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LArAYETTE
METHODIST CHARGE

Rev. william Turner. Pastor
LAFAYETTE
9.45 am. Worship Service.
1900 am. Sunday School.
SUMMERFORD
1000 am. Sunday School.
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1000 am. Sunday School.
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1000 am. Sunday School
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CUSTOM BALING AND COMBINING,
Phone 925W2. 37-62
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Money To Loan 36

FARMERS LOANS. TO purchase
livestock, machinery, seeds and
all operating expenses. Low inter.
est and convenient terms See
Baldwin Rice. Production Credit
Association, 108 East Market st.,
Washington c. H.. Ohio 2s--tf
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Business Services

ROOFING. Spouting and furnace
worh Frank Stuthard, l66 s. Main
ST: Home Phone 1872. Shop Phone
1859. 26-Ls
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-11
POLITICS
Nixon Role Continues
In Doubt; Democrats
Near Vital Primary

For the second time since he an
nounced he was available for sec
ond term, President Eisenhower last
week coupled glowing praise of his
Vice President with a refusal to
commit himself to support the re-
nomination of Mr.. Nixon.
Asked about persistent reports
that Vice President Nixon is about
to be ditched, Mr.. Eisenhower told
his press conference: %. II any
one ever has the effrontery to come
in and urge me to dump somebody
that I respect as I do Vice Presi-
dent Nixon, there will be more COM
motion around my Office than you
have noticed yet" Mr.. Nixon, said
the President. should be "one Of the
corners" in the Republican Party,
but that he would not presume"
to tell the Vice President what he
should do with his future. He told
reporters that he had asked Mr..
Nixon to chart his own course, and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-11
Eisenhower's Health Renews Campaign
To Clarity Meaning Of Inability Clause

Cd not only that the court cam
not give advice, but 20 that it also
cannot hear cases that are merely
friendly suits. Actual contro-
versy must exist. So to give the
Supreme Court hand in determine
ing presidential disability would re-
qulre constitutional amendment.
Why not, then, simply permit an
ailing President to say to his Vice
President: Il can't go on; you take
over? Former President Truman
has warned that this might tempt
lazy President to shirk his duties.
Then, too, suppose the President is
in a coma and unable to speak?
Vice President Himself
The only authority remaining
obviously is the Vice President. it
has been suggested. There are OBJ
jections here, too. The method OF
choosing vice presidential candi-
dates because of geographic and
political considerations often has
resulted in Vice Presidents whose
ideas are Numerically opposed to
those of the President-sometimes.
there is even dislike between the
two men, as in the cases of Garfield
and Wilson and their Vice Presi-
dents.
But the Vice President is, after
all, the only officer other than the
President who holds Office by virtue
of country wide election. Giving to
the Vice President this authority
presents some risk. but there re-
mains a remedy. Should an overly
ambitious Vice President attempt
to grasp the powers of a Presi-
dent on the grounds that the
President had become disabled,
there would still be the impeach-
ment process.
When, and if, the question Of
who shall determine a Presidents
inability is finally settled, the
settlement will Immediately pose
another question: Once TIE Vice
President assumes the Presidents
duties, by what procedure may the
President recover his powers when
ever he is no longer disabled?
A House Judiciary Subcommit-
tee is looking for the answers now.
And President Eisenhower, whose
office might be affected by all
this despite the assurances Of his
doctors). has suggested that Con-
eress provide LEGISLATION clarifying
the constitutional confusion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-11

with the Soviet Union, these were
the four most vexing problems with
which Mr.. Eisenhower wrestled,
only few days after he had decid-
ed to run for second term.
In the Senate late Thursday aft
ernoon the President and his en-
battled Secretary of Agriculture,
Ezra Taft Benson, won a major
victory on farm policy. BY vote
of SAL, the Senate approved the
Republicans flexible, downward
moving farm price support plan.
But the victory lifted no burdens
from the President. For flowing
from this vote will be a whole string
Of economic and political conse-
quences. not only for the presiden-
tial and congressional elections next
November. but for the national
economy as well. It was the same
with the other burdensome prob
lens facing Mr.. Eisenhower last
week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-11
Colonies

Britain and France were having
bad trouble with their colonies in
the Mediterranean area last week.
The British, after prolonged ne
gotiations with Greek nationalist
on Cyprus, suddenly deposed the
principal Greek spokesman, Arch
bishop Makarios, last Friday. Cyp-
riots Immediately called an island
vile general strike in protest. Greece
recalled its London Ambassador.
Violence spread across Cyprus.
With storm clouds gathering over
Israel, Cyprus took on strategic i'm
portance. It is the military head
quarters for the British in the East
ern Mediterranean. now that the
withdrawal from Egypt has been
nearly completed.
The French, meanwhile, were
confronted with a snowballing civil
war situation in Algeria. Some 200
persons were killed there last week
as French troops fought rebels. AL
gerian units with long records Of
service in the French Army were
being watched carefully for mutiny.
In Tunis Friday a French mob
sacked the United States Consulate,
apparently believing this country
sides with the natives in their dis
puteS with French colonial rule.
Yesterday the French apologized for
what they termed this "unpardon-
able" act.
The Cyprus issue brought Great
Britain and Greece, allies in the
North Atlantic Treaty Organiza-
ton, to the verge of a break
Frances growing troubles also were
expected to have the effect of weak
ening NATO, since more French
troops may be taken out Of NATO
work to help subdue North Africa.
Asia
It was a week for taking inventory
in the Far East.
At Karschi, the eight Southeast
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-11
FOREIGN
Tensions in Mid-Eust
Increase; U. S. Aid
Program SpotIighted

Ever since the signing of the
tripartite pact Of 1850, the United
States, Britain and France have
been trying to cool off the Arab
Israel dispute. Last years Soviet
sale of arms to Egypt countered
this Western effort.
Arab and Israeli tempers have
been heating up week by week.
Last Wednesday the situation was
so bad President Eisenhower sug-
gested urgent action" by the
United Nations to help preserve
peace. Secretary General Dag
Hammarskjold, however, feared
any such U. N. move as a Security
Council warning would only in
crease tension. He preferred quiet
diplomacy.
The time for quiet diplomacy
may have passed, however. The
Israelis, digging bomb shelters and
readying barbed wire for stringing,
seemed to feel the Arab world was
pressing in on them.
III Jul uuH, OAlC oCCIlOIl vi AoldhA
was turning sharply away from the
par Britannica following the custer
of Club Pasha" from command
of the Arab Legion. Other British
officers subsequently were recalled.
In Syria, guns blazed on two at
tacks along the Israeli border. Two
Israeli policemen were killed and an
Israeli airplane was shot down.
In Egypt, Arab League leaders
held secret meeting at the sum-
nit" among Egypt's Premier Canal
Abdel Nasser, Saudi Arabia's King
Saud and Syria's President Shukri
al-Kuwatly. The Arab big three
surveyed their desert NATO"
three armies under one command
and it was rumored that Jordan,
minus Club Pasha, would now be
invited to join.
In Israel. meanwhile, the tense
Knesset debated another demand
for preventive war"-over Premier
David Ben Gurion's stout opposi-
ton. Israeli Ambassador Abba
Eban was still working doggedly
in Washington to get more defen-
sive arms. But America continued
to stand pat on the deterrent effect
Of what might be called Anglo
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-11

Asia Treaty Organization nations
surveyed the progress of their 18-
month-old alliance, affirmed their
reliance on the American atomic
deterrent in case of overt military
aggression, and agreed that eco
nomic improvement and political
stability were the best safeguards
against Red subversion.
Pakistan, the host country which
has felt neglected of late, received
backing in its dispute with Afghan
istan over border territory. The
conference also urged ian early
settlement Of the Kashmir question
through the United Nations or by
direct negotiation" between Pakis-
tan and India. Indians. of course.
regarded this intrusion of the
Kashmir dispute into the SEATO
deliberations as an affront.
Secretary Of State John Foster
Dulles. who visited New Delhi after
sitting in on the Karachi confer
ence, had to listen to more Indian
protests against the very rdiSon
d'etre Of SEATO.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-11

son, mentioned the question. But
the summer of 1887 was hot
one in Philadelphia. and at this
point, the delegates were near ad-
journment and longed for home.
Since that time, many plans have
been suggested, but no one OF them
is free of constitutional or political
objections. 1t has been suggested
that the cabinet, since it is COM
posed of men from the Presidents
own party who presumably are in
sympathy with his policies, be al
lowed to determine the extent OF
the Presidents disability. One OBJ
lection to this is the fact that a
cabinet member is not elected by
the people, and such provision
would, in actuality, permit ap-
pointed officials to say who should
act as President. Further, political
reasons - perhaps dislike of the
Vice President on the part of one
or more Secretaries-could give rise
to a number of difficulties.
Congress might be the proper
determining body, but what would
that do our historical ideas Of
separation of powers? 1t is also
conceivable that this might prove
too tempting to a Congress not
controlled by the party of the Presi-
dent, especially when there is bad
blood between such Congress and
President.
Court as Arbiter
It has been suggested that the
Supreme Court be given the au-
thority-or, more deliberately, per-
NIT most of the Government to get
into the act by providing that the
Vice President or the cabinet could
request Congress to ask the ST.
preme Court to decide. Those who
hold this view, however. apparently
overlook a very likely constitutional
objection to this course. The Con-
stitution specifically enumerates the
types of cases over which the Su-
preme Court holds original juris-
diction, and by no stretch of the
imagination could this provision be
included.
BY the same token, the action
could not start in a lower court
possessing wider Jurisdiction be-
cause of rulings, dating to John
Marshall, which hold that the con-
stitutional requirement that jul
dicial power be exerted only over
cases" or controversies" means
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-11
BY DAVID KOONCE

Inc ConStlCuClon PROVIDES tnaC.
should the President become dis
abled, the powers and duties of the
Office shall devolve on the Vice
President" But in the case of three
Presidents who became disabled.
their duties did not, in fact, become
the responsibility of the respective
Vice Presidents. That Is why the
inability clause" has come out
of the shadows and into the spot
light recently.
When President Eisenhower was
stricken last September "a, the
presidential duties were carried out
by triumvirate composed of the
Presidents staff, the Cabinet and
the Vice President.
President Wilson was completely
or partially disabled for many
months following stroke on Sep
TENDER &c, 1919. His secretary,
Joseph Tumulty, handled much of
the work. Mrs. Wilson assumed
most of the responsibility. deciding
what documents the President
should see and condensing all i'm
portant papers that required his
action.
When President Garfield lay dis
abled for II weeks after July 2,
1881, before dying from the wounds
of an assassin's bullet, his close
friend, Attorney General Wayne
MacVeagh, stepped in and assumed
the few duties that demanded i'm
mediate action.
Why hasn't the Vice President
in these medicines automatically
come forward to fill the gap? At
first glance it would appear that,
the provision being specific as to
the succession of the duties. Moth
ing should have stood in the way
of the three Vice Presidents con-
cerned. Wilson's No. 2 man.
Thomas R. Marshall, actually was
invited by several members of Con-
gress to take over. Why, then. the
reluctance to act?
Who Gives the Verdict?
The big stumbling block is the
question: Who shall determine that
the President is disabled to such
an extent as to make him UNFIT
to continue to carry out his duties?
The Constitution does not say, and
its failure is not because the Con-
stitutional Convention of 1877 just
overlooked the matter. In fact,
Delaware's delegate. John Dicken-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-11
Lobby Probe

On the Senate's loudly heralded
bipartisan" select committee
named to investigate lobby and
campaign practices, four plus four
added up to two-the sum being
composed Of two very partisan fac
tions. Only Is days old, the eight
man committee-evenly split be-
tween Democrats and Republicans
became completely de-bipartisan-
lied by Thursday. But by Saturday,
the breach had been closed.
The sorest spot, which had been
developing for several days, was
whether or not there would be a
chairman and vice chairman, or
a chairman and a co-chairman. It
had been expected that the tough
minded and sometimes unbending
Senator Gore would be chosen by
the committee members as chair
man. Also believed to be q fore
gone conclusion was the selection
of Senator Styles Bridges, Republic
can of New Hampshire. as vice
chairman.
BY last week, Senator Bridges and
his three fellow Republicans on the
committee were openly insisting
that he get equal authority with
Senator Gore. What is more, they
demanded that the committee have
a Republican counsel as well as a
Democratic counsel and q separate
Republican staff. Senator Gore told
the Senate that, under the circum-
stances, he was removing himself
from consideration as chairman.
Senator Bridges remarked that
Senator Gore was being unduly
pessimistic, and expressed regret
that compromise seemed so hard
to arrange. But he, too, was I'M
bending and gave no hint that he
was ready to do any retreating.
Democrats. however, gracefully
backed up a bit and offered as
chairman Senator John L. Nc
Clellan, Democrat of Arkansas. The
Republicans accepted. Senator Nc
Clellan's conservatism obviously was
more palpable to the committees
Republicans. and when the group
met yesterday, both sides agreed on
the ground rules.
The Cose Cose
Meanwhile, the special committee
named to look specifically. into the
$4,000 offered by an oil company
lawyer to the campaign fund of
Senator Francis Case, Republican
Of South Dakota, closed shop and
planned to have a report ready
by March 81.
Chairman Walter George of
Georgia said the offer-rejected in
Senator Cases behalf-appeared to
be "manifestly improper" but he
doubted that it was illegal. At
the same time, Senator Bridges
told the investigators that Elmer
Patman, one of the lawyers for
Superior Oil Co., who was involved
in the Case case" visited him in
New Hampshire last fall to dis
cuss the natural gas bill. 1t had
been brought out previously that
Mr.. Patman's expense account
showed he had made two trips to
Concord, N. H.. though Senator
Bridges mentioned only one of
them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-11
Another New Look

The buildup for a great debate
on American defensive strength
continued last week. The Joint
Chiefs of Staff and Defense Sec
rotary Charles E. Wilson flew to
Puerto Rico to take new look at
the new look. One Of their prob
lens, observers said, was to esti-
mate how far integracion of nuclear
weapons into the armed forces has
gone. There were said to be second
thoughts about depending so heav-
lily on nuclear weapons that nom
nuclear warm some small "brush-
fire" situation-might have become
impossible.
The special Senate Armed Serv-
Ices Subcommittee, headed by for
mer Air Force Secretary (now Sem
ator) Stuart Symington Of Missouri,
named counsel and aimed at April
/ as the target date for opening its
hearings on air power. One OF the
subcommittee main concerns will
be with the progress this country
has made in long-range missiles.
To emphasize the growing air
defense capabilities of the United
States, the Navy last week released
first pictures of a new antiaircraft
missile called "Talos." It bears q
striking resemblance to rockets de-
veloped in Germany during World
War II, indicating the still-con-
siderable effects of the Peenemunde
influence on American rocketry.
Talos is said to have a longer range
than its sister AA missile, Nike, now
in Army operational units. Air
Force announcement that it plans
to use .Talos around some of its
air bases raised questions about
whether the Army was losing its
exclusive jurisdiction over short
range air defense.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-11

Foreign Domestic Issues Beset President

could not isolate talks about arms
cuts from talks about inspection.
Some Of Americas closest allies
joined the Kremlin in this view.
The result was last weeks modif1-
cation.
The United States is now pre-
pared. apparently, to engage in
long propaganda exchanges about
weapons limitations without first
having settled the fundamental is
sue: Whether the Soviet Union is
willing to permit effective inSpec-
ton of its disarmament moves.
Clever Propaganda
AS a piece of propaganda the
Presidents letter was a clever doc
ument, but one that could be dan
gerous. For it seemed to accept the
old Soviet proposition that there is
merit in banning nuclear warfare
without banning other forms. Re-
nouncing nuclear war as Russia
has urged for 10 years would, OF
course, deprive the United States
of its only present answer to the
Soviet Unions acknowledged man
power superiority.
Actually. by continuing to insist
on suitable and safeguarded ar
rangements" for inspection, the
United States can still feel quite
certain that no restrictions on
nuclear warfare will be accepted by
the Soviet Union. But the Com
munist propaganda ministry is not
above overlooking the inspection
proviso, and later charging the
United States with bad faith when
we persist in keeping our nuclear
advantage.
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per cent Of parity still had a
chance, slim though it was, to upset
the administration victory. AS the
final action on the Senate bill, S.
1888, they planned to move to sub
stitute S. 1888 for H.R. IL, the high
support bill passed by a six-vote
margin in the House last year. This
attempt, If successful, would put
the whole question before Senate
House confereeS, a majority of
whom favor rigid supports. Failure
of this move would send the Senate
bill to the House floor for action,
where administration forces were
confident they could pick up the
handful Of votes needed to put his
farm program across.
Bottle Won, War Lost?
Although the Thursday vote was
a G. o. P. victory-only six Repub-
Leans Joined IS Democrats behind
the rigid formula-many Demo-
Gratis could agree with one Of their
number who said that the admin
lstration had won a battle but lost
a war. They were certain that the
bill as 1t now stands will give the
farmer no dollar relief this year.
The Democratic campaign on the
farm issue has been shaping up for
months, and the Senate vote gave
it its finishing touches.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-11
Foreign Aid

While President Eisenhower
showed attentive concern for the
problem of war or peace IN the
Middle East, he at the same time
showed a more sensitive aware
ness of the new Soviet economic
offensive in the Near and Far East.
He told his news conference
Wednesday:
II think iDe haze got to study
this economic side OF our foreign
policy) more deeply, analyze 1t
more deeply. / belieUe, with
some feribility In economic aid
we could do much more. But that
is only start. :. There is going
to (be) q broadening. a Oery
great broadening. OF the con-
test. We are in Uery great
campaign that 1De haze to put
out some OF our resources"
These comments were taken to
mean that the President is thinking
of expanding foreign aid when the
lines of the Soviet offensive become
clearer. The "flexibility" to which
he referred was the 500 million re-
volving fund which already has
been asked in the fiscal 1857 budget.
That he considered this "only
start" was quietly hailed by a grow
ing body of lower-level Government
officials who fear the American re-
spouse to Soviet Point Four" has
been inadequate.
On Capitol Hill last week, how
ever, it was obvious that the Presi-
dent would be confronted with
huge selling job if any big foreign
aid program were being contem-
plated. Senators were talking of
withholding all foreign aid from
countries which persist in trading
with the Communists, particularly
with Red China.
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SVutH0SS w "SHS "" WV
that he had never gone beyond that.
A few minutes later, the question
was re-phrased, but again Mr.. Eli
senhower said he was mot going
to be pushed into corners" on a
committal
His repeated refusal to indorse Mr..
Nixon simply added to the specu-
lation that the Vice President may
not accompany the President on the
ticket this year. At his press con-
ference q week earlier. Mr.. Eisen-
hover said, after refusing indorse-
ment, that the matter was closed
and that he did not want to discuss
it at such an early date before the
August convention.
As for Mr.. Nixon himself, the
course he was charting was not
obvious to the public. He had q
firm mo comment" to the Presi-
dents statements, which might
have been expected since, after all,
it is not customary for vice presi-
Dental candidates to announce
their availability.
But no responsible observer was
ready to count the Vice President
out for while yet. At 43, he con-
ceivably could be political force
until 1880.
New Hompshire
In New Hampshire. meanwhile.
shorter-range political campaign
was near it's climax. There next
Tuesday Democrats will vote in a
preferential primary for conven-
ton delegates favorable to Estes
Kefauver on the one hand and
Adlai Stevenson on the other.
Senator Kefauver was busy cleo
tioneering in the SHOWS, and Mr..
Stevenson was conspicuously alb
sent.
What would happen, no one knew.
But it was recalled that four years
ago, New Hampshire Republicans
chose the absent Gen. Eisenhower
over the ever-so- present Robert A.
Taft in similar primary.