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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-23
Scare Stories About FoIIout
Magazine Says Nevada Tests Effect on individual
Equals Only That of q Luminous-DoI Watch

What isn't generally real
lied perhaps is that the Atomic
Energy Commission is con-
stantly measuring in every
State of the Union fallout
from the tests. The effects are
negligible and have hurt no.
body The commission has the
benefit also of the advice OF
the best medical men in the
country. including specialists
in the field of human repro
duction known as geneticists.
Experiments on mice and fruit
flies have also been conducted.
AS far as mice are concerned,
they show. when subjected to
heavy doses of radiation. few
adverse mutations in succeed
ing generations. Fruit flies
show an improvement - they
end up more reproductive and
with better resistance to dis
ease.
What the press reports from
different parts of the country.
giving comments by scientists.
unfortunately do not do is to
differentiate between fallout
tests in Nevada and damage
done to persons close to the
tests carried on in the Pacific,
where the big bombs were ex-
ploded.
The fact is that the Nevada
tests are being conducted for
a humanitarian purpose to
determine the best ways to
help civilian defense-and not
to develop stronger weapons
of war. The big bombs are not
tested in this country. but in
ocean areas far away from this
continent. The Communist
drive. however, is to stop all
tests. and many persons are
being duped by the campaign
into thinking all the tests held
in Nevada are injurious and
will hurt future generations.
There isn't a word of truth in
that propaganda.
Reproduction Rights Reserved)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-23
Dorothy Thompson-
The Haste and Folly Of Yo|to
In Is Days and Meetings. the Big Four Tried to Parcel Out
Morld-NoAu West Repents but Not ct Her eisure

acknowledgements van
pushed France-signed an al
lance!
Eventually the Tsar inclined
to peace and gave way. and
agreements between all the
powers of Europe were signed
one year and nine months after
the congress first met.
These agreements which
bartered territories about quite
shamelessly were denounced as
"reactionary," but the lines
they drew endured for 40 years,
and there was no war again in
volving all the Great Powers
until 1914. For with all their
haggling, they had established
an equilibrium, without vac
uums, which it was more to the
interest of all to maintain than
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-23
Doris FIeeson-

II and when President
Eisenhower accedes to the
Draft Ike" movement as Re-
publicans believe he will, he
will among other things be
Offering himself as test tube
for a new experiment in con-
stitutional government.
For the President, If re-
elected, will be the first Pres
ident OF the United States who
cannot legally run for a third
term. A constitutional amend
ment enacted in the Truman
administration with enthusi-
astic Republican approval for
bids it.
Under Mr.. Eisenhower the
85th and seth Congresses could
operate free from the chasten-
ing thought that the President
if he wished could go again be-
fore the American people for
vindication. putting them in
the role of whipping BOY. The
President would be expected.
of course, to campaign for the
nominee Of his party in 1860
but history clearly proves that
is not the same thing as run
ming himself.
The speculation is the more
interesting because political
opinion now is that the Presi-
dent and another Democratic
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-23
Life in the u. S.
Bald Ones
Protest Price
.OfHdircuts
BY the Associated Press

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Mar. 3D.
Bald members of the Ohio House
have called for an inquiry into
the price of haircuts.
Their resolution yesterday
noted that BARRIERS charge Is
cents extra for crew, butch or
flattop haircuts and suggested
that BARRIERS could shave their
prices for those with little, II
any, hair on top.
Proposing that the nine spon-
sors make the investigation. the
resolution read:
I'm view of the premium
it is altogether commensurate
with justice. equity and fair play
that a reciprocal reduction of
price be effected for those of us
who, through no fault of our
own, are endowed with that
badge of experience and ability
called badness"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-23

ments of some scientists who,
for unknown reasons, are feed
ing to the press exaggerated
statements-but the truth is
readily obtainable from official
sources. Thus, one of the most
frequent distortions is with
reference to the possible effect
on future generations. The ar
ticle in U. S. News & World
Report says:
THE $4,000 babies born to
Japanese exposed to nearly ia
tai doses of radioactivity at
Hiroshima and Nagasaki show
no measurable increase in 'mu-
tationS.' More than four mil
lion dollars has been spent by
the United States in making
careful tests Of this second
generation -.
Japanese survivors Of A
bomb blasts with nearly fatal
radiation doses showed an in
crease in the frequency of
leukemia. That tendency. how
ever, was not continued in
their children"
The most important COM
ment from an official source
outside the United States has
just been made by Anthony
Nutting, Minister of State in
the British government. who
was pressed in Parliament by
the Laborites to urge the call
ing of a special session of the
U. N. General Assembly ito
discuss the effects of hydro
gen-bomb tests on the world
atmosphere and to set up an
international study group to
examine and report on the
genetic and other consequences
of the tests" But Mr.. Nutting
said in reply:
Certainly my scientific ad-
vice at the moment is that
there is no danger to human
life or to reproduction of the
human animal from any ex-
plosions which have taken
place so far"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-23

form as spies to be a political
blackmail and a test of Amer.
ica's fortltude. Peiping took
a calculated risk. We could
have forced the liberation Of
these men and others by more
effective measures than words.
But when we handed over the
matter to the weak United
Nations they knew they had
won at least the first game of
the rubber. Our men are still
imprisoned. The U. N. ap-
parently has thrown in its
hand. It hopes for a solution
only as a sequel to some give
and take as suggested by Chou
to Dag Hammarskjold. We are
expected to yield on Formosa
and in exchange our men will
be freed from the Red Chinese
jails.
The hard fact is that while
the West is anxious for peace,
and high-minded men. such
as Senator George. fervently
hope for success in another
international conference, the
Communists are not seeking
such a solution for the present
tensions. If they agree to an
other parley it will be only to
obtain additional prestige and
more territory without fight.
ing.
The peace dove released by
former Premier Malenkov has
been Gagged again in the Krem-
lin towers and "coexistence"
clap-trap is no longer being
used by the new Soviet re-
gime.
The last Moscow clamors for
a Big Four conference have
died away and the Soviet lead
ers are now sitting on their
hands while they wait for the
West to make a move. Time
is on the Soviet side, while
confusion and political inco-
herence continue in the West.
They may be afraid of Amer
lea and its power. But they
still believe that American
leadership will do nothing
which might displease its
Western European allies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-23
Dons F7ees0rt-
Brioht Outlook for Democrats
Republicans in Congress at Disadvantage in 1886;
Eisenhower Can't Be Candidate in 1850

speaks to Republicans on or of
the record that he does not
stress the borrowed time as
pect of their fortunes. Ambi-
tiouS as he is, he Of course
cannot forget that all the polls
suggest that Democrats are
the majority party so far as
registration goes. It is i'm
portant to him in particular
that Operation Catch-Up shall
succeed, since he is personally
obnoxious to the opposition.
Constitutional amendments
are susceptible to repeal, as the
prohibition amendment proved
But even if Republicans
changed their minds about the
vice of a third term as 1856
neared, they could do little
about it unless they were bet
ter situated in the Capitol and
the 48 statehouses than they
now are.
The President is already be-
ginning to learn that the OPP
position can be expected to
protect its position, policies
and personalities. Democratic
boldness increases as the
months before another ma
tional campaign shorten. And
a Democratic Congress taking
Office again with Mr.. Eisen-
hover in 1857 would then know
for sure that they did not have
to fear him in 1860.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-23

nearest police station where
she announced she was Mary
Sparks. 5, and:
Il was dreaming about bears.
I thought the house was full
of bears. I went downstairs
and out the front door to get
away from them. Then I was
afraid to come back, because
I'm afraid of bears"
She was returned to her
mother, Mrs. Henry S. Sparks,
who hadn't missed her. Mary
spent the rest of the night in
bed with her mother.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-23
BY the Associated Press

The Army yesterday came out
with a full defense of its women
in uniform against what it called
a widespread and vicious cam
paigr of SANDER in World War
II.
The story of the formation and
development Of the Women's
Army Corps is told in an 800
page volume which forms a part
Of the Army's official history Of
World War II.
In a foreword by Mai. Gen.
Orlando Ward, former chief Of
military history, the Army can
didly said the book would stress
the misunderstanding and the
difficulties into which the WACs
ran headlong.
Gen. Ward said the Army did
not always understand the WAC.
its needs and temperament and
many other things.
The history was written by
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-23

states and more consideration
of power-potentials and per-
spectives than the conferences
at Cairo, Teheran and Yalta.
in which agreements reached
in haste are now repented in
Western quarters. still with
out leisure.
Outside the conferen c e
rooms of the long Vienna Con-
gress, Vienna danced. and the
courtiers, plenipotentiaries,
aides and their hangers-on
danced, too.
There was external levity.
then, while Europe was being
redisposed.
But there was no such in
tellectual frivolity and folly
as marks the published &C.
counts of the Yalta confer
ence-or, for that matter. the
decision to publish them. or
even worse, to establish con-
ditions for a 'leak," regard
less of the obvious and fore
seeable effects in London,
Paris, Bonn and Moscow.
No interest of foreign pol
icy could possibly be served
by their publication now. Only
party partisanship can be
served by lift 1t is. For
there is no reason to believe
that Republicans. at that time,
would have shown more FORE
sight. What is revealed is,
however, profound: The de-
cline. if not the fall, of West
ern diplomacy. and the para
noIa that marks the age.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-23

to violate. No great power was
wholly satisfied. but none was
imperiled.
The agreements were not
reached "off the cuff; they
had the consent of the van
pushed state; and the partici-
pants all showed the powers of
endurance that the magnitude
of their task required.
The twentieth century
peace conferences" contrast
very unfavorably. Neither the
small states nor the vanquished
had anything to say. Nor,
after World War I, did Rus
STA. And there was war in 81
years.
But even the Versailles con-
ference showed more respect
for long established great
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-23
Army History Defends WACs
Against Islander of Wartime

Matte E. Treadwell, a WAC staff
officer in the war.
The volume recounts obstacles
that had to be overcome, from
both within and without the
Army, by the first WAC director
Mrs. Oveta Cup Hobby, now
Secretary of Health, Education
and Welfare.
Uniform Troubles
Early WAC uniforms. made by
mems wear manufacturers, were
cut with wide collars and narrow
hips. Hens Of skirts could not
be easily raised or lowered and
"suspenders on girdles were too
short and pulled runs in stock
ings." The WACs also had trou-
BILE with the Army Medical Corps
male standards.
Inc greatest detail is devoted
to the battle against what started
out as a strictly gossip and rumor
campaign but mounted by 1943
into a full-f1edged movement to
accuse the WACS of wholesale
immortality.
Army intelligence agencies
found that some of the reports
stemmed from actual incidents,
but involving women wearing
uniforms similar to those of the
WACs.
A lengthy investigation deter
mined that among people who
spread false rumors weres male
Army officers who resented WACs
in principle and who feared being
replaced in comparatively soft
assignments.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-23
David Lawrence

Scare stories about the al
legedly injurious effect of
atomic "fallout" of radioactive
particles as a consequence of
tests being conducted in Ne
vada are repudiated by officials
of the Atomic Energy Commits
sion.
In a copyrighted article,
which the Offices of the COM
mission cleared for publication
as factually accurate, the
weekly magazine U. S. News &
World Report in its current
issue makes the following cate
gorical statements:
From the big shot test, a
radioactive cloud crossed the
United States but harmed no
one.
Effect Of its 'fallout' on
anyone in U. S. equalled that
of a luminouS-dial watch.
Total 'fallout' on any one
place for year will be a fourth
Of normal allowance.
New experiments show
present 'fallout' level cannot
harm future generations.
Fear of food contamination
is refuted.
Even fish contaminated in
Pacific H-bomb 'fallout' could
have been eaten. If skinned.
The most important obser-
vations are those made after
careful study of all medical
data. DR.. John c. Bugher, di-
rector of biology and medicine
for the Atomic Energy Com
mission. is quoted as follows:
Small detonations, such as
are fired at the Nevada prov
ing ground, produce heavy
contamination extending for
only a few miles and the dan
gerously active areas are con-
fined to the controlled bombing
range"
There is much confusion
generated in part by the Com
munists and in part by COM
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-23
Fletcher KnebeI-
Potomac Fever

The White House is cool to the idea of Big Three
ference There's problem
Trouble is there's always heel who keeps them diary
Congressional Atomic Committee holds meeting in
the atom submarine Nautilus 300 feet below the
time Congressman admitted depth
Democratic Senator Neuberger blasts banshing
squirrels from the White House
Democrats Every squirrel the country
House.
Churchill complains that the United States promised not
to publish the Yalta It's unfair literary competition
Churchill hasn't finished his memoirs yet
Ike makes Kelvin Mccain his full time speech writer
Mccain will get paid put the subjects predcas
sentence. Ike will free-lance in between
The Commerce Department the average family
made $3.50 last yearor almost enough
the year before.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-23
Dorothy Thompson

The Cairo conference lasted
five days.
The conference at Teteran
lasted three.
The conference at Yalta
lasted eight.
Thus, in 16 days in the heat
of a war not yet ended, the
leaders of the coalition that
defeated Germany and Japan
met to discuss the disposition
of two empires and thought
they had settled the future
status of most of the world.
In September, 1914, the big
Four"-Austria, Prussia, Rus
STA and Great Britain-that
had defeated Napoleon, met in
Vienna to dispose of his en-
pire. Much diplomatic work
had been done in advance. The
Big Four had already made de-
cisions and had bound France,
by treaty, to accept them. They
therefore anticipated that the
conference would be cut and
dried.
To get her signature, the Big
Four invited a representative
of defeated France, and the
restored Louis XVIII sent Tai
leyrand.
Smaller countries - Spain,
Portugal, and Sweden-were
allowed to send plenipoten-
tiaries without power to par
ticipate in the decisions, which
had already been cooked up.
But Talleyrand, supported
by Spain, refused to accept
them, denying that the Big
Four were legally constituted
bodies and demanding the
election Of directing commit
tee. The Big Four, fearing
that the small states might
back Talleyrand, refused, and
the meeting was postponed.
Meanwhile riffs developed be-
tween the Big Four, and finally
Metternich (Austria) and Cas-
tlereagh (Britain) decided to
admit Talleyrand, and the con-
gress really began.
The Russian, Alexander. I,
made trouble, particularly over
the disposition of Poland and
Saxony. For concessions to his
interests there he proposed to
trade of Italian territory.
Prussia threatened war and
Castlereagh, Metternich. and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-23

high sulphur content in the
air had weakened the nylon.
Chemists said at the time
the sulphur could have orig
mated in industrial vapors
blown about by 30-to-40-mile
winds. 1t also was windy in
Albany yesterday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-23
Test Aircraft Burn

MILTON, Ontario. Mar. %
tP.-Fire ragged through two
hangers at Nation Airport yes
terday, destroying four spe-
cially equipped test aircraft and
thousands of dollars worth of
experimental instruments. To-
tai damage was estimated at
near IS million.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-23
Little Girl and Beers

ST. LOUIS OPT was
showing and well below freez-
ing, and the little girl walking
down q street at 2 am. yester-
day was barefooted and wear
ing only a nightgown.
A taxi driver took her to the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-23
Pride and Joy Together

COLUMBUS, Nebr. (P.-Ten-
year-old Vaughn Paul Domeier
of Sutton won first prize with his
calf Pride" at a State Aberdeen
Angus Association show here.
His prize was another calf that
Vaughn Paul promptly named
Glow"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-23
NyIons Disinteorute

ALBANY, N. Y. (R.-Nebu-
lous nylons have annoyed
Albany again.
A dozen women employed
in an Office building reported
yesterday that their hose had
begun to disintegrate. One
woman said she had IL runs
in one stocking.
A similar complaint was
voiced here last April. A
theory expressed then was that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-13
ACE REGISTERED
AT WHITE FLINT
BY 77-YEAR-OLD

A 71-year-old golfer shot
a hole-in-one yesterday at
the White Flint golf course.
He is E. Ralph Sasscer Of
Kensington, who used a No.
5 iron on the 147-yard third
hole.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-13
Miss Musser
Tops Teen-Age
GoIfatKenwood

The first junior girls talent
hunt at Kenwood Country Club
yesterday not only produced a
highly satisfactory field of IS
teen-agers, but also a mighty
fine nine-hole round of golf. a
40 on the front nine by Mary
Ann Musser, 16-year-old daugh-
ter of John Musser, the All View
pro.
Mary Ann, whose father plans
to see to it that she gets a full
season of competition, including
the USGA Girls championship
at Florence, S. c.. and the Wom-
ems National Amateur at Char
lotte, N. c.. included a ball out
bounds on the eighth in her win
ming score.
Six country clubs and six
schools and colleges were repre-
sented in the record field.
Second gross went to l5-year-
old Eileen Myers, former public
links starlet and now a member
OF Court House Club, who had
As. She is student of Wakefield
High. Ann Kinchuloe of Belle
Haven and Daphne Dutton, pro-
tege of host pro George Diffen-
baugh, had 46, although Miss
button has played little this
spring
D. Donna Wilson of Kenwood
bad At and Debby Wilder of
Manor 40. Susan Howe and
Pence Praigg tied in the 14-year-
old competition and Lillian Lee
was the 13-year-old winner.
All contestants received a new
golf ball while the winners re-
ceived prizes from the active
Kenwood Junior Committee.
headed by Joe Gambetese, chair
man.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-13
Columbia Reveals
International Golf
Cup Plans Today

Columbia Country Club has
invited more than so persons to
lunch and golf today, including
District area golf professionals.
personal---very. men and golf
officials, to present plans for the
international Cup Matches to be
played at Columbia June 9-12.
The 72-hole medal play tour
nament, a presentation of John
Jay Hopkins International Golf
Association, will find two pros
each from at least 26 nations
competing for the team and
individual prizes.
Ed Furgol. the National Open
champion, and Chick Harbert,
the PEA titliSt, will represent the
United States in the matches.
The defending champions are
Australia's Peter Thomson, the
British Open champion, and Kel
Maggie. They won at Montreal
last year.
Vice President Nixon will be
honorary chairman of the event.
Chairman is Karl Kellerman of
the host club.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-13
WINS FOUR-YEAR SCHOLARSHIP ~n
Charlie May Heading
For Maryland Football

Charlie May. hard-running
fullback at Carroll High School
during the last two football sea-
sons, has received a scholarship
and is almost certain to enter
the University of Maryland in
the fall. the university athletic
department disclosed today.
May has been awarded a four
year scholarship on his school
work alone, one of a limited
number available to Maryland
athletics, and has applied for a
room in a dormitory. He has
maintained better than a "B"
average at Carroll.
The only thing holding up the
Youngsters final decision is a
report on an entrance examina-
ton for the new Air Force Aca-
denny, which he took two months
ago. Even if he passes this eX-
am. however, he still may enter
Maryland.
1--WE think he'll come here
said Assistant Coach Eddie
league, who is responsible for
looking over high school players
in the District and nearby Vir-
ginia.
Son of Former Athlete
Charlie, who will be Is in July,
is the son of Charles A. May, ST.,
a Maryland graduate. He played
freshman baseball and varsity
basketball, football and lacrosse
there from 1928 to 1882.
Now an agent with the FB1,
the elder May played with such
stars as Bozie Berger on Mary
lands 1881 Southern Conference
champion basketball team. He
received honorable All America
mention in lacrosse and played
all over" the backfield in foot
ball under Curley Byrd, then
coach.
Playing under Tuffy Leemans,
former George Washington Uni
versity and professional star,
young May was the chief cog in
CAROLS offense last fall. He car
ried 10 times in eight games for
1873 yards and eight touchdowns,
plus one extra point.
Good Prospect, Leemans Says
LeemanS rates him as good
college prospect and it was part
ly on Tuffy's say-so that Mary
land was prompted to seek him.
Hes got the potential to be a
heck of a blocker" Leemans says.
Another thing May has that
you won't find in lot of high
school boys" Leemans continues,
lis that he's going as fast in
two steps as when he's in the
open field.
Hes got good underpinnings
and he's hard to knock down"
Leemans is hoping that May
will gain about 10 pounds above
his normal 1870 He is about s.
foot-10.
At the present, May is the only
boy from the Washington area
who will go into Maryland foot
ball next season. Carl Baker, a
student at Montgomery Blair
in Silver Spring, is expected to
accept a grant in aid from Mary
land. but Baker, a 210-pound
tackle, played his football at
Maury High in Norfolk before
moving here last winter.
Other high school players from