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Evening star., 1955-07-26

ROCK Creek was full OF mud,
but the white ducks showed no
stain on their feathers.
How is this?
, It is because feathers are
among natures most marvel
GUS adaptations.
Hairs and feathers are close
together in the universal plan.
Everybody knows how dogs
and cats manage to get along
in very hot weather, although
they shed only a portion Of
their fur.
The feather is even more
mysterious in its actions and
interactions.
1t has oil glands, and these
protect the body of the bird
from water, but they do more.
They tend to make a sort
of natural soap. so that with
the water-and surely there
is plenty of that-the oil man.
ages to float away as the crea-
ture comes out of the water.
just as a soap does, this
takes with it a great deal of
the dirt, so that no matter
how muddy the water, the
duck ALWAYS looks clean
X X Il X
From ducks in the Rock
Creek pools to Templeton
Jones in his tub may or may
not be an easy transition for
the reader, but it is just as big
as life and twice as natural.
For Col. Jones is a great
hand with soap.
Probably no person in Wash
ington, male or female, has
bought as many kinds of soap
in the last quarter of a CEN
tury.
Indeed, Jones's interest in
the subject (and the product)
goes back to dear old college
days.
At that time he had a tenn
porary breaking out of the
skin. In those days such mat
ters were healed, not by the
dermatologist, but by soaps.
Every soap advertised, it
seemed, would clear every
complexion. And young boys
and girls bought them, if they
had the money.
Jones went on from this to
trying out all the soaps in
Washington's biggest depart
ment and drug stores.
He got a sort of fixation on
the subject.
The germ idea, of course.
Too much washing of the
hands, according to modern
psychology, is a sort of neu-
rotic manifestation, with tin
ges of guilt complex.
At such ideas. Templeton
Jones laughed. He has found
this one Of the very best ways
of getting rid of ideas.
y
After he had settled down
in life, he just kept on buy
ing soap. He bought it by
the stray cake and by the
box. He rather specialized in
foreign makes. particularly the
French and the British, but
paid some attention to other
countries.
Several cakes--from Paris
came in a small house, gay
ly autographed.
One cube of white soap was
made in one of the countries
now under communistic domi-
nation, as we say.
After 1t was made, the SOAP
was beaten up with air, and
Evening star., 1955-07-26

metropolitan ponce. Iney nave
been magnificent in this
emergency! They have been
alert, efficient and cheerful,
an unbeatable combination. 1t
would be well in the future
that we remember this when
we feel like blaming them for
certain things or feel that
they are doing something not
to our liking. We should re-
member that they are hard
working fellows just like the
majority of us and regular
human beings after all.
C. F. Haughawout.
y y *.*
10 is the opinion of many
the writer of the editorial en-
titled Summer Madness" is
the one who is permeated
with that malady. 1t is diff
cult to understand why The
Star accuses the District Com
missioners and the P. U. c. of
acting in a rash way.
What do you want for the
transit riders land taxpayers)
a Csc fare? Your fantastic de-
fense of Wolfson and the in
credibly Ito put it mildly
mismanaged C. r. c. is truly
indicative of summer mad
ness" How anyone can say
c. T. c. has not forfeited its
right to serve the Washington
area must be thus afflicted.
Better get an air condi-
tioner and start over on the
summer madness" subject
and come up with a little
praise for the Commissioners
and the overworked P. U. C.
who have in the past been
bent nearly double coddling
this peculiar public service"
utility.
And while on the subject of
fares. may I call to your at
tention the 7c fares charged
by the New Orleans Public
Service Inc.-a privately owned
non-subsidized public (truly)
utility" which services that
metropolis very efficiently?
Jay Porter.
X \ *
This will probably be little
more than a "tiny voice in the
wilderness" but after reading
in The Star that there would
have to be some indication by
the public that they were fed
up with the transit strike be-
fore anything concrete, and
fast, would be done, I wondered
at the turtle pace slowness
with which the powers-that-be
work.
It seems to me it should be
perfectly clear that a metror
oils of this size and its ever
widening environs need a
transit service every day and
around the clock. Now why
"the people" have to transmit
this juicy piece of information
to the District Commissioners
and those astute Federal Gov
ernment personages concerned
before they rise to a standing
position, is beyond me.
OF course the District o1
Washington, D. c. needs public
transportation. Who else will
second the motion?
Transit Rider.
X y X
For three weeks, there has
been a tieup of traffic, trans.
portation, street cars anc
buses. Federal employees have
been stymied in their efforts
to get to their jobs in the
Government as well as the
d. C. employees. Transports
ton has become practically nj
except for overcrowded taxi.
cabs. This has become a ma.
tional calamity. The District
Evening star., 1955-07-26
Questions and Answers
BY THE HASKIN SERVICE

A reader can get an answer by mail
to any factual question by writing The
kveninp Star Information Bureau,
1900 Eye St. NV, Washington D,
d. c. Please inclose 8 cents for
return postage.
Evening star., 1955-03-24
Ice Age City

Father Jesus Carballo reports
the discovery of indications of a
vast Ice Age city in tunnels near
Santander. Spain.
Evening star., 1955-03-24
By Robert K. Welsh

One-man investigating sub
committees and indiscriminate
ame-dropping at public hear
tings were hopefully believed in
the House today to have gone
with the wind.
Some complaints fingered that
the minimum" code of fair
play conduct for committees,
adopted by the House late yes
terday, was still too mild and
narrow.
But adoption of the House
resolution marked a parliament
tary milestone. The bill was the
first of its kind taken up and
adopted by the House itself after
several years of committee study
and numerous suggestions. Those
grew out Of unhappy experiences
at several hearings in past years.
The resolution, which does not
require Senate concurrence or
presidential approval, amends
the rules of the House itself.
Practically all House committees
now voluntarily follow substan-
TALLY the same procedures. But
the new resolution makes Is
basic requirements mandatory on
investigatory activities of House
committees in the future.
Wins on Voice Vote
The resolution was adopted
on a unanimous voice vote only
after almost two hours of dis
cuSsion and an unsuccessful at
tempt by at least a score of
members to open it to amend
ment.
Representative Meader, Re-
publican, of Michigan, urged
that the House be given an op-
portunity to vote directly on
whether television and radio
coverage should be allowed at
committee hearings. Speaker
Rayburn has ruled that such
coverage is barred by present
House rules.
Representative Scott, Pennsyl-
vania Republican who headed a
subcommittee that conducted
extensive hearings in 1853 and
1854 on a proposed fair code"
for committees, described the
resolution as totally made
quate."
Half Loaf"
Representative Keating, Re-
publican, of New York, agreed
that the resolution sponsored
by Representative Doyle, Demo-
crat, of California and several
other members, fell short of the
goal of protecting committees
as we'll as witnesses at investiga-
tive hearings. But he supported
it, he said because half a loaf
was better than none"
Evening star., 1955-03-24
President May Visit
New England in June
By the AssocIoied Pre,s

President Eisenhower was said
today to have agreed tentatively
to visit Maine, New Hampshire
and Vermont for a few days in
June.
This was reported by congress
sional sources who asked not
to be named. They said several
reasons were advanced by north
ern New England legislators to
convince Mr.. Eisenhower he
should visit their States this
spring.
Last November Maine elected
a Democratic Governor for the
first time in 20 years. Control
Of State patronage usually gives
a political party an advantage
In the following general election
Mr.. Eisenhower never has been
in either Maine or Vermont.
Senator Margaret Chase Smith,
Republican. of Maine, issued the
President a formal invitation
last month to switch the sum-
mer White House from Colorado
to Maine.
Evening star., 1955-03-24
French Upper House
Urged 10 Take Pacts
AS Lesser Evil

PARIS, Mar. 24.-Two half
hearted supporters of the Paris
agreements to rearm West Ger
many continued the ratification
debate today in the French Sem
ate. Observers expect the upper
house to give the treaties
Frances final parliamentary
approval in a vote late tomorrow
or Saturday.
Yvon Coude du Foresto, a
member of a centrist party, and
Marcel Champeix. a Socialist,
both urged the upper-chamber
Council of the Republic. to ac-
cept the agreements as the best
that France can obtain at this
time.
About 40 other Senators are
listed to speak before the final
vote. While some hitch is al
ways possible, the outlook now
Evening star., 1955-03-24
Tower Shot Delayed
As Acc EvaIuates
Underground Blast
BY the Assoeioied Press

LAS VEGAS, New, Mar. a.
There was no nuclear shot today.
Testers said that a big. 500-foot
tower blast which has been de-
layed by weather conditions since
March IA, will not be attempted
until tomorrow, at the earliest.
Yesterdays underground blast
was the 38th in the series.
The underground explosion.
set off by an atomic demolition
device, produced a dirty cloud of
brownish color. The device was
one of the tinieSt nuclear ex-
plosives yet devised and the
miniature mushroom rose to only
l 900 feet, a relatively short dis
tance for AN atomic blast.
Yesterdays test on Yucca Flat
was a special one for the Army's
Corps of Engineers. The device
was designed by the Los Alamos
IN. Mex laboratory of the
Atomic Energy Commission. But
neither the Acc nor the Army
disclosed the potential weapon
the engineers are experimenting
with.
The device was believed to be
less than one kiloton in power.
A kilotcn is equal to 1000 tons
of TINT
This was the first underground
blast at the Nevada site since
1851 and was viewed by $50 mill
tary observers from a distance
of S miles. There were no troop
maneuvers. but 26 Air Force
planes participated, including a
fight OF Jets Stimulating a bomb
delivery. After the explosion
scientists and engineers made a
Pathological survey with instru-
ments hung by cables from hell
copters.
The explosion went off at 1890
pm. Later the Acc said there
was no report of any radio
active fallout outside the test
site.
Evening star., 1955-03-24

is that the Senate will indorse
the accords. They have already
been approved by the National
Assembly, the more powerful
branch of the French Legisla-
ture.
Preferred EDO Formula.
Mr.. Coude du Foresto said he
would have preferred the Euro
pean army (EDC) formula for
German rearmament. But he
added, Il believe we must &C
cept the Paris accords as a lesser
evil" preferable to isolating
France from her allies.
Mr.. Champeix said he and his
Socialist colleagues were going
to submit" to the Paris treaties
rather than accept" them, ex-
planning that they. too, would
have preferred the EDO solution
to the problem.
He chided former Premier
Pierre Mendes France, saying
that if Mr.. Mendes-France had
expended only part of the ef-
fort to get EDO ratified that he
had used in drawing up the
Paris accords, France would have
accepted the European army
plan.
Another Delay Sought.
Many Senators, however, sought
another postponement in the al
lied plans to rearm the West
Germans. They pinned their
hopes chiefly on an amendment
proposed by Senator Andre
Armengaud. a member of the
right-wing Independents.
He wants to put operation OF
the treaties off until a settlement
is reached on a West European
arms pool.
Other amendments, including
one calling for another try at
agreement with Russia on dis
armament before ratification
were thought even less likely to
pass. However. should any OF
the amendments be adopted, the
treaties would have to go back
to the Assembly for new action
This would delay and might even
scuttle them.
Evening star., 1955-03-24

have a chance to request that
other witnesses be called.
All witnesses would be allowed
to be accompanied by legal coun-
sci at open or closed sessions.
But the lawyers would be per-
mitted to advise them only as
to constitutional rights as dis
tinguished from strictly statutory
rights.
The new rules strengthen the
authority of committee chairmen
to deal with breaches of order
and decorum" at hearings, as
well as breaches of professional
ethics" by lawyers. The chair
man could censure or eject coun-
sci and other persons from hear
ingS. But it would be up to the
committee to decide whether to
ask the House to cite for con-
tempt.
Evening star., 1955-03-24
Wilson Studies Plan
To Spend 81 Billion
On Military Homes
By John A. Giles

Secretary of Defense Wilson is
studying :: 81 billion. five-year
military housing program to meet
drastic shortages at bases both
in this country and abroad. it
was learned today.
The Secretary took this step
after being closely questioned
during Senate hearings on the
military pay bill about what the
Pentagon was doing to meet the
need.
The military construction bill.
previously submitted to the
Budget Bureau but not yet for
warded to the Capitol, contains
$110 million for military housing.
With the balance left on the
books from previous appropria-
tions. it is calculated that 27,500
housing units could be built.
Over 10000 Houses
The new program, being studied
at the Pentagon, would bring
about the construction Of be-
tween 10000 and ITS, 900 hous-
ing units. it is estimated. The
average cost of the units would
be between $4,000 and $4,000.
The Air Force is said to need
as many units as the Army and
Navy combined. This is because
SO many new Air Force bases
have been built in recent years
and many of them are rot adja-
cent to large population centers
where other housing is available.
During the recent Senate hear
ingS Senator Symington, Demo-
crat, of Missouri, questioned Mr.
Wilson sharply about housing
needs. He wanted to know why
the administration was failing
to advocate what he called ade-
quate housing for the military
while it was asking for billions
of dollars for highways.
Mr.. Wilson replied the Defense
Department was making progress
in that direction.
Puts Aides to Work.
Returning to the Pentagon. he
put his aides to work on the ex-
panded program.
He also told a news conference
this week, "We don't care so
much how it is done as long as
it gets done, whether it is done
by direct appropriations or
whether it be partly financed
through some kind of an FILA
or similar thing or suggestion, or
a bill like that of Senator Cape
hart"
The new plan calls for direct
appropriation.
But Mr.. Wilson also told his
news conference that he does not
oppose the Wherry housing plan
under which private firms build
houses adjacent to bases.
"Our essential point of view is
we need the houses and we want
them built" he said. And we
think it would be a sound thing
to have fairly long plan and
build what we can a year and
have a five-vear nropram
Evening star., 1955-03-24
House Bans One-Mon Probes,
Sets Up Witness Protection

Rules Committee Chairman
Smith. Democrat. of Virginia,
Representative Brown. Republic
can. Of Ohio, a member of that
committee, Mr.. Doyle and others
advocated adoption of the reso-
luton for what it was-a gen.
eral framework, guide-work and
groundwork" setting minimum
standards below which House
committees cannot go in con-
Quoting investigations. They said
they hoped individual commit
tees would elaborate" on the
minimum code.
One of the most important re-
quirements in the new overall
rules is that a subcommittee at
an investigative hearing must
have at least two members.
Another section requires COM
mittee or subcommittee chair
men such proceedings to an
nounce at the outset the subject
and general scope of the in
vestigation.
Protects Witnesses
The main rule designed to pro-
tect persons named at hearings
provides that If a name comes
up at an open hearing in a way
that might tend to degrade or
incriminate" the person, the
committee must go into closed
session to receive evidence and
make such a determination. The
committee also must give such
person an opportunity volun-
tarily to appear as witness and
Evening star., 1955-03-24
Godfrey Singer Leaving
Show to Have BODY
BY the Assoeiofed PFess

NEW YORK, Mar. 24.-Singer
Lu Ann Simms OF the Arthur
Godfrey radio and television
shows will be off the air until
after the birth of her baby. but
will continue on the CHS pay
roll, the network said yesterday.
CHS said the contract with
Miss Sims, who is Mrs. Loring
Buzzell in private life, will con-
tinue.
Evening star., 1955-03-24
Low Blood Spurned,
High Caste Women D.

A woman has died in Pakistar
rather than take blood from a
low-caste donor. Karachi re-
ports. She belonged to a Syed
family considered to be Of high
caste) in Hyderabad. where she
was the wife of a wealthy land
owner. -...
She was advised by doctors
to undergo TRANSMISSION to be
cured of acute anemia. She
agreed on condition that the
blood donor be a woman of the
Syed dynasty. None such was
available, so she died for lack
of high-caSte donor.
Evening star., 1955-03-24
Gallery Commentaries
Mellon Anniversary

A wreath was placed beneath
the portrait medallion of An
drew w. Mellon in the National
Gallery of Art today, commem-
Grating the Tooth anniversary
of his birth.
The medallion Of marble in
relief was placed in the lobby
on the Constitution avenue side
of the building last month. Mr.
Mellon, founder of the gallery.
died in 1887.
Evening star., 1955-03-24
FOUND

y. r. ave. Call RA. 8i402 for iden-
tiflcation.
Evening star., 1955-03-24
Senate Confirms Brioos
And Lucy us Envoys

The Senate confirmed Ellis O.
Briggs to be Ambassador to Peru
and William S. B. Lacy as Am
bassador to Korea.
Also confirmed was a long list
of routine diplomatic and
Foreign Service promotions and
appointments.
Evening star., 1955-03-24
German President
Signs Paris Pocts
Despite Challenge
BY the Associoted Press

BONN, Germany, Mar. "a
President Theodor Heuss
today signed the Paris
Treaties calling for West
German rearmament in the
Atlantic alliance.
The President acted de-
spite a suit filed by the op-
position Socialists in the
Federal Constitutional Court
challenging one of the trea-
ties - the French German
Saar agreement.
Evening star., 1955-03-24
7 Battles Shaping Up
In Congress Over
Foreign Trade Policy
By J. A. O'leoy

Two battles over foreign trade
policy were shaping up in Con-
gress today.
One involved the three-year
extension of the Presidents
power to make trade agreements
and to cut tariffs by an additional
Is per cent. which already faced
a fight in the Senate.
The second, which began to
develop yesterday. involves a bill
soon to be introduced to approve
United States membership in the
Organization for Trade Coop
Grafton, a new international body
formed recently at Geneva. This
OTC will administer the General
Agreement on Tariff and Trade.
better known as GAIT. which
has been functioning for about
eight years.
Information Demanded
AS the Senate Finance Com
mittee was winding up public
hearings yesterday on extension
of the Trade Agreement Act,
there was a sudden furry of de-
mands for full information on
how GAIT is operating and how
much authority the new gov
erning body. OTC. would have.
Senator Byrd, Democrat, of
Virginia. finance chairman,
served notice on Secretary of
State Dulles that his committee
will not act on the trade agree
ment bill until it is given all the
details of the new international
trade organization.
Senator Byrd explained today
that he is not insisting on COM
bining the two subjects in one
bill, but believes his committee
is entitled to know all about the
international setup before it ap-
proves either bill.
Some of us have serious ques-
tons as to whether GAIT might
tie the Presidents hands in deal
ing with emergency situations in
this country which might re-
quire changes in trade restric-
tiOnS," said Senator Byrd.
81 Members
Thirty four nations have
Joined in organizing the new
agency to supervise fair trade
practices. Senator Byrd said it is
to be directed by an executive
board composed of representa-
tives of II nations land we have
only one vote"
The Senator indicated he
wants to know just how this
board would function.
GAIT has been a controversial
subject in Congress since this
country first joined in the Ge-
neva trade talks. Last year Con-
gress stipulated that nothing in
the current trade agreement act
should be construed as approval
or disapproval of GAIT.
At the suggestion of Senator
Milllkin, Republican. of Colorado,
Mr.. Dulles has agreed to furnish
each member of the Finance
Committee with a detailed ex-
planation of the trade agree
ments now covered by GAIT and
how the new OTC governing
body would function.
Committee in Recess
The Finance Committee is in
recess until Monday, when it will
begin studying the whole foreign
trade problem behind closed
doors with State Department
officials.
Meanwhile, Senator Thur
nond, Democrat. of South Caro-
lima, presented to the committee
three amendments that will be
proposed by 16 Senators from
the South and New England to
protect the textile industry from
fears it entertains Of growing
Japan is one of the
areas from which the textile
States fear growing competition.
In addition to amendments de-
signed to safeguard particular
the administration
will have to fight efforts to curb
the general authority of the
President to change tariff rates
Milford chronicle., 1955-04-01

Mrs. Earl King, leader of Circle
No. 2, of the Grace Methodist
WSCS, entertained that group at
her home on Monday evening. Miss
Helen Mae Carpenter assisted in
the devotional services.
Miss Heneretta Morgan, sister
in-law of Charles T. Vent, passed
away at her home in Philadelphia
on Sunday afternoon. Services were
held jim Philadelphia on Tuesday
evening. On Wednesday, the Rev.
Frank Volk officiated at burial
services in the Odd Fellows Gene
terry, in Milton
Several Milton relatives and
friends attended the funeral SER
vices for Mrs. Cora Prettyman in
the Slaughter Neck Church and
burial grounds last Sunday after
noon. Mrs. Prettyman had been
critically i'll in Milford Hospital
for several weeks before her death
last Wednesday.
/ Friends and neighbOrs have been
receiving cards from Mrs. Leroy
Lynch who is visiting her son,
J. D. Lynch and family in Orlando,
Fla. Mrs. Lynch writes that she
had an enjoyable trip down and
is enjoying every minute with her
family as well as the sightseeing
tours.