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Evening star., 1954-10-09

overnight. Almost every Of
fetal and newspaperman in
Paris knew that during Georges
Bidault'S first tenure as For
eign Minister in 1947 his con-
f1dential secret tary, Nine.
Cornu. was a member of the
Communist Party.
A similar situation exists in
italy. There too. under the i'm
pact of allied suggestions, the
late Premier Alcide de Gasperi
included in his government
representatives of the Italian
Communist Party. For more
than two years Palmiro Tog-
liatti, who was brought back
from Moscow in 1945, was Vice
Premier. Like his colleague
ThoreZ he took good care to,
infiltrate Italian Communists
fully loyal to Moscow into most
sensitive government services,
The Christian Socialist Party
and its aff1liateS which barely
hold power in Italy are bitterly
anti-CommuniSt. But they too
have not been successful in re-
moving Communists from the
middle and lower echelons of
the government. The NATO in
telligence services at Naples
have to act with the utmost
care every time they use Ital-
ians in even mildly sensitive
positions.
The desertion of DR.. Otto
John, the West German Edgar
Hoover" to the Communists
in East Germany was a spec
tacular affair. But the many
and overlapping allied secret
and intelligence services in
Germany have known for q
long time that their West Ger
man counterparts were fire.
quently either on the Commu-
mist payroll or were Communist
sympathizers. The latter con-
slider themselves nationalists
who are convinced that the
future of Germany lies on the
side of the U. S. S. r.
Under conditions which exist
in continental Europe there is
little wonder that the Reds
know SO accurately every move
we are making both in the
diplomatic and military fields.
Evening star., 1954-10-09
Wilson Packing House
Workers Get SC Raise

CHICAGO, Oct. 9.-The CIO
United Packinghouse Workers
and the third of the four major
meat packers. Wilson & Co., yes
terday signed a new contract
giving some 10000 workers in
eight cities a blanket cents
hourly wage increase.
A union spokesman said the
wage boost, in addition to some
special wage increases, brings
the Wilson pay scale to $1.55 an
hour for men and $l.5l12 for
women.
Workers involved are in Will
son plants at Chicago. Memphis.
Cedar Rapids. Iowa; Kansas
City. Kans.: Albert Lea and
Faribault, Mimi, and Los An
gcles.
The contract follows one be-
tween the union and Swift &
Co. and Armour & Co.
Evening star., 1954-10-09

timetable for conquest in In
donesia must be revised and
stepped up because of the ris-
ing power of the anti-Commu-
mist movement. Today the
anti-Communist legions of
Islam are. fighting pro-Com-
munist government forces on
every major Indonesian island.
1t is the belief of several ex-
pertS that when Islam comes
into power in Indonesia the
Communists will be finished.
Nine years after freeing it
self from the colonial rule of
the Netherlands, IndoneSia
finds itself threatened by the
colonial rule of Moscow and
Peiping. Moscow trained De-
fense Minister Iva Kusuma-
Sumantri is serving the inter-
estS of communism in Indo-
neSia in striving to wipe out
1slamic forces who oppose the
new colonialism. One of the
most interesting of the anti
Communist Moslem groups is
led by HaSan Muhammad Trio,
who now lives in New York as
Minister Plenipotentiary, Is
lamic Republic of Indonesia."
He claims that his soldiers, re-
sisting the military operations
of the pro-Communist Sas-
troamidjojo government, oc-
cupy northern Sumatra, large
areas of west and central Java.
almost all of south-central
Celebes, and a large part of
Borneo.
1t appears that this ''Islamic
Republic of IndoneSia" was
formed in September, 1858,
claiming to be a de facto gov
ernment with direct admins
trative control over 16 million
people and 100000 square
miles of Indonesian soil. 1t
remains to be seen whether the
power of Islam can save Indo-
nesia from the suicidal policies
Of a Kerensky-like premier.
Copyright 1954)
Evening star., 1954-10-09
Builders of DeodIiest Railroad
Look Back on Feat at Reunion

fore atabrine was known. Then
there was beri-beri. And amoebic
dySentery. Not to mention
elephantiasis. Or yellow fever.
Each disease rampaged through
the ranks of toilers.
It took seven years to put
down that 200-mile (give or take)
railroad. between where portages
met rapids and the rapids again
had a junction with portages.
In the rainy seasons, the river
that necessitated the railroad
would jerk its crest SO feet above
normal. That got to be trouble
some.
Food had to be fetched from
the States. So did timber. When
lumber from the jungle was
used, the wood had to be spiked
right there and then. If it
wasn't Immediately spiked, it
became so hard a spike couldn't
be put through it.
All in all, it was the worst
railroad headache ever under
taken-and the deadliest.
Evening star., 1954-10-09
For the Record
By Anthony T. Bouscoren

While the attention of the
world has been riveted on
Quemoy Island and the future
of Germany, a struggle of tre-
mendous Importance to the
United States and to the anti
Communist forces of the Far
East is reaching the boiling
point. This struggle involves
the fate of the largest country
in southeast ASia-Indonesia.
Few Americans are aware of
how rapidly Communist power
has spread in Indonesia since
the cabinet of Premier Ali
SaStroamidjojo was appointed
mot elected by the people, in
August, 1858. In recent months
the Communist threat in Indo-
nesia has been challenged ef-
fectively for the first time by
powerful Moslem elements.
The struggle between Islam
and communism for control of
IndoneSia came to a head on
September IA. On that day
the leaders of the opposition
Moslem party, largest political
organization in the country,
formed an anti-CommuniSt
front; on that day too. Dmitri
A. Zhukov, former Ambassador
to Mexico, arrived as the first
Soviet Ambassador to Indo-
neSia; finally, on that same
day. a pro-government Moslem
group-the Nahadatjal Ulama
warned Premier Sastroamid-
jojo either to check Commu-
mist infiltration into all spheres
of IndoneSian life or to face
serious political consequences,
presumably a cabinet crisis.
The announcement of the
formation of an -Commu-
mist coalition came from Ban
dung, capital of troubled West
Java. The leader of the coali-
ton, RuSjad Nurdin, is secre-
tary of the Moslem party's
West Java Executive Council.
Evening star., 1954-10-09
u. S. Offers to Repay Family
Of Dead Sailor UnjustIy Jailed

he signed his invalid re-enlist-
ment papers.
However, he was sentenced to
four years. This was later re-
viSed to two years. He served
eight months and 19 days and
was released for restoration to
duty on probation.
Again Went Home.
Instead, he again went home,
relying on the honorable dis
charge of December /, 1947 for
immunity.
Rearrested nine months later,
he was sent back to Jail, served
two months and 18 days until
he won release on a writ of
habeaS corpus. He was granted
certificate of innocence by
Federal Judge Philip l.. Sullivan
of the United States District
Court for the Northern District
of illinois.
He then petitioned the Court
of Claims for reimbursement for
erroneous Imprisonment and
loss of earnings.
AS result of his impriSon-
ment, the claims court ruled,
young Robertson was reluctant to
make friends and seemed un-
able to settle down in one place.
1t held he was convinced that no
one would wish to associate with
him if it were known that he
had done time"
Yesterdays court action held
that Mr.. Robertson had been
validly discharged and that the
Navy had no right to court
martial him.
During his periods of freedom,
he had worked as a farm hand in
Iowa. a machinist in Indian
apolis and as a printer on three
mid-WeStern newspapers.
Last July he committed sui
eide near Sioux City, Iowa, where
he was living.
A motion will be made by his
attorneys. Clarence G. Pechacek
and Franklin E. Gill, to substi-
tute a beneficiary. Mr.. Robertson
left a widow and his father.
Evening star., 1954-10-09
By J. A. O'leoy

The Dixon-Yates contract for
development of a private electric
power plant in the Tennessee
Valley area took its place today as
the second major controversy
congressional leaders have put
aside until after the election.
Two weeks ago, Senate Ma
iority Leader Knowland decided
to defer until November 8 the
special session of the Senate to
consider the censure report
against Senator Mccarthy.
Late yesterday Republican
leaders on the Joint House Sen
ate Atomic Energy Committee
Cancelled hearings that had been
set tentatively for Wednesday on
the power contract. which is
being fought by public power
advocates in both Houses.
Telegram Brings News.
Representative. Cole, Republi-
can, of New York and Senator
Hickenlooper, Republican, of
Iowa chairman and vice chair
man, respectively, of the joint
committee, conferred by tele-
phone and then sent the follow
ing telegram to the 16 other
members:
Overwhelming number of
committee members find it i'm
possible to participate in any
hearing on Dixon-Yates contract
this month due to their own
campaign responsibilities. At
suggestion of several members
representing both political par
ties. we are canceling proposed
Evening star., 1954-10-09

The Government yesterday
tried to repay an Iowa naval air
hero who had served over II
months of erroneous imprison-
ment. But James Joseph Rober-
son, the farm boy who went to
World War II as an aerial gunner
and won the Distinguished Fly
| ing Cross. four Air Medals and
a Navy Unit Citation. is dead.
His is the story of a tragic
mistake. He died by his own
hand three months ago.
| The United States Court of
Claims action to pay Mr.. Rober-
son $5.000-all it could allow
under the Statutes-came yes
terday, and with it this story:
! At 18. Mr.. Robertson enlisted
as Naval aerial gunner. In
1916, a few months after his first
enlistment was over, he re-en-
listed, but in December, 1947,
seven months before his second
enlistment expired, he was given
an honorable discharge.
Dispute With Officer.
Almost simultaneously, he
signed on for a third re-enlist-
ment and on December 4, 1947,
he returned to base after a little
celebration.
According to the Court of
Claims brief. Mr.. Robertson was
told by an officer that he had
not complied with all regula-
tions for re-enlistment and was
not entitled to the usual bonus,
leave and travel allowance.
An argument followed and he
was ordered confined to quar-
ters Instead, he gathered up his
gear, including the 1947 honora-
BILE discharge and left for Iowa.
Four months later he was
tried and convicted by the Navy
on charges of drunkenness, dis
obeying an officer, desertion,
breaking arrest and conduct
prejudicial to the service.
All offenses. the Court of
Claims judgment usly
means, transpired after his hon.
orable discharge and on the day
Evening star., 1954-10-09

The recent scandals in the
Surete Rationale (often un-
wisely compared to our FBD
have brought to mind the fact
that there are at least three Sc
curity agencies in the world
which have remained uncon-
taminated by communism, hav-
ing resisted infiltration by Red
agents and SympathiZers.
The three are our Federal
Bureau of Investigation, the
political branch of Scotland
Yard in London and the Turk
iSh State Security Office. Some
other similar agencies, includ-
ing that of the perennially neu-
trail Switzerland, have been in
flltrated to some extent by the
Communist conspiracy.
The main reason why the
FBI, Scotland Yard and the
Turkish security police have
remained completely loyal to
the task for which they were
created is that they have never
become political footballs.
Moreover. the American and
British agencies have enjoyed
such unparalleled public con-
f1dence that the political
leaders who sometimes resented
their rigidity in the fulfillment
of their missions dared not at
tempt to mold them according
to political expediency.
Americans in all walks of
life hold FBI Chief j. Edgar
Hoover and his G-men in high
esteem. This was shown par
ticularly by the mild uproar
in the country in 1916 when it
was rumored that President
Truman intended to retire the
FBI chief.
The British are equally
proud of the centuries-old ira
dition of absolute incorrupti-
bility of their Scotland Yard.
For some time, and especi-
ally since the end of the war,
the French Surete Rationale
has been the football of poll
tics. 1t has many excellent and
loyal men. But it is so infil-
trated that the loyal officials
don't quite know whom to trust
within their own organization.
This French situation under
Evening star., 1954-10-09
BY the Asseeioied Press

Postmaster General Summer
field reports the postal inspection
service has turned up "a racket"
conducted from South America
and designed to blk American
families through use of classi-
fed ads in United States news
papers
Chief Postal Inspector David
H. Stephens reported to Mr..
Summerfield that the ads sub
mitted to newspapers usually
come from Argentina and run
something like this: Board
wanted for 14-year-old South
American boy in family home for
long term. Good monthly pay
mentS."
The ad, Mr.. Summerfield said,
gives the name and address for
a reply to South America.
/ The inspectors reported that
persons writing to this address
receive a communication that the
arrangements will be satisfactory
and the board money, usually
upwards of 5000 to start, will be
forthcoming if $40 is remitted
to cover the fee of the man
placing the ad as an "inter-
mediary" for the boys family.
Needless to state" Mr.. Sum-
merfleld said, ANY one sending
money to this intermediary
might just as well kiss it good
by"
Mr.. Summerfeld said some
newspapers also have been bilked
for the cost of the ad, which he
said was sometimes accepted on
a to-be- -billed-later basis because
Evening star., 1954-10-09
THE EVENING STAR. Washington, D. G. A
o,
U.S.. Program for Stamp Fans
Is Stuck, but Not LickedYet

man said, stamps may be avail
able to the public and dealers
sometime in November. First
priority will be given the Veter-
ans Administration, which will
receive all it requests free for
stamp-collecting patients in VA
hospitals. After that, the stamps
will be sold in miscellaneous lots
under sealed bids.
The regulation establishing
the program was issued on June
10. 1t requested the departments
to save all foreign stamps. all
domestic commemorative stamps.
and all domestic stamps Of more
than 3-cent value. The stamps
were to be packaged in 5-pound
lots and marked to indicate
domestic or foreign origin.
Evening star., 1954-10-09

Stamp collectors who hope to
pick up valuable items from the
Governments mail bag may
have to wait awhile, it appeared
today. The program inaugu-
rated last June still hasn't gotten
off the ground.
According to the General
Services Administration, which
is handling the project, only
about so pounds of Cancelled
stamps have been turned in from
the various departments and
agencies. And only the Post
Office Department. Justice, In
terror and the White House have
really made an attempt to CO.
operate.
If all goes well, a GSA spokes-
Evening star., 1954-10-09
Fletcher Knebel-
Potomac Fever

Ike TV to appeal for election of Republican Con-
gress the audience rating
commercial.
Democratic Representative of Georgia the
housing which he made $4,000 Legitimate business
enterprise amt enterprise
man-it'S
that the Government partnership be-
tween the President Congressto nothing of between
Washington and Denver.
Republican Capehar the his nvesti
CATION of FILA scandals Democrats laughed when Capehart
down at the piano. Before he they howng
The Nevada Supreme rules that the Republicans must
hold election for Senate November Republicans
things like this down public confidence
House Speaker Martin Democratic victory might be
the obituary of free people Wire Martin from Republican
Chairman Hail. Advise might
taker
Evening star., 1954-10-09
Dixon Yates Is Second Row
Delayed Until After Elections

October 13 hearing. Please ad-
wise by telegram if you will be
able to participate in hearing
beginning on November 4 in
Washington, four days before
Senate reconvenes to consider
Mccarthy matter"
Although members of both
parties would have been incon-
venienced by returning to Wash
ington for hearings next week
the Democrats who opposed the
contract probably would have
benefited most from hearings al
this time.
Reduces Debate.
The postponement will not
eliminate discussion of the con-
tract entirely in the remaining
weeks of October, but it will
reduce the volume of pre-elec-
tlon debate over the power poll
cies Of the administration.
The Anti-Monopoly subcom-
mittee Of the Senate Judiciary
Committee. headed by Senator
LANCER of North Dakota will hold
more hearings on the Dixon
Yates controversy starting Octo-
ber 18. But the joint House.
Senate hearings would have at
tracted wider attention and made
the contract more of a campaign
issue because that committee has
the power under the new Atomic
Energy Act to speed up the ap-
proval of the contract.
Under the law, the contract
must be pending before Congress
for 80 days after 1t convenes in
! January before taking effect. un.
Evening star., 1954-10-09
,
Highway Advisers
May Call for Cut in
500 Billion Program
By the Assoeiofed Press


President Eisenhower's high
way advisers probably will recon-
mend some scaling down of the
S100 billion road improvement
program proposed by the Presi-
dent for the next 10 years.
The special five-man commit
tee named by Gen. Eisenhower to
study the Nations highway
needs, and what can be done to
meet them, also is expected to
make these recommendations
among many others in a report
to be submitted by the end of the
year:
/. Heavier Federal contribu-
tions to highway building, quite
possibly through Government
lending agency which would be
patterned after the old Recon-
struction Finance Corp.
2. A bigger share of expend-
itureS than in the past for city
streets and highways in thickly
settled areas.
Two Days of Hearings.
Gen. Lucius D. Clay. chairman
of the committee. indicated its
members were thinking along
these lines following two days OF
public hearings that brought
expressions of opinion on high
way problems from 81 national
organizations.
This forum-convened in the
room where the President holds
news conferences - adjourned
with few groups making definite
proposals for raising the billions
Gen. EineshoWer says are needed
to put the highway system in
good shape as a link in the
American defense system. Gen
Eisenhower has called for a $5C
billion program in addition tc
the $50 billion worth of Federal
and State road improvement
already lined up for the next 1C
years.
One firm proposal came from
the Association of American
Railroads - that highways b,
made self-supporting by raising
taxes of "those who use tn,
highways as freightWays" s"-tha
is, the trucks.
The railroads likewise con
tended lit would seem much bet
ter to leave with the States thei
established responsibilities fol
highway financing, with no more
than a minimum of Federal par
ticipation."
Trucking Groups Fight Plan.
Trucking groups went on rec
ord just as firmly against rail.
road-favored third structure
taxes-that is, levies in addition
to registration fees and gasoline
taxes.
And-again disputing the rail.
roads position - the American
Municipal Association proposed
the Federal Government assume
a major share of highway con.
Struction costs.
Speaking for the association
which numbers 10000 cite!
among its members. Mayor A. E
Cobo of Detroit called on thu
Federal Government to Cd con.
centrate on improving the Ma
tons interstate highway system
and (2) pay so per cent of tn,
cost of the expanded 10-yeal
program proposed by the Presi.
dent.
Evening star., 1954-10-09
less the joint committee votes to
waive that requirement.

less the joint committee votes to
waive that requirement.
In Rutledge, Tenn, Senator
Kefauver, Democrat, of TenneS-
see, a leading critic of the. con-
tract, applauded postponement
of the hearing and said II think
the hearing got too hot for them
to handle before the elections"
Senator Kefauver has teamed
with Senator LANCER in a sharply
critical investigation of the plan.
Another strong critic has been
Democratic National Chairman
Stephen Mitchell.
Kefauver Criticizes Haste.
Senator Kefauver has criti-
cized what he regarded as hasty
approval of the contract by the
Atomic Energy Commission, and
suggested Thursday that the ad-
miniStration might be trying to
make it effective before Congress
returns.
Even with hearings starting
November there would still be
time for the joint committee to
waive the requirement that the
contract be kept open until 80
days after Congress meets. But
the issue can be discussed in a
calmer atmosphere after the
election. It also is possible that
the outcome of the battle for
control of the next Congress
may have some effect on the
joint committees decision.
The contract is expected to
authorize the building of a SLOT
million steam generating plant
by a private utility group. The
power would go into the IVA
system to replace power which
iva furnishes to atomic energy
plants in the South. The Dixon
Yates group consists of Middle
South Utilities, Inc, headed by
Edgar H. Dixon. and The South
ern Co., headed by e. A. Yates.
Evening star., 1954-10-09
Choir Officers Named

FREDERICKSBURG, Va, Oct
9 (SpeciaD Carol Groundwater
and Joy Rein of Arlington. have
been elected vice president and
treasurer, respectively, of the
Mary Washington College Choir
New members include Carole
Caffee of Washington, Susan
Johnson, and Joan Boenitsch of
Arlington and Margaret Bush,
Doris Cool, Anne Conner and
Beverly Cooke of Alexandria.
Evening star., 1954-10-09

Back when men were men and
mosquitoes went hunting for
them, great gang of Ameri-
cans went down to Brazil to
build a railroad.
Last night the survivors who
were able to get to Washington
assembled over weak cocktails
to cut up old touches.
"They have to make the mar
tinis mostly vermouth," one vet
teran said sadly. "All we can
do now is have a little drink.
But it wasn't like that when We
were young"
1t was not, indeed.
The rails they laid went from
Porto Velho, Brazil, to Guajara
Mirim. Bolivia, and detoured IL
vast waterfalls and rapids on
the Madeira and Mamora Rivers.
The reason for building the
line was to get around the quick
water.
Heavy Toll of Death.
Even now, it seems to have
been the bloodiest stretch ever
put down. death toll estimates
range from $500 up to 1000.
And the project cost around $35
million.
Guests at last nights reunion
in the Willard Hotel were men
with hoary heads but youthful
hearts. They recalled their
meals in Brazil's Matto Crosse.
when you want quinine these
days, you have to get it with a
prescription" said a veteran of
the old days. But we used to
buy it ton at a time, and every
body on the job nad to take S
grains for breakfast, Ginner and
supper"
Assorted Diseases.
Whatever the death toll was
and it probably never will be
determined precisely-the main
killer was malaria.
These old boys built the road
bed and laid the track long be-
Evening star., 1954-10-09
FIoodIights illuminate
Shenandoah Courthouse
Speeloi Dispatch TO The Stor

WOODSTOCK, Va, Oct. O.
The Shenandoah County Court
house, the oldest courthouse west
of the Blue Ridge Mountains. is
now fioodlighted at night.
The sponsor of the fund drive
for the lights is Joseph B. Cloer,
head of the Woodstock fire COM
pany. The courthouse was built
in 1871. It's first county clerk
was Thomas Marshall, ST., father
of Chief Justice John Marshall.
Today in the courtroom Of the
historic building Judge Elliott
Marshall. a descendant of the
Chief Justice, is the present
Shenandoah County circuit
judge.
Evening star., 1954-10-09
Racket Using Classified Ads
mU. S. Newspapers Exposed.

the letterhead appears to DO
legitimate.
The department has issued .
fraud order and has asked the
State Department for assistance
in having Argentine authorities
apprehend the racketeer.
Kodiak mirror., 1954-04-17
Bitie Arrives At KNs

Mr. Fred Bitle, of Fish and Wildlife Service, arrived on PIMA this week to take charge of the Devils Canyon Fish Hatchery located on the Ko- diak Naval Station. Coming from Leavenworth, Wash, home of the worlds largest salmon hatchery, MT. iBitle is Ia fish culturist temporarily as signed to this district. MT. Bitle was also at the hatchery last year, although he arrived much later in the season.