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ence A. Aspinwall, who will con-
tinue active in company affairs
as board chairman.
Promotion of Mr.. Gore, who
has been vice president and gen.
eral manager. came Gin Just rec
ognition Of his important part
in the management" said Mr..
Aspinwall.
Paul Alvey, who has served
as secretary. was promoted to
vicepresident and secretary.
Mr.. Aspinwall has been presi-
dent since the beginning of 1919
He started work in the business
on June /. 1892, when it was
the safe deposit and storage de-
partment of the American Sc
curity g. Trust Co.
Because of steady growth, it
became separate company in
1906. but American Security g.
Trust Co. has retained a large
interest. 1t is regarded as a sub
sidiary of the trust company.
Storted 20 Years Ago
Mr.. Gore, the new president,
started with the storage firm 20
years ago and became vice presi-
dent after serving in the Army
during World War II. He left the
service as lieutenant colonel.
He is a graduate of Princeton
University where he attained Phi
Beta Kappa honors and also of
the law school at George WASH
ington University. He is a men,
Der of an old Washington family
and is a nephew of the late
John Larner, president of the
Washington Loan and Trust Co.
for many years.
Mr.. Alvey has been with the
company for more than 40 years
and is a veteran of World War /.
Security Storage directors de-
clared a regular quarterly divi-
dend of $1.25 a share and an
extra dividend of Is cents a
share, both payable April II to
stockholders of record April, S.
Heads Berens Offices
George w. Franceaux, eXecu-
tive vice president of Frederick
w. Bereps Sales, Inc, and pres
ident OF Frederick w. Berens,
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Exceeds 10000 Shares

Gen. Olmstead, who is vice
chairman of Equity Corp. New
York City and president of
United Services Life Insurance
Co. and International Services,
both of Washington. said his
group acquired the bank stock
for around $150,000 indicating
purchase of around 10000 shares
of the banks outstanding 191, 900
shares. However. he said the
group already held some shares
T. Reed Vreeland will continue
as president of the bank, but will
not be chief executive officer,
Gen. Olmsted said. Other per-
sonnet will remain unchanged.
The craftsmanship has been va
cant for some time. John R.
Waller. who founded the bank in
1920 and was president for many
years, formerly was chairman
He continues as a director.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-17

August, 1852. He is a graduate
of Cornell University and an hon.
or law graduate of George WASH
ington University.
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Klein Interest Purchased

Directors of the National Met
ropolitan Bank have declared a
regular dividend of 3 per cent,
or so cents a share, on capital
stock, payable April is to holders
of record April 4, President C. F.
Jacobsen announced today.
Books for the transfer of stock
will be closed from April S
through April IA, both dates in
elusive.
Directors of the Second Ma
tional Bank have declared a
quarterly dividend OF 2 per cent,
or 81 a share. payable March 81
to shareholders of record March
81, President John A. Reilly an
YaA1.~onI
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Evening star., 1955-06-23
POTOMAC FEVER
FLETCHER KNEBEL

Army Secretary Stevens quits ambition of this key
figure in the ArmyMcCarhy hearings is to home install
TV set in every roomand keep them all turned of forever
Secretary Stevens the first eectronic casualty
They gave him TV wak-on part then made him sit down
for IA days before they'd let him walk out againi
Former Gov Brucker OF Michigan becomes the Army
Secretary Brucker may be the ArmyS last Secretary The
Ike keeps cutting the Army the job won't more
than junior typist
One fellow is installing automatic everything in his
house Saves lot of bother He merely cks switch-and
everything breaks down at the same time.
Perle Mea the United States ready for woman
President No could brave her state
ofheUnon message Shed be afraid they might
Ike slmps New England This is where Ike got political
start seven years ago. when he wrote New Hampshire editor
that he didn't propose to get into politics.
appears that hree-man military junta ruling Argen
tina The junta is the most alert form of
oers refuse to let each other out Of their sight
Evening star., 1955-06-23
MoIotov, a Master of Brozenness

doesn't mean, Of course. they
live up to what they sign.
Molotov. past master Of de-
ception, doesn't hesitate to
denounce the. other powers,
declaring that "those who pay
lip service to the principle Of
peaceful coexistence some
times tend to violate that
principle hagrantly in prac-
tice." Then he proceeds boldly
to argue about the "indispu-
table rights" of Red China to
a seat in the United Nations
and says the situation is OBJ
viously unjust and unlawful. :"
Not a word does Molotov
utter about the formal resolu-
ton of the United Nations
which in 1851 declared Red
China an "aggressor." nor
does he take into account that
hundreds of thousands of per-
sons were killed in that ag-
gression by the Communists.
Then Mr.. Molotov comes up
with the crowning insult of all.
He says that what we are all
interested in today is not
merely that certain principles
be recognized or proclaimed
but that concrete action be
taken to serve the cause of
maintaining and cementing
International peace and secu-
rity."
Mr.. Molotov ignores COM
pletely past misdeeds and the
continuance of Communist OPP
preston in the satellite states
as wells the attempts at sub
version in France. Italy and
other countries of the West.
Foreign Secretary Macmillan
of Great Britain an hour later
was making a speech at an
other gathering declaring that
Malaga was "one part of the
world where subversion is being
promoted by open violence
amounting to war" He blamed
the Communists for the armed
terrorism there.
All Molotov says he wants
is the disarmament of the
Western powers, the disman-
tling Of their military bases
and the withdrawal of allied
troops from Germany. This
would be one of the deeds"
that he thinks would establish
the necessary trust" Mr..
Molotov was even willing to
make a concession-all coun-
tries could keep "the right to
resort to those (atomic) weap-
ons for purposes of defense
against aggression"-but only
lin exceptional cases" and "by
decision Of the Security Coun-
Gill;" where the Soviets have
the veto. How naive does
Molotov think the Western
statesmen are?
Reproduction Rights Reserved)
Evening star., 1955-06-23
Royburn Seeking Eisenhower Booking
On Plan to Give Producers Free Hand

hover has refrained from COM
mitting himself personally for
exemption legislation. though
such was recommended by a
committee of cabinet men,
bers on energy resources in its
recent report to him, among
other recommendations. 1t
has been assumed he would
sign an exemption bill if Con-
gress passed one.
The first clue that the bill
might be in trouble in the
House, where it was brought
forward soon after this Demo-
cratic Congress opened, was
wnen it won only a 16-to-15
vote of approval from the
House Interstate Commerce
Committee a few days ago af-
ter protracted public hearings.
Another portent of trouble
was seen in the sudden move
by the bills sponsor, after its
squeak through. for a full
scale investigation by the In
terstate Commerce Committee
of the transportation and dis
tribution of natural gas, in
cluding costs, rates and wheth-
er, and to what extent, there
are interlocking connections in
transportation and distribu-
tion.
Still another move for the
investigation maneuver was
suggested when Mr.. Harris
appeared in midweek before
the House Rules Committee to
ask a green light for consid-
Evening star., 1955-06-23

At the San Francisco cele-
brations Of the tenth anniver-
sary of the birth of the United
Nations. everything appears to
be sunshine and love. There
are no sharp speeches de-
nouncing either of the polit-
ical-philosophical camps not
even unpleasant barbs and in
nuendoeS in which the Soviet
representatives excelled in the
past. There seems to be-on
the surface at least-one big,
happy family, glad to be re-
united around the cake with
ten candles. Four of the
charter members are in
friendly confabs eagerly pre-
pairing the ground for the con-
ference "at the summit"
China (Formosa brand, also
a charter signatory and a per-
manent member of the pow
erful veto : bestowed Security
Council. is being ignored. The
Nationalist government is de-
scribed by our British and
French friends as one of the
main causes of the present
world tensions. 1t would be
automatically improper to in
clude its Foreign Minister.
George Yeh. who is at San
Francisco, in the councils of
the Big Four foreign min
isters who are laying the
foundations for the Geneva
meetings.
There is a cautious optimism
regarding the future Of peace.
The Western policy-makers do
not say. peace is here" but
peace may be near"
The representatives of so
nations gathered at San Fran
cisco are striving hard to DEM
onstrate that the United Ma
tions is not a great futility."
as some of the skeptics have
often described it, but a live
organization which may do
much good once the differ
ences between the four major
powers are eliminated.
The best political minds in
Evening star., 1955-06-23

The natural gas bill" which
has millions of consumers so
= aroused seems to have run
Into real trouble in Congress.
At least that would appear a
onatural inference from recent
developments in the House of
il, Representatives. Among them
is the way so powerful and
placed a figure as Demo-
cratic Speaker Sam Rayburn
J is taking it upon himself to
z try to rescue this controversial
r bill that would exempt pro-
>aducers of natural gas from
regulation by the Federal
Power Commission.
~ The Texan who rules the
House seems to feel, further
more, that it may need even
e greater and higher authority
80 than his to do the trick: either
that, or he wants someone to
share responsibility with him
for this measure that has be-
Il come byword to millions of
citizens and voters. That at
least might explain what he
said when he restated his
support for the measure for
? the first time publicly in this
oCongress-which was, that its
@ enactment would require the
full support of the Eisenhower
!. administration.
That sounded like a call for
help from the President whom
the Speaker has helped out of
several legislative difficulties
this session. President Eisen-
Evening star., 1955-06-23
One Big, Happy u. N. Family?

The fact that the box score of
the fight between American jet
planes and Soviet MICS in Ko-
rea was about / to l0-about
81 Jets shot down in aerial
combat against more than 800
M1Gs-must have created some
doubts among the Soviet mar
shals as to their ability to
conquer their only real military
foe, the United States.
Thus it is surmiSed here that
the Soviet leaders have con-
cluded that the way to an easy
victory to establish world COM
munism would be to slow down
the cold war pace and super
impose a peaceful mask over
the warlike face of the Krem-
lin. Nobody is being fooled
about the new strategy of the
characters in Moscow except
those who want to be fooled.
And these are only a relatively
few fellow-travelers and be-
fuddled thinkers.
Nevertheless, the admins
tration is determined to go
ahead and probe in good faith
the Soviet plans. not because
1t believes that peace is around
the corner and the Russians
have changed overnight their
entire Social-political philoso-
ply and objectives, but because
there is a loud cry across the
Atlantic for an understanding
with the USSR on the best
terms that could be nome
tarily gained. Our concept Of
survival in a growing Com
munist world is based on
alliances with the remaining
free countries. And if the
forthcoming Geneva Confer
ence results in fiasco, Amer
lean policy-makers hope that a
setback might prove to our
allies the bad faith of the
Kremlin and affect the think
ing Of the people in Western
European countries which are
becoming neutralist.
In private conversations
some policy-makers admit that
the American eagle may be
plucked of some feathers. But
they are willing to take a
chance at losing them II a
general armistice in the cold
war can be obtained.
Evening star., 1955-06-23

the Democratic Governor of
Maine, Edmund S. Muskie.
But Republicans crossed over
to elect Mr.. Muskie because
their own candidate was un-
popular.
Normally the visit of a Re-
publican President to Repub-
lican areas would not excite
much comment. The relations
of this particular President
with his party are, however,
far from normal. It is not
alone, that he was able to win
landslide victory that they
have not since been able to
duplicate nationally or locally.
He and his cabinet and staff
OF businessmen are running
the administration to suit
themselves and the regular
organization is on the outside
looking in.
1t has never been able to
establish patronage channels
to its satisfaction. G. o. P.
Senators are usually told of
appointments after the deci-
sion has been made. They
have had to watch the Presi-
dent change the whole tone
and direction of foreign policy
and they are powerless to in
terfere lest he get mad and
refuse to lead them again
next year.
For example. the Presidents
decision to visit New England
was not a courtesy to its poll
Evening star., 1955-06-23
DORIS FLEEsON
He Is Acting Like a Candidate on Visits
To San Francisco and New EnoIonds

President Eisenhower is
making the Republicans very,
very happy this week. The
reason: He is acting like a
candidate for reelection.
During his one-day stay In
San Francisco for the United
, Nations celebration he ami
! ably consented to receive a
group of party leaders at
6 breakfast. Furthermore, he
talked politics with them and
9 1mpartially praised Californi-
Il ans Nixon, Knight and Know
; land in the best candidate
style.
Now he has taken off for
a tour of New Hampshire.
Z" Maine and Vermont where he
Twill make speeches, fish, dine
on regional specialties and be
generally agreeable to crowds
of voting Americans. The
journey is almost bound to be
"a success and no pains are
being spared to make it so.
81 For one thing, this area does
not often see a President of
the United States. It's elec-
toral votes are relatively few
u and it is normally so safely
Republican, neither party pays
much attention to it. Nor is
Il there any reason to believe
/ that it is critical of Mr.. Eisen-
hover as President.
Z, The one break in the solid
lines Of G. o. P. officeholders
who will greet the President is
Evening star., 1955-06-23
CONSTANTINE BROWN
Only Fellow Travellers and Fuzzy Minds
Are Fooled by New Soviet Strategy

Washington concede that q
temporary relaxation Of the
tension which has been going
on since the end Of the last
war might be possible. For
a number of reasons the
USSR, which alone can de-
eide whether there shall be
war or peace. appears to be
willing to suspend for a while
the cold war. One of these may
be found in an appraisal of
the actual military situation
by the Soviet general staff,
which American observers sus-
pect to be the driving force in
the Kremlin these days. Be-
fore Moscow and Peiping had
engineered the onslaught in
South Korea. the American de-
fenSes, and particularly the
air power, were being rapidly
curtailed. In the last five years,
however. we have been on our
guard and the vast military
budgets passed since have
warned the Russians that we
won't be sitting ducks. The
American people are funda-
mentally pacifist and the Mus
coVites know this only too well.
1t must have appeared
strange to the Kremlin that
these very peace-minded peo-
Piles have insisted through
their representatives in both
houses of Congress to increase
rather than decrease the bur-
den of ornaments. We talk a
lot and some people are max
ing scary speeches about the
great numerical superiority of
the Soviet air and ground
forces and about their techno-
logical know-how. But the Rus
sian marshals. who are all good
Communists and are as eager
as the veteran party members
to maintain their goals (even-
tual world conquest) know that
in these days of supersonic
planes and electronic arlna-
ments an air force, for in
stance, is only as good as the
men in the planes are skillful.
Evening star., 1955-06-23
THOMAS L. STOKES
! Natural Gas Bill Meets Trouble

Grafton of his resolution by
the House. Representative Ray
Madden, Democrat, of Indiana
blurted out that it looked to
him as if the investigation
was proposed as a smoke
screen behind which to push
the bill through the House.
Mr.. Harris was never able
to satisfy some Rules Commit
tee members why he had not
included producers also in his
proposed investigation. Their
inclusion not only was sug-
gested by members of the
Rules Committee during the
discussion, but was urged for
mally by the ranking Repub-
lican member of the Interstate
Commerce Committee, the vet
eran Representative Charles A.
Wolverton of New Jersey, for
mer chairman, who appeared
to advocate an amendment he
had prepared for that purpose.
Nor did he nor some Rules
Committee members see why
the Interstate Commerce Com
mittee could not proceed on its
own with the inquiry, as Mr..
Wolverton said had been done
on numerous major inveSti-
cations in his 20 years on
the committee, without going
through the Rules Committee
and the House. The commit
tee has ample authority. even
Mr.. Harris agreed. But his
argument was that more funds
will be needed for the sort Of
investigation he had in mind
than are available to the COM
mittee without further grant
by the House.
Evening star., 1955-06-23
He Ignores Completely All the Misery
Caused by the Kren1Iin in Ten Years

Terminated on the initiative
of the peace-loving countries"
and all that remains is to
unite Korea. Presumably this
would be done under puppet
government, which he thinks
will establish national unity
in accordance with the will of
the Korean people"
But Molotov has a conven-
lent lack of memory. Only a
year or so ago, he and the
Chinese Reds at the Geneva
Conference were, in public
speeches. refusing to accept
United Nations auspices as a
means of unifying Korea
through free elections. The
Soviet leader knows that many
of his listeners have short
memories. too, and that words
uttered today are often mis-
takenly given a meaning with
out the background of yester-
day.
Molotov had the nerve TO
refer to the Indo-China fias-
co at Geneva last year as a
great success. because the set
tlement conforms to the aspi-
rations for national liberation
of the peoples living in that
part of the world" But he
ignores the daily news dis
patches from North Wet Nam,
where Communist colonialism
has imposed a new tyranny.
Even Yugoslavian relations
with Soviet Russia came in for
the Sugar-coated treatment by
Molotov, though here he found
lit necessary to denounce the
"groundless inventions circu-
lated in the West to distort
the meaning and belittle the
significance of the Belgrade
talks and of their results"
Nothing is omitted in Molo-
tov's review to make up a pic
ture of a peace-loving Com
munist partnership in Moscow
and Peiping. Glowing praise is
given Mr.. Nehru's visit to Mos
COW, and emphasis is placed
on the Soviet plan to nor
malize" relations with Ger
many and Japan.
The Soviet Foreign Minister
even dares to say that "all the
United Nations" have recog-
nized the principle of the "en-
joyment of human rights and
fundamental freedoms for all,
irrespective of race. sex, Ian
guage or religion" But maybe
the word "recognized' is a free
translation from the original
Russian, as Molotov probably
meant that all the nations had
signed the Charter-but this
Evening star., 1955-06-23
Eisenhower Seems to Like Ike

ticians but a valentine for his
indispensable aide. Sherman
Adams. a former Governor of
New Hampshire. Mr.. Adams
is In truth and in fact Assist
ant President. The routine so
distasteful to the President is
his meat. Political problems
flow through his office.
In Washington, a call from
"Sherm" gets action faster
than anything but a call from
Mr.. Eisenhower personally.
The recipient may swear a
little, for Mr.. Adams, so quiet
and gentle in social contacts.
has adopted a curt, bullying
tone for his commands from
the White House. But if he
wants it done. it's done.
Senator Bridges of New
Hampshire, one of the Sen
ate's G. o. P. big three, and a
political foe of Mr.. Adams,
read about the tour in the
newspapers. He will be on
hand, however, and as usual,
doing his part like a thorough
professional. To the ribbing
he gets, he replies with a
smile and shrug.
Last year. when the mid
term elections were at hand
which were important to him,
the President for months
adamantly resisted all travel
proposals cutting into his va
cation time and his week ends.
Only when he learned the
party might lose did he 30 on
the road. He did not stem the
tide, but he probably saved
some Republican seats in the
Congress.
Evening star., 1955-06-23
DAVID LAWRENCE

- SAN FRANCISCO, June %.
Soviet Foreign Minister Mol
rhotov must have been laughing
sup his sleeve as he played his
$ grim joke on the United Ma
2tions Assembly here with a
4 speech which. for deliberate
disregard of what the Commu-
= -ilists have been doing in the
last ten years, has few parallels
in brazenness and effrontery.
faF With an air of innocence
that seems incredible. Molotov
solemnly, told the delegates
that the military bases being
constructed by the Western
powers in Europe have moth
g ing to do with defense" and
that this can be deduced from
the mere fact that they are to
be found thousands of miles
away from the countries con-
structing them"
Has Molotov never heard Of
the jet planes and the speed
=, with which modern bombers
~. travel nowadays? Does he
:, really think anybody will be-
,lieye his bland statement that,
:. because the United States is
= = helping to defend Western Eu-
rope. it is thereby planning to
20 attack" Soviet Russia? He
:, +, speaks of military alliances be-
a., ing made in smaller countries
in the near and Middle East
y, against the will of their peo-
! pies" as if Soviet Russia ever
a really cared about the will of
the people" anywhere in its
. orbit.
- Thus, the Soviet Foreign
Minister considers NATO and
all the other military group
ings" not to be defensive at all
but to be of an aggressive
. ,character"-which, he says, is
'f"well known" In fact, he says
that if the propaganda for a
new war" and the "armaments
race" should be intensified and
If the building of military
!" bases designed not for de-
fense but to attack other coun-
tries" should continue, then
international tensions would
= increase still more"
~ All through his speech Molo-
tov implies that the United
States and its allies would be
the "attacker" in another war.
and he plaintively cries out
that the people throughout
. the world do not want another
i war"
~ Mr.. Molotov must have
chuck1ed to himself often as
2 ne frequently used the phrase
"3 "peace-loving countries" Even
y the war in Korea, he says, was