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Evening star., 1952-12-13
Indiana Schools Drop
Maqruder's Civics Text
By the Asseeiotsd Pres.

INDIANAPOLIS. Dec. 13.-The
controversial Magruder textbook
on American Government has
been dropped from the approved
list for Indiana public schools.
The seven-member Indiana
Textbook Commission didn't give
the book single vote, though its
publisher has revised 1t since criti-
lcism flared against it last year.
Instead. Indiana schools after
next July l may take their choice
of three other civics textbooks,
written in whole or in part by In
diana authors.
The commission, which is part
Iof the State Board of Education,
investigated the Magruder book a
year ago. but decided then to
keep it.
Like the complaints that popped
Iup in scattered parts of the Ma
Ition, some Indiana objectors
lclaimed the book by the late DIR.
Frank Abbott Magruder was
sympathetic" toward socialism.
The books opponents included
DR.. j. William Wright of In
Idianapolis, former president of the
Indiana State Medical Association,
and Edwin Steers. ST., of In
dianapolis, treasurer Of the Re-
publican State Committee.
Evening star., 1952-12-13
Mr.. Truman Evidently FIustered
His Remarks at His Press Conference Were Contrudcory
Eisenhower Decided on Trip Soon After Nomination

Now, Gen. Eisenhower's deci-
sion to visit Korea was not put
into his mind as an election
eering idea, but was reached
soon after he accepted the nom
ination, and the influence Of his
election advisers was only to
persuade him to hold the
promise until late in the CAM
paign.
His political opponents then
branded the Korean trip as
demagoguery, and seemed de-
termined to prove that nothing
could be done in the military
stalemate, an attitude which
contributed to the Democratic
defeat.
No parallel could be drawn
between Gen. Eisenhower's Wis
iting Korea andior President
Truman's or Gov. Stevenson's
doing so. Gen. Eisenhower is
one of Americas most distin-
guished military StrategiStS.
Any trained strategist who, as
President. will have to continue
to conduct the war would want
to see the area and to be briefed
on the military situation on the
spot.
For a general, there is no
substitute for first-hand con-
tact, nor are official reports a
substitute for intimate discus
sion. during which the advan-
tages and risks of various alter
natives can be considered. The
key military men in the field
are also more likely to speak
candidly in intimate confer
ence than to commit themselves
in written reports that go
through many hands and are
subject to leaks. possibly to
Evening star., 1952-12-13
Truman Greets Enyoys
From South America

The new chiefs of two South
American diplomatic missions yes
terday presented credentials to
President Truman.
They were DR.. Jose Ricardo
Chlriboga Villagomez. Ambassa-
dor of Ecuador. and DR.. Cesar
Gonzalez, Ambassador Of Ven
ezuela,
The Ecuadorian Ambassador, in
presenting his credentials, stressed
the attraction of his country as a
center for the investment of out
side capital.
1.-THE investments of American
capitalists are safe in Ecuador, "
he said. He had nothing to say to
newsmen about the revolution
which has troubled Ecuador.
DR.. Gonzalez, former vice presi-
dent of the General Assembly o1
the United Nations, succeeds DR.
Antonio Marin Araujo.
In presenting his credentials. he
expressed pleasure in his assign
ment here and said relations be-
tween the United States and Ven
ezuela have always had as their
guide mutual respect, comprehen-
sion and cordiality."
Evening star., 1952-12-13

of the House in the State Legis-
lature, then six years in the State
Senate. This was followed by two
years as State treasurer in 1947
and 1948.
During this public service he
was chairman of a commits
sion on Boston procedure which
resulted in constructive legisla-
ton. In the Legislature he served
on House committees on ways and
means, judiciary. taxation, labor
and industries and Senate COM
mittee on education.
Headed Development Group.
He also was chairman of a re-
cess commission on urban re-
development, which sponsored
laws now on the books and also
took a lead in measures on hous-
ing standards. river pollution and
district courts.
In 1947 he was president of the
Law Society of Massachusetts,.
Mr.. Curtis has participated in
various State welfare activities.
He was chairman of the State
division of the American Cancer
Society drive in l949 and of the
Suffolk County March of Dimes
in 1852.
He is member of many Or
Iganizations. including the Moose,
Elks, Masons, Sons Of the Revo-
luton. the Boston and the Mas
|sachusettS Bar Associations, the
American Legion and the Dis
abled American Veterans.
Evening star., 1952-12-13

however, he might have gar
nered the additional 5000 votes
that would have assured the
Senate a new lease on his valu-
able services and have given the
Democrats control of that body.
That isn't certain, of course.
Immediately after Gen. Eisen-
hover made his pledge to go to
Korea, squads of women took
to the telephone urging other
women to vote for Eisenhower
and Senator O'Mahoney's op-
ponent in order to end the war.
That would have been pretty
hard to overcome, with any
amount of money.
All in all, the Republicans
seem to have outspent the
Democrats about 80 to in the
House and Senate contests. But
since the Republican candidate
for President was overwhelm-
ingly elected there are many
Democrats who believe it is best
that the Republicans also have
undlsputed control of Congress.
This not only makes for a more
effective Congress. they argue,
but also deprives the Repub-
licans of any alibi in case they
fail to make good use of their
election triumph.
Meantime Senator Estes Ke-
fauver is renewing his efforts to
make Congress a more effective
instrument of the peoples will.
When the new Congress meets
he will bring up his proposal
Evening star., 1952-12-13

Mr.. Duffy mentioned the wedding
"a good publicity stunt it hac
seemed to be. Mr.. Schlotterbeck
hearing the name of Maj. Duncan
said. what's that again?
Seems a Maj. Duncan had just
visited the Hamilton and left al
a calling card a worthless check
for $84. That called for the FBI
Pictures From Texas.
The rest was easy. With pic
lures and flyers from Texas. the
FBI linked Duncan with Brame
and yesterday Brame was arrested
at the home of friends of his
bride.
The father of the girl, a Wash
Iington carpenter, went to Rich
mond to comfort her. He, too
admitted he had been deceived
by the "hero'S" charm.
Brame, who posed as an opera
tions officer of a bomber squad
ron, had just $2.11 in the pockets
lof his civilian clothes.
Evening star., 1952-12-13
Lowell MeHett:
Merely q Matter Of Dollars?
Committee for Effective Congress Thinks 3Oto- Disporitv
In Campaign Expenditures Helped Republicans to Win

An organization called the
National Committee for an Eff
fective Congress has produced
an interesting analysis of the
late election. This committee,
formed during the campaign
and still carrying on. would
have considered a Democratic
Congress an effective one or, at
least, more effective than the
one the voters elected. And
that's what we would have got,
the committee believes, if the
Democrats had used a larger
share of their none-too-plenti-
full funds in behalf of their can
didateS for the House and
Senate.
AS the committee points out,
had the Democrats taken half
a dozen more seats they would
have continued in control of
the House. But incomplete re-
ports to the Clerk of the House
reveal that the Democratic
House Campaign Committee
spent only $4,000 on the. party's
candidates. whereas the Re-
publican Campaign Committee
spent $1,163,288 That's con-
siderable difference, enough per-
haps to account for the narrow
Republican victory. The dispar-
ity in the senatorial campaign
was not so great, the Demo-
cratic committee reporting ex-
penditures of $4,000, the Re-
publican committee. $273,650.
If more money had been avail
able to Senator O'Mahoney,
Evening star., 1952-12-13
Constantine Brown:
Gerhard EisIer May Be Purged
Moscow, Having Played Its Hand SkIfuIly Continues
In Compoiqn Against Jews Throughout Its Domoin

OF the western world on the
true situation in the u. S. s. r.
and its satellite countries. There
are definite indications that
within the next few months we
shall witness similar Develop
ments in Eastern Germany.
Romania. Hungary and Poland.
The spectacular purges or
dered by the Kremlin have two.
purposes:
(D To "clean up" the re-
r1ainder of the Jewish intellec-
tuals whom Stain regards as
internationalists without a place
in an intensely nationalistic
empire such as Soviet Russia.
90 Make play for the SYM
pathy and friendship of the
Moslems, and particularly the
Arabs who feel strongly that
they have been let down by the
West through creation of the
state of Israel.
In the present struggle be-
tween the free nations and the
Kremlin. the Near and Middle
East are of vital strategic i'm
portance. If this area extend
ing from Iran to Morocco
should fall into Stalin's hands
the job facing the West would
be made immeasurably more
difficult by the loss of the oil
resources of Iran and Iraq and
the chain of airfields in North
Africa.
The MuScovites, it must be
admitted. have played their
hands skillfully. They took ad-
vantage of the lack of political
cohesion of the Western allies,
and the blunders committed by
them in the Moslem countries,
to kindle a strong nationalist
movement. This is now def
nitely under way.
In order to cinch this first
victory. Moscow ordered spec
tacular persecution of the
headline Jews" to prove to the
ARABS that the Kremlin is their
friend. Hitler's former admirer.
the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem.
is once more finding favor in
Moscow, as he did during the
short-lived Stalin- Hitler alli-
ance.
Moreover. under cover of
commercial missions, Czech
agents are active in Teheran,
Cairo, Damascus and Beirut.
And in Prague. today. delegates
from Middle Eastern countries
including representatives of
ultra nationalist and religious
organizations are meeting high
officials of the Moscow foreign
Office to plan bigger and better
plots for next year.
Evening star., 1952-12-13

suit internal-political interests.
Therefore. demagoguery does
not inhere in the President
elects visit to the war arena
but in the belittling of its sim
cerity and usefulness.
To criticize Gen. Macarthur
for making no overtures to the
President who fired him. while
repeating the certainty that his
counsels would be valueless, is.
in itself, contradictory.
Gen. Macarthur did not sug-
gest that he had a pat formula,
but that he was confident that
there is a clear and definite
solution to the Korean conflict.
Gen. Eisenhower wants to near
the views of a man who GER
tainly should be able to make
some contribution to thinking.
No American general knows
the Orient better than Gen.
Macarthur. And since mill
tary views adjust themselves
to changed military situations,
Gen. MacArthur's views prob
ably may be new. Gen. Eisen-
hover will consider and weigh
them in the framework of other
views, as any good staff officer
would.
And. of course, Mr.. Truman
did not fire Gen. Macarthur
in order to continue to consult
him. The public, upset by the
dismissal, could not be allowed
to think that any of his advice
might have merit. Whatever the
etiquette may have been, Gen.
Macarthur was definitely barred
from Mr.. Truman's counsels.
and the press conference re-
veals that he will keep the bats
up. as long as he is in Office.
Evening star., 1952-12-13
kawakita 10 Die as Traitor
Unless President Acts
sy the As.oeiosed Pres.

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 13.-To-
lmoya (MeatbalD Kawakita will
be executed for betraying his ma
tive United States unless the
President grants him clemency.
United States Judge William C.
Mathes yesterday denied the ples
Of the California-born japanese
for modification of the death
sentence, which the United States
Supreme Court already has up
held.
Shortly before World War II
Kawakita, now 80, went to Japan
He became an interpreter at a
prison camp. After the war, he
came back to this country and
was recognized by Sergt. William
L. Bruce. one of his former
prisoners. in a local department
lStore.
Thirty former prisoners testi-
lfied as to Kavakita's brutality
to Americans in the camp. Hf
was convicted In 1948.
Evening star., 1952-12-13
Romance Bounces for Bride of Hero

Heartbreak set in today where
romance had so recently bloomed
for a young bride whose husband
was charged by the FBI with
passing worthless checks while
posing as Korean war hero.
When they arrested him yes
terday in Richmond, FBI agents
called him Richard E. Brame, 81,
and said he had bad check rec
ord going back to 1945.
But his wife, the former Miss
Nina Peterson of Richmond,
knew him as Maj. Robert E.
Duncan of the United States Air
Force-a tall, dashing fellow she
met at dance here on Thanks
giving Day and married last
Sunday at Fairfax County Court
house.
Address: Richmond Jail.
Now he is in Richmond jail,
unable to make $4,000 bond on
Ia charge of passing a $500
check in San Marcos, Tex, as
Evening star., 1952-12-13
Fletcher KnebeI::
Potomac Fever

Ike prepares to fly with
Macarthur They'll talk things The ladies will
be permitted to join them only after they've polished of the
coffee-and Harry Truman.
Economic stabzer Roger Putnam quits Economic stabiza
on thng-you always had time look the
dictionary while they changing the the
store.
Congressman that Gen. Macarthur tell his secret
plan Senate and committees Mac couldn't
find better with which share his with the world
City officials offer President reproof vault
in his old County courthouse The vault will
combination lock to guard his warning signal to let
him know when the ballots have disappeared again.
cabinet members fly back to the States This outfit
mobiy-Democras predict other
will make many motions standing pat.
Secretary of State Dean Aeson leaves for his last inerna
tona conference The of millions of Americans with
did keep hopes the two-party system
alive.
reveals it bought million pounds of
The Republicans all
waste-absoutey butter will bought
money except to keep prices from going down.
Evening star., 1952-12-13
New Suspect Arrested
In California SIayinq
OF Grocer, 3Chi|dren
BY the Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 13.-
Travis Hall, q, was arrested by
two San Francisco police inspec-
tors in Richmond, Calf. across
the bay this morning in connec-
ton with the mass Staying of
Grocer Gard Young. his two chill
dren and a neighbor's boy, October
10 near Chester, Calf.
Police inspectors Edward
O'Haire and Michael Doherty said
Hall was known in Chester as AL
Foley.
Hall was taken to the San Fran
cisco Jail and book on technical
holding charge.
His father, Wendell Hall, 49,
also was arrested at Fresno on a
holding charge.
Travis Halls occupation was
listed as steelworker. He is 81
His father, 49, runs jani-
torial cleaning service in Fresno
The tip on "Al Foley" came
last week when an unnamed in.
formant told police he was ap.
preached in bowling alley by &
man he came to know as Foley.
The informant was asked to he
Ia "dtirel" in the holdup of 9
man named Young. The Informant
said he refused to take part ir
the plan.
Inspectors O'Haire and Doherty
Immediately began work on the
new lead.
Mr.. Young. 43. grocery pro.
prietor in the small PlumaS. County
town of Chester, was slain on q
lonely logging road between
Chester and Westwood, where he
had gone to get $7,128 in cash
for cashing lumbermen's pay.
checks.
Also brutally beaten to death
we're his daughters, Jean, Z, and
Judy, 6. and little Michael Sale
a, son of a neighbor. Beaten ano
left for dead in the trunk of hel
fathers car was three-year-ol0
Sondra Gay Young.
The tiny survivor, after regain
ing consciousness. told in simple
words how two men in a big blue
sedan-one of them masked
bludgeoned her father, her two
sisters and their playmate.
Although the child was able tt
describe how her father and sis.
ters were clubbed, she was unable
to provide any solid clues to hell
solve the SlayingS.
Officers in several northern
California and Nevada cities have
arrested a number of men fol
|QueStioning-most Of them tran
|sient workers-but all had beer
released.
A Chester theater operator
picked up in Reno shortly after
the slayings, was released under
q writ of habeas corpus after un.
|dergoing two lie detector tests.
Evening star., 1952-12-13

for a report-and-question period
once every two weeks or oftener
reports by Cabinet members
and agency heads, questions by
Congress members. The reports
would be in response to written
questions submitted by one of
the legislative committees, but
half of the period would be de-
voted to questions by members
from the floor.
This plan, Senator Kefauver
believes, would have special
value for the minority. The Re-
publicans. as a minority, he
charitably asserts, have oper-
ated on a minimum of informa-
ton and that has not been good
for them or for the Government
as a whole.
Since his first year in the
House nobody has given more
thought than Senator Kefauver
to the need for undermining the
legislative machinery. He may
be able to persuade both houses
to his way of thinking, since his
proposal is no more modern than
the long-established practice Of
fl,o Rrifich IrN,,ce 4f
For their part, the cabinet
members should like it, if it
reduces to any extent the
amount of time they are now
compelled to spend with the
various Senate and House COM
mittees, especially the time
spent telling several different
committees the same thing.
Evening star., 1952-12-13
New Fuees in Congress
New Faces in Congress
|Boston-Born Laurence Curtis
lis EXPERIENCED Public Servant

The new Representative from
the Massachusetts, 10th district,
in Boston, is Laurence Curtis,
and Boston native, who has
devoted most of his adult life to
public service.
In the 83d Congress he will sue
ceed another Republican, Chris
tian A. Herter, a veteran of the
House, who last November 4 was
elected Governor of Massachu-
sets.
The 59-year-old Bostonian won
a bachelors degree from Harvard
University in 1916 and law de-
gree there in 1921.
Meanwhile, he served a year in
the diplomatic service and then
entered the Navy in World War I.
After a training crash in naval
aviation, resulting in the loss OF
a leg, he served out the rest of
the war as a ground officer at
fenSdCOlA, fId.
For his World War I services he
was aWerded the Silver Star.
Secretary to Holmes.
Later, he served for year as
secretary to the late Justice Oliver
Wendell Holmes of the United
States Supreme Court. He then
went back to Boston to practice
law and in 1923 became an as
sistant United States attorney, an
assignment that lasted about
seven years.
Then came elective offices. In
1880 Mr.. Curtis was elected
member of the Boston City Coun-
Gil, serving four years. Then he
served four years as a member
Evening star., 1952-12-13
Constantine Brown:

Gerhard Eisler, the top Com
munist agent sent by Moscow to
the United States during the
war to do the dirty work of the
Kremlin masters. is reported to
be in disgrace and facing trial in
the eastern sector of Berlin.
That little man sneered
at the American authorities
when brought before the House
Un-American Activities Com
mittee and hid. behind the fifth
amendment to the Constitution
to avoid answering embarrass-
ing questions regarding himself
and his co-conspirators in this
country.
There will be no fifth amend
ment. habeas corpus or mass
meetings and picketings Of the
courts when he appears before
his Communist judges. Eisler
will meekly confess anything his
prosecutors want him to. will
implicate all the future victims
on the purge list and will end
with a moose around his neck as
a deviationist. In the Commu-
mist dictionary a "deyiationist"
is a party member who has out
lived his usefulness to Uncle
joe"
Eisler's chief crime appears
to be that he is a Jew. And
there is a very unhealthful cli-
mate in the U. S. S. r. and its
satellites for individuals of the
Jewish faith. Those who hoped
that the persecution of the
Jews had ended with the de-
struction of Hitler were sadly
mistaken. The persecution was
taken up by Stain soon after
tho nnd of the uor At fret
Evening star., 1952-12-13

it was unnoticed by the outside
world. Frantic propaganda that
the worlds freedom and West
ern civilization could be saved
only by close cooperation with
the Moscow Communist gang hid
the mass mistreatment of Jews
in the U. S. S. r. from the
public. Many Jewish leaders in
the West were the most out
spoken advocates of this mis-
taken belief. They refused TO
accept the obvious and attrib-
uted these reports to propaganda
from the remaining hard core
of neo-Fascists and neo-Nazis,
particularly in = the United
States.
For at least five years after
the end of the war the stories
describing deportation of Jews
to Siberia or labor camps were
discounted as reactionary ball
derdaSh. AS proof that there
was no anti-Semitism in Sta
Inns realm. it was pointed out
that in Czechoslovakia the great
majority of the Communists
who controlled the state were
Jewish. In Romania. Ana
Pauker. also Jewish. was the
personal representative of the
Red dictator.
The fact that soon after the
war the few top Jewish military
men in the Red army had been
removed and the handful of
high-ranking members of the
government who survived the
purges of 1886 had disappeared
from the Communist Party ros-
ter was overlooked.
The recent purges in Czecho-
slovakia focused the attention
Evening star., 1952-12-13

part payment on a classy 1857
automobile.
On November 1, the FBI said
Brame was released from a Hous-
ton (TexD prison where he had
served time for bad checks. He
purchased the car and headed
east.
He told his young fiancee that
the Air Force was about to call
him back to the scene Of former
glories, Korea, and that If mar
riage was their goal, time was OF
the essence.
Assisted by Hotel.
So last Sunday, with the help OF
the Ambassador Hotel, where
Maj. Duncan" had told his story,
and a press agent called in by the
hotel, the couple was married in
record time. The hotel went
farther, providing a bridal suite
On Monday, Pat Duffy, manager
of the Ambassador, was having a
cocktail with John Schlotterbeck
manager of the Hamilton Hotel
Evening star., 1952-12-13
Officials Honor 123
D. {. Employees for
40 Years Of Service

The Commissioners and other
high-ranking municipal officials
extended their thanks and con-
gratulations yesterday to 1913 per-
sons who have completed more
than 40 years service as District
employees.
Service emblems were presented
by the Commissioners to the vet
eran city workers at ceremony
held in the Commerce Department
auditorium.
Robert v. Fleming, chairman Of
the Citizens Advisory Group, said:
II think it is very appropriate
that these awards should be made,
because as rule we do not COM
mand our public servants. Too
often, the public, through misun-
derstanding or apathy, has taken
for granted the provision of those
essential services without which a
modern, complex community could
not exist"
Budgets Compared.
Mr.. Fleming, in a brief COM
parison of the District today and
40 years ago, stated that in 1917
Congress appropriated about $11.-
371,OOO to run the city-one-hal1
of which was paid by the Federal
Government in 1852 Congress
appropriated $144, ,982 ,000," o1
which the Government paid $11
million.
Other guests of honor at the
meeting were former District
Commissioners and representa-.
tives of the Citizens Advisory
Council, the United States Civi
Service Commission, the police
and fire associations, the Amer.
lean Federation of Government
Employees and the National Fed.
Grafton of Federal Employees.
Annual Award Planned.
Yesterdays ceremony came a
the suggestion of Brig. Gen. Ber'
nard L. Robinson, Engineer Com
missioner, at a meeting las
January. District officials plan t.
make this recognition of service
annually.
Honored were 95 employees o
the public schools. seven Of tn
Sewer Division, five of the Waite
Division, three of the Division o
Sanitation, three in the Fire De
partment and one each in tn
Highway Department, Health De
partment, Department Of Correc
tions, Recorder of Deeds, Centra
Garage, Public Library. Purchasin
Office, Collection of Taxes. De
partment of Inspection and tn
repair shop.