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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-15
Personal Probe
Asked by Young
In Lobby
BY CECIL HOLLAND


North Dakota, revealed yesterday
he has asked the special Senate
lobby committee to investigate
bribery charges made against
him by two North Dakotans.
He took the unusual step OF
asking to be investigated in a
formal letter to Senator Nc
Clellan. Democrat of Arkansas
the committee chairman.
Senator Young'S request prob
ably will be considered by the
eight-man committee four
Democrats and four Republicans
at a meeting tomorrow. Indi-
Ications were that it would be
approved as the Mcclellan COM
mittee'S first undertaking.
First Inquiry Set
The committee chairman and
Senator Bridges of New Hamp-
shire, ranking Republican mem
Der and vice chairman of the
committee, have said that lobby
ing over the natural gas bill will
be the committees first inquiry.
Senator Young said the
charges that have been made
against him relate in part to the
natural gas bill. He explained
that he has been accused of &C
cepting brides in connection with
that controversial legislation and
with his election.
Il have asked that those max
ing these charges be compelled to
testify before the committee. ="
Senator Young told The Star.
Identifies Accusers
He identified his accusers as
C. H. Nathan. an employe of the
State Farmers Union. and K. w.
Simons. editor of the Leader,
which Senator Young described
as "a political sheet"
Their accusations are COM
pletely false and l think ! am
entitled to have them investi-
gated" the Senator said.
The Young request was one Of
three replies received by the
committee to letters to Senators
asking for any information they
cared to submit regarding lobby
ing on the natural gas bill, cam
paign gifts and attempts to in
huence them.
1t was the only one involving
a Senator directly. The others,
1t was said, were based on hear
say"
Asked for Statement
Senator Young has been asked
TO prepare a statement for the
committee about the charges
against him. He said he already
had submitted material on the
charges as published in the
North Dakota paper.
Senator Young, a champion of
farm interests in the Midwest, is
a candidate for reelection.
At its meeting tomorrow. the
committee is expected to chart
the preliminary course of its
work and establish a broad pol
icy for its Investigations.
1t also will be asked to approve
FIVE or six staff selections made
by Senators Mcclellan and
Bridges.
George Morris Fay. former
United States attorney here, has
been selected as counsel. Yet to
be named are an assistant coun-
sci, to be selected by Republican
members of the committee; a
chief investigator. a number of
other investigators and a com
mittee clerk.
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high in 70s. showers and thun-
derstormS today Cloudy. windy
and not quite as warm tonight.
Cloudy and warm, chance Of
showers tomorrow
Winds--South to southwest
winds, 20-30 miles per hour.
River Report
From u. S, Engineerst
Potomac River cloudy al HaTuerE
Ferry and clear al Great Falls Shpg.
andoah cloudy al Harpers Ferry
TEMPERATURE for Yesterday
: Readings WASHINGTON National Airport
Midnight ~ Noon ~
am ~ INN IA
a m g. n ~ "a
Record Temperature This Year
Highest So on April 4
Lowest 20 on January "a ~ Febru-
AIRY -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-15
Prince and Grace Dance
At Champagne Dinner

MONTE CARLO, April IA lF1-Grace Kelly and Prince
Rainier III danced cheek to cheek tonight champagne
given by her parents
The dinner of Mr.. and Mrs John Kelly Philadelphia
Monacos famous 100 their first
opportunity to blossom out in full regaia
Diamond necklaces appeared required for adj
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-15
THE FEDERAL SPOTLIGHT
Employees Stondt to Gain
From Retirement Bill
BY JOSEPH YOUNG

There has been considerable confusion among Federal en-
poyeS about the formula computing retirement
annues contained in the approved week by the
Senate Civil Service Committee
Some employees have the mistaken impression that their
actually would be less the bill.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-15
FAMILY SURVIVORSHIP

IBENEFITS-The Senate COM
mittee's bill also would substan-
TALLY increase family survivor
ship benefits. The increases
would be at least so per cent and
in some cases as high as 200 to
800 per cent.
Here are some examples. Take
an employe who died after five
years of service in the Govern
ment, leaving a wife and one
child. His average salary was
$4,000 Under present law the
wife and child would receive total
annual benefits of 1862. Under
the committees bill they would
receive 1925 annually in family
survivorShip benefits. For each
additional child in the family.
another 5000 annually would be
added. So with two minor chill
dren in the family. the annual
t a m lily survivorship benefits
would be 81 ,425 a year; compared
to the present $3.50 amount when
there are two surviving children.
The family survivor ship for
mula is one-half of the hus-
bands earned annuity for the
wife, plus $500 for each surviv-
ing child. In the case where
both parents die, each child gets
a S720 annual benefit.
OTHER EEATTrDEc mi
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-15

WEATHER FORECAST-Rain is expected today for New
England the Middle Atlantic States Ohio and Tennessee
Valley, Gulf Coast Central Plains and Rockies and Cali
forna Snow is forecast for Northern New England and
upper Great Lakes Elsewhere it will be fair 1t will be
cooler from Great Lakes Texas warmer from southern
plateau through Montana AP Wirephoto Map.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-15

High and Low for Last - Hours
ilgh yesterday, ~, at 3:l5 pm,
Low last NIGHT, 4. al 5.lb am
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Tide Tables
FURNISHED by the United States Coast
ana Gcodetic Survey
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would be $65 times five years or
1925. Then, on the remaining
Is years, the employe would COM
'pute his annuity on a per cent
basis, since this would yield a
larger return than the 1-per-
Icent-plus-$25 formula. Hence,
p per cent of $4,000 is $50, and
this is multiplied by Is years of
service for a total of $1,000.
Added to the 1925, this would
give the employe yearly annuity
of $l,525 Under the present sys-
TEN. the annuity is $1,000.
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Monthly precipitation IN inches in the
NapltAI lcufrcni month 10 hnInl
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OTHER FEATURES
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-06
DORIS FLEEsoN
Knotty Problem for White House Seen
Over Critic of Security Program

Two weeks have elapsed
since President Eisenhower
promised reporters he would
see Harry p. Cain, leading
critic of the Federal security
program. but no date has
been set for their meeting.
Cain is the former Repub-
lican Senator who acquired
the facts about the security
problem at first hand, having
been appointed to the SUBJ
versive Activities Control
Board by President Eisen-
hover in 1858.
The presidential promise Of
an interview climaxed a long
effort on Gains part, first in
private and then in public, to
attract administration atten-
ton to the weaknesses and
injustices of the security sys-
tenn. The appointment, for
which he promptly wrote to
Bernard Stanley. White House
Appointment Secretary, will
be his first chance to talk
with the President about what
he found.
In a very real sense. the
White House is up against a
deadline in the matter of the
Eisenhower Cain confronta-
ton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-06

A Senate Subcommittee on
Constitutional Rights has
asked Cain to testify at a pub
lie hearing next Monday. The
subcommittee chairman is
another dedicated crusader for
a more just method of achiey-
ing internal security. Senator
Tom Hennings Of Missouri.
Hennings has had as much
trouble getting Congress to inn
prove the system as Cain has
had with the White House and
Justice Department. Both are
now determined to be heard,
and since both are fluent
lawyer-politicians, the hear
ing should be provocative.
1t obviously would be polit-
ically unwise to allow Cain to
appear as the still-denied pc
titioner for presidential at
tention to unfair treatment Of
Government employees.
Yet the problem at the White
House is equally obvious.
1t has been apparent from
the very beginning Of the con-
troversy over security matters
that the President was not
well informed and had little
real understanding Of what
the critics complained about.
Washington newspapers had
Joined the Democrats in ex-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-06
POTOMAC FEVER
FLETCHER KNEBEL

The California primary ends the mo-
nopoy Now any Democrat get into the Of getting
beat for the presidency.
The Eisenhower teams program is making slow
but took three years. the administration
finally managed to do away with spring.
The chief difference between and is that man
viii take OF his gloves and fight When takes of her
gloves she spends all her time trying to md them again
Leaders say they'll try to adjourn Congress by July
counnys problems viii get too bad long have
Congress that ressts the temptation too much about them
Iowa Republicans indose Ike farm programs sets at
rest the Democratic that es for the problem
was to pow the farmand plant them for golf courses
Monday is the Nations day Of rest Sunday in the
suburbs in gass-cutng time about peaceful attending
an cupboard motor convention
Gov Meyner Of New Jersey both parties consider
the problems Of the aged Politicians miss the point old
people want not more oage pensions but rich
in-laWS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-06

The slightest remark ema-
mating from a Russian leader
warrants cable tolls from any
where. In Moscow, Premier
Bulganin. attending a garden
party at the British Embassy
and offered some cherries from
Italy. refused them on the
ground that they were NATO
cherries. that there is nothing
good about NATO and that.
except for NATO, Italy and
her cherries would be wonder
full. This remark was a 'front.'
page story in newspapers here.
The Russian leaders are not
worried about NATO. Its
troubles are too obvious to in
spire in its opponents anything
more serious than Premier
Bulganin's eavy- h a n d e d
humor, conveyed, Of course,
by the Western press.
At the height, presumably,
Of American power, our politi-
cal leaders are as fascinated
by their Soviet opponents as
a rabbit by a snake. All our
moves are conditioned by So
Wet actions. We seem to have
nothing whatever to say for
ourselves. What is the reason?
I think the reason is that
we ended the war with a very
false vision Of the future. Our
leaders calculated that we
would emerge as the only great
power whose resources would
be intact. and that out of this
position we would take over
the role Of world policemen"
on the pattern Of Pax Ro-
mana or Pax Britannica, and
Dy military might and a vast
expenditure Of surplus goods,
we would usher in the Ameri-
can century.
There we're several things
wrong with this idea. The most
important error was TO believe
1t could be realized peaceably.
The "Pax Romano" exists
only in memory as an age of
peace. Rome destroyed her
most powerful enemies-in the
course Of which she also de-
stroyed the Roman republic.
Thereafter her legions policed
most OF the world, but not
without perpetual marginal
wars"
Great Britain, at the height
OF her imperial power. at
-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-06
DORIS FLEEsoN
Cain Awaits Eisenhower Meetino

posing the hollowness Of Re-
publican claims about the
number Of subversiveS they
had fired. The President con-
tinued to give the impression
that he felt it was all lust
politics"
The President is inordinate-
ly dependent on brief1ngs and
staff work. But he expects it
to be the same SelfleSS help he
got as a general from the
career military service. When
the political chain of COM
mand breaks down he has dis
played INDIGNATION and anger.
This Is somewhat unfair, for
politicians are not career men
in the military sense, but the
Eisenhower temper has not
often allowed for that.
The Presidents staff and
Attorney General Brownell,
who is his chief adviser on
security matters. now have to
prepare him to face the ar
ticulate, forceful Cain. The
President must not appear to
be ill-informed. On the other
hand, he might begin to ask
why he was not told some Of
this a long time ago.
Gains term expires in Sep
TENDER, and it has been plain
~ indicated that he would not
be reappointed. This is an
other factor in the coming
showdown at the White House,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-06
Confusion in the Supreme Court

1.-THE court today allows be-
lief. not conduct. to be regu-
lated"
This means that Robert
Hutchins of the Fund for
the Republic. who thinks the
Communist Party is "just an
other political party and who
is spending Ford's millions to
advocate that doctrine in
America, has found staunch
support in the views OF three
members of the Supreme
Court.
1t means also that these
same justices reveal an incon-
sistency with their refusal last
week to review a case in which
two workers had appealed
against q court decision COM
pelling them to join q union,
though it was against their
religious beliefs as protected
under the First Amendment of
the Constitution.
Justice Douglas offered in
support Of his view in the
California case just decided
that Chief Justice Hughes in
1887 had ruled that State
couldn't punish Communists
for holding a public meeting.
But that was long before the
true meaning Of the Commu-
mist conspiracy was exposed,
as it has been in the last
10 years, and safeguards writ
ten into law by Congress.
Justice Douglas says a de-
Tense plant may need to pro-
tect itself against sabotage
but that the worker wasn't
guilty Of any acts Of sabotage.
This means that the doctrine
Of prevention is being dis
carded, and. If the argument
is fully accepted, the Congress
and the States must wait till
bombs are thrown and COM
plicity of an individual is
actually proved before pre-
cautions can be taken against
the hiring Of agents of the
Communist espionage and sab
otage apparatus. It's all just
a political theology" to Jus
tices Warren, Douglas and
Black.
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A New Ide0 on the Subject Seen Vital
To Any Compoign Discussion

tempted to hold what she had,
making one alliance to At one
situation and another for an
other and was involved in per-
petual police actions"
Rome and Britain were, fur
thermore. frankly imperialist.
They raised and trained i'm
perial castles Of soldiers and
administrators. Each consid-
cred itself, for the time, as
entirely justified in keeping
the lesser breeds in line.
Neither American history,
nor the American practice of
government, nor the American
mind, fitted her Cor. will ever
Mt her, as long as the republic
exists for such a role. We
have not been empire builders
but empire smashers. standing,
at least platonically. for the
right of self-determination. ="
However. the fright of self
determination" is not a peace
able idea, but a highly ex-
plosive one.
So our policy is schizo-
phrenic. What might have
been gained by consistent
Wilsonianism we lose by al
liances with decaying empires.
What might have been gained
by a real imperial policy is
impossible for a democratic
people.
There was another alterna-
tive: The traditional American
policy Of aloofness, with (as
the late Senator Taft sug-
gested) the extension Of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-06
Red Victory Seen in 3 Jurists' Dissent
Treating Communists as Political Party

ment with an employer that
allows any employe who is a
Republican to be discharged
for Just cause Employers can.
Of course, hire whom they
choose, arranging for an all
Democratic labor force If they
desire.
"A union has no such liberty
if it operates with the sane
ton of the State or the Fed
eral government behind it. 1t
is then the agency by which
governmental policy is ex-.
pressed and may not make dis
ordinations that the govern
ment may not make.
"But the courts may not be
implicated in such q discrimi-
natory scheme. Once the courts
put their imprimatur on such
a contract, government, speak
ing through the judicial
branch, acts. And it is govern
mental action that the Consti-
tuition controls.
Certainly neither a State
nor the Federal Government
could adopt a political test for
workers in defense plants or
other factories. 1t is elemen-
tary that freedom of political
thought is protected by the
Fourteenth endment
against interference by the
States. and against Federal
RECOMMENDATION by the First
Amendment.
Government may not favor
one political group over an
other. Government may not
disqualify one political group
from employment. And If the
courts lend their support to
any such discriminatory pro-
gram, Shelley VS.. Kraemer
teaches that the Government
has thrown its weight behind
an unconstitutional scheme to
discriminate against citizens
by reason of their political
theology. That cannot be done
in America, unless we forsake
our Bill Of Rights. -.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-06

OF all the Communist lead
ers. there is no doubt that
Marshal Tito, dictator Of
Yugoslavia. is the most brill
liant and resourceful.
When Tito was in mortal
danger Of being liquidated by
Stain he found Uncle Sam
ready to help him despite his
dastardly record, including the
wanton murder Of five young
American ailmen who because
of weather conditions lost their
way and flew over Yugoslavia.
The former Soviet MVD agent
and political commisSar in the
Spanish civil war received inn
mediate support from America
on the grounds that otherwise
the Soviet empire might be ex-
tended to the Adriatic.
We built up the shaky
Yugoslav economy and made
Tito's armed forces into the
best in that section of Europe.
We have lavished on him one
and-a-quarter billion dollars
SO far-without asking him to
.relinquish the oppressive hold
he has on his people.
Our diplomats used Tito as
an exhibit to show the world
that American assistance is
given to all who want it with
out any strings. And it is
probable that he is now
advising the B a. K team in
Moscow (where he is being
received as the prodigal son
returning to the fold Of the
best means to mulct Uncle
Sam as he has done for the
last eight years.
At this time, the House of
Representatives is discussing
the foreign aid program which
includes some $50 million in
economic aid for Yugoslavia
and a secret figure for further
improving Tito's ground and
air forces. The latter is be-
lieved to be upward Of 800
million for the 1856 fiscal year.
In the face Of Tito's state
ment in Moscow last Monday
that "Yugoslavia will never
again be split from the Soviet
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-06
DAVID LAWRENCE

The confusion inside the
Supreme Court Of the United
States seems to grow with
each weeks decisions. This
time the Communist Party can
boast Of its greatest victory.
Three of the nine justices have
accepted the persistently ex-
pressed alibi Of the Commu-
nists in this country that they
are lust another political
party"
The Congress repeatedly has
proclaimed by law that the
Communist Party is not a
political party but a conspiracy
which waits for the oppor-
tune moment to overthrow the
Government Of the United
States.
The three justices of the
Supreme Court who have &C
cepted the argument Of the
Communists that they are
just a political party are
Chief Justice Warren. Justice
Douglas and Justice Black.
The opinion Of the court in
the case held that an employer
in California was justified in
discharging an employee be-
cause of membership in the
Communist Party and that it
was covered by the con-
tract between the union and
the employer. Justices Harlan,
Reed, Burton, Clark. Minton
and Frankfurter concurred in
the ruling of the court.
But Justice Douglas, writing
q dissenting opinion in behalf
Of Chief Justice Warren, JUS
tice Black and himself, said it
wasn't a matter Of a local con-
tract and that the doctrine
expounded by the majority
violates First Amendment
guarantees Of citizens who are
workers in our industrial
plants" Then Justice Douglas
writes:
Il can better illustrate my
difficulty by a hypothetical
case. A union enters into q
collective bargaining agree
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-06
Tito, Most ResourcefuI Red Chief

Since Stains death, and
particularly since the visit to
Belgrade Of the Kremiin twins.
Tito has become not only more
arrogant toward the West but
also h a S played MoScow's
diplomatic game in the east
ern Mediterranean. It was he
who initiated the negotiations
between Egypt and Moscow
which resulted in selling or
giving arms to Egypt and
Syria This move was highly
successful. Today both coun-
tries are getting dangerously
close to the Soviet orbit while
we are looking on helplessly.
Tito has recently been pre-
pairing a painful surprise for
the West. He has devised q
new political axis - Cairo
Athens-B Belgrade - with the
view Of cutting on the east
ern Mediterranean. 1t is prob.
able that this axis is being dis
cussed at the present love
feast in Moscow. The new plan
is intended to offset the pro-
Western Belgrad e-Athens-
Ankara alliance and place on
Turkeys western borders Q
new hostile combination.
Because OF the tenseness Of
the Greek people over Cyprus,
Tito's plans are closer to frui-
ton than the complacent
Western diplomats like to adj
init. The hatred of the Greeks
for the British and particularly
for their hereditary enemy, the
Turks. has reached such q
point that they are ready to
throw over the friendship Of
the very same nations which
in the past saved them from
totalitarian oppression.
The fervor Of the Greeks
over Cyprus is due to their
nationalism which, as in the
Arab countries in North Africa,
is being famed by a highly
effective Communist propa-
ganda. The blunders of the
West are helping out. Some Of
our policy-makers continue to
believe. however. that we can
Soft-soap Moscow's "fuehrer"
in the Balkans with more bill.
lions of dollars.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-06
CONSTANTINE BROWN
Dictator Pledges Close Tie to Moscow
And Plans New Surprise for West

Union by MISUNDERSTANDING. :"
there is a growing sentiment
among House members to cut
OF all further assistance to
Yugoslavia which has now re-
turned to the Soviet fold, lock,
stock and barrel. It Is some-
what strange that policy
makers Of the executive branch
are insisting that this should
not be done lest we ALLEVIATE
permanently the Yugoslav
people," Actually. the people
of Yugoslavia are just as much
prisoners of their dictator as
the Russians and others in
satellite countries.
Because Of the rebellious
mood of the House. the give
away advocates hope to do
better in the Senate where the
cracking of the whip by the
executive branch is sometimes
more effective. particularly on
foreign affairs matters.
The rush to aid Tito when
he was expelled from the
Communist family" in l94S
had q sound basis. Yugoslavia
might have been invaded by
the three faithful satellites,
Romania, Bulgaria and Hun
gary on orders from Stain.
There is no doubt that in this
manner Stains domain would
have been extended to the
Adriatic. and we might have
found ourselves in a war.
Neither we nor the British
could have afforded that
threat to Italy and Greece.
In our anxiety to prove to
the world that we did not care
what form of government we
helped, we gave Tito all the
required assistance uncondi-
tionally. So long as his per-
sonal enemy, Stain, was alive
we had no reasons to complain.
The subjugation of the Yugo-
slav people was unpleasant.
But reasons of high policy
made us overlook that fact.
Our representatives in Bel
grade indicated that eventually,
somehow or other. freedom
would be returned.