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The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-03-19
SPECIAL SPEAKER FOR
MANTEO PTA WEDNESDAY

A program on dental health
will be presented Wednesday,
March "a, when the Manteo PTA
holds its regular meeting at 8
pm. in the school auditorium. DR..
Bernard Batleman, Norfolk or
thodonist, will be guest speaker.
Mrs. Lawrence Swain, PTA pres
ident, urges all members to
attend.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-03-19
TO PEEL POTATO
BULLS PAIRING KNIFE

Mrs. Curtis Daniels was peel
ing potatoes at the Airport Cafe
a few nights ago and ran into
one which wouldn't peel. Upon
closer examination the potato
turned out to be ~ pound
rock, greatly resembling potato.
1t even had two eyes"
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-03-19

Cooking snap beans? Try add
ing few slices of onion to them
with the boiling water for good
flavor.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-03-19
FERRY
Continued from Page One)

peak traffic loads.
Alligator River ferry the
water-link of U. S. "a, hauled a
total of 813 automobiles in Feb
ruary as compared to 719 in jan
uary.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-24
Portsmouth Youth
IsChampion Orator

Vito Morlina. a high school
senior from Portsmouth, Va,
yesterday won the State cham
pionship In the American Le-
gion Annual High School Ora
torical Contest at Washington
Lee High School in Arlington.
Vito. IT., a student at Ports
mouths st. Paul's High School,
placed third last year in the
State contest, which attracts
about 1000 entrants from State
high school students.
He won a $500 prize and the
right to represent the State in a
regional contest next Monday at
Shepardstown, w. Vas. where win
ners from North Carolina, Ten
nessee and West Virginia will
compete.
In second place in the Vir-
ginia final contest was Miss
Charlotte Ann Johns of Warren
County High School, Front
Royal, Va, winner of a 5000
prize. Third-place winner was
Robert E. Jordan III, Of Halifax
County High School, South Bos-
ton, Va, 500.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-24
Symphony Campaign
$4,000 Under Goal
As First Phase Ends

The National Symphony Or
chestra has wound up the first
phase Of its annual sustaining
fund campaign $4,000 short Of
its goal. It will launch an in
tensive mop-up operation on
April z.
Division chairmen yesterday
announced collections and
pledges totaling $131, 900. Last
year, in a drive that lasted three
weeks longer, $1,000 more was
collected.
BY April Z, Richard p. Dunn,
campaign chairman predicted
workers will bring in about $780,
600 more. At that time, the cam
paign organization will be dis
banded, and mop-up squads set
up"to canvass residents who have
not yet contributed. in an effort
to find the missing $4,000.
Six area chairmen who brought
In more than 100 per cent Of
their quotas were each awarded
two season tickets for the
Wednesday evening series Of con-
certS. They are:
Miss Harriet Freeman, 1915
r street NV; Mrs. Theodore
Shapiro, 1862 Geranium street
NV; Mrs. Maurice Barnes,
4408 Burlington place NV:
Mrs. Robert Day, HOT Rockville
pike, Rockville; Mrs. Arnold
Pratt, North drive, Bethesda,
and Mrs. Hamaz Manuelian,
1000 Connecticut avenue, Ken
SinRton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-24
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-24
Suspects Prove
More Helpful Than
Victims in Lineup
BY the Asseeiassd Press


BALTIMORE, Mar. "a
-Four young robbery suspects
were a big help TO police
here.
None of the victims Of a
series Of three robberies
could identify the suspects
in police lineup, Magistrate
e. Everett Lane was told.
But the suspects could
identify the victims and.
obligingly, did.
The four. all colored were
ordered held for grand jury
action.
Evening star., 1954-04-25
Geneva

EEVERISH PREPARATIONS for
L tomorrow's opening of the Ge-
neva conference on Korea and
Indo-C China continued this week
end.
The famous Swiss center for in
ternational gatherings was agog
with strange new oriental faces,
and there were unfamiliar names
in the newspapers. From Peiping
(via Moscow came Chou En-lai, a
highly controversial figure even
before the conference begins. From
Pyongyang (via Moscow came
Nam II, wearing the civvies Of a
foreign minister rather than the
generals uniform in which he ap-
peared at the Panmunjom truce
talks.
From Seoul came Syngman
Rhee's foreign minister, Pyun
Yung Tai, tart-tongued English
professor and ex-newsman. From
Saigon it appeared likely that Bao
Dai, ex-emperor OF the old state
of AMMAN and now chief of state
Of the new Wet Nam, would rep
resent the country which has re-
Evening star., 1954-04-25

Gen. Reber might give about his
brother. Said the Arkansas Dem
ocrat:
"Let us have ruling on this,
because we may be trying members
of everybody's family before we
get through"
Evening star., 1954-04-25

fused to characterize a transcript
of the conversation as a COM
plete, accurate, verbatim one.
Later, it turned out that this
meant the inadvertent omission
of S to Is words at one point in
the transcript of 800 to 500 words.
A hassle developed over the ad-
instability of such evidence with
out the permission of both parties
to the call. Although both parties
to this call seemed to be falling
over each other in their willingness
to have it admitted, neither this
call nor any other had been ad-
mitted by the time weekend recess
time came around.
The decision f1nal1y adopted by
the committee, under croSS-pres-
sures from the Army side and
Senator Mccarthy, was that all
communications monitored by Mr..
Lucas would be handed to the
committee and admitted in chrono-
logical order.
1t seemed likely, however, that
the whole dispute was much ado
about nothing. Whether or not
the transcribed conversations are
admitted in toto, witnesses un-
doubtedly will be able to use these
transcriptions as memory -joggerS
while testifying about the tele-
phone conversations in question.
Thus, the substance will get into
the record one way or another.
At the rate things were going as
the week ended, it would be long
time before the committee got
around to the November 7 phone
call that started the rhubarb in
the first place.
Evening star., 1954-04-25
Opening skirmish

Senator Mccarthy has a vast
following, many of whom follow
his progress in sheer, open admira-
ton, and many of whom watch
him in the hope they will see him
slip and break his neck. Millions
of followers of both types were
with him on Thursday, a few
hundred in the Senate Caucus
Room, the rest in front of tele-
vision sets throughout the country.
Whoever they were, and wher-
ever, they saw something. new.
Here was Mccarthy show without
the Senator in the drivers seat. In
his place at the center of the
committee table was Senator
Mundt, soberly impressed with the
responsibility he was carrying as
temporary chairman. And at Sen
ator Mundt'S side, in the chief
counsel's place, sat the unfamiliar
figure of Rays jenkins, who from
time to. time bore striking facial
resemblance to the comedian, Red
SHELTON.
In opening the hearing, Sen
ator Mundt made it clear that
this was not going to be free
wheeling affair in the great Nc
Carthy tradition. "It is our joint
determination" the chairman
said, ito conduct these hearings
with a maximum degree of dig
nifty, fairness and thoroughnesS."
Then he added:
ITO use a colloquialiSm, we are
on the spot" But Senator Mundt
cautioned the news media cover
ing the hearings that they, too,
were on the spot, and under an
obligation to give full and i'm
partial coverage.
The Senator got to the heart
Of the matter early in his open
ing remarks. "TheSe hearings at
best comprise an unpleasant bust
nesS," he said.
Point of Order
The session had been under way
only Is minutes when Senator
Mccarthy broke in on a point of
order-one he was to make re-
peatedly in the succeeding two
days. He was anxious to divorce
the Adams -Hensel side of
the dispute from the Army.
What I object to-" Senator Nc
Carthy said, "is the attempt to
make this a contest between me
and the Army. I have unlimited
respect for 80 per cent of the loyal
Evening star., 1954-04-25

hension that Brig. Gen. Christian
De Castries' gallant little band of
defenders would be overrun. The
military consequences of a Com
munist victory at Diem Bien Phu
would be less frightening than
the political, it was generally
agreed.
The French have been driven
out of isolated outposts in north
west Wet Nam before. In this
battle they have taken good adj
vantage Of their first opportunity
of the seven-year war to destroy
Wet Mimi troops in large num-
bers, and from that standpoint
the decision to try to hold at Diem
Bien Phu has been vindicated.
But French morale is none too
good The fall of Dien Bien Phu
would increase the pressure for
throwing in the towel. The United
States is trying to forestall this,
however, on the 'unchallenged
theory that the Wet Namese have
not been prepared properly for
independence and would fall prey
to Communist political aggression
if a truce were arranged.
In Paris last week, the French
were said to be on the verge of a
new agreement with Bao Dai for
independence. The Wet Namese
have insisted in the past that they
be permitted to choose freely
whether they will remain in the
French Union. France, up until
now, has insisted the Wet Namese
promise to remain before they get
their freedom.
The new agreement was ex-
pected to be announced before
Geneva or early in the confer
ence, to strengthen the free world
position and rob the Reds of any
propaganda value they might find
in the present French-Viet Namese
relationship.
Evening star., 1954-04-25
Accuser's Testimony

The second witness land first
principal to go under OATH was
Secretary Stevens. Twice inter-
rupted by other witnesses, Mr..
Stevens still had not completed
his turn as a witness when the
week ended.
In an opening statement, Mr..
Stevens fatty labeled Senator Nc
Carthys charges against him as
false, and charged the Senator in
turn with "perversion of power"
His statement quite closely par
alleled the original March charges
and the bill of particulars issued
week before last.
Midway in Mr.. Stevens testi-
mony, he was interrupted to give
the witness chair to Gen. Walter
Bedell Smith, UnderSecretary of
State. A tight-lipped, precise wit
ness, Gen. Smith told of a visit by
Mr.. Cohn in which the young law
yer tried to get him to intercede
with the Army for a commission
for Mr.. Schine. Gen. Smith said he
did not regard Mr.. COINS inter-
vention as extraordinary, unusual
or improper. Asked if he regarded
Mr.. Cohn's action as trying to
high pressure any one," Gen. Smith
retorted, "Not me, sir"
The Army Secretary resumed
his statement, but the Thursday
recess intervened before he could
be cross examined. He took the
stand again Friday morning, and
was recounting a chronology Of
the Schine case when the queS-
ton arose whether the transcript
of nonitored telephone conver-
sation last November 7 would be
admitted.
Improper, Indecent, illegal
Senator Mccarthy, though no
babe in the woods around Wash
ington, professed horror at the
well-known practice sof phone
monitoring. He characterized it
as lone of the most indecent, dis
honest things have heard OF
-. improper, indecent. illegal"
A point-of-order objection by
Senator Mccarthy caused the
committee to direct Mr.. Stevens
to step aside after lunch so his
appointments clerk, John j. Lucas.
jr., could testify about the mon
itored conversation.
Mr.. Lucas turned out to be
thoughtful, careful witness whose
television personality was not un-
like that Of Mr.. Peppers. He re-
Evening star., 1954-04-25
Review Of The Week. Probe Gets off to Loud Slow Start

the "plot" to avenge himself for
McCarthy-sponsored investigation
of misconduct and possible law
violation"
Mr.. Hensel's denial, which set a
record among administration Off
cials' utteranceS on Mccarthy for
vehemence and virulence, caused
the Defense Department lawyer to
be named as an additional "prin-
cipal" on the Army side.
AS final preparation, the COM
mittee adopted special rules for
the hearing. These nine regula-
tionS, in summary, were:
l. Senator Mccarthy will act as
a principal and not as a commit
tee member and will have identical
rights with the other principals.
2. The order of questioning of
witnesses by counsel and members
will be: First: the special counsel
for an unlimited period; then the
chairman for an uninterrupted
period of 10 minutes; then each.
member, Democrat and Republican
alternately, in order of seniority,
for 10 minutes; then the princi-
pals or their counsel.
3. Objections to questioning will
be entertained only on grounds of
materiality or relevancy.
4. Objections or motions decided
by tie vote of the committee will
not carry.
S. No blank-check proxy votes
will be allowed, but proxies will be
entered on specific matters if
desired.
6. Matters of relevancy are sub
ject to committee vote for deci-
sion.
7. Executive sessions are author
lied for the discussion of issues.
8. Standing rules will apply
where special rules do not.
9. These ground rules are not to
be considered as a precedent.
All q Plot
Senator McCarthy's reaction,
voiced at Houston, Tex, on
Wednesday, was that the ground
rules were part of a plot to halt
him and thwart the committees
work. Point 8, however, was de-
signed as saving clause that would
insure against just what Senator
Mccarthy purported to fear.
AS the hearing neared its start,
Senator Mccarthy was confronted
by an invitation from Mr.. Hensel.
Referring to the Senator's Charges
against him as ''barefaced lies"
Mr.. HenSel said:
"If the Senator makes these
charges without the protection OF
senatorial immunity, I will guar
antee law suit which he will not
be able to drop"
In Texas, Senator Mccarthy said r
he would not utter the charges
outside of immunity because he
did not want to do anything that
might delay the hearing. No one
seemed to know how the mere
filing of libel or slander suit by
Mr.. Hensel could have any effect
on the opening or conduct of the
hearing, and Senator Mccarthy
did not explain,
Evening star., 1954-04-25

people who make up this Army. 1
do not have any respect for the
civilians in the Pentagon who have
been working night and day to
shift an investigation of commu-
nism, Communist infiltration, into
an investigation of one private in
the Army"
This became one of Senator Nc
Carthy's principal tactics in sub
sequent sessions. According to his
view, lot of time was being
wasted by a lot of important
people just because of one draftee
who had been drafted, one private
who had never been promoted.
This, of course, was not the basic
point-or even a remote point-at
issue. The only point was who
was lying, the Stevens-AdamS-
Hensel side, or the Mccarthy
Cohn-Carr side? But Senator Nc
Carthy ignored this basic issue
throughout.
The first witness of the hearing
was Maj. Gen. Miles Reber, former
legislative liaison chief for the
Army. Now head of the Western
European area command for the
Army, Gen. Reber had been flown
in from KaiserSlautern, Germany,
to testify for the Army-or, as
Senator Mccarthy would have it,
for Secretary Stevens and the other
Pentagon politicians.
Gen. Reber's testimony was not
particularly damaging to either
Senator Mccarthy or Mr.. Cohn.
The generals contacts with the
Senator on the Schine matter
seemed to have been minimal. And
the burden of his testimony about
Mr.. Cohn portrayed the 27-year-
old lawyer as more of a nuisance
than menace.
A FIonkine Attock
Nevertheless, Senator Mccarthy
chose to attack the soldier in a
strange flanking maneuver. He at
tempted to discredit Gen. Reber's
testimony by bringing up the sub
ject of the generals brother, Sam.
Sam Reber, according to- the Sen
ator, had been allowed to resign
[from the foreign service] when
charges that he was a bad security
risk were made against him as a
result of the investigation of this
committee"
It was on the question of Sam
Reber that Mr.. jenkins first showed
how loudly he could blow the
whistle. Though it finally was de-
cided that questions about his
brother could be asked of Gen.
Reber, Mr.. jenkins made it clear
that he would insist on normal
courtroom procedure in question
ing.
Credit for an assist in this anti
Mccarthy play went to Senator
Mcclellan, who raised a question
as to competence Of any answer
Evening star., 1954-04-25
TINE LoNG-HERALDED n

TIME LONG-HERA1DED NC
i Carthy-Army hearing was
of to a loud, if not particularly
fast, start last week.
Senator Karl E. Mundt, South
Dakota Republican who heads the
Senate Permanent Investigations
subcommittee for the duration of
the hearing, gaveled for order at
1898 am. Thursday, only three
minutes behind schedule.
But by 4:29 on Friday after
noon, after four sessions totaling
slightly more than eight hours,
the committee recessed for the
week end with only two witnesses
having completed testimony and
two others having given partial
accounts.
No one was qualified to guess
how long the hearings would last
after they resume tomorrow
morning at 1890. 1t could be
weeks - and late developments
Friday indicated it might be.
The toughest job, as might have
been predicted in situation
where Senaton Joe Mccarthy of
Wisconsin was on the defensive,
would be keeping the hearings on
the track. The flrebrand Midwest
erner was in rare form as he
tested the mettle of those con-
ducting the hearing.
He was set back often, but never
squelched. Before the hearing
was many hours old, however, he
found he was up against two GUS
toners at least equal in tough
mindedness to himself. They
were:
. Special Counsel Ray H. Jen-
kinS, a deceptively hillbilly-ap-
pearing lawyer from Knoxville,
Tenn, who early in the game
emerged as boss of the entire pro-
duction.
. Senator John L. Mcclellan,
Democrat, of Arkansas, the stern
faced ranking minority member
who seemed dedicated to the
proposition that Joe Mccarthy
should get away with no foolish
ness.
The two SouthernerS, though
they gave no hint of acting in con-
cert, managed to leave the impress
sion that the Wisconsin Senator
had two strong men to fiatten if
he intended to take over the
hearing.
Senator Mccarthy, for his part,
was not licked as the initial phase
of the hearing closed. But he
clearly was aware that whoever
the man in charge might be, it
was not Joe Mccarthy.
Evening star., 1954-04-25
Red Spies

CIGNS ACCUMULATED rapidly
~ last week that the Soviet
Union is in the midst of a full
blown inSurrection among its in
telligence networks abroad. Origin
of the trouble apparently was the
December execution of Lavrenti
Beria, long time head of the Krem-
Inns myriad spy networks.
There was talk in Washington
last week that this country might
set up sort of reception center"
for Soviet spies on the lam, to make
life of asylum attractive to
prospective defectorS.
First link in the recent chain
of events came last February when
Yuri Rastovorov, a Beria man in
Russia's Tokyo Embassy, gave up
to the American Army. He knew
he was about to be returned to
Moscow and feared for his life.
RaStovorov brought with him an
undiscloSed amount of informa-
ton about Soviet espionage in the
Far East. Presumably the Central
Intelligence Agency is now pump
ing him dry somewhere in this
country.
On April 9 another high-rank-
ing Soviet intelligence officer,
Vladimir M. Petrov, turned him.
self in to Australian authorities.
He had information on spies in
Australia, as we'll as particulars
about the whole Soviet organiza-
ton. His story is now being eval-
uated by special Royal Commits
sion.
Last Tuesday there was a G.o-
matte laSt-minute rescue of Mr..
Petrov's wife from Soviet diplo-
mats. Red agents had forced her
aboard plane in Sydney for the
trip back to Russia. But at Dar-
win, last stop in Australia, Prime
Minister Robert Menzies sent his
own agents aboard her plane to
find out II the confused Mrs. Pc
troy really wanted to forsake her
husband. First they had to con-
vince her that Mr. Petrov had
not been kidnapped. Once assured
of this, she readily decided to join
her husband.
The Soviet Unions Canberra
agency has been bowling con-
fuSedly ever since Mr.. Petrov made
his break. First they cried "ab-
duction." Later, they charged he
had absconded with state funds.
The most recent link in the
chain became known last Thurs
day when American authorities
in Bonn, West Germany, presented
their latest prize at an interna-
tional press conference. A 32-year-
old captain, Nikolai E. Khoklov,
said he had been sent to West
Germany to kill an anti-Commu-
mist leader in Frankfurt. Capt.
Khoklov turned over elaborate
equipment for the killing IA lethal
cigarette case to shoot poisoned
pellets. and a specially silenced
electronically fired pistol) as well
as complete rundown on names
and locations of top Red secret
police in Moscow, Berlin and
Vienna.
The exasperated Kremlin re-
taliated Friday night by severing
its diplomatic relations with Aus
tralia. Outsiders wondered II this
was a move to forestall any more
defections from the Canberra
Embassy.
Exultant Washington officials
expect the wave of runaways to get
bigger as time passes, and are
optimistic that the Soviet Unions
highly regarded intelligence sys-
tenn will be crippled for many
years.
In Moscow, meanwhile, the
Continued on Page A-32)
Evening star., 1954-04-25
The Prelude

Last month, the Army compiled
q long chronology relating to deal
ingS between Senator Mccarthy
and two of his staff members on
the one hand, and Secretary of the
Army Robert T. Stevens and Army
Counsel John Adams on the other.
The subject of these dealings was
q 26-year-old New Yorker named
G. David Schine, an amateur, Red
hunter who had served the Nc
Carthy subcommittee without pay
as a consultant. The Army al
legged undue pressure by Senator
Mccarthy, Subcommittee Counsel
Roy Cohn and Subcommittee Chief
of Staff Francis P. Carr to get Mr..
Schine Cd a reserve commission
or CD falling that, preferential
treatment as a drafted Army pri-
vate.
That same day, Senator McCar-
thy and his aides issued memo
randa purporting to torpedo the
Army case, and charging in
turn that, using Pvt. Schine as
hostage" the Army had tried to
get the subcommittee to call off
an inquiry into Red infiltration.
This exchange set the stage for
the drama which began last Thurs
day morning. In the nature of
things, some one was lying. The
problem was to find out who.
After a month of jockeying, the
decision was to handle the matter
this way: Senator McCarthy's own
committee would take on the task,
but without Senator Mccarthy as
chairman, and without Mr.. Cohn
as counsel. The Senator, Mr.. Cohn
and Mr.. Carr would be named as
principals" as would Mr.. Stevens
and Mr.. Adams. Senator Henry C.
Dworshak, Republican of Idaho,
and a member of the subcommit-
tees parent group, would take
Senator McCarthy's place so as to
give the subcommittee a normal
4-3 Republican balance.
Senator Mccarthy did not like
the setup, and did not give up
without a fight. But he gave up
nevertheless.
Bills of Porticulors
With preparations for the hear
ing under way, the committee
called for bills of particulars from
both sides. The Army's came
through first. and was leaked pre-
maturely to the press. 1t showed
20 specifications of allegedly i'm
proper conduct in trying to get
preferential treatment for Mr..
Schine.
Last Tuesday, Senator Nc
Carthy's side issued its counter
blast. This contained 46 points
alleging "blackmail" and other
illicit tactics in an attempt to
force the Mccarthy group to call
off its subverSiveS investigation of
the Army. One charge was that
Assistant Defense Secretary H.
Struve Hensel had masterminded