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Evening star., 1954-04-19
Martha Raye and Aide
Are Bitten by ~ Monkey
By the Associated Pres,

~ HS NSSoCt0ye0 FfeSe
NEW YORK. April 19.-J.
Fred Muggs had an active week
end. He bit two women-tele-
vision acreSS Martha Rave and
her underStudy, Vicki Carlson
and it wasn't just monkey busi-
ness.
The chimpanzee, a regular TV
performer himself, nipped Miss
Raye's elbow during a rehearsal
Saturday night, and later bit
Miss Carlson above the left eye
as she was giving him a good
night pat.
Il think he just got excited
at Miss Raye's antics and lost
his head" her manager, Nick
Condos, said. He said the elbow
wound was just a scratch.
But Miss Carlson got a more
severe injury-two, inch-long
teeth cuts. She said a National
Broadcasting Co. doctor told her
it would leave a permanent scar.
Evening star., 1954-04-19
Opening Of Tax Files
In Housing Inquiry
Ordered by President
sy q stoff Correspondent, Of IN. stor

AUGUSTA. Ca. April 19.-
President Eisenhower today or
dered Federal tax returns
opened to congressional investi-
gators of Federal Housing Ad-
ministration scandals.
An executive order signed by
the President at his vacation
headquarters here directed that
tax returns for the years 1912
to 1858 inclusive be opened to
inspection by the Senate Bank
ing and Currency Committee or
any duly authorized subcom-
mittee.
Previous General Order.
This made specific an earlier
general order in which the
President directed all appro-
pirate Federal agencies to CO.
operate fully with authorized
committees of Congress investi-
eating the housing scandals.
It was pursuant to this original
order that the Internal Revenue
Service on Saturday turned over
to Senate investigators names
and data concerning 1,149 cor
porationS which officials said
made huge profits through Gov
ernpent-inSured housing loans.
The order specified that such
inspection shall be for the pur-
pose of the committees investi-
cation Of loan projects under
Section 608 of Title vi of the
National Housing Act. This sec
ton pertains to the insurance of
loans for privately owned rental
housing projects.
Covers Broad Scope.
The order did not refer speci-
f1cally to another section of the
housing act under which other
irregularities have been disclosed
that under which loans for
improvements to small properties
were made.
The scope Of Federal tax files
opened by the order includes
any income, excess profits. capi-
tai stock, estate or gift tax re-
turn for 1912 to 1853 years.
Evening star., 1954-04-19

country have signed up unwary
home owners for all types of re-
pairs and remodeling jobs. then
failed to have the work properly
done. consumer groups have re-
ported.
Even long established con-
tractors and suppliers are re-
ported to have engaged in sharp
practices in some cities, owing to
easy-credit possibilities and de-
pendence by FHA on lenders to
check on the kind of service per-
formed.
To reduce abuses, FILA tight
ened up its rules. But it never
entered into an active publicity
campaign to warn consumers nor
sought to publicize widely the
fact that it had adopted a
tougher policy.
Evening star., 1954-04-19
Arn1y's Moneuvers in Carolina
To Study Control of New Arms

rigidity Of corps control both
potential inefficiency and dam
ger. contending that:
l. A corps headquarters can
decide to strike a target which
is scheduled for or indeed al
ready may have been taken care
OF by bombing planes sent by a
higher headquarters.
2. without coordination,
planes heading for a target may
fly into the path Of fire from
atomic cannon. missiles or
rockets.
Operating on average terrain
and under average conditions,
the exercise will provide an op-
portunity for the Army to prove
its claim that its $50 nm. can
non can hit an enemy accurately
under conditions which ground
the Air Forces tactical bomb
ers-in darkness or storm.
Need for Spotter Planes.
The problem Of pin-pointing a
target with a gun firing 20 or
80 miles away could be just as
difficult for the cannon as for
the bomber. Accurate fire at that
range. far beyond vision or check
by ground instruments. can be
possible only through use Of
artillery spotter planes, some
military men argue.
If a spotter plane can get
through to a target. a light
bomber or fighter bomber, car
rying anything up to an atomic
bomb, can reach and find the
same target. these experts con-
tend.
They also say that even with
a spotter plane. a bracketing
fire must be used. It works
this way: with the spotter plane
watching. one shell is fired. It
may be over. The plane radios
orders to make the next shell
short. It may be under. The
third shell should be on target.
The critics say this is expen-
sive business, even If the two
bracketing shots are only con-
ventional, ,non-atomic shells.
But they argue that. still worse,
the two shots necessary to zero
in on the target would warn
an enemy that an atomic bat
terry was getting set.
Evening star., 1954-04-19
By Elton c. Foy

Assoei1isd Press Military Affairs Reporter.
New weapons-atomic cannon,
guided missiles, rocketS-are Civ
ing the Army fire power un-
dreamed of not many years ago.
But they also are creating seri-
Gus problems in the already in
tricate business of running an
efficient battle.
These are among the prob
lens to be worked on in ma
neuvers. involving 100000 Army
and air men, starting this week
in the Carolinas. They are the
first big-scale exercises involv-
ing the firing or simulated use
kof virtually all new weapons.
Deciding what weapons to
shoot at what target has been
a source of argument even with
conventional artillery and air.
craft. The advent on the battle
field or artillery" that can range
out from 20 to scores or even
hundreds of miles and has a
much greater demolition radius
is compounding the problem.
Under Corps Control
The Army's new 28O-milli-
meter cannon, which like the
Corporal" missile or the Hon
est John" heavy bombardment
rocket fires either atomic or con-
ventional explosive, is an ex-
ample.
The gun has a maximum
range of about 80 miles. Under
present organization, the gun is
considered corps artillery" That
means that control of batteries
Of the gun rests with the head
quarters of a corps "a corps
usually is composed of two or
three army divisions.) The con-
troll does not go back to a
higher headquarters, such as a
theater command, where co-or-
dination of tactical bomber and
fighter bomber aircraft of the
air force and navy is main
tanned.
Yet the range of the 28O-mm.
gun and bombardment rocket,
and especially of the guided
missile, reaches out far beyond
the normal fighting front of a
corps.
Some tactic1ans see in this
Evening star., 1954-04-19
InteIIioencs Classified

INDIANAPOLIS. - Only three
persons in every 10000 have los
Of more than ITO, and only six
tenths Of / per cent have los
Of lao or above. Some schools
classify pupils with los above
112-115 as gifted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-23
Man Gets SO Years
For Breaking, Enterinq

A 30-year-old man was sem
fenced yesterday by Judge Wal
ter M. Bastian of the U. S.
District Court for the District of
Columbia to serve from three to
nine years for breaking into two
apartments and a room and
stealing from them.
The man given the time is
Reginald D. Beavers. colored,
listed as having no fixed adj
dress. He had pleaded guilty to
two indictments. one charging
that he entered an apartment
and took pocketbook, and the
other. that he broke into an
apartment and stole So.
Beavers was convicted by a
jury on a third indictment,
which charged him with break
ing into a .room and stealing q
radio. Judge Bastian sentenced
him to serve from one to three
years in each case and ordered
the sentences to run conSecu-
lively.
Judge Burnita Shelton Mat
thewS sentenced Calvin Watson,
26, coolred, of the HOO block
of Ninth street NV, to six
months to two years for robbing
two taxicab drivers of So each
last September. Judge Matthews
gave Watson the six months
to two years for each of the
robberies but ordered the two
sentences to run concurrently.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-23
Constantine Brown

The slim hope that "some-
thing" may come out of the
Berlin conference is based on
the fact that the U. S. S. r.
may recognize that the cold
war against the United States
has not brought the anticipated
results.
The Kremlin was convinced
that under the impact of bur-
denSome military expenditures
at home and abroad the
American capitalistic system
would collapse and an Ameri-
can version of a peoples"
Tin the Soviet sense) republic
would rise on its ruins.
We, too. have erred in our
expectation - or hope - that
the subjected peoples of the
y. S. S. r. and the satellite
countries would not stand very
long for the tyranny Of the
Red dictators; that they would
rise against them and would
establish democratic govern
mentS.
The Communist economists
and whatever corresponds in
Moscow to our psychological
warfare organization are not
capable of understanding the
American form of government.
They reiterate in their propa-
ganda with monotonous insist
ence that the SovietS are great
friends Of the American
people" but opposed to their
"oppreSSorS" - which means
the Government. They cannot
understand that the American
Government is the American
people themselves. They can
not understand that when a
Government no longer has the
trust Of the people 1t is re-
placed by another in the next
election.
The Soviet economists have
followed the economic gyra-
tons of this country with ut
most care since the war. Their
espionage rings in the United
States were instructed. prin-
cipally in 1913, to follow the
production. consumption and
employment curves In this
country as effectively as they
did military chronological
developments.
The cold war and the So
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-23

cases involved disloyalty allie
cations and after a Democratic
member offers to bet there were
only six or seven such cases"
Think the reporters are
ever going to get the story?"
Il don't know, but they
aren't letting up. They're dig
ging into every Government
department and learning a lit
tie more every day. although
nearly all the department
heads have run for cover. It's
one of the best newspaper jobs
I've ever seen in this town.
And they've finally got some
thing started in Congress. The
Civil Service Committee of the
House has written the chair
man of the Civil Service Com
mission for the same informal
ton he refuses to give the re-
porters."
Suppose the committee gets
it and makes it public and it
proves the President has been
wrong. Do you think he will
admit it?"
Cant tell. You see, Nc
Carthy. having run out of fig
ures Of his own, has been using
the Presidents. And If the
President repudiated his fig
ures-well, he wouldn't want
to make Mccarthy a liar,
would he?"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-23
Constantine Brown.
One Slim Hope Of Berlin Talks.
1t Is Slightly Possible Russia May Recognize That
Cold War Has Not Brought Anticipated Results

take Of believing that capacity
of the Russian people to en-
dure the tyranny of the Krem-
lin dictatorship was limited.
This led them to the belief
that they would eventually rise
against their masters. The
death of Stain and the in
ternal struggle for power in
the Kremlin were considered
as great potentials to create
an upheaval in the u. S. S. r.
which would remove the threat
of worldwide aggression by
that country.
The majority of our experts
are thinking in American
terms. They apparently can
not conceive that some 200
million people can remain in
a position of servitude, worse
than that which existed in the
Middle Ages. for any length Of
time, particularly If they hear
of the rosy life outside the
Iron Curtain.
The fact is that the Russian
people, fine as they are. have
never had the opportunity to
know the real meaning CT
freedom. They have been ruled
by dictators ever since the be-
ginning Of their history. They
occasionally had benevolent
cars, but even then they were
not granted the liberty we
know in the United States or
in other Western countries.
The republican regime in
Russia under Alexander Ker-
enSky was too short-lived to
have any impact whatsoever
on the Russian millions.
The change from the alb
solutiSm Of the Russian mon
archy to the dictatorship Of
the Bolsheviks did not i'm
press the Russian masses more
than a change of government
from Democrat to Republican
in this country. The Russians
lost more of the limited free
doms they had acquired in
the century preceding the Boil
shevik assumption of power,
but by and large they felt that
they only had changed mas
tiers. Under these circuln-
stances it is difficult to con-
ceive any mass uprisings in
the U. S. S. R. against the
present rulers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-23
Hopes Of Avoiding
Broker Plan Fight
In Senate Vanish

Hope Of avoiding a Senate
floor fight next week over the
'Bricker treaty-curbing plan APP
peared to have vanished today.
in view of the preliminary skir-
mishing which flared up on the
Senate floor yesterday.
At the same time, the belief
is growing that, in the end, the
Senate, will modify the proposed
constitutional amendment to
meet the administrations OBJ
jections before passing it.
1t also seemed likely that MAX
ing President Eisenhower a CEN
trail figure in the controversy, as
both sides did yesterday, will help
the administration to change the
Bricker plan.
Some observers pointed out
that it puts Republican Senators
40 Of whom joined IN spon-
soring the Bricker resolution
originally-in the position of
= choosing between the President
and the Ohio Senator.
Letter to Colleagues.
Yesterdays developments were:
/. Senator Bricker wrote to all
his colleagues, accusing President
Eisenhower of circulating "er-
roneous charges" about the
pending amendment at a recent
press conference.
2. Chairman Wiley Of the SEN
ate Foreign Relations Commit
tee made public q 48-page attack
on the Bricker proposal as rec
commended by the Judiciary
Committee, and stood by Presi-
dent Eisenhower'S opposition to
it.
8. Senate Republican Leader
Knowland defended President
Eisenhower's right to take his
views on the subject to the
fpeople. Senator Knowland did
this after Senator Bricker had
cited a 1891 opinion by Elihu
Root that the trainers of the
Constitution deliberately ex-
cluded the President from the
process Of amending the Consti-
tuition.
Senator Knowland later pre-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-23
ABrove Man Admits Mistakes
And OIdTmer Is Seriously Disappointed in the President
He's Pleased With Job Washington Reporters Are Donq

investigating his figures and
from what they've been able
to learn the President hasn't
got a leg to stand on. They
can't find, that more than a
handful of those dismissed
could be called loyalty cases.
, Some of the 1.456 appear to
have been fired for drinking
too much, or talking too much
or having bad habits of one
kind or another. Some of them
weren't fired at all. They had
simply died-and without any
charges against them. And
some of them had quit or been
fired before the Eisenhower
security program had got under
way"
What's the Civil Service
Commission doing about it?
Isn't it supposed to protect
Government employees"
We'll, the new chairman re-
fuses to give the reporters any
satisfaction. The reporters
ask him to break up the 1856
figure and the 1900 figure to
show how many of the en-
ployes actually were suspected
of being disloyal. Know what
he says? He says the public
wouldn't be interested in that.
He says it even after a Re-
publican member of Congress
says only 10 per cent of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-23
Fletcher KnebeI-
Potomac Fever

heavy blankets the Nations Capital The city
had much under the Democrathey
head high.
Republican leaders claim they cut likes budget by
So billion This Is liable to make Ike presented
rockbottom budgeAony 81 billion than he thought he
could get.
Senator Aiken asks everybody to drink milk combat
rising coffee prices Ladies lament of "a Pumper
and also forsakenwe took the advice of Aiken
Senate subcommittee okays the vote for 18year-olds
Republicans like to get EN- young-whe they're still ignoring
their parents warnings.
Republican Senator Brcker Steams his fight to clip
likes reatymakng Ike made only
business Of treates-he neglected
Brcker
Senator Mccarthy Ike is his candidate for
election. He knows Ike will the pink
race-Joe intends to give him personal workout
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-23
Three News Executives
To Aid Nieman Selections
BY the Associated Press


CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Jan. %
Three news executives were
appointed taday by President
Nathan M. Pussy of Harvard to
serve on the selecting committee
for Nieman fellowships for
1954-5.
The three are Sevellon Brown
Sd. editor Of the Providence
(R. t. Journal and Bulletin;
Carroll Binder. editorial page ed
itor Of the Minneapolis (Minn. }
Tribune, and Harry T. Mont
gomery, traffic manager Of the
Associated Press.
The three Harvard members
are David w. Bailey, secretary
of the Harvard governing boards;
William M. Pinkerton, director
of the Harvard news Office, and
Louis M. Lyons, Nieman curator
The committee will make its
selections after April Is, the
final date for applications to the
Nieman Foundation. The pur-
pose of the fellowships is to
raise and elevate standards OF
journalism in the, United States
3. and educate persons deemed
especially qualified for jour-
nalism."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-23
u. 5. Health Officials
Surveying Veterans
On Smoking Habits
BY the Associated Press

The Government is question.
ing 100000 World War vet.
Grams to try to learn whether
smoking has any connection
with cancer or other menaces
to health.
The United States Public
Health Service and Veterans
Administration said yesterday
questionnaires were being sent
to the veterans, all holders Of
Government life insurance.
They are bling asked to CO.
operate by supplying informa-
ton on their use of tobacco.
The data will be filed and stud
led when death benefits are
claimed on their policies.
DR.. Harold Dorm of the Ma
tional Institutes of Health said
some conclusions probably will
be possible in about two years
and a detailed analysis in four
or five years.
DR.. Dorm said the veterans
group was chosen because it rep
resents a large segment Of the
population and also because the
fact that these men have life
insurance policies makes it pos
sible to do the followup studies.
The QUESTIONABLE is headed by
a statement from the Veterans
Administration which appeals
for cooperation in a study "of
great Importance to medicine
and public health" It adds:
1.-THE evidence presently avail
able in regard to the subject does
not clearly establish whether or
not the use of tobacco is a seri-
Gus hazard except for persons
with certain diseases"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-23

dent Eisenhower has no arbi-
trary stand" on the subject. He
said the President has never
contended that a treaty could
supercede the Constitution of the
United States.
The Republican floor leader
said he knows the President
hopes an agreement can be
reached on the treaty-making
amendment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-23

viet-sponsored aggression in
Korea caused us to spend the
largest part of the budget on
military preparedness for our
selves and for economic mill
tary assistance to those ma
tons which wanted to resist
the Red encroachments. This
fantastic expenditure raised
the hopes of the men in the
Kremlin that an economic,
collapse would be inevitable.
1t is clear now to some
American official analysts that
the intensification of the East
West conflict since 1948
through the Red saber rat
things in Europe and the shoot
ing war in the Far East was
prompted by the expectation
that our defense expenditures
would bring us to economic
and financial bankruptcy. The
psychological characteristics of
the American people and their
Stubbornness in sticking to the
freedoms they have gained and
developed since the Revolution
are overlooked by the Reds,
who do not know the meaning
Of the word freedom.
The men in the Kremlin be-
lieved that a depression or a
Skyrocketing imitation in the
United States would doom this
country. They were encouraged
in this belief by the fact that
they had found among a num-
Der of American intellectuals
and in a number of labor un-
ions adherents to the Lenin-
Marx doctrines who were will
ing to be servants for Subver-
sive activities. They CLOSED
over the fact that in recent
years the majority of labor
unions purged the Moscow
tools from their ranks. They
also overlooked the fact that
cnce the veil was lifted from
the eyes OF the American peo-
pie through exposure of the
Moscow tools in their midst.
they rallied strongly around
their flag of freedom. But the
conviction in the Kremlin
that America was on the brink
of bankruptcy has persisted in
Moscow until recently.
Our psychological warfare
experts have made the mis-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-23

dicted the President would delay
an appeal to the people pending
last-minute efforts at compro-
mise, which will continue over
the week end.
4. In addition to his letter to
Senators, Senator Bricker took
the floor to answer critics Of his
plan. He insisted the amend
ment would have no effect on
any treaty which dealt only with
external affairs. He also denied
it would require the Senate to
act on thousands of routine
executive agreements. He said it
would merely empower Congress
to pass law specifying the types
of agreements which the Presi-
dent could not make without
ratification.
Key Clause Not in Original.
One Of the ironies Of the stu
alton is that the clause which
has caused most of the contro-
versy was not in the original
Bricker resolution when 81 of
the present Senators of both par
ties introduced it in January,
1853.
That is the clause which says
a treaty shall become effective
as internal law in the United
States only through legislation
which would be valid in the alb
sence of a treaty"
That clause was in separate
resolution which Senator Wat
kinS, Republican, of Utah. intro
duced by request a month after
the Bricker amendment. The
Watkins language was supported
by members Of the American Bar
Association, and the Judiciary
Committee wrote it into the
Bricker resolution before report
ing it to the Senate. Senator
Bricker, however, has strongly
defended what has become known
as the which clause"
Knowland Joins Debate.
Senator Knowland was drawn
into the debate yesterday when
Senator Bricker referred to the
Root opinion given to former
President Hoover when the ques-
ton of repeating the prohibition
amendment was under discussion.
Senator Bricker admitted there
are two sides to the issue involved
in the pending amendment, that
eminent lawyers disagree and
that Congress, not the President,
has the authority to resolve the
issue.
Senator Knowland said Presi-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-23
Housebreakers Get Cash
And Goods From Market

Housebreakers took S215 in
cash and $277 worth of mer-
chandise from Dawes Farm
Market. 1914 Fourteenth street
NV. its owner told police yes
terday.
David L. Schneider. AZ, of 1910
Tuckerman street NV, said the
thieves broke into his market by
forcing the trapdoor in the
sidewalk in front of the store
and breaking a wooden bar of
door leading into the base
ment.
Mr.. Schrieber said, that be-
side the cash, these items were
stolen: 80 cartons of cigarettes,
% dozen pairs of socks and stock
ings and AZ pounds of coffee, 66
pounds of chickens. % pounds Of
pork, seven hams and other as
sorted meat.