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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-01
Eisenhower Promises
Open Convention
Won't State
Preference
OnNo. 2Mun
BY GOULD LINCOLN

President Eisenhower, promis-
ing his party an open convention
at San Francisco, today stated
again that Vice President Nixon
is perfectly acceptable" to him
as a running mate.
He declined fatty to discuss
the merits or dement's of any
other potential candidate for the
vice presidential
nomination - including Gov.
Christian A. Herter of Massa-
chusetts.
He upheld the right of the Re-
publican National Convention,
which meets in San Francisco
August 20, to elect its candidates
for President and Vice President.
He affirmed. too, the right of
Harold E. Stassen, his special as
sistant on disarmament, to sup
port any candidate for Vice Pres
ident he wished-as a private in
dividual.
He knocked down any Sug-
gestion that Mr.. Stassen would
not return to his place on the
executive staff at the close of the
four-week leave of absence which
Mr.. StasSen has been granted
to carry on his campaign for
Gov. Herter for Vice President.
The Presidents comments
were made at his press con-
ference-the first since his abb
dominal operation.
Leaves Interpretation Open
When the President was asked,
finally, if the reporters present
were to interpret his remarks to
mean that Mr.. Nixon was his
candidate for the vice presidency
he replied that the reporters
could interpret them as they
saw fit.
But he added graphically: II
see no reason why you should
draw that conclusion"
He added emphatically that
what he had been saying was
that the Vice President was per-
fectly acceptable-and he was
not going beyond that.
Many of the reporters who
heard the President said later
they believed (a) that the Presi-
dents preference is Mr.. Nixon
and (b) that Mr.. Nixon will be
renominated.
In no place in the Presidents
answers to long series of ques-
tons, however, did the President
place his finger on Mr.. Nixon
and say: This is my man."
The questioning of the Presi-
dent on the vice presidential
nomination and Mr.. Stassen's
drive to substitute Gov. Herter
for Mr.. Nixon got underway when
a reporter asked if he would dis
cuss that campaign and also tell
the press conference what Mr..
Stassen had said to him-and he
to Mr.. Stassen.
Supports Stassen's Rights
The President answered that
he had said very little to Mr..
Stassen. because Mr.. StasSen
had not come to him to ask
advice. but to tell him what he
proposed to do. The President
said he believed that any Amer
Continued on Page Az, Col. 1
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Judge Bryan
Sets Leisure|Y
Desegregdtion
Arlington Granted
6 Months to Year to
Lift Racial Burs
BY MARY LOU WERNER

Arlington County today had
six months to end racial seq
regation in elementary schools
and more than a year to do like
wise in junior and senior high
schools, but it faced no outright
command for full indignation.
The leisurely desegregation
headlines were set yesterday by
Text Of Arlington County Deseereeotion
Decree. Page B-3
Alexandria Federal Judge Al
bert v. Bryan in a precisely
worded decree that orders the
county to stop separating stu
dents because of race, but leaves
the way open for other methods
OF assigning children to classes.
An accompanying memoir
andum filed by Judge Bryan with
the decree makes it clear that,
while the county must stop as
signing children to schools on
the basis of race, there is no
order for full Indignation.
Mixing Not Required
The memorandum says the
Supreme Court segregation de-
cisions do not compel the mix
ing of the different races in the
public schools" and mo general
reshuff1ing of the pupils in any
school system has been COM
manded." 1t adds:
The order of that (Supreme)
Court is simply that no child
shall be denied admission to a
school on the basis of race or
color. Indeed, just so child
is not. through any form of
compulsion or pressure, required
to stay in a certain school. or
denied transfer to another
school, because of his race or
color, the school heads may al
low the pupil. whether white or
Negro, to go to the same school
as he would have attended in
the absence of the ruling of the
Supreme Court. Consequently
compliance with that ruling may
we'll not necessitate such extern
sive changes in the school sys-
TEN as some anticipate"
The formal decree entered by
Judge Bryan grants an injunc-
ton asked by the National AS
ISOLATION for the Advancement
of Colored People to restrain the
school board from refusing toI
enroll students in any schools
because of race.
The injunction is made effec-
tive January 81, 1857, for ele-
mentary schools and September I
1867, for Junior and senior high
schools.
Judge Bryan took notice of the
forthcoming Virginia General
Assembly session and gave that
as one of several reasons for fix
Ing the desegregation headlines
when he did. The opinion ex-
plains that the School Board may
need time to conform to any
procedure "aS may be prescribed
by the General Assembly of Vir-
ginia at its extra session called
by the Governor for August 81,
1856 -
Peculiar Conditions Weighed
The opinion also makes it clear
that conditions peculiar to
Arlington were weighed in set
ting the time limit to end racial
See SEGREGATION PAGE A-6
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-01

that nomination.
Gov. Averell Hartman of New
York, called by Mr.. Stevenson,
after he defeated Senator Ke-
fauver in the California and
Florida presidential primaries
his strongest opponent, contin-
ued to insist today his chances
for the Democratic nomination
had increased.
II will not withdraw" Mr..
Hartman told reporters. Never"
But whether the New Yorker
withdraws or not, most Demi-
cratic leaders and observers be-
lieve it will take a political
miracle to stop" Mr., Steven
son now. :.
Mr.. Harriman'S principal hope
for the presidential nomination,
before the Kefauver withdrawal.
rested in a deadlock of the con-
vention. in which the Tennessee
Senator and his delegates we're
scheduled for a major part.
Chance of such a deadlock seems
now to have vanished.
No. 2 Place Hinted
Senator Kefauver announced
his withdrawal from the presi-
dental race with dramatic sud-
denness yesterday afternoon. He
was getting out. he told a hastily
gathered press conference, in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-01

The District, Maryland ano
Virginia today was apportioned
500, 1892 in Federal highway
aid funds for the fiscal yeal
beginning next July /.
The grants were announced by
Secretary of Commerce Weeks
as part of a Nationwide APP
portionment of more than SIS
billion authorized under the new
national highway program.
The appointments are: Dis
trict. $15,659, 046; Maryland
$29, SAT 1906, and Virginia, $780,
1876, 1896.
OF the as yet inappropriate
Federal aid money. 1888 million
or we'll over wo-thirds-would
be to improve the interstate
highway systems of the three
Jurisdictions. Under the inter-
state formula the State jurisdic-
tons would put up $40 for every
500 granted by the Federal Gov
eminent.
Fund Distribution
The Commerce Departments
distribution of regular Federal
highway air funds-to be
matched on a $3.50 basis by
the States-breaks down this
way for the three area jurisdic-
tons:
District-$l.9 million for the
primary road system. $1.2 mil
lion for the secondary or feeder
roads and $1.8 million for urban
highways.
Maryland-$3.4 million for
primary, $21 million for Sec
ondary and $3.6 million for
urban.
Virginia-$7.3 million for pri-
mary, $5.7 million for secondary
and $3.3 million for urban.
Interstate System
District highway officials dis
closed that tentative plans. as YET
Iunapproved by the District Com
'missioners. call for spending the
Federal grants for the interstate
system here for these projects:
Continuing work on the Con-
stitution avenue bridge, which
has actually not been started
yet; building a new Fourteenth
street bridge to replace the pres
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-01
BULLETIN
Hodge Aide Found Dead

SPRINGFIELD, Ill up.
The body Of H. Kendall OIdS,
administrative assistant to
former State Auditor OrviIIe
E. Hodge, was found in Lake
Springfield today, the c0rOner's
Office reported. Mr.. Odds, as.
was married and the father Of
a 10-year-Old girl. Associates
in the auditors Office said he
had taken the scandal invOIv-
ing Hodge Every hard" and
was personally devoted" to
the ex-auditOr.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-01
Prepare
To Use Force
In SuezCrisis
Dulles, in London
For Talks, Discovers
Hardening Attitude

LONDON, Aug. / (R.-An
authoritative British source said
today Britain is ready to use
force if necessary. including the
reoccoupation of the Suez Canal
Zone, to keep the canal open to
world shipping.
The informant is an official of
Prime Minister Eden's govern
ment. but he declined to be
identified by his name or posi-
ton.
He said Britain has not asked
and does not intend asking
the United States to join in any
military measures which this
country may take as a result of
Egypt's naturalization of the
canal.
Britain has, however, called
upon the United States to give
political support in the event
military action is taken, he said.
France and some British Com
monwealth countries were de-
scribed as backing this country's
attitude.
There was no official conflrma-
ton from either the British For
eign Office or the United States
Embassy.
Officials Meet at Luncheon
The information was given out
as United States Secretary of
State Dulles talked with Sir An
thony, British Foreign Secretary
Selwyn Lloyd and French For
eign Minister Christian Pineau
at a hurriedly arranged work
luncheon"
Mr.. Dulles, who only Sunday
said he had no plans to come
here. arrived from Washington
BY plane this morning. He is
thought to lave been sent by
President Eisenhower to urge
moderation upon the French and
British.
The United States broadly sup
ports Anglo-French objections to
the canal naturalization and
also seeks ways of guaranteeing
free passage through the canal
which Egyptian President Canal
Abdel Nasser has pledged to do.
But thus far the United States
has baked at indorsing deci-
sions which it feels might lead
to a shooting war.
The talk of force probably
contains some element of trial
balloon pressure BY the Eden
government on Britain's West
ern allies and on Egypt.
Strong Pressure for Action
But Sir Anthony personally is
being pushed by a large group
of his own supporters in Parlia-
ment to stop what they call the
scuttling of British interests in
the Middle East. In France, too,
there is strong pressure for ac-
ton against President Nasser
because of his support of the
Arab rebels in Algeria.
The British group is common
ly known as the "Suez rebels. :"
They opposed the Anglo-Egyp-
tan accord of 1854 Withdrawing
British troops from the Suez
Canal Zone.
The British informant said the
government concluded military
measures might be needed in two
contingencies:
/. If Egypt commits any hos
tile act against a British ship
seeking passage through the
canal.
2. If President Nasser's gov
eminent refuses to accept an
international authority to insure
the free and efficient use of the
See SUEZ, Page AS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-01
Kefouver Seen Assuring
Quick Stevenson Victory
Convention Deadlock Held Unlikely,
But Hartman Vows Fight to End

Eisenhower-Stevenson battle for the presidency
in prospect today result of the withdrawal of
Keauver of Tennessee from the for the Democratic
presidential nomination
Ada Stevenson to whose support Senator Kefauver has
come has been weeks the frontunner in the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-01
BY CECIL HOLLAND
Star STAFF Correspondent

PARIS ISLAND, S, c., Aug Marine Sergt Matthew c.
McKeon admitted the witness stand here today he made
reconnaissance of tidal Ribbon Creek before leading his
platoon night march into the stream which six recruits
were drowned
Before stepped off the bank" the sergeant said 81
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-01
McKeon Admits Creek
Was UnfomiIior to Him
Made No Reconnaissance of Stream
Before Leading Platoon Into Water
BULLETIN

PARIS ISLAND, S. C.--Gen. Randolph Nice. Pate
Marine commandant, testified here today he would not
consider the fatal night march which Ssergt Matthew
c. McKeon led his platoon oppression of troops Before
testifyng Gen Pate greeted sergt McKeon before 80
newsmen and two teevision with Good luck
you. boy"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-01

No Rush 10 Stevenson in Maryland
Delegation. Poee 3D.
Text Of Kefouver Withdrawal Stote-
ment. Pooe A-28
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-01
WEATHER FORECAST

Rather cloudy. No rain most of the time
but few scattered showers tonight end
ing early tomorrow. Full report on Page
A-2J
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-05
TODAYS RADIO
HIGHLIGHTS'

4:O5, WMAL-Jerry and Jimma
Jane Russell will be specia
guest.
$500, WIDOW, WASH-FM - In
the Concert Hall: Schubert,
Symphony in E Major; Bizet,
Carmen Opera for Orchestra;
TchaikovSky, Symphony No.
4; Mendelssohn, The Heb
rides Overture.
500, WTOP-College Football:
From Grifith Stadium George
Washington VS.. Hardin Sim
mons.
$500, WRC - The Bob Hope
Show: Bob and his radio
troupe offer a half hour of
merriment with singer Marg-
aret Whiting, and Les Brown
and his orchestra. David
Niven is special guest.
sos, WGMS-FM = Symphony
Hall: Beethoven, Overture to
Egmont; Dohnanyi. Varia-
tons on a Nursery Tune:
Respighi, Ancient Airs and
Dances Suite.
lO:O5, WMALr-Mystery Time
The weekly adventure at this
time is entitled Police Blot
ter with Sergt. Brad Peters,
l0:15, WWDC-You Were There:
Radio star Julie Bennett por-
trays a volunteer Red Cross
worker in a drama titled
Service Groups"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-05

Stars: A bachelor girl de-
cides to buy a home and gets
involved with an exasperat-
ing builder. who happens to
be unmarried.
$3.50, WMAL (D-The Wise: IF
This Be Murder: a mystery
writer is unmasked as a fraud
Donald Gray plays Mark
Saber.
1900, WTOP (9)-The Lineup:
A salesman, with a taste fol
high living sets himself up fol
vicious assault and robbery
when he flashes a roll of bills
in a San Francisco water
front nightclub.
1000, WRC tN-Cavalcade Of
Sports: Tony Anthony meets
Clarence Hinnant in a To-
round light-heavyweight con-
test.
1000, WTTG (5)-Captured: An
unquenchable thirst for Scien-
tific knowledge brings about
the downfall of q robber in
Little Duke Lukini'-Part l,
1880, WTOP (9) - Person to
Person: Edward R. Murrow
visits Eddie Cantor and wife;
Lewis L. Strauss, Atomic
Energy Commission chair
man. at his Virginia farm.
1l:15, WTOP (9) - The Late
Show: An attempt to estab-
lish an imposter on the
throne of a near-East king
dom bring Holmes and DR..
Watson on the scene in "Pur-
suit to Algiers." Basil Rath-
bone, Nigel Bruce.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-05

Point Story (Premiere). A
series about the traditions
that surround the men of
West Point and the pressures
that enyelop them.
500. WRC (4-Life of Riley:
Riley is accidentally registered
as a new applicant when he
tries to get ellis job at the
plant.
$500, WMAL (D--Jim Bowie
"Trapline";; Bowie SmaShes
a fur monopoly and makes
open bidding available for
trappers.
500, WTTG t6-First Run
Theater:: Chance at Heaven"
is based on the love problems
and search for happiness OF
three young people. Ginger
Rogers, Joel McCrea.
$3.50, WMAL (D-Crossroads
(Season Premiere: THE
Comeback" stars Don before
and Chuck Connors. Story OF
the return to baseball of
pitcher Lou Brissie, who was
gravely wounded in World
War II.
$3.50, WRC az The Walter
Winchell Show: premiere. )
Guests include Perry Como.
Sammy Davis, jr., Martha
Rave, Red Buttons. TV Key
says: ''he will have a surprise
or two in store"
300. WRC IA - The Dinah
Shore Show Color Dinah
will have Frank Sinatra as
guest.
$3.50, WTOP (9)-Playhouse of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-05
TODAYS TV
HIGHLIGHTS

Note: The World Series games
are being televised by WRC-4
and broadcast by WGMS-
Mutual. Game time: 12:45
pm.
1900, WRC (4)-Hit Parade:
Current hit tunes are sung by
Dorothy Collins. Smoky Lam
son. Russell Arms and Gisele
Mackenzie.
1880. WTOP (9)-My Friend
Flicka; Ken makes friends
with photographer and helps
to clear his name when he
believes he is involved in
homicide.
1880, WMAL (7)-Fabian of
Scotland Yard: An unhappy
home serves as a breeding
ground for murder in 1.-The
Troubled Wife"
500, WTOP (9l-The West
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-05
TeIevision 7 omorrow-soturdoy, October 6, 1856

-s3 Variety Your
~ Doony 1890 Married
Hssr is sduSA Pvisw Mas woT1 SERIES
Football Kansas 80
WHs-l Serial Ihtsr a. star the west Saturday
t5l MnmmyS Herbert
= ~
Mo-lS Monl MsdatSH O.
~ Basket Captain
Top l. lseR 13
Football Rouadur 5. spub
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-16
Few Seek Form
Gas Tax Refunds
BY the Associated Press

Only 100000 Of an estimated
million eligible farmers have
applied for refunds on taxes
paid on gasoline used on farms.
the Internal Revenue Service
said today.
This is the halfway point for
filing refund claims for the tax
paid during the first six months
of 1856. The deadline for filing
is September 80.
A revenue spokesman said no
figures were available on the
amount of refunds paid the
100000 who have filed. One
source estimated the average
might run around $40 each.
Although there may be a big
rush to meet the September 80
deadline. the rough estimate of
refunds to date contrasts sharply
with the $50 million the Gov
eminent had expected would be
claimed.
Effective July /, the Federal
tax on gasoline and DIESEL fuels
went up from 2 cents to 3 cents
a gallon. Therefore. in the fiscal
year ending next June 80 farmers
will be able to claim 3 cents q
gallon for fuel used on farms and
for farming purposes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-16

erences to President Eisen-
hower's health, including one
saying he would raise the issue
because neither he nor anyone
knew whether the President
would live four years. The others:
Republicans expect people to
believe that there is nothing like
a heart attack and a major OPP
Grafton to put a fellow in the
very pink of political condi-
ton"
Operations on Farmers
Mr.. Eisenhower and the Sec
Rotary Benson mot only have
given the farmers heart failure,
they have performed several
major operations on them. And,
strange as it may seem. the
farmers are not only feeling a
lot worse, their economic life
expectancy has been shattered"
Senator Kerr said when the
people elected Mr.. Eisenhower
and a Republican Congress in
1852 they had rendezvous with
deception"
mot since the time that ABB
SALON. stole the hearts of the
men of Israeli from his father.
David" the Senator added, were
people promised SO much and
given, so little by irresponsible
political leaders,"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-16

to consider whether they should
join in the minority report. AS
they left the caucus room, Mr..
Dawson met them in the hallway
and appealed to them to stand
by by the Platform Committee
He told them that if the man
they nominate for President has
the right feeling in his heart,
he can do anything that needs to
be done under the plank as sub
mitted. And he added that if
the nominee is not disposed to
act, no change Of wording in the
platform would make any differ
ence.
One of the last planks made
public yesterday dealt with for
eign affairs and national de-
Tense. 1t began by accusing
President Eisenhower of not
having exercised his RESPONSE
bility in that field effectively.
But it ended with an appeal for
a bipartisan approach to for
eign affairs.
Hits at Red China
IF we here indict the Repub-
lican record" the plank con-
cluded. I'VE acknowledge grate-
fully the efforts of individual
Republicans to achieve true BIZ
partisanship."
The plank promised deter
mined opposition" to the admis-
sion Of Red China to the United
Nations.
1t called the Suez Canal crisis
a consequence of ''inept and
vacillating Republican policy 1t
also promised to assist Israel
with defensive weapons to offset
the Communist arms sent to
Egypt.
The plank also accused the
Republicans Of being content
with a "second-best defense"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-16
Spout
DeuthIess Prose
From 2 Promptors

CONVENTION HALL, CHI
CAGO, Aug. 16 DIFF you're
puzzled why a speaker at the
Democratic National Convention
turns his head first one way and
then another. there's a reason.
He is shifting between two tele-
|prompters. One is to the left.
one is to the right. and both are
built in as q part of the lectern.
The teleprompter works like
this:
The deathless prose is written
in large type on paper that is put
on a roll. similar to the ones used
in the old player piano.
The mechanism is under the
control Of an operator who can
speed up the revolving roll. or
slow it down if he is following a
slow speaker. The two tele-
|prompters move in unison.
Fours years ago there were sew
eral foulups. as the speaker
headed one way and his mechan-
|ical helper went another. This
years model, though, has per-
formed without any slips that
were noticeable.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-16
IDAHO RANCHMAN
BLOWS HIS TOP IN
PACK RAT FEUD

HALEY. Idaho (P).-Arne
Friestad didn't like the way
that pack rat was chewing
up a saddle he kept at the
Grover Croker ranch near
HALEY.
So when he spotted the
rat on a platform in the
barn he fired at it with a
.410-gauge shotgun - not
noticing there was a box Of
dynamite on the same plat
form.
The explosion blew the
roof and sides from the barn
and hurled Friestad outside,
knocking him unconscious.
At the Haley Clinical Hos
pital, where he was treated
for cuts and bruises, Friestad
said he was sure he got the
rat.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-16
Truman and Johnson
Meet With Ruyburn

CHICAGO. Aug. 16 (R.-For-
mer President Truman, House
Speaker Sam Rayburn and Sem
ate Majority Leader Lyndon B.
johnson held what they called
"a purely social" meeting yes
terday afternoon.
They met in Mr.. Rayburn's
suite in the Conrad Hilton Hotel
amid. reports that the Texas
delegation. pledged to Senator
johnson as a favorite son, was
preparing to shift its support to
Adlai Stevenson after, or at the
end of, the first ballot. "
1T was purely a social visit"
Mr.. Truman told newsmen az
he left Mr.. Rayburn's suite.
Just social CALL" Mr.. Ray
burn agreed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-16
Musical Criticism
.Livens Democratic
Show at Chicago

CONVENTION HALL. Chica-
go. Aug. 16 H9.-Joe Chaser,
billed as organized labor's min
strel, sang to the Democratic
National Convention last night
"a political ballad called Love
That Team"
Mr.. CHASER calls his song q
musical character study OF the
Eisenhower administration.
Sample verse. Distinguishing
between Secretary of Treasury
George Humphrey and Senator
Hubert Humphrey OF Mime
sofa:
THE number one helper In
the whole shebang
Is a fellow named Humphrey
the leader Of the gang
! don't mean Hubert. Mime.
sofas pride and Joy.
! mean trickle-down George
the bankers boy"
Mr.. Chaser. SO. is education
director Of the United Rubber
Workers.