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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-03
DORIS FLEEsON
Buffers Democratic Party Victory

convention procedure or ma
newer could be the decisive
factor in the nomination.
1t will be many months
before a decision has to be
made about the choice of
convention chairman with all
its enormous potential. The
conversations on 1t are start
ing very quietly in the inner
circle. The post has long
seemed a vested interest Of
the Speaker. but that almost
surely will be challenged at
some point.
The same is true of other
key posts, including the
Craftsmanship Of the resolu-
tons committee which drafts
the platform. The expert
compromises Of the Con-
gress are usually entrusted
with this one. q tradition
which will undergo review
and possible revision.
With few exceptions. the
new directors of Democratic
affairs are younger, better
educated and more flexible
than the old lions. They are
just as partisan, but they
are noticeably less brash
than the old-st1le politicians
were when they scented vic
tory. The reason is obvious:
The newcomers take power
in an age whose extreme
dangers they see clearly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-03
POTOMAC FEVER
FLETCHER KNEREL

On fecv = "i-7zleS ri how ConEressmen manage TO
hire relatives He his kinfolk fee town
at the mere mention Of a steady job.
the spirit Of compromise, offers the allies either Of two
approaches-take it or leave 1t.
Representative Brooks well fire two rockets at Venus
Is that really Sportingto shoot at gal with arms?
New Jerseys Gov Meyner returns from trip to South
America. Since he didn't to Moscow it's assumed he's
only running for Vice President.
Defense Secretary McEroy he wants to quit
Problem Of No space left in town to put all the
committees and agencies
Democratic headquarters chides the G. O. p. as big
business party The only big thing Democrats tolerate in
business government.
One candidate the only difference between himself
and his opponent one Of degree: I'm good He's bad
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-03
Strauss Is Defended
In Dixon-Yotes Pact

cial Of First Boston Corp. a
banking house which helped in
the Dixon-Yates financing, also
acted as a consultant to the
Budget Bureau on the power
problem.
Last month, Senator Kefau-
yer, declaring that Mr.. Strauss
had played a key role in the
contract, asked for the results
of any Justice Department in
vestigation bearing on Mr..
Strauss pending nomination.
In reply, on February "a. Mr..
Rogers wrote that no such in
vestigation was pending and
that there had been no findings
in the Justice Department re-
flecting against Mr.. Strauss.
Senator Kefauver then declared
Mr.. Rogers answer was eva
sive."
Now pending before the Court
Of Claims is suit by the Dixon
Yates interests against the
Government for costs allegedly
incurred before the contract
was Cancelled.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-03

America may not sit by
waiting for Chicago or De-
troit or New York TO be de-
stroyed by missiles that is.
accepting the FIRST blow--be-
fore letting loose our power
Of massive retaliation. Amer
lea instead might conceiv-
ably strike first in what has
become known as "pre-emp-
tive" rather than preventive"
war
This Is the inference that
can be drawn from the testi-
mony Just given by the Sec
rotary of Defense. Neil Nc
Elroy. before the House
Space Committee. Mr.. Nc
Elroy emphasized that the
present policy is not to strike
the first blow but whether
that always will be true is
another matter" Representa-
tive Mccormack Of Massa-
chusetts. Democratic leader
of the House, promptly COM
mented that he was encour-
aged to hear America might
change its strictly defensive
policy under certain circum-
stances.
This episode is the climax
of a long discussion that has
been going on in military cir
Giles in Russia and the United
States. beginning in Febru-
airy, 1866, when Nikita Khru-
shchev became the number
two man In his country and
enunciated what has since
become known as the 'Khru-
shchev doctrine" It is a
policy of striking the first
blow so as to prevent what
is called surprise agrees
SION" This was the term
used in an article in the Red
army Star in March, 1855.
written by Soviet Marshal of
the Armed Forces, P. Rot
mistrov, when he declared:
I'VE must not allow ourselves
to be taken by surprise"
After reporting in June.
1855, the opinions expressed
by military men in the So
Wet Union. U. S. News &
World Report also published
on December Is, 1857, an
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-03
National c Chairman Called Strengthened
By Victory on 1860 Convention Site

of those who voted against
the De pio-Arvey Lawrence
line argued that the old mas
tiers weren't really trying any
more or they couldn't be so
ineffective. :
Mr.. Buffers victory must
linger sweetly on his tongue.
Few national chairmen have
had q tougher time between
the upper milestone Of the
party's creditors and the
neither milestone Of those OPP
posed to his resolute liber-
alism.
He has survived TO COM
mand the organization Of a
national convention which
holds IS statehouses. COM
mands the Congress and ex-
poets to nominate the next
President. 1t will be a con-
vention also which will be Pc
culiarly sensitive TO the .di-
rection it will get from the
top, because no presidential
candidate has anything like
a commanding lead and no
one section Of the country is
looked to for the predicted
electoral triumph.
1t will be the first wide
open convention Democrats
have held in decades. Not in
conceivably some point of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-03
Possibility That US. Policy Might Shift
Seen From Testimony by McEIroy

article on Surprise Attack"
by Capt. w. d. Puleston,
retired United States naval
ofiicer and the author Of
many books on the strategy
Of war. This article produced
a lot of comment In Soviet
military circles and on the
Moscow radio. but, so far as
is known. 1t was the first
public recognition in Amer
lean military circles that a
surprise attack could be fatal
and that 1t must be avoided
even II, under certain circum-
stances, 1t could mean in
fiicting the first blow our
selves. This undoubtedly Is
the situation that Secretary
McElroy had In mind in his
testimony on Monday. Here
is what Capt. Puleston sug-
gested:
"Our Government also
should make 1t equally clear
to the Soviets that we viii
not stand idly by and wait
to be attacked-that we will
not permit any nation to
prepare and mount a sur
prise attack upon this coun-
try or any Of its allies.
IF Russia-or any other
nation-should give positive
evidence that 1t is preparing
such an attack. the United
States should Immediately:
81. Alert its armed forces
and deploy them for instant
attack upon the threatening
nation.
20. Serve immediate notice
upon the threatening nation
that, unless 1t dismounts the
attack preparations within a
specified brief period Of time,
the United States will attack
in self-defense. without wait
ing to be hit first.
Then, If the Russians or
their satellites should defy
this warning, the United
States would be in a position
to get at least an even break.
II the enemy should attack,
we could attack simultane-
ously. If the enemy should
persist in its preparations to
attack, we could-with honor
attack first, and thus gain
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-03
CONSTANTINE BROWN
Soviet Moneuvers Against West

changes would have said II
anybody In the middle 30s
had advocated cultural exs
changes" with Hitler's Ger
many and Mussolini's Italy.
Patriotic Americans such as
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh
were pilloried for much less
than such an advocacy. Lind
bergh merely told the Ameri-
can people that Nazi aviation
was far ahead of that In the
free nations. We saw rightly
a threat then to Western
civilization from totalitarian
ideas. Why. 1t is to be Won
dered. do so many sincere
men in the free world not see
now what would result from
a policy of appeasing inter-
national communism? And
there are indications that we
are going toward an appease-
ment policy.
There Is in this country
overwhelming sentiment
against appeasement. But
there is also the fixation that
a head-on clash with inter-
national communism would
mean the end Of our civiliza-
tion-as If submission to the
Khrushchev-Mao Tse-tung
gang would not result in the
domination Of the world by
an even more ruthless totali-
tarianism than that which we
defeated In 1915.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-03
Tax-Exemption
Proposal Hit

Senate Republican Leader
Dirksen today assailed a pro-
posal pending in Congress to
exempt from income taxes
those contributions which self
employed persons make to PEN
sion funds for themselves.
Senator Dirksen attacked
the measure after he and other
G. o. P. congressional leaders
conferred with President Eli
senhower. He said the bill
would pillow a 1865 million hole
in Government revenues" for
the next fiscal year.
The Simpson-Keogh meas
ure. reported favorably by the
House Ways and Means Com
mittee. would exempt from in
come taxes UP to $4,000 a year
set aside in a pension trust
fund by q self-employed per-
son, up to maximum of $780,
900.
Senator Dirksen said pas
sage of the bill would have
serious Implications" opening
the door to a possible. So billion
hole in the budget by giving
employed persons encourage
ment to fie hit for tax exemption
on the amounts they pay into
social security and other pen
sion funds.
The G. o. P. leaders also
were pretty much agreed" on
a four-part program affecting
the Tennessee Valley Author
Iity, House Minority Leader
Holleck reported.
The program would provide
for the iva to start paying
interest on the Governments
SIS billion investment; make
reasonable" annual repay
ments on the principal of the
Government investment: limit
on expansion of the iva serv-
ice area, and require Budget
Bureau and congressional sur
veillance on expenditures under
bonds iva would be authorized
to issue to finance any new
power plants.
He said a somewhat similar
measure sponsored by Senator
Kerr. Democrat of Oklahoma.
would permit much more ex-
pansion Of the iva service
area.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-03
Salt Water
Conversion
Costs Cut

A process to convert sea
water to fresh water at a cost
Of less than 81 q thousand gal
Ions will be used in the Gov
.ernment's first salt water con-
version demonstration plant.
The cost is about half that
Of the most efiicient conversion
plants now operating. Secretary
of Interior Seaton said yester-
day.
Plans call for the conversion
Of salt water into fresh water
at a rate Of one million gallons
q day.
Mr.. Seaton said the plant will
aim at a stiA lower cost to
bring the price per thousand
gallons closer to the average
80 cents a thousand gallons
now paid for water by most
householderS.
The site of the demonstra-
ton plant-one Of three au-
thorized by Congress on the
East. West and Gulf Coasts
has not been selected. Congress
also has authorized two plants
in arid areas Of the Southwest
and the Great Plains TO treat
brackish water.
A pilot plant using the new
process has been operating at
Harbor Island. near Whining
ton, N. c., since November
1857. The process is known as
LONGITUDE, vertical multiple
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-03
DAVID LAWRENCE
The First Blow in NucIeor War

the initial advantage instead
Of conceding It,"
A few months before the
Soviets launched an inter-
continental ballistic missile
in the summer Of 1857. Mai.
Gen. @. I. Pokrovsky, in a
revealing book entitled
Science and Technology in
Contemporary Wars" wrote
as follows:
"A massive blow with long,
range missiles can be espe-
cially powerful when admin
istered by an aggressor in a
surprise fashion, by way Of
an attack against some
peaceful country. This is so
because launching sites. and
the missiles on those launch-
ing sites, can be secretly
prepared In peacetime with
out the possibility of their
discovery and destruction by
the side which Is defending
itself. All this means that
long-range missiles. being
one Of the newest means Of
combat, substantially in
crease the role Of surprise In
contemporary war"
The effect of the discus
sion in 1857 and 1858 was
salutary - conferences be-
tween the East and the West
were actually convened in
recent months at Geneva to
deal with the subject of sur
prise attack. These confer
ences have been interrupted
due to q deadlock in the
points Of view. but the lat
est emphasis which Secretary
MeElroy has given to the
subject may cause the ses-
sions to be resumed.
For 1t is now becoming
clear that the United States
does not intend to sit by
and take the first blow but
will strike whenever 1t be-
comes apparent that an
enemy is actually preparing
to strike at US. This means
that a foolproof system Of
international inspection has
become imperative. It means
also that the Soviet Union
is on notice that it will not
be permitted to 60 so far as
to strike the first blow with
out risking q pre-emptive
blow from the United States.
tcopyright. 1851
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-03
DORIS FLEESON

Democratic National Chair
man Paul Butler scored the
real triumph and the only
one of the traditional Jeffer-
son-Jackson Day week end
here. The chairman has
emerged stronger in every
sense: Politically. financially
and Crganizationally.
The old pros opposed him.
and they bit the dust. Car
mine De Sapio of New York.
Jake Arvey of Chicago and
David Lawrence Of Pennsyl-
varlia managed to enlist
Speaker Rayburn and Senate
Leader Johnson in their last
ditch struggle against Mr..
Butler. 1t was the poorest
decision the Texan bosses
of Congress have made lately.
The alliance Spectacularly
failed to switch the conven-
ton site to where they wanted
it In various other ways
clear to political insiders the
anti Butler old pros demon
Strated only that their get
up-snd-go had got up and
went
Nobody even paid them the
compliment of getting sore at
them and swinging the hay
makers a fighter seeks to
land on those he fears. Some
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-03
Khrushehev's Moves Recall Toctics
OF Hitler in Using Britain Peace Hope

Like all conspiracies, inter-
national communism Is quick
to take advantage of the in
dications Of weakness in the
free world--even II these vo-
cal indications are superficial,
as they are In this country.
Soviet Premier Khrushchev
has set his heart on getting
the heads Of state Of the big
powers, and particularly
President Eisenhower, into a
summit meeting which he
hopes will make the Munich
gathering Of 81 years ago look
like a high-school picnic.
The Red dictator has UNI
questionably studied thor
oughly the history Of the year
before World War II and has
discovered the pre-Munich
flaws In the diplomacy Of
Western Europe which alone
in those days was supposed to
oppose the German-Italian
totalitarianism.
Khrushchev must have
drawn a lesson from the
speech made by Lord Hall
fax, Britain's foreign secre-
tary. In May. 1898. before the
League Of Nations at Geneva.
The noble lord took the ini-
tiative TO have the League
Council recognize the Italian
conquest Of Ethiopia. He
pointed out that the resolu-
tons taken by the League
in the course Of the Italo-
Ethiopian dispute (the COB
bling UP Of Ethiopia by italy,
could be held to constitute
a binding obligation by the
member states to withhold
recognition Of the accom-
plished fact. Then the Brit
ish foreign minister produced
the following amazing argu-
ment: But when, as here,
two ideals are in conflict
with. on one hand. the ideal
Of devotion, unflinching but
impractical, to some high
purpose: on the other hand
the idea Of a practical victory
for peace. ! do not doubt
that the stronger claim is
that of peace" This devo-
ton to peace at any price
Tor regardless Of price,
brought about a stiffening by
Hitler and eventually, q few
months later, Munich and
then World War II.
Khrushchev has tried for
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-03

Attorney General Rogers
said today that Court Of Claims
Commissioner Wilson Cowen
has found nothing adverse to
Commerce Secretary Strauss in
connection with the Cancelled
Dixon-Yates contract.
The defense of Mr.. Strauss
was contained in a letter from
Mr.. Rogers to Senator Kefau-
yer, Democrat of Tennessee.
Mr.. Rogers also reiterated that
the Justice Department had
made no findings rejecting adj
versely on Mr.. Strauss.
Mr.. Strauss, who Is serving
under a recess appointment,
was chairman Of the Atomic
Energy Commission at the time
a contract was negotiated with
the Dixon-Yates interests to
build a power plant at West
Memphis. Ark.
The contract subsequently
was Cancelled by the Govern
ment when it was revealed
that Adolphe Wenzell, an off,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-03
Mukurios Wants
Luydown of Arms

WCOSIA, Mar. 3 (AP).-
Archbishop Makarios said to-
day the Greek Cypriot under
ground organization EOKA
will be called upon to lay down
its arms.
He told a news conference
Since agreement has been
reached, there is no reason
for the use of arms"
THE arms will be assembled
somewhere and will be regis
tered" he said. They will be
given to the future government
of Cyrpus."
The archbishop, who re-
turned to a tumultuous well
come Sunday after three years
in exile. said he had not vet
seen Col. George Grivas. leader
of EOKA. but would like to
see him.
The British rulers of Cyprus
have offered Col. Grivas a safe
conduct to return to his native
Greece.
Asked who will issue the
e.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-03

some time to drag Russia's
former allies to a summit
conference which he expects
to have the same results OF
surrendering principles to
opportunism. The methods he
has used would have served
as an object lesson to the
unlafnented Hitler when he
was at the height of his
power. The difference is that
Khrushchev has been able to
infiltrate and poison Ameri-
can thinking far more than
Hitler and Mussolini did.
We have spilled countless
gallons of blood and spent
wealth placed by some at
$500 billion since 1910 to
crush totalitarianism and
save the free world. In our
fierce battle against enemy
dictators in World War II
we overlooked the fact that
by our political surrenders to
Stain, the oriental dictator,
we were actually creating a
Frankenstein who has proved
far more threatening to the
civilization Of the free world
than our erstwhile enemies.
Yet we hear many respected
voices in America shout that
We must avoid conflict with
the oriental dictatorship Of
the Soviet Union and the
Peoples Republic" Of China
lest our civilization be de-
stroyed by another war.
We hear more and more
In recent years authoritative
voices insist that we recog-
nize the Peiping regime or at
least cease to fight its entry
into the United Nations and
also start commercial and
cultural exchanges. as we
have now with the Soviet
Union and its satellites. This
reporter wonders what the
men who advocate these ex.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-03

order for the laydown, Of arms.
the archbishop replied after
consultation with the British
government, I will make an
appeal. I will not give an
order"
Archbishop Makarios, leader
of the Greek Cypriots, is ex-
pected to be elected the first
president of the republic of
Cyprus.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-03
National Flower Poll
To Be Taken at Show

National Capital Flower and
Garden Show officials an
nounced yesterday persons at
tending the flower shop March
6 through IL will have a chance
to vote for what they think
should be the national flower.
A ballot containing the State
flowers of all 40 States, the Dis
trict and Hawaii will be avail
able on the floor of the Armory
during the show.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-03
Miseegenotion Made
LequI in lduho Action

BOISE, Idaho, Mar. 3 (AP)
Idaho removed its ban on
inter racial marriages yester-
day.
Gov. Robert E. Smylie signed
a bill passed by both Houses of
the Legislature which repeals
the anti-miscegenation law.
The law, on the Idaho books
for decades, prohibited mar
riages between whites and
Negroes, Orientals, and other
persons Of color. The effect
of the repeal is to remove all
racial restrictions on marriages.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-03

effect distillation. 1t uses tech
niques borrowed from the salt
and chemical industries.
Evening star., 1959-12-20

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-19
PROPOSALS

BIDS, September o.
1859, Richmond 10, virginia
ssa sSe Poss q T x. b b q
S General . Services, n, IN a.. E Ms,L
Streets. Richmond 20. Virginia,
until. but not later than ] ] O'Clock
AM. on September o. 1859, for
the replacement of roofing and
miscellaneous related work on
Warehouse Nos. and 2 at the
City OF Richmond's peepwater
Terminal. Proposals, pans and
specifications may be obtained
upon application 10 the Director
Of Public Works, I'll Governor
Street. Richmond 10, Virginia. A
charge of SO will be made BY
the Department Of Public Works
fol. these plans, ETC.. which sum
will not be refunded unless a
bona fide bid Is submitted. and
the plans, ETC., returned. J. W.
HUFFMAN. Director. Department
OF General Services. au19.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-19
AUCTION SALES
THOs. J. OWEN . SON,
AuctioneeFs,
iii Z ST. NV.

TRUSTEES SALE OF VALUABLE
TWO STORY STANDARDIZED
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KNOWN AS PREMISES NUMBER
1886 SOUTH DAKOTA AVENUE
NORTHEAST.
BY virtue Of . certain deed Of trust
GUY recorded, IN llber NO. lAl24,
Folio 2U4, ct seq, Oh the LAND
records OF the. District or Colum-
bl6. ana st the request OF the
party secured thereby, the under
signed trustees will sell. at punlic
snetion,, N front q the pgemisss.
THcuk saiFp DAY OF AuousT. A.D.
laoss.. Al iMO-kIFIS OCLOCh.
PM. the followins subscribed land
AID epremises. situate in the DIS
trict OF Columbia, and DESIGNATED
as and being Lot 50, In Square
37f6. In subdivision maze BY
Stewart Brothers. Inc, as. per
plat recorded in the Once of the
Surveyor for the District Of Co
lumbia. in Liber l26, at Folio
n: subject to all restrictions and
covenants OF record.
TERMS: Sold subject to o prior
tbuiloing asSocIatlonl deco OF
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the purchase price above sdia
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