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By WILLIAM L. RYAN
Associated Press Foreign News Analyst
YX7EST GERMANY'S 25
if decision this weekend. If they turn to neutralism,
the hand of the Soviet Union is strengthened in the global
cold war. If they reject Soviet lures and blandishments,
they will boost the sagging fortunes of European unity.
In many respects, this is the most important European
election since the end of World War II. Germany's role in
plans for European defense, and thus the whole future of
the European Defense Community, hangs upon the out
come.
There can be only one of two
Immediate results. Hither Chan
cellor Konrad Adenauer will be
given sufficient support to form
another government or the reins
will be turned over to the lead
ership of the Social Democrats.
They are the two giants in the
struggle. In any case, the win
ning side probably will have to
form a coalition ' government,
since neither seems likely to get
an absolute
majority..
Adenuer now
has a worka
ble coalition
with the Free
Democratic
Party and the
GermanParty.
The Social
Democrats are
far from pro
Soviet. The
important
thing to the
West, however, is that they are
opposed to the integration of
West Germany in plans for Eu
ropean defense, contending that
this will finalize the split of Ger
many between East and West.
They have been obviously im
pressed by Soviet gestures and
express belief that they could
deal with the Russians on the
issue of re-unifying Germany,
One Bed Purpose
The Soviet Union has made
perfectly clear what its object is
in this election. It is to draw
support away from Adenauer by
any means available even to
the infiltration of young toughs
from the East Zone to riot and
scare voters away from the polls.
The immediate object is simply
to get Adenauer and his Chris
tian Democrats defeated.
If Adenauer is turned away,
with repudiation of his policy of
cooperation with the West and
stubborn resistance to Soviet de
mands, another Rapallo may be
in the offing, perhaps with even
greater impact than the first.
The treaty of Rapallo came
about in 1922 in the days when
Europeans were getting their
first taste of what it meant to
seek a way of life with the So
viet Union.
At that time, a European con
ference had been convoked at
Genoa. Italy, on general interna
tional problems of the day. But
the Germans and the Russians
got together separately at Ra
pallo. They signed a separate
agreement, mutually giving up
World War I reparations claims
and resuming full diplomatic
ties.
Power Politics
That was only a few years
after the first big German de
feat, and the Germans already
were playing power politics. The
action wrecked the Genoa parley
and paved the way far future
events leading up to Nazism and
World War IL
The man who was Germany's
chancellor then is back in the
picture today, apparently lean
ing to the Communist side. He is
Joseph Wirth. founder of a new
party called "The League of
Germans for Unity, Peace and
Freedom. One of its leaders is
Wilhelm Elfes, who was ousted
by the Christian Democrats for
his pro-Communist views.
The group speaks for German
neutralism,, which is precisely
what Moscow wants to inspire
fmnng West Germans.
Splinter Groups
Should the Social Democrats
emerge dominant, they might
find themselves faced with a
balance of power in the hands
of splinter groups, including
parties like Wirth's and extreme
right-wing anti-Western parties.
The Communists, who now
have only 14 seats in the Bunde
stag, the lower house of Parlia
ment, may wind up with even
less in this election in which all
484 seats are at stake. This does
not seem to be their primary
concern.
The goaldefeat of Adenauer
by any means is underscored by
the recent Soviet moves concern'
ing Germany, all keyed for their
effect on the election. The na
tionalist hopes of Germans as
expressed bv their eacerness for
reunification then would come
into play to complete the neu
tralization process and the
wrecking of the European com
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million voters make a fateful
TV
Color En Route
The National Broadcasting Co.
telecast a puppet show in color
on its nationwide network: re
cently but home set owners saw
the usual black and white ver
sion. - .
The experimental telecast dem
onstrated the compatibility of
new color standards the Fed
eral Communications Commis
sion plans to adopt soon their
ability to produce good quality
black and white pictures on
present type sets, as well as col
or on color sets.
Only a handful of color sets
are in existence so far. The ex
perimental telecast was re
ceived by six color sets in the
Center Theater in Manhattan.
Thus far only ode station
WNBT has been equipped to re
lay the full color portion of the
signal but an NBC spokesman
said that 55 affiliated stations
already have signed up for color
equipment.
Experimental color pre
mieres" of major NBC shows is
to start Sept. 28. The Rose Bowl
game on New Year's Day is one
of the events NBC will telecast
in color.
The Columbia Broadcasting
System plans to start experi
mental telecasts in color by mid'
September.
On Oct 21 CBS and the Amer
ican Cancer Society will start a
series of color TV. programs for
the medical profession dealing
with detection, diagnosis and
treatment of cancer.
The series of 30 one-hour pro
Crams will be sent over a closed
circuit to medical centers in
New York, Boston, Philadelphia,
Pittsburgh, Detroit and Toledo,
Ohio.
Six-by-four-foot screens will
be used for reception. The pro
grams will be telecast from spe
cially constructed studios in
Wew York's Memorial Cancer
Center.
TRAFFIC: Safer This Year
Death Toll Down
The Labor Day weekend is
the. last big travel splurge of
the year when the massed pant
of engine exhausts is lethal and
terrifying.
On the holiday eve, the Na
tional Safety Council reported
that vacation motorists drove a
little more cautiously this sum
mer. During May, June and
July the heavy tourist months
the nation's traffic death toll
fell 1 per cent below the total
for the corresponding period a
year ago.
The council said this was ex
ceptional in view of the steady
rise in traffic volume and the
axiom that "more travel means
more auto deaths."
By contrast, the four preced-
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Quotes
Attorney General Herbert
Brownell Jr.: Domestic
Communists are "a greater
menace now than at any
time. I suppose there are
more in labor unions than
anywhere else."
Vice President Nixon:
The decision to go into
Korea was right because
the Communists had to be
stopped. On this issue Presi
dent Truman was right and
he deserves credit for mak
ing that decision."
iag months of January through
April recorded a 5 per cent rise
in traffic deaths over the same
period in 1952. The net result
was a 2 per cent increase for
the first seven months of this
year 20,420 fatalities compared
with 19,950 last year.
Mileage figures the real key
in the . death rate show that
travel during the first six
months was 6 per cent greater
than last year, setting a record
half-year mileage death rate of
6.5 deaths per 100 million miles.
The previous low of 6.7 was set
in 1952.
The council said perfect rec
ords with no deaths reported for
the first seven months were
achieved by 116 cities. Largest
of these are Mt. Vernon, N. Y.;
Lakewood, Ohio, and Raleigh,
N. C
COST OF UY1NO
ARTS &
New Goal
The doctor of tomorrow may
be more concerned with helping
his patients to live a better
rather than a longer life.
Canada's Deputy Minister of
Health G.D.N. Cameron told the
19th International Physiological
Congress in Montreal that the
time is approaching when med
ical science will have to reassess
its chief function.
"The struggle through history
has been to lengthen life. Cam
eron said. "Perhaps it is time
that emphasis is put on a better
life."
GG for Jaundice
Successful use of gamma glob
lin in arresting the spread of
yellow jaundice in families was
reported by three doctors at
Harvard Medical SchooL
The doctors said the disease
was stopped "dead in its tracks"
when gamma globulin was ad
ministered to all members of a
family immediately after one
member was stricken. In fam
ilies not given GG after one
member became ill with the
disease, 48 per cent developed
additional cases, the doctors
said.
The three doctors, Benjy F.
Brooks, David Yi-yung Hsia and
Sidney S. Gellis, studied the dis
ease in 81 families at the Chil
dren's Medical Center and Beth
Israel Hospital, Boston.
Gamma globulin, taken from
whole blood, has been used ex
tensively this year to combat in
fantile paralysis.
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SCIENCES
Rheumatism
Rheumatism leads all other
diseases in crippling and in eco
nomic loss, two American physi
cians told the International
Congress of Rheumatic Diseases
in Geneva, Switzerland.
Doctors Howard A. Rusk and
Edward W. Lowman of New
York estimated that more than
100 million dollars are spent an
nually in the United States in
medical fees by sufferers.
They cited estimates of the
U.S. Public Health Service that
in 1951 approximately 10,104,
000 persons above the age of 14
were afflicted with rheumatism,
exclusive of sufferers from rheu
matic fever and rheumatic heart
fever.
Plastic Fish Sacks
A commercial airline reports
it has developed a plastic sack
for carrying live fish. The new
device is an aid to shippers who
previously found the transport
of fish by air too expensive be
cause of the weight of glass or
metal tank and the water.
The new device hasn't been
able to do away with water
after all, fish are fish. But the
hew plastic bags weigh less than
a pound, hold three gallons of
water and can carry up to 2,000
tropical fish for 15 hours.
A special solution is used to
absorb the carbon dioxide ex
haled by the fish.
Bathscafe
Swiss scientist Auguste Pic-
card, who took his bathyscafe
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REPORT
down 3,575 feet beneath the sea
in a dive last month off Capri,
hopes to try for 13,000 feet and
a new record soon.
The new dive is to be made
off the island ,. of Ponza in the
Tyrrhenian Sea.
Two French naval officers set
the record early in August by
diving more than 6,000 feet off
Toulon.
The wispy professor, who bal
looned into the stratosphere in
the early 1930's, said the Capri
dive convinced him the cigar-box-shaped
bathyscafe "can go
to any depths."
BRIEFS: Here
The Canadian National Rail
ways is considering changing
the deep-throated roar of its
diesel locomotive horns in order
to stop playing hob with the sex
life of the moose. During the
mating season the bull moose
has mistaken the sound of diesel
klaxons for the response of , an
amorous moose cow with dis
astrous results.
Derby, Colo., had a rash of
robberies recently and Floyd
Sullivan, 43, was prepared the
other night when a sedan pulled
up at his cafe. He snapped the
lock on the door, drew a .38 cal
iber pistol and fired. The car
sped away. Sullivan went to a
doctor. He had shot himself in
the leg.
Miss Dolly Famngton, 17, of
Richmond, Vs., will have to take
another driving test before she
ge' a license. On her first try
last week, her car knocked down
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HEAVY, HEAVY HANGS OVER THY HEAD
Democratic Rally.
Stirs Rebel Yells
By J. M. ROBERTS JR.
Associated Press News Analyst
SHADES of last summer's Chicago donnybrook stalked
the stage this week as the majority wing of the Demo
cratic Party pushed plans for a "baby contention" in the
Windy City Sept. 14-15.
States Righters and Eisenhower Democrats scattered
all over the South promptly announced they weren't go
ing, and displayed every intention of making party leaders
wish they had never brought it up.
The Southerners were obviously just as mad as ever
about the Truman-Stevenson lineup's attempt to jam civil
IKE
Bus President
President Eisenhower was
back at the . Summer White
House in Denver-after a six-day
vacation on a Rocky Mountain
ranch, i '
The Denver routine was busi
ness in the mornings at his head'
Quarters at Lowry Air Porce
Base and golf in the afternoons
The President said he hoped
to stay in Colorado until about
Sept 20. He indicated he would
stay longer if it weren t for two
speaking engagements in Massa
chusetts Sept 21. He will speak
in the afternoon before the
Eastern States Exposition in
Springfield and address a Re
publican rally at night in Boston.
On Oct. 6, the President will
speak before the National Coun
cil of Churches in Atlantic City,
On Oct 13. he will talk at Her-
shey to the Pennsylvania Repub
lican organization.
The President will make a
major address Oct 15 to the Fu
ture Farmers of America in
Kansas City. On the 17th he will
talk at (New Orleans.
On Oct 19, Eisenhower will
make another major address at
the dedication of the Falcon
Dam on the Rio Grande River.
Dates
I Monday, Sept. 7
Labor Day.
American Chemical Soci
ety meets in Chicago.
Tuesday, Sept. S
Pope Pius XII to issue a
bull proclaiming 1954 as the
"Year of the Virgin Mary."
Thursday, Sept 10
Rosh Hashonah (Jewish
New Year) starts.
Saturday, Sept 12
Defender's Day, Md.
Symposium on utilization
of solar energy opens in
Madison, Wis.
and There
a state license examiner, inflict
ing shoulder, back and hip in
juries, i
In Charleston, S. C, the Na
tional Park Service is razing a
two-story frame house in excel
lent condition after being unable
to get even a bid for $5 for it
The house, formerly a lighthouse
keeper's dwelling, was on Fort
Sumter, historic island in the
entrance of the harbor.
An Istanbul newspaper sent
a writer and a photographer to
Juneau! to see what they thought
of Alaska. The writer and pho
tographer were disappointed be
cause they said Juneau was just
like the United States, Indians
were the same as anybody else
and there were no Eskimos.
Alaskans were disappointed too.
Juneauites were shocked to hear
both Turks admit they had
never ridden a camel and to
note they did not wear fezzes.
rights issues down their throats
last year, and about the loyalty
pledge fight.
All of the efforts to bring the
Solid South back into the na
tional party will be unavailing
until the party
organization
takes the
South into full
partnership in
drafting t h
platform and
picking the
nominees,"
. said Senator
Holland of
Florida in an
nouncing that
he would stay
away from
i. M. Roberts, Jr.
Chicago. .
Governor Battle of Virginia
said he would attend the sub
invention, but might pass up
the real one in 1958 if things
didnt chaage.
Political Spotlight
The Chicago rally idea was
adopted by National Chairman
Stephen A. Mitchell with the
idea of making plans and focus
ing attention on Stevenson and
Truman as leaders in next
year's congressional campaign.'
But Stevenson, and solidifica
tion of his titular party leader
ship in preparation for '56, seems
to have annexed large part of
the spotlight
Truman was to deliver the
chief address at the party meet
ing, but Stevenson got the big
billing with plans for a "report
to the nation" on what he's
thinking after a round-the-world
trip. Truman was ex
pected to combine the most tell
ing of his famous whistle-stop
ping techniques for an attack on
the Eisenhower administration.
The whooping and hollering
for Stevenson was expected to
be somewhat tempered by re
turn to his attitude of early last
year, that he doesnt know
whether he wants to be a candi
date again.
G.O.P. Foothold
The meeting has stirred up
resentment against the party's
national management just at a
time when many Republican
organizations are working to
ward what they now believe to
be an attainable goal a two-
party system in the South.
Southern Republicans are di
vided, too. They have a good
many quarrels over the plums of
leadership and patronage. But
they are no longer merely care
takers for a party which they
never hope to see attain local
power. They have a few con
gressional seats, and are busily
trying to get more next year.
In some areas they have turned
to young, progressive elements
for a greater say in local affairs.
In some of the border states and
elsewhere they are even going
after power in the legislatures,
encouraged by the hope that the -anti
- organization Democratic
leaders have encouraged party
irregularity even down to the
grass roots.
The Republicans know that
they will be judged heavily in
1954 as to whether; without Ei
senhower's name at the head of
the ticket, they can hold any real
part of the advantage gained in
1052, when the Democratic split
handed them 57 electoral votes
in four southern states.
In Short
Or red: Columbus, Ohio, resi
dents to conserve water or face
rationing because of hot weather
and heavy demands of the Ohio
State Fair, which uses a million
gallons a day.
Announced: By the Commerce
Department that national em
ployment climbed to 63,408,000,
a record high for August while,
unemployment fell to 1,240,000,
a postwar low.
Set: By Marine Corps Lt Col.
Marion Eugene Carl, a new un
official altitude record of 83,253
feet in a Douglas Skyrocket
Revealed: By 'Washington for
the second time in two weeks,
that Russia produced another
atomic explosion.
Requested: Of RussL , by the
Big Three western allies, ;. four
power conference of foreign
ministers to discuss settlement
of Austrian and German prob
lems, . around mid-October in
Switzerland.
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