Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 177, Decatur, Adams County, 29 July 1953 — Page 6

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Taft Appears Through With Active Politics

WASHINGTON llP—The worstkept secret in town was out today —that Sen. Robert A. Taft is through with- active politics. Mr, Republican will not return to the senate as leader of the Republican party there. He is gravely stricken.' New Yc|rk hospital bulletin; brought the public quickly up to date. The facts are that Ohio’s great son, spokesman for the semiconservative Republicanism of the middle west, steadily has been losing ground in his greatest fight. . After the announcement that the senator’s condition was deteriorating the hospital bulletins said his condition continued to be unsatisfactory. ; The seriousness of the illness was underlined when Taft’s invalid wife was flown to his bedside from Washington and other members of the family were summoned. The, shock,to the Eisenhower administration will bq considerab’e. The President may have been informed of the exact nature of Taffs ailment. K so, he had not confided in his staff because only Tuesday a member asked this reporter the question which has been buzzing around Washington now for weeks: , "What’s the matter with Taft?" That’s for the senator’s physicians to answer officially. seriousness ‘of his malady now is known. I SenatOf Taft carried his official burdens until June 10, when he announced he was suffering from a hip lesion. As late as April 19, he had played golf with the President at Augusta, Ga. On Crutches and smiling, he was on and off the senate floor during time away from several hospitals. He entered New York hospital July 4 for further treatment and diagnosis. It was there that the gravity of his illness, was first suspected. Planning at firt to leave the hospital within about two weeks,

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Taft Stayed on. A scheduled journey to Washington this week was cancelled. His early recuperation rate was not maintained. It is now xnost unlikely that Taft will be able to appear on the senate floor next session, which begins Jan. 3 and certainly not as Republican flqor leader, which requires a man of robust health. That will be a genuine loss .o the JEisenhower administration. There is no Republican in the sen-, ate who quite fits the pattern of Taft. As the man Mr. Eisenhower defeated for the presidential nomination, he was the natural spokesman for the anti-Eisenhower wing of the Republican party. He cliose instead, io be an administration man. There was no 100 per cent agreement between Taft and the dent. But they had a solid working arrangement, despite differences of details and, sometimes, on ;major questions. iMr. Eisenhow-er was learning to lean heavily on the senator wnen the latter took to crutches. Taft's enemies acknowledge his abilities. From 1940, when he first tsought the Republican presidential nomination, unt|l his most recent activity as senate leader, he had been a national and international figure, admired or hated here and aibrpad. Few persons are neutral on Taft. I ' Taft is not the colorful figure we usually associate with top political leadership; his charm is reserved for his friq.ids, and for them only on occasion. His grin is far from dazzling and he speaks with the jerky, cadence of a-hard-saw in wet Timber. £lis clothes , don’t drape. They hang. His hair is no special color and there isn’t much of it. H«s rimless glasses are strictly functional. , { But Taft knows his facts. He knows enough about public housing to be called a Socialist by persons who would like less public housing. But labor has called him a Tory

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slave driver. Some internationally minded citizens regard him as an obstinate, ill-informed reactionary. For the Eisenhower administration Taft did what no other was capable of doing. He led his wing of the Republican party into the Eisenhower camp and; battled fiercely in the senate with former pals to keep them there. A T j 4 GOP STALWART (Continued From I‘agr One) leader before entering the hospital to undergo an exploratory abdominal operation. At that time, the hospital said the operation was performed to find’out more about the nature of his “disorder." * ■ I di . * i ■'— ■' , - I If you have sometning tp sell or rooms for rent, try a Democrat Want Add. It brings results.

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CONGRESS OKAYS (Continued From Page One) p White House a bill appropriating; $150,000,000 for emerge nc y J drought relief. President Eisenhower hhd asked for the money, j Shelf: Senate-house ; confereesagreed on a compromise bill giving the government full* control over the outer Continental Shelfjj In so doing, they knocked out a] provision for using federal reve-; nue from potential oil and miner-’ als on tlie shelf to aid education. Senate friends of the aid-to-edyua-tion provision said the conferees’* action may mean the bill will be; held over until next year. Postage: The house passed and* sent to the senate a bill to reduce; the postal deficit by about $36,-! OtfO.OOO a year. It would require: federal agencies to pay for mail! service they now get free. New Law: President Eisenhow-i

er signed a bill admitting 500 orphans under 10 who were adopted abroad by U. S. cifixens in the armed forces or were employed overseas by the U. S. government. Foreign aid: The senate was expected to approve later today a $4,562,653,811 bill for foreign aid despite economy bloc efforts to trim it to the size of a’smaller bill passed by the house. » The senate appropriatiohs committee added $123,975,511 to the amount of new cash voted by the house and also removed a provision to revoke authority to spend $424,654,212 appropriated in previous years but still not disbursed. House and senate both comple- ’ ted action Tuesday on three other j appropriations bills carying funds ; for the labor and welfare depart- | pients, a score of independent ’ agencies and the District of Co- ; lumbia. . ’I

President Kicks Off Safety Drive Safety Conference Will Be Arranged WASHINGTON UP — President Tuesday kicked off a drive ameid at saving about 17,f»0<. lives a year by reducing highway accidents. to the •*- tional safety * council, there were 38,000 traffic fatalities in 1952 and 37,500 in 1951. i . Mr. Eisenhower called to the White House 2-8 leaders from jcivil.ian life to enlist their aid in i•ranging for a highway safety conference in about six months -with 2,000 to 3,000 delegates from throughout the„nation. Paul G.. Hoffman, former held of the economic cooperation administration, was named temporary chairman of the group. A White, House spokesman said after the meeting thgt Mr. Eisenhower pointed out the fatality, rate of highway accidents in this country is three or four times as great as were battle deaths in the Korean war. The President was represented as pointing out that, something—a trube—had been Bone about saving lives in Korea and that there was no good reason why something could not be done aSout highway accidents. Hoffman said one goal would he to save $1,250,000,000 of the $3,5''0,000,000 estimated for damage costs in highway accidents.;. The grpup went from the Whits House to ■ the rommerre department to rontinue organizational work. r. / -y! Irapped Reds Make Escape From French Many Os Rebels Are Believed Escaped

HANOI, Indochina (UP) —‘Many of the 3.000 Red-led Viet. Minh rebels thought trapped inside an encircled “death square” were believbd to have escaped a p<fwerful French Union force today. The 11,000-man Franco-Viet Nam force encountered sharply-reduced resistance as it compressed the circle around the Communists to an area one and a half miles square. i - A headquarters spokesman said, that with Operation Camargue 300 miles south of Hanoi now approaching its closing stages^.the French high command feared many of the Reds had slipped away. ’ He said they either could have infiltrated through the French lines in the dense jungle! or else have buried themselves in prepared underground hideouts to let the French pass overhead. If either proved true, the j biggest air-sea-ground French offensive of the year could be called only a partial success. Its aim was to destroy elite Viet Minh troops of the 95th regiment. Rebels troops still inside the trap were expected to make a major effort to break out tonight, while others might make a lastditch suicide to cojver their comrades. The 3,000 encircled insurgents threw obstacles around 10 fortified villages but in nightlong fighting, the attacking forces of French and Viet Nam trobps halved the narrow- Annan coast pocket where the Reds were making a last-ditch stand. Troops moved behind]9 screen of artillery fire in successfully storming the desperately defended Communist Viet Minh positions in the two-day old battle for a coastal highway known as the “Joyless Route.” The French Union troops trapped trie rebels in a lightning-like assault that began at daWn Tueisday. Democrat. Want Ads Bring Result* ■ r -i•!; -■ ! ■ * ■ IP 'EI w I®! i J Hmu mIR' . / Y* r J • (RWj! ‘ \ % i \ ’ V <- ' 1• V \ \. t.l « ... 44.. . ..i POPE PIUS looks in fine spirits in this photo, showing hint on arrival at Castelgandolfo, his summer residence, where he went from the Vatican earlier than usuaL He has recovered from a recent illness but still needs rest, it is reported. (International)

Dulles Facing 1 Rough Going 1 In Rhee Parley Dulles Expected To Seek Softening Os Korean's Demands TOKYO UP — Secretary of state John FJoster Dulles may find it tougher to forge a coin mon front with Syngman Rhee* for. the Korean peace conference than it was to persuade the South Korean president to go along with the armistice. Diplomatic sources here predicted; Rhee’» present terms for unification of gorea and withdrawal of foreign troops—main issues to be settled at the political conference —wol be totally unacceptable to the Communists and doom the meeting to failure/ Dulles’ main task at the mee’-i ings next week, the sources said will be to soften Rhee’s demands, withput abandoning the goal of a free and unified Korea, so rthat the, conference will have a chanjce ! of success. I If the peace conference fails after three months of deibate, Rhee threatens to renew the war. Thk would confront the United Sta’es and the United Nations Allies with the choice of standing by i while Souih Korea suicidally tackles the 1,000,000-man Red army or breaking the armistice &nd again homing to Rhee’s aid. In his talks with Dulles next week, if he stands firm on h’s repeated policy declarations, Rihee will; 1. Reject any’ unification plan that calls for national elections in South as well as North Korea to form a new government. He in-* sists his government'already is pie lawful government of all Korea 2. Reject any coalition with the present Communist rulers of North Korea. 3. Reject participation of Communist or pro-Communist parties in a North Korean election. 4. Insist on unification terins which mean, in affect, the absorption of the northern half of the peninsula into his Republic of Korea with himself remaining as president. REDS CHARGE (Coatinned From Pane One) • prisoner exchange. They will assist 4 in “Operation Big Switch” and visit prisoner compounds in North and South Korea* If you have sometning to sell or rooms for rent 1 , try a Democrat Want Ad. It brings results.

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Bringing Broadway Into Movie Houses Make First Film Os Stage Production HOLLYWOOD UP — Tourists won’t have to travel to h ew Yor> to see a Broadway show becausg Hollywood is bringing Rroadw-y to the movie houses. Independent producers Al Zug-, smith and Ben Peskay ar i making the first, film of a stage production — ‘Top Banana,’>-41 three dimension. Except for a. few bawdy scenes censored oiit, the hit musical will look just as it did on the Great White Way. L The camera wijl take pou .from the hiipking marquee ijto your theater beat. The curtain pa« a and the actors play behind footlights on the »tage Mt'iegoerb from Nebraska to A’laskp cah's-' i e the show as if they were in $lO seats* on a New Yorg night. , “We’ll give the theater :o ptopte all overithp wrold Who never ha.o seen a Broadway musical ?oinedy.‘ explained Zugsmith. “They’ve* seed Hollywood -backstage musicals, yes, but written as movies. Tt is is the ' first time they can see a complete Broadway show—Exactly is it was done on the-stage." TWeta there’s that other reason—r ,money..By photographing the show as is, the joifb was done In five days instead of the usuial 50. . j ‘That’s a world i ecord for making a :nusica.l.” said Zugsmith. “We”re out with the first music il in 3-D, too.” ? ' J ‘Tpjp Banana” as a movie, cosf only; $500,000, a new low in musical budgets. MGfM figured it would cost; $2,500,000 to film V in the movie manrer. The producers “borrowed" the stage show — sets, cdsfimes and 1 all.-rs- after it wound up a road tour in litis Angeles. The gitoup is tbh same! except lor three new chorus girlg, thatj opened the hit bn Broad* : way.

“This was the longest rehearsed mcjjiie in history. The least had done; it for a couple of yearfe or« the stage,” the producer added. Star of the show, comedian Phil Silvers, is how back in movies after- a fi>;e-year absence. Rhil played the hero’s best friend in fmbvie musicals for 10 years. Now Hhßjfwood _ re-discovered hiift and he’s signed to star ip a Doris Day musical i£t Warner Studio. ft “Top Banana” is also the movie comeback of ex-baby 1 star Rose Marie. The last tiirie she wasi on celliiloid. back in 1935, ishe sang on the knee of a young Di<k Powell. ’ f - ; A's . 4„,. \. • . • A . ■ in; V u If you nave something to sell or rooms for rent, try a. Democrat Want Ad. It brings results.