Eisenhower Tells American People
There’s No Doubt He Can Perforin
Presidential Duties as Well as Ever
WASHINGTON, UP>— President
Eisenhower declared last night
there isn’t the slightest doubt he
can perform presidential duties
now as well as ever—and “I shall
accept” a second term nomination.
Eisenhower had announced the
great political decision to a news
conference in the morning—five
months and five days after his
Sept. 24 heart attack.
Wednesday night he told the
American people—and the world
—that because of the heart at
tack he is a President under “re
strictions” and “may possibly be
a greater risk than is the normal
person of my age.”
But he added:
“My doctors assure me that
this increased percentage of risk
is not great.” In fact, he said,
some of them think that because
of the watchful care a President
receives, the adverse effects on
his health “will be less in the
presidency than in any other posi
tion.”
"As of this moment, there is not
the slightest doubt that I now can
perform as well as I ever have,
all of the important duties of the
President. This I say because I am
actually doing so and have been
doing so for many weeks. . . .
“So far as I am concerned, I am
confident that I can carry them
indefinitely.”
“Therefore,” he said, “if the
Republican Party chooses to re
nominate me, I shall accept.”
Eisenhower addressed the peo
ple by radio and TV to lay down
the terms on which he can and is
willing to serve them for an addi
tional four years. The Voice of
America spread his words thru
out the world over 78 giant radio
transmitters.
Eisenhower ticked off the re
strictions under which he would
have to operate—a reduced and
shared work load, a curtailed so
cial and ceremonial schedule, reg
ular exercise, recreation, and rest,
and no campaign in the tradition
al style.
Dealing at length with his health,
Eisenhower declared so far as his
personal sense of well-being is
concerned, “I am as well as be
fore the attack occurred.” But
while his doctors have given him
favorable reports, he said, he still
is classed as a recovered heart
patient.
For his re-election campaign,
Eisenhower ruled out any “barn
storming” or “whistle-stop speak
ing.” He said he had decided on
that long ago. Rather, he said, he
would resort to mass communica
tions—TV and radio and the press
—to tell the people about his pro
gram, what has and hasn’t been
done and what he intends to do.
And, the President added, if
delegates to the Republican Na
tional Convention decide they
should have a more active nom- ,
inee, he would accept such a de-1
cision cheerfully.
Iranian Agents
Nab Soviet Major
On Spying Charge
TEHRAN, Iran l/P)—Iranian spe
cial agents arrested the Soviet
Union’s assistant military attache
in Tehran Wednesday night.
Officials said he was carrying
top-secret Iranian military docu
ments and had been “spying for a
long time.”
The Soviet officer, Maj. Ivano
vich Kouznetsoff, was held over
night at the Iranian Foreign Min
istry, where he refused to speak
or eat. He was turned over to the
.Soviet Embassy yesterday after
his diplomatic status was estab
lished. The Iranian foreign min
ister said the Russian would not
have been arrested if he had been
carrying his diplomatic creden
tials.
A Foreign Ministry official said
the government would declare
Kouznetsoff persona non grata
(unacceptable) and he would be
forced to leave Iran immediately.
The documents found in Kouz
netsotf’s pockets included draw
ings of air force gasoline and am
munition stores, repair and tech
nical units and other secret docu
ments.
‘Tt is now revealed that the
Soviet major has been spying for
a long time,” said Brig. Gen.
Bakhtiar, military governor of
Tehran, “making use of Iranian
Warrant Officer Housscin Teh
rani as his agent in the air force
G-2 (intelligence) organization.
Nearly Every Major
Oil Company Exploring
For Oil in Alaska *
SAN FRANCISCO, UP)—Nearly
every major oil company has been
exploring for oil in Alaska and at
least four million acres of public
land arc under lease or on lease
application. This was reported by
Elmer Rasmuson, president of the
National Bank of Alaska at An
chorage.
He said expenditures by the oil
companies indicate a serious et
fort is to be made to determine
the oil possibilities of Alaska.
Welfare Department
Appoints New Agent
At Pilot Station
Miss Mary Elizabeth Jolley,
district representative, Depart
ment of Public Welfare, has an
nounced a change of Alaska De
partment of Public Welfare agents
in the Second Division. Lawrence
Murphy has resigned as the de
partment’s agent at Pilot Station,
and John Thompson, president of
the village council, has been ap
pointed in his place.
The Welfare Department em
ploys a local person in each vil
lage to receive applications and
review all old age assistance, aid
to dependent children, and aid to
the blind grants periodically. The
work of these agents is supervised
and reviewed by the Nome dis
trict office, which covers Nome
and 52 villages in the Second Di
vision.
Newspaper Circulation
Set Record in
PHILADELPHIA, (^—Newspa
per circulation in the U.S. broke
all records last year, according to
the 88th annual edition of N. W.
Ayer & Son’s Directory of News
papers and Periodicals.
The Ayer directory, published
Wednesday, said combined circu
lation of all English-language
dailies reached 55,837,000 by the
end of 1955. This was an increase
of close to 1,000.000 copies daily
j over the previous year.
I The breakdown of circulation
j shows: U.S. evening newspapers,
133,720,000 daily, an increase or
more than 800,000 copies; morn
ing papers, 21,327,000 daily, a
gain cf 90,000; and Sunday papers,
46,044,000, increasing more than
220,000 copies.
JACKPOT WINNER, 14,
SETS ASIDE $30,000
FOR EDUCATION
MARTINEZ, Calif., UP>—'Troy
Fofitner was more than somewhat
disturbed when his wife sued for
divorce. After a process server
delivered a subpoena he returned
home and told his wife Joanne:
“We started without anything
and we’re going to finish that
way!”
With that statement, police
said, he wrecked a $600 TV set,
a living room table and chairs, a
coffee table, beds, dressing tables,
a refrigerator, an electric stove
and various and sundry other
items.
Later he pleaded guilty to ma
licious mischief and disturbing
the peace.
Mrs. Fortner seeks a divorce
on charges of extreme cruelty.
She implies he has a temper.
Spotters Gave
Four-Fir. Warning
Of ‘Enemy’ Planes
COLORADO SPRINGS, Col., <*»
—Canadian Ground Observer
Corps volunteers alerted the
North American defense system
four hours before “enemy” bomb
ers reached the United States in
the nationwide air defense Exer
cise Cracker Jack last December.
This was revealed here yester
day by Gen.. Earle E. Patridge,
commander of the Continental Air
Defense Command. He spoke at
a meeting of national, state and
territorial civil defense directors, j
He said the first warning came J
from observer posts at Port Ra
dium and Baker Lake in North
west Territory, Canada. They
were from R. L. Street, head of a
radio and meteorological station
at Baker Lake and A. W. Morris,
a Canadian army warrant officer
stationed at Radium.
Gen. Partridge’s statement was
the Air Force’s first announce
ment on Cracker Jack since the
exercise. Planes of the Strategic
Air Command, playing the part ot
a mythical enemy, attempted to
penetrate the nation’s air defense
setup.
The Canadian warnings “alert
ed our defenses well before the
first radar penetration and ena
bled the United States to attain
a maximum degree of readiness
for the simulated attack,” Gen.
Partridge said.
“Warning of this type in the
event of an actual enemy attack
against this continent might well
be a decisive factor in the out
come of any war,” he added.
U. of Alabama
Expels Negro Coed
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. I,?*—Auth
erine Lucy, Negro coed, Thursday
was expelled from the University
of Alabama for unproved charges
that school authorities conspired
on mob action against her.
There was no official announce
ment from the board of trustees,
but members confirmed that the
action was agreed upon at a meet
ing Wednesday night. They asked
their names not be used.
The action came within hours
alter U.S. District Judge H. Ho
bart Grooms ordered the board to
vacate an order excluding the 26
year-old Birmingham woman for
safety reasons from the campus.
He gave the university until
Monday to lake the action read
mitting her.
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