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Evening star., 1952-01-16

The former
Miss Margaret Ann Emhardt.
The Washington Street Metho-
dist Church In Alexandra was
the scene December 20 Of the
wedding OF Miss Margaret Ann
Enahardt and Mr.. Thomas Frank
johnson. The Rev. Theodore
Lands ofiiciated and the recep-
tion was held In the George Mason
Hotel. The bride is the daughter
Of MIR. and Mrs. Harrison Emhardt
Of Alexandria. and Mr.. Johnson's
mother. Mrs. Thomas r. johnson,
also lives la Alexandria. where sh9
moved from Lynchburg, Va.
Mr.. and Mrs. johnson will
make their home In Alexandria
after their wedding trip.
Evening star., 1952-08-15

line through the basement and
out to the street again. There
they see the odds and ends
of mementoes. including that
marble bust of President Martin
Van Buren with the scar on his
neck where he was "assassi-
mated" a few years back by a
policeman on guard who woke
out of a doze and, seeing the
figure in the moonlight, fired
point blank and with better
than fair craftsmanship.
So the house again has lost a
tiny bit of it's barracks pallor.
but none of it's barracks sub
stance.
For now, in keeping with the
times, a military man, general,
a professional soldier all his life,
is trying to get to sit in that
executive Office and conduct the
affairs of our great democracy
and thus succeed the civilian
and practical man of politics
and public affairs who is there
now.
His candidacy, itself, bespeaks
the Illustration of these times
which provokeS us to look for a
hero who somehow will deliver
us from all our fears, though he,
himself, in his military char
acter, symbollzes all of them
Evening star., 1952-08-15
Fletcher KnebeI:
Potomac Fever

President Truman he decided 10 days to give Gen
administrations secret intelligence reports Harry
didn't Ike feel handcappedwth only the Democrats
enjoying luxury Of up-to- the minute bewiderment
The CIO its union members to vote for Adai Ste
leaders have nothing against Ike They high
his rankand trust he'll himself equally for theirs
rejects invitation to White brief
international situation Ike be careful
admit there is
calls States to halt the tidal wave"
Washington That Adas fellow
didn't Now wants tiff he's
won't have anything to do
Republican Leader Bridges charges President
with putting the military high command to cheap political
The Penagon deeply reens the false charge that it's involved
in anything inexpensive.
Psychological Strategy Board That's the board that
foreign nations that they don't have
in order to spend money properly.
Gen. Ike accepts President Trlman's offer of weekly
from the Central Intelligence Agency That's the outfit
that's good it predicted of the Red nvasoS
actively.
Evening star., 1952-08-15
Must Drop Any Idea Of Strodd|ing
Stevenson to Use Kind Of Campaign Truman Did in 49,
Left-Vng Groups Are Coming Out Steadily for Him Now

trying to throw off the alleged
handicap of Truman's support.
Some of the middle-of -the-road
and somewhat conservative
friends of Gov. Stevenson had
the mistaken idea that this was
the way to win Republican votes.
But they do not need to be SO
concerned now. A large number
of the Republican conservative
votes are coming to him anyway
in the form of the stay-away
votes of Taft supporters. many
of whom have written to this
correspondent stating frankly
their intention to contribute
half a vote to Stevenson by not
going to the polls in November.
With this accretion of Re-
publican votes. Gov. Stevenson
is able to turn to the left
wing" for the bulk of his sup
port and not worry about other
additions from the Republican
Party. The Stevenson objective
need be only to hold the Demo-
cratic vote and, to do this, he
must of necessity emphasize his
own virtues. denounce corrup-
ton and give the impression
that Mr.. Truman gives -
namely, that a few individuals
are guilty but the Democratic
administration or party as such
has no responsibility for the
wayward. Anyway, if some one
does succeed in pinning
bit Of responsibility on a man
caught stealing from a cash
drawer, apparently-so the Ste
venson argument goes-all he
needs to do is to point to the
many hundreds of persons who
have committed similar thefts.
Presumably that's enough to ex-
onerate him from guilt and the
cashier from responsibility for
leaving the cash drawer open.
Guilt, said the Democratic
nominee in his acceptance
speech, is personal-no party
responsibility attaches to Of
ficials who are caught in cor
ruption.
Gov. Stevenson must be
heartened by the way the AFL
Evening star., 1952-08-15
John c. Henry
Heir to Throne Faces Tough Job
Kingdom Of roq Stands Calm and Stable Country in Area
Rocked by Increasing Economic and Political ConvuIsions
John c. Henry:

The Near Eastern kingdom of
Iraq. whose regent and 17-year-
old heir to the throne are now
touring the United States,
stands today as one of the rela-
lively calm and stable countries
in an area that has been suffer-
ing increasingly intense econom-
ic and political convulsionS in
the past four years.
The Tigris-Euphrates Valley,
which provides the backbone of
the country, is the legendary
cradle of the human race. Most
Biblical scholars place the
Garden of Eden between the
two rivers and not far from
the capital city of Baghdad.
Nineveh and Babylon were once
there and Ur, believed to be the
most ancient city yet discovered,
was built in that same valley an
estimated 5000 years ago.
Modern Iraq, the Arabic name
for Mesopotamia, came into
being after World War I when,
along with so much of the rest
of the Near East, it was de-
tached from the defeated Turk
iSh Empire. 1t was placed then
under mandate to Great Britain
and today it's close and har-
monious treaty relationship
with the London government is
an important element in the
political stability. A constitu-
tional monarchy, which FaiSal
II will formally head when he
reaches his 18th birthday next
spring, was created in the early
1920s and a parliamentary
system of government with a
Senate and Chamber of Depu-
ties was installed.
The greatest national re-
source of the country is it's
petroleum and Iraq's reserves
are estimated today at about
six billion barrels, ranking about
sixth in the world. Modern
development of the oil began in
1912 by a German-Dutch-
Turkish combine. The Anglo
Iranian company bought out the
Evening star., 1952-08-15

most exactly. Nor is he expe-
rienced in politics and the man
agement of political affairs.
1t is a great deal-maybe too
much-that we would ask of
him.
There has not been a profess
sional soldier governing us from
the White House in this century.
In fact, you have to go well back
into the last century. back to
Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, also a
great military hero who did not.
however, do too we'll as Chief
Executive, so our history tells
us. One other has been nomi-
mated since. But Gen. Winfield
Scott Hancock, who ran as a
Democrat, was defeated, though
very narrowly. That was in
1880. We came out of the First
World War without getting a
professional soldier in the White
House afterWard.
But now we seem to have a
different attitude. We cling 10
the card with thumbprint and
color of eyes and hair, height
and weight, and accept ourselves
as items in huge filing system
somewhere. It's small thing,
perhaps, but possibly something
about which we should concern
ourselves.
Evening star., 1952-08-15

and the CIO leaders are rallying
to his support. They feel they
have in the Democratic nominee
some one who, once he wins an
election through the efforts of
labor union strategists and
workers, will feel beholden to
the groups that will have put
him in the White House. At any
rate the labor chieftains are
quite willing to take their
chances on a fulf1llment of the
obligation in due course-their
aim now is to demonstrate to
Gov. Stevenson that, for money,
for party workers and for in
tenSive campaigning, he will
have available an organization
bigger than the Democratic
National Committee, State COM
mittees and county committees
and their workers.
So, with the tremendous
support available : from the
''left wing" Gov. Stevenson
must naturally campaign whole
heartedly on the Truman
policies and Mr.. Truman's rec
ord and abandon any idea of
cautiously straddling. What
ever pussyfooting there has been
to date in the Stevenson camp
must soon give way to firm ap-
proval of and aggressive defense
of the 20-year record of the
Democratic administrations.
It's the inevitable strategy for
a Democratic nominee in 1852
now that the Republicans. who
are in the minority anyhow, are
losing so many of the Taft sup
porters. The latter have ap-
parently become reconciled to
another four years of 'left
wingism" and, unless they re-
cant, the story after election day
may be that Gen. Eisenhower
was defeated not only by the
cleft wing" but by a faction in
his own party that stabbed him
in the back rather than allow a
Republican to win for the first
time in "a years. That would
about finish the Republican
party by 1856.
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Evening star., 1952-08-15

Turkish interest about a year
later and the Germans were
shaken out by World War I.
The United States, recognizing
fortunately the potential of
Near Eastern oil, moved into the
Iraq development at the end of
that first war and the valuable
concession is now held by
British, Dutch, French and
American interests in equal
shares, plus a S per cent hold
ing by c. I. Gulbenkian. A pipe
line grid from the Kirkuk and
MoSul areas has Mediterranean
terminals at Banias in Syria,
Tripoli in Lebanon and Haifa
in Israel. The Haifa line has been
closed because of the Israeli
Arab differences, a circum-
stance that has curtailed the
Iraqi revenue somewhat. A re-
cent study by the international
Bank for Reconstruction and
Development produced an esti-
mate of $500 million oil revenue
during the next five years, how
ever, and a comprehensive pro-
gram for improvement of the
country has been worked out by
the bank and is in the hands Of
the Iraqi government.
The greatest potential, apart
from the oil operations them
selves, is in agriculture. To that
end the banks program. a five
year plan, recommended mod
ernization of agricultural meth
DDS to step up production and
the bringing of additional land
under cultivation by means of
scientific drainage and irriga-
tion. There are no insuperable
obstacles to either effort and
the young King and his regent
uncle are expected to direct
much of their study in the
United States to some of our
own modern agricultural proce-
dureS.
An industrial possibility was
seen by the bank mission in the
idea of centering a chemical
industry in the heart of the
Evening star., 1952-08-15
Thomas L. Stokes:
Thonos l. Stokes:
Item in q Huge Filing System
Writer Disturbed at Idea of Being Admitted to White House
BY q Closely Guarded Card and Not as Free Citizen

You discover as you reach
those big gates that open onto
the driveway leading to the
White House executive offices
that you've left that magic card
your pass-in the other suit.
SO you apologize and explain
and are identified by one of the
policemen who stand at the
sacred portals of the grounds
that are supposed to belong to
the people of the United States
and once did. No great bother,
of course.
It is a pretty card, with your
name, your newspaper connec-
tion, and your photograph, done
some years back when there
was bit of hair and not those
fuzzy little stalks like Scraggly
cotton in a barren field. On the
back is your thumbprint and
color of eyes and hair. height.
weight-all those statistics that
reduce you quickly from hu-
man being to an item in mon
ster card index somewhere.
Then, suddenly, it comes on
you as you count back. For Il
years, since shortly before we
became involved in the Second
World War of this century, you
have had to carry this card.
That long a time it has been in
a strange new age when you're
thumbprint and color of eyes
and hair. height and weight
and live in world of fear and
suspicion and get admitted to
the seat of democracy by close
ly guarded card and not as a
free citizen in your own right.
It's routine now, of course
but every so often it all brings
you up short. You can, of course,
do nothing about it.
It's best, however, not to for
get it-for that will be the end
of many things.
Your mind wanders back to
other days. long ago. when you
were assigned regularly as a
newspaper staff reporter at the
White House, to sit in the outer
lobby. as newspaper staff re-
porters still do, and interview
visitors who go in to see the
President. Then, every day. the
folks began to gather outside
the executive Offices soon after
noon, folks from all over the
country, tourists. and file through
the lobby, some days as many as
1000, and walk by the President
in his office-it was Warren G.
Harding then-and shake his
hand. All the passport they
needed was a note from their
Congressman-not a card with
thumbprint and color of eyes
and hair, height, weight.
1t was all very informal and
democratic and nobody was
afraid of anybody else, or each
other. and you could walk in
and out of the grounds freely
with nobody asking you ques-
tions. Only recently the folks,
the tourists, have been admitted
to the grounds again-not to
the executive office where the
President works and must be
carefully guarded, but to the
other side of the mansion-and
are permitted to walk in a long
Evening star., 1952-08-15

Kirkuk oil area. Availability of
petroleum and natural gas
would provide important COM
ponents for variety of chem
ical products.
In period when social and
economic progress within the
relatively underdeveloped coun-
tries is a key objective in the
international relationships of
the free world, and there is a
particular desire to establish a
political stability in the Near
East, the prospects in Iraq have
particular attraction. The young
King may take his throne at a
time when the world and the
Near East in particular are bit
terly disturbed, and when the
profession of - royalty could
hardly be considered a thor
oughly secure one, but he has
much to work with in his own
country.
Evening star., 1952-08-15
David Lawrence:

Gov. Stevenson will emerge
soon as the radical candidate
and Gen. Eisenhower as the
conservative.
The Democratic nominee is
being drawn, somewhat against
his instructive desire but never
thelesS logically, to the side OF
President Truman and may
make in 1852 almost the same
kind of campaign that won for
the Democrats in 1948.
Left wing" groups are COM
ing out steadily for Mr.. Steven
son. 1t was the CIO and AFL,
with their political action COM
mittees, which organized the
precinct work in 1948, aided by
the radicals and the so-called
liberals" and by the large
number of minority groups, in
Guiding Negroes, in populouS
States.
Gov Stevenson cannot alien
ate the Negro vote by straddling
on the civil rights" issue. He
has the South in his pocket,
! anyway - leader after leader,
after making some kind of dem
onstration of independence at
Chicago, has embraced Steven
son. With the electoral votes of
most of the South safe, Gov.
Stevenson now can follow the
Truman line with the Negro
groups in the North as we'll as
with the labor faction.
The more the Illinois Gov
ernor studies the situation, the
more convinced he must become
that President Truman has sized
up correctly the political po-
tentiality of the Democratic
Party today. Mr.. Truman didn't
worry about DixiecratS or
Southern boilers in 1948, and
he isn't worrying about them
today. He is counseling Gov.
Stevenson to go after the same
groups that helped the Demo-
cratic Party swell it's total four
years ago.
There was a time. a week or
so ago, when it was widely re-
ported that Gov. Stevenson was
Evening star., 1952-03-20
CeIanese Workers Vote
AGAINST Textile Union
BY the Assoeiated Press

NARROWS, Va. Mar. 20.-Pro-
duction employees Of the Celanese
Corp. of America plant near here
have decisively rejected q bid by
the Textile Workers Union OF
America, CIO, to represent them
as bargaining agents.
In a two-day election. conducted
by the National Labor Relations
Board Monday and Tuesday, CSC
workers voted for the TWUA ane
1850 against the union.
The United Construction Work.
ers, which now represents some
2.700 employees at the plant, in.
terpreted the results as a vote 81
confidence. The UCW. an affiliate
of the United Mine Workers. coulC
not appear on the ballot because
the UNIV has refused to sign thu
non-C Communist oath provision oi
the Taft-Hartley Act.
Evening star., 1952-03-20
British Loborite
|Denounces Tax
IOn Long Woofes
By The Assoeioted Press

LONDON, Mar. 2O.-A member
of Parliament denounced a new
tax on long underwear today as
unjust to Britons of a certain age
and girth.
Demanding the withdrawal Of
the new levy. Laborite Norman
Dodds said the hardy athletic type
who wear shorts will go free while
"outsize or elderly men" are
forced to pay more for their
lOngieS. q
Mr. Dodds said he would raise
the question in the House of
Commons.
Under the new tax--effective
last Monday-men's underwear
costing less than II shillings
t$1.96) is free of tax. That In
cludes most shorts. But a pair Of
long winter woolies retailing for
60 ($5.6O is taxed 4 shillings 6
pence (63 centS).
Evening star., 1952-03-20
Smear Of Eisenhower
In Trick Photo Scored
By Senate Probers
BY The As.oeioied Pres.

The Senate Elections subcom-
|mittee last night denounced 'scur-
Irilous literature, using the COM
munist smear" which it said was
aimed at Gen. Eisenhower in the
New Hampshire primary elections.
The subcommittee, headed by
Senator Gillette. Democrat, of
Iowa announced it was continuing
the inquiry Of how the literature,
including "a trick photograph, :"
was sent through the mails to
newspapers and others in New
Hampshire.
1t said it had found no evidence
that any of Gen. Eisenhower's
rivals were responsible.
"The use of a trick photo
graph, attempting to represent
Gen. Eisenhower as pro- -Commu-
mist. aroused the particular ire
of the committee members" the
announcement said.
"This photograph showed Gen.
Eisenhower in close conversation
with Russian Marshall Georgi K.
Zhukov with q caption reading as
follows:
"Zhukov, Communist general,
decorates drinking partner Eisen-
hover, at Frankfurt. Germany"
Cropped British Photo.
An examination Of newspaper
files, the statement continued, dis
closed this was a trimmed down
version of a British official photo
graph distributed by news services
ion June 16, 1945. with this caption:
"Allied leaders toast European
victory. British Field Marshal Sir
Bernard L. Montgomery, Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower and Rus
lsian Marshal Georgia K. Zhukov,
ltoast European victory of United
Nations at Frankfurt-on- Main,
June 10, when Zhukov presented
Russian Order of Victory to Mont
lgomery and Eisenhower. This is
a British official photograph"
The subcommittee said the photo
WAS used in New Hampshire in a
misleading and deceptive" way.
The figure of Marshall Montgom-
1ery was eliminated. and the date
lof the photograph was not dis
lcloSed.
Not Found Widespread.
"The circulation of this litera-
Iture in the New Hampshire cam
Ipaign was not found to be wide
spread, nor was there evidence of
sponsorship of such literature by
the committees Of any of the can
Ididates," it continued.
1 The subcommittee said the. Of
Ifice of Senator Taft has Uniformed
the subcommittee that Senator
Taft has personally repudiated
every item of scurrilous literature
which has been brought to his
attention"
i Senator Gillette told a reporter
the copies Of the photographs
were not marked with the names
|of those who mailed them, and
that ''this is q violation of both
New Hampshire and Federal law
which is under investigation"
Evening star., 1952-03-20
Lack Of INSPECTORS
Caused Grain Loss,
|0usied Official Says
By JONES E. RoDeY

s Latham White, discharged Di-
rector Of the Agriculture Depart
ment Office at Dallas, said today
he had only one inspector to keep
an eye on $40 million Of Gov
ernment grain in i've southwest
eln States.
He said this was the basic
reason why shortages developer
in the governments commodity
storage program. Mr.. White
testified before the Senate Agri-
culture Committee which is in
vestigating the. shortages which
now total at least So million.
Senators, however, hammered
at Mr.. White for alleged inefn-
cheney in running the Dallas Of
fee. Committee Counsel Paul j.
Cotter drew out Of Mr.. White
an admission there have been
shortages in peanuts as well as
grain and that Mr.. White on one
occasion did nothing to prosecute
a peanut shelter who turned up
$22, 900 short in peanut stocks.
Read Phone Transcript.
Mr.. Cotter read into the record
a transcript Of a telephone report
which Mr.. White made on October
16 to Elmer Kruse, assistant ad-
ministrator of the Agriculture
Departments Production and
Marketing Administration in
Washington. Mr.. White, after
reporting the $22, 900 peanut
shortage, said that arrangements
have been worked out where we
think he can cover all but $1,000
or $4,000"
Mr.. White blamed part Of his
slow action on shortage cases to
the fact that he had only one
inspector to check more than 1000
warehouses where the Govern
ment, as part of its farm price
support program, stored grain in
Texas, Louisiana, New Mexico,
Oklahoma and Arkansas. He re-
lated how a publicity man from
his Office. Carl Hinton, first un-
covered a controversial case at
Arkadelphia, Ark, where weevils
were so thick in Government
grain that they started eating the
outside of the building.
Warehouse Overloaded.
The grain at Arkadelphia was
stored by the Southern Grain &
Storage Co.. a firm formed espe-
cially to store products for the
Agriculture Department. The
operators so overloaded the stor-
age capacity that the wheat could
not be turned to keep it in condi-
ton. Mr.. Hinton, on a visit tc
Arkadelphia, was tipped off thai
the grain was going bad. A regu.
lar grain inspector on October 4
| 1850, recommended some of the
grain be moved but q formal order
was not issued until November Is
1850, and the final shipment o1
grain was not made until a yeal
later-November 8, 1851.
BY that time the grain was unfir
for human consumption and fin.
ally was sold as chicken feed. Tht
Agriculture Department now j,
trying to.collecto $147, ,euo' from th'
.fcompany to make up the less !,
Senator's blamed laxity ins Mi
Whites Office for the long delay
but the witness said there was {
shortage Of box cars to ship grair
and, anyway. the railway had tori
lup a spur line serving the ware.
house. I
Evening star., 1952-03-20
oyettAsksC Congress
10 LEI Military Chiefs
Apply Spending Cuts

Defense Secretary Lovett told
the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee today that II Congress
decides to make an overall cut in
for 1858 the wisest
course would be to let the mill
tary chiefs apply the cuts where
they would do the least damage" !"
He urged. however, that the
military assistance program be
approved in full.
At the same time, Secretary of
State Acheson was telling the
House Foreign Affairs Committee
that II he had to choose between
cutting defense funds. including
foreign aid, and an unbalanced
budget, he would leave the budget
unbalanced
Would Cut NATO Last.
He also testified that If Con-
greSS 1eelS II must reduce the
total of the budget for next year,
he would make funds for building
up the NATO army under Gen.
Eisenhower the last item on the
list to be considered for reduction.
AS both the House and Senate
committees continued to work on
the $7.9 billion foreign aid bill
today, word came from Paris that
Gen. Alfred M. Gruenther, Gen.
Eisenhower's chief of staff, will
fly home tomorrow to testify
early next week.
Eisenhower Decision Later.
After hearing him, probably
early next week, the Senate For
eigt Relations Committee prob
ably will decide whether to invite
Gen. Eisenhower himself. The
committee postponed the ques-
ton several days ago after a
tentative vote of z to against
calling the NATO commander
home at this time.