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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-04-11
Constantine Brown:

Secretary of State Dulles
fumbled the ball badly when
he allegedly said at an Off
the-record conference with a
select group of Washington
reporters that this adminiStra-
ton was considering a plan to
end the Far Eastern conflict
by keeping Korea divided, al
though South Korea's present
borders would be advanced
some 80 miles north of the
present illusory boundary on
the 38th Parallel, and Formosa
would become a United Nations
trusteeship with a status of
republic as an ultimate goal.
The Secretary of State is
inexperienced in handling Off
the-record press conferences.
He apparently does not yet
appreciate the difference be-
tween the Importance of his
words at the time he played
a relatively minor role as
special ambassador in the GTru-
man administration and his
new position as Americas
principal foreign-policy maker.
1t is unfortunate that Dulles
own press relations advisers
are equally casual. If they
had been more competent,
they would have warned their
chief that any utterance he
makes at present may have
not only domestic but world
wide repercuSSionS.
No sooner had Mr.. Dulles
thoughts about the Far East
ern peace problem appeared in
the American press than they
were cabled all over the world.
Many journals in the allied
countries in Western Europe
accepted them as the new
American policy and headlines
appeared to the effect that
America had softened her pol
icieS toward the Communists
in Asia.
The belated denial from the
White House, issued only after
Senator Knowland protested
against what appeared to be
abandonment of a vigorous
policy in Asia, in accordance
with President EiSenhower'S
own idea, was accepted with a
grain of salt.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-04-11
Fletcher Knebel:
Potomac Fever

unanimously elected Republican national
chairman Hall has of friends the paryseveral
of whom he hopes he can keep
The Democratic National Committee reviews Republican
Chairman Halls voting record to show he dsagrees with Ike
Democrats their Democratc-and
get Eisenhower Congress-"
ALT NJ Landon of Kansas the Eisenhower administration
has bungled political problems If doubt Landon quail
fcations expert political bunglngju look the
1886 election returns
Fred Lawton, Truman budget director named civil
commissioner very happy
appontmentthey afraid the Government getting
little top-heavy with Republicans
The Government makes excellent exchange
of prisonersany day Senator Joe Mccarthy promises
release John Foster Dulles.
The Senate confirms Anchor Nelson of Minnesota
Identification boss Republicans have sounded the
creeping socialism in city and they stop
every farm in the Nation has been electrified
Secretary of Defense Charles Wilson Senators to relax
the law against ockhodng he businessman
helpers Businessmen refusing Washington
sell their sock-theyre too busy doing in Wall Street
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-04-11
Altmeyer, Social Security
Chief Since 1887, Refires
BY the Associated Press

Arthur j.. Altmeyer retired as
social security commissioner
yesterday, expressing hope Con-
gress will carry out President
EiSenhower's recommendation to
extend social security insurance
to additional millions.
Mr.. Altmeyer had a hand in
drafting the original social Sc
curity legislation and has head
ed the program since 1887. He
will be 81 on May 8.
In an interview he spoke out
for action this year to extend
old-age and survivors insurance
to such people as farm operators
and irregularly employed farm
and domestic workers.
Mr.. Altmeyer plans to return
to Madison, Wis, to live. OFF,
Gals said William L. Mitchell
deputy commissioner, will be-
come acting commissioner pend
ing appointment by President
Eisenhower of a successor to
Mr., Altmeyer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-04-11
Soldier Who Led Police
To Body Held as SLAYER
By the Associated Press

BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss, April
IA soldier who led police to
the bullet-riddled body of New
Orleans real estate dealer was
held here today on a charge of
murder.
Supt. Joseph Scheuering of the
New Orleans police, who headed
the search for Kenneth Mason,
missing since he left New
Orleans for Biloxi on April 2,
identified the soldier as Pfc,
Mack c. Lewis, 81, colored, of
Buffalo, N. Y.
Supt. Scheuering said Lewis
admitted he fired four or five
bullets into Mr.. Mason as the
pair stood on a lonely road near
Pennington, 10 miles west of
here and IS miles east of New
Orleans.
He said Lewis had been picked
up on a reckless driving charge
in Petersburg, Va, after an 30
mile-an-hour chase last Sunday.
Police reported Lewis wore a
blood-stained uniform and was
on a 15-day furlough from Fort
Bliss, Tex.
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There'II Be More Such Mishaps
Secretary Dulles Unhappy Experience With rial Balloon
Won't Be Last Collision Among Korean Poicy-Nokers

Some of these promises may
be kissed off as what Wendell
Willkie called campaign ora
tory. But others. particularly
those dealing with and hav-
ing some responsibility for the
hateful situation in China and
Korea, cannot be treated so
lightly.
The administration has that
situation on it's hands and
sooner or later must come to
grips with it. Fumbling his
way toward possible solu-
ton. Secretary Dulles put
forth some of the thoughts
that have occurred to him and
awaited public reaction. Even
if the White House had not let
him down so roughly he still
would have found himself in
trouble. The Senate is crowded
with experts ready and able to
point out what is wrong with
any Korean solution likely to
be proposed. This, of course,
doesn't require any unusual
experiences, the Korean en-
tanglement having become
what it is.
The bald fact is that this
country cannot disentangle it.
self in the Far East without
loss of face, unless it should
undertake and win a full-scale
war with China. That is the
situation bequeathed to the
Eisenhower-Dulles land Taft
Knowland) administration by
the Truman-Acheson admins
tration, which itself was forced
into it by it's Republican
critics, now become respon-
sible for handling it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-04-11
BohIen in Moscow
To Begin His Duties
As Ambassador
By the Associated Press

MOSCOW, April 11.-Charles
Eustis Bohlen. the United States
new Ambassador to the Soviet
Union, arrived here today to go
to work.
He was accompanied on the
flight from Berlin by his wife
and two children, by private
secretary and nurse for his
children, by Embassy Counsellor
John McSweeny and Air Attache
Col. Philip Halves.
The American Embassy has
been without an Ambassador
since last September, when the
Russians, declared George F..
KEENAN, unacceptable after re-
marks he made to reporters in
Berlin.
Technically Mr., Bohlen will
not be Ambassador until he has
presented his credentials to
Marshal Klementy Voroshilov.
chairman of the Presidium of
the Soviet Republic. This should
take place in the near future.
From the airport Mr.. Bohlen
was driven to Spaso House, the
traditional residence of Amer
lean ambassadors to the Soviet
Union.
He comes to Moscow at one
of the most interesting times in
modern history; when moves are
being made to settle the war
in Korea. when there is gen.
orally conciliatory atmosphere
prevailing, and when the Rus
slams seem to be trying to i'm
prove relations with the Western
powers.
The 48-year-old State Depart
ment career officer comes with
a wealth of experience in Rus
sian affairs, having served here
three times before and having
taken part in the Teheran, Yalta
and Potsdam conferences.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-04-11
Hoover Boyhood Home
Will Become Shrine
By the Asseciased Press

NEWBERG, Greg. April IL
The house in which Herbert
Hoover lived in the 1880s is
going to be restored to its orig
inal appearance.
An adjacent house. built since
then, will be moved and the en-
tire block will be Handicapped
after the house, outbuildings and
old well have been restored. Mr..
Hoover lived there during a boy
hood period when he made his
home with his uncle, DR.. H. j.
Minthorn.
The house will be maintained
as memorial to the former
President ard will be open to
the public.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-04-11
William {. Strand Heads U.s.. Office Of Territories

correspondent for the paper in
1943. In 1945 he returned to the
Tribune's Washington bureau,
resigning in 1947 to become gen.
eral manager and managing edi-
tor of the Daily News Miner of
Fairbanks, Alaska. He returned
to Washington three years later,
and in 1851 was named executive
city editor of the Times-Herald.
Mr.. Strand resides at Manor
Club Estates, Mr.. He is married
and has two children, Mrs. Bar
bara Larroca of Indiantown Gap,
Pa, and Dale w. Strand, a senior
at Brown University. s
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-04-11
Drumo-Loden Rite
Makes American
OF Hedy Lamar
BY the Associated Press

LOS ANGELES, April H.
Actress Hedy Lamar has taken
the oath as a United States citi-
zen along with 40 other aliens
There was unexpected drama in
the court ceremony.
A Marine sergeant, Julius
Sutch, "a, after standing at rigid
parade dress in the color guard
for more than an hour, collapsed
and fell on his rifle. He suffered
cuts on the lip, chin and neck.
A Japanese, DR.. Hatsuji H.
Hara, interrupted a statement to
the court telling of his gratitude
at becoming citizen and treated
the injured Marine.
The aliens from "a countries
included the first Japanese ma
tionals admitted to citizenship
They were eligible under the
newly adopted McCarran act.
Miss Lamar, 38, was natural
lied under her real name, Hedwig
Eva Maria Kiesler. She came
here in 1887 from her native
Vienna.
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Parents Turn In Second Twin
To Face Charges by Police

other twin, Robert, to the police
station after a $3.50 liquor store
robbery. Then he returned the
money. Robert, who told police
he had served a year in the
county Jail for using heroin, will
appear in Superior Court Tues
day for sentence,
At the time of the robbery,
Mr.. Schoengarth told police,
Bobby has an identical twin,
Billy. What if Billy were walk
ing down the street one day and
a liquor owner saw him and told
police, that's the one'."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-04-11
Lowell MeHett::

John Foster ("Don't Quote
Me- Dulles, experienced in
nearly every other kind of
business, seems never to have
learned much about the bal
loon business. His first trial
balloon since he became Secre-
tary of State got of the
ground all right, but 1t came
down again with a sickening
squash enveloping Mr.. Dulles.
and a flock of eminent journal
lists in the escaping gas. The
man who brought it down, with
his little bow and arrow. was
White House Press Secretary
Jim Hagerty, acting preSum-
ably for President Eisenhower.
We say presumably because
the President has not yet re-
pudiated Mr.. Hagerty's demo-
lition of Mr.. Dulles balloon.
Nothing quite like this Incl
dent has been witnessed in
Washington since the time
when Secretary of State
Charles Evans Hughes found it
necessary one day in the early
twenties to tell the press that
President Harding didn't know
what he was talking about. The
President, discussing some
question of Far Eastern policy
at a press conference, got a
little mixed up in his facts.
The Secretary of State set
him right-publicly., In that
instance, it was all out in the
open, differing therein from
the Dulles-Eisenhower embar-
raSSment.
Secretary Dulles told a Sc
lected group of reporters what
was being considered, so he
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-04-11

to the Peiping satellites. They
also asked that Korea remain
divided along the 38th Parallel.
These pressures were re-
sisted by the former admins
tration because President Tru-
man realized the uproar such
a policy would create in this
country. Our allies resigned
themselves to let us continue
the f1ght-with So per cent
sacrifices by the American and
South Korean soldiers.
The strong words used dur
ing the campaign by Gen. Eli
senhower, Mr.. Dulles and the
other leading Republicans Gre
ated an impression abroad
that this country would re-
main adamant in the struggle
to punish and defeat the ag-
erosion of the Red ASiatics.
While this attitude was not
particularly palatable to the
Western European and Indian
governments, the feeling was
created in those countries that
America must be very strong
indeed to insist on such a
course. And peoples, regard
less of whether Westerners or
Asiatics, have confidence in
strength.
The London and Paris cabi-
nets have been urging Wash
ington since the Kremlin
launched it's reace dove
which looks very much like ?
vulture-to meet the Chi lese
Reds halfway and end the
Korean slaughter. But they
had little expectation that
they would bulge the realistic
Eisenhower administration
from the stand it had taken.
We expect to encounter Sc
rious difficulties at the peace
table in the event a cease-flre
agreement can be reached at
Panmunjom, and suspect that
they will come as much from
our own European allies as
from the Red enemies.
But the fumbEng of the ball
by Secretary Dulles and his
advisers, most Of whom arc
still naive about the complex
tiles of foreign affairs, may
make our task even more diff
cult than had, been contem-
plated.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-04-11
School Lunch Program
Gets More U. S. Butter
BY the Associated Pres.

BY the Associated Press
The Government is giving
another so million pounds of
butter, out of it's 143-million-
pound supply, to the school lunch
program and charitable institu-
lions.
The Agriculture Department
bought the butter in recent
months under a dairy price sup
port program. In January it
gave "a million pounds to the
same agencies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-04-11
Florida Senators Receive
Prize From Eisenhower
BY the Associated Press

President Eisenhower today
presented to Senators Holland
and Smathers, Florida Demo-
Gratis, a gold cup trophy for the
rize-Winning float in the Jan
uary 20 inaugural parade.
The ceremony took place in
the Presidents Office and the
President remarked that the
tall, slender cup reminded him
of a golf prize.
The trophy was received by
the Senators in the name of the
Florida Citrus Com mission
which sponsored the float.
While two and one half
months has elapsed since Miss
America rode down Pennsyl-
vania avenue on the replica of
Ponce De Icons flagship to win
the prize for Florida. the cup
was presented only today be-
cause of the time needed to
make the special base for it and
to have it engraved.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-04-11

William C. Strand, executive
city editor Of the Washington
TimeS-Herald, yesterday was APP
pointed by Secretary of the In
terror Mckay to head the de-
partment'S Office of Territories.
He succeeds James P. Davis,
who is retiring after 81 years in
the Government.
Mr.. Strand, IL, started his
newspaper career with the Chi
cago City News Bureau. In 1887
he joined the staff of the Chicago
Tribune, transferring to the
Tribune Washington bureau in
I 1910 and going overseas as wa
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-04-11
SMU Chaplain to Preach

The Rev. George C. Baker, jr.,
chaplain of Southern Method
list University, will preach on
The Risen Christ's Greatest
Question" at 9 and 11:15 am.
tomorrow at Mount Vernon
Methodist Church, Ninth street
and Massachusetts, avenue NV.
He will speak on Growing Time
for Christians" at GAS pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-04-11

said, in the way of a settle
ment of the Korean and For
mosan problems. He gave the
reporters permission to use
this exceedingly interesting
and important information,
provided they did not attribute
it to him. The reporters used
it just that way and all would
have been we'll if the suggested
terms of settlement hadn't
upset some of the policy
makers in the Senate. Most
upset was Senator Knowland
of California, who regards the
Asia coast as part of his baili-
wick. First he got from Sec
rotary Dulles an assurance by
telephone that he wasn't re-
sponsible for what the re-
porters had written. Then he
stormed down to the White
House, demanded a public re-
pudiation of the alleged pol
icy and got it. Which left the
selected reporters holding the
bag-but not for long. Some
how the source Of their
stories became known and the
bag-the balloon bag. so to
speak-was returned to the
hands of it's fabricator.
There will be more of these
unhappy incidents from time
to time and it won't be en-
tirely because the men of the
new administration, in the
language of Senator Taft,
don't have a single days ex-
perience running a Federal
Government" 1t will be partly
because of the necessity they
are under to founder their
way out of morass of
promises impossible to fulfill.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-04-11
Dr.. Abbot to Speak

DR.. Charles G. Abbot. former
director of the Astrophysical OBJ
servatory, will speak on THE Sun
of God" at a meeting of the
Mems Club of Westmoreland
congregational Church, Western
and Massachusetts, avenues. at
$50 pm. Monday in the church
hall:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-04-11
Ethical Society Speaker

DR.. Samuel E. Burr, jr., chair
man of the department Of edu-
cation at American University.
will speak on THE Progress Of
Racial Indignation in the Public
Schools" at a meeting of the
Washington Ethical Society to-
morrow. The meeting will be
held at IL am. in the YWCA
auditorium, Seventeenth and K
ctrootc NJ Wy
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-04-11
Queens Aide to Speak

+ The Rev. James H. Cockburn,
chaplain to Queen Elizabeth II
of England, will speak on God,
the Father" at $50 and II am.
tomorrow at New York Avenue
Presbyterian Church, New York
avenue and H street NV. "Nico-
demus. Man of Reason" will be
his topic at Z pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-04-11
rs Members to Join
Presbyterian Church

Eastern Presbyterian Church.
Sixth street and Maryland ave-
nue. NE, will receive IS new
members at the II am. service
tomorrow.
The Rev. Donald F. Keith,
pastor, will preach on Your
Christian Calling"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-04-11
Metropolitan Church
To Sturt Study Series

Metropolitan Presb y terra n
Church, Fourth and B streets
Sc, will open its Officers Train
ing Institute at 7 pm. tomorrow.
The six-Sunday evening course
will study Stewardship of the
Church's Program" The Rev.
James G. Fail is minister.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-04-11
.NutionuI City Service Set

when the Wood Is Green"
will be the topic for the Rev.
Richard G. Smith, associate min
lister. at 1880 am. tomorrow in,
National City Christian Church,
Fourteenth street and Massachu-
sets avenue NV.
Evening star., 1953-09-27
Mo,s
%rM!.

Nestle puts the finishing touch on
your ready-mix cakes with luscious Double
Quick Fudge Frosting Make it in
minute with Nestle's Semi-Sweet MorselS :.
it's smooth spreading, smOOthest eating!
Evening star., 1953-09-27
TROPICAL TREATS
bY Clementine PaddlefOrd
This Week Food Editor

bugs. Incense heavier than the night bloom
the savory goodness of the cooking meat
There were Ia guests for 10 o'clock buffet
which was served after rounds of drinks
made with the islands ubiquitous rum. Our
hostess Matilde prepared the party foods
with her own hands. She is a domestic
science graduate of the University of Puerto
Rico and loves to cook the authentic Spanish
dishes of her family. A wide pottery platter
held the fricasseed goat; on either side, rice
in mounds was turbaned with fresh mint
There were little meat cakes, the embGn0-
dGS, made of cooked green bananas mashed
and mixed with ground pork, with onions,
olives. raisins. capers. This eggplant casse-
role was the dish especially liked, and the
plantains prepared like yams in sweet wine
sauce Dessert was BienmeS0be, the national
sweet, of which there are many variations.
But always cake for the base - dressed with
a fresh coconut-custard sauce.
Goat FEicassee
10-pound young goat on
10 pounds mutton
Salt
Pepper
tablespoons vinegar
cups oil
8 or laurel leaves (optional)
cloves garlic
green peppers, sliced
2 8-ounce cans tomato sauce
cups brandy
S pounds small potatoes, peeled
Have butcher dress goat; remove head
and feet. Cut body meat into pieces. Season
with salt and pepper; sprinkle. with vinegar
Prepare meat in morning and let it stand
until early afternoon. Heat oil in deep pot;
lightly brown pieces of meat in oil. Add
laurel leaves garlic, peppers, sauce and
Continued on page 80
Evening star., 1953-09-27

4OA 1AL1AS OENAO 1NINO
Tr's good thing to put your feet under
i somebody else's table once in while
It's good thing to break bread with far
away neighbors, bread spread with strange
JAM If the world would shake hands more
often across the dinner plate there would be
less prejudice.
was in Puerto Rico having dinner with
new-found Spanish friends when fricassee
was served that proved savory dish. After
dinner asked my hostess, Matilde Curet de
Lopez del Vale, for her recipe and found
she had used young goat meat considered
great delicacy in countries south, meat
used freely in our own Southwest. But for
the lack of goat, mutton will do.
This night was in Toa Alta, II miles out
of San Juan. on the 16O-acre farm of Fede-
rico Lopez del Vale. There are 600 mixers
in his barns, mostly Holsteins, and he raises
hogs the Poland Chinas; he has Peking
ducks and goats to supply the home table.
Mang0es and Banana Trees
1HE 1O-room farm home is low rambling
affair high on hill matted with green vege-
tatiOn. Fruits and flowers hedged close to
the terraces in rank fecundity. Thickets of
guavas ran wild into the night In the tinted
moonlight saw the twinl6le-leafed mangoes
and heard swishing of the stiff-fronded
banana trees The symphonists of the insect
world pitched their pipes to one vast hum.
Tropical flowers blood-red, purple, gold,
were in bowls and vases around the rooms.
Across the walls my eyes followed the flash
OF brilliant-colored lizards chasing the night