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Evening star., 1955-07-30
Senate0ks Bill
On |nsanityLaw
Measure Is Sent
To White House
BY MIRIAM GUTENBERG

The Senate today passed the
House approved measure revising
the District insanity laws to give
the public more protection in
ycriminal cases.
The bill, approved after an ex-
Iplanation by Senator Morse,
Democrat of Oregon, now goes
to the White House.
The changes in the law had
been sought by District officials
prosecutors and psychiatrists tc
strike a more even balance be-
tween the rights of the public
and of the accused in criminal
cases where the defense is in
sanity at the time of the crime
Seven Month Investigation
1t was the product of a seven
month investigation by a special
subcommittee of the District
Council on Law Enforcement
The subcommittee, headed by
George l.. Hart, jr.. studied both
District laws and recent decisions
of the U. S. Court of Appeals for
the District of Columbia to de-
Itermine if the laws as they stood
after the court interpretations
sufficiently protected the public
Interest.
The subcommittee concluded
that the laws were out of balance
in favor of the accused and rec
ommended series of changes to
close the door in the law through
which defendants could escape
punishment on phony insanity
claims.
How Law Is Changed
The bill makes it somewhat
more difficult for a defendant to
get a mental examination, pro-
vides for mental examinations in
the hospital rather than the jail,
streamlines the procedure for
getting defendants to trial after
they are found mentally compe-
tent, permits the Government to
present psychiatric testimony
where the defense of insanity is
raised, makes commitment to a
mental hospital mandatory for a
defendant found not guilty by
reason of insanity and controls
the release procedure from the
mental hospital in these cases.
Evening star., 1955-07-30
Chou Hints He'll Free
Americans in China
Stirs Hope
For Release
Of Civilians

TOKYO. July 80 R.-Red
China's Premier Chou En-lai de-
clared tonight the question" Of
the small number of American
civilians in Communist China
"can be easily settled" at the
Geneva talks starting Monday.
But Premier Chou made no
mention of the IL airmen Red
China imprisoned on charges of
I"Spying." His lengthy foreign
policy speech was broadcast by
the Peiping radio and monitored
here.
Omitted States Government
officials have said 81 Americans
are held by China, including
| 40 civilians and II flyers.
Twenty-Five civilians are re-
ported in jail; 3 under house
arrest and II are refused exit
| viSaS.)
Mr.. Chou said "the Chinese
people want no war with the
United States SO the question of
a cease-fire between China and
the United States does not
arise"
He said Red China would "en-
deavor" to make the Geneva
talks between Wang Ping man
OF Communist China and U.
Alexis johnson of the United
States pave the way for further
negotiations" between the two
countries.
Asks Students Release
! The broadcast heard in Tokyo
said Mr.. Chou told the National
Peoples Congress:
g. Provided both sides are
sincerely desirous of negotiation
and conciliation. it should be
possible at the Forthcoming talks
at the ambassadorial level to
reach first of all a reasonable
settlement of the question of
the return of civilians to their
respective countries"
At the same time the Premier
demanded return of several
thousands" of Chinese students
|he said are still in the United
Estates.
He said since the two countries
have no diplomatic ties they
should "entruSt to a third coun-
try" the task of looking after
and repatriating each others
civilians.
Sees Amity Possible
Premier Chou also said "prep-
arations for negotiations between
China and the United States for
relaxing and eliminating the
tension in the Taiwan tFormosa)
area" could come at- Geneva-if
the United States is prepared to
cooperate with (Red) China"
1 The Communist Prime Minis
ter stuck to his insistence that
liberation" of Formosa is Red
Chinas internal problem but
conditions permitting, the Chi
nese people are ready to seek the
liberation of Taiwan by peaceful
means . the Chinese people
want no war with the United
States"
Mr.. Chou said Communist
China is willing to "enter into
negotiations with the responsible
local authorities of Taiwan to
Continued on Page Ala, Col. 1
Evening star., 1955-07-30
Four Senators Plan Trips
To Russio This Summer
Three Others Consider Accepting
Invitation of Communist Leaders

Iteous when we asked visas and
sent up forms at once with full
instructions in English on how
to apply"
Senatorf Kefauver said:
There has been a lot of talk
ing constantly about Soviet Rus
sia but few of us have actually
seen it. Almost all the legis-
lation we've had for the past
10 years has had to do with Rus
sia, the cold war and defense. 4"
Will Attend Meeting
Senator Purtell also will at
tend the Interparliamentary ses-
sions in Finland. He and his
wife hope to go by train on to
Leningrad, Moscow and other
Iron Curtain points.
Senator Purtell said he and
other Senators applied for visas
as individual citizens" although
each listed his official position.
Senator Ellender plans to visit
Russia by airplane and alone.
For several years now he has
been making on-the-spo checks
Iof United States embassies ano
legations all over the world foI
the Appropriations Committee
He plans to fly to Bonn, Ger
many, August IA and then move
on to Berlin, Warsaw, Poland
and then Moscow, spending
three weeks to a month in Com
muniSt areas.
Senator Young, a member oi
Agriculture and Appropriations
Committees, said he is much in
terested in seeing Soviet opera
tions in the rural areas.
Senator Frear, a member OF
the Banking Committee, may at
tend an international financial
conference in Istanbul. Turkey
before flying on to Moscow.
Evening star., 1955-07-30
ARTIST TO PRESENT
TOCHURCH

GPo WORKERS CHIP lN--ReeinoId
D. ChoIfonte, q Government Printing
Office ortist, will present o painting
Of St. lenotius Of LoyoIo to St. AIoysius
cotholie Church tomorrow. About $50
0Po eo-workers Clipped in funds to
poy cost Of the picture. Story on
poge AS.
ARISTocRATS-The simple old
stone houses you find in the rurol
countryside ore among the truest ex-
omples Of traditional American orehi-
lecture. Reed Robert J. Lewis story
about these modest bIuebIoods in
The Stor Home Section, poee 81.
Evening star., 1955-07-30
Accord Sought
ByHouseGroup
On Transit Law
New Bill Discussed
For go Minutes;
Session Resuminq

The House District Committee
met for 80 minutes today to try
to agree on transit legislation.
The closed-door session was to
be resumed at 2 o'clock this
afternoon.
Chairman Mcmillan and
members filed out of a meeting
room in the Capitol at about
1880, leaving the District Com
missioners and Capital Transit
Co. officials closeted together for
a private conference.
Main legislation before the
committee was a new bill, drawn
by the city heads at Mr.. Nc
MillanS request, embodying the
transit company's offer to volun-
tarily relinquish its operating
franchise through a contract
with the District.
Capital Transit officials said
before the meeting, however,
that they objected to the specific
language of the Commissioners
draft and the Commissioners
themselves frankly favor a more
drastic bill approved by the
Senate District Committee and
now pending on the Senate floor.
Senators Wait Hopefully
In an atmosphere of mount
ing adjournment fever, leaders
of the Senate committee waited
hopefully for a chance to bring
up their transit strike measure.
1t would direct franchise revoca-
ton and give the Commissioners
power either to seize the COM
pany or make some other ar
rangements to get transit wheels
rolling.
Members of the House COM
mittee. after this mornings
session, predicted a bill of some
kind would be reported, but
there was no clear indication of
the form it would take. Several
members said the Senate bill
came up for considerable discus
sion, however.
Senator Morse, Democrat of
oregon. leading proponent of
a seizure and franchise revoca-
ton measure, made what OBJ
servers took to be a reference to
it shortly after the Senate con-
Vened.
The Senator took the floor to
speak on another matter, and
was requested by a member to
speak louder.
Il want to accommodate, SEN
ators. But at the same time I
want to conserve my voice for
other efforts tonight, if neces-
sary," he replied.
In sharp contrast to the Sem
ate bill, the new Mcmillan
measure is entirely per-
miSsive. 1t authorizes Cap
ital Transit, within 80 days,
to give the city notice of an in
tention to give up the franchise
IN a year. with the company OPP
Grating the system during the
year at cost. Labor rates would be
set by the District and, as the
bill is written, any operating
deficits incurred during the year
would be paid by the Federal
Government.
Measure Criticized
While the new Mcmillan draft
embraces the voluntary fran
chise REIMBURSEMENT proposed
by Capital Transit two days
ago, officials of the firm took an
immediate crack at the way it
was written before today's hear
ing.
Our understanding" said E.
C. Giddings, Capital Transit
vice prtsident, was that Mr.. Nc
MILAN asked the Commissioners
to draft the bill in compliance
with the terms of our offer. AS
we read it, we don't think it
really does that. Under the
circumstances, we don't feel we
could go along as it's written" "
Two points in the draft. it
See TRANSIT, Page Az
Evening star., 1955-07-30
Government 1ightens Up
On Home-Buying Credit
GIs Required to Make Down Payments;
MORTGAGE Terms Cut to rs Years

FHA's sliding scale in the past
allowed S per cent down pay
ment on the first $4,000 of the
FILA appraised value. This has
been raised to 7 per cent.
On the amount above $4,000,
FHA formerly required Is per
cent to be paid in cash. This
has been boosted to 81 per cent.
Thus the $4,000 FHA house
formerly requiring $1,000 as a
down payment would now re-
Iquire 81 ,440 to be paid in cash.
Evening star., 1955-07-30
MoryIonder Named
As Bench Candidate

President Eisenhower today
nominated r. Dorsey Watkins
Baltimore attorney, to be Fed
eral District Judge for Maryland
in place of William C. Coleman
resigned.
Mr.. Watkins, a Republican, is
Sd year old. He has been a
practicing attorney in Balti-
more since 1925 and is a part
time lecturer at the University
of Maryland and Johns Hop
kins University law schools.
Evening star., 1955-07-30
Talbot Denies
Decision 10 Quit

Secretary of the Air Force Tai
bott was under mounting pres
sure from Capitol Hill Repub-
licans today to resign in the face
Iof disclosures about his outside
business activities and new
questions about how he disposed
of defense business stocks wher
he went to the Pentagon.
Mr.. Talbot denied reports
that he already had decided tc
quit. He left his fate up tc
President Eisenhower, saying 81
will do whatever the President
wishes me to do"
Mr.. Eisenhower has said hi
will study personally the recorc
of the Senate Investigation Sub.
committees inquiry into Mr.
Talbott's outside business activ.
tiles before making his decision
on the basis of the "ethics" in.
volved The President is spend.
ing the week end at his Gettys.
burg farm.
Reported Ready to Quit
Two Senate Republican Policy
Committee members, asking moi
to be quoted by name, reported
late yesterday that Mr.. Talbot
had decided to quit. Mr.. Talbot
said the report wasn't true al
ALL" But he added that he
would no nothing to embarrass
the President.
A third COP. committee
member said the resignation re.
port came from a source one
would expect to know what he
is talking about" He added
And if it's not true, it ought tt
be true" he added.
All three of these Senators
told Of increasing demand from
Capitol Hill Republicans for Mr.
Talbott's resignation. Several
others said, however, that the
Air Force Secretary's friends be-
Ilieved he should try to ride out
the storm.
Morse Repeats Demand
On the Senate floor last night
Senator Morse, Democrat OF
Oregon, repeated his demand
that Mr.. Talbot "either resign
Continued on Page Ala, Col. 3
Evening star., 1955-07-30
STOCKS
IN THE SPOTLIGHT

NEW YORK R, - Following are the
and net change OF the 20 most active
Evening star., 1955-07-30
WEATHER FORECAST

Cloudy tonight with low near 10.
Mostly cloudy tomorrow, high around 80
tFun report plus resort forecast on
Page A-2.)
Evening star., 1955-07-28
Clips in the Night

It was well after midnight so
things were jumping in Larry
Matthews all-night beauty sa-
lon in the Great Northern Hotel.
The big room is air-conditioned
but all the male operators were
in Bermuda shorts and Matthews
himself wore a sports shirt.
There was a pretty face under
every drier and it looked as if
half of show business was there.
It's been three and a half years
since Matthews and his wife.
Norma, decided to try staying
open "a hours a day in the hope
that night business might be a
shot in the arm for their
struggling beauty parlor. The
idea was such a smash. mostly
with the show business mob, that
soon Matthews will open a vast
all-night salon on Broadway.
In one chair a pretty girl
named jamie Bensch was reading
a television script while a male
manicurist named Don Atkins
worked on her free hand. jamie
said she was all excited because
there's an opening in Lee Stras-
berg's drama classes and she's
dying to qualify. I asked why
everybody is dying to study with
StraSberg or Actors Studio, these
days, and Mr.. Atkins looked UP
from the nail polish and an
swered for her. Because it's the
quickest way into the theater,
rightly or wrongly" he said Arm
ly, never pausing with the nail
buffer. Atkins also is an actor.
Most of the operators, double as
models or dancers or actors.
Sometimes think I'm run
ming a casting agency here,
Matthews admitted. ''We heard
that La Vic wasn't satisfied
with the girls auditioning for
the chorus line so we kept send
ing our customers down and all
of them got jobs. Perry Bruce
doing that girls hair over there
is former dancer and he
taught Allison Rainey enough
dancing so she could get a jot
at the Copa and later Las We
gas. He used to teach her while
Evening star., 1955-07-28

Matthews said unconcernedly.
They can have q hair dresser
come to their home or what
ever. We get kids with a sudden
job or entertainers in some sort
of emergency. We get no house
wives because our work is so
high-styled and theatrical"
At that very moment there
arrived an emergency case and
she was very high-styled indeed.
Her name was Bubbles Darlene,
she was dressed in a jeweled
bullfighter's costume with break
away pants and she had hurried
over from her labors in the girl
show at Georgia's Blue Room.
Something had gone wrong with
her blond hairdo. Norma Mat
thews deftly set it right and
Bubbles happily rushed back to
work.
There are more stage door
Johns hanging around the lobby
than Earl Carroll ever had" said
Matthews. I'VE don't let them
Evening star., 1955-07-28

lin here. We don't even let hus-
bands In. That way everybody
lis more relaxed" In the rush
hours on week ends. the Mat
thews' crew can turn out 100
hair stylings in two hours. A lot
of night customers are dance
teachers whose daylight hours
are booked solid and who want
their coiffures to look neat and
new every morning.
Matthews invented the orchid
tint which the Copa girls used
and which the Copa viii bring
back this fall. It's catching on
in show business. It's a rinse
which is permanent yet can be
removed by the maestro's boys
on demand. Matthews day man.
lager is Armand -Devernier, who
Evening star., 1955-07-28

used to be q cowboy film actor
named Bob Stevens. Matthews
doesn't know why Devernfer
turned to beauty parlor work
unless the pony-tail hairdo
makes him feel at home.
81 don't know why other salons
haven't opened at night" Mat
|thews said. .'The daytime beauty
|parlor competition is murder
GUS"
Evening star., 1955-07-28
MIDTOWN NEW YORK
By ROBERT SYLVESTER

setting her hair. Allison learned
her routines while her hair was
drying"
A girl who looked enough like
Marilyn Monroe to be her iden-
Itified herself as Fay Lafayette.
She was having her hair done
at night because the next day
she had a dramatic lesson. a
singing lesson and a dancing
lesson. The Matthews Salon
gets mostly youngsters like Fay.
Hardly any stars. One Metro
Ipolitan Opera diva quit coming
because she couldn't have a
private booth.
"As soon as our customers get
going good they don't need us, +"
Evening star., 1955-02-13

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Evening star., 1955-02-13
The Wolfe and the Mouse

(artoOnist George Wolfe makes
n living drawing kbelOns pictures
Of his family. This week he rings
his cat (see left) into the act -
and gets just what he deserves!
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SIOo(l odSIt\t
GLIB. Delightful sochet en-
closed in q pretty globe
pIostic contoiner, tied and
trimmed with gold color. LOO
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Brocade Clothes Brush
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with nylon bristIes, hos gold
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Metal Photo Holder
GIL. Gold color holder by
Artomount holds II pictures
in coIIopsoble arrangement.
Fits in palm of hand. LOO
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ond nyIon brush, in simu-
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Tape Measure
Gl8. Petit-point embroid-
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Tope pulls out TO 40 inches,
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Alabama Seeks
Power 10 Seize
Struck Plants

ATLANTA. Ga, May 3 o.
A loan of $1,250.0O0 to striking
telephone workers and the pos
sibility Of legislation to permit
Alabama to operate strike-bound
utilities highlighted development
in two regional walkoutS today.
Both the strike against the
Southern Bell Telephone Co. and
the one against the Louisville
g. Nashville Railroad and its
subsidiaries were in their 5lst
day There were no immediate
signs of settlement in either.
The loan was announced in
Washington yesterday. Go Pres
ident Walter Reuther said
group of CLIO unions had ar
ranged to lend the money to
the striking CLIO Communica-
tons Workers of America to help
the strike against Southern Bell.
Only few days ago the CWA
reported receipt of an anony-
nous donation of 100000 to-
ward its strike fund.
Reuther Halls Loan
Mr.. Reuther said the loan
would enable the union to pro-
vide necessary relief and as
siStance to the strikers and their
families" and added:
In insisting that the company
should have the final word on
disputes, Southern Bell refuses
to accept fully the spirit of true
collective bargaining"
There was no immediate COM
ment from Southern Bell, whose
employees are out in nine South
eastern States.
In Alabama, Gov. James e.
Folsom cited economic losses
caused by the strikes and said he
expected to ask for legislation
permitting the State to take
over and operate the strikebound
utilities.
Gov. Folsom said the telephone
company had already gone
above the States and unless Con-
gress takes a hand. they will
soon be too big for the Federal
Government to handle"
Losses Called Widespread
Alabama and other States
have suffered untold losses due
to the two strikes" Gov. Folsom
said. mines have shut down,
people are out of work. They
have hurt the economy all over
the South"
At Birmingham. w. A. Thomp-
son, Southern Bell Alabama
manager, issued statement
which said in part:
1.-THE effect of the telephone
strike on the economy of Ala
bama and the South has been
greatly exaggerated.
I'VE, of course, have no details
on what is planned in the way
of legislation permitting seizure
of public utilities victimized by
strikes. We see no need for
such drastic action, however,
and we do not think such law
would serve the public interest"
New Incidents Reported
Reports of damage continued
to come in. A small telephone
building in Jackson, Miss, was
destroyed by a dynamite blast
and a 48-foot LIN trestle was
burned near Bombay, Fla. No
injuries were reported.
Union officials said all along
that their members are in no
way responsible for such damage.
Negotiations in the LIN walk
out remained unchanged in
Washington. Chairman Francis
A. O'Neill, jr. of the National
(Railway) Mediation Board
scheduled another conference
today,
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Forum to H ear Rabbi

Rabbi Morris Gordon of Beth
Ell Congregation in Montgomery
County will address the final
open forum of the College of
Jewish Studies at the education
building of the Adas Israel Con-
gregation, 1850 Quebec street
NV, at 3:45 pm. tomorrow.
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Free Trip to Europe-Be Guest of
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auditorium Events for
Wednesday

lis FREE! Come hear DR.. Raymond Sites
of the National Gallery of Art mOdernfiSg
a panel discussion on
WHAT is THE FUTURE PLACE OF
ART IN THE AMERICAN HOMER
z to PM, 5th Floor Auditorium
Wednesday, Moy 4th
His guest will be Col. Wharton. from the Uni
vereity of Maryland, and Mrs. Gloria Finn. ia
nous HooE-rug expert. See interesting examples
of polymer tempra-the newest painting medium
Bring the family This program will be broadcast
WGMS at 7:30 PM
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Vim Free 7-Day Cruise to Bermuda
On the S. S. TradeiUind
Courtesy Agency Caribbean Atlantic Lines
All expenses paid-boat from Washington to Bermuda
back sun-drenched days of fun and froc
post your fed-out entry in the box sportswear Dept
Bird Floor, Washington Store.
Evening star., 1955-06-05
Trip on PoddIe Wheeler
CIimoxes Fast Flight

anime the shaft he has dug into
the mountain in his search for
the elusive yellow metal.
Side trips are made around
Dawson City. The Alexandra
Hotel, where the Flora. Dora
girls we're the big hit at the turn
of the century. is q highlight
of the town. Another is the
Nugget Dance Hall. which once
resounded to the cheers Of the
miners who had come in from
the diggins to see such trouperS
as Douglas Fairbanks, ST., and
Alex Pantages.
Dawson also boasts several
curio shops, which stock jewelry
handmade from ancient masta-
don tusks and the pure gold
which is still found in consider
able quantity in the area. On
Klondike Creek tourists see one
of the huge dredges which have
replaced the prospector, with his
shovel and pan.
The return journey UP the
river to Whitehorse takes five
days. Passengers have a choice
of lazing on deck in the clear
northern sun. or taking part in
the many activities on board
and ashore which are arranged
by the ships purser.
Stops are made to fish for
Evening star., 1955-06-05
Queen and Monarch
Cruises Sell Fast
NEW YORK

NEW xO6tkAs
Advance bookings indicate the
biggest cruising year since the
war for the luxury liners Queen
of Bermuda and Ocean Monarch
of Furness Lines.
James N. Findlay. passenger
traffic manager. said that the
frst summer saguenay cruise to
Canadian waters, Nova Scotia
and Bermuda, scheduled for July
2, is very heavily booked with
little space left"
The second Saguenay cruise,
which viii sail from New York on
August 20. "today, has more
bookings than at the same time
last year and there Is every indi-
cation that 1t win be Q sell-out
well in advance Of the sailing
date"
Evening star., 1955-06-05
Greenbrier Adds
Stuff Naturalist

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS.
w. Va.
Something new has been added
to the Greenbrier's already NUM-
erous activities for guests. Lyle
w. Boyce has been appointed
naturalist ut the 177-year-old
resort.
On q walking tour Of historic
Greenbrier grounds, Mr.. Boyce