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and DR.. Jean 8. Cloudy Of washington.
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ave. ne, where services viii be held
on Friday. January 90 ct 12 noon
Interment Arlington National Gene
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COOPER, JOSEPHINE. On Wednesday,
January IS. 1885. JOSEPHINE COOPER
Of 2le 8 st. NV. wife Of the late
alfonso COOPER. surviving are three
and many friends. After Il noon
Friday. January 90. friends arr. invited
to call ct the MCGUIRE Funeral Home,
1890 9th st. NV. where services wiz
be held on Saturday. January 81. ct
2:30 pm. Interment Lincoln Memorial
Cemetery 20
CosTLEY. LOUISE. On Tuesday. jan
usry M. 1856. LOUISE cosTtEY Of
4039 Mills I'd. ne. She Is survived
BY her husband. seven children. eight
grandchildren one brother. and many
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Home. -i722 7th st NV. after :
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uary 40. at pm. Rev. Badly of1ciat.
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On On we Wsdnssday; January ~ 1855 St
THUR coRNELsoN Of the TiIden Gar.
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Georgia Wilson Harris Cornelson. He
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Z. H. BURROWS. Secretary.

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January IL. 1855. at the Bethesds
Naval HOSPITAL 1t. comdr AERJER-
VACE LETHA GROUSE. N. C., q. s.. N
Friends are invited to call at the Be.
thesda Chevy Chase Funeral Home oil
Robert A. Humphrey. Bethesda. Nd,
where services win be held on Thurs
day. January 10 ct pm. Interment
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CkEES, JAMES LINN, a Special com.
a municstion OF Centennial
W NJ. win be held at the Ma
sonic Temple. Upper Mari.
M" boro, Nd. on Friday. Jan.
~N uary 90, 1856, at 1890 pm.
NJ to conduct the last Masonic
rites for our late brother. JAMES
LINN CREES, who was . Mason 81
wears.
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day, January is. 1866. ct bis resi-.
dence. 5000 Gay st. ne. WILLIAM
H. CAMBRIDGE He is survived By
one foster son. Thurman Dandridge;
two grandsons, Roy and Welton Zeney
one nephew Kenzie cambridge: two
devoted friends Mr.. and Mrs. James
C. Worsham. and other relatives and
many nan. Irienas' Aisss Pm; Tnnrsdssy ;.
late residence Funeral services on
Friday January 20, at pm. 81
the Tabernacle Baptist Church. pivi-
sion ave and Gay st. ne. Rev. q. L.
coin Memorial Cemetery. Arrange
ments By Henry g. Washington q Sons
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DAVID LAWRENCE
Divided Government Handicap

Craftsmanship often means
considerable opportunity for
publicity and prestige back
home-and this is a big factor
in a campaign for reelection.
In the case of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee,
the chairman nowadays is the
object Of worldwide attention.
Foreign ambassadors cultivate
him socially. The Department
of State depends on him to
keep the committee from par
tisan interference in foreign
relations. But the temptation
is strong to be partisan, es-
pecially in selecting and ham
ding the staff members who
do much of the work for the
committee.
It is doubtful whether any
future Democratic chairman
will lean over backward, as
has Senator Walter George of
Georgia, to uphold the foreign
policies of a Republican adj
ministration. Some of the
Democratic Senators have been
sniping at the State Depart
ment's policies all along.
though they must have known
that. primarily, circumstances
beyond Americas control were
shaping world events, and not
the alleged absence of plan
ming" in the State Department.
Either Senator ELECT Lausche
of Ohio or the new Senator to
be elected soon in Texas-if
the issue is persuasively made
in that campaign-can give
control of the Senate to the
Republicans, and bestow the
Craftsmanship Of the Foreign
Relations Committee on SEN
ator Wiley of Wisconsin, q
staunch supporter Of Presi-
ldent Eisenhower's foreign
policies.
That's the only way now to
avoid one of the handicaps
of divided government" as
Senator Fulbright of Arkansas,
Democrat, has so aptly de-
Scribed the result of last
weeks election Of a Democratic
Congress and q Republican
PRESIDENT.
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DOROTHY THOMPSON
Preventive War Not Justified

terseizure-via q preventive
war.
AS long as war is latent,
there is always hope for its
aversion-that new personali-
ties may arise on the scene,
and wiser counsels prevail.
He who opens a war knows
not how far it may lead, nor
whether in preventing one
possible menace he may not
release another far greater
one. The attack in the Middle
East furnished opportunity
for the Russians, apparently
wavering. to strike down the
heroic Hungarians and erect
another puppet in Budapest.
Now. even world public opinion
is checkmated. Was not the
original aim of the Suez
police action to erect q
puppet in Cairo?
Are preventive wars ever
justified? Are they ever q
legitimate means Of self
defense?
If they are, then the world
faces anarchy and the dogs
of war are unchanged any
WHEREOF everywhere.
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G. 0. P. Old Guard Still in Control
OF Porty's Destiny in Senate

South. These are the States
a President must carry.
But that gain is little rep
resented among the Republic
can movers and shakers in the
Senate where leadership is so
much a matter of seniority
and a personal ability and
force independent of the cleo
toral college.
Franklin Roosev Welt and
Harry Truman confronted this
fact in the Southern leaders
and committee chairmen who
so often and so effectively
stymied their forward moves.
Eisenhower seems destined to
meet it in such old guardSmen
as Bridges of New Hampshire,
senior Republican of the Sem
ate; Bricker of Ohio, Edward
Martin of Pennsylvania, Cape
hart and Jenner of Indiana,
Mundt of South Dakota, Ma
lone of Nevada and Minority
Leader Knowland of Cali
fornia.
These men will be his rank
ing Republicans on the inn
portant committees, including
Finance. Interstate and For
eign Commerce, Appropria-
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POTOMAC FEVER
FLETCHER KNEBEL.

The Republican foreign policy proving great success
Ten more years of and there won't be foreigners left
Sam Rayburn of Texas will be the Speaker the House
again. Sam has been Speaker long remember when
Republican was fellow who paid income tax.
Politicians glossary Gross missatement fact-What
you charge when the opposition dorts your
Politics back to normal All the people worry
ing about Dick Nixon before the election have gone back to
worrying about their mother-n-law.
The Census Bureau outnumber men in
America by 1881 000 Something be Either we
arrest the rendor we'll have to start arreng the
Live Tv drama: An old movie plot modernzed by deng
the ending.
Russa's Bulganin wants another Big Four conference
Russia anxious to settle all problems Sue-or
of Hungary.
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DORIS FLEESON
The Election and the Taft Vino

lions, Judiciary, and Banking
and Currency. They include
the party's best cloakroom
operators.
In contrast, there is not a
single outstanding Eisenhower
Republican Senator with ex-
perience. unquestioned prestige
among his fellows and remark
able ability Three freshmen
are promising - Cooper and
Morton of Kentucky and
Javits Of New York--but they
will be freshmen and far down
the committee ladder. Coming
up is Senator Clifford Case of
New Jersey, but he has been
in only two years.
The party planners at the
national committee perceive
the problem clearly and prob
ably many of its intricacies as
yet hidden from public view.
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DORIS FLEEsoN

The geographical center of
Republican strength moved
several hundred miles to the
east November s last.
Comparative studies of the
1852 and 1856 returns show
that everywhere east of the
Mississippi the President did
wonderfully we'll, while every
where west of it his vote went
down. The increase showed
vertically as well-north to
south.
These studies are being made
by the Republican National
Committee for its guidance
during the next four years.
Both policy and future can
didates necessarily will be af-
fected by them.
The immediate question is
what effect the plain lesson of
the returns will have on the
old Taft wing leaders who still
dominate the Senate.
At the grass roots that once
effective center of strength
was demolished. It suffered in
its old heartland, the Mid
west, where Democrats elected
a Senator in Ohio and seized
State houses in Iowa and
Kansas.
The Northwest and the
mountain tier of States repeat
the story.
AT first blush it would APP
pear that the shand of the
President had been enormously
strengthened by the returns.
stern internationalists,
banking and business men
picked him to run in the first
place; they have twice now
been Joined by their opposite
numbers in the South.
Eisenhower has justified
them by crashing into the mas
Sive Roosevelt loyalties among
Negroes, labor, and white-col-
lar workers-all so badly hurt
by the depression of the Dos
in the big States North and
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Seniority System for Choosing choirmen
Of Committees Called Major Defect

OF a committee or the rank
ing member who is at times a
sort of deputy chairman. A
secret ballot would be es-
sential to prevent reprisals or
personal animosities from
arising.
The seniority system could
be abolished by party con-
ference, as it is not a matter
of law, but of custom. If
abandoned, there is no GER
tainty that all Of the present
chairmen or ranking members
would continue to hold their
positions Of power.
Discussion already has
arisen, for example, with re-
spect to two chairmanships in
the Senate. Had the Repub-
licans been given control by the
people last week. there are two
Republicans in the Senate now
who announced beforehand to
their constituencies that. if
elected, they would not vote to
elect Senator Mccarthy to the
craftsmanship of the Senate
Committee for Permanent In
vestigations - a position to
which, by reason of length of
service, he would be entitled.
Similarly. there are Demo-
Gratis in the Northern States
who naturally would be pres
sured by their constituencies to
vote against the selection of
Senator Eastland of Missis-
sippi, Democrat, who now is in
line to become chairman of the
Senate Judiciary Committee.
This is the committee which
handles civil rights legislation
and the confirmation of the
nominations of Federal judges.
Yet. while there are many
Republicans and Democrats
who would like to vote to select
someone else for the chair
manShips above mentioned,
they would not do so because.
If the seniority system were
abandoned, they themselves
would have nothing to which
to look forward. A committee
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Justification for Future HitIers Seen
HU. S. Had Joined Attack on Egypt

persistent patience and good
will might gradually have al
leviated Arab fears. But the
war party in Israel triumphed
TO make a war to prevent
one that Egypt was not in any
position to start in foreseeable
time, as events have amply
demonstrated.
Col. Nasser is young, impet-
uous, inexperienced and badly
advised. He has cut himself
off from wise counsellors and
turned to revolutionaries, some
of them of very dubious back
ground. He has spoken, and
encouraged the Egyptian press
and radio to speak unbridled
and offensive words unbecom-
ing to a statesman.
But there were no indica-
ions That ne planned to trans
late words into war. or was
able to do so.
He precipitated the Suez
Canal crisis.
But he did not close the
canal nor close the door to
negotiations. He rejected ulti-
matums, accompanied by off,
cially expressed declarations of
intention in London and
France to bring down his gov
eminent. 1t was no answer to
a obviously legal seizure to
make an obviously illegal coun-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-14
DAVID LAWRENCE

How many Of the people
who voted last week to give the
Democratic Party control Of
Congress knew that by so do
ing they were giving the chair
manship of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee to a
man 80 years old?
1t happens that the prospec-
tive chairman - Democratic
Senator Theodore F. Green of
Rhode Islands healthy and
vigorous and possesses as keen
a mind as many a man so
years his junior. But under
the seniority" system. any
Senator irrespective of his age
or ability would have to be
chosen chairman. For the
seniority system" means that
the chairmen of committees in
Congress are automatically
chosen on the basis of their
length of service in Congress,
irrespective of ability.
It's a system that President
Wilson. Democrat, assailed in
1918, but the pressure of both
Republican and Democratic
veterans in Congress at the
time was too powerful for him.
Rather than risk a fight that
could have ended in an i'm
pairment of Wilson's whole
legislative program. the issue
was dropped.
But today the seniority
system is still perhaps the
most important single effect
in congressional government.
For the committee chairman
can sometimes withhold legis-
lation from being acted on, or
he can maneuver hearings and
meetings in such a way as to
carry out his detectives or
those of a minority pressure
group. He can express opinions
publicly at variance with the
party leaders and still hold
his Craftsmanship.
The alternative method is
to let each of the parties in
a conference of it's own elect
by secret ballot the chairman
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-14

THE right of self-defense"
was invoked by Israel. Great
Britain and France to JUS
tify their military campaign
against Egypt. Under the
tensions of the moment. and
the play of public sympathies,
the vastness of the implica-
ton is lost sight of-that we
had been asked to justify the
doctrine of preventive war.
Had we accepted this doc
trine in this case we could not
have opposed it with integrity
anywhere else. We would have
undone every justification for
past actions. We would have
furnished an argument for
any neo-Nazi who might one
day arise to justify Hitler in
retrospect and admitted a case
for the Japanese attack on
Pearl Harbor, and for the
North Korean attack on South
Korea.
Under this doctrine any
state is justified in attacking
another if it has reason to
believe that the other state is
pisnning an attack, or en-
gagged in building a hostile
coalition against it that MAY
become war menace.
Hitler argued that tbs
Western allies were buildinl
coalition against Germany
which must be defeated before
it was too strong; Japan. that
having failed to find a diplo-
matte modus vivendi with
Washington war was inevitable,
with the advantage to the at
tacker: North Korea. that
Syngman Rhee was planning to
strike to unite Korea by force.
1t is now Israel's argument
that Egypt and the Arab
states plan its humiliation and
must be prevented before they
grow too.strong; Britain's. that
Egypt intended to cut the
British lifeline Of oil; Frances.
that Col. Nasser was support
ing the nationalist Arabs in
North Africa and must be
dethroned.
Under this doctrine no con-
vincing encouragement could
be given to Russia to withdraw
her troops from the satellite
states or to relax her fears OF
a new German army.
Accepted for others, this
doctrine would eventually be
accepted for ourselves. The
world would live on continual
powder key. The doctrine would
overshadow all diplomacy. A
continuous state of tension and
fear would reign. 1t would be
impossible to invoke any prin-
ciples Of international law or
justice.
There would be no stand
ards except the crassest ma
tional self-interest. nourished
by fear. The United Nations
would be on the rocks, and lis
attempts--feeble as they have
been--to try to establish some
principles Of international or
der would be jettisoned.
In the Middle Eastern con-
fiict, no side can be exempted
Of blame. The very founda-
ton Of Israel--of q foreign
state supported by powerful
external forces in an alien
community hostile to the ad-
venture-led 10 war. and an
unouiet truce. The dynamism
OF Israel. her treatment Of
the indigenous Arabs. and her
enormous military strength in
relation 10 her neighbors. have
done more than anything else
TO unite the Arab states.
The forays Of Arab bands
into Israel we're harassing ac-
tons that could not be con-
doned against q fellow mem
Der OF the United Nations.
But neither could the massive
reprisals undertaken by the
Israeli army despite repeated
eensure By the q. N. Only
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Minister Pulls Veteran
Off 10-Story Ledge Here

The Rev. f. B. Lewis was in
bed early this morning when
there came a rapping at his door.
A minister of the gospel, like
a doctor or a fireman, can expect
an emergency call at any time,
but this one was something diff
ferent.
There's a young fellow in a
window on the 10th floor OF
the Dupont Circle Building
threatening to jump Mr.. Lewis
heard a policeman explaining
I'VE want you to help get him
back. "
The preacher, still a youthful
IS though he has filled the Union
Methodist Church pulpit seven
years, began dressing.
II finished dressing in the po-
lice car" Mr.. Lewis said.
When they reached the build
ing they could see Donald Sea-
man, %, a former Air Force
technical sergeant, sitting on
le window ledge, his legs dang
ling over.
For half an hour, Pvts. r. H..
Hill and E. H. Thomas of the
Third Precinct had pleaded with
the youth to change his mind.
when / got there, the boy
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Dulles Sees Pressure
For freedom in Russia
Pay to Amputee
-Fouqhtin Wrong Army
BY STEED EVANS

One of the longest pieces of
that peculiar red tape made only
in Washington began unwinding
yesterday, 35 years and at least
$4,000 too late.
Disclosure that the Veterans
Administration, since 1921, has
been paying a pension to a man
it said never was in the Army
already has caused Congress
sional ears to prick up.
Representative O'Konski, Re-
publican of Wisconsin, has fired
off letter of inquiry to E. E.
johnson, director of the Com
pensation and Pension Service of
the VA.
The subject of the inquiry was
Michael Sobolewski, a 56-year-
old former Polish subject, who
became an American citizen in
1924. He now lives at 824
Eighth street NV.
Dark Picture Ahead
The tragic aspect of what
otherwise would seem to be Just
another "Snafu" is that Mr..
Sobolewski is trapped in a situa-
ton he had nothing to do with
and which, unless remedied
soon. may find him penniless
and with no means of earning a
living.
Mr.. Sobolewski was born in
Lwow, Poland. and came to this
country when he was II. He
went to school in New York and
was a student there when World
War ! broke out.
He went to Rochester, N. Y,
and enlisted in an American
recruited Polish force. Soon
afterwards. his outfit shipped of
to France and the front lines.
Pvt. Sobolewski'S military
See PENSION, Page A-26
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Woman Killed
AsCar Upsets

A paralyzed District woman
was killed and three other per-
sons injured, one critically. when
their car overturned late last
night near Remington. Va.
Miss Dorothy Elliott, %, of 3Ol
Massachusetts avenue NE. died
in Physicians Hospital, Warren
ton, Va, from injuries suffered
in the crash.
State Trooper Joseph c, Powell
identified the injured as Robert
Earl Walter, about 80, of 900
Maryland avenue NE, and Mr.
and Mrs. Russell Phillips. both of
the Massachusetts, avenue ad-
dress.
Trooper Powell said Miss Eli
oft was the daughter of Mrs,
Phillips, AZ, by a previous mar
riage. Mrs Phillips was in crit.
ical condition in Emergency Hos
pital here after being trans
ferred from the Warrenton hos
pital Mr. Phillips, Sc. also was
admitted to Emergency.
Mr.. Walter was listed by
Trooper Powell as the driver OF
the sedan. He was transferred to
Mount Alto Veterans Hospital
here
Miss Elliott was a clerk in the
credit Office of Jelleff's, Inc, 1914
F street NV. She had worked
there since 1850.
Fellow workers said she hac
been paralyzed from the hips
down and used crutcheS.
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Freighters Collide
In Fog, One Sinks;
.Crewmen Saved

NEW YORK. July IL P.-
Two freighters collided early to-
day in thick fog in the North
Atlantic $50 miles east of Boston
and one of them sank about
three hours later.
All crewmen of the sunken
Panamanian ship Estoril were
reported safe aboard the other
ship, the Italian freighter Dea
Mazzella
Sydney, Nova Scotia, reported
the Estoril carried a crew of "a,
An SOS sent out by the
Estoril after the 1880 collision
with the Dea Mazzella said she
was taking on water. Members
of the crew took to lifeboats
and were picked up by the Dea
Mazzella. The Estoril, loaded
with iron ore, sank at 4:22 am
The Dea Mazzella reported
to Coast Guard headquarters in
New York that she needed no
assistance and was headed for
Halifax, Nova Scotia, under her
own power.
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told reporters after ne came out
of Mr.. Dulles Office that he had
complained about United States
Text OF Russion Note os Made Public
in Moscow. Poee Al
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"overf1ights" as far as 200 miles
inside the Soviet Union IN the
areas around MinSk, Pinsk, Kali
iningrad and Wilma.
The note was translated over
night. Today it will be referred
to the Air Force.
Came as Surprise
Press Officer Lincoln White
said yesterday afternoon that
the State Department then
knew absolutely nothing about
this"
The Air Force was expected to
refer the protest to its sub
ordinate command in West Ger
many, whence the planes came,
according to Soviet radio
broadcast.
Defense Department officials
were doubtful that the military
would make any comment on
the incident. They recalled the
sharp reaction of the State De-
partment earlier this year when
Air Force Secretary Donald
Quarles volunteered information
on American weather balloons
which the Soviet Union COM
planned were flying over its ter
ritory with high-powered camera
equipment in the gondolas.
His reports conflicted with
early comments of Secretary
Dulles and resulted in a clamp
down in the Pentagon on
weather balloon information.
Propaganda Purposes
Washington observers were
hesitant to comment on the
merits of the Soviet charges, but
they saw at least two Communist
propaganda purposes that the
protest serves.
First, they believe, 1t viii
bolster the Communist cam.
paign, now gathering momentum
to pin on the United States The
blame for "instigating" thu
Polish bread and freedom re-
bellion.
The cities above which thu
American planes are alleged t