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Evening star., 1951-12-26
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Evening star., 1951-12-26
IA Who Lost Home
Aided by Neighbors
In Christmas Fire
By the Asseeioted Press

EAST KEANSBURG, N. j.. Dec.
26.-Townsfolk pitched in today
to help Mike Kelly, his heroic
wife, Helen, and the IL Kelly chill
dren whose modest home was
wiped out by a Christmas morning
fire.
Neighbors, loud in their praise
of Mrs. Kelly for the brave way
she shepherded her children to
safety, started practicing the true
spirit of Christmas before the day
had dawned in this small Central
Jersey town near Raritan Bay.
Offers of food. shelter and cloth
ing poured in on the Kellys who
lost just about every worldly pos
session in the early morning blaze.
Oil Stove Explodes.
The 43-year-old mother had
just put the finishing touches on
the family Christmas tree when
two-burner oil stove exploded and
set the small, frame house afire.
Mr., Kelly was at work at the time.
She reused her sleeping chill
dren and guided them toward the
front as flames engulfed the rear
of the house.
Four month old Dorothy,
Graded in Mrs. Kelly's arms, was
burned on the head and face
before they all could get through
the front door.
The baby was taken to River
side Hospital in nearby Red Bank
for treatment and later released.
Unable to Save House.
Volunteer firemen, aided by
neighbors, did all they could to
save the house but it burned to
the ground.
Neighbors took in the children,
ranging in age from infant
Dorothy to 19-year-old Robert,
until a furnished house, closed
for the winter, was opened to the
family by Police Chief Earl Hoyer
He had gas turned on in the
temporary quarters but he said
he didn't know how long the
kellys could stay there.
Evening star., 1951-12-26
Brings relief 2 woys at once!

Modern mothers know you
can't beat Vicks VapoRub for
miSerieS Of colds. The moment
you rub it on throat, chest and
back VapoRub starts right to
work 2 i0Gys at once
Evening star., 1951-12-26
Ship Not in Danger
After Running Aground
By the Associoted Press

NEW YORK, Dec. 26.-The
2,499-ton Danish ship Martin
Carl. which ran around early yes
terday on the southeast New
foundland coast, requires no fur
ther assistance and is in no i'm
mediate danger in a smooth sea.
The Coast Guard reported last
pight that its cutter Rockaway
reached the distressed vessel to
find its engine room dry but
water in three holds. Nineteen
of the Martin Carl's 20 crew
were sent ashore.
Evening star., 1951-12-26
Carolina Mon Seized
In Roanoke Shooting
By the Assoeioted Press

ROANOKE, Va, Dec. 26.-W1l-
liam Ralph Laprad of Randle-
man, N. c.. has been charged with
feloniously shooting Harvey H.
Lawhorn on Christmas Eve.
Mr.. Lawhorn. a supervisor for
Roanoke Linen Service, lost his
left arm as a result of a shotgun
blast. The shooting repeatedly
followed an argument Monday
night.
A third man, Alton Gray, who
was standing nearby. was slightly
injured by powder burns.
Evening star., 1951-12-26
Monkey on the Loose
Hos Christmas Spree
By the Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA. Dec. ga
monkey made monkey of three
persons in full view of Christmas
Day strollers along Market street
yesterday.
The monkey. part Of a holiday
ZOO" display for children, in a
department store window, amused
sidewalk passersby for an hour
and a half before his pursuers
caught up to him.
The animal went into his act
when a cage door was left open
after feeding time.
Evening star., 1951-12-26
Vicar Tells of Sunday Illness

The vicar of West Dulwich.
England. describes in his parish
magazine Morbus Sabbaticus, the
Sunday sickness which keeps
people away from church. The
attack comes suddenly on Sun
day morning after hearty break
fast and continues until lunch
time. Then the illness ends as
quickly as it began.
Evening star., 1951-12-26

And Il keeps up this special
penetrating stimulating ac-
ton for hours. It eases muscu-
lar soreness and tightness and
brings warming, comforting
relief eDen iohiLe you sleep.
Evening star., 1951-12-26
Team Costs Are Hiqh

South Africa is worried over es-
Inmates that it will cost $10.640
to house and feed its rugby foot
ball team during the Olympic
Games at Helsinki, Finland.
Evening star., 1951-12-26
Pravda Denounces
Kennan, Prospective
U. 5. Envoy 10 Russia
BY the Assoeieted Press

MOSCOW, Dec. 26.-George F
Kennan, American diplomat men
toned for the job of United States
Ambassador to Moscow, was at
tackled today in Pravda, the Off
cial Communist Party paper.
1t called him a supporter of
anti-Soviet organizations and list
ed the East European Fund of
the Ford foundation among these.
(Mr. Kennan resigned as presi-
dent of the fund November %.
The Pravda attack appeared to
be geared to Russia'S current
"anti-spy' propaganda campaign }
Criticism of Mr.. Kennan's work
for the fund was in a dispatch
from Pravda correspondent in
the United States.
(The attack indicated MIR.
Kennan. Russian-speaking
student of Russian life and wide
ly recognized Western authority
on Soviet government affairs,
would not be acceptable as Am
bassador to Moscow.
president Truman said No
vember 90 Mr.. Kennan was be-
ing considered to succeed Am
bassador Alan G. Kirk. The
President commented that MIR.
Kennan had an important part
in developing the American pol
icy for containment of COM
munism and certainly ought to
know his way around out
there.O
Other Leaders Also Accused.
Excerpts from the Pravda ar
ticle, printed on the foreign events
paid, said:
In the current year, the most
generous appropriations from this
tFord) fund has been given for
activization of underground ac-
tivity of various anti-Soviet agents
and the conduct of subversive anti
Soviet propaganda, particularly
radio propaganda.
The fund is managed by the
former administrator of the Mar
shall Plan. Paul Hoffman. and the
direct activity of subsidizing anti
Soviet organizations is directed
by George Kennan. now listed as
on vacation.
The Pravda article listed other
prominent Americans it said were
engaged in various ways in sub
versive activity against Russia.
Among them are former Secretary
of State Sumner Welles, EXPIRES
ident Herbert Hoover, Gen. George
G. Marshall, Supreme Court Jus
tice Tom Clark, United States
United Nations Ambassador War;
rem r. Austin, New York's Gov.
Thomas E Dewey and Speaker
Sam Rayburn, Democrat, of
Texas.
kennan Expert on Russia.
Mr.. Kennan, a former State
Department counselor and As.
'sistant Secretary. formerly served
IN the United States Embassy in
Moscow and was mentioned as
possible Ambassador there as long
ago as 1949. He headed or aided
various efforts to survey European
and global needs and fulfill them
IN the postwar era and was a
close advisor to Secretaries of
State.
In addition to being an author
ity on Russia, Mr.. Kennan has
firSt-hand knowledge of the Far
East where Communist expansion
is most rampant in such places
as China, Korea. Indo-China and
Malaga in open fighting.
His biggest job to date was
director of the American Policy
staff. He took leave of
the State Department with an
nounced intentions to carry out
further studies of foreign affairs. !
He used the nom de plume mfr. |
X on published treatise and
prophecy on the Soviet Union
aud the rnSt IF the world
Evening star., 1951-12-26
London Pilot Fined

A London pilot, whose plane
took off when the airman stepped
out to swing the propeller. was
fined for operating an aircraft
in a negligent manner.
Evening star., 1951-12-17

necessary. They have preferred
to pretend not to notice it and
there has never been any kind
of frank or concerted effort to
raise up a career service for
any branch of the Government.
Yet for a very long time Gov
ernment salaries have Jagged
far behind private industry and
the racing imitation of the past
few years has widened the gap.
In an era of rising prices. high
moral precepts are not going to
be much help to Government
servants on low fixed incomes.
That Congress will consent to
a widespread upgrading of Gov
ernment salaries In view of pres
ent Government deficits Is un-
likely, especially in an election
year. Only the most courageous
suggest this as the answer in
stead Of hand-wringing and
resolutions.
Employees of the embattled
Bureau Of Internal Revenue
have been asked to submit A.
nancial statements. Compare
tive net worth statements Of
Cabinet members and various
other influential Washington
figures from about 1910 to the
present would be interesting. So
would disclosures by the 96
Senators, including their 81
lawyers, many Of whom still
maintain connections with law
firms at home. of their financial
connections.
Evening star., 1951-12-17

Our Allies Still Drag Their Feet
Western Europe Reorns at SnoFs Pace Despite 1889
Lessons and Strongest u S. Aid and Persuasion

reason to step UP our military
production at that time and
had only little to offer them.
The Western European ma
tions are now even more weary
than they were in 1889. They
have not had the respite Of 20
years of relative peace and
economic prosperity. Crisis has
followed crisis since We Day.
The Western European coun-
tries would have collapsed al
together had it not been for the
lavish American economic as
sistance given them first in the
form of UNRRA relief and later
under the Marshall plan. They
did get back on their feet. tenn
porarily, as far as their eco
nomic recovery was concerned.
But now when they are being
asked to step up their contri-
button to a rearmanent pro-
gram which they themselves
had initiated with America as
the pivot of the new coalition,
they show themselves weary
and disinterested.
Gen. Eisenhower was selected
as commander of the blueprint
armies. principally because he
was believed to have great in
fluence with these Allies of ours.
He was approached by the ad-
minlstration to accept the job
because President Truman and
the Joint Chiefs of Staff were
convinced he alone could per-
form the chore of getting West
ern Europe in shape to defend
itself. For nearly a year the
American people received OPP
timiStic reports that everything
was going all right, when those
directly connected with the
NATO program knew only too
well that the opposite was true.
The NATO conference at
Rome early this month and the
Evening star., 1951-12-17
Constantine Brown:

The Eisenhower Hartman
team is hard at work in Europe
to impress our reluctant Allies
to put more life into the re-
armament program which is
moving at an alarmingly slow
pace.
Gen. Eisenhower is using his
charm. prestige and usually
strong powers of persuasion.
Mr.. Hartman is using Uncle
Sans somewhat depleted but
still substantial bank balance.
Distinguished Americans who
have recently returned from
Europe after having long per-
sonal conversations with both
top American representatives
are not optimistic. They have
gained the impression that the
saying you can lead horse to
water but you can't make him
drink applies to the Western
European nations more than
ever before.
There was no real enthus-
1asm for building up adequate
defense forces in the countries
west Of the Rhine even before
World War II. Although it was
an open secret that Hitler was
rearming quickly and effective
ly and Mussolini was rafting
his wooden saber at every op-
portunity, neither the British
nor the French government
embarked on an active rearm-
ament program during the fate
full years before 1899.
The intelligence services of
the French armies were report
ing in the latter part of 1888
and early in 1899 that the Nazis
were building 800 planes a
month. Yet during that period
the French factories were pro-
ducing about five every month.
The nations west Of the Rhine
were caught fast asleep when
Hitler launched his panzer di-
visions against Poland. They
rushed to the United States to
obtain planes, artillery and
even rifles. But we had had no
Evening star., 1951-12-17
Fletcher KnebeI:
Potomac Fever

Britain she the payment of
$l38 million her 1945 American loan
rves in time for Churchl visit he won't delayed borrowing
1t.
President Truman confers with Federal Judge Murphy
on how to clean the Washington something
like the mother who calls the child psychologists explain
why her kids don't get spanked often
Senator Tafts doctor he's recupeatng
ecomy Few surgeons have had broader of responsibility
Baby carriage manufacturers material shortages will
them to cut output 40 cent The
patriotic alternative Long healthy babyor the
husband.
The Government New York and California taxpayers
owe more than $500 million in back
needed prosecute of failed to collect it,
The Federal Security Administration in
college students gets scholarship college they're
on their own They either funk pass punt
over IN Memphis draft board chairman is arrested
taking $500 bribe to defer
small oribe He was only part-time employe
Evening star., 1951-12-17

Communists who he thought
were better than Chiang's
Nationalists, and that he did use
bad judgment. Yet the State De-
partment's loyalty board cleared
him five times and it is reported
the board did so because his col
leagues in the State Department
who passed on the case thought
him to be a mice fellow" who
wouldn't do 1t again. The de-
bacle in Korea in which 100000
casualties have happened is the
direct result of faulty American
policy in China. They were nice
fellows, too. Mistakes have to be
punished and that's why the
United States Loyalty Review
Board summed up the case Of
Mr.. Service as follows:
I'VE are not required to find
Service guilty of disloyalty. and
We do not do so: but for a trust
ed representative of our State
Department to SO far forget his
duty to his trust as his conduct
with Jaffe so clearly indicates,
forces us with great regret to
conclude that there is reasonable
doubt as to his loyalty. The
favorable finding of the Loyalty
Security Board of the State De-
partment is accordingly re-
versed."
Does this mean that MIR.
Service is not today a loyal
citizen of his country? Not at
all. 1t merely means his conduct,
consciously or unconsciously,
aided at one time those who
were on the Communist side
and that his judgment or dis
cretion is not of nature which
warrants his continuance in the
State Department. 1t is a harsh
verdict to impose on anybody
but, read in it's true context, it
is in reality a penalty for bad
judgment in disclosing secret
State Department papers and
for associating with suspected
Communists about whom he
had been twice warned.
AS for the argument that this
verdict helps the Mccarthy side,
too many persons in the Gov
ernment and in the "left wing"
seem to be more interested in
proving that the Wisconsin
Senator isn't right about any,
thing than they are in protect
ing the rightful interests of the
United States. That kind of ex-
treme tactics can only build up
the case for Mccarthy and
arouse suspicious instead Of de-
veloping an impartial Judgment
as to wherein the accuser is
right or wrong in specific cases.
Evening star., 1951-12-17
Doris FIeeson:

How many and what outside
interests should Government
servants be permitted to have?
Can the answer be made a mat
ter for legal definition only or
must it enter into the difficult
field of ethical and moral con-
siderations?
It is now certain that Presi-
dent Truman will embark upon
some sort of housecleaning,
probably by non-partisan
commission. Once that COM
mission has dealt with specific
instances of wrong-d doing. it
must necessarily turn to what
might be called preventive medi-
cine for Government service.
In a generai, way the Presi-
dent condemned outside in
terests for people in the Govern
ment during his long and con-
troversial press conference last
week. Yet 1t is a fact that prin-
cipal members Of the executive
branch in the Cabinet and in
the independent agencies as well
as leading members Of Congress
have a variety Of outside in
terests and sources Of income.
Many Of them frankly would
not feel it possible to enter Gov
ernment service II this were not
the case.
In the case Of officials re-
curing Senate confirmation.
the Senate has constituted itself
the Judge of what comprises q
Evening star., 1951-12-17
Leftists Carp at Service Verdict
Firing Of Far East Expert Is Penalty for Bad Judgment
But APooqists AIreody NibbIe at Justice Of Action
David Lowrence:

The "left wing" apologists
have already begun to nibble
away at the verdict rendered
by the United States Loyalty
Review Board in holding that
there is reasonable doubt" as to
the loyalty to the United States
Government of John S. Serv-
ice. one of the experts on Far
Eastern policy in the Depart
ment of State for several years,
who now has been dismissed.
The argument is made that
Mr.. Service was indiscreet, of
course, but that he has an ex-
tensive knowledge of the Far
East. and presumably should
have been retained, that all he
did was to lend to someone out
side the department documents
he himself had written anyway,
that this was the usual way to
keep newSpapermen informed
in those days; that after all he
wasn't proved or found to be a
Communist and that the action
taken just helps Senator Nc
Carthy's crusade.
Actually the words of the
Loyalty Review Board demolish
every one of those points. The
board says Mr.. Service was a
trusted officer, that he had no
business lending any State De-
partment documents to man
whom he himself suspected
from his first meeting to be a
Communist and yet had several
meetings thereafter with him.
Nor can there be disregarded
the actual words of a recording
made by the FBI of what went
on in the hotel room of a Sus-
pected Communist who was
being visited by Mr.. Service.
That record shows incidentally
a discussion of military plan"
by Mr.. Service. The famous
swhitewash" by the Tydings
subcommittee Of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee
brushed all this aside by de-
claring that Mr.. Service wasn't
a military expert and that mat
ters he referred to were not
within his scope anyway. The
Tydings subcommittee cleared
Service.
The defense of Mr.. Service
may be expected now to pour
forth from the 'left wing" side
because at last someone who
helped and supported the policy
under which Chang Kai-shek
was undermined in his relation
ship with the State Department
has been dismissed from the
Government. The panel which
condemned Mr.. Service, it is
Evening star., 1951-12-17
DoIs Fleeson
What About Outside Interests?
If Trumons Houseceoning Is to Bar Extra Income Sources
For U S. Servants Some Knotty Problems Are Inevitable

proper background, financial
and otherwise, for a Government
servant. The Senate Finance
Committee has shown itself to
have been rather nonchalant
about Collectors of Internal
Revenue but, and by large.
Senators have discharged their
responsibility creditably. They
want to know, especially in de-
partments expending great sums
like Defense, what the facts are.
They have turned back Cabinet
nominees, Federal judges and a
host of lesser officials.
The only guardian of these
guardians of the public morality
has been the voter. He has been
the only one to have a voice in
the decision of what are proper
outside interests for Senators
and Representatives to have.
A Government commission
which laid down standards for
the executive branch might
exert a kind Of moral pressure
upon Congress; 1t would hardly
venture to intrude much further.
Yet the members themselves
realize that they face the same
problem.
American democracy has de-
veloped very little career serv-
ice either in the executive or the
legislative branch. But while
most men In the big jobs here
have income from other sources,
Americans have never been quite
willing to admit that 1t was
Evening star., 1951-12-17

more recent discussion at Paris
have shown that even the op-
timistic Gen. Eisenhower Is be-
ginning to lose patience at the
dilatory tactics of our Allies.
Not only do they move with
snail-like speed but they are OBJ
structing the arming Of those
nations which are ready to
create real forces to oppose an
eventual Soviet aggression. The
French are placing serious OBJ
stacles in, the way Of including
Germany in the defense setup.
The French, the British and
the smaller Western Allies are
opposing, for theological reasons
which have no room in world
politics today, the rearmament
OF Spain at our own expense.
Just as in the months preceding
the NaZi aggression against Po-
land, they still believe in peace
in our time" and are trying to
convince themselves that Russia
has no aggressive aims what
ever.
The governments Of our Allies
believe strongly in the ostrich
policy. that there can be no dan
ger if they refuse to see 1t by
hiding their heads in the sand.
Our Allies still trust Eisen-
hover. but according to yelled
statements made to some of our
visiting officials to Paris. he is
now acting as a high-pressure
salesman because he has been
SO ordered by Washington. And
they frankly admit that they
neither know nor understand
what Americas objectives are"
They say that Judging us by our
past diplomatic performances
toward the u. S. S. R., Europe
and the Far East, we lack q
sense Of political realism. And
having shown that in the past,
they are afraid to follow us now.
Evening star., 1951-12-17

come almost an axiom to say
that labor can go nowhere but
to the Democrats. But lots of
labor votes went to Senator
Taft In Ohio in 1850, despite the,
cry from labor leadership that
he was the "arch foe" Of labor.
Any great detection of labor ma
tionally toward Republicans
would call for some certain as
surances Of a changed attitude
In policy. however. For any
realistic appraisal Of politics of
this era must recognize that
Republicans can't expect to
draw any substantial support
from labor by doing what they
did in the 80th Congress which
was. in the closing days, to bury
social reform measures in the
House, including minimum wage
increase and housing. Pious
platform declarations at their
conventions for such measures
a week later only magnified the
omission. with Harry Truman's
reminder.
Evening star., 1951-12-17
Thomas L. Stokes
Scandals Can't Be Sole Issue
Disclosures of Corruption Will Influence the 1852 Vote,
But They Alone Won't Win Election for the G. O. P

goods begin to assume the pro-
portions already indicated by
the Director of Defense Mo-
bilization, there will be greater
need for a sound and effective
domestic legislative economic
program"
Economically, it is hard
facts discussion. pointing out
potential inf1ationary pressures
in the coming months which.
in the view of CIO, call for
strengthened price and rent con-
trolls, assistance to areas where
there is unemployment, includ-
ing 10000 in Detroit alone. for
an accelerated and broadened
housing program for defense
workers, among other needs.
Also repeated for the forth
coming session of Congress are
demands for Federalizing un-
employment compensation to
make it uniform, for an increase
from rs cents to SIPS in the
statutory minimum wage, for
civil rights legislation and, as
ever. repeal of the Taft-Hartley
Act.
The tax scandals are not
mentioned. but taxes are specifi-
ically, demands to plug up loop
holes that discriminate in favor
of big taxpayers and against
little taxpayers, and to tighten
up tax amortization provisions
whereby lavish write-offs are
permitted for new plants and
additions.
Politically, the Rieve letter
also deals in hard fact implica-
tionS.
1t is. at the same time, a chal-
lenge to Democrats and a warn
ing to Republicans. 1t has be-