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Evening star., 1953-05-17

United States defense chiefs
recently returned to the nor
malcy of Washington df you
can call this town normaD
after an Arabian Nights ex-
perience in Africa that still
has them pinching themselves
in wonder. They're not talk
ing about it but they look like
men who have just taken
trip on a flying carpet.
Secretary of Defense Charles
E. Wilson, Secretary of the
Navy Bob Anderson, Chairman
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Gen. Omar Bradley and their
respective wives stepped into a
storybook world of veiled
women and powerful Arabian
chieftains when they flew from
defense meetings in Europe to
Morocco.
The great Ell Glaoui. &C.
year-old Pasha of Marrakech
who has 100 concubines and
four wives, the youngest 20,
introduced them to a life last
seen only in a Hollywood
movie. They dined in his
Moorish palace, pictured in
Life a couple of weeks ago,
under a mosaic ceiling that
took 20 years to decorate, sat
on velvet hassocks, ate with
their fingers out of bowls of
fine Limoges china, were en-
tertained by dancing girls and
waited upon by high officials
of the Pasha's government.
The latter gesture of ex-
quisite hospitality was made,
the Pasha told them, because
they were too distinguished a
group to be waited upon by
servants.
Wild-eyed and willing. the
group of American notables
went through Is courses to
show their appreciation .for
the exotic fare, licking their
fingers in the best Emily Post
Moroccan style after each
course. They couldn't get
them as clean or do it as fast,
however. as El Glaoui. who
Evening star., 1953-05-17
Yesterdays Portying:
.Di||inghonns Feted
Bv Mr.. and Mrs. Gill
Col. and Mrs. Lucius Clay, Jr., Entertain
In Farewell to 1t. CoI Mrs. Robert Evans
By Katharine M. Brooks

Mrs. Hugh S. Richardson, Mrs.
James K. Sullivan and the Misses
Nancy Thomas. Mary McLaugh-
lin and Lucy Hoffman with the
Messrs. Robert L. Simmons and
Hileary F. HoSkinson were others
at the party.
Col. and Mrs. Lucius .. Clay,
jr., planned an al fresco cocktail
party at their home in nearby
Virginia yesterday in honor Of
1t. Col. and Mrs. Robert H.
Evans, who will leave shortly
to motor across the country.
Col. Evans has been trans
ferred to an Air Force command
in the Far East and with his
family will go first to Joplin.
Mo-, to visit his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Frank Evans. They
will go on later to Houston.
Tex, where Mrs. Evans and
their children, Hancel and Rob-
ert, will stay with Mrs. Evans
mother, Mrs. Aileen Langham.
while the colonel is overseas.
Many of the guests yesterday
were classmates of Col. Evans
and his host, who were gradu-
ated with the class of 1912 from
the Military Academy at West
Point. In the company were
Col. and Mrs. w. j. Harrell,
Col. and Mrs. George L. Hughes.
Col. and Mrs. Howard L. Burris.
1t. Col. and Mrs. William M.
Watkins, 1t. Col. and Mrs. Wall
ter Dean Short, 1t. Col. and Mrs.
Floyd L. Robinson, 1t. Col. and
Mrs. William C. Plott, 1t. Col.
and Mrs. Karl M. Retzer and
1t. Col. and Mrs. Thomas M.
Rienzi.
1t. Col. and Mrs. Campbell
Palfrey, jr., said their adieux
to the honor guests. and also
present were 1t. Col. and Mrs.
r. w. Beers.
Evening star., 1953-05-17
Junior League Carnival
Plans Getting Underway

rides for children. A colorful
background and setting Is also
being arranged by Mrs. James
Jacob. chairman of grounds
and decorations.
Attractive invitations in red
and white with a picture Of a
clown have been designed by
Mrs. Lawrence jacobsen. Al
though only Junior League
members will receive the in
vitations, the public Is invited
to attend the carnival from
IL until 6 o'clock.
Evening star., 1953-05-17
Exclusively Yours--- BETTY ''~=

Washington'S newest social
center is the Burning Tree
Club. Ever since the golf
playing club member, Dwight
D. Eisenhower, became Presi-
dent, the most exclusive mems
golf club in this area suddenly
emerges as the next best
asset a fellow can have, short
of a key to the White House
door. It's always had a wait
ing list but the rumor that Ike
plans to play with a different
foursome each time until he
has coveIed the whole mem
bership hasn't exactly cut it
any.
Evening parties that were
given elsewhere before, such as
the Republican Senators re-
cent dinner attended by the
President and cabinet, are now
taking place at Burning Tree.
Just how long the social
minded female contingent Of
this town can stand to have
such goings on at a.club for
men only remains to be seen.
How can any hostess, regard
less Of the elegance Of her
drawing room. compete with
the Presidents favorite leisure
spot?
Stories like this only add to
the ladies' Illustration. A
Burning Tree member said
that he was out at the club on
a recent Saturday and he
walked into the locker room.
First person he saw was the
President of the United States
with a group of friends. Sec
ond person he ran into was
Vice President Nixon with his
group of pals. A little further
on and, by golly. there was the
Duke of Windsor. That was
too much for him. where in
the heck is Farouk?" he said.
looking into every nook and
Granny. IT know he must be
in here somewhere"
Evening star., 1953-05-17

gave them a couple of finger
licking lessons.
You never know what you'll
end up doing when you take a
job in Washington.
Only the thumb and first
two fingers on one hand are
used in eating, and in that
part of the world, top society
thinks nothing of holding out
a morsel to a guest with the
same well-used fingers, where
as it is considered unclean to
touch another persons hand
after the fingers have been
washed in full view of all and
the meal begun.
Mrs. Wilson, by the way, adj
mired the fine, handwoven
white fabric of the Pasha's
robe, which was made for him
in his harem. and he prompt
ly gave her some to bring
home.
The high point of the trip
for Secretaries Wilson and
Anderson and the only day
Evening star., 1953-05-17

The welfare fund of the
Junior League will benefit from
the annual carnival which the
organization will give on June
13. Gates will open at IL
o'clock on the grounds Of the
Landon School for Boys on
Wilson lane in Bethesda. Ad-
mission will be so cents.
Mrs. Bernard A. Schriever,
chairman, promises many new
additional features this year,
including a Chinese laundry
guessing game and airplane
Evening star., 1953-05-17
New CongressWon1on:
Mrs. John B. Sullivan
Likes Political Life
Representative From Missouri Plans
To Carry Out Late Husbands Program
By Isabelle Shelton

When Missouri'S new Congress-
woman was sworn in last jan
uary she signed her oath of Of
flee as the Honorable Mrs. John
B. Sullivan"
"You can't do that" she was
told. "You can't be Mrs. and
be Honorable too."
We'll, that's the first time any
body ever told me it wasn't hon
orable to be a Mrs." the Con-
gresswoman chuckled good ma
turedly, her blue eyes twinkling.
She chose to be listed as Mrs.
John B. Sullivan, rather than as
the Hon. Leonor Sullivan, her
own Christian name. All the
other married women in Con-
gress use their own first name
rather than that of their hus-
band.
Wrapped up in that decision Is
much of the reason why Mrs.
Sullivan ran for Congress in the
first place and how she got
elected.
The tall, slender, brown-haired
native of st. Louis is the widow
of the late Representative John
B. Sullivan, long popular among
st. Louis Democrats. who died in
January, 1851, shortly after he
had been sworn in for his fourth
term representing MiSSouri'S
18th District. The district, now
the third. is all within the city
of st. Louis.
Mrs. Sullivan ran her hus-
bands Office during most of his
years in Congress. They were
known as one of the closest-knit
political teams on Capitol Hill.
"I really think it was John who
set the precedent of taking wives
campaigning" she says. II used
to 60 everywhere with him long
Evening star., 1953-05-17

before it became accepted prac-
tice."
A newspaper once described
her as practically a second con-
gresham" from her husbands
district.
Hence, it was not too surpris-
ing that after her husbands
sudden death of a cerebral hem
orrahage she should decide to
run for Congress.
Husband q Statesman"
John Sullivan. had a pro-
gram I wanted to carry out, "
she says. "He had a reputation
as a statesman. He was always
a fighter for the underdog. He
believed in good government, and
he believed that you had to fight
to get it. I wanted to carry on
CQaC ugnC.
All was not smooth going,
however, for the Congressman's
widow. Missouri election law
gives the party organization au-
thority to pick it's candidate in
a special election, and the St.
Louis Democratic leaders picked
a man as their candidate to fill
out Mr.. Sullivan'S term.
Labor organizations wanted
Mrs. Sullivan to enter the race
as AN independent, but she re-
fused. 81 am a Democrat" she
said. "I will only run as Demo-
crat"
She came back to Washing
ton and went to work for Repre-
sentative Irving of Missouri. Last
spring she went back to st. Louis
and entered the Democratic pri-
mary for her husbands former
Continued on Page D-10.)
Evening star., 1953-10-27
Docs Swimming Pool

SANTA MONICA, Calif.-The
Double EE Ranch at Santa
Monica caters to dogs. It boasts
a de luxe swimming pool-for
dogs only.
Evening star., 1953-10-27
Three Nations Warn U. N.
On Loss Of Weather Unit
BY the Assecioted Press

UNITED NATIONS, N. Y,
Oct. 27.-Britain, France and
Sweden warned yesterday that
abandonment of the United Ma
tions-Sponsored weather and
rescue service in the North At
lantic would seriously affect the
safety and regularity of trans
Atlantic flight.
The United States said last
week it was withdrawing the IA
Coast Guard vasselS it has sup
piled to the service which pro-
videS weather information and
does rescue work for crippled
planes and ships.
Since the IA American ships
make up the majority of the 25
spotted across Atlantic air routes,
international air officials pre-
dicted the withdrawal would
cripple the Setup.
The United States said the
programme which it contrib
utes about $14 million a year
cost more than it was worth.
The three powers sent their
views to the U. MS International
Civil Aviation Organization.
ICAO summoned an emergency
meeting for today in Montreal to
discuss the situation.
Evening star., 1953-10-27
Madrid Cortes Approves
Spanish-Vatican Pact
By the Assoe,oted Press

M A D RID, Oct. 27.-The
Cortes. Spain's Parliament yes
terday unanimously approved a
concordat between Spain and
the Vatican which Generalissimo
Francisco Franco said estab-
fishes Roman catholicism as the
state religion.
The concordat regulating re-
lations between Spain and the
Holy See, and the rights and
duties of each, was signed in the
Vatican August 27.
In message to the Cortes
before the voice vote, the gen.
eralissimo said Our Catholic
faith always has been, through
out the centuries, the corner
stone of our nationality"
Franco denied reports abroad
of Vatican objections to the
agreement. saying Spain herself
delayed the negotiations so as
not to involve the church "in our
own foreign difficulties.
Evening star., 1953-10-27
Aides Of Mccarthy
Seek 70 Query Perl,
Rosenberg Associate
BY the Assoeioted Press

NEW YORK, Oct. 27.-Senate
investigators probing radar
espionage said today they wanted
to question William Perl, a for
mer associate of Julius Rosen-
berg, executed atom spy.
Perl is serving f1ve-year term
in the Federal Penitentiary at
Terre Haute, Ind. for perjury
in denying he knew Rosenberg.
Perl worked in 1912 as an
aerodynanics expert at Fort
Monmouth, N. j.. the center Of
suspected spying activities into
Americas defenses against the
atom bomb.
A spokesman for Senator Nc
Carthy's Senate Investigations
subcommittee, said the inveSti-
gators had telegraphed Senator
Mccarthy for permission to seek
Perl's transfer to New York. The
Senator is on a speaking tour.
Members of the subcommittee
staff will fly to Pennsylvania to-
morrow to question David Green
glass and Harry Gold, convicted
members of the Rosenberg atom
spy ring, now serving terms in
the Federal penitentiary at Lew
isburg.
Counsel for both the Mccarthy
and Jenner Senate subcommit-
tees meanwhile joined in a move
to interview Igor Gouzenko, for
mer code clerk in the Soviet En-
bassy at Ottawa.
Mr.. Gouzenko, who helped
break the 1945 Canadian spy
case, has been quoted as saying
a talk with either of the sub
committees would be worth
while"
Evening star., 1953-10-27
Ann Hillary to Wed
British Playwright
BY the Assoeioted Press

LA TOILETTE, Tenn, Oct.
27.-The engagement of Ann
Hillary. New York stage and
television actress, and British
Playwright Frederick M. P.
Knott was announced here yes
terday. Ann Hillary is the stage
name of Ann Francis, daughter
of Mrs. Sally B. Francis of La
Toilette.
Mrs. Francis said she would go
to New York November l to join
her daughter. They will leave
by air for London November 2
and will be guests of Mr.. Knott's
family in Sussex, England, until
the wedding takes place in Lon
don November IA.
Miss Hillary and Mr.. Knott
met in New York where his play,
Dial M for Murder" has been
appearing on Broadway for about
18 months.
Evening star., 1953-10-27
Jail Cell Key
Helps Boy Flee
In 80 Minutes
BY the A.soeiuted Pres.

BALTIMORE, Oct. 27.-Police
at Baltimore's Pine Street sta
tion made a startling discovery
last night. At least one cell,
maybe all of them. is complete
with a key" to the door.
The turnkey, taking supper to
a 14-year-old youth he had
checked 80 minutes before,
found the cell door open, the
youth gone.
On the floor was a small piece
of wire from a spring on the bed.
Dubious that the boy could have
picked the lock, one of the police
men locked himself in. He dis
covered it was very easy to re-
peat the trick.
The prisoner had crawled
through a ventilator shaft to the
roof, dropped 10 feet to an alley
and escaped.
Evening star., 1953-10-27
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Evening star., 1953-10-27

conditioned to enter the door you
want him to enter. The Soviet
regime has used this same tech
nique against its own people in
efforts to dislodge them from
their traditional reverence for
the Almighty and from their as
pirations toward freedom, and to
force them willy-nilly into the
Communist slave pattern.
This is the very technique
which the Communists appear to
have used on their intended
germ warfare victims. Resist
ance was punished with kicks
and slapS in the face, with worS-
ened living conditions, with food
rations lowered still further, with
threats of death. This frightened
grip was sometimes relaxed
briefly when the unyielding vic
tim seemed in danger of dying.
Signs of cooperation, on the
other hand, were rewarded with
slight increases in rations, with
promises of better treatment
soon. No wonder that some of
our prisoners, miserably weak
ened with weeks and months of
miStreatment, were brought
down to that animal level of
response where resistance was
associated with death, where
yielding was associated With sur
vival, and where survival on any
terms seemed more important
than the moral principles that
distinguish men from beasts. If
anything is surprising to me, it
is that so many of our soldiers
both those who confessed and
those who did not-although for
months they were treated like
animals or worse, somehow con-
tinued throughout to act like
men.
Consider the evidence on those
who did not yield. A prisoner
whom the Communists assume
is already acting like an animal
is offered in sharp terms a purely
animal stimulus: food or death.
The obvious animal response is
expected. Yet in one case, a man
was sentenced to death IL times
and he refused to yield. Another
man was made to dig his own
grave, was taken before a firing
squad, heard the command to
fire and heard the pistols click
on empty chambers; and he re-
fused to yield. Such testimony
as this seems to teach us that the
spirit of man can run deeper
Evening star., 1953-10-27
DR.. Mayo Declares Reds Used
Rat Techniques on POWs
Humans Reduced
To Animal Status,
He Reports to U. N.
BY the Associated Press

UNITED NATIONS, N. Y, Oct.
27.-Dr. Charles Mayo, world
famous surgeon and United
States delegate to the United
Nations, yesterday gave the most
detailed, scientific explanation of
Communist means of extorting
confessions" ever presented
here.
DR.. Mayo, drawing on his med
ical background, drew this pic
ture:
The tortures used in these
cases, although they include
many brutal physical injuries.
are not like the medieval tor
lures of the rack and the thumb
screw. They are subtler, more
prolonged, and intended to be
more terrific in their effect. They
are calculated to diSintegrate the
mind of an intelligent victim, to
diStort his sense of values to a
point where he will not simply
cry out I did it, but will become
a seemingly willing accomplice
to the complete destruction of his
integrity and the production of
an elaborate fiction
"The testimony in our hands,
from American prisoners, reveals
the use of a detailed method
designed to mold prisoners into
the desired condition where
they can be exploited to the
maximum. 1t is method obvi-
ouSly calculated by the Com
munists to bring a man to the
point where dry crust of bread
or a few hours uninterrupted
sleep is a great event in his life.
The total picture presented
is one of human beings reduced
to a status lower than that of
animals; filthy. full of lice, fes-
tered wounds full of maggots:
their sickness regulated to a
point just short of death; un-
Shaven. without haircuts or
baths for as much as a year;
men in rags. exposed to the ele-
ments; fed with carefully
measured minimum quantities
and lowest quality of food and
unsanitary water. served often
in rusty cans; isolated. faced
with squads of trained interro-
gators. bullied necessarily. de-
prived of sleep and browbeaten
into mental anguish. :.
Serving Red Ambition.
1--WE must remember that all
this was not done as mere sense
less brutality; it was done for
one single purpose-to make free
men serve Communist ambitions.
"All this testimony on Com
muniSt methods of extorting
confessions in Korea suggests
a frightening pattern.
1T suggests that the Commu-
nists were deliberately pervert-
ing to their ends essentially the
same technique which the IA
nous biologist Pavlov used in
his experiments on dogs and
rats. This technique, as you all
know, is called the conditioned
reflex When a rat goes through
the wrong door. he gets an elec-
trio shock. When he goes through
the right door. he gets a bit of
cheese. Before long, you can
dispense with the shock and the
cheese, because the rate has been
Evening star., 1953-10-27

Strieby. Okonoko, w. Va: 1t.
Robert C. Luriee. Chicago, ILL.,,
and 1t. Edward G. Izbicky,
Chicago.
Pressure After ArmiStice.
DR.. Mayo cited the case of Col.
Andrew j. Evans, jr., Montgom-
cry, Ala, as an example of at
tempts to wiring confessions
after the armistice on July 27.
(Col Evans was assigned to
the Pentagon from January
1948 to January 1851 in the
Office of the Deputy Chief Of
staff for operationSD
Toward the end of his in
terrogation, DR.. Mayo said, "he
was told that the war was over,
that all other prisoners had been
repatriated, and that he would
never see the United States again
unless he signed. In the face
of this threat. and after months
of treatment which he de-
Scribed as that accorded to a
low type of animal he agreed
to sign a confession to having
waged meteorological warfare.
"The date of this agreement
by Col Evans was August IT.
1858. Then followed the usual
writing, rewriting and editing OF
the so-called confession. Col
Evans signed the final. accepted
version on September 2, 1858
Then he was ordered to pre-date
his confession to the month OF
May. 1853 After his persistent
refusal to do this. his interro-
gators accepted his agreement
to pre-date it only to August
! II, the day of his first agree
ment to sign. At last, on Sep
tember 8, he was released"
Evening star., 1953-10-27
Elmer Davis to Leave
Air for Several Weeks
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK, Oct. 27.-Elmer
Davis, ABC radio commentator
and former chief of the Office
of War Information, is leaving
the air for several weeks because
of high blood pressure.
MI. Davis announced this dur
ing his news program last night,
saying:
L want to assure all my
friends that l am not leaving on
account of political pressure or
economic pressure-only on &C
count of blood pressure, and my
own at that. Lately it has been
climbing up until it is about as
close to the ceiling as the ma
tional debt :"
Evening star., 1953-10-27
Indian Officers See
No Hope 10 Resume
pow Persuasion
BY the T.. eioted Press

PANMUNJOM, Oct. 81. In
dian officers attached to the
Korean repatriation commission
said privately today there ap-
pears to be no hope of resuming
on a large scale the interviews
with anti-Red war prisoners
who have refused to go home.
The five-nation commission
settled down to an almost "do
nothing" routine-its only chore
the care of 22.776 unrepatriated
POWs in it's custody.
There was no hint of a crack
in the tight deadlock resulting
from the Communist demand 10
days ago that violently anti
Communist Korean prisoners be
forced to appear before Red
interviewers.
letter Being Drafted.
A commission subcommittee
worked for an hour this morning
on long letter to both the
United Nations and Communist
commands The letter will set
forth in detail opposing views
which have paralyzed the neutral
commission. 1t probably will be
ready for delivery in two or three
days. 1t. Gen. K. S. Thimayya,
Indian chairman, said.
The full commission meets at
10 am. Wednesday 6 pm. EST
Tuesday,, but there is no pros
pect that any prisoners will be
interviewed; and there is no in
dication that the Korean POWs
will attend the interviews volun-
tarily or that the Communists
will back down on their demand
that the prisoners be forced to
attend.
Swedish and Swiss members
of the commission just as Stoutly
oppose the use of force and In
dia has held that it's troops
guarding the prisoners will not
use force unless the commission
votes unanimously in favor of it..
Many Indians say unofficially
the 90-day period for explana-
tions provided by the Korean
truce is sure to end in late De-
cember without further big
scale interviews.
Indians Feel Outraged.
Then, if a Korean peace con-
ference is underway, it will take
over the problem for a month.
And at the end of that time pris-
oners still unrepatriated will be
freed.
Most of the Indians have said
they came here for what they
considered a humanitarian prof.
ect and their private converSa-
tions indicate they feel cheated
and outgraged by the Communist
insiStence on force.
The Indians resented early
critical letters from the U. N.
command but the allies have
gained considerably in Indian
esteem during the past two weeks.
First of all, 901 of 921 Chinese
prisoners interviewed so far have
refused to go home.
And the Communists appar-
emily have tried to precipitate
either a collapse of the commits
sion or a POW riot by insisting
that the anti-Red Koreans be
dragged to interviews.
The Indians indicate that to
them the only logical explana-
ton of the Communist intransi-
gence is that they are desperately
trying to torpedo the commits
sion rather than face repeated
humiliating reflections from their
erStWhile soldiers.
Evening star., 1953-10-27
Teetor Is Sworn In
As Commerce. Aide
BY the Associates Press

Secretary of Commerce Weeks
yesterday Swore into Office
Lothair Teetor, Indiana business
executive, as Assistant Secretary
of Commerce for domestic af-
fairs.
Mr.. Teetor has been chairman
of the board of the Perfect Cir
Gle Corp. at Hagerstown, Ind.
since 1916. He replaces Craig r.
Sheaffer. Iowa fountain pen
manufacturer, who resigned last
month.
Evening star., 1953-10-27
New British Newspaper

LONDON. Oct. q (P).-The
Recorder, first new nationally
distributed daily newspaper in
the United Kingdom in Al years,
printed it's opening 10-page edi-
ton today. It has been a weekly.