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i ST. LOUIS POST- DISPATCH WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1953 ST. LOUIS POST- DISPATCH 3 WALTER LIPPMANN Why Back a Sure Loser in Asia? IS UNUSUAL for a great matic negotiation to do what week-to invite a showing of to dramatize to the world its Asia and of Europe. The question of who is to sit the conference table was not important as that. After all, ever we achieve our diplomatic objec.tives in Korea It will be done not by excludIng powers from the settlement, but by drawing into the settlement all the powers that must live with it.

For no enduring Korean settlement is conceivable which is not underwritten by China, Russia and Japan, the three great powers which will always be vitally and directly concerned with Korea. notion that He lasting Korean settlement could be made by direct negotiation between Red China and the United States -which is what our original proposals implied-is not seri- No Unity Under Rhee. But though it was not a serious proposal, in the sense that Mr. Dulles and Mr. Lodge can have had the slightest belief that they could unify Korea in such a negotiation, they may have had to make the suggestion nonetheless.

They have had a hard time inducing President Rhee not to spoil the truce, and a very large part of the inducement to him has been in the form of understandings, no clearer than was avoidable, which would, if they were carried Dr. Rhee's prediction come true. His prediction is that the conference must fail. The crucial understandings, so at least Dr. Rhee professes to believe, is that the United States is committed to the unification of Korea under his government.

Dr. Rhee knows, of course, that this can never be done at any conference, and that is why he keeps on saying that the conference will fail and that there must then be a resumption of the war. Escaping Explanations. He is entirely right as to that: Korea can never be united under the Rhee government except by winning a total military victory over Red China, with the Soviet Union remaining a nonbelligerent. Insofar as we are committed to unification of Korea under then Rhee government, it would be awkward and embarrassing if the political conference developed serious and interesting plans for the unification of Korea by free elections in all of Korea.

For Dr. Rhee is opposed to free elections. He could not win the election. And that no doubt is why we have had to take a stand for the exclusion of India. In all probability the Indians would have taken the lead, as did in bringing about the truce.

They would have formulated a plan for the unification of Korea. Such a plan, however interesting and promising, would have had one fatal defect from the point of view of Dr. Rhee. It was bound to have the defect that it looked forward to a GRETTA PALMER DIES, NEW YORK FUNERAL St. Louis Born Author of 'God's Underground' Found Dead in Her Apartment.

Funeral services for Gretta Palmer, St. Louis-born author of "God's Underground" and a widely known magazine writer, will be held in New York City tomorrow at 9 a.m. (St. Louis time) at Church of St. Vincent Ferrer, with Bishop Fulton J.

Sheen officiating. Mrs. Palmer, 49 years old, was found dead Saturday night by a maid in the living room of her four-room apartment at the Carlton House, 680 Madison Burial will be in Resurrection Cemetery, Long Island. Noted for her writings on many subjects and her championship of women's rights, Mrs. Palmer visited the Far East to gather material in 1939.

In 1944 she toured the Mediterranean war theater and the next year she was a war correspondent in Indochina. Palmer's last work, "God's Underground in Asia," was published in February. It told "the full story of the Red war against the Church in China," and was a sequel to her volume of five years ago, "God's Underground," which dealt with Russia and was written in collaboration with "Father George," a pseudonym. Born in St. Louis.

Daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. August E. Brooker of St. Louis, Mrs.

Palmer attended Mary Institute here and was graduated from Vassar College in 1925. Her first marriage was to Paul Palmer, former member of the Post-Dispatch news staff who now is a senior editor with Readers Digest, In 1937 she became the wife of Sanford Clark, a New York investment banker, from whom she subsequently was divorced. Mrs. Palmer began writing for the New Yorker magazine in 1926, later joining the staffs of the New Sunday World and the New York World-Telegram. In 1936 she entered radio work and also devoted herself successfully to free-lancing in the national magazines.

She contributed to the Saturday Eev- BISHOP EDUCATOR, IS DEAD Methodist Churchman, Also a Writer, Once Headed Depauw University. PORTSMOUTH, 0., Aug. 19 (AP)-Francis J. McConnell, retired Methodist bishop, writer and educator, died yesterday at his home at nearby Lucasville on his eighty-second birthday. He served as a bishop in New York and Pittsburgh and for years did religous work in India.

He was a former president of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ. (That organization now is known as the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States.) Funeral services will be Friin Lucasville. day, Bishop McConnell held degrees from Ohio Wesleyan and Brown University. He served president of Depauw University from 1909-12, and at Columbia University, Yale, Drew University and Garrett Biblical Institute. JULIUS G.

ACEVES, RADIO DEVICE CO-INVENTOR, DIES NEW YORK, Aug. 19 (AP)Julius G. Aceves, a radio pioneer, died yesterday. He was 65 years old. He had a basic patent on the device that enables you to plug your radio into the household electrical circuit instead of using bateries.

With Ernest V. Amy, he was co-inventor of a so-called multiple coupler system that enables a master antenna to serve all radio and television sets in an apartment house, and of various other radio devices. At the time of his death he was a partner in the New York electronics engineering firm of Aceves and King, Inc. ARCHDUKE ROBERT, PRINCESS MARGHERITA ARE ENGAGED ROME, Aug. 19 (AP) The engagement of Princess Margherita d'Aosta to Archduke Robert d'Austria-Este was announced officially last night.

They will be married next winter. The princess's name had been mentioned two years ago in roconnection with young King Baudouin of Belgium. Margherita, daughter of the late Italian viceroy of Ethiopia, is 23 years old. Archduke Robert is 38. He was born in the imperial palace.

at Vienna, second son of Emgary peror and Charles Empress of Zustria: Austria. EDWIN GOODMAN DIES AT 77 The New York Herald Tribune- Post- -Dispatch Special Dispatch. NEW YORK, Aug. 19-Edwin Goodman, co-founder and chairman of the board of Bergdorf Goodman, New York department store, and the oldest of the so-called "merchant princes" still active in business, died here last night. He was 77 years old.

Goodman, who lived in a ninth-floor penthouse atop the store, helped organize Berghoff Goodman as a small tailoring shop in 1901. He bought out his partner, Herman Bergdorf, two years later. Dies On Father's Grave. McKENZIE, Aug. 19 (AP)-E.

W. Hilliard went to a cemetery to clean off the graves of his parents. Stricken by a heart ailment, the 79-year-old retired collapsed on his father's grave and died. Regional Chest Chairman and Aids VIRGIL E. BREVILLE, 5650 Kennerly avenue, the city division of this year's Community Chest the Wellston Community Center, 1903 standing: MRS.

KENNETH WULF, 5542 Ashland St. Louis avenue: MRS. S. C. HEADRICK, 5973 WOOD, 5540 Natural Bridge avenue.

Seated is EDWARD J. FLYNN'S BODY BEING FLOWN TO NEW YORK DUBLIN, Ireland, Aug. 19 (UP)-The body of Edward J. Flynn, Democratic National Committeeman from New York and Bronx county leader, will leave Shannon Airport by plane today for a funeral in the Bronx. Flynn, 61 years old, who died yesterday morning at St.

Vincent's Private Nursing Home in Dublin, was taken to the little University Roman Catholic Church last night before starting the 200-mile journey to the airport. A friend disclosed Flynn's body will leave for Shannon at 1:30 p.m. and reach New York sometime Wednesday night. Mrs. Flynn and their daughter, Sheila, are aboard the same plane.

Time of the funeral depends on the return of two sons stationed with the armed forces in the Pacific and Alaska. WINS $3000 SCHOLARSHIP FOR DESIGN OF MODEL AUTO Frank E. Bloemke, 19-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Bloemke, 5242 Tholozan avenue, last night won a $3000 scholarship for his design of a model automobile.

The scholarship was second prize in the 1953 Fisher Body Craftsman's Guild national competition in Detroit. Bloemke, who has completed one year at the University of Missouri, intends to study automotive engineering and designing at Purdue University. This was Bloemke's at the national award. To build his model Bloemke made an electric scar from a fan motor. Earlier in the month Bloemke won a $150 first prize in the Missouri-Iowa region of the contest.

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STOKES As Washington Takes a Siesta power entering upon a major we did at the United Nations how few governments agree isolation among the leading united, freely elected and tralized Korea. And it not have proposed any plan Korea which made Dr. Rhee ruler of all of Korea. If no such proposal is made at the political conference, it will not be necessary to explain to Dr. Rhee why we cannot refuse to negotiate about it.

Given the predictment of our entanglement in Korea, there may be a good deal to be said for putting off having to face the issue: To support Rhee or to negotiate about the unification of Korea. It is an ugly and explosive issue for the Administration to handle. But with the return of the prisoners and the hardening of the truce it may become a less explosive issue. Reds Given Initiative. However, while the issue can perhaps be avoided for a brief period, the issue of Rhee versus free elections will surely be raised before the Korean conference can meet in October.

That is to say, proposals will surely be somewhere, even if they cannot be made in the political conference, itself, the unification by free elections. Though we are ourselves unable to make such proposal without risking a break sal is made, we shall not be able with Dr. Rhee, when the propoto refuse to discuss it. There is no doubt, I think, that the proposal will be made. The new Soviet note about German unification, which coincides with the meeting of the U.N., may, in fact, contain the pattern what the Communist states will propose for the unification of Korea.

Asians Dominate Asia. pattern, as they propose it, will almost surely be unacceptable in that they are SO likely to begin the process of unification, not with the election of a constituent assembly under brid neutral auspices, but with a hyCommunist-anti-Communist provisional government. But they will have the diplomatic initiative, as they have it on the German question in Europe. It would be far better if, instead of having to identify ourselves with Dr. Rhee's fears and prejudices about India, we were able to encourage the offer of a plan of Korean unification which was agreeable to popular feeling in Asia.

For that, the moral weight of India thrown for or against the plan of settlement, is immense and probably decisive. Making all the necessary allowances for the practical difficulties of our excessive entanglement, we must keep in mind that we are trying to make a settlement in the Far East. A settlement cannot be made in Asia which is not founded upon the realities of power, interest, and sentiment in Asia. The realities in Asia that must be considered are at a China and Russia but also minimum not only on, mainland and India. The sooner, therefore, we accustom ourselves to the idea that in the long run the United States must and will disengage itself from Korea, the more realistic and constructive will be our policy while we are still involved in the Korean peninsula.

Author Dead -By a Post Photographer. GRETTA PALMER ning Post, Ladies' Home Journal and others. A zealous feminist, she attended the National Woman's party, convention campaigner in for the 1934 Equal and Rights Amendment to the Constitution. Her 1937 Saturday Evening Post article "A Truce With brought criticism from feminist colleagues, one of whom described the article as "capitulating to men." Involved in Controversy. In 1944 Mrs.

Palmer became involved in a national controversy when shine prepared for publication in Readers Digest an article critical of the Federal Communications Commission. She told a Congressional committee that Wendell Willkie suggested the article but that James L. Fly, the FCC chairman, protested and it never was published. Willkie denied that he suggested the article. Mrs.

Palmer's father, retired board chairman of the Security Investment Co. died in 1935. Her mother, Mrs. Marie Louis Brooker, died in 1951 leaving her $200,000 estate in trust for Mrs. Palmer.

Under terms of Mrs. Brooker's will, it was provided that on her daughter's death Central Institute for the Deaf would receive a $5000 bequest and the remainder would be divided between St. Louis Children's Hospital and Missouri Botanical (Shaw's) Garden, diplolast with powers neucould for the IT IS SURELY DECEPTIVE and but the lull in this city just now parallel, to the lackadaisical days die 1920s when Washington was States and that for only part of the capital of the free world, which it The seeming calm undoubt-1 edly is an illusion created by a series of events that happened to some close together--a truce in a harassing war clear across the globe that has kept Washington and our people on edge for three long years, the recess of Congress, and the departure on WASHINGTON. certainly cannot last longtakes one back, for the closest of Calvin Coolidge in the midthe capital of the United year, and not the acknowledged is today. There is, of course, no similarity whatever in the apparent lull here now and the continuous atmosphere of ennui back in his day.

In those years Congress met for six months one year and three months the next, and President and Cabinet officers slipped away from this city even before it got hot and did not settle down to work back here until the summer was well over. There were no great, demanding issues--at least none was al- Rhee stokes. was peace--if an uneasy one--and no Congress, either, and no President. The Debt Goes Up. vacation of the lowed intrude itself long President, a enough to stir up public excitenew figure stokes.

ment. about whom It was in Calvin Coolidge's there still is avid curious in- Administration that our nation terest among the folks in his had its first five-billion-dollar new home town here along the peacetime budget. Potomac. Suddenly there MAN TAKES CHEST POST USUALLY HELD BY WOMEN Wellston, campaign, Hodiamont avenue; Wabada MRS. Rushing where other men fear to tread.

Virgil E. Breville, 5650 Kennerly avenue, Wellston, has become a city regional chairman for this year's Community Chest campaign, a post ordinarily filled by women. His record shows, however, that he may be able to beat women at their own game tote, a district chairman last year, he was the second person in the city to exceed his quota. Breville, a Public Service Co. bus driver who operates on a split-run schedule, does his Community Chest work in the evenings and between his morning and late afternoon runs.

He also finds time to serve as president of the Parent-Teachers Association of his children's school, chairman of a Boy Scout troop committee, and member of Wellston's blood bank committee, Community center, American Legion post and Chamber of Commerce. his "spare" time, Breville clean house, prepares lunches for his sons and daughter and his wife, who works full-time, and does such odd jobs as putting siding on his house. He even gets in some fishing. "I like to be busy," he says. One Identical Triplet Dies.

MATTAWA, Aug. 19 (INS)-One of identical triplet boys born yesterday died a few hours later in an incubator. The two others and mother, Mrs. William Mitchell, 23-yearold wife of an are reported in good condition. SOFT SUITS in Faille and Wool From 2295 grace ashley 4904 McPherson RO.

4513 -By a Post- Dispatch Photographer. only male region chairman in meets with his district chairavenue, Wellston. From left MRS. LOUIS MAYER, 5603A avenue: and 1 MRS. CHARLES E.

GEORGE HOLTGREWE ASTRONOMY GROUP INVITES PUBLIC TO 'STAR PARTY' A "star party" to which the public is invited will be given Friday evening by the St. Louis Amateur Astronomical Society at Clark School, south side of Big Bend boulevard one block west of Rock Hill road in Webster Groves, it was announced yesterday by society president, Stuart L. O'Byrne, Members of the society will set up telescopes school grounds through which guests will be permitted at the moon, Saturn and other celestial sights. The affair will start about 8 o'clock. At a similar party last year, upwards 1000 persons took advantage of the occasion to explore the heavens through scopes of members.

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The stage, in short, became bare all at once. The city was thrown back on its own resources. and it has very little of those; for it is nothing, if not a stage, and feels lost when the changing characters are not parading back and forth. We have to go back to the Coolidge era for anything like Because soon after he left the White House, to be succeeded by the more brisk HerHoover, things began to happen and have continued to happen since--an economic depression, a crisis in Europe, and then the struggle to lift ourselves out of the depression, and then the second world war and its aftermath, and ultimately the Korean war. We were just in and out of emergency after another.

This seems be the first let-up though undoubtedly there were others that we forget now. They did not come so abruptly perhaps. Long- Vacation. Maybe there was something prophetic in the remark Calvin Coolidge is reported have made when he got up that March 4, 1929, and took a look at the weather on Herbert Hoover's inauguration day: "It always rains on moving day." Figuratively it's been raining since. It's been moving day ever since, that is, in the rapid change of scene from the simple world, or so it seemed, of Calvin Coolidge to today, and that really was only last week, in a manner of speaking.

If the lull here is broken any time soon, it probably will be for a special session of Congress to boost the legal limit of our national debt above the present $275 billion, because our $70 to $80 billion budgets of recent years are pressing at that ceiling. If anybody then had told any of us, including Calvin Coolidge, that this country would in quarter of a century have budgets like that and a national debt of such nearly astronomical size, we would have hooted, at least the rest of us would, and Coolidge probably would have snapped: "Don't be silly!" As for foreign affairs and the rest of the world--well, we didn't bother a great deal. There was a League of Nations, something holding meetings in Geneva and debating about this and that, but we did not belong to it. A Few Minor Matters. Russia was the "bolsheviki" who were decried and caricatured, but nothing really for us over here, behind our ocean, to worry about.

Nor did we worry about Germany, either. We had licked her, or so we thought, and had come on back home where we belonged. Calm now? A lull? Surethere are just matters like the United Nations, to which we not only belong but now lead, in very critical deliberations about the political conferences over Korea and the Far East; and atom bombs and hydrogen bombs, and whether Russia actually has the hydrogen bomb. Just minor matters. Let us enjoy the calm, please--and let temporary.

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