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Evening star., 1954-05-23
Budget Asks
$2,794,000
Construction Gosh
For Eastern Part
Of Rood Requested
By GEORGE Beveridqe

Construction money for the
eastern part of Washington's
long-planned $24 million South
west freeway is included in the
Districts amended budget re-
quests to Congress for the new
fiscal year starting July !.
A House Appropriations SUBJ
committee will take up the addi-
tional highway requests. totaling
more than $5.l million. this
week.
The construction requests
were made possible by the new
public works revenue act.
For the freeway, city officials
are asking $2,794.000. Matched
by an equal amount of Federal
aid funds. this money would
build the eastern quarter of the
freeway, between South Capitol
and Fourth streets S.W. An $780,
900 request for land acquisition
there already was IN the
stripped-down budget submitted
IN January.
Six-Lane Freeway.
The six-lane, divided freeway
is proposed eastward from South
Capitol street--alone the exist
ing line of F street S.W.-to con-
meet with a new bridge over
Washington Channel. The chan
mel span. in turn. would connect
with existing Fourteenth street
bridges and Ohio drive.
The finished project will give
motorists crossing the river a
direct nonstop shot eastward Of
Capitol Hill.
If the freeway request Is
granted, Highway Director j. N.
Robertson said actual construc-
ton can start about eight months
after detailed plans for the free
way are started.
But two crucial factors are de-
laying the planning:
!. A decision from Congress
on the proposed Reaches Run
bridge.
@ A design for the reconstruc-
ton of Tenth street S.W. so the
street can serve two functions.
One, insisted upon by highway
engineers. is that Tenth street
must be able to carry big traffic
volumes directly to and from the
new channel span. The other.
insisted upon by redevelopment
planners, is that the street be
an attractive. mall-like entrance
to the redeveloped waterfront
area.
Moves are under way to get
the answers to both problems.
Bridge Meeting Wednesday.
On Wednesday, a House Dis
trict subcommittee will meet to
consider proposed bridges at
Reaches Run, as we'll as at E
street NV. and at Jones Point,
Alexandria.
If Congress authorizes the
See ROADS, Page A-l4)
Evening star., 1954-05-23
BY the Associated Press

SALZBURG,. Austria, May %.
An American soldier who spent
almost six months behind the
Iron Curtain was convicted to-
day of desertion and disloyal
acts and sentenced to II years
at hard labor.
Pale, thin, Pvt. Carlos P. john
son, of High Point. N. c.. took
the verdict calmly. While await
ing sentence he remarked, Il am
not sorry I came back-no mat
ter what the sentence is"
The general court-martial con-
victed johnson of alb seven
charges against him. These in
cluded desertion, violation of
general regulations and urging
four fellow soldiers to desert to
the Communist East.
He was also convicted of vio-
lating the Smith Act in that he
was a member of the Freie
Deutsche Jugend Gree German
YOUTH, a society advocating the
overthrow and destruction of the
United States Government by
force.
The maximum possible SEN
tence was SIS years.
Defense counsel, Capt. Lewis
Evening star., 1954-05-23
Two Marooned
Fishermen Rescued

Firemen last night rescued
two fishermen who were stranded
by a rising Potomac River for
several hours on a rock above
Chain Bridge.
The pair was identified as
Warren Lester, 40, Westminster,
Md, and Roscoe Gregg, 81,
Union Bridge, Md.
Fire 1t. w. E. Lancaster said
the two had gone to a rock some
500 yards above the bridge during
the day. The river rose around
them unnoticed, Stranding them
so feet off shore. The water was
between 7 and 10 feet deep, and
very swift, 1t. Lancaster said.
They called across to a COM
panion who was on the shoreline.
1t. Lancaster said, and he alerted
police.
The flremen threw lines to the
rock and hauled the fisherman
ashore through the swirling
water. Neither was injured.
Both went home.
Evening star., 1954-05-23
BY the Assoeioted Press

LONDON, May 22.-American
Evangelist Billy Graham jam
med Wembley Stadium with 120.-
600 people tonight-more than
the Olympic games packed in
for the farewell meeting of his
London crusade.
He came to the vast arena
only a few minutes after leaving
London's second largest sports
stadium, the White City, where
he preached to a capacity crowd
of $1,000.
At both places all seats were
filled and thousands of addi-
tional worshippers jammed the
infieldS and the aisles.
Mr.. Graham stood with head
bowed and near to tears at Wem-
bley as he preached his farewell
sermon to London to wind up a
three months crusade which has
attracted around Ia million
people.
Besides him on the platform
sat the gathered and black-hat-
ted DR.. Geoffrey Fisher. Arch
bishop Of Canterbury and pri-
mate Of the Church Of England.
Evening star., 1954-05-23
Citizens Committee
Planned 10 Attack
Problems Of District
Permanent Unit Hopes
To Improve Troffic.
Parking and Housing

Plans to establish a permanent
Citizens Committee to attack
problems threatening the econ
omy and development of the
Capital were disclosed yesterday.
AS a first step, an interim
committee of Is citizen leaders
has retained G. Yates Cook,
who led a widely publicized slum.
housing rehabilitation program
in Baltimore. as staff director.
The full committee is to be
formed during the summer
months from "all the varied in
terests of our community life"
It will work with both official
and existing civic bodies.
In a statement of intentions.
the interim group said the COM
mittee's main goal will be to
support intelligent efforts to
improve traffic, parking, housing
and to meet other related prob
lens which impede the city's
progress"
In much the same manner
but for a single purpose-a
widely representative citizens
group drew up original proposals
and pushed for public support of
the city's public works revenue
bill which became law last week.
Members Are Listed.
The committee plans are the
most ambitious effort thus far to
give citizens a co-ordinated voice
on knotty development problems.
Some are tightly dead-locked in
controversy between road build
erS and planning groups.
Members of the interim group
include: Francis G. Addison, jr.,
president. Security Bank, and
chairman of the original Citi-
zens' Committee on Public
Works; Daniel w. Bell, presi-
dent. American Security and
Trust Co.; Herbert Blunck, gen.
eral manager. Hotel Statler;
George D. Burrus. president,
Peoples Drug Stores; Harry M.
Davidow. executive vice presi-
dent, Hecht Co.; Richard p.
Dunn, president, Julius Gar
f1nckel & Co.; Robert v. Flem-
ing. president. Riggs National
Bank; Philip L. Graham, presi-
dent and publisher. Washington
Post and Times-Herald.
Also. Cecil D. Kaufman,
president, Kay JeWelry Stores.
Inc: Frank j. Luchs, executive
vice president, Shannon g.
Luchs; Lothrop Luttrell, execu-
tive vice president, woodward &
Lothrop: Benjamin M. Nickel
way. editor, The Star; John A.
Reilly, president, Second Ma
tional Bank. and chairman of a
second Citizens Committee on
Public Works, and Charles H.
Tompkins, president, Charles H.
Tompklns Co.
Following is the text of the
interium groups statement:
For the past several years
Washington, along with all other
Continued on Page ALA, Col. A.
Evening star., 1954-05-23
District Boy, IA, Killed
In Fall From Truck

A 14-year-old District boy was
killed last night when he fell
from a Jack and Jill ice cream
truck at Sixty-f1fth and H
streets, Cedar Heights, Nd,
Prince Georges County police
reported.
Joseph N. Jenifer. jr.. colored,
of 1924 Gales street NE, was
pronounced dead by DR.. John T.
Maloney, county medical exam
iner.
Police said the boy was hitch
ing a ride with two companions
when he fell.
The driver was listed by police
as Robert B. Simmons. 19, Of the
4400 block of Seventy-second
avenue, Prince Georges County.
Evening star., 1954-05-23
An Expert Approises
The Battle for Asia

The bottle for Asio. both military
ond psychological. is going on todoy
from Indio to Indonesio. lndo Chino
is virtuoIIy in the srosp Of the Com
munists. Whot ore the prospects
for the other countries?
WiIIiom R. Ryon. AssOeioted Press
foreign news onolyst. spent six weeks
in thot oreo to find out. He hos tolked
with scores Of political leoders and
Others. He hos viewed the Com
munist propaganda compoiens in
these countries ogoinst the book
ground Of his wide Study of the Com
munist movement. both inside and
outside RSssio.
Mr.. Ryon is writing o series Of
articles to give his findings and
they will oppeoT. stortinS tomorrow
in The Stor.
Evening star., 1954-05-23
Five Point Policy Prepared
On Integrotion in Schools;
All Racial Lines Abandoned
Bourd of Education
Expected to Adopt
Blueprint Tuesday
By Colt HendIey, Jr.

A five-point statement of policy
to guide the abandonment of
racial segregation in the Dis
trict's public schools was drawn
up yesterday by a special COM
mittee of the Board of Education.
The statement made it clear
that school boundaries will be
changed. Pupils will not be
allowed to go to schools outside
the boundaries in which they
happen to live, regardless of the
racial character of the school
involved.
Elimination of all vestiges of
the present dual school system
was pledged in the statement.
Racial designations even will be
dropped on records.
The last line of the statement
reads:
1--WE ask the aid, cooperation
and good will of all citizens and
the help of the Almighty in hold
ing to our stated purposes.
School Board Acts Tuesday.
The statement will be pre-
sented to a special meeting Of
the School Board at 10 am.
Tuesday for adoption. It has
the support of School Supt. Ho-
bart M. Corning.
At that same meeting, DR..
Corning will present a blueprint
OF how and when integration of
the colored and white schools
will take place. He said his blue
print will not go into all of the
many details that will have to
be worked out, but will set the
framework for the jor ahead.
Whether the school system will
be integrated by this fall pre-
sumably will be settled at the
meeting also.
The statement, drawn by the
special committee of Walter N.
Tobriner. Wesley S. Williams
and Rowland F. Kinks, follows:
I'm the light Of the decision
Of the Supreme Court in Boiling
v. Sharpe. the Board of Educa-
tion of the District of Colum-
bia, believing it to be in the
best interest of all citizens of
the community of Washington,
and necessary to the effective
administration of an integrated
system within the public schools,
hereby adopts the following dec
laration of policy:
81. Appointments, transfers,
preferments. promotions, ratings
or any other matters respecting
the officers and employees of the
board shall be predicated solely
upon merit and not upon race
or color.
"2. No pupil of the public
schools shall be favored or dis
eliminated against in any mat
ter or in any manner respecting
his or her relationship to the
schools of the District of CO.
Continued on Page AT, Col. H.
Evening star., 1954-05-23
80 Suspects Seized
In Lone PoIicemon's S
Raid on GombIinu

Police Pvt. Daniel KrisS
found himself slightly out
numbered yesterday when
he went in alone for a rou-
tine check at Pappas' Coffee
Shop in the 500 block of G
street NV.
On the second floor, he
said, gambling was in prog
reSs. He managed to block
the passage and, at the same
time, summon help. Three
patrol wagons sent in re-
Sponse to his call hauled 80
men to the first precinct.
Each posted SIS collateral on
charges of being disorderly.
Evening star., 1954-05-23
Controller Hints D. T..
Cant Declare MAY 81
An Emp|oye Holiday
City Heods Also Lack
Right to Make July 5
Day Off, He Indicates
By John w. Stepp

An opinion of the Controller
General indicates that the Dis
trict Commissioners lack au-
thority to declare the Mondays
following Memorial Day and
July 4 as holidays for city en-
ployes, it was learned yesterday.
Acting Controller General
Frank H. Weitzel addressed a
six-page opinion, heavily larded
with legal citations. to the Com
miSsioners under date of May 6.
Although the District for years
without criticism-has been
giving its 10000 classified en-
ployes compensatory time off
when holidays fell on Saturdays
or Sundays, the Controller Gen.
erals office now apparently thinks
this has been a wrong practice.
ID. C. Workers Ignored.
A presidential order of 1852
specified that Federal employees
are entitled to an extra day of
or premium pay when a legal
holiday falls on a Saturday OF
Sunday not included in their
regular work week. The order
failed to encompass District
government workers, however.
This leaves city officials Won
dering whether the Controller
General means that this order
excludes District employees from
the Sunday holiday privilege OF
whether they are not entitled
to premium pay if they must
work on such holidays.
In conversations launched last
Friday, the Controller Generals
office was asked to state spe-
officially what he does mean.
Choices Are Listed.
These alternatives face the
Commissioners:
If the Controller General
really means the Commissioners
lack authority to declare the
Mondays in question as holidays
for time-of and premium pay
purposes, he will be asked to
waive enforcement of his ruling
until corrective legislation car
be prepared.
2. If the Controller General
refuses to waive enforcement
the President may be requested
to amend the 1852 holiday time
order to include local govern
ment employees.
3. If the President decides he
cannot issue such an amend
ment, the city heads may au-
thorize their employees to take
of the Mondays in question
charging it to their leave-ex-
cept for the relatively few need
ed to operate installations thai
must function continuously.
Evening star., 1954-05-23
Mccarthy Recalls
Teapot Dome Probe
Was Refused Files
Declares He Wants
To Remind President
OF 1924 Precedents
BY the Associated Press

FORT ATKINSON, Wis, May
Ex-senator Mccarthy, Repub-
lican, of Wisconsin, outlining his
side of his row with the Army
in an address tonight, declared
he wanted to remind" Presi-
dent Eisenhower of precedents
established in the Teapot Dome
investigation.
Senator Mccarthy said he
was going to call to the Presi-
dents attention what hap
pened back in 1924. You will
remember that in 1924 we had
a Republican President then,
also. The Attorney General in
the Teapot Dome scandal re-
fused the congressional commit.
tees access to files for grand
corruption.
"The committee wanted to
question the Attorney General.
The Attorney General refused.
After his refusal President Coo
lidge demanded his resignation
and ordered that if any of his
cabinet members know anything
about this. to freely testify and
give all the facts"
No Attack on President.
Senator Mccarthy, speaking
in shirtsleeves, declared This
is no attack on the President"
Wisconsin's Junior Senator told
Chamber of Commerce ban
quet, "but i am going to remind
him about his statement he made
at Abilene, Kans., some time ago
He said, Now that town had a
code and I was raised from a
boy on the code that we should
meet any one face to face with
whom you Disagreement to come
up behind him.
If you took the same risk and
met him face to face you could
get away with almost anything.
Senator Mccarthy, frequently
interrupted by applause, said he
hoped that before Monday the
President will go over those words
and recall the charges made
against two members of Senator
McCarthy's staff-Roy Cohn and
Francis Carr.
And here not only are they
denied the right to meet face-to-
face those who made the
charges" Senator Mccarthy said
But they are denied the right to
know who they are"
Machinery of the Smear.
Earlier, Senator Mccarthy
said in an interview he will ap-
pear and be ready to testify
when the Senate Subcommittee
| investigating his dispute with
the Army resumes it's sessions
Monday.
II shall advise my staff to
testify if they are called upon,
Senator Mccarthy also declared,
adding but I will not order
them to testify"
For himself Senator McCar-
thy said, "Of course will be
available to testify at any time. "
Senator Mccarthy said he
thought President Eisenhower
has been getting advice from the
left-wing press so that elements
of the press that always have
been trying to destroy the Re-
publican Party now are advising
Ike'S advisers.
This means that that element
of the press has greater influence
on the executive than ever be-
fore.
Il hope before Monday some
one might persuade President
Eisenhower that he's been get
! ting awful bad advice"
Evening star., 1954-05-23

nope to keep any foothold in
northern Indo-C China, already
under attack by Wet Mini
forces.
The impression here is that
Gen. Ely will have a hard time
persuading the French govern
ment to give him what he wants.
According to the best available
information:
/. No substantial reinforce
ments have been sent to Indo-
China from France since the fall
of Dien Bien Phu.
2. There is powerful oppoSi-
ton in the government to COM
mitting any more troops in the
delta region without a specific
guarantee of direct American
intervention in the Indo-Chinese
war.
Gen. Ely's job, of course, is
Evening star., 1954-05-23
Annapolis Graduates
Pictures, Biographies

PROSPECTIVE ENSiGNS - The
855-mon senior Gloss at the Novol
Academy includes 48 Washington
oreo midshipmen. For pictures and
biographies Of the prospective srod-
uotes. see Pose Az.
Complete Index. Pose AZ
Rodio- -TV Proeroms. Poees E-6- J
Evening star., 1954-05-23
Late News
Bulletin
Chief Bender Dies at ~;
Among Greatest Pitchers

PHILADELPHIA (P). -
Charles Albert Chief Ben
der, one of baseball's greatest
pitchers and a member of the
Hall of Fame, died last night
at the age of IL. Born at
Brainerd, Minn., the Chip
pewa Indian starred for the
Athletics from 1903 to 1914,
posting his finest record
(23-5) in 1910. He pitched
for Baltimore in the Federal
League in 1915 and for the
Phillies in 1861. He had
one no-hitter and led Ameri-
can League pitchers three sea-
sons.
Evening star., 1954-05-23
Trade and the Grass Roots
By Joseph A. Fox
Stor Stoff Corraspondent

EAST LIVERPOOL, Ohio, May
22.-Here at the head of the Ohio
Valley, where the river that gives
the region it's name curves south
from the Alleghenies, a 25-mile
strip of hill country illustrates
in miniature what Congress is up
against on a national scale in the
ageless battle over tariffs.
The big job in front of the
legislators is that of reconciling
Evening star., 1954-05-23

the conflict between little" in
dustry that needs heavy tariff
protection, and big" industry
that sells overseas and can take
care of itself against all corners.
It is no mean task.
President Eisenhower last week
took some of the heat off of Cap
itol Hill by dropping a plea for
more liberal trade policies right
at the moment. With an eye on
the approaching congressional
Evening star., 1954-05-23
By Crosby S. Noyes
FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT of The Stor

PARIS, May 22.-Paul Ely.
French chief of staff, is reported
on his way back to Paris today
to plead for immediate massive
reinforcement of the French
Union army in Indo-C China. Ac-
cording to these reports the gen.
eral has decided most drastic
action is called for if the French
Evening star., 1954-05-23

South Koreon Plan Offered at Geneva,
Deadlock Remoins. Poee AZ
Evening star., 1954-05-23

This is the first Of q series Of three
orticles in which the humon impoct
of the toriff issue is put under micro
seopic study in one Of the Notions
typicol industrial oreos.
Evening star., 1954-05-23
Assigned to Murder

Nikolai Khokhlov, former Soviet secret
agent. tells of his assignment to murder
fugitive Russian in western Germany.
He bares his defiance of the orders to
seek asylum. First of series of stories.
Page AS.
Evening star., 1954-05-23

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CONTINUED on Page AS, Col. ~
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Sc, is Continued on Page Ala, Col. Z.
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Continued on Page AT, Col. 2.)
Evening star., 1954-05-23

Mostly sunny and mild. high in the mid
70s. Tomorrow, partly cloudy and little
warmer. "Details on Page A-2.)
Hourly Temperatures.
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