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Diluted Discipline in the Army
Stevens Is Accused of Breach Of Military Etiquette
In Permitting Pvt. Schine to Become Chummy
Constantine Brown

A general who rose from the
ranks and is still on active
duty has complained to this
reporter that with the passing
of barking" sergeants the
discipline of the Army is no
longer what it used to be. The
present Mccarthy VS.. Army
hearings tend to confirm that
statement.
The list of privileges Ryt. G.
David Schine repeatedly OBJ
tanned when he was first in
Quoted into the service at Fort
Dix is impressive. But to blame
Pvt. Schine for this would be
unfair. Ever since regular
national armies were created,
passing the buck" has been
one Of the main sports Of all
from privates to generals. Only
the degree Of buck passing is
different. Every private will
do his utmost to escape KIP.
1t is a frequent practice to
have one private carry an
others rifle when the SER
geant's eyes can be avoided)
as a result of lost bets or for
cash payment.
Pvt. Schine's alleged pre-
ferred treatment may appear
to some civilians as trivial.
But it is, serious to the SOL
diers of the old school. because
it is contrary to what makes
a real fighting army"
What is more serious is that
Secretary of the Army Stevens
failed to realize where he must
draw the line on his personal
contacts with an individual
who had just put on the
uniform.
Secretary stevens was
guilty of a serious indiscretion
in the eyes of "old-fashioned"
military men when he allowed
his picture to be taken with
Pvt. Schine in front of an air.
plane. The fact that there
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Doris FLeeson-
EisenhoWer|s Ace in the Hole
President Can Give Hand to Candidates in Trouble
BY Supporting Them if They Back His Program

prize his program out Of the
hands of reluctant Congress.
He has already gone out of his
way to go to Kentucky to give
a hand to Senator John Sher-
man Cooper, whose Senate
seat is being vigorously chal-
lenged by former Vice Presi-
dent Barkley. The line of other
supplicants for Gen. Eisen-
hoWer's blessing or presence is
rapidly forming, the latest in
it being Senator Saltonstall
and Gov. Herter of Massachu-
setts.
For the time being. it is
likely that the Presidents once
stated intention of supporting
= any Republican, any place, any
time, will give. way to some
thing more selective. With the
success of his program still in
balance, he may withhold aid
from those failing to support
the program, at least until the
die is cast by the adjournment
of Congress.
He makes it clear that plans
for the rest of the year are
still in a state of f1ux. Doubt
less they will be kept that way
until he knows how his pro-
gram has Jared. Otherwise he
intends to move around the
country, speaking about the
program he has laid before
Congress and what if anything
has been done about it. That
"if" is a new note and may
portend different Eisenhower
approach to his party and it's
politics if his program should
substantially fail.
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The hearings by the Senate
Permanent Subcommittee on
Investigations continue to fur
nish the largest headlines.
pushing other news to the side
lines. Ten million or more
Americans are believed to be
watching the hearings, tele-
vised at a cost of millions Of
dollars.
The public are not idle
spectators. but participants,
most of them partisan in ad-
vance. Whether many minds
will change during the hear
ings is dubious. The center of
the stage is held, in the nature
of the situation. by Senator
Mccarthy, long familiar to all
Americans, few of whom knew
anything of the Secretary of
the Army. Robert Stevens, who
was. indeed, drawn before the
broad American public by SEN
ator Mccarthy.
TeleviSion emphasizes per-
sonalities. whom the public
likes or dislikes. Counsels and
parties of interest,"" aware of
the vast audience, miss no op-
portunity within the limits
permitted by the committees
chairman and counsel to
awaken sympathies or antago-
nisms. And in the clash and
display of personalities, the
emotional partisanship of par
ticipants and spectators, and
the limitations of the hearings,
the fundamental issues are
obscured.
Senator Potter, Republican.
OF Michigan put the immediate
occasion for the hearings in
two questions to Mr.. Stevens:
=. Am I correct that
1t is your contention that the
alleged activity by Senator Nc
Carthy and Mr.. Cohn Tin be-
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ments because, if there is to be
a long wrangle, the Secretary
would prefer to have his dep
uty here while he exercises
freedom of action in giving
from Washington the neces-
sary instructions to the Ameri-
can delegation.
It has been evident for some
time that the sole purpose of
the Communists in coming to
this conference was to try to
make some kind of trade on
the Indo-C China situation which
would relieve Moscow of the
burden of military supply to
Southeast Asia and yet achieve
for them practical control of
the area. Judging by the pub
lie speeches made thus far, the
Communists have not the
slightest intention of agreeing
now to any plan for the uni
fication of Korea, though they
will pay lip service to the prin-
ciple Of unification. Their con-
cept is to have elections of the
kind they proposed for Ger
many, and the net effect of
such a plan would be to ac-
quire control of all Korea for
the Communists.
1t was regrettable that Rob-
ert Casey, Foreign Secretary of
Australia, in his Speech-which
was really non-committal on
the North Korean plan for a
general election of all Korea
allowed himself to be placed
in the position where the Com
muniStS could use his address
as an argument that the West
ern alliance was weakening in
it's attitude toward a continu-
ance of the South Korean re-
public as the entity created by
the United Nations. Any tend
ency here on the part of the
Western allies to accept, even
by inference, the notion that
the two parts of Korea can be
combined by a general election
with all outside interference"
as the Communists call any
U. N. supervision of elections.
prohibited is bound to stir up
Syngman Rhee and complicate
matters in Korea itself. 1t is
reminiscent of the coalition"
type of settlements which were
supposed to produce an inde-
pendent Poland and Czechoslo-
vakia and resulted only in their
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The President was still of
the opinion that communism
would not be an issue in the
fall elections, other than that
the administration was alert
to the problem. The issue, he
thought, would be the success
or failure of the administra-
ton in putting forward a
sound program of sound legis-
lation.
Advisers of the President
have been concerned all along
over the lack of congressional
attention to the administra-
tion's program and the in
creasing probability that not
much of it would get on the
books in this last session of
the SD Congress. Now there
is the equal concern that such
progress as is being made on
the program will be unknown
to the public because of the
focus of attention on the Nc
Carthy-Army hearings which
threaten to drag on into the
summer. The President hopes
that they will soon be over.
Again and again the Pres
ident came back to his pro-
gram. He could not overstate
or exaggerate its Importance.
He was trying to learn the art
of patience, but he was not
really a patient man. When he
saw something that was good
for the country, as he thought
his program was, he wanted to
get it on the books soon.
The President, due to. the
burgeoning political season.
has a new tool of at least
some power with which to help
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binge in which our leaders in
dulged during and after the
last war, it was decided to
make the Army democratic"
The sponsors of that idea over
looked the fact that there is no
such thing as a democracy" in
military units whose capability
to fight and save the lives of
their own men lies in the
strictest possible discipline.
Armies serve democracies but
they themselves cannot be
democratic if they want to
serve their purpose.
Britain and France are un-
questionably democratic coun-
tries. But in their armies rank
is rank and distances between
the various grades are strictly
observed.
The Russians who abolished,
in the name of democracy,
all distinctions in their mill
tary forces after 1917 were
compelled to restore the strict
est imaginable discipline.
Immediately after the war
a wind of dissatisfaction was
blowing over our armies in
France, the Philippines and
other areas. There were un-
pleasant rumblings and oc-
casional mutinies. There were
loud demands fortthe enlisted
men to enjoy the same privi-
legeS as their officers.
AS a result, ideologistS in the
Government drove for basic
changes in the handling of
discipline in the armed services
and particularly a drastic re-
vision of the courts martial for
the sake of democracy.
The Schine incident" rep
resents a misconception on the
part of our Secretary of the
Army as to where the line
must be drawn in his personal
contact in the military hier-
archy.
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Doris FIeeson-

A cheerily sunburned Pres
ident Eisenhower, somewhat
out of the news of late. took
occasion at his first post
vacation press conference to
make an emphatic plea for the
passage of his legislative pro-
gram, and challenged a move
ment to write into an appro-
priation bill a prohibition
against his sending American
troops into Indo-China. The
political news he made with a
single sentence and quick ges-
ture which may be as variously
interpreted as the smile on
the face of Secretary Stevens
in that celebrated photograph.
AS in the case of the contro-
versy over the degree of pleas
ure in Mr.. Stevens visage, the
Presidents gesture had to do
with Senator Mccarthy.
Leonard Hall, chairman Of
the Republican National Com
mittee, had been quoted as
saying. a reporter declared.
that he had Senator Mccarthy
booked solid for three months
this fall as a speaker in doubt
full States. What did the Pres
ident know about that?
There was a momentary look
of presidential wonderment,
a quick bending forward and
turning of the head for en-
phasis, and the reply that all
he knew was that Leonard
Hall hadn't said anything to
him about that. The inference
here. almost as clear as If the
words had been spoken. was
that Leonard Hall had better
not say anything to him about
booking Senator Mccarthy.
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Labor Group Joins
WCFM Ownership

The Washington Central La
Dor Union (AFL) is now an
owner of radio station WCFM.
The station announced today
the labor organization has
bought some common stock in
the station, formerly exclusively
owned by consumer co-opera-
tives. Bylaws of the station
were changed last month to per-
nit the sale.
The Central Labor Union is
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pirate funds for the Govern
ment to pay these charges
which. he said, would remove
an important limitation on the
ability of many United States
private welfare agencies to use
surplus commodities for over
seas relief"
AS an example of the ver-
satility and f1exibility in deals
for surpluses there is the one
announced March Is. The
CCC is selling $40 million
worth of its wheat to the
Spanish government and the
Spanish currency will be used
by the Defense Department
and other agencies to help de-
fray local costs of United
States military construction in
Spain where we are building
air bases,
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Thomas L. Stokes

A lot of foreign policy of the
better sort is wrapped up in
the Eisenhower administra-
tion's comprehensive program
to dispose of farm surpluses
abroad to feed people and thus
create good will.
A lot of domestic policy is
mixed up in it, too. Our farm
ers need all outlets possible to
reduce the surpluses that have
become a problem such as we
have not encountered since
the 1920s. The story is the
same for two world wars-ex-
panded agricultural produc-
tion for both the First and
Second World Vars in which
our farmers had so large a
part in feeding our allies, and
then falling off of foreign
markets afterward as the other
nations got on their feet and
were able to grow their own
food. Result-surpluses here.
The administrators surplus
disposal program moved into
the spotlight with public hear
ingS which began this week
before the House Agriculture
Committee and will run we'll
into next week. They center on
proposed amendments to ex-
listing law to expand the cur
rent program.
These were outlined by John
H. Davis. Assistant Secretary
of Agriculture. who enviSages
a billion-dollar surplus dis
posal program abroad over a
three-year period. Most of the
food presumably would 60 to
our allies and friendly nations.
though Mr.. Davis said "the
door Is ajar" for selling to
countries behind the Iron Cur
Evening star., 1954-04-30
New Ford Prestige Car
Planned, OfficiuI Says
By the Assoeioted Press

NEW YORK, April 30
William Clay Ford, vice presi-
dent of the Ford Motor Co., said
yesterday his company is work.
ing on a new prestige" car that
will cost millions of dollars" to
plan and produce. 1t will not
be shown publicly for at least a
year, he said.
Mr.. Ford. who spoke at a
luncheon of the United Cerebral
Palsy Fund of New York, told
reporters later he was not max
ing an official announcement of
the production Of the new car,
and it was possible something
could halt it's planning.
Evening star., 1954-04-30
Film Pair Miscost

SANTA MONICA, Calf, April
30 R.--ActreSs Peggy Castle,
charging cruelty, obtained di-
vorce yesterday from Robert H.
Raines. 35, a casting director.
They were married January 4.
1851. Miss Castle. 26. testified
Mr.. Raines said her acting style
went out with Mary Pickford."
Evening star., 1954-04-30
Troop Transport Due

SEATTLE, April 80 (F.--The
military transport Gen. w. H.
Gordon is due here tomorrow
morning with 3,210 military pas
sengerS from the Far East. 1t
is the first of seven transports
transferred from San Francisco
to the Seattle port.
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formed Of 1O4 AFL unions with
combined membership Of
around 1000.
WCFM hereafter will identify
itself as "Washington'S Coop
/ Labor Station"
Evening star., 1954-08-09

brick Georgian mansion. the
scene was reminiscent of those
August Sunday afternoons of the
late 1930s when crowds of curl
Gus from many parts of the world
gathered in the sunshine to
watch the famous five at play
behind one-way-view windows of
a public pavilion.
Once again, men, women and
children from all walks of life
assembled in lssng lines which
spilled out onto the gray asphalt
parking grounds. Cars stood
row upon row, just as they did
prior to 1910 when the public
showing of the children ended.
This time there were gray skies
instead of sunshine and an air
of grief hung over the assem-
blage.
Among the callers was Mr..
Dionne's sister, the Rev. Sister
Ange du Bon-Secours who left
cloiStered convent at Hull,
Que, for the first time in %
years to view Emilie's body.
Messages of sympathy poured
into the Dionne home. Hun
dreds of cards were delivered
along with more than so tele-
grams.
There were other tributs.
When the hearse from Montreal
stopped briefly at Pembroke, $50
miles from it's destination. a
group of nuns recognized it and
knelt together on the main street
to pray.
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Neurological Experts
Criticize Epilepsy Report

NEW YORK, Aug. 9 P.-
United States experts on neuro-
logical disorders reacted sharply
today to a Quebec ,medico-legal.
experts report that an autopsy
showed the death of Emile
Dionne was caused by epileptic
seizures brought on by "glandu-
lar disorders" creating lung con-
gestion.
Fearful Of the effect Of the
announcement of the estimated
is million epileptics in the
United States, DR.. H. Houston
Merritt, director of the Neuro-
logical Institute at Columbia
University's Presbyterian Medical
Center, told a news conference
in New York that the mortality
rate among epileptics is no
greater than among non-suf-
ferers. Epileptics, he said,
usually die of natural causes,
from falls during seizures or
suffocation from burying their
faces in pillows during or after
an attack.
Speaking with DR.. Merritt for
the Epilepsy Association of New
York and the Variety Club
Foundation to Combat Epilepsy,
DR.. WilliIn Amols of the Neuro-
logical Institute said a COM
plete and accurate" report of the
autopsy should be made avail
able to medical journals as well
as in laymen's language for the
benefit of other epilepticS.
Evening star., 1954-08-09
Benjamin Della Franca,
Butcher in Northeast

! Benjamin Della Franco, who
owned and operated the meat
department at A. Litteri Grocery,
517 Morse street Ne. died at
Emergency Hospital on Friday.
his 58th birthday.
A resident of Washington for
20 years. he lived at 8 New York
avenue NE He was born in
Italy and fought with the Italian
Army in World War l. He was
a member of the Italo-American
War Veterans Association.
Survivors are his widow. Bea-
trice; a son, Vincent of the home
address, and a daughter. Mrs.
Umberto Di Sabitino, Of Wash
ington.
Services will be held at 8 am.
tomorrow at Holy Rosary Cath
Ole Church. Third and F streets
NV. Burial viii be in st. Mary's
Cemetery.
Evening star., 1954-08-09
Sam Baruch, District
Electrical Inspector

Sam Baruch, 65, a District
electrical inspector for 28 years,
died Saturday at his home, 37O9
Albemarle street NV, of a
heart condition.
Born in Washington and edu-
Gated in public schools, Mr..
Baruch formerly worked for
Pruitt & Zimmerman, Inc, be-
fore he began his District gov
ernment employment.
Mr.. Baruch was a member of
the Tall Cedars of Lebanon and
was active in the Eastern section
of the Electrical Inspectors As
ISOLATION.
Survivors are his widow. Eliz-
abeth. and a brother, Maurice,
6l2 jefferson street. NV, re-
tired Government attorney.
Services will be held at II
am. Wednesday at the Hines
funeral home, 1901 Fourteenth
street NV. Burial will be in
Cedar Hill Cemetery.
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By the Associated Press

) CALLANDER, Ont, Aug. o.
Emile Dionne was laid to rest
today in little burial ground
not far from the frame home
where she and her quintuplet
sisters were born 20 years ago.
She went to the grave in a
party dress of light blue crepe,
a white rosary in her hands.
Hundreds watched as the gray
metal casket was lowered into
the earth of the small Roman
Catholic cemetery at Corbeil.
The surviving quintpuletS-
Yvonne, Annette. Cecile and
Marie-sobbed bitterly during
the committal service.
And few eyes were dry when
it ended.
More than 500 mourners
crowded Corbeil's faded red
brick church for the funeral
service, conducted by the parish
priest, the Rev. w. H. LaFrance.
Marie Weeps Uncontrollably.
When he sprinkled holy water
on the casket and intoned the
departing prayers, Marie Dionne.
who has had to give up at least
temporarily her hope of becom-
ing nun. wept uncontrollably.
She left the church assisted
by her mother and her sister,
Mrs. Rose Marie Girouard.
Hundreds of mourners waited
outside beneath black and threat
ening skies, thrusting black UNI
brellaS up into scattered drops of
rain. There were more than 800
cars lining the roads leading to
the Corbeil church. Practically
every resident of the area was
there-So were many Americans.
There we're so cars in the cor
tege from the Dionne'S Callander
home to the church. The pro-
cession was met at the door by
Father LaFrance and five altar
boys. Preceding the casket were
six pallbearers, dressed in light
gray suits and black ties. Four
were Emilie's brothers-Ernest.
Daniel, Victor and Olivia, jr. The
others were brothers-in-law -
Maurice Girouard and Thomas
Callahan of Espanola, Ontario.
Mrs. Olivia Dionpe, in black,
and the father, dressed in dark
blue, followed the casket with
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Don Chain, Former
Logan County Sheriff
And Coal Operator
BY The Assoeioted Press

HUNTINGTON, w. va, Aug.
9-Don Chain, former Logan
County. w. Va, sheriff, died
today in Memorial Hospital. He
was 81.
AS sheriff, Mr.. Chain mus
tered q force Of several thou
sand in 1921 to oppose the ad-
vance of union miners and their
sympathizers from the coal
fields in counties farther north.
A few years later Mr.. Chain
was convicted in a liquor con-
spiracy case. He served part
of a two-year term, then went
back to Logan on parole and
resumed his place as q leading
citizen.
Mr.. Chain was one of Hunt
ington's richest men. His hold
ings included rich coal, oil and
gas lands in Logan County; the
Guaranty Bank building, a
building in downtown Logan, w.
Va; a large farm in Alfalfa,
Ohio, and others.
He lived in penthouse here
on the 10-story Guaranty Build
ing, which he bought for $780,
600. and maintained another
home in Hollywood. Fla.
His wife lives in Miami, Fla,
with daughter, Miss Lily Hazel
Chafin, one Of eight surviving
children.
Death came from a heart at
tack following prostate opera
tion.
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Richard Marcus, Member
Of State School Board
Bv the Associated Press

ANNAPOLIS, Aug. 9.-Richard
Marcus, 80. of Pikesville. a mem
ber of the State Board of Educa-
ton, died last night while boat
ing off Annapolis.
Mr.. Marcus, president of a
Baltimore clothing firm, was pro-
nounced dead on arrival at Anne
Arundel General Hospital after
being taken from a 50-foot power
boat at city dock. DR.. Elmer G.
Linhardt, deputy county medical
examiner, has not determined
the cause of death.
Mr.. Marcus was appointed to
the State Education Board last
November to succeed Richard w.
Case.
Evening star., 1954-08-09
Edward Lewis Dies;
Got Sentry for Tomb
OF Unknown Soldier

Edward NICE. Lewis, 70. who
was instrumental in having a
constant sentry placed at the
Tomb Of the Unknown Soldier.
died yesterday at his home. sl33
o street NV, of a heart attack.
He had retired February as
special assistant to the director
Of the Veterans Administration
Contact Service in the central
Office. Joining the VA in 1887 as
a speech writer. he became chief
of the old public relations Office
under Gen. Bradley.
Well-known in newspaper and
legislative circles. Mr.. Lewis came
to Washington in 1922 as public
ity director of the American Le-
gion. After Is years with the
Legion. he did publicity work for
the Republican National Com
mittee for about a year before
joining the VA.
Saw Picknickers at Tomb.
Mr.. Lewis worked to get an
eternal sentry at the Tomb OF
the Unknown Soldier because
while taking Legion visitors to
Arlington Cemetery he often saw
picnickers around the Tomb and
persons sitting on the Tomb and
having their pictures taken.
AS a member of the Legion s
legislative committee. he helped
put over the sentry legislation
which was signed by President
Coolidge.
MIR. Lewis was past commander
Of the National Press Club Post
OF the American Legion, a men,
ber of the National Press Club
the Yale Society of Washington
and the Book and Snake Society
Reporter in st. Louis.
Born in st. Louis, he was a re-
porter on the old st. Louis Star,
of which his father, the late ed
ward S. Lewis, was publisher.
During World War he was an
infantry captain.
Mr.. Lewis went to Yale and
played on the football team
there. He was graduated in 1905
Survivors are his widow, Kash-
crime r., former assistant di-
rector of publicity for the Amer
ican Red Cross, and two sisters
Mrs. Bransford Hill, New York
City, and Mrs. Chauncey H
Clarke, st. Louis.
Services will be held at / pm
Wednesday at Christ Episcopa
Church, Thirty-f1rst and c
streets NV. A committee of q
will represent >the Press Club al
the funeral. Six of the % will be
pallbearers. Burial will be ir
Arlington Cemetery.