threw an arm around the Ver- monter’s shoulders and told him: “You vote less for the Repyb- licans than any other member of the party so quit advising me how to be a good Republican.” While Flanders was sitting in Thursday, March 11, 1954 Two Roof-Sitting Boys Cause Traffic Tie-up BOSTON #—Two youths sitting on the roof’s edge of an 1l-story office building on busy Park Square brought rush-hour traffic to a standstill and attracted hun- dreds of terrified onlookers last night. Police cleared the area beneath the youths and firefighters worked frantically to set up life nets. Meanwhile, two policemen as- cended to the roof and pulled the boys back to safety. The youths were identified as Michael A. Sabia of Winthrop and Walter T. Rich of Wellesley, both 16 and both students at exclusive St. Sebastian’s Country Day School Newton, “There was nothing to get ex- cited about,” they said later. “We did it just as a gag. The boys at the school dared us.” THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Gen. Guenther Doesn't Expect 3rd World War By TOM BRADSHAW PHILADELPHIA — Gen. Al- fred M. Gruenther, supreme Al- lied commander in Europe, says from here on in it will be up to the United States to decide wheth- er there is to be a third world war, He told the final session of the eighth annual Philadelphia Bulle- tin Forum last night that he is confident there will be no such ; conflict because in the three years since the birth of the North Atlan- | tie Treaty Organization the bulk of international authority has shift- ed to America. He said the United States and Allied powers are not now in a position in Europe “to meet an all-out Russian attack if they should make a determined effort.” Page 7; | his Senate seat, McCarthy walked up behind him and playfully put Peesiieatia! candidate in 1952, and |licans” he had in mind, McCarthy * | his hands around Flanders’ neck Sen. Flanders (R-Vt). grinned and said “no comment.” | NBC and CBS, which carried |, He described Flanders as But he added, “We do have a e force in being now which is prob- ‘one Btevenson’s speech from Miami, Fla., have granted free time to the Republican National Committee for reply. The committee, which beat McCarthy to the draw in Tequesting it, chose Nixon as the GOP speaker. President Eisenhower told his Mews conference yesterday he re- | garded the networks’ decision as | a fair arrangement. He said he heartily concurred in selection of | Nixon, High GOP sources earlier had said the President hand picked Nixon, Eisenhower also said, in com- menting on Flanders’ Senate criti- cism of McCarthy, that there is} danger in “magnifying certain items of procedure and right and Personal aggrandizement . . . to the point where we are endanger- ing the program of action that all the Jeadership is agreed up- on...” The White House granted per- mission to ‘quote the President directly, News conference remarks normally may not be so quoted. Sen, Ferguson of Michigan, chairman of the Senate GOP Pol- icy Committee, said in an inter- view today. he interpreted the President's words as indicating concern that his legislative pro- gram might be lost sight of in wrangling over McCarthy and his Controversial investigations. Ferguson said that without dis- paraging McCarthy’s activities, he | and other leaders feel the Eisen- hower program will be the “big issue” of this year’s campaign for control of Congress. “The leadership is trying to keep the big issues before the people, the issues that affect their welfare | and livelihood,” Ferguson said. Similarly, Sen. Knowland of California, the GOP floor leader, | said last night he fears that con-| tinued controversy over McCarthy within the party “would be dan-| gerous to our legislative pro- gram.” He added, in an NBC radio interview, that “I would cer- | tainly hope this running discussion | will not be continued on the floor.” Asked to comment on Esen- hower’s. handling of the McCar- thy furor, Knowland said: “There is no power in .he presidency under which a President can purge a senator. The President under- stands that. In past administra- tions that was tried without not- able success.” Ferguson said he regards the ——$— |he described Fladers as “‘onee }of the finest old gentlemen 1 know.” McCarthy and Eisenhower met last night at a dinner honoring Senate Republican ‘leaders and Sen.. Bridges (R-NH) reported, shook hands “in a friendly fash- ion.” Other senators who attended said the two greeted one another | cordially, Wher the party broke up, Me- Carthy stayed behind with GOP | members of his investigating sub- committee and with Knowland and | Sen. Bricker (R-Ohio). There was no indication what they discussed at_an hour-long huddle. Flanders, who told his Senate colleagues Tuesday that McCar- thy was “doing his best to shat- ter” the GOP, got what he termed a “nice letter” from Eisenhower, but declined to make it public. At his news conference, Eisen- hower voiced general endorsement of Flanders’ speech. : As did Ferguson, Flanders said in an iaterview he thinks more emphasis should be placed on the legislative program. Flanders said he had received a deluge of mail and telegrams since his speech. They range from ‘drop dead’ to hero wor- ship,” he said. An overwhelmingly favorable | | reaction was reported by CBS in| New York to a TV show put on Tuesday night by commentator Edward R. Murrow, who said McCarthy repeatedly has over- stepped the boundary between | investigating and persecuting. The network last night said that with reaction still coming in, the breakdown. was: Telephone calls: favoring the program, 8,841; protesting, 697. Telegrams: favoring the pro- gram, 2,764; protesting, 86. Murrow offered McCarthy op- portunity to reply on the same program sometime later. McCar- |thy said he was considering the offer, but wanted some informa- tion on what role Murrow would play. In any event, he declared, his appearance on the Mutual pro- gram tonight would be no substi- tute for the free time he has de- manded from NBC and CBS to reply to Stevenson. The Demo- crats’ titular head had labeled the GOP “half McCarthy, half Eisen- hower.”” | himself—who supported a similar The senator said it would be in a choking motion. Startled, Flanders sprang to his feet, saw who it was and then both laughed. McCarthy also had a luncheon talk with Secretary of Defense Wilson, who last week described as “damn tommyrot” any conten- tion that the Army has been cod- dling Communists. After the tuncneon, McCarthy said he and Wilson had no argu- ment, and he added that the sec- retary “has been active a lot longer than I have in getting rid of Communists.” McCarthy said he wanted to withhold comment for the present on;a set of suggested rules for committee investigations put out yesterday by the Senate Policy Committee. Ferguson, the commit- tee chairman, declined to say whether they ‘were aimed at Me- Carthy’s methods. There was no suggested procedure for ensuring their adoption by all Senate com- mittees. McCarthy took an occasion pro- vided by the Democratic Digest, official organ of the opposition party, to say he likes some other Republican senators. The Digest quoted a Feb. 9 statement by McCarthy that mem- bers of Congress who opposed shutting off aid to countries which trade with Communist China should be defeated in November. The Democratic magazine then proceeded to list members of the House who voted in favor of the 1953 foreign aid bill and those in the Senate—including McCarthy bill in 1952. The 1953 bill was | passed by the Senate on a voice vote. Shown the Democrats’ listing that included Senators Bridges, Ferguson, Hendrickson (R-NJ), Mundt (R-SD), Saltonstall (R- Mass) and Margaret Chase Smith (-Maine), McCarthy exclaimed: “It’s completely false—my God, they’rée picking all my friends.” He ticked off the names of Bridges, Ferguson, Mundt and Saltonstall and said of each “He's | got my all-out support,” adding, “T like Hendrickson and Margaret Chase.” Chinchillas for breeding in the United States were first saipped from South America in 1923 and most were used to increase the number of animals, with pelts for furs still relatively scarce. 6 ways better @ Thoroughly Inspected @ Reconditioned for Safety @ Reconditioned for Performance @ Reconditioned for Value @ Honestly Described eres, Pouevaourrg DEALER Mulberg Chevrolet Co. Corner Caroline Street and Telegraph Lan, Dial 2-6743 Child Sits On Queen’s Lap As Officials Gasp BRISBANE, Australia (P—Queen Elizabeth II has shared the plat- form with a raft of kiddies in her world travels, but 4-year-old Nar- elle Dick is way ahead of the rest. And Narelle’s co-starring was strictly unscheduled. During thé Queen’s visit to the Brisbane exhibition ground yester- day, the little girl left her mother in the grandstand sidled slowly down to the dais where the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh sat. Smiling serenely and ignoring of- Micials’ clutching. hands, she crossed the red carpet, climbed in- to Elizabeth’s lap threw her arms around her royal neck and tried to kiss her. The stertled monarch held the tot for an instant, then gently pushed her away and kept smiling as the erowd of thousands gasped. Narelle struggled and kicked as Police Inspector T. J. Clark car- ried her back to her mother. Unusual Job SAN PEDRO, Calif. (#—In an unusual repair job, Todd Shipyard has cut a 523-foot tanker in two and is replacing its midships sec- tion with a larger one which will make the vessel 41 feet longer. The tanker, the Ticohderoga, } was ripped by an explosion last September which blasted a hole big enough to drive a locomotive through. Yesterday the new midship sec- tion was floated from a drydock and joined to the original bow section. Later the stern will be welded on. TV Ad Ban Set LANSING, Mich. —The House of Michigan Legislature has passed a 56-32 a bill to ban the showing of people drinking beer and wine in television advertising. It now goes to the Senate. Rep. John J. McCune of East Lansing, a Republican who spon- sored the bill, said the purpose was to keep children and young’! People from getting the idea that drinking was socially acceptable, He said it was not intended to end beer and wine advertising on television, PERFECT ably more than the Russians can handle with the forces that they have in occupied Europe.” “The statement I made last year that I feel World War III is not going to take place,” he said, “I reiterate again with even more confidence because I feel that we have it in our power to make that decision.” NATO forces in Europe at the Present include not only enough power to stop Russia’s might in thesatellite nations, he said, but U. S. air power is rapidly reaching maturity on an atoimc basis, Within the next three years, he said, ‘“‘we will have the potential of launching atomic attack by long - range and short - range aircraft, by guided missiles, and by artillery.” The biggest threat, he added, is overconfidence—an overconfijence which overlooks the fact that Rus- sia’s military might is not standing still and that Russia’s attitude has not changed. 2 “I thnk that the recent Berlin conference did a great deal to show,” he said, “that the Russian attitude has not changed, that their long-range objectives are the same, and that the only new look is that Mr. Molotov was a little more polite, kissed a few more babies, but he said ‘No’ at exactly the same time he has always said it.” Harold E. Stassen, chief of the foreign Operations Administration, told the forum the United States has chosen the role of senior part- ner in a voluntary union of free peoples “with no military strings attaehed.”” Stassen said this new role was first voiced in President Eisenhow- er’s offer to share U. S. atomic knowledge “‘for peaceful use.” This country now, Stassen said, is engaged in a “declared total war, not upon any human enemy, but upon the brute forces of pov- erty and need.” That program will be carried forward, he said, by providing technical cooperation, economic de- velopment and military support with any or all of the 58 nations with which we have reached an understanding. Street Name Changed JOHNSTON, R. I. (#—Residents of Snake Den road complained to the City Council last night of the “frightful” name of their street. The City Council agreed with them and ordered the name of the street changed to Belfield drive. UCT RECORD—Captsin L. $. Price, Com- manding Officer, Fleet All Weather Training Unit, Atlantic, ex- tends a Good Conduct Medal and a hearty “well done” to Wil- liam H. Workmieister, Aviation Machinist, 2-C, for having served a per! Werkmeittes, of three years with a perfect conduct record. heries #1. Haris, Aviation Storekeeper, 2-C, and James F. $ipphens, Agiptipn Machinist, @-C, all received this award at this command in the past week.—Official U.S. Navy | Photo. NAVY MEDICS VISIT HERE—Four Navy medical officers who visited Naval installations here are shown in the group above. Left to right ara Cdr. Wilbur W. Westfall, senior medical offi- cer at the NAS dispensary here; Capt. L. C. Capt. C. P. Phoebus, tions; and Lt. Charles Callis, Newman, director division of aviation medicines special assistant in bio-sciences; Cdr. S. I, Brody, medical liaison offi. cer, Bureau of Aeronautics; Cdr. R. L. Christy. medical liaison officer, Chief of Naval Opera- Squadron VX-1 flight surgeon —Official U.S. Navy Photo. One-Legged Men Enroll In Ski‘Class By RALPH HOVIS BIG BEAR LAKE, Calif. #— The challenging art of skiing— tough enough for a normal person to learn—is being mastered by a group of determined, one-legged men, Like other groups in the area they’re taking instruction, but there’s a difference: the members of this bunch use only one regu- lation ski, with another on a crutch. They are students of the Amer- ican Amputee Ski School, the only one of its type in this country. Its director, Scobee Smith of Lancaster, Calif., lost a leg in a bout with cancer two years ago. The school, just started this winter, has about a dozen pupils, including three Army veterans who became single amputees after being injured in Korean combat. The amputee skiers come from various southern California points to attend weekend classes at near- | by Snow Summit. “The whole idea of an amputee | ski school,” said Smith, a senior | at the University of California at Los Angeles, “belonged to Bob | Engelien, a former Army captain and an amputee whe died just three months ago.” “Bob saw amputee skiing for the first time in Germany in 1951, and gave it a try. He became con- vinced there should be an amputee ski school over here. He got it going just before he died three months ago.” One of the obstacles in establishing a ski school came! from some skiers who said it would be “depressing” to the; public to see amputees skiing. Actually, skiers here now marvel at the amputee’ great progress. “We can ride up on the rope tows, make downhill runs, do our turns and traverses like pros,” Smith ~reported. “Last week, I even went through the slalom course. And did some airplane turns.” As for the construction of the skis, Smith said Engelien brought back a sample crutch ski from Germany and he copied it and jmade others for the students at his school. “We use a regulation ski plus the crutch ski.” The Snow Summit amputee ski school is sponsored by the Los Angeles Athletic Club, which pays the teaching and equipment costs. Snow Summit provides the facil- ities at no cost. Service clubs handle food, lodging and trans- portation expenses for the ampu- tees, Qe ee ee ELECTRICITY... your tireless servant around the clock Elegtricity is a round-the-clock worker . °°. ready to spring into action at the flip of 4 switch. It’s today’s tireless servant—at your command night and day. As your serwant, it relieves you of many chores . . . gives you free time from Iitchen duties, from cleaning, from lauridry’s old-time labor. It gives you lighting for work and play .. . for emergencies in the middle of the night. 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