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Evening star., 1954-06-08
238 East German Youths
Want Easier Life Of West
BY the Associoied Press

BERLIN, June 8.-City Off
cials said today 238 young blue
shirts from East Germany
Sneaked across the East-West
border over the week end and
asked for political asylum in
West Berlin.
The youths-180 boys and So
girls-were attending a giant
three day Communist youth rally
in East Berlin.
City officials said since most
Of the youths were not seeking
asylum because of political mo-
tives they would be advised to
return home.
Evening star., 1954-06-08
Trailer Truck Blows Up;
Blasts Heard for Miles
BY the Associated Press

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, June
ga trailer truck loaded with
$4,000 pounds of naval detonator
fuses caught fire and blew up at
a service station near here early
today. The explosions, of which
there were hundreds, were heard
miles away.
Heavy blasts continued for
three hours after the midnight
fire and sounded like a full-scale
military barrage.
No one was reported injured,
although a crowd estimated at
1900 Swarmed to the vicinity,
which was continually Showered
with metal pieces from the fuses
The truck driver, william Lay
ton. %, of Richmond. KY, said
the load was being moved from
the naval ammunition depot at
Macon, Ga, to the naval depot
at Richmond. He said flames
suddenly enveloped the vehicle
after several gallons of gasoline
were pumped into the truck.
The service station was dam
aged heavily as were parked
vehicles in the area and other
buildings.
Evening star., 1954-06-08
Guatemala Suspends
Constitution Rights
For Next 30 Days
Action Follows Tension
Over U. S. Objection
To Arms Shipment
BY the Associated Press

TEMALA, June g.
Guatemala's Communist-backed
government ordered a 30-day
suspension of constitutional guar
antees today.
The action was taken at an
extraordinary session of Presi-
dent Jacobo Arbenz Guzman'S
cabinet.
It followed three weeks of ris-
ing tension following United
States objections to the delivery
of a large shipment of arms from
Communist Poland to the Central
American country.
Dispatches Censored.
Censorship was clamped on
press dispatches.
Among the civil rights sus-
pended was the constitutional
article establishing freedom of
expression and the press.
The cabinet said it was impos-
ing the suspension in view of the
current situation" A week ago
President Arbenz charged a we'll
financed plot of serious propor-
tions" had been uncovered
against his government.
New fears of trouble were
aroused last night when a two
engine mystery plane showered
anti Communist leaflets over a
town in Western Guatemala and
also flew over the capital.
Another such plane-or the
same one-dropped leaflets on
the capital May 26 and dived
on the city several times before
it disappeared.
A few minutes after the air
craft appeared. last night, a
Guatemalan air force plane was
sighted over the capital, appar-
emily in pursuit.
Warns OF Mortal Danger.
The leaflets, dropped over the
town of Quezaltenango, said
"our country is in mortal dan
ger" and pointed out dangers
and disadvantages of close ties
with Russia.
"Our country will be lost un-
less we save it now that there
is time" the leaflets added.
After the previous plane in
cident, Foreign Minister Gull
lermo Toriello said he thought
the aircraft came from a nearby
nation but that he planned no
protest because he was mot GER
tain it came from Honduras,
Nicaragua or some other coun-
! trV "
Evening star., 1954-06-08
What's Wrong With Our Schools?
What's Wrong With Our Schools?
Speedier Reading Suspected
Of Sacrificing Spelling Skill
Teachers Deny Having Given Up Phonics,
Soy Sight Method Moy Have Gone Too Far

pupils in the multiplication
tables. The youngsters can't do
even the simplest arithmetic"
There is some evidence to sup
port these statements.
There is also some evidence
that the schools-and the pupils
are doing better than they did.
Evidence Elusive.
Definite evidence on one side
or the other is hard to find.
The research division of the
National Education Association
searched for it and then, in
April, 1850. got out a publica-
ton, THE Three RS Hold Their
Own in Midcentury"
It's restrained conclusion was
that there was partial evidence
that in general present-day
pupils are holding their own in
the basic Skills." It also noted a
general impression from the
study that "preSent-day pupils
for the most part equal, and
often excel, the achievements of
pupils in similar grades in the
past"
The English language being
what it is. spelling has plagued
the users of it ever since DR..
Samuel Johnston published his
dictionary in England and Noah
Webster produced the first one
here. After those books came
out, If spelling differed from the
standards set by Johnston or
Webster, it was wrong.
There have been some notable
men who were notably poor
spoilers.
When the first volume of Theo-
dore Roosevelt's letters was pub
lished. the editors said the former
Presidents handwritten letters
were printed without indication
of "his frequent and startling
departures from the norm ac-
cepted usage in spelling"
Revealing Letters.
Roosevelt was a graduate of
Harvard and wrote numerous
books. Paging through the first
volume of his letters you will find
he had a cosy" room at college.
His don't" was don't" and he
used throw" for through" Even
in 1892. when he was a member
of the Civil Service Commission
in Washington, he had trouble
with the apostrophe in "itS." He
wrote of the Washington social
SeaSon-if there was one in
Washington-as being "at it's
height"
There appear to be wide vari-
Evening star., 1954-06-08
Join the Ranks
Summer Comp Fund
Contributors Listed

Washington area residents so
far have contributed $2,191 to
underwrite vacations at camp
this summer for children whose
families couldn't afford the ex-
penSe.
Still more money is needed if
all the children for whom the
Summer Outings Committee
camps have space are to get va
cations.
Send a check to The Evening
Star Summer Camp Fund, or
bring cash, to The Star Build
ing. It costs $35.72 to send each
child to camp for IL days.
The Star today acknowledges
the following contributions:
Evening star., 1954-06-08
U.S.. Urged to Ask All Nations
Demonstration of H-Bonb
Murroy of Acc Would Show World
Horrors of War to Promote Peace

ing destructiveness. I feel sure
such a special demonstration
could be arranged without dam
age to security.
1T would make the political
leaders and the people Of the
world realize what the word
war means in terms of the
1854 models of atomic weapons"
Mr.. Murray said the apprecia-
ton of common danger is the
necessary condition of any fruit
full negotiations between the
Western world and Russia. He
added:
Behind the chronic intran-
sigeance there has recently been
some slight suggestion that the
Soviet mind is at last beginning
to catch a glimpse Of the COM
mon peril that turks in mans
possession of the ultimate weap-
ons of universal destruction"
He said in the United States,
publicity on the hydrogen bomb
has caused more and more peo-
pie to realize every possible ef-
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Evening star., 1954-06-08
U. 5. Orders Gruen 10 Halt
Work on Weapons Fuses
BY the Assoeioted Press

CINCINNATI, June 8.-Work
on $40 million worth Of defense
weapons fuses was ordered
stopped by the Government to-
day at the Gruen Watch Co.,
President Morris Edwards an
nounced.
He said he understood a half
dozen other companies over the
country had received similar or
derS.
Cancellation will mean Sub
stantial layoffs" at Gruen, Mr..
Edwards said. Gruen has pro-
duced fuses for the last two
years.
In Rochester, N. Y, the East
man Kodak Co. announced that
several hundred" employees in
its camera works would be laid
OF as Q result of a similar con-
tract cancellation. The company
would not disclose the value of
its fuse contract.
Evening star., 1954-06-08
Star Will Help You
In Writing Your Ad

An experienced and reody hond wos
given Mr.. B. N. B. on placing an od
in Stor Classified. He wonted to sell
q trailer. Due to the courteous otten-
tion given him by Stor od-toker.
who Fe-wrote his I'd, he sold the
troiler more quickly.
II you hove something to buy. trode
or sell, tell the long established ou-
dienee Of Stor reoders obout it. To
tell it more effectively. let Stor
od-toker assist you.
The Stor publishes more classified
ods thon the other Washington news
papers combined because il produces
the best results.
It's cosy to pIoce on I'D in Stor
Classified. Just phone Sterling 5000
and ask for on od-teker.
Evening star., 1954-06-08
Halls of Ivy
Busy This Week

NEW notwithstanding
colleges and universities ore stosins
their big, traditional commencement
exercises this week. See pose AZ
for the nomes OF CothoIie University
sroduotes, pose At for owords ot
George Washington and pose AS
for an account Of 6eoreetown's srod-
uotion yesterday.
DlSTAFF GAVEL- -PoUNDER-Ths
first woman to be elected president Of
the Federation Of Citizens Assoeio-
tions sees no reason why she should
obdicote her home duties in foee Of
her new responsibility. Why she thinks
so is explained on pose B-4 BY Sto'
Stuff Writer Ruth Dean. d.
Evening star., 1954-06-08
D. T.. Heads 10 Hear
Views on Change in
Housing Inspection
Conference Set Today
Over CentroIizine Of
Functions in One Unit
By Miriom Ottenberq

The Commissioners today
agreed to hear spokesmen for or
ganizations which have asked to
be heard on centralizing all
housing inspection and enforce
ment. They invited these spokes-
men to a District Building con-
ference this afternoon.
The Commissioners had planned
to act on the controversial hous-
ing consolidation plan at this
mornings board meeting, but de-
cided to postpone action until
they have heard what the organ
izations have to say about it.
Requests to be heard came
from the Washington Federation
of Churches, the Federation of
Citizens Associations and the
Washington Housing Association
Commissioner Samuel Spencer
told his fellow Commissioners
he thought the people should be
heard. but that it had to be
done in a hurry. He explained
that any personnel changes in
volved in unifying the city's ap-
proach to housing inspection
would have to be considered in
the pending budget and that
budget comes up for considera-
tion before a Senate Appropria-
tionS subcommittee next week.
Council Backs Status Quo.
The Commissioners have be-
fore them Engineer Commits
sioner Louis w. PrentiSs' plan
to put all housing inspection
and enforcement in the Depart
ment Of Licenses and Inspection.
This would relieve the Health
Department of it's present role
in housing inspection and the
Health Department is fighting
the change.
The Citizens Advisory Coun-
Gil was asked for it's recon-
mendation, held a special meet
ing yesterday and recommended
keeping things as they are. but
with the tenement regulations
and proposed housing code re-
viSed for a more realistic ap-
proach to housing problems.
General Administration Di-
rector Schuyler Lowe, in urging
prompt action by the Commits
SionerS because of the budget
problem, pointed out that the
various viewpoints had been eV-
pressed at the council meeting
yesterday and that the Com
missioners had also gone over
the whole question last year
EYES," retorted Commissioner
Renah F. Camalier. who has
| jurisdiction over the Health
Department. "but we voted it
down."
Commissioner Camalier then
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witness yesterday that the
Commissioners had seen the
error of their ways"
81 Don't Admit an Error"
II don't want anybody to tell
me I committed an error" Com
missioner Camalier went on. II
don't admit an error. I might
reverse myself but I'm not 60
ing to be told I made an error" "
Commissioner Spencer COM
mented that II tried to vote
right last year and I'll try to
vote right this year."
The issue last year was on put
ting all Health Department in
spection, including food. milk,
slaughterhouses, as well as hous-
ing, into the Department of Lii
censes and Inspection. The new
(See .SI,CMS. Page A-4)
Evening star., 1954-06-08
White PTAs Invite
Negro Parents 10
Joint Organization
Board Indorses Plans
Of Corning to Start
Inteqrution in Fall

The District Congress of Par
ents and Teachers announced
today Negro parents will be ad-
mitted to the white organiza-
ton of they apply.
The Board of Managers of the
PTA group also indorsed plans
of School Supt. Hobart M. Cor
ming for beginning integration of
the Washington public school
system next fall.
Both actions were taken unan-
imously at a meeting of the
PTA board this morning.
Shortly afterward the board
voted unanimously to resign
from the Federation of Citizens
Associations, which bars Negroes.
Parents were advised to continue
membership in individual citi-
zen associations, however.
IntegratiOn Start Slated.
Today's action by the PTA
congress, which includes PTAs
in IS white Washington public
schools, was taken because the
District school system is ex-
pected to begin desegregation
next fall.
Under the policy, all-colored
PTAs will be eligible to Join as
well as biracial groups. spokcs-
man said. 1t was not known i'm
mediately what effect this will
have on the separate Negro
PTA organization, the Washing
ton Congress of Parent Teacher
Associations. It was reported
that the colored organization in
tends to continue however.
The white congress actually
has never had ban on Negroes.
The National Conference of Par
ents and Teachers, to which
the District congress belongs.
includes both white and colored
units. The lack of any race har
here was not widely known, how
ever.
Letter Sent to Board.
I The 81 board members present
also approved the following let
ter to the Board Of Education:
THE Board of Managers of the
District Congress of Parents and
Teachers is appreciative of the
courage and determination with
which the Board of Education
andth superintendent have ap-
preached their historic task of
effecting an orderly integration
of the schools.
"AS parents whose good will
and cooperation will be helpful
in carrying out the boards deei-
sions. we strongly urge that the
welfare Of the children for whom
(See PTA. Page A-5)
Evening star., 1954-06-08
South Korean, Held
In Shooting, Freed
To Sit in Assembly
By the Associoted Press

SEOUL. June "a South Ko-
rean national Assemblyman ac-
cused of attempted murder was
released from prison today so
he can sit in the new Assembly
which opens tomorrow.
The Seoul district judge ruled
the prosecution can investigate
police accusations against Kim
To Han, an independent Assem-
blyman, without his detention.
Kim, SO, is accused of at
tempting murder when he fired
a pistol in a quarrel with a busi-
ness rival.
Evening star., 1954-06-08
High-Speed Chase
Ends in Crash KiI|inu
Three Near La Plata
Cor Rums Into Truck
And BuIIdozer at
100 Miles on Hour

Hurting along at 100 miles
an hour. a car pursued by po-
lice crashed into a Maryland
State Roads Commission truck
and a 19-ton bulldozer today,
killing all three of the cars
riders almost instantly.
Victims of the accident IN
front Of the White Elephant
restaurant two miles south of
La Plata on Route 301 were:
James johnson, about Is;
Raymond Nixon. "a. and Daisy
Othello, about Is, all colored,
and all Of Brooklyn, N. Y.
Russell Moreland, 48, driver
of the truck. and his helper,
Robert Radcliff. "a, both Of La
Plata, escaped with cuts and
bruises and received first aid.
Forced Driver OFF Road.
Maryland State police began
chasing the speeding car north
of Waldorf when a motorist re-
ported it had forced him off the
road. Police radioed ahead for
road blocks as the car roared
south along the straight road.
The sedan had a big start on
the police. who were never able
to move within a mile or two.
Near Waldorf the car smashed
through a construction barrier
and sped on.
Just before the final crash the
car tried to pass another and
the drivUr could not avoid the
heavy construction vehicles. The
car struck with such force that
it was torn into chunks" wit
ness said, while the truck cab
was turned upside down and
spun around facing the bull
doZer.
Bursts Into Flames.
The car burst into flames. One
witness said 1t was squashed into
a mass of wreckage only too
feet high. Police said they had
no idea why the car was travel
ing so fast.
It was the third multiple-death
car accident in Southern Mary
land in two days. bringing the
toll for the period to Is deaths.
Ten died early yesterday in a
two-car collision on Route 416,
the worst passenger car wreck in
Maryland history.
Evening star., 1954-06-08
Cohn Reports Friday
To Zwicker's Post for
Duty as Guordsmun

Roy M. Cohn will report
for National Guard duty on
Friday, his boss, Senator Nc
Carthy, revealed today.
"Mr. Cohn has been called
into service Friday" Senator
Mccarthy told the Senate
hearing. "He has been or
dered to report to Gen.
Zwicker'S command. He will
go down there and get some
of that preferential treat
ment' from Zwicker."
The reference was to the
fact that Mr.. Cohn will get
his Guard training at Camp
Kilmer, N. j.. where Maj.
Gen. Ralph w. Zwicker is in
command.
Evening star., 1954-06-08
Leave Flights for els
From Koreu Slushed
BY the Assoeioted Press

TOKYO. June 8.-The Far
East command today said rest
and recuperation leave flights
from South Korea would be cut
so per cent beginning today. in
dicating stepped-up airlift activ-
ity to Indo-China.
The command said the cut
would be from 500 to about 200
men.
Evening star., 1954-06-08

WINNIPEG, Manitoba, June 8
R. - Flames whipped by high
winds destroyed three large
Office buildings and a dozen busi-
ness establishments today on
downtown Portage avenue
Canada's widest main street.
Damage was estimated at around
50 million.
Evening star., 1954-06-08
British Youth Fly to Chino

TOKYO. June 8 (P.-Peiping
Radio said IL British youth
delegates arrived in the Red
China capital by plane yester-
day. The broadcast, heard in
Tokyo. said the delegation came
at the invitation of the All
China Federation Of Democratic
Youth.
Evening star., 1954-06-08
Mcclellan Saws
.Cohn 'Softens'
Difference of Views,
Not Red CoddIine, Is
Issue, Witness Holds
BY jones Y. Newton and
John A. Giles

Roy M. Cohn told Senate in
vestigators of the Army -McCar.
thy row today that he and Sem
ator Mccarthy do not accuse
Army Secretary Stevens OF cod
ding Communists"
The young subcommittee
counsel was charged in turn Of
"softening considerably" the
charges against the Army.
Senator Mcclellan, Democrat.
of Arkansas made the accusa-
The Stor, in cooperation with WMAl.
TV, will continue television eoverose
Of the Army Nc Corthy hearings this
week. As previously. eoeh doy's en-
tire proceedings will be presented
beginning at 10 am.
ton against Mr.. Cohn as hear
ingS before the Senate Investi-
cations subcommittee on the dis
pute went into the 29th day.
Both Republicans and Democrats
again expressed a desire to
shorten the hearings but found
no ready answer.
Mr.. Cohn, who has stepped
Jo1x,y, for tho y,ao,,oa,,t &C r0,,,aco1
of the Investigations subcommit-
tee, resumed the witness stand
after a lapse of several days and
Immediately ran into a barrage
of questions from Senator Nc
Clellan on almost everyone Of
the two-score charges made by
Senator Mccarthy and aides
against Secretary Stevens and
other Army officials.
Mcclellan Questions Delay.
The charges accused the Army
officials of using "blackmail" in
an effort to force Senator Nc
Carthy's subcommittee to drop
an investigation of alleged Com
munist infiltration of the Army.
Senator Mcclellan said that If
the Mccarthy charges against
the Army were as serious as they
appeared to be they should have
been made public last fall in
stead of in March after the Army
Evening star., 1954-06-08
Stocks Drop ST to 81,
Then Steady Near Lows
BY the Associoted Press

NEW YORK, June ga wave
of selling swept through the
stock market today and knocked
down prices of many issues 81
to 81 share.
When the reaction spent it
self, prices steadied a shade
above their lowest levels and
trading turned quiet. Hardest
hit were the steels, railroads,
aircrafts and oils. All divisions
suffered.
Evening star., 1954-06-08

to the Communists professed
desire for peace.
Mr.. Dulles said it looks as if
the Geneva negotiations on both
1ndo-China and Korea will come
to a head in the near future.
Because of this, he said. he is
delaying for a few hours his
scheduled departure on a West
ern speaking tour tomorrow. and
is setting up special communica-
tionS to keep in touch with
Geneva developments while he is
away from Washington.
Talks Dragged Out.
Mr.. Dulles said the primary
responsibility for deciding when
the Indo- Chinese negotiations
have run their course lies with
France and Wet Nam. He added,
however, that the Red delega-
ton at Geneva is dragging out
the talks while the Communist
military effort has been intensi-
fed in Indo-China.
This indicated that Mr.. Dulles
expected Geneva to fail to pro-
duce a satisfactory peace for
1ndo- China. But he insisted that
the United States has no inten-
ton of dealing with the Indo-
Chinese situation unilaterally-
certainly not unless the whole
picture changes such as through
the resumption of open Chinese
Communist aggression in Indo-
China or any other area of the
Far East.
Secretary Dulles was asked to
give what he thought was the
best way to meet the situation.
He replied that President
Eisenhower and he had suggested
united action by the allies. That
suggestion, he said, was not
adopted.
U. S. Position Unchanged.
He said the position of the
United States, however, is still
the same, subject to the posi-
bility that at some time it may
be no longer practical.
He said the objective Of united
action would be to retain in
friendly hands as much Of the
Southeast Asia peninsula and
island area as practical.
What was practical year ago
he added, might not necessarily
be practical today. He said he
was afraid the situation has de-
Perforated.
This was a broad hint that
all of Indo-China cannot be
saved now. There has been
speculation that the West will
have to agree to what amounts
to a partition of Indo- China.
Secretary Dulles said the ad-
ministration has no present
plans for going to Congress for
authority to intervene in South
east Asia.
The general scheme, he said,
If it we're implemented, would
require congressional action but
there is not sufficient general
acceptance of the united action
plan to make it a matter OF
practical politics to go to Con-
greSS.
Secretary Dulles said, however
that since his negotiation for q
united front had started, the
United Nations Security Coun.
Gil had placed the Indo- China
problem on its agenda and there
had been Qualification of the
status of the independence Of
the three associated states o1
(See DULLES, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1954-06-08

released it's charges against the
Wisconsin Senator and his COM
mittee aides. He added that il
the accusations were true steps
should have been taken immedi-
ately to remove Secretary Ste
(See HEARING, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1954-06-08


ercises of Catholic University, he
said such a demonstration would
convince the world of the hor-
rors of a modern atomic war.
He explained:
LET the people of the world,
especially their leaders. witness
a special atomic demonstration
witness modern war in a cap
sule-in an explosion of a large
scale hydrogen bomb.
Let them thus experience in
a way that will leave them un-
damaged, save in their illusions,
what modern war really means
in all it's horror, in all its shock
Evening star., 1954-06-08
Dulles Predicts
Quick Decision
On Indo-Chiina
Arronees Contoct
With Geneva While
On Western Tour

Secretary of State Dulles to-
day predicted a quick decision
in the Indo-China peace nego-
tiations at Geneva, although, he
said, the Communist delegation
there is dragging it's feet while
Red armies in Wet Nam inten-
Sify their war.
This situation, Mr.. Dulles told
q news conference, gives the lie
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FolIing Morale Of vietnomese Couses
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Evening star., 1954-06-08

Thomas E. Murray, member Of
the Atomic Energy Commission,
today declared the United States
should stage a demonstration of
a 1854 model of the hydrogen
bomb for all nations, including
Russia.
In a speech prepared for de-
livery at the commencement ex-
List Of CothoIie University Groduotes.
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