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Evening star., 1960-12-18
SERVICE NEWS
SERVICE NEWS
Of the Deckers and the Deckers
Several Fees to Honor Retiring Gen. and Mrs Hickman
r Retiring Gen. and Mrs. Hickmo

90 to San Diego, Calf. to
stay.
Col. Thomas J. Henderson
has charge Of arrangements
for the. party and with Mrs.
Henderson viii be among
those attending to honor the
retiring chief and his wife.
New J. A. G.
Brig. Gen. Charles L.
Decker has been named as
the new j. A. q. and with
Mrs. Decker, Of course, will
be at the dinner-dAnce.
On Monday January 2
there win be Q reception in
Patton Hall, Fort Myer, in
honor Of Gen. and Mrs. Hick-
man.
Meanwhile the Hickmans
are In the Far East where
they went the Sunday after
Thanksgiving with the Cen
eral Counsel Of the Depart
ment Of Defense ]. Vincent
Bourke, jr. They viii return
to town late Thursday.
Gen. and Mrs. Hickman
viii be at home for Christ
mas. Mrs Morrison Booth
Of Chatham. N. j., sister Of
Evening star., 1960-12-18

man and Jane win leave for
Hawaii. where they will stay
for two weeks. The House.
mans expect to return to
Washington January %.
The Chief Of the Australian
Navy Joint staff and Mrs.
Galfrey George o. Gatacre
will give an open-house party
from $3.50 to $3.50 pm. Sat-
urday.
Yule Plans
The Chairman Of the Mari
time Beard and Mrs. Ralph E.
Wilson win join their son and
daughter-in-laW It. and Mrs.
Wilson. jr.. for the Christmas
holiday. 1t. Wilson Is on
duty here with Navy Re-
search and Development.
It will be 0 nrst Christmas
for Ralph, Sd, and the elder
Wilson's expect to enjoy visit
ing with small Laura Eliza
beth, too. Admiral Wilson
returns today from San
Diego, Calf, where he went
on Wednesday to make O
speech at the launching Of
an American Export Line
ship. He was the guest Of
Admiral John VIII.
Young Mrs. Wilson's par
ents. Admiral and Mrs.
Arthur Struble, will spend
Christmas In Pakistan with
the United States Ambassa.
dor to PakiStan and Mrs.
william Roundtree. The
Strubles ore on Q round.the.
world cruise and do not ex-
pect to return to California
until May.
Mrs. Linthicum Woodruff
Is giving the second Of her
annual buffet suppers today.
Her list Of friends has grown
90 large that she has had to
divide up the fete into two
parties. The flrst one was
on Friday.
The z o'clock buffet sup
pers are Q meeting place for
old friends who have been ct
duty stations in far away
places and each year those
eoming home are invited 10
meet again.
Mrs. WOodruR viii leave
Friday to spend Christmas
with her daughter. Mrs. Carl
Lfndgren In Richmond. Va.
FFom the Reeds
From Rear Admiral and
Mrs. Allan L. Reed comes
word that they are now back
In their quarters In Trinidad
after two months away.
Admiral Reed is Command
er, South Atlantic Fleet,
United States Atlantic Fleet.
which has Just completed .
training cruise. Operations
Unitas," which circumnavi.
gated the South American
continent. During this cruise
the task force under his com.
mand worked with the navys
Of eight South American
countries.
Travelling by cir from their
home In Trinidad, Mrs. Reed
Evening star., 1960-12-18
SERVICE NOTES
They Play Sonto
In Their OWnWoy

representing various chill
dren's homes arrive at the
bureau to receive the hun
dreds Of gifts which they win
share with others in the in
stitutions.
Previously Mrs. Warren has
contacted the homes to as-
certain the desire Of each
child. The name and vital
statistics Of each child Is put
on O tag and members Of
the bureau select O tag and
purchase the gift for the
child. The presents are then
placed under the bureaus
Christmas tree.
Additional gifts are do
mated by the Civil Engineer
Corps Ofacers Wives Club,
who each year about this
time hold Q luncheon meet
ing and the forfeit for the
luncheon is o toy or clothes
for o child.
Mrs. Warren has made
worldwide missionaries out
Of Civil Engineer Corps ON
GERS who have taken her idea
with them to far-fiung Navy
Yards both In this country
and overseas.
The chief Of the Bureau Of
Yards and Docks, Rear Ad-
miral Eugene J. Peltier, viii
be host ct this years party.
e. M. D.
Evening star., 1960-12-18

Mrs. Hickman is to be their
house guest. She Is expected
to arrive Friday.
Patricia Hickman will be
home from Trinity College:
Margaret is coming from
Manhattonville. N. Y, and
Mary Lee who attends West
ern High School win be on
hand to greet her home.
coming sisters.
Open House
The Adjutant General Of
the Army and Mrs. Robert
v. Lee will hold an open
house party on Monday De-
cember 26 from Z to 6 o'clock.
Gen. and Mrs. Lee are
looking forward to having
their daughter Jennifer with
them for the holidays. Miss
Lee is at Harvard, studying
for her masters degree In
education. She will be ct
home until after the New
Year holiday.
Also arriving this week is
MIR. Roger Twitchell Of Dub
lin, N. r., who win be o house
guest Of the Lees for the two
holidays.
The Deputy Chief Of stan
for Personnel and Mrs. James
r. Collins, as they do each
year, win be at home January
! from 3 to 8 o'clock In their
lovely quarters at Fort Myer.
The Deputy Commandant.
Industrial College Of the
Armed Forces, and Mrs. Evan
NJ. Houseman are leaving on
Wednesday for Fort Totten,
Long Island. to spend Christ
mas with their daughter-in-
laws parents. Col. and Mrs.
Noah L. Lord.
Their son and his wife,
Mr.. and Mrs. Evan K. House.
man, are going up from their
home In Wilmington, Del.
and Miss Jane Houseman,
who Is in New York, will be
there to complete the family
circle.
On January Z Mrs. House.
Evening star., 1960-12-18
BYTHEWAY..

Two generals n ame ed
Decker, both recently
named to top ranking
positions. have been caus-
ing q certain amount Of
confusion In Army circles.
At the top Of the list Is
Gen. George Fl. Decker
who was named Army
Chief Of Stan late In
August. And then there Is
Brig. Gen. Charles l..
Decker who viii take up
his new duties as Army
Judge Advocate General
the first Of the year.
Overhearing q converse
ton about . Gen. Decker
at q. service party, one
irrepressible colonel asked.
(which Decker? The upper
or the lower?"
Evening star., 1960-12-18
Holiday Meeting

The Washington Club will
hold q Christmas meeting ct
II am. Tuesday ct the club
house. A musical program
will be presented by Mr.. Ed
ward Lindsey Bergen. schoI-
arship recipient Of the WASH
ington Chapter. National
Society Of Arts and Letters,
and Mr.. Glenn Carow. min
lister Of music at Foundry
Methodist Church.
Evening star., 1960-12-18

Chief Of Naval Operations,
Admiral Arleigh Burke.
The Reeds returned to their
quarters on the United States
, Naval Station, Trinidad. in
time to greet their daughter
Marcia who Is with them for
the holidays. Miss Reed Is o
student at Cornell University,
Ithaca, N. Y.
Evening star., 1960-12-18

visited five Of the countries
Peru, Chile, Argentina, Ur-
uguay and Brazil. This en-
abled Mrs. Reed to join her
husband when the ships were
In port.
Admiral and Mrs. Reed
were in town for q brief visit
while the admiral reported on
Operations Unitas" to the
Evening star., 1960-04-26
CopituIotion in Korea

The street mobs, assisted indirectly
by our own State Department, have
taken over in Korea. And the spectacle
Is not one which augurs well for the
American position in that part of the
world.
President Syngman Rhee, who more
than any other man has kept Korea
alive, has offered to resign "if the people
DESIRE" He has promised new elections
and has said that his hand-picked Vice
President, Lee Ki-poong, will resign
from all public Offices. Even so, the
nnobS, drawing their hard-core strength
from high school and college students,
continued to storm through the streets
OF Seoul, burning, wrecking and shout
ing death to Syngman Rhee." The
Korean troops did nothing effective to
diSperSe the mobs, composed initially of
some 5000 students and 200 professors.
According to the Associated Press, the
soldiers had been threatened with court
martial if they killed or wounded a
demonstration. BY daybreak, again &C
cording to the AP, "the city seemed
virtually abandoned by police and
troops, and the crowds took complete
control"
In word, the government of Korea,
overwhelmingly elected a month ago,
has capitulated to the mobS-mobs
which in numerical terms represent but
a small fraction of the Korean people.
Possibly it is doubtful whether our Gov
arnment could have prevented this If it
had supported Syngman Rhee, or even
kept hands off. But it did neither. In
stead, when police fired upon and killed
mob members who were attempting last
week to storm the Presidents residence
in protest against fraud" in the elec-
ton, our State Department publicly
rebuked MFR. Rhee. And again yesterday
our Ambassador in Seoul called upon
Mr. Rhee to speed action on the "juSti-
fable grievances" of the Korean people
this while the mob was surging
through the streets.
Now the inevitable has happened.
The mobS, certainly encouraged by the
State Departments attitude, appear to
be in control. 1t is difficult to see how
Syngman Rhee, even though he per-
Sonally still may have the support of
majority of Koreans, can govern effec-
tively-except on the mob's terms. For
this result, our State Department must
accept a large responsibility. How will
it deal with the juveniles who have
toppled Syngman Rhee? Are Mr.. Herter
and his associates really prepared to do
business in Korea with a new leader
possibly one cast in the Fidel Castro
mold? ~
Evening star., 1960-04-26
The Great Idea

Forty years ago, with the ratif1ca-
tion of the Nineteenth Amendment con-
ferring on women the right to vote, there
was born great idea"-the concept of
national nonpartisan organization of
women voters dedicated to providing
political education and experience
which would contribute to the growth
of the citizen" Yesterday was the birth
day anniversary of that organization,
the League of Women Voters of the
United States. We pay our respects to
the league as it celebrates the occasion
in national convention in st. Louis, Mis-
souri,. And we wish especially to salute
the chapters of the league in the Wash
ington Metropolitan Area for their fine
record of service to the citizens in be-
half of better local government. It is
record of which the league has right
to be proud.
Evening star., 1960-04-26
Tsk, Tsk Audrey

Very likely our own Speaker Ray
burn, often known as the Bachelor from
Bonham" (Texas), has good reasons for
preferring his state of single blessedness
But in case he needs another one, the
Speaker of Britain's House of Commons,
the Right Honorable Sir Harry Hylton-
Foster, is in position to help. Sir Harry
has just worked his way out of a.
parliamentary jam because his wife,
who is formally identified as the Honor
able Audrey Hylton-F Foster, was charged
with speaking out of turn (not a new
charge against wives, of course). Audrey
had been quoted in the public prints as
saying she does not believe women are
bright enough to be members of Parlia-
ment, thereby outraging "a women who
happen to hold seats in Commons. Asked
to hold his wife "in contempt" Sir
Harry has ruled in the negative, but
added somewhat plaintively that he
would try to Straighten things out at
home. Our Mr.. Sam is secure from that
sort OF danger-filled dilemma. To Sir
Harry, our condolences.
Evening star., 1960-04-26

relaxed chat about the state Of party
politics.
Along with all this very effective
good will technique, Mr.. Johnson still
has left the plain impression that
his first concern is seeing that the rec
ord of the Both Congress is a good one
for the Nation and for the controlling
Democratic Party. He has "a job to do"
in Washington. He wishes to avoid intra-
party fights and interparty wrangling,
either of which could develop more
easily if he seemed to be placing his
politicking ahead of his Senate leader
ship responsibility.
BY and large, the LBJ brand is los
ing none of its preStige-in Washington,
in Texas, or elSewhere-by this strategy.
Evening star., 1960-04-26
The 'LBy Brand

Senator Lyndon B. Johnson has a
widely recognized habit of placing his
mark on all that pertains to him
whether possessions or performance. All
his immediate family share his own
L. B. J. initials. His LBJ ranch flies an
owners flag with the LBJ insignia His
cattle carry the LBJ brand. Things are
not notably different in politics. As Sem
ate Democratic leader in the 83d Con-
greSS and majority leader in the Gath
through the 86th, the Texan has made
his initials the most consistently distin-
guiShable on the legislative record of
the past decade.
Mr.. JohnSon'S brand does not vet
dominate the 1860 Democratic presiden-
tlal campaign, but it is legibly imprinted
on his own unique strategy The Texan
is somewhat more than simply avail
able for his partyS top nomination.
Unless there is an outright stampede in
the next few weeks for the current
front-runner, Senator Kennedy of Mas
SachuSettS, Mr.. Johnson seems certain
now of going to the Democratic conven-
ton on July II with at least the second
largest bloc of f1rSt-ballot votes-esti-
mated at $50 and possibly more.
Meanwhile, although Mr.. Johnson
has declined to announce his candidacy,
he has followed a Cowboy routine all
his own for riding the fences" Virtually
certain of Southern support, despite
earlier Southern annoyance at his role
in the enactment of civil rights legisla-
ton, the Texan has busted himself re-
Gently in acquiring identification as
a WeSterner. He has not been abashed
during his travels-by chartered plane.
incidentally-at the LBJ buttons or the
Ladies for Lyndon" Nor has he feigned
surprise that his Western friends in
the Senate have been on hand to greet
him in their home States, and it has
been no burden for him to meet some
folks" they would like to present for a
Evening star., 1960-04-26
Let Foqqy Bottom Go On RedeyeIopinq Itself?

while Foggy Bottom land
can't satisfy the demand at
SIS per foot. Can this be
blight?
Redevelopment, urban re-
newal, is a grand and nee
essary concept for Washing
ton and other cities, but it
does not belong in Foggy
Bottom. To extend it powers
and operations to areas such
as this is to prostitute the
purpose and meaning and
letter of the law under which
it operates. There is no threat
to the health, safety or well
fare Of the city here. There
is no creeping blight and
there are no spreading slums.
There are present none of
the factors which justify and
permit governmental con-
demnation of private land
for public welfare. Any TAX
ing under the circumstances
presented by this area for
urban renewal would be a
fragrant and capricious vio-
lation of all of our constitu-
tional and governmental
principles. Such a taking
would be not only unwar-
ranted but most irresponsibly
unlawful.
The spokesmen of the
agencies which sponsor the
Columbia Plaza, the Rede-
velopment Land Agency and
the National Capital Plan
ming Commission, frankly
admit that they propose TAX
ing the area involved not be-
cause it is blighted, but
because they think they
have better ideas than the
Evening star., 1960-04-26

1t has come to my atten-
tion that interested people
may have misread to some
extent the recent article deal
ing with District Judge jack
sons acquittal of Charles L.
Cross in connection with the
Marchegiani case. The psy-
chiatrist who testified at the
trial had examined the de-
fendant Gross with the con-
sent of both the Government
and defense counsel. She was
a Government psychiatrist on
the staff at st. EliZabeths
Hospital. When her examina-
ton revealed the temporary
insanity of the defendant
Cross at the time of the crime
the Government attempted to
have Cross examined by yet
another Government psychi-
artist who could conceivably
have differed in his opinion
of Cross sanity and bolStered
the Governments case. De-
fense counsel naturally called
the Government psychiatrist
to testify on behalf of the de-
fense since the defense was
insanity at the time of the
crime; but she was in no
sense a defense" psychiatrist
and had in fact examined
the defendant at the .behest
of the Government. Defense
counsel naturally opposed the
motion by the Government to
subject the defendant to a
second compulsory psychiat-
ric examination, and when
Judge Jackson granted the
Government motion advised
the defendant of his constitu-
tional right to remain silent.
Apparently many who read
about this case thought that
the one psychiatrist who did
testify at the trial had been
employed by the defendant
to testify in his behalf and
that the Government had no
opportunity to have their
psychiatriSt examine Cross,
when, in fact, just the oppo-
site was true.
Albert j. Ahern, Jr.
Evening star., 1960-04-26
No Tox Relief

Our family, the six of us.
will stay at home at voting
time this year. The reason:
no candidate, prospective or
otherwise, has indicated he
will try to ease the tax load
for taxpayers.
Because people do not
complain does not mean that
they are not weary of being
overtaxed. None of the can
didates seems concerned with
the taxpayers plight-they
only want their votes.
J. T. Murray.
Evening star., 1960-04-26

owners for its development.
Private ownership in Wash
ington must be subject now
to the whim of some agency
planners who act not be-
cause of blight but because
they think they could handle
the property better than the
owners. Not for the Govern
ment to own and control, but
to turn over to some other
private developers to own and
control! Another country does
this but not America!
Curiously and cruelty. the
majority of the land in
volved is owned by enterpris-
ing Washingtonians who have
acquired the land by their
own enterprise and who have
planned to build the same
improvements which the
RIA. and N.C.P.C. now
plan. They have, at great
cost, drawn their plans, Sc
cured their financing COM
mitments and petitioned for
their zoning. Now they are
baked by the only blight
that has arisen in Foggy
Bottom in 10 years, the
blight of governmental in
tervention Cit is not new in
Washington) by RIA. in
proposing to use District and
Federal funds to do a job in
seven years (viz. Southwest
Washington which they
could do tomorrow! Grant the
license implied here and you
subject every ownership in
Washington to the airy
caprice of some starry-eyed
planner.
William T. Hannah
Evening star., 1960-04-26
S1Iutes De GouIIe

Washington has been play
ing host to a very coura-
geous. indispensable and re-
markable man. the illustri-
GUS Charles de Gaulle. If any
man deserves recognition, it
is he. He has emerged time
and again to save France.
First, during the Second
World War when against the
Germans. against the will of
millions of his own country
men, and not infrequently
against Frances own allies,
he brought his country back
from the despair, dishonor
and discouragement of defeat
and has restored her honor,
dignity and purpose. France
is and always will be a ma jor
nation of the world.
Now, the ubiquitous De
Gaulle is again giving his
leadership to France. To
keep France the great civil
lized country it is, this dedi-
Gated man is spending him
self with concentrated vigor.
Our Nation is the major pow
er of the West. yet our coa-
lition with other countries
greatly depends on our rela-
tions with France. De Gaulle
has strengthened ties between
France and Germany, he has
succeeded in making France
a member of the nuclear
club, he has raised the econ
omy of his people and he
has assumed a greater posi-
ton in the Common Market.
Once more after a separa-
ton of fifteen years, the
President of France has re-
turned. His former reception
in this city was marked with
rebuffs, criticism and re-
proach. Now the American
Governme 1T has shown
Charles de Gaulle that we
welcome his presence, and
that the United States and
France are truly good friends.
Suzanne r.. StallingS.
Evening star., 1960-04-26
Retired Iniustices

l note with approval your
editorial April 19 in which
you favor a bill to correct
an injustice done retired of
GERS and enlisted men by a
provision of the 1858 Mill
tary Pay Act"
The retired policemen and
f1remen of the District of
Columbia think it commend
able of the President to rec
ommend this legislation but
we wonder what has hap
pened to his thoughts along
this line. In the last session
of Congress the President
vetoed a bill which would
have only partially corrected
the same situation in regard
Evening star., 1960-04-26
De GouIIe on Arms

With good reason President Charles
de Gaulle believes, as he has just de-
clared to Congress, that the human
race is threatened today as never before
and that "the fate of mankind may be
oriented towards calamity or towards
peace" at next months summit confer
ence in Paris. Even so, despite the un-
derlying SomberneSS of his address, he
has been at pains to emphasize that
neither he nor France is inclined to
despair at all of seeing peace estab-
lished in the world"
On the contrary, he has indicated
to the joint session of the House and
Senate that he has a distinctly hopeful
feeling that evolutionary forces may vet
effect great changes for the better in
the Soviet Union. And these changes,
as he envisions them, may we'll enable
divided Europe-the free West and the
Communist EaSt-"to bring a reconcile
alton between its two parts, to find peace
within itself, to give fresh start to it's
civilization, and lastly to have the pos
sibility, together with America, to help,
in an atmosphere of serenity, the de-
velopment of the unfavored masses of
Asia and of the awakening populations
of Africa"
But dark nuclear cloud continues
to hang over all prospects of this kind.
In the French Presidents opinion, I'VE
have reached the last moment when an
agreement appears possible. Failing the
remuneration of atomic armaments by
those states who are provided with
them britain, Russia and America1,
the French Republic obviously will be
obliged to equip itself with such arma-
ments. In consequence, how many others
will attempt to do the same? In the
state of increasing uncertainty in which
fear throws the peoples of the world,
the risk grows that, one day, events will
escape from the control of those who
obey reason and that the worst cataS-
trophies will be unleaShed by fanatics,
lunatics or men of ambition"
General de Gaulle realizes, of course,
that certain types of nuclear tests
under the ground or in outer space
cannot be policed by present monitoring
systems. He realizes, too, that large
numbers of existing atomic hydrogen
weapons-given an agreement to de-
Stroy all of them-could be easily hid
den in completely undetectable man.
ner That is why he argues that the
only way to cope with this enormously
( difficult problem is to begin not by try
ing to eliminate the weapons themselves,
but by bringing under strict interna-
tional control the missiles, the aircraft
and the ships capable of delivering them
to all corners Of the globe.
This makes great deal of sense
more sense, it may be argued, than
the negotiations that have been going
on at Geneva for the past 19 months in
an effort to work out a reliable agree
ment on banning nuclear tests. I'm
doubtedly the whole subject has been
discussed in detail by President de Gaulle
and President Eisenhower in the talks
they have just concluded on a note of
high success and friendship Mr.. Khru-
Shchev presumably will hear a lot about
it in Paris Let's hope he responds
Evening star., 1960-04-26

The question is not whe-
ther the Redevelopment Land
Agency has a good plan for
Columbia Plaza, but whether
RIA. should have any plan
for Columbia Plaza in Foggy
Bottom. The Redevelopment
Land Agency was formed un-
der the Housing Act to re-
new blighted urban areas.
Foggy Bottom. through the
enterprise of its owners and
residents is no blighted area.
Instead, it is fast becoming
one of the National Capitals
most charming and most
valuable areas.
Three years ago it failed
to qualify" as a blighted
area in a survey conducted
by RIA. Since then more
than $40 million worth of
the finest types of buildings
Washington offers have risen
in Foggy Bottom. Look at
them-the giant State De-
partment building, the beau
tiful Peoples Life Insurance
building, the handsome Poto-
mac Plaza apartments, and
a host of other fine esta-
blishmentS which now grace
the area. But most of all,
where tired, rundown hous-
ing sagged, now the same
structures, all trim and
quaint and perky, import a
Georgetown charm and tradi-
ton that is unexcelled in
Washington. On the time
that RIA. has been daw-
ding in Southwest Washing
ton the values here have in
creased over 300 percent.)
Spring Valley and Woodley
Hill land sells at So per foot