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gu. 5. Workers
Acquitted in
State TaxCase
Cleared of Failure
To File Returns or
e.
Pay Maryland Levy

Six Federal employees who
worked at installations in Mary
land but live outside the State
today were acquitted on charges
of failing to file returns or to
pay Maryland income taxes.
Montgomery County Circuit
Court Judge Stedman Prescott
granted a motion for a directed
verdict made by defense at
torneys John E. Oxley and Ford
E., Young. jr.
Judge Prescott ruled that the
State did not show it had the
power to prosecute. The courts
ruling was made without calling
for briefs that defense attor-
neys had prepared for submits
sion today.
All six were employees at the
National Institutes of Health in
Bethesda.
The four acquitted on charges
of failure to file 1858 returns
were Avery Kerr, IS, colored, Of
1743 Lang place NE: Ned
Etherington, 80, Of 4013 Davis
place NV: Miss Rosalie Key
ton. 81. now Of Bethesda but
a District resident until last
month. and DR.. Katherine
Knowlton of 2l22 Massachusetts,
avenue NV.
The two other defendants, &C
quilted of charges of failure to
pay 1853 income taxes, were
John w. Owens. jr., So, of 1912
Yuma street NV. and DR.. Ada
Elizabeth Verder, 1916 New
Hampshire avenue NV.
The right of the State to levy
and collect taxes from employees
working on installations in
Maryland was not at issue in
the case. The courts ruling in
effect supported contentious that
the State lacked jurisdiction to
prosecute in criminal courts for
failure to pay taxes on money
earned in Federal installations.
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President Will Join
Wife at Gettysburg

President Eisenhower plans to
Join Mrs. Eisenhower at their
new farm home near Gettys-
burg. Pa, this week end.
White House Press Secretary
James c. Hagerty said today it
was not certain yet whether Mr..
Eisenhower would drive to the
farm tomorrow afternoon or
Saturday morning.
The President returned to the
White House last night from a
nine-day work and golf vacation
atlAugusta. Ga. Mrs. Eisenhower
has been at the Gettysburg farm
nearly two weeks, remaining
there to oversee final decoration
and furnishing of the home while
Mr.. Eisenhower was in Augusta.
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Five Believed Lost
As Ships Collide

LONG BEACH Calf, April 81
(P.-Five or six members of a
San Francisco yachting party
are believed lost in the collision
of the 50-foot yawl Suomi and
the Swedish motor vessel PARA
malta of Point Arguello early
today.
The Coast Guard said a skiff
with the name Suomi on 1t was
recovered near the collision
scene, SO miles northwest of
Santa Barbara, along with other
wreckage. One body has been
recovered.
Five or six men left Santa
Barbara last night aboard the
yawl Suomi bound for San Fran
cisco. Henry Meiggs, member Of
San Franchises Corinthian
Yacht Club, had just purchased
II from DR.. Burton z. Hall Of
Los Angeles.
DR.. Hall said Meiggs and
friends. including a Ralph Coop
er OF San Francisco. were taking
! IL back TO the bay city.
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NE TAUGHT HIMSELF
CALCULUS AT ID

THE FABULOUS ElNSTEIN--How
the Iote Dr.. Albert Einstein fought
himself calculus at the ose Of IA is
told in the final story Of q series on
the fomed scientists life. poss A-34.
KEEP oUT-consressionol commit
tees still like to meet in secret, but
legislators ore beginning TO react to
criticism Of the habit. The closed
door record Of the present Congress is
summed up on pose Adj.
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HEARS DISTRESS CALL
NewIywed King Hussein
Helps to Save Flyer

AMMAN, Jordan, April 81 up.
--Newlywed King Hussein Of
Jordan helped in the rescue Of
o British Royal Air Force pilot
who bailed out OF his fighter
plane today just before 1t
crashed in the desert about 20
miles northeast of Amman.
The King was plotting his own
plane when he picked up the
Briton's radio distress signals.
He altered course and located
the Raj plane Just as the pilot
parachuted.
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BY FRANCIS p. DOUGLAS

DR.. Robert s. Hutchins, chair
man of the Fund for the Repub-
lie, faced leading newspaper edi-
tors today and charged them
with watching with indifference
the erosion of freedom" in the
Nation.
The former head of the Uni
versity Of Chicago was the chief
speaker as the American Society
of Newspaper Editors opened
their annual convention in the
Hotel Statler. About 400 men,
bers are attending.
DR.. Hutchins proposed the es-
adjustment of an agency which
would report annually upon the
performance of the press. This
proposal was made first by the
Commission on the Freedom Of
the Press. which DIR. Hutchins
headed and which made q report
several years ago which attracted
q great deal OF attention.
1O.Year Trial
Such an agency. DR.. Hutchins
said, should contain representa-
tives Of the press and also lay
men, He suggested that such an
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Warning Sects Imperil
III. S. Wet Nam Bockinq
Peace Between Factions or PuIIout
OfAmericon Support Likely

SAIGON, South Wet Nam.
April 81 (P.-The United States
will seriously consider withdraw
ing all but humanitarian support
from free South Wet Nam should
Premier Ngo Dinh Diem's po-
litico-religious opponents gain
control. highly placed American
sources reported today.
They said Gen. j. Lawton Col
Inns. President Eisenhower's spe-
cial envoy now on his way TO
Washington. will tell Congress
and the administration that in
his view neither the Binh Xuyen
Society nor the Gao Dai and Hoa
Hao religious sects are capable of
uniting the country against COM
munism. They have formed a
coalition demanding the pre-
mier's resignation.
The United States shortly will
announce its continuing full sup
port of Mr.. Diem, the American
sources said. chiefly because he
is the best man now available to
carry out the U. S.-financed
agrarian reform plan and the re-
organization of the national
army into a single fighting force.
Both Plans Vital.
Both plans are considered vital
weapons against the Commu-
nist-led Wet Mini. Americans
believe that unless the Binh
Xuyen and the sects give up
their private armies and relax
their absolute rule over one
third of the south, neither pro-
gram can be realized. Both are
now in state of suspended ami
nation as a result of the current
crisis.
Should the Binh xuyen-led
front take over the country
either by force or a deal, the
embassy here is almost sure to
recommend that the multi mil
lion-dollar assistance for the
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Jenner Defends Mcleod
In Bitter Clash With Corsi

refugee program. He said he
thought the title security gang
is ian honorable title"
| Turning to Mr.. Mcleod. who
was sitting several seats away
Mr.. Jenner said, with arm up
raised. II want to tell Mr.. Nc
Leod that this isn't the first time
he will be attacked like that and
not the last time.
ANY American official doing
his duty to protect the security
of America is going to be smeared
with that kind of language"
Jenner Urged to Stay
Senator Jenner said he wanted
to commend Scott Mcleod -
Then he got up to leave for an
appointment at the Supreme
Court.
Mr.. Corsi. equally exercised,
said he thought Senator Jenner
should stay as a courtesy to hear
what he had to say.
"All the patriotism in America
does not reside in you and MIR.
Mcleod" he shouted.
Senator Jenner, who was work.
ing his way out Of the crowded
hearing room, turned to Mr..
Corsi and again waving his
arms said, Fall right. I'll put my
record against yours, Mr.. Corsi.'
Chairman LANCER interviewed
to tell Mr.. Corsi, who by this
time was waving both arms and
appeared to have tears in his
eyes "you are entitled to answer
for the record"
Unbecoming a Senator
IT think that is conduct I'M
becoming a Senator" said Mr.
Corsi. E"Other people are inter-
ested in security besides you and
Mr.. Mcleod" Then in a lower
voice, he said, 1.-The implications
of the Senator's remarks woulc
impeach the loyalty of lot Of
people besides Senator Jennel
and Mr.. Mcleod"
| Senator Jenner, whose remarks
disturbed the even tenor of the
hearing, charged that all that
was involved was Mr.. Corsi's
pride and that he wanted q
big hat" all his own
| Mr.. Corsi called this an "un-
fair statement of the case"
II did not seek the Job, the jot
sought me-"
/ Before the outburst, Mr.. Cors
denied emphatically that he hac
circumvented the Refugee Relief
| Act. He did, however, plead
guilty" to a liberal interpreta.
ton Of some Of its provisions.
Every law is as good or as bad
as its administration. This Law
lends itself to one type Of ad.
ministration or another. It car
be used very effectively to keer
everybody out or to let people
in"
In working out such project.
as bringing in groups Of Italian
cooks and tailors he had frs
sought clearance from State De-
partment Counsel Herman Phle.
ger who, Mr.. Corsi said, was "ont
Of the few people who was sym.
pathetic" to him.
He also had a plan. Mr.. Cors
said. as part Of q scheme to In
duce American employers to Civ,
/ See CoRsI. Page A.,
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result in the accumulation of I'M
limited physical energy by an
international oligarchy which
through its monopoly would be
enabled to hold all nations of
the world in terror and achieve
such a tyranny as never before
has been witnessed in human
history"
It also would have the effect
of investing unreasonable po-
tentials for the destruction of
the United States of America by
its openly avowed enemies" the
daughters warned.
The resolution urged that at
tention be concentrated on fur
ther discovery and application
of measures for the protection OF
this Nation against the "facili-
ties which our enemies have al
ready acquired, and when they
deem it expedient, will unhesi-
tatlngly employ"
Would Cut Foreign Aid
In another resolution today
the OAR recommended that all
foreign aid be reduced as rapidly
as possible and the funds applied
on the national debt to promote
a balanced budget.
Tonight. a bipartisan pro-
gram of addresses by the ma
jority and minority leaders OF
the Senate was scheduled.
Democratic Senate Leader Lyn-
don johnson of Texas will speak
on the topic, Strengthen
ing Our Country and the Re-
publican leader, Senator Know.
land OF California, will discuss
1.-THE Communist Challenge in
the FarEast."
The OAR still was hopeful
that President Eisenhower
would visit the convention. The
White House said such a visit
was not scheduled but didn't
rule out the possibility fatty
The daughters adopted a
number of other resolutions ir
quick succession.
Ind0rse McCarran Act
The OAR reaffirmed its ap.
prevail Of the McCarran-Waltel
Immigration Act in one actor
and urged "all patriotic Ameri.
cans" to resist weakening amend
ments to the law or private bills
which would Destroy its effec.
tiveness.
Congress was urged in another
action to let the Reciprocal Trade
Agreements Act expire on JUNE
IL and then assume its con.
Nstitutional responsibility of regu.
See OAR, Page At
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Senate hearings on the custer
of Edward Corsi were thrown
into noisy confusion today as
Senator Jenner. Republican, of
Indiana, shouted a defense of
State Department Security Chief
r. w. Scott Mcleod, and Mr..
Corsi shouted back that mot all
the patriotism in America re-
sides in you and Mr.. Mcleod"
The ranking member of the
Senate Internal Security Com
mittee was apparently aroused
by Mr.. Corsi's charge yesterday
that Mr.. Mcleod and the "se-
curity gang" were wrecking the
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King Hussein circled the area.
marking the landing spot until
q rescue party picked UP the
pilot. Officials said the Briton's
name would have to be an
nounced in London.
King Hussein was on his way
back to Amman after escorting
his cousin, King Faisal Of Iraq.
to the Iraqi border. King Faisal
was returning home after at
tending King Hussein's wedding
In Amman Tuesday to their dis
tant cousin. Princess Dina.
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Early Typhoon Spotted

MANILA. April 81 GA
pre-seasonal typhoon with winds
UP to rs miles per hour is grind
ing slowly across the Philippine
Sea toward Formosa. Typhoon
Anita. jumping the season which
ordinarily begins in late May or
early June, was located 670
miles east of Luzon today, NOV
ing northwest at 6 miles per hour.
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George Scouts
Report Of Effort
ToCurb Chianq
Says New Mission
Hopes to Obtoin
Late information

Chairman George of the Sen
ate Foreign Relations Commit
tee today threw cold water on
speculation here that the Rad
ford Robertson mission to For
mosa may be for the purpose
of persuading Chang Kai-shek
to withdraw from the offshore
islands of Quemoy and Matsu.
A reporter asked the Georgia
Senator If he shares the pre-
vailing view that Admiral Rad
ford, chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff. and Assistant
Secretary of State Robertson
went to Formosa to promote the
solution of establishing multi
lateral control over Formosa and
withdrawal from the Quemoy
and Matsu Islands.
II don't think So" Senator
George replied.
He said that. Of course, that
proposal might come up for dis
cussion while the Asia-African
Conference is going on at Ban
dung, Indonesia, but added. Il
don't think anything will come
of it."
Calls Chang "Adamant"
Senator George said he thinks
it more likely Admiral Radford
and Mr.. Robertson were sent To
Formosa to get an up-to-date
f1rst-hand view of the current
situation, and to coordinate the
defense forces OF Chang and the
United States.
The Senator said it is well
known that Chang is "adamant'
in his opposition to giving ur
Quemoy and Matsu.
Earlier, officials at the State
and Defense Departments fatty
refused to say why the mission
was launched yesterday but the
Capital buzzed with reports that
the United States Is applying
pressure upon the Nationalist
Chinese not to fight to hold the
off-shore islands, less they
bring on a major war in the Fan
East.
President Eisenhower dis.
patched his chief military ad.
wiser and the administration
top specialist on Asian affairs
to Taipei after series of con-
ferences with Secretary of State
Dulles and Admiral Felix Stump
commander in chief of the
Pacific naval forces.
Friends Of Chang
1t was pointed out in today's
speculation that Admiral Rad
ford and Mr.. Robertson are
probably the best friends OF
Chang Kai-shek in Washington
If bad news is to be broken to
him, no better team could be
selected for the job.
Secretary Dulles said no crisis
was involved in the deci-
sion to send the two officials
to Taipei but Admiral Radford
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military and, land reform pro-
grams be cancelled. Only help
for the 900, 900 refugees from the
Communist north would con-
tinue.
Diplomatic quarters in WASH
ington reported yesterday that
Secretary of States Dulles has
decided to support Mr.. Diem to
the utmost. officials said for
one thing, Mr.. Dulles feared a
sudden change at this time
might make Congress reluctant
to appropriate funds for aid to
Wet Nam.
u. S. Asks Internal Peace
American officials feel that the
Binh Xuyen and the sects should
demonstrate their nationalism by
negotiating with Mr.. Diem for a
peaceful solution to their diff
ferences. The coalition precipi-
tated the present crisis with an
ultimatum nearly two months
ago. They have since refused to
meet with Mr.. Diem despite re-
peated invitations from him.
American sources say to do
other than back the anti-Com-
munist premier to the hilt would
be interpreted in Wet Nam as
well as throughout the world as
evidence that blackmail is a bet
ter means of winning American
support than honesty.
The United States also would
look with disfavor on a govern
ment run by men whose past was
too closely tied up with French
colonialism, as well as one domi-
mated by persons who seek CO.
existence with the Communists,
it was indicated.
Despite an agreed truce, there
have been almost daily clashes
this week in Saigon between
government forces and troops of
the Binh Xuyen private army.
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Cey|on Hits Red Colonies
Chou Leaps Up to Reply
Bondung PorIey
Heads Toward
Stormy Issues

BANDUNG, Indonesia. April
81 tP.-Prime Minister Sir John
KotelaWala of Ceylon denounced
Communist colonialism" at the
Asian-African conference today.
Red China's Premier Chou En-
lai. obviously disturbed, immedi-
ately demanded time to make Q
reply.
Sir John, appearing before q
closed session of the political
committee, demanded that the
conference declare itself against
all forms of colonialisrn, INCLUDE
ing Communist domination Of
satellite states in Central and
Eastern Europe.
| Delegates said that as Sir John
finished Mr.. Chou leaped to his
feet and demanded that the Cey-
lon Premier's statement be cir
cularized to all delegates Of the
Donation conference SO MIR.
| Chou could reply to it at to-
morrow's committee session.
Chou Sees CO-existence
In earlier debate the commit
tee heard Mr.. Chou express the
opinion that peaceful co-exist-
ence between nations Of different
systems was possible.
Sir John, who had already
taken the spotlight with a pro-
posal made outside the confer
ence for creation of an indie
pendent Formosa. told the COM
mittee there were two forms
of colonialism and the Asian
African nations should oppose
both equally.
He demanded that Russia and
Red China dissolve the Comm
form as proof of their good in-
tentions in proposing the peace
full coexistence program sup
ported by midas Prime Minister
Nehru.
Another attack on colonialisrn
came from Prime Minister Saif
Ell Islam Ell Hassan of Yemen,
who questioned the right OF
Britain to maintain her colony
Of Alden. which adjoins Yemen.
| He raised also the question Of
colonialism In Africa and hit
out at support given by the
States and European countries
to creation Of Israel.
Committee Hits Snags
The Political C Committee adopt
ed an anti-Israeli resolution on
Palestine and one on the Dutch
New Guinea question, but hit
snags in debate over colonialism
and peaceful co-existence with
communism.
"All of us here. I take it, are
against colonialism." Sir John
said. But let us be equally
unanimous and equally positive
in declaring to the world that we
are unanimous and equally posi-
tive in declaring to the world
that we are unanimous in our
opposition to all forms of Colo
nialism and in our determination
to take decisive and expeditions
action to wipe out all forms of
colonialism throughout the en-
tire world.
"You may say that colonialism
is a term generally understood
and capable of only one meaning.
cannot agree"
Sir John said colonialism takes
many forms with the first and
most obvious form western
colonialism. Then he added:
There is another form Of
colonialisrn, however, about
which many of us represented
here are perhaps less clear in our
minds and to which some of us
would perhaps not agree to apply
the term colonialism at all.
Think, for example, Of those
satellite states under Com
munist domination in Central
and Eastern Europe-of Hun
See BANDUNG. Page "A
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Hutchins Calls Editors
Indifferent to Freedom


trial and at the end of that time
an audit be made of its achieve
ments.
DR.. Hutchins cited list of
specific, occurrences to document
his charge that American free
doms are being whitfield away.
1.-THE most distressing part of
it." he asserted. sis not that
these things happen, but that
the free press of this country ap-
pears to regard them as a matter
of routine"
One-Party Press
He also reiterated the charge,
made by Adlai Stevenson in the
1862 campaign, that we have q
"one- party press" The charge
was repeated in effect by for
mer President Truman last Sat-
urday. when he said much of
the press" throws a "cloak of
protection" around the Essen
hover administration.
DR.. Hutchins said:
"Of course we have a one
party press in this country, and
we shall have one as long as the
press is big business and as long
as people with money continue
to feel safer on the Republican
side"
This drew an answer from
Jonathan Daniels, editor of the
Raleigh News and Observer.
While conceding the one-sided-
ness of the press, he denied the
importance attached to it.
In national affairs he said, the
"so-called one-party press only
proved its power after five bad
tries and then with the aid of
a quarter of a century of &C
cumulated irritations with one
party in power, and at least the
substantial assistance of a man
about whom, at least, there was
no uncertainty of his military
glamor."
500 on One Side
He said that, while the over
whelming majority of newspa-
pers call themselves independent,
80 per cent of them have con-
sistently followed one party's
line for a quarter of a century"
He added:
I'm local affairs, however, IN
dependence has become an edi-
torial word for nambypambi-
ness"
DIR. Hutchins said the great
issues of our times are peace and
freedom.
"And what Of freedom in the
garrison state?" he asked.
"Since most of you take the Of
fetal line that the only i'm
portant fact of life Is our inn
minent danger from the inter-
national, conspiracy, most of you
have watched the erosion Of free
dom without a twinge.
when the official line per-
mitted you have sailed forth, as
when you CALAMITY led the
troops from the rear in a belated
attack on Senator Mccarthy.
You have filled the air with
warnings Of the sinister figures
of the Left. but have printed
nothing about the fat cats on the
Right.
"You have allowed things to
get to such a pass that some
Government departments now
have guidance clinics in which
the employee is taught how not to
look like q security risk.
illustrates Thesis
Look at the Passport Divi-
sion, interfering with the travel
of Americans on their lawful oc-
casions; at the Attorney Cen
erals list. running the lives of
thousands on the basis Of hear
say; at the Post once Depart
ment. saving us from Pravda and
Aristophanes: at the State De-
partment. adding the name oil
Edward j. Corsi to those OF
John Paton) Davies and tJohn
s. Service and countless others
"see the blacklist spreading In
! Continued on Page B-l, Col.
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Atom Pool Plan
Raped by OAR
Opposes Sharing
information in u. N.

The Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution today urged "irn-
mediate abandonment" of all
plans for pooling of atomic in
formation and resources among
United Nations countries.
The OAR said in the resolution
1t believed such pooling could
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Other OAR Stories and Pictures.
Pages AS. AT and 81
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WEATHER FORECAST

Cloudy and warmer tonight and tomorrow
with showers likely. Low tonight near Sc.
Gull report on Page A-2)
Evening star., 1955-02-25
Generals
HOnOred
ByDutch

Two American Army gen.
erals were honored by the
Netherlands government yes
terday
Maj. Gen. william L. Bar
riger. assistant to the Secre-
. tary of Defense for research
and development, was made a
grand officer in the Order Of
Orange Nassau, with crossed
swords. and Brig. Gen. William
j. Bradley, now retired. was
presented with the Cross for
Right and Freedom, with
badge inscribed. Korea, 1880"
The honors were conferred
by Maj. Gen. w. TIL. Carp,
Netherlands military attache,
in tribute to the two officers
service in Korea where Gen.
Barriger was commander Of
the I'd Infantry Division to
which Dutch troops were
assigned. Gen. Bradley was
deputy commander.
Following the brief cere-
mony, held in the attaches
home on Thirty-fourth place,
Gen. Carp was host at a
luncheon in honor of Gen. and
Mrs. Barriger and Gen. and