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Evening star., 1954-04-30
This Case Is Not Closed

It cannot be said that the conviction of
suspended Police Inspector Beverly C. Beach
by special trial board has come as surprise
to the community. There was abundant evil
dence to support the Police Departments mis-
conduct charges against the veteran officer.
But the public can hardly be expected to be
satisfied with the case as it now stands, for the
most serious of all questions raised as to
Inspector Beach's conduct remains unanswered.
mately $1,000 which the officer received in
excess of his salary over 212 year period.
Police Chief Murray and Senate inveSti-
eating group endeavored unsuccessfully to clear
away the clouds that surround the inspectors
complicated financial affairs. Inspector Beach
did not refuse to answer any query put to
him, but his explanations of loans and other
transactions were SO varied and vague as to
leave the investigators confused When charges
finally we're brought against him, they con-
cerned less important matterS-uSe of charity
donations for a seventh precinct police enter
tainment, acceptance of a $3.50 gift from a
resident of the precinct and lying about certain
loans made to SiSter-in-law. The trial board
found him guilty on these counts and recon-
mended that he be dishonorably discharged
The record of this disturbing case cannot
be considered closed with the trial boards
finding. however. AS long as doubt remains as
to where Inspector Beach's extra income came
from, official efforts to solve the puzzle should
be continued.
Evening star., 1954-04-30
BY Charles E. TroceweN

hind him the fragrant memory Of his
little melody.
1t is so unlike the song of any other
bird
Some listeners. of New England ex-
traction, have insisted that what he
says, in the series of rapid notes. is
Peabody. Peabody. Peabody" but no
body from the Middle West will hear
Il that way.
Birds. after all, know no words.
Even the parakeets, talking so we
can understand them, haven't the
slightest idea of what they say. How
can they?
It is not at all necessary to give
words to bird music, but most persons
seem to want to do so, and perhaps
it does no harm. except to intrigue
us to listen to this music as song
music, when it is really songs with
out words" as Mendelssohn said.
The birds sing, let us say. because
they have throats and throat mus
cles, but they use no words because
they have none If they seem to "say
something" it is only our own minds,
directing our listening, that put the
words there.
Spring. as each one Of us knows.
needs no words, but only music. to
make us happy. There is something
in the very air. something in the white
clouds above, and especially in the dark
loam below. that tells US the, happiest
time Of the year Is here again.
Evening star., 1954-04-30

The e-throated sparrow is a
neat little number
His throat is not as white as the
three stripes on his head.
1t is his song, however. that one
remembers.
Two or three slow rising notes. fol-
lowed by a series of short notes, some
times four series. sometimes three.
This happy small song is not like
any other spring song.
4
And who remembers Mendelssohn's
Spring Song?
Once it was a popular piano ia
vorite.
It still is a favorite with persons
who have enough sense to enjoy it.
A recent series Of record discs for
children had the life of this great
composer, and what music he wrote!
Slightly dated, it may be true. espe-
cially in comparison with the latest
hot number. but mighty fine music,
just the same.
Serious, honest, melodious-
Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-
Bartholdy-
Such name! Usually it is cut down
to Felix Mendelssohn, which is probably
Just as well.
After all, today. it is his music, more
than his name, that pleases us.
This is immortality. in its way.
No one who listens to the Spring
Evening star., 1954-04-30
This and That

Song" or to one OF the delicate Songs
Without Words" or mildly thrills to
the surging surf of "Fingals Cave"
or taps his feet to the italian" SYM
phony. but is making this great COM
poser live again. And he lives, not
only in heart and mind, but in the
very air.
Because he was a happy boy and
happy man. Felix caught the very fra
GRANGE Of growing spring flowers in
his music.
There is no use to say that because
Queen Victoria liked it, it must be
'stuffy" music. That's silly.
It is glorious music, and we must
not let the happiness theme upset US.
Today, beset by wars and bombs, and
rumors of more wars and bombs, we
reed happy music In our air and in
our lives.
There is a great deal Of cheap stuff
masquerading as happy music.
When a lively young lady eavorts
on the stage, and sings q meretricious
number scarcely At for hyenas to hear.
and the audience breaks into a great
roar of applause at the end. the wise
listener will weep at such waste of
energy, and go back to his Mendelssohn
as soon as he can.
4
Let us nominate the white-throated
sparrow. then. as the real singer OF
the spring song.
He comes and he goes, leaving be-
Evening star., 1954-04-30
Now-See the Job Throuqh

Congress has taken an epochal step for
ward In support of the orderly development
of the National Capital. Senate approval of the
lO-year $305 million public works program and
OF means to finance it means that the bill will
be enacted. Enactment, however, will repre-
sent only a legislative authorization which
must be backed by regular appropriations to
carry the program into effect Having approved
the program by such an overwhelming vote of
both houses, Congress now is under q clear
obligation to see the job through
Because the differences between the House
and Senate versions of the works measure. are
relatively minor, no serious difficulties should
be encountered in clearing the bill through
conference. The Senate'S opposition to an
increase in the beer tax, it's action in raising
the mileage tax for suburban buses and it's
several other revisions can be resolved by the
conferees without impairing the major pur-
poses of the legislation. Having previously
received, in principle, the Endorsement of the
administration, President Eisenhowers sigma
ture is but a matter of course.
The stage is set therefore, for long awaited,
urgently needed start on District capital
improvements program that was delayed by
more vital by those stresses. District taxpayers
will have to dig bit deeper in their pockets
to help pay for these improvements-bu so
will the Federal Government. For the bill gives
proper recognition to the obligation of the
Federal Government to pay fair share Of the>
cost Of building and maintaining the Capital.
Congress thus has opened the way to prom
Using new era of progress in Washington.
Evening star., 1954-04-30
Condemned Man

Marine court of inquiry finding that
Colonel Frank H. Schwable resisted this Com
muniSt) torture to the limit of his ability to
resist" has recommended that no disciplinary
action be taken. General Lemuel C. Shepherd,
jr, commandant of the Marine Corps, has ap-
proved the recommendation against disciplinary
action. In effect, however, General Shepherd
has appended a footnote advising Colonel
Schwable that there is no future for him in the
Marine Corps. And Navy Secretary Anderson
says he agrees that Colonel Schwable's mill
tary usefulness has been seriously impaired"
The implications of all this are quite
disturbing.
Colonel Schwable is professional soldier
with an excellent record. AS Marine aviator
he flew IS night missions in World War II. He
won the Distinguished Flying Cross (for OUT
standing gallantry) four times, the Legion of
Merit three times, and the Air Medal 10 times
Certainly, it cannot be suggested that he lacks
courage or the will to fight.
Using their "brain- washing" torture tech
niques the Communists succeeded in breaking
him after his capture in Korea. He resisted the
torture to the limit of his ability" but they did
break him. And he did sign the phony germ
warfare" confession, which he later repudiated.
General Shepherd says that this confession,
though false and involuntary, was "a severe
blow to national interests by one whose sole
motivation should have been to foster and pre-
serve" those interests. He adds that Colonel
Schwable, however unwilling, has been an In
strument "of causing damage to his country"
and "cognizance of this fact must, in my judg-
ment be taken into account in regard to his
future assignment"
How is this condemnation of Colonel
Schwable to be reconciled with his previous
record and with the court of inquirys finding
that he resisted the enemy to the best of his
ability? What does the Marine Corps really
intend to demand of an officer?
The medical testimony at the inquiry was
that any man can be broken if subjected long
enough to the kind of torture applied to Colonel
Schwable. If this is so, what lies ahead for any
Marine officer who may fall into Communist
hands in some future clash? If they torture
him they can break him. Yet if he breaks, under
the precedent set by the Schwable case, he will
be thought to have disgraced the Marine Corps
by damaging the countrys interests. What is
such an officer supposed to do? Should he die
rather than be captured? Or if captured and
faced with torture should he destroy himself as
the alternative to being broken?
These questions are legitimately raised by
the handling of the Schwable case. And those
responsible for future Marine policy would do
we'll to think little about them.
Evening star., 1954-04-30
IShuII Remember

I shall remember, iohen the first pale
SHADOWS
Lay upon the greenish D1eddoiCs,
Gently folding them In stiffness
OF approaching night.
That on this hill tOe matched the tut
light deepen,
And the purple curtains thicken
Fold on told bet,oeen the mountdins
Jagged peaks of iChite.
We sa,D an April moon. tuH-orbed,
ascending.
Till a ,Uraith OF cloud, unDindinn.
Subtly yelled the olintinp contours
And the siluer light.
All harshness OF the cold clear lines
1Cds melloiGed
With beauty almost hdlloUed:
And the hour iDas pure enchdntment
For young loUe's delight. -
EIizobeth A. Hutchison
Evening star., 1954-04-30
Red Plan for Korea

AS presented at the Geneva Conference the
Communist plan for unifying partitioned Korea
is exactly the same as the one proposed almost
four years ago, and it has exactly the same OBJ
Jective-namely, to pave the way for sovietizing
the entire country and dragging it behind the
Peping- Moscow Iron Curtain as a captive
land to be harnessed to the wagon of Red
totalitarianism
To that end, the plan calls for "free" cleo
uons that would be staged and supervised by an
all-Korean commission made up of representa-
tives of the Red regime in the north and the
Rhee government in the south. There would be
no observers from the United Nations or from
any group Of neutral" powers to guard against
fraud or terrorism at the polls There would
simply be an unpolced vote carefully rugged in
favor of the Communists and there would then
be set up for the whole country-from which
U. N. and other foreign troops would be with
drawn-the kind of governing authority that
has enabled the Kremlin to become the master
OF such once-independent lands as Poland and
Czechoslovakia.
This plan, in other words, would make
mockery OF the democratic process and it would
result in imposing upon all of Korea-north and
south-a government so heavily weighted with
cOnSpiring Communists as to make certain that
the country would in due course be swallowed
up by the Red empire. 1t is plan, in short,
that differs in no essential respect from the one
that the Kremlin has demanded for the unifca-
tion of Germany-the same sort of plan as has
destroyed the sovereignty and freedom of nearly
a dozen European states now living the exist
ence of Soviet satellites under the iron rule of
traitorous puppet tyrannies.
Accordingly-together with the South Ko-
reans, whose own proposals would provide for
genuinely free elections under u. N. supervision
Secretary of State Dulles has replied to the
Communists with fiat rejection. He could
hardly have done otherwise. Their plan is q
fraud, and they themselves know that it is a
fraud, and the fact that they have once again
presented it adds up to another bleak indication
that they have neither the desire nor intention
to agree to an acceptable Korean settlement at
Geneva.
Evening star., 1954-04-30
Show of Administration Force

Although the last card has not yet been
played the administration won noteworthy
trick when the Senate rejected a series of farm
price support amendments offered to the wool
aid bill Foremost of the amendments was one
defeated 48 to 40-which would have extended
for another year the rigid 80 per cent of parity
support for most major farm products. Others
would have increased the dairy supports, which
were reduced on April ! from 80 per cent to
rs per cent.
The administration has taken it's position, a
politically courageous one, in favor of flexible
price supports within IS to 80 per cent range.
Actually, this formula was written into the 1949
Agricultural Act but an amendment was added
to provide for keeping the rigid 80 per cent sup
port for six basic commodities through 1854.
The result has been overproduction of these
commodities followed by Government purchase
and storing of tremendous and costly surpluses
In his special farm message Of January II, Pres
ident Eisenhower asked the Congress to aban-
don the mandatory rigid supportS-which he
called "demonstrably unavoidable in peacetime"
and to accept flexible formula.
At the same time the President asked spe-
cial treatment for wool in the face of situation
where domestic production is piling up in Gov
ernment warehouses while two-thirds of the
national consumption is imported. The Presi-
dents proposal included in the bill which the
Senate has now passed, provides for direct pay
ments to domestic wool growers to raise to 90
per cent of parity the average return per pound
Warnings from Secretary of Agriculture Benson
and Senate Majority Leader Knowland that the
President would veto the measure If 1t should
be amended to take in the other farm price
support problems undoubtedly helped hold the
votes of the wool-State Senator'S! Whether
these same votes can be counted on later, dur
ing consideration of an overall farm bill which
might Ancludc the flexible price suppKt provi-
Evening star., 1954-04-30

sion, is questionable. but the first test is en-
couraging, at least.
The next showdown is due in the House,
where the Agriculture Committee is working
over an omnibus bill-including the aid to wool.
This is not expected on the floor before late in
May, perhaps long enough to tell whether the
farm economy that has been suffering in recent
months has stabilized If there is an improve
ment in the farm picture it would strengthen
the administrations hand.
Evening star., 1954-04-30
Questions and Answers

A reader can get the answer to anv question
OF fact by writing The Evening Star infor-
nation Bureau. 1900 Eye St NV, Washing
ton D. c Please inclose three t3l cents for
return postage
Evening star., 1954-04-30

@. Where is Casey" Jones buried?
L. S.
A. John Luther Casey Jones is
buried in Mt. Calvary Cemetery in
Jackson. Miss. In Cayce. KY. the town
for which he was nicknamed, a bronze
tablet has been set up in memory of
the famous railroader It was erected
in 1888 and dedicated by Alben w.
Barkley.
Evening star., 1954-04-30
By THE HASKIN SERVICE.

@. Are the Bible lands for the most
part in Israel of today?-H. LII.
A. A Galilee and Nazareth are in
Israel, but about 80 per cent Of places
mentioned in the Bible are in Arab
territory.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-01
Tint TVCotches CherryPink,
Models in Goose-PimpIe Blue

are about 20 tint TV sets in
Washington.
The blossoms CO operated
nicely with the television tech
nicians by being about so per
cent in bloom. The weather was
less helpful. The temperature
gave some of the performers a
slight blush tinge and the haze
did the same for distant back
grounds in the color picture.
The bravest of the participants
on the program were a group of
models. including Skater Bar
bara Ann Scott. They removed
all-weather coats to give house.
wives in warm living rooms q
preview Of some not-too-protec-
tive California styled summer
garb. Arlene Francis, mistress
Of ceremonies of the program,
wore mink, or what appeared to
the color cameras to be that.
The bright summer finery
showed up well in tinted tele-
vision, If the models can accept
that as a reward for gooseflesh.
The Marine Band, In bright red
and dark blue uniforms, made a
colorful picture, too, as did a
group of Cherry Blossom prin-
cesses in their party gowns.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-01
By Harry Macarthur

The color television cameras
pierced the chill mist around the
Tidal Basin yesterday to televise
Washington's cherry blossoms in
their natural pale pink hues.
The entire NBC-TV II am.
women's program. Home" was
done in the vicinity of the Jeffer-
son Memorial for broadcast over
WNBW and other stations of the
network. It was the first out
door color telecast of a regularly
scheduled commercial program.
This also was the first color
TV show to emanate from WASH
ington since the Federal Com
munications Commission ap-
proved the TV industry-devel-
oped compatible color system. "a
number of color telecaSts were
done by WNBW several years
ago for experimental and DEM
onstration purposes.)
Most home viewers saw yes
terday's Home" program in Or
binary black and white. of
course, since relatively few color
receivers have been sold. There
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-01
Young Democrats
!
Elect Salem on
81 Aid Platform

A raiser Of chinchillas last
night was elected president Of
the District Young Democrats.
He is Robert j. Salem. 2510
North Ninth street, Arlington,
Va. Mr.. Salem. long prominent
in the affairs of the club, re-
ceived 81 votes to SO for Eugene
Mullin, an attorney, of 6707
Fourteenth street NV.
Mr.. Salem's victory implied
approval of his program. This
will feature Organization of club
volunteer groups to assist DEM
ocratic Senator and Represent
tatives who desires such assist
ance for the 1854 congressional
campaigns and the creation of
an absentee voter Office to be
stated professionally, in CO.
operation with the National
Committee and financed by the
Young Democrats of the Dis
trict.
He also seeks an annual So
cial event to provide club mem
bers an opportunity to meet
party leaders while raising funds
for club and National Committee
purposes, and a membership
drive, which will concentrate on
a canvass of Capitol Hill and
local schools and universities.
Mr.. Salem is a native of Iowa.
During World War II, he served
with the Army in the Pacific.
He is a former student at
Georgetown University and is
part owner of a chinchilla ranch
in Arlington.
Others chosen last night dur
ing the elections in the Hamilton
Hotel were:
Charles B. Lipsen, reelected
for first vice president; Mrs.
Lillian N. KronStadt, reelected
second vice president; George
B. Parks, reelected treasurer,
and Miss Betty F. Hodges,
elected corresponding secretary.
Miss Ann East was chosen
recording secretary.
Dick Osmond, retiring presi-
dent, pledged his continuing
support to the programs the new
officers outlined.
Also attending the meeting
was Richard Nelson. president
of the Young Democrats of
America. He said the Demo-
cratic Party prospects are bright
for 1854, particularly in the farm
belt.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-01
Fifth Amendment
Firings Defended in
GE Plea 10 Court

The General Electric Co. yes
terday asked Federal Court to
throw out a complaint by labor
union, aimed at the company's
policy of firing employees who in
woke the Fifth Amendment when
questioned about allegedly sub
versive Affiliations.
Recently the company fired
John w. Nelson, president of a
local of the United Electrical,
Radio and Machine Workers
union. A number of others also
have been discharged or sus-
pended.
The basis of the diSmissals was
the refusal to answer questions
as to Communist Party member
ship or affiliations. The ques-
tons were posed by members Of
the Senate Internal Security
subcommittee.
Charges by Union.
In a complaint for injunction
and declaratory Judgment filed
in the U. S. District Court for
the District of Columbia, the
union charged:
/. The company's policy vio-
lated a contract with the union
in which the union was desig-
mated sole bargaining agent for
the employees.
2. The policy violated the con-
tract by arbitrarily promulgat-
ing new conditions of employ
ment."
8. The firing of Nelson violated
a provision that an employe
shall not be Disseminated
against because he acts as an
officer of the union.
Monetary Damages Asked.
The unions complaint asked
that the company's policy be
declared in violation of the con-
tract, that Mr.. Nelson be restored
to his job with all rights and
that the order direct the
company to refrain from firing
others similarly situated" and
that the court declare all sus-
pensions and discharges stem
ming from the policy to be il
legal. Monetary damages in
an unspecified amount also are
asked.
In the motion to dismiss the
complaint, Attorney Gerhard A.
Gesell. representing the company,
asserted: 1.-The inherent right of
Management to formulate policies
for the hiring and discharge of
personnel is beyond question"
His motion declared that the
policy "far from being an arbi-
trary act .. has been formulated
in the light of national and
world tensions"
He pointed out that the
company is directly tied in with
the defense effort and owes an
obligation to the Government,
as well as to stockholders, en-
ployes and the public generally
to preserve confidence.