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Evening star., 1954-10-10

Republican committee which was
turning up the scandals, the G. o. P.
could hardly lose.
s The first direct allegation Of
bribery was made in last weeks
hearings. Albert I. Cassel, Wash
ington architect, testified that FILA
official Clyde L. Powell had been
paid $4,000 to approve a, Federal
loan on an apartment project. Mr..
Powell, who was fired last April,
refused to answer questions about
the transaction, standing on the
fifth amendment.
Government witnesses, however,
said Mr.. Powell had banked $780,
365 more than his net Government
income while he was an FILA official.
Last week a grand jury here took
up the inquiry into Mr.. Powell's
past.
Meanwhile q Democratic Con-
gresham, Representative Prince H.
Preston Of Georgia, was brought
into the investigation. William A.
Bowen. mayor of Statesboro, Ga,
said Mr.. Preston had been a partner
of his in q housing deal which
netted $143,000 on a $1,000 invest
ment. A Government-gua
housing loan was involved. Mr.. Pres
ton said it was legitimate business
deal and accused Committee Chair
man Homer E. Capehart, of Indiana,
of playing politics.
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out the term, which ends January
8. 1857. But the Democrats went
to court, and got State Supreme
Court ruling that the appointee
can serve only until next January.
A successor for the balance of the
term must be elected in November.
The Democrats candidate, Alan
Bible. is favored to win over Mr..
Brown.
~ HOllywOod's top divorce law
yer, Jerry Giesler, got another
- glamorous client Tuesday
when Marilyn Monroe Di Maggie
retained him to cut her loose from.
her husband Joe. The couple. prob-
ably equally famous in their re-
spective fields. were married in San
Francisco last January. Extreme
mental cruelty"-a charge that can
mean anything or nothing in Cali
fornia-was cited as grounds.
~ Maj. Jaime Rosenberg, chief
- Of police in the ousted Com
munist government Of Guate-
mala. was arrested Monday In Mex
leo City on an extradition request
from the Castillo Armas regime in
Guatemala. Complaints charged
Rosenberg with numbering "hun-
dreds" of anti-C Communists. an &C.
cusation he denied. There also
were reports that ex-President
Jacobo Arbenz might be extradited.
~ The bamboo curtain was
dropping this week end over
- Hanoi, metropolis Of the war
torn Red River delta Of Indo-C China.
Under Geneva Conference terms
reached last summer, Communist
Wet Mini troops moved into the
city and French soldiers moved out
yesterday. All was reported calm
in the city which now win become
the capital of. the Democratic Re-
public Of Visit Mana"
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tried to get one Of it's ships through
the Suez Canal. only to meet with
an angry rebuff from Egypt.
On Wednesday Israels United
Nations representative offered to
sign non-aggression treaties with
the Arab states. But Egypt retorted
almost Immediately that Israel's
professed peaceful intentions can
not be regarded as valid, even for
a moment"
Two suggestions for mediating the
Arab-Israel dispute were thrown out
last week. Marshal Tito volunteered
on Sunday to act as a third party
mediator. Then, on Tuesday, PAX
istan's Moslem Prime Minister
Mohammed Ali suggested indirectly
that the United States take on the
job. There was no response from
Washington.
The heat Of the Israel-Egyptian
exchanges last week indicated, how
ever, that this was a dispute which
had not ripened to the point OF
settlement as Trieste had.
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had obtained secret documents while
working for the National Security
Agency with the intention Of turn
ing them over to an unnamed for.
eign power.
The National Security Agency.
formerly the Army Security Agency.
Is one Of the super secret branches
Of the Government, whose very
existence Is not supposed to b
discussed by the employees.
The alleged espionage had taken
place In the period March /. 194S,
to December 81, 1862. according to
the FBI. 90 the Republicans could
point to o serious security leak
under q Democratic administration.
But the fact that Petersen had
remained on the NSA payroll until
10 days ago might be useful mate
rial for the Democrats.
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power which the Tennessee Valley
Authority wants to produce.
A Senate Judiciary subcommittee
continued an investigation into the
contract last week, and an Atomic
Energy Committee probe is sched-
uled for November 4-the earliest
date the group thought it could
round up politicking Congressman.
The judiciary investigation was
conducted by Republican Senator
William LANCER of South Dakota
and Democratic Senator Estes Ke-
fauver of Tennessee.
Both were critical of the admins
tration. They said Dixon-Yate
would promote monopoly, undercut
the iva and cost too much money.
They also criticized secrecy sur
rounding the contract.
The administration says the con-
tract represents sound, economical.
free enterprise.
Last week the Atomic Energy
Commission revealed that the con-
tract had been officially approved
but not yet signed. To speed up
the deal the Acc said 1t would ask
the congressional Atomic Energy
Committee to waive 30-day wait
ing period.
Senators Kefauver and LANCER
said they would oppose the waiver.
The committee will be sure to have
a major fight on its hands when
it meets after the elections.
Meanwhile Democratic National
Chairman Stephen A. Mitchell ham
mered away at the "Dixon-Yates
scandal" theme.
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A Federal grand jury in
Washington re-indicted Owen

q A Federal grand jury in
Washington re-indicted Owen
baltimore Thursday on two
perjury counts arising from 1852
testimony before Senate commit
tee. The new bill, which replaces one
found defective in several respects.
accused Mr.. baltimore Of falsely
denying he knowingly and inten-
tionally" followed Communist doc
trine. Mr.. baltimore denied again
last week that he hewed to the
Red line.
- One of the shortest big -time
=. strikes on record ended Thurs
day, when $4,000 longshore-
men returned to work at New York
docks. They struck Tuesday at
midnight in support Of q wage
increase demand. but agreed to go
back on the job after Federal
mediator recommended an 8-cent
hourly pay boost. A 45-day mo-
strike pledge also is included In the
compromise agreement.
- From the wild blue yonder to
y . potato field is long step,
- but Air Force men at Presque
Isle, Me-, took 1t last week. Potato
farmers, rushing to harvest their
crops before the frosts, appealed to
two nearby Air Force bases for as
sistance. Airmen were granted
leave to volunteer for the work. and
last week were earning as much as
SIS day grubbing for potatoes.
4 State prison guards at Michi-
Il gan City, Ind, struck last
week In a wages-and- -hours
dispute, but found the State govern
ment adamant In It's refusal to ne
gotiate with their union. Specially
recruited guards patrolled the prison
while National Guardsnnen stood by
but prisoners co-operated with
management at least to the extent
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Dixon-Yotes Deal

Democrats, meanwhile, were at
tempting to make political hay with
the so-called Dixon-Yates contract.
The contract was negotiated be-
tween the Atomic Energy Commis-
sion and Edgar H. Dixon and E. A.
Yates, heads of two Tennessee VAL
ley public utility holding companies.
Under the projected contract the
Dixon-Yates group would supply
Evening star., 1954-10-10
Bottle for Ratification
Gets Started on Heels
Of 9-Power Accord

The battle for ratification of the
London plan opened with rush last
week, almost before the ink was dry
on the "agreements-in-principle
which foreign ministers Of nine At
Iantic powers signed last Sunday.
The plan would raise new German
national army of 100000 men to
bolster the Communist defenses
of the North Atlantic Treaty Organi-
zation.
BY Thursday West Germany's
Bundestag had approved the agree
ments by an overwhelming voice
vote, unofficially estimated at some
thing like $50 to $50. At the same
time Frances National Assembly
listened alphabetically as Premier
Pierre Mendes-F France defended the
accords.
The Deputies were seized with
another case of jitters Friday, as
the old fear of any kind OF Ger
man rearmament swept over them.
Debate dragged on past midnight,
and M. France finally asked
for a vote of confidence next Tues
day. The issue will be uncondi-
tional approval in principle Of the
London plan.
With the issue coming to q head
again 50 quickly. the Commu-
nists counterattacked from East
Berlin on Wednesday. Soviet For
eign Minister Vyacheslav M. Molotov
demanded another Big -Four confer
ence on unifying and neutralizing
Germany and evacuating foreign
troops from German soil. He
dropped a hint he might even stand
still for free nationwide elections,
but few in Europe believed him.
Indion Proposal
From the United Nations. India
stepped into the German picture
Wednesday with a proposal that
West Germany, as soon as she gets
her sovereignty from the North At
lantic powers, negotiate directly with
East Germany on reuniflcation.
Meanwhile. the West patched up
a hole in it's South European armor
by settling the dispute over the Ter
ritory of Trieste. Partition was
finally accepted by both sides. Yugo.
slavia will get the southern part OF
the Adriatic territory she has occu-
pied for several years. Italy Is
awarded the port city and the
northern strip of coastline along
the Gulf of Venice.
The 1000 American and 2.5oo
British troops who have been hold
ing the areas now turned over to
Italy began their evacuation I'M
mediately. Neither side was jubi-
liant over the outcome, but both
agreed it would make for smoother
relations between Yugoslavia and
italy. associated now indirectly with
NATO, by way Of its Balkan pact
with Greece and Turkey.
In the Middle East, at the same
time. there was new stir over an
Israeli proposal to sign non-aggres-
sion pacts with her Arab neigh
bors, thus allaying Arab fears OF
Hebrew expansionism.
Evening star., 1954-10-10

Germs Reach District,
But Police. Educators
Apply Quick Theropy

The germs" which Baltimore
School Supt. John H. Fischer said
10 days ago had "drifted down from
Delaware" struck the District last
week.
But quick therapeutic measures
by Washington police and school
authorities got the germs" under
control and minimized what could
have been serious ravages OF Q
pernicious disease.
The germs Of which DR.. Fischer
spoke manifested themselves in
strikes against racial integration In
public schools. In Milford, Del;
Baltimore and Washington, racial
bars were wiped out in schools
this fall for the first time in history.
There was q difference between
reactions to the germs" in Milford.
on the one hand. and Baltimore and
Washington on the other. In the
little Delaware town, where IL Ne
groes had been assigned to white
school, the school first was closed
and then reopened on a segregated
basis. In the two larger cities,
neither shutdown nor resegrega-
ton was permitted. The result was
that, by this week end, anti-inte-
grafton strikes in both Baltimore
and the District seemed to be moth
ing but unhappy memories.
High School Strikes
The first inkling Of trouble in
Washington came at three high
schools-Eastern. Anacostia and
McKinley-on Monday. Students
and some adults milled around and
absenteeism rose but no violence
was reported. AS the week wore on,
a few other schools were affected.
Police kept q stern watch. and on
Wednesday, Washington School
Supt. Hobart M. Corning warned
students of the consequences If they
refused to return to classes. Those
under Is, he said, would be forced
to go to school in compliance with
the law; those over 16 would be ex-
PEELED.
The authorities firm stan d
worked. BY Thursday school attend
ance was on the way back up. And
on Friday, things were reported just
about normal throughout the Dis
trict.
Similarly, the germs seemed to
have run their course in Baltimore,
where Southern High School, focal
point of disturbances in the Mary
land city. had normal attendance in
the closing days of the week.
Across the integration scene from
Milford to Washington fell the
shadow of Bryant w. Bowles, "a
year-old founder of the National
Association for the Advancement Of
White People" A Florida native
with a Baltimore police record and
Washington headquarters (1319
F street N.W), Mr.. Bowles was one
of the organizers of the Milford
trouble and had put in appearances
where strikers had gathered in
Baltimore and Washington.
His official insistence on non
violence among demonstrators con.
trasted strangely with his repeated
personal stand that his children
would never 60 to school with
Negroes "as long as there is breath
in my body and gunpowder will
burn"
Evening star., 1954-10-10
London Aftermath

The German acceptance on Thurs
day of Chancellor konrad Ade-
nauer's agreements for restricting
his country's rearmament to de-
fensive forces came as an impress
sively swift rebuff to Mr.. MolotoV's
call on Wednesday for new talks on
reunification.
There is nothing closer to the
heart of every German than the
unity issue. The Socialists. led by
Erich Ollenhauer, tried to capitalize
on this feeling, but the majority OF
the Bundestag was so sure the
Kremlin was fooling that it made
no effort to explore the new pro-
posals. AS one of DR.. Adenauer's
principal lieutenants put it. the new
Molotov offer had not altered the
Soviet position ''even millimeter"
from what it was when the Big
Three negotiated in Berlin last
January.
France showed no enthusiasm for
the Molotov gesture either, although
the deputies attitude toward the
London plan was only lukewarm.
Thursday M. Mendes-France did
find encouragement, however. from
the ripples of applause that foated
through the center seats, occupied
by Socialists and the MRP Cath
olic) members.
He will need their votes, along
with those of the rightists and
Gaullists, If he is to get the good
sized majority he seeks. The first
test will come Tuesday, when the
Deputies will be asked for approval
in principle of the London accords.
The next test viii come late in
November or early in December,
after the formal treaties have been
written.
The Saar question still remains
to be settled, M. Mendes-France
made clear to the Chamber Of Dep
uties last week This coal-rich basin
on the French-G German border was
to have been made the information
allied seat of operations for the old
European Defense Community
France and Germany were near
agreement that the French would
give up their economic advantages
there and the people (mostly Ger
mans would be allowed to handle
their own affairs, independent Of
both big powers.
Soar ToIks
Whether M. Mendes-France and
DR.. Adenauer now can find o basis
for simultaneously ID interaation-
alizing the Saar and t2) satisfying
nationalist elements In their two
countries will be two of the main
points they will discuss at their
meeting a week from Wednesday.
If they do arrive at an amicable
disposition Of the Saar, the French
National Assembly will be hard put
to find a new excuse to delay Ger
man rearmament any longer
The Russians, apparently, are
being given no opportunity what
soever to put q monkey wrench
into the machinery. Foreign Sec
retary Anthony Eden sharply re-
jected the Molotov call for four
power talks Thursday. the day after
they were proposed. Mr.. Eden's
careful diplomatic method would
Evening star., 1954-10-10
Politics
Eisenhower Appeals
To Those Who Can Do
6. O. P. the Most Good

Backbones of all political parties
are the "doorbel-ringerS," the men
and women who go from house to
house lining up support for their
candidates. Though they are vital
cogs in the machine. doorbell-ringers
often are taken for granted.
Last week the doorbell-ringers of
the Republican Party received some
extraordinary attention from their
top leaders. Precinct workers, as
sembled before television sets in
every State. county and town where
Republicans are active. were exhort-
ed by the President. the Vice Presi-
dent and other G. O. P. chiefs to
get out and round up more votes.
The reason: Republican strategists
fear they are losing the elections.
In keeping with the fine old tradi-
tions of politics, men like Joseph w.
Martin. jr., Republican Speaker Of
the House. were claiming publicly
the G. o. P. would pick up seats in
Congress. But Republican actions
belied their statements.
G. O. P. leaders streamed into
Denver last week to appeal to Presi-
dent Eisenhower to enter more
vigorously into the campaign. They
had some success. He added two
speeches to his october list-one
to be a farm-policy speech aimed
at the Midwest where Republicans
believe they really are hurting. And
the g. o. P. strategists framed a
double -barreled appeal, broadcast
Friday. to the doorbell-ringers and
to independent and Democratic
voters.
Presidents Pep Tolk
To the doorbell-ringers he said:
"As leaders and workers in your
precincts, you know that the mem
bers Of our party cannot carry this
battle alone. We must enlist the
spirited support Of friends and
neighbors. regardless Of party, who
believe in our principles and objec-
tives. For the cause In which we
believe is bigger than any political
party. To this cause, all Americans.
regardless Of party, can give their
enthusiastic support.
''In this struggle. know you will
have the same determination-the
same enthusiasm--the same drive
as you had two years ago. I know
you will fight to win"
To the voters he pointed out the
danger Of having o Democratic Con-
gress and Republican executive:
You know perfectly well that you
rust can't have one ear with two
Evening star., 1954-10-10
Housing Scandals

The Republicans got political
windfall last week in testimony be-
fore q Senate committee investigat-
ing irregularities in the Federal
Housing Administration. The mis-
deeds occurred during q Democratic
administration. And since 1t was q
Evening star., 1954-10-10
Palestine

Israel continued to make purring
noises last week which apparently
were intended as a new peace over
ture to the Arab world, but the
Moslem states were having no part
Of 1t.
A few weeks ago Israel released
some Arab bank accounts which
were frozen ct the time Of the Arab
Israel shooting war. Then Israel
Evening star., 1954-10-10
Places in the News Highnghts From Around the World

sidered by the court which SEN
fenced him to life imprisonment for
collaborating with Chinese Reds
while prisoner in Korea.
A political battle in Nevada.
n. following the death of Senator
Pat McCarran, was resolved in
favor of the Democrats Friday. The
Republican Governor appointed Re-
publican Ernest s. Brown to serve
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Of making no trouble during the
walkout.
= The draft board chairman at
Big Spring, Tex, resigned
~ Tuesday in protest over a
court-martial's treatment of one OF
the men he tapped for military
service. The draft official, H. w.
Wright, said Corpl. Claude Bache-
lor's youth should have been con-
Evening star., 1954-10-10
Trieste

ADOut 10,UUU lGduduSs SdtIleTeO LII
the Piazza dell Unita, the Trieste
square looking out on the Adriatic,
last Tuesday afternoon to hear fac
tory whistles blow and see the Ital-
ian flag go up over the town hall
after Maj. Gen. Sir John Winter
ton, British commander Of Zone A,
announced the Trieste agreement
had been initiated in London.
The Italians sent in their first
soldiers on Thursday, and the
Americans and British started with
drawing theirs. An American OFF,
Ger commented that his men were
anxious to go because they had
been alerted for so long. Some G1s,
who had been in Trieste long enough
to establish light-housekeeping ar
rangements, were more reserved in
their joy.
Trieste had been another Euro
pean instance where emotion got
the better of intellect. The par
titioning of the territory had hard
ened long ago, but neither Yugo-
slavs nor Italians could bear the
loss of face involved in admitting
that their loud demands for COM
plete control were unrealistic. So
it was time and secret diplomacy,
in which United States Deputy I'm
dersecretary of State Robert D.
Murphy played a key role. that
helped the two principals ease past
the prestige problem.
The Yugoslavs get more territory
019 square miles but fewer peo-
Pile (only 75,000) than the Italians
(who now will administer some 300,-
900 people in SO square miles). Last
minute concessions of a few square
miles of territory to Yugoslavia
clinched the settlement.
Italy will regain control of the
port city of Trieste, with its 100000
people. Yugoslavia. however, will get
special rights to use some port ia
cilities.
Prince Georges Analogy
To put the whole dispute into a
focus Understandable to Washing
tonians. it boiled down to this: The
Trieste issue, for years threat to
world peace, was a fuss over an
area only half as great as. and
population only slightly larger than,
that of Prince Georges County, Md.
Militarily. the Trieste issue had
been mostly an irritant to the West.
rather than weakness the Soviet
Union could exploit. This had been
so ever since Marshal Tito broke
with the Kremlin. Soothing the ir-
ritation now will make for smoother
relations between Yugoslavia and
Italy, thereby improve the co-ordi-
nation Of the south European flank
Of NATO.
Legally, the whole settlement In
itialed In London was invalid. Soviet
Russia, Q party to the Italian peace
treaty In which Trieste would have
been internationalized. has not ap-
proved the partition arrangements.
But the West used the precedents
Of Soviet treaty-breaking in Central
Europe to justify their de facto set
Element In Trieste.
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Espionage

A new spy case was turned up
yesterday, giving the parties another
issue. The FBI arrested an Arling-
ton man named Joseph Sydney
Peterson, jr, on charges that he
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not admit of such speed unless
there had been pretty general agree
ment on such q move in advance.
It is a new firmness toward the
Kremlin which Britain carefully
suppressed at Geneva.
The frontiersman., 1954-04-22
AOME MAKERS CLUB
 NOTES
Happy Valley Club

Members of the Happy Valley Homemakers' club held their tegularmeeting Wednesday, April 14 at the home of Home Demon stration Agent Marylou Rideout, with six members present, and six guests who later became mem berS.
 Mrs. Margaret Schroeder gave 8 report on Homemakers' Coun- cil meeting.
 The Happy Valley club will be in charge of window display for Home Demonstration week. Hap py Valley members are also to be the reception committee at the Demonstration Tea to be held Tuesday, May 4, at 1;30 pm. Each member is to bring a plant to next meeting for Moth CTS Day plant exchange.
 The next regular meeting will be at 1::30 on Wednesday, May l2 at the home of Mrs. Lydia Liebing.
The frontiersman., 1954-04-22
KIWANiANS SEE FILM ON BiOTIC FEED FOR LIVESTOCK

Formula for Profit, a color film, was shown members of the Palmer Kiwanis club at their regular noon luncheon meeting held April 19, by Dr. Allan Mick of the University of Alaska Ex- pertinent Station. The film illus trated the advances being made by livestock owners who are us- ing the new anti-biotics in their feed programs.
 Among visitors at the luncheon were Mitch Abood, o. K. Kincaid, Jr., and Max Hodell, all Anchor age Kiwanians. Also former Xii wanian Bill Remple, and Miss Lois Thompson of the Palmer High School. Miss Thompson told Kiwanians of the coming High School Operetta and of the hopes to raise enough money to pur- chase robes for chorus members
 Members voted to purchase a robe for the chorus director and will assist in the sale of tickets of the operetta to be presented May IA.