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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-26
Appleton Clark, Jr.,
Architect in District
More Than 50 Years

Appleton P. Clark, jr.. SO, dean
of Washington architects and
active in civic affairs here, died
yesterday in st. Petersburg.
Mr.. Clark had been in the
hospital since March Is, when
he fell and broke his hip. He
had been living at his winter
home in st. Petersburg since
January.
A native of Washington, Mr..
Clark was a member of the first
graduating class from Central
High School in 1898. He was
drawing plans for buildings be-
fore he was graduated.
Was Librarian
Following his graduation he
remained at Central High School
for some time as librarian. His
wife and former classmate, the
former Florence Perry, was his
assistant librarian.
The couple lived on Delaware
avenue NE. until 1905, when
the Government bought his land
for the present Senate Office
Building. They moved to 1778
Lanier place NV, where they
have lived since. .
Mr.. Clark entered the archi-
tectural business more than so
years ago and designed many
of the well-known buildings in
the city. Among them are the
Foundry Methodist Church, Gen.
trail Presbyterian Church, the
Equitable Life Insurance Build
ing and the Second National
Bank of Washington.
He had been a member Of the
Washington Board of Trade for
more than so years and served
for many years as head of the
organizations Architecture Com
mittee.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-26
Headed Hotel Firm

He was chairman of the board
of directors of the Washington
Hotel Co. which owns the Con-
tinental Hotel and was past
director and member of the
executive CONF ittee of the
Equitable Life Insurance Co.
Mr.. Clark was a pioneer in the
low-cost housing program. More
than SO years ago he was presi :.
dent of the Washington SAM
tary Housing Co., which spon-
sored low-cost housing, and
later was an official of the Wash
ington Sanitary Improvement
Co.
Surviving are his daughter
Mrs. Lewis F. Colbert. of the
Lanier place address. and a son,
Waldo A. Clark of st. Peters,
burg. Fla.
Funeral services viii be held
at 1870 pm. Monday at Hines
Funeral Home, 1901 Fourteenth
street NV. Burial will be in the
Rock Creek Cemetery.
Evening star., 1955-03-14
Clergy Domination
OF Evanston Meetinq
Charged by LaRoe

A prominent Washingto on
church leader contends that
article published this week that
Protestant lsymen were pushed
into the background by clergy
at the World Council of Churches
assembly last summer in Evans
ton, III.
Wilbur LaRoe, ir., a former
moderator of the Presbyterian
Church, U. S. A., charges in the
current Christian Century, nom
denominational Protestant pub
lication, that "the public could
hardly avoid gaining from the
public press the impression that
Evansville was thoroughly domi-
mated by the clergy.
1.-THE newspapers and maga-
zines, most of which were liberal
and kind in their treatment of
the assembly, printed a large
number of pictures of the assem-
bly, leaders. Not one of these
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the monarchy or the Kuomin-
tang. The 1854 flood. one OF
the worst in the country's his
tory, caused widespread havoc.
Even today the people are feel
ing its effects. To natures
devastations was added the
total incompetence and dis
honesty of provincial officels in
the Peoples Republic" Lack
of adequate communications
made it difficult to transfer
even small quantities of food
from areas which were unaf-
fected by the flood to the af-
f1icted provinces in the south.
Moreover, Peiping officials ex-
ported quantities of rice and
wheat to Burma and India to
gain face" at the expense OF
their own hungry people. Mos
cow did the same thing in
making shipments to Iran.
This economic situation.
created not only by the in
competence of the Red bu-
reaucracy but also by the
edicts of the Moscow ana
Peiping dictators to devote all
energy to war industries,
causes our military and poll
tical experts to believe that
neither the USSR nor Commu-
mist China is capable of wag-
ing a major war.
Before embarking on his
campaigns to conquer Europe,
Hitler built up a sizable emer-
gency stock pile of grains AS
he conquered France or the
Danubian countries, he was
particularly careful to get
them to continue and improve
their production. He paid the
farmers cash, though in phony
local currencies, for every
bushel of grain or any animal.
Evening star., 1955-03-14

pictures that has come to our
attention included a layman."
Mr.. LaRoe asserted lit looked
to this observer that the place was
too heavily loaded with clergy
men and professors, weighted
down with brass The layman
often had to fight for his point
of view, and begged the various
commissions to make reports in
language he could understand" "
The Chevy Chase Presbyterian
Church member hit sharply at
the failure to include layman
among the six presidents elected
at the assembly. He pointed out
that Pastor Martin Niemoeller
of Germany suggested one OF
the six might be a layman.
This bold and novel sugges-
ton that a layman be appointed
for one of the six presidencies
landed in the woodworking
machinery of the assembly like
the proverbial monkey wrench
and caused some little excite
ment and delay.
IF a layman were chosen,
which one of the six distin-
guished clergymen who had been
slated for the Office would have
to step aside? Should a clergy
man be asked to step aside?
Heaven forbid"
The article noted that there
was mo surprise, and a bit of
Evening star., 1955-03-14
Constantine Brown

The food crisis and economic
situation in the USSR, some
of its satellites and Commu-
mist China are more serious
than appears on the surface.
according to reports from ref
ugees and other information
sources.
There is a great deficiency
of crops in Russia, Poland and
Romania although weather
conditions have been favor
able. This is understandable
since it is hard for farmers to
follow orders on how. when
and where to plant crops which
are issued by Moscow bureau
Gratis hundreds or even thou
sands of miles away.
Also there is confusion on
animal husbandry. Where
sheep would thrive, raising of
cattle and hogs is being Or
dered and vice versa.
Russia and Romania, once
large exporters of grain and
hogs, are now short on both.
The Russians may have
lacked Western style freedom
in the days of the Cars. But
at least they were seldom
starved. The same was true of
the countries which are now
Soviet satellites. Even with
occasional ample crops, hunger
and starvation now are as COM
mon as plenty was in the past.
There is an old Russian fable
which tells how peasant had
just accustomed his donkey to
a diet of egg shells and onion
skins when the animal curled
up and died. This might soon
be true of the Russian peasants.
China, where hunger is
perennial, is today in a worse
state than it was either under
Evening star., 1955-03-14
Fletcher KnebeI-
Potomac Fever

Ike may inviting Republican Senate
Knowland to play go with him No does Ike the
end than Knowand declares Red China
again.
Democratic Chairman Butler will confer with 27 Democratic
Governors. Democrats the
to vote against something-even it's only their better udg
ment.
Republican Congressman Avery the Agri-
culture Department to Kansas One thing about these Repub
If they can't solve the problem-theyu
An evaporated milk company selling
fcaton tags for twobs and milk label Slogan You'll
like evaporation much you won't mind your
Harold Stassens Foreign Operations Administration
dissolved June 80 Republicans frightened time
is unemployed, he starts running fo President.
Democratic Senator Humphrey he's "Percolate up
Humphrey while Treasury Secretary Humphrey
Down Humphrey Or to another way they switched
jobs still couldn't find nickel cup coffee anywhere
Democratic Senator Neuberger says may
candidates for President It's cinch long
resist the temptation of running outfit unlimited
charge account.
Evening star., 1955-03-14
Dovid Lawrence

Just as the League of Ma
tions was wrecked by the lack
of moral courage of its men,
bers in facing up to the ship
ment Of Oil by Mussolini to
carry on a war of aggression
in Ethiopia in the sos, so to-
day the United Nations stands
before the world frustrated by
the acts of its members who
permit airplane fuel to be
shipped to Red China-ag-
gressor in the Far East.
Senator John L. Mcclellan,
Democrat, has just issued a
statement which deserves
worldwide attention. For the
able and conscientious Sena-
tor from Arkansas. speaking as
chairman of the Senate Per-
manent Subcommittee on In
vestigations, emphasizes a new
and important point that was
also made by Senator Nc
Carthy, Republican, of Wiscon-
sin, when he was at the head
of the same committee last
year. Calling attention to the
statistics of the rapid growth
during 1854 of trade between
our allies and the Communist
world" Senator Mcclellan de-
clares:
These figures take on even
further significance when we
note that at this very moment
the Finnish tanker, Aruba, is
on the high seas with a cargo
of jet fuel for Communist
China. The Finnish govern
ment has notified this country
that because the vessel is
chartered to a company out
side its control, it cannot pre-
vent the vessel from proceed
ing on it's way to the Chinese
mainland. The company which
has chartered this vessel to
carry the jet fuel is the Far
Eastern Enterprises. Ltd; of
the British Crown colony of
Hong Kong.
THE State Department an
nounced on March 10 that this
Evening star., 1955-03-14

paper tiger" There is the
question of the morale of
Chiang's troops if they are
forced. by us, to give up any,
thing that they now hold But
much more important is our
own moral and legal position,
and our relations with our al
lies, notably Great Britain,
which has had little sympa-
thy for our Formosan policy
since this administration "un-
leashed' Chang Kai-shek.
after President Truman had
sealed off Formosa following
the outbreak of the Korean
War.
What Mr.. Truman intended
ultimately TO do with For
mosa was not clear, but the
step he took was a logical ac-
compartment of the decision
to resist the Communist at
tack on South Korea. He put
the Seventh Fleet in the For
mosan Strait to neutralize the
islands and keep the war lin
tied, and had we maintained
this two-way naturalization
we should have encountered
little criticism.
Writing in the current
Commentary" Mr.. G. F. Hud-
son, the British expert who di-
rects the newly formed Center
for Far Eastern Studies at St.
Antony's College. oxford, says
the United States can invoke
both International law and
morality on only one clear
ground, namely that there is
still. though suspended, the
same state of war in the area
that led President Truman to
put the fleet in the Formosa
Strait in the first place.
THE fighting in Korea was
ended by a truce; the Commu-
nists after two years of hag-
Cling agreed to a cease-fire
when they found they could
neither break through the U. N.
Evening star., 1955-03-14
Doris FIeeson-

Democrats who have planned
the denomination of Adlai
Stevenson of Illinois for Presi-
dent IN the Democratic city
of Chicago find that they
may have counted one chicken
before it Matched. For it now
appears that Chicago will not
necessarily be Democratic in
1856.
In the recent mayoralty pri-
mary, County Clerk Richard
Daley carried only two more
than half the SO city wards
to win the Democratic nom
ination. Mayor Kenn ely,
dumped by the organization,
carried 10, while an outsider
named Adamowski took four.
On the face of it Mr.. Daley
has a job ahead of him in his
party as well as the city.
Democrats were jolted again
when a Bar Association COM
mittee ordered proceedings
against their candidate for
city clerk. These proceedings
could end in disbarment.
What is more formidable,
however, against the back
ground of present political
trends, is the character of his
Republican opposition. The
Republican nominee, Robert E.
Merriam, a former Democrat,
is the type which has been
upsetting taWdry, tired ma
chimes all over the country.
Merriam is a combination of
youth, some legislative expert
ence. a touch of reform and a
clean look. With it, Governors
Meyner in New Jersey and
Leader in Pennsylvania aston
ished the country by taking
Evening star., 1955-03-14
Effect of Trade With Red China
U. N. frustrated by Members Shipments to Mao
As Wos League of Nations Over Mussoln Aid

of hostilities in Korea or else
where in the Far East.
For only an armistice and
not a treaty of peace has been
signed in Korea and the ban
which the United Nations it
self has placed on the shipment
. of strategic materials to the
Red Chinese is still in effect.
What is most disconcerting Is
the revelation of how this
strategic trade has been carried
on even during the Korean
War by members of the United
Nations, who were called upon
not to help the aggressor
It is no wonder that the
British government keeps talk
ing about admitting Red China
to the U. N. and about giving
the offshore islands Of Quemoy
and the Matsus to the Com
munists. Many Americans have
begun to wonder why, If the
British are in a giving mood,
they do not give back the off,
shore island of Hong Kong
which is really a part of the
Chinese mainland. Many peo-
pie here are beginning to sus-
pect that the British really
want to continue to use the
port of Hong Kong as a means
of trade with Red China and
that the whole British policy
of catering to the Communists
has developed because there is
money profit in doing so.
Such a suspicion, If widely
held in this country. would
have a most unfortunate effect
on Anglo American relations,
and particularly on the future
of the United Nations.
It would be a sad turn of
events if Britain succeeded in
breaking down American con-
fidence in the efficacy of the
United Nations just as Britain
in the '30s broke down the
principle of collective action at
a time when Mussolini might
we'll have been thwarted and a
second world war prevented.
Evening star., 1955-03-14
Dorothy Thompson
What About Quenooy, Motsu?
British Far Eastern Expert Points Out That Suspended
State of War Still Exists in the Formoso Strait Area

Neither Peiping nor any
American citizen knows
whether or not the United
States will fight to hold the
offshore islands of Quemoy
and Matsu. Senator Knowland
says he is convinced" we
will. Mr.. Dulles has made
statements that could be in
terpreted either way. The
President, who will make the
decision, has not spoken.
1t is a contradictory situa-
tion. The unequivocal deci-
sion of the President and Con-
gress to defend Formosa and
the Pescadores was taken to
eliminate that guesswork about
about our intentions which
might lead Peiping to blunder
into a major war.
Moscow and Peiping have
often threatened and blust-
cred, but retreated when the
costs were clearly going to be
too heavy. 1t would be hard
for Peiping to conquer For
moSa against the American
fleet and air force; the island
chain from Japan to the Phil
ippines is eminently defens-
ible, as land frontiers are not,
against manpower superiority.
and this both Peiping and
Moscow know. An unequivocal
stand should, therefore, act
as a deterrent, and this was
the administrations calcula-
tion.
What argument, then, can
be advanced to keep Peiping
guessing about Matsu and
Quemoy, where at any time
Peiping may blunder China
and ourselves into war?
There are issues involved be-
yond the purely military ques-
ton of whether the islands are
or are not seriously important
to keeping our commitment.
Some are arguing that any
further retreats will cause all
Asia to run out on us as q
Evening star., 1955-03-14
ConstontIne BroWn-
Severe Food Observation-Disclosures
Despite Good Weother, Crop Production IS Dropping
AS Formers Reap Hovests of BuneIed Edcts

Germany began to lose the
war when the food supplies
were exhausted and the coun-
try began to crumble under
the heavy attacks of the
American-British air armada.
The USSR and Communist
China. suffering now from seri-
Gus food shortages. can't take
such precautions as Hitler did.
However, our policy makers
say, this does not mean that
the Peiping rulers may not
be foolish enough to risk
a military adventure. They
might hope that America. in
fluenced by her allies and her
own aversion to war, would
refuse to live up to her COM
mitments in Formosa Strait.
Life is the cheapest COM
modify in China. Through q
sacrifice of tens of thousands
of human beings in an attack
on the offshore islands Chou
En-lai might attempt to make
the impression that the Peo-
pies Republic is not the paper
tiger it actually is. Nobody in
responsible quarters in WASH
ington has the slightest doubt
of the outcome of such folly.
But there is always the dam
ger that the Peiping dictators
may commit it despite the odds
against them.
The economic and food crisis
in the USSR, however. leads
the same American policy
makers to believe that the
men in the Kremlin will hesi-
tate to launch a third world
war by using their own forces
to save their Peiping allies
from the disaster which awaits
them in a conflict with the
United States.
Evening star., 1955-03-14

company is a Chinese Com
munist-owned company which
has its place of business in
British Hong Kong. Almost
two years ago, during the Ko-
rean War, this subcommittee
exposed the fact that a number
of companies operating vessels
out of Hong Kong. vessels
which were using the protec-
ton of flags of our Western
allies, we're companies that
were owned and controlled by
the Chinese Communists. One
of the companies we named at
that time was this same Far
Eastern Enterprises, Ltd. Of
Hong Kong. Most of these
same companies are still oper-
ating and this trip of the vessel
Aruba dramatizes the price we
are paying for the protection
the British Crown colony of
Hong Kong is giving these
companies and the failure OF
our Government to do some
thing about this most disgrace
full situation.
"In this connection it should
be pointed out that a majority
of the vessels operated py these
companies fly the British flag
and thus receive protection
from the British feet in that
area. The subcommittee
intends to continue its investi-
CATION of this deplorable stu
ation."
There are signs that the De-
partment of State is not averse
to the exposure as it has prob
ably found itself up against
stone wall in trying tc con-
vince the British Foreign Of
flee that American public opin-
ion is bound to be estranged
if the British government puts
material interests above hu-
manity and connives with the
Communists to let them nave
fuel for jet airplanes For this
can be used to kill American
youth who may be involved at
any moment in resumption
Evening star., 1955-03-14
Delay Seen on Picking
Air Navigation System
Bv the Assoeioted Press

Representative Harris, Demo-
crat, of Arkansas said today he
doubts whether Congress can
find a speedy solution to the
tangle over what air navigation
system this country should use.
Three committees are now in
vestigating the highly technical
dispute which pits the estab-
lished VOR-DME radio system
against the still developing
TACAN which the military
wants.
Mr.. Harris, head of a House
Commerce subcommittee han
ding civil air matters, said the
verdict will affect air safety
hundreds of millions of dollars
worth of equipment and the
navigation systems of foreign
countries.
Evening star., 1955-03-14

lines nor obtain forcible re-
patriation of their prisoners.
In the Formosa Strait there
has so far been no truce"
And it was Communist
China. who "by it's own delib-
crate act internationalized the
Chinese civil war by first sup
porting and then participating
in a war of aggression in
Korea.
e. The present situation
has arisen out of an interna-
tional war that the Commu-
nists began, and that continues
until a formal ,ease-fire. The
only possible basis for a settle
ment after a war which has
ended in a stalemate is that
each side keeps what it has"
The date of such q cease
fire depends entirely on the
Communists. After and not be-
fore a cease-f1re can the whole
problem of China, Formosa,
and the U. N. seat be ap-
preached.
Certainly we do not intend
to keep the offshore islands
permantly under American
protection.
We are where we are because
the Chinese Communists have
never discontinued the state
of international war they be-
gan in Korea. And there is no
reason why we should give up
anything until a cease-fire
makes negotiation possible.
Mr.. Hudson's article con-
tains the clearest thinking we
have yet encountered on this
question.
Evening star., 1955-03-14

control of their important
States. Almost more surprising,
the same style of Democrat has
been achieving local triumphs
IN such Republican strong
holds as Omaha, Nebr.; Fargo.
N. Dak.: Minneapolis and Hart
ford, Conn.
To add to his attractions in
the high tax era, Merriam led
an economy bloc in the city
council.
Admittedly Chicago Repub-
licans are not in themselves
formidable. Also Merriam is
personally obnoxious to many
pillars of that right-Wing Re-
publican capital Still. there is
a presidency to win next year,
as well as Governor Stratton
and that right-wing favorite,
Senator Dirksen, to re-elect if
possible. All the organization
pressures should favor Mer-
riam.
Not all Chicago Democrats
are as gloomy as those whose
warnings have been relayed
here. Daley is said to be en-
tirely confident. He Is count
ing heavily on his co-religion-
lists, who comprise about half
the population. and SCOTS at
the notion he will be cut for
University of Chicago profess
sor. Merriam, whose wife was
once divorced.
The obvious factors favor
Daley. But it is remembered
here that after rs years the
young and clean-cut Clark
Dilworth combination turned
out the solidly entrenched
Philadelphia Republican or
ganization.
A setback in Chicago would
Evening star., 1955-03-14
Cowboy Dies Saving Son
From Runaway Horses
by the Associated Press

MESA, Ariz., Mar. 14.-Rodeo
Cowboy Carl Dossey died yes
terday of a brain concussion he
received in saving his S-year-
old son from a pair of runaway
horses. Mr.. Dossey was riding
ahead of his son Eddie in a
parade at Chandler, Ariz.. Sat-
urday when the horses bore
down on them.
He swung his horse in front
of his sons and took the impact.
Both were thrown from their
mounts. Eddie suffered a broken
leg.
Mr.. Dossey. So. was a judge
in the annual rodeo at Madison
Square Garden in New York for
nine years. In 1910 he was
named world champion bareback
rider. He lived in Rock Springs,
Ariz.
Evening star., 1955-03-14

relief" when the suggestion was
turned down.
But Mr.. LaRoe also pointed
out the condition described is
mot mainly the fault of the
clergy. 1t is mainly the fault of
the laity. Professionalism has
fallen so largely under the con-
troll of the clergy because of the
laymen and their inadequate
understanding of their own re-
sponsibilities."
The writer asserted too much
emphasis was laid on theology,
and on eschatology doctrine Of
last things, end of the world)"
at the assembly.
1T seems a shame to divide
the church on fine points Of
theology which we laymen cam
not even understand. Sometimes
one wonders whether theology
will spoil religion"