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Fewer $ For Shelter
rpHE CIVIL Defense Administrator, Mil-
lard F. Caldwell, takes his job seriously.
A few days ago he called upon Congress for
$535 million to implement his bomb-shelter
program.
Caldwell cited military intelligence re
ports to the effect that the Russians posses
sed atom bombs far bigger and more destruc
tive than those that fell on Hiroshima and
Nagaski in August, 1945. He drew a vivid
picture, for the House Appropriations Com
mittee, of a single “sneak” raid in which the
Russians could drop six bombs on six strate
gic cities and thereby cripple America’s war
industry.
Evidently the committeemen were not
convinced. They recommended that Mr.
Caldwell be given $65 million. Later the
House cut the figure to 62 millions.
At the same time, the Congressmen read
the Civil Defense Administrator a lecture.
They advised that before calling for big mon
ey, C.D.A. should come up with a definite
plan for educating the people concerning the
need of civil defense and the part which the
citizens will have to play in it. The state
ment asserted that “popular confidence in a
civil defense program cannot be won merely
The gambling known as business
-• looks toith. austere disfavor upon
the business known as gambling.
—Ambrose Bierce.
Inconsistency
TVTOTHING more aptly illustrates the incon-
’ sistency of the Federal Government re
lating to inflation than its new policy aimed
at encouraging the building of homes, es
pecially small homes.
Total home mortgages in 1939 were
$17,600,000,000, according to statistics of
the Institute of Life Insurance. In 1945
they totaled $19,200,000,000. Now they are
$44,000,000,000.
It was in view of theis rapid rise in pri
vate debt that Regulation X was issued,
aimed at curbing housing. Now it is relaxed.
A veteran can buy a $7,000 home on long
terms for a down payment of $280. A non
veteran will have to put up only $700. In
both instances the amount is suddenly re
duced for homes of $7,000 and more value.
This is not saying that the veterans and
others should not have the homes for these
down payments. It is just asking: What
is the purpose of this federal regulation,
after all? Is it regulation to discourage in
flation, or to encourage inflation—or is it
simply regulation for regulation’s sake?
— (The Dallas News)
In Old Vienna
Millionaire Gives
Whopping Party
Venice, Italy, Sept. 4—Iff)—This known in his native Mexico. His
historic city of lover and assassins father, Miguel de Bestegui, was
saw its biggest blow-out of half a ambassador to Spain before the
century last night. A Mexican Mexican Revolution began in 1910.
mystery millionaire set the mark The family has vast land holdings
with a $200,000 party at which in Mexico.
guests wore everything from lion- Don Carlos was born in Mexico
skins to shrouds. City, but has spent most of his
Dukes and Counts trooped in by life in Europe,
regiments rubbing shoulders with He had plan ' ned to d $50,000
thp wealthy of three continents. for lagt n f hVs ex t ra v ag anza, but
But many of the top notables in- wound la in out closer to
vited by dapper, monocled Don $ 2 00,000. He bought the Palace
Carlos de Bestegui did not bother two years ag0 for $500,000 and re-
to come. . portedly spent $6,250,000 modern-
Those who did attend danced and izing and decorating it with a for-
wined the night away. But after tune in paintings and tapestries,
it was all over, few of them knew w , w .
much about de Bestigui, except that w 10 s ^" 0
he has millions and seems to know The invitation list looked like a
how to spend them. replica of the Almanach de Gotha—
De Bestegui, who gave the lav- Who’s Who in European royalty,
ish “housewarming” to open the De Bestegui also posted signs
Palace he has restored on the fa- throughout the Canal City inviting
bled Grand Canal, is almost un- the “lower classes” to drop around
and peer in at the festivities and
maybe munch a little salami dis
tributed by his servitors.
They dropped around—one of the
biggest crowds seen for years, in
this center of heavy unemployment
and strong Communism. When de
Bestegui gave them a gay wave
from his balcony, some cheered but
more hissed. Several groups of
youths chanted derisively, “Duce,
Duce.”
Inside the Palace about 600
guests showed up. One Venice po
liceman said it was “just as well.”
Around the building close to
1,000 carabinieri and riot squads
in regular uniform. carried subma-
HE1L HAVE TROUBLE WITH THIS DOOR...WE HOPE
PEACE TMTY CONFERENCE!
Fully Clothed
Reporter Swims
To Escape Attack
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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1951
At ’Frisco Talks
Treaty Signing Is
Aim of United States
Orange, Sept. 4—(A 5 )—A report
er for the Orange Leader said he
had to swim the Sabine River fully
clothed early yesterday to escape
after being attacked by a bouncer
for a night club which he had crit
icized for allowing gambling.
Reporter Joe Parsley, 27, who
was punched in the nose by the
bouncer, said the night club is just
across the river in Louisiana and
is owned by Claude Williams. Pars
ley had criticized the place in his
front-page column.
Williams is one of the admitted
gamblers who figure in the Lake
Charles (La.) defamation indict
ments. The managing editor and
four other members of the Lake
Charles American Press staff are
accused of defaming the gamblers
and 16 parish (county) officials
in the course of an anti-gambling
crusade.
Party Was Leaving
Parsley, back at his desk with a
badly swollen nose, said he, Mrs.
Parsley and two friends were leav
ing the Show Boat a barge-mount
ed night club just across the Sa
bine, about 2 a. m.
“We were walking down the
ramp to the landing and this boun
cer and his two buddies were
by making large appropriations of Federal
funds.” /
Obviously, the Congressmen “have some- ^ ‘ hC
thing there.” Up to now the people have
shown themselves about as apathetic toward
civil defense as most of them are toward
the ballot. What will it take to jar them out
of their complacency? A bomb dropped on
Detroit might do it—but then it would be
too late.
Caldwell might consult The Advertising (mSrS
Council, that is experienced in such matters, infantile paralysis by preventing
, the growth of polio virus in
on a line of attack.
Anti-Polio Drag
Now In Sight
(The San Antonio Express).
When a young man and young ivo-
man sit close together and talk in
whispers they are not discussing
the Russian crisis.
Envoy At Bay
nerve cells was announced here
yesterday.
The report was made at the
opening session of the second in
ternational poliomyelitis confer
ence. The five-day meeting, at
tended by some 500 doctors and
researchers from scores of na
tions, is sponsored by the National
Foundation for Infantile Paralysis
of New York and the Danish Na
tional Association for infantile pa-
'ralysis.
The ; report, showed that it is pos
sible to get drugs to penetrate the
nerve cells to attack the polio vi
rus. All medicines thus far have
TTT . t—. T tv/ym --p,iTT a r/ry a failed because the polio virus that
R. VLADIMIR I ROCHAZKA, new am- causes the disease inside the nerve
bassador of the Czechoslovak Communist cell s, multiplies and destroys the
. , . . . ttt i * 1 nerves. Up until now doctors have
puppet government, has been m Washington llot known of a drug that could
only a few days, but already he “has seen s et in to work on virus.
, Success in finding a drug that
enough of American newspaper reporters, can penetrate the nerve cells ap-
according to one spokesman at the embassy, pears to be half the battle. The
other half is to find such a drug
The envoy had a rough time trying to for polio and that has not been
explain the William Oatis case to American yet . ,,
^ i. ... the experiments showing the
newsmen after he had been told by President possibility were done at the Rock-
Truman and then by Secretary Acheson that efelle , r Institute for Medical Re-
if he IS interested m improving relations be- California Institute of Technology
tween his country and the United States he and in Australia,
should understand the necessity for release isolated and this new’ work was
of “American citizens unjustly imprisoned.” done by usi . n s f ive ot her viruses
By J. M. ROBERTS, JR.
Associated Press News Analyst
American strategy at San Fran
cisco is to keep the meeting what
it was originally intended to be,
a treaty signing, not a peace con
ference.
Quite a few nations, entirely
apart from the Soviet obstruction
ist bloc, still have reservations
and would like to submit amend
ments to the Anglo-American
draft. Most of these involve repar
ations. Some of them may be per
suaded to refrain in the interest
of a solid front against Gromyko
& Co. Others are expected to sub
mit but not fight, for their claims
against Japan, just to be in the
record if anything, ever comes of
the clause recognizing the prin
ciple, but not the immediate sub
stance,-of the demands.
In the main, however, the treaty
is expected to be signed as is,
having been drawn after months
of diplomatic exchanges designed
to avoid what the Russians are
trying to produce, a big climactic
debate.
Present plans call for the usual
round of speechmaking, whereupon
the treaty will be laid on the table
and signed by those who wish to
sign. The Western powers will seek
to arrange conference rules so that
no filibuster ’ can be staged—per
haps confining each delegation to
one hour’s possession of the floor.
It might mean that nobody will
even bother to reply, specifically,
to whatever charges the Commun
ist bloc wishes to make, and cer
tainly would mean no ring-around-
the-rosy such as occurred at the
recent four-power talks in Paris.
There have been reports that
the Soviets may fool everybody
and, after expressing their com
plaints, sign the treaty. This seems
highly unlikely.
Copper Board Due
To Submit Report
Washington, Sept. 4—UP)—Pres
ident Truman’s three-man board
of inquiry into the copper strike
was due to submit its report today.
After getting it, the president
is expected to direct Attorney Gen
eral McGrath to seek a court or
der forcing the 49,600 men still
on strike to return to work.
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standing about midways of it. Just
as we passed the bouncer ^ let me
have it with his fist right on the
nose, knocking me against a post
which supports the canopy over
the entrance.
“I told one of the friends who
was with us to get Margie across
the river quick and they headed
for my car as I took off for the
nearby marsh. As they left I yelled
to the bouncer and his buddies,
‘please don’t bother them; it’s me
you’re after.’
“Don’t Come Back”
“Then I headed for the river
bank and as I left the bouncer
shouted: ‘You’d better not come
back over here.’
“As I reached the foot of the
interstate bridge a short distance
away I saw that the others in my
party had gotten safely into Tex
as and also noticed the bouncer and
the other two had entered a cab
and were headed in my direction.
“There wasn’t time to undress
so I dived into the river with all
my clothes on and swam across to
the Texas side.”
Williams, asked for comment,
said:
“I don’t know anything about it
and 1 don’t believe it happened.”
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Pressed regarding the refusal of Czech
authorities to let the American Ambassador
in Prague even see Oatis, Dr. Prochazka fi
nally took refuge in the criminal court de
fendant’s cliche, “I don’t know what you are
talking about.”
The upshot of this brush with Mr. Oatis’
colleagues apparently was a fervid assertion
as guinea pigs for the tests.
Ag Station Gets
Grants-In-Aid
’ $11,400 in grants-in-
r received recently by
The Battalion
Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions
"Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman”
Entered as aecond-claas matter at Post
Office at College Station, Texas, under
he Act of Congress of March 3, 1870.
Member of
The Associated Press
A total of
aid has been'
the Texas Agricultural Experi-
by the ambassador that “we will not yield meut Station from four org;aniza-
to pressure.” He had been officially in- g 1 e 0 a n 1 ® h and firms t0 further lts re "
formed of the congressional resolution call- A check for $5,700 came from
ing for cancellation .of trade relations with t . he T . e ^ as Ik)ultl ' y improvement
. . Association, Stephenville to help
Czechoslovakia and advised that tension Will finance the station’s poultry im-
continue to mount” if remedial steps are not pr ?y em 1 en p ^, ork for th T e nex ^ yea , r -
Merck & Company, Inc., of Rah-
taken. way, N. J., sent a check for $4,000
Americans are well aware of the case of to support “The study of a Pre-
„ . . , . _ . sently Unidentified Factor Impor-
the former Associated Press correspondent tant in the Hatchability of Poul
in Prague as a test of international rights try E sp” wfadi is being conduct-
to freedom of information. They also are couch of the Poultry Husbandry
aware of the extent to which kidnaping and Department.
j* , , , , , , A grant of $700 to aid studies
fals6 arrests have been used as a terror j n W eed control and cotton defol-
technique by Russian minions along the Iron lation was contributed by the Pa-
r, , . tt i • i ji cific Coast Borax Company, Los
Curtain. Under these circumstances the re- Angeles. Of the total, $300 will go
sponse to that defiance of “pressure” may to the Agronomy Department to
ii u ttMST >n » a i4 its investigations of weed con-
well be, We 11 see. trol under dir | ction of H . E _ Rea .
—(The Christian Science Monitor). $200 will be used in cottoh defol-
1 iation studies under direction of
W. R. Cowley and C. A. Burleson
at the Weslaco substation. The
Temple and Lubbock substations
each will get $100 for cotton de
foliation studies. E. N. Stiver is
directing the work as Temple, and
the work at Lubbock is directed
by E. L. Thaxton.
The Texas Cottonseed Crashers
Association, Inc., sent a check for
$1,000 to support research in the
development of better quality cot
tons for mechanical harvesting in
come: awav
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