Truman Regards
4ike” As “Amateur
At Politics”
KEY WEST, Fla. (/P)—Intim
ates said today that President Tru
man regards general Dwight D.
Eisenhower as an active candi
date for the presidency.
They added that he regards
Eisenhower’s recent “hot dogs and
beer” speech as part of the former
chief of staff’s buildup for the Re
publican presidential nomination.
The president, he continued,
will answer Eisenhower in his
"state of the union” message to
congress in January.
Charles G. lioss, the president’s
press secretary, said that speech
will “fully expound the presi
dent’s philosophies of govern
ment.”
Ross would not even discuss re
cent speeches of Eisenhower, now
president of Columbia university.
Mr. Truman’s long-time feeling
of admiration for Eisenhower as
an army man and a builder of
morale was emphasized by those
who are close to him.
But these same persons say the
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Shields of the Texas highway pa
trol said $150,000 in mounted dia
monds and other jewelry were
stolen from a drug store here last
night. The jewels belonged mostly
to two jewelry salesmen.
Shields said burglars entered
Burk’s drug store through the
i roof. The drug store is on the
main street of this Texas Pan
handle town.
It was the biggest jewel theft in
the history of the Panhandle.
The loss was discovered by
Keith Bray, an employee of the
drug store, when he opened the
store.
president regards the ex-soldier
turned educator as strictly an am
ateur at politics.
Not even the closest day-to-day
conferees of the president can say
whether he will seek the nomina
tion again it^ 1952. They are in
agreement only in that they feel
i he has not made a decision and
] wants to await developments in
the months ahead.
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was reported under way today in
Czechoslovakia and West Ger
many.
In Prague, the editor-in-chief of
the communist party organ Rude
Pr avo was fired.
The dismissal of editor Vilcm
Novy, a veteran communist, fol
lowed charges that Czech com
munist ranks have been infiltrat
ed by “hostile agents and imper
ialist spies”
Deputy minister of trade Evzen
Loebel has also been ousted and
is reported jailed.
Observers said it looks as if
Czechoslovakia is setting the stage
for Titoist trials similar to Hun
gary’s and Bulgaria’s.
The West German communist
party suspended a communist
'member of the Bonn parliament
and a widescale purge o fso-called
Titoists appeared under way.
I American sources said 40 party
: leaders have been eliminated in a
purge ordered b ythe cominform.
I .Titoism is the modern communist
1 heresy. It means communism in
dependent of Russia, as practiced
m
by Premier Marshal Tito of Yugo
slavia.
In Sofia, the communist Bul
garian government is rushing
through a trial of 11 former key
communist leaders. They are ac
cused of plotting to take Bulgaria
out of the Russian orbit and put
it under the influence of Tito.
Ivan Gevrenov, one of Bulgar
ia’s richest men, admitted in the
trial today that he joined the com
munist party, then recruited for
mer industrialists for an anti-Rus
sian sabotage program that cost
Bulgaria $45,000,000 in economic
losses.
In Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, the
Tito regime concluded a spy trial
of its own. Ten White Russians
were sentenced to prison on
j charges of spying for the Soviet
i Union against Yugoslavia and for
aiding the Germans in World War
II.
The hearing was the first trial
! of Soviet citizens to be ifeld by
another communist country since
the end of the war.
Chinese nationalists are pouring
onto the Island of Formosa, where
they have set up their capital at
Taipeh. They abandoned the Chi
nese mainland yesterday after an
nouncing a military headquarters
Scoutmaster Jim McLean re
ports that Troop 666 has been
busy repairing toys for needy chil
dren as announced some time ago.
Assistant Scoutmaster Almquist
and the boys are meeting again
on Saturday at the school where
the manual training facilities will
be at their disposal for the day
and plan to put in a full day mak
ing repairs.
Many toys have been contribut
ed for this worthy cause.
had bee established at Sichang,
Sikang, in the mountain fastness
near the Tibet border. Generalis
imo Chiang Kai-Shek, titular
leader of nationalist China flew to
Sichang today tot bolster the mo
rale of his beaten army. The com- .
munists are nearing C'hengtu, the
previous capital.
Britain’s ruling Labor Party
• won a special election, the South
Bradford seat. The vote was view
ed as a straw in the wind on the
Labor Party’s prospects for the
general election next spring.
Australian voters will decide
! tomorrow whether to retain their
j eight-year-old Socialist govern
ment or turn to a free enterprise
policy ofered by a two-party coal
ition.
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