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FAOMeetinq to Air
Low Morale Report

ROME, Aug. rs P.-The
1000 staff members of the
United Nations Food and Agri-
culture Organization are meet
ing Monday to discuss an en-
ployes' report of low morale at
tributed to lack of effective
leadership"
The report was made public
yesterday in summary form. 1t
was based on private question:
naires answered by more than
500 employees and interviews
with 100.
1t airs large number Of COM
plants over the way the inter-
national organization is run,
ranging from overwork in GER
tain departments to suspicion
that promotions sometimes 60
to favorites.
The report Is certain to come
up at special conference OF
IFAO's 72-member nations in
Rome, September II. The con-
ference will select a new direc-
tor general to succeed Or. p. "
Carbon Of Logan. Utah. who
resigned last March because OF
III health. Sir Herbert Broad
ley Of Britain is the acting chief
DR.. Carbon served from No.
vember. 1858. His predecessor
for five years was Norris E
Dodd, a former United State.
Undersecretary OF Agriculture
Sir John Boyd Orr Of Britain
was first director general. from
J i945 10 l94s.
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Is Caught,
Queried in 8 RuDes'

ROGERS, Ark, Aug. IS (R.-
Police last night captured Louis
Roland Hoag. a Missouri Jail fus
gitive, and said he would be
questioned in the rape of three
girls since his escape August 8:
An intensive three-day man.
hunt ended at this northwest
Arkansas town when a truck in
which Hoag had hitched a ride
was stopped at a roAdblock.
State Trooper Leon Clinton
said Hoag offered no resistance.
He was taken to Benton County
Jail at Bentonville.
Hoag fled from the Shannon
County Jail at Eminence, Mo,
where he was being held on a
rape charge. Trooper Clinton
said Hoag also was wanted in the
rape of two girls at Eminence
shortly after his escape, He
then faded into the southwest
Missouri hills and crossed into
Arkansas and Oklahoma,
Trooper Clinton said.
The hunt for Hoag intensified
Wednesday morning when Of
lflcers chased a man Immediately
after he had raped a girl near
Seligman, Mo-, Mr.. Clinton said.
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Accident Believed Ordered by Reds
To Make u. S. Out as Agqressor
CONSTANTINE BROWN

eide with the Russian antics at
the Suez conference in London.
would focus attention on the
United States in the neutral
nations of the world. Those
nations, led by Communist
India and Indonesia, are auto
r4atically certain that any
American plane shot down by
Communist fighters was, in
fact. intruding on Communist
air space. That has been the
Red line all along. and the
neutrals accept the Red line
almost all the time.
Thus, when world attention
is directed at the Suez develop
ments, where the Soviet Union
and the neutrals have been
taking tic part of the bandit
Nasser. the propaganda line will
simply say that the United
States has given fresh evidence
of its aggressive intentions. A
photo RECONNAISSANCE plane, the
yarn will go, has been mapping
the Chinese mainland in prep
aration for a counter-revolu-
tionary attack by the Nation
alist forces. Naturally and
periodically, a devoted Red
pilot shot down the interloper.
This will serve the purpose,
for the gullible, of undermining
the basic imperialism of the
United States. The Reds will
have more proof" of their
honest defensive intentions.
Here they are. the Eombast will
say, exerting every nerve for
peace. and the warmongering
imperialists are mapping the
peaceful coasts in preparation
for aggression.
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POTOMAC FEVER
FLETCHER KNEBEL
SAN FRANCISCO.
On O eiI1iSfnr nofa 0f

SAN FRANCISCO.
The Republican convention ended sinister note Of
mystery "Who dumped Joe Smith?"
Vice President Nixon unhappy with Harold Sassen. If
Sassen only persisted bit longer the convention might
gotten mad enough to nominate Nixon for both places
the ticket
Close relative: Any kind who dies without naming you
in the will
Republican platform promise Eisenhower prosperity is
only beginning Give another four and everybody will
living high the hog did at San Francisco"
Ike believe that Nixon will far. In fact the
way talks apparently figures Nixon has too far
already.
Cloud Thirteen: place where young girls wait for the
prince charming who'll bring them earth with hud
The most widely quoted Republican speech San Fran
cisco was the made about Adai Sevenson-by Harry
in
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New Attack on American Plane

Whether the Chinese attack
was ordered or not. the fact
remains that it easily can be
distorted to suit Communist
propaganda aims. The Soviet
Union, which uses the Suez
Canal almost not at all, cares
not a fig whether Nasser takes
the canal control or not. But
the Kremlin conspirators do
care about making the most
out of the crisis for their own
ends.
Following that very obvious
analysis. Moscow will do what /,
ever it can to make the whole I
Suez affair seem like just an
other plain demonstration of
the imperialism and colonialism
of the West. What happens to
the canal is of small concern to
the Reds. But the effect of the
situation on the minds of the
neutralist bloc is all-important.
The Red tyranny is playing
for immense stakes in the cur
rent situation. A few more
telling blows like this one, and
the little, dwindling prestige
of the West will have disap-
peared entirely. The neutralist
bloc is rapidly assuming an
all-important role in the de- /.
termination of the future Of
the world. Anything the Com
munists can do to weaken still
further the standing of the
West in the neutralists' eyes
is a major victory for Commu- /.
mist grand strategy.
So, whether the Moscow
leaders planned it all in adj
vance or not, the Suez issue
and the plane attack off For
mosa will be put together for
the greater glory of the ham,
mer and sickle.
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Silver Spring Man
Is Charged With
Operating Lottery

A man who six years ago beat
gambling charges in the United
States Court of Appeals, was ar
rested again yesterday and
charged with operating lottery
and possession of numbers slips.
Police arrested Frank Billeci,
48, of the 500 block of Margaret
drive, Silver Spring, at Pennsyl-
vania avenue and Twelfth street
NV, after undercover men said
they made numbers bets with
him.
Billeci with William (Snag)
Lewis was convicted of operating
a lottery in the United States
Court for the District of Column
bia in 1850.
Later the Court of Appeals
ruled that District Court Judge
Alexander Holtzoff had erred
several times during the 18-day
trial.
Billeci was arrested by First
Precinct Detectives Arthur l.
Weber and John B. Kline.
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Exactly what the Red Chi
nese regime in Peiping expects
to accomplish by describing
a United States patrol plane
as a "Chiang Kai-shek" air.
craft is a mystery. The world
would be well justified if it as
Sumes that the Rcd warmakers
knew perfectly well the diff
ference between a modern
American reconnaissance plane
and anything the Nationalist
on Formosa can put in the air.
An immediate reaction to
the phony Peiping broadcast is
the simple one that the Reds,
realizing the blunder of their
overeager pilots, want to deny
at the outset that they had any
intention of firing on an Amer
lean plane. This explanation
would make sense If we con-
slider that the Red Chinese
are supposed to be co-operat-
ing all along with the spurious
Moscow peace offensive. Thus.
any Red Chinese overt act
against the United States
would mean. to the Kremlin's
inner circles, grave breach
of discipline.
Butt the real answers are
surely not SO simple. Much
more likely, in the opinion of
United States experts who have
some reason to know. is the
thesis that the Red Chinese
struck at the American plane.
flying over international wa
tiers. on direct orders of the
Kremlin.
In the curious workings of
the Communist tactical mind,
such an attack, timed to COIN
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.VEPCO Revenue
Shows Big Gain

Virginia Electric and Power
Co. july revenue rose to $685.
100, an increase of 1876 pei
cent over the same month last
year, according to Erwin H.
Hill. VEPCO president.
Revenues for the IL months
ended July 81 were $113,850,50O
an increase over the previous
II months of $11,884, 900 or liz
per cent.
Air conditioning and use OF
television during the Democratic
Convention at Chicago con-
tributed to an all-time peak load
of 1,166,000 kilowatts between
2 and 8 pm. Monday, August 10
he said.
The next days production OF
81 ,447 900 kilowatt-hours set a
new high for a 24-hour period.
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weight and there's nothing wrong
in trying to get troops in shape. a"
he said. But the Secretary added
he believes the general made a
mistake in trying to enforce" the
regulation.
At a press conference after
an inspection. Mr.. Brucker ex-
planned that Gen. Maxwell D.
Taylor, Army chief of staff, in
stituted the reducing program
after he observed several Off
GERS. non-coms and enlisted men
who gave the impression of
flabbiness."
In response to question,
however. Mr.. Brucker said a
Washington directive to court
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Civil Rights Plank Acceptable to Dixie
Seen Giving Party an Advantage

four States-that would knock
the base from the Democratic
pedestal.
Modification of the civil
rights plank, which left it still
somewhat stronger than that
of the Democrats, causes some
surprise. 1t was thought gener-
ally that Republicans would
go considerably further than
Democrats in, a bid for Negro
votes in the large urban areas.
that have been predominantly
Democratic since the beginning
of the Roosevelt New Deal. and
would more or less ignore the
South.
But the refusal of the Demo-
cratic convention to indorse
the Supreme Court public
school indignation decision
opened the way for the Repub-
licans to make concessions to
the Southernsrs and still come
out with a stronger plank for
their contest with the Demo-
Gratis in the North.
In their platform. Republic
cans accepted" the Supreme
Court decision and approved
the courts deliberate speed"
procedures through lower Fed
eral courts in applying the de-
cision. Democrats did not ac-
cept or indorse the decisions.
While the compromise was
q matter of some surprise. it
perhaps should not have been.
For it is in keeping with the
attitude of President Eisen-
hover who has. furthermore,
kept himself completely aloof
from the controversy over in
tegration in public schools and
has declined to inject the
White House into it in any
form or fashion.
Though requested from time
to time to take the leadership
and call a conference repre-
sentative of both North and
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cused her and seven others of
Incorporating money and
classifying documents of the social
welfare administration in the
two years Mrs. Gonzales was its
administrator.
The charges said Mrs. Con-
tales misused l04, 900 pesos ts52.-
000) Of administration money
from February to September,
1855
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school board and acts of terror
ism made against the school
superintendent and school
patrons.
School sessions were suspended
when white parents started keep
ing their children at home and
Negro parents were admon-
ished" to withdraw their chill
dren. Before the opening of the
fall term last year, the school
board got a restraining order
and eventually permanent in
junction from the local Federal
Court gaainst any further inter-
ference with their indignation
plan.
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SAN FRANCISCO. - How
determined are the Republic
can Party and President
Eisenhower to try to hold the
bridgehead established in the
South in the 1852 Eisenhower
landslide is revealed in the
compromise which the White
House approved in the civil
rights plank of the party's
1856 platform.
In softening the civil rights
plank from its original form,
the President and his aides
here yielded to demands from
Southern delegations, even
though the latter were much
less belligerent and less in
f1uential politicians than
Southern delegations at last
weeks Democratic convention
in Chicago.
The gesture to the South
represents both a long-range
and a short-range political in
tention.
For the long range, the
building of strong Repub-
lican Party in the South is
part of President Eisenhower's
plan for a real national party,
with roots in all sections. AS
such, it fits into his overall
plans for rebuilding the COP.
An immediate objective is to
disrupt the apparent strategy
OF the Democrats. The Demo-
cratic Party's scheme of pos
sible victory in November is
predicated on regaining and
holding the entire South as a
nucleus and then adding to this
enough Other electoral votes in
the East and in disaffected
Midwestern farm States.
If the Republicans could
again break the solid South
as they did in 1852 by winning
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Metropolitan Area, have all
taken courses in the institute
and have served on various ca
pacities in the organization. They
will act as advisers to young
oank employees who desire further
banking education.
Two associate consuls are
Clayton Snare of American Sc
curity & Trust Co., and Charles
Hopkins of National Metropoli-
tan Bank.
Consuls named for banks in
the District are:
Charles Allies and Bob Brown Of the
nam offtee OF American Security &
Trust Co; Barbara Rollins of A. S. & T.
pranches, Harold KuSek. Anacostia Ma
tional Bank Ethel Fauber. Bank Of
Commences; Ora f Frazier. City Bank;
Cha Charles Adams, Liberty National Bank;
Bank Ethel Miller. McLachlen Banking
Corp. Julie Roche Munsev Trust Co:
wallace Ricknah, main ofice. National
ea iark q .,, Mfas1hi1pstOpsnd Gertrude
branches
Also Jack Mallon. National Capital
Bank Robert H. Maritime, National
Metropolitan Bank David Good. Ma
tional Savings & Trust Co: J. Totten.
Riggs National Bank main office: Rus
sell Butler. Rigs National Bank
tional Bank, W. L. & T. Co. branch /:
Gerald MeIsereau Second National Bank.
and Fred Reese, Union Trust CO
Consuls appointed for the greater
metropolitan area are:
James Seitzineer. Alexandria National
Bank; Kenneth Thompson. Arlington
Trust co: Richard Statler,- Bank of
Maryland: Dale Eichotz BanR of Silver
Spring; Taylor Burke ir., Burke and
Herbert Bank and Trust Co. Norman
Jenkins. Clarendon Trust Co; Milton z,
FagerStrom. Citizens Bank of Takoma
Park; Richard Purdue, Citizens Bank of
Maryland: John Lainhsrt. First National
Bank of Arlington; Charles Fenimore,
First and Citizens National Bank Of
Alexandria. Alice watkins National
Bank of Fairfax William Gibson. and
Albert Leo. Suburban Trust Co.. Donald
McLaiehlin. Mt. Vernon Bank and Trust
Co, and Robert N. Hughes, Old Dominion
Bank
Registration for the ALB
courses will be held September s.;
and classes start September 10,
at 1908 Massachusetts, avenue
NV.
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according to the Federal Reserve
Bank of Richmond's weekly re-
port of sales.
Washington Metropolitan Area
sales showed gain of l per cent
during the same period, the re-
port showed, although the Wash
ington downtown department
store business registered a de-
crease of 2 per cent.
During the four weeks ended
August 18 this year the fifth dis
trict stores reported a gain of 4
per cent over the similar 1855
period, while Washington Met
ropolitan Area showed a gain of
2 per cent, and Washington
downtown stores an increase of
l per cent,
Retail dollar sales by depart
ment stores in the Washington
Metropolitan Area showed a gain
of l per cent in July this year
as compared with July, 1855, the
Federal Reserve Bank also re-
ported. but the Washington
downtown stores registered a
gain of 8 per cent.
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last year to restore racial seq
lregation in a newly integrated
school.
illegal conduct for the pur-
pose of forcing the school board
to violate the law" the Depart
ment called it in its friend of
the court" brief. A copy of the
brief was made available to re-
porterS here.
The Government asked the
appellate court to keep in force
a permanent injunction obtained
by the t6chool board to prevent
interference with its indignation
program! This program was be-
gun after the Supreme Court
held racial segregation in public
schools unconstitutional.
Members of the White Citizens
Council of Arkansas, White
America, Inc, and the Hoxie
Committee for Segregation have
appealed against the injunction,
which was granted by a United
States District Court.
The Justice Departments brief
was prepared by Assistant At
Itorney General Warren Olney III.
head of the criminal division;
Arthur B. Caldwell, chief of the
civil rights section, and two of
Mr.. Caldwell's assistants, Hubert
H. Margolies and Henry Putzel.
Not Purely Local
They said that in view of the
Supreme Court decisions, the
Hoxie dispute could not be
regarded as purely local." but
involved issues having Nation
wide impact"
A principal issue, they said in
the brief. was whether state
officials can be protected in Fed
eral courts from purposeful and
formidable obstruction to the
performance of the duty imposed
upon them by the Federal Con-
stitution."
The brief commended the in
junction does nothing to prevent
THE defendants from expressing
their dislike for degeneration, +"
and does not prohibit any peace
full attempt Ito effect a change
in the Constitution"
Terrorism Cited
However. the Department
noted findings of the District
Court that the campaign against
desegregation was marked by
intimidation. acts of terrorism
and threatened violence, and
asserted:
"The injunction in this case
is no broader than is necessary
to prevent a repetition of the
acts the defendants committed
and the kind of speech in which
they INDUCED.
"Those acts and that type of
speech were not within the chan
nels of the democratic process
but were calculated and intended
to force disobedience to the law.
Such verbal and other conduct
is subversive Of orderly govern
mental procedures and is not
protected by the courts as free
speech"
The free speech issue has been
raised by the Georgia attorney
general, who has interviewed on
the side Of the Hoxie citizens
opposing migration.
Less than a month after the
Supreme Court. in May, 1855,
directed desegregation as soon
as enthusiastically feasible. the
Hoxie school board proceeded to
desegregate by bringing into the
white school. which had about
900 students, the Is Negroes
in the community who were
being schooled separately.
Mass Meetings
IN According to the lower court
record, all went well for about
: there weeks. after which a series
Of protesting mass meetings was
, started in an effort TO get the
board OF rescind its desegrega-
, ton order.
i The testimony was that
threats were directed at the
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Reds in West Borneo

VATICAN CITY. Aug. IS up.
The vatlcan's International
Fides news agency says there is
widespread Communist political
infiltration Of West Borneo. for
merly Dutch ruled and now
part Of the Republic Of Indo-
nesia.
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Brucker Has Two Views
On Army's Big Stomochs

FORT CARSON, ColoY Aug. Is l1-An Army may on
its stomach but can't move far big Army
tary Wilbur NJ. Brucker.
He took last night Of reduce-or-else
post commanding Warrington has ordered
cotmartals for handful of officers considered
fat fight.
heard that been emphasizing over
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martial soldiers who fail or re-
fuse to lose weight "has been
rescinded
I've seen men in good condi-
ton, in good soldierly appear
ance, as nearly ready for combat
as expected under the circum-
stances" Mr. Brucker told re-
porters after his Fort Carson
tour.
Capt. William G. NewkirK,
public information officer, COM
mented later on recent courts
martial of heavyweights here:
The Judge advocate generals
office here has announced it will
review such cases." he said.
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Philippines Senator
Faces Fund Charge

MANILA. Aug. rs tP).-A
woman Senator who won her seat
last November with the biggest
majority in the Philippines Sem
ate history was charged by gov
eminent prosecutors yesterday
with misuse Of public funds. She
is Mrs. Pacita Gonzales. 80.
II am innocent and can and
viii establish my innocence she
said.
Mrs. Gonzales Is a former ball
let teacher turned politician and
the Philippines only woman leg
islator.
The prosecutors. after a FIVE
month Investigation ordered by
President Ramon Magsaysay, ac-
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Department Store
Business Better

Department store business in
the Fifth Federal Reserve Dis
trict was 3 per cent better in the
week ending August 10, than in
the comparable week a year ago,
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U.S.. Supports Decision
In HoxIe School Case

The Federal Government has interviewed formally for the
local school dispute arising from the Supreme
Courts desegration mandates of 1854 and 1855.
brief filed with the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals at
ST. the Justice Department yesterday conended that
Hox Ark residents acted ILLEGALLY when they tried
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-25

The American Institute of Banking
step toward opening its adult education program month
when its chief consul Robert H Security
&c Trust Co., appointed members the Consuls which
he heads.
The consus representing banks Washington and the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-25
Diamonds Resist Heot

NEW YORK.-It requires heat
of 1880 degrees centigrade to
melt an average diamond.
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LOS ANGELES, Aug. 9.-The
Redskins will have their eyes
glued on TV sets tomorrow night
when the annual All-Star game
unfolds at Chicago, but their in
terest will be purely academic
Mean John" Paluck of Pitts
burgh and Erik Christensen of
Richmond, two ends drafted by
the Washington club, are on the
All-Star squad, but Paluck is un-
signed and Christensen is re-
ported to have been slowed up
by an injury.
If Christensen's injury should
keep him out of football this
season he'll draw his full salary.
On the other hand. Paluck. if
hurt won't get a nickel more
than hospital expenses. plus a
small honorarium. because he
hasn't signed. 1t doesn't make
good sense-even if he doesn't
intend to play with the Redskins.
1t makes so little sense that
Coach Joe Kuharich wonders if
John has other football plans.
Coming from a hard working
family himself, Kuharich under
stands why Paluck's folks want
him to study dentistry rather
than play football. John is re-
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fornia and AL Barbartsky of
Fordham got into a fight and
were ordered off the squad, as
well as off the field. by Coach
30 McMillin.
They walked down the fiel6
arguing with one another Joe
recalled, then they stopped,
threw down their helmets and
started fighting again. The next
thing, they stopped, shook hands,
came back to Bo and apologized,
and he put them back on the
squad"
Dick Evans played at Iowa
with the great Nile Kinuick. who
was killed in a Navy plane at sea
during the war. Kinnick's passes
helped Iowa defeat Minnesota in
1889 for the first time in years,
one going over the mead of a
Gopher fullback named Chris
Hansen.
This day at the All-Star
camp" Evans said, Mile was
warming up. throwing passes to