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Evening star., 1953-01-28
Fletcher KnebeI:
Potomac Fever

Charles Wilson finally ONCE as defense chief At
the rate they're going it'll take the Republicans years to
indltrate the Government.
Former President Truman ss another argument with his
guess that Russia doesn't have workable Abomb
having wonderful time in that rocking Every time he
rocks-the whole house trernbes
Representative Reed predicts House Republicans an
IL per cent tax cut next month Republicans believe
vidual initiative They'll cut taxee the budget go
itself
An English Judge against four kinds women
cay sanity funmad and stupid The fifth kind kind
that causes oubeshes already married somebody
else.
Congressional committees clip Ie reorganize the
Government Republicans in Congress to work
too hard After ALL he'll need his energy run again in
'56-and bail them out once
Holland announces she doesn't need American
financial aid No wonder the Democrats quthey were
ming out Of countries to give money away to-
The House Armed Services Committee creates $15OOOO
group watchdog of the Pentagon danger of the Repub
cans going backward-teye going to busy running
around in circles keeping track Of one another.
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An Armada Reported on Yo|u
Ni1s Reported to Outnumber Allied War Planes in Korea;
PelPng Sets Croft as Russons Increase Production
Constantine Brown:

The growing strength of the
Red aviation is giving food for
serious thought to our military
leadership.
In Korea the Russian-made
MICS are reported to outnum-
Der the allied planes. Accord.
ing to the latest information a
formidable air armada of
MICS and medium bombers is
poised in the sanctuary"
across the Yalu River. While
last year many of the pilots
were Caucasians, the bulk of
the crews now is Chinese, thus
atfording the Russians the op-
portunity to save their pilots.
The large number Of planes
allotted by Moscow to its
Peiping allies is the result of
Soviet production, which has
increased beyond our previous
calculations. The Muscovites
are disposing of craft which
they regard now as obsolescent
though fully capable to take
on the allies. Our own pro-
duction has been stepped up
but is still considered well be-
low that Of our enemy.
For several years the
q. S. S. r. government has
been working at the establish
ment Of air bases in Northern
Siberia, on Wrangel and other
islands in the Arctic and in
Sakhalin. The Russians now
have completed sizable air
fleets in those areas, according
to latest intelligence reports.
Red aircraft have been fly
ing over the japanese islands
at frequent intervals and for
the last IL months Japan has
had almost weekly air alarms.
But recently the number Of
flights by what is described
automatically as unknown
airplanes" has increased to
almost daily incursions of the
Japanese air areas.
The Tokyo government nt-has
warned the U. s. S. R., with
whom it is still technically at
war, that the unknown"
planes will be shot down if
they continue to violate Japa-
nese territory. It will be our
business to do the job. though
we can Ill afford to spare the
necessary planes for continu-
Gus air patrols.
Because of the delay in our
production during the last two
Evening star., 1953-01-28
Few Scared in Wilson Battle
Attack Character and Ethics Of Defense Secretary
RecoIls DiseroeefuI Eight in 1890 Over Hughes
Dovid Lowrence:

The battle over the conflr-
nation of Charles E. Wilson
as Secretary Of Defense will
leave a few scars, but they will
be borne mostly by those who,
Notwithstanding the sale of his
stock, attacked his character
and his ethics.
Politically, the episode will
have as little Importance over
the years as did the disgrace
full fight in the Senate in Feb
ruary. 1880, against the con-
f1rmation Of Charles Evans
Hughes to be chief justice.
Some Of the men who fought
that nomination lived to re-
gret their attack, which was
far more virulent and mali
cious than what has been wit
messed in the Senate this week.
Strangely enough, the as
sault came then as now from
so-called liberals" the men
who pirate loudly about guilt
by association" and character
assassination" but who do not
hesitate to apply the sting
themselves when it suits their
political purposes.
Once Mr.. Wilson announced
his intention to sell his stock,
the only possible objection al
legedly was to his past con-
nectionS." and the implication
was broadcast that he could
not be a fair and disinterested
public official because of his
previous employment or as
sociations.
This was the argument also
made by a group of "inSur-
gent" Republicans and Demo-
Gratis % years ago against the
confirmation, of Mr.. Hughes.
At first the late Senator Nor
ris Of Nebraska, leader of the
liberals" and "inSurgent" Re-
publicanS, predicted that the
nomination would be approved
unanimously" by the Senate
Judiciary Committee, of which
he was the head, but a few
days later the insurgents de-
cided the opportunities for
demagoguery and political
capital were too good to pass
up.
Thus, Senator Norris, in a
Senate speech, said that Mr..
Hughes had amassed a for
tune in law practice and rep
resented untold wealth." He
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voted against Mr.. Wilson. to
the credit of the late SEN
ator Robert F. Wagner, Demo-
crat, of New York, it must be
recorded that he voted to
confirm Mr.. Hughes. Oddly
enough, in the 193Os it was
the men classifying themselves
as liberals" who then, as now,
endeavored to exercise a form
OF thought control" far more
dangerous to this country than
anything conjured UP in the
recent controversy over Com
munists in Government. Pro-
fessor zechariah Chafee, jr.,
in his famous work, "Free
Speech in the United States"
wrote:
1--WE liberals cannot have it
both ways. # we blame a
prominent lawyer like Mr..
Hughes for some of his cI-
ents, we are merely Ginning
in with those who constantly
call the American Civil Lib
critics Union communistic be-
cause it has represented Com
munists along with the great
many other defendants.
The doctrine Of guilt by as
ISOLATION. is ahhorrent enough
in the criminal and deporta-
ton fields without being ex-
tended into the relation be-
tween lawyer and client"
The words could apply
equally to the relations be-
tween q businessman and his
former business associates. It
is a simple question of integ-
rity, and it is to the credit Of
the United States Senate that
only six members voted against
confirmation Of Mr.. Wilson
while n voted for him. That's
quite an improvement over the
52-to-26 vote given a man who
turned out to be one Of the
greatest of our chief justices.
So far as political after
effects are concerned. if the
Department of Defense does a
good job, if President Eisen-
hover can win the cold war"
and get the American boys
home from Korea, and if taxes
can come down, the American
people will not even remember
four years from now what the
Wilson confirmation contro-
versy was all about.
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while at his siesta, he kept q
delegation Of French diplo-
mats and congressional lead
ers waiting who had come to
see him about funding Of
Frances First World War debt.
Such, however, did not dis
turb Mr.. Coolidge overly much,
for he had his formula:
'"They hired the money
didn't they?"
So pay up.
It's not so simple any more.
In factit's so complicated that
old-timers around here who
watch the crack and zip Of
efficiency are wondering If
our Government can be run
on bankers or businessmen's
hours and by crisp directives.
They wonder how long it will
be before the new era slips
back into the easy, informal
appearing ways of the last re-
gime when business was con-
Quoted also in off hours, some
times at odd places and odd
hours, often in the middle Of
the night, for crises and sud-
den emergencies don't observe
the clock, and nobody who had
big responsibility ever thought
about regular working hours or
punching a time clock.
Washington isn't a barracks
or factory. It's more like a
roadhouSe.
But. meanwhile. it's probably
educational for Washington to
find out what Washington is
like early in the morning.
It amt good. brother.
Evening star., 1953-01-28

statesmen Of Congress or the
cabinet.
There is a fellow who cracks
the whip about the White
House now who gets UP just
as early as Harry Truman did,
though he doesn't sleep in the
White House. Namely. the
methodical Sherman Adams
out Of New England, New
Hampshire to be specific, who
rises at $50 and. by the time
he gets to his White House
post, is all ready for his job as
administrative assistant to the
President, which has become
virtually Assistant President.
He works every minute Of his
waking hours and expects
everybody else to do the same.
AS a matter of fact, Sher-
man Adams probably has seen
in his lifetime more dark at
the front end Of the day than
at the other end. He goes to
bed at $3.50. He'll find It's not
dark around here then, come
summer and daylight saving
time. He is strictly business.
He seems to set the tone Of
the new era around here.
When Calvin Coolidge, also q
New Englander, was President
back in the middle 1920s. he
had his leaders of Congress in
at 8 o'clock in the morning,
but he gave them breakfast
sausages and hot cakes and
maple syrup. But, after that,
things moved along lazily, with
no hustle and. fuss whatever
around the White House. Cal
often took Q snooze In his of
nee Of an afternoon. propping
his feet on his desk. Once,
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Spanish treaty is about to
materialize. it will take time
before the military airields
can be built and the time ele-
ment has become Of para
mount Importance. n
We have heavy response
bilities in the air In Asia, In
Europe and at home. In the
light of the most recent re.
ports of the Soviet air power.
we certainly possess neither
the personnel. the planes nor
the necessary bases to meet an
early enemy onslaught.
When Hitler launched World
War II, we were not his target
and had more than two years
breathing spell. The Nazi air
and submarine forces were
spectacular. But under the i'm
pact of the war they deterio.
rated. Stain has learned q
good deal from the defeat Of
his erstwhile partner. He has
prepared himself for a show
down with the United States
as his prime target for the last
seven years and has neglected
neither his air nor his sub.
marine power.
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declared it was reasonable to
expect that these in
f1uences have become part Of
the man. His viewpoint is
clouded. He looks through
glasses contaminated by the
influence of monopoly as 1t
seeks to get favors by means
which are denied the common,
ordinary citizen"
The late Senator Borah Of
Idaho, in another speech in the
Senate, assailed Mr.. Hughes
for opinions rendered by the
Supreme Court during the
II years the latter had been
of the bench, implying they
were due to the Hughes
influence. Other "insurgent"
Senators charged that Mr..
Hughes had sat in the cabinet
Of President Harding and had
not exposed-if, indeed, he
knew anything about tt
what Secretaries Fall and
DENLY were doing in the Tea
pot Dome scandal.
The first motion to send the
nomination back to the Sen
ate Judiciary Committee was
defeated by a vote Of 40 to 81,
and confirmation came later by
a vote of SO to 26. Many edi-
torials at the time denounced
the affair as."the Senate at its
worst" and one of them said:
"That 26 Senators should vote
to reject so admirable q nomi-
nation as that Of Mr.. Hughes
to be Chief Justice of the
United States is a symptom of
aggravated degeneracy in a
body now habituated to dis
esteem and decadence."
It was the late Senator Fred
erick Gillett of Massachusetts,
who told the Senate that if the
criticism Of Mr.. Hughes for rep
resenting wealthy clients were
to be accepted, no great lawyer
could ever be confirmed as
chief justice. The same argu-
ment has been made this week
namely. that. because a man
has been associated with big
business, he becomes ineligible
to serve his country in the cab
met of a President of the
United States, Notwithstanding
the fact that he sells all his
stock holdings and converts
them into cash or Government
bonds.
Unlike Senator Lehman, who
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command in the White House
and businessmen running
things, who can tell what
might happen? You can al
most hear the bugle, or at least
a fretful buzzer.
Which is to report that. the
atmosphere Of Washington is
suddenly different under the
Eisenhower regime-at least
temporarily.
This you know when, for ex-.
ample. you pass the White
House of a Monday morning
and see the cars headed into
the driveway-at $3.50. mind
you-and see the sober states
men of Congress unloading
themselves, glum and hardly
awake and rubbing their hands
to drive out the chill, and
drawing a quick bead on their
timepieceS, and pushing
through the doors Of the exec
utive Office to confer with the
general and President on the
orders Of the week.
He's been up since 6:3O-and
he's breezily cheerful and all
set to fire at the whites of
somebody or others eyes.
The fellow who lived there
before was an early riser, too.
He got up at $3.50. But he
minded his own business, and
puttered about the house
awhile. maybe sitting down to
compose hastily one of those
letters to some unsuspecting Of
fender and slipping it into the
mail. and then going out and
taking q long walk with the
Secret Service dogging along
behind. But not bothering at
so early an hour about the
Evening star., 1953-01-28
Easier for All G. O. P. Hands
Administration Patronage Soon May Be Flowing
Through Chairman Of the Republican Committee

administration Of the Demo-
cratic stronghold, the greater
city, is weakened by scandals,
transit and financial problems.
The Democratic Party upstate
is said to be completely dis
organized.
Through his State Crime
Commission. Gov. Dewey is in a
position to exploit the oppo-
sition's difficulties and weak
1esses for some time to come.
The new Attorney General can
properly mesh some Of his
activities with the commits
sion's work.
Because Mr.. Brownell was
advising Gen. Eisenhower dur
ing the period when Charles
E. Wilson and his team" were
named to the various Defense
Department posts, there has
been some disposition to blame
him for the troubles attendant
to their confirmation. Some
Senators who undertook to look
into this now say that the chief
trouble was the indisposition
of the Wilson team to take
advice.
Correction: Senator Aiken of
Vermont is a member of the
Labor Committee but not chair
man. Senator H. Alexander
Smith Of New Jersey is chair
man Of Labor. Senator Smith
did not see the Taft amend
ments to the Taft-Hartley Act
in advance either but assumes
that they viii be acceptable to
the committee and Congress.
It was incorrectly stated in this
column January q that Sena-
tor Aiken was chairman Of
Labor.
Evening star., 1953-01-28
Thomas L. Stokes:
Thon1os L. Stokes
Almost Can Hear the Bug|e
CoPitoI Under President Eisenhower's Regime Sees
Statesmen Minqlinq With Eor!Y Morning Workers

The early mornings in
Washington this time Of year
are apt to be q bit grim and
forbidding, especially If the
sky Is overcast in chill, dreary
gray as it so often is. There's
a feeling in the air as the wind
sweeps around the corners
somewhat as once described by
Rudyard Kipling in writing Of
a luckless character consigned
to perdition. something to the
effect, If memory serves, that
'the wind that blows between
the worlds, it cut him like a
knife"
Washington is really frus-
trated and busy twice a day
in the morning rush and in the
rush at the end of the day
to get home. But the normal
anxiety to get to the office on
time among those who pile on
StreetcarS and buses now is
magnif1ed by an additional
anxiety. To wit, whether when
they get there they'll still find
what they've found for so
long-that job.
Not too many will be diSap-
pointed, despite all the rumors.
For there is still that merciful
guardian angel-civil service.
But human beings naturally
are timorous in times of
change. And the new Repub-
hcan chieftains are making
like efficiency and economy
and reorganizing and reshuf-
fling things around and issu-
Ing stern orders Of the day
about an honest days work
for a days pay. and acting like
section-gang foremen or top
sergeants. With q general in
Evening star., 1953-01-28
Doris FIeeson:

Influential Republicans an
ticipate that within a rela-
tive short time the patronage
of the Eisenhower admins
tration will be flowing through
the national committee under
the direction of it's new chair
man. Wesley Roberts. They
admit that they are working
toward that end for several
reasons.
One Is that It will simply
be easier for all hands as a
matter Of organization. They
are also anxious to play down
the contest Of the Dewey and
Taft forces within the new
administration.
One Taft supporter processes
to have assurances from the
new Attorney General, Her
bert Brownell, that he has
aoanooneo That aspect OF his
work with President Eisen-
hover and will devote himself
to his department. Mr.. Brow
nell, a Dewey man, functioned
as the Presidents patronage
consultant during the interval
between election and inaugu-
ration.
For other reasons than party
harmony Mr.. Brownell would
be making a sound decision.
The Justice Department has a
heavy burden Of work and has
been under sharp attack. The
pressures on it are greater than
anywhere else in the Govern
ment because it has the power
not just to embarraSS or annoy,
to make richer or poorer, but
to initiate prosecutions which
may send people to jail.
AS the troubles of the Tru-
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man administration proved,
the Internal Revenue Bureau
and the Justice Department are
the most sensitive agencies Of
Government in the public
mind. To mix politics and
patronage with the Attorney
Generals duties would be only
to repeat the most glaring err
rors Of the defeated Demo-
Gratis.
Mr.. Brownell has not worked
in Washington before except as
national chairman during the
Dewey presidential campaign.
Those who knew him then re-
spected his character and
brains. He has also had legis-
lative experience in New York
and therefore has some idea
Of the powers of the standing
committees of the Congress in
Guiding the Judiciary, which
will monitor his actions.
Republicans suggest that he
has a special interest in bur-
'nishing his reputation in the
Justice Department. Their
understanding is that he is be-
ing groomed to succeed Gov.
Dewey in 1854 when the Gov
ernor finally retires to the
private practice Of law.
A certain risk always at
taches to an attempt to cash in
a Washington reputation for a
State Office. Many great men
admired in this Capital have
been unable to overtake rivals
who had quietly cultivated the
grass roots.
At this distance, however, the
Dewey hold on New York
never seemed stronger. The
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Evening star., 1953-12-25
Auto Insurance Dispute
Settled in Massachusetts
By the Assoeioted pfess

BOSTON, Dec. 25. - Thirteen
injunctions against the Guaranty
Fire & Marine Insurance Co. OF
Columbia, S. c., were dissolved
in Superior Court yesterday after
the company agreed to cancel by
January Is, 1854, it's unexpired
Massachusetts, automobile insur-
ance policies.
The State had obtained the in
functions, contending the COM
pany was not authorized to sell
automobile insurance in Massa-
chusetts.
The court action followed con-
ferenceS between counsel for the
company and its agents and the
attorney generals department.
Assistant Attorney General
Samuel Cohen said an "amic-
able" settlement was reached and
added that throughout this ac-
ton there has been no allegation
of fraud, although certain stat
utes have been violated"
Under the agreement, the COM
pany will leave in Boston banks
0,000 to cover any claims of
the State or policyholders; to re-
fund amounts due policyholders
whose policies are Cancelled, and
will file by July / with the State
Insurance Department a list of
any claims that may be pending
against policyholders.
Evening star., 1953-12-25
Charles Ruffin White,
Retired Attorney

Charles Ruffin White, a re-
tired attorney who once was
associated in the legal profession
with former Senator McKellar,
Democrat. of Tennessee died
Wednesday at his home, 1925
Davenport street NV, after a
three-week illness. He would
have been 80 years old today.
A native of Oxford, Miss, he
was graduated from the Univer-
sity of Mississippi and the Uni
versity of Virginia Law School.
He practiced law in Memphis
as a partner of Mr.. McKellar.
He retired 20 years ago.
A resident of the District for
35 years, Mr.. White was a mem
ber of the st. Anthony Club of
New York and Delta Psi Frater-
nifty.
His survivors are his widow,
Mrs. Jane Lewis White of the
Davenport street address; a
brother, j. Thorne White, and
a sister, Mrs. Mary White
Brown. both of California.
Funeral services will be held
at 2 o'clock tomorrow at the
Robert Pumphrey funeral home,
1857 Wise sin avenue, Be-
thesda, Md. Burial will be in
Rockville Union Cemetery, in
Rockville. Md.
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Worst Known Locust Plague.
Men0ces Fertile Nile VALLEY

CAIRO, Dec. Is (NANA) The
fertile Nile valley is menaced by
the worst locust invasion within
living memory. Billions of vora-
cious red locuSts already have
penetrated into Egypt's barren
Sinai peninsula.
Observers there report one
swarm was 10 miles long and
two miles broad.
Seven mobile determination
teams have been rushed to the
danger area. But the locusts are
reported to be keeping on the
move, thus escaping the full ef-
feet of insecticide sprays and
poisoned bait.
Fresh swarms are being driven
into the Sinai by heavy rains and
high winds in Jordan and the
Arabian peninsula-their usual
breeding ground.
Crops everywhere in the Middle
East are endangered by this
plague. Arab countries have ap-
pealed to the United Nations
Food and Agricultural Organiza-
tion for urgent action"
The locusts usually fly across
the Red Sea from Africa to Saudi
Arabia where they breed. They
take to the wing again in swarms
that virtually blot out the sun,
heading both east and west.
A locust swarm can be as
Evening star., 1953-12-25
Harry H. Meiners, 50,
Musician and Former
Government EmpIoye

Harry H. Meiners. ST.. 80 pro-
fessional musician and retired
Government employe. died yes
terday at Washington Santa
rum after a brief illness.
Mr.. Meiners was born and edu-
Gated here. He became a pro-
fesSional musician at the age
of 16.
Before his retirement in 1912
he worked some 80 years at the
Post Office Department and the
Veterans Administration.
A member of both the. District
National Guard and the Masons,
Mr.. Meiners had played in the
Guards band and the Tall Ce-
dars of Lebanon Band, as we'll
as the Soldiers Home Band and
the Maritime Band.
He was also an active member
of the Concordia Evangelical
and Reformed Church, having
served on the church council and
sung in it's choir. Mr.. Meiners
lived at II Victor street NE.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Marie Meiners of the home ad-
dress: three sons, the Rev. Ray
mond M. Meiners, of Schenecta-
dy, N. Y. the Rev. Harry H
Meiners, jr., of Duanesburg, N
Y, and Everett w. MeinerS of
1927 Munson street, Silver
Spring; a brother, Earl Meiners
of SOB Allen avenue. Takoma
Park, Md, and seven grandchil-
dren.
Funeral services will. be held
at 2 pm. Monday at Geier's fu-
neral home, 1905 Fourteenth
street NV. Burial will be in
Rock Creek Cemetery.