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RALPH McGILL
Marriage by the Laws of Lenin

was there, and we all bowed
and exchanged greetings and
best wishes.
The second marriage was
Of another sort. The bride
wore a smarter dress. The
groom had on a neat blue
suit. The friends looked like
senior college students. The
mother and father we're
coated and suited.
Weddings are all alike in
the sense that the groom al
ways is nervous. This one
was. He took out a neatly
folded handkerchief and
patted his brow. The slender.
pretty girl was calm and
serene. She was an aviation
technician. He was a student
of aviation design.
1t would be the worst OF
folly for the West to fail to
understand that one of the
strengths of Khrushchev's
communism is that it recog-
nizes talent and makes use
OF it. To be sure, it does so to
serve the Marxist detectives
of the state. But it recog-
nizes talent. That is impor-
tant. Khrushchev himself ID
an example of that fact.
There were other mar
riages of shop girls and me-
chanics, of students and
technicians, young scientists
and language specialists.
There was a certain pathoS
and sweetness about them.
The Westerner kept want
ing to hear the words whom
God has joined" but these
young people knew nothing
Of that. They loved one an
other, that was sure; and q
Communist government, after
an error in the sos. has
learned that the family is the
basis of national strength.
Still, from this witness
there were good wishes, but
also a wish to hear the words
of the sacraments.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-27
Relative Unknowns on House Labor Unit
Resist Pressure in Backing Reform Bill

Five comparatively young
and comparatively unknown
members of the House of
Representatives, four men
and a woman, have deliber-
ately leapt from safe cabin
berths to a CLANCY raft that
hobs now in a wide and dan
gerous political sea.
Whether they will come to
safe harbor in the next cleo
ton or whether they will
sink will not be the least
important of all the tests
provided at the polls in 1860.
For what they have done is
to take a great risk in de-
tense of a principle bigger
than all of them or any
party. Theirs happens to be
the Democratic Party. But
the question they embody is
not partisan, or even ideo-
logical.
They have assumed, these
five people on a raft, that
at the end the voters will
permit politicians to act on
tough national issues in the
pubic interest, rather than
only in some group interest.
They have assumed that in
the end Congress has an in
eScapable duty to perform on
such issues, come what may.
These five are Representa-
tives Stewart Udall of Ari-
iona, Carl Elliott of Ala
bama, Edith Green of Ore
gon, mes G. O'Hara
of Michigan and Frank
Thompson, jr.. of New Jer-
sey. 1t was they who through
five weeks of bitter, cursing
Wrangling, of harsh compet-
ing labor union and pro-
management pressures with
in the House Labor Commit
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-27
RALPH McGILL

MOSCOW. - You'd love
Wilikenia and Anatolia Fela-
TOW, for whom was a witness
as they were Joined in we'd
lock here in Moscow. Also
Natasha and Georgi and
Anna and Andrea, for whom
I was present as they took
the VOWS to live according to
the laws Of Lenin.
1t is rather easy to get
married in the Soviet Union,
and, while for the Christian
whose image of marriage is
that of the church the cere-
mony is something Of a shock,
it isn't nearly as cold as that
of city hall in American civil
marriages. In fact it seemed
to me that Magistrate Reg
istrar Zoya Fideeva, of the
Office in Kutuzov'S Prospect
street, ought to be decorated
with an order Of the govern
ment. She made a nom
Christian marriage in the
Soviet code have meaning
even to a WeSterner.
One of the troubles in the
matter of understanding is
getting rid of ones images.
The Soviet Union does not
subscribe to Christianity.
Therefore its marriages are
civil. They are fairly simple.
The two engaged come to
the registry Office. There they
signify their intent. Usually
family and friends are with
them. On average days 80
will be married. Their di-
vorce rate is no worse than
our own.
1t could be, or so it seemed
to me, a cold ceremony but
for the very warm and dedi-
Gated Mrs. Fideeva, a nice,
pretty brown-haired lady of
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POTOMAC FEVER
By FLETCHER KNEBEL

Now that Nixon and Khrushchev have ushered in the
of sidewalk diplomacy there's talk of holding the
summit conference in Macys window
Democratic Chairman Butler signs truce with Leaders
johnson and Rayburn Terms Instead of rebukng them
for holding their fire, Butler will applaud them for standing
by their guns.
LouanaS Gov Long urges Symington- Kennedy ticket
in 1860 Kennedy hackers it's the old Long
Shrewd but inclined to get things backward.
This may be Captive Nations Week to people, but
when Nixon and Khrushchev get together, it's mutual
celebration of Captive Audience Week.
Union Boss Jimmy Hoffa threatens Bob Kennedy.
It's little uncertain whether Hofa the Transfers
Or charity bazaar for lawyers.
New Army-Ar Force promotion route: Cd Brig. Gen.
~ Maj Gen 90 1t. Gen. "a Gen. 80 Gen. Dynamics,
Electric Motors.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-27
WILLIAM S. WHITE
Five Who Stunned Purtisunship

pay and pocketbook, they
had to run perils of special
poignancy. They knew that
the national good, the good
of their own party and the
good of Congress itself as an
institution of representative
government required some
thing more than the simple
either-or attitudes of other
partiSanS.
1t is easy. as a labor"
Congressman, simply to say
no. no, to each and every
proposed restriction upon
labor. 1t is easy, as a "busi-
ness" Congressman, to cry
yes, yes, to every one. But
it is not easy to draw a mid
die line which. in a matter
such as this, pleaSes no pres
sure group on either side.
This, all the same, is where
the five took their stand.
They said to labor about this:
We are still basically for you
and not against" you. We
have no intention to destroy
you. But you will not even
listen to any real change of
any kind, even though we
know-and you really know
too-that some changes must
be made. You will denounce
us? Very well, if you must.
But we are the peoples
elected representatives-in-
Guiding yours. We asked for
the responsibility to make
the laws. We are going to
discharge the responsibility
we asked for. We are going
to do it in everybody's in
terest-not least, your own
interest. And We are going
to make the parliamentary
process work.
1t will be interesting to
see, now, what labor does
next year to this raft of the
five that hobs upon so wide.
so dangerous-and so lonely
"a sea.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-27
DORIS FLEEsON

The seemingly innocent
barter program under which
mounting SURPRISES of farm
products are supposed to be
exchanged for strategic ma
terials from foreign nations
has become a matter of hot
controversy between Congress
and the Department of Agri-
culture.
The program. which has
been warmly Endorsed by
Representative Cooley of
North Carolina, chairman of
the House Agriculture Com
mittee, was abandoned by
Secretary of Agriculture Ben
son year before last. Last year
Congress specifically included
it in a law extending the
power of the Agriculture De-
partment to dispose of sur
pluses. A conference report
on the bill insisted that the
barter program be taken up
again in earnest. To the
contrary, critics of the De-
partment say, it has been
minimized to a nubbin of
usefulness.
Mr.. Cooley, having de-
SPARED of persuasion, is now
trying to get Congress to put
into law a mandate requiring
the Agriculture Department
to step up the use of barter
to get rid of excess wheat,
cotton and other crops.
The main official objection
to the barter program is that
1t interfereS with cash sales.
The House Committee has
besought from the Depart
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-27
Law Forcing Exchange of Farm Surplus
For Strategic Goods Is Seen Likely

ment a single instance in
which this has been the case.
The two cases cited by De-
partment officials, on inves-
tigation. have not been &C
copied by the Committee.
1t is Mr.. Cooley's position
that when surplus sales of
farm produce are made for
dollars. it drains away for
eign owned dollars that
would be spent here anyway
for something else. He also
concludes that when sales
are made for the so-called
soft" currencies of other
nations, this merely results
in building up a surplus of
unneeded currencieS, and Of
ten means a loss when the
currencieS decline in value.
In a spirited defense of the
barter program before the
committee, Representative
Anfus, Democrat of New York,
who despite his Brooklyn orr
gin is something of an expert
in agriculture economics.
pointed out that storage of
surplus farm products is
costing 81 million a day cur
rently. If the whole sur
plus could be replaced by
stored strategic materials,
chiefly metals. storage costs
would drop by half billion a
year or more.
Failure to use the barter
program is permitting the
Russians to sell wheat to
such of our allies as The
Netherlands and Japan.
Where our wheat exports
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-27
Power Over Police Held Preventing
Protection of Non-Striking Steel Men

work. One is from East Chi
cago, ILL.,, dated July "a, and
says:
"A dispute over an open
gate policy at the Youngs-
town Sheet a. Tube Co.'S
Indiana Harbor works seemed
likely to delay the issuance
of pay checks to striking
United Steelworkers there
today. About 600 members of
the United Steelworkers Lo-
cal l,0ll voted last night not
to allow nonunion personnel
to enter and leave the plant"
1t so happens that pay
checks for period Just before
the Nationwide steel strike
began are due now. The
youngstown Sheet and Tube
Co. has several hundred SUI
pervisory employees who are
not unionized, and they are
locked up voluntarily in the
plant because, once they
leave, they would not be al
lowed back into the Office
building by the union picketS.
The unions had proposed
that some union personnel
needed for the issuance of
pay checks could go back into
the building long enough to
write the checks. but imme-
diately after this task was
finished, they would not be
allowed to return, and the
supervisors also would be
locked out once they left the
plant. The company refused
to make such an agreement.
Another dispatch on the
same kind of dispute came
from Pittsburgh on July 81.
1t said that an agreement
was reached to allow the free
passage of personnel to and
from the Pittsburgh and
nearby Aliquippa works of
the Jones & Laughlin Corp.
But the agreement was made
only after the company had
applied for an injunction in
the local county courts. The
joint statement of the union
and the company read as
follows:
1.-The union and the cor
poration have agreed that all
supervisory and salaried en-
ployeS in the corporation
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tee, stood steadfaSt upon an
unalterable position:
That the committee must
bring out labor reform bill.
That it must be a bill actu-
ally doing something to curb
labor abuses. That it also
must be a bill that would not
destroy labor. That, above
all, it must be a bill-simply
a bill-to prove that Con-
gresS was strong enough to
legiSlate, not merely to talk,
in an area of extreme pre-
presidential campaign sensi-
tivity. 1t is due most of all to
these five that the commit
tee has now come through
with a measure on which the
House itself can act in due
time. 1t was long touch and
go as to whether the ex-
tremeS within the committee
would not simply paralyze it
beyond any action at all.
The Labor Committee has
80 members altogether. All
have in one degree or anoth-
er their problems Of political
survival, their convictions
and their prejudices. But it
was upon this small band of
five that there beat the
f1ercest and most pitiless of
all the pressures of these five
weeks. And it was at their
heads that the bittereSt
cries of "betrayer" were flung
by labor spokesman.
For these five are all lib
erals. Most - if not all -
never would have been in
Congress without labor sup
port. In the ordinary def1ni-
ton, they were "pro-labor."
Thus against the violent
oversimplification which pol
itics produces on issues of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-27
Automution Tried
At Church Service

CHICAGO, July 81 (AP).-
Attenuation has come to re-
ligion. Choir, organist, altar
and prayer books were re-
placed by two slide projectors,
a motion picture protector, a
spotlight and a large screen at
a non-denominational worship
service yesterday.
An Episcopal minister
preached. The service was held
at the Audio-Visual Associa-
ton convention.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-11

equipment not under roof at
this time. He said the commits
sion hopes to build a two-story
building that will provide Office
space on the second floor and
some 35 to 40 bays to handle
the road equipment.
In addition, he proposes an
other structure to handle
smaller equipment such as lawn
mowers, cinder spreaders and
compressors and bins for the
storage Of maintenance sup
plies.
The project is expected to
cost $l50.00O to 100000.
Norman Pritchett, commits
sion chief engineer, said con-
struction will depend in part
on what action Congress takes
to fulfill the Federal Govern
ment's commitments under its
big interstate road program.
At present, Maryland is sitting
tight on all new projects to
make certain that it is able to
meet the commitments on
projects already under way.
In charge of the Montgomery
Office is Resident Maintenance
Engineer Joseph B. Kuhns.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-11
Alexandra
Dog Owners
Face Action

Alexandria is sending both a
plea and a notice of caution to
its thousands of dog owners.
The city council recently
adopted an ordinance which
subjects animals running at
large to impeachment and pos
sible destruction.
However, before it begins en-
forcement of the new law. the
city is trying to insure that all
owners are informed.
The law does not require that
dogs be leashed, but specifies
that they must at all times be
under the immediate control
of their owners if they are on
other peoples property.
City Manager Edward G.
Heatwole warns that animals
not under control of owners
will be picked up and after
five days destroyed or given to
new owner.
The Alexandria Amin "a |
Shelter will charge SO for the
first "a hours a dog remains
in the pound and another $1.50
for each additional "a hours.
The new ordinance was en-
acted after numerous COM
plants that stray dogs were
biting children and causing
property damage.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-11

| the title from her grandfather
Baron Richard Won Kutschera
she said.
Mrs. Venable, whose home is
at 7l8 North Jordan street,
Alexandria, has been in the
United States about six years
she said.
The naturalization ceremony
was witnessed by Swiss Am
bassador Henry de Torrente
and members of his family.
Sworn in by Hart
The new citizens we're sworn
in by District Court Judge
George L. Hart, jr.
Greetings were delivered also
by Mrs. Dora Waters, chair
man of the Americanism Com
mittee of the Daughters of the
American Revolution, and by
Meyer j. Sawyer, vice chair
man of the Committee on Citi-
zenship of the District Bar As
ISOLATION, which secures guest
speakers for the naturalization
ceremonies. Mr.. Sawyer in
troduced Representative Toll
and Mrs. Waters.
Following the ceremony, a
reception for the new citizens
was held in the courthouse
lawyers lounge by the Women's
Bar Association and the Dis
trict Council of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union.
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you. AS citizens you can now
participate in the operation OF
American government, even if
it only consists of voting for
those who seek to be elected"
The Representative then
added: This privilege will be
available to the District,
hope. in the very near future,
1t is now available to all those
who live outside the District.
RenOunceS Title
Pretty Mrs. Birta Anna Ven
able, 90, a former Austrian
baroness, now the wife of
Army Sergt. Tage M. Venable,
, stationed at Fort Myer, re-
.nounced her title of Baroness
Won Kutschera in becoming a
Citizen of this country. Renun-
citation of any such title is
necessary for person to be-
come a naturalized United
States citizen. She inherited
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-11
BY the Associated Presn

How big is an acre OF to-
bacco?
The Agriculture Depart
ment's crop reporting experts
believe there may be some dis
crepancy between an actual
acre and one judged by some
Maryland farmers to be such a
unit.
They say that some farmers
in that State think Of an acre
as the land area a man and one
horse can cultivate in one day.
This method of measurement
is a carryover from Colonial
days.
The department will make a
field study this year and next
to determine the relationship
between Maryland tobacco acre
ages as reported by farmers and
acreages actually available for
harvest. This information is
needed, it says, to provide more
accurate statistics.
Officials said some tobacco
farmers measure an acre by q
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-11
Job Preference
Of Veterans Hit

BALTIMORE, Aug. IL (AP)
Less preference for military
veterans seeking jobs with
the State has been recon-
mended by leaders of the vet
Grams themselves.
The Veterans of Foreign
Wars State Council of Admin
istration announced yesterday
it has approved changes in the
law which now make some
veterans top candidates for a
job solely because of their
military service.
THE veteran no longer needs
that boost" stated Michael F.
Bonadio, employment officer
of the VFW, which has $4,000
members in Maryland.
Bonus points now are given
veterans who take examina-
tionS for Maryland merit
system jobs. Disabled veterans
receive 10 and others S. They
are sufficient to make some
veterans eligible even though
they failed the exams.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-11
Butler Bill Asks
u. S. Return Lund
For Maryland U.

Senator Butler, Republican
of Maryland, today pressed for
hearings on a bill to transfer
SO acres of Federal owned
land in the middle of the Uni
verSity of Maryland campus to
the University.
The tract is part of EOS
acres donated by Maryland to
the United States in 1885 for
the Bureau of Mines and the
Fish and Wildlife Service. At
that time. the land was on the
outermost boundaries of the
campus.
Senator Butler said the
United States now owned 14.2
acres at the university. His bill
would leave under Federal
control the present buildings
for the bureau and Wildlife
Service.
This land is needed badly
by the university for the ex-
pansion of its classroom facili-
ties" Senator Butler wrote in
a letter to Interior Committee
Chairman Murray, Democrat
of Montana. He said a hearing
Followed by. congressional ac-
tion would prevent a severe
Strain" upon the present plant
at the university, which is ex-
pecting a lib per cent enroll
ment increase within the next
10 years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-11

in a series of Baltimore hold
ups. Police also are trying to
link the men to holdups in Bel
Air, Md, and Richmond, VIM
chester and Harrisonburg, Va,
the Associated Press reported.
State police and city detec-
tives at York said they sur
prised the suspects yesterday in
an attempted armed robbery at
the Motor Loan Service, Inc.
Three city detectives and two
State policemen reported that
they nabbed Fear in the loan
company Offices on the second
floor Of a building in the York
business district.
Police Commissioner w. j.
Bynane said Fear mad bound
the manager, Joseph Kovach,
with bailing wire, and vas
tying up an employee, Miss
Charmaine Moul, 81, when Of
ficers barged in.
Gerlach, who was driving the
getaway car. was caught about
two blocks away from the loan
office, police said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-11
Tin York,Po.,
Quizzed on
Area HoIdup

Two men arrested in York,
Pa, yesterday are being ques-
toned about the robbery Of a
Household Finance Corp. office
in Alexandria last July 81, po-
lice reported.
Detective Capt. Thorn a s
Woods said a message from
York police Unidentified the men
as James H. Fear and Robert
Gerlach Of Baltimore.
The finance office in the
Bradlee Shopping Center on
King street road was robbed OF
$436 by two gunner who tied
up two of the Office personnel
Data Exchanged
Capt. Woods reported that
Alexandria and York police
had been exchanging informa-
ton regarding the case.
He said several finance Offices
in the York area had been
robbed and that the suspects
employed methods similar ia
those used in the Alexandria
holdup.
Police said the men also were
questioned about $4,000 taken
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-11
Death Sentence
Review Granted

RICHMOND, Aug. IL (AP)-
The State Supreme Court Of
Appeals has agreed to review
the conviction of Grover Earl
Lucas, sentenced to die for the
pick Staying of his wife.
Lucas, 48-year-oid unem-
ployed Roanoke auto mechanic,
was charged with the April %,
1858 pick Sayings of his wife.
Connie Maxey Lucas. and two
children, Dennis Freddie Lu-
cas-, IL, and Mildred Joyce
Lucas, 8, and the injuring of
Dorothy Mae Smith, a daugh-
ter of Mrs. Lucas by former
marriage.
Lucas was sentenced to die
June S, but the execution was
stayed pending the appeal.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-11
VALC Groups
Set Meetings

RICHMOND, Aug. IL (AP)
Several Virginia Advisory
Legislative Council committees
and legislative commissions
will meet here this week.
A VALC group studying the
States forestry laws meets to-
day. A commission studying
public school curriculum reg
ulationS meets tomorrow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-11
Road Commission Buys
Tractor Office, Garage

The Maryland State Roads
Commission has bought an 10
acre tract near Gaithersburg
to be used as a new Office and
garage for its Montgomery
County maintenance program.
The land is alongside the
Baltimore g. Ohio Railroad at
Browns Station road. about a
half mile north Of Gathers
burg. The commission paid
$36,637 to Charles Herman
Rabbit for the land.
District Engineer L. E. Nc
Carl said the Montgomery Of
flee has some 10 pieces of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-11
Health Course Set

BALTIMORE. Aug. IL (AP)
"A course in industrial medi-
cine and occupational health
will be presented october
and 8 by the postgraduate COM
mittee of the University OF
Maryland School of Medicine
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-11
80 New Citizens Hear
Of Hope for DC. Vote

Representative Toll Democrat of Pennsylvania today told
SO newly natrazed American citizens that he hoped the
residents of the District will be able to vote
Speaking naturalization ceremony in the large
mona courtroom in the United States Court House Repre-
sentative Toll said:
"a whole of opportunity is today
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-11
IS AN ACRE AN ACRE?
Maryland Tobacco
Gets U. S. Survey

specified number Of plants. The
department uses the standard
1880 square feet as an acre.
The Sidney herald., 1959-08-26
r l. DORE'S
GRANDSON MEETS
DEATH

Mrs. Ellen Dore of Denver, who
has been visiting relatives in Sid
ney and Fairview the past few
weeks. received word Tuesday
morning that her 81 year old
grandson, Monty Sedlinger, had
drowned that day. Mrs. Dore left
shortly after the word came, ac-
companied by her daughter, Mrs.
Henry Levno, and her s~ister-in-
law, Mrs. Arcade Simard, to. return
to Denver.
The accident victim is survived
by his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Mar
vim Sedlinger and a younger
sister, all of Denver. Mrs. Sed-
linger will be remembered by
friends in Sidney as the former
Viola Dore.
No particulars have been learn
ed here in regard to the accident,
Mrs. Dore said that her grandson
was a fine swimmer and one of
his chief outdoor sports was water
skiing.