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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-18
z Million Diubetics

cHICAGO.-Some 2 million
Americans have diabetes. About
$4,000 new cases are added each
year.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1955-09-30
buckingham Goo
Post Test Sunday

Cty.l defense test alerts wiIl ~
resumed October 2 for Ground
Observe posts throughout h E
nafion according to an official an
noiil4cement given Robert Holmes.
supervisor of the Buck.ngham
Post
IN the notice from the All De
'ensf Command filter center IN
Roanoke Commander Ross II
Reese said a l2-hour test alert
would begin at 9 a m SUNDAY
Oct 2
'le buckingham Post nov Has
- acliFe members Applications
~ ~ more GOO ObserVfrs viii
'e accepted during October and
may be made by calling Holmes
Herbert Adams. director or RAN
eft g Jones. coordinator CjyJ
i1eleise Buckingham COUNTY
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1955-09-30
Fork of Willis

Mrs Helen Cooke Of Cumber-
land, spent last Monday vifb
Mr. and Mrs II Fl Cook
"a 4 anu MIS- = /. Duncan were
III hichmond last Wednesday
Douglas Barker U. S N sppn,
the week end with Ills parent
Mr. and Mrs } NJ Barkar- SUM-
day quests III the same home we're
Mr. ana Mrs. Q " Bail. Dr. and
family Of Moseley
MIb Kelley of Richmond ysjt-
cd hfi mother. Mrs o ~ IAN
last Thursday
Mrs Nellie Venable Of Fairfax
is apfndlna some time win Mr.
Dale DAVIS
Mlk Mary Marks Of Beaver
dam. is spending some time with
her sister Mrs w c Flippcn
The Flppens with Their guests
MIS- Marks visited Mrs Phaup
and Mrs Hauls Ill Buckinghan,
SUNDAY afternoon
Mn and Mis- Edward .Phiffer
and son d Richmond, were
gueStF Of the II t. Cookp fam
lily Saturday night and Sunday.
MRS Lucy Duncan is spending
some time with her daughter.
Mrs w F Dunkum near Dill
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The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1955-09-30

Coal mines in Kentucky have
out % billion tons Of
,coal since 1900 Or nearly ) per
,cent Of the q 2 billion tons mined
tin tile country as a whole
Evening star., 1955-06-19

ENATHER's DAY is appropriate for
IL comedian Eddie Mayehoff to remind
people who are buying neckties that
every son has five - in fact six fathers.
He has five for the five stages of his
own growth. First there is Dada who
shakes rattle at him till he either smiles
or bursts into tears. Next there is Pop,
the bravest, strongest man alive, wor-
SHIPPED by his six-year-old son. Then
comes Paw, the tyrant, complete with
bull whip (razor strop).
The Old Man, who's just plain dumb
and has to call his l5-year-old in to fix
the car, appears next, followed presently
by the Aged Parent (''The trouble
with you, Dad, is, you're the older
eeneration!'o
The sixth father? Why he's the real
person - patient, decent, lovable, and
not so dumb, either! - LOUIS Berg
This Week Movie Editor
Evening star., 1955-06-19
F1YE AGES
OF "a Their

Eddie Mayehoff, movie and TV father, shows
how Dad looks to Junior through the years
Evening star., 1955-05-13
Mitchell Points to Demand
For IS College Graduates

He presented a detailed report
on job opportunities in various
fields and summarized them this
way:
Business and law: Demand
flexible and moderate.
Civil Service: Demand con-
slant and moderate. high for
technologists.
Engineering: Demand grow
ing, supply insufficient.
Health: Demand growing, sup
ply insufficient.
Natural sciences: Demand
great, supply insufficient.
Social work: Demand steady
and increasing, supply moder-
ately short.
Teaching: Demand very great
and growing, supply greatly in
adequate.
Evening star., 1955-05-13
Three Men Burned
In Gasoline Fire

Two men were believed critic
ally burned and a third who at
tempted a rescue suffered minor
burns today in a gasoline fire
at Andrews Air Force Base.
They were:
S/Sergt. Charles Allen. SO. of
Portsmouth, Va. attached to the
1401st Motor Vehicle Squadron,
who was taken to Boiling Air
Force Base hospital.
Thaddeus Hansberry, 33. of
1918 New Jersey avenue NV. a
civilian employe of the base
motor pool, who is in Providence
Hospital.
Kirby M. Goode. so. of 125
Nankin Walk, Falls Church, a
civilian motor pool foreman who
attempted to pull Sergt. Allen
from the flames. He also was
treated at Providence.
The Andrews public informa-
tion Office said the men were
gasoline from piece
of motorized snow-removal
equipment preparatory to stor-
ing it for the summer when the
fuel burst into flame. Cause of
the fire was not Immediately
determined and an immediate
Investigation was ordered.
Evening star., 1955-05-13
ToyIor Named to Succeed
Ridgwoy as Army Chief

President Eisenhower today
nominated Gen. Maxwell D.
Taylor to be Army Chief Of Staff
succeeding Gen. Matthew B.
Ridgway when the latter retires
June 30.
The White House announce
ment said that Gen. Ridgway.
whose term expires August IS,
had applied for voluntary re-
tirement.
He normally would have re-
tired from the Army last March
81. However. the President an
nounced then that the 60-year-
old general would be retained on
active duty beyond that date for
an unspecified period. There
have been reports that he will
become president of the new
Henry j. Kaiser subsidiary in
Argentina.
Gen. Taylor now is COM
mander-i chief Of the Far East
Command and the United Ma
tions command there. The
President approved the Army's
designation of Gen. Lyman L.
Lemnitzer, 56, commander Of the
Evening star., 1955-05-13

They also promised to pull out
more unions in the next few
days.
The British army and air force
put reinforced guards on their
establishments here to ward off
attacks. Airmen armed with
automatic weapons manned
roadblocks leading to bases and
carried out mobile patrols in the
surrounding areas.
Schools Closed
The army also announced that
it had closed all schools for mill
tary families because the rioters
yesterday stoned British chill
dren being driven home in army
trucks.
Police checked the initial out
break by firing on the mob with
Sten guns and tear gas grenades,
but British officers said last
night the demonstrators still
controlled an area a mile square
in one of Singapore's western
suburbs.
The rioting broke out when
about 1000 Chinese students
Joined in a demonstration sup
porting a strike by 800 employees
of the Chinese-owned Hook Lee
Amalgamated Bus Co.
This walkout had been called
to protest the dismissal of four
drivers. The Singapore Bus
Workers Union ordered it's mem
ber employees on five other Chi
nese -owned suburban lines to
leave their jobs for 48 hours in
a show of sympathy after police
earlier yesterday drove pickets
away from the Hook Lee prem
iSac with fro bOcac
Evening star., 1955-05-13
Funds Restored for q
Teachers for Handicapped
Item DeIeted by Commissioners
Put Back in So, ,3O8, ITO Measure

Two of those for the retarded are
specifically for the Military Road
School, where the school systems
first classes for severely men,
tally handicapped children we're
created last fall.
The School Board had asked
for 81 teachers for retarded and
nearly twice as many were
granted in the other categories.
Also requested were three teach
ers for art, three for music and
five for science, but the COM
mittee ommitted these.
IA Clerks DisapprOved
While adding the 81 teachers.
the House committee knocked
out another personnel item
strongly backed at the recent
hearings. This was IA elementary
school clerks, costing SAL 300.
Also deleted were funds for
additional clerks at the school
headquarters and a clerk for the
reading clinic. And the commit
tee took Sizable chunks out of
proposed allocations for text
books, equipment replacement
and cafeteria modernization.
One of the biggest slashes was
for building maintenance and
repair, reduced from 100000 to
$55,O00. The Commissioners al
ready had reduced this item from
$559,0Oo.
Deleted entirely were modern
ization projects at Langley, JEFF
ferson, Hine and Deal Junior
High Schools, and cuts were
made on others. Altogether. the
permanent improvement total
was reduced $162.0O0.
Left intact were funds for
buildings seven demountable
temporary annexes, a 31-room
grade school at Sixth street and
Riggs road N.E.-to be the city's
biggest; addition at Anacostia
High School and Garfield Ele-
mentary School, alterations to
Mckinley High School, and
plans for a new crippled child
ren's school and an addition to
Eliot Junior High.
The grand total approved for
capital outlay was $4,331, 300.
Evening star., 1955-05-13
BY the Associated Press

Secretary Of Labor Mitchell
says this years college graduates
are in a unique position because
there are fewer Of them and the
demand for their services is
greater.
Mr.. Mitchell reported yester-
day this years class totals 264,-
900, compared with 434,000 five
years ago and an estimated $685.
600 five years hence.
In an open letter to the class
of IS, Mr.. Mitchell said:
"The fact is: There are fewer
Of you this June than in any
recent past summer and the de-
mand for your talents is greater
than it has recently been
"You are in demand because
job opportunities are high and
graduates to fill them are low"
Evening star., 1955-05-13
u. S. Will Release
Arms Talk Papers

The United States has decided
to make public all the docu-
ments, resolutions and memo
randa of the secret" meetings Of
the United Nations subcommittee
on Disarmament which has been
meeting in London.
State Department Press Off,
Ger Lincoln White said that the
dozen or so papers, containing
about 1000 words, would be re-
leased today as a consequence
of the action by the Soviet
Union earlier this week in flout-
ing an agreement to keep secret
the discussions of the disarma-
ment subcommittee.
The Soviet disclosure Of their
new disarmament proposal was
made to the world before Amer
ican, British and French repre-
sentatives had been handed
translations by Russian authori-
ties.
The record goes from February
25 through May 9. Mr.. White
said it was being released in
order to put the arms talk pic
ture Gin perspective"
Earlier Story on Page ABB
Evening star., 1955-05-13
Riot Sweeps Singapore,
Kills American, 2 Others

SINGAPORE, May 13 R.-
The British moved thousands Of
steel-helmeted Gurkha and Ma
layan troops into emergency
positions today as a continuing
wave of rioting swept the island
colony. The violence already
had claimed the lives of Amer
lean Newsman Gene Symonds Of
Dayton, Ohio, and two other
persons.
At least 36 persons have been
injured in the outbreak, touched
off yesterday by demonstrations
supporting a bus strike. The
rioting posed a severe test for
Singapore's recently inaugurated
labor front government, the col
ony's first elected cabinet.
Chief Minister David Marshall
charged Communist influence
was apparent in the disorders.
Mr.. Symonds, 90, United Press
manager for Southeast Asia, died
in a hospital here this morning,
IS hours after he suffered head
injuries in the start of the dis
turbances. Hospital officials said
he never regained consciousness.
Other Troops Stand By
The government early today
ordered Singapore's own mill
tary force to report for emer-
gency duty. British Army au-
thorities said their troops, stand
ing ready on Singapore island,
could go into action immedi-
ately If called upon by civil
authorities.
The colony's worried new
Council of Ministers met in emer-
gency session at Government
House to discuss the worsening
situation. AS they gathered.
fresh violence threatened in the
wake of the rioting by 300 Strik-
ing busmen and several thousand
of their supporters which ragged
throughout yesterday and last
night.
Trade union officials. protest.
ing police action yesterday
against the mob, called out
workers of the big British
owned Singapore Traction Co.
Evening star., 1955-05-13
u. S. Officials Press
For Inquiry in Killing

State Department officials said
today they were seriously dis
tressed and concerned" at the
news of the killing Of Gene
Symonds in Singapore. They
said that the American Counsel
General has been instructed to
confer as soon as possible with
British authorities to push an
investigation. They added that
no formal protest could be con-
sidered until they have an Off
cial report from department Of
f1cials in the Malaga city.
Evening star., 1955-05-13
Arlington Board Expected
Reverse Stand on CIA

Mr.. Rowzee said today the
second special conference on the
CIA proposal will be held to-
night.
It was learned County Man
ager A. T. Lundberg, Planning
Director Frank Dieter and Cliff
ton Stoneburner, county high
way engineer, have been con-
ferring with CIA officials this
week.
Builders to Cooperate
Meanwhile Charles A. Col
lander. president of the North
ern Virginia Building Associa-
ton. announced the groups
board of directors has voted its
Cooperation to the fullest ex-
tent" to the relocation of the
CIA in Arlington.
Expression of the County
Boards chnage of sentim 3nt
were voiced by Board Members
Alvin F. Kimel, Wesley w.
Cooper, Robert A. Peck and Mrs.
Leone Bucholz, as well as Mr..
RowZee.
Mr.. Kimel said today he will
enter tomorrow's re-opening of
the question with an open
mind" He said new informa-
ton" on CIA plans has been
received.
Mrs. Buchholz declared: II feel
the CIA is a very high-type
agency. We might be better of
with them than with something
else that might be placed there"
Mr.. Cooper said. 1--WE are going
to consider inviting them (CIA)
I think we will"
Evening star., 1955-05-13
Eisenhower Drives
To Gettysburg Farm

President Eisenhower drove
away from the White House
shortly before noon today to
spend the week end at his new
farm home near Gettysburg, Pa.
He was joining there Mrs.
Eisenhower and her mother, Mrs.
John s. Doud, who is celebrating
her 77th birthday today. Mrs.
Eisenhower and Mrs. Doud drove
to the farm Wednesday after
noon.
Evening star., 1955-05-13
BY G. o. HERNDON

The Arlington County Board is
expected to reverse tomorrow its
stand against inviting Central
Intelligence Agency to set up its
proposed $50 million headquar-
ters in the county.
Board Chairman George M.
Rowzee, jr., said today that
board members, "in view Of ad-
ditional information, are more
favorably inclined" to the reloca-
ton of CIA headquarters on
Government property at Arling-
ton Hall, Arlington boulevard at
Glebe road.
A spokesman for Representa-
tive Broyhill, Republican, of Vir-
ginia, said today the 10th Dis
trict Congressman has received
unofficial assurance that CIA
will select a site in nearby Vir-
ginia."
Opposed on April 30
The board on April 80 ex-
pressed dts disapproval of more
Government-owned, tax-exempt
land in the county.
1--WE were led to believe" Mr..
Rowzee said today, that the
Arlington Hall tract might re-
vert to private use when Army
personnel are completely trans
ferred to Fort Meade, Md" He
said new information is that the
Government could and probably
would retain the tract.
At the April meeting Mr..
Kimel made the motion to op-
pose the CIA move. He said that
Il think we have our fair share
now of Government facilities"
Evening star., 1955-05-13
Painter Strike Vote
Slated Tomorrow

Members of the Painters
Union. District Council No. 81
(AFL). will meet at 10 am. to-
morrow to take a strike vote.
The session will be held in the
Cement Mason's Hall. 1924 New
Jersey avenue NV.
In current negotiations, the
union has requested $3.08 an
hour. The contractors have
countered with $3.50. The cur
rent wage is $3.50. The present
contract expires on May IS.
Evening star., 1955-05-13
By JAMES G. DEANE

The House Appropriations
Committee today restored funds
for 81 teachers for retarded and
other handicapped pupils to next
years District public school
budget.
The committee action, a rever-
sal of the District Commission
ers, partly balanced $453,000 in
school budget cuts which the
committee also made.
The committee left 13 pro-
posed school construction prof.
ects intact. The total approved
school budget-still subject to
House action-is $32.308,110, a
reduction of just over 1856, 900
from what the city requested.
Restoration of the handi-
capped-teacher funds. totaling
s9s,810 is a victory for parent
groups and the school board, ale
though the 81 teachers are less
than half the number school Of
f1cials had sought.
Board Asked for so
The school board asked for so
special teachers. The Commis-
sioners, however. deleted the en-
tire item before sending the
budget to Congress.
In two special articles last
January and February, The Star
reported that this deletion was
causing serious concern in the
school system. The articles re-
vealed that an estimated 1000
retarded children were in ordi-
nary classes where they were
making little progress.
Subsequently, numerous parent
and teacher groups, including
the District Congress Of Parents
and Teachers. organized to seek
restoration of the funds. Many
witnesses pleaded for the resto-
ration at recent public budget
hearings.
The special teachers added by
the committee include IL for re-
tarded children, four for speech
correction, four for remedial
reading and two for shut-ins
Evening star., 1955-05-13
Wo|fson Lands
3Directors
Ward Vote Recount
Could Make 1t Two

CHICAGO, May 13 (P.-Louis
E. Wolfson apparently landed
three places on Montgomery
Wards nine-member board of
directors, a tabulation of votes
cast at the April % election
showed today.
Mr.. Wolfson receiverd proxies
for 1,793,398 shares of Ward
stock. The Ward management
slate received proxies for 4.033,-
481 shares.
This totals 5,826,S79 shares.
To obtain three directors Mr..
Wolfson would need 80 per cent
of the total vote cast plus three
shares. That would be 1,748,067.
However, stockholders attend
ing the annual meeting in per-
son also cast votes for individual
directors. These votes could con-
ceivably provide a margin Of
difference between two and three
seats on the board for Mr.. Wolf
son.
Wolfson Names Three
After the inspectors Of the
election announced the tally. Mr..
Wolfson said he definitely had
elected three directors. These
would be himself, Alexander
Pittmaster III. New York busi-
ness consultant. and Bernice
Fitz-Gibbon, New York adver-
tising consultant.
A management spokesman
said. 1--WE know we have six di-
rectors but we can't say definite
ly if we have six or seven until
the accumulation is completed" I"
BY accumulation he meant the
allotment of nine votes per share
among nominees so as to elect
the greatest number of nomi-
nees.
Final Verdict Tomorrow
After the announcement the
meeting adjourned until 10:40
am. EST tomorrow, when the
accumulation of votes will be
announced and the full slate Of
elected directors will be made
known.
Only half Of the $50 seats in
the auditorium of the Wards
headquarters building were filled
for the meeting today. Mr.. Wolf
son attended with Mr.. Rittmas-
ter and Frank Leahy. former
Notre Dame football coach and
one of his lieutenants in his long
drive to capture control of the
big mail order and retail mer-
chandising concern.
Evening star., 1955-05-13
BULLE TIN
Executive Found Shot

Harry G. Walters, 66, pres
ident Of the Mutual Life In
surance Co. of Washington,
was found dead in his West
chester apartment, 1000 Ca
thedral avenue NV, shortly
after noon today. Homicide
Detective 1t. Lawrence A.
Hartnett said the body, a gun
shot wound in the head, was
found by Mr.. Walters wife.
Friends said the victim had
been in poor health.
Evening star., 1955-05-13
Safety Man in Wreck

OKLAHOMA CITY, May l3
P).-Maj. Clay A. Scheid, Okla
homa City's top-ranking traffic
officer, showed up late yesterday
for a safety conference. II had
a wreck on my way down here"
he sheepiShly told fellow safety
experts.
Evening star., 1955-05-13
House Unit Cuts 81 Million
From u. S. Fund for District
Spending Pared,
Budget Raped
AS irresponsible
BY DON S. WARREN

The House Appropriations
Committee today gave the Dis
trict one of its toughest deals
in recent years in proposing to
chop the city spending program
for the next fiscal year by S8.8
million and to slice 81 million
off the $40 million Federal pay
ment.
The action of the committee,
upholding recommendations of a
subcommittee headed by Repre-
sentative Rabaut, Democrat, of
Michigan, would create a sur
plus estimated at SCI million by
June 80. 1956-if it is approved
by the House apd Senate.
The report of the Rabaut sub
committee stressed that Con-
gress has the responsibility for
the fiscal management of the
District, and, as the keeper of
the purse is compelled to state
that fiscal responsibility seems
to be the keynote of the 1856
District budget"
Floor Fight Indicated
The proposals of the Rabaut
subcommittee set the stage for
fight in the House when the bill
comes up there next week.
One of the first reactions
came from Representative Smith,
Democrat, of Virginia, a veteran
member of the House District
Committee, and chairman of its
Fiscal Subcommittee He also is
chairman of the House Rules
Committee.
Judge Smith said he would
fight against the proposed cut
in the Federal payment. He said:
when Congress enacted the
District public works program
last year. it made a bargain with
the District for an increase in
the Federal payment to go along
with a higher load of District
taxes, so as to make possible
program of public works
deemed essential to the national
capital. Congress would be
welching on its contract if the
Federal payment were cut"
Cut Restored Last Year
A move was made by the
Appropriations Committee last
year to cut the Federal pay
ment by 81 million. In an action
that seldom is taken, the House
upset its Appropriations Com
mittee and restored the Federal
payment to the full $40 million
authorized in the District Public
Works Act that loaded additional
millions in taxes on District res
identS.
The bill, as reported from the
Appropriations Committee, pro-
poses an outlay in the year be-
ginning July l of $166,547, 500.
This would be $8,857,79 below
the requests of the Commission
ers, the Budget Bureau and the
President. In fact, it would be
$4.2 million below city spending
in the present fiscal year.
Raps Assessment Lag
The Rabaut subcommittee was
sharply critical of District Off
cials for what it called fiscal
irresponsibility" and of "a
lackadaisical attitude" toward
bringing up to date a reassess-
ment of real estate where, in
some cases, there has been no
reassessment for 10, 20 or 80
years.
On this point, however, the
committee made no move to
spend half million dollars or
so to hire private group of as
SCISSORS to make reassesSments in
the next year. But it granted
funds to hire three more real
estate assessors and four more
technicians, and put language
into the report to pressure the
District to get ahead with the
reassessment job.
District officials we're shocked
at the total cut in the spending
See BUDGET, Page "A
Evening star., 1955-05-13
Mountbutten to Visit

LONDON, May 13 (P).-Ad-
miral Earl Mountbatten, Brit
aims first sea lord and chief Of
naval stats, will visit Canada
and the United States in the
autumn, the Admiralty said last
night. He will meet top Cana
dian and United States naval Of
ficialS.