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Evening star., 1955-06-06
5-for-95-Cent
Tokens Asked
By Transit Co.
End of Passes Sought
In New Rise; Student
Fares Unchanged

The Capital Transit Co. today
asked the District Public Utilities
Commission for authority to in
crease the cost of its fare tokens
to five for 95 cents and to abol-
ish the rs cents weekly permit.
No change was asked in the
present 20 cents cash fare or the
three cents school fare.
Tokens now sell at five for 80
cents. The weekly permit gives
the rider the privilege of riding
for 10 cents on each trip.
Seek Increase June 10
The new fares were requested
to become effective June 10.
Commission Chairman George E,
c. Hayes said he had just re-
ceived the application and did
not know what action the COM
mission would schedule as yet.
The company said that the new
fares would under the most op-
timistic projections" produce net
operating income of approx
mately S1.259,O0O year, or a
rate of return of 6,1 per cent on
its District rate base.
The commission was told that
the operating net income for the
year ended April 30 amounts to
about $4,000 for District oper-
ations.
But Capital Transit warned
that it, like every other mass
transportation carrier in the
country, faces in 1855 a con-
tinued decline in passengers.
caused by increasing competition
from private cars, the growth
OF suburban shopping centers
and ay-at-home television.
Forcsee 1926 Return
Projecting the normal decline
for the year beginning May l..
the company said present fares
would produce net operating in
come of approximately 1891 900,
or a l.62 per cent rate of return
on the District rate base.
The company told the commits
sion also it has received wage
increase demands totaling sew
eral million dollars which are
not reflected in the operating
income and rates of return set
forth in the application.
The transit company waived
the right to object to a reduc-
ton in its system rate base by
a disputed $2.4 million for the
purpose of rate making by the
commission.
Should the rate be reduced by
this alleged deficiency in de-
probation reserves, which the
company does not concede to
exist, the rate of return for
the year ending April 30, 1856,
under present fares would be
1872 per cent on the rate base
and 6.86 per cent under the new
schedule, the company said.
Adhere to Depreciation Rate
The commission has contended
that the company values it's
property on its books more than
it should, although the company
says it has followed the deprecia-
ton rate fixed by the commits
sion.
In its application, Capital
Transit noted that in its last
order the commission found the
company entitled to rate of
return ranging from 6.25 per cent
to Z per cent. and that the fare
structure established in it would
produce net income of $1,48O,-
See TRANSIT, Page A-4
Evening star., 1955-06-06
Thomas Mann Is 80

KILCHBERG. Switzer ! n d.
June 6 (Pl.-German-bor Au-
thor Thomas Mann celebrated
his Both birthday here today
among his immediate family and
closest friends. The winner of
the 1929 Nobel prize for litera-
ture is in excellent health.
Evening star., 1955-06-06
F ord and Union Reach
on Contract
Guaranteed
Annual Puy
Agreed On

DETROIT, June 6 (Pl.-Ford
Motor Co. and the CIO United
Auto Workers Union reached
agreement today on a historic
guaranteed wage plan and other
contract terms.
The settlement was expected
1 to halt Immediately widespread
walkouts which idled $4,000 of
Ford's 100000 workers across the
Nation in the last Il hours.
The guaranteed wage plan is
the biggest ever negotiated in
American industry.
| 1t may set the pattern for the
entire automotive industry and
perhaps other basic industries.
GIN Talks aesume
Armed with the Ford agree
ment. the UAW went back to
the bargaining table with Gen.
eral Motors today to press Tor
a contract settlement there. The
GIN contract expires tomorrow.
Walter Reuther, president Of
the CIO and the UAW emerged
from a conference grinning and
told reporters:
We'll, we've got an agreement,
fellows. It's a good agreement"
Mr.. Reuther called it the
largest economic package we've
ever negotiated" He said the
package" was worth in excess
of 20 cents per hour per en-
Iploye.
! The average auto worker now
earns about $2.10 an hour.
Increase in Pensions.
Mr.. Reuther said the agree
ment provides an increase in
Ford pensions to a maximum of
,$241 a month, including social
security. 1t also provides better
hospital medical benefits, he
added.
The Ford package" he said,
contains the principles upon
which we are going to build a
guaranteed annual wage"
In a Joint news conference,
Mr.. Reuther and John S. Bugas.
Ford vice president for industrial
relations, congratulated each
other and shook hands.
Mr.. Bugas said the Ford COM
pany had agreed to go along
with the guaranteed wage plans
only after "a considerable inter-
nal debate" with the Ford COM
pany.
I'VE think it is significant"
Mr.. Bugas said. 1--WE think our
plan will be particularly useful
| in the automobile industry"
Will Enter GM Talks
Mr.. Reuther was asked when
he intended to enter the neeotla-
tions with General Motors Corp.
well. boys" he said. I'm
going to get a days rest and
then go over to GIN"
Mr.. Bugas said he was partic-
ularly proud" that the Ford
agreement had been reached
without a strike. He apparently
meant full strike, because some
Ford plants had experienced
iwalkouts.
This has been one of the
Iroughest and most complex
bargaining sessions I've ever
been in" Mr.. Bugas said. "but I
think it was we'll worth it"
The agreement was announced
after Ford and union officials
were said earlier to have agreed
tentatively on these provisions:
A guaranteed wage plan to
Iprovide a laid-off worker with
60 to IS per cent of his normal
See AUTO, Page A-4
Evening star., 1955-06-06
MEET DUD DUDLEY,
MAN WITH PROBLEM

STRICTLY FOR LAUGHS % I'd
Dudley is man with fomily, and
os any heed Of fomiIy knows, this
mokes for problems. The zony, hiIari-
Gus manner in which Dudley hondIes
his ore port Of O new comic strip
starting today in The Stor. Poee BIB.
REDS oBEY-It must hove been
O niehtmorish experience for Russio's
top Red leoden to be confronted by
O stronee new breed Of journalists at
the recent conference in Belgrade.
See the story by Crosby S. Noyes,
Europeon correspondent Of The Stor,
on Poee A-3.
Evening star., 1955-06-06
WANT AID BRINGS
SALE IN FOCUS

Comero fon J. g. had no trouble
developing quick results when he de-
eided to sell his enIoreer. He simply
advertised in Stor Classified and sold
the item the first doy his ud op-
peored
Because it produces the best yeur-
round results for classified odyer-
tisers, The Stor publishes more totoI
classified ads than the other two
Washington newspapers combined.
Like Mr.. J. B., it you hove some
thing TO sell and won't fost action,
tell il to the mony buy minded stor
reoders who shop The Stor Classified
every doy.
Phone Sterling $4,000 ond osk for
on -tuker.
Evening star., 1955-06-06

Medical School professor. H,
was dropped as part-time con
sultant to the United State
Surgeon General in the Sprinl
of 1853 when the Loyalty Review
Board on its own motion over
liruled a lower panel which hat
cleared him of charges that h,
was a risk.
No Sensitive Duties
DR.. Peters, leading authority
on metabolic disorders, ha.
been a Yale professor of medi.
cine since 1927. His official con.
tact with the Federal Govern
ment began in 1947. He be-
came a part-time consultant te
the Surgeon General on propo-
sails for granting Federal assist
ance to medical research insti-
tutions under the public health
laws. His duties covered no
sensitive or highly classified
work. They brought him to
Washington only a few days each
year.
He was cleared in 1949 and
again in 1852 by an inquiry
board which investigated some
complaints of disloyalty brought
Iagainst him. But in the spring
of 1853 he was called before the
Loyalty Review Board of the
Civil Service Commission and
told that, on its own motion, it
would make a post audit" Of
his case.
The review board held hear
Iings at which DR.. Peters denied
he was ever a Communist or had
improper associations with Com
Imunist groups. - He answered all
questions put to him and pro-
.duced numerous witnesses who
testified as to his loyalty. The
board explained that it also con-
sidered information from conf
dental informants whose iden-
tity it did not disclose and in
some instances did not know.
Dropped From Post
The board then ruled that ION
all the evidence there is a rea-
sonable doubt" as to the loyalty
.of DR.. Peters. He was dropped
from the Government job, al
though his term would have ex-
.pired in any event on December
81, 1858. The United States
Court of Appeals ruled against
him in his contention that he
had been denied due process of
law mainly because he had been
refused the right to know and
cross examine witnesses against
him.
When the Peters appeal
reached the Supreme Court 1t
attracted widespread attention.
1t was viewed as an opportunity
for the tribunal to break dead
lock in a 1851 test case that
raised identical basic issues.
That was the case of Miss Doro-
thy Bailey who was fired from
an $8.000-a-year United States
Employment Service job on 10y
atty grounds.
The Supreme Court split "A
in that case, without writing an
opinion or disclosing how the
individual justices stood. The
See PETERS, Page A
Evening star., 1955-06-06
BY GARNETT ID. HORNER
Star Staff Correspondent

WEST POINT, N. Y, June O.
President Eisenhower marched
again today with his classmate.
of 40 years ago on the West
Point campus.
Wearing a plain gray civilian
suit and hat. with the black, gray
and gold arm band of the clas.
of 1915 encircling his left arm
the President stepped brisklS
along to the tune of Tramp
Tramp. Tramp, the Boys Arr
Marching" in the traditiona
alumni march to the Thayel
monument.
Marching beside him, four.
abreast, were Brig. Gen. Fred.
erick w. Boye of Warrenton, Va.
currently 1915 class president,
Maj. Gen. Leland S. Hobbs anc
Gen. James A. Van Fleet-al
retired and all in civilian clothes
too. In the ranks behind were
Gen. Omar N. Bradley and Other
Well-known names of Worlc
War II.
Mr.. Eisenhower stood witt
some 1900 other alumni through
brief ceremonies in memory oi
West Point graduates who have
died.
Joins First Lady
While other alumni then lined
up in a long line across the plain
to take the traditional alumni
review of the cadet corps, the
President Joined Mrs. Eisen-
hover in a box seat, but wher
the parade was ready to start
ne walked up to the front OF
the reviewing line to watch.
Earlier this morning Mr.. Eisen-
hover inspected the West Point
Museum, where he saw a bronze
bust of himself. and paused tc
admire the flag he used as
supreme allied commander ir
Europe during World War II
He saw guns of all types used
in the various wars this country
has fought and summed up the
development this way: "A SOL
dier can shoot a Garand (the
Army's modern rifie) all day
long without getting tired out
The President was the center
OF attention in a series of alumni
exercises leading to the tradi-
tional graduation parade on The
Plain this afternoon.
And, as permanent honorary
president of his class of 1915, Mr.
Eisenhower had a leading part in
the reunion activities of the
nearly 80 of the 115 living mem.
bers of that class who could
gather here.
Missing at this reunion was re-
tired Maj. Gen. William E. r
Covell, who was No. man in
the class. He could not come be-
cause of his wife's illness. The
class of 1915 is known as "the
class the stars fell on" having
produced SO star-wearing gen.
Ierals-an retired now.
Will Hand Out Diplomas
Today was like going back tc
school for the President, who flew
here yesterday afternoon from
Washington to take part in the
40th reunion partying of his class
and other West Point alumni
activities before delivering the
commencement address and
handing diplomats to 469 gradu-
|ating cadets tomorrow.
The President sits with his
calss at table No. 252-at the
apex Of a triangular arrange
ment of tables and facing the
sides of the triangle so everyone
can see him-at an alumni
luncheon in Washington Hall.
The days activities at the
Evening star., 1955-06-06
TICKETS ON SALE
AT STAR, CAPITOL

Tickets for the Congress
sional ball game. at 81,
$1.50 and $3.50, are on sale
in The Star Building lobby
and from all Congressional
secretaries.
Tomorrow they will also
be on sale all day at Griffith
Stadium.
Evening star., 1955-06-06
Dr.. Peters Wins
Court Plea
But Ruling Avoids
Right of Defendant
To Face Accuser
BY L. EDGAR PRINA

Without meeting the key
constitutional issue of whether
an accused Government enploye
has a right to confront his ac-
cusers. the Supreme Court today
ruled. 7 to 2. that the Loyalty
Review Board exceeded its au-
thority when it decided that DR..
John P. Peters was a loyalty risk.
Chief Justice Warren delivered
the opinion of the court. Justices
Burton and Reed diSsented.
The decision today affects only
the case Of the 67-year-old Yale
Evening star., 1955-06-06
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Supreme Court UphoIds FDc on License,
~. Pose A.
Evening star., 1955-06-06

See AUTO, Page "A
Evening star., 1955-06-06
WEATHER FORECAST

Fair tonight. low So. Warm tomorrow with
scattered thundershowers. Gull report
plus resort forecast on Page A-2)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-04

way of backfiring at the box
Office. They're good for sailors,
but not cinemagoers apparently.
*
Fiji D'OrSay, lunching in the
Goth Century-Fox cafe, told me
she christened the place in 1880,
when she made her first movie,
They Had to See Paris" which
starred her discoverer. Will Rog-
ers. Fits off to Broadway for a
big role in the musicalized "Sev-
enth Heaven"
Marion Brando is an excellent
actor. And he's terrific in "On the
Waterfront. But I just don't see
him as the shifty little philoso-
phizing interpreter in the Metro
version of '"Teahouse of the Au-
gust Moon" In fact, I can't see
anyone except David Wayne in
the part.
Pat Kirkwood, British star who
came to Metro for a brief, in
glorious spell. has the hit of her
young life in the London version
of wonderful Town" She plays
ROE Russell's singing and dane
ing role. It's hard to know what
makes a person a hit in one
country and not in another.
I Mara Lane, described as 1.-The
brunette Marilyn Monroe Of
Britain" Topped in Hollywood
(See GRAHAM, Page A-29)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-04

The Cast.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-04
Hollywood
OIivio's Wedding
Now Set for April
BY Sheiloh Grohom

Guy Mitchell is writing pals
in London that he'll be back,
after touring Australia, Homo
lulu and Japan and playing a
part in Paramount's The Cow
cred Wagon" In the autumn,
says Guy. who now speaks
British.
Trevor Howard, by the way,
home in England after a quickie
trip to Hollywood, is planning
to star in the musical version of
"Pygmalion" on Broadway, after
The Cockleshell Heroes" with
Jose Ferrer. Audrey Hepburn
vacationing in Paris for a few
days with husband Mel Ferrer.
She told a pal of mine that she
isn't sure if she'll do "Ondine. :"
the film version, that is. AS you
know, she plays mermaid, and
these female fish have a strange
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-04
Where and When
Current Theoter Attractions
And Time Of Showing


Stage.
Arena-"The World of Sholom
Aleichem":: g. 30 pm.
Screen.
Ambassador - Battle Cry;
1890, sos, 5:45, 1925 and HOS
pm.
Capitol-"Long John Silver;
II am, ITO, 500, $50, TAO and
$50 pm.
Colony-"Fuss Over Feathers"
$50, $40 and $50 pm.
Columbia -"Black Tuesday,;
11:4O am. lao, 3:45, 5:45, 7:50
and $50 pm.
Dupont-"Gate of He'll; 1870
am. 1885. 3:35. $40. 7:45 and
$50 pm.
Keith's - THE Long Gray
Line; 11:40 am. 2:05, 4;30.
6:55, 900 and HAS pm.
Little - "All Quiet On the
Western Front; /, $50, 4:40,
$50, $40 and 1910 pm.
MacArthur-"The Little Kid
nappers"; 6:05. 7:55 and $50
pm.
Metropolitan - Battle Cry;
II am, lao, 4:20, 7 and $40
pm.
Ontario - THE Bridges at
Toko-Ri":: /, 2:55, 4:50, $50,
$50 and 10:45 pm.
Palace-"The Racers; 1870
am, 1885. $40. 5:45, 7:50 and
9:55 pm.
Playhouse Aida; 1925 am.
1:25. $3.50, 5:35. TAO and 9:45
pm.
Plaza-"Tonight's the Night;
1920, 2:l5. 4:10. Cos. 8 and
10 pm.
Trans-Lux - THE Country
Girl; 10:45 am, 1890, 2:25.
4:20. Sis. 8:15 and 1915 pm.
Warner--"This Is Cinerama"
! and $50 pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-04

HOLLYWOOD.
Olivia De Havilland has post
poned her marriage to Pierre
Galante again-this time until
April. And, after their honey
moon in Italy, Livvy and new
husband report to London where
she will star in THE Quest" for
Sy Bartlett.
Leslie Caron is crying the blues
for Hollywood. She caught flu
in the drafty Paris theater
where she's now rehearsing the
Jean Renoir play, "Orvet." Leslie
says the theater has as many
holes in it as a piece of Swiss
cheese. Add miracles: Vir-
ginia Bruce told 'em in London,
where she's making a movie, that
her Turkish delight, Ali Apar, is
IL years younger than she is!
This is one gal who likes to tell
the truth.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-04

control of his mob outside and
compels it to do his desperate
bidding. 1t is a role the like
of which Robinson has not laid
vocal chords for a decade and
he plays it with the sustained
frenzy of a man glad to meet
his long dead ghost.
A contrastingly quiet, cold
performance is that of Peter
Graves as the loner who pulled
the 100000 bank job and is
determined to share the profits
with no such criminal hyena as
Robinson. AS Robinson's faith
full mol, Jean Parker turns in a
performance which shows the
short way to mink is not the
best. ~
A pair of smaller effective per-
formances that stand out are
those of Milburn Stone as the
priest, one of the hostages,
whose fearlessness infuriates
Robinson; and Hal Baylor, as
the prison guard who is the spe-
cial target of the gang cars
sadism.
y y X
DELAY NOTE: The usual
Monday night opening will be
foregone when THE Seven Year
Itch" comes to the National. Tom
Ewell and the rest of the Broad
way company coming here will
start their four-weeks' booking
here on Tuesday, March 90.
There is a reason for this that
is both unusual, and slightly
complicated.
It lies in the fact that the pro-
duction in which Ewell has been
performing for two seasons will
not come here from the Fulton
Theater in New York. 1t will
remain right where it is, to be
taken over on Monday night,
March %, by Eddie Bracken and
others of the road company, who
will continue the Broadway run
of the comedy
Washington's scenery for the
play, if you are still there. will
be that of the road company
which will have to come all the
way to Washington from Sioux
Falls, S. OAK, where Bracken ct
al will have played in it the last
time on March 90.
This is an unusually long jump,
requiring the extra day. but in
the juggling Washington gets
the Broadway company. Broad
way the one from Sioux Falls.
Incidentally, The Seven Year
Itch" will be a Theater Guild
subscription play. for which
Monday nights tickets will slide
back one day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-04

IIl6dbeT WIFI LIE SdIIlc dCIOE DIS
its star. This is one to really
curdle the blood and. in the
process, to show television how
this sort of thing looks when
enlarged.
Thanks to the quality of the
performances. topped by Rob-
inson's. and the grim. tight di-
rection by Hugo Fregonese,
BLACK Tuesday retains a shiv-
cry plausibility in spite of an
essentially purple screen script.
y
BLACK Tuesday" written by
Sydney Boehm, takes its title
from the day of the week on
which a large eastern peniten-
tiary electrocutes its death row
tenants.
Those involved on this occa-
sion are an especially dramatic
lot. headed by Robinson, a crime
car with an aversion to dying
at the height of his career. There
is, indeed. one particular piece
of business which he hates to
leave unfinished. This is repre-
sented by the tall, calm young
man in the adjoining cell who
has stolen and Stashed away
100000. Neither of them should
die leaving that much money
lying around idle, so Robinson
figures a way to defer society's
farewell party to them.
This, of course, is a prison
break which involves planning
worthy of a master-mind and
a terrifying impression for NOV
iegoers brought up to think
execution chambers, at least,
were escape proof.
1t is followed by a long, spine
chilling battle in a warehouse,
the classic bastion of cinema
criminals. Before it ends, in
the classic result of such con-
tests, there has been enough
gunflre to level modest-size
city.
X X X
No director is Fregonese to
rest the cast of Black Tuesday"
on its teeming action. He thinks
you should have look at the
drives fears, hungers and
hopeS-of the characters in
volved. Between the criminals,
their hostages, the pursuing po-
lice, and innocent bystanders,
the screenscript offers quite a
dramatic variety of these.
The most arresting of these is
Robinson's crime car, a snarl-
ing beast type whose screaming
anger and contempt for others
never subsidies. Even in a death
cell, he is a leader who keeps
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-04
The Posing Show
CoIunbio's Black uesdoy'
Sums Up Current Crime
BY Joy Cormody

The world and Hollywood have learned lot about violence
the latter made melodramatc shocker called Little
Caesar" starring Edward 6. Robinson
advance of both in this field Of knowledge
BLACK Tuesday, which opened today at the Columbia
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-04

BLACK TUESDAY" q Leonard Gold
stein production. produced by Robert
Goldstein. directed by Hugo Fregonese.
screenplay and story by Sydney Boehm,
music by Paul Dunlap. At the Columbia.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-09-09
Bold Venture BY Defense
Department

WASHINGTON-(LDNS)-The
Eisenhower Administration bold
Department of Defense isn't afraid
of the label creeping socialism"
which the Eisenhower Administra-
tion's Department of Welfare re-
Gently applied to the free polio vac
cine bill sponsored by the Demo-
Gratis.
The Defense Department will pro-
vide free polio vaccine for children
of all government employees and
military personnel overseas, wheth-
err the parents can afford it or not.
Ex-Welfare Secretary Oveta Culp
Hobby said the vaccine should be
provided only for those children
whose parents couldn't afford it.
Then it wouldn't be socialism, she
said.