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volve commitments for future
years. too.
I'm terms Of appropriation
bills alone, in their present
status" continues Senator
Byrd, "the review shows a
reduction Of 1898 million
under administration re-
quests, but in terms Of back
door spending authorizations
outside Of the appropriation
process, the review shows an
increase Of $906 million over
administration requests. The
net increase would be 5000
million, subject to further
action on pending bills"
There is little doubt that
President Eisenhower's cru
SADIE in recent months for a
balanced budget and a sound
dollar has caught on through
out the country, and just as
Speaker Rayburn and his col
league, Senate Majority Lead
er Lyndon johnson, were be-
ginning to point with pride"
to their accomplishments,
along comes Democratic
Chairman Butler to view
with alarm" Small wonder
that Senator Mike Mansfield
Of Montana. who is the DEM
ocratic whip in the Senate,
resents the attack by Mr..
Butler and exclaims: We'll
have a tough time in 1860
under any circumstances, but
the chairman of the Demo-
cratic National Committee
finding fault with the Demo-
cratic leadership is not going
to help the party one bit"
The fact, of course, is that
Chairman Butler sincerely
believes that an opposition
party should in the main OPP
pose what the administra-
ton does. While this may be
good theory in politics, some
times it doesn't help at the
polls to favor ar economic
program that could cause
prices and the cost of living
to skyrocket as the dollar
drops in purchasing power.
There must be better issues
for the Democrats than this
in other fields, and certainly
on the economic side they
can't expect to rock the boat
of a growing prosperity and
gain votes thereby. The Re-
publicans could have no bet
ter issue and could win an
election by hammering home
the fear Of a change" in
helmsmen at Washington.
(Copyright, 1850
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-07
DAVID LAWRENCE
Butler Is Out of Step
Democratic Chairman Seen as Behind
Times in Hitting Porty's Conservatism

moval Of restraints on SPEND
ing and measures to keep in
terest rates low by artificial
means.
Mr.. Keyserling would in
crease the budget from the
SIT billion recommended by
President Eisenhower to $50
billion. No answer is given
by Mr.. Keyserling as to how
the Government is going to
retain the confidence Of the
investor public II it keeps on
adding to the deficits each
year.
Apparently Chairman But
Ter sides with the Keyserling
viewpoint and is criticizing
the Democratic leaders be-
cause they have not gotten
behind bigger spending pro-
grams such as are being adj
vocated by the So-called
liberals" in the Democratic
Party.
Actually, Congress under
the Democratic leadership
has not gone as far as it
could go to stop the excessive
spending of the taxpayers
money. Thus, while the
Democratic leaders in Con-
gress boast that they have
actually reduced the appro-
priations sought by the
President, this is only half
the story. For, as Senator
Harry Byrd, Democrat Of
Virginia. chairman of the
Senate Finance Committee,
pointed out a few days ago,
there has been a lot of back
door" spending which has not
gotten the attention it de-
serves. The Virginia Senator
said:
\"Subject to further amend
ment to bills not finally en-
acted, I am advised that con-
gressional action on spending
bills to date would authorize
Federal expenditures exceed
ing administration requests
by 5000 million"
Senator Byrd referred
specifically to a review by
Tax Foundation, Inc, which
covers all spending authori-
cations, appropriations and
other spending on which any
action has been taken be-
tween the beginning of the
current session Of Congress
and July /. This includes pro-
posed authorizations that in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-07
DOKTO FLEEOON
Destroying a Party Image

suggest that it will furnish
the convention with a vigor
and sparkle none of its
numerous candidates have
thus far managed to evoke.
Much of the discussion here
is directed at the question of
whether any Congress. no
matter how large its domi-
nant majority, can do more
than Senator johnson and
Mr.. Rayburn have tried to
do. The Speaker certainly
believes that in getting the
best laws he can on the stat
ute books he has fulfilled
his party obligations as we'll
as doing his duty. He worked
hard for Democratic PreSi-
dents and he does not propose
to trespasS against what
seems to him the presidential
prerogative and duty of gov
erning.
Perhaps because he is so
active and so ambitious, SEN
ator JohnSon'S role is much
more controversial. He has
never been leader under a
Democratic President and has
no record of the Rayburn sort.
One fact is today undeni-
able. 1t is that the Republi-
can President dominates the
Washington scene. The Con-
gress, despite topheavy Dem
ocratic majorities, is in full
retreat on all the economic
issues and getting nowhere
fast on social and political
ones. President Eisenhower
selected the battle-ground,
raised the standards and
commands the field. And this
despite the professed view of
all Democratic leaders that
he is a weak" President.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-07
DORIS FLEESON
Buffers Attack Seen as an Attempt
ToCut Congress Out of 1860 c Convention

What has been only a
prospect for the Democratic
national convention next
year is rapidly becoming a
probability. It is that ma
tional and State leaders will
make a concerted effort to
get rid of the congressional
image in the convention
scene, platform and presi-
Dental slate.
In the strongest, language
he has used so far National
Chairman Butler has re-
turned to the attack on the
Democratic Congress for
what he sees as its failure
to develop winning issues for
1860. The public retorts
from the Capitol indicate
the bitterness felt by Senate
Leader johnson. who is him
self a candidate for Presi-
dent. Speaker Rayburn, a
hardened warrior, is not
happy, but lacking the same
soaring personal ambition is
not and probably will not
become envenomed.
The real filters are devel-
oping among the other
Senators who want to be
President. There is alb
solutely no profit for them
in a party-splitting Strug-
gle between local leaders and
the congressional caucus.
Even if the caucus should
win (which is doubtful
because it is dominated by
Southerners - the benefici-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-07
A Visitor Discovers Some Changes
In the Face and Heart of Cuba

HAVANA, Cuba.-There is
a sense of waiting here
which strikes one who is no
expert in the Caribbean, but
who knows enough of its
past and present to feel its
moods and gauge its tempo.
1t still is the great ard
beautiful city. Its night life
awaits the tourists ss Of yore,
and if they are not mere in
the same old numbers there
is no reason why they should
not be.
But, to one who watched
out the Machado Revolution
of 1888, and who has looked
in during the intervening
years, this one of Fidel Cas-
tro's presents a different face.
His situation may be worSen-
ing. But whether that is tenn
porary or not remains to be
seen. 1t astonishes one, for
example, to see Havana, a
city given over to the tourist
and the gentle art of extract
ing his fresh money, putting
so much emphasis on tractors
and reform. But it Is. There
are tractors on many corners
outside the heart of the city.
And there are banners pro-
claiming Reform a Agraria
o Muerte." This is a banner
with a strange device COM
pared with those of the past.
Then the phrase had been
Liberty or Death"
But, if one buys the news
papers and puzzles out the
Spanish with a mind rusty
from little use of that Ian
guage, one finds the officials
have noted that difference.
There is liberty. they say.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-07
POTOMAC FEVER
By FLETCHER KNEBEL

Queen Elizabeth and hubby visit Chicago Prince Philip
leads life that's what happens fellows
who marry career girls
Russia blasts two dogs into space What's more it
dog-gone success.
Chairman Butler blasts Democratic congressional chiefs
too conservative Butler doesn't mind travelling the
middle of the road-as Ions he's driving budozer that
rips up the rest of the highway.
White House Press Secretary Hagerty returns to work
after appendicitis operation 1t pleasant surprise
for politcian-getting knife somewhere besides back
Crisis Democratic defntion): time of sorrow and
crashing of eethcaused by the lack of emergencies
facing the Nation.
Public Health says the average American sick eight
days year. He's smart though He speciaizes catching
ailments which keep him in bed company time only
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-07
RALPH McGILL
Aqrurion Reform or Death

1t has its roots in the rural
areas and with the masses
of the people. 1t is not a
revolution of cities and
troops. The soldiers, who had
no heart to fight for Batista,
are themselves. for the most
part, sons of these same
farmers and unemployed. The
unemployed of the city con-
tanned some Communist ele-
mentS. How much, none may
say for sure. But they are
outnumbered by the many
thousands of peasants who
have for so many years been
bypassed and without a voice.
1t would be most unwise,
I believe, to underestimate
this weight in the scales.
The revolution is worsening
insofar as its economics are
concerned. And the business
men, and the big exporters
OF sugar and tobacco, are I'M
happy. The millionaire Cuban
exiles in Miami are without
question plotting and pri-
vately urging Trujillo of the
Dominican Republic to be-
come tough. The city may be
growing diSenchanted. But,
the observer does a little
arithmetic. If the 200-or-so
owners of large cattle ranches
are enemies, there are ten
times that number made
staunch followers by the
breaking up of the huge hold
lngs into small farms.
But, still. there must be
money to run a country. And
there is not enough of it here
to carry out all the needed
measures to alleviate un-
employment in the cities. The
Castro revolution is not yet
won or lost.
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airy must necessarily be the
Texan they managed to
elevate to the leadership.
There is no available meas
ure for the extent to which
Mr.. Butler is speaking for the
party. A liberal minority in
the House and Senate ma
jorities agrees with him
though common prudence
dictates that it must not get
too far apart from its legiS-
lative leaders.
One significant test has
taken place. 1t was the Selec-
ton of Los Angeles as the
site of the convention, a
choice opposed by Speaker
Rayburn, Senator Johnson,
Senator Kennedy and a num-
Der of. though not all, the
old pros on the national COM
mittee. Mr.. Butler won that
one handily with his Western
allies, who thereby under
scored their own determine
ton to have a much larger
voice in party affairs.
Butler seems firmly en-
trenched for the duration of
the struggle. He has travelled
widely and worked hard;
there is no sign of an effort
to replace him. The men who
will run the convention are
of his choosing.
Some Democrats view with
alarm his obvious determine
ton to force the fight against
"Johnsonian moderation" as
Senator Hartke of Indiana
has called it in a fragrant
bouquet for his leader. Others
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-07

Paul M. Butler, the chair
man Of the Democratic Ma
tional Committee, is certain
ly out of step with the coun-
try when he criticizes the
Democratic leaders in Con-
gress for steering a course
that he regards as too con-
sentative.
Mr.. Butler says this is 60
ing to create a tough situa-
ton In 1860" for the Demo-
Gratis. But political realists do
not look at 1t that way. The
Nation has come out Of the
economic recession and isn't
interested in the quack rem
edies that made headlines
when so many people were
out Of work during the 1858
congressional campaign. The
Democratic leaders in Con-
gress have accurately sensed
the trend and have been
adapting themselves to it.
The truth is that the next
Democratic presidential NOM
inee, in order to win popular
approval, is going to have to
be an exponent Of what
might euphemistically be
termed enlightened conserv-
atism."
The facts of economic life
are plain to see. Government
bonds are selling at low
prices. Interest rates are too
low to attract investors. The
politicians who emphasize the
deficit of nearly $l3 billion,
which was registered in the
fiscal year just ended, are in
consistent in arguing for
more spending that will keep
the Treasury in red ink con-
tinuously.
The cleavage in the Demo-
cratic Party is significant.
Speaker Rayburn resents the
use of the term "Spenders" to
characterize the Democratic
Party, but he is unfortunately
speaking for only one faction
of the party-the conserv-
atives. Almost Simultane-
ously with the Rayburn pro-
nouncement comes, for in
stance, the much-publicized
report and economic study of
Leon KeySerling, who was
chairman of the Presidents
Council of Economic Advisers
in the Truman adminiStra-
ton. 1t recommends a re-
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CONSTANTINE BROWN
Bridges Tough to Cross

tors took the hint, The Senate
and the galleries we're spared
the sight of one Of the leao-
ers Of the international Com
munist conspiracy receiving
the compulsory plaudits Of
the representatives Of Amer
lean democracy.
In later conversations, Sem
ator Bridges pointed out to
his colleagues that he con-
sidered the luncheons ten
dered by the Foreign Rela-
tons Committee to the visit
ing Soviet dignitaries as hui
initiating and completely out
Of place.
Bridges had made his views
clear in a speech from the
Senate floor after Mikoyan
had been entertained by Sen
ate leaders. He recalled the
lame explanations given by
his colleagues such as 1T was
a good place to find out what
that man was thinking" or
I'VE frequently invite digni-
taries and some of our own
ambassadors to such lunch
cons and there we have a
better chance to talk things
over leisurely." Majority
Leader johnson explained at
that time his own position
with that shibboleth lit is
better to exchange words
than bombs
So far Kozlov's reaction to
Bridges adamant stand is
not known. But the fact that
an advance guard of Soviet
reporters had been sent to
the Senate gallery to chron-
icle the historic event indi-
Gates that the Soviet propa-
ganda machine had laid
much store in Mr.. Kozlovs
waving his hands in response
to the anticipated standing
ovation from the Senators
and the public galleries.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-07
Yankee Republican Seen as Block
To Kozlov's Appearance in Senate

The smiling, hand-pump-
ing Soviet Deputy Premier
Kozlov has been snubbed
twice by high-ranking off,
Gals. The first by the Mayor
Of Detroit was widely publ
cized, But Senator Styles
Bridges stand in preventing
the Russian leader from APP
pearing on the floor Of the
Senate has received little
publicity.
Last Wednesday the Dep
uty Premier was scheduled
to lunch with members of
the Senate Foreign Rela-
tons Committee. This was a
courtesy extended to the
other No 2 man of the Krem-
lin. AnastaS Mikoyan. But
the hosts thought they might
help the cause of "relaxa-
ton" by doing more honor
to the charming KoZloV than
they did to the frowning
Mikoyan. They decided it
would be good policy, and
possibly good politics for
some of them, to bring the
burly Russian to the Senate
floor and introduce him to
the assemblage. Expecting a
spectacular and historic
scene when for the first time
in history a high-ranking
Russian would receive the
Senate'S accolade, two Rus
sian reporters were given
temporary visitors cards to
the Senate press gallery.
But Kozlov never appeared.
Senator Bridges, the senior
Republican and chairman of
the Policy Committee, had
stopped him.
Before Kozlov's arrival,
some of the leading Senators
who were to attend the
luncheon realized that there
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might be some unpleasant
ness II their honored guest
were brought to the Senate
floor before talking the mat
ter over with the senior Re-
publican Senator. So Major
ity Leader Lyndon johnson,
Minority Leader Everett
DirkSen and Chairman Will
liam Fulbright Of the For
eign Relations Committee
informed Senator Bridges of
their intentions. They pointed
out the good effect such a
presentation might have on
Soviet American relations.
And they asked Bridges what
his position was.
Bridges answer came with
out any hesitation. He in
formed his colleagues that
before they would have a
chance to introduce Kozlov
he would take the floor on a
point Of personal privilege
and denounce the presence
Of the representative of one
Of the most ruthless dictator
ships in history. 1t would be
an insult to the American
people, he added, as we'll as
to those nations fighting hard
to preserve their freedom
against the Red onslaught.
1t was bad enough, Senator
Bridges said, that this repre-
sentative of Communist OPP
preston was invited to a
private luncheon under the
dome of the American Capt.
toll. He could not interfere
with that in any way except
by refusing an invitation to
attend that shocking affair"
But he would not hesitate
to denounce not necessarily
Kozlov but the whole system
of which KoZlov was the
devoted servant. The Sena-
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But they declare with the
fervor of Latin oratory and
writing that agrarian reform
is the revolution, and that
without it liberty cannot
endure.
The fundamental ills of
the new republic, created in
1902. with its overtones of a
colonial system. produced the
Machado and Batista re-
gimes, says the Castro revo-
luton. This time there will
be an immediate move to
overturn the old obstacles.
They cite many. One will
serve. There are, for example,
780 large farms and ranches.
These alone control almost
20 per cent of all the arabic
land in Cuba.
So, Castro has moved.
There is angry inSistence
that this is not a Communist
type plan. There is emphatic
denial that there is a Com
munist anywhere in the gov
eminent. They point a finger
at the statistics which they
do not hide-namely, that 10
per cent of the people are
unemployed and that so per
cent of the workers and
farmers live in worse con-
ditions than an unemployed
worker in the United States.
This condition could not be
hidden insofar as the CuhanS
are concerned. But this gov
eminent filings it out as a
part of it's justification and
its irritation with critics.
So the visitor who returns
to a land he has always liked
feels the currents of it. This
is a new sort of revolution.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-25
Liqht Green Ford Gives Police
First Evidence in Jackson Deaths

A mysterious green Ford to-
day doomed as the first solid
piece of evidence police have in
the brutal Staying of the four
members Of the Jackson family.
Jack Hall, Virginia State po-
lice investigator, said there is
definitely some significance"
in a report that a light green
Ford was parked on the forest
trail near Annapolis, the day
before the bodies Of Mrs. Mil
dred jackson, 81. and her
daughter, Eusan Ann, S, were
found last Saturday.
He pointed out that a Han
over County tVa.) couple had
reported to police that a man
driving an old-model. light
green Ford had tried to force
them of the road the night
Carroll v. Jackson and his
family vanished January IL.
That incident occurred in
Louisa County. Va, near Fred
ericksburg, not far from the
Jackson's Apple Grove home.
The two teen-aged boys who
found the grave Of Mrs. Jackson
and Susan Ann told the FBI
that they were riding a school
bus the day before they found
the bodies. They said they saw
a light green Ford parked on
the lonely. forest trail that led
to the grave. They said the car
appeared to be a 1856 model.
Meanwhile, police today re-
ported progress in checking out
known criminals capable of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-25
e BEFORE T-SOMETIMES
Boord Shifts Letters
In Viers Mill Road

Maryland planners now be.
iieve the "e' should come be-
fore ~ in the spelling Of Vier;
Mill road In Montgomery
County.
This is a matter that has
confused county residents since
the Maryland State Roads Com.
mission named 1t in 1884.
Today the Montgomery
County Planning Board agreed
to requests that the spelling be
changed to Veirs Mill road. II
recommended that there be q
gradual change as new signs
are needed. The planners. who
have street-naming authority
set no deadline for the official
changeover.
The Rockville City Council,
with backing from the Chamber
.of Commerce and citizen groups,
had changed the spelling last
fall and erected new signs with
in the city limits.
Today board member Louis A.
Gravelle proposed the change
Planning Director Arthur K,
Stollhorn. however, asked, ITS
it worth $500 or $400 to put
the e. before the Il in signs,
maps and plat records? That
money could be used to more
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-25

two of them probably were
slain.
Mrs. Jackson and her daugh-
ter, Susan Ann, will be buried
at 3 pm. tomorrow in services
from South Anna Baptist
Church in Louisa. Burial will
follow in the jackson family
plot beside her late husband.
and the other child. -
The 29-year-old feed truck
driver and his family disap-
peared on a lonely. road near
their home as they were
driving back from q visit to rel
atives. For weeks, all that in
vestigators could find was the
family's car, abandoned on the
road as though it had been
forced to the side. There were
car keys in the ignition and
such articles as baby bottles
and the little girls dolls but no
trace of the missing family.
On March 4, two men look
ing for sawdust near a wood
land lumber mill In the vicinity
of Fredericksburg. Va. found
Mr.. Jackson and Janet dead
in a. brush pile. The father
had been bound and shot. His
daughter lay dead across his
body. apparently the victim
of either a vicious beating or
exposure.
Two boys found Mrs. Jack
son and Susan Ann buried in
a 26-inch deep grave near an
other sawmill IL miles west Of
Annapolis.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-25

committing quadruple-murder
like the Jackson family case
but are without a real lead to
the identity Of the killer.
Washington's Chief of Detec-
tiveS, E. E. Scott, said the Spe-
cial f1ve-man jackson Squad
has checked a number of GRIM
inal flies and talked to many
persons with criminal records.
However. the police Of Wash
ington, q, Maryland and Virginia,
as well as the Federal Bureau
of Investigation. appeared to
be baffled by the Sayings.
Virginia State Police Inves-
tigator G. S. Cooper said. 1--WE
are m aking progress" but
would not elaborate. Anne
Arundel Md County Police
Chief Wilbur Wade revisited
yesterday the shallow grave
near Gambrills where two of
the family we're found buried
last week end.
He also discussed the case
with Maryland State Police
detectives, but their concentra-
ton was on unSolved murders
with similarities to the Jackson
case. -, d.
The FBI, which has rs men
working on the case, is looking
mainly for a common denomi-
nator" to the family tragedy
between Louisa County, Va,
where the Jacksons were kid
mapped, and Anne Arundel
County-100 miles anywhere
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-25
Rockville Okuys
Petition to Annex
20-Acre Truct

The Rockville Mayor and
Council last night approved q
petition for the annexation OF
20 acres of land south Of the
Congressional Shopping Cen
ter.
The annexation action, which
will become effective after a
45-day waiting period. was
taken at the request of S. B.
Elkins. a developer. The 20
acre parcel lies south Of a l4o-
acre tract for which apartment
and single-family (R-75) zon-
ing is being considered.
The council also authorized
City Manager Walter A. Schei-
Der to begin negotiations with
consultants for the design OF
a 100000 storm drainage sys-
TEN. The proposed system
would serve the Rockcrest,
Croydon Park. South Washing
ton and Lincoln Park areas.