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Eisenhower Teases
G. 0. P. Staff Employes
President Eisenhower, grin
ning teuingly, today told more
than 400 ataff employes of Re
publican Senate and House mem
bers that he was “truly grate- 1
ful” for their promise of sup
port if he decides to run again
for President next year.
But he carefully avoided say
ing whether he would take them
up on that promise. He told the
group that if his remarks to
them were to be worthwhile,
they should not be about himself
or “about my future decisions.”
As he did before their bosses
earlier this week, the President
predicted to the GOP Capitol
Hill workers that the Republi
can Party can “continue to stay
in power” if it holds to the fun
damental principles he advo
cates.
Lays Down Essentials
He laid down these essentials
as what the Republican Party
stands fdr:
1. The “middleway” in draw
ing the line between Federal
and local government responsi
bility to avoid regimentation.
3. Decency and honor in serv
ing the Nation.
3. Peace abroad.
4. Strength abroad to protect
ourselves while striving for that
peace.
5. A prosperous economy, with
opportunity for all to share in
it.
By pushing for those goals,
Mr. Eisenhower said, the Re
publican Party "will continue to
stay in power” because “we will
President Hits
Refugees Law
Wf the Associated Press
President Eisenhower today j
renewed his criticism of the 1953 i
Refugee Relief Act, calling it
“very restrictive” 1 and “very j
awkward to administer.”
This is the law which author
ises admission of 214.000 refu- j
gees and other non-quota im- 1
migration by the end of 1956.
Around 31,000 have been given
permits to come to this country,
but only about two-thirds of
that number have actually en
tered.
Mr. Eisenhower, who pre
viously has asked Congress to
change that law, spoke today to
representatives of 34 governors,
holding a two-day session here
on the refugee program.
Speaking informally to the
group in the White House gar
den, Mr. Eisenhower said the
voluntary work they are doing
to help find jobs for refugees is
not only humanitarian but is
helping “in our foreign rela
tions.”
He said the whole problem of
refugees in Europe has been one
of "great irritation and diffi
culty” and the United States
has made efforts to help ease the
situation.
He said that in the absence of!
congressional action to change [
the law the Governors' commit
tee work is the “best substitute”
this country has in assuring im
migrants that they will have a
job. i
Bursting Grenades
Quell French Riot
ST. NAZAIRE, France, Aug. 2
UP). —Police grenades and steel
nuts hurled from strikers’ sling
shots resulted in 110 Injured yes
terday in a fight at the Penhoet
shipyard, biggest in France.
One striker’s hand was blown
off by a grenade and a police- ;
man’s eye was gouged out. Butj
most of the injuries were minor.
Thirty of the strikers were ar
rested but the mayor ordered all!
of them released.
A building that houses the
Shipbuilders’ Trade Association'
was burned, telephone lines cut 1
and many windows broken dur
ing the disturbance. !
Some 12,000 workers in Com
munist, Socialist and Catholic
unions walked out. demanding
the same wage levels as in Paris.
BRAZIL'S CROP OF COFFEE
ICED UP BY SNOWSTORMS
RIO DE JANEIRO. Brazil ‘/Pi A cold wave haa
brought heavy damage to coffee trees in Parana State, one
of Brazil’s four chief areas for growing the bean.
Temperatures as low as 14 degrees above zero and snow
falls of 20 inches were reported in some areas.
No official estimate of the damage has been made but
the Meridional News Agency quoted the mayor of one coffee
center yesterday as saying half the trees on plantations in
northern Parana were destroyed.
The damage will not affect the coffee crop being
shipped this year, but will be felt when the new crop moves
next July. A Brazilian Coffee Institute spokesman said
reports indicated the damage would be greater than that
resulting from the crop-trimming frosts at the end of July,
1953.
Coffee futures on the New York market jumped the
daily limit of 2 cents a pound yesterday, following the re
ports of the frost damage.
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people that can be trusted with
the running of Federal. Btata
and local government.”
Asks Hard Work
He called for “sheer hard
work” at all levels of the party
to carry forward such a pro
gram. In this connection, he
praised the work of the Capi
tol Hill staff employes.
The group of Republican ad
ministrative and secretarial as
sistants to Senators and Repre
sentatives were greeted by the
President on the south lawn of
the White House.
Norman Wolfson. who works
for Representative Kean of New
Jersey and is chairman of the
Bull Elephant Club, made up of
male assistants to G. O. P. Rep
resentatives, read the President
a resolution adopted unanimous
ly by his club, promising support
in 1956.
Noting efforts “much more
persuasive than our could be”
to persuade Mr. Eisenhower to
run again, the resolution prom
ised that "if you accept the Re
publican presidential nomination
next year, we . . . will devote our
unceasing efforts—our whole
hearted support—our very all—
to easing the burden of your
campaign.”
Many female employes, not
members of the Bull Elephant
Club but among the group greet
ed by the President, joined in
applause indorsing the resolu
tion.
Coolidge Students
Named Winners of
Ford Arts Awards
I Four students from Calvin
jCooldlge High School have re
ceived prizes in the Ford Motor
Company’s annual Industrial
| Arts Awards, including a first
place honor and fIOO, it was
announced today,
j Top winner was William Bowl
ing, 17. of 6213 Eighth street
|N.W„ who took the SIOO and
[outstanding achievement award
i for a silver pitcher in the
wrought metal division.
The others:
Joe Danohoe. 16. of 6512
Eighth street N.W., S2O, honor
able mention for a silver goblet.
Paul Levine. 17, of 525 Pow
hatan place N.W., S6O. third
place for a sterling teapot.
Barbara Savage. IS. of 1317
Somerset place N.W., S4O, fourth
[place for a sliver belt buckle.
Terry Randolph. 14, of 2200
Twelfth street N.W., Garaet-
Patterson Junior High School.
S6O, third place for a single color
printing program in graphic arts.
The winners and Rufus Ja
coby. metal shops instructor at
Coolidge. will receive a three
day. expsnse-paid trip to Detroit
and Dearborn next month.
Jam Delays Bill
Over Girl, 4
A Senate-House fight over the
“deportation” case of a 4-year
old Dayton, Ohio, girl today ap
peared certain to be carried over
into the next session of Congress.
Little likelihood was seen that
a bill would be passed in the ad
journment rush to make Jane
Edith Thomas a citizen. The girl
was born in Trieste, daughter of
an American GI and an Italian
mother. Her father, a native
born citizen, lacked one year of
age to qualify the child as a na
tive American.
According to the Immigration
and Naturalization Service.
Jane’s visa was made out incor
rectly when she entered the
country. It was suggested that
Jane go to Canada and re-enter
“legally."
The Senate and House each
have passed bills to declare her a
citizen and spare her the trip to
Canada. But neither side will
agree to the other’s version.
The House bill applies only
to Jane; the Senate measure to
all small children in Jane's cir
cumstance.
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MOSQUE BECOMES APARTMENT HOUSE—The most
beautiful mosque Father Bissonnette saw in Central Asia
had been converted into an apartment house for poor
Jews in the most impoverished quarter of Bokhara. The
'blue tile domes, crowned with storks' nests, and the gold
leaf designs below them give some Idea of its former
splendor. The hole In the yard is an open cesspool.—
North American Newspaper Alliance Photo.
TOURING INSIDE RUSSIA
Rail Track Laid in Asia
With Ties Already On
By FATHER GEORGES
BISSONNETTE
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! NEW YORK. Aug. 2—l went
to Samarkand’s railroad station
to get the tickets for Kagan-i
Bokhara. A long line of people
waited before a closed window.;
After 10 minutes, a militiaman
stepped into the room, scanned
the queue and told me to fol-i
low him.
He pounded on the ticket
window. It opened and a
young Russian girl said. “It is
not yet time to sell tickets.
Please wait patiently.”
“There’s a stranger with me,”
the policeman explained.
“Well, he can have his ticket
immediately.”
A commotion started. A sol
dier began to push the militia
man. saying he had been in line
four hours. The crowd surged
forward. I slipped around the
militiaman to be out of the way.
and watched him put his open
hand in the soldier’s face. He
easily cracked the back of the
man's head in the face of the
next soldier in line.
The crowd stopped pushing.
“Niey za shto"—“lt’s nothing at
all”—the militiaman replied to
my thanks without a trace of a
smile.
The Eternal Feminine
It was a six-hour trip to
Kagan. Unexpectedly the train
was heated, which, after three!
days of cold, made us very
sleepy. But diversion was pro
vided by a woman vendor who
brought vodka, bread, sausages
and pastries. She was the ugliest
thing-1 had seen in a long time,
with a mouth full of stainless
steel teeth. She began primping
in a mirror, pulling her dirty
shawl tight over one shoulder
and asking the Russian in the
bunk below me:
“Don't you think I could hold:
my own with the girls in Mos
cow?”
He would laugh and answer: 1
“Sure. Sure.”
Our first stop was Kagan; the
train to Bokhara was in the sta-j
tion. Here we saw something!
which went a long way toward!
explaining the railroad's low
speeds.
Track Laid in Sections j
New track was being laid. A|
big crane dropped into place!
100-foot sectiona of tracks with'
the ties already fastened. Then!
a crew of women would bolt the;
sections together while a hun
dred other women shoveled 1
crushed stone between the ties.
It seemed to our untrained eyes
that track laid that way might
gradually sink or be heaved by
frost.
. The hotel in Bokhara was a
new low in accommodations.
Outside toilets, no running water, j
no heat to mention and a broken |
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[At Catholic chaplain to tfct American
community in Moscow toe two yean,
the Ra». Georges tissoanatta had
unique opportunity to set and study
Russia and tho Russians. Raforo his
eipulsion earlier this year, ho traveled
many th on sands of miles—to tho heart
of little-known Russian Asia, to the
Ukraine, to the Soviet “Riviera." This
article is the third in n sarins of 10
in which the 33-yenr-old priest reports
en "inside Ressia."
window in our room. We sloshed
through the mud to visit the
bazaars. We knew that the rugs
of Bokhara were once considered
the finest in the world.
At the great covered market
which once sheltered all the
wares of Asia, many of the
domes had fallen in. Some rugs
of Inferior quality were still made
in Bokhara, but the Soviet plan
I for industrialising Central Asia
called upon the rug industry to
move to Turkmenstan.
Coming upon the Uzbek thea
ter in our wanderings, we bought
tickets for the evening present*-,
tion and kept on toward a little ,
mosque with four minarets we
bad spotted from our hotel. It[
had been converted into an
1 apartment house for very poor;
people. An open cesspool stood!
in the middle of the yard. Jews
'lived in this most “down-at-the
, heels” sector of Bokhara.
Mosque Now Is Warehouse
;! Latqr. we visited “A1 Khalan”
—which a guide we had hired
said meant "Great Mosque.” We
1 were ready to believe that 10,000
I faithful used to gather here to
’ Pray. It was a great rectangle
with the equivalent of three
' naves on all sides except the
front. Now the beautiful struc
ture had been converted into aj
warehouse; piles of bedsprings,;
bales and crates desecrated the
edifice. <
We slipped into the theatre a
,few minutes after the beginning
of the first act. The play was an
. endless tale of captive princesses,
deposed kings, palace revolts, in
vasions by nomads, hairbreadth!
!| rescues and an Inevitable tragic!
lending for all the principal char-i
I I acters. The whole thing was held !
together by beautiful solo and
:choral singing. Better still was:
[the dancing by women, clad in
flaming red and aquamarine
:i pants with little jackets such as;
'bellhops wear. They wove strange*
1 1 arabesques with their hands!
-while sitting cross-legged on the|
j ground. Then they would spring i
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The Plight of a Hit Show
The box-office situation is In
deed desperate for “The Des
perate Hours," Broadway thrill
er which opened less than six
months ago to . rave reviews.
Despite the play’s critical ac
claim. it is drawing meager
bouses these nights. It hasn’t
any “cushions” to see it through
until fall. The cast has worked
on cut salaries for the last three
weeks and the atmosphere back
stage is poisonous, Karl Mal
den, star of the cops and rob
bers drama, has announced he’s
quitting as of August IS. There
is little likelihood that the show
will run beyond that date. Who
or what's to blame? Well, the
embittered principals say it’s a
classic case of mismanagement.
They contend their bread-and
butter vehicle—a sure-fire mil
lion-dollar hit on opening night
—was never properly advertised
or ballyhooed.
** * *
The actors contend that the
show's producers, after reading
what the delighted critics had
to say, promptly decided to hold
their promotion budget to pea
nuts. The managers said to heck
with spending heavy dough for
newspaper and magazine ads or
for posters in hinterland hotel
lobbies and transportation ter
minals They thought word-of
mouth plufg, plus the reviews
would keep them going a year or
more. The result? New York’s
visitors simply haven’t heard of
the show. They don’t know it’s
around. Another management
boner, according to the case, was
in the set design. A change was
needed to avoid closing off 150
theater seats, but the alteration
wasn’t made. The result was a
$3,000-a-week loss in the early
weeks when the show was sell
ing out. If, as the actors say, it's
too late to save “Hours.” one
playgoer's advice is; Hurry,
hurry. It's a wonderful show.
See it before it goes.
Dr. Schweitzer, 80, Insists
He Needs No Glasses Yet
BORDEAUX. France. Aug. 2
(A*). —Dr. Albert Schweitzer today
returned to France from his
jungle hospital and told reporters
he could not understand how
reports that his eyesight was fail
ing got started.
The 80-year-old organist, phi
losopher. physician and Nobel
peace prize winner for 1952, aald
he planned to spend the summer
at his home in the Alsatian re
gion of Eastern France. He said
he plans to return to his hospital
at Lambarene in French Equa-j
torial Africa in the fall.
Reports were circulated sev
eral weeks ago, based cn a letter
from Dr. Schweitzer to a relative
upright and begin whirling until
their long black tresses wound
around their heads like a veil.
At Bokhara's Moslem Theo
logical Seminary we were taken
into classes where the professor
! intoned one verse of the Koran
and his pupils repeated it’after
[him. Then we sat in on classes
on Parsee syntax and Moham
medan law.
The professors, six old men
with long beards and very kind
faces, spoke to us through the
Russian interpreter. Some 75 *
future Imam (clergymen) pre
pared themselves in this school
and came from all over Central *
Asia and Khazakst&n. Any man
who wished could come to the i
“seminary.” and if he succeeded i
In satisfying his professors he:
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Broadway Press Agent Larry
Fields reports he’s raised $20,000
of the SIOO,OOO he needs to stage
bullfights in this country. He
thinks Americans are bored with
sissy stuff like baseball and box
| ing and will welcome a little gen
uine death in the afternoon. Al
* though a local boy. Fields hasn’t
much hope of establishing a plaza
de toros In New York. “Eastern
ers simply are not ready for it,”
; he shrugs, and he says he’ll start
* operations this spring in a West
’ ern State, probably in Nevada,
> where “they’ll stand for any
* thing." He promises the ASPCA
, and other humane society groups
. a rough go. He argues that
“those who want to see bullfights
should not be chained by a
; squeamish few who would rather
imagine themselves in the role
of bull instead of matador.”
Fields, 26, has never seen a bull
fight.
*♦ * *
I liked New York's quiet, old
type street signs. I could usually
read tyiem. too. Now they are be
ing replaced with big bold signs
as loud as Buddy Hackett’s socks.
' I blame Robert Moses for this. I
don’t blame Robert Wagner or
' Hulan Jack or Louis Cieffl or
anybody else but Moses. I know
1 that any. change around here
' since Mrs. Murray entertained
1 the British has been due to
* Moses. Esthetically, be runs this
i town. I don't like those new
■ Moses billboards out at Jones
* Beach, either, the ones about
* how our “lawless minorities” and
i "hoodlums” are messing up the
i place. Sure, everybody loves
Jones Beach and we'd like to
' see it as clean and pretty as al
ways. but how about those of
i fensive 24-sheet eyesores? And
* ain’t it fine that the current
, Moses doesn’t write on stone
. tablets? We’d be out of stone
in no time.
in Alsace, that failing eyesight
had forced him to restrict some
of his activities.
Today he said:
“I don't understand how any
one could have written such
things. It is true that I must
husband my eyesight, because I
read a great deal But the day
when I would need glasses has
not yet arrived. Moreover, it is
not my health that counts but
that of others.”
Dr. Bchweitzer said he hopes
to visit Great Britain and Hoi-
I land during the summer but that
no dates have been set.
! “You see, st my age. one can
not cut up his life like a cake,”
he said.
had the necessary qualifications,
he was accepted and taught.
Upon leaving we could write
truthfully in the guest book that
it had been a joy indeed to find
such an institution in Soviet
Central Asia.
Tomorrow: An Independent
Tribe
(Copyright, 1911 ft. by North Amerieon
Nswpopor Alliance)
Coffee With Shave
Barbers in Granada, Spain,
are irate about a case proprietor
there. He is doing a brisk busi
ness by offering coffee and milk
and a free shave with an electric
razor for 2 pesetas—about 5
cents. The hairdressers’ organ
ization is trying to figure what
steps to take.
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