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Evening star., 1955-07-02
Long Holiday
Here 10 Be Hot;
ExodusGoes0n
Area Set to Mark
Nation S Birthday;
Visitors Pour In

Strike-bound Washington got
even lonelier today as those who
hadn't already cleared out yes
terday for a Fourth Of July away
from home headed for holiday
destinations.
The long week end was to be
sunny and hot but not very
humid. Temperatures were to
reach well into the COS today,
with the humidity staying in the
sos. 1t was 81 at pm. Thunder
storms were in prospect for late
tomorrow and Monday.
Stay-at-homes and travellers
alike were preparing to celebrate
the Nations 179th birthday on
Monday.
Traffic was heavy ON roads to
the beaches yesterday afternoon
as the holiday migration began.
Route / has had normal traffic
so far.
Ocean City Packed
Vacationers poured into Ocean
City last night. Many Of the
economy minded slept in their
cars, although accommodations
were available. When the va
cat,oners have all arrived it is
expected that this week end will
keep pace with the record break
ing crowds at Ocean City on
Easter and Memorial Day.
In Maryland Gov. McKeldin
proclaimed today an official hol-
iday--thus actually celebrating
the date that the Congress first
proclaimed the string Of Colonies
along the Eastern seaboard "are,
and of right ought to be, free
and independent States"
The July 4 date commentaries
the official ratification OF the
completed Declaration of Inde-
pendence.
In the District the celebration
will take these forms:
Many residents will be out OF
town--either at home" or visit
ing the beaches and mountains.
Railroads were putting on extra
sections, buses were doing the
same and airlines hoped to break
the record they set on the Friday
before Memorial Day by moving
2,297 persons out of the Capital
by plane.
With other persons coming
into town to replace the people
See HOLIDAY, Page Az
Evening star., 1955-07-02
DRIVES
TO CATOCTINS TO
SPEND WEEK END

= CAMP DAVID, Md. July 2
R.--President and Mrs. Eli
senhower are in the noun
tains of Maryland for the
Fourth of July week end.
They celebrated their
seth wedding anniversary
yesterday with a picnic for
the White House staff at
their farm home at Gettys-
burg, Pa, and then drove to
Camp David in the Catoctin
Mountains for the remainer
of the holiday. With them
were six couples.
For their anniversary, the
White House staff gave the
Eisenhowers q sofa and q
large engraved silver tray.
Evening star., 1955-07-02
S raining School
Escape

Police mounted a search to-
day in an attempt to recapture
f1ve teen-age car thieves who
escaped from the National
Training School for Boys on
Bladensburg road NE.
Shortly after their escape at
10 am. police said, a car in
the neighborhood was reported
missing.
The boys were cleaning a rec
reation room for inspection
when they fled the school, a
spokesman said. He described
them as bad ones"
Ranging in age from Is
through II. the boys wore khaki
pants and white T-shirts. None
of them is from the Washington
area.
Evening star., 1955-07-02
SteeImen Back at Work
Copper Strike Goes On

The union got "a wage increase
Iof slightly more than Is cents
an hour. Before the raise the
workers had averaged $3.50 an
hour.
United States Steel announced
after the settlement that it is
boosting prices about $3.50 a ton.
Other producers are expected to
follow suit.
In Denver, a spokesman for
the International Union of Mine,
Mill and Smelter Workers ex-
pressed doubt that differences
which led to strike against
three Of the Nations major cop
per producers could be ironed
out before late next week.
He said bargaining sessions
had been recessed at Butte,
Mont. Miami, Ariz.. and Salt
Lake City and that negotiators
for both sides probably would
study counter proposals over
the week end and meet for full
scale discussions Tuesday.
Affected by the strike are
plants and mines operated by
the American Smelling g. Refin-
ing Co., Phelps Dodge Corp, and
Kennecott Copper Corp. En-
ployes stayed on the job at the
Anaconda Co.. the other Big
Four" producer.
Meanwhile, a threatened strike
against the Railway Express
Agency was averted for at least
80 .days last night when Presi-
dent Eisenhower appointed an
emergency board to look into a
wage dispute between the COM
pany and the AF'L Teamsters
Union.
Evening star., 1955-07-02

also maintains secret rem
devious house near Bonn.
The primary mission of the
organization is to identify and
locate at all times the Soviet
and satellite military units in
forward areas.
Gen. Gehlen. So, is described
by American officials as highly
intelligent, a fine administrator
and violently anti-Russian. They
say he is one Of the best in
formed authorities in the west
ern world on the political and
military organization of the
Soviet Union and its satellites.
A quiet man with fair, reced-
ing hair and large blue eyes,
Gen. Gehlen works IA hours a
day. He has worked for the
United States since 1916, a year
after he surrendered to United
States troops at the close ef
World War II.
Evening star., 1955-07-02
Audience Thinks It's Part of Play
As Actress Dies During Scene

Los ANGELES, July 2 tP.-
Isabel Bonner, veteran Broad
way actress, died last night dur
ing a scene on the stage OF the
Carthay Circle Theater.
The curtain was rung down
Immediately. The audience at
the theater, where she was play
ing the female lead in THE
Shrike," didn't know what had
happened until Stage Manager
Henry Staudigl told them she
was dead.
Miss Bonner was Al. Mr..
|Staudigl said he believed a heart
attack caused her death. A post
mortem examination to deter
mine the cause will be made to-
day, the coroner's Office said.
Miss Bonner was playing a
hospital scene with Dane Clark
in the first act when she sud-
denly fell forward on the bed
where Mr.. Clark was supposed
to be q patient.
Mr.. Clark. performing in the
male lead, leaned forward and
put his arm around her. Ann.
speak to me-" he interpolatedI
into the dialogue. rs something
the natter What's wrong, dar-
ling? ! love you"
Then he realized something
was wrong. He turned to the
wings and said:
Bring down the curtain"
The cast was deeply shocked.
Mr.. Clark had tears In his eyes
as he left the stage. He told al
reporter:
I'm sick. She died in my
Evening star., 1955-07-02

arms. She and her husband
were my best friends"
A movie film editor, Harold
Cornsweet, who was in the audi
ence. said the spectators were
unaware Of the tragedy at the
moment it happened. He said Of
the scene and Of Mr.. Clark's ad-
libbing:
1T was so realistic that people
in the audience were crying"
After the curtain was brought
down, Mr.. Staudigl appeared and
told the audience its money
would be refunded.
THE Shrike" has only two
more performances--this after
noon and p stonight--in its Los
Angeles run. Understudy Edith
Evening star., 1955-07-02

Refs Merin will play Miss Bon
ner's role in the two shows.
Miss Bonner played the part
Of Ann Downs, an overly pos
sessive wife. in the Los Angeles
production. On Broadway and
in the still-unreleased film ver-
sion she played the part of a
woman psychiatrist.
Her husband. Joseph Kramm,
Is the author of the play. He
made plans to fly here from New
York when told of Miss Bon
ner's death by telephone.
Miss Bonner was a veteran OF
many top Broadway plays, ap-
peared in New York television
dramas and was an actress IN
the radio serials Mora Drake
and "The Right to Happiness. "
She started her stage career
as a child actress in her fathers
stock company in Pittsburgh.
Later she studied in New York
with Alex Koiransky and the
late Maria Ouspenskaya. Her
broadway debut was as the
|ingenue in LET Freedom Ring"
Subsequent New York roles
were in Professional" Trojan
Women ''Uncle Harry" Lii
liom. Medicine Show, Laura, +"
Foolish Notion" revival of
"The Front Page" THE Biggest
Thief in Town." and THE
Shrike."
Miss Bonner's television roles
included parts on Philco Play
house. Studio One, Omnibus,
Armstrong Circle Theater. Sus-
pense, Show of Shows, Colgate
Comedy Hour, Ford Theater and
Schlitz Playhouse.
Evening star., 1955-07-02
U. S. to Give Up Control
Of German Spy Service

BONN. West Germany. July 2
R.-Tne United States win
give up controlsof the most pow
|erful spy service in West Ger
many next week. a high German
|oficial said today. It is the in
ternational network headed by
former 1t. Gen. Reinhold Geh-
len.
This organization, with thou
sands of agents on its payroll.
win be taken over by the West
German government as, q part
Iof Chancellor Konrad Ade-
Inauer's office. the informant
said. It will serve as West
Germany's. counterpart Of the
American Central Intelligence
Agency.
Gen. Gehlen, who was chief of
Hitler's intelligence service on
the Russian front during World
War II. has been spending $6
million of American funds yearly
on his anti-Soviet espionage.
He has been the target of al
most continuous vitriolic abuse
from the Communist press and
radio. They have charged him
with sending spies into East
Germany to comMit sabotage
and gather information to un-
dermine the, East Zones Red
regime.
Gen. Gehlen has been one of
Mr.. Adenauer's trusted advisers
on intelligence matters and the
Soviet Union for years but still
is a shadowy figure to the Ger
man public and most West Ger
man officials.
A professional army man, he
now has his headquarters on an
American military reservation
near Munich which is guarded
like an atomic reservation. He is
Ireputed to have a staff of 1000
there. in addition to agents scat
tered throughout Europe. He
Evening star., 1955-07-02
Subpoenaed
To Testify on Strike
Morse Seeks
Appearance
Thursday
BULLETIN.

Senator Morse, Democrat. Of
Oregon issued subpoenas today
ordering Louis E. Wolfson,
Capital Transit Co. board
chairman, to appear before
Senate District subcommittee
hearing at 10 am. Thursday.
The subpoenas we're issued to
be. served in any one Of sey-
eral Jurisdictions.
Capital Transit Co. and union
officials met with Federal media
tors for about an nour and a
half today but raised nothing
new and made no progress"
toward a settlement of the c,ip-
ping two-day-old transit strike.
The unproductive session ap-
peared to have been the only
ray of hope today, and virtually
assured no further activity until
after the weekend hoiiday.
Mediators James Holden and
Gilbert McCutcheon said both
sides will remain "on call" for
Ia further meeting. But none was
set. and indications were that
nothing would happen until
Tuesday-at the earliest.
j A B. Broadwater, Capital
Transit president, meanwhile.
tolc reporters he expected to be
In touch later today with Louis
e. Wolfson, who is under heavy
pressure from both District and
ICapitol Hill officials to return
here from the West Coast for
meetings next week.
''Not Wolfson's Keeper"
Asked if he knew the precise
whereabouts of the Capital Tran
sit board chairman and financial
|kingpin Mr.. Broadwater told re-
Iporters:
I'm not Mr.. wolfsons
keeper "
Senate District Committee
aides stepped up efforts today
tc get firm answer as to wheth-
Ter MIR Wolfson will appear vol
unfairly at hearing Thursday
In11 bill by Senator Morse,
Democrat, of Oregon to cancel
Capital Transit's operating
franchise.
Senator Morse has threatened
fatty to subpoena Mr.. Wolfson
If the financier doesn't show up
on his own.
Planned No Trip Here
One committee source said
Mr.. Broadwater had promised td
contact Mr.. Wolfson, but tnat
no word had come in yet. Ear
lier, E. C. Giddings, Capital
Transit vice president, said Mr..
Wolfson was somewhere on the
West Coast" and mad planned
no trip here next week. Mr..
Giddings said later he lid rot
mean this comment to imply any
specific action in the event q
subpoena should be issued, how
ever.
Today's meeting, the first time
the two sides have been together
since the strike began, was held
at Federal Mediation Service
headquarters in the Tariff Build
ing. Mr.. Broadwater headed the
delegation of top company Of
ficials, and Walter j. Bierwagen.
president of the AFL transit To-
See TRANSIT, Page A-3
Evening star., 1955-07-02
Board Suinq
On Roads Deal
Folsities Charged
To Sellers Of Lund

The Maryland State Roads
Commission has filed suit in
Montgomery County Circuit
Court to have a deed declared
void on grounds of "misrepre-
sentation'- during negotiations
for property purchased for the
widening of Connecticut avenue
The roads commission also
asked the court to require John
B. Hudson and his wife Doro-
thy, of 5412 Fourteenth place.
Hyattsville, to return to the
coHlSnission $26,50o paid for land
in Chevy Chase View.
First In State
Joseph Buscher, assistant at
torney general In charge of
roads commission legal affairs.
said the lot is at g814 Connecti-
cut avenue. He said the suit is
the first of its kind ever filed in
Maryland.
The suit alleges that during
negotiations for the land last
the Hudsons made a
false and misleading represen-
tation." The "misrepresenta-
ton" consisted of statement, the
suit alleges, that the Huasons
had an executed contract with
other persons for the purchase
of said property for the sum of
$26.000." The roads commits
sion in the suit, said it had re-
ceived information to the con-
trary.
State officials said If the court
decides in favor of the commits
sion, negotiations with the Hud-
sons would be reopened to try to
See MONTGOMERY, Page Az
Evening star., 1955-07-02
BY the Associated Press

The Nations steel mills made
ready today for an early resump-
ton of operations. but hopes
faded for quick settlement of a
strike against three of the Ma
:ion's largest copper producers.
The shortest steel strike in the
industry's history ended yes
terday when the United States
Steel Corp. signed a contract
with the CIO United Steel
workers Union, ending l2-hour
walkout. Within hours. all the
industry's big Six" producers
had signed up.
Evening star., 1955-07-02

lICuldtGly dGLdckcQ the arfanRe-
ment and have been trying since
to block it.
Ground Already Broken
In New York yesterday, how
ever, Edgar H. Dixon, president
of Middle South Utilities, a part
ner in the arrangements, said
that construction would be con-
tinued on the plant. Ground
for it already has been broken.
- AS far as we're concerned, y
Mr.. Dixon said. I'VE still have
a contract with the Atomic
Energy Commission calling for
completion Of the first unit OF
the plant by August, 1857, and
we will continue to go ahead"
He said he had no idea how
it would cost the Govern
ment to cancel the Dixon-Yates
contract. A spokesman for Mid
die South said that actual costs
so far amount to about So mil
lion, but MIR. Dixon was quick to
add that that expenditure repre-
sented only a part of the picture.
Contracts Let
eve have let contracts with
manufacturers for major equip
ment, such as turbines" he ex-
planned. "Our contractual obli-
cations would be very high"
Cancellation of the contract
would subject the Government
to a penalty, but Budget Director
Hughes has expressed the opin-
ion that would not be large.
The Senate committee voted
to make the transmission lines
funds available unless, within
80 days, Memphis has made
definite commitments" toward
creating its own power facility.
1t provided also that Dixon
Yates financing must be ar
ranged, and construction started
before the money would be avail
able. Actually, transmission lines
See DIXON-YATES, Page Az
Evening star., 1955-07-02
BY JOSEPH A. FOX

A full review of the Dixon
Yates row today was in prospect
for the Senate-unless President
Eisenhower decides to abandon
the controversial power project.
Ready for Senate debate after
the Monday holiday is q pro-
posal originally sponsored by
the administration to spend Sos
million for transmission lines to
hook the projected Dixon-Yates
plant at West Memphis, Ark,
into the Tennessee Valley Au-|
thority service area at Memphis,
Tenn, across the Mississippi.
The Senate Appropriations
Committee voted the money
yesterday-with conditions-de-
spite the fact that the White
House has raised the possibility
that the generating plant may
not be built.
Memphis Plans Plant
Advised Thursday that the
city of Memphis is going to build
its own generating plant and
will not take IVA power after
June, 1858, the President di-
rected Budget Director Rowland
r. Hughes to study the matter
and decide if the public interest
would be served by Government
withdrawal from the under
taking.
Mr.. Hughes is comforting with
officials of IVA and the Atomic
Energy Commission and plans
to give the President his views
early next week.
1t was largely because of
atomic needs that the President
last year instructed Acc to
negotiate with the private utility
group to construct a $107 million
steam plant at West Memphis to
send power into the iva lines at
Memphis as replacement for
current going to defense pur-
poses.
Public power advocates i'm
Evening star., 1955-07-02
Stocks in the Spotlight

NEW YORK IN. - Following are the
sales tadd 00D, high, low, closing price
and net change Of the 20 most active
stocks for the week.
Evening star., 1955-07-02

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Forest Club North
aspiring
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Evening star., 1955-07-02
ARMY DOES JOB
ON CHURCH DEBT

OBJECTIVE REAcHED--purins the
depression members Of Western Pres
byterion Church formed Church
army" to take the church out Of debt.
This month the mortgage on tho
church will be burned. Read how
they did il on pose A-s.
TRICKS WITH DooRs-For the
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woys Of utilizing flush doors as furni-
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in the Apartment Forum on poss B-2.
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Dixon-Yotes Deal Faces
Full Review in Senate

mediately attacked the arrange
ment and have been trying since
to block it.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1955-09-24
Mayor Wagner
Drops DeIany

NEW YORK (CNS)-In the
current outrages pouring in on
Mayor Robert f. Wagner for not
reappointing Judge Hubert r..
Delany to his post at the Domes-
tic Relations Court--the question
has come up over and over again
as to whether Mayor Wagner
gave his promise TO support
Judge Delany.
According to Mayor Wagner, he
never promised the reappoint-
ment to Dclany and thereby had
in mind all the while to submit
another name-that of Edward r.
Dudley-former Ambassador to
Liberia.
Said Mayor Wagner: "As I re-
member sometime ago, coming
out Of a Board of Estimate meet
ing, we met casually and | indi-
Gated at that time that he had a
lot OF support. But ] made no
definite commitment"
Wagner continues 10 say that
his main reason for not support
ing Delany when his term ex-
pired August 30th and after 80
years of public service, was be-
cause OF his lelt-wing activities.
Delany has been an important
member of the National Lawyers
Guild. which is on the Subversive
list OF the Attorney General.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1955-09-24
NAACP to
CONTINUED From Pave u

tSShAAAesd rum rave
In a statement at the NAACp
meeting this week, Edward NJ.
the Mass Meeting next Sunday
Aside from dealing with the
Staying of young Till, the petition
points out that the Mississippi
campaign Of intimidation and VIC.
lence also includes the murders
OF Rev. George w. Lee on May
18th and Lamar Smith on August
18th, because they had refused
TO give up their right to vote.
Reference is also made to the
fact that several other Negro cit.
liens were turned back from the
polls in the August primaries in
Turner, Detroit Branch President
said:
I'VE hope that every citizen in
Detroit will join in this Protest
Meeting and will recognize in IN.
Mississippi reign Of terror and
the acts of intimidation and vio.
lence we have experienced in
other areas of the south that the
one tangible and concrete way in
which we can express our indis-
nation is by making a financial
contribution to the NAACP which
will continue to carry the fight
Tor justice forward.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1955-09-24

She pointed out that this years
goal was set by a committee
headed by full-iime volunteer
Never l. Prentis. former Genera
Motors Vice president, and is
made up Of q members Of whom
10 are business leaders and The
other TWO labor leaders.
The amount TO be raised was
determined after a careful parsne
u requests from the participating
$50 health and community Serv-
ices which totaled Sl+.7l8,00O.
"The reasons why "A larger goal
han ever before IS necessary this
year were quite ably summarized
oy Nicholas Kelley. Jr., Chrysler
Corp. secretary and president OF
the United Foundation, before the
Corporation Gifts Committee OF
ne UF ~ recent meeting Mrs
White stated.
"EIe pointed out. first. that oul
Metropolitan Detroit community
has grown. and then, the popu-
lation has decentralized into new
and expanding neighborhoods
and suburbs
THUS. there is a greater de-
mand Tor expansion Of such serv-
ices as Boy Scouts. Girl Scouts,
Visiting Nurses and youth work
programs. II is extremely inn
portant to fill many of these
needs where public agencies
aren't equipped to handle the
Job"
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1955-09-24
Jim Grow at
Airports Hit
BY Diggs

Congressman Charles C. Diggs,
Jr. (D-Mich) has asked the fed
eral government to withhold
financial aid slated for construc-
ton and improvement OF public
airports until il has assurance
that such airports will not prac-
tice discrimination or segrega-
ton.
Stating that he has evidence
that several southern air termi-
nails endorse discrimination and
segregation in their restaurants.
waiting rooms and toilet facili-
ties. Diggs requested Secretary
Of Commerce Sinclair Weeks TO
enforce Section !. Section lilo.
Title 49 Of the u. s. Code on
individuals or groups seeking
funds 10 construct or improve
airporis.
The u. S. Code demands that
airport sponsors state in writing
TO the Civil Aeronautics Admin
istration that their facilities I" :.
will be available for public use
an fair and reasonable terms and
without unjust discrimination"
DiggS noted that there are sew
eral southern sirports included
in the list OF 205 grants to be
made in 1856 under the S20,00O.-
10000 Federal-Aid Airport Pro-
gram.
The Michigan representative
asked that the Code also be en-
forced with the Department Of
Commerce recently authorized adj
ditional ALLEGATION of S42, 900
under the same program.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1955-09-24
Okla. University
Opens to All

OKLAHOMA CITY. Okla. -
Oklahoma City University. which
is the Methodist university for
the state Of Oklahoma, has
opened It's doors without any
character Of limitation as to race
or color" according to an an
nouncement made recently by
Bishop w. Angie Smith.
Bishop Smith. who is the chair
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1955-09-24
Texas Fair
To Honor
Gen. Davis

DALLAS. Texas.-Brig. Gen
Benjamin o. Davis. USA (Ret)
of Washington. ID. c.. first Negro
10 attain the rank of general in
the u. S. Army. will receive the
seventh annual Distinguished Cit
liens Award OF the State Fair OF
Texas.
The award will be presented
on Negro Achievement Day.
Oct. ~, during the 1855 Fair.
General Davis was born in
Washington. d. c.. July |. 1877
lie entered military service in
1898 as a first lieutenant OF the
9th u. S. Volunteer Infantry in
the Spanish American War.
Two months after he was mus
tered out i'm 1899, he nelisted in
the Cavalry as private in the
Regular Army.
He served as corporal and
squadron sergeant major and in
1901 was commissioned a second
lieutenant colonel in World War
and following the war was given
permanent promotion in this
rank.
Becoming a colonel in 1880, he
was promoted TO the rank of
brigadier general Oct. IS, 1910.
General Davis retired from the
service in l948