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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-14
DAVID LAWRENCE
G. 0. P. Still a Strong Party

percentage of the total vote
for the House of Representa-
tiveS went down from 55.4 per
cent four years ago to 48.8 per
cent this year In the 10 States
west of the Mississippi. This
was undoubtedly due to dis
affection in the farm areas. 1t
has not been widely noted that,
in North Dakota and the State
of Washington, Ike actually
ran behind his own congress
sional ticket.
In the 10 States east Of the
Mississippi, the story is diff
ferent. The Republican per-
centage of the House vote this
year was 81 per cent as COM
pared with $40 four years ago.
Actually, this time in the ten
Northeastern States the Re-
publican vote for the House
rose from SAL in 1852 to 54.5.
1t can be argued that votes
for the House are not as much
a reflection of party strength
as the vote for President, but
most political observers insist
the opposite is true. They
contend a President attracts
or repels voters from both
parties because of his popu-
larity or unpopularity, respec-
lively. Yet it is little realized
that the Republican Party is
still the majority party in the
North SO far as the total vote
is concerned. Due to the one
sided situation in the South.
where there are only a hand
full of Republicans placed in
nomination in congressional
contests. the Democrats won
in 1856 enough seats-99-to
overcome the Northern ma
jority of the Republicans.
What it means is that the
Republicans have to get almost
a landslide on the congress
sional side to win the House.
and this they would have had
this year but for the farm de-
preston which occurred in
normally Republican strong
holds in the West.
The only conclusion that
can be reached is that the Re-
publican Party is still the ma
iority party in Congress in the
North and the Democrats have
their own way in the South.
Since the Southerners are
conservative and the Repub-
lican Party in the North is
also conservative in the main,
a nonradical coalition is to be
in control of the next Con-
gress.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-14
Workers CHARGE
Revenge as Plant
is Sold PiecemeuI

DARLINGTON, S. c., Dec. IA
.P1.-The piece-by-piece auction
of the Darlington Manufacture
ing Co. textile plant was COM
pleted yesterday amid charges
from a union official that the
sale had been staged that way
as revenge" against the work.
ers for voting to unionize.
Boyd E. Payton, southern .di-
rector for the Textile Workers
Union of America, said Roger
Milliken, principal stakeholder of
the company. staged the piece
meal sale as revenge against the
workers.
Hope that the mill would be
sold as a going unit and thus
supply jobs for at least some Of
the mills 523 workers was prac-
tically extinguished Wednesday,
the first day of the auction.
when only one unit bid was Of
fered.
The piecemeal bids exceeded
81 $4,000, considerably more
than the SIG million unit bid.
Stockholders of the mill, one
of the Deering -Milliken textile
chain, voted to liquidate Octo-
Der II. Previously the plants en-
ployes voted to unionize.
In a statement Mr.. Milliken
said that the present outlook
for the textile industry didn't
justify further operations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-14
BROWN
Nehru-Eisenhower Conference

is expected to insist, and use
all his persuasive powers to
get Eisenhower in the frame of
mind that while we need not
at present recognize the Com
munist regime in China, it
would be. to the advantage of
world peace, for which the adj
ministration is striving so hard,
to lift the economic embargo
and agree to Dulles Chou
conference at Geneva or pos
sibly at New Delhi in the very
near future.
The fact that the Chinese
forces. backed by some 80 So
Wet divisions and a submarine
armada stationed in the mari
time provinces, are ready to
support Peiping's actions is
expected to support Nehru's
arguments that a heart-to-
heart talk at the foreign secre-
tary level is essential as a pre-
liminary to avoid a major mill
tary clash. The consequence of
such a clash. it is intimated
from New Delhi, will affect not
only the Asian continent but
also Europe and possibly the
Middle East as we'll.
Whether Eisenhower will de-
eide to shift somewhat our
present policies in the Far East
is a moot question on which
nobody can even venture a
guess. But it is certain that
the main, if not the only pur-
pose of Nehru'S visit to Amer
lea and his insistence on q pri-
vate talk with the President is
to induce him to veer our
present stand toward some
thing he and his Chinese Com
munist friends like better. In
the meantime, Chou is inn
patiently waiting for Nehru's
return to find out what the
prospects are for America to
unbend.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-14
POTOMAC FEVER
FLETCHER KNEBEL

Social notes: Washington enterans famous vstor-en
quite from Augusta to Gettysburg.
More Soviet troops roll into Hungary The Red army
informal-never waits for engraved invitation.
Fellow wants to know where he of this tight
oney they're talking about The only money he
he hy-by-nght kind
Vice President Nixon will fly Austria. The Eisenhower
,cam keeps Nixon on the move-runnng like co.
Democratic Senator Chavez Congress give the
lmed forces than Ike Democratic nstrc
ions for extnguisng goba fire. Smother dollar bills
The only for a to get Christmas is to
stand under the mistetoe and order family to
embrace him-at 500 kiss
The u N. condemns Russia hammerng Hungary Mos
claims the world misjudge it, isn't nearly as
unpopular abroad as it is at home
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-14

American and foreign diplo-
mats in Washington regard the
visit of midas Prime Minister
Nehru as a possible turning
point in our policies in the
West Pacific.
Nehru will be given more
than the usual red carpet
treatment. He will have some
"a hours alone with President
Eisenhower at his Gettysburg
farm. According to reliable re-
ports. he indicated before ac-
cepting the invitation to visit
Eisenhower that he would like
very much to see him, unham-
pered by the presence of either
Secretary of State Dulles or
the Assistant Secretary for
Far Eastern Affairs, Walter
Robertson.
Dulles, who is expected to
return from Paris this week
end. will be present at the Of
fetal functions for Nehru but
not at the intimate talks at
Gettysburg. Robertson found it
necessary to make an extended
tour Of the Far East three
weeks before the visit and will
return shortly before Christ
mas.
Nehru is believed to intend
to present to Eisenhower a
complete blueprint for peace"
in the Far East. Before going
to London on his way to Wash
ington he had long talks with
Communist China's Premier
Chou En-lai, who visited India.
The Chinese leader is now
marking time in Burma and
will return to New Delhi to
obtain a first-hand account
from Nehru's own lips on the
results of his conversations in
the United States.
According to some Indian
sources. the persuasive Indian
will tactfully point out that
unless We find a way to aban-
don our present policy toward
the Chinese Communists, they
may have to achieve their
unity of China and Korea by
force. He is fully aware of Ell
senhower's adherence of the
use of force and his dedication
to peace.
According to sources con-
sidered by Washington diplo-
mats as highly reliable, the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-14
lndion Prime Minister Expected to Argue
For u. S. Acceptance of Red China
CONSTANTINE BROWN

Indian Prime Minister has a
long and a short range pro-
gram to establish "a long
period of peace. coexistence
and prosperity" in Asia. The
Short-range-that is, the i'm
mediate-program consists of
two points: IL The lifting by
the United States of the en-
barge against Communist
China which we established
when Peiping interviewed in
the Korean war: 20 A meeting
between Secretary Dulles and
Chou early next year to discuss
a number" of other outstand-
ing problems between the Pei
ping regime and Washington.
The long-range program,
Nehru realizes, will be even
more difficult for the admin
iStration and the American
people to take. But he is said
to intend to try to convince
Eisenhower Of the necessity to
settle through the good Offices
of the United Nations-once
Communist China has been
admitted to that body-the
question of FormoSa and the
unity Of Korea.
Nehru shares the view of
his Chinese friends, Mao Tse-
tung and Chou En-lai, that
Formosa and the offshore
islands are part and parcel of
the China now controlled by
the Communist adminiStra-
ton. Once this matter is
settled peacefully, by provid-
ing an honorable retreat for
President Chang Kai Shek
and his associates in the gov
eminent of Free China, they
believe it will be easy to trans
fer the main and adjacent
islands under Peiping's SOW
ereignty. Nehru seems to be
satisfied with Chou's word that
the population in Formosa and
the 500,000-man army will
suffer no reprisals or persecu-
lions at the hand of the COM
munistS and is prepared to
add his personal guaranty to
that promise.
The Indian statesman real
ICES that his long-range pro-
gram cannot be fulfilled in the
near future because of the
treaty between the United
States and Free China. But he
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-14
Final Tally Shows Congressional Vote
Big Enough to Have Elected Eisenhower

ran ahead Of his congressional
ticket. Most Presidents do, and
so do most presidential candi-
dates. Harry Truman is the
only presidential nominee in
this century who won and yet
ran behind his congressional
ticket in total number of votes.
What is important, there
fore. is not the spread between
the congressional and pres
idential voting so far as num-
berS are concerned, but the
percentage Of the total vote
cast by each party in each
category--congressional and
presidential.
The Republican Party in 81
states outside the solid South
got 2,398.739 more votes for its
candidates for the House of
Representatives thar did the
Democrats. The Republicans in
those 81 States elected 1874
members of the House, to 1876
for the Democrats. 1t was the
election Of SO Democrats to 7
Republicans in the ii Southern
States that made the final
total Of 234 Democrats and 2O1
Republicans-giving control OF
The House to the Democrats.
But the percentages them
aelves are very interesting.
Thus in the 81 States outside
the solid South the Republic
cans in 1852 polled 54.6 per
cent of the total vote cast
and this time still had a ma
Jority-namely. 52.4 per cent.
Eisenhower, on the other hand,
four years ago got 56.6 per
cent of the presidential vote.
and this time 53.8 per cent.
Inc PRESIDENT did ga better
than his party on percentage
points in 1856.
But the same phenomenon
has been noticed with respect
to every winning candidate of
either party for the last half
century, with the single ex-
ception of Truman'S poor
showing in 1948 as against the
Democratic Party vote for the
House in that year. The vote
Tor Senators affords no basis
Tor a national measurement,
as only one-third of them are
up for election, and many Of
these are in the South.
An examination of the vote
for Congress in the 1856 cleo
ton shows that the Republican
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-14

Final figures are at last
available showing the total
vote cast for members of the
House Of Representatives in
this years election.
The tally contains some sur
prises. Thus, the Republican
Party had a majority in each
of 20 States. so that il only the
votes for the Republican can
didates for the House Of Rep
resentatives in each State are
considered, Dwight Eisenhower
would have been elected by
285 electoral votes. To put it
another way, the Republican
Party in 1856 had enough
voters in enough States to
elect a President based on the
congressional vote alone.
Yet it has been stated fire.
quently that the Republican
Party is weaker than thu
Democrats and that Ike could
not have been elected if he hao
been dependent on the Repub-
lican Party vote for Congress.
1t takes a long time to COM
pile the congressional vote,
and U. S. News e. World Re-
port has just published in a
copyrighted article its tabula-
ton of the returns after a can
vaSs Of all the congressional
districts in the country.
The tabulation shows many
interesting things. Only 900
more people voted for members
of Congress in 1856 than in
1852. OF those who voted for
President, however, 3.996.753
did not vote this time for any
member of the House. This is
not an unusual happening. be-
cause four years ago the total
who didn't vote for Congress
was only about $4,000 greater
than this year.
just why people don't vote
for members Of Congress and
do vote for the presidency has
never been determined by any
scientific study. but it is as
sumed that unfamiliarity with
the names of the candidates
and the use of separate ballots
confuses voters in various
States or causes indifference to
the congressional ticket.
In many respects the con-
greSsional election is a separate
contest. Hence, it is important
not to be misled by the fact
that President Eisenhower
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-14
Testimonial Dinner

Walter F. Woolard. a branch
chief in the Office of the Army
Chief Of Engineers. will be given
an inscribed testimonial at a
dinner at 7 o'clock tonight in the
Noncommissioned Officers Club
opposite National Airport. Mr..
Woolard is a supervisory engi-
neer with more than % years of
Federal service. His retirement
will be effective at the end of
December.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-14
A Presley Halter

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. IA up.
A man walked into a midtown
record shop while an ElviS Pres
ley record was playing. pulled
the record from the machine.
smashed it. and handed the
clerk 81. He said to keep the
change.
Evening star., 1956-08-28
By ROBERT X. WALSH
star Stan Correspondent

MONTEREY, Calf. Aug. o.
President Eisenhower's eight
day excursion into the practical
politics Of a national nominating
convention and the healthful
aftermath Of a Pacific golf para
disc ends today.
AS he took of in columbine
III from the Monterey naval
air facility at 1887 am, accord
ing to Washington watches 1890
am. on California clocks). it
still is difficult to distinguish be-
tween the physical conditioning
and the election campaigning
aspects Of this West Coast visit.
The trip began a week ago to-
day as a shot-in-the-arm for
the San Francisco convention.
1t comes to a stop at MATS
terminal in Washington about
9 o'clock tonight.
1t was an unusual mixture Of
the spectacular and the secluded,
the personal and the political
White House aides seemed to be
highly confident 1t was not a
muddle or a mistake.
The stay Of President and
Mrs. Eisenhower ended as 1t be-
gan. Farewell crowds matched
in size and enthusiasm the well
coming thousands who greeted
his arrival by train from San
Francisco Thursday night.
Evening star., 1956-08-28
Two Restored
To Ballot by
Virginia Bill
BY a star stan correspondent

RICHMOND. Aug. 28.-The
State Senate this afternoon sus-
pended its rules and unanimously
approved legislation to permit
the names Of two candidates for
the Arlington County Board to
be printed on voting machines
for the November election.
The candidates, DR.. L. H. Blew
ins of the Arlington Independent
Movement and Curtis E. Tuthill
of Arngtonians for a Better
County, had failed to comply
with the States armed forces
absent voters law, which requires
filing with the State Board Of
Elections at least 80 days in ad-
vance Of the election.
Arlington Senator Charles r.
Fenwick obtained unanimous
consent to offer the bill when he
explained, Were faced with a
write-in campaign with voting
machines. We're confronted with
one OF the worst messes you ever
saw in your life. I'm authorized
to say the Governor has no OBJ
lection TO this BILL
The measure suspends appli-
cation Of the law for this year
only with respect to the Airing
ton County Board race. II now
goes to the House Of Delegates
for action.
Evening star., 1956-08-28
Delay Is Seen
In nSchooI Probe
Dovis Moy Announce
Hearing Dute Today

Representative Davis, Demo-
crat. of Georgia today said there
may be some delay in holding
hearings in the House investiga- :
ton Of Washington public
schools.
Mr.. Davis, who heads the spe-
cial subcommittee conducting the
investigation. conferred at length
with William Gerber, counsel of
the subcommittee.
The subcommittee chairman
said he might set a tentative date
for a hearing later today. He
said he did not plan to schedule
a session next week. He indicat-
ed hearings probably will not be
held as early as previously in
tended.
Last week Mr.. Davis said he
probably would begin hearings
before mid-September.
The six-man subcommittee is
investigating racial integration
in the District schools. The group
has also announced it is inter-
ested in juvenile delinquency.
Mr.. Gerber and a two-man
staff have been questioning
teachers and school administra-
tors for more than a month.
Evening star., 1956-08-28
President Ends Vocation,
Will Arrive Here Tonight

The Presidents final activity
yesterday at the Little White
House in the Cypress Point club
house was what it had been
every day eighteen holes of
golf The seventy-two holes he
played during the four full days
was perhaps his greatest con-
centration on the sport since his
heart attack in Denver last Sep
tember, and certainly since the
ileitis operation in June.
The return flight to Washing
ton gave him an opportunity to
relax further in another hobby.
He invited William E. Robinson,
president Of the Coca-Cola Co..
and Frank Willard. a New York
investment banker, to accom-
pany him for a sky-borne bridge
game. Others with Mr.. and Mrs.
Eisenhower on the plane we're
Bernard Stanley, White House
appointments secretary; DR..
Howard NJ. Snyder. the Presi-
dents physician. and Press Sec
'retary James c. Hagerty.
Mi Robinson. Mr.. Willard and
John McCone. the Presidents
host for the Monterey peninsula
visit. played golf with him yes
'terday. Mr.. Hagerty. without
declassifying information about
the score. reported this was the
Presidents best performance on
the links since he first teed o
Friday morning.
Evening star., 1956-08-28
Two House Seuts
At Stake Today in
Mississippi Vote

JACKSON, Miss, Aug. % (P1.
Election-eve campaign speeches
put the first spark into today's
Mississippi Democratic primary
races between two members of
Congress and political unknowns,
Men challenging two incum-
bent representatives are making
their first try for public Office.
Mississippi's four other Repre-
sentatives were unopposed for
denomination.
Representative John Bell Will
liams is opposed by political
newcomer Wallace Robert Hal
ley, "a, in the 4th district.
Representative William Col
mer is asking for a 18th term
from the 9th district. His oppo-
nent is Wayne L. Mcclure
Mr.. Williams, in a television
appearance here, declared that
men and women schooled in
are needed in WASH
ington. Mr.. HALEY charged in
a separate Tv appearance that
Mr.. Williams has not been ac-
tive enough in seeking new in
dustry for our district"
The only other Office in dis
pute was 10th Chancery Court.
Incumbent Thomas d. OFT Of
Hattiesburg. was opposed by Arl
w. Keeper.
Unopposed for denomination
were Representatives Thomas
q. Abernethy. jamie L. Whitten,
Frank e. Smith and Arthur
Winstead.
Evening star., 1956-08-28

Nasser, as disclosed by the Egyp-
tians, was also brief. 1t sug-
gested that the time and place
of the meeting be arranged after
Col. Nasser replied to the COM
mittee's request that such q
meeting be held.
The five-power committee sent
its request for a meeting to Col,
Nasser five days ago. Members in
addition to Australia are the
United States, Sweden, Ethiopia
and Iran. Veteran career diplo-
mat 10y Henderson is the United
States representative.
Open Canal Pledged
Col NaSser has said that
Egypt will keep the canal open
to all shipping. Reports from
Cairo said he would offer treaty
guarantees to back up his
promise.
In the background remained
the key question of what the
West would do next if Col. Mas
ser, after meeting with the COM
mittee, still refused to yield the
waterway to international con-
troll.
Britain and France are com
tinuing to reinforce their mill
tary forces in the Eastern Medi-
terranean. They have described
these moves as precautionary
however, and it was considered
likely that a deadlock over the
canal would bring economic
rather than military moves
against Egypt.
Evening star., 1956-08-28
Giddings Is First to Quit
Under New Transit Setup

E. Cleveland Giddings today
he will resign Satur-
day as vice president Of D. C.
Transit System. Inc.
He is the first top official of
the old Capital Transit Co..
other than President J. A. B.
Broadwater-to drop out Of the
organization inherited by o. Roy
Chalk when he bought the WASH
ington streetcar and bus system.
Mr.. Giddings, 50, is a veteran
Of II years with CTC and served
as the compauy's chief spokes-
man both before and after con-
troll Of the company was pur-
chased in 1949 by Louis z.
Wolfson. Florida multimillionaire
who was the target of attacks
which brought cancellation of
the CTC franchise August IA.
No Immediate Plans
Mr.. Giddings said he has no
plans, except to take a vaca-
tion." He will. he said. go to
New York over the Labor Day
holiday and then to Daytona,
Fla, on a fishing trip.
BY his resignation. Mr.. Cid
dings forfeits a years pay
from d. c. Transit System. Mr..
chalk's contract to buy out CTC
specified he either would have
to offer a years employment 70
some is top officers Of the old
company. or give them a years
salary.
The resignation was not un-
Mr.. Chalk and Nor
ris Fox. first vice president Of
D. c. Transit. clashed with Mr..
Giddinss at the midnight seS-
Evening star., 1956-08-28
Dulles Says Moscow
Fights Suez Solution
Cites Soviet
Propaganda
Campaign
BY the Associated Press

Secretary of State Dulles said
today Russia has been waging a
propaganda campaign to make
it extremely difficult for Egyp-
tian President NasSer to nego-
Itiate satisfactory settlement of
the Suez Canal crisis.
Mr.. Dulles told news con-
ference that Col. Nasser's agree
Iment today to receive a commit
tee from the recent London con-
ference to talk about the Suez
problem constitutes a contribu-
Ition toward a peaceful solution.
The Soviet Union, Mr.. Dulles
said, stood out alone among the
20 nations which attended the
London Suez conference earlier
this month as a country which
was not trying to find a way to
reach a peaceful solution.
Board Proposed
Eighteen of the % nations
which attended the London
meeting proposed that an inter-
national board run the 103-mile
canal. A minority plan, sub
mitted by India at the confer
Ience and supported by the Soviet
Union, Ceylon and Indonesia,
would leave the canal under
Egyptian control and provide an
international board with adj
viSory powers only.
Mr.. Dulles said that on the
very morning, he was trying to
explain a United States pro-
posal for peaceful settlement to
Soviet Foreign Minister Dmitri
Shepilov in London Soviet prop
aganda was carrying on vicious
campaign among the Arabs
against a settlement between
Col. NaSser and the West.
The Soviets argued that the
plan advocated by Mr.. Dulles
and finally accepted as the ma
IJority plan at the conference
was simply device for reimpos-
ing colonialism on Egypt.
Mr.. Dulles returned from the
conference last Saturday and ex-
pected to report to President Eli
senhower here tomorrow. He
previously talked by telephone
with the President, who has been
vacationing in California.
Reminder to Japan
The Suez Canal issue doninat4
ed Mr.. Dulles first news confer
lence since mid-July. Another
subject of general interest came
up:
Mr.. Dulles said he reminded
Japanese Foreign Minister Shipe-
mltsu in London recently of a
provision in Japan's peace treaty
which states thaat if another
government obtains more favor
able terms of peace settlement
from Japan than the first treaty
afforded, the United States and
other nations which joined the
flrst treaty may claim the same
rights.
/ In doing this. Mr.. Dulles made
clear. he was putting Japan on
notice that if it signs a treaty
with Russia recognizing Soviet
control of the Kurile Islands.
the United States may assert
sovereignty over the Ryukyus
including the military base is
land of Okinawa.