President Eisenhowers
Condition Much Better
DENVER l.¥> —President Eis
enhower's recovery progressed
Thursday to an extent where
doctors decided to let him put
his initials to a couple of govern
ment documents later in the
week, possibly Friday.
It will be the first business
transacted by the chief execu
tive since he was stricken.
At the same time, it was an
nounced that Sherman Adams,
Eisenhower's top aide, will fly
here from Washington Friday to
take over direction of operations
at the Denver White House.
Hagerty Says
James C. Hagerty. White
House press secretary, said in
reply to question that the two
developments mean it is likely—
barring complications in Eisen
hower's condition — that any
need for possible delegation of
presidential powers to other
federal officials has about dis
appeared from the picture.
A third encouraging develop
ment was the announcement the
President would sleep outside
the oxygen tent Thursday night.
The decision to let Eisenhower
take the first very small step
back toward direction of the
Demos Express
Election Hopes
SAONEWALL. Tex. i.f—Demo
cratic congressional chieftains
Thursday promised they will not
make political hay of President
Eisenhower's illness in the ses
sion starting in January.
But Senate Majority Leader
Lynton B. Johnson and House
Speaker Sam Rayburn firmly
pledged themselves to a congres
sional program which they hope
will put a Democrat in the White
House next year.
Adlai Stevenson, titular head
of the party, sat nearby on the
shady lawn of Johnson's ranch
home and nodded approval as
Johnson and Rayburn talked to
reporters.
All three Democratic leaders
asserted there was no political
significance in the overnight visit
with Johnson. All three said they
had not met to plot any strategy
to take unfair advantage of the
President's illness.
Sen. Johnson Sympathetic
. Johnson especially underlined
his sympathy with the President.
The Texas mentor suffered a
similar heart attack in July. Trim
and tanned, he looked fit Thurs
day and he was confident he
would be able to take over the
active Senate leadership in Jan
uary.
This depends finally on what
the doctors say about his con
dition at the time.
“There will be no change in
congressional tactics as a result
of Mr. Eisenhower’s illness or
this meeting,” he said, empha
sizing that he had invited Stev
enson in August for a purely
social call.
No Endorsement Given
Johnson also made it clear that
Stevenson’s visit was in no sense
a personal political endoisement
of Stevenson. Without calling any
names, Johnson said that all
those who had been mentioned
as Democratic persidential possi
bilities were “good men."
He said he felt it was his job
“to hammer out a program” with
which the Democrats could win
in 1956.
At the same time he said he
had supported Stevenson when
he was the Democratic candidate
in 1952 and that he would support
him in 1956 if he should become
the nominee.
government, and to have Adams >
shift from Washington to Den
ver, came on the heels of another
encouraging' medical bulletin
from Fitzsimons Army Hospital,
where the President was taken
Saturday after suffering a “mod
erate1' heart attack.
No Complications
The bulletin at noon (.MST)
said:
“The President continues to
progress satisfactorily without
complications.
“After a comfortable night,
the President had breakfast.
“His temperature is normal.
His blood pressure and pulse are
stable and satisfactory.
“His morning cardiograph con
tinued to show the usual evolu
tion.
“This morning he has been lis
tening to music. He also is be
ing read to for"short periods."
A White House medical bulle
tin at 9 p.m. said that President
Eisenhower “had another satis
factoiy day without complica
tions.”
The bulletin revealed that for
the first time the "routine use of
the oxygen tent has been discon
tinued." and added:
Without Tent
“Tonight, for the first time, it
is planned to permit the Presi
dent to sleep without the tent."
Hagerty said Eisenhower had
not had the use of the tent from
6:30 a.m. Thursday, although it
Painting Bought
For $2, Actually
Worth $50,000
HARTSVILLE. S.C. UH — The
painting was old, oversized and
rather gaudy. Mrs. Hugh Cannon
took a lot of kidding from friends
when she paid a Bennetsville junk
shop operator $2 for it five weeks
ago.
Now the Hartsville housewife
and mother of two is figuring
what S50.000 will mean to the
family bank account. That's the
value given the painting by sev
eral art specialists.
Dr. John R. Craft of the Co
lumbia, S.C. Museum of Art said
it is one of an original series of
paintings by Juan de Ribera.
17th century Spanish and Italian
artist, portraying the maityr
dom of Christian saints.
Mrs. Cannon and her husband
plan to take the work to New'
York next week to have it exam
ined by Dudley Easby of the Met
ropolitan Museum of Art.
The S2 purchase has been
moved to a secure niche in the
vault of a Hartsville bank.
is being1 retained just outside bis
hospital room door.
Hagerty said the White House
physician, Dr. Howard M. Sny
der. had informed the president
of a need that had come up for
him to initial two government
documents on or before Oct. 1,
Saturday, and that Eisenhower
agreed to do so.
The matter was put to the
chief executive, Hagerty re
ported. after bis team of physi
cians agreed that he now is up to
that sort of minor act.
Easy Street Life
Unpopular Here
EUGENE — No one here
wanted to live on Easy Street, so
the Lane County Planning Com
mission vacated it.
Planning Director Howard Bu
ford said that in the several
yea 1*3 since the street was named
in a subdivision here, no one had
bought a lot on it. For that mat
ter. no one bought a lot in the
whole tract.
Expensive Loot
Fills Peron Home
BUENOS AIRES l.P Jewels
worth untold thousands of dol
lars have been found in a private
residence of fallen President
Juan D. Peron, it was learned
Wednesday.
The collection was said to in
elude a miniature gold elephant
with emerald set in its forehead.
A detailed description of the
jewel and how Peron got it were
not available. Dining his nine
year regime, the ousted Peron
received many gifts from over
the world.
Informants said a preliminary
inventory of the 19-room house
in suburban Belgrano disclos
ed: 10 television sets scattered
throughout the house. 15 auto
mobiles. a gold and ivory tele
phone receiver, a great quantity
of china, an “infinity” of fans
encrusted with precious stones
and several paintings by Rem
brandt and Velsazqu6z.
Also reported found was a big
elephant tusk studded with
precious stones and containing a
sword whose handle was encrust
ed with diamonds and other
jewels. The walls of the house
were said to be lined with glass
cabinets containing objects rang
ing from jeweled cuff links to
small ivory ships set with dia
monds.
Three strongboxes remained to
be opened, the informants said.
Men Accused of Negro
Killing Now on Trial
GREENWOOD, Mins, (.'ll Two
white men accused of kidnuping
a l4»year-old Chicago Negro hoy
seek freedom on bonils Friday
amid rumors that the boy. Em
mett Louis Till, is alive.
The rumors were not con
1 firmed. Mrs. Mamie Bradley,
Till’s mother, called them "a
cruel hoax."
Around-the-c lock protection
was provided in Chicago for two
witnesses in last week's sensa
tional murder trial of 24-year-old
Hoy Bryant and his 36-year-old
half-brother. John W. Milam.
Found Innocent
A country jury at nearby Sum
ner last Friday found Bryant and
Milam innocent of murdering the
vacutioning Chicago boy. They
still have u kidnaping charge and
will seek release on bond at Fri
day’s hearing.
Contradictory identification of
a body found in the Tallahatchie
river heavily influenced Ihe Jury
in freeing the men. and set off
widespread speculation about
Till’s whereabouts if he is alive.
Dispel Rumors
Mrs. Bradley suid in Detroit
"I am willing to have my boy’a
body exhumed from the vault for
a thorough examination if thut
would dispel these wild rumors.
"If he were alive. I would
know. I don’t know how this
could come up."
President Hinted
Of Possible Illness
PORTLAND '.*> President Kis
enhowpr's talk to Republican
leaders at Denver two weeks ago
indicated he may have had a
premonition of his heart attack,
Wendell Wyatt, Oregon Republi
can chairman, said Wednesday.
He told the Multnomah coun
ty chapter of the Republican Club
of Oregon that the President
said:
‘‘You as state chairmen urging
me to run aguin must remember
that men are frail and men are
mortal. Never pin your flag to
the must so firmly that if the
ship sinks you can't pin the flag
to another mast. Our philosophy
of government, respecting the
rights of the individual, is bigger
than any one individual or any
one party. Follow this basic phi
losophy and the individual that
carries it out will not be very
important.”
Wyatt also said, "We are all
agreed that we would like Ike
to be our candidate in 1956. But
if the campaign would jeopaidize
his health in the least be should
not run."
He added that the President’s
illness "has made our job a little
more difficult. We must get out
and work a little harder."
Nixon States No Change In Foreign
Economic Policy Will Be Needed Soon'
WASHINGTON UP) — Vice
President Nixon said Thursday
after presiding over a meeting
of the National Security Council
that no changes in foreign or
economic policy “are needed or
contemplated in the near fu
ture.”
Nixon talked with reporters
after a 2H-hour White House
meeting of the council, the gov
ernment’s highest agency for
military and economic policy
planning.
Ike Makes Decisions
He stressed that only Presi
dent Eisenhower can make de
cisions on matters discussed in
the council which, like the Cabi
net, is purely an advisory body.
Nixon said his role as presid
ing officer in Eisenhower’s ab
sence is primarily to see that
items up for discussion are han
died effectively and efficiently.
Thursday’s council meeting, he
said, was arranged before the
President suffered a heart at
tack last Saturday and its busi
ness was to discuss things which
would have been taken up “re
gardless of the occurrence at
Denver."
Nixon noted that this is the
time of year when both the coun
cil and the Cabinet begin to hold
regular meetings. He will pre
side Friday at a Cabinet meet
ing.
23 Attend
Twenty-three Cabinet mem
bers and other officials attended
the day’s meeting, Murray Sny
der, assistant White House press
secretary, said it was not un
usual to have so many on hand.
Nixon said Thursday’s meet- j
ing went off “without any diffi-'
culties." Ht* said the council
meetings, like those of the Cabi
net, provide the President with
advice on which to proceed to
his own decisions.
Any decisions amounting to
new policies, he emphasized, will
be made by the President. Nixon
and Snyder both remarked that
what goes on at such meetings
is by tradition kept confidential.
Policy Decisions In
Policy decisions already made
in foreign and economic fields,
Nixon said, are so “sufficiently
clear and well defined that no
changes in those policies are
needed or contemplated in the
near future.”
Nixon opened the meeting
with a proposal for a silent pray
er of thanksgiving for the Presi
dent's progress in recovering
from his illness.
Sheriff H. C. Strlder said In
nearby Charleston he had heard
the rumors Till was ultve In De
troit but "bh far as knowing
unythlng definite, I don’t know it.
"I definitely believe he's some
where, but I don’t know where,"
the 270-pound sheriff udded.
Dead 8 Days
Strider and two other defense
witnesses testified the body
found in the river had been dead
ut least eight days. If they were
correct, the body could not have
been Till’s. He was missing only
three days when the body was
found.
The boy’s mother and Mose
Wright, his sharecropper uncle,
identified the body positively as
Till's. The lad was abducted from
Wright’s cottonfield * shack near
Money in the early hours of Aug.
31.
“Released I t.harmed”
Officers testified at the murder
trial that Milam and Bryant ad
mitted taking the boy but said
they released him unharmed when
they found he was not the Negro
who allegedly whistled and mo
lested Mrs. Bryant at Bryant's
country store.
Chicago police working In three
shifts guarded Mrs. Bradley's
home and the house where Willie
Heed, a state witness against
Milam and Bryant, is living.
In the murder trial. Heed placed
Milam and Till some three hours
after Milam and Bryant said
they released the lad.
The 18-year-old farm hand was
whisked to Chicago by friends
immediately after the trial.
U. S. Combat Troops
Pull Out of Austria
BRKNNKRO, Italy ifi Amer
ica's fighting men begin pulling
out of Austria shortly after dawn
Thursday.
Th<- first contingent of combat
troops to leave Austria will pass
through the historic Brenner Pass
en route to their new base at
Vicenza, in Northern Italy.
The U.S. pullout of Austria
followed the signing of the Aus
trian peace treaty. Some engi
neer and other units already have
been w ithdrawn in advance of the
combat troops.
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