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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-18
FBI Chief Cites Property Loss
InCor 7 hefts, Lists Safeguards

thieves make on with more loot
than any other criminals.
There were an estimated
226,530 automobile thefts in the
1863 calendar year, he said. "Ev-
cry 2.3 minutes an automobile
was stolen"
He added, however, that due
to increasingly expert law en-
forcement the recovery Of stolen
cars steadily increases. The re-
coyery rate in 1850 was GIT per
cent; in 1853 it was $50 per cent.
Nevertheless, he said. more
than 10000 cars stolen from
1950-1953 are still unrecovered.
They represent a loss Of $50
million.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-18
Great Grondn,o of is
Weds Boy Friend SO

A 74-year-old woman Of Port
Elizabeth. South Africa great
grandmother Of 16 children
married '.the boy across the
way" the other day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-29
McCorthy's Foes Are Duped
Attackers Of His Methods Should Take Care to Remember
Other Hearings and Other Methods Of the Past

Of the more recent criticism Of
the methods" of congressional
committees.
But some of the same critics.
notably Adlai Stevenson and
most of the Democrats in Con-
gresS. were strangely silent
about Army morale" and, in
fact. there was wide applause
from the liberals" both here
and abroad. when President
Truman, after the Red Chi
nese interviewed in Korea, re-
fused to accept the unanimous
advice of his own joint Chiefs
of Staff as we'll as the Far
Eastern Commander, Gen.
Macarthur. to use air power
against the enemy's bases
in Manchuria. Mr.. Truman
yielded to the objections of
the "left-wing" politicians in
the Labor Government in Lon
don. Nothing hurts an army'S
morale more than to be or
dered to fight with its hands
tied behind its back.
Where, moreover. were the
defenders Of the army NOR
ale" when Gen. Van Fleet
charged and a congressional
committee later reported that
an adequate supply of ammu-
milton had been withheld from
our troops during the fighting
in Korea? To this day the
culpability of the Army's Of
f1cials in Washington for this
scandal has never been fully
investigated.
Where also were the pres
ent-day defenders of Army
morale" and the critics of
methods" and procedures in
Government when Gen. Mac
Arthur-a veteran of two
world wars and the Korean
war, who wears a breastful of
decorations for distinguished
service and heroiSm - was
"browbeaten" and "humili-
ated" before the whole world
as President Truman sum-
marily dismissed him from
active duty? This General
was not even granted the
courtesy of summons to
Washington or a hearing to
present his side of the case
or an opportunity to face his
accusers. inside or outside the
Army. before being dishonor-
ably elected from all his COM
mands with a blunt telegram
that was broadcast by radio
before the General himself
received it. No castigation of
Truman methods" came from
the liberals" then.
Certainly Senator Mccarthy
made a mistake when he lost
his temper at a hearing and
blurted out his condemnation
of the Army general who he
thought was being an evasive
and unco-operative witness.
But certainly no American
lives were lost as a conse-
quence of this outburst of
opinion while the casualties
of the Truman methods"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-29
Political Results Of the Bomb
Hydrogen Weapon Seen About Useless in "NbbIng War;
And Its Use in Indo-C China Too Risky to Tv
Dorothy Thompson

The fact that the United
States and the Soviet Union
both possess atomic weapons
with power to inf1ict immeas-
urable destruction has not en-
couraged weaker states to seek
alliances with either.
None view the March l BIZ
KIM demonstration calmly.
None is rushing to put itself
under the protection of the
hydrogen bomb.
On the contrary. members
of the Japanese Diet have de-
clared that hot dust" from
Russian explosions in Siberia
and American explosions in
the Pacific have fallen upon
Japan. Some of the japanese
scientists investigating the
burns of japanese fishermen
suffered at great distance from
the blast. have been bitterly
critical of the United States.
In India Mr.. Nehru has re-
affirmed Indian neutrality in
strong terms, insisting that
American collective security
arrangements (under atomic
protection) have created in
security, uncertainty and in
stability in Asia
Nor has atomic diplomacy
contributed to Western SOL
idarity. If any country feels
its destiny insolubly linked to
that of the United States, it
is Canada. Yet Lester B. Pear
son, Canada's Secretary of
State for External Affairs. has
raised the question of what
United States policy. AS re-
Gently expressed by Secretary
Dulles. envisages as mas
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-29

sive retaliation" by American
forces, in case of further ag-
erosion. warning that no such
retaliation must occur except
with the consent of all NATO
members. He inquires-though
he does not want the Russians
to know the answer-where
the United States might strike,
and in what eventuality.
Last Thursday Britain'S For
eign Secretary, Anthony Eden,
expressed confidence that the
hydrogen bomb, like it's atomic
predecessor, would prove a de-
terrent to war, because those
who have the power to use it
must understand how terrible
would be the consequences for
themselves and their peoples
OF any outbreak of war" This
was put bluntly by President
Eisenhower in his United Ma
tons speech and has since
been voiced by Mr.. Malenkov.
But armies do not normally
perfect weapons at prodigious
cost with the intention never,
under any circumstances, to
use them--a concept palpably
absurd. History also records
that the United States did not
hesitate to drop its first atomic
bombs instead of using the
fact of possessing them to
open negotiations for peace
with Japan. even on allied
terms, overtures for which had
come from the Japanese side,
thus disquieting the world re-
garding Americas lack of re-
Straint.
Retaliation works two ways.
Assuming that Russia or Red
China commits an aggression
so direct that massive retalia-
ton seems called for, we also
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-29
2S6 Spaniards Liberated
By Reds, Sail for Home
BY the Assoeioted Press

1STANBUL, Turkey, Mar. 90.
Freed after years in Soviet
prison camps, 286 Spaniards
sailed toward home today. The
Russians still hold more than
400 other Spanish prisoners.
The group which left Odessa
March IS after years of negotia-
tions, included 248 men who
fought with Hitler's armies on
the Eastern front. The others
were civilian internees, some Of
whom had been taken from
Spain to Russia during the Span
ish civil war II years ago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-29
Several Cabinet Members
Sponsor Home Rule Ball

Several cabinet members have
joined with Washington civic
and business leaders as sponsors
of the Washington Home Rule
Ball being held here May q. &C
cording to leaders of the event.
Co-chairman of the Hotel
Statler dance. which is being
held to raise funds for the Dis
trict Home Rule Committee, are
Mrs. J. Borden Hartman and
Mrs. Montgomery Blair.
Among the cabinet members
and their wives who have lent
their names to the event are
Secretary of the Treasury and
Mrs. Humphrey. Attorney Cen
eral and Mrs. BroWpell, Postmas-
ter General and Mrs. Summer
field, Secretary of the Interior
and Mrs. Mckay, Secretary of
Commerce and Mrs. Weeks, and
Secretary of the Air Force and
Mrs. Talbot.
Prominent Washingtonian
hackers of the affair are Joseph
c. McGarraghy, chairman of the
District State Republican Com
mittee; F. Joseph Donohue, for
mer District Commissioner; and
Melvin c. Hildreth. of the Dem
ocratic District State Central
Committee.
Tickets for the ball, which cost
$40 a person, are available at the
District Home Rule Committee
Offices at TIT Connecticut ave-
nue. NV
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-29
Thonos [. Stokes
ALock Of Sparkle and Oon1ph
there's Nothing Like Womon's Touch to Put Over
Progrom; Should Mrs. Hobby Hove More Rein2

Observers Of the Washing
ton scene have felt a lack in
the Eisenhower administra-
ton Of sparkle, oomph and
zip which can be helpful in
dramatizing and putting over
q program.
That has provoked the
thought that nothing might
be so good for that as a wonl-
an, combined with a program.
There was one around here
once, back in the day before
yesterday in the Roosevelt re-
gime, who became a symbol.
That was the redoubtable
Frances M. Perkins, Secretary
Of Labor, our first woman
cabinet member. She pushed
about resolutely under the full
sail of her famous tri-cornered
hats and helped to get things
done for folks who, in her
early days around here, weren't
all doing too well, especially
in our big cities. There was a
depression. you know.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-29

tirely different backgrounds in
New York and Texas.
But Mrs. Hobby is a woman
OF drive and purpose, like her
predecessor in the cabinet.
She has, as well, political ap-
titude and ability.
She has a much wider field
in which to operate than did
Frances Perkins. For her de-
partment reaches into areas
that never were within the
Jurisdiction of the Labor De-
partment, even before it was
whitfield down to its present
size.
1t was generally accepted
when the new Department of
Health, Education and Welfare
was created early in the Eisen-
hover administration out of
the former Federal Security
Agency that there was politi-
cal design in that move. This
recognition of social welfare
by giving its Federal Govern
ment functions cabinet status
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-29

clearly represented a gesture to
former Roosevelt Truman fol-
lowers who had switched in the
1852 election to Gen. Eisen-
hover. The aim was to hold as
many of them as possible. The
women who had f1ocked to the
Eisenhower standard in such
a multitude also were recog-
nized in the new cabinet mem
Der, as were eX-DemocratS,
for she was one of the latter.
Mrs. Hobby was, in fact,
handed a most important as
signment that offered great
opportunity. 1t falls upon her
chiefly. though not entirely of
course, to dramatic social
welfare aims of the admins
tration upon which the Presi-
dent. at least, seems to set
much store for the critical
congressional elections this
fall.
She has, in fact. the only
really new issue in this whole
field. That is the Presidents
recommendation for Govern
ment reinsurance of group
health insurance so that they
can expand and take care of
many more people and also
handle types of illness into
which most of them have not
ventured thus far because of
the financial risk. This pro-
poSal originated with the
special commission appointed
by President Truman on the
Nations health needs. but it
never got into Congress.
Now it has, in fact is being
explored daily by the House
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-29
David Lawrence

What, really, is back of the
fight being waged so furiouSly
nowadays against Senator Nc
earthly of Wisconsin? The
motives and purposes of those
who are conducting the at
tack are not easily diScerned.
This is because many we'll
meaning legislators and num-
erous other Americans wholly
disconnected from the politi-
cal scene are being duped into
attaching an exaggerated i'm
portance to personalities while
failing to examine the real
issues underlying the contro-
verSy over Communistic in
fluence in America.
The well-organized effort to
destroy the man who has been
in the forefront of the battle
against Communists in Gov
eminent and CommuniStic in
f1uence in the making of
American foreign policy can
not be explained away as
simply a justified reaction or
protest against the methods"
Of a United States Senator
growing out of his bruSque
manner of handling witnesses
or his fair for getting his
name in the headlines.
All such objections put to-
gether cannot explain it, be-
cause most of them are in
direct conflict with what was
being said by some of the
same groups and their spokes-
men when similar methods"
were used in congressional
hearings in the past and when
various chairmen of Investigate
ing committees of Congress,
equally brusque, had the lime
light during the last so years.
1t was Felix Frankfurter,
now a Supreme Court Justice
but then a professor of law
and sometimes referred to as
the senior saint of liberal
ISM" who derided the objec-
lions Of conservatives to what
they regarded as violations of
privacy by congressional COM
mittee Investigations. In an
article contributed to THE
New Republic" a liberal"
magazine. on May 81, 1924,
he wrote:
The question is not whether
peoples feelings here and there
may be hurt or names drag
ged through the mud as it is
called critics. who have
nothing to say for the aston
1shlng corruption and corrupt
ing soil which have been
brought to light, seek to d.
vert attention and shackle the
future by suggesting restric-
lions in the procedure of fu-
ture congressional investiga-
tionS."
Much has been said lately
about how the cross-examina-
ton OF Brig. Gen. Zwicker by
Senator Mccarthy delivered a
body blow at the morale of
the Army'-as if this was the
basic reason for the intensity
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-29

may assume that Russia or
mainland China will massively
retaliate in return, and in
places of it's own choosing.
The United States has air
bases all over the globe. If
Russia should retaliate against
the American air base in Great
Britain, what could happen to
the British Isles? An Amer
lean official has remarked that
If the Pacific bomb had ex-
ploded in the Irish Sea there
would be very little left Sup
pose there were retaliation for
retaliation against American
air bases in Japan. 1t would be
small comfort for such Japa-
nese as survived if Picking or
Moscow were also erased.
The hydrogen bomb may in
deed be a deterrent to a world
war Waged on previous mass
destruction patterns. But it is
hardly a deterrent to what Mr..
Nixon called expansion by
"nibbling" wars, such as those
in Korea and Indo-China. It's
use to end the Indo-China
war might invite a chain re-
action of counter massive re-
taliations," which none of the
great powers is willing to risk.
That reduces "nibbling wars"
to struggles with conventional
weapons, in which distance,
terrain and numbers may be
against the West, and defeat
or indecisive and temporary
settlements, the results.
Thus, politically the existence
Of the hydrogen bomb and the
climate of fear it evokes ap-
pear to invite neutralism and
appeasement.
So far nobody is seeking to
appease the United States.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-29

Interstate and Foreign Com
merce Committee before
which Mrs. Hobby appeared
as the first witness last week.
How great public interest
there is in this health insur-
ance expansion program was
indicated by Representative
Wolverton, Republican, of
New Jersey, committee chair
man, who said he had re-
ceived more letters about it
than about any issue during
his whole career in Congress.
That has been a quarter of
a century. So Mrs. Hobby
seems to have something here
that could put a spark into
the Eisenhower legislative
program if properly capital
lied.
Mrs. Hobby has one handi-
cap. that becomes apparent
very quickly to an observer of
these hearings on this "pio-
neering" project in the field of
health. That is the skepti-
cism among most Republican
committee members which is
not, however, shared by the
chairman. The dubious atti-
tude is symptomatic, in fact,
of many Republican members
Of Congress on other admins
trative legislative detectives in
related fields. 1t is in con-
trast to the way, in the early
days of the Roosevelt regime,
Democrats pitched in to help
put their program across.
This is a challenge to Mrs.
Hobby and her staff.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-29
Doris FIeeson-
Doris ELeeson-
BorkIey Believes He Will Win
Hes Fond OF Eisenhower, But He Doesn't Feel Things
Are Gong Right; Sees Need for Elder Statesmen

Alben w. Barley of Ken
lucky. who added weep" to
the dictionary Of the English
language, believes he can be
nominated and elected to the
United States Senate next fall.
Since he became convinced Of
this. his announcement of his
candidacy was inevitable.
Mr.. Barley is the kind of
politician who would fight,
bleed and die for his party but
he would not offer his honored
name at the polls unless and
until he thought he could win.
Having decided that he could,
the fact that he has a fatherly
regard for the incumbent, John
Sherman Cooper, Republican,
who is So compared to Bark
ley's rs, was not permitted to
stand in his way.
He definitely is not running
because he or his wife, the
former Jane Hadley, has Poto-
mac fever, the colloquial term
for that love of Washington
which keeps people here long
after they can make a contrib
ution to the smooth running
Of the Federal Government.
Mrs. Barley came here I'M
der happy auspices. She was a
young and attractive widow
when the widowed Vice Presi-
dent, who was unexpectedly
elected with Harry Truman in
1948, fell in love with her at
a Washington party. Their ro-
nance was one Of those things
that make all the world feel
akin and they we're among
the priced guests at every social
function here.
Mrs. Barley likes Paducah,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-29
''Gun-Fiehters' CorroIed

LOS ANGELES. Up. = Mrs.
Cecilia Ceballos called police
heaquarters yesterday and ex-
citedly reported:
My boys are fighting with
guns. Come quickly"
Three radio cars with sirens
screaming rushed six police
men to the scene. They spread
out. warily entered the yard,
and then closed in.
The gunner" were Allen. 5,
and James, 3, the Ceballos
brothers. and the guns were
toys.
Jim got ride to emergency
hospital for treatment Of
cut lip. Seems Al pistol
whipped him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-29

run we'll into the thousands
as the bereaved relatives of
many American citizens can
testify.
Gen. Zwicker has been
widely defended as merely
carrying out orders when he
failed to register any protest
against giving a certificate of
honor to an Army major who
in sworn testimony, avail
able to the Army previously
through the FBI, had been
known as an active Commu-
mist. Will it be commended now
by the same critics that the
allies were wrong when, after
the Nuremberg trials, they
decreed the execution of the
NaZi generals who claimed
that all they did was to carry
out orders given them by their
superiors? Are American Army
generals nowadays not per-
mitted to express their views
at all to their superiors?
II concern for the morale
OF the Army" was truly upper
most why did it take the form
OF a sudden decision in the Of
flee of the Secreatry of the
Army to issue a document at
tempting to smear staff men,
berS OF Senate subcommittee
which had been investigating
the Army for several weeks be-
fore? Are these the Army's
methods" of defending itself
before Congress?
Naturally the persons on the
Senate subcommittee who
were attacked fought back and
now the Republicans have on
their hands a mess" which
some of the Democrats want
investigated thoroughly, but in
the end it will be revealed that
some of the Truman holdovers
had large part in f1inging the
Army document into the fray.
The drive to get Mccarthy"
is actually drive to get" the
whole Eisenhower Administra-
ton by gradual steps. The first
step is to kill off the Commu-
mist issue on which the Roose-
velt-Truman record of 20
years is very vulnerable, and
the second is to demoralize the
Republican Party in Congress
and force upon the country
various inf1ationary measures
and an unbalanced budget.
When economic chaos results,
the attempt will be made to
bring about a system of State
owned and State-controlled
industry and to establish the
totalitarian concept of a rub
Der stamp" Congress subservi-
ent to White House dictation.
Those are the underlying OBJ
jectives Of the spectacular
struggle by which, under the
guise of the Mccarthy issue,
the radicals and the confiSca-
tionists hope to gain control
of the Government of the
United States in all it's
branches.
Reproduction Rishts Reseryed)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-29

She came to stand for social
justice. She had worked long
and valiantly for that ideal
in her own New York in an
era Of awakening there identi-
fed with the names of Alfred
E. Smith and Robert S. Wag-
ner, father of the present may
or, and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
AS Senator later, Bob Wagner
was a leading figure in the
Roosevelt New Deal.
So, too, was Frances Per-
kins as Secretary of Labor.
She has a counterpart in
the Eisenhower administra-
ton in the field of social
welfare. This is not to say
that there is much similarity
between Frances Perkins and
Oveta Culp Hobby, our second
woman cabinet member, Sec
rotary of Health; Education
and Welfare, for there is little
except in devotion to the job
in hand. They come from en-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-29
Life in the u. S.
Lire IN the U. }.
DonotionsHeIp
EoVictim,5,
To Aid Others
BY the Associated Press

PROVIDENCE, R. l., Mar. 90.
SO many persons helped Andy
Charette. 5-year-old polio victim,
when his tricycle. was smashed
by youthful vandalS that he was
able to help other polio victims
Of about his own age.
A picture showing Andy and
the smashed tricycle.. which he
needed to exercise his polio
ravaged muscles. was transmit
ted across the country by AS
ISOLATED Press wirephoto re-
Gently.
The boy received his sixth
tricycle. yesterday. All were
gifts from strangers.
Andy says he's giving the ex-
ira three wheelers to other polio
victims of his own age so they,
too, could build up their bodies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-29

According to custom and
precedent, the former Vice
President can expect no spe-
cial preferment if elected.
Democrats do not expect the
rule to hold if Kentucky re-
turns Mr.. Barley to the Sem
ate. They are already talk
ing about the contribution Mr..
Barley can make and they
have no idea of putting him
on the District Of Columbia
committee.
Mr.. Barley was pushed into
the present announcement a
little earlier than he would
have liked. But the Demo-
cratic party managers in Ken
lucky warned him that Sem
ator Cooper was popular and
that if he did not himself run,
time would be needed to
build up a candidate to OPP
pose Cooper. 1t is understood
that Gov. Lawrence Weth-
erby would have been that
candidate.
Gov. Wetherby's terms does
not expire until next year, so
his situation is not an imme-
date problem.
Mr.. Barley will not have
any primary opposition. He
therefore does not expect to
take to the hastings until next
September. when his campaign
will be devoted to the crucial
issues facing the United States
today and his contribution he
hopes he can make toward
their solution. His friends de-
clare that despite his age, he
was never more eloquent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-29

So does the former Vice Pres
ident. But he has been a poll
tician all his life and a factor
in national affairs since he
was first elected to the House
of Representatives in 1918.
He served four terms as Sen
ator before being elected Vice
President in l948 and nearly
half that time was majority
leader.
He does not now like the
way things are going. He is
as fond as ever Of Dwight D.
Eisenhower-who got his start
as a national figure in a Dem
ocratic administration which
Barley was serving as Senate
majority leader. But he feels
that Gen. Eisenhower chose
the wrong party and needs
help.
1t is doubtful if the Demo-
cratic candidate for Senator
from Kentucky will ever devil
ate publicly from the party
line. 1t is equally doubtful
that he will ever be found in
a vicious attack on the pres
ent President of the United
States.
What he will be found doing
in a vigorous campaign is
talking about program and
principle and contending that
the Republicans have shown
themselves unfit to govern.
He sincerely believes that the
President does not have con-
troll of his party or the Con-
gress. therefore it is up to the
elder statesmen on Capitol
Hill to guide and direct the
course Of events.