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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-03
Japan's Foreign Minister
Set 10 Leave for U. 5.

TOKYO, Sunday, April 8 (P).
The newspaper Yomiuri Shin
bun reported today that Foreign
Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu is
to leave for the United States
within two days for direct talks
with American Government lead
ers on Japan's new foreign pol
icy towards her Communist
neighbors.
Although Washington's re-
Spouse to the projected mission
was still pending, it was reported
that plane reservations already
have been made for flights leav-
ing Tokyo Monday or Tuesday.
At a top level conference of
leaders of the government and
the Democratic Party Saturday
night at the Prime Minister'S
residence it was definitely de-
cided to send MIR. Shingemitsu
to Washington to review the
whole range of Japanese-Ameri-
can relations.
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3 Adults and Body Unhurt
As Truck P|unqes Off Bride

Four persons. including a s.
month-old baby, rode through
a bridge railing in a truck last
night, dropped 10 feet into q
creek and emerged unhurt. Fair
fax County police reported.
The driver. Paul j. Shrader. 26.
Of Richmond, Va, told police
Pvt. F. j. Parrish he had been
driving steadily for two days
and had fallen asleep as the
rented truck carrying his furni-
ture was going along Route 236
in Fairfax County toward Alex
andria.
With him were his wife, his
3-month-old daughter, Connie
Jean, and his brother. Eugene
Shrader. The truck had been
rented in Alexandria.
The truck sheared of a Is
foot railing beside the bridge
over Turkey Run. Pvt. Parrish
said, then plunged into the
creekbed. The water was only
five or six inches deep.
Paul Shrader suffered q
scratched arm. Connie Jean vas
examined at Alexandria Hospi-
tai and found TO be unhurt. Mrs.
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Mcclellan Says Services
Spoil $40 Million in Food

BOSTON. April 2 (P.-Senator
Mcclellan. Democrat of Arkan-
sas. said today about $40 million
worth of spoiled food will be de-
stroyed this year because Of
overstocking by the armed
forces.
He told Massachusetts, Tax
payers Association meeting there
is a need for better business
practices in the management of
Government"
The Senator cited as costly
examples of mismanagement":
/. Last July the Government
had mole than an eight-year
supply Of short-lived flashlight
batteries.
q In 1885,, the Army shipped
807. 900 pounds OF. tomatoes from
the West Coast to New York,
while the Navy shipped 775.000
pounds the other way.
Senator Mcclellan said Con-
gress and the people ARE be-
coming concerned about the
Federal Governments activities
in competition with private en-
terprise."
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Man Injured Critically
As Auto 0verturns

Paul r. Johnson, 80, of $50
Fifteenth street, Sc. was in
5ured critically last night in a
car wreck in Anne Arundel
County, Nd, county police re-
ported.
Officers said he suffered frac-
lures Of the spine and skull when
his brothers auto left o curve.
hit . utility pole and overturned
on Route 416.
The brother. George e. John
son. 46. Of 1908 Hathaway drive.
Silver Spring. Md. was not in
jured seriously. police said.
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Soviet people produced one
twelfth of all Russia's coal.
From 1945 until 1850 I was a
Soviet captive in Red prisons.
dungeons and converted Nazi
concentration camps--East Ger
man death mills where more
than rs per cent Of the prisoners
died l was never charged with
a crime other than some vague
inference that ! had helped
American authorities" in the
Russian sector of Germany,
ironically at q time when the
United States and the Soviet
Union were wartime allies. Then
See NOBLE, Page AT
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First signs OF the night already
have come to the surface. Al
most every preliminary move
and the revision is still in its
early stages-has brought rum
blings Of opposition.
Also involved are basic differ
ences which for years have di-
vided Federal planners and mu-
nicipal officials over bridges,
highways and other projects
which shape the development of
Washington.
The fate of the coming revision
hangs on a reconciliation of this
conflict-but far more is at
stake.
Such a reconciliation, for the
first time, would lay the ground
work for comprehensive plan"
for the future development of
Washington which would have
the support Of District officials,
Federal planners and residents.
In fact, the one point on
which there is some general
agreement is that decisions must
be made now-within the next
six to nine months-on funda-
mental policy questions which
will permit drafting Of a de-
tailed comprehensive plan.
The patterns of such a plan
would show how coming should
be used to shape the growth of
Washington.
The comprehensive plan would
say where the business district
should be, and how much of it
there should be; how much land
should be used for homes. for
apartments, for shopping cen
ters-and where these should be;
where new schools and parks
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Third Of q Series

capital letters scattered indis-
criminately through the text.
the letter read:
Thanks for the circular.
''It sure give the Big Brass q
Big Scare.
II think both these mills is
ready to join thesunion."
The writer, who had received
some union publicity material,
inclosed a list of key workers in
the mills; designated by number
couple Of taxi drivers through
whom contact might be estab-
lished. and also gave the name
of an individual in the town who
was sympathetic to the union.
Don't show this bum ritting
to enybody." was the closing ad-
monition.
The missive, coming from a
South Carolina community. was
unsigned.
Source Guarded
"We get lots Of communica-
tons like this one," says Ken
Kramer. assistant director Of
Southern organization for the
CLIO. He would not let the
source Of the letter, nor its full
text. be made public. explaining
there were clues in it which
might be traced back to the
writer with disastrous results.
Antagonistic management is
not the only adverse factor the
unions must buck in the South.
The mill workers themselves for
the most part want nothing to
do with organized labor. Neither
do the people generally.
If pressed. workers will admit
- and so will management
spokesman - that union agita-
ton has raised wages to their
present level, even though the
going rates are so much below
those which have hurt Northern
industry. a
But reaction to that is: $50
what?"
A pat phrase Of the region
goes something like this:
These people down here are
third and fourth generation
Anglo Saxons (there are no
Negroes In the mills) who have
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been taught to give a days work
for a days pay. They think for
themselves and don't want out
siders coming in to dictate to
them"
CASTOR Is Example
An insight to. this situation
is offered Just west of Charlotte,
in CASTOR County. With ia
mills, CASTOR has repeatedly the
biggest concentration of mill
workers in the country. It is
a good area in which to study
the southern textile situation.
The county is the site of Bel
mont College. an old institution
conducted by the Benedictine
Order OF the Catholic Church,
whose student body of some 500
is drawn largely from mill fam
See MIGRATION, Page Al
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Tourist Attractions
Draw Heavy Influx
OF Sightseers Here
Hotels Hit Capacity;
City Troffie Tangled
By Rush Of Visitors

Tremendous crowds of visitors
Joined area residents under
sunny skies yesterday engulfing
the Cherry Blossom Festival and
other Capital tourist attractions.
Swamped hotels and congested
traffic around the attraction bore
witness to the massive turnout
for the week end.
Park police estimated $4,000
persons came to the Tidal Basin
area during the day with 10000
witnessing the Cherry. Blossom
Festival program.
Ernest Eure, q guide at the
Lincoln Memorial, estimated TO-
900 person visited there during
the day.
At the White House, 1t.
Thomas w. Holder. of the White
House Police Force. said 6,094
persons toured the Executive
Mansion between 10 am. and
noon.
Union Station officials said
trains coming in carried extra
cars and airlines reported flights
into National Airport were loaded.
Hotels Swamped
Washington hotels we're so
swamped with customers yester-
day that they even referred Gus
toners to their competitors
area motels.
We've been trying for the
past two hours to locate rooms
for hundreds of people who just
wandered in." a hotel official
said late yesterday. There isn't
even a broom closet available
and we're suggesting they check
in the suburbs for motel accom-
modations"
But If the hotelmen had it
bad the policemen had it worse.
tits been just one continuous
rush hour all day long," a weary
Park policeman moaned. THANK
goodness the sightseers are out,
though. They slow things down
enough so that we haven't had
any serious accidents.
Tours Short of Buses
Sightseeing tour operators
didn't have enough buses and
limousines to transport their
clientele, and had to borrow
from transit operators.
Cecil Hamrick. operator of the
draw span at Arlington Memorial
Bridge, said the flow of traffic
continuously during the day was
"as big as the bridge possibly
could handle"
Thank goodness we didn't
have to raise the bridge" he said,
cor we never would have been
able to unsnarl the traffic" He
said the flow of traffic into vir-
ginia was. as heavy as the traffic
coming into Wo ehiputop
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tive Mcmillan. Democrat, OF
South Carolina, told The Star
that they were convinced an in
crease in the Federal share Of
costs was justified.
Just how much the increase
should be. they left to develop
ment Of the facts.
Committee leaders voiced their
views as they agreed that there
should be Joint House Senate
Fiscal Subcommittee hearings on
the new city revenue plan now
being whipped into shape by Dis
trict Commissioners.
When this will be submitted to
Congress is not yet certain. City
officials are now comforting with
the Budget Bureau on what
should be done.
Urges Larger Payment
Senator Nicely said: "I've al
ways been for a more liberal
Federal payment. Under the
present circumstances I'm in
favor of doing more than in the
past. Yes. I mean more than the
$40 million authorized under last
years Public Works Revenue Act
for the District"
He said he had no figure in
mind in advance of hearings on
the actual needs, but declared:
II favor going to whatever ex-
tent is reasonably necessary"
Mr.. Mcmillan said he thought
the United States should raise
the Federal payment enough to
cover the costs of the impending
new round of city worker pay
raises.
The District committees in
Congress, he stressed, have no
jurisdiction over increases in
the pay Of the city's classified
workers. Their pay Is consid-
cred by the Post Office and Civil
Service Committees as a part of
the Federal Government pay
issue.
IF the costs Of the District
government, in this respect, are
handled in this way" Mr.. Nc
MILAN said "the committees
that order the pay raises should
find the money to pay for it."
He said he meant that insofar
as the District government class
flied workers pay raise was con-
cerned, the Federal Government
should pick up the bill.
The District Committees, Mr..
Mcmillan pointed out, handles
only questions of pay for district
police. f1remen and school en-
ployes.
Complaints From Taxpayers
The chairman of the House
committee said he had received
numerous" complaints from
Washington taxpayers against
proposals for another round Of
higher taxes to meet increasing
municipal costs-mostly, but not
exclusively, because of city
worker pay raises.
However, he did not quarrel
with the general assumption that
If Congress raises the pay Of
classified Federal workers, IL
could be expected that similar
See LUMP SUM, Page AT
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yesterday afternoon In the
matchless setting Of blossoms
which weathered last weeks
frigid temperatures. The sun
smiled most of the day. The
temperature was rs.
125,OOO Estimated
Park police estimated that
more than $4,000 person 6
roamed the grounds around the
Basin, swapping pictures at the
rate of about one exposure for
each blossom. Blistered feet and
headaches sent % persons to the
three First Aid stations operat-
ing in the area.
Today's Pageant program, a
repeat of yesterdays, will start
at 2 pm.
Mild temperature prevailed
last night, left the Queen and
Princesses quite comfortable in
shoulderless gowns as they-and
thousands of spectators-listened
to the Army Bands serenade on
the steps Of the Jefferson Me-
mortal.
Crowd Arrives Early
The daytime crowd. which
Park Police Chief Harold Stew
arts estimate put at 10000 dur
ing the show, began arriving be-
fore noon. BY 2 o'clock, all the
seats were taken and thousands
stood on the walkways ringing
the Jefferson Memorial and the
steps of the rotunda.
The So princesses arrived at
l o'clock in a police-escorted
With each rode her
personal escort. an officer of the
Navy, Army. Marines. Air Force
or Coast Guard or Naval Acad-
envy midshipman.
Early arrivals were entertained
by the uniformed Air Force Sym
phony Orchestra, which played
at the base of the memorial,
before the huge pink and silver
stage.
To open the show. sthe Air
Force Singing Sergeants" and
the George Washington Uni
versity Girls Glee Club sang
an arrangement of musical COM
edy songs.
Then came the parade Of prin-
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Shrader and the brother were
not injured.
The truck was a total loss,
Pvt. Parrish said. Most Of the
furniture was smashed.
The Annandale Fire Depart
ment Rescue Squad took Connie
Jean and her mother to the hos
pital.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-03
Al Schocht's Story
Starts Tomorrow

Al Sehocht. Boseboll's Clown
Prince, begins the riotous story OF
his comic career tomorrow in the
first VI IA dolly instoiIments to op-
Peer in the sports section OF The
StoS.
The new series I. o condensation
Of Al Sehoeht's recent book. my
Own Particular Brund Of ScrewbolI."
'Tomorow's opening ehopter portroys
the iowb beginning Of the ,mmi-
sront Sehoeht fomib in America
otter driving from RUSSO.
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Our Great industrial Migration
Textile Unions Hit Solid Wall
OF Opposition in South's Mills
BY JOSEPH A. FOX

they attempt pursue migrating industry
the South labor unions find themselves against
solid wall of opposition
helped push But they
get in themselves,
Union organizing cloak and-dagger job
sonDixon line Labor representatives up
oftp unust On ino hoSfl
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Poll of @. O. P. Leaders Backs
Eisenhower and Nixon in SO:
Few Will Name Second Choice
Nixon, KnowIond,
Warren, Dirksen
Among AIternotes
By GOULD LINCOLN

The INSTRUMENTATION ticket
Of 1852 will be overwhelmingly
renominated in 1856, a poll Of
Republican State Chairmen and
all members of the Republican
National Committee indicates.
A QUESTIONABLE on presiden-
tial and vice presidential prefer
ences was sent by The Star to
159 Republican leaders-53 State
Chairmen and 106 members OF
the National Committee. Replies
were received from 80. Every
State in the Union. the District
of Columbia, Alaska. Puerto Rico
and the Virgin Islands are rep
resented in the replies.
President Eisenhower is the
unanimous choice of all SO Tor
denomination.
Richard M. Nixon is supported
for the vice presidential nomln-
alton by 90, including seven VINO
make it clear their approval Is
contingent on the idea that MIR.
Eisenhower will run again and
wants Mr.. Nixon on the ticket.
Four are undecided about Mr..
Nixon and three are outright
opposed to his denomination.
Questions Put To Leaders.
The Star put these questions to
the G. o. P. leaders:
/. Do you favor the renomina-
ton of Dwight D. Eisenhower for
President in 1856?
2. If not, who is your choice
for the presidential nomination?
8. If Mr.. Eisenhower declines
to run, who is your choice for the
presidential nomination?
4. Do you favor the renomina-
ton OF Richard M. Nixon Tor
Vice President in 1856?
S. If not. who is your choice
for the vice-presidential nomin-
alton?
Only 81 of the 80 who answered
suggested an alternative candi-
date for President-in the event
Mr.. Eisenhower declines to run.
The rest declined even to specu-
late on such contingency.
Two Californians led the list OF
II alternative candidates named.
Vice President Nixon was tied at
seven second-choice votes, with
Senator William F. Knowland.
Chief Justice Warren, another
Californian, had five votes. So
did Senator Everett M. Dirksen
OF Illinois.
Next on the list was former
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey OF New
York. with three votes. Ambas-
sador Henry Cabot Lodge. jr. OF
Massachusetts, and Secretary OF
the Treasury George M. Humph-
rey, from Ohio. each received two
of the honorable mentions.
Others Supported
Each Of the following had one
supporter for the presidential
nomination, with Mr.. Eisenhower
out Of the picture:
Representative and former
Speaker Joseph w. Martin, jr.,
of Massachusetts; Senator Lev
erett Saltonstall of Massachu-
sets; former Gov. Howard Pyle
of Arizona. Secretary OF State
John Foster Dulles; Gov. Theo-
dore r. McKeldin of Maryland;
Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby, Secre-
tary of the Department Of
Health, Education and Welfare;
Representative Charles A. Hal
leck, jr., of Indiana; Senator
Clifford P. Case of New Jersey,
and Milton s. Eisenhower, the
Presidents brother.
Proposed for the vice-presiden-
tial nomination-in preference to
Mr.. Nixon or in case Mr.. Nixon
does not run were Senator Dirk
sen, Senator Knowland, Senator
Mundt Of South Dakota. Gov.
See POLL, Page Al
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Was q Slave Luborer
Was Slave Luborer
Routine MVD Check Results
In Americon's -YeorC captivity
Civilian Arrested
By Red Allies at
Dresden in 1o45
BY JOHN H. NOBLE

In Collaboration with Martin L. Gross.
NEW YORK. April AFTER
Mr.. Pratt Of the United States
State Department signed a re-
ceipt for me in the presence of a
Soviet MVD officer at the Rus
sian headquarters in Karlshorst,
East Berlin. we crossed into the
free Western sector, where I
happily told waiting reporters:
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Train. Wrecked
By RocksIide;;
IS Are Hurt
New York Central
Express Is DeruiIed
South of Albany

ALBANY. N. Y, April 2 (P1.-
Ten cars and two diesel units Of
a New York Central passenger
express jumped the tracks early
tonight about Is miles south of
here on the east side of the Hud-
son River. More than IS persons
were estimated to have been in
jured.
Inspector Joseph Savers of the
State police said a rockslide
caused the crackup.
The engineer, w. T. Kelly. So,
Of Tarrytown. was reported in
critical condition at q hospital
in Albany. Fireman Francis
Temple SO, of Ossining was re-
ported in fair condition.
A member Of the Volunteer
Greenport Rescue Squad, one of
several rescue and fire units sum-
moned. estimated the number
of injured at more than IS.
The diesel units and the first
10 cars of the combined Pace
maker and advance Commodore
Vanderbilt, bound for Chicago,
jumped the tracks on a slight
curve about a mile and half
south of Schodack Landing.
Diesel Lands in Creek
The two mainline tracks at
that point run about 10 feet
above the river and at the foot
Of a steep precipice of rock and
Shale.
The first diesel unit went end
over-end across the outside, or
eastbound track. and the unit
landed on its side in about four
feet of water in Schodack Greek,
an arm of the Hudson.
a tavern car, a combination crew
dormitory and baggage car and
one end OF the diner were de-
rallied. The four rear cars, all
coaches, stayed on the tracks.
A railroad spokesman said be-
tween 300 and 1000 feet of one
track were ripped up. Wooden
ties were tossed about like
matchsticks.
ShaIe Slides onto Track
A fisherman who witnessed the
accident said bouiders and shale
slid from the embankment onto
the westbound track just as the
train approached about 6 pm.
Passengers said the engineer
slammed on the brakes, but it
was too late.
The leading diesel unit went
into the water about $50 feet
north Of where the slide occurred.
The rest Of the train kept going
for about 100 yards beyond that
point.
Two Pullmans landed on their
sides against telegraph poles.
The poles were broken of and
the railroads communications
lines broken. Other cars were
tilted at crazy angles.
Two Taken from Cab
Lewis Dearstyne of Rensselaer,,
who was visiting relatives near
the scene, laid a ladder from the
river bank to the diesel unit in
the water and volunteer rescue
worker crawled across it to pull
the fireman and engineer from
the cab.
Trainmen at the scene said
140 coach passengers and A
Pullman passengers were aboard.
Persons living near the scene
said that they heard passengers
screaming and shouting for some
time after the accident. Cries
of bring a stretcher here" pune
tuated the lowering dusk.
Nearly two hours after the
crash, rescue workers still were
helping passengers out of the
damaged cars.
The wreck blocked the main
line tracks of the New York Gen.
trail. The railroad planned to re-
route passenger trains.
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territory on a sub-rosa basis.
The union-minded among the
workers themselves move quietly
among the associates whose CO.
operation they seek. Manage
ment reprisals can be tough.
Letter Is Tip-Off
The following letter-in part
received at Southern organizing
headquarters of the CIO Textile
Workers in Charlotte. N. c.. is a
tip-off on conditions in many
sections. Unpunctuated. and with
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A Time for Decision
City's Future Planning Hinges
On Zoning Report This Week
Decisions Must Be Made on Direction
Which D. c. Development Will Take

Washington this week will get the second in series of
reports paving the revision the National Capitals
year-old coming regulations
The revision will produce months municipal controversy
affect millions Of dollars in property values-and shape the
development of the Capital for years to come.
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725, 900 See Cherry Blossoms
In Sunny 75-Degree Weather
10000 Jam Jefferson Memorial Area
For Growing of Maine Girl as Queen

The Tidal Basin, ringed by a
three-strand necklace of cherry
blossoms. people and automobiles
yesterday, was set for more
thronging thousands as the
Cherry Blossom Pageant closes
its 1855 run this afternoon
There is a promise of mostly
sunny skies and temperatures in
the high COS.
A crowd Of 10000 watched the
first performance of the Pageant
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-03

City Might Get S. Million Year From
Payroll Tex Poss Ala
Col. Lone Sees Threot to District il
loeoi Tex Spiral Page Ala
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Il have a lot to tell" That
was at 8 pm. last January s.
Now. a few months later. I
have sorted the memories Of my
ga years In Soviet prisons, more
than four of them spent in
Russia itself SO miles above the
Arctic Circle at vorkuta-where
I and some 100000 other slave
laborers from every nation In
the world and 100000 free"
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Pictures Of Blossom Festival hishIishts
and Todoy's Prosrom on Pose A.
Trode Board Envisiens Greet NotiensI
Festival Here. Page A-29
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First Ia o series Of. 10 articles by 81
year -oIc John n. Noble Of Detroit,
who wos O Soviet prisoner from l945
until his release from the Russion
slove labor comp in Arctic vorkuto
lost jonuay. He hos since returned
to the United Stotes In this series
he describes his oerscnol experiences
and first hand observations Of the
Soviet people theh leaders. ond their
unique system OF moss forced labor.