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Evening star., 1953-12-20
Delinquency

A special Senate subcommittee
spent last week digging into the
problem of juvenile delinquency,
apparently without getting very
close to the heart of the matter.
On Monday, the group, headed
by Senator Hendrickson, Republi-
can, of New Jersey, went to the
Receiving Home for Children in
Northeast Washington and found
that it was overcrowded.
On Tuesday, the committee
heard two undercover officers from
out of town testify that District
teen-agerS were given to drinking
in public.
On Wednesday, the unit heard,
among other things, the suggestion
that juvenile drinking might be
curbed if telephone order and de-
livery service by liquor stores was
eliminated.
On Thursday, the horrors of
slum life. in such backwashes as
Dixon's court S.W., were described
for the committee.
On Friday, Juvenile Court Judge
Edith Cockrill appeared before the
group to observe that the whole
Juvenile delinquency picture in the
District has been distorted. And
Police Capt. John F. Ryan said
that in many respects, the Dis
trict'S 1888 law on juveniles was
a "farce."
Exactly what had been shown in
this series of 'inveStigative leaps
from pillar to post was not clear at
the weeks end. A resumption Of
hearings on Monday might bring
the whole picture into focus.
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Beriiu

THE STRANGE CASE of Lavrend
l. Pavlovich Beria was no less
strange last week on the heels OF
an announcement that the former
Soviet secret police boss had con-
fessed to anti-State activity and
would be tried for his crimes.
On the face of it, the announce
ment last Wednesday by Soviet
prosecutor in Moscow seemed to
scotch for all time the rumor that
Beria had escaped the clutches OF
his arch-enemy, Premier Georgi
Malenkov, and was somewhere in
Europe waiting to Tell All to the
American FBI. But like so many
things about Russia, the super
fetal evidence was not necessarily
true.
The prosecutor said Beria and
five accomplices had admitted
their guilt and would be tried "in
accordance with the procedure laid
down by the law of December l.
1884"
Though this sounded like another
show trial, the 1884 law made it
clear that the star of the show
would not make an appearance.
The law says that trial shall take
place without the presence OF the
parties"
Conviction, of course, carries the
death penalty. There was specu-
lation this week that the penalty
may already have been carried
out, and that the trial will be
staged just to make everything
legal. Another line of speculation
was that Beria actually did escape
and was subsequently assassinated.
In the absence of defendant at
the forthcoming Moscow trial, no
one outside Russia could be sure
and no one inside Russia was likely
r. tell. 4
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Even as the President and the
congressman worked on the broad
outline of the coming legislative
year, other groups were helping to
fill in some of the details. A spe-
cial advisory commission on hous-
ing presented its recommendations
to the White House last week.
The commission, headed by Al
bert M. Cole, Housing and Home
Finance Administrator, recon-
mended that the Government en-
courage construction of / million
homes year, but let private caRs
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Military Training

The Presidents Commission on
National Security Training laid a
report on his desk last week that
will do nothing to make the COM
ing legislative year easier. The
group, headed by Maj. Gen. Julius
Ochs Adler, recommended a pro-
gram that looked like the begin
ming of universal military training.
And UNIT, of course, is something
Congress has SHE'D away from
since the cold war started.
The commission said the present
draft, where some individuals must
serve, but many do not, and the
present reserve system, where
World War II and Korean veter-
ans are in double or triple jeopardy,
are clearly inequitable. What is
needed. the group said, is pro-
gram that will train persons not
subject to the draft and make
them available to the armed Serv-
ices if needed.
So the commissions plan was
this: Register all men of 18. Let
them draw lots to determine
whether they will be drafted for
the regular two years service at
the age of 19 or 20 or whether they
will have an immediate six months
training and then 712 years in the
reserves.
About 100000 men a year could
take the special training now with
out interfering with the draft, the
commission said. AS the draft is
reduced over the years, more men
will enter the training corps. The
result: Every one serves in some
way and a steady flow of men who
have not been to war goes into the
reserves.
There was no indication whether
the President would pass these
recommendation on to Congress.
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Legislation

y EN-. EISENHOWER maneuvered
" his White House troops last
week in a large-Scale reconnais-
sance in force. The enemy" (well,
opposition, anyhow: Conservative
Republicans. The immediate OBJ
jective: A State-o the Union mes
sage that could slip through enemy
defenses. The ultimate objective:
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NATO, the defensive shield of
IN the Western world. is neither
as broad nor as sturdy as security
would require. To advance the
task Of building up the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization, rep
resentatives of the IA member
nations met last week in Paris.
Their work was principally on
two levels, military and political.
There were no particular fireworks
out of the military people, but
their program seemed to be NOV
ing steadily along. This was in
sharp contrast to the political
side where there we're explosions
aplenty but no sign of a forward
step. The payoff on last weeks
meeting, however, would not come
for a few more months.
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Atomic Data

President Eisenhower revealed
little more about his plans to
increase the international ex-
change of atomic information
but not much.
The Atomic Energy Act puts
sharp and specific curbs on the
release of such information. The
American forces in the North At
latic Treaty Organization are al
ready looking forward to the use
of atomic weapons. nd &ever, so
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Indo-Chinu

THE WAR in Indo-China entered
i its eighth year yesterday, and
despite all the fighting and
dying the situation is just about
as it was when the war started.
While there has been a lull in the
fighting during the past week, the
military outlook for the French
remained grave.
The French-Viet Namese hold
on a vital western plateau which
blocks the Wet Mini from moving
southwark into Loas is being seri-
ously challenged. The rebels 316th
Division now is gathering strength
for a big push on Dien Bien Phu,
French-held transportation and
communications center near the
Laotian border.
More ominouS, perhaps, was the
report last week that the two Wet
Mimi divisions which have been
threatening an attack on the
northern perimeter of the French
held delta now are moving off
toward the west. There was
speculation that the Reds were
building up to a new thrust south
ward through Laos toward Thai
land and the Gulf of Siam. At the
weeks end it was not clear, how
ever, whether the Communists
we're heavily reinforcing the 316th
Division or whether they we're
merely pulling back to take a
firmer grip on their transporta-
ton lines, which the Franco-Viet
Namese forces have been harasSing
with air bombardment and para
troop raids.
Cabinet Crisis
On the political scene, mean
while, Wet Nam was in the throes
of a Glass A cabinet crisis. Chief
of State Bao Dai dismissed the
Wet NameSe cabinet headed by
Premier Nguyen Van Tam and
named his cousin, Prince Buu Loc,
to form a new one. Mr.. Tam had
curried diSfavor, apparently, for
his bold bid to take strong ma
tionaliStS into the government. He
was preparing for two important
sets of negotiations, those with the
French on complete independence
for Wet Nam, and those with the
Wet Mimi on ending the war.
The Premier designate has been
the top Wet NameSe representative
in France during the past few
years negotiations for independ-
ence. He was said to have the
added advantage of being out Of
the country, and thus aloof from
the recent political wrangleS inside
Wet Nam.
Meanwhile, Ho Chi Mimi, the
MoScoW-trained leader of the Wet
Mimi, renewed his offer to the
French to negotiate an armistice.
1t still was not clear what his con-
ditionS for peace would be.
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Investigations

TT WAS A BIG WEEK-if not a
l. particularly enlightening one
for Senator Joe McCarthy's
streamlined investigation of COM
munism in defense installations.
AS usual, more of his witnesses
bucked him than helped him, but
midway in the hearings the Wis
conSin Republican revealed what
many had suspected to be the
case: He is not trying to prove
cases of Communist espionage;
rather, he is trying to show what
he called last week potential
espionage"
Senator McCarthy's big pitch at
present is for the legalizing of wire
tapping as admissible evidence in
spy cases. He indicated last Thurs
day-without saying so in just
these wordS-that he had had &C
cess to some wire-tap evidence
himself. Wire taps are not neces-
sarily illegal; they simply cannot
be used as evidence in Federal
courts.
In the course of Thursdays
hearing, before adjourning the ses-
sions over the holidays, Senator
Mccarthy lambaSted one Harry
Lyman as Exhibit No. l for legal
wire-tap evidence in espionage
cases." Mr.. Hyman came right
back, calling the Senator Exhibit
No. l of fascism coming to the
United States"
II PIeod Privilege
Mr.. Hyman and 10 other wit
nesses fell back on the fifth
amendment (the guarantee against
self f-incrimination) when the Sem
ator started digging into their
paSts. To one woman who had
pleaded "the fifth" the Senator
observed that if she now lost her
Job with the New York schools,
she might find employment at
Harvard. That college, Senator
Mccarthy said. seems to be sane
tuary for Communists.
Other witnesses Tfered novel, II
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The 'UItimotum'

Secretary of State Dulles, who
along with Secretary of Defense
Wilson, Secretary of the Treasury
Humphrey and Foreign Operations
Administrator Stassen represented
the United States at the meeting,
set off the political detonationS.
He did it with what some French
observers called an ultimatum, but
which the Secretary said was
merely a reiteration Of known
facts.
In speeches and a press con-
ference, Mr.. Dulles made these
points:
French and German hatredS
have twice in a generation set of
world wars.
Another such outburst would
destroy Western unity and break
down European defenSes against
communism.
Other countries, including Spe-
cifically the United States, cannot
afford to let France and Germany
fight.
The best way to keep the peace
is to pool French, German, Italian
and Benelux armies in European
Defense Community-an idea pro-
posed by France.
If France does not ratify the
EDO treaties, American aid auto
matically will be cut back, and the
United States will be forced to
change its basic policies in Europe.
Needed: A DipIomot
French newspapers cried that
the Dulles statements were an at
tempt to coerce the French Parlia-
ment into acting to suit American
policies. They said President Eisen-
hover should find himself
smoother diplomat if he wanted
real results in France.
French politicians were publicly
silent but reported to be privately
fuming. They were busy electing
a new President, and although
ratification of edo was the main
issue in the contest, custom die
tated that no debate accompany
the parliamentary balloting. The
Parliament was attempting to
choose between individual candi-
dates who were for, against and
neutral on edo.
Prime Minister Churchill, while
defending his own foreign policy
in the House of Commons last
week, indorSed the Dulles state
mentS. He implied that if Ger
man army were not created within
the confines of EDO, then a ma
tional army would no doubt be
formed-the worst possible news
to the French.
No decisions were reached. The
NATO council closed it's meeting
with the routine affirmation that
EDO is necessary to make NATO
a success. 1t would not be known
until after new French govern
ment is formed whether ratifica-
ton is possible In the meantime
the so per cent of American mill
tary aid funds for Europe made
contingent on creation of EDO
will not be scheduled for future
'SDending
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1953-06-05
Burke vile, RID

Nj. and Mrs. Melvin ScruggS,
Gloria Jane ana Mrs. Harvey
Tharre visited Mrs Willie Rick
man. near Kenbridge. Sunday
Jeff Borum has purchased new
Chevrolet car
Clarence Bailey and Bill Scruggs
called in the Melvin Scruggs
home Sunday evening. p. W.
Bailey is On the sick list, and all
wish him a speedy recovery.
Saturday night visitors in the
Herbert Morris home were Mr.. and
Mrs. Preston Hickman and fam
lily and Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Rick
man All enjoyed homemade ice
cream.
Mrs. Harvey Tharpe, Mrs. Mel
vim Scruggs and Gloria visited
Mrs. Alverta Scruggs and Miss
Roberta Simpson. at Rice, Tues
day evening. billiard Scruggs and
Mrs H. G. Hickman visited in the
same home Wednesday night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Morris
and Don were Tuesday night cal
lers in the Harvey Tharpe home
Wedding Invitation
Mr.. and Mrs. Melvin ScruGgs
has received an invitation TO the
wedding of a friend. Billy Smith,
of Richmond, and Miss Wilma
Jeanne Armstrong, of Knoxville.
Tenn. The wedding will take place
on June IA, in Lincoln Park Meth
odist Church, Knoxville.
Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Scruggs
and Mrs. billiard Scruggs visited
his mother, Mrs. Alverta Scruggs,
at Rice, Friday night. MI. and
Mrs. D. r Scruggs and family
were visitors in the same home,
Sunday afternoon
Mr. and Mrs Preston Hickman
and children were Sunday night
visitors with Nh. and Mrs. D. r.
Scruggs
Richmond Guests
Mr.. and Mrs Freddie Morgan,
of Richmond, spent the week end
with the Hilton Morgan family.
Mrs H. G.. Hickman visited her
daughter, Mrs. II. j Birdsong and
family, near Farmville, one day
last week.
Everyone was glad OF the nice
rain we had Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hilton Morgan
and son. Wilson and Wayne,
motored TO Richmond Tuesday
Wilson went to the doctor for a
check-up.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1953-06-05
REDS OPEN 1885
BIGGEST ASSAULT

The Chinese Reds hurled 1000
troops in the biggest assault Of
1858 at Allied hill outposts in Cen
trail and Western Korea last week
Fighting for positions within 80
miles of Seoul ragged.
Attacks by $500 Reds won five
hills from South Korean defend
ers in the center.
But Allied defenders in the west.
fighting $500 Reds hand to-hand
east OF the Panmunjon truce talk
site, appeared generally to be
holding firm along the east flank
of the invasion route to Seoul.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1953-06-05

Burkeville seniors Will be con-
Quoted Sunday. June T. at 8 D. m,
in the Burkeville Baptist Church.
The Rev. w S. Thomas. pastor of
the Burkevllle Methodist Church
will deliver the sermon. MI. Thorn
as VIII be assisted by the Rev.
William Gravatt. pastor of Burke
vile Baptist Church, and the Rev.
Douglas PaulSon. pastor of Burke
Vile Presbyterian Church.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1953-06-05
10 Seniors viii Graduate
IL Burh.eriUe High School

forum. Ray Z. Reid, former
county superintendent of schools
and now assistant superintendent
of public instruction in Virginia,
viii give the address.
Molly Ann Foote viii give the
yaledictory address, and Lois Nor
ton. the Statutory.
A baccalaureate service for the
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1953-06-05

Metre Dame and Army plan to
resume football series in 81.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1953-06-05

Thirteen seniors viii be the last
graduates of Bmkeynle High
School if the proposed consolida-
ton with CreVe High School is
completed this summer
The final graduating class OF
BufeYi.le VIII receive diplomas
III am exercise. Monday June s.
ii p m IN the school audi
Evening star., 1953-10-22

August. They have not been
made operational again. The
Russians keep o dozen other
German fields in active use.
High officers in the West are
not sure where the bombers have
been sent in the Soviet bloc or
when requirements may arrive.
The Kremlin'S motive for the
cutback is a puzzle, too.
Not since 1850 have there been
so few Communist jets in Ger
man territory. That was the
year when the Soviet change
over from slower piston-engine
planes took place here.
The whiting down of jet
strength from 500 to 400 air.
craft has not been accompanied
by a reduction in ground forces.
Gen. Andrei A. Grechko's group
of six armies has the same total
of % infantry, mechanical and
armored divisions as in previous
years.
Russian troops in Germany
number fewer than 100000. The
allies have more. In combat
electives, the two sides are vir-
tually on a par, however. 1t has
been that way since 1851.
But at present the Americans
and British enjoy for the first
time a definite numerical and
Evening star., 1953-10-22
-Four U. 5. Officials Unhurt
As Plane Burns in Greece
BY the Asseciafed Press

ATHENS, Greece, Oct. o.
Representative Bow, Republican.
of Ohio and at least three other
United States officials narrowly
escaped a crash today when one
engine of their Air Force CAT
plane caught fire seconds after
taking off from Hellenikon Air
port. The pilot landed the craft
without mishap.
The two-engined plane was
enroute to the quake devastated
Ionian Islands of Greece's west
coast. The Pilot. Maj. William
Grundmann of the U. S. Air
Attaches Office here, had lifted
the craft only 100 feet when the
engine burst into flames.
Besides Mr.. Bow. the passen-
gers included Jay Howe, a staff
assistant to the House Appropri-
ations Committee; Tom Judd.
political officer of the American
embassy, and Col. William Odell,
U. S. air attache.
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Charge Of kidnapping
Weighed in Districts
Baby-SaIe Inquiry

Assistant United States At
torney Kenneth D. Wood today
announced he is investigating
the possibility of placing a kid
naping charge against some
body" connected with Washing
tons black market baby broker
age ring.
He said he hoped there may be
q break in the case this after
noon.
At hearing this morning, Mr..
Wood questioned Mrs. Reva
Walker, Al. of the 3400 block of
University lane, College Park,
Md, for more than half hour
before she appeared in Munich
pay Court to answer a charge of
violating the Districts baby
brokerage law.
Mr.. Wood then held closed
door conference with police and
the young Washington mother
Evening star., 1953-10-22

qualitative edge in Jets Inside
Germany. Last spring the
United States Air Force rushed
in faster F86 Sabres to replace
F84 Thunderjets, and the adj
vantage began to shift west
ward.
The ground parity and the air
edge in Germany is the basis
for cautiously optimistic admis-
sions by allied military people
that Western Europe is protect
ed Just now against a knockout
threat,
To regain the invasion poten-
tial they had before Western re-
armament, the Russians would
need a big. long and easily de-
tectable ,buildup in this country,
allied strategiSts say.
-Four of Gen. Grechko's armies
now are rolling into winter quar-
ters after a final autumn exer-
else in Thuringia near the
American zone. Two armies did
not participate.
The size of the maneuver force
was equal to that in recent years,
but the rugged terrain between
Jena and Eisenach was different.
Previously the Russians had
chosen to run off their largest
war games in f1atter Saxony-
Anhalt, facing the approaches
to the steel-rich Ruhr.
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Chic Blond Breaks Tradition,
Justices Blink but Accept Her

! judges on their high bench in
the brief ceremony.
V-Neck Dress.
Her knit fawn-colored dress
was set off with a lacy. knitted
collar that sparkled with pale
gold beads. The V-neck front
was cut down about s inches.
Her blond curly hair, parted in
the center in front, Swirled back
over her head and long tresses
fell to the back of her collar.
Justice Douglas took one look,
then took off his glasses for an
other long look. Justice Frank
furter, 10, kept his eyes on law
books before him, until Justice
Jackson nudged him. Then both
looked and smiled. The other
judges took the historic event
without blinking.
It was only a couple Of years
back that girl reporter was
told that she could not sit at
reporters tables before the
bench if she wore a coat-type
sweater. Since that publiciZed
incident, women reporters and
lawyers have dressed cautiously.
Hat Banned in Court.
Outside the courtroom Miss
.Villines was told by a reporter
that she had cracked Supreme
Court style rules. She threw up
her hands in surprise and her
cheeks turned red.
"Oh, I truly didn't know" she
said. why I thought this OUT
fit was all right for this occasion
and I bought a nice little hat to
go with it, but the court officials
said I would not be permitted
to wear a hat in court.
when I practiced before the
Chicago courts we wore ordinary
clothes like this and always wore
a hat. In fact, it would have
been wrong not to wear a hat.
Now, I am truly embarrassed"
The reporter assured her she
need not be embarrassed-that
if the officials had wanted to
stick to old tradition they would
have given her some delicate
suggestions beforehand.
Miss Villines is the wife of
Donald Coenen, editor of a mag
azine published here by the Ma
tional Association of Home
Builders.
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BY the Associated Press

The staid and dignif1ed Su-
preme Court took on some CLAM
or yesterday when a stunning
blond woman lawyer shattered
tradition.
Tall, blue-eyed Miss Belladon-
ma Villines, "a, a former Chica-
go lawyer, stood smiling before
the nine black-robed high court
justices to:
ID Be admitted to practice
before the court.
(2) Smash the ancient, un-
written rule that no female even
remotely resembling a sweater
girl" must ever divert the at
tention of the judges from their
thoughts of law.
Miss Villines-that's. her pro-
fessionaI name - threw her
shoulders back to look up at the
Evening star., 1953-10-22
ENAACP Crificizes
District Heads on ).
Segregation Policies

The District chapter Of the
National Association for the Ad-
vancement Of Colored People to-
day sent a letter to Commits
sioner Samuel Spencer criticiz-
ing District government policies
in regard to segregation.
In the letter, Eugene David
son, president of the District
chapter declared:
Misunderstanding between
you and our association have
reached major proportions in the
field of recreation in the Dis
trict."
The letter said the Commis-
sioners' policy of not instructing
its representative on the District
Recreation Board how to vote on
segregation matters was "as-
founding" It added:
"If President Eisenhower wants
to eliminate segregation and his
Commissioners do not care to
exert their influence and power
Evening star., 1953-10-22

emily was a good friend of
Reva's."
"Reva put some papers on top
of table," the mother recounted,
land placed her hand over them.
didn't see them signed
them"
The mother had gone to the
Federal Bureau of Investigation
about the matter and was re-
ferred to police. She said agents
for the transaction were Mrs.
Walker and Lawrenson. She de-
clared she was to get $400 and
hospital expenses while the two
agents were to get 81 500 for the
child from wealthy young New
York doctor.
Mrs. Walker. a platinum blond.
was arrested when she appeared
at a rooming house she runs in
the 1400 block of Euclid street
NV. last week.
Mother Wants Baby Now.
The attractive young mother
said that she had been separated
from her husband and that she
could not afford to take care of
both her two children. She said
she and her husband were recon-
/ ciled and that she then decided
she could support the baby girl
and wanted her back. When she
could not get the baby back, she
went to authorities with the
complaint.
| LawrenSon cannot be arrested
on the brokerage charge unless
he should enter the District.
The charge is a misdemeanor
and not extraditable.