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Evening star., 1959-12-19
Missouri Starts
Symington Drive

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo, Dec.
l9 (AP(.-A drive to promote
Senator Symington, Democrat
of Missouri, for the Democratic
presidential nomination was
launched yesterday by the Mis-
souri, State Democratic Com
mittee.
Members were asked to seek
support from national party
leaders and potential couven-
ton delegates, and to volunteer
for personal tours into other
States in Senator Symington's
behalf. The tours would be at
their own expense.
Money to finance the drive
will be sought through a S100-
a-plate dinner in St. Louis
February 10. The committee
also asked local groups through
out the State to organize 1--WE
Want Symington" clubs for
Embarrassing purposes.
Evening star., 1959-12-19
Integrotec Command Seen Getting Okoy
OF De GouIIe, Will Not Be Unified

whether and where we would
be able to stop him.
Because of the military
situation Gen. Devers had
received orders to withdraw
from the recovered portions
of the Alsace-Lorraine into
the Ardennes. The 1st French
Army commanded by De Lat
tire had to move back with
the rest of the Allied forces
some so miles, abandoning
among other things the city
of StraSbourg which the
French had liberated earlier
from the NaziS.
De Gaulle, while realizing
the wisdom of the retreat
from the strategic point of
view, considered it very dam
aging to the French morale
which had just started to
pick up, thanks to a number
of military victories which
included the partial liberation
of AlSace. He feared that the
abandonment of Strasbourg
by the French without a
fight would hurt morale more
than severe casualties. He
ordered De Lattre to stay
where he was. This was in
defiance of the supreme COM
mander'S orders. This meant
in fact that at the height
of a vital battle two French
divisions would not follow
the strategy ordered by Gen.
Eisenhower but would remain
to defend the spot they had
reconquered.
De Gaulle recognized the
risk but persisted in his de-
ciSion. In his interview with
the supreme commander the
same day he issued his own
orders he pointed out that
''in this conflict of duties, the
interest of France must take
precedence over the strategic
concepts of the supreme COM
mander."
According to De Gaulle's
memoirs he further told Gen.
Eisenhower that IF we were
engaged in peacetime war
games there is no question
that your concept would be
right. But I must look at the
present situation from an
other angle; a withdrawal
such as you. ordered will put
into the hands OF the Ger
mans without a struggle Cnce
more a portion of the French
lands. This would be for
Evening star., 1959-12-19
Ecuador Seeks
Postponement OF
OAS Conference

Ecuador yesterday formally
suggested to the Organization
of American States that the
11th Inter-American Confer
ence be postponed.
Ambassador Gonzalo Es-
cudero, acting on instructions
from his government, made the
suggestion at a meeting of the
preparatory committee for the
conference. The conference hao
been scheduled to begin Feb
ruary l.
The full 21-nation OAs
Council will meet later to con-
slider the suggestion and the
date to which the conference
should be postponed.
Ecuador's suggestion fol
postponement was expected
since it became apparent that
buildings for the conference
in Ecuador's capital, Quito
would not be finished by Feb
ruary l.
Mr.. Escudero said, however
that the suggestion was mo-
tivated by a desire that ade.
quate time be given for a study
of documents to be presented
the conference, and a wish moi
to interfere with a scheduled
free trade zone meeting il
Montevideo.
Evening star., 1959-12-19

Should an endowed music
foundation that gives its con-
certs in a very small hall en-
gage artists whose reputation
and extremely wide public fol-
lowing would draw a paying
audience many times larger to
Constitutions Hall? Or should
the Whittall Foundation, in
giving concerts in the small
auditorium in the Library of
Congress, concentrate on artists
and programs of no less eXcep-
tional merit but of more spe-
cialized appeal?
The appearance of Zinc
Francescatti and Robert Casa
desus last night and Thursday
night at the Library of course
prompts these questions. The
tickets given the public were
taken within a few minutes
after the box Office opened its
doors. and hundreds were dis
appointed. Needless to say, those
who got seats enjoyed them
selves greatly at Mrs. Whittall's
party. but it may be that the
parties should be tailored to
the capacity of the hall, leaving
such artists as Francescatti and
Casedesus to Patrick Hayes and
Constitution Hall.
The two Frenchmen ap-
preached the three Beethoven
sonatas from an admirably
unified point of view. Their
Beethoven is a composer of
elegance rather than of depth;
with them we do not suffer
from the emotionalism of the
German romantics, yet we
sometimes feel that we find our
Beethoven a bit bowdleriZed.
The slow movement of the
KreutZer sonata was to my
mind the finest music making
of the evening. The ensemble
and the technical brilliance
were Superlative, and in this
movement the point of the
music lies nearer the surface
than in almost any other of
Beethoven'S greatest pieces.
If the Kreutzer is in this
respect like the Waldstein So
nata, the A major fiddle sonata
Opus 80, No. /, reminds one of
the intensely personal style of
the E minor sonata, Opus 90.
1t appeals to me as the most
compelling of all the Beetho-
ven violin sonatas-the work in
which the composer nearest
approaches the perfection of
the best of the cello and solo
piano sonatas.
One may feel that Frances
catti's and CaSedesus' feeling
for Beethoven is not the only
nor the most valid, but every
Evening star., 1959-12-19

in the area" southeast of the
airport.
Mr.. Levin told the associa-
ton that "the river may be the
cause of some minor stomach
troubles among the audience"
and. attributed the absence of
epidemics caused by the Po-
tomac to medical advances.
Pollution in the Potomac. he
said, has killed the natural
f1sh-food there and, as a re-
suit, the rivers fish feed almost
entirely on sewage.
Aiming Opposed
In other business, the feder-
alton, led by DR.. Phillip T.
johnson, voted to oppose legis-
iation permitting the arming
Of D. c. Transit System driv-
erS; approved a move by
its city parks and planning
committee to- seek technical aid
in proposing alternate routes
for the inner loop, and voted
to participate in a council OF
correlation which would help
schedule activities of its
members.
The group met in the Dis
trict Building.
Evening star., 1959-12-19
POTOMAC FEVER
BY FLETCHER KNEBEL

Senator Lyndon Johnson demands get up and co.
Ike team Can't satisfy these Democrats Only yesterday
Dean Acheson demanded that the Republicans and
stay put awhile.
Add Castro slogans It's time raised more cane and
less hair
One Democrats summary of the special election:
Times tough-for Democrats"
KhruShchev sends 40 and shrubs to Ike If they
fail to flourish at Gettysburg Ike His bark
than his bite"
Adlai Stevenson urges 4O-year 5000 billion foreign
aid program Slogan: Let's roll sleeves and put
grandchildren to work"
Harvard scientist says he-men smoke less than weaker
ones. Yeah, but little fellows have stronger will power
We have Toto knock off smoking as often as we do
Evening star., 1959-12-19

The Communist bosses are,
of course, delighted at the
so-called expected" rumpus
between the French govern
ment and the NATO COM
mand.
The difference of opinion
about unified command
received publicity out of pro-
portion to its actual impor-
tance. 1t is believed in diplo-
matte quarters in Paris that
while President Charles de
Gaulle will definitely reject
the idea of unified command
he will consent to what was
described often during the
war as an 'integrated COM
mand."
Diplomats here and in
Paris trust that a face-to-
face meeting between the
American and French PreSi-
dents will definitely lead to
an understanding, as it did
during the war after the
liberation of Paris when
France was able to put into
the field one full army COM
manded by Gen. Jean de
Lattre de TasSigny. That
army was a part of the
American army group COM
manded by Gen. Jacob Devers
and was regarded at SHAEF
as a total part of all Allied
forces under the supreme
commander, Dwight D. Eisen-
hover.
There have been, ever since
De Gaulle became the head
of the provisional govern
ment of France, some
rumblingS about the way he
regarded the role of France
in the then existing Allied
setup. His views, which he
repeats in his recently pub
lished memoirs Victory"
were then as follows: When
the French governme e Mt
places its military forces at
the disposal of a foreign
commander, this is done
under the specific under
standing that their employ
ment mu it be strictly in
keeping with the interests
of the country" This politi-
cal-military philosophy was
expressed at a critical time
for the Allies. Gen. Won
Rundsted had just broken
through the Bulge and there
was considerable concern at
the Eisenhower headquarters
Evening star., 1959-12-19
GoIdfine Lawyer Asks
Jury Probe of Tax Story

ter has been turned over to the
Justice Department.
The story which appeared
reported that the information
had come from Government
sources" Mr.. Williams said.
Direct quotations were made
from officials in the Internal
Revenue Service. ~
The disclosure of this in
formation, as you well know, is
a violation of both the Internal
Revenue Code and the Criminal
Code of the United States"
Mr.. Williams asked Mr..
Richardson to advise me at
the earliest time what action
you have taken in this matter. "
Mr.. Goldf1ne currently is un-
der a 90-day sentence for con-
tempt of court in Boston. His
appeal is pending before the
Supreme Court. The contempt
conviction grew out of a long
investigation of his tax affairs.
He was accused of failing to
produce records demanded by
the Internal Revenue Service.
Evening star., 1959-12-19

The Guatemala String Quar-
tet. the second such chamber
ensemble to appear here from
south of the border in the past
month, was heard last night in
the Department of Commerce
Auditorium in a concert spon-
sored by the Pan American
Union.
AS novelty, the Guatemalans
offered a brief Quartet by their
compatriot, Joaquin Orellana
whose name is completely un-
familiar to me. Although the
program did not indicate the
fact, the performance was in
all probability the works
American premiere.
1t proved to be a piece not
without interest, especially in
a pleasant first movement with
folklike main theme with
some nice polytonal touches.
couldn't make too much out OF
the concluding fugue, and the
slow movement consisted OF
what seemed to be merely a
few bars of introduction to
the last movement.
The Quartet plays with con-
siderably more rhythmic bite
than did the Wagnerian Asso-
citation Quartet from Buenos
Aires, but it suffers from the
same trouble with overall in
tonation. The lower strings in
particular were having theil
difficulties with pitch through
out the evening. and the verve
and masculinity of the general
conception of the music were
masked because of this.
The Guatemalans are fortu-
nate in their first violiniSt
Andres Archila, an excellent
fiddler who is not only the
conductor of the Guatemala
National Symphony Orchestra,
but is also assistant concert
master of our own NSO. The
stamp of Mr.. Archila's per-
sonality on the group is plain,
Of the two standard quartets
offered, the C major Rasumow-
sky and the Debussy, the latter
went better, due in large part
to some very brisk tempt in the
first two movements.
Evening star., 1959-12-19
Nomination Seen After Rockefeller
Efforts to Win Porty's State Leaders
RALPH McGILL

If European delegates 10
the Petit Summit in Paris
could name the next United
States President, A d lai
Stevenson likely would be
the man.
This is not because they
have any feeling for the
Democratic Party. 1t is that
they see in the former Gov
ernor of Illinois, and the
twice-nominated candidate
of the Democrats, an urbane.
intelligent man of knowledge
and experience. To them it
seems a shame to go hunt
ing for a President of un-
known qualifications when
such a one exists.
They probably would pre-
fer Gov. Nelson Rockefeller
over Vice President Nixon.
This is because he has an
international viewpoint. He
comprehends the political
meaning Of Europe and the
need to keep it free to save
American and Western ciVili-
Zation. But there is not now
too much fear of the Vice
President in Europe, or at
least not so much as existed
at the time of the Senator
Joe Mccarthy blight. The
visit of Mr.. Nixon tc Europe
removed many doubts. He
made there, as he invariably
does, an impression of candor,
ability and a willingness to
debate and learn.
1t now begins to look as
if the Republicans, without
question, will nominate Mr..
Nixon. The word now drifts
back from national State
committeeman who atte1 led
the recent meeting of such
officials in Chicago. 1t is
Evening star., 1959-12-19
TightMoney'
AssoiIed by
Humphrey

MERRILL, Wis, Dec. 19 (AP)
Senator Humphrey, Democrat
Of Minnesota, asSailing the ad.
ministration's money policy
has called it "a benefit for the
big banks, insurance companies
and other lending institutions.
The Senator is making an
other two-day trip in Wiscon-
sin, apparently to strengthen
his possible bid for presiden-
tial delegates to the Democratic
convention. He spoke yester-
day at Ashland. Rhinelander
Marathon and Merrill and
planned additional speeches in
Madison and other Southern
Wisconsin cities today.
The administrations tight
money policy" he said, "only
makes it tight for you and me.
Senator Humphrey said the
Republicans, particularly
George M. Humphrey, former
Secretary of the Treasury, die
not keep their promise to keer
interest rates down.
He also declared. that "the
greatest single failure of the
Republican Party is its farm
policy.
Their farm policy is based
on one theory" he said. 1T is
that lower prices and price sup
ports will result in less pro-
duction and this will enable
controls to be removed. This
theory does not work"
Evening star., 1959-12-19
Nixon Holds G. O. P. Loyalty

But that such a ticket
would establish permanency
of occupancy of the White
House for Republican nomi-
nees is only what they label
it-a dream.
1t is possible to indulge in
such pleasant images be-
cause the Democrats, who
should BE- able to win the
presidency, show no signs
Of producing a candidate.
The man most qualified is
Adlai Stevenson. He present.
ly seems to be the only po-
tential Democratic nominee
gaining ground. AS the Presi-
dents popularity helps Mr..
Nixon, so does the lack of
popular support Of Democrats
now seeking the nomination
aid Mr.. Stevenson. But there
often is a sort of childish
ness in men in politics as in
ordinary life. And there is
some of this in former Presi-
dent Truman's GOODNESS to-
ward Mr.. Stevenson. 1t ex-
tends to some former State,
committeeman of the Truman
years. This is reflected in
some of the big city and
State organizations.
National Chairman Paul
Butler doesn't want to see
Mr.. Stevenson nominated. :.
These elements contributed
to Mr.. Stevenson'S defeat IN
1852 and 1856. They would
again be a drag should he be
nominated. This would once
more take the form of en-
phaSizing the State nominees
and neglecting the national
ticket.
AS of now, the great ef-
tort by Senator Lyndon John
son seems to be to capture
control of the party at Los
Angeles and act as house.
keeper for the following four
years. There is little talk
about winning.
Evening star., 1959-12-19

plants ana a massive an
nual influx of silt from up
stream make the Potomac a
disease fostering, sludge-filled
economic liability for the Dis
trict.
Mr.. Levin, speaking as a
member of the steering COM
mittee of the Citizens Council
for a Clean Potomac, is an ad-
wiser to the Joint Committee on
w a hington Metropolitan
Problems and a vice president
of Resources Research, Inc.
River Bend Dam
Pointing out that the area
pumps 200 million gallons OF
partially treated sewage into the
Potomac daily and that the an
nual load of silt carried into
the District by the river totals
so million cubic feet, Mr.. Levin
called for:
/. Construction of a four
mile-wide dam at River Bend,
Md. that would create a reser-
voir backing up all the way to
Harpers Ferry.
2. Consolidation of small local
treatment plants into a system
feeding large central plants
that would discharge below "the
| population area"
He urged that sewage from
Dulles International Airport at
Chantilly, Va, be carried due
east and connected with the
main line to Blue Plains.
He called plans for Chantilly
sewage to be piped due south,
as recently proposed by Virginia
legislators, only a political
move to provide sewer facilities
Evening star., 1959-12-19
BY The Associated'Press

Bernard Goldfine's attorney
Is demanding a grand jury in
vestigation of the source of re-
ports that the New England in
dustrialist owes the Govern
ment SO million in taxes for
the years 1927.
Edward Bennett Williams
said in a telegram to Elliott
Richardson, United States at
torney in Boston:
"As counsel for Mr.. Goldfne,
I request that this matter be
laid before the grand jury pres
emily sitting in your district for
immediate consideration to de-
termine who is criminally re-
sponsible for the divulgence of
this information"
Mr.. Williams told Mr.. Rich
ardson that stories were printed
Wednesday and Thursday to
the effect that Mr.. Goldfine
would be charged with owing
the Government SO million in
income taxes and that the mat
Evening star., 1959-12-19
Fides House
Will Honor
DR.. DooIey

DR.. Thomas A. Dooley, famed
for his work in the jungles of
Laos, and local community
leaders will be honored tonight
by the Fides Neighborhood
House at its annual awards
ceremony.
The Mary Elizabeth Walsh
Medal will be presented in ab-
lsentia, since DR.. Dooley is now
in Bangkok, Thailand, on his
way to Laos, where he plans to
resume work in his hospital.
The community leaders who
will receive this award in cere-
monies at 10 pm. at the COM
munity house, 1854 Eighth
street NV, are Mr.. and Mrs
William NJ. Newell and R. Gray
son Mcclure, ST.
The Walsh medal was estab-
lished in honor of DR.. Mary
Elizabeth Walsh, a professor
of sociology at Catholic Uni
versity, and retired director OF
the center. Mr.. and Mrs,
Newell will receive the award
for having provided a foster
home for 1873 children. Mr.
MCGUIRE, an undertaken, will
be honored for his charity
work and for providing funer-
ais for INDECENT deceased.
A special religious honor, the
Father Judge Award. will GO
to Shirley O'Neil who last fall
fought to save a friend who
had been attacked by a shark
| in California. Miss ONeil
baptized the boy as he lay dy-
ing on the beach after a shark
had ripped off his arm.
Teen-agers of the commu-
nifty house will be honored with
the Young Man and Young
Woman of the Year awards
Honors for general community
service and the local winner
of the Father Judge award will
be announced. The ceremony
is part of a dance party that
begins at $50.
Evening star., 1959-12-19

that the Rockefeller sup
porters worked skillfully and
diligently. but were unable
to make any headway. The
sentiment for Mr.. Nixon was
not blunted.
II told them" said a COM
mitteeman from a pivotal
State. that I liked Rookie
feller. I also said I'd be for
him later on. But that now
isn't the time"
This sentiment, shrewdly
cultivated by the Nixon STRAIT
egists, is sweeping the coun-
try, much as did the say
ing of 1852 that Senator Taft
couldn't win. 1t is a phrase
which compliments the Gov
ernor and one which both
accepts and rejects him.
Il know" said another ma
tional committeeman, that
some of the major financial
supporters of the Governor
are now urging him to with
draw"
The COP. leadership al
ready scents victory. They
are exuberant as colts and
eager to bring of the COM
bination of Nixon and Rookie
feller. They are dreaming
dreams of perpetuating the
party in the White House
for 16 full years-eight with
Nixon and eight with Rookie
feller. This sort of political
caStles-in- sky architec-
ture is commonplace with
politicians who feel the bit in
their teeth. There is no as
surance Gov. Rockefeller
would take second place. But.
equally, there is none he
wouldn't. 1t would be next
to impossible for him to re-
fuse were the convention to
nominate him.
Evening star., 1959-12-19
james Stiles Quits
Savings Bond Post
BY the Associated Press

The resignation of James F.
Stiles, jr., as national director
of the United States Savings
Bonds Division was accepted
yesterday by Secretary of the
Treasury Anderson.
Mr.. Stiles, who took over the
savings bond post in January,
1858, asked to be relieved of
the assignment for pressing
personal reasons"
Evening star., 1959-12-19
Peasants Parade

HDAD, Iraq. Dec. 19
(AP) More than 100000 peas
ants from all parts of Iraq
paraded through Baghdad yes
terday to celebrate Premier
Abdel Karin KasSem's release
from the hospital December 3.
Evening star., 1959-12-19

from Miami after a three-hour
delay caused by a broken water
hose in one of the planes en-
gineS and air traffic congestion
in the New York area. He left
Immediately by car to spend
part of the week end with rel
atives and friends in Millbrook,
N. Y.
No More Trips
Gov. Rockefeller said in Mi
ami that the trip winds up
AL the fact-finding I'm going
to do by travelling" The Gov
Evening star., 1959-12-19
GUATEMALANS
OFFER NOVELTY
BY IRVING LOWENS
Contributing Critic

Guatemala string Quartet CAndres
Archila, Carlos Ciudad-Real vio-
Inns; Milton cabnal viola; Eduardo
Ortiz, cello) In Department of
Commerce Auditorium Program:
Quartet in c, Op. 50, No. 3, Bee
thoven Quartet, Orellana; Quartet
in q, minor, Op. 10. Debussy
Evening star., 1959-12-19
BY DAY THORPE
Star Music Critic

Zinc Francescatti. violin: Robert
Casedesus, piano. Library Of Con-
greSs. Beethoven program: Sonatas
in flat, Opus 70. No. 3; in A
major, Opus 80, No. /, in A major,
Opus A.
Evening star., 1959-12-19

ernor has indicated that public
opinion polls also will influence
his decision on whether to op-
pose Vice President Nixon for
the Republican presidential
nomination next year.
I'm neither optimistic nor
pessimistic," he said when asked
whether the trip had shed any
light on his national political
possibilities. He said he wants
to make up his mind before a
State legislative session starts
January 5.
Warm Welcome
He received warm welcome
in Florida, although G. o. P.
leaders there overwhelmingly
favor Mr.. Nixon. Queried as to
whether he had been asked to
enter the Florida presidential
primary, Gov. Rockefeller re-
piled:
We'll, I haven't been crowded
on it," .
Besides Florida, Gov. Rookie
feller visited Indiana, Missouri,
Oklahoma, Texas, Wisconsin
and Minnesota. Republican
officials we're friendly to him
in each State-with few ex-
ceptionS, he said. He declined
to specify the exceptions.
The trip contributed very
much to a better understand
ing of the interests of the
people and the structure and
attitude of the party" he said.
Evening star., 1959-12-19
Rockefeller Ends rip,
Will Stoy Home Now

NEW YORK Dec. 10 (AP).-Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller
has wound his 5636mle sixday tour that took him into
States He he's done all the travelling he's going
to do in researchng his presidential possibilities.
He called the trip wonderful"
York arrived here by plane last night
Evening star., 1959-12-19
Consolidated Plant
Urged for Area SEWAGE

A 4-mle-Wlde dam and consolidation of area sewage
treatment plants particularly Virginia urged last
ght by Congressional adviser sanitary engineering as
the two basic steps toward clean Potomac
Addressing the Federation of Civic Associations Gilbert
Levin said inadequate processing sewage by small local
Evening star., 1959-12-19
NEWS OF MUSIC
Recital Raises Issue
Of Halls Capacity

thing they did last night had
the stamp of careful thought
and excellence of execution.