davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1954-12-30
friend of Court Briefs Begin
ToLWe Up to Their Name

of AC briefs. Some Of those
briefs have drawn the sharpest
criticism. Many attorneys and
other Supreme Court observers
complained that the rresenta-
tions otter stressed material and
assertions which the court prob
ably would not have counte-
nanced as relevant In the reg
ular briefs.
However much weight such
statements may or may not have
on the court, they sometimes
have obtained more public notice
than did the complexities and
technicalities of basic arguments
in the case being argued. The
mere fact that they were in the
form of a Supreme Court brief
attracted attention they might
not otherwise have received.
In the current term Of the
court most AC briefs have come
from States. These included
New York, Illinois, Texas, Mas
sachusetts. New dampshire. In
diana. Utah aud Idaho, rs well
as those presenting views on
how to implement the decision
outlawing public school segre-
cation.
Few Federal Briefs.
The Federal Government has
been sparing in its AC briefs this
year. although it annually pre-
sents scores of others as a party
to litigation. Attorney General
Brownell signed an AC brief in
the school segregation cases.
Secretary of Labor Mitchell sent
a similar brief in a case involving
the Fair Labor Standards Act.
The American Legion. Amer.
ican Veterans Committee, Amer
ican Automobile Association.
American Civil Liberties Union.
Institute of Municipal Law Of
ficers. Airport Operators Council.
American Institute Of Marine In
surance Underwriters, New York
State Athletic Commission. the
AFL and CIO. National Associa-
ton of Stevadors, and the En-
gineers and Scientists of Amer
lea. were among the compare.
lively few others represented.
Their AC briefs concerned
cases as varied as the interests
Of the organizations themselves.
Except In a few instances, the
statements lived up to the name
by being brief as well as Offering
friendly and pertinent sugges-
tions to the court.
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Fletcher KnebeI-
Potomac Fever

French Assembly dependable than the American
Congress With Congress- you're quite know what
it did With the French Assembly you're don't
Defeated Lodge of Connecticut named Ambassador
Spain. of things ambassador.
Too much money-or not enough votes.
House Democratic Leader Raybun Democrats will boost
price supports confused subsidy.
subsidy what the opposition party to somebody don't
like.
Surgeon Scheee says million American
babies born 1854 It's predicted that million Of them
will work hard and learn how to make The will be-
come tax awyers-and learn how to keep it.
=
Democrats pledge Congress will vote billions
preparedness includes World -and Eisenhower
Campaign II.
Red China Britain 81 for shooting
down British airliner Peipng to London: $50 for
heavenly blunder-thought airplane American"
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exhaustive, documented story
Of utilities-in-politics which
ran in the late 1920s and early
1930s.
This new look into the same
old story will be by the Senate
Judiciary Autobiography SUBJ
committee which, under the
direction of Senator LANCER,
Republican, of North Dakota,
already has given us a sample.
1t showed how Mississippi
Power and Light and Arkansas
Power and Light. which are
parties to the controversial
Dixon Yates contract involv-
ing IVA through their parent
Middle South Utilities. spent
their customers money in elec-
tions. That was not only testi-
fed to by former Gov. Sidney
McMath, whom the utilities
helped to defeat for reelection,
but was documented by cash
vouchers specifying election ex-
penditures.
Congress also will get q view
of the drift of Government
favors to big business when it
receives a report, which is sub
ject to its approval, that will
recommend that the bulk Of
the synthetic rubber plants
built at taxpayers expense in
World War II be sold to the
big rubber companies. This re-
port is by the three-member
Rubber Producing Facilities
Disposal Commission. It win
, be another chapter in the saga
of our era--tl1e big ones get
bigger and the little ones are
swallowed up or die.
We can only hope that we
get as much Of the story as
possible in the coming Con-
gress. Every citizen ought to
know who really owns his
Government and what really
motiyated those who suppos-
edly are elected as public serv-
ants.
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Constantine Brown

The professional Army Lead
ership, from Gen. Matthew
Ridgway down to divisional
commanders, is worried. Il
regards the proposed cuts in
the effective strength of the
ground forces not only as a
threat to its responsibilities
but as q serious threat to the
country's security. And these
are not empty words.
The wave of optimism which
took hold of our Government
soon after vi day caused US
to pulverize our ground and
air forces. The Navy was more
fortunate, since nobody or
dered the destruction of the
costly surface ships; a large
number were put into moth
balls, whence they could be
f1shed out as soon as an elner-
gency occurred.
In the second Truman adj
ministration the belief that we
had reached the point where
there could be no further
threats of general war was so
strong that all our armed
forces were deeply cut. The
appropriations granted by
Congress for a 75-wing Air
Force we're cut down by the
politicians in the Pentagon.
Early in 1850 a large number
Of fighter and bomber pilots
were placed on the reserve list,
and a showdown in the con-
struction of new aircraft was
put into effect.
The building of the aircraft
carrier Forrestal. whose keel
already had been laid at the
expense of some $35 million,
was stopped by executive
order. The ground forces were
being cannibalized to create
the nominal number of divi-
sions provided by law. Thus
the infantry, artillery. and
tank battalions in Japan were
below peace time strength.
It was an army of occupation
"a little more than a police
force--and as such its train
ing was perfunctory. except
possibly for "spit and polish. F"
On June 1, 1850, President
Truman stated publicly that
at no time since the end of
World War II was the world
closer to a lasting peace. There
were no real dark clouds any
Evening star., 1954-12-30
Doris FLeeson-
Neuberger Shows Restraint
Winner of Dramatic Oregon Vote Shuns Publicity .
In Munner Befttino Freshmen Senator'S Role

few selected groups to which
he feels q special deep obliga-
ton.
This prudence is not prompt
ed by the fact that Senator
elect Neuberger does not yet
know what he is for. He
waged a fighting campaign on
such issues as power and con-
servation, subjects on which
he is stepped in information.
AS q leading spokesman for
Oregon and the Northwest he
knows the problems of the
area as few men do and when
relevant Legislation reaches
the Senate he will have plenty
to say.
One of the things that will
make life interesting and pos
sibly q trifle precarious for
Mr.. Neuberger In the Senate
is that he will be junior to
one Of its most controversial
figures. Wayne Morse. Serla-
tor Morse proclaimed in the
1852 campaign that disgust
for President Eisenhower's
campaign was driving him
out Of the Republican Party
into independence. He CAM
paigned vigorously for Mr..
Neuberger, who is his former
law pupil, and Mr.. Neuberger
gives him credit for helping to
achieve victory.
The Democrats are depend
ent on Senator Morse's vote
for control of the Senate.
Whether or not he stays
litched and agrees next time
to run as a Democrat largely
depends on the success Of the
relationship Mr.. Neuberger is
able to establish with him
during the coming session.
Evening star., 1954-12-30

Evidence is slowly accumu-
lating that the days Of any
serious investigation of Com
nunist activity in the United
States by congressional COM
naittees are coming to an end.
Also the foes Of such exposures
now are turning their guns on
the executive agencies of the
Government in a campaign de-
signed to hamstring and re-
strict the operations Of such
agencies on security inquiries.
Not only will the new Senate
Committee on Government
Operations at the next session
Of Congress focus its attention
primarily on matters unrelated
to security questions, but the
Senate Committee on Civil
Service will inquire into the
whole security problem. with
particular criticism directed at
the Eisenhower administration.
The purpose is to show that
so-called security risks aren't
really any such thing but are
persons fired largely for politi-
cal reasons. This is as good a
smoke screen as any to hide an
attempt to weaken the whole
security program.
The Eisenhower administra-
ton is at fault, of course, in
failing to set up a central
security board with standard
lied procedures. This mistake
was pointed out in these dis
patches in 1858 when the Tru-
man administrations concept
Of central board to check on
departmental boards was aban-
doned. But the main drive
now is not going to be just to
get a new board. It is aimed at
providing a system that win. If
carried out, make 1t very diff
ficult to discharge persons as
security risks.
The campaign being waged
by ''left wing" organizations
against the security procedures
has taken on new impetus
since the resolution "con-
demning" Senator Mccarthy
was passed by the Senate last
month. Also q well-organized
propaganda against the secu-
rity procedure is being waged
by scientists and their organi-
cations.
Perhaps the most significant
assault on the present method
of conducting security trials
was fled in the Supreme Court
Of the United States this week
Evening star., 1954-12-30
Thonos L. Stokes
Biz Business and Government
Democratic Congress Likely to Probe lnfluenc
Of Industries on Republican Administration

by a bipartisan coalition in
Congress.
So the two Senator's lost
their fight. It is hoped that
Senator Williams, who did
such a superb job of uncover
ing Internal Revenue Bureau
scandals of the Roosevelt -Tru-
man regimes, and his Vermont
colleague win keep on trying
in the new Democratic Con-
gress, so that at least the pub
lie may keep reminded Of how
big oil operates to get what
It wants in politics.
The public got q good look
see in the last Congress In the
so-called "tidelands" Oil bill
promoted by big oil. It will get
another when big oil begins to
operate in the new Congress
to try to put through q bill to
repeal in effect a recent
Supreme Court decision up
holding the authority of the
Federal Power Commission to
60 clear back to the producer
in investigation of natural gas
rates. Oil, owner Of the bulk
Of our natural gas reserves, Is
deep In this issue which has
been before Congress and
courts for years.
We should get q glimpse in
the new Congress also into the
operations of the electric litili-
ties in politics. even II not 50
minute and detailed q view as
that furnished by the flrst Of
tie big business-i politics ex-i
poses Of that other erathe
Federal Trade Commission's
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5l-Yeor Tax Oversight

SANTA CRUZ, Calf. P).-
There was a little matter of
taxes. the retiring chairman
of the Santa Cruz County
Board of Supervisors, Philip
Rowe, told the board this week.
He had just discovered he
had been paying taxes for 81
years on a small parcel of
farmland near Watsonville,
although his family sold 1t in
1908. This, he ruefully ex-
planned, was because he had
neglected to record the sale
with the county, whose asses
sor kept on billing him for
taxes on 1t. along with other
parcels he owned.
He figures he paid about
$3.400 altogether on 81a acres.
His fellow supervisors re-
funded him all the law allows
three years taxes, $751; 80.
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to geography and o slow count.
He Ii no more the margin Of
victory for the Democrats in
the Senate than Patrick Nc
Namara Of Michigan. In many
respects Mr.. McNamara's vic
tory was the more surprising.
But for a hours control Of
the Senate hung on the be-
lated Oregon returns. Mr.. Neu-
berger himself went to bed at
midnight last November 2
convinced that he had been
beaten. When 1t was finally
clear that by q narrow margin
he would be the first Demo-
cratic Senator from Oregon
since 1912 and that the Demo-
Gratis were assured Of control
by one vote. he became the
symbol Of Democratic victory.
It so happens that he Is
an attractive symbol, being
young, articulate and possessed
Of Q charming wife who served
In the State Legislature with
him.
BY the time he boarded the
train In Portland for WASH
ington on the day after
Christmas. he had received
168 requests for speeches
and radio-TV appearances.
Included were some of the pro-
grams attracting the Nation
wide audiences before which
politicians normally long to
give voice.
It is not only physically
impossible for him to fulfill
all these requests but caution
has prompted his decision to
turn them down. except for q
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Doris Fleeson-

The first Of 1855 new crop
Of Senators In the person Of
Richard Neuberger Of Oregon
has arrived In Washington.
Because of the special circum-
stances of his election. all the
vast publicity apparatus avail
able in this Nations Capital IL
eager to turn itself upon him.
It Is finding the modest SEN
ator reluctant. A professional
writer himself, he understands
the value Of the attention he
Is receiving. For the same
reason he is personally eager
to oblige the fellow members
of his craft, with many Of
whom he has been friends
for years.
At. the same time he Is no
stranger to politics or to WASH
ington. He knows 1t would be
easy to stumble before he has
learned the routine for o young
Senator. The etiquette Of being
o freshman Senator involves
much more than maintaining
the traditional period of quiet
on the Senate floor. The SEN
ate is the only place in Amer
lea where the oriental custom
Of ancestor worship has valid
ity: the senior Senators 60
through the door first.
Nothing could be worse for
Q newcomer, no matter what
his personal prestige or popu-
lar appeal, than to be counted
braSh. And one manner of
being counted brash certainly
would be to sound OF quickly
on all manner Of subjects in
public.
The excitement attached to
Mr.. Neuberger's election Is due
Evening star., 1954-12-30
Lack Of d Dime
Brings Two Arrests
sy the As.oeiased Press

OLD SAYBROoK. Gonna
motorist who didn't have a dime
to pay a bridge toll was arrested
for driving a stolen automobile.
Police found the rightful owner
Of the car and arrested him too
for ignoring six parking tickets.
Evening star., 1954-12-30
Wedding Ring Found
In Con Of Surdines

A Norwegian woman who
works in a canning plant at
Asvoll, West Norway, lost her
wedding ring while at work q
year ago.
Now she has learned that IL
has been found in far away
Australia -irlside q can Of Nor
wegian sardines.
Evening star., 1954-12-30
Cigar Butt Brings Cold

DALLAS Up. A Dallas
woman picked a poor time to
have cigar-smoking company.
police reported yesterday.
She appeared in Justice
Court, complaining that her
husband-who doesn't smoke
cigars-became enraged when
he came home and found q
Evening star., 1954-12-30
Coin Flip Decides Election

PHILADELPHIA (F. - Abra-
ham Sigman is the winner Of a
seat in the Pennsylvania House
Of Representatives because he
won the flip of a coin and drew
the right number from a pouch.
Republican Sigman and his
Democratic opponent, incumbent
Alphonso Parlante, agreed to the
game of chance after their race
in the city's I'd Legislative
District ended in a tie vote. 1924
each.
The coin-toss and number
draw yesterday was held under
a Pennsylvania law stating elec-
ton ties are to be decided "by
lot" However. both candidates
agreed beforehand that they
would sign a stipulation giving
them the right to appeal. Mr..
Parlante Immediately announced
he would take the matter of his
loss before the Democratic-con-
trolled State House, which con-
veneS next month.
Evening star., 1954-12-30

cigar butt. He kicked out
every window in the house.
Then. she said, he left as
wind, snow and the coldest
weather of the year hit Dallas.
The husband hasn't returned.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1954-02-05
NAAcP To investigate.
NAAcP TO Investigate,
Rochester Hospital Nursing
School Refuses Applicant
Because Of His Race

The Minnesota State NAACP has been asked investigate
the refusal of Rochester Minnesota hospital school Of
ing to accept the application of prospective student male
nurse because he is a Negro
Carl Wilson Milwaukee Wis resident who sought adnis
the School September.
1852 the prospective complaint the Minneapolis
NAACP Wilson letters between
and the school
One letter dated September H. signed by Elsie H. Krug chair
OF the photosta which
printed this present
that take male Negro students OF nursing
When Wilson appealed Bishop Edward Fitzgerald
Diocese OF Winona which Saint Mary Hospital Catholic
tuon located the Bishop that
acceptance %
This statement contradictory the
Krug her letter chairman school
missions Marys
Bishop Fitzgerald advised sorry he
planned make charges
that there is such thing libel"
letters phoostas reproduced
of the
hospital nursing school refused his application his
and color
State NAACP officials plan Marys Nursing
School officials and Bishop Fitzgerald the matter
Schools Letter To Refused Applicant
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1954-02-05
WheofIey House
Board Reflects
Common President

At the annual board meeting Of
the Phyllis Wheauey Settlement
House held on January 20. 1854.
topping the agenda was election
of officers which saw the return
of last years slate.
Officers reelected are Raymond
w Cannon, president: Fred Had
ley, first vice president; Mrs
Frank Fraser, second vice presi-
dent; Mrs. William whiteside.
treasurer: Mrs. Lloyd Hale. assis-
tant treasurer: Miss Esther shcr-
wood, recording secetary; Theo-
dore Woodland. corresponding sec
rotary.
Board members reelected for
new terms include Raymond w
Cannon, Mrs Robert Charlton.
Mrs. Frank Fraser, Charles d.
Fist, Mrs. r. v. Marshall. Mrs. E.
8. Mooers. Edwin r. seestrom.
Mrs. Paul Curry, Mrs. Russell c.
Duncan. Fred A. Hadlcy. Mrs.
Lloyd Hale. Mrs Alex Helmick.
Mrs. John Mathys. Miss Esther
Sherwood and Mrs. William
whiteside.
New members elected 10 the
board are Mrs. Arnice Pelto and
Harry Davis.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1954-02-05
Gold Cousf Catholics Send
Stone To New York

Accra, Gold Coast (ANP)-- A
stone containing strains Of gold
was blessed here recently at the
shrine Of Our Lady OF Fatima and
taken by Pan American Always
to New York where 1t viii be plac-
ed In the chapel OF Our Lady OF
Fatima. Idlewfld Airport.
The Rev. Harold J. Lauck. syD.
Director Of the Shrine here. bless
ed the stone and led prayers for
American Catholics who have done
80 much to support mission work
In the Accra diocese.
In a brief function at the Accra
Airport the Rev. Charles O. Erb.
svD. OF the Accra Catholic Press
Bureau presented the stone 10
Edward Weber To relay 10 the
idlewfld Airport.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1954-02-05
On February "a:
Annual Mill City
Interracia| Sunday Service
At Hennepin Methodist

Greater Minneapolis Council of
Churches, the Twin City Rainbow
Club, the YWCA and the Bahai
Assembly of Minneapolis, will
sponsor tea in the Walker Build
ing which is adjacent 20 the
church.
Organizations serving as CO.
sponsors of the services include
American Indians. Inc, Bahsi AS
sembly, Border Methodist church,
Bureau of Indian Affairs, Mime
apolis NAACP, American Fedora
ton Of Teachers, Mayors Council
on Human Relations, Committee
on Racial Equality, YMCA, First
Communion Christian church. Hol-
sey CINE church, Greater Mime
apoHs Council of Churches, Cen
trail Lutheran church, Joint Com
mittee for Equal Employment OPP
portunity, japanese American
Community Center. Minneapolis
FEP Commission, University wv
CA, Minnesota State C1O, st.
Marks Cathedral Of the Episcopal
church, Governors Interracial
Commission, United Labor Com
mittee on Human Rights, St Peter
ANlE church, Minneapolis Central
Labor Union. waynan AME
church, Minneapolis Council of
Americanization and Zion Bap-
fist Church.
Individuals representing the
various organizations on the plan
ming committee headed by Rev
Louis w. johnson included Henry
Allen. Preston Thompson. Sina
Olsen. Don c. Foster. William
Cratic. Alice =. Dreehsler. Frank
Eager. Harper Clezen. Rev. James
Hodge. Rev. 8. w. Csrnes. DR.. E
S. Hjortland. Rev. Diasuke Rita-
gawa, wilfred c. Leland. Mar
Ann NATION. Canon Z. C. Prosser
clifford Rocker. Hubert Sehon
Rev. NJ. L. Simmons. william "
sinnott and Jan WInum.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1954-02-05
On February IA:

The Minneapolis Urban League
has announced its 18th Annual In
terracial Sunday program to be
held this year at Hennepin Avenue
Methodist church, Groveland and
Lyndale AYES. s., February 14th,
at p. m. DR.. Dwight Loder is
pastor Of the Hennepin Avenue
Methodist church.
Persons who are familiar with
this program should make special
note of the place of the meeting.
The previous ten services have
been held at the Cathedral Church
of st. Mark.
Carl T. Rowan, President of the
Minneapolis Urban League Board
of Directors, staff writer, Mime
apolis TRIBUNE, author and re-
Gently named one of the Ten Out
standing Young Men In the United
States for 1858. will address the
gathering.
Other program participants in
clude Or. r. J. Rice. Associate
pastor, Hennepin Avenue Metho-
dist Church: Mrs. Forrest l.
Richeson. president. Minnesota
Council Of Church Women; Rev L
C. Harris, pastor. Bethesda Bap-
tist Church; Rev. James r. Har-
kins. Citrate. Gethsemane Episco-
pal church: willard S. Esau. sec
rotary, Minneapolis Urban League
Board Of Directors: Rt Rev.
stephen Z. Keeler, Bishop of Min
nesota-
Musical selections viii be rem
dered by the Twin Cities Sym
phonic Chorus under the direction
of o. 3. DAZZLE. Thure Fredr1ekson.
organist at Hennepin Avenue
Methodist church. viii accompany
the group.
Immediately following the ser
vice. the Urban League Guild,
with the cooperation Of the Jap
anese American Community Gen.
ter. the womAn's Council Of the
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1954-02-05
Give Him His
Children And He'll
Go, Saws FotheF

Los Angeles. - Samuel White,
Jr., Of Los Angeles, asked the
court today to sort through the
four children and one-on-the-way
Of his wife. Elmarie. and hand
him over his three, along with a
divorce decree.
The other two. including the one
unborn, were by other men, charg-
ed White in a divorce complaint,
prepared by Atty. Curtis c. Tay-
Tor, in which he charged his wife
with adultery. cruelty and deser-
ton
His children are ages seven,
five and four. stated White.
The couple married in Corsi-
cana, Tex. in 1874 and separated
here last Dec. B. Los Angeles
Tribune
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1954-02-05
New u" Coach
Says Color No Bar
On His Team

Murray Warmth, the new foot
ball mentor at the university, stat
ed emphatically at press con-
ference Wednesday morning, that
he would welcome any boy, re-
CARELESS of race. on his team.
Warmth. who is a native south
erner attended the University of
Tennessee and was former head
coach at Mississippi State said:
II will be very happy to have
any boy of any color who is good