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Stossen Drives Long-Ronqe Goal

litical interests of Harold
StaSSen.
Amos Peaslee still would like
to make Harold Stassen Pres
ident-and the latter would
acquiesce willingly.
For present purposes, the
symbol they have put forward
to supplant Vice President
Nixon-and without the least
success = exemplifles the in
terests in conflict, for Gov.
Christian Herter of Massachu,
sets is a member in good
standing of the Eastern inter-
nationalist wing of the party.
The Stasson tactic was de-
signed to meet a situation the
party will face if there is a
second Eisenhower admins
tration. The Presidents hold
on the reinS of party control
will be much weakened by a
new condition which he is the
first President to experience.
That is the constitutional
limit of two terms for a Presi-
dent. While there was a sort
of tradition, almost an unwrit-
ten law, against more than two
terms until Franklin D. Roose-
welt scuttled it in 1910, there
was always the chance that a
popular President might seek
a third term, as Roosevelt
finally did, and that kept the
party in line during a second
term. But that potential re-
straint is gone with outlawing
of the third term, initiated by
the Republican Both Congress
midway of President Humans
first term.
Consequently, the very min
ute that President Eisenhower
has taken his oath of Office
for a second term-if he should
be re-elected-there will begin
a struggle for control of the
party. and for the Success
Sion," so to speak. In such
contests, which we may expect
hereafter, a President gradu-
ally will retire to the sidelines
with only such influence as
comes from his personal pres
tige and popularity among the
rank and file of his party and
the people generally, which
could, of course, be consider
able, depending upon who the
President is.
This has its bearing on the
StasSen-Nixon affair.
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through of the 40-hour week in
Government and might apply to
other Federal workers as we'll.
The GPO craft employees whose
salaries are set annually in
negotiations with the Public
Printer with concurrence by the
Joint Congressional Committee
on Printing have asked for a IS
or 81 hour work week.
Public Printer Raymond Blat-
tenberger asked Attorney Cen
eral Brownell if he had such
authority.
After many months of study
the Justice Department an6
Mr.. Brownell replied that the
Public Printer had such authority
to shorten the work week fol
the 1900 GPO employees.
Mr.. Blattenberger said he will
ask the controller general fol
a ruling whether a shorter Worl
week could also be applied to thu
1000 GPO employees whose wage
are set Enthusiastically by tn
Public Printer and which ar
not subject to negotiations.
In any event a shorter worl
week cannot be set before mex
March when the present con
tracts expire.
The Attorney Generals de
ciSion was seen as opening tn
doors for requests by the Gov
ernment's 100000 per diem (blu
collar workers for a Shorte
work week. These employees
salaries are fixed by wage boards
Any shorter work week for thu
is million classified and posta
workers would have to require
Legislation by Congress. Blu
classified and postal employl
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-28
Jesse Jones Leaves Bulk
OF Estate to Charity

HOUSTON, Tex, July % (P)
Jesse H. Jones, f1nancier, pub
Usher and wartime Secretary Of
Commerce. left the bulk Of his
fortune, unof1cially estimated al
$3.50 million. to charity.
The will of the former head
of the Reconstruction Finance
Corp. also set aside 100000 fol
gifts to $500 employees. ranging
from 500 to $3.50 each.
Mr.. Jones, publisher of the
Houston Chronicle, died June
at the age of 80.
Special requests to relatives
and friends Appropriated $780,
900. Another $4,000 was giver
for improvement of the Sar
Jacinto Monument and Museum
which marks the spot where
Texas won its independence from
Mexico.
Mr.. Jones owned IS multi.
story buildings and built 33 o.
them.
No estimate of the value o.
the estate was included in yes.
terday's document.
Under the will 5000 share:
of Jones Commerce Co. go tt
Houston Endowment. Inc, q
philanthropic organization HI
set up.
The balance Of the estate wa:
set up in trust for Houston
Endowment. with Mrs. Jones tt
receive most of the trust income
during her lifetime.
The Commerce Co. is the
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noon, than he has been any
time his friends say, since the
nightmarish Sunday night of
cries and panic, and then six
drownings, brought to an end q
march of recruits five weeks out
of civilian life.
One of the reasons for the
relaxed feelings was the testi-
mony of a young Navy doctor,
1t. R. j. AtcheSon,. who reversed
himself and testified the SER
geant was "clinically sober" an
hour or so after the tragedy in
the creek.
In an earlier report the doctor
had reported there were clinical
indications of intoxication in
tests for drunkenness conducted
on the sergeant. This report ap.
parently played major role If
a court of inquiry's finding tina
he was under the influence o.
alcohol to an unknown degree
when he ordered the march.
Sergt. McKeon regards tn,
doctors testimony as vindicatiol
of his repeated protestation sine,
the tragedy of Il was cold sober.
Reports Twice Day
The sergeant was spending ;
quiet week end here at the base
where. he must report to tn
provost marshal's Office twice
day, and at his nearby PoE
Royal bungalow. Yesterday morn
ing he accompanied Mr.. Bermal
to Beaufort on the attorneys de
parture on a mysterious triI
"vitally important" to the case
Later, he did a little shoppin
in the post exchange.
Three brothers and a sister ar
here to stand by him. While
is no occasion for a happy re
union, they are planning a famil
picnic over the week end at on
. of the nearby beaches.
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100000 Formers Seen
In SoiI-Bonk Program

production. Rice and tobacco
growers also are participating.
The program is aimed at cut
ting down crop SURPRISES and,
correspondence, at stiffening
prices.
rs Million Acres Is Goal
Eventually it is hoped to with
draw about rs million acres OF
producing land, and to put
another IS million acres of land
whether producing or not, in q
so-called conservation reserve in
which the land will be built ur
against the day when it may he
needed for production. There are
no figures yet on this latter I'M
dertaking.
Congress made about SIP oil
lion available for the first years
operations, but it was realized
that the late start would CHAM
mel far less than this sum into
farm belt pocketbooks.
This years program made Il
possible for farmers to be paic
for blowing under" crops al
ready in the ground, and alsC
to collect what amounts to dis
aster insurance" where adverse
weather conditions restricted
planting and correspondingly re-
duced the potential yield of theii
land.
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Illinois Sues
To Seize Cash

CHICAGO. July % (R.-The
State of Illinois has started legal
action to recover the bulk of the
public funds missing in the mil
lion dollar financial scandal in
the Office of Orville E. Hodge
ousted State auditor.
William c. Wines, assistant at
torney general. filed a civil suit
in Cook County Circuit Court
yesterday, asking recovery Of
$641, 270.36 paid out on as phony
State warrants.
Hodge has been Indicted by q
county grand jury on 276 counts
of embezzlement, condolences
game and forgery in connection
with the warrants. He also has
been indicted by a Federal grand
jury on charges of conspiring tc
misapply $875. 667.72 in Fed.
erally-inSured bank funds.
Hodge and two co-defendants
Edward A. Epping. Hodges for
mer Office manager, and Edward
A. Hintz, former president of thu
Southmoor Bank & Trust Co.
which figured in the warrant
cashing scheme, surrendered OF
the Federal indictment yester
day.
Hodge posted $500 bond ant
Epping and Hintz $4,000 each
They also are under bond il
Springfield on the other indict
mentS.
The civil suit filed by Mr.. Wine
named these three men, severs
other Hodge associates and rela
tives. banks and a surety firm
1t asked a judgment including
per cent interest on the missin
cash.
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Zhukov Says
Army Leadership
Cult Is Desired

LONDON, July % (R.-So-
Wet Defense Minister Georgi K.
Zhukov says it would be a grave
error to assume that collective
leadership will replace individual
authority in the Red army.
Moscow Radio reported in a
special news bulletin that Mar
shall Zhukov declared in a state
ment yesterday at the Polish de-
Tense ministry in Warsaw:
1.-The struggle against the per-
sonality cult (Stalinism) does not
mean denial of the role of leaders
of authority in general.
Sometimes the personality
cult is confused with the ques-
ton of individual authority in
the army. This is a rave error.
I'VE consider that anyone who
tries to interpret the struggle
against the personality cult as
a struggle against individual au-
thority is rendering a bad serv-
ice to the cause of raising the
fighting capacity of his armed
forces"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-28

Egypt's President Canal
Abdel Nasser has thrown a
sharp hook into the West
with his decision to nationalize
the Suez Canal and put the
revenue from that vital water
way to use in building the As
wan high dam on the Nile.
Col. Nasser, of course, may
not get away with his gamble.
There were days, many years
ago, when a stunt like his
would be twisting the lions
tail. And twisting the lions
tail in those times meant a
quick visit by an impressive
flotilla of British cruisers, fol-
lowed perhaps by a sizeable
expeditionary force of Kipling-
type Tommies.
Today's Britain is much diff
ferent, indeed, from that of
the days of Empire. But even
the weakened Britain of today
is unlikely to accept the Mas
ser slap in the face without
some action.
The Suez Canal is a British
necessity and has been for
many years-in fact, since the
days of Disraeli. Not only is
it the so-called Lifeline of
Empire" in that it is Britain's
highway to the Far East. but
it also is of considerable i'm
portance to the British econ
omy. The bulk of the stock
holders in the originally
French company that runs the
canal are British; in fact, they
are the British government.
Col. NaSSer may make his
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CONSTANTINE BROWN
Big Risk Seen as Loss of Army Officers
Support If Canal Doesn't Pay OFT

action stick. But it is all too
apparent that the action is
one born of desperation. If it
succeeds, Col. NaSser will be
the hero of the Arab world,
and of all the former colonial
nations as well. If it fails.
Nasser will be discredited and
bankrupt in the eyes of all he
seeks to impress.
There was little doubt. in
the minds of informed obServ-
ers, that the Soviet Union
would be more than hesitant
in the Aswan financing oppor-
tunity.
When the United States and
Britain joined in deciding to
recall the previously made
offer to aid in the Aswan prof.
ect financing. the blow was OBJ
viously severe to the precious
prestige of the Egyptian lead
err. Many who heard the news
Immediately decided that the
Russians would leap at the OPP
portunity to effect an i'm
mense propaganda victory in
the Middle East by taking over
the financing of the dam. But
others, better informed or bet
ter guessers, took the position
that the Moscow conspirators
had no wish at all to build up
a non-C Communist strong man
in that vital part of the world.
Sure enough, the Kremlin
didn't seize the bait, and Col.
Nasser was left in a precarious
position if his leadership of
the Arab world was to amount
to anything in the future.
NaSser himself is an anach-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-28
POTOMAC FEVER
FLETCHER KNEBEL

Reporters embaass Ike at his press conference
asking his choice for Vice President Republicans
to having choice For years they just what left
Senator Kefauver refuses before the
Democratic convention He expects delegates to stick with
him to the bitter beginning.
Life is an uphill struggle all the way down.
Harold claims that Vice President Nixon is the
discount house candidate-sx per cent off.
In Congress, loyal Eisenhower Republican man who
the administration program only bill time
Second Any visiting relative enough to call
by first name-and too close to call a hotel
Companies settle the month-old steel strike
Great tribute the firm White policy of hoping for
the best.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-28
British and Turks
Snubbed by Greece

ATHENS. Greece, July % up
Britain and Turkey have not
been invited to attend the big
gest Greek military exercise since
World War II, apparently be-
cause of the dispute over Cyprus
Yugoslavia, Egypt and other
Arab countries have been asked
to send representatives to the
military exercises in which nearly
100, 900 Greek troops are to take
part.
Both Britain and Turkey are
members of the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization CNATO)
which will send a group of senior
officers to watch the war games
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-28
Nosser's Gamble in Suez Seizure

ronistic leader in many ways.
His peculiar insistence (for q
world statesman on the strict
est observance of the Moslem
prohibitions of alcoholic bev-
erages even at diplomatic
functions, his prudish COM
mand that the diplomats
ladies of his encourage be very
careful to avoid even a hint
Of a low-necked gown, seem
strange for the repeatedly pro-
gressive revolutionary leader
who is committed to a break
with the past, its taboos and
restraints on women, its social
customs.
Many have recalled the-at
the time-radical changes in
itiated by Mustapha Renal
Pasha, later to become Renal
Ataturk, in the post-World
War New Turkey" But
Col. Nasser is no Ataturk. He
seems determined, despite his
thorough break with the mon
archy of King Farouk, to cling
to the old while he embraces
the new.
The reaction of the West to
NasSer's Suez threat is sure to
be swift, but what course it
will take and how effective it
will be remains to be seen.
Meanwhile, there remains the
deep suspicion that Col. Nasser
may we'll turn out to be a
fall guy" for powerful influ-
ences far beyond his control.
He can assuredly do nothing
in Egypt without the continued
support of the Egyptian Army's
officer corps. If his present
brave gamble fails, that sup
port can vanish overnight.
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Bomb Blasts Roof
OF Cyprus Hotel

NICOSIA, Cyprus, July % up.
A bomb exploded early today on
the roof of a hotel occupied
chiefly by officers of the Cyprus
police force. No casualties were
reported. The roof of the heavily
guarded building was damaged
The explosion was the first re-
ported in FIVE weeks in this is
land capital, although there
have been several shootings.
Police said an investigation
showed a time bomb had been
placed on the roof Of the hotel
wing. Several officers were Sleep
ing on the roof, but they escaped
injury.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-28

stand early next week, probably
Tuesday.
His defense against man.
slaughter and other charges
growing out of the fatal night
march will get under way Mon
day.
Will Move For Dismissal
At that time Chief Defense
Attorney Emile lola Berman of
New York will move for dis
misSal, as being improved, the
charges of manslaughter, OPP
preston of troops and drinking
in the presence of a recruit. A
fourth charge of drinking while
on duty will not be contested.
Aside from the accused
sergeant, the spotlight of pos
sible witnesses was turned or
cruSty retired 1t. Gen. Lewis B
(Chesty) Fuller, noted Marine
combat leader, who now live.
at Saluda, Va.
Mr.. Berman formally re-
quested the Marines YESTERDAY
to order Gen. Fuller here as ;
defense witness. He said tn,
general will testify to recruit
training practices"
The defense contends Sergt
McKeon should not be held &C
countable for a happening. how
ever tragic. in carrying out |
long and accepted, if unauthor
lied, practice of taking recruit
into the swampS to teach then
discipline. Gen. Fuller is an out
spoken advocate of tough train
ing and was once a boot" here
There was no comment iron
Marine headquarters in Wash
ington on Mr.. Berman's request
Sergeant More at Ease
Sergt. McKeon was more a
ease" after the prosecution
rested its case Thursday after
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THOMAS [. STOKES

generally overlooked is a
longtime objective in the Har-
old Stassen versus Vice Presi-
dent Nixon affair.
1t involves control of the
Republican Party.
Though Harold Stassen's
prompters in this anti-Nixon
campaign have remained
thunderously silent up to now.
they include persons highly
placed politically and in our
industrial and financial COM
munity who belong to the East
ern internationaliSt wing of the
party that was back of the
nomination of Gen. Eisenhower
in 1852 and. before that, of
Thomas E. Dewey of New York
in 1914 and 1913. and the sur
prise nomination of the late
Wendell L. Willkie in 1910.
Harold Stassen has trained
politically with this wing of
the party since 1910, when he
became floor manager for
Wendell Willkie at the 1910
Philadelphia convention. Since
then this wing of the party has
won every national conven-
ton, though in between Con-
gress continued largely under
the domination of another
wing, less liberal on domestic
policy and nationally inclined
on foreign policy, which for g
long period found an anchor
in the late Senator Robert A.
Taft of Ohio, and is still
strongly entrenched in the
party organization, particu-
larly in the Midwest, where its
strength is concentrated. This
hard-core. conservative, ortho-
doX @. Q. P. backed Senator
Taft unsuccessfully for the Re-
publican nomination against
Messrs. Willkie, Dewey anc
Eisenhower.
Now as for today-Harold
StaSSen'S war on Vice Presi-
dent Nixon bespeaks the fear
of the Eastern, information
aliSt, moderate wing with
which he is affiliated that, in
a second Eisenhower admin
istration when the President
can exercise much less control
than now, the young, agrees
sive and politically adept
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90. ?. internotionoIists Seen Planning
10 Take Over From Eisenhower

Richard M. Nixon might be
able to gain control of the
party if he still occupied the
strategic position of Vice
President. Especially if he en-
listed the help of the COP.
conservative wing which is
so well placed in key posi-
tons in Congress and at the
Capitol where the Vice Presi-
dent also makes his headquar-
tiers and can operate indie
pendently if he so chooses and
IN virtual seclusion.
Dick Nixon's record in Con-
gress as a member of House
and Senate would seem to
identify him more closely with
the conservative wing of the
party. AS Vice President, how
ever, he has been a loyal
Eisenhower supporter, which,
of itself, demonstrates his
maneuverability in accom-
modating himself to different
policy and philosophy. Ac-
cordingly. he is not trusted
completely by the Eisenhower
wing of the party, including
some persons in inner White
House councils. They recog-
nize in him a restless ambition
capable of treading carefully
along the path of expediency
rs necessity dictates.
All of this is reflected in the
StaSsen effort to get him out
Of the way, which, so far, has
only boomeranged.
A key background figure in
the StasSen anti-Nixon enter
prise is understood to be the
devoted sponsor of the Min
neSotan's successive unsuc-
cessful tries for the Republic
can presidential nomination
Amos j. Peaslee of Clarksboro,
N. j., eminent international
lawyer and diplomat. He Of
fers a liaiSon with powerful
New York figures and interests
influential in the Eastern
international wing of the
Republican Party in this en-
deavor. When Peaslee returned
a few months back from a
tour of duty as Ambassador
to Australia by appointment
of President Eisenhower, he
Immediately began to busy
himself with the revived DO
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Court Report
Shows Dropin
Juvenile Crime

An increasing aWareneSS by
the community of juvenile de-
linquency, coupled with a desire
to do something about it, APP
parently has led to a surprising
drop in the number of delinquent
children coming to the atten-
ton of Juvenile Court.
The drop, reported by court
officials Wednesday, showed 1884
children were brought into Jul
venile Court during fiscal 1856.
This meant a drop of 444 chill
dren from the 1855 fiscal year
and 708 fewer than in fiscal
1854.
Juvenile Court Judge Edith H.
Cockrill said the reason for
the slackening in youthful crime
could be attributed to a com
bination of things" She cited
as factors in the decline,
the work of the city's Area Youth
Councils, the Youth Aid Division
of the Metropolitan Police De-
partment, the court itself and
the opening of the Children's
Center in Laurel by the Welfare
Department which increased the
areas facilities for treating de.
linquency.
Judge Cockrill said the ares
was doing more about delin
quency" and in concentrated
doses. She added that the drol
would be even more remarkable
figured on a percentage basis
For, she said, although the popu
Ilation of children who nigh
fall under the eyes of the cour
has increased, the number o.
cases has declined.
A similar drop in juvenile
crime was also noted recent!
by the Youth Aid Division of thu
Metropolitan Police Department
Inspector John E. Winters re-
ported a decrease for the l:
months ending June 80, with 81
fewer youths referred to TIT
court than in fiscal 1855.
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Sturgeon Of 86 Pounds
largest in 40 Years

SCHROEDER, Ontario. July q
R.-At 81 a pound it was some
catch II an 86-pound sturgeon
5A feet long, taken by three
commercial fishermen at Quincy
Point, on Lake Superior.
1t was the largest sturgeon
caught in the district in more
than 40 years. Local fishermen
estimated 1t was at least SO
years old.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-28
BY JOSEPH A. FOX

The deadline for farmer par
ticipation in the new soil-bank
program ended at midnight last
night, with tentative estimates
indicating that more than $780,
900 farmers would contract to
pull some is million acres out
Of production and earn upwards
of $500 million on this years
operations.
These necessarily are rough
estimates, because the returns
from local committees admin
istering the program are running
a week behind. Agriculture De-
partment spokesman, however
believe they reflect reasonably
the results obtained.
S6s,29s Signed by July 20
AS of July 20, the original cut
of date for negotiating com
pliance contracts. there wer'
s68.296 signed contracts cover
ing 8 million acres, and pro
spectiye payments totaled nearl!
sl65 million.
The estimated totals arr
figured on the progressive IN
creases shown each week since
the program was initiated lat'
The program got a late start
because the legislation was no
completed until May, and Il i
million acres actually are pulled
out of production. the tentatlv'
GOAL then set by the Agricultur'
Department will be reached.
The principal cuts are benz
made in corn. wheat and cotto