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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-18
Public Is Apothetic Over Plan
ToChoIIenge IVA Empire
Tennesseeuns as individuals Stoy Calm
At Prospect of RivoI Utilities Project

Southern utilities combine put
up a steam plant at West Mem
phis. Ark. to take over part of
the TWAS business.
With thermometers in the
valley steadily topping the 100
mark, it may be that it is "too
hot to write letters" as Roy
Mcdonald, explosive president
publisher of the Chattanooga
News-Free Press, and unyield-
ing foe Eyes, some people down
here don't like IT'D of the IVA.
puts it.
|. Or it may be, as a iva sup
porter, Ed Smith, associate edi-
tor Of the Knoxville News-Sen-
tinel. argues that the proposed
West Memphis project "hasn' t
touched any pocketbook nerves
yet"
At any rate, editorial execu-
tiveS who keep a finger on the
public pulse, say that the letter
writing agitation is missing in
this instance.
There is general agreement,
however. that if ever a power
shortage develops. there will be
noise in abundance. And ardent
Continued on Page AT. Col, ~
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-18
Real Estate Man Found
Shot 10 Death in Car

John w. Sharper, 40, Temple
Hills (Md0 real estate man, was
found shot to death in his car
last night in the 5000 block of
Henderson road, Temple Hills.
Police said a shotgun was
found beside the body. DR.. James
I. Boyd. county medical exam
liner, ruled the death a suicide.
Mr.. Sharper, who lived at 1901
Hagan road, Temple Hills. had
been in the real estate business
in Silver Fill. Md, since the
greenhouse and wholesale florist
business he founded some 20
years ago was sold last year.
Police said Mr.. Sharper had
been in III health for about a
year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-18
Finding Of 11th Body
Ends Grim Search
In ChesterfoWn Blast
Powder Oven Is Called (
Source of Explosions;
FIJI Enters Inquiry
speeiol Dispatch to The stqr

CHESTERTOWN, MD, July
17.-Red Cross workers today
found the. 18th body in the
sodden black ashes of the ex-
plosion demolished Kent Manu-
featuring Co.
The grim find ended the
search. All of the remaining 275
employees in the buildings at the
time of the multiple blasts yes
terday morning have been &C
counted for, but five of the
bodies recovered remained I'M
identified. =
Their sorrowing relatives con-
Guided they had been killed and
decided on a mass burial service.
The bodies were so torn by Fri
days explosion that positive
separate Identification was not
possible.
Plan Mass Services.
Donald Clark and j. Frank
Lane, sons-in-law of two women
now considered dead, said final
arrangements for the mass serv-
ice would be made tomorrow.
They said the burial lot in
which the five bodies will be
placed will be marked with a
single, five-pointed star.
The five were listed as Mrs.
Margaret Emma Bachelor. 81, of
Worten; Mrs. Ida Benton Mench,
81, of Rock Hall; Betty Wheedle-
ton, IS, of Henderson; Mrs. Mary
Moore Covington, A. of Center
vile. and Mrs. Barbara Rookie
mann, .27, of Centerville.
The final toll: II dead, 40
hurt. None of the injured are in
critical condition.
Officials still considered it
little short of a miracle that the
loss of life was so low in the
devastating explosion which
leveled eight of the dispersed
buildings, damaged a score or
more and shattered windows in
virtually all sections of town.
Sharing in Near Miracle.
Sharing in that near-miracle
was Mrs. Fannie Robbins, of
Millingtop, Md, who was work.
ing at the powder-drying oven
where the first blast came. She
is hospitalized at Easton with
injured eyes.
The hospital said Mrs. Robbins
also had some broken bones but
reported her condition today as
(See EXPLOSION. Page A-3.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-18
Pentogon Tells of Plan to Dim
City Lights if Raid Threatens

Department. The plan will be
placed in effect when ordered
by the President or by the COM
mander of the Air Defense Com
mand if a hostile attack is prob
able or imminent.
The concern about sky glow
seemed to be somewhat in con-
trast with a recent speech by
Gen. Curtis E. LeMay, COM
mander of long-range atom
bombing Strategic Air Com
mand. He declared:
"Our navigators can depart on
a mission in any kind of weather
and fly direct to within a few
hundred feet above any desig-
mated point on the globe"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-18
Landslide Toll l4O

MEDELLIN, Colombia, July II
P.-The death toll in Mondays
Andean landslides was, placed at
lao by officials today. Seven
ty-three bodies dug from the
earth and rock ION the noun
tainside have been identified.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-18


among the best meets in the
country. 1t has an Academy of
Model Aeronautics triple A clas-
sification and trophies totallng.
around $4,000 in value.
AT the close of advance regis
tration, 208 modelers, mostly
from out of town had been regis
tered. Several hundred more
were expected to register at the
field today. OF the first 208, all
but so are in the senior class,
that is, ID years old or more. and
at least half are over IS years of
age. There will be a total of 80
events.
Flying in all events with the
exception of radio control viii
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-18
Atomic Law Revision
Blasted by Senator'S
In Extra Session
Morse and Lehman
Hit Eisenhower Plan
As 'Giveowuy'
By the Associated Press


Weary but Still-talking Sena-
tors chalked up another round
of extra session argument yes
terday over what is in-and not
in-the administration plan to
revemp the atomic energy law.
A string of speakers, includ-
ing Senators Morse, Independ-
ent, of Oregon, Lehman. Demo-
crat, of New York and Murray,
Democrat, Of Montana cried
"giveway" and monopoly"
against one of the atomic re-
vision bills major provisions
to allow private industry to
take part in developing peace
time atomic power.
Administration hackers dis
puted this. but waited their
turn to offer fuller defense in
debate which has run beyond
bounds sought by Senate leaders
IN their drive for adjournment
by the end of the month.
Golf Issue Raised.
Meeting again in unusual Sat-
urday session, which lasted un-
til 6:45 pm. and began two
hours ahead of the normal noon
time converting, the legislators
also swung into such side dis
putes during their fourth day of
debate as:
/. A charge by Senator Morse
that President Eisenhower, be-
cause of his friendship with
famed golfer Robert T. Bobby
Jones. jr.. apparently is trying
to substitute a "golf stick for a
yardstick in the power indus
try"
2. An assertion by Senator
Jenner, Republican, of Indiana
that foreign visitors are taken to
see the Tennessee Valley Author
ity in an effort to show the
United States Government sup
ports the doctrine of Nicolai
Lenin, Soviet founder, that the
Government must control the
Nations economy.
The argument over electric
power is an offshoot of Gen. Eli
senhower's order to the Atomic
Energy Commission to contract
for private power in the IVA
area. Most criticism in the four
days of debate so far has been
directed against the contract
proposal, not itself a part of
omnibus bill awaiting Senate &C
ton. Other features of the meas
ure include provision for a linn
tied sharing of atomic secrets
with Americas allies.
While Senator Morse dwelt at
length on various sections of the
legislation, he also took a swipe
at the Eisenhower-ordered con-
tract when he named Bobby
Jones, now living in Atlanta, Ga.
Little People Vulnerable.
The Oregon Senator named
Mr.. Jones as stakeholder in the
Southern Co., one of two private
utility holding companies which
would take part in the proposed
contract. The plan is to have
the Southern Co. and Middle
South Utilities, Inc, supply
power over IVA lines to serve
the Memphis (Tenn.) area.
Without going into details.
Senator Morse said the golf
playing Presidents friendship
with Mr.. Jones apparently means
Gen. Eisenhower's substitution of
a"golf stick" for a price yardstick
in the power industry the Sena-
tor said iva provided for many
years.
There is no protection in the
bill for the little people," Sena-
tor Morse said.
Senator Hickenlooper. Repub-
lican. of Iowa, floor manager for
the bill, disputed Senator Morse's
charge of private monopoly"
Senate Republican Leader
Knowland said the bill is threat
ening the Presidents entire leg
islative program.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-18
Record Number Due at Model Air Show Today

The greatest field of model
plane contestants ever to COM
pete in Washington will meet
today at Andrews Air Force
Base in the ninth annual Ma
tional Capital Model Air Show.
The show, which started at
Hybla Valley in 1916, is ranked
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-18
Reds Revive Co-educotion

MOSCOW, Sunday. July 18
education, abolished in
the Soviet Union during the war
years, is being reintroduced in
Moscow. Leningrad and some
other cities this fall from the
LIST to 9th grades.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-18

Tuesday night his deadline for
an honorable" cease fire or his
resignation, warned his country
men in a recorded broadcast
that they must be prepared for
possible continuation of bloody
warfare.
The premier said it may be
necessary to draft Frenchmen
for the Indo-C China front.
Odds Seen Heavy.
A high Western source who
had access to the documents of
fered in the latest private minis
terial sessions said the odds
were about seven to five against
Mr.. MendeS- France making his
July 20 deadline.
Tonight, at the demand of
Eastern delegations, the full
nine country conference was
summoned for an extraordinary
session at 4 pm. tomorrow.
This will be the first confer
ence session in two weeks and
the first held on Sunday. West
ern sources said it will be S"re-
stricted" meeting, with each de-
legation limited to two repre-
Sentatives.
This indicated the Sunday
meeting is intended as brass.
tacks bargaining session just two
days ahead of the Mendes-France
time limit.
No Progress Reported.
A high Western informant
said no progress was made in
tonight's two-hour meeting of
the French Premier. British For
eign Secretary Anthony Eden
and Soviet Foreign Minister V.
M. Molotov.
Mr.. MendeS-France and Mr..
Eden went into the meeting with
their hands strengthened by the
return of United States Under
secretary of State Walter Bedell
Smith to the leadership of the
American delegation in Geneva.
Mr.. Smith, who arrived this
morning, conferred at length
with the French and British
leaders before they went into
the huddle with Mr.. Molotov.
Later, the heads of all Com
munist delegations met in Mr..
Molotov's villa, and Pham Van
Dong, foreign minister of the
Communicated Wet Mimi re-
CINE, scheduled a meeting with
Mr.. Mendes-France at 10 pm.
The leader of the pro-Western
Wet Namese delegation, Foreign
Minister Tran Van Do, mean
while complained in a formal
letter that France was not keep
ing Wet Nam sufficiently in
formed on the negotiations
which the Wet Namese fear will
split the big coastal state be-
tween Communists and nom
Communist Nationalist.
Would Meet Chou.
One source speculated that the
Sunday meeting was called to
get Gen. Smith into a face-to-
face bargaining session with Red
China's Premier Foreign Min
lister Chou En-lai. The United
States has not recognized Red
China and there have been no
personal dealings between the
top American and Red Chinese
delegates here.
A United States guarantee of
any partition of Indo-China in
the present peace plan, and the
proposed Southeast Asia Defense
Pact (SEATO> doomed as huge
obstacles as the clock moved re-
lentlessly toward the Tuesday
midnight deadline when Mr..
Mendes-France intends to halt
negotiations unless a cease fire
is achieved.
The Communist bloc was re-
ported by a Red Chinese inform
ant today to be demanding that
the United States join in an
agreement to guarantee the par
tition and to neutralize the
whole country.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-18
Peace Hopes. Dim at Geneva
As Farley Deadlock Continues;
French Civilians to Quit Hanoi
Mendes-Frunce
Hints Failure
In Broadcast
By the Associated Press

GENEVA, July 1.-THE pros
poets for an Indo-China peace
dimmed sharply tonight.
Another East-West meeting
was inconclusive and a Western
informant said it tipped the
scales against a settlement, at
least temporarily.
French Premier Pierre Men
des France. who has made
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-18
Hearings This Week
Will Expedite Action
On U. 5. Pay Raises
Senate Committee
Will Devote 3 Days
To Testimony on Bills
By Joseph Young

y
public hearings this week on in
creaSes for both postal and clas-
sified employees.
Chairman Carlson plans to
hear testimony from postal en-
Federal Spotlight Gives Other News Of
U. S. Workers Legislation. Poee Az
>-~---~~------
ployes and their representatives
Tuesday, and to take up raises
for classified workers in other
departments Wednesday and
Thursday.
Earlier last week, the House
Civil Service Committee approved
a classified-employe pay bill,
providing per cent raise, with
a $3.50 minimum.
The House unit had tackled this
bill, however, onto a fringe bene-
fits measure already passed by
the Senate. If the combined
pay-fringe benefits bill passes
the House, it would be sent to
the Senate for conference.
The main reason for the hear
ings by the Senate unit this
week will be to prepare for such
an event. If the combined bill
comes over. the Senate commit
tee will already have held hear
ings and be in a better position
to handle the House measure
without further extensive hear
ings.
It's possible, of course, that the
Senate committee could come up
with a separate bill. But its
present thinking is to pave the
way for faster action on the
House bill.
The postal pay bill is being
handled in a separate bill that
must still pass both houses. The
Senate committee already has
heard from postal officials. The
session Tuesday will be devoted
to employe groups.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-18

position to any move that would
peril the cheap rate structure of
the iva. But the steam gen.
Grated by the row in Congress
doesn't seem to have had too
much effect on individual tenn
peratureS. At least, that is the
way it strikes a tourist in Ten
neSSee. 81
One of the best barometers of
public feeling on any contro-
versial issue is the traditional
letters thee editor" Up to
now, John @. hasn't taken his
pen in hand on the Eisenhower
plan to let a Middle South
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-18

U. S. and Britoin See Fost Action
Needed If ToIk Foils. Page AS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-18

Model Air Show Program. Pose A-5
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-18
By Joseph A. Fox
Stor Stoff Cayresnondant

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, July
17.-John @. Public is not rails
ing the fuss that might be ex-
pected over the Eisenhower adj
ministration's proposal to cut
private enterprise into the Ten
nessee Valley Authority power
empire.
There is obviously-and under
standably widespread group OPP
Nomination of Brio. Gen. n. D.. Voqel
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-18

Nomination of Brig. Gen. H. D. vogeI
as IVA Heed Expected. Poee AT
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-18

tsee MCCARTHY. Page AID
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-18

Mostly sunny today, high about
Tomorrow. cloudy and rather hot. Gu
report plus resort forecast on Page Az
Hourly Temperatures.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-18

Continued on Page AT, Col. H.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-18

A 20-year-old Washington dancer,
headed up the ladder toward stardom,
is interviewed by Star Writer Betty Miles.
See Page DIS.
Evening star., 1954-12-26
Reading and Writing
Christmas Reflections to Warm
The Heart and Make the Blood Boil
By Mary McGroy

The holidays being a time
for expansiveness and nostal-
gia, we suggest as ideal sea-
sonal reading '.The Age Of
Elegance" q compendium of
Edwardian prose edited by
Mary Elizabeth Edes and
Dudley Frasier.
We don't know what kind
of a Christmas you had, and
we trust 1t was merry and
bright--but, however, satisfy
ing it was, we think you might
enjoy comparing 1t with one
described in this Edwardian
reader, which is devoted to
an opulent era that knew not
the Christmas club or the
inStallment plan.
The period between 1900 and
1914 was a time when, accord
ing to the editors, pleasure
was pursued with almost fa-
natic desperation" This chap
ter from v. Sackville- Vests
"The Edwardians" depicts a
Christmas house party at a
sedately English home called
Chevron. The high point of
the festivities has the Duchess
among the tenants distributing
the annual Yuletide largesse.
A revealing dialogue that
does not partake too heavily
Evening star., 1954-12-26
Gladstone, the Dedicated Christian

received all the consideration
he often thoughtlessly with
held from his political coll
leagues. They were united with
him In the spirit of mission
which always held him. and
which is perhaps best exem-
plif1ed in his diary entry upon
being informed that he was to
be Prime Minister.
II ascend q steepening path,
with q burden ever gathering
weight. The Almighty seems
to sustain and spare me for
some purpose of His own,
deeply unworthy as I know
myself to be. Glory be to His
namei"
This biography. admiring but
not fulsome, details rather too
minutely long dead political is
sues. But 1t Is q full presen-
tation Of q remarkable man.
M. MEG.
Evening star., 1954-12-26

her early years as maid Of all
work on neighborhood farms.
The great sculptor 10 David
son describes his boyhood in
an East Side tenement in New
York. He sold papers, was an
errand boy, did whatever
came TO hand, but always
drew pictures for his own
amusement. Jesse Stuart, the
poet and novelist, tells of his
childhood In the mountains
Of Kentucky, and of his
father. who couldn't read or
write, but achieved an am
bition when he saw four Of
his children become teachers.
Among those whose remi-
niscences are represented are
Ida NJ. Tarbell, w. C.
Handy, Charles A. Lind
bergh. James Norman Hall.
Roy Chapman Andrews, Robert
o. Millikan. Fiorello H. La
Guardia. Justice William o.
Douglas. Agnes de Mile and
the late Congressman, Sol
Bloom. Most of these memoirs
are chapters from autobiogra-
phies.
Evening star., 1954-12-26
Seeing Ghosts


The quiet of the book world
was shattered last week, when
a great cry went up from Har-
rison Smith Of the Saturday
Review of Literature. He
thought he was being censored,
and he was really only being
helped.
Had he undertaken an at
tack on the whole CHASTITY
business Of ghost writing, we
might have been tempted to
carry a spear i'm his army. We
see fresh evidences every day
of how haunted the Govern
ment is. We were strongly re-
minded of it the other day
when trying to fathom the
meaning of President Eisen-
hower's letter to Nelson Rock
efeller.
Supposedly government writ
ing derives its particularly
woolly flavor from ingrained
bureaucratic caution. But we
think that the idea of writing
a letter to go out over some
one else's name can be often
intoxicating rather than in
hibiting. This can result in
elegant vagueness or what the
New Yorker calls 'rich, beauti-
full prose-"
The Presidents letter to Mr..
Rockefeller offered him a job,
that Of special assistant to the
President. but no hint Of this
mundane fact is contained in
the soaring periods Of the
opening paragraph:
can outstanding character
istic Of our nation, / believe.
is a constant endeavor to in
sure each citizen the fullest
possible opportunity to develop
himself. spiritually, socially
and economically"
Lofty and Vogue
Faith In the individual In
his integrity. and his capacity
for achievement is q basic
principle of our system. The
history of America is the
story Of men and women who
came to these shores from all
parts of the world and who
have made full use of their
opportunities. etc"
When the ghost writer final
ly got to the point, which was
to offer Mr.. Rockefeller q job
as special assistant to the
President, he came forth with
one of the loosest job descrip-
tions in the history Of the Re-
public.
81 shall look to you for your
advice and assistance in the
development Of increased un-
derstanding and cooperation
among all peoples
We certainly wish Mr.. Rock
efeller well in this lofty and
vague mission. We suspect,
though, that he'll start out.
with q typewriter. d secretary
and . filing cabinet. Just like
any one else.
Evening star., 1954-12-26

man show at the Phillips CAL
lery. through January 8.
His large canvases. thinly
painted with vast expanses Of
single colors or white, some
fortified with slashing strokes
of black, interpreting his sub
jects reduced to their barest
essentials, may be the ne plus
ultra Of distillation. Neverthe-
less, they appear empty to
many of us. To develop q
taste for them would seem to
require intensive cultivation.
Yet one painting has been sold
from this show, and several
are reserved" indicating that
a number Of art lovers have
passed the ultimate test Of
appreciation.
OF the Is works on view. the
Phillips Gallery owns three.
one Of which, q watercolor
subtly suggesting q Chinese
landscape, impresses me as the
most articulate work In the
show.
Evening star., 1954-12-26
How to Hook
HOCKSHOP. BY Willia

HOCKSHOP. BY william r.
and Florence K. Simpson
with Charles Samue1s. (Ran-
dom House; $3.75.)
The William Simpson of
1922 had loaned more money
to several Of King George Tvs
favorite courtiers than those
bluebloods cared to repay-to
say nothing of the interest.
On being pressed they became
so menacing that Simpson fled
to New York on a packet
steamer and landed in May,
1922"
So started the American
career Of five generations of
William Simpsons, who took
"Hockshop" as their middle
name. and made fortunes.
The latest, and last, of the
line reviews in this book his
own experiences taking in
pawn such things as the Hope
Diamond, a Stradivarius. an
opera singer. prizefighters and
sundry more ordinary things
that people are anxious to part
with for ready cash. y
If you think that the memo
ries Of a hockshop proprietor
are not interesting, you're
thinking. of the wrong hook
shop.
Anecdotes Of the great and
the small persons who did
amazing things to. for and
with the shop. and the. flocks
of other characters that move
through the book are well ham
died by Mr.. Samuels, who
wrote His Eye Is On the
Sparrow" with Ethel Waters.
In addition to the fun, you'll
learn from this book how to
protect yourself when you
hook, and perhaps a little of
how to run pawnshop.
FRANK SARTWELL.
Evening star., 1954-12-26
Yeor-End Books

In the fading days Of the
year these are among the pub
locations of significance:
A biography based on solid
scholarship and understand
ing: Rutherford b. Hayes
and His America" by Harry
Barnard (Bobbs- Merrill; $6).
"The Man Who Never
Changed" by John Selby
Rinehart: $3.50. a novel
about a symphony conductor,
by the author Of "Starbuck." J"
around the World in
1000 Pictures" edited by A.
Milton Runyon and Wilma F.
Bergane doubleday: $4.95),
which Is just what the title
offers, a. glimpse Of many lands.
The photographs are striking
and uniformly clear. There is
q foreword by Richard Joseph.