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104th Year. No. 147.
Congress 'Gag'
Immunity Faces
High Court Test
Three Judges Split
On Case Involving
Communist Listing
By HOWARD L. DUTKIN
The right of a congressional
committee to publish any state
ments it chooses, regardless of
the truth or defamatory nature
of the statements, has been up
held. 2 to 1, by a special Federal
three-iudge court.
An appeal to the Supreme
Court was under consideration.
The ruling, believed to be the
first of its kind to come from a
Federal court, held that such
committees have broad constitu
tional powers with which the
judiciary cannot interfere.
The opinion yesterday dis
missed a move by the Methodist
Federation for Social Action to
prevent further distribution of
"Handbook for Americans,” com
piled by the Senate Internal Se
curity Subcommittee.
Opinion of Majority
The federation, with headquar
ters in Greshan, Oreg., had
complained that it was falsely
listed in the handbook as a Com- j
munist religious front. The fed
eration charged that not only
was the listing untrue but that
the organization had not been
given a hearing before being
listed. An additional 75.000
copies of the handbook had oeen
ordered printed by Congress
The federation sought to enjoin
the printing and distribution us
long as it was listed as a Com
munist front.
In dismissing the Federation's
complaint the majority opinion
held:
"Nothing in the Constitution
authorizes anyone to prevent the
President of the United States
from publishing any statement.
This is equally true whether the
statement is correct or not,
whether it is defamatory or not,
and whether it is made after a
fair hearing.
"Similarly nothing in the Con
titution authorizes anyone to
prevent the Supreme Court from
publishing any statement.
Judge Wilkin Dissents
"We think it is equally clear
that nothing authorizes anyone
to prevent Congress from pub-;
lishing any statement."
The majority opinion was
written by Chief Judge Henry
W. Edgerton of the United
States Court of Appeals for the
District. It was concurred in by
Judge E. Barrett Prettyman of
the appellate court. Federal
Judge Robert N. Wilkin of the
United States District Court dis
sented.
The court declared that it is
up to Congress itself to take
whatever steps are necessary to
curb abuses.
"If it unfortunately happens
that a document which Congress
has ordered published contains
statements that are erroneous
and defamatory, and are mdhe
without allowing the persons af
fected an opportunity to be
heard, this adds nothing to our
authority. Only Congress can
deal with such a problem,” the
majority opinion said.
At another point, it said: “The
premise that courts may refuse
to enforce legislation they think
unconstitutional does not sup
port the conclusion that they
may censor congressional lan
guage they think libelous. We
have no more authority to pre
vent Congress, or a committee
or public officer acting at the
express direction of Congress,
from publishing a document than i
to prevent them from publishing
the Congressional Record.”
Cite Constitution
The court cited the Constitu
tion as providing that members
of Congress be immunte from
questioning in any other place
"for any speech or debate in
either House.”
In this connection, the ma
jority opinion said: "It would be
See HANDBOOK, Page A-3
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NEW YORK. May 26
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dolph Rouse, wealthy real estate
man of Washington, D. C.
The Ceremony was performed
by the bride’s father, the Rev.
Francis James Meadows Cotter,
an Episcopalian minister of
Sharon, Conn., at the Church of
the Heavenly Rest in Manhattan.
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LUCKY TO BE TOGETHER—John Bauer and his wife Elisabeth, with their
daughter, also named Elisabeth, were able to smile today after the wife’s close
call during their circus act last night.—Star Staff Photo.
Husband Saves Aerialist as Pole Snaps
Near Top of Tent in Performance Here
A beautiful young redhead
circus performer, working atop
' a swaying pole high in the tent
top, was saved from death or
serious injury during the show
i here last night when her hus
i band grabbed her as the pole
snapped.
Elisabeth Nocks Bauer. 21, was
, plunging toward the tanbark 55
feet below when the husband,
Joseph. 24, on anothei pole, man
aged to clutch her hands.
Their act, called “Daring in
the Clouds,” was nearing its
finale when her pole snapped off
about 20 feet from the top. She
was dangling head down, one
foot through a rope loop. The
act concludes with the poles
swaying dangerously at the top.,
In the normal windup, she and
the husband swap poles.
The pole tops were luckily
swinging towaid each other when 1
her pole cracked with a pistol- ■
like report. a
The girl flew through the air,
Al Simmons
Dead at 53
Heart Attack Fetal
To Great Outfielder
MILWAUKEE. May 26 (A I ).—Al
Simmons, a member of baseball's
Hall of Fame, died this morning
of a heart attack. He was 53.
The former great outfielder had
been living at the Milwaukee
Athletic Club.
A cab driver who brougnt Sim
mons home late last night said
Al Simmons’ Lifetime Batting Record,
i Poge A-12
the onetime great major league
player apparently had been shop
ping. The driver said he entered
the club to find a bellhop to aid
Simmons in carrying the bundles
to his rooms.
The driver said when he re
turned to the cab Simmons had
collapsed on the sidewalk out
side the club. He was pronounced
dead on arrival at County Emer
gency Hospital.
Was With Seven Clubs
Simmons, whose big league
career spanned 21 years with
the Philadelphia Athletics. White
Sox, Senators, Tigers, Boston
;Red Sox and Boston Braves and
the Cincinnati Reds, was re
i nowned for his hitting. His
lifetime average was .334.
Simmons played for nine
straight years with the Ath
letics, from 1924 through 1932,
and for some of those seasons
Connie Mack was in his heyday
as manager and the As had
some of their best teams.
Simmons, whose real name
was Aloysius Harry Szymanski.
made baseball's Hall of Fame
in 1953, along with Dizzy Dean,
the old Cardinals’ pitcher.
Al was a powerful righthand
ed hitter and a scourge to Amer
ican League pitchers. He won
batting championships with .381
in 1930 and with .390 the next
season. He finished second to'
See SIMMONS, Page A-3
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ankle still attached to the 20-;
foot section of pole, which was.
severed from the still-anchored
I section of pole.
The husband made a desperate
grab and got her by the hands.
“It was the most wonderful;
thing I’ve ever felt in my life,”,
she said.
She and the husband slid to
the ground.
The act is billed as the Four
Nocks. Mrs. Bauer’s brothers,
Charles Nocks, 36, and Eugene
Nocks, 22, working on two
other poles, make a switch
of perches at the same time she
and her husband are switching
places. The brothers plunged
head-first down their poles and
raced to get beneath her last
night as the husband gripped
her tightly.
A spokesman for Ringling
Brothers and Barnum and Bailey
said this is the set's third year i
with the show.
This is the fifth generation of
Takoma Park Boy, 4,
Kills Self With Pistol
A Takoma Park (Md.) boy, 4,
accidentally shot himself to death
today with a pistol he found on
, the living room coflee table in
his home, town police reported.
Bobbie Hoch, youngest of four
children of Mr. and Mrs. Charles
I W. Hoch, 7204 Thirteenth ave
. nue, was dead on arrival at
Washington Sanitarium.
Chief Samuel A. Foster of the
Takoma Park police said the
mother had spent the night away
from home and had not returned
; when the gun went off. The
' father was still sleeping when
the boy found the gun, Chief
Foster said.
Tells of Discharge
Mr. Hoch told a reporter the
gun, a .25 caliber automatic,
also discharged accidentally
yesterday afternoon when he
1 was “fooling with it" in the
basement of the home.
Police took the father to the ,
; Takoma Park police .station for
questioning. They refused his
request to be permitted to go
to the hospital to view the uody.
He is 39 years old and a sheet;
metal worker.
Racked with sobs, he was in
coherent during much cf the
; interview with reporters. He did
not make it clear why he had
the gun, which he said belongs ,
to a friend. He did not explain
why it was loaded and in the
living room. He said he didn’t .
know anything about firearms. |
Pin.vine With Pistol
Chief Foster said Bobbie and
the next youngest child, Charles, j
5, were the first to awaken and
come downstairs this morning. ;i
Charles said Bobbie was play- '
ing with the pistol when it dis
charged. firing a shot into the I
dead boy’s chest. The little boy 1
collapsed on a sofa. Charles ran '
upstairs and awakened the old- '
est boy. George. 14.
The father said he was awak- :
ened by his oldest son. who told
him, “Bobbie’s dead.” Mr. Hoch;'
then called the hospital and the i
town police. i
Tells of Party
The fourth child is Wayne, 11.
His father said there vfras a party
for Wayne at the residence last 1
night.
A neighbor who met Mrs. Hoch !
on the street last night quoted :
her as saying. "The children are i
having a party. They kicked me!
out. I’m too old for them." The i
neighbor said Mrs. Hoch added <
that she was spending the night i
in another home in the neigh- j
.borhood. Mrs. Hoch was given 1 1
:the Nocks family in circus busi
ness. The Bauers have a year
old child.
This is the second time a pole
has broken this season. I’he
first time was in Madison Square
Garden. That time it was her
husband who was falling, and
she grabbed him.
In 1952, in the family’s native
Switzerland, the girl fell 85 feet
from a pole. She suffered a
fractured skull and broken ribs
and was out of action nine
months.
A reporter asked the four
performers whether the poles
were inspected before shows.
“You can’t look in the wood,”
one replied. They explained
that stresses are set up inside
the poles and cannot be detected
by exterior checks.
The Swiss pine poles are se
lected by the performers. Eight
were taken along with the cir
cus train this season.
The girl was expected to be
back on the job today.
BOBBIE HOCH
Fatal Shooting Victim
sedatives when she was sum
monded home today.
Capt. Edwin C. Cissel, Takoma
Park detective chief, said police
intended to question Mr. Hoch
to learn where the gun came
from. !
Captive Whooping Cranes
Awaiting Blessed Event
NEW ORLEANS. May 26 L/P).
—“Crack!”. Bird fans start bit
ing their nails'tomorrow and 11st
] Piling for that sound.
When it comes an egg will pop
and out may whoop a new mem
ber of an exclusive club.
The club is Whooping Cranes
of North America and junior, if
he shows, will get Card No. 31.
Josephine and Crip, the pros
pective parents, are hovering over
two eggs in Audubon Park Zoo
here.. The eggs may hold two
little cranes, but they also may
hold nothing. That’s why bird
fans will be biting their nails.
At dawn tomorrow, zookeepers
begin a daily watch. An ob
server with binoculars, 30 feet
away on a 6-foot stand, will peek
I at the eggs every day from dawn
to dusk until he hears, "Crack!"
Then he will wait until he
hears a second "Crack!” the
cracks may mean the world has
more whooping cranes. They
also may mean that Crip and
Josephine, tired of standing
•round infertile eggs, has
stepped on them.
Josephine laid the first egg 30
days ago. The second came four
days later. George Douglass, zoo
superintendent, thinks Junior
may arrive any time after to
i morrow.
Education Plan
Seen Challenge
To Foundations
Eisenhower's Idea
Viewed as Program
For Private Groups
By the Associated Press
President Eisenhower looked to
the Nation’s universities and
wealthy private foundations to
day to take up his challenge to
establish educational centers in
lands which lack adequate school
facilities.
Mr. Eisenhower advanced the
proposal in a speech yesterday
at Baylor University in Waco,
Tex. He said that if it was
carried out "the prospects for a
peaceful and prosperous world
would be mightily enhanced."
The President did not give
details of his proposal, but ad
ministration circles viewed it as
a private educational assistance
program paralleling the Govern
ment’s own technical aid plan
developed under former Presi
dent Truman and continued
under Mr. Eisenhower.
George Praises Idea
Chairman George of the Sen
ate Foreign Relations Commit
tee called the President's pro
posal “a highly constructive sug
' gestion” and said that if carried
out on a big scale it would be
i“a major contribution to the
'peace and the stability of the
'world."
Senator Humphrey, Democrat
of Minnesota, said "it’s a con
structive proposal,” but added:
’! “I suggest also we need to do
something here in the United
, States in training more scientists
; and engineers. This has gotten
; to the point of urgent necessity.”!
; Senator Sparkman, Democrat
I of Alabama, said “the President’s
address is along the line of my
, own thinking.” Both Senator
: Sparkman and Humphrey also
' are members of the Foreign Re
: lations Committee..
Foundations Active Now
I The Ford and Carnegie Foun
' dations, the Nation’s two
’ wealthiest, commented that they
( already are active in the field
’of international education. Be
-1 tween them they contrpl more
1 than two-thirds of a billion dol-
I tars in assets.
President John W. Gardner of
the Carnegie Corp. said in a
1 statement in New York that his
organization “has made a num
ber of moves to further precisely
the objectives that the President
mentions.”
Mr. Eisenhower’s suggestion,
he said, “deserves the most seri
ous attention and consideration.”
Among other things in the
foreign field, Mr. Gardner said,
Carnegie has trained locally
born teachers, aided universities
! to train leaders in public admin
istration, provided advanced
training fellowships and helped
increase library facilities.
The Fora Foundation refeyed
to a May 3 speech by its Presi
dent H. Rowan Gaither, Jr., re
porting that education has
shared with economic develop
ment projects in funds spent by
the foundation in other coun
tries.
Making a point which Mr.!
Eisenhower also stressed, Mr.
Gaither said the foundation does!
not conduct research or build or
run schools overseas, but instead
has made funds for such pur- 1
poses available to public and
private agencies in the countries ;
concerned.
Mr. Eisenhower emphasized
that he was not thinking of
American schools abroad which ,
would have the primary task cf j
exporting the culture of the .
United States to other nations.
He declared that the staffs, the ,
courses of study and the conduct
of each school "would be the re- ij
sponsibility of the people" among ,
whom it was established.
Its purpose, he said, would be ,
See EISENHOWER, Page A-5 i
•| Josephine, captured after a
• hunter shot her. was taken to
■ the Aransas Refuge of Texas in
1949 to meet Pete, another cap
i titve. Two eggs were laid. They
were infertile. So Mom and Pop
smashed them. Pete died a few
; months later.
The next step was introducing
Josephine to Crip. This was done
'at Aransas in 1950. Josephine
laid an egg which produced the
i first whooping crane ever born
iin captivity. But the baby went
Into some tall grass and was not
I seen again.
Josephine and Crip, also
; slightly crippled, came to Audu- 1
bon Park Zoo. They’ve been egg-'
less until now.
Why all this fuss about a long-.
i necked, long-legged, red-faced,
1 white - bodied, awkward - looking
■ bird?
The whooping crane, over 5"
i feet, is the tallest bird in North
' America. But, with only 30 living
I members, the society may dlsap
: pear fast.
i One solution is more little
cranes. Another solution is stay
i ing alive, but the whoopers are
unco-operative. They make haa
i ardous flight* every year from
- Texas to Northern Canada. And
their alze makes them an inviting
'target.
Algerian Action
Is Sought in U.N.
Mansfield Would Leave
Red Visits to President
Let Eisenhower Use Own Judgment
On Inviting Soviet Leaders, He Says
By the Associated Press
I Senator Mansfield, Democrat of Montana, said today he is
willing to leave it up to President Eisenhower’s “own good
judgment" whether to invite Russian leaders to visit the United
States.
Senator Mansfield, a member of the Senate Foreign Rela
tions Committee, made the observation in an interview after Sen-
ate Republican Leader Know
land of California told the Sen
ate:
"I do not believe than any
American President would ex
tend such an invitation or that
the American people or the
American Congress would ap
prove if it were extended."
In his floor speech yesterday,
, Senator Knowland said the sug
gestion recently has been made
by "columnists and commenta
tors” that invitations be extend
ed to Communist Party Boss
;Nikita Khrushchev, Premier Nik
olai Bulganin and others to visit
this country.
Opposed by Knowland
Saying he opposed an invita
tion to these or any of a number
of other Russian leaders, includ
ing Soviet Marshal Georgi Zhu
kov. Senator Knowland added:
“I am greatly shocked that
even some of our good citizens
should be taken in by such a
i proposal.”
Talk of possible visits by the
Russian leaders has been re
vived by Russia’s informal invi
tation this week to have several
high United States Air Force offi
cers attend Soviet aviation day
ceremonies in Moscow June 24,
and United States hints it might
welcome a broader invitation to
include all members of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff.
Nothing further on either pos
sibility has been heard from the
Russians.
Secretary of State Dulles, leav
ing yesterday for a 10-clay va
cation at his Lake Ontario Is
land retreat, declined to com
ment on the possibility of an
invitation to the United States
joint cheifs.
He said he does not consider
“top significant” the invitation
to the Air Force officers, adding
he understands there are "quite
a lot (of these bids) floating
around the world.”
The British announced in
London that they have "under
consideration" a similar invita
tion to Air Minister Nigel Birch
and a group of senior RAF offi
cers.
In Boston, Air Force Secretary
Stevenson, Kefauver
Battle for Miami Votes
By GOULD LINCOLN
Star Staff Correspondent
MIAMI, Fla., May 26.—Dade County, Florida's most pop
ulous county, may spell victory or defeat for Adlai Stevenson—
or Senator Kefauver of Tennessee—in next Tuesday* Demo
cratic presidential primary. It has been called a Kefauver
stronghold. Four years ago, the Tennessee Senator carnecL-it
over Senator Russell of Georgia, then a presidential candidate,
by a considerable margin.
Alive to this fact. Mr. Steven
son and his supporters are mak
ing a strenuous campaign in and
around Miami, the county's bigs
city, so strenuous, indeed, that
predictions are now made Mr
Stevenson will hold a Kefauvet
lead here to a minimum, or even
wipe it out.
This may be mere optimism,
however. Senator Kefauver has
a grip on a number of groups in
this town. Among them are the
Jews, who number, it is said,
30.000 to 40,000 in Miami Beach. 1
Another group is the oldsters—
to whom Senator Kefauver is
promising great increases in old
age assistance. A third is the
Negroes, who look on Senator
Kefauver as a more promising
champion than Mr. Stevenson, j
In addition there are other
minority groups, inclined to Sen
ator Kefauver because of his
constantly reiterated assertion
that he is a friend of the little
man.
May Swing Victory
' Because of its size, Dade
Country’s vote might swing vic
tory in the election of the State's
12 at-large delegate votes in
the Democratic National Con
vention—the big prize which will
go as a whole either to Senator
Kefauver or Mr. Stevenson, de
pending on who has a majority
of the State-wide vote.
Mr. Stevenson has still to
prove that he is stronger against
Senator Kefauver in Dade Coun
ty than was Senator Russell in
1952. A number of reasons are
given why this should De so.
In the first place, Mr. Steven
son has a strong organization
here. It is working night end
day to line up votes for Mr.
Stevenson.
In the second place, it was
the more conservative voters in
the northern part of the State
and the rural voters through
out the state who made it pos
sible for Senator Russell to come
down to Dade County with a
WMAL—RADIO—'t’V
- Quarles told interviewers last
night the United States “will be
1 happy to see anything the Rus
sians care to show us" if the
t formal invitation is received.
s A return invitation to the Rus
sians to visit this country, he
said, "would have to have some
. consideration. This is not just
• a Pentagon matter, but would
2 have to be considered Govern
- ment-wide.”
One Step Along Road
“ Senator Mansfield said a visit
i to Russia by members of the
United States Joint Chiefs of
Staff “could be one small step
along the slow road of trying
■ to reach some kind of under
■ standing with Russia.” That
■ question, he said, "if one for the
■ President to decide, as foreign
policy leader.”
t "If we should accept the Rus
i sian invitation, it would nat
i urally follow that some of their
military leaders would visit this
• country,” Senator Mansfield
■ said, adding:
“Maybe a face-to-face talk
l between the President and
Marshal Zhukov might clear up
■ some of the obstacles to un
, derstanding and revive the
: spirit of Geneva.”
» Mr. Eisenhower and Marshal
who developed a per
sonal friendship as top military
. commanders immediately after
> World War 11, renewed their ac
quaintance at the summit con
. ference in Geneva last July and
. have exchanged leters since.
Mr. Dulles set the tone of the
. Washington attitude yesterday
, when he said that there would
; be no hurry to act on an invi
tation which still has not come
■ * rotn Moscow.
! Dr. Dunning in Tokyo
TOKYO, May 26 (JP). —Dr.
Gordon Dunning, United States
! Atomic Energy Commission bio
logical expert, arrived in Tokyo
by air today for a senes of talks
with the Japanese A-bomb Cas
ualty Commission. He observed
the recent H-bomb blast at
Bikini.
majority which wiped out tile
Kefauver lead here and win an
80.000 State-wide majority.
Senator Russell was regarded
as the ideal candidate of the old
line Democrats and Senator Ke
fauver, as the fair-haired boy of
the New Deal-Fair Deal, more
progressive element of the party.
Mr. Stevenson, it is argued,
makes a greater appeal than did
Mr. Russell to this more progres
sive group. •
Seek Labor Vote
Both candidates are making
the strongest kind of appeal they
can to the labor vote, which is
considerable. Mr. Stevenson had
lunch with 50 labor leaders here
iyesterday. From the applause
he received, it looked as though
he had won many of them to his
_ See FLORIDA, Page A-7
jtruman and Party
Head for Florence
ASSISI, Italy, May 26 UP).—
Touring Harry S. Truman headed
today for Florence, city of the
Medici and world art center, on
his vacation trip through Italy
For the first time in several
days a bright sun was shining
in a clear sky as the Truman
party drove oul of Assisi after
an overnight stop.
Yesterday, the party visited
the 13th century shrine of St
Francis of Assisi. Mr. Truman
commented on the saint: "St,
Francis lived the sermon on the
mount. That's why he became
a saint. Very few' of us do
The Rev. Rayner Ziemski of
Baltimore. Md„ told reporters
today that many of the 1 rlars
at the monastery prayed for the
former President today.
The Rev. Lorenzo Berardlni.
custodian of the sanctuary, paid
a farewell visit to Mr. Truman
at the former President's hotel
and presented him a relic from
the habit 'garment) of st.
Francis
m.
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Asia-Africa
Bloc Calls
For Debate
UNITED NATIONS. N. Y„ May
26 OP).—The United Nation’*
, African-Asian group has decided
to ask the Security Council to
discuss the fighting in strife-torn
Algeria.
■j U Paw Htin of Burma, group
" chairman, announced the dici
. sion after a 90-minute private
. caucus last night. He said de
tails would be worked out later.
1 He told reporters 20 of the 23
countries in the group—the U.
, N.’s biggest—were on hand yes
■ terday and a majority favored
; the move. He added Hussein
I Ait-Ahmed, Algerian Nationalist
spokesman, proposed it.
Other informed sources said
1 12 countries were prepared to
'join in an appeal to the Council,
; only the Philippines and Turkey
; 1 declined to do so, and the remain
ing six lacked the necessary in
-1 structions from home. Laos,
Libya and Nepal were not rep
resented.
French Decline Comment
The French delegation did not
comment on the latest move.
Fiance has been fighting against
a nationalist rebellion in Algeria
; since November 1, 1954. The
French government considers
that North Africa region part of
France itself and holds that the
U. N. has no right to intervene.
Last July, 13 Arab and Asia
delegations asked that the Al
gerian question be put on the
.agenda of the 1955 General As
sembly Session. It was voted
onto the agenda September 30.
The French walked out. They
came back the following De
cember, after the Assembly re
solved to drop the issue,
l! At a meeting of the African-
Asian group May 15, delegates
> decided to seek instructions that
’i would allow them to ask for a
I special session of the General
Assembly on the question. They
, took this course, it was said, in
the belief they could get only
three of the seven votes neces
sary to put the question on the
agenda of the Security Council.
But over the week end, the
Arab League Political Committee
met in Damascus and decided
to press for Security Council
consideration. Yesterday the
gioup changed its plans accord
ingly. Mr. Paw Htin said it did
so because the situation had de
teriorated to a point of urgency.
Puzzled Over Switch
| Calling a special session of the
; Assembly requires the approval
iof a majority of the U. N.’s 76
members in a mail-and-cable
Poll Delegates in the group
have said they think 35 of the
necessary 39 members would ap
prove the idea now and they
;might manage to win over an
other four. Observers wondered
why the group had switched
from the idea of a special ses
sion. which it might have swung,
to that of a Council debate,
which it stood little chance to
obtain.
Ait-Ahmcd's said that even if
the group failed to get the Coun
cil to discuss Algeria, the effort
would encourage the nationalists
and result in "large publicity.”
Then, he said, the group might
try for a special session. Falling
in that, it could seek a debate on
Algeria in the Assembly’s three
month regular session to begin
next November 12.
The group's complaint to the
Security Council, it was undcr-
See l\ N„ Page A-3
President Relaxes
On Gettysburg Farm
GETTYSBURG, Pa.. May 26
(/P).—President Eisenhower re
laxed at his Gettysburg farm
there today.
The President tlew here last
night from Washington with his
doctor. Maj. Gen. Howard M.
Snyder, immediately alter his
return from a speaking engage
ment at Waco, Tex. He stopped
in Washington only long enough
to change planes.
Mrs Eisenhower came to the
farm earlier in the day.
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