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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-09

A chain saw.
A spice box for Mrs. Eisen-
hover.
An antique sofa and an equally
antique fireplace mantel. both
presented by the White House
staff.
A soft. f1agpole and a hand
carved Maine pine American
eagle.
A silver Paul Revere bowl.
And, mostly recently, from the
American Legion Boys Nation
a 21a horsepower cultivator.
Probably the most elaborate
gift has been a complete flower
garden, set up at the Washington
Flower Show last year and later
moved in toto to the Eisenhower
farm on the edge of Gettysburg
battlefield. Right pretty one
too. Serpentine brick wall and
everything.
All sorts OF people beStoW gifts
on the President - livestock
breeders, Republican clubs-even
Democrats. The latest Black
Angus heifer, Blue Bonnet. was
presented at a Womens Ma
tional Press Club affair by DEM
ocratic Congressional Leaders
Sam Rayburn and Lyndon john
son of Texas.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-09
Presents Pour In on Eisenhower arm;
I'd Term? Something WiIIHoveto Give

Usually the people who make
these gifts have nothing to gain
from the White House-except,
sometimes. little incidental
publicity. The makers of one
piece of farm equipment. for
instance, were overjoyed that
their trade name showed up in
news photographs.
Giving things to Presidents is
an old American custom-aud
one that the Presidents some
times regard wryly. That's the
way it always is. Harry S. Thu
man once remarked, people
wait until you have everything
in the world and then they give
you something"
Mi. Eisenhower likewise tossed
off a good-humoredly lronlcal
remark when he wound up a
New England trip laden down
with everything from you
guessed it, two calves to little
evergreen tree (now planted on
the farm from Showhegan, Me.
Il have accumulated so many
gifts" he said. that l am moved
to remind the chairman there is
one very important thing he for
got. He should have provided a
truck to carry them in"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-09
Governors Eyes
On Stevenson
Horrimun Talks With
81 Nominee Tonight
BY JACK BELL
Associated Press Stan Writer

CHICAGO, Aug. 9.-Two top
Democrats meet here tonight for
a talk that may have an i'm
portant bearing on the 1856
Democratic presidential nomina-
ton contest.
Gov Averell Hartman of New
York, arriving today for the Attn
annual Governors Conference,
dimes tonight with former Gov.
Adlai E. Stevenson of Illinois.
the 1852 Democratic nominee.
Gov. Hartman and Mr.. Steve
son met in New York late in
June. Aides described that ses-
sion as without political sig
ni1icance."
There are indications that
Gov. Hartman would like to
know privately what Mr.. Steven
son has been unwilling as yet to
say neutrality-suspicious. he again
will be a candidate for the top
place on next years ticket.
Sees Stevenson Race
Stephen A. Mitchell. former
Democratic national chairman
and a close associate of Mr..
Stevenson. said in an interview
that If Gov. Hartman wants to
know Mr.. Stevenson's decision
he certainly can find out
For himself, Mr.. Mitchell said
he has no doubt that Steven
son will be running against
See GOVERNORS, Page Al
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-09
Bio-ScoIe Atomic Power
Seen in u. S. in 20 Years

is already more profitable than
a coal stations operating on low
quality fuel"
DR.. Lane told the conference
a review of published estimates
of the capital cost of. nuclear-
electric plants. combined with
projected operating costs, had
led him to conclude there is a
good possibility that nuclear
power costs in the range of four
to seven mills per kilowatt hour
will be realized within the next
Is or 20 years"
"At these power COSTS" he said,
"nuclear plants will compete for
an appreciate fraction of all
new plants built by 1875. the total
construction costs of which may
amount to between 81 billion and
$50 billion dollars.
The present United States
reactor development program
now being carried out in the
laboratories of the Atomic En-
ergy Commission and by various
industrial concerns throughout
the country is aimed at such an
objective"
He said the Acc is now build
ing or contemplating five diff
ferent types of prototype or
pilot-plant reactors.
The building of these proto-
type power plants will not only
provide information leading to
reduced costs. but will also per-
NIT a more realistic evaluation
of the applicability Of nuclear
See ATOMIC, Page AS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-09
BY FRANK CAREY
Associated Press Science Reporter

GENEVA, Aug. Am Amer
lean. scientist told the atoms-for-
peace conference today there is
a good possibility" atomic power
will be competing with electricity
from coal in the United States
within the next Is or 20 years.
The prediction was made to
the V2-nation scientific congress
by DR.. James A. Lane of the
Atomic Energy Commissions
Oak Ridge (Tenn.) National
Laboratory.
Taking all available economic
and technical information at its
face value" DR.. Lane declared,
lit is evident that the outlook
for large-scale nuclear power in
the United States is very prom
ising."
Reporting at the same confer
ence session. two Russian scien-
lists indicated such an atomic
plant as the 5,000-kilomatt sta
ton the Soviet Union now is OPP
Grating can best be utilized in
areas remote from coal supplies
or where only low-grade coal is
available.
Giving the first detailed account
of the Russian nuclear plant
d. I. Blokhinstev and N. A.
Nikolayev conceded that the cleo
tricity it is turning out costs
considerably" more than the
output of large coal-burning
Soviet stations. But added:
AN atomic power station now
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-09
Stocks Drop $1-$4
In Wave Of Selling

NEW YORK, Aug. 8 up. -
Leading shares lost between 81
and 81 in the stock market today
in a wave of selling in early
afternoon.
General Motors declined $3.50
a share, Chrysler SITS. Sante
Fe 81, Goodyear $237, Standard
Oil of New Jersey SITS and In
ternational Business Machines
81.
The market has been trend
ing lower for the last two weeks,
Today 1t declined from the start
and selling pressure built up I'M
til. around noon, the ticker tape
fell behind in reporting transac-
tions.
The decline came against a
BACKGROUND of tightening credit.
However, brokers pointed out
that the market Is vulnerable be-
cause 1t Is at such high levels.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-09
BY ED CREAGH
Associated Press stan Writer

GETTYSBURG. Pa. Aug. g.
If time farmer Dwight D.
Eisenhower holds onto that city
job in Washington for another
five years or so, he may have to
move out of his farmhouse.
The way people keep giving
him things for the 189-acre farm,
the time could come when there
wouldn't be enough room left for
the President, his wife and his
golf clubs.
Cows, farm equipment, furni-
ture - almost everywhere the
President goes somebody gives
him something. And that Presi-
dent goes a lot of places.
Nobody has troubled to keep
books on the gifts but it's known
that the President has received
at least eight head of livestock,
mostly Black Angus, since word
got around he was interested in
building herd.
This is in addition to, among
other things:
Two pigs, one of them named
Pansy.
A flock Of chickens.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-09
His Tax Debt Paid,
Justice Will Try
100 DeIinquents

A Fairfax substitute trial JUS
tice today paid $342 in back State
income taxes and then was
scheduled to sit in judgment in
100 other tax cases in Trial JUS
tice Court.
Just beofre court opened,
Ernest N. Hudgins handed a
check for his back taxes to r. A.
Carlisle, State delinquent tax col
lector. Mr.. Hudgins owed the
S342 for the years 1948 through
1858.
Notice Of a motion for judg-
ment against him was served
May 9. AS substitute trial JUS
tice Mr.. Hudgins. an unsuccess-
full candidate last month for
Democratic nomination for Com
monwealth's Attorney, often sits
in judgment on tax delinquency
cases brought to the Fairfax
Court by State officials.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-09
July Employment Boom
.Neors 65-MiIIion Peak

rs million and is now almost a
million lower than a year ago"
the report said.
The tally Of jobleSs was
.2,471 900 as against 2.679,00n in
June.
THE rate of employment in
crease during the past five
months has not been matched
since the postwar reconversion
period of 1916" Secretary Of
Commerce Weeks and Secretary
of Labor Mitchell said jointly.
They reported about million
persons have been added to the
employed total since February,
1855. as compared with an aver
age spring and summer rise of
3 million in the 1947-54 period.
Only 81 per cent of the total
!civilian labor force-which num-
Ibered 67,465. 000--was job hunt
ing. as against 4 per cent a
month ago and 5.3 per cent a
year ago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-09
Montgomery Board Firm
On RoIIingwood Shift
Refuses to Halt Negroes Transfer
To White School Despite Protests

The Montgomery county
School Board today refused to
interfere with School Supt.
Forbes H. Norris plan to send
80 colored children from the
Lyttonsville area to the Rolling
wood School, two miles away.
The board discussed the sit
uation for nearly an hour but
failed to come up with a reso-
luton after Board President
Willard G. McGraw had declared
the matter one for the superin-
tendent to handle and on which
the board has got to go forward
with firmness.
The board left the matter in
the hands of the superintendent
shortly after he had declared:
II think the decision has been
made and we should stick to it.
Sentiment Survey Suggested
Board member Helen G. Scharf
had suggested that before I'VE
move to assign or re-aSsign"
students the board assess the
temper or feelings" of the COM
munities involved.
Mrs. Scharf had suggested that
q study be made of the area to
utilize all classrooms in the Rock
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-09
Prince Georges
Action Taken to
End Segregation

The Prince Georges County
Board of Education today took
the first step toward ending seq
regation In public schools.
The board adopted a resolu-
ton saying that any child is per-
mitted to attend the school Of
his choice, where administra-
lively possible.
The resolution, adopted with
only one minor change from that
announced last week, asserts that
mo child will be denied the
privilege Of attending any school
he wants to attend unless it is
administratively not practical to
admit the child because Of over
crowded conditions, or other
valid reasons"
The only change involved a
detail on pupil transportation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-09

Creek Forest, Rollingwood and
other nearby schools to avoid
double sessions.
DR.. Norris and other school
authorities have reported that
the Rock Creek Forest school
will have several classes on dou-
BILE session this fall while the
Rollingwood school, two school
districts away, still has vacaD-
cies for some 100 students.
Mr.. Norris today said he had
been informed that the school
administration has legal author
ity to assign the Lyttonsville
children wherever it pleases.
Lawsuit Mentioned
Board Member Harrison C.
King suggested that the Linden
school in Lyttonsville be kept
open this fall to help alleviate
the double-session problem in
adjoining schools.
Such an action would result
in a lawsuit in "a hours" Mrs.
Rose Kramer. another board
member, retorted.
Board President McGraw OPP
ened the Rollingwood discussion
with the statement that he felt
there was mo occasion for action
of the board"
The board. in effect. directed
DR.. Norris to make certain that
all classroom seats were being
utilized in all schools in the
area and that the board would
await further recommendations
from DR.. Norris" on the matter
| A delegation Of residents from
Rollingwood was present, but
took no part in the meeting.
Negroes Oppose Shift
Mr.. McGraw made public a pc
tition he reported was signed by
19 Negro residents Of Lyttons.
vile opposing the transfer Of
children from the area to the
Rollingwood.
The petitions reading brought
an immediate retort from Board
Member Mrs. Kramer that
it was mot spontaneously" de-
veloped by the residents Of the
Lyttonsville area.
The board also officially re-
ceived a resolution passed, l76
to SIS. by the Rollingwood PTA
imploring the board to abandon
its plan to transport the 80 col
ored pupils who formerly at
tended the Linden school In
ILyttonsville to Rollingwood.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-09
Virginia and Carolina
A|erted on Hurricane
IWATERED LIQUOR
is LEGAL, THOUGH
Ia BIT WEAKER

ST. LOUIS. (P].-A bar
tender can add water to
whisky, the United States
Court of Appeals has ruled.
but can't put more whisky in
the bottle.
The 81 decision was
handed down yesterday on
the basis that the Federal
law forbidding the addition
of ANY substance" to a
partly filled liquor bottle
referred to a substance" on
which a tax is due. No tax
is due on water.
Judge Harvey M. johnson
dissented, saying water was
a substance" regardless of
the tax liability. All three
agreed it wasn't legal to
add whisky to a partly filled
bottle, even if the tax is paid
on both. The ruling was on
the Governments appeal of
eight cases which had been
dismissed in st. Paul, MINI.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-09
BY the Associated Press

Employment doomed in July
to an all-time record of nearly
IS million, while the number Of
jobless dipped below 2.5 mil
lion, the Government reported
today.
The fifth successive monthly
rise in employment carried the
total of jobholders to GA, 995 900,
or about a million above the
previous record set only one
month earlier. The total is 3
million above July a year ago.
Brisk hiring of youngsters just
out Of school contributed much
of the gain, the Labor and Com
merce Departments said in a
joint report. They added the
employment of adults in most
industries held up better than
usual for this time of year"
las a result, unemployment
which is normally stable in
July--went down by 100000 TO
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-09

->---@--~->--~--------~~--
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's famed
Inchon landing of 1850.
Earlier today seven, American
soldiers were injured when the
demonstrators broke through a
barricade on the causeway lead
ing to the island. That brought
to % the number of American
injured since the
riots began Saturday. None has
been seriously injured.
The Koreans are trying tc
enforce President Rhee's ulti-
matum that the misc leave
Korea by Saturday. Mr.. Rhee
claims the Communist Poles ano
Czechs on the commission are
spies.
Today's demonstration was
broken up by tear gas bombs and
blank shells, the latter fired tc
frighten the Koreans.
Some of the enraged demon.
strators threw a United State.
guard box at one causewaH intt
the sea. Others tried to storm
the island from the sea. They
too. were "epulsed.
Nine Koreans were reported
injured in the Wolmi clash
Three seriously. A ROK army
spokesman said one had received
"a bayonet wound, another hac
been cut on the head with a rift
butt, and the third had been sho
in the leg.
There was no confirmation
FROM american sources.
In Ptsan. scene of the mos
violent clash, an estimated 5000
to 1000 demonstrators YESTERDAY
make several attempts to breal
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-09
Income Of CTC
Put at 4.33Pct.
P. U. c. Accountant
Lifts Company Figure
BY JOHN w. STEPP

The chief accountant Of the
District Public Utilities Commits
sion today testified that Capital
Transit Co.'S net operating In
come for the year ending last
April 80 was $223,246 greater
than the income shown by COM
pany officials.
The commission accountant j.
William Falk, said that his COM
putations showed the company's
net operating income to have
been 1881 .976 on a rate base of
$l9.2 million for a rate Of re-
turn of 4,33 per cent.
Capital Transit officials con-
tended earlier in the fare in
crease hearing which resumed
today that the company in the
same annual period had a rate
of return of only 2.83 per cent.
This percentage is derived from
the company's circulation that
its net operating income was
only $608, 730 on a $2l.4 million
rate base. ...
ST. Million Difference In Bases
The difference in the rate
bases used by the commission
staff and Capital Transit is $2.2
million, which Mr.. Falk said he
deducted because that is the
amount of an indicated" def
cheney in the company's depre-
citation reserve.
The accountant further disal-
lowed in his computations OF
operating expenses. $4,000 OF
the expense account of Louis E
Wolfson, Capital Transit board
chairman and principal stock
holder. This is half of Mr.. Wolf
sons Capital Transit expense
account.
Mr.. Falk said he disallowed
this amount because Mr.. Wolf
son devotes most Of his time to
his other financial interests and
no longer maintains an Office
here.
Gerbert Salary Disall0wed
Also disallowed in Mr.. Falk'S
calculations was a $4,000 annual
amount paid to etc Board
Member E. B. Gerbert for his
services in financial public re-
Ilations." The witness said he
See RATES. PAGE Al
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-09
DISTRICT EMPLOYEES
QUIZZED ON STRIKE
EFFECT ON TRAVEL

A survey Of the travel hab-
its of the Districts 10000
employes-to and from work
was approved today by the
District Commissioners.
They authorized issuance
of a QUESTIONABLE designed
to show how many workers
are likely to quit using tran
sit as a result of the strike
and whether the walkout
has affected travel time to
and from work.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-09
Transit Unions
Counter Offer
Is Due Today
Federal Mediutors
To Coll Meeting
Of Neeotiotors
BY HERMAN F. SCHADEN

BY HERMAN F. SCHADEN
About all Washington could
hope for today was that. like the
great food, the transit strike
will begin easing off after 40
days.
On this. the 40th day of the
strike, there were no doves in
sight. But there was one hope
full sign. The strikers were
working up a counterproposal-
their first in the drawn-out dis
pute.
The unions Executive Board
began checking the new docu-
ment this morning. and two
hours later. still was in session.
Federal mediators planned to
call a company-union negotiat-
ing meeting this afternoon if the
union announced itself ready in
time.
What chances the proposals
have for some realistic bargain
ing depends on how far they
have dropped from the unions
original demands, and how close
they come to the company's re-
jected offer of Sunday.
Differ on Estimates
The union struck for Is cents
an hour. much higher pensions
and an assortment of other
items the company claims would
cost 81 million and the union
set at a somewhat lower figure.
The company's top offer is 10
cents an hour on wages and $40
a month on pensions, plus new
advantages on holidays, vaca-
lions and the health and welfare
plan.
This offer was spurned by
Walter j. Bierwagen, union pres
ident, the unions Executive
Board and CONAN Policy Com
mittee. They said it wasn't in
writing and fell short of union
goals.
Mr.. Bierwagen sounded out
another segment of the union
membership this morning and
reported dissatisfaction with the
company offer. Yesterday he got
the same reaction from. a Sec
tional meeting. The union leader
said there was no sentiment for
putting the offer before the en-
tire membership in a secret bal
lot as the company had urged.
In 40 days the disputing parties
have not been drawn closer to-
gether by one of the weirdest
sequences Of events any strike
has gone through.
Union Assails Company
Mr.. Bierwagen reset the tone
with a blast at the company,
again charging it with making
an offer last week end conting-
ent on President Eisenhower We
toing the bill which would put
Capital Transit out of business.
THE record of Capital Tran
sits failure to negotiate with its
employees in good faith Is abund-
antly clear the statement said.
Between May II. when negotia-
tons began. and July /, when
service was suspended, this COM
pany failed to make any offer
at all.
Since that time, the company
has made only two offers that
were not tied to contingencies.
The officers of the company had
every reason to believe that these
offers would not be accepted"
1T is the unanimous opinion
of the Executive Board of Divi-
sion 689 that the management
of the Capital Transit never has
and is not now seriously attempt
ting to negotiate a settlement of
this dispute. From the begin
ming. this management has at
tempted to confuse the public
with tactical offers and grand
stand plays.
Mr.. Wolfson Gouis E. Wolf
son, etc board chairman
gravely underestimate the in
telligence Of his employees and,
we believe, of the long suffering
residents of Washington"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-09
More Koreans Besieqe
Truce Supervisor Team
Seven U. S. Soldiers Injured as Crowd
Breaks Through Barrier at lnchon

into the NNSC compound. They
were repulsed with tear gas
bombs. Fifteen American soldiers
and % Korean demonstrators
were injured. A window in an
NNSC billet was broken.
A Korean war veteran stabbed
his own leg at the height of the
and with the blood
flowing from his self-inf1icted
wound wrote on a placard: Lets
drive out the Communist truce
inspectors"
Demonstrators, ranging from
a handful to several hundreds,
continued their shutdown protest
in Kunsan, Taegu and Kangnung
/ on the east coast.
/ A United States 9th Army
spokesman said everything is
quiet elsewhere"
Tine demonstrations stem from
an ultimatum handed by the
ROK government to the NNSC
Sunday demanding the groups
withdrawal from Korea within
a week"
Long Critical Of Group
The Republic of Korea has
been opposed to the half-Com-
munist misc since its creation
under the Korean armistice.
/. Supposedly neutral and ere.
ated to police the truce, the
misc is composed of Swiss. Swe.
dish, Czech and Polish members
The United Nations Commant
has denounced the Reds in thu
J. NNSC for improper activitie'
and for blocking inspections il
North Korea.
The Swiss and Swedish gov
ernments agreed in January tn,
misc was virtually useless ant
should be abolished or drasticall.
cut.
/ The Reds refused to agree
|, South Korea claims the Commu
nists do not want to relinquisl
this opportunity to spy on Soutl
| Korea.
But. until the commission /
!, abolished, the U. N. Command
is bound by the armistice to pro
; tect the misc, including tn
. Communist members.