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Evening star., 1953-01-18

commissioners would be ap-
pointed and the two new ones
elected. Such plan, ne said,
would have the advantage of
giving a chance to "see how
elections would work out in the
District" while presidential ap-
pointees still had a controlling
majority on the board.
1T would give us some indi-
cation of what kind of people
who would be elected and how
many of the people of the Dis
trict were interested in voting" "
he said.
Senator Case. learning of this
view. replied that Mr.. Auchin-
Gloss had very interesting Sug-
gestion but that he feared it
would delay the enlargement of
the board to five members.
Favors Three d. C. Delegates.
Mr.. Auchincloss, incidentally,
gave general Endorsement to the
suggestion that the District
should be given three non-voting
District delegates in the House.
The proposal had been voiced by
Representative Simpson, Repub-
lican of Illinois, the new chair
man of the House District Com
mittee.
Mr.. Auchincloss, who has a
bill for one District delegate,
said there would be so much
work and so many calls on any
one delegate that he might be
overwhelmed If there was to
be but one delegate for the Dis
trict." he said, Il wouldn't want
to take that job if it paid 81
million"
Senator Case said he was not
sure there would be congress
sional approval of even one del
egate and that he feared the
chances would not be improved
if the number were raised to
three.
Aims at Vote Machinery.
Senator Case stressed that his
program called for the election
of a delegate and the election
of members of the Commission
ers' Citizens Advisory Council.
One of the purposes, he said,
was to set up an election ma
chinery here which would serve
as a basis for later and larger
suffrage moves.
THE problem" he said, "is
one of getting the program under
way" For this reason, he said,
his first bill would be for ex-
pansion of the Board of Com
missioners. He suggested that
later the civilian members could
be made subject to election,
pending the day when the Dis
trict had an elected council and
home rule powers.
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Archbishop Mocorius
Of Cyprus Feted Here

Archbishop Macarius, of the
Greek Orthodox Church Of Cyp-
rus, last night was honored at a
dinner by Cypriots of Washing
ton at the Old Athens Restau-
rant.
Archbishop Macarius Is in
Washington seeking American
support in the islands fight for
freedom from English rule and
reunion with Greece.
Evening star., 1953-01-18
Man, 81, Dies instantly
When Struck by Cor

A 9l-year-old man was killed
instantly when he was struck by
a car on Route l in Spotsylvania
County. Virginia State Police
reported.
He was Jeter Pendleton
colored, of Guinea. Va. Police
said the accident occurred about
6 pm. at Thornburg, where
Route COG crosses Route /
Driver of the auto was identified
as William w. Mamma, Of
Harrisburg, Pa.
Evening star., 1953-01-18
First Claim for Baggage
Lost in Wreck Received

Union Station officials said
they had received the first claim
for lost baggage since the wreck.
A resident of High Point, N. c.,
sent in his claim ticket for bag
gage that did not arrive with
him last week. Station officials
said the ticket matched one
found under the wrecked engine.
About dozen claim checks have
been found in the tangle of
metal so far.
How many pieces of baggage
are under the engine is not
known. It fell into a section of
the baggage room and also
crushed several cars loaded with
bags destined for southbound
trains.
The tickets found so far were
/ not attached to bags.
Evening star., 1953-01-18
INeW I testament to Be Sold
Is Believed /, 500 Years Old

A retired Washington busi-
nessman is planning to sell a
manuscript of the New Testa-
ment believed to be at least 1900
years old and possibly the oldest
in existence.
Norman Malek Yonan of
Richmond and Alexandria, Va,
said last night the manuscript
has been in his family's pos
session since the Crusades.
He plans to sell it within the
next several days for a price in
seven figures, he said. He said
Evening star., 1953-01-18
Boy Scout Head Named
CHARLOTTESVILLE,

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va,
Jan. II (SpeciaD Gilbert s.
Campbell. president of a motor
company. has been elected presi-
dent Of the 13-county Stonewall
Jackson Area Council, Boy Scouts
of America. Mr.. Campbell sue
ceeds Fred M. Bissikumer Of
Staunton.
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Track Is here at a speed esti-

Track Is here at a speed esti-
mated at so miles an hour.
Representative Wolverton, Re-
publican of New Jersey, and
chairman of the House Interstate
and Foreign Commerce Com
mittee. said his group may in
vestigate the accident, but de-
cision probably will be withheld
until after the hearings called
by the ICC for January 26.
Members of both Congress
sional committees have inspected
the scene of the accident.
Evening star., 1953-01-18
Nine Minutes Made Up.

Somewhere between Washing
ton and Baltimore. the express
train seems to have made up
part of the lost time-about nine
minutes, if the clocks here were
right.
The train ran off the end of
Evening star., 1953-12-15
Mao Armies Sent to South China
Transfer Is Not Seen as Weakening Korean Front;
Replacement With Sberion Monqos Indicted
Constantine Brown

Two Red Chinese armies
have been withdrawn from
Korea and sent to South
China. The bulk of these
forces, according to verified re-
por S. is located in the area
close to Burma and the Indo-
Chinese border.
The transfer Of the Red
forces from Korea to other
potential battle areas does not
mean that the Korean front
has been weakened. The con-
trary may be true. The
Chinese divisions, composed
to q considerable extent Of
American trained professional
soldiers who fought at one time
under the Chinese Nationalist
nag. can be replaced by
Russian Siberian" divisions.
These are composed Of Mongols
and have earned o reputation
as being among Russia's finest
fighting men in the previous
two world wars. These troops
are located outside Korea in an
area extending from Blogoslo-
vensik in Siberia to Mukden-
Kirin- Tsitsihar in Manchuria.
They can reach Korea in three
to four days.
The arrival of the Siberian
divisions changed the situation
at Stalingrad and contributed
greatly to the surrender Of the
German army under the COM
mand Of Field Marshal Won
PauluS.
The transfer of the Chinese
Communists to the Wet Mimi
Burmese fronts worries our
military men more than it
does the French and Burmese.
The men in Rangoon are ac-
cepting with Oriental fatalism
what they consider the in
evitahle: the suction of their
country into the Red vortex.
The Burmese who have be-
come independent of Britain
since World War II are now
resigned to become satellites of
Moscow and Peiping. The
French have had enough of
the war in Indo-C China. It. has
been costly and is not ex-
pected to yield any advantage
in the future even if it were
won. The chances of victory,
by the way, appear Simmer
than ever although the French
high command believes that in
case of urgent necessity it may
reckon on the United States
providing more arms, ammu-
milton and money.
But 1t is highly doubtful that
the French government, in its
present state of mind, would
like to push things to such an
Evening star., 1953-12-15
King Paul Makes Appeal
For Unity in Europe
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

ATHENS, Greece, Dec. IS
Greece's King Paul warns that
If Europe does not unite in q
common purpose she will bring
new disorder upon herself"
The King, who returned with
Queen Frederika yesterday from
a tour of the United States, told
a news conference that "one
great longing of the American
people is that their friends
across the sea should be united
within one Europe minded fam
ily.'
He declared that "the great
spiritual meaning which lies be-
hind material American aid to-
Europe lies within the un-
complaining generosity and un-'
selfishness of the simple Ameri-
can taxpayer.
Coming back from the United
States" King Paul said. II feel
still stronger the role Greece has
to play in Europe. The Ameri-
can people have given an ex-
ample of really human sympathy
and understanding"
The King assured Americans
that "the inner meaning Of their
true help to us has been COM
pletely and absolutely under.
stood in Greece"
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mands. I do not believe such
circumstances should afford the
President a basis for ignoring
the congressional mandate
Mr.. Wiener told a reporter he
felt he and Mrs. Lusk had been
appointed for the life of the
commission, which expires March
81, 1855.
Mrs. Lusk said she felt the
Presidents action is improper
and is impeding the continued
payment of claims by the War
Claims Commission and that
therefore she felt she must op-
pose her removal.
Claims Certification Stopped.
Mrs. Lusk and Mr.. Wiener said
they understood the new Repuh-
lican appointees to the commits
sion "have stopped payment Of
claims and intend to investigate
what the commission has done
to date"
Whitney Gillilland, new Re-
publican chairman Of the COM
mission, told a reporter: I'VE
have stopped temporarily certifi-
cation of claims to the Treasury
for payment until we have
checked the processes of their
approval"
Mr.. Gillilland said he thought
this check will be completed by
the end of the week. He said
that he then expected regular
payment of approved claims
would be resumed.
Evening star., 1953-12-15

trimming, pushing, hauling,
coaxing, perhaps even a
genteel spot Of blackmail. with
out really compromising prin-
ciple.
He faces his first hurdle
under unusual circumstances.
A rather casual pre-Congress
meeting with the House and
Senate leaders has been broad
ened to include the commit
tee chairmen. Most of those
chairmen, especially in the
House, are not only more con-
servative than the President,
but some of them are hostile
to his views.
For the first time the Pres
ident will face them both with
the right questions and with
his proposed solutions. Their
reactions will illuminate the
prospects for 1854, legislative,
economic and political.
All the information which
has seeped out about the Eli
senhower program indicates
strongly that it will be much
more New Deal in its tone than
the G. o. P. favored in it's
long minority. 1t will seek,
for example, a liberalized So
cial security system. low-cost
housing and amendments to
the Taft-Hartley Act.
Evening star., 1953-12-15

extent.
Not only are the French
people fed up with the war in
Indo-C China, where the fight
ing has been going on inter-
mittently for more than seven
years. but the situation in the
non Communist areas is such
that no victory can be ex-
pected.
The white man has lost face
in Wet Nam, Cambodia and
Laos. These governments are
Shaky or unreliable. The man
in the street is Indifferent to
whether he has a Communist
or a non-C Communist admins
tration. The native rulers are,
by and large, scorned by their
once loyal subjects. Bao Dai,
who leads Wet Nam, after hav-
ing abandoned his title Of en-
peror, has just left his country
to rest in Southern France.
The climate there is far
healthier for him than in Sal
gon or any other part of his
former empire.
The rulers of Cambodia and
Laos are surreptitiously try
ing to find out what kind Of
a compromise they could reach
with Ho Chi Mimi, the Mos
COW and Peiping puppet who di-
rects the fight of the Wet
Minis. His troops are once
more getting ready to strike a
major blow against Laos while
harassing in the meantime the
French and their not-too-reli-
able allies, the Wet Nam regi-
ments, in the delta. The
French obtained a few mill
tary successes against their
enemy last month. These sue
cesses were, however, more
spectacular on paper than in
the field.
Although we have agreed to
assume the major portion of
the cost of the war in Indo-
China. and according to some
French sources are consider
ing the dispatch of some
troops, such as the Sd Marine
Division from Japan, to help
fight communism in South
east Asia, there is little likeli-
hood that those most in
terested in the war wish to
continue it.
Both the French and Indo-
Chinese are willing to give up,
provided the Communists Of
fer them the slightest chance
to get out of the present trap.
To us the engulfment of Indo-
China, Burma and Malaga
means a tragedy for the free
world. It means that militant
communism will spread to the
food basket of Asia and also
Evening star., 1953-12-15
A New President in the MokinQ?
Extraordinary Sessions This Week on Legislative Plans
Indicate Leadership at Last in White House

can consider we have a new
and different President. This
could come about if he is ca
pable of. telling the committee
chairman to their faces some
of the things they know al
ready. One is that they will
have only themselves to blame
if the next election deprives
them of their chairmanShipS.
Another is that they cannot
ask him to take the stump for
the party's candidates next
year If the party refuses to de-
liver his program. Still another
is that the party will have to
look elsewhere for a candidate
in 1856 if it can give him no
record of performance on
which to stand.
The belief that a new Presi-
dent may possibly be in the
making is encouraged by the
very fact of this weeks ses-
sions, something unprece-
dented in our legislative his
tory.
Among those participating,
it might be mentioned. will be
Senators Mccarthy and Jenner
and Representative Velde.
Evening star., 1953-12-15

reach out toward the areas
possessing almost unlimited
supplies of strategic materials
such as rubber, oil. tin and
tungsten. This seems to be of
little concern these days to
our Western allies who believe
that everything could be
Strengthened out through their
own magic formula-the rec
ognition of Red China by all
Western nations and her adA
mission to the United Nations.
The consensus of the military
who are informed about the
recent movements of the Com
munist Chinese troops to the
south is that they have been
transferred to that area for
the kill" This is expected to
take place within the next few
months. If Indo-C China has not.
surrendered by next summer.
Evening star., 1953-12-15
Doris FIeeson-
7 est Of Eisenhower Leadership
He Has Program, and He's Ready to Tell Congress
That 1t Is q Good One and That 1t Is Winning One

The Eisenhower program will
confront the overwhelmingly
conservative Republican chair
men of the standing commit
tees of Congress this week.,
The thing to watch for is the
difference between what the
President takes into the con-
ference and what he sends to
the Hill in January.
For the President has a pro-
gram. He deeply believes in it
and he is deadly serious about
its Importance. He is described
by White House sources as pre-
pared to say to the party lead
ers: This is a good program,
it ought to ne enacted, we can
win with it."
All. this is a long step for
ward from what one critic has
described as "the fugitive and
cloiStered virtue" of Gen.
EisenhoWer's first months in
Office. A President who knows
what he wants and shows a
disposition to fight for it has
definitely seized the initiative
in his dealings with Congress.
Gen. Eisenhower is still a far
piece from the achievement Of
his aims. The test Of his
leadership must be how he Is
coping with the difficulties from
day to day and whether he
can escape from the daily
Evening star., 1953-12-15

The right wing, to which all
this is unpalatable, cannot be
conSoled with a balanced
budget and major tax cuts. 1t
is in q position to fight back,
since the seniority system in
House and. Senate gives its
members a vastly dispropor-
tionate power in the standing
committees.
What the President seems to
hope for is that the Repub-
licanS in Congress will have
gotten over their long habit of
opposition to the White House.
He has rather sharply said
that they will deserve defeat If
they do not give the country
some constructive accomplish
mentS.
The question has been raised
as to whether the conferences
this week might not be for the
purpose of effecting advance
compromises on legislation
which will conceal the differ
enceS between the White House
and Congress. This would be
difficult to accomplish, since
so many rugged individualists
are among the conferees, but
it is not impossible.
The White House sticks to
its story, however, that the
President has a program and
that he will see it through.
Evening star., 1953-12-15

to believe any such firm Re-
publican lineup can be
achieved.
The President has talked
often since taking Office about
this dynamic, forward-looking
program and the phrase has
been echoed by party spokes-
men. It is not unfair to say that
such talk has not been taken
very seriously. The makeup
of Congress. filled as it is with
rugged political individualists,
and the lack Of accomplish
ment in the first session, have
not encouraged any great
expectations. This was true
even before the death of Sena1
ator Taft, the one powerful
unifying force among Congress
Republicans.
So it is that if the President
accomplishes any great part
of what he is setting out to
do this week, the country will
have a demonstration Of
leadership almost beyond COM
pare. How he will go about
it is difficult to see. He can
appeal to reason and he can
plead that now really is the
time for all good men to come
to the aid of the party. But
1t will take more than that.
1t will take pressure of various
kinds. and thus far the Presi-
dent has been loath to use
pressure. He has never ceased
to feel that in politics he is
still an amateur and that Con-
gressmen know their own busi-
ness better than he does. At
least. that has seemed to be
the case.
If by Saturday night. how
ever. the President has his
dynamic program nailed down
and a congressional leadership
obligated TO 60 to bat for II. We
Evening star., 1953-12-15

interest Of protection for the
American people to have a
witness who swore falsely con-
victed of perjury and exposed
for his moral treason? Or
would the American Civil Lib
critics Union prohibit congress
sional committees from getting
at the facts where Communists
or suspected Communists are
involved?
These are the questions
raised by the latest report of
the ACLU, which, incidentally.
speaks of the refusal of wit
nesses to answer questions by
invoking the fifth amendment
as having caused only "inci-
dental HARM" Only the FBI
knows how many traitors have
been able to escape punish
ment for their crimes by in
voking the fifth amendment.
but they have been numerous.
The American Civil Liberties
Union has q board of directors
on which are several left
wingers" and indeed some who
have been leaders in denounc-
ing recent efforts to root out
subversives in Government.
There are some anti-radicals
on the board, but the latest
report would seem to classify
the American Civil Liberties
Union as having gone over to
the "left wing" side Of the
argument. It is not an
impartial or objective report.
In listing recent decisions. for
example, the report rates as
"unfavorable" the decision Of
the Supreme Court Of the
United States upholding the
Smith Act under which the IL
Communists tried by Judge
Medina were convicted. The
Smith Act would penalize those
who engage in a conspiracy 10
overthrow the Government Of
the United States by force and
violence. Was this "unfavor-
able" to the people of the
United States?
The report. moreover, says
that "it is the intolerance Of
dissent, and the fear to ex-
press dissent. which represent
the worst damage done by the
congressional Investigations"
Recent speeches, statements.
reports, and resolutions from
radical and liberal organiza-
tions as well as from the Com
muniSt press in this country
printed widely-do not seem
to show much fear to express
dissent.
Reproduction Rishts Reservedl
Evening star., 1953-12-15
Lowell WeHett-

This could be called the
week of the big decision for
President Eisenhower and his
party. To be decided is
whether the congressional lead
ers are able to formulate,
and organize effectively to
carry through, the dynamic"
program on which, in the
Presidents opinion, success
next year at the polls will
depend. The alternative,
which the President has made
clear he doesn't like, is a
winter, spring and summer Of
rabble-rouSing on the so-called
Red issue.
Some 80 chairmen Of Sem
ate and House committees will
meet with the President dur
ing Thursday, Friday and Sat-
urday in an effort to agree
on the contents of the pro-
posed program. How well
they succeed may not be re-
vealed until the President de-
liverS his State-of- -the-U Union
message to Congress the first
week in January, embodying
his legislative requests or sug-
geStionS. 1t is his hope, of
course, to obtain advance COM
mitments from the Senate and
House leaders in favor Of the
full program.
That won't be easy. 1t may
not even be possible. But be-
yond that he will have to have
assurance that the leaders can
deliver virtually the whole Re-
publican voting strength In
both houses. This will be es-
sential on most domestic is
sues. since the Republican
leaders can count on little
Democratic support outside
the field Of foreign policy.
Not many people are inclined
Evening star., 1953-12-15
Constitution in q Strait Jacket?
American Civil Liberties Union Report Is Challenged
As Miseodinq Inoccurote Work Of ,Left-Winqers'
Dovid Lowrence

From one end Of the coun-
try to the other the Associated
Press very properly trans
mitted on Sunday night a sum-
mary Of the 160-page report Of
the American Civil Liberties
Union but. since the press as
Sociation does not itself evalu-
ate such reports, many Ameri-'
ican citizens were given a mis-
leading and inaccurate and
wholly distorted view Of civil
liberties by an organization
supposedly dedicated to the
cause Of justice in individual
rights.
The right to misinform is. of
course, as basic as the right to
inform accurately-it all comes
under the heading Of freedom
of speech. But what the Su-
preme Court of the United
States has decided to be the
supreme law of the land and
the Interpretation of the Con-
stitution given by the court is
a question Of fact supported by
recorded decisions. The Amer
ican Civil Liberties Union
nevertheless SAYS fatty:
Some legislators claim they
have the right and duty to
'expoSe'-not only illegal acts,
and executive or judicial
malfeasance and misfeaSance,
and information pertinent
to constitutionally permissible
legislation but anything
which they consider dangerous
and which other people can
not and will not expose.
ITO that claim we must
make this same blunt reply:
No legislature has any right
even to expose anything
which is not pertinent to con-
'stitutionally permissible legis-
lation, just as the Executive
and the Judiciary have no
right to exceed their respec-
tive constitutional powers"
No more inaccurate state
ment of constitutional law has
ever been SO widely distributed
by national organization. 1t
presupposes that the Consti-
tuition is a strait jacket and
never can be amended, though
the fact is it has been amended
% times since the original
Charter was written.
Who says there is such a
thing as legislation not "con-
Stitutionally permissible" so
far as original action by
Congress is concerned? Con-
gress can at any time consider
amendments to the Constitu-
ton, and its investigating
Evening star., 1953-12-15
Fletcher Knebel
Potomac Fever

President reports after round-the-
trip Nixon catching with the former Aben Barkley
His trips getting almost long Barkleys speeches.
Admiral Radford No military man. defense
will stress apower and less The Pentagon
doesn't need much that it's quit fighting
Congress for less arpower
Joe Mccarthy charges University sanctuary"
for Communists Joes slipped tthe campus
newspaper calls itself the Harvard Crimson.
Secretary State travelled 10000 miles this year
Republicans will ten times ordinary
effort to get away from each other
James Pelo musicians union boss protests about
canned music Pero ought his complaints Congress
AL President supposed to know about
Two thieves in Spain get 13 for stealing the pants of
two United States illegal
Erope-t impossible to pick his
pockets
Top Eisenhower officials mayors on military secrets
mayors got only the secretthe ordinary
reserved for meetings of people more