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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-12
ToImodge: Trouble for Democrats

double the Democratic Party's
extremist bloc in the South.
The other half would be, Of
course, Senator James G.
Eastland of Mississippi, whose
name is so often on the lips
of Republican cSmpaignerS
these days as a scsre-word to
drive Negroes in cloSely-con-
tested urban areas in the North
away from the Democratic
Party and into the Republican
Party. The addition of the
Talmadge name would make a
real bugaboo for Republican
campaign purposes. The vul-
nerability for the Democrats
embodied in Senator Eastland
was multiplied recently when.
through operation of the SEMI
ority rule, he became chair
man of the Senate Judiciary
Committee which has jurisdic-
ton over civil rights leg;sla-
ton.
The measure of Herman Tai
madges power as a champion
of white supremacy" was seen
when Senator George. who
never has capitalized uponSthe
race issue. was induced to sign
the so-called Southern mani
festo' against the Supreme
Courts public school integra-
ton decision a few weeks ago
when it became plain that
Herman Talmadge was a really
dangerous threat to his con-
tinuance in the Senate This
was completely out of charac-
ter for Senator George.
Some Southern party lead
erS are trying to console them
selves by nursing the possibility
that Herman Talmadge might
change" when he comes to
the Senate and seek other
issues, leaving the demagoging
on the racial issue to Senator
Eastland. He is, they argue to
themselves, an intelligent and
able political leader and. If he
directed his recognized talents
into other channels, be could
establish a different sort of
reputation for himself on the
national stage here.
Maybe so. But it seems a
slim hope, in view of his career
up to now and of the state
ment he issued announcing his
candidacy for Senator Georges
Senate scat.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-12
THOMAS L. STOKES

National Democratic Party
leaders are disturbed over the
prospect OF having Herman
Talmadge, white supremacy
crusader, as successor to Sen
ator Walter F. George of
Georgia, who has withdrawn
as a candidate for reelection
and will retire next January.
Apprehension about the
probable entry of the highly
controversial former Georgia
Governor onto the national
stage, where he would be a
constant exhibit of the party,
was a companion reaction to
the very deep and sincere re-
gret among Republicans as
well as Democrats over the
coming retirement of the dis
tinguished and highly re-
spected Senator George.
Among some Democrats, the
looming figure of Herman
Talmadge caused almost a
shudder.
The prospective exchange,
or rather the notice of it, was
badly timed for peace of mind
among Democrats. Party lead
ers. North as we'll as South,
had been feeling much en-
couraeed over two very recent
blows dealt at racist eXtremism
in the South.
One was the resoundlng
defeat administered by two
powerful Texas Democratic
political leaders-Speaker of
the House Sam Rayburn and
Senate Leader Lyndon B.
Johnson-to Gov. Allan Shivers
of Texas. In his desperation,
Gov. Shivers had tried to ex-
plot racial prejudice in his
effort to win election as chair
man of the Texas delegation
to the Democratic National
Convention in Chicago in Aug
ust. a position of influence he
sought, even though four years
ago he had bolted the Demo-
cratic Party and gone over to
Gen. Eisenhower. The people
of Texas rose up and smote
him.
The other rebuke to extrem-
ism was delivered in Florida,
where Gov. Leroy Collins won
denomination, an t a mou t
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-12
Austria Will Hold
Election Tomorrow

VIENNA, May IL (P.-Aus-
trian Communists today stepped
up their last-minute propaganda
for tomorrow's national elections
with claims that the Iron Cur
tain on Red Hungary'S border
is melting.
But Austrian border police and
reporters who toured the from
tier found no evidence of a prom
Used dismantling of the deadly
minefields and barbed wire traps.
Meanwhile. the election cam
paign moved to calm close.
Chancellor Julius Raab's Con-
sentative Peoples tCatholic)
Party and Vice Chancellor Adolf
Schaerf's Socialists which ran
neck and-neck in February, 1858
are expected to win again ano
form a new coalition.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-12

obviously we are not a chari-
table institution" the Herald
Tribune quoted a spokesman for
of the 20-odd banks contributing
to the auto makers line of credit,
but if it comes right down to
the wire. we'd probably be bet
ter off letting them work out
the best kind of deal they can"
Several other bankers con-
cerned echoed similar senti-
ments," the Herald Tribune
story continued, land thus served
to Bolster Wall Street conviction
that the company's Finance
Committee was on the verge of
closing a refinancing deal that
would ultimately clear the way
for acquisition by Curtiss-
Wright"
Aid Question Unsettled
What, if anything, was COM
ing Studebaker-P ackard's way
in the form of governmental
aid in defense contracts was as
much an unsettled question at
the start of the week end as
was the financial and merger
angles of the case. 1t was known
that Indiana members of Con-
greSs were after the Pentagon
to give Studebaker-Packard a
big truck order TO keep its work.
ers busy. but the success Of
their efforts was not known here.
on the merger rumor front,
denials by both Mr.. Nance and
Roy Hurley. president of Crutiss-
Wright. that there was anything
going on were taken with a grain
salt in Wall Street. On this
'oint the Herald Tribune said:
The prime focus Of discus
sion centered on how the COM
panies would work out whatever
kind OF amalgam they have in
mind. Several Wall streeters
close to the situation suggested
that Curtiss- Wright might pick
up all Offering Of Studebaker-
Packard convertible debentures.
and thus help ease its immediate
financial needs. but this could
not be confirmed"
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YugosIov Marshal Called Key Figure
In New Worldwide KremIin Drive

ing, according to these officials,
by harping on that old story.
But if an exchange of visits
with the present dictators,
and catering to their vanity,
could increase the chances of
peace we should do so, the
officials say.
Our diplomats appraise Tito
as a politician-mercenary try
ing to get as many dollars and
ruhles as possible from both
conflicting camps and at the
same time keeping himself
free to jump wherever may
serve his best interest.
Others in Washington. par
ticularly those with military
responsibilities. take exception
to this appraisal. They admit
that Tito is a shrewd horse
trader. But at the same time
they regard him as a key figure
in the new Kremlin drive for
establishment of a Fifth In
ternationale." This is to in
clude the socialists all over the
world as we'll as the left-wing
groups N the European So
cialist parties in a new popular
front of worldwide dimen-
SionS.
Tito is regarded as one of
the advisers of the Bulganin-
Khrushchev team and knows
his value to Moscow. 1t is re-
portedly he who urged the
Kremlin to give more rope to
its European satellite coun-
tries. That he was listened to
is demonstrated by the recent
"acts of clemency" in Poland,
CzechoSlovakia. Hungary. Ro-
mania and Bulgaria.
1t also was Tito who induced
his fellow Communists to toll
crate to some degree freedom
of public expression provided
it does not err on the capital
ist side" Self criticism, as ex-
ercized these days in the coun-
tries behind the Iron Curtain
and Yugoslavia. is helpful in
throwing dust in the eyes of
WeSternerS and also in
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gasoline used in setting fires.
Fifteen persons were injured,
nine seriously. Eighteen were
arrested.
A 15-day-old walkout of rail-
way hands in Rio Grande do Sui
state ended with promise from
the state-owned railway system
to pay wages covering the strike
period and to study demands
for wage increases. The strike
had held up $4,000 tons of food
stuffs for Brazilian cities.
In the industrial city of Sac
Paulo, extra guards were put on
streetcars and buses after the
fares were raised TO help cover
the cost of wage increases.
Employees of the city-owned
Transportation company had
called a 24-hour strike ending
last midnight to underscore de-
mands for a 40 per cent wage
increase. Transportation facili-
ties remained at 80 per cent Of
normal today and there were
fears general tieup might occur.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-12
NEWS OF LITERATURE
Muirs Talk on Life
And Works of Kofko

length upon four aspects of his
great genius; his literary style;
his anxiety and overwhelming
sense of fear. confinement and
withdrawal; his passion for per-
lection and the antiquities that
attend the recreation of all ex-
Itremely complex states of mind;
and his reaction to heaven and
the law of righteousness.
Style Limpid and Precise
His style is limpid and flow
ing, very clear and almost
uniquely precise, although the
language is simple and the vo-
cabulary not unusually large.
Although the hunting dogs are
playing in the courtyard, the
hare now escaping in the forest
will in the end be caught"
The Muirs mentioned that
with Kafka effects are usually
achieved by perfectly timed story
telling, that Kafka is a master
narrator-a fact that is both true
and often overlooked. They
made much of the tremendous
effect on his character of his
domineering and extroverted
father, saying that the situation
from which came THE Meta
morphosis" was Kafka's shrink
ing under his fathers invective.
While this is undoubtedly true.
the limitleSs ramifications and
endless interactions which make
this the most terrible and in
volved of all father-Son relation
ships zone in which Kafka places
the blame by no means entirely
on his father also make any
casual use of the fact in a short
lecture necessarily misleading.
For the Muirs the theme OF
THE Trial" and that of Before
the Law are expressly one and
the same. The law, they say
is "the law of Righteousness
which we all should follow" To
understand the reaction of two
people who have lived SO
intimately for so many years
with the Kafka problem is, of
course. the purpose Of attending
the Muirs' lecture. but it may
be questioned whether Kafka' s
Law" in THE Trial" is 1.-The
Law Of Righteousness" More
reasonably it can be seen as the
entangling law of the church
the law of the bureaucracy OF
churchmen.
The large and enthusiastic
audience availed itself of the
concluding question period tC
ask what is the meaning of THE
Castle" The Hunger Artist.
and THE Metamophosis." The
Muirs were engagingly frank but
cautiously noncommital in theil
replies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-12
Wave Of Strikes
Ends in Brazil

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil,
May IL (P.-Commuting trains
ran without delay or difficulty
into this Brazilian capital today.
In other parts of the country
workers returned to their jobs
after strikes protesting the
mounting cost of living.
Police armed with submachine
guns guarded the suburban
Leopoldina line where commut-
ers rioted yesterday protesting
a fare increase and poor service
Police Col. Luna Pedross
blamed the Communists for the
railroad trouble, which flarec
over a period of "a hours al
five suburban stations. He sale
the Reds spurred the passengers
to smash windows and supplied
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-12
POTOMAC FEVER
FLETCHER KNEBEL

Harry Truman sails for Europe. Republicans claim
the first time Harry has been at purpose
Ike will fly to Panama for Pan-American meeting June
25 Proposed remarks: I'm happy indeed to be
Panama-4OOO miles from the American farmer
The Reds the sister of Secretary
operating spy tunnel Her operating day
Multiplying to decode her brothers foreign policy.
When hear people speak of man as rising young
Democrat" know he hasn't enough money yet to
turn Republican.
Democratic Senator Symngton proposes sx-pont pro-
gram to conserve water Democrats have up trying
find an issue on dry land.
Congress prepares to vote total of 81 billion for the
farmers this Since be spent on not grow
ing how much guys the suburbs offered for not
cutting the grass?
Ike is examined by the from head to toe" For
republican the feet the important part They've got
to be in shape to mark time indefinitely
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-12

Marshall Tito, dictator Of
Yugoslavia. is angling hard for
an invitation for an official
visit to President Eisenhower
and at least three or four i'm
portant American cities.
The marshal has intimated
in conversations with respon-
sible Americans that he would
like to be given precedence
over Soviet Premier Bulganin
and Red Party Boss Khrus-
chev and even Marshal Zhu-
kov. the so-called pal of Presi-
dent Eisenhower.
Matters of security (for
Tito rather than politics are
said to be the main handicap
to extending such an invita-
ton. Politically, it is said in
Washington. there could be no
reason why Tito who has en-
ioyed the benefits of over 81
billion in economic and mill
tary assistance should not be
asked to come and call on his
benefactors.
Tito is Solidly in the
saddle in Yugoslavia and I'M
questionably plays an impor-
tant role as a link between
East and West. He already
has paid an official visit to
London, has enjoyed the hos
pitality of the Indians and
Burmese. and is an honored
guest now in Paris. In short
he has become a world figure.
If a Tito visit with all the
trappings from a ticker tape
reception in New York to a
couple of nights in Blair
House, where our honored
guests to Washington are &C
commodated, and an address
before a joint session of Con-
gress could achieve that OBJ
jective why not have him,
some Washington officials ask.
The wanton murder of sew
eral American airmen who
lost their way over Yugoslavia
on a flight from Vienna to
Venice has long been forgotten.
Anyhow we would gain moth
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-12
British Royalty Sent
By Sutchmo's Music

LONDON, May IL tP). = The
parade of royalty before the red
hot trumpet of Louis (Satchmo)
Armstrong continues.
Last night it was the Duke
Of Kent. first cousin of Queen
Elizabeth H.. He not only lis
tened and applauded but went
backstage.
Asked what he and the Duke
talked about, Armstrong replied:
I'VE didn't talk about nothing
we Just had a conversation.
Two nights ago Princess Mar
garet went to hear Satchmo.
Earlier the Earl of Hardwood
another cousin of the Queen,
journeyed to Empress Hall to
listen to Satchmo and his six
piece Dixieland band.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-12
Party Leaders Viewed as Fearing Setback
When Race Extremist Enters Senate

there to election. over a field
of contestants in race where
an attempt was made to stir
up luminosity against him over
the Supreme Courts public
school indignation decision.
Democrats were feeling
much better.
Now, like a dash of cold
water, comes Herman Tai
madge. 1t seems to be taken
for granted that he will win
and easily-the September pri-
mary from which Senator
George withdrew. He has been
campaigning since his retire
ment a year-and-a-half ago as
Governor, and with intensity
in recent months. He has at
his command a loyal organiza-
ton which he built up as Gov
ernor and which he has care
fully nurtured since.
To the national party leader
ship Herman Talmadge signi-
fies double trouble.
If elected, he would transfer
to this Capital City a South
erner who not only has been
in the forefront of the fight
against public school integra-
ton, and is seemingly ready
to continue his crusade un-
f1inchingly and unblushingly,
but who has carried on cam
paign against our financial aid
to other nations which has
been of so harsh and sweeping
in character as to put him al
most in the class of old
fashioned. hard-bitten isola-
tioniStS.
For "a years the State of
Georgia has escaped that sort
OF name ana notorlety IN Its
Senate representation, ever
since, in fact, Senator George
came here in 1922 to take the
seat of the late Senator Tom
Watson. a bitter racist and
equally bitter foe of the League
of Nations which, in that day,
epitomized international CO.
operation. Senator George
has, in fact, been the shining
emblem of the Democratic
Party's long time information
al cooperation policy.
Election of Herman Tall
madge to the Senate would
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-12
Financing Moves Pressed
By Studeboker Officials

NEW YORK, May II (P.-Top
officials of the financially har-
assed Studebaker- Packard Corp.
were in seclusion here today. APP
parently facing a long weekend
of discussion with bankers try
ing to find a way to solve press
ing money problems.
James j. Nance, president and
the finance committee of the
big South Bend auto maker have
been here most all of this week
"a fact that has produced many
rumors, but little in the way of
concrete news concerning what,
if any, progress being made,
The company lost nearly $50
million in 1855 and came up with
a deficit of little over $l4 mil
lion in the first quarter in 1856.
Mr.. Nance told stockholders re-
Gently that Studebaker-Packard
was having difficulty getting sui
ficient new money to meet i'm
mediate needs.
Merger RumOrs Persist
Meanwhile. rumors concerning
mergers with other industrial
giants continued to make the
rounds in the financial district
and each drew an emphatic
denial from the principals in
volved. Wall Street observers
suspected in some cases-par-
Iticularly the report that Curtiss-
Wright Corp. a big airplane
maker. might take on Stude-
baker-Packard--that the denials
were a bit too strong and too
often. Such rumors continued
right through the last busir" .
day of the week. with no 8.
of exhaustlng the reservoir
reasons why such a merger
wouldn't work out in the long
run.
The New York Herald Tribune
said today that commercial
banks involved in the S45 mil
lion Studebaker-Packard line OF
credit "guardedly indicated
they would give the company a
reasonable time to work out its
problems before foreclosing."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-12
Storm Hits Kalamazoo

KALAMAZOO Mich, May II
I'D. High winds. described as
bly, a baby tornado, struck
! .e Extreme northwest section
Of Kalamazoo last night. AT
least three homes were damaged
two garages destroyed and two
empty trailer houses overturned
No injuries were reported.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-12
Letter Campaign Urged
ToFree Is Held in Chino

! Rev. Harold w. Rigney, Roman
ears in Red China, has called for
lg release of 10 Americans still
erday that polite and courteous
ing, Red China'S leader.
uld produce results because the
a Roman Catholic priest from
San Francisco.
John Thomas Downey, "a,
cousin of singer Morton DoWney,
whose mother lives at New Brit
ain, Conn, and Richard George
Fecteau, q, Lynn. Mass. Mr..
Fecteau and Mr.. Downey were
captured when plane in which
they were flying from Seoul,
South Korea, to Japan, was shot
down in November, 1852.
The Rev. Fulgence Gross, 81,
a Roman Catholic missionary
from Chicago.
The Rev. John A. Houle, 40,
Catholic missionary from Union
City, N. j.
The Rev. Paul j. Mackensen,
80. Lutheran minister of Pitts
burgh and Baltimore.
California Businessman
Robert E. Mccain, business
man from Altadena, Calf.
The Rev. Charles j. Mccarthy,
43. theology teacher from Mo-
deSto, Calf
The Rev. Joseph Mccormack,
SO. Catholic missionary from
New York.
The Rev. Thomas Phillips, 81,
Jesuit priest from San Francisco
Bishop Ambrose Pinger, So
Catholic missionary from Ne
braska, arrested at Tsingtao, Ca
hina, in 1851.
Hugh Francis Redmond, jr.
IS, arrested on spy charges in
Shanghai in 1851.
The Rev. John Paul Wagner
48, Catholic priest from Chi
cago who disappeared in China
and presumably was jailed by the
Reds early in 1858.
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Greut-Grundmother
Will Marry at "a

VANCOUVER, British Column
bia, May II lPl Mrs. Alice Sal
mon. 84-year-old great-grand-
mother, and George Shaw, 70,
planned to marry today.
A family spokesman said Mr.,
Shaw began counting Mrs. SAL
mon 20 years ago and she's "as
tickled with the idea Of marriage
as any young girl"
Three generations of each fam
lily planned to attend the after
noon ceremony.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-12

CHICAGO. May IL (P).-Th
Catholic priest imprisoned four y
a writing campaign Seeki
held by the Chinese Communist
Father Rigney suggested vest
letters be written to Mao Tze-tI
He said he thought this VI
Red leaders fear publicity" ano
have great respect for the opin-
ions of the common people of the
world"
Father Rigney said that with
out publicity attending his i'm
prisonment he would still be in
prison on espionage charges. He
said he learned from the White
House that President EiSen-
hover received $4,000 letters ask
ing official help to free him He
was released last September.
million" of Letters Urged
The 56-year-old priest wants
Americans to write letters in the
millions to Mao. Ten or 20 mil
lion letters to Mao would make
him certainly take notice, :"
Father Rigney said.
The Americans still held in
Red China are businessmen and
Roman Catholic and Protestant
missionaries.
The priest said he has been
assured by the Post Office De-
partment that letters addressed
to Mao would reach Hong Kong,
where they will be turned over
to border officials of Red China
The letter. writing campaign
has been dubbed the Freedom
Crusade"
Congressional Aid Sought
The Back of the Yards Coun
Gil, a Chicago welfare organiza-
ton, is helping Father Rigney
sponsor the campaign. The coun-
Gil said it would enlist the aid
of all Senators and Congress
men.
Father Rigney says it doesn't
matter too much if the Red;
don't read the letters, adding:
THAT people are writing and
are interested in the imprisoned
Americans, that's what is i'm
portant. If they threw them
all into a river, it wouldn't make
any difference.
The priest was arrested in
Popping July %, 1851, while serv-
ing as rector of the Catholic
Flu Jen University. He now is
assigned to St Mary's Mission
House at nearby Techny, Ill.
List of Prisoners
Latest information indicates
the Is still held are:
The Rev John w. Clifford