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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-06
Red Boast of Stirring Up Trouble
And InfiItroting in u. S. Is Cited

Just written for the Commu-
mist Party organ in Moscow
a long article Boosting about
what the American Com
munist Party has done to
further the detectives OF
communism. Mr.. Apteker tes-
titled before the Subyersive
Activities Control Board in
1949 as an expert on
Marxism Leninism and &C
knowledged at that time
membership in the American
Communist Party. In his
article published in Moscow
on October II. Mr.. Apteker
gives a glowing description
of how the Communist Party
has recently gained new
strength in the United States.
He says this occurred after
the defeat of what he calls
"McCarthyism" the party's
biggest opposition. He adds:
After the 18th Congress
(195D, the party began nurs-
ing its wounds and restoring
its strength. The national
committee plenum whic h
took place in February, 1858,
was symptomatic in this re-
spect. 1t insured the further
rallying Of the party on the
basis of the principles Of
Marxism-Leninism. This per-
mitted the overcoming Of the
paralysis which in the course
of a number Of months had
been inhibiting the activities
of the party.
"Organizational activities
revived, the loss in the num-
Der Of party members was
made up, and a certain num-
Der of new members, particu-
larry among the youth, was
acquired. The party tackled
educational work and the
dissemination Of Marxist lit
erature.
1.-THE most important thing
was that the party resumed
participation in mass work.
This refers to the intertrade
union struggle, to a demon
stration of jobless people
that took place recently, to
certain aspects of the struggle
Of the Negroes, particularly
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-06
POTOMAC FEVER
By FLETCHER KNEBEL

Frank Hogan New York district attorney, 100 per-
lied TV quiz show gran jury Said contestant:
T should waste correct in place that doesn't
give door prize?"
They Adlai Stevenson is far in front for the
Democratic nomination that his friends already thinking
up ways to console him election night
Wall Street bulletin The only involuntary dive connected
with TV quiz shows the taken by the sponsors stock
Engands Philip NoelBaker wins the Nobel peace prize
America didn't have chance Nobody settle the
steel strike.
Some TV quiz contestants weren't after all. In
fact several couldn't add and there
dollar signs in front.
old city boy looking farm for the first
time: But where's the neighborhood?"
Noting Harold Stassen's hobby Of running for
smaller Offices and his defeat for Philadelphia Mayor
Republican says he the Philadelphia dog-catcher
be worried right now.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-06

bets may we'll be of, peace"
Notwithstanding.
Against this background
the big news is this: Farm
income generally, under the
Governments own figures, is
now admitted to be the low
est since before World War II.
And, even more significant,
hog prices have dropped sick
eningly in six Of the most
politically sensitive States
Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota,
Missouri, Ohio and Wisconsin.
Add to this the fairly wide
Democratic successes in the
recent scattered elections over
the country and you get an
interesting sum. This sum is
that the Republicans are GER
tainly in considerable poten-
tial trouble, and may be later
in very grave trouble, indeed.
These recent elections
themselves are not vastly
meaningful-in and of them
selves alone. 1t was not a
Democratic landslide. Too,
there were islands of some
G. o. P. resurgence. The main
meanings of all this ballot
ing, in short, are these:
/. It has established that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-06
DAVID LAWRENCE

President Eisenhower. In
discussing at his press con-
ference this week the riots
and demonstrations against
the United States Embassy
in Panama, spoke Of ex-
tremists, and, in referring to
Cuba, said that Communists
like to "fish in troubled
waters, and there are GER
tainly troubled waters there"
Mr.. Eisenhower did not go
into details but reafiirmed a
recent statement by the
American Government with
reference to the Communist
menace in Latin American
countries. He said 1t was
"a little bit puzzling" to him
why this should occur in the
face Of the record Of friend
ship of the United States for
Panama. He might have
added a reference also to the
way the United States helped
that country to gain inde-
pendence.
Mr.. Eisenhower probably
didn't mean that he is in
doubt about how such cpl
sodes arise. but that he is
puzzled as to why govern
ments let such things happen
within their borders. The
Communist technique is to
seize upon any controversial
question, no matter how long
it has been dormant, in
order to play upon the ma
tionalistic feelings Of the
people.
What is puzzling is that
the Communists get away
with their inflltration tactics.
Even the Communist Party
in the United States, pro-
tected as it is by various
decisions of the Supreme
Court Of the United States.
now boldly reveals its part in
helping to stir up trouble
inside this country not only
in the ranks Of labor but
wherever the school "integra-
ton" problem. and other
questions affecting Negroes
are raised.
The latest revelation comes
from Herbert Apteker, an
American citizen, who has
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-06
Decline Viewed as Horbinger of Defeat
In 1860 If Peace Is Preserved
WILLIAM S. WHITE

A cloud much bigger than
a mans hand, If not yet Of
mushroom dimensions, has
appeared in the sky for the
Republicans for 1860.
It is the kind of cloud that
carries a distinct threat of
cold rain for any @. o. P.
presidential nominee, whether
his name be Nixon or Rookie
Teller.
For the first time 1t is be-
ginning to appear that the
presidential election Of next
year may not, after all, be
wholly dominated by the is
sue of peace" A pretty good
rule of thumb is this: If
events themselves, and the
skill of the Republicans, can
make the world situation the
sole decisive test. the G. o. p.
is very likely to keep control
Of the White House.
President Eisenhower's ne
gotiations to ease the cold
war have given the Repub-
licans a practically unchal-
lengeable monopoly of the
peace field. If, however. the
homely and traditional gut"
issues can be put deeply into
play by the Democrats, all
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-06
2Women Named
ConSuItuntS to
Youth Conference

Two new consultants have
been named to the staff of the
White House Conference on
Children and Youth.
Mrs. Marcia K. Freedman,
research consultant for the Ma
tional Child Labor Committee,
was named labor studies con-
sultant. The other was Mrs.
Sophia Fagin Mcdowell, edu-
Gator. sociologist and lecturer.
Mrs. Mcdowell has taught at
Howard, American and George
Washington Universities here,
as well as the National Cathe-
dral School for Girls.
Earlier this year, she was a
guest lecturer at Hiroshima
University, Japan.
Mrs. Freedman was a men,
Der of the leadership team of
the National Conference of
Christians and Jews and was
connected with Operation
Manhattan" which involved a
study of neighborhood patterns
and needs on the Lower East
Side of New York. :
The White House Conference
will be held here from March
% to April !.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-06
Unprecedented Attendance at Churches
Seen Accompanying Science Advance

the world to come. And more
and more people are seeking
the answers Of religion. We
know that, out of personal ex-
periences and by the unend-
ing food. of books charting
ways to peace Of mind, secu-
rity, and answers to some Of
the more vexing problems Of
life. Some find it in the Bible
itself, even as the Monk Mar
tin Luther exports he dis
covered it in reading st.
Paul's letter to the Romans.
For him, the peace of mind
clincher was the line. He
who through faith is right
eous shall live"
There are the cynical who
argue that the boom reflects
merely that religion has be-
come a mark Of American
conformity. The spread Of
suburbs has, without ques-
ton, caused a f1ourishing in
church attendance by those
who rarely, if ever, attended
while living in the apart
ment areas Of cities. In the
suburbs, say the doubters. it
has become as worthwhile to
identify ones self with a
church as to belong to the
right club and to have cook
outs in the patio. The various
books such as the Status
Seekers develop this idea
and it would be evading the
truth to deny that for some
persons this is the explana-
ton of their names being on
the membership rolls Of
churches.
Nonetheless, the validity
OF the hunger and search
cannot be argued away. Reli-
gion is booming. We shall
have to wait and see if there
is a depression.
What sort of religion is it?
In essence, it is the orthodox
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-06
RALPH McGILL
U.S.. Undergoing Religious Boom

Christianity usually asso-
ciated with the United States.
There are still the funda-
mentalists who insist on tax
ing the Bible literally, word
for word" There are also
those, mostly in the South,
who will accept as the au-
thentic Holy Writ only that
which appears in the King
James Version. II want to
read my Bible in the words
as Christ spoke them" a
very sincere small-town min
lister Of an Evangelical
church once told me, in
denouncing a revised version.
But there is a growing will
among many to refashion the
old creeds into modern form
so as to give them more
power of communication in
our time.
A great deal Of the preach
ing has little relevancy to life.
Many ministers expound the
old stock phrases that unless
we have God in our lives, or
unless America returns to
the paths of God, all is lost.
But they never get down to
cases.
In the South, for example,
all the main denominations
have supported the Supreme
Court school decision, but few
ever dare preach about it or
make it relevant to life. The
eloquent irrelevancy contin-
ues. Yet, without question,
there is a great feeling of
guilt and agony Of spirit.
And more than ever in our
history, there is a wish to
express Christianity in a
meaningful manner so that
it may become an integral
accessory for troubled, twen-
/ tieth-century man who is so
lonely and so hungry for a
faith and answers to the
unutterable yearnings within
him. The boom contains
many elements but validity is
prominent among them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-06
Communist Apparatus Is Busy

to the movement for inte-
grated children's education in
schools.
1.-THE party plays a con-
siderable role In the struggle
against military preparations
and the foreign policy Of
cold war; It extends as
sistance to various mass
antimilitaristic organizations
and has begun developing
q struggle for peace di-
rectly among the masses. In
recent times, IT has organized
street meetings and demon
STATIONS in some very large
cities"
This disclosure from the
pen of q prominent American
Communist may come as a
surprise to those in this coun-
try who constantly pooh-pooh
the Communist threat Of
communism, and call COM
munism merely another po-
litical belief. but it doesn't
surprise those in our Govern
ment who have been watching
the activities Of the Commu-
mist apparatus at close range.
Organizing street demonstra-
tons, whether in Little Rock
or Chicago. or creating a flag
incident in Panama City or
West Berlin isn't anything
unusual for the Communists
to do, and they have a tech
nique of infiltrating existing
organizations to stir them to
outbursts Of various kinds.
incidentally, Herbert APP
ticker, who wrote the article
for the Communist organ in
Moscow, was born in the
United States Of Russian
born parents and was edu-
Gated in Columbia University,
where he received a Phi. D.
degree in 1943. He has testi-
fed that he joined the Com
munist Party in about 1899.
He became a captain in the
Observation-Disclosures corps of
the United States Army in
1914 and was relieved of &C
tive duty in 1916 with the
rank of major. He has been
connected with many Com
munist and left-wing periodi-
Gals and organizations and
has written many articles
and books on Communist is
sues.
(Copyright. 1880
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-06
WILLIAM S. WHITE
Hoq Prices: Threat to 9. O. P.

the extraordinary strength
shown by the Democrats In
the 1858 congressional cleo
tions has not, in any event,
been sharply reduced. Usually
any such peak is followed
almost Immediately by some
relatively marked decline.
2. It has shown, specifically
in the results in Indiana,
that the hog States" are far
from happy with the @. o. p.
These States. by and large,
are Republican. BY and large
they stay Republican-except
when hog prices are way
down.
Unglamorous as it is. the
hog-vote ratio is one of the
most powerful subsurface
forces in our politics. For one
illustration: The Republicans
beat the ears of the Demo-
Gratis in the congressional
elections of 1916. Hog prices
were high then and the
Republican hog farmers we're
quite content both with their
party and with things as they
were.
But in 1913 a complete
turnabout occurred. Early in
that year hog prices fell dis
astrously. President Harry s.
Truman, himself a son of the
hog country, knew what this
meant, even if almost nobody
else did. 1t was a widespread
farm revolt from the G. o. p,
beginning in the hog belt.
that accomplished the small
miracle of electing him over
the unbeatable Thomas E.
Dewey.
Now the hog country is
angry with the Republicans
again. Indiana proves the
point. True, the recent Demo-
cratic sweep there involved
a series of mayors Offices in
the cities. But these cities are
closely tied to and influenced
by the surrounding farm
areas.
So, what now is the weather
forecast for the G. o. p? It
is: Cloudy, with possible rain
and a rising wind-an ILL
wind-blowing in from the
MiddleweSt.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-06

to the newest Federal move
was hostile. Judge Sebe Dale,
in whose court the Pearl River
County grand jury made its
report, said he didn't think
the Justice Department had a
chance to get an indictment.
"They seem hellbent to pun
ish us about everything that
comes up" Judge Dale said.
"They want to carry it to the
last degree"
The decision to enter the
case marked a sharp reversal
for the department. Appar-
emily it would attempt to pro-
coed under the civil rights laws.
After a month-long investiga-
ton by the FBI last May. JUS
tice Department officials ad-
mitted there had been no
evidence of violation of the
Federal kidnapping law because
the lynchers apparently had
not crossed a State line.
The FBI report was turned
over to Mississippi. The 378-
page report, which repeatedly
identified the men involved,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-06

CORY abraham Lincoln) al
though I had made many
speeches on the subject. My
name was picked out of the
list, I'm sure, because Little
Rock was in the headlines at
that time"
That was shortly after Presi-
dent Eisenhower had sent
troops to Little Rock to enforce
court-ordered integration at
Central High School.
Mr.. Blankenship, who was
disqualified in his second APP
pearance for a slight error in
a Lincoln quotation, said he
received no coaching.
He received a Cadillac cou-
vertible as a consolation prize
after he lost.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-06

has a tie clasp with the scales
of justice on it. Occasionally
he wears a bright red tie and
pocket handkerchief with q
dark blue suit.
He has a razor-sharp mem
DRY. He can tell you how many
votes he got "a years ago when
he first was elected district at
torney. The victory followed
service in World War I, a pc
riod as an oil field worker and
a 1924 law degree.
To Judge Dale. perhaps the
most heartening election came
in 1858, when five Mississippi
counties reelected him 18th
Circuit Court district Judge for
the third straight time.
His district includes the site
of the Parker lynching, Pearl
River County, which has no
Negro registered voters out OF
about 5000 Negro residents.
Judge Dale lost his biggest
election in 1855. It was fol-
MisSissippi's lieutenant COVER
norship.
Now the mail piles high ir
Judge Dale'S law Office. II
comes from throughout the
country. Some praise him
Others, the unsigned letters
bitterly denounce him and Mis-.
sissippi justice.
Judge Dale calls these the
hate" letters. He used to save
them and show them to friends
The letters started after the
April Is lynching, then let up
When the grand jury met thi'
week, the letter writers got
busy again.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-06
I'm Not ApoIogizing,'
Mississippi Judge Says

POPLARVILLE, Miss, Nov.
6 (AP).-Sebe Dale, judicial
hub of the Mack Charles
Parker lynching, doesn't mince
words.
II have an idea the Nation
may look down on Mississippi
justice now" the bespectacled
jurist said yesterday after a
grand jury adjourned without
an indictment in the Parker
case.
But" Judge Dale added,
"Pm not apologizing."
The Judge, in charging the
grand jury. referred to the
United States Supreme Court
as a board Of sociology" He
told the jurors, most of them
farmers, their chief response
bility was to the welfare Of
the people.
Judge Dale, reared in a fam
lily of IL children in a tiny
Mississippi town now called
Hathorn, has lived in this ares
for 81 years.
His father, grandfather (whc
lost his home In the Civil War;
great-grandfather and great
great-grandfather lived here
too. since the beginning of the
18th century.
When Judge Dale walk;
down the tiny main street, he
rarely goes a block without
tipping his hat to a woman hi
knows or cracking off q greet.
ing to a crony in his country
twang.
In nearby Columbia, hi.
home town, he shares a Law
Office with his son. The judg,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-06
RALPH McGILL

Travellers in Am erica,
whether journeying by day
or night, can hardly avoid
noting the great many houses
of worship, new and old, and
the beginnings Of others ris-
ing on their foundations.
They range from a scabrous
storeroom in a slum section
to majestic cathedrals on
lofty hills.
: BY night electric and neon
signs blink on and off with
the message that Jesus
Saves" BY day there are
placards and painted slogans
to be seen on the poorer
buildings, sometimes old res
licences, converted to pente-
costal uses. Some Of the more
dignified offer glassed-in
bulletin boards with the
hours of worship and the
subject Of the Sabbath SER
mon.
These are but some Of the
exhibits to the fact of a re-
ligious boom at a time when
science is the outstanding
feature of modern civilization.
Statistics bear it out. Accord
ing to the 1859 report of
church membership, there are
100 million of a population
of 173 million on the rolls.
This does not include the
substantial Christian Scien-
fist numbers. Nor does it in
clude the Bahais and other
philosophic groups. Their
number, while relatively
small, is large in the sense
that somehow one does not
expect to find these rather
exotic Eastern teachings
widely spread across America.
There does exist in the
United States, and in other
areas of the world as well,
the age-old hunger for some
sort of answer to the prob
lens of this life and that of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-06
Federal Action
SetinLynching
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
The Justice Department to-
day was preparing to seek Fed
eral Court action against the
lynchers of Mack Charles
Parker.
Acting Attorney General
Lawrence E. Walsh announced
that the United States Attor-
ney in jackson. Miss, had been
told to take steps toward pre-
senting the case to a Federal
grand jury.
Parker, a 23-year-old Lum-
berton (Miss.) Negro indicted
for raping a white expectant
mother in a stalled car, was
dragged from his cell last April.
His body was found later in
a river 20 miles away.
Initial Mississippi reaction
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-06
Little Rock Issue
Seen in Selection

LITTLE ROCK, Ark, Nov. 6
(AP).-A Little Rock contest
ant on the $4,000 Question in
october. 1857, said yesterday he
had no suspicion that every
thing was not strictly proper
on the television quiz show.
But, added G. W. Blanken-
ship, he had no illusion as to
why he was picked to appear
on the show.
"They didn't send for me be-
cause I was expert in my cate
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-06
Police Study Spanish

NEW YORK, Nov. 6 (AP).-
Thirty-f1ve policemen stationed
in the Bronx, which has
many Spanish-speaking resi-
dents, last night embarked on
a 16-week course in converse
tional Spanish.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-24

by those who have chosen the
religious career.
y
Mr.. Zinnemann's cast in
THE Nuns Story" is as amaz-
ing as its theme is novel. And.
flttingly, so is the work of its
individual members.
Among these latter, of course,
Miss Hepburn is the standout.
Her Sister Luke, searching for
a faith stronger than her
doubts, gives inner conflict a
meaning that is equalled in few
films, one that is always the
more dramatic for the subdued
key in which it must be played.
1t is a performance that is
potently framed by so many
others. Among these are Dame
Edith Evans as the radiantly
assured Mother Emmanuel;
Dame Peggy Ashcroft. as an
almost equally understanding
Mother Superior; Mildred Dun
mock as another nun of invin-
chile faith; Peter Finch as the
agnostic doctor who diagnoses
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-24
WHERE
AND WHEN
Current Theater Attractions
and Time Of Showing

Stage
Candlelight Playhouse
Janus; 8;45 pm.
Carter Barron Amphitheater
world Dance Festival; $3.50
pm.
Olney-"Death Of a Sales
man.; $3.50 pm.
ROsecrOft Music Circus -
1.-THE Merry Widow; $3.50 pm
Screen
Ambassador - THE Nuns
Story; l:l0, $50, 6:35 and
9:25 pm.
CapitOl-"say One for Me-;
II am. ITO, 3:l5, 5:25. 1885
and 9:45 pm.
Columbia-"Day Of the Out
law; IL, 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10 pm.
Dupont - Grand Illusion
Il:l5. $3.50. $40. 1880 and 9:3S
Ip.m.
Keiths - 1.-THE Horse Sol
diers";; II am. l;l0, $3.50, 5:35
7:45 and 10 pm.
Macarthur - Room at the
Top; $50 and $3.50 pm.
Metropolitan - 1.-THE Num-
STORY; 1l:l5 am, 1850, 4:SO
I7:l0 and GAS pm.
Ontario - 1.-THE Five Pen
Mes; l:25, 1885, $50, 8 anc
1915 pm.
Palace - This Earth L
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-24

Nine; lO:45 am, /, S:l5, $3.50.
7:45 and 10 pm.
PlayhOuse--"Mi OF the
Night; IL am, los, 3:l5,
$40, 1880 and 9;35 pm,
Plaza - Love Is My Profess
SION; 1880 am. 1880. 800
$50. 1880 and $50 pm.
TOwn-"The Bride Is Much
Too Beautiful; las, sos, 8:25
and il:45 pm.
MISUNDERSTANDING of a
Murder: 10:40 am, las, 4, Z
and 10 pm.
UptOwn-"The Big Circus;
1870, 1920, Sis. tbs and 9:lO
pm.
Warner-"South Seas Ad-
venture; 2 and $3.50 pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-24

Sister Luke's true spiritual
malady; Dean Jaeger as her
tolerant, but always dubious,
surgeon-father.
Between these and such
others as Beatrice Straight,
Patricia Collinge, Margaret
Phillips and Ruth White, THE
Nuns Story" comes to the
screen with unparalleled i'm
pact among films that deal
with a religious experience.
y 4 4
BRIEFLY: Last Train from
Gun Hill" will not open tomor-