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Evening star., 1950-01-08
Engagements
Of Interest
In Capital

Former Senator and Mrs. D.
Worth Clark of Washington and
Pocatello, Idaho, announce the
engagement of their daughter,
Miss Nancy Lee Clark, to Mr..
William Donald Wurzberger. son
of Mr.. and Mrs. William Wurz-
berger of Baltimore. go
Miss Clark is a graduate Of
Goucher College and has been en-
ployed at the college as assistant
to the director of admissions.
Mr.. Wurzberger attended the
University of Pennsylvania and
during the war served as a lieu
tenant in the Air Force.
Mrs. Hines Cleland announces
the engagement of her daughter,
Rita Wherry, to Mr.. Arthur Les
lie Thornton, jr., son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Thornton of Washington. and
Lynchburg.
Miss Cleland is the daughter of
Maj. John R. D. Cleland of Jack
sonville, Fla, granddaughter of
Gen. and Mrs. John L. Hines and
great-granddaughter of the late
Brig. Gen. William M. Wherry.
She is graduate of Holton- Arms
School and Hood College, and at
present is teaching at the National
Child Research Center.
Mr.. Thornton is the grandson
of the late Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur
Presley Thornton of Fredericks-
burg and of Mrs. Charles e. Zim-
norman of Amherst County, Va,
and the late Mr.. William Richard
Ray, also of Amherst County. His
.great-grandfather was the late
venerable Archdeacon Elliot H.
Thomson, D. D., of Shanghai.
China, and his great-uncle was the
late Right Rev. Arthur Conover
Thomson, D. D., third Bishop of
Southern Virginia.
The groom elect is a graduate of
the University of Virginia, where
he was a member of Phi Kappa
Psi Fraternity. He served for three
years in the Marine Corps.
OF much interest to service and
residential circles is the an
nouncement made by Mrs. Henry
Kirchmann Of Belvedere, Calf, of
the engagement of her daughter
Elaine, to Mr.. Hugh Edmund
Beatty. younger son of Rear Adj
miral Frank E.. Beatty, COM
mander OF the United States
Naval Ordnance Laboratory In
White Oak, Md, and Mrs. Beatty.
Miss Kirchmann, who is the
daughter Of the late Mr.. Kirch-
mann, attended Dominican Col
lege and the San Francisco Con-
servatory of Music. Mr.. Beatty,
who is the grandson Of the late
Rear Admiral and Mrs. Frank e.
Beatty of Washington. is a senior
at Villanova College, and upon
graduation he plans to follow the
Navy career Of his father and his
grandfather.
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usiveIy Yours,
Betty Beo|e
Capital Getting Ready Show Dizzy Costumes Trun7ons
Post Debutonte Hos Fqntostic Arroy of Animals Around

Washington will become so cos
tune conscious the next few days
that there's no telling what will
evolve. If your prominent friends
suddenly start babbling in his
torical or artistic terms, don't let
it worry you. It simply means
that they are going to the cos
tune ball for President and Mrs.
Truman which the American
Newspaper Women's Club is stag
ing on the 18th, and they can't
decide whether to go as Pocahon-
tas, Sally Rand or Diamond Bill
Brady. Anything goes so long as
you can find it in American his
tory. Probably be a brace or more
OF Scarlett O'Haras in the Pan
American Unions Hall of Amer
icas that night.
Mrs. Jesse Donaldson. wife Of
the Postmaster General, is trying
to get her husband to go as a
postman, but she's not sure Of her
persuasive powers. II he does
don the blue uniform. 1t seems
to yours truly that the least Mrs.
D. can do is to go as stamp or
an airmail letter. Mrs. Stanley
Hornbeck is going to wear her
mothers wedding dress which her
mother wore for the second time
on her 50th wedding anniversary.
Col. and Mrs. Robert McCor-.
mick are coming from Chicago
for the party, will accompany
their niece. "Bazy" Miller, and her
husband Peter to the ball. Maybe
the colonel will go as Uncle Sam.
Mrs. Charles Stanley White wants
her well-known physician hus-.
band to wear the doctors white
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Tyler of the British Navy and
Mrs. Tyler who will leave for
England this week, and the Diet
richs will move in on Tuesday.
Capt. Dietrich, who formerly was
chief of staff to Admiral Forrest
Sherman in the Mediterranean,
now is executive assistant and aide
to the new Chief of Naval Opera.
tions. Since last February his
wife and daughter, Diane, have
been travelling through Europe,
spending the summer in Nice on
the Riviera. Diane, who went to
Sweet Briar for two years, came
home in the fall to enter G. w.
and her mother arrived here just
before Christmas on the Vul-
cania.
Honored at Dinner
Maj. Gen. and Mrs. John A.
Chapman who are leaving next
month to return to Australia and
Mr.. and Mrs. Leslie Smith of
Vienna, Va, were honor guests
at the dinner Maj. Gen. and Mrs.
William Howard Arnold gave
Thursday night. Others at the
party were 1t. Gen. and Mrs.
Raymond S. McLain, 1t. Gen.
and Mrs. Harold r. Bull and the
Military Attache of the Canadian
Embassy and Mrs. H. E. Taber.
Rear Admiral and Mrs. Will
liam M. Callaghan were hosts at
two at homes during the week. en-
tertaining about seventy of their
navy and civilian friends at each.
Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Harry F.
Thompson left Friday for Wichita,
Kans., for a two-week visit with
the generals sister. On their re-
turn their daughter, Mrs. Robert
r. Glass, and four grandchildren
will come up from Norfolk to stay
with them after Col. Glass leaves
for duty in Tokyo.
Miss Patricia Moore, daughter
of Brig. Gen. and Mrs. James E.
Moore, whose engagement Capt.
James G. Shanahan was an
nounced on New Years Day, has
set the date for their wedding.
The ceremony will be held Satur-
day, February 18, at IL o'clock
In Fort Myer Chapel and the res
ception in Hop Hall. Already
scheduled for the BRIDE to-he is
the shower which Joan Phillips,
daughter Of Mai. and Mrs. Roy
M. Phillips. will give for Patty
on January Is.
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Martha Ryan
To Be Married

Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel J. Ryan
announce the engagement of their
daughter Martha Genevieve to
1t. Gordon Allen, son Of Brig.
Gen. and Mrs. Frank A. Allen, jr.
The wedding will take place In
the spring.
Miss Ryan is a graduate OF
Georgetown Visitation Junior Col
lege and for the past two years
has been active In dramatic work
ut Catholic University and Eagles
Mere. Pa.
1t. Allen, a graduate of the
bill School in Pottstown, Pa, and
the United States Military Acad-
bmy. class OF l945.
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coat and she a nurses uniform,
but he says no, that wouldn't be
a costume for him. Mimi Allen
thinks the Mississippi's early
steamboat days were the most fas-
cinating times in our history. Is
going to look like she just stepped
off a stern-wheeler. The costume
of the wife of an early Governor
of Rhode Island is being shipped
here complete with slippers and
parasol. and something dazzling
is coming from Hollywood. and
one pretty young thing is going
to wear balloons-lots of balloons.
There's a slightly mercenary OBJ
jectiye to all this dressing up, Of
course. Some very tasty prizes
will be awarded for the most
beautiful, most original and fun
niest costume and for most dis
tinctively garbed couple.
X X ~
The Monday outlook of the
elevator operators in the Com
monwealth building Is one Of
mingled excitement, bewilderment
and fearful anticipation. Around
3 or 4 every afternoon the first OF
the week pint-sized, blond Marilyn
Hines walks in to rehearSe for
her teleyision show and they never
know what she will have with
her as part Of her cast.
Let this be q warning to them:
Tomorrow she will step into the
elevator with one pony, one Siber-
ian husky dog, one canary, one
chinchilla, one miniature French
poodle called Sinner" one cat
called "Pansy" and a great dane
that answers to the call Of
Baron" Sometimes It's hard TO
Evening star., 1950-01-08
Date Named
To Trun1uns
Congressional Club
Welcomes Members
And Guests Today

The President and Mrs. Truman
will be the guests of honor of the
Congressional Club on Thursday
evening, February 2, at the annual
reception given for them, and
meantime they are among those
on the special list of guests in
vited to the at-home being given
by the club this afternoon.
So Mrs. Ralph Church. president of
the club, will head the receiving
line at today's 4-to-6 informal,
and others in the line will be
Senator and Mrs. Sheridan
Downey, Representative and Mrs.
Hal Holmes, Representative and
Mrs. Brooks Hays, Senator and Mrs.
Olin Johnston, Representative and
Mrs. Carl Curtis, Representative
and Mrs. John Lodge, Representa-
tive and Mrs. Paul Kilday and
Representative and Mrs. Lawrence
Smith.
Mrs. Carroll Kearns is general
chairman for the at-home and Is
being assisted by Mrs. Clinton
Anderson, Mrs. Clifford Davis and
Mrs. Clark Wallace Thompson.
To Greet Newcomers
Mrs. James C. Davis heads the
committee to greet newcomers to
the contingent and see that they
become acquainted with each
other as well as with club mem
bers. and Mrs. Frank Barrett and
Mrs. Harold Burton will be rem
dering valuable aid along this line.
Those presiding at the tea table
and punch bowl will include Mrs.
Porter Dale, Mrs. William Whit
tington, Mrs. Edwards Burke, Mrs.
John Taber. Mrs. Burton, Mrs.
Daniel Reed and Mrs. Clifford
Davis, all past presidents of the
club. who will serve under the
craftsmanship of Mrs. John Kunkel
and Mrs. Sterling Cole.
Others assisting as hostesses will
be Mrs. Omar Burleson, Mrs. Jesse
Wolcott, Mrs. Albert Gore, Mrs.
Chet Holifield, Mrs. Karl LIE
Compte, Mrs. w. F. Norrell, Mrs.
John Rankin, Mrs. William Reed,
Mrs. Ken Regan, Mrs. John Spark
man and Mrs. Roy Woodruff.
Miss Margaret Truman was in
vited and others on the list are
Vice President and Mrs. Alben
Barkley, Mr.. and Mrs. Max Truitt,
the Chief Justice of the United
States and Mrs. Fred Vinson, the
Speaker of the House. Representa-
tive Sam Rayburn; the Secretary
of State and Mrs. Dean Acheson
and other members of the cabinet
circle and of the Supreme Court
circle.
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Betty Beule

find Marilynn in the midst of her
animal kingdom.
Nor is that the half of it.
What this post debutante, who's
also a first rate pilot. does for the
sake Of her beloved four-footed
friends will someday. make his
tory. Her weekly stint Monday
nights at 1880 on WMAL is all in
the interest of the TailasWaggers
Club which provides a free clinic
for all animals whether members
or not. Membership. though,
costs only 81 year, and the TV
show is to add members and con-
sequently support for the clinic.
Her experiences are fantastic.
One evening after the show she
had to take the animals back to
her apartment with her, put q
honey bear in a closet. Sinner and
Pansy In her own bedroom, Baron
in the kitchen and another dog
and cat in the sale de balm. Visit
ing friends thought they were go
ing berserk were ready to renounce
liquor.
The most trouble she's had with
the wildlife came from riding in
her car with female orangutan
that didn't like women. The
funniest story is about the time
she walked of the elevator with
q pony and into Harry Hoskin-
sons Office. When the man Harry
was talking to turned around and
took one look, he almost dropped
dead.
Each week an animal is given
away to some one who can provide
q suitable home. Believe it or not,
Go nm N nn~~ - n y assss77
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Party Pace S|ockens
After Holiday Season
Farewell Fetes Planned for Corneys;
Service Set Travelling and Returning
BY Betty Murphy

spite Of the that Tyler British Navy an
varably holiday Mrs Tyler who will leave TO
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Plan Dinners:
Other Fetes
Travellers Returninq
To Washington
During the Week
By KothoFine M. Brooks

Embassy row will be gay with
dinner parties during these next
few weeks. Tomorrow the Egyp-
tian Ambassador and Mime. Abdul
Rahim will be hosts in their at
tractive Embassy on Sheridan
Circle. Their neighbors across the
circle. the Greek Ambassador and
Nine. Dendramis, will give a SINH
lar party Tuesday, January II.
The Netherlands Ambassador and
Nine. van Klehens, whose En-
bassy is about a block away are
planning two parties, the first to
be Saturday and the second
Thursday, January 10.
The Brazilian Ambassador, Mr..
Mauricio Nebuco, and his sister,
Miss Caroline Nebuco, are in New
York with their brother and sis
ter-in-law and niece, DR.. and Mrs.
Jose Nabuco, and their debutante
daughter, Miss Sylvia Nabuco. DR..
and Mrs. Nabuco will sail shortly
to return to Brazil and their
daughter will resume her studies
at the Georgetown Visitation Con-
vent.
To Be Hosts
The Ambassador and Miss Ma
buco also are planning three din
ners. January 18, 10 and 20.
The Australian Ambassador and
Mrs. Norman j. o. Maxim will be
hosts at dinner Wednesday eve
ming in honor of the newly ap-
pointed head of the Australian
Services in Washington, Rear Ad-
miral Harold Farncomb, and Mrs.
Farncomb. The newcomers will
arrive in Washington earlier that
day from their long trek halfway
around the world. Admiral Farm
comb will succeed Maj. Gen. John
Austin Chapman, who, with Mrs.
Chapman and their daughter,
Miss Betty Chapman, will leave
early next week for New Orleans.
They will have a brief visit there
and then continue their journey
across the continent and will sail
February % from San Francisco
for their homeland.
The Naval Attache of the Aus
tralian Embassy and Mrs. j. c.
Morrow will give a cocktail party
Saturday evening and both the
new and the retiring chiefs, Ad-
miral Farncomb and Gen. Chap,
man, with their wives are expected
to be among the guests. Admiral
and Mrs. Farncomb will be at
the Shoreham Hotel until they
can find suitable abode. %
Another party planned for q
new arrival from the armed forces
of one Of the British dominions
Is that to be given Saturday by
the Canadian Joint Staff. The
party will be in the Joint Staff
headquarters at 100 Massachu-
setts avenue where the chairman
and Mrs. Hugh Campbell win act
do AlooNos 4IlC llO11Ol SucStS Wll&
be Air Commodore M. M. Hend-
rick, new member of the Joint
Staff and Air Attache of the En-
bassy, and Mrs. Hendrick. They
will arrive In Washington tomor-
row and at the party Saturday
they will share honors with the
retiring Air Attache and Mrs. r.
G.. Gordon. Air Commodore Cor
don has been transferred for duty
at Halifax and with Mrs. Gordon
and their family will leave the
first of next week.
The Thailand Ambassador and
Princess Wan Waithaykon gave
one of those popular late afternoon
parties yesterday, receiving from
6 to 8 o'clock in their Embassy on
Kalorama road. Diminutive Prin-
(see BROOKS. Page D-2)
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NATIONAL SYMPHONY
FUND WORKERS.

Mrs. Oscar C. Badger, 1oite
OF Rear Admiral Badger, Is
chairman OF the Many Conn.,
mittee for the National Sym
phony Orchestra's Goth annual
sustaining fund campaign,
tohich toiH officially get under
way Tuesday 1Dith the kickoff
luncheon at the MayfoDer
Hotel. Here Mrs. Badger an
st0ers a telephone inquiry on
the drive as Mrs. Dduid Clark
and Cocker Sammy look on.
Evening star., 1950-11-15
By Constantine Br0syn

Diplomats in Washington and
Lake Success are far more worried
about the consequences of the Chi
neSe Communist intervention in
Evening star., 1950-11-15
Over
Lucas Sees But Little Senate Action
If Truman Calls Back Lame Ducks

that the Democrats will still be
faced with the necessity of carry.
ing the big industrial States.
Consolation Prize.
Minority circles are recalling
that Senator Mcfarland of Ari.
zona. who subbed for Senator
Lucas last summer. voted with
the Southerners against the civil
rights cloture. They assert q
preference for Senator Mcmahon
or Senator O'Mahoney: they
would be even more pleased with
Senator Douglas of Illinois. but
he is freshman and therefore
an unlikely choice until his SEN
iors are ruled out.
One consolation prize for the
remaining Democrats is that, with
so many senior Senators beaten
there will be a number of juicy
committee vacancies to be filled
Agriculture, Armed Services, For
eign Relations, 1.-TWO places even
with the loss of one to the Re-
publicanS).
Republican leadership is intact.
What will be interesting is what
younger men Senators Taft and
Millikin decide to promote to the
best committee assignments. In
cluding, of course, that valuable
contributor to the G. o. P. tri-
umph, Senator Mccarthy.
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Tactics of Confusion
Drive Against Excess Profits Tax
Pushed bv Powerful Interests
,rful Interests

| full corporate interests. on the
heels of the Republican victory
at the polls. The arguments are
that the excess profits tax Is un-
workable and inefficient. that 1t
does not do what it is supposed
to do because 1t can be evaded by
smart tax lawyers, and so forth,
which may be- valid. Instead, its
opponents would substitute in
creased corporation taxes as a
means OF taking the profits out
of war.
Public Should Be Alerted.
The point made here is that the
public should be alerted now to
see that the aim is achieved,
whatever the device adopted. for
it is very easy to confuse the
people by technicalities about tax
laws. as any one familiar with
the tax-drafting process here can
tell you from experience. And
there are always. of course, those
who would get tax advantages at
the expense of the public-even
in time of national emergency.
That is another bitter fact you
learn from experience here.
Any one familiar with the way
big corporate and financial inter-
ests try to work their way with
Congress naturally would have
his suspicious aroused by the series
Of events surrounding the profits
tax issue. AS we got into the
Korean war, the question of an
excess profits tax was raised in
Congress. This was met by the
unter-argument that there was
not time for such complicated
matter, that there should be de
lay" The time argument had no
real standing, however, since a
tax bill was pending before Con-
gress when the Korean war broke
out back in June.
Finally, when Congress was
ready to pass the revenue bill
without an excess profits tax and
showed it's intention of recessing
without doing anything about an
excess profits tax, the public woke
! up. Both House and Senate then
adopted the resolutions previously
mentioned after last-minute at
tempts to add an excess profits tax
to the bill had failed. There was
much lip service to pledges of ac-
ton when Congress returned.
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This Changing World
Weakness in Chinese Red Forces Seen
By Macarthur Tokyo Headquarters

cause at that time it was hoped
to avoid Chinese Communist in
tervention by keeping their enc
mics out of Korea.
The situation may change radi-
cally in the near future. If Pei
ping continues its aggression
Chang may be asked to place at
the disposal of the U. N. what
ever forces he can afford. And
these are formidable.
According to latest reports from
Taipei, the Nationalist army is
750. 900 strong. The men are well
trained and disciplined. There is
enough modern equipment avail
able in Formosa for at least 100,-
900 Nationalist soldiers. The old
corrupt generals have been elm
mated and only young and eff
cient officers now command the
troops.
Hatred for Communists.
There is bitter hatred for the
Communists. not only among the
top leaders, but also in the ranks.
Grapevine reports reach them
daily. giving facts about the
plight of their families on the
mainland. All ranks. from gen.
erals to buck privates-whose pay
Is 81 a month-are anxious to
meet the Communists in battle.
Intervention by the Nation
alists on the China mainland
could change the entire ~situa-
ton in the Far East and seriously
affect the stranglehold the Pei
ping rulers have on the country.
According to Communist lead
ers themselves, at least l million
hrigands. as the opponents of the
new regime are called. are oper-
ating in various parts Of China.
Only last Sunday the Peiping
broadcast announced the arrest
and execution of one "brigand, J"
Yu Feng, who was chief of the
"1st Detachment of the 120th
Command Post Of the enemy
3,86lst unit"
Each unit is reported to be 100
men strong. If Feng was a men,
ber Of a unit numbered at near
1000, how many such rebel Or
ganizations exist in China? Ac-
cording to Taipei sources, there
are over 10000 on the mainland
at present, that is to say, about
! million armed guerrillas, who
are waging war against the Mos
cow puppets.
The appearance of Nationalist
forces, either in Korea or other
parts of South China, as a part
of an international force could
easily bring about the greatest
surprise Mao TZe-tung has had
in his life.
Evening star., 1950-11-15

cializes In psychoanalyzing dogs.
He explained that If any OF my
pets were moody the good doctor
would be glad to call. stretch my
poocheS out on couch, and
have them as normal as Lassie in
no time.
Next came a man who told me
that 7 lacked poise and self-con-
fidence, and who said he would
come for an hour day and rem
edy these defects. I couldn't help
picturing in my mind how my
living room would look with q
cocker spaniel being psychoana-
lyzed on the sofa while I prac-
ticed poise in a corner while
playing a mandolin.
The specialists started coming
In coveys now. To save wear and
tear on the bell I left the door
open.
If only a specialist in getting
rid Of specialists would call upon
me!
distributed by McNaught Syndicate, 1nc)
Evening star., 1950-11-15

ger, time to do Henry McLemore'
any number of things. He can
hang out a quarantine sign. he
can bolt the doors and start
growing like a peevish police dog,
he can slip on false whiskers. or
he can light out of the back door
and take off for the woods.
Caught by Buzzer.
But in an apartment none OF
these things is possible. The
door buzzer buzzes. and you're
caught. OF course. there may be
men with sufficient power to sit
out the ringing of a door or tele-
phone bell, but they're rarer than
IS o'clock shadow in a kinder
garten.
I wrote the other day how New
York must be the friendliest city
in the world to the newcomer,
what with tradespeople swarm
ing in by the hundreds and offer
ing to furnish him with every
thing from a dry-cleaning serv-
ice for electric eels to custom
made mustard plasters.
The visits of the tradespeople
has dwindled a bit now, with only
so or go dropping in each day for
chat. But what might be called
the specialists have more than
taken up the slack.
New York, I know now, Is the
one city in the world where a
man could live in an apartment
all his life, never once going out,
and still get the darndest all
around service imaginable.
Specialists in Droves.
One Of the first specialists who
called on me today Il couldn't
see him coming up the walk was
a man who, after welcoming me
to the city, graciously offered to
teach me how to play the guitar,
mandolin, piano and accordion.
Right in my own home.
He was followed by a represent
ative of a gentleman who spe-
Evening star., 1950-11-15
By Doris FIeeson

The White House telephone
rang Tuesday in the handsome
Office Of the Senate majority lead
er where the defeated Scott Lucas
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committees OF ihomas L. Stokes-
House and Senate to prepare an
excess profits tax bill for con-
sideration at a special session
which it scheduled for Novem-
ber 27. You may remember
also that this commitment was
forced from Congress by pro-
tests over its failure to include
an excess profits tax in the new
revenue law 1t enacted increas-
ing all our individual income
taxes, along with boosts also for
corporations, that went into effect
in October.
Symbol of Sacrifice.
The excess profits tax, which
we had in both World Wars I and
II, has become a symbol for TAX
ing the profits out of war and for
equality of sacrifice. That prin-
ciple certainly seems applicable
now in regard to the tremendous
costs, with resultant profits, of our
greatly expanded military pro-
gram necessitated by new threats
from Soviet Russia.
Two things have happened
since Congress passed those reso-
lutions which would appear to re-
inforce that principle:
/. Profits, swelled by Govern
ment war orders paid for by your
taxes, have reached an all-time
high.
2. The Korean war, which it
seemed few weeks ago was about
to end VIGOROUSLY, now has en-
tered another and grim phase
with the Chinese Red surge across
the Manchurian border, and our
troops are settling down for a
winter siege. The Far Eastern
tension is further intensified by
companion threats in Indo-C China
and Tibet.
Now comes the new campaign
against the tax, backed by power