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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20
Doris FIeeson-
DorLs FIeeson-
Mr.. Beck Goes to WashinQton
OutsPoken Head Of Teomsters Union Could Possibly
Be Interested in Becoming Administration Adviser

A hefty, outSpoken Westerner
who can take it and dish it out
has presented himself on the
national scene here with the
wholly legitimate aim of fill
ing one of the most obvious
vacuumS of the Eisenhower
administration.
Dave Beck Of Seattle, new
general president of the Inter-
national Brotherhood of Team
sters, long known by repute
to the efete East, extended a
warm invitation to selected
members Of the Washington
press corps Ito meet you per-
sonally and discuss broad
questions of labor, politics and
economics"
Mr.. Beck does not need
money-his Shrewd invest
mentS take care of that. Mr..
Beck does not need a power
base-1.3 million dues-paying
teamsters from all over the
country make him a power no
sensible person can ignore.
Mr.. Beck's interest in the
broad questions" of his tele-
gram has the plain goal of
interesting Washington and
the national administration in
Mr.. Beck.
He is a Republican. Sig
nif1cantly, the October, 1858,
Teamster report from Wash
ington passed out at the con-
ference gives the President q
break in its first paragraph.
It reads:
Readers ask us about Ike'S
temper toward labor since the
Durkin blow-up. It's this:
Conciliatory not angry as
some claim. The White House
will bend over backward for
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20
Lowell MeLett-
What Will Issues Be in 1854?
Some Fear That Defeat in Wisconsin May Lead Republican
Strutegists to Fall Back on Mccarthy, Jenner, VeIde Line

trict. So, while the Demo-
cratic campaign committees
are confident of winning a
majority of congressional dis
tricts next year, they are not
pinning their hopes on the
farmers discomfort.
They recall the election of
'48 when Truman was re-
elected, thanks chiefly to the
farmers of the Midwest. Those
same farmers voted for their
Republican Congressman that
year as usual. In Iowa, for
example, Truman carried five
of the States eight districts,
but no Democratic candidate
was elected to the House.
The Republican campaign
strategistS. of course, are just
as much aware of all this as
the Democrats are. But they
were jolted by the Wisconsin
election and the McCarthyites
among them are taking adj
vantage of their present con-
Germ. They are being remind
ed that the Republican candi-
date refrained from declaring
his support of McCarthy and
that the Democratic candidate
refrained from attacking him.
cCarthyism would have car
ried the district, they assert,
if it had been made the issue.
There is no way of proving or
disprovlng this. The Repub-
lican candidate made support
of Eisenhower his issue, how
ever, and it is hard to believe
that Mccarthy is more popular
in his State than Eisenhower.
He wasn't. by a few hundred
thousand votes. last fall.
The fact remains that the
congressional candidates are
going to need some issues next
summer. The mess in Wash
ington" by that time will be
a Republican mess. The Tru-
man-Acheson policies will be
Eisenhower Dulles policies. If
these policies should put Eu-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20
Strenqth Of the New Germany
Unlike Her Seethng Western Neighbors, She Appears
To Be Quiet and Peaceful, Anxious for Democracy
Constantine Brown

o Germany (By Air
Mail) Germany today is a
quiet, peaceful country while
all her Western neighpors are
seething. afflicted with what
may become insoluble internal
and external problems.
The watchword in Germany
is work" and the national
slogan patriotism" The spec
tacular victory of the 78-year-
old philosophers t a a n
Konrad Adenauer has put an
end to whatever "isms" may
have attempted to forge ahead
in this country.
1t can be safely said that
neither Communism nor Nazi-
ism has a chance of attracting
more than q handful of scat
terbrains. The vast industrial
and agricultural masses are
strong behind the capitalistic
bourgeoisie which is repre-
sented in the new Adenauer
cabinet.
A feeling of Illustration
among the leading p~ersonali-
ties of this democratic repub-
lie is caused by the fact that
Germany's immediate neigh
bors across the Rhine still re-
fuse to give it the necessary
confidence which could bring
about the creation of a polit-
ical-economic European feder-
alton.
And this is considered by
Mr.. Adenauer and his advisers
representing all parties, in
Guiding the left-wing socialists.
as the only sound solution to
resist the ambitions Of the
Muscovite dictatorship.
Since it appears to the
German leaders that France
will continue to obStruct all
attempts to create such a
federation unless she plays a
dominant role, Germany'S
foreign policy remains on a
steady course: The fullest I'M
derstanding and cooperation
with the United States.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20

labor support -. particularly
AFL friendship"
Mr.. Beck is an AFL vice
president. incidentally, Vice
President Nixon gets heavily
PANIED in succeeding para
graphs with the claim that he
is in the White House dog
house-a report current also
in other quarters.)
If there is any one thing
indisputable during the past
month it is that the admins
tration'S labor channels are
badly clogged. Amid the out
cries which have followed what
the Teamster editor passes
over as 'the Durkin blow-up,"
the friendly Teamster report
strikes a new note.
Whether or not the White
House reciprocally bends over
backward for Mr.. Beck, it is
a fact that it badly needs
shrewd labor friends to help
out, as the late Sidney Hill
man, Philip Murray and A. F.
Whitney and the very much
alive David Dubinsky helped
Roosevelt and Truman.
John L. Lewis is a Republic
can but he will not fill the bill.
He has been too often a polit-
ical renegade and he is anath-
ema to large sections of the
G.. o. P. public. Only recently
he made the White House
look ridiculous in the matter of
a new head for the Bureau of
Mines, an unforgivable blow.
MI. Beck can hardly be
blamed if he nostalgically re-
calls when his predecessor,
Dan Tobin. could summon the
President of the United States
to grace his annual dinner. It
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20
No One Laughed When She
Sat Down and Played Mozart
Ordered Evicted
After Complaints at
Dorchester House

The neighbors didn't laugh
when Mrs. Elizabeth Nowinski
sat down at the piano. In fact
they pounded on her ceiling a
while. then took her to court.
The Municipal Court didn't
laugh either. It ordered her
evicted from the swank Dorches-
ter House as a nuisance"
Mrs. Nowinski didn't laugh.
She appealed. Yesterday the
Municipal Court of Appeals was
considering her case.
Last July Mrs. Nowinski was
ordered evicted by Judge Mary
Barlow after neighbors testified
she practiced Mozart and Cho-
pin continuously, necessarily
and insiStently."
In Accord With Bard.
The neighbors, Attorney Rob-
ert Frank pointed out to the ap-
peals court yesterday, are in &C
cord with the immortal Shake
speare about immortal music.
"How sour sweet music is
when time is broke and not pro-
portion kept" the bard wrote
in Richard II.
It's a matter of principle, Mrs.
Nowinski'S attorney, Denis Lane,
told reporters. "She wouldn't
mind leaving the Dorchester
House. but she doesn't want to
be declared a nuisance"
us there anything so repre-
hensible about it?" Chief Judge
Nathan Cayton asked. Surely
there's no charge Of immortality
involved"
Nuisance covers many types
Of activity, though" Mr.. Lane
replied.
Started From Scratch.
Mrs. NowinSki, who obtained
permission to assist her attor-
ney in arguments yesterday,
told the three-judge tribunal
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20
), She Appears

When Mr.. Wolfe told local
newSpapermen that he had be-
come a victim of the Wiscon-
sin Senator, he knew that
when he testified last sum-
mer about the High Commits
sion's budget he was more
under fire from economy
minded Senators Bridges,
Dirksen and Mcclellan than
McCarthy.
Notwithstanding these tenn
porary drawbacks. the German
people have become convinced
that Americas internal trou-
bles are her own and do not af-
feet the overall picture which
interests them particularly:
The struggle against Eastern
totalitarianism and the even
tual union between Eastern
and Western Germany.
Since Mr.. Adenauer's over
whelming victory at the polls,
the Germans have learned
that this unity may not come
into being for some time. Be-
fore the September elections,
a strong group of socialists.
headed by Dr.. Ollenauer, was
half heartedly listening to the
whispers from Moscow that
the unification of Germany
would be accomplished quickly
provided the Bonn government
agreed to break away entirely
from any alliances with the
Western powers and formally
declared its neutrality. This
sounded tempting.
Adenauer fought the Soviet
proposals by pointing out that
they were intended to even
tually place Germany behind
the Iron Curtain. The heroic
rebellion of the workers in East
Berlin and other cities Of East
ern Germany and the sharp
reprisals adopted by the Rus
slams in handling that revolu-
ton cinched Adenauer's posi-
ton and definitely placed Ger
many on the side Of the United
States, regardless of what the
future may nave in store.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20

was before the Transfers that
Roosevelt delivered his mas
terful defense Of his Scottie
Fala from charges that Fala
had once Communicated a
battleship to bring him nome
from a Roosevelt Churchill
rendezvous.
So vigorous and challenging
a personality as Dave Beck can
hardly be summed up in one
meeting even by the omnis-
Gent Washington correspond
entS.
He entertained them hugely
with his free-wheeling defense
OF a parole for labor racketeer
Joe Fay, a matter deeply in
volved at the moment in New
York State politics. This was
in the best rough-diamond ira
dition with appeals for justice
to all men, weeping mothers
with babies at their knee,
Christian charity and the
glories Of the parole system for
repentant sinners.
Mr.. Beck also hardheadedly
suggested that the question be-
fore the public at the moment
was not Mr.. Fay but the mo-
tives and general conduct of
the public figures who beat a
path to his prison cell.
It was very old fashioned in
a way, but Mr.. Beck is by no
means an old-fashioned man.
There are labor leaders who
believe in strikes as an express
sion of a laboring mans per-
Sonal dignity. Mr.. Beck sees
them simply as an interference
with commerce and union dues
which proper organization can
stop. That he is a very excel
lent organizer, his present
eminence suggests.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20

meeting with them because
they are, good or bad, the
accepted leaders of their peo-
pie who are making demands
on our ~society?"
Mr.. WickS gave three ex-
amples Of how big construc-
ton projects, involving many
millions Of dollars. were
threatened by strikes and how
in each instance Joseph Fay
from his prison cell accom-
plished a settlement. He said
that Fay was the one man
whom labor trusted and in
whom they had confidence"
What a sorry story of Amer
lean life Mr.. Wicks has laid
bare, even though it might be
mentioned that there are mil
lions of Americans who are
definitely opposed to the pol
icy Of their own Government
in conducting diplomatic rela-
tions with gangster govern
ments in Moscow and Peiping.
Mr.. Wicks is emphatic that
he went to Fay under no
anticipation that he would
expect or require any personal
favor" and that Fay never
asked for any. The acting
Lieutenant Governor says he
has made no appeal in behalf
OF Fay. But the question that
will be asked is why Fay was
so willing to help the acting
Lieutenant Governor If he
didn't expect that his favor
able attitude in settling strikes
might win him some kind of
support from the Republican
leader later on.
The fortunes of Mr.. Wicks
in politics will be disposed of
by the people of the State Of
New York, but the oppressive
rule Of a privately operated
labor government is the prob
lem of nearly every State in
the Union.
Reproduction Rights Reserved.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20
Ex-Navy Mans Suit
Asks $15O,OOO for Leg

A former enlisted man in the
Navy who lost a leg in the ex-
plosion of a hydraulic accumu-
lator yesterday filed a $150.000
damage suit against the Douglas
Aircraft Co.
The suit, charging negligence,
was filed in the U. S. District
Court for the District of Column
bia.
The plaintiff is Robert Neal
Foster of Marietta, Pa. Mr.. Fos-
ter said he was discharged from
the Navy as totally disabled fol-
lowing the explosion in a hangar
at the Naval Air Station in Nor
folk on october 20, 1852.
The suit asserted the accumu-
Iator was manufactured by Doug
las and charged that the COM
pany was negligent in design,
manufacture and testing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20
Almost New Buick
From Dope Runner
Cuts gencyB
BY the ASsoeioted Press

William D. Mitchell, head of
the Small Business Administra-
ton, had a small economy to
announce today.
His Office said he had acquired
an almost new" Buick sedan for
official use at exactly no cost.
Mr. Mitchell got the car from
the Treasury's Narcotics Bureau
which seized it from a Missouri
dope-runner. The law provides
that a dope-runner's car is sub
ject to conhscation. Such cars
are sold at public auction un-
less a Federal agency asks for
them.
Mr.. Mitchell's Office noted that
it won't be necessary now for
his agency to ask for funds to
buy a new car in next years
budget.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20
Fletcher knebeH
Potomac Fever

Ike returns to the White House after a fve-day trip. The
place looked wonderful to a Republican-not a farmer within
five miles.
London reports Churchill may go to Moscow to talk
to Malenkov. American policy has deeply impressed our
alieS-Churchil has decided to go it alone.
The U. N. Security Council considers the Arab-Israei
clashes. The trouble with people is that they're either yearning
for peace-or yawning because Of it.
y + y
The Supreme Court refuses to disturb State minimum price
laws. This is a great victory for free MISUNDERSTANDING free
to pass a law against somebody eBes enterprise.
*# .
Representative Cole of the Atom Committee says several"
cities will be lighted by atomic power in 10 years. The others,
according to Coles recent warnings, won't need any light.
= y
Vice President Nixon tells Australians that iSolationiSm is
dead in the United States. The average American has come to
realize that there's more to the outside world than Boston
and Texas.
President Mccain Of Defiance College becomes a part-tme
White House consultant. College presidents have a lot of time
on their hands now-its football season.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20
Labor Government in the u. S.
Wicks' Excuse for Visiting jailed Union Leader Seen
AS Revealing Invisible Rule by Labor in America

labor interests have organized
a government, that under and
by their own direction they
have determined their own
leaders. And the constituted
and accepted leaders of labor
are the men who. with incred-
ible facility and success. make
decisions that strike across
the lives and interests Of all
of us.
cit is impossible for any
competent representative in
government to be unconscious
or unmindful of the organized
interests of this other govern
ment."
Mr. Wicks said he felt it
his duty. in behalf of the peo-
pie of his district, to seek out
Joseph Fay - wherever he
might be-and to obtain as
sistance in settling jurisdic-
tional disputes in his district
because very large construc-
ton projects might otherwise
be held up. Mr.. Wicks de-
clared:
THAT he CFay) was in
prison. and being there was
still the accepted influence of
his labor group, was obnoxious
to me. Labor chose to con-
tinue to respect his opinions
while he was in jail-it was
labor's decision to make. not
mine. He was not my repre-
sentative, but the one to whom
I went for the sake of those
I represented.
And so I went to him. It
was lamentable, but was it
any more lamentable than it
is in our national foreign pol
icy to seek peace and society's
welfare by audience with a
Premier Stain or a Marshal
Tito-meeting with them, not
because they are Communists,
not in order to compromise
our truth with errors. but
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20
Lowell MeNett-

Fear is being expressed that
as a result of the disaster in
the 9th district of Wisconsin
last week the Republican CAM
paign effort next year will be
largely based on the issue of
communism" Some observ-
ers are suggesting that Nc
earthly, Jenner. Velde ct al. will
be permitted to call the party's
tune and thus to provide the
country with one of the most
vicious campaigns in our his
tory. If the party's historic
hold on the farmers is en-
dangered, it is argued, the high
command will decide it is no
time to be nice.
However, it is yet to be
established how great this
danger is now or how great it
will be next summer. The
Republican farm policieS-as
enunciated heretofore by
Secretary Benson-are in the
process of being reformed to
correspond more closely to
those followed by the past five
Democratic administrations.
The reform is in the hands of
the Senate and House farm
blocs. They will tell the Secre-
tary this winter, if he is still
in Office, what his program is
to be. He will have to take it
and like it. And if it works to
the extent of appeasing the
farmers, the Republicans are
likely to find few farm districts
following the example of the
9th Wisconsin.
In the mid-term elections
the Democratic managers take
comfort from the fact that
they have virtually no congress
sional farm districts to lose.
Until Tuesdays election Rep
resentative Fred Marshall of
the 9Th Minnesota was the
only Democrat, outside of the
South and Missouri. represent
ing a ~predominantly rural dis
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20
David Lowrence-

No more fantastic revelation
of invisible government in
America has been made in a
long time than that which has
just been disclosed by the
acting Lieutenant Governor of
New York State, Arthur H.
Wicks, who is also leader of
the Republican Party in the
Senate of the Empire State.
Mr.. Wicks was making a
speech primarily to defend
himself against charges that
he repeatedly visited in Sing
Sing prison Joseph S. Fay,
convicted labor extortionist,
but, inadvertently perhaps, he
managed at the same time to
tell a story of interest far be-
yond the limits of New York
State-a story which does not
necessarily exculpate him from
blame. But the facts he ex-
posed are shocking in their
significance.
Organized labor will sit UP
and take notice as men of
good citizenship in that move
ment recognize at once the
dangers to their future which
can develop if any stranglehold
on the life of America, such
as Mr.. WickS describes, is
developed.
1.-The dictionary" declares
Mr.. Wicks, says that demo-
cratic government is popularity
determined authority which
directs and restraints the &C
lions of men. If that is so,
there is more than one govern
ment in our State. that is,
more than one authority di-
recting and restraining the
actions of part of our society
at least.
If you are a legislator in
Albany, you would not be
there long before you realized
that within and under the
democratic right of men to
organize, the laboring men and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20

A pro-American feeling in
all sections of the population
is noticeable even to the casual
traveller. This can be attributed
more to our 100000 GIs who
have become real ambassadors
of good will and friendship
than to the diplomatic repre-
sentativeS sent in the past by
Washington.
Some of these men, and not
the army of occupation, have
created doubts and fears in
the minds of many Germans
about the intentions of Amer
lea and her steadiness in sup
porting democracy in the fight
against communism.
The bugaboo of Nice arthy-
Ism is as much publicized in
the German newspapers as in
the rest of the Western Euro
pean press. And some of our
officials are adding fuel to the
fire instead of toning down
this domestic controversy. Last
week, for instance, Glenn
Wolfe. the executive director
of the High Commission in
Germany, was transferred to
Brazil after serving several
years in Germany.
Soon after Mr.. Wolfe re-
ceived his orders he told the
German press that he was a
victim of Senator Mccarthy.
1t is hard to understand what
interest the German press
could have had in the matter.
The transfer may have been
the result of Mr.. Wolfe's testi-
mony when he appeared last
summer before the Appropria-
tons Committee of the Senate
looking into the extravaganza
expenditures made in the
State Departments housing
and other programs here. Mr..
Wolfe had sponsored this ex-
travaganza, but he was neither
dismissed nor r~eprimanded.
He was merely transferred to
another post. as happens to
many State Department off,
Gals during their careers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20

rope in the way Of peace and
enable us to reduce our COM
mitments in the Far East, the
Republican picture will change
greatly for the better, but that
is a very big If. Taxes we will
still have with us and an un-
balanced budget.
So there may be some basis
for the fear that the party will
find itself forced to fall back
on the Mccarthy line, not be-
cause Of the Wisconsin scare.
but because Of the general DO
litical situation In any case.
the campaigners should have
plenty Of material of a kind.
Four congressional subcom-
mittees are industriously piling
1t up.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20
New Cameron PTA
To Meet Toniqht

The newly formed Cameron
Elementary School PTA will
meet at 8 pm. today in the
school cafeteria, Burgundy VIII
lage, Fairfax County, Va.
Officers are Col. Ellsworth
Davis, president; Mrs. Rae Ell
lison and Mrs. Mary Dodson. vice
presidents; Mrs. Frank McCaleb.
corresponding secretary; Mrs.
Mrs. G. c. Freeman, recording
secretary, and Henry Pacholec,
treasurer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20

playing but told the court that
she replied:
Don't you know the differ
ence between my playing and a
professional pianist playing?"
Another man upstairs, she re-
lated, installed a teletype in 1850
right over me. If you've ever
had a teletype above you going
day and night. you'd know it's
terrible.
HE finally removed the tele-
type Now he thinks there
should be reciprocity. He had
to remove his teletype and he
thinks I should remove my
piano."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20

that only a few years ago she
resumed piano playing and
started right from scratch.
Poor playing?
Il have a fine teacher, a fab
ulouS teacher, and he would
never let me play like that"
she declared.
Summing up her argument, she
recalled that her upstairs neigh
Dor banged on the floor while
a professional concert pianist
was playing in her apartment.
She said he charged her with
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20
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