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Evening star., 1954-12-22
Hunted
In Beaiing Of
Woman, 68
Deaf Victim Tied
8 Hours ii Closet
OF Euclid ST. Home

Police today launched an all-
out search for q housebreaker
who tied up and beat an elderly
Agriculture Department worker
III her home last night.
More than q score Of homicide.
general assignment and precinct
detectives are looking for clues
to the identity Of the 6-foot.
185-pound, cclored man. who
battered Miss Mary j. Raymond.
So. of 1924 Euclid street NV.
The victim was found bound
hand-and-foot In q closet Of her
row house, where she lives alone.
by police who had to force the
front door TO enter, three hours
after she was attacked.
Police said an anonymous phone
call gave them the tip. They
theorized the call came from the
assailait.
The scene Of the attack Is
only four blocks from where Miss
Alma Preinkert. the registrar at
the University Of Maryland. was
stabbed to death BY q house
breaker last February. The MUIR
der still is uflsolved.
Police indicated they do not
consider the assailant as q prime
suspect In the Preinkert case but
plan to question him In con-
nection with that murder IL he
Is caught.
Confronts Man In House.
A veteran with 4S years serv-
ice as a clerk on the Crop Re-
porting Board at the Agriculture
Department. Miss Raymond said
she found the burglar In her
home when she entered at Z
pm. last night.
He didn't say q word,n Miss
Raymond told police. The assail-
ant clamped his hand over her
mouth, struck her so hard her
dental plate was knocked from
her mouth and threw her to the
floor. she related.
Miss Raymond told police:
81 managed to get my feet
loose and I got up. The burglar
was turning things in the house
t0pSy-turyy. He looked around
Just as I was walking to the
front door.
'.He rushed into the hall and
grabbed me about the waist and
tossed me into the closet and
locked the door. All the time
! was In that dark room ! kept
banging my feet on the floor
until / could no longer move"
Miss Raymond's wrists bore
deep red welts, indicating how
tightly they had been tied.
Rips on Hearing Aid.
Miss Raymond, who is almost
completely deaf, said the husky
Evening star., 1954-12-22
Population of Arlington Seen
LeyelIing off at 150, 900

After more than q decade of
Phenomenal growth, Arlington
County. Va, Is entering q new
era Of population stability.
For the first time in over q
generation, our population re-
manned stable. : County Mana
ger A. r. Lundberg says in the
annual report released today.
For the first time, instead Of
being under pressure to provide
services for an expanding popu-
lation. the county administration
has been able to turn its atten-
ton to the consolidation Of past
gains.
Fairfax Fastest Growing.
These comments take on added
Significance when the Metropol-
itan Area development picture
is looked at as a whole. On the
Virginia side Of the Potomac
River, Fairfax generally Is con-
ceded as the most rapidly grow
ing county.
Mr.. Lundberg's estimate Of
today's population, 10000. is
temperate when compared with
Arlington's boast over the last
20 years of being "the fastest
growing county in the United
States"
Some see In the managers
statement an indication that
the county now may be able to
settle down. and 1nodernize
Evening star., 1954-12-22
DeudIine IS Extended
In Study Of Roll Dispute
BY the Assotiated Prei.I J

BY the Associcfed Press
President Eisenhower today
extended to February l the
deadline for an emergency
boards report on 4 wage dispute
between virtually all of the Ma
tion's railroads and the Order
of Railroad Conductors and
Brakemen. The original dead
line was today.
James G. Hagerty, White
House press secretary, said the
extension was granted at the re-
quest Of both parties.
Evening star., 1954-12-22
Planning Unit
Ban Proposed
InhonigoIneIy
Mrs. Werner Sees
Economies If County
Tokes Over Function
By Chorles {. Hoffmon

Legislation to abolish the
Maryland National Capital Park
and Planning Commission as 4
regional planning body for sub
urban Maryland was proposed
yesterday to the Montgomery
County delegation to Annapolis.
The legislation that would halt
planning on regional basis In
the mushrooming nearby area Is
reminiscent Of measures sup-
ported vigorously and unsuccess-
fully by many Republican office
holders during the last four
years.
It was proposed by Mrs. Stella
B. Werner, hold lover Democratic
member Of the former Republic
can controlled county council.
Her proposals. were submitted
without Endorsement Of her fel-
low councilmen.
Intended for Economies.
Mrs. Werner, long -tirne foe ofl
the commission. insisted her:
proposals were not meant us b
power grab, but were intended
to effect economies and to halt
overlapping In functions be-
tween the Upper County Plan-
ming Commission, the suburban
area planners and the National
Capital Regional Planning Coun-
Gil.
Her proposals included:
!. General Assembly legisla-
ton to transfer the suburban
planning commissions functions
to the county as Of July I, 1855.
2. Designation of the planning
commission as simply q Stream
Valley Conservation Commission
to receive Capper- -Cramton Park
Acquisition Funds from the Fed
eral Government.
8. Council action In May abol-
ishing the Upper County Plan
ming Commission and creating a
county wide commission under
county council control.
. Mrs. Werner contended the
county could operate its own
planning commission for about
IL cents on, the tax rate. The
present rate for the regional dis
trict is 3 cents.
Lee Opposes Haste.
Blair Lee III. chairman of the
county delegation which is work.
ing on legislation affecting the
bi-county agency warned against
hasty action to abolish the CONF
mission.
Mr.. Lee said there was danger
that without the regional act
under which the commission was.
created the county might ind
its coming powers ieopardized.
Grounds for alarm, he said.
arise from the effect the recently
adopted constitutional amend
nent granting broad home rule
power to municipalities may have
ron the councils powers. Towns
might;be able to grant themselves
their own zoning authority. he
said.
At the same time. Mr.. Lee told
Mrs. Werner she. would wait
forever" II she expected the Re-
gional Council to carry out plan
ming functions now carried out
by the suburban group.
The entire council asked the
delegation to transfer storm
drainage construction and
plumbing and gas inspections
from the washington Suburban
Sanitary Commission to the
county.
Mrs. Werner also urged q
study of the feasibility of i'm
posing a county tax on cigarettes
so that businessmen and farm
ers could be relieved from pay
ing the inventory tax.
Evening star., 1954-12-22
TrupneH Resigns Acc
Public Relations Post
81 IL As,ctiaSsd Prsss

The Atomic Energy Commis-
sion has announced the resig-
nation az Edward n. Trapnell
IS special assistant To General
Manager &. y. Nichols III charge
of congressional relations.
Mr.. Trapneil Is resigning to.
take Job here with the New
York advertising and public re-
Iations firm of EozelI q Jacobs.
Inc.
Evening star., 1954-12-22
Arneni0n Church Service

Krikor Vosganian, & deacon Of
the Armenian Apostolic Chulcn.
viii speak at s pm. tomorrow
in the church, Forty-second and
Fessenden streets NV, on the
Armenian Christmas, which il
observed on January 8.
Evening star., 1954-12-22
Hospital Gets $4,000

HAGERSToWN, Dec. 22-
The Fairchild Engine a Aircraft
Corp. announced yesterday .
gift of SIS. 900 to the Washing
ton County Hospital.
Evening star., 1954-01-06
New Fighting Seen After Jan. %
American Intelligence Learns That Red Rodor System
Is Nov on 24-Hour Alert in Peipnq Tientsin Areos

The "hintS" that fighting
might start. afresh after jan
uary 20 were communicated
to Washington. They were
considered so significant by
Secretary of State Dulles that
he felt compelled to warn
China that in such an eventu-
ality our retaliation would not
be confined to the Korean
theater but would extend to
the Chinese territory itself.
The Reds feel that they are
in a good position to resume
military operations. In the
more than six months which
have elapsed since the begin
ming of the truce, they have
increased substantially their
fighting potential; they have
received a substantial amount
of heavy equipment from the
u. S. S. r.; have built deep
underground shelters and am
munition dumps near the front
lines and have organized their
coastal position in a kind of
"Maginot Line" which is su-
perior to the French strong
position in the last war in that
it cannot be f1anked.
Moreover, it is now confirmed
that between four and six
Soviet Siberian divisions are
poised on the line from Blago-
veshchensk in Siberia to Kirin
in Manchuria-one to four
days away from Korea-to in
tervene when necessary.
In accordance with the ar
lnistice terms we foolishly ac-
cepted during the 1852 discus
sion, the Reds have been per-
mitted to reconstruct their
badly damaged airf1elds in
North Korea as commercial
airports." These are now first
class air bases for the enemy'S
bomber and fighter planes.
In this picture observers see
the possibility of resumption
of operations by the Reds at
almost any time.
Evening star., 1954-01-06
Doyid LoMence-
Tragic Plight" Of Eisenhower
Stote Of the Union Called Shoky; Washington Mess
Held to Be Worse Than the Public Ever Knew
Dovid Lawrence

It isn't the task Of Wash
ington correspondents to elect
or defeat Presidents or help
members Of Congress win re-
2 election. It is their duty to re-
port. the story Of Washington
happenings without regard to
where the chips may fall. It's
their obligation to forget per-
sonal likes or dislikes or their
own party Affiliations and tell
the public what's going on,
even though, for example. it
may not be pleasant reading
for the friends or supporters
of the man In the White
House.
For the "state of the
Union" governmentally speak,
ing. isn't good, and there isn't
much logic in CLOSING over the
tragic plight Of Dwight Eisen-
hover today. He needs every
bit of sympathy he can get,
and he deserves the benefit of
a frank disclosure Of the
truth.
The facts show that "the
Washington mess" is worse
than the public ever knew and
that the present adminiStra-
ton has made very little prog
ress in cleaning it UP. It may
take years to get that job
done.
This isn't the time for the
administration to be talking
of Accomplishments" of it's
own-to be issuing defensive
essays on its aims and pur-
poses-because the fact is that
the new administration hasn't
been able to get a good grip
on the Government during the
nearly IL months that have
elapsed since it took Office. It
hasn't cleaned out the inef-
ficient or rooted out the bad
policies. The boom or so-called
prosperity" of recent years
was made by the business Of
war orders. and the two Dem
ocratic administrations were
able to provide prosperous
conditions primarily because
of war or publicized threats of
war. Readjustment from a
war prosperity is a painful
necessity-not a political
weakness.
A favorite quip heard in
Washington is: When will
the Republican administra-
ton be inaugurated?" UP to
now, the Government has been
ruled in large part by Truman
. holdovers in many depart
mentS or by persons imbued
with the philosophy of the
Evening star., 1954-01-06

communism is incompatible
with Marxist-Leninist doc
trine. And doctrine, to Com
munists, is all important.
A fundamental Communist
doctrine is that international
wars normally can break out
only between capitalist states,
or between an imperialist state
and a colonial people. or
through an attack on a Com
munist state by a capitalist
state or combination Of them.
In this thesis capitalist states
must wage warS-hot or cold
as a way out of their ECO
nomic dilemmas," while Com
munist states. though they
must be militarily prepared
against the ever-present prob
ability Of attack, should never
risk their own forces against
a dangerous opponent.
Communist tactics. in line
with this doctrine, are to TO-
ment wars between capitalist
states-for their mutual weak
ening: aggravate their eco
nomic problems and the ten
sions between them; spread
sabotage in case Of wars
against Communist states. or
wars likely to involve them;
turn every international war
into a civil war. but avoid COM
mitting the fate of the Com
munist motherland.
In Communist doctrine the
Asian wars are anti-imperial-
ist colonial revolts, the Chinese
revolution-like the Russian
a classical case of an interna-
tional war being turned to
serve a revolutionary outcome,
and the Korean war a minor
incident. The Soviet Union
itself should never enter a war
unless attacked. or-in the
words of Stalin-''until the
final and decisive stage of the
conflict"
No informed European
doubts that. the goal Of the
Soviet Union and international
communism is to destroy all
non Communist states and
their whole civilizations. But
Soviet - Communist strategy
except where expansion by
Evening star., 1954-01-06
Fletcher Knebel-
Potomac Fever

Agents most of 100000 stolen from the Bureau
Engraving The Eisenhower
that folks are taking home samples of it.
The session of the opens Each party
hopes to make the kind of record for the fall election that
be blamed on the other
Leaders order the United States Senate to
lot of minor items have to be cleared
ate get down to its main job Of hlibustering.
Ike gives Democratic leaders of his
speeches This the suocaton method of political warfare
making the enemy listen to the same speeches twice
Col Mllkan sets jet record Of "a minutes from
York to Washington The previous New
ord right after ATTORNEY
General Herb Brownell.
Italian Premier Pela resigns In Europe politicians are
always regning Things different here-s the voter
who's resigned
William Clark. United Judge ousted in Germany
Secretary of State Dulles
Nacht was Dulles who Clark his marching orders.
Evening star., 1954-01-06
Caution Among the Democrats
Usually Roucous Minority Party Pictured in Clean Collar
As Result of Recognizing Its Grave RESPONSIBILITIES

Morse Of Oregon, now listed
as independent, enjoys today.
Republicans controlled the Of
fees and committees as they
do today.
How acutely Democrats felt
their responsibility in the
House in that Republican,
depression harassed Hoover
administration is illustrated
by an incident witnessed by
this reporter one day very
early in that Congress. Rep
resentative George Huddle-
ston. Democrat. of Alabama
arose and proposed that Con-
gress appropriate $50 million
for relief to feed and house
the unemployed which had
become by then quite an army.
This does not seem extreme
now in the light Of the bill
lions that had to be ap-
propriated later. but it had q
radical ring to the Democratic
leadership in those days, in
proof Of which then Speaker
Of the House. Representative
William Bankhead, Democrat,
Of Alabama, left the rostrum,
took the floor and rebuked his
colleague in q speech in which
he disassociated the Demo-
cratic Party from any such
irresponsible proposal.
In all the years when the
Republican Party was out of
power. there never was such
Q close division as now; in
fact, the party got down to II
Evening star., 1954-01-06

Bricker Amendment Out Front
Senate Possibly Will Give Proposed Constitution
Change Priority, and It'll Be Hard to Stop

matte opposition to the White
House seemed to many mem
bers of Congress compulsive,
moral and patriotic. Senator
Bricker got a majority Of SEN
ators to approve his plan.
Many of them would now like
to forget the whole business.
but they have by this time re-
ceived a flood of mail from
patriotic organizations they
are afraid to ignore.
The solution they hope to
see Is a change in Senate rules
which would force the atten-
ton of Senators to treaties.
One that has been suggested
is a provision to require that
two-thirds of the Senate must
be present and voting on all
treaties.
Mr.. Truman lost the steel
case. President Eisenhower
and his Secretary of State
have promised that the U. N.
covenants so much feared by
some would not even be sent
to Congress. In this situation,
all the real drive for the
Bricker amendment Is spanked
by the nationalist group of the
Senate but they have gotten off
to a powerful start which will
make them hard to stop.
Evening star., 1954-01-06
Constantine Brown

The Chinese Communist
radar system in a 15O-mile
area around Peiping and
Tientsin has been placed on
a 24-hour alert. according to
verified reports of the South
Korean intelligence. It ap-
pears that the American in
telligence services in Tokyo
have been able to confirm
these reports.
United Nations military
quarters are speculating about
the significance Of this step.
Some consider it as an indi-.
cation that the nerves of the
Chinese Red high command
have beome taut. Others read
in 1t something Of ominous
import. They suspect the en-
enly intends to break the pres
ent cease-fire after January
20 when the prisoners Of war
who have refused repatria-
ton must be set free.
The enemy chose to break
of negotiations with the
United Nations delegates re-
garding the political confer
ence which. according to the
cease-fire agreement. was to
follow the prisoner exchange.
Our representatives got the
definite impression from the
conversations with the Red
delegates that the Chinese are
not concerned with the fate
of North Korea, which is al
ready well on the way to be-
coming a Chinese province
and has lost all pretense of
independence" Hence our
insistence on a unified Korea
through free elections south
and north Of the 38th Paral-
lei has become a purely aca-
demic matter with the enemy.
The Chinese representatives
limited strongly that the set
tlement of the Korean war
hinged on the recognition of
Red China by the United
States. This appeared to be
their price not to resume
hostilities.
Evening star., 1954-01-06

Senators and 88 House mem
bers after the 1886 Roosevelt
landslide. Accordingly, it
never had the responsibility
which Democrats have now
by virtue of their numerical
strength. and could operate
as q minority usually does
and did-which was as con-
slant critic and thorn side.
Only once from 1882 until
1852 was Democratic control
of Congress interrupted. That
was by the 80th Republican
Congress elected in 1946 and
ousted in the l948 Truman
victory.
In the course Of only the
last few weeks, beginning with
President EiSenhower's speech
to the United Nations and
eliminating in his three-day
legislative conference with
republican congressional
leaders. the Chief Executive
appears to have strengthened
his position considerably. He
has kept the spotlight on
himself, rather than on his
party. q piece Of strategy Of
careful design. Democratic
caution reflects the efficacy
Of this tactic.
Evening star., 1954-01-06

in a period of vast interna-
tional undertakings, the SEN
ate. admittedly having many
difficult problems on its mind.
got lazy about treaties. 1t
even passed one by unanimous
consent-though the next day.
with some embarrassment. it
recalled said treaty and passed
it in proper form. It has
passed treaties by voice vote.
The danger lies in the fact
that treaties have the force of
law. When it became apparent
that some of the United Ma
tions covenants might invade
the power of the States, op-
ponents of internationalism
had a valid and emotional
appeal with which to enwrap
their plans to restrict the Gov
ernment in the operation Of
foreign affairs generally.
Former President Truman
gave them a leg up when he
contended in the steel case
that the North Atlantic Treaty
gave him the power to seize
the steel industry. Mr.. Tru-
man lost in the Supreme Court
but support for the Bricker
amendment had already multi
piled.
In those days when auto
Evening star., 1954-01-06

with every one of the 218
Republicans. So are % Demo-
Gratis in the Senate. Among
the latter is the Democratic
leader. Senator Lyndon john
son Of Texas, a State that
President Eisenhower carried
in 1952-a factor that might
well induce timidity in the
party leadership in the Senate
in the new session.
Another deterrent to inn
pulsiveness in attack is some
thing that is easily overlooked
This is that Democratic re-
sponsibility in the coming ses-
sion is magnif1ed by the fact
that 1t Is almost on even terms
numerically with the Republic
can Party in Congress. It ac-
tually outnumbers the latter
in the Senate, 48 to At, and is
almost equal in the House.
Not for over a score of
years, not since 1898, has
there been such a close party
division in Congress. Then,
midway in the term of Her.
bert Hoover. Democrats con-
trolled the House. Republicans
had won the 1880 congress
sional elections by a slender
margin, 22O to 214, but that
was wiped out by deaths in
the party in the 13 months
then intervening before q new
Congress took it's seat and
election of Democrats to the
vacancies. When that Con-
greSS convened in December,
1881, Democrats had q ma
jority identical with that of
Republicans in the present
House. The Senate was di-
vided, 48 Republicans, AZ
Democrats. with the Farmer
Laborite, Senator Henrick
Shipstead Of Minnesota, hold
ing the same sort Of balance
Of power that Senator Wayne
Evening star., 1954-01-06
Dorothy Thompson
u. s. Recession Fears Abroad
Europeans See Greater Danger to Free World Security
In an American Depression Than in Red Armies

military means is unlikely to
encounter serious resistance
is to accomplish this from
within, and by the exploitation
Of other peoples wars or dis
agreements. Against such
strategy mighty armies are
helpless, for they cannot pre-
vent a socio-economic break
down, or the psychological COLI
lapse of a nation. whereas the
burden Of maintaining them
may contribute to both. and.
where the vital segment of a
capitalist economy rests on
ornaments, even retrenchment
of armament may cause an
economic crisis. .a..
In this country familiarity
with Communist doctrine is
becoming in itself a cause Of
suspicion. If those who make
or influence policies have libra
ries Of MARKHAM works, or SUBJ
scribe to Communist period
icals. they risk being accused
of Communist sympathies.
But without knowledge Of
Communist doctrine, it's intel
lectual strengths as we'll as
weaknesses, leadership is likely
to play right into its hands.
Every recession here will be
intensified elsewhere, and it is.
suggest, more important to
build up the non-Communist
economies than to increase
their armed strength. For if
the free world goes into an
economic tailspin, thus DEM
onstrating a basic Communist
thesis. armies won't save it.
They cannot defeat socio-eco-
nomic developments, which
communism is equipped, theo-
retlcally and tactically, to ex-
plot.
Evening star., 1954-01-06
Doris FIeeson-

The Senate Republican Pol
ley Committee meets today
to- decide what to put first
on the Senate calendar, and
there is a distinct possibility
that the Bricker amendment
will get the nod.
If 1t does, the Senate will
for the first time in years be
opening its session with a de-
bate of crucial Importance on
a most complicated subject.
For unless Senator Bricker
surrenders on the key clause
of his amendment-and he has
said he will not-the admin
istration and its supporters
must fight with all the weap-
ons at their command.
Senator Bricker has pro-
posed an amendment which
would restrict both the PreSi-
dents power to act on foreign
policy and the power of Con-
gress to 1egislate. There is
nothing in the situation 1t is
designed to cure that cannot
be corrected by an alert Sen
ate doing its job. Yet circum-
stances have combined. to give
the amendment great appeal
in many quarters.
What has happened is that