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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-09
How Hozordous Is 1t?

In view of the serious and controversial
nature of the question, it is gratifying that
an organization as respected and distin-
guished as the National Academy of
Sciences is undertaking an elaborate study
of the effects of atomic radiation on living
organisms-plant animal and human.
The study, which will be financed by
the Rockefeller Foundation and have the
full cooperation of the Atomic Energy Com
mission, will be conducted by "a committee
of eminent scientists and staff" In the
words of Dr. Detlev w. Bronx, the academys
president, these men will be as disposition
ate and objective as possible. Their chief
task will be to try to find where the truth
lies between the many conflicting state
ments that have been made with increasing
frequency as regards the possible dangers
inherent in the testing of A-weapons and
the hydrogen bomb and in Harvesting the
atom for industrial purposes.
AS the academy has declared, these
wide differences of opinion have been voiced
by prominent scientists and laymen, and
they have to do with issues Of grave con-
Germ as well as great hope to mankind"
Accordingly, in an effort to clear the air of
misconceptions and exaggerations on either
the peSSimistic or optimistic side. the pro-
jected study will seek to arrive at firm and
interchangeable conclusions as to the ge
netic and biological effects of all past and
current atomic activity In addition, it will
attempt at the same time to identify ques-
lions upon which further intensive research
is urgently needed"-reSearch designed to
determine, among other things, whether or
not ever-accelerating A and H tests and the
expanding use of non-military nuclear
power constitute long-range menace to
the reproductive health and even to the con-
tinuing existence of human beings.
The Acc, whose vast amount of infor-
nation on this subject will be made avail
able to the new study group, has spent
great deal of money and effort on investi-
eating the aftermath of radiation unleashed
by all the worlds nuclear detonations to
date And its findings have been reaSsuring
as far as those particular tests are con-
cerhed However, as for future atomic &C
tivities and their possible effects on men,
animals and plants, the commissions ex-
perts have been at pains to declare that
the whole matter is still unclear and uncer-
tain enough to call for a continuing and
thorough inquiry.
So the project being undertaken by the
National Academy of Sciences is very much
to the point. Indeed, as Acc Chairman
Strauss has said, mo more timely service
to the worlds people could be performed by
American scholarship" 1t is a service that
should result in far better understanding
everywhere of both the threat and the
promise implicit in the nuclear age Not
least OF all it should put an end to the public
confusion caused by extremists who dis
cuss the subject in excessively alarmist
terms or who heap ridicule on warnings
about the atoms possible genetic hazards.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-09
Letters to The Star.

trafic pile up while he stands on the
corner observing" was seen recently
at Nebraska and Connecticut ave-
nues. What difference it would make
if officers would direct traffic, not just
watch it!
Personally, / am not specially in
volved or concerned in all this. 1t just
seems silly to talk so much about lot
of possible solutions and fail to cure
the real evils,
Glenn E. Jackson.
Whot to Do About Chino?
Those flyspecks of the China coast
Quemoy and Matsu-haye insignificant
military value, but the administra-
tons Craftsmanship" has the free
world approaching a neurotic break
down and has stirred deep concern in
the United States because Of an implied
threat to use tactical nuclear weapons
in their defense. All thought about how
to stop Chinese communism devolves on
what to do about these fiyspecks, with
my favorite newspaper-The Evening
Star-rationalizing that, anyway. this
is no time to backtrack.
But surely it is time for some rigor-
Gus, clear and honest thinking. Com
munism has become in reality and
among other things ruthless method
of rapidly industrializing a backward
nation, and that sleeping giant. China.
is starting to build foundation for
modern industry with massive Russian
aid. In ten or fifteen years China could
be on the way to becoming the
dominant power in Asia around which
other nations would revolve. Perhaps
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-09

behind closed doors it is said that now
is the time to smash China's infant
industries and transportation with tao
teal nuclear weapons, since Russia
would not dare to intervene openly.
Such a gambit might also help split
Russia and China and therefore world
communism. 1t might work, but it might
also shatter the free world alliance.
But aside from the fact that the
final outcome of our action cannot be
known, it would probably bring closer
a thermo-nuclear Armageddon with
Russia, because the tension and fear
would become endemic and psyche
pathic. Or are they so anyway?
Perhaps it is two minutes to mid
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-09
'Unco- ordinated Traffic Liqhts


Our traffic problems are steadily get
ting worse. think it is appropriate,
therefore, that any citizen with strong
convictions as to what could be done to
improve the situation should express
himself
The two worst faults are the lack Of
co-ordinated lights and the inexcusably
poor ratios inktiming at second or lower
grade side streets. have noted score
of examples where the side-street
traffic is as to Is to the main avenue
like Connecticut. Yet the light ratios
are typically to 4. Therefore. you tie
up about four cars on the main ave-
nue. to let one side-street car get
through. Since when should side
streets be treated four times as favor
ably as the main avenues?
For five years have been counting
waiting cars, and the facts reveal that
whoever is timing these lights does
not recognize the facts of life in
Washington.
The second weakness is the lack of
co-ordinated lights. Until five years
ago nobody in this town seemed to
recognize the value of co-ordinated
lights to move traffic But then. just
few streets were grudgingly staggered.
denied all streets?
Do our engineers not recognize that.
should staggering in one direction pro-
duce unco-ordinated lights in the
other. the overall result is so per
cent gain?
Do any of these light experts (sic)
ever drive through our streets during
the daytime? Yesterday I went II
blocks in a taxi. have a stopwatch.
It took me II minutes 5 seconds An
alert walker could beat that time. I
was moving for only minutes, 20 Sec
onds. The balance, minutes, As sec
onds, was spent sitting and waiting for
stoplights.
All over town one can start his car
normally accelerate to 20 miles an
hour and hit the next intersection five
seconds after the light change This
is about 80 per cent negative CO.
ordination.
A child could scatter the stoplights
from the sky and chance would pro-
duce so per cent negative co-ordina-
ton
have spoken to scores of taxi driv-
ers, citizens-and all complain There
are other improvements that could be
made, though they are minor as COM
pared to the two I have noted. For one
thing, our traffic policemen act more
like observers than traffic directors. I
have seen only one traffic officer who
knows his business. He is stationed at
Fifteenth street and New York avenue.
He "expedites" traffic. instead of let
ting it loaf. He is positive, not just
negative.
If this town let's pedestrians loaf
across streets. taking all the time in
the world. you will never get cars
through. The car trying to turn right
stands there while all the pedestrians
loaf. No officer gets in there to tell
people to move. or to direct the turn
ing vehicle so the whole line won't be
held up.
An example OF an officer who lets
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-09
NEGLECT of Schools

Neglect of Schools
The parents and teachers affiliated
with the Is schools which comprise
this council have, in recent months.
expressed growing concern over GER
tain fiscal, personnel and plant and
equipment deficiencies which have been
permitted to develop in the District Of
Columbia public school system.
Your extensive and objective cover
age Of school news during the past year
has served to inform the public in this
regard and was therefore a distinct
public service. hope you will continue
to expose to public scrutiny the evil
dences of municipal and congressional
neglect of our schools.
Bernard c. Eisenberg,
President, Area 6 Council Of
Parent Teacher Associations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-09
BY THE HASKIN SERVICE

@, What is the name Of the new drug
that has had startling success in the
treatment Of arthritis?-S. P.
A. The new anti-arthritis drug ID
metacortandracin. sold under the brand
name meticorten. Tests at the National
Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Dis
eases at Bethesda Md, indicated that
this drug may have great possibilities.
@. How much money has the United
States contributed towards rehabilita-
ton Of Korea?-A. ".
A. During the years from the end
Of World War II to the end Of fiscal
1854, the United States Government
contributed a total of about $l.2 bill
lion for the relief and reconstruction
Of Korea.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-09
concer crusode


Last April. went forth to collect for
the Cancer Crusade on my street. Three
weeks later my brother. young man
in his forties, strong and healthy. was
in the hospital. Routine, we thought.
Puzzling though: they could not find
anything obviously causing the chest
and throat swelling. We made visits to
his bed. where we laughed and chatted;
he listened to ball games and chafed
at having to spend long days doing
nothing but undergoing tests. Then
as left one afternoon the doctor was
waiting outside his door. Humorous
mass-the family must know. Cancer!
But the miracle of prayer and X-ray
therapy did give temporary reprieve.
Cruel reprieve, though, for by October
he was suffering torturously in another
part Of his body. And such mental
anguish. He knew:.he was facing alone
the blacklist reality person can face
these days in the realm of disease.
1t was such a horrible word, such
hopeless thing. that We never mentioned
it: neither did he. But he knew-and
We could only stand by and futilely
watch this Gethsamene he was passing
through.
Later. in November and December,
when the horrible thing progressed to
the ultimate stage. he had opium and
morphine to ease the pain, to alleviate
the mental anguish. We, his family,
had no opium and morphine to ease
the anguish of seeing loved one cut
down in his prime when life meant so
much. And, then. life was snuffed out:
children were left fatherless-another
home broken by cancer.
Give generously, please. all who read
these words, the sad saga of cancer and
what it can do to strong man or
woman. Give so that some day, when
it does strike we can come out openly
and talk about it with the victim be-
cause some cure will have been discov-
cred to give them a. fighting chance.
Let's get cancer out of the dark closet
of doom. just as many of the other
formerly hopeless diseases have been
conquered.
They said they lost him because they
did not know what to do. Let's help
medical science find out what to do.
You, too, might have to stand by and
watch dear one highland never have
a chance. In few weeks I shall be
around to your door again. Give.
Sister.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-09

and natures God-subserv,ent to the
Kremlins will and the tortuous dogma Of
the party line.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-09
Questions and Answers

A reader can get the answer to any
question Of fact by writing The Evening
s Sw 1nfSrmation Bureau 1900 Eye 81:
inclose 8 cents for return poataRe
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-09

night" and the clock cannot be stopped,
but think we should at least try. The
naturalization everywhere which coun-
terfeits for genuine thinking is merely
a conditioned reflex. If both sides
really wish to coexist OF find a modus
vivendi. we may discover the best way
to have friends is to be one. Or is there
no longer any hope?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-09

Lip Service to Prince Of Peace
Once again the so-called Christian ma
tons are giving their annual lip service
to the Prince of Peace.
In 1917, was one of multitude who
strove to prevent the entry Of this coun-
try into the war to end wars" Re-
member?
One of our specific goals was to limit
appropriations for the War Department
to 81 billion annually.
Our current appropriations are $37
billion.
Theresa H. Russell.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-25
Eccentric Hurricane
Gains Force After Letup

MIAMI. Fla. Sept. "a (R.-
Hurricane Janet's winds dimip,
Iished for q few hours and ther
lregained today much Of the 100.
Ito-l27-mile force with which she
blasted the British colonia
islands In the Windward group
Her peak winds dropped of tt
rs to IS miles an hour early In
the day, but in the afternoon Q
hurricane hunter plane found she
was again whirling I00-mile gust!
around her center.
1.-THE hurricane is showing &C.
centric behavior" said Gordon
Dunn, chief storm forecaster ir
the Miami Weather Bureau. "Shs
lis following a serpentine path
her eye is pnlsating in size. and
her intensity varies"
Janet is moving slightly north
of west over the Caribbean Sea al
10 to IA miles an hour.
The storm was moving south
Iof the Dominican Republic ant
was about LOO miles southeast
1of Miami In inidafternoon.
Barbados. one Of the Wind
ward Islands north of Trinidad
was hard hit Thursday with .
toll Of Is or more dead, $50 in
Ijured and 1000 homeless. Prop
lerty damage was estimated at 81
million.
Reports said an undetermined
number Of persons were kille.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-25

on Grenada. south Of Barbados.
and extensive damage also re-
suited on st. Vincent. The San
Juan weather bureau reported
without elaboration. There is no
sign Of life on Cariacou Island. !"
one of the Grenadine group
north Of Grenada.
Janet still followed an unusual
serpentine course on her west
ward path. Only the open Carib-
bean lay ahead of her for many
hundreds Of miles. She was ex-
pected to curve slowly toward
the west-northwest but the turn
has not yet developed.
Storm warnings we're displayed
on the islands Of Aruba, Curacao
and Bonaire. and over the vene-
zuelan peninsula Of Paraguana.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-25

walk In the door Of the hospita
with the bahy--that simply.
But police throughout the Sar
Francisco Bay area kept up Or
intense search for the woman
and the child.
A hoaxer who sent 9 5000
extortion note to DR.. Marcus or
Wednesday. mailed him ar
apology" yesterday saying what
he did was - cruel and fiendish
trick" and expressing belief hi
will be arrested sooner or later
The FBI is trying to find him.
In Atlantic City, N. j.. police
said the FBI reported the foot
prints Of q baby boy found aban.
doned there did not match those
of little Richard. California au-
thorities In the kidnap case had
requested the check.
The hunt for little Richard
has centered in San Jose. where
q woman corresponding to thu
description Of the kidnaper had
been reported seen with an IN
FAINT and where baby clothiuf
has been stolen from clothes
lines. 8A
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-25
Queen Wishes
Quick Recovery

LONDON. Sept. Is Sunday
ItR.-Queen Elisabeth II early
today cabled her condolences Il
President Eisenhower on his Ill.
mess and joined her husband, the
Duke Of Edinburgh. in sending
"our warmest good wishes fol
your speedy recovery"
Prime Minister Eden also mes.
saged the President, saying:
81 am most deeply distressed
to hear the news Of your illness
/ send you my heartfelt wishes
for q quick recovery"
A solemn faced announcer
broke into the nations new com.
mercial television network witt
. news flash, Q precedent re.
served for news Of transcendenl
importance.
| In later bulletins the Amer,
lean Presidents illness was tn,
first item, although little de.
tails were available In Londor
when broadcasting closed dowr
for the night.
Sunday newspapers hurried,
replated their front pages to givt
prominence to the account O,
the Presidents illness.
| The mass circulation Sunda,
Express rushed through al
editorial urging the presiden,
to get well quick"
| The Queen heard of the Pres.
ident's illness just before mid.
might and Immediately ordered
this cable sent:
I am deeply concerned Il
learn Of your illness.
MY husband and I send yo,
our warmest good wishes fol
your speedy recovery"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-25
Vice presidenf
In SecIusioIl

The whereabouts Of Vice Pres
Iident Nixon during what must
have been some of the tensest
hours Of his career was some
thing Of q mystery last night.
While the story Of President
Eisenhower's heart attack flowed
from Denver. the only Informs
ltion available on Mr.. Nixon was
that he was being kept informed
Iof Developments at the summer
White House. he had no irnme-
diate plans to fly there last night
and he had no comment at this
time.
Mr.. Nixon's aides would say
only that The is in Washington /"
land they steadfastly turned aside
questions as to where in Wash
lington he was.
AS the first in line Of succession
to the presidency. Mr.. Nixon is,
las the old political saying goes.
f'only a heartbeat from the
White House, The President
remains Chief Executive. how
ever. even though seriously i'll.
No Vice President has moved
into the Presidency unless the
President died.
Not at Home
Neither the Vice President nor
Mrs. Nixon were at their home,
1901 Tilden street. NV. where
their two daughters, Tricia, o
and Julie. Z, were being watched
by d houSekeeper and by Mr.
Nixon's appointments secretary
Miss Dorothy Cox.
Miss Cox said that while she
did not know where MIR. Nixon
could be found. she knew that he
did not intend to go to Denver
and that he was not returning
home last night.
Miss Cox added that she also
did not know where Mrs. Nixon
was staying.
The secretary said she prob
ABLY would spend the night al
1.-THE Nixon residence to answer
the many telephone calls from
IGovernment o n d Republican
party officials who had been call
ling.
Children Quite Excited
| Miss Cox said she was called
Ito the Nixon home Unexpectedly
lot 6:45 pm. after returning from
the football game at College
Park.
She added. with a laugh. that
the two Nixon children, who
were bounding around the house
past their bedtime, were quite
excited" by all the people -rnost-
lily newspaper men-who were
haunting the place.
She said that the Vice Presi-
dent was at the Capitol thii
morning. He returned to the city
last Thursday after q speaking
tour.
At Denver 1t was reported that
mr.. Nixon telephoned the sum-
inner White House and. according
Ito Assistant Press Secretary Muir.
Tray Snyder expressed ION behalf
Iof Mrs. Nixon and himself his
hest wishes for the Presidents
quick recovery"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-25
.Murquut to Retire

SEATTLE. Sept. ~ tR.-Maj.
Gen. W. F. Marquat, who left
Corregidor with Gen. Douglas
Macarthur and played a key role
in the economic, rebuilding Of
Japan after the war, win retire
from the Army next Friday. AT
isl. the former Seattle news
paperman is the. last to retire OF
the 10 officers who accompanied
Gen. Macarthur to Australia
from the Philippines in 1912.
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MOVES
Continued Fro,n First Par

Continued From First Page
ing and manner Of the Sultan g
departure is admitted by gov
eminent spokesman. The choice
Of a third man to balance o Ma
tionalist and q pro-French ira
ditionalist" on the proposed re-
gency council is left in his hands.
In short. the entire chance OF
Mr.. Faure's plan of reform-and
very probably the chance Of MIR.
Faure's own survival as head Of
the French government-hangs
on the generals willingness to
oct.
1t is this fact which has led
TO all the talk about a military
conspiracy. Gen. de Latour is a
military traditionalist of the old
paternalistic French school. He
is a friend of Marshal Juin's
and is known to have visited him
twice in the course of his recent
visit. He is believed to have a
number of reservations about
the governments reform scheme
and to be genuinely concerned
about the possibility of serious
demonstrations by French col
onists If the plan is put into
effect.
And yet those who are in po-
eition to know believe that Gen
de Latour is not out to double
cross the government. If a mill
tary conspiracy actually exists,
they say, heis not a member
Of it.
In return for the powers given
him, he has promised to carry
out loyalty the program for Mo-
rocco which the government has
outlined.
Which one of these two
theories is the correct one will be
decided by news from Rabat
within the next few days. II
order can be maintained, II Ben
Arafa goes quietly and a regency
council is set up. a good deal
can still be salvaged. II nothing
Is settled before the return OF
the National Assembly on Octo-
Der 4, the fat will be In the fire
In both Morocco and Paris.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-25
Visit by Children Cheers
Mother of Stolen Body

SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. "a tH1
-The overwhelming grief Of q
young mother over the kidnap-
ing of her infant son was some
what eased today as her two
other children visited her in her
hospital room.
"Why are you crying. Nom
my?" asked 3-year-old Richard
as he stood wide eyed at the bed
of Mrs. Hanna Marcus. Susan. Q.
asked Are you sick. Mama?"
She reached out her pale hands
TO the children who have been
waiting with childish wonder to
zee the new baby brother they
expected her to bring home.
But the tiny boy, born week
ago today. was abducted from
his hospital crib last Monday.
The two children were brought
TO their mothers side by their
father. DR.. Sanford Marcus. who
thought their presence might
shock the mother out Of her
state Of near collapse.
She shook with hard sobs, and
then she smiled-the first smile
since she learned that the in
FAINT, Robert, had been taken
DR.. Marcus said later: I'll
seemed to make Hanna fee
better"
She had her first solid food
since the Kidnapping. Or. March,.
said that while his wife had beer
weeping constantly, this was
the first time she had q real
good cry" He thought it would
help her in the way Of emotional
release, and that she now viii
turn her thoughts to the other
youngsters.
Robert it believed to have been
kidnapped by a "buxom blonde
woman seen in the hospital a
few minutes before he dis
appeared. 4
DR.. Marcus said: 81 think the
woman who took him will just
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several months ago. it was be-
Ilieyed that he might enter the
lists for the presidential nomina-
ton next year. Senator johnson
has made remarkable progress
toward recovery, but 1t is ex-
Itremely doubtful he would throw
his hat in the ring.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-25
Chino Cotton Crop BIG

LONDON, Sept. "a R.-Red
China has called in the army to
help harvest what it calls the
biggest cotton crop In six years
lin Sinkiang Province. The Pei
ping radio says the average yield
lover 1880 acres In the Manass
River basin Is Alta pounds per