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Evening star., 1953-11-23
Police Chief Viii Seek
Permission to Quiz Hall

ST. LOUIS, Nov. % (P).-Po-
lice Chief jeremiah O'Connell
today said he plans to seek per-
mission to question Carl Austin
Hall in continued efforts to solve
the mystery of the missing $780,
600 GreenleaSe ransom money.
Chief O'Connell also said re-
signed 1t. Louis Shoulders, would
be asked to re-appear before a
panel of top police officials in
veStigating police handling of
the arrest and recovery of half
of the ransom.
Chief O'Connell told newsmen
he will ask United States Mar
shall William M. Tatman of
Kansas City for permission to
see Hall at the Missouri State
Penitentiary,
Elmer Dolan, a patrolman
who was with Mr. Shoulders at
the time of Halls arrest, and
John Hager, a taxi driver who
tipped Mr.. Shoulders to Halls
whereabouts. also will be re-
called by the panel, O'Connell
said.
Evening star., 1953-11-23
Neighbors Welcome
Return Of Ex-P0W
Who Rejected Reds
BY The Assoeiosed Press

CRACKERS NECK, Va, Nov.
23.-Corpl. Ed Dickinson was
tired and happy today after a
homecoming celebration that
continued into the wee hours
and swept away any doubts he
might have had about how his
people would welcome him.
There was a forgive-and-for-
get air around the little hillside
cabin where his family and
friends greeted him with a warm
affection which bewildered even
young Dickinson. He could only
grin when asked how he felt
about it.
He planned to sleep, eat the
home-cooked dishes he likes
best, and map his future that
has been fuzzy ever since he
decided he preferred life in his
homeland to life among the
Communists.
Had Rejected Reds.
Corpl. Dickinson was one of
% American soldiers who were
listed as having refused repatri-
alton in the exchange of pris-
onerS in Korea. But then he
left the other % and bolted to
freedom a month ago, saying he
hadn't acted sooner because of
death threats.
Corpl. Dickinson, %, has said
he would re-enlist in the Army
after his present 30-day fur
Tough. But last night he limited
he might stay in the hills he
left three years ago to enter the
Army.
I've got a lot of thinking to
do about it," he said.
A neig Dor commented:
when he sees how we feel, I
think he'll stay"
His 73-year-old father, Van
Buren Dickinson, said: I'm
going to knock it out of him, his
going back into the Army. We
need him at home and I don't
think it would be right for him
to leave again."
Gets Rousing Welcome.
Corpl. Dickinson ended his
10,000-mile journey from a Ko-
rean prison camp last night and
walked straight into a rousine,
almost hysterical welcome from
brothers, sisters, in-laws and
friends who had trudged up the
hillside to the family home.
Corpl. Dickenscn stepped from
a car into a pouring rain after
a 15-hour automobile trip from
Washington.
Neighbors began gathering at
the house at S in the afternoon.
The crowd had grown to around
100 by the time he arrived five
hours later. They jammed the
four-room house.
Evening star., 1953-11-23
Streetcar Takes Life
OF Woman Runninu
10 Get Aboard Il

A 28-year-old mother was
killed shortly after midnight
when she was struck by a street.
car at Georgia avenue and
Buchanan street NV.
Mrs. Glenna Frances LaRue,
of 1852 Tenth street NV, was
pronounced dead on arrival at
Garfield Hospital. It was the
59th traffic fatality in the Dis
trict for 1858. The toll stood at
SIS at the same date last year.
Mrs. LaRue's husband, Clay
ton H. LaRue, told police he and
his wife had run across the
street and were trying to catch
the streetcar that struck her,
according to the report. Mrs.
LaRue was the mother of two
children, police said.
Police listed the motorman as
James r. Jenkins, 40, of 1915
Twelfth street NV.
An inquest will be held later.
Evening star., 1953-11-23
Kensington Mother
Dies After Neighbors
Find Her Unconscious

A young Kensington mother of
two children died in Suburban
Hospital last night shortly after
being found unconscious in her
home by a neighbor she had
called.
She was Mrs. Carolyn Miller,
%, of 1909 Matthews lane.
Mrs. Miller, who was separated
from her husband. may have
died from an overdose of a seda-
tive. according to DR.. Frank j.
Broschart, Montgomery County
medical examiner.
DR.. Broschart withheld issu-
ance of certificate pending
completion of an autopsy and a
laboratory analysis by the State
medical examiners Office in
Baltimore.
County police said Mrs. Miller
died shortly before midnight aft
er being taken to the hospital
by the Kensington Rescue Squad.
The latter had been summoned
to the house after Maj. Joseph
C. Lynch, 4208 Anthony street,
Kensington, went there in re-
Sponse to a call from Mrs. Mil
ler.
Maj. Lynch told police Mrs.
Miller had phoned him saying
the children would be alone and
that he should come to take care
of them. He went there with an
other neighbor. Fred M. Carver,
4206 Anthony street.
Police are trying to locate Mrs.
Miller's husband, L b. Miller,
repeatedly living in Washington.
Evening star., 1953-11-23
BY the Associated Press

A bush league cold war be-
tween Peru and the Colombian
Embassy at Lima has been laid
in the lap of the Inter-American
Peace Committee.
In a diplomatic note, Colom-
bian Foreign Minister Evaristo
Sourdis asked the five-nation
committee-composed of the
United States, Cuba. Argentina,
Mexico and Brazil-to do some
thing about it.
The trouble, said Mr.. Sourdis,
started January 3, 1949, when
Victor Raul Haya De La Tore,
a left-wing Peruvian political
leader, sought and gained
asylum at the Embassy.
The Peruvian police were after
him for his part in a revolution
that failed-a predicament most
Latin Americans Sympathize
with. The Colombians did. But
not Peru.
All sorts of things, said Mr..
Sourdis. began to happen:
Workmen saying they had to
make sewer repairs dug a ditch
around the Embassy and went
away. But the bitches are still
there. One diplomats car got
stuck behind them for months.
Searchlights illuminate the
building all night, making sleep
difficult enough. what with
motorcycle patrols zooming
around-practically impossible.
Secret police follow every car
that leaves the embassy
whether it is the Ambassador
his wife or his 3-year- old son en-
route to nursery school.
Cars must pass the house at a
fixed speed. It's getting hard to
find people who will work at the
embassy. But tourists come
around all the time to see the
siege.
Peru's position was expounded
last summer by Peruvian For
eign Minister Ricardo Rivera
Schneider in a note to his Co.
lombian colleague.
Evening star., 1953-11-23
Hall Writes Father
OF kidnapping Victim
Asking Forgiveness
BY the Assoeiosed Press

KANSAS CITY, Nov. 23.-Carl
Austin Hall has written Robert
c. Greenlease asking forgive
ness for the kidnap Staying of
Mr.. Greenhouses 6-year-old son,
Bobby.
5 Mr.. Greenlease. disclosing re-
ceipt of the letter today, said:
He begged forgiveness for his
terrible crime, if such a thing as
forgiveness is possible"
Hall also assured the Million
aire auto dealer in the letter
that he does not know the
whereabouts of $500, 900 in miss
ing ransom money. but reiterated
that most of it was in his hotel
room when he was arrested in
st. Louis. He said in a confess
sion read at his trial last Tues
day he had made an inventory
of the money just before the
arresting officers arrived.
Mr.. GreenleaSe said he be-
lieves Hall, who is awaiting
death in the Missouri gas cham
Der in Jefferson City, Decem-
ber 18, along with Mrs. Bonnie
Heady, his confessed accomplice
in the crime, is telling the truth.
Il no longer wonder if he
buried it before his arrest" Mr..
Greenlease said of the missing
money-half the record ransom
paid for Bobby'S release long aft
er the youngster had been slain.
With certain execution fac
Ing him, he has no reason to
lie" Mr.. Greenlease added. His
statement has the ring of truth"
Authorities are believed to be
interested in a slender stranger
Hall said in his confession he
saw near his room after his
arrest October 6 by two st.
Louis policemen.
The st. Louis Police Board has
lntenS1vely questioned former 1t.
Louis Shoulders and Patrolman
Elmer Dolan. who made the ar
rest. Both have steadfastly de-
MED any knowledge of the miss
ing money.
Evening star., 1953-11-23
Peru and Colombian Embassy
Engage in Little Cold War

"The measures of vigilance
unavoidable, as Your Excellency
knoWs-have not had, nor can
they have. the intention of dis
turbing or making uncomfort-
able the embassy of Colombia in
the exercise of its functions,
which are a matter of satisfac-
ton to us.
They have been maintained
by a situation of which Your
Excellency can not be ignorant. I"
The Peace Committee has
agreed to consider the case, ask
ing both sides to appoint rep
resentatives in Washington.
Evening star., 1953-11-23
Precinifatj0u

Monthly precipitation in inches in the
Capital tcurrent month to date):
Evening star., 1953-11-23
Get House Numbers

SHEPHERDSTOWN, w. Va,
Nov. % (P.-Residents of this
Eastern Panhadle town will soon
have numbers on their houses
for the first time in the commu-
nity's history. The sponsoring
Mems Club and town council
have co-operated in the step.
Evening star., 1953-11-23
Model PIone Kills Youth

TERLING, England, Nov. %
R.-Christopher Robin Porter,
Is, was killed yesterday while
flying a model airplane under
control of two wires. The plane
foued on an overhead 11,000-
volt electric cable, sending
deadly charges to the boy on the
ground.
Evening star., 1953-11-23
The Weather Report

District and vicinity-Chance
Of rain this evening. Partly
.. cloudy and cooler late tonight
5 and tomorrow. Lowest around
%.
Maryland-Partly cloudy west
and rather cloudy with occa-
sional rain in east portion and
on the coast tonight, followed
by cooler. Tomorrow, partly
cloudy and somewhat cooler.
Lowest tonight 34-38 west and
40-45 east portion.
Virginia-Rather cloudy with
occasional rain possible early
tonight and becoming cooler,
lowest 35-4O west and 4O-45 east.
Winds - Northerly at $40
miles per hour tonight and vari-
able at $40 miles per hour
tomorrow.
River Report
From U. S. Engineers.)
Potomac River clear at Harpers Ferry
and at Great Falls; Shenandoah clear at
HarperS Ferry.
Humidity.
(Readings Washington National Airport
Yesterday Pct. To-day Pct.
Noon 100 Midnight s.
pm. 16 am 95
e pm. 81
Record Temperatures This Year
Highest, 100 on Aug. 81, and Sept. 2.
Lowest. %. on March ..
High and Low Of Last 81 Hours.
High, 6S. at pm.
Low. So, at GAO am
Tide Tables.
Furnished by United States Coast and
Seodetic Survey.)
Today. Tomorrow
High - a:29 am. 10:1S am.
Low ---- 4.Ol q m. 4.51 am.
High --- 9:52 pm. 10:3S pm.
Evening star., 1953-11-23

restoration OF
leave accumu-
lation rights.
N o W tina t
terminal leave
benefits have
been reduced.
t h e prospect
or un e m =
p ! o y m e n t
c o m p e n S a
ton legiSlatio
has brig h t.
ened conSid-
era ly. Mr.,
Steward feels.
Rut. he call
Evening star., 1953-11-23
The Federal Spotlight
The FederuI Spotlight
JobIess Compensation Benefits
Low to Be Sought by NFFE
By Joseph YOUNG

The influential National Federation
seek congressional enactment Of unemployment compensation
benefits for Government workers rather than restoration Of
previous cash terminal leave payment rights.
Luther Steward NFFE president feels jobeSs benefits
for unemployed Governments
workers would be far gen. ooo+;or 49, rn,S,
and realistic than any eu'
Evening star., 1953-01-23

wary Of being questioned: he
was almost suspicious in his at
titude toward the correspond
ents who covered him. The
result was persistent tension.
Reporters SenSed that some
of the Eisenhower aides pre-
ferred to isolate their boss
from them. Ostensibly this was
to protect the inexperienced"
candidate, The climax came
when one Of them told a WASH
ington reporter at a private
dinner that consideration was
being given to abolishing the
regular press conference and
moving the White House press
rooms across the street to the
old State, War and Navy
Building.
Experienced correspondents
quietly Joined the fight to
allow Mr.. Hagerty to function
and there is a reliable report
that Mr.. Hagerty struck a few
blows in his own behalf.
It could be that Charles e.
Wilson's experience has had q
Christening effect upon the
Eisenhower administration.
Any knoWledgeable Washing
ton public relations man could
have helped the General Mo-
tors industrialist avert his con-
firmation troubles; a genius
could not stop the story now.
Evening star., 1953-01-23
Dovid Lowrence:

Since they're getting a bit
'1egalistic" hereabouts these
days, the question might be
raised as to the exact moment
when Dwight D. Eisenhower
became President Of the
United States and whether he
actually complied with the
Constitution when he took the
oath Of Office at 1881 pm. on
January 20.
Surprisingly enough, the
Constitution doesn't fix a time
when the oath shall be taken.
1t merely says: '"The terms of
the President and Vice Presi-
dent shall end at noon on the
goth day Of January"
But what does moon" mean?
Does it mean the moon hour"
that is, from IL to / o'clock?
Or does it mean the stroke of
IL? If it's the precise second
that the minute and the hour
hand touch IL o'clock, then
it would be impossible for the
new President to take the oath
in that single second. It re-
quires several seconds for the
oath to be administered and
for the oath to be repeated by
the new President. The die
tionary, moreover, permits the
definition Of moon" as mid
day"
Also, does the word moon"
mean IL O'Clock only in WASH
ington, or anywhere in the
United States? For, in the
three other time belts across
the country, it was IL, 10 and
9 o'clock in the forenoon, re-
spectively, when the ceremony
was going on in Washington.
But even If Washington time
and the hour of IL is the
legal time for the occasion, it
really isn't unconstitutional
when the oath is taken half
an hour after the stroke of IL
gor several hours or even days
: later One thing certain is
that the outgoing Presidents
term expired at the stroke Of
IL on January 20.
The Constitution, emitting
any specific time when the
new President has to take the
oath, says about a President:
Before he enter on the exc
cution Of his Office he shall
take the following oath or af-
firmation."
This means that a man can
be President for a while and
yet not begin "the execution of
his office" until he has taken
Evening star., 1953-01-23
The Question Of No President
Legal Issues Could Arise When There Is Delay
In the Sweorinq In Of New Chief Executive

the oath. There is always some
lapse of minutes between the
expiration of one term and the
actual taking of oath by the
successor, and when James
Monroe succeeded himself in
1921, his first term ended on
Sunday, March 4, but he was
not sworn in for the second
term until Monday. the 5th.
Rutherford B Hayes. on the
other hand, after winning the
contested election of 1876, was
sworn in privately on March 8.
1877, taking the oath before
the expiration Of his prede-
cessor's term.
When Vice Presidents have
succeeded to the presidency,
there have been considerable
lapseS Of time before the TAX
ing Of the oath. Thus, when
Presidents Mckinley died in
Buffalo, N. Y. from an assas-
sins bullet, in the early morn
ing hours Of September IA,
1901. it was not until the late
afternoon that Vice President
Theodore Roosevelt was able to
get to Buffalo to take the oath.
About IA hours elapsed be-
tween the time of the death
of President Harding at San
Francisco on August 2. 1923,
and the moment when Vice
President Calvin Coolidge took
the oath at Plymouth, VT, the
next afternoon. There was a
lapse of a little over three
hours between the time when
President Franklin D. RooSe-
velt died at Warm Springs,
Ga, on April IL, 1945, and
7:09 that same evening when
Vice President Truman took
the oath at the White House
in Washington.
Certainly it cannot be con-
tended logically that. in. the
case OF q natural succession,
the outgoing President does
hold over or that for a little
while the United States doesn't
have q President, whereas, in
the case of death of a Presi-
dent. the Vice President auto
matically becomes President
the moment breath has passed
from the body Of his predeces-
sor. The simplest interpreta-
ton is that the United States
had a President from the
stroke of twelve on Tuesday,
January 20, when Mr.. Tru-
mans term expired, and that
Dwight Eisenhower held the
office even though the oath
was not administered at once.
Evening star., 1953-01-23
Reds Purge Jews, Woo Arabs
Moscow Also Believes Anti-Semtisrn Will Endeor
Her to Western Germuny as We'll as Moslems

wave of nationalism developed
in those sovereign countries.
Our diplomats had q hard task
explaining to the Moslems why
when we thought it impera-
tive to create the republic OF
Israel on national grounds we
gave our tacitp consent to our
British and French allies
sitting the nationalism Of the
Moslems in that area.
The Kremlin has been very
active in the Middle East. It
was ci1ild's play for the Soviet
government. which at one time
was q strong supporter of
Israel. to reverse itself and
appear through the whole
sale Jewish prosecutions to be
the loyal friend Of oppressed"
Moslems everywhere.
For more than a year we
have been trying to create q
Middle Eastern command to
bolster our defenses in that
area. Tho political hlunders Of
our allies in Iran. Egypt.
Tunisia and Morocco have
created an unfavorable atmos-
phere In the Middle East and
North Africa. The Kremlin
fears. however. that we may
still succeed in winning these
strategic areas to our side.
Hence the attempt to gain
favor with the rank and file Of
the Moslems by spectacular
and well-advertised Jewish
prosecutions,
Evening star., 1953-01-23
DorLs Feeson:
Hogerty's Discretion Pays Off
Harmonious Press Arrangements Now Established
With White House Result From Deft Handling

and good one: like Mr.. Early
he enjoys the society of re-
porters. He does not have to
ask how they win react; he
reacts the same way.
,islMT. Hagerty has had even
greater practice than MIR. Early
in the art of politics. He has
been absorbing it through his
pores all his life; his dis
tinguished father, James A.
Hagerty, is one Of the elder
statesmen Of political report
ing. Years Of experience as
Gov. Dewey's press secretary
in State and presidential cam
paigns taught the son the story
from the other side Of the
fence.
The harmonious press ar
rangementS now established
are a tribute to Mr.. Hagerty'S
patience, discretion and skill.
For it is no secret that the
present accord did not spring
fullf1edged from the head Of
Jove but had to be worked for.
The flve-Star general, so
relaxed and frank with report
ers he knew so long as he had
the protection Of channels and
military security, shied nerv-
ously when he was confronted
with the rough and tumble Of
political reporting. He was
Evening star., 1953-01-23
Fletcher K1ebeI:
Potomac Fever.

Ike holds his first cabinet meeting today member
Will get brass nameplate his char-so
remember next year who used to sit there. e4a.e
Democrats in Congress very quiet They figure that
they don't word people them
selves Tor what happens to them on March is.
The Senate Rules Committee assigns 100000 to its in
vesgatng unit Republican Investigations expensive
They have more Democrats to these
publicans to cover up.
Secretary Ezra Benson reorganzs the Agriculture
ment but it still resembles iceberg One Republican showing
and 1000 hidden Democrats ~*
Mamie Eisenhower she'll hold press conferences
too But politics will be barred politics. reporters must 90
10 the appropriate cabinet ocer for their mo comment
The Justice Department says A Communists have now been
convicted Of conspirng against States The
SLAMS are indignant at their being aiedthats A
rades they can't purge.
Evening star., 1953-01-23

friends. The Peoples Republic
IN Eastern Germany had
among its high officials many
Germans Of Jewish faith. A
mass persecution Of these men
started some six weeks ago
and is now reaching its cli-
max. The same men who only
d few months ago had been
described as true followers Of
Stalin's doctrine have become
overnight "diversioniStS" and
Zionist traitors in the pay Of
american imperialistS.
Moscow hopes that these
anti-Semitic activities. which
are expected to be followed
soon by tempting political and
economic proposals. may in
duce the West Germans to
overcome their fear and ha-
tired Of Russia and accept Sta
Inns extended hand.
The Communist propaganda
in Western Germany says
that the .outrages perpetrated
by the Red soldiery in 1945
were actually ordered by Rus
sian officers Of Jewish faith
who had been unfortunately
placed in responsible posi-
tions" by the trusting and
kind-hearted Stain"
In the Middle East, where
the anti-Zionist feeling among
the Arabs has never subsidized,
the Muscovites hope to ap-
pear through their anti
Semitic prosecutions as the
only possible saviors Of the
MoslemS.
Stategically the entire area
from Iran to Morocco is Of
vital Importance to US and to
our Western allies. During
the last four years we have
managed to keep an uncertain
! peace between the state Of
Israel and its Arab neighbors.
In the meantime q strong
Evening star., 1953-01-23
Constantine Brown:

The stepped up drive,
against the Jews in the
u. S. 8. r. and satellite coun-
tries Is viewed by some official
analysts of Soviet policies as
an attempt to handicap the eff
forts of the new American ad-
ministration to create a solid
wall against Red aggression.
= Moscow believes that a
ruthless attitude toward the
jews win endear it with the
peoples Of Western Germany
and the Arab world.
The number Of Jews In
Western Germany was dras-
tically reduced by annihilation
In Hitler's regime and after
We day by emigration to this
country and Israel. The Bonn
government is certainly not
anti-Semitic. But millions Of
Germans remember with Bit
terness the Morgenthau plan
and the high-handed methods
of q number of former Ger
man Jews in American uni
forms who. were in charge of
teaching the German people
democracy" and also OF
strictly enforcing the Morgen-
thau plan to change industrial
Germany into a pastoral state.
America is keenly interested
today in seeing the Bundestag
ratify the Paris treaty. We
definitely need the German
army. Early last year the
Kremlin attempted to prevent
the inclusion Of Western Ger
many in the Western Euro
pean defense system. On
March 8. 1852, it offered the
Bonn government highly adj
vantageous peace terms in
cluding unity of the Reich and
formation Of an unlimited
German army on condition
that Germany does not join
the Western allies. Chancel-
lor Konrad Adenauer turned
this offer down.
The opposition Of the French
National Assembly to the
Paris pact threw a monkey
wrench in our plans ,and en-
abled a number Of German
political groups to become cold
toward that idea. All the
same, if the Eisenhower adj
miniStration should adopt a
firm policy in Europe there
still is an eleventh-hour
chance to get the Al million
Germans on our side.
The men In the Kremlin
want to show the Germans
that across the Elbe they can
always find understanding
Evening star., 1953-01-23
Doris Fieeson:

It was never necessary to
do anything about President
Eisenhower's press relations
but to make them possible.
This has now been done.
The. President has recog-
nized that the regular press
conference is one of his win
dows on the world; he has
plans for expanding it to in
clude the new medium of
televiSion.
The adjustments there must
be made by the correspondents
who, willy-nilly, will be actors
speaking lines they have no
chance to rehearse. A few may
be beguiled into an excess Of
showmanShip, but their COL
leagues can probably be
counted on to take care Of the
problem. Generally speaking,
a man or woman with sense
enough to report news in this
difficult city can overcome the
TV challenge.
In James C. Hagerty, the
new President has a press
secretary of unmatched expert
ence. The standard for the job
in this generation is the late
Steve Early, who served Mr..
Roosevelt throughout his long
tenure. Like Mr.. Early, Mr..
Hagerty has been a reporter