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Evening star., 1953-06-14

why, remains an unsolved
mystery.
Mr.. Cole and his assistants
are experts on the chemical
composition of inks, writing
materials and papers. They
have to be. For example, one
popular brand of ink, designed
for a specific pen, gives many
of the signs of a forgery when
used in another.
Most forgers, in their efforts
to make writing look genu-
inc, try too hard for their own
good, Mr.. Cole says. Their
efforts are too painstaking.
Under a microscope, this
shows up quickly.
When Mr.. Cole finds a sig
nature that has been written
at a slower than normal
speed, or shows other abnor-
malities, it gets a thorough
going over, including exami-
nation under magnifying
glasses, microscopes, photo
micrographs, ultraviolet and
infrared lamps. color filters,
polarizing screens and other
devices, if necessary. Under
the scrutiny of these instru-
ments a forgery has little
chance of remaining unde-
tected.
Now, how'd you like to see
what kind of handwriting
expert you'd make? From Mr..
Coles files, several forged
signatures have been con-
trasted with genuine writings.
Why not examine the writings
and see If you can guess
what's wrong with them?
Then read the picture cap
tions and see If you're right.
Evening star., 1953-04-30
EisenhoWer's Gamble: Is 1t Safe?
Defense and Foreign Aid Stetchout Certainly Will Bear
Heavily on What Place in History He Will Hold

hope of getting more than
the soldier-President himself
will fight for. i
It is admitted at the White
House that the actions OF
Secretary Dulles and Secretary
Humphrey in Europe were the
key to future moves but the
actual figures of the military
and foreign aid budgets are
still closely guarded secrets.
Grim faces at the Pentagon
indicate that the services are
going down fighting on their
budget cuts, but their new
bosses have made it plain that
there is to be no revolt Of
the admirals" in this admin
istration except under heavy
penalty.
1t had been widely antici-
pated that Deputy Secretary
of Defense Kyes would be the
official bearer of bad tidings
and he was. Senators inter-
pret his attack this week on
what he called the "wasteful
and reckless build-up" of the
post-Korean era as notice that
the defense retrenchment will
be severe.
Neither Of the great Eisen-
hover CANDLES will produce
their effects swiftly or fam
boyantly but those effects will
be profound and lasting-even
if the Kremlin does not de-
eide to compound the con-
fusion with CANDLES Of its
own.
Evening star., 1953-04-30

under arms, representing
about Is per cent of the total
population and a much larger
percentage of the manpower
of these satellites, never had
it so good. Only a few have
known actual freedom. The
vast majority were born under
the Nazi regime. Later, after
a very short span of national
governments as in Czechoslo-
vakia and Hungary. they lived
under Reds. An entire genera
ton does not know what free
dom means. Unlike the days
of Hitler. these men in uni
form are encouraged to think
in terms of "proletarian ma
tionallsm" whose center is in
Moscow.
Thus, while the MuscoviteS
speak now daily to tie West
ern world about peace and its
blessings, their military prep
arations are proceeding more
energetlcally than heretofore.
This insidious propaganda is
probably understood by the
governments of the NATO
countries, but is being accepted
at It's face value by the wish
fully thinking average citizen
In Europe.
The recent conference Of
foreign ministers in Paris
demonstrated clearly the sue
cess of the Red propaganda.
Leaving out the customary
sugar coating of the official
communique issued at the end
of that gathering, it is obvious
that the members of the West
ern coalition have decided on
a policy of further slowing
down their military prepared
ness.
The economy of the Eastern
bloc is consolidated under Mos
COW. The economy of the
Western coalition remains in
dividual. Each member gov
ernment of the grand alliance
"a courtesy title given NATO
must necessarily think of the
financial burdens it must i'm
pose on its citizens. And it
has become evident that the
peoples of Western Europe are
determined to spend as little
as possible of their own moneys
Evening star., 1953-04-30
Too Soon to Judge New Regime
1t Is Not McCorthyism and Congressional Investigations
That Are the Yordsticks for Measuring Its Success

herring techniqce originated
by President Truman when
Alger Hiss was being subjected
to an alleged witch hunt"
and "hysteria" has convinced
many people that the louder
the left wing" cries out about
"McCarthyism," the more the
suspicion is aroused that anti
communism is more necessary
than ever as national policy
no matter who conducts the in
veStigationS.
Back in 1888 not a single
cleft winger" protested con-
gressional Investigations when
men of good character were
pilloried in Investigations of
banks and banking practices.
The ''left wing" reveled in
them.
The most important thing
that has happened in the last
100 days is not such secondary
issues as whether congressional
Investigations are good or bad
but whether the Eisenhower
administration is succeeding in
getting an upper hand in the
cold war. The speech by the
President on April 16 was a
milestone in the forward move
ment of the new administra-
ton, not only in this country
but all over the world.
1t is foreign policy. national
defense planning, and the war
in Korea which are most vital
to the Nation today, with a
balanced budget and tax re-
duction as next in Importance
and. of course. they are all
interdependent.
Looking back in political his
tory, it isn't what happens in
the first 100 days of an ad-
ministration that counts but
what the people think at the
end of about a year or so.
No administration in the last
half century has worn out it's
welcome in so short a period
as 100 days. On the contrary,
the people have been notice.
ably patient with an incoming
administration-they are more
patient than the scribes or the
partiSans or even the sup
porters who keep in a fever of
anticipatory excitement about
the next election. whether it
be two or four years away.
Gen. EisenhoWer's PERSONAL
Evening star., 1953-04-30
Hungary Premier Replies
To Eisenhower Indirectly
By the Assoeiofed Presa


BUDAPEST, April 30.-Deputy
Premier Erno Gero said yesterday
Hungary does not want any in
reference by certain Western
circles" in its domestic affairs.
He spoke during a ceremony at
which he renamed the Diosgyor
Ironworks. one of Hungary'S
largest. the Lenin Ironworks.
While Gero did not mention Pres
ident Eisenhower's April foreign
policy speech, it appeared safe to
say that his words were the Hun
garian governments answer to
Gen. Eisenhower's claim that
E a st ern European countries
should be permitted to choose
freely their own form of govern
ment.
"They also say if we were will
ing to permit ourselves to be
liberated we would get aid"
Gero said. Thank you. We
don't want to have it. We were
all right without aid and despite
that or just because Of that we
rapidly advance on the road OF
progress"
Evening star., 1953-04-30

ity has made a favorable i'm
preston in Washington. He
is learning fast some of the
ways of Government and poll
tics. His staff is still new
and unframed in Washington
methods but also is learning
rapidly. On the whole. the
new personnel in the top places
show much promise, but there
are still more New Dealers in
policy-making jobs than there
should be if the new admins
tration intends to clean house.
So far as political progress
generally is concerned. there
probably isn't much change
from what it was last Novem-
ber. though. if anything. Gen.
Eisenhower may have in
creased his personal popu-
larity and prestige. The po-
litical evaluation of the Eisen-
hover strength SO far must be
related to the stronger tide of
anti-Trumanism which won
the last election and may help
the Republicans increase their
congressional majority in 1854.
For the record shows that.
when a tide of negative char
acter starts to run. it doesn't
reach it's peak always in a vic
torious presidential election
but continues for two to four
years.
Franklin Roosevelt promised
a 25-per-cent reduction in the
budget and tax reduction, and
then boosted the budget sky
high. He promised to cut down
bureaucracy and to do many
other things that were pro-
claimed in the 1882 platform,
but before 1888 was over he
had started the Nation toward
a spending spree and a series
of unbalanced budgets. Un-
employment wasn't cured until
the war in Europe broke out
six years later. Yet the tide
against HooveriSm was run
ming so strong that in the con-
gressional election of 1884 the
Democrats increased their ma
jority. The Democrats ran
Hoover as an opponent every
election after that and not
without some success. The Re-
publicans, by running against
Trumanism in 1854, may make
political history repeat itself.
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Evening star., 1953-04-30
Fletcher Knebel:
Potomac Fever

Forty-six will be briefed White House
world problems If the administration isn't
eliminating problems at least it's getting people to
worry about them.
President Truman leaves Hawaii and heads for
Missouri to work On his memoirs He'll spend the first
gathering his thoughtsand the second censorng them
President Eisenhower reads the Congressional
Record Ike great staff He likes to read the Congress
mems speeches to find out what their secretaries thinking
witness admits to Congressman that he went to Yale but
refuses to whether he Communist Probably figured
he had ncriminated himself enough for day.
Democratic Chairman Mitchell South to Dixie
voters back to the party Northern Democrats the Souo
they boast the party people smart enough walk
out Of Democratic convention.
Nine scientists begin study of the Bureau of Standards
Scientists preferable to politicians thing this kind
they let emotion interfere with logic reaching dubious
conclusion
Municipal officials plead for Federal funds relieve city
trac congestion The idea the
spend enough money highways responsible citizens
rush home from spend figuring out how
cut Federal spending.
Evening star., 1953-04-30
Reds Busy Aiming to Teeth
Krernn Peddes Phony Peace Wares as Military Machines
Behind the Iron Curtain Are Thrown Into High Gear
Constantine Brown:

While Moscow is peddling
its phony peace wares in one
of the most skillful propa-
ganda efforts ever known.
American and allied intelli-
gence reports show unprece-
dented military preparations
in all the satellite countries.
According to these reports,
based on a careful analysis, no
fewer than IA million men in
Eastern Germany, Poland,
Czechoslovakia. Hungary, Ro-
mania, and Bulgaria are either
in military services or in para
military organizations where
youngsters between the ages
of 13 and II receive needed
training before joining active
military forces.
Industrial establishments in
East Germany, Czechoslo-
vakia and Poland have
stepped up their armament
production considerably under
the strict control of Soviet
specialists. Uranium mines of
Bohemia and SaXony are
working overtime producing
the mineral for the Russian
atomic plants.
While the accent in all the
NATO countries including
the United States-is on econ
omy and a sharp reduction Of
all military appropriations,
armament expenditure has
been considerably increased in
the satellite countries. The
men in uniform have become
a privileged class there. They
receive better pay and better
food and clothing than the
rest of the citizenry, except
the commissarS and the mem
bers of the state security
forces.
A number of satellite divi-
sions are being trained for
fighting in climates to which
they are not accustomed, in
the same manner that Adolf
Hitler trained his Afrika Korps
in Germany before the last
war.
There is much discomfort
and suffering in the rank and
file of the populations of these
former sovereign countries.
But the IA million young men
Evening star., 1953-04-30
Lowell WeHett:
Ike's First One Hundred DQvs
OId-Timer Pretends His Greatest Work Was Breaking
80 and Has Theory of How 1t Was Accomplished

"Everybody's writing about
President Eisenhower's first
hundred days" said the Old
Timer, but it seems to me
they are overlooking his great
est achievement or, anyhow,
the one in which he probably
takes the greatest satisfaction
and the one, therefore, in
which the country can take
the greatest satisfaction"
apparently you haven't
overlooked it. What is it?"
He broke 90! He got HIM
self back on his golf game.
Took two trips to Georgia, but
by golly he made it. Now we
ought to see him start hitting
his stride in other things. And
he'll do it, too. if I've figured
correctly how he managed to
straighten out his golf and
shoot an &c."
How do you figure lt?"
THAT requires a story. You
remember Philander c. Knox?
At least you remember there
was such a person-Senator
from Pennsylvania and, before
that, T. RS Secretary of State
and, before that, McKinley'S
Attorney General. What you
don't remember is that Philan-
der Knox set a worlds record
for a two-horSe team In
harness racing, a record that
stood for several years. He
told me about it one time and
showed me a copy of an old
Western Horseman to prove it.
Seems he was a member of
q club Of gentlemen drivers
who went in for what they
called matinee races and a big
meet was coming up. He had
q team of fast trotters-or
maybe it was PAGERS, I forget
but shortly before the day
Of the race one of his horses
went lame. So what he did
was 60 down to Kentucky or
Evening star., 1953-04-30
Man From China
Convicted Of Larceny

A man, whom a prosecutor
said may be "a man without a
country" was convicted yester-
day on housebreaking and lar
ceny charges.
He is Tracey Eng, 25. Chinese,
who has no fixed address. Eng
was found guilty by a jury in the
U. S. District Court for the Dis
trict of Columbia of entering the
George Washington University
Acacia Fraternity house, 1000
block of G street NV, last No
vember and stealing an electric
razor, a ring and watch totaling
more than $100 in value.
Assistant United States Attor-
ney Arthur D. Schaffer said
Evening star., 1953-04-30
David Lowrence:

There are lots of FIRST 100
days of Eisenhower" appraiSals
going the rounds. Just why
100 days were selected as the
period in which to take the
pulse of the new administra-
ton may be puzzling to some.
but it's just a relic of the first
100 days of Franklin D. KooSe-
velt's first administration. In
his first 100 days, he turned a
somersault, repudiated his
campaign pledges and, in a
spectacular set of moves, per-
suaded a rubber-stamp Con-
gress to enact legislation much
of which has left a residue Of
damage that may take decades
to remedy.
No such 100-day yardstick
was applied to President Tru-
man after he took Office, either
the first or second time.
Actually 100 days is too little
time in which to size ZIP any
administration. The EiSen-
hover regime has hardly got
ten started. It is still a mix
ture of amateurism in politics
and honest intentions, with
plenty of zeal and enthusiasm
to remake the Government and
give it more efficient personnel.
Much more significant than
what the Eisenhower admins
tration has done is what its
political opponents and some
of its misguided friends have
tried to do to reshape the ad-
ministration into a bigger and
better New Deal. The PreSi-
dent, however, has managed
to move cautiously and to re-
tain a basic conviction that he
was elected on a platform Of
change rather than continu-
ance of previous policies.
It is interesting to note the
reviews" by the cleft wing"
including some who supported
President Eisenhower. They
give the impression that the
principal achievement has been
the victory in the Bohlen case
and the rebuffs. gentle though
they may be, which have been
directed at Senator Mccarthy.
AS a matter of fact, reading
some of the reviews, one would
think "McCarthyism" is more
important than anything else.
The people who say this have
short memories. For the "red
Evening star., 1953-04-30

rather than standing stanchly
in the van. How serious this
is will not appear until Mr..
Dulles attempts some new feat
of leadership for which the
support of our allies is needed.
The second Eisenhower
gamble. of course, is fully as
momentouS as his hard money
and def1ation moves. The con-
sequences will bear even more
heavily upon his place in his
tory.
If his domestic defiation
policy too tightly pinches the
pocketbook nerves, of their
constituents. members of Con-
gress will interpose to loosen
it. With their power of the
purse they can effectively
eliorate the potential
hardships. Also the President
will the more readily be for
given faults in Judgment in
the areas to which he is a
newcomer.
Members interested in de-
fense and foreign aid, espe-
cially the latter, realize they
have no such reserve power
to cushion the effects of the
stretchout should it prove to
be in error. They concede
that there is much to justify
the new temper toward Eu-
rope; they think it will be pop
ular. They do not intend to
accept any deep cuts without
a struggle but they have little
Evening star., 1953-04-30
Doris FIeeson:

President Eisenhower's sec
ond great gamble of his first
100 days is his decision that
a defense and foreign aid
stretchout is permissible.
The foreign aid Stretchout
was not just approved by the
administration on Europe'S
motion. Secretary of State
Dulles and Secretary of the
Treasury Humphrey broke the
news to the NATO conference
that contributions by the
United States would in any
case be materially reduced.
Mr.. Dulles also repeated
what he had promised the
Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee, which was that there
would be no United States
contribution at all unless and
until the principal NATO
countries put their signatures
to the European Defense Com
munity.
Ground was broken for this
momentous step in the form
of a series of dispatches de-
claring that none of the
NATO countries could meet
the defense goals set at Lisbon
last year. There is therefore
little disposition to quarrel
with it either here or abroad.
A little fresh gloom was
added, however, by complaints
from the Paris conference that
the new American leadership
appeared to be dropping back
Evening star., 1953-04-30

some place and find him an
other fast horse.
"Then-and here's the point
he didn't train his two.
horses to race as a team;
didn't put them in harness to-
gether until the time for the
big race. That was contrary to
all the rules. but he figured
that this way those two horses
wouldn't think of themselves
as a team; they would think
they were racing one another
and each would go all out to
win. And. by George, that's
just the way it worked! Set a
new worlds record"
"So-?"
so this pro down in Au-
gusta gets the same idea. He's
just as unhappy about Ike's
game as Ike is. It's a re-
Election on him as a pro. So
he gets Ike to invite Senator
Taft down for a couple of
days. He's been reading about
their teamwork in Washing
ton and hasn't been much i'm
pressed with the results, I
guess. He gets the idea that
each has been trying to let
the other carry the ball, that
that's what's been wrong. So
he matches them against one
another and you know what
happened"
Didn't seem to do Taft's
game any good"
mo. but you wait till the
next time! Taft has his good
days. too."
Even if your story is true,
and frankly it's not the way /
heard it. what are you leading
up to?"
We'll. it's like this: Maybe
we've been getting too much
teamwork and not enough
competition out of Ike and
Bob. Heb! Heb! Alphonse and
CASTOR. Robert Alphonso Taft
Evening star., 1953-04-30
Midget AmpIifier May Enable
GIobdI TV, Broudcosters Told

that transistors. requiring only a
small fraction as much current,
might make it possible to develop
underwater cables which would
bridge the water gaps and con-
meet with microwave facilities
covering land portions of the
route.
Films of Coronation.
He said microwaves and CO.
axial cable already "are turning
back the time curtain in
global TV."
He pointed out that films of
Queen Elizabeth's coronation
June 2 to be flown across the At
lantic to Montreal by jet bomber
Evening star., 1953-04-30

Eng came to this country about
eight years ago as a member of q
Chinese air mission. He returned
to China, Mr.. Schaffer said, and
then entered this country lille
gally in l949. In that year. the
prosecutor SAID. Eng was given
a six to 18-month sentence for
grand larceny.
After serving the sentence. MIR.
Schaffer said, Eng could not be
sent back to China because the
Communists had taken over that
country. Meanwhile, the Immi-
grafton and Naturalization Serv-
ice permitted Eng to remain fof
the time being in this country
on a parole status. This required
him to stay out of trouble.
What the Governmental au.
thorities will do with Eng after
he has served sentence in the
present case is now a problem,
MIR. Schaffer said,
Evening star., 1953-04-30
BY The Asseeiofsd Press

LOS ANGELES, April 30.-The
dream Of global television may
be brought to reality by the new
midget crystal amplifying de-
vices called tranSistorS, an in
duStry engineer told broadcasters
today. ...
Neal McNaughten. manager
OF engineering for the National
Association Of Radio and Tele-
vision BroadcaSters, said use of
transistors in cables might make
1t possible to transmit TV pro-
grams across water gaps too wide
to be jumped by microwave ra-
dio beams.
"The answer" he said at the
engineering conference of the
annual convention, 'lies in a
submarine transistor cable using
a transistor repeater unit
smaller than a cigarette-to aug
ment microwave relays between
the continents of the world"
Two Methods Used Now.
Network transmission of TV
programs over long distances
now Is handled by two methods
microwave radio beams relayed
between hilltop or mountaintop
towers averaging Is miles apart,
and underground coaxial cables.
Neither method, however, will
work over long water gaps.
Even though a microwave
radio beam easily travels far
enough to bridge the longest
water gap necessary on a route
connecting this country with
Europe, it travels in a straight
line and does not follow the
earth's curvature.
The coaxial cable requires re-
peater or amplifler stations every
few miles to strengthen the sig
nal. Such cables could not be
operated under the ocean for
long distances because of the
high electric current require
mentS of present type repeaters
using vacuum tubes.
Mr.. McNaughten explained
Evening star., 1953-04-30
Jap Orphonoees Get Aid

TOKYO, April 80 P.-Some
$4,000 contributed by American
soldiers headed for combat in
Korea will be presented to four
Tokyo orphanages today. Since
November, 1851, the charities
fund at Camp Drake-replace-
ment depot for United States
forces in Kore and Japan
has given nearly $125,000 to
worthy causes in Japan.
Evening star., 1953-04-30

and Dwight CASTOR Eisen-
hover!
Honestly, it does look like
each is afraid of making a
record for fear of hurting the
other S feelings. And I don't
think they need to work. about
that. That's not saying they
should be fighting or working
against one another; just that
each should be shooting for par
on his own. That's the only
way to make a team score"
Know what I think, Old
Timer? I think you are all
tangled up. But that was a
good story about the horses"