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Adlai Stevenson Calls for Four-Year
‘Sustained Offensive’ by Democrats
To Win Back the White House
By JACK BELL
WASHINGTON, Uft—Adlai E.
Stevenson called today for a four
year “sustained offensive” by the
Democrats against the Republi
cans in an effort to win back the
White House.
Stevenson, the 1956 Dempcratic
presidential nominee, said in an
interview he .believes the best
way to get ready for the 1958 and
1960 elections is for Democrats in
and out of Congress to work to
gether.
“We must have a sustained of
fensive throughout the next four
years and that is the best way to
get it,” he declared. “We must
have a broad base of operations
from which we can bring in gov
ernors, mayors and other officials
as well as members of Congress.”
Stevenson said he will continue
to be active as a member of the
party’s Political Advisors Com
mittee which patched up its sur
face differences with Democratic
leaders of Congress in a weekend
meeting here.
Speaker of the Rouse Rayburn
and Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson, the
Senate’s majority leader, met
with the committee and said later
they will welcome advice from
the party group, altho the two
Texans stuck by their previous
Royal Expecting Date
Moved Up to Jan. 20
MONTE CARLO, Monaco, Oft—
Doctors attending Princess Grace
of Monaco again today moved for
ward the date her baby is ex
pected. This time the prediction
is Jan. 20.
The doctors at first predicted
sometime early in Fabruary. Last
week they said Jan. 25 was more
likely.
decisions not to become members
of it.
Stevenson said he thought that
there had been a “misinterpreta
tion” of the advisory group’s role
and believed it could work close
ly with the congressional leaders
without undue friction.
“It never was the intention of
the committee to try to tell the
members of Congress what to do,”
he said.
Stevenson has left no doubt,
however, that he believes Demo
crats should continue to belabor
President Eisenhower’s handling
of foreign policy matters as he
did in the campaign.
Eisenhower Names
Special Assistant
On Middle East
WASHINGTON, UR—President
Eisenhower today appointed
James P. Richards, former chair
man of the House Foreign Affairs
Committee, as a special assistant
on the administration’s Middle
East program. Richards will head
up a mission to that area.
The South Carolina Democrat,
who retired from Congress last
week, will serve with the rank of
personal ambassador, the White
House announced.
Appointment of Richards, who
did not seek re-election to the
House last year, came just 48
hours after Eisenhower had laid
before Congress his program de
signed to thwart any Communist
aggression in the Middle East.
The White House announcement
today said that Richards’ duties
will be to “advise and assist the
I President and the Secretary of
| State on problems of the Middle
1 East area.
Boy Whose Family Moved Too Much’
Admits Knife Killing of Girl, 8
FAIRFIELD, Calif., W—Muti
lated by 115 stab wounds, the
body of frail, blonde Rose Ann
White, 8, was found by a railroad
track here Sunday, 12 hours after
she had been murdered.
A remorseless 14-year-old boy
admitted the crime, authorities
said.
Roger Brown’s “principal con
cern” was that he might lose the
lethal knife, reported Dep. Dist.
Atty. J. Clifton Peterson. Young
Brown led authorities at 3:30 a.m.
to the place where Rose Ann’s
'body was buried loosely under a
pile of thistles and grass.
Peterson said Roger, the step
son of Sgt. Merrill Brown of the
436th Anti-Aircraft Battalion at
nearby Travis AFB, confessed
the killing calmly and' told how
he later went home to work on a
stamp collection and watch tele
vision.
Roger went to bed early Satur
day night.
He was awakened when police
called at 10:30 p.m. to ask where
he had last seen the girl.
Last night in the Solano County
jail at Vallejo, Roger wept a bit
talking to reporters and said he
“wished” the girl were alive.
Roger said his family had
moved many times, requiring him
to transfer from school to school
“so much—too much.” The boy
said the Browns had moved eight
times in Japan in 1954 and 1955.
An autopsy revealed the child
had not been criminally attacked.
Roger had been employed to
take care of Rose Ann at various
times while her mother, Mrs.
Frank White, 33, worked at her
job as a beer parlor waitress. The
child’s father is an airman in Ja
pan.
Roger said while they were
playing Saturday along the rail
road track, he tripped and Rose
rAnn fell over him, knocking her
self unconscious on a rock. While
she was unconscious, officers said
-the boy related, he beat her on
the head with a rock and then
stabbed her repeatedly.
Meeting Tonight
Seeks Hans For •
Sports Fishing
Art Johnson of Unalakleet,
with Tom Martin of the Polaris
Hotel, are heading an informal
meeting of spoils fishermen in
the area at 8 o’clock this evening
at he Polaris dining room.
Johnson is making plans for
the second annual King Salmon
Derby to be held at Unalakleet
in June and is looking for sug
gestions and new ideas to make
the second annifil derby bigger
and better than last year.
He is hoping that sport fisher
men who are interested, as well
as those who have not tried it
but who would like to visit Un
alakleet at that time, will come
to the meeting tonight.
Last year the trips were ar
ranged by charter flights with
Alaska Airlines. If enough inter
est is shown it is hoped that bet
ter transportation can be ar
ranged so that parties may stay
in the village as long as they
want to.
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Central Committee
Backs 3 Alaskans
For Governor
(From Daily Alaska Empire)
By BOB KEDERICK
The Alaska Republican Central
Committee had endorsed three
interior Alaskans for the appoint
ment as governor to succeed B.
Frank Heintzleman, the Empire
learned through unofficial sources
today (Thursday).
The three men endorsed by a
majority of the committee are:
Waller Hickol of Anchorage.
GOP national committeeman.
Mike Sdepovitch of Fair
banks, Fourth Division terri
torial senator.
Dr. Paul Haagland of Fair
banks. Fourth Division terri
torial senator.
The endorsement climaxed an
all - day meeting of the Central
Committee Wednesday.
It is believed the four South
east Alaska member:; of the com
mittee opposed the endorsement
of all three candidates, which ap
parently put the vote at 10-4 for
each.
Hickel, operator of the Travel
Inn motels in Anchorage and
Fairbanks, appeared to be the
strongest candiciate of the three.
His name has been mentioned as
a potential governor since 1951.
Stepovich, a territorial senator
the last four years, is an attorney
in Fairbanks and once was men
tioned as a possible appointee as
federal district court judge in
the Fourth Division. The post is
now held by Judge Vernon
Forbes.
Dr. Haagland has practiced
medicine in Fairbanks the lastv20
years. He was elected to the Sen
ate in the last general election to
fill the seat vacated by Ralph
Rivers, who resigned to run for,
the Alaska-Tennessee Plan con
gressional seat.
Dulles Says Middle East Plan Would
Increase Tensions With Russia But
‘Stop World War III Before It Starts’
WASHINGTON, UPl—Secretary
of State Dulles' declared today
President Eisenhower’s Middle
East manifesto would increase
tensions with Russia but would
“stop World War III before it
starts.”
Dulles appeared before a jam
packed hearing of the House For
eign Affairs Committee.
He was the first of a parade of^
administration witnesses called to
detail the proposal which Presi
dent Eisenhower presented at a
special joint session of Congress
Saturday.
Eisenhower Proposal on Page 5
In an exchange with Chairman
Gordon (D-Ill), Dulles said the
Soviet Union is seeking to make
an “area of turbulence” out of the
Middle East, and he added:
“I think, Mr. chairman, we
must recognize that this action
may temporarily at least increase
tensions with the Soviet Union.”
But he said the purpose of the
President’s proposal is “to stop
World War III before it starts.”
Referring o the proposal’s fight
War Games Will Test
New Concepts of
Airborne Warfare
FORT BRAGG, N.C., U)—War
games opened today at this home
of the 82nd Airborne Division.
The week-long exercise will
test new concepts of airborne
warfare. These will include an
airdrop of 1,500 troops, delivery
of vehicles, equipment and sup
plies by parachute, and a heli
copter raid by two infantry com
panies.
Elements of the 101st Airborne
Division, which were airlifted to
here from Ft. Campbell, Ky., will
join the 82nd Division for the
maneuvers.
lf-we-must proviso, Dulles said
he has no doubt what Congress
would do “if international Com
munism set out on a piecemeal
conquest of the world by war.”
“But until the Congress has
actually spoken,” he said, “there
is doubt in the Middle East and
there may be doubt in tre Soviet
Union.”
Dulles noted that in the Middle
East “there is suspicion against
any outside force lest it be a de
vice to re-impose colonialism.”
This and the other discords and
difficulties in the area make it
“hard” for the United States “to
help in one direction without cre
ating suspicion in another,”
But, he added, the administra
tion plan would “first of all make
unmistakably clear that it is the
policy of the United States, de
clared by the Congress and the
President, to cooperate with the
nations of the Middle East to
maintain their independence.”
He noted that the U.S. would
commit its troops only on the in
vitation of a nation under attack.
And he emphasized that any U.S.
use of force would be consonant
with the actions and recommen
dations of the United Nations.
Jacksonville Residents
Go Fishing for Soap
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., (JV—Soap
fishing was the No. 1 sport on the
St. Johns River at Jacksonville
yesterday.
The soap, cargo of a barge that
sank, began floating to the sur
face in the downtown section.
There were thousands of bars of
it (Ivory). Hundreds of people
gathered to get in on the harvest.
Police reported people in boats
and along the banks were using
“crab nets, dip nets and every
thing else, including rakes.”
Communist Hungary’s ‘New Program’
Would Employ Get-Tough Stalinism
By ENDRE MARTON
BUDAPEST, Premier Ra
dar’s Soviet-installed government
took the wraps off its long-prom
ised “new program,” which com
bines get-tough Stalinism with an
appeal to the West for financial
aid.
The program was issued yester
day from the Premier’s office in
Parliament Building, ringed by
protecting Russian tanks. It was
broadcast as a 10,000-word state
ment over the Budapest radio.
The statement probably got its
final drafting last week while
visiting Soviet Communist party
chief Nikita Khrushchev looked
on. The Hungarians, led by some
informants to expect a “surpris
ingly mild” declaration, were told
among other things:
“There is a dictatorship of the
proletariate in Hungary . . . the
counter-revolutionary efforts by
sons who attack the legal order
and the basic principles ' Of " the
people s democracy nave no iree
dom, even if they mask their
ounter-revolutionary efforts by
democratic slogans. The law will
always punish them severely . .
In an obvious reference to the
Soviet-crushed revolt in Novem
ber, the statement said:
“People of petty bourgeois
thinking or people who were
masking themselves as Marxists
set as their aim the disintegration
of social order and the dissolution
of it whereby they used slogans
like democratization, destaliniza
tion, and others ... It is there
fore a main task to strengthen
the people’s democratic installa
tions and organizations . . .”
The statement said “the gov
ernment is planning talks with
various public figures and non
partisan experts aimed at their
participation in leading state af
fairs with the government.” This
indicated ?ome sort of coalition
government but' did not mention
any non-C^mmunist parties.