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Evening star., 1960-12-04
Butler Predicts Veto
Of Navy Unit Shift
BY JOHN McKELWAY
Star star Writer

Senator Butler, Republican Of Maryland predicted last
night Defense Secretary Gates will cancel decision by
the Navy to unit at the Naval Weapons Plant to
Philadelphia
Involved the Navy Production Equipment Control office
which had last month Friday night
Evening star., 1960-12-04
Inaugural Group Set
To Thwort Swindlers
BY HAYNES JOHNSON
Star Stan Writer

Ticket scapers swnders seeking to turn dishonest
dollar during inaugural events next month will have
hard time Presden-elect Kennedys Inaugural COMMITTEES
has its way.
Edward Foley committee chairman. yesterday appointed
an Practices Committee for the inaugural period
Evening star., 1960-12-04

WHICH udO UceU OIucIcO W ulOF
the move was held up by Navy
Secretary FRANKIE after Sena-
tor Buffers ONCE released q
recommendation by the Con-
troller Generals office.
The Controller Generals Of
fice suggested that the naval
unit, as well as its counterparts
in the other services, could be
centralized"
Senator Butler said in 9
statement that these recon-
mendations will most probably
lead to early consolidation Of
these service facilities and 1t
would be absurd to transfer the
Navy facility until evaluation
Is completed"
The Navy's position on the
recommendation was requested
by the Comptroller General by
January 81.
Five Units Involved
The temporary cancellation
Of the units move to Philadel-
9hia was the latest in q series
II developments involving the
Heapons plant.
Last week, the Navy an
nounced its decision to move
flve other units at the plant to
Pennsylvania, chiefly to sections
Of Philadelphia.
Representative Lankford, Re-
publican Of Maryland, has asked
Secretary Gates to cancel this
move In order to allow the In
coming administration to con-
duct an objective study Of the
plant and its future role in the
defense effort.
Last night. Mr.. .Lankfort
said 1t was to be regretted that
''it was necessary for the Sec.
retary Of the Navy to resolve
q matter that should have beer
easily settled by his assistant:
when initial protests were
made"
He said he was confident
that Mr.. Franko and Mr.. Gate.
would prevent any action II
interfere with an objectivt
study.
Study Previously Pledged
President elect Kennedy
promised such a study last Sep
tember in q letter to Repre-
sentative Lankford. although
the Navy had previously an
nounced the closing of th'
plant by January 1862.
Senator Butler agreed las
night that the study should b
undertaken.
He also pointed out that tn,
Navy is operating under q di
rective which limits expendi
lures for transfers and trave
expenses and Is contained II
the 1861 Defense Appropria
tions Act.
The GAO also was asked I,
step into the situation at tn
weapons plant by Mr.. Lank
ford. He has stated that re
cent conversion activities at tn
plant have raised serious ques
tions involving improvident,
not illegal, expenditure of ap
propriated funds"
Razing Plan Denied
W .ik.I A. Recommendation - -,
Evening star., 1960-12-04
Unit Called Key Operation

But spokesmen for both Rep
resentative Lankford and Sen
ator Butler say another unit
1.-The In-Service Engineering
Is the "guts" Of the plant.
Made up of four military per-
sonnel and 103 civilians, the
group provides engineering and
technical services to the Bu-
reau Of Weapons.
Prospects Of the Navy re.
moving this function prompted
Representative Lankford tc
claim that the Navy Is trying
to hurry up the plants CLOSING
so that there would be little
left to survey, If and when ar
objective study Of the plant was
ordered.
Mr.. Lankford maintains
there is q list Of contracts In
the Buearu of Weapons which
could be placed at the weapons
plant and allow the plant te
continue its present level o.
operations for at least 81,
months-enough time. he feels
for the new administration tt
conduct such q study.
Evening star., 1960-12-04
Drive for orD.C.Vote.
In 1864 Is Started
Citizens Groups, Party Officials
Aim at BoIIotinq for President

Details of co-ordnated drive to win District suffrage BY
cys group and the two local political organizations
were announced yesterday
The Joint Citizens Committee National Representation
for the District the political groups will mesh efforts to
Evening star., 1960-12-04

cided to have the building
razed.
A Navy spokesman denied
last night that there are any
immediate plans to demolish
the building.
The other six units the Navy
plans to transfer include the
Naval Aviation Engineering
Services. Mobile ornance serv-
ice, Catalogihg and Disposal
Once, In-Service Engineering
Group. Weapons Maintenance
Group and Industrial Mobiliza-
ton Branch.
Navy officials have described
these units as tenants" at the
weapons plant, or units not di-
rectly involved with manufac-
turing at the plant.
One. for example, the Naval
Aviation Engineering Services
unit, is not within the weapons
plant but across the Anacostia
river at the Naval Receiving
Station. The function, the Navy
points out. occupies space
which must be razed to make
room for the Anacostia free
way by next year.
Evening star., 1960-12-04
Razing Plan Denied

He cited the conversion of an
old laboratory to office space
and said the Navy then de-
Evening star., 1960-12-04

Another Story and Pictures. Poss Al
Evening star., 1960-12-04
Clarity Stressed

The name for the new COM
mittee was chosen for the. pur-
The Adak sun. (Adak, Alaska) 1955-1976, 1960-12-27
ADAK SUN

A striking

A striking Christmas Card vas once
published vi tn the title "If Christ
Had Not Come" 1t was based upon our
Saviour's words IF had not come"
The card represented a clergyman fall
ing into short sleep in his study on
Chri stmas morning and dreaming of
world into which Jesus had never come.
In, his dream he found himself look
ing through his home, but there were.
no little stockings in the chimney
corner, no Chri stmas bells, no wreaths
of holly. He: walked out on the street
but there was no church with its spire
pointing to Heaven. He came back and
\ sat down IN his library, but every book
about the Saviour had di sappeared.
ring Of the door bell, and mess
enger asked him to visit a poor, dying
mother. He fastened with the weeping
child, and as he reached the home he
sat down and said, Ut. have something
here that viii comfort you" He opened
his Bible to look for fami 1iary prom
Use, but it. ended with Malachi, and
there was no gospel and no promise of
hope and salvation, and he could only
bow his head and weep wi tn her in Bit.
ter despair.
Two days afterward he stood beside
her coffin and conducted the funeral
= service, but there was no message of >
, cons oil = ton, no word Of glorious
resurreC ton.
Suddenly he awoke with a start, and
a great shout of Joy and praise burst
from his lips as he heard his choir,
singing in his church close by:
10 come, all We Faithful, joyful &
triumphant; ~
0 come ye, 0 come we to Bethlehem.
Come and behold Him, born the King
Of Angels;
come let us adore Him, Christ the
Lord.
Let us be glad and rejoice because
Christ HAS come. II: This is fai Hful
The Adak sun. (Adak, Alaska) 1955-1976, 1960-12-27
FOiTORIAL

You would think that all the world
on Christmas eve would be playing the
beauti full carols and music of Chris tmas
time and to be sure most of the short
wave stations that I tuned in this past
Chri tmas eve had just that type of
theme. One station however, Ra do
Moscow continued it's same theme and pro-
graming and not once in the time that I
listened was there any mention of the eve
Of Chri stmas that was being observed all
throughout the world in one way or other
and not once did the two announcers { Who
speak excellent English by the way) even
mention Chri stmas.
Programs like moscow Mailbag" came
over the airwaves beaming the Communi site
line, referring to the US. as capitalist
and imperialistic and telling: its listen
ers that Russia did this and that and it
was a: paradise where all was rosy.
1t is tragic that viii lie any American
can see the di tortion and untruths being
broadcast those same programs were reach
ing millions of others who could not know
that American life was far from the bad
picture painted by these comunis st experts
Radio Moscow serves US a remi nder of
try is, regardless if it be Adak, Hawaii
Timbuktu or choice stateside duty where
we are stationed. During the next year
let US always remember that.
:" DIS g.: DAT
Isn't it wonderful that Adak was
visited by Santa Claus SO many times
and his rounds of the housing areas in a
sleigh really sent some young hearts to
pounding.
January brings the new year and new
Chiefs Hats for three of our station crew
We understand that quite few surprises
iaf
The whole Dibursing Crew working
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-10-17
Senate in IS Backed President, S5-3
On Tying Islands Defense to Formos0

AStSasSS ~ tVtutOS0
nedy repeated his views as
follows:
II believe that If you're
going to get into war for the
defense Of Formosa. IL ought
to be on q clearly defined
line. And as long as they
(Quemoy and Matsul are not
essential to the defense of
Formosa, it's been my judg-
ment ever since 1854 at the
time Of the Eisenhower Doc
trine for the Far East that
our line should be drawn in
the sea around the island
(FormoSa) ITSELF"
On this. Mr.. Nixon COM
mented Immediately: Nov,
as far as Quemoy and Matsu
are concerned, the question
is not these two little pieces
Of real estate-they are un-
important. It's the prin-
ciple involved. These two
islands are in the area Of
freedom. The Nationalist
have these two islands. We
should not force our Nation
alist allies to get on Of them
and give them to the Com
munists. If we do that, we
start a chain reaction be-
cause the Communists aren't
after Quemoy and Matsu.
They're after Formosa."
In the third round Of the
"debate"-on October 1S-the
two candidates defined their
positions again In substan-
italy the same way. Mr..
Nixon said that he would not
change the Eisenhower policy,
which specifically declines to
define the exact line of de-
tense. Senator Kennedy, on
the other hand, reiterated
that he would do so. He
added that President Eisen-
hover in a letter to Chairman
Theodore Green Of the SEN
ate Foreign Relations Com
mittee had not insisted on the
defense Of Quemoy and Mat
Su.
But the television audience
couldn't get the significance
Of that brief quotation unless
it also knew the background
Of the Eisenhower policy.
Thus, Mr.. Eisenhower wrote
on October 5. 1858, to Senator
Green:
Neither you nor any other
American need feel the United
States will be involved in
military hoStiities merely in
defense Of Quemoy or Matsu."
The key word Is merely"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-10-17
DAVID LAWRENCE

The debate on television
between the two presidential
candidates may be specta-
cular, but. as q device for
really informing the voter
about the meaning Of what
the speakers are saying, it is
confusing and inadequate.
The people are not given the
background Of the issues.
What should the audience
have been told. for example.
to enable people to under
stand the Quemoy and Matsu
issues? It, isn't too late to
bring to their attention es-
sential facts. Here are some
Of them:
On October I Senator Ken
nedy, when being interviewed
In q feature show on tele-
vision ct his home, was asked
this question:
DO you agree, Senator
Kennedy, with the present
policy. in which it seems to
me we are committed now to
the defense Of the tiny on
shore islands on the coast Of
China-Quemoy and Matsu?"
Now; the fact is the United
States has never been COM
mitted to the defense Of those
two islands at all times but
only to their defense If related
to an attack on Formosa. The
islands have been contin-
uously bombarded for five
years without Am erican
Intervention. The policy Of
the United States, IS laid
down in q resolution passed
by Congress by an over
whelming vote Of both
political parties. declined to
define the line Of defense
exactly but purposely left it
underlined.
Senator Kennedy, however,
In his answer to the above
question, said he would
change the existing policy
laid down by the President
and Congress. He said: II
have always thought that
that was an unwise place to
draw the line"
But when the second round
Of the great debate" was
held on October Z, the audi
ence wasn't told that Senator
Kennedy would reverse the
doctrine which the President,
the Joint Chiefs Of staff and
the majority Of both houses
Of Congress had adopted in
1855. The interrogation re-
ferred to the October / state
ment. and then Senator Ken
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-10-17
Cleveland Poll and Philadelphia Writer
Agree Young People Favor Kennedy

One gets the idea, how
ever. that they see this posi-
ton as something allergical
and will be quite shocked
and indignant II Mr.. Nixon
is elected and does, indeed,
proceed to set the national
house in order. But Of all the
salad dressings for swallow
ing unpalatable political
dishes, the Russian is the
SureSt.
So, while Mr.. Nixon's
course is one which works
both sides Of the street, it
nonetheless is easier. He can
not be entirely happy with it,
but whatever ones opinion
about him or his policies,
there was no other practical
course open to him.
Senator Kennedy chose to
say the unpopular thing that
everything isn't going all
right. The economy isn't all
it should be. The nations
prestige and political power
in international affairs have
been eroded.
The people do not like to
hear this. But. he has not
retreated. In baseball Ian
guage, he keeps throwing his
fast ball. So far, he hasn't
been hit too hard.
In Ohio, for example, a re-
cent Cleveland Press poll
produced some interesting
reactions. It showed that
among new voters SGT per
cent are for Sen ator
Kennedy. Among Golden
Ayers" or to put it bluntly,
old people, only % per cent
are for him. But 52.4 per
cent of homemakers prefer
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-10-17
HeurtAttuckH Hits
Italian Red

VITERBO, Italy, Oct. II
(AP). - Walter Audisio, 81,
Communist Deputy and former
partisan who claims he was
Benito Mussolini's executioner,
was hospitalized here today
after suffering a heart attack
in an election rally yesterday.
Audisio, known as Colonel
Valerie" in partisan, and post
war days, many times has de-
clared he shot Mussolini to
death in 1945 as the Duce was
trying to escape to Switzerland.
He said he did so on orders
of the partisan Central Com
mittee.
A Communist since 1881,
Audisio was elected to the
italian Parliament in 1913 and
reelected in 1853 and 1858.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-10-17
Some Background on Quemoy

But when Senator Kennedy
read that quotation over the
air in the october Is "de-
bate" how many persons in
the audience caught the
meaning Of that single word?
Both houses Of Congress
had this issue up in Janu-
airy, 1855, and efforts were
made by q minority to draw
the line and keep Quemoy
and Matsu out Of the de-
tense area. Senator Kenne-'
dy was in that minority
group. The Senate, however,
by q vote Of "A to Is, rejected
any further defnition. The
resolution, as finally APP
proved-hy an S6-to-3 vote
in the Senate and by q big
majority In the House-de-
clares that the President is
authorized to use our armed
forces "as he deems neces-
sary for the specific purpose
Of securing and protecting
Formosa and the Pescadores
against armed attack, this
authority to include the Sc
curing and protection Of such
related positions and terri
tories Of that area now in
friendly hands and the TAX
ing Of such other measures
as he judges to be required
or appropriate in assuring
the defense Of Formosa and
the PeScadores."
To say now that related
positions" must be aban.
doned and win not be de-
Tended is to serve notice that
the United States has
changed its position.
Why should q military
Judgment or decision Of this
kind be made anyway in a
television debate" in the
middle of a political cam
paign? Wouldn't it be better
to let the United States
Joint Chiefs of STAFF deter
mine such questions and let
the President make q final
decision on the basis of all
the facts available at the
time. including the damage
which could be done psyche
logically to Nationalist China,
the Philippines, South Korea
and other areas with whose
peoples the United States is
allied? II you have to fight
an enemy. why tell him in
advance exactly how you will
fight him?
How can the average lis
tener judge q complex uues-
ton Of this kind by watch
ing a TV debate? The an
swer is that he cannot and
that this type Of controver-
sy doesn't belong in a politi-
cal campaign either.
(Copyright. 1900
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-10-17
Baptist Course Set
BY Rev. Patterson

The Rev. Rosie L. Patterson,
pastor Of the Mount Carmel
Baptist Church, will conduct
a six-month course on the
basic beliefs of the Baptists
beginning at 7 pm. tomorrow
at the church. Third and I
streets NV.
The course, which will meet
each week, will cover such
topics as the role of the pastor,
the deacons and their quaIiA-
cations, the Christian ordi-
nances and Church govern
ment and discipline.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-10-17
RALPH MccILL ~
Where Do New Voters Stand?

him, and small neighborhood
merchants and union mem
bers gave him high percent
ages.
In Philadelphia q veteran
political reporter said: Sen
ator Kennedy viii get 80 per
cent Of the 1lrst-time voters
for President. They are dis
contented and sore. They are
against Big Daddy Eisen-
hover. He is no Daddy-o to
them.
They have bought the
small imported cars, no pay
ment down, because they are
against the existing order.
They have bought everything
on the installment plan and
they have been having kids.
Now they are hurting and
they want something differ
ent. They are not in a con-
sentative mood. Senator
Kennedy will get them"
The poll in Cleveland sus-
tainS this argument.
The political observer daily
is confronted with the fact
that unem Employment is
spreading. Economic indu-
enceS are growing. There is
the deep-running religious
issue. There is, for undeter-
mined millions, an awareness
that our international policy
lacks something.
The stakes are big.
Khrushchev is not only play
ing a bold hand. but q con-
sistent one. Ironically, he
may be helping Mr.. Nixon.
There are other undeter-
mined millions who think Mr..
Nixon is the man to handle
Mr.. K. They are the ones
who want to be assured that
everything is all right.
The difficult role Is Sena-
tor Kennedy's.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-10-17
Scrap Long Vacations,
Colleges Are Urged

his an extremely dubious educa-
tional practice" Miss Adkins
said.
Frequently called following"
it should be stopped. she said.
Colleges are not fields, they
don't need to rest.
by studying during the sum-
mer, the contribution of a po-
tential college graduate can be
extended for one, two, or even
more of his productive years."
Miss Adkins told the group. She
noted that the year-round pro-
gram would cost more money,
but she told the group the stu
dents probably could be gradu-
ated in less than four years.
Their early graduation would
add to the gross national prod
uct and alleviate our manpower
shortages in critical profess
sional occupations" she added.
Other Recommendations
The scrapping Of summer va
cations was just one Of several
recommendations made by Miss
Adkins in a general call for the
Nations institutions of higher
learning, including the Air
Force, the Army and the Navy"
to undertake a thorough self
examination"
Included were:
/. Stop using "unproven
graduate students" to teach
fresh man and sophomore
classes.
2. Halt duplication Of courses
"a waste that seems. to run
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-10-17
DORIS FLEEsoN
Kennedy, Nixon, Lodge and Stevenson
Hint BY Treatment State Is Doubtful

NEW YORK - All roads
lead to New York this week.
The best evidence that the
biggest State is now In the
doubtful column Is the satu-
ration treatment each side is
giving 1t as the campaign
enters its final phase.
Senator Kennedy will be
here for three fun days
Wednesday through Friday.
Vice President Nixon viii ar
rive about midday Wednes-
day and stay through Friday.
Ex-senator Lodge will give
upstate New York all Of
Tuesday. Adlai Stevenson is
already here and making an
intensive effort both to in
spire his old supporters and
unzip their pocketbooks.
The climax Of Stevenson's
visit viii be q $100-a-plate
dinner Tuesday. sponsored
by the Citizens for Kennedy,
which has been oversold and
will be widely telecast. He
will speak on foreign policy,
with one interesting omis-
sion by request.
Senator Kennedy is salts
fed that he has the best Of
the argument with Nixon on
Quemoy and Matsu. and he
is more or less reServing
that as his special province.
He feels that in his cam
paigning and especially in
the next telecast debate,
which originates here Fri
day. he can protect his po-
sition and show how the Vice
President had to shift his
own in order to put it in line
with that Of President EiSen-
hover.
The Senator also does not
want the argument over.
emphasized, as he thinks 1t
could be if others dwelt on
it in what might be con-
strued as his defense. For
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-10-17

the first time. really, he has
q CLINT in his eye regarding
Nixon: 1t indicates that the
fourth debate may be far
the most lively.
The Kennedy instructions
also are to press harder for
a fifth and final debate.
Democrats offer several
reasons why their original
pessirnism about the biggest
State has vanished. They
credit DR.. Norman Vincent
Peaie with shattering the
apathy which had gripped
many liberal Democrats and
independents after Los An
geles. DR.. Peale walked away
from the original fundamen-
talist ukase questioning
whether a Catholic President
could resist pressure from the
Vatican, but it was too late.
Too many New Workers,
especially in this city, did
not want to be caught in
such company. even by alb
staining from activity
Here, as elsewhere, 1t is
said repeatedly that Kennedy
has done a great deal to help
himself by his conduct and
attitudes in the telecast de-
bates.
Another spur came in the
form Of an article in the New
York Herald Tribune, which
is supporting the Nixon
Lodge ticket. It quoted up
state Republicans as con-
ce:ned about a Kennedy tide
sweeping the State outside
the big city and went into
considerable detail about
where this was occurring.
This perhaps should not
have been so surprising. Ken
nedy's New York support at
the convention largely re-
Elected the conviction Of up
state leaders that he would
win their areas. Nixon is
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-10-17
POTOMAC FEVER
By FLETCHER KNEBEL

Nixon fears smear campaign against him has started
He hears the Kennedy camp spreading that he
favors economy in government.
Things quiet around the United Nations since
Khrushchev left that when Communist orator tainted the
other day. you could hear a pn-head drop.
Kennedy and Nixon. teevision's angry young men,
though the Of the debates is who 60
the longest without revealing a sense Of humor
One lady voter is confused by the presidential debates
AS she gets It, Nixon wants to drop Hawaii Alaska
the Union-and substitute Quemoy and Matsu.
Campaign what-they-means: "I stand on the entire
party platform" refuse to discuss that plank any
further. They're numbering with it,
Politics is the art of not getting along with 40 cent
Of the people
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-10-17

like a plague through our edu-
cational system"
8. Offer fewer but more in
tensifled courses. students
who are permitted to shop
around frequently buy snap
courses" Miss Adkins said,
land often end up wasting
their time"
4. Increase the use of the
work-study plan, wherein COL
legey students attend classes
and then work at the "profes-
sion" for which they are
studying.
S. Require college students
to spend part Of their four
years studying abroad.