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Evening star., 1954-10-29

we were being plunged into
another international crisis:
that another foreign ally had
welshed on its word; or to
find US in another war, such
as In, Korea.
Hence it is understandable
that no real enthusiasm Is
being. aroused by further OPP
timistic statements in the
midst Of an election campaign
without anything tangible to
inf1aine the citizens imagina-
ton.
Successful conferences do
not provide the necessary ma
terial for popular enthusiasm.
The American people have
seen too long q chain Of such
successful parleys" to pay
much attention to them. Mr..
and Mrs. John @. Citizen hear
or read Of them with perfume
tory interest. They are more
concerned with the price of
eggs or the regional lack Of
jobs than with the make
believe strides Of world peace.
The so-called informed"
voters who follow closely the
trend of foreign affairs keep
their fingers crossed every time
there Is q new successful in
ternational conference" They
realize that the agreements
signed last week at Paris were
accepted by our Western allies
mainly because they expect
that after ratification the way
will be open for a meeting Of
the Big Four Foreign Minis
ters. This. Of course. means an
other meeting with the men in
the Kremlin.
Nobody Is opposed to a gen.
eral settlement of world prob
lens and especially with the
Russians. But from past ex-
periences we have learned that
these parleys have ended either
in further disagreement or
in the West losing its shirt.
It is true that the present
Kremlin policies are such as
to leave room for an under
standing between the Western
European nations and the
countries behind the Iron
Curtain. But there is no basis
for q settlement between the
United States and the Com
munist world.
Gen. Eisenhower made this
clear at his news conference
Wednesday when he stated
that he believes the fanatic
pursuers Of Communist theory
have not changed their de-
signs But he added his be-
lief that the united strength
and determination Of the free
world is growing.
The Informed voters"--and
there are quite q number OF
them in every electoral dis
trict-are skeptical about this
united strength and deter
mination" Of our allies, par
ticularly in Western Europe
The Informed" realize that we
lost the war In Korea and are
/ now put In the position Of ,ac-
cepting Com m unist peace
terms or fighting further. Anc
we are In this position not be-
cause we were unable to OBJ
tain victory but because our
allies at the political level
1 hampered the actions of our
military.
Under these conditions it is
difficult to inflame the en-
thusiasrn Of the voters by ex-
tolling the success of another
conference" AS a, matter OF
fact it is a fair guess that even
an eleventh-hour failure of the
Paris Conference would not
have hurt the Republican
candidates much. Because of
Evening star., 1954-10-29

more damage was not done to
the balance Of power between
the legislative and executive
branches of our Government
is due in large measure to
the Democrats. History will
record few other examples Of
a President being so well de-
Tended by the opposition party
against the irresponsible ac-
tions of his own supporters.
In the field of foreign af-
fairs the major attack on
presidential responsibility was
the proposed Bricker amend
ment to the Constitution,
which in It's, original form
would have crippled the
treaty making power and the
right Of the President to make
executive agreements. and
would have returned us to the
legal chaos in international
affairs which existed before
the Constitution came into
being, under the Articles Of
Confederation. when State
laws were superior to the
central government.
The original Bricker amend
ment had the sponsorship of
all but three of the Republican
Senators. and the Eisenhower
administration, when it took
Office, was intimidated by this
massive show Of Republican
support. Consequently, instead
of launching an all-out attack
on this threat to our consti-
tutional form of government.
and carrying the fight to the
people, the Eisenhower ad-
ministration spent valuable
months feebly trying to work
out a compromise with the
proponents of the measure.
But the decisive opposition
was found in the Democratic
ranks. When the matter finally
reached the floor, it was the
Democratic Senators whose
votes eliminated the most dan
gerous provision from the pro-
posal and thus paved the way
for the acceptance of the
George substitute. The substi-
tute, happily, in my opinion.
failed to receive a two-thirds
majority, and so the whole pro-
posal died. But there is no
doubt that it was the Demo-
Gratis in the Senate and not
the Republicans, nor the White
House, who turned aside this
threat to our national safety.
The Bricker amendment will
be proposed again, and again we
will need Democrats in the Sem
ate to defeat it. Moreover, we
need a Democratic majority in
the Senate to enable the Eisen-
hover administration to con-
duct It's foreign policy free
from other kinds Of legislative
encroachments,' It Is incon-
ceivable to me that q Demo-
cratic leader of the Senate
would ever do what Senator
Knewland has been doing
formulating his own foreign
policy and announcing it from
the housetops in such a way
as to embarrass and coerce the
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John Foster Dulles also was
present.
Mr.. Spaak will receive an
honorary doctorate degree Sum
day at Columbia University. on
Monday he win 60 to Detroit
to lecture at the Economy Club.
He plans to visit Washington
November 10 and IL, where he
will call on Mr.. Dulles and prob
ably see President Eisenhower. Y
Evening star., 1954-10-29
Three Bombs Found
At Guantanamo City
BY the Associated Press

HAVANA. Cuba, Oct. 29.-
Three small unexploded bombs
were found by police yesterday
at Guantanamo City, near the
United States Naval Base at
Guantanamo Bay.
One bombs was found at the
Guantanamo railroad station.
another in the postoffice and the
third at a radio station. Police
said several persons had been
taken into custody for question:
ing.
Evening star., 1954-10-29
Greek Orthodox Congress

SAVANNAH. Ca. Oct. 90 H).
The Biennial Congress Of the
Greek Orthodox Church Of the
Americas voted yesterday to
undertake several major projects
and to convene the 1856 congress
In Washington. y. C.. at 3 date
to be decided upon later.
Evening star., 1954-10-29
Hory.S. Truman

(This article ,DdS made nDdtl-
able to The Star through the
courtesy of the NetD York
Herald Trtbune.)
The Democratic members of
the recent SD Congress rem
dered a great service to their
country by defending the con-
stitutional powers Of the presi-
dency against the fanatical
onslaught of the radical right
wing of the Republican Party.
For years there has been a
determined group of bitter
enders in the Republican Party
determined to hogtie the Presi-
dent in the exercise of the
powers granted to him by the
Constitution. When the Office
Of President was held by a
Democrat, this effort was re-
garded simply as a manifesto
ton of partisanship, and there
was little thought that 1t con-
stituted a real threat to the
concept of c constitutional
checks and balances left to us
by the trainers of the Constitu-
ton.
However, as soon as a Re-
publican President took Office
these same Republican ele-
ments mounted their attack
with redoubled fury and
with greater chances Of sue
cess. Indeed. their animosity
against the presidential Office
appears to have been increased
rather than diminished by the
election of a Republican Presi-
dent.
am afraid that our people
generally do not realize how
vigorously the President must
guard the powers of his own
Office if he is to hand them
down unimpaired to his success
sors. It may be all too easy, in
an effort to get along with the
Congress, for the President to
make compromises that sacri-
flee some vital aspect of the
presidential power. And once
a President does this it may be
impossible for later Presidents
ever to exercise that vital power
again
There are two main areas
in which a President must
always be on his guard against
the danger of congressional
encroachments. One of these
is the conduct of foreign af-
fairs, and the other Is the
management Of the executive
branch. With great wisdom,
the Constitution made both of
these fields of government the
primary responsibility Of the
President. The Legislature is.
by it's very nature. not quail
fled to handle our relations
with foreign governments or
manage the day-to-day busi-
ness Of the executive depart
ment.
During the two sessions OF
the 83d Congress the Re-
publicans made vigorous and
violent attacks upon the
powers Of the presidency in
these two fields. The fact that
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that it would permit Govern
ment employees to participate
in politics and thus violate the
Hatch Act. a strained interpre-
tation indeed.
So we were denied even that
practice voting.
Only Congress can give us
the vote and ''home rule 50
that we can manage our own
city government. But we can't
vote in congressional elections
since we are allowed no Repre-
sentative In Congress. The only
people who can do us any good
are Rhose in the country who
can vote and who could, II they
would, prod their members Of
Congress to give Us the vote.
Thanks TO Tom Dewey for
giving ts q chance 10 remind
you once again.
Evening star., 1954-10-29

fThis article ,DaS made duGtl-
able to The Star through the
courtesy OF the NetD York
Herald Trtbune.)
Evening star., 1954-03-30
Car Dealer Convicted
In Bdd-Check Case

BEL AIR. Md, Mar. 3O.-H. H.
Vicks. Hyattsville (Md.) used-car
dealer, was convicted yesterday
OF obtaining a car from a Bel
Air dealer by using a bad check.
Judge D. Paul McNabb, who
returned the verdict. postponed
sentencing at the request of de-
tense counsel.
States Attorney Robert H
Archer, jr., introduced evidence
that Vicks' bank balance was
only $569.75 last June when he
wrote check for $4,000 to Miller
Bros. for a 1851 Cadillac con-
vertible.
Testimony was given on Vicks'
behalf that he had made direct
payment of $4,000 toward the
amount. He faces trial on three
similar charges involving pur-
chase of used cars here.
His trial was originally sched-
uled for January 20, but he failed
then and on a later occasion to
appear in court and defaulted
$4,000 bail. He was arrested a
few weeks later in Kansas City
and has been in the Hartford Jail
since then.
Evening star., 1954-03-30
Too Many Lights on Car
Bring S158 Fine for GI

An Army sergeant with a Fort
Meade (MdD guided missile unit
was fined $158 and cost yester-
day for driving a car that looked
like "the thing from outer
space"-and without license.
Maryland State Trooper Jack
Davis said he saw what looked
ike either "lit up flying saucer
or a Christmas tree going back
wards" coming at him on Route
l near Berwyn, Md. January %.
He said it was just Sergt.
Rudolph Brown, 25, colored. of
the 36th AAA Missile Battalion,
with eight red, green, yellow and
blue truck lights attached to
the front bumper of his car.
Judge Theodore L. Miazga
fined Brown 81 a light and
added fines of $100 and $50 on
two charges of driving without
a license and failing to obey a
summons to come before the
court.
Brown said the colored lights
are no longer there. He wrecked
his car last week.
Evening star., 1954-03-30
400 Help Launch Drive
To End Discrimination

More than 400 persons wit
messed the launching of a Free
dom Fund" program to end
racial discrimination by 1868 at
a meeting last night in Arling-
ton Chapter, National Associa-
ton for the Advancement of
Colored People. and chapters
from Fairfax. Loudoun. Prince
William and other Virginia coun-
ties.
Principal speaker was Thur
good Marshall of New York. spe-
cial counsel of the association.
who said that much has been
done in recent years toward ac-
compliShment of the associa-
tion'S program.
The Rev. Milton Sheppard Of
the Fairfax chapter announced
that DR.. Margaret Butcher Of
the District Board of Education
will address his group at 3 pm.
Sunday at Galloway Methodist
Church, Annandale road, Falls
Church.
Evening star., 1954-03-30
Drunk's Pockets
Found to Rival
Women's Purses
BY the Assoeioted Press

FREDERICKSBURG, Va,
Mar. 30.-LiSten, girls, the next
time a smirking male remarks
about the junk you carry around
in your purses, remind him of
the man who was haled into
police headquarters here.
Brought in on a drunk charge,
his pockets were emptied before
he was put in Jail. And here is
what police found:
A cheese sandwich, a jelly
sandwich, a change purse, a
pair of glasses and a case, a
sales book, two memo books, a
pocket watch. a trowel, a billfold,
three beer openers, a ruler, a
pocket knife, a plug of chewing
tobacco.
And, a box of salve, a bunch
of keys. three pocket combs, a
box of matches, a bundle of
miscellaneous papers, two pen
ellis, a letter, a magazine, a pair
of gloves. a roll of twine, shoe
laceS. q social security card, one
safety pin, a toy policeman's s
badge and q cigar butt.
Evening star., 1954-03-30
$4,000 Refunded
From Ar|ington's
Old Retirement Plan

More than $117,000 has been
refunded to Arlington County
employees who were covered by
1946 retirement ordinance.
now replaced with a new pro-
gram.
Most of the participants in the
old system have signed up for
the new program, adopted by
the county board last year, but
about $50 employees have de-
clined to join M. c. Rohrback.
executive secretary of the County
Retirement Board revealed to-
day.
COverage Increases.
The number covered, however,
has risen from TOO to about
/ 100 because the new plan covers
laborers and other employees.
Mr.. Rohrback said only one
policeman and one fireman are
included in the group refusing
to participate.
All employees. however. are now
covered by social security and
all new employees must partici-
pate in the retirement plan.
Meanwhile, Circuit Judge Will
liam D. Medley took under ad-
visement a legal challenge of
the 1853 ordinance by Attorney
John Locke Green.
Termed Violation.
Mr.. Green. representing the
Police Beneficiary Association,
charged during a hearing yester-
day that the termination of the
old plan was a violation of con-
tract.
Peter j. Kostik, assistant Com
monwealth attorney, argued that
the retirement agreement fails
to constitute a contract under
law.
Mr.. Green said policemen's
rights were violated by the new
ordinances provision authoriz-
ing retirement at age SIS while
the earlier plan permitted re-
tirement after Is years service,
regardless of the employees age.
Mr.. Kostik said the 25-year
provision was in itself a change,
adopted in 1850. in the original
retirement ordinance, adopted in
1916.
Evening star., 1954-03-30
Proposal for VA Hospital
Al Jones Point Studied

The Veterans Administration
is studying a request by the
Alexandria Chamber of Com
merce to use the 60-acre Jones
Point area as the site for a new
veterans hospital.
Randall j. Hicks, chairman of
the industrial committee, said a
brochure citing the advantages
of Jones Point as a hospital To-
cation had been sent to the Vet
erans' Administration.
Jones Point formerly was the
site of a Signal Corps radio sta
ton. The station has been
moved and the Defense Depart
ment no longer requires the use
of Jones Point.
Mr.. Hicks said the VA has first
priority on the land. since the
Defense Department has released
it.
The Alexandria city council
has gone on record indorsing
conversion of Jones Point into
a park.
Evening star., 1954-03-30
Upper Countions Set to Fight
Zone Plan at Rockville Hearing

/ they would make Montgomery
the exclusive domain of the
rich"
Mr.. Simmons has said the
proposed ordinance would sab
atoge further" the vale of prop
erty.
Farmers were expected to turn
out heavily for the hearing, but
one rural attorney said some of
them feel they will be wasting
their time. He pointed out the
farmers almost unanimously
fought the subdivision regula-
tions only to see them passed
with restrictions that were in
some cases even more rigid than
those in the suburban area.
Prefer Farm Community.
The planning commission has
made it clear one of its princi-
pal aims is to maintain the agri-
cultural characteristics of the
upper county.
In a pamphlet containing
eight articles in support of its
proposed ordinance. the plan
nIng commission says that the
predominant existing use Of land
in an area would be protected
against intrusion Of uses that will
disturb property values, affect
public safety, and require the
wasteful expenditure of public
money"
If the ordinance is adopted. as
is expected, the upper county
may find itself financing the
planning commissions activities
under a special taxing area. Some
councilmen feel that the rural
area should pay for its own
planning services instead Of taxa
in the funds out of general
revenues. Suburban residents
pay their own way for services
rendered by the Maryland-Na-
tional Capital Park and Plan
ming Commission.
Evening star., 1954-03-30
Morgan 1enny Seeks Seat
On Montgomery Council

Morgan L. Tenny, attorney
and former clerk to the Mont
gomery County Council, yeSter-
day filed for the Democratic
nomination for the Third Dis
trict Council seat.
Mr.. Tenny. who is 35. served
as clerk to the present council
in 1951-52. He is former Zon-
ing and license inspector with
the county. He holds an A. B. de-
gree from the University of
Maryland and a law degree from
George Washington University
Law School. He lives at 10807
Montrose avenue, Garrett Park.
Mr.. Tenny is a veteran of
World War II and is a major
in the Army reserve. He is a
member of the County Bar As
sociation, board of director Of
the Silver Spring Junior Cham
ber Of Commerce and the Silver
Spring Kiwanis Club.
Evening star., 1954-03-30
S9.6 Million
Schools Fund
AskedinCounty
: New Buildings Head
Montgomery Bourd's
Capitol Budget Bid

The Montgomery County
School Board will request a
$9,624,879 capital budget from
the County Council for the f1s-
cal year 1954-55..
The budget items. voted on in
Rockville last night. include
$2,866. 900 for a new. North Be-
theSda senior high school on
Old Georgetown road; $1,367,-
$50 fro a new Rockville junior
high school. and $1.358,050 for
a new Wheaton Junior high
school on Weller road.
The capital budget request will
be submitted this week to
County Manager Edward T.
Beall. whose budget recommen-
dations to the council will be
made public in April.
Additions are shown in the
budget program for Sherwood.
Gaithersburg and Carver High
Schools. Also included is $780,
600 for site purchase and plan
ming for a junior-senior high
school in the White Oak area.
Two new elementary schools
are planned-Arcola Elementary
in the, eastern suburban area.
$256, 400. and Grosvenor Lane
Elementary. Cheshire drive,
Bethesda. $224,760.
Elementary school additions
are listed for Wheaton Woods,
Glenhaven Maryvale. Rosemary
Hills. Hillandale, Wyngate, Wood
lin, Lone Oak, Oakland Terrace,
Sandy Spring and Brookmont.
Other items include equipment.
alterations, drainage, grading
and black topping for schools
already built.
Evening star., 1954-03-30

A bitter fight over the con-
troversial Upper Montgomery
County zoning ordinance is ex-
pected to reach a climax tomor-
row at a hearing at 8 pm. in
the County Building auditorium
in Rockville.
The temporary" zoning ordi-
nance would bring the predomi-
nately farm area under rigid
control. 1t is designed primarily
to clamp a "near-freeZe" on
existing lanu uses for two years
while master coming plan is
being developed.
Spearheading tomorrow nights
attack on the measure will be
the Upper County Committee of
the Home Builders Association Of
Metropolitan Washington.
The ordinance has been pre-
pared by the upper Montgomery
County Planning Commission.
which also drew up the upper
county subdivision regulation
passed over violent objections Of
rural residents.
Accused of Snobbery.
T. Girard Lee, chairman of
the Home Builders Committee.
has accused the commission of
sheer snobbery and class preju-
dice"
THE planning commission is
trying to make us into another
Westchester County, where none
but the very wealthy can afford
to live" Mr.. Lee said recently.
Mr.. Lee said the proposed ordi-
nance. combined with the sub
division regulation and the 1850
road code, will make residential
construction prohibitive.
Strict Rules Scored.
Marvin Simmons, vice chair
man of the committee, has
scored the regulations as fan
tastically stringent" He said
Evening star., 1954-03-30
County May Charge
Jailed Mother in
Death Of Daughter
By a s,or s,off co,e.pecd.r,

LA PLATA. Md, Mar. 30.-A
decision may be reached today
on whether charges will be
placed against Mrs. Mary Chris
tina Orencia, who is held in the
Charles County Jail while au-
thorities probe the death last
Tuesday Of her 2-year-old
daughter Magdalena.
Sergt. Richard H. Stallings,
acting commander of the WAL
dorf State police barracks. said
Mrs. Orencia, 81, and her hus-
band. Constantio r. Orencia, SO.
were arrested Sunday.
They were questioned at
Waterloo police barracks by State
police and Charles County
States Attorney Robert T. Bar
bour. Mr.. Orencia was held
there Sunday night while his
wife was lodged in Jail here.
Took Lie Detector Test.
Sergt. Stallings said Mr.. Oren-
cia. a chef in a local restaurant.
was released yesterday after he
was given a lie detector test at
Fort Meade at his own request.
Authorities began the pcobe
last Wednesday, a day after
little Magdalena was fatally in
jured in her home near Waldorf.
She died the same day in Provi-
dence Hospital, Washington.
District Deputy Coroner DR..
Richard Rosenberg reported that
the child died from hemorrhages
caused oy ruptured stomach or
ganS. Mrs. Orencia said the
child was injured in a fall from
her crib.
Acquitted in "A Death.
Mrs. Orencia in 1914 was ac-
quilted in the District of fatally
beating her 3-year-old tiaugh-
ter, Aurora. She was admitted
to st. Elizabeths Hospital. where
she remained until June, 1851.
Her f1rSt-born son, Ronald,
died in August. 1910, of a cere-
bral hemorrhage. His death was
ruled accidental.
Four of the Orencias' other
five children are under the care
of the Charles County Welfare
Board. The other, a 7-month-
old boy, has been at home in the
boards protective service"
Evening star., 1954-03-30
JobIess Man Ends Life
In Montgomery County

A Montgomery County man
ended his life yesterday by
shooting himself in the head
with a 12-gauge shotgun, county
police reported.
The dead man was Edward
r. King, 80. who lived on farm
near Purdum in the upper part
of the county.
Police said Mr.. King was
found face down about I pm. at
the edge of a woods by his
brother. John D. King. The lat
ter told DR.. Frank j. Broschart,
county medical examiner, that
his brother had been unem-
ployed and was worried.
DR.. Broschart issued a ctr-
tificate of suicide.