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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-17

MOSCOW, Feb. II R.-com-
munist Party Boss Nikita
Khrushchev's assault on one
man rule is receiving loud sup
port from the Soviet hierarchy
as the goth Communist Party
Congress awaits an expected adj
dress today by Premier Nikolai
Bulganin discussing the new
lflve-year plan.
Echoing Mr.. Khrushchev's
keynote speech. Deputy Premier
Mikhail Suslov leveled an at
tack on the cult of zone leader"
lat yesterdays session.
First Deputy Premier Anastas
Mikoyan was also reported to
have blasted government by the
individual and extolled the mer-
its Of collective leadership. Mr.
IMikoyan's remarks were not re-
ported in any detail. however.
Mr.. Khrushchev had delivered
Ia strong blast against the per-
|sonality cult. Without naming
Stain, he declared Lenin's prin-
Iciple of collective leadership had
been violated up until a few
years. ago.
western newspaper COM
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-17
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-17
u. S. Reds Called
More Dangerous

BOSTON, Feb. II R.-FBI
Director J. Edgar Hoover was
quoted yesterday as saying Com
munists in the United States are
"far more dangerous" now than
In former years.
In one Of his rare interviews,
printed in the Pilot, weekly
newspaper of the Boston Catho-
lie Diocese. Mr.. Hoover said that
the number of card-carrying
Communists has decreased from
$4,000 to 10000. The interview
was given to the Rev. Finan Lam
caster, a Franciscan father.
But these 10000" he said,
"are the hard-core Communists,
men and women who devote
themselves unselfishly to the
cause and who are dedicated to
the proposition that the United
States Government must be
overthrow by force and vio-
lence."
Mr.. Hoover said today's Com
munists are more subtle in their
propaganda, particularly since
the Geneva Conference. And un-
happily many citizens are put
ting too much credence in the
Kremlin smiles.
IF these smiles Of the Com
munists are so sincere. tell me,
why do they use every oppor-
tunity they can to collect in
formation on every phase Of life
in the United States?"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-17

signed as General Services Ad-
ministrator. The testimony OF
the two men was under oath.
boom mittee Chairman
Brooks Democrat Of Texas, an
nounced at the close of the hear
ing that a subpoena had been
Issued for Mr.. Cremer's files. 1t
was made clear that this was to
forestall either GSA or the FBI,
which also investigated the pa
|pers. from getting them first.
Mr.. Brooks said efforts would
be made to get papers or micro
films Of papers from the two
Iagancies.
Representative Hardy, Demo-
cratof Virginia, added heatedly /:
Let the FBI and the Justice
Department jump in the lake;
well get what we want"
He had said earlier:
MY feeling is there is some
thing in these files somebody
wants to hide"
Mr.. Brooks said the subcom-
mittee had obtained some Of the
microfilm reproductions OF the
papers from GSA. But he said
GSA had also turned some over
to the Justice Department and
had said they could not give
copies of those to the subcom-
mittee.
Mr.. Cremer testified he called
on Mr.. Han twice when he was
trying to get the Nicaro expan-
sion contract for his company
He said he wanted to establish
that his company was the best
one for the job and was not
mixed up in politics.
Ultimately the contract was
given the Snare company and
Merritt Chapman q Scott. which
formed a joint venture known
as Snare-Merritt. They are
splitting the 81 million fee.
MIR. Mansure had testified that
ne accompanied Mr.. Cremer the
first time he called on Mr.. Hall.
Mr.. Cremer said this was not so:
that he had gone with a repre-
sentative from Pennsylvania.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-17

lion extension Of the plant at
Nicaro, Cuba.
Mr.. Cremer said discovery that
the papers were missing was
made after the General Services
Administration sent a man to
his Office to microfilm some of
his files. GSA oversees operation
of the plant and the expansion
Job for the Government.
Mr.. Cremer testified yesterday
at a hearing held by a Govern
ment Operations Subcommittee
which has been investigating the
Nicaro expansion.
Query on Hall Evaded +
There were mystifying state
ments at the hearing that some
Of the microfilms had been turned
over to the Justice Departments
Criminal Division. A GSA off,
cial, after comforting with coun-
sci, lodged a question whether
there was any reference in the
papers to Leonard Hall. chairman
Of the Republican National Com
mittee.
Mr.. Cremer said it was quite
likely" there was some reference
to Mr.. Hall in the papers. But
he also said there was nothing Of
q criminal nature in the papers
nothing I was afraid Of" He
said the papers in question we're
from his private files, addressed
chiefly to a friend and busi-
ness associate in Cuba. to whom
he had written frankly.
The testimony Of Mr.. CremerI
also contradicted on at least two
points earlier testimony by Ed
mund F. ManSure, who has re-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-17
Weeks Asks Easing
OF Transport Curbs

NEW YORK, Feb. II R.-
Secretary of Commerce Weeks
says present Federal regulatory
policies toward transporta ton
are mot properly adjusted TO
our traditional free enterprise
way Of doing business.
Mr.. Weeks. speaking before
the Traffic Club Of New York last
night, said:
IF the common carrier sys-
tenn is to stay modern and
financially healthy the inequities
In the regulatory policy viii
sooner or later have to be elm
"Self-interest and opposition
to change" he added, plays q
part in criticism of recommended
tons by the Presidents Advisory
Committee on Transport Policy
and ORGANIZATION.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-17
Dr.. BIumberq
Linked 10 Reds

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. II Up.
"A woman undercover agent for
the FBI in the Communist Party
In the District of Columbia yes
terday identified DR.. Albert
Blumberg, former faculty mem
Der at Johns Hopkins Univer-I
sity. as an active leader in party
committee meetings.
Mrs. Mary Markward, 40, of
Silver Spring. Md. told a Fed
eral jury trying DR.. Blumberg
for violation Of the Smith Act
that she had held a number OF
executive posts while serving in
the undercover role from 1913
to 1949. She said she was paid
$4,000 by the FBI during that
period.
At the same time, she said,
she was retained by the Com
munist Party as a paid func-
tionary. v
She testified she sold subscrip-
tions to party paper, solicited
new members, acted as an officer
Of the Northeast Club in the
District Of Columbia and served
for Q time as treasurer Of the
Communist political organiza-
ton.
In 1852, Mrs. Markward said,
she discontinued her activities
because Of LII health. But since
that time she has been a Gov
eminent witness in a number of
Communist prosecutions in New
York and Baltimore. She said
she also was a witness at the
Army Mccarthy hearings in
1854.
Michael Won Moschzisker,
counsel for DR.. Blumberg. at
tempted to serve a subpoena on
Deputy Attorney General David
Harris for all the reports made
by Mrs. Markward to the FBI.
Mr.. Harris declined to accept 1t
and MIR. Won Moschzisker then
announced 1t would be served on
Norman McCabe. FBI agents in
charge of the Philadelphia Office.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-17
Red Leaders Sound off
IAqoinst One-Mon Rule

mentators abroad felt that. de-
spite Mr.. Khrushchev's trum-
peting Of the collective princi-
pie. his overshadowing role be-
fore the congress showed him
to be a full-f1edged dictatorJ
The Soviet news agency Tass,
only agency allowed in the meet
ing room. quoted Mr.. Suslov as
saying that up until the last
congress in 1852, considerable
damage had been inflicted on the
party by practice Of the one
person cult.
Under this role" he declared.
"the masses and the party in
general were belittled and the
idea Of collective leadership
lowered.
Discipline Undermined
internal party discipline was
undermined and the independ-
Ience, activity and the initiative
|of individual party members
were suppressed. This led to lack
Iof control and lack Of RESPONSE
|bility and even arbitrariness Of
separate persons.
The principle of collective
leadership at all levels is now
being successfully revived" Mr..
|Suslow asserted. This is testi-
fed to by the increasingly grow
ing campaign Of criticism and
self-criticism and. indeed, by col
lective discussion and settling of
most important problems by par
ty organs.
ut may be said without the
least doubt that within the
party Central Committee the
principle Of collective leadership
hAA~ -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-17
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-17
Valentine Dunce

The Civilian Welfare Council
Of the Military District Of WASH
lington will hold a Valentine
dance at 10 o'clock tonight in.the
Madison Arms, 1920 G street
NV. Growing Of Miss Valen-
tine will highlight the affair.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-17

One responsibility of good
citizens is 70 vote. In order
to vote you must register.
Show Congress--and the Ma
ton - that Washingtonians
are good citizens. Register now
at the District Building and
vote In the election May I.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-17
Divorce Freed
In FutuI Shooting
OF Fishing Guide

BROCKvILLE. Ontario. Feb
III (R.-An attractive American
divorce was freed last night ir
the pistol death of q fishing
guide at her island lodge.
Mrs. Virginia Kicks. ~, four
time-married daughter of a for
mer Syracuse mayor. was &C.
quilted of manslaughter in the
death of George (Tommy,
Knapp. The 45-year-old guide
died Of bullet wounds December
80 at the lodge on Marlborough
Lake.
Defense counsel asserted tina,
Mrs. Kicks was beaten repeat
eddy by Knapp and feared him
She testified that she threat
'ened the man with a pistol and
that he was shot accidentally
as they struggled for the weapon
The prosecution asserted that
III Mrs. Kicks feared Knapp. she
and Francis Burns. a friend pres
ent at the time Of the shooting
could easily have subdued him
Mrs. Kicks still faces a civil
action brought on behalf OF the
dead mans estate and his IA
son. The writ seeks
$4,000 damages and $3.50 funer-
al expenses.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-17
Hunt for Missing Files
In GSA Inquiry Pushed
BY FRANCIS p. DOUGLAS

House investigating group was the trail today Of
papers missing the files of the of the
big expansion project at its nickel plant in Cuba
The papers question part of the personal files of
Randall Ceme vice president Of the Frederick Snare Corp
engineering concern project for the $4S mil
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-17
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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-01-26

says no concrete steps to carry
out the proposals will be made
at least for several weeks. He
says a transcript of the speeches
will be prepared from a tape re-
.cording.
David Soul, Silver Spring real.
tor, urged the creation of an
economic development board" to
draw plan for industrial and
commercial growth in the Coun-
ty. Many have held that by at
tracing industry and commerce
to the County some of the tax
burden would be eased off the
private home owner.
Another major suggestion
came from DR.. Homer Hoyt, au-
thor of Montgomery Prince
Georges economic survey" DR..
Hoyt urged the hiring of a paid
executive secretary to sell"
Montgomery County to business
es seeking a new location.
In cautioning the County not
to entice new businesses with
tax concessions, DR.. Hoyt said,
Industry that needs to be prop
ped up may not last"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-01-26
City Citizens
Control Tax,
Greene Says

Rockville Councilman Alexan-
der Greene, speaking to the Twin.
brook Citizens Association at
Parklawn Tuesday night, painted
a rosy picture of future taxation
in the city.
The point he stressed most was
that Rockville citizens, compared
with other County residents, have
more influence over their tax rate
and city expenditures.
At the annual city budget hear.
ings, citizens can determine what
their tax rate should be, what
Indebtedness should be incurred
and how the tax money should be
spent, Mr.. Greene said.
Since capital construction on a
pay-as-you-go basis is a large por
ton of the budget, citizens can
cut their tax rate by cutting
down on construction at any
time. If the need to cut the tax
rate is greater than the need for
capital expenditure, the city can
cut down without being forced to
payment for past con-
struction, which is not true else
where in the County he said.
Mr. Greene cited other factors
that could bring down the tax
rate for the city in the near flu.
ture. RockWlle's asessable base
for the IS cent tax rate on every
500 of evaluation is Is percent
lower than the County's.
When this is raised next year,
and if the amount budgeted re-
mains the same then the tax rate
Continued on page Y
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-01-26
Roads Group
Will Advise
City Bypass

Relief was promised this week
for Rockville's traffic problem
that has been threatening the
mayor and council since they
learned that the new Washing
ton National Pike would end
temporarily at the Route % in
terchange.
So serious was this threat of
pouring local and interstate traf-
fic through the city's main street
that the mayor and council APP
pealed to the governor in Deem
Der for a solution to the problem.
At Tuesday nights council
meeting, City Manager John
MARYLAND reported that the chief
engineer for the State Roads
Commission was now ready to
recommend to the commission
construction as soon as possible
of the next leg of the Pike to
the Montrose Road interchange
This will carry the traffic on
the National Pike past Rockville
and into Route 240 by way of
Montrose Road. The new leg is
estimated to cost 100000 and to
take six months to complete.
Rockville has already agreed to
the temporary closing of Monroe
Street, necessary for the exten-
sion to Montrose, if the State
Roads Commission will build a
bridge at this point at later
date.
The State Roads Commission
intends to seek Federal aid for
this bridge on the basis of 90
10 ratio of federal and state
money. The mayor and council
will ask that this ratio not be
made a condition for building
this project.
Mayor Dickran Hovsepian also
said that the city is still waiting
to hear from the commission on
Continued on page 81
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-01-26
Override Vetoed Bills
Asks Democrat Group

The Democratic State Central
Committee for Montgomery
County this week urged the coun-
tvs five Democratic Delegates
and one Democratic Senator in
the State Legislature to work
diligently" to override several
gubernatoriaI vetoes of bills pass
ed at the last session.
The legislature convenes in
Annapolis for a 30-day session
next Wednesday. BY law, vetoed
bills must be considered imme-
diately.
The county Democratic group
wants Governor McKeldin's veto
of the school incentive bill" over
ridden. At present the State pays
each county $40 per school pupil
minus a percentage of the coun-
TVS assessable tax base. The
vetoed bill would increase the per-
pupil payment to $40 and base
the payment entirely on enroll
ment. Some legislators charge
that the present incentive" plan
favors poor counties"
The central committee has
also asked the county delegation
to work for an override of the
governors veto on several bills
recognizing the Maryland-Na-
tional Capital Park and Plan
ming Commission.
Major changes squelched by the
governor would have extended
the jurisdiction of the planning
group to cover the entire county
and would have replaced the gov
ernor-appointed members with
locally-named officials.
In urging the veto override,
the central committee reminded
Democrats that they had run on
a platform pledged to eliminating
"the confusing presence" of two
separate planning groups. The
rural section of the county is
under the jurisdiction of the
Upper Montgomery County Plan
ming Commission.
The Park and Planning Com
mission has filed suit seeking to
halt the legislature from consider
ing the vetoed bills. The planning
unit holds that the reorganiza-
ton would Impair its corporate
status. Both the Circuit Court
and the State Court of Appeals
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-01-26

Also to be considered at the
February IA hearing is the re-
peal of a temporary coming
ordinance passed by a lame
duck County Council November
4, 1854. The temporary measure
has never been allowed to take
effect. 1t would zone most of
the rural up.county area for ten
acre lots.
Councilmen Stella Werner and
]. G. Walker alone opposed the
UMCPC-recommended ordinance.
A move by Mr.. Walker during a
three.hour council session Mon
day night to substitute the zon-
ing plan of consultant Irving c.
Root was beaten down.
Mr.. Root was hired by the
county at $50 per day to draft
zoning ordinance and map. His
recommendation that much of
the up-county be zoned for two
and five-acre lots was rejected
by the Planning Commission.
The commission adopted instead
the small-lot proposal of Charles
Jamison, County Council repre-
sentative on the planning unit.
Mr.. Walkers proposal Monday
night that the Root plan be made
available to the council and the
public touched off an angry out
burst of shouting and fist-pound-
ing. Mr.. Walkers first sugges-
ton that the council study the
Root proposals before voting to
accept the Planning Commission
recommendations was defeated
by a AZ vote with Mrs. Werner
joining him in the minority and
Grover Walker not voting.
J. G. Walker asked, Are you
willing to go on record as voting
for a coming ordinance, ignorant
of an experts recommendations"
Council President Robert Snure
replied, There are copies of
Roots recommendation avail
able If you wish to see them"
]. G. Walker, pounding his
desk shouted, stop beating
around the bush and order that
the County Manager provide this
council with the Root report that
the taxpayers paid for Finally
the council voted so to so order
Manager M. l.. Reese. Council
man Wilbur Baughman and
Jerry Williams didn't vote, stat
ing they didn't want to see the
Root proposals.
When the manager distributed
the Root plans Tuesday, Mr.. VIII
Continued on page 81
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-01-26
Trade Board
Greets NeW
Area Industry

The Rockville Board of Trade
at its luncheon meeting Tuesday
at the Presbyterian Church heard
Mr.. Julian Ray of Washington
Neurological Associates tell of
the firms building plans in Rock
vile and something of the work it
performs. His description of the
various projects was illustrated
with drawings and blown.up
photos.
Most of the work of VITA is
classified since it is being done
on armed forces contract but
Mr.. Ray was table to tell of
Project Grasshopper, a method
and device developed by VITA
for loading Navy ships with
guided missiles at dockside or
while at sea.
The firm numbers about Is
technical people now and plans
are being laid for a force of 20
or more within the year when
they expect TO be in their new
building on Rockville Pike on the
p. ]. Nee tract. Ground has been
broken for new quarters.
Trade Board president John
Siam welcomed the new neigh
bors to Rockville and expressed
pleasure that another light in
CONTINUED on Page 81
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-01-26

This describes in general our
forgotten man. but we must re.
member that not all unemployed
are forgotten. In 1865. the State
Department of Employment
Security in Montgomery County
paid out S99 1873 in regular claims,
S9,69l. veterans claims; and 49,.
1888, federal employees claims.
under the Maryland unemploy.
mcnt compensation law.
Additional statistics. rejecting
the prosperity that may be the
cause of our forgetfulness OF the
EUs, are that in 1855, 1884 en-
ployers contributed 10 the unem.
ployment compensation fund for
10000 covered employees. In the
same period, these employers
Continued on page 81
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-01-26
COunty's Forgotten Men
BY Dorothy b. WaIeski
Staff Reporter

Who is the forgotten man in
this rapidly developing prosper
Gus Montgomery County, wealth..
est in the country with the
highest per capita income?
There is a fancy technical name
for this man. In the parlance Of
the social agency, he is known as
the Unemployed Employable,
which simply means that while
able to work he is temporarily
out Of a job.
Statistically he is very unim-
pressive; although for every for.
gotten man, there is usually an
equally forgotten family waiting
at home for him.
In the matter of time, he
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-01-26
Cabin John
Sewer Line
Wins Okay

Rockville's future expansion of
commercial and industrial land
along the Rockville Pike was I'M
derwritten Tuesday night when
the mayor and council signed the
contract with the Washington SUI
burban Sanitary Commission for
the Cabin John trunk sewer line.
Negotiations for this sewer line
which will service the entire Ca
bin John and Watts Branch drain.
age basins, for the most part un-
developed, were begun by the pre-
vious mayor and council and com
mission in March, 1854.
A large part of the delay was
caused by the commission lack
ing the power to ENTER into a
contract with municipality. The
bill giving WSSC this power was
passed in the last legislative SEES
sion and signed by the governor
in May Discussions on the pres.
ent contract were begun last
June.
AS soon as tie contract has
been signed by the sanitary com
mission and approved by the
State Health Department, work
can begin Immediately on the
construction of an 18-inch trunk
line from the city limits to the
WSSC boundary just north of
Montrose Road at Cabin John
Creek
From that point to the junction
of Booze and Cabin John creeks,
the Sanitary Commission will con-
tinue with a 80 or Sc inch line of
which Rockville will pay the pro-
portionate cost of an 18-inch line.
Rockville's share, estimated at
1000, of the total cost has been
available since May %, 1854. The.
sanitary commissions share is
estimated at $299,000.
Terms of the contract include
an annual payment by the city
of the actual cost of handling
the sewerage; a pro-rata share
of the commissions obligations
to the District of Columbia on
annual charges and future con-
struction; and a proportionate
share of all future commission
construction that will carry Rock
vile sewerage. Sharing of costs
will be on the net cost after APP
plication of Federal grant-in-aid.
Comments from the mayor and
council, unanimous in their APP
proVal of the contract, showed
that they consider it a favorable
agreement. Although it does not
give them everything they want
ed, they feel that it is a workable
compromise and a better answer
to the problem than a city dis.
posal plant.