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WIRING Senate probers he
is "too busy" to testify,
Murray Chotiner, Los An
geles attorney, faces sub
poena in inquiry on U. S.
clothing deals. (International)
Red China Lacks
Right To Defense
Brussels, Belgium U.R) The
International committee against
Concentration Camp Practices
has found that a citizen does
not have any right to defense in
Communist China.
The committee held a mock
trial of the Chinese Republic
over the past 10 days and dis
closed its findings yesterday.
The Red China government
was invited to send a defense
counsel but did not answer the
invitation.
The court found "millions of
Chinese are undergoing forced
labor," but found it impossible
to estimate the number accurately.
It found also that forced labor
plays an important part in the
economy of Red China.
"The penal . system deprives
the citizen of any effective right
to defense," the committe found.
The mock court held that
Communist China "blatantly
practices a regime of concentra
tion camps similar to those in
Russia and formerly in Nazi
Germany."
Back Stairs: Accrual Basis Accounting
By Merriman Smith
Washington U.R) Back
stairs at the White House: Budg
et Director Percival Brundage
seldom holds press conferences.
When he does, he tries to make
his bewildering world of gov
ernment disance seem as logical
and understandable as possible.
At the White House late last
week, Brundage was trying to
explain a new system of federal
cost accounting on an accrual
basis. The reporters must have
appeared puzzled, so the digni
fied budget director shifted his
fiscal gears. . f
. "Suppose you go to the liquor
store and buy four or five cases
of whiskey on a cash basis," he
said hopefully. "Your books
would show an outlay of several
hundred dollars for April, but
would show nothing for May or
June when, presumably, you
still would be consuming your
original purchase
if he said 'suppose you go to
your dope peddler and buy four
or five decks of heroin on a cash
basis."'
Whether Brundage was "talk
ing down" to the reporters or
trying to be understandablei is
a moot point. But one newsman
observed: ' . ..
"It could have been worse
Dead line Sunday Classified is at
Boon Saturday: 10 a.m. Monday for
Monday; other days S:30 previous day.
Quadruplets Born
To Texas Woman, 25
Dallas, Tex. (U.R) A 25
year-old wife of an aircraft
worker gave birth to quadrup
let girls last night and early to
day. The mother, Mrs. George A.
Hunter, and the babies were all
reported "doing well" at day
break in Methodist hospital.
The 27-year-old father, who
works at the Chance Vought Air
craft plant, said he was "Pretty
excited,' at the multiple births,
while Mrs. Hunter's first reac
tion to the news was, "Oh, no,
I want two boys.".
The hunters have one other
child, a girl less than 18 months
old.
LOST WEAPONS
Hartford, Conn. (U.R) A
Connecticut Company , bus driv
er' turned a woman's, handbag
into the firm's lost and found
department. The bag contained
only a switch-blade knife and a
set of false teeth.
Fltcher Knebel in the current
issue of a national magazine cat
alogues President Eisenhower's
dislikes. Women in tailored
suits is among them.
If the girls on the White
House staff take this seriously,
Knebel may be responsible - for
a lot of new spring dresses and
strained charge, accounts.
And, if Knebel is right, Mr.
Eisenhower must have' spent
many moments of frustrated ir
ritation since he has been in of
fice. The suit is a favorite
working costume not only for
many of the White House girls,
but the ladies in alj the govern
ment departments.
)
Mr. Eisenhower, as every
president does, receives a wide
variety of gifts. Well-wishers
have given him just about ev
erything from a black Angus
heifer to a tractor with back-up
lights, from his portrait on a
typewriter to a 100-pound hali
but,
Comes now to the White
House something new in the
haberdashery line a button-
down tie. Abraham Schreter of
Baltimore, Md., sent Mrs. Eisen
hower a special set of the new
fangled ties for the chief execu
tive
The first lady's secretary,
Mary Jane McCaffree, thanking
the inventor, wrote: "What won
derful 'good luck' omens they
will be for the President when
he is playing golf!"
The President probably would
be willing to wear a necklace of
newt eyes if it would improve
his game. More often than not,
he plays tieless in a sports shirt
but designer Schreter says he's
sure Mr.. Eisenhower can cut his
score by eliminating "flying,
flapping" ties.
The Schreter tie has three
button holes at the narrow end
The wearer . put the small end
through a loop sewn on the wide
end of the tie, then buttons the
whole thing to his shirt.
Ought to go great with the
sports car set.
Quotes From the News
By UNITED PRESS
Washington President Eisenhower on the death, of Senator
and former Vice-President Alben W. Barkley:
"As vice-president of the United States, Mr. Barkley had a long
and distinguished record of public service for the people of his
state and country. The nation is poorer by this tragic event."
Huron, S. D. Former President Truman, upon learning of the
death of Senator Alben W. Barkley, who served under him as vice
president: "He was one of the finest men I ever knew. He was a great
congressman,, a great senator and one of the greatest vice-presidents
of this nation, and a citizen that the United States can always
be proud of." i
Boston U.S. Rep. Thomas J. Lane (D.-Mass.) as he tearfully
pleaded guilty to evading $38,543 in federal income taxes:
"Though I have pleaded guilty, deep down in my heart I know
there has never been a willful evading of taxes."
Washington Soviet Seaman Viktor Solovyev, telling a Senate
committee of how two Russian agents tried to pressure him into
returning home: .
"I was afraid. There were two of them, and they would do with
me whatever they would like."
Moscow Russian Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin, on his return
to the USSR from Britain:
"The Soviet government is in favor of establishing good rela
tions with the USA, and we shall do everything in that direction."
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Lower Federal
Bench Training
Seen as Remedy
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press Correspondent
Washington (U.R) Congress
has ample authority to bar from
appointment to the Supreme
Court any but
- trained and
e x p erienced
' jurists; As of
now it is not
even neces
sary to be a
1 a w y e r to
qualify for the
' court.
Sen. George
L-yte c Wilson Smathers
(D-Fla.) wants a law passed to
change that. Although he did not
say sd, Smathers evidently feels
that the present court offended
the judicial proprieties in its re
cent rulings on racial integra
tion. The rulings appear to
Smathers to be more in the area
of legislation or policy-making
than in judicial determination.
His remedy would be a re
quirement that five years on a
lower federal bench or on the
bench of a state supreme court
would be a qualification for
membership on the U.S. , Su
preme Court.
Congress could do that, or re
quire that all justices be red
haired, for that matter. The
Constitution merely said there
sould be one "Supreme Court"
and left to Congress its composi
tion. Congress has been tinker
ing with the court ever since it
was created in 1789. By-1896 the
number of associate justices had
been changed six times.
Two Had Experience '
Of present court members,
Associate Justices John M. Har
lan and Sherman Minton had
previous experience on a fed
eral bench. Associate Justice
Hugo L. Black racked up 18
months, in his youth, as a coun
ty judge in Alabama. The others,
including Chief Justice Earl
Warren, were lawyers but never
had been on the gavel side of a
judicial bench until they joined
the high court.
Smathers' proposed law would
hamper politicking in Supreme
Court appointments. President
Truman, for example, once dis
covered that the best fitted man
for an existing Supreme Court
vacancy was a Republican U.S.
senator from Ohio.
: The Democratic governor of
Ohio promptly filled the ensu
ing Senate vacancy with a Dem- j
ocrat, reducing the Republican
Senate count by one and in-1
creasing the Democratic count !
likewise. President Wilson pro-!
moted one of his cabinet to the
Supreme Court early in his first
term. The story was that the
promoted gentleman was ill
tempered and unhandy around
the cabinet table.
Direct Election Provided .
Smathers' proposed, reform
probably would be about, as ef
fective with the court as the
17th Amendment to the Con
stitution was effective with the
Senate. That Amendment (1912)
provided for direct election of
senators. It -relieved state legis
latures of that duty, the idea
being that many legislatures cor
ruptly sold the seats or stupidly
sent to the Senate blow-hards
and second raters. ,.
The amendment dealt well
with corruption, but the average
of noisy second raters on Cap
itol Hill does not change much.
It would be very; difficult to
prove that the 17th Amendment,
increased at all the average of
Senate intelligence or public
service. It may, even, have
diminished both. '
Previous judicial experience
would not assure good Supreme
Court performance. Lack of It
would not forbid a good job. The
late Louis D. Brandeis and Har
lan Fisk Stone for example, had
no judicial experience when
named to the Supreme Court.
Smathers' argument, how
ever, is that men who would in
vade the areas of policy-making
or legislation should be elected
officials for limited terms, not
life-time appointees.
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CHARGED WITH SEDITION
John B. Powell is shown
outside bis San . Francisco
home after he was indicted
by the federal grand jury on
charges of sedition. Powell is
the former editor and owner
of now defunct China Month
ly Review in Shanghai, al
legedly used by the Chinese
Reds in brain-washing of
American prisoners during
Korean war.
Northwest Rivers
Continue To Fall
Portland (U.R) Northwest
rivers continued to fall today and
the weather bureau said the
falling trend in the lower Co
lumbia and Willamette in the
Portland area would continue
for at least the next four days.
The, Columbia at Vancouver
this morning was down to 19.1,
a drop of .8 of a foot since yes
terday. It still was about 4 feet
over flood stage.
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German Wehrmacht
Violates Agreements
Berlin (U.R) Some 3000
soldiers, sailors and airmen of
Red Germany's " recently - pro
claimed Wehrmacht openly vi
olated four-power agreements
today and goose-stepped through
the streets of Berlin.
The cream of Soviet- zone
armed forces, appeared in public
for the first time since their
existence as officially acknowl
edged, paraded down Unter Den
Linden avenue on the route for
merly followed by Adolph Hit
ler's" Nazi troops. . .
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are eligible to vote here. They
are twins, Margaret R. and
Martha G. Boys, 21.
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