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Evening star., 1955-07-12
.2-AIurm Fire
Traffic

A two-alarm blaze at the
height of the morning rush hour
today at the Singer Sewing Ma
chine Co., 3421 Connecticut
avenue NV, halted traffic and
attracted hundreds of spectators.
Flames leaped from the second
floor storeroom of the building
before six engine companies and
two truck companies brought the
blaze under control in a 20-min-
ute battle.
All traffic was stopped on Con-
necticut avenue between Macomb
and Ordway streets. Police di-
verted cars along other routes.
The blaze was confined to the
storeroom. where rs to 100 sew
ing machines, mostly new, were
stored in wood-and-cardboard
packing cases. Other parts of
the building and the Roma Res
taurant next door at 3419 Con-
|necticut avenue were damaged
by water however.
The fire was discovered by an
|employe, Charles Martin, %. Of
1905 Burns place Sc, a few
minutes after he opened the shop
at 8:45 am. Neither he nor
Deputy Fire Chief Joseph w.
Kay, headed the firemen. could
give an estimate Of the damage
in dollars.
Evening star., 1955-07-12
Four Drug-Using Doctors
PeddIe Dope, Probe Told
Police Witness Says 200 to 800
Got Prescriptions Without Charge

Texas, subcommittee chairman,
referred repeatedly in his ques-
tioning to reports that there
are 887 known addicts in the
District. He made it clear
through his questioning that he
wants stronger laws to get the
addicts off the streets. From
Chief Murray and Capt. John
B. Layton he drew statements
that addicts directly contribute
to the volume of crime and that
addicts spread the addiction to
others.
"To say we can't do much
about it and let the situation
continue as it is, doesn't satisfy
this committee" he told Com
missioner Mclaughlin. ''We want
to make the District a good
model for the country instead Of
the model of confusion that
exists here today"
Mr.. Mclaughlin told the sub
committee in its prepared state
ment that there were 81 District
addicts at Lexington, the
Federal Narcotics Hospital in
Lexington, KY, at the end
Iof the third quarter of f1s-
cal 1855, and the estimated
cost for treatment of District
addicts under the commitment
law would total ,$33, ,584 for the
year. He argued that with so
few addicts under treatment the
city heads thought it would be
iunrealistic to set up a rehabili-
tation center here.
Evening star., 1955-07-12
BY JOSEPH A. FOX

The Government was moving
today to pull out of the con-
tentious Dixon-Yates power con-
tract after more than a year of
turmoil.
But congressional foes made it
clear they had no intention of
dropping the issue. On the con-
trary. they were looking for it
to provide fuel in the 1856 presi-
Dental campaign.
Cancellation of the contract was
announced at the White House
late yesterday after Memphis city
officials told President Eisen-
hover their plans to build a mu-
nicipal plant to provide the power
that they would have obtained
from the Dixon-Yates installa-
tion under the governments
plan.
Cost to U. s. Uncertain
The cost to the Government of
getting out of the deal was un-
certain. Attorney General
BroWnell said he was not able
to give horseback" opinion.
He explained the settlement
would have to be worked out
between the Justice Department
and the Mississippi Valley Gen.
Grating Co., operating agent for
the Dixon-Yates combine.
Edgar H. Dixon, president of
Middle South Utilities, principal
stockholders in the project, said
he expected the Government to
pay several million dollars. He
anticipated a fair" settlement,
he said.
Mr.. Dixon said he supposed
work would stop immediately-as
West Memphis, Ark. where ex-
cavations for the plant are being
dug.
"Our actions in this matter
have been on a patriotic and
ethical level" said Mr.. Dixon,
who also heads Mississippi VAL
ley Generating.
The other partner in the op-
Grafton is the Southern Co.,
headed by Eugene A. Yates.
Investigation Pushed
Despite the Presidents deci-
sion jubilant Democratic foes
of the contract served notice
that they intended to press the
congressional investigation of
the arrangement, which they
char ged was designed to break
Up the Tennessee Valley Au-
thority
Senator Kefauver, Democrat of
Tennessee, head of a Senate sub
committee looking into the Dix
lon- Yates background, was going
ahead with the inquiry today.
The subcommittee still was ques-
|tioning Adolphe H. Wenzell, a
former vice president of the
Evening star., 1955-07-12
Transit Heads Accept Strike Truce
RUSSIA AT THE SUMMIT
Reds, Focing Dilemma,
Must Act Cautiously

meeting. The bloodless revolu-
tion under way in the Soviet
Union is symbolic of the chang
ing conditions in Russia.
The United States seems to
be proceeding on the assump-
ton the Russians recent moves
are forced, and that they are
truly anxious to talk about arms
reduction. That is a good guess,
and Ivan seems to be behind it.
Ivan is a patriot, but he has
little in common with revolu-
tionary bolshevism and little
memory of it. The old Bolshe-
viks are dying out. Before long
Ivan and his generation will be
ruling the USSR.
This Russian common man
has the biggest stake of all in
the Geneva conference. If there
is to be any attention to his
particular problems. there must
be relief from the awful waste
of a military and totally regi-
mented economy.
This Ivan begins to emerge as
See SUMMIT, Page Az
Evening star., 1955-07-12
BY MIRIAM OTTENBERG

A police witness today told the
Senate Judiciary Narcotics sub
committee that he knows of four
or five Washington doctors, all
dope addicts, who have been
dispensing dope and prescrip-
tions to other addcts.
Capt. Todd o. Thoman. head
of the Police Narcotics Squad,
testified that in one case the
doctor had given dope prescrip-
tions without charge to 200 to
300 addicts on 800 different
occasions.
None of the or-addicts he
described have been convicted,
he said. He expressed the be-
lief that in some cases the ad-
diets who get the prescriptions
for dope proceeded to peddle the
drugs.
Highlights in Probe
There were these other high
lights as the Senate narcotics
probe opened hearings on the
Districts narcotics traffic:
/, Senators conducting the in
vestigation expressed criticism
of the District for having failed
to make any plans for long-term
treatment of addicts in the two
years since the law providing for
compulsory treatment of Dis
trict dope addicts was passed by
Congress.
2. District Commissioner Rob-
ert E. Mclaughlin. after a pre-
pared statement attempting to
justify the Districts postpone
ment of any action to get treat
ment facilities, finally told the
subcommittee that he could see
this was a bigger problem than
he had previously been told and
I'VE should coordinate this
thing"
3. Police Chief Robert v.
Murray testified that because of
a stepup in narcotics enforce
ment between $50 and 300 mar
cotics peddiers have been re-
moved from Washington streets
each year for the past three
years.
887 Known Addicts
4. Both doctor and police
witnesses called for strengthened
laws, particularly to control the
dispensing of synthetic drugs
and barbiturates.
Senator Daniel, Democrat OF
Evening star., 1955-07-12
295 Negro Pupils Reossigned
In Montgomery Integrution

Superintendent Of Schools
Forbes H. Norris today an
nounced a tentative plan for dis
tributing 295 Negro elementary
school pupils to schools formerly
segregated in the suburban area
of Montgomery County.
Pupils from the Linden school
in Lyttonsville will be assigned
as follows: 80 to Rollingwood
school, 80 to Woodlin and so
to McKenney Hills school.
The 18l pupils from the Ia
koma Park, River Road and
Ken Gar colored schools will
be distributed as follows: Ken
sington Elementary. 90; Somer-
set, 8; Clara Barton, So; Po-
tomac, 90; Bethesda, /; West
brook, IL; Brookmont, 8; Ia
koma Park, 20. and WoQdside, 4.
Evening star., 1955-07-12

The former Negro schools in
volved have been closed. They
have been classified as substan-
dard for many years.
The shifts, which mark the
first step in integrsting elemen-
tary schools in Montgomery
County. involve no changes in
present school districting.
Lathrop Smith. school board
member, said today he was dis
turbed by the failure to set up
new district lines" Eight Negro
teachers from the closed schools
were given new assignments IN
the schools to which Negro pu-
pills will be transferred. Mr..
Norris said this policy of teach
ers following pupils has been
decided upon for the transition
period Of integration.
Evening star., 1955-07-12
Austrian Pact Ratified
By French Assembly

PARIS. July IL (R.-The
French National Assembly rati-
fed the Austrian independence
treaty today by a unanimous
vote. No opposition was voiced
IN the brief debate.
The treaty now goes to the
senate.
The United States, the Soviet
Union and Austria have COM
|pleted action on the treaty and
deposited their documents of
ratification in Moscow. Britain's s
parliament also has approved
the treaty but has not yet sent
its ratification to the Soviet
capital.
Evening star., 1955-07-12
1O-Cent Wage Boost Plan
/ F7inqes on Union Action
l20-Doy Test
To Be Based on
Higher Fares
BY HERMAN F. SCHADEN

Capital Transit board members
unanimously accepted today q
proposal that would settle the
12-day transit strike provided
the AFL Transit Union agreed
to the same terms.
Inspired by two members Of
the House District Committee,
the plan would send striking
employees back to work at 10.
cent hourly wage raise and in
crease fares for a 120-day emer-
gency period while disputants
continued to strive for a full
settlement.
Transit Board Chairman Louis
E. Wolfson, who espoused the
plan, said the acceptance was "a
clear indication of the boards
sincere desire to get the wheels
rolling again."
He said Chairman Mcmillan
and Representative Broyhill Of
the House District Committee,
who suggested the plan to union
officials yesterday, should be
Congratulated for their initia-
tive.
Offer Put to Union
After hearing of the boards
decision, the legislators invited
union officials to Capitol Hill to
learn whether they would accept
the truce proposal. Union offi-
cials said they would not COM
ment on the plan before talking
with the legislators.
Union President Walter j. Bier
wagen agreed to meet with Rep
resentatives Mcmillan and Broy.
hill this afternoon immediately
after Senate District subcom-
mittee hearing on a billy to re-
woke Capital Transitls franchise.
The union president thought
it probable he would be asked to
testify.
Mr.. Wolfson added in his
statement:
"The board also pledges its
complete cooperation should the
union accept the Mcmillan -Broy-
hill proposal to continue to ac-
lively cooperate in reaching q
final settlement that will restore
the tl,tte community ?. to its normaspur-
The 45-minute board meeting
this morning was attended by
all directors except Cecil and
Samuel W. Wolfson. brothers Of
the board chairman. and F. Jo-
seph Donohue. who is handling
a law suit in New York.
After the meeting Mr.. Wolf
son walked off in his usual brisk
manner toward >the Navy De-
partment on matter dealing
with another of his many en-
terprises, the New York Ship
building Co.
Offer Interim Raise
The main points of the settle.
ment proposed are these:
| /. If the strikers would agree
to return to work. they would
receive a l0-cent hourly pay
raise for a 120-day period.
2. During this period, the COM
Ipapy would be given a fare in
crease to Offset the increase in
wages.
8. The company and union
would continue to bargain our
See TRANSIT Page "A
Evening star., 1955-07-12
Dixon-Yotes Foes Push
Issue Despite Cancellation

First Boston Corp, who served
as a consultant to the Budget
Bureau on power matters at the
time he was an official of the
banking firm. First Boston took
care of the underwriting for the
Dixon-Yates project.
The contract, negotiated with
the Atomic Energy Commission
under instructions from Presi-
dent Eisenhower, called for the
power group to build a SLOT mil
lion steam plant at West Mem
phis to send power into the iva
system in the nearby Memphis
(Tenn) area, as replacement
for iva power being used by
atomic installations in Ken
lucky and Tennessee.
Memphis Assurance Given
The President, in line with bis
desire to ease the Government
out of the power business and
let private industry in, backed
the arrangement after turning
down a iva request for money
to build an eighth steam gen.
Grating plant to meet increased
domestic and defense needs in
the iva territory.
Public power advocates have
fought the plan since its incep-
tion, and Memphis recently
brought the matter to q head by
announcing plans to build its
own plant. President Eisenhower
said that was satisfactory to
him. With assurance that the
See DIxON-YATES, Page AS
Evening star., 1955-07-12
Ku.er Sees Rhec

SEOUL, July IL R.-Gen.
Lawrence s. Kuter, Far East Air
Forces commander, arrived today
on his first trip to Korea since
becoming FEAT commander
about a month ago. He made a
courtesy call on President Syng-
man Rhee.
Evening star., 1955-07-12
Senate Passes
Delegates Bill
Measure Permits
D. 6. Elections

The Senate, without a single
objection, today passed and sent
back to the House an amended
bill providing for the formal
election of District delegates and
alternates to the national polit-
ical party conventions where
candidates for President and
Vice President are nominated.
There are numerous changes
in the Senate version Of the bill
from that passed recently by the
House.
For one thing, the Senate
added to the list of officials to be
elected members and officers of
the District central committees
of the political parties, this to
be added to convention delegates
and alternates and to national
committeeman and national COM
mitteeWomen from the District.
Literacy Test Dropped
Another change made by the
Senate was to eliminate a House
provision requiring that a per-
son voting in the party primaries
must be able to read and write.
Under the Senate bill any per-
son unable to write could in
dorse his ballot by some mark.
Other provisions of the Senate
bill would allow absentee voting,
would permit presidential pref
erential vote If the candidate in
volved gives his permission, and
allow certain party policy mat
ters to be put on the ballot for
a yes or a no answer, when such
questions are approved by party
authorities.
Goes to Conference
The bill now will go to con-
ference with the House unless
the House should decide to ac-
cept the Senate amendments.
which was not considered likely.
Congress last year passed a
similar bill but it was vetoed
by President Eisenhower be-
cause it would have exempted
Government employees here from
the Hatch Act ban on political
activities by Government work.
ers while leaving the ban still
applied to the greater number
of Government workers residing
outside the District.
Evening star., 1955-07-12
VIRGINIA PRIMARY
RESULTS ON WMAL

Returns from today's vir-
ginia Democratic primary
compiled by The Stars news
staff will be broadcast over
WMAL, The Star radio sta
ton. at half-hour intervals
from 8 o'clock to midnight
tonight. Complete stories on
the election, with pictures of
tine winners and tables show
ing the vote for contested
Offices in all nearby pre-
cincts will be printed in to-
morrow's Star.
Evening star., 1955-07-12
BULLET TINS
JobIess Bill Voted

A greatly liberalized District
unemployment compensation
insurance measure was ap-
proved in the Senate today
without a single recorded OBJ
lection. 1t would raise the
maximum benefits to the job
less, for a period of a full half
year, from the present $50 q
week to S54 a week.
Evening star., 1955-07-12

read at q hearing of the Senate
District subcommittee consider
ing a bill to lift the Capital Tran
sit franchise.
II do not carry my duties as
chairman of the board of direc-
tors of the Capital Transit Co.
he said.
Therefore, it is with full rec
ognition of these duties anc
responsibilities that I charge
Robert Mclaughlin. a former
member. and Robert Weston,
now a member of the District
Public Utilities Commission. with
complete blame for the current
strike"
Suggests He Drop Out
Mr.. Mclaughlin now is a Dis
trict Commissioner.
Mr.. Wolfson charged that Mr..
Weston ''has shown that he is
preiudiced against certain of the
officers of Capital Transit Co..
as well as the company, and for
that reason he is not qualified
to sit in judgment with respect
to amounts Of fares to be charged
by the company.
"He should disqualify himself
in order that a fair order will
be entered"
Mr.. Wolfson then launched
into the history of what he
called efforts by the company
to put through fare increases
to avert the strike.
"We have no quarrel with la
bor," Mr.. Wolfson said. "As a
matter of fact, want to pay
tribute to the employees of Capt.
tai Transit. Yet the current
requests of the union, If met,
would cost the company an es-
timated 81 million additionally
every year. Our net income for
the first five months of 1855 was
$421, ,237.
Assuming that the company's
net continued at this rate for
the remainder of 1855, this
would mean a net for the year
of a little over 81 million. or
one-seventh of the unions re-
quest"
Timing Was Issue
Mr.. Wolfson said prospects
were not that good, and that
to give the community, the
stockholders and the employees
fair treatment, the company
went to the P. U. c. in January
for fair increases.
Although the prospect Of fare
increases the following June
was obvious. the P. U. C. did not
consider the January petition
timely and suggested the fall as
more timely.
A special committee of Cap
ital Transit directors was then
appointed to revisit P. U. c. and
alert this public commission
to the realities" Mr.. Wolfson
said.
Points to Is Directors
Mr.. Wolfson, who earlier said
he had been made the scape-
goat of the strike, the victim
of the great amount of hate
and bitterness engendered by
the strike, called attention to
the fact there are Is directors.
Mr.. Wolfson said the special
committee of stockholders met
with the P. U. c. as long ago as
last March. but was told the
time was not favorable to ask
an increase, since legislation for
relief to the company was pend
ing in Congress.
Evening star., 1955-07-12
AT B-57 Crashes

BALTIMORE R.-The pilot
was killed, three other crew
men unaccounted for and two
injured in the crash of an Air
Force B-57 twin-jet bomber
while taking off for Texas
today at the Glenn L. Martin
Co. airport.
Evening star., 1955-07-12
Trude Pact Siqned

TOKYO, July II (P.-Com-
munist China and North Korea
have signed an economic and
cultural pact for fiscal 1856,
Pyongyang radio announced to-
day.
Evening star., 1955-07-12

>~->~->~
bill which will come up for ac-
tion by the House Thursday.
The money for real estate re-
assessment is to finance the first
year operation of a three-year
program designed to bring more
revenue into the District gov
ernment.
Outgrowth of Hearings
The reassessment program was
proposed as an outgrowth of the
hearings by the Rabaut subcom-
mittee of the House Appropria-
tions Committee handling the
District budget, which now is
law for this year.
The report on the District
funds in the supplemental bill,
written by the Rabaut subcom-
mittee and approved by the full
committee, also recommended a
reduction in the amount of
funds earmarked for service of
expert consultants from $55, 900
to $35,00O.
"Of the $35. 900 earmarked for
consultant services" the report
said, "up to 5000 may be used
for expenses in connection with
the preparation of an assess
ment manual and not to exceed
$4,000 is to be used for other
consulting services"
Temporary Program
Furthermore, the committee
emphasized the fact that this
first year operation on re-as-
sessment sis a temporary pro-
gram" and the committee
intends to review progress
thoroughly at the time of the
regular 1857 budget hearings"
The $190,o00 was a part of a
COCal amount OF Sl,2U3,95l fOT
the District government recon-
mended to the House for Action.
The other items included $43,-
120 for the Health Department
to reimburse several private hos
pitfalls for care of INDECENT pa
tients in the fiscal year 1854;
$137,936 for reimbursing the
Federal Treasury for care of
boys committed to the National
Training School for Boys; S132,-
812 for District costs of services
rendered by the Department of
Justice and Federal courts;
$448,047 for pay raises for wage
scale employees. and $252.036 for
payment of audited claims.
Evening star., 1955-07-12
JELLIED TONGUE
FOR SUMMER LUNCH

REFRESHING LUNcH--A jeIIied
smoke tongue ring will tempt joded
oppetites ond make o perfect sum-
met luncheon, Violet Foulkner, The
StoTs food editor. soys. See her recipe
on poee BIT.
Evening star., 1955-07-12

nism. At the Big -Four confer
ence at Geneva, Bulganin can
not attack without solidifying
the free worlds resistance to
the Soviet Union. He cannot
retreat without the danger of
fastening changes already under
way in Russia.
Bulganin will not be his own
master. Nikita S. Khrushchev,
the Soviet Communist boss, will
be looking over one shoulder,
representing the fears and am
billions of world communism.
Looking over the other will be
Ivan, the John Smith of Russia,
the man largely responsible for
bringing about this summit
Evening star., 1955-07-12
HouseGroup
0kFunds for
Reassessment
$4,000 Approved
For Survey of
D. c. ReuI Estate

The House Appropriations
Committee today approved and
sent to the House for action an
appropriation of $4,000 to
assess and reassess real property
In the District.
This is a reduction of $10,0
in the budget estimate sent to
Congress.
The item was carried in the
big supplemental appropriation
Evening star., 1955-07-12
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|Wo|fson Lays
Strike 10 Two
PUG. Officials
Accuses Mclaughlin
And Weston Before
Senute Hearing

Louis E. Wolfson, Capital Tran
sit board chairman. today
charged two members of the
Public Utilities Commission with
complete blame" for the present
transit strike.
Mr.. Wolfson made the charge
in a statement he prepared to
Text Of WoIfson Settlement. Poae "A
Evening star., 1955-07-12

Other Stories About Areo Appro-
priotions. Pose 81
Evening star., 1955-07-12
By WILLIAM L. RYAN
Associated Press Stan Writer

Marshal Nikolai Alexandra
vich Bulganin, strictly a political
general. personifies the dilemma
Of the general staff Of commu-
This is the first Of O series Of ortieIes in
which Mr.. Ryon sets the stoee for
the Geneva Big Four Conference.
Evening star., 1955-07-12
WEATHER FORECAST

Fair and cooler tonight. low near 66. Fair
tomorrow, high near SO. Full report plus
resort forecast on Page A-2.)
Temperatures Today
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Text Of WoIfson Settlement. Pose "A
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have vacated the Pratt property.
recently purchased by Mr.. Clough
of Cheswold, and are living with
Mrs. Grace Crossley until their
new home is completed.
Mrs. S. Knotts spent the week.
end at Camp Barnes. with a group
of All leaders.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Hunt and
daughter were visitors over the
weekend with Mr.. George and Mr..
Carl Prettyman and other rela-
tives.
The softball game scheduled to
be played at Kenton between the
Clayton and Kenton All Clubs
has been Cancelled for a later
date.
Mr.. Harry Clough was on vaca-
tion last week.
Miss Irene Gaby of Seaford is
spending this week with her
grandfather, Mr.. H. Clifton.
Mrs. c. Jewell had as her visi-
tors on Sunday her daughters,
Mrs. M. Dill, and family, and Mrs.
w. Minner, and family of Har-
rington and FELTON,.