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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-08-25
News Of D. C. Studios
Mill Hits the Road

After Section 3 was deleted from the bill Mccall
frey said the jury trial amendment would b
approved by about six-to-nine vote margin.
When the Anal tally was made, the 5l-42 vote
was exactly nine vote margin He also
predicted the House will accept the Senate ver-
sion with slight modification of the jury trial
amendment. That's quite score to date.
II Joe does as well with other than-news predic-
tons, the line forms on the right.
Matthew Warren, one Of the commentators
on WTrG-5's recent telecast Of the Senate
rackets hearings, received an anonymous birth
day card. The sender merely stated, II do not
wish to sign this card on the grounds that 1t
might tend to incriminate me-"
Bill Malone CWNdAL-7) is on vacation and
filling his sports announcing spot are Pete jam
erson and Bob Pickett Jackson Weaver
(WAfAL.-7) looked more like Pirate Jack than
Captain Jack when he wore that black patch
over his eye last week :. q case Of his 5-year-
old sons misguided thumb Arch Mcdonald
lWTOP-9) is back at his Sports Roundup post
-. and it's welcome back to WRcs Al Ross,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-19
U. S. Seen Planning to Cut Private Firm
Into Federal Dam Project in California

Every now and again the
social welfare, New Deal,
modern Republican" cockade
affected by the Eisenhower
administration for sweet poll
tics sake will slip askew and
reveal the bald head of mighty
business, industrial and finan-
cial interests which contribute
so heavily to Republican cam
paigns and call so many tunes
here these days.
How powerful they are we
are learning now in the case OF
q river in northern California
the Trinity--Which has as
sumed an Importance far be-
yond It's size for what it tells
us of administration aims.
The Trinity River is part Of
the great Central Valley prof.
ect, a public project like iva
in the Southeast, and the folks
in California are just as proud
Of II as the folks in the South
east are of IVA, for each has
broadened the lives OF the
people. The Central Valley
project, built by the Federal
Government, as was IVA, en-
braces an integrated system of
dams, reservoirs, canals and
transmission lines. It's func-
ton, as described by Repre-
sentative Clair Engle, Demo-
crat Of California. is for
comprehensive development OF
the basin to protect the peo-
lle and land from floods, to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-19

furnish a dependable water
supply for agriculture and for
defense purposes. and to fur
nish power and energy at
lowest rates possible consistent
with project repayment"
The Government now is
building a dam on the Trinity
River which is in Representa-
tive Engle's district.
But these days they don't
get very far along with such
things before someone comes
along to try to mess it up. So
with the Trinity River. The
scheme this time, devised by
Secretary of Interior Fred
Seaton, is to cut the Pacific
Gas and Electric Co.. the Ma
tons second largest electric
utility, into the Central Valley
project by selling 1t the fall
ing water" from this dam paid
for by the public. The COM
pany would be permitted to
install a power plant there on
the public domain and rake in
all the profits. In so years it
would own the plant. This is
known as partnership in the
Eisenhower book, whereby the
Government builds the dam
and for its money and pains
controls the flood regulating
works. from which it gets no
revenue. and controls the fish
ladder. where there is one.
from which there is no reve-
kfie-Aand the company gets
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-19
CONSTANTINE BROWN
Possibility Seen That q Gozo Outbreak
May Be Signal for Red Drive on Korea

position to strike at the $780,
600 ROK and the $4,000
American troops south of the
38th Parallel than ever before.
But for the purposes of the
Kremlin, it is essential that
America should become deeply
involved in another area as
well, in the belief that we
could not successfully operate
on two fronts.
The naturalization of the
Suez Canal Co. was, accord
ing to available information,
not so much a Nasser as a
Shepilov-Krishna Menon plan.
1t affected the United States
only indirectly. But the Soviet
Indian bloc knew that America
is a mother hen to all the free
world and that the repercus-
slons of the Nasser action
would be strongly felt in this
country.
We stopped peremptorily the
military campaign of our Brit
iSh and French allies as we'll
as that of Israel through our
junior State Department, the
United Nations. But even this
patched-up peace was contrary
to the plans of the Kremlin.
No sooner did the handful of
soldiers of the United Nations
emergency force replace the
Israeli army in the GAIA and
Aqaba areas than Nasser went
back on the unofficial assur-
ances he had given that he
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-19

Record. he showed that, rather
than being good business for
the Government as Secretary
Seaton claims. this Pacific Gas
and Electric cut-in would be
bad for the Government in the
long run. bad for consumers.
and a bonanza for P. G. and E.
To anybody who read care
fully last November's election
returns from the West and
Northwest. in which cham
pions of the Eisenhower part
nership policy" were moved
down right and left. it would
seem foolhardy for the Eisen-
hover administration to try to
put over this patent donation
to the utilities.
But a casual peek into the
big book on campaign contri-
buttons compiled recently by
the Gore Senate Committee
offers a clue. That shows with
what an authoritative voice
California now speaks in the
Republican Party. Contribu-
tons to the Republicans in
California totalled Sl,9l3,l76.
as publicly acknowledged. COM
pared with $260,079 to various
Democratic candidates, ma
tional and State. in the State.
Five officials Of PIG. and E.
contributed Sl3.950 to the Re-
publicans. This was listed in
donations from officials Of the
88 corporations which partici-
pate in the Governments
atomic energy program. OF
the total of such. $397.342
went to the Republicans: $34.-
700 to the Democrats. Most Of
the donors were, like P. G.. and
E.. electric utilities.
They look to the admins
tration to be kind to them;
and it can be said that their
trust is we'll placed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-19
Tighter Controls Urged
On Highway BiIIboords

roads and business establish
mentS."
I Mr.. Marsh told the committee
this is not an anti-billboard pol
icy but one of control to keep
them in their proper place.
He said the AAA objects most
strongly to building costly high
ways and then exposing them to
the effects of unregulated use of
the roadsides. Highway engineers
agree. he said, that the road
strongly influences safe, pleasant
and rapid transit.
Furthermore, the AAA execu-
tive declared. unregulated COM
mercial use of roadsides reduces
the desirability of land for resi-
DENTAL and other non-com-
mercial use.
Frequently. the regions which
try hardest to attract tourists
permit Objectionable roadside
blight to the detriment of the
landscape, operators OF resorts
and the customers they seek TO
attract" Mr.. Marsh testified.
For maximum permanent
value of expressways," he went
on. attention must be given
not only to control OF access, but
also TO other elments of roadside
protection. This requires leg
islative action"
Mr.. Marsh said the AAA urges
strongly that Congress act on
this matter while the Federal
aid highway program still is in
its early stages.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-19
Far Eost-Mideost Attack Tie-Up?

would sit out a waiting period
before he returned to admin
lister the GAIA Strip. And the
fat was in the fire again, to
the great satisfaction of the
dictators of the Soviet Union.
In the meantime, the men in
Peiplng are suspected of get
ting ready to strike in the
Far East if the Middle Eastern
pot boils over.
The Chinese Communists do
not need any special prepara-
lions for an aggression against
South Korea. They have been
ready for such action since
last summer. They are con-
f1dent of success because we
have taken no steps to provide
modern military equipment
either to our own troops in
Korea or the ROKs.
Intelligence reports indicate
a concentration of Red
air power in Fukien Province
opposite the Nationalist off,
shore islands of Quemoy and
Matsu. Conquest of these isles
by the Chinese Communists
would be the first step toward
a much more difficult attack
on Formosa itself. Recently the
Communist subverSives have
shown a much greater activity
throughout Southeast Asia
and Japan.
All this information COM
pels those directly responsible
for our national security to :
draw the conclusion that an
other series of ARRAYS by
proxy is being planned for
this spring and summer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-19
Coreerists Seen Viewing Appointments
As Copricious, Political or Personal

At a time Of diplomatic and
military tension. a crisis of
morale is brewing in the State
and Defense Departments.
1t is. in both. a time Of
change Of personnel and re-
distribution of authority. What
has been done so far has
seemed to career officials to be
on the whole capricious. po-
litical or personal to the Pres
ident.
At this point some obviously
just. responsible and above all
fairly rapid solutions to places
and problems still outstanding
might halt the trend. But what
Is happening instead is a
creeping indecision.
The mpha sis in White
House conversations is on what
can't be done and who is not
liked by the President or some
important Republican in Con-
gresS. The result is that the
grapevines are heavily loaded
with rumors and suspicion.
The big sufferers naturally
are the career people who must
be careful what they say or
do. The uninhibited campaign
contributors who became even
more restless as they had no
previous experience with occu-
pational hazards of Govern
ment service. have long been
putting the heat on Presiden-
tial Assistant Sherman Adams.
Some of them have been
getting results. There is the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-19

fairly hilarious episode Of the
treasurer of the Republican
campaign, Clifford Folger, who
is pulling rank, so to speak, on
a big contributor from Michi-
gan-Fred F. Alger. Folger is
getting Ayers attractive post
as Ambassador to Belgium and
Alger is getting the gate.
Realistically, career diplo-
mats know that Paris. Rome
and London rarely fall to their
lot. even when they can-also
rarely-afford them. But for
jobs well done in tough wear
ing parts of the world they
have been able to look forward
to European posts not quite so
important but very pleasant.
They were alarmed when the
career ambassador to Russia,
Charles Bohlen. whose excep-
tional services are legendary,
got no such easeful reward.
Bohlen was offered still an
other difficult climate. Paki-
stan, and had to settle for the
Philippines.
The tragic death of Philip
pine President Magsaysay with
its ominous overtones now
gives to the Bohlen assignment
an Unexpectedly critical i'm
portance. This country is
therefore lucky. But Bohlen
must tackle a hard task in an
area new to him and again. too,
the climate is difficult.
Now the department hears
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-19

State and local government
control Of all highway billboards
was urged today by the Ameri-
can Automobile Association at a
hearing before the Senate Public
Works Committee.
In testimony prepared for de-
livery at the hearing. Burton w.
Marsh. secretary of the AAA's
Highway Committee and director
of Traffic Engineering and Safety,
stated the AAA policy as follows:
The AAA urges State and
county governments-and the
Federal Government as to the
national system of interstate
and defense highways-tf1ough
legislation and regulation, to
protect the roadside from uncon-
trolled commercial development
land unlimited access from side
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-19
THOMAS L. STOKES
Another River Power Issue

what is sometimes loosely and
colloquially called "the gravy"
This is all too much for
Republican Senator Thomas
Kuchel of California. He rose
up, along with Representative
Engle. to condemn this at
tempted disruption of the
Central Valley project. In the
criticism now of this latest Eli
senhower partnership" ven-
ture, you hear 1t compared
with the attempt to under
mine iva with the Dixon
Yates deal that finally got SO
noxious with its behind-the-
scene finagling that the Eisen-
hover administration aban-
doned it, The Seaton plan,
says Senator Kuchel, is
"fraught with many perils"
and he will not support it.
Both he and Representative
Engle pointed out that it not
only would disrupt project
intended throughout to be a
public project. but also would
violate the 5l-year-old princi-
pie established by Congress in
1906, and re-enacted l3 times
since. This is the guarantee
for preference to public
agencies, municipalities and
co-operatives In the sale of
electricity from such public
projects
Representative Engle sees it
as the beginning Of an attack
by the Eisenhower administra-
ton on the preference princi-
pie that would be extended
elsewhere. In a comprehensive
aalysis for the Congressional
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-19
Shades of Horse-und-Buqqy DAYS

Ambassador Charles E. Bob
len, who is familiar with Com
munist intrigues, is at this time
being transferred from Moscow
to Manila.
But the carping criticism
really has little to do with the
merits of all these questions.
The truth is that some men,
bers of the Democratic Party
in Congress now are outdoing
what Senator Mccarthy of
Wisconsin was accused of
doing in "encroaching on the
prerogatives of the executive
branch of the Government"
Although the President is
charged by the Constitution
with the duty of conducting
the foreign relations of the
United States. the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee
has appointed a special sub
committee whose main object
seems to be to badger the
Secretary of State at the very
time when a crisis is going on
in the Middle East.
Picayunish items in the
press are seized upon for in
quiry. Thus, when former
attache at the White House
made an off-the-cuff state
ment in speech a few days
ago about the breakup Of the
Aswan Dam negotiations with
Nasser of Egypt in 1856, the
Senate subcommittee promptly
announced that 1t would lin
vestigate."
But there's one thing the
Democratic Senators will never
investigate. and that's the
background Of the episode in
which certain Democratic Sem
atorS served a warning against
spending money for the AS.
wan Dam financing. In fact,
the Senate Appropriations
Committee early in 1856 wrote
in its foreign aid report a spe-
cif1c provision that no funds
could be used for the Aswan
Dam without the prior ap-
prevail of the committee. 1t
was quite clear at the time
that Senators from cotton
growing States were fearful Of
the competition of Egyptian
cotton grown at lower cost if
the dam were built.
Many of the Democratic
Senators. for some of these
same reasons. voted recently
against the provision in the
Eisenhower doctrine reSolu-
ton authorizing the President
to use 5000 million for eco
nomic aid in the Middle East.
If the Democratic Party thesis
of today is that NaSser should
have been given the Aswan
Dam. then the thesis of yes
terday implies that the ma
terialistic interests of a special
economic group interfered
with the peace efforts of the
United States. It's a strange
contradiction.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-19
DAVID LAWRENCE

Is the Democratic Party try
ing to turn the clock back to
the days of Harding, or even
Mckinley?
Questions like this are being
asked. not only because so
many of the Democratic mem
bers of the Senate have been
voting on the "iSolationiSt" side
of recent issues in American
foreign policy but because the
Democratic chairman of the
House Judiciary Committee
has Just announced that he is
introducing a bill to express
the will of Congress that the
President, the Vice President
and the Secretary of State
should not be "out of the coun-
try at the same time"
One is led to believe that
the airplane, which can land
alongside a cruiser at sea with
mail and official papers. or the
radio telephone or Geographic
communication from ship to
shore have not yet been in
vented. 1t seems to be over
looked. too, that the President
can be flown back to the main
land in a couple of hours.
One is led by the critics to
think also that, when a Presi-
dent of the United States goes
aboard a warship flying the
American flag, he is not on
American territory. This is
what they used to say 40 and
so years ago. in fact. until the
late President Franklin D.
Roosevelt started the custom
of moving overseas to Yalta
and other places-even dur
ing World War II-aboard
United States Navy cruisers.
Roosevelt went to sea once
aboard Vincent Astor's yacht
- a private vessel - without
arousing even Republican crit
icism.
The fact that the Secretary
Of State is out of the country
hasn't a thing to do with preSi-
dental succession. either. 1t
used to be that the Secretary
of State was next in line after
the Vice President, but this
was changed in 1947 by an act
of Congress when the Repub-
licans were in control. 1t pro-
vides that the Speaker of the
House and then the president
pro tempore of the Senate
would become President in the
event that anything happened
to the President and Vice
President. Since both Speaker
Rayburn and Senator Hayden
are Democrats, it would mean
the country would have a
Democratic administration, so
1t would seem that this is some
thing which should worry the
Republicans. not the Demo-
Gratis.
There is, of course, no func-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-19
POTOMAC FEVER
FLETCHER KNEBEL

It's lucky Secretary Dulles has Australia
Or we would have had Ike Nixon up and Dulles
down under.
Business leaders demand cut in Government spending
Ike agrees with them completelyand thinks somebody in
Washington ought to do something about it.
Some politicians remind you of the little boy who said
his schoolmae wasn't much class terrific at
population expert predicts the United States will have
228 million people by 1875 Well that's If Russia doesn't
blow this continent up, we'll sink it.
Senate probers demand Teamster financial
record Suggested headline "Beckon Becks Bucks"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-19
DORIS FLEEsoN
Morale in Diplomatic Circles

that the career ambassador to
the Netherlands, Freeman
Matthews. will be leaving but
that the campaign contrib
utors have the inside track.
The career ambassador to
Austria, Llewellyn Thompson,
is going to Moscow to succeed
Bohlen. with no career names
mentioned in his place.
The Dublin Embassy is about
to be vacated - soundly re-
ported against his will - by
William Howard Taft III. The
successor suggested by the
grapevine. Scott Mcleod, is not
only noncareer. he is heartily
distrusted by the Foreign
Service.
Mcleod is the Senator Nc
Carthy adherent and ad-
ministrative assistant to Sem
ator Bridges Of New Hamp-
shire. whose appointment early
in the administration to ham
die security . in the State De-
partment raised a storm.
The post in Ireland is not
hot" automatically. but it is
said to be delightful and eco
nomical. For Mcleod, whom
the career men felt to be so
unjust to so many of their
colleagues. to inherit it would
seem to them injustice COM
pounded.
RumorS are not appoint
ments and present complaints
may affect the course of
events. But if they prove
true, the posts handed to
career men will have suffered a
notable drop, not in quantity
perhaps, but in quality.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-19

viii a possible new outbreak
in the GAIA Strip and the Gulf
of Aqaba be the signal for re-
newed aggressive operations
by the Chinese Communists
against their three prospective
victims. the Republic of Korea,
China and South Wet Nam?
This possibility is being seri-
ously taken into consideration
by the military men in the
Pentagon.
Reports from the Middle
East indicate the so-called sur
prise move of President Nasser
into the GAIA Strip and his
double talk about freedom of
navigation in the Suez Canal
are the work of his sponsors
in Moscow, New Delhi and
Belgrade
Without the prodding of the
men in the Kremlin, the Egyp-
tian dictator unquestionably
would adopt a more concilia-
tory attitude and keep the
promise he gave earlier this
month to American and United
Nations representatives that
ne would agree to a cooling
off period. Washington hoped
that during that time some
semblance of Egyptian-Israeli
peace might be brought about.
Egypt is economically and
financially bankrupt. It's mil
itary power is less than negli-
gible. Its best troops COL
lapSed within a few days last
October under the impact of
only a small portion of the Is
raeli forces. The U. N. resolu-
tons backed strongly by
Americas persuasive argu-
ments induced Israel to evac-
uate the GAIA and Aqaba
areas. Thus Nasser'S face was
saved and he was able to
represent himself before the
Afro-ASians as a great man
who had won over the col
onialist-imperialistS." It was
broa dca st throughout the
world that Justice had won
over might" Under these con-
ditions. it appeared logical to
those who want to Judge the
present international situation
by logic that he would be sat-
iSfied with the complete VIC
tory We and the U.N. gave him
at time when his position
appeared hopeless.
There has been evidence for
some time that the men in the
Kremlin who seek to fish in
troubled waters intended to
synchronize military opera
tions in the Middle East with
similar operations in the Far
East. Moscow, it is believed
by competent military men
not only in Washington but
also in Paris and London, is
neither prepared nor willing
to tackle the United States
militarily. But it persists in
maneuvers, dating back to
the Korean aggression in June,
1850. of engaging the United
States by proxy. In this man.
ner it can continue to cause a
drain on our resources and
manpoWer. And it always finds
willing stooges. After the
Korean Communist armies
were crushed. Moscow pushed
the Chinese Communists into
battle This operation cost us
100000 casualties and more
than SIS billion We concluded
a shaky armistice after three
years of fighting. Now the
100000 Chinese and Korean
troops north of the 38th
Parallel are in a far better