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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-08
By c. Steed Evons

Nervous anticipation is al
most tangible in the basement
of the National Guard Armory,
where scores Of boys are going
through last-hour inspection for
the 18th annual Washington
Soap Box Derby on Saturday.
The race will be held at Derby
neutrality-suspicious. avenue at
Branch avenue Sc.
Tension is as evident in par
ents as in their sons, some of
whom have, spent months get
ting their cars ready. Among
them is the eventual champion,
and it's clear in talking with the
boys that each feels he's got just
as much chance to be that
champion as the next boy.
Eleven-year-olds running for
the first time are just as much
q threat as veterans making
their last bids. The same applies
to the cars: Surprisingly. little
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-08
; Little Sisters Present
Pony for Prince Charles
By the Associated Press

WINDSOR, England, July g.
Three little sisters who spent two
years training a pony for Prince
Charles formally presented it to
Queen Elizabeth II yesterday.
The pony is named Juniper, a
4-year-old brown gelding with a
white star on it's forehead. It
was the gift of the Dartmoor
Pony Society.
Jennie Bullen, IL, and her sis
tiers, Jane, 6, and Sarah, 8,
daughters of a society official,
kept Juniper around their house
for schooling and as a pet until
he was ready for the 5-year- old
prince.
The presentation was made at
the royal agricultural show in
Windsor Great Park. Jane Bull
len, in jodhpurs, hunting coat
and peaked black riding cap, put
the pony into a canter and over
several jumps.
Then she rode up to the Queen
and asked:
What does your majesty
think?"
Il think it is a lovely pony"
said the Queen. Thank you
and your sisters, and hope you
don't miss him too much"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-08
By Howard 1. Dutkin

The U. S. Court of Appeals for
the District of Columbia today
upheld the dismissal of two
counts in a perjury indictment
against Owen baltimore, former
State Department adviser on Far
East policy, but ordered two other
counts reinStated.
J The counts, dismissal of which
were upheld, charged that Mr..
baltimore lied when he told the
Senate Internal Security sub
committee that he had never
been a sympathizer or any other
kind of promoter of communism
or Communist interests, and in
denying that he or anyone in his
travelling group made prear-
rangements with the Communist
Party before visiting Yenan,
China.
The count referring to Mr..
Lattimore's alleged sympathy
with the Communist Party was
regarded as the most important
count from a prosecution stand
point because of it's subverSive
implications.
The two counts the Appellate
Court ordered returned to the
indictment charge that Mr.. Lat
timore lied when he testified
that he did not know in the late
1930s that "Asiaticus" Ga Ger
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-08
Mugsoysuy Rejects
Russion Survey Plan

MANILA, July 8.-President
Magsaysay today rejected a cab
met recommendation to send a
delegation to Soviet Russia to
survey industrial and agricultural
development.
A spokesman quoted the Presi-
dent as saying Filipinos have
been sent for training to the
United States and other West
ern countries which are far more
advanced than Russia in agri-
culture and industrialization.
There is no need for a tour of
the Soviet Union, he said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-08
Who Killed Peter Rabbit?
I rial in France Neurs CIimux

destroying the rabbit population
of Western Europe.
1t has been more than two
years since the retired doctor
launched the fateful experiment
on his estate in Eure-et-Loire.
An ardent gardener. DR.. Delille
had decided on an About war
on the rabbits that infested his
grounds and each season got
fat on his choicest plants and
shrubs. He had read in a medi-
cal journal of a disease called
myxomatosis which had been
successfully imported to Austria
liza to keep down the swarming
rabbit population there. From q
laboratory in Switzerland, he
bought a small amount of the
virus "for experimental pur-
poses" One morning in May,
(See MOVES. Page A-6.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-08
u. ). Veto 10 Block
Red China at u. n. if
Needed, Dulles Says
Secretary Sees No Issue,
Says Peipine Cont Get
Security Council Seat
By. james E. Roper

Secretary of State Dulles de-
clared today that the United
States can and will use the veto,
If necessary, to bar Communist
China from the United Nations
Security Council.
He predicted, however, that
the Peiping regime could not
win enough votes to be seated in
the Security Council or any other
major organ of U. N.
Mr.. Dulles, discussing the Chi
nese Communist problem at a
news conference, said he was so
confident that the Reds would
not be seated that he did not
care to proceed on the assump-
ton that they will be admitted.
TO do SO, he said, would strike a
note of defeatism.
Denounces Red Record.
Following the theme set by
PRESIDENT Eisenhower yesterday
the Secretary lashed at the Chi
nese Communist record, charg-
ing that in the eyes of the u. N.
1t was worse than even the
Soviet Unions.
He said the Chinese Com
muniSts have interviewed in the
North Korean war, been con-
demned by U. N. as an aggressor
and supported the aggression in
Indo-China. The Peiping regime
clearly is not qualified to be
seated in the U. NJ, he declared.
Mr.. Dulles, who was a dele
gate to the San Francisco session
that wrote the U. N. Charter in
1945, recalled a debate at that
time over whether U. N. should
include all nations-good, bad
or Indifferent or select only
those nations that were peace
loving and willing to abide by
the principles of the Charter.
This thesis of selectivity, he said,
finally was adopted. The U. N,
Secretary Dulles continued, was
not set up as reformatory. The
members were good before they
got in.
Although the question of seat
ing the Chinese Communists in
the Security Council would arise
as a dispute over credentials
rather than the admission of a
new member, Mr.. Dulles said the
(See MEMBERSHIP, Pig. ABB
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-08

Remedies for Hard Coal Woes
Are Many; Real Cure Elusive
Higher Output, Use Of Machines, Wider
Markets Among Tonies Prescribed

One thing is clear: The fate Of
anthracite depends to a great
extent on the 10000 miners who
are left from a working force
that once topped 10000. To al
most everybody, at least. except
the miners themselves, it is clear
that they must expand produc-
ton so lower operating costs can
give the industry a fighting
chance to meet competition.
It Is clear, for instance. to
John L. Lewis. Last fall, Mr..
Lewis made q little-publicized
speech at the 50th anniversary
celebration of the Anthracite
Board of Conciliation--which for
the most part has functioned
efficiently in settling labor-man-
agement disputes.
Plea for Production.
With hard coal production
running less than three tons
a day a man. as compared with
better than seven in the bitum-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-08
By Crosby S. Moves
FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT of The S.cr

PARIS-This week, in the little
town of Dreux. near here, one of
the strangest trials in legal his
tory will approach its climax.
The legal contest which all
France watches with interest in
wolves a claim for damages of one
franc (about a quarter of a cent?
The defendant is 80-year-old DR..
Paul-Armand Delille. member of
the Academy of Medicine. The
compliments: An outfit called
1.-The Defense Association Against
MyxomatoSis."
The complaint itself is unique
so much so it has achieved
publicity in the Readers Di-
gest." Quite simply. DR.. Delille
is accused of single-handedly
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-08
Prices Breuk ShurpIy
AS Hogs Flood Market
BY the Associated Press

CHICAGO. July 8.-Producers
unloaded the largest number of
hogs on the livestock market
today since January Z and prices
broke sharply. butchers dropping
IS cents to 81 and sows so cents
to 81 or more.
Salable receipts at $4,000
agehead were $500 above the
advance estimate. Most 180-to-
230-pound butchers fell to $3.50
to $24.50. Butchers scaling $40
to 270 pounds moved at Salts
to $23.25. Choice light weight
sows moved at $3.50 to $40.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-08
Brusque U. 5. Note
Demands Czech Reds
Release 7 Soldiers
Kidnapping Is Charged,
But Prague Radio Says
Those Seized Ave Spies
By the Associated Press

The United States has served
Red Czechoslovakia with a
brusque demand for the "immed-
late return" of seven United
States soldiers who this Govern
ment charges were kidnapped last
Sunday.
The State Department dis
closed last night that an excep-
tionally stiff note was delivered
to the Czech Foreign Office in
Prague yesterday afternoon.
That note dismissed as I'M
founded Czech claims that the
seven-a captain and six enlist
ed men-were spying when they
were seized by a Czech border
patrol near the West German
town of Baernau.
But a few hours after the
United States note was handed
to Czech diplomatic officials, the
Communist satellite government
repeated it's espionage charge in
a Prague radio broadcast heard
in Vienna.
May Have Crossed Border.
The United States note, pro-
testing ''in the strongest terms
this abduction of American SOL
diers," said the Americans were
proceeding innocently without
arms along the (Czech-G Germany
border /. when they were seized
by a Czech patrol"
American Army spokesman in
Germany have said the soldiers
who have not been publicly iden-
titled pending notification of kin
were on leave and may have
crossed the Czech border by mis-
take while on a sightseeing trip.
However, the Czech reply note
to the United States as read over
the Prague radio insisted that
their confession and behavior
confirm the group entered Czech
territory to conduct an espionage
mission"
Films Prove Case, Reds Say.
The Czech note said further
the soldiers confessed that they
entered Czech territory by illegal
means and that films found on
them revealed that they had
photographed objects on Czech
oslovak soil.
The Prague broadcast said the
ADMINISTRATION it identified
only as belonging to the 816th
Field Artillery Battalion-were
arrested July 4 near the town of
achov after trying to elude the
border guards.
The Czech note lodged a pro-
test against what it called viola
ton of Czechoslovakia's sover-
eighty.
West German police have said
the Czechs tried to trade the
captured Americans for three
CZechoslovak political refugees
who escaped to the west recent
ly. The Germans said they re-
jected the offer.
State Department press officer
Henry Suydam would not say
what this country was planning
to do, should the Czech Govern
ment refuse to return the Ameri-
cans.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-08
102d Year. No. 189.
CIV Rules Out
All Race Bans
For Next Term
President Marvin
Outlines Plan to
Admit Negroes

George Washington University
today announced it was dropping
all race bans and opening it's
doors to colored students.
In a letter to deans and direc-
tors of departments, DR.. Cloyd
Heck Marvin, university presi-
dent, said:
"As you are aware, 1t has been
the concern of our membership
as to the steps it would be best
to take in order to establish the
Negroes place in the academic
communities of this city. The
matter as it appertains to our
university was discussed at
meeting of the tenure members
of the faculty on Wednesday,
June 80. and referred to appro-
pirate committees of the univer-
sity for consideration. The final
action was taken this morning
and the following statement an
nounces the policy of the uni
verSity:
In accordance with the
George Washington University's
long-established policy of seek
ing to meet the changing needs
OF the American community, it
accepts as students. without re-
gard to race. all who are able to
profit by the educational service
1t extends, as made manifest by
their meeting its admission re-
quirements and maintaining it's
standards of scholarship"
Follows Area Pattern.
The action by GNU means
that all major colleges and uni
versities in the Washington area
have dropped race bans. The
University of Maryland recently
announced it would accept col
ored students who live in Mary
land.
Georgetown University. Cath
Ole University and American
University have long been ac-
cepting colored students. Both
Miner Teachers College and Will
son Teachers College. operated
by the District Board of Educa-
ton, will abandon racial segre-
cation because of the Supreme
Court ruling and probably will
be merged into one institution.
Howard University always has
been open to all races although
most students were colored.
Fall Session Affected.
Although the memorandum
from DR.. Marvin to his deans
and department heads carried
no time element, school spokes-
men said the first opportunity
for colored students to enroll
would be during the September
% and "a registration for the
fall term.
GNU recently has been &C
cepting colored students in its
College of General Studies and
in it's Graduate Council. The
postgraduate programs of the
university medical school also
have been open to colored stu
dents.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-08
200 British Porotroopers
Hit Reds in MoIoyo
By ihe Assoeioted Pres,

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaga,
July 1.-Two hundred British
paratroopers were dropped east
Of Ipoh, Malaya's chief tin-min-
ing center, today in a drive
against Chinese Communist ter
rorist gangs operating in that
area.
1t was the biggest air opera
ton of the six-year Malayan
war against the Red guerrillaS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-08
PostalPayBoost
OF 5Pct. Urged
10 End Logjan1
House Group Action
Aimed to Clear Way
For Other Workers
By Joseph Young

The House Civil Service Com
mittee today drafted a compro-
mise 5 per cent postal pay raise
bill designed to break the log
jam on Federal pay legislation,
Chairman Rees of the commit
tee. who sponsored the compro-
mise said the group would vote
on the bill tomorrow. He pre-
dicted it would be approved.
Mr.. Rees said he hoped that
accord on the postal pay legis-
lation would speed action on pay
raises for classified workers.
Fringe Benefits Included.
The compromise bill would
give postal workers the 5 per
cent raise, plus fringe benefits
such as cash uniform allow
ances and longevity boosts.
The compromise would solve
the heated battle between the
postal employe unions and Post
master General Summerfield
over the latterS postal reclassi-
flcation authority request in the
following way:
The Postmaster General would
submit a Redistribution sched-
ule for the 100000 postal Jobs
to Congress next year in the
form of a Presidential reorgan-
lzation plan. The plan would
become law within so days un-
less either the House or Senate
rejected it by a Constitutional
majority.
EmplOye Leaders Opposed.
Postal employee leaders TODAY
were quick to .denounce the COM
promise plan, declaring it never
would be acceptable to them in
its present form.
The House Civil Service Com
mittee last month approved a 7
per cent postal pay raise bill
without Redistribution, but this
measure thus far has been held
up in the House Rules Committee
Classified Pay Raise.
Meanwhile the House Civil
Service Committee yesterday
agreed informally to hold up a
vote on the classified pay raise
legislation for q few days until
the outcome of postal pay is de-
termined.
The group has tentatively
agreed to separate the Written
rider from the bill and consider
it separately. Also the fringe
benefits provisions may be con-
sidered separately.
Representative Gubser, Re-
publican, of California urged
prompt action on classified pay.
ut is inconceivable and grossly
unfair that over / million CLASH
fed employees must await the
outcome of stubborn impasse
irrelevant to their own pay prob
lens and not caused by them"
he told his committee colleagues.
Representative Broyhill, Re-
publican. of Virginia urged a
compromise on the postal pay
issue, so that both classified and
postal workers can get a pay
raise this year.
The committee tentatively ap-
proved a provision providing for
longevity increases for employees
in grade II through 10. At
present only employees in grades
10 and below are eligible for
longevity pay boosts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-08
Heavy Loud for Robbers

CHICAGO, July 8 (P.-It was
a heavy load of currency rob-
bers, hauled away from the
United Beverage Corps plant.
Police reported they used acety-
lene torches to burn open three
safes and take $4,000. Com
pany officials said $1,000 was in
nickels, dimes and quarters.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-08
Ammunition Seized

MEXICO CITY, July 8 (P),-
Army troops seized two million
cartridges from the home of a
member of the Federal Police
and took them to the national
arsenal yesterday. officials re-
fused to discuss the seizure, but
said no arrests had been made.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-08
Senator'S Wife
Avoids Politics

NEW SENATE WiFE-Ms. Som
Reynolds, wife Of the Senator OPP
pointed to toxic the place of the Iote
Senator Butler Of Nebrosko, runs
the fomiIy and let's her husbond tend
to the politics. See Poee 81.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-08

after dawn and was greeted by
members of his own conference
delegation, that of Communist
China and a large detachment
of security police and Swiss
troops.
He went Immediately to his
headquarters villa.
The Russian was the first of
the major diplomats to return
to the parley which they left
two and half weeks ago after
it settled down to negotiations
between military representatives
on details of cease-f1re.
Others Also Expected.
Other key figures also were
expected to return soon.
French Premier Pierre Mendes-
France, who is acting as his
country's Foreign Minister, an
nounced in the National As
sembly yesterday he would go to
Geneva soon to take personal
charge of the French delegation.
British Foreign Secretary An
thony Eden also is expected back
in Geneva early next week and
Communist China's Premier
Foreign Minister Chou En-lai
likewise is expected to come back.
There has been no indication
here, however, whether United
States Secretary of State Dulles
or Undersecretary of State Wal
ter Bedell Smith will return.
Rival Commands Meet.
In the absence of the top
diplomats conference activity has
been confined chiefly to negotia-
tons between representatives of
the rival military commands in
Indo-China.
The busiest of these is made
up of French. Wet Namese and
Wet Mimi officers and is con-
cerned with arrangements for
regrouping Of troops if a truce
is arranged for Wet Nam, the
chief battle-ground of the Indo-
China war.
Another commission for Laos,
made up of French. Laotians
and Wet Mimi, also has been
meeting. The third military
group, for Cambodia, held its
first session yesterday and
planned another meeting today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-08


squeeze between high production
costs, on the one hand. and the
toughest sort of competition
from oil and natural gas on the
other, the industry has been in
a downspin for years. Now, the
cry that something must be done
comes from many quarters.
The big question is-what? On
the answers being sought may
depend not only the future of the
hard coal industry-but also,
conceivably, the welfare Of this
Nation, should war come and
every ounce of fuel once again
be precious.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-08
The Dying Industry
By Joseph A. Fox
Star Stoff Correspondent

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. = The
troubles of anthracite are a lot
like the common cold: Every
body has a remedy, but a real
cure is elusive.
Caught in an ever-tightening
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-08
Reds Order School Uniforms

MOSCOW. July 8 (P.-The
Soviet Ministry of Trade an
nounces school children in Mos
COW and Leningrad are going
into school uniform. Other cities
probably will follow suit.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-08
Pictures on Pose "A.

Pictures on Poee a..
Holtzoff of the U. S. District
Court for the District of Column
bia termed their crime 80 hei-
nous, so infamous, so daring and
so atrocious as to shock the
conscience of the Nation"
Mrs. Lolita Lebron, 81, self
styled leader of the group which
fired from the House gallery
and wounded five Representa-
tives. received the lightest sem
tence-16 years and months to
SO years.
rs to IS Years for Men.
Her male companions, Rafael
Concel Miranda, 80. Irving
Flores Rodriguez. 81. and An
dres Figueroa Cordero. IS, were
sentenced to serve from Is to
IS years each.
Mrs. Lebron was found guilty
of five counts of assault with
a dangerous weapon. but cleared
of five counts of assault with
intent to kill. The men were
convicted on all 10 counts.
Mrs. Lebron told the judge
that she took part in the shoot
ing "for the freedom of my
country"
Did II for Great Ideal.
Speaking emotionally, and in
words at times barely audible,
she declared:
1--WE are not free. I did it for
a great ideal. Peace is what /
wish the world. I have God with
me. ] love you. I love the world.
and I love God"
Judge Holtzoff ruled that sem
fences of 3 years and 4 months
to 10 years on each count against
Mrs. Lebron should run con-
secutively. The same was true
for the men on the more seri-
Gus charge of assault with in
tent to kill, which carries q
sentence of to is years on
each count.
Rover Recommended Sentence.
Judge Holtzoff took the I'M
usual step by asking United
States Attorney Leo A. Rover
for q recommendation in con-
nection with the sentence. Mr..
Rover recommended the maxi
mum sentence.
IF this country is to survive,
our national legislators should be
safe in carrying out their duties"
Mr.. Rover said. There never
was a crime as heinous as this"
Before the sentencing, the
quartet's court-appointed at
torney, F.. Joseph Donohue, told
Judge Holtzoff that his clients
still believe that the shooting
was patriotic act.
Each of the four also renewed
their protest they they merely
staged a demonstration in be-
half Of Puerto Rican indepen-
dence and did not intend to kill
anyone.
Judge Hits Ruthless Attack.
Judge Holtzoff, however, called
the pistol attack "dastardly.
wicked and ruthless" He said
that except for the skillful work
OF surgeons, the four would have
been before him to hear death
sentences, instead of sentences Of
lesser charges.
The three men also were sem
fenced the maximum on the less
er charge of assault with a
deadly weapon. but those sem
fences will run concurrently with
the heavier terms. Judge Holt
zoff pointed out last week that
the two charges involved the
same crime.
Testimony was heard during
the dramatic two-week trial
from the four defendants and
from the five wounded Repre-
sentatives-Davis, Democrat of
Tennessee: Bentley, Republican,
of Michigan; Fallon, Democrat,
OF Maryland; Jensen. Republic
can, of Iowa, and Roberts, Demo-
crat, of Alabama.
Ben Paul Noble, another court
appointed attorney for the
Puerto Ricans, said an appeal
will be filed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-08

This is the second in series Of three
articles on the crisis in the hord-
coal industry.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-08
Terrorists Get
Heavy Terms in
Shooting
HoItzoff Orders
Maximum Sentences
For a Puerto Ricuns

Four Puerto Rican terrorists.
still protesting that the shoot
ing they staged in the House on
March / was political demon
stration, today were sentenced
to prison for the longest terms
possible under the charges on
which they were convicted.
In sentencing the woman and
three men. Judge Alexander
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-08
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