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die at the end OF this years SeS-
sion and can be acted on next
year.
Employe leaders are greatly
encouraged that Senator Carlson
sponsored the measure. AS chair
man Of the committee, his spon-
SorShip carries a lot of weight.
Federal employe, groups have
long sought such a measure.
They declare Government work.
ers can get. cheaper rates for
group disqualification and medi-
cal insurance benefits if more of
them belong to these plans. And
they declare a voluntary with
holding system would result in
many thousands of employees en-
tering into such programs.
4 X 4 X
SEVERANCE PAY Senator
Johnston, Democrat, of South
Carolina the ranking minority
member Of the Senate Civil Serv-
ice Committee, has urged Con-
gress to provide severance pay
benefits for Federal workers who
lost their jobs. ,s
In a Senate speech, Senator
Johnston called attention to the
fact that Federal employe leave
benefits have been drastically
trimmed during the past few
years, with the result that their
terminal leave benefits no longer
serve as an adequate financial
cushion against unemployment.
Calling attention to the, thou
sands of Federal workers being
laid of in the current economy
programs, Senator Johnston
said Congress must provide
some protection to those fine
people who have served their
Government"
Senator Johnston urged enact
ment of his bill, which would
provide severance pay of one
days compensation for each
month of active Federal service.
\ y
LEAVE-Meanwhile, the House
today is expected to give final
approval and send to the White
House the bill to repeal the
Thomas leave rider. The Senate
already has approved It. @
House action on the measure
was held up yesterday by the
pressure of other business and
the fact that several members
wanted to speak on the bill. De-
spite the objections of several
House members. House approval
is regarded as, certain .,s
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tor, says cotton "just didn't come
up" in the area west Of Wichita
Falls. He says the North Texas
plains wheat crop Is virtually
complete failure"
Mr.. Merrill added that "ex-
cept for small areas, Arkansas.
Oklahoma and Louisiana are
just as dry"
Heat records are broken al-
most daily. Yesterdays 108 at
Amarillo topped the old mark of
1869 of June Is. 1899. At Pre-
sidio in Southwest Texas 1t
reached 113 Yesterday. In re-
cent days there have been at
least two heat deaths.
Water is rationed in several
Texas cities.
There has been no substantial
rainfall in weeks-and none Is in
immediate prospect.
Appear 10 ElSenuUWcE'
The Weather Bureau says
cool air from the Arctic and
North Pacific is crossing the Ma
ton farther north than usual.
This leaves the Southwest vul-
nerable to arid winds off the
Mexican desert.
Texas Gov. Allan Shivers has
asked President Eisenhower to
declare the State eligible for
emergency drought relief. Gen.
Eisenhower wired Gov. Shivers
yesterday the request is under
study.
The Southwestern Cattlemen's
Association wired Chairman Cliff
ford Hope, Republican. Kansas.
of the House Agricultural Com
mittee that "a crisis exists"
Representative Ken Regan.
Democrat, Texas. after making a
first-hand inspection in his home
district, wrote Mr.. Hope urging
Government purchase Of 2 mil
lion head of starving cattle. Mr..
Regan suggested the Govern
ment buy up cattle at 10 to IL
cents a pound instead Of letting
them glut the market at distress
prices of two to three cents q
pound.
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The Weather Here and Over the Notion

District and vicinity-Clear to-
night, lowest about SO. Tomor-
row. partly cloudy, warm and
more humid.
Maryland and Virginia-Fair
and not quite so cool tonight.
lowest 65-70. Tomorrow, partly
cloudy, warm and more humid,
possibly with scattered thunder
showers in mountain areas.
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torium be eliminated from q new
colored grade school to be built
at Fifty sixth and East Capitol
streets.
Voted to study a proposal by
Mr.. Tobriner to make colored and
white teacher examinations alike.
Postponed consideration Of
controversial plans for an addi-
ton to Margaret Murray WASH
ington Vocational School.
Voted thanks to Mrs. Williams
and Vice President Albert e.
Steinem, retiring board members,
for their service.
I Approved q new pay scale and
administrative reorganization for
school cafeteriaS.
Rejected a complaint by Mrs.
Pearl A. Frealing, former Dun-
bar High School teacher. against
her transfer to Spingarn.
Heard q plea by Kenneth r..
NJ. Gillespie. president Of Health
School PTA, for q bigger build
ing.
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Noyes Schools-are due for a
public hearing next Monday.
The board is supposed to de-
eide them Tuesday. But a later
special session might be neces-
sary to deal with Raymond.
Still another transrer-of Mac
Farland Junior High-waS asked
yesterday. Austin Williamson,
vice president of the colored
Northwest Boundary Civic As
Sociation, said adjacent RooSe-
welt High could accommodate
Maefarland's white students. But
there was no indication the
board will give any consideration
to this idea soon.
Mr.. Williamson and Mrs. Car
olyn H. Stewart, of the Park
View PTA, urged the Raymond
transfer. Mr.. Williamson pointed
out Raymond is over half empty.
Mrs. Stewart said the transfer
is needed to relieve crowding at
Park View, Bruce and Monroe
and she said Petworth School
could hold all the neighborhood's
white pupils.
Wesley S. Williams, colored
board member, then disclosed
that Park View is expecting 1908
pupils next fall-372 over nor
NAL capacity.
That is shocking" he ex-
claimed.
Wants Action by Fall.
Then complaining that no re-
lief had been proposed, he de-
clared that the situation calls
for action by the superintendent
before September.
He said relief should be pro-
vided IF we have to sit here all
summer" szsz a.,
.yOnly 302 pupils are expected
In September at Raymond. COM
pared to a capacity of SAB. And
Petworth expects only 1877. al
though it has space for 576, Mr..
Williams pointed out.
Associate Supt. Edith A. Lyons
said school officials have been
planning to transfer some special
classes out Of Park View in order
to free four clasSrooms for some
Of the new pupils. And Associate
Supt. Carl F. Hansen said trans
fer of Raymond had been con-
sidered but that officers felt the
need wasn't yet sufficiently ur-
gent.
Board Member Walter N.
Tobriner then inquired:
"To what extent must a school
become overcrowded before a
transfer?"
Numbers Considered.
$. DR.. Hansen replied that it is
dangerous to generalize" but
that where children to be served
by a transfer equal or exceed
those to be displaced, it would
seem reasonable to consider q
transfer"
Mrs. Velma G. williams said
she couldn't see any sense in
changing the Park View setup
when there are so many extra
seats in the white schools.
In other business yesterday,
the board: ....--.
Approved by a 5-to-2 vote a
suggestion. which DR.. Corning is
expected to ignore. that an audi.
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Faulkner Proposes
Gripe Session of
Board for Parents

Board of Education Men,
Der Robert r. Faulkner tried
to interest his colleagues in
a new public relations move
yesterday.
He suggested the board
hold a grippe session some
night to let parents get COM
plants of their minds.
The board took no action.
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/ tax and social
security.
The measure,
/ W as referred
to S e n a tor
CarlSon's COM.
mittee. It has
not yet been
id e c i'd . d.
whether hear
ings on the bill
will be held
this We ar.
However. bills
sponsored In
Congress this
wear do mot,
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Negro Leader Honored

RICHMOND. June Is (P-A
57-mile stretch of Route 122
through Franklin and Bedford
Counties has been named Booker
T. Washington Memorial High
way, the. State Highway Depart
ment announced today. E Par
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Holiday for Stote Stuff

RICHMOND. June 25 (R.--
State employees will receive an
extra day off next Monday be-
cause Memorial Day and the
Fourth of July fall on Saturdays
this wear.
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Board Sanctions
ADA Home Rule
Essays in Schools

Americans for Democratic Ac-
ton have permission to run an
essay contest in the District
schools-even If theirs is a
political organization"
Board Of Education Member
Robert r. Faulkner tried to block
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Arlington viii Call
Special Grand Jury
For Hacker Staying


will be called In Arlington Coun-
ty on Monday to- hear charges
against two itinerant magazine
statesmen accused of robbing
and numbering a Washington
taxicab driver early yesterday.
Commonwealth Attorney VIII
liam j. Hassan said the jury,
which normally would not meet
until October 10, is to be sums
moned 'i1 order to afford the
prisoners an opportunity for a
speedy trial"
Mr.. HaSsen said Judge vii
liam D. Medley was to sign the
order for the special session
later today.
Confessions Reported.
The prisoners. John Clay Ken
singer, 90, of Pittsburgh, and
Richard Lee McCaughey. 20. of
Chicago. were said to have made
full confessions. backed by recov-
cry Of the death gun.
The two are being held under
$4,000 bonds each for the MUIR
der of Leroy F. Applegate, 46.
Of 8006 Garland avenue. Takoma
Park, md.
Mr.. Applegate was shot in the
back of the head while in the
front seat Of his cab in the
$500 block of Glebe road.
Describes Shooting.
Detectives quoted Kensinger
as saying:
II told him this was a hold-up,
but he kept on driving. He pulled
up before a house and said he
would call a policeman who lived
there. He started to get out Of
the cab.
"Well, it was just like when
you bet on red and black comes
up :. you lose {. just like that" +"
Kensinger and McCoughey,
both veterans of the Navy. came
here from Chicago several days
ago with a team of house-to-
house magazine statesmen. They
were fired Tuesday night for not
producing new business.
Kensinger told police, they
said. that when he returned to
the hotel occupied by the sales
men. he learned his belongings
had been moved out of his room
into the basement.
Kensinger went to the base
ment for his things. which in
cluded a .32-caliber Belgian
automatic he had brought back
from Europe as souvenir. it
was said.
Plans "A Few Jobs"
He told police he later met
two other men from the sales
team in a local tavern and told
them he was going to pull a few
jobs" The prisoner was quoted
as saying the two were willing
to take part.
Later McCaughey joined the
group and told Kensinger he, too.
had been fired. Kensinger was
quoted as saying he and Nc
,Caughey decided to go out to-
.gether and leave the others
behind.
After discussing the possibility
Of robbing a small hotel, they
agreed this. was too risky and
determined to rob. a cab drivers
IsThe. two, police said, admitted
selecting their victim from pass
ing cabs.
Cleared in District Cases.
| Washington detectives have
satisfied themselves the two men
were not involved in any rob-
berries in the District. They
questioned the prisoners and ran
q ballistics test on the death gun.
The automatic had been re-
covered by Arlington police a
few hours earlier with the aid
of a mine-detection crew from
Fort Belvoir. Kensinger was
quoted as saying he threw the
gun into the woods after the
two abandoned Mr.. Applegate's S
cab.
A cartridge clip from the gun
also was recovered, along with a
blood-Stained handkerchief al
legedly used by one of the
robbers to wipe his hands.
| the conteSt-on the theme 'of
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New School Suit Cites
SEGREGATION Views of u. S.

Federal opposition to Virginia s
school segregation laws is cited
in new court action challenging
the right of three Government
employees to serve on the Arllng-
ton School Board.
Attorney John Locke Green
filed a petition with the State
Supreme Court yesterday asking
for a rehearing of the case on
which the court recently ruled
against him on the Federal en-
ploye issue. His petition claims
the three board members are
holding incompatible State Offices
because of the Federal Govern
5Inenfas OPPOSITION To segregation
in schools. The Government has
intervened in a suit involving
segregation in Prince Edward
County schools. one Of five pend
ing eases on which the Supreme
Court recently ordered further
arguments.
Maryland Firemen Convene
About 1000 Maryland volun-
teer firemen were in Ocean City
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The Federal Spotlight
Carlson Bill Asks Withholding
Plan for Hospital Care
By Joseph Young

Chairman Carlson Of the Senate Civil Service Committee
sponsored legislation permit Government withholding OF Federal
employees salaries for hospital and medical insurance
The bill provides that the Withholding could be
voluntary basis of the empoye
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Wind - Southerly at 10-1S
miles per hour tonight and to-
River Report.
CFrom D. 8. Engineers)
Potomac River clear at HaIperS Perry
and at Great Falls; Shenandoah clear 81
HArperS Ferry
Humidity.
tReadings Washington National Airport)
Yesterday Pet To-day Pet
Noon - Al Midniaht ----- 4s
pm. --- 40 8 am. ------ u
p.m, AZ 10 am.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest. 93. on June g.
Lowest 22. on March 2.
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Zoning Suit Filed

Property owners near Seven
Corners, on Arlington boulevard
in Fairfax County, have filed
suit to invalidate rezoning Of
their land from suburban to rural
residential.
The county supervisors ini-
tiated the action to reclassify 200
acres so that larger lot sizes are
required. This action was chal-
lenged in County Circuit Court
yesterday by the Smell Construc-
ton Co. and Frank j. Murphy,
jr., Inc, owner Of 81 acres; Grace
j. Kelley, owner Of 43 acres. and
Grover and Nettie Dodd, owners
Of 3.5 acres,
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Maryland and Virginia
News in Brief

today for the 61st annual con-
vention of their State associa-
ton.
The presence Of two potential
candidates for the Democratic
nomination. for Governor next
year lent a political flavor to
the gathering. They are State
Controller j. Millard Tawes and
DIR. H. c. Byrd, president Of the
University of Maryland. both
scheduled among the speakers
AP.
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High and Lew of East - Houfs.
High, so, at 4:22 pm.
Low, 65, at 5:45 an
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Alexandra Schools OK'd

The Alexandria City Council
last night allocated $2.3 million
asked by the School Board to
build a new high school and two
Fgrammar schools. zszFss.
The new high school-the
city's second-would cost 81 $780,
900 of the total while each Of
the grade schools would cost
$3.50 900.
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Automobile liHhtS must be turned on
one-haR hour after sunset.
Frecipitatien.
Monthly precipitation In inches in the
CAPITAL (current month to dltel:
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ploye's pay check, along with
other deductions such as income
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Maryland Firemen Convene

About 1000 Maryland volun-
teer firemen were in Ocean City
Evening star., 1953-03-13
Committee Approves
IHeintz|eman as New
Governor Of Alaska

The Senate Interior Commit
tee today approved B. Frank
Heintzleman to be the new Gov
ernor Of Alaska after he testified
against immediate statehood for
Alaska.
Mr.. Heintzleman, who has
spent IS years in Alaska as a
Forest Service official, said he is
interested in Alaska getting
statehood when it can support
the services that go with state
hood.
He said the territory is rapidly
approaching that point and he
hopes it will come in few years.
But statehood now would be
premature, he added.
The committee scheduled a
closed session this afternoon on
a House-approved bill to give
statehood to Hawaii. A motion
to include Alaska in the Hawaii
an bill probably will be made,
but is expected to fail.
Mr.. Heintzleman suggested al
lowing Alaska to elect it's gov
ernor as a preliminary step to-
ward statehood.
Senator Murray, Democrat, of
Montana, said some observers
believe this Republican Con-
greSs is pushing statehood only
for Hawaii because the prospects
of electing Republican Senators
are brighter in Hawaii.
Chairman Butler, Republican,
OF Nebraska, called attention to
gains Republicans made in Alas
ka last November, but said that
is not sufficient reason to make
Alaska a State now.
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Nearby Areas Share
In nS2O.5Mi|Iion Aid ia
Schools in Fund Bill

Nearby Maryland and Virginia
counties would share in the $20.5
million extra funds for school aid
in a $3.50 million supplemental
appropriation bill now ready for
final action by Congress.
This sum is carried in the
money measure agreed to by
House Senate conferees late yes
terday. The House will act first
on the bill. probably Monday.
Counties Lose Chance.
Nearby counties here, however,
lost the opportunity for some
additional money above their
share of the $2O.5 million when
the conferees agreed to a change
in an amendment put into the
bill by the Senate.
The Senate amendment, spon-
sored by Chairman Bridges of
the Appropr' ations Committee,
would have given school aid to
places where parents live in one
State but cross the border to
work for the Government within
a reasonable committing dis
tance in another State This
would have benefited nearby
areas where the head of the fam
lily worked in the District for
the Federal Government.
Conferees, however, changed
the proviso so that it would ap-
ply only to wage earners working
for the Defense Department any
place except in the District of
Columbia"
This restriction would leave
the neraby counties here entitled
only to the ALLEGATION of funds
for school aid where the wage
Garner works in the same State
where his family resides.
The bill. which still has to get
final agreement from both the
House and Senate. carries sup
Elemental funds to run various
Government agencies for the
rest of the fiscal year ending
June 30.
Funds for Economic Staff.
Under the bill. President Ell
senhower would get $4,000 for
one economic adviser and his
staff during the balance of the
fiscal year.
President Truman asked for
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Private Bridge Plan
Assai|ed as Fraud
BY the Assoeioted Press

ANNAPOLIS, Mar. 13.-Dele-
gate Hanna, Democrat. of Wico-
mico. charges that a bill to au-
thorize private construction of a
bridge over Sinepuxent Bay is
"just a promotion scheme to be
used as sales talk in selling land"
Mr.. Hanna, calling the bill a
move to "perpetuate a fraud"
said the corporation seeking au-
thorization to sell the bridge is
the same which is developing
Ocean Beach and that this cor
poration has no intention of ever
building this bridge"
Delegate Shockley, Democrat,
of Worcester, in whose county
the bridge would be located, ia
vored the bill. He said "a lot of
lots" already have been sold at
Ocean Beach and if fully de-
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$2.3 billion in sending the bill
to Congress, but the law makers
slashed it sharply. The biggest
cut was the elimination of $1.2
billion requested by the Defense
Department to cover a military
pay raise voted last year.
Biggest sums in the bill are
$340 million for Federal grants
to States for public assistance
programs. $237 million for vet
terans' compensation and pen
sions and $185 million for Fed
eral-aid highway programs.
Other Funds Agreed On.
Other actions Of the conferees
included:
Decreased from $50 million to
$35 million the loan authorize
tion for rural electrification pro-
grams this fiscal year, but in
creased the loan authorization
for the rural telephone program
from $25 to $35 million.
Agreed on an extra $3.50, 900
for emergency funds for the
President. Mr.. Truman asked
his successor be given an extra
$350,000. The House voted $75,-
300. the Senate, $250,000.
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Humphrey Investigating
Attack on Photoqrapher

Secretary of the Treasury
Humphrey has ordered an in.
vestigstion into an assault made
yesterday by a Treasury employe
on an Associated Press photog.
rapher.
The incident occurred outside
the United States Tax Court
when John T. Baczenas, chief o1
the Treasury's currency redemp-
ton division, was leaving with g
uniformed guard.
When two photographers
sought to take Mr.. Baczenas' pic.
ture, the guard tried to shield
Mr.. Baczenas' face with his
hand. Photographer John Rous
Of the AP made another effort
and Mr.. Baczenas lunged at him
striking the photographer on the
chest. He was not injured.
Mr.. Baczenas had just testi-
fed in the case in which William
G. Lias of Wheeling, w. Va, is
contesting a $2,850,O00 Govern
ment tax claim.
Evening star., 1953-03-13

ton and to hold her up to cha
tired. scorn and aversion among
her patients. friends, neighbors
and many persons as a person
connected with an abortion ring"
Defendants named in the suit
are Jack Lait, editor of the New
York Daily Mirror, and Lee
Mortimer, columnist for the
newspaper, as authors of the
books; Crown Publishers, Inc,
and the Dell Publishing Corp.
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Business Briefs

Freight LOadings totaled $685.
016 cars for the week ended
March Z. or "a per cent above
the preceding period.-Associa-
ton of American Railroads.
Crude Petroleum Stocks, do
mestic and foreign on March 7,
totaled 272, ,448,000 barrels, down
1,675,000 barrels for the week.
Bureau of Mines.
Construction Contract awards
in the week ended Monday to-
tailed $3.50, ,241 900, compared with
$273 ,663,0OO the previous week
and $223, ,8O6, 900 in the same Pc
riod in 1952.-Engineering News
Record.
Money in Circulation increased
So million during the week end
ed March 11.-Federal Reserve
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Board.
Reynolds Metal Co. earned
$14.731.071 in 1852. or $S.71 a
share. compared with $15,837, ,846,
or 1888 in 1851.
Public Service Co. of Colorado
in the year ended Dec. 81, earned
$7,467, ,154, or 1929 a share, COM
pared with $6.917,6O7. or $2.10 in
1851.
Holland Furnace Co. in year
ended Dec. 81, earned $1,3O7, sol
or $1.45 a share, VS.. $1,818,411
or $202 in 1851.
Universal Consolidated Oil Co.
in year ended Dec. 81 earned
81 1,300,671 or 1928 a share, VS..
$2,531,467 or $4.34 in 1851.
American Snuff Co. in year
ended Dec. 81 earned 81 ,643, 200
or $3.05 a share, VS.. 81, ,094
or $2.37 in 1851.
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Christian Science Lecture

Earl E. Simms of Austin, Tex,
former investment executive, will
deliver a public lecture entitled
Christian Science: The Science
Of Christianity" at II am. to-
morrow in the Apex Theater.
4813 Massachusetts, avenue NV,
under auspices of the Sixth
Church of Christ Scientist.
Evening star., 1953-03-13

veloped, the area could produce
taxes for the State.
Ocean Beach now is accessible
only by one ferry across the bay.
The House Ways and Means
Committee. after hearing the de-
bate, decided to give Mr.. Shock
ley week to further explore the
proposition before voting on it.
The bill already has passed the
Senate where it was introduced
by Senator Mason, Democrat, of
Worcester.
It would authorize the corpo-
ration to charge tolls on the
bridge and it would exempt the
span from taxation.
Evening star., 1953-03-13
Confidential Authors
Sued for s. Million
BY the Assecioted Press

NEW YORK, Mar. 13.-Dr.
Margaret Chung, San Francisco
physician, filed a damage suit
in Federal court yesterday ask
ing So million from the authors
and publishers of "U. S. A. Con-
fldential' and "Washington
Confidential"
Her complaint said that ref
erences to her in the two books
were wholly false and untrue. "
She charged the defendants
contrived to injure her reputa-
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Funds for Economic Staff.

Under the bill. President Ell
senhower would get $4,000 for
one economic adviser and his
staff during the balance of the
fiscal year.
President Truman asked for