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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-10
Roosevelt 'InfideIities'
Hearing Postponed
By the Assoeioted Press

PASADENA. Calf, April TO-
A hearing on the James Roose-
welt "infidelities letter" has been
rescheduled for April 80.
1t was postponed yesterday
because Mr.. Roosevelt's attorney
Samuel B. Picone, is busy with
another case.
The issue is Mr.. Roosevelt s
motion to strike from the record
of his wife's separate mainten-
ance suit a letter he wrote Feb
ruary 81. 1945. admitting inf
delities with nine women. Mr..
Roosevelt has denied the acts
and claims he was presumed into
writing the letter to avoid a
wartime divorce scandal.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-10
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States hydrogen bomb research
was delayed l8 months.
Senator Mccarthy said then
in a nationally telecast talk, the
delay was deliberate and he
asked why it occurred eff there
were no Communists in our Gov
eminent"
He said yesterday the state
ments orlzSthe issue made by
President Eisenhower, former
President Truman and Chair
man Cole of the Senate House
Atomic Energy Committee, were
too contradictory and that
"some one must have been mis-
quoted"
Gen. Eisenhower said he never
heard of such a delay: Mr.. Tru-
man said the decision to GO
ahead with the H-bomb develop
ment in early 1850 was made
"as soon as the scientists were
ready to go to work." and Mr.
Cole said that while it was true
that high officials debated for
months before deciding to press
work on the bomb, he knew OF
nothing sinister in the fact.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-10
The Weather Here and Over the Nation

District-Some cloudiness to-
night and not as cold, low
around so. Tomorrow, consider
able cloudiness, warmer with
chance of showers in afternoon.
Maryland - Some cloudiness
and not as cold tonight, low As
50. Tomorrow, considerable
cloudinesS and warmer with
chance of showers in afternoon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-10

Virginia-Considerable cloudi-
ness and somewhat warmer to-
night and tomorrow, low 1852.
Chance Of showers tomorrow.
Wind-EaSterly 1915 miles
per hour tonight, becoming
Southerly and increasing to Is
25 miles per hour tomorrow.
River Report.
tFrom U S. Engineers
Potomac River clear at Harpers Ferry
and at Great Falls; Shenandoah clear al
HarperS Ferry.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-10
Bond GOING to Roanoke

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, April
10.-The Lane High School con-
cert band of II members will go
to Roanoke Monday to present
a concert at the opening session
Of the Virginia State School
SuperintendentS' Conference at
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L
goods or services to an organi-
zation found to be dominated by
Communist leaders.
3. A law that would allow the
Government to grant immunity
from prosecution to persons who
otherwise would plead the pro-
lection of the fifth amendment.
ment.
4. Legislation authorizing wire
tapping evidence in cases in
volving treason. sabotage or es-
pionage. described by Mr..
Brownell as "anti-traitor law"
needed by America.
5. Other legislation including
the death penalty for peacetime
espionage, deprivation of citi-
zenship of any person found
guilty of advocating the over
throw of the Government by
force as proposed in January by
President Eisenhower, and a
law that would enlarge the stat
ute of limitations in espionage
cases.
Urges Legislation.
IF these proposals are
enacted into law" Mr.. Brownell
said. "the FBI, and other in
vestigating agencies of the Gov
eminent, will have new and
powerful constitutional weapons
to destroy by legal, orderly pro-
cesses the Communist Party in
this country"
Mr.. Brownell placed the num-
Der of Communists in the United
States at approximately $4,000"
He added. however, that they
are. in effect. that many "po-
tential foreign agents"
Sinceea 94S.st ttornHy Cen
eral said. los of the principal
leaders of the Communist Party
in this country have been in
dicted and of these 81 have been
convicted of conspiring to over
throw this Government by force
and violence. In 1853 and so far
in 1854. during the Eisenhower
administration. Mr.. Brownell
said So "active Communist lead
ers" have been convicted and
sentenced to Jail.
"FrOnts" and "Dupes."
The Communists, the Attor-
ney General said, rely not only
on party members to carry on
their work, but also on people in
doctrinated in the Communist
theology in front" organiza-
tions, on those subject to black
mail. and on those who drink
too much or talk too much about
Government secrets - persons,
Mr.. Brownell said. who are just
plain blabbermouths."
Mr.. Brownell said the prosecu-
ton of Communist Party leaders
on. conspiracy charges was a
heavy blow at the party's top
organization. Another effective
measure in destroying the Com
munist menace, the Attorney
General said. will be provided if
the courts sustain the findings
of the Subversive Activities Con-
troll Board that the Communist
Party in this country is under
the control of foreign power
and pledged to the overthrow
of this Government by force and
violence.
The case will be argued on
appeal by the Justice Depart
ment next month.
Mr.. Brownell said this case,
if upheld, will make possible
"the enforcement for the first
time of another equally import
ant provision of the Internal Sc
curity Act" that all organizations
fronting for subversive groups,
as well as the Communist Party
itself, register with the Justice
Department and disclose officers,
membership, activities and f.
nanceS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-10

Mr.. Hoffman, who did not
identify any of his targets by
name, said that real American
ism calls for fortnight stand
against the totalitarian tech
niques of the big lie and the big
smear"
Another speaker, Representa-
tive Eugene j. Mccarthy. Demo-
crat. of Minnesota said there is
evidence that the spirit of in
tolerance is growing stronger and
more widespread"
Much of the responsibility for
protecting the civil liberties of
citizens, Mr.. McCarty said. rests
on the United States Attorney
General.
I'm my opinion, he said. "the
present Attorney General has
either failed to realize the full
responsibilities of the Office he
holds, or what is worse. with the
realization of this responsibility.
has chosen to use his high Office
as a positive, political instru-
ment."
Evening star., 1954-09-19
Zion Church Celebration

Ninety years ago small group Of free
Negro men and women came from Fred
ericksburg, Va, to Washington to make
their homes and, under the inspired leader
ship OF William Walker establish what now
Is known as Zion Baptist Church. Five
ministers have followed the original pastor,
preaching the word, serving the people,
Five generations of the flock have car
ried their influence out into the whole
community. The result has been bene-
faction for all citizens.
Meanwhile, much history has been
written. The services at Zion Church today,
throughout the rest Of this week and on
next Sunday will emphasize the great con-
structive changes which have occurred in
the United States since 1864. They like
wise will stress the evident need for other
changes yet to come-improvements in
culture, in social welfare, in practice of
religion. The incumbent pastor, the Rev.
erend A. Joseph Edwards, will outline plans
for observance of the centennial decade
hence. Perhaps the existing building at
337 F street Southwest will have been
removed to make way for new boulevards
Of traffic by then, but surely the tradition
Of Zion Church will continue to live in
Washington.
Evening star., 1954-09-19

husband the gift of deed to the house
at 804 c street NE, and a handsome
piano. Mr.. and Mrs. Jost now reside
at 429 Oglethorpe street NV. They
celebrated their golden wedding ami
versary week ago today with their
daughters, Helen (Mrs. Wade 1. Brin-
ley) and Ethel (Mrs. Baxter Davis)
sharing in the happiness of the occa-
sion. Likewise present were three
grandchildren, Marlene Brinley and
Baxter and Craig Davis. Mr. Jost was
employed at the Government Printing
Office for 81 years. He and his wife
currently are members of Hamline
Methodist Church, and their daughters
were married there.
The Star of September 2, 1904, gave
front-page space to a dispatch from
New York reading: IAN
Hill Speech investigation by the Asso-
Hook ciated Press discloses the
fact that a number of
serious errors were made in its report
of Senator D. B. Hills speech at De-
posit, N. Y, on Thursday, August Is.
1t seems that reporter Of local DEM
ocratic paper, upon whom the Asso-
ciated Press depended for a report,
failed to attend the meeting but instead
invented a speech for Senator Hill
which contained several statements
wholly misrepresenting the Senator's
views and quite at variance with his
utterances. Among the phrases thus
inserted as part of the speech was
one to the effect that Senator Hill had
charged President Roosevelt with being
a fraud Senator Hill said nothing Of
the kind. This correction is made with
out the knowledge of Mr.. Hill or any
of his friends, but in the interest Of
accuracy for the Associated Press
service"
Evening star., 1954-09-19

and completely undemocratic admins
tration. that the people of Cyprus do
not want to get rid of their alien mas
ters, then it would seem logical for the
British not only to cease their opposi-
ton to the application of the right of
self determination to Cyprus but to
press with vigor for an immediate OPP
portunity for the Cypriots to express
their will in the matter.
cannot help wonder If Mr.. Brown
really means what he says when he
expresses the view that whatever the
advantages or merits of faithful ad-
herence to the principles of self
determination long recognized in the
West, considerations of practical con-
sequences must outweigh all others at
least until such time as the Commu-
mist menace has been curbed."
am sure that Mr.. Brown will agree
that Greece stands second to none in
her attitude toward communism, or
any kind of totalitarianism, and every
thing they represent. If he does, then
surely he will also agree that it was the
adherence of the Greek people to their
democratic traditions that gave them
the spirit and the strength to fight and
to overcome communism. It was pre-
cisely because the Communists threat
ened their homes and their liberties
that they fought And it is precisely
because the Greek people hate and
abhor undemocratic rule in any form
that they have refused to deny hand
of assistance to their brother Greeks
of Cyprus whose cry for freedom goes
back to day long before their island
was snatched up and annexed to the
British Empire.
The considerations of practical con-
sequences of which Mr.. Brown speaks
do not justify the continued denial of
their freedom to cultured and en-
lightened people. On the contrary, the
continued application of such "prac-
tical consequences" can have no other
end except to further weaken, not
strengthen, the principles of collective
security which bind all freedom loving
nations in the defense against the
Communist menace
Constantine Alex. Triantaphyllakos,
Director, Information Service, Royal
Greek Embassy.
Evening star., 1954-09-19

consideration the Treasury officials de-
cided that nothing would be gained by
the change. Ever since then the story
has been going the rounds that the
crisp bill was thing of the past. The
Treasury has no intention OF changing
the method of producing bills and notes
that has existed for long time, and
so far as known the Softening of note
paper will not be experimental with
again. The discoverers of the chemical
proposed. that it be used in the man
ufacture of the paper so that when
the printing of the notes at the Bureau
of Engraving and Printing began a
great deal of time and labor would be
saved. There would have been revo-
luton in the process in that establish
ment. Paper now used in the printing
of paper money has to b. thoroughly
soaked in water. While in a damp con-
dition one side of tie paper is printed
The sheet is then placed III steam
room and kept under high pressure
for from Is to 80 days, the time for the
ink to dry. After this the sheet is
again soaked as in the first instance,
and the reverse side printed. 1t was
claimed that all this wetting and dry
ing WOul0 De unnecessary duQ GllaI
great deal Of time would be saved"
A cablegram from Paris to The Star
for September 8. 1904, said: Louis
Deibler, who directed the guillotine of
Paris for 20 years, died at Auteull today
at the age of 81. (He) was
Executioner one of the quaint figures
Decd of the city, owing to the
large number of execu-
tions he had successfully conducted
He came from family of executioners,
succeeding his father, who was chief
executioner. and then surrendering his
Office to his son. Anatole Deibler. who
is the present executioner. Of recent
years Louis Deibler had been bedridden
with rheumatism and ola age. He began
Evening star., 1954-09-19
The Duiies-Eden Agreement

This is time for patient but hopeful
waiting with respect to the difficult and
vexatiouS problems lying across the path
OF West European unity and security.
Mr.. Dulles and Mr.. Eden have come to
an agreement of some sort concerning the
future status Of West Germany. But it
remains to be seen whether this agreement
amounts to much more than mutual de-
sire to associate West Germany with the
Western nations on basis of "full equal
ity." The showdown presumably will come
later this month when the proposed nine
power conference is scheduled to be held
in London.
The homecoming remarks by Mr.. Dulles
make it clear that he still believes there is
no adequate" substitute for edo, killed by
the French Assembly on August 80, and
that the search now under way is for the
least unsatisfactory substitute. It is also
clear, however, that there still Is room for
hope that something will be worked out.
From the. American point OF view, and
also, it may be hoped, from the British, this
"something"- must include the restoration
of West German sovereignty and some
kind of West German military contribu-
ton to the defense of the West. The big
question is whether the French will agree
to anything in this respect that will be
more than meaningless gesture.
Premier Mendes-F France is voicing
words which appear to be designed to con-
ceal thought. It is obvious, however, that
he wants guarantees against future Ger
man dominance over France. It is easy to
understand why the French should want
such guarantees, and everything within
reason should be done to satisfy them. But
M. Mendes-France, in his turn, should un-
derstand that there is great danger in
protracted haggling.
A baking France may have the means
to defeat all efforts to erect real defense
in Europe. But 1t is very doubtful that
public opinion in this country would toll
crate such result. # the French are not
going to accept any adequate settlement Of
the German question, it must be antici-
pated the United States may abandon its
efforts in Europe. This would indeed be a
dismal end to all that has been undertaken,
but the French should recognize that it is
more than remote possibility.
Evening star., 1954-09-19

There is no more subtle temptation
confronting those who are now called
to play their part on the hectic stage
Of the present than to lose sense Of
proportion, Of percentage and perspec-
tive. and to sign up as an active mem
Der in the Cult Of the Muckrakers. OF
course, the person whose one tool is
q muckrake and who mistakes his
little patch Of filth for the world for
gets that nothing is perfect. Every
society. every institution, every person,
has faults. Usually, the most convinc-
ing illustration OF that is the muck
raker himself.
OF course, to. exercise the critical
faculty is sometimes very necessary
function. Woe to any people when they
lose it or have the right to. criticize
taken from them; for the function OF
the critical spirit is to correct, to see
the wrong and to right it. But when
the critical faculty so takes the saddle
that the fault-finder discards all other
instruments except the muckrake, and
has no need even for a hoe. then the
thing that can be a virtue degenerates
into q vicious vice.
Jesus saw how what was meant to
be q constructive force can be per-
verted into a monstrous caricature of
the wholesome when He warned in a
barbed. humorous jibe about fault flnd-
ing: Don't make so much about tiny
splinter in your brothers eye, while
at the same time you are not conscious
OF the big piece of lumber In your own.
A wise man has said. "It is utterly
fatal to concentrate on the per cent
bad In a situation and overlook the
IS per cent which is good. The capacity
to f1nd fault must be balanced by
capacity to recognize and appreciate
the good"
Even as we confess that we have
fallen far short Of the glory of de-
mocracy, even as we strive to eliminate
Evening star., 1954-09-19
Spires Of the Spirit

What is wrong with this, that and
the other? That is a familiar theme
of these disordered days. The voice of
disguised peSSimistS is heard In the
land. The day-before- yesterday is held
up as a paragon of virtue, contraSted
to the degenerate standards and prac-
tices of today. We are told in mourn
full numbers that even the brilliant in
ventionS which so color our way of
life are only spread like phosphores-
cent rottenneSs across the surface Of
a society that, underneath. is being eat
en- up by lewdness. licentiousness, corr
ruptibn and crookedness.
Now, one thing to remember as we
listen to the lament Of some modern
Diogenes rushing with a swinging Ian
tern from bathtub much more mod
ern than that of the old philosopher,
who bewailed the fact that he could
not find one honest man, is that in
every generation back to the dim be-
ginningS of recorded history we may
find vociferous prophets of gloom who
are sure that their particular day has
gone to the dogs. The fallacy Of many
alarmiStS is to point to certain things
that no doubt are there and then to
assume that they are characteristic of
all the reaches and ranges of life. That
attitude is like STOPPING at a gorgeous
flower bed full of fragrance and mir
acles of bloom and, lifting up an old
plank in the garden walk and seeing
there ugly creatures that creep and
crawl, then to talk mostly about the
loathesonne and lose all sight of the
lovely.
books. volume which has reached and
influenced probably more people than
any other book save the Bible, John
Bunyan tells about the man with a
muckrake. The figtffe there depicted
was etched in a Jail in the 17th CEN
tury, but 1t is so utterly modern and
contemporary that it might well fur
nish cartoon for today's newspaper.
There he stands-or, rather, there he
bends-his eyes so riveted on the muck
and mire, the sticks and stones on the
ground around him. that he is alto
gether oblivious to q radiant angel
with q crown Of gold lowering just
above his head. The unsightly, the
ugly. the filthy. the unworthy, has cap
tured mans eyes. For him, the whole
world Is revealed in the unsavory mess
which is found within the radius Of
his rake. This man with a muckrake
Is fitting symbol of multitudes in our
day who. instead Of exclaining, with
undeceived eyes. "Alls right with the
world!" cry out their disguised ap-
praisal, "All's rotten with the worldl"
Evening star., 1954-09-19
Doctors Freedom

Speaking for Disabled American Vet
erans, Past Commander G. Leslie For
syth did fine job of taking m. D." to
the woodshed. IN. D." deserved his
spanking for not getting all his facts
before playing vigilante on the injured
person Of j. Norman Lodge. Yet Com
mander Forsyth thoughtlessly has in
dulged in some unfair smearing him
self. refer to his general disparage-
ment Of the motives of my profession
IN opposing separate system of tax
subsidized medical care for veterans
for nonservice-connected disabilities.
There is no quarrel between us con-
corning bona flde service-connected or
service-aggravated disabilities. To a
man, we doctors believe that no expense
should be spared to pay our unpayable
debt to those mutilated or diseased
while on military duty. We doctors
proved it by voluntarily accepting vir-
tual bankruptcy and ruinous deficit
spending to serve your sons and mine
on the battlefield. Some of us have
never recovered from that setback. But
the point is that far more of us, by
the grace Of God, came back whole in
stead of mutilated. Is it manly or even
patriotic for those of us who came back
whole. to demand equality with those
who are blind, amputees, crippled
paraplegics or otherwise casualties of
battle? To me that is cheap and con-
temptible form of begging, under false
pretenses. Don't forget either that those
who provided us with the weapons also
served.
But the professional patriots and
f1ag-wavers insist that unharmed vet
erans (who with their families come
to nearly half the Nations population)
should have special health security
privileges. We doctors will continue to
oppose this selfish veteran grab for two
reasons: First, all who become free
riding beneficiaries of any tax-subsi-
died system Of health security, forfeit
all right of free choice and unqualified
veto. It is bureaucratic system of
medicine on a take-it-or-leave-i basis
There is no competition to improve
quality, to discipline incompetence or to
lower cost. The bureaucrat and not
Evening star., 1954-09-19

his career as an executioner in Algiers.
Later he became chief executioner in
the provinces and finally in 1879, chief
eXecutioner in Paris. His guillotine was
usually erected on the square fronting
the prison of La Roquette . where
vast crowds frequently assembled
Deibler had no expression of fierceness.
He appeared to be simple man of the
middle class. He took pride in his work
and had expressed the hope that the
government would reward his faithful
ness by bestowing on him decoration.
:. During 80 years of service Deibler
guillotined 327 criminals, and he boasted
that he never had had mishap. :.
It was said of Deibler that he exercised
a strange, almost supernatural power
over his intended victims, and it rarely
happened that he met with any re-
sistance."
On September Is, 1904, Eva Cora,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. George w.
King, and Franklin Jost
Kng-Jost were married at the Ana
Wedding costa Methodist Episco-
pal Church, and The
Star of the next day carried lengthy
account Of the wedding. Rev. Charles
o. Isaac ofdciated, and the nuptial
music was played by Charles Chase,
an eminent organist. Lucy King was
maid of honor, and the bridesmaids
were May Hallowell. Nettie Baker, Susie
Jost and Ethel King. George King,
brother Of the groom, was best man,
and the ushers included Shriver King,
Robert King, William Jost, Walter E.
Howard and j. F. LIE Barnes. The bride
was lovely picture in white liberty
satin gown and tuIle VEIL She carried
a shower bouquet of bride roses and had
orange blossoms in her hair. Her ''go-
ing away dress was Of light gray with
hat and gloves to match. At the recep-
street pe ,be ne eved for 0s berset and ber