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Griffin Daily News
Truman Discourages
Fuss Over Birthday
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (UPD—
The Harry S. Truman birthday
parties only started in 1953, but
it has built up enough tradition
to continue as usual even
though the guest of honor says
he can't be present.
About 200 longtime friends
planned today’s birthday party
With all the trimmings and
topped it off by announcing the
“Eddie Jacobson Memorial
Foundation,” which will con
tinue the birthday gatherings in
perpetuity.
Truman, who is 83 today,
wrote his friend, Henry Talge,
that he "was glad to respond to
the birthday event each year as
best I could, although as you
Will know I have always
discouraged any fuss being
made ovy me.
"But the time has come,
Henry, when I must say to you
in all frankness that I do not
wish any birthday celebration
this coming May Bth. This is
necessary because I need to
conserve my energy so as to
work on my writing commit
ments that I am obligated to
complete ...”
Talge Is a Kansas City
Industrialist. For years he
sponsored the parties anony
mously, although last year his
role became known.
About 200 persons told Talge
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they could attend the party at a
Kansas City hotel for the
former President this year.
That is a few less dignitaries
and old friends than the 400 who
showed up last year, but
considerably more than the 22
who came out to celebrate the
first party in 1953, the year
Truman left the presidency and
returned to being a private
citizen.
The "Eddie Jacobson Memor
ial Foundation,” besides con
tinuing the birthday parties, will
sponsor an annual foreign policy
award to a member of the U.S.
Senate who is considered to
have furthered the non-partisan
foreign policy objectives of the
United States in the past year.
It includes a SI,OOO prize and a
scroll to be presented on the
date of Truman’s birthday.
Jacobson is a former business
partner of Truman’s.
The former President sees
only a few close acquaintances
nowadays and seldom goes to
hih office at the Truman
Library near his Independence,
Mo , home. He has remained
alert although he complains to
his doctor of dizziness.
His friends say his appetite
for reading, mostly histories
and biographies, remains keen.
He still can consume a healthy
volume in one day.
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Ex-CIA Man Says lleuther
Shared In Funds Abroad
NEW YORK i*UPI) —A
former Central Intelligence
Agency officer said he turned
over thousands of dollars in CIA
funds to American labor leaders
to help bolster unions in post
war Europe against Communist
subversion.
The onetime CIA executive,
Thomas Braden, specifically
named United Auto Workers
President Walter P. Reuther, to
whom Braden said he handed
over $50,000 in SSO bills, and
Irving Brown of the American
Federation of Labor who
allegedly got $15,000 “from the
vaults of the CIA.”
Braden, now editor and
publisher of The Blade-Tribune,
Oceanside, Calif., defended
these and other actions of the
CIA in an article in The
Saturday Bvening Post.
Referring to criticisms made
by Reuther’s brother, Victor,
director of international affairs
for the UAW, about labor
cooperation with the CIA,
Braden scoffed. "Victor Reuth
er ought to be ashamed of
himself.
Aid German Unions
"At his request, I went to
Detroit one morning and gave
Walter $50,000 in SSO bills
Victor spent the money,* mostly
in West Germany, to bolster
(Jim & Joe’s Photo)
The Griffin Footlight Players will -present “Arsenic And Old Lace” this week at
Mezart Studios on the Bucksnort road east of Griffin. Shown going over the pro
duction are (standing, 1-r) Herb Bridges, director; Elizabeth Mitchell and Judy
Jones; (seated) Gene Robbins, Jr., Barbara Glasgow and Ed Mercer. The play
will be presented Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights.
labor unions there.”
In Detroit, Walter Reuther
confirmed Sunday that the UAW
did agree, reluctantly, on one
occasion, to the request to
transmit government funds to
supplement the inadequate
funds being made available by
the U.S. labor movement.”
Reuther did not name the
sources of the funds in his
statement but a UAW spokes
man confirmed today that the
money referred to was the
$50,000 mentioned by Braden.
Calling Braden’s remarks
“incomplete and misleading,”
Reuther said the money he got
was "merely added to the trade
union fund to intensify the
education and organizational
programs then under way in
Europe. The content of the
programs was in no way
affected or altered.”
Reuther also said that follow
ing this incident his brother,
Victor, was contacted by
Braden and asked to become an
agent for the CIA, using as a
front his position as European
representative of the CIO.
Refuses CIA Post
“Victor Reuther emphatically
rejected Mr. Braden's request,”
the UAW president said.
"It was also my idea to give
cash, along with advice, to
other labor leaders, to students,
professors and others who could
help the United States in its
battle with Communist fronts,”
Braden said.
Included among other claims
made by Braden were:
—That the CIA financed a
highly successful European tour
by the Boston Symphony
Orchestra.
—That money for the publica
tion of “Encounter,” a maga
zine published in England
dedicated to cultural achieve
ment and political freedom,
came from the intelligence
agency. Braden said a CIA man
Law Pushed
Against Flag
Desecreation
WASHINGTON (UPD —An
gry congressmen, heartened by
a signs of a nationwide
“patriots blacklash,” launched a
drive today for enactment of a
federal law against desecrating
the U.S. flag.
Most of their ire was directed
against demonstrators who have
defiled the flag in what Rep.
John W. Wydler, R-N.Y.,
termed a “sick act of disre
spect.”
Wydler made the statement
as a House judiciary subcom
mittee opened hearings on bills
which would set penalties for
desecrating the flag ranging
from a SI,OOO fine or 90 days in
jail to SIO,OOO plus five years
imprisonment.
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—That a CIA agent was
placed in "a Europe based
organization of intellectuals
called the Congress for Cultural
Freedom.”
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Braden, a former president of
California’s Board of Education,
said he was perplexed by the
hue and cry raised against the
CIA for some of its activities.
"Was it immoral, wrong,
“Only in that war itself is
immoral, wrong and disgrace
ful. For the cold war was and is
a war, fought with ideas instead
of bonjbs. And our country had
a clear-cut choice: either we
win the war or lose it.”
"So long as the Soviet Union
attacks deviously, we shall need
weapons to fight back, and a
government locked in a power
struggle cannot acknowledge all
the programs it must carry out
to cope with its enemies,”
Braden added.
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FELLOWSHIPS ESTABLISHED
ST. LOUIS, Mo. (UPD —The
Chairman of the Board of the
McDonnell Co., builder of the
Mercury and Gemini space
capsules Thursday established
three fellowships as memorials
to astronauts Virgil I. Grissom,
Edward H. White 11, and Roger
B. Chaffee.
James S. McDonnell said the
awards would be three-year
graduate fellowships in the
space sciences at Washing-..!
University, each worth $2,500 in
living expenses the first year,
,«‘> 750, the second and $3,000 the
third.
jARDEN PARTY
TOKYO (UPD —Emperor
Hirohito and Empress Nagako
will be hosts to 2,078 persons at
an imperial garden party May
19, the imperial household
agency announced Thursday.
Among those invited is Japan’s
internationally famous film star
x oshiro Mifune.
Viet Protesters
Jeer VE Ceremonies
By STANLEY H. PARKER
United Press International
FRANKFURT, Germany
(UPD—The jeers of Vietnam
war protesters today mingled
with the tears of those
observing the 22nd anniversary
of VE day at ceremonies across
Europe.
In Frankfurt’s historic Roe
merberg City Hall youths in a
crowd of 2,000 hooted, screamed
“Ami (Americans) go home”
and hurled stink and smoke
bombs at a German-American
friendship meeting Sunday
Police surged in and arrested
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In Paris French President
Charles de Gaulle was marking
the anniversary of the Nazi
surrender at Theims May 7,
J 945, by rekindling the sacred
flame at the Arc de Triomphe’s
tomb of France’s unknown
soldier. The Saint Louis des
Invalides Chapel celebrated a
High Mass “in memory of the
80,000 glorious American sol
diers who fell on French soil
during two world wars”
At Leeds, England, anti-
Vietnam demonstrators vainly
tried to howl down Prime
Minister Harold Wilson. Thun
dered Wilson, whose govern
ment has voiced support for the
U.S. position in Vietnam:
“What some of you want is
the war to continue long enough
for a Communist victory”
At Mannheim, Germany, at
another bury-the-hachet meeting
with West Germans, U.S.
Ambassador Geroge McGhee
ignored Vietnam hecklers and
pressed on with his speech
At Mauthausen, Austria, East
German Communist leaders
showed up in force for a
ceremony marking the 22nd
anniversary of the liberation of
that town’s World War II Nazi
death camp. East German
Politburo member Horst Sinder
mann proclaimed his Commu
nist regime “as the first
German state in which justice
and liberty were completely
realized.”
But Austrian newspapers sold
at Mauthausen said that while
East German Communist offi
cials came here to unveil a
•■nemorial, their fellow citizens
were locked inside borders
guarded by machine guns,
mines and dogs.
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Josef Stalin forbid any unknown
soldier memorial, Soviet leaders
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By L. E. CATO
Strange how in the days when
there were so very few doctors,
house calls were the order of the
day. Now that there are hun
dreds of medicos being gradu
ated every year ... old house
call is becoming passe. Even the
office call by the patient is be
ing regulated to take just a few
minutes.
The reason for all this, of
course, lies in the population
boom, which put the onus on the
doctor to the extent that he must
make every moment count . . .
especially the preliminary exam.
. . which could be a huge waste
of time. Specialization makes
possible the fast accurate diag
nosis in the office . . what with
specialists who can be called in
to prognosticate complications.
It all constitutes medical stream
lining in order to care for more
people and more serious cases
in the proper manner. Folks must
be patient and conform to mod
ern practice, these days, after
all everyone does want to spend
less time at the doctor’s. Some
day with, computer development,
a patient may be diagnosed, an
alysed, typed, prescribed for and
have the prescription filled . . .
on the spot. But not for awhile
yet!
But for today, for fast effici
ent service and reliable prescrip
tion filling, come to THE DRUG
AND SURGICAL SHOP, 209
South Bth Street, Griffin, Phone:
227-6338 .. . “YOUR COMPLETE
HEALTH NEEDS CENTER.”
THIS WEEK’S HOUSEHOLD
HINT: A top-heavy flower vase
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