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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-25
Virginion's Sentence
In Staying Reversed
BY the Associated Press

RICHMOND. Va, Jan. Is. -
The State Supreme Court today
threw out a 40-year sentence
given Robert A. Plymale of Cow
ington in the Staying of a TO-
year-old shoe repairman.
Plymale, q, was convicted by
a jury Sept. 81. 1852. after a
three-day trial in the Staying of
w. D. Deal whose charred body
was found in the ruins of his
home June Is, 1852.
The court split 4 to 3 in its
reversal of the conviction in Al
leghany County Circuit Court.
The case was remanded to the
trial court.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-25
.S255 Million
Budget Seen
In MARYLAND
McKeIdin Reported
Planning to Ask
No Tax Changes

BALTIMORE, Jan. 25.-Gov.
McKeldin was reported today
ready to submit a balanced
budget to the Legislature calling
for no new taxes and holding
State income taxes at their pres
ent level.
The 1855 budget is now being
printed for presentation to the
Legislature which convenes next
week. Its exact amount remains
a secret. but the Baltimore Sun
said last night "the total may be
near $255 million a preliminary
estimate of income"
The Sun said it had learned
that the Governor did not plan
to ask any new taxes.
Pared SO Million.
The budget in its finished form
was pared down from depart
ment requests which initially to-
tailed $685. million.
It was not known what cuts
State Budget Director James G.
Rennie and department heads
had accomplished in shaving the
$40 million. It was understood,
however. chat some projects were
put of and money unspent from
previous years was drawn upon.
Not subject to the rejuggling
and cutting were raises for school
teachers, contributions to State
employe retirement. stating Of
new institutions. and other items
to which the State already was
committed.
Despite the Governors wish
to retain the State income tax at
its present rate after is per cent
reductions in 1852 and 1858, it is
likely attempts to cut it will be
made in the Legislature, espe-
c1ally since this is election year.
Mental Health Stressed.
Meanwhile, the Mental Hy-
giene Society of Maryland urged
the public to get behind Gov.
McKeldin and the Legislature to
provide more money for opera
ton of mental hospitals and
clinical care for mental patients
not in institutions.
It urged that an operating
budget Of $14.312.774 be provided
for the State Department of
Mental Hygiene and $88,871 for
the State Health Departments
mental hygiene clinics.
The appeal was made through
the .society's publication, Spot
light on Mental Health" It
said that an extra 800 persons
will apply for admission to men,
tai hospitals this year above
the number the institutions dis
charge.
The publication says more
than 10000 Maryland men,
women and children are being
cared for in the States I'VE
mental hospitals and another
1000 are living outside under
some degree Of hospital super
vision.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-25
Autopsy Set in Death
Of Fort BeIvoir Driver

Fort Belvoir authorities were
to conduct an autopsy today
to determine the cause of death
of a civilian driver at the post
found dead in his dormitory
there yesterday.
The dead man was Julius
Carter. 43. colored, the post pub
lie information Office reported.
The post provost marshal said
there was no evidence of foul
play and that it appeared Mr..
Carter died of natural causes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-25
Donald Dawson to Speok

Donald Dawson, former assist
ant to ex-President Truman, will
speak on whats Happened to
Civil Service" at an open forum
at $3.50 pm. tomorrow In the
community room of the Citizens
Bank, Langley Shopping Center.
Silver Spring. Md. The forum is
sponsored by Democratic Party
Precinct 4 Of Colesville district.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-25
Training Site Changed
For Troops From Area
BY the Associated Press

BALTIMORE, Jan. 25.-The
18th Infantry Division, made up
Of National Guard regiments
from Maryland and Virginia and
tank battalion from West Vir-
ginia. will train at Indiantown
Gap, Pa, this summer instead
Of Camp A. P. Hill, Va.
Dates for the encampment,
originally scheduled at the Vir-
ginia post, were changed from
June 27-July IL to July 24-Au-
gust Z.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-25
FuirIinqton Civic Session

Recreation programs and park
facilities for the Northern Vir-
ginia area will be discussed at
a meeting Of the darlington
Civic Association at 8 pm.
Wednesday at the Abingdon Ele-
mentary School, 3035 South Abb
ingdon street.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-25
Kensinqton Session Set

Civil defense workers of Ken
sington, Md, will meet at 8 pm.
Wednesday at the Kensington
Fire House. Col. Robert Ransom.
former director of Montgomery
County civil defense. and George
Sunday, of the Chesapeake &
Potoma &C Telephone Co., will
speak.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-25

Federal research farm at Belts
vile is a co-SponSor.
Wednesday the inspectors will
join beekeepers for the trades
national convention in Balti-
more.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-25
ChiIIum G. o. p. MEETING

The Young Republican Club
Of Chillum, Md, will elect Off
GERS at 8 pm. Wednesday in the
Coop Community Room, New
Hampshire avenue and East
West highway.
Evening star., 1954-05-25

could play on q divided ALI
ance In the West.
The action Of the British
cabinet in telling Foreign Min
lister Eden that the time was up
for dilly-dallying and that the
Communists must expect Brit
ain to stand alongside the
United States is q sequel to
comments Of that kind which
the British Foreign Minister
made privately last week only
to have his words disregarded
as the Communist delegations
went ahead with their attacks
on the United. Nations and on
the Western countries.
The existence again Of a
unified Western alliance is q
salutary development. It means
that, If this conference fails,
the military resources Of the
Western countries will be
placed behind not only q new
program Of cooperation with
the forces defending Indo-
China against the Communists
but a reinvigorated procedure
for establishing the Southeast
Asia security alliance.
The Communists know the
facts now. Will they this week
make the proposals that can
really be the basis for o sin
cere negotiation? Nobody on
the allied side expects them to
do so. but the Soviets might
still surprise everybody. Just
as a baseball game is not over
till the last man is out. so here
the conference cannot be said
to be over till Mr.. Molotov has
said his final word.
Reproduction Rishts Reserved.)
Evening star., 1954-05-25

tries to supervise the arnistice.
Fourth. inaugurate steps
through the United Nations to
establish unity inside Wet Nam
and withdraw all foreign troops
when conditions Of peace and
tranquility have been estab-
lished and when the independ-
ence Of Wet Nam can be q
realistic fact instead Of a paper
setup.
A somewhat analogous settle
ment is logical for Korea.
Neither side within Korea will
at first have trust in the other,
but unity cannot ever be estab-
lished until the Communist
control has been withdrawn.
So it amounts to a simple
proposition: Do the Communist
regimes at Moscow and Peiping
really want to see peace re-
stored in Indo-C China and Ko-
rea? They can bring it about
If they wish, or they can do
those things which will make
the world situation worse be-
cause of these two problems
and ultimately bring on an
other world war.
Mr.. Molotov at times gives
the impression that he would
like to come out Of this con-
ference with a peace plan that
both sides will take. but at
other times he seems as in
tranSigeant as ever. Under the
circumstances, the allies now
are taking the only course
open to them here. They are
drawing together. This means
they are removing those diff
ferences which gave hope to
the Communists that they
Evening star., 1954-05-25
EoI1stoI1Ine broNY1-- -
Diplomats Seem More Optimistic
Broadening Of ChurchiIl.s Viewpoint on Asia Cited;
Dien Ben Phu Fall Bolstered French Pride
Constantine Brown

For the first time in many
weeks there is a more ''unof-
flcially optimistic" atmosphere
in official circles in Washing
ton.
Although the military stu
alton in Indo- China has fur
ther deteriorated-the Wet
Mini forces are now less than 20
miles from Hanoi-and the
Reds at Geneva continue to
remain unbudeed from their
positions. the following factors
give some announcement to
leaders in Congress and the
administration:
CD Prime Minister Winston
Churchill has been finally in.
duced by Foreign Minister An
thony Eden and Defense Sec
retary Lord Alexander to look
at the Far Eastern situation
from an international rather
than a narrow British point Of
view.
Over the week end, accord
ing to official reports from
London, the Prime Minister re-
ceived q complete fill-in from
Eden about the wasted weeks
at Geneva and the unsavory
gyrations of the Soviet, Chi.
nese and Wet Mimi delega-
tions.
Mr.. Eden, in his role Of
honest broker between the
litigants, has had q number of
intimate conversations with
Russia's Molotov and. Red Chi
mas Chou En-lai. He met q
blank wall when he tried to
obtain a minimum of conces-
sions from the Reds for
France and the Associated
States. Whatever superficial
concessions Molotov may have
been inclined to accept were
frustrated by the attitude Of
the Chinese Communist for
eign minister. Molotov always
deferred to Chou's views.
Mr.. Eden and others are re-
ported to have pointed out to
Mr.. Churchill that under the
present conditions an appease-
Evening star., 1954-05-25

ment Of the Reds, under the
guise Of peace in our time.
would be worse than the ap-
peasement policy toward the
Axis in 1888 and would in
evitably result in the loss Of
Malaga. A reconsideration Of
the British Far Eastern policy
in keeping with the American
proposal for a united front in
Southeast Asia might. on the
other hand. soften somewhat
the attitude of the Communist
leaders at Geneva.
Churchill is said to have
been influenced sufficiently by
the strong arguments Of the
younger men in his cabinet
and Mr.. Eden has returned to
Geneva. reportedly with q
freer hand to join the Western
representatives in standing up
to the Reds.
ca The Dien Bien Phu dis
aster, the prospective loss Of
the delta with its capital city
Of Hanoi and the port Of Hal
phong have apparently had q
different effect on the French
people than the Communists
expected. They have revived
to a degree the national pride
Of the French people.
A wave of hostility toward
external and domestic COM
munism is now in progress. To
outward signs, such as the
cancellation of the good will
performances of the Moscow
ballet at the National Opera
in Paris and the tearing up
and burning of Communist
newspapers and other publi-
cations, are added more sig
nificant factors. A number Of
parliamentary leaders who un-
til recently were badgering
Premier Laniel to get out Of
Indo- China regardless Of price
have changed their tune. The
French Premier, who under
the pressure Of such leaders
followed Britain's lead in turn
ing down Secretary Of State
Dulles proposals for q South
Evening star., 1954-05-25
Lowell MeHett-

Following the Sup4eme
Courts decision outlawing seq
regation in the public schools.
there was a general disposition
to believe that one result would
be the speeding up Of Fed
eral aid to education. Ad-
vocates of such aid, however.
seem doomed to disappoint-
ment-one more disappoint-
ment in their long struggle in
behalf Of the Nations school
children. Instead Of Fastening
the day when adequate Fed
eral funds may become avail
able to bring the schools in
line with our growing popula-
tion and to make school facil-
ties reasonably equal in all
States, the courts decision of
itself may delay that day to
some extent.
It affords Congress a further
excuse for postponing action
on any of the aid bills now be-
fore it. Methods must be de-
vised and incorporated in
court decree before segregation
can be abandoned. The court
will not hear representatives
and arguments on this subject
until the fall and it may be
many months thereafter before
the troublesome decree can be
formulated. And many more
months before it can be put
into actual effect.
Meantime the school build
ings will continue to grow more
overcrowded each year. The
number recognized as fire haz-
ards will increase, the present
number being about one in
three. More and more schools
will be forced to operate on q
two and three shift basis. In
the country as a whole there
is now a shortage of $50, 900
clasSroomS. @H
What is Congress doing
about this situation? For one
thing it is recovering from
its surprise over the position
taken by the administration.
Instead of being urged to
enact Federal aid legisla-
ton and appropriate the need
ed money it has received the
suggestion that these steps be
postponed until another ma
tional conference on education
is held at the White House,
which conference is to await
reports from conferences to be
held In all of the States. This,
1t Is estimated. could delay the
Evening star., 1954-05-25
Fletcher KnebeI-
Potomac Fever

Army Secretary Stevens the witness stand
Stevens now has made farewell than Sarah
Congress changes the Of Armstce Day. to Veterans
Day. The way things going we're going have lot
veterans than armstices
Investigators learn that high ohcia helped
rmy-McCarthy hearings 1t took fellow
hearngs-and it will take genius to stop them.
Harvards Economist Slchter the administration
failed attack the recession with vgor Whadayuh mean no
vgor? Every week kes shouted at the of lungs
that times getting better.
British Field Marshal Montgomery that Russia can
mobilize 400 divisions The United States making progress
too-it finally mobized Pvt. Schine.
Republican Senator Bush proposes "far play" code for
congressional investigators Nothing wrong with the way the
being played Senatorthe
time-outs
Spain threatens to cut of England'S supply at
Gibraltar Spain will Gibraltar way English
will perish of ths-as long his
rock.
Evening star., 1954-05-25
u. S. Aid to Education Is DeIoved
Supreme Court Decision on Segregation Does Not Speed
Action on Bills to Meet Situation in Nations Schools

presentation of an admins
tration program for another
two years. Congress would
still have to take up the pro-
gram and consider 1t. There
is nothing in recent history to
assure rapid consideration and
action by Congress.
Opposition to Federal aid
seems to have hardened in
Congress since the years when
Senator Taft managed twice
to put through the Senate bills
for general aid-teachers' SAL
aries, school facilities and
building construction-only to
have the bills die in the House.
Segregation was not the issue
then, it was religion. Some
House members were deter
mined that parochial schools
should not be permitted to
benefit in any way. Other
members were determined they
should be. The result was al
ways a stalemate and no Fed.
eral aid.
To avoid this disagreement
the bills now in Congress are
limited to school construction.
Two bills provide for an an
nual appropriation of 500
million. One does not fix q
definite sum. This appears to
have the most support, being
sponsored by % Senators.
Hearings have been held on all
three, with most witnesses
urging appropriations suffi-
Evening star., 1954-05-25

east Asia coalition on the
NATO pattern before the Ge-
neva Conference began. is now
anxious to join America In
such o pact.
Diplomatic dispatches from
Paris indicate that while only
two months ago the French.
under the pretext that 1t would
hurt their prestige as q world
power. refused to accept Amer
ican military missions to train
the Wet Namese. they are now
willing to go much further and
place their air and sea forces
under American commanders,
provided. Of course, that Amer
ican sea and air forces par
ticipate in the defense Of Indo-
China.
It was from Paris that We
first received the suggestion.
some 10 days ago, to proceed
with the common front In the
South Pacific regardless Of
whether Britain joins us or
not. This change of attitude
on the part of the French
government is not due to
Premier Laniel or Foreign
Minister Bidault but to q
change Of heart by the French
people themselves who, under
the impact Of the disasters in
1ndo-China. seem to be will
ing to fight the Communist
avalanche if properly aided.
According to Paris reports. the
mood Of the National Assembly
is said to be such that Mr..
Laniel would have a majority
were he to ask for a change
in the military laws to permit
the sending of French draftees
to Indo-C China.
These indications may be
only a flash in the pan and
might change overnight at
Geneva If the Reds adopt q
different diplomatic strategy.
But after so many weeks dur.
ing which our allies have led
from weakness they offer some
consolation to the distraught
American political leaders.
Evening star., 1954-05-25

in executive session before he
"smeared" others. Mr.. Reece,
voting the proxies of his two
Republican colleagues, Repre-
sentatives Wolcott and Good
win. beat that motion. The
two minority members then
departed, which. under the
rules, ended the hearing.
AS Mr.. Hays left. a bystander
muttered under his breath:
"Goodby, Malenkov." Chal.
lenged to say it aloud by the
peppery Congressman. the by
Stander vanished.
He is probably typical of a
group which honestly feels that
somehow this country got of
the right track and that it all
was the result of subverSive
plotting. Mr.. Reece belongs 20
that school. His absorption
in the tall stories told the hear
ings is complete. A Taft man,
he has never doubted that the
late Senator from Ohio was
robbed of the presidential NOM
ination by sinister influences.
The Rockefellers and Henry
Ford were Eisenhower hackers.
The House grapevine says
that the Speaker and Mr.. Hal
leck needed badly a Reece vote
on the Rules Committee in the
excess profits tax struggle last
year and that Mr.. Reece traded
it for his investigation appro-
priation. But like the McCar-
thy hearings, it now seems a
weapon turned freely against
administration supporters.
Evening star., 1954-05-25
Life in the U. S.
Fire Sweeps
Lake Island
No Water
BY the Assoeioied Press

STURGEON BAY. Wis, May
25.-The Coast Guard was called
out yesterday to fight a trouble
some forest f1re-the blaze was
on a Lake Michigan island with
q shortage Of water.
The fire burned over more
than one square mile Of timber
land on the 4-mile long Cham
bers Island before it was brought
under control by firefighters
using a Coast Guard vessel which
pumped water from the lake.
There was not enough well water
on the island to fight the flames.
Chambers Island is in the
Green Bay arm Of Lake Mich
Evening star., 1954-05-25
Doris Feeson-
InteIIectuo|isnn Put Under Fire
Inquiry Is scrutnizine LoyoIties Of Big Foundations
Set Up by the Fords, Rockefeers and Corneqies

leading skilfully and Loyalty for
President Eisenhower. It is not
possible to claim that all the
thinking in America has been
done by Democrats, especially
since the major foundations
bear names which are prima
facie evidence that their do
nors are true-blue Republicans.
The President, when in COM
mand of Columbia University,
was a fortnight fighter for
academic freedom. Nor has he
indicated since then any
change in his views.
The Reece investigation, so
far at least, has left entirely to
Democrats the defense of free
dom of thought. Minority
members Hays of Ohio and
Pfost of Idaho walked out of
the committee yesterday in
protest against allowing free
rein to a self-styled expert on
subversive influences in edu-
cation, asiI anI,
This expert" Aaron M.
Sargent. an attorney from San
Francisco, contends that rad
ical intellectuals" organized
an attack on basic American
philosophy as early as 1892.
They began then, he said, ito
establish the Federal income
tax in order to pave the way
for National Federal social
ISM"
Cordell Hull, the former
Secretary of State, introduced
the income tax bill, Mr.. Hays
pointed out. He demanded
that the witness be heard first
Evening star., 1954-05-25

cient to correct school condi.
tions in the most critical areas
quickly. The AFL, which like
other labor organizations has
long supported Federal aid
legislation. has called for q
billion-dollar fund.
In the House. the Educa-
ton and Labor Committee has
not even arranged for hear.
ingS.
And, in the House, an ap-
preparation Of a million dollars
to cover the expense of the
State and White House con-
ferences has been killed.
Evening star., 1954-05-25

hoodwinking his own company
on faxed insurance death
claims of more than $500.
Robert Boone. deputy State
insurance commissioner. said the
agent asserted he faxed the
claims ito disclose to the home
Office officials that it could be
DONE"
Evening star., 1954-05-25
Doris FIeeson-

In the guise Of an investi-
cation Of taX-eXempt founda-
tions, education and the in
tellectuals of this country are
under fire before a special
House committee headed by
Representative Carroll Reece
of Tennessee.
The foundations in them
selves are legitimate targets
of congressional inquiry be-
cause of the immense tax priv
ileges they enjoy. The Reece
committee, however, has sub
ordinated the broad questions
of their economic advantage
and social utility to the one
narrow issue Of whether they
are, perhaps unknowingly, pro-
noting subversive and social
istic teachings.
The committee counsel and
the witnesses thus far called
seem to believe that they are.
Thus the Republican leader
ship of the House is in the po-
sition of having supported the
substantial appropriation Of
$115,000 to allow Representa-
tive Reece to put on the de-
fenSive such institutions as the
Ford. Rockefeller and Carnegie
Foundations. They are being
put on the defensive, further
more, in the delicate area Of
patriotism and devotion to the
Constitution.
1t is difficult to see why this
,<emed like a good idea to
Speaker Martin and House
Majority Leader Halleck, who
for tn> JSt part have been
Evening star., 1954-05-25
Failure Seems Certain at Geneva
There Exists Basis for Settlement but Stubbornes
Of Communists Moy Moke Accord Impossible
Dovid Lawrence

GENEVA, May 25.-Nobody
knows when this conference
will end but almost every
body, except perhaps Mr..
Molotov, is convinced that
it will end in failure. The
reason he is q possible
exception is that he alone
knows the answer TO whether
there is to be q settlement here.
Curiously enough. a basis
for a settlement satisfactory
to both sides but not exactly
relished by either-does exist.
Both sides know what it could
embrace. But the Soviets give
the impression that the Red
Chinese wouldn't like it, and
the Red Chinese hint that
their partners-the Wet Mini
faction in Wet Nam-wouldn't
go along.
It's truly a tragic lineup,
and it seems incredible that
sensible men, aware Of the
dangers and implications of
failure, will not see the
straight course that lies
ahead. Here is what could be
done:
First, withdraw all invading
troops from Cambodia and
Laos, as these two countries
have been the victims Of an ag-
gression by the View Mini
Communist troops.
Second, reassemble the vari-
Gus fighting groups inside Wet
Nam and form a line for an
armiStice so that all Commu-
mist troops will be north of
the line.
Third. turn over to the
United Nations the task of Sc
lecting a commission of coun-
Evening star., 1954-05-25
School Registration
Set for Sept. 8-9

The District public school
system will register new pupils
at elementary schools on Sep
tember 8 and 8.
Advance registration, sched.
uled originally for tomorrow and
Thursday. has been cancelled
because Of the Supreme Courts
anti-segregation ruling.
Evening star., 1954-05-25
Unusuul Politician

FREMONT, Nebr. R.-When
the time came to let the can
didates talk at the Republican
State pre-primary election con-
vention here they were warned
to stay within a flve-minute
time limit by State Chairman
w. w. Spear.
Attorney General Clarence 8.
Beck, seeking reelection. did
it easily. His address: THANK
you, Bill. Greetings to you all
and God bless you"
Evening star., 1954-05-25

and took this way as the simplest
one to get 1t.
James brought it in along with
his collections, and the Omaha
World Herald made the an
nouncement-with a story about
how 1t happened.