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Evening star., 1953-12-19

that Harvard) in the not too
distant future" he told the
luncheon meeting.
Later at a news conference
Senator Mccarthy said he "un-
derStood" legislation was being
prepared for Congress that would
end gift tax exemptions for those
who donated funds to educational
institutions, including Harvard,
which he said employs fifth
amendment Communists"
The Senator referred to a wit
ness who had left "a top-Secret'
radar laboratory to take a job
at Harvard. sHe said this pro
feSsor" had refused to answer
questions as to whether he had
been a Communist, met with
Communists or indoctrinated his
students in communism.
"A Communist in a position of
policy in the Government can
do infinite damage" Senator
Mccarthy said. But a man in
the Communist Party handling
the minds of our sons and daugh-
ters can do 10 times that
damage"
Senator Mccarthy declared
President Eisenhower has done
. tremendously good Jon" and
ts4al he was p0t trying 70 under
p1lIe tie foreign policy Of the
ElseDnoH 81 saW)glstFstlqn
B4t. he adaa0 Il President
E,4N.eI},RoHeF bege Z setRnJF sHd
sa8 ael4Ae 9tse b4,a1a f.@s HlRfie ~
Evening star., 1953-12-19
Fletcher KnebeI-
Potomac Fever

Ike conference with legislative leaders
White House custom-Yule log-rolling
Sweden investigates flying Apparently the
slowing downeven the Swedes seeing them
special commission will increase for Congress-
The quickest rid of the hghta
to get the Congressman into them.
Senator Morse charges the Ike administration is revvng
the Spoi system Republicans
the spos
the spoiled Democrats it.
The Assembly a electing new Presi-
dent of France The French hate compromise fact
only lasting French politics
and anarchy.
A Senate committee 10000 ballots in the 1852
leo election We've protect
secret ballot Sometimes fellow would hate caught
voting for either candidate.
Federal committee investigations of the
Republicans have decided that there something
about the weather after ayou report blaming
it the Democrats.
Evening star., 1953-12-19
Detective Job Pays
Off in Citizenship
BY the Assoeioted Press

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 19.-Six
years of detective work paid off
in United States citizenship yes
terday for Actress Ann Ruther-
ford.
The 33-year-old brunette from
Vancouver, British Columbia,
didn't learn until she went to
vote the first time that she was
not a citizen, although she had
lived in this country since the
age of 4 months.
Herman r. Landon, district
immigration director, said she
would have been a United States
citizen, even though born abroad,
if her father had been a citizen
and she had come to this coun-
try before she was 16. Her
father, however. was born in
Canada.
Mr.. Landon said there was no
record OF her entry to the United
States. He said she had to prove
she had lived in the country
before 1924, when the law re-
quiring record of entry was
adopted.
Miss Rutherford took the oath
of citizenship yesterday along
with approximately 125 other
candidates.
For six years. she said. she
has been gathering documents
and statements from friends.
Il even had to show that I
had no police record by getting
records from police chiefs in
every town in which / ever
lived" the actress told newSmen,
Miss Rutherford said her par
ents. Opera Singer John Duf-
term Rutherford and Actress
Lucille Mansfield. brought her
10 San Francisco four months
aTtet she was born Ia Canada,
Evening star., 1953-12-19
Conference Strategy
Legislative Sessions Laying
Groundwork for Party Unity

the legislative program. This is
vitally important if the Re-
publican 83d Congress is to come
up with the enactment of i'm
portant measures. Once the
President has attained a meas
ure of unity among the Republi-
cans. his next step necessarily
will be to obtain some Demo-
cratic support for parts, at least.
of his program.
BipartiSanShip Possible.
This latter support is not be-
yond the bounds either of
posSibility-or even probability.
Until Democrats in Congress
know the details of the program.
they cannot express themselves.
Ever since the days of Franklin
D. Roosevelt's third term in the
White House, however, there has
existed in Congress an informal,
but none the less effective, coalD
ton between Republicans and
conservative Democrats - most
of the latter from Southern
States.
This informal coalition man.
aged tc be effective in campaign
years as well as in years when
public office-Presidential and
Congressional-was not. at stake.
There is a good chance it may
be effective again in the second
session of the 83d Congress,
Notwithstanding the political
campaign just around the corner.
Not on the entire Eisenhower
program-Which will be known
as the Republican program
but on some important items
President Eisenhower. in call
ing his conferences with the Re-
publican congressional leaders
before submitting his program.
follows closely his own concep-
ton of the Federal Government.
1t is his to recommend and it
is Congress function to pass
laws. The conferences, there
fore, in his own opinion are the
proper procedure, if the execu-
tive and the legislative are to
act in harmony. Without har-
mony. nothing noteworthy can
be accomplished.
The President, however, has
made it clear he will assume full
responsibility for recommending
a program of legislation. Nor
will he be diverted from the
board principles which underlies
such a program. So, he will
have the remaining few days
before Christmas, and his brief
holiday in Augusta. Ga, to whip
into final shape his message on
the State of the Union.
Evening star., 1953-12-19

and the deep blue sea, aren't
they?"
Yes. It would be funny, if
it weren't pathetic. There's a
solution for the fix they're in,
but they won't take it. They
could set up merit system
and pay each member what
the others think he's worth. 1t
would have to be done by secret
ballot, of course. That wouldn't
raise the total payroll very
much. if any,"
Think that would make
them pitch in and work
harder?"
Some of them work too
hard now-doing things that
were better not done"
Would you vote for a Con-
gressman who had raised his
own pay?"
1t would depend entirely on
the Congressman. And, you
know, I think that's the way
most voters feel"
Evening star., 1953-12-19
Constantine Brown

What actually happened at
the Bermuda Conference has
not been revealed yet and it
may take some time before we
know more about it.
In his speech in the House
of Commons, Prime Minister
Churchill has, however. lifted
slightly a corner of the veil
of secrecy which has sur
rounded that parley.
In his puckish manner, the
British statesman informed
the world that the President
of the United States, himself
and Premier Laniel, the latter
as a silent listener, actually
covered the water front-from
the personality and domestic
influence of Senator Mccarthy
and Aneurin Bevan to the
awkward personalities of
Syngman Rhee and Chang
Kai-shek."
One of the important sub
jectS-nOt covered in the Of
f1cial communique. but re-
vealed by Churchill-was the
appreciation" by our Presi-
dent of Churchill's point of
view that at any future meet
ing with the U. S. S. r. the
allies must give assurances for
her security.
This must have sounded
somewhat strange to President
Eisenhower and Secretary of
State Dulles who are more
aware than the British of the
tens of billions of dollars and
the sacrifices in human lives
this country has made to guard
the free world against Red
aggression.
The qualms the U. S. S. r.
is still alleged to be suffering,
because of her bad experience
"at Hitler's hands" as Church
Ill put it. constitute a fallacy
which only those who want to
be trapped can follow.
The men in the Kremlin
made the Second World War
inevitable when they signed a
treaty of alliance with Hitler
in the summer of 1889. After
two years of this unholy union,
the question was: Who will
double-cross whom and when?
Two gangsters had become
allied to rob the rest of the
world of its wealth and dearest
Evening star., 1953-12-19
Chemist Hurt in Attempt
To Save Papers From Fire

Herbert NJ. Baker, a chemist
at the Agriculture Department
Experimental Farm at Beltsville,
suffered cuts on his arms and
hands yesterday when he tried
to save his books and research
papers from a fire at his home.
Mr.. Baker was treated at Le-
land Memorial Hospital at
Riverdale.
His one-room frame cottage
on Odell road near the farm was
destroyed. The loss was esti-
mated at $4,000.
Chief c. r., Horton OF the
Eeitsyllle Fire Department said
Mi Baker found the place on
fire when he returned from il
IMP 10 gel water He tried 10
put Gtit tie flames which en-
Yeiaped SD oil stove. but tne nfe
sgl lsad 100 rapidly
Evening star., 1953-12-19

amazed at Churchill's declara-
tions in Parliament refer
back to his speech of last
May before the same body.
The Prime Minister went on
record about the Kremlin's
need for security. He had in
mind then the American plan
to obtain the liberation of the
European satellites by all means
short of war. This policy, de-
veloped during the 1852 elec-
toral campaign by Eisenhower
and Dulles and unobtrusively
continued after the election.
has been a thorn in the flesh
of our Western European allies.
The British Prime Minister.
who believes in the depths OF
his heart in zones of influence
for each great power, wanted
last May. as he wants now. to
give the Muscovites the fullest
assurances that nothing will
be done by the West to upset
the status quo in Europe. He
would like us to give Russia
at a Big Four meeting solemn
assurances that we shall do
nothing to change the present
status of the nations which
have fallen behind the Iron
Curtain since the end of the
war.
Whether Churchill told our
representatives at Bermuda,
Let the Russians keep Europe
to the lines they hold now;
let Britain dominate the East
ern Mediterranean and trade
unhampered by your regula-
tions in the Far East and you
yourselves concentrate in Cen
tral and South America" is a
matter of conjecture.
We know, however. that
Stain did propose in 1914 a
division of the world in three
zones of inf1uence-Russian.
American and British-as an
alternative to our pressing
proposal for the creation of a
United Nations. Churchill may
think that such proposal
may now be accepted by
Stalin's successors and thus
end the present nightmare.
And with an eye on Britain's
future. he is willing to indorse
any palliative which would
provide his country with un-
limited possibilities of trade.
Evening star., 1953-12-19
Conference Strategy
By Gould Lincoln

President EiSenhoWer's STRAIT
egy in the current series of
White House legislative confer
ences is becoming more and
more apparent.
The Chief Executive, who will
have the final word on what goes
into the program he will pre-
sent in his State of the Union
Message, January 7, is acting as
traffic director on a tWo-Way
street at these conferences. He
is channeling his own views and
those of his principal aides on
the important problems which
confront the country to the Re-
publican congressional leaders
and committee chairmen. In re-
verse, he is obtaining from the
Republican members of Con-
gress. not only their reaction to
his proposals but also sugges-
tions for modification and
amendment.
The President has said he is
seeking meeting of minds" at
these conferences. But the
agreements, if any. will be only
on broad principles. The details
of the program are not being
written-certainly not in legis-
lative form.
Value Lies in Unity.
The value of the conferences
to the President lies partly IN
the contribution they may make
to the prospect of unity of Re-
publican action in the House and
Senate when the items of the
program are actually before
those bodies for enactment. Even
more, however, it lies in the
knowledge the President is re-
ceiving of Republican congress
sional attitudes. This knowledge
may be of great help to him.
At Gen. Eisenhower's request,
members of the conference are
closely guarding details of what
transpireS behind the closed
doors of the cabinet room. 1t
is learned, however, that the
President himself, presiding as
he does at the day-long meet
ings, with the whole group seat
ed around the cabinet table, en-
ters frequently into the discus
sions. He does so in the utmost
good humor, and occasionally
with a lighter touch, which re-
lieves the tedium of serious and
prolonged discussion.
AS the President himself has
stated, his purpose in calling the
conferences was to further
agreement within the COP. on
Evening star., 1953-12-19
What Price Our Conqressnnen?
Nations Lawmakers Coug ght Between Devil and Deep Blue
Seo-OId Timer Has Some Ideas on Difficult Subject

fund. That won't happen
again."
THE congressman have been
up against this situation for a
long time now. Why don't they
just take the bull by the horns
and"
And get tossed over the
fence. by the voters?"
Think that would happen?"
Il don't know and the
trouble is that the Congress-
men don't know. Many of
them must think it would.
They know that $4,000 a year
sounds like good pay to the
average voter. And then they
will all have to be talking
about economy in Government
and slashing the budget just
after they've given themselves
a boost, assuming they do it
IN the session now coming up.
That'll be embarrassing"
Really between the devil
Evening star., 1953-12-19
Broudcusts to PIuo
Home Rule for D. G..

Home rule for Washington
will be plugged on radio station
WWDC in a series of programs
beginning at 9:45 pm. Tuesday.
The series will be presented
under the auspices of the WASH
lngton Home Rule Committee.
The first program guest will be
Frank r. Jelleff, prominent busi-
nessman and co-chairman of the
sponsoring committee. Attorney
George C.. Pendleton will be
moderator.
Evening star., 1953-12-19

foreign policy. she would speak
up"
He said Communist China
could be blockaded without the
use of single American warship
or without using a single Ameri-
can military man or without fir
ing a shot" if United States aid
were denied allies trading with
Red China.
Evening star., 1953-12-19
Bipartisan Congress
Talks Unlikely Prior
To Session Opening
By J. A. OLeory


the legislative program between
President Eisenhower and Demo-
cratic leaders before Congress
reconvenes seemed unlikely to-
day, despite a previously ex-
pressed intention on the Presi-
dents part.
Senate Democratic Leader
Johnson of Texas is due back in
Washington between Christmas
and New Years Day, but House
mocra ic Leader Rayburn
probably will not return from
Texas until January S. the day
before the session opens. Mean
while, the President will be in
Augusta, Ga, during Christmas
week, working on his message to
Congress.
However, Chairman Wiley of
the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, expressed confidence
today the administration will
collaborate with ocratic
leaders on foreign affairs during
the coming session.
Will See Democrats.
It is understood the question
of when or how the Democrats
will be consulted has not come
up in the current White House
meetings with Republican lead
erS, but the President himself
made it clear a month ago that
Democrats will be called in on
measures regarded as bipartisan
in character. He said they would
be consulted we'll before the
measures are acted upon.
Senator Wiley would not dis
cuSS what happened at the
House yesterday, but on the sub
ject of preserving the bipartisan
approach to foreign policy, he
said present world conditions
have created a need for "col-
laboration between the Executive
Branch and the leaders of both
parties in Congress-"
Senator Wiley said the world
has become such a small place,
with planes travelling faster than
sound. that relations with other
countries call for unbiased
judgment of all Americans.
President Eisenhower was
asked at a press conference in
mid-November if the bipartisan
consultation would be confined
to foreign relations. He said he
was speaking particularly of for
eign relations but pointed out
that whenever they are dis
cuSSed,. domestic questions are
bound to come up and would not
be ruled out.
Foreign Policy Unity.
Democratic Senators available
for comment said they believe
members of their party will
judge each issue as it arises in
determining their course of &C
tion on the administration S
1854 legislative program
Since the Eisenhower admins
tration is following substantially
the same foreign policy that pre-
vailed under former President
Truman. Democrats are expected
to continue to go along generally
on international issues. This is
particularly true of extending the
reciprocal trade agreement law,
which the Democrats always
point to as a policy they origi-
mated
Senator Monroney, Democrat,
OF Oklahoma, predicted that on
some dometsic issues the Demo-
Gratis will be united in opposing
Republican policies. He singled
out farm relief, public housing
and what the Democrats call
hard money" policies involved in
higher interest rates.
Even though the President may
win bipartisan support for por-
tionS of his legislative program,
politics is bound to enliven the
1854 session as both parties seek
to build records for the congress
sional campaign next fall.
Evening star., 1953-12-19
u. n. Sends Letter
To y Americans
Who Stay With Reds
BY the Associated Press

PANMUNJOM, Dec. 10.
Twenty-Five American war pris-
onerS planned a festive Christ
mas behind barbed wire today
as the U. N. Command made
a last-minute appeal that they
weigh carefully their decision
to stay with the Reds.
A 12-page letter addressed to
each prisoner urged them to be
certain their refusal to return
home was not an "irrevocable"
mistake.
Copies of the letter were sent
to 1t. Gen. K. S. Thimayya. In
dian chairman of the Neutral
Nations Repatriation Commits
sion. with a note asking they
be delivered to the % Americans
in neutral custody.
I A spokesman for Gen. Thin
ayya indicated the come home"
letter would have to be approved
by the five-nation NNRC Mon
day, just two days before expira-
ton of the 90-day period for
| trying to WOO home unrepatriated
war prisoners.
Little Chance of Interviews.
There appeared to be little
chance that face-to-face inter-
views with the balky Americans
would be arranged before the
deadline.
The letter actually is a state
ment allied explainerS planned
to use during interviews with
| the prisoners.
| The U. N. command also was
reported planning loudspeaker
/ broadcasts to the prisoners be-
fore the Wednesday deadline.
Both pro-Communist and anti
Communist prisoners in neutral
custody made preparations for
celebrating Christmas in their
barbed wire compounds.
The Indian command said it
had received from the Com
muniSts and delivered a truck
load of athletic equipment to the
pro-CommuniSt north camp,
along with decorations and COL
ored tissue paper. Holiday food
also has been supplied for the
Americans, l Briton and 327
South Koreans in the camp.
Food Comes From FOrmOsa.
Some $4,000 Chinese and North
Koreans in the anti-Red south
camp will get Christmas delica-
cieS from the U. N. command. the
Indian command said. The In
dian command said it would dis
tribute gifts from outside organi-
cations.
The letter addressed to the %
Americans made no promises. 1t
appealed to them to weigh their
/ decision carefully before it is too
late.
Nov is the time to seriously
consider that there is nothing
more humiliating than to dis
cover that one has been a fool,
used for some ones questionable
purposes and then later tossed
aside like an old Shoe" the let
ter declares.
BE certain in your mind that
you are not just grist for the
propaganda mill"
Family Ties Recalled.
I" A reasonable decision re-
quires a thoughtful evaluation
of family ties. If these mean
anything at all, it should be re-
membered that these. like cake,
cannot be had and eaten, too.
You cannot forsake family ties
and have them, too"
Seven suggestions were listed
/. A free choice must be be-
| tween alternatives.
| 2. A free choice requires cor
rect information.
3. Remember your families.
4. Make sure your decision is
free of coercion and dureSS."
5. Be wary of promises of fu-
ture rewards
6. You can serve mankind best
among your own people.
7. You must be fully aware of
the techniques of education, per-
SuaSion and indoctrination which
may have been employed in
bringing you to your decision.
Evening star., 1953-12-19
Six Huks Reported Killed

MANILA, Dec. 19 (P).-Six
Hulk rebels were killed and six
were wounded by Philippine
Army patrols in three clashes
on LuZon Island, Philippine
Army headquarters said last
night.
Evening star., 1953-12-19

or the .
Greatest
Fraud That
Ever Lived
Almost everyone will agree
that Jesus Christ was a great
man.
Most people will admit that
Jesus was a person of the high
est morals . that He was an
inspired spiritual leader
that neither before His time. nor
since, has anyone performed
the miraculous works which He
performed.
Yet millions of people refuse
to believe that He is the eternal
Son of God.
The Catholic Church main
tains that Jesus is the Son OF
God. He is either that-or the
greatest fraud that ever lived.
For Christ Himself under
cross-examination by the high
priest Caiphas was asked:
Il adjure thee. by the living
God, that thou tell US whether
thou art the Christ, the Son of
God" And Jesus replied:
Thou hast said it." (Matthew,
XVI: 1854.
20, sure" some may say,
Christ claimed to be the
eternal Son of God. But His
claim doesn't prove that He
really is"
A man who only claims to be
the Son of God, however. could
not walk upon the waters and
quiet the waves as Jesus did.
He could not cleanse the lepers
. give sight to the blind
bring the dead back to life.
Nor could a man who only
claimed to be divine return
from the dead as Jesus and no
other has ever done.
Scattered through the books
of the Old Testament from
Genesis to Machabees are
numerous prophecies Of tn e
coming of the Savior-written
as long as 1000 years before
Jesus came upon the earth.
These prophecies describe
the family from which the
Savior would come the
circumstances of His birth .
His life of preaching and His
miracles and finally. His
Passion and death in atone
ment for the sins Of mankind.
All of these predictions apply
to only one person in all the
annals of human history-and
that one is Jesus Christ.
For more than 1900 years.
the Catholic Church has taught
without change or compromise
as it does today that
Christ is the eternal Son Of God
who became man - that only
through Him can men find their
way into the eternal grace of
the Father. Upon this truth
rests not only the foundation Of
the Church but the hope Of
mankind.
He who is not with Me-"
Jesus said. is against Me-"
Being with" Jesus is not
merely a matter of acknowl-
edging His greatness, 1t is an
obligation to know Christ and
His teaching to believe and
follow Him to pattern our
lives to His example and pre-
cept.
If you want to know Jesus
better to have a fuller and
clearer understanding of His
teaching and His plan for our
lives you will find the
answer in Christ's Own words
as told in the Four Gospels OF
the New Testament. We shall
be happy to send YOU a copy of
the -Four Gospels arranged in
a continuous narrative for easy
reading upon your request
and without cost or obligation.
Write today for Gospels, No.
8-KC. or phone
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