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Evodleinice rtoiiflriiies That Voters ShouBd Seec TresodBeeatoall Inleautn cermocates Washington (U.R) Evidence continues to accumulate that the voters should demand a certifi cate of reasonably good health of their presidents and from those who aspire to that office. A question which still fasci nates this political center is: Who would be president of the United States today if the Re publicans in 1952 had nominated and elected Robert A. Taft? Taft died six months after President Eisenhower was inau gurated. FranklKi D. Roosevelt served less 4han three months of his fourth term, and just missed leaving the White House to Henry A. Wallace. ; Johmon'i Illn.ti Eyed The question of the health of those individuals with a real chance of obtaining a major party presidential nomination has been raised again by the heart condition vhich has bed ded Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson. Johnson is 46 years old. He was stricken just as what had seemed to be a hopeless gleam in the eyes of his friends had developed into a substantial presidential boom. ' If Johnson had missed or avoided next year's Democratic nomination; when his Republi can opponent likely would be 'Mr. Eisenhower, he still would be young enough to have his eye on 1960. He may yet achieve it. But the voters will have to be told now, before they go for Johnson, that he could carry , the White House load. Would Persuade Few Johnson's friends would not persuade many, nor would the profoundly optimistic findings of a physician have much weight with the citizens. They had all of that in 1944. There is no evidence nor, ap parently suspicion that Taft knew when he sought the 1952 Renublican nomination . that he was a doomed man. It is not likely that -FDR honestly could measure his own weakness when he offered himself for a fourth term in 1944. , ' But some men around Mr. Roosevelt knew how his health Around Hollywood r ALINE M05IY ' United Pren Cerreteenrfeet Hollywood (U.R) A pretty blonde singer came up today with an inspiration to improve American TV commercials -she wants to hire an English nobleman t o deliver the pitch. Vicki Benet seriously an nounced she will audition Aline Mosby English lords and sirs forv her new filmed musical TV show when she visits London on a singing tour next week. "I can't stand some of the pressure methods used by Amer ican announcers on commer cials," she said. "The so-called 'hard sell' actually is an anti sell that defeats its purpose. Blue Bloods Only "I want a true lord, a person able man who speaks well. He must come from a good family, be listed in Burke's Peerage and appear cultured. He'll act as master-of-ceremonies and do the commercials for my new show." Vicki revealed this plan to give tone to American TV as she packed her bags in her lux urious apartment. The producer of her program, Jack Elliot of Benell Productions, paced after her to confirm he, wants the English nobleman to "give pres tige to her show." He admits he was impressed by the bearded Englishman who poses for gin-and-tonic ads in the American press. "It's a different type of pro gram, created for the discrim inating, and we think he will add dignity," he said. Worth $1,000 Week "The average' American is im pressed with a British accent and title and, the savoir faire that goes with it. "We're not going to make a fool of this chap," he added. "We also produce fflmed commercials for various companies and if he will do those he can earn $1,000 a week." - Paris-born Vicki, who began her career only two years ago here in nightclubs, will conduct the auditions for her titled an nouncer during her engagement at the Savoy hotel in London. ; "I'm told some nobility have opened their homes to tourists and one duchess is running a tea shop on her terrace, so I don't think it will be hard to find someone interested in TV," the shapely singer said. How an English nobleman might do as an American TV pitchman was demonstrated last week on Steve Allen's "Tonight" show on NBC-TV. Peter Lawford played the role in striped trou sers and tails for a skit. He soft ly called the audience "dear friends" and apologized for the instrusion. He apologized also for the sponsor. He wound up, in fact, suggesting that perhaps the product wasn't so good after all. was and what they were about. They've written books to prove it. Mr. Roosevelt was failing, mentally and physically in 1944. Edward J. Flynn, Democratic leader of New York state, is authority for that statement. You will find it on page 181 of FJynn's book "You're the Boss," published in 1947. Flynn had been FDR's Demo cratic National Committee chair man and must be counted among his close and loyal friends. Some books and years later the story was about complete. Mr. Roose velt was in no condition during the latter months of his third term to aspire to a fourth. 'Ugly' Rumors Denied There were rumors scorned as "ugly" during the 1944 cam paign about Mr. Roosevelt's health. Democrats beat them down. The White House denied them. But, that Mr. Roosevelt was a dying man when he set out for a fourth term and that some of his associates knew it, is set out firmly in "The Man From Independence," a biog raphy of former President Tru man by Jonathan Daniels. The shockingly bald revelations of Daniels' book are supported by earlier reports on FDR. FDR's personal secretary, Grace Tully, wrote in her book of being "seriously alarmed" by the President's condition. Robert Sherwood, a worship ful biographer of "Roosevelt and Harry Hopkins" relates that "I was shocked by his appear ance" when he saw FDR in the last campaign year. After elec tion and the Yalta conference, Admiral Ernest J. King, then chief of naval operations, noted "serious deterioration" in FDR. Former Secretary of State Cordell Hull found the presi dent vague and likely to lose the thread of conversation. All of this adds up to sub stantial proof that the. voters were ignorant of the true state of Mr.. Roosevelt's health when they returned him to a trium phant fourth term in 1944. And that some of the promoters of his candidacy were fully aware of his condition. REUNITED A tender kiss is placed on badly burned lips of Navy Ordnanceman Martin E. Berg, Alameda, CaL, by Mrs. Berg as he arrived at Alameda Naval Air Station from Alaska with six other crewmen of the Navy Neptune plane which was shot down by Russian MIGs over Bering General Motors Plans To Triple Shares of Slock . New York (U.R) General Motors Corp. made plans today to triple its shares of common stock in a move which reflected new growth ' and expansion of the nation's largest manufactur ing concern. Plans for the three-for-one stock split were announced Tues day night shortly after the close of the New York Stock Ex change.; The stock soared to a new high of $114 a share before the announcement Tuesday, and rose as high as $121 a share on West Coast exchanges after the announcement. Holders Get Three Shares . The split would boost the num ber of common shares in the automobile manufacturing con cern to 50,000,000, the largest number "of shares authorized by any American Company. The firm retains some 60,000,000 of the shares authorized. The re maining 90,000,000 shares are owned by some 500,000 stock holders. Under the split plan each of these stockholders would re ceive three shares for each one held as of Aug. 8. Stockholders will vote on the split at a spec ial meeting Sept. 23, in Wilming ton, Del. The split shares would be issued about Oct. 10. The stock split plan comes in a year of high production and financial activity for GM. New Capital Raised The company sold 4,380,430 shares of stock last February to raise $325,000,000 in new capi tal for expansion. It was. the largest financing ever under taken by an American indus trial firm. Another expansion and mod ernization program costing $500,000,000 was announced sev eral weeks ago. Harlow H. Curtice, General Motors president, announced earlier this year he expected 1955 to be the biggest sales and production year in . the firm's history. DELEGATIONS EXCHANGED Berlin (U.R) .Poland and East Germany exchanged gov ernment delegations to mark the fifth anniversary today of the Communist ceding of the Oder Niesse territory to Poland, the East German Radio reported. The Western Allies and West Germany do not recognize the treaty by which the territory was given to Poland. SINGAPORE STRIKE ENDS Singapore U.R) Agree ment was reached Tuesday on three outstanding points block ing settlement of the 66-day-old dock strike. Agreement came in the final meeting between the Singapore Harbor Board and representatives of 1,300 monthly-rated workers. Details of the settlement were not released. Reconsideration Asked in Fong Trial Portland (U.R) Multnomah County District Attorney Wil liam Langley yesterday filed a motion with Circuit Judge Alfred P. Dobson, asking him to reconsider his order, of a new trial of Wey Him and Sherry Fong. A Circuit Court jury had con victed the Fongs of the first de gree murder of 16-year-old Diane Hank. Langley's office asked Judge Dobson to clarify two points: 1. Did the court determine that there was insufficient evi dence of defendants' guilt of homicide in any degree, thus re quiring dismissal of the action against the defendants? 2. Or did the court determine that there was insufficient evi dence of expressed malice and premeditation so as to preclude a verdict of murder in the sec ond degree or of manslaughter and for that reason ordered a new trial?. ' Judge Dobson ordered a new trial last week. He ordered hearing on the re quest for reconsideration post poned. -, 'lit How o via BUY THE NEW AUTOMAT1C ELECTRIC GE Water Heater Wash a Load of Clothes Every hour -All Day Long- ONLY $5.00 A MONTH NOTHING DOWN HOME APPLIANCE 115 EAST MAIN Authorized Dealer cMmiOuccTiie Water Heaters Soviets Lift Tass Reporter in Capital Washington U.R) Removal of congressional reporter Jean Montgomery from its payrolls to day left the Soviet news agency Tass without an accredited American correspondent in Washington. Miss Montgomery had covered Congress for Tass for 10 years. First news of the action came when Georgi N. Bolshakov, chief of Tass' Washington bureau, wrote a letter to the standing committee of correspondents, governing body of the congress ional press galleries. The letter asked that Miss Montgomery be dropped from the list of cor respondents. It said her creden tials were being returned. Ex-Navy Man ' Starts v To College of 51 Des Moines (U.R) Eugene T. Seaward, 51, who retired from the Navy last July 1 as a "tomb stone rear admiral," now is wor king for a law degree at Drake university. . Seaward spent 30 years in the Navy, most of the time at sea, and commanded the destroyer Farenholt in support of the air craft carrier Wasp in the inva sion of Guadalcanal in World War II. "I like the study of law, and I wanted to get my law degree, so after I retired I started in here at Drake last September," he said. Seaward calls himself a "tombstone rear admiral" be cause "that's what they call those promoted in retirement." Wednesday. July 8. 1955 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THRER Briton Warns Against Relaxation at Geneva Strasbourg, France (U.R) British Foreign Secretary Har old MacMillan warned today against any "premature relaxa tion" by the West during the Big Four talks in Geneva. MacMillan said in , a major policy address to the Consulta tive Assembly of the Council of Europe that the Western powers should not fear any new ideas as long as the broad purposes of the Western Alliance are main tained. "But," he warned, "what we must guard against is premature relaxation. This is vital." ' "We have grown accustomed urhaff a difference C-'H makes IN ALL-AROUND CANNIN6 SUCCESS ONLY CANE SUGAR REFINED IN THE WEST! Nothint fhwr for muMttning fresh fruits wd tenia to the icy wind of the East," MacMillan told the 15-nation T- it l r 4. . . 1 A c-uiupeaii parliament, out we must be careful not to melt too easily when the climate grows suddenly warmer." ly of your life;.. y V " ' jot can hwr this li&'Ifes Jr Jj Every Cut of Beef Safeway ) , I f S ' NOthi"9 Le$ Thn for one reason... as ar" pdewsgr can do it PROPER AGING is reason No. 1 why you'll find . your best meat value at Safeway! For example: Each rib roast you buy at Safeway is aged so you taste its full natural tenderness and flavor. To assure you properly aged meat, Safeway built in this area a million dollar Central Meat Plant Here Safeway meats are . held in air-conditioned aging rooms, at controlled temperatures, the exact number of days required to develop peak goodness. CLOSE-TRIMMED, TOO! Each rib roast you buy at Safeway is trimmed (trimmed before weighing, so you save money) to give you more tender center-portion roast meat. Sketch here shows you rib ,roast as Safeway sells it with i the end section of short ribs removed (these are sold separately at a lower price per pound) ...and the heavy chine bone removed (this bone is replaced by a lightweight layer of fat which seals in meat juices). Safeway meat tzimming means better eating and better valuel ...AND TOP GRADES ONLY! Each rib roast 1 you buy at Safeway is from U.S.' Government top . grades of beef (actually, only meajt of the top grades is improved by aging!). This tender, juicy meat is packed in sterilized boxes at our Central Meat Plant and delivered to Safeway stores by refrigerated trucks. At Safeway meat counters and at our self-service meat sections, you get the tame quality! . V I Saf Guar, way of Plea, Purchase ,,ease you T 7 10 must or
