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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-16
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Secretary Of Army Brucker
Honors Reuben Robertsons
sy BETTY BEALE

winning $4,000 would be the
time.
Anyhow. the McCutchens
ny down this afternoon and
fiy back tonight. They are
coming by commercial plane.
Though Gen. Shepherd would
have provided transportation
for the ofiicer, whom he wants.
to congratulate In person for
his fine Marine Corps spirit.
the rules forbid Mrs. Nc
Cutchen use Of q military
plane.
Gen. and Mrs. Shepherd also
win have q very special guest
for q dress parade and party
on the 3Oth. Their invitations
are already out for this affair
that viii be In honor Of the 2l-
year-old Prince Albert Of Bel
gium. The Shepherds haven't
met the prince but he Is COM
ing here on o naval tour, hence
the Marine fete.
Undersecretary Of the Army
and Mrs. Charles Finucane
said they spent the summer
here with the exception Of two
weeks at their ranch in Idaho.
Was 1t Q working ranch? Was
it ever! Just 10 minutes before
coming to the party, Charlie
said he had sold via telephone
500 head of cattle. represent
ing this years crop Of calves.
/ don't know how big a herd it
takes to produce 500 head an
nually, but 1t can't be small.
Gen. Persons Top Dog
Mai. Gen. Jerry Persons.
who's now top dog at the
White House with the absence
Of the President and Assistant
President" Sherman Adams,
was exchanging quips with
White House Assistant Fred
Seaton. Fred said Jerry was
even calling star meetings and
he was calling them for 7:45
in the morning. Jerry re-
torted that he had to keep
them in practice for Sherman
Adams.
They hadn't heard q word,
they said, out Of Sherm. who's
mentioning quietly with his
wife in Switzerland. He will
return from his six-week va
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cation on the 2eth Of this
month, when Jerry Persons
win take his. He and his wife
are also going to Europe and
also don't plan to travel the
sambassadorial circuit.
Fred Seaton said his family's
pet skunk. Little Flower. died
this summer. which proves. !
think, that there's one thing
on earth that doesn't do as
well when de-odorized.
Assistant Secretary OF De-
Tense Gordon Gray chatted
with the Wade Haislips: DR..
Pat Cushing with the George
Wyeths. DIR. Cushing Is now
deputy assistant secretary OF
defense for health and medi-
cine. His. boss, Or. Frank
Berry. was there. too. Mr..
Wyeth Is special assistant to
the Secretary Of Defense.
Mrs. william MacCracken
was there with her daughter
Nell and . pretty young Por-
tuguese girl who Is visiting
them. Anne Garter Greene
went down the line with Wall
ter White.
Others were Secretary Of
the Navy and Mrs. Thomas,
the Homer Oruenthers. who
yacationed with Ed Noble on
one OF the Thousand Islands:
Assistant Secretary Of De-
Tense and Mrs. Wilfred Me-
Neil, Gen. and Mrs. John
Hull, Col. and Mrs. Cary RAN
dali, the Herschel Schooleys.
Assistant Secretary Of De-
Tense Franklin Floete, and
Brig. Gen. John Houck, who
has to shepherd junketing
Congressmen when they so to
Elir0ne
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Mrs. Wick
is Wed

Mrs. Anne Farrelly Wick,
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Richard L. FarreIly Of New
York City and Mendham. N. j..
was. married yesterday to Mr..
Paul r. Locher. son Of Mr..
and Mrs. John q. Locher Of
Monticello. Iowa.
The Rev. Joseph T. Durkin
performed the ceremony In st.
GATHERINGS Roman Catholic
Church in Spring Lake, N. j.
A reception for members of
the immediate families was
held following the ceremony
at the home of the brides
grandmother, Mrs. Louis Car
berry Richie.
The bride was given in mar
rage by her father and was
attended by her sister. Miss
Liza Carbery Farrelly. Mr..
John q. LOcher. jr., Of Cedar
Rapids. Iowa, was best man for
his brother.
The bride Is the widow Of
1t. John Glen Wick. USN.
The bridegroom was gradu-
ated from Notre Dame UNI
versity and subsequently was
conferred q masters degree
from Harvard and . Ph.D.
from the Sorbonne.
After serving overseas in the
United States Navy during
World War II he Joined the
faculty at Georgetown Univer-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-16
Independence
Is Celebrated

Mexican residents Of the
city gathered at the Embassy
last night to commemorate the
anniversary of their independ-
ence from Spain.
Senior Don Rafael Nieto,
Minister Counselor Of the en-
bassy, gave the actual cry that
Father Miguel Hildago y Cos
tilla gave in 1910 calling the
people Of Mexico to rebellion.
independence day Is actually
September is but was cele-
brated here last night with
the commemoration and q
reception.
June Wedding Planned
MIR. and Mrs. Daniel L.
Fisher Of College Park an
nounce the engagement Of
their daughter Joan Eta TO
Mr. Lee Edwin Carter. son Of
the Rev. and Mrs. Glenmore
r. Carter Of Houston, Tex. The
wedding will take place In
June.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-16

President and Mrs. Eisen-
hover are due back in WASH
ington October 20. The $64.-
900 winner, Marine Capt.
Richard McCutchen, comes to
Washington this afternoon.
This was cleaned ct the re-
eeption given by Secretary of
the Army and Mrs. WILDER
Brucker yesterday afternoon in
Nonor Of the new Deputy
Secretary Of Defense and mrs.
Reuben Robertson. The recep-
ton, itself. had q new feature.
When the bulk Of the guests
had arrived at the 6-to-8
gathering at the Fort McNafr
ofIicers Club, q narration set
to music was read by Col. John
K. Eny who wrote 1t. It was q
special musical salute" in
honor Of Secretary Robertson,
and traced the history of the
Army from its Yankee Doo-
die" days, through cts q
Grand Old Flag" ETC.. UP to
the STARS and Stripes For
ever"
It couldn't have been better
timed. Just as it was an
nounced that they were about
to present something specially
nice, in walked the nice Army
Chief Of staff and Mrs. Max
well Taylor.
They were greeted by q smil-
ing foursome, the two women
hatless and in black. Mrs.
Brucker's square neckline was
hiehlighted with pale blue
satin. Mrs. Robertson's dress
was printed with q tiny white
fleck.
$4,000 Winner Here
Marine Commandant Gen.
Lemuel Shepherd revealed that
he had invited Capt. McCutch-
en- and his wife to come down
to Washington for dress parade
today and q small party after
ward. He first invited them
both to lunch but the Captain
couldn't make It. ] suppose
If there were one time when
. Marine captain could be ex-
cused for not accepting an in
vitation from the top 4-star
Marine general, right after
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sity where he is presently As
sociate Professor of Modern
History.
After a wedding trip the
couple will make their home
here.
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Tea Sunday

District junior aiuninae Of
ri Beta Phi win open their fall
program with q tea to be held
at 4 pm. Sunday In the home
Of Mrs. Howard Mott Of $500
Van Ness street NV.
Evening star., 1955-07-23

new requirements, new aspira-
tons are emerging almost every
where as man climbs the upward
path of his destiny. Most en-
couraging of all is the evidence
that after centuries of fatalism
and resignation, the hopeless of
the world are beginning to hope.
Century of Peace"
But regardless of the results
achieved through the United
Nations efforts or the individual
efforts of helpful nations, trade
remains the indispensable arte-
rial system of a flourishing world
prosperity.
If we could create conditions
in which unnecessary restrictions
on trade would be progressively
eliminated and under which
there would be free and friendly
exchange of ideas and of people.
we should have done much to
chart the paths toward the OBJ
jectives we commonly seek.
BY working together toward all
these goals, we can do much to
transform this century of recur-
ring conflict into a century of
enduring and invigorating peace.
This, I assure you. the United
States of America devoultly de-
sires-as / know all of us do.
Evening star., 1955-07-23
On RemodeIing Copitol

There is before Congress a
proposal that deserves the at
tention of every American.
Congressional committees have
approved. without public hear
ingS or discussions, SIS mil
lion appropriation to denolish
the present historic east front
of the central part of the
United States Capitol and
erect a new front of different
design 20 feet farther east.
Two reasons are given for
these proposals: ID That more
space is needed in the Capitol
for dining rooms and commit
tee rooms, and 90 that the
change will remedy a technical
fault, namely, that the present
dome overhangs the back wall
of the portico.
This project, if allowed to go
through, will destroy the orig
inal, historic Capitol facade,
designed by three distinguished
early American architects and
approved by Washington and
Jefferson.
Since 1905, proposals, more
or less the same, to correct
this technical fault have many
times been before Congress.
Always wise men have stopped
them. The American Institute
of Architects. in annual CON-
ventions in 1887 and in 1949,
unanimously passed resolu-
tions opposing these changes.
Again this year the American
Institute of Architects at their
national convention in Mime
apoliS expressed their disap-
proval of the present proposal.
At this time the institute, rec
ognizing the need for more
space in the Capitol, proposed
that the entire problem be
studied with the objective of
finding, if possible, space for
new dining rooms and COM
mittee rooms in other areas
of the building where it would
not be necessary to disturb
the historic facade. Further,
the institute has offered the
services of a committee of dis
tinguished and unbiased ar
chitects to make the study.
1t is disturbing to realize
that this building. which has
come down to us through 1863
years and has survived in it's
authenticity and integrity as
such a beautiful thing, may
again be subjected to the
wheel of artistic chance. Con-
gress is faced with the choice
OF preserving a monument of
invaluable worth or building
a mere reproduction worth
only the cost of labor and
material that goes into it.
Lorimer Rich. F. A. /. A.
Evening star., 1955-07-23

brought from the President
was a press-conference obser-
vation to the effect that men,
bers OF Congress were trying
to work out a satisfactory bill.
and he hoped they would be
successful, ..
However, nobody has any
doubt that the President will
sign the bill if it gets through
Congress, just as he signed the
offshore oil bill of the last
Congress which likewise was
promoted by big oil interests
that contributed heavily to his
1852 presidential campaign.
While the bill has the close
personal attention of the most
powerful figure in the House,
the Democratic Speaker, it is
no longer in such a favored
position in the Senate. The
Democratic leader there, also
from Texas-Senator Lyndon
B. Johnson-is in the hospital
recuperating from a heart at
tack, and will be unable to re-
turn to the Senate this session
to give the measure his per-
sonal attention. In the Senate
the bill is sponsored by Sena-
Evening star., 1955-07-23
|Africun Ruler Gets
His Throne Back

LONDON. July % tP. The
King of Buganda, who was ban
iished two years ago for refusing
to cooperate with British on
icials. won permission yesterday
to return to his throne in the
African protectorate.
Colonial Secretary Alan Len
Inox-Boyd told Commons the
Cambridge educated King - or
Kabaka-would be allowed to 20
back on condition he accepts a
new constitution for his million
African subjects.
The Kabaka, who was sitting
in the spectators gallery when
the announcement was made,
already has indicated he is ready
to accept the new constitution
and remount the throne as
Mustea II.
Evening star., 1955-07-23
THOMAS l. STOKES
The Legislative Sneak 7hrouqh

tor J. William Fulbright, DEM
ocrat of Arkansas.
Even if the bill gets through
the House at this session, it
might be held up in the Sem
ate until next session. There
is only one hitch to such de-
lay. It is political. A bill SO dis
tasteful to so many millions of
consumers-and voters-is not
the kind that a political party
cares to have linked with it in
an election year, and both
parties are involved in spon-
sorship of this natural gas
bill. as both parties are rep
resented likewise in the bitter
opposition to it.
But there is a political haz-
ard, too, in jamming through
the bill in the closing days of
this session. 1t might not look
too well to the public if the
Democratic 84th Congress
should do that and then end
its first session without acting
on a number of other measures,
such as school construction,
public housing, highways.
That would look too much
like putting special interests
and big campaign contributors
ahead of the needs of school
children and families.
Evening star., 1955-07-23
u. S. VS.. Private Business

Perhaps / can answer &C.
w. Ms" letter in the July 10
issue of The Star, which asks:
why did Federal employees
through the American Fedora
ton of Government Employees
support an amendment to
curb the transfer of certain
defense agency functions to
private industry?"
The amendment. Section
638 of the bill. prohibits con-
tracing -out of Government
operations to private industry
only in cases where it would
he economically unsound or
dangerous to the national de-
fense.
AFGE members share &c.
w. MS" concern for economy
and, for that reason. have OPP
posed efforts to close down.
Government operations that
have been operating efficiently
and economically and con-
tracing out the work to pri-r
vate firms at a considerably
higher cost to the taxpayer.
Likewise. we feel that the
navy yards and other defense
installations maintained by
the Federal government over
a long period of years are a
part of our country's first line
of defense. Their sole function
is to meet the exacting and
highly specialized needs of the
armed services. The men and
women employed there are.
Just as people who work in
Offices. career civil service
workers.
AS for the argument of COM
petition with private busi-
ness, is it really competition"
for so employees of the Boston
Naval Shipyard ropewalk.
which has been in existence
since the Revolutionary War
era, to work on the develop
ment and testing of combat
quality rope for the Navy.
If the criteria is to be that
private industry should take
over every job that some busi-
ness firm is willing to perform
at a profit, then we should
dissolve the Census Bureau
and invite a private poll-tak-
ing firm to take the census,
abolish parcel post and per-
haps invite bids for private
delivery of letters and, per-
haps, invite Capital Transit to
take over the operation of the
Senate subway.
Neither the AFGE nor the
congressional supporters of
Section 638 believe that the
Government should continue
functions that private firms
Evening star., 1955-07-23
Trode Borriers Impede
Peace, President Says

GENEVA. July % tR.-The
tert OF President EtSenhot0er's
address yesterday to the siTth
session of the four -poiDer sum-
NIT conference:
According to the adopted
agenda, today we meet to discuss
methods of normalizing and in
Icreasing the contacts between
our nations in many fields. I am
heartened by the deep interest
in this question, which interest
implies a common purpose to
understand each other better
Unfortunately there exist unnec-
essary restrictions on the flow
between us of ideas. of things
and of people.
Like other questions We have
considered during the past -four
days, this one cannot be consid-
ered independently or in isola-
1tion. All are related by their
direct Importance to the general
lobjective of leSSening world fears
and tensions.
Lists Three Steps
To help achieve the goal OF
peace based on justice and right
and mutual understanding, there
ARE certain concrete steps that
could be taken:
l. To lower the barriers which
now impede the interchange OF
information and ideas between
our peoples.
2. To lower the barriers which
now impede the opportunities
of people to travel anywhere ir
the world for peaceful. friendly
purposes, SO that all will have a
chance to know each other face
to face.
3. To create conditions which
will encourage nations to in.
crease the exchange of peaceful
goods throughout the world.
Progress Toward Peace"
Success in these endeavors
would improve the conditions o1
life for all our citizens and else
where in the world BY helping
eliminate poverty and ignorance
Evening star., 1955-07-23

We can take another step In
progress toward peace.
Restrictions on communica.
tions of all kinds, including
radio and travel, existing in
extreme form in some places
have operated as causes OF
mutual distrust. In America
the fervent belief in freedom oi
thought, of expression and oil
movement is a vital part of oul
heritage. Yet during these past
10 years even we have felt com.
PEELED. in the protection of oul
own interests, to place some
restrictions upon the movement
of persons and communications
across our national frontiers.
This conference has the op.
portunity, I believe, to initiate
concrete steps to permit the
breaking down Of both mild ano
severe barriers to mutual under.
standing and trust.
Emphasizes Trade
Now I should like to turn tt
the question of trade. I assume
that each of us here is dedicated
ito the improvement of the con.
Iditions of life of our own citizens
Trade in peaceful goods is ar
important factor in achieving
this goal. If trade is to reach it.
maximum capability in this re-
gard. it must be both voIuminous
and worldwide.
The United Nations has prop
erly been concerned in making
available to the people of the
Iunderdeveloped areas modern
technology and managerial abil.
titles, as well as capital anc
credit. My country not only
supports these efforts. but ha,
undertaken parallel projects out.
side the United Nations.
In this connection the new
atomic science possesses a tire.
mendous potential for helping
raising the standards of living
and providing greater oppor.
tunity for all the. world. World
wide interest in overcoming pow
erty and ignorance is growing b,
leaps and bounds, and each o.
the great nations should do itl
utmost to assist in this develop
ment. AS q, result new desires
Evening star., 1955-07-23
POTOMAC FEVER
FLETCHER KNEBEL

The Big -Four conference may America a lot of
casualties After Ike spectacular showing there Democrats
talking about calling off the Sc election
question about Ikes offer to swap military blueprnts
with the Russians Will aerial photography disclose nook
and where Air Secretary Talbot does business?
Washngtons 1855 prize for extra effort Air
Talbot for holding $4,000 worth of outside
poor boy, trying to work his to the cabinet.
Welcoming Americans to the newest Soviet fad
In fact there's Moscow will give visa
Carthy-as he's located by the Bureau of Missing
Persons.
The Agriculture Department farm income is down
four cent from last Democrats sad
this is indeed bad newsand they're it wasn't
Vice President Nixon presdes cabinet meeting The
discussion lasted almost three hours Nxon job report
all to Ike-in paragraph
Evening star., 1955-07-23

"Apostles of Free Enterprise"
intelligence and fortitude
enough to face this fact.
The longer and stronger the
strike threat grows. the weaker
shall grow our general econ
omy. Surely, the strikers will
advance their economic posi-
ton, directly in proportion to,
and at the expense of, not
management, as they would
have us believe, but of the
nonstrikers.
Sooner or later the police
men, the doctors, yes, and the
soldiers, whose ethics forbid
such practice, will realize that
those such as the bus drivers,
who cause the former to pay
ever greater fares, are not
friends, but literally pickpeck-
cts. 1t would be no less than
reciprocal for the policemen
to refuse to intervene in the
criminal attack of a striking
bus driver, or for a doctor to
refuse medical aid to a strik-
ing bus driver or his family.
j. Jackson.
Evening star., 1955-07-23
LoteSession Sleeper Bill Would Free
Cos Producers From FPC REGULATION

The confusion at the fag-
end of a session of Congress
always offers the chance for
last-minute "sleepersv in the.
form of legislation that is con-
trary to the public interest.
There is another camouflage
factor. Congress usually winds
up in the middle of summer
when so many folks are away
on their vacations or other
wise have their attention dis
tracted and so pay little heed
to what goes on here in Wash
tngton. At this particular time,
the Big Four Conference at
Geneva draws interest to the
exclusion of less dramatic po-
litical matters.
So this is propitious sea-
son for the legislative sneak
through. Sometimes it is a
gesture toward campaign con-
tributors.
OF such is one sleeper" bill
now being made ready for the
quick, last-minute treatment.
That is the measure to ex-
empt natural gas producers
from regulation by the Fed
eral Power Commission. 1t is
being pushed by big oil inter-
eSts that are regular and heavy
contributors to candidates in
both parties. Oil plays both
sides, and always has.
Though the natural gas bill
was slowed down for a time by
a widespread revolt among
consumers who are agitated
over further increases in gas
prices, orders now have gone
out from Democratic Speaker
of the House Sam Rayburn,
from the oil State of Texas,
for hurry-up action in the
closing days of Congress.
On his instructions. the
House Rules Committee will
take up Tuesday a request for
an early place on the House
calendar for the highly con-
troversial bill from Represent
ative Percy Priest, Democrat
of Tennessee, chairman of the
House Interstate and Foreign
Commerce Committee, which
gave it skimpy approval by a
1915 vote a few weeks ago
He will be seconded by the
author of the House measure
Representative Oren Harris
Democrat of Arkansas.
How soon the Rules Com.
mittee acts thereafter may de-
pend upon how much time il
allows opponents to testify
The latter will ask that plent,
of time for debate in the House
be provided in whatever rule
the committee formulates fol
consideration of the measure
by the House itself.
Meanwhile. the bills op.
ponents are stirring up back
fire among consumer constit,
uents, especially in the bis
cities of the East and the Mid
die West. to sweep in upon tn,
House when it begins to con
slider the legislation.
The vote is expected to b.
close when it comes, though
it is presumed that SpeakeI
Rayburn feels fairly safe sine,
he is bringing the measure for
ward now. He had a poll mad,
both among his own Demo
Gratis and among Republican,
before moving to shove th'
measure to the floor.
A few weeks back the Speak
er did not seem very confident
You may recall that he ISSUED
a statement calling upon Pres
ident Eisenhower to throw hi
influence behind enactment o
the natural gas bill. All tina
G.
Evening star., 1955-07-23
LETTERS TO THE STAR

could do better. more econom-
ically and without weakening
national security. Unfortu-
nately. these are not always
the criteria used in deciding
whether a Government opera
ton should be discontinued
Thus the need for Section 638.
James A. Campbell,
National President. American
Federation of Government
Employees.
Evening star., 1955-07-23
Strikes in General

Sooner or later it must be
generally recognized that the
strike, as practiced today, is
in fact a malignancy on our
economic existence.
Apparently Senator Taft
was the only statesman with