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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-08
Ousted Corsi Fails to Get
White House Conference
State Department to Issue Statement
Concerning His Sudden Dismissal

who was at his home in Easton,
Pa, said he had no comment on
the development.
The State Department prom
Used to issue a statement shortly
on Mr.. Corsi'S situation. A De-
partment spokesman, meanwhile,
declined to answer questions re-
lating to the sudden dismissal.
Press Officer Henry Suydam
told reporters it would be "fu-
tile" for him to deal with the
subject pending release of the
statement.
The State Departments deci-
sion not to renew Mr.. Corsi's
appointment was revealed by
The Star late yesterday.
Security Influence Denied
However, Assistant Secretary
Of State 10y Henderson wanted
him clearly to understand it
was not matter of security
clearance" Mr.. Corsi told re-
porters.
II was officially informed by
Mr.. Henderson" Mr.. Corsi said.
with the departments apologies
that as of Sunday, my So
called temporary appointment
expires. I was told that since
my clearance was not yet COM
pleted I would not be continued
IN my job as Deputy Refugee
Relief Act Administrator. but
that the Secretary wanted me
for an equally important assign
ment. which would involve a lot
of travel"
Mr.. Corsi said he had not
made up his mind whether to
continue or not.
GAS to what I think of all
this" he said, 81 want to with
hold my comment until later"
Once apparently a prospect
for appointment as Secretary of
Labor, Mr.. Corsi has not re-
ceived strong administration
See CORSI, Page "A
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-08
Sunrise Services
Listed in Star

EASTER sERviceS-Hishliehts Of
the yorious Eoster services in the
Washington oreo ore prewewed by
The Stors religion editor. See Pose
AS.
SOVIET sLAvES--John n. Noble,
former Russion prisoner in Siberia,
continues his recoIleetlons Of other
AmeHeons he met r slave comps on
Pose AS.
LENTEk THoUGHT-seuiptor
Felix De Weldon. creator Of the Two
limo monument. quotes 81. John as
the 'enter season drows to close.
See poee b..
PApAL ASTRONOMER - The Rev.
Wolter J. Miller. who searches for
yoriobIe stars ct the votieon Observe
tory, is visiting Washington. See Poss
B-3.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-08
BY MARY McGRORY

Edward j. Corsi, outgoing
deputy administrator Of the Ref
ugee Relief Act, sought appoint
ments today at the White House
and the State Department to
find out why he was losing the
job which so suddenly became
temporary
He waited hopefully for a pre-
sidential aide to set the time for
a talk-but the White House
indicated no appointment would
be forthcoming.
| Mr.. Corsi did hope to see Sec
rotary Of State Dolles this after
noon.
The former United States i'm
migration commissioner an d
ong-time industrial aide to for
mer Gov. Dewey Of New York
must also decide whether or not
to take IAN equally important
assignment" another temporary
one Involving a lot Of travel, |"
which was offered to him by the
State Department pending Sc
curity clearance.
Mr.. Corsi was uncertain today
whether he should take the sub
stitute assignment. He was
plainly disenchanted by the
turn of events which had
reduced him from his late
December status as Secre-
tary Dulles "old friend" and tile
"best qualified man in the
United States" to solve refugee
law problems, to yesterdays sta
tus as an dependable 90-day ap-
pointee.
Mr.. Corsi told The Star last
night:
II came down here relying
solely on the honesty and in
tegrity Of Mr.. Dulles"
Old Backer of Dulles
An Italian immigrant and a
familiar figure in New York Re-
publican circles who once cam
paigned for MIR. Dulles for the
Senate, Mr.. Corsi said, IF I
had known it was to be a 90
day job, I never would have
come down" He first heard his
appointment would expire next
Sunday from remarks made by
Mr.. Dulles on Tuesday. N
A State Department spokes-
man explained on Wednesday
that there are two types of de-
partment job appointments-90-
day appointments which are
susbject to security checks and
regular appointments which are
made after security checks are
completed. He said Mr.. Corsi's
appointment was of the first
type.
Since he was introduced by
Mr.. Dulles to a press confer
ence in December as special as
sistant on immigration. Mr..
Corsi has been the target of
repeated attacks by Chairman
Walter of the House Judiciary
immigration Subcommittee. The
Pennsylvania Democrat has ac-
cused Mr.. Corsi of membership
in Communist organizations.
Mr. Corsi has denied the charges.
The Associated Press reported
this morning that Mr.. Walter,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-08
White, Co|ored
PTAs 10 Merge
Two Congresses Plan
Consolidation by
Next October
BY JAMES G. DEANE

WaShington's white and COL
ored parent-teacher congresses
today announced plans to con-
solidate by next october.
Officers of the two organiza-
tons disclosed that the colored
Washington Congress Of Parents
and Teachers will dissolve and its
SO member associations will be
absored by the white District
Congress of Parents and Teach
ers.
Disclosure of the consolida-
ton plans was made at a meet
ing of a joint Intergroup Com
mittee which has been negotiat-
ing since last fall.
The District Congress-larger
and older of the two PTA organ
izations-last June announced
that it would accept colored par
ents in its individual associations
at schools racially integrated
starting last fall. The Negotiat-
ing Committee was set up in Sep
TENDER.
24,590 Membership
The white congress currently
has 81 member units and paid
membership of 24,590. The COL
ored congress normally has a
membership of about $1,000, al
though the latest official count
in February. showed 1928.
Twenty units have not yet sub
mitted membership reports for
this year.
Mrs. Frank F. Strope, presi-
dent Of the District Congress,
and Robert F. Brooks, Washing
ton Congress president, worked
with the negotiators on the con-
solidation plans. The special
joint committee was headed by
Mrs. Franklin G. Sartwell, an
officer Of the District Congress.
Under the consolidation plans,
District congress officers-to be
elected next month-will retain
the top-level leadership of the
integrated organization for the
next three years.
However, the number of area
councils within the District
Congress organization is ex-
pected to be expanded to en-
brace Washington Congress
units, and these councils will
elect their own leadership.
Negroes to Be on Board
The District Congress board
of managers also will appoint
committee chairmen next fall,
and Mrs. Strope said it is ex-
pected through both these steps
that colored leaders will be
brought into the board, which
Is the congress governing body.
Both congresses plan to pro-
coed with plans for their annual
conventions next month. The
Washington Congress has can
celled its normal election, how
ever. Mr.. Brooks and fellow Off
GERS Of the colored congress plan
to remain in Office until the con-
solidation is completed.
The Washington Congress will
withdraw from the National
Congress Of Colored Parents and
Teachers, with which it has been
affiliated since 1896.
The National Congress Of Par
ents and Teachers. with which
the white District congress is
affiliated. already has both wnlte
and colored members. The COL
ored national congress was set
up with the assistance of the
other organization to provide
representation for PTA groups
in segregated school systems.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-08
japanese Admiral
Freed on PuroIe

TOKYO. April 8 tP.-Former
Admiral Shigetaro Shimada. 10,
navy minister Of Japan's World
War II cabinet, was freed on
parole today after serving six
years of a life sentence as a war
criminal.
Seven allied governments had
agreed to parole him because of
i'll health.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-08
Menon Sees BuIqunin

MOSCOW, April 8 R.-In-
dian Ambassador K. p. 8. Menon
talked for an hour at the Krem-
lin today with Soviet Premier
Nikolai Bulganin. Indian sources
said the two covered q wide
range of subjects"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-08
Key Proposal of Zeckendorf
For Southwest RedeveIopment
Endorsed by Planning Board
Tentative Action
Is Taken on New
Traffic Scheme
BY GEORGE BEvERIDGE

Lie incJ llldJOi otCP tOWdlO
agreement on the Zeckendorf
plan for Southwest Washington
redevelopment was registered to-
day when the National Capital
Planning Commission tenta-
lively approved a new traffic
scheme preserving a 300-foot-
wide South MALI along Tenth
street to the waterfront.
A number of major problems
still remain to be worked out.
But the new plan. drawn by
William Zeckendorf's New York
firm, and transmitted by a plan
ming commission committee to-
day, appears to form basis for
agreement on key issues.
The vote today-and it was
strictly tentative supercedes
earlier planning commission in
dorsement of a highway plan
which would have moved the
South Mall to a less desirable
IOcaClOn at NlnCn street.
Two Key Points
Key points in the planners
approval were that the new plan
does far less damage than earlier
proposals to the wholesale pro-
duce market center on the water
front and does not preclude
eventual construction of a
Reaches Run bridge-a pet plan
ming commission project.
Mr.. zeckendorf has insisted
that the mall. linking the South
west to the rest of the city and
free from heavy traffic, is the
one must" in his proposal. The
trouble with his earlier plans
was that they did not work out
satisfactory way to handle heavy
traffic on other streets without
damaging the area.
The vote today was 5 to 0,
with two members, Edward j.
Kelly, associate superintendent of
National Capital parks, and H.
j. Spelman, Bureau of Public
Roads member. abstaining.
Not present for the voting were
Harland Bartholomew. commits
sion chairman, and Conrad L.
Wirth. National Park Service
chief. a strong critic of earlier
Zeckendorf plans and chairman
Of the special committee which
has been trying to resolve the
conflicts.
Had Not Seen Report
Mr.. Spelman said Mr.. With
had seen the plan in conferences
with Zeckendorf aides. but had
not seen the "Wirth Committee"
report Mr.. Spelman presented
today. John A. Remon, District
Redevelopment Land Agency
chairman, was presiding in Mr..
Bartholomew place when Dis
trict Engineer Commissioner
Thomas A. Lane moved approval
of the new plan.
The plan calls for the Tenth
street mall to be angled slightly
eastward from Tenth as it ap-
proaches the waterfront, ending
in a wide, circular overlook"
atop Maine avenue and the
Washington Channel.
Mr.. Spelman said this would
require a change in the channel
shoreline and the United States
engineers would have to report
on this major switch.
Another major problem likely
to cause trouble is that the mall
splits up an area the Smith
sonian Institution wants for flu
ture expansion just south of
Independence avenue.
More Study Required
Mr.. Spelman said two other
questions need more study: Cd
whether the traffic plan suits
the District Highway Depart
ment and (2) the fact that Mr..
Zeckendorf proposes to concen-
trate between 5000 and 1000
more Federal workers in the
Southwest than the planning
commission proposes in its COM
Continued on Page B-1, Col. 6 !
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Eye Respite

The need for eye rest is sometimes
overlooked in this day of television,
movies and hundreds Of other demands
for seeing, warns Charles E. Tracewell
on
Page A-10.
N. Y. Stock Exchange Closed Today
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-08

An Associated Press Newspaper
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-08
Weather Forecast

Clear tonight. low near 81 in city and 80
in suburbs. Fair and warmer tomorrow and
Sunday. F'ull report on Page A-20
Temperatures Today
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-07-08
Reclamation Association
Admits Idaho Power
COMPANY Assistance

WASHINGTON, d. C.-The presi-
dent of the Idaho Power Reclamation
Association, bitter opponents of a
federal Hells Canyon project, openly
admitted that attorneys for the Idaho
Power Company had prepared some
of their resolutions in opposition to
federal Hells Canyon for endorse
ment by the State Reclamation As
ISOLATION.
Fred Cooper, president of the recla-
nation group, testified May before
the Senate Interior subcommittee on
Irrigation Reclamation, that Clifford
Fix, lawyer for Idaho Power Com
pany, prepared the anti-federal Hells
Canyon project resolutions for en-
dorsements by the grass roots asso-
citation at its annual meeting April
1926. Cooper's testimony came dur
ing the Senate subcommittee hear
ings on Senator Wayne Morse's
(Ore.) bill to authorize the federal
construction of multi-purpose prof.
ect at the Hells Canyon site on the
middle stretch of the Snake River.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-07-08

NASHVILLE TENNESSEAN and
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH report
ers saw copies of the 26-man task
force plan, May IA. All &c the
Post-Dispatch said, are antagonistic
to public power at low cost, including
their chairman, Admiral Ben Morrell,
chairman of Jones & Laughlin Steel
Corporation. They recommend
that Atomic Energy Commission
take over IVA plants supplying Acc
with power;
that other IVA plants be sold
to cities or private firms; and
that the Army engineers sell it's
power facilities.
The report reflects the views of
Herbert Hoover who,
two years ago, said the government
should "get out of the business of
generating and distributing power"
and "rescue free men from this
variety of creeping socialism"
President Eisenhower, who once
called IVA creeping socialism," said
at his press conference, May 10, that
he would never personally do any
thing to wreck IVA.
Two years ago, the Hoover Com
mission itself, 12-man body, split
to 5 in rejecting a suggestion of
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-07-08

1t was very hot in Panama in April
Children-lots and lots of them
swarmed around the wooden tene
ments and through the streets. They
were of every race and kind. Little
buses scurried through the narrow
streets carrying people between work
and home. In the afternoon, radios
blared in both Spanish and English
every event of major league baseball
games being played in the United
States. The fourth candidate for pres
ident of Panama suddenly announced
himself and led an Scar auto parade
through the streets.
But the most important event go
ing on in Panama in late April was
the Third Annual Catholic Congress
on Rural Life which was followed i'm
mediately by a workshop and insti-
tute on co-operatives, sponsored and
arranged by the National Catholic
Rural Life Conference of which
Msgr. Luigi Ligutti is the executive
director.
The reason this Congress and Co
operative Institute were the most
important events in Panama at this
time is because they were directed
at and concerned with the everyday
problems of the teeming millions of
people who inhabit the many coun-
tries that border and dot the Carib-
bean Sea.
People of every sort and kind at
tended bishop and archbishops and
hard pressed farmers, priests and
sisters and professors and plain lay
government officials and
labor organizers.
Patiently, intently they listened |
to explanations of the basic principles
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-07-08
The PEOPLES BUSINESS
BY JERRY VOORHIS
CA Cooperative News Service Feature)

of cooperation and their relationship
to Christian teaching and precepts
Eagerly they heard of the work al
ready in progress-of $4,000 credit
union members in the Dominican
Republic, a shoe makers cooperative
in Honduras, dairy farmers co-opera-
tives in Costa Rica, more credit I'M
ions in Jamaica, and Mexico, and
Dominica, and a fairly we'll balanced
cooperative development of all types
in Puerto Rico.
Not once in all the five days I was
there did single person question the
basic assumption on which the insti-
tute was held-that the one answer
to problems of poverty in the Carib-
bean is mutual aid and cooperation
among the people.
Neither did anyone question the
tremendous size or difficulty of the
task to be performed. In many places
illiteracy must be overcome. In most
places the confidence of the people
must be developed-tha is their be-
lief that conditions can be changed.
the need is for trained
leadership.
So the training of leaders was gen
orally agreed upon as the first step
to be taken. One or two training cen
tiers already exist So it is proposed
to build on them-where they are
develop and expand them. Then du-
plicate them in other countries.
Wise expenditure of even a mod
est amount of money plus devoted
service by a new kind of very practi-
cal missionary could-and one day |
believe will-make a different world |
Of the Caribbean area for the people |
who live there.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-07-08
PROGRESS I'm
RACE RELATIONS

In March, two Presbyterian synods
met in the same town, Okmulgee, Ok
lahoma. The Synod of Canadian of the
Presbyterian Church U.S.A. met in
the Presbyterian Church, with the
Reverend Samuel Mallard as host
pastor. The Synod of Oklahoma, Pres
byterian Church U.S.A., met in the
First Church, with the Reverend Rich
ard M. Archibald as host pastor.
What was so unusual about these
meetings? These groups met to vote
themselves out of existence. The Syn
cd of Canadian has been made up of
the negro Presbyterian churches of
Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas, and
southern Missouri. The Synod of Ok
lahoma has been made up of the
white Presbyterian churches of Okla
homa and Arkansas. Both synods
voted to present to the General As
sembly request to discontinue as
separate synods and to become one
new, integrated synod. While the Rev.
erends James F. Henderson and VIII
liam F. Cannon were presenting the
case for union to their fellow Pres
byters of Canadian Synod, the Rever-
end C. Ralston Smith was presenting
the same case to the Synod of Okla
homa. Later, lunch was prepared by
the women of the First Church and
served to the 210 people from both
synods. Following lunch, the two
groups met for Holy Communion. The
Sacrament was administered by the
two synod moderators, the Reverends
Lewis Rogers and Wilbur G. Allen.
This meeting brought the two syn
DDS together for their first joint gath
ering. At the session it was voted to
bring to an end another racial judica-
tory, Choctaw Presbytery, one of the
seven presbyteries of the Synod of
Oklahoma. BY synod action, the rec
ommendation was passed on to Gen
eral Assembly that the new synod be J
divided into four presbyteries. This !
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-07-08

WASHINGTON, ID. C.-The whole
sale price index is the oldest con-
tinuous statistical series published by
the Labor Departments Bureau of
Labor Statistics, and one of the old
est non-fiscal series of the federal
government. 1t was started in 1890
by the United States Bureau of La
Dor, the predecessor agency of the
current BIS.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-07-08

Congressman Chef Holifield (D-Cal.)
that two men be added to the task
force who represent the public power
viewpoint.
The task force report will cost
100000. The Post-Dispatch called it
"a stacked report by a stacked com
mittee" and ga document that will
serve as a Bible for private power
lobbyists for 20 years"
Hoover lives at the Sheraton
Park hotel here with Sidney A.
Mitchell, private utility career man
and American Gas & Electric Com
pany director. MitchelI's father was
board chairman of Electric Bond
& Share. Hoover and Mitchell hand
picked the task force two years ago.
Senator Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn.)
and Representative Frank M. Karsten
(D-Mo.) demanded that Hoover re-
lease the report. Hoover declined to
do so. Karsten asked the House to
subpoena it, if necessary. Representa-
tive Ross Bass (D-Tenn.) demanded
the Hoover groups abolition.
PATRONIZE THE CO-OPS-THEY
BELONG TO THE USERS.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-07-08
FPc Issues Preliminary
Permit For Oregon
Coop Power Project

WASHINGTON, D. C.-(CNS)-
The Federal Power Commission has
issued 36-month preliminary permit
to the Coos-Curry Electric Co-opera-
tive of Coquille, Ore, for it's proposed
Bald Mountain hydroelectric project
on the Illinois river in Oregon. The
proposed project would include a
100-foot high concrete overflow di-
version dam with fish ladders; 3.9
mile tunnel; underground penstocks
and a powerhouse with an installed
capacity of about $4,000 kilowatts.
Power would be used by the coop,
with excess diverted to the Northwest
power pool.
The permit does not authorize con-
but establishes its holder
priority of application for license
while conducting surveys.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-07-08
HOOVER GROUP plans
TO JUNK iva

WASHINGTON D. C-(CNS)-Next month, the Hoover
will release 1800page report that recon-
breakup Tennessee Valley Authority and public
power systems across the nation.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-07-08

recommendation, if carried out, will
make the Choctaw Indian churches
part of an interracial presbytery.
Realizing that the Choctaw work is
quite different from the work in
most other areas of the synod, rec
ommendation was passed suggesting
the possibility of larger parishes or
associations of Choctaw churches
within a presbytery.
In 1851, the Synod of Oklahoma, in
considering the plan for regional
synods, voted its willingness to join
with the Synods of Canadian, Texas,
and New Mexico. The same year, the
Synod of Oklahoma overturned the
General Assembly "to dissolve the
Presbytery of Choctaw and transfer
its churches, ministers, licentiates,
and candidates to the Presbytery of
Muskogee" of this synod. The work
done in 1855 is thus result of several
years of thought on the subject of
race as it affects the judicatories of
our Church. Final action, however,
must be taken by the General Assem-
bly.-PRESBYTERIAN LIFE.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1955-12-09
Initiation

Baptism Is the Sacrament Of
into THE Christian Life
ll- 49, e- I4 S1c.-
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1955-12-09

Mrs Agee lends her talents n
support Of their varying pro-
grams Again her stuffed TOYS
have found great popularity
a m ong Virginia S hospltailzed
veterans VINO select them ~ send
ID their children at home
The week before Christmas
elN find Mrs Agee Mr. Pairet
Mrs Howard stuart regent. and
ether members Of the Women 81
1ne Moose ousy sorting and pack :
.ng TIE toys and buying base
sooos w.th the donations Of
money Delivery Of The gift boxes
VIII be made on Christmas Eve
oy the Men Of the Moose When
all the lttle children wake UP
early the morning of December
z5th Santa VIII have come To a
number THE Christmas Mother
Gouldn let h.n forget
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1955-12-09

Mrs Bennett T Taylor presl-
dent Of the FarmWne Woman S
Club. honoled Mrs Joel w Flood
Of AppomattoX guest speaker at
the Womans Club meeting Wed
nesday afternoon, with a lunch
con at her home on High Street
prior to the meeting Mrs Flood
is vice president Of The Alice KYLE
District q the Federation Of
Woman's Clubs
Others attending the luncheon
were Mrs J P Wynne. Mrs
Grace Gordon Mrs r w Bloom
field Mrs P McCraw Mrs {
f. Wilson ana MIS- VI p Fanier
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1955-12-09

The marriage of Miss shirley
Louise slndsey daughter Of MI
and Mr. Henry Lindsey of RICE
to john Beverly Lindsey Son Of
Mr. and Mrs John W Lindsey vi
Rice took place at III 30 FRIDAY
Dec z N the home Of the Off
eating minister the Rev Scion
3 Cousins, Of Richmond. Vho
performed the marriage ceremony
for the grooms parents 26 years
ago