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The Nome nugget., 1955-06-17
Chinese Students
Returned to Reds

HONG KONG, R-Thirty-two
Chinese from the United States
were taken under police escort
yesterday to the Red Chinese bor-
der.
The group, mostly students, ar
rived here aboard the American
liner President Wilson.
There were no demonstrations
or incidents.
The students were among the rs
detained in the United States
since the Korean War broke out
because technical knowledge they
had gained in studying in Amer
lea might be Of assistance to the
Chinese Communists.
The State Department lifted the
restrictions April 2.
The Nome nugget., 1955-06-17
Rome Awarded
Olympic Games
For Summer of 90

PARIS, R-The International
Olympic Committee awarded the
1860 summer games to Rome yes
terday.
The voting, most important in
the world Of sports, was taken as
the climax of the week-long IOC
meetings in the Cercle Interallie,
an international house in the heart
Of Paris.
Losing cities were Lausanne,
Switzerland; Budapest, Brussels,
Detroit, Tokyo, and Mexico City.
The 1856 games will be in Aus
tralia. In accordance with an un-
written Olympic rule that summer
games must be in Europe at least
two thirds Of the time, the return
to Europe was almost foregone
conclusion.
Rome is believed unofficially to
have won on the third ballot.
An unofficial tabulation gave
Rome Is on the first ballot, Lau-
same IA, Budapest i8, Mexico
City 6, Detroit 6, and Tokyo 4.
Tokyo, with the fewest votes.
was dropped out, according to an
unofficial report, after this first
round of voting. On the second
ballot Rome was believed to have
received 27-two short of an alb
solute majority of the 81 mem
bers present. Lausanne was be-
lieved to have received 20 votes.
The meeting last 11s hours.
Evening star., 1955-06-24
By HARRY MACARTHUR

Some college boys dream up a
plan to knock off robbery proof
Reno gambling hell in Five
Against the House." at the Met
ropolitan and Ambassador The
aters. It is a preposterous If in
genious plan and it comes to no
more successful end than past
movie projects of this sort. It
does, however, allow Director
Phil Karlson to employ a certain
amount of sneaky suspense.
The boys do so much talking
about this foolproof plan, with
out ever revealing its precise ma
ture, that you find yourself COM
PEELED to sit there waiting to see
just what they are going to do.
This entails sitting through some
dull college humor and some
duller excursions into romance
by the student who has found
himself a night club singer.
This is a crime. all right, and a
far from perfect one.
Five Against the House" is
enlivened momentarily now and
then by Brian Keith. He plays
a psyche veteran of Korea among
the students. who turns what
starts out as a prank into the
real thing and he does a fine,
believable job of it.
Guy Madison is around, too,
and manages to be likable
enough as the student who
thinks this whole plan foolhardy
and enters into it only against
his will. A blond dish named
Kim Novak also is on display
and display certainly is what
she is arranged for.
Director Karlson filmed his
movie on the spot in Reno anc
he has proved one thing. II
takes more than an authentic
setting to give a motion picture
q ring of authenticity.
Evening star., 1955-06-24

Jessie CTandy) Cronyn before
them, will be playing 1.-THE Four
Poster" this summer. They will
comprise the Jan de Hartog
comedy's cast at st. Michaels
Playhouse, Winooski Park. VT,
the first week in July.
Again this summer. for the
fifth time, st. Michael's will be
an operation Of Players, Inc.
Catholic University offshoot,
which also operates the sum-
mer theater at Olney, Md.
TRAVELLERS NOTE: Make a
memo if you intend to travel
this summer-as who does not?
That Berea, KY. joins the list
of communities offering their
history in symphonic drama
form. This one, like those of
Manteo, N. C. and Williamsburg,
Va, Is also written by Paul
Green who has something Of a
monopoly on the formula.
Berea's production, wilder
ness Road" will open June 90,
run through Labor Day. and
commentaries the Tooth an
niversary of the founding of
Berea College. Governors of four
|neighboring States will join Ken
tucky's chief executive on open
ing night.
BULLETIN BOARD: Opening
tomorrow at the Trans-Lux: "A
Prize Of Gold" starring Richard
Widmark and Mai lettering :.
1T is a Columbia production, shot
in England "Sabrina Fair
will open Ocean City's Playhouse
summer season on July 4, with
Natalie Craveth as the repertory
company's leading lady. . A
special 10-weeks course for adult.
lin modern dance will open al
1.-THE Jewish Community Center
lon June 20. Pola Nirensks
will be guest teacher. Car
Farley, long prominent in loca
little theater circles. will conduct
next weeks Theater Workshop
sessions sponsored by the Airing
ton County Department Of Rec.
reation and Parks. These
are held on Tuesday and Thurs
day nights, 8 pm, Walter Reec
School in Arlington
Evening star., 1955-06-24

are bred for strength and cour-
age. Apart from Anthony Quinn
who plays the title role. "dra-
matte" is what the human actors
lin the film are not. Led by Maui
Ireen O'Hara, the others behave
dispiritedly like so many hand
some hired hands trapped in a
Imorass Of cinema cliches.
"The Magnificent Matador" is
shot in CinemaScope, in color.
and in Mexico. Visually, this is
a superb combination and if the
Iscreenplay boasted a fraction OF
the same brilliance, goth Cen
tury-Fox could be much happier.
The plot that dulls the visual
Iluster Of "The Magnificent Mata-
dor" is another Of those hand
some bullfighter meets rich
IAmerican-girl screeds. Quinn
plays the matador, Of course,
Miss O'Hara the heiress. He is
a man with a problem, she girl
with the conviction that what
such men need is precisely what
she's got, including money.
This situation, you can be
sure, is played to the hilt in a
series of settings that include
a stable in a rain squall, a
hacienda bedroom in the dead
of night, a morning clean forest
which the girl maintains as a
riding park, etc. After giving
him conducted tour of these
corners of her spoiled life, Miss
OHara learns what is troubling
her matador. It is not that he
l. is afraid of bulls, after all these
years. On the contrary, it is
just that the youngster who
wants to fight as his partner is
really his illegitimate son and he
hates to see the boy imperilled
BY way of indicating that she
is not as lost as her wanton pur'
suit of the matador might in
dicate, Miss O'Hara is given
scene in which she prays before
an altar for the success Of tht
bullfighter and his boy. To thu
surprise of no one, she is much
more convincing in the passage:
that lead up to this act Of con.
triton.
The really dramatic sequence:
lare those that are documentar!
lin essence and show the han
ding of the bulls from the breed
ling ranches to the arenas. ON
Iof the best of these is a long
detailed description of how tn
Iferocious fighting animals ar
llured into individual stalls b,
what are called "Jezebel" steers
These glamorlesS jokerS coul'
give valuable lessons to Holly
wood sirens in how to conduc
their business with decision ant
despatch.
X X r y
AFTER THE CROWNS: TIL
more famous the footsteps, tn
more inviting they are to follow
lin the philosophy of Bill ant
MARY Graham, he of Catholi
University's drama faculty.
The GrahamS, like Hume an
Evening star., 1955-06-24
WHERE
AND WHEN
CURRENT THEATER
ATTRACTIONS
AND TIME OF SHOWING
Stage

Stage
Arena-"The Mousetrap";; $3.50
pm.
Carter Barron Amphitheater-
National Symphony. Oscar lie.
want; $50 pm.
Screen
Ambassador -- Five Against
the House: lao, $40, $40
7:35 and 9::35 pm.
Capitol -" Magnificent Mata.
DOR; 1885 am; 1:40, $40, 5:45
7:45 and $50 pm.
Colony Doctor in tht
House: 6, 7::55 and $3.50 pm.
Columbia - "The Cobweb"
II am, 1:10, 1920, $50, TAO ant
9:55 pm.
Dupont - Holiday for Hen
rietta";; 1:15, 800, 5:25, 1880 ant
9:35 pm.
Keith's - "Davy Crockett"
1855, 11:55 am, 2. 4:o5. 6:05
I8:05 and 1910 pm.
Little - "Skabenga";; 6:35
I8:15 and 9:55 pm.
Macarthur - ITO Paris, Will
Love-: $3.50, 8:15 and 10 pm.
Metropolitan -" Five Agains
the House; 1850 am, 1:50
$3.50, $50, 7:50 and $50 pm.
Ontario-"Marty";; 1:15. 3
4:40, 6:25, $40 and $50 pm
Palace - Love Me or Leav
Me-; 11:15 am, 1855, 4:30. TO
and 9:40 pm.
Playhouse - That Lady"
11:N am, 1:15. 800, 5:25. 7:3
and 9:45 pm.
Plaza - "Cangaceiro"; 1920
l2:15. 4;10, 6:10, 8 and $50 pm
Trans Lux - IAN Annapoli
Story; $50. $40, 6:55, $3.50 an,
10:05 pm.
| Warner-"This Is Cinerama"
and $3.50 pm.
Evening star., 1955-06-24
THE PASSING SHOW
Bulls Lose the Fights
But Steal the Movie
THE PASSING SHOW
By JAY CARMODY

The bulls may lose bullghts in "The Magnificent Maa
at the Capitol they pretty well steal the picture
a whole.
They are dramatic looking beasts whether they their
in Mexico Cys the great ranches where they
Evening star., 1955-06-24
College Boys
Get Prunkish
In Reno Den

'FTvE AGAINST THE HOUSE" a
Columbia Picture. produced BY Stirling
eilliphsnt and John Barnwell, directed
Bowers, Silliphant and Barnwell. from. q
magazine story by Jack Finney. At the
Metropolitan and Ambassador Theaters
Evening star., 1955-06-24

HOILYWOOD-Maria Riva here studying the script for
her appearance last night CBsTVs Climax" is now
listening to Hollywood studio offers after having been tele
Visions most noted hodout against the movies The daugh
of Marene Dietrich she has refused roles that would
long absences from her two children and hus
band whose business in New York His work is the
West Coast now and California Miss Riva and the
children have gone with him.-AP Wirephoto
Evening star., 1955-01-28
|DeodIocked
Watson Jury
is Discharged

A Federal jury was discharged
this afternoon after it was un-
able to reach a verdict In more
than II hours Of deliberation in
the first-degree murder trial Of
Clarence e. Watson, jr., 81.
Watson Is accused of fatally
beating Miss Alyce o. Taggart.
IS, In her room in Scott's Hotel.
2100 block Of O street NV, on
July 5. 1858.
Judge Burnita Sheldon
Matthews. who presided at the
trial. discharged the jury. Wat
son Is subject to retrial.
Assistant United States At
torney Frederick @. Smithson,
who prosecuted the case in the
U. s. District Court for the Dis
trict of Columbia, said:
Il viii bring him to trial again
as soon as ! can get him before
q jury"
The hung jury had resumed
deliberations this morning, after
it was unable to reach a verdict
in more than eight hours yes
terday.
The indictment on which
Watson, who is colored. was
tried contains three first degree
murder counts. One Of these
charges premeditated murder;
another Of killing Miss Taggart
while housebreaking and a third
Of Staying her while trying to
rape her. A fourth count
charges househreaking only.
Evening star., 1955-01-28
Two Missing, Five Hurt
In West Virginia Blast
sy shs A..osio,sd Pres,

PINEvILLE, w. va, Jan. 28.-
Two men were missing and five
were burned in an explosion
which rocked the No. IL panel
of Red Jacket Coal Corps Wyo-
ming County mine today.
State Mines Chef Frank King
said at Charleston he had been
told rescue workers were under
ground but the fate of the two
missing men was not yet known.
Sheriff Paul Goode said he un-
derstood the injured had been
hospitalized at nearby WEIGH.
There was no evidence Of IRE in
the wake Of the blast.
About 125 miners had reported
for work when the explosion oc-
CURED around Q am.
Evening star., 1955-01-28
Advance Gifts Top
Symphony Record

The National symphony Or
chestra today announced a rec.
ord total Of 100000 in advance
gifts for its 1866 sustaining
fund.
The amount. collected five days
after the start OF the annual
campaign. compares with a pre-
vious record of 100000 In ad-
vance gifts at the end Of q four-
month campaign in 1858.
Carson @. Frailey, campaign
chairman. said he fully expects
to top hts $125,000 advance gifts
quota for this year. The total
goal for all divisions this year Is
$500, 900.
Annual budget for the Ma
tional Symptoms los concerts
is $500.000. Only 5000 900 Of this
cost Is met by the sale Of tickets.
The balance is financed through
contributions.
Evening star., 1955-01-28
KnowIand Opposes
Red China Deal

Senate Republican Leader
Knowland said today he opposes
letting any representative Of Red
China visit New York to discuss
o cease-fire with the United Ma
tions--,inless all American mill
tary prisoners IN Communist
China are released FIRST.
Commenting on reports from
London that such an invitation
may be issued to the Reds, the
Senator said:
mo representative Of the Chi
nese Communist regime should
be allowed to travel to this coun-
try to attend any United Natiors
session in the United States un-
til and unless all American mil
itary prisoners held in viola
ton of the Korean armistice
are freed from Communist pris-
ons prior to such trip.
What good is accomplished
BY talking about q cease IRE
agreement with Chinese COM
munists when the same regime
Is now In violation Of the last
two solemn agreements (the Ko-
rean and Geneva Armistices)
they signed"
State Department officials,
however. pointed out that
whether Chinese delegates should
be invited to the q. N. would be
"a matter for the U. NJ. rather
than the United States, to de-
eide.
Under the agreement setting
UP u. N. Headquarters in New
York, the United States, the0ret.
ically. could not bar any one
with q. N. credentials from the
headquarters itself, though
movement outside that area
could be restricted or prohibited.
Evening star., 1955-01-28

His passengers ordered him to
take them to Andrews Air Force
Ease. Mr.. Mitchell said. But In
the 5000 block of Auth Road,
near the air base, one Of the
men feigned sickness and Mr.,
Mitchell was asked to stop.
With the pistol leveled 1t him,
he was ordered to LAY every
thing you have ON the seat" The
men jumped out OF the cab and
ordered him to drive on.
The thieves got his drivers
permit. mr.. Mitchell said, but
did not take his most valuable
property--his cab drivers iden-
tification card. Mr.. Mitchell win
try eAb driving again today. he
said.
Evening star., 1955-01-28

the bombs were set TO so on last
midnight.
Mr.. Hagerty refused to say
why Government officials were
50 sure from the beginning that
the anonymous caller was giving
false information. Asked on
what basis the report was dis
counted, he would say only Il
can't tell you that"
Mr.. Hagerty said there was no
Nationwide civil defense alert.
but that oficlais OF the three
cities involved in the report
Washington. New York and
Evening star., 1955-01-28

piece the story together from
there.
One of the most puzzling as
poets of the case was that there
was no evidence of forcible entry
into the mansion, guarded at its
kfront entrance by an IRON
grated door and by a concrete
wall and iron picket fence in
the rear.
Besides Miss Gardner, police
questioned Patricia Wray, q
blond secretary of a firm where
the Russian born Rubinstein
had a business conference the
afternoon before he died.
They talked also with Peter
Crosby, Actress Denise Darcel's
divorced husband. who had es-
corted Miss Gardner to a Rus
sian New Years eve bali at the
Hotel Ambassador January 13,
a gala event also attended by
Rubinstein.
Blond Also Sought.
They wanted to talk. too, with
pretty Betty Reed. a tall blond
beauty frequently escorted by
the Wall Street operator.
Rubinstein, who was facing
deportation action by the Gov
ernment as an undesirable alien,
came to the end Of his checkered
career in a setting that would
challenge any in fiction.
He lay on wall-to-wall carpet
ing beside a twin bed which had
been slept in, one OF 10 pieces
Of furniture in the bedroom
Another twin bed had not beer
touched.
The walls around the grue-
somely bound figure were adorn-
ed with oriental prints and hunt
ing scenes.
Drawers Of a built-iri wardrobe
had been pulled out--but whether
in search Of something or to give
(see RUBTNSTETN, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1955-01-28
Mercury Dips 10 Il,
|CoIdesi in 4 Years;
.Frigid Wave Lingers
Light Snow Moy Foil
Tonight; Foirfox Has
4-Above-Zero Reuding

Light snow may climax Wash
ington's coolest day In four
years.
The Weather Bureau said
there was a chance Of Light snow
tonight with temperatures
warmer than the official IL de-
grees recorded at $3.50 am.
Despite the chilly weather. the
Ice on the Rejecting Pool IL
not thick enough to support
skaters. a National Capital Parks
spokesman said today.
A measurement today showed
an inch and a half Of ice In most
spots. Three Inches are required
for skating. Below freezing tenn
peratures throughout tomorrow
morning will be needed to freeze
it thick enough, the spokesman
said.
Z Above in Fairfax.
The reading Of IL was record
ed at the National Airport and
was the lowest since February 8,
1851, when it was IL above. It
was nowhere near q record for
the day. however. The record is
2 below zero, reached on this
date in 1885.
But 1t was colder in nearby
areas. Virginia State police re-
ported a shivery | below zero at
Strasburg in the Shenandoah
Valley. Other Virginia ternpera-
lures included 4 above in Fair
fax and Z at Culpeper.
Police in Maryland reported 3
above at Rockville, 2 at Gathers
burg, Z at Marlboro and Z at
Waterloo.
The cold snap which moved
into Washington yesterday on
the heels of brisk winds is ex-
pected to remain through the
rest Of the month. The low to-
night win be 20 and tomorrow
viii be clear and cold. the fore
cast said.
-~i
600 Road Service Calls.
The American Automobile As
sociation said the cold weather
brought 500 calls for emergency
road service between 7:45 am.
and 9 am, compared with an
average Of 40 for normal days.
Most of the calls were from mo-
tsee WEATHER. Page A-so
Evening star., 1955-01-28
Union Officials
Call for tO%
u. 5. Pay Rise
Summerfield Plan
Strongly Attacked
AT Senate Hearing
BY Joseph Young

Government employe leaders
today asked for q 10 per cent
Federal pay raise as Congress
opened hearings on Federal sal.
airy legislation.
Testifying before the Senate
Civil Service Committee, the
union officials said at least 10
per cent advance was necessary
to enable Government workers
to keep pace with rising living
costs and to maintain a decent
living standard.
At the outset of the hearing.
Chairman Johnston and Senator
Carlson. Republican. of Kansas.
the groups ranking minority
member, pledged they would do
everything possible to see that
a Federal raise is enacted this
year.
Attack Summerfield Plan.
The postal employe union Of
f1cials representing clerks, and
carriers, coupled their 10 per
cent pay raise demand with Q
sharp attack on Postmaster Gem
eral Summerfield's average 6.5
per cent pay-reclassifica pro-
posal.
The postal union leaders
charged that Mr.. Summerfield's
reclassifieation proposal would
give him unlimited authority to
down-grade employees as well as
to bring outsiders into the serv-
Ice at will. and, therefore. deny
postal workers promotion
chances.
william c. Doherty, president
Of the AFL National Association
Of Letter Carriers declared, I'VE
would rather take nothing than
take this (Summerfield) bill.
That's how strong we feel about
It,"
Called Discriminatory.
Roy Hallbeck. legislative di-
rector Of the National Federation
of Post Once Clerks fAFL). at
tackled the Sunmerfield reclass-
lfication plan as entirely lacking
In reality and unjustly and un.
necessarily discriminatory"
Mr.. Hallbeck added that the
reclassification plan provides for
employees at lower levels of duties
Occasionally. to handle tougher
jobs at no increase in pay.
Bitter experience has taught
us to fear that these occasional
performances OF duties OF d
higher level would become the
rule at lower salaries" he said.
Samuel e. Klein. president Of
the United National Association
of Post ONCE Clerks. joined his
union colleagues In indorsing the
10 per cent postal pay raise bill
sponsored by Chairman John-
Ston.
In a statement prepared for
delivery later today, James A.
Campbell. president Of the
American Federation Of Gov
ernment Employees tAFL), said
the salary of the average Fed
eral employe buys 1876 per cent
less than 1t did in 1899.
Mr.. Campbell attacked the
Administrations 5 per cent aver.
age pay proposal for classified
employees as far too small. He
indorsed the 10 per cent aver-
age bill, also sponsored by Sena.
tor Johnston and 20 other Sena-
tors.
Evening star., 1955-01-28
Hacker Beaten and Robbed
On His First Doy in Business

A District cab driver, who
started driving q taxi at 4 pm.
yesterday, was robbed and beaten
by his fourth fare ut 9 o'clock
last night. Prince Georges County
police said.
The driver, David o. Mitchell,
IS. Of 2l0 Addison road, Seat
Pleasant, Nd. said he gave UP
driving q bakery truck to drive
A taxi.
TITS . pretty tough business. "
he decided today, nursing an
eeR-sized lump on his head.
Mr.. Mitchell told police he was
pistol-whipped and robbed Of s.
BY two men he picked up after Q
pm. yesterday at q Pennsylvania
ayenus Sc. hamburger stand.
Evening star., 1955-01-28
White House Notes
Little Reaction to
Formosd Plans
By The Asseeiased Press.

The White House said to-
day it has received little
public reaction, in the way
of kilograms and letters, to
President Eisenhower's pro-
gram for defense Of For
moSa.
Press Secretary James c.
Hagerty told newsmen that
no actual count Of kilograms
and letters has been made.
but that he knew there
weren't very many.
II think most of it prob
ably is going to Capitol Hill
because that's where the de-
bate is" Mr.. Hagerty said.
Evening star., 1955-01-28

Philadelp elphia--were informed Of
the telephone call.
He told questioners the FBI
had not found the man who
made the telephone call.
Rumors circulated last night
that atomic bombs had been
found in the three cities and that
a Nationwide civil defense alert
would be called.
Eir. HaEeTty said lie started
getting telephone calls from
neWspapermen last night asking
about these rumors and that he
told them there was no Nation
wide alert, nor had any such de-
vices been found
Evening star., 1955-01-28
StranguIation Caused Death,
Coll Warns Of A-Bombs; Only Rumors Set of

False rumors about a Nation
wide Civil Defense alert arose
after an anonymous telephone
caller told the Federal Bureau
Of Investigation yesterday that
he had planted atomic bombs in
New York. Philadelphia and
Washington. White House Press
Secretary james G. Hagerty said
today.
Mr.. Hagerty said eve didn't
believe the anonymous caller in
the first place. but that his re-
port was checked out by the FBI.
The caller had reported that