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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-14
Gen. Nichols Held
Backing Board.in
.0ppenheimer Case
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK, June 14.-The
New York Times said today that
Maj. Gen. Kenneth D. Nichols,
general manager Of the Atomic
Energy Commission, has drafted
his recommendation in the OPP
penheimer security case. 1T
supports the Gray boards find
ing that DR.. j. Robert Open
heimer is loyal but should not
be retained as a consultant to
the commission" a Washington
dispatch to the Times by James
Reston said.
Thus, the famous atomic SCI
enlist has lost another round
the next to the last-in his long
fight to be restored as a reliable
servant of his Government" the
dispatch said.
The story also said:
Gen. Nichols recommendation
has not been delivered in final
form to the members of the Acc,
but this will be done later this
week when the five-man COM
mission will begin the final step
in the proceedings. Gen. Nichols
has discussed his recommended
ton with commission members.
It Is understood that Gen.
Nichols letter to the Acc is
more critical of DR.. Oppenheimer
than the majority finding of the
Gray board-a three-member
special Atomic Energy Commits
sion Security Board.
The board-headed by Gordon
Gray, former Secretary Of the
Army and now president of the
University of North Carolina
recently found unanimously that
DR.. Oppenheimer is loyal citi-
zen and it praised his discretion.
However, the board voted, 2 to /,
that under the administrations
regulations DR.. Oppenheimer
must be classified as a security
risk.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-14
Vigilance in Face
OF Other IdeoIogies
Urged by BroWne|I

Attorney General Brownell last
night urged vigilance to pre-
serve our liberties from those
who owe allegiance to other
ideologies and also from those
misguided persons whose zeal
may lead them into errors no
less destructive"
Addressing the 40th commence
ment of American University,
Mr.. Brownell made an apparent
reference-without naming him
to Senator Mccarthy, Repub-
lican, of Wisconsin, and his diff
ferences with the Administra-
ton.
Under our system" he said,
mo person can be allowed to
set himself above the laws of the
land; no branch of Government
can usurp powers of another
branch-not if our system Of
Government is to survive"
Business of Everyone.
The preservation of our free
doms and form of Government.
he said, must be the business
Of every citizen but that does
not require a return to the vigi-
lanteS of the frontier"
Mr.. Brownell told the 438
members of the graduating class
that an optimistic picture can
be painted Of the wonderful OPP
portunitieS facing the youth of
this generation in the "Age Of
Marvels."
GAS we face the future" he
went on. I'VE must apply more
knowledge and intellect to the
problem of protecting our free
dom and less prejudice and emo
ton"
Reminding his hearers Of the
divide-and-conquer strategy Of
the Communists, he declared:
1--WE must not fall for it, nor
follow others who fall for it.
Our enemies exploit every differ
ence among us. We cannot, as
they would like us to do, lose
faith in our institutions and in
the essential wisdom of free
men"
Must Counter Lies.
Mr.. Brownell emphasized that
both the agents of a foreign
government and the demagogueS
thirsting for personal power
would destroy the trust on which
this nation is built and operates.
1--WE cannot be content" he
said," Ito merely parry each
thrust of either the Communist
or the would-be demagogue. The
tactics of deceit are limitless.
We must counter each lie or
half truth with full truth"
The truth, he added, must be
used aggreSsively "for it is truth
and trust which make men free
and keep men free"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-14
Zed L. Williams, Jr.,
Heads District VIEW

Zed L. Williams, jr.. 39-year-
old Washington auctioneer. has
been elected department COM
mander of the District Veterans
of Foreign Wars, it was an
nounced today. The department
was in convention last week in
the Hotel Burlington. Mr.. Will
liams is member of Washing
ton. Post No. 2194.
Other officers include Francis
c. Woods, senior vice comman-
der: Ralph Lewis. Junior vice
commander; Edward Spedden,
quartermaSter; Ben a m in E.
Reed, chaplain; Rutherford Day,
judge advocate; and DR.. Paul
A. Manganaro, surgeon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-14
StrobeI 10 Succeed
Reynolds in Public
Buildings Service

Peter A. Strobel, Denmark
born consulting engineer and
construction executive, has been
named Commissioner of the
Public Buildings Service - the
worlds largest operation in real
estate management.
The appointment was made
public today by General Services
Administrator Edmund F. Man
sure. Mr.. Strobel will succeed
w. E. Reynolds, who retires
June 30 after 81 years of SUI
pervision of the Governments
public buildings.
Mr.. Mansure also made public
a letter to Mr.. Reynolds paying
tribute to his work.
Pioneering achievements of
outstanding character stand to
your credit in the General Ac-
counting Office, the handsome
terminal buildings of the Wash
ington National Airport, the
United States Court House and
the Clinical Center of the Ma
tional Institutes of Health in
greater Washington to name
only a few" Mr.. Mansure wrote
Mr.. Reynolds.
Grateful to u. S.
Mr.. Mansure said Mr.. Strobel
accepted the post in gratitude
for the opportunities this coun-
try accorded him after he came
to the United States as a f1edg-
ling civil engineer recently grad
uated from the Royal Technical
University of Copenhagen.
The 53-year-old engineer
started as a structural steel
craftsman, becoming successfully
a designing engineer. field in
spector, chief engineer and con-
sulting engineer. He is a partner
in the New York firm of Strobel
& Salzman. Mr.. Mansure said he
has given up all active participa-
ton in the firm to take this post.
He was chief structural engi-
neer for the New York Worlds
Fair. He invented, designed and
construction of port
able airplane hangers and de-
signed for the Corps of Engineers
prefabricated army barracks for
use in field operations.
Served on Acc Group.
He served on the committee
to the Atomic Energy
Commission on economy in plan
ming and constructing new
energy projects and
shared in construction for
atomic research at Cornell Uni
versity.
Mr.. Strobel has participated
in the construction of industrial
plants, warehouses, material
facilities, cement and
power plants, armories, hangers,
railroad stations. garages, COM
buildings, shopping CEN
tiers, hospitals, churches, re-
search centers, university build
ings and apartments.
He is married and has a
daughter who graduated from
the Architectural School of De-
sign at Harvard University. His
home is in New Rochelle, N. Y.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-14
Six in Minister'S Family
Are Killed in Home Fire
BY the Asseeiated Press

oy wv SSSOctoTeo ptoSS
EVARTS, KY, June 14.-Six
members Of a Negro minister's
family were burned to death in
a fire which destroyed their
home late Saturday night.
Coroner Tom Lee said the Rev.
George Drummond and Mrs.
Drummond escaped with two
children just before flames en-
veloped their four-room frame
home.
Those who died were the min
ister's mother. Mrs. Virginia
Drummond, 70: 8 daughter,
Lydia, 81, and her two children,
Barbara, S. and Calvin, 8; a son,
Victor Joe, 3. and another
daughter. Vera. 10 months.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-14

by the House Civil Service Com
mittee. Chairman ReeS of the
committee, who opposed the
measure but was outvoted. has
taken his time on filing the COM
mittee's pay report. It is due to
be filed in the House tomorrow
and then referred to the House
Rules Committee.
The rules group is not ex-
pected to take immediate action.
with the result that the postal
employee unions plan to get the
bill out Of the committee and
up for House action through use
OF a discharge petition. Although
this requires the signatures Of
218 Of the Houses 435 members,
the postal groups are confident
they can secure them.
The classified employees pay
raise bill appears to be anguish
ing at the moment in the House
Civil Service Committee. Al
though the group approved the
pay bill several weeks ago. there
is no inclination to rush into ac-
ton on the classified pay meas
ure.
The committee is now holding
extended hearings on the Whit
ten rider, which it decided to
include as part of the pay bill.
From all indications, the adj
ministration has lost whatever
enthusiasm it had for the CLASH
fed employee pay Redistribution
proposals it submitted to Con-
grass several months ago. The
Senate Civil Service Committee
has not yet scheduled hearings.
The administrations attitude
appears to be that if it can't Sc
cure it's postal pay reclaSSiflca-
ton proposal, it isn't too inter-
ested in an adjustment Of CLASH
fed employe salaries. The adj
ministration is not opposed as
such to a modest Federal CLASH
fed employee pay increase along
reclassification lines, but it is not
doing anything further about
getting Congress to act on the
legislation.
a 1nS =
LIFE INSURANCE - Chair
man Carlson of the Senate Civil
Service Committee announces his
group will meet Friday in execu-
tive session to redraft legiSla-
ton to provide group life insur-
ance benefits to Government en-
ployes.
The committee has its job cut
out for it. During testimony last
Friday many Of the Government
employee groups were cool to the
administrations bill in its pres
ent form. In fact the Govern
ment Employees Council, which
represents more than 100000
Federal employees in various AFL
groups, urged that the bill be de-
ferred.
Other groups such as the Ma
tional Federation of Federal
Employees, the American Fedora
ton of Government Employees
and the various postal groups
urged considerable rewriting of
the bill before it would be &C
ceptable to them.
Among the employe groups
complaints: Federal employees
should get the proposed benefits
free without having to pay the
contemplated $3.50 a year per
S 1000 worth of insurance: en-
ployes should be told in greater
detail automatically covered,
but should only be included If
they specifically say they want
to participate: the Government
should underwrite the program
instead of private insurance
companies; the amount of the
policies should not decrease so
sharply after age IS; employees
still working for the Govern
ment after IS should not be re-
uuired to contribute further to
the insurance fund.
II
JOBLESS BENEFITS - Key
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-14
5 Weekend Deaths Raise
"a Virginia Toll to 314
BY the Assoeioted Press

Five persons died over the
week end as a result of injuries
received in traffic accidents on
Virginia highways. sending the
1854 State highway fatality toll
to 314, compared with $50 a
year ago.
The victims included:
Joe N. Wright, SO, of Washing
ton, who died instantly in sin
gle-vehicle crash Sunday on
u. S. II a mile southeast of Port
Royal.
William Dellmon Sine, %, Of
Edinburg, in Shenandoah Coun-
ty, who died Saturday in a
Woodstock hospital of injuries
received in a non-collision acct
dent June 6 on State Route 623
In Shenandoah County.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-14
Car FIips Over on Bridge,
KiIIinq Arlington Woman

A "a year old Arlington
woman was killed early yester-
day when the convertible in
which she was riding ran up
stanchion on the southbound
Fourteenth Street Bridge and
turned over on top OF her, &C
cording to police.
She was identified as Maggie
Jeter, colored, of 1921 North Edi-
son street, Arlington.
The driver, Elton Williams, 25,
of the 500 block of North Nine
tenth road, Arlington, and Ros-
cite Clark, 10, of 2235 Dinwiddie
street, Arlington, another pas
senger, climbed out from under
the car unhurt.
Police said the automobile ap-
parently went out of control and
rode about 8 feet up the STAN
chion before Tipping over and
landing on the bridge.
Williams was charged with
homicide and driving at an I'M
reasonable speed. He was placed
under a $500 bond.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-14

ny OV044AAA9 ~N
In fact most
Federal pay
raise bills
have been en-
acted in the
final days
or even final
hours Of
Congress.
There's little
doubt that the
q d m i niStra-
ton is trying
to kill the 2
per cent post
al pay raise
LIN @~~aA~,AA
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-14
VMl Alumni Elect

LEXINGTON, Va, June IA (Pl.
H. E. Doyle of Richmond yes
terday was reelected president
of the Virginia Military Institute
Alumni Association.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-14
Woman Dies Instantly
When Virginia Crash
Hur|s Her From Car
2 THE EVENING STAR
&* Washington, D. G.
MONDAY, JUNE IL, 1854

A Long Island IN. " woman
was killed instantly yesterday
when she was thrown from car
driven by her husband after it
hit a culvert on Route Oil, three
miles west Of AmiSSville, Va.
Virginia State police identified
the dead woman as Mrs. jeanne
Ruth Traber, "a, Of Rosslyn,
Long Island.
Her husband, William A.
Traber, 90, was reported in seri-
Gus condition at Warrenton Hos
pital with head cuts and bruises.
Police said the TRADER car ap-
parently skidded on wet pave
ment before striking the culvert.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-14
The Federal Spotlight
Time Important for Pay Raise
Program as Session Neors End
By Joseph Young

is becoming increasingly important
Federal pay raise legislation is concerned
With only weeks remaining before
gess scheduled adjourn lengthy period delay
kill the legislation
However there ample time left providing adnistra-
ton does not try to kill the% y-------
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-14

Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest, 90, on June Is.
Lowest, Is, on January %.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-14
The Weather Here and Over the Nation

High and Low Of Last "a hours.
High. 90. at 1925 pm.
Low. 6S, at $40 am.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-14

River Report.
(From U. S. Engineers.)
Potomac River cloudy at Harpers Ferry
and slightly muddy at Great Falls;
Shenandoah cloudy at Harpers Ferry.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-14

IUG Wy W A114 UI4O
ID postal pay bills
;actics.
Evening star., 1954-10-10
An Honor Earned

Election of Zafrullah Khan, Foreign
Minister of Pakistan, to the international
Court Of Justice at The Hague removes one
of the most distinguished and effective of
the free worlds diplomats from the councils
of the United Nations. A lawyer by profess
Sion Mr.. Zafrullah Kahn once headed the
Indian delegation to the League of Nations
and was later member of the Indian Su-
preme Court. Since Pakistan became an in
dependent country in 1947, he has been one
of the strong hands in shaping its foreign
policies.
Pakistan's decision to cast its lot un-
equivocally with the West through alliance
with Turkey and a military aid agreement
with the United States is illustrative of the
firm and positive nature of the Asian coun-
trys thinking in foreign affairs. So too was
it's prompt adherence to the Southeast Asia
Collective Defense Treaty. Mr.. zafrullah
Khan's aversion to communism is considered
largely responsible for his efforts to steer
his own country away from the type Of
neutralism adopted by neighboring India.
Mr.. Zafrullah Khan has welcomed his
new honor as providing him greater oppor-
tunity to try "to explain the East to the
West" Few more highly qualified voices
could be raised in such an effort.
Evening star., 1954-10-10
BunqIed Investigation

A Charles County grand jury's findings
in the six-months-old Hicks death mystery
strengthens previous indications that the
grim case was badly bungled by early in
vestigators. It is hard to understand how
county and State officers who first inquired
into the crippled war veterans fatal auto
mobile accident last March could have over
looked so much important evidence of foul
play.
It was fully month after the crushed
body Of Louis A. Hicks was found In his
wrecked car that police discovered that the
accelerator Of the car had been taped into
wide-open position. It was weeks after the
officers had ruled the death an accident that
bloody clothes and other articles apparently
bearing on the crime were found. AS the
jury well put It, failure to find this evi-
dence at that time, in our opinion, greatly
hampered efforts Of police officers from the
sheriff's office and Maryland State Police
who made complete investigation Of this
case at q later date, and it has also been
big hindrance to the grand jury In their
investigation"
Evening star., 1954-10-10

lished by the Century Co., written by
Prof. w. w. Willoughby of Johns Hop
kins University, editor of the series:
'The Ladder Of Swords" by Gilbert
Parker; "Titian." George Gronau:
Seeking Life and Other Sermons"
Right Rev. Phillips Brooks, late Bishop
of Massachusetts,: EARTHQUAKES" Mai.
Clarence Edward Dutton, u. S. A.: "Old
Gorgon Graham: More Letters From
Self Made Merchant to His Son."
George Horace Lorimer: "How the
United States Became a Nation" John
Fiske; Before the Crisis" Frederick
Blount Mott; "Narragansett Bay" Ed
gar Mayhem Bacon; "A Kittiwake Of
the Great Kills." Charles Frederick
Stansbury; 1.-THE Affair at the Inn," by
Kate Douglas Wiggin and four collab-
orators; "Shelburne Essays" Paul Ell
mer More: Africa" Mai. A. st. H.
Gibbons, and "The United States: With
an Excursion Into Mexico" a guide
book sponsored by Karl Baedeker but
actually written by j. F. Muirhead as
sisted by DR.. B. E. Martin.
The Star Of October 8, 1904, dis
C4OSCU W AtS ECaOCAS OklO 4dCt tk1aU dI
attempt had been made to
Naval injure, If not definitely to
Sobotooe destroy the new battleship
Connecticut In Brooklyn
Navy Yard. This revelation was
sensational in its : implications. sug-
gesting as It did that saboteurs had
been active In the ship. An unknown
person, capable of excellent work.
manship." had chipped the heads OF
two rivets In frame connecting the
forward frame angle to the keel plate.
He then had drilled holes completely
through the rivets and forced the
rivets down into keel blocks, one on
the port side and one on the starboard
side, thus permitting leakage. Subse-
Evening star., 1954-10-10
Hazardous New Eru'

Your editorial Hazardous New Era"
was read and re-read. It is something
that strikes deep In more than one
home. It is from society that the insane
come. The insane person may be only
temporary patient or criminal If he
is serious case then he does need
protection, social and legal.
District Attorney Rover fears that
a Court Of Appeals ruling will greatly
increase the number Of insanity pleas
in criminal cases. Since the 1882 in
sanity law was put into effect, has not
everything increased in speed and num-
ber? Has not some Of that "speed-up
system" caused the personality disin-
tegration that is prevalent in our
midst?
If man breaks into house and
steals, it Is anti-socia1. He Is not
using good Judgment. He Is q GRIM
inal. II man uses palm-greasing,
If he steals from FILA or other places
similar, that too, is criminal. Why
worry so about protecting society in
one instance and wink at the other?
I am Of the opinion that If some Of us
who have loose screw showing through
our own scalps were a little more
charitable, many of our people, the
courts, the prisons. and the hospitals
would be the winners. It's time to
make a crack in our vicious circle. It's
time to treat crime like cancer. Use
sedatives. It is charitable and If we
are going to accept moderation let's
go all the way. Laws Of 1882 are just
"bit olde."
Mental illness is as intricate as a
watch's movements; when repair by
rest, by nature and by diet would help,
a person should not be punished be-
cause of illness. Neither should he be
put away" forever. He may be close
to some ones heart.
Mrs. C.. r.. ROsSi.
Evening star., 1954-10-10
On Fighting Communism

Ofdcially outlawing the Communist
Party is merely driving party leaders
underground to which they are native,
and where they can burrow undetected.
Nations. scared by the shadow Of
Communism. are introducing reforms
providing more human living conditions
for their destitute. some measure Of edu-
cation for their ignorant, more protec-
tion for their dependents and the United
States is spending colossal sums, mort
gaging future generations. to foster
schemes for the blotting out Of the
shadow.
Communism is accomplishing through
its threat and within one generation,
what Christianity has attempted but
failed in 1000 years to accomplish: the
British lion is at last lying down with
the lambs.
Thus Communism Is slowly revolu-
tionizing society without firing q single
gun. while fatuous red-baiters are send
ing out ferrets to dredge up harmless
rabbits
The sole cure for Communism is to
remove its causes; poverty. despair.
ignorance. rigid caste lines. AS long as
these causes exist anywhere on the
Evening star., 1954-10-10
Fifty Years Ago in The Star -.
John r.. Grinstead.

quently, It was discovered that q bolt
had been drive into the ways with the
obvious intention of making an OBJ
struction which would have caused
serious injury during the launch; also
that three-quarter-inch hole had
been drilled through the outside shell
plate in q place where 1t would have
been impossible to detect its presence
from the outside" Naval Constructor
William j. Baxter was quoted as ad-
vising: "That the ship be brightly
illuminated both day and night: that
special watchmen of mechanical abil-
ity be employed, and that all employees
on the ship be informed of these mali
cious acts in order that each one Of
them may feel that 1t Is his duty to
guard against their recurrence"
On September 81. 1904. the National
Geological Park was the scene Of Incl
dents which cost the
Tragedy lives Of two Of its priced
At the Zoo animals, and The Star
Of the next day gave q
detailed account Of the tragedy. A
magnificent bull belonging to q herd
Of 26 elks brought to Washington from
the Yellowstone Park about six years
previously was the cause Of the trouble.
He had been showing signs Of nervous
ness and jealousy for some time, but
it was not expected that he would
become completely unruly. But sud-
denly the champion became angered
at a youngster aged about 10 months.
five and one-haf years his Junior. and
without any warning he raised his
mighty antlers In the air and made
Q wild plunge toward the object Of
his wrath. Unable or afraid to defend
himself. the latter was pinned hard
against the fence. his side gored and
bleeding. Again and again the monster
rushed him. till he lay dead and badly
Evening star., 1954-10-10

the conventional sources Of energy will have
to be supplemented by the atom on an ever-
growing scale.
So there is nothing visionary or im-
practical about the company organized by
the New England utilities. Indeed, our
newly amended Atomic Energy Act has
wisely created special incentives to encour-
age the launching of just such projects, and
more OF them undoubtedly will be started
as time goes on. The nuclear age-still in
its infancy-is here to stay, and free Amer
lean enterprise can be counted upon to keep
pace with 1t.