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is said to be holding out for much
firmer guarantees that German re-
armament won't get out of hand.
The United States. after pledging
itself to stay on the sidelines while
the Europeans figured out this
essentially European problem,
stepped back into the thick of
the negotiating last week. This
country is reported to agree with
Britain that Germany must be
brought into NATO as an equal
partner. But Secretary of State
Dulles has some as-yet-undefined
objection to doing it through the
Brussels pact. So has Canada (see
article by Gerald Waring, Page
A-28). 3.
West Germany may have, too.
For last week Chancellor Konrad
Adenauer asked Secretary of State
John Foster Dulles to make q spe-
cial trip to Europe to talk over the
EDO alternatives. Throughout, Mr..
Dulles and Herr Adenauer were cor.
dial IN the extreme. On his arrival
0V SOAA4As N1A AuLkCS Sdlu tIlE AUc@
nauer government "has consistently
followed such enlightened policies
that its views must now command
great respect" The Chancellor
batted the sugar-coated ball back
as follows: ut does seem that the
best Europeans come from the
United States"
Mr.. Dulles omitted Paris from his
list Of weekend stops in Europe.
He went to London Friday. France
thought 1t was q snub but tho Sec
retary insisted none was intended.
Why is the United States un-
impressed by Mr.. Eden's efforts at
dredging up an EDO alternative?
One reason, as yet unspoken, could
be that Britain would have a more
direct voice in German rearmament
than the United States Cor Cam
ada). Another reason, advanced
tentatively from Ottawa, Is that
rewriting the Brussels pact to ad-
NIT West Germany would provide
France with another wide range
Of opportunity for maneuver-and
stalling. Herr Adenauer's political
situation will not permit another
long delay.
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Fiscal IS Deficit Revised

President Eisenhower forecast
last January that the current f1s-
cal year, ending next July /,
would see an almost-balanced
budget. He said he was planning
for a deficit of only $2.9 billion,
compared with a $9.4 billion
deficit in the last Democratic fis-
cal year.
But last week the Treasury De-
partment said it would have to
change the forecast = upward.
The deficit probably will run
about SAT billion. Treasury said
The higher figure results mostly
from combination of three fac
tors: Tax receipts, because of
cuts voted by Congress, will be
about $3.4 billion less than pre-
viously expected; defense spend
ing will be about So billion less.
but non-defense outlays will be
about $1.4 billion more.
The accompanying chart shows
actual income and outgo in the
last Democratic and first Repub-
lican years, plus the scrapped IS
Evening star., 1954-09-19
Maine

The mcst important Of the week S
political indicators was the action
of Maine voters in withdrawing
some support from the Republicans.
The G. O. P. had expected a COM
Portable victory. Vice President
4 Nixon, on election eve, had asked
the Republican stronghold for IAN
even greater majority than before"
so that Maine could "set the stand
ard for the rest of the country in
November"
But Maine let him down. The
State elected it's first Democratic
Governor since 1884. Edmund S..
Muskie beat the incumbent, Gov.
Burton M. Cross, by $4,000 votes.
He received about SIS per cent of
the 248,000 ballots cast. In the last
off-year gubernatorial election
G950) the Democrats pol1ed only
40 per cent. And in both years,
about the same number of persons
went to the polls.
Republicans again won the one
Senate and three House seats, but
the Democrats could take consid-
cradle cheer In each race the Re-
publican had about II per cent
fewer votes than in the last election.
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Review Of The Week. Maine Vote Spurs Both Parties

showed the Republicans are har-
boring bad actor. and Republicans
are split on whether they should
stick by Joe for better or worse.
Senator Mccarthy said last week
he would do little personal cam
paigning this fall. He will spend
his time exposing graft. corruption
and Communists" he said.
Farm. Foreign
Republicans gave themselves at
least one break when the Agriculture
Department announced last week
that acreage restrictions would be
eased in hardship cases. Secretary
OF Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson
said politics was not factor-he
merely was trying to insure that
drought area farmers did not suffer
unduly. q. O. P. candidates were
sure to benefit, however.
In Washington last week, Secre-
tary of State John Foster Dulles,
who had lambasted the Democratic
foreign policy during the 1852 CAM
paign, moved to take foreign policy
out of politics in the coming cam
paign. He pointed out in speech
that Democratic Senators had
shared in the negotiation and con-
summation" of the Manila pact. He
suggested that partisanship should
stop at the waters edge-with the
unstated implication that the Dem
+a A~~yA
since they had helped shape and
carry out the policy.
On the finance front the Repub-
Lcans lost q point. The Treasury
Department ruefully announced that
the deficit for the current fiscal
year would be even bigger than ex-
pected-$4.7 billion instead of the
$2.9 billion hoped for in January.
(See chart on this page.)
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Ark, however, little or no comment
resulted from the integration of
seven Negroes into the white high
school system. g
At Lothian, Md, 500 members of
Parent Teacher associations in
Southern Maryland met Wednesday
night to signify their disapproval
of school integration. Except for
the integrated schools of Baltimore
City, public schools in Maryland are
on segregated basis for the pres
ent. Maryland's offlcialdom already
has made clear its intention to abide
by any final Supreme Court ruling
on how to integrate, but intends
to wait for such an order.
In Baltimore. integration was put
in effect on more or less "volun-
tary" basis. That is, students could
choose the school they would at
tend. regardless OF race and Tin
generaD regardless of geographic
considerations. In a report issued
last week, Baltimore's school super
intendent revealed the extent Of in
tegration Six of the city's IS, ,626
white students chose to enroll in
hitherto Negro schools, and 1876
out of 55,331 Negroes signed up at
white schools. The number Of
Negroes who chose integration over
continued segregation was about 21a
per cent Of the total. Integration
there was proceeding so smoothly,
one official said, that there is no
need for comment"
High Court Developments
Meanwhile, on Capitol Hill, time
ran out for States to join in oral
arguments this fall before the Su-
preme Court. When the court
handed down it's school decisions
last June, it invited attorneys gen.
eral Of interested States to take
part in arguments on how integra-
ton was to be accomplished. BY
the September Is deadline, only
Florida, North Carolina and Okla
horna had asked to be heard. Four
other States-Arkansas, Tennessee,
Maryland and Texas-have signified
their intention to file briefs as
friends OF the court There is
no deadline for notification of in
tention to file such briefs.
Georgia, South Carolina, Missis-
sippi and Louisiana. according to
Georgia Attorney General Eugene
Cook, will boycott the Supreme
Court hearings, and Alabama has
stated 1t will file no brief. The
reason given by Alabama's acting
attorney general was that such par
ticipation might legally or morally"
bind the State to comply imme-
diately with any court order.
Mississippi last week moved
toward possible abolition of Its
school system if all else failed. As
expected, the State senate approved
resolution to amend the State
constitution. completing action on
the measure. II the amendment is
approved by the voters at a special
election December 21-aS is gener-
ally expected-the schools could be
turned over to private operators and
Evening star., 1954-09-19

French objections to the European
Defense Community were primarily
three: It's supranationdl features, it's
provisions for German rearm,ament.
and its mission of Great Britain.
Last week Anthony Eden secuted
the capitals of Europe with plan
that would remove two of the French
objections (the first and the third
and soften the other.
French Premier Pierre Mendes-
France apparently was impressed
so much so, in fact, that he agreed
to go to London week from tomor-
row. BY doing so (and canceling
his date with the International
Monetary Fund in Washington M.
Mendes-France gambled with being
isolated, as he was in Brussels on
the eve of the French National As
sembly's death-dealing vote on EDO.
Mr.. Eden's plan is to bring Ger
many and Italy into the organiza-
ton set up by the Brussels pact in
1948. This German, anti
Communist treaty was the forerun-
ner of the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization. The anti-German
provisions, of course, would have to
be repealed.
But the Brussels pact has, to
France, two advantages over Edo
and it is the French who must be
satisfied before Germany can be
brought into West European defense.
First, Britain is in it. Second, there
are no provisions for surrendering
control of military units or other
aspects of national sovereignty. Joint
military operations would depend on
voluntary, sovereign cooperation
alone.
The NATO Aspect
In addition, the Brussels group is
a subsidiary Of NATO, as EDO was,
and would provide at least some
opportunity to keep tabs on German
rearmament. To go further toward
meeting French fears Of Germany's
rearming, Mr.. Eden is understood
to have proposed some forms Of
NATO-wide armaments inspection.
That way. the British Foreign Sec
retary reasons. the rest Of the At
lantic community could keep an eye
on German militarism.
Nine powers-the Brussels pact
sfgnatories britain, France. Bel
gium. the Netherlands and Luxem-
bourg), Italy, West Germany, the
United States and Canada-are
- IT.
don next week to consider the Eden
plan.
F/ropean capitals threw up a
smoke screen of confusing, some
times conflicting. reports on indiv-
idual nations attitudes toward Mr..
Eden's proposal. Apparently not all
parties will be Of the same mind.
France has been trying to act
agreeable. but M. Mendes-France
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dents and those displaced by over
crowded conditions at their former
schools. Integration will become
more extensive in future years, when
the all-white or all-colored school
will be the almost unheard-of ex-
ception rather than the relatively
common thing 1t is today.
Late last week, School Supt. Ho-
bart M. Corning opened the door
for more transfers between formerly
Negro and formerly white schools.
Evening star., 1954-09-19
Other Areas

Nowhere in the District was there
evidence of widely organized opposi-
ton such as caused school board
retreat in West Virginia last week
At White Sulphur Springs last Mon
day night, 600 parents of white
high school students demanded an
end to integration in Greenbrier
County. The following day. 25
Negro students were removed from
the white high school and sent back
to their former institution.
In the deep South, at Fayetteville,
Evening star., 1954-09-19

would be run on a segregated basis
with State funds. Legislation with
similar intent already has been ap-
proved in Georgia, South Carolina
and Louisiana.
And in Virginia, nine-man COM
mittee of legislators was established
Thursday to do groundwork on try
ing to find way to keep public
schools in that State segregated.
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summer there is little pasturage
for them.
William Hilton of the COM
mission firm Of Myers &.House-
man. Inc. at the stockyards,
said one day recently he sold
fewer than 20 partly finished"
animals as requirements.
Prices at the stockyards for
choice cattle have held up well
compared to last year, but lower
grades have been off. Choice
animals in the last few days
have sold at from $3.50 per
hundredweight to $25, with a
few going at $27.25. A year ago
the prices ranged from $24 to
$26.50.
Good grades ranged from
$21.50 to $24 this year and from
$40 to 500 last year. Poorer
grades generally showed a drop
from last year.
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Fire Escape Tears Loose,
Fireman Falls Il Feet

A 30-year-old fireman suffered
leg and arm injuries last night
when q fire escape tore loose from
a building wall and he plunged
IL feet to an alleyway.
Pvt. Walter G. Assur, of 752
South Greenbrier street, Arling-
ton. was admitted to Emergency
Hospital with an injured right ell
bow and right knee. His condi-
ton is not serious.
Police booked Alfred Acee, So,
a claims adjuster. for negligently
setting the fire in his quarters at
701-711 Nineteenth street NV.
Acee forfeited $25 for dropping
a lighted cigarette in the mat
treSs of his bed.
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grade cattle being marketed has
tended to pull down prices. He
put the number of cattle mar
keted this year at 6.700 more
than in the corresponding period
Of last year.
The hot weather, bringing
with it a decrease in pork con-
sumption. also has broken hog
prices. Where prices were about
$25 so per hundredweight around
July /, this week sales were at
$3.50 with a few at $24. A year
ago the price was about $27.50.
Bosley Baugher of the Black
shere firm said he expected hog
prices to go lower as the spring
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Two-Bridge Bill May
Come Up Tomorrow
For Senate Action

Washington's new Potomac
River bridge bill. which switched
suddenly this week from con-
troversy to wide Endorsement,
is expected to come before
the Senate for action tomorrow.
Approved unanimously by the
Senate District Committee yes
terday. the measure calls for two
bridges, fulfilling separate needs.
One, between Arlington Memorial
Bridge and the controversial
Roosevelt Memorial Island, is
designed to relieve downtown
congestion. The other, at Jones
Point, Alexandria. would give the
city its first real bypass route.
Committee officials expect the
bill to be called up on the Senate
consent calendar. If it is ap-
proved-and no opposition has
been voiced to either bridget
could go directly to the House.
House leaders who supported a
House passed bill calling only for
a single Jones Point bridge indi-
Gated today they would give full
support to the two-bridge meas
ure, if it clears the Senate.
Representative Kearns, Repub-
lican, of PENNSYLVANIA, chairman
of a House subcommittee which
held extensive hearings on the
bridge proposals last spring, said
he would "do anything I can
to push the bill along in the
House."
The controversy dissolved this
week with agreement by plan
ming, highway and park officials
on the new compromise location
missing the island completely
and tying into Twenty-fourth
street NV. Basis for the agree
ment was another plan to re-
build Twenty-fourth street as
a major freeway and make 1t a
part of the proposed belt system
of roads around the congested
central area.
The planners made it clear at
a meeting yesterday they have
approved no exact location for
the downtown bridge, or its
specific connections to city
streets. The intention is to have
this worked out jointly by the
planners and roadbuilders.
There is no conflict between
this stand and the Senate bill,
which Identifies the bridge only
! as near Constitution avenue and
between Arlington bridge and
Roosevelt island.
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Federal housing officials issued
a new policy today requiring
competitive bidding in the sale
Of land to private investors in
such city redevelopment pro-
grams as those under way in
Southwest Washington.
The policy. a sharp turnabout
on previous policies which per-
mitted land sales by negotiation.
will apply to the New York firm
of Webb g. Knapp, which wants
to handle a big part of the
Southwest Washington job.
District Redevelopment Land
Agency officials, however, feel
that an exception provision" of
the new policy sets up a pro-
cedure. that will be acceptable to
the Webb b Knapp firm.
Early this year the Ria signed
q memorandum of understand
ing' with Webb & Knapp. pro-
viding for a one-year study Of
the vast Southwest water front
areas redevelopment potentials.
At the end of the, year the firm
Is to present a plan to RIA and
an offer to purchase certain por-
tons of the land for rebuilding
In accordance with the approved
plan. The presumption has been
that RIA would be free to nego-
tiate the sale to the firm.
Must Take Sealed Bids.
The new policy provides that
such agencies as RIA must ac-
cept sealed bids for land to be
sold but provides three ex-
ceptions to such competitive
bidding"
I. Land that can be sold on q
fixed-price basis, such as indus
trial lots or single-family resi-
Dental lots.
2. Land that its to be made
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Parkway Extension by Tunnel
ToKIinqIe Road IS Approved

through traffic of the local Zoo
roads.
Ultimately. the parkway
would be extended along the
eastern edge of the Zoo to link
up with Beach drive just south
of Klingle road, feeding into
Colorado avenue and Sixteenth
street NV.
In other actions. the planning
commission:
Heard Hilyard r. Robinson, a
member, urge increasing building
heights for low-cost housing,
because of high land costs and
the few sites available. The
commission was advised that the
Citizens Advisory Committee
has under consideration the
establishing OF a special subcom-
mittee to study problems Of low
rent housing.
Gasch Commended.
Commended Assistant United
States Attorney Oliver Gasch for
his handling of the lawsuit re-
garding the Inter-C County Belt
Route in which the commission
is engaged. Property-owners OBJ
jecting to the project were
denied an injunction in the U. s..
District Court for the District Of
Columbia by Judge Edward A.
Tamm, who held the commission
was within its authority in
adopting a plan for the park
way.
Deferred until next meeting.
pending further study. a report
from the Forest Hills Citizens
Association, regarding the Rock
Greek Expressway, protesting a
connecting link with Route 240
through the northern part Of
the park.
Approved the transfer from
the National Park Service to
the District Government of land
at Minnesota avenue and Grant
street Me-. to round out boun-
diaries of q recreation area adj
jacent to a proposed new school.
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Herds have been big and
marketing heavy in the last
couple of years. Lawrence Hat
ter, president of the stockyards,
said the cattle receipts last year
were 1872 per cent above the
20-year average. That has been
slightly bettered this year. with
receipts 10 per cent above the
average.
Mr.. Halter said If there were
plenty of grass in this area cat
tie would be shipped in from
the West and South to be sold to
feeders.
Charles Stobart Of the e. A.
Blackstone Co. said the lower
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Action by the National Capi-
tai Planning Commission yes
terday in approving preliminary
plans for extending the Rock
Creek and Potomac Parkway to
Klingle road paves the way for
early realization of this project.
The Bureau of Public Roads
will conduct borings to deter
mine the character Of the rocky
hill on Zoo property near the
Calvert street bridge so a high
way tunnel can be constructed
later. At the same time, the new
bridge over Rock Creek, just
downstream of the present ford
near the Zoo entrance, viii be
designed.
Director Conrad L. Wirth of
the National Park Service, a
commission member, explained
he wants to carry the four-lane
parkway highway through the
tunnel as far as the Harvard
street entrance to the Zoo.
Right-of- Way Transfer.
He said it would be unwise, at
this time. to build the bridge,
only to have 1t halt at the foot
Of the rocky hill. He wants the
first phase built as a unit, so that
it will be disable as, a completed
highway from the Calvert street
bridge to Harvard street.
Harry T. Thompson. associate
superintendent of National Cap
ital Parks. explained his Office
has not yet perfected arrange
ments with the Zoo authorities.
The right-of-way for the new
parkway highway will have to be
transferred to the National Park
Service before its money can be
spent on the project. he said.
But Mr.. Thompson made II
clear that no difficulty is antici-
pated over the land transfer. DR.
William NJ. Mann. director Of the
National Geological Park, favors
the project. because it will take
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1949. Thereafter, the build-up
began. In 1852 the herds in
creased from 87.8 million to 93.6
million, a gain of So million
head. Last year there was an
increase Of another IL million
to a total of 94.7 million. Ex-
perts do not look for much Of
a change this year.
Prices have declined since
1851 when the mid-July figure
for choice steers was $3.50 at
Chicago. This was in the period
Of the defense build-up and ris-
ing prices after the start Of the
Korean war. A year earlier the
figure had been SCOTS.
In 1852, again in mid-July, the
price was down to $32 to $33.
Last year 1t had fallen to $25,
and this year to about $24.
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Purpose Outlined.
Writers Goinq to Bruzil

William Faulkner. winner of
the Nobel prize for literature in
l949. and Robert Frost. Pulitzer
prize winning poet. have ac-
cepted invitations to attend an
international congress of writers
Iii Sac Paulo. Brazil. August 9-21,
the State Department said yes
terday.