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Evening star., 1954-08-09
Colombia AirIiner Crash
Kills 80 in Azores
BY the Assoeioted Press

TERCEIRA ISLAND, Azores,
Aug ga Colombian Constel-
ltftion crashed and burned here
early today, killing all 81 pas
sengers and its crew of nine
The bodies burned to ashes.
At Madrid, Barajas airport
spokesmen listed an American
among the crew members. He
was identified as Herbert Hop
kins, an engineer. No home
address was given.
The Colombian Avianca air
line said two of the passengers,
Franklin Prayer and Gertrude
Prayer, were believed to be
Americans. It's list indicated
Franklin Prayer lived in New
York. The two were en- route
from Paris to Barranquilla.
There were two infants among
the passengers, mostly Latin
Americans and Spaniards.
The plane was en- route from
Hamburg to Bogota, the Colon
bia capital.
The plane was unable to make
its scheduled landing at the
Azores main international air
port at Santa Maria because oi
thick fog. Instead it landed al
Terceira's Lagens Field.
A minute or two after the
plane took of again for Ber-
muda 1t crashed and burst into
flames. Apparently failing tc
gain SUFFICIENT altitude, it had
struck Mt. ulha Terceira about
100 feet from the summit.
Evening star., 1954-08-09
School Board Gets
Proposals Boosting
Costs by 81 Million
Corning Submits Plans
For New Buildings
And Operating Expense.

School Supt. Hobart M. Cor
ming today submitted to the
Board Of Education budget pro-
posals calling for an increase of
So million in operating expenses
over this year.
The superintendent asked a
total of $36,599, ,76O for both new
buildings and operating ex-
penses. His estimates must be
acted on by the board, the Dis
trict Commissioners and Con-
gress before becoming effective
For the first time in many
years the budget does not in
clude money to hire additional
teachers. DR.. Corning said this
is due to the coming integration
of the schools.
Capital outlay for fiscal 1856
is expected to run $6,979,76O for
II projects under the public
works program. These already
have been outlined under the
works program.
Much of the increase asked
would cover items previously dis
allowed by the Commissioners or
Congress. These include assist
ant principals for vocational high
schools and large elementary
schools, two clinical phycholo-
giStS, clerks for elementary
schools, as well as specialized
teachers.
Also included are administra-
tive staffs, custodial employees,
utilities and supplies for four new
schools now under construction
Largest single item aside from
supervision and instruction is
repair of the Districts $85 mil
lion school plant, estimated at
$3.50. 800, in addition to the ST.
100,700 now allowed.
The repair fund this year ran
out in March, the board was
told.
Capital improvements in order
of priority were listed as:
Replacement of the Amidon-
Greenleaf Elementary School;
a new elementary near Sixth
street and Riggs road NE; an
addition and alterations to Nc
Kinley High School to make it
an integrated technical school;
addition to Eliot Junior High;
addition to Garfield Elementary.
A new school for crippled
children; additions to Anacostia
Senior and Randall Junior High
Schools; a new elementary in
the 1900 block of S street NV;
replacement of the Seaton Ele-
mentary, and drawing plans and
specifications for an addition to
Dunbar High School.
The budget for the first time
includes money - $212, 900 - to
buy uniforms for high school
cadets.
A census of schoolchildren, to
cost $73, 500 was included. This
has been neglected in recent
years, but the Corporation Coun-
sci recently ruled that under the
school law it must be held each
year.
Evening star., 1954-08-09
Pens Failure to Write Brings
Shooting, Chase and Drowning

The restaurant owner called
police. The paratroopers hoped
in car and sped away. Police
gave chase along U. S. Alternate
Route So.
At a bridge across the Dan
River, the paratroopers' car
smashed into an embankment.
The two crawled out of the car
and tried to swim the river.
Pfc. Gerbitz didn't remove his
uniform. TIe drowned third of
the way across.
Pfc. Smith stripped his clothes
of and reached the other side.
He was picked up by a passing
car and taken to a gas station.
There, police arrested him and
jailed him on charges of feloni-
Gus shooting and driving under
the influence Of intoxicants.
Evening star., 1954-08-09
Senate Bloc Leader
Predicts Defeat for
Flexible Price Props
Young Says 909o Group.
However, Moy Be Unable
To Halt 82h % Proposal

The leader of the Senate bloc
seeking continuation of rigid 80
per cent of parity farm price
supports predicted today his
group can beat the proposals for
a sliding scale from 80 to 90 per
cent.
But, he said, it may not be
able to head off another pro-
posal for 821a per cent to 90.
Senator Young, Republican, of
North Dakota, said in an inter-
view that the balloting will be
very close" when the Senate
votes later this afternoon on an
amendment by Senator Aiken,
Republican, of Vermont, setting
the sliding 5000 scale. But he
thinks opponents can beat it.
However, Senator Young said,
"it may be harder" to beat 821a
to 90. This is the compromise
figure adopted several weeks ago
by the House. It was hailed by
President Eisenhower as an ad-
ministration victory.
Vote Today Indicated.
Price supports on basic corps
now are based on a mandatory
80 per cent of parity, formula
designed to give the farmer an
adequate return in relation to
his costs. The President has in
dicated he will veto any bill con-
tinuing the fiat 80 per cent figure
for another year.
The Senate is scheduled to
start voting late this afternoon
on the controversial farm bill,
which has already consumed four
days of debate. An amendment
by Senator Mccarthy. Republi-
can, of Wisconsin, setting sup
ports between 80 and 100 per
cent of parity may also come to
a vote.
Senate Majority Leader Know
land said he is confident the
administrations flexible plan can
be put through by narrow mar
gin.
An unofficial advance check
seemed to back Senator Know
lands claim. Forty-six Senators
were found to be favoring the
administration plan, "A were OPP
posed and 6 undecided. With
such a close margin however,
the number of absentees could
turn out to be deciding factor.
New Dispute Possible.
Even after the basic crop issue
is settled, another fight may de-
velop over support levels for milk,
butter, cheese and other dairy
products.
| The Senate Agriculture Com
mittee, by another 81 vote, rec
commended raising them to IS
per cent. Senator Aiken wants
to hold them at the rs per cent
level and offer other kinds of
benefits to dairy producers in
stead.
The debate limitation agree
ment allows two hours for each
amendment and more than 80
were pending with no restric-
ton on offering others. That
could keep talking and voting in
operation for the rest of the
week il a group Of Senators de-
cided on this. However. most Of
the legislators seemed anxious
for a vote after four days of
speechmaking.
Evening star., 1954-08-09
Judge Orders Release
OF Roger Terrible Touhy
Ry the Associoted Press

CHICAGO, Aug. 9.-Federal
Judge John P. Barnes today or
dered the release from custody
of Roger (The Terrible) Touhy,
SIS. convicted kidnapper and pro-
hibition era gangster serving 1879
years in Statewide Prison.
In a 458-page decision the
judge said that, for one thing.
Touhy had not been afforded
proper counsel. He released the
prohibition era gangster. subject
to the raising Of $4,000 in
dividual bond by members of the
Touhy family, expected later
today.
The Government is seeking to
appeal the ruling.
Evening star., 1954-08-09
BY the As.oeioted Pres,

FRANKFORT, Germany, Aug.
9.-West Germany's spreading
strike wave paralyzed the coun-
try's thriving metal industry to-
day. Picket lines were thrown up
around hundreds of metal plants
in Bavaria where a strike of
100000 workers began at mid
night.
Pickets stoned a truckload of
employees attempting to enter an
automobile factory in Ingolstadt
in the first outbreak of violence.
Police reserves were rushed to
the plant.
The entire police force in
Munich was put on riot alert
when pickets threatened nom
strikers at metal plants there.
1t was the first time ip 20
years that picket lines had ap-
peared. Strikes were outlawed
under Hitler. Since World War
II, unions have held off their
wage demands to help the Ger
man economy effect its recov-
cry.
600 Plants Effected.
The 100000 workers are en-
ployed by about 600 plants in
Bavaria. The metal workers are
demanding a wage increase of
about 3 cents an hour. EN-
ployers, who offered a is cent
compromise, warned that work.
ers not back on the job by
Thursday would be fired.
Evening star., 1954-08-09
Vito Marcanfonio,
Leftist Ex-Lawmaker,
Falls Dead on Street
New Yorker Represented
HorIem Area Ia Years;
Wos Seeking Comeback
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK, Aug. 9.-Former
Representative Vito Marcan-
tonic, left-wing New York polit-
ical leader, fell dead on a rain
swept street today.
The dimunitive, 51-year-old
former legislator was in the mid
die of a comeback effort. De-
feated in 1850 by Republican,
Democrat-Liberal coalition, he
was running again for Congress
as candidate of the independent
Good Neighbor Party"
Mr.. Marcantonio represented
an East Harlem district for IA
years. For many years until last
November, he headed the Amer
lean Labor Party, which spon-
sored Henry Wallace's presi-
Dental campaign in New York
State.
COllapses in Rain.
Mr.. Marcantiono collapsed at
1890 am. at Broadway and
Warren street, near City Hall
Park in lower Manhattan. A
driving summer drain was soak
ing the city.
It was more than an hour be-
fore police issued even a tenta-
tive Identification of the man
who had been a thorn in the
side of New York's regular party
politicians for years.
Police said he had been walk
ing alone, a briefcase with the
initials "V. M" in his hand. He
was not far from his Office on
Park place.
An ambulance doctor said
death was due to a heart all
ment.
Son Of Immigrant.
Mr.. Marcantonio was born De-
cember 10, 1902, in New York
City. the son of an Italian i'm
migrant carpenter.
He was product of the city'S
public schools and a graduate of
the law department of New York
University in 1925.
At IS, he organized and led a
Harlem tenants strike, and did
so we'll that the late Mayor Flo
relic H. La Guardia, then seek
ing a seat in Congress, enlisted
the young mans help.
Mr.. Marcantonio's first posi-
ton as a lawyer was in Mr.. La
Guardia's office. Later he be-
came Mr.. La Guardia's secre-
tary.
In 1880 and 1881, Mr.. Marcan-
tonic was an assistant United
States attorney. In 1884, the
man who later was to become al
most a symbol of left-wing poli-
tics. won his first congressional
term-as a Republican. He won
by 247 votes to represent Mr.. La
Guardia's old Harlem district.
Evening star., 1954-08-09
By Joseph Young

House approval today of at
per cent postal pay raise was
virtually assured as to the House
Civil Service Committee was
blocked in an attempt to lower
the salary increase to 5 per cent.
The bills sponsors had sought
to trim the figure to S per cent
in order to placate the Repub-
lican leadership, which is
strongly opposed to the 7 per
cent measure discharged from
the Rules Committee.
Several committee members
who are opposed to a postal pay
raise without an accompanying
postal rate increase blocked the
attempt.
The strategy of these men,
bers was that the 7 per cent
measure is sure to incur the
opposition of the Republican
leadership and thus impede
final passage by Congress. They
oppose any compromise that
would not include a postal rate
increase.
Makes Point of Order.
AS the committee prepared to
vote on the S per cent motion
this afternoon, Representative
Murray, Democrat, of Tennessee
made a successful point of order
that the group did not have the
authority to vote, since the
House was in session.
Had the committee approved
a 5 per cent bill, the Z per cent
m asure could have been
amended on the floor this after
noon. However, under House
rules, the bill cannot now be
amended.
Overwhelming House approval
of the Z per cent bill is indi-
Gated despite the leadership oh
lection. The bills outcome-and
the outcome of classified pay
raise legislation, which is closely
linked with twill depend on
what the Senate does.
Chairman Carlson of the SEN
ate Civil Service Committee has
said he plans to have the Senate
substitute his committees S per
cent pay boost for classified and
postal workers for the postal
pay bill that is passed by the
House.
House Bars Conference.
This under normal circum-
stances would send the legisla-
tion to House-Senate confer.
ence. However, House leaders
have said they would not 60 to
conference. This would block
further consideration of the
legislation.
That is why postal pay spon-
SorS today made the con.
ciliatory move to substitute the
less costly S per cent pay bill.
1t also contains a compromise
plan regarding Postmaster Gen.
eral Summerfield's request for
salary reclasSif1cation authority.
The House leadership also has
declared that any postal raise
must be accompanied by an in
crease in postal rates. Congress
does not appear likely to ap-
prove a postal rate boost at this
years session, but pay raise
sponsors are hopeful that a COM
promise pay measure may cause
the Republican leadership to re-
lent on this demand.
Evening star., 1954-08-09
Formoso Gets Diverted Aid

TAIPEH, Formosa, Aug. 8
(P).-United States goods orig
inally intended for Indo-China
and diverted to Formosa after
the Indo-C China settlement at
Geneva have begun to arrive at
this Chinese Nationalist fortress.
In the first shipment were 1850
bales of cotton.
Evening star., 1954-08-09
Eisenhower Won't Save
Killer Of FBl Agent

NEW YORK, Aug. 9.-Presi-
dent Eisenhower has denied
clemency to Gerhard A. Puff.
scheduled to die Thursday in the
Sing Sing electric chair for kill
ing an FBI agent. United States
Marshal Thomas j. Lunney an
nounced today.
Puff was convicted Of Staying
Agent Joseph Brock. The kill
ing occurred just before he was
captured here in July 1852 in
connection with q Kansas bank
robbery.
Evening star., 1954-08-09
Ohio Turnpike Route

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Aug. 8.
(P.-The Ohio Highway De-
partment today announced a
tentative route for a second
Ohio Turnpike which would con-
meet Cincinnati in Ohio's south
western corner with Conneaut
in the extreme northeast corner
near the Pennsylvania border.
Evening star., 1954-08-09
Red China Warns Dulles
Il Aims 10 Free Formosa
bv fha Associuied Press

TOKYO. Aug. 9.-Red China s
propaganda radio today said
United States Secretary Of State
Dulles land those who think
like him must be prepared
for grave consequences if they
interfere to prevent" Red China s
liberation" of Formosa.
: The broadcast, heard here,
said Communist determination
to liberate Taiwan (Formosa)
-. is firm and unalterable. No
power can prevent" 1t.
Evening star., 1954-08-09
Reduced Taxes
For Millions

you AND THE TAX lAW-Ai-
though opponents chorsed that the
new tax law wos boon TO corpor-
otions becouse OF increased depre-
eiotion deductions, some 10 million
individual toxpoyers will reop soins
too. Another in Q series on the new
tax low will be found on Poee Ais.
Evening star., 1954-08-09
10000 Germans Strike,
Picketing Is First in 20 Years
Bovorion Metal PIunts Hit as Workers
Press Their Delayed Wage Demands

Metal plants at Passau.
Regensburg and other Bavarian
communities hit by floods three
weeks ago were not affected by
the strike. Workers in those
areas accepted compromise wage
increases offered by employers,
because both workers and the
plants were hard hit.
The metal industry strike
boiled up as another walkout
kept the shipbuilding city of
Hamburg tied up. There, $4,000
public transport, gas and utility
workers voted yesterday to con-
tinue their five-day-old strike
rather than accept a compro-
mise wage offer.
Ruhr Strike Threatened.
Strike threats also have been
sounded in the Ruhr coal min
ing area, in the North Sea coast
forest and farm sector and by
government employees.
The latter's. union, numbering
almost a million federal workers,
gave Chancellor Konrad Ade-
nauer'S regime until tonight to
answer its request for 10 per
cent pay increase.
All the labor groups are de-
matding the. same thing, an
average of 10 per cent more pay.
they contend West Germany is
prosperous enough now to afford
the increases and that workers
have waited long enough since
the war.
Evening star., 1954-08-09
House Test Vote
Approves
aIPdyRaise
Passage Assured
By 346-2o ToIIy;
Final Action Near
BULLETIN

The House this afternoon
on test vote approved a 7
per cent raise for postal work.
ers by vote of 346 to 90,
thereby assuring passage. The
final vote will take place after
one hour of debate.
Evening star., 1954-08-09
Kinsey Studies lndiun Life

LIMA, Peru, Aug. 9 (P.-Dr.
Alfred C. Kinsey. author of
books on sexual behavior, ar
rived yesterday for q month
long study Of Peruvian Indian
life.
Evening star., 1954-08-09
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Evening star., 1954-08-09
Morocco Riots
For Return OF
Sultan Continue
French Give No Hint
Of Any Efforts to
Poeify Country
BY the Assoeiated Press

CASAbLANCA, MOROCCO, Aug.
9.-Violence continued unabated
over, the week end in French
Morocco as Nationalists stepped
up their agitation for the return
of exiled Sultan Sidi Mohammed
Ben Youssef.
Tension appeared to be rising
with the approach of the Moslem
religious festival of Aid Ell Kebir
tomorrow. commemorating God S
sending of the sacrificial sheep
to Abraham as he prepared to
offer up the life of his son Isaac.
Leaders of the Nationalist Is
tiqlal independence Party for
bade the traditional sacrificial
killing of sheep as a further pro-
test against French rule.
Some anti-Istiqlal groups,
however, indicated they intend
to disregard the Nationalist ban.
Trouble Expected at Rabat.
Officials foresaw possibility of
trouble at Rabat, where some
1000 horsemen from outlying
districts were expected today.
There was no indication from
Paris of steps the French might
be planning to pacify the Mo-
roccans. The French have
promised their other rebellious
North African protectorate, Tu-
nisia, more self-government.
They installed a cabinet yester-
day including 10 Tunisians and
four Frenchmen.
The toll in Morocco's Port
Lyautey, on the Atlantic coast
100 miles northeast of Casa
blanca. rose yesterday to 13
dead. including 8 Europeans,
and 48 wounded after new
outbreak.
New demonstrations also were
reported yesterday at Fee, the
French protectorate's religious
center inland from Port Lyautey.
Clash Over Native Stores.
Fighting broke out Saturday
in the heart of Port Lyautey's
Moroccan section when soldiers
attempted to reopen native stores
which had closed in obedience
to Nationalist strike, ordered
to demand the return of the
SultaA the French exiled last,
year. Eleven persons, including
seven Europeans, were killed in
that outbreak and 80 were.
wounded.
Yesterday a mob attacked po-
lice who went into the native
quarter to remove French fami-
lies living there. In the subse-
quent fray two Europeans were
killed and 16 Moroccans wounded.
Police gave mo report of Moroc-
can dead.
The mob then attacked a
school, movie house, a postal
building and an eye clinic. Order
was finally restored in midafter-
noon, just before French Resi-
dent General Francis LaCoste
arrived to attend the funeral of
Saturdays victims.
Americans Moved.
LONDON, Aug. 9 (R.-United
Evening star., 1954-08-09
Americans Moved.

LONDON, Aug. 9 (P.-United
States Navy headquarters here
said today American sailors and
their families living in the native
quarter of Port Lyautey have
been moved to the American
naval base there because of
Moroccan Nationalist rioting as
q precautionary measure.
Evening star., 1954-08-09

(See PACT, A-6.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-12
World Church Gathering Faces Political Tensions

Secretary Of state John Foster
Dulles, who as q church leader
cIashed with Iron Curtain dele
gates at the Councils founding
Assembly six years ago at AM
sterdam before he entered the
Government, backed their adj
mission now.
Made Careful Checks.
The State Department made
detailed inquiries before approx
ing the yisas. It said the impor-
tance Of the meeting to world
wide Christianity was SO great
the Government should not bar
any one legally admissible.
This implied none were found
to be Communists or Fascists
who are barred under the Nc.
Carran Act.
DIR. o. Frederick Nolde, chair
man Of the Councils Interna-
tional Relations Commission
called the decision q "clear dem.
onstration of our belief In reli'
gious freedom" which woult
hearten people under totalitarial
rule.
Most vociferous attack on ad
hitting the Iron Curtain church
men has come from the Rev. Car
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-12

3d Plenary Congress Of the In
ternational Council Of Christian
Churches. You have my best
wishes for a conference which
will strengthen ideals and re-
ligious convictions upon which
depend the future Of peace. free
dom and justice throughout the
world"
The Congress last week in a
message to the President. asked
him not to attend the forthconl-
ing conference OF the World
Council of Churches because del
egates from Communist nations
will be present. The congress
has not announced receipt Of
any reply to the request and the
Eisenhower message. dated Au-
gust z, made no reference to It
The Rev. McIntire, Of Col
lingswood, N. j.. was reelected
president Of the organization at
yesterdays session. Rev. Ken
meth r.. Kinney. johnson City
N. Y. was elected first vice
president.
The Rev. L. Floor, the Meth
erlands, was elected a recording
secretary along with the Rev
Newton Conant, Camden, N. j..
Paul M. Cell, Willoughby. Ohio
and the Rev. Howard Kiefer, Ar
lington. Va. .
The Rev. Raymond F. HamiE
ton of Chicago was namee
| treasurer. ..as-.. 1, s..--.-..' w
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-12

gates. The Rev. Daniel A. Pol
ing, editor Of the Christian Her
aid, called them puppets Of
atheistic communism. and said:
Evanston must declare COM
munism anti-religiouS, anti
Christ and utterly antagonistic
to everything for which the
church should stand, or Evan
ston will divide the American
Protestant community"
However. none of the 16l Or
thodox, Old Catholic. Anglican
and Protestant denominations in
48 countries belonging to the
Council have opposed represen-
tation of the Iron Curtain
churches.
DR.. w. A. Visser't Hooft, the
councils general secretary, said
some Of US may disagree with
positions taken by Iron Curtain
churchmen. but council member.
ship is based solely on q spirit.
ual criterion recognition d
Christ as Divine Lord and Savior
He added 1t Is terribly impor.
tant for this movement to keer
in touch with the churches" be.
hind the Iron Curtain. and d.
everything we can to strengthen
the links with Christians in those
countries.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-12

to submit various experiences
and insights. even ideologies, to
the mastership and judgment Of
Christ"
Although the council faces a
host Of touchy social and reli-
gious questions, probably the
most explosive is the relationship
Of Christianity and communism,
and the presence OF delegates
from Communist countries.
At least 10 churchmen from
Red-ruled lands from East
Germany and 5 each from Hum
gary and Czechoslovakiar will be
among the $500 representatives
Others from Poland and Yugo-
slavia also may attend.
Communist collaborationists'
is the label applied to them BY
Representative Alvin NJ. Bentley.
Republican, Of Michigan. who
| says he will hold hearings stimuli
taneously with the Assembly te
show their false pretenses."
He said they are servants Of
world communism who masque-
rade as men Of Cod"
Other Groups Opposed.
/ Others. including American
| Legion posts. also have de.
] I1olInced admission OF the dele.