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of Chevy Chase
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BENSTON, EMMA. On Saturday. May
IS, 1854. at her residence; 322 Ken
loved wife of John S. Benston. She
also leaves three sisters and many
other relatives and friends Friends
at the funeral home Of Alexander s.
Pope, Ala 10Th ST. Sc. High. requiem
mass celebrated at st. Cyprian,s
Church, 18th and stS. s.e., on We'd
nesday, May 10, at am. 1nterment
Lincoln Memorial Cemetery. 1Ss
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Visit chambers Flower
Center, 1900 BIodens-
burg Rd. NE. Flowers,
s. up.
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Thongs Leaving Tense Hanoi
As Defense Perimeter 7ightens
Americans Warned by ConsuI'to Depart
AS Wet Mimi Attackers Inch Nearer

French officer said two Wet
Mimi battalions fare. trying to
isolate our garrisons by captur-
ing small posts, cutting roads.
and blowing up bridges"
A mounting stream of refugees
is pouring into Hanoi in front
of the Wet Mimi attack. Be-
tween $4,000 and 100. 900 refugees
have Swelled the normal popula-
ton 100000. These are the ones
who fear the Communicated
rebels.
Many Nurse Hatred.
But for every Wet Namese
here angry at the thought Of q
possible French retreat from this
beleagiIered city. there are un-
counted others who have long
nursed a deep hatred for their
French colonial rulers. If they
become convinced the French
are pulling out, an unfortunate
incident could fan that smolder-
ing resentment into q last
chance" lood-letting::
The day / learn we have been
sold out, ! will take my gun, go
into the streets, and shoot the
first three French I See," one
Wet Namese told an American
here. TT win make me feel bet
ter, and it will give me points
with the Wet Mimi"
The French high command is
acutely aware the situation could
develop into a native uprising
like the 1916 outbreak which
killed hundreds of Europeans
and Eurasians. In every possible
way, the French seek to counter
act the idea they plan to leave.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-11
BY The Assoeiutsd Press

The growing power Of hydro
gen bombs makes evacuation of
cities an urgent necessity" ac-
cording to Civil Defense ADJ
ministrator Val Peterson.
THE fact that evacuation is
diflcuIt or inconvenient.s he
testified yesterday, docs not de-
tract from the fact that we must
have planned evacuation or mill
lions of Americans will die un-
necessarily in the event of at.
tack"
Seeking more operating funds
for his agency for 1855, Mr. Pet
erson told the Senate Appropria-
tionS Committee that the hydro
gen bomb has limited the peoples
choices to Idle, dig or get out. !"
And he said digging bomb shell
tiers will not solve the problem.
Despite the necessity for adj
vance preparation. he said. only
one city in the United States
Los Angeles lis even coming
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Scotland Yard Probes
Shooting Of ENJOYS

LONDON, July 10.-Two uni-
Identified diplomats were wound
ed in a mysterious gunf1ght to-
night not far from Buckingham
Palace in the vicinity Of the
Dominican Republic consulate.
Both were taken to hospital in
critical condition.
Detectives jumped into the
case but spread q cloak of dip
lomatic immunity" over any
finds.
The British Press Association.
however, identified the wounded
men as officials Of the Domin-
lean consulate.
One man fell at the foot Of the
consulate steps, and the other
staggered around q street corn
er before collapsing.
Somewhat varying witness re-
ports said the two men staggered
into q quiet street in the Bel
gravia section, q center OF diplo-
matte life in London. The men.
each about 40 years old, were
taken to st. Georges Hospital.
Several high police officials
during the night spent several
hours questioning Dominican
oficials and consular personnel.
Dominican officers declined to
comment. A member Of the
Caribbean republics embassy
the embassy is on another street
said Ambassador Don Luis
Logrono Cohen was not avail
able.
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Israel Moves 10 Draft
Minoriiies for Army
D. ne Asseeiused Press

JERUSALEM, July 10.-En-
listment Of Israel's Arabs into
the Israel Army was foreshad-
owed by an official announce
ment tonight that registration
Is about to begin among all Is
raeli minoritieS.
Israel,s compulsory service law
requires as years service for all
men and two years for women.
But so far. in practice. only
Jews and members Of the Druze
sectarian community actually
have been enlisted.
Tonight's announcement indi-
Gates the intention now Is to en-
force this law BY including Mos
lem and Christian Arabs who
comprise about 10 per cent Of
the population.
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City Evacuation Plan Called Urgent Need

close" to meeting the require
ments Of mass evacuation in
event of a hydrogen bomb at
tack.
Mr.. Peterson said Los Angeles
with its system OF traffic free
ways, or express highways, is
best suited thus far to evacuate
it's population in advance of q
hydrogen bomb attack.
Mr.. Peterson suggested that
American cities follow the lead
of Darmstadt. Germany. and
construct board highways bisect-
ing the population area. Darn
stadt was completely destroyed
by World War III IRE raids. and
in rebuilding has constructed
wide rfire alleys" furnishing q
fast and easy method Of escape.
In my Judgment, we win have
to have IRE alleys in our own
cities for mass evacuation Of
the population" Mr.. Peterson
said.
He told the COMMITTEES that
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successful mass evacuation de-
ponds on the amount of advance
warning, and that he hoped that
within two years the Air Force
detection system would give
American cities from 2 to 6 hours
warning.
Mr.. Peterson said he thought
now that cities like Columbus.
Ohio, and Indianapolis, with
half q million population, could
be completely evacuated in an
hour and q half.
He cited experiments under
taken this year in which Spo-
kane, Wash, evacuated 10000
people on foot from the heart
Of the city in ga minutes. and
in which Mobile, Ala. evacuated
10000 from q 46O-block area in
% minutes.
I'VE don't know II this princi-
pie of evacuation viii work until
We have to try it. but on the
basis Of evidence available it
viii be successful he said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-11
By the Associated Press

HANOI, Indo-C China, July TO-
The people OF this northern Indo-
China metropolis have begun the
rush to get out ahead of the Reds,
and Americans without urgent
business were told today to leave
at once.
The anti Communist Wet Ma
mese are leaving by hundreds
daily for the leSS-menaced south
rather than face the possibility
of life under the Wet Mimi here.
Those leaving are fearful that
the French may hand over this
great industrial city to Ho Chi
Mimi, the Red leader of the
Wet Mimi.
United States Consul Turner
Cannon told American CORE
spondents the situation In Hanoi
is very serious and that he told
Americans who have no urgent
business here to leave while COM
mercial planes are still available.
40 to so Americans.
The Americans here include, Is
to 20 government officials and
agency personnel, eight to IL
news correspondents. a teacher,
a student and four TO six mission
aries. The number varies with
travel movements.
Mr.. Cannon said he had given
the advice to get out to about 20
Filipino musicians playing in
Hanoi night clubs. They are un-
der American diplomatic care.
Plans have been made for evac-
uation of all Americans If it
becomes necessary, but plans
were not disclosed. All might
have to fly because other trans
port is either stopped or too
risky.
Crowds numbering UP to 1000
daily queue up uneasily to get
government exit permits and air
tickets. The latter already are
sold out through most of Au-
gust. Tension that could quickly
flare into panic or desperate re-
volt spread among thousands
more who cannot pay the price
of a plane ride over the sur
rounding jungles and mountains.
No Safe Roads South.
There are no safe roads Lead
ing south out of Hanoi to the
relative safety of Saigon, 700
miles away. The Wet Mimi now
occupies the southern third Of
the Red River Delta in the wake
Of French withdrawal to a mar
rowed defense perimeter around
the Delta belt from Hanoi to
Haiphong port. The only road
open out of Hanoi is the CO..
mile highway TO Haiphong. on
the China Sea, where some say
French may have to stage an
Indo-C China "DunkerQue."
The tightening north-south
Wet Mini pincer on Hanoi
thrust deep into French defenses
on the northwest corner of the
Delta. Red-led units overran
four small posts 20 miles north
west of Hanoi yesterday. A
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Star Foshion Editor
Reports From NJ. Y.

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Air Raid Alert in Florida
Proves a Minute Hoax
BY he As.eeiatsd Press

TALLAHASSEE, Fla, July 10.
Northwest Florida civil de-
Tense workers and police were
summoned to their posts before
dawn today by an air raid alert
which was not learned to be
false for over an. hour and q
half.
Florida Highway Patrol 1t.
A. d. CoSson said Tallahassee
police told him the alert was the
result Of an erroneous teletype
message sent from the Civil De-
Tense Air Division Control Center
in Marietta. Ca. BY mistake.
A yellow" alert advising civil
defense personnel and police
from Madison ID Pensacola that
an air attack was impending
was sounded at 4::56 am.
ED.T0. It was not until $50
am. that the all clear was
sounded and workers advised
the whole thing was . mistake.
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Administration Give,
lis Side Of The Story
In AEC-TVA Dispute
Budget Bureau Bucks
Eisenhower's Order,
Cites Federal Sovings
By Robert k. Walsh

The administration yesterday
gave its 'side Of the story" of
the AEC-TVA controversy, de-
claring that President Eisen-
hoWer's order for the Atomic
Energy Commission to buy cleo
trio power from q private utility
system in the Tennessee Valley
will safeguard the Nation and
promote "a private enterprise
economy"
The White House argument on
the politically explosive issue
came by way of a Budget Bureau
analysis given out by Represent
alive Jonas. Republican, of North
Carolina.
MIR. Jonas said he was dis
turbed by the controversy that
resulted from President Eisen-s
hower's instructions to Acc to
contract with the Middle States
Utilities, Inc. and the Southern
Co.. known as the Dixon-Yates
group, to build a plant at West
Memphis. Ark.
Electric power from that plant
would be distributed by the
Tennessee Valley Authority to
customers in Memphis and
Southwest Tennessee. 1t would
replace a similar amount of
power to be delivered to the
atomic plant at Paducah, KY.
Deny Aim To 'Dismember" iva.
Several Democratic legislators,
especially in the Senate, have at
tackled the Eisenhower order.
They warned it would undermine
IVA and prove unduly expensive
to the Government and danger
Gus to national security.
The Budget Bureau statement,
MIR. Jonas said, was prepared at
his request. It declared Gen.
Eisenhower's assurances and
other expert studies of the prob
lem provide a complete refuta-
ton of any suggestion that the
proposal is part of a plan to dis
member the IVA"
THE attempts to distort the
purposes and effect Of the con-
templated arrangement cannot
change the essential facts" the
statement said.
Principal purposes of Gen.
Eisenhower's decision. the state
ment emphasized, were:
ITO provide for national de-
tense needs: promote the best
interests. not only of the people
of the Tennessee Valley Area,
but OF all the people, and permit
amortization Of the costs Of the
facilities over q 25-year period,
thus averting an immediate cap
ital outlay of 500 million dollars
and reducing pressures against
the ceiling, on the national
debt"
Steam Plant Funds Refused.
The plan for a private plant at
West Memphis, Ark. was an
alternative to a proposal to build
a steam plant at Fulton, Tenn,
by IVA. the statement noted.
"A significant factor in con-
nection with this steam plant,
the statement continued, us that
Congress on four separate occa-
sions in the current session and
the preceding session has voted
down amendments to provide
funds to the IVA to start con-
Struction.
Construction of the Fulton
steam plant by iva would create
the risk of q large block Of sur
(See TvVA Pa1e A.Sl
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Major Parties Grid
For November FIGHT

CAMPAIGN STRATEGY III mey
not be gentle. bat il viii b. fun 10
wateh-shs Coming campaign fes con-
troll Of Congress. Ster StoH WHter
Jack Jonas has deIved into me two
parties plans end outlines their strat-
esy on Ross All.
DREAM CONES TRUE Tks new
Camp Echo Lake fer underprivileseS
children of Montgomery County Is .
result Of dreams by residents who rec
osRized the need for Q sumner camp
and set out to establish ope. See the
story on Pose Ala.
TExAN--ciosins shop to head for
Texas end . visit With his 9e-ysor- olS
mother is Chief Jndss Marvin james
Of HE Court 81 Claims -onothsr Zone
Of the Psopls" introduced By George
Kennedy ~ Pess Az.
Complete Index, Page AZ
eodio- ~ Programs. Pages ELS
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By steed Evans

Jimmy Potter, Is, who for four
years was an also-ran, yesterday
coaSted across the finish line
the winner in the 18th annual
Washington Soap Box Derby.
Second place and the class 3
championship went to 13-year-
old James r. McMahan OF 43O7
Fifty-sixth avenue, Bladensburg.
Md.
Young Potter. who lives at
2049 Thirty fourth street Sc
only a few blocks from the
Pennsylvania avenue course
was the last driver to enter the
race. He had gone to final in
spection Friday night at the
National Guard Armory with
friends and, although he had
not planned to enter. was caught
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immyPott SoopBoxVictor
After -Four Years as AIso-Ron
Lust-Minute Entry Coasts to Triumph;
james McMohun Is Winner in Gloss B

up In the i0rerace fever. He re-
turned with his car in time to
pass inspection.
1t was Jimmy's fifth and last
chance ct the championship.
Last year he was beaten IN seni-
final racing by the eventual
champion, John Moore, jr., OF
3O3 Hume avenue, Alexandria.
In 1852 he was nosed out Of the
class A championship by Bob
Rogers, 5512 Huntington park
way. Bethesda, Md. In 1851. he
managed to win the class B
crown but was edged for the
championship by Don Sheets, Of
919 North Randolph street, Ar
lington. Va. In 1850, his first
year. he was defeated in a clash
for class B championship by
Walter b. Morrow, of 1415 Tuck
erman street NV.
Jimmy was the biggest, heav-
lest, oldest-an fastest boy in
the race. He weighs 100 pounds,
stands 6 feet inch tall, and is
only IL days away from being
too old to qualify for the Akron
race.
Record Time for Day.
Young Potter's hard-won vic
tory was no SUNRISE to the
crowd. estimated by Derby Gem
eral Chairman Howard p. Bailey
of The Star at between 5000
and 10000 during the peak Of
racing.
In his first race of the day.
James tMcMahan set the then
fastest time of the day, SIS sec
onds for the 875-foot course.
Considering that most other
drivers were setting times more
than a second slower. his lead
seemed secure until Potter came
down in identical time.
Because the two were faster
than all the other drivers, the
crowd chose them as favorites.
The Potter youth later set the
fastest time OF the day--31.2.
one-tenth Of q second slower
than the 1919 record--in q spe-
cial elimination race.
Day Perfect for Racing.
For his perseverance. Jimmy
won q bicycle from Williams
Chevrolet for setting q faster
time than all other boys regis
tered at the leadership. He also
won the T. H. Heating award, a
handsome metal. wood and plas-
tic plaque given by Chevrolet.
But the biggest prize was the
chance he won to 60 to Akron.
Ohio, August is to compete In
the ALI American Soap Box
Derby and for q crack at SIS. 900
In scholarship prizes.
The Washington Derby was
(Tsontinllnd on pane 40 Col y
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-11

ASUNCION. Paraguay, July
10 (Hl. Gen. Alfredo Stroessner,
Paraguay's new strong man. will
be elected President of the Re-
public tomorrow. The unopposed
candidate of the Colorado Party,
the only party permitted in
Paraguay. he is expected to set
about 100000 votes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-11

who is president of Pennsylvania
State University, died yesterday.
Vice President Nixon will adj
dress the Governors Conference
in President Eisenhower's place.
White House Press Secretary
James C. Hagerty announced.
He said Gov. Dan Thornton of
Colorado, chairman of the con-
ference, had been notified Of the
change in plans.
Mr.. Hagerty said Gen. Eisen-
hover planned to attend Mrs.
Eisenhower's funeral at State
College, Pa, on Tuesday. He said
the exact travel plans had not
been worked out.
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3 SAAA~AAAASSAN
major western powers are work
ing to destroy the fabric of free
world cooperation. And they
are doing it with no clear idea of
what they will substitute in its
place.
In Britain, the experts are
meeting to devise plans for re-
storing German sovereignty.
There is no secret about the ulti-
mate objective: German rearma-
ment outside of the European
Defense Community, in case EDO
is turned down by the French As
sembly.
Bitterness i'm France.
These experts realize perfectly
we'll that France, if it rejects
EDO. will not go along with the
plan they are drawing up. They
know that any attempt to rearm
Germany over a French veto
would mean deliberate violation
of solemn treaties. They know
the action would be illegal in in
ternational law and in the eyes
of public opinion the world over.
They also know that the rearma-
ment Of Germany is far from be-
ing an end in itself. and that the
revival Of Franco German hos
Utility would be an incalculable
tragedy. Yet they are setting
about their assigned task pur-
posefully.
In France, there is bitterness
In the new government that its
motives should be taken as a
foregone conclusion. The Anglo
American talks are considered
as conspiracy-part Of cal
culated plan to freeze France
out of the. councils of the great
non Communist powers. The re-
action is natural, although hot
what the Anglo-American plan
ners expected: This isolation is
being accepted at face-value. If
the allies are out TO show France
that they can get along without
French cooperation, france is
out to show the allies Just what
that lack Of cooperation can
mean.
Irony in u. s. Complaints.
In the light of the London
talks there is huge irony in Amer
lean complaints that the French
government is showing a disin-
clination to consult about the
conduct of its affairs in Inr0-
China. Cooperation, in the
French view. is a two way propos
sition. And so Is suspicion and
mistrust.
German Chancellor Konrad
Adenauer, meanwhile, has re-
moved the velvet gloves. Even
those most sympathetic with Dr..
Adenauer's own political prob
lem were startled by the tone of
his latest warning to France.
In spite of all that has happened,
it still comes as a shock to most
Western Europeans to realize
that Germany today is in o posi-
ton to deliver ultimatums to
one of its occupying powers. Ard
the psychological atmosphere in
France is not improved by the
knowledge that this is done with
the backing and the blessing of
the other two occupying powers.
What DR.. Adenauer said that
France must choose between
EDO and independent. German
rearmament--may be no more
than true. But until recently
the German chancellor wisely
refrained from saying SO in pub
lie.
Steady Stream Of Threats.
Finally, from washington
comes steady stream of what
seem over here to be senseless
tSee ALLIANCE, Page A-6o
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Western Powers
Seen Destroying
Free World Unity
By Crosby 5. Moves
Foreign Correspondent Of The Star

PARISH is shocking how
fast the cement of the North At
lantic Alliance is being turned to
mud. It is frightening how
quickly all unity Of purpose and
action can disappear under a
cloud Of willful misunderstand-
ing, suspicion and bad temper.
In Europe today there is one
overwhelming impression: In
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-11

Dulles Ponders Pro ond Con Of Return
to Geneva Poge "A
Mendes- Fronee flies book to Geneva for
finoI peace moves. Pooe A
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Eisenhower Cancels
Talk 10 Governors
BY The Associated Press

The White House announced
last night that President Eisen-
hover has Cancelled his plans to
deliver an off-the-cuff address
to the annual Governors Con-
ference at Bolton Landing, N. Y.
tomorrow night because Of the
death Of his siSter-in-law.
Mrs. Milton s. Eisenhower,
wife Of the Presidents brother
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-11

Milton Eisenhower's wife dies at Stote
College. Page C-6
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Steady Stream Of Threats.
Finally, from washington
comes a steady stream of what
seem over here to be senselesS
lSee ALLIANCE. Page A-6.l
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-11

lContinued on Page A-9. Col.
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tsee FOREIGN AID. Page ALL
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Stroessner Election Sure

tSee iva, Page A-5.)
, 1954-06-03
GOVERNMENT or
THE VIRGIN ISLANDS OF THE UNITED STATES
Hharlottn Annalie Ct Thomas
CharIotte Amalie, ST. Thomas

THIS is TO CERTIFY that there has been registered in
the Office Of the Government Secretary Of the Virgin Islands
Of the United States, at St. Thomas, in accordance with the
the provisions Of the Regulations governing the registration
Of Patents and Trademarks in the Virgin Islands, approved
/, 1916, the following TRADEMARK:
EPIC