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COTTON
Vol. CXIX, No. 178.
Reds Harried By
Guerrilla Raids
In South China
(EDITOR’S NOTE: The au
thor of the following checkup on
Chinese guerrilla effectiveness
hzs been AP chief of the Bureau
for China since the close of
world War 11. In a complex
sphere laden with propaganda,
exaggeration and rumor, he has
long specialized in sifting out
the facts.)
By FRED HAMPSON
HONG KONG, Aug. 11—(AP)—
Every day reports come out of
Red China that guerrillas are
punching the Communists groggy,
especially in the south.
In the past 60 days enough con
firmation has come through to es
tablish the truth of many raids.
Even the Reds are beginning to
admit some of them,
Are the guerrillas really getting
strong?
Twenty stories about 20 guerril
lla raids can create the impression
of a vast anti-Red movement.
When you add them up, how
ever, they may come to an aver
age of 100 men each.
Twenty raids therefore might
involve no more than 2,000 men
scattered over four or five big
provinces.
Look at it that way, and guerril
-1 activity seems trifling.
Important or Trivial |
Well, which is it, important or
trivial?
The answer, so far, is “pretty
small.”
Wishful thinkers may make
much of the rash of outbreaks, but
dispassionate evaluation shows
the guerrillas, at present, are no
more than an annoyance to the
Re¢ ds.
They may become more than
that, deepnding on several factors,
including the Korean War, but it
is a mistake now to view them as
a serious threat to the Commun
ists, even to the Red provincial re
gimes.
I have talked to a number of
persons from Red China, and not
one takes the guerrilla movement
seriously as yet. Even mission
aries coming out from remote sta
tions in the hill country say the
suerrillas thus far have not been
able to establish and hold a base.
The buildup of a resistance area
by old Nationalist regular troops
under Gen. Li Mi in the South
western province of Yunnan is the
only really sizable operation that
is positively known to exist.
Even this may be more in the
wilds of North Burma than on
Chinese soil.
Nationalist Reports
Generalissimo Chiang Kai
shek’s Nationalists on Formosa
put out hopeful reports about sc
tablishment of guerrilla control
areas. S
As time passes and fact is win
nowed from fiction it becomes
apparent that these so-called guer
rilla strongholds either never ex
isted or were speedily wiped out
by the Reds.
A good yardstick for the ex
tent of guerrilla work is the Chi
nese railroad system. China has
poor communications so that a cut
railroad is a serious thing to a
provincial government, or even to
the Peiping National Red regime.
Guerrillas have indeed blown
up a few locomotives and robbed
a few munitions cars, but all in
dications are that the trains in Red
China still run close to schedule,
with no lines cut for more than a
few hours.
It will be time to sit up and take
notice whenraiders start smashing
railroads and keeping them
smashed—as the Reds used to do
when they were guerillas.
Texas Cotfon Is
Ruined By Hail
LUBBOCK, Tex., Aug. 11 —
(AP)—The back of the historic
Texas heat wave may be broken.
But that’s no comfort to C. E.
Vandiver and dozens of other
South* Plains cotton farmers.
“Mister, it’s just not there any
more,” the Lubbock farmer said
after surveying his irrigated cot
ton fields in neighboring Hockley
county.
The rich irrigated cotton—lo,ooo
to 12,000 acres of it—was wiped
level yesterday by a vicious hail
storm. Part of it was Vandiver’s
Loses 700 Acres
“I've been here since 1924 and
I've never seen anything like it,”
said R. L. Edwards, who lost about
700 acres nine miles west of here.
“My whole field was complete-
Iv covered with ice. At some
places the hait was three ‘feet
thick. When the sun came out later
the whole field fogged up. Just
like a refrigerator with the door
open,”
The storm which swept the Lub
bock area was part of a cool front
which knocked down high-riding
temperatures which have killed at
least 21 Texans in two weeks.
Today temperatures on the gool
side of the front ranged up into
the high 80’s—in contrast to read
ngs as high as 116 in the past two
weeks, To the south, where the
slowly drifting front has not
reached, temperatures were edg
ng near 100 — still hot but not
killing hot, °
$1,500,000 Damages
Along with the hail which
Caused up to .$1,500,000 damage
to Sm&fh Plains cotton r:?nm: w‘:l}l(:ie
spread, though ligh ey
brought heat'rnd nfiu and fanned
out beyond the hatl area, boosting
Prospects im fields where. cotton
has been rapidly deteriorating
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FIRE RAGES IN TRAIN WRECKAGE—Smoke boils up from the burning wreckage
of a streamlined passenger train and a Marine troop train whieh ¢ollided head-on
near Simmesport, La., Friday. At least 12 persons were killed and mare than 60 were
injured. The passenger train, Southern Bellee, was bound from Kansas City to New
Orleans. The collision occurred on tracks of the Texas & Pacific Railway but both
trains were operated by the Kansas City Southern Railroad.— (AP Wirephoto.)
30 Athenians To Receive
Degrees From University
Georgia Pension
Checks For Aged
To Be Increased
ATLANTA, Aug. 11 — (AP) —
Georgia old age pension checks
will be increased about $7 a month
in Qctober.
Governor Talmadge today au
thorized a $10,000,000 increase in
the state’s welfare program which
will make larger checks possible
for the needy aged as well as
needy blind and dependent chil
dren,
The increase will permit a 15
per cent increase in all assistance
payments, up to the allowable fed
eral maximums of SSO a month for
the needy aged and blind and up
to $99 for dependent children.
In addition the aged and blind
will get $3 a month and depen~-
dent children $1.50 each up to
$7.50 for medicine.
The welfare assistance pay
ments are fixed according to a
formula set up by the Federal Se
curity Administration, which fur
nishes about 70 per cent of the
money for state welfare assis
tance.
Because of lack of funds, Geor
gia has been paying only about
85 per cent of budget allowances.
The increase will permit payment
of the full budget allowance for
each. person in the welfare rolls.
Talmadge said Georgia’s welfare
program now would be about $51,-
000,000 a year. “When we assumed
office as governor,” he said, “the
total outlay for pensions was only
$20,000,000 as a result, we were
losing a lot of federal aid for this
purpose. We furnished additional
‘money and are getting about three
dollars in federal matching funds
every time we put up a dollar.”
The governor said the increase
was made possible by increased
appropriations resulting from the
sales tax and a gradual leveling
off of rolls due to the children’s
responsibility act passed by the
1951 legislature.
ANGEL WEDS; HAPPY
WHITESBURG, Ky., Aug. 11—
(AP)—A happy couple—one of
them an Angel—got married near
here yesterday.
Barbara Angel, 17, exchanged
vows with Robert C. Stacy, 21.
The Stacys will live on a moun
tain farm at Happy, in neighbor
ing Perry county.
Mumblow To Speak At
Editors’ Institute
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M. E. MUMBLOW
, ¢4« Ingtitute Speaker :
{ Thirty Athenians are among
more than 500 students who will
receive degrees August 22 when
the University of Georgia
holds its summrer graduation ex
ercises. Thirty others among that
| number are from this immediate
| section.
The degree candidates include
about 150 students who will re
ceive master’s and doctor’s de
grees.
Graduation speaker will be Dr.
Russell S. Poor, chairman of the
University Relafions Division of
the Oak Ridge Institute of Nu
lclear Studies. Exercises will be
held in the Fine Arts Auditorium
|at 10:30 a. m.
l Dr. Poor’s address will be fol
lowed by that of the Valedictorian,
Clifford Russell Mordecai, jr.,
Charleston, S. C., who is a fores
try student.
Those reeeiving graduate de
grees will not be announced until
after graduation. Following is a
list, which may have additions or
deletions, of the Athens candi
dates for degrees and those from
this section:
’ Bachelor of Laws
Bachelor of Laws: Grady Ed
|ward Rozar, Athens; Benjamin
Reese Lancaster, Lexington, and
Charles E. Moore, Jefferson.
Bachelor of Arts: Emily Ader
hold Barrow, Earle B. Hunter,
James Edward Massey, Francis
Eugene Parnell, all of Athens; and
Doris Jeanette Dudley, Daniels
ville; Carrie Lou Gill, Commerce;
Mary Elizabeth Jackson, Hartwell,;
Virginia Torbert McCord, Greens~
boro; Barbara Elizabeth Paul,
. Lexington; Theresa Young Smith,
! Elberton.
Bachelor of Science: Helen
Doris Greenway, Mary . Claire
Bondurant, Robert Murray Soule,
jr., all of Athens; and Hubert
Franklin Anthony, Danielsville;
John Nelson Bickers, Greensboro;
| Robert Loy Etheridge, jr., Win
der.
Bachelor of Fine Arts: Ira Quil
lian Cobb, Athens; and Rosemary
Hill, Washington.
Bachelor of Science in Agricul
ture: Clifford Allen Nance, Ath
ens; and Emory D. Appling, Lex
ington; Horace Carlton Hall, jr.,
Lavonia; Harold Kenneth Jordan,
Royston; Thomas Clark Weaver,
Hartwell., 5
Bachelor of Science in Agricul
tural Engineering: John William
Stephenson, jr., Athens.
Education Degrees
Bachelor of Science in Educa
tion: Beverly Ruth Almand, Chris
| tine Weeks Bolton, Lester Claude
England, George Edward Ford,
lßebecca Anne Fowler, Robert R.
Gentry, James Duncan Horne,
Jewell Young Nash, jr., Charles
Edwin Strickland, all of Athens;
and Asa Martin Brown, Hartwell;
‘Julia Edna Collins, Bogart, David
(Continued On Page Six)
| Milton E. Mumblow, director of !
employee publications of the Gen- !
eral Motors Corporation, has been |
named as a speaker for the fifth‘
| annual Industrial Editors’ Institute
which will be held at the Universi- |
]ty of Georgia Nov. 8-10. ‘
First Speaker i
1 The Institute, sponsored by the |
{ University’s Henry Grady School of i
| Journalism and the outhern Indus
' trial Editors’ Association, will at-]
tract editors and employees of in- l
dustrial publications from through |
out the south. Mr. Mumblow is the
:Ft speaker to be named for the
ree-day event,
Announcement of his address is
made jointly by Ed Gambrell,
| Bradley and sons, Atlanta, Insti
| tute chairman, and Dean John E.
i Drewry of the Grady School.
Mr. Mumblow will be one of a
| number of outstanding leaders in
;‘x industrial publications field
> will be on the campus to |
speak at the Institute. ’
" General Motors officers from‘
| (Continued. Omflu!amh AXEA
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY.
ATHENS, GA., SUNDAY, AUGUST 12, 1951.
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his duties as Executfive Vice-
President of The National Bank
of Athens. Mr, Gilmer comes to
Athens from Rome, Ga., where
he was an officer of The Nat
ional City Bank. Mr. Gilmer and
his family will reside at 320
Milledge Terrace.
Athenian Named
Top ROTC Cadet
Cadet Floyd C. Adams, jr., ris
ing Citadel senior and son of Mr.
and Mrs. Floyd C. Adams of Ath
ens, has been designated top R. O.
T. C. antiaircraft student in the
United States, according to a re
cent Citadel.announcement.
Cadet Adanrs was selected Camp
Honor Cadet while in competition
with more than 1,300 cadets at the
Artillery R. O. T. C. camp at Fort
Bliss, Texas, this summer.
An award was presented to him
at ceremonies marking the con
clusion of the camp by Ed Holden,
manager of the El Paso Chamber
of Commerce.
A business administration ma
jor at The Citadel, Cadet Adams
has been elected president of the
senior class for the coming year.
He is a member of the Round Ta
ble, The Citadel’s top honor so
ciety, During the past year he was l
first sergeant of Company A of |
the Artillery battalion. et
Cadet Adams has also received;
numerous other honors in recent
years, among them being election
to the office of treasurer of the.l
Westminster Fellowship Synod of
South Carolina. :
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Clear to partly cloudy and
continued warm through Sun
day; possibly thundershowers in
afternoon.
GEORGIA — Clear to partly
cloudy and continued warm
through Sunday; widely scat
tered thundershowers Sunday
afternoon.
TEMPERATURE
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Mean ..c. seee sses soss pessßU
Normill ... viskßive srne 18
RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours .. ... .21
Total since August 1 .., .. .23
Deficit since August 1 .. .. 1.52
Average August rainfall ... 4.62
Total since January 1 . . 8004
Nwi since WX é'll i 31“
Joy Says Reds Are Playing
Politics In Kaesong Talks
After Hearing Joy's Charges
BY DON HUTH
MUNSAN, Korea, Sunday, Aug. 12.—(AP)—Vice Ad
miral C. Turner oy sternly accused Communist negotia
tors of playing politics with the armistice talks at Kaesong
Saturday.
The chief of the United Nations truce team told the Reds
they had “slammed the door on every attempt to make
progress” in the crucial, deadlocked talks. He qdded: ;
Americans To
CHARLESTON, W. Va,, Aug. 11
(AP)—Adm. William M. Fechte
ler, new Navy chief, called on
Americans tonight to work until
they sweat to save their liberties
from the threat of Communist
warfare.
“1f rivers of perspiration can
save one drop of blood, then it is
well worth while,” said the re
cently-chosen Chief of Naval Op
erations,
“World Communism has shown
its hand,” Fechteler said in an ad
dress prepared for the West Vir
ginia State Convention of the
American Legion.
“It is all too obvious now that
they (the Communists) seek to
rule the world, and that only
strength_can deter them. There
fore we must be strong and remain
strong as long as there is any pos
sibility for the Communists to
capitalize on weakness.
“Our armed forces must be
brought to adequate strength and
kept at that strength as long as
Communist military might is cap
able of threatening any part of the
free world.
“Regardless of the outcomé in
Korea, we cannot afford to drop
our guard for one instant, because
that instant could well mark the
death-knell of liberty throughout
the world. :
“To do this will require consid
erable sweat on the part of every
American. Our factories must
produce the necessary arms and
equipment for our armed forces
and for many of our free neigh
bors; our farms must produce food
for America and for many of our
starving riends.”
Fechteler borrowed an old Chi
nese proverb to underline his mes
sage: “The more you sweat in
peace, the less you bleed in war.”
Fechteler, who will be sworn in
as Chief of Naval Operations
Thursday said he was “completely
in accord” with the major policies
established by his predecessor, the
Jate Adm. Forrest P. Sherman,
Accidents Kill
Two Georgians
By The Associated Press
Industrial and traffic accidents
killed two persons in Georgia Fri
day night.
Mrs. Ethlyne 1. Stage, 30, of
Eastonollee, died in a traffic mis
hap near Toccoa. State patrol Sgt.
G. W, Goss said Mrs. Stage was
thrown from her convertible when
it skidded off the road and hit an
embankment.
Luther Conn, 45, Smyrna ice
plant employe, was found dead at
the plant Saturday morning. Cobb
County Patrolman J. C. Hardy
said Conn, working alone, appar
ently was electrocuted several
hours earlier.
Columbus Man
Receives DSC
ANGUSTA, GA,, Aug. 11—(AP) I
—The distinguished service cross
the nation's second highest award
for bravery in battle, was award
ed te SFC. Woodrow L. Weaver of
Columbus, Ga., at impressive cere- |
monies at Camp Gordon today. '
The presentation was made by
Brig. Gen. Robert A. Willard,
commanding General of the Signal
Corps training center.
The award was made for SFC
Willara’s bravery in action on
March 23, 1951, according to the
accompanying citation. when an
attack on a hill in Korea faltered,
Sgt. Weaver left cover and ad
vanced along despite heavy ene
my grenade and rifle fire. He |
tossed grenades into enemy posi- ‘
tions and killed several Chinese
Reds in hand-to-hand combat. He
then continued toward the crest of l
the hill, neutralizing other enemy
positions as he advanced. |
The citation said that his actions |
so inspired the remainder of his
company that his comrades
stormed the hostile positions, over
whelming the enemy troops and
Mfifl!q%?fifi%‘.‘!fimumm
“You did not come here to stop
the fighting. You did not come
here to negotiate an armistice. You
came here to state your price—
your political price for which you
are willing to sell the people of
Korea a temporary respite from
pain.”
No Agreement
Saturday’s two-hour, 20 min
ute 21st session broke up without
any agreement, except to meet
again today at 11 a. m., (8 p. m,,
EST, Saturday.) :
\ Lt. Gen. Nam I, chief Red del
egate, left the conference house in
| a hult,
Joy addressed his strong re
marks directly at Nam for the Red
delegation’s stubborn refusal to
discuss a compromise on a demili
tarized buffer zone. Nam insists
that the military dividing line be
parallel to the former boundary
between North and South Korea.
The Peiping radio, in a dispatch
datelined Pyongyang, asserted the
Allied delegation ‘“avoided mak
ing any reply to General Nam Il's
strong, straightforward reproach
and criticism.”
The broadcast said Nam criti
cized the U, N. truce team for “a
rash and irresponsible attitude”
on the buffer zone issue.
The Allied delegation wants a
zone generally following the pre
sent battlefront, most of which is
inside North XKorea. However,
Joy has told the Reds the U. N. is
willing to discuss “possible ad
justments.”
.It was Nam Il's refusal to com
ment on any adjustments that
precipitated two hours and 11
minutes of ynbroken silence dur
ing Friday’s meeting.
Agenda Approval
Thus far agreement has been
reached on only one agenda item—
approval of the agenda itself. The
buffer zone issue is item two.‘
There are three others: A system
of inspection behind rival lines,
exchange of prisoners of war, and
recommendations for eventual
withdrawal of foreign troops from
Korea.
Brig. Gen. William P. Nuckols,
Allied briefing officer, told cor
respondents that Admiral Joy’s
statement at Saturday’s session
was a strong attack on “the ul
terior reasons” for Communist at
tendance at the truce talks,
Nuckols said “there was almost
an absence of atmosphere” during
Saturday’s meeting.
“It was a thoroughly deadpan
conference on both sides,” he com~
mented.
However, Nuckols described
Joy’s statement as a “departure
from the normally well-tempered,
coldly logical phraseology” the
admiral has used in previous
meetings.
Nuckols declined to remark on
chances for an easing of the dead
lock. He said Nam Il “appeared
angry” when the conference ad
journed and—as a parting shot—
said the Communists would con
tinue to insist on parallel 38 for a
buffer zone.
Cities Baftle
Over Rebel Hero
WINCHESTER, Va., Aug. 11—
(AP) — You think the Korean
peace talks are going awfully
tough.
Well, the word “truce” hasn’t
even bobbed up in the “war” that’s
flaring hotly between a couple of
southern towns over the remains
of a noted Revolutionary war he-l
ro.
Furthermore, therz’s no sign of |
a give-in from either side in the
struggle between this Shenandoah
valley town and Cowpens, S. C.,
over General Daniel Morgan's be~
loved remains, reposing nigh on
150 years in Winchester’s Mt, He
bron cemetery,
« The Winchester folk say the
general’'s body won’t be moved.
The Cowpens people say it will.
Today’s communique brought
Governor James F. Byrnes of
South Carolina into the fray on
the Cowpenners’ side. The former
Secretary of State apparently was
pressed into the battlie to “neutra
lize” Winchester’s strongest rein
forcement, Senator Harry F. Byrd
(D.-Va.). .
Byrnes reckoned “it would be |
fitting to have the remains of
General Morgan interred at Cow-l
pens battlefield, the scene of his
great military achievement.” l
Winchester, mad over the Cow=
pens’ effort, say they’ll never agree
to the removal of Morgan’s re
mains. Why, they ask, should
they accede to the South Carolin
ians’ demands when the general
lived most of his life in Wfich&
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THE GENERAL AND THE ADMIRAL—In a visit to the
United Nations peace camp in Korea, General Matthew
KRidgway (left) confers with Vice Admiral C. Turner
Joy, the chief UN negotiator to the Kaesong peace talks.
The talks are now reported to be stalled over the Com
munists’ insistence that nothing shall be discussed but
the buffer zone.—(NEA Telephoto.)
Violation Of Price
Ceilings Investigated
WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.—(AP)—Price Enforcement
Director Edward P. Morgan said today he is investigating
50 major cases of alleged price ceiling violations that eould
result in the return of $10,000,000 to the government and
consumers.
Rep. Curtis (R-MO.) meanwhile
accused the administration of
scz_lmping the price control job and
sgld its predictions of a five to
eight per cent rise in living costs
was a delibefate encouragement to
“gcare buying.”
Morgan said details on the 50
cases could not be disclosed at this
time, but h%anmd many involve
some of the largest business con
cerns in the country. He said one
case “has possible International
ramifications and involves about
$5,000,000 in illegal profits.”
Force Restitution
In many cases, Morgan said, the
price agency is forcing firms found
guilty of violations to make resti
tution to customers.
Morgan told a reporter that in
July more than $250,000 was re
covered through settlements
brought bout by office of price
stabilization (OPS) agents. Of this
amount, he said $117,284 was paid
to the treasury and the balance
was - refunded to customers by
firmg found to have violated price
orders. Settlements were reached
in 130 cases.
These actions were taken under
the old economics control law
which Congress has now replaced
with a new one,
Administration officials passed
the word today that they plan the
“toughest possible” enforcement of
the new law which President Tru
man said was far short of what
is needed to combat inflation,
Curtis Statement
Rep. Curtis said in his statement
that “it has been clear for some
time” that President Truman and
his stabilization lieutenants “have
no intention of holding the line on
prices.”
Curtis suggested that Economic
Stabilizer Eric Johnston and Price
Director Michael V. DiSalle re
sign “so that someone who can
hold the line on prices and wages
can take over.”
Brothers Have -
Rare Disease
l ALBANY, Ga., Aug. 11.—(AP)
—With child-like trust and faith
in the future, two little brothers
tonight were waiting for death to
claim them.
The boys have an incurable
muscular disease, The brothers—
Noble Bracewell, 13, and J. W,
Bracewell, 10 — have muscular
dystrophy, a disease which science
knows very little about. It is the
,same disease which killed their
older brother when he was 14.
| Their parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Will Bracewell, live in Nashville,
Ga., 73 miles southeast of Albany.
Bracewell and his sons are here
visiting Mrs. Chauncey Owen,
Bracewell’s daughter, and her
husband, who is a private first
class at Turner Air Force Base.
The two boys have never been
to school. The blonde, blue-eyed
youngsters who look healthy and
strong have not been able to walk
| for many years.
Clerk, Atlanta
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Fire Chief Wed
ATLANTA, Aug. 11—(AP)—At
! lanta Fire Chief C. C, Styron and
{ Mrs. Cleo Shaw, a police depart
l ment clerk, were married today in
the Cordon Street Baptist Church.
Styron is 64; the bride, 45. It
! was the second marriage for each.
Officiating at the informal cere
mony was the Rev. D. J. Evans.
Only attendant was the bride’s
daughter, Barbara, 18.
The newly weds left immediate
1y after the ceremony for a wed
dlnzctrip to Grand Rapids, Mich.,
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Stephen Early,
FDR Pressman,
Taken By Death
By J. W. DAVIS
WASHINGTON, Aug. 11—(AP)
—Stephen T. Early, who served as
press secretary to Franklin D.
Roosevelt all the 12 years of the
New Deal, died today of a heart
attack at the age of 61.
Death came to Mr. Roosewvelt’s
good friend and close adwisor at
George Washington University
Hospital. It was announced, fit
tingly, through the White House
where he had served until he left
a few months after Mr. Roosevelt’'s
death in 1945.
Mrs. Early and their three fl
dren, Stephen T., Helen
and Thomas Augustus, were pre
sent when Early died. He had suf
fered one heart attack last Tuesday
and another one late this momrning,
dying a half hour later.
Truman Tribute
President Truman, in a state
ment, paid tribute to Early as “a
true patriot” who “was always at
the side of President Rooseveilt
ag secretary, friend and sagacious
adviser.”
For himself, Mr. Truman said, “I
shall hold his memory im Ilast
graditude and appreciation™ for
what he did to help Mr. Truman in
temporary White Houss service
and as Deputy Secretary of De
fense.
The President said Early gave the
best years of his life to the pub
lic service, and he summed up:
“Honest, honorable, forthright—
irascible sometimes but never vin
dictive and always just—he had
vision as well as courage and a
rare faculty of seeing all things in
due proportion and through to
their logical sequence.”
Secretary of Defense Marshall
said “he served his country faith
fully for many years” and “we owe
him a debt of gratitude for his
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ke Inspecting
Defense Forces
FUERSTENFELDBRUCK, Ger
many, Aug. 11—(AP) — Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower came to
Germany today for a nine-day va
cation and inspection of American
defense forces facing the east.
Accompanied by Mrs. Eisen
hower, the Atlantic pact comman
der flew first to this big U. 8. jet
air base, from where Nazi fighter
planes once took off to combat
Allied bombers, ,
“The last thing I'm going to do
is spoil such a good show with
a speech,” Eisenhower said after
being introduced by Col. Rebert
Scott, the wing commander.
When Lt. ¥obert W. Merek of
Bishooville, 8. C., told the general
he had recently been forced to
ditch hig jet in the Mediterranean,
Eisenhower smilingly quipped:
“Don’t make a practice of that.”
The general and Mrs. Eisen:
hower, sccompanied by her moth
er, Mrs, John 8. Doud, lster mo
tored to Garmhch—w
pean playground” for an
troops.
Officials said they will rest there
this ‘weekend.
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