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begun to tie in with Federal agen-
cies-the Corps of Engineers, Coast
Guard, Navy, Public Health Service
and private agencies such as the
Red Cross. AS the Nation modified
to meet chaos, the one office that
had o comprehensive picture was
Disaster Mary's.
And. Of course, that special phone
was on its hook.
The President was in Denver.
Miss Tobin's reports began to
stream to him. through Bill Hop
kins or Art Minnich Of Sherman
Adams staff, and the news was
worse than usual. BY the night Of
August 10 Miss Tobin was sure the
disaster was one OF the worst In
the country's history. One Of her
realizations Of this fact had come
not alone from the damage to the
Carolinas, but out Of report that
a passenger train was stranded In
the Pocono Mountains Of Pennsyl-
vania. II knew the area, knew what
1t would take to flood 1t, and knew
the fantastic rate Of the RAINFALL"
she recalls.
Friday was to confirm the worst
fears Of her ofiice. SO that a full
day before the Governors Of the
stricken States issued their call for
the declaration of q national emer-
gency. FCDA had so firm a grasp
Of the essential details that the
terms of the Presidents disaster
declarations were already certain.
The Humon Side
In o personal sense. though
death and destruction are a har-
rowing business, Miss Tobin finds
some genuine satisfaction In her
work. At an operational level 1t
brings her in contact with the en-
cheering profession. which she
considers one Of the noblest Of hui
man callings. and in its broader
aspect 1t brings her the pleasure
Of watching the American people
react to the needs Of their fellow
citizens.
In the SHOWS Of q few years ago.
which blanketed 10 States. there
were the airiines that volunteered
emergency food drops. There was
the food professor who called to
offer free canning Of surplus prod
ucts. In q flood there were the
drug companies that offered to re-
stock local drug stores. There was
the Red Cross swinging its volun-
teers into action to counteract
human misery. I'VE deal with
things" she says. They deal with
people"
Mary Tobin recalls the woman
who wrote to her to ask. during
a blizzard, whether the birds were
being fed. II. was pleasant to be
able to write back" Miss Tobin
said, land say. Yes. even the birds
are ching fed with the idea in
your mind that the American peo-
pie had even taken care to watch
the fall Of the sparrows. It's
the thing that takes you back to
the coal fields where you under
stand disaster is more than misery;
1t also brings out some fine things
In the human spirit"
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voters district. These delegates do
not have separate voting levers.
The voter moves the voting lever
only for the presidential candidate
whose name heads the list.
Because every slate must be
organized under a chairman whose
name Is so designated on the bal
lot, there Is no room for develop
ment OF factional splits before the
convention credentials committee.
Naming the delegation chairman in
advance is o new idea in primaries.
Under the law. II more than one
slate is filed for the same candidate.
the candidate can choose the one
he wants to represent him. If he
expresses no choice, the first slate
to file is the only one that gets on
the ballot.
Organizations
Both Mr.. Stevenson and Senator
Kefauver are causing states to be
organized in their behalf, but the
law also provides for unpledged
states, as long as these, too, are
clearly spelled out with q delega-
ton chairman designated. To be
effective, these states would have
to indicate publicly whom they are
attempting to draft.
According to DR.. David. no-pref-
erence states have worked satisfac-
torily In South Dakota, while the
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BY JERRY BLIZIN

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Political
scientists and politicians are look
ing forward with high degree OF
interest to the Florida presidential
primary, May 20.
The political scientists want to
see how the new model" primary
law will work out.
And politicians want to see how
Adlai Stevenson and Estes Ke-
fauver win rate with Dixie voters
in their only head-on primary
clash in the South.
Florida hag-wavers. long &C
customed to waxing poetic over
the States climatic assets, are now
enthusiastic over their new pri-
mary law, which they hope will set
o precedent for other States as
well as establish q measure Of po-
litical maturity in their own
bailiwick.
The law establishing the primary
Ia o political scientists product.
created after O Nation-w vote
study made under the direction Of
the Brookings Institution In
Washington.
The Best Features
According to william A. r. Ste
phenson, one Of the Florida au-
thors, the law Ii designed to en-
compass the best features Of other
primary laws-plus additional fea-
lures which combine to Cd empha-
size the individual voters opportu-
nifty to express q preference for
candidates, (2) permit him to
choose an organized slate Of con-
vention delegates and 90 maintain
party responsibility In the primary
process.
A single click Of the voting ma
chine does the whole complicated
Job.
No other State primary reflects
preference OF the voters to the
same degree. In New Hampshire.
for instance, scene Of the Nations
firSt primary, March IL, delegates
run On their own, and q separate
advisory popularity contest n held
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Voice Of Doom Carries
Bad News to President

voice Of the man who's talking to
you. Sometimes It's the silence.
What I mean IL, you've been in
contact with an area. then suddenly
communications are out. All these
things build up your feeling Of
what's going on. You check every
thing, listen to everything. II a
newspaper has o report that hasn't
reached you through official chan
nels, you check 1t. Same thing with
radio. You leave nothing to chance"
Chance" would be a dangerous
expedient indeed, considering the
scope of the agency in which Miss
Tobin works. BY executive order
FCDA is the co-ordinating body for
all Federal relief measures and the
agencies that contribute to 1t In
times Of emergency. Miss Tobin's
instinct. intuition and basic know
how. her correlation Of facts. are
a central eye-view of the problems
at hand for FCDA Administrator
Val Peterson, who in effect speaks
and acts for the President. And
Mr.. Peterson is q man." Miss
Tobin says, who likes the plain
truth with no frills and nothing
held back -"
Hurricane Dions
There are no frills and nothing
held back when Disaster Mary goes
to work. A case in point was last
years Hurricane Diane. which be-
gan its mischief by battering the
Carolinas and ended in an ave-
some inundation Of the Northeast
ern States. As 1t first veered lazily
toward the Florida coast. Miss
Tobin was already at her desk on
emergency alert, where she was to
remain. except for brief respites,
for almost q week.
As her wires hummed with in
coming information. FCDA was
going through process Miss Tobin
calls "fan-out" - office employees
and executives alike leave their
clerical duties and take UP emer-
gency stations. Experts in disaster
relief were put on call. and as the
nature of damage became known
these experts were formed into
teams and moved into appropriate
areas.
From Miss Tobin's desk CORE
lated reports were fed back into the
field. and officials made their moves
on this information. In Thomas
vile, Ca, for example, FCDAs re-
gional director left his post to head
for Atlanta, where heavy damage
was expected. When the storm
veered toward the Carolinas. he
moved again to Columbia, 8. c. In
each case he left behind personnel
to cover his previous post, and 1t
was Miss Tobin's duty to know that
those posts were covered.
Coordination
Automatically Miss Tobin had
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What Policy?

If these are the Soviet motives,
or If Moscow policy is moving
along these lines. what should
Western policy be?
. First, avoid Identifying by rec
ignition. Moscow's land-grab In
Outer Mongolia. There are still
plenty of Mongols eager to throw
the Mongol dupes and their Soviet
masters out, If the opportunity
arises.
. Second. make it clear. as in the
case Of the East European satel-
lites, that the West knows Of Outer
Mongolia's slavery and is synpa-
tlletic to Monaghan nationalism.
. Third, put the spotlight on So
Wet intrigue in Inner Mongolia.
There is little hope that Commu-
mist China could afford a break
with the Soviet Union even If the
Moscow Reds merely walked into
Inner Mongolia some fine day. But
this is an item that could quite
properly be used to increase the
friction between Moscow and Pei
ping.
. Fourth. publicize the sordid
history of Soviet subversion and
aggression in Outer and Inner Nom
golia so that all the world knows
the truth. The truth, perhaps.
would sway some governments to
reconsider their plan to vote for
admitting Outer Mongolia into the
u. N.
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Soviet Motives

What is the game that the Soviet
Union is playing? believe these
to be its goals:
1. To put Outer Mongolia into
the United Nations where she can
become a Soviet agent among the
delegations of the Far Eastern
countries. She. of course. can b0
relied upon to do Moscow's busi-
ness much more faithfully than Red
China. assuming that country In
able to gain admittance soon.
2. To use Outer Mongolia - .
mouthpiece for Soviet policy II and
when there is conflict with Pei
pings.
3. To take over Inner Mongolia,
Just as Outer Mongolia has been
swallowed. The Russian alphabet
already is being taught in Inner
Monaghan schools. The 10000
kidnapped teen-agers will be the
cadre to subvert their country;
among. them. quite probably, Is 0
man whom the Soviet Union has
LlOIIllLldICO W bC O1ACA oAh44C DoVOA0
the father Of the Inner Mongo-
lians' revolution"
4. To swallow all Of Central
Asia on the Russian side Of the
Chinese Great Wall. Sinkiang II
probably already at the point where
Outer Mongolia was in the late
1e20s. Inner Mongolia is being
ripened. Afghanistan is on tbs
list, too.
5. To wipe out the Monaghan
race. Thousands of Soviet Russian
babies have been turned over to
Mongol mothers. This was re-
ported to me by deserters from
the Outer Monaghan army. The
Soviet intention is to mongrelize
the Monaghan race. to make it
indistinguishable from the Soviet
Siberians. Eventually all the peo-
Piles of the Central Asian land
mass, Moscow hopes. will be COM
pletely Soviet Russian.
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BY GEORG SODERBOM
As Told 70 Earl n. vOss

Thanks to the pluck Of National
list China, the state" Of Outer Mon
golia has been kept out Of the
United Nations, at least for another
year. But we have not heard the
last of this remote country. The
Soviet Union has big plans for her.
II grave injustices to the Mongols
and to ourselves are to be avoided.
more people are going to have to
become better informed about
Outer Mongolia.
So many fairy tales are circu-
lating about the country-many OF
them carefully nurtured by Com
munist propaganda-that much
American opinion is completely mis-
guided.
Take, first, the amusingly absurd
report that livestock outnumber
human beings 32-1 in Outer Mon
golia. The proportion is ridiculous
ly conservative. Even the poorest
Mongol families used to own 200
to 400 animals. The richest had
herds up to 10000 to $4,000. mostly
sheep. In the old days, Mongolia
had herds totaling around 40 mil
lion sheep. 80 million cattle and ID
million horses. SO the legend OF 81
livestock per capita sounds like
peanuts to anyone who has lived In
Mongolia.
On . much more important
plane. the general impression has
been created that Outer Mongolia
gradually gravitated into the orbit
OF the Soviet Union. Owen Latti-
more, an expert on Outer Mon
golia has contributed handsomely
to this impression. But here are
the facts.
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Two Aggressions

Outer Mongolia is not a sovereign
nation but an abject satellite OF
the Soviet Union. The Russian
Communists conquered 1t in their
FIRST act Of aggression after the
Bolshevik revolution, in the early
1905. It was in this inaccessible
area Of Central Asia that the In
experienced Bolsheviks first tested
their technique Of combining short
of-war subversion with military
conquest.
Two decades later they had in
doctrinated their Outer Monaghan
proteges sufficiently to send them
on an aggression Of their own.
against the Chinese people OF
Inner Mongolia. How then can a
country" born in aggression and
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its abrupt end. Outer Mongolia's
Soviet-trained army marched into
Inner Mongolia and ransacked the
place. Princes were killed. Other
thousa nds died. Temples were
razed. The Outer Monaghan armies
famed out along q 1,500-mile line.
pillaged and raped as they came.
travelling east as far as Manchuria.
Local Inner Monaghan troops
were disarmed. Communist organ
izations were set up. From the
Inner Monaghan province Of Cha
har,. which has perhaps $4,000
families. the Outer Mongolians and
their Soviet masters kidnapped 49,
900 young people - mostly teen
ayers. These youngsters were taken
to Outer Mongolia and to Siberia.
Perhaps some Of the brighter ones
are now in Moscow.
These 10000, Of course. will be
heard from again. They viii, be-
perhaps already are-the Comnnu.
mist cadre intended to push Soviet
dominion one step farther east in
Asia.
The Outer Mongolians stayed In
Inner Mongolia a full year before
they retired. Shortly after they left
I visited the borderlands Of Inner
Mongolia in my capacity as con-
sultant to the China Relief Mis-
sion. I heard from Inner Mongo-
lians themselves of the prosecutions
they had suffered.
The Soviet story Of what hap
pened in 1916 is, Of course. entire
ly different. The Outer MongoianS
came down in two orderly columns,
it is said. They fraternized with
their Inner Monaghan brethren,
helped them set up their govern
ments, and were welcomed with
open arms. This is. to borrow .
Dickensian phrase Of the ylle sea-
son, humbug.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-08
Soviet Has Big Plans
For Outer Mongolia

Geors Soderbom. sathor Of this article. IS
one Of the few men west Of the Iron
curtoin with oetuol. on-the- ground knowi.
edge Of Mongolia. The risht-hond mon
Of the Swedish explorer Sven Hedin,
Mr.. Soderbom was born Of missionary
parents at kulson. on the edge Of Inner
Mongolia. He lived in Mongolia most
Of his life. During World War u he
served as on officer in the British Army
ond os civilian with the American forces
in Asio. A Swedish subject, he wos
knishted by his king and won the Bronze
Stor Medal for his work with the Ameri-
cons.
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1O8 GIobemosters Shift
ToMATSin ReoIignment

At least 1903 huge CHA Globe
master troop transports will be
transferred from the Tactical
lair Command to the Military Air
Transport Service along with Is
Navy four-engine aircraft.
Pentagon officials disclosed the
transfer last night, along with
an order aimed at stopping some
of the independent air lift OPP
CREATIONS Of the Air Force and
Navy.
MATS was set up eight years
ago with that same idea. How
ever, the services have branched
out in other directions during
the years.
The transfers will give MATS
a total Of TIT planes. This "init-
Iial plan" for the organization
was scaled down at the last min
ute from one that involved 1924
planes, because Of objections
from both the Air Force and the
Navy.
2,OOO-Plane Fleet Possible
Oficials said MATS's feet in
a year or two may rise to 1000
planes or half Of the total owned
by the military services. This will
Include the transfer of approxi-
mately $50 medium troop carriers
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-14

from the Tactical Command.
The new order also contains a
provision for an accounting OF
all air travel by Congress mem
bers and Government officials.
1t was signed by Defense Secre-
tary Wilson.
Defense officials disagreed as
to whether the accounting Of
congressional and presidential
travel would necessarily be made
public but said that in any case
complete records of the costs and
charges would be required under
the new system.
An official announcement des-
cribed the directive as designed
to strengthen the mobilization
readiness Of the Department Of
Defense in terms of air lift and
to assure greater effectiveness
efficiency and economy in all
lift operations"
Air Force Secretary Ouarles
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NEW FACES IN CONGRESS
Curtin Adds to List
Of Lawyers in House

University 1929 and the Uni
versity Of Pennsylvania Law
School 1882. He has prac-
ticed law since 1882 and now is
senior partner in the law firm
of Curtin and Heefner.
He was appointed first as
sistant district attorney Of Bucks
County in 1889, was named dis
trict attorney in 1949 to I'LL an
unexpired term and was elected
to a full four-year term in 1850.
AS a political campaigner. he
took the stand that the pro-
gram of President Eisenhower
was fundamentally sound and
that his policies should be con-
tinued.
Likes Sailing
Two years ago he was elected
a member of the Pennsylvania
State Republican Committee
from Bucks County.
He is a past president of the
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Rotary Club Of Morrisville and
a member Of the Elks Lodge. He
is q member Of the Episcopal
Church Of Morrisville. His hobby
is small boat sailing.
Mr.. Curtin is married and has
two sons, Larry, 10. q fresh
man at Haverford College. and
jeffrey, IA, a freshman in the
Pennsbury School District.
Tomorrow: Representative Boring Of
Nevada,
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Within so days Mr.. QuarleS
must submit to Mr.. Wilson a re-
port showing. among other things,
"the maintenance Of military air
lift service capability required for
war" and the delegation of re-
sponsibilities to each service sup
porting MATS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-14

One Of Series
who was not a candidate for re-
election. In the past election
Mr.. Curtin defeated John p.
Fullam, Democrat.
Mr.. Curtin was born Novem-
Der %, 1905. in Trenton, N. j.
His parents moved to Norris
vile. Bucks County, Pa, in 1911.
He lived there until five years
ago when he moved to Lower
Wakefield Township, an adjoin-
ing area.
Heads Law Firm
He is a graduate of Norris
vile High School, Penn State
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-14

The new representative Of
Pennsylvania's fourth congress
sional district is Willard S. Cur
tin, 81, a lawyer with nearly a
quarter century Of practice, in
Guiding a career as a prosecutor.
He is a Republican, as was the
man he succeeds, Karl C. King.