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Evening star., 1958-05-01
DAVID LAWRENCE
Describing the Recession

increases for the products
manufactured.
There are indeed a num-
Der Of "paradoxes" In the
situation. The labor leaders
are elamoring for q tax cut
10 benefit persons In the
lower bracket Of incomes, the
theory being that this will
add TO purchasing power
generally. But II Is not a
broad increase In personal
income that Is needed so
much as q remedying Of the
conditions that have brought
on the decline In the hard
goods industries.
All sorts OF proposals, in
volving many billions OF dol
lars OF Government spending.
have been made inside and
outside Of Congress 10 stimu-
late the economy. But the
real cause OF the recession
the dilemma OF the hard
goods industries-hasn't been
tackled yet, and until II is.
these industries, which have
the biggest amount Of un-
employment, are not likely
TO recover very soon.
Secretary OF Commerce
Weeks put his finger on the
weak spot in the economy
when he said TO the US.
Chamber Of Commerce meet
ing:
IF you could change de-
probation schedules TO a
more realistic basis, this
would be the greatest shot in
the arm TO the economy"
Mr.. Weeks suggested that,
II businessmen we're per-
mitted TO take tax deduc-
tions for depreciation ac-
cording to a schedule they
chose at the time they made
an addition TO or replace
ment Of plant or equipment,
1t would not make any diff
ference TO Treasury receipts
in the long run. 1t would en-.
courage plant renovation and
improve efficiency to the
point where prices could be
held in line.
Depreciation" however, is
a technical term and few
people outside Of business
understand it. II the public
could grasp its true meaning
and would urge that some
reform of this kind be in
stituted at once, it would
surely take the Nation out of
the recession in a relatively
short time and lay the foun-
dation for a steady growth of
the national economy.
Reproduction Rights Reserved
Evening star., 1958-05-01
Kremiin Seen Seeking to Show World
Ills Forcing u. S. Into Summit Talks

Are we being pistol-whipped
by the Russians into q sum-
NIT meeting?
This is the question asked
by those who have been
watching the attitude OF the
Soviet government over the
last few weeks. II Is difncult
for any observer 10 reconcile
the original almost prayerful
pleas OF the men In the
Kremlin for a meeting Of the
Big -Four with their present
offensive and truculent at
titude.
To understand the situa-
ton better. a recapitulation
OF what has happened in re-
cent months is in order. The
Soviet leadership started
more than two years ago the
campaign for competitive
co-existence" between East
and West. This campaign
was prompted by a number
OF speeches, statements and
interviews with prominent
American newsmen by Soviet
leaders. 1t was the signal TO
fellow-travelers and neutral
list spokesmen in the West to
start shouting. I'VE want a
summit meeting" The an
swer from Washington, in the
words Of President Eisen-
hover, was I'VE want deeds
and not words"
The Soviet leaders, Bull
ganin, Zhukov and Khru-
shchev (the first two are now
out OF the picture) undertook
a letter writing campaign
direct to our Chief Executive.
which would fill a volume
about the size of Gone With
the Wind" The tenor of
these letters was that a sum-
NIT meeting would solve all
the present tensions.
Despite the advice from
some Of the unofficial White
House counselors to try the
Evening star., 1958-05-01

They're going 10 need a
new dictionary here soon 10
understand the recession"
The descriptive words being
used are somewhat novel.
Thus President Eisenhower
says at his news conference
that "the decline is flattening
out" while Alan H. Temple.
executive vice president OF
the First National City Bank
OF New York and q noted
economist. declares In q
speech before the u. s,
Chamber OF Commerce meet
ing here that "the founda-
ton for the bottoming-out Is
developing"
The President was talking
about the drop In the unem-
ployment figures for April.
The use Of these phrases as
sumes that the average man
is familiar with the graphs
and charts that portray the
way the month-by-month
figures on employment. pro-
duction and sales 90 up or
down or stay on the same
level. So when the line on
the chart "fiattens out" It is
a basis for hoping there will
be no further decline. II
some day there is an "up-
turn" then the horizontal
line may we'll turn out TO
have been the bottom" OF
the recession.
Mr.. Temples analysis is
significant because it implies
that maybe we shall stay on
the same horizontal level or
bottom" for some time. He
says:
Our greatest concern in
this business decline is not
its depth. which should not
be gravely below present
levels, but the time required
TO resume general growth
and to retain the prosperity
Of which this country is
capable"
What is meant here, of
course, is that, while condi-
tionS may not get any worse
and no deepening of the de-
cline may materialize, it soon
will become a matter of con-
cern as to how long the ma
tional economy will be riding
along on a horizontal line or
even on a slow and protracted
climb before normal" condi-
tions are back again. Mr..
Temple adds this explana-
ton:
Evening star., 1958-05-01
DORIS FLEEsON
Eisenhower's Statement Seen in Line
With Political Attitude Since 1852

Anything President EiSen-
hover says about Vice Pres
tdent Nixon is news, even If
the President only reaffirms
an existing condition which
is all that he did at his press
conference this week.
The President said he had
no responsibility to groom a
successor, that this is up to
his party which has a lot of
darn good men," This is COM
pletely in line with Mr.. Eisen-
hower's political attitudes
from the moment of his first
nomination in 1852.
The President handles his
own political interests with
great skill, even flnesSe. He
has shown no disposition to
handle the political interests
of others or Of his own party
beyond the normal ceremo-
nial.
Again this week he en-
phasized that he was giving
his Vice President access to
large areas of inside Govern
ment information because it
was his duty to do so. Mr..
Eisenhower has spoken
frankly of his special obliga-
tion in this matter due to his
health.
But again this week the
President left wide open the
question of actually training
Mr.. Nixon to be an executive.
The Vice President has had
legislative experience, but he
Evening star., 1958-05-01

has never spent an hour in
an executive Job.
Mr.. Nixon is sensitive to
this vacuum in his record.
He very much wanted an
executive post within the ad-
ministration. preferably one
dealing with foreign affairs,
another field where he has
great information but no re-
sponsibility for making de-
cisions. Secretary of State
Dulles has managed to veto
that. The President has not
only accepted the Dulles
view that it would be an un-
constitutional delegation of
power but has stated it pub
licly.
President Roosevelt made
Sucn a uelegatlon OF power TO
Vice President Wallace in
World War II by naming Mr..
Wallace chairman of the
Board of Economic Warfare.
But Mr.. Dulles is described as
remembering all too clearly
the trotbles his uncle, Secre-
tary Of State Lansing. had in
the Wilson administration
when Mr.. Wilson inserted
Col. House into the channel
between the White House and
the State Department.
The President strongly de-
MED that he would resign the
Presidency or cease to per-
form its duties so long as he
was physically able. He APP
Evening star., 1958-05-01
POTOMAC FEVER
FLETCHER KNEBEL

The United States Chamber Of Commerce meets in
Washington First executive what about this space bs
nessP Second Prey SLOW Even the sputniks were
down in the first quarter"
It's reported Harry Truman favos Senator Symington Of
MISSOURI Tor President Symington stays middle ground
he always runs best between conventions
For teen-agers only: Icicle-a drip with purpose in
life NNO'' -
Sales OF sack dresses lead the recession
AS one woman put 1t to her husband: Well what do you
want? Boom bust?"
One politician he's learned his lesson Last time
he ran against sin all his friends hadn't voted twice
he would have been licked.
People are beginning to trade houses as they would
cars The idea to work way up into neghborhood
where people will think you your wife's gardener
Boss Nasser of Egypt visits Moscow Khrlshchev "Whens
your next free elecon?" Naser Same day launch the
next Israel bond drive"
Evening star., 1958-05-01

Russians once more, Presi-
dent Eisenhower stood his
ground and the preSsures
from abroad. Last fall he
went 10 Paris 10 attend a
meeting OF the NATO heads
Of states. He hoped 10 in
duce them 10 strengthen the
fabric OF that alliance. In
stead he was pressured,
especially by our British and
French friends, 10 adopt a
more liberal" attitude to-
ward the Soviet urgings for
a summit meeting. He prom
said 10 do so.
Secretary Dulles feared a
Russian trap. He convinced
the Chief Executive that be-
fore we agreed on a time and
date for a Big -Four meet
ing, an agenda and Q pre-
liminary agreement on the
major topics TO be discussed
by the four heads of states be
worked out at the ambassa-
dorial and foreign ministers
level. The Russians accepted
reluctantly and in bad faith
our request. But they had an
ace up their sleeves. The
Soviet foreign minister,
Andrei Gromyko, received the
Western ambassadors in
dividually instead Of col
lectively as it had been un-
derstood by these three
powers.
When we protested-mildly
this breach Of faith, he
sprang the usual Soviet trick:
the Soviet government want
ed parity" in these negotia-
tons and demanded that the
representatives Of two Rus
sion puppets. Czechoslovakia
and Poland, should sit as
equal partners at these meet
ings.
But from the moment the
Muscovites started playing
these diplomatic tricks on us,
Evening star., 1958-05-01
Basic American Message Preferred
To Models as the Center of Focus

Everything, my friend told
me, is so contemporary and
transient as to suggest that
America has neither past nor
future but lives wholly in the
present.
But America is tradition as
we'll as movement and change.
And America has a focus.
That focus is belief in the
high destiny of humanity and
in the American mission to
help realize it "for ourselves
and all mankind" Maybe it's
difficult to express that focus
in a show, but it's expressed
in all our great monuments
to the heroes who have be-
lieved in it and recorded their
faith in immortal words. OF
these the greatest is the Lin
coin Memorial.
How many millions of
Americans and others have
mounted the long flight to
the room where the homely,
ungainly somber President
sits. imposed, in bronze? The
face wears no photogenic
smile. Loneliness, even trag-
edy, emanate from the figure.
But more impressive than
the statue are the words of
the Gettysburg Address and
the Second Inaugural carved
tall in stone. Once l heard
Charles Laughton repeat
them in a reading. He spoke
without any infection of his
voice or change in facial ex-
preston. He told me after
wards, II thought of stone
speaking. I wished to absent
myself"
Words are more immortal
Than stone, steel or bronze.
They live in minds and hearts
Evening star., 1958-05-01
CONSTANTINE BROWN
Are Reds PistoI-Whipping Us?

their mood grew ugly. There
we're no longer any pleas and
deep concern for "the secu-
rity Of the world and saving
the human race" They ae-
centuated their demands by
hauling the United States
before the u. N. Security
Council with the trumped-up
accusations that the security
patrols Of the Strategic Air
Command. guarding America
against a sneak attack by
Soviet planes. were threaten
Ing the Soviet Union in the
polar regions. The Mus
covites entered the second
stage Of their diplomacy.
Our scared British and
French allies, who had stood
firmly by us on the principle
OF collective ambassadorial
discussions with the Kremlin,
changed their tune. Since
we were so reluctant to ac-
cept the enslaved govern
ments Of Czechoslovakia and
Poland as equal partners
there would be no harm, they
told Washington. TO have the
discussions with Gromyko in
dividually and separately.
The Russians know that
under the impact OF "domes-
tic political necessities" the
London and Paris govern
ments will leave no stone un-
turned to get this country to
a summit meeting. Hence, 1t
is speculated by those ac-
quainted with the Soviet
strategy. Moscow will miss
no chance henceforth to give
this country a number of
black eyes. The summit
propaganda has been aptly
described as a propaganda
gimmick to increase the power
Of international communism.
This program" would be
considerably enhanced If the
Russians could give the i'm
preston that they are drag
ging us by force to the green
table. And this is what most
observers in Washington fear
is likely to happen.
Evening star., 1958-05-01
DORIS FLEEsoN
The President and Mr.. Nixon

peared to feel that he was
being charged with plotting
with Mr.. Nixon to step down
so that Mr.. Nixon might en-
Joy the advantages of incum-
bency in 1860.
Democrats do not think he
has such a plan or would
make one on his own motion.
They do expect that the same
pressures exerted on Mr.. Eli
senhower In 1856 by Repub-
licanS fearful Of defeat will
be exerted again in behalf of
a Nixon incumbency and for
the same reason. The Presi-
dent yielded in 1856 despite
his heart attack and ileitis
surgery after frankly saying
he could not be as vigorous
as before.
Perhaps the opposition
party is guilty of a rather
cynical asperity in suggest
ing that such pressures would
again succeed. But Demo-
Gratis are honest in their be-
lief that the Republicans will
be badly beaten in the mid
term elections this fall and
will be even more desperately
seeking new sources Of
strength in 1860.
In 1852 when Republicans
nominated the victorious
general of the World War II
armies, they had rs Govern
ors and held most of the
pivotal States. Today they
have l9 Governors and have
lost even farm belt State
houses. These are the polit-
ical realities and little time
remains to reverse the trend.
Evening star., 1958-05-01
Catholic loymen

The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Joseph C.
Fenton will speak at a luncheon
meeting of the Catholic Lay
mems First Friday Club at
1890 pm. tomorrow in the
National Press Club. Msgr. Fen
ton is professor of fundamental
dogmatic theology at Catholic
University and editor of The
AEerican Ecclesiastical Re-
view.
Evening star., 1958-05-01

MY column suggesting that
we ought to have something
better to serve visitors to the
Brussels Fair than a cuisine
centered around the hot dog
found some spirited oppo-
nents and defenders of the
hot dog. l never suggested
there should be no hot dogs
but that the CANNES should
be kept on a leash and that
we should have one restau-
rant to appeal to gourmets.
It's not un-American to like
a little refinement.
In the fashion parades. we
are showing mink coats and
original models by our top
designers as well as cheap
and pretty cotton dresses
from the jobbers.
l haven't seen the fair, but
an editor friend who has,
complains Of more funda-
mental things. He says the
United States pavilion of
Architect Edward D. Stone,
a light, airy design in con-
centric circles, is beautiful,
but that the exhibit as a
whole presents an aspect of
restless confused movement
without a focus, a picture of
a civilization that is going
hectically toward no discern
ihle goal.
The circles gather around
a pool. actually the center of
the show. Down a ramp to
q raft in it models parade -
making girls and clothes the
focal point Of American
culture? The background is
dominated by a mural of the
cartoons of Steinberg whom
I find amusing without un-
derstanding the prominence.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-29
2 Newspaper Boys
Robbed by Youths

Two newspaper carrier boys
were among several persons
robbed last night. Washington
police reported.
Donald J Moon. Is, of 14l0
Irving street NE, a carrier for
The Star, told police two boys
took SIS from him in the 100
block of Lawrence street NE,
and William Green. Is, of 1247
w street Sc, a Washington
Post and Times Herald carrier,
lost about $40 to two boys who
threw him to the street. He was
accosted at Thirteenth and
Pleasant streets Sc.
All of the asSailants were de-
scribed as colored youths.
In another case, Miss Doro-
thea Jackson, 81, a clerk in a
Highs Dairy store at 1882
Trinidad avenue NE, was
choked by one of four teen
ayers as another of the group
took $50 from the cash drawer,
police said. She was not hurt.
The youths were colored, police
said.
In a fourth robbery. Roy
Gregory, IS. of HOO Tenth
street N w., was forced to give
UP SIC to two men who pushed
their way into his apartment
building just after Mr.. Gregory
had admitted his brother Louis,
AZ, and sister, Frances Peters,
81. both of COL M street NV.
Mr.. Gregory was hit in the
chest. The men were described
as colored, wearing brown caps.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-29
Mrs. John Nuhon,
Widow Of Former
Railroad OfficiuI

Mrs. John Duncan Mahon,
IS. widow Of a former Pennsyl-
vania Railroad official died last
night at her daughters home in
Falls Church. Va.
Mrs. Mahon was the niece of
the late George w. Adams, one
of the early owners Of The Star.
Her parents were John Quincy
Adams and Elizabeth Moore
Adams. She was born in
Georgetown. and except for
brief stays in Wilmington and
Baltimore. spent her life in
the District. Her husband died
in 1885.
She lived for a number of
years at the Kennedy-Warren
apartments. Last July she
moved from 1910 Connecticut
avenue NV. to live with her
daughter. Mrs. Elizabeth A. M.
Hight, at sos Westcott street,
Falls Church.
Mrs. Mahon had three older
sisters. all Of whom died within
the past two years. They we're
all IS years old or older at the
time of their deaths.
Survivors, besides her daugh-
ter include three grandchildren
and two great grandchildren
Funeral services will be held
at 2 pm. Monday at Gawler's
Funeral Home. l756 Pennsyl-
vania avenue NV. Burial win
be in Oak Hill Cemetery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-29
Blood Donor
Drive Given
More Time

The Red Cross Metropolitan
Area blood donor campaign
has been extended to April is,
and possibly may continue to
the end Of the month, it was
announced yesterday.
A. Burks Summers, chairman
Of the drives city division, who
presided at a report luncheon
at the District Chapter House,
2025 + street NV, told leaders
and workers that interest in
the pioneer program was grow
ing each day.
The area-wide goal is pledges
from 100000 persons that they
will give ct least / pint Of
blood this year.
Reports from the Govern
ment and the counties are
fragmentary to date. Volun-
teers at yesterdays luncheon
were told that 10.858 pledges
had been turned in from the
District.
These include the business
division Qarge firms with
5,545 pledges; the city divi-
sion large Office buildings)
with 4,353 donors; the residen-
tial division, with 1855, and 325
recruited at booths.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-29
3 Held in Theft
Of Sports Car
Found Stripped

Police lodged grand larceny
charges against three men
yesterday in the theft of a
1857 sports car found stripped
|of its motor and other equip
|ment.
The police said Sue Soder-
berg. II, of 1854 Loughboro
road NV. a Woodrow Wilson
High School student. was the
owner of the car. a graduation
gift from her father. The car
was stolen on March 10 out
side the school.
After a tip that the car was
hidden in a garage in the TOO
block of Twelfth street Me-,
police found it and were on
hand when Joseph Green, rs,
of the 800 block of Sixteenth
street Sc. and Ernest F. But
Ter, 20. of the TOO block Of
Twelfth street NE, arrived,
according to Detective Sergt.
Delmar F. Reed and Detective
Ed Guggenheim.
instruments and gauges were
found in the car they came in,
police reported, and the auto
belonged to a relative Of the
third man arrested, William B.
Pierce. jr.. %. Of the 100 block
of Todd place NE. All three
men denied the charges.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-29
Hearing to Resume
On Swimming Pool
In Chevy Chase

The Chevy Chase swimming
pool hearing will be resumed
on Thursday, April 10, at the
Bethesda County Building.
The date was decided upon
late yesterday by the Montgom-
cry County Board of Appeals
which is hearing a petition fol-
a special coming exception to
allow the pool to be built at
7401 Brookeville road, Chevy
Chase.
The April 10 hearing will be-
gin at 9 am.
The application of the Chevy
Chase Recreation Association
seeks to permit a community
swimming pool on a 4.5-acre
residential tract now used as
the home of DR.. William Chase,
a dentist with ofhces in Wash
ington.
The proposal has met vigor-
GUS opposition from many resi-
dents Of the community, none
of whom has had q chance to
testify yet.
At the opening session Thurs
day, only six witnesses were
heard, all proponents Of the
pool. Some 1875 persons damned
the Peoples Courtroom to hear
the testimony.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-29
Nicholas z. Chumos, 50,
Restaurant Owner in D. G.

Nicholas 2. Chumas, SO. a
Greek immigrant who became
successful in the restaurant
business here. died yesterday
at the Washington Sanitarium.
Mr.. Chumas, a native of Vel
vendos. Greece. came to this
country in the early l9O0s. Sew
eral years later he settled in
Washington, and worked for
many years as a waiter at the
willard Hotel.
Later, he owned a series Of
restaurants. Until his retire
ment in 1912, he owned the
Riggs Restaurant at Fifteenth
and p streets NV.
He is survived by his widow,
the former Irene KoSkouras.
who came from the same VIII
lage in Greece. Other sur
vivors are a son. James N.
Chumas. of 800 QuackenboS
street NV; a daughter, Mrs.
Mary Trainor, of 6611 Twenty
fourth avenue, Riggs Manor.
Md: two brothers, John 2.
Chumas. of 31S Allison street
NV, and George z. Chumas,
of Greece; one sister. Mrs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-29
M. Lundy,
Retired Engineer

Walter M. Lundy, So, an OPP
Grating engineer for the District
and Federal Governments for
many years. died Wednesday at
his home, 1904 Illinois avenue
NV.
Mr.. Lundy was born in New
Haven, Conn. He came to
Washington about 1923. Until
his retirement because of ILL
ness seven years ago. he spent
most Of his time here working
for the Government.
Survivors include his wife.
Mrs. Louise Lundy. and a
daughter, Mrs. Edith M. Watts,
both of the home address:
another daughter, Mrs. Eleanor
M. Bankes Of Altadena, Calf. ;
a son. William A. Lundy Of New
Haven, and seven grandchil-
dren.
Prayers will be said at $3.50
am. Monday at Chambers flu
neral home, 400 Chaplin street
NV, followed by a requiem
mass at Nativity Catholic
Church, COOL Thirteenth street
NV. Burial will be in the Fort
Lincoln Cemetery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-29
Unemployed
.PoyCIuimunts
Are Reduced
By the Associated Press

The number of workers claim.
ing unemployment benefits
dropped by 10000 during the
week ended March IS, the La.
Dor Department says.
However. the total jobleSs
claim figure of 3,264,l00 fol
that week was $4,000 higher
than in mid-February.
Thirty-three States reported
decreases in claims for the week
ended March Is. But increases
were noted in several other
States. including 1890 in
Michigan, $500 in Illinois, 1900
in Indiana and $500 in Texas.
The rise in these States was at
tributed chiefly to additional
auto plant layoffs.
The Labor Departments Bu-
reau Of Employment Security
said yesterday nearly $4,000
jobless workers exhausted their
benefit payment rights during
the first three weeks of this
This brought to $751;.
900 the number Of persons who
have used up their claims since
the start of the year.
The administration this week
proposed a so per- cent extern
sion of the period in which job
less persons can draw unem-
ployment compensation.
The bureau said new claims
dropped by 5000 during the
week ended March %. The
total was 404.500 for the week.