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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-24

dent Of the Federal Power Ems
ployes Association, Federal
Power Commission. Others
elected were Thomas Sonner,
vice president; Eleanor Acker-
nan, secretary; Gerald Wilson,
treasurer, and members OF the
council, Beverly Eagleson, Mary
Kidd, William Costello, Homer
Stone, Clyde Smithson, Paul
Walter, William Harkaway,
Kenneth Roberts, Arthur BurkS
ert, Anthony LaFerrara, Jesse
Rawley, jr., Walter Wright,
Robert johnson, James Conrad
and Margaret Mitchell.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-24

noon thundershowers, highest
around 80.
Upper Bay - Clearing and
less humid tomorrow, highest
"a to S8. Shifting wind becom-
ing northwest 10 to 20 miles
per hour.
Lower Bay - Partly cloudy
tomorrow with chance of aft
ernoon thundershowers, high
est So to go. Shifting wind be-
coming northwest to north 10
to 20 miles per hour.
Skyline DriVe-Clearing and
becoming less humid tomor-
row. highest rs to 81. Good
visibility.
Five-Day Forecast
For Washington and Vicinity,
July rs through 20
Temperatures will average a
little above the normal of SO
and 50. Not quite as warm over
the week end with a rising
trend thereafter. Scattered
thundershowers likely Monday
or Tuesday averaging about
one-half inch.
High and Low Of Last "a Hours
High, 80 at 4:30 pm.
Low, 70 at 600 am.
The Sun and Moon
Rises Sets
Sun today - 500 am. 1927 pm.
Sun Tomorrow 500 am. 500 pm.
Moon today. 1907 pm. 10:4S am.
Automobile lights must be turned on
one-haf hour after sunset.
Tide Tables
FURNISHED by the United States Coast
and Geodetic. Survey
Low -------- 6:33 am. 7:23 am.
High ------- 1903 pm. 12:47 am.
Low ~ 6:55 pm. 7:42 am.
For high and low tides at the fol-
loving points subtract the times in
Light. 3 hours; Colonial Beach. 594
5 hours; Point Lookout, hours.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-24
Then Presto!

ana Cnen paLnlng SultS: Cnarm,
body. face.
-, Then Presto!
And when the judges put the
parts together tonight, presto
Miss Universe.
8 FinaliSts are:
Miss Belgium. Helene Sa-
-vigny, "a, an aspiring actress;
Miss Brazil, Vera Ribeiro. 10,
who also wants to be an ac-
tress; Miss Colombia, France
educated Olga Pumarejo, 20;
Miss England, drama student
Pamela Anne Searle, 81; Miss
France, FRANCHISE Saint Laur-
ent, 10.
Miss Germany, Carmela
Kunzel, 10, an aspiring teach
err. Miss Greece, would-be film
star Zoe Koyroykly; Iceland's
18-year-old Sigridur Thorvalds-
dottir; Miss Israel. Rina Issa-
GOV. 10, a university student
from Tel Aviv.
Miss Japan. Akiki Kojima.
%, a leggy fashion model from
Tokyo; Miss Korea. Hymn Choo
Oh, 10. an aspiring ballerina;
Miss Norway, Jorunn Kristian-
seq. 10, who wants to be a
gym teacher; Miss Poland, bal
let dancer Zuzanna Cembrow-
ska, 10; Miss Sweden, Marie
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-24

ate already has approved the
bill.
The liberal bloc apparently
has the votes to force the hear
ings to a close whenever 1t
wants to.
Chairman Murray has said
he will expedite the hearings
as much as possible, put he
declares that the measure Is so
important that he wants to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-24
:Miss Universe Beauty
To Be Picked Tonight
By PATRICK McNULTY
Associated Press Stan Writer

LONG BEACH, Calf, July 24-Each of the IS fnalss in
Miss Universe beauty is going to be divided into
three parts tonight.
At least that's she'll be studied by contest judges
who last night the field of "a lovees to select Is The
Judges look for three things in evening dresses
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-24
THE FEDERAL SPOTLIGHT
Speed Is Indicated
On Health Insurance
BY JOSEPH YOUNG
Star Stan Writer

Indications that the House Civil Service Committee
hearings Federal empoye health insurance legislation will
be speeded and concluded by the end Of next week.
The liberal bloc in the committee served notice that will
to end the hearings next week In order to clear the bill
action before adjournment Of Congress The
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-24

River Report
Potomac River muddy at Harpers
Ferry and cloudy at Great Falls.
cloudy at Harpers Ferry.
Temperatures for Yesterday
Midnight --- so Noon ------- SO
4am. - 76 pm. 1850 81
sam. - rs SPIN. 49, IS
Record Temperatures This Year
Highest, 100. on June 90 and 80.
Lowest, II, on January and IL.
Time Temperature Humidity Index
Temperature Humidity index
The temperature humidity index for
the Washington area is based on the
relationship between the temperature
ane 5ne When Se t DeE cG PEACHES
20: half are uncomfortable at rs and
theoretically everyone at 70.
Time Temperature Humidity Index
Evening star., 1959-06-28
supremecouirt:
To the Right?

Recent decisions by the Su-
preme Court in cases involving
suhversion and individual rights
have resulted in q widespread as
sumption that the high tribunal
has shifted to the right"
This may be true. There are
only two men who can say with
certainty whether the court has.
indeed. moved to the right, how
ever. They are Justices Harlan
and Frankfurter. II the court
has shifted they have shifted. for
they have provided the balance Of
power on the court in recent years
on both sides Of the deep Con-
stitutional issues involved.
They are not men who shift
easily on matters Of principle.
Last week the Supreme Court
again divided on question Of in.
dividual rights, this time involv-
ing the celebrated Jencks decision
of 1857.
Clinton E. Jencks was union
leader who was convicted Of filing
a false nom Communist oath. Two
F. B. I. informants testified that
he had been a Communist. Revers-
ing the case, the Supreme Court
held that the reports made to the
F. B. I. by informants should have
been made available to Jencks be-
. cause of their possible value to
his defense,
Evening star., 1959-06-28
Furore Brings Action

The decision aroused a furore In
Congress and provoked Herbert
Brownell, then Attorney General,
to q declaration that opening
F. B. I. files to defendants would
bring an emergency IN law en-
forcement."
Congress quickly plugged the
loophole by passing q law restrict-
ing the scope of the legal judg-
ment. 1t provided that defendants
could examine only those pre-trial
statements relating to their trial
testimony.
The Supreme Court last week
upheld the new statute. But four
justices, while concurring In the
seven cases involved, limited their
endorsement Of the majority view
to narrower issues. They thus re-
served their opinion Of the statute
itself.
The four justices reserving
Judgment were the four members
Of the liberal bloc. Justices
Black. Douglas and Brennan and
Chief Justice Warren. Justices
Harlan and Frankfurter were
with the majority, as they were in
the courts recent decisions In the
Barenblatt and Uphaus cases.
Evening star., 1959-06-28
Compromise Rejected

A compromise plan that might
have avoided a presidential vote
was rejected by the House. which
approved the sterner version earl
ier this month. Last week the
Senate approved the original
House plan in the almost certain
knowledge that 1t would be ve-
toed by Mr. Eisenhower.
It was, along with an equally
Objectionable bill that would have
extended tobacco price supports
at their present level.
Said Mr.. Eisenhower:
This bill prescribes for q sick
patient another dose Of what
caused his illness"
The final version of the housing
bill that aroused the wrath Of
Senator Clark stretched the veto
proof" strategy to the thinnest
margin yet dared by the Demo-
cratic leadership.
The bill was slashed in confer
ence committee to $l,375. .000. 900.
compared with $2,55l 100000 in
the original Senate version and
$2.l billion first voted by the
House.
It still contained several fea-
lures Objectionable to the admin
istration, however. It authorized
$500 million for urban renewal in
Evening star., 1959-06-28

-Toure, found the West too slow
to offer aid and announcement.
signed four trade agreements with
Iron Curtain countries and ac-
cepted the gift Of Red arms. o
radio station and the technicians
to install it. French Cameroons,
due for independence next year.
finally was able to crush a revolt
by killing its Communist-trained
field leader but the political leader
Of the movement, Felix Moumie.
escaped to Cairo where he con-
tinues to generate anti Western
propaganda. Communist -oriented
trade unions tried unsuccessfully
to take Senegal out Of the French
community.
In addition to their subversive
activities, the Communists are
making an open attempt to seize
control Of the Pan-African move
ment. At the Accra Conference
Of December. 1858, the American
born Negro speaker w. E. B. Du-
Bois' keynote address made a big
pitch to emergent African nations
to tie their economic hopes to
the Russian Red star. Said Mr..
Du Bois:
1.-THE capital offered you at high
price by the colonial powers like
France. Britain. Holland. Belgium
and the United States viii pro-
long fatal colonial Imperialism
from which you have suffered
slavery. serfdom and colonialism.
You can starve q while longer
rather than sell your great hertz
Evening star., 1959-06-28
Wheat Surplus Symbol

The mountainous surpluses Of
Government-owned wheat have
come to symbolic the failures OF
the farm support program. The
Federal Government owns So bill
lion worth Of wheat-l.2 bill
lion bushels. The present price
support program is conceded by
all sides to be a colossal failure.
Democrats and Republicans agree
that the program must be dras-
tically revamped. but disagree
widely on method.
Mr.. Eisenhower and Agriculture
Secretary Benson have been Wig
orously opposed to the wheat
bill supported by Democrats. 1t
would raise price supports from
rs to 90 per cent Of parity and
cut back acreage allotments Is
per cent. In the view Of the ad-.
ministration this would simply re-
suit in piling up higher surpluses.
Distilled to its political essen.
tials, the problem faced by the
Democratic leadership was this:
II the Democratic bill was
passed, it would be vetoed by Mr..
Eisenhower Though this might
rebound to the advantage Of
Democrats in the farmbelt); If
Congress failed to approve wheat
bill, the President could accuse
Democrats Of failure to act on Q
critical and costly problem.
Evening star., 1959-06-28
Long:
Triumph

If the bizarre story Of Gov. Earl
K. Longs commitment to q Lou
isiana mental hospital had been q
work Of fiction 1t could have had
only one ending: The Governor
would fire the hospital superin-
tendent, put his own man in the
job and return to his office in
triumph.
AS Louisianans long accustomed
to eccentricity in the Governors
office gaped in disbelief last week,
the flctional ending came true.
Attorneys for Gov. Long. con-
fined as q schizophrenic paranoid
at Southeast Louisiana State Hos
pital, obtained a court hearing on
the question Of his sanity. The
hearing was held on q junior high
school basketball court( the court
house was undergoing repair.
Before the hearing began the
superintendent Of the State hos
pital, who declined to renounce
his opinion that the 63-year-old
Governor was mentally i'll. was
fired-by the Governor. His sue
cessor, q close friend and political
ally Of Mr.. Long. declared the
Governor q sane man and released
him from the mental hospital.
Hammering his gavel for order
in the basketball court, the Judge
dismissed the habeas court pro-
Evening star., 1959-06-28
Too Much Is AvoiIobIe

the next two years, compared with
only $3.50 million sought by the
President: 1t included authority
for $4,000 public housing units,
where Mr.. Eisenhower had asked
for none.
There was q strong suspicion
at the end Of the week that the
housing bill would also be vetoed
by the President.
There were also elements Of the
veto game in another bill passed
last week by the Senate. Voting
to extend present excise and COR
poration income taxes, Demo-
Gratis attached several amend
ments distasteful to the presiden-
tial palate.
They included repeal Of the
special I per cent tax relief now
allowed stockholders on income
from dividends and repeal Of the
10 per cent Federal tax on pas
senger travel fares. in effect since
World War II.
Some Of the Senate changes will
be eliminated in conference with
the House, which simply extended
the taxes as the administration
requested. Mr.. Eisenhower may
have to accept the remaining Sem
ate amendments or permit the
taxes involved to expire June 80.
Even temporary cut-off Of the
So billion in annual revenue pro.
duced by the levies would be q
blow to his hopes for a balanced
budget.
Evening star., 1959-06-28

Rayburn has pared down the big
Democratic spending proposals
of the early months Of the con-
gressional session TO o point where
they are scarcely recognizable
from Mr.. Eisenhower's own pro-
grams.
It has also provided an answer
TO Republican attempts to pin q
won't do" label on the seth
Congress, though 1t is an answer
deplored by some Democratic
liberals.
To some members Of the major
ity party, such as Senator Clark
Of Pennsylvania, the end result OF
the johnson -Rayburn strategy Is
a blurring Of party lines that is
likely to leave constituents uncer-
tain who to credit or blame for
congressional action.
Complaining Of the extent to
which slum clearance funds were
6llCcQ III titC BACdelJ hAoAAASA sSs
sion Of the housing bill passed by
Congress last week. Senator Clark
said:
Those OF US who came from
States where the two-party COM
petition is rough do want party
record. =.
"If the measures Of this pro-
gram would be vetoed II passed.
then what we need is not veto
proof legislation, but vetoed
legislation"
The Senator's point was that 1t
is better to draw hard party lines
on an issue such as slum clearance
and 60 down to defeat than to
support a bill so weak that your
position can win no votes at the
next election.
In Lyndon Johnson's-and Sam
Rayburn's--home State Of Texas
there is no trough" two-party
competition, as there is in Penn
sylvania.
Evening star., 1959-06-28

ment win refuse to buy any sur
plus wine.
Another reason for the avail
ability and low price Of brandy
In particular, especially in rural
areas, is the French law permit
ting each farmer to distill alcohol
for family use." In theory the
farmer must grow the fruit he
turns into alcohol; in fact any
French farmer who wants to
makes his own alcohol, usually In
the form Of strong brandy.
In two dozen French depart
ments there is O still for every
two adult men.
Former Premier es-France.
who vainly tried to interest more
people in drinking milk. got law
passed in 1854 limiting this dis
tilling privilege to farmers who
actually grew fruit. But the
Assembly kept postponing the en-
forcement date and three years
ago there were still 3.6 million
farmyard stills in France. al
though the number has since
dropped.
So much wine and brandy is
available so cheaply tsthat the
rural Frenchman accepts heavy
drinking as part of his way Of life.
This situation also keeps thou
sands of small cafes in business.
One French community of 5000.
for example. has i've bakeries, six
butchers and 28 cafes.
Even with his enormous popu-
larity Mr.. De Gaulle must move
slowly. The wine industry employs
8 per cent of Frances work force,
a powerful voice at the voting
booths.
Most antialcohol workers be-
lieve it will be 10 to Is years be-
fore they can make any change in
the French drinking habits. But
they are hopeful.
France does not have the enor-
nous problem Of youthful alco-
holics that is found in Commu-
mist countries, they point out. And
the government has certainly
come q long way from the days
when 1t subsidized such slogans
as, "a meal without wine Is like
q day without sunshine"
Evening star., 1959-06-28

hind the Iron Curtain. they acted
in concert with the French Com
munist party until the late 1940s.
and French African trade Unions
were infiltrated with Marxist cr-
ganiZers.
Communist influence on British
African leaders has been less
profound. Although convicted
Kenya Mau Mau leader Jomo
Kenyatta visited Russia and
Ghanas Kwame Nkrumah had
personal contact with British
Marxists and was once arrested
with q Communist party card in
his possession. no leading black
politician In British Africa can
rightly be termed q Communist.
These preliminary maneuyers
on the part Of the Communists
only created q climate Of soft
ness among African leaders toward
the Reds. The fact that their
colonial masters feared and hated
communism made 1t more ap-
pealing to the Africans, most Of
whom wouldn't know Karl Marx
from Groucho.
Deterioration Seen ,
The situation has seriously de-
Perforated since 1858. In that
year. Communists regained con-
troll Of the Sudan's powerful Rail-
way Workers Union and cemented
their hold on an estimated 20
per cent Of the membership OF
the country's trade union move
ment. Guinea became independ-
ent under xist-inclined Sekou
Evening star., 1959-06-28
NATO's 'sCurrent Riffs Contribute
ToFeorSoviet Will Gain Detente

impossible to negotiate q cold-war
settlement with Russia, not simply
because the West will have lost Its
bargaining power. but because Of
another practical consideration.
There is scarcely any conceive
able form Of East-WeSt settle
ment which would not involve
disengagement in one form or an
other. But IL East and West were
to disengage in Central Europe.
American forces would have to
fall back primarily on France;
and II France were not TO be con-
genial territory for them, disen-
gagement would be out Of the
question.
Closer Consultation
Things need not be allowed to
disintegrate to any such point.
Some Of De Gaulle's desire for
grandeur" can perhaps be salts
fed by ostentatious hospitality.
such as Italy accorded him this
past week and Britain Is ready
to do. There can be closer con-
sultation with Paris. which In
Maurice Couve de Murville has q,
very valuable idea-man.
The Pentagon is having q
new look at the necessity for 100
per cent American control over
atomic stockpiles abroad. The
United States could give France
diplomatic support on Algeria IN
the U. N. II France would display
a bit more fiexibility on negotia-
tions with the rebels.
Some such program Of counter
action seems to Western diplomats
here the obvious answer to
Khrushchev's Geneva tactics.
Evening star., 1959-06-28

thought there would be an East
West agreement. But as agree
ment has become possible-indeed
likely-the preSsures have become
heavier and heavier.
Second -Rote Power Issue
Much Of the rest that has
sprung up to embitter Franco
allied relations Is related TO the
test-ban issue directly or In
directly.
II France is to be denied ad-
mission to the nuclear CLUB" at
least by the front door. she viii be
frozen in the category Of q second
rate world power; hence de
Gaulle's strenuous efforts to re-
establish Frances position before
that happens.
II France is never to have her
own nuclear weapons, or Is never
to have fully tested stockpile OF
suficient numbers and variety.
she is all the more eager to share
in the control Of any American
A-weapons placed on her soil.
Even AlgeMa--a seemingly un-
related issue-has a nuclear angle.
One Of the unspoken reasons why
Congress has hesitated TO help
France build the A-bomb Is q fear
considered very far-fetched IN
France-that in an extremity, this
weapon might be used against the
Algerian rebels, thus destroying
for generations any hope OF
friendship between the Christian
Of the Atlantic community and
the Moslem Of North Africa.
If the United States Congress
were willing to give France Ameri-
can atomic "secrets"-which GER
tainly are not secrets from Russia
France Immediately could go
along with q nuclear test-ban;
she would not need a test program
Of her own.
But Congress is not SO willing
and the Geneva test-ban negotia-
tions therefore continue to put
great strain on NATO. .
Splits Within NAT0
Russia, for her part. is doing
everything to maximize that
strain. This is a major reason.
and probably the principal reason.
why she has been conciliatory in
the test-ban negotiations, willing
to give way to some extent IN the
face Of Western demands. The
nearer test-ban agreement comes.
the deeper are the splits in NATO.
Meanwhile, while awaiting the
results of this divisive maneuver.
Andrei Gromyko has been sitting
: on a cake of ice" Gin Khrushchev's
phrase) in the other, more highly
publicized, Geneva conference, now
temporarily in recess. There Is
no need, from his point Of view,
to purchase detente at a stiff
price-say. German reunihcation
when it can be had for little
or nothing by agreeing to q test
ban.
II the riffs in NATO continue
and grow, 1t will become virtually
Evening star., 1959-06-28

age for mess Of Western capital
istic pottage (sic). You can COM
pare the offers Of the nonopolized
Western private capitalists with
those Of socialist countries like
the Soviet Union and China.
which with infinite sacrifice and
pouring out Of blood and tears,
are at last able to offer weak ma
tions needed capital on better
terms than the West, Its ac-
ceptance involves no bonds which
a free Africa may not safely as.
sumo. It certainly does not In
volve slavery and colonial con.
troll which the West has demand
ed and still demands
Guineo Dom Offer
This sort Of thing goes down
well with African leaders anxious
to finance grandiose and some
times uneconomic industrial prof.
ects. Guinea's Sekou Toure recent
ly revealed that unidentified Com
munist powers have offered to
build him q $500 million hydro
electric project in return for q
mineral concession over the en-
tire country. Mr.. Toure said he
had rejected the offer pending q
decision by q Western consortium
which also is considering the prof.
ect.
Russian embassies in Khartoufn.
Adds Ababa. Accra and Conakry
are busy selling the Soviet line
in Africa south Of the Sahara. The
primary emphasis continues to be
Evening star., 1959-06-28

cedings brought by the Governor
to obtain his release and Earl K.
Long was once again the chief
executive of Louisiana.
,See personality sketch Of Gov.
Long on Page C-3.)
Evening star., 1959-06-28
THE NATIONAL SCENE

While the "veto-proof" strategy
Of the Democratic leadership may
be controversial. 1t is not infiex-
ible. Last week Mr.. johnson and
Mr.. Rayburn demonstrated that
they are also aware Of the advan-
tages to be gained by forcing the
President into q politically per-
ilous veto.
The reversal Of strategy came
on the wheat and tobacco price
support bills.