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Evening star., 1954-05-05
Thonoos [. Stokes

Though Democrats did not
"plan it that way" as Frank
lin D. Roosevelt used to phrase
it. they could not have con-
verged on the National Capital
at a more strategic time ,,oliti-
cally for their national COM
mittee meeting, party rally,
Harry Truman appearance,
and stock-taking that brought
leaders from all over the coun-
try.
Not only were Republicans
thrashing around in more
troublous waters than at any
time since they came back into
power nearly a year and a half
ago. But the issues that plague
them and divide them are such
that Democrats, at their group
meetings, were unable to resist
the temptation to take Repub-
lican slogans of the 1852 cam
paign and turn them on the
party now in charge Of the
Government.
For "Truman'S war in Ko-
rea" that Republicans deplored
from every stump in the 1852
campaign. there now is Indo-
China. Though this is not yet
q war so far as we are con-
cerned, it poses an issue that
divides the Republican Party
sharply. It divides them be-
tween those who insist they'll
never vote to send American
troops to Indo-C China and those
others, much in the minority
and led by Senate Majority
Leader Knowland, who are
ready to support whatever
policy involving American
forces the President adopts.
Democrats came together
for their sessions in the middle
of the confusion about Asian
policy and about the confer
ence at Geneva and sirnulta-
neously with the return from
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Wrong Impression Of Dulles
Secretorys Departure From Geneva Is Not Retreat,
As Reds Soy but Step ToMord Revivinq the Y. S Plan

Asia. There is as yet no UNDER
standing in America that the
checkmating Of aggression in
Southeast Asia can have as
direct a bearing on the safety
of the United States as the
American policy Of repelling
aggression in Korea was a step
taken for the protection Of our
interests in Japan and the
Philippines.
Just because the British
cabinet hesitated and an
ephemeral phase Of the prob
lem-the rise and fall of mill
tary fortunes in Dien Bien Phu
got the headlines is no rea-
son to underrate the main
value of the Dulles policy.
Though stymied last week. it
now bids fair to progress to-
ward a logical and deserved
acceptance.
It should be borne in mind
that If the thesis is accepted
that military force is the only
language the Communists un-
derstand, then the assembling
of local allies in and around
Indo- China is of crucial inn
portance, whether consum-
mated next week or next year.
For the relevant fact is that,
when America and her allies
act in unison to plan a mill
tary alliance for Southeast
Asia, the Communists are put
on notice. It would be better
for them to agree to a with
drawal Of their forces and a
peaceful solution now in Indo-
China than to assume, as they
mistakenly do today, that the
Western allies have weakened
and that the Dulles plan was
torpedoed in Paris or London
or both.
The truth is collective action
for collective security is ir-
repressible as a policy. It's
acceptance is inevitable by our
allies, and the Geneva Confer
ence before many days have
passed will reflect this very
important turn of events as
American leadership once more
comes to the fore.
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finally a last straw compelled
him to take a stand for the
honor of the Army over an
essentially trivial incident and
person: Pvt. Schine.
Pvt. Schine enters as
though from a Broadway
musical in immaculate GIs-
one suspects a custom tailor
a chocolate soldier-a marsh
mallow soldier. He is i'm
mensely photogenic. OF course
he wanted to be photographed
with a member of the cabinet.
or with any one else. for that
matter-if it's good publicity.
One wonders whether he has
an agent and whether he can
sing. A perfect Juvenile" to
cast as a stage lieutenant.
deceptively sweet, despite the
spit-and-polish. and one spec
ulates that the type en-
chants bobby soxers, elderly
ladies, and some men. and that
young Pvt. Schine might go a
long way under competent di-
rection to which he Is Oh
viously docile, and that his
folks might angel the show.
Mr.. Cohn, dominant figure in
the odd tandem, is different
type. Very. He didn't get into
that Fort Monmouth picture.
But this is the ineffable pair
of sleuths who toured Ameri-
can embassies, politely received
by veteran Foreign Service Of
f1cials-with murder in their
hearts.
One clicks of the show. In
the old days the phrase was
Get the hook"
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Geneva of Secretary Of State
Dulles. His return revealed the
uncertainty of our maneuvers
and those of our allies in
Switzerland.
The irony in all Of this
and Former Secretary of State
Dean Acheson appreciates that
more than anybody perhaps
unless it's ex-President Tru-
man-is that before Republic
cans came into power and dur
ing the 1852 campaign they
concentrated their fire on the
previous Democratic admins
tration's "bungling" policy in
Asia. Then they were very
sure of what they would do If
they got the chance.
For "the mess in Washing
ton" to which President Eisen-
hover and every Republican
campaigner pointed in 1852
as figuratively they held their
noses, Democrats now find a
counterpart sufficient for their
present purposes. But they do
not have to point it out. It
advertises itself, blazing from
newspaper headlines and tele-
vision screens. In fact, Repub-
licans were trying frantically
to find some way to cut short
the Senator Joe Mccarthy
Army show and rush it off the
stage. The good old Joe" is
sue Of the 1852 Republican
campaign has a different twist
now-and it isn't good"
Republicans were barking at
each other across the COM
mittee table in the caucus
room of the Senate Office
Building. That dramatically
epitomized the split in the
party that extends to virtually
every issue of domestic and
foreign policy. Democrats, in
their meetings here, were
playing back to them the
badly split party" charge
Evening star., 1954-05-05
David lawrence

GENEVA.-Efforts are being
made to repair the cleavage
that developed ten days ago
between Great Britain and the
United States. and it may be
said there is a fair chance Of
getting back on the track Of
allied unity.
Whatever the basic cause of
the misunderstanding, the fact
is that a painful impression of
disunity was created upon the
minds Of American officials
both here and in Washington
when the British cabinet
seemed to veer away from the
principle of united action"
which Secretary Dulles had
carried away as approved after
his last visit to London just
before the Geneva Conference
began.
1t is most discouraging to
read here the erroneous inter-
pretationS which have ap-
peared in some American
newspapers concerning the ef-
forts of Secretary Dulles. It is
just as wrong to say he lost his
leverage here because of what
various Republican Senators
back home were saying as to
argue that an alleged Amer
ican desire to intervene imme-
diately in Indo-C China was re-
buffed by the British. What
went wrong was the timing.
There was a sudden reversal in
London due to the discovery
after the original commitment
to Mr.. Dulles was given-that
the conference of Asian prime
ministers in Ceylon was about
to meet and that any imple-
mentation of a collective
action policy might thereupon
muddy the waters. AS it
happened. while the resolu-
tions adopted at Ceylon were
by no means palatable, they
were not as bad as might have
resulted if the British govern
ment had not exercised a re-
straining influence.
What some American readers
perhaps do not realize is that
the United States came here
with a constructive and far
Evening star., 1954-05-05
Potomac Fever
Fletcher KnebeI-

Citizens lombard Washington end the Mccarthy
Army hearings These hearings getting to be to
who stay from KIP the longest Pvt Schine-or the
millions of housewives watching them.
Five States hold primary elections Primaries help build
the voters moraetere candidates
to vote against.
Democrats hold twoday Jefferson jackson rally in Wash
ngon The conference honors the Bill Rights Jefferson and
jackson rights The Democrats have been billing
for them SINCE
Republicans boom Counsel jenkins of the
Mccarthy hearings for the United States Senate
him. the time these hearings he
the only Republican left alive.
Economists declare that the dollar worth SIS cents
last There's doubt that people
Eisenhower dollar bette-they it longer
Democrats block efforts shorten the Mccarthy Army
hearings claim of the woods yet
this hing-there still couple of Republicans left who
haven't beaten each other to pulp.
Senate Republican Leader support
States The Mccarthy wing Of
party around shooting Communists
there may not be any left to subpoena.
Evening star., 1954-05-05

tinuing recession would spur.
The threat Of such return
to 48 individual State patterns
would be strongly attacked by
every labor leader. It is an
issue, too, that they would not
find it hard to explain to their
unions.
Chairman Smith of the Sem
ate Labor Committee and Ma
jority Leader Knowland have
backed Senator Goldwater's
statement that his general ap-
proach had the approval of
White House labor advisers.
They do not claim the Presi-
dent approves it.
Until the Smith h-Knowland
announcements, a liberal CO.
alition in the Senate had hoped
to attract enough votes to re-
commit the bill. They had also
tackled on a civil rights amend
ment, thinking it would impel
SouthernerS to oppose 1t.
A quiet cloakroom check
yesterday indicated that re-
committal would fail and Sen
ator Goldwater might prevail.
The liberal effort will con-
tinue. Part of it will consist Of
making sure that the Presi-
dent personally understands
he may be asked to sign a bill
going far beyond his sugges-
Evening star., 1954-05-05
Stor of 'Teuhouse' Play
Wins Virginia Honors
BY the Assoeio,ed Press


NEW YORK, May 5.-David
Wayne, star of the Pulitzer
prize-winning drama, "The Tea
house, Of the August Moon, -
yesterday was awarded at a
luncheon at Town Hall the prize
of the Barter Theater, the State
theater of Virginia, for the best
acting performance of the sea-
son on Broadway.
Cornelia Otis Skinner, the
noted star, headed a committee
composed of Mrs. Wendell Will
kie, Mrs. Martin Beck. Mrs.
Robert Whitehead. Miss Doro-
thy Stickney, Miss Mariko Mkt
and Miss Elaine Perry who
named Mr.. Wayne as best per-
former.
Robert Portefield, managing
director = of the Virginia State
Playhouse, presented Mr.. Wayne
with l acre of land in Virginia
to make him a legal citizen of
the State, a smoked Virginia
ham and a huge pletter ION
which to eat the ham off Of"
Evening star., 1954-05-05

from an advanced persecution
complex. He is surrounded
by enemies" Those possessed
of this unhappy complex first
believe themselves followed by
one limited conspiracy. Then
the conspiracy Of their perse-
cutors widens.
In Senator McCarthy's case
1t has come to include persons
or forces in every party and
American institution. In the
caucus room everybody ex--
cept his immediate staff ap-
pears to him hostile: The
chairman, Senator Mundt;; the
counsel. Mr.. Jenkins; his col
leagues of the Senate. He
glares up at them from under
lowered brows, as though cor
nered, alternately retreating
with unexpected suavity or
stabbing back with irrelevant
points of order. He complains
that he isn't being given a fair
chance, that every one is
against him; and underneath
every snarl is a whine.
One watches Senator Nc
Carthy with exasperated but
not humanity unsympathetic
concern. He is obviously
physically unwell and nerv-
ouSly overwrought.
Mr.. Stevens appears as a
good. well-meaning citizen who
has been anxious to serve his
country honestly, but also anx-
ious because of the circum-
stances to please; unwilling to
offend any one; wishing that
all could have gotten together
and co-operated; perfectly
willing to appease his present
opponent up to a point, until
Evening star., 1954-05-05
Dorothy Thompson
Dorothy Thompson
Senate Drama Without a Hero
McCorthy-Army Script Is Terrible, the Characters Are
Undeneoted and There Isn't Even q StruooIe

Nothing definite promises to
emerge from the spectacle
staged in the caucus room of
the Senate Office Building in
Washington. None of the prin-
cipalS in the drama is better
ing his position in public
esteem. Senator Mccarthy,
Army Secretary Stevens and
Mr.. Schine are Republicans.
The effect on Republican
prestige is already discernible.
One anticipates that it will be
reflected in the next congress
sional elections.
The American public loves
a fight. But in this fight no
body appears worth a bet. Like
a dreary modern play in which
every one is a victim of anony-
nous forces. it is a drama
without a hero. Without a
hero there is no real struggle
and therefore not even a viii
lain. The essence of drama is
character: Man against man,
or man against fate; but if any
fate is involved in this play it
is the fate of the Republican
Party Uneasily one hopes not
the fate of American Govern
ment.
The script is terrible. the
characters undelineated, and
not only the President wishes
the curtain were rung down.
The characters?
Senator Mccarthy appears
as more neurotic than vicious,
again like a figure in one of
those feeble modern plays.
Obviously, to any one watching
the screen, the Terror to Sub
versiveS is himself suffering
Evening star., 1954-05-05

shot through both legs by a %
rifle. Her 66-year-old hus-.
band was charged with assault
with a deadly weapon.
A policeman reported later:
John gave no reason for the
shooting other than that he
had not been feeling well
lately"
Evening star., 1954-05-05
Womun-Huter

OAKLAND, Calf. (R.-This
pigeon seems to be giving the
bird to everybody. females Of
his own species included.
Mrs. Harry Esquibels, owner
of the registered fowl, said he
has been perched determinedly
atop a telephone pole in Oak
lands Sunnymere district
since early Monday.
"He escaped when we were
trying to get him into the mat
ing cage" she explained.
"We've sent all the best fe-
males up to get him. but he
just sits and let's them fly by.
He hasn't even come down to
eat.
II don't know what to do"
She asked that the registra-
tioni number Of the reluctant
pigeon not be mentioned be-
cause: II don't want to hurt
his reputation"
Evening star., 1954-05-05
Special Delivery

PITTSFIELD, Mass, (R.-
State troopers pursued Mayor
Robert T. Capeless IS miles
yesterday to pass on a message
from his secretary that he had
his dates mixed.
A trooper spotted the Mayor
driving through Athol on his
way to Waltham, where he is
scheduled to speak tonight
not last night. Z
The secretary discovered the
mistake after the Mayor left.
Evening star., 1954-05-05
TV Snow Is ReoI

BURLINGTON, VT. (P).-C. p,
Hasbrook, president of Radio
Station Weak, says there will
be a slight delay in opening Ver-
mont's first television station
here.
Work on the transmitter being
built atop Mount Mansfield is
held up by 10-foot snowdrifts.
Evening star., 1954-05-05
Life in the u. S.
.Knocked-Out
Teeth Can
Be RepI0nted
BY the Assoeicted Press

CLEVELAND, May 5.-Teeth
knocked out? Grab them and
hurry to a dentists office.
If you get there fast enough
and the teeth are in good condi-
ton, the dentist may be able to
replant them, DR.. H. A. Maxmen,
Detroit dental specialist, told the
Cleveland Dental Society yester-
day.
DR.. Maxmen said such replant-
ed teeth can grow into the jaw
bone again and last as long as Is
years.
Evening star., 1954-05-05
Never Too Old to Learn

DUSTIN, Okla, R.-A. c.
Cook, SO, retired Navy veteran,
is scheduled to graduate from
Dustin High School this month
only one year ahead of his
son
Mr.. Cook, president Of the
local Parent Teachers Associ-
alton, decided to finish school
after retiring from the Navy.
He doubles as chaperone at
senior class parties.
Evening star., 1954-05-05

into power you may never see
another one"
It is the Democrats turn to
have fun, after 20 years on
the receiving end, and they
are having it.
Evening star., 1954-05-05
Italy Convicts 5 as Spies

TURIN, Italy, May S. R.-
Five young Italians were con-
victed by a military court yes
terday of spying for Czechoslo-
vakia and given sentences rang
ing from one to II years in
Jail. Two others were acquitted.
Evening star., 1954-05-05
Thieves Stretch Luck

CHESTER, Pa, R.-M Mrs.
Vincent ReDavid told police two
burglars ignored a pocketbook
containing about $40 on a bureau
when they broke into her home
and walked OF with only a
ladies' girdle.
Evening star., 1954-05-05

the aStoniShment Of pedestrians
and fellow drivers.
The driver without a head,
however. turned out to be Spike
Jones, the zany band leader. He
had rugged UP an oversize jacket
and scarf to conceal his head.
The stunt, in which Mr.. Jones
was accompanied yesterday by
his wife. singer Helen Grayco.
was to dramatize the slogan of
the greater Los Angeles chapter
of the National Safety Council:
Don't lose your head in traffic" !"
Evening star., 1954-05-05
Heudless Rider

HOLLYWOOD. tR.-An ap-
parently headless motorist drove
through Hollywood traffic, to
Evening star., 1954-04-09
Catholics 10 Move
Girls Academy 10
ST. Stephen S School

One of Washington's oldest
Catholic girls schools. Immacu-
late Conception Academy, will
move to new quarters and a diff
ferent parish this summer
Immaculate Conception Acad-
emy was founded shortly after
the Civil War in connection with
the church that bears the same
name at Eighth and N streets
NV. The academy is at 1854
Eighth street NV.
MSgr John S.. Spence, director
Of education for the archdiocese
Of Washington, announced yes
terday that the academy is to
move to the present st. Stephens
Parochial School building at
Twenty-fourth and K streets
NV st. Stephens School is be-
ing discontinued because of
diminished enrolment, and the
move will permit Immaculate
Conception to be expanded.
Future use of the academy's
Evening star., 1954-04-09

present building, which is 80
years old. has not yet been an
nounced. It is expected to be
occupied by some church organi-
zation.
Immaculate Conception Boys
School at Til N street NV. is
not affected by the changes.
The girls academy, which is
operated by the Sisters of
Charity of st. Vincent de Paul,
is a four-year high school
affiliated with Catholic Univer-
sity. It prepares students for
college, nursing school or busi-
ness. The business course has
had major emphasis in recent
years.
Evening star., 1954-04-09
Navy Appointment
Of Sheehy Set Today

Monsignor Maurice S. Sheehy,
whose selection for promotion
to the rank of rear admiral in
the Navy Chaplain Corps Reserve
was announced recently, was
scheduled tc receive his formal
appointment from Secretary of
the Navy Anderson at a Penta-
gon ceremony today.
He is a member of the faculty
of Catholic University.
Evening star., 1954-04-09
Bermuda Dean Gets
Virginia Fellowship
BY the Associoted Press

CHARLOTT ESvILLE, Va,
April 9.-Wallace Mcclure, dean
of the, Overseas Division of the
American international College
in Bermuda, has been awarded a
Thomas Jefferson fellowship at
the University of Virginia.
Mcclure will come here to
work in the university's law
school library to write a book on
International law.
Mcclure has taught at the
University of Tennessee. Ameri-
can University, Georgetown Uni
versity and jobs Hopkins Univer-
Sity.
Evening star., 1954-04-09
Truman 10 Be Honored
Al Dinner in New York

NEW YORK, April 9.-Former
President Truman will be hon.
ored at dinner here May 8, his
10th birthday.
Proceeds from the $70-a-plate
affair will be used for the Tru-
man library in Missouri. The
81, 100000 project will house the
former Chief Executives personal
papers.
The dinner at the Waldorf
Astoria Hotel is being sponsored
by a committee headed by Rich
ard C. Patterson, jr., newly ap-
pointed chairman of Mayor Rob-
ert F. Wagner's Reception Com
mittee.
Evening star., 1954-04-09
Warning Arraignment
Postponed Indefinitely
By the Assoeiated Press


BALTIMORE, April Gov
ernment attorneys announced
yesterday that the arraignment
of Emmitt r. Warning, alleged
Washington gambler, on income
tax evasion charges, has been
postponed indefinitely.
Warning was to have been ar
raigned today in Federal Court.
Assistant United States Attorney
Herbert H. Hubbard said War
rings counsel. James S. Morrow,
jr., is tied down with another
case indefinitely.
Mr.. Morrow is expected to file
a motion asking transfer of the
case to Washington.
Evening star., 1954-04-09
World Bunk Lends
Norway SIS Million
By the Associoted Press

A $25 million loan to help Nor
ways economic development was
announced by the World Bank
yesterday.
1t is the first loan to Norway
by the institution. The money will
go to ease Norway's foreign ex-
change situation, enabling its
private shipping firms to buy ad-
ditional vessels abroad and keep
up Norway's position as the third
maritime nation of the world.
Evening star., 1954-04-09
U. S. Flyer Escapes Crash

BITBURG, Germany. April 8
P.-A United States Air Force
spokesman said today an F-86
Sabre jet fighter plane crashed
last night near Brussels. Belgium,
and the pilot parachuted to
safety. He was identified as I'd
1t. Jack Cummings, "a, of BoS-
Sier. La.
Evening star., 1954-04-09

Pat Pekin
Holy Trinity High School
Attention all you fashion
minded teens! Spring fash
ions galore follow last weeks
gala Cherry Blossom Festival.
Only one more week before
Easter to see all those new
spring styles Experiments
with brilliant new tropical
reds. blues. greens and aquas
produce exciting results. Dat
able dresses. those adorable
princess lines predominating
= are in abundance in the
Teen Department.
Exotic, heady prints are the
latest things.
OF course, the boys still love
that popular smart navy.
set off by crisp. sparkling
white pique collar and cuffs
completely feminine. Not only
will your latest appreciate
these new styles. but so will
you!
While you're feasting your
eyes on these delicious new
comers. drop in to sign our
Teen Guest Book. I'll be here
at Woodie's in the Teen De-
partment from IL to 5.
Pat Pekin
Holy Trinity High School
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-30
Senator and Judge
See Danger in WV
Post S Red Probes
BY The A..oeidaed Pres.

CHICAGO, Jan. 30.-A United
States Senator from Michigan
and q Chicago Judge say there
appeared possible danger In q
proposal by q Veterans Of For
eign Wars post for investigating
fellow citizens listed as Commu-
mist suspects.
Both declared such investi-
cations should be made by the
Federal Bureau Of Investigation.
Judge Charles S. Dougherty,
a national official of the VFW,
said he was alarmed by reports
that VFW post at Norwalk,
Conn mad set up a secret COM
mittee which screened reports
Of suspected Communist activity
by Norwalk residents. deciding
whether to submit the reports to
the FBI.
Grave danger might result
from activities of this sort by
individuals who have no expert
epce," Judge Dougherty said.
Charging individuals with being
Communists without proof is a
procedure fraught with much
danger to our country"
Individuals Should Report.
Senator Potter. Republican, of
Michigan. a. World War II vet
eran. said on a CHS radio broad
cast last night that investiga-
tons such as proposed by the
Norwalk VFW post generally
would be dangerous thing"
Senator Potter, a member OF
the VFW. said: If some one has
any information that a person is
a Communist or subversive, they
should report that to the FBI.
Now to go out as a hunting Or
gapization on their own--people
who are not definitely trained in
that f1eld--I think that possibly
1t presents a danger"
Charges without Facts.
Judge Dougherty. who is chief
justice of the Cook County
Criminal Court. told newsmen his
principal concern was that dis
cussions Of charges by lay COM
mittees. and Endorsement Of such
charges. would inevitably lead
to that slight breath of scandal
devoid Of any basis in fact which
can ruin the life of any innocent
Individual"
The Norwalk posts activities
nave been Endorsed by Wayne B.
Richards, national VFW COM
mander. as ''in line with the
thinking of the national organi-
zation" which favors "ferreting
out Communists" He said the
National WV Committee on
I'm american Activities would
map Q detailed action program
at a meeting in Washington
February 15-l7.