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Fund Pledges Mounting
About $4,000 q Day

Pledges mounting the per daily
the United vers campaign pushed
on to completion of the sos million goal
The fund has reached 94O2 per of the amount
sought to 1872 health welfare building
agencies in the District and nearby Maryland and Virginia taking
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-11

Mrs. Dolores Poynter, seniors
and Sidney Gritz, a freshman.
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PHOTOGENIC CHAMPIONSHIPS two youngsters
announced yesterday as winners childrens national
photograph contest Carol Ann is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs John Pender 621 Brandywine street Sc Eugene
also A. the of Mr.. and Mrs Edward Curtin, 2801
Pennsylvania Sc. Carol AIMS photo won the
fourth national prize EugeneS took first local studio prize
The pictures will be displayed for week starting tomorrow
in window of the Woodward g. Lothrop North Building
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o-Pc Colonial Solid Mahogany
Dining Room Suite, so" buff
fet, IS" breokfront, ext. to-
BILE, side and z arm choirs-- 90 $500
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-11

Lined Oak Corner Bookcase 1895
9-Pe. Decorator Block Lacquer
Dining Room, buffet, china, tobIe,
4 side, Z arm chairs ----------llo8Oo 81
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Odd Lot Of Innersprine Mot
tresses and Box Springs by
SeoIy, Simmons, Eclipse, etc.
Some one-of-o-kind, twin 3oo5to
or full size Values from 1895 1888
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-11

5-Pc Regency Mohoeony
Bedroom, II" triple dresser
mirror valet chest, bed, 2
commode mite tobles 800 5o7.46
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-30
RoWzee to Retire
After 81 Years
AS A Bookbinder

After 81 years of bookbinding
in Washington, Frank Rowzee
will retire tomorrow.
Mr.. Rowzee, president of
George A. Simonds a. Co.. has
risen from apprentice boy to
head OF a company that has
bound papers for Presidents and
Secretaries Of State as well as
treaties and diplomatic docu-
mentS.
The most luxurious binding
Mr.. Rowzee has made is on dis
play at the Smithsonian Insti-
tute. The binding is made Of
green Morocco leather inlaid
with gold and lined with silk.
Mr.. Rowzee, 81, was born in
Altoona, Pa. He started as a
bindery apprentice boy in WASH
ington at the age Of IA.
In 1915, Mr.. Rowzee became
a partner in the Simonds COM
pany. He has been president Of
the company since 1850.
Mr.. Rowzee and his wife live
at 5713 Ridgefield road near
Kenwood, Md. They have two
children, five grandchildren and
'one great-grandchild.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-30
DORIS FLEESON
Chotiner,s Failure to Keep Date
Seen as Politically Siqnificont

On Tuesday, April "a last,
the name Of Murray Chotiner.
Vice President Nixon's close
friend and 1852 campaign
manager, bobbed up in a SEN
ate investigation of possible
bribery and corruption in uni
form buying. Chotiner is
known in California as Nixon's
political manager.
The next day, Thursday,
April 25. the Vice President
presented himself at the White
House for a conference with
President Eisenhower. At that
meeting Mr.. Nixon foreclosed
his claim on denomination for
Vice President, which had been
placed in doubt by the Presi-
dents own actions. Upon
emerging from the Presidents
Office Nixon told reporters at
once that the matter was
settled.
AS a result Chotiner can
count on a large and intensely
interested audience when he
explains this week to the Sem
ate Investigations subcommlt-
tee a $4,000 fee he received in
1858 for representing Herman
Kravitz. Kravitz is a former
Atlantic City garment manu-
facturer who was convicted
and fined in 1854 for making
a false statement regarding
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-30

the fact that the Eisenhower
administration is unequivo-
cally pro-Arab."
This is not true. This adj
mlniStration, on this issue. is
pro-American and pro-peace.
It knows that American inter-
ests cannot conceivably be
served by making a favorite
nation, and uncritically sup
porting its every demand and
policy.
Peace in the area requires
that the United States, Great
Britain and the Soviets should
all exercise restraints where
they have the power to do so.
There are extremists amongst
the Arabs, who would welcome
war = not Immediately but
eventually. But the Arab states
cannot start a war, now, or
ever, without the aid and open
or clandestine support of a
great power. There is not the
slightest prospect of general
neutrality in such a conflict.
There is a war party in Is
rael. AT the World Zionist
Congress, heretofore cited.
Menachim Begin, leader Of the
Herut Party, openly called for
a preventive war now. He was
attacked by Yakov Hazan, of
the pro-Russian Mapam Party.
Both represent extremist
groups.
But where does Mr.. Ben
Gurion's government stand?
Ben-Gurion is too astute to
speak like Mr.. Begin. But wars
can be deliberately provoked.
Ben-Gurion has given no.
tice that on May / Israel will
resume work on the Benet
Yaccoub canal in the demili
tarized zone. This is an open
invitation to a clash with
Syria, who has given clear
notice that she will not tole-
rate this diversion Of Jordan's
waters. A clash might bring
on war.
Israel needs a year to COM
plete that part Of the canal
lying outside the demllitarized
zone. 1t has never won United
Nations consent to dig in the
territory under its supervision,
and has been previously CEN
sured for doing so. Why such
batting in this moment?
The United Nations General
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-30
POTOMAC FEVER
FLETCHER KNEBEL

Vice President Nixon has charted his future Decision:
You can say what want about the presidency but
beats working.
Candidate Keauver Ike big and against
the farmers In fact things tough this
may not be able to another gold watch
The United States Chamber of Commerce convenes in
Washington Americas businessmen have tolerant
They even tolerate little socialism when needed to keep the
Eisenhower team in power
The White House insals accounting system in Gov
eminent The way it Treasury Secretary Humphrey
never sure he'd ever break Now he'll be won't
-Four Russian reject Soviet Ambassador
plea that they return home They hate
srced to being against Stain when they stay here-and
be against anybody.
The Senate gets $51 billion highway build
Ing program Statistics prove America still has lot of
century roads-so many people getting off Of them alive
Citizens Eisenhower back Nixon Vice President
Nixon on the G. O. P ticket just what the doctor
somebody to keep the voters from yawning.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-30

got into trouble during the
Truman administration when
some Government contracts
for clothing for the Army
were allegedly obtained under
fraudulent means. Since then
the client in question was tried
and convicted. 1t was in 1853
that the client employed Mr..
Chotiner personally on legal
questions growing out of the
episode.
There isn't the slightest scin-
tilla of evidence-nor will any
ever be produced, because
there is none-that Mr.. Nixon
knew even the fact that Mr..
Chotiner had any such client.
The news articles, following
the exposures by a Senate COM
mittee which insisted on sum-
moning Mr.. Chotiner for testi-
mony, properly reported the
committee action and that the
Democrats were pressing it.
But there has been nothing
to indicate that Mr.. Choti-
ner'S relations with his client
were anything but the normal
relation Of a lawyer practic-
ing in criminal cases. Not so
long ago the National Lawyers
Guild, a radical organization.
raised a fuss because some of
its members were criticized
for defending Communists. It
was rightly argued here that
no lawyer in good standing,
and himself not implicated in
the Communist conspiracy.
should be condemned in the
court Of public opinion because
he chooses to give any defend
ant the benefit of his counsel.
Certainly the news articles
written about Mr.. Chotiner
imply that he did something
wrong in defending a client
who was involved in a criminal
case. The effort to tie the
Vice President into the whole
business, moreover, by giving
prominence in the press to
his former relationship with
the lawyer is an attempt to
imply guilt by association
a practice that merits con-
domination when there is no
evidence of guilt.
Reproduction Rights Reservedl
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-30
DOROTHY THOMPSON
Mid-Eost War Threat Fades

Assembly will meet in Sep
TENDER. Among United Nations
delegates who are neither
party nor partisan to this
struggle, there is strong opin-
ion that the Egyptians do not
want war, and are prepared to
go along indefinitely with a
truce. while Israel must have
either peace or war.
But Israel wants an "open"
peace: Arab recognition of Is
rael and of the status quo; no
territorial adjustments; no
application of principles of
equity and justice to the Pal
estinian refugees: no recog-
milton of United Nations au-
thority and legality in belat-
edly implementing any of its
promises to the Palestinian
Arabs on which the original
partition was predicated,
There are issues OF principle
involved. And if the Soviets.
Tor the purpose of straight
power politics, put themselves
on the side Of legality and
justice, who. in the nature of
the situation, will be stronger?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-30

return of Government property
to the military.
The entire chronology Of
Chotiner's relations with the
Senate subcommittee is equally
interesting and provocative.
1t shows that contrary to the
impression he gave in Cali
fornia, Chotiner was not sud-
denly subpoened nor men,
toned in the inquiry. The fact
is that committee records show
him as failing to appear on an
agreed date which he himself
first asked for.
This is not usual in any
witness; it is extraordinary in
a member of the bar.
1t shows also that the ORR
ginal date came roughly in
the middle of the most crowded
days the President has had
since he went to Denver for
the vacation which eliminated
in his heart attack. That
schedule included two import
ant televised Speeches-one to
Republican leaders, the other
to the Nations editors-and
the veto of the farm bill.
Robert F. Kennedy, counsel
to the subcommittee, broke the
news to Chotiner at breakfast.
Thursday. April 10, that Cho-
timers fee from Kravitz would
be a part of subcommittee
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-30

The haraSsed soul of a Com
munist spy was laid bare be-
fore the Senate Internal Sc
curity Subcommittee when
Harry Gold told clearly how
he had been trapped by Rus
sian agents into becoming
their tool and the connecting
link with Atom Scientist
Klaus Fuchs.
He had no hesitation in tell
ing the story Of IL long years
of espionage which ended in
his arrest by the FBI six years
ago.
After Acting Chairman We'll
ker summed up Colds testi-
mony and showed how he
Gold had severely harmed
not only the land of his birth
but the whole free world, the
now cooperative former spy
broke down. He said he real
lied that he had done ire
mendous damage to the world
and had made an "irreparable
mistake"
Gold had received neither
money nor other personal ad-
vantage by helping the Rus
slams obtain possession of our
atomic secrets. He actually
had spent about $4,000 out of
his own pocket over IL years.
The Russians used psychol-
ogy in convincing Gold, be-
fore World War II, that the
USSR was the only country
in the world where anti
SemitiSm was crime against
the state" And once they
had captured his mind, they
killed his will power. There
after they played me like a
virtuoSo plays the violin"
Colds story showed that the
Soviet spy headquarters was
until 1916 in Amtorg, the Rus
sian export and import" CEN
ter in New York. The bulk
of its top officials were MVD
agents whose business was to
recruit gullible Americans for
their network.
They were exempt from
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-30
DORIS FLEESON
The Timing Was Important

testimony. The subcommittee,
Kennedy said, wished to give
Chotiner the opportunity to
appear Immediately thereafter.
Chotiner replied that he
was extremely busy. Would Mr..
Kennedy, he asked. put off the
Chotiner appearance for a
week. that is until Thursday
April 26? Mr.. Kennedy as
scented.
The morning of Tuesday,
April "a, Mr.. Kennedy wired
the Californian, reminding
him of their conversation and
confirming the agreed-upon
date of Thursday, April 26, for
Chotiner to appear and testify.
The subcommittee did not
hear from Chotiner that day.
The next day they got q wire
saying he could not appear
Thursday. BY that time SEN
ators were reading that Cho-
timer told reporters he could
not appear in Washington
Thursday, it was too short a
notice, he would not have
time to arrange his affairs and
pack his clothes.
Chotiner did not mention to
the press that he had had a
full weeks notice, together
with an explanation of the
situation from Subcommittee
Counsel Kennedy. The sub
committees response was to
issue the subpoena which di-
reefs Chotiner to appear
Wednesday of this week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-30
DAVID LAWRENCE
Liberals Smear Nixon
They Weep Over Guilt by Association
But Don't Lament Chotiner Case

state that Mr.. Chotiner was
campaign manager in Southern
California for Gov. Dewey of
New York when he ran for the
Presidency in 1913.
None of this information
was. of course. really pertinent
to the story except that, if one
man-NiXon-was mentioned,
all others should. in fairness,
have been included. The in
ference left with the reader
was that Mr.. Nixon was some
how implicated in an alleged
wrong-doing on the part of
Mr.. Chotiner. There seems to be
an overeagerness on the part
of political opponents these
days to smear the Vice Presi-
dent.
There was. indeed, no more
reason for the headlines to
speak of "Nixon's aide" being
in trouble than TO call him
Chief Justice Warren's aide"
Actually Mr.. Chotlner today
isn't the "aide" of Mr.. Nixon,
nor is he his campaign man.
ager. He is not a member Of
Mr.. Nixon's staff or of Chief
Justice Warren's or Senator
Knowland's. He is a close
friend of them all.
What the news articles
didn't tell the reader is that
Mr.. Chotiner is perhaps the
leading lawyer in criminal
cases in Southern California
and that his law practice is
confined to this type of ac-
tivity while politics is with
him an avocation.
A headline saying that a
lawyer got a legal fee from a
client involved in a fraud case
would not have been news.
1t was the fact that the lawyer
in question was once a man
ager for Nixon which SEEM
ngly made it news. Yet there
was no evidence to back up
such a plain case of guilt by
association"
The client of Mr.. Chotiner
named in the Senate inquiry
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-30

Guilt by association" has
caused many an outburst of
indignation in recent years by
so-called liberals" and others
who have said it is rank in
justice to associate the name
of an innocent man with some
one either accused or suspected
of wrongdoing.
But the pious organizations
dedicated to the crusade
against guilt by association"
seem to be weeping no tears
and issuing no statements of
lament at the smear Job done
in the last few days on Vice
President Nixon by certain
news dispatches and headlines.
The American people read in
the last few days such head
lines as these: "NiXon's Aide
Gets Probe Subpoena" PRO
bers Call Nixon's SO Manager"
"Nixon's 1852 Manager In
volved in Inquiry on Clothing
Contracts" and "Nixon's so
Manager Got Legal Fee in
Fraud Case"
The headline writer's them
selves were certainly not at
fault. They rightly based their
headlines on what the news
articles and dispatches con-
spicuously emphasized in the
first few paragraphs. Not one
Of the articles in the various
E aStern newspapers which
printed the above headlines
told the people the whole
truth, which is that Murray
Chotiner was campaign man
ager not only for Mr.. Nixon
but also once for Earl Warren
now Chief Justice, when he
was elected Governor of Cali
fornia. Nor did the news ar
ticleS tell the reader that Mr..
Chotiner was the campaign
manager for Senator Knowland
when he ran in 1916 and also
in the 1852 primary when he
won both the Republican and
Democratic Senatorial nomina-
tons. Nor did the articles
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-30
Soviet Spying Under u. N. Cloak

the men were actually kid
naped by Soviet thugs in the
employ of the Soviet U. N.
delegation. Automobiles with
diplomatic tags were used in
Spiriting the refugees to the
Idlewild Airport and thence to
the USSR.
A top MVD man camou-
flaged as consul was COM
handing the Gilman COON
squad who surrounded the
refugees, it was related.
Yet the State Department
has only expelled two insig-
nificant Soviet officials despite
the requests of Senators East
land, Jenner and Welker to
look for big fish," These
three members of the Internal
Security Committee had re-
ceived the sworn testimony
pointing to Sobolev as the man
responsible for violation Of our
sovereignty on our own soil.
Involving Sobolev. according
to State Department officials.
might create international
complications. Unofficially it
was said that it would be a
mistake to involve the chief
Soviet delegate since in all like
lihood he is only a f1gurehead
employed by Moscow to make
speeches in the U. N. while the
actual head of the delegation
may be someone else in an OBJ
scure position so far as official
rank is concerned.
This may be so, but Sobolev
is officially the top Soviet rep
reSentative in New York and as
such is responsible for the &C
tions of all his people.
But because so many policy
makers in the administration
still hope that the smiles of
Bulganin and KhruShchev may
turn into something near gen.
uine," Secretary Dulles and his
advisers decided that it was
not worthwhile making an in
ternational issue out of the
kidnapping under the eyes of
American authorities Of q few
young Russian sailors who had
asked and received political
asylum in this country.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-30
CONSTANTINE BROWN
Sobolev Branded as Key Figure But u. S.
Refuses to Risk Diplomatic Complications

@NeIVHS
membership in the Communist
Party. AS a matter OF fact,
they were forbidden to join
the party" which in the
opinion Of the MVD was COM
posed mostly of poor ideologi-
cal suckers.
Subsequent revelations by
Colds fellow atomic spy, David
GreenglasS. who is serving a
30-year sentence, indicated
that the main espionage &C.
.tivitieS of the Soviet trading"
organization have been trans
ferred principally to the United
Nations delegations of the
USSR, the satellite countries
and also of some of the West
ern nations.
There is still one MVD di-
rector in the Soviet Embassy
in Washington, but he exer-
cises mainly a supervising role,
it was revealed. The real work
OF gathering military, eco
nomic and other types of in
telligence and of recruiting
agents is handed over to peo-
pie IN the U. N. delegations.
These instruments in the
Soviet network are practically
untouchable since they enjoy
full diplomatic privileges. Any
interference by Ameican Sc
cuuity organizations is frowned
on by the State Department
because of possible interna-
tional repercussions.
In the Soviet and satellite
delegations the MVD men fire.
quently have top-ranking posi-
tions. In the Western groups
they are mostly clerks or jun
Tor attaches.
The responsible individual
behind the dramatic return"
OF five Soviet sailors who
earlier had sought asylum in
the United States was none
other than Chief Soviet Dele
gate Arkady A. Sobolev, ac-
cording to statements made
under oath before the Internal
Security Subcommittee.
These statements said that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-30
Three Peoce-Promoting Factors Cited:
Our Craftsmanship in Crisis Is Praised

Although the critical nature
of the Middle Eastern situa-
ton can hardly be exagger-
ated, the threat of an
immediate Arab-Israel war is
retreating due to three fac
tors:
Cd The negotiations of the
United Nations Secretary
General Dag Hammarskjold
for a widened security zone
and cease fire.
81 The resistance of the
United States Government to
the pressures to send immedi-
ate arms to Israel.
80 Agreement by the Soviet
Union to exercise restraint in
the sale Of arms to Egypt and
to support United Nations eff
forts to arrange a final settle
ment between Israel and the
Arab states.
Mr.. Hammarskjold has, I'M
til now, concentrated on ar
ranging a truce that will have
better chances of being sus-
tanned than the one it would
supplant. 1t would involve
withdrawal of the troops of
both sides from the existing
line. a pledge that neither side
would commit a hostile act in
the area. the establishment of
United Nations rowing patrols
along the line and observation
points in critical areas. and
the guarantee Of full freedom
of movement by these truce
observers.
Beyond these measures. it
is rumored that Mr.. Ham
marskjold may return with
proposals for peace.
President Eisenhower and
Secretary OF State Dulles. in
refusing to yield to organized
clamor and political pressureS.
have acted as statesmen and
not as party politicians. Such
resistance is unique. and in a
campaign year even phenom-
email.
The Democratic candidates
have not shown the same forth
tude although one Of them,
Adlai Stevenson. ought to know
better. and probably does.
At the World Zionist Con-
Rress In Jerusalem. vizhak
Gruenbaum, former Israeli
Minister OF the Interior said
Thursday, "zionistS must face
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-11-01
Sandy Spring NeedIevork Guild
To Hold Fall Meeting Monday

started in 1897 by Mrs. Samuel
(Catherine) Janney who heard of
the group while on a trip to Ber-
muda. Another early chapter was
in Philadelphia, and since that
time the organization has grown
to 500 units in SO states.
Officers of the local group, in
addition to Mrs. Wilson, are Mrs.
D. C. Hotel, vice-president, and
Mrs. Roderick Adams, secretary
and treasurer.
Directors are Mrs. Wilson,
Mrs. Adams, Mrs. Robert H. Chi
chester, Mrs. Harry w. Golf, Mrs.
Uric A. Hutton, Mrs. GLAND H.
Harvey, Mrs. d. c. Hotel, Mrs.
Corbin Harriss, Mrs. Cover c..
Lyon, Jr., Mrs. Frederick L.
Thomas, Mrs. Albert Wilson and
Mrs. Robert Miller, Jr.
Anyone interested in joining is
asked to contact one of the di-
rectors or officers. Members are
urged to take their gifts to Mrs.
Wilson or to their director before
the day of the meeting.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-11-01
Broadwood
Manor
Mrs. Merle w. Smith
Poplar 2-69I3

The Meredith p. Davidsons re-
Gently entertained the James
Donoghues with an evening at the
Mayflower, dinner and dancing.
The BrOadwOod Manor Home.
makers club enjoyed a very in
formative joint meeting on Octo-
Der 25 with the Rockville, Der
Wood-Shady Grove, and Croydon
Park clubs. The demonstration,
given by Mrs. Rhoades was on
abor-saving methods in the
kitchen
A birthday celebration was held
cor Mildred Fields mother, Mrs.
Krier, who has been visiting here,
With luncheon at Mrs. KS Toll
house restaurant. Attending this
party were Mrs. Weymouth Jud-
'lins, Mrs. j. R. Keto, and Mrs.
Arnold Ashby.
Alex LaZOr recently took part
n an entertainment given by the
Methodist Church. He played the
part of Grandma Moses
Most of the Information Sheets
for the Citizens Association have
been returned. If anyones has
not been collected, please call
your reporter. We need this in
formation for the Directory which
will be coming out shortly. This
is the same Directory that has
has been in the process of coming
out for the past year, but progress
IS really being made and you will
be seeing the finished product
soon. Don't give up hope!
Don't forget to VOTE on No
vember 6. Residents of Broad
wood Manor vote at the Lone
Oak Elementary School. If you
need transportation call your re-
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