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Evening star., 1955-06-30
House Group Approves
Funds to Expond Capitol

/ Commission for Extension OF
the United States Capitol. II
would be composed of the presi-
dent of the Senate, the Speaker
of the House, the Minority
Leader of the Senate, the
Minority Leader of the House
and the Architect of the Capitol
Plans would be worked out
based on architectural sketche:
submitted in 1905 by a join
commission of Congress.
But the legislation provide:
further that this old pending
lplan could be modified with add.
tions. including provisions fol
restaurant and other facilitie.
approved by the new commission
Other Funds Included
The legislative supply bill
carries funds for next fiscal veal
totaling $66.298,175. This woulo
take care of not only the House
itself but also the Architect oi
the Capitol. the Botanic Garden
the Library of Congress and the
Government Printing Office. But
the House left to the Senate the
responsibility of inserting the
funds needed for the Senate it.
self, the Senate side of the Cap
Iitol and the Senate Office Build
IingS.
House of Representatives
budget was set at $31,105,8 ,805,
an increase of $2,195. 635 over
the current year. The major
Iportion of this increase, the ap-
preparations committee said,
covers the salary increases voted
for members earlier in the ses-
sion.
A comprehensive system of
salary raises and a proposal to
give each member a new re-
search assistant, was under con-
Isideration, but the appropria-
tions committee report said at
the present time the program
was mot in such final form" as
to be included in the pending
bill.
Evening star., 1955-06-30
Union Bars
New Terms
For Peace
BY HERMAN F. sCHADEN

Capital Transit Co. officials.
working against a midnight
strike deadline, made a settle
ment proposal through a Senate
District Subcommittee hearing
today, based on tax relief and
higher fares.
AFL Transit Union officials
promptly labeled the arrange
ment unacceptable as basis OF
halting a walkout of 2,400 bus
and street car operators which
would leave the city's public
transportation paralyzed.
Just before the subcommittee
began hammering away for a
settlement formula. Representa-
tive Broyhill, Republican, of Vir-
ginia introduced a bill providing
for District government seizure
of the company if the strike is
called.
Mr.. Broyhill said he would
ask the House District Commit
Itee to give immediate considera-
tion to the bill if the strike
comes of.
Seeks Control by District
The bill would transfer oper-
alton of the company to the
District Commissioners and make
transit workers employees of the
District for the duration of the
Emergency. 1t also would make
lit crime to strike against the
District.
Chairman Mcnamara, of the
subcommittee said at the con-
clusion of the session with COM
pany officials:
"We made little progress this
morning. We have no present
plans to talk to the union"
While the committee meeting
was in progress, the Union
Executive board was meeting.
part of the time with Federal
mediators. Hearing of the COM
pany's proposal, Walter j. Bier
.Iwagen, the union president said:
1--WE cannot consent to any
contingencies at all. The COM
pany was purchased with the
idea of certain risks and can't
adopt the policy of profits for
|Wolfson Nouis E. Wolfson.
principal owner) and risk for
the employees"
| j. A. B. Broadwater, transit
company president. told the SUBJ
committee today that, in ac-
cordance with suggestions made
yesterday by the Commissioners,
the company was willing to "ear-
mark" revenues derived from
elimination of gross receipts
earnings and increased school
fares for wage increases for the
union. He emphasized this
would be final settlement Of
Iall differences, including pension
and welfare demands.
Would Use New Revenues
Under questioning by Senator
Morse, Democrat, of Oregon Mr..
Broadwater said only those reve-
nues obtained through tax relief
and higher school fares would be
used in a settlement with the
union.
Chairman Samuel Spencer of
the District Commissioners, who
ATTENDED the meeting, said the
Commissioners suggestion yes
Iterday did not mean to intimate
that only those funds accruing
from these sources would be
used in a final settlement.
Mr.. Broadwater said the COM
lpany would give the union in
wage increases alone only the
savings made on taxes and higher
fares both of which would have
to be legislated. He said the rev.
enues would not cover anything
but wages.
Asked if this meant the COM
lpany would not consider giving
See TRANSIT, Page A-3
Evening star., 1955-06-30

final" report-it isn't quite final
because another will be along in
Imid-July-and prepared to with
draw from public life at age 30
The group-its formal name
lis the Commission on the Or
Iganization of the Executive
Branch of the Government
due to go out of existence at
midnight tonight.
Report Stirs Sharp Conflict
The public power issue caused
the commission to expire in q
blaze of conflict. A report or
Water Resources and Power
issued yesterday urged drastic
Icurtailment Of Federal power de-
Ivelopment and larger scope fol
private utilities. 1t drew sharp
dissents from four of the Il
panel members and from outside
sources.
The Foreign Operations Ad.
miniStration, which also dies al
midnight, delivered a deathbec
kick at the commission in reply.
ing to a recent report on over.
seas economic operations.
It would "play directly into
the Communists hands," the
FOA said, to adopt the Hoover
proposal that America cut of
all aid funds for major in.
Idustrial projects in the asian
African arc" except possibly
Japan.
This and several other pro-
posals clash with presidential
policy, FOA said. It cited Presi-
dent Eisenhower's statement
that "the immediate threats to
world security and stability are
now centered in Asia" and that
now is the time for accelerated
development" OF nations "alone
the arc (of Asia)."
Sees Billions a Year Saved
The storms almost overshad-
owed today's report summariz-
ing the commissions two-yeaI
history and aims. It quoted es-
Inmates Of its various task forces
Indicating that multi-billion dol
lars savings could result from
adoption of all the Hoover rec
ommepdations.
The estimates added up tc
more than $8.5 billion a year
but the commission said this
would be excessive because the
task force proposals overlapped
However, another $40 billion
could be restored to the Treas
ury, the Commission asserted
Iif all surplus and unneedeo
property assets were sold, If "cer-
tair" lending agencies were
See HOOVER, Page A
Evening star., 1955-06-30
HOME DECORATING
rs FOR PROS

DON'T DO lT YoURsELF-Homs
decorating is o field the average
homemoker locks experience in, Violet
FouIkner, The Stars food editor. finds
out at the American Home Economics
Association meeting in Minneapolis.
poqe B-3,
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remained in question. A general
acceptance of the invitation ex-
tended by the Kremlin June Z
for talks on the normalizing OF
diplomatic, trade and cultural
relations came in a note relayed
Through the Soviet Embassy in
Paris.
Vollrath Won Nathan, German
Ambassador to France. delivered
lit.
The German note said:
"The government of the (West
Germany federal republic agrees
to the proposal of the Soviet
Union to discuss the question of
establishing diplomatic, CONNER
Icial and cultural relations be-
tween both countries and to in
Ivestigate related questions"
Evening star., 1955-06-30

a reduction in the size Of the
Federal payment of $40 million
authorized last year when Con-
gress embarked the District on a
10-year $305 million public works
program.
Under that bill, heavy addi-
tional taxes were loaded on the
District and as a companion to
this there was authorized an in
crease in the Federal payment
from $11 million to $40 million
The House, in its first action
on the District bill, moved to
cut the Federal payment by 81
million. The Senate concerned
over its implied bargain with
District taxpayers, voted tc
grant the full $40 million.
Compromise Reached
But with the District facing q
new fiscal year without the
funds, something had to give and
the House and Senate conferees
late yesterday agreed to split
the differnce and make the
Federal payment for the fiscal
year 1855 at $18 million.
This conference report was ap-
proved today by the House in
less than one minute, without
any contest. The Senate fol-
lowed suit a little later, also
without debate or contest.
Included in the bill as pre-
viously recommended by the
Senate is the sum of SIS mill
lion for the design and prelimi-
nary work on a Potomac River
bridge on the line of Constitu-
ton avenue, as authorized by
Congress.
The bill calls for an outlay Of
$168,843,440. The House had
held the spending down to 1869
million, but the Senate raised
this to 1894 million.
Congressional officials said the
bill, as agreed to in conference,
would be balanced. They said it
would be balanced by more than
So million on the basis of the
latest revenue estimates for the
last II months of the fiscal year
and projected through the new
fiscal year.
Pay Raise an Issue
On the current basis, city
officials were well pleased with
the size and circumstances of the
District budget, but they said
the District is faced with high
new demands for revenue tc
meet pay raises for city govern
ment workers.
With Congress trying to reach
adjournment date, the drive
was on to get all appro-
priation bills settled. There was
added pressure in the case ot
the District bill because the city
government here would be with
out funds to operate any service
after tonight.
Almost all of the public works
items advocated by the Senate
were included in the conference
report.
ConfereeS, reporters were told,
agreed to funds for a Woodbridge
branch library. a firehouse at
Twenty-fourth and Irving streets
Sc. and for a new home for the
Women'S Bureau of the Police
Department.
The conference bill also pro-
vided funds for the hire of at
least 81 more public school
teachers for the instruction of
handicapped pupils. The Senate
added a higher fund and this
was cut down in the compromise
bill. but there was no earmarked
fund in the final decision.
In other words, the schoo
system is authorized to hire
even more than 81 extra teacher:
for handicapped pupils. but the
number will have to be measured
against what funds are available
House and Senate conferee.
struck from the bill two amend.
ments that had been tied to the
money to start the work on the
Constitution avenue bridge.
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Hoover Group
Draws Barbs
Makes Final Report.
Expires at Midnight
BY the Associated Press

The Hoover C ON miss o n
wrapped up its two-year job to-
day embroiled in controversy,
but claiming its reorganization
plans, if adopted, would balance
the budget and permit tax cuts.
Former President Hoover, its
chairman. issued a 10th and
Hoover Report Urges Check on Public
Power. Pose AS
Evening star., 1955-06-30
Germany
Accepts Soviet
Bid for TuIks

BONN, Germany. June 80 (P),
The West German government
today accepted a Moscow propo-
sal to discuss establishment of
diplomatic relations between the
Bonn Republic and Soviet Rus
Isia.
But whether Chancellor Kon-
Trad Adenauer will go to Moscow
Evening star., 1955-06-30

U. S. ond Bonn Sign Accord on MiIitoY
Assistance. Pose AIS
Evening star., 1955-06-30
DC. Fund Bill
Approved by
Both Houses
Conferees' Action
Cutting US. Payment
To $18 Million OKd
BY DON S. WARREN

The embattled District supply
bill for the fiscal year beginning
at midnight tonight was swept
to final Congressional action in
a matter of minutes today in
the House and Senate. 1t now
goes to the White House for
signature.
Under the pressure OF time
and other circumstances, the
$200, 900 Fund Asked to Stort D. c. on
Reossessment Progrum. Poge B-Zl
Congress cleors Way for D. c. Bridge
on "OId Site" Po9e Ass
Evening star., 1955-06-30

Fair tonight. low near 70. Tomorrow, some
cloudiness. warm. Full report plus resort
forecast or Page A-2)
Evening star., 1955-06-30

See HOOVER, Page A.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-14
POLITICS
Governors Meeting
Furnishes Arena for
Sc Wurmup Session

If there had been any doubt
whether preconvention politicking
had begun, it was dispelled last
week at the Governors convention
In Chicago. And though the battle
lines were not yet finally drawn, it
looked as if the Democrats at last
were getting ready to take on
President Eisenhower personally.
Just which Democrat would
emerge as 1856 standard bearer was
very much in doubt. Former Gov.
Adlai Stevenson of Illinois, 1852
Democratic candidate, who said he
would make his decision known
thu fall, seemed definitely in the
race. So did w. Averell Hartman,
Governor of New York, provided
some graceful method could be
found so he would not seem to be
selling Mr.. Stevenson down the
river.
Also in the race--by all signs
save his own outright admission
was Senator Estes Kefauver of
Tennessee. And a crack by Gov.
G. Mennen (Soapy) Williams of
Michigan seemed to indicate that
the White House bug had bitten
him again, too.
Gov. Williams, A, called Presi-
dent Eisenhower, "a, an "old man"
who would be forced by the Re-
publican Party's desperation to
run in 1856.
Republican Governors, who have
made clear their support of Presi-
dent Eisenhower as G. o. P.
standard bearer, screamed their
indignation over the youthful
Democrats remarks.
Clements BIost
Then another young Democrat,
35-year-old Gov. Frank Clement,
took out after the President on a
more impersonal level. On tele-
vision Friday Gov. Clement blasted
the Eisenhower administration as
one of disappointment, disillusion-
ment and disgrace" He men,
toned farm parity, income taxes
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-14

and Dixcn-Yates as examples of
what he had in mind.
Meanwhile. the Democrats were
having little trouble of their own.
Gov. Allan Shivers of Texas, who
Stunned his own party'S national
ticket and went Eisencrat in 1852.
let it be known he'd do it again
if Mr.. Stevenson gets the Demo-
cratic nomination. Gov. Marvin
Griffin Of Georgia seemed to see
eye-to-eye with Gov. Shivers.
And in Kentucky, party leaders
suffered a blow to their prestige
when former Gov. A. B. Happy
Chandler made comeback to win
the gubernatorial nomination in
the Democratic primary. Having
failed to lick Mr.. Chandler. the
party leaders Immediately rushed
to jine him.
Hoover's Speech
A sidelight was cast on politics
of a bygone day when a clapboard
house was dedicated Wednesday
in Newburg, Greg. Seventy-one
years ago as a poor orphan boy of
10, Herbert Hoover went to this
house. Last week, on his 81st
birthday, Mr.. Hoover returned.
His dedication speech accentuated
the positive about America-and not
just the Republican side of the
picture. Morally, spiritually, cultur-
ally and ENTHUSIASTICALLY, Mr..
Hoover said, the United States is
pre-eminent in the world today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-14

petrated the worst tragedy Of her
career.
An old sailing vessel, which the
Coast Guard said should not have
been operating in the first place.
was trying to anchor III a poorly
protected cove in the Chesapeake.
At Comics mercy, the schooner
started to break up. OF 81 persons
aboard, only Is were known to have
survived. Eleven bodies were re-
covered almost Immediately, but
three persons were missing.
Rock Creek Troeedy
A tragedy less directly attribut-
able to the storm. but nevertheless
partly caused by it, was the drown
ing Of four Thai students in Rock
Creek Friday evening. Their car
Sideswiped another in the rain and
plunged into the swollen stream.
All day Friday the Washington
area was deluged by rain and bat
tered by wind as Connie moved in.
Between $50 am. Friday and $50
am. Saturday, the Weather Bureau
recorded 6.38 inches of rain.
While this was not a record-the
all-time mark was set 81 years and
day earlier. on August II, 1928,
when 7.3l inches fell-it was close
enough for discomfort. More rain
fell in last weeks 24-hour deluge
than had been recorded in any full
month here since May, 1858.
With Connie gone, there re-
NAMED for Washingtonians only
the job of cleaning up the mess
removing fallen trees, pumping out
flooded easements, shoveling away
the mud.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-14
American Lead

The United States lead in almost
all phases of atomic activity was
obvious to all at Geneva. Even in
the area of sharing atomic know
how. where the Atomic Energy
Commission secrecy leaves much
to be desired, the United States
looked generous in comparison to
the tight-mouthed Soviet Union.
Only reactor on display and OPP
Grating at Geneva was Americas
The Russians had only a SKIS foot
scale model and a film of their
5000 kilowatt reactor near Moscow.
The United States has 20 of the
worlds 40 known reactors now OPP
Grating. The Soviet Union has one.
Arco. Idaho, town of 1900, used
atom power to fill all its electri-
city needs for one hour last July II,
it was announced at Geneva Friday.
Kremlin scientists did score one
important prestige point. however.
with their announcement that they
are building a 10 billion electron
volt atom Smasher, or particle &C
celerator. The largest accelerator
previously known was the 6 billion
volt bevatron at the University of
California. Russians at Geneva
looked forward to so billion and
100 billion volt particle accelerators
These atom smashers are the basic
instrument Of the theoretical ply
sicist. who opens the doors to new.
practical applications of atomic
science.
Businessmen from the more ad-
vanced countries used Geneva as a
sort of international fair to sell
reactors and atomic equipment
where they could and to feel out
the commercial competition in other
nations. American business repre-
sentatives felt tragically handi-
capped by Acc security regulations
and red tape, which amused Brit
aims large commercial contingent.
On the other hand. British bust
nessmen were bitterly critical Of
President EisenhoWer's recent offer
to pay half the cost of any atomic
reactors which needy countries
wanted to build.
More scientific contributions and
even keener competition among the
principal atomic powers are expected
as the conference continues this
week. The final session is scheduled
for next Saturday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-14
TRANSIT
It's Up to President
As Strike Drugs on
Past 45-Doy Mark

While President Eisenhower de-
bated whether to sign the bill kill
ing Capital Transit Co., the Wash
ington streetcar and bus strike
floundered into its 45th day.
With Congress amateur media
tors out of the picture, professionals
from the Federal Mediation and
Cancellation Service went doggedly
to work in an effort to bring about
a direct settlement between the
company and its striking AFL tran
sit workers.
Nothing seemed to work, how
ever. and before the end of the
week union President Walter j.
Bierwagen was predicting no settle
ment would be possible until Presi-
dent Eisenhower cleared the air"
by signing or vetoing the transit
bill. The President, however, was
holding the measure pending fur
ther reports"-perhaps of a settle
ment.
The Chief Executive has until
midnight Tuesday to decide. If he
does not put his signature on the
measure by that time, it will be
killed automatically under consti-
tutional provisions for a pocket
veto"
The week of mediation opened on
the heels Of a fiasco which left both
sides seriously questioning the mo-
tiveS of the other.
1t broke out into the open last
Sunday with disclosure of terms of
a settlement agreed upon two days
earlier by Capital Transit President
j. A. B. Broadwater and James j.
Gormley, member of the transit
unions international executive
board.
The settlement - considerably
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-14
WEATHER
Hurricane Connie
DeIuges D. c., Kills
At Least Fifteen

Washingtonians, who weathered
Hurricane Hazel's battering last
fall. learned Friday that being al
most hit by hurricane can be
about as bad as being actually hit.
Hurricane Connie, her progress
impeded by smaller, younger
storm named Diane Il 1000 miles be-
hind herr, came galumphing out of
the southeast last week. On Thurs
day she hit the mainland, moved up
the Carolina coast and veered in
land near Norfolk, Va.
1t was in the Chesapeake Bay
area that Connie officially stopped
being a girlishly named hurricane
and was denoted to an anonymous
gale. But in final fury she per-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-14
The Easier Way

Any time the Reds want to ease
up on the ornaments race, they
can. But Moscow must make the
first move. America learned it's
lesson about unilateral disarma-
ment in 1945-46. President Eisen-
hover made all this clear to the
Soviet Unions collective leadership
at Geneva last month.
Apparently the logic. of his ar
gument is having some effect inside
the Kremlin. For yesterday Tass
news agency announced Soviet
armed forces would be cut by
whopping $4,000 men before De-
cember Is.
If Western guesstimates of the
total Soviet military force are ap-
proximately correct, that would be
a Is per cent reduction, down to
around "a million men. The United
States maintains military force
of 90 million, but, of course, has
no need for the large standing
forces Moscow requires to keep its
population under control. Both
countries now subscribe to the
theoretical proposition that they
could reduce their standing forces
to is million if they could be as
sured Of peace.
While Pentagon officials general
ly tended to doubt the Soviet Union
meant what it appeared to say
about its rehabilitation plans,
there was a certain logic in the
move. Scholars have for some
years now foreseen an approach
ing labor shortage in the Soviet
Union if present population trends
continue.
Help Wonted-MoIe
The Communists must find addi-
tional workers somewhere if they
are to continue their swift in
dustrial expansion program. Mos
cows announcement yesterday said
detectives" would be demobilized
from the Army and the Navy,
and that these would "be assured
of employment at industrial estab-
lishmentS and on state and COL
lective farms in their places of res
idence."
There is, of course, opportunity
for deception. Conceivably, only
truck drivers, maintenance men,
cooks and other housekeeping
forces might be demobilized. The
same men could continue doing
their old jobs, merely changing
uniforms
The only way Americans can be
sure the Reds are sincere is to 90
to the Soviet Union and see for
themselves. That is where President
Eisenhower's insistence on a fool
proof arms inspection system
comes in.
He is still working hard to per-
Suade Moscow to move in that
direction.
Last Friday his Air Force Chief
Of Staff, Gen. Nathan F.. Twining.
indicated Red planes could land
at some of our most strategic air
bases If the Soviet Union went
along with the Presidents plan for