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Evening star., 1951-06-02
Lowell MeHett::
Production Nearinq Maximum
At Least, Some Industries Seem to Be Producing
More Goods Than the Public Is Able to Buy

Whatever else history may
make of Josef Stain, he should
be remembered as the handiest
whipping boy we Americans
ever had. The Administration
proposes to do something and
the reaction of the Opposition
is: That's exactly what Stain
wants." The Opposition blocks
some program of the Admins
tration and a Government
spokesman declares: "Joe Stain
is happy tonight" Every day we
hear it. If not Stain, the Polit-
buro or the Kremlin or even
just the plain Russians. They
should be the merriest people
in the world, thanks to us, if
we can believe what we our
selves say.
And when we aren't express
ing concern over the pleasure
we provide for the Russians we
are declaring our fear that we
may become like them. 1t some
times seems a little silly.
ut would be ironic," the
United States Chamber of Com
merce solemnly intones, "if in
order to defeat our enemies we
had to adopt their methods and
subject our citizens to the kind
of straitja exciting, policing and
regimenting which is the evil
of their system"
It surely would be ironic if
we had to do such things, but
what was the Chamber talking
about? 1t was talking about
prices and wage and rent con-
troll and Government efforts to
handle the battling problem of
imitation. And about Price Sta
bilizer DiSalle's notion, which
he says he shares with Herbert
Hoover, that it may be neces-
sary to license business in order
Evening star., 1951-06-02
Text of DecIossfied Formoso Policy Document

that the total Of such demands
evidences concern and Illustration
in some quarters but does not add
up to a consensus on any particu-
lar position different from that Of
f1cially taken.
What to Avoid.
d. Avoid:
/. Speculation which would
show undue concern with whether
Nationalists can hold the island
or when Communists may take
lit:
2. References which would in
dicate important strategic sig
Inif1cance, OF that the island is a
political entity;
3. In output to China, any
emphasis on bad conditions in
Formosa under the Nationalists
although to other areas reference
can be made among reasons why
Nationalists are vulnerable there
as elsewhere:
4. Statements that Formosa S
final status still is to be deter
mined by the Japanese peace
treaty:
5. Name 'Taiwan'; use For
mosa'."
Evening star., 1951-06-02

Our campaign in Korea will
be one-year-old at the end of
this month. Our achievements.
insofar as the enemy is con-
cerned, have been less than
limited. We have killed a large
number of Koreans and Chinese,
but so far there is not the Slight
est indication that this nolo-
caust has affected the Peiping
government.
On our side we nave had
nearly 10000 combat and nom
combat casualties. II is true
that more than one third CT
these are back on duty. But the
balance still must be considered
a severe loss, particularly when
we bear in mind that we are
still long way from O6tail.ing
either military or political
objective.
Fear is holding back any at
tempt to start a decisive action.
On orders from Washington
Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway and
1t. Gen. James A. Van Fleet
must continue to fight a con-
tainment action and kill so
many Reds they will cry for
peace. This, too, seems a very
long way off.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff con-
tend that we must not be i'm
pressed by the fact that China
has a population of $50 million
and consequently an unlimited
number of soldiers. But they
do estimate the trained Chi
neSe marpower at about 4 mil
lion men. We have under arms
today about 3 million, including
the supporting services, which
require large number. But in
Korea we have only 250,000
troops.
Under present policies of the
administration, which is mind
full not to offend either the
British or the Indian govern
mentS' .susceptibilities, there is
little chance of our making any
positive use of the 100000
trained Chinese Nationalist SOL
dierS.
The bulk of our trained forces
must be kept in readiness, ac-
cording to present plans, to
meet the manifold commit
ments we have all over the
globe. Hence, while the Chinese
are free to use their whole
trained manpower against the
Evening star., 1951-06-02
Record to Be Made
As Man Conducts
His Own Funeral
BY the Associated Press

BURLINGTON, Colo, June O.
u. w. Gernhardt will conduct his
own funeral tomorrow.
Mr.. Gernhardt, IS, is doing it
to make sure he'll have the kind
Iof service he wants after he dies
and SO he won't "be a lot of trou-
BILE" to others then.
He will serve lunch first to the
press and others. Then he'll pre-
side over services in the local
Iarmory.
He had some trouble lining up
the affair. A scheduled singer
backed out so he'll use recorded
music. Several ministers turned
down his invitation because, he
says, he isn't dead or they thought
he was staging a show.
The services will be recorded,
then played after his death.
That way" Mr.. Garnhardt
says. I'll know what's going on"
Evening star., 1951-06-02
8 Underground Reporters
Executed in Red China
BY the Associated Press

HONG KONG, June 2.-Offi.
cials Of a Chinese newspaper pub.
lished here disclosed today tha
eight of their underground re.
porters in Red China had beer
detected and executed.
The officials asked that the
newspapers name not be men.
toned since the paper still has 6
few reporters left in China who
might be traced through date
lines.
All larger Chinese papers here
have reporters operating in the
southern part of China. It was
their dispatches about public ex-
ecutions that disclosed the Chi
nese Communists had undertaken
major purge.
Evening star., 1951-06-02

throughout the whole Soviet
bloc-would not that be useful
to us? Would that information
not enter into our calculations
and would we not seek means
to exploit the knowledge so in
credibly revealed-not only by
the witnesses, but by the politi-
cal and military commentators?
Throughout the hearings, this
commentator has seen di-
lemma of public duty. Care
fully to read the testimony, to
check the words and recollec-
tions of one witness against
another: to gauge the attitude
of public leaders; to observe and
note the reactions of the Amer
lean and allied peoples; in short,
to weigh and analyze the whole
evidence is work for the poll
tical commentator, which he
does, if he is curious and indus
trious. But it is also the work
OF intelligence services, and I,
at least. do not want to help
the Soviets do their homework!
All this recklessness, impetu-
osity, self justification, lack of
restraint, and evidence of policy
based on highly dubious and
irrational assumptions are at
tributed to the democratic proc
ess, and the democratic process
must, apparently, be upheld
even if it kills us!
But history judges a political
process otherwise: Whether it
contributes to the life or death
of a nation and civilization;
and, if the world is ever to be
safe for democracy, democracy
must also be made safe for it
self and the world.
Released by The Bell Syndicate, Inc,
Evening star., 1951-06-02

United Nations, we are limited
to the present forces in Korea
and whatever replacements can
be sent from the United States.
This renders our present STRAIT
egy of attrition highly ques-
tionable.
American strength in the last
war. and it would be so in a
possible third world war. was
its high level of technical de-
velopment and the effective use
of the Air Force. We never
have and never shall be able to
dispose OF vast masses of ground
forces. such as the Russians and
their satellites possess. Nor are
our allies capable today of put
ting in the field ground forces
anywhere equal to those of the
enemy.
If the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization is able to muster
so divisions by the end of 1853
it will be a miracle. Hence, our
strategy, as seen by many pro-
fessionals. must be based on the
careful use of our Air Force and
scientific weapons. produced pri-
marily by our own industry.
Heretofore we have used our
excellent Air Force in the Far
East exclusively for tactical
purposes. The fear of Russia
has made our top strategists in
Washington timid. They want to
keep our air power intact as
much as possible and fear that
if it is used successfully against
the Chinese, with whom we now
are at war, there will be little
left to meet a Soviet onslaught
against Western Europe This
line of thinking seems strange
to many high-ranking members
Of the Air Force. particularly
since they do not believe that
the approximately 1.500 Soviet
made planes in the hands of the
Chinese can give good account
of themselves in air combat
against Americans and their
allies.
At the same time Gen. Hoyt
Vandenberg has testified before
the Senate Joint committee that
within the next two or three
years the Russians will have
exceeded our overall air power
Still the civilian strategistS in
Washington are unmoved in
their decision to fight a war of
attrition in Korea.
Evening star., 1951-06-02
Miss Truman Doesn't Intend
ToBringHomed TitIedHusbond

She skillfully sidestepped ef-
forts of French reporters to draw
her out on the question of ro-
nance. Hes determined to get
me married" she laughed. re-
ferring to the persistent questions
of French reporter.
OF course. she is excited about
meeting the King and Queen of
England, she said, but she wasn't
sure about what protocol to fol-
low, Would she curtSy?
"I'n do whatever is proper"
she said.
Asked whether she had invited
any shipboard friends to visit her
later at the White House, she
replied, That would be danger
GUS. It's still under repair"
Evening star., 1951-06-02
Dorothy Thompson
Dorothy Thompson
Reds Aided in Own + Homework
Weakness Of u. S. Revealed in Macarthur Hearings
By Attempts to Justify Democratic Process

We are certainly practicing a
remarkable diplomacy-or anti
diplomacy.
Over a million words have
been testified in the inquiry into
the dismissal of Gen. MacAr-
thur. The Defense Secretary,
the chairman of the Joint
Chiefs, the heads of the Army.
Navy and Air Force have been
heard, and finally the Secre-
tary of State comes to the wit
ness chair.
Practically the entire testi-
mony has been published YER
batim. One can think of no
precedent for such procedure.
In a time of serious inter-
national tension, the military
leaders OF the anti-Soviet world
have revealed, almost casually,
American military weakness to
implement, if challenged, any
vital part of the global policy
of the administration.
The assumption, not only of
Gen. Macarthur but of Secre-
tary Marshall as well, has been
that nothing revealed, planned
or projected, will affect Russian
plans, or Russian actions.
They speak. with almost in
different candor, as though the
Iron Curtain which wells the
Soviets' military condition and
political-military plans worked
equally to blind Russian eyes
to what is revealed in Wash
ington.
The concept of Soviet policy
is that it won't mesh in with
anything we reveal or antici-
pate; that the Politburo has it's
own unalterable plans, not to
be DETECTED or modified by
Evening star., 1951-06-02

that the Governments author
1ty over prices and wages be
abolished. 1t offers a program of
its own, for combating inf1a-
ton. The first and most impor-
tant thing, says the Chamber, is
maximum production.
But maximum production
seems to be one thing we've Just
about got. Articles like automo-
biles and television sets have
come off the assembly lines in
such streams since the war that
now they are piled up in ware
houses and salesrooms, begging
Evening star., 1951-06-02
Snow and Floods Hif
West While Heat and
Drought Plague East
BY the Associated Press

Natures elements appeared or
a climatic binge yesterday as
June started with a crazy-quilt
weather pattern.
The South prayed for rain as
a prolonged dry spell heightened
the danger of millions of dollars
damage to crops.
Torrential rains fell in Nebraska
Scores Of families fled from their
flooded homes as rivers over
flowed low-lying areas in the
southeastern part of the State.
Snow covered part of the Da-
kotas, Wyoming and Montana
There was an 8-inch blanket OF
white at Rapid City, S. Oak. 1t
was below freezing in some parts
of the snow belt.
TOpcoat Weather.
It was topcoat weather over
many of the Plains States, North
ern Rockies and Northern Mid
west States. The cool air pushed
into the North Central region.
The South and most of the
Midwest and East sweltered in
midsummer temperatures. Elec-
trical, wind and rain storms broke
the oppressive heat in some Mid
west and Eastern cities last night.
At least four persons were
killed in the storms. A woman
and her daughter were killed by
lightning near Birmingham, Ala:
"A Fort Benning (Ga.D soldier on
"a field maneuver also was killed
by lightning.
Drought to Continue.
In the South, the dry weather
belt ranged over Georgia, North
ern Florida. Louisiana, Mississip-
pi Tennessee. Alabama and South
and North Carolina. The Wealth
er Bureau in Washington, in a
30-day outlook. said subnormal
rainfall was indicated for the
Southeast in June.
Severe electrical and wind
storms were reported in Buffalo,
Toledo. Ohio; Detroit and Chi
cago. Power lines were disrupted,
windows broken and trees blown
down.
AS the cold front passed Chi
cago temperature dropped Al de-
grees in less than IL hours-from
90 degrees to 81. The change was
marked by a severe electrical
storm.
Tornado Injuries Seven.
A freak windstorm hit Toledo
with guests of winds reaching a
velocity of 78 miles an hour. A
youth drowned when his sailboat
capsized in the Ottawa River.
Near Mafshalltown, Iowa, seven
persons were injured. none crit
ically, when tornado ripped
through a mile-long section of
South Marshalltown last night,
causing extensive damage. Four
houses were destroyed, others were
unroofed and some were lifted off
their foundations.
A violent windstorm caused
heavy damaged in Cory and other
sections of Western Pennsylvania
today. Hundreds of trees were
uprooted as gusts of up to go
miles an hour were recorded. The
brief storm was accompanied by
a driving rain.
Evening star., 1951-06-02
By the Associated Press

LIE HAVRE. France, June a.
Miss Margaret Truman has no in
tention of doing what a lot of
American girls have done in the
past on a European trip-bring
home titled husband.
She would like to meet a count
or a prince, she said today in
Ia shipboard interview, but I'm
not staying long enough to fall
in love-"
The daughter of the President
OF the United States is headed for
England on the first leg of a
European vacation. The liner
America stopped here before pro-
ceeding to Southampton.
Evening star., 1951-06-02

events external to the Soviet
bloc. In this attitude is a rare
(for Westerners) element of
fatalism. Yet. If the fatalistic
assumption is that the lines are
inexorably drawn. the candor
about military weakness is the
more unfathomable; it is surely
unprecedented for political and
military leaders simultaneously
to reveal military weakness and
speak in tones of utmost bellig-
erency, on the open assumption
that war is inevitable unless we
are able to build a superior
force that cannot come into be-
ing for another two or three
years!
If we think that this testi-
mony is not useful to the
Soviets, let us consider whether
the reverse situation would be
useful to us. Imagine that
there were quarrel within the
Soviet government, and that
the members of the Politburo
should range UP on two sides,
freely airing their political and
military differences, debating
whether this area or that should
have military precedence, openly
considering that war would be
the wrong war, in the wrong
place. at the wrong time (and,
by inference, that there might
be right war, in the right
place, at the right time)i
Suppose we were able to as
sess from such a debate the
confusion of counsels, the limi-
tations of military intelligence.
the lack of any comprehensive
or limited goal, the conflicts
between personalities, and the
reactions of public opinion
Evening star., 1951-06-02

public analysis and comment ap-
pearing both at home and abroad,
as well as official statements as
they may appear. Label conflict
ing, public statements properly as
individual expressions of opin-
ion" as unofficial" etc.
B. All material should be used
best to counter the false impress
sions that:
| l. Formosa's retention would
save the Chinese government;
2 The United States has spe-
Icial interest in or designs on" the
Island or any military bases on
iFormosa;
3 It's loss would seriously dam
age the interests of either the
United States or other countries
opposing Communism;
4. The United States is respon-
sible for or committed in any way
to act to save Formosa.
Points to Emphasize.
G. Without evidencing undue
preoccupation with the subject,
emphasize as appropriate any of
the following main points:
l. Formosa is exclusively the re-
sponsibility of the Chinese gov
Iernment:
a. Historically and geographic
cally part of China;
b. The national government has
run the islands affairs since the
takeover and is responsible for
Ipresent conditions there;
C. The United States has as
Isumed no responsibilities or OBJ
Legations. actual or moral.
2. Formosa has no special mill
Itary significance;
a. 1t is only approximately 100
miles off the China coast;
b. Other potential objects of
Communist aggression are closer
to points on the Chinese mainland
than to Formosa:
C. China has never been a sea
power and the island is of no
special strategic advantage to the
Chinese Communist armed forces.
3. Economic assistance in For
mosa has been for economic and
social purposes, has been consistent
with demonstrated United States
concern for the welfare of the
Chinese generally, and has in
volved no thought of special con-
cessions for the United State>.
Demand For U. S. Action.
4. In areas of insistent demand
for United States action, particu-
larly in the United States itself,
we should occasionally make clear
that seeking United States bases
on Formosa, sending in troops,
supplying arms, dispatching naval
units, or taking any similar action
would
a. Accomplish no material good
for China or its Nationalist re-
gime;
b. Involve the United States in
a long-term venture producing at
best a new area of bristllng stale
mate. and at worst possible in
volvement in open warfare;
C. Subject the United States to
a violent propaganda barrage and
to reaction against our 'militarism,
Imperialism and interference even
from friendly peoples, and particu-
larly from Chinese, who would
be turned against us anew;
d. Emlnently suit purposes of
the U. S. S. R.. which would like
ito see US 'substantiate's its pro-
|paganda, dissipate our energies
and weaken effectiveness of our
policies generally by such action.
5. In rejecting U. S. unofficial
5. In rejecting United States
unofficial demands for action uf
various kinds in Formosa, avoid
giving them prominence unwar-
ranted by their limited CASUALLY
Individually source, and make clear
Evening star., 1951-06-02

for customers to take them away.
And the New York department
stores, now staging a thrilling
price war to ease the congestion
of goods on the shelves, must
believe that the present rate of
production will provide them
with plenty more.
Evening star., 1951-07-01
ROOMS FURNIsHED-N.E

CLOSE TO DOWNTOWN. 800 R. !
ave. n.e.-Front rm., clean. cool
newly furn.. phone, radio, elec. fan
other conveniences; SIS wk. Du
CLEAN, iH, COMFORTABLE double room
eeaa coaple; o4ta convi XII transD. rs WA 1888
NEAL ST. NE. 1ass-Lse. frt. rm.
next bath; near bus. Ii. 4-3431
= evenings after 5pm; so,,,. rwno wo ,r
NEAR CATHoLiC TNIv.-Attracty,
or single. IA 1852.
SUITABLE l OR 2; share house; nr
Catholic Univ .Gooyt. employees pre-
4th AND R. 1. AvE.-Twin bedrm.
sep closets; men. DU. 0230.
l34O ST. N.E.-Nice room. next tt
bath; conv. to bus and car; gentle
man only. Ii. 3-37S2.
NICE LGE. RIM. for gentleman; ,reas.
nr; transp,; in refined pvt. nome
Adams 3406. -3
ROOM with comfortable bed, larg'
ONE ne ROOM q Te*E IL kENf: kE f41S Kitchen ant
bath. with one lady. Call in person
ROOM 81 + N n PRIVATE PR HOME for quie
woman; on 2 buslines. Decatu.
1896.
CoLoRED-6 ADULTS; 8 rms. :
baths. home privileges. Ii. 3-2165
coLoR4pm6l4 eILe5 z ; 9th ST. N.E.-Larg,
I'm. for man or lady, with privileges
Ii 6-1009 i
Evening star., 1951-07-01
ROOMS WITH BOARD

ARLINGTON, 1856 N. Vermont St
Twin beds, semiprivate bath; near
bus. Cail OW., 1928.
PRIVATE, CLEAN HOME, large TWIN
bedroom. to share with anothel
young man man 2 nome-eooKed sisasan, meas s,srS
roundings; unlim. phone; $50 mo
PRIVATE fl 'Vi GUEST HOME Vacancy
for elderly lady; tray service; det
cor. house. ta block of 18th and
BecatgIr aI4 NV; references Phone
BOARD SAi SlaSi And ROOM for construction
men; three meals a day, home
cooking. MRS. HALL, 1920 n, Ode
St, Arlington, Va. JA, 2-S933. 81
WENDELL TERRACE-Doubles. tri-
pies: excel. meals; conv tranSp ;;
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n:w;-Regar,dless Of high Zig. cost, cost our our
rates are still the same. p
FOR REFINED. discriminating elder
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Evening star., 1951-07-01
ROOMS WANTED

RETIRED MAN with car wants furn.
room or small apt; state price, Box
rURN. Urn a BELLY. a5sI RIM. desired for man
aaiet, sn sS0GoS around ID a 4. pref. Clean. Ink:
reasonable. CO. 64S5. i
GENTLEMAN desires large furnished
room in elevator apartment: meals,
II possible. or restaurant next door;
CAN ~. $500, Ext; $50; syn; s9 : b betty; y
YOUNG Si1S pm BUSINESS GIRL desires
room and board with private Cath
olic family; NV. section preferred
pR1yaTE RIX 2Re-I; RooM Star' wanted for piano
practice by single gentleman. Central
RHopE iGsa6iSh' 1sIXND i2f DoSai AVE Ne. AREA
room by July Is. Prefer Maryland.
D. c. considered. Young man from
Rent to equal acoommo. Box AID,
ROOM soi AND BOARD for mother, "a,
and son, 6. in home with couple,
age 35 to As, with woman to care
for boys days while mother works;
giving price details. Box 2s7-H'
Star.
FURNISHED, NV; single and double,
for State Department employees.
Phone RE. $500, Ext. 1851.
SETTLED LADY wants room and
kitchenette in NV; would do light
duties; reas. Box 305-H, Star.
ROOM AND BOARD wanted by young
lady; no smoking, drinking; private
home. LO 3-SS61.
SINGLE, on trans. line; nice home;
by quiet lady, empl; no trouble;
must be very reas. Box 3o9-H, Star.
Evening star., 1951-07-01
RMS. APIS. TO SHARE tcont.,

GIRL 1890, to share apt. witt
young married couple; nice sc. al.
white district; good transp.; $3i
month. LU. 4-1999.
NEED ONE GIRL to help share large
spacious, attractively furnished apt.
NV. DU. 0026.
GIRL to share atractively furnished
apt. with 2 others, $43.30 mo-: Conn
ave-; convenient transportation
EMPL. WOMAN will share with
girls. lge. attracively furnished 2.
bedrm. apt, in Georgetown: excel
bldg. on busline; all priv; S45 each
REFINED BUSINESS LADY, late 4Os
desires similar lady to share new
large apt. vic. Conn. and Porter
refs exch. WO. 040S.
CONN. AVE.-Lge. modern. eficienc.
apt, share with Govt. girl, 80 o,
over: S45. MI. 5000, Ext. 919.
YOUNG MAN to share large eff. apt
with another. Apt. 607, 236 Mass
ave. me-; any time.