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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-24

complication of pregnancy and
the doctor can do much to re-
lieve it. DR.. Myers said.
"See Nora Brown as a COM
plete individual instead of seeing
her only as a machine which
shall soon give birth to a baby"
Economic fear lis also one Of
the complications of pregnancy.
I feel the patient has the right
to know almost exactly to the
dollar what the baby is going to
cost. I would far rather hear
my patients say, rs that all you
are going to charge me?' instead
Of. My, doctor. ! can't afford
all that"
DR.. Myers said, "If we have
any reason to exist as the
American Academy of General
Practice, / believe it is primarily
to bring the very best medical
care at the very lowest possible
cost to the most number of pa
tents.
ut was Plato who said, For
every good there are two evils,
the extremes in the other direc-
tion.'
ION the one hand. we can
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-24
Communists Declared Unlikely
Ever to Win Control of Italy
. Only Chance Seen Is Thot Everybody
Decides to Stop Worrying About Them

every one by chalking up a sub
stantial victory in the general
election. AS a result, they polled
nearly 10 million votes and won
themselves a stable chunk (218
seats out of 500 in the Italian
Chamber of Deputies.
Although this victory abruptly
shattered the complacency Of
the democratic parties and repre-
sented an increase of is million
votes over the previous election.
the Communicated group re-
manned definitely in the minority.
The problem was that no other
single party now controlled the
majority of 296 seats needed to
form a government. The Chris
tian Democrats who under Pre-
mier Alcide de Gasperi had
welded this power since the war.
were whitfield down to 265 seats
and were forced to ally them
selves with three, small splinter
parties in the center.
This, in spite Of difficulties and
plenty of peSSimistic predictions,
they have been able to do. Today.
a new government led by former
Interior Minister Mario Scelba
seems to be firmly. in the saddle.
The coalition of Christian Demo-
Gratis. Liberals. Republicans and
Social Democrats may not be the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-24
Drunken BruwI in Hobo JunqIe
Leaves One Dead, Five Jailed

south of Fort Totten park and
northeast Of the Soldiers Home,
is right out of a movie setting.
Men sleep in makeshift. lean-to
shacks built of tin scrounged
from a nearby dump. On the
scene of last nights fight police
found a camp fire and an old
diShpan containing a mixture of
kidney beans and fatback. A
cardboard box contained rem
nants of two cans of vegetable
soup.
Traces of older fires are
fringed with containers which
had held almost every conceiv-
able kind of alcoholic substitutes.
Some found by police bore labels
warning that IF used internally,
may cause blindness or death"
Half Dozen Structures.
A central area, a small vale
protected from wind by two low
hummocks, was ringed with a
half dozen of the lean-to type
structures. Near one of them
police found a fresh, raw potato
partly eaten.
Incongruous in this setting was
an attempt at laundry building
old, rusty tubs built into a tin
lean-to; drying lines dangling
from the trees.
The scene is five miles from
the White House; three-quarters
of a mile from the Catholic Sis
tiers College.
A fire alarm box. set off in the
200 block of Hawaii avenue
shortly after 8 o'clock, brought
police and f1remen' into the area.
1t was sent by the seriously in
jured man, Herbert Burrell. "a,
colored, who crawled through the
woods.
James Smallwood, Al, arrested
at the home of a sister in the
5000 block of Twenty second
street NE, was charged with
robbery after Burrell complained
he was beaten and robbed of SIG.
Burrell was still babbling about
a ''big fight" when he was
treated for facial and head in
jurieS and transferred to Dis
trict General Hospital under
guard.
Pvt. George Timko, of the 18th
precinct, plunged into the woods
and found the dying man.
Night Police Supervisor In
spector Anthony Richitt ordered
additional men from other pre-
cinctS, homicide detectives and
the 18th precinct into and
around the area. The BUSH
beating netted five white men.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-24
$50 Children Flee
MaurySchooIF Fire
In Orderly Fashion
Bluze Is Discovered
When Students Return
To Desks After Drill

Grade school children at the
Maury Ele m ntary School,
Twelfth place and Constitution
avenue NE, filed out in orderly
fashion today as a two-alarm fire
smoldered in the 50-year- old
buildings.
1t was the second two-alarm
school fire in as many days.
The fire at Bruce Elementary,
Sherman avenue and Kenyon
streets NV, yesterday was at
tributed to arson but no children
were in the building because
classes had not yet opened for
the. day. Defective wiring was
blamed for the fire today.
At the Maury School it was a
double fire drill for almost $50
colored children, 100 of them
already excited over prospects
of attending the Shrine Circus
this afternoon.
Return After Fire Drill.
The first alarm went in by
telephone when lights started
dimming intermittently in a
Second-f1oor classroom. The
children filed out on a routine
fire drill and trooped back into
the building when no danger
appeared evident.
Mrs. Clotha C. Outten, the
principal, noted smoke pouring
from a ventilator six minutes
later. and a second alarm went
in and the children filed out
again.
Flames were never visible, but
smoke continued to fill parts of
the building.
Fire Chief Willard Sutton,
who arrived with the second
alarm about HAS o'clock, said
preliminary inspection indicated
defective wiring may have been
the cause.
Started in Basement.
Norman BiggS, chief of the
repair division of the depart
ment of buildings and grounds,
said the fire apparently started
between the ceiling of the base
ment and the first floor.
The children, marched off to
a safe distance from fire equip
ment, were in patient ranks
even 80 minutes after they
evacuated the building.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-24
A drink-sodden donnybrook in

A drink-sodden donnybrook in
a Northeast hobo jungle last
night brought death to one man,
serious injury to another and
sent five to Jail.
Police sought a coherent an
swer today from dazed and
bloodied survivors still stupefied
by blows and the effects of
cheap wine and an alcoholic
cleaning fluid.
'One of the men, Ernest Matt
Anders. 81. of GAINESVILLE. N. c..
told police the fight began when
some one tried to stop him from
dipping into a can of food boil
ing over fire.
Police said Anders and May
nard L. Kirk, AZ, of Berryville,
Va, were splashed with blood.
Anders also had a head bump.
The dead man was about IL
and colored. His name may be
Norman Workman. He died at
District General Hospital of a
fractured skull and broken jaw
at HOP pm. three hours after
the gang fight.
Like A Movie Setting.
The scene, a wooded haven
for derelicts in the rear of the
200 block of Hawaii avenue NE,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-24
What Is 1t That Makes a Good Doctor?

become the picture which too
often is called up as one visual
ICES the old family doctor-the
kind-hearted gentleman who
would drive 40 miles through
rain or snow, and then not know
just what to do when he got
there.
TOO many doctors and par
ticularly. perhaps. too many gen.
eral practitioners, have felt that
when they have patted the
patient kindly on the head and
dispensed large doses of humor
and kindness. they have done
their entire duty to the patient,
forgetting there is not only an
art but a science in the practice
of medicine.
so we come to the other ex-
IRENE. We may become the
thinking machine which does not
see Nora Brown but sees only
Bed B in Ward 800.
Somewhere in between those
two groups stands the new man
on the horizon Of American
medicine, the sincere. intelligent
and, ! daresay, dedicated prac-
titioner."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-24
By Alton l. Blokeslee
Associated Press Science Reporter

CLEVELAND, Mar. pa
physician who once was an or
dained minister today criticized
doctors who feel that God made
them, and everybody else just
happened"
DR.. Robert M. Myers Of Kan
sas City. Mo-. made the remark
in urging doctors to become
more human" in dealing with
patients. especially prospective
mothers.
Speaking to the American
Academy Of General Practice,
DR.. Myers said:
II have a very definite con-
viction that the professional
doctor interested in his pocket
book instead Of the patient. and
thinking only Of retiring as soon
as possible. does far more to
further the cause Of State or
socialized medicine than all the
politicians who ever lived"
Fear Is the most common
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-24
Suez Talks Broken Off,
Britain Notifies Egypt

CAIRO, Mar. 24.-Britain to-
day notified Egypt she now con-
Siders British Egyptian talks On
the future of the Suez Canal
base formally broken off"
A high Egyptian official source
disclosed this fact, adding that
London's notification was made
in note.
The talks-revolving about
Egypt's demand for withdrawal
of Britain's 80,000-man garri-
son and Britain's demand for
an alright understanding on flu
ture defense of the canal zone
have been stalemated since
October 18. but recently there
were indications they were about
to resume.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-24
President Says u. S. Economy
Needs No SIom-Bong Aid
Voices Concern Over JobIess, Points Out
Government Is Helping in Some Ways

The President said he did not
recall having predicted any in
slant action this month, but had
said that it would be a cause for
real concern and new examina-
ton Of Government policies If
a normal seasonal upturn in
March did not occur.
He remarked that all the fig
ures are not in for March yet,
and said he had been told a con-
tributing cause for still-lagging
business was that, with Easter
coming late this year. the women
are not buying so rapidly.
Coming out of a war economy
and going into a peacetime econ
omy additionally has caused
marked fluctuations, Gen. Eisen-
hover pointed out.
He said the Government
task since the Korean fighting
ended has been trying to make
the transition. involving a cut
back Of war production, in such
(See EISENHOWER, Page A-3.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-24
By Gornett D. Homer

President Eisenhower said to-
day he Is concerned about rising
unemployment. but sees no need
yet for any slam-bang emer-
gency program by the Govern
ment to stimulate business.
He told a news conference,
however, that this does not mean
the Government is not doing a
lot Of things to help business. He
mentioned cheaper money and
the administrations housing
program among these things.
The President also asserted that
what he called the rounded leg
iSlative program he has sub
mitted to Congress would help
bring an upturn in the country's
economy.
He was reminded that he had
said last month that March
would be q key month in regard
to determining the need for
further Government action to
reverse business recession trends.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-24
Dulles Schedules TuIk
On lndo-Chinu Mondnv

Secretary Of State Dulles viii
make a significant speech on
Freedom and Indo- China" at g
pm. Monday. it was announced
today.
Mr.. Dulles address, to be de-
hvered before the Overseas Press
Club at the Waldorf Astoria in
New York. win be carried by the
American Broadcasting Co. radio
and television networks. It was
understood Mr.. Dulles will dis
cuss the implications Of Indo-
China in relation to the April
26 Geneva conference.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-24
Eisenhower Praises
Fortress Defenders,
likens Fight 10 Anzio
Says Diem Bien Phu
Bottle Is Brilliantly
Led by De Costries
By james E. Roper

President Eisenhower today
compared the bloody battle of
Diem Bien Phu in Indo- China to
the fight for Anzio in Italy just
10 years ago. and added that
there was no reason for good
troops to despair Of coming out
all right.
Gen. Eisenhower told a news
conference that Diem Bien Phu
George Proposes Bon on Indo- Chino
Telk With chiaess Reds. Poee AS
U. S. Moy Send Group to Tado- Chino 10
Help Train Motive Troops. Poee AS
lay in a lowland surrounded by
hills from which Communist
troops were firing on the loyal
defenders.
The IL battalions of defend
ers, Gen. Eisenhower continued,
were fighting far larger num-
Der, OF Reds but had the bril-
liant leadership Of Col. De Cas-
tries. the commandant who is
from a distinguished French
military family.
Gen. Eisenhower said he told
Gen. Paul Ely, French chief of
staff. that he would have made
Col. De Castries general day be-
fore yesterday. He said Gen. Ely
promised to note the comment
in Col. De Castries' records.
Other Foreign Problems
In a discussion of other for
eign problems, Gen. Eisenhower
said:
/. The United States attitude
toward Communist China will re-
main unchanged until the Reds
change their attitude. This was
in reply to a request for COM
ment on the problems Of Indo-
China and Communist China
that might arise at a conference
starting in Geneva April 26.
2. British Prime Minister
Churchill was correct in stating
yesterday that the United States
and its allies had arrangements
for instant consultation over
allied reaction to a world emer-
gency. Gen. Eisenhower said
this was especially true on the
question Of American use Of
bases in foreign countries.
3. The United States would
have no recourse except to act
instantly in It's own defense
should it come Under a surprise
attack such as Pearl Harbor.
4. Said he had talked about
the general situation in the Far
East and other things with Gen.
Douglas Macarthur at the White
House last week. He said he and
Gen. Macarthur had been close
ly associated since 1880 and that
he had never found any talk
with him profltless.
Notes Importance.
The President volunteered
that it was not necessary to en-
phasize the transcendental i'm
portance Of Southeast Asia and
the Southwest Pacific to the
United States.
Indo-C China, he said, has be-
come a battlefield Of people who
want to live their own lives with
out encroachment from the
Communists.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-24
Pigeon Troppers
Seeking Answers

RESEARCH STORY-Four yeors oqo.
q group Of men and women climbed
to the roof Of the Capitol, tropped
30 pigeons ond took them to the
National Institutes Of Health to see
whot could be Ieorned about toxo-
pIosmosis. Their research is discussed
by Stor Stoff Reporter John McKeIwoy
on poee AS.
LEES OF VIRGINlA-An exhibit Of
items belonging to the Lees OF Vir-
sinio, from the first to the present,
recolls the fomily's threod through
thot Stote's history. Stor Stoff Re-
porter Betty Miles tells cbout the
present Lees on pose BE-.
COLD WAR TRADE-soviet Russia
moy soon offer to buy and sell pro-
duction machinery. The reason for
this seeming contradiction is discussed
by Assoeioted Press Stoff Writer
Fronk O'Brien in the second of his
articles about Soviet trode. Poee A-l0.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-24
Cost Of Living Drops
Z Pct, but Level
Is Still Near Record
Lower Food. Prices
Chiefly Responsible
For Decline in Index
By jones Y. Newton

The cost of living both ma
tionally and in Washington de-
clined 2 tenths of per cent.
the Government announced
today.
For the country as a whole the
drop in living costs was from the
January level. For Washington
the slight decline was from the
level Of last November. The
Bureau Of Labor Statistics sur
vey costs on a national basis
every month and on q quarterly
basis for individual cities like
Washington.
Despite the decline in Febru-
airy prices. the cost Of living was
still only 8 tenths of / per cent
below the all-time high national
average set last October.
Sees No Sharp Drop.
And Evan Clague, commits
sioner of the Bureau of Labor
Statistics. told reporters that he
saw no prospect for any sharp
drop in prices in the months
ahead.
The wages of about / million
railroad workers. whose pay is
tied to living costs. will remain
unchanged since the index for
February was identical with
that Of last November.
Chiefly responsible for the
general price decline was the
drop Of 4/10 of per cent in food
prices.
On a national basis, also. the
cost of transportation declined
$40 of l. per cent. due chiefly to
the sharp drop in used car
prices.
Housing Costs Up.
The cost of housing, including
rents, was up tenth Of per
cent.
For Washington, Mr.. Clague
said, most items on the index
decreased in price from Novem-
Der to February. Housing was
down 5 tenths Of / per cent;
reading and recreation 8 tenthS
Of / per cent: clothing 4 tenths
Of per cent; medical care z
tenths Of per cent and trans
portation 2 tenths of / per cent.
These declines were largely Offset
by a rise in the price of food of
3 tenths and personal care up z
tenths Of l per cent.
The Washington index for
February was 114.1 per cent of
the 1947-49 average, / per cent
higher than a year ago and 1913
per cent over the pre-Korea
level.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-24
Star Want Ads Bring
Fost-Action Results

Won't dds placed IN Stor Classified
confirm The Stor's reputation for pro-
dueing distraction results.
Every day the story seems to be
the some. "Just few hours after
publication our I'D brought over 50
coils; I'VE hired n applicants on
swerins the I'D We ron; I'VE odver-
tised for just one and received coils
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The unusual pulling power Of stor
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knowledge. When you have some
thing TO buy. trade or sell advertise
i in The Star. Just phone Sterling
5000 and ask for an od-toker.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-24


ever, one of which is expected to
provoke debate when the full
committee takes up the bill.
This is a proposal to raise
the beer tax from $3.50 a barrel,
as passed by the House, to SITS.
The present tax on beer is 81.
The joint fiscal subcommittee
of the House and Senate District
Committees originally had rec
commended a boost in the beer
levy to SITS cents a barrel. It
was cut back to $3.50 by the
House District Committee.
Question Raised by Case.
Senator Case, Republican, Of
South Dakota, who heads both
the fiscal subcommittee and the
full committee raised the ques-
ton today. He recalled he had
originally favored making the
tax 50 barrel. Senator Beall.
Republican, of Maryland, said
he had first favored the $1.50
rate. He moved that it be kept
at $3.50. Senator Case voted
against that and the tie
was broken when the third mem
Der. Senator Gore, Democrat Of
Tennessee. who was absent, was
polled by>phone. He sided with
Chairman Case.
District officials estimated that
about $145,000 in revenue would
be involved in the higher beer
tax. Under the House bill it
was estimated the boosted tax
would bring in an additional
$4,000. It was estimated under
the Case subcommittee amend
ment the increased revenues
would go TO $435. 900.
A meeting of the full commit
tee probably will be arranged for
next week, Chairman Case said.
He is hopeful for early committee
action but said it might be two or
three weeks before the bill could
be taken up in the Senate:
Plan Involves 50 Million.
Another change recommended
by the fiscal subcommittee would
make an additional So million a
year of the increased city reve-
nues available for general fund
operation purposes. The purpose,
Senator Case explained, was to
assure that the city would not
run into difficulties in its opera
ton of District services.
This amendment would reduce
from SIS million to $6.5 million
the portion of the increased Fed
eral payment that must be ear
marked for public works. The
portion of the increased Federal
payment earmarked for public
works must be matched by Dis
trict funds, so that the total
new figure proposed by the Case
subcommittee would be $13 mil
lion a year instead of SIG million.
This was one of several
changes proposed earlier today
by Commissioners Samuel Spen-
Ger and Louis w. Prentiss in a
conference with Chairman Case.
Another change adopted by the
subcommittee would exempt only
the smaller and less valuable
private pleasure boats, owned by
(See PUBLIC WORKS, Pig. A-6)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-24

laramie, Italy, Mar. "a (P.
Two minesweepers built in the
United States arrived today to
join Italy's growing navy. The
400-ton ships. called the Acacia
and the Ciliegio, were given Italy
by the United States under the
mutual defense assistance pro-
gram.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-24
Briscoe on Way to U. S.

TAIPEH. Formosa, Mar. "a up.
Vice Admiral Robert P. Briscoe
completed a three day inspection
tour today and flew to Tokyo en-
route to Washington to become
deputy chief of naval operations.
Admiral Briscoe has been COM
rnander of United States naval
forces in the Far East.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-24
q Navy Men
Safe in H-borrlb
Blast Exposure
Ash Fell on Tunker:
U. S. Triples Distance
For Ships Hereafter
BY the Ass0eioied Press

PEARL HARBOR, Mar. "a
The hydrogen explosion March
l at Bikini atoll-described by
one congressional observer as so
tremendous that it was out of
control - showered radioactive
ash on a United States Navy
tanker carrying 90 crewmen.
The Navy, in a cautiously
worded announcement last night.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-24
PoIund to Step Up Output

VIENNA, Mar. "a (P. Po-
lands Communist regime has de-
cided to step up production and
imports of consumer goods, the
Polish newspaper Zycie War
szawy reports in an issue arrived
here.