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Review of The Week:
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program before the House
Armed Services Committee
last week. The reserves now.
he said, are "in an unaccept-
able state of readiness. unable
to reach combat effectiveness
within any period Of time
likely to be available to us"
In case of emergency. Gen.
Ridgway testified. it would be
10 months before the Army
could get help from the re-
serves. Under the proposed
program, he added, the re-
serves could be ready in five
months.
On the Senate side of the
Hill, other service officials de-
Tended the planned cutback Of
the armed forces (from 3 mil
lion men now to 2.8 million in
the summer of 1850.
Secretary of Defense Wilson
told the Armed Services Com
mittee that the new strength
level would give the country an
adequate long-haul defense.
Such f1are-ups as the Formosa
and Kremlin crises should not
affect the size of the armed
forces, he said. He added the
Kremlin news to his list OF
things he regards as "ripples."
Democratic committee men,
bers disagreed with him.
Chairman Richard B. Russell
said the planned cutbacks
should be (re-evaluatedD IN
the light of recent Communist
moves. Senator Stuart Sy-
mington, Democrat. of Mis-
souri, said the heavy cuts in
our armed forces are not justi-
fled from the standpoint of ma
tional security"
H-Bomb 'FoII-out'
Meanwhile DR.. Ralph E.
Lapp, one of the developers Of
the atom bomb, revealed that
his study Of the "fall-out" Of
radioactive ash from a hydro
gen bomb cloud showed 1t
could kill all exposed persons
in a 10000 0-square-mile area.
A bomb dropped over the
White House, for instance,
would scatter deadly ash over
an area 113 miles in diameter,
the home of 3,250.000 per-
sons. The accompanying map
shows how far a person would
have to move from Washington
to escape the deadly effects.
A person sheltered from the
ash for two days could sur
vive, DR.. Lapp said. Survivors
would have to leave the areas
for several months, however,
until the radio-activity dimin-
ished.
DR.. Lapp urged that greater
attention be paid to civil de-
fense, particularly construc-
ton of shelters. The admin
istration, however. went ahead
with its plans to ask for ex-
penditure of only 36 cents per
person on civil defense in the
coming year.
Evening star., 1955-02-13

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Evening star., 1955-02-13
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Evening star., 1955-02-13
Liars Club
FEC Witness Joins
Mutusow in Recuntinq
Sworn Testimony

Two witnesses who were old
hands at swearing to tell the
truth. the whole Etruth and
nothing but the truth on be-
half of the Government were
Evening star., 1955-02-13

S million members, will fur
nish $1.8 million. The AFL
will get II vice presidencieS;
the CIO will have 10.
Evening star., 1955-10-02
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Evening star., 1955-10-02
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Evening star., 1955-07-16

Ii runsit Strike
Reduces Sales

The transit strike and one less
shopping day owing to the July
4 holiday were factors in q
sharp decrease in downtown de-
'partment store sales in the week
ended July 9. 1t was the first
full week of the strike.
The Federal Reserve Bank oi
Richmond reported the weeks
sales Of the downtown estab-
lishments were 80 per cent be-
low those Of the previous week
and 7 per cent below sales for
the comparable 1854 week.
Sales in the four weeks ended
the same date were 4 per cent
behind those Of a year earlier,
but those for the year to date
remained ! per cent higher.
Including suburban branches
with downtown stores, depart-
ment store sales in the WASH
ington Metropolitan Area last
week were on is per cent from
the previous weeks, but still
were 10 per cent above those of
a year ago. Four-week sales
were up 2 per cent from those of
q year ago, and sales for the
year to date were 4 per cent
higher.
Evening star., 1955-07-16
Chicago Store Hit
By 81 Million Fire.

CHICAGO, July 16 (R.-Fire
caused estimated damage Of 81
million to the History Maurice
l. Rothschild clothing store on
downtown State street last night.
Flames shot through the top
floor Of the building. sending
heavy clouds Of smoke over the
Loop.
Traffic was snarled for more
than two hours by the extra
alarm blaze. Thousands Of per-
sons massed against ropes set
up by police to keep spectators
out of the area Of falling debris.
The heat from the fire caused
windows to break.
showering the crowd with frag-
ments of glass. No one was re-
ported injured.
The fire broke out about an
hour after the store had closed
for the day. The flames were
confined mostly to the 18th floor,
where window designers mate
rials were kept and which was
Evening star., 1955-07-16
7 oIbott to ExpIoin
Business Connections

The company is New Yorl
industrial engineering firm which
specializeS in clerical efficiency
studies for private industry.
Robert r. Kennedy, CHIEF
counsel for the subcommittee
met for an hour at the Pentagor
with Mr.. Talbot yesterday.
Mr.. Talbot said it had been 9
"very pleasant meeting" ir
which he gave MIR. Kennedy "al
the information he asked for
He said he also volunteered
some information that Mr.. Ken.
nedy did not request so thai
Senator McClellan's subcommit.
tee would have a better under.
standing of his relationship.
with the New York firm.
Mr.. Talbott's prepared state.
ment said his business connec.
tions "have been proper ant
ethical in my opinion"
Evening star., 1955-07-16
win Meet Monday

really believes in private enter
prise can be brought in"
He said he assumed that under
this course there would be law
suits filed by the company. But,
he said. it would cost more In
damages If the company's fran
Ichise is not lifted than it would
cost if the franchise is lifted.
We've got to face the fact
that on the record this company
no longer deserves a franchise.
If it is allowed to continue as
it is there will be another crisis
next year"
Meanwhile, the District Com
mittee members and others try
ing to find an end to the strike
| find encouragement in the fact
that negotiations have not brok-
en- down. "They are still talk
ing" was the way one negotiator
put it Of the.union and company
officials.
The union has asked for IS
cents an hour pay increase and
other benefits. The company has
put the cost Of the package at
ST million. 1t insists it has no
money to pay.
The company has asked fare
increase. It's proposal would
retain the 20-cent cash fare.
raise the price Of tokens from
five for 80 cents to five for q5
cents. and end the 75-cent per-
init which allows rides for q cash
flare Of 10 cents.
Evening star., 1955-07-16
Openings
Add 10 Traffic

Extra police were assigned to
downtown patrol duty today as
throngs Of shoppers poured in
from the suburbs to take advan-
tage of the new policy which
opens the big stores on Satur-
days for the duration of the
transit strike.
Deputy Chief John Agnew of
the traffic division said 20 rockies
from the training division were
ordered out to patrol the shop
ping area, backing up overloaded
first precinct and traffic details.
Today marks the first Satur-
day opening by the larger stores
which generally allow their en-
Iployes to be of the entire week
end during the summer months.
The move comes as a result Of
la survey conducted last week
when store officials decided Sat-
Iurdays offer the only chance for
shopping by housewives who are
imarooned at home by the transit
strike.
Deputy Chief Howard v. Covell
said the department is perturbed
over the number of persons using
the F. street car tracks to park on
when such parking is not per-
mitted there at all.
He said that officers are at
tempting to contact the owners
of the cars and, when unsuccess-
| full, the cars will be removed. On
certain other thoroughfares. he
pointed out, cars are allowed to
use the tracks.
When the strike ends, the
/ downtown stores plan to go back
to their regular summer schedule,
closing on Saturdays until August
I27. Meanwhile, store employees
flor the most part will go back to
their regular work schedules with
their days off distributed
throughout the week.
Evening star., 1955-07-16

perhaps a week of the top-level
talks they will have reached
agreement on an outline for fu-
|ture negotiations by their for
|eign ministers
It was expected that such q
course would call for the min
listers to develop specific agree
ments on German unification
European security and disarm-
ament.
The lack OF any formal agen-
|da may open the way for dis
Icussions ranging from European
satellite nations to the seating
|of Red China In the U. N. The
emphasis, however. is expected
to be on European problems.
Informants said the West had
no plan to talk about Far East
ern problems unless the RUS
slams bring them up. {
Evening star., 1955-07-16
New AT Academy Plans
Are Expected Next Week

A House committee has refused
to approve funds for the academy
as now planned. The Senate
Appropriations Committee is still
considering the matter.
Architect Frank Lloyd Wright,
who had appeared before the
House committee. told the Senate
group yesterday that the present
planned academy would be q
classified box up on stilts."
He got attentive listeners.
The committee is sympathetic
to your views" Senator Chavez
Democrat. Of New Mexico, told
him. Sen. Stennis. Democrat, OF
Mississippi. said he found the
design in shocking contrast with
the surroundings"
Shocking is the correct word y
Mr.. Wright said.
Evening star., 1955-07-16
TRANSIT
Continued From First Page

OOntlnue1 from FirSt rage
give complete and sympathetic
consideration"
Hanging over the negotiations
to end the tieup have been the
plans of the District Commits
Isioners to go to Congress for leg
lislation.
The commissions are expected
to present a plan for legislation
on Monday. Meanwhile, they
scheduled a meeting for 2 pm
today at Commissioner Samuel
Spencer'S home.
The three commissioners met
for more than two hours late
yesterday. With them we're
Corporation Counsel Vernon E.
West and Lloyd B. Harrison. Mr..
West also is general counsel to
the District Public Utilities. Com
mission. Mr.. Harrison is assist
ant corporation counsel assigned
to the utilities commission.
Mr.. Spencer said later the par
ticipants I'm the meeting were
tperfecting the proposed transit
legislation. He said the Com
misSioners would be prepared to
submit their proposals to Con-
gress Monday. But he said 1T
was still undecided whether-or
Iwhen-they would actually do so.
Work on Legislation
The assumption is that the
city officials are working on leg
Iislation disclosed earlier by Mr..
Broyhill-cancellation of the
company franchise after a year
and the taking over of the prop
erty.
Senator Morse, Democrat, of
Oregon, said he was told that
proposed legislation would be Of
fered by the Commissioners Mon
day.
He said he did not know what
it would be. But he added he
assumed it would be "some form
Of proposal to cancel the Capt.
Ftal Transit franchise and to
have the District government
operate the property until q pri-
vate enterprise company that
Evening star., 1955-07-16
<fIRUSHCHEV IS GOING WEST
FIRST TIME ON GENEVA TRIP

GENEVA Q1.-Nikita S. Khrushchev the onetme
plumber who became boss of Russias Communist Party
learn something about his former trade when he arrives
this weekend for the Big Four summit conference
He also learn lot about his new preoccupation-
rebuilding Moscow and other Soviet cities in concrete
This is the farthest West MIR. Khrushchev has ever
travelled and far known the first time he has
set foot outside Communist country.
So non-dplomatic circles here speculating he
find inspect facilities in which he has shown such
public interest
Evening star., 1955-07-16
Bitter Lesson Learned, ,
B Turncoots Confess

Here. as at Kobe. Japan. two
days ago. the three were not al.
lowed on the President Cleye.
land. 1t is scheduled to sail to-
morrow for San Francisco via
Honolulu.
I'VE entered the Iron Curtain
as children blind to life with no
practical understanding Of life
and reality" their statement
said. "As a result Of our experi-
ences Gin Red China) we grew
up. We became men, not physi-
cally but mentally. When one
becomes a man. he acts as .
child no longer"
They likened themselves TO .
youth who chooses the wrong
profession during high school.
finds he made a wrong choice,
and changes accordingly"
The same applies to us. We
grew up and came out"
Evening star., 1955-07-16
By the Associated Press

Secretary Of the Air Force Tai
bott will 60 before the Senate
investigations Subcom mi tie e
probably Monday. to tell of his
business aSsociations-for which
he says he has mo apology oi
amy sort"
The subcommittee has invited
Mr.. Talbot to a private confer
Eence which may determine
whether its members will order
q broad-scale investigation, in
cluding public hearings.
Chairman Mcclellan, Demo-
crat. of Arkansas said staff in
vestigators have had under study
since February what he termed
rumors concerning the propriety
1of Mr.. Talbott's partnership ir
the Paul B. Mulligan Co. while
also holding a high Government
post.
Evening star., 1955-07-16

YOKOHAMA. Japan. July l6
(R.-Three former United States
soldiers who chose and then
rejected life in Red China to-
night said they had learned q
bitter lesson" and were sgoing
home prepared to pay for our
mistakes"
William Cowart, %. Dalton.
Ca: Lewis Griggs. %. Jackson
vile. Tex. and Otho Bell. "a,
Hillsboro. Miss. issued a joint
statement aboard the American
President liner President Cleve-
land after it docked here.
Il was a repetition Of state
ments they made when they
crossed the Red China border
into Hong Kong. a British crown
colony. last Sunday.
Captured in the Korean war.
the three chose to stay with the
Communists rather than be
repatriated late in 1858.
Evening star., 1955-07-16
MOVES
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Continued From First Page
of captive satellites and the
menace Of international COM
munism, it will not be carried to
the point of clouding major con-
ference issues. The same goes for
other more or less incidental
ideas such as French Premier
Edgar Faures' suggestion of cut
ting military budgets and turn
ing the savings over to world de-
velopment projects.
In the opinion of other West
ern leaders this proposal amounts
to little more than a nice idea
to be tossed into the ring and
perhaps kicked around a bit II
conversation starts to lag. They
are sure the Russians have a
number Of similar ideas but hope
they won't show disposition to
press them too far.
In essence it seems that the
success or failure of the Genevs
conference from the Western
viewpoint boils down to q simply
stated proposition: German unity
within the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization in return for an
effective security guarantee To
Russia. Unless such guarantees
can be given, the West admits
there is virtually no chance fol
German reunification. To put
it the other way. unless Russia
is willing to reunite Germany II
is a foregone conclusion, that
there viii be no new security
system or agreement on disarm-
ament.
Western leaders emphasize
carefully that no hard and bind
ing decisions on these matters
can be made by the allies at this
conference. They are by no
means ,overoptimistic that the
Russians will. in fact. be willing
to play ball on Western terms.
From everything that has been
said. however, they believe 1t to
be a possibility we'll worth
explo4rg at the summit.
Evening star., 1955-07-16

i GENEVA. July 16 R.-The
heads of the Big -Four govern
llaents journeyed toward Geneva
today, optimistic their historic
summit talks would at least find
methods and machinery to solve
the major cold war problems.
This view was expressed Spe-
cifically by President Eisenhower
and Soviet Premier Bulganin on
the eve of their departure for
the parley. which begins Mon
day. Britain's Prime Minister
Sir Anthony Eden and high
French sources also were OPP
timistic.
Sir Anthony, Mr.. Eisenhower,
Marshal Bulganin and French
Premier Faure were due to ar
rive here before nightfall. The
Foreign Ministers of the four
powers were also expected to
begin arriving late today.
FAs the stage was set for the
talks, 1t appeared that all four
powers were in agreement that
the parley should deal primarily
with procedure and methods and
that good will all around might
lay the groundwork for q stable
peace.
sThe talks are expected to last
no longer than six days, al
though no firm agreement has
been reached on an adjourn
n1ent date.
Before leaving the Soviet
capital, Marshal Bulganin eau
toned that it would be naive to
believe that we shall be able to
settle all outstanding issues at
Geneva.
s"If the members of all the
delegations show a spirit of good
WILL" he said, then we can MAP
al way to peace, find common
language and lay the basis fol
settlement of these questions"
sMr. Eisenhower, in a report tc
Congress, expressed hopes the
Big Four talks will be able tc
identify the issues dividing the
world and develop methods tc
try to solve them"
Before taking off for Geneva
last night, Mr.. Eisenhower said
Evening star., 1955-07-16
By the Assoclated Prss.

The Air Force reportedly hopes
to provide q new design next
week to prevent delay in building
its new academy near Colorado
Springs. Colo.
Congressional sources who
asked not to be named said
Secretary Of the Air Force Tai
bott win present a revised design
Monday
Air Force officials at the Fem
Itagon said, however, they knew
lof no new designs Mr.. Talbot
might present.
The congressional sources said
they understood the new plan
would eliminate about As per
cent of the glass proposed IN
the $125 million buildings for the
academy.
Evening star., 1955-07-16
Big 4 Chiefs Optimistic
As Geneva PorIey Neors

in a TV-radio broadcast that
there will be mo trouble" with
the men in the Kremlin If they
really mean their words of con
ciliation and federation and
understanding"
On the basis Of previous au-
thoritative statements, 1t ap-
peared what both leaders had in
mind was some sort of agreement
on a series Of future meetings on
different levels to deal with spe-
cific issues. such as disarmament
general European security, uni
fication Of Germany and world
trade.
These could be either meetings
Of the Big Four Foreign Ministers
or special panels of negotiatofs.
Disarmament talks, for in
stance, could be continued by q
special subcommittee of the
United Nations Disarmament
Commissio nif desired.
The Western Big Three For
eign Ministers completed prepar-
atory talks in Paris yesterday and
were to leave for Geneva after
"a session Of the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization council TO-
day.
Agreed ON Goals
They repeatedly have agreed
on what they would seek at the
summit meetings.
The program approved in Paris
will be submitted to the three
Western chiefs of government in
Geneva tomorrow.
French Foreign Minister An
tome Pinay radiated optimism
as he spoke to newsmen. He
said the very fact that the four
leaders had agreed to meet sis
already enormous progress"
ut is impossible that nothing
should come out of this" he
added
Sir Anthony Eden, meanwhile,
welcomed an appeal by nine
noted scientists. including the
late Albert Einstein, calling on
the four great powers to abolish
war.
In a letter to Lord Russell,
Nobel prize-winning philosopher
and mathematician who drafted
the appeal in collaboration with
DR.. Einstein, Sir Anthony prom
Used to work for that goal.
Evening star., 1955-07-16
Big ; Outline Proposals
For Approval by NATO

PARIS, July is (P.-The Big
Three foreign ministers today
outlined their Geneva confer
ence plans for the approval and
backing of their IL partners In
the North Atlantic Treaty Or
ganization (NATO).
Secretary of State Dulles,
French Foreign Minister Antoine
Pinay and British Foreign Sec
iretary Harold Macmillan pre-
tsented a detailed breakdown of
the Western position at a meet
ling of NATO ministers.
The NATO powers have been
kept informed Of the thinking
of the Big Three in preparation
for the Geneva conference, but
today's meeting was designed to
provide an official opportunity
for an exchange Of views.
Submitted Plan.
The experts from the Big
Three who drew up the pro-
Iposals for the summit talks sub
|mitted their general plan to the
|NATO council several days ago.
Council members in turn sub
mitted the outline to their gov
iernments for study.
Mr.. Dulles, Mr.. Pinay and
Mr.. Macmillan put the final
touches on the Western plan
ming yesterday.
Western strategy and tactics
for the Geneva negotiations re-
lmained secret. but it appeared
clear that the Big Three hoped
progress would be made in the
spirit and atmosphere of the
talks.
The Western powers are not
going to Geneva with specific
proposals prepared, but the Rus
slams may offer some.
Will Meet Monday
The first meeting between
President Eisenhower, Britain's
Prime Minister Eden, French
Premier Faure and Soviet Pre-
mier Bulganin will be held Mon
day.
The West hopes that after
Evening star., 1955-07-16
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