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Evening star., 1955-01-14
Nationalist Planes
Blast Red Island for
Fifth Straight Day
sy The As,oe,at.d Press !.

TAIPEH, Formosa, Jan. A.
Chinese NatiQnalist warplanes
last night and early today
pounded Red held Tienao Island
for the fifth straight day Of
mounting action in the Tachen
area 200 miles north of Formosa,
Official reports said the war;
planes bombed Tienao military
installations and harried COM
munist shipping along 50-mile
stretch of the China mainland.
The bombers met anti-aircraft
fire but were not challenged by
Red aircraft. the report said.
All planes returned to their
Formosa bases, the report added.
Red Shipping Attacked.
Communist shipping was at
tackled near Yushan Island, 80
miles northeast Of the National
ist-held Tachen Islands, and in
the vicinity Of Chiku Isalnd. 16
miles southwest of the Tachens.
The Tachen area swirled yes
terday with Nationalist bomber
raids and air and sea actions.
The Defense Ministry reported
two Russian-type LA11 propeller
driven fighters few over the
Taeaens this morning but neitll.
ek 1fnbed nor strafed.
Reports Of Firing Denied.
United States naval authorities
branded as completely unfound-
ed reports that American de-
Evening star., 1955-01-14

stroyers fred on Communist
planes or vessels Thursday.
The reports developed after
the return of nine Chinese news
men from a visit to the Tachens.
They said they had heard re-
ports of such action.
Rear Admiral Frederick N.
Kivette said his Formosa Strait
patrol was adequate for its task
and that the Chinese Commu-
nists thus far had engaged in
no hostile action against his
ships-Task Force 72.
The admiral also denied that
his task force had escorted. or
was eScorting, Nationalist war
ships. as suggested by Chinese
reporters.
Evening star., 1955-01-14
Stolen Atomic Document Bore
No Secrets, British Assert

members Of the Electricity Au-
thority's staff.
The document was reported
taken from a brown leather
briefcase which was In the Office
of Sir Henry Self, 65, one of the
BEA's two deputy chairmen.
Lord Citrine is chairman OF the
Authority. Sir Henry has been
deputy chairman for eight years.
His Office, not normally locked,
Is on the third floor of the BEA
building on London's Trafalgar
Square. When the theft was dis
covered every porter and messen-
ger in the building was ques-
toned and asked particularly if
he saw strangers on the prem
iseS.
Sir Henry was stationed in
Washington from 1943 to i945,
representing the Ministry of
Production on the.combined pro-
ductiol and resources board.
Evening star., 1955-01-14
BY ihe Assoeioied Press

LONDON, Jan. 14.-Britain's
atomic energy authority said
today one Of its atomic docu-
nlents is missing, possibly stolen.
but that it contained no secrets.
"The document is neither top
secret nor secret and contains
no military information or
secret technical information" o
spokesman said.
ut was being examined by the
British Electricity Authority in
connection with the long term
use of nuclear energy for the
generation of electrical power. !"
An official Of the Electricity
Authority said:
"Yes. the document is believed
to have been stolen. When the
loss was discovered on Monday,
Scotland Yard was called in"
Detectives are interviewing
Evening star., 1955-01-14
First Fund Bill Clears
House After Sparking
Dispute on Deficit

Tne urSt appropriation 0llI OF
the new Congress headed for the
Senate today IN the wake Of q
House dispute on the size Of the
deficit and the Government S
policy on farm commodities.
The size Of the appropriation
was only $500 almost too
small TO mention. But 1t toucned
or the FIST real House floor de-
bate, of the 84til CONGRESS and
disclosed committee hearin 6
testimony on the Federal Ad-
ministrationss need for IL more
lawyers and 13 accountants to
prepare possible "windfall pro-
fits cases for Justice Depart
ment examination or prosecu-
tion.
The bill passed by the House
| yesterday soon after being re-
ported out by the Appropriations
Committee would provide new
cash outlays totaling only $25,-
| 900 for legislative expenses.
Other Authorizations.
However. it would authorize
the use of $44.500 in hitherto
unobligated funds for compile
tion of the Capitol terrace re-
construction. 1t also would
increase from $5.5 million to
$50 million the authorization
fer FILA administrative expenses
and from $40 million to $Sl mil
lion in the limitation on non
administrative expenses.
Committee Chairman Cannon
of Missouri. reported that the
Federal deficit as of last week
was So billion. Democratic Floor
Leader Mccormack observed
that this was a big jump from
the estimated $6.7 billion last
November. Mr.. Cannon explained
that income tax returns and
other revenues would trim the
deficit to about SAT billion by
the end Of the current fiscal
year. June 80.
Too Gloomy, Taber Says.
Representative Taber of New
York. former Republican chair
man Of the committee. protested
that this was too gloomy a pic
ture Of the overall situation. He
declared that tax revenue
"shows a rising trend of en-
ployment and the pospect of a
balanced budget"
The Democratic : controlled
comments on the volume of
commodities being handed BY
the Commodity Credit Corpora
ton this year was even more
calistic and brought q few Re-
publican protests.
Representative Whitten, Dem
ocrat, Of Mississippi, chairman
OF the subcommittee on CCC,
declared that the corporations
Workload will run nearly so
per cent above original estimates
and that CCC would spend all
its existing admll1tstrafiI funds
by March 80. n
sMr. Whitten said The commit
tee recommends the full Increase
Of $7.2 million pregiously pro-
posed. 1 II B
"1t does so. h6weJer. With sse-l
rious reservations as to the poll
icies of the Federal ioyernment
which have resulted ingtiie large
i5aiildup Of conlin6 6iitfes lin the
hands 0f the corporation
Evening star., 1955-01-14
By Jomes 7. Newton

I = - = 5-s
Senate Democrats, with moth
ing to lose and considerable to
gain politically. win 60 into the
Army's handling of the explosive
Peress case in public hearings
probably in about 10 days.
Senator Mcclellan. Democrat.
of Arkansas. who succeeded SEN
ator Mccarthy as chairman of
the Government Operations
Committee. has called his group
to an organization meeting next
Tuesday. A day OF two later,
Senator Mcclellan said. the new
Senate Investigations subcom-
mittee will be set up. He win
serve as chairman Of the SUBJ
committee also.
While the Arkansas Democrat
has said he viii leave it to the
! subcommittee whether to hold
| q public hearing on the Peress
case, he indicated that he favorS
such q course.
The subcommittee chairman
was Joined today in calling for
an airing of the Peress case by
Senator jackson, Democrat. of
| Washington. another subcom-
mittee member who described
the promotion and honorable
discharge of DR.. Irving Peress.
the former Army dentist. as q
running serial of confusion.
10,OOO-Word Chronology.
Last week the Army released a
| ID, ,000-word chronology of the
Peress case. placing responsible
! ity for the honorable discharge
of Dr.. PereSs on John @. Adams,
Army counselor. and 1t. Gen.
Walter Weible.
Senator Jackson said that
long chronology was the wrong
approach" He said "the Army
should send someone up here
and explain to us in simple
terms just how this case was
handled and why. They should
| lay it on the line regardless of
who was responsible.
II think the matter should be
cleaned up and disposed Of once
and for ALL" Senator jackson
continued. 1T is one of those
things the Army permitted to
become a national issue and it
all could have been avoided"
In calling for reopening Of
the Peress case, the Democrats
fifad themselves for about the
first time in the same corner
with Senator Mccarthy. Who also
wants the matter aired further,
The Democrats feel no; CONF
junction about going into the
matter in detail--and in public.
Regardless of the outcome of
the hearings. any blame, viii rest
with the Republicans, under
whess administration in the Pens.
ta0 ne entire case developed
sshO kEsndCtsd Belakyg
Senator McC Carthy. meanwhile
Evening star., 1955-01-14
British Bridge Team
Leeds Americans
By the Assoeiusse . pfsss

NEW YORK. Jan. IA A
British bridge team leads a
United States team by 3 .7so
points with 81 hands remain
ing to be played today IN an
international match for the
Bermuda Bow.
Inlast night play. both teams
bid grand slams and made them.
Both teams also bid small
slams, with the United States
team failing to make it BY one
trick.
Evening star., 1955-01-14
both open attack and internal
Subversion.


Subversion.
Indo- China Improvement.
In discussing Indo- China. Mr.
Dulles reported some improve
ment in the trend Of events here
Without specifying any par
ticular areas, Mr.. Dulles also
was quoted by Senator George
as having said this country
should not limit its efforts to
situations where there is q loo
per cent chance Of success. The
Secretary said there are a num-
ber OF, situations in the world
where the United States should
put UP "a good effort" even
though 1t is by no means certain
we will succeed.
There were times, Mr.. Dulles
recalled. when the future of free
government looked black in Iran.
Greece. Turkey and elsewhere,
but that through courageous
persistence by the peoples con-
cerned. with the help of the
United States, the threat was
successfully resisted.
When the Senate committee
takes UP the Formosan treaty,
consideration is expected to be
QiVen to the DOiYlt raised recent
ly by Benjamin Cohen, a former
State Department counsellor,
that formal recognition of For
mosa as Chinese territory would
enable the Communists on the
mainland to regard an attack on
Formosa as civil war rather
than an international aggression.
Senator George said he was
not ready to pass on that ques-
ton at this time.
Evening star., 1955-01-14
Senate Committee
Likely 10 Approve
SEAT0 Next Week
BY ]. a. o'LeorY


Approval of the Southeast
Asia Defense Treaty by the Sem
ate Foreign Relations Commit
tee next week appears likely fol-
lowing a plea for prompt action
by Secretary Of State Dulles.
Attending the committees
first meeting OF the year yester-
day, MFR. Dulles promised close
cooperation between his depart
ment and the Democratic-con-
trolled committee on all foreign
policy matters.
= The new Democratic chair
man, Senator George, Of Georgia,
quoted the Secretary as having
warned in the closed session
that there are many places in
the world where the margin OF
security is thin "and might be
lost II we do not present q
united front"
Senator George said Mr.. Dulles
told the Senators he would do
his best to see that members Of
the committee know about
things while still in the forna-
tive stage"
Meets Again Tuesday.
Senator George announced the
committee will hold another
closed session Tuesday, followed
by a public hearing at 10 am.
wednesday on the Southeast
Asia treaty. He hopes the COM
mittee will be ready to report 1t
to the. Senate by the end of
next week.
The separate defense treaty
between the United States. and
the Chinese Nationalist regime
on Formosa will be the second
issue taken up.
This places third on the
agenda the Paris-London ac-
cords designed to bring West
Germany's manpower into the
defense Of Western Europe.
Under this timetable, Senator
George said the Senate probably
would not act on the Paris Lon
don accords until after the time
when Mr.. Dulles hopes France
and Germany will have COM
plete action. The Frenc h
Assembly has approved the Ger
man agreements but the French
Council and the German Parlia-
ment still must act.
Mr.. Dulles told the Senator's
that the outlook for European
ratification Of the treaties deal
Ing with Germany is more favor
able now than 1t was some time
ago.
In urging speedy action on the
Southeast Asia Pact, Mr. Dulles
said events Of the last two
months have reinforced his
judgment that it is important to
ratity SEATO as soon as possible.
He pointed out that the United
States, which took the lead in
negotiating the treaty. should
continue to lead. 4 also is i'm
portant. he added, to show that
Western and Asiatic powers can
work together successfully.
The eight nations joining in
the SEATO pact are Australia,
France. New Zealand, Pakistan.
the Philippines, Thailand, and
the United States. 1t is q treaty
for collective defense against
Evening star., 1955-01-14
Complicated Setup

PHILADELPHIA. - The hu-
man body Comprises q system
of 206 bones which are held
together and moved 1y 696
muscles. ss3s
Evening star., 1955-05-15
BY HARRIET FRENCH

Miss Madeira (Mrs. David
L. Wing) will celebrate her
82d birthday this Wednesday.
During her 50 years of teach
ing she has been an influence
in the lives of $500 alumnae.
Even as one enters the big,
stone gates at Greenway, high
on the Virginia side of the Po-
tomac, one senses the serenity
of the place. The broad, rolling
expanse of we'll cared for
grounds, studded with flower
ing bushes and shrubs, add to
the feeling.
Miss Madeira lives in stone
house on the right side of the
driveway, about one-half mile
from the gates. She greeted
us in her big, sun-lit living
room which was literally brim-
ming over with books and f1ow-
ers. A rather tall woman with
deep, kind eyes, and curling
gray hair, she was a picture in
a violet colored dress against
the background of paneled
walls, f1owered chintz slip COW
ers and many paintings done
in vivid oils.
Likes Contrast
II like the quiet of my home
and the liveliness of the
school," says Miss Madeira,
who teaches the seniors Bible
and public affairs. II believe
that public affairs is religion
in action and l believe also
that citizenship begins at ones
own front door in ones own
community"
The educator belongs to the
Grange, Home and Community
Club. Business and Professional
Women's Club, Fairfax Coun-
ty Club, Difficult Run Garden
Club and is chairman of the
Fairfax County Red Cross
Chapter. She makes the
school with it's 144 boarders
and 68 day students a part of
county life.
"At Madeira" she explains,
"there is great freedom. The
girls think as they want in
politics and religion. 1t is a
liberal place; both Catholics
and Protestants are on the
faculty. 1 was brought up as
a Republican, but now I am
Democrat and a liberal"
AS Lucy Madeira, Mrs. Wing
entered Washington's Aca-
demic High School in the fall
OF 1887. There were only two
high schools here then-the
Academic and the Business.
1T was rather a picked crowd
in high school in those days."
recalls Miss Madeira, "and a
very fine crowd and good
teachers at Academic. I was
taught Latin by a niece of
Emerson"
Vassar Scholarship
In 1892 Miss Madeira en-
tered VasSar on a scholarship
$4,000 given by the first
branch of Vassar Alumnae.
THE tuition was $400 a year
then-it is $4,000 now! We
were very poor" explains Miss
Evening star., 1955-05-15
since World War II almost
every girl decides to 20.

since World War II almost
every girl decides to go.
"The biggest thing in our
whole history" Miss Madeira
believes, lis the American pub
lie school. People are inter-
eSted in public education. They
are not SO much interested in
culture, but they go to school
in order to command higher
salaries. Yet there are 100000
school rooms crying to be built,
teachers are leaving because
of small salaries"
When Miss Madeira decides
to leave the school she will
continue to live in her lovely
stone house overlooking the
Potomac. She has a step-son
Wilson, who is an assistant pro-
fessor of medicine at Johns
Hopkins, and a step-daughter
Mary, who is a social investi-
gator in New York City. Her
husband died several years
ago.
Il have perfect health" de-
clares Miss Madeira, II am in
terested in ideas, interested in
the individual, in the county
and public affairs. I don't walk
as fast as I did or endure as
much, and I go to bed at 10
but though l may get old in
body, I don't have to get old
in mind"
Evening star., 1955-05-15
Baking Contest. Installation Of Of.

Baking Contest. Installation Of Of
UniVersity Of Maryland Campus Club
Thursday. 1:15 pm. Old Adelphi Inn.
Riggs road. installation Of ofncers.
Aides to An ChaFities-Thursday. $40
teenth and Crittenden streets NV.
election and installation Of of, ,ers.
District DauEhters Of the American
kevolgton-Iomorrow. s pm, conti-
mental CHAPTER. hapter house, To-
conference and 64th continental Con- Con-
gress; Tuesday. 8 pm. Constitution
C6Isp Chapter, chapter a,sEie! house; ANNUAL re-
Fort MeHenTS Chapter. sia Chapter house. om:.
Chapter. with Mrs. Albert H. Jones.
54ll Third street NV, reports on
gress; Wednesday. pm. Sarah Frank
lin Chapter, chapter house. Thursday.
l pm, Martha Washington Chapter.
with Mrs Frank Lentz and Miss Mar
meeting. election Of oflcers. Thurs
day day Pm. Mary pesha Chapter.
WITH. WITH MS, Lena p. Thompson. 961
North NSTtn Longtellow stret: Aglington. Va.
with Mrs. Marguerite B. Spencer re.
gent. Aha Davis place NV. Friday.
10 am. Board Of Trustees, Chapter
ii am. chapter House 0 Corp. Chap chap:
ter house: Friday, l pm. Capt Jo-
Ghsrlf Ghe sfss5 Ssat ssss SathedTsl aye
Claughton West, regent. 3siS In.
yna1 ysI1ess s.dot,e' drive Chevy Chase; Nd. an
MasrudePP eP0ess csspts1 satTTafs TS NJ. s9 W,n
G. Waldo and Mrs. Edward Stuart
Carter, 1928 Forty-eiehth street NV.
Evening star., 1955-05-15
Miss Madeira Has Seen
So Years as Educator

Madeira. "My father was in the
Civil War; he had been in
Libbey Prison, from which he
escaped twice. He died of
tuberculosis and mother took
in boarders."
After she was graduated
from Vassar in the class of
1896, Miss Madeira made up
her mind that she would sup
port her mother. She was
offered a teaching position in
Buffalo and another in Boston
but she decided to return to
Washington and teach at
National Park Seminary. Her
salary was $3.50 a year, plus
room and board. The next
year she taught at Friends
School at 5000 per year. BY the
tenth year she was making
$3.50 and had paid back her
scholarship at the rate of 5000
a year.
About this time her sister
developed tuberculosis. II knew
would have to support her."
said Miss Madeira, so I bor-
rowed $4,000 to open my own
school. 1t was located for Is
years in Washington and has
been out here "a years. This
is my 59th year of teaching"
From the beginning, Madeira
has been a college prepara-
tory school, characterized by
its high scholastic standard
and its bluestocking students.
Not many girls went on to
college in the early days but
Evening star., 1955-05-15
Guilds Annual
Benefit Movie
To Be Thursday

The annual benefit movie
given by st. Gertrude's Guild.
will be held on Thursday at
the Newton Theater, Twelfth
and Newton streets NE. at 2
o'clock. The movie will be a
current run film.
Final plans for the benefit
were made at a spring lunch
con at the Laurel Brigade Inn
in Virginia on last Wednes-
day.
Mrs. James j. Ward is pres
ident of the Guild. Miss Mary
A. Sweeney. general chairman
of the benefit, is in charge of
tickets.
Evening star., 1955-05-15
japanese Style

A Japanese look to late
day dresses may soon make
fashion news. One Rome de-
signer uses the kimono as an
inspiration for sophisticated
cocktail wear. Typical kimono
sleeves and a V-shaped XII
mono closing are set above a
contrasting fitted midriff.
Evening star., 1955-05-15

election of officers Saturday. 2 pm,
Col. John Washington Chapter. with
Mrs. Fred NJ. Downey. 326S Chestnut
street NV. installation of officers.
Saturday. 1890 pm, Prince Georges
County Chapter. luncheon and elec-
tion of officers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-06
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in a new squeezing Of economic
blockades
But still the city grows. partly
on United States and West Ger
man government funds poured In
to defy communism but also, and
Ito an increasing degree, on q pri-
|vate capital investment that de-
fies logic. .
Production At Peak
Last April the city's industrial
production hit 100 per cent on
an index based on 1886 output,
and this compared with % per
cent on the same index In jan
luary 1850. Such industries as
the Siemens & Halske electric
plant now employing $4,000 are
bigger than before World War II
Today 871 1000 Berliners have
Jobs: despite a current influx Of
5000 new refugees per month
from the Communist east zone,
unemployment is down to lbs, 000
as compared with q 305.000 peak
In 1850.
Ask q West Berlin businessman
how 1t has been done. and he adj
Imits it couldn't have happened
without machines and dollars
sent in under the Marshall Plan,
Then he adds: land also you
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-06

need q lot Of crazy people. men
who win invest money and gam
bic their job futures In q town
the Communists could knock on
any day."
Ask a Communist official In
Poland if his land would not have
done better tied with the West
and the Marshall Plan and he
replies: Polish workers do not
want to be slaves of capitalism. "
The Polish worker has not been
personally heard from in recent
years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-06
By MARTIN S. HAYDEN

North American Newspaper Alliance
WEST BERLIN. Sept. 6.-Two
cities-warsaw and West Berlin
tell why the West is winning
, the European cold war.
Each has risen from World
War II wreckage.
Warsaw is communism's ex-
ample of a socialized state "ef-
ficiently" seizing property. inn
pressing labor and funneling an
entire national economy into one
reconstruction showpiece. West
Berlin demonstrates what de-
mocracy and some foolish" cap
italists can do 200 miles inside
Soviet lines on freedom island
without economic excuse for
existence.
Go directly from one to the
other, as this reporter did, and
the contrast is obvious.
Warsaw has newly widened
streets, monumental squares.
huge athletic stadia, workers
apartments, glass-brick depart
ment stores and bea utiful
churches and palaces restored as
they were in the nth century.
Berlin Has Patched Houses
Berlin has none of these:
thousands still live In patched
dwellings, the business district
Is utilitarian, ther has been no
vast city replanning and such
monuments as the Kaiser Will
helm Church and the big Jewish
synagogue a few block away
stand as burned-out ruins still
awaiting reconstruction.
But West Berlin is alive. and
Warsaw dead.
Shop windows are one ex-
ample:
In Poland's capital managers
Of state-owned stores try to
make up with colored Grapes
and exhibits Of Red Chinese art
mot for sale) for the lack Of
consumers goods: displayed
clothing is shoddy and expen-
sive: a departing reported. stuck
with $40 worth of zlotys that
he could neither take out nor
exchange, finally had to give
them to a Marine guard at the
United States Embassy because
he literally could find nothing
to buy.
/. Berlin's Lighted shop win
dows overflow with radios, tele-
vision sets, leather goods, fine
china, silver, sweets and cakes.
textiles, clothing and household
gadgets at prices Berlin workers
can pay.
Warsaw Goes Afoot
Traffic is another indicator:
In rush hours Warsaw's streets
are busy but most people are
afoot or hanging from damned
old trolley cars: American and
British army vehicles that went
to Poland during the, postwar
UNRRA generosity splurge still
do much Of the trucking; private
cars are for of1icial use only and
the parked limousine Of a West
ern ambassador Is q sidewalk
erowd-stopper.
In Berlin everything Is on
wheels. There are new buses,
trucks, streetcars and subway
trains. Stand at a factory gate
and you see workers leaving in
little Volkswagens and on motor
bikes. Mercedes costing as much
as a Cadillac are too numerous
to count.
Most striking is the fact that,
while Warsaw should flourish as
the heart OF a nation. West Ber-
Inns existence violates economic
reason. Berliners cannot 60 back
and forth to the adjacent Rus
slan-held countryside and the
city's raw materials ami exports
must be hauled to and from West
Germany through a Communist
tar1n wall just increased skiold