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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-02
THE POLITICAL MILL
Humphrey Steps Up the Pace
BY GOULD LINCOLN

been extending q welcoming
hand to the Minnesotan.
Gov. Pat Brown Of Cali.
fornia, who viii be tna
States favorite-son canm.
date, viii introduce Senator
Humphrey when he speaks
before a joint session Of the
California Legislature in Sac
ramento. Senator Humphrey
will be Gov. Browns guest at
the Governors mansion over
night.
CALIFORNIA; delegation at
the Democratic National
Convention in Los Angeles
next July will be as large as
that Of Pennsylvania and
second only to that Of New
York. It is expected to play
an important role-and II it
went to Senator Humphrey,
when and If released by Gov.
Brown, it might be a clincher.
It seems unlikely that either
Senator Humphrey or Sena-
tor Kennedy will enter the
California presidential pri-
mary next year and SO place
themselves in opposition to
the Governor.
VIII Visit Northwest
Senator Humphreys visit
to California will take him to
San Francisco and to Los
Angeles for addresses. too, in
these political centers Of the
northern and southern areas
Of the State. on his trip to
Los Angeles. Senator Hum
phrey will be accompanied by
1t. Gov. Glenn NJ. Anderson,
State Senator Dick Richards
and Democratic State Chair
man William Nummell.
Washington win Be given
intensive treatment by Sena-
tor Humphrey. He will visit
Seattle and Richland. where
he will be introduced by Gov.
Rossellini for a major adj
dress. He also will tour
power sites, including those
for atomic energy. The Sen
ator will speak at Eugene and
Portland. Greg. Oregon is
one of the States that offers
an open field to aspirants for
a presidential nomination
next year. 1t has no favorite-
son candidate of its own, and
it may well become a prin-
cipal battle-ground of the
Hum p hrey and Kennedy
forces.
In Salt Lake City, Utah,
Senator Humphrey will deliv-
er an address at a Jefferson
Jackson Day dinner. His final
stop on this Western tour
will be Casper, Wyo., where
he is to have luncheon
and address the Wyoming
Democratic State Committee.
From that city he flies back
to Washington.
Senator Humphreys pur-
pose, of course, is to ascer-
tain how much and how
strong support he may expect
next year from the Demo-
Gratis of the West. Certainly
he is not leaving any stones
unturned.
On this trip the Senator is
taking with him his wife
Muriel. his administrative as
sistant, Herbert j. Waters,
and James H. Rowe, jr., an
important campaign aide who
at one time was on the STAFF
OF Senator Lyndon johnson
of Texas. majority leader, and
also an aide at the White
House in the Franklin d.
Roosevelt days.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-02
Unclaimed by Russia

Based on intensive studies
OF the races in connection
with the publication of a
book now in the press, / have
no fear of a Soviet attack on
us. Russia west of the Ural
Mountains represents roughly
one-quarter Nordics, mainly
Ukrainians "a sister nation
Of the Poles, and three
quarters Slavs. The former is
the chief aggressive element,
although there are many
Ukrainian diSsenters. The
Slav never has been a good
soldier out Of his own coun-
try, because Of his inherent
nature. Away from home,
Soviet supply lines would
collapse rapidly. The Soviet
plan is to ruin the United
States and other nations eco
nomically and subversively,
and then to enter the fray
merely to pick up the pieces,
such as a large corridor
through Iran to the Arabian
Sea and the conquest of other
nations, always smaller ones.
China probably has the
Soviet Union worried. While
she would like to act the bully
and capture small southeast
ern Asiatic nations for their
semitropical and tropical
products, she also would like
either to kill of a hundred
million of her excess popu-
latien or turn them toward
the north and seize Siberia
from the Soviet Union as a
later recourse. But the Chi
nese do not like the cold
north.
Col. c. 1. Kephart,
USAR (ret-l
Shady Side, Md.
USAR CretJ
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-02


Senator Hubert Humphrey
Of Minnesota is launching on
April 10 a hard driving cam
paign for support Of Western
Democrats in his quest for
the party's 1860 presidential
nomination. His tour. the
most ambitious Of any presi-
Dental hopeful in that sec
ton Of the country, will take
him into five States where he
will deliver major addresses
and meet with party leaders.
State. district and county.
The States he will visit are
California. Oregon, Washing
ton. Utah and Wyoming.
Senator Humphrey. like
other presidential hopefuls
tamong them Senator John F.
Kennedy Of Massachusetts,,
has so far refrained from an
nouncing publicly his candi-
dacy. In view Of his activi-
ties. he might just as well
abandon an attitude Of hesti-
tation and uncertainty and
declare himself q candidate.
He doesn't lack courage, and
he may take this step at any
time. At present, Senator
Kennedy is his most active
rival. The Massachusetts,
Senator has been one Of the
speakingest potential candi-
dates in recent political his
tory. It appears that from
now on he win have plenty
of competition from the
Minnesota Senator.
Along with his drive for
support of Western Demo-
Gratis. Senator Humphrey is
going South, in an effort to
prove to the Southerners he
does not have horns. Ever
since he took the lead in the
1913 Democratic National
Convention to force the writ
ing of a strong civil rights
plank in the party's national
platform, his name has been
a hate word in the South.
Before the summer is out, the
Minnesota Senator plans to
speak in every one of the
eleven States of the solid
South.
Aims to Crack Solid Bloc i.
He does not want the solid
bloc of Southern delegates to
the D e m ocratic National
Convention next year to
stand in opposition to him.
He knows, too, that Senator
Kennedy has been making
political hay in the South
land for the last year or two.
Indeed, it was the votes of
Southern delegates that al
most won the vice presiden-
tial nomination for the New
Highlander in the 1856 ma
tional convention. Senator
Kennedy lost that race to
Senator Estes Kefauver of
Tennessee by a whisper. Last
Monday. Senator Humphrey
spoke in Miami, Fla, to
the Dade County Bar AS
ISOLATION, and tomorrow he
will address the students of
the University of Florida at
Gainesville. And next Mon
day he will go to Oak Ridge,
Tenn. to speak to the Wom-
ems Democratic Club.
The Western incursion by
Senator Humphrey has been
aided, or at least welcomed,
by the Governors of two i'm
portant Pacific Coast States
California and Washing
ton. Undoubtedly, had Ore
gon had a Democratic Gov
ernor, he also would have
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-02
Not His Style

Cartoonist Jim Bergman
depicted Miss Democracy
shopping for an Easter bon
net she hopes win be in style
next year. Inasmuch as the
only chapeaux shown avail
able are Of the Democrat
variety. should not this old
lady be Miss Democrat, or is
this The Stars subtle way of
letting its readers know that
the fashion for us all in
1860 is certain to be Demo-
crat? And If so. why?
George MOoradian.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-02
Costro's Executioner

Fidel CaStro's chief executioner in
La Cabana Fortress, an American who
has barked the orders which sent bullets
pumping into some 200 Cuban war
terminals" is of philosophical turn of
mind. Execution" he says, els not
pleasant task, but a necessary one"
The man is Herman Marks, Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-02
BETHESDA, Md.

Dear Sir:
Perhaps you can identify
an unusual hummingbird that
has been visiting our flower
beds for the past two sum-
mers. This one is Slate-gray
colored with a narrow yellow
band below the throat.
I'VE have been feeding all
sorts of wild critters in this
area-Skunks, possums. rae
coons, rabbits, a gray fox
family, dozens of gray squir-
relS and, at night, flying
squirrels.
"a large black oak tree
serves as landing field for
these furry gliders, who then
scamper down to a feeding
shelf about 6 feet from the
ground. A large yard light is
fastened above the shelf, af-
fording a good view of their
playful chasing of each other.
Cinnamon buns broken in
small pieces seem to be their
favorite food. Most of them
are not afraid of man and
will come down to eye level
even while food is being
placed on the shelf. They
have all hibernated since No
vember and should return
soon.
"Our little lady chipmunk
finished her winter nap and
came out of her burrow near
the oak tree several days ago.
Last spring she brought out
two babies almost as large as
herself, and then in a few
days proceeded to chase them
of to fend for themselves
THE raccoons usually ar
rive late at. night to clean
up the feed shelf.
Sincerely, r. T. D."
The "hummingbird" is
probably not a hummer at
all but a form of a moth.
The only hummingbird to
come here as far as we
know is the red-breasted.
There is one moth that
apes this hummer. resem-
bling the all-green female
so closely that it often is
mistaken for her.
The moth hovers over
flowers in the same way the
hummer does, but can be
told by the following test:
Cup the fingers over the
creature, but without touch
ing it.
A real hummingbird will
not permit the human hand
to get closer than a foot
before it flies away.
The moth is utterly oblivi-
Gus. and win continue to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-02
LETTERS TO THE STAR

Pen names mag be used II
letters carry iOriters correct
names and addresses. All
letters are subject to conden-
S1tion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-02
Water Worninq

Milton A. MandeI
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-25

States District Court here
Wednesday. But its enforce
ment was delayed by the APP
pellate Court pending DISPOSE
ton of the. union appeal.
Under t-Hartley, both
sides are required to continue
negotiations with the help OF
Federal mediators during the
life of the Injunction.
If the strike ban is upheld
and barring further legal road
blocks-Mr. Finnegan must
initiate mediation action.
Summons Planned
Mr.. Finnegan said if the ne
gotiations get begged down, he
will summon both sides to
Washington.
DR.. Taylor said the fact
finding board also would be
reconvened and Its function is
to report to the President at
certain times on specific status
Of the issues"
Negotiations between the
union and industry on a new
contract started last May. The
strike started July Is, and has
become the longest industry
wide shutdown in steel history,
Both sides have softened
their original positions some
what. But the basic issues re-
main the same: Union deman"I
for wage-benefit improvements
and industry inSistence on con-
tract changes regarding local
plant work rules.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-25
BOY PIANIST, H.
AND KABALEVSKY
COLLECT STAMPS

The 14-year-old boy who
played Dmitri Kabalevsky's
Sd piano concerto last
night in Constitution Hall
has more than music in
common with the COM
poser.
They're both stamp coll
lectors.
Abbott Lee Ruskin made
the discovery while talk
ing to Mr.. Kabalevsky
after a press conference
yesterday afternoon in the
Sheraton-Park Hotel.
HE gave me some Rus
sian stamps" said the
!, youth, adding that he in
tended to go out and buy
some for a return gift.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-25
New Quarters
SOUGHT for D. c.
Welfare Units

The District is looking fol
new quarters to house the
Welfare Departments two divi-
sions now in the old Cardozc
High School building atg8l5
Rhode Island avenue NV.
The public assistance and
child welfare divisions, with a
staff of about 375, are being
moved for several reasons,
officials said.
One factor is that the work
ers cannot operate at maximum
efficiency in the makeshift
offices, officials expla ne;. IN
addition, an expected expan-
sion of the staff will require
more space and the building is
in need of a major overhaul.
Gerard Shea, welfare direc-
tor, has been, urging : the
Commissioners to find a more
satisfactory building for the
two divisions.
The staff and field Office
workers moved into the build
ing about eight years ago. The
remodeling work on the school
was limited under a $68, 900
appropriation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-25
Thinker Widow Found
Dead in Uttered Home

able statuary also were obscured
by layers of dust.
Windows were so encrusted
with dirt they could not be
seen through.
Mr.. Thinker, a brother and
their father founded the
Timken Roller Bearing Co. in
Canton, Ohio. He left a net
estate valued at more than
$61a million.
When her husband died Mrs.
Timken discharged all the
servants and moved from their
home at Croton-on-H Hudson to
the comparatively owned du-
pick apartment.
None of the building en-
ployes had ever seen the inside
of the apartment, officers said.
The nephew, David Guyer of
New York, said the apartment
contained many valuable paint
ings, including works of Rem
brandt, Rubens and Titan, and
sculpture worth millions"
He said he visited the apart
ment after his aunt failed to
answer his phone calls.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-25
Women in Prison
For 81 Years Dies

MARYSVILLE, Ohio, Oct. "a
(AP) Vienna West, who spent
the last 80 Of her SO years
in Marysville Reformatory for
Women for the hammer STAY
ing Of her husband, died in the
prison hospital today.
Supt. Martha Wheeler said
she died "of natural causes. /"
Mrs. West had been a pa
tient in the reformatory's hos
pital for almost a year for a
heart condition.
When a pretty, vivacious
wife of 81, she beat her hus-
band, Thomas Edward West,
26, to death with a claw ham,
mer after he enraged her by
refusing to attend a bridge
party. The Staying occurred in
December, 1927. in Perry,
Ohio, near Cleveland.
Mrs. West was convicted of
second degree murder and
sentenced to life imprison-
ment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-25

1t. Gov. Harry Lee Water
field also boycotted the meet
ing because he would have been
introduced by Mr.. Combs, the
man to whom he lost the CUB
ernatorial nomination. Gov.
Chandler backed Mr.. Water
field in the bitter primary.
At a press conference after
the rally Mr.. Truman criticized
the national administration on
two fronts: the budget and mis-
siles.
Criticizes Budget, Missiles
He said the trouble with the
present administration is that
they don't know how to make
up a budget"
He also said the United
States missile program would
do much better under Demo-
Gratis.
Il ought to know, I set up
the program, but these other
people fired a lot of the good
men,"
Asked what was wrong with
the program, he replied, Its
too divided"
Former Gov. Frank Clement
of Tennessee came here for
the rally. Guests also included
former Kentucky Cows. Law
renee Wetherby, Earle Glenn
ents and Keen johnson.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-25

critical Of himself, he ceases
to be an artist"
Then he was asked if there
had been any change in the
Soviet governments opposition
to jazz-a musical form in
which Mr.. Shostakovich had
once been most interested, the
questioner reminded.
II am not completely IA
miliar with the official position
of the Soviet government on
this" the composers answered.
"You are more familiar than
I am with its position. y
One reporter asked another
member of the group, composer
Tikhon Khrennikov, about the
sticky matter of international
copyrights and royalties-and
whether there is need for more
regulation in this area.
There has been no conven-
ton or conference to discuss the
matter of international copy
rights and royalties" responded
Mr.. Khrennikov, who is also
general secretary of RuSsia's
Union of Composers.
Other members of the group
are Composers Fikret Amirov.
Dmitri Kabalevsky and Kon-
stantin Dankevich and DR..
Boris Yarustovsky, musicol-
ogist who is a professor at the
Moscow State Conservatory.
Praise U. S. Composers
Their visit to this country is
part of the cultural exchange
agreement of 1858 between the
United States and Russia. Last
night they heard a concert by
the National Symphony Or
chestra featuring Mr.. Shosta-
kovich'S 10th Symphony and
Mr.. Kabalevsky's Sd piano
Concerto, which the composer
himself conducted.
During the press conference
the group also had praise for
such modern American COM
poSers as Samuel Barber,
Aaron COPELAND, George Gersh-
win, Paul Creston and Roy
Harris. Their works are played
frequently in the Soviet Union,
the Russians said.
DR.. YarustovSky noted that
sometimes different artists
would give their own interpre-
tations of the same American
work during q concert.
The visitors, who leave today
for San Francisco, had split up
Friday night, their first eve
ming here, to go to the movie
"Porgy and Bess'' or to the
concert by the Budapest String
Quartet. They had high praise
for both.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-25
Giant Landslide
Blocks Highway

FRANCONIA NOTCH, N. H.,
Oct. "a fAP)-A thunderous
landslide tonight blocked Route
S-the Boston-to- Canada high.
wayAand' partially isolated
communities to the north from
vehicular traffic. Z
The slide piled Is feet of
boulders and earth on the high
way where it passes between
the Great Stone Face, known
to tourists as 1.-The Old Man
OF the Mountain" and another
steep mountain slope directly
opposite.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-25
Conservatives
Plan New Party

CHICAGO, Oct. "a (AP).-
A group of conservatives today
applauded a call to form a new
political party.
More than 300 men and
women gathered for an at
tempt to lay the groundwork
for a new party.
The rally was sponsored by.
the, Independent American, a
political action newspaper pub
lished by Kent Courtney of
New Orleans. Mr.. Courtney
said he expected to announce
plans for the future late in
the evening.
Tom Anderson of Nashville,
Tenn, publisher of Farm and
Ranch magazine, asserted:
Il think we need a new par
ty. We conservatives need to
get together" -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-25
Raps Combs and Wyatt

NEW YORK, Oct. "a (AP)
The widow of one of the
founders of the Timken roller
bearing fortune was found
dead today in her 24-room.
apartment, surrounded by lit
ter and dusty works of art.
Mrs. Lillian S. Thinker, 70,
apparently died of natural
causes, police reported. She
had been dead about 48 hours
or less, a medical examiner
said. Her body was discovered
by a nephew.
Her husband, William R.
Timken. died in 1949 at 80.
Mrs. Thinker had lived as a
recluSe since his death.
Cartons of CANNED goods
were scattered around the
rooms. Newspapers, some dat
ing back to 1902, were piled
high in corners and elsewhere
in the apartment.
A roman-style gallery con-
tanned tapestries of great value.
many covered with dirt. Paint
ings by old masters and valu-
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US. Will Test
China Hostility
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
Associated Press stan Writer

NN~HNNN~a
The United States plans to
start a probing operation in
about 10 days to see whether
there is any easing Of Chinese
Communist hostility toward
the West.
1t will take this action
against a background Of APP
parent failure by Soviet Pre-
mier Khrushchev in his effort
to enlist the Red Chinese to
his peace offensive.
Authorities mere still hold
some hope that Communist
China will begin to moderate
its policies, refrain from the
use Of force and thus make
possible a real improvement in
relations.
State Department officials
insist that any agreements be-
tween Mr.. Khrushchev and
Western leaders will be of lin
tied value unless the Red Chi
nese are somehow brought into
line.
VIII Meet Red Envoy
The whole range of Red
Chinese-Un States prob
lens has been under review
here. State Department officials
have been consulting with
Ambassador Jacob D. Beam, the
top United States contact man
with the Red Chinese govern
ment. Mr.. Beam is scheduled to
return late next week to his
post at Warsaw, Poland.
On Tuesday, November 3, he
will meet for the first time in
about two months with the Red
Chinese envoy to Warsaw,
Ambassador Wang Peng-nan.
AmbasSadorial contacts be-
tween Washington and Peiping,
begun in mid-1955, produced an
agreement on release of Amer
leans held in Red China but
then begged down over the
issue of Red China's threats to
use force to seize Formosa from
the Chinese Nationalist govern
ment.
For several years, therefore,
the contacts have been in
frequent and unproductive. But
they have been maintained. The
routine of Beam-Wang meet
ings had been preserved in case
either side had serious business
to take up. This kind of situa-
ton has now arisen.
FOrmosa a Key Goal
officials said Br. Beam. is not
going back to Warsaw with any
startling new proposals, but that
it is hoped there may be some
sign of Red Chinese policy
development in the new round
of talks in Warsaw.
If this hope proves to be in
any way justified. Mr.. Beam will
be prepared to carry on the
meetings and, in effect, to ex-
plore the possibilities of mod
Grating the potentially explosive
differences which exist between
the United States and Red
China.
Primarily, the United States
wants Red China to renounce
the use of force against For
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-25

you had when you were here
in 1892" one reporter asked
Mr.. ShoStakovich.
II have the same friendly
attitude toward the talented
American people," the famed
composer responded through an
interpreter.
He was then reminded that
he had actually said some
pretty unpleasant things in
1949 about "warmongers."
Says Situation Different
Mr.. Shostakovich, who had
to handle about three quarters
of all the questions asked at
the 45-minute conference, made
a nice comeback.
The situation then was diff
ferent, he said. Whatever crit
ical remarks he might have
made referred only to certain
politicians and cannot be re-
lated to the whole American
people"
Z A few minutes later the COM
poser was asked whether CON
LESSONS and recantataons of
Russian artists are a permanent
and necessary Feature of, Soviet
society,"" (Mr. Shostakovich
himself was publicly rebuked
for his music in 1913. He sub
Sequently announced he would
correct his mistakes.l
His response to the question:
1.-THE critical attitude of a COM
poser toward his own creative
activities is quite indispensable
. II an artist ceases to be
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Continued From First Page
can best cooperate in the event
the fact-finding board is re-
convened. That's all / know"
The Third Circuit Court is
studying the unions appeal
from a Taft-Hartley injunction
directing the 100000 strikers
to return to their Jobs for 80
days. A decision is expected
early next week.
Government attorneys OBJ
tanned the injunction in United