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Eisenhower Makes
Bid For Farm Vote
KASON-DODGE, Minn., </P)—
Dwight D. Eisenhower made his
bid for the important farm vote
Saturday with a plan which he
said would guarantee present
price supports for another two
years and then would lean to
higher prices for the farmers.
He called for a wider range of
farm crop supports, including
“greater protection” for produc
ers of perishable products such
as meat, milks, eggs, fruits and
vegetables.
Eisenhower said the farmers’
returns must be boosted from the
present 90 percent of parity to
a full 100 percent — but in ways
that would “minimize govern
ment control and protect farm
ers’ independence.”
(Parity represents a fair return
for the farmer in what he receives
for his crop in relation to* the
things he must buy.)
Eisenhower spread his farm
proposals to public view for the
first time after making these
moves in Chicago Friday:
1. He indicated strongly he
might possibly name a Negro to
the cabinet or “to any place” if
he found one with “the qualifi
cations needed to serve the Uni
ted States well.”
2. He held out an olive branch
to Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio
—whom he defeated for the GOP
nomination—by saying: “I’ll try
to draw him onto my team not
only as a consultant but as a man
to lead a very important section
of the fight.”
3 Die In Survey
Party at Barrow
SEATTLE, Sept. 3, (/P) —Icy
waters of the Arctic Ocean
claimed the lives of three U.S.
Coast and Geodetic Survey em
ployes in a small boat mishap a
week ago, the survey office here
reported Wednesday.
Two of the victims in the trag
edy near Point Barrow, Alaska,
were University of Washington
students. They were Robert G.
Grenell, 19, son of Mr. and Mrs.
S. B. Grenell of Seattle, formerly
of Bethesda, Md., and Geoffrey P.
Roberts, 23, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Richard B. Roberts,. Worcester,
Mass.
The third victim was Frank C.
Kay, 38, Seattle. Young Granell’s
father is supervisor of the north
west district of the Geodetic Sur
vey.
The men were engaged in sur
veys in a lagoon east of the north
ernmost point of North America,
a survey official reported.
Their swamped skiff was found
with its outboard motor missing.
Survey officials theorized the men
may have fallen overboard with
the motor, while the skiff was
off balance, or in trying to re
trieve the motor.
A five-day search for a trace of
the men proved fruitless.
The party had been doing the
survey work since July 1. Grenell
and Roberts did similar work in
* the Arctic last year.
Red Victory In Korea
Would Have Signalled
Invasion of Rest of Asia
SEOUL, (/P) — U.S. Supreme
Court Justice William O. Douglas,
visiting Korea on a Far Eastern
tour, said Sunday night he had
found the Allied situation here
“bursting with confidence, con
viction and resolution.”
“Our ability to hold here has
saved the rice bowl area c/f Asia,”
Douglas said at a news confer
ence.
He explained that a Red break
through in Korea would have been
the signal for Communist inva
sion of other southeast Asian
countries.
Douglas said the extent of re
cent Korean fighting possibly “has
not been fully appreciated by the
American people.”
“But it is not true that it is
a forgotten war, as I understand
American opinion,” the sandy
haired, globe - trotting jurist
added.
House Group Wins
Fight to Stop USAF
“Supply Empire”
WASHINGTON, (/P)—A House
watchdog subcommittee reported
Saturday it has won a year-old
fight to* prevent the Air Force
from establishing a separate mul
ti-billion dollar “supply empire.”
The result, said Chairman Bon
ner (D-NC), will divert hundreds
of millions of dollars that would
be spent for overhead to vitally
needed planes and technical
equipment.
Bonner said top officials had
assured his expenditures subcom
mittee the Air Force would aban
don plans to set up its own world
wide supply system for clothing,
office equipment and other items
used commonly with other ser
vices.
Instead, these items will con
tinue to be handled by the Gener
al Services Administration and
other military services, he said.
The subcommittee, which has
been investigating military waste,
reported last year it had uncov
ered a Pentagon directive author
izing a separate Air Force supply
system in Europe for common
items. Bonner said it was the fore
runner for a more extensive
global “triplification” of the Air
Force.
19-Year-Old Georgian
Is Miss America of 1953
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ATLANTIC CITY, (JP) — A
gorgeous Georgian, '19-year-old
Neva Jane Langley, today
launches a whirlwind personal
appearance tour as the 1953 Miss
America.
For the next year the green
eyed brunette will be on a busy
schedule that may net her con
siderably more than the $5,000
scholarship prize that went with
the beauty crown.
A music student with the faint
est trace of a southern drawl, the
former Miss Georgia says she’s
not engaged at present, plans to
be a music teacher and can whip
up a mean cherry pie.
Stevenson Warns
Of Danger of
One-Party Press
PORTLAND, Ore., (/P) — Gov.
Adlai Stevenson said today Am
erican editors should “contem
plate the very real dangers of
the one - party system in the
press.”
He said the overwhelming ma
jority of the press is opposing the
Democratic party but asserted he
has been “well impressed by the
fair treatment accorded me by
most newspapers, including most
of those aligned editorially with
the opposition.”
“I am convinced,” he said,
“that nearly all publishers are
doing their honest best, according
to their lights — even if I must
confess that sometimes their
lights seem a little dim,”
He also declared: “I am touch
ed when I read in these papers
solicitious editorials about the sur
vival of the two-party system. I
am in favor of a two-party sys
tem in politics. And I am frankly
considerably concerned when I
see the extent to which we are
developing a one-party press in a
two-party country.
“It is going to be a tough cam
paign,” Stevenson said, “And I
am not kidding myself about the
difficulties.”
It was the first time Stevenson
has publicly discussed the pro
gress of the campaign. In saying,
it is going to be “tough,” he also
paid a tribute to the Republican
candidate, Gen. Dwight D. Eisen
hower, saying:
“My opponent is a great gen
eral who has served the Army
and the nation well.”
But Stevenson again taunted
the Republicans on the ground
that they are split into two parties
sharply divided over policy, and
have no policy of their own.
“I wait breathlessly for each
morning’s newspaper,” he said, to
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see which Republican party is on
top that day.
“I don’t think the people will
install a party which does not
seem capable of governing. And
I do not see how anyone can argue
that this fretful, distracted and
divided Republican party has that
capacity. If it cannot govern it
self, why should we suppose it
could govern the country?” '
U.S., Britain And France
Give Russia Proposals
For Austrian Treaty
MOSCOW. (/P) — The United
States, Britain and France Friday
night handed Russia Austrian
peace treaty proposals that they
claimed met previous Soviet ob
jections to the long-delayed pact.
The western allies suggested four
power talks in London Sept. 29
to complete the accord.
In identical notes, the three
western powers told the Soviets
that they were willing — however
reluctantly — to limit Austria’s
future armed forces. They said
they also were willing to demand
that an independent Austria guar
antee free elections, basic , free
doms and anti-Nazi measures.
Federal Jury Indicts Two
Underworld Chieftains
For Contempt of Congress
WASHINGTON. <^P)—A federal
grand jury Monday indicted two
of the nation’s underworld chief
tains—Joe Adonis and Anthony J.
Accardo—on charges of contempt
of Congress.
The Senate voted last Jan. 23 to
cite both of them for their re
fusal to answer questions put to
them by the old Senate Crime
Investigating Committee which
Senator Kefauver headed.
Accardo, the reputed heir to
A1 Capone’s place in the Chicago
underworld, and Adonis—reputed
overlord of gambling and vice on
the East Coast, both had refused
to give information to the com
mittee on grounds their answers
might incriminate them.
N. Atlantic Treaty
Forces To Get
A-Bomb Support
%
SHAPE — Gen. J. Lawton Col
lins, U.S. Army chief of staff, said
Saturday North Atlantic Treaty
forces in Europe eventually will
be supported by atomic weapons.
The general told a news con
ference that discussions are under
way for integrating weapons, in
cluding artillery and guided mis
siles, into the European forces.
Collins said such weapons can
add materially to the ability of
Western Europe to defend itself.
He warned, however, that “it
would be a mistaken idea to be
lieve that the number of divisions
immediately required in Europe
could be reduced” by use of new
weapons.
The general explained that at
omic weapons can be brought
most effectively into place against
an attacking force, for this force,
obliged to mass its forces for a
lunge, presents a concentrated
target.
He added that “we don’t be
lieve the Russians have any atom
ic artillery but we cannot be cer
tain,” and said that all planning
is passed on the assumption that
they might have it.
British Jet Fighter
Disintegrates At Air
Show, Killing 28
LONDON, (/P)—The death toll
in the explosion of Britain’s De
Havilland 110 jet fighter at the
Farnborough air show Saturday
rose to 28 Monday as a 1-year-old
boy died in a London hospital.
The De Havilland fighter dis
integrated and showered wreck
age over the spectators in diving
from 40,00(^ feet and cracking
through the sound barrier.
Test pilot John Derby and his
observer were among the 28 cas
ualties. Sixty three others were
injured.
Grandma Motes It 92 Years Old
EAGLE BRIDGE, N.Y., </P) —
Grandma Moses was 92 Sunday.
The spry little lady whose pri
mitive paintings have made her
name a household word observed
the birthday quietly with her
family.
C.P. Flagship
Princess Kathleen
Sinks Near Juneau
JUNEAU, {IP) — The relentless
waters of a Southeastern Alaska
“ships graveyard” claimed an
other Canadian Pacific lines ves
sel yesterday — its flagship, the
Princess Kathleen — but not a
person erf 425 aboard was lost.
A mile and a half off course,
the 5,908-ton Kathleen crunched
aground with her bow almost un
derneath a cliff at 3:15 ajn., PST.
Earthquake - conscious Califor
nians aboard said the blow felt
like a shock.
Withih four hours, the Coast
Guard-aided rescue efforts, the
305 passengers aboard were got
ten ashore, many of the younger
ones climbing down ladders to the
beach. Near mid-day, when the
rising tide began to fill the hull,
Capt. Graham O. Hughes ordered
“abandon ship” and the 118 of
ficers and crew were also put
ashore.
The ship slipped from its rocky
berth and sank, with its bow
going high into the air, in 90 feet
of water at 1:40 p.m. PST. The
spot was 18 miles north of here.
The Kathleen had sailed from Ju
neau for Skagway.
Ship's Position Unexplained
First Officer Charles W. Savage
was on the bridge when the ship
hit, Captain Hughes reported. The
lookout sighted the reef and cliff
looming up in the darkness and
light rain but there was no time
to change course.
The first officer was unable to
explain the ship’s position, Cap
tain Hughes said. He was near
collapse after the ship was aban
doned.
Through a mix-up, Ensign Rich
ard Lacey, commander of the
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SUNDAY BASEBALL
American League
New York 5—Washington 1
.Cleveland 4-3—St. Louis 0-1
Detroit 4—Chicago 2
Boston 12—Philadelphia 5
National League
Brooklyn 4—New York 1
St. Louis 4—Pittsburgh 3
Chicago 6—Cincinnati 1
Pacific Coast League
Hollywood 8-3—Portland 0-5
San Francisco 5-2—Seattle 1-4
Oakland 5-0—San Diego 1-8
Los Angeles 8-0 — Sacramento
0-9
Two Uninjured In Plane
Wreck But Fire Truck
Overturns Enroute Scene
ANCHORAGE, (JP)— Two per
sons were injured Sunday when
a small plane crashed just outside
the Anchorage city limits and a
fireman was hurt seriously when
two fire trucks collided enroute to
the scene.
Hospitalized but not believed in
serious condition were Mr. and
Mrs. Ken Barrett of Squintna, the
occupants of the plane. Gerald
Hacheiner was injured when the
trucks crashed, the one he was
riding on flipping over three
times from the impact.
The cause erf the plane smash
up was not learned.