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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-27
Potomac Flood
Survey Considered

The Army Engineers are CIV.
ing consideration to food
control sturdy for the Potomac
River Basin, spokesman said
today.
Carter Page, chief of the plan
ming division of the civil works
branch of the Engineer Corps.
said the Potomac survey is need
ed but undoubtedly would have
to yield priority to studies in
areas harder hit by floods fol-
lowing recent hurricanes.
Mr.. Page said he was sure
Congress would first authorize
control studies in such places as
New England, which suffered so
much devastation last week. But
| the Potomac survey will come
! in time, he added.
1t has been estimated that
Hurricanes Connie and Diane
caused total damage of more
than S3.3 million in the Potomac
basin, including 100000 along
/ the Anacostia River. more than
81 million along the Shenandoah.
| $685., 900 along North Branch.
$4,000 along South Branch aLS
$685. 900 on the Potomac. above
! Washington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-27
Inquest Date Set
In Heiress Death

PHILADELPHIA. Aug. ~ up
An inquest has been called
for Friday into the death OF
Mrs. Doris Jean Silver Ostreicher
chain-store heiress who was
separated from the Miami, Fla.
policeman she eloped with two
months ago.
Mrs. Ostreicher, daughter OF
Herman r. Silver. vice president
of Food Fair, Inc. died Wednes-
day night in the apartment of q
friend. An autopsy was per-
formed Thursday at the morgue
DR.. Melville J. Aston. acting
medical examiner, set the in
quest date and said:
This unfortunate death has
resulted in widespread discus.
sion and rumors. many of them
without foundation. However
there are a number of reason
able and proper questions, guess
lions which justice command;
be answered.
1.-The interests of the deceased
the family and the public arr
at stake. 1t is the duty OF the
examiner to conduct a complete
investigation to determine the
cause and manner Of death sc
that all interests may be giveE
due consideration"
DR.. Aston said laboratory test.
are continuing in an effort tt
establish cause of death. He ha'
promised full report as soor
as the pathology report is ready
Until then I cannot say any
thing else" he said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-27
Non-Support Fathers
In DC. Jobs Raise Issue

1t is up to the Commissioners
to decide. as a matter of policy
whether the city should employ
fathers who refuse to support
their children or take any kind
Iof action to compel support from
such employees, the city heads
were advised yesterday.
Corporation Counsel Vernon
IL. West said the question should
Ibe referred to the personnel
office for recommendation and
ultimately determined by the
Commissioners.
Query on Action
Welfare Director Gerard M
Shea had asked what action the
District and his department
might take to force support
from a father employed by the
city, rather than continue the
expenditure of public funds ir
the form of assistance pay
mentS."
Mr.. Shea explained that II pei
cent of. the children receiving
full or partial support from the
program of aid to dependent
children were in need because
of the absence of the father. He
said the department believed
some of the fathers were en-
Eployed by the District.
( Mr.. West reviewed the lega'
remedies available in non-sup.
port cases. although the courts
have held that an employees Dis.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-27
Chile Calls Out
Troops in Strike

SANTIAGO, Chile. Aug. u 70.
Troops were dispatched to key
points in Chile today as the gov.
Iernment clanped a state OF
emergency on two provinces TO
avert trouble in the Gripping
strike Of $4,000 government
workers.
Gen. Horacio Gamboa. chief
lof the capitals garrison, posted
$4,000 soldiers in Santiago ana
sent armed units into. the tla-
terror as the provinces Of SAN
Itiago and Conception were placed
on an emergency alert.
Meanwhile, a spokesman for
the Interior Ministry said Is
leaders of striking hospital work.
ers had been arrested because
the walkout had endangered
health establishments.
Interior Minister Osvaldo Koch
had threatened to invoke the
death penalty against hospital
attendants whose patients die for
lack of care.
The strikers are demanding
wage boosts of 60 to 100 per cent
to meet soaring living costs.
They rejected the governments
offer of a IS per cent increase.
The walkout affects public
health services, the social secur-
lily system, the treasury DEPART
iment, income tax department.
customs houses, port services and
pension payment operations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-27
Woman Refuses
To Yield Phone
AS House Burns

HUNTINGTON, w. Va, Aug.
~ (P.-Because a woman re-
fused to get off her party line
yesterday, Fire Chief John w.
Gallagher reported, a fire caused
$1,000 damage before 1t was
brought under control.
Chief Gallagher said a neigh
Ibor tried for five minutes to get
the woman off the telephone line,
but the woman refused. Finally
the neighbor sent a youngster to
the corner to pull the fire alarm
box.
| One home in Huntington's
West End was destroyed. and
two others were heavily damaged
The fire chief reported that the
blaze left 10 persons homeless.
IF the department had beer
called Ave minutes earlier" he
said. much more could have
been saved"
No one was seriously injured.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-27
Motorists Asked to Shun
|Roods in Flood Areas

Gov. Herter few over South
bridge yesterday and said of the
devastation. 1T is the worst ]
have ever SEEN"
The Agricultural Department
says huge stocks Of Government
foods have been made available
for flood victims. The foods in
Iclude butter, cheese. dry milk
beans. rice and shortening.
State Public Works Commits
ssioner John A. Volpe said l.l9(
men and. 1856 motor units witt
special equipment have beer
working in the food areas sinct
| August 10 and will continue unit
the cleanup job is done.
/ Gov. Joseph B. johnson Of
Vermont yesterday offered in
dustrial space in his State tc
southern New England indus
tries damaged by the flood.
| 1t was made clear Vermont
twas not attempting to lure in.
dustry into the State but thai
the offer was made to make
available temporary industrial
4 housing.
Public Works Department dis.
trict engineers will meet loca
officials today in Worcester
Lenox and Springfield to plar
coordination of a highway anc
bridge repair program. A prior
ity list for the repair of highwa,
facilities will be formulated.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-27
Pottery Of 100 BIC.
Discovered in Italy

CATAN1A, Sicily. Aug. ~ up,
Pottery with geometric de-
signs. believed to date back II
centuries before Christ. has
been found in an ancient lava
cave beneath the city Of Catania
With the pottery. archeolo-
gists said. are crude instruments
and bones which may date to
the stone age.
The discoveries indicate that
man lived at the foot Of vol
canic Mount Etna even before
the founding of the present
city, as Greek colony, in the
Ienghth century before Christ.
The cave was discovered while
excavating the foundations fol-
an apartment building on the
outskirts of the city.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-27
New Orleans Catholics
Delay lnteqrution

NEW ORLEANS. Aug. ~ (P)
Archbishop Joseph F. Rummel
announced yesterday that racial
Indignation in parochial schools
will not be started in the Arch
diocese of New Orleans before
September. 1856.
Catholic Action of the South
official newspaper Of the Arch
diocese of New Orleans. quoted
the Roman Catholic prelate al
saying the decision to delay in
|tegration came after mature de.
liberation and consultation"
The weekly newspaper said the
United States Supreme Courts
ruling on segregation in public
schools lis thoroughly in accord
with the principles and teaching;
of the Catholic church"
But it said immediate int
grafton would not be prudent
Ior practical chiefly because We
are confronted with the tradition
Iof segregation over a period Of
$50 years. :"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-27
.Mutiny Reported
On Swedish Ship
In Mid-AtIuntic

STOCKHOLM, Sweden. Aug. q
I(P. The 1870 ton Swedish
freighter Dorotea flashed a dis
tress call from mid-Atlantic to-
day that she had Grew trouble
aboard and the captain was be-
ing kept prisoner in his cabin.
The brief appeal from the
radio operator Of the Dorotea--
en- route from Brazil to South
Africa - was picked up by a
Capetown coastal radio station
/ An unidentified vessel near the
Dorotea also intercepted the cal
and relayed it to the Gotebere
radio station on Sweden's west
coast.
(Lloyd's of London also re-
ported picking up the CALI
Erik Hogberg, managing di.
recto rof the Dorotea's owners
Rederi A. B. Manhem, said he
could not comment until he re-
ceiyed further word about the
reported mutiny.
he captain aboard the Dorotes
was identified as j. A. Bolenius
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-27

BOSTON, Aug. 27 tP).-Road-
blocks were set up today in Gen.
trail and Western Massachusetts,
to bar sightseeing motorists
from flood-stricken areas ovei
the week end.
State police said only the most
necessary trips should be at.
tempted and that motorists viii
be barred from several comnu'
mites.
Heavy traffic on side road
pressed into emergency service
as detoufs have caused ruts II
many places. There also wa
the threat Of underground wash
outs.
Secretary Of Commerce Week
toured flood areas yesterday anc
promised to look into the posi-
bility of disaster insurance TO.
private homes and industry.
He said his department Twill
take a good hard look at SOM
form of disaster insurance If
is possible to work out one OF
some actuarial basis"
He said his departments frs
interest is in getting industrie
back In business.
Many private insurance firm
now have flood policies, but MI
Weeks said the premium cost
would be "prohibitive" to mos
home owners and small business
men.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-27
Fraud in Asking
Funds Reported

Arlington police are investigat-
ing report that confidence men
have been exploiting the misery
of New England flood victims to
obtain cash donations in the
Washington area.
Chief of Detectives Dudley H
Rector said his office had re-
,ceived a complaint from Mrs
Alice Y. Lindsey charging that
two men came to her home. 23ll
North George Mason drive, Ar
Ilington, at different times Wed
Inesday afternoon and asked fol-
donations.
Mrs. Lindsey, the wife Of ar
Air Force colonel. said the men
represented themselvs as mem.
beers of a committee with head
quarters in Washington. They
were unable to produce creden'
tials. she said. but one showed
her a handwritten request Il
I"give all you can"
A spokesman for the Ameri'
can Red Cross in Washington
said the Red Cross has not con-
Quoted door-to-door solicitation
for food relief funds.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-27

trict government wages are not
subject to garnishment, but lie
said that the questions facing
the city were not legal ones. but
questions related to personnel
policy and administration.
Employment Issue
whether the District of Co
lumbia should employ a person
who refused to fulfill his duty
to support his children is a ques-
ton of policy for determination
BY the Commissioners" he said
And what efforts or disciple
nary measures, if any, should h
utilized to compel support from
such an employe within the en-
ployment relationship is likewise
a question of policy" he added
The Commissioners approved
mis- recommendation. ..
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-27
Royalty Reported Trying
To Dissuode Margaret

attempt to make Margaret
abandon her choice and to ST.
Ilence, as far as possible. public
comment and discussion.
why? Because the young
man concerned has committed
two offenses: He was born a
member of the middle class ano
he divorced a wife who had de-
serted him.
This attitude by, ofhcialdon
makes nonsense of the claim that
the Princess marriage is a pri-
vate matter. 1t. also strikes the
majority Of the public as being
! a piece of archaic humbug =.
1.-THE public as a whole thor.
oughly understands the facts anc
the issues involved in them. i
has been given the chance tt
show Princess Margaret that. il
she cares 70 renounce ner sue
IceSsion and marry the man o.
her choice. even against the ad
vice of the Archbishop of Can
terbury and without the lorna
public approval of her s.. ter. sht
will have the good wishes anc
congratulations of all but a neg
lligible minority"
Called Most Human"
The magazine described Mar
garet as the most human
member Of the royal family.
| The Tabloid London Dali,
Mirror frontpaged the New
Statesman's editorial. There wa
mo Buckingham Palace com
Iment.
There have been frequent. un
confirmed reports that Queer
Mother Elizabeth and som
sothers in the royal family wer,
Opposing Margaret'S romance
with Capt. Townsend.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-27
RED CROSS
Continued From First Page

Continued From First Page
Office here started their own
campa'g. to assist food victims
Meanwhile, the National Associa-
:ion Of Lc. Carriers contrib
uted 81 00} from its funds to the
SO millt Ill national goal.
Gifts to ID. c. Chapter
The District chapter received
$1,000 from the National Geo.
graphic Society. $500 from the
Perpetual Building Association,
$500 from the S. Kann Sons Co
department store firm and $500
from the National Savings and
Trust Co. Labor Department
employees have contributed more
than $4,000.
The American Legion an
nounced establishment of its
own Disaster Relief Committee
to aid Legionnaires and Their
families in the flood belt. The
Legion also urged its members
to support local Red Cross fund
campaigns.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-27
Soviet Formers Impatient
Over Drinking in. Canada

S. J. Chagnon. chief federal
conducting official. said the 16-
day tour schedule is being re-
arranged to reduce social calls
The nine-man Soviet delega-
ton moves on to Ottawa today
after completing a two-day toul
of the Montreal area.
All through yesterday they
kept popping questions at farm
.ers: The amout Of rainfall, !rri-
CATION bitches and who built
them. hybrid corn. types Of farm
machinery used. crop rotation
systems. pastures and Corpora
tives.
The answers given were dill
gently marked down in little
notebooks with American-type
ball-point pens.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-27
Homeless Flood Victims
Want Place of Own

set. You can see holes in the
ground where houses stood 9
week ago. All that's left Of the
brick church are its front steps
There's Naugatuck, where 9
Marine truck with a loud speaker
goes through the street blarint
Parents please keep your chill
dren off the street especially II
the contaminated areas. All thos'
who took typhoid shots early II
the week are now due for q sec
ond shot"
Trailer Homes Overturned
Farther along, there's Beacon
Falls. where pretty frame bun
galows were washed into eacl
other, and a trailer camp besid
the river is a mass Of overturned
wrecked trailer homes.
Thousands Of new-but nov
contaminated - stores from
flooded factory are piled UP II
the street waiting to be cartet
away and destroyed.
And there's Seymour where
beside a bridge. were I'VE or 81,
family tenements. two groceries
a novelty store. and auto agenc.
and a hotel. The bridge is gon'
now. Only cement slabs indi
cate where the other places stood
The brick public library nearb.
is a pile of rubble and the higl
school behind it has been de
clared unsafe.
In these towns the helicopter
that took hundreds Of person
of rooftops have given way Il
the bulldozers and wheelbarrow
for the clean UP job. And tn
Red eros job Of feeding and shel
tering the thousands is givin
way 10 the long term task o
getting the families togethe
again under their roofs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-27

MONTREAL, Aug. n R.-
Federal officials have agreed to
reduce the social side Of the Rus
sian tour of Canadian farmlands
after the Soviet visitors COM
planned they were seeing toe
many humans and whisky bot
ties and not enough cows and
tractors.
Soviet Farm Leader Vladimir
Matskevich showed particular
Impotence yesterday during a
200-mile tour Of rural spots
The delegation stopped twice for
drinks and an exchange of pleas
antries at Frelighsburg and
CRANKY.
He kept asking to see more
cattle and machinery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-27
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Continued FROM rEbt HdSe
he said. "I'll get it ready by to-
morrow. I want my kids home
with me-"
No Factory Pay Checks
There are fathers like him in
all the little towns that lie be-
side the Naugatuck--four oil
them between Waterbury and
Ansonia, 20 miles farther south
Big and little factories. close by
the river, provide most of the
pay checks for these towns. Un-
til these factories can get going
again, a matter of months fol
some Of them-these fathers will
have no pay checks to bring
home.
In Ansonia alone. an estimated
5000 out Of a population CT TO-
900 are out Of work. Every res
taurant Is closed because the
water is contaminated and the
fear of typhoid hangs over the
town. About 1000 are homeless
The Red Cross is shelterine
300 Of them in Ansonia. High
School. Others are staying with
friends and relatives. Some .peo-
pie whose homes are safe have
each taken in as many as riEt
Of the homeless. They coulc
maintain that arrangement for 9
week, sleeping in shifts. but nov
permanent homes must be found
for these guests.
A trip those 20 miles from
Waterbury to Ansonia tells the
story of what these people are
facing. There's Union City
where for block after block or
the main street. the houses thai
still stand are tumbled against
each other. A car rests on thu
front porch of one sagging house
1.-The entire front of another Il
ripped off like an open stage
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-27

LONDON, Aug. 81 (P.-The
New Statesman and Nation, a
weekly magazine of opinion. said
today some members of the
royal family and the Archbishop
of Canterbury are trying to talk
Princess Margaret out of marry
ing Royal Air Force Group Capt
Peter Townsend.
The journal, in a criticism Of
royalty unusual in Britain, de-
scribed their attitude as "a piece
of archaic humbug."
The New Statesman is an in
dependent magazine generally
rejecting the views of a segment
of the Labor Party standing
somewhat left Of the party's cen
ter. 1t is edited by one of Brit.
aims best-known editors. Kings.
ley Martin.
Front Page Editorial
In a front-page editorial de.
Tending the popular press fol
reporting and specializing or
IMargaret's reported desire to re,
lnounce her right of succession
to the throne and marry Capt
Townsend. a divorced man, thu
magazine commented:
There is no reason why sht
should not marry as she will
least Of all since the young mar
with whom she is in love is him.
self beyond reproach.
"Yet. as every newspaper edi'
tor knows. the most determined
efforts have been made over thu
last year to Illustrate her pur.
pose.
THE Archbishop of Canter'
bury-busy as ever behind thu
'scenes-most of the older ant
stuffier court officials and SOM
of the most authoritative t,unil!
advice have all combined In al
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-27
Swim OF Come Home, :
So He Swims Channel

Dover four weeks for favorable
weather. Yesterday a deputa-
ton from Bloxwich told him te
get going or get home.
His crossings. in heavy seas
part Of the way. was the first this
year from England to. France
He was still swimming strongly
when he finished.
II am only sorry I didn't break
the record" he said. but I die
what I could considering the
Channel conditions"
The record of 13 hours. Al
minutes was set by Egyptian Abe
El Lett Abou Heif August 2
1853.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-27
EIsu Maxwell Party
Soils on Greek Tour

VENICE. Italy, Aug. 81 (P.-
American party giver Elsa Max
well and her friends prepared to
embark today on a 15-day cruise
to Greece and back.
Taking part aboard the liner
Achilleus are ITO European aris-.
tocrats and American socialites.
Miss Maxwell explained she's
throwing this one for fun ana
culture combined.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-27

CALAIS, France. Aug. 81 P
Get In the water and have q
go-or come home and face the
music"
That, in effect. is what the
people of Bloxwich, England, told
swimming pool manager Bill
Picketing yesterday on the Dover
side Of the English Channel.
So he did.
This morning-l4 hours and
minutes later-he walked out Of
the water on the French side.
Big Bill, a 32-year-old, 252-
FOUNDER, said he was making the
swim simply to satisfy the PEG.
pie of Bloxwich." His hometown
raised $50 pounds $4,000 for his
expenses.
He had been waiting around
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-27
Adenuuer Returning

MURREN, Switzerland, Aug
27 R.-Chancellor Adenauer OF
Germany, who has been COM
bining vacation and work at this
mountain resort for more than a
month, left this morning to re-
turn to Bonn.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-27
TV Set Output Rises

During the first five months OF
1855 the production of television
receivers in the United States
climbed to nearly Al per cent
above the level Of the like period
in 1854. During the period
3.238,820 video receivers were
produced compared with 2.30l,-
O55 in the first FIVE months
of 1854.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-27
Truman Speech
Awaited in indiana

FRENCH LICK. Ind. Aug. n
up. - Indiana Democrats came
to French Lick today for the
opening Of Harry s. Truman's
speaking tour at the 18th ami
versary banquet of the Indiana
Democratic Editorial Association
tonight.
The speech is the first Of five
the former President has sched-
uled for the next several weeks.
He is expected to lambast the
Republicans in the style Of his
successful 1e48 campaign.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-27
Brood Spread Shown
In Income Distribution

According to the latest Federal
Reserve survey of consumer
finances, nearly SO per cent of
all the Nations spending units
had a cash income of $4,000 or
more in 1854, about double the
proportion in 1947
The greatest change occurred
lin the $5.000-to-$7 500 bracket.
lit contained 81 per cent of all
spending units last year COM
pared with only 9 per cent in
l1947.
Evening star., 1955-07-15
SHOP-TALK
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On Market
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ucts on the local market in
clude a unique plastic soap
measurer for saving soap costs