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Evening star., 1960-09-09
Church Leaders Move Criticized
In Anti-C catholicism Meeting

son, neatly perverted into an
attack on the Catholic clergy,
in a widely reprinted sermon.
When newsmen tracked him
down they found him in
Washington comforting in the
Office of Senator Morton,
chairman of the Republican
National Committee. He was
also registered in the suite
maintained at an expensive
hotel by the Texas Gas
Transmission Co.
The meeting in Washing
ton apparently was for the
purpose of giving a higher
tone and a philosophical ba-
sis to the anti-Kennedy
drive. DR.. Peale. who only a
few days ago announced his
support of Mr.. Nixon, said
that the motto Of the con-
ference was Take care to
be fair"
The statement eventually
approved by the meeting, a.
long affair of several thou
sand words, was prepared in
advance. Its author was re-
puted to be young Baptist
minister. the Rev. Donald
Gill, on leave from the Ma
tional Conference of Evan
gelicals. which occupies a
theological position far to the
right. Nowhere does it men,
ton Senator Kennedy by
name. but it was as forceful
an argument against the
election of a Catholic Presi-
dent as probably could have
been made.
The significance of the
meeting, of which more have
been promised in other Sec
tions of the country, is that
while conservative in cast it
had none of the air of OBJ
vious crackpottery which has
enveloped much of the prior
anti Catholic effort. Such re-
spectacle churches as the
Evening star., 1960-09-09
PouIing Asks
Warren Stuy
PetitionOrder
By the Associated Press

DR.. Linus Pauling yesterday
asked that Chief Justice War
rem stay a Senate Internal Sc
curity Subcommittee order re-
quiring disclosure of names Of
persons who helped circulate a
petition denouncing nuelear
tests.
The request, made in a petit
ton filed in the Office of the
Supreme Court clerk, will be
submitted to Justice Warren
after the Justice Department
has been given an opportunity
to file a reply in opposition.
Counsel for DR.. Pauling, a
Nobel Prize-winning scientist in
chemistry, asked a stay until
October 10, to give the full Su-
preme Court time to act on an
appeal which also was filed yes
terday. The appeal was from
a decision by the United States
Court of Appeals here. refusing
to step between the subcommit-
tee and DR.. Pauling.
The stay request said such a
delay could not Illustrate the
subcommittee in it's quest for
pertinent information" The
subcommittee. the request said,
has already, on its own, waited
three years for the informa-
tion."
The appeal said that DR..
Pauling refused to disclose the
names for fear of reprisal upon
those he would identify. The
request said reprisals might be
in the form of harassment and
loss of employment.
The appeal also said the sub
committee order offends the
constitutional guarantees of
freedom of speech, press, as
sembly and the right to con-
science.
Also filed in the courts Office
was a request by the American
Civil Liberties Union for per-
mission to file a memorandum
in support of q stay for DR..
Pauling.
Evening star., 1960-09-09

DETROIT, Sept. 9 (APr.-
Human skeletons are drag
racing up the inside of a vacant
elevator shaft at Wayne State
University's medical school.
1t may sound like a scene
from a horror film, but it isn't
It's part of a series of ex-
periments being conducted by
researchers at the University OF
Michigan and Wayne State
They're testing the durability
of human bones, and the eight
story elevator shaft is their
proving ground.
An apparatus built into the
shaft subjects human skeletons
to acceleration to determine at
what speed the bones will
crack.
DR.. F. Gaynor Evans, g
Michigan anatomist, says the
experiments will provide val
liable data in astronautics and
high speed flight-particularly
Evening star., 1960-09-09
DORIS FLEEsoN

Despite all efforts by
moderates and men of good
will to keep it out Of the cam
paign as dangerous, divisive
and unseemly, the issue Of
Senator Kennedy's Roman
Catholicism is beginning to
make most other issues stand
aside. 1t is not too much to
say that on this issue alone,
the race between Senator
Kennedy and Vice President
Nixon may be decided.
At the very hour that
President Eisenhower at his
press conference was decry-
ing the use of religion in the
campaign, a group OF con-
servative and fundamental
ist ministers and laymen
meeting in the elegant State
Room of the Mayfiower Ho-
tel not 10 blocks away was
deep in plans to do just that.
While the President said
he hoped that religion could
be laid on the shelf and
forgotten until the campaign
was over" the ministers, in
cluding DR.. Norman Vincent
Peale, DR.. Daniel Polling and
DR.. L. Nelson Bell, one of
whose distinctions is that he
is the father-in-law of DR..
Billy Graham, were discuss
ing a statement which said
in effect that while Senator
Kennedy was a nice fellow
he could not be divorced from
his Catholicism.
The animus and careless
ness of the anti-Catholic
campaign up to date has lent
weight to charges of bigotry
against its sponsors. Circu-
lation of a forged Knights of
Columbus oath already has
backf1red. Recently the min
lister of a prominent Baptist
Church at OwenSboro, KY,
was discovered to have used
a letter by Thomas Jeffer-
Evening star., 1960-09-09
POTOMAC FEVER
BY Pete Wyms
By FLETCHER KNEBEL

Agriculture Secretary Benson announces he'll campaign
for Nixon politics; waiting until the victim is bed
ridden with an infected and can't defend himself.
Transport Workers Boss Mike Quill deadlocks with the
Pennsylvania Railroad The question here is not the
sword but whether the mightier than the Quill
Hurricane threatens Florida Democrats that's
nothing Hurricane Richard threatens the whole South.
Although two code clerks detected to Rus
sa Democrats seem unable break the code the Esen-
hover team used in hiring the pair.
Some church congregations aren't sure these days
whether preacher wants them drop dollar bills in the
collection plate-or their Kennedy buttons.
Ike inspects Alabama rocket base. ke's not sure
Alabama put over the moon next year. but it
might put Nixon over hump in November.
Evening star., 1960-09-09
Bones Rattle in Shaft
In Test Of Durability

in regard to problems of re-
entry into the earth's atmos-
phere from outer space.
Built into an unused elevator
shaft, the mechanism consists
of a sledlike vehicle, similar
to an aircraft election seat,
which runs on rails up the side
Of the shaft.
Powered by compressed air,
IL is capable of accelerating
from zero to 120 miles an hour
in one full stroke of its 8-foot
piston.
The device is braked by
friction as the rails narrow
near the top. A heavy pad will
stop the sled if six pairs of
brakes fail.
Findings concern the strain
on the spinal column during
vertical acceleration, the effects
of restraint by safety belts and
shoulder harness and the abil-
ity of seat cushions to absorb
the shock of acceleration.
Evening star., 1960-09-09
DAVID LAWRENCE
Congressional INVESTIGATING

Congressional investigating
committees may be able to
uncover in detail the weak
nesses in the Governments
security check-up system,
but it is already clear what
the real trouble is. The trail
torous behavior Of Messrs.
Mitchell and Martin, en-
ployes Of the National Sc
curity Agency who detected
to the Soviet Union, might
have been discovered in ad-
vance If there had been a
fixing Of responsibility for
detecting security aberra-
tions after an employe is
once hired.
The general public. for in
stance, thinks that the Fed
eral Bureau of Investigation is
the agency which has every
thing to do with national Sc.
curity. The truth is the
FBI a few years ago found
the burden was too great.
and said it would prefer that
the Executive departments
do their own checking Of
applicants in the first in
stance, so as to enable the
FBI to concentrate on actual
violations of internal security.
So today the Civil Service
Commission does most of the
checking of applicants for all
departments except the De-
fense Department and the
Central Intelligence Agency.
Nearly every department,
including the Atomic Energy
Commission, also has a Sc
curity Set-up of its own. The
FBI checks only the preSl-
Dental appointees and high
officials.
With the many thousands
of applicants to be investi-
gated every year, the task Of
checking is stupendous. The
real difficulty is that, once
the employees are hired. there
is no comprehensive system
of surveillance. 1t costs too
much in time and money to
do such a job with all Gov
ernment employees. So the
only logical thing now is to
arrange for some machinery
to carry on a checking opera
tion in particular cases after
employees in certain sensitive
Evening star., 1960-09-09
Koreu to Cut Army
By $4,000 in 1860

SEOUL, Korea, Sept. 8 (AP)
The United States and South
Korea have tentatively agreed
to cut the South Korean army
by $4,000 men during 1860. Re-
construction Minister Choo Yo-
han said today.
Prime Minister John M.
Chang's government originally
planned to reduce the 600, ,000-
man army by 100000 during
1861 but the United States re-
portedly was opposed.
Evening star., 1960-09-09
BY the Associated Press

An AFL-CIO lawyer. charg-
ing anti-union prejudice, yes
terday called on Chairman
Boyd Leedom to quit the Ma
tional Labor Relations Board.
Mr.. Leedom promptly refused.
He said he has no bias either
for management or against
unions.
The board itself met during
a recess in the NLRB hearing
at which Attorney Thomas E.
Harris leveled the accusation
at Mr.. Leedom. and rejected
Mr.. Harris contentious.
Mr.. Harris. associate general
counsel of the AFL-CIO, based
his charge on a letter bearing
Mr.. Leedom's name which
backed Senator Mundt, Repub-
lican of South Dakota, for re-
election. The letter went out
last June to promote a $50-a-
plate testimonial luncheon for
Mundt here. Mr.. Leedom is a
former judge of the Supreme
Court in Senator Mundt's home
State.
Letter Quoted
The letter said Senator
Mundt has become "a recog-
nized leader in the battle
against the encroachments OF
socialistic schemes in America. u
1t said the Senator had been
put on the purge list" of GER
tain labor leaders. -
Mr.. Harris, appearing as
counsel for two unions that
picketed the Stork Club in New
York, called Senator Mundt a
prominent congreS on
spokesman for the employers
point of view in labor relations.
He said Mr.. Leedom's activity
created doubt of his ability to
rule impartially on lavor dis
Evening star., 1960-09-09
RALPH McGILL
Teaching What Communism Is

victed Alger Hiss, gave a good
many years of his life to
communism. In his book,
Witness" he wrote:
Communists are bound
together by no secret oath.
The tie that binds them
across the frontiers of ma
tions, across barriers Of Ian
guages and differences of
class and education, in de-
f1ance of religion, morality,
truth, law, honor, the weak
nesses of the body and the
irresolutions of the mind,
even unto death, is q simple
conviction: It is necessary to
change the world. Their
power. whose nature battles
the rest of the world be-
cause in large measure the
rest of the world has lost
that power, is the power to
hold convictions and to act
on them. It is the same pow
er that moves mountains; it
is also an unfailing power to
move men. Communists are
that part Of mankind which
has recovered the power to
live or die-to bear witness
for its faith"
This is an accurate dag
nosis. 1t explains why COM
muniSm takes hold in the
vacuums left by the fall of
a dictator. 1t explains Lu-
mumba's being a pawn Of
Communist advisers in the
Congo.
And it also reveals why
comfortable, fat countries
have difficulty coping with
a tough, dedicated, ruthless
foe.
BY all means, let us have
our people taught to under.
stand communism.
Evening star., 1960-09-09
New Psychiutric
Help Unit Formed

A seventh Recovery, Inc.
group has been formed in this
area and will hold its first
meeting at 2 pm. September
II in st. Adams Church, Wis
consin and Massachusetts ave-
nues NV.
Recovery, Inc. is an associa-
ton of chronically nervous and
former mental patients who
meet to learn psychiatric self
help.
The leader of the new group
Cy Messitte, can be reached
weekdays at District 1888.
Evening star., 1960-09-09
RALPH McGHL

Director Allen w. Dulles
Of the Central Intelligence
Agency urged. in a recent
speech, a much larger teach
ing of the nature of commu-
nism, beginning in the sec
ondary schools.
This is a sound recon-
mendation if the teaching of
communism could be done SO
that the student understood
and was not merely subject
ed to harangues. One of the
dangerous weaknesses of this
country is the great amount
of idiocy spouted about COM
munism.
The late Senator Robert
Taft, for example, publicly
was accused of Communist
leanings because he support
ed public housing. Those
who view the Supreme
Courts ruling on school
segregation as wise and nee
essary to the future strength
of this country are used to
being smeared as Commu-
mist. Members of the court
are slandered in vile PAM
phlets by vicious. poisonous
minds as being Communist
directed.
Petty minds have even at
tackled Senator Kennedy's
use of the phrase new
frontiers" because some Com
munist publication once used
a similar, though not identi-
cal, phrase.
This sort of ignorant ma
liciousness goes so far, even.
as to describe campaigns for
fluoridation of water as Com
munist inspired.
Evening star., 1960-09-09
Dulles Plan for Spreading Realization
OF the Nature of Our Enemy Is Louded

Mr.. Dulles is certainly cor
rect. We need education
about what communism real
ly is. And those who now
need it most are adults.
Mr.. Dulles undoubtedly
had in the back of his mind
U-2 Pilot Powers who testi-
fed in Moscow that he
never had much interest in
learning anything about the
Soviet Union, except read
ing about its scientific
achievements" He had, he
said, paid no attention to
politics in the United States
and had never even bothered
to vote.
Mr.. Dulles is entirely right.
We do need to know the
nature of communism. But
it should be taught by those
who are capable of COM
municating understanding.
Communism is tough and
dedicated. That Americans
are confused and lack any
real image of communism is
due to all stupidities of those
who try to pin the Commu-
mist label on those persons
or movements which they
oppose. The image of COM
munism in America must de-
light the Kremlin. 1t un-
questionably dismays' Mr..
Dulles whose job is to coun-
ter it.
For some, more thoughtful
than the smearers and SLAM
derers, communism Is merely
a totalitarian tyranny. 1t is.
But it is much more than
that. Whitaker Chambers,
the ex-CommuniSt who con-
Evening star., 1960-09-09
Troitorous Acts Of Mitchell and Martin
Viewed as Detachable in Advance

agencies are hired. Thus, for
instance. one Of the two de-
fectors in the National Sc
curity Agency had had a rec
ord OF at least three courts
martial in the United States
Navy. There was a report in
the files on it by the ONCE Of
Naval Intelligence. Why
wasn't this a signal for a
more intensive investigation
later on by the security Office
of the National Security
Agency?
There was a record, too, OF
a statement by a psychiatrist
who told National Security
Agency investigators that one
of the young men had deep
seated homosexual tenden-
cies." The information came
after he had been hired.
This should have been a
danger signal. since 1t is
known that Soviet agents
mingle frequently with all
homo sexual groups that
gather in particular reStau-
rants and night clubs in this
country. The purpose is to
find out just where any of
them are employed, in the
hope of developing contacts
valuable for espionage pur-
poses. This is an old tech
nique and we'll known all
over the world in intelligence
circles.
1t may have been, Of
course, that whoever had the
responsibility for hiring the
two former sailors was so
impressed by their mathema-
tical abilities that all deroga-
tory reports were regarded as
of secondary importance.
But now some valuable
. code-breaking devices Of the
American government have
been handed over to the So
viets by Messrs. Mitchell and
Martin. This should teach a
lesson for the future, and it
is q safe bet that what the
congressional committees un-
cover in their closed sessions
with the representatives of
some Of the important agen-
cies Of the Government will
be. very useful hereafter in
preventing similar episodes.
1t is important, too, that
Evening star., 1960-09-09
State Group to Study
Lows on Architects

RICHMOND, Va, Sept. 9
(AP).-The Virginia Advisory
Legislative Council has ap-
pointed a committee to make a
preliminary study of State laws
relating to architects and pro-
fessional engineers.
The VALC was directed by
the 1860 session of the General
Assembly to recommend ap-
propriate statutory definitions
for the practice of the two
professions. State Senator E. E.
Wiley of Richmond was named
chairman of the committee.
Evening star., 1960-09-09
Shenandoah Park
Visitors Rise 43 Pct.

LURAY, Va, Sept. 9 (Spe-
ciaD Official figures released
by the Park Ranger Office for
the three-day Labor Day holi-
day showed an increase Of 43
per cent in the number of
visitors to the Shenandoah Ma
tional Park over the 1859 holi-
day.
There were l,144 visitors in
1891 cars in 1860, compared
with 28,762 visitors in 1890 cars
in 1859.
Evening star., 1960-09-09
ID.,D

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Hutton. Northampton, shoes
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BaIIontyns twesds, Seotlond
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Stetson Shoes
Monsolion finest eoshmeres
Geiaer, Sw0oters, Austria
Evening star., 1960-09-14
Some Are Convinced by the Senator,
But B0TometerS Show Equal Appeal
DORIS FLEEsON

DALLAS, Texas.-"I don't
think that young fellow
would let anyone tell him
what to do, including the
Pope and his mother"
The comment came from q
Negro Baptist preacher who
had watched Senator John
Kennedy's encounter with
the Houston Ministerial Al
lance. Homemade signs pro-
claiming "A Baptist for Ken.
nedy," which blossomed In a
big Dallas parade the next
morning, suggested the
Democratic nominee h q d
convinced other Texans.
Democratic politicians, en-
couraged by great turnouts to
see the candidate at all
hours in small towns and
large, including the one in
this pro Republican terri
tory. see ground for hope that
a Kennedy image Of inde-
pendence is already emerging.
Hes getting to the people, I"
exulted one optimist.
Such comment is surely
premature. The Protestant
lions who were bearded by the
Evening star., 1960-09-14
African Students
Arrive in u. S.

NEW YORK, Sept. IA (AP)
Two planeloads of African
students bound for colleges and
universities in the United
States and Canada were
greeted with cries of "Uhuru!
Uhuru!" "Independence")
when they arrived here early
today from Kenya.
The 148 students we're the
first Of 256 to be flown here
this week by the Joseph P. Ken
nedy, jr., Foundation.
The airlift has been the SUBJ
ject of recent Washington con-
troversy in connection with the
presidential campaign. Cries
Of politics" have been raised
by both supporters Of Vice
President Nixon and Senator
John F. Kennedy over arrange
ments to finance the fight.
The airlift was arranged by
Tom Mboya, nationalist leader
in Kenya, and other African
leaders through the Kennedy
Foundation. Mr.. Mboya later
turned down q similar offer by
the State Department, made
at the urging of Vice President
Nixon. The State Department
originally had declined to fl
nance the airlift.
Evening star., 1960-09-14
INTERPRETIVE REPORT

aims Harold Macmillan and
French President Charles de
Gaulle gathered for the long
awaited summit conference
Sixteen days earlier a United
States U-2 spy plane had gone
down in the Soviet Union and
10 days before the summit con-
ference Mr.. Eisenhower had
taken personal responsibility
for the flight, blaming Soviet
secrecy and hostility for max
ing such flights necessary.
Only One Session
The summit conference pro-
duced only one session. Mr.
Eisenhower promised Mr.. Khru-
shchev there would be no more
U-2 flights under his admin
istration. But he ignored 6
KhruShchev demand that HI
apologize for past flights anc
admit they were wrong.
Mr.. Khrushchev then refused
to go on with the Big Foul
meeting and Cancelled his in.
vitation for Mr.. Eisenhower tt
visit Russia in June. He alsC
began a campaign of denuncia.
ton and ridicule against the
President personally and Of at.
tack on United States policie:
and alliances that diplomat.
say is without precedent ir
peacetime.
Mr.. Khrushchev kicked of
Evening star., 1960-09-14
DAVID LAWRENCE
Kennedy Slips On Religious Issue

likely ever to be decisive in q
presidential election. Legend
has itthat Al Smith was de-
feated on the religious issue
In 1928, but most political
experts will concede that
Gov. Smith would have won
by q substantial margin II he
had been running In 1882
during the so-called Hoover
depression"
It is regrettable that any
group Of Protestant ministers
should get so worked up on
the issue as to feel Obliged to
make public pronounce
ments, on which naturally
other clergymen must In
turn express their dissent or
assent.
Senator Kennedy on the
stump gives the impression
Of being over-eager. He re-
veals himself as q man so
worried by the religious is
sue that he makes state
ments and speeches about 1t
instead of concentrating on
the real issues Of the CAM
paign. There can be no doubt
about his sincerity and his
earnestness, and It Is too bad
his advisers haven't told him
to lay on this subject COM
pletely.
For, If Senator Kennedy is
elected, 1t will not be because
of the resentment of persons
who dislike the raising Of the
religious issue and would
vote for him out Of SYM
pathy, nor because he has
stated his principles on sepa-
ration Of church and state
and thus satisfied the skep-
tics. 1t viii be only because
the voters are able to over
ride In their minds the fun
damental objections being
raised - his inexperience in
executive office and the long
period it might take him at
q critical time in history to
get the background Of in
formation, now confidential
that he must have to steer
the ship of state. This is
really his biggest handicap.
For on all other counts he is
already considered a very at
tractive candidate by a large
part Of the electorate.
(Copyright, 1900
Evening star., 1960-09-14

young Daniel from Massa-
chuSettS in their own den did
not seem sharp-toothed to
national observers, but on
their home grounds they have
long been dominant and they
will not change.
The same Negro preacher
who admired Senator Ken
nedy and planned to get him
some votes said he didn't
convince a single questioner.
Those folks will go on doing
Just what they have been
doing" he predicted. II don't
know If they can hold the
young people, but they'll
hold a lot Of others"
The crowd barometers are
registering about equal APP
peal for Senator Kennedy
and Vice President Richard
Nixon. who briefly preceded
him here. Texas is a battle
ground and enjoying it.
Also, as it has grown in
riches, industrialization and
influence, 1t has been itching
for and inching toward a
two-party' system. If the
States rights conservatives,
already amply financed and
doomed by o friendly press,
could solve the problem Of
how to fly the Republican
flag over the courthouses,
Texas would explode over
night into warning Republic
can and Democratic parties
well matched in fire power If
not numbers.
1t is still the better part Of
valor all through the South
to protect local membership
in the parent political COM
pany.
The Vice President under
stands this; his organizers
here fly banners rallying
Texans for N TX o n" with
Republican" still seemingly