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, 1957-10-19
In-Service Trdining
For v. ]. Policemen
To Begin Oct. 81

The Commissioner Of Pub
lie Safety announced that the
in-service training program
for the uniformed personnel
of the Department of Public
Safety will begin on October
81, 1857. IL.
Carroll Doyle, Special Agent
in charge of the Federal Blu
reau of Investigation office
IN San Juan, Puerto Rico, to-
eether with other instructors,
will conduct classes in Saint
Thomas at Fort Christian dur
ing the week of October q,
and in St. Croix it will begin
on Monday, October 18th.
Special emphasis will be
placed upon the duties of the
Foot Patrol including arrests,
handling OF. DRINKS, nuisances
and the general approach to
citizens of the community.
, 1957-10-19
Pom American
Travel Officials to
Spend Two Days Here

Two officials Of the travel
department of Pan American
World Anyways, accompanied
by several top-flight travel
agents, are scheduled to visit
st. Croix for two days, Satur-
day and Sunday, November
80 and December l, before 60
ing south to other islands in
the Caribbean, according to
]. F. T. Crawford, local Pan
American representative.
Mr.. Crawford has made
plans to take the visitors on a
tour of the Island.
, 1957-10-19
California Juror
Has Mind Mode Up:
He is Excused

In Ventura, California,
George Johnson was one of a
group of persons summoned
for jury duty in a drunk-driv-
ing case in the municipal
court.
Mr.. Johnson asked the De-
putty Marshall to excuse him,
explaining that he realized it
was his civic duty to be a
Juror but that he ought to be
excused.
Asked his reason, Mr.. John
son said that he is the defen-
dant. He was excused.
, 1957-10-19
Census Bureau
Reveals U. S. Pop.
AT l7l,79O,OOO

Washington The Census
Bureau estimated the United
States population as of Sep
TENDER l, 1857, at III, 700, 900.
This was an increase of
20, $4,000 or 1877 per cent,
since the last actual census in
1850. It represented an in
crease of 3,O53, 900 since Sep
TENDER 1, 1856.
, 1957-10-19
Milky WdY,"
IHilurious Comedy. to
Be Staged Here Nov. 2

That hilarious comedy, "The
Milky Way will be staged in
the auditorium Of the Chris
tiansted High School on Sa-
turday night, November 2, at
900, it was announced.
The show which will be
presented by a group of anna
teur players in St. Thomas, of
which Alfred "Sparky" Puritz
is president, has made such a
tremendous hit in st. Thomas
that it was staged four times.
Proceeds of the show will
go to the benefit Of the Girls
Home now being completed
in St. Croix. The show is being
staged under the auspices of
the Social Welfare Depart
ment, of which Miss Ruth
Jackson is Supervisor.
, 1957-10-19
Pvt. Cdrmelo Venture
Completes Truining
With Chemical Corp.

Fort Mcclellan, Ala.-Pvt.
Carmelo Ventura, son Of MIR.
and Mrs. Pho C. Ventura OF
Christiansted, recently COM
pleted t h e enlisted entry
course at the Army's Chemi-
cal Corps School, Fort McClel-
Ian, Ala.
The nine-week course gave
Ventura instruction in chemi-
cal decentralization, smoke
generation and equipment re-
pair.
The 2O-year-old soldier en-
tered the Army last May and
completed basic training at
Fort Benning, Ga.
He attended Christiansted
High School.
, 1957-10-19
disciples of Christ"
Resolve Against
Ruciul Discrimination

The Disciples of Christ in
their convention recently IN
Cleveland, Ohio, joined with
churches in Little Rock, Ar
kansas, in the special period
of prayer asking divine guild
ance in solving the racial
crisis at the Arkansas capital.
The resolution came at the
end of the morning session of
the 1857 assembly of the In
ternational Convention of Dis
cip1es of Christ christian
Churches The delegates urged
the indignation of all congre-
cations of the church "accord-
ing to the consciences of the
various congregation mem
bers."
The resolution, which was
presented by DR.. G. M. Cook
Of indianapolis, executive Sc
cretary of the convention, de-
cried. "the sinfulness of racial
discrimination and forced Sc
gregation both within the
church and in society as a
whole"
, 1957-10-19
Several Outside Org.
Sending Observers to
w. |. Conference

PORT OF SPAIN Many
international, national a n d
other organizations have ac-
cepted the Caribbean Com
missions invitation to send
observers to the West Indian
Conference 9th SESSION. to be
held in Curacao in November,
c. F. Beauregard, Secretary
General of the Caribbean
Commission, told the Press.
The theme of this Session is
"Cooperatives, including the
cooperative aspects of agricul-
tural credit and low-cost hous
and, naturally, t h e
organizations concerned with
these and allied problems are
those which have shown great
er interest in attending, Mr..
Beauregard said.
Merlin G. Miller, Director
of International Affairs, the
Continued on page ~
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-03
By EARL H. VOSS

state Department officials are
watching what is for them a
familiar but still painful drama as
congress picks over the admins
trations new foreign policy initia-
five for the Middle East.
President Eisenhower and Sec
rotary of State Dulles conceived
their so-called doctrine as a sud-
DEN powerful demonstration of
Americas determination to pre-
vent any Communist takeover in
the area
It is now 30 days since President
Eisenhowers dramatic plea for con-
gressional approval. The House
finally Endorsed his resolution by
a wide margin last week. but hardly
in Jig time.
Much of the decisive quality the
administration sought has already
been lost in fierce Democrats at
tacks on Mr. Dulles in the Senate.
The senior chamber wants another
two weeks before it votes.
After that two Senate commit
tees will undertake a full-dress,
politics soaked study of the past
decades Middle East policies.
1t will be the policymakers' job
to reytalize the American program
for the Middle East. while under
this continuing Senate scrutiny.
Unless events pass them by, these
are the general lines the State De-
partment hopes it can follow:
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the waterway which carries West
ern Europe's vital oil supplies should
be insulated from the politics of
any one nation. If she can be per-
Suaded to accept some kind of sec
ond-hand negotiation with Britain
and France. the pressures Of world
opinion, including that of her fell
low African and Asian countries,
may be sufficient to achieve a work.
able, open waterway.
= Harmonizing of internal Arab
10 rivalries. 1t is impolitic for
American statesmen to say it, but
many of them think privately that
Britain is now reaping the rewards
of divide-and-rule policy in the
Middle East. The United States
favors abandonment of all play on
internal Arab feuds.
= Solution of the Arab-Israel
Os problem. There is no expec-
tation that this can be achieved
quickly. But it is a base objective
which the United States feels must
be worked at as soon as the rancor
of the last Israel attack has SUBJ
sided.
These are the basic policy objec-
tives of the administration. Pitfalls
ahead involve not only the disputes
in judgment with the Congress
which must foot the bills, but fast
moving events in the area.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-03
BY FRED THEROUx

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico.-Latin
America has moved step along
the road toward industrial use OF
atomic energy under the Essen
hover administration atoms-for-
peace program.
The effective use of the peaceful
potentials Of atomic energy in any
area depends, of course. on the
supply of trained nuclear engineers.
The groundwork has now been laid
to make Puerto Rico. free COM
monwealth under the American
flag, q center where students from
Latin American nations can learn,
in the Spanish tongue. the essen
tials of nuclear physics and engi-
neering.
While the beginnings are small,
the possibilities are vast-nuclear
electric power plants in isolated
areas. cheap power for local in
dustry. utilization Of the fast
developing science Of increasing
agricultural production with atomic
tools and SO on.
The program got under way at
a recently completed five-day meet
ing conducted here under the Oak
Ridge Institute Of Nuclear Studies
and the Atomic Energy Commits
sion at which experts from the
United States helped plan for the
establishment Of the necessary lap-
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whose languages are other than
English.
DR.. Clark D. Goodman. assis-
tant director of reactor develop
ment in the Acc. described the
problem graphically in the sessions
here when he said:
Language must be native,
or nearly SO. to both the teacher
and the student. You are
indeed fortunate in having an
essentially bilingual university.
Spanish and English have common
roots and hence are very similar
both in the written and spoken
languages The University of Puerto
Rico is, therefore. ideally suited
geographically. culturally and aca-
demically to serve as an educational
bridge between the Americas"
The Puerto Rican symposium
comprised seven sessions. covering
topics ranging from the role of
atomic energy in the world today
to detailed discussions OF nuclear
reactorS. radioisotopes in medicine.
the status of current nuclear re-
search, and the application OF
atomic energy TO industry and
agriculture.
Speakers. besides DR. Goodman,
included Chairman Lewis L. Strauss
OF the Atomic Energy Commission.
who outlined the possibilities in
llerent in the -for-peace pro-
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Latin America Gets Start on Atoms-for-Peoce

gram: A. NJ. Weinberg. director.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory;
w. w. Grigorieff, chairman, Uni
versity Relations Division, Oak
Ridge Institute: and r. A. Charpie.
assistant director of the Oak Ridge
National Laboratory.
Gront 10 University
AT the concluding session, Univer-
sity Chancellor Jaime Benitez hap
PLY informed the crowded audi
torium that the Acc had formally
approved grant of $2l9.590 to
the University for the beginning
of a nuclear program. Approved
were two proposals: Cd The estab-
lishment of a nuclear laboratory
and equipment for kaleidoscope
training on the Rio PedraS campus.
and 90 inauguration of graduate
school of nuclear engineering at
MayagueZ
When sufficient number OF
Puerto Rico-traincd nuclear scicn-
lists and engineers are at hand.
a nucleai reactor will be set up
on the island for further research.
With such good beginning,
prospects seem bright for the sue
cess OF center for nuclear studies
in Puerto Rico which will serve as
Latin American training ground
for the men and women who will
be the pioneers in bringing atomic
energy's immense potentialities 10
reality in the Western Hemisphere
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Intentions

The State Department sees the
So-called Eisenhower doctrine as
the first phase of a long-range pro-
gram to help compose the strife
torn Middle East.
If President Eisenhower gets con-
gressional permission to use Ameri-
can military forces against Com
munist aggressors in the area and to
spend foreign aid money where he
thinks they are most needed, the
assumptions are that communism S
advances can be stopped and in
dividual nations strength can be
sufficiently developed to maintain
their independence.
A sort of "takeoff" stage might
then be reached in which stability in
relations of neighboring states could
be established and the tensions
might be reduced. The climate
might be improved for working
through the United Nations toward
solutions of three basic problems:
4 Permanent settlement of the
l. Suez Canal issue. There is hope
that this stage could be reached
fairly soon. Egypt has agreed that
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with genuine passion and feels
almost as deeply about colonial
ism.
The penalty for violating the
broad set of ethical practices
standards just adopted by the ALL
CTO Is custer from the federation.
But Mr.. Meany doesn't want unions
to be kicked out, or to quit. He
wants the standards obeyed and,
by example in a few cases. to
obtain compliance without clusters.
Welcomes Congress Aid
Rather than resenting the con-
greSsional investigation into labor
racketeering, he welcomes the help
the Government can give to aid his
own firm resolution to further
clean UP the labor movement. His
prediction is that while some crooks
will be found, they will be fewer
than most people now suspect.
Mrs. Meany, a former union
member herself, likes to stay at
the Commodore Hotel when she
visits New York. She's proud OF
the plumbing there, because hus-
band George. back in his youth.
helped install it. Mr.. Meany has
a big family and dotes on his four
grandchildren.
He makes a fairly good public
speech. a better one when it's off,
the-cuff. His Bronx accent sneaks
IN with some desc and dose" but
he is eloquent and plain and con-
vincing. He is at his best talking
informally with union leaders. He
knows everyone's weakness and can
put any of them in his place with
a curt remark. a compliment, or a
Joke. It's said he can spot phony
a mile away"
He's man who does his home
work-when something comes up
he knows the background.
Mr.. Meany came up through
union ranks in New York City and
became president G the New York
State Federation of Labor. In that
post. he lobbied scores OF labor
laws through the State Legislature
which became model for Federal
Laws and similar statutes in other
States.
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Costs and Dangers Mount While Debate
Over Burke Airport Goes On and On

Testimony also revealed that air
traffic at National has increased 81
per cent since 1850. from 156,420
take-offs and landings to 257,762.
Five years ago Charles F. Horne.
then CAA Administrator. said
Washington air traffic had grown
to point where it is already strain
ing the physical limitations of Ma
tional."
CAA officials were jubilant then
when it appeared Congress would
appropriate funds for the airport.
Burke Airport will be completed
during the summer of 1885," said
Mr.. Horne.
The CAA had counted on Burke
in planning for the increase in air
activity which they say should
Jump another so per cent by 1860
to 375.000 movements, if not re-
stricted.
THE only trouble is, said high
CAA official at the latest hearings.
I'VE don't know how we can handle
that many movements at National.
Even if construction on the new
airport were started this spring. it
would not be ready for use until
the fall or winter of 1860. We
needed Burke yesterday"
The hazards of the crowded skies
over National were pointed out last
summer by Senator Monroney.
Democrat of Oklahoma, proponent
of the Burke site.
After two airliners crashed over
Grand Canyon, killing 1873, he said:
1T is a strange thing to me that
this didn't happen at National"
The interminable hearings have
nearly exhausted the patience Of
some lawmakers and Government
officials.
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WHILE CONGRESS DEBATES
Course Of the Doctrine Is Plotted

Congress to set aside for use until
July /.
Unfortunately pleas from the
Executive for flexible funds sound
to Capitol Hill like requests for
Congress to abdicate its constitu-
tional power of guarding the purse
strings.
Secretary of State Dulles has
not yet lost the battle for the
flexibility he deems necessary, but
he probably has been deprived of
some of the effect a freely-given
blank check might have had. Most
nations in the Middle East are
now on notice that Congress may
be a court of appeal to which any
complaints about American spend
ing can be taken.
A more basic pitfall is that the
whole principle of foreign-aid
spending by the United States re-
mains to be sold to Congress, some
10 years after the practice was
begun. A large group of Congress-
men, if not a majority. look OH it
as a temporary necessity rather
than permanent tool Of foreign
policy.
Other Problems
Other traditional divisions in the
American body polite also compli-
Gates policymaking in the Middle
East. The large Jewish vote, which
supports Israel staunchly, has put
the United States in the position of
providing aid to the 2 million or SO
advanced Israelis out of all proper
ton to that for the 40-odd million
backward Arabs.
There is also a division in the
country and in Congress about the
effectiveness of foreign aid.
A third disunity in the United
States concerns military policy. If
America were called upon to use its
armed forces in the Middle East,
there would be Widespread reluc-
lance to use atomic weapons. But
without them. some military men
say the United States could not
act effectively.
Added to these divisive forces in
side America are the differences
the United States has with its
British and French allies. over the
proper attitude toward Egypt's
President Nasser, and the political
status of Algeria, to name only two.
The prospects for the first half
of 1857. then, are for confusing
debates and less than-decisive ac-
tons by the United States in the
Middle East. The goal of the Presi-
dent and his Secretary of State
must be to hold the confusion to
a minimum and inject as much
dynamism as Congress will allow.
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oratories. research equipment and
training courses.
The session was similar to SYM
posia that have been held region
ally in the United States. 1t was
sponsored jointly by the Oak
Ridge-AEC group and the Univer-
sity of Puerto Rico, a 54-year-old
institution with an enrolment Of
$4,000 and a faculty of 1000.
In addition to the Americans and
Puerto Ricans directly concerned
with setting up the new facility,
observers from many other Latin
American countries attended the
overflow meetings.
ldeol Meeting Ground
Essentially bilingual, the Uni
versity of Puerto Rico serves ideally
as a bridge between the Spanish
speaking and the English-speaking
Americas. Students from Latin
American countries can find there
an intellectual climate which COM
bines first-class educational facili-
ties with language. customs and
environment similar 10 that OF
their homelands.
Nuclear physicists have long been
aware that the language barrier
the difficulty especially Of commu-
nlcating concepts--llas been their
thorniest problem in carrying effec-
tive training 70 science students
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increases and other benefits and in
organizing workers as yet un-
organized.
His conception of unionism is
this:
1--WE are in business TO help work.
ing people get a fair share of the
wealth they help produce. We
have to do this to make sure we
have an economy dynamic enough
so an auto worker makes enough
to buy car for himself and a con-
struction worker can afford his own
home"
He believes unions are in politics
to stay. He maintains that en-
ployers are active in politics, in
behalf OF their own goals, and
unions must be politically active to
get what they want, too.
A frequent world traveller. vitality
interested in foreign affairs, Mr..
Meany recently toured South Amer
lea, telling workers at a series of
mass meetings they must demand
greater economic concessions to
eliminate poverty and avoid conf
munism. He hates the Communists
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-03
BY AL ALIBRANDO

The Civil Aeronautics Admins
tration last week totaled up the
cost of the seven-year debate over
the proposed Burke Airport. 1t
came to:
. Millions in increased construc-
ton costs if and when the Burke
field is built.
. Mounting danger from con-
gestion in the skies over National
Airport.
. Frustrating inconvenience for
air travellers entering or leaving
Washington.
. The possibility that a potential
so per cent increase in the air
travel industry here may never
be realized.
And still the debate goes on. with
each interest group doggedly main
tanning its position on the question:
Should a big new airport be built
at Burke. Va. II miles southeast
of Washington in Fairfax County.
to supplement the hopeleSsly over
loaded and unexpandable National
Airport?
Cost Up Sl3 Million
CAA officials told about the
spiraling construction costs and
increasing traffic at National as a
Senate Appropriations subcommit-
tee ended the latest in a dozen
congressional hearings on the
Burke proposal last week. They said
construction costs have gone up
about IS per cent since 1850,
when the project was first proposed.
1t is estimated that this rise would
account for about Sl3 million of
the estimated $50 million cost OF
the project--if it were started this
spring. Costs are still rising.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-03
TOPLEVEL PLUMBER
George Meony: Lobor's Blunt Diplomat

In 1910. he was called to WASH
ington to become secretary
treasurer OF the AFL and advanced
to the AFL presidency in 1852 on
the death of William Green. In
1855 he steered the AFL-CIO
merger to completion to end 20
year split in the labor movement.
CThe Associated Pressl
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of all chance of getting a six
month training period for Guards
men.
The Guards suspicion of the
Pentagon is no mere paranoid col
lection of unfounded fears. Many
professional soldiers would be hap
pier If the Guard were subject to
the same central control as is exer-
cised over the Reserve.
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Normally. the National Guard is
under control of the State govern
ment. and acknowledges the Gov
ernor OF the State-rather than the
President of the United States
as its commander in chief. The
Governor is free to use the federally
equipped. federally trained Guard
for his own local purposes. A recent
example of such use was when
Gov Frank Clement of Tennessee
ordered his Guardsmen to sup
press violence at Clinton. where
indignation of schools was causing
trouble.
Lost ColIed in 1910
Though the Guard normally re-
mains under State control. it can
be called into Federal service during
wartime or other periods of emer-
gency. The last time the Guard
was federalized was in 1910. just
before our entry into World War II.
When the Guard goes into Fed
eral service. it loses its identity
as a separate component and be-
comes merely portion OF the Army
OF the United States. Unit numbers
remain unchanged, but that is
about all. BY the end of World
War II, for example, the New Jer-
sey National Guards 44th Division
had a Regular Army commander
Maj. Gen. William F.. Deanl and
had for all practical purposes be-
come another regular outfit.
Guardsmen frequently complain
that when the Guard is federalized,
all the gravy-train jobs go to men,
bers of what non-Regulars like TO
call the West Point Protective
Association. Regular Army men
retort that if Guardsmen amounted
to anything as soldiers. they could
hold down the choice jobs-and
point to the late 1t Gen. Raymond
S. McLain of Oklahoma as
Guardsmen who made good in the
Regular Army.
Brewery Not in Question
That the Guard can fight bravely,
and sometimes with tragic results.
is conceded by everyone familiar
with its history. An antiaircraft
artillery regiment from New Mex
leo was decimated on Bataan in
the opening phase of World War II.
But bravery is not enough, say
many critics of the Guard, point
ing out that political acumen is
no substitute for military prof.
cheney. There is little doubt that the
Guard has always had among its
leaders many consummate politi-
clans. AS an example, Col Jake
Arvey. long the Democratic boss
of Illinois. was for years the Judge
advocate general of that States
33d Division.
At the end of World War II.
staff officers III the Pentagon were
busy trying TO dope out way TO
keep the Guard under the Federal
thumb. That they did not succeed
was proved many times. most re-.
Gently in 1855 when National Guard
pressure helped kill on Capitol Hill
an administration plan Tor six
months basic training FOR every
body.