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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-06
French Meet Again
With Wet Mini on
Possible CeaseFire
By ~ Assoeiufed Press

HANOI, Indo-C China. July c.
French Union and Wet Mini
military representatives were
scheduled to hold their third ses-
sion at Trung Cha village today
to continue mapping details Of
q possible Indo-C China cease IRE.
(The New York Times IN d
dispatch from Hanoi said the
two sides had agreed yester-
day on q procedure for ex-
change Of sick and wounded
prisoners of war. The dis
patch said the FIRST POW swap
would be made on July IL.
BaStille Day and Frances ma
tional holiday
The delegates met for the first
time In the peace" village OF
thatched hnts Sunday. The area,
declared q neutral zone, Is about
Is miles north of Hanoi in ter
ritory controlled BY the COM
munist-led insurgents.
Troop Regrouping Is Topic.
The talks were understood to
be concerned mainly with re-
grouping Of troops on both sides
in case truce is agreed on ia
Geneva to halt the 8-year-old
war. The delegations recon-
mendations will be referred to
the higher level Indo-C China talks
now going on in Switzerland.
Yesterday the military repre-
sentatives met for over two hours
in closed session. Then the chief
delegates Col. Marcel LennuyeuS
for the French and Gen. Van
Tien Dung for the Wet Mimi
talked privately.
New Cabinet Formed.
In Saigon. Wet Namese Pre-
mier Ngo Dinh Diem formed a
new cabinet in an effort to rally
more popular support behind
Chief of State Bao Dali. The
Premier took over the defense
and interior ministries himself
Other cabinet members, averag-
ing only 40 years in age. are Wet
Namese who have shown an in
dependent attitude toward the
French.
In line with the shakeup,
North Wet Nam Gov. Nguyen
HUI Tri and Central Wet Nam
Gov. Phan Van Clam resigned
yesterday. Regional representa-
tives of the new national regime
will replace them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-06
French Youths Still Struggle
With Exams Napoleon Started

literature, languages and mathe-
matics-are compressed into
four three-hour sessions in two
days.
Next year. the successful can
didate will 60 throrgh the same
agony all over again with a
four-hour examination on phi
losophy, metaphysics or psychol-
ogy and a second on physics,
chemistry or the natural sci
ences. For those who get by
again. there is still an oral ex-
animation where students are
quizzed for hours by State pro-
fessors. In any given year, about
60 per cent of the students pass.
Tough as it is, this system
undoubtedly turns out plenty of
very knowledgeable people. A
graduate who has passed his BAG
calaureate rates on the same
educational level as a second
year college student in the
United States. AS the product
Of q system which places great
emphasis on mental discipline, y
he unquestionably knows how to
absorb vast amount of book
learning.
Called Old Fashioned.
Some, however, who are
searching for the causes of weak
ness In present-day French So
ciety are beginning to take a
closer look at this school system
There are complaints that it Is
rigidly old-fashioned, too harShly
competitive, that it confuses
memorizing with education, that
it drives children beyond their
capacities and leaves them with
a distorted idea Of their &C.
complishments or failures
Traditionally. students who have
finished their examinations &C
on the rampage in PARIS
blow-off which this year brought
public protests about "intoler-
able acts of vandalism. Some
have gone so far as to suggest
that Frenchmen never really get
over this emotional reaction to
the disciplinary ordeal of their
school-days. A childhood of all
work and no play, they say
makes Jacques a bright boy
but a non-conforming intellec-
tual rebel for the rest of his life.
Whatever truth there may be
in these theories, American
youngsters can be glad they
weren't asked to change places
with the boys and girls in France
last week. Personally. we'd have
hunked cold.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-06
It's Same Old Story
To HoIdup Victim
BY the Associated Press

BALTIMORE, July 6.-Phar-
macist David Karlin reported To
police that exactly the same
thing happened to him last night
as had happened last Friday.
A gunman walked into his
drug store and robbed him OF
SIS. Moreover, the bandit was
the same mana Negro about
"a years old, dressed in a blue
sports shirt and brown pants.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-07
J. {. Helms, Founder
OF Concrete Pipe
Firm in Alexandra

Joy Calvin Helms. FOUNDER and
president of the Helms Concrete
Pipe Co. OF Alexandria, died yes
terday at the home. 2701 South
Inge street, Arlington.
A native Of Reigelsville. Pa,
Mr.. Helms moved to Arlington
20 years ago and set up the con-
crete pipe business on the JEFF
ferson Davis Highway in Alex
andria.
Active in professional and civic
groups, Mr.. Helms was director
of the Virginia Manufacturing
Association. past president of the
IZaak Walton League for Arling-
ton and Fairfax counties and
past director of the Arlington
Chamber of Commerce.
Surviving are his widow. Mrs.
Rae EaSteday Helms. two Sis
tiers, Mrs. Charles E. Crevling
of Los Angeles, Calf. and Miss
Caroline C. Helms. of Reigelsville,
and a nephew, Robert j. Helms,
of Milford, N. j.
Funeral services will be held
at II am. Tuesday at the Ives
Funeral Home, 2847 Wilson bou-
levard. Arlington. Burial will be
private.
The family requests that dona-
tons be sent to the Cancer So
ciety or to st. Paul's Lutheran
Church, Connecticut avenue and
Everett streets NV.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-07
BY the Associated Press

MOBILE, Ala, Mar. GA
broken chain of snowfalls trimmed
the Gulf of Mexico today. and
Florida watermelon growers
watched temperature drops with
anxious eyes.
Mobile had its heaviest snow
in SIS years. Officially the
Weather Bureau measured an
inch and a half. but in some
places it piled up as high as four
inches. 1t blanketed masses of
blooming azaleaS on display in
the city's big flower festival.
Thermometers lowered around
the freezing point here. and rain
fell in parts Of the snowfall area.
Cities along the gulf coast
from Gulfport. Miss. to below
Tallahassee. Fla, reported vary
ing amounts of snow. At Dothan,
Ala, a cotton center that seldom
has it, more than an inch of
snow fell in a period of four
hours.
The night forecast for a large
part of the Gulf Coast is for
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-07
Leonardo Grasso, "a,
In Store Here 81 Years

Leonardo Grasso. 81, an in
terror display artist for Wood
ward & Lothrop, died yester-
day of leukemia at Arlington
Hospital.
Born and educated in Italy,
he came to this country as a
young man. He had worked for
Woodward g. Lothrop for 80
years and formerly was a window
dresser there. He was a member
of the stores 30 Year Club. He
lived at 1855 Colonial Terrace,
Arlington.
Surviving are his daughter.
Miss Marie P. GraSso, of the
home address: a brother,
Thomas A., District Heights, Md.
and a sister. Mrs. Mary Troiano,
801 Rock Creek Church road
NV.
Services will be held Tuesday
with burial in st. Mary's Gene
terry.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-07

year. although no new agencies
were added.
The Dallas (Tex.) Chest cele-
brated its 18th successful CAM
paign in row. with a ST. per
cent increase over last year on
the heels of successfully larger
increases each year.
The list Of such successes Id
long.
A nation wide survey by the
Associated Press shows a few in
stances on conflicts between the
United Fund idea and independ-
eat agencies. In Elkhorn, Wis.
for example, the Community
Chest invoked a city ordinance
banning independent drives and
so halted the March of Dimes
campaign except for mail solici-
tation.
| But in the great majority of
communities there is-at, least
on the surface-peace between
the chest or united fund and the
independents. This is main
tanned in many communities by
spreading campaigns over the
year so they do not conflict.
Whether the principle of sim
gle community funds will grow
or has reached its zenith is an
open question. 1t is true that
the number and success of COM
munity campaigns has grown
steadily. Yet it also is true that
a majority of the big independ-
ent agencies are doing better
than ever before.
Spokesman for both the COM
munity fund concept and some
of the independent agencies are
agreed, however, that generally
both labor unions and business
management favor one big cam
paign a year instead of many
drives.
The argument of many labor
and management spokesman is
that a single campaign saves a
great deal of time and has re-
suited in larger contributions.
with appointments carefully
planned when a budget is
drawn up.
Yet people always will have
their favorite charities whose
needs appeal to them over all
others. No single fund could
EN- brace all philanthropies,
argue some. For giving always
has been and always will be a
a personal matter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-07
year raised an all-time high Of
about $51 million.

year raised an all-time high of
about ISL million.
When returns from the latest
campaign are completed, the Ma
tional tuberculosis Association
expects to have collected an all
time high Of about $24 million.
The American Cancer Society
had a record collection of al
most $40 million. The Ameri-
can Heart Association hit a rec
ord with about $8.5 million. The
National Society for Crippled
Children and Adults set an all
time high with almost So mil
lion.
The National Foundation, with
its highly publicized March of
Dimes drive under the symbol of
a crippled child. raised almost
as much money last year as the
four others combined. =.
OF the big Six" only the Red
Cross, which raised over $85
million, failed to set a record.
During World War II, when it's
work struck the public imagina-
ton most wildly, it raised more
than twice that amount in sew
eral campaigns.
While the big independents
were achieving new goals it ap-
pears that the latest united COM
munity campaigns also set new
highs.
Mrs. Esther Moore. director of
research for the Community
Chests and Councils of America.
says, United community cam
paigns are now raising more
than three times as much as in
1910. and the number of COM
munitieS using the federated ap-
proach to fund raising has al
most tripled."
Reports from campaigns COM
pleted to date show, she says, an
overall increase of 81 per cent
over 1853 results and indicate
clearly that last years high of
$266. 124,734 will be exceeded by
this years goals"
Red Cross Drives.
She reported that the Red
Cross participated in more than
200 united funds, while 327 cam
paigns included cancer and 277
included heart.
Altogether United Funds raised
an average of $4.65 per person,
though the Midwest was higher
with $5.18 per person and the
New England area was next with
$500. Among the years most
dramatic campaigns were:
Detroit's fifth big United Fund
campaign which raised more
than $1S,50O,OO0 - the largest
total ever achieved in a united
community campaign.
A Community Chest appeal in
San Diego, Calf. produced II
per cent more than the previous
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-07

trustees of the Jelleff branch of
the Boys Club in Georgetown.
He was lifelong Washington
resident and was formerly in
the heating business here. His
brother was the late George E.
Killeen, for whom an American
Legion Post is named.
Survivors are his widow, Helen:
three daughters, Mrs. Mary Ellen
Frye. Arlington: Mrs. Katherine
Lyon. Silver Spring: Mrs. June
Beach. Kentland, Md; son,
John H. Killeen, Silver Spring;
two sisters. Mrs. Daniel w. Bell.
1916 Gramercy street NV.
whose husband is president of
the American Security and Trust
Co.; Mrs. Katherine Ebel. 3117
N street NV. and five grand
children.
Mass will be held at 10 am.
Wednesday at Holy Trinity Cath
Ollie Church, Georgetown. Burial
will be in Cedar Hill Cemetery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-07
H. D. Frankenberry,
Martinsburg Merchant
Special pispeteh 70 Ihe sior


MARTINSBURG, w. Va, Mar
6.-Funeral services will be held
tomorrow for Harold Dick
Frankenberry, SO, prominent
businessman and an official in
the Cumberland Valley Volun-
teer Firemen'S Association, who
died at Kings Daughters Hos
pital here Thursday.
A native of this city, he was a
graduate of.the high school here.
He had been employed for nine
years as a salesman and served
a year in the Navy. In 1947 Mr..
Frankenberry bought a retail
business here.
He had been a member and
past vice commander. of the local
post Of the American Legion and
was a member Of the Moose.
Surviving are his widow, two
sons, Richard and Robert: three
brothers, George H., jr.: Clyde
w. and c. Donald, and his
grandmother, Mrs. Laura De-
lancey.
Services will be held at St.
Johns Lutheran Church here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-07
Duke Carl Eduard,
Grandson Of Victoria
BY the Assoeio.ed Press

COBURG, Germany. Mar. g.
Duke Carl Eduard of SAKE Co
burg-Gotha, a grandson of Brit
aims Queen Victoria, died here
today after a long illness. He
was 50 years old.
The Duke was born in Clare
mont. England. July 10, 1884, as
the son of Prince Leopold, Duke
OF Albany. who was the eighth
child of Queen Victoria.
His oldest daughter. Princess
Sibylla, is the mother Of Swedish
Crown Prince Carl Gustaf.
The Duke. who bore the title
of a royal prince of Great Brit
ain and Ireland, was an early
supporter of Adolf Hitler, who
made him a general of his storm
troopers in 1898.
Later, he was appointed presi-
dent of the German Red Cross
and was high in Hitler's favor
until World War II.
After the war. the Americans
put him into an internment
camp for a year and a half. A
German denazif1cation court
later classified him as a Nazi
follower.
:. Since then. he had lived in
,seclusion in his residence here.
Beside his widow. Duchess Vic
,toria Adelhaid and Princess ST.
.bylla. he is survived sby two sons
and a daughter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-07
Two Rooms AIIocated
For New Traffic Bureau

Two rooms on the third floor
of the Municipal Court criminal
division building have been set
aside for the new central traffic
violations bureau.
Chief Judge Leonard P. Walsh
yesterday designated the one
time criminal law library and
domestic relations commission
rooms for the purpose. The new
bureau, designed to simplify and
speed up disposition of cases in
volving non-moving traffic vio-
lations, is due to begin operating
about April /.
Judge Walsh said the bureau
will be stated by IL persons. The
District Commissioners had
asked Judge Walsh to take the
action.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-07
Mobile Has 4 Inches of Snow,
City's Heaviest in SIS Years

colder weather with frost. though
the mercury is expected to rise
some tomorrow.
In the watermelon country,
snow and the prospect of lower
temperatures had growers wor-
ried. Plants already are appear
ing well above the ground, and
a second planting would mean a
heavy loss.
The azaleas at Mobile ap-
peared to have escaped damage
because Of dryness in the area.
The chief gardener at famed
Bellingrath Gardens. A. A. Hunt.
said the moisture from the snow
helped rather than hurt the
flowers.
Many Alabamans and Flori-
dams were experiencing their
first snowfall. Snowmen were
hastily built, and SNOWFALL battles
followed here.
The phenomena sent many
Mobile citizens to their tele-
phones to call friends and rela-
tives long distance to tell them
about it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-07

culture Departments and the
Government Land Office.
Born in Washington. he was
graduated from Georgetown Uni
verSity Law School.
Survivors are three sons. Ar
thur w., Washington; Lawrence,
of the Newton street address;
and Edmund j., of Baltimore;
three brothers. including Louis
Simonton in Silver Spring. and
the others in Florida; a sister
in California. and four grand
children. His wife,. Dora, died in
1949.
Mass will be held at 9 am.
tomorrow at Sacred Heart Cath
Ollie Church, Sixteenth and Park
road NV. Burial will be in
Mount Olivet Cemetery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-07

helped her sons operate the
hotels at 1925 and 1101 Six
teenth street NV, 1927 Nine
tenth street NV. 2007 o street
NV. and 1926 M street NV.
She was active in the Eastern
Star and was past matron Of
Good Will Chapter &c.. She was
past noble grand of Dorcas Re-
bekah Lodge No. 4 of Odd Fell
lows and was delegate to the
grand lodge of Ohio from WASH
ington.
Survivors are three sons,
James A.. with a shipping con-
Germ on. Guam; Vernon E. 1921
Sixteenth street NV: Henry c..
2901 Twenty-eighth street NV;
a daughter, Mrs. Ruth Frieden-
berg, Fair Haven, Md: a sister,
Mrs. Ada Baker, Wilmington,
Del; seven grandchildren and
two great-grandchildren.
Dorcas Rebekah services will
be held at 7 pm. tomorrow and
Eastern Star services at 8 pm.
tomorrow at the Deal funeral
home. The funeral and burial
will be held Tuesday in Center
vile. Md, where she formerly
lived.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-07
sy shs A,.oeio.sd Pres.

NEW YORK. March 6.-You
may not have q million dollars,
but you are a philanthropist.
In the last year Americans
gave more money to fight heart
disease. cancer. tuberculosis. polio
and other Gripping disabilities
than ever before in history.
They gave more than ever before
to community drives, the chests
and united funds that are
spreading throughout the land.
Altogether they gave more
than 81 billion to the host of
worthy causes-medical, educa-
tional. religious-that make up
the great body Of reputable
philanthropy.
While giving more they also
appeared to be questioning more
than ever the method of their
giving. In some communities the
question Of how charity dollars
shall be collected has caused
bitter fights.
On one hand are the cham
pions Of the single community
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-07
Edgar |. DonOhoe, Retired
Station Agent in Virginia
Special Dispo,eh 10 The s,or

: ROUND HILL. Va, Mar. g.
Edgar L. Donohoe, 70. died today
at his home here after an illness
of several months.
Mr.. Donohoe, a retired station
agents of the Washington & Old
Dominion Railroad. was son of
the late Samuel and Mary Alice
-Burch Donohoe. He spent most
Df his life in Loudoun County.
: Mr.. Donohoe was a member of
the Round Hill odist
Church and served as a Bible
teacher in the church school.
g: Besides his wife, Mrs. Beetle
Wynkoop Donohoe, he leaves two
brothers, A. D Donohoe, Fairfax,
and c. w. Donohoe. Luther,
Mont. and four sisters, Mrs.
Lou D. Swart and Mrs. c. A..
Francis, Arlington, and Mrs.
Alfred Dulin and Mrs. @. E.
Orrison. Leesburg.
Funeral services will be held
at Halls Funeral Home in Pur-
cellville at / pm. Monday. Burial
will be in Lakeview Cemetery,
Hamilton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-07
Norway Testing Tv
And Isn't in q Hurry

OSLO.-Norway is taking its
time with televiSion. Recently a
series of test transmissions
started. Two years from now the
results of the tests will be care
fully studied and evaluated.
That will take another year.
Then Parliament will look into
the matter and decide whether
Norway will get regular TV pro-
grams.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-07
MafIock K. Tate, 50,
Baldwin Locomotive
Presidents Aide

Matlock K. Tate. So. assistant
to the president Of the Baldwin
Lima Hamilton Loo olive
Manufacturing Corporation and
former Government official, died
Of a heart attack Friday while
walking in the 400 block of
Irving street NV.
Mr.. Tate, who lived at 1886
Sixteenth street NV, has been
q resident of Washington since
1912 when he came here to serve
with the War Production Board
during World War II. He later
was with the National Produc-
ton Authority.
A native of Clearfield County,
Pa, Mr.. Tate received his de-
gree in mechanical engineering
from the Case Institute Of Tech
nology in Cleveland. and also
took courses at Massachusetts,
Institute of Technology.
Served as Apprentice.
Mr.. Tate entered the railroad
business in 1909 as special ap-
prentice for the New York Gen.
trail Railroad. In 1911, he be-
came an engineer with the West
inghouse Brake Co. and two
years later was employed as a
travelling engineer for the Amer
lean Arch Co.
In 1918, he joined the Lima
Hamilton Corp. and served as
manager of service and as as
sistant to president of a subsid-
larry company. the Ohio Power
Shovel Co.
Mr.. Tate came to Washington
in 1912 to become chief of the
locomotive unit of the tranSpor-
tation equipment division of the
War Production Board. Later, he
served with the WPB as deputy
chief of the motive power sec
ton of the transportation divi-
sion.
He returned to his company
from 1945 until 1850 when he
was recalled to Government
service with the National Pro-
duction Authority. He served
with that agency until 1852
when he returned to the Bald
win-Lima Hamilton locomotive
firm as assistant to the presi-
dent.
Member of Many Groups.
Mr.. Tate is past president,
secretary and treasurer of the
International Railway Supply
Mems Association, a member of
the American Society of Me-
chanical Engineers and various
railroad organizations.
He also belonged to the Shaw
nee Country Club of Lima, Ohio,
the Lima Club, the Masons. Elks,
Circus of Saints and Sinners,
Newcomer Club of Washington
and New York and the Kappa
Sigma Fraternity. He also was
a member of the Christ Episco-
pal Church in Lima.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Mildred Markely Tate, and a
daughter. Miss Jane Beverlin
Tate, Of the Sixteenth street ad-
dress.
Funeral services will be held
at 2:30 o'clock today at the CAV
Ter funeral home. 1856 Pennsyl-
vania avenue NV. Burial will
be held tomorrow in the Ever
green Cemetery, Roanoke, Va,