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Evening star., 1954-04-23


about the battle, this fact has
only just begun to get through
to the French people. The reali-
zatlon has brought disillusion
and bitterness and a sense of
helpless Illustration.
Until now the public has been
distracted by the heroic side Of
the defense. There has been
pride and hope in the perform
ance of French Union troops and
faith that everything must turn
out well in the end.
Talk of Impregnability.
Not long ago dispatches from
the battle area spoke of the en-
emy'S breaking himself against
the fortress in a futile effort to
gain victory. There was talk of
Turing Wet Mimi into a pitched
battle So far as the average
man knew. the fortress itself was
impregnable behind it's strong
points. mine fields, and barbed
wire. In any case, it was said,
the garrison could always fight
its way out.
Now comes the truth.
The best of Frances Expe-
dictionary Army - Legionnaires,
parachutiSts of the colonial in
fantry and Wet Nam Army,
sharpshooters from North Africa,
more than 10000 men in all
are bracing themselves for a last
desperate struggle with an over
whelming enemy. There is no
escape and no relief.
Four full divisions of Wet
Mini, backed by Chinese artil-
lery. have squeezed the defend
erS into an area little more than
mile in diameter. For twenty
six days the airstrip on which
the whole tactical defense de-
pended has been useless. Rein
forcement and supply by para
chute have become almost i'm
possible within the shrinking
perimeter. Early monsoon rains
have begged down French tanks
and flooded dugouts where hun
dreds and perhaps thousands of
defenders lie wounded.
People Are Wondering.
The truth has hurt There is
always anguish in the spectacle
of exhausted men fighting with
out hope in a strange land
against pitiless enemy. People
today are asking themselves
what will happen in France if
Dien Bien Phu falls.
Some who know France well
say the effect will be disastrous.
After seven discouraging years
Evening star., 1954-04-23
S Pct. Income Tax Cut Urqed
ByU.S. Chamber of Commerce
New Slash Indorsed for Next January
In Lieu of Roising $500 Exemption

asked how the Government
would make up this loss. The
committee was told earlier in
the hearings that if every dollar
of earnings over $4,000 was
taken in taxes it would produce
$50 billion.
After today'S hearing the FL
nance Committee will mark time
for a week to allow it's experts
to study numerous changes bus
ineSS SpokeSmen have recon-
mended in the bill, which repre-
Sents the first attempt in more
than half a century to over
haul the entire revenue code.
AS passed by the House, the
bill cuts taxes STA billion,
mainly by eliminating double
taxation of dividends and lib
eralizing business depreciation
allowances. Most of the lost
revenue is made up by a one
year extension of the present So
per cent income tax rate on cor
porationS, which will produce
SIP billion.
The Chamber of Commerce
urged that the corporation rate
be allowed to drop back to At
percent next year. Commenting
on the House bill as a whole,
Mr.. Madden said its basic phil
osophy is good, but he suggested
a series Of changes that should
be made.
Individual income taxes went
down 10 per cent last January,
but Mr. Madden said further re-
ductions should be made syste-
matically in 1855 and thereafter,
both for individuals and corpo-
rations as Government spend
ing is adjusted to peacetime
conditions.
Evening star., 1954-04-23
Storm in Arabian Sea
EnguIfs Royal Transport
BY The Associated Press

ABOARD THE GOTHIC IN
THE ARABIAN SEA, April 23.-
A heavy tropical thunderstorm
today sent lightning dancing
around the Gothic, bearing
Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke
of Edinburgh from Ceylon toward
Alden.
Rain cut visibility to few yards.
The Gothic's radar scanner went
into operation and guards were
doubled to make sure there was
no collision with the four war;
ships forming the royal escort.
After two hours of thunder,
the weather improved.
The Gothic plowed through
gray seas at II knots.
Evening star., 1954-04-23
Mccarthy Requests
Murrow's S Sponsor 10
Pay for " Film
Says AIcoo Should Get
Bill for Work on Reply
To CBS Commentator

Senator Mccarthy said today
he will submit a bill for filming
his television reply to CHS Com
mentator Edward r. Murrow to
Mr.. Murrow's sponsor. the Alu-
minum CO. of America.
"They paid more for Murrow's
attack on me than this would
amount to. and they should pay
for it," the Wisconsin Senator
told an Associated Press reporter
after being informed that Fox
Movietone News had sent the bill
to his Office.
A spokesman for the film COM
pany would not say how much
the film cost, but estimates have
placed the amount at from &c.
900 to $500.
Bill Requested to Cohn.
. The spokesman said the bill
was mailed at the request of
Roy Cohn, chief counsel to the
Senate Investigations subcom-
mittee. Mr.. Cohn had engaged
Fox Studios for production of
the film.
The film was presented on
CBS-TV the night of April 6 in
reply to Mr.. MurroW's criticism
of Senator Mccarthy last month
At the time it was reported
that Senator Mccarthy had
asked Alcoa who would pay for
production of the film. The COM
pany referred him to CHS, stat
ing the network was paid a fixed
fee each week and production
arrangements were up to it. .
MurrOw Won't Pay.
CHS said it had not been asked
to pay. Mr.. Murrow said there
was no precedent for such a
case. but that he certainly
would not pay for it personally"
Senator Mccarthy said he had
not seen the bill himself, and
did not know the amount. But
whatever the total, he said, the
movie company will be paid"
I'm responsible for the bill in
the first instance" Senator Nc
Carthy said. He added that he
believes it would be "only fair"
for Alcoa to pay for the film but
that whether ! would sue them
or not, I don't know, because of
the cost and time a suit would
require"
Evening star., 1954-04-23
Diem Bien Phu Catastrophe
In Making, France Realizes
Defenders Squeezed, Cannot Escape;
Paris Pride and Hope Turn to DisIIusion

of war they say such overwhelm-
ing defeat could hasten the
search for way out of the
Indo-C Chinese war at any price.
Anger Rather Than Despair.
1t may be wishful to think
otherwise and to remember that
in the past nations have drawn
courage and inspiration from
their bitterest defeats. Yet at
this point the impression is one
of anger rather than despair.
There is criticism of military
leaders who may have calculated
risks too hopefully. But above
all one feels there is a harden
ing of will that whatever hap
pens the sacrifice at Diem Bien
Phu must not be in vain and
unavenged. In face of this feel
ing the government that tried
to negotiate with the enemy
might be in for real trouble.
At any rate the consequences
of the battle are not limited to
France alone. If the fortress
falls, the whole free world shares
Frances humiliation and anger.
It also shares a bitterly learned
lesson about the enemy in South
east Asia and what it costs to
underestimate his intentions and
his strength.
For most of the free world,
the lesson comes at the begin
ming rather than the end of the
struggle. Like other defeats-at
Dunkirk and Pearl Harbor and
Corregidor-the call to action is
clear and timely. News from
Indo-C China today is grimly pes
simistic, but there is room for
hope that even if the fortress
falls it will be the most costly
victory the Communists have
ever won.
Evening star., 1954-04-23
DeodIine 10 Tonight
For Sunday Want Ads

The deodIine tonight for won't DDS
TO be published in The Sunday Stor
is 10 o'clock by telephone or 8 o'clock
at the business counter in The Stor
Lobby.
II you hove something to buy.
trode or sell. tell it to the long estob-
lished audience Of Stor readers. The
Star corries more classified ods than
ony other Washington poper beeouse
The Stor produces the best results.
Just phone Sterling $1,000 and
ask for on od-tokeT.
Evening star., 1954-04-23
Moroccan Shoots Up Bar
In CasabIanca, Wounds 7
BY the Assoeioted Press

CASABLANCA. Morocco. AHril
ga Moroccan strolled into a
Casablanca bar last night.
whipped out a pistol and
wounded seven Europeans. He
fled on a bicycle.
Three of those shot were re-
ported in a serious condition.
Two young people. 13 and II.
were among the other four
slightly hurt.
Anti-European violence has
increased in Morocco since the
French last August dethroned
nationalist-minded Sultan Sidi
Mohammed Ben Youssef and re-
placed him by his uncle, Moulay
Mohammed Ben Arafa.
Evening star., 1954-04-23
Green Sues 10 Force
Virginia. Democrats
To Certify Candidacy
$4,000 Damages Asked;
Arlington Attorney Filed
For Congress Primary

Arlington Attorney John Locke
Green today filed suit in A1exan-
dria Federal Court against the
10th Virginia District Democratic
committee in an effort to compel
the committee to certify him as
one of its candidates for Congress
in the July primary election.
The committee announced
Monday that it had declined to
certify Mr.. Green's candidacy on
the ground that his filing did not
comply with "the statute relat-
ing to primaries and the require
ments of the Democratic Party"
The committee statement, re-
leased by its chairman, State
Senator Charles r. Fenwick, also
said Mr.. Green had failed to
state that he was a member of
the Democratic Party" Mr..
Fenwick declined to elaborate on
the statement.
Mr.. Green, whose controversial
law suits in the last two years
have kept A4lingtons govern
ment and school board opera
tions in a turmoil, was a Re-
publican when he was Arlington
County treasurer.
His suit today, which names
MIR. FenWick as defendant, also
asks $4,000 damages. 1t charges
that Mr.. Fenwick "has wilfully
refused to comply with the stat
utes" providing for qualification
of candidates for the House of
Representatives from Virginia's
10th district.
Earlier, Mr.. Green had tried
to file as an at-large candidate
for Congress from the District.
but the State Board of Elections
said that would have violated
the 1852 Virginia law that di-
vided the State into 10 con-
gressional districts. wyer
Green also challenged that de-
cision and the validity of the re-
districting law in a suit still
pending.
Evening star., 1954-04-23

Television and rodio coveroee Of the
Mccarthy Army hearings tonight will
be os follows:
WTOP-TN will show As minutes Of
filmed hishIights at ll:30 pm.
Tope recordings Of hearing testi-
mony will be eorried by these rodio
stations: WAAL, S-9 p.m.; WRC.
l0:l5-ll pm; WT0P, 10 1920 p.m..
and WWDC, I2:30-l am.
Evening star., 1954-04-23
Senators Studying Records
Of Schine Fomi|y's Finances

subpoenaed records from the
telephone company and New
York night clubs.
Until the information goes into
committee records, Senators
could not discuss details of the
evidence. They declined to say
whether it indicated any one re-
ceived any financial favors.
Pvt. Schine himself flew into
Washington yesterday. He
brushed past newsmen and cam
eramen at the airport.
Wearing an Army private's
uniform he was met at the air.
port by an unidentified man and
woman. They walked briskly to
the parking lot. entered a private
car and drove away.
Evening star., 1954-04-23
Students Storm Assembly

KARACHI, Pakistan, April %
(R.-A group of Karachi STU
dents stormed the Constituent
Assembly yesterday to protest
the proposed adoption of Ben
gall as one of the official Ian
guages of Pakistan. Police ousted
the demonstrators.
Evening star., 1954-04-23
FHA Loans Paid
One Mans AIimony,
Senators Are Told
BY the Assoeioted Press

by me ASSociofeo PreSS
One man financed alimony
payments to his wife through
FHA-insured loans, Senate
investigators were told today.
Warren Olney III, head of
the Justice Departments
Criminal Division, cited the
alimony case during testi-
mony before the Senate
Banking Committee. He did
not explain how the alimony
racket was worked. but COM
plants about the program
have mentioned instances
where the householder got
a cash rebate Of part of the
loan.
Evening star., 1954-04-23
Two Teen-Agers
Admit Killing
.Lindstedt Here
Murder Weapon in
Sidewalk Staying
Dec. II Recovered

Two youths we're picked up
early today in the sidewalk Slay-
ing of ex-Marine William Jo-
seph Lindstedt and police said
both admitted the fatal shoot
ing. Both have been charged
with homicide.
The climax of a four-month
manhunt came when one of the
youths led police to where the
murder weapon. a 38 caliber
revolver, was hidden in a sewer
trap.
Mr.. Lindstedt was shot down
on December II in the 1900 block
of Fourteenth street NV. short
ly after he and two companions
had left their car and were
about to enter the Covered Wag-
on Restaurant. The 22-year-
old veteran of two years Ko-
rean service died within mo-
Iments after he was shot through
the heart.
Youths Named.
1t. Lawrence A. Hartnett OF
the Homicide Squad said these
youths admitted the murder:
William Lewis ((RedS" Howie.
colored. II, of the 100 block Of
Eighteenth street NV.
Isaac Lewis "Ikey" White.
colored, 18, of the HOO block Of
Trinidad avenue NE.
Police sources revealed the tip
that broke the case came from
a colored man in District Jail
awaiting trial on a charge Of
robbery with pipe.
The youths, both former in
mates of the National Training
School for Boys. were of juvenile
age at the time Of the shooting.
Chief of Detectives E. E. Scott
said Juvenile Court will be asked
to waive jurisdiction in both
cases and permission will also be
sought to lodge them in District
Jail until a decision is reached
on the waiver.
1t. Hartnett said both youths
admitted it was Howie who fired
the fatal shot.
HOWE, according to 1t. Hart
nett, took police to the rear OF
house where he formerly lived
in the 400 block of X street NV.
and showed them where the gun
was hidden. 1t. Hartnett said
one discharged cartridge and two
live ones were still in the
weapon.
Robert M. O'Connor, who was
with Mr.. Lindstedt and Mrs.
O'Connor, at the time of the
shooting told newsmen he had
identified Howie today as the
man who did the shooting.
Motive Cloudy.
The actual motive for the
street shooting was cloudy. Both
youths, according to 1t. Hart
nett, claimed the entire episode
involved a remark and a raised
fist.
Ironically, Howie was picked
up for questioning March 6 in
the unsolved knife Staying of
Miss Alma Preinkert, University
of Maryland registrar. And the
man who questioned him at
the time was Detective John C..
WilSon-one of the two Robbery
Squad detectives credited by
police with the tip that led to
the arrests.
Police were not surprised that
Howie had been questioned and
released. They have said re-
peatedly that in the course Of
questioning between 5000 and
10000 suspects, the killer might
pass through their hands. What
they needed, they said, was a
key that would make the men
they sought open up with some
admissions.
Police said Detective Wilson
and Detective Salvatore Greco
! Continued on Page Alt. Col. 5.)
Evening star., 1954-04-23


Globemasters touched down
briefly in Saigon today with 220
beret-wearing French jump
troops who were rushed out of
Paris Orly Field Tuesday.
The total number being fer
ried out by the American Air
Force in the hurry-up move to
save Dien Bien Phu was a mill
tary secret. Advices from Paris
said the Americans possibly
would airlift 1000 troops in 10
planes.
Detour BY Way of Ceylon.
En- route they were forced to
detour from the direct Europe
to-Asia commercial route to re-
fuel at the British base at
Colombo, Ceylon. India's Prime
Minister Nehru announced that
his government would permit no
foreign troops to cross Indian
territory, by air or by any other
route.
Dispatches from Colombo said
three of the giant. troop-packed
Globemasters landed there yes
terday and two more came in
today. Bangkok, the capital of
Thailand, was their next stop
before Saigon.
The airlift leader stopped only
briefly in Saigon. 1t later roared
off toward an undisclosed air
field outside the combat area to
deposit it's burden of fighting
men. Planes manned by pilots
from the French Air Force or
American civilians will drop them
into Dien Bien Phu.
Fresh Troops Badly Needed.
The reinforcements were sorely
needed at the beleaguered French
fortress in Northwest Indo-C China
where the Communicated Wet
Mimi are going all out for a
major victory to influence the
impending Geneva Conference
on Far Eastern affairs.
There today Wet Mimi troops
captured another French Union
outpost after a day of see-saw
attacks and counterattacks. They
reached the outer lines of barbed
wire guarding the fortress heart.
The outpost finally lost is only
TOO yards from the nerve center
of Dien Bien Phu's CONSTRUCTED
French Union lines.
Combat Is Desperate.
In welter Of red mud, the
rebels were stopped for a while
in hand-to-hand fighting. The
garrison forces leaped from their
trenches with bayoneted rifles
and grenades and grappled with
the rebels in an engagement a
high command spokesman de-
scribed as extremely violent. At
close range, the French Union
troops often dropped their rifles
and matched long-bladed knives
with the Wet Mimi in death
struggles.
The casualties obviously were
heavy on both sides.
Already. by a series of night
assaults and furious digging and
thruSting, the Wet Mimi have
managed to draw their steel ring
tighter around the fortress.
They have cut its girth from
a broad 6-by-4-mile area to
one not more than a mile and
a quarter across.
Evening star., 1954-04-23
Half q World to Go

AUCKLAND, New Zealand,
April % (P.-Joseph Bormel,
26-year-old student who left his
home in Baltimore Is months
ago to hitchhike around the
world, arrived here todav in
Dutchman's ketch from Ceylon.
Evening star., 1954-04-23
Hydrogen-AIpho Made
Science Fair Winner

TEEN SCeNE-The author, Sharon
Doron, doesn't know anything obout
hydrogen -olpho photography. but the
science fair winner, Philip, Liehtmon,
does. See poee BIZ for on expIono-
tion Of this interest on the part Of
our serious teen -ooers.
Evening star., 1954-04-23
By Crosby S. Noyes
Foreign Correspondent Of The Star

PARIS, April 23.-Today at
Dien Bien Phu, France is face to
face with a defeat of catastro-
phic proportions.
In spite of the thousands of
words that have been written
Evening star., 1954-04-23

PortioI Text Of Stevens Settlement to
Inquiry. Poqe AS
publican who insisted that the
Army staff aide who monitored
the conversation be put under
oath to testify concerning it.
MIR. Stevens told the Senate
subcommittee investigating the
Army Mccarthy feud that SEN
ator Mccarthy, in the telephone
conversation, requested that Pvt.
Schine not be assigned to duty
with the investigation subcom-
mittee.
, When the subcommittee pre-
pared to accept a transcript of
the conversation of November 7,
1858. into the record, Senator
Mccarthy demanded angrily that
Jack Lucas. an assistant to Mr..
Stevens. be put under oath to
testify as to what he overheard
on another phone in an adjoin-
ing office.
Senator Mccarthy said the
monltoring of his talk with Mr..
Stevens was indecent and
illegal"
Pvt. Schine is a former con-
sultant to the Mccarthy Com
mittee. The Army says Senator
Mccarthy sought to pressure it
in 1858 into giving Pvt. Schine a
commission.
In his account of the Novem-
ber 7 telephone conversation.
under questioning by Ray H.
Jenkins, special subcommittee
counsel, Mr.. Stevens indicated
the chief source of that pres
sure was Roy Cohn, the groups
regular chief counsel.
Schine Becomes Issue. =.
Senator Mccarthy said that
one of the few things that he
had trouble with Cohn on was
Schine," Mr.. Stevens told the
packed hearing.
"He said, Roy thinks Dave
should be a general and operate
from a penthouse on the WAL
dorf-Astoria' or words to that ef-
feet"
At this point, the question of
the monitOring of the cOnVerSa-
ton was raised.
Earlier Mr.. Stevens had testi-
fed he tried to get Senator Nc
Carthy to stop "hammering the
Army in headlines" with accusa-
tions that there was espionage
at Fort Monmouth. N. j.. when
such was not the case"
The Secretary also testified
that he told the Junior Wiscon-
sin Senator at luncheon meet
ing in his Pentagon Office last
November 6 that "if they kept
on, they could drive me out of
office"
The testimony touched on one
of the key points of the cons
troversy and Senator McCarthy's
charges that Mr.. Stevens sought
to block the investigation and
turn it On other branches of the
armed services.
In his formal statement at
yesterdays hearings, Mr.. Stevens
described this Mccarthy charge
as false. And in his testimony
under croSs-examination today,
all given under oath. he said re-
peatedly he did everything pos
sible to cooperate with Senator
Mccarthy in the investigation of
the radar laboratories at Fort
Monmouth.
HighlightS of Testimony.
Other highlights of today's
hearing included:
l. Mr.. Stevens swore that Sen
ator Mccarthy persisted in seek
ing direct commission for Pvt.
Schine after the Army had found
him unqualified.
. 2. Mr.. Stevens said that in a
conversation with young Schine
he told Mr.. Shine that that if
he faced up to his forthcoming
Evening star., 1954-04-23
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Russio Asoin Asks Seat OF Geneva for
China, but Is Turned Down. Poge A. 10
Evening star., 1954-04-23

Pictures ond Other Stories Related 20
MeCorthy Heoring. Pages "A and AS
PortioI Text Of Stevens Settlement to
Inquiry. Poee A-6
Evening star., 1954-04-23
Stevens Blocked in ATTEMPT
To Introduce Transcript Of Call
By MCCARTHY Regarding Schine
Senator Demands
Thut Army Stuff
Aide Be Called
By Cecil HoIIond and
Allen Drury

The Army today offered to
produce the transcript of a con-
versation between Army Secre-
tary Stevens and Senator Nc
Carthy in which the Army said
the Senator attempted to in
f1uence the assignment to duty
of Pvt. G. David Schine.
But the move was temporarily
blocked by the Wisconsin Re-
Evening star., 1954-04-23
U. 5. Air|ifted Troops
Reaching |ndo-China
AsFort Yields Outpost
First Ferry Plane Londs
In Saigon From Paris
By Way of CeyIon
BY the Assoeioted Press

SAIGON, Indo~ China, April %.
-American-airlifted paratroop-
ers. from France began pouring
into Indo-China today as the
desperate French defenders of
Dien Bien Phu lost another out
post in the northwestern corner
of the fortress to the Wet Mini.
The first of a feet of huge
United States Air Force CHA
Evening star., 1954-04-23

Stossen Urges Aid for Indio Despite Bon
on U. S. Airlift. - Poee A-l0
Evening star., 1954-04-23
Hearing on the Air

Continued on Page A-4, Col. -
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An Associated Press Newspaper
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Continued on Page Az. Col. ~
Evening star., 1954-04-23
Southeast Asia Report

1ndo-Chlna can be saved from COM
munism without new Korean situation,
but it will take time. See the report by
William L. Ryan, Associated Press foreign
news analyst, on
rage A-1S.
Evening star., 1954-04-23

aom. Deliver, Monthly SUNDAY si7s : CENTS
Evening star., 1954-04-23

of war they say such overwhelm-
ing defeat could hasten the
search for a way out of the
Indo-Chinese war at any price.
Evening star., 1954-05-14
Redskins End Ties
With WheIcheI by
Rope Gift for Golf.

The Redskins severed all ties
with the coaching regime of Ad-
miral Billick Whelchel yester-
day when they donated 1000
feet of rope to the Prince
Georges Country Club for use
at the Women's National Cap
ital Open.
AS Dick McCann, the Red
skins general manager. tells it,
the Redskins were practicing in
Evanston, H.. in 1949 on a high
school field, and the daily prac-
tices were being overrun with
youngsters who interfered with
the pro football players.
Whelchel asked McCann to
have the field roped off. Dick
had to canvas the entire city of
Chicago and some Of its suburbs
to obtain that much rope, and
the next week had it shipped to
Washington in a freight car.
The admiral and the Redskins
parted company after the sixth
game Of the 40 season. The
rope has been stored in the Red
skins Office ever since.
-WHITTIESEY.