The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 21, 1954, Page 7

' “Nonpolitical” Speech By Eisenhower Makes Claims About Strides In Anti-Red Fight Which Contrast With Democrat Views - By MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH NEW YORK President Eis- enhower told the nation last night his administration has “come far” toward blocking Communist ag- gression and winning lasting world Peace, but that Russia and Red China still are dangerous threats. The White House called hie ma- jor address here “nonpolitical,’, and the President termed it a ré- ply te shatp criticism fired at Re- publican foreign policy by former President Harry S. Truman and Adlai E. Stevenson, the 1952 Dem- oeratic presidential nominee. + But Eisenhower’s assertion that _the free world can “indeed take heart” over what he outlined as Progress achieved in the .struggle st Communism contrasted ith the picture painted by Tru-| man and Stevenson last week, Today, the chief executive ar- ranged two political meetings ad- vertised as such, and New York and New Jersey GOP leaders were counting on the sessions to proyide a boost for the’ party’s congressional and state office candidates. The President scheduled the first meeting with some 300 New York Republican workers and candi- dates at the party’s state head- quarters in the Roosevelt Hotel here. The group is headed by U.S. Sen. Irving M. Ives, GOP candi- date for governor in a hard-fought race with Averell Harriman, Dem- ocratic-Liberal party nominee. Ham And Eggs Don’t Pay Farm Prices Are Big Towa Election Factor By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL DES MOINES #—The price of ham and eggs—ham on the hoof, that is—is shaping into an import- ant election day factor in Iowa. In the nation’s greatest hog-pro- ducing state, the farmer is getting less for hogs while his costs stay up. His wife frequently can’t break even on the eggs she carts to mar- ket for pin and household money. Most eggs are bringing 16 to 18 scents a dozen and that’s far less than the prices of a year ago. Even though they aren’t grumb- ling loudly or saying much about politics or political reprisals, neith- er farmers nor farm wives are ex- actly happy about this. Asa result, the Democrats ex- pect to profit at the polls and GOP brows are plowed with lines of worry... Besides, there are signs that some sort of a Democratic trend may be under way in this .part of the farm belt. It might do no more than cut down some of the usual Republican margins of victory. A tide of un- foreseen volume and some real Political upsets would be needed for the’ Democrats to shake any Republicans out of Iowa’s eight . House seats—all held by the GOP ~+and the gubernatorial mansion. Yet some Democrats do profess a glimmering-hope for electing a governor for the first time since 1936 and a congressman for the first time since 1940. Trend or no trend, they expect to keep Democrat Guy M, Gillette in the Senate. Gillette has proved he can win in Iowa when no other Thursday, October 21, 1954 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Member New York Stock Exchange ALSO: INVESTMENT FUNDS... We Buy and Sell All Stocks Ticker Service . New York Stock Exchange The other conference’ was ar- ranged with former Rep. Clifford P. Case of New Jersey, also run- ning for the Senate. On the President’s calendar is another major address here to- night and it—like last night’s—is being tabbed “nonpolitical”” by the White House, He will speak at the annual Al- fred E. Smith Memorial Dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. The address is scheduled for 10:30 p.m. EST. The President spoke last night to 1,800 guests at a dinner mark- ing the 300th anniversary of Jewish life in the United States. Mentioning some obstacles still in the. way of achievement of an enduring peace, he declared: “The principal and continuing factor is the persistently aggres- sive design of Moscow and Peipinz, which show’ no evidence of gen- uine change despite their professed desire to relax tensions and to pre- serve peace.” But, he said, much progress has been made toward thwarting the Spread of communism — through the new: Western Europe defense alliance agreement and through the Southeast Asia pact recently signed at Manila, for example. He also mentioned improvement of the situations in Suez, Trieste and Guatemala. He cited other areas and other fields too and added: “In these many ways our nation will continue tirelessly in its quest for peace based on justice. In re- cent months we have come far— and yet we khow that the road ahead is long and difficult.” Truman and Stevenson both let fly in speeches last Saturday night at the rer administration's handling of.foreign policy. In Kansas City Truman called for election of a Democratic-coh- trolled*Congress Nov. 2 to end what he termed a Republican spectacle of “blunder after blunder” in inter- national affairs. He said “frenzied diplomacy” had-cost the United States the confidente of allies, Stevensoh, in San Francisco, blamed the Republicans “‘for the unhappy fact that our prestige and esteem and international respect for the US. has fallen to. an all- time low. Eisenhower's address was inter- rupted seven times by applause. He got a standing ovation when he started and another when ie conclyded. He said this country has three avenues in its quest for peace. “First, we must tirelessly seek— through the United Nations, through every other availabie means—to establish the conditions for honorable peace. © “Second, we must promote the unity and ¢ollective strength of other free peoples. * “Third, we must maintain Democrats can come close. It takes Republican votes for him to do it, and the senator pulls them in. The GOP is challenging this for- midable opponent with Thomas E. Martin, a House member for 16 years. And it keeps pounding hard on the idea that President Eisen- hower needs a Republican con- gress. Democrat Clyde E. Herring is battling it out with Republican Leo A. Hoegh for the job Republican Gov. William S. Beardsley is va- cating after three terms. Herring is the son of a former goyernor and U.S. senator; Hoegh is the state’s attorney general. And for the first time in years Democrats are putting up a fight all down the line for state and county offices they used to let go by default. These very offices in the Statehouse and courthouses give the GOP a solid core of sup- port in any election. Six different polls have attempt- ed to test the Iowa political winds. Gillette is leading in three, Martin in three, while Hoegh is in front in five and Herring in one. The broadest samplng of senti- ment is the Iowa poll of the Des Moines Register. The tally on Oct. 3 showed Gillette and Hoegh ahead. It also indicated that: (1) Seven of 10 Iowans still “like Ike,” (2) a majority expects to back Republican House candi- dates, (3) since 1952 some have turned from the Republican to the Democratic party as better for povey in their line of work (this sort of switch is apparent among farmers), and (4) there definitely Page 7 + + Direct From ——Branch Office— . 813% DUVAL STREET - TELEPHONE 2-2825 Jack Elias, Manager Congratulations and Best Wishes to MR. FRANK CUSUMANO Owner of CORAL HOTEL and COFFEE SHOP Now Open Come In and Meet Genial Dan Your Host and Manager Completely Furnished By AXWELL CO., Inc. Wt | in both Parties—along with his oc- | casional votes siding with the GOP. '|| Arabella Loses i Honeymoon In Zoo isn’t any burning interest in poli- ties or the election. Disinterested as the voters may be, candidates on both sides are giving the full oratorical treatment to all the usual issues, centering, of course, around what the Eisen- hower administration has or hasn't done. They get around to peace, taxes, budget balancing, foreign policy, communism, prosperity. Gillette says he expects to win on the general issue that there is a “fe of instability for the future of double crosses in the past.” : “Theré is general uncertainty everywhéfe, on the farms and in the cities,” he said in an inter- view. | Martin claims the one big issue is the need for placing Republi-| cans in C to support Bisen- | hower.. Gillette, he says, cancels the votes of the other Iowa ‘sena- tor, Republican Bourke B. Hick- enlooper. ? 3 Gillette counters that on 14 key issues in the Senate he and Hicken- looper voted the same way on half and different on half. And on 12 key issues in the House, he says, Martin and H. R. Cross, another Towa Republican, voted together on half and split on half. | Then he runs through the Dem- | ocrati¢ refrain that time and again gress oe votes saved vital parts of the Eisenhower program from , destruction at GOP hands. Gillette is 75, Martin 61, and- some Republicans are whispering | @ bit about the senator’s age. He | “pleads guilty” to being a Demo- | erat and to having -beén “born without any intervention on my | part 75 years ago.” But he says he | doesn’t own a wheel chair and does | not need one. | Actually, issues are of compara-| tively little significance in Gillette's | bid for another term. If he wins, | iit | it will be largely on the basis of -a strong personality and a. striking appearance that have made friends Her Lover After | | ‘ LONDON (# — A mutual friend | announced with regret today that| Arabella and Mr. Jiggs have called it quits. | Arabella, the first orang outang ever to appear on a British tele- vision show, caught Mr. Jiggs’ eye | in the regent Park monkey house only four months ago. Mr. Jiggs promptly gave his cur- rent girl friend the old heave-ho, and he and Arabella started keep- ing house together. | For a couple of weeks everything was hearts and flowers, or any- way benanas and carrots. But vis- itors to the z00 who had seen Arabella on TV all wanted to toss | sweetmeats to the celebrity. Very | few had any time for Mr. Jiggs. In due course Mr. Jiggs took to throwing his weight around, and his weight is 240 pounds while) Arabella is a mere welterweight. | Yesterday the keepers stepped in and restored Arabélla to the hairy but loving amms of her mother Mary, PASSAGE MAY OPEN VICTORIA, B. C. bg North- west Passage, whic! centurie: s jhas of f |a vast mineral empire in Canada’s | | northland. enough military strength to deter aggression and promote peace.” In elaborating on the latter point, he said: “Together with the armed strength of other free nations, our military power—the greatest in our peacetime history—is today a de- terrent to war. This awesome pow- er we must and shall maintain, for we are determined that at all times, in today’s uncertain world, we shall be able to deal effectively and flexibly with whatever situa- tions may arise.” He pledged that America’s fore- es “will never be used to initiate war against any nation; they w:!l be used only for the defense of the free world.” He said a major new force in sence of any “active battlefield anywhere in the world” for the first time in 20 years—‘tis the rap- id development in military wea- pons — weapons that in total war would threaten catastrophe.” he added: “This single product of sincere should be sufficient to stimulate the genuine efforts of all—includ- the world today—in addition to ab-!ing the Kremlin — to give the world a true and permanent)mendous might—a might which peace.” Eisenhower repeated his willing- ness to confer with any and all nations in an effort to win a dur- able peace. But he also repeated that nations wanting to confer must first “demonstrate honesty of purpose.” “In the diversitiMPot freedom,” the President declared, -“is a tre- | the imposed system of Commu nism can never match.” Interpolating at the end of his prepared text, the President urged the American people to “talk for Peace from the county seat to the conference table, from the class- Toom to the congressional halls.” He said “labor for peace” is “labor for all humanity, HUGE SAVINGS, WHILE*THEY LAST! % i105 PAL PRICE* with trade-in | 5.90x15 | $19.25 | $14.45* |_ 21.55 | 16.15* 16.95* Regular no trade-in price $2 Plus Tax Now ONLY lf your car takes 6.00x16 or 6.50x16 tires... LOOK AT THESE SAVINGS! Proportionate savings on other sizes, too! DION & SMITH TI Bayview Service Sta ROOSEVELT BOULEVARD and P