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FINAL EDITION OL. LVII, NO. 201. Jnpltn (ilnbe FULL ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTS VTKATHER. MISSOURI-Partly tloudy mlUJ TtwwUy with moitly In north portion, 75 to fouth portion.

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RI OUNCILTOOT IWERFORNTO BE CHOSEN TODAY ection First Under New barter--Thirty-Eight Candidates in Race With 9 to Be Named. ON SQHOOL BOARD TO BE FILLED Linking of Turnpike To Missouri Road Studied State Officials Said to Be Considering Building Highway to Oklahoma Border--Site for Bridge Over Shoal Creek Reported Inspected Last Week Governor Murray Voices Approval of Plan for Connection. CHURCHILL BARES PACT WITH F.D.R. DNUSEOFA-BOMB 'en Seek Places, Each for Year Term--Two School Tax Levy Boosts to Be Passed On. persons out of a list of 38 step into the public spotlight Joplin voters go to the polls to name the first city council erve under the new home rule ter.

I voters will cast ballots for council candidates--one zone idate from each of the four in the city and five general cil candidates. iile interest in the city council ion has remained high, many "vers are predicting a smaller than was cast in the February ecial election, at which time icw charter was adopted. Vill Establish New Form. A usually reliable source told The Globe yesterday that top of ficials of the Missouri highway de partment have been quietly work ing out preliminary plans for meet ing a proposed Oklahoma turnpike extension from Tulsa to the Mis souri-Oklahoma state line. O.

I. Steele, district No. 7 en gineer for the highway department denied, however, that any decision has been reached on extending to the Oklahoma line a new highway to meet the Oklahoma turnpike. He said "when Oklahoma decides what it is going to do (about the proposed extension of Turner turnpike from Tulsa toward the Missouri line), we will give it favorable consideration." Two Officials in Joplin. Harris D.

chairman of the Missouri highway commission, and Rex Whitton, chief engineer 'or the highway department, are known to have been in Joplin last veek and reportedly inspected, among other things, a likely site 'or a bridge over Shoal creek in he vicinity of Spiva park (formerly Wildcat park) in connection vith the proposed extension. Governor Johnston Murray of Oklahoma, who has taken a person- il interest in the proposed turn- ike extension to Misspuri, told phone last night that the toll road will not be extended to Missouri unless the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority is assured that Missouri will construct a connecting road, at least to Joplin or the vicinity of Joplin. Missouri, of course, has no legislative authority for establishment of a turnpike, but highway department officials are under pressure to come to some agreement with Oklahoma authorities so that Missouri will not be by-passed in any nation-wide super-highway network. Governor Murray said it is his understanding that officials of the Sklahoma Turnpike Authorities aave met with officials of the Missouri highway department in an attempt to co-ordinate plans. Oklahoma plans call for construction of the extension to the Missouri-Oklahoma line at a point somewhere south of the Kansas- Dklahoma state line, Governor Murray said, although he was unable to recall just what point on he Missouri line the road would ouch.

TORNADOES RIP new council will have as itsJThe Globe by long-distance tele- the establishment of the coun- anager form of government le city under terms of the re- adopted charter, addition to choosing nine members, the electorate lame two school directors and on two proposals to increase evies. Secret Agreement, No Longer in Effect, Gave Each Veto on Other's Attack With Weapon. HOURLY TEMPERATURES PRIME MINISTER SAYS HYDROGEN RACE IS ON Defends Recent Tests in Pacific--Commons Calls for Talks With Ike and Malenkov. Joplin temperatures reachec the low 80s yesterday afternoon The high was 81 at 2, 3 and 4 p. which was only 17 degrees warmer than the low of 64 at 6 and 7 a.

m. The high recorded at the CAA weather station at municipal airport was 83 at 2:30 p. m. Partly cloudy weather is predicted for today with a high in the 70s. A year ago today, the high was 52 and the low 43.

Hourly temperatures: 1 a- 671 1 p. 78 2 a. 2 p. 81 3 a. 3 p.

SI 4 a. 66! 4 p. SI 5 a. 661 5 p. 80 6 a.

641 6 p. 7S 7 a. 7 p. 7g 8 a 68 8 p. 77 9 a- 9 p.

76 10 a. 74ilO p. 74 11 a. 7611 74 Noon 73 Tuesday. 1 a 2 a 66 Bypass Proposed.

While the exact point at which uch an extension would meet Jop- in is not definitely known, a pro- osal to build a bypass of highway 6 around the southeast edge of (Continued on Page 2. Column 21 en candidates, including one ibent, are in the race for the hree-year terms on the school I. One seat is now held by trd N. Craig, who is seeking ction, and the other will be ed by Jack Fleischaker, re- school board president who icd to run again, nands for increased 'teacher es and need for more funds eet increased operating ex- by virtue of the addition to ity's school plant last year le basis for placing the levy se proposition before the school board will ask the to approve two 10-cent levy ses, but reductions in levies nking and interest funds the net levy increase being to 18 cents per $100 assessed ion. The total school levy )e increased from $3.14 to per $100 assessed valuation two increases are voted.

kes Over Reins April 15- city council to be elected ected to take over the reins hall about April 15, by time the present "lame- council will have reached a lient transition point, new charter provides that A I I LIVING NEAR WESTBORO FLEE TO STORM CELLARS. council shall be seated ter than April 20, with the erk conducting the ceremony ich the new councilmen are into office. new council will, immediate- taking office, elect a from among the five general Imen elected today and pre- jy will then take up the of naming an acting city from among the present ment heads at city hall. charter provides that the I may have four months in to select a permanent city er. The acting city manager by the council is prohibited charter from taking over as nent city manager.

will be open from 6 a. m. Barrooms and package stores will remain closed JO minutes after the polls as required by. state law. The Voting Places ig places, both for city and district balloting, are listed No.

1 Emerson Nineteenth street and ylvania avenue, No. 2 Coca-Cola rium, 1301 Virginia ave- No. 3 East Junior school, Sixth street and avenue. inct No. 4 East Cen- chool, Eighth street and avenue.

Inct No. 5 Washington Second street and School WESTBORO, April 15 OPi-- Two tornadoes in this area tore through at least seven farms about 5 p. m. today before roaring across the state line into Southwestern Iowa. There were no immediate reports of injuries although some families were caught in their homes.

Others scrambled to safety in storm cellars. Heavy hail but little rain accompanied the twisters. One funnel struck about five miles west of Westboro and slashed northeastward toward Northborg. The other one was about eight miles east of Westboro. Buildings Damaged.

Mrs. Howard Hall, Westboro telephone operator, compiled this list of damage reports: The tornado west of here struck the Otto Butt's farm first and dam- SEARS TO SERVE MUSTGET 0. K. M'CARTHY TO VOTE ON WHETHER BOSTONIAN IS IMPARTIAL. WASHINGTON, April 5 -Members of the Senate Investigations subcommittee agreed today to take a vote on whether Samuel P.

Sears, prominent Boston lawyer, is impartial enough to act as special counsel in their of the fight between Sen. McCarthy (R-Wis) and high Army officials. Acting Chairman Mundt (R-SD) announced the group will meet at 8:30 a.m. (CST) tomorrow to reassess Sears' qualifications. He was appointed special counsel last Thursday.

One thing the subcommittee ir expected to consider is a statement by James M. Walsh, another Bos- By TOM OLCHILTREE LONDON, April 5 UP)--Prime Minister Churchill, full of fire despite his age, stood firm today on his insistence that United States hydrogen bomb tests are a deterrent to war but stirred up a first class political row in the House of Commons by disclosing a secret atomic pact with the late President Roosevelt. The agreement, made in 1943, provided both Churchill and Roosevelt with a veto on the other's use of the A-bomb and Churchill charged it was no longer in effect because the former Labor government had bungled. A Labor motion calling on Churchill to take the "immediate initiative" in seeking a conference with Soviet Premier Malenkov and President Eisenhower, was approved by the House of Commons on a voice vote. But Churchill won what amounted to a vote of confidence by insisting that the timing of such an approach be left to Airport Wrathrr Data.

Weather observations at Jopim municipal airport at o'clock last night: Temperature. 71 degrees. Wind direction, south-southwest. Wind velocity, 23 miles, with gusts to 35 Visibility. 12 miles.

Barometric pressure. 28 830, steadv. then risinsr. aged some buildings. Then it demolished all the buildings on Russell Nuckolls' place.

Mr. and Mrs. Nuckolls were in the house but apparently were not hurt. The Clifford Winstead farmstead also was demolished. The house inct No.

6 Singleterry hop, 908 Broadway. inct No. 7 Central fire Second street and Jop- nue. inct No. 8 Eagle-Picher 1521 West street, inct No.

9 North Junior school, First street and tvenue. inct No. 10 Columbia street and Sergeant inct No. 11 Lafayette Eighteenth street and Inct No. 12 Memorial West Eighth street.

Inct No. 13 West Cen- Seventh street and ivenue. inct No. 14 JopUnpub- was twisted and moved eight feet off its foundations and was reported beyond repair. Mrs.

Winstead and her two daughters were in the house. The eldest, Eileen, 12, was trapped in the wreckage but escaped harm. The Darrell Herrman farm suffered the same damage. Dean Tiemann's barn and outbuildings were unroofed. At Clarence Richards' farm all ihe outbuildings were torn up and the roof was ripped off the house.

A deepfreeze was rammed through a wall. Mrs. Richards and her two small children were safe in a storm cellar. The tornado east of here tore apart the barn and other outbuildings on the Ira Mozingo farm before the funnel passed into Iowa southeast of Blanchard. Westboro is about three miles from the Iowa border.

Kansas Tornadoes Damage Farms RILEY, April 5 A tornado ripped up some farm buildings southwest of here tonight but no one was injured. Wallace" Hayes of Riley, who ton lawyer, that McCarthy's wife recommended Sears as the man to defend her husband in a debate March 11 on, "Is Sen. McCarthy an influence for good or evil?" Debate Cancelled. debate was cancelled, but Walsh, chairman of a forum which had intended to put it on, said Sears had agreed "to support McCarthy's position." Sears himself claims no sides were assigned for the debate. He also told reporters after his appointment last week that he had never taken a stand, publicly or him and by Labor's failure to challenge that position.

Session Grim. In a grim session on the far- reaching implications of recent a i developments, Churchill told the House of Commons the Russians are making a closer race with the United States in hydrogen bomb developments than in the outmoded A-bomb. A Labor motion calling upon the government to take "immediate fnftlatlve" to get a meeting- of the Big Three heads of governments was passed. Churchill did not oppose the idea. Socialists were outwardly angry at Churchill for bringing up his secret a i agreement with Roosevelt, however, and former Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison declared: "It was very personal and whether, constitutionally, such personal agreements between two in- PIERRE DU PONT FATALLHTRICKEN FORMER HEAD OF HUGE CHEMICAL COMPANY AND G.

M. DIES AT 84. dividuals are desirable is a matter for consideration by his- i a and constitutional experts." In Washington, the White House confirmed the secret agreement had been made at the 1943 Quebec Conference but emphasized it is 'not in effect at the present time." The 79-year-old Churchill, in speaking on the secret Quebec understanding with Roosevelt, said it provided "a detailed arrangement to insure full and effective collaboration between the United States. Britain and Canada, including the setting up of a committee WILMINGTON, April 6 W) -Pierre S. Du Pont, 84, former president and chairman of the board of the huge E.

I. du Pont de Nemours died here tonight. Du Pont, oldest living member of the famous chemical family, was stricken with a severe attack of indigestion after his dinner at lis rambling estate, Longwood, in nearby Kennett Square, Pa. He died an hour later at Memorial Hospital here. He had been in failing health the last several years and had been confined to his home.

Du Pont, descendant of a political refugee from France, helped in the development of two of America's biggest industries--the E. ,1. du Pont de and the General Corp. He served both as president. EISEMOWER DECLARES RUSSIA Ml BE SLOW TO START WAS AS S.

CAN RETALIATE CM DEUED Cm FRESH AGGRESSIVE ACT Dulles Reveals Peiping's Gunners Are Shooting Down French Planes in Indochina. DIVORCEE DENIED $200,000 HEART BALM Jury Dorothy Elliott's Breach of Promise Claim Against Wichita Man. uENERAL IS THERE AD3ING VIETMINH Secretary Recalls U. S. Threat of Retaliation--No Commitments Made to Send Troops.

LINCOLN-MERCVRY PLANT TO LAY OFF 17,000 ST. LOUIS, April 5 (B--A total of 1,700 employes--about half the present work force--will be laid off this week at the Lincoln-Mercury assembly plant in suburban Roberton, a Ford Motor Co. spokesman said today. The plant now employes 3,700 By RUSSELL BRINES WASHINGTON, April 5 IB-Sec- etary of State Dulles warned to- ay that the Chinese Communists, vith a "rather ominous" new combat role in Indochina, are "coming awful close" to the fresh aggression that he has said could bring American retaliation. But he told the House Foreign Affairs Committee this country has made no commitments to send troops to Indochina.

The secretary gave the first official word that Chinese Communist antiaircraft gunners are bringing down French planes at Dien Bien Phu, the besieged fortress. He said a "considerable number" of radar-controlled 37-millimeter antiaircraft guns, which are "shooting through the clouds to bring down French planes, are opera tec by members of the Chinese military, Technicians on Scene. He said a Red Chinese general and a score of technicians are as- WICHITA, April 5 federal jury rejected today the $200,000 breach of promise claim of Dorothy Elliott, 28-year-old Kansas City divorcee, against Roy E. Miller, president of a Wichita liquid fuels and equipment firm. The jurors--eight men and three women deliberated four hours, then found for the 45-year-old defendant.

One juror had been excused. Both Miller and the woman, who claimed he promised in June, 1952. to marry her, admitted they had traveled and registered as man and wife at hotels and motels. Miss Elliott, formerly an accountant for Miller's firm, said each time she thought they were to be married but he found an excuse for delay. The defense contended that she was a woman of "unsavory character." and that Miller, since married, never promised to wed her.

U. S. Dist. Judge Delmas C. Hill instructed the jury to find against Miller if it believed through "fair preponderance of evidence" that had promised to marry the plaintiff, then broke his promise.

The fact that they had registered as man and wife while traveling ogether, he said, was not in itself sufficient evidence of such a promise. )ersons. Richard E. Krafve, assistant privately, on McCarthy or "Me- Washingon to consider com- Carthyism. From several other sources have come reports that Sears not only had praised McCarthy and his Red- hunting activities in the past but tried to raise money to assure his re-election in 1952.

There are also reports that the 58-year-old attorney actively interested himself in bined Hits at Labor. He twitted the Labor government that took power in 1945 for not carrying through with the atomic exchange of information. Churchill said: "That was how things stood when the (Attlee) Socialist govern- general manager of the Lincoln- Hercury division, said production at the Robertson plant will be cut in half--from 640 autos daily to 320 beginning next Monday. He added that the plant will change from a two-shift to a one-shift operation. Krafve also announced a layoff of 1,400 workers week at the Lincoln-Mercury assembly plant at Metuchen, N.

J. getting the special counsel's post. ment carne to office. Any changes AJ1 these matters will be gone toured the area, said the twister struck first.on the Galen Wahl farm and slashed through the Julius Sylvester where it did the most damage. Riley is 15 miles northwest of Manhattan.

Sylvester's brooder house, hog shed and other outbuildings were wrecked and his new home was (Continued on 3. Column 8) ttnoM 3. Column 3 SPAFEIlfl fi over by the subcommittee tomorrow. Mundt said "surely there will be an announcement of some kind" after the meeting. The South Dakota senator also has said that Sears will not be retained if the Army objects to him.

Delay If He Is Fired. If Sears is dismissed and a search begun for another counsel, it will mean that the investigation will not be launched next Monday, as was planned. McCarthy has stepped down as chairman of the subcommittee dur- the inquiry. He and his wife, Jean, left New York in a private plane today for Phoenix, where he will rest in the sun and try to get rid of a virus infection How to Mark Ballot In Today's Election Vote for five for general council by placing in the square before each of five names. Vote for four zone council' men by placing in square before the name of one in each of four zones, regardless of the zone in which you reside.

of nine left side of the ballot and four zone candidates on right side of the ballot. which has troubled his throat. Mundt and two other subcommittee members, Sens. McClellan (D-Ark) and Symington (D-Mo) met briefly today. Announcing that Sears was with them for "just about three minutes," Mundt said: "We told him we wanted him to discuss all the developments.

He told us he very much wanted to discuss them, too." Sears, spruce in a navy blue topcoat and pearl grey homburg with a red feather in the band, declared: "I'm not going to say anything about anything today." 'Nothing is settled," he added. HOGS REACH SWEAR HIGH OF $27.75 AT ST. JOSEPH ST. JOSEPH, April 5 The to? price on live hogs reached the highest mark in five and a half years at St. Joseph today when nearly 100 head of strictly choice butchers brought $27.75.

This was I the highest at the local yards since Sept. 29, 1948, when the top was I tnto Int. it Adv. in the interval are their responsi bility or misfortune." The implication that the Attlee government had fumbled the ball in obtaining atomic information from the United States drew an angry outburst from Laborites There were cries of "Resign!" Former Labor Prime Minister Clement R. Attlee declared: "I do not accept that.

We did not aban don any of these agreements. We carried them on with the U. government Unfortunately the (U.S.) Senate passed the McMa ton Act (a 1947 measure clamping secrecy on American nuclear affairs) which prevented them car rying out that agreement." The 79-year-old statesman told a grim, tense House of Commons that both East-West giants have the dread H-weapon in "large scale production." He urged Left wing laborites to do nothing to destroy British-American co-operation. Churchill was armed for the parliamentary fray with special nonsecurity information about the H-bomb supplied by President Ei senhower himself. Called War Deterrent.

Crackling with oratorical fire, the Prime Minister also: 1. Declared the H-bomb in the hands of the United States serves as a deterrent to war. 2. Refused to ask U. S.

authorities to rail off their Pacific H-tests. 3. Said that now with the Geneva conference coming up April 26--was hardly the time for a top level meeting among himself. President Eisenhower and Soviet Premier Malenkov on disarmament or other problems. Churchill gave this estimate of the relative position of the United States and Russia in H-bomb development--facts that "glare upon the human race:" "The United States conducted its (Continued on Page 2, Column 3 MEN ELECTROCUTED AT PARAGOULD, ARK.

PARAGOULD, April 5 (let- Three county workers died of electric shock near here this afternoon when a dragline on which they were working touched a power line. The dead: Willie Cox, about 50, foreman the crew; C. H. Graftonreed, 55 and Otis Sims, 60, all of Greene County. Witnesses said Cox backed a truck-towed dragline into the power line and when he stepped to the ground he was killed instantly When Cox fell back against the truck, Graftonreed and Sims tried to pull him away and were killed signed to staff headquarters of the Communist-led Vietminh.

In addition to supplying the Vietminh with heavy equipment, Dulles continued, the Chinese Reds have technicians on division level and with specialized units. He added 1,000 trucks are all i manned. At Paris, a spokesman for the French Foreign Ministry said: "What Mr. Dulles said corresponds to the situation as we know it. His statement is generally correct but incomplete." The spokesman did not explain what he meant by incomplete.

The Chinese Reds, Dulles said, are "not openly, blatantly committing new aggression but they are only saving themselves from that charge by technicalities." They claim to be supporting independence-minded "patriots." Recalls Statement. Rep. Morano (R-Conn) asked: 'If the Chinese Communists are BUT SAYS MUST REMAIN VIGILANT Address to Nation Asserts Soviet System of Satellites Could Be Source of Weakness. ACTION PROMISED IF SLUMP DEEPENS Asserts Government Stands Ready to Fight Depression by Public Construction and Cutting Taxes. FRENCH REPULSE REBEUHACKS VIETMINII REPORTED REINFORCING ARMY BEFORE DIEN BIEN PHU.

WASHINGTON, April 5 (ffl -President Eisenhower said tonight as long as Russia knows this country can retaliate the men in the Kremin won't lightly start a war. Whenever the men in the Kremlin start a war, he said, "they run the risk of losing" their power. "We're not going to start a war," the President declared, regardless of this country's advantage in atomic weapons. And as long as they know we can retaliate. Eisenhower said, war is not a course the Russians would embark on lightly.

Yet, "they might do this, in a fit of madness or of desperation'' and this nation must be vigilant. Source of Weakness. Asserting ihe Russians have satellites, the President said that kind, of system, in a war of exhaustion, could be "a very great source of weakness." He recalled that Napoleon's tmtfiMtfm brgan to Frmacc became involved in HANOI, Indochina, April 5 war. and added: The Communist-led i i "AH of these things are deter- in the process. Further details of the accident were unavailable immediately.

AIR FORCE SPEED ACE MISSING ON FLIGHT LANGLEY AIR FORCE BASE, April 5 UR-CoL William H. Councill, Air Force speed ace who directed Tactical Air Command programming here, is missing on flight from Farmingdale, N. Y. The 42-year-old pilot, flying a T33 jet trainer, left New York at 10:48 a. m.

today and had estimated his arrival here at 11:48 a. m. Councill, a command pilot with 130 combat missions in fighter- ype aircraft in the Pacific theater n- World War until recently held the jet speed record from Los Angeles to New York. ministrator of the Foreign Opera- iohs Administration testifies tomorrow. In a prepared statement, Dulles said the Communists were unleash- ng "massive, suicidal assaults" Indochina on the gamble they could break the spirit of the French and their allies "before the present ighting season ends in May and he Geneva conference gets under way (April 26).

"That scheme must be frustrated," he added. TWO KILLED, TWO HVRT IN CARJRVCK COLLISION WORDEN, April 5 St. Louisans were killed and two others injured in a car-truck col- ision three miles east of here on U. S. 66 today.

Killed were Howard Kelly, driver the car, and Charlotte Johnson, a passenger. Minnie Thompson, 59, and da Randall, 43, both of St. Louis, were injured. They also were sengers hi the car. firing antiaircaaft guns, doesn't that mean the 'active participation' you vvere reported to have said would bring retaliation on the Chinese mainland?" Dulles replied that in a Sept.

2 speech at St. Louis "I said that i the Chinese sent their Red armies into Indochina it would be apt to produce action which might not be confined to Indochina. "Technically they have not done precisely the thing I defined. "They're coming awful close to rained thousands of shells upon Dien Bien Phu's dust bt'vvl airstrip today and shock troops attacked the northwest rim of The fortress from dawn to noon without denting the grim bastion. The French command said the surging attacks on the northwest, where the rebels have driven to within a mile jf the heart of the fortress, apparently were launched to keep the garrison busy at its weakest point while the enemv regroups and prepares for mass breakthrough attempt.

Rebels Lose 1,000 Men. The assault cost the enemy "more than 1,000 most of them left draped on barbed wire where they were caught by tank and machinegun fire, the French said. Sleepless French soldiers, working their guns like scythes, stopped attack after attack, the French command said. it." This exchange dominated the first of two weeks' hearings on a foreign aid program, expected to be around 1 billion dollars for the year ending in mid-1955. Dulles asked the committee to support the program.

Harold E. Stassen ad- (The French News Agency dispatches said Ho Chi Minh's commanders were rushing up 20,000 reinforcements to aid in the attack. Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap, leader the attack, on the fortress, was previously reported to have massec 40,000 men for the siege.) Communist-led batteries of 105 and 75 millimeter guns and heavy mortars fired thousands of shells upon the main airstrip, apparently in a desperate effort to destroy it as quickly as possible. Some French wounded have been underground first aid stations near the strip for nearly a month, awaiting evacuation to hospitals at Hanoi.

Thf- rain of shells, apparently, vas Gen. Vo's answer to a French appeal for a cease-fire while Red Cross-marked planes evacuated the wounded A French plan to land planes and take out the wounded had to be called off today because of the intense fire. ROOSEVELT REFVSES TO WITHDRAW FROM RACE $4,945 CONSCIENCE MONEY SENT TAX COLLECTOR SPRINGFIELD. April 5 federal tax collector received 4,945 in bills from an anonymous wrson today. The currency was in six enve- opes all posted at the same time and at the same place.

There was no message or return address. "If this is conscience money, we it the jackpot." remarked H. J. Vhite, acting i of the Springfield Internal Revenue Dis- rict. The 76-county district never has received a conscience payment that arge.

White said the money will be placed in the Treasury Depart- nent's conscience fund--a reposi- ory for contribuUoiu from who shorted the government successfully then LOS ANGELES, April 5 James Roosevelt said today that National Democratic Chairman Stephen Mitchell's suggestion that he withdraw from a congressional race, "would, if generally accepted, open the door to political blackmail." rents upon the men in the Kremlin. They are factors which make war less likely." In a "let's be calm" talk to the nation by radio and TV, Eisenhower also talked about what he described as "the fear of depression and the loss of jobs." Unemployment figures, he said, show "every sign of leveling off," but the government "is ready to act whenever necessa to head off any big downturn. The government stands ready to fight depression by public construction, further loweiine of taxes, and increasing the spending of money in many ways, the President promised. But the government "does intend to go into any slambang spending of money" unless it is necessary, he declared. 35,009 Known Reds.

Turning to Communist penetration into American institutions-government, schools and others- Eisenhower said while there are only some 25,000 known Communists, the Communists still are dangerous. The President said he wouldn't detail what the FBI is doing to ride herd on Communists he'd leave that to Atty. Gen. Brownell in an address Friday night. Eisenhower said "the great mass" of people in government are certainly not Communists but are just as dedicated "as you and to American ideals.

As for protecting civil liberties while combating the Reds, the chief executive said "I admit that there can be very grave offenses committed against" an inoffensive citizen who is falsely accused. But he declared public opinion will correct any "real violence" to reputations. Eisenhower also discussed foreign nations now threatened by communism. Some of these, he said, are important to the security of the United States. "We do not believe that any nation, no matter how great, has the (right to take another nation and submit it to its rule," Eisenhower said.

Allies Not Tools. The President continued that Americans must never make the mistake of regarding their allies overseas as "tools" rather than as friends. Speaking earnestly and more Roosevelt at a press conference rapidly President declared the today, emphasized that he will not nations of must t(V withdraw from the 26th Californiaj gether and in cooperative spirit. Congressional District race, as resist lne encroachments of com- urged by Mitchell in a letter to Paul Ziffern, California Democratic national committeeman. AIR-CONDITIONED STORES GIVE RELIEF FROM HEAT ST.

LOUIS, April 5 stores reported today a sure harbinger of spring--folks dropping into air-conditioned stores to cool off--as the temperature moved into the 80s. And there were wails of anguish from workers in some buildings where habit-bound maintenance men, blithely unaware of the changing weather, went right ahead and stoked up the furnaces. mumsm. He opened his address by dwelling on the strong points of the United States. It is the most powerful nation on earth, he said, its strength being not only economic and military, but spiritual.

The President spoke while sitting on the edge of his desk, with arms folded, over and again emphasizing a point with a pointed finger. The nation sees threats "from all angles, internal and external." he said. He recalled his early days in the Army, when his regiment in World War I was armed and equipped with the same matcritl as hi the War. 1 4 VSPAPERI.