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Evening star., 1952-12-18
Taft Will Be Majority Leader
Foctono|ism Among Republicans Is Diminishing;
From Here On 1t Will Be an Eisenhower Purty
David LoWrence:

Senator Robert Taft Of Ohio
will be the Republican majority
leader of the new Senate.
This can be forecast from the
fact that President-elect Eisen-
hover has let it be known that
he is neutral-that he is not
taking any part in the selection
of majority leader by the
Senate. But this is more sig
nif1cant than appears at first
glance. For it conveys the i'm
portant information that the
President-elect does not have
the slightest objection to the
naming of Senator Taft. If
Gen. Eisenhower had by so much
as hint or frown indicated any
possible unhappiness over the
selection, it might have stirred
up opposition.
The generals position is in
accord with tradition. It isn't
the business of a President to
pick the leaders in Congress,
but at the same time he may
manifest displeasure if some one
opposed to his policies were to
be suggested.
BY making it known that the
President-elect will be agree
able to any choice the Senate
makes-the Ohio Senator or
anybody else-the way is opened
to the election Of Mr.. Taft when
the Senate reconvenes next
month. Almost all the Repub-
lican Senators are for Taft if
he wants the poSt-and he does.
The problem of the 'Senate's
leadership has been talked over
a lot in the last few weeks.
Some persons without any par
ticular feeling of opposition to
Senator Taft have feared that
his selection as majority leader
would mean a series of compro-
misses and adjustments on policy
In which the general would be
finding it necessary to make
constant concessions. Others
who are very friendly to Mr..
Taft thought the post might be
embarrassing to the Senator
himself for the opposite reason
namely, that he might have to
modify his own views in order
Evening star., 1952-12-18
Lowell MeHett::
baltimore, Vincent and Justice
Courts Will Determine Case Of Professor Review Board
Finding Gives State Department Real Problem

Prof. Owen baltimore Of
Johns Hopkins University has
been indicted by Federal
grand jury, charged with per-
jury, the giving of false testi-
mony to a Senate committee.
The seven counts in the indict-
ment are summarized in one
which alleges that he did not
tell the truth when he said "he
had never been a Sympathizer
or any kind of promoter OF
communism or Communist in
terestS."
The perjury was allegedly
committed during the II days
that Prof. baltimore answered,
to the point of mental and
physical exhaustion. questions
put to him by members of pre-
ponderately hostile committee,
In the course of this inquisition,
1t is alleged. he contradicted
himself or the testimony OF
other witnesses which the COM
mittee-and now the grand
jury-preferred to believe. One
such witness was Louis Budenz,
an ex-Communist who has en-
joyed a profitable career OF &C
cusation and whose own indict-
ment on the charge of perjury
has been demanded by Latti-
more.
It is hard for most of us to
keep in mind that an indictment
is rot a conviction. that it
means only that enough evl-
dence has been offered against
a man to justify. in the opinion
of the jurors, a court trial. Be-
cause we forget this. an indict-
ment seriously damages an
accused person. Even after a
man has been tried and ac-
quilted, great harm to his rep
utation is apt to remain. We
say man is presumed to be
innocent until he is convicted,
but often that is true only in
the legal sense. This is the more
regrettable in the present in
stance. since the indictment is
couched in part in the language
of the Senate committees re-
port, meaning in the language
of a political stump speech.
In due time. however, the
courts will pass judgment. They
will say whether or not Latti-
more has ever been a SYM
pathizer with or promoter Of
communism. They probably will
not go into other charges against
him, those made at times by
Evening star., 1952-12-18

On foreign policy, Senator
Taft has accepted the principles
Of international cooperation.
He is going to be guided by the
facts and circumstances that
are decisive factors in making
an international program. He
will have to exert all the skill
of a Vandenberg and yet win
the support of Senators who
heretofore have been considered
extreme in their criticisms. The
Ohio Senate, will have a better
chance of getting Senators of
that group to 60 along with the
administrations legislative pro-
posals than anybody else would.
For he is persuasive and will
have made a thorough examina-
ton of the questions at issue
before undertaking to cham
pion the legislative measures
that are recommended by the
President.
Incidentally, the recent rift"
over appointments was more Of
a blunt expression of opinion
about how appointments should
not be handled than any indica-
ton of serious cleavage. Sena-
tor Taft, for instance, will not
oppose Martin Durkin'S con-
firmation as Secretary of Labor.
All in all, President-elect
Eisenhower is satisfied that the
same man who took off his coat
and fought so hard for the elec-
ton of the Republican nominee
last autumn. despite the bitter
preconvention campaign, is
ready to do so again in order to
effect a united Republican Party
in the Senate. It is a significant
development. While the Demo-
Gratis may be disappointed that
factionalism in the Republican
Party is diminishing rapidly,
the emerging fact is that the
Republican Party is going to
unite behind President Dwight
Eisenhower as the true leader
of the party. There will be less
and less talk of a Dewey faction
or a Taft faction. It's going to
be an Ike party all the way
through.
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Evening star., 1952-12-18

Board, reversing the findings of
the State Departments own in
vestigators, has declared there
is reasonable doubt" of Vim
cents loyalty to the Govern
ment. 1t does not declare or find
that he has been disloyal. The
language of its report reveals,
in fact, reasonable doubt of his
disloyalty. But the two reason
able doubts are not allowed to
cancel one another and Vincent
stands suspended unless and un-
til the department, or perhaps
the President, can dispose of a
vicious and preposterous situa-
ton.
For, reduced to its essence, the
review board doubts Vincent's
loyalty because he had a part in
formulating the departments
policy with regard to China, a
policy which the board in its
hindsight now considers unwise.
The department must find way
around this kind of thinking if
it hopes in the future to OBJ
tain honest reports and opin-
ions from the men it sends
abroad on its difficult missions.
Evening star., 1952-12-18

the Russian press-that he was
a Learned lackey of imperial
ism,' "a libeler Of the Chinese
Communist Party" and "a serv-
ant of japanese Imperialism"
While waiting for the courts
decision Johns Hopkins Univer-
sity, actually presuming man
is innocent until proved guilty,
has given the professor a leave
of absence. with pay.
1t is to be hoped that the
United States Government will
find way to act as justly in
the case of another man caught
up in the current hysteria-to use
President Truman's word for
the national state OF mind,
while wishing the President had
something more than words
with which to combat it. The
man is John Carter Vincent,
victim this same week of what
on its face appears to be COM
plete travesty of justice.
After a lifetime spent in the
country's foreign service, mostly
in unpleasant places and at
modest pay, Vincent has been
suspended by the State Depart
ment. The Loyalty Review
Evening star., 1952-12-18
Dorothy Thompson:
Issue Of POWs Is Strotegico|
Without Forced Repatriation, Red Soldiers Would Quit
Ranks by Thousands to Gain Humane Asylum
humane Asylum

February, 1851, they announce
that they had captured $1,000
persons. When, however, as re-
quired by the convention. they
were asked to submit the names
of prisoners. they reported only
1850. Asked to explain the
difference, they said it was
accounted for by the people who
had been "re-educated" at the
front, and-as Secretary Ache
son remarked in his account Of
the Korean war to U. N. on
October 24-"so quickly re-
educated that it was impossible
to get their names" The as
sumption is that they Joined or
were inducted into the North
Korean Army. I recently sug-
gested giving North Korean
prisoners an option to avoid
repatriation by joining the U. N.
forces, but this is probably not
in the spirit of the convention.
The Russian attitude contra
diets II conventions signed by
the U. S. S. r. permitting de-
tention of prisoners, but the
Soviets have always had one set
of rules for themselves and an
other for their adversaries.
Why is the Russian stand so
intransigent?
There may be many reasons.
including the desire to hold
down U. N. forces in Korea
where they cannot be used
in more important campaigns
planned by the Moscow-Peking
Axis. But the simplest and most
certain reason is that they fear,
and with reason, wholesale de-
sertions from Communist ranks
in any war, if deserters are
granted humane asylum.
In Korea there were initially
mass surrenders of North Ko-
rean troops-at the end of last
October we had reported the
names of 10000.
During World War II, there
were mass surrenders of Russian
troops to the Germans. includ-
ing General Vlasov's entire
army. Only the Nazi policy Of
extreme cruelty to prisoners
halted desertions. A stream of
civilians pours or trickles into
the West from East Europe, and
soldiers are no different in their
feelings from civilians. If, there
fore, the Communists can estab-
lish that unwilling prisoners
must be repatriated - to their
doom-they will have disarmed
their opponents of their most
effective weapon; the desire of
men to escape Communist rule.
And this is the weapon most
likely to deter Communist ag-
gressions: The doubt of the re-
liability of their troops if there
is any way to escape killing or
being killed.
The issue is thus not only
humanitarianism. 1t is a case
where humaneness is a major
political. even military and stra-
tegical, asset.
Evening star., 1952-12-18
Doris FIeeson:
DORIS F7eesOn:
Toft-DeWey Fight and Patronage
BrowneII, the Governors Man, Will Be a Big Wheel
When 1t Comes to t4onding Out Many Federal Jobs

BY calendar reckoning these
are the shortest days of the
year, but they seem practically
interminable to Republicans in
terested in putting the stamp of
Eisenhower leadership on their
party and relegating the Taft
Dewey feud to the wings.
This group doesn't like any,
thing about the situation which
finds the President-elect main
tanning New York City Offices
largely stated by Dewey people
with Senator Taft buzzing like
an angry hornet on the fringes.
They know such stresses won't
vanish after January 20 next,
but they are confident that the
general can smother them when
he is actually in the White
House.
At the moment Senator Taft,
after striking out repeatedly on
the cabinet, is having an inning.
Senators claim credit for it.
1t was, they say, their own
angry complaints about Attor-
ney General-designate Brown
ellis handling of patronage
which provoked the conciliatory
Ike gestures now being made in
the direction of the Taft bid for
Evening star., 1952-12-18

to represent the Senate at the
White House in legislative con-
troverSieS.
The simple fact Is that Sem
ator Taft is perhaps the ablest
man in Congress and knows
more about more pieces of legis-
lation and subjects of legislation
than anybody else in either
house. He knows more. too,
about how to work out agree
ments on delicate problems Of
legislation. and he knows that
often bills can't be passed at all
without material concessions. He
is probably the one man who
could be of maximum assistance
to the new President in matters
of legislation. And that is going
to be very important if the Re
publicans are to make gains in
the congressional elections of
1854 or win again in 1856.
Why, it has been asked. does
Senator Taft want to be major
ity leader? The answer is that
he has spent most of his legis-
lative life on the minority side,
and he is anxious to do con-
structive job of leadership on
the majority side. It is a new
rho1loo0o fn 1ic 70 loy,tc ond will
give him new satisfactions if he
can succeed in harmonizing his
party in the Senate.
What kind of leader will Sena-
tor Taft make? The country
will find him loyal to the White
House and a sincere spokes-
man for its proposals. but at
the same time, as in the case
of every leader, it will not be
of much avail to the President
to have a leader who follows
him blindly without regard to
what other members of the
Senate want. There has to be
a good deal of conference and
discussion by the legislative
leaders at the White House be-
fore decisions on policy are
formalized.
On domestic policy, the Ohio
Senator is more Of a liberal
conservative than an ultra-con-
servatiye. as evidenced by his
attitude on education and hous-
ing and social security.
Evening star., 1952-12-18
| baltimore Case to Be Dramatic
'|deoIo9ists' Already Are Raising Eyebrows in Fear
Professor VIII BelConvcted BY Mass HYsterio

baltimore supporters compared
to the Dreyfus case in France
at the turn of the century.
The situation is changed now
since a grand jury has indicted
the professor on seven counts
of perjury: Two more than were
contained in the Internal Sc
security subcommittee report
to the Justice Department. The
baltimore affair will be pre-
sents to an ordinary jury Of
average Americans.
Yet a number of "ideologists"
already are raising their eye
brows in apprehension that
what they describe as mass
hysteria" may convict their
friend. Rumors emanating from
liberal" sources say James
McGranery pushed" the Latti-
more case to please Senator
McCarran, who had been in
Strumental in his confirmation
as Attorney General. The fact
that the Justice Department
presented to the grand jury a
case based on testimony given
by Mr.. baltimore under oath
and on Recommendation gravely
conflicting with the testi-
mony seems to be overlooked.
Similarly the baltimore de-
Tenders seemingly do not con-
slider the fact that the Justice
Department is very cautious in
sending to grand jury cases
laden with as much political
dynamite as the present one.
AS a matter of fact, the docu-
mentation sent by the McCar-
ran subcommittee is said to
form only a small portion of the
evidence on which Mr.. Latti-
more was indicted.
Evening star., 1952-12-18

yers and jurists. One Senator,
Willis Smith of North Carolina.
is a past president of the Ameri-
can Bar Association.
When the McCarran Subcom-
mittee referred Mr.. Lattimore's
testimony to the Justice De-
partrnent with the recommended
ton that the record be reviewed
and the professor be indicted for
perjury. none of his friends pro-
fessed to be surprised or unduly
concerned. This. they said, was
a foregone conclusion, and they
pointed out that Mr. baltimore
had already placed himself on
record as expecting nothing else
from a biased senatorial group.
In the meantime. ne had
coined a new word, Mccarthy
ism, meaning a vicious. unjusti-
fled smear. This expression be-
came a battle cry for genuine
and less-than-genuine liberals.
It is hard to remember when,
in this country, there has been
more intense partisanship than
that aroused by the baltimore
case.
AS in the case of Alger Hiss,
UP to his conviction, the Presi-
dent and most of the pro-
ponents of the New and Fair
Deals denounced Mr.. Latti-
more's accusers with vigor. An
overwhelming percentage of the
newspapers, magazines and
radio commentators joined in
the attacks on McCarthyiSm
because they considered the evi-
dence brought against the ex-
pert on Mongolia f1imsy and un-
subStantiated. We finally had
our cause celebre" which many
Evening star., 1952-12-18
Constantine Brown:

The trial Of Owen baltimore,
professor on leave from Johns
Hopkins University, is expected
to be more hard-fought and
sensational than that of Alger
Hiss, now serving a five-year
perjury sentence at the Lewis
burg Federal penitentiary.
Mr.. baltimore has hit back
vehemently in the three years
since his case became a 'front.'
page story through the accusa-
tions of Senator Mccarthy that
he was the principal Communist
agent in the United States and
the architect of our Asia policies.
Two Senate committees investi-
gated those charges. The one
headed by former Senator
Millard Tydings ended with Mr..
baltimore cleared. The Mary
land electorate apparently did
not agree with the procedure
adopted by their Senator and
retired him from public life in
1850 in favor of a relatively un-
known Republican.
A Judiciary Subcommittee
headed by the veteran Senator
McCarran of Nevada took up
the baltimore case when it be-
gan investigating the Institute
of Pacific Relations, in which the
professor played an important
role. Mr.. baltimore took the
stand last summer for IL days,
and from the outset of his de-
fenSe stated that he had no
hopes of a fair hearing from a
bunch of prejudiced Senators
and biased investigators. The
subcommittee, incidentally. was
composed in the majority of
Democrats, most of whom had
well-established records as law
Evening star., 1952-12-18

Because the prisoner of war
issue prevents concluding an
armistice in Korea, there is in
terest in the international con-
ventions governing the matter
of repatriation.
The 1949 diplomatic confer
Kodiak mirror. [volume] (Kodiak, Alaska) 1940-1976, 1952-04-19

u. S. DEPARTMENT OF
THE INTERIOR OFFICE
OF TERRITORIES
INVITATION TO BIDDERS
Sealed bids for Contract
"A" only will be received by
Donald R. Wilson, District
Director, Department of the
Interior, Office of Territories,
Alaska Public Works, 1913
/ Third Street, P. O. Box 2749,
Juneau. Alaska, until 500
/ P. M. Pacific Standard Time
on May Ia, 1862 for the con-
struction of a one story school
building consisting of eleven
classrooms, kindergarten,
kitchen, administrative Office,
boiler room, toilet rooms and
other required miscellaneous
rooms of reinforced concrete
and frame construction in the
City of Kodiak, Alaska. At
which time and place. the bids
will be publicly opened and
read aloud. Bids received after
closing time of bid opening
will be returned unopened.
Plans and specifications and
other proposed contract docu-
ments are open for public in
spection at the District Di-
rector's Office. Juneau, Alaska;
at the office of the Associated
General Contractors of A
merica, Seattle Chapter, Con-
struction Center, 3rd Avenue
West and Harrison Street, Sc
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i ~ " esS f9s3 i ess
attic, Washington; at the of
ice of the Associated General
Contractors Of America.
Mountain Pacific Chapter,
PIG Benjamin Franklin Hotel,
Seattle, Washington; at the
office of the Associated Gene
raj Contractors of America,
Anchorage, Alaska: at the Of
flee of the Associated General
Contractors, Suite liz, Multi
nomah Hotel, Portland, Gre
gon; at the office of DIR. A.
Holmes Johnson, President of
School Board, Kodiak School
District, Kodiak, Alaska; and
at Room 2723, Interior Build
ing, Washington D. G. A set
of such documents may be
procured from the Office of
Donald R. Wilson, District
Director, Juneau, Alaska,
upon deposit of $500 all of
which will be refunded to
-,sg-,.-
bona fide bidders upon the re-
turn Of the plans and speci-
fications postmarked within
ten (1O) days from date of
bid opening. Deposits to be
made Payable to the Treasurer
of the United States. To par
ties who procure plans and
specifications upon payment
of the above stated amount,
and who do not submit a bid,
$25. 90 will be refunded upon
the return of the plans and
specifications rostmarked
within (10) days from the
date Of the bid opening. No
refund will be made for return
after that time. Each bid must
be accompanied by a satisfac-
tory bid security Certified
check, bid bond, or U. S.
Treasury Bond) in an amount
of not less than 5 per cent of
the total bid. The successful
bidder will be required to fur
nish a performance bond and
payment bond, each in the
amount of 100 per cent of the
contract price. No bid may be
withdrawn until thirty 1907
days after the scheduled clos
ing time for the receipt of
bids. The Government re-
serves the right to reject any
and all bids and to waive in
formalities with respect
thereto.
DONALD R. WILSON
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NOTICE

Residents along Mission
Road are requested to move
all personal property along the
road right of way from the
city limits to Spruce Cape,
Mission Road is to be stand
ardized this summer and in
most places will use the entire
right of way.
Isl Paul Slower
Foreman
Alaska Road Comm.
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More East Additaen
Lots For Sale [

Plans are under way for the
development and sale Of IL
lots in the Southeast Addition
of Kodiak Townsite, Delegate
Bartlett announced this week.
The information regarding
the sale was given Del. Bart
lett by the Assistant Secretary
of the Interior. Lots at Kenal,
Ninilchik, Sitka, Pelican and
Cordova will also be offered
for sale.
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John Morton returned to
Kodiak Sunday after spending
the winter in Bonneville,
Missouri, with his family.
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NOTICE

Cara Dygert,i 1914 10Th
Street, Seattle, Washington,
died February 2, 1852. Anyone
knowing whereabouts of STEP
niece, maiden name Skinner,
and sole heir, please notify
Paul M. Anderson, attorney,
708 American Building, Sc
attic, Washington. $40
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NOTICE.

Game night at the VFW
is now Wednesday and Fri
day nights.
Evening star., 1952-04-24
.Mojor Leaders
AMERICAN LEAGUE.

Batting-Baker, Washington; 400;
Pssa n.s9 s9stSr New S9 vs
Boston, $3.50.
Runs-.Piersall, Boston. II; piMassio,
Boston, 8; Dropo. Boston, z; Lenhardt,
Boston, and Boone, Cleveland. 6.
Runs batted in---Lenhardt. Boston. O.;
PSpS Boston e. " Stephens n and
cago, z.
Hits-DiMagsio and Piersall. Boston,
H. IA; Dropo' Boston, IL; hve players tied
Boston. 4; Six players tied with 8. s''
Triples-Eighteen players tied with
Home runs--Easter and Rosen, cleve-
na 81 Mos9 ST. Lou DrGD0 anS and hsDs
washington, 2.
Stolen bases-Rizzuto. New York. 8;
valo and Fain, Philadelphia; Rivera,
st. Louis, and Mullin, Detroit. 2.
Pitching--Parnell and Henry, Boston;
New ynn YoaF cn snd yrRs Hsfs g.
1000.
strikeouts-Pierce, Chicago; Feller.
Cleveland, Carver, st. Louis. and Mo:
reno, .Washinston. IL; four pitchers tied
with 10 each.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., st. Louis. .4S1;
Robinson. Brooklyn, .47S; Hatton, Cincin-
natl. .429; Campanella. Brooklyn. .394;
Baumholtz. Chicago. 1893.
Runs-Adams. Cincinnati 10; Cox,
Brooklyn. and Hatton. Cincinnati. 8;
TorgeSo. Boston; Robinson, Brooklyn. and
Ramazzotti, Chicago, 8.
Runs batted in--Kluszewski. Cincinnati.
13; Campanella. Brooklyn, IL: Sauer. Chi
cago TO-, Snider. Brooklyn. and Adcock,
Hits-Fox. Brooklyn. Is: Campanella.
BROOKLYN. and Schoendienst, St Louis. 13;
Furillo Brooklyn. and Hatton. Cincin-
natl. IL.
Doubles--Cox Brooklyn, 5: D. Rice, st.
Louis, 4; six players tied with 3 each.
Triples-Cox. Brooklyn; Adds, Chicago;
Kluszewski and Adcock Cincinnati; Muel-
Ter, New York, and Del Greco. Pitts
burgh. ..
Home runs-Pafko, Brooklyn, 8; Campa-
nella,, Brooklyn, 3; 15 players tied with
= each.
Stolen bases-Thompson and Mays, New
York and Slaughter. St. Louis, 2; 12l
players tied with each.
Pitchins-Roe and Van Cuyk, Brook
lyn; Raffensberger. Cincinnati; Magile New
York, and Staley, st. Louis 30. 200.
Strikeouts-van Cuyk, Brooklyn, II;
Maglie. New York. IS; Rush. Chicago, IA;
Wilson. Boston. 10: Surkont, Boston, and
Raffensberger, Cincinnati, 8.