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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1954-06-24

With some few exceptions, the
conduct Of both Democratic and
Republican politicians toward the
Negroes in this country has been
marked by cowardice, hypocrisy
and demagoguery of the lowest
type This is not SO true among
the Democrats of the South.
Among them-and only among
them-has there been 50 much as
a trace Of sincerity. One reason for
this is that in the South, there is
slight competition for the Negro
vote; another is that the over
whelmingly opinion of the people
being for segregation, the poll
ticians can afford to go along with
a public sentiment that accords
with their own.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1954-06-24

Outside the South there are
thirteen states where the Negro
vote is not only large but often
decisive. These are Massachusetts,
Connecticut, New York, New Jer-
sey, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Della
ware, Maryland, Indiana, Ohio,
Illinois, Missouri and California.
The comparative census figures
show that in the last two decades
there has been a great increase in
the Negro vote in all these states,
particularly in the big cities. Prior
to 1886, this vote was 80 percent
Republican and had been for more
than 70 years. 1t had been counted
as basic and increasing Republi-
can asset ever since the Civil War.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1954-06-24

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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1954-06-24

GEORGE P. MAHONEY
BALTIMORE COUNTY
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-03
Six Co|Iegians GET
Terms for Car Thefts
BY the Assoei1ied Press

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Dec. 3.
Criminal Court Judge William
T. Harvey yesterday gave prison
terms ranging from two to four
years to six collegians who adj
mitted they participated in a
wave OF car thefts and vandal-
ism extending from spring Of
1858 to early this year.
Four-year terms at State Pris-
on in Raiford went to Tommy
Everitt, 10; Gene Laney. Is; Les
lie Fort, 10, all of Jacksonville:
and William Schiff, 10. Of Miami.
John O. Crunp, Is, of Nash
vile, Tenn, drew a three-year
term. The Judge handed a two
year sentence to Peter Berg
strom, 10, of Jacksonville.
All were sentenced on one auto
larceny count each.
Confessions read by police Of
f1cers at a pre-sentence hearing
showed that as many as AZ high
priced cars were stolen by two
or more of the youths--all of
whom came from prominent
families--du the period they
operated here and at Gainesville.
Everitt, Crump and Schiff
were students at the University
of Florida. Lanel attended Jack
sonville Junior College; Fort,
Emory University: and Berg
strom, Georgia Tech.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-03
Bad-Chleek P'asser
Accused as Bandit

A West Hyattsville man. sem
fenced to two years on a bad
check count, was, charged yes
terday with the November 8
holdup Of the Western Mary
land Trust Co. branch bank at
Jefferson. near Frederick.
Police identified him as Rob-
ert S.. Purcell, 20, and said he
was identified in q lineup by
FBI agents and by Mrs. Frances
Lowell. teller at the bank. The
holdup netted $3.50.
United States Commissioner
Samuel w. Meloy issued the
formal complaint charging Pur-
cell with the robbery. Mr.. Meloy
said the complaint would serve
as a detainer against Purcell,
forcing him to stand trial on the
robbery charge after his two
year Jail term which he has not
yet begun.
Special Agent D. K. Brown of
the Baltimore FBI Office said
Purcell admitted the robbery
and quoted him as saying he
needed the money to make good
on some checks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-03
Fletcher Knebel-
Potomac Fever

Found guilty by the Jury Of the Senate Joe Mccarthy will
spend five at hard abodiggng enough testimony to
hang all the jurors.
Ike blockade of Red China Special dispatch to
the feet from Republican Admiral Knowland Ignore orders
Red China. Blockade the White House instead"
+. /,
Democrats In New Orleans to elect new national
chairman What party bosses want Of such high
principles he won't stoop to find out what they're doing
Mccarthy to be ped than censured After the
Senate against him. he could step babut couldn't
bend elbow.
recount shows Democrat Averell Hartman won
York governorhip by slim margin Party leaders think fine
that Democrats vote their conscience dplore habit
of voting it only election.
Mccarthy is the fourth Senator to be rebuked by the
statecraf took craft get
himself into his present state
Republican Senator Williams charges Agriculture official
borrowed $50 900 chickens
mystery why would his time raising chickens
after he had just raised $4,000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-03
Doris Fleeson-
Democrats Show Off Harmony
Mike Di Sale Appears to Be Out in Front at Present
In an Unpredctobe Race for New Chairman

NEW ORLEANS-The pres
ent Democratic National Com
mittee meeting may possibly
turn out to be the most Demo-
cratic meeting the Democrats
have ever held.
Various facts confirm this
prospect as the master minds
begin to hole up in their
smoke-filled rooms to talk
about a new national chair
man.
Attendance in person will
break all records, with II of the
los committee members pres
ent and voting. All the rest
have sent in proxies but, con-
trary to common practice, only
a few have gone to committee
officials.
Chairman Mitchell has six
proxies; Mrs. Walter Louch-
helm, head of the women's
division, has one, and Com
mittee Secretary Dorothy
Vredenburgh has one; the
rest-26, a neat balance of
power-have been handed by
members who can't come to
their own friends or associates.
Who they are and what they
may do is anybody's guess.
The committee presents a
rather new complexion. Men,
bers on it who served with
Roosevelt are becoming rare
and there are not too many
Trumanites. Adlai Stevenson
could probably influence them
but he hasn't spoken.
1t is clear that none of the
avowed candidates has ac-
Quired anything like the votes
necessary to build q band
wagon.
Mr.. Mitchell's choice, Paul
Butler, Indiana national COM
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-03
Constantine Brown

The warning issued by the
six Red nations meeting in
Moscow that If the Paris agree
ments for rearmament Of West
Germany are ratified they viii
form q NATO Of their own has
produced more smiles than
frowns in Washington official
circles.
And the announcement that
q Soviet marshal would be in
command has caused actual
hilarity.
The Russians have never
made it q secret that the satel-
lite forces as well as those Of
Red China were in various
degrees under their direct con-
troll. They all depend on the
u. S. s. r. exclusively for
heavy armament. All modern
jet planes, without exception.
are produced in Soviet terri
tory. So are all the nuclear
weapons in the manufacture
Of which Russia Is making
strides. Slave labor in the sat-
elite countries, such as East
Germany, Czechoslovakia and
repeatedly in the Sinkiang
Province of China, provides
the ingredients.
The arsenals in Czecho-
slovakia and Poland produce
tanks. But their distribution
is strictly controlled by the
Soviet high command. The
satellites have been supplied
with only q limited number OF
the smaller types. The Chinese
Communist armies also have
been given Stain heavy tanks.
The Russian general staff
and technical officers are at
the headquarters Of all the "a
Chinese Communist armies.
They are not mere consultants
and advisers, but actually d.
rect the tactics and strategy Of
these forces.
In Europe, Soviet officers
are with every unit down to
battalions in satellite coun-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-03
Duvd LoMence-
On 'Censure' and Condemn
Vast Difference Between Use Of Two Words Is Cloned
senote ReportedIy Chose TO Employ Weoker Language

can Party divided % to 20 on
the final vote. The lineup
for Mccarthy looks very much
like the pro-Taft group before
the 1852 convention, and the.
anti-McCarthy roll call on the
Republican side is reminiscent
Of the pro-Eisenhower faction.
AS for the Democrats. they
made the political mistake Of
lining up solidly against SEN
ator Mccarthy. This was a
tactical error. because obvi-
ously there were differences Of
opinion among them, as some
Of the votes on the amend
ment showed. But for party
strategy reasons they held to-
gether and presented a solid
political lineup.
This gives some OF the
Republican stump speakers a
chance throughout the coun-
try to repeat their charge that
the Democratic Party is more
interested in Furnishing q Sem
ator who fights communism
than 1t Is in fighting commu-
nism itself.
AS for Incorporate language.
the Democrats who accepted
the Bennett amendment, which
condemns" Senator McCar-
thy for saying the Watkins
committee was the unwilling
handmaiden Of the Communist
Party" will find it embarrass-
ing to defend themselves on
their vote. For President Tru-
man in a public speech in 1913
declared the Republican Party
to be the unwilling ally Of
the Communist Party" and
Congress neither censured nor
condemned him for saying so,
though either house could have
done so.
These epithets will not die
with the debate but will be
heard for a long time as the
battle goes to the country. In
side the Democratic Party 1t
will in time produce the same
kind Of split on the Mccarthy
issue that the Republican
Party has experienced.
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dence a great pessimism about
the United States. He has gone
so far in his charges of infiltra-
ton by the disloyal that he
has made many persons lose
confidence in their own Gov
eminent"
And. we may add. in practi-
cally every political, educa-
tional. social, and religious in
stitution of American life.
LOT the peculiarly vicious and
sernidemented character Of
many Of the Senator's follow
ing every public person who
has criticized him can testify.
His supporters hurl the charge
Of Communist" or Russian
agent" against the most con-
sentative and patriotic of his
critics, and in unsigned COM
munications threaten the "liq-
uidation" of their careers and
even physical assault. Thus
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-03
Dorothy Thompson
Rebuke Will Not Kill Hysterio
Mccarthy Called Concentration Point for lunotic Fringe
Thnt Costs Abuse and Intimidation Over Our ldnd

the sensationalist Senator.
whether he so intended or not,
has become the concentration
point for what would otherwise
be a dispersed lunatic fringe.
who, even more recklessly than
he, cast abuse and intimida-
ton everywhere, the harder to
dispel because completely ur-
susceptible to reason.
Senator Fulbright argued
that censure would discours
age this historical follow
ing. We are not sure that II
will not. on the contrary. In
flame and consolidate It. At
ANY rate. as long as the man
who has opened this Pandora's
box remains in public life, he
will produce Mysteries who find
a Red under every bed orr
; among those of his opponents
who also have historical symp-
toms-a Fascist in every closet.
What a picture of America!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-03
Constantine Brown .s
Reds Already Have q 'NATO'
Nevertheless, Warning by Six Communist Nations
Moy Cause Delay in Ratification Of Pors Pocts

are more equal than others"
And the some" must. Of
course, be the Soviet block.
Mr.. Mendes-France Joined
Secretaries Dulles and Eden In
rejecting this invitation until
the peace Of Germany and
Austria has been settled. But
he believed that the Soviet
plan would facilitate .the es-
tablishment of q peaceful CO.
existence" The French Pre-
mier favors q non-aggression
pact for 90 or more years with
the Red bloc.
The popularity Of French
heads of government is as un-
certain as snow in spring.
Upon his return to Paris, Mr..
MendeS- France found that his
political enemies had been
making hay while he was bask-
ing in the sunshine Of Amer.
lean applause. He is now be-
ing strongly denounced as
having sold out to America by
some of the same people who
only a few weeks ago hailed
him as Frances saviour.
Mr.. Mendes-France, who ere.
ated a near-fervor last August
when he surrendered Indo-
China to the Communists, ID
now in trouble. The enthusiasm
he aroused in France by his re-
lection Of the European De.
Tense Community has been
somewhat tempered by the
fact that he is now advocating
the creation Of q West German
military force Of 100000 men.
Some American observers
fear that the Moscow an.
nouncement that an Eastern
NATO will come into being II
the Paris agreements are rati-
fed may cause the overthrow
of Mr.. Mendes- France or post
pone once more the ratification
Of the agreements. The men
in the Kremlin are using sabre
rafting as q political weapon
to frighten timid souls.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-03

tant to give up his law practice
for a recess appointment because
Of the possibility he might not
be confirmed.
Senator Hickenlooper. Repub-
lican, of Iowa, vice chairman of
the congressional Atomic Energy
Committee, said it had been
found impractical to arrange a
hearing for DR.. Won Neumann
during the special session.
Gen. Eisenhower will have to
resubmit the nominations Of
Judge Harlan. Mr.. Kammholz
and DR.. Won Neumann to the
Senate next year. II he still
wants them to serve.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-03
Thomas L. Stokes
Eisenhower Versus KnoW|ond
President Seems to Have Stranded His Senate Leader
With His t's-Keep- Our Shirts On Approach

with whom he worked In the
administration. He explained
that Senator Knowland had
differed with him and Secre-
tary Dulles, according to the
Senator's public statements he
had read; and yet, when he sat
down and talked with the Cali
fornia Senator the two seemed
to agree generally on princi-
Piles and he thought the diff
ference was mostly on method.
But no one could have been
more blunt than was the Pres
ident in rejecting fatty Sena-
tor Knowland's current pet
project of a blockade of Red
China. A blockade is an act
Of war. the President said
fatty and so, he added, it had
always been considered. Con-
ceivab1y such a blockade might
not lead to war, he explained,
but he could find no case in
history where it did not.
The President did not say
SO. but Senator Knowland and
others who have been jumping
up and raising their voices for
extreme measures Of o bellig-
erent sort might well consider
what he said about our position
today. He made it q personal
matter which made it more
effective. He has the same
sort of reactions as do all
Americans to such despicable
acts as the imprisonment Of
our soldiers. 1t is easy for q
President to adopt q truculent
attitude: but he can not do so
in his responsible position de-
spite his personal feelings.
When any one accepts public
Office he must remember that
responsibility, the President
said - and that. Of course.
would include the California
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-03

Senator and party floor leader.
II we are to take action that
might lead to war, then we
can not do chat In emotion or
anger. but must proceed care
fully.
It was q keep-our- shirts-on
message and should help to
clear the airand maybe Sem
ator Knowland's mind.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-03

tries. Native senior officers
are only nominally IN COM
nand. The actual COM
manders are Russian. So are
all the security organizations.
Soviet representatives and
agents are packed in these
outfits. The intelligence OBJ
tanned and transmitted to
Moscow is not used only for
military purposes, but also for
more effective control Of the
enslaved nations which the
Kremlin always fears may get
out Of hand.
Thus when the Red con-
ferees were ordered to Mos
COW q few days ago to organ
lie an Eastern NATO the move
was intended as q political
maneuver to deter the French
Parliament from ratifying the
Paris agreements. Washington
regarded the announcement as
just another Red trick.
All the same, according to
some diplomatic observers, the
announcement could give some
ammunition to opponents Of
German rearmament in the
French National Assembly not
because this Eastern NATO"
changes in any way the mill
tary picture Of the Soviet bloc.
but because they do not want
Germany rearmed. These par
liamentarians would also like
to find additional issues to
overthrow the Mendes-France
cabinet.
During his visit to Wash
ington, the French Premier
knew about the Forthcoming
reunion in Moscow" The
Russians had informed him
privately Of this project. More
over, while he was in the
United States the Kremlin
issued q formal invitation 20
the Western powers to join in
a discussion Of world security
on the premise that "all
countries are equal, only some
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-03
Dorothy Thompson

Senator j. william Full
bright Of Arkansas raised an
issue during the Senate debate
which is not directly pertinent
to the charges Of the select
committee which recommended
censuring Senator Mccarthy.
The select committee recon-
mended censure on specifically
limited counts having to do
with his behavior toward Q
senatorial committee and to-
ward certain individuals. It did
not deal with the Senator as a
malevolent or benevolent force
in American life. Such judg-
ment cannot be made by his
senatorial colleagues but only
{ by American public opinion.
Nevertheless it is the heart,
If not the text Of the matter.
For regardless of the action of
the Senate, Senator Mccarthy
is being censured or defended
in nearly every American home.
and will continue to be until
or unless he retires or is re-
called by his constituents.
Senator Ernest S. Brown, Re-
publican, of Nevada, who spoke
against censure, made an able
case on constitutional grounds.
as others in and out of the
Senate also have done, includ-
ing some who personally dis
approve of the Senator.
But the American people are
not judging him on such
grounds, but on whether he is
a force for good or evil in
American life.
The Senate tried to conduct
the debate dispassionately.
But outside the Senate the
debate is charged with
passion. The Senator's de-
tenders did not assemble in
Madison Square Garden to de-
fend their leader with judicial
calm, but to attack his critics
with virulent hatred. No one
could have appeared there to
make even the most measured
criticism of his conduct with
out the certainty of being
forcibly elected and at the risk
Of physical injury unless pro-
tected by the police.
It was to the qualities Of
Senator McCarthy's nation
wide following, such as it is
we cannot assess its numbers
that Senator Fulbright adj
dressed himself. He said he had
received thousands of letters
denouncing support of the
censure resolution by him and
his colleagues, "some Of them
so vile that I cannot quote
them. The character Of
criticism has changed. It Is no
longer criticism. Il Is UNI
adulterated hate, yituperation,
and abuse. It Is highly emo
tional, irrational, and designed
to intimidate.
1.-THE Senator. by his reck-
less charges, has so preyed
upon the hatreds and fears Of
uniformed and credulous
people that he has started a
prairie fire which neither he
nor any one else may be able
to control. -.
MANY Of these letters EVIL
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-03
David Lawrence

There's all the difference In
the world between the use Of
the word "cenSure" In q for
NAL resolution by the United
States Senate and an express
sion Of opinion that "con-
denns" q Senator's conduct.
The word "censure" is q
legal term which approximates
legal contempt, and, although
the Watkins committee in it's
report on Senator Mccarthy
used the words "contemptu-
Gus" and ''contumacious,' as
we'll as "censure," 1t abar-
doned such words when the
chips were down and settled
for the word condemn.
This is In line with prece-
dent. For the ablest consti-
tutional lawyers in the Sen
ate's history have held that
the Senate cannot punish" q
member except for "disorderly
behavior" and that the word
punish" as used in the Con-
stitution, means the actual
melting out Of some form Of
punishment. Thus, the word
"censure" has been used only
twice in the history Of the
Senate and on both occasions
when members had engaged
in a fist fight on the floor Of
the Senate. Never has there
been a punishment or q "cen-
sure" administered for mere
language used. Indeed, the
Supreme Court once ruled that
the House Of Representatives
couldn't punish a United
States attorney for derogatory
language about a member, be-
cause mere language was not
obstructive Of the legislative
process.
Perhaps the most powerful
argument on $his point was
made by Gilbert Roe, attorney
for the elder Senator La Fol-
lette, who convinced Senator
Thomas Walsh of Montana,
Democrat, a famous constitu-
tional lawyer, that, while the
Senate may expel a member
for any reason, 1t could not
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-03

"mitteeman, has been only two
years on the committee and
has the handicap Of Harry
Humans opposition. Mr..
Truman has devoted friends,
and there are those also who
don't care much for Mr.. Tru-
man but want unity at almost
any price.
James Finnegan, an expert
enced Philadelphia organiza-
ton politician. is Ill. The vet-
eran David Lawrence, g Mayor
of Pittsburgh, will still fight
for him, but Mr.. Finnegan is
too little known. s8
Probably Michael Vincent
g Di Sale, whose quick tongue
was famous when he was price
stabilizer under Mr.. Truman,
has the most committed votes.
He is also doing a professional
job for himself. He was here
early and keeps the door to
his suite open. -.
These three candidates are
from the party's liberal wing.
, What position the South will
take toward them is unclear.
Sam Rayburn, the prospective
Speaker of the House, will in
the end express it. and he Is
known to desire rather more
glittering prestige in the next
chairman. But the dark horses
who fit that description have
not appeared.
While the makings of a con-
sentative coup of any kind are
simply not present, there is
great desire to conciliate the
South and maintain the unity
which the Democrats in Con-
gress are so strikingly display
ing. The unknown factor is
the committee members them
selves.
These are fresh from grass
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-03
Argentine cyclotron
Dedicated by Peron
BY the Associated Press

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina,
Dec. 3.-President Juan D. Peron
yesterday put In operation q
synchro- cyclotron at the head
quarters Of the Argentine Atomic
Energy Commission and dedi-
Gated a cyclotron built In the
engineering school Of Rosario.
Capt. Pedro E. Iraolagoitia Of
the Argentine Navy. who Is
secretary general Of the Atomic
Commission, said the synchro-
cyclotron is the only one In the
Southern Hemisphere. Radio
isotopes produced by the
hro-cyclotron viii be devoted
to industrial uses. he added.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-03

roots victories which are much
more impressive than most
people realize. What 1t in
spires them to do or say may
be very interesting.
Chairman Mitchell dis
played charts showing that
while the party's congressional
victory was narrow, within the
States it was handsome. The
pattern prevailed as to Gov
errors, State legislatures and
county Offices.
It reverses a trend begin
ming in 1888 when Republicans
began to recover in the court
houses from the beatings they
took from Roosevelt. With
little interruption, Democrats
suffered a steady attrition of
their strength, eliminating in
the 1852 landslide. That de-
feat makes even more strik-
ing their successes in defeat
ing seven Republican Gov
errors while losing none of
their own and charting up new
records in county after county.
Mr.. Mitchell gives to Presi-
dent Eisenhower all the credit
for the congressional results.
. This is proved, he thinks, by
the fact that repeatedly in
House races the Democratic
candidate ran far behind the
rest of the ticket.
People responded generously,
he feels. to Gen. Eisenhower's
plea for a Republican Con-
gress. Because Senators are
such personalities they were
less helped by it.
His conclusion from his i'm
pressive statistics: Democrats
are the majority party in q
big way.