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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-16
Thon7os [. Stokes
The President 7 ries Discipline
Temptation to Punish Congressional Porty Rebels
Has Embarrassed Mony-Now Eisenhower Faces 1t

It is doubtful that any Pres
ident ever viii work out q fool
proof and politically wise for
mula for separating the goats
from the sheep In his own
party membership In Congress.
Every two years the oppor-
tunity arises in congressional
elections. The temptation Is
strong for a President to seize
1t to try to discipline recalci-
trants from whom he, his
party and his program have
suffered Illustrations In the
Congress that has set-in the
two years before an election.
Franklin D. Roosevelt yielded
to such temptation once, back
in 1888, and we had the spec
tacle of what his foes called
"the purge" his attempt to
choose between Democrats in
q number Of cases in primary
elections Of that year. It failed
completely with regard to a
number of senatorial victims
he picked. All he accomplished
was defeat Of the one House
member he chose to eliminate.
though an important one. That
was Representative John ].
QConnor Of New York who.
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Of the newspaper headline, can
derive satisfaction from its
publication. because in sense
1t proves a point he has been
making, namely that what
ever laws may govern execu-
tive employees who take an
oath not to divulge confiden-
tial or classified information,
this does not necessarily atfecr
any one outside the Govern
ment who receives such in
formation and publishes 1t.
The Internal Revenue law in
Section 1918 says:
ut shall be unlawful for any
officer or employee of the United
States to divulge or to make
known in any manner what
ever not provided by law to
any person the amount or
source of any income. profits,
losses. expenditures, or any
particular thereof set forth or
disclosed in any income return,
or permit any income return
or copy thereof or any book
containing any abstract or par
ticulars thereof to be seen or
examined by any person ex-
cept as provided by law; and it
shall be unlawful for any per-
son to print or publish in any
manner whatever not pro-
vided by law any income re-
turn or any part thereof =. :"
The penalty is a fine of 1000
and imprisonment for one year,
or both, and if the guilty Of
fender is a Federal employe
he must be discharged from
the government.
But the Constitution says
Congress shall not make any
law abridging freedom of the
press. and 1t is questionable
whether anyone in the employ
Of Q newspaper can be pun
ished for printing news about
persons in public life. The
really important fact is that
while Attorney General Brown
ell recently stated publicly
that the Department Of JUS
tice had found no violation Of
any Federal laws by Senator
Mccarthy, he did say at the
time that an examination of
income tax returns by the
Treasury Department had not
been completed. Now it is re-
vealed through The Washing
ton Star article that, while
there may be a civil dispute
between the Internal Revenue
service and Senator Mccarthy
about back taxes-and many
members of Congress have
their returns questioned and
often pay additional taxes-no
evidence Of fraud or crime is
involved here. Apparently this
was the same conclusion
reached by the Truman admin
istration which also examined
Senator McCarthy's income tax
returns.
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Fletcher Knebel-
Potomac Fever

Congress boosted pensions people
lower the voting to 49, Junior be nice
but two from grandma and grandpa would be nicer
India and Portugal threaten fight place called
This terrible blow to the woens clubs They'd
excited over Goa-but none OF the lecture bureaus
where it Is.
Ike opposes the Senate bill to
Party the Reds all go underground who'll be left in sight
for the Republicans to against?
Gen. zwcker target of Joe Mccarthy assigned to the
Fr East The administration always promised that the
who stood up to Mccarthy would go long way
Eight nations agree the Philippines to write
Southeast Asia defense pact can't lick by
hghting-weH smother EN- to death with treaties
Red China Premier Chou warns 'liberate"
Fornosa Liberation what happens you
nists strike of your shackles of freedom.
The Agriculture Department hires research outfit find
out now much butter housewives buy That's All they
can afford-sometimes a pound week.
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Dovid Lowrence

Various Senators are dis
cussing information that has
just come to light which may
make "moot"-the legal term
for irrelevant - any censure
action on all those charges
against Senator Mccarthy re-
lating to occurrences prior to
January. 1858, now before a
special Senator committee of
six. members. Three develop
n1ents have occurred:
/. Revelation that the Sem
ate subcommittee on privileges
and elections in it's report at
the end Of the SD Congress,
formally agreed that a number
Of the charges before 1t had
become moot" by reason of
the 1852 election in Wisconsin.
2. Publication by The WASH
ington Star of a copyrighted
article stating that agents of
the Internal Revenue service,
after 18-month investigation,
found nothing fraudulent in
the income tax returns Of the
Wisconsin Senator.
8. Evidence supporting in
effect a statement in May
1854, by the Wisconsin Sena-
tor saying that it is not un-
lawful to receive confidential
information from employees in
the executive departments. It
develops that although Fed
erel statute prohibits the dis
closure of confidential infor-
nation by employees of the
executive branch of the Gov
eminent and threatens them
with jail penalties for viola
ton, the recipient-whether it
be a Senator or a newspaper
may feel justified in publishing
the information.
The formal report Of the
subcommittee headed by Sen
ator Hennings, Democrat, of
Missouri, which contained all
the charges concerning Sem
ator McCarthy's sale Of a
booklet on housing of vet
Grams to the Lustron Corp, the
attacks on Gen. Marshall, and
all the innuendoes about other
alleged improprieties. was
made to Congress prior to the
time the new Senate of the
SD Congress in January, 1858,
had an opportunity to accept
or reject the Wisconsin Sena-
tors credentials after his 1882
election. In an addendum
filed at the last minute early
in 1858, the Senate subcom-
mittee said:
The foregoing report is
based substantially on testi-
mony and exhibits which were
presented before the subcom-
mittee on privileges and elec-
tons. However. because of a
lack of continuity in commit
tee membership and delays be-
yond the control Of the present
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back once to him by the
White House for a little re-
writing along certain sug-
gested lines. It finally arrived
with a pledge of Royalties
and support" and the Presi-
dent replied with a hearty
welcome to Washington on
January g." The President
will also visit the Illinois State
Fair this month.
Representative Curtis, who
: has been in the House since
1910, comes from what is
practically a one-party State
so possibly he can afford to be
as independent Of the Presi-
dent as he has been during
his career on the Ways and
Means Committee. It Is be-
heved that Nebraska is less
solid than usual this year be-
cause of slipping farm prices
but it would have to slide
long way really to endanger
Mr.. Curtis and his running
mates.
The more liberal Repub-
licans of Nebraska put their
man in the other vacancy,
Representative Roman Hruska.
Thus the situation will be,
from the White House point of
view, about what it was when
the late Senators Butler and
Griswold. both of whom died
this year. occupied the two
seats.
Democratic National Chair
man Mitchell is debating what,
If anything, he ought to say
about the Taylor candidacy.
He had high hopes of the
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becomes blurred and unreal.
That. Of course, is the Red de.
sign. and 1t Is a clever one.
Although technically. there
Is nothing amiss at all in these
friendly visits between Ma
ttons having formal diplomatic
ties. as is the case in both
the Russian and Chinese Jour-
neys Of the Attlee party, much
could be said ON the question
of the British taste In choos-
ing this particular time for the
visit.
British troops, under the
banner Of the United Nations,
have hardly stopped fighting
and dying In Korea against
the Chinese Red hordes. And
there is no peace in Korea,
even yet, beyond the mockery
of the truce" agreement en-
tered into last year. The guns
have not yet had time to cool
in Indo-C China, where the West
abjectly settled a war on
Communist terms and called it
a peace.
The British are past masters
at the art of diplomacy, and
are very much aware that the
Russian intentions In all this
show of cordiality are pri-
marily to place the United
States. the acknowledged
leader of the free world forces,
in an embarrassing position.
"Co-existence," in the Brit
ish view, would appear to be q
considerably different proce-
dure from any the term inn
plies in the United States.
While it could never be said
Of Americans that they spurn
the hand Of friendship with
any nation, it has always
been something of an Amer
lean characteristic to expect
that the hand will be sincere
ly preferred.
It has been the consistent
stand of our policy-makers
that. in the case of the Soviet,
actions speak louder than
wordS-or toaStS.
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While the imposing delega-
tion Of leaders Of the British
Labor Party sat swapping sem
timental toasts with Malen-
kov, Kruschchev and company
in Moscow, the people of the.
free world wonder to what end
all this cameraderie will lead.
Former Prime Minister
Clement Attlee and his party
Of LahoriteS. including the
stormy leftist leader Aneurin
Bevan, stopped OF in the
Soviet capital en- route to keep
q date with Mao Tse-tung,
Chou En-lai and the other top
men Of Red China. The Krem-
lin rolled out the red-or
should we say white carpet
for the visiting Britishers.
From the warm and most
cordial character Of the Soviet
welcome for the party. it was
obvious that every effort was
being made to add to the pres
tige Of the British delegation
by the most painstaking at
tention to detail. Moscow even
reported that the great Malen-
kov himself personally picked
a bouquet for Edith Summer
skill, the only woman member
Of the party. This Is a strange
Malenkov. Indeed, this is an
unlocked for Communist, in
dulging in such gross bourgeois
f1attery.
The dinners and parties
were all arranged in a man
ner of intimacy. Little con-
versational groups gathered
around the chief Russian big
wigs to have, we suppose,
heart-to-heart talks about the
state of the world and the
Soviet desire for peace with
co-exiStence.
Out of these coy tete-a-
tetes came reports Of earnest
agreement on the peaceful in
tentions of the Kremlin. Will
frid Burke, chairman Of the
Labor Party, found Malenkov
very friendly, he said, and very
anxious to establish peaceful
relations with the West.
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Is Censure Move Irrelevant?
Combination Of Election Tox Probe and Right Inform
Seen Likely to Make Charges Against Mccurthy Moot

membership of the commit
tee, its preparation has given
us great concern. as a number
Of its aspects have become
moot by reason of the 1852
election. Such facts therein
as were known TO the people
Of the States particularly af-
fected have been passed upon
by the people themselves in
the election
This refers to q well-estab-
liShed point Of constitutional
law. namely that a member of
Congress just elected can be
tried as to his Qualifications"
only at the opening Of a new
term, and if his credentials are
accepted without reservation
he cannot be challenged again.
Senator McCarthy's creden-
tials his present term were &C
cepted in January 1853. What
ever alleged misconduct as a
member Of Congress took place
during his preceding term, in
Guiding speeches, must be
questioned during that term.
This leaves the matter Of
income tax returns. For If
the Treasury Department were
to present criminal charges
during the present term it
could affect the continuance
in Office Of a member of Con-
gress so charged. But The
Washington Star last week
said concerning the investiga-
ton of Senator McCarthy's
income taxes: 1.-THE case
covers the tax years from 1916
through 1852. The tax agents
do not contend that Senator
Mccarthy acted with fraudu-
lent intent"
The newspaper headline
across the top Of its front page
did say that the same revenue
agents" claim that Senator
Mccarthy "owes $4,000 in
back taxes and interest" The
Wisconsin Senator fatty denies
this. Both the newspaper and
the Senator could be right at
different times in the proceed
ings-depending on the out
come OF the case and whether
the technical or colloquial use
of the word lowe" was in
tended. At the moment the
Senator does not technically
lowe" anything. Nobody owes
the Treasury any money until
a formal deficiency assessment
is filed, which has evidently
not been done in Senator Nc
Carthy's case. Even this may
be contested for months or
years through various boards
inside the Internal Revenue
Service and through the United
States Tax Court before it is
finally decided whether q tax
payer actually owes anything
in back taxes.
The Wisconsin Senator, al
though displeased by what he
claims Is the damaging effect
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-16
Doris Fleeson-

The voters went wrong in
two primaries last week, one
In each party, from the point
of view of national campaign
managers.
The Eisenhower admins
tration preferred Gov. Robert
Crosby for one of the Senate
vacancies in Nebraska, but Ne
braskans named Representa-
tive Carl T. Curtis from the
Observation-Disclosures wing
Of the State G. o. P.
Democrats here frankly did
their best to help State Repre-
sentative Claude Burtenshaw,
a political science professor of
Kicks College, win their Sen
ate nomination in Idaho. In
stead Idaho Democrats chose
former Senator Glen Taylor,
the Singing Cowboy" who was
the candidate for Vice Presi-
dent with Henry Wallace on
the Progressive ticket in 1913.
The White House will make
the best of Representative
Curtis as they have done with
a similar type, Joseph T.
Meek, the Republican NOM
inee against Senator Paul
Douglas in Illinois. Mr.. Meek
supported the Bricker amend
ment, praised Senator Nc
earthly and campaigned as a
mo label" Republican. How
ever, running against a strong
incumbent, he needs the Eli
senhower 'coattails and Gen.
Eisenhower needs his seat.
So Mr.. Meek wrote the
President a letter which,
reliable sources say. was sent
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been the inspiration" for
Gene Thompson, Lubbock,
Tex, in his fight under the
Tower Bridge and London
Bridge earlier this week while :
he and Miss Brown we're on o
college trip.
Mr.. Thompson announced
his engagement to Miss Brown
today.
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everybody running on your
party ticket. That was fol-
lowed by the President in his
1852 campaign, up to and in
Guiding Senator Mccarthy
from whom the President and
his administration since have
had a lot of trouble.
A year or SO ago the Presi-
dents position was that in the
1854 congressional campaign
he would not take part in any
individual contest. but would
campaign broadly for the
party and would be for all Re-
publicans against all Demo-
Gratis. Now, this past week, he
has altered this somewhat be-
cause Of developing circum-
stances to embody decisions on
individual cases as they come
along, with no hard-and-fast
rule.
Only a few days before the
announcement Of that course,
he had shown how this "se-
lectivity" can have its apparent
Inconsistencies. That was in
his pledge Of support to the
Republican senatorial condi-
date in Illinois, Joseph r.
Meek. who is running against
incumbent Democratic Sena-
tor Paul H. Douglas. Mr.. Meek,
a former Taft supporter, is
against a great deal of the
Eisenhower program, both do
nestle and foreign. AS a mat
ter of fact, he issued a public
statement cataloguing views
contrary to many Eisenhower
detectives just the day before
he wrote a letter to the Presi-
dent saying he would support
the Eisenhower program IL
elected.
The extreme ends of the
spectrum, both in the Repub-
lican Party and In the reach
of the Presidents indorse-
ments, was revealed by con-
trast a few days later when
the President came strongly to
the defense of the Republican
senatorial candidate in New
Jersey, former Republican
Clifford p. Case, who is a model
Eisenhower Republican. He
is even further removed in
political philosophy from Mr..
Meek of Illinois than East
ern Democrats from standpat
Southern conservative Demo-
Gratis, to step into the other
party for comparison. Mr..
Case is under fire from die
hard conservative elements in
New Jersey. including those
who supported the late Sena-
tor Taft against Gen. Eisen-
hover for the nomination.
They are miffed over Mr..
Cases criticism of Senator Nc
Carthy. among other things.
and demanded that he with
draw as a candidate. The Pres
ident brought Mr.. Case per-
sonally to the White House
here for lunch to show his
favor and later repeated his
high Endorsement Of him at
a news conference.
Very likely there will be other
inconsistencies as the CAM
paign develops. The President
is becoming more and more
practical politically as he gets
nearer to the crucial November
election which is so important
to his party - and himself.
Republican candidates will
come to look more and more
alike, all of a piece, whatever
their particular view. For
every one who wears a Re-
publican collar will be needed.
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C. w. Lewis to Open
Senate Drive Tonight
By the Associated Press

BOWLING GREEN, Va, Aug.
16.-Charles William Lewis, jr..
Of King George. Independent
Democratic candidate for the
Senate, will formally launch his
campaign here tonight.
Lewis, who is opposing Sen. A.
Willis Robertson, Democrat, Of
Virvir1ia for reelection, viii
speak at the Caroline County
Courthouse.
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18th Air Force Group
Elects Two From D. c.
BY The Associated Press


TOLEDO. Aug. 16.-Norman J.
Sloan Of Milwaukee was elected
president of the 18th Air Force
Association Saturday in the clos
ing session of the groups seventh
annual reunion.
Other officers include 1t. Gen.
Charles B. Stone mi Washing
ton. controlley Of the Air Force.
chairman Of the board, and
Gerald McAllisters Washington.
vice president In charge Of pub
lie relations. -
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today in a single-engine plane on
a flight to meet the stork.
Capt. Judd will meet his wife,
Colletta, in the French capital
and fly her to Geneva, where
they expect their third child to
be born.
Capt. Judd, however, isn't rae
ing, He's on a one-month vaca-
ton and his itinerary calls for
stops en- route at Seven Islands,
Quebec; Goose Bay, Labrador;
Greenland; Reklavik, Iceland,
and Prestwick, Scotland. He is
accompanied by DR.. Maurice
Gilbert of Geneva.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-16
Life in the U. S.
Life in the U. S.
No Porking'
Rule Affects
'Chutists, Too
By the Associated Press

DETROIT. Aug. 16.-Barber-
poet-politician Don Taylor para
chuted from a plane into a park
ing lot at the swank Detroit
Yacht Club on Belle Isle Sunday.
From there he landed in q
police station on a charge of dis
turbing the peace.
Mr.. Taylor, Sc, who twice has
run for Mayor of Detroit, ex-
planned that he was trying to
land in the Detroit River. near a
friends boat.
Next time I try it, I'll go
Jump in Lake st. Clair" he re-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-16
Gracious Sukes

oLTON, Texas (P.-Mrs.
George Brown learned that
her daughter was engaged to
the man who few under two
Thames River bridges in Lon
don last week and exclaimed,
well, gracious sakes."
Mrs. Brown is the mother
Of Helen Brown, said to have
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-16
Thut's All, Brother

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 16 (R.
I'll bring back anything
that's salvageable," a forest
ranger promised Donald L.
Columbian after Colundan's
new 1854 pickup truck slipped
from a jack and rolled over a
precipice.
Some time later the ranger
climbed back out of the cam
yon to where Columbian was
waiting on Angeles Crest high
way. The truck had rolled
$500 feet down, he said, hand
ing Columbian one hub cap,
badly battered.
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Stork StuIkino

NEW YORK (P.-Capt. VIII
liam F. Judd. a transatlantic
airline pilot, set out for Paris
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marked. "They don't have park
ing lots there"
Seward seaport record., 1954-04-23

Born in Portland, Oregon in 1902, MT. Erwin came to Alaska with his parents when he was 14 years old. His family went to Anchorage where he received his early education. After high school, the candidate attended the University of Washington, and then came back to Anchor age to live.
 MT. Erwin came to Seward early in 1852. He is president of the Seward Chamber of Com merce, a member of the Seward Elks, and has been district gov ernor of Alaska and Yukon Ter ritory for Lions International.
 In his campaign for Territorial office, Erwin endorses the Re publican platform adopted at Palmer and believes i've should have more roads immediately to develop Alaska, more schools to properly educate our children of today and future Alaska citizens, and that we should have more hospitals to insure their lives"
Seward seaport record., 1954-04-23
COAST GUARD TO ACCEPT PORT SECURITY CARD APPLICATIONS

On May 1854 a Coast Guard representative will arrive in. Seward for the purpose of ac- cepting applications for Coast Guard Port Security Cards from eligible longshoremen, truckers, hoist operators and all other cat egories of workmen employed on the waterfront or in connec- ton with waterfront activities.
 Prior to his arrival in Seward, the Coast Guard representative will contact Mrs. Anna B. South ard for the purpose of arrang ing for office space for the dura- ton of his stay in Seward.
 The Coast Guard representa- tive will be in Seward for a limited period of time for the purpose of accepting the appli- cations. The applicants should have proof of citizenship, which may be a birth certificate, bap- tismal papers, certificate of nat uralization, certificate of physi- elan attending the birth of ap- phcant, US. passport, a com mission in one of the Armed Forces of the United States, school records or an insurance policy which is at least ten years old. The applicant must also furnish two photographs which are readily recognizable as that of the applicant, and which must measure one inch by one and ve-sixteenths inches in size. The application form must be signed by sponsor, who is normally his employer, or the head of his union. Persons who operate their own business and are self-employed may sponsor themselves and indicate their line of employment.