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Charles H. Emanuel
Secretary
! Q U R
concluded from Saturday.

Honorable .Percival H. Reese entered the meeting during
the reading Of correspondence.
The consensus was that the Legislature ought to give
its attention to the preparation of Rules Of Procedure BY
which it shall govern itself. In consideration therefor, y was
agreed to resolve the House into the Committee OF the Whole
on Tuesday morning, January 49, 1855, at 1000 AN, in order
to commence work on Rules of Procedure, and to determine
the status Of the employees now rendering service to the
Legislature.
Accordingly, the House recessed at 2:45 PM, Until 1000
January 18, 1855.
APPROVED by the Legislature
WALTER l. N. HODGE
President
JORGE RODRIGUEZ
Legislative Secretary
Evening star., 1955-06-14
Owners of Home
Leased to Lonzo
Awarded Damages

SANTA MONICA, Calf, June
IA B.-The owners of a $780,.
1000 home which was rented Il
singer Mario LAMA and his fam
lily for more than two years wor
ia default judgment against him
yesterday for damages which
they testified had been done tc
the home during that time.
Mr.. and Mrs. Norman Kaiser
said that when Mr.. LAMA termi-
mated his lease last January IA
they found the home Uttered
with debris, dirt and filth, anG
that damage was everywhere
and only the ceilings were in.
tact. There were even holes boreC
lin the walls"
The judgment, which was not
contested by Mr.. LAMA, included
$22,500 to restore the real prop.
Ierty: $I2,400 for repairs to per.
sonal property; $3,400 loss oi
rental income while repairs were
bing made, and some $4,000 fol-
missing linen, glassware ano
other equipment.
Evening star., 1955-06-14
BY the Associated Press

Picket lines and walkouts kept
more than 30 General Motors
Corp. plants closed today, but
there were indications a back
to-work movement was gaining
momentum.
Some dissatisfaction with the
national agreement reached yes
terday by GIN and the CIO
United Auto Workers Union was
reported among the 128,890 en-
ployes the company estimated
are still idle as a result Of strikes
and resulting parts shortages.
But the walkouts were said to
stem mostly from discomfort
over local grievances.
The number OF idle mounted
through yesterday. but appeared
to recede as afternoon shift
workers, spurred by UAW Inter
national orders to go back tc
work, trooped into plants when
day shift picket lines were with
drawn.
GIN has 119 plants across the
country.
$4,000 Out at One Time
In Flint, Mich. where GIN has
Its heaviest concentration OF
workers, a total of $4,000 at foul
Chevrolet plants and the AC
spark plug division were off the
Job at one time Monday. But
by nightfall pickets were with
drawn at all but the Chevrolet
frame plant. A union spokes'
man said all five plants woule
be operating by today.
Evening star., 1955-06-14
bernice Triimb|e
Wins Air Race

HAVANA, Cuba, June IA (P1
The President Batista trophy
was presented last night to Ber'
nice Trimble of Flint, Mich, fol
winning the sixth annual Wash
ington-to-H Havana womcn's ali
race.
Miss Trimble and 25 othel
women pilots finished the ract
yesterday with 90-mile hoI
from Key West in calm, sunny
weather.
The race began Thursday
with the winner decided on ac'
tual flying time. Bad weather
knocked out 6 of the 33 planes
which started. A seventh
piloted by Eleanor Davis of Ar.
lington. Va, returned to Key
West after the takeof for Ha.
vana yesterday.
Miss Trimble's co-pilot wa.
Joan Rhubec of Cleveland, Ohio
The next five finishers, in the
order of their standing, were
Frances Bera, Los Angeles; Ruth
Thomas, Knoxville, Tenn: Lau.
rien Griffin. Merriam. Kans.;
Louise Smith, High Point, N. C..
and Barbara Jenison, Paris, III
No time was announced fol
any contestant.
The awards were presented al
q banquet last night honoring
all the finishers. The race is
sponsored by the 99'ers, an or
ganization of women flying en-
thusiasts.
Evening star., 1955-06-14
'SkyIudy Derby
Held Up by Fog

DODGE CITY, kanS., June IL
R Fog and low cloud patches
west of Dodge City held up the
takeoff today for seven planes
remaining in the Skylady Derby
from Little Rock, Ark, to Ration
N. Mex.
Although the Weather Bureal
notified the f1iers the sky was
expected to clear momentarily
the fliers were still grounded two
hours after the scheduled 10 a I'm
(CDT takeoff.
The derby started at Little
Rock yesterday morning and in.
cluded stops at Springfield. Mo.
and Topeka, Kans., before the
overnight halt here.
The planes are standard civil
ian models of less than 300
horsepower. The race is judged
on performance, speedwise anc
fuelwise.
Mrs. Leila w. Caradine. Las
Cruces N. Mex, was forced ou'
of the race yesterday when hel
plane cracked up in an at
tempted takeoff from a wheat
field at Wheaton, Mo. She was
uninjured.
Evening star., 1955-06-14
3OGM Plants Still Shut
Although Reopenings Climb

Two OF the three big GIN
plants in Pontiac, Mich, resumed
operations Monday. Only Pom.
tiac motor division, with 13.77(
employees, remained down on al
three shifts. The dispute there
was reported to be overtime
schedules and working condi'
tions. The company said it ex'
pected the workers back today.
At the Detroit transmission
plant at Willow Run outside
Detroit, $500 workers went bacl
to their jobs after Local 73;
officials received a back-to-wori
telegram from the UAW inter
national.
Baltimoreans Go Back
About 3,700 workers we're to gt
back at two plants in Baltimore
today after a one-day strike ovel
what was described as differ
ences on local issues"
Picket lines were withdrawn
from the Chevrolet and Fisher
body plants after a union off,
Icial said negotiations conducted
yesterday indicated settlement
on the local differences "can b.
negotiated"
But many locals failed to heec
the international'S order.
In Detroit, the Cadillac plan
was picketed. keeping AGO.
workers off the job. Unior
spokesmen said the men wouldn'
go back until local issues wer'
settled.
Evening star., 1955-06-14
BY MARTIN S. HAYDEN
North American Newspaper Alliance

Federal labor experts today
looked on the negotiated Gen.
eral Motors and Ford contract!
as "just another fringe"-not ar
industrial revolution"
Three weeks ago it was differ.
ent as Federal officials, bounc
by a White House-dictated pol
icy of handS-off impartiality ir
the threatening auto industry
talks, speculated whether Walter
Reuther, president of the CIC
United Auto Workers, woulc
wreck, or revolutionize, tht
economy with his demand for G
guaranteed annual wage"
Basis of the relaxed Washing
ton attitude is the calculation
that the newly agreed on prin.
ciple of supplementing unem-
ployment insurance varies from
Mr.. Reuther's initial program in
being neither guaranteed" ;" IAN
nual" nor "a wage"
The new plan does not require
the employer to guarantee
workers pay when he has nc
work: instead, he pays a fixed
sum Is cents an hour to a fund
which, while it lasts, will sup
plement unemployment insur-
ance. The payments do not run
for a year, but for a maximum
26 weeks, Finally, coming from
a form of trust fund, the pay.
ments are not wages"
Can Calculate to Penny
All three differences, labor
contract experts here said to-
day, vary from the original CAV
formula-called "socialistic" By
some and revolutionary" by al
most every one-and the net re.
suit is wage cost package that
the employer can calculate tc
the penny.
Fo rthat reason, they antici.
pate that the new plan, like
other auto settlements Of the
past, will set something Of. 6
national pattern" with mos
small manufacturing companie.
Evening star., 1955-06-14
New Proposals
Raise Hopes Of
Rail Strikers

LONDON, June IA R.-Th,
British Transport Commission
made new armistice proposals
today for ending a l7-day, strik,
on the nationalized railroads
An official of the striking unior
called peace prospects distinct
Ily hopeful"
The truce plan was ham
mered out in a series of separate
conferences between the com
mission, leaders of 67.0OD strik'
ing locomotive engineers anC
tiremen. and officials of tn,
non-striking National Union o.
Railwaymen.
Meanwhile, a wildcat seamen':
strike which has disrupted sail.
ings of British Atlantic liners
for two weeks led $50 crewmer
OF the liner Queen Mary to vote
to quit work.
The 81,000-ton luxury ship Ii
scheduled to leave Southampton
for New York Thursday The
Queen Mary has a crew of 1,267
A Cunard Line spokesman said
the owners could not tell whether
the strike vote would stop her.
Better Conditions Demanded
The unofficial seamen's walk
out at Liverpool and Southamp-
ton was called to demand better
working conditions and a shorter
work week. 1t has forced can
collation. or postponement of six
transatlantic sailings, but the
Queen Mary's sister ship, the
Queen Elizabeth, sailed on
schedule last week.
The Queen Mary vote was
taken at a Commute meeting
Iat Southampton after Eric Sta
Icey. chairman of the unofficial
strike committee, said, Don't
get sold down the river of nc
return like the Queen Elizabeth
crew were"
In the rail strike talks new
proposals were put forward by
government transport chiefs.
Details of the truce plan were
kept secret. Jim Campbell, MUIR
leader told newSmen after the
meeting:
"After the document has been
considered by the respective
trace unions we will all get to-
Igetiler, possibly to ratify it,"
Newspapers Hopeful
The engine crewmen, member:
Of the Associated Society of Lo.
connective Engineers and Fire.
men. are demanding restoration
of traditional wage differential;
over less skilled railmen. A ma
| jor difficulty so far has beer
the Transport Commissions
fear that a raise for the engi-
neers and firemen would start
a leapfrog series of wage de-
mands from the MUIR, which
represents most of the less
skilled men.
Labor Ministry negotiators
had separate talks yesterday
with representatives of bott
unions and the Transport Com.
mission, which runs the ma.
tionalized railroads for the gov.
eminent. The commission ane
ASLEF leaders also had a Ions
Joint session.
Evening star., 1955-06-14
By the Associated Press

A Senate subcommittee has an
urgent appeal on behalf of de-
scendants of the Acadians
Iimmortalized by Longfellow's
I"Evangeline." They face expul-
sion from 4,500 acres of lush
farmland near New Iberia, La.
The Navy wants the site for a
Ijet air base.
c. W. Bradley Of Norco. La,
yesterday told an Armed Services
Subcommittee headed by Sena-
tor Stennis, Democrat, Of Mis-
sissippi that some 100 families
who now farm the $500 acres
and another $500 adjacent to
the planned air base have a
background of expulsion, evic-
Ition and hardship"
The British kicked the Aca-
dians out of Nova Scotia 200
years ago. After a miserable
period Of wandering through the
Eastern seaboard in search Of
new homes, many settled in
Louisiana.
Longfellow's poem told of the
search for her lover by Evanga-
Evening star., 1955-06-14
Auto Wage Pocts Viewed
AS Not Revolutionary

signing something like it, and
some few going broke because
they cannot stand the extra cost
To the question: How many
will go broke?" the Federal ex-
perts say: Not many" Their
theory is that small business
men caught since 1889 by the
pattern" agreements of the auto
industry have learned to pass the
costs on to their customers and
will do 1t again.
Though maintaining that the
new contract is not as "revolu-
tionary" as the original "cost OF
living" agreement worked out
between Mr., Reuther and the
then GIN president, Charles E
Wilson, observers here do see ii
making some changes" in the
labor management Government
relationship.
Political Side Changing
One such, it is anticipated, will
be a political changing of sides
on the question of increasing
State unemployment compensa-
tion benefits. Urged for more
than a year by President Eisen-
hover, the idea has been gen.
orally approved by unions ano
opposed by businessmen who
would have to pay most of the
cost from increased payroll taxes
Now that may change. with
employers wanting to limit theil
liability for Tin the case Of Fore
and GM) providing from the re.
serve fund the difference between
State layoff pay and a sum equa
to from so to IS per cent of {
workers normal take-home pay.
Similarly, the new contract.
presumably end the idea of 6
Federal supplement" to State
unemployment insurance. Labor
Department technicians have hae
cost studies on such a program
ready for Congress since l946
when it was assumed there woulc
be a major postwar depression
accompanying the closing dowl
Iof the ornaments industry.
Evening star., 1955-06-14
rAcodions' Face Eviction
For Louisiono Air Base

line, a lovely Acadian damsel
whose breath was as "sweet as
the kline" They finally got
together in Philadelphia, but
death quickly parted them.
This is the Acadian country"
Mr.. Bradley testified. He said
it would be "even tougher" for
the 100 families to be stripped
of their homes and land today
than it was for the original
Acadians in Nova Scotia two
centuries ago.
But the Navy says it has IAN
urgent requirement to provide
adequately trained Navy Jet
pilots and that out of 30 differ
ent sites studied in Louisiana
the only satisfactory one is near
New iberia,
Evening star., 1955-06-14

DETROIT, June IA (R.-The
auto industry labor contracts
establish some important inno-
|vations besides the revolutionary
guaranteed wage but equally con-
Itagious for the rest Of American
Industry.
Walter Reuther, doughty. red
haired president of the CIO Auto
Workers Union, rammed them
home as part of the $3.50 mil
lion. three-year deal he made
with the strike-dodging major
auto makers.
These other union gains, some
what buried beneath the more
talked-about guaranteed wage
plan, include extension of the
full compulsory union member
ship principle to General Motors.
Among them, too, in both the
GIN and Ford contracts, are part
holidays on Christmas and New
Years Ewes, vested pension
rights, and extra Saturday and
holiday premiums.
r Ford Sees Self Blamed
Mr.. Reuther won his deal first
from Ford. then from General
Motors, with neither wanting a
strike shutdown to dent their
unparalleled prosperity. Ford is
being blamed for yielding. ac-
cording to a Ford source who de-
clined to be identified by name.
but there still is substantial
doubt that if GIN had been made
the first target, it would have
been heroic and taken a strike.
The two giant auto firms re-
'portedly considered but rejected
a plan to make a combined stand
against Mr.. Reuther and the
union so that If one was struck
Evening star., 1955-06-14
Gunnett Improved

ROCHESTER,, N. Y, June Il
iP.-Frank Gannett, 7S, presi-
dent of Gannett Newspapers
today was reported sufficiently
improved to leave his bed twice
daily at Highland Hospital. He
has been hospitalized since April
rs when he fractured a vertebra
lin a fall at his home.
Evening star., 1955-06-14
|Other Industries Next
On Reuther's CoIendor

the other would shut down too.
This would have provided q
fighting chance to beat Mr.,
Reuther's demands.
Besides the lost profits to GIN
and Ford, a strike would have
hurt the entire Nations econ
omy and thus the automobile
sales market as well. Moreover,
they feared running afoEl Of the
antitrust laws with the Senate
already investigating alleged
monopoly tendencies in the auto
industry.
But by not standing together
they enabled Mr.. Reuther to pick
them of one at a time.
Other Employers Next
The price Of avoiding a strike,
however, is likely to be shared by
other employers as Mr.. Reuther
also president Of the CIO, and
other union leaders seek to cap
italize on the GM-Ford terms in
other bargaining.
The UAW was to start contract
talks today with American Mo-
tors Corp, makers Of Nash and
Hudson cars, and then go on to
Chrysler, the auto industry's
third largest producer, and to
Studebaker- Packard, the various
auto parts manufacturing plants
and the farm implement industry
One by-product Of GINS agree
ment Monday was that the CIO
won a toehold for the same type
of guaranteed wage deal in the
electrical manufacturing indus
try. A separate contract, en-
bodying the same terms, was
signed for GINS $4,000 electrical
plant employees with the CIO In
ternational Union of Electrical
Workers (IUE).
Evening star., 1955-06-14
French Industry Coins

PARIS. - French industrial
production in 1854 exceeded the
1853 figure by 8la per cent, the
boom year of 1852 by 5h per
cent, and the prewar peak. 1929.
by 22la per cent.
Evening star., 1955-07-29

XX7HEN Buick introduced Americas first
w hardtop-the Riviera folks went for
it in big way, and fast.
They liked the Convertible look of this 2.door
beauty long, low and rakish. They liked the
added security of the steel roof overhead. And
they certainly liked the absence of center posts
in the side window areas-which gave com.
pletely unbroken view left and right.
People liked it all so well that, over the past
six years, they made the Riviera the biggest.
selling hardtop in the world, bar none. And it
stills.
Now Buick has come up with another great
advance in hardtops = the 4.Door Riviera
and it's a sensational hit.
1t has everything the original 2.Door Riviera
Evening star., 1955-10-30
81 RUTH DEAN

The average homeiliaker may
look at d movie or TV screGn
and. for 4 few minutes. long To
trade places with the elamor-
Gus star, but not % Mrs. Har-
~ Edwards.
Mrs. Edwards. who rave up
d promising career IN motion
pictures ten years ago TO be-
come the wife Of q United
States Marine Corps officer,
wouldn't trade her role as
homemaker and mother Of two
boys for b six-figure salary or
any Of the glamor that goes
with it.
Few Of Mrs. Edwards, neigh
hors In Fairfax County realize
she is the sister Of red-haired
Hollywood screen star Maureen
OHara. But the resemblance
is there the red-gold hair, the
green eyes. the creamy COM
plexion that Is the mark Of q
true Irish beautyeven the
lifting voice.
Mrs. Edwards tthe former
Margot FitzSimcns, met her
future husband toward the end
Of the war when he was In
charge Of the Marine detach-
Evening star., 1955-10-30

her mother are more amused
than offended when we'll
meaning American friends
ask: where's your brogue?"
Both of them feel that this
universal picture of the typ
icaI Irishman Ii ) false I'M
preston. Down In the south
Of Ireland" says Mrs. Fitz-
simons. her blue eyes dane
ing. sthey speak with 4 song
IN their voice. The speech Is
soft and there's q lit in their
words"
Some Brogue
OF course. you hear the
brogue spoken. too. In some
sections Of the country and
in the city" /" she adds. ajust as
you hear Cockney spoken In
some parts Of London .
Like any other busy home
maker with an ''up and at
'em" schedule. Margot rises
early. She has coffee with her
husband "the only quiet mo-
ment Of the daysbefore he
catches his ear pool ride to
Q1antico Marine Base.
Next -the boys get on to.
Evening star., 1955-10-30

got likes nothing better than .
daily ride on her thoroughbred
bay mare Janella. After get
ting hubby on to work. that Is.
and the children TO school.
z Margot's the rider IN the
family. says her mother. Mrs.
Charles Fitzsiinoias. who was
i recent visitor 70 the Ed
wards' home.
Mr.. Fitzsimons twho Is >
retired mems ilatter) and good
looking Mrs. FitzSimons came
to the United States last year
to settle permanently in .
Hollywood suburb around the
corner from Maureen. They
sold their suburban Dublin
home.
I'VE lived far enough out
In the country recalled Mar
gotis mother, $50 the girls
could have their horses" /" Mar
got. tthe second youngest Of
six children1 rode to hounds
with the South County Dub
lin Harriers when she was
just q youngster.
incidentally. Margot and
Evening star., 1955-10-30
SISTER OF MAUREEN OHARA
Former Irish Actress Trodes Films
For Role ds Busy FQirfdx Homemdker

ment at the United States Em-
hassy In London and she was
making pictures for J. Arthur
Rank md Michael Powell.
Washinetonians may remem-
Der her as the star In y Know
Where I'm Goif1a.s More fe.
Gently, i teIevision program,
showing the same movie was
the cause Of some family hil-
{ arity.
nv Dilemma
The Edwards were watch
ing the screen one night. when
Brian. age 8. and little 6-year-
old David, piped up: "Mommie,
At sounds like you but 1t
doesn't look like you. "
Such Is fame, but Mrs. Ed
wards wouldn't trade her pres
ent happiness for it. In fact,
off-screen her sister Maureen
is also q real homebody. says
Margot.
.'When Harry was over IN
Korea. Margot recalls, II
stayed with Maureen out IN
Bel Air. One day we packed q
picnic lunch and went out to
the country with the children.
She had more fun than any
onel'
An outdoor type. too. Mar
Evening star., 1955-10-30
TODAY'S FEATURES

school sjust two fields away" II
It's raining. she calls for
them. ''but it really has TO be
pouring. =
People over here are afraid
OF getting wet, = says Margot.
I'VE love to walk In the rain
In Ireland" I"
.'1f you're wrapped up there's
no need to worry a bit" her
mother added.
With the children on to
school. Margot finishes up the
dishes and q few household
chores before taking OF to the
neighboring place Of Marine
Corps 1t. Col. and Mrs. Roy
Batterton, where she keeps
Janella.
Margot and Mrs. Batterton.
Continued on. Pge. D-l2, Col. Z
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-30
Custer at Howard
Luid to Budget
BY Frunk Beck
BY Walt Disney

Differences that led to the
ousting of Dr.. Joseph l.. john
son as dean Of Howard Univer-
sity's Medical School were re-
ported yesterday to involve
questions Of the medical school
budget.
1t was reliably reported that
the questions concerned grants
by the National Fund for Medi-
cal Education.
Dean Johnson and the faculty
were described as taking the
position such funds were sup
Elementary to the regular budget,
President Mordecai johnson, on
the other hand. was said to have
ruled that the money from the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-30
Driver Faces Action
In Hit-Run Case

An Alexandria man yesterday
was held for grand Jury action
on q hit-and-run charge. grow
ing out of an auto accident last
Christmas Day.
Sam Bessard, 40 colored. of
the 1000 block Of Queen street,
waived a preliminary hearing
yesterday in Alexandria Police
Court. He was released on
$4,000 bond.
Bessard is accused Of striking
Wilmar X. Royston, 1924. Duke
street, as the latter was walking
in the 100 block Of Duke street.
Bessard was arrested two days
after the accident. A reckless
driving charge against Bessard
was continued yesterday. pend
ing grand jury action on the hit
! and-run charge.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-30

connoisseur il pronounced kon-i-
SER. the third syllable rhyming
with her. per. Some dictionaries
also show \ long "u" (yoo) sound
in the third syllable, thus: kon-i-
sYooR. However. I do not rec
ommend it for the reason that
"syoor" approaches or actually
becomes sewer" thus giving the
world an unpleasant connotation.
Dayton: Will you please pro-
nounce TREMENDOUS for us?-
K. w.
A: Do not say "tree-MEN-
juss." There should be no palati-
zation Of the ID" Be sure to say:
tree-MEN-duss.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-30
FAMOUS FABLES
BY E. E. EDGAR

MEDAL - Inventor Thomas
Edison was too preoccupied with
his work to be concerned about
the honors heaped upon him in
prodigious numbers.
On one occasion. he was ad-
vised that Congress had awarded
him a gold medal. It was to be
presented to him at a ceremony
in Washington. Edison, busy at
the time with an experiment,
greeted the news with little en-
thusiasm.
IT have no time to 60 to
Washington" he protested. II
didn't ask for tle medal. II they
insist on giving 1t to me. they'll
have to bring 1t to my West
Orange lab"
Which was precisely what did
happen. A few weeks later, the
Secretary Of the Treasury ap-
peared Ut the Edison plant and
made the presentation.
UNEMPLOYED One night
while talking theater with a
young actor. the late Lionel
Barrymore related with some
pride that his aunt, Mrs. John
Drew, had begun her stage ca
reer when she was IL months
old.
What's so wonderful about
that?" scoffed the other. my
daughter made her debut at
three months. What was your
aunt doing all that time?"
"I guess" replied Lionel apol-
ogetically, "she was looking for
work"