Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 69, Decatur, Adams County, 23 March 1954 — Page 8

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Controversy, Confusion On "New Look” Strategy

(EMitor's note: Considerable eontroversy and contusion have surrounded the so-called "new look" defense strategy. The following dispatch tells what the new policy Is. how it was o»dived, and what has been said about it, pro and con.) By LOUIS CASSLLfc WASHINGTON UP — What is the Eisenhower administration's much discussed “new, look" defense strategy? •Republican spokesmen have described it as a bold plan for holding Communist aggression in check throughout the world without bankrupting America in the process: a far-reaching revision of U* $• for-: eign policy to apply the painful lessons learned in the Korean War. Democratic critics contend it is mostly double-talk .to cover up sharp slashes that administration economizers have made in U. S. military strength. Both sides agree on one point: There has been much confusion and misunderstanding about the policy since it was announced by secretary of state John Foster Dulles in a New York speech Jan. 12. Dulles said then that the United States and Itg allies have neither the money nor the manpower to build effective “local defenses" against Communist aggression around the entire 26,000-mile perimeter of the Communist empire. The Communists know this, he said, and are likely to go on starting “local wars" like the one in Korea as long as they believe that the tree world's response will be confined to resistance on the spot whre. the aggression takes place. To prevent more Koreas, Dulles said, the free world must henceforth place less reliance in local defenses and “depend primarily upon a great capacity to retaliate, instantly, by means and at places of our choosing." The defense budget which President Eisenhower sent to congress a few days later translated the new concept into military terms. It put increased emphasis on air power and atomic weapons, while cutting -the army's ground forces from 20 to 17 divisions and reducing the navy from 1.200 to 1,080 ships. The new policy was promptly interpreted by some as meaning that — Last Time Tonight — In Color —Wide Screen! “RED GARTERS" Rosemary Clooney, Jack Carson ALSO—Shorts 14c-50c Inc.,Tax 0- 0 WED. & THURS. 0 ——— o OUR BIG DAYS! First Show Wed. at 6:30 IContinuous Thur, from 1:30 j BE SURE TO ATTEND! »■'" — - - -o 54 Ski*l HF RICHARD CARLSON BARBARA RUSH -autuswutt-msE llmhinson — o—o Ed. & Sat.—Rock Hudson. _ “Taza, Son of Cochise" —Color —o Coming Sun. —Lucille Ball -LONG, LONG TRAILER”

the United States would never again wage a local, limited war like Korea but would respond to any new outbreak of Red aggression either by doing nothing or by atom-bombing Moscow or Pei- , ping. Allied capitals were alarmed. Democrats attacked- this idea on ! two fronts. Some protested that ■ the administration might plunge the nation into atomic war with Russia over a comparatively minor local aggression in some remote country. Others, including Adlai E. Stevenson, said the rea! danger was that the new policy would let Russia and Red China nibble the free world to death without ever taking a bite big enough to provoke this country to global iaomic warfare. To meet this criticism, President Eisenhower, Dulles and other administration leaders have been busily explaining the new policy in speeches, news conferences, congressional mfltimony and other statements. Their main point in elaboration? which Dulles stressed in testimony before the senate foreign relations committee Friday, is that the new policy "does not mean turning every local war into a world war. It does not mean that if there is a Communist attack somewhere In Asia, atom or hydrogen bombs will necessarily be dropped on the great industrial centers of China or Russia." What it does mean, said Dulles, is that Red aggressors are on notice that the United States no longer intends to let them pick the time, place and ground rules ofevery conflict; if they start trouble in an area where the free world's local defenses happen to be sparse, they may get hit back else, perhaps with A-bombs, perhaps with conventional weapons' President (Eisenhower also sought to eliminate any idea .that his administration has itchy finger on the trigger of global atomic war. He told a news conference, directly, that “there is going to directly, that ‘t here is going to be no involvement of America in war unless it is a result of the constitutional process that is placed on congress to declare it. Prayer Band At Marion Sunday The Marion Missionary has been chosen as the site for a Victory prayer band rally Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock, it was announced today by the Rev. James R. Meadow’s, president of the gtoup. The Rev. W. C, Correll, pastor of God's gospel tabernacle at Peru, will, l>e the principal speaker and Rev. Meadows will preside. Dwight Darr of Bobo will lead the singing and. there will be special prayers for the boys in service.

jy \ '/afc^jfeq - ,3li| THIS IS the full Senate rules committee, shown in Washington after voting to recommend that the U. S. Senate unseat Senator Chavez in dispute over his election. He defeated Patrick Hurley by some 5,000 votes. Seated, from left: Senators Joseph McCarthy (R), Wisconsin: Charles Potter (R), Michigan; William E. Jenner-(R), Indiana, chairman. Standing, from left: Frank Barrett (R), Wyoming: Thomas Hennings (D), Missouri; Carl Hayden (D), Arizona; Guy Gillette (D), lowa, ( Intemattonal) Ompnk. *<». - .soOfrWWik <3Hfcjv ■ ] rlWy Wr ■'’ risir I .. Aa.. -:- ... v' ■ .j 88-YEAR-OLD Ephraim Horner, retired Lakewood. N. J , farmer, stands beside bed where his wife Mary, 43. holds his 27th baby. Said Horner, ‘My wife never goes to doctors, so we had no idea she was going to have a baby.” (International Soundpliotoj

Says Charge Os Fake | Holdup Is Nonsense

LaPorte Sheriff In » Factional Fight ■ LAPORTE. Ind. UP.— Sheriff ' Norman Reeg today termed as i •'nonsense" a charge he staged a filling station holdup as a pubilicity stunt in his campaign tor j reelection. The charge was brought by Mayor Tbm Boyd in what observers tailed the climax of a local ' Republican (actional fight. Boyd claimed he had the confessions of | two "conspirators’* to back his charge. A court hearing was scheduled today on Boyd's petition seeking a continuance of protective custody for the two men by LaPorte police. The men. Carter Methany, 24. ; and Don Wheaton. 26. near La- } Porte, were captured Tuesday by Reeg and deputies duripg a gun battle at the filling station. Boyd said Methany and Wheaton were released by the sheriff and nu .charges filed, .against them. Boyd said he ordered city police to ic.ure-t them Fiiday. A third man. Joe Krest, 40, Michigan City, was held by the shetiff on a robbery charge in connection with the SSO holdup. The sheriff said Boyd's charge was "nonsense." He said Methany and Wheaton were "informers" and had been asked to “go along” with robbery plans made by some companions. "After Wheaton? and Methany were they were released as they had been promised immunity in return for cooperating with us in the apprehension of a criminal," Reeg said. But Boyd contended the men participated in the holdup “under order of and at the request of the sheriff of LaPorte county." He said the two admitted faking the holdup and asked him for protective custody. In his motion seeking continuance of cus:ody 4 Boyd said the men “were paid money by the sheriff . . . prior to and during the planning of said robbery," and that they “were aiding the shetifUs department in participating in the robbery.” The city-county feud broke out last vear when Reeg’s deputies t aided a Laporte bookie Joint. Boyd accused the sheriff of trying to embarrass city officials. He said since then there have been other invasions of the city limits by the sheriff’s forces. Basques on the French-Spanish border have netted wood pigeons commercially for generations, says the National Geographic Society. •Each fall thousands of birds fly through a narrow Pyrenees pass en route to .the warm Mediterranean. Hunters hurl wooden disks in the air to imitate hawks in flight; frightened pigeons fly low for fear of falcon attacks and are trapped in nets.

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A YEAR from the time International News Service war correspondent Don Dixon (right) was seized by Chinese Communists, no word has come as to what has happened to him from behind the “Bamboo. Curtain.” Dixon, 26, was on a yacht with Richard Applegate, 41, Medford. Ore., and merchant Capt. Benjamin Krasner, Newark, N. J„ when they were seized en route from Hong Kong to Macao off the. Red China coast. Below, Dixon’s mother, Mrs, Florence Ditchik, shown in New York with family, writing to Red China gov-, emment, begging for release of her son. (InternationalJ

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Polio Vaccine Tests On Million Children Independent Safety Tests On Each Lot ADELAIDE. Australia UP — Queen Elizabeth and the duke of Edinburgh have received second’ injections against polio in preparation for their royal visit to the stricken, areas, of western Australia. it was disclosed today. Plans for the royal tour of western Australia were drastically Revised because of the epidemic there and physicians recommended the second injection as one of a number of precautions. The royal couple arrives in western Australia Friday. ~ Medical officers take such a serious view of the possibility of infection that sailors, newsmen traveling with the royal party, and most members of the royal household will not be permitted to leave the ship ii> west Australian ports. This is tcuninimize the possible danger ofa "carrier’- 1 being aboard when fpinee Charles and Princess Anne join the royal yacht Brittania, at Tobruk. There is also speculation the children's trip may be cancelled. The Queen will use the liner Gothic as headquarters in western Australia instead ,of living ashore, and the royal party will eat only food brought by the Gothic from this comparatively polio' free area. Jet Plane Crashes, Pilot Is Unharmed Pilot Telephones Os Safety After Crash REGENT, N. D. UP - - An FB6 Sabre jet crashed two miles noijthwest of here today after becoming lost on a ferry flight from Ogden, Utah, to Rapid City, S. D., and the pilot was apparently able to jump to safety. The wreckage and part of a parachute was found on .the Gardon Stewart farm, two miles northwest o{ here at 10:13 a.m. Officers at the. air force filter center at Bismarck reported the pilot checked in by telephone following the crash, but he did not give his name and he disappeared after calling the filter center. At Ellsworth air force base. Rapid—City, S. D., the pilot was identified as Lt. C. K. Costas, who was stationed at Wright Patterson Field in Ohio. He was on terti-

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Frequent Showers Forecast In State Temperatures Near Normal Predicted INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — Indi-, ana will get April showers this week. The weather bureau said “rather frequent periods of rain" are due Wednesday through Sunday, with the heaviest downpour Thursday nigh! and Friday. Rain is expected to total about half an i inch. Northern Indiana can expect temperatures near normal maximums of 54 and minimums of 33 during the period. But downstate, where normals are 63 and 40, the outlook is for readings to top normal by an average of 4 degrees. A warming trend through the week will be halted by colder weather Satureay anc Sunday, forecasters said. South Bend and Fort Wayne recorded slight rain in a 24-hour period ending this morning, but the rest of the state was dry. Temperatures during the same period ranged Jrom Evansville's 46 to Terre Haute’s 33. “Occasional light rain or drizzle” was due today in the southeast and extreme south today and over most of Indiana Wednesday. Today s predicted highs were in the 40s, tonight’s lows 30-38. Match books were used as an advertising medium by 19 percent more companies during the first nine months of 1953 than in the comparable period of 1952, the Match Industry Information Bureau announced. GOP LEADERS (Conti surd From Page Oar) job. He explained late Monday that ABA board members objected to his getting into something so controversial. There was sharp disagreement in the subcommittee over McCarthy’s proposal that all witnesses in the base be asked to submit to lie delector tests. Potter denounced the idea Monday night as “a lot of poppycock" that would turn the hearings into a “threering circus." RECALL LAW (Con tinned From Page Onr) Wisconsin anytime after an official

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when they clashed with French patrols. Even while under fire, the rebels would throw themselves like wolves on any morsels of food they saw lying in the trenches. The Reds stepped up their artillery fire early today but it failed to prevent helicopters and U?S.built C-47 planes from airlifting wounded defenders of Dien Bien Phu. Split-second timing enabled the French to outwit the 'Reds and signal the planes in and out between shellbursts.