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Evening star., 1955-09-06
Veteran Center
Has Problem
Offered Space. Needs
Gosh for Renovation

The Veterans Service Center
now housed in an unsightly
tempo in front Of the District
Building, has tentatively beer
offered space In the old Post
once Department building al
Twelfth street and Pennsyl-
vania avenue N. w.
This was disclosed today by
Director Waldron E. Leonard OF
the ONCE Of Veterans Affairs In
asking the District Commits
sioners for $15.487 to put the
space into condition for his 20
employees to occupy.
After a warning by Budget
Officer Walter Fowler that the
District has no such funds avail
able without specific congress
Isional approval, the Commis-
sioners ordered Administrative
Services Officer James L. Mccall
lister formally to reserve the
space. They also asked Mr..
Leonard If the new quarters
could be put in shape more
Icheaply on a tempary basis until
Iall necessary funds can be OBJ
tanned from Congress next year.
$4,000 Minimum Cost
Mr.. Leonard said the job could
be done for a minimum Of IS, 600
If no effort is made to replace
the badly-worn flooring. He
warned that two other agencies
are seeking the space and urged
the Commissioners to act quickly
to reserve it.
Mr.. Leonard said his Office has
been offered about 5000 square
fleet of space in the old Post
ONCE Building on the ground
floor along Twelfth street.
He said it will be necessary
for patrons to walk up a few
steps. and therefore is not ideal
for cripples and wounded war
veterans.
Two Locations
The Veterans Affairs Office is
located in the small shack in
front of the District Building
at Fourteenth street and Penn
Isylvania avenue NV. Another
section of the Office is across
Fourteenth street in Temporary
Building v. which the Federal
Government disclosed recently is
soon to be dismantled.
Mr., Leonard pointed out that
the move to the Post Office
Building would also make it pos
sible to dismantle the smaller,
District-owned shack. This was
put up early in World War II
to provide space for registry
of available housing. for war
workers.
Mr. Leonard said it would be
possible for his agency to move
within 80 or 40 days If nothing
prevents it.
Evening star., 1955-09-06
BY GOULD LINCOLN

Republican State chairmen
gathered here today for a three.
day campaign school, unani.
mously predicted the reelection
of President Eisenhower.
Further, they expressed a solic
opinion that he would yield tt
demands and stand for a seconc
term next year.
This was the opinion of State
chairmen from Connecticut tC
Washington and from Kansas
to South Carolina. In nearly
every instance the State chair
men insisted that Mr.. Eisen-
hover is as popular or even
more popular than he was in
1852 when he defeated Adlai
Stevenson, his Democratic oppo-
nent.
Their views echoed those ex-
pressed In Denver yesterday by
Vice President Nixon.
Depend on President
1t was apparent, however, that
the State chairmen were putting
all their eggs in one, basket.
Several of them clearly threw
up their hands when asked what
would happen in next years
election If the President should
not run.
A quartet of chairmen from
the Midwest. Ray G. Bliss of
Ohio. Donald c. Pierson of
Iowa. Morton H. Hollingsworth
of Illinois and Lloyd H. Rup-
penthal of Kansas, among the
first arrivals. all expressed great
confidence in the ability of the
Republicans to carry their States
next year. Mr.. Hollingsworth
said that the Illinois followers of
the late Senator Bob Taft OF
Evening star., 1955-09-06

CHICAGO. Sept. 6 R.-The
largest in independent college
scholarship program in the his
tory Of American education was
announced today.
The program, backed with
initial funds totaling sos mil
lion, is designed to locate young
men and women of high aptitude
and enable them to go to college,
regardless Of their financial
means.
The program will be handled
by a corporation which will
make an annual Nationwide
search for talent at the high
school level. The financial sup
port Of business and industry will
be encouraged.
Nationwide Competition
Selection of winners will in
volve Nationwide scholarship
competition in which all OF the
approximately $4,000 secondary
schools in the United States,
public and private, will partici-
pate on an equal basis.
Plans for the program we're
announced by John M. Stalnaker,
president, and Laird Bell, chair
man, Of the new National Merit
Scholarship Corp.
Between one-third and one
half Of all the funds invested in
the program will go directly to
colleges and universities selected
by the award winners on the
basis Of free choice.
Mr.. Stalnaker said the corpo.
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It's local Office here is American
International Underwriters, To-
Gated in the Barr Building.
Mrs. Miner said her son first
went to China at the outset OF
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PenfagonUrged
|ToCut Buying
ByS1.7 Billion
Humphrey Proposal
Aims at BELONGING
Budget This Year
By JOHN A. GILES

Secretary of the Treasury
Humphrey has asked the Defenst
Department to whack about ST.
billion from it's current annual
expenditures, it was learned to-
day.
Determined to balance the
budget this year. he and Budget
Director Rowland Hughes asked
Secretary Of Defense Wilson anc
his assistants to bring military
spending down to the neighbor-
hood of $33 billion. Presently
the Armed Forces spending figure
is running just below $50 billion
Most Of the cut would have to
be made in procurement expendi-
lures, since other spending pro-
grams, such as pay of personnel
and day-to-day operations, al
ready have been pretty well
pared down and are largely fixed
by the size Of the Armed Forces
Wilson Responds
Mr.. Wilson, it is. said, has
promised Mr.. Humphrey to make
la supreme effort to cut the
spending to the bone. But, of.
|ficials said, he has insisted thai
what are known as high priority
items, such as the B-52 heavy
jet bomber program which was
stepped up only a few months
ago. be left untouched.
The cuts would effect con-
tracts placed in the 1858 anc
1854 fiscal years. And 1t woulc
be March before the cutbacks
would show up to an apprecia-
BILE extent.
In the budget last January II
was estimated by President
Eisenhower that gross savings oi
81, ,750. 1000 would be realized
this fiscal year. Since then the
mid-year review released last
month stated, $3.50 million oi
these savings have been iden.
Itifled in particular defense &C.
tivities, while maintaining an
even greater overall level of pre-
lparedness."
1t added that "it is anticipated
that the remaining 81 billion oi
savings will be developed in spe-
lcific activities as the Department
of Defense proceeds with the
program now under way"
However. Mr.. Humphrey has
raised the savings ante by some
81 billion. If he can make the
department cut a little more here
and hack a little more there, this
years outgo can be held within
the probable limits of this years
income, he and Mr.. Hughes feel.
Air kOrLe Target
The savings order was the SUBJ
Iject Of a high-level conference at
MIR. Wilson's vacation spot near
Boyne City. Mich. last Thurs
day.
A clear indication that most
of the cutting will have to come
in the Air Force was shown by
those present. The cut in that
service in spending alone is ex-
Ipected to run from $500 million
to $3.50 million.
Attending the Wilson confer
Ience were Reuben S. Robertson,
the new Deputy Secretary of De-
fense; Donald A. Quarles, the
new Air Force Secretary; Gen,
Nathan F. Twining, Air Chief of
Staff; James H. Douglas. jr., Air
Undersecretary, and Lyle S. Gar
lock, Assistant Air Secretary for
Financial Management.
Evening star., 1955-09-06
HEART DISEASE
LEAVES PRINTS

HEART PRlNTS-A Toronto doctor
hos discovered thot eertoin consenitol
heart diseases ore accompanied by
characteristic whorIs ond loops on the
surfoees Of infonts' finsertips ond
polms. For this and reIoted stories,
reod the article by Thomos R. Henry,
The stor's science writer. on pose BIZ
CONNIE NOT ALL BAD-The 70.
cent hurricane thot brought floods to
the Eostern seoboord oetuoIb helped
AppoIoehion apple growers. For an
explanation Of this III wind thot blew
some good, read the story by Violet
Fpulkner, The Stars food editor, on
paae B-3.
Evening star., 1955-09-06
INTEGRATlON's FIRST YEAR
Success Is Surprise
To School OfficioIs
By JAMES @. DEANE

On September Is, 1854 not quite one Washing
ton public schools began history Of racial
integration.
On that date almost three -fourths Of Washngtons
nearly 5000 public school children began attending
This Is the First Articles on Wcshnqcs School nuycton
Evening star., 1955-09-06

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traffic accidents between 6 pm.
local time. Friday and midnight
Monday. An additional 80 per-
sons drowned and SO died il
miscellaneous accidents for an
overall total of 500.
This compared with a record
Labor Day traffic toll Of 46l and
record overall total OF 658, both
set in 1851. The 1854 traffic toll
was 364.
Extra Effort Urged
The National Safety Council
had predicted 400 would die over
the holiday. Today, Ned H.
Dearborn, council president, said
in a statement:
"The toll, thank Heaven,
stayed below the all-time record
for Labor Day. It is of small
comfort to any one who sin
cerely believes that this whole
sale slaughter on the highways
need not and must not be tol-
Grated.
I'VE hope and believe that
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BY the Associated Press

Traffic accident deaths in the
Nation during the three-day
Labor Day week end exceeded
advance predictions and the toll
for the 1854 holiday.
Reports still trickling in to-
day showed 430 persons died in
Virsinio. Maryland Record High Traffic
Toll. Pose AIS
Evening star., 1955-09-06
WEATHER FORECAST

Fair tonight and tomorrow. Low tonight
near 90. Cooler tomorrow. (Ful report
plus resort forecast on Page A-2.)
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remperatures Today
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See GENEVA, Page As
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public view in your country"
The message from Mr.. Held was
delivered by representative of
the Jewish Labor Committee,
which represents more than a
half-million Jewish workers in
the AFL-CIO, to the Soviet UN
Delegation in New York and to
Mr.. Molotov at the United Ma
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tions.
The appeal TO MIR. Molotov
was augmented by a letter writ
ten by the Jewish Labor Commit
tee on August 3lst. 1855 to Soviet
Ambassador Georgi N. zarubin in
which the JIG revealed that it
has. ever since the end of World
War II. attempted to ascertain
the fate of So Jewish writer's
whose names were supplied TO
Soviet and American authorities.
In both the letters TO Mr.. Molotov
and Ambassador Zarubin. Mr..
Held complained that all plans
have met with silence from Soviet
authorities.
Mr.. Held told Mr.. Molotov that
this silence "belies recent at
tempts on the part of your gov
eminent to gain the impression
that. there is sincerity in the pub
lished statements that your gov
eminent desires tranquility in the
world. It is difficult for us to
accept such proclamations in view
of the repeated refusals by your
government to reopen the Jewish
press, cultural institutions and to
reveal the fate af the Jewish
writer's, artists and cultural lead
ers whose names have been sup
piled time and time again by us
and other interested parties.
Certainly" Mr.. Held continued
in his letter TO Mr.. Mototov. Tin
the spirit of the United Nations.
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MoIotov Urged To Break wall Of SiIence"
On Fate Of Jewish Writers In U.SSR

Sovet Foreign Minister " NJ Molotov this
Adolph Held National Chairman the
break The wall of silence surrounding the fate prominent
Jewish writer's artists cultural leaders
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you must take this occasion to
answer. once and for all. the
doubts that have been sown in
the hearts of all those concerned
with human dignity as a result of
the continued walls of silence
your government has built every
time we have made our requests. :"
Evening star., 1955-07-12
Two Witnesses SOUGHT
After Boy Dies of Injury

A 5-year-old District Heights
(Md.) boy died in Casualty Hos
pital today from head injuries
received yesterday when he ran
into the side Of a truck near his
home, police reported.
He was Bruce T. Adams, son
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Nicholas A..
Adams of 7702 Alpine street. Dis
trict Heights.
According to Mai. Harry F.
Volkman. District Heights police
chief. witnesses reported that
Bruce ran from between two
parked cars about AIS pm. into
the side of a pickup truck going
west on Atwood street.
The District Heights Rescue
Squad took the boy to the hos
pital, where he died at S am.
Chief Volkman said the truck
was driven by Russell D. Haw-
kins, %. colored, of RID /. Upper
Marlboro. Md. a driver for the
S. F. & G. Co.. Inc, owners of
the District Heights Apartments.
He was held on technical charges
of manslaughter and reckless
driving. Chief Volkman said.
The boys parents have a diff
ferent version of what hapY,epad
however. causing Chief Volkman
to seek a couple who stopped at
the scene and then departed.
The parents said they were told
by other witnesses that the truck
backed over their son.
Chief Volkman said a man
and a woman in a powder blue,
late model car stopped and the
Evening star., 1955-07-12
State Reported Doubling Offer
For Goldstein Fathers Tract

BALTIMORE. July IL (P.-
The State Roads Commission
suddenly dropped a condemna-
ton suit offering $4,000 for 3.3
acres of land and paid $1,000
for the tract to Goodman
Goldstein, Democrat of Calvert,
the Baltimore Evening Sun re-
ported today.
The newspaper, which has
been delving into property buy
ing activities of the roads COM
mission, said the Goldstein set
tlement was made late last year.
There was no explanation
given today by any of the prin-
cipals concerned.
Il don't know why they set
tied said Senator Goldstein
who did not participate in dis
cussions leading to the settle
ment between his father and
Joseph D. Buscher, assistant at
torney general assigned to the
commission.
Mr. Buscher recommended the
$1,000 be paid. The Right-of- :
Way Department. of which he is
administrative director, made no
recommendation. The depart
ment originally appraised the
land at $2,625.
The States second offer of
$4,000 was based on an appraisal
made by two independent ap-
ipraisers
The Senator's father refused,
asking for $4,000, and the State
filed condemnation proceedings
on September 20. Senator Gold
stein said today he and Paul r.
Bailey. former State Senator
Evening star., 1955-07-12
Stanley Planning
Special Session
On lnteerotion

RICHMOND. Va. July IL CP.
Gov. Stanley said today he
viii call a special session of
the Legislature to deal with vir-
ginia's school segregation prob
lens sometime before or after
the regular session next Janu-
ary.
Gov. Stanley earlier had said
he would not call the General
Assembly into extra session until
he had a definite plan of action
to lay before its members.
He agreed that today's state
ment reversed his earlier posi-
ton and that he now will sum-
mon a special session after the
Commission on Public Education
spells out a program of legis-
lation he can recommend,
Evening star., 1955-07-12
.Scur-Fuced Bandit
.Slushes Woman

A scar-faced man with band
aged hands today knitted a con-
struction company secretary and
robbed the firms Hungerford
Towne Office on Rockville pike.
Rockville, of about S1,400.
Hugh Gingery, construction
foreman. said the colored man
entered the Office at about $50
am. and asked the secretary.
Mrs. Mildred Croft, So, of 5943
Lemay street. Rockville, if any
Jobs were available. When she
told him to go to the hiring
shack he cut her across the
wrist and grabbed the S1,4O0
from a cash box she was hold
ing. Most of it was in large bills
Mr.. Gingery said the $l,4OO
was deposits made on Hunger
ford Towne homes over the
week end.
Evening star., 1955-07-12

The chance that a strange
shooting in Baltimore might
have some connection with the
Misunderstanding of two teen-age
girls in Northwest Branch Park
on June Is will be looked into by
Prince Georges police.
Yesterday a 23-year-old Nor
gan College coed was mysteri-
ously shot in the back while sit
ting in class in the Baltimore
school. She was not wounded
seriously. Doctors said the girl,
Juanita Watson, apparently Had
been hit by a bullet fired from a
22-caliber rifle.
/ Police theorized the girl was
wounded by a stray bullet fired
by someone taking target prac.
tice. She was hit as she sat in
a class of about 60 other summer
! students at the colored institu-
Ition.
Gun Identification Sought
The Baltimore shooting came
at a time when Prince Georges
detectives were making ready to
fly to New Haven, Conn, to
question officials of the Marlin
Arms Co. in hope of determining
the exact model gun used in the
Evening star., 1955-07-12
Park Observation-Disclosures
In Baltimore SHOOTING

ambush Staying in Northwest
Branch Park. Also they will at
tempt to narrow down the area
in which the gun might have
been sold. The death weapon in
the Staying of Nancy Marie Sho-
mette. Is, and Michael Ann
Ryan. IA. has been identified as
IA ,22-caliber Marlin.
Flying difficulties forced two
detectives to postpone their trip
to New Haven yesterday. An
other flight has been scheduled
for tomorrow.
Headquarters Separated
Meanwhile Prince Georges po-
lice disclosed they have moved
headquarters of the Staying in
Ivestigation out of the crowded
Seat Pleasant Offices to the Lew
Iisdale Elementary School. Scope
of the probe has become SO large
that they had to separate the
case from others, officials said
The elementary school, in the
Lewisdale subdivision. is near
the scene of the double Staying
Police still solicit "any infor-
nation whatever" in the case:
still have eight teams of two
detectives each on the case.
Evening star., 1955-07-12
Shenandoah Park
Gets New Personnel

LURAY. Va. July IL (SpeciaD.
announcement is made from
Shenandoah National Park head
quarters here of the arrival of
new personnel.
Victor La Toilette. who sue
ceeds Jack High as administra-
tive officer. comes from Yosemite
National Park where he was In
fiscal work.
Another is C. Kenny Dale.
formerly with the National PARK
Service in Washington. He Sue
ceeds Paul Favour as park nat
uraliSt.
Evening star., 1955-07-12
Integrotion Campaigns
In Alexandra Launched

had the backing OF the Alexan-
dria League of Women Voters as
well as a number Of colored or
ganizations.
Mr.. Stanton said:
I'VE feel, and many white
groups feel the same way. that
wherever there are different
races going to school both races
should be represented on the
school board.
"I think we are particularly
justified at this time in having
members on the school board.
There definitely will be problems
arising out of the court ruling
that the present school board
won't be able to answer. We
can give them information about
ourselves which viii enable the
school board to discuss the prob
lens intelligently."
Evening star., 1955-07-12

A two-pronged effort to have
public schools integrated next
fan Is under way in Alexandria,
Va.
A delegation of colored resi-
dents is scheduled to ask the
school board tomorrow night to
state its policy for complying
with the Supreme Court ruling
outlawing public school segrega-
tion.
Petitions are also being circu-
lated by the Alexandria branch
of the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored
People asking integration this
comina school term.
Edwin c. Brown. president of
the NAACP in Alexandria, said
the petition to be submitted to
the school board asks that Ne
groes be admitted to George
Washington High School and
any other school where colored
residents live in the immediate
Mr.. Brown said the NAACP
has not formally indorsed the
delegation tomorrow night but
lis in sympathy with its aims.
May Bring Suit
Mr.. Brown said the petition
will be submitted to the school
board before the new term
opens. If the board fails to say
it will admit Negroes this fall.
the NAACP will Immediately
file a suit in Alexandria Federal
Court to force the issue, Mr.,
Brown said.
The citizens group which will
appear tomorrow night also will
demand an increase in the size
of the seven-member school
board and the appointment OF
Negroes to the board.
Two colored residents, Mrs.
Edith Turner and the Rev. How
ard Stanton, were nominated
for school board posts but
neither were appointed when
two vacancies we're filled last
month.
Cites Support
Mayor Leroy S. Bendheim,
chairman of the City Council
School Committee, said the
Councils policy was to name in
whenever they we're
available.
The Council named incum-
bents Leonard M. Knight and
Mrs. Dan E. Kerbel.
Mrs. Turner and Mr.. Stanton
Evening star., 1955-07-12
BY ALEX r. PRESTON

Virginia Democrats today are
voting in a primary where the
chief significance lies in a dozen
or so scattered contests that
could set a pattern of political
conduct at next years session of
the General Assembly.
An exceptionally light turnout
in the Washington suburbs, pos
sibly due to the Capital Transit
strike. was recorded in the open
ing hours.
Mostly sunny skies and warm
temperatures were in prospect
until polls close at 7:30 pm.
Elsewhere in the State, a few
districts were reporting heavier
voting as a result of particularly
lively legislative fights and local
contests.
Nearby Areas Slow
But some election officials in
Arlington and Alexandria claimed
voting got off to the slowest
start they could recall in recent
years. Fairfax voting was spotty.
A logical explanation offered
by some officials was that the
Capital Transit strike had
prompted voters in Arlington
and Alexandria-unexcited by
this years contests and issues
to get to their jcbs in Washing
ton early.
Even after 31a hours Arling-
tons Nottingham precinct had
checked off only SO voters.
Throughout the State, contests
are involved for AZ seats out OF
l40 in the General Assembly
No serious challenge to the domi-
Inant Byrd organization is rep
resented in any of these.
In districts where no primary
contests are being held today
Democrats have nominated by
convention or mass meeting
Republicans are expected to
make bids for many of these
Offices in the fall. particularly in
the Washington suburbs.
One of three significant battles
over State Senate Seats-repre-
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Virginia Primary Voting
Unusually Light in Area

senting an effort by Young Turk
leadership to gain a foothold in
the sedate upper chamber-is in
Alexandria. There, Delegate
Armistead L. Boothe, who led a
successful revolt against the or
sanitation last year over the
automatic tax credit issue, is
giving up his House seat in a
bid for the Senate.
Opposing him to be Alexan-
dria's first State Senator under
new district setup is Cullen B.
Jones, Washington attorney.
There are contests for the
House of Delegates in all the
nearby areas.
In Arlington, five candidates
are seeking the Democratic
nomination to the county'S three
seats in the House. The candi-
dates are Harrison Mann and
Mrs Kathryn Stone, incumbents,
ana Homer Bauserman, Alvin F..
Kimel and William L. Winston.
There is a three-way race for
the House seats of Fairfax-Falls
Church between Omer Hirst and
John Webb, incumbents, and
Lytton Gibson. :
Two Seek House Seat
Two candidates are running
for the Democratic nomination
to Alexandria'S one seat in the
House. Both are making their
bio for elected Office in seeking
the House seat formerly occu-
pied by Mr.. Boothe. The
candidates are Edward Gasson
and James M. Thomson.
The liveliest election is ir
Fairfax County, where all sever
seats on the Board of County
supervisors are to be filled
Nomination in the Democratic
primary usually is tantamount
to election in Fairfax local gov.
ernment elections.
This is the first primary fol
all seven supervisors since tht
county's magisterial district.
were rearranged to give more
representation to the urbar
areas.