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The Omaha guide., 1958-03-07
Lucille Washington

Mrs. Lucille Washington, age
Is ears. of 2424 Charles St,
expired Monday Febr. 10, 1858
at a local hospital.
A native Of Hopkinsville, KY,
she has been an Omaha resi-
dent IS years.
She is survived by her hus-
band, Perry Washington Of
Omaha; 3 daughters, Mrs. Doris
Bemore of Oklahoma City,
Okla. Gloria Jean and Gladys
charlene OF Omaha; 5 sons,
Perry, Jr., William, Marshall,
Tyrone of Omaha, and Donald
of Newport. RI; 7 gran1child-
rem; 2 sisters, Mrs. Noley Gray
and Mrs. Mary Eliza Hunt of
Hopkinsville, KY; 2 brothers,
Gobel Cant and Dan Cant of
Hopkinsville. Ky; nephew, Dal-
las Cant of N.Y.C.; niece, Mrs.
Ann Reeves of Toledo, Ohio,
and a host of other relatives.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-15
A Disarmament Plan

But to Frances allies in NATO.
the biggest news of the De Gaulle
government last week was an an
nouncement by Andre Malraux.
noted French writer who has long
been the generals chief adviser in
such public relations as he has
permitted himself, that France
would soon have a disarmament
package" proposal of her own.
NATO's interest in this not un-
expected development was a
major one. In Geneva, on July /,
representatives of the United
States, the Soviet Union. France,
Britain, Czechoslovakia and Po-
land will begin talks on methods
of properly policing and control
ling an international suspension
of nuclear testing. But France is
known to be almost ready to ex-
plode her first test nuclear weapon
on the sands of the Sahara, and is
considered certain to oppose or
delay any ban on testing until
France has blasted her way into
the worlds atomic club"
Since France is already sigma
tory to the Vests latest disarma-
ment proposal, made at London
last year, which includes ban
on nuclear testing. the statesmen
of Washington and London are
ready to proceed at Geneva-on
technical, not political, subjects
on the assumption that Gen. de
Gaulle's pledge to observe French
international commitments pre-
supposes French cooperation in
the test talks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-15
Summit Talks:
A New Prod

When the technical experts
begin talks in Geneva next
month on ways and means of
policing an international suspen-
sion of nuclear testing, they will
be, in effect, a sort Of base camp
on the long way to the summit
conference.
The Soviet Union last week
prodded the United States and
Britain once again on the summit
conference proposal. A long let
ter from Soviet Premier Khru-
Shchev to President Eisenhower,
the text not yet released. re-
portedly reiterated previous So
Wet proposals and positions on
a heads-of state meeting, and
again urged that it take place
in the nearest future.
Secretary of State Dulles told
reporters that the KhrushcheV
letter appears to be an effort
to push us more rapidly and more
certainly toward a summit con-
ference" Mr.. Dulles, while stead
tasty denying that he opposes a
summit meeting, has taken the
position that such a conference
must have some advance guaran-
tees of accomplishment If it is
not to be a farce and betrayal
of world hopes for peace. Last
week, British Prime Minister
Macmillan, in Washington for an
official visit, agreed with the
Dulles stand
But the Soviet Union has re-
Gently stepped up a barrage Of
charges, in broadcasts and news
papers. that Mr. Dulles is the chief
obstacle to a summit conference.
Moscow Radio. quoting East Ger
man reports. told its listeners that
Mr.. Dulles had sent secret in
structions" to American diplomats
to impede progress toward the
summit And in Moscow. Mr.
Khrushchev told reporters at a
British Embassy party, that Ger
tain elements in the United States
are trying to prevent a summit
conference" Asked to identify the
elements" the jovial Mr.. Khrush-
chev replied in one word. Dulles "
Pre- summit negotiations in
Moscow between Foreign Minister
Gromyko and the ambassadors Of
Britain, France and the United
States were in a state of suspen-
sion last week. The halt is ex-
pected to be temporary, and prob
ably caused by the Kremlin's de-
sire to get a reply to the latest
Soviet note on the subject to
Washington and London.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-15
House

HR l254l. Department of De-
Tense Reorganization Act Of 1858.
Clevenger Republican of Ohio
motion to recommit the bill with
instructions to amend it as re-
quested by President Eisenhower.
Rejected 1921.
FOR: Broyhill, Republican Of virsinia;
Hyde. Republican OF Maryland.
AGAINST: Harrison, Democrat of Virginia;
Smith, Democrat OF virginia; Landlord,
Democrat of Maryland
HR 1881. Trade Agreements
Extension Act of 1858, providing a
five-year extension of the Presi-
dents authority to enter into trade
agreements. Reed Republican of
New York motion to recommit
the bill to the Ways and Means
Committee. without instructions.
Rejected 146-268.
FOR: None
AGAINST: Broyhiil, Harrison, Smith. Lank-
ford and HYDE.
HR 1891. Passage of the bill
Passed 3l7-98 ID 184-3s; R 1850 .
FOR; Broyhili Harrison, Smith. Lankford
NOT VOTING; Hyde.
CBy Conversational Quarterly
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-15

the Federal Government. have
grave doubts that Alaska is
economically capable of assuming
the responsibilities that go with
statehood.
20. The admission of Alaska, a
non-contiguous territory, would
set a precedent for the admission
of other non-contiguous terrific
ries, the customs and traditions
of which have non-American
roots.
"3. The new State of Alaska
would required extraordinary aid.
Those persons who favor the ex-
tension of Federal power at the
expense of the States would seize
upon this as an excuse to extend
increased Federal aid to all States,
and State sovereignty would be
further diminished"
Opposes Lond Grant
He called the proposed grant of
public land to Alaska the great
est giveaway ever incorporated in
a statehood bill,' and questioned
the constitutionality of another
provision which would allow the
President to withdraw parts of the
nearly uninhabited northern por-
ton from the State.
On the other hand, Senator
Thurmond said, sit is possible to
provide Alaska with form of gov
eminent which would give its cit
liens a greater degree of local
self-government without the dis
advantages of statehood"
The idea of a commonwealth
and even of union with Canada
has been kicking around Alaska
for many years. too, but only a
few are serious about it.
Why?
THE only way we can get our
full political rights is by state
hood" Mr.. Rivers emphatically
responded I'VE want it because
of the feeling that the recognition
implicit in statehood would put
Alaska on the map. so to speak,
and thereby stimulate settlement,
investment and development"
Alaskans, who voted two-to-one
for their state constitution in
1856, know that statehood will
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-15
Disreqords Challenges

The tall, cold. austere Premier
made other moves in a cool dis
regard of the challenges being
hurled at his moderate course
from the furiously disillusioned
rightists On Thursday. he indi-
Gated to Tunisian President Habin
Bourguiba that he was ready to
enter into an agreement on OUT
standing differences with that
Moslem nation, a former French
protectorate, on the basis of the
good Offices proposals made in
April by American diplomat Rob-
ert Murphy and his British col
league, Harold Beeley.
1t was that same good offices"
proposal that had brought the
swift downfall of the government
of Premier Felix Gaillard and
brought the French Fourth Re-
public to the political crisis that
brought the Algerian instruction
and the recall of Gen. de Gaulle
In addition. Gen. de Gaulle
Cd met with economic experts
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-15
TT CAN'T FAIL NOW
Is This AIaskas Week?

cost them plenty. But now. they
argue, they are paying full Fed
eral territorial taxes, and anyone
who doesn't want a change in
their sovereign powers win have a
chance to vote down statehood II
the present bill passes.
Rejection Of statehood by Alas
kans, though, is unlikely.
A Rich Territory
The territory is trimming with
valuable minerals and other
wealth. Tin, iron ore, copper and
coal-all are to be found in gen.
erous chunks. Even the gold once
sought by adventurous prospectors
is still being extracted from the
Fairbanks area creeks by a pros
porous mining company.
Near Sitka and Ketchikan, ply
wood and pulp mills are opening
new avenues Of profit. And south
of Anchorage. busting business
city of $4,000, oil rigs are bringing
up black gold IN quantities that
set the citizens OF to file leases on
more than rs million acres.
That's where the Federal Gov
eminent stepped in, clapping a
virtual ban on unlimited oil drill
ing on vast expanses Of range
where only moose can wander UNI
restricted.
That's typical of our problems
under colonial status as terri
tory" Mr.. Rivers said. "A state
government would be much more
flexible to our needs"
Flexibility is an essential in
Alaska. Its 10000 citizens in
clude 10000 Indians, Eskimos and
Aleuts and about $4,000 military
personnel and their families. The
weather in Ketchikan is mild all
year long, while the temperature
in Fairbanks jumps from Sd be-
low in winter to 95 degrees in sum-
mer. Its terrain includes North
Americas highest peak. Mount
Mckinley 10000 feet, and some
of the continents richest farm
land near Palmer.
No Donce Hall Girls
No longer are there dance hall
girls in raucous saloons in Juneau,
nor do the lonely prospectors bring
back glittering caches of gold from
strike along the Yukon. A rush.
hour string of cars lines the APP
proach to Fairbanks two cross
river bridges the same as those
between Washington and Vir-
ginia. Drive-ins and skyscrapers
of up to Is stories line the festive
streets of all its major cities.
But some of the old spirit per-
sists. A motorist in trouble on the
Alaska highway can depend on
the first approaching car to help,
and the bearded sourdoughs who
haunts the First avenue taverns
in Fairbanks will gladly regale
you with tale of the golden past.
One of them, in his early 80s,
peered out from under a stocking
cap not long ago and told a
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner re-
porter:
Statehood? Sure I'm for it.
The last President l voted for was
Mckinley, and then I came to
Alaska. I'd like to vote again be-
fore die"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-15
A ReopproisoI Begins

But Mr.. Malraux's announce
ment seemed to make it plain
that France was ready. while
technically observing her previ-
GUS commitments, to in effect
head of a test-suspension agree
ment by Offering a brand-new
proposal.
One immediate result of the
Developments in France has been
a quickened pace, both in Wash
ington and London, in the serious
reappraisal now going on of West
Germany's future role in the
Western alliance. Although Gen.
de Gaulle's actions and pro-
nouncements so far have been
reassuring to the West in the
matter of French support of the
Atlantic alliance. there persists
grave misgivings as to the actual
extent and dependability Of that
support.
Even If Gen. de Gaulle succeeds
In consolidating his power. the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-15
Eruption on Cyprus

Another trouble spot Of the
Middle East was torn with new
violence last week. Cyprus. Brit
ish island bastion of the Turk
ish coast, exploded in bloody riot
ing, shootings and burnings last
week end. The violence this time
is between Greek Cypriots and
their Turkish neighbors: up to
yesterday at least 10 persons had
been slain in the savage fighting.
Britain acted swiftly to quell
the communal Tioting. Para
trooper reinforc e m IN is were
flown to the island. an absolute
curfew was enforced. and rolls OF
barbed wire separated the Greek
and Turkish communities in Nj
COSTA. Limossol and other towns.
British Governor Sir Hugh Foot
warned both Turks and Greeks
that he would take all measures
to restore order.
At the bottom of the fierce hos
tility between cypriots Of Greek
and Turkish ancestry who have
lived peaceably together for CEN
turtles is the Greek movement for
"enosis," or union with Greece.
The Turks, a minority in Cyprus,
fear union with Greece would re-
suit in their being overwhelmed
and their national institutions
ignored. Turkey itself 1.as been
demanding that Cyprus be par
titioned between Turkish and
Greek Cypriots. a solution vehem-
entity opposed by Athens and ths
Cypriot "enosis" leaders.
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dicker with rebelliouS Frenchmen
unless the acceptance of the prop
Ell seat of authority were conceded
properly and unequivocally.
In another direct challenge to
the self-assumed powers of the
Algiers inspired Committees of
Public Safety, Gen. de Gaulle dis
patched Guy LamaSsopre, pro-
fesSional civil servant, to Ajaccio,
capital of insurgent Corsica, to
take over the government of that
island from the Committee of
Public Safety which had seized
civil and military power over the
island birthplace of Napoleon
Bonaparte. Mr.. Lamassoure was
met at the airport by Col. Jean
Thomajo, army officer sent to
AJaccio by the rebellious Algerian
junta to head the Corsican Com
mittee of Public Safety.
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ing of the 36-day rebellion against
the pro-Western government of
President Camille Glamour. Even
as official United Nations observ-
erS were arriving at Beirut and
Tripoli, at least three major bat
ties between government security
forces and bands of Moslem and
Druze rebels erupted in and
around Beirut.
The U. N. observers we're the
vanguard of an observation group
approved by the Security Council
by l0-to-0 vote Wednesday.
With the Soviet Union abstain
ing, the Council acted on Leba-
mons complaint that neighboring
Syria, now a province of the
United Arab Republic, was arm
ing and equipping Lebanese rebels.
and that the UAR was interfering
in Lebanese internal affairs.
Lebanon's Foreign Minister.
DR.. Charles Malik, came to Wash
lngCon aIJer MS Victory IN the
Security Council to seek larger
United States economic aid for
his embattled country. He talked
at length with Secretary Dulles
ION the situation in Lebanon and
the Middle East" Mr.. Malik told
reporters, adding Il am absolutely
convinced that the United States
means well for Lebanon and the
Middle East"
Whether the two foreign min
listers discussed possible military
assistance from the United States
was not revealed, but the Amer
lean Sixth Fleet remained in the
Eastern Mediterranean, obviously
prepared for any contingency.
Under the Eisenhower Doctrine,
which Lebanon alone had ac-
cepted among the Arab states,
military intervention by United
States armed forces could be
made if Lebanon requested.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-15
BY WILLIAM MacDOUGALL
star staf Writer

Firecrackers, champagne. flags
and foghorns are coming out of
packing cases this week on Amer
ica's last frontier.
"It'll be the biggest celebration
since WI Day" promised an en-
thusiastic young Alaskan, IF only
they make us State"
Brawny, busy Alaskans believe
last week belongs to them--but
most of the folks from Ketchikan
to Barrow (about as far. by air.
as from Washington to Fort
WORTH have their fingers crossed
that the Senate win not disap-
point them. Indications are the
Senate will consider the question,
already passed by the House, late
this week.
Alaska is closer to statehood
than it has ever been.
IF it fails now, it might take
10 years to build UP our drive
again." declared Ralph j. Rivers,
Fairbanks attorney who was
elected in 1856 to the make
believe title of Representative
from Alaska. He and Senators"
william A. Egan, grocer from
Valdez, and Ernest Gruening, once
governor of the territory, were
dispatched by the voters to pound
the doors of Congress for adj
mission.
They have found many friends
in a year and half in Washing
ton. All Democrats, they were
enthusiastically joined in the fight
by Gov. Mike Stepovich, another
ex-lawyer from Fairbanks, and
Interior Secretary Seaton, both
Republicans.
Some Opponents, Too
But there are opponents, too
a sizeable number of Senators
who have sizeable doubts about
the Sprawling territory whose
| population is concentrated almost
entirely in a dozen towns and
cities. Southerners privately ad-
nit they are afraid two Alaskan
Senators would be inclined to vote
with the North ON civil and States
rights.
The biggest question mark in
the whole affair is the possibility
of an amendment to the House
bill. That, according to Senator
Jackson, Democrat of Washing
ton, who will lead the floor fight
for statehood, might kill it. State
hood opponents in the House
could probably pigeon-hole the bill
if it ever came back to them, as re-
quired if the bill were amended.
Nevertheless, according to Sen
ator Jackson, 1.-THE prospects for
approval were never better than
right now. l think we have the
votes to pass It,"
There is no evidence of fill
buster in the making, he added,
although the Southern bloc is ex-
pected generally to vote against
the bill
Senator Thurmond, Democrat
of South Carolina, lists these
reasons why he opposes Alaskan
statehood:
Il. 1t is an undeveloped ter
ritory in which the principal
activities are those conducted by
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-15
THE FOREIGN SCENE

to seek a solution to the pres
ent French financial crisis,
which threatens bankruptcy; 90
launched national bond-selling
drive with a radio-television APP
peal for public support: 90 told
his cabinet of his ideas for sweep
ing changes in the French consti-
tutional system, giving French
Presidents the power to dismiss
Premiers and to dissolve the Ma
tional Assembly; "a perhaps set
a ''Napoleonic" pattern for future
cabinet meetings, when he called
the ministers together, told them
of his plans, and then abruptly
dismissed them without discus
sion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-15
Powell, Most Controversial Congressman,
Finds Success in Rocking the Boot

Scott, prepare a false return, and
that he advised her to file a false
return.
Mr.. Powell says he's not guilty.
Does he owe the Si.663 to Uncle
Sam?
II don't know" he says. But
if I do, it's up to the internal
revenue to collect it," Tomorrow.
his attorney. Edward Bennett
Williams. will file motions asking
that the charges will be dismissed
on the grounds that the magazine
editor, william F. Buckley. jr.,
tempered with the grand jury
when he mailed its members
copies Of the magazine criticizing
Government delay In the case.
Last month, Mr.. Powell got the
boot from Tammany, whose
leaders said that their action was
based not on the Congressman's
tax troubles, but on the fact
that he supported Mrfl Eisen-
hover in 1856.
1t doesn't. incidentally. always
take Is months of elaboration
for Tammany to act in such mat
tiers.
Democrat, Tommony or No
Although Tammany said Mr..
Powell was no longer Democrat,
Democratic National Chairman
Paul Butler-probahly not mean
ing to take issue with Mr.. De
Sapio wrote Mr.. Powell a
Dear Adam" letter a few days
after the Tammany action signed
Paul" that began: Il am enclos-
ing, your charter sustaining mem
bership card No. 825 lin the DEM
ocratic Party] for 1858. AS one of
the most loyal and helpful men,
bers of our party. you. :"
What does Mr.. Powell have to
say about his party status as his
workers canvass Harlem for sig
natures on a petition that will
put his name on the Democratic
ballot in the August IL primary?
II am a Democrat and I want
to remain one" he declares. But
I don't have to win, because I'm
already on the Republican line"
And there is the formula for
political success. He takes. the
Republican Endorsement, an
nounces he's a Democrat. wins
the primary and the election, and
doesn't owe anything to either
the Democratic or Republican
Party.
Regarded as Mortyr
Thus, this year Harlem's
cher-congressman, in addi-
ton to being the No. champion
of Negro rights, is regarded in
Harlem as a fighting martyr, and
still more than that, martyr to
the cause of Negro rights.
But what about the tax charges?
The trial hasn't started yet,
and indeed, there might be no
trial. after all.
This Mr.. Powell might point
out in his sermon today. The
subject is: Judge Not That Ye
Be Not Judged"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-15

doubters argue. there is still more
reason to expect Germany to be
of more reliable help in the West
ern alliance than a France eager
to regain a vanished GLORY"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-15
NEARBY VOTES

Votes of the nearby Maryland
and Virginia legislators on major
roll calls in Congress last week.
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Lebanon:
More Trouble

Violence in the once peaceful
Republic Of Leanbon fiared up
yesterday into the heaviest fight
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1958-05-31

group relations.
Special delegations from Puerto
Rican, lndian-Amcrican and Span
ish-spcaking groups will provide
wide dimension of analysis.
In defining the scope of the
institute, DR.. Herman Long, di-
rector of the AMA's Race Rela-
tons Department, said:
This is an institute which
deals with the crucial issues of
racial and human relations in
eur national life. Beyond the daily
events and the processes of So
cial change, there are urgent
questions of decision and action.
AT the base of this challenge to
individuals and group lie mat
ters of ultimate commitment to
religious. human, and &4nocratic
values. They are the final meas
lires of the wisdom and justice
with which we endow leadership
and action"
Over the past ii years. the
Race Relations Institute has pro-
vided lay and professional COM
munny leaders the opportunity to
develop new understandings Of
the major minority group situa-
tons. In the role of lecturers or
consultants have been some of
the worlds outstanding authori-
ties in the field. Among them
have been:
Gordon w. Airport. Department
of Social Relations, Howard Uni
versity; Lester Granger. Execu-
tive Director, National Urban
League; Phillip M. Hauser. chair
man. Department OF Sociology.
University of Chicago; Lillian
Smith, Author and Lecturer: Ro-
bert c. Weaver, State Admins
traitor, State of New York. and
p. l.. Prattis, Executive Editor,
Pittsburgh Courier.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1958-05-31

from the bitter attacks Powell
made over the weekend.
Powell told the rally this was
q whites mans country" and
he called his Negro political
opponents Uncle Tom" tools
81 white political bosses. He
denounced Desapio as . mis-
sissippi boss" and accused him
Of trying TO change Harlem
into Mississippi"
WALKING THE STREETS
On Sunday, at the AbySsinian
Baptist Church, of which he is
pastor. Powell warned Jack and
DeSapio to avoid walking up
and down the streets of Harlem" y
He said that I'VE would not sub
ject them to the degradation of
attacks similar to those Vice
President Nixon suffered on his
recent Latin American trip, but
we will make II very uncomfort-
able"
The NAACP emphasized II was
non-partisan, but Il defended
powelrs support of Eisenhower
in the 1886 election TO the extent
Of saying that there were other
Democrats who bolted their