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President Eisenhower
Gets Around In Wheelchair
DENVER, UP>—President Eisen
hower, getting around a bit in a
wheel chair now, meets with ^Sec
retary of State Dulles today forj
discussion of what the chief exec- j
utive has termed “the acid test”
of Soviet sincerity.
Dulles flew* in from Washing
ton last night for another hospital
conference with Eisenhower on
iUnited States preparations for the
’big four foreign ministers parley
opening in Geneva Oct. 27.
This is the secretary’s second
meeting with the recuperating
President in the last nine days on
that subject and other foreign
policy matters.
The medical bulletin from Fitz
simmons Army Hospital this mor
ning reported “His condition' to
progress satisfactorily without
complications.”
Three Men In Bush Plane
Unreported On Yukon
FAIRBANKS, UP> — A week’s
search along a desolate stretch of
the Yukon river has failed to
yield a clue to the fate of bush
pilot Garfield Hansen, formerly
of Iron Mountain, Mich., and his
two passengers.
The three men, all of Tanana,
vanished on a 100-mile flight a
week ago Monday from Ruby to
their holne village.
The 30-year-old pilot, who has
lived in Alaska for three years
and is widely known for his own
rescue missions, made his last
radio report about 20 miles from
his destination.
The prevailing theory is that
the plane went into the river,
which is not yet frozen. Drag
ging operations from boats were
added over the weekend «to the
extensive air search by military
and volunteer planes.
Hansen’s passengere were Bob
Swenson and Vincent Olin, life
long residents of Tanana. Swen
son was chief of the Indian tribe
there last year.
Paddy Strikes Out On
$32,000 Question Of
CBS Giveaway Show
NEW YORK, Itf)—Baseball whiz
Patric (Paddy) Keough of St.
Louis has struck out on the
$32,000 question.
He was given a $5,000 automo
bile as a consolation prize last
night as he went down on the
CBS television and radio give
away show, “The $64,000 Ques
tion.”
Keough, a 62-year-old business
man, is the first loser at a prize
level above $8,000 in the 20 weeks
the show has been on the air.
Keough, whose chosen question
category was baseball, missed on
Rogers Hornsby’s best batting
average with the Chicago Cubs.
Three Chicago
Boys Are Beaten
And Strangled
CHICAGO, UP\—A grim force of
policemen and troops searched for
clues in the slaying of three boys
while top investigators said they
may have been killed by teen
agers.
More than 100 men, including
50 soldiers from a nearby Army
anti-aircraft base, began a foot
by-foot search of the Robinson
Woods area of a forest preserve
west of Chicago.
The nude, smudged bodies of
the victims—Robert Peterson, 14,
John Schuessler, 13, and his bro
ther, Anton, 11—were found in a
ditch there yesterday.
The boys had been strangled
and beaten.
Sheriff Joseph Lohman com
mented:
“Chances are, the attackers
were persons close to the boys’
own age, who might have known
them.”
He pointed to indications the
victims had been held captive i
before they were killed—and may :
have been slain because some
thing had “gone wrong” and the
captors wanted to make sure they
could not be identified.
The sheriff noted that the
bodies were “thrown like bags of
potatoes.” He added:
“This would suggest that at
least two persons or one very
powerful person did it.”
Investigators considered, too
that a youthful gang may have
committed a “thrill slaying.”
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Author James Michener to
Wed Japanese-American
CHICAGO, (# — Best-selling
author James Michener, whose
writings often deal with the need
for better understanding between
East and West, will marry a Japa
nese-American girl Sunday.
She is Mari Yoriko Sabusawa,
Chicago Amercan - born Japanese
who is assistant editor of the
American Library Assn. Bulletin.
Michener’s latest book, “Sayon
ara,” is based on problems of
U.S. service men romantically en
tangled with Japanese women.
One of his first successes was a
book of short stories, “Tales of the
South Pacific,” later made into
the musical comedy, “South Pa
cific.”
Miss Sabusawa said the mar
riage ceremony will be held in
the Hilton Chapel at the Univer
sity of Chicago, with the Rev.
Jitsuo Morikawa officiating. He
is pastor of the First Baptist
Church in Chicago.
Miss Sabusawa, born in Las
Animas, Colo., and a graduate of
Antioch College in Ohio, is a
Presbyterian. Michener is of the
Quaker faith.
Canadian Hesitates To
“Explain” Russians
To The United States
SINGAPORE, (if) — Canadian
Foreign Secretary Lester B. Pear
son said today he explained some
of the American point of view
during his recent visit to the So
vient Union but he doubts he’s
up to explaining the Russians to
the United States.
Pe'arson, here on a world tour,
told the Singapore Rotary Club
one Russian official had suggested
to him Canada’s geographic posi
tion should make it the “ham in
the * sandwich” between Russia
and the United States.
To that, the Canadian contin
ued, First Depvity Premier L. M.
Kaganovich suggested a “bridge”
would be a better description of
the Canadian position.
“It certainly is a nicer descrip
tion,” Pearson commented, “but
I’m not sure Canada desires to
take on the risky role of inter
preter in this case.
“I think we have some quali
fications for explaining the Am
erican point of view to the Rus
sians, and I once or twice had the
opportunity to attempt this during
my visit.
“But I doubt if many Can
adians — not I certainly — feel
qualified to explain Soviet poli
cies, motives, facts and actions to
our American friends,” Pearson
concluded.
Margaret Truman To
Have Her Own Radio
Program Starting Nov. 7
NEW YORK, UP — Margaret
Truman, often a guest performer
on radio and television, will have
the first regular program of her
own starting next month.
The National Broadcasting Co.
announced yesterday the daugh
ter of the former President will
toe hostess on a new daytime radio
program called “Weekday.” It is
scheduled to start .Nov. 7 and
will run Monday through Friday.
Aimed at women listeners, the
program will offer entertainment,
household tips, family problem
tips and world events.
Alaska To Have King
Size License Plates
JUNEAU—Samples of Alaska’s
1956 automobile license plates ar
rived here this week. They are
larger than any ever issued pre
viously in the north, being step
ped up to 6x12 inch size which is
now standard throughout the U.S.
The ’56 plates are blue on white
with an Alaskan flag flying at the
left side. For trucks, white on
blue plates have been ordered.
All are punched to accommodate
tabs for 1957 so new plates will
not be necessary.
The Department of Taxation
said approximately 54,000 auto
mobile trucks are now licensed
in Alaska.
Truman Fells In Memoirs Why He Fired
Secretaries Wallace, Byrnes and I ekes
WASHINGTON, UF) — “The im-<
portant thing to remember,” says
Harry S. Truman, “is that the
President is the only person in
the executive branch who has
final authority, and if he does not
exercise it we may be in trouble.”
And so out of his cabinet in the
aftermath of World War II went
Secretary of State James F.
Byrnes, Secretary of Commerce
Henry A. Wallace and Secretary
of the Interior Harold L. Ickes.
They all, in Truman’s opinion and
his own phrase, got too big for
their breeches.
The former President tells the
story in the current installment
of his memoirs, published in Life
magazine. Most of this has been
told before but there are some
new sidelights—notably a feeling
by Truman in 1946 that Wallace
might well become a tool of the
Communists.
Truman fired Wallace for mak
ing a speech critical of admin
istration foreign policy. He tells
of calling the then Secretary of
Commerce to his office and listen
ing to Wallace lecture on “the
beauty of peace.”
“I have never doubted Henry
Wallace’s sincerity or honesty of
purpose,” Truman says, “but after
this conversation I was afraid that
knowingly or not, he would lend
himself to the more sinister ends
s>
of the Reds and those who served
them.”
“It must have been difficult for
him in later years,” Truman com
; ments, “to acknowledge the ag
! gressive character of the Com
munists, but he had the good
grace to express his full support
of my policy when, in 1950, I de
cided to support South Korea
against the Red attack.”
Truman says Byrnes, his own
choice for Secretary of State, tried
to assume the responsibilities of
the President — to make foreign
policy and to keep Truman him
self “completely in the dark”
about developments at the Mos
cow conference of foreign min
isters in 1945.
As for fakes, Truman says the
late Secretary of Interior struck
him as “a trouble maker ... a
scold and a gossip,” but “I was
fond of him, in a sense, especially
because he was not a special in
terests man.”
They clashed when fakes op
posed the President’s nomination
of Edwin W. Pauley to be under
secretary of the Navy—and, says
Truman, “I could not, as Presi
dent tolerate that.”
He said Ickes threatened to quit
in the hope of being talked out
of it—but Truman accepted the
resignation on the spot.
Defense Dept. Hopes
Normal Turnover Will
Cut Down Working Force
WASHINGTON, UP) — The De
fense Department hopes normal
turnover among its civilian work
ers will help it meet a goal to
shave 68,000 civilians from its
payroll without resorting to lay
offs.
Secretary Charles Wilson told a
news conference he counts on a
cut in the civilian work force to
play the major part in a drive
to save a half-billion dollars and
hold defense spending within 34V£
billions this year.
The secretary said most of the
reduction would result from “at
trition” — the normal turnover
caused by workers reaching man
datory retirement age, resigning,
leaving because of ill health, or
dying. By the simple procedure of
not replacing these, the present
civilian payroll of about 1,154,000
could be cut.
MAN SPEEDS TO DEATH
DORCHESTER, England, WV—A
coroner’s jury decided that 66
year-old Harry May killed him
self by jamming the accelerator
of his car to the floor, then run
ning an awl through his heart.
The speedometer of the car,
which smashed into a tree, was
stuck at 77 miles an rour.
Mrs. Erika Wallach
Released After 5 Years
In Siberian Work Camp
MOSCOW, Uft—Mrs. Erika Gla
ser Wallach, who spent five years
in Communist captivity, said
Wednesday the notorius Vorkuta
labor camp appears to be going
out of business.
She told reporters conditions
there have improved to such a
point that prisoners are entertain
ed with dances and concerts, and
have to work only eight - hour
days and six-day weeks.
Mrs. Wallach, 33-year-old Ger
man-born foster daughter of mys
tery man Noel Field, was released
from Vorkuta a few days ago and
is waiting for a Soviet exit per
mit in Moscow.
She said a Soviet officials told
her her imprisonment “had all
been a mistake” and the Soviet
Union sincerely regretted the
error.
Mrs. Wallach’s American hus
band, Robert, lives near Washing
ton, D.C., with their two small
children whom she has not seen
since 1950.
Mrs. Wallach said when she
first arrived at Vorkuta, a mining
center in Arctic Siberia, she was
put to manual labor 10 hours a
day, swinging an axe, shoveling
agd working with a women’s road
j and rail building brigade.
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