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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-08
US. Officials Predict
Lower Prices and
Bigger Profits in IS
Some Unions Seropping
EscuIutor Clauses in
Their Wage Contracts
BY the Associated Press

The year 1855 should please
almost everybody, If administra-
ton economists are right. They
say prices are due to go down
and profits up.
Giving their appraisal Of the
economic outlook in interviews,
they forecast a slow but fairly
steady downtrend of retail prices
during much If not all Of the
coming year.
They predicted that the con-
sumner may find that his income
dollar has gained 2 to 212 cents
in buying power a year from
now.
Moderate Profit Rise.
Nevertheless, businessmen can
expect a moderate rise III profits,
reversing the 1854 trend Of low
cred corporation earnings, said
officials in close touch with bust
ness conditions.
In fact, almost every one eX-
cept the farmer seems to be a
potential gamer in 1855. Farm
prices will decline slightly, the
Agriculture Department has
predicted officially. but farmers
costs are expected to drop also.
So the department thinks the
farmers real income should be
well sustained
Some major unions, sharing the
official view that living costs will
come down, are Scrapping the
escalator clauses in their wage
contracts, to avoid losing a por-
ton of the pay boosts that came
along automatically when prices
were initiating.
The Is incorporating railroad
brotherhoods. representing about
825, 900 workers. Monday headed
off 1-cent hourly wage cut due
on Janaury because of the
autumn price dip by reach
ing agreement with major rail-
roads to abolish the oscillation
clause entirely.
The roads agreed, at the same
time, that Is cents of hourly
wage gained since 1851 by a
succession of living cost in
creases would become part of
the regular hourly pay scale.
This left, as the only large
union group clinging to its cost
of-living clause, the more than
! million auto, farm machinery
and aircraft workers repre-
sented by CLOS United Auto
Workers.
Union Not Worried.
CIO-UAW officials, who pio-
neered the escalator idea, are
represented as unworried. All
but 6 cents of their escalator
Continued on Page AS, Col. g.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-08
Csc Separates
Routine Firing
And Risk Cases
New Forms Sent to
Agencies Do Not
Alter Standards

Civil Service Commission Of.
ficials said today a revised 10y
alty-security form has been is.
sued to Federal agencies for
compilation of statistics regard
ing the program.
csc officials said the form has
been issued to make certain that
employees fired under regular
civil service procedures are not
listed as security risks by the
agencies in reporting the num-
Der of security firings.
Democrats in Congress have
charged that some of the adj
illustrations security risk fig
ures included employees fired for
on-security reasons.
csc officials said the revised
form Gin no way" alters the
administrators loyalty-security
program standards. nor will it
affect the appeal procedures.
Seeks More Accuracy.
csc officials said the revised
form will make possible "a more
accurate" listing of the number
Of security risk firings in the
future. Under the administra-
TONS program, quarterly reports
are made regarding the number
Of security risk firings.
The csc instructions to the
agencies provide that removals
effected under regular civil serv-
ice procedures shall be reported
under >. and should be included
only when the removal is direct
result of an adverse security
determination"
The instructions add: do not
report removals directed by the
Civil Service Commission or re-
movals effected solely because
the individual was not a suitable
employee"
Figures Called Misleading"
Civil Service Commission
Chairman Philip Young, in testi-
mony some months ago before
the Senate Civil Service Conn
mittee, acknowledged that many
of the employees listed as security
risks actually were fired under
regular Civil Service procedures.
Committee members commented
that the Administrators secur-
ity firing figures were therefore
misleading"
Chairman-elect Johnston Of
the Senate Civil Service Com
mittee has announced that his
group will investigate thoroughly
the administrations security risk
program when the new Congress
convenes next month. Senator
Johnston declared that employees
accused in these cases do not
have fair means of clearing
themselves and that the stand
ards regarding what constitutes
a security risk are too vague.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-08
Star Want Ad Rents
Apartment First Day

Mr.. |. /. [. wonted to rent fur
nished apartment. He quickly resolved
bis problem by placing on inexpensive
ad in The Stor Classified. He found
q tenant the first doy his cd oppeored
in Woshinston's biggest classified
medium.
Because it consistently produces the
best year round results, The Star
eablishes more classified dds than the
other Washington newspapers COM
bined.
If you wont to rent, buy, trode Or
sell, do II quickly by telling il to the
long established audience Of The Star
readers. Phone Sterling 5000 and
ask for an ad-tcker.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-08
Joseph B. Keenan,, Gongbuster
And WorProsecutor, Dies
Former Assistant
Attorney General, s..
Stricken in CuroIinu
ByCorter Gorska

Joseph B. keenan,, a lawyer
who won o national reputation
as a "gangbuster" and after
ward became chief prosecutor at
the trials of the Japanese war
criminals, died today while
visiting friends in Asheboro, N.
c. He was sc.
Mr.. Keenan, was a member Of
the law firm of keenan, and
West in the Woodward Build
ing. He lived at 10 Hesketh
street, Chevy Chase. Md.
Got Big Start in Ohio.
A stocky, square-jawed man,
Mr.. keenan, became a gang
buster" first in Ohio after Gov.
James M Cox appointed. the
Cleveland lawyer to assist the
Ohio attorney general Iii the in
vestigating Of crime conditions
in Cleveland. He successfully
prosecuted gangsters there and
in 1888 he was called to WASH
ington, as a special assistant to
Attorney General Homer S.
Cummings In a drive against
kidnapers and racketeers.
Within four months after he
arrived in Washington, Mr..
keenan, won conviction of MA
chine Gun" Kelly and other mob
members for the kidnapping of
a wealthy Gilman. He became a
regular assistant attorney gen.
eral in charge of the Justice De-
partment's criminal division and
was promoted to assistant to the
Attorney General in 1885.
Wrote Kidnap Law.
Mr.. keenan, wrote the. Lind
bergh kidnapping Law and was
responsible for the passage of
more than 10 criminal laws
through which Congress ex-
tended into the States the Fed
eral war on racketeers, gangsters
and kidnapers. AS Assistant
Attorney General he was in
charge of the Justice Depart
ment's Criminal Division.
AS third in line of succession
to the Attorney General, Mr.
keenan, sometimes filled IN at
cabinet meetings. crime hear
ings and Senate committee ses-
sions on racketeering for the
Attorney General.
He was known by President
Franklin D. Roosevelt, whom he
had supported, as Joe, the
Key" He frequently was a
White House contact man" on
Capitol Hill. He worked hard to
win votes in support Of the adj
ministration in the fight of the
bill to enlarge the Supreme
Court. The measure wasn't
passed, but Mr.. Keenan, had a
part in salvaging part of it.
Mr.. Keenan, also won votes
for the omnibus judgeship bill
which created Is District Court
and 5 appellate court judgeships
and helped in the selection OF
the new appointees.
Mr.. keenan, resigned from his
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-08
Frozen Polar Area
Still Big Challenge

STILL UNcHARTED-A huge re-
sion on the eorth's surfoce which still
remoins uHexpIored-the "lond beyond
the pole"-is discussed by Thomas R.
Henry. The Stor's science editor. on
page Also.
DIsTAFF HoNoR-The Bnshtwood
Citizens Association hos O woman
president for the first time in its g.
yeor History. The organizations high
lights ore the subject Of story todoy
on paae AIS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-08
McHole, Democratic
Leader, in Hospital
BY the Associated Press

INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 8.-Doc-
tors at Methodist Hospital re-
ported some improvement today
in the condition of Frank McHale
former Democratic national
committeeman who entered the
hospital Sunday. He has been
i'll with a virus infection, and
had been on the hospitals crit
ical list.
Mr.. McHale was a member OF
the committee from Indiana
from 1887 to 1852. when he
failed to win reelection.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-08
Steel Worker 0usted
AT Red Hearing After
Blast at FbI Informant
Bethlehem EmpIoye Later
Refuses to Testify
Citing Fifth Amendment
BY the Associated Press

A Bethlehem Steel Co. worker
was hustled out of a Capitol
hearing room today after he had
assailed an FBI undercover in
formant as "a lying stool pigeon
-. a Sinking stool pigeon
a lousy scab a toad"
But a few minutes later, the
worker, Paul Ault, was called
back to the hearing room tc
testify. He refused to answer a
series Of questions about possible
Communist connections, citing
the constitutional amendment
that protects a man against CIV
ing self-incriminating testimony
The hearing was before Sena-
tor McCarthy's Investigations
Subcommittee, but the Wiscon-
sin Republican was not present
Senator Potter, Republican, OF
Michigan, was in the chair.
To Seek Auit Firing.
Senator Potter announced
after Mr.. Ault had refused to
answer questions that the SEN
ate unit would seek to get Mr.
Ault fired from his job at Beth
lehem's Wire Rope Division in
Williamsport, Pa.
Bethlehem announced yester-
day it would discharge two work
ers at its steel plant in Bethle-
hem. Pa, who had pleaded the
Fifth Amendment before the
subcommittee earlier in the day
Mr.. Ault fired his charges al
Herman E. Thomas of Allentown
Pa, who served as an FBI in
formant in the Communist
Party for 10 years until May OF
this year.
Mr.. Thomas had just COM
pleted testimony identifying Mr.
Ault as a Communist, when the
stocky steel worker arose in the
back Of the room and launched
his TRADE against him.
Mr.. Ault accused Mr.. Thomas
of trying to take the food out
of my children's mouths" ano
of taking my job away from
me-"
mo decent working man ever
will talk to you again. he
shouted.
Fights Back Tears.
Two Capitol policemen as.
signed to the hearing rushed tt
the back of the room and LED
Mr.. Ault from the room. He sal
in the hall for a few minutes
with his head in his hands
fighting tears.
Finally he went back into the
room to testify, but more police
arrived and stood between him
and Mr.. Thomas who sat nearby
while Mr.. Ault was on the stand
The two Bethlehem employees
who declined to answer questions
yesterday were Joseph A. Pi-
cucci of Bethlehem, Pa, ano
John Szabo of Butztown, Pa.
Mr.. Picucci said he was a re.
pairman for Bethlehem, and Mr.
Szabo described his job as "a
chain man in the beam yards.
| After they testified, Bethle.
hem said both had been sus.
pended land are being given no.
tice of intentions to discharge
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-08
Weother Picture on Pose Abb

WS1tuGt tt%tNtS w ~ fN-SS
q low Of 30 degrees. Rain or
snow was forecast for late to-
night or early tomorrow, with
rain likely tomorrow.
Most of the Nation shivered In
freezing weather as the cold
snap continued. The Weather
Bureau in Chicago said this
morning was one Of the coolest
this season for the country.
The 32-degree line extended
from Southern Georgia. north
westward through Northern Ala
bana into Northern Arkansas
and westward into California.
The coastal stations on the West
Coast and Gulf Coast were about
the only points above freezing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-08
Winds Delay U. S. Trip
Of Liner Elizabeth
BY the Associated Press

SOUTH AMPTON, England
Dec. 8.-Winds gushing up to SO
miles an hour today delayed
sailing of the liner Queen Eliza
beth for Cherbourg and New
York. A Cunard spokesman said
the big ship would sail tomor-
row If the weather eased.
The Queen Mary, en- route
from the United States, also was
delayed a day by the Atlantic
storm. She now is due in Cher
bourg tomorrow. before coming
on here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-08

conference question about the
outlook for peace.
The President emphasized,
however, that one must be care
full about the definition of peace.
He said an armistice is not
peace.
Peace, he continued, is a situa-
ton which justifies so much
confidence that we can devote
the vast majority of our re-
sources and energies to benehting
the people rather than assuring
our defense. He said that is
not the situation today.
On the other hand, he said
the fears of global war are less
than they were at. say, the time
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-08
Cold Snap Easing Today
After Seasonal Low

Slightly warmer weather with
a high Of about Is degrees was
on tap for the area today after
a night which drove the mercury
down to an official seasonal low
of 20 degrees.
It was several degrees colder
in the suburbs. -
The Weather Bureau called for
increasing cloudiness tonight and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-08
Rail Showdown in Jupun

TOKYO. Dec. 8 P.-Letters,
kilograms and commuters were
delayed throughout Japan today
as the national railway workers
launched another in series Of
"go-slow" movements to back
their demands for a year-end
bonus.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-08
Chou Calls Pact
OF U. S, Chang
'War|ike' Act
Red Chinese Premier
Pledges His Regime
Will Take, Formoso
BY the Associated Press

LONDON, Dec. 0.-CnlneSe
| Communist Premier Chou EN-
lai said tonight the United
States Government committed
"a grave warlike provocation'
by entering a few days ago into
a mutual security treaty with
the Chinese Nationalist.
Premier Chou's bristling
statement. broadcast by the
Peiping Radio. threatened that
If the United States does not
withdraw all its forces from
Formosa. the Formosa Strait
and Penghu Islands land per-
sists in interfering in China s
internal affairs, it must take
upon itself all the grave con-
sequences"
Premier Chou described Ma
tionalist Generalissimo. Chang
Kai-shek as "the public enemy
of the Chinese people"
Taking of Formosa Pledged.
The broadcast, recorded here,
quoted the Red Premier as say
ing:
ITO liberate Taiwan (Formosa)
and to liquidate the traitorous
Chang Kai-shek clique is a mat
ter which falls entirely within
the scope of China's sovereignty
and internal affairs and no in
reference by any foreign country
will be tolerated.
Threats of war cannot shake
the determination of the Chinese
people to liberate Taiwan, they
can only heighten the indigna-
ton of the Chinese people.
1.-THE Chang Kai-shek clique
of national betrayal has no
authority whatsoever to conclude
any treaty with any country.
1.-THE mutual security treaty
entered into between the United
States and Chang Kai-shek has
no legal basis whatever and is
null and void.
"This treaty is a betrayal of
China's sovereignty and terri
torial rights and is resolutely OPP
posed by the Chinese people"
Aggression Charged.
Premier Chou said the United
States Government had disre-
garded repeated protests and
warnings" by the Communist
Chinese about this treaty. He
added:
by this treatysrati1e United
States Government attempts to
legalize its armed seizure Of
China's territory of Taiwan and,
with Taiwan as a base, to extend
its aggression against China and
prepare a new war;"
The broadcast came about the
same time Foreign Secretary Sir
Anthony Eden was telling the
House Of Commons here Britain
hopes the Chinese Nationalist
will promise to refrain from pro-
vocative actions against the
Communist mainland.
Mr.. Eden said Britain regards
the new treaty between the
Americans and the Chinese Ma
tionalists as another step toward
lowering tensions in Asia.
Defensive Nature Seen.
"Her majesty's government is
satisfied that the treaty is pure
ly defensive and that its object
is to place relations between the
United States and the Nationalist
Chinese on such a basis as will
result in a closer degree of con-
sultation," he said.
The United States recognizes
Generalissimo Chiang's govern
ment on Formosa. Britain rec
ognizes the Chinese Communist
regime.
Mr.. Eden declined to comment
when Laborite P. j. Noel Baker
asked for a policy of neutralizing
Formosa.
The greatest contribution
Britons can make now, Mr.. Eden
said, will be to use any influence
they have with the Chinese Com
munists to seek the return of the
United States airmen held in
Red China.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-08
By james Z. Roper

The free worlds fears Of
global war are less now than
they were in December, 1850,
President Eisenhower asserted
today.
Gen. Eisenhower gave this
appraisal in answer to a news
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-08


Poge A-3c
Mecorthy Attack on President Stir.
Shorp Editorial Comment. Pose A-ll
Mecorthy- Eisenhower Feud Had q Long
Slow Burning Fuse. Poee A-lC
eral answers a dozen or so ques-
tions on the bitter personal
attack made on him yesterday
by the Wisconsin Senator.
He told newsmen that it has
always been his practice not to
indulge in personal vituperation
and that he would always stand
on that practice.
Seeks Moderate" Support.
AS to the effect of the Nc
earthly split on the Republican
Party, the President suggested
that Republican Chairman Leon
ard Hall be asked about that.
But Gen. Eisenhower pointed out
that he hoped that he would al
ways have behind him the sup
port of a group of what he called
progressive moderates regardless
of party label.
At Republican headquarters it
was said Mr.. Hall would COM
ment tomorrow.
One of the things that caused
Senator Mccarthy to assail Gen.
Eisenhower was the "congratu-
lations" for a job we'll done the
President extended to Chairman
Watkins of the Special Senate
Committee that recommended
censure of Senator Mccarthy.
D Gen. Eisenhower said that in
congratulating Senator Watkins
he did not intend to 60 into the
justice or injustice of the SEN
ate's action in condemning
Senator McCarthy's conduct last
Thursday.
Met by Chance.
The President explained that
Senator Watkins by chance was
at the White House the day he
was named chairman of the
special Senate. committee last
August.
General Eisenhower, pointing
that Senator Watkins once had
been a judge, said he told the
Senator on that occasion that
he knew he would handle the
censure job with complete dig
nifty. ......
When Senator Watkins visited
his Office again last Saturday,
the President said, he congratu-
lated him for handling one of
the most difficult jobs on earth
in dignified way.
Gen. Eisenhower was asked If
he was sorry he asked people to
vote for Senator Mccarthy in
1852 in view of the Wisconsin
Senator's reputation of his sup
port of the President. He replied
that the questioner obviously
didn't expect him to answer that.
Seeks Positive Things.
Rather than INDUCING in per-
sonal vituperation, Gen. Eisen-
hover said he had always stood
for positive things and was will
ing to give credit where credit
was due.
AS for the prospect that right
wing Republicans might follow
Senator Mccarthy into a new
party in 1856. the President said
he has no crystal ball. But he
added that he stood for moder-
ately progressive things, and
that national problems must be
studied intelligently so that all
may share in the great produc-
tive capacity of the country.
Without commenting on the
possibility of a party split, he
said a great number Of people
want a group of progressive mod
crates running their government.
Gen. Eisenhower was asked if
he thought relations within his
Continued on Page A-9, Col. ~
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-08
Lute News
Bulletin
Tree Kills Lumbermoh

A Maryland lumberman,
John ID. Persinger, about 80,
of Laurel, was fatally crushed
today by a falling tree near
Black Rock road 10 miles
north of Rockville.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-08
Guide for Readers

Amusements D-4-5tLost, Found A-3
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Finonciol----c-s-9 Section Bill
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-08
President Bars
Direct Refort
To Mccarthy
Will NOT Indulge
In Vituperution,
He Tells Newsmen
By james Y. Newton

President Eisenhower today
refused to engage in a personal
word battle with Senator Nc
Carthy, who accused him of dis
playing "a shrinking show of
weakness" towards communism.
The President at his news con-
ference brushed aside with gen.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-08

Eisenhower to Brief Congress Leaders on
New Proerom Next Week. Poee A-3
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-08

See Editorial, Point Of No Return"
Poge A-30
Mecorthy Attack on President Stirs
Shorp Editorial Comment. Pose A. 10
Mccorthy- Eisenhower Feud Had q Long.
Slow Burning Fuse. Poee A-l0
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-08
Union Not Worried.

CIO-UAW officials, who pio-
neered the escalator idea, are
represented as unworried. All
but 6 cents of their escalator
Continued on Page AS, Col. 81
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(See FOREIGN, Page A-10D
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