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Tough Decision:
Se0ton Gets 1t

For seven weeks. President Eisen-
hover delayed a decision that was
politically and personally difficult
for him to make. Last week he
made that decision when he APP
pointed Frederick Andrew Seaton
Secretary of the Interior to sue
coed Douglas Mckay. resigned.
Mr.. Eisenhower could have needed
the advice of Mr.. Mckay and more
than dozen influential Republican
Senator's and named Acting Secre-
tary Clarence Davis, who is closely
identified with the Mckay policies
policies which, to Democrat,
carry the adjective "giveaway" as
tag. Or he could go outside the
department and come up with a
nominee that would offend neither
Republicans nor Democrats.
He chose the latter course.
The President must have weighed
carefully the advantages and the
disadvantages. He would be damned
If he didn't. and damned if he did.
A decision in favor of Mr.. Davis.
who earnestly desired the post,
would have set up a howl among
the Democrats. They would have
felt In a position to make political
hay Of their "giveaway" charges.
which had been at least partially
sterilized by the bipartisan support
the vetoed natural gas bill received.
These charges might have hurt the
election chances of Mr.. Mckay.
who is running for the Oregon
Senate seat OF Democrat WAYNE
Morse. Senator Morse has made Mr..
Mckay's administration of the Ma
tons resources the big issue in
oregon. The defeat of Senator
Morse, erstwhile Republican. has
become sort of Golden Fleece for
the Republicans and Mr.. Eisen-
hover. who finds the Oregon Sem
ator the least desirable man to have
around Washington.
But to choose an Interior Sec
rotary who could never be made
to wear either a "giveaway" tag
or a socialist" label presented
something Of a problem. too. SEN
ator Morse and the Democrats
would interpret such a choice as
reputation Of the Mckay poll
cies, and this Interpretation would
be carefully explained to Oregon
voters. Mr.. Mckay himself Is re-
ported to have cautioned Mr.. Ell
senhower that II someone other
than Mr.. Davis was named it would
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Strange Status CompIcotes Algeria Crisis

1947, which set up a new admins
trative system in Algeria providing
that the House of Representatives
there would consist half of the ma
tive Algerians and half Of French
colonists. In addition, there are
80 Delegates from Algeria to the
French National Assembly, half Of
them Moslems, the other half colo
nists.
Perhaps the theory Of ian integral
part Of Metropolitan France" would
not today be complicating the woes
OF the French and Algerians alike
II Algeria, before the French con-
quest Of 1880. had had q traditional
and stable national existence in the
same sense as had Morocco and
Tunisia. Nominally q part Of the
far-fiung Ottoman Empire, Algeria
for centuries had been ruled by a
quarreling parade Of feudal sheikhs,
mountain tribal chiefs, and slave
traders operating through her
Mediterranean ports. There did ex-
AoN "a 1ABCA AuAA oguVC OIL uCJuIC pTG-
sided over by an hereditary "Dey,"
but his power over his unruly sub
jects" was something less than alb
solute. Thus the French, in forcing
the Dey's surrender of the Casbah
fortress and other strong points
near Algiers. faced no unified oppo-
sition to their occupation Of the
northern part Of the region.
Algeria is roughly four times as
large as European France. Its
population is nearly 10 million,
most Of whom live in the fertile
coastal plain. Four-fifths Of the
total are Moslems. mostly Arabs
and Berbers. There are about l
million Europeans, mainly French
with a few Italians and Spanish.
French Benefit Most
But French rule, not surprisingly,
has seemed to be Of greatest adj
vantage TO the French rather than
the natives. France has. in the
course Of years. introduced many
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on basis mutually acceptable" to
Israel and the Arab states. This.
said Arab spokesman. meant Arab
Israeli negotiations, which the
Arabs resist. The Arab bloc, led
by Ahmed Shukairy of Syria, de-
mand that Mr.. Hammarskjold's eff
forts be confined to the terms of
the armistice agreement. BY this
they mean the 1947 Palestine parti-
ton resolution, adopted by the
United Nations before Israel pushed
the Arabs back to the present truce
lines by force of arms. The U. N.
later endorsed the present armistice
borders, however, and it is this
U. N. action which Israel demands
be used as a basis for permanent
peace. The 1947 territorial allot-
ment would deprive Israel of 40 per
cent of its land.
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Peace at Pentogon

The battle of the Pentagon quiet
ed somewhat last week as defense
chieftains of the highest level gave
the Army's Nike anti-aircraft de-
Tense missile unqualified backing.
Their Endorsement pushed the
Army Air Force feud into the back
ground. Not only did the officials
praise Nike I, the present weapon,
but they described it's successor,
Nike B, as phenomenal destroyer
of hostile aircraft.
The high rank of the indorsers
served for the moment to soothe
the ruff1ed feelings of the two serv-
ices in their basic mission contro-
versy-which will. do what and
with what-for the Nations de-
Tense. But few observers expect the
fight to be over and settled any
time soon.
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THE NATIONAL SCENE
Wide> Fast and Safe

Congress last week paved the
way for the most ambitious road
building program since Claudius
Caecus laid down the Appian Way
% centuries ago.
Tuesday night the Senate APP
proved pay-as-you-ride bill that
eventually will provide a nation
on wheels with $37,23O, $3.50 ,666
worth of new and improved high
ways. With the Federal Govern
ment paying $29.864, 100000 of the
cost and the States 1896, $3.50, 666,
the grand plan will start the big
gest public works project in the
Nations history. Easily reconcile
able details remain to be resolved
by a Senate House conference
committee. !,
Most Of the money, $24, 925, 000,-
600. win be earmarked for a 42,500-
mile network Of high-speed inter-
state thoroughfares connecting AZ
State capitals and 209 of the 237
cities where more than $4,000 per-
sons live (see map this page). For
the work on the national network
Uncle Sam will pay 80 per cent of
the cost, the States 10 per cent.
The bill as it now stands also
would expand the regular Federal
aid highway program by 81 billion
in the next five years. authorizing
$4.5 billion to be matched dollar
for dollar by the States. Appro-
priations of $439 million over the
next four years are authorized for
an expanded program of road
building in national parks and
forests.
The Cost: Higher Toxes
The highway user, which these
days means everybody, will pay the
bill in higher taxes. Gasoline and
diesel fuel taxes will jump from 2
cents gallon to cents; tire taxes
will go up cents to cents
pound; there will be new levy of
3 cents a pound on heavy retread
rubber, and the tax on trucks, buses
and trailers will rise 2 per cent to
10 per cent. In addition there will
be special tax Of $3.50 per 1000
pounds on all vehicles over $4,000
pounds. The 16-year period over
which these taxes will be levied will
produce an estimated SASS. 000. 900
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rails, trucks and highway signs.
And these new demands on indus
try will open up half million jobs
not now existing.
For the motor carrier industry.
which now operates more than
million of the 10 million trucks that
are registered in the Nation, there
will be a saving of $1,450 ,000, 900
annually in labor, gas, tire and
brake economy, insurance premi-
umS and traffic delays. Reduced
transportation costs should mean,
in turn. reduced costs of consumer
items.
Now Up to Stotes
These; great benefits we will not
realize tomorrow, of course. 1t will
take time. State participation is
part of the bargain. Without it
there will be no new program. It
would be well to remember in this
regard that the freer spenders are
at the Federal level of government.
State lawmakers are becoming in
creasingly leery of voting new
taxes to pay for roads. Only this
year. New York's State Legislature
turned thumbs down on a tax in
crease on gasoline. At the be-
ginning Of the current fiscal year,
almost $500 million Of available
Federal-aid money had not been
matched. This meant that about
SIG billion worth of roads were not
built in 1855 which might have been.
Thus at this point, the promise
that we may safely take our fami-
lies upon the road on Sundays, that
we will survive our vacation trips,
that we can save some of the 10
cents of the family budget dollar
that is now spent on the car, de-
ponds to a great degree on fulfill
ment in the 48 State capitols.
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Cyprus Still Tense

Britain's troubles on the strife
torn island Of Cyprus continued last
week. with q Tightening Of efforts
Of British security forces to head
of further bloody rioting between
Cypriots Of Greek and Turkish des-
cent. In Athens the Greek Foreign
Minister, Syros Theotokis, resigned
under fire from critics who chal-
lenged his moderate" policy on the
Cyprus question. And in the far-off
Indian Ocean the wreck Of
schooner with the loss of most of
her crew revealed reported adj
venturous plot to rescue exiled Cyp-
riot Archbishop Makarios. now So
journing on the lonely Seychelles
Islands as guest of the British.
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BY FRED THEROUx

The North African troubles pla-
guing France almost continuously
since the end of World War II
seemed more worrisome than ever
last week as the National Assembly
prepared for a full-dress parlia-
mentary debate on the Algerian
crisis.
To France, the Algerian situation
is far more serious than the Moroc-
can and Tunisian nationalist de-
velopments Of the past few years.
French pride, French honor, French
prestige are. in the minds of the
Legislators Of the old persuasion,
inextricably enmeshed with the
Algerian question.
Although the Algerian national
list unrest is exactly comparable to
that in the other French territories
in North Africa in that it exhibits
the same resentment toward coloni-
alism and paternalism that has
been shattering empires and phi
losophies all over the world, there
remains in Algeria a difference, q
legalism unconvincing to the ma
tionalists but Of overwhelming inn
portance to patriotic Frenchmen:
The four northern departments of
Algeria form an integral part Of
Metropolitan France.
Declarations From Poris
This situation. unique in the his
tory Of colonialism. arose in l84s,
IA years after the conquest Of Al
eeria by French troops, when
France decreed Algeria to be "an
integral part Of France" This basic
premise, enlarged and supplemented
by a series Of subsequent pro-
nouncements (all of them, the ma
tionalists point out, originating in
Paris without or with negligible Al
gerian participation eliminated In
the law Of May Z, 1916 which de-
clared Algerians 10 be French citi-
zens. and In that Of September 20,
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From Moscow:
r. S. V. P.

Probably the greatest stir in the
Capital last week was occasioned
by the delivery of a formal Soviet
invitation to Air Force Chief of
Staff Gen. Nathan F. Twining to
attend the observance of Soviet
Aviation Day in Moscow on June "a.
The Russian bid had been tele-
phoned informally to one of Gen.
winnings aides at the Pentagon
the previous Thursday. 1t produced
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Soviet Reversal

The Soviet Union, in an apparent
reversal Of its position announced
in London during the Bulganin-
Khrushchev visit, backed Arab
objections to a British resolution
calling on U. N. Secretary General
Dag Hammarskjold to continue his
peace efforts in Palestine. The
Russian stand forced the Security
Council to adjourn debate on the
issue.
Arab objections to the British
proposal centered on language call
ing for solution of the Israel crisis
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-30

still agile in ascending the highest rocks and there
have been children young who grapple with
the less rugged slopes under careful supervision.
Babies sometimes carried papooSe style as
parents walk through the woods and mountain
trails to reach the cliffs. Fathers frequently look
after these youngsters while the mothers take their
turn the rocks.
Dangling at the climbers belts pitons
spikes that are hammered into crevices to provide
graSpng points. The climbers also carry karabiners
S-inch-long aluminium links that snapped into
the pitons and around their nylon ropes Slung
across their shoulders knapsacks bullying with
picnic lunches and canteens
I'VE are often asked about the danger of our
hobby" reports Miss Showacre, who lives at 47O3
Ravenswood road Riverdale, Md. For climbers
who know what they're doing, there's really very
little We've had only one serious injury through
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Art and Science on the Rocks
By EMILY TOwE

WTASHINGTONS rock climbers,
w who inch their way up per-
pendicular stone faces as high as
100 feet, object strenuouSly to being
called "daredevils" or "foolhardy
thrill seekers"
Rock climbing is careful science.
an art that requires knowledge and
training" explains Miss Jane Show
acre, chairman of the Mountaineer-
ing Committee of the Potomac Appa-
lachian Trail Club, the only organ
lied climbing group in the Capital
area
Members of this organization
devote every Sunday that weather
permits to scaling lofty heights, pro-
tected only by sturdy nylon ropes
and the skill of their climbing mates.
Il guess it takes some courage to
climb rocks" says Miss Showacre, a
slight, Soft-voiced scientist at the
National Institutes of Health. But
courage is different from foolhardi-
ness. We have many safety precau-
tons, and we see to 1t that noviceS
are thoroughly protected before we
let them try difficult climbs"
For the last is years, the group
has been making regular visits to
Carderock. Herzog Island and Sugar
loaf Mountain in Maryland, and to
Bull Run, Great Falls and Echo Cliffs
in Virginia. Frequently, they go for
week ends to more distant mountains.
While total of $50 persons par
ticipated during the past year on
these outings, the average group in
summer ranges from 80 to so. There
are members in their Cos who are
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the years-a broken heel Of course there've been
occasional minor mshaps like skinned knees or
elbows"
She adds that this is a sport requiring team
work and cooperation The participant is not
competing against other climbers or the rocks-he
is trying to solve problem with skill and fneSse
The reward, she explains, is development of good
technique because climbing is considered delicate
art when the correct method has been mastered
Many of the group are Government scientists and
their families. and frequently European mountain
climbers join the outings.
THE rope is our most essential tool" Miss
Showacre says. while we do no climbing without
that rope, we don't pull ourselves up on it. The
challenge is to climb much as possible with our
hands and feet, depending on the rope tied around
the waist only in case of fall. Climbers usually
CONTINUED
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WILKINS oUERIED BY
FOREIGN REPORTERS

New York. - While President
Eisenhower desires TO "go in the
right direction" he has not used
TO its full extent the influence and
prestige OF his office TO meet the
issue Of school degeneration in
the South, Roy wilkins, NAACP
executive secretary, said in a ra-
dio interview here on April A.
Speaking on the program, I'm
ternational Interview" in which he
was questioned by three foreign
correspondents over New York
radio Station wNYC, Mr.. Will
kins said that the President has
thus far failed TO exert his full in
fluence to b ring about a positive
public opinion in support Of the
United States Supreme Court rul-
ings banning racial segregation in
Public schools.
However, the NAACP leader
said, "Mr. Eisenhower is doing as
well as any other occupant Of the
White House would have done,
whether Republican or Democrat,
except perhaps for Harry S. Tru-
man. 1 think that Mr.. Truman
would have been much more forth
right and direct in this matter"
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enjoyed year believe any little cub
tell how organization committee
chairman Lester searching
adult workers. to take care of Increased enroIments
pack is for den mothers It's Job with
plenty Of work and plenty of fun! would like help
AND BUY TICKET to scout-oF,ama it will help the
Scouts and the ce to be held at the St Paul Auditor
um on Friday and Saturday April q and Is
wonderful organization
READING a communication from Senator Ed
Thye in Washington about among things the annual
Cherry now in fun swing it brought back memories
Of the Nations Capital in the and out of the
window at the falling
WHATS NEW CHS radio win feature Ella Fz
gerald Nell Rankin of the Metropolitan Opera popular
tone Steve Lawrence on Sunday April IS
WAS PERSUADED by his mother with
spanking to sing his first solo will be competitors the
grand prize Your Reserved Table Friday April
81 He Robert l. Cox J outstanding young vocalist who topped
contestants the WCCo-TV show Friday March
and the proudest listeners his wife and Robin his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs Robert L. Cox, ST.
ON THE SAME PROGRAM soprano Cook
ALSO APPEARING FINALS is the popular singing
mailman Jimmy Murray. The Tv show April 2l
want to miss!
unusually pair of earrings on
Mary Kay Murray pair of dancing banernas!
TO BE REALLY PREPARED day. Tuesday April
attend the KNOW YOUR CANDIDATES" meeting to be held on
Wednesday April Fellowship Pilgrim Baptist
The Limited Ten Club this public meeting
Hed all candidates city opportunity
to the candidates
they stand issues vital to city and community!
SEND GET WELL WISHES o Mrs L. who is
patient at St Josephs hospital James Hudson
Mrs William Mingan at AnoSer hospital
FLOYD JR pastor Of Pilgrim Baptist church. re-
turned from Chicago meeting
executive board Of the National Baptist Convention
frsthand the Montgomery which
the lips father King Jr
pastors church Atlanta Donations the
country sn being sent to the Montgomery Improvement
ISOLATION 1t is not TOO LATE TO HELP!
at Northrlp field when the
University Minnesota Northwestern this month
Lee.
MEMBERSHIP APPEALS are now being made for the Red
Feather the Halle Q Cpus Attacks
Join both and help the youth and the aged they both need us
AT sCmFFs SHOES. s7s wabasha our tavorte stocking
soady Chick has attractive seamless hosiery the
nattertng Red Fox shade
BIRTHDAY to our good friend, Smith,
ministraive secretary o Urban League
down
ng civic meeting held at their club last Tuesday when
Commissioner guest speaker We
play facilities for community promised
CONTACT YOUR SPOTLIGHT EDITOR at CA s-2ss2 6
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Chuck Berry Bond
To Play Az Norway
Hull On April 10

Chuck Berry and Willie Dixon's
orchestra win play at a April 10
dance at the Norway Hall, 1902
Chicago Ave, Mpls
ID. 2. Black presents this Chess
Record star In his first Twin City
appearance, Chuck Berry jumped
into the spot light two years ago
with his recording Of "Maybel-
line" His recordings OF go Days
Together and Wee Wee Hours"
are gaining In popularity.
This young guitarist is Great
ing a sensation In his first cross
country tour.
Tickets ON sale at Melodee Re-
cord Shop. Minneapolis and the
Square Deal Liquor Store In st.
Paul at $3.50
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1956-04-13
Bill SuYIes Joins
Midway-Ford
SuIes Force

William "Bin' sayies, 9O6 Full
Ter. has joined the Midway Ford
sales force as full time salesman.
Mr. sayles Is a veteran Of World
War II. navy aircraft mechanic at
tached 10 Night task force In PEN
sacola. Florida.
He is member OF ST. Paul Jay
Gees. Pilgrim Baptist Church Is
married and has four children.
Billie" as he Is known 10 his
many friends has been employed
at Midway Ford the past ten years
and has broad experience in the
automobile business. according 10
Harold siawik, owner Of Midway
Ford Company
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showed excellent stage presence
with a tougher part than many
heroineB have.
Robert Patterson, gave a good
performance as Adam, the father.
His big scene In which he pulls
himself from his invahds chair,
crawis across the floor with a re-
volver In an attempt TO save his
daughter-ln-law from attack by
his wastrel son Larry was a fine
piece Of acting, made more real
10 those In the audience. who
knew Robert. Is actually crippled
from an early bout with polio.
Robert had 30 do most Of his
emoting with his facial muscles
exclusively and he made the audi
ence feel with him the impotence
and hopelossness Of a man who
could neither speak or Hft a fin
ger.
Lewis Whitlock was DR.. Paul
Westcott, the real father by adj
mission 10 her invalid husband
by Alveda Briggs. Of her second
son Larry. In his brief appear
ance he carried off the role OF the
family doctor with apIomb.
Acting honors in the play went
in our opinion, TO Loretta Ellis and
Bert Wade. the latter. who by the
way. never seems 10 give a poor
performance. His relaxed stage
presence and poise his reading OF
his lines, an excellent sense Of
timing, stamp him as one Of the
best young little theatre actors
we've ever seen In these parts.
Loretta Ellis, had real heavy |
heavy" part. A. a female villain |
she excited pity, disgust, hatred |
and some laughter IN the audience
and she played the part to the hllt.
Her deft handling OF the change In
mood OF a mentally upset woman
was a fine bit OF acting.
Alvin ID. Chamblee, easily the
most talented individual 10 live In
he Twin Cities In many years Is
an accomplished singer. Play
writing we imagine is only a sec
md love, but his first production,
he musical comedy, Front Boy"
which he wrote and produced four
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Who's Who
Who's New
Where's To Go
Wbos's To Do
ct. Paul

~ MILDRED JORDAN

THE SOCIAL HOUR AT MAxFTEID PTA MEETING Mon
day April D. was envened by featuring L
Ben Zachary William graduates
Aaxhed Elementary school Miss
and accompanied Bob and Ben the
with variety nunbera william Knott senr
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was a little sheet. It has grown
some since those days"
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WheatIey Players
Score Again In
Chamblee Play

Super-talented Alvin d.
Chamblee and the Phyllis
Wheatley Experimental Play
ers did II again The two night
stage run Of "The Other
Cheek, " Saturday and Sunday,
April 6 and Z was a memorable
experience 10 those who saw
the performance.
The drama-paolted play, written
and directed by Mr.. chamblee, was
filled with the tragedy Of 4 psy-
chotic mother who almost destroy
ed herself and her whole family,
pulling II down 10 death and dis
aster by evil connivance. gossip
and innuendo.
Loretta Ellis, as the mother. Al
veda Briggs, who creates havoc
with her own family did a tre-
mendous Job with a difficult part
Sunday night when we saw the
production She had us, oynle a.
we claim 10 be. sitting there
loathing, despising and hating her
as she stirred up the passions OF
hatred and distrust between her
two sons, Larry. played by Bert
Wade, and Cain. portrayed by BIN
Fraction.
She did her evil work in fun
view Of her Invalid husband, Adam
who could not move or speak. but
had 70 sit quietly MS his evil wife
spun web designed 10 ruin
Cain. the son she loathed. but
who was the favorito OF her Grip
Piled husband.
The role OF Marguerite, the |
wife Of Cain. a returned mission
airy, was given a very satisfactory |
treatment by Wilma Naves. who |