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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-23

what it called "the club" in
order to preserve British-French
unity and that it was reserving
liberty of action" to attain in
ternational control of the Suez
Canal.
French Premier Guy Mollet
| told newsmen in Paris Britain
had reservations about the aSso-
citation 1.-The same as ours" and
that "the British will and the
French will have not varied since
the month of July"
/ Mr.. Mollet referred to his
promise to the National As
sembly to use every means" to
defeat what he called Egyptian
President Nasser's act of force
in Matchmaking the canal on
July 26, and Prime Minister
Eden's declaration that Britain
Inever could acquiesce in Col.
Masters unfettered control of
1.-THE waterway.
There is no compromise pos
sible on the principle of interna-
tional control of the canal" Mr.
Mollet declared.
In London, however, British
Foreign Minister Selwyn Lloyd
officially went along with the
tempered version of the users
association, and in invitations
to II other nations set october
l as the date for a third London
Suez Conference to put the
agency to work.
/ Amid signs that Col. NasSer's
Arab neighborS were putting
pressure on him to compromise
with the West, the Egyptian
president few to Saudi Arabia
for a three-power Arab meeting
with Syrian president Shukri
Kuwatly and the Saudi Arabian
King at Riyadh.
Some of the Arab States were
reported alarmed that a shut
down of the canal or a long
drawn economic struggle with
the west might hurt their oil
revenues.
MenOn Goes to London
] Some informants in Cairo
limited that the Users Associa :
ton came close to Nasser's own
ideas. and there was intense in
terest in the forthcoming visit
here of midas rowing ambassa-
dor V. K. Krishna Menon.
Mr.. Menon, ending a week of
soft-Spoken diplomacy in Cairo
declared today he was "optimis-
! tic" after his talks with Col
NaSser on the Suez crisis, and
headed for London where he said
he would contact my friends. !"
Mr.. Menon. too. is known to
have f1oated feelers that India
would like to see the issue COM
promised.
The Users Association, its cut
ting edge blunted by promises
that the canal-using nations
would not shoot their way
through and that shipowners
,, can do as they please about pay.
ing tolls to Egypt or the inter.
national agency. was approved
by a majority of the 10 nations
at the second Suez conference
; concluded here Friday. The
same 18 nations met fiat rejec.
ton from Egypt when, at theil
Imid-August conference, they
proposed international opera.
ton Of the canal.
Frances decision to join thu
|, new agency meant IL of the II
nations had now lined UP. Tit
delegates of the six other ma.
, tons were unhappy with it anc
were consulting their home gov.
IernmentS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-23
Nicaragua Chief Shot,
Crowd Kills AssaiLant
D. c. Doctors
Fly toAssist
Gen. Somozu

President Anastasio Somoza,
strongman ruler of Nicaragua
the past 10 years, was shot three
times at a reception Friday night
and his would-be assassin was
beaten to death, the Nicaraguan
Embassy here said yesterday.
An Embassy spokesman said
Gen. Somoza was recovering from
wounds IN the arm, leg and
stomach. Earlier the Presidents
condition had been described as
delicate" while a report from
Guatemala said it was serious"
Ambassador Guillermo Sevilla-
Sacasa said he received details
of the attempted assassination
by telephone from Managua.
capital of Nicaragua, which was
cut off from ordinary commune
cations and repeatedly under
calm martial law.
The White House said earlier
President Eisenhower had re-
ceived word from United States
Ambassador Thomas E. Whelan
that Gen. Somoza had been shot
four times lone Guatemalan re-
port said Six).
Medical Aid Sent
On request of Mr.. Whelan,
Mr.. Eisenhower ordered a United
States medical team flown to
Managua from the Panama
Canal Zone.
1t reached Managua late last
might, the Nicaraguan Embassy
reported here.
/ Later, three Army specialists,
including Mai. Gen. Leonard
Heaton, commandant of Walter
Reed Hospital who operated on
Mr.. Eisenhower last June, were
ordered flown to Managua from
Washington. The others were
Col. James H. Forsee, chief sur
gical consultant to the Surgeon
General of the Army and an
outstanding chest surgeon, and
1t. Col. Arthur Cohn, Walter
Reed abdominal surgeon.
The Nicaraguan Embassy said
President Somoza's condition
was found to be "as good as
could be expected" He was re-
ported to be conscious and talk
: ing with relatives and friends,
: The wound in his leg was de-
scribed as giving him trouble.
$ Bullets which entered the alb
I dominal area. the Embassy said,
: apparently struck no vital or
: gans.
An embassy spokesman said
Mr.. Sevilla -Sacasa's wife, who
is the daughter of Gen. Somoza,
did not plan to return to
Managua, an indication the
President was in no immediate
danger.
Mr.. Sevilla- Sacasa said the
ATTACK occurred at Leon, a city
near Managua, while Gen. So
moza was attending a reception
] in his honor.
He said Gen. Somoza was
seated in a chair at one side of
the ballroom while most of the
large crowd at the reception was
dancing. A man suddenly ap-
preached the American edu-
Gated President and fired four
) times. One shot broke his arm,
/ another hit him in the leg and
! a third pierced his stomach.
Beaten to Death
The Ambassador said the
! crowd turned on the gunman
and beat him to death. All re-
ports agreed the man was killed
on the spot; one from San Jose.
Costa Rica, said he was killed
! by the presidential guard. Mr..
: Sevilla-Sa identified the as
sailant as Rigoberto Lopez Pc
) rez, adding he did not know if
} he was a Nicapaguan. Other re-
ports gave the name as Rigo-
5 Continued on Page A-6, Col. 3
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Eisenhower Hit
By Stevenson
On Farm Plan
President Blamed
For Depression
In Agriculture
BY J. A. O'LEARY
star STAFF Correspondent

NEWTON. Iowa, September %.
--Adlai Stevenson charged today
the farmer is in the midst of a
depression and that President
Eisenhower, not Secretary of
Agriculture Benson. must shoul-
der the responsibility.
In a speech prepared for de-
livery at the annual blowing con-
test, as he began a whirlwind
6800-miie campaign trip, the
Democratic presidential nominee
said he is not going to attack
President Eisenhower's motives.
Il am even willing to believe
that he did not fully understand
what he was saying to America S
farmers in 1882" Mr.. Stevenson
said. Then he added:
But the President of the
United States must be a re-
Sponsible man. Secretary Benson
was his hired man, and if a farm
is mismanaged the farmer is re-
sponSible, not the hired man. We
know that. And so should the
President"
President Quoted
Mr.. Stevenson quoted the
President as having said at
Bookings. S. D., four years ago
that. 1.-THE Republican Party is
pledged to the sustaining of the
80 per cent parity price support
and it is pledgde even more than
that to helping the farmer OBJ
tain his full parity, 100 per cent
parity, with the guarantee in the
price supports of 60"
Mr.. Stevenson then listed the
decline in parity levels since 1852
as follows: Corn. from 81 to 80
per cent; wheat, from 83 to 70;
cotton. from ITO to 81; rice, from
96 to n per cent.
Mr.. Stevenson said there is
one success in the Eisenhower
administration farm record. be-
cause peanuts have gone up from
81 per cent Of parity four years
ago to 88 per cent.
This administration has a
fine record on peanuts!" he OBJ
served.
Switches Attack
Moving on to Denver tonight,
Mr.. Stevenson switched his at
tack to the administrations
handling of the conservation and
natural resources problems,
which are important to the
Mountain and Western States.
He accused the Republicans
of "give-aways" in these fields.
He said they have turned their
backs on public power develop
ment and have "camoutiaged
the turnover of invaluable water
resources to private interests by
talking about it as a partner
ship"
In putting in a plug for for
mer Representative John Car.
roll, the Democratic candloate
for the Senate in Colorado this
year, Mr.. Stevenson accused the
Republicans of having con-
Quoted an ugly" campaign in
the mountain states two years
ago. He said the election of Mr.
Carroll this year would act as a
rebuke to that type of cam
paigning.
Mr.. Stevenson said it lis one
of the sorrier incidents of our
political history that the Nations
Vice President TOOK part in that
sordid effort to WIN control Ot
the Congress by trading on fear
and inuendo."
Speaking in an area where
corn and hogs are major crops
Mr.. Stevenson said the price OF
hogs has gore down from $20.6C
per hundred weight to $16.20.
Turning momentarily from cole
statistics. Mr.. Stevenson said ar
Iowa dairy farmer grabbed hi
arm a few weeks ago and tolc
him. those Republicans arr
smarter than I am. They know
how to milk farmers"
Mr.. Stevenson accused the Re.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-23
France Joins
.Suez Pact, Says
If Lacks Teeth
MoIIet Declares
Great Brituin Also
Has Reservations

LONDON, Sept. % (P.-The
French government agreed today
Ito join the Suez Canal Users
Association but with reservations
and protests that it lacks teeth
The French cabinet. in q
communique, said it was joining
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-23
2 Dead in Bolivia Riot;
Plot to Seize Power Seen
2 Policemen and Several Workers Killed
As Mob Ruids, Sets Police Station Attire

LA PAZ, Bolivia Sept % An angry mob set fires and
attacked police station today in La Paz The government
called the riots part of "a perfectly synchronized plan for
Selling power"
Two policemen and several workers reported killed
and wounded The mob burned ogovernmen newspaper
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-23
WEATHER FORECAST

Partly cloudy today, high in mid-SOs Scat
tered afternoon or evening thundershowers.
Cloudy cooler tomorrow. (See Page A-2)
Hourly Temneratures
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-23

Hourly Temperatures
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-09
Within the Law

The select committee headed by Sem
ator George has concluded that the prof
fer of $500 to Senator Case was really
an attempt to influence his vote on the
then pending natural gas bill. 1t has also
concluded, however, that there was no
attempt to bride the South Dakota Sem
ator
The average citizen is going to have
difficulty making this distinction. But
the committee cites several reasons for
Its conclusion, including the fact that the
offer was not conditioned on favorable
vote on the bill, and also the fact that
Senator Case himself rejected the bride
theory.
So it appears that John Neff, who
made the offer, and those for whom he
was acting managed to stay within the
law. The committee put it this way:
while Mr.. Neff succeeded in not violat-
ing any law here, he appears to have had
every intention to do So
In this state of affairs, two things
are indicated. First, it is desirable that
the Department of Justice study the
record of this investigation to ascertain
whether perjury has been committed. and
to determine officially whether any other
laws were violated Second, the McClel-
Ian Committee, which has broad grant
OF authority to investigate lobbying,
should take up where the George Com
mittee, whose authority was limited, has
left off. 1t appears that Mr. Neff and
Elmer Patman disposed of nearly $4,000
Of the personal funds of Howard B. Keck,
president of the Superior Oil Company of
California, over period of several years.
The Mcclellan Committee should try to
find out what was done with this money.
But this, perhaps, is relatively minor
matter The larger objective should be
to clarity and tighten up the applicable
laws in order to put stop to this bust
ness of using money to influence con-
gressional votes by means which may fall
short of bribery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-09
Russell Rebuked

The American Committee for Cultur-
al Freedom has done we'll to rebuke Bert
rand Russell for his eXtravagant nonsense
in a letter last month to the Manchester
Guardian.
The 83-year-old English philosopher
wrote that the FBI in investigating the
case Of Morton Sobell and julius and
Ethel Rosenberg. had used techniques
"made familiar in other police states such
as Nazi Germany and Stains Russia"
Among these alleged techniques were the
commission of atrocities" to obtain per-
jured testimony
No one in this country would pay
any attention to Russell'S nonsense. But
it is the sort of thing that serves we'll
the Communist propaganda agencies
overseas SO it is good to have the Com
mittee for Cultural Freedom come for
ward with a statement of its "aStonish-
mcnt and diSmay" at the Russell charges.
Perhaps this committee will be believed
when it says to Russell: There is no
ground whatever for your contention that
either Sobell or the RoSenbergs were con-
demned on the word of perjurorS, terri
fed or unterriied"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-09
Gamblers Dislike Jail

Circuit Court Judge John R. Fletcher
told new Prince Georges grand Jury
that law enforcement officers in the
county are determined to make it clear
to gamblers that they are not welcome.
There is considerable evidence that, at
least insofar as the police and prosecutors
are concerned, the judges statement is
true. But the record of recent sentences
meted out in some of the county courts
including Judge FletcherS-iS hardly of
the sort to discourage numbers racketeerS,
some Of whom still seem to regard Prince
Georges County as good place to do
business.
Many Of the recent penalties assessed
against lottery racketeerS in the nearby
county have been less than-maximum
fines, instead of jail sentences. Only a
few days prior to the converting of the
grand jury at Upper Marlboro, Judge
Fletcher had fined four numbers Oper-
ators a total Of 5000 and given them SuS-
pended jail sentences. They paid their
fines without protest. Fines of Sl00 or
5000 ordinarily do not make it clear to
professional gamblers that they are
unwelcome in community. BY contrast.
Circuit Judge John B. Gray, jr., not long
ago imposed one-year Jail sentence on
a confessed numbers man, with warning
that other offenders would be similarly
dealt with. And Trial Magistrate Grover
Lee Small OF Hyattsville has handed out
such frequent jail terms to gamblers that
they repeatedly have used legal maneu-
vers to have their cases tried elsewhere.
Also by contrast, Montgomery County
judges long have had a policy of giving
stiff jail sentences to gambling racketeers.
Chief Judge Stedman Prescott Of the
Montgomery County Circuit Court, in
sentencing lottery operator to 3l2 years
Imprisonment, announced that other
gamblers brought before his court could
expect more Of the same That stern
penalties have salutary effect is evident
from the fact that numbers men are no
longer a serious police problem in Mont
gomery County. Gamblers do not believe
In taking unnecessary risks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-09
LETTERS TO THE STAR

mo" become less strong, and
racial existence less secure.
When society sanctions the
social contact of the races, ra-
cial security is ended.
In general, logic and expert
ence demonstrate that inter-
mingling or indignation of any
two ideas will produce a syn
thesis and loss of their iden-
titles, whereas separation will
tend to preserve their identi-
ties. The truth Of this may
easily be recognized from the
fact that Europeans have
maintained their races over
several thousand years, while
Americans, with a large Negro
population for four centuries.
have already, despite defense
mechanisms. assisted in the
birth of a hybrid. Further
breakdowns in racial defenses
can only hasten amalgama-
ton, and dissolution If the
American ofishoot of that
great culture producing peo-
pie, the Europeans.
The South is right: Integra-
ton is basically a destroyer:
separation a preserver.
II. Mertz, Jr.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-09
Inteqrotion DESTROYS

In discussing a recent Da-
vid Lawrence column. w. Aus
tin Williamson states that
anyone receiving an offer Of
marriage can always say no ="
from which he deduceS that
indignation does not mean in
termarrlage and therefore the
South's main fear is ground
less.
The security Of the race de-
Ponds upon the certainty of
the no response. In the
South that mo" is almost a
dead certainty because of the
general pattern of racial-Social
exclusion and wide practice of
racial discrimination. There is
little chance for romance 20
bud, and fear of social oStra-
clsm is great. But with the
breakdown of the pattern of
social exclusion and diScrimi-
nation, the reasons for the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-09
To Curb Delinquency

To combat juvenile delin-
quency we must go to the root
OF the trouble And the great
est trouble area Is traced TO
the home and parent 1t is i'm
possible to educate some "cdu-
Gated" parents and some
thoroughly uneducatcd parents
through normal appeals, as
they themselves are more de-
linquent than their children.
Therefore, to see TO it that
parents are enlightened of
their children'S real activities,
let a law be enforced where
parents become partially re-
sponslble for the oiIenSes Of
their children. Institute a par
tial parental responsibility of
5000 maximum fine that can
be imposed BY juvenile court
on a child, said fine to be paid
ny the parent. Impose fines
and not reprimands for even
the first oifense.
How often would a parent
have money taken out of his
pocket by such a fine before
he started taking long overdue
action for the good OF the
family and the public?
J. l.. NJ.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-09
Treosury's Riqht Name

The intriguing dilemma of
the Secretary of the Treasury
in finding the name Congress
selected for his department in
the early days Of the Repub-
lie warrants the assistance of
every public spirited citizen.
These views, therefore. are Of
fered in that spirit.
If the phrase Department
of the Treasury" in the body
OF the statute establishing that
department we're ambiguous,
under generally accepted prin-
ciples Of statutory construc-
ton it would be quite proper
to consider the title of the act
in order to ascertain the leg
islative intent. When. however,
Congress employs such ster-
ling clear language as De
tment OF the Treasury"
the words must be given their
plain meaning. Perhaps the
general counsel Of the Depart
ment of the Treasury has
failed to recall these helpful
and relevant words Of the Su-
preme Court of the United
States in Caminetti v. United
States 1910 242 us. 470:
But. as we have already
said, and 1t has so often been
affirmed as to become a recog-
nized rule, when words are
free from doubt they must be
taken as the final expression
OF the legislative intent, and
are not to be added TO or sub
tracted from by cons derationS
drawn from titles or deSienat-
ing names or reports accom-
panYing their introduction or
from any eXtraneouS source.
In other words, the language
being plain, and not leading
TO absurd or wholly impracti-
cable consequences. it is the
sole evidence Of the ultimate
legislative intent"
In short, the Secretary OF
the Treasury, in obedience to
the will Of Congress, should
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-09
Jewish Appeal

This years United Jewish Appeal is
keyed to the theme that the overseas
Jews are faced in 1856 with the greatest
emergency since 1913.
Consequently, the current fund APP
peal runs along two lines: The regular
campaign goal is sos, 283, 435- this TO be
used to meet the budgets of the eStab-
liShed UJA programs. In addition, an
emergency survival fund.- Of S25 million
plus is being sought. This money will
be spent to reSettle in Israel minimum
OF $4,000 Jews now living under distress
conditions In Morocco and Tunisia.
The combined quota for the greater
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-09
Views

Richard L. Feldman very
effectively rebuked E. Lewis
Terrell for his Incorporate
attack on Senator Willis Rob-
ertSon of Virginia. Mr.. Field
mans remarks were so trench
ant and so courteous that one
would have thought Mr.. Fer
rell might have considered
them dispassionately. That
he has not done so is shown
by another emotional out
burst. this time against
Dorothy Thompson. In the
Star of March 81, Mr.. Fer
rell writes: 1--WE do not know
if the majority opposes inte-
grafton. We know that a
lawless mob took the law into
their hands and that little
effort was made to enforce
the law"
This is a choice example of
how integrationists misrepre-
sent the facts. 1t is a fact
that the majority in the South
ern States - including the
NegroeS-favor separate and
equal secondary school educa-
ton. But Mr.. Terrell does not
like this fact. so he denies it.
And the law was enforced:
After Autherine Lucy had
been suspended for her own
safety. the ring leader of the
mob violence was expelled
from the university, and the
others disciplined. Miss Lucy
was ultimately expelled for a
perfect example of Nc
Carthyism" on the part of
the NAACP and herself: l
refer to the grave charge that
the university president and
trustees conSpired with the
mob in their violence against
the colored girl. There was
not the slightest evidence for
this outrageous charge, and
they must have known it; but
they were willing to charge
what was not true. for propa-
ganda purposes, knowing it
would be carried by press and
radio to every portion of the
country. and even TO other
countries. Where were the
self-styled liberals" North
and South: and why were
they silent, they who had
foamed at the mouth at the
'unsubstantiated charges" Of
Senator Mccarthy? Here
was their fayorite issue made
TO order for them, and their
only reaction was cowardly
silence.
My conclusion? That any
stick is good enough to beat
the South with; that the
country must have integra-
ton at all costs-provided it
is for the "other fellow" and
that our precious liberals"
will not have the intellectual
honesty to apply their prin-
clple when the chips are
down.
Fair PLAY,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-09

Detlev w. Bronx. president
Of the National Academy of
Sciences, in submitting a re-
port to the White House, has
conveyed the suggestion that
civilian scientists working on
nonsecret Federal research
should be judged on their
scientific integrity" without
loyalty checks. The report
represents the findings of a
study made by a seven-man
committee. headed by j. A.
Stratton, vice president and
provost OF Massachusetts In
stitute Of Technology, and
shows that unclassified re-
search, by its very nature. re-
quires a broad dissemination
of knowledge.
In the name of sanity. how
could one, regardless of his
degree of "Superpatriotism."
refuse to accept a cancer cure
because it might result from
research made by a Commu-
mist? Can we be a conscion-
able people who would deter
the development of research
on cerebral palsy, or heart
diseases. or a hundred and one
presently incurable Affections,
because the scientist to be
considerd for such a grant
might be a Communist
The report urges revision of
the Government loyalty-Se-
curity program which pres
entity determines adverse ac-
ton in making grants for
scientific research, by allega-
tons OF disloyalty, with no
provision for an open hear
ing. The committee, while
stressing the need for "effec-
tive utilization of our ma
tional resources for the public
interest through the advance
ment Of science" differ
entiates between unclaSsified
scientific research and that
research concerned with ma
tional security.
Let us hope that the thanks
expressed by White House
Assistant Sherman Adams to
Detlev Bronx viii be followed
by immediate favorable con-
sideration by the administra-
ton of the committees recon-
mendationS, which would. if
supplemented, release some of
this Nations valuable poten-
tial.
Jessie Il. Solomon.