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ATHENS ROME GENEVA HAMBURG STAVANGER OSLO

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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JUNE 12; 1952.

"My dad reckons that anyone who has to spend all day with us ought to get the same as a Hollywood film star."

JUST TRY SHOUTING IKE IS A SON

OF A GUN' IN BROADWAY, ABILENE

Abilene, Kansas, Tuesday.

HERE is nothing fancy about General Eisenhower's home town. Abilene is solid, straightforward, and

stable.

IL

Then Mr Harger said: "Well, I've been a newspaperman for 64 years-come down to the shop

and see how a country newspaper is run; but, of course, you want to know about the General's boyhood and all that."

I said that was the plan. Mr Harger then wiped his has 7,000 people, five forehead it's pretty hot and policemen, four banks, 25 sticky in this Kansas wheat churches and mission halls, two country--and began:

"I always good shopping streets,

two think we should have detectives hotels, half a dozen boer par- going around with

our great Jours and liquor stores, and four men when they are boys, so that or five cafes and drug-stores. I when they grow up we should is practically the dead centre of know everything about them; but the United States, the very we don't. heart and core of the country.

1 have been here almost a week now and have found the people as dependable as the good American carth..

British ond Amerloans were brought up.

There is 巍 sign, outside which saya "Eisenhower Home, Admis-

son free. Visit- ing hours 9 to

12 a.m.-1 to 5. B.m."

and

Earl Endicott,

has been. who a schoolteacher for twenty years in these parts, me look "I didn't know Ike was going four G.I.a and of a world

cluster to turn out a great man, figure. No one did. He was just tourists around, an ordinary lad, like hundreds of He said: others, not brilliant or outstand- *ing.

The first man 1.met was Henry "His folks were poor and Ike Jameson, editor of the Reflec- had

tor Chronicle, Abilene's daily newspaper (circulation 5,000),

Mr Jameson said "I used to

read you when I was in Europe. You made me so darned mad, but

I guess it was the truth,"

And then Mr Jameson, just to show How mad he was, proceeded to load me down with fats and figures, arranged a tour of the house where Elsen- hower was brought Introduced me to the leading

up.

to

work

"We have the straight tour, the special tour, the super

hard selling and

FILTS

London Express Service

A

General Eisenhower, 'wear- ing civilian clothes, is em- braced by little girl admirer on leaving Washington to start his

Presidential campaign.

takes the super

DON IDDON de luxe tour IN

EISENHOWER

TOWN

townspeople, and generally acted vegetables, and doing odd jobs at this gentleman comes from Eng- the memorial to Eisenhower, to down

and to the Armed gun in your hand or on your hip.

us guide, counsellor, and friend. the local creamery just down that land and my father was born his family

The people of Abilene, Kansas, street yonder. He was always

home town.

He was just an

ordinary lad

man." man.

time

we

Big Ship Causes Big Row From Nowell Rogers

Now York.

MERICA'S new super-

Anor, the United

States-built to snatch the Blue Riband of the Atlantic' from Britain's Queen Mary is now, the subject of a raging quarrel.

Two high officials of the US. Government are an- grily batting the question of how many millions of

dollars should be paid to. subsidise the ship.

President Truman mhy have to step in. For the. ship is scheduled to make her maiden Voyage to Southampton on July 3.

The row is between the, Secretary of Commerce, Charlen Sawyer, one of the President's cabinet officers, and the Comptroller- General, Lindsay Warren.

Warren is the "financial watchdog" -in Washing- ton's Whitehall-for Con- gress.

He is not answerable to the President. All Govern- ment departments are. answerable to him. They him that must convince they are spending money according to laws passed by Congress, and not wasting.

it.

SAWYER has a contract

to sell the ship to United States Lines,

a private

company with headquarters.

in New York.

The cost of the ship dollars ia 70,000,000 (£25,000,000).

United States Lines boys.. its share is 28,000,000 dol- lars (£10,000,000). That would leave 42,000,000 dòl- lars (£15,000,000) to be, paid by taxpayers.

MH WARREN says that is 100. much.

So he asks Sawyer not to go

he has investigated further, star Texas or

uver

aru

Part of the reason for the squabble lies in the ship has, selt. The United States was not designed and built Just to be a "Boating hotel"

Texas Street without a

Abilene used to be the western in Devonshire." So we did the Forces of the United States.

At Brst the General was not terminus of the old Kansas- ahead and sell the vessel unli are like that. It is easy to see hard worker, but we never super de luxe tour.

keen on the plan. Chorley Pacific railroad and the northern where Ike gets his friendliness, dreamed we were bringing up

Case

a leading citizen and man end of the famed

But Sawyer is working to a ' of substance, who is an old, close Chrisholm catile trail. Over tight schedule, and no wonder he is proud of his an illustrious general and states- Home just like

He must turn friend of ike, told me: The 1,000,000 head of cattle were over the ship, on June 21.That- I remarked: "I suppose all of your mother's

General said: *Now, Charley, brous Abilene is absolutely solid for the HE. house la probably just wait till I'm dead, that will be rought here by the cowhands leaves U.S. Lines only, 12 days

from the

south, There was to make final arrangements, for 1 like your General?"

The mother's:

went drinking and gunplay and fights, the 2,000 passengers who enough'; but "Well, now," replied Mr nent sideboard, with pictures of ahead, anyhow."-

and furious brawls. But "Tame-paying from £120 first-class to Harger, "someone else asked me the family, the old-fashioned

Mr Case also told me: "Ike's 'em" Tom Smith and "Wild Bill” £60 third-class for every berth of course, some that and I told him: You go out wall clock, the ince coverlets, the wonderful man in every way. Hickock came in and cleaned up in the 980 ft. long liner. THERE arc,

sophisticated gents from New on Broadway [there's a Broad- family Bible, the ancient sewing You know some time ago six or the cowtown.

the blue on the small machine,

and white seven leading bankers, poll- York and Chicago who are going way here rather

but cleaner than New crockery. the plano, and the ticians, and industrialists got to- Place robbed of around saying: "What a back side,

with Ike and said: We is Siberia with York's] and stand in the middle hooked, hand-made rugs. water. This burg is

Mr Endacott said: "Lake this want you run for President. character lights-a good place to leave," and shout "Elsenhower is a son

Isn't it? Just a Don't worry about policy o That big city act doesn't go very of a gun" and see what happens in England,

She is a defence project is Elsenhower's simple, nice home. Ike's father platform; we will take care of all I went to the other extreme for well. For the could quickly. be well here, If you put on any airs to you.

cerned more than a few dollars that." ike got up, his eyes ame and it was illegal even and graces in Abilene you are town.

"Have you been round the a week, maybe 125 month. liable to get run out of town.

blazing, and said: 'You can gu to buy a packet of cigarettes here converted into a troopship to carry 14,000 men. Behind her house where Elsenhower was "And this house was on the

side of the tracks, as theyght to Heil, gentlemen,' and some years ago. Even now no

gay decorations, cocktail bars, Mr Charles Harger, the 88- raised?"

wrong

out,"

hard liquor is sold in bars, only and luxury kitchens she has year-old owner of the

It is plain that Eisenhower will beer; but people have a habit of the safety The Eirenhower home is a say here-the poorer side of the

compartments and Reflector Chronicle and prob- modest two-storey frame house, railway. This g where the determine his own policies and bringing their own bottles of rye special construction of a fight- ably Abilene's most distinguished painted white and surrounded by General was raised."

will not bo "front man" or and bourbon,

Ing vessel. resident eltizen, has the big city elm trees, lilac and rose bushes, Near the house there is to be figurehead for anyone.

that the To make the monisy Tow boys well in hand. He said to and hollyhocks. It's a pleasant, the Elsenhower Museum. There Abilene used to be a wide me: "From the Times of London, tranquil, simple house, the sort are Eisenhower trophies-the open, riproaring place in the neon lighting, the juke boxea.wce there are reports that of place in which mililons of swords, the sashes, the medals, past, In the old days there were and the pin-ball machines should the US. Lines will not buy the de luxe tour. We are going the glittering badges and awards more liquer saloons than business have been imported to rob the ship if the

the lines thare of the cost," "No, the Daily Mail,". I re- to have the super de luxe, as will be displayed. This will be houses. It was foolhardy to walk place of its character. plied.

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BERLIN — BLOCKADE KLONDIKE

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At the green-bakze roulette

by SEFTON DELMER

to

eObjects

Three Moscow, in my minion, will

endeavour

other items badly wanted by able that it is already playing Berlin.

the East but banned by the a leading part in forming HE night spots

Allies are exported by their Soviet policy towards the city

German producers cen zine to the West by this route West crammed, Striptease, biggest blockade-running

they Sometimes la in the chape of easily dis- Switzerland. (Potsdam tres. boogle-woogle

Belleve mp, theso Berliners posable goods.

cigaretics, go even further afield to Egypt, style), political cabaret, all

can "take" 11. Thro are coffee, s'ockings, textiles, cal- Singapore, the Argentino. are doing boom-town busi- taking millions of pounds in culating ma

machinca.

Before ever the stuff has.

TO ELIMINATE Berlin or a Some of it goes by lorry. profits and commission,

The blockade-running falls But most of it by goods train been unpacked or unloaded forward base for 27 Lill-Sevlet and propaganda and by barge. False Invoices often before it has renched its 'esplommige

is re- agencies by Koláting. West Ber- and baccarat tables of Berlin's Into three rough categories:

accompany tho contraband, alleged destination-t

as fouled for its reat goat behind. In from the Soviet izme

wherover, possible; "ncu

Much of thto Germati TO STRANGLE West Berlin material is going to far-away ecuncanically, which would China-"the back of beyond" make West Gemany noven Through the not in blockade running

alang rendier 10

demand from the which has sent ・u special

between East and West Gor-

65. gambling casinos seats aro

.1.

EVERYDAY TRADE

which is usually described

their tral country;

to

empty only for 'seconds, Most West Berlmers who so lato: being bound for Switzerland, the Iron Curtain. of the players lose their money the Soviet seclor and buy food Holland, or, some other standing up

for themselves and Luxury, restauranta and road- comilies with Eastmarks at half houser" are being opmed. The cr a quarter of the price they cafes on the Kurfurstendamm would have to pay for it with the Plecadilly of Berlin are Westmarks in West Berlin.

› afternoon with. Ailled every

ONCE

NCE across the border the blockade-breaking delegation to Alles the removal of trade bans Berliners and their wives, sip.,West Berlin. polico try

stop this trade illegal under goods are hastily unloaded. Berlin, A ping coffee and whipped cream, Allled orders by pearching The proceeds are used to pay! Fortunes are being made on many

TO PRESERVE the sector a toying with apple strudel and cars and lorries crossing the see for the infinitely more impor- the new Klondike of the Kur-

from industrial: furstendam, And not only a baro for their own blockade- more whipped cream

by the Berliners West Germany to the East,

and those breakers while saddling's "the It is baffling for aide by for boundaries. They have de fant experts.

These for the most part are dark, beele-browed citizens Western Allies with the resign- side with this boom there is slump,

2 DIRECT EXPORT AND IM so precious and often no bulky: who have descended on Berlin ability for economie,

That is how I seo RAWANG FORT OF CONTRABAND that they cannot be risfred an, from where heaven goods back and forth across, the direct inter-zone traffle, not know.

tho THE answer to all this and it's the frontier between the Soviet even under

faked Soviet officials, too, are pit I could oak the Chinese genties half of zone amazing is that

and transit involees, Instead, they ing up pleasant little neat way from me what hest British and the blockaded Berlin lives by block- American zones

are passed through what it get in the Swiss banka end about it-o is inking to two of this passos known here are

einer sato, depolta urranged very knowledgeable looking ado; the other half dies by it. Very Ille

for them by the Berlin 'ogamta. Onician gentlemen. Tắt I sup- Here in the alege-bound élty, through Berlin. But nearly all right: under the noses of its of It is arranged for, bald for 3 Rare steel alloys, specialised value as a blockadesprending

? THE -- TRIANGLE NET-1ks believe-vibrat Berlin's, pose, that would be butting* machine-tools, and hundreds of centre has become so considers undon

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