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Evening star., 1954-12-04
Missapp|ication Charge
AGAINST Teller Dismissed

An indictment accusing a man
of misapplying 1919 belonging to
the American Security and Trust
Co. and of making a false entry
in a book while working as a
teller at the bank in October,
1858, was dismissed yesterday on
Government motion.
The dismissal clears the former
teller, Alexander j. Czernowski,
%, of the 3700 block of Connec-
ticut avenue NV, of the charges.
The charges were dismissed by
Chief Judge Bolitha j. Laws Of
the U. S. District Court for the
District of Columbia, on motion
of Assistant United States At
torney Edward o. Fennell.
Mr.. Fennell told the court some
money disappeared from Mr..
Czernowski's cash drawer at the
bank, but a thorough investiga-
ton produced no evidence that
Mr., Czernowski had taken it OF
used any part of it.
Evening star., 1954-12-04
By the Assoeiofed Press

NORFOLK, Va, Dec. A.
Debra Leigh Greenwood was
baptized here yesterday with 202
United States Marines as god
fathers 5000 miles away on the
West Coast.
AT the age of % days, little
Debra officially was chrisSened
at the Atlantic Fleet Chapel by
Chaplain Alvo Martin, while two
Norfolk based Marine sergeants
stood proxy for the godfathers
in California.
Debra's father, Staff Sergt.
Carl I. Greenwood, was under
going specialized training at
Camp Pendleton, Calf, when
Debra was born in the Naval
Hospital at Portsmouth. Va,
November 10-the 10th ami
versary Of the Marine Corps.
Sergt. Greenwood is tagged
for duty in the Far East and
chances are he won't see either
Debra or his wife again until
his return from Pacific duty.
So, when his company there
learned of Debra's birth, they
Evening star., 1954-12-04

Signing of the mutual Sc
curity pact between the United
States and Nationalist China
may we'll terminate all Chang
Kai-shek's hopes and expecta-
tions of returning to the main
land.
Under the provisions, the
United States pledges itself
solemnly to prevent by force if
necessary any Communist at
tempt to invade Formosa and
the Pescadores Islands. The
Nationalists hoped until re-
Gently that Formosa would be
only their temporary home.
The question of the peri
pheric islands, such as Quemoy,
which have been the targets
of Communist raids and at
tacks for several weeks Is left
in suspense.
We have not pledged our
selves to help defend these
small islands but neither have
we told our ally that we will
not do so. 1t all depends on
circumstances and on the over
all international situation.
According to responsible
sources, Chang resisted our de-
mands that he not undertake
any offensive against the main
land of China now in Commu-
mist hands but eventually
agreed that he will not attempt
such landing unless he re-
ceives the green light from the
United States.
If conditions in that area of
the Pacific remain static-that
is, if the Communists don't
launch any major offensive
against Formosa or the, Pes
cadores or don't directly pro-
woke the United States into a
confiict-the result of the
treaty will be that Chang will
have to abandon all hope of
ever returning to even South
ern China where there is in
creasing restlessness and deep
dissatisfaction with the Com
munist regime.
Chang has the men and
equipment to seize Southern
China. And it is important to
us because a barrier could be
Evening star., 1954-12-04
s&asff

He said there had been no
change in that view.
There is no doubt that the
British spokesman meant well.
But he mistakenly made him
self the echo of the Communist
government with the reference
to our delivering" Formosa.
The Communists had been
shrieking for more than two
years over the airwaves and in
the United Nations that Amer
lea has occupied and rules
Formosa. They have demanded
repeatedly that we 'evacuate"
the island.
The fact is that the Ameri-
can occupation" of Formosa
consists of a thousand or so
military technicians and in
structors for the half million
or more Nationalist ground. air
and naval forces. It is expected
that the Peiping and Moscow
propagandists will pick up this
quotation when convenient and
point out that even our closest
ally has admitted that we have
the power to deliver FormOSa
whenever we wish to.
The mutual security pact put
an end, however, to all further
quibbling about what we should
do in the event the Communist
threat to invade the Nation
alist holdings should materi-
alize. No further determina-
ton of policy and consultations
with the Western allies will be
necessary.
AS soon as the treaty is
ratified by the Senate during
the winter, the Communists
will be officially on notice that
any attempt to cross the For
mosan Straits will be met with
the full power of the United
States Navy and Air Force.
This will put an end to all
doubts as to what we may or
may not do in such an emer-
gency. Had we adopted such
a stand in regard to Korea be-
fore the invasion occurred, it
is highly doubtful that the war
which cost us more than l40.-
900 battle casualties would
have occurred.
Evening star., 1954-12-04
Senate Unit Rejects
Plea for Recount
In Oregon Election
By Tho Associated Press

A Republican-headed Senate
group has turned down a chal-
lenge to the Oregon election
which gave Democrats the mar
gin they need to organize the
Senate next month.
The action late yesterday ap-
peared to erase any lingering
question about the November
balloting which gave Democrat
Richard L. Neuberger a slim edge
over Republican Guy Gordon, de-
feated after 10 years in the
Senate.
Petition Turned Down.
Senator Gordon refused to join
the demand for a recount filed
yesterday with the Senate Elec-
tions subcommittee by Jess j..
Gard, G. o. p. national commit
teeman from Oregon. For that
reason, the subcommittee tossed
out Mr.. Cards petition.
Rejection of the challenge left
the impending Senate lineup for
the 84th Congress at 48 Demo-
'crats, Independent Senator
| Wayne Morse-also of Oregon
and At Republicans. Senator
Morse has announced he will vote
with the Democrats on organiZ-
ing the new Senate.
Recounts are still in progress
in Ohio and New Jersey, but
the apparent Republican victors
in those States are holding on.
Bender 5000 Ahead.
With the review almost COM
pleted in contested districts in
Ohio, Representative George H.
Bender still leads Senator
Thomas A. Burke by slightly
more than 5000 votes. In New
Jersey, Clifford Case has dropped
but 104 votes from his original
span of 1870 over Representa-
tive Charles Howell with more
than one-third of the recount
precincts checked.
Senator Hayden. Democrat. of
Arizona said Mr.. Gard had
claimed numerous irregularities
in Multnomah County. which
includes Portland, and had as
serted Gordon got a raw DEAL
Senator Gordon said in a state
ment after the subcommittee
scrapped the petition that he
had been urged to contest the
election because of many un-
usual situations which developed
herein" But he added he felt
there is no legal ground fol
such action"
Evening star., 1954-12-04

Laboratories. Is now studying
its assignment"
ut is to be hoped that 1t
will keep on studying it until
it recognizes in this project q
proposal that was brought for
ward several years ago and very
speedily abandoned when the
Commerce Department was url-
der Secretary tCharles) Saw
yer," he said.
Unclassified Matter.
Mr.. Virgins noted that the
Office proposed to work by vol
untary means and through
guidance of persons" in the
technical publications field. It
viii deal with unclassif1ed mat
ter-that is. information not
labeled secret, top secret or con-
fidential.
TN the present national tenn
per-, Mr.. Virgins reported to
the editors, sit is quite clear that
guidance directives, whatever
their legal force. quickly will
acquire the practical force Of
regulations and rules.
mo publisher will wish to deny
or disregard requests for co.
operation"
He contended that the Com
merce Department program, to
the extent that it succeeds, will
impair a system of industrial
and commercial information Ito
which we are enormously in
debted for our industrial and
business progress" Measures
tending to bottle up the flow,
he said. will impoverish Ameri-
cans generations hence" Mr..
Virgins went on:
mo matter what voluntary de-
vices are employed. by no matter
what attractive and acceptable
stereotypes they are labeled. a
proposal under which govern
ment is going to help the
American press decide what non-
classified information it ought
to print and what it ought not
to print is a species of censorship
of the most offensive and dam
gerouS kind"
Evening star., 1954-12-04
2O2 Marines Are Godfuthers
As Baby Girl Is Baptized

Immediately declared themselves
unofficial godfathers and went
into action to make it official.
They dispatched letter to the
Marine recruiting station here
expressing their intent and asked
for assistance.
Norfolk recruiters TISergt.
Harry E. Bare and S/Sergt. Jo-
Seph D. Lutz sought help from
the Fleet Marine Force. Allan
tic. Yesterday the two recruiters
served as proxies for the 202
godfathers at Camp Pendleton.
Evening star., 1954-12-04
he has been managing director

he has been managing director
of NAM.
Others from Virginia elected
or reelected directors are Don
l.. Jordan. president, Johnson
Carper Furniture Co., Inc,
Roanoke; N. w. Kelly, president,
Southern Vanish Corp, Roanoke;
Henry E. McWane, president,
Lynchburg Foundry Corp, and
Crawford S. Rogers, head of the
Norfolk Shipbuilding and Dry
Dock Corp.
From Maryland, L. v. Hershey,
president of the Hagerstown
Shoe Co.; Winslow H. Parker,
president of the Parker Metal
Decorating Co., Baltimore, and
Marlin G. Geiger, president,
Dawson Chemical Co., Baltimore.
were elected.
Evening star., 1954-12-04

matte Controls. He said "auto-
nation may well find itself in
the middle of 1855 hottest
labor-management disputes.
Atomic Sources Vital.
Dean Dunning said it will be
impossible for the worlds pres
ent energy sources to meet re-
quirements SO years from now.
The only way this country or
the world can move ahead in 10,
20 or so years. he said, is ION
the basis of gradually increasing
the amounts of energy through
atomic sources"
The election of directors and
vice presidents included the elec-
tion. of Earl Bunting of the
O'Sullivan Rubber Corp. of VIM
chester, Va, as an honorary vice
president for life. For six years
Evening star., 1954-12-04

The keyboard music of ]. S.
Bach and Domenico Scarlatti,
two of the four peerless COM
posers for harpsichord, has been
given currency in America by
no one more tirelessly and de-
votedly than by Ralph Kirkpat-
rick, who played "The Goldberg
Variations" and 10 Scarlatti
sonatas last night at the Library
Of Congress. ."'
The deep and curiously COM
pelling influence of ''The Gold
berg Variations" on music lovers
Of all degrees of dedication to
the art is largely the result of
Mr.. Kirkpatrick lucid and re-
vivifying readings of the work
in every large city and college
town for the last 20 years or
longer.
One reason why this work is
seldom heard under other hands
is that there are few ,harpsi-
chordists who can sustain the
great structural arch. For As
minutes this music explores every
relationship. every aspect of a
stately dance with the combina-
ton of insight and creativity
that is the earmark of the genius
of Bach. The few pianists who
are capable of the Goldberg, not
only technically but emotionally,
realize that the work is not ideal
for their instrument.
Even more closely identified
with Mr.. Kirkpatrick are the
sonatas of Scarlatti. These have
always been considered little
more than tangy aperitif. The
public has known them largely
through a handful of undiffer-
entiated examples.
Mr.. Kirkpatrick has studied
all of the more than 500 sonatas,
most of which were written in
the last few years of the COM
poser's life. BY playing so of
them in public. he has shown
that the music of this Italian
contemporary of Bach has a
variety of mood, an intensity of
expression, a never-failing sense
of presence and meaning, and a
startlingly modern rejection or
elision of musical conventions
that give it an appeal to the
widest conceivable public.
The characteristic of the Kirk
patrick style that the artist has
written about in books, taught
college classes and pupils and
most successfully embodied at
the keyboard were displayed last
night in full bloom. Mr.. Kirk
patrick believes that the perfect
singer is the ideal every instru-
mental performer should strive
to initiate, and, scarcely less
important. that music should al
ways be instinct with the feeling
of physical, bodily motion
walking, dancing or running.
A Scarlatti sonata he consid
ers, a ballet, and devises for eacl
one a mental choreography a.
elaborate as his imagination ant
the music permit. With Bacl
in particular, and other musi
in general, he believes in grea
latitude in the expression o
details and great solidity il
moulding its underlying form.
These facets of Mr.. Kirk
patrick's approach to his musi'
give a far from complete picture
of his performance. No eveninl
limited to two composers coult
do that, but the miracle of 9TH
Goldberg Variations. those 3,
perspectives of a single simpl,
picture, served last night as NJ
other single composition could
The audience overf1owed tht
Coolidge Auditorium, and dis
daining to listen to the program
on the radio at home, filled tn,
adjoining Whittall Pavilion tt
hear it there on the radio. Mr.
Kirkpatrick was given an ova'
ton seldom equaled at tn,
Library. The formal applause
=
Evening star., 1954-12-04
Col. Johnston to Speak

HARRIsONBURG, Va, Dec. 4
(SpeciaD Glen D. Johnston,
president Of the Chamber OF
Commerce Of the United States,
will be the principal speaker at
the annual meeting of the Har-
risonburg Rockingham County
Chamber Of Commerce in Madi-
son College December 10. Col.
Johnston is a resident Of Ro-
anoke.
Evening star., 1954-12-04
End Of Restrictions
On Foreign Trade
Is Urged by Randall
By Francis P. Douglas
Siar Sioff Correspondent

NEW YORK, Dec. 4.--Clarence
Randall, who headed the Com
mission on Foreign Economic
Policy, said last night the whole
world is holding its breath over
the uncertainties of the United
States position on foreign trade.
He said the adoption of Presi-
dent Eisenhower's program of
lifting foreign trade restrictions
would give a great lift to the
worlds economy"
Mr.. Randall is chairman of
the board of the Inland Steel
Co. and now is consultant to
President Eisenhower on foreign
trade policies. He addressed the
banquet which closed the seth
annual three-day convention OF
the National Association OF
Manufacturers.
A member of NAM, he was
designated two years ago as the
organizations man of the
year" Nevertheless, he chided
the organization for either advo-
eating restrictions on foreign
trade or for failing to advocate
freeing foreign trade of the
restrictions.
For example, he said, "this
organization condemns subsidies
to business, yet this association
has not condemned the Buy
American policy"
Policy Explained.
That policy provides that, in
general, the Government may
not buy from a foreign supplier
unless his price is Is per cent
below that of an American COM
pany.
Mr.. Randall's views were ex-
pressed in his speech and in
an earlier press conference. He
said uncertainty over the United
States position on foreign trade
is the chief deterrent to the
convertability of currencies.
The MANS position on lifting
foreign trade restrictions is that
it has no position. But this did
not prevent Mr.. Randall from
twitting his friends in the or
ganization.
1.-THE farmer must export IL
per cent of his output to live,
he said. After the war the
farmer sold his products, the
farm machinery manufacturers
profited from the farmers pdr-
chasers and this spilled over to
the steel industry" he declared.
But Mr.. Randall made the point
that foreign countries were buy
ing with money supplied by
grants from this country.
What would happen to the
businesses represented in this
room if the farmers had to be
cut back IL per cent?" he asked
Consumer Forgotten Man.
He also said the consumer is
the forgotten man when it comes
to considering problems Of cas-
ing trade restrictions. At this
point there was applause, partic-
ularly from the women who were
in the throng of about $500 per-
sons who crowded the hotels
ball room and adjacent rooms.
Two other subjects, one in
which NAM members have
shown a lively interest, were
among those discussed at the
final sessions of the convention:
l. The members heard that
the atomic age is ready ito step
off into what should be one Of
the greatest developments in our
industrial economy !" The
speaker was DR.. John Ray Dun
ming, dean of the Columbia Uni
verSity Engineering School. !
2. They also heard that the
"truly revolutionary" develop
rnent Of automatic machines
automation is the words now
"a SO billion-a-year industry
The speaker was John Diebold,
editor Of the publication. Auto
Evening star., 1954-12-04
Nevada Is Driest Stute

CARSON CITY.-Nevada has
the least rainfall of any State,
averaging 8.81 inches per year,
according to the United States
Weather Bureau.
Evening star., 1954-12-04
News of Music
Kirkpatrick WIdIy.AppIouded
AtHorpsichord Recital
By Day Thorpe

Ralph Kirkpatrick. harpsichord At
the Library of CONGRESS. Program:
Goldberg Variations, Bach: 10 sonatas
Of Domenico Scarlatti: K490. K4a1,
K4a2. KJ1S. K519, K513. K516, K517,
K544, K545.
Evening star., 1954-12-04
and braves were supplemented
by unrestrained shouts of delight
The NogIes Treat
Friday Music Club
Rv Irvinn owens
By Irving Lowens

Friday Morning Music Club Solo
lists: Alice Nagle, Arthur Nagle, piano.
Cosmos Club. Program: Sonata,
Bowles; Fugue, Chanler; Diversion
first performance Conklin; Sonata
in B fat. Clementi; Romance, Rach-
maninoff; L'embarquement pour Cyth-
ere. POuleOc: Ritmo Infante
Evening star., 1954-12-04

There once ,oaS telloiD named Joe,
Whose main Senate Job Uas to crow.
Since his iDays he'd not mend,
His colleagues condemned
Evening star., 1954-05-23

(See SHELTON, Page D-30
Evening star., 1954-05-23

(See BEALE, Page D-4.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-29
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-29
Mexican Chief Hits
'Authoritarianism'
BY the Asseeioted Press

MEXICO CITY, July o.
Mexico's President affirmed his
country's hostility to "authori-
tartan" practices last night. hard
on the heels of the resignation
from a government post OF the
country's leading left-winger.
Former President Lazaro
Cardenas, who has been under
newspaper attack for his out
spoken support Of the extreme
left, announced he had quit one
of the two minor Federal posts
he held.
Mr.. Cardenas said he had re-
signed as director Of a power
and irrigation project in his
native state Of Michoacan ito
avoid problems caused by my
presence"
He Is also chairman Of a
similar commission formed re-
Gently to develop a river system
on the Yucatan peninsula. but
his statement made no men
ton of this post.
Tonight President Adolfo Ruiz
Confines said:
"The public of Mexico has al
ways shown the liveliest dislike
of any authoritarian forms of
organization in politics or eco
nomics."
The two events, coming so
close together. pointed up the
recent change in Mexico's
foreign policy. Within the past
few weeks the government has
turned from sympathy with the
United States antagonists, as In
the case Of Guatemala. to an
attitude promising closer CO.
operation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-29
Woshing Machine Trick
Speeds Voter Literature

POMPTON PLAINS. N. j. up.
Several members normally
work a full day to fold some
1000 voting information sheets
the League of Women Voters
mail out annually. This year
Mrs. j. w. Worden. ST., did it all
herself by feeding the sheets
through her washing machine
wringer.
She got the idea from her
grandson, Donald Worden, who
uses the same method to fold
church bulletins.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-29
Sergeant Acquitted
OF MaItreatmenf in
Discipline Formation
sy Tho Associated Press

FORT DIX, N. j.. July %
A wiry. one-eyed non-commis-.
stoned officer with 6 years Of
Army service behind him was
cleared yesterday Of charges
that he kept 225' recruits at at
tention for an hour In 92-degree
heat.
Sergt. 1/c Richard j. Witbeck,
"a, of Wellington, Ohio. breathed
a sigh of relief as a three-man,
special court-martial board ac-
quilted him after celebrating
40 minutes.
II feel very good" Sergt. Wit
beck said. I'm glad it's all
over"
The verdict thus wiped clean
the states of the two principals
brought up on charges as q re-
suit of the June 81 punishment
formation during which men
were said to have passed out in
the broiling sun, revived with
pals of water and forced back
into line.
Lieutenant Also Cleared.
First 1t. Robert S. Morgan,
%, of Wilkes-Barre, Pa, Wit
beck's immediate superior and
commander Of Company L, 272d
Infantry Regiment. which stood
the formation. was cleared of
"dereliction of duty" charges
last Friday.
Sergt. Witbeck. who wears a
patch over his left eye, lost in a
training accident while on oc-
cupation duty in Austria, plead
ed not guilty to allegations
of maltreatment of personnel
through his counsel.
The acting first sergeant. q
black haired. angular-faced man
with a wispy mustache, did not
take the stand in his own de-
tense and did not exercise his
right to have other enlisted men
sit on the court.
His counsel, Capt. Norman
Topper of Winter Park. Fla,
commended that Sergt. Witbeck
merely acted on orders Of his
superiors.
Made Light of Ordeal.
Capt. Upper made light Of
the trainees' ordeal Of standing
at attention. saying, 1--we done
it many times I've seen men
passing out all around me-"
1t. Morgan. the last witness
called in the day-long trial. tes-
titled as he had at his own
court-martial that he knew Moth
Ing about the formation unt~
Sergt. Witbeck told him Of 1t
the next day.
Two other witnesses told the
board they heard 1t. Morgan
give the initial order for water
to be thrown on men who had
tainted and heard Sergt. Wit
beck repeat it.
Soldier tainted Twice.
Pvt. William Brooks. 20. Of
Hampstead. N. Y, testified he
tainted twice while on the for
nation. He said the first time
he was revived by water in the
face and the second time by
smelling salts administered by
Sergt. Witbeck.
Asked If he thought he was
maltreated by Sergt. Witbeck,
Pvt. Brooks replied, mo, sir"
Had Sergt. Witbeck been con-
victed he could have received
any combination of these sem
fences: Official reprimand. for
fixture of pay for six months.
six months confinement. loss Of
stripes.