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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-10
Mccarthy Censure Probers
Decide to Inspect Disputed
Letter Based on FIJI Report
Senator Denies
Giving Material to
Walter WincheII
BULLETIN

The Senate censure commit
tee decided this afternoon to
accept in evidence Senator Nc
Carthy's controversial 2 page
FBI letter but said the con-
tents would be kept secret as
a security precaution. The
committee agreed with a new
ruling by Attorney General
Brownell that the document
should remain classified.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-10
SIS Million in Silver
Reaches Philadelphia
BY the Asseeiosed Press

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 10
A SIS million shipment of bar
silver bound for the United
States mint here was due to be
unloaded today from the Holland
American steamship Amsteldyk.
The ship locked last night.
The 4,203 bars of silver repre-
sent a partial payment by the
Netherlands Government of a
United States loan. Two previous
shipments reached here last July
and August.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-10
De Casfries Arrives
Unexpectedly in Paris
BY the Associated Pres.

PARIS, Sept. 10.-Brig. Gen
Christian de Castries, the COM
mander of the Indo- China for
tress of Diem Bien Phu, arrived
Unexpectedly in Paris today. He
was released by the Communist
led Wet Mini in an exchange OF
prisoners q week ago.
His departure from Indo-China
had not been announced. His
wife, Jacqueline, has been await
ing his return here.
Gen. De Castries wore a gray
civilian suit and was met only
by Gen. Louis Dio. deputy COM
nander of the Paris region.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-10
First U. S. Troops Leave
Koreu for Howuii Base
BY the Associoted Press

SEOUL, Sept. 10.-About 3,70O
soldiers, of the United States
25th Division to leave Korea,
sailed on big military trans
port from Inchon today, bound
for Hawaii where the division is
to be based.
The 25th is the first of four
United States divisions to be
withdrawn from Korea this year
under a United States Army re-
deployment plan announced last
month. The 5th Air Force is
shifting its headquarters and
many Of its planes to Japan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-10
More Earth Shocks
In Algeria Topp|e
Ruined BUILDINGS
Death Toll Estimated
At Over 900; Another
1000 Believed Hurt
BY the Associated Press

ALGIERS Algeria, Sept. 10
The earth still trembled at Or
Evansville today, more than "a
hours after the disastrous earth
quake that inflicted a death toll
estimated at more than 1000
Europeans and Algerians.
Another 1000 were believed
hurt.
Shocks less violent than the
first were felt five times last
night and this morning. One
lasted several seconds, bringing
down unsteady houses and great
pieces of shattered walls. Blasted
buildings in the heart of the
town were crumbling into the
streets.
There were 1000 rescue work.
ers and as many more troops, on
the spot about 100 miles west of
Algiers. The French army,
which rushed all available troops
and ambulances to the area, also
sent four bulldozers and eight
big water tanks, along with eight
tons of bread and other food, SO
| field kitchens and IS cooks to
man them.
$50 of Homes Evacuated.
The mayor of the city was
quoted as saying:
We've had to evacuate IS per
cent of the houses, but we won't
evacuate the town. We're going
to put everybody into tents"
Rescue teams returning here
said Identification of European
victims was proceeding rapidly
but that they were having more
difficulty with the Moslem dead
Casualty estimates were made
more difficult by the fact that
many MoSlems were burying
their own dead without sending
in any report.
The French Interior Ministry
said last night 396 deaths have
been confirmed officially. but
that most of them appeared to
be European residents of the
area. They said an accurate &C.
counting of the quake toll will
take many days.
Some Communications Restored.
With railways cut and many
highways impossible. aid was
flown in from Algiers and Oran
Some surface communications
had been restored today, but
most telephone lines were still
out.
Two thousand soldiers from
Algiers and Oran - bayonets
bared-patrolled the region tc
prevent looting.
Planes which rushed doctors
and medical supplies to the area
returned with the most severely
injured. The less serious cases
were cared for in emergency
field hospitals or simply in the
streets.
| Many able-bodied survivors
were reported fleeing from Or
Evansville and the stricken vii
lagos. They travelled by horse
bicycle or afoot. carrying a few
valued possessions.
The French government de-
creed a day of national mourn
ing today and flags were flown
(See QUAKE, Page A-5.)
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BY the Associated Press

UNITED NATIONS, N. Y,
Sept. 10.-The United Nations
Security Council today overrode
Soviet objections and agreed to
full discussion of an American
complaint that Soviet fighter
planes shot down United States
Navy bomber off siberia last
Friday. >
The vote was 10 to /. with So
Wet Deputy Foreign Minister An
drei Y. Vishinsky casting the
only vote against. MIR. Vishinsky
said discussion of the incident
might intensity international
feeling rather than lessen it.
The debate was requested by
Chief United States Delegate
Henry Cabot Lodge. jr., who
charged the Russians violated in
ternational law by shooting
down the bomber over open wa
tiers. The United States already
had protested to Russia.
Denies u. s. Charges.
Mr.. Vishinsky denied the
United States charges and told
the Council the American plane
had violated Soviet territory and
had opened fire on two Soviet
MIG fighters which were at
tempting to warn it away. The
MICS then returned the fire, he
said. and the bomber flew out
to sea.
Immediately after the Council
agreed to take up the United
States complaint, Mr.. Lodge
took the floor to press his
charges. He reviewed the Incl
dent in detail and declared "the
seriousness of this incident is
apparent"
1.-THE gravity of the situation
caused by this attack is COM
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-10
Election Express
Starts Cross Country

WESTWARD Ho!-Leodins Re-
pubIieon women hod on eorly brock
fost here todoy. then boorded on
Election Express" bus for Los An
seles, where they will attend big
political roIIy. For on account Of
their departure, turn TO pose B-3.
STUDENT coUNcILs-Here's how
this years crop Of high school stu
dents con get some new ideos for
student councils from the NotionoI
Association Of Student Councils. See
Teen Scene on poee BIZ.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-10
Population of u. S.
On August ] Put
At 162,67O,000
BY The Associated Press

BY The Associated Press
The Census Bureau today
estimated the Nations popu-
lation on August / at 49,
$4,000. including armed
forces overseas.
That was a growth of
2,782 900 of II per cent, in
a year.
The population at the be-
ginning of August this year
was 11.538,000 greater than
on April /. 1850, the date of
the last census.
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kinS. Republican, of Utah at the
opening of the seventh day of
public hearings.
Senator Watkins recessed the
morning hearing after Senator
Mccarthy completed his direct
testimony against the charges
by denying that he or any one
on his staff gave a copy of the
so-called hot" letter to Column
mist Walter Winchell.
The chairman said the COM
mittee would examine the 2A-
page letter, first brought into the
recent Army Nice earthly inquiry
by Senator Mccarthy, in a closed
meeting preliminary to making
a decision on finally admitting it
in evidence"
Senator Watkins said the
group also would take up "other
matters" at the meeting. One
unsettled question that may be
considered is whether to order
testimony from Mai. Gen. Kirke
Lawton, retired Army commander
at Fort Monmouth, N. j.
Meet Pentagon officials.
Shortly after the public hear
ing was recessed, Chairman Wat
kins and Senator Case, Republic
can, of South Dakota. went into
conference with high Defense
Department officials. They met
with Secretary of Defense Will
son, Assistant Secretary Fred
M. Seaton and General Counsel
WILDER M. Brucker. Neither side
would discuss the conference with
reporters.
Meanwhile Senator Flanders,
Republican, of Vermont, the
author of the Senate resolution
to censure Senator Mccarthy,
tried and failed to introduce a
new charge against the Wiscon-
sin Republican. He is the author
of 33 charges which he declares
are grounds for censure.
The Watkins ommi t e
promptly rejected Senator Flan-
ders' request in its closed session.
The Vermont Republican refused
to say what the charge was.
Asked why he had not intro
duced it earlier, he said that
until recently he had only hear
say evidence to support it. He
claimed he now has tangible
evidence.
May Cali Gen. Zwicker.
The committee planned to re-
sumo public hearings early this
afternoon at which time it will
begin crosS-examination of Sem
ator Mccarthy. The committee
also may call other witnesses in
the case. including Brig. Gen.
Ralph w. Zwicker. former COM
mander of Camp Kilmer, N. j.,
whom Senator Mccarthy is &C
cused of abusing in a hearing of
his Senate Investigations SUBJ
committee last February.
Senator Mccarthy and his at
torney, Edward Bennett Will
liams, yesterday offered the 2 "a
page letter in evidence in con-
nection with their defense
against one of the censure
charges.
Senator Mccarthy is accused
of receiving and using a CLASH
fled FBI document and permit
ting the document ito fall into
the hands of a gossip columnist,
to wit. Walter Winchell."
Early in the Army-McCarthy
inquiry last spring. Senator Nc
earthly brought the ga page
document into the hearing. 1t
was supposed to be letter from
FBI Director j. Edgar Hoover
to Army Intelligence, warning of
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Guide for Readers

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Hurricane Due
IoHitNewY York,
Bureau Warns
Big Storm Off Copes;
Naval Vessels Flee
Hampton Roads
BULLETINS
BULLETINS

NEW YORK (P,.-The
Weather Bureau reported to-
day 1T will be a miracle IL
Hurricane Edna does not hit
New York City headon to-
morrow" The Bureau said il
would be one of the most
serious hurricanes in the New
York Weather Bureaus his
tory"
NORFOLK, Va. (P).-Eighty
naval vessels began leaving
the Norfolk Naval Base today
as Hurricane Edna approached.
The battleship Iowa, the cruis-
er Juneau and the carriers
Saipan and Mindoro departed
to ride out the storm at sea.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-10

Portal Transcript of Yesterdays Ses-
sions. Poee "A
Thot FBI Letter Of Moy Probe No Longer
BIG Stuff, II Seems. Poee A
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-10
By james Y. Newton and
Cecil Holland

The special Senate committee
studying censure moves against
Senator Mccarthy today decided
at least to inspect" a contro-
versial two-and-one-quarter page
letter which forms the basis of
one of the charges against the
Wisconsin Republican.
The committees decision was
announced by Chairman Wat
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-10

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IN Associated Press Newspaper
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(See SCHOOLS, Page A-5o
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(See GERMANY, Page AID
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Temperatures Today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-10

Washington lived up to its|reputation
as an International city last night with
the first showing of new European fall
fashions here. See the featured story by
9'he Stars fashion editor, Eieni, OH ~
Page B-1.
Evening star., 1954-12-24
A Holiday for Civilized Peoples
hi Communist RLsso the Tomb of Lenn fius Replaced
The Munger Of Bethlehem, Moterolisn the Mog

inc drawn into the darkness
of lilaterialistic communism.
Christmas has an even greater
meaning If the great tradi-
tions 1t represents are to be
saved for our cliildren's chill
dren.
10 the Communist. such
basically religious observances
as the Nativity are anathema
They must so, the Reds know,
not only because they repre-
sent the practical fuflctionins
of the church, q prime COM
lnunist target, but most Of all
because they exert q powerful
appeal on mems minds. Christ
mas brings an ernotionai force
to bear on men. an influences
not to be tolerated by totali-
tartan and inaterialistic athe-
ism organized irl q sloganized
police state.
Thus. in the areas already
suhjugated to the dogma Of
the Krenlin, Christmas and
lesser observances Of a spirit
ual nature have been roughly
brushed aside ais mere mani
festations Of bourgeois deca-
dence. Lenin's tomb has re-
placed the rnanger Of Bethle-
hem, and quotas. norins and
state speed-ups have been sub
stituted for the magical mys-
terieS Of Noel.
The Communists, of course,
have been astute enough TO
recognize that the abolition Of
such q powerful emotional ap-
peal as that afforded by the
Christmas spirit cannot be
abruptly ended without some
thing being provided TO take
its place. The conmissars
scoff at emotional and moral
Evening star., 1954-12-24
|Capi. sehepers Named
| PRNc Works Officer

The assignment Of Capt. Rob-
ert w. schepers as public works
officer Of the Potomac River
Naval Command was announced
yesterday. He replaces Capt. i.
w. Siiliman.
Before reporting to his new
berth. Capt. schepers was force
civil engineer on the stan of
the commander In chief of the
Eastern Atlantic and Mediterra-
mean Naval Forces Ia London
for two years. his new ofices
VIII be Ia the Naval Gun rae
tory.
Capt. Schepers formerly
served as public works Oificer
here from September, 1850. to
October, 1862. He also served
here is director Of the en-
eineering division Of the JOINT
Chiefs 81 stan from August.
1915. to June. 1919, and as d.
rector of the engineering divi-
sion, Bureau of Yards and Docks
from July. ls49. 10 August. 1850.
Capt. Schepers and his wife
live ct 17l7 g street NV.
Evening star., 1954-12-24
Doxid. Lomencez .
Our Limited 'Peoce On Eorth'
Abandonment Of All Principles IS Seen Accompanying
The Peoce Of Any Price of Co-existence Boosters

This Is q Christmas Of make
believe in more respects than
meet the eye. For. on the sur
face, there Is good cheer and
an abundance Of material
things. But the talk Of peace
on earth and good win toward
men" seems confined only to
the so-called free world. There
are no evidences of peaceful
intent from behind the Iron
Curtain.
Despite this, the clamor for
peaceful co-existence' goes
up from the Western countries
and from those governments
like India and Yugoslavia
which profess not to be aligned
with East or West. It Is an
understandable clanor. and If
wishful thinking and the repe-
tition Of peaceful purpose
could accomplish the result,
there have been enough words
spoken and speeches made by
Western leaders to saturate
the governmental rulers on the
other side who have It In their
hands to assure peace.
But candor and q respect for
truth compels the statement
that hypocrisy and an aban-
donment Of principle are al
most everywhere condoned
even on this side Of the Iron
Curtain. II challenged. the
usual answer Is that In an
atomic age this Is imperative.
But even as ancient empires
began to decay when peoples
thought more OF material
things than strength of spirit
and morality, so today great
principles are being tossed
aside irreverently In q passion
ate demand for peace at al
most any price.
This very season when the
United Nations Is extolled as
Evening star., 1954-12-24

reinforced with seven Just
elected, are substantially pros
Stevenson.
The story is fresh In mind
Of how the Eisenhower sup
porters, with help from the
party's contributors and press,
built machine with the Re-
publican Governors which ran
over the Taft candidacy at
Chicago.
Mr.. Stevenson himself
wants no arguments with the
party's congressional leaders.
It is. In fact. his weakness
that he lacks q sturdy bridge
by which to reach them.
They resented in 1852 the
extent to which he put his
campaign into the hands Of
personal associates and anna
teurs. more or less bypassing
the old pros. The retiring
chairman. Steve Mitchell, has
worked tirelessly to overcome
the feeling which resulted and
in large measure succeeded.
That the Mitchell bridge won't
work for Mr.. Butler seems now
apparent.
It is probably up to Mr..
Stevenson, handicapped as he
Is by having no official position
and wanting TO settle down
for awhile to his law practice.
It will not be easy to avoid
even the appearance Of inter-
ference while making firm con-
tact with such men as Speaker
Rayburn but it Is vital to his
hopes for the presidency.
Evening star., 1954-12-24

to write their version of what
takes place.
Clearly the hypocrisy of
peaceful CO. existence was
never more dramatically IL
Illustrated than by this incident.
It Is 4 domination 81 the Cou1-
inunists which is recognized
by the y. m Secretary General.
The retention Of the 1 / airn1en
Is Itself : violation of the
Korean armistice, and there Isl
the same right FOR newsraen To.
be present now as there was at
Pannnllnjom.
The incident tells the
lengths to which the secre-
tary general, IL indeed he Is
speaking for the U. NJ, IS
willing 10 so to try to hide
the humiliation which the
people of y. N. countries must
feel when Red China dictates
who shall or shall not come
along on the mission of the
secretary general.
It was this same spirit Of
appeasement which in 1888
lulled the Wetsern world into
q belief that peace was just
around the corner. But the
enemy rnistook this attitude
of weakness for q form Of
coWardice, and miscaIculated.
Then came World War II.
The same danger exists to-
daythat the Communists
win corstrue the secretary
generals move and other such
steps by the West as weakness.
That's why all the talk of
peace and all the optimism
about the future need to be
tempered with the realistic
fact that symptoms Of peace
full surrender" could encourage
the Communists to commit
overt acts and thus bring on
the big war that nobody
wants.
tReproduction Rishts Reseryed.1
Evening star., 1954-12-24
G Constantine Brown

The annual celebration of
Christmas brings To the West
ern world i pause Ia the tense
business of living, q pause an-
like that of any other holiday
throughout the year For de-
spite the irlroatis of modern
comfnercializatio and the ira
ditional emphasis on feaSting
and Wassail, Christmas has re-
tanned 3 fundamental spirit
uality unique among AL our
observances.
Whether the individuals
own emphasis on Christmas Is
formally religious or not, the
spirituality Is there, the spirit
of peace on earth, good will To
men persists, and al other
considerations become sub
ordinate to the all ll-pervading
glow Of good fellowship.
That such manifestation
Of social structure as the Yule
season play d major part la the
formation Of q national char
acter has been long understood
by scholars. The role and
function of Christmas III the
development Of the Western
worlds institutions and tradi-
tiorls has been of great iInpor-
tance In the preservation of the
higher values, the moral stand
ards and the emphasis on in
dividual growth to be found
here. It has been a sustaining
tradition, based as 1t is on
simple humility In the birth of
q child III a stable. And 1t is
abiding evidence that there
exists In the free world today
a spirituality sufficient to sus-
tain the democratic institu-
tions that were born of the
same traditions.
These days. with more and
more of the worlds peoples be-
Evening star., 1954-12-24
Dorothy ThonPson-
MeIodronno in the Courtroom
Sheppard Trial Jury Had to Feel Way Through Foq
Of Lowyers Hstrioncs in Search for Justice

There were times during the
trial Of DR.. Sam Sheppard
when one wondered whether
the jury system could possibly
serve justice In the modern
American courtroom.
For nine weeks the jury was
compelled to hear evidence in
an atmosphere so consciously
and deliberately emotionalized
that the borders between rea-
son and feeling must often
have been obliterated.
Where q life has been taken
by british violence and an
other Is at stake, emotion cam
not be altogether divorced
from judgment. Where the
evidence. as In this case. is
entirely circumstantial, over.
tones Of doubt. distress. revul-
sion. fear must pass like fioat-
ing clouds over the minds Of
the ordinary citizens charged
with the fearful responsibility
Of life and death.
The mind entirely pure Of
such influence functions only
In the rarefied atmosphere Of
abstract thought. But q man,
his wife. his marriage. their
unknown inner lives. strains.
and conscious and unconscious
potentialities. are not mathe-
matical propositions. In every
fatal crime of passionate vio-
lence there are always two
protagonists - the murderer
and the murdered. But only
one Is left to tell, or to sup
press. the truth.
Yet justice can rest only
upon truth: truth. which III
cases ike this one is evasive.
The defendant. whether testi-
tying or not. Is o perpetual
witness, for he is continually
on display. Every expression
Of his face Is searched for
testimony. The jurors. hold
ing his life n their hands, but
lacking decisive. concrete eyi-
dence, must have asked them
selves, Could this young man.
obviously conventional. whose
speech reveals him fnieky
rather than tough. whose n1an-
ner appears repressed rather
than aggressive. and whose
profession Is that Of healing.
possibly hehave under any
Evening star., 1954-12-24
Fletcher Knebel-
Potomac I ever

spends Chrsnastime Augusta Like most Of us at
this time probably the only thing got to spend
~ a
Europe bueted by the worst storm In years
much Of blow here Congress doesn't again until
January s.
u 5. Court Of Appeals rules that the .. s. Communist
Party from Moscow Unlike editor Judge always
make headlines out Of old news.
Russia to return 27 United States naval vessels they
borrowed In World War IT. There's doubt the
full of Christmas spirit, but wen have to wait
see Just how full they
White House intmates put out the word that
again Ike must have guilt complexhes asking
lot Of punishment.
Tito Yugoslava Jointly call for peace-
fu coexistence Neu avors because his country
so many people-Iito because his country has few.
Evening star., 1954-12-24

After 102 hours Of agonizing
disagreement, the jury decided
that the defendant could and
did kill his wife. purposely,
maliciously, but without pre-
meditation. The pertinently
critical question Of why, In
what state Of mind, under
what. If any, provocation, re.
mains unanswered. A psyche
pathologist might have thrown
light. but none was called to
testify. for such evidence
would have fitted neither plea,
and was carefully avoided In
the cross-exan1ination OF DR..
Sheppard by both prosecution
and defense.
The judgment Of the jury
therefore rested on common
sense.
It was the only sense dis
played In the trial, for criln-
inal trials have become court
room nleloliramas.