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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-06
BY EARL H. VOSS

The United States offer tc
send free food to riot-torn areas
Of Poland has produced curious
contradictions on both sides OF
the Iron Curtain. Both govern
ments give the appearance Of
playing for propaganda advan-
tage first, and the Polish people s
Welfare second.
For instance. the United States
won't sell grain to Poland al
free world market prices-but il
eager to give it away to Poland
provided it is labeled as ar
American gift.
Two Ways TO Get L. S. Wheat
Poland. on the other hand
won't take the grain as a gift or
these terms. but wants TO pay
what any non-Communist coun-
try would pay for American sur
plus grain--bursting from stor.
age bins all over this country.
Red Poland can get American
wheat today in two ways.
/ AS a gift, with Uncle Sans
label attached.
2. For 80 per cent above worlc
market price, without any labels
cash on delivery.
Poland prefers to buy Cana.
dian wheat. which it can get or
credit, at world market prices
for only Is per cent down.
May Revise Terms
The United States stiff terms
fol Iron Curtain couutIits may
be revised by Congress this year
The Senate voted Tuesday Il
accept an administration plan tC
Aell surplus commodities to In,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-06
PerjjurOr Put
On Probation

Richard c. Mccormick. So
Washington area businessman
today was given a suspended
sentence of from one to five year.
and placed on probation for per-
jury.
The suspended prison term ano
probation we're given by District
Court judge David A. Pine. who
had presided at Mccormick s
trial.
Mccormick had been convicted
on June % by a jury of lying
last January to grand jury
which was investigating possible
law violations in connection with
the Federal Housing Administra
ton program.
Specifically. the Government
charged Mccormick lied wher
he told the grand jury that all Of
S27,500 he received in 1850 from
TWO attorneys consisted of loans
OF the total. the Government
charged that $4,000 of the sun
was money the lawyers turned
over to Mccormick in payment
for his sending contractors t.
them SO they could prepare ap.
plicationS for contracts on mill.
tary housing facilities. The
$4,000 was Mccormick share
Of fees received by the two law.
yers. None of the contractors
secured contract, it was testi-
fed.
The money was paid to Nc
Cormick in checks in Attorneys
Marshall R. Digs and Robert S
Tarney, according to trial evil
dence. Mccormick formerly
lived in Vienna. Va. but more
recently had lived in Washing
ton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-06
Kidnapped Baby
Is We'll, Father
To|dbyPhone
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was unable to read it, and the
note floated to the floor.
The familiar formula direc-
tons overwhelmed her with emo
ton, wildly recalling the tragic
time schedule Of the day before
1t was 3 pm. on the Fourth
Of July that she last saw her
baby. She had given Peter the
formula at the prescribed feed
ing time. went inside for a fresh
diaper, and returned to the patio
TO find him missing.
Here she cried to detec-
tives. You read this
can't" Then. weeping uncon-
trollably, she dropped into a
chair.
Policeman Reads Formula
Detective Sergeant Edward
Curran of the Nassau County
Police picked up the note and
read the formula.
Nassau Detective Chief Stuy-
vesSant Pinnell told reporters no
progress had been made in the
case since the ransom envelopes
went unclaimed.
I'VE have had several vague
leads.p he said. "All have gone
nowhere. The check made on
former domestics Of the Vein
bergers has not been productive
so far"
Chief Pinnell declined to ex-
hibit the ransom note, explain
ing that handwriting analyses
were being made.
The note. found on the brick
patio near the empty carriage,
read: Il hate to do this to you,
but am in great trouble. Don t
notify the police. am not ask
ing lot of money, only what
need, and am very serious
about this" The note threat
ened the baby's life if police
were warned.
Mr.. Weinberger was out for q
drive with their other son. two.
and-one-half- year-old Lewis
when the kidnap note was de-
livered and the baby taken
Upon his return he decided to
ignore the death threat and sum-
mon police.
When word of the kidnapping
first leaked out in the neighbor-
hood, Chief Pinnell asked news
papers and radio and TV sta
tons not to release anything
until contact could be made by
the ransom deadline.
Later, he released newsmen
from the ransom deadline, say
ing he had learned that one
newspaper, which he did not
name, had decided to print the
story.
We would have gotten a hell
OF a lot further" he said in a
news conference yesterday, IF
there had been no interference
from the press. and you can
quote me on that. l appreciate
your help when your help is
honestly directed. We all DO"
Mrs. Weinberger also at
tackled news coveraRe Of the
kidnapping. saying her phone had
been tied Zip all day Yesterday
presumably with calls from
newsmen. so that If anyone
wanted to, he couldn't gel
through"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-06
u. S., Red Controriness
Seen in Polish Food Issue

Curtain countries on the same
terms offered non-Communist
without paying the 80
per cent subsidy costs.
The House of Representatives
Agriculture Committee has re-
ported the same bill favorably
No full House action has been
scheduled yet. however.
The more liberal sales terms
would apply only to the Euro
pean satellites. not to the Soviet
Union, Red China or North
Korea.
The American offer of sub
stantial" amounts OF food was
made Saturday by Acting Secre-
tary Of State Herbert Hoover jr.,
through the International Red
Cross.
Deny Hunger in Poland
Radio Warsaw said Wednes-
day, however, that Poland needs
no charity" 1t claimed that "as
is we'll known, hunger does not
exist in Poland because OF con-
slant purchases of grain abroad. .
State Department Press Officer
Lincoln White said yesterday
The United States Government
regrets sincerely that Polish
Communist authorities seem to
have rejected its Offer
He added that the grain had
been proffered Sin keeping with
the long history of friendship
between the American and Polish
peoples and the tradition Of past
American assistance to Poland"
AS evidence Of the traditional
Polish-American friendship. Mr.
White mentioned the whole
hearted and spontaneous help
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-06

the United States gave POLAND
after both World Wars. He alsC
said that tens of thousands oil
gift parcels are being sent every
month to Poland from American
friends and relatives.
The offer also was made. Mr.
White said. in response to "nu-
merouS messages" from organi-
cations and individuals in this
country urging such action.
Turned Down Earlier Offer
Poland turned down a sim
Lar deal for free foodstuffs last
February. when Eastern Europe
was in the grip of a cold wave
and floods threatened to follow
The bad weather. the prouc
Polish Communists informed the
United States Government, has
not brought about such disas-
trous consequences as to require
gratuitous assistance to Poland
But they did offer at that time
to purchase grains from the
United States on credit terms
The United States Govern
ment made no reply to this re-
quest, on the grounds. Mi. White
said yesterday. that norma! COM
mercial channels are open fol-
such Polish purchases.
Disputing Polish claims thai
people there are getting along
well enough without aims, Mr
White quoted current Warsaw
prices OF foods and commodities
The prices. he said. reflect the
scarcity of the products.
MI White said the average
Polish worker, who makes 5000
month, must pay:
Thirty-nine cents for a pound
OF bread.
$3.50 for a pound of butter
Sixty cents for quart of milk
Up to. 1896 for a pound OF
beef.
Up to S205 for a pair Of shoes
Up to s406 for a man S middle
Ssrade SUIT. a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-06

public agreed to honor last week
The Polish government may
also want to renew its offer to
buy American surplus grain at
world market prices on credit
The United States is prohibited
by law from selling surplus COM
moditieS to Iron Curtain coun-
tries at world market prices
Communist countries are re-
quired to pay American domestic
prices, which in the case OF
grain. amount to 30 per cent
more.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-06
Shift by Egypt
PERISH. ). Aid
BY JOHN SCALI
Associated Press stan Writer

The United States has decided
to re-eXamine its offer to help
Egypt build the worlds biggest
dam on the Nile River.
The State Department. it was
learned. will take a new. critical
look at the loan-grant deal ii
proposed to Egypt last December
TO decide whether to go through
with the offer.
This review demonstrates seri-
GUS American concern over what
diplomats refer to as the increas-
ingly anti-WeStern and pro-Rus-
sian policies President Canal
Abdel NasSer's government has
adopted over the past few
months.
Many top administration Off
Gals are reported to question
whether the United States should
give large-scale economic aid to
Egypt under present conditions
AS evidence of its tougher at
titude, the State Department
has notified Egypt that foreign
aid grants previously earmarked
to help Egypt begin its $1.3 bill
lion Aswan Dam project have
now been reallocated to other
foreign aid programs considered
to be of higher priority.
No money will be available for
Egypt until Congress approves
the new multimillion dollar
foreign aid program still being
shaped up, and even then, re-
Sponsible informants said, nc
new ALLEGATION is to be made fol
the dam project until the re-
examination has been completed
This review will be undertaken
it was said. with full awareness
that cancellation of the aid offer
might cause the Nasser govern
ment to rely on Russia as its
main source of financial and
technical aid.
The United States Joined with
Britain last December Is in Of
fering $40 million in grants to
Egypt to help it begin its long
cherished hydroelectric irriga-
ton project. The World Bank
at the same time pledged 5000
million loan. Britain and the
United States also promised tc
consider sympathetically Egypt
need for an additional $3.50 mil
lion in foreign currency.
The Nasser government made
no move to pick up the funds. The
delay convinced many officials
President NasSer was deliberately
stalling, playing off Russia
against the United States in a
move for better terms.
In the meantime Egypt
stepped up its trade with the
Communist bloc. bought more
Communist weapons on credit
and supported more and more
Soviet policies, including recoe-
milton of Communist China.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-06
winnings Fundamentals

The framework on which Gen,
LeMay's charges and the Admin
iStration's defense can be Judged
was provided by Air Force Chief of
Staff Gen. Nathan F. Twining when
he testified before the full Senate
Armed Services Committee last
February. His comments constitute
a sort of advance rebuff to Gen.
LeMay's testimony last week.
Except to indicate relative eff
fort and progress" Gen. Twining
said in his prepared statement,
matching similar types (of air.
craft Is meaningless. More mean
ingful comparisons would be to
match our bomber offensive ca
pability against their defenses, in
Guiding their radar, their fighters
and their missiles. Similarly, we
must compare Soviet bomber capa-
bilities against our defenses."
So far there has been mo indi-
cation that the Senate subcommit-
tee has tried to make this kind of
comparison. But the air power in
vestigation has been conducted by
Chairman w. Stuart Symington
with an extremely careful atti-
tude toward security. The Pentagon
approves all public disclosures. To
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-06

slams in ground forces. And in the
years gone by, some of you are old
enough to remember when we made
no attempt to match Britain in sea
forces"
At another point the President
denied it was vital that we try to
stay ahead Of Russia in production
of long-range bombers. Il say it
is vital that we get what we believe
we need. That does not necessarily
mean more than somebody else
does. We have got to get what we
need. Now, certainly, when you
come and talk about the quality of
the thing. I say we mustn't be be-
hind anybody"
Neither the President nor his
Secretary of Defense mentioned the
Tactical Air Command as another
potent arm Of our nuclear striking
force. We have II wings in TAG,
some of them deployed overseas.
Others. based in the United States,
are capable, with aerial refueling,
of 5000 to 7,000-mile nonstop
trips, with nuclear- weapon pay
loads.
Gen. o. p Weyland. commander
OF TAG, Is expected to appear be-
fore the Senate subcommittee later.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-06
Administration S Answer

The SAC commanders grave
charges were greeted with some
thing considerably less than panic
in all quarters. Democrats viewed
with alarm. But the public showed
little concern.
Secretary Of Defense Charles E.
Wilson admitted for the FIRST time
that B-52 production was behind
the Soviet Unions intercontinental
bomber output. But he would not
concede that Soviet air strength
will exceed ours in 1958-60 If pres
ent production schedules are con-
tinued.
President Eisenhower gave more
reassurances. He made two major
points: First, SAC is only q part
Of our nuclear bombing force, and
the Nation ought to reserve judy
ment on the Soviet-American air
power race until it hears OF our
Navy capabilities. Second. there is
a saturation point in building re-
taliatory power beyond which 1t is
foolish to go.
The President said: I'VE need in
each type of bomber, in each CLASH
fication of ship. we need what our
requirements demand-and that
doesn't necessarily mean that we
have the same as anybody else. We
are not trying TO match the Rus
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-06
Question in the House

The House subcommittee study
ing Air Force appropriations re-
ported it's concern" over the rapid
rise of Soviet air power. 1t noted
that the Communists will prob
ably equal the United States in
offensive airpower capability within
a very few years unless the United
States is to expand the overall
size of it's Air Force and substan-
TALLY step up the production of
aircraft"
The fundamental question, the
subcommittee said, is this:
Should we attempt to stoy oheod Of
the Soviets in the overall size Of our Air
Force and in the numbers Of oireroft to
be produced or should we ottempt to
nointoin whot is determined TO be q
sufficient Air Force equipped with the
best modern oireroFt to oct os deter
rent to any possible -oeeression9
The administration answer, the
subcommittee said, las was teSti-
fled by the Secretary of Defense
and Others" was that "the current
Air Force budget is based upon the
latter determination"
Even this second-best-is-good-
enough philosophy apparently will
cost the United States increasing
amounts of money. Not only Gen.
Twining, the top military man in
the Air Force, but his civilian SUI
perior. Mr.. Quarles. is on record
that air power budgets are going
up. The House group made Mr..
Quarles' blunt warning a matter Of
record:
by certain one-time economies,
such as a calculated reduction IN
lead-time. we have been able to cut
down our requests for funds in
some appropriations dor fiscal year
1857. starting July -. However. II
we are to continue to support an
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-06
World Scene:
Quiet Reigns

The Kremlin was doing little last
week to spur American defense
spending.
Nikita S. Khrushchev, arriving
back home from his less-than-
triumphant tour of Great Britain.
had several warm words for Presi-
dent Eisenhower and the possible
tiles of developing trade and cul-
tural relations with the United
States.
The May Day parade and fly-by
in Moscow was as peaceful as 1t
has been in many a year. Air
attaches came away far less i'm
pressed than they have been in the
past few years. Although Radio
Moscow claimed new type OF Jet
day-f1ghter had been flown. West
ern observers did not marvel at it.
This accent on peace was not SO
evident among the Russians in
London, however. The spring dis
armament negotiations broke down
there last Friday, largely because
the Soviet Union still refuses to
accept an effective inspection sys-
tenn before arms cuts start.
President Eisenhower said at his
news conference Friday that III
we don't know anything more about
what's inside the Iron Curtain
than we do today, then we are not
going to reduce anything; that's all
there is to it,"
To punctuate that remark the
Atomic Energy Commission fired
its first nuclear shot of the current
test series at EniWetok. 1t was
small blast, with little fallout.
probably one of the new and
smaller-type 3-F fusion
fission) bombs with which the
United States hopes to fill out its
nuclear Stockpile.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-06
Arob-IsroeI

United Nations Secretary General
Dag Hammarskjold completed his
peace mission to the Arab nations
and Israel last week. He will make
his final report to the Security
Council early this week.
In an interim report Thursday he
said he had achieved "a positive
result" meaning some kind OF
cease-fire pledge from Israel and
all her neighbors-Egypt. Jordan,
Syria and Lebanon. Syria. however,
was understood TO have agreed to
maintain the cease-fire only so
long as Israel refrained from di-
verting any waters Of the Jordan
River for irrigation.
Mr.. Hammarskjold did not. APP
parently, get the two sides to agree
to pull back from the truce lines.
He had hoped TO reduce the pos
sibility of incidents in that way.
There was agreement, repeatedly,
between Egypt and Israel to in
crease the U. N. truce supervisory
force along the GAIA border, and TO
permit some freedom Of movement
there. This should help the u, N.
teams TO halt trouble before IL
starts, by being on hand as soon az
buildups are noted, and before the
shooting starts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-06
NATO Meeting

In Paris, meanwhile, the NATO
Council of Ministers tried to adj
Just its policies to the Soviet peace.
ful-coexistence offensive. The gen.
eral idea, as Secretary of State
John Foster Dulles had previously
indicated, was to broaden NATO
interests from its heavily military
orientation to political and eco
nomic fields.
What the prospects are in these
areas is still not clear, perhaps even
to the diplomats. So yesterday the
NATO ministers were said to have
turned the exploration job over TO
three wise men, one each from
Canada. Italy and Norway. The
major goal repeatedly is to improve
relations with uncommitted ma
tons OF Asia, Africa and the Mid
die East. !
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-06

the physical sciences. 1t is easier
for them to make amends in physics
and chemistry than in the biological
and social sciences, since the in
roads into physics, chemistry and
related fields we're not nearly so
devastating. They were not so ir-
revocably committed in those fields,
and their personnel in them is much
more numerous and highly trained.
Sow Golden Age Die
AS a member Of the famed Insti-
tute Of Genetics at Moscow in the
early 30s, DR.. Muller was in the
midst of the overthrow by the
Stain regime Of "the golden age"
of genetics in Russia. He was a
member of an all-star team of SCI
entists recruited by N. 1. Vavilov,
who was sent to a labor camp after
the ascendancy of Lysenko and who
has not been heard from since 1912.
His paper read in 1927 at Berlin
on X-ray-induced mutations in the
genes was hailed by fellow SCI
entists as epochal, and after much
double checking led to his winning
the Nobel laureate in 1948. His
discoveries later gained additional
significance in connection with the
effect on heredity of exposure to
atomic radiation.
Lysenko's scientific theories, &C
centing environment, suited Stain
list theories better than the sound
views Of the Able Gregor Mendel
and Thomas Hunt Morgan, Nobel
Prize winner whose student DR..
Muller had been at Columbia.
But as sound geneticists pre-
dicted. the Lysenko theories could
not pay of in the breeding Of plants
and animals, and Russian agricul-
ture fell far behind that Of the
West in productivity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-06
BY JOHN F. SEMBOWER

CHICAGO. - Recent develop
ments in Soviet science indicate a
"loosening" Of the Russian die
tatorship. in the opinion Of Nobel
Prize winning geneticist, DR.. Her
mann j. Muller.
DR.. Muller was referring particu-
larry to the ousting Of Stains
protege. the discredited geneticist
Trofim D. Lysenko, from control of
Soviet agricultural science.
This Russian advance, he said in
an exclusive interview, means
greater scientific autonomy in Rus
STA and, along with that, greater
tendency toward autonomy in other
fields Of thought and the gradual
looSening Of the dictatorship. Thus.
he continued, the move should not
be regretted by the West.
DR.. Muller, professor of zoology
at Indiana University since 1945,
has been one Of the most outspoken
critics Of Stalinist science. He de-
nounced Lysenko as "a charlatan"
in l948 when he resigned from the
Soviet Academy Of Sciences.
1T is for this loosening (of the
Dictatorship that we have TO hope,
because only thus can an eventual
war and the destruction Of civiliza-,
ton be avoided" declared DR..
Muller in the interview.
Whether the loosening will pro-
coed at relatively even pace until
the dictatorship has withered away.
or whether IL will proceed to some
critical point at which the Dictator
ship may thereupon be overthrown
by more sudden process is de-
batable. but the important thing is
the loosening."
DR.. Muller predicted that the
comeback Of Russian biological SCI
enees will be much slower than for
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-06
Farm See-soW::
Quick New Bill

The continuing two-party race for
the farm vote, see-saw affair that
sees the political advantage shift
ing with each cunning maneuver.
was being led at weeks end by the
Democrats. though only slightly.
The House, stepping up its pace
considerably, in five days COM
pleted another Agricultural Act Of
1855, successor to H.R. IL, which
was vetoed by President Eisen-
hover.
The Democrats managed TO beat
down an administration request for
partial advance payments to farm
erS this year who promise to
retire part Of their surplus
cropland to a soil bank next year.
They had viewed this proposal as
Republican trick" TO court farm
support by getting cash to the
farmer before November's elections.
The soil bank idea, however, was
retained, with the Democrats prom
Using to make full, not partial. pay
ments TO farmers who actually par
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