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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-02

will be the three District Com
misSioners, Arthur Larson, d.
rector of the United States In
formation gency; Senator
Green. Democrat of Rhode Is
land; Eric johnson. president OF
the Motion Picture Association
and Sol Hurok, New York i'm
pressario.
Stage stars Maurice Evans anC
Signe Hasso also are expected
The motion picture industry will
be represented by local stats oil
all the major producing studios
Actress Helen Hayes is honor
airy chairman of the luncheon
The ceremony is being held tc
mark International Theatel
Month and Theater Week in
Washington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-02

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-02
Writers to Be Honored
At Luncheon Mondoy
BY Rouson

Playwright Thornton Wilder and Drama Critic Richard
will be honored special theaer luncheon 49, pm Monday
in the Willard Hotel.
The luncheon sponsored jointly by the Washington
of Trade the Variety Club and the Washington
More than 400 including leaders off,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-02
Why We Soy i.

FROM DIGNITY: Oddly
enough, our feminine word
dainty comes from the same
Latin word as dignity cor dig
nitaS). The French coined this
word because they believed
daintiness was the equivalent Of
dignity in men.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1957-04-09
HOmemakers
Meet In Amelia

Homemakers from 10 Southside
Virginia counties met in Amelia
Thursday to elect district officers
and to hear the state Home Demon
stration club president
New president of district 2, Home
Demonstration clubs, is Mrs. Sam
uel H. Moseley. Of Brunswick. Mrs
r. r Moore. Of Dinwiddie. was
elected vice president. and Mrs
Robert 9 Clary. Of Brunswick. sec-
rotary
Mrs } Blaine -Gwin, Of Fairfax,
state president, spoke at the dis
trict meeting, the first held IN
Amelia
She commented on the emphasis
put upon family life in club pro
grams in five Of the counties, and
went on to discuss Women in Com
munity Service "
Mrs Gwin noted that men are
much more conservative than
women, ana they are very reluctant
to Instigate changes. Most advances
in better standards in our homes.
recreation, social life. school con-
ditions, library facilities and medical
conditions have esulte from
woman's demand for changes in the
traditional and ng-established pa
terms.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1957-04-09
Hometown Jubilee TO Take
amelia Stage Thur, Fri.

Amelia Lions will pre- sent q
Hometown Jubilee Thursday and
Friday at the War Memorial build
inE At g pm
Local talent win be featured with
All proceeds to be used for an
Amelia schools eye clinic. Mrs.
Mary K Brown Of Denver. Colo.
is travelling around the country Or
ganizing similar shows for the
Lions.
IN Amelia. James Allen, Robert
Wills and Walter Combs are plan
ming the event. which viii honor two,
local couples who have been mar
ried over 50 years. One couple will
be honored each night
A king and queen of the baby con-
test Will be crowned at the Friday
performance, and the Amelia High
School girls chorus will sing.
Tom Start, masquerading as Bob
Hope, will be master of ceremonies,
and Mary Woodford Ward will be
the pianist.
Mrs. George Anderson will imi-
tate Dnah Shore, and Wiley Paul
win initiate Bing Crosby Other
representations to be given are
Leroy Smith and James Allen as
Toby and Ephoh
MI ana Mrs Alexander Jones, AS
Fannie and Ernest viii demonstrate
an old fashioned proposal and
Eddie and Gan Ashman. as Butch
and Babe, viii demonstrate a mod
ern version
In the old-fashioned melodrama.
Lewis Butler will play the hero.
with Mrs Robert Willis as the
heroine, and Donald Fhppen as the
villain
A five man fashion show-of
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1957-04-09
PHS TO Show
Susie The Siren

Powhatan High School seniors
will present their class play, SUI
sic the Siren. a threa-act comedy
by Anne Coulter Martens, Friday
and Saturday at p. m, in the
high school auditorium
Linda Perkins, class president,
will play the title role
Others cast III the play are 10
seph Lewis. as Mr. Reynolds;
Anne Bodie. MIS-. Reynolds, Leon
ard Walker, Petey: Frances
Blankenship. Nudge: Archie
Goodwin, jim. Johnny Boggs,
Bhmp: Elizabeth Denton. Agnes,
Nancy Waldrop, Beverly Norma
Jean Lawson Mona. Melvin
Frame. Jumbo. Price Johnson
Dumbo Stuart Davis Mr.. Foley;
GAN Denoon. Mrs. Comstock, ia
nice Blankenship Miss Oakley,
and Louis Urbine, Dugan.
Ellen Williams ana Jean Tin
sley are student co-directors Of
the play Proceeds will be used for
the senior class trip to New York.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1957-04-09
p0whatan Clerk
Returns Home

A 13-state police search for
James A. TIlman- III 81 and his
SON. James. 10. ended Sunday
morning when the Tilmans re-
turned to their Powhatan home
Tlman, PoHlatan county clerk.
took his son on a fishing trip last
week end lie told his wife that he
would be home by Monday eve
ming On that be would can her.
Friday when mo word from Til
man had been received. alerts
Wele broadcast in the Eastern
Seaboard states and checks were
4aaa5 II sgeraI places where TIL
man had Gshed before
Tilmans father who was
county clerk before his son has
been acting as deputy clerk
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1957-04-09

Women's styles-will be presented,
with Robert Jones. c. P Kaugfman,
James derson. Jr.. Henry
Vaughan and Raymond Morris as
models
James Boyer. John Ingram and
Walter Combs viii do a pantomine,
narrated BY Miss Beverly Draucher
The Rev Ray R. jenkins is
scheduled TO present tribute to
the churches. and Annette Reid is
to sing a hymn
A final feature will be talent
contest, with Talton Handy, Mary
Elizabeth Anderson. Ruth Griles.
Carol Wills, Alice Anderson. Jimmy
Royal and John Winfrey participat-
ing
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1957-04-09
Powhatan Considers
Re Assessment Plans

P c Forberg director Of the
division Of appraisal and mapping
Of The State Department Of Taxa
ton was to meet with the Pow
haitian Board fot Supervisors Mon
GAY morning
Forberg was to explain le-as-
sessment procedures.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1957-04-09
Pow hatan PIT
Installs Officers

Powhatan Parent-Teacher AS
ISOLATION officers were installed
Monday to serve for the coming
year
New officers ere Mrs. Robert
Cosby president Mrs. RAYMOND
Hudson first vice-president, Mrs.
Edward Tilman. second vice pre-
sident Mrs Oren Collier. record
ing secretary; Mrs. Stuart Jones
corresponding secretary, and Mrs.
Raymond Boelt reelected treas
urer
A total Of 1856 people lived III
Powhatan county's 268 square
miles In 1850.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1957-04-09
SOCIAL SECURITY

Social security representatives
Will be at the courthouse in Amel-
ia April is
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-05-12
BY JOSEPH E. DYNAN

PARIS. - Paul-Henri Spaak, the
Gallo Churchill" takes the helm
OF the North Atlantic Treaty Or
ganization next week and judging
from. the records. NATO is going
to be more lively organization.
The new secretary general is
probably the worlds most prominent
advocate of European unification
and Western solidarity. At least.
he's one Of its most eloquent and
articulate proponents, and one of
its most effective campaigners.
Over the years he has earned the
Churchillian nickname with his ora
torical ability, his career, his aims,
policies and methods, and the
mutual admiration and friendship
between himself and the retired
British Prime Minister. In addi-
ton to political causes, the two men
even have a slight physical resem-
blance. Like Sir Winston, Mr..
Spaak is stocky-he weighs around
200 pounds-relatively short but
imposing in appearance. He has a
full, mobile face, an energetic build
and an active brain.
He's on Organizer
Mr.. Spaak. now so. helped write
the U. N. Charter and was the first
president of the General Assem-
bly,. There is hardly an interna-
tional organization in Western Eu-
rope which he has not helped to
start.
Well-schooled in all the tricks of
oratory-the fruit of years of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-05-12
BY WILLIAM HINES

The Justice Department will have
its work cut out for It when it
starts sorting fact from fiction in
the record of the Select Senate
Committee Investigating Labor
Rackets.
Chairman McClellan's staff is
routinely bundling up the record as
it develops and sending it downtown
for Government lawyers to examine
with view to perjury prosecutions.
Whether anyone will 60 to Jail for
lying to the committee is an open
question perjury convictions are
VIGOROUSLY hard to come by-but in
any case many man-hours of work
are in store for Justice Department
lawyers.
The difficulty confronting the
Government attorneys or any
would-be prosecutor in a perjury
case-is that while it is easy to
show by q conflict of testimony that
someone has lied. 1t is often hard to
Ak the identity of the liar. Take.
for example, a few conflicts between
the testimony Of Paul Bradshaw
and other witnesses at the Senate
hearings.
The Bradshaw Story
Mr.. Bradshaw. it will be remem-
bered. was the pudgy lead-off
witness in the committees investi-
cation Of labor racketeering in
Scranton, Pa. One Of his early
dissertations was that "a fellow
named Bittendorf" was involved in
an attempt to bride him.
His story went this way: He was
a union steward at the Tobyhanna
CPa.) Signal Corps Depot. In this
capacity he was supposed to stop
all trucks entering the project and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-05-12
Congressional E|ections-Two Views
An Analysis Of 1856

Why did the landslide vote for
President Eisenhower fail to elect a
Republican Congress in 1856?
Partly. but not entirely. because
Of coattail theory of politics broke
down.
That is the conclusion of a new
study of the 1866 election based on
Congressional Quarterly's just-pub-
lished compilation of official Con-
gressional district returns for Pres
ident and Congress.
Angry farmers, an outburst Of
independent voting, some local Slip
page of the Presidents popularity
and a complete failure OF the NE
gro revolt" enabled the Democrats
to hold Congress in the face of the
Eisenhower landslide, the study
shows
The whole issue-at least as far
as the House of Representatives
was concerned-was decided in Just
36 of the ABS Congressional dis
tricts. These were the districts that
elected Republican Representatives
in 1852 and Democrats in 1856, or
vice versa.
6. o. P. Loses 20 Scots
Twenty EIGHT of the SO districts
switched from Republican to DEM
ocratic and eight from Democratic
to Republican, thereby reducing
the G.. o. P. delegation in the 435-
member House from 22l in 1858
to 201 in 1857. Democrats picked
up II Republican seats in 1854, II
more in 1856. The G. o. p. took
five districts from the Democrats
in 1854 and another three in 1856.
The remarkable thing about these
So districts is that only one of them
changed sides in the presidential
voting from 1852 to 1856. That one
in West Virginia-flipped into
the Eisenhower column. Mr.. Eisen-
hover carried 80 Of the switch
districts in both campaigns and the
other three were Steadfastly for
Adlai E. Stevenson.
What happened to the presiden-
tial coattails in those districts?
They had some effect. but not as
much as the Republicans had
hoped. The increasing popularity
of split-ticket voting killed any
dreams of sweeping victory for
the whole g. o. P. slate.
Republicans can thank the Pres
ident for the three districts that
switched to Republican in 1856
House contests. In Connecticut's
1St Hartford. where all voting
was on machines. the President and
the G. o. P. House candidate ran an
identical rs per cent better than
they did in 1852. enough of an
increase for the Republican to win
the seat.
In New Jerseys 14th Jersey
City, the Presidents whopping 1911
per cent gain to 66.6 per cent of the
vote was enough to carry the Re-
publican House candidate to a
narrow victory in a normally DEM
ocratic district.
Similarly in West Virginia's lst
district (Wheeling), the Presidents
gain Of 6.5 per cent was reflected in
a gain of 80 per cent for the
G. o. P. congressional candidate.
and they both carried the district
after losing it in 1852.
Against these three coattail VIC
tories. there were 104 districts won
by President Eisenhower in 1856
where Republican House candidates
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-05-12
Continued From Page AIS

Of the questioning Senators a con-
fiict Of interests, and who utilized
the fear of his Transfers Union
to get favors for himself and his
family.
He was no more DESTROYS of being
helpful to the committee than he
was In March when he took refuge
in the Fifth Amendment lit times.
He even refused to acknowledge that
he knew his son, Dave Beck, jr.,
asserting that an answer might
lead to Standardization.
Mr.. Beck's week opened on Mon
day with a hearing before the
AFL-CIO Ethical Practices Com
mittee. which charged that he and
other top Teamster officials had
failed to clean UP corruption in
their union. He and Vice President
Frank Brewster were accused in a
22-page bill OF particulars Of using
union funds for personal purposes
and using their union positions for
personal profit or advantage"
Mr.. Beck answered the charges
with some charges OF his own. He
said that the charges were based
on "hearsay and secondary sources"
and that they raised questions
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-05-12

cause Of poor harvests and over.
consumption" At present, each
person gets only 241a feet Of cloth
year. Fearing restlessness Peoples
Daily has warned that those who
complain about this cut would mot
be taking the right attitude Of CO.
operation.
For the common man life In
Communist China is not easy. About
two months ago. an article in
Peoples Daily complained about
the 'inhuman punishments" being
given by party officials to peasants
unable to pay the government grain
tax.
Indians are also talking about
the fact that Chinese children are
being asked to report all supposedly
anti-C Communist activities by their
elders to the security police. This
directive is given by the China
Youth. official organ Of the Com
munist Youth League. The youth
belonging to the former landowner
class, it said. must be constantly
wary of being contaminated by
counter-revolutionary ideas from
close family associations"
Tibet Still Resists
Political indoctrination also Ii
not achieving the desired results.
Even after six years Of military
occupation, Communist Chinese are
having difficulties in carrying out
reforms" in Tibet. General Chang
Kuo-hua, Peiping's representative
in Lhasa, announced last week that
communication of Tibet would be
postponed for another six years as
1.-The mass of people" do not have
the urge" for Communist changes.
The prerequisites" for reforms, he
confessed. were not sufficiently evi.
dent in Tibet N
In Eastern Tibet, the rebel monks
and Mimang insurgents Of Khan
Province have preached ct innumer.
able points the newly built Lhasa-
China road by cutting bitches and
telling. trees. The Communist Chi
nese are now looking for an alter.
native way to avoid Khan. This ex-
plains why Gen. Chang urged Com
slant vigilance against traitors and
diversionists" and warned against
"rumor, SANDER, sabotage and the
sowing of discord among the Ii
betan people"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-05-12
PROBLEM FOR JUSTICE
It's Tough to Convict q Perjurer

ascertain that the drivers were
members of the Scranton local of
the Transfers Union. Trucks
driven by non-union teamsters
from jurisdictions other than
Scranton were manned with an
extra hand. provided by the Scran-
ton local.
This went on for some time, Mr..
Bradshaw said. Finally, the fellow
named Bittendorf" approached
Mr.. Bradshaw and offered him
5000 a week to let non-union
drivers onto the project. Mr.. Brad
shaw said he Indignantly turned
the offer down. whereupon the man
asked how to get in touch with
the local business agent. The fol-
lowing day the business agent told
Mr.. Bradshaw to let the mans
trucks 60 through, explaining that
"he has a drag down in Washing
ton"
A Different Version
Such was the Bradshaw story. To
listen to another witness, however.
you wouldn't know the same event
was being described. The fellow
named Bittendorf" turned out to
be Earl P. Bettendorf. a manufac-
turer Of freight-loading pallets.
When he came before the COM
mittee, here is the story he told:
He never discussed money with
Mr.. Bradshaw and certainly never
offered him a 5000 a week bride.
Nor did he get in touch with the
union business agent; rather the
business agent got in touch with
him. And the deal that was con-
summated called for SITS q week
in payments to the union business
agent.
Now. II that isn't a pair of con-
hicting stories, 1t would be hard to
find one. Yet 1t is unlikely that
either witness will serve q day in
prison because of the conflict. The
reason is that perjury can be proved
only on the testimony of disinter-
ested witnesses. and in the Brad
shaw-Bittendorf encounter (if one
ever took place. there were no XII
bitzers around to testify later.
Or take Mr. Bradshaws story
about the stink bombing of the
Sonny-Boy Bakery, a pizza and Ital-
ian bread factory in Scranton.
He says the ammunition for the
bombing was furnished by John
Durkin. Teamster business agent
and a vice president Of the State
Federation of Labor. According to
Mr.. Bradshaw. Mr.. Durkin took
some stink bomb fluid out Of his
union ONCE safe and gave II to a
union COON named Robert Hub
shman.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-05-12

Not so. says Mr.. Durkin. He didn't
have any stink bomb fluid in the
Office.
This might seem to be q crack
able case, since there was q wit.
ness-Mr. Hubshman-on the scene
at the time If Mr.. Bradshaw's
story is true. But there are draw.
backs. First of all, Mr.. Hubshman,
in his own appearance before the
committee, took the Fifth Amend
ment on everything-even q ques-
ton whether he considers himself
a decent citizen. Second. the matter
of Mr.. Hubshman's credibility, con-
sidering his background. might be
open to question in the minds Of
the jury. And third, the testimony
of a single witness rarely will re-
solve a perjury case.
The 'Ryon Job
A third example from the hear
ings would be the story told by Mr..
Bradshaw about the Ryan job"
This was a highway construction
project that was notable for the
tremendous amount Of labor trouble
its contractor encountered. One Of
the most spectacular aspects Of the
Ryan job difficulty was q mass
picketing demonstration particle
pated In by an estimated 1000
unionists and a few hired hood
lums.
According to Mr.. Bradshaw. BUSH
ness Agent Joe McHugh had lot
to do with organizing the mass
picketing and directing the hooli-
ganism that characterized the Ryan
job trouble. The pudgy witness
linked the union leader with such
rough stun as letting air out Of
truck tires. uncoupling tractors
from trailers and putting sugar in
gas tanks.
What did Mr.. Ntzhugh, have to
say about this? Very little except
to deny a kingpin role. He didn't
say he had never gone out TO the
Ryan Job; rather. he admitted hav-
ing been there "once." But sugar?
Air out Of tires? Coupling pins? All
these might have happened, he
conceded, but Joe McHugh didn't
order their occurrence. There the
issue stands.
Even though lot Of people are
sailing to windward Of the truth on
Capitol Hill these days, don't look
for a big upsurge in perjury convic-
tons. There are 20.433 persons
serving time in Federal peniten-
tiaries. OF these. just 20 are in for
perjury. The microscopic proper.
ton is not due so much to the fact
that people observe the sanctity OF
oaths as to the fact that perjury
Is q very hard crime TO prove.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-05-12
NATOS NEW BOSS
Spook Is the 'GoI|ic Churchill

King and my country. I chose my
country"
He never forgave King. Leopold
for refusing to follow the Belgian
government into exile and he sue
cessfully fought to prevent the King
from returning to the throne after
the war. The result of this deter
minted drive was the elevation of
Belgian's present monarch. King
Baudouin. to the throne.
After winning attention as a sue
ceSsful attorney. Mr.. Spaak quickly
established himself as a power in
the Belgian Chamber of Deputies
only the agile or the foolhardy
would take him on. This ability in
floor debate served him well in the
20 years or so that he has been a
member Of a Belgian government.
Permanent Minister
In some Of those years, Mr.. Spaak
was chief Of government or Pre-
mier. More often he was foreign
minister. In fact. he held the lat
ter job so long that one of his
friends once described him as Bel
gums permanent Foreign Minis
ter"
II Mr.. Spaak has maintained a
close kinship with Sir Winston in
his aims and policies. the same is
not always true so far as Church.
ills nation Is concerned. Mr.. Spaak
angrily resigned as presiding officer
OF the European Consultative As
sembly because he was convinced
Britain was deliberately dragging
her heels within the Council of
Europe to slow down or prevent
genuine European unification.
Then, as now. ht wanted des-
perately for Britain to join a Eu-
ropean federation. but. perhaps
yielding to impulse. he lost patience.
He decided that the only way to
bring Britain in is to confront the
island kingdom with a continental
federation as a going concern.
With this in mind. he threw him
self with typical energy into the
Schuman Plan. the Inflated Eu-
ropean Army plan. the lad hoe"
assembly, and, more recently, into
the six-nation scheme for q pooled
development Of nuclear energy
the so-called "Euratom" plan-and
the proposed Continental Customs
Union or common market" treaty.
It's a safe bet that the energetic
Belgian will carry these ideals into
his new Job. Although he is a
staunch advocate of the Atlantic
Community. he feels 1t is out Of
balance as presently constituted.
He feels 1t is too much one big
power-the United States-and a
lot Of little ones which can hardly
speak up" TO the big uncle.
He feels the only way to make
the Atlantic Community really work
Is to make 1t partnership. And
that the only way to make 1t a
partnership is for the little Eu-
ropean members to join together
TO make another big power on this
side Of the Atlantic.
CThe Associated Pressl
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-05-12

courtroom, In the Chamber Of Dep
uties and in international confer
ences-Mr Spaak can by turns be
straightforward. persuasive. con-
vincing. then jocular or sarcastic.
He once had the whole Belgian
Parliament on the verge of tears
as he recounted his parting with
King Leopold on a battlefield amid
the wreckage of 1910.
Mr.. Spaak wanted Leopold to
come with him to England to carry
on the fight. The King was deter
mined to stay. It was a stormy
scene.
Il had to choose" said Mr.. Spaak.
his voice throbbing, between my