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Evening star., 1954-05-02

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Evening star., 1954-05-31
Life in the u. S.
Life in the u. S.
RHets Boasts
Bank Account
And Earns 1t
BY the Assoeioted Press

ROCHESTER, N. Y, May 81
There's no doubt about it, Rivets
is a dog that is above the COM
mon cast. He gets treated like a
customer at the Union Trust Co.
Rivets, a spaniel, has his own
bank account, which now totals
$3.50. He pays nothing in, but
draws enough each week to keep
him in dog biscuits.
The deposits come from a
bottled soda pop machine at the
Rochester Gas & Electric Corp.
Profits from the machine are de-
posted in Rivets' account to
keep him in food and pay his
doctors bills. Employees set up
the ;ystem in gratitude for Riv-
cts work as a watch dog.
Evening star., 1954-05-31
Constontine Brown
Mccarthy VS.. Eisenhower
Executive Branch Employees in Past Have Revealed
Doto to Congress on Matters Concerning Security

have been leaks from employees
in the executive branch to
members of the legislative on
matters pertaining to national
security. These employees OBJ
served actions which they, as
trained men in such matters,
considered detrimental to the
national security.
For instance, it was only
thanks to such a leak that in
1914 the Military Affairs Com
mittee of the Senate under the
craftsmanship Of Senator Rob-
ert Reynolds became ac-
quainted with the verbal order
issued in the Pentagon to in
telligence services to destroy
some 10000 subversive files
containing the names of Com
munist agents.
The ranking Republican
member of the Military Affairs
Committee, Senator Styles
Bridges. brought the informa-
tion to the attention of the
committee. A subcommittee,
composed Of Senators O'Ma-
honey, Chandler and Bridges,
was Immediately formed. 1t
proceeded with the investi-
CATION Immediately and dis
covered that neither Army
Secretary Stimson nor the
Chief of Staff, Gen. George c.
Marshall, had any knowledge
of this remarkable order. The
destruction of the files was
Immediately stopped.
It was because of a similar
indiscretion that the House
Military Affairs Committee
came into possession of a Sc
cret order allowing the Army
commissioning of Communists
in its sensitive services such
as cryptology, radar and
counter-intelligence. An inves-
tigating subcommittee brought
out some facts from testimony
by some top civilians in the
Pentagon. But the demise of
the 80th Republican Congress
prevented all the facts from
Evening star., 1954-05-31
Fletcher KnebeH
Potomac Fever

Wanted: Confidential files documents charts doodle
pads Executive basis only Will pay top prcsor
jail cell. Joe Mccarthy"
The break between Ike and Mccarthy appears to be
complete final and rreparab it'll probably take another
election to make them kiss and make up.
Democratic Chairman Mitchell Republicans using
Communist technques" in California Mitchell thinks
unworthy Of the Repubcanhey should maintain the
high standards of foul play the Democrats.
They're still counting ballots the fight
New York Central Railroad There's lot of activity
in business Everybody trying muscle in somebody ese
Chairman Mundt backs McCarhys appeal
information from Federal employees Mundt player
fact he enjoys it much he frequently plays
at
John L. Lewis forms waterfront division Of his United Mine
Workers Lewis only amphous labor boss His empire
stretches from the Grand Banks Of Newfoundland to the savings
banks Of Washington.
given $50 billion in foreign aid since World War ended It
successful Half world ubut the other
half merely dislkes
Evening star., 1954-05-31

According to the current
united States News and
World Report" President
Eisenhower is convinced from
talks with leaders in Congress
that he can get quick approval
for jumping into the war in
Indo-China."
Admiral Robert B. Carney,
chief Of naval operations, has
publicly emphasized that a
holocaust" may come sooner
than may be realized"
Admiral Arthur Radford,
chairman Of the United States
Joint Chiefs of Staff, is press
ing hard for action to halt the
Communists from making
further gains in 1ndo- China.
These and other indications
of American anticipation of
direct military intervention
have followed upon the speech
Of Vice President Nixon six
weeks ago, which was obviously
q trial balloon" to ascertain
public reactions to American
military intervention.
To some extent these
speeches are doubtless a diplo-
matte bluff to influence the
stalemated negotiations in
Geneva, and obtain a com
promise by force" as the Lon
don Observer put 1t a week
ago.
But such diplomacy involves
very serious risks.
The Soviet Union, this
column is convinced, wants to
avoid an extension Of the war
in Indo- China. We cannot see
how the Soviets could profit
from such a war with all its
Evening star., 1954-05-31

domestic issues, with its pred
eceSSor New Deal-Fair Dealism.
The latter wing of the party
has won every national con-
vention since 1910 when the
late Wendell L. Willkie was
nominated by the ascending
Eastern group. But the Taft
crowd always dominated every
Congress. as it does this one.
That is chiefly because Mid
west Republicanism. with sure
and continuous tenure in Con-
gresS. occupies a majority of
key posts through grace of the
seniority rule, a situation SINH
lar to dominance by the one
party South when Democrats
are in power.
We seem to be watching,
Evening star., 1954-05-31

being brought before the pub
lie. Some were revealed last
year by the Internal Security
Committee of the Senate. But
the full report is filed away
among the numerous papers
in the House Of Representa-
tiveS.
Had there been no such
"bell ringers in the night" it
is unlikely that some of the
espionage and particularly
Communist subversive cases
which have been developed
since 1948 would have been
prosecuted.
1t is a non-too-well- kept
secret that the various legis-
lative committees investigat-
ing either subversion or frauds
draw their first information
from employees in the execu-
tive branch whose over
whelming number want q
clean Government.
Executive branch employees
are not acting within the
letter of the law when they
go secretly to see a Senator or
Congressman, and tell him
when something sinister hap
pens in their bailiwicks. But
they feel that under certain
circumstances it is WORTH
while taking a chance of los
ing their jobs, and possibly
worse. to prevent some sub
verSive or dishonest person
from continuing to operate.
The FBI unquestionably has
much more on such subjects
than individual officials have.
But it frequently happens that
until the Justice Department
is apprised by a congressional
committee that it is on the
track of a hot case there is
a lackadaisical atmosphere in
the executive branch of the
Government. The Harry
Dexter White case brought to
the public by Attorney Cen
eral Brownell is a typical
example.
Evening star., 1954-05-31

this far ahead of the 1856
Presidential year, a vengeful
fight by the old Taft element
and it's more extreme append
ages to capture control of the
party well in advance and on
it's own hand-picked battle
ground where it is strongest
CongreSs-and by capitalizing
the openings offered by an ami
able and agreeable President.
There is about this drive for
control from Congress the
spirit of rule or ruin. 1t could
very well be ruin for the Re-
publican Party. For it is dis
ruptive of orderly government
and sooner or later it becomes
paramount with the public
whether a party can govern.
Evening star., 1954-05-31
Governor on the Job

PORT TOWNSEND, Wash. (P),
Gov. Arthur B. Langlie. who
has been pushing a Statewide
traffic safety program. took per-
sonal charge of the pursuit Of q
possible speeder today.
And he went Is miles out OF
his way to do it.
Port Townsend Police Chief
Willestoft gave this account:
The Governor and his wife
driven by a State patrolman-
chauffeur, were en- route from
Port Angeles to Olympia this
morning when a car whizzed
past them.
"Get 'im!" the Governor Or
dered his chauffeur. The speede1
was caught after a chase and the
Governor went on his way.
Evening star., 1954-05-31

The Senate cloakrooms are
buzzing with rumors and dis
cussions over what appears to
be an open break between the
executive branch Of the Gov
ernment and the lone wolf
from Wisconsin, Senator Jo-
seph Mccarthy.
Senators from the Republi-
can and Democratic Parties
attribute this to the latest
"sortie" of Senator Mccarthy
last Thursday when he adj
monished the two million Fed
eral employees not to be afraid
to communicate information
leading to uncovering of Com
munists, corruption and other
kinds Of malfeasance in the
Government to members of
the legislative branch.
This drew from Attorney
General Herbert Brownell the
statement approved by Presi-
dent Eisenhower saying the
responsibilities Of the execu-
tive cannot be usurped by any
individual who may seek to
set himself above the laws of
Jur land or to override orders
of the President of the United
States to Federal employees Of
the executive branch Of the
Government"
There will be innumerable
heated arguments over this
unexpected break between
the White House and the con-
troversial Wisconsin Senator.
These may possibly lead, &C
cording to some Senators, to
another Mccarthy investiga-
ton" with the Wisconsin SEN
ator as the star witness and to
a more virtriolic battle be-
tween him and the White
House than in the days Of
President Truman.
While Mr.. Brownell is un-
questionably correct, there is
no doubt that for the last 10
years to the personal knowl-
edge of this reporter there
Evening star., 1954-05-31
Thon1os [. Stokes
Administration Misses Taft
ohioon's Leadership in Congress Might Have Avoided
Army-McCorthy Probe and Tox-ExenPt Investigation

which he is bucking at every
turn. He said it was a fight by
one wing of the Republican
Party against another. Repub-
lican Reece, who has been a
chairman of the Republican
National Committee. was one Of
the principal Taft lieutenants
in the South, and no come
lately but dating back before
1910 when the Senator made
his first real bid for the party
nomination.
Significantly. on the other
side of the Capitol. it has ap-
peared in the last few days
that the outstanding stalwart
of the old Taft wing in the
Senate, the dulcet-voiced Ever
EFT Dirksen, of Illinois, now is
swinging his weight back again
behind Senator Mccarthy. For
O time he courted, and was
courted by, the White House.
He is, it must be said, unpre-
dictably expedient.
What we are seeing here
once again in grim outline is
the longtime division in the
Republican Party that we OBJ
serve every four years at its
national conventions-and no
Bob Taft around to temper or
moderate the raging storm. It
is the conflict between the con-
Servative. Observation-Disclosures.
high-tariff Old Guard chiefly
concentrated in the Midwest.
bitterly anti-New Deal and
anti-Fair Deal. and the inter-
nationalist, low-tariff. moder-
ately progressive wing identi-
fed with big Eastern financial
and foreign trade interests
which has accepted compro-a
misses. both on foreign and
Evening star., 1954-05-31
ndo-Chino Unveils Red Menace
Even India Is Reported Nervous About Communist Chno
United Action Called Key to Southeast Asio's Hope

weak titular leadership Of
Emperor Bao Dai, who Is no
match in political skill for his
rebel opponent. Ho Chi Mimi.
How does one go about build
ing q national assembly and
training Democratic leaders
while there is a civil war going
on? The answer is that the
political problems cannot be
solved until military measures
have brought peace and tram
guilty.
Every time the dispatches
from Washington or Paris say
that an armistice or deal is
to be worked out which will
partition" Indo- China, and
particularly Wet Nam, the
hearts of the defenders grow
faint and there are wholesale
desertions to the other side
the Wet Mini Army. Morale
cannot be sustained that way
in any country striving To
establish unity and to merit
full-fiedged independence.
So anybody with ideas on
how to grant independence to
a people not yet ready for it
and still keep Communist colo
1alism from taking over where
French protection leaves of
will be awarded some sort
of prize hereabouts and be
welcomed with open arms by
cabinet ministers. irrespective
Of party.
Meanwhile, French youth are
being called to the colors by
the draft to serve in Europe
and North Africa so as to. re-
lease more trained regulars for
service in Indo-China. France
wants an honorable peace in
Indo- China but is continuing
to fight Communist imperial
ism alone there as American
help each day seems to be
farther and farther away,
while London keeps chasing
peace rainbows in the skies of
eternal hope. Maybe now that
the elections are over and the
conservatives have stayed in
power in Australia, the govern
ment there can move ener-
getically toward consummat-
ing plans for the Southeast
Asia pact and will help to
bring Britain into closer CO.
operation-and perhaps India,
too.
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Evening star., 1954-05-31
Dovid Lowrence

PARIS.-As one leaves the,
Geneva Conference - which
now Is to become a sort Of
Panmunjom negotiation for
the next several weeks or
months by military men Of
both sides trying to write ar
mistice terms-the most salu-
tary development that can be
recorded thus far is that the
1ndo- China problem has at
last opened the eyes Of many
nations to the new menace in
Asia. Even India, which has
been trustful of Peiping, is
now reported to be nervous
about the rise of Red China as
an imperialist power en-
croaching on neighboring
countries and, with the tacit
support of Soviet Russia,
threatening to extend the or
bit of Communist imperialism
in all of Asia.
The big question now is not
whether French colonialism
began to introduce self-gov-
ernment in o-China soon
enough but whether the Com
muniSt colonialism which may
come in will introduce the
kind Of "self-government"
that such coutries as Latvia,
Lithuania and Estonia now
have-not to mention the kind
of independence" that Po-
land, Czechoslovakia and the
rest of the satellite states en-
joy on paper.
For what good will it do to
withdraw all French protec-
ton from the newly created
states of Cambodia, Laos and
Wet Nam if Moscow-trained
leaders, like Ho Chi Mimi, are
in charge of the government
of Wet Nam and if its armies,
with substantial aid from Red
China, continue to overrun the
neighboring states and threat
en- also Burma and Thailand
whose borders are nearby?
Plainly the Southeast Asia
pact envisaged by Secretary
Dulles has been brought forth
for world discussion none too
soon. For only by united &C
ton can each Of the South
east Asia countries preserve its
independence.
The Geneva conference had
q very important effect on
French public opinion and a
Evening star., 1954-05-31

fully exploited by guerilla cap
tains of the old Taft wing.
with the result that we now
see virtual open war by them
on the Eisenhower Administra-
ton.
Reference is to:
l. The Mccarthy Army in
vestigation which is, itself, a
demonstration of the power
now attained by the Senator
Joe Mccarthy junta which is
sort of a vermiform appendix
of the Taft wing.
2. The House investigation
directed by Representative B.
Carroll Reece, Republican, Of
Tennessee, into tax-exempt
foundations. Though this is
designed ostensibly to tickle
the fancy of the real old
guard that would repeal virtu-
ally everything that has hap
pened in America and the
world for the last 20 years,
if not the 3 RS themselves, it
seems to have. so far as Mr..
Reece is concerned. more solid
and current targets. Politi-
cally contrived these are
namely powerful figures in the
American scene and economy
who C h a mpioned General
Eisenhower rather than Sena-
tor Taft for the 1852 Repub-
lican nomination. Among them
are the FordS, the Rockefellers
and Paul Hoffman who asso-
ciated himself with the Ford
Foundation.
In short, Representative
Wayne L. Hays. Democrat.
Of Ohio, a member Of the
Reece investigating committee,
seemed to have an accurate
diagnosis Of this investigation
Evening star., 1954-05-31

reappoint Gordon Clapp as
chairman of the board of the
Tennessee Valley Authority.
Failure to reappoint Mr..
Clapp is a clear reflection of the
change in the Presidents feelings
about TVA," Senator Hill said.
On the eve of the 1852 presi-
Dental campaign, Senator Hill
said, Gen. Eisenhower tele-
graphed many newspapers in the
IVA area 'if I am elected Presi-
dent, IVA will be maintained
Evening star., 1954-05-31

risks Of holocaust, no matter
what it's outcome.
Another Chinese victory
would not strengthen Russia
but Red China, and make the
latter the dominant power in
the Moscow-Peking axis.
But the Russians, who are
certainly aware of this, have
tied themselves to Peking'S
Asia policies, and American
policy, which insists on view
ing all Communists interests
as identical, seems bent on
keeping them tied.
The Red Chinese. who are
not, like the Russians, vulner-
able on two frontiers and are
in the first reckless stages Of
revolutionary impulse, do not
appear to be nearly so afraid
of the United States nor in
clined to compromise under
threats of force.
The danger, therefore, is
that the bluff (to the extent
that it is a bluff -for-peace)
may be called.
Then the United States will
either have to retreat. &C
knowledging another tremen-
dous political defeat with the
worldwide repercuSSions that
would follow, or risk another
limited military defeat, or
.precipitate the world holo-
caust, in which any victory
would be illusionary.
This is the situation on
this Memorial Day on which,
traditionally, we honor the
heroic dead of our wars. It is
a situation trembling on the
verge of yet another war.
But this situation differs
Evening star., 1954-05-31

sobering influence on even
some Of the opposition leaders,
who are not so eager now to
take over a cabinet haraSsed
by the perplexities of the Indo-
China mess. What one finds
here in Paris, after talks with
the highest American and
French officials and with polit-
ical leaders both on the gov
ernment and opposition sides.
is an entirely different picture
of Frances dilemma in Indo-
China from what the average
person gets in the United
States.
Specifically, the Indo- China
problem is often dismissed in
America as primarily a politi-
cal rather than a military
problem. This view is heard
from military men who don't
like the prospect of involve
ment in what they call "a
jungle war;" or it comes from
those who oversimplify the
situation as merely a case OF
French colonialism which has
overstayed it's welcome In In
do-China.
Few Americans are remem-
bering that, although the
United States seized the Phil
ippines from Spain in 1898.
it was many decades before
we gave our colony the inde-
pendence it wanted. There
were, to be sure, persons who
sought to preserve the COM
mercial relationships but there
were others who said the Fill
pinos should be given their in
dependence only after a pro-
bationary period of training
in the processes of self-govern-
ment.
The situation is parallel in
that the French Union has
commercial ties to Southeast
Asia but even more parallel
in the sense that the art of
self-government is not acquired
overnight in the jungleland of
Indo-C China either. It is one
thing to grant independence
in a treaty, as the French have
pledged themselves to do. and
it is quite another to translate
it into "a living spirit, as
Secretary Dulles phrased it in
a recent speech. The facts are
that the defending govern
ment in Wet Nam has had the
Evening star., 1954-05-31
Thomas L. Stokes

How great was the loss of
Senator Robert A. Taft of
Ohio to the Eisenhower Ad-
ministration is beginning to
become apparent in a close
observation of what is hap
pening to the Republican Party
in Congress.
An analysis must take ac-
count of one striking fact and
one assumption that probably
would be generally agreed to
be a fact.
The fact is that Congress
came naturally into a new po-
sition of authority in govern
ment with the ascendency OF
General Eisenhower to the
White House. This is because
of his belief that this should
be so. Congress never misses
such an opportunity. The pres
ent Congress Is no exception.
The direction Of the 83d
Congress fell to Senator Taft
because Of his experience in
the field and his proved ability.
The assumption is that Sem
ator Taft would have been able
to keep a fairly tight rein on
his wing of the party which
was so loyal to him and which
still, for that reason, was re-
sentful toward the Eisenhower
wing of the party which it out
numbered in Congress. If Sen
ator Taft had lived. in short,
we might have expected a
more ordered and orderly Re-
publican Party in Congress
and more orderly government.
This leads to another as
sumption, which is that under
firm Taft leadership we well
might have avoided two current
SpectacleS which are being
Evening star., 1954-05-31
Expensive Cotton

HARLINGEN, Tex. (R.-The
Nations first bale of 1854 cotton
was rushed 81 miles from Mis-
sion to Harlingen tonight in an
expensive convertible. And it
deserved the plush treatment.
It was accepted by the Harl-
ingen Junior Chamber of Com
merce as the first bale of 1854
subject to regulations which will
be checked tomorrow. If it meets
the groups rules, it will be worth
at least $2,500 to the Mission
grower, Ray Barnick.
The bale will be auctioned at
Harlingen on June 8.
Evening star., 1954-05-31
Failure 10 Rename CIapp
AssaiIed by Senator Hill
By the Associoted Press

Senator Hill, Democrat, of Ala
bama, said last night that "Presi-
dent Eisenhower has been the
first to depart from the spirit. the
letter and the clear intent of the
IVA act"
The Alabama Senator, in a
radio broadcast, sharply pro-
tested the Presidents failure to
Evening star., 1954-05-31

and operated at maximum effici-
ency."
A few months after taking Of
fee. Senator Hill said the Presi-
dent called IVA creeping
socialism, a term coined by the
power monopoly"
"The power monopoly knew
that if it could get Mr.. Clapp
out and get a man of its own
choosing in as chairman, iva
could be sabotaged from within
and destroyed" Senator Hill said.
Evening star., 1954-05-31

$25,0O0 bail today, charged
with attempting to kidnap the
young son Of a well-to-do
lawyer. Police said he had
planned to ask "about IS" as
ransom.
Patrick Molloy of Brooklyn
was arraigned in Brooklyn
felony court. A younger &C
complice, whose name was
withheld because of his age,
was turned over to children'S s
court.
Evening star., 1954-05-31
Scream Routs Intruder

LOUISVILLE, KY. (P.-Mrs.
Mabel Wesley, a policewoman
thoroughly schooled in self
protection, woke today and saw
a man entering her bedroom.
Her service pistol was out of
reach.
So she screamed.
The man fled.