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Evening star., 1953-07-03
By Cecil HolIond

Chairman Mccarthy Of the
Senate Investigations subcom-
mittee was faced today with de-
mands for appropriate action"
against j. B. Matthews, new sub
committee staff director, for what
three Democratic members said
was "a shocking and unwarranted
attack against the American
clergy"
The demand was voiced by
Senators Mcclellan of Arkansas,
Symington of Missouri and jack
son of Washington.
They referred to an article by
Mr.. Matthews in the July issue
of American Mercury which said: {:
1.-THE largest single group sup
porting the Communist appara-
tus in the United States today
is composed of Protestant clergy
men,"
The three Democratic members
asserted the charges could not
be supported by the facts. They
asked that Senator Mccarthy
call the subcommittee into exec
utive session at the earliest pos
sible moment Ito consider ap-
propriate action" The Wisconsin
legislator indicated the meeting
Evening star., 1953-07-03
Fuel Oil Price Increase
Reduce 0ne.HaIf by ESQ

ESQ Standard Oil Co. has cut
back half of a fuel oil price in
crease announced two weeks ago.
The reduction amounts to
three tenths of cent per gal
lon. A similar reduction also was
ordered yesterday on kerosene
and other distillate oils.
No change was announced in
gasoline prices, which have been
raised twice by ESQ and other
companies recently. The House
Commerce Committee yesterday
began hearings on the increases.
with Chairman Wolverton accuS-
ing the major oil companies Of
collusion in price-fixing.
ESQ, in announcing the de-
crease in New York yesterday,
said it was dictated by COMPETE
tive market conditions. There
had been talk in the trade that
the increases might not hold up
because of a heavy inventory in
fuel oils built up during an alb
normally warm season.
Other major oil companies
usually follow suit on price ac-
tionS.
Evening star., 1953-07-03
Soviet Tanks Reported
Rushed 10 Polish Border
BY the Asseeiated Press

BERLIN, July 3. - Russian
tanks were rushed from East
Berlin to the Polish border to
stand guard against threatening
unrest among the Poles, the
United States State Department
newspaper Neue Zeitung re-
ported today.
Western Allied authorities
confirmed that a tank unit which
had been sent into East Berlin
to quell the June II workers re-
volt was withdrawn Gin a north
easterly direction" in the early
hours yesterday.
Neue Zeitung said Polish un-
derground fighters reported q
900-yard wide stride has been
cleared along the Polish Russian
frontier. and this area is pa
trolled day and night by Russian
troops with bloodhounds.
These reports bolstered rumors
which have been leaking into
West Berlin for days that there
is considerable unrest in Poland.
Evening star., 1953-07-03
Security Check
Ordered for Visit
To Groveyords
Seventh Meeting Held.
BY the Associated Press

BALLSTON SPA, N. Y, July
3.-When you can't visit a grave
yard without security clear
ance, things really are tough.
That's what residents of the
nearby town of Milton figured
when the Atomic Energy Com
mission decided that visitors to
three old cemeteries there would
have to give 10 days notice for
a security checkup.
The Acc has a reservation IN
the area for construction of
power plant for an atomic sub
marine.
So the town board has sent a
formal protest to the Acc, ask
ing if three days notice isn't
enough for a visit to the grave
yards, which haven't been used
for hurials in years.
Evening star., 1953-07-03
Row on Expansion
OF Tariff Commission
May Snag Trade Law
House Hostility to Ban
On 4th G. O. P. Member
Could Delay Measure
BY the Associofed Press

President Eisenhower's re-
queSted one-year extension of
the reciprocal trade agreements
law now has passed both House
and Senate, but a fight still is
likely before it reaches his desk.
The Senate, in passing the
measure late yesterday, knocked
out of the bill a House provision
which would add a seventh men,
Der to the Tariff Commission so
as to give the Republicans q
4-to-3 edge.
This provision was put in orig
inally to persuade key Republi-
cans on the House Ways and
Means Committee to let the
measure go to the floor.
Several of these Republicans
favor higher protective tariffs.
They are not expected to look
kindly on the Senate's rejection
of the plan to boost the commits
sion size.
House Acceptance Expected.
The Ways and Means Commit
tee has been embroiled in the
bitter House fight over extension
of the excess profits tax. This
might contribute to a dispute on
the Tariff Commission issue
when the reciprocal trade bill
goes to a Senate-House confer
ence to iron out differences.
However, a Senate Republican
leader said privately he expected
the House would accept the Sen
ate version.
Senator Taft of Ohio, the Re
publican leader, has said it would
be impossible to get a provision
for a seven-member Tariff Com
mission through the Senate in
the face of any united Demo-
cratic opposition.
Both Southern and Northern
Democrats have been strong for
the reciprocal trade program
since it was first put through in
1884.
The Tariff Commission has had
six members-three Republicans
and three Democrats-since it
was established in 1916. :
Tariffs Cut Extensively.
The Reciprocal Trade law ex-
pired June IL because of House
delay in acting on extension, but
this did not affect the 43 pacts
negotiated under it. These agree
ments have resulted in extensive
cuts in United States tariffs.
However, the administration is
anxious to get the act on the
books again to allay fears of
other nations that the United
States is turning to tighter trade
policies.
The President asked a one
year extension pending a broad
foreign trade study to be con-
Quoted by a 17-member commits
sion set up in the bill. This group
would have 10-to-7 Republican
majority membership.
The principal floor fight in the
(See TRADE, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1953-07-03
Korean HostiIities
Ruled War by Top
u. 5. Military Court
Marine Given ; Months
For Sleeping on Duty;
Held Improperly Tried

The Nations top military
court ruled today the United
States is at war in Korea.
For this reason. the court said.
a Marine private let off with
three months confinement and
a bad-conduct discharge for
sleeping on duty in Korea hadn't
been tried properly.
The United States Court of
Military Appeals said the Ma
rine, Charles A. Bancroft, should
have been tried by a general
court-martlal, instead of a less
serious special court-martial.
Under the former procedure, he
would be subject to possible SEN
tence of death.
This is the first time the court
has decided the status of the
Korean hostilities.
was 1Fleu In 195E.
Bancroft was tried by special
court martial at Ichon-ni, Ko-
rea, on May 8, 1852. He was first
sentenced to a bad-conduct dis
charge, forfeiture of $50 a month
for six months and six months
confinement.
Later Far East Naval authori-
ties reduced the confinement to
three months and suspended the
bad conduct discharge during the
period of confinement.
A Navy board of review later
decided that the special court
martial had been improper and
asked the court to rule on the
question.
Could Be Tried Again.
A court aide said the Marine
can be retired under the de-
Cision, but it couldn't be learned
immediately whether the Navy
will seek a retrial.
The appeals court in another
case denied the appeal of two
Army corporals against SEN
tences of 10 years at hard labor
and dishonorable discharge for
disobeying an order to go to the
front lines and being absent
without leave. The two. Corpl.
Frank C. Gam and Albert L.
Sommer, formerly of the First
Cavalry Division, were tried
originally January 25, 1852, in
Korea and sentenced to 40 years
at hard labor for desertion.
The court in this case also
said the Nation was at war and
this allowed the stiff penalties.
Evening star., 1953-07-03
Rhee Appeals
To U. 5. People
For Backing
Won't Abandon Fioht
Halfway, He soys
In Holiday Message
By the Associofsd Press

SEOUL, July 3.-United States
South Korean truce talks were
stalemated today as President
Syngman Rhee clung Stubbornly
to his demand for a unified
Korea and declared he will
never abandon the struggle half
way"
In an impaSsioned Fourth of
July plea recorded by CHS, Mr..
Rhee called on the American
people to back him. and PROM
ised that his people "wilh keep
fighting and dying" in the battle
against communism.
THE Korean people will never
Evening star., 1953-07-03
By the ASsoeiofed Press

NEW YORK, July 3.-When
Joel Rabin landed his small
plane at a Queens airport yester-
day, he was followed in by a
police helicopter.
Police Sergt. Kenneth john
son got out Of the helicopter and
wrote out a summons for Mr..
Evening star., 1953-07-03
Mrs. Mestu Visits
Soviet Steel Plant
By the Associated Press

MOSCOW. July 3.-Mrs. Perle
Mesta had the added distinction
today of being the first American
in years to see the inside of a
big Soviet steel plant.
The former United States Min
lister to Luxembourg, who has
been here as a guest of United
States Ambassador Charles E.
Bohlen, returned last night from
the Ukraine where she inspected
Russia's famed Dneiper dam and
the big Zaporozhe steel plant.
Evening star., 1953-07-03
Akihito Greeted in Rome

ROME. July 3 (P.-Japan's
Crown Prince Akihito arrived in
Rome today for an official visit
to Italy. High Italian and Japa-
nese officials greeted him at the
railroad station. Also there,
cheering and waving tiny Japa-
nese flags, were children of
the Rome Japanese colony.
Evening star., 1953-07-03

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to 161. 1t was considered a
major victory for the President
on a hotly-contested point of
military policy.
Only five Republicans Joined
1856 Democrats in voting to send
the measure back to the House
Appropriations Committee with
instructions to rewrite it to in
clude an additional $1.1 billion
for the Air Force. Upholding the
Eisenhower program were 1876
Republicans, 80 Democrats and
one independent. Final passage
was then unanimous.
Letter Carries Weight.
A major factor in getting the
bill through the House was Gen.
Eisenhower's letter asserting the
budget represents my own views
and bears my personal indorse-
ment in all particulars"
But the letter caused one Sem
ator, who has been in the FORE
front of the fight for more Air
Force funds, to comment "the
administration shot its wad with
that move"
The Senator, who refused use
of his name, figured a similar
letter to the Senate, when the
bill comes up there some two
weeks hence, would have little
value.
Gen. Eisenhower also wrote
that he was fully conversant"
with the budget in all respects
and had presided over National
Security Council meetings where
it was decided upon.
Kyes and Mcneil Named.
But the Senator, like Repre-
sentative Mahon, Democrat, of
Texas. in the House debate. ques-
toned whether the decision had
not actually been made at the
Pentagon.
"Sure, he is in on it now but
Secretary of Defense Wilson's
own testimony shows that the
decision was made on the Air
Force cuts by Deputy Secretary
Kyes and Assistant Secretary
Mcneil" he said. 'Mr. Wilson
himself was abroad at the time"
During Senate hearings Demo-
cratic Senators were highly crit
ical of the plan.
Gen. Eisenhower submitted a
budget which trimmed more than
$5 billion from Air Force funds
as proposed in the tentative Tru-
man budget. Then the House APP
preparations Committee cut an
other $1.3 billion in the admins
tration's minimum" requests
for all the armed services. The
Senate Appropriations Commit
tee will begin hearings next week
at which armed forces represent
atives will attempt to get the
House cuts restored.
The money is to operate the
armed services in the IL months
which began Wednesday.
12O-Wing Force Backed.
The bill earmarks almost $13
billion for the Army. $9.3 billion
for the Navy, $11 billion for the
Air Force. and more than 81 bill
lion for the Office of the Secre-
tary of Defense.
The House, in effect, threw its
support behind the administra-
tion's new interim goal of a
120-wing Air Force. BY the same
token, it rejected a contention by
Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg, retired
Air Force Chief of Staff, that
rapid building to 143 wings was
essential to the Nations security.
Wings vary in size from 80 bomb
ers to Is fighter planes.
The House defeated four
amendments by Mr.. Mahon
seeking to restore more than
$1.1 billion which Gen. VAN
denberg had described as the
minimum new money needed to
work for 143 wings by mid-1957.
Mr.. Mahon'S amendments
1000 NIT TTTTARY page A-6.)
Evening star., 1953-07-03
Earlier Summer Deadlines
For Sunday Classified Ads

Beginning today and continuing through Septem-
Der the following schedule of headlines will be effect
for acceptance of Classified Ads for The Sunday STAR
10 PM. Friday by Telephone
9 PM. Friday at Lobby Business Counter.
PM. Friday at Classified Branch Offices
Sunday Death Notices and Lost e Found Ads
Accepted Until Pm. Saturday.
Additional telephone ad-takers will be duty every
Thursday and Friday to provide prompt and efficient
service Please place your Sunday Classified Ads early
possible.
Sterling $4,000
Evening star., 1953-07-03
Seventh Case Of Polio
In District Reported

The Districts seventh case of
polio was reported to the Health
Department today. There had
been three cases reported at this
time last year.
The latest victim is a 10-year-
old girl of the 1900 block of
Evening star., 1953-07-03
Kromer's Principal
Is Bound for Africa

BACK TO TEACHlNG-PrincipoI
Catherine E. Crook Of Kroner Junior
High is becoming q teacher osoin to
take q two -yeor post in Afrieo's Gold
Coost. Edueotion Reporter jones 6.
Deone tells obout Miss Crooks un-
usuoI assignment on pose B-l.
WOMAN JUDGE-Miss Mildred
Reeves, ex-seeretory to Senator Toft,
is tokine over spot on the Municipal
Court bench. She's interviewed BY
Stoft Writer Mary L. voushon on
poae b..
Evening star., 1953-07-03

and to what extent is the pro-
gram limited by law?
Spokesman for the admins
tration~ have laid a good deal
of emphasis on this question of
late. In his latest press confer
ence, President Eisenhower ar
gued that the law specifies a
very limited purpose for the
overseas information libraries.
It restricts the selection of books,
Evening star., 1953-07-03

1--WE OF our common cause" he
said. I'VE cannot afford to rest
or halt until we consummate the
one democratic world"
Seventh Meeting Held.
Mr.. Rhee's plea came after an
ur-and- -f1ve-minute morning
meeting with United States en-
voy Walter S. Robertson-their
seventh secret session.
A high source said Mr.. Robert
son rejected Mr.. Rhee's demand
for more war if a post-armistice
political conference doesn't agree
within 80 days to unity Korea.
This apparently was the one
vital issue remaining.
After the conference Mr.. Rob-
ertson told newsmen:
Our discussions are continu-
ing. I expect to see President
Rhee again."
No time has been set for the
next session.
Reds Still Baking.
Even if Mr.. Rhee and Mr..
Robertson reach agreement, the
United Nations must get the
Communists to sign the truce.
The Reds apparently were
ready until Mr.. Rhee freed $1,000
anti-Red Korean war prisoners
about three weeks ago.
Since then they have baked
stubbornly, demanding the al
most impossible recapture of all
the prisoners and positive assur-
ance of U. N control over South
Korea.
The y. N. answered the Red
demands Monday and called for
quick signing of the present
armistice, but there has been no
official Red reply, nor any in
dication when they would. How
ever, unofhcially, North Korea
has expressed displeasure with
the U. N. answer.
In more than a week of United
States-South Korean talks, Mr..
Rhee has refused to temper his
demand for a guaranteed uni
f1cation of North and South Ko-
rea. The United States has Of
fered to work for unif1cation by
peaceful means, but won't prom
Use to go back to war.
Robertson Leaving Soon.
Well-informed observers pre-
dicted Mr.. Robertson will leave
for Washington within a few
days-successful or not. The U.
N. has indicated it will go ahead
with an armistice despite any
holdout by Mr.. Rhee.
Meanwhile. Robert Murphy,
political adviser to U. N. COM
mander Gen. Mark Clark, flew
back to Tokyo after sitting in Cn
the latest Rhee-Robertson meet
ing.
An authoritative source stressed
that Mr.. Rhee is holding out for
an American pledge that United
States forces will bear arms
again in Korea if the political
conference fails to solve his ma
tion's problems within 80 days.
Written Pledge Impossible.
President Eisenhower cannot
furnish this pledge to Mr.. Rhee
In writing, the source noted. The
United States Senate would have
to ratify any such agreement.
Some Washington quarters
have voiced the belief that Mr..
Rhee will accept the armistice in
a showdown once he feels he has
gained all the pledges possible in
American military and economic
aid and the f1rmeSt assurances
for a mutual defense pact be-
tween the United States and his
country.
Qualified sources have made it
clear that Mr.. Robertson's mis-
sion is the first and last from
Washington to Korea before an
s-k sH rf~
Evening star., 1953-07-03
Burning Question:
BULLETIN

The State Department has
directed the 189 United States
overseas information libraries
to submit by August / a COM
plete list of authors and titles
of the books on their shelves.
Evening star., 1953-07-03

Alabama City Awoits Results Of $4,000
Polio InoeuIotions. Poee AS
Evening star., 1953-07-03

Fort Davis place Sc. She was
admitted to Gallinger Hospital
yesterday.
The sixth case, reported yes
terday, was that of a 20-year-
old woman of the 1900 block Of
Monroe street NE. She was adj
mitted to Gallinger Hospital
Monday.
Prince Georges County re-
ported a new polio case yester-
day.
Health officials said a 6-year-
old boy, of the 2100 block of Van
Buren street, HyattSville. Md. has
been taken to Cnildren's Hos
pital.
Evening star., 1953-07-03
By Crosby S. Noyes

Gradually, after some rather
devious turnings, the debate
about "book-burning" in over
seas information libraries seems
to be settling down on one rea-
Sonably definite point.
1t is essentially this:
What kind of libraries is the
Government trying to operate
Hennines Resolution Asks Administration
fo Clarity Book Issue. Pooe Al
Evening star., 1953-07-03
Fight 10 Boost
Air Force Funds
Due in Senate
$34.4 Billion Defense
Measure Receives
Approval of House
By John A. Giles

A strong Senate fight to re-
store Air Force funds whacked
off by the administration was
promised today following House
passage late yesterday of the
$34.4 billion military appropria-
tions bill.
The vote upholding President
Eisenhower's program was $50
Roll Call Vote on Air Force Funds.
Pooe A-3
Evening star., 1953-07-03

Rhee's July 4th PIeo to United Stotes
People Halls Spirit of '76. Poee A-3
Evening star., 1953-07-03

swerve from the original objec-
tive of our common cause" he
said. I'VE cannot afford to rest
or halt until we consummate the
one democratic world"
Evening star., 1953-07-03

(see MILITARY, Page A-6)
Evening star., 1953-07-03

(See CLERGY, Page A-6.)
Evening star., 1953-07-03
Weather Forecast

Clear and cooler tonight lowest about IS.
Tomorrow, fair with high in the middle
80S. Full report on Page A-2D
Temperatures Today.
Evening star., 1953-07-03

(See BOOKS, Page A-2.)
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-07-23
A Letter From
BILL LANTAFr
Dear Neighbor:

DSaA ANEthA@gAt
'sWhas IS the status Of the trend
toward socialism in the Congress
tOdayg" This question was asked
recently b. a South Floridian.
u is easy 10 define true social
Ism but II seems 10 me that We
sometimes cry socialism whenever
Q government action, whether Il be
lOcal, state or national, does not
suit Us as individuals or as .
group. On the other hand We come
70 expect other governmental SER
vices which provide Us benefits
without thinking Of them as socia-
nstic or paternalistie.
IT'S interesting TO look back
through the history Of our govern.
ment and note how many propo-
sails or legislative moves were lab
eled soeiaIiStic at the time Of their
presentation. When the Interstate
Commerce Act was proposed in
1887 II was termed socialiStic. The
label Of socialism was pinned on
cur proposed income tax laws In
1884. In 1903 the growth Of Iabod
unions was called socialistic and
during that same administration of
Teddy Roosevelt the Pure Food
and Drug Act was called socialism.
The Federal Reserve Act, pro-
posed In 1918 to establish q more
effective supervision of banking in
this country was termed socialis-
tic. Even Woman Suffrage was
labeled an ism" In 1915 the Man
Suffrage Association cried out
Socialism, feminism and woman
suffrage are united in their efforts
10 secure votes for women. In
1916. the Federal Farm Act de-
signed to make long term loans TO
farmers who used their farms as
security and which created the
Farm Loan Bank Board and Farm
Loan Bureau was termed pater.
naIly socialistic.
Public power has often been re.
ferred TO as socialistic. During
Hooyer's administration IN 1928
the Hoover Dam was assailed as
4 masked approach toward com.
munism. In 1883 the Tennessee
Valley Authority was termed Soc
ialistic and patterned after i Soviet
dream BY Rep. Joseph Martin, who
Is now the Speaker Of the House.
Yet, President Eisenhower decIar-
ed during the election that if he
was elected, iva would be operat-
ed and maintained at maximum
efficiency.
There are many other proposals
that have been labeled socialism
creation Of the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation, the Child
Labor Laws, funds for health re-
search. Federal Aid 10 highways
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-07-23

apartment Yes. she must 90
quickly.
Bur at the door Of the library
she drew up sharply. for the UNI
miStakahle sound of footsteps M
truded into the Sacredness OF this
last moment Oh. couldn't people
leave her alone even in this mo-
ment Of goodbye?
Bur the footsteps came on. in
exorably. and as she turned back
TO the hallway she stopped short
in amazement For she was face
TO face with Rocky Alyersoni
For q moment Greer stared ut
Rocky as If he mad been an IN
habitant from another world. And
indeed no one had been further
from her thoughts than this man
who stood 50 calmly before her
now. gazing at her with dark. inn
penetrable eyes. Again that feel
ing Of antagonisn swept over her.
that sense of being disapproved.
criticized-and drawing herself
up she managed IN spite of her
worn grief to look proud and
lovely and almost untouched.
Rocky Alverson was straight
and strongly built and everything
about him from his felt hat 20
his light gray suit mad a perfee-
ton that to Greer seemed annoy
ing precision. What right mad he
to stand there. so beautifully
groomed. 50 sure and easy Of
manner. when within her all was
tumult and bewilderment? When
she felt grubby and tired and not
at all like her usual self? But Of
course. what really annoyed nef
was that he was here at all-ln
these last few moments Of her
goodbye to her old home. She felt
that she could never forgive him
this.
When he spoke his voice was
cool and controlled. Forgive me
for Intruding, Miss Lawrence, but
there Is q matter GA which ] felt
] must see you at Cace."
Won't you sit DOWN." She In.
dictated the window seat and
added little piteously, I'm
afraid my facilities fof entertain
ing visitors are rather limited for
the moment"
And suddenly his dark face
flushed with emotion. Il didn't
came to be entertained. I cane
because / thought you might need
help. and that might be the one
to help you!"
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