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FOLORED DESIRES PERSON to livl
In. care for new baby and mother
COLoRED COUPLE wanted to WORK
on country estate mr.. Warrenton
Va. Girl must be excel. cook. man
to butler and gh.w.; room and board
and uniforms furn. Will pay TOP
salary for top people. Refs re-
ouired. Call JE. 3-0133, 7:30 to
4 daily. III
COLORED EXPER. HOUSEKEEPER
for afternoon work; good cook and
cleaner: good refs. REQ: no Sundays
Box @36-T. Star IA
COLORED SETTLED LADY to care
for children in colored family. Rm
and board and small salary. DU r.
Q1.3. -l3
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OFFICE FURNITURE
SPECIAL SALE

TRADE-INS FROM BANKS AND
INSURANCE COMPANIES
Used but as good as new cond. Alum
mum typist posture chairs, orig.
cost $40, sale price S6.95. Single
pedestal typist desk, S17.60: dble.
pedestal typewriter desk, S22. 80:
unlimited quantity desks. steel and
wood; tables. file cabinets, book
cases, lockers, oak, mahog. and wal
nut offered at tremendous savings.
10000 50. IT. display space. free
delivery and parking.
MANHATTAN OFFICE EQUIPMENT
$40 N Y AVE NV
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STEEL

STEEL
We have all kinds of miscellaneous
steel, such as pipe, beams, reinforc-
ing steel radiators. wiz cut 70 size.
GENERAL WRECKING CO.. 1887
Brentwood rd. AID. 2-61S7 IL
STUDIO COUCH, ax12 rug, small
tables, chest of drawers, occasional
chairs. Kitchen table: very reason
able. RA- 0-3eeo. III
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SITUATloNS-MEN

ACCOUNTING STUDENT of 2lz yrs
would like position with reputable
organization. Box 24S-T, Star. i.
ACCOUNTANT. expert; books opened
closed. caught up; all taxes: open
rate. DI. T-0176. JU. 9-6564
ATTORNEY, 80. married, with adver-
tistng background. seeks business
connection. Box 354-R. Star. IL
AUTO SALESMAN, aggressive youne
man. > yrs eXper., wants Job of
tering guarantee. plus. Box "a R
CLERKS. ASST. BOOKKEPERS
GEN. OFFICE WORKERS AVAIL,
ABLE for part-tlme employment
after l pm. Applicants are students
at Strayer College OF ACcountancy
MA S-l54S MR.. DIXON -16
HOTEL CAREER WANTED; veteran
~ desires permanent connection
with downtown hotel; . years col
iege, graduate Lewis Hotel School
Will work days. nights. any hours
alert. conscientious, eXper. in meet
ing and serving the public. II you
have a hotel lob with future. write
Box "6S-R. Star. IL
MEN AVAILABLE NOW
For employment odd Jobs, yard work
wall washing, carpentry houSeclean'
ing. etc. SALVATION ARMY HAIR
BOR LIGHTS CORP, NE. S-4532.
PAINTER. wants work; private homes
firSt-claSs work; clean. color miXins
D1. T-5016. IL
DTTPTIC PEI .ATTONS
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SIS any avg. rm. Free est. Immed
service. Also exterior. KE. S-466O.
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OFFICE FURNITURE
OFFICE FURNITURE

S22: new 6O-in. walnut desk. $50 a5.
Shop us for the best values in town
Large stock of new and used desks,
file cabinets, chairs. etc. available
at qll times. Free delivery. N.
FRANK g. SON. Ala 3rd st. NV
EX. 3-S974.
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HELP-DokAESTIc

COOK AND FIRST-FLOOR MAID
Other help kept. No phoning.
MADAM ROSE, 1907 Conn. ave. NV.
COOK. experienced. for family of
adults; light upstairs work. other
help employed: live in Georgetown
home most of year, nearby Md. sum-
mer months; good salary. RE
T-5900, MISS EVANS: after z and
week ends. OIL. 4-S216. -12
COOK-G. G.HW.-Excellent permanent
position for settled. responsible per
son: must have references: 5lz days.
every other Sun. of. OIL. 1891.
COOK-G.H.W.. live IN, local refer
enCeS required Wednesday. every
other Sunday OF, S32 week. EN-, j.
1891. -I3
COOK-G.HW., fond OF children: live
in or out; recent city references
Phone WO. 6-11S0. ~
COOK K-G.H.W.-Live out; permanent
position, eXper. person only: every
other Sun; refs. rec. OIL. 4-599l.
COOK-G.H.W., LIVE IN
Pvt rm. and bath in new house; fonc
Of children: eXper. and refs. $50 q
week plus yearly bonus. OIL. 6-7161
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of oil AP. 7-9414. IL
ORGAN. modernized; $500 or best
offer. JU. S-9323. IL
rent popular type-elec-
buy; private lessons available. ST
3-9400. JORDAN'S, corner 18th and
oRGANESave $500 on new 2-manuaI
Minshall electronic organ; investl-
gate our rental purchase and orgar
lesson plan. KITS 1880 G st. n W
-12
PAINT - Winslow. white. L coat
enamel S2.35 per gallon; Other
paints S1.60 gal. 1117 Que st. NV
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off a strike of government workers
that brought nationalized indus
tries and government Offices to a
StandStill.
There had been no cuts in
personnel or any announced cuts.
Government workers, however,
reasoned that an economy cam
paign would result in firingS. They
struck last week to protest what
they believed would happen. Postal,
long distance telephone and tele-
graph service, mines, railroads,
public hospitals, national gas and
electric power industries and gov
eminent Offices on all levels were
shut down. Communist-domi
unions walked out alongside Cath
olic- dominated ones. Most of the
walkoutS we're for 48 hours. Postal
workers, however, struck indef1-
nitely.
It was the worst tie-up since the
1886 general strike.
And as if that were not enough,
the wine growers in Southern
France were barricading major
highways. They were protesting
Premier Laniels decision to stop
supporting artiticially the price of
wine.
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out how to make the H-bomb work,
Malenkov said, it actually has
mastered the techniques of pro-
duction.
Assuming that the Soviet dicta-
tor was telling the truth, his an
nouncement reveals that Russia
is at least even with and possibly
ahead of the United States in this
regard. ..,.
The United States never has
admitted that the H-bomb is a
part of democracy's arsenal. How
ever, there have been hints point
ing in that direction. Last No
vember, a West Coast newspaper
quoted an eyewitness" who said
an H-bomb had been set off in the
Marshall Islands proving ground
on October l, 1852. Two weeks
later the Atomic Energy Commits
sion announced that the October
tests had Included experiments
contributing to thermonuclear
weapons research" This was
taken as scientific gopbledygook
for H-bomb.
Beyond this report, there has
been no official American an
nouncement about the H-bomb.
Even yesterday, Acc was nom
committal. But it is generally
believed that the weapon, said to
be scores, hundreds or thousands
of times as powerful as the atomic
bomb, is an American reality.
Apparently Malenkov thought
so, too, when he addressed the
Supreme Soviet yesterday He
started out by saying that the
United States no longer had a
monopoly on the H-bomb. This,
it was. recalled, was virtually the
same language as was used in 1947
when the Soviet said the atomic
bomb no longer was an American
monopoly.
The big problem in developing
a hydrogen bomb, it seems, is to
kindle the explosion by a sudden
application of terrific heat-up in
the millions of degrees. There has
been knowledgeable speculation
that for this purpose an ordinary
atomic bomb is used as the trig-
gering device for the larger
explosive.
One question that Immediately
arose was how the Russians got
the H-bomb-from Woodworking
scientists in Russian labs, or from
working spies like Klaus
Fuchs, Allan Num- May or the
late Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
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Food for Germans

The American gift of food to
Communist Germany kept that
satellite in continuous turmoil last
week. Hundreds of thousands of
food parcels were handed out to
Germans who crossed the sector
border in Berlin. But many per-
sons were barred from the food
stands, and many parcels were
confiScated when the East Ger
mans returned to their zone.
The lure of free food to the
hungry Germans clashed with the
restrictive measures instituted by
the Communists, and the Reds
were hard pressed to keep order.
Reports early in the week told
of riots on the scale of the June
II uprising, but later it was de-
termined that the disturbances
were less extensive. The East
Germans did not fight their "peo-
pies police" but they did defy
them as best they could.
Many persons insisted on riding
the trains that were closed to un-
authorized travel to Berlin. Others
crossed the border to West Berlin
despite threats and orders to the
contrary.
At the end of the week it was
clear that President Eisenhower
had delivered on one of his cam
paign promises: To encourage I'M
rest in the Red satellites. The
question now was what could be
done to take advantage of it.
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Rhee's Pledge

THE PESKY THREATS of Syng-
= man Rhee to disrupt the
Korean armistice may now have
been suppressed until next January
If DR.. Rhee does not change his
mind.
Secretary of State Dulles spent
five days in Seoul last week, and
came away with exactly the bar
gain he had come to make, an old
bargain that Rhee had been trying
to improve. The United States
will (aS promised long since) enter
into a mutual security pact with
South Korea, the Senate willing;
America will provide economic aid
for South Korea (about 81 billion
in the next three or four years,
Congress willing) and the United
States will walk out of the political
conference after 80 days If it agrees
the Reds have no intention of CO.
operating in unifcation of North
and South Korea.
DR.. Rhee did not get the two
additional concessions the United
States has refused him from the
start: First, the pledge that we
would resume the fighting along
side the ROKs at the end of 90
days in the political conference;
second, assurances that any peace
full Korean unification plan would
be on DR.. Rhee's terms.
Unless the Reds attack again,
the next time of crisis will be in
mid-January, after the political
conference has been in session 80
days. Congress will have convened
again by that time, however, and
the Senate, which must ratify the
Korean mutual security treaty, will
hold DR.. Rhee accountable for his
conduct between now and then.
The Korean President has re-
newed his pledge Ito take no uni
lateral action to unite Korea by
military means for the agreed
duration of the political confer
ence."
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THE RUSSIAN answer last week
L to the Big Three invitation for
foreign minister talks on Germany
certainly was not "yes," but, on
the other hand, possibly was not
mo"
At first glance, the answer ap-
peared to be a deliberate attempt
to confuse and divide the allies,
but the State Department and
British and French foreign min
listers we're studying the document
carefully to determine if any COM
fort could be extracted.
The invitation, which had been
sent to Russia after the foreign
ministers conference here last
month, asked for talks in Septem-
Der on independence and unifica-
ton of Germany-the central
problem in the European cold war.
If those talks succeeded, it was the
allied intention to ask for broader
conversations, perhaps on a heads
of-state level, to work out other
problems.
Unlimited Aeendo
But the Soviet answer pushed
the German question far into the
background. The Communists
wanted first to discuss measures
to reduce tension in international
relations" Obviously that meant
an unlimited agenda. The notes
elaboration on the measures" to
be discussed indicated the Com
muniSts had nothing new to offer
beyond proposals turned down
many times in the past by the
free world.
The Soviet reply contained an
other joker: The recommended in
clusion of Communist China in the
conference. That would open the
meeting to further extraneous is
sues.
The Russian note seemed to be a
rejection of the American policy
which became the official Big
Three policy after the foreign min
listers conference-of deeds, not
words" The Reds apparently we're
seeking to talk but were offering
no assurances that they were
ready to get down to honest work,
Unless a closer study of the am
biguous note revealed something
more constructive, the United
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Indignation

Indignation smouldered all last
week as new instances of atrocity
and gross neglect were piled on
new cases of broken Communist
promises. But the feeling that this
was no time to rock the BOAT was
pretty universally held throughout
the Nation
Two things could be salvaged
from the grim story. Just as the
Reds are making propaganda with
their returned POWs, so perhaps
the United States will be able to
make propaganda against the
Communists. And the American
propaganda will be the more
damning for the fact that it will
be based on truth.
Among American statesmen
there is also hope that the feeling
of revulsion held in the United
States will spread to other West
ern nations by the time the Ko-
rean political conference gets I'M
der way. One of the things the
Communists hope to get out of
the conference is admission of Red
China to the United Nations. Per-
haps Red China's record of bar
barism and double-dealing will
prove too strong for civilized coun-
tries to stomach. Perhaps India,
which eSpouSeS Red China's cause
for U. N. seat, will find China'S
performance out of line with In
dia'S ideals.
Pressure
At the conference, or before,
heavy pressure undoubtedly will be
put on the Reds to release what
ever prisoners they still hold. 1t
is pretty certain, however, that
they will do only what looks to
them like the profitable thing.
Hence, moral SuaSion is being re-
lied on by American leaders
moral SuaSlon backed by the threat
of new and horrible force If nee
eSSary.
In his press conference last week,
Gen. Clark urged that if the Reds
violate the armiStice and the war
breaks out anew, the only course
left open would be about war with
the atomic bomb and everything
else available. 1t seemed signifi-
cant that no one rushed into the
breach to shuSh the Far Eastern
commander. On the contrary,
United States-inspired statement
by the nations taking part in the
conflict warned the Reds that new
aggression could spread the war
to China.
The Communists undoubtedly
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Every POW hos been treoted with
humane care in accordance with our lem
lent policy. We fought and onnihi-
loted any ormed ossressors but we sove
generous ond humanitarian treatment to
captured enemy officers ond men.
THUS, LAST WEEK, on the eve
Il of the big prisoner exchange,
Peiping Radio told the world that
all was well with the men who
were about to come home. Then
the following day, came the van of
a pitiful horde of prisoners from
the north-their appearance and
state of health furnishing the
most damning proof of the cynical
Communist lie.
Operation Big Switch" was I'M
der way. BY rights, it should have
been a happy event for the men
who returned, for the men who
greeted them at the gate to free
dom, for the families back home
There should have been no baser
emotion to adulterate the Joy of
the occasion.
Yet cold anger could not be
suppressed as the first men came
back. Some were we'll enough
as well as men could be expected
to be after as much as three years
behind wire on SubStandard ra-
tons. But others were sick almost
to the point of death; in fact,
at least two South Koreans who
started the journey alive died en-
route. And still others, manned
from old injuries, had somehow
missed being repatriated in Little
Switch" last April.
This was the first fruit of the
Korean truce. This was the harsh
fact that belied the gentle promise.
In the faces Of the wan and all
ing men who hobbled to freedom
last week was seen the true face
of the enemy.
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$50 Billion RubIes

Economists who make Russia
their field of study are among the
worlds most frustrated people. No
economist can work smoothly
without complete, reliable Stats
tics on income, outgo, production,
consumption, ETC., in the area he
is studying. The figures that are
made available on Russia are
simply teasers-not enough to an
swer all the questions but too
many for the economist to throw
up his hands and declare the job
impossible.
Last week the Slide-rule artists
were porting over the new Soviet
budget seeking to answer the ques-
lions: What does it mean for the
Russian economy? What does it
mean in the cold war?
Estimated expenditures were
announced as 530.5 billion rubles.
Almost 81 per cent was to go for
defense. Certain taxes were to be
reduced-farmers would be taxed
one-third less on their land. Reeve
nue. from the general sales tax
would be reduced by 20 billion
rubles to 240 billion rubles.
These and the many other fig
ures were obscured by the fact
that the true value of the ruble
is not known-the official, but I'M
realistic, exchange rate is four
rubles to the dollar-and prices
have recently been arbitrarily
juggled.
But Western economists did note
some interesting facts:
The announced cut in farm
taxes still left the farmer with 10
times as heavy a tax burden as he
had in 1888. And, most significant
of all, the new rates would be dis
criminatory against the Russians
living farthest from free Europe.
In other words, the farmers near
est the satellite unrest would be
thrown an extra bone this year.
Such discrimination probably ex-
listed last year, but the fact was
not made known to the Russians.
Now every farmer will know eX-
actly how unfairly he is being
treated.
The budget also indicated that,
In spite of the Korean peace, de-
tense spending would be reduced
by only about 3 per cent.
1t was also noted that the budget
planned for a surplus of only IL
billion rUbles, compared with 81
billion last year. The indicated
19-billion-ruble deficit-unusual in
Soviet budgets-could be made up
later in the year, however, with a
bit of fiscal juggling.
What the budget seemed to boil
down to was that the expansion
of the armed forces and of pro-
duction capacity would continue
as before. The people would get a
few slight concessions, much less
than announced for satellite coun-
tries, and the concessions would
not be evenly distributed.
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Sou9hf by odmInisfrotlon, denied by Congress
The Senate was adamant. So
Secretary Humphrey could only
promise that he would try to hold
spending under the limit. In the
meantime, if that became impos-
Sible, the President could recall
Congress and the lawmakers could
go through the painful process of
raising the limit.
With that decision made, Con-
gress could wind up the details
and go home.
KnowIond Named
One of the remaining details
was the selection of a new ma
jority leader to take the place of
the late Senator Taft. Only Will
liam Knowland, 45-year-old Cali
fornian, appeared to be in the
running. He had filled in for SEN
ator Taft during his illness.
At the last minute opposition
appeared, however, in the far right
wing of the Republican Party.
Seven Senators, including Styles
Bridges and Joseph Mccarthy,
urged that selection of a majority
leader be postponed until Janu-
airy. That would have given the
conservatives time to line up OPP
position to Knowland.
Senator Knowland pointed out,
however, that the majority lead
erShip would be vacant the rest of
the year if selection were post
poned. He urged immediate action.
The opposition move collapsed.
Republican Senators met Tuesday
and voted unanimously for Know
land Five of the seven dissenters
did not attend the meeting.
The Lost Word
1t was President Eisenhower who
had the last word on the 1853 ses-
sion of Congress. He pocket-vetoed
the movie exhibitors tax relief bill.
1t was his first veto of major legis-
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States would be forced to consider
it as a rejection of Big Four
conference on Germany. Then
there would be the problem of
getting France and Britain, which
are less opposed than the United
States to an open-agenda confer
ence, to agree on a firm reply to
Russia.
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H-Bomb

THE ARMS RACE between the
l. United States and the Soviet
Union got another shot in the arm
yesterday when Russian Premier
Georgi Malenkov told the Supreme
Soviet in Moscow that the Reds
now possess the worlds most de-
structive weapon, the hydrogen
bomb.
Not only has the Soviet found
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General Strike

Any French Premier who sets
out to solve Frances Gripping do
nestle problems must raise taxes,
cut spending or both. Many Pre-
mierS have been ousted when the
Chamber of Deputies refused to
accept their economy program.
The new Premier, Joseph Laniel,
surprised the world, however, by
securing parliamentary approval
of just such a program. Until last
week he appeared to be rolling
along in excellent shape-for
French Premier.
But last week his promise of
lower government expenditures set
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Big Switch

First, there is the gate to free
dom-the crude portal before a
tent at Panmunjom. Then there
is a 15-mile truck or ambulance
ride down a rutted, dusty road to
Munsan-ni. Finally there is a
long and crawling mile over a low
hill to Freedom Village.
The Village, where prisoners at
last return to liberty, is a tent
city affording not much more than
the necessities of life. 1t is an as
sembly line with a heart-a place
where a man goes to be deloused,
examined, freshly clad and lightly
fed before being transferred to
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hospital or port for further treat
ment or the long voyage home.
Last week at Freedom Village. it
was apparent that more men than
had been expected would 60 into
hospitals, and fewer would go di-
rectly home. Malnutrition, dysen-
terry, tuberculosis and old, I'M
tended wounds would delay home
comingS for many men.
An 'ExpIonotion'
Helplessly, the question was
asked: Why did these men not
come back with the sick and
wounded of Little Switch last
April? One officer provided an
answer: Though an amputee, he
was denied repatriation then be-
cause he had used his influence
with others to dissuade them from
cooperating with the Communists.
This reason" of course, was no
reason at all within the scope of
the original agreement. Seriously
sick and wounded, able and willing
to travel, were to be sent home.
The Communists sent 129 Ameri-
cans, many of whom were nowhere
near as sick as some of those who
returned last week.
1t was just another case of a
promise cynically given and cyni-
cally broken, like the North
Koreans promise of July 10, 1850,
and that of the Chinese Reds on
July Is, 1852, to live up to the
Geneva convention. And it was
another case of the United States
being utterly unable to do any,
thing about it.
Shorp Contrast
In sharp contrast to the hag-
gard men who stumbled to freedom
last week, more than 10000 robust
Communist POWs marched ar
rogantly across the neutral zone,
making propaganda as they went.
Ripping their clothing from their
bodies, screaming insults at their
guards, throwing everything they
could lay their hands on, the
Chinese and North Korean POWs
manned it up for the Communist
newsreel cameras. Again, the
allies were powerless to do any,
thing. Don't upset the apple
cart" was the order of the day.
IF they spit in your face, turn
away" the guards were told.
AS the week ended in Korea,
big Switch" was only about IL per
cent completed. What bitter pills
would be handed the allies to
swallow in coming weeks? What
new atrocity tales would emphasize
anew the horror of oriental COM
muniSm? Where-and when-and
floW-would it all end?
There could be no answers to
those questions this week end.
There could be no answers until
the Reds had returned all the 1913
men they admit holding in their
camps. The reason was clear: The
side with principles and regard for
human life is at a terrible disad-
vantage in war of this kind.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-08-09
The Why of 1t

Why did Malenkov announce the
production of hydrogen bombs?
There are two obvious reasons
both of which are valid whether
or not Malenkov was telling the
truth.
First, the delegates to the
Supreme Soviet must be pretty
much in the dumps over the cracks
in the Soviet monolith revealed by
recent turmoil in the satellites.