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Wednesday, Feb. 17 National conference on nighway safety, Washington. Anniversary (87th), Suez CanaL Friday, Feb. 19 Chinese Nationalist As sembly j to elect president and vicfe president, Taipeh, Formosa. Sunday, Feb. 21 Brotherhood Week starts. Ghurch Laotian defenders fell back under cover of heavy air bom bardment "The war is going fully as well as we and the French ex pected it to at this stage," Wil son declared. He qualified this a few moments later by adding, "Of course, it always depends on who shows up as an enemy." Communist Question This was a reference to Red f "na which had intervened in the Korean war. Thus far in In dochina, Communist China had not taken direct action although it had been furnishing the bulk of arms and materiel with which the rebels carry on the war. Wilson said he didn't think it necessary to eive the French any American aid at a higher level at this time although, he admitted. LL Gen. John W. OT)aniel, commander of the Army Forces, Pacific, might be sent to Indochina to head the s U.S. Military Advisory Group( Negro Crusade there. Gen. O'Daniel was int Negro I churches Washington last weeK, naving just returned from an inspection trip to Indochina. Nor would he advocate, Wil son said, the use of American atomic weapons, such as the 280 millimeter cannon or tactical bombs, because "that isn't the kind of place to use them and the people there don't know how to use them." President Eisenhower said ev ery move by this government in respect to aiding the French was 1 calculated to keep the United States from getting involved in a hot war. . Earlier, Senate Republican leaders had reportea the Eisen hower administration has no present plans to send American ground troops to Indochina. Sen ate leader William F. Knowland of California and Sen. Leverett Saltonstall of Massachusetts, chairman of the Senate Armed Services. Committee, gave this "categorical . assurance' after Sen. Mike Mansfield (D-Mont) called for a clarification of ad-j ministration policy. I U.S. Technicians j throughout the country have launched yearlong,! united evangelistic crusade to "strengthen the spir itual power of America." An unusual feature of the program -3s the recruitment of a million church members, across the nation, to pray simul taneously each day for these objectives: "Human redemption, greater Christian? fellowship, lasting peace, and world brotherhood.' The crusade is being spon sored by the National Fraternal Council of Churches of the U.S.A., idc, embracing 13 Negro church J denominations with nearly eight million members. Dr. J. W. Golden, of Nashville, Tenn., chairman of the Council's commission on evangelism and director of the campaign, said such a concerted effort was essential 'to meet the challenge of our time." "Half pt our people are out of church," he said, "and sub jected to influences that are luring them into ways of un righteousness, ruin, despair and shame.; 1 If we are to serve the present TTfif)fL; W7TMTn IT) HR'nlCs UVllal FK I '?e"s Is About 1 . ' ' " i New Look' En ded OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHS OF PRESIDENT f -: s..C:,-:vi--x-.:..-.x: -: ,. it;.. V ' l " , - -' . :'v - v - V NEW official photograph ((ft) of President TJenorts have been published that the French want American ae and j under God fulfill our niint tft flv th T119 "Flvinp calhng, .we must bring , these Rnvr-Mr" tranennrf nlanM whirh People b&ck tO the church." i i t a. .1 r T . r nave geen iem wem m suuMau tial numbers. About 125 U5. Air Force tech nicians are reported to be in Indochina servicing American equipment. Last week the De fense Department announced it was sending some B26 bombers of World War II vintage and about 200 additional technicians to Indochina. The President said the 200 technicians would not be in com bat and would be brought home by June 15. IniShort. .. - i Confessed: Harold Weinberg, 25, . ex-convict dishwasher cap tured in fa Manhattan basement, to the murder of novelist Max well Bodenheim. Warned: By Egypt's ex-King Farouk from Rome, that bidders on his collection of art and jew elry, pu up for auction by the Cairo ; government, will face legal action. A Eisenhower has been se lected by the White House ,to replace the one (above) taken before his inaugura tion. This superb new cam era portrait is a character study in the fullest sense of " the term. It catches a fleeting mood of pensiveness and dedicated purpose. The arc of stars in the upper right background lends an air of symbolism. The stars are on the presidential flag which stands just behind the desk. ' The photograph was snapped in the White House broadcast room on Aug. 7 just before the Presi dent made a report to the nation on the Korean Armistice. Bv. WILLIAM L, RYAN I ' . Aft&ialed Press News Analyst THE Big Four conference in Berlin may well mark the beginning of the end of that tantalizing ''new look of Soviet relations with the'outside world. 5 ' If; the Russians operate true to form, before long there should be another withdrawal into the shell. They did not go to Berlin to bargain because they had nothing to bargain about. They went there in an attempt to ; persuade as much of . the outside world as possible that they were willing to bargain. Hosiery Tough Sock Problem Men's socks : that refuse to wear out are causing furrowed brows these days in the nation s billion dollar hosiery manufac turing business. I Last year the industry .' sold about 159 million dozen pairs of hose, ranging from women's full-fashioned sheers and men's argyls to teen-agers' bobbysox and infants' anklets. This com pared with nearly 165 million dozen pairs in 1952 a decline of 3.3 per cent. Sales of men's socks showed the biggest drop 6.3 per cent, according to the ' . National Hosiery Manufacturers Assn. There's a .strong suspicion that the decline was partly due to the longer wearing qualities of Ter tain newer types of nylon hose. While older types of socks would, in the course of time, develop holes . at the toe and heel, the super-tough .nylon socks seemed destined to outlast the wearer. To counter this threat to the industry's vital replacement market, the men's hosiery man ufacturers are relying on a for midable weapon style. New patterns, designs and colors are being aggressively promoted; the trend is away from such staple solid colors- as navy, maroon and gray. Another innovation that shows a tremendous sales potential is the nylon stretch sock, which eliminates the problem of choos ing the correct size.. It comes in !a single size guaranteed to fit 'almost anybody. The result of all this, manu iacturers nope, should be a greater variety in Papa's ward robe. William L Ryan CRIME: A Record Year One Every 14.9 Seconds FBI director Hoover reported last week that when the returns are all in, 1953 probably will set a record, high for crime, with a major offense being committed every 14.9 seconds. f Statistics for the first six months last year showed that every 4.3 minutes a murder, manslaughter, rape or assault! with intent to kill occurred. Hoover cited these figures to the House Appropriations: Com mittee while testifying about the new FBI budget f : Cost of Crime ' Hoover declared crime costs each family in the 'nation an average of $495 a year, i For every dollar spent on education, he estimated, $1.82 is spent indirectly paying for criminal activities, and for every Hot Shots The British Brewers Society reports that Britons drank 899 dollar donated to churches, $10 million gallons of beer last year goes to crime. &n average of 19 gallons oer Hoover voiced concern over person. But that's only a drop the increase in the crime ratejin the bucket compared to the among youths. He said 7.8 per cent of persons arrested in 1952 had been under 18 years, 13.3 per cent were under 21, and 23.1 per cent were under 25. The group under 18, Hoover said, accounted for 19.4 per cent of all robberies in which arrests were made; 36.9 per cent of all larcenies, 47.8 per cent of all burglaries, and 52.6 per cent of all auto thefts. Other categories of crimes were rising too but, Hoover said, the increase in juvenile delin quency was the most significant. thirst of old timers, A half cen tury ago Britons averaged 32 gallons a year. ' In Detroit, Mrs. Carrie Wher ritt, 86, who lived alone in a house filled with antiques and junk, was beaten severely by robbers when she refused to give them the combination of a safe in her bedroom. She foiled them but was taken to the hospi tal. Police said the aged woman, dressed in rags, had $291,800 in bills of large denomination and securities valued at even more in the safe. U.S. STARTED ON PATH OF DESTINY 56 YEARS AGO r , By J. M. ROBERTS JR. AP Netcs Analyst FIFTY-SIX years ago, Feb. 15, 1898, the U.S.S. Maine was destroyed in Havana Harbor. And thereby hangs one of the most momentous tales of history. When people don't know where they're going, orientation is. sometimes aided by a look backward at where they've been. Sporadically for years the people of Cuba had been seek ing independence from Spain, until finally a full - fledged rebellion was under way. Many adven turous Amer icans were either fight ing with or supplying the insurgents. The Spaniards had resorted to the most brutal forms J. M. Roberts Jr. of repression. American inter ests were frequently touched. There were other pressures be yond the irritation caused by this, beyond the sympathies aroused for the rebels. Incredi ble as it may sound today, there had been heard even in the halls of Congress, the argument that American business could use a nice war boom. Negotiations with Spain Negotiations with Spain were under way . wflich probably would have produced Cuban in dependence without war. The ' f - - X"i" " ,. " - ' - i" z v ' - -t. v.av4,.;::;.v; iS'V t;- REMEMBER THE MAIN El That slogan precipitated this country Into a war with Spain. The United States planted her flag beyond continental borders for the first time and started down'tht trail of destiny that led to her present position at a world power. The photo shows1 how the battleship Maine Hooked the day ' after it exploded, Feb. 15, 1898. of 20 men killed and 105 wounded. The United States had planted her flag beyond her continental borders in both the East and West. I Stumbled Toward Destiny And she had stumbled onto her path of destiny. Until the summer of 1898 the United States had pursued the insular course laid down by the Founding Fathers. To be sure she had, in 1823, intervened against European expansion in Latin-America. But that .was primarily an isolationist move. United :States, 75 years before, had proclaimed in the Monroe Doctrine its stand against Euro pean expansion in the Americas, but at the same time had prom ised not to interfere with Euro pean possessions already estab lished. But the Maine incident light ed the fuse. Cuba: was liberated. Puerto Rico i was captured. Admiral Dewey rwas sent out to get the Spanish fleet in the Pacific and wound . up with the Philippines as an unexpected prize at a cost The - change in American thinking brought about in 1898 catapulted her into world coun cils from which she had stood aloof. A charge up San Juan bill in Cuba thrust Theodore Roosevelt toward ' the presi dency, -j A few years later Teddy Roosevelt was to send the Great White Fleet first to Japan, and then to Europe and on around the worla, as a demonstration that the United 'States had be come a powerful entity which could not be ignored. . - It was only 16 years between August 1898 and August 1914, but in those 16 years the United States had beer, moving along that road of destiny. For two and a half years of World Wax the European belligerents played first the game of enticing American aid, and then of deny ing the benefits of her commerce to their opponents. - America s position across the Atlantic produced submarine warfare, and submarine warfare gave the wheel of destiny an other whirL A World Power American arms turned the tide of a war in Europe, and she became a great world power. With the assumption of this position came the burdens of re sponsibility. In another war of foreign expansion it fell to America to carry the burden both in Europe and in Asia. Now she, through her position ?f world leadership, hsts become one of the chief protagonists in another war, a war being fought by new bu no less deadly meth ods, a war in which all of her world prestige and all of her economic muscle is. needed. Fifty-six years from birth as a world power to a climactic fight for world superiority. ' It would be idle to take the premise that any of this stems from the siniring of the Maine, any more than World War really stemmed from an assas sination r' Sarajevo. But Feb. 15, 1898, is a date in world history across which the United States stumbled toward its destiny. ( An Rights JUMtiMd. AP Ncvsf atrtj FOR MADAME' HAT' KfiPt . SAME STUFFED DOVE 5CX your Popularity ako x NT I 50CIAL POSiTlOH LOOK SO GOOD f , ! . ' Vmr. Itfwpiii Star A READING IN TEA LEAVES mere is a great differ ence. . ; . ' It was a foregone con clusion that any proposal offered by So viet Foreign Minster " M o 1 o t o v would have a joker of some kind in it The Russians put off; the four power meeting as long as they thought they could and then, finally agreeing to talk, plodded dog gedly on to a new series of dead locks. The only real thing to be gained by Moscow in all this was more time.' What the Russians demon strated quite clearly was this: Their main interest at the pres ent time is Asia and this pre- ; occupation will - continue for some time. This ! means only one -thing for Europe deadlock. . Deadlock No. 1 Could the Russians make any real concessions on Germany? Obviously the only concessions acceptable to the West would be those offering a fair chance of loosening . the Communist grip on East Germany. The Russians were not going to concede that much. Deadlock No. 1 was shap ing up. i Could the Russians offer any real concessions oh Austria? Unfortunately for that little nation, her present situation- one of division among four occu- ' pation powers was more im portant now - for the Russians than at any time in recent years. ' The new stirrings of unrest in' the satellites, dramatized by evidence of open revolt in East Germany, made the Soviet mili- -n tary communications line pro vided by the Austrian occupa- tion essential from Moscow? point of view, Soviet ' conces-: sions on Austria would be wel come; but hi the Jong run. Deadlock No. 2 was shaping up. Deadlock No. 3 The whole Red plan for ex pansion of Russian-dominated Communism was based on the Orient The Chinese may have a tiger by the tail, but they won't be able to let go if Mos cow has anything to say about it There could be minor retreats and jockeying for time and posi tion, but Deadlock No. 3 was pretty much a j foregone con elusion. : s Feints and gestures hinting at the possibility, of peace in the East were to be expected. Armed truce could be achieved in Korea because at the moment it suited the 1 Soviet Union to play safe and retreat But world Communism would not lightly toss aside the 5 situations it had built-up for years those inter-. minable wars of attrition in Southeast Asia, f I was in Moscow at the time the Russians were jockeying about trying to avoid a Big Four meeting. They would have liked to put it off much longer, so they could let the;; "new look" sink in among the gullible abroad. . There was still an ace or two up the Kremlin sleeve. It held out an alluring - prospect to France that the cruel war in Indochina, going into its eighth year, might be ended. A long look at the results of the Big Four conference should convince even the French that if the In dochina war Is ended on Rus sian terms it will be for the price of eventual Red domina tion of the 'whole Southeast Asian peninsula. Trade Bait , The Kremlin also had the bait of rich East-West trade to dangle before the British, though it . would not J be without great . benefits to the U-SJSJt, too. At Berlin, the Russians were attempting to draw to an inside f straight They played the hand close to the vest The card they . sought was a wedge to divide the Western I European Allies from the Americans. With the end of the Big Four meeting; it should be fairly obvious to the rest of the world what the Russians were up to. When the Russians realize their game is perfectly clear to the Western world, the affable smile of the "new look" can be ex pected gradually to fade into ; the old familiar scowL , , A -'.ii i v IMP ' . . : .s ... .. .