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corted her to several night spots
Friday evening. he is quoted as
saying.
Lodged in County Jail.
The first-degree murder war;
rant was signed by st. Marys
County Sheriff Willard B Long
soon after he lodged the airman
in the county jail when he had
been brought from Rocky Mount.
N. C.
Judge Knight said Strickland,
held without bail, probably will
be given a preliminary hearing
Friday.
Swift action by Sheriff Long,
his deputy, Harry S. Lancaster
and State police Trooper John
E. Koontz. working in co-opera-
ton with naval authorities.
brought about Strickland's ar
rest few hours after the
WAVES battered body was
found at dawn Saturday
Rocky Mount police picked up
Strickland while he was talking
to his 20-year-old wife. Wanda.
and relatives at the home of his
parents there. He returned to
Maryland voluntarily.
Admits knowledge.
Rocky Mount police said
Strickland admitted knowledge
of the killing but denied that
he had been a participant.
Sheriff Long, after lodging
the airman in jail, said he
could not reveal whether a con-
fession had been obtained but
added:
Definitely. there are no other
suspects"
1t was learned that the
WAVES pocketbook was found
Saturday afternoon in the st.
MaryS River and that Strick-
land has agreed to accompany
police today in a hunt for other
physical evidence in the case.
The sequence of events leading
to the WAVES death began just
before midnight Friday when she
and a WAVE companion met
Strickland in a Lexington Park
tavern. The other WAVE left
for duty assignment and shortly
afterward, Strickland and Miss
Conole departed. taking with
them two half-pint bottles of
whiSkey and a small carton Of
soft drinks.
About 2 am. Saturday an oc-
cupant of a cabin near the crime
scene heard a woman scream and
looking out saw a couple appar-
emily talking and laughing in
a car.
Discovered BY Children.
At daybreak. three children.
with relatives on the beach, saw
the WAVES body. Their elders
telephoned Deputy Lancaster
who in turn notified Sheriff
Long. The two officers, on the
scene at 7:30. found the WAVES
body, in civilian clothes and with
undergarmentS torn and bloody,
lying face down in the water.
st. Marys County medical
examiner. DR.. Julian s. Lane,
said she had suffered a cerebral
conclusion but that death re-
suited from drowning. He said
she had been criminally as
saulted. A broken soft drink
bottle was found nearby and
there were signs Of a struggle
in the sand which was blood
stained. Sheriff Long said the
WAVE apparently was dragged
across the beach and added that
she may have been held under
water
Evening star., 1954-05-31
Kentlund Dunce Set

The Kentland Citizens Asso-
citation will hold its annual
spring dance Saturday night in
the Cheverly American Legion
Hall, with music by Gilbert
Browns orchestra. Proceeds will
be used to finance q summer
playground program for Kent
area youngsters In Kentland
park.
Evening star., 1954-05-31
NAACP Asks
Corning Plan
Be Rejected
District Bronch Sees
Deseeregotion Delay
In School Proposal

The District Branch Of the
National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People has
urged that the Board of Educa-
ton turn down School Supt.
Hobart M. Corning's plan for
gradual" integration of the
school system.
The branch released a letter
to the board from Eugene Da-
wilson. president, and Ellis o.
Knox, chairman Of the educa-
ton committee.
Permitting exceptions to the
rule that children be required
to attend the schools nearest
their homes by allowing them
to remain in buildings until grad
uation could delay complete de-
segregation until 1859, according
to the objection.
Hits RezOning Policy.
The letter also hit failure to
rezone school districts by Sep
tember, 1854, and planning for
the present to transfer Negroes
only from overcrowded schools
$50 that less than 5000 Negro
children will be transferred by
September, 1884"
I'VE suggest that since no
boundaries can be permanent
and must change from time to
time. perfect boundaries should
not be the goal at the sacrifice
of rapid desegregation." it was
stated. Rather, we think, the
objective should be immediate
relief from the evils of segrega-
ton"
The branch suggested that the
plans "gradualist approach to
the problem of desegregation is
fraught with the dangers of con-
fusion and tensions. This ap-
proach unduly and unnecessarily
prolongs the evils of segregation,
the elimination of which was the
basic purpose of the Supreme
Court decision
This approach denies for an
indefinite period to white as well
as to colored children the socio-
logically sound value of living
and learning together as equals
in a democratic society,"" the let
ter said.
Raps Teachers College Stand.
The branch objected to failure
to merge the teachers colleges
at present on grounds there is no
building available to accommo-
date such a large institution.
THE NAACP rejects this rea-
son for not Immediately abolish
ing all segregation in the college,
first, because there are several
buildings with capacities Sufh-
cient to accommodate the inte-
grated institution, and, secondly,
because it is not unusual for
colleges to have many buildings
under a single administration"
the letter said.
1--WE suggest the present feasi-
bility of either using another
building or having part of the
curriculum at Miner College and
part at Wilson College with the
elimination of the segregation
which DR.. Corning proposes to
continue" it added.
Calls Language Vague.
It went on to complain that
DR.. Corning's plan on teacher as
signments uses the vague and
underlined words "adaptability"
and best use" of teachers.
I'VE feel strongly that de-
segregation should apply to
students, but that in the area of
teacher assignments a conscious
effort should be made to inte-
crate and that words of adapta-
bility should be clearly limited to
considerations other than race"
the board was told.
The branch declared that DR..
Corning'S plan is 80 violative
of the spirit Of the clear decision
of the Supreme Court that its
acceptance by you seems incon-
ceivable."
Evening star., 1954-05-31
Pumphrey To Speak

lie Roy Pumphrey. candidate
for the Democratic nomination
for State Senator from Prince
Georges County in the June 20
primary election, will speak for
IS minutes Wednesday at o pm.
over WMAL-TV.
Evening star., 1954-05-31

sized river craft through and
have traffic moving again in
about seven minutes.
Many q gadget-minded motor
ist can use up that seven min
utes' wait wondering what makes
the thing work and why it almost
always does.
On the South Capitol span, less
horsepower than most automo-
biles carry will swing a "a mil
lion-pound section in a 180-
degree turn in less than six
minutes, rolling it around noise
lesSly on an upright, 36-inch
axle which sits in a well-greased
pan.
At the Fourteenth street
bridge, a 55-horsepower electric
motor and a 400-ton counter
balance lift a pair of 62-foot
leaves through an 82-degree arc.
Imposing banks Of electrical
relays, the motors and huge re-
duction gears are, as they should
be, in the basement" neatly
housed in the piers below the
control towers. At one point,
the sub-"basement" goes some
IS feet below the waterline into
the river bed below the Four
teenth street span.
The whole layout is as near
foolproof and failure-proof as
man can make it.
Two Separate Lines.
Electric power comes to both
spans on two separate lines. It
would take a long time, but one
man could hand-crank the two
leaves of the Fourteenth street
bridge up and down.
The gear reduction box-where
the grease needs changing about
Evening star., 1954-05-31
Pedestrian Is Killed
And ; Students Hurt
In Auto Accidents

One woman was dead and
many others. including three
Georgetown University students,
were injured in Memorial Day
weekend traffic accidents here,
Police said traffic accidents
reached no record high but q
number of persons suffered mi
nor injuries.
The traffic victim was Mrs
Edith M. Poole, II, of 631 Elev-
enth street NE. She died at Dis
trict General Hospital late Sat-
urday night, two hours after she
was struck by a car in a cross
walk at Eleventh and G streets
NE. She was the twenty-third
traffic victim of the year, COM
pared with 26 for the same Pc
riod last year.
Police listed the driver as La
mar Thomas, colored, 81, of the
800 block Of Kentucky avenue
Sc, a janitor at the Army Mar
Service. He was charged with
homicide. unreasonable speed
and failing to give the right OF
way to a pedestrian.
Car Hits Light Pole.
The three Georgetown Univer-
sity students were injured last
night when a car driven by one
of them south on Connecticut
avenue failed to make a right
turn into Florida avenue and
crashed into a traffic light pole
at Florida avenue and S street
NV.
The driver was listed as Arthur
B. Calcagnini. 81, of New York,
who was released from George
Washington University Hospital
after treatment for injuries to
his hand, arm and face. He was
charged with an improper turn.
A fellow student, George Nc
Kenna, 81, was admitted to the
hospital for a possible fractured
jaw and scalp cuts. Police re-
ported Gregory F. Brown, 81,
another student complained of
back injuries but refused treat
ment.
A Walter Reed Hospital pri-
vate, driving what police de-
Scribed as a car stolen from an
Arlington resident was charged
with leaving after colliding and
passing stop sign in an acci-
dent last night at Fifth and I
streets NV.
Police said the soldier, James
E. Covington, %, failed to stop
after his car struck one driven
by Airman Wilbur j. Thomas, %,
of Andrews Air Force Base, who
lives at 1741 Twenty-eighth
street Sc. Mr.. Thomas wife, q
20-year-old Navy Department
secretary. was in fair condition
at Casualty Hospital, where she
under went X-rays for a possible
fractured back. Her mother.
Mrs. May Horrgan, 54, of 623
Seventh street NV, suffered a
possible fracture of the left
shoulder.
Two Hurt in Crash.
Covington, who was arrested a
short time later, was turned over
to armed services police for ac-
ton on the stolen car charge.
Two persons were injured and
both were given traffic tickets in
a two-car collision yesterday at
Franklin street and Lincoln
road NE.
Police said a car driven west
on Franklin street by Edward D.
BarkSdale, colored, 27, of the 600
block of Webster street NV.
collided with a car driven north
on Lincoln road by Mrs. Thomas
A. Hart, colored, SO, of the unit
block of Adams street NV. Both
were treated at Casualty Hospital
Tor head cuts. Mr.. Barksdale was
charged with failing to give full
time and attention to his driving
ana Mrs. Hart was charged with
falling tn viold the ,.;c.l,k. -
Evening star., 1954-05-07
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The National Geographic Society
estimates that Berlin was 40 per
cent destroyed during World War
II.
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REGISTER NOW IF YOU
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House Bill HOS, requires that
everyone re-registered this year,
Pinder said.
If you are in doubt about your
status as a voter, he added, you
can telephone Finders office - 2
PIP.
Pinder said he expects at least
$4,000 persons will register in the
county this year. Already, he said,
1,1O5 new registrants have been re-
corded.
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speech would be broadcast from
the park by Station WKWF.
Levin at this time told me the
total cost of radio time, including
broadcast, cost of spots and string
ing telephone wires to the park,
for which he requested payment
IN advance.
Payment Made
cat noon, Thursday, Mr.. Levin
stopped by the Campaign Trea-
slrer's home and picked up a
check for the combined cost of
the program and had the contracts
signed which called for 80 min
utes time from 800 to $50 p. m.
Friday night to be broadcast di-
rect from Bayview Park.
eve myself and the Deputy
Treasurer, Isadore Weintraub) as
sumed that everything was COM
pleted since Mr.. Levin said moth
ing to the contrary. The local
Telephone Company was instruct
ed by WKWF to wire up the Park
for the broadcast. They complied
with the request and wired the
Park.
eat HAS a. m. Friday, / called
Mr.. Levin and asked him to play
God Bless America in the back
ground as Mr.. Oldham was signing
off the air. At that time Mr.. Levin
informed me that he would have
to have a script "a hours in ad-
vance of broadcast time-get this
that was 8 hours and Is minutes
before broadcast time.
Cancellation
"On the previous day I had
specifically asked Mr.. Levin if
script was necessary because we
were refused radio time in 1852.
WKWF ran two radio ads Friday
morning informing the public OF
the address and broadcast from
the Park-and one ad over the
air at noon after Mr.. Levin had
informed me that the broadcast
was cancelled for Friday night.
These spots were all PIT over the
air less than "a hours before the
broadcast time.
"Mr. Levin informed me that
they would transcribe the speech
and broadcast it at a later date.
1t is interesting to note that he
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President Eisenhower ''is doing the
best job he can (but) I don't think
he is a superman." If the Presi-
dent were running for office now,
Mccarthy said, he would be com
PEELED" to campaign for him.
Difference Of Opinion
Noting that they have had differ
ences, Mccarthy said EiSenhow-
er's batting average in office is
so much higher than that of any
other president in recent years
that there is no comparison"
These were among other devel-
opments:
1. Two Episcopal Church deals,
The Very Rev. Francis B. Sayre
Jr., dean of the Washington Ca
thedral, and The Very Rev. DR..
James A. Pike, dean of st. John
the Divine in New York City, ex-
changed pulpits for denunciations
of "McCarthyiSm."
Both said the American people
were responsible for McCarthy's
present power, and Sayre said the
senator would be nothing without
the active support of what has
been estimated to be at least one
third of our people,"
Pike criticized what he termed
the silence of the Roman Catholic
hierarchy on the question of Nc
Carthy, member of that faith.
Pike said "it is not surprising that
the Roman Catholic hierarchy, not
adverse to taking positions on 9TH
er moral issues, has been silent
on McCarthyism, and that. the
Roman Catholic papers with huge
circulations have been pro-McCar-
thy in influence"
2. Sen. Ferguson said on the TV
interview yesterday that various
Senate committee chairmen have
indicated they will accept a code
of proposed rules for hearings, but
that he has not heard from Nc
Carthy on the point. The policy
committee which Ferguson heads
drew up the suggested rules.
Little Lord FaUnfIeroy"
3. Sen. Monroney (D-Okla), on
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Study Made OF
Vaccination OF
Newborn Babes
BY ALTON L. bLAKESLEE
APP Science Reporter

CLEVELAND Up - Vaccinatins
babies minutes after they're born
is safe, effective insurance against
dangerous whooping cough and
diphtheria, a family doctor finds.
The shots in the arm against
these diseases usually aren't start
ed until babies are three to six
months old or more.
But DR.. Herbert D. Chamberlain,
Macarthur, Ohio, told today Of good
results from giving them as immi-
date birthday shots as part of the
routine treatment Of newborn
babies.
Of TIT babies treated this way
since 1913, not one has had whoop-
ing cough or diptheria, even when
other children in the family con-
tracted these diseases, he says in
an exhibit for the American Adad-
envy of General Practice.
Between 1913 and 1913 in his
rural practice in Vinton County,
Ohio, there had been 40 cases of
whooping cough and 10 deaths
among babies less than a year
old, he said.
Since 1913, there has not been
a single case of whooping cough,
except in one baby not inoculated
at birth, he said.
He cited government statistics
which show whooping cough kills
more babies from / to IL months
old than all other diseases com.
bined.
He gives the babies a standard
vaccine combining protection
against whopping cough, diphther-
la, and tetanus, a main cause of
blood poisoning.
A full treatment consists of
three shots. The second is given
when the baby is weeks old, when
the mother receives checkup for
recovery from childbirth. The third
is given when the baby is 3 months
Old. Three fourths of all the babies
have had the full series, he said.
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MAN IS JAILED ON CAR

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% caliber automatic pistol in q
rear pocket.
Under questioning, Robinson ad-
mitted that he was not the owner
of the car he was driving and said
that ''he had picked it up some.
where on Thomas Street" Police
learned later the car is owned by
Willard E. Grant, of the USS
BatfiSh.
Robinson was taken to the city
jail and booked on charges Of
being in stolen automobile, car.
rying a concealed weapon, reck.
less driving, driving while intoxi-
Gated, causing an accident and
speeding.
Heavy Damage
He is being held in lieu Of $500
bond.
Total damage in the crashes was
estimated by police as two thou.
sand dollars. Damage to Miss
Jets car was set at $3.50, to Kin4
laws vehicle at $3.50 and to
Adams car, $50.
The car stolen from Grant vas
listed as a total loss - $1,000.
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was perfectly willing to take
whatever speech Mr.. Oldham made
carte blanche and broadcast
that speech at a later date. There
was no indication from him that
he intended to edit the speech.
Whatever Mr.. Oldham said on the
tape recording was to be broad
cast at some later date.
Sincerity Questioned
ut leads me to believe that there
was not too much sincerity in the
request for script before per-
hitting a live broadcast, when the
Station was perfectly willing to
broadcast anything that Mr.. Cd
ham said on tape recorder. Fur
thermore, Mr.. Oldham said he
wanted live broadcast as it had
been bought and paid for on that
basis, not something transcribed
that was 48 or IL hours old.
"Mr. Oldham called Mr.. Levin
by telephone and Mr.. Levin met
with Mr.. Oldham about 700 p. m.
Friday night. Mr.. Oldham request
ed Mr.. Levin, in the presence of
several witnesses, to allow him
personally to sign a disclaim or
responsibility release, releasing the
Station from any joint responsible
lily of what he might say over
the air. Mr.. Levin refused, saying
that he had never heard of one of
those things. AS an alternative, Mr..
Oldham offered to mark off Sec
tons of his campaign pamphlet
and adhere strictly to those Sec
tons as a substitute for script
- plus signing a release. Mr.. Lew
in still refused!
GAS a result, many people of
Monroe County who were sitting at
home by their radios were depriv-
ed of hearing the Oldham broad
cast which they were expecting at
500 p. m. Friday night. People
are asking why WKWF reversed
its decision so suddenly.
What pressure was brought by
whom to make Station WKWF
take the inconsistent position it
took in preventing Mr.. Odham's
Speech?"
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People over IS are now about
8 per cent of the U. S. population.
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SENTIMENT CROWS
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t~oA'IAue0 from rage One)
by Judges that have anything to do
with the matters before them"
Mccarthy said in a statement
yesterday ne had agreed with Sen.
Mundt (R-SD), who will preside
over the hearings, that he should
not vote in any question pertaining
to the investigation.
Il shall be witness" he added
land I do wish to cross examine
other witnesses. In all fairness. !
feel this right Of cross examination
should be extended to the Army
officials involved :"
Mecarshy's Reaction
That was his reaction to a Demo
cratic suggestion that he step off
the subcommittee. It was made
Saturday night by a subcommittee
member, Sen. Symington (D-Mo),
who said in a statement that if
Mccarthy wants to appear in the
triple role of accusing witness as
Wen as prosecutor and judge" the
Democrats will carry a fight
against such an arrangement to
the parent government operations
subcommittee.
Mccarthy also heads the full
committee.
Symington said that if McCar-
thy doesn't step aside as a voting
and cross-examining member and
is upheld in this role, he will
attempt to shift the inquiry to the
Senate Armed Services Committee
He is a member OF this group:
Mccarthy is not.
The McCarthy-Army dispute
focuses around Secretary Stevens
assertion that Mccarthy and his
subcommittee chief counsel. Row
M. Cohn, sought favored Army
treatment for Pvt G. David Schine.
Schine was an unpaid consultant
to the committee before being
drafted.
Cohn disputed that. He and Nc
Carthy joined in accusing Stevens
and his aides of trying to BLACK
mail" the subcommittee into drop.
ping its inquiry into alleged com.
munism in the Army by using
Schine as a hostage" Stevens
termed this fantastic"
Important Issue
Taking note of this in his state.
ment about lie detectors, McCar-
thy said the issue is certainly
more important than any murder
case which, as a wisconsin state)
judge, I ever tried"
He added that use of a lie
detector, which records the physi-
cal reaction of a person to ques-
tioning, would be possible only il
all prospective witnesses were
willing. "And I hope they will be-
ne AIDED.
FB1 Director J. Edgar Hoover
has questioned the reliability of
lie detectors, and tests made with
them are not admissible as evil
dence in the courts of any state
unless they were made voluntar-
lily.
Mccarthy has suggested the use
OF lie detectors in other cases, but
no Senate committee has ever
adopted such suggestion.
Mccarthy returned to Washing
ton last night from a four-day
speaking trip in the Midwest. In
Saturday night, he said he thinks
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an ABc Tv program from New
York. said yesterday one-man
congressional inquiries are dan
gerous because lone man becomes
prosecutor, public jury and court
reporter"
Noting that Mccarthy the night
before had referred to him before
an Oklahoma City audience as
your little Lord Faunleroy" and
"waterboy for the left-wingers, "
Monroney said:
Il expect Sen. Mccarthy feels
anybody so old-fashioned as TO
still believe in the Bill of Rights
and the Constitution may be a
Faunueroy, and those still old.
fashioned enough to believe in trial
by jury and presumption of limo
cence may be as dangerously
left-wing as Thomas jefferson and
Abraham Lincoln"
4. Oklahoma Democrats re.
served decision on whether to
demand free radio time to reply
to McCarthy's speech, broadcast
locally. Mccarthy spoke at a $40.
a-plate COP dinner attended BY
approximately 1000 persons.
In that speech, he did not make
use of notes he had prepared in
advance and given to newsmen. In
these notes he said he had been
working for months on an indie
pendent report setting forth 1.-The
aims of the Communist party to
infiltrate and control every media
OF Information such as radio, the
newspapers and teleyision -
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TODAY'S
STOCK MARKET

NEW YORK R-The stock mar.
ket turned mixed today in early
trading after a steady start.
BY far the greatest number OF
price changes either way were in
the minor fractions with 4 few
stocks extending their gains or
losses to around 4 point.
Steels and chemicals were low
er. Aircrafts were higher. Other
major divisions were steady to
mixed.
Trading was fairly brisk at the
opening with a few large blocks
on the tape. REQ motors opened
on LOO shares up 70, American
Radiator 1850 up ", and US.
Steel $500 off ".
Among higher stocks were New
York Central, Pan American World
Always, American Radiator, Gen.
eral Motors, and United Aircraft.
Lower were Southern Pacific,
Homestake Mining, Union Carbide,
and National Distillers.