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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-11

More than 1000 Shriners of
Almas Temple and their guests
gathered last night at the Hotel
Statler to pay honor to Illustrious
Potentate Orville E. Megby.
They ate a dinner called a
"Hafla," watched an entertain
ment program on an oriental
theme called the "Caliph'S Com
mand Performance" and danced.
Potentate Megby was sur
rounded at the event by members
of his divan. among them Chief
Rabban William Doolan, AS
sistant Rabban' Tuenis Collier,
High Priest and Prophet Herbert
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-11
Indict Other Papers
Printing His Charges,
Greenspun Demands
BY the Assoeiofed Press

LAS VEGAS. New, April TO-
Newspaper Publisher H. M.
Greenspun, indicted in connec-
ton with a column he wrote
about Senator Mccarthy, Repub-
lican of Wisconsin. says he will
ask the United States Attorney
General to bring similar actions
against newspapers and news
services that used parts of the
column after it became a part
of Federal court records.
Mr.. Greenspun, publisher of
the Las Vegas Sun, was charged
with mailing copies of his news
paper containing an article on
Senator Mccarthy which, the
indictment said, tended to "incite
murder or assassination"
IF the writing is of a criminal
nature" he told newsmen, ut
is incumbent upon the Post
Office Department to bring
criminal charges against every
news outlet using the material
in the past few days."
IF the Government is out to
enforce the law, let's see how
far they're ready to co." he
added.
Violent End Mentioned.
The Federal grand jury in
dictment contained a copy of
column Mr.. Greenspun wrote in
the Las Vegas Sun. In one part
it said. Senator Joe Mccarthy
has to come to a violent end . E.
but would hate to see some
simpleton get the chair for such
a public service as getting rid
of Mccarthy"
Mr.. Greenspun, a bitter and
outspoken critic of the senator,
said in Los Angeles yesterday
when told of the Indictment:
1--WE were just performing our
duty to our readers to keep
them fully informed of the
dangers that threaten their Gov
eminent and their way of life"
Surrender Due Next Week.
Mr.. Greenspun is expected to
surrender to the indictment
next week.
At Tucson, AriZ., Senator Nc
earthly said yesterday:
''It is possible my Office sent
a copy of the paper containing
the editorial to the Post Office
Department. We get three. four
or five screwball letters a day.
The people who send them
threaten they are going to kill
me. My Office staff handles
them. I don't see the letters. It
is something new for a news
paper to suggest that such a
thing be DONE"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-11

ENGAGEMENT RING, platinum, double
twist; . large, small diamonds: vic.
Woodward's. Bethesda; liberal reward.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-11
Greece Rejects Red Note
Protesting U. 5. Bases
ex The A,,oeintad Pres,

ATHENS, Greece, April 10
Greece today rejected a Soviet
note protesting establishment of
American. military bases here.
The reply. sent to the Krem-
lin and made public here by the
foreign ministry, said any fur
ther Soviet complaints would be
considered an intervention in
Greek domestic affairs.
The Greek note said the
United States-Greece military
pact was purely defensive in
character and a. supplement to
NATO. 1t said Soviet allega-
ton that a large segment of the
Greek population opposed the
alliance was false.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-11

and the 104th Fighter Squadron
at Baltimore. During the June
maneuvers, the air guardsmen
will be housed at huge Camp
Edwards, a deactivated Army in
stallation adjoining Otis Air
Force Base. Flight operations will
simulate actual combat condi-
tions. The wing executive off,
Ger, 1t. Col. Joseph P. Myers,
of 1928 D street Sc, will be
camp commander.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-11
TV Sets Not New to Most

NEW YORK.-More than half
the homes in America have tele-
vision sets, and Sc per cent of
TV-set owners have had them
for two years or more.
Evening star., 1954-12-20
New Faces in Congress
North Carolina S Kerr Scott
Brings Farm Lore to Senate

Utilities were reluctant to string
lines across two cornfieldS and a
branch to serve one subscriber
And REA couldn't do it all.
Mr.. Scott told the power COM
panies and telephone companies
that if they didn't want to serve
the country folk, the State
would. And there were other
ways. The Governor was forever
dropping hints about the need
for increased corporation taxes
Ceaseless prodding from him
soon convinced the utilities that
those campaign promises hadn't
been just talk.
The telephone companies came
up with phones for thousands of
long patient rural dwellers. The
electric companies, after protest,
strung $1,000 miles of wire into
$4,000 rural homes.
Farmer" Scott was seldom
without a jaw full of Brown S
Mule chewing tobacco, and the
dearth of cuspidors wherever he
went was almost as annoying to
him as the absence of electricity
and telephones in the backwoods
To many businessmen and So
clety matrons he was an un-
Evening star., 1954-12-20

school people and the State Uni-
versity at Chapel Hill. The Sen
ate proponents of Federal aid to
Education will gain an outspoken
and hard fighting adherent too.
His term as Governor saw $3.50
million go into 5000 new class
rooms. ITS gymnasiums, $50
lunchrooms and 1,500 other
school facilities.
Also, President Eisenhower can
expect a sympathetic ear from
Mr.. Scott for the administration S
vast roadbuilding plans. Gov.
Scott literally changed the face
of North Carolina. building a.
80 miles of paved highway more
than the State had hard-surfaced
in all the years before his term.
Gov. Scott made some powerful
enemies. His attackers called him
a dangerous spender of other
peoples money. but when he left
the Governors mansion. there
was $40 million surplus in the
States general fund.
Some of the things he did
would have seemed to be political
suicide to any Southern Office
holder. For instance. during the
heat of the civil rights uprising
in the South in 1948, he told a
Evening star., 1954-12-20

/ great throng that North Carolina
had been short-changing its
Negro citizens. And on other oc-
casions he did not hesitate to rile
the Southern conservative ,ele-
ment OF his party. He named the
first Negro ever to serve on the
North Carolina School Commits
sion. and he followed this up by
picking Negroes for other State
posts.
He appointed the liberal pres
ident of the State university,
DR.. Frank Graham, to fill a
United States vacancy. He con-
tinued to caStigate big business
in the State, while at the same
time. enticing other industries
to locate there.
Like Harry Truman. for whom
he had great admiration. Kerr
Scott often spoke on Monday
and thought on Tuesday. He
was known for saying things that
left politicians with open mouths.
THE only time to hem and
haw and straddle the fence is
when you haven't made your
mind up." he, said once.
During his senatorial cam
paign, Mr.. Scott talked strong
for a bipartisan foreign policy
Evening star., 1954-12-20
New Faces in Congress
By Doyid Koonce

North Carolina's new junior
Senator. w. Kerr Scott, is one
of the most colorful and contro-
versial political figures in the
South.
Mr.. Scott, Governor from 1948
until 1852. last June won the
seat Of Senator Alton Lennon In
the Democratic primary with the
largest vote ever cast for a major
candidate in North Carolina.
A prosperous dairy farmer who
also served his State as agricul-
ture commissioner before becom-
Ing Governor, Mr.. Scott may be
expected to seek leading role
in Senate consideration of all
farm legislation. 1t was his
championship of rural farm folk
that gave him the voter popu-
larity which beat the powerful
Shelby machine in 1948 and
again last June.
Helped Modernize Farms.
When Mr.. Scott became Gov
ernor he found that too many
farm homes in North Carolina
lacked electricity or telephones.
Evening star., 1954-12-20
Hussein Is in London
To Seek Pact Revision

LONDON, Dec. 20.-King Hus-
sein of Jordan flew into Lon
don yesterday to press for re-
vision of the British-Jordan
treaty of 1948.
Under the treaty. Britain now
contributes III million pounds
(Sl8,900.00 for upkeep of the
Arab Legion in Jordan. The
money is paid into the Arab
League account in London.
where it can be supervised by
Britain. Jordan wants the money
paid direct, as rent for military
bases rather than set aside as
a subsidy.
Evening star., 1954-12-20

and q practical" farm program
He said he'd like to see the
United States set up a world
food bank, through which hun
CRY nations could draw upon the
food suipluses of wealthier
nations.
Mr.. Scott was born April II,
1896. in Haw River, N. C. He
still lives there on his fathers
farm.
He was educated in the public
schools and received a BIS. de-
gree from North Carolina State
College in 1917. Two years later,
he married Mary Elizabeth
White. They have two grown
children. Osborne w. Scott and
Mrs. A. j. Loudermilk.
Tomorrow. Senator elect
Joseph C. O'Malloney, Demo-
crat. OF Wyomino.J
Evening star., 1954-12-20

IN JIe nature OF q QefenSe mech
anism rather than the unbiased
reporting Of facts by a news
paper"
May Take Over Industry.
Besides discussing in detail
the most prominent foundations,
the report announced numerous
overall findings and recommen-
dations, a summary of which
follows:
l. The rapidly increasin g
birth-rate of foundations occurs
more for "tax planning than for
charity" The tax-exempt fea-
ture may eventually cause a
large part of American industry
to come into the hands of foun-
dations. The pressure of present
high tax rates now induces the
creation of foundations"
2. "The current vice seems to
be that some of the great foun-
dations are permitting their
funds to be used largely in the
promotion of projects politically
directed to the left"
3. The public should be
"alerted" to the influence of
foundations that make grants
into the field of the so-called
social sciences or other areas in
which our basic moral, social,
econ mic and governmental
principles can be vitality af-
fected."
4. There is a highly undesir-
able concentration of power" in
the major foundations. Through
interlocking directorates, some
have the characteristics of an
intellectual cartel" and can exer-
else elements of thought con-
troll"
S. Foundation trustees, how
ever, dedicated to the lofty pur-
poses Of such organizations,
often have "abdicated" their
responsibility by letting plans
and administration be handled
solely by employees and by dele
eating too much authority to in
termediary groups. This has
developed professional class of
administrators of foundation
funds intent upon creating and
maintaining personal prestige
and independence of action and
preserving its position and emol-
umentS."
Hit Unscientific Research.
6. A "fact-finding mania" has
promoted an excess of empirical
research in foundation projects.
Congress should not dictate
methods of research but founda-
tion trustees should be on guard
against supporting unbalanced
and unscientific research"
7. Few foundations have di-
rectly or indirectly supported
communism but Some have sup
ported subversion in the true
meaning of the term. the process
OF undermining some of our
vitality protective concepts and
principles"
8. The Fund for the Republic,
an offshoot of the Ford Founda-
ton. was cited as IAN example
of the danger that a great foun-
dation may use its public trust
funds for political purposes or
with political effect"
8. The League for Industrial
Democracy and the American
Labor Education Service were
listed as examples of political
use of foundation funds"
10. The Rockefeller Foundation
was severely criticized for financ-
Ing the hlnSey report on sexual
behavior.
II. The Ford Foundation was
described as "a good example of
the use of foundation to solve
the death tax problem and at the
same time the problem of how to
retain control of a great enter
prise in the hands of the family"
because 80 per cent of the owner
ship of the Ford Motor Co. was
transferred to the Foundation.
The committee said there was
illegal in such an ar
rangement. But it cautioned that
the use of a foundation in busi-
ness and estate planning could
lead to serious abuse.
Evening star., 1954-12-20

Friend Of Education.
Gov. Scott was anything but
an intellectual egghead.' Still
he was a great friend of the
Evening star., 1954-12-20

welcome and uncuitured intruder,
what with all his backwoods
drawl.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-18
Monfgomery's War Prize
Defended by Churchill

LONDON. June 18-Field Mar
shall Lord Montgomery has been
defended by Prime Minister
Churchill against charges he
purloined the original sur
render document of the German
armies in Northwest Germany,
the Netherlands and Denmark. !.
Mr.. Churchill told the House
of Commons if Gen. Montgomery
hadn't taken and kept the docu-
ment as British commander back
in 1945 the Americans would
have got it. The field marshal.
listening in the gallery, was seen
laughing.
Gen. Montgomery has said that
after the document was signed
at Lueneburg he sent copies to
the Supreme Allied Commander,
Gen. Eisenhower.
II was asked for the original,
Gen. Montgomery went on. u
refused to part with it"
Scottish Laborite George Thorn
son asked Mr.. Churchill in the
House if the Prime Minister
would arrange for the document
to be recovered and placed in
the national archives.
mo, sir" Mr.. Churchill replied
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-18
Elephants Faster
.Thun People Thought

An elephant fooled q lot Of
people in Kumamoto City, on
Japan's Island of Kyushu.
A department store there
offered a prize for the best guess
on how long it would take an
elephant to climb rs stairs to
the fourth floor. Most people
guessed 30 or 40 minutes. The
elephant took l minute, Z Sec
ondS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-18
Brooklyn Bridge Fixed

NEW YORK up. - Brooklyn
Bridge has been restored to full
use after a four-year moderniza-
ton overhaul which cost 81
million. Once the 71-year-old
structure had a central prom
enade for pedestrians and in
dividual lanes for elevated trains.
trolley cars, wagons and cattle.
1t now has the walkway and six
traffic lanes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-18
New Park Site
Is Picturesque
Bv the Associossd Press

ST. PAUL, Minn.-Minnesota
has received a deed for $500
acres to be used as a park in
the Lower Manitou River Valley
on Lake Superior's north shore.
Conservation Commissioner
Chester Wilson says, the prop
erty contains some of the widest
and most picturesque scenery
in the area.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-18
MATS 10 Speed ReturnOf Indo-China Casualties

MATS also revealed 1t win
take advantage of the So-called
jet stream in the transport OPP
Grafton. This is a high-altitude
river" of strong eastbound
winds and will permit nonstop
fight to Hickam Air Force Base,
in Hawaii, in about Is hours.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-18
Hiberiuns Auxiliary

The Ladies Auxiliary, Ancient
Order of Hibernians, of the Dis
trict will hold a tea from S to Z
pm. Sunday at 4215 Yuma street
NV. for the benefit of st. Co
lumban's Foreign Missionary
Society.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-18

About 1000 Indo- China bat
tie casualties will be flown by
the Military Air Transport Serv-
ice nonstop across the Pacific.
from the Far East to Hawaii. to
hurry them home to France and
Algeria, MATS disclosed yester-
day at headquarters here.
Evening star., 1954-05-27
5. Lowell MeVett-
"a Code for the Committees
Eighteen Senators Join in Determined Drive to Correct
Operations of investigating Bodies-Jenner Objects

ator Mccarthy declared on
Tuesday. after all. this is
being tried by an audience
a jury. I should say-of quite
a few million people ;: And
what Senator is going to pass
up any opportunity to address
himself to an audience of mil
lions of people? The Senator
must say something. if it is
only to deplore, at great
length, the waste Of time.
There is this to be said,
however. in favor of sucn tele-
vised hearings. They may be
reminding the American peo-
pie of the wisdom Of the
founding fathers in providing
that the Government should
have an executive depart
ment. as well as judicial and
legislative. Watching the
committee proceedings any
citizen can hardly fail to real
ize that Government might re-
main forever at a stardstill II
conducted solely by the legis-
lative branch.
Tuesdays proceedings are
typical. First. Senator McCar-
thy builds a big mountain out
of q molehill. And tnen pains
takingly, with many interrupt
tions, the Army reduces the
mountain to q molehill. Then
Senator Mccarthy rebuilds
his mountain. Then the Army
reduces 1t. At the end Of the
day both mountain and mole
hill still dangle before the
Evening star., 1954-05-27

Taxation Of tension. Whether
we have peace or war affects
the American economy and
budget and taxes. It affects
also the trade Of every country
in the world and the prospect
Of more military service for
the youth Of all nations.
Hence, If the talks here have
given the slightest glimmer Of
hope for peace. it is important
to relay that fact no matter
how vague one must be on
details.
The impression given by the
Soviet delegates in their pri.
vate talks here is that they
are well aware Of many Of
the currents that are causing
q drift toward another world
war. They are inclined to
dissect our plans and state
ments. just as we do theirs.
They don't trust us and we
don't trust them. Hence, If
they ask US to present what
to them is q more reasonable
attitude on some controversial
issue, we wonder whether, if
we do, there is a trick behind
the request and whether it
isn't the old game Of leading
us into concession after con-
cession only to find that they
have mistaken our kindliness
for weakness or cowardice.
What can be said under such
circumstances by our envoy?
Truth is the only language we
of the United States can ar
ticulate, because deviousness
doesn't pay, though some Of
the Old World diplomats still
cling to that technique. All
we can say is that America
is not bent upon making war.
If we had been, we have had
many opportunities since 1945
especially when we had a
monopoly on the A-bomb-to
become bellicose and make de-
mandS under penalty of mill
tary action. Even our policy
in failing to go north of the
Yalu in the Korean war, which
has been criticized by many
of us. certainly demonstrated
that we did not want a war
with Soviet Russia in the Far
East or anywhere else. We
knew then that the Soviets
have always dreaded a two
front war and we might have
taken the risk-but we didn't.
1t is interesting how often
the possibility of a third world
war comes into the conversa-
tions among the top men. It is
not surprising because lurking
in the background is the ques-
ton not Of Korea or Indo-
China but the big war that
can come if there are more
Evening star., 1954-05-27
PTA Congress Asks
More Youth Funds
By the A.,oeioted Press

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., May
27.-The National Congress Of
Parents and Teachers wound up
its annual convention yesterday
with a plea that more Federal
money be used in the fight
against juvenile delinquency.
The 5000 delegates. represent
ing nearly 9 million PTA mem
bers. passed a resolution asking
Congress to vote more funds for
the Children's Bureau in the De-
partment of Health, Education
and Welfare.
The PTA group has worked
with the Children's Bureau for
two years on a privately financed
probe of the causes of juvenile
delinquency.
The project is due to end next
July / and the resolution said
such projects should be a "reg-
ular part" of the Childern's Bu-
reau. It asked Congress for a
Evening star., 1954-05-27

ticipant in the negotiations in
which this country has q vital
interest. is in q better position
than his two Western coll
leagues. He has occasional
luncheons with Mr.. Molotov,
whom he had known well while
he was our ambassador in Mos
COW during the Berlin airlift
incident. He refrains, how
ever, from breaking bread or
even talking with the Chinese
and Wet Mimi Communists.
Messrs. Eden and Bidault
find themselves in q difficult
position. since every week
brings new reports Of setbacks
for French arms in Indo-
China. AS time goes on with
out appearance of any decision
on the only possible solution
Of the Asian tragedy suggested
in the American proposal for q
coalition to stop the Red ava
lanche in Southeast Asia, the
situation worsenS.
There are reports to the
effect that France is scraping
the bottom of the barrel in
Africa and is sending Moroc-
can, Algerian and SenegaleSe
battalions to Wet Nam. In the
meantime, however. large bod
les of native troops, trained by
the French, are reported to
be deSerting to the Wet Mini,
who appear in their eyes the
stronger party. Strength is the
only thing that inspires re-
spect. friendship and loyalty to
the men in the Far East.
It is true that the French
have shifted from their origi-
nal position concerning the
Six-weeks-old Dulles proposal.
They are now appealing to
Washington for military help,
at least in the shape of naval
and air aid. But while we
would have been able to
give them such help at the
Evening star., 1954-05-27

around soil conservation. Some
form of price supports would
be included for another year
at least.
Unless Secretary Benson
acts soon and decisively there
will also be some congress
sional instruction on the sub
ject of the present surpluses
which have done so much to
discredit the program. Mem
bers of the farm bloc note that
the Secretary has virtually
thrown up his hands on this
matter, claiming the various
plans would be illegal or too
costly.
They are willing to grant
that the Secretary is sincere
but they believe much can
and should be done. They
also feel it would have been
done by q Secretary who was
not vehemently opposed to the
present program.
In recent years the Senate
has dragged its feet on farm
legislation and in the adjourn
ment rush forced the House
to accept provisions the House
leaders thought unwise. The
House, for example, never
wanted the flexible price sup
ports which now are a stand
ing threat in case of a presi-
Dental veto or lack of new
legislation. This year the
House leaders propose to en-
act their own bill and fight
for it in conference.
Evening star., 1954-05-27

more than a score of increases
in various funds above amounts
previously voted by the House.
which had voted $66 million
more than the administration
asked. The money is for the
fiscal year starting July /.
II think the Senate commit
tee increases are on popular
items, such as research, control
of insect pests, the Forest Serv-
ice and similar items" Senator
Aiken said in an interview.
The bill contains $723 million
new cash for regular activities
of the department and another
1923 millions of loan authority,
for such activities as bringing
electric and telephone service to
farm homes and helping tenant
farmers buy their own land,
Not included in this total was
another $235 million available
for spending without formal an
nual appropriation.
Evening star., 1954-05-27
Fletcher KnebeI-
Potomac Fever

Mccarthy boyco the Senate hearings for Is minutes
couldn't form picket line outside hearings-Pvt
refused to the soup kitchen.
Ethiopias Emperor Selase Ethiopia
phenomenon among ales-one Of the few that hasn't
decided yet it alone
Ike cabinet committee water policy Ikes cabinet
has warmed to the subjec-it spent the past
16 months in hot water.
Army Capt says Schine tried a
Schne hearted He accepting
favors do that might help himself
Stockholders in the battle control of the
Railroad Apparently the chief whether
the road will be renamed the Texas g. Suburbs.
The Senate Finance Committee votes to let defauting
taxpayer keep his and his The idea is that if he
ide-he might
his barrel out of hook.
Veterans Committee votes 250-milon-a-year
pensions that they
balance the budget they break the
polls