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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-25
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-25
Music Award Is Given
Mitchell for Third Time
BY HARRY BACAs

Howard Mitchell. preparing for
his eighth season as conductor
Of the National Symphony Or
chestra. has won the National
Music Councils annual Conduc-
tors Citation, it was announced
today.
1t is the third time Mr.. Mitch
ell has been given the award.
No other recipient including
Leopold Stokowsli. Eugene Or
mandy and Charles Munch--has
won 1t more than once.
Given each year for distin-
guished services to music" the
citation will be presented by
Howard Hanson, president Of the
council. at one Of the orchestra's
concerts this fall.
The award caps what has been
q notable six months for WASH
ington's handsome 45-year-old
maestro.
Ovation In Havana
In April, he led the National
Symphony Orchestra in q Car
negie Hall concert which drew
high praise from the New York
critics. In June he drew a
standing Commute ovation in
Havana. Cuba. after conducting
the Havana Philharmonic. In
July, the New York critics ex-
ceeded themselves in acclairning
his guest conducting at Levi
sohn Stadium.
AS he prepares to open the
National Symptoms biggest
season on October is. Mr..
Mitchell is optimistic about his
orchestra's future.
This orchestra I would put
beside any orchestra in the
world" he said today. For the
coming season, 10 more players
have been added. mostly strings,
to bring the number to 96.
He is already going through
some Of the new music he will
perform. Today, at his home,
6611 Sixteenth street NV, he
was studying the score Of Henry
Cowell's Eleventh Symphony.
which he will introduce to WASH
ington this fall.
Praises Audiences Here
Mr.. Mitchell had flattering
words for Washington audiences,
too.
I'VE must have one Of the
youngest audiences Of any lead
ing orchestra" he said. And it's
obvious In their enthusiasm and
their readiness to accept new
things. =
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-25

the italian garden Of the Roma
restaurant to the accompani-
ment Of mandolins, guitars and
traditional songs by natives Of
Italy. Representatives Of the
italian Embassy were present for
a symbolic ceremony represent
ing the harvesting Of grapes
from the yine-clad garden.
An Italian Embassy spokes-
man explained that the tradi-
tional "Vendemmia" festival is
centuries old.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-25
|AppeaIsCOurt
Again 10 Hear
Murder Appeal
BY HOWARD L. DUTKIN

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The United States Court Of
Appeals today decided to rehear
before the full nine-man bench
the appeal Of Willie Lee
Stewart. 80. colored. twice con-
yicted Of the 1858 murder Of
Grocer Harry Honikman.
The action. taken voluntarily
by the court, will mark the third
time Stewards case is to be heard
by appellate judges.
In its order today, the court
indicated 1t was particularly in
terested in the 'propriety" Of
certain remarks made by Prose-
cutor Frederick @. Smithson to
the jury at Stewards second trial.
Perjury" Mentioned
The remarks in question, the
transcript shows, were made by
Mr.. Smithson when he cited tes-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-25
Adds Up to Power

DES MONIES. - The tractor
power capacity on American
farms is about 1870 million horse
power-or IS times the capacity
lof all United States water power.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-25
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-05
Reds Are Losing Ground in Italy

Of Nenni and Saragat is a very
major political event and per-
haps the happiest one since
the great detection Of Tito
from the Kremlin's camp in
1913. The assurance that italy
need no longer be watched
with bated breath every time q
national election Of q cabinet
crisis threatens to hand the
nation to the Reds on q plat
ter will be immensely COM
forting.
The United States has
poured billions into Italy since
1945, and much Of the total
was spurred by the increasing
menace of Communist gains.
Certainly much of the money.
especially that part of it that
went into the rehabilitation Of
productive industry, helped to
bring about the hopeful re-
suits now becoming apparent.
But more significant than
United States aid has been the
Tito break and its success,
and the widening and ever
more obvious condition Of the
captive peoples behind the
Iron Curtain. Another factor,
and probably the most dan
gerous one to the West, is the
very real possibility that the
Nenni-Saragat union may in
time prove to be a step toward
a new popular front" move
ment in the West.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-05
DORIS FLEESON
Gov. Longlie Is Formidable Opponent
With Strong Support From White House

ELLENSBURG. Wash.-Be-
tween the bronco busters and
the liSsome Valkyrie who
wheeled her six Palominos and
lifted them over a six-foot
barrier at Ellensburg, Wash,
Gov. Arthur B. Langlie and
Senator Warren g. Magnuson
were distinctly minor attrac-
tions. EllenSburg's mind was
on its annual rodeo.
The West is everywhere at
play in this last fine weather
before the rains and falling
temperatures of autumn take
over. Here the power plays
of Washington, d. c., seem re-
mote, indeed. Westerners are
just beginning to notice that
a President is trying to re-
shape q party from bases in its
midst.
If 1t were not for President
Eisenhower's direct interven-
ton, the Langlie-M agnuson
race would be Just another
one Of those classic instances
Of a Senator. tied to long
sessions and national affairs,
being challenged by a Gov
ernor who has been daily
mulching the grass roots.
But Langlie, a very shrewd
politician, would not have
tackled the effective Magnuson
had not Sherman Adams
passed the word that this was
another crusade.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-05
Leftish Le0nings of Both Parties
Leave Voters With Little Choice

ises to pay. who have looked
forward to an independent old
age. should just not live too
long.
Social security taxes will
increase, but wages will 60 UP
to cover them and more will
continue to be paid out in
social security than comes in.
The American taxpayer will
continue to have his taxes
socialized for foreign progress
on the assumption that we can
buy friends and keep them
bought. And neither party
will ever, we predict. make q
thorough, impartial and hon.
est Investigation and report on
exactly what these enormous
funds have accomplished and
whom they have benefited.
Both parties will continue
to rely on the United Nations,
collective security. and the
formula that "a threat to one
is a threat to ALL" thus in
volvine America in every crisis
everywhere.
Despite Republican gestures
toward the States, government
will continue to be highly
centralized. in command Of a
vast bureaucracy and propa-
ganda machine. There will be
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-05

1t was q sound approach to
Langlie. who began public life
as q reform councilman and
reform Mayor of Seattle. He
always has put his own politi-
cal action on what seemed to
him a moral basis and here he
has the magic name of Eisen-
hover, to boot.
The President has told Lang
lie that he will swing through
the Northwest this fall. Mean
time, the pledged resources of
the White House and G. o. P.
have been forthcoming. Lang
lie was convention keynoter,
with all of its invaluable pub
licity, and friendly magazines
have begun to feature him.
Handsome, chunky Macy"
Magnuson has never lost a
campaign and is today 14th-
ranking Senator, chairman Of
the powerful Interstate and
Foreign Commerce Committee
and, almost better yet, a mem
Der Of the Appropriations COM
mittee. His striking billboardS
argue that Were Stronger
With Magnuson."
But he has seen many sup
posed Senate oaks fall. His
friends are collecting for him
due bills owed a Magnuson
Office which has never asked
the politics Of a Washingtonian
who needed help. Maggy has
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-05
Reolignment Of Left Socialists
DepIeteS Communist Power
CONSTANTINE BROWN

after Comrade Khrushchev's
savage attack on Stain.
At about the same time, To-
gliatti betook himself to the
lair Of his erstwhile arch
enemy, Marshal Tito Of Yugo-
slavia. where he became the
first top Communist outside
the Soviet Union to make his
peace with the Yugoslav rebel.
Shortly after the Togliatti
visit, Tito began his triumphal
tour Of the Soviet Union and
his public love-feast with the
Kremlin leaders.
For a while there was talk
in Italy that Togliatti was
slated for the scrapheap, with
his deputy slated to take his
place as chieftain Of the larg-
est Communist party outside
the Soviet Union itself. But
the old man so far has held
on.
Now the Communists ap-
pear to be in real trouble.
Their chances Of keeping any
thing like the influence they
have been able to WELD in Italy
in years past has gone. Their
downhill slide, begun some
months ago. is accelerating. To
any practical politician, and
Pietro Nenni is Certainly one,
the Communists are no asset
in their present fix.
In order to effect union with
Mr.. Saragat's conservative"
Socialists, Mr.. Nenni has had
to realign his views on inter-
national affairs. He must, for
example, accept the North At
lantic Treaty Organization,
detested by all good Commu-
nists. He will have to reorient
his entire political philosophy
to bring it in line with that of
his new partners. And to q
great extent he will have to
support the present coalition
government, which is led by
the nniddle-of -the-road Chris
tan Democrats.
To q free world, the union
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-05
DOROTHY THOMPSON
The Vanished Conservative

sufficient security investiga-
lions (moderate) to make
everybody who leans toward
minority reports feel insecure.
Although everybody with any
historical knowledge or COM
mon sense knows that the
state has always been the enemy
of society and Of individual and
social liberty. they will be per-
suaded that the new America"
will be different. We shall in
creasingly have human well
fare" dispensed by the state,
redistributing the peoples
earnings here and abroad by
way Of taxes, but we shall not
(say the parties) have "the
welfare state" Perhaps some
one can explain the difference
to this columniSt.
This trend may be all very
well. But it is ct least debata-
BILE. There must be some hun
dreds Of thousands Of Anieri-
cans who still think self-reli-
ance, personal independence.
q state Of strictly limited pow
ers, and national freedom Of
action in foreign affairs are
of proven merit.
But there is no party left to
represent them. And If a great
many people don't vote in the
coming election it will not be
surprising.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-05

Despite my firm intention to
enjoy what, at the outset,
called "the quadrennial Amer
ican fiesta" the two conven-
tions depressed me. In retro
spect they revealed that both
parties are settled in the mold
Of leftish orthodoxy that i'm
poses a sitting conformity.
The only type of person con-
spicuously absent in both of
them was q conservative.
The Southern delegations
cannot be excepted. On the
desegregation issue, they lost
despite the weaSel-worded
Democratic plank, which Gov.
Hartman, who had advocated
a strong, unequivocal civil
rights plank. finally accepted
too. On other issues the South
was no more conservative than
the other delegations.
Despite the deals in the
hotel rooms, the conventions
turned out strictly according
to plan. The mavericks in each
Of them-fIarrifnan, Truman
and Stassen-ate crow pub
licly, rather like those Rus
sian confessions. The party
line triumphed 100 per cent.
Judging from the platforms,
there are no issues Of any
substance between the parties.
The Democrats are . shade to
the left Of the Republicans
except in certain regions where
they are a shade TO the
right. Both parties are for
moving toward socialism
with moderation. OF course,
they don't say that; maybe
they don't even mean that,
but the concrete things they
are Tor DO mean II.
They intend to continue the
cold war. but moderately. They
will not reduce the military
establishment, which with a
budget Of some 40 billions a
year is far and away the
largest enterprise in the United
States, and though it farms
out contracts to private firms,
1t is q socialist Tor state
capita1ist) endeavor.
The infiationary price rise
will continue but under con-
troll" This means, Of course,
that everybody whose savings
are invested in anything prom
ising q fixed return will see
them diminish toward the
vanishing point-but gradu-
ally. Holders Of such prom.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-05
Softness on Reds Still an Issue

is reported to have said at
Texarkana, Ark:
1.-THE Truman-Ackeson- Ste
venson Democrats have for
feited their rights to the sup
port Of the millions Of good,
rank .and-file members Of the
Democratic Party. They, Tru-
man, Acheson and Stevenson,
are traitors to the high prin-
ciples in which many Of the
Nations Democrats believe.
Real Democrats are outraged
by the acknowledgements
venson gangs federation of and
defense Of communism in high
places"
Comparing the two utter
ances and assuming the corr
rectness Of the quotation at
tributed to Mr.. Nixon, it is
apparent that neither one ac-
cused the Democratic Party
itself Of being a party of
treason. Both said, in effect,
that the Truman administra-
ton had condoned treason in
high places. This was partic-
ularly emphasized when At
torney General Brownell in
October, 1854, revealed that
the FBI had warned Mr.. Tru-
man about Harry Dexter
Whites activities, and that
the former President later on
wrote two letters Of common
dation to White in total dis
regard Of the FBI's damaging
information. Mr.. Truman has
never said a single word pub
licly to explain why he wrote
those two letters.
Even though all the news
papers reported it at the time,
Mr.. Truman now says he never
told White House press con-
ference that the congressional
hearing on the Hiss case was
a red herring" but he adds:
THAT is exactly what it was"
The issue of "softnesS on
communism" will again be de-
bated in a political campaign.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-05
DORIS FLEEsoN
Mdgnuson Faces a Tough Fight

taken to the road in a bus and
he is meeting the folks.
In the best Kefauver, man.
ner. he is handing out coffee,
doughnuts and local fruit.
They are the only giveaways
the Democrats have to offer,
he tells people. When Yakima
city officials refused to let
him park his bus on the main
street, he put it in a parking
lot and explained, "Our sup
port comes from side streets
anyway"
With such approaches, the
Senator pits his warmth and
essential simplicity against the
Governors graver moral per-
suasion. Both men are so far
acting completely in character,
which gives their contest a
rather unusual dignity.
Langlie moves about quietly
with his handsome family. He
is friendly and calm; he grows
emotional only when he pro-
tests his determination to take
the middle way, seeking quail
ity in American life as well as
quantity. A woman voter who
attacked politics as mere back
scratching got a terse lecture
on what she owed to herself.
The hearty Magnuson, in.
capable himself of viewing a
political race as a crusade, is
refusing to be drawn out on
that score. He is offering his
service and himself. Current
opinion and private polls say
that he will win. but he is in a
fight and he knows 1t.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-05

The long and faithful mar
riage between 1taly,s Left So
cialists led by Pietro Nenni and
the Communists under Palmiro
Togliatti appears to have ended
UP in the divorce courts.
Signor Nenni's Socialists
have been an invaluable aid to
the Reds in their efforts to
hamstring the moderate Chris
tan Democrats in their par
liamentary coalition. Not too
long ago the signs pointed
strongly toward an early sur
render Of italy to the Commu-
mist orbit. The Red triumph
would have been possible, and
very nearly was, only because
Of the immense voting strength
of the Left Socialists. In the
last national elections they
were able to deliver almost 3.5
million votes to the Red camp.
But the Communists didn't
win. and since the death of
Stain they have been losing
ground steadily. Even in the
great italian Confederation of
Labor. which they have domi-
mated for many years, they are
slipping fast. At q recent plant
balloting at the Fiat motor car
factory the Communists took
q sound beating.
Mr.. Nenni's decision to
change his party's tune seems
in the main to have been one
OF practical politics. He was
quoted last week in the Italian
press as saying that "the
changing International cli-
mate" required a reappraisal
OF his party's role in italian
affairs.
The uproar in Italy over the
downgrading Of Stain by
Khrushchev some months ago
also apparently added to Mr..
Nenni's decision to part COM
pany with the Reds. It was
none other than Togliatti,
veteran and probably most
notable Of all West European
Communist bosses, who began
the party soul-searching act
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-05
POTOMAC FEVER
FLETCHER KNEBEL

White House Secretary Hagery rebukes Stevenson
This high-level campaigning standing Ike
shoulders to swat the enemy.
Democrats acclaim Adla Stevenson the little mans
Eisenhower In fact there's that Adai taking up
miniature golf.
Conversation is such dying art in America that you can't
get decent argument which channel to tune
Stevenson and Kefauver joined by Harry
the campaign stump Moral Twos company threes crowd
Ike Congress needs professor teach the Congress-
something Ike followed the usual path of Presidents
with Congress After the honeymoon-armed coexstence
The newest thing in women footgear shoes to match
any husband. You can see right through the heels.
The Government Americans saved record 81 billion
in the first half Of 1885, Just in the candidates failed
to the country again. the folks decided to themselves
first.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-05
DAVID LAWRENCE

Former President Truman
seems determined to revive the
Communist issue Of the 1852
carnpaign--and the Republic
cans are not q bit displeased.
They couldn't tactfully have
taken the initiative themselves.
Mr.. Truman not only says
he doesn't think Aleer Hiss
was o Communist but doubts
whether Hiss was Q Commu.
mist SPY. The FBI IL on record
as having told Mr.. Truman
that Hiss was O member Of q
Communist ring. Likewise,
witnesses have come forth to
swear they saw Hiss paying
dues in o Communist cell
formed at the Department Of
Agriculture during the Demo-
cratic regime.
Mr.. Truman, moreover, ac-
cuses Vice President Nixon Of
having charged the former
President with treason" But
the speech delivered by Mr..
Nixon on October AZ, 1852, to
which Mr.. Truman pointed,
does not use the word Urea
son."
What the former President
chooses to ignore is that Presi-
dent Eisenhower. in q 1852
speech, did use the word "trea-
son" three times in referring to
what was happening under the
Truman administration. For
some unaccountable reason,
Mr.. Truman doesn't seem to
be willing to take on President
Eisenhower on this issue and
prefers to attack only his run
ming mate.
Mr.. Eisenhower at Milwau-s
kee on October 8, 1862, dis
cussed Communist treason in
side our Government. He said:
What did this penetration
into government mean? It
meant contamination in some
degree Of virtually every de-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-05
Trumon's Statement Seen Sure to Revive
1852 Charges Of Treason in Hioh Places

partment, every agency. every
bureau, every section Of Our
Government. It meant q gov
eminent by men whose very
brains were confused by the
opiate Of this deceit. These
men were advisers In q foreign
policy. This penetration
meant q domestic policy whose
tone was set by men who
sneered and scoffed at warn
ings Of the enemy infiltrating
our most secret counsels. 1t
meant--in its most ugly tri-
umph@-treason itself.
who are those men? They
are those who cheered the
blithe dismissal of the Alger
Hiss case as q red herring"
Then Mr.. Eisenhower went
on to refer to one of Mr..
Stevenson's speeches in which
he had said that Communists
in our national life were mot
very important" In reference
to Mr.. Stevenson's quips about
the Communist issue as q kind
of silly game being played in
the Bureau Of Wildlife and
Fisheries" Mr.. Eisenhower
added:
do you think these fish
stories, ghost stories, and ami
NAL stories are really very
amusing? Such comedy touches
do little to relieve the tragic
knowledge that we have been
for years the gullible victims Of
Communist espionage experts.
These experts in treason have
plundered us of secrets involv-
ing our highest diplomatic de-
cisions, our atomic research.
Tragically, we do not know
how much more our security
may have been jeopardized."
Small wonder that just "a
days after that speech by the
presidential candidate on the
Republican ticket, Mr.. Nixon,
the vice presidential nominee,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-05
Boy 8, Kills Playmate
While Showing Pistol

STEUBENVLLE, Ohio, Sept.
Is (R.--George Burford, jr., 8, of
nearby Tiltonsville was showing
two other 8-year-old boys his
dads gun collection yesterday
and decided to demonstrate a %
Icaliber target pistol.
Sheriff Clarence Eberts said
George put a shell in the gun
and pulled the trigger. The bullet
hit James A. Masters, q class
mate, in the heart.
The corner has not yet ruled,
but Sheriff Eberts said he con-
Isidered the shooting accidental.