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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-04-14

"it Is q great sorrow to all Of us
that misunderstanding should
occur"
But 1.-The thing" was not
dropped. Senator Eastland and the
ranking Republican member of the
Senate subcommittee. Senator Jen-
ner of Indiana, commended in q
public statement that the tran
script of the hearing in which the
charges against Mr.. Norman were
most recently aired had had the
approval Of the State Departments
security Office. Mr.. Robert Cart
wright. acting chief of the Depart
ment's security branch, had been
present at the hearings. the state
ment said, and had cleared the
testimony for release.
The State Department replied
that Mr.. Cartwright had cleared,
orally. only that part of the hear
ing in which John K. Emmerson,
counselor of the American Embassy
at Beirut, Lebanon. had testified.
Mr.. Emmerson, according to the
subcommittee transcript, had told
the probers that he had never en-
countered Communist sympathies
in Mr.. Norman during the period
when both were serving together
in Asia. 1t was during Mr.. Emmer-
sons testimony. that Mr.. Morris
had interpolated the material from
the subcommittee records impli-
eating Mr.. Norman in Communist
activities.
President Eisenhower. as the
Canadian indignation showed no
signs of diminishing on Thursday,
called in the Canadian Ambassador.
A. D. P. Heeney. to express his per-
sonal regrets in the death of Mr..
Norman.
On Friday. Senator Eastland took
the floor of the Senate to hint that
there was more in the Norman
record than his subcommittee had
revealed. He said there were sound
reasons" why the charges had been
released for publication rather than
conveyed in confidence to the Ca
madam government. But he would
not divulge the reasons.
Both the FBI and the Army
Intelligence denied that any report
on Mr.. Norman mad ever been made
available to the Senate subcom-
mittee. Mr.. Morris had read into
the hearing record excerpts from
what were described as executive
agency security reports"
AS the Canadian Parliament
ended its session Friday in prepare
ton for the general elections. Mr..
Pearson disclosed that the govern
ment had long known that Mr..
Norman, during his university stu
dent days. had associated with
Communists and those who acted
like Communists" and had never
made any secret Of the association.
Despite this. Mr.. Pearson said, the
government, after careful and
exhaustive" investigation, had mo
doubt about his loyalty and in
tegrity."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-04-14
MAIL ABOUT THE MAIL
Complaints Increase on the Hill

am. March S. The delay. he wrote.
was costly to his business.
Continue Through Recess
Committee officials recall that.
until about two years ago, the
number Of daily complaints grad
ually tapered of when Congress
was in recess. But for the past
two years. they report. there have
been no noticeable letups during
congressional recesses.
The Post Office Department has
its own version Of the story, plus
some explanations.
L. r. Walter, special assistant
to Mr.. Summerfield. when ques-
toned about the complaints To
Congress. said: Our operations
people report no appreciable in
crease In complaints referred to us
by congressional committees At
most. they tell me. any increase
has been slight"
But even II the complaints are
luliAllllk nv dbOuO 81 q Ody NOsOuO q
year,. Mr.. Walter doesn't think
that's a batting average the service
needs be ashamed Of when other
figures are considered. The postal
service handles so billion pieces Of
mail year, he points out. with each
letter being handled from II to Is
times. And this year will see l.3
million new homes and $50 900 new
businesses requiring mail service.
he adds.
one Of the most numerous COM
plants from rural areas is the
abandonment. with economy given
as the reason. Of more and more
small. fourth-class post Offices Mr..
Summerfield's critics argue that
this seldom. II ever, results in any
economy. because when a post Of
fee is closed an expensive extension
of rural mail routes is necessary.
1t is said also that this further
delays rural mail. since the last
box on carriers route is more dis
tant from the distribution point.
Mr.. Walter agrees that the clos
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-04-14
Republicans Divided

Republicans are divided on the
tax cut question. Representative
Daniel A. Reed of New York as
sailed the Democratic talk as pre-
mature and noted that Mr.. Ray
burns announcement had come
only four days before the April is
deadline for filing of personal in
come taxes. But Representative
Richard Simpson of Pennsylvania,
a high-ranking Republican on the
Tax Writing House Ways and
Means Committee, offered his own
bill for immediate tax relief. Be-
sides giving SIS billion in relief to
individuals and corporations, Mr..
Simpsons bill would. he said, force
the spenders in Government to do
an about face"
Mr.. Rayburn'S move indicates
that this veteran in such matters
has gagged the economy drive in
Congress and finds it sufficiently
strong to bring cutbacks large
enough to permit tax cut for next
year without putting the Govern
ment's books back into the red.
Representative Wilbur Mills of
Arkansas. close associate of Mr..
Rayburn's on tax matters, has said
he believes expenditures will have
to be cut back by 81 billion if taxes
are to be reduced.
More than 81 billion already has
been removed from the budget by
the House. and most of the econ
omizers are counting on another
$45l million which will be saved if
Congress. as is expected, rejects the
administration bill to aid States
with school construction. Talk of
savings in foreign aid range all the
way from 81 billion to So billion.
and few hundred million dollars
may be eliminated from the defense
budget. Mr.. Eisenhower himself
aided the economy drive Thursday
by trimming his requests for soil
bank funds by 1884 million. And
the House Appropriation Commit
tee trimmed SOL million from
budget requests for the Department
OF State and Justice. the Judiciary
and related agencies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-04-14
BY DAVID KOONCE

Complaints OF poor mail service
received by the Senate Post Office
Committee have increased five-fold
in the past two years. the COM
mittees staff reports. And. staff
members say, Postmaster General
Arthur Summerf1eld's recent threats
to curtail some postal services be-
cause of financial problems have
brought a new squirt.
H. w. Brawley. executive director
of the Democratic controlled COM
mittee. says that the flow of COM
plants has increased so materially
that the committee Is considering
a new survey Of mail service. Staff
members report that two years ago
letters Of complaint averaged about
five day. Just before Mr.. Summer
fields recent well-publicized budget
troubles, they had reached the rate
of about rs day And since then
they have increased further. Most
complaints come from small towns
and rural areas.
AACiS dlc oOLlC LyplCdl COLIlIIleIlbS
the committee has received recently
from annoyed mail users:
From South Carolina-"I would
greatly appreciate 1t If l could get
the same service got 60 years ago."
From Alabama--"Th post office
has never been in such a mess as
1t now is. Neither has the service
been so low nor the waste more
fragrant"
From Wisconsin--"An when he
tMr. Summerfield) goes, the great
job Of strengthening out the grand
snafu which he has put over on
the postal service will confront
you
From California; hope that
Congress does not supinely submit
to this latest 'putsch."
A Los Angeles businessman wrote
that ne had mailed a special de-
livery letter in Los Angeles to an
address across town at $3.50 pm.
March 3 that was delivered at IL
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-04-14
McLeod's Selection

While the Juror over the Norman
case was waxing hot, the appoint
ment of Mr.. Mcleod. recently chief
of the State Departments Bureau
Of Security and Consular Affairs, to
be Ambassador to Ireland was
linked in some British newspapers
to the Norman tragedy.
The London Daily Telegraph. an
organ of the Conservative Party.
in a lead editorial blasted at the
appointment as "flat-footed d.
plomacy." Noting that the Me-
Leod selection was made less than
a week after the Norman death. the
newspaper declared that this
latest and most tragic example
(the Norman suicldel of the dam
age still being done by Mccarthy
ism should coincide with such
gratuitous honor for one Of Nc
Carthy's most energetic agents will
disturb most Americans quite as
much as it shocks friends of the
United States abroad"
In Dublin. the influential Times,
favorable to the Fianna Fail gov
eminent of Prime Minister canon
De Valera. called the Mcleod APP
pointment unlikely to improve
Irish-American relations. The
newspaper expressed the hope that
the United States Senate would
block the nomination. adding ut
is humiliating to find the United
States Embassy in Dublin regarded
as dumping ground for a man
whom his political party desires
either to reward for dubious serv-
ices rendered or. conceivably, to get
out of the way of doing further
mischief"
AS the stormy political week
ended, there were no indications
that the White House or the State
Department expected to make any
further moves in either the Nor
man or the Mcleod uproars. The
Canadians had been reminded that
the executive could not curb the
expressions of the Congress. And
the State Department insisted that
the action Of the Senate probers
had been taken without its ap-
proval.
But there was little hope yester-
day that there the matters rested.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-04-14

observances. watched developments
in her neighbours capital. Rumors
were rife of planned Syrian coup.
to be carried out by Syrian troops
stationed in Jordan since the Suez
invasion last fall. The rumors were
strengthened by reports Of the ar
rival of fresh Syrian brigade in
side Jordan yesterday.
Arab protests against the pas
sage of a United States-owned
tanker through the Gulf Of Aqaba
to Israel's port of Eilat repeatedly
brought assurances from Washing
ton that no more ships would be
allowed while the Cairo negotia-
tons continued. Saudi Arabia no.
titled the world once again that the
Gulf was Arab territorial water.
and Observation-Disclosures would be
resisted as a threat.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-04-14
The Showdown

On April 3. Mr.. Summerfield told
a House subcommittee that, unless
he got the SAT million Immediately.
he would be forced to order a sharp
curtailment of postal services. be-
ginning on April 6-laSt Saturday.
The subcommittee. amid angry
charges of "blackmail" in the
House. denied most of his request,
granting only SIT million.
The next day. April 4. Mr.. Sum-
merfield said he would have to 60
ahead with the cutbacks unless
Congress showed sudden change
OF heart. The fun committee then
assured him that he could count on
the SIT million. but that he would
have to wait q week, until April IL.
for a decision on the remaining $50
million. Mr.. Summerfield then put
off the curtailment until yesterday.
Thursday. when the House adj
journed without coming across. he
ordered the cutbacks into effect.
They began yesterday when $4,000
post Offices failed to open.
The order did this:
Halted window service in all post
Offices on Saturdays. though serv-
ice to lock boxes in post Office lob
bies continued.
Ended all Saturday deliveries
except that of special delivery mail.
. Placed the Saturday collection Of
mail from deposit boxes on Sum-
day schedule.
. Cut daily post Office window serv-
ice to 8la hours. delaying the be-
ginning Of service in the morning
to $50 O'Clock. Windows hereto
fore opened at am.
. Cut deliveries to downtown busi-
nesses from three a day to two.
. Ordered halt to the selling Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-04-14
Foreign Aid:
New Approach

On Monday, Secretary of State
Dulles revealed new plan of APP
proach for American aid to foreign
nations. In testimony before the
special Senate Committee to study
the Foreign Aid program. Mr.. Dulles
proposed separating military from
economic aid, assigning the military
assistance program to the Penta-
CONS budget.
Then, in what would amount to
a fundamental change in the Mu-
tual Security Program, the Secre-
tary recommended that a special
economic development fund be set
up, with a capital authorization
sufficient for several years" to
make loans to nations needing funds
for economic development projects.
Outright grants, the practice now
followed. would be limited to emer-
gency situations.
Congressional reaction to the
administrations proposal was wary.
Only last year, efforts to set up the
foreign-aid program on long-term
basis had failed to get the law
makers approval. Senators friendly
to foreign aid praised the new plan
as one more likely to win support,
largely because of its loan provi-
sions and the divorce of military
from economic aid. But none would
predict the outcome of congressional
deliberations.
Inherent in the new proposals
is the State Departments firm be-
lief that the year-to-year method
of appropriating for foreign aid
is unavoidable. Rational admini-
stration" and proper planning. Mr..
Dulles told the Senators. were i'm
possible under the present annual
setup, and resulting "scandalous
inefficiency" was often unavoidable.
President Eisenhower signalled
an about administration effort to
get congressional approval for the
new plan. He will meet with con-
gressional leaders of both parties
after the Easter recess, the White
House announced.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-04-14

ing of small post Offices has resulted
in many hundreds of complaints"
But he points to the department.
budget troubles and says that such
curtailmentS are unavoidable. Many
of the complaints, he says. result
not from the actual curtailment of
service. but from injured local
pride" in losing a post Office.
Resort to Privote Means
Committee officials say. however,
that some of the complaints just
cannot be explained in those terms.
They point to a bank in a Florida
town that has resorted to sending
out-of- town mail by private facil-
ity. Another company in South
Carolina reports that it gets faster
deliveries when it sends its out
of-town mail by scheduled bus. And
firm here in Washington for some
time has been taking its mail di-
rectly to the mail cars at the rail-
road terminal. rather than leaving
1t at the post Office.
EReH LIlS COulIllJJCC Lldo lJo man
troubles. Mr.. Brawley declares. One
first class letter mailed here to a
committee investigator in Column
pia. S. c., did not reach its destina-
ton for week, he said.
He believes one reason for any
deterioration Of first-class mail
service is failure to give the first
class mail its proper priority over
other classes.
1T used to be that the postal
employees were told that first-class
mail carried top priority. but not
any more" he said. To-day. they're
allowed to treat all mail alike"
There are plenty of suggested
remedies for the department.
many troubles. But most of them
have on them the mark of political
craftsmanship. Democrats generally
believe that the trouble is a Re-
publican administration. And the
Republicans running the depart
ment believe there wouldn't be so
much trouble II the Democrats
would stop criticizing them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-04-14

money orders and the handling of
third class mail. beginning April 20.
On the last point, Mr.. Summer
field has run into legal trouble. The
Associated Third Class Mail Users
has asked a Federal District Court
here to enjoin MIR. Summarized
from carrying out his order. Firms
that use third class mail regarded
this part of the order as a violation
of contract, since they pay for third
class permits for advance use.
But that may be the least of the
Postmaster Generals legal troubles
If freshman Representative Charles
o. Porter. Democrat of Oregon. has
his way. Mr.. Porter, following up
charges by some of his colleagues
that Mr.. Summerfleld had violated
the Urgent Deficiencies Act in over
spending apportioned funds, de-
manded his immediate resignation
and prosecution.
Representative Clarence Cannon,
chairman of the Appropriations
Committee, commented that Mr..
Summerfield has been breaking
the law all along" and shouldn't
permit any new-found piety TO
stand in the way of essential postal
services.
All hope of heading of the cur
tailments faded when the House
on Thursday adjourned until Mon
day. thus preventing any action
before the week end. Mr.. Summer
field had said that the bill for sup
elemental funds would have to be
passed by both the House and the
Senate and signed into law by
President Eisenhower before he
could restore the curtailed services.
On Friday the Appropriations
Committee met and agreed to give
the Post Office Department SAL
million of the SAT million. Now
the goal is to get the bill through
the legislative mill before Congress
goes home on Thursday for 10
day Easter recess.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-04-14
The Norman Case

The origins of the Norman case
60 back to August. 1851. when Karl
A. Wittfogel. then a professor at
the University of Washington and
an admitted former Communist,
testified before the Senate Internal
Security Subcommittee. He said a
Herbert Norman was a member of
q 1898 Communist study group"
on Cape Cod.
Last month at q hearing, the
subcommittee counsel, Robert
Morris, reviewed the Wittfogel tes-
timony and then. reading from a
memorandum he said came from a
security agency" asserted that
Norman was identified in February
of 1910 as a member of the Com
munist Party"
The Morris rehabilitation of
Mr.. Norman with Communist ac-
tivities was revealed March IA,
when the transcript of a subcom-
mittee executive session was made
public. On March 10 Ottawa pro-
tested vigorously against the re-
vival of the old charges. Pointing
out that the original 1851 charges
had been investigated by Canadian
security agencies, and that Mr.. Nor
man had been cleared uncondi-
tionally, Canada objected lin the
strongest terms" against reiteration
of such irresponsible allegations. !"
Then came Mr.. Norman's suicide.
ascribed in Canada to the despair
Of sensitive man bounded by the
repeated hurting of old. discredlted
charges. The intensity and bitter
ness of the Canadian reaction dis
mayed American officialdom, and
the State Department quickly dis
associated itself from the action of
the Senate subcommittee.
But Canadas lacerated feelings
were not soothed. On Wednesday
Lester B. Pearson. Secretary Of
State for External Affairs. formally
notified the United States that his
government was reviewing tine ar
rangements whereby Canada and
the United States exchanged i'm
portant security information.
Calling the procedures Of the
Senate subcommittee difficult to
understand. unfair. and. indeed, in
tolerable. the Ottawa note demand
ed assurances from the United
States that no security information
affecting Canadian citizens be
passed on to any committee, body
or organization over which the ex-
ecutive branch of the United States
has no control Failing such as
surances, the note went on. Canada
would refuse to supply further Sc
curity information to the United
States.
Mr.. Pearson. considered the likely
successor to Prime Minister Louis
st. Laurent as the next Liberal
Prime Minister of Canada. had at
tempted to control his country
mems anger in the Norman case
Lets not make an international
incident out of this" he told OF
tawa newsmen after the Cairo
suicide. only one or two people
in Washington are involved"
But the extent of Canadian re-
action. sharpened by the fact that
a two-month election campaign
has just gotten under way. was too
violent for Mr.. Pearson to calm
With such blunt phrases as "mur-
der by SANDER" Canadian govern
ment officials, members of Parlia-
ment. newspaper editors and ordi-
nary citizens lashed angrily at the
United States.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-04-14
British Press Reacts

In Britain itself, although the
Macmillan government was silent,
editorial opinion agreed with the
Canadians that the American prob
ers had departed the bounds Of
propriety.
"The Shiny tentacles of unproven
charges have claimed an Ambas-
sadors life" said the London
News-Chronicle, in an editorial
calling the Senate groups action
"loathsome and contemplate" The
Glasgow Herald, referring to Sub
committee Chairman Eastland's
statement that the probers must
and would expose foreign nationals
linked to Communist activities in
the United States, labeled the
Senator's statement "as an expla-
nation. totally inadequate; as an
apology, in the worst possible
TASTE"
AS the Incidents seriousness be-
came more apparent to Washing
ton, American Ambassador Living
ston Merchant conferred privately
with Mr.. Pearson and then left
hurriedly for Washington. On
wednesday, Acting Secretary OF
State Christian A. Herter replied to
the Canadian note Of March Is.
Expressing sincere condolences"
over the death of Mr.. Norman, he
declared that the Senate subcom-
mittee bad acted solely on its own
responsibility.
President Eisenhower. at his news
conference Wednesday, carefully
avoided criticism of the Senate sub
committees action. He stressed,
however, the Executive branch's
disavowal Of responsibility for the
publication of the charges. Express
ing "hope that the thing can now
be dropped" Mr.. Eisenhower added
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-04-14
Longtime Loser

The Post Office Department has
long operated at loss. According
to Mr.. Summarized. deficits since
l945 have totaled SIS billion.
Two apparently irreconcilable
viewpoints on the role of the postal
service have prevented a solution
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-04-14
Associated Press Photos

Democrats are toying with a raise
in the personal exemptions-say
from the present 5000 to S700.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1957-07-12

Our community was greatlp
erieved hv the death july Of Mrs.
J /. Carter Ms Carter was ono
q tho most faithful members Of
Grove Methodist church fol m5re
Filai 30 Yeas and generously supi
serted an its interests. is well "A
Asvlne and helping beyond the leii
tei of the Law in any activity for
The benefit q people wherever then
might be Her widespread helpiuli
ness Il al inspiration to her family
and friends
Mi ! and Mrs William NlHnra
Rave returned 70 their home IN
GTassa, Mich following tha burial
q MS. Munro9s mother MIS- D. Ill
Garter. Mr.. and Mrs Reginald Call
ter and daughter, Ann Henry Of
Portsmouth. also spent several days
al the home
Mr. and Mrs Herbert II Good
man have returned from their veal
ding trip to Kitty Hawk. n o.
Dinner guests Sunday Of Mi and
Mrs. M. A French were Mr. and
Mrs. r H Blanton. Mi and Mrs
peane Howard and daughter. Mar
ina Steele. Of Whiteshoro, N ~.
Mr.. and MIS- NJ A. French. Jr
and family. Of Richmond. and Mi
md Mrs !" Y French and family