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four month Marc Petit died
Of the cold. an open letter went
out to the newspapers addressed
to Maurice Lemaire. minister of
reconstruction, inviting him to
the funeral. He came. The Ma
tional Assembly. which had
voted down emergency housing
funds the night before. decided
to reconsider the whole question
of public housing. Since then
the Able has kept up on unre-
lenting pressure. speaking tire
lessly. writing articles, showing
up Unexpectedly at municipal
sessions. A campaign for jobs
for the homeless is under way.
The first of several emergency
cities" planned by the Able has
been opened.
This saintly-looking priest is
no novice at the political game.
Born in Lyon in 1912, the son of
a well-to-do family, he gave
away his inheritance at 10 to
enter a monastery. Eight years
later, suffering from tubercu-
losis. he left to take up the less
rigorous life of a parish priest
at Grenoble. afterwards becom-
ing chaplain of the University
of Mure. In 1912. when the Ger
mans occupied the area, Henri
Grues Joined the resistance I'M
der the alias Pierre" was twice
captured by the Gestapo and
escaped-once carrying away in
his arms the paralyzed brother
of Gen. Charles De Gaulle.
Served in Assembly.
Elected in 1916 as deputy of
Meurthe-et- Moselle. he served
for four years in the National
Assembly, earning a name for
himself for his unorthodox. left
list views. Before taking up his
work among the homeless, he
travelled extensively INCLUDING
the United States) in the inter-
ests of World Federalism.
Speaking today of his "insur-
rection," the Able reads a rather
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Doris FIeeson-

The far right wing OF the
Republican Party has lost its
press voice in the Nations
Capital.
It's friend, Col. Robert r.
Mccormick. added insult to its
injury when he sold the Wash
ington Times-Herald to the
liberal Washington Post which
Senator Mccarthy has called
the Washington branch of the
Daily Worker.
Mccarthy is not stingy with
this appellation but bestows it
freely on newspapers which
attack him. Nonetheless. Re
publicans to the right of
President Eisenhower have
long been CALLED by Post at
titudes and the colonel's per-
f1dy is a bitter pill for them.
From this angle the sale
represents a clear gain for
the Eisenhower administration
as it continues to head into
deep water with the Republic
can right. The right wing
story of course will continue
to be told but in the Times
Herald it had more than a
reporter, it had a true believer
and advocate.
That Col. Mccormick should
be Indifferent to the political
aspect of the sale goes far to
prove the frank assertions Of
those intimately involved in
the sale that he is old and
tired and sick. He has no
children to carry on for him.
The Times-Herald passed
into the colonel's hands from
another heir to the Chicago
Tribune fortune. the late Flea
nor (Cissy) Patterson. who
bought it from Hearst and
made a great success of it.
At that time. he chose an heir
apparent. his niece, Ruth
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-18

war. :. In ocean waters bor-
dering our country, If no.
where else, day-to-day ma
tional power-complete, undi-
vided, flexible. and immedi-
ately available-is an essen
tial attribute of Federal SOW
ereignty.
THE. acts language pur-
ports to convey all right, title.
and interest Of the United
States to immense ocean
areas as though the ocean
could be divided up and sold
like town lots. If valid. the
act grants to States all
proprietary rights of owner
ship, or the rights Of manage
ment, administration, lease,
use and development of the
lands and natural resources
of the ocean. The result is
that some favored States can
say how, when, for what pur-
poses. and to what extent
other States and their citizens
can use the ocean or its re-
sources. This raises serious
and difficult questions with
respect to the authority Of
Congress to relinquish ele-
ments Of national sovereignty
over the oceans"
Said Douglas: 90. we are
dealing here with incidents
Of national sovereignty. The
marginal sea Is not an oil
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-18
'Rog-Picking Priest Founder
Of French Political Movement
Able Pierre Seen
As Possessor of
Wide Ambitions
By Crosby S. Moves
Eoreian Correspondent OF The StoE

PARIS. Until last month.
France was a dead body. There
was life in abundance-minute.
destructive and mindless. But
there was no central being, no
heart and no soul :"
The speaker might have
stepped out Of an Ell Greco
painting: A thin ascetic face,
framed by unkempt black hair
and tapering beard. sad. deep
set eyes and dark Capucin habit.
Only the wide, knowing
and observation-disclosures out of
character, and the words in
modern political idiom. loaded
with carefully measured dyna-
mite.
Henri Grues-better known to
millions Of Frenchmen as the
Able Pierre-rates as perhaps
the hottest and most contro-
versial figure on the French po-
litical scene. II France has, in
fact, had q national reawaken-
ing in the last month. the able
can land does) take the credit.
Because, for better or worse, this
rather theatrical character has
launched the first successful
popular political movement that
France has seen for many years.
It started with the February
cold-snap which brought Paris
its bitterest weather in decades
and death to many Of the city's
wretched "clochards"-homeless
derelicts who shelter tradition
ally under the Seine bridges and
in deserted Metro stations. The
suffering in turn brought on the
"Insurrection Against Misery"
led by the clochard's self-ap-
pointed pastor and his group of
$50 "compagnons" mostly
themselves former derelicts who
live in a clutter of little shacks
around the Abbe's tumbledown
villa on the outskirts Of Paris.
Set OFF BY Radio Appeal.
A radio appeal by the rag
picking priest" tthe Abbe's army
supports itself by junk-dealing)
produced an avalanche of re-
Spouse. In five days more than
$345 900 poured into the COM
pagnons hastily-contrived treas
uries, along with some $4,000
blankets, 5000 jackets. 10000
overcoats. 5000 pairs Of shoes
and 5000 sweaters.
But 1t also did more. The
whole attention Of the country
was focused on Frances appall-
ing housing problem. and on the
inaction of the government to
solve it. Able Pierre was not
slow to apply the leverage. When
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Lowell MeHett-

II the present administra-
ton were not so harassed by
the developing moral mess in
Washington, by its tax prob
lens and by the threatening
economic situation, it could
take unbounded satisfaction in
q decision rendered on Mon
day by the United States
Supreme Court. For the high
court granted to the admins
tration, through Congress. the
unbounded right to give away
anything it may wish to give
away. Certainly welcome news
to an administration which
has revealed a willingness to
become known as the giveaway
government of all time.
The court, by a vote Of 6
to 2, denied the right Of Ala
bama and Rhode Island to
challenge the constitutionality
Of the Submerged Lands Act
Of 1853. This is the act under
which Texas. Louisiana and
California take title to under
water oil lands estimated to be
worth many billions of dol
lars. The court held that Con-
gress has the right without
limitation" to dispose of prop
erty belonging to the United
States: that 1t may deal with
such lands precisely as q
private individual may deal
with his farming property"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-18
Yep, They Robbed
Gary Cooper;
Nope, Not Film Star

Three bandits, one Of them
armed with a .32-caliber re-
volver. early today held up a
West Hyattsville service station
attendant named Gary Cooper
(no relation to the movie STAR.
Mr.. Cooper. 10, was forced to
give up $75.25 in cash shortly
after l am. Mr.. Cooper, who
lives at 1913 Madison street,
Chillum Heights, Md, is a night
employe at a gas station at
Riggs road and East-West high
way.
He told Prince Georges County
police that three white men
drove up and ordered a dollars
worth of gas. Instead of pay
ing for it. he said they pulled
out a gun. He gave them
money from a change carrier
and from his pockets. and the
car drove off on Riggs road
headed towards the District.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-18

diplomatic ties with the
Chinese Nationalist govern
ment In Formosa. British com.
mercial and industrial inter.
ests are now pressing their
government to open up all
trade channels with that
country. They demand that the
partial blockade ordered soon
after the Chinese volunteers"
entered the Korean war be re-
moved at once.
The French are fighting an
uphill battle in Indo-C China.
Despite the fact that the
United States has now assumed
some rs per cent Of the cost Of
that war and the French have
thrown into the battle mostly
Algerian, Senegalese, Moroccan
and Foreign Legion troops,
there is a loud clamor in
France for the cessation Of
hostilities.
Our European allies have
reached the conclusion that
the question Of peace in the
Far East lies entirely in
Americas hands. They have
been told clearly by the Soviet
government that all further
military actions in Southeast
Asia. as we'll as in Korea, could
be terminated as soon as the
United States changes its atti-
tude toward the Peiping regime
and Cd recognizes 1t as a de
jure government: CD does not
oppose its acceptance into the
United Nations. where it would
replace the representatives OF
the Nationalist government in
Formosa. The Kremlin has no
conjunction, however, in tell
ing our European allies that.
unless this happens. the battle
fields Of Indo-C China and Korea
will be drenched in blood until
the Western nations all are
kicked permanently out Of
Asia.
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her brother Joe. the late
Capt. Joseph Medill Patter-
son. founder of the fabulously
profitable New York Daily
News, would do anything to
keep their newspapers from
being dull and usually did 1t.
Their front news pages were
ripe as camembert and their
story was that if the good
Lord let human folly happen.
they were not too proud to
publish it.
Both Of them loved life and
people. Everything interested
them, down to and indeed
especially. the last private
detail.
Col. Mccormick by contrast
is aloof and remote from the
hoi polloi. He not only has
much narrower interests but
feels that what interests him is
what ought to interest others.
Because he is native to Chi
cago and thinks it the hub
of the universe. this worked
fine with the Chicago Tribune.
Significantly his name for its
wide circulation area is THE
Tribune Chicagoland."
He disapproves Of Washing
ton and most of the people in
it. From the start. Mrs. Patter-
sons editors discovered that
the D. c. market meant little
to him, that he didn't want
to be told about Washington.
he only wanted to tell it after
his fashion.
This extremely acute and
highly literate community
didn't take to the Chicago
Tribune angle and as the
Times-Herald grew more like
the Tribune and less like the
Patterson formula its readers
also fell away. What the Post
will make of it is still to be
seen.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-18

sweeping significance into what
happened.
Public response to natural
calamity is natural enough. Peo-
pie will always give generously
to help the victims of floods
in Holland or earthquakes in
Greece. But here. it was some
thing more. 1t was the reaction
of a people which conceives of
itself as being no less humane
and no less intelligent than 9TH
ers which suddenly realizes that
this calamity was the result Of
pure idiocy."
Too often. the Able comments
dryly. the history of France has
been a tortoise and-hare race
between national inertia and
national conscience. Folly has
often gone to tragic lengths be-
fore being overtaken.
Last month, for the first time
in many years. the French peo-
pie were faced with something
on which. for once. they could
all agree. The result was as
founding. You may say it was a
small thing. but the lesson will
not be forgotten"
Neither, apparently will be the
lesson learned by the Able him
self-the dramatic political ef-
fects that can be achieved by
timely pressure, carefully Or
ganized and skillfully applied.
This technique, familiar enough
in the United States, is less so
in France. The result of the ex-
pertinent has been a real eye
opener to a number Of people.
Insists on Responsibility.
So far as his housing project
is concerned, the Able is deter
mined that the government shall
not shove off the responsibility
on him instead of taking the
drastic steps that the situation
demands. The problem, he in
SiSts. cannot be solved by a new
Little Sisters of Charity" move
ment.
I'VE must be the flea that
keeps the blood of the admins
tration flowing" he says. The
public must organize itself to
make it's demands heard. A we'll
fed. well-housed deputy who has
lost contact with human suffer-
ing has lost contact with the
people. We are the ones who
must tell them what the people
need and what the people want"
The Able tells his audiences:
Go ahead and take it out on
the government. It's good for
them. But while you're at it,
take it out on yourselves too. In
the end. it's you who are really
to blame"
AS long as he confined him
self to public housing, the Able
was on safe ground and could
claim with justice that he was
playing a unifying role. More
recently, however. there are in
dicationS that he is dabbling his
fingers in far more controversial
pies. Talking the other day to
a group of American and Brit
ish correspondents. he covered
a wide field. ranging all the
way from the dangers of alcohol
to the dangers of McCarthyism.
and berating the French gov
eminent all the way from Paris
to North Africa and Indo- China.
The Able admits alphabetically:
II have knack for putting my
foot in it,"
Message Simple in Theory.
On the struggle between East
and West, his message Is as SIM
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Fletcher Knebel-
Potomac Fever

Ike backs Secretary against Mccarthy
appears all set for the movehes excellent
references.
The Citizens for Eisenhower raising 100000
Republican Congress It's figured that there's hula
baloo about elecng Republicans Of them
fused they'll vote for the Eisenhower program.
Joe Mccarthy the administration rejected
his books for libraries The librarian ruled the McCa
thy books failed to meet the minimum sandardsoo short
burning.
Ike angry denies the Democratic charge that his
favors the rich Ike hates waste his
Democra-he needs all he muster for his party.
The Washington Post buys the Washington Tmes-Herald
from Col Mccormick The colonel will previously
positions unoiS-ready
the United States to Chicagoland
Ike Maj Gen. Allen should live in the 81 dog
house he built with taxpayers Ike just time
lot of dog lovers claiming special
emption their tax returns
Boss Humphrey we'll So the red
Democratic tax cuts Humphrey ruefuly admits
that apparently appointed preside lqu
dation of the national debt.
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pie in theory as it is difficult
and delicate in application.
I'm my parish" he says, IT
have man who was too much
of Red to stay in Spain with
out getting shot. I have another
who was too white to stay in
Poland without being hung.
Naturally. they don't get along
we'll together. Then. one day,
a young mother comes in. She
is pushing a baby carriage and
crying. She has spent the last
two weeks sleeping in an auto
mobile. The baby is dying of
hunger.
What do my two men do?"
They go out and find bricks and
mortar and they build a house
And when it's built, and the
woman has moved in. she asks
them in to have a glass of wine.
And while they are drinking the
wine. the two men start arguing
again.
But now it's a different argu-
ment. because now they know
that the things that divide them
are not the important things.
They know that before the re-
atty of hunger and cold and
human misery they can work
together and act together as
human beings"
Ambition Is Question.
Is there political ambition in
this unworldly-looking man who
speaks in explosive parallels?
only the ambition of a citi-
zen to perform the duties Of
citizenship" the Able declares.
What one little priest can do
to bring the needs of his people
to the government, I will do.
After all, that is democracy,
isn't it?"
Some who have watched the
rise of the picking priest
are not so sure. Noting his new
interests and the development
Of his organization tthe Abbe's
"secretariat" including an active
publicity bureau has set up shop
in Paris Rochester HoteD his
critics are inclined to rate him
as f1rst-class revolutionary
whose ambitions go very far in
deed.
To others-and certainly at
this point to a great majority of
the French people-he is the
object of genuine veneration.
One thing. however. seems GER
tain. If the Able Pierre's re-
entry into political life continues
at its present pace. neither the
government-or perhaps the
Cnurch-can ignore him.
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Doris Feeson-
Far Right Wing Loses. q Voice
And Col. Robert Mccormick Adds Insult to Injury
cel;n L4ieh to toeI POST

(Bazey) Miller. daughter of
the late Ruth Hanna McCor-
mick and now Mrs. Garvin
Tankersley. and put her in
charge of the Times-H Herald.
Mrs. Miller. as she then
was. plunged into Republican
right wing politics and mate
rally helped Senator McCar-
thy in the Maryland campaign
to unseat Willard Tydings.
But neither her management
of the paper nor her subse-
quent divorce and remarriage
to "a Times-Herald staff
man pleased her uncle. They
are personally reconciled now
and she is known to have had
hopes of returning to the
paper. She still resides here.
Mrs. Tankersley was not
told until 2 pm. Monday
March 15) that the Times
Herald was being sold. She
was given "a hours to over
come the $l0-million offer Of
Post Publisher Meyer. All of
it she spent on the telephone
attempting to raise the neces-
sary capital to outbid him but
her efforts were vain. Col.
Mccormick chose not to do
her a family favor by taking
what she could offer and at
10 am. Tuesday the deal was
closed.
The Times Herald has been
losing circulation and adver-
Using and so. inevitably,
money. 1t has been reported
its losses were a million a year
"a burden more bearable be-
fore the excess profits tax was
repealed.
The story Of the papers
decline is the story of the
difference between the Chicago
Tribune cousins - the Patter-
sons and the McCormicks.
The late Cissy Patterson and
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we'll; it is more than a mass
of water; it Is a protective
belt for the entire Nation
over which the United States
must exercise exclusive and
paramount authority. The
authority over it can no more
be abdicated than any Of the
other great powers Of the
Federal Government. It Is to
be exercised for the benefit Of
the whole"
Yet the act-and the courts
decree-will stand unless and
until some Congress decides it
should be repealed. Senator
Morse of Oregon proposes to
make it a campaign issue this
year and in 1856. This could
result in a repetition Of the
expensive and misleading
propaganda that brought
about the enactment of the
law, but also perhaps a better
understanding by the Ameri-
can people Of what has hap
pened to one Of their basic
rights.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-18
Russia Will Continue Cold War.
Present Soviet Policies Aimed at Driving Wedges
Producing Dissenson Among Free Countries

How is such inflltration &C
complished? In some coun-
tries, like France and Italy,
where the Communist Party
is not regarded as a conspir-
acy. direct access is gained to
cabinets and government de-
partments where important in
formation Is acquired daily as
to the trend of policies while
they are being shaped. This
permits Moscow to move on
the diplomatic scene in ways
that cause international fric-
ton and weaken the solidarity
of the free world. Messrs.
MacLean and Burgess. for
merly of the British Foreign
Office, sit behind the Iron
Curtain advising the Russians.
But the British keep on pooh
pooling the Communist men,
ace and crying out against
'McCarthyism."
Is there other proof of in
filtration? Recently the British
government discovered a Com
munist plot to take over the
colonial government in British
Guiana on the north coast Of
South America. The United
States Government has, dis
covered the same state Of af-
fairs in Guatemala. There are
Communist activities in other
Latin American countries. 1t
is obviously Soviet strategy to
make as much trouble as pos
sible for what is sometimes
referred to as our back yard"
because of Washington's need
for Latin American votes in
the United Nations Assembly.
What is the present objec-
tive of the Soviets in the cold
war;? It is to drive a wedge
between Great Britain and
France. on the one hand. and
the United States on the other.
1t is aimed at producing dis
sension by a campaign inside
free countries to resume trade
between Europe and the Iron
Curtain countries. The door is
being opened to such trade.
The United States Govern
ment is webbing on the issue.
The Soviets see a chance Of
getting Britain and other
countries so entangled in trade
that Russia will acquire in the
next few years strategic ma
terials and machinery acutely
needed for armament and also
for improvement of the Mos
COW governments internal po-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-18
Debate Tournament
Begins al GEORGETOWN

Georgetown University's sixth
annual Cherry Blossom Debate
Tournament was to begin today
on the main campus. Thirty
seventh and o streets NV.
About 125 participants repre-
senting 80 colleges and univer-
sites will engage in the tourna-
ment.
They will be competing for
the Rev. John Toohey Challenge
Trophy, won last year by
George Washington University.
The tournament consists of eight
rounds of debates. including a
final one on Saturday in CASTOR
Hall.
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BUXTON PERSONALS

Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Mehlase of
Detroit arrived here at their cot
tage Tuesday to spend their honey
moon. They were married Satur-
day.
Martin Tolson spent Monday in
Manteo,
Rev, Dan Meadows, pastor of the
Methodist Church, returned after
attending the pastors school at
Duke University, and will hold his
regular services here Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Fulcher and
children of Norfolk are guests of
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. C. P.
Brady.
Mrs. Edith Fulcher and daugh-
tiers of Berkeley, Va. visited friends
in Buxton, Frisco and Hatteras,
Mrs. Fulcher, a native of Frisco,
has been living in Norfolk many
years.
Rev. Robt. Rayle is visiting in
Engelhard.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Parker and
children of Lasker are spending
their vacation here with his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Parker,
Sr.
Boyce Midget arrived Saturday
from Morganton, where he is en-
ployed, for a few days visit with
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. E. R.
Midget He will be accompanied
on his return by his wife and chill
dren who have been visiting here
for some time.
Mr.. and Mrs. hurry Casey and
daughter Linda of Norfolk spent
their vacation here with his moth
er, Mrs. Cora Lee Casey.
Nathan Brady, U.S.C.G., and
wife, of Boston, are visiting his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. C. P. Brady.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dewey Parr are
visiting their children and grand
children in Norfolk.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roscom Gibbs and
children and Mr.. Gibbs two broth
ers of Elizabeth City spent some
time here with Capt. and Mrs. U.
B. Jennette.
Mrs. Dorothy Wicker and three
sons of Winston-S Salem are spend
ing their vacation here at the Full
Ter cottage court. j..