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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-27
DAVID LAWRENCE
Writing Books in Election Years

ample confirmation Of their
preconceived prejudice.
In the treatment Of the Sc
curity-risk problem. the adj
ministration is represented not
only as fioundering but as
having taken it too seriously
AN attitude which the So
called liberals" have propa-
gandized for the last several
years. though the regular Re-
publican position has been
that it wasn't desirable to get
soft on communism"
The book fails to tell the
people why President Eisen-
hover in a praiseworthy con-
tradiction initiated the inquiry
into the Oppenheimer case.
1t doesn't tell the most inn
portant fact in the whole con-
troversy, as the official record
shows-that Oppenheimer lied
to United States Army Intelli-
gence officers and refused to
help them for a period of at
least six months after a Rus
sian had approached a friend
of the noted scientist on the
subject of atomic secrets.
It's too bad that the recent
history Of governmental pro-
ceedings was disclosed without
a full and comprehensive pic
ture of all sides. It's tragic
that, from a political view
point, the writing of this kind
of book was ever inspired by
the White House staff in the
mistaken idea that any books
have to, be written to enhance
Ike's popularity. If anything,
this will in some quarters in
the Republican Party dimin-
ish his popularity. And, be-
sides. the Democrats on
the congressional Investigate
ing committees now have
struck gold--they can insist
on papers and documents OF
executive department affairs
repeatedly denied them.
Sometimes White House
STATS seem to like to learn the
hard way.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-27
Writer Of Threat
Sent to Hospital

JACKSON, Miss, June 81 Up.
Federal District Judge Sidney
Mize yesterday sentenced Law
renee G. Thompson to 40
months in a mental institution
after he pleaded guilty. to mall
ing a threatening letter to Pres
ident Eisenhower.
Thompson. SO. admitted writ
ing to the President last March
81, saying:
President Eisenhower, I'm
going to kill you If you run for
Office again. Everything will be
okay" If the President sent $500.
Thompson sent an address
where he would receive the
money. Insteads an FBI agent
picked him UP.
Thompson will be confined in
the United States Public Health
Service Hospital in Lexington.
Nv
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-27
Atom Pact Signed
by U. S. and Cubu

Cuba and the United States
have signed an agreement un-
der President Eisenhower's
atoms for peace program for CO.
operation in atomic energy re-
search and use.
} Ambassador Miguel Angel
Campo signed the agreement for
Cuba and Assistant Secretary Of
State Henry F. Holland for the
United States.
Lewis Strauss, chairman Of
the Atomic Energy Commission,
also signed.
Under the agreement, which is
similar to those signed with over
80 other Nations. the United
States Atomic Energy Commits
sion will furnish Cuba UP to six
Kilograms Of uranium for use in
reactors.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-27
DORIS FLEEsoN
G. 0. P. Governors Urge Eisenhower
To Run, and Omit Nixon's Name

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j.,
June 27.-The Nations q Re-
publican Governors petitioned
President Eisenhower to run
for reelection and spent the
rest of the day explaining it
just hadn't occurred to them
to include Vice President
Richard M. Nixon in their
pleadings.
No doubt. the explanation is
true of some of the signers.
But 1t is definitely established
from a responsible reporters
conversation with Gov. Fred
Hall of Kansas, author of the
petition, that Nixon's name
was omitted by design.
The reporter went over the
petitions history with Gov.
Hall shortly after it was an
nounced. Hall explained it had
been suggested to him by a
reporters questions last Fri
day. The Kansan said he made
a draft over the week end and
began passing it around.
Hall volunteered the state
ment that one of the G. o. P.
Governors quickly said: For
Gods sake. keep Nixon's name
of Of it." The Kansan did not
identify that Governor. There
is no doubt, however, that
there are several Governors,
If not more. who regard Nix
on's value to the Eisenhower
ticket as questionable.
When the press later began
asking questions about the
omission, Hall airily declared
nobody had given 1t any
thought. This can only be
classed as one of those Dip
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-27

lomatic denials common to
politics.
Altogether, Nixon had a bad
day here.
North Cardinals conserva-
tive Governor, Luther Hodges,
said the feeling in the South
about the Vice President was
and is terrible" Reminded
that the South actually had
seen little Of Nixon. he re-
piled:
Eyes, but our feeling that
you could not be sure of
Nixon has been confirmed by
all this Chotiner business
Chotiner's associates and his
advice about how to go about
Smearing your opponents. We
just don't think Nixon thinks
in terms of the country"
Murray Chotiner was Nix
on's 1852 campaign manager
and one Of the two deputies
who chose Nixon's one-third
of the California delegation to
the Republican National Con-
vention. Chotiner is under fire
from the Mcclellan commit
tee in connection with some Of
his tax law clients.
The Governors petition to
the President re-emphasizes
the striking phenomenon of a
major political party putting
all its eggs in one frail basket.
1t is the more striking, since
that party will ask indorse-
ment on the normally sure
fire issues of peace and pros
perity.
The tacit admission that
Republicans are a minority
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-27
CONSTANTINE BROWN
Greek Turkish War Over Cyprus?

views with Tito. Is expected by
Western diplomats to result
in further stiffening Of the
Athens governments demand
for an early il not immediate
union Of Cyprus with Greece.
1t is conceivable that before
the summer is over Greece will
line up. without actually leav-
ing the NATO. with the new
axis" which is the creation Of
Tito's imaginative mind and
the consequence Of the do
nothing" Western policy.
The Turks are realists. They
definitely don't trust Russia
and her leaders. They have
stood steadfast by their guns
and have stubbornly refused
the Soviet suggestions for ex-
changes of official visits with
the men in the Kremlin. They
never had high hopes for the
Balkan alliance with Tito as q
partner. Now. they are taking
the position that the surrender
of Cyprus would endanger the
security of the Eastern Medi-
terranean and would justify
the presence Of Turkish troops.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-27
Donovan Volume From Cabinet Records
Seen Giving Ammunition to Democrats

staff. Is a legitimate enter
prise from the standpoint Of
the author and the book pub
lishers-Harper q Brothers.
If, however. 1t was intended as
a help to the Republican presi-
Dental campaign, somebody
Numbered. 1t contains much
ammunition useful to the
Democrats. It might well be-
come the Democratic Party,S
campaign textbook for the
coming battle.
For, though the author never
intended it that way, it pre-
sentS the Eisenhower admins
tration as a sort of clumsy
anti-Repuhlican protagonist.
The deliberate plotting to fight
Mccarthy. especially on the is
sue of East-West trade. isn't
going to make a lot of already
Indifferent Republicans go to
the polls, especially when they
read that McCarthy's position
on trade with Communist
countries now has become the
attitude of Senator Mcclellan
of Arkansas and other Demo-
Gratis on the Senate Permanent
Subcommittee on Investiga-
tons.
The book gives the impress
sion at times Of a partly in
formed, vacillating President
who listens to the gossip that
his cronies send him and, by
giving weight to letters from
his left-wing friends in the
Republican Party, gets only
one side of the story.
Len Hall, Republican Ma
tional Chairman works day
and night to achieve harmony
in the Republican Party, but
the new book will make his
task harder. For it confirms
the impressions Of many Re
puhlicans that at heart the
President leans toward the
left wing" side. They have
accused him Of this before. but
they will find in the book
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20 that mine enemy might
write q booki"
This oft-quoted line by cam
didates for public ONCE has
long reflected the great haz-
ards involved in writing an
intimate revelation Of ones
official life in the midst Of q
campaign.
Some day the inexperienced
lat times, aInateurish--staH
which surrounds President
Eisenhower will learn that the
cold wars" Of politics permit
Of no such ineptitude as in
spired the White House to Let
a newspaperman have access
to cabinet meeting records for
the purpose of writing a
friendly biography of Essen
hover.
There's nothing wrong in
leaking inside information or
even documentS-if the White
House wants to do it. Scoops"
are desirable in the journal
istic profession. The Demo-
cratic regime gave to one
newspaperman a stenographic
record of the famous Mac
Arthur-Truman conference at
Wake Island during the Ko-
rean War. Truman in the
1852 campaign let a Senator
have a copy of a confidential
document containing military
advice rendered by the United
States Joint Chiefs Of Staff
so that he could use it on the
stump. There are other prec-
edents.
It's really not the giving Of
the information to a favorite
source which constitutes the
cardinal sin. It's the failure
to appraise the political con-
sequences of the information
so disclosed.
For the book written by
Robert ]. Donovan, Washing
ton newsman, with the CO.
operation of the White House
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-27

The Forthcoming election
would be more interesting If
any issues Of substance were
involved. If there were a real
opposition party, for instance,
it would attack the program Of
foreign aid, both in theory and
practice. But although the
Democrats are denouncing OBJ
vious failures in the foreign
field, they never get to grips
with what is fundamentally
wrong with policies that. in
fact. they initiated.
Gov. Hartman recently ac-
cused the Eisenhower admin
istration's foreign-a laid program
of being 'inept, bullying, and
regardless of the interests Of
other countries" But he did
not analyze the reasons. nor
advocate retrenehment. nor
suggest that it might be well
for the American Government
to consider the interests Of the
American people.
On the contrary. under a
Demo C ratio administration
they can expect more of the
same thing.
In the past 10 years the
American people have put UP
SIS billion for aid to all and
sundry. while our own national
debt still equals the combined
national debts Of all the other
nations of the world. Spruille
Braden, in the last Human
Events, estimated that SIS
billion is equal to the total as
sessed valuation of all the
property Of Americas IS larg-
est cities!
Today the biggest single
item in nearly every family's
budget is for direct and indi-
rect taxes. In addition to the
Federal debt, every American,
it has been estimated. is per-
sonally indebted for some
$4,000. He can't pay his pri-
vate debts because the Gov
eminent takes a minimum Of
20 per cent Of every net dollar.
This program of universal
Riveaway is accomplishing the
following things:
It is socializing on an inter-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-27
DORIS FLEEsoN
Much Ado About an Invitation

party dependent on one man
is irkSome to some Republic
can Governors. among whom
William G. Stratton of Illinois
is prominent and outspoken.
Stratton told reporters it was
unwise not to prepare alter
natives in case the President
could not or would not run.
The party managers, he felt,
should be planning for such
eventualities.
He has some support here
for his view. Yet, on the whole,
Republicans cling to their
fatalistic attitude, as If by
sheer will power they can
exercise the law of chance.
And as the interval between
now and November shortens,
their attitude only hardens.
It would be a dull day that
didn't produce Democratic
feuding and Gov. Luther H.
Hodges of North Carolina
obliged. Hodges, a warm sup
porter Of Adlai Stevenson,
sank a bad associations" har-
poon into that personally, a
very fine gentleman"-hiS COL
league. Gov. Averel Hartman.
The associations: Tammany
Hall, ADA and super-duper
New Dealers.
Harrim an retorted that
Some people don't realize that
the Democratic Party. to win.
has to carry New York and
similarly minded States"
Stevenson's supporters also
enjoyed an Associated Press
poll Of Governors. showing he
will get around 400 first-ballot
votes. General opinion is that
the count is conservative, that
a f1rst-ballot Stevenson nomi-
nation is in the making.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-27
Grenade Thrower Sized

KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany,
June 81 R-German police
yesterday announced the arrest
of a 19-year-old French soldier
who they said brought panic to
two nightclubs here by throwing
practice hand grenades and then
stabbing two men pursuing him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-27
Mrs. Brunduge Elected

Mrs. Percival F. Brundage,
wife Of the director Of the Budget
Bureau. has been elected an
honorary member Of the Ma
ltional Recreation Association.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-02-25
Introduce Bill
To Boost Oil
Severance Tax

House Bill No. 342 has been in
troduced in the Mississippi House
of Representatives aimed at in
creasing the oil severance tax to
IL cents per barrel or IL percent
of the value at the point of pro-
duction, whichever is greater.
Bearing the signatures of 43 rep
resentatives, the bill stipulated that
"the tax is levied upon the entire
production in this state regardless
of the place of sale or to whom
sold, or by whom used, or the fact
that the delivery may be made to
points outside the state, and the
tax shall accue at the time such oil
is severed from the soil, or water,
and in its natural, unrefined, Or
manufactured state"
The bill is an apparent attempt
to try and force the major COM
panies to build more refineries
within Mississippi since it pro-
vides that a refund of 6 cents per
barrel or per cent of the value at
the point of production, whichever
is greater, will be refunded for all
oil refined within Mississippi.
There are presently two refiner-
les in the state with one other
under construction.
Passage of the proposed bill
would result in Mississippi's tax
per barrel of crude produced be-
ing more than double that of any
other state in the nation. The
present severance tax of 6.81 per
cent, together with other taxes
paid by the industry gives Missis-
sippi at present the highest tax on
crude of any state in the nation.
Informed sources agree that the
bill would greatly injure most. pro-
ducers of the state who have no
control over their market outlet.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-02-25

eign lans may bid for Autherine
Lucy's attendance but this must not
be allowed to happen.
"In Turing her away, it is de-
signed to reflect unfavorably on
the South and its institutions of
learning and l earnestly hope that
you young people Especially those
born and reared in Alabama) will
unite together now and stop this
drive at the goal line.
Invite Her Back
"The strategy herein might we'll
be invite Miss Lucy back to class
and protect her rights and by so
doing this would above all prove
to the world the many critics that
no matter how bitter the pill, by
God the students of the University
of Alabama can and will swallow
it like man and women who expect
to lead America and build up its
prestige-not tear it down.
"The spotlight now played on the
South the world over shows it to
be unfair and lousy, especially
where the Negro is concerned, but
this amt necessarily SO.
1.-THE South has its problems and
this new Indignation problem is
greater in the South than in some
other sections, but the South can
and will settle this problem legally
and in true Southern tradition, but
in the meantime, don't make the
University CT Alabama the goat
Call together all fearless stu
dents and other good people with
CUTS, those who were born free
and expect to stay free by letting
freedom ring, then fight with all
your strength and intelligence to
preserve the reputation and pres
tige Of our great University of
Alabama.
81 trust and pray that you will
do no less"
lie CAMPUS pCIiIiOH AcouS.
eve, the undersigned believe in
law as we'll as order. Regardless
of our views on indignation we are
united in believing that the reputa-
ton of the university as law-abid-
ing institution must be restored.
Accordingly it seems necessary
that the exclusion Of Miss Author
inc Lucy from classes which re-
suited from mob violence should
be terminated.
"While such a course would re-
fleet the principles of justice and
humanity it is all the more neces-
sary to protect university against
the loss Of prestige which the sue
cess of mob rule makes inevitable.
Therefore, in order to protect
the interests which faculty, stu
dents, graduates and all citizens
have invested in the good name
Of the University of Alabama, we
believe that the university should
return Miss Lucy to her classes on
its !. own initiative"
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-02-25
Mrs. Roosevelt
Continued from Page One)
Petitions Circulate

PetltlOnS circulate
Meanwhile, petitions asking the
University to permit the schools
first Negro to return to classes
we're circulating on the Tuscaloosa
campus.
Miss Authorize Lucy, one of two
Negro women who won orders for
heir admittance to the previously
all-white university, was suspended
from classes Feb. 6 after the insti-
luton yielded to rioters who pro-
tested the admittance Of the Negro
coed.
The petitions in circulation were
drawn by recently organized stu
dent-faculty group, according to
Tuscaloosa news source. The doc
aments ask that Miss Lucy, a Bir-
mingham secretary, be allowed to
return to classes before she takes
action in federal court Feb. 20.
DR.. Bunche's telegram to Holt
read:
There is nothing so inspiring
and reassuring as earnest human
beings acting from the simple mo-
tivation Of doing what they know
to be right.
$50 it is with you and your COL
leagues in the student government
Of your university who have just
added glorious chapter to the
rich annals Of American democ-
racy.
ain your spontaneous and cour-
ageous stand for law and order
for decency and fairness and con-
science in your disavowal of mob
rule, you've given eloquent testi-
mony to the true spirit Of the
American tradition. There is no
finer spirit.
Instinct For The Rights"
"You have responded nobly and
with that simplicity and cleanness
and instinct for the right so typi-
cal of American youth to the chal-
lenge of greatness as good Amer
leans. How you do put to shame
so many of your elders.
believe me, l speak thus as one
American, fortify my belief in the
American way. You deepen my
pride in being an American, and
strengthen my faith in my fellow
en- and our nation will be so much
greater and stronger physically and
spiritually because of YOU"
Said lengthy letter from Mays:
"The University of Alabama has
done too much good in the past to
allow small episode like this to
cast lingering evil shadow on it
or its students, past, present or
future.
Repudiaite Violence
at is therefore necessary for
you of the younger generation of
white boys and girls to repudiate
this action at once and thus re-
deem the good name of the Uni
versity of Alabama.
"Other universities over the
country and maybe some in for
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-02-25
Veto Of Natural Gas Legislation
Dooms Measure In This Congress

Washington.-The veto by Pres
ident Eisenhower of the controver-
sial Harris Bill which would have
freed natural gas producers from
direct Federal Power Commission
control, is viewed as booming SIM
liar legislation of passage in the
present Congress.
Passed by the Senate with only
a 15-vote margin and by the House
with a margin of only six votes,
the possibility of overriding the
presidential veto appeared an i'm
possibility.
Governor John F. Simms of New
Mexico, chairman of the Interstate
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-02-25

Oil Compact Commission, termed
the veto as "a blow from the point
of governmental philosophy.
"This is the third time that the
full United States Congress has
expressed the theory and principle
that the production and gathering
of natural gas should not be sub
ject to regulation by the federal
governments Power Commission.
81 think that in the long run the
economy of the entire United
States will suffer, and that the
Presidents veto will further and
help a dangerous encroachment on
state sovereignty by the federal
government" he declared.
Robert L. Wood, president of the
Indepen lent Petroleum Association
of America, termed the veto "a
shock to the producers of gas"
Wood pointed out that the pres
ident recognized the Importance OF
the problem when he appointed
committee composed of most Of his
cabinet to study and make recon-
mendations with subsequent legis-
lation following closely the recon-
mendations made.
at is unfortunate that a bill
with such general approval should
fail because the action of a small
segment of a vital industry was
permitted to prejudice the need
and desire of so many"
The veto by the president fol-
lower disclosure that $4,000
campaign contribution had been
offered Senator Francis Case OF
South Dakota by a representative
Of Superior Oil Co.
The President conceded that he
regretted vetoing measure with
which he was in agreement SO far
as basic provisions were concerned.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-02-25

riding them.
Declaring the Gray indictment
as Subtle and insidious attempt"
to have Gray disbarred, King add
ed.
"Montgomery's $4,000 Negroes
are standing behind him with all
the strength and influence they
have as well as many white friends
Of goodwill"
The Rev. King said he felt the
Grand Jury activity twill increase
tension" in the city, but added:
II believe these tensions ultl-
mately will lead to greater harmony
between the races in Montgomery.
None of us enjoys the tensions.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-02-25
Oiler Completed
At Carthage Point

Flowing 1877 barrels 44.s-gravity
oil plus Oh percent BS&W per day
through 7I64-inch choke, Billups
Bros. and Sunnyland Contracting
Co. have completed No. il Fred
erick Schuchardt, Section 1-6N-4W,
in the north extension area of
Carthage Point Field, Adams Coun-
ty, Miss. Tubing pressure was 7e5
pounds and casing pressure $50
pounds.
Production is issuing through
perforations 5852-54 1I2 feet op-
posite the "Foster" Sand of the
Wilcox formation.
Drilled to 5000 feet, string of
S 1/2-inch casing was cemented