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executive sessions Of committees
should be banned;
Witnesses and counsel should
have the right to examine the
transcript Of their testimony at
executive sessions;
A person whose name is men,
toned or who is specifically
identified at q hearing and be-
heves testimony or other evil
dence or comment by q commit
tee member or counsel adversely
affects his reputation should be
afforded to file a statement with
the committee or to testify in
his own behalf and to cross
examine witnesses whose testi-
mony affected him:
Committee files relating to in
dividuals should be confidential.
Passed by Voice Vote.
The resolution was passed by
the bar associations House of
Delegates on q voice vote after
numerous unsuccessful attempts
to water 1t down by amendment.
The resolution was prepared
by the associations committee on
individual rights as affected by
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-18

taught In the Nations public
schools.
The association rejected the
recommendation yesterday after
q debate Of an hour-and-a-half.
The original resolution indorsine
the proposal was offered by the
groups American Citizenship
Committee. headed by United
States District Judge Walter M
Bastian Of Washington, D. C.
Judge Bastian argued that ito
effectively combat communism
Americans need to have an I'M
derstanding OF what 1t is about \
Samuel p. Sears Of Boston, an
opposition leader, asserted:
'We don't need communism in
our educational system even as q
scarecrow. We don't need to fly
the Red flag Of Russia alongside
Old Glory just for comparison. a
The Proposed Code.
The recommended code for
congressional committees In
cludes these principles:
The jurisdiction Of each in
vestigative committee should be
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-18

national security. headed By
Whitney North Seymour Of New
York.
Virtually all debate by at
torneys favoring amendments
was to the end that Congress
sional Investigations Of Com
munist activities would be stran-
gled. But Arthur Chamberlain
Of Rochester, N. Y, told the del
egates:
This does not apply exclu-
sively to communism. We want
fair play in all Investigations"
Former Representative Sum-
ners said. Il can't see how con-
gressional committees could
possibly conduct their business
with these handicaps. You're
doing a very dangerous thing
when you handicap these COM
mittees."
The bar association also in
dorsed a bill yesterday to permit
postmasters to impound the mail
of any one accused Of passing
obscene literature through the
mails.
Approval was voted over the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-18

strenuous objections Of william,
A. Roberts. Washington attorney
and former peoples counsel Of
the District Of Columbia. He
described the bill pending In the
Senate as wholly destructive"
He said the bill would permit
seizure Of mail without notice
or a court hearing and that the
definition Of sobscene" in Fed
eral statutes has been broadened
to include anything that could
cause public disorder" This, he
added, would include even polit.
ical literature and newspapers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-18
Precept and Example

BLOOMSBURY. Pa. tP).-Dr.
D. w. Beckley Is active in all
this towns blood-donor drives.
telling his patients and friends
Of the need for It In saving lives.
And he estimates he has given
1913 pints of blood over q period
of years, about eight times the
amount Of blood In his body.
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u. 5. Bar Association
Proposes Code for
Congress Hearings
BY shs Assoeia.sd Press

CHICAGO. Aug. 1s.-The
American Bar Association yes
terday called on Congress to
adopt a code of procedure de-
filming the jurisdiction of inves-
tigative committees and guar
anteeing the rights Of witnesses.
Hatton w. Summers Of Dallas,
Tex, former chairman of the
House Judiciary Committee, told
the delegates the proposed code
included in the resolution is "a
dangerous thing" which would
handicap" congressional inves-
legations into communism.
Reject Teaching In Schools.
The association also rejected
a. proposal that the theory and
practice Of communism be
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-06
This Rock
OF Ours
By Bill Glib
BY Bill Gibb

al facilities locally. r. E. Griener,
CAA employee, is to be compli-
mented for the industrious manner
in which he pushed the project to
what now promises to be a sue
cessful conclusion.
Superintendent Horace O'Bryant
and everyone in his office have also
contributed greatly to the project.
They've handled the detail work in
an efficient, praiseworthy manner.
Griener, O'Bryant,. and this writ
er were supposed to compose the
original survey team to test out
public opinion. AS things turned
out, the public accepted the idea
with such enthusiasm that it might
be more apt to say, "all military
personnel and civilian residents of
Key West composed the team. /"
Many of the people who couldn't
qualify or didn't desire evening
courses still encouraged others 10
fill out survey forms.
One thing turned up from the
study
Folks who couldn't qualify for the
college courses still indicated that
they wanted some type of evening
study. For these people, Superin-
tendent O'Bryant and his co-work-
ers are developing high-school Ie-
vel courses. O'Bryant specifically
mentions practical Nursing as
being of outstanding value to those
interested in such work.
Call the Board of Education and
tell them what kind of high school
course you would like to study in
the evening!
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-06

It may be old but it's still good
"a farmer had arranged to have
his old mother cared for in nurs-
ingshome, where he had been visit
ing her each week.
Every time he went to see her,
he brought her special lunch of
delicacies from the farm, includ-
ing bottle of fresh milk in which
he slipped little brandy - on the
advice of the family doctor.
"The aged lady was always de-
lighted with the luncheon, and one
day as she slipped the milk, she
said gravely: John, don't ever sell
that cow
Here's another one
''He only drinks to calm him
self,
His steadiness to improve.
Last night he got so steady,
He couldn't even novel"
That's Enough
In case you wonder where /
swiped that stuff from, it was orr
ginally mimeographed in a Nation
al Safety Council newsletter on
Chemical Tests for IntoxicatioE.
The only publications / know that
put out better jokes are those
printed by a group known as 'tAl-
choloics Anonymous.
BY the way, there's an AA group
here In Key West - meets every
Thursday in closed session and on
Sunday night in an open session.
The general public, interested in
the problems of alcoholism, is in
vited to the latter.
Marathon, as well as Islamorado,
have IA organizations too. For in
formation as to how to get into
touch with, these groups, you can
call 2-5972 during evening hours.
During the daytime, the Key West
Chamber of Commerce, the Key
West Police Department, or The
Key West Citizen will glady refer
you to the proper people.
Miami Univ. Extension
Dean Steinhoff and Dean God
dard of the University of Miami
will arrive in town tonight to study
survey plans relative to establish
ing an Evening Extension of the
University here in Key West.
They viii be presented the Key
to the City at a dinner being he'd
in their honor. Mayor Harvey will
preside.
1t is a wonderful thing - the
establishment of higher education
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-06
US. Is Determined To Help
Form Wet Nam National Army

The American aim, in coopera-
ton with the French and the gov.
ernment of Premier Ngo Dinh
Diem, is believed to be the forms-
ton of an army smaller than the
one now on paper, making ii one
of quality rather than quantity. The
United States is anxious that Il
be loyal to the Diem government.
Conversations aimed at getting
American participation in training
the army are making progress and
a compromise plan is expected to
be adopted soon.
The recent removal Of the rebel
lious chief Of staff, Gen. Nguyen
Van Hinh, has cleared the way
for the Premier to exert his influ.
ence not only on the army but In
the country. Diem is listening to
the army's problems, calling on Il
to help In the work Of reconstruc-
ton and promising to take steps
to alleviate economic and political
oroubles.
One Of his biggest jobs win bs
to eliminate the influence Of the
Communists in regions they occu-
pied for nearly eight years. To do
so he wiz have to shake up local
as well as district and county or
ganizations, putting loyal NATIONAL
lists into positions of authority Ia
cooperation with the army.
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-06
Today's
Business
Mirror

NEW YORK R-The British
pound sterling is at its lowest level
IN relation to the American dol
lar in two years-a more than
seasonal weakness that has the
experts scurrying around for ex-
plantations.
And the talk about making the
pound freely exchangeable with
the dollar is being shunted aside
once more.
The British claim they have
hberalized trade and currency ex-
change progressively this year so
that soon it will look a little like
convertibility.
American bankers point out that
what Britain seems to be aiming
at for the moment is hard-top
convertible-to use an automobile
industry term. 1t may look like a
convertible. But just try to roll
the top back.
Convertibility is that state of
comparative international finan-
cial innocence that prevailed way
back when -. in those pre-World
War / days you could take some
dollars and buy some British
pounds, or French francs or Ar.
gentine pesos without hindrance,
if you liked the rate the seller
offered.
For the American businessman
that meant if he sold $100 worth OF
his goods abroad he could bring 100
dollars back to this country Il
he liked. It meant that the Amer.
ican farmer could do the same,
if he sold grain or cotton abroad.
Now the farmer often must &C
use for the foreign money, chances
are he can't make the sale, and
the grain or cotton goes into a us
government price support ware
house.
Americans 60 on selling abroad
when they can, or bartering wher
they can't get dollars, or playing
three-way bookkeeping deals witt
other countries. Some big corpora
tions have set up special depart
ments to handle the new look ii
world trade.
Government agencies try three
way barter deals, also. The For
eign Operations Administration il
working out deal with Denmarl
whereby we send her four million
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-06
Socialists Win
J. Vote Margin
In West Berlin
By DANIEL pE LUCE

BERLIN Up - The antireari11a-
ment Socialists won a one-vote ma.
jority in West Berlin's parliament
today but promised to govern the
Soviet-encircled city in partnership
with Chancellor Konrad Alden.
auer's Christian Democratic Union,
Municipal spokesmen of the two
leading parties warmly agreed
they must establish strong new
democratic coalition here under
the shadow of the Russian army,
regardless of their partisan quar-.
rels in West Germany over foreign
policy.
The mammoth turnout of 1854.
766 voters for yesterdays election
Ole per cent of those eligible
gave the Socialists ga seats, the
Christian Democrats "A and the
Free Democrats 10. The lineup fol
the past four years had been 81
Socialists, "a Christian Democrat,
and 80 Free Democrats.
Since the death last year of So
cialist Mayor Ernst Reuter-, Chris.
tian Democrat Walter Schreibei
had headed a coalition administra.
ton from his party and the Free
Democrats.
The Berliners. stingingly repudi
ated the Communists and the Nazi
tainted German party. Both extre,
mist parties failed to win seat
The Reds received only 2.7 pei
cent of the total vote and the Ger.
man party as per cent.
Cries of "police terror" came
from Communist propagandists Il
explain their party's debacle.
West Berlin police reported 81
Red provocateurs arrested in elec.
ton disturbances yesterday and q
tota. of S51 arrests In the last two
weeks of the campaign. OF those
briefly jailed, 68S were East Ber.
liners ineligible to vote in the AL
lied sectors.
The campaign was fought large.
ly on the prevailing West German
issue of rearmament VS.. speedy
Big Four talks on Germany.
The Christian Democrats IN.
creased their vote from 24.6 per
cent of the 1850 vote to 80 per cen,
this time. But the Socialists, ira.
wound up with A per cent, just
under their 44.7 per cent Of four
years ago.
Parliament's third party. thu
Adenauer-allied Free Democrats
suffered drastic fall, from Z:
per cent in 1850 to 12.7 per cent.
These were the final returns:
Valid votes 1.544, ,443, Socialist,
ga, ,646, Christian Democrats 466.
sos Free Democrats 196s4s Ger
man party 75159, Communists 81.
225, Refugee party 80, ,1s5 Middl,
Class Economic Assn. 26,S6S, Ere,
Social Union (right-wing Socialists
2,374, left-wing Socialists (USPDl
1855.
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-06
By Sam Dawson

dollars worth of our surplus farm
commodities. She in turn is to
send an equal amount of her prod
ucts to one or more nations to
whom we already have promised
foreign aid
The whole thing will be done
without the exchange of dollars in
a world where exchange of curren-
cies is now so difficult. If you
count out the American taxpayers,
that is. They put up the four mill
lion dollars in the first place to
acquire the surplus farm prod
uctS.
But progress is being made to-
ward freeing trade and currencies.
For example, France has just
moved to lift import quotas on q
long list of items Jan. l. Frances
healthier finances helped speed
the day.
West Germany is raring to 60
on all-out convertibility and so are
Belgium and the Netherlands. The
Economist, British weekly, notes
that these three countries have
continually urged Britain to take
the final and dramatic plunge into
convertibility."
Most Americans, however, see
little chance that England will do
so until after the general elections
next year. The Laborites are
against it and the Conservatives
fear to risk it in an election year.
Current weakness in the British
pound isn't helping any. But most
/ observers think that seasonal fac
tors may be largely to blame for
that.
! Other things enter in. however.
London's dock strike held up ex-
ports so that Britain didn't get the
dollars she might have. She Is
making larger than usual pur-
chases Of tobacco and coal from
'us just now. Britain is paying in
dollars for a large quantity Of
wheat bought for the account Of
continental Europe.
i And some In the sterling area
| aren't getting as many dollars this
year for their products-Australia
for example, isn't selling us az
much wool this year. And this
month Britain Is to make its an
nual 1so million dollar repayment
on loans by the United States and
] Canada.
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-06
BY JOHN RopERIck

SAIGON, Wet Nam R-Events
have strengthened U. S. determin-
alton to help form a small but
efficient national army, which can
maintain order in non-C Communist
South Wet Nam.
Last weeks battle between q
company of army troops and the
police, virtually in the center Of
this capital, accentuated a worsen-
ing situation.
Five months after the end Of the
eight-year Ind0:hina war these
elements are implanted in the
country, each a law unto itself:
|. The national army Of some
20O, 200 troops.
2. The national surete, nominally
responsible for law and order.
8. The Gao Dai army Of about
20, 900 men controlling two million
vietnamese in an area west Of
Saigon.
4. The Hoa Hao religious arm Of
5000 which holds sway over a
million persons southwest Of Sal
gon.
S. The Binh xuyen society, which
controls the legal gambling dens
and prostitution houses of Saigon
and Cap st. Jacques on the coast.
The chief Of the national surete
is Lai Van Sang, one Of the leaders
Of the Binh Xuyen.
Of these diverse groups the Gao
Dai, a religion which claims to
embody the best features of all
the worlds beliefs, is the most
important. Excellently organized
and well trained, its army rules
much Of Southern Wet Nam.
Because Of the weakness of the
national army the government is
unable to control any Of these
groups or the populations under
them. Although the Gao Dai and
Hoa Hao are participating in the
government, clashes in which lives
are lost occur between them and
the army at intervals.
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-06
Burglar Knew His Way Around

: BALTIMORE B-A burglar whs
knew what he wanted--and where
to find it--took more than $500
from hiding places all over Ed
ward Karst's home yesterday.
Karst and his wife were out Of
the house between 4 am. and Z
am. delivering newspapers. Their
37-year-old daughter said she was
asleep on the second floor and
heard nothing. The thief took mon
ey from:
A basement chair, a basement
desk, first-floor china closet. a
second-floor dressing table and .
picture frame.
Police said the house was not
ransacked. Karst said 500 in cash
and $40 in checks taken from one
hiding place represented the bulk
of his Saturday collections from
his newspaper route.
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-06
NEwLYwEDS DIE I'm
FLAMING CAR CRASH

EAST LANSING, Mich. u = A
young couple driving from their
Detroit wedding reception to 4
h IN e y m DO n in Grand Rapids,
Mich, died yesterday in the flam-
ing wreckage of their car while
helpless Witnesses watched
Marvin r. Forester, 20, of st.
Clair Shores. and his bride. Rhea
Mae, IS, were trapped after their
car missed q curve and crashed
into tree.
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-06
CHRISTMAS TREE MAN
ENDS WATER THEORY

CHICAGO B - A man who sells
&c, 900 of them every year says it's
Just silly to put the butt of your
Christmas tree in water on the
theory that win keep it fresher.
"And water with sugar added
that's even sillier," says Gust
Relias, who WHOLESALERS trees.
Relias said today the supply viii
be ample this year, but was wary
Of predicting retail prices. He said
this Is approximately what the re-
taller SHOULD" charge: s-foot tree,
$S.25; 5 to 6-foot SITS; 4-foot $l.5O.
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-06
|Adlai Says
|IkeCan Be
Defeated In Sc
BY JACK Sell

NEW ORLEANS R = Adlai E.
Stevenson today was reported ad-
vising party leaders he believes
President Eisenhower can be de-
feated in any 1856 reelection bid
if Democrats pound away at what
he regards as the unpopularity of
the Republican party.
Stevenson's views, as inter-
preted to those who talked to him
during Democratic rally which
ended here Saturday, was that Eli
senhower himself is likely to re-
tain for the next two years a meas
ure of the personal popularity
which gave the general his sweep
ing presidential victory over Stew
enson in 1852.
But Stevenson evidently be-
lieves that Republicans will con-
tinue to demonstrate in the next
two years what Paul M. Butler,
Democratic national chairman
elect, yesterday called the COPS
.sincapacity to govern"
| Butler put the finger directly on
Eisenhower at a news conference,
asserting:
eve intend to call to the atten-
ton Of the American people Pres
ident Eisenhower's lack of capac-
ity to govern and to unite the peo-
lple. The responsibility is with the
President to see that the nation is
united and there is ever-increasing
evidence of his lack of capacity
\ to do it, $
| That language was perhaps a lit
tie stronger than Stevenson HIM
self was prepared to use. But the
| former Illinois governor made it
clear he thinks the November elec-
| tions which gave Democrats con-
troll of Congress proved the peo-
lple don't have nearly as much faith
| in the COP as they demonstrated
| in the past for Eisenhower.
| On this basis, Stevenson has told
| friends he believes. that other Re-
publicans in time will drag Eisen-
hover down to their much lower
level of popularity and that the
President, will be vulnerable if he
runs again.
! Stevenson has kept publicly ST.
lent on his own plans. He has in
dicated he is not in an eager
q beaver mood for the nomination.
Neither has he shut any doors
| against the possibility.
In his own mind, Stevenson was
represented as believing that de-
spite any present intentions, Eli
senhower will be forced by his par
Ity to take the COP nomination in
less.
| Stevenson's announcement at a
$100-a-plate dinner here Saturday
night that he cannot participate
in party affairs as vigorously. as
| in the past was accepted general
ly as indicating only an intention
to get off the political speechmak-
ling circuit for a while.
Butler, elected by 20 q the com
/. mittee's los votes to succeed Ste
phen A. Mitchell as national chair
man, said the Democrats plan no
personal attacks on Eisenhower.
'But that does not mean," he
said, "that we should refrain from
pointed criticism of either actions,
or lack of action, that we do not
consider in the best interests Of
kthe country"
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-06
A $500 BILLION ECONOMY

President Dwight D. Eisenhower recently told Aneri
cans in speech which broadcast that the nations
economy should reach the 900 point in less
than ten years. The President said that this would
average increase Of than $4,000 for every Amer
can family of today
The present national annual output is estimated at
000 Therefore, the Presidents estimate Of
the increase in the next ten represents an increase
Of approximately forty per cent.
We think this increase in the American economy is
necessary prosperity to be the lot Of the American
people in the next decade We have commented in the
past that there has been too much emphasis on stability
and not, enough economic growth.
Apparently, the President realizes that the emphasis
of the present Administration stability has lost much Of
its appeal especially since the stability Of 1864 has be-
highly unpopular with those out Of work. many
farmers and others whose business has declined.
These circumstances are especially painful to those
aborers who realize that General Motors profits for
example increased this year because of cuts
though the total profit less In other words General
Motors - example - had better year this year,
than last, in profits
the President is to be candidate for reelection in
1885, he must that the national economy is expanded
and the income of the little increased in line with
that of big corporations like that of General Motors Ev
IDENTIFY the President determined to make effort in
this direction and the outcome Of this effort may well
determine the result of the 1866 race.
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-06
San Francisco Asks
UJN To Meet There

SAN FRANCISCO R-The San
Francisco Board of Supervisors
meets today to extend an official
invitation to the United Nations
General Assembly to hold . CON-
memorative session here next
June. The United Nations was
born in San Francisco at a con-
ference which began April Is. 1915.
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-06
Korean Liberal Party
Scored For Rhee Move

SEOUL IN - President Syngman
Rhee's Liberal party was de-
nounced by one of its own MEM
bers on the National Assembly
floor today for having declared
as passed the recent constitutional
amendment authorizing Rhee to
seek Office for life.
The action was followed by a
tons IN the normally solid Liberal
voting strength turned up.
Liberal Sohn Kown Bal said his
party resorted to Outrageous pro-
cedures'' in declaring the Rhee
amendment passed after one AS
sembly official first declared It
had failed to pass. Sohn said ne
was Withdrawing from the party.
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-06

It is gratifying to know that the President and his
principal advisers and executive officers in Washington
have emergency headquarters which be used in
the event of atomic war.
These headquarters are unique in that they extend
distance of three hundred miles, The Presi
dents emergency headquarters in bomb shelter
In Washington, but other key Federal employees, ncud
ing Cabinet members and agency heads have special
ergency headquarters in widely dispersed stes
many several hundred miles from the national capital
It is necessary that the Government be able to func
on effectively and without interruption in of atomic
is known that the Defense Department has smi
set of underground emergency headquarters The main
thing lacking is underground factories and adequate dis
persal Of industry
How this latter could be accomplished is major
problem but Adolf Hitler forced to adopt this sol-
tion increasingly In the latter of World War H.
and his underground and widely dispersed and
faged factories the major of his surprising
production totals of 1914 and early 1945.>