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Evening star., 1957-08-17
POTOMAC FEVER
FLETCHER KNEBEL

Ike Is becoming powerful force for economy Every time
he calls for foeignad spending Congress chops
other 81 billion of the program.
Democratic Senator Jackson spots "bedam and chaos"
at the Pentagon. Not under the Democrats 1t
quiet colonel didn't dare ask the general the
what they were supposed to be doing.
Another British nobleman criticizes Queen Elizabeth
Better move here Liz All demand Of our queens
tnat they smile prettiy on TV while giving the weather
report.
The Public Health Service says $4,000 Americans got
oriental hu this SINNER The State Department hopes you
don't worry Analysis shows of the bugs Communists
Dinner: Supper with clean tablecloth under It,
Senate committee okays James Smith as of for
egnaid spending Best job in town. BY the time Congress
gets through with foreign aid he'll be down twoday
week.
truck driver tells Senators he was drunk when he
voted in teamsers election lot of labor leaders nave
taken the Fifth Amendment but he's the first to duck behind
the Eighteenth.
Evening star., 1957-08-17

An immigration bill contain
ing none Of President Eisen-
hower's key recommendations
has been approved by the
House Judiciary Committee. 1t
was ticketed for House pas
sage before adjournment.
The bill, aimed chiefly at
easing personal hardships in
present law, was approved by
q reported PAL vote. The COM
mittee voted against granting
permanent residence to $4,000
Hungarian refugees admitted
to the United States as parties
following the Hungarian revo-
luton last fall.
Chairman Celler, Democrat
Of New York, said he will at
tempt to have the House sus-
pend its normal rules Of pro-
cedure and consider the bill
next week. A two-third votes is
required for passage under that
procedure.
A somewhat different meas
ure now is before the Senate
Judiciary Committee which h
ended its closed-door session on
the bill abruptly today without
action.
Senator Jenner, Republican
Of Indiana, brought the halt by
Evening star., 1957-08-17
10 Crewmen Sufe,
! Lost in Ditchino

CIUDAD TRUJILLO, Domin-
lean Republic. Aug. II (R.-
One Brazilian crewman was lost
in shark -infested waters about
800 yards Of the Dominican
north coast yesterday after an
airliner was ditched. Ten other
crewmen were rescued. There
were no passengers abroad.
The airliner, q Superconstel-
lation owned by the Brazilian
Varig airlines. was being ferried
from Ciudad Trujillo to New
York for repairs when it went
down.
The four-engine plane flew
here northbound from Buenos
Aires with its No. 2 engine out.
The 80 New York-bound pas
sengers disembarked and Capt.
Geraldo Kippling then took the
plane on toward New York,
nearest major maintenance
point for Varig.
About an hour out Capt. Kip
pling radioed that further
trouble had reduced him to one
functioning engine. He tried
to come back to the north coast
airport at Puerto Plata but
didn't have power to make 1t.
Evening star., 1957-08-17
u. S. Denies 1t Indorses
Magic Grass Restorer

poured into his Office on Green
Plasma, he remarked wryly.
A spokesman for the Federal
Trade Commission disclosed
that agency has received COM
plants and is investigating
Green Plasma, which is mar.
keted by Midland Chemical Co.,
New York.
At the Agriculture Depart.
ment, the general counsel's of
fee said the manufacturer has
been asked to stop claiming
that the department has tested
and approved the product. Fur
ther action is being considered.
q spokesman added without
celebrating.
But what of the harried
home gardener? What can
he do-in the absence Of mir
acle" chemicals-to revive his
drought-stricken lawn?
The Agriculture Department
prescribeS old-fashioned. plod-
ding medicine: water, lime and
fertilizers. n5il
Evening star., 1957-08-17

counter to the wishes Of his
mother, who had hoped TO see
him a Presbyterian minister.
He is now prime mover be-
hind a plan to defend the
courts from being the target Of
criticism "as an institution"
Through speeches and other
means Of publicity, Mr.. Rhyme
and others in the association
hope to acquaint the public
with the role Of the courts as
"a bulwark against arbitrary
acts Of the executive and leg
islative branches" This move,
he says. is not aimed at crit
icism of some Of the courts
decisions. But he sees peril in
sniping at the judiciary as a
governmental institution.
Mr.. Rhyme and his wife, the
former Miss Sue Cotton, a Me-
braska girl whom he met on a
blind date, and their two chill
dren. live at 1891 Foxhall road
NV.
Evening star., 1957-08-17
immigration Bill Shorn
OF Eisenhower Provisos

objecting to the committee
meeting without permission
while the Senate was in session
The next meeting Is scheduled
Monday.
The House bill. among other
things. would:
/. Wipe out quota mortgages
on future immigration result
ing from the l94S and 1850
Displaced Persons Act.
2. Admit an unlimited num-
ber Of orphans for adoption
during the next two years with
out regard to quotas.
3. Make 1t easier for rela-
tives of citizens and resident
aliens to come to the United
States, or remain here.
4. Keep alive some $4,000
visas not used when the 1853
Refugee Relief Act expired last
December.
S. Grant permanent resi-
dence to $4,000 Russian born
resident aliens who face de-
portation because they falslfed
their birthplaces to avoid re.
patriation behind the Iron Cur
tain.
Evening star., 1957-08-17

sharpened by the necessity Of
working his way through coli
lege, opened his own law office
Immediately after his gradua-
ton from CIV Law School in
1887. He has headed his own
firm ever since.
Through the years he has
become a specialist In munici-
pal and aeronautical law. He
is the author Of a book on
municipal law. scheduled for
publication this fall by the
National Institute OF Municipal
Law Officers.
His main hobby is vegetable
gardening. This he indulges
periodically at a country home
he owns in Bluemont, Va. He
likes TO read-Westerns and BIZ
ographies for relaxation-when
he isn't poring over some legal
tome.
In deciding TO pursue the
study Of law, Mr.. Rhyme ran
Evening star., 1957-08-17
DOROTHY THOMPSON
Soaring Oneself Into the Grave

neither smokes nor drinks
alcohol.
On the other hand. George
Bernard Shaw lived exclu-
sively on Stefansson's frank
poison" and lived to be
nearly 100. He also neither
smoked nor drank.
Winston Churchill IA man
who has lived under tremen-
~dous strains) is a physical
phenomenon at SO. He lust
lily eats everything. loves
wine, drinks as much as a
quart Of brandy a day. and
Except when eating) seldom
has a cigar out Of his mouth.
1t all seems to add up to
the old saw that Whats one
mans meat is another mans
poison"
But one thing I'm quite sure
Of. Excessive concern with
ones health. anxieties about
diseases one doesn't yet have,
continuous watching for
symptoms. perpetual pulse
taking. trepidation about ev-
erything one takes into ones
mouth, be it a cigarette or a
piece of chocolate cake, is
very unhealthful indeed. Ply
choSomatic research Ca new
name for a very old observa-
tom registers that anxiety
and fear cause body de-
rangements. One can scare
oneself into ones grave.
One also can be "bored to
DEATH" And all the talk of
illness. disease, diets, and
death has become, for this
writer, hideously boring.
Everybody's going to die Of
something. "One out of i've
will die of cancer" the plac-
ards proclaim. Well, then,
four out of five won't. Mean
while, as the motto of my
high-School class proclaimed,
Let us live while we live"
Evening star., 1957-08-17
British Paper
Calls Mobiles


LONDON. Aug. II (R).-One
of England's largest news
papers. the independent Daily
Express, today called the Brit
ish aristocracy "a liability to
the nation"
The four-million- circulation
paper leveled its attack in an
editorial on criticisms by two
mobiles of Queen Elizabeth II
and her advisers. Headlined
"the useless peers" the edi-
torial said:
"Once a bulwark Of the mon
archy, the aristocracy is now
q liability to the nation.
"Once the mobiles played a
useful part in the structure Of
the British government. Now
they fulfil no purpose what
ever.
THE aristocracy is an insti-
tuition which no longer counts
in the community. 1t has no
longer a just claim to special
privilege"
The editorial and another one
today brought a new note Of
venom into the editorial brawl
over the royal family that has
been steadily growing since
Lord Altrincham startled Brit
ons two weeks ago with his
blast at the Queen. He said the
Queen spoke like q priggish
schoolgirl and her advisers were
out Of step with the times.
The Marques of Londonderry,
10. supported Altrincham in a
letter published this week by
the leftish New Statesman and
Nation. He denounced the tra-
ditional handling Of royalty as
"ludicrously and nauseatingly
incongruous in a modern dem
ocracy."
The Daily Express said Lord
Londonderry reminds the pub
lie that young men who inherit
famous names do not neces-
sarily inherit the qualities Of
their ancestors"
The conservative Daily Mail
wrote OF the Marques as "a
yes-man and a copy-cat. BY
what right does this blue
blooded echo criticize a SOW
ereign who does more hard
work in a week than he does
in a year?" the paper asked.
Londonderry's SO year old
grandmother. the Marchioness
of Londonderry. said his letter
was vulgar, silly and childish. "
Evening star., 1957-08-17
Guard Reservist
Bill Is Approved

President Eisenhower has
signed a. bill that will permit
Coast Guard Reservists to have
the same retirement benefits as
members of the Naval Reserve.
The Coast Guard Reserve
was established in l941 and at
the time no provision was made
for retirement benefits.
The Defense and Treasury
Departments told Congress only
a few Reservists could qualify
because most Of those who
served in the Coast Guard prior
to and during World War II
also were in the Naval Reserve.
Evening star., 1957-08-17

The Agriculture Department
yesterday denied advertising
claims that it has tested and
Endorsed a product called Green
Plasma, billed by its distribu-
tor as "the sensational miracle
discovery that turns grass
green on contact"
Advertisements in several
cities have tantalized home
gardeners thus: Burned out
lawn? Brown spots? Yellow
streaks? Nowl Turn your lawn
solid green in just so seconds
F. and keep it green 365. days
Of the yearI"
Claims U. s. Approval
The ads claim the Depart
ment has tested and approved"
Green Plasma-which is mixed
with water and sprinkled on
burned-out grassland that it's
"the very same type wonder
treatment that's used on the
Capitol lawn"
Actually. the Department re-
torted in yesterdays statement.
its turf specialists have not
tested the advertised product,
and have made no recommen-
dations regarding its USE" On
the Hill. spokesmen said they
use no such product to keep
Capitol lawns green.
Investigating Product
DR.. Marion w. Parker, di-
rector Of the Agriculture De-
partment's Crops Research Di-
vision. said he did not even
know what Green Plasma con-
tains-whether it's a dye, fer
tilizer or growth regulator. "A
bushel of correspondence" has
Evening star., 1957-08-17

son. Abingdon attorney long
active in State Republican af-
fairs. was announced last
month by I. Lee Potter. State
g. o. P. chairman. He said Mr..
Thompson was the choice of q
majority Of the State COP
Patronage Committee. Members
of the committee besides Mr.,
Potter and Senator Dalton, are
Mrs. Cynthia Zimmerman Of
Fairfax County and the States
two Republican Congressmen
Representatives Richard H
Poff and Joel T. Broyhill.
Evening star., 1957-08-17
PoIund Will ExpeI
United Press Writer

LONDON. Aug. II up. Ra-
dio Warsaw said last night that
Anthony Cavendish. United
Press correspondent in COM
munist Poland. has been
charged with sending untrue
reports and given q week to
leave the country. Mr.. Caven-
dish. about 27 and a British
subject. had been in Poland for
about a year.
Evening star., 1957-08-17
HEADLINE PERSONALITY
Rhyme Let Law Wait
For Brief Cowboy Job

Most small boys who want to
be cowboys when they grow UP
usually wind UP jowly and desk
bound, their dreams Of life on
the range never realized.
Not so Charles Sylvanus
Rhyme, As, recently installed
president Of the American Bar
Association.
Mr.. Rhyme never wanted to
be anything but q lawyer. But
he found himself in his late
teens an apprentice cowboy rid
ing herd on q Wyoming ranch.
This was shortly after the
big depression began in 1929.
Mr.. Rhyme. who by virtue Of
scholastic ability had been
graduated from high school at
IA, found it necessary to leave
Duke University and 60 to work.
Through a friend, he got the
cowpunching job. Brought up
on a farm in Mecklenburg
County, North Carolina. the
youth was used to horses and
could ride. But they never let
me do any bulldogging or
branding" he says regretfully.
In 1882 he returned to Duke
and studied law there and,
later, at George Washington
Law School.
Slim but strongly knit, Mr..
Rhyme is the youngest man
ever to hold the presidency Of
the powerful association which
numbers more than $4,000
members.
He Is q past president Of the
District Bar Association. He
was presiding at the meeting
last year when the controversial
voice vote was taken on
amending the bylaws to admit
Negroes TO membership.
The amendment was ruled TO
have carried. But the vote was
later set aside by q Federal
Judge following q court battle
and q mail referendum is now
In progress.
Mr.. Rhyme. his economic vita
Evening star., 1957-08-17
u. 5. Proposes
Radio Expert
Swap 10 Reds
BY the Associated Press

by the ASSOCIATED Press
The United States has chal-
lenged Russia to put up or shut
UP on the issue Of exchanging
broadcasts.
The State Department, in a
note announced late yesterday.
proposed a swap Of four or five
man delegations Of radio and
television experts next month
to make technical studies pre-
liminary to negotiating a pos
sible schedule of broadcasts.
The issue has figured in dis
cussions between Moscow and
Washington since the Summit
Conference and the Big Four
foreign ministers meeting in
1855.
The United States Govern
ment wants Russia to open its
airways to uncensored pro-
grams from this and other
Western countries. But Ameri-
can ofiicials are by no means
certain that the Soviets intend
to do so.
Hope for Actual Exchange
State Department authorities
believe that II the Soviets will
now agree to an exchange Of
experts 1t may indicate a will
ingness on Russia's part to
undertake an actual exchange
Of programs.
If the Russians turn down
the proposition on an exchange
Of experts the prospects for
working out q deal on broad
casts viii not be very bright.
The technique Of challenging
the Soviets to stop talking gen.
eralities and get down to busi-
ness is a standard one when
Western governments decide to
press for results-or alterna-
lively to expose a Soviet ma
neuver as propaganda.
The note which the State
Department made public was
given yesterday to Soviet EN-
bassy Counselor Sergei r. Strig-
anov by Frederick T. Merrill,
director Of the departments
East-West contacts staff.
1t replied to a July 26 Moscow
memorandum suggesting fur
ther discussion Of proposals for
expanding the cultural ex-
charge program, including
broadcasts.
Fingefprint Rule Opposed
The Soviets also raised again
their complaints against q legal
requirement that visitors to this
country-except diplomats and
government officials-be finger
printed.
The Eisenhower administra-
tion has asked Congress to pass
legislation at this session modi-
flying the fingerpripting require
ment.
The House judiciary Com
mittee yesterday approved leg
islation to waive 1ingerprintins
for foreign visitors to this coun-
try. The waiver would be
granted only on the basis OF
reciprocity. Thus. the United
States would not flngerprint
visitors from foreign nations
that do not fingerprint Ameri-
can visitors,
Evening star., 1957-08-17
Four Die in Landslide
At Embassy in huiti

PORT AU PRINCE. Haiti.
Aug. II. R A landslide
struck a work crew digging at
a cliff on United States En-
bassy property here yesterday.
killing four men.
The crew was doing prelim-
mary work for erection Of a big
retaining wall at the ambassa-
doris residence. Ambassador
and Mrs. Gerald A. Drew are
on vacation in California.
Evening star., 1957-08-17
Senators OK Plan
To Save Carrier
BY the Associated Press

The Senate Armed Services
Committee has approved a
plan to save the famed Air
craft Carrier Enterprise from
the scrapheap.
1t Endorsed yesterday a reso-
luton which would turn over
the carrier to an association
headed by Fleet Admiral Will
liam F.. Halsey for use as a
memorial museum here. The
Navy has intended to scrap the
vessel as obsolete.
The Enterprise. also. known
as the Fighting Lady" was
Admiral Halsey'S flagship In
World War II.
Evening star., 1957-08-17
Thompson Is Nominated
To Virginia U. S. Bench

President Eisenhower yester-
day nominated Roby c.
Thompson Of Abingdon. Va, to
be United States District Judge
for the Western District Of Vir-
ginia.
If confirmed by the Senate,
Mr.. Thompson viii succeed
Judge A. d. Barksdale who re-
tired on August /.
This is the judgeship that
Democratic leaders, including
Attorney General j. Lindsay
Almond. jr., accused Republic
can State Senator Ted Dalton
of seeking.
Senator Dalton, who is the
Republican nominee for Cover
nor. denied the charges. Last
month he took part in a con-
ference Of @. o, p. leaders who
decided to back Mr.. Thompson
for the appointment.
Mr.. Almond. who Is the
Democratic nominee for Cover
nor. on April 8 said he was
inclined to think" Senator
Dalton was running for Cover
nor and judge. Other Demo-
cratic leaders hinted that Sena-
tor Dalton agreed to make the
race for Governor after he was
promised the Federal judge
ship would be available If he
lost the election.
Senator Dalton recalled the
same charge had been used
against him in 1858. when he
previously ran for Governor,
and declared: 1T is false then,
1t is false now"
Endorsement Of Mr.. Thomp-
Evening star., 1957-08-17

n adrVdTu STUDENT VINO
preached democracy to Mos
COW street crowds charged yes
terday that the State Depart
ment made itself absolutely
ridiculous" by its violent re-
ACTION" against an American
delegations trip to Red China.
II myself would not have
gone." Richard Medalie told a
Capitol press conference called
by Senator Humphrey, Demo-
crat Of Minnesota. He con-
ceded the State Department
was right in opposing the jour-
ney to China. But he argued
that the Government should
have stated its opposition calm
ly and then soft-pedaled the
matter. instead Of making the
trip a major issue.
The official American reac-
ton to the journey--made by
young Americans without valid
passports, in defiance of warn
ings they could be prosecuted
played right into the hands
of Communist propagandists
Mr.. Medalie said.
At any rate, he continued,
the delegation includes some
cracking good people" who will
speak up for the American
point Of view during their tour
of China.
y Speaks Russian
Mr.. Medalie, who is on the
Istaff Of the Harvard Law Re-
view and speaks Russian. dis
|cusSed his trip to Moscow's
international Youth Festival
in a meeting with the press and
Democratic Senators Hum
phrey, Neuberger of Oregon
Green Of Rhode Island, Clark
of Pennsylvania and Spark
Evening star., 1957-08-17
ny THOMPSON
Worry Over Health, Smoking and Diet
Viewed as Cause of Ailments, Itself

body cells. often starts at
some point Of irritation. but
the irritation is not, prov
ably, the cause. An excessive
smoker may develop lung
cancer. but there is no way
of knowing whether, were he
not a smoker. he would not,
nevertheless. develop cancer
in the lungs or somewhere
else.
People with cancer Of the
skin should avoid direct sun
rays. but the sun does not
cause the cancer.
What causes cancer nobody
has yet found out. though
some extremely interesting
work is being done on the
clue that 1t relates to the
chemistry Of the body and
may eventually be cured by
changing that chemistry
The Arctic explorer VIII
hjalmnr Stefansson claims
that cancer is unknown
among Eskimos and attrib-
utes their immunity to the
fact that their diet consists
exclusively Of meat and ami
NAL fats. He himself lives
on such a diet. considering
all other food rank poison.
Piling a quarter-pound Of
butter on a pound Of steak,
he argues that man is a
carnivorous animal. has eaten
vegetables and cereals only
during q few rhillenniums Of
his long existence and that
his constitution has not yet
adapted itself to such un-
natural change. Pursuing
his own theory, he is amaz-
ingly vigorous at 78. He
Evening star., 1957-08-17
PIune Lands Solely

SEATTLE. Aug. II tR.-A
wheel broke away from the
landing gear of a Northwest
Orient Airlines DC-4 as it
touched down at Seattle
Tacoma International Airport
yesterday but the big plane
landed without incident. None
Of the 56 persons aboard was
injured. The plane few here
from Washington, d. c..
Evening star., 1957-08-17

all the regular authorizations
for Atomic Energy Commission
construction in the year ahead.
Several Democratic sponsors
Of the power reactor program
took this view after the Sem
ate yesterday defeated all ad-
ministration efforts to knock
key reactor projects out Of a
$3.50 million atomic energy
authorization bill. The meas
ure then was passed by voice
vote.
The outcome was different
in the House. which last week
stripped from the measure all
but one Of the key reactor pro-
visions inserted by the Demo-
cratic majority in the Senate
House Atomic Energy Com
mittee.
~ Part Of II Saved
The bill now goes to confer
ence, but Democrats from the
Joint Committee will be in the
majority among both Senate
and House conferees. In that
situation, the sponsors Of the
reactor program say they are
sure they can save good part
Of 1t, although some conces-
sions may be made.
The authorization measure
must be enacted promptly so
Congress can appropriate the
money for the construction
projects before it adjourns.
Democrats argued in the
nine-hour Senate debate that
their program was the mimi
mum needed to maintain
American leadership in atomic
power. They contended no pub
lie power issue was involved and
that the three big reactors In
the program would provide cur
rent only for Acc installations.
Republicans. on the other
hand, contended that the Ma
tion's atomic power program
already is going well compared
with Russia and Great Britain.
They said the Democrats are
Evening star., 1957-08-17

Shopping the other day for
the family groceries, ! found
cigarettes" on the list and
(out Of curiosity inquired
about 'Kents." The grocer
regretted, "You won't find q
carton in town. All sold out.
Readers Digest"
He referred, Of course, to
the analysis Of popular brands
that had just appeared in
that publication. according to
which Kents contained the
lowest percentage Of the ele-
ments harmful to health.
(The brand my husband and
! smoke was not analyzed. so
we remain in blissful igno-
rance.)
The Digest's analysis and
popular reaction to it are. of
course, related to the widely
and continually publicized as
ISOLATION that some statisti-
cal scientists think they have
established between cigarette
smoking and lung cancer.
They have collected much
evidence. but q great many
other scientists think they
have not convincingly estab-
lished that sm king is q
direct cause Of cancer of the
respiratory organs. Much
more research must be made,
including research into other
elements that civilized men
take into their lungs with
every breath. before the con-
tention is proved. or before it
is proved that cancer is re-
lated to or caused by any
thing We breathe, eat. or
drink.
Cancer. q arrangement of