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four is fact. and that sever
plus two equals nine and two
plus seven gives the ZANE an.
swer are two more.
He arranges these facts in
concentrations" Some of these
concentrations are so simple that
they have occurred to anyone
who can add and subtract pri-
mary numbers without pad and
pencil. Seventeen of them in
clude the number / and arr
based on the pattern that when
one is added the answer Is the
next higher number, and when
one is subtracted, the next lower
The number zero is still easier
Everyone has noticed that zert
does not change the number II
lis added to or subtracted from
DR.. Macvaugh said this is dis
books. He feels it important that
the pupils be taught these simple
facts along with the other zoe
number facts" of addition ano
subtraction.
Nine Also A Key Number
The number 9 also follows 9
pattern or generalization" wher
added or subtracted. The second
number in the answer is always
one less than the number added
g plus 8 equals IL; 4 plus
equals 10 etc.,. When 9 is sub
tracted the number of the answer
is always one more than the
number subtracted from "a
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known he had gained consider.

known he had gained consider
able renown as. a boxer.
! With three romances oper-
Iating concurrently from his
Baltimore address, he masked
his visits to one victim by writing
the others that his important
position at Fort Meade. Md. re-
Iquired variouSly submarine
"trip to New London and a flight
to North Carolina on a guided
missile project.
Actually. investigation at Fort
Meade showed that instead of
being a top atomic engineer with
two secretaries and vast respon-
lsibilities-as he claimed-the
only time he ever worked at Fort
Meade was for part of one week
when he was employed by a
contractor on a paint job.
Investigators described him as
well dressed. soft-spoken and
Igentlemanly. giving him the ap-
lpearance of a man who had had
rough beginnings but, by his own
perseverance, had succeeded in
life. He wrote convincingly of
his desire to end his lonely ex-
Iistence by marriage and equally
Iconvincingly of the obstacles to
marriage that could be overcome
by money. The car, for instance,
was to help him commute from
the home he and his victim
would share to his job. No car,
mo marriage.
Or he would be wistful about
it. To one he wrote, Wish had
"a good car SO we could take a
trip some place together"
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Continued From First Pag,
non-existent orange grove in
Florida.
He conned the women into
buying him handkerchiefs, shirts
and underwear to encourage
their wifely instincts and sug-
Igested they make the purchases
during store sales to show what
q frugal person he was.
One Of his victims was a mid
| dle-aged spinster but most were
widows with a bit of property
or an income. All the recent ones
fell into his clutches via lonely
hearts clubs.
He was all things to all women
He represented himself variously
Jas an atomic engineer with q
years Government service, a pro-
duction manager, a company SUI
perintendent, the owner of q
100-acre orange grove, a former
trapeze and trampolin artist with
the circus, the retired owner Of
Ia prosperous Chicago bar. a for
Imer lieutenant commander in
the Navy and a part owner of
Texas oil we'll. He also let is be
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minus Q equals 5; Is minus
equals six.

minus 9 equals S; Is minus 9
equals six).
This is all simple stuff to be
sure. But DR.. Macvaugh holds
that of the 200 number facts, %
|l16 can be taught in 10 such
cancellations. Most Of them
include the numbers !. 8 and 0.
The others have to do with the
performance Of doubles in add
ition and subtraction, something
easy to teach and easy to learn.
AS for the other "a number
facts" Of addition and subtrac-
ton, he has developed a simplifi-
cation and memory retention
that is the core of his
system. He holds that in stand
ard arithmetics, addition. sub
traction, multiplication and di-
vision are taught in sets Of four
related facts.
1--WE really slaughter the num-
Der system; there is no system
to It," he said.
The first school to use his sys-
tenn was Simmons, a public
school Cat the time for colored
children only at Pierce and
First streets NV. 1t was intro
duced by Mrs. Angela Bishop,
who attended the lecture.
Holy Name School, a parochial
school. at Eleventh and K streets
NE, adopted it. he said, and
after a check found there was a
Sc per cent increase In accuracy
and 80 per cent increase in speed
on the pupils part. There was a
rs per cent increase in papers
without error.
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despite the momentary calm. Is
exceedingly tense. One leading
Birmingham resident hkened it
to having "a bomb in your house
and not being able to do any,
thing about ii or knowing when
1t was going off,"
A veteran newspaper editor
swept a hand toward the con-
lgested Negro residential section
Ia few blocks away and said:
Il have seen Negroes staring
into the windows Of pawn shops
that dot that section and point
ing out guns in the windows
they would like to have. If trou-
BILE develops, and it could any
minute If spark Is applied, you
can bet that every Negro would
show UP with a gun. And the
white folks would. too. 1t is q
dangerous situation"
Extremists" Leading
This man said extremists" of
both races so far had been In
control Of Alabama. "They have
leadership"
1.-THE decent people Of both
races, and I know they are IN
the majority. are caught in the
middle" he added. 'They don't
have leadership. It's the have
not whites. the extremists, the
trash, plus a few others pitted
against the Negroes. They hate
the Negroes and the Negroes
hate them. There is also no un-
derstanding of our problem from
you in Washington or else
where"
But this same civic leader
thought that things are getting
in a little better perspective
now" that there was an increas-
ing feeling on the part of both
races that they had to work out
their problems without blood
shed. He said there was evil
dence the decent people" were
beginning to show some leader
ship and he mentioned the Bir-
mingham Interracial Council
statement, as an example.
AS the chimes on a nearby
Presbyterian church played
Dixie" one wondered how it
would all end.
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,ment-apparently can't do much
about It, or ct least. not enough.
3. Racial migration hasn't
caused the situation. but 1t has
greatly complicated 1t. and made
the need for action urgent.
What basis is there for say.
ing Washington school children
aren't learning enough?
Last years achievement tests
showed District pupils ct all
levels-elementary. Junior high
and senior high-averaging be.
low par. The average was far
below for ninth-graders, In
arithmetic, two to three years;
in reading. one to two years.
Test Scores Low
Almost 1900 Of the city's 1000
present tenth graders. tested q
year ago. showed sixth grade
level or poorer In arithmetic. In
reading. more than 1000 were
las low or lower. I'm nearby Ar
llington and Montgomery Coun-
tiles. pupils average above par)
In 1919. q survey showed many
Washington school children
also Jagged then on standard
tests. Some schools, according to
the survey, averaged three years
behind. .
In many schools the survey
found too many failures and too
many average. maladjusted and
unsuccessful children.
It also found great inequality
in class sizes. teacher stats and
teaching facilities among schools
and neighborhoods. Negro
school conditions in almost every
respect were found to compare
Iunfavorably with white.
Since 1949 the school system
has made some changes in its
operations. Since 1854, when
segregation was dropped. schools
teachers and other facilities the
1919 survey found unequal. Chill
Idren have moved, too, and this
has brought into focus some
noticeable achievement differ
Iences between the city's white
and colored children.
Achievement Gap Shown
The 1949 survey found the
achievement of colored children
apparently averaging behind
white; recent tests show a similar
gap. Supt. Hobart M. Corning
has told teachers and the Board
of Education that the merging
achievement levels are prob
lem, and that unusual action will
be required to cope with it.
The big question is the ability
of the school system to deal with
this problem, and with the whole
present situation.
In 1949 the report on the
school survey said the schools
didn't have enough teachers,
money or many other things.
Now the educators still are say
ing the same.
Without more help, they say,
they can't do the kind of job
that is needed.
What proof is there of this?
The first persuasive argument
lis that the schools apparently
haven't been doing the job they
should for years and apparently
haven't been able to do much
about it. The second is the story
of the educators themselves
This is easy enough to dis
ipute or confirm. All it takes
lis a trip into the city's schools.
TOMORROW: Learning log
jam.
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should be capable of doing these
easy, basic. computations before
finishing sixth grade.
This junior high is accustomed
to dealing with educational lags
tits in a low-income neighbor-
hood, where background and
cultural opportunity are limited
and more problems are thrown
onto the school. (The ninth
graders mentioned above are in
the next-to-lowest of the schools
five ninth-grade classes, and are
rated as Slow-learners. The
seventh-graders. though, are
rated as normally intelligent.)
But the school has never be-
fore had anything like the pres
ent low achievement.
The principal asked this writ
er, with obvious Illustration in
his voice:
What are we going to DO
with these children?"
The assistant principal, shut
fling the test papers, labeled
them appalling"
The school. formerly exclu-
sively for white children, now
has a majority of colored chill
dren, and like some other inte-
grated schools it has found
many of the newcomers have
lower educational achievement
than the school has been ac-
customed to.
Schools Seem Stumped
But the classes that took the
tests included both white and
colored children, and both were
at extremes in the results.
This schools problems are not
unique. Teachers report they are
facing similar problems in many
classrooms across the city.
The situation seems to be this:
l. Many children aren't learn
ing enough.
2. The schools-at the mo-
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CouncllS-"Works hand-ln-nano
with the Observation-Disclosures
that American States Rights
stands for definite segregation
protection of the schools against
Communist infiltration. and Il
regain States rights"
Mr.. Horton blames outsiders
people from the North-fol
IAlabama's current troubles.
IF they would Just let thu
damn thing alone down here" h
said, I'VE will get along all right
I'VE had no trouble with oul
Negroes until all Of this integra-
Ition drive started. They used tt
come to me. I mean people ir
my employ, for help and advice
Now there is a foreign situation
They go to the NAACP. I don't
like It,"
But Mr.. Horton listed among
the "agitators" the Jefferson
County birmingham Interra-
| cial Council. a 5O-member group
made up Of leaders Of both races.
The council today took note
lof the deterioration in good re-
Ilations between the two races
which has taken place in recent
months. It has been particularly
Iconcerned over the threat to law
and order and to the normal
course of justice with which the
present state Of intense feeling
among members Of both races
has confronted our southern
society. :"
Plea Made for Order
The council concluded: ut is
time for all men and women OF
good will, whatever their color.
to stand Enthusiastically in word
and example. against the use OF
force in the settlement Of our
differences"
Along the same lines, Birming-
ham Negro ministers designated
next Tuesday as a "day of special
prayer" for easing racial tension
in Alabama.
at is necessary" read a solu-
ton of the Methodist Ministers
Alliance, ito implore a source
that is wiser and more powerful
than the councils Of men,"
The day of prayer. the Alliance
pointed out, has no connec-
ton with a Nationwide prayer
day called for March 26 by Rep
resentative Powell, Democrat Of
New York, who is also a Negro
minister.
AS for the liberal" whites,
who regard school indignation as
inevitable, they feel the Febru-
airy 6 violence at Tuscaloosa
could have been avoided if Miss
Lucy had used a different ap-
proach. They say she reported for
registration at the University
February 2 latter Judge Grooms
had ordered same) in a pink
Cadillac furnished by a Negro
undertaken. and brushed past a
long line Of white students watt
ing to enroll.
Tempest Is Stirred
But Miss Lucy's request for
dining and dormitory privileges,
according to these liberals, really
stirred up the tempest that de-
veloped later.
IF she had just registered in
a regular way" said one Biz
mingham citizen, Il don't think
there would have been any trou-
BILE. She could have boarded
with a Negro family in Tusca-
loosa. Next year perhaps more
Negroes could have entered"
But the present situation here,
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Derrick Club Meets

The Desk and Derrick Club
will meet at. 6 pm. tomorrow at
the National Tank Truck Car
riers, Inc, 1924 Sixteenth street
NV.
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Scores in Tests Reveal
Learning Deficiencies

Here IL how some Washington public school pupils
showed achievement tests last year. The first table
shows the ranking Of present 10th graders beginning high
school sudents the basis Of tests the end
Of ninth grade
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MAKING ARITHMETIC EASY-Dr Gilbert Mac
waugh Chevy Chase psychologist and Sister NJ
Bernard Francis, S. S. j., of Philadelphia leader
in Catholic elementary education co-operated yes
terday in explaining new system of teaching arith-
metic to parochial school teachers of the Archdo-
cese.-Star Staff Photo.
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Total pupils tested.

The table below shows the ranking Of present seventh
graders beginning junior high suden in tests given to
them q year ago, near the end Of sixth grade:
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tasks of the postwar period to
utilize our influence to the end
that liberal elements are enabled
to assume a position of leader
ship in the government of
China" he recommended.
This view was backed up by
Ambassador Gauss.
Mr.. Vincent, who became a
controversial figure after the fall
of China, was. asked to retire by
Secretary Of State Dulles in 1855
for failing TO meet the standard
demanded of a foreign service Of
ficer."
John Patton Davies, a career
diplomat dismissed by Mr.. Dulles
in 1854. was reporting from the
headquarters of Maj. Gen.
Joseph Stilwell in 1912.
Mr.. Davies emphasized two
themes. He said it was the OBJ
jective Of the Chinese govern
ment to conserve rather than
expend its military strength,
counting on American air and
seapower and possibly Russian
army and air forces to defeat the
Japanese"
He said that the transfer of
the United States Lend-Lease
supplies to China without ANY
demands in return will result
in supplies being boarded and
not in their usage against the
Japanese"
In the first half of 1912 the
United States and Britain were
absorbing successive defeats at
the hands of the Japanese.
Planes Diverted to India
Pursuit planes originally in
tended for China were sent to
northeast India.
Resentment over diversion Of
the planes led Generalissimo
Chang to demand more military
supplies or he would make
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Socialists Ask
Reds 10 Recall
Troops in East

COPENHAGEN. Denmark,
Dec. l R.-The Socialist Inter-
national urged Russia today to
withdraw her troops from all
countries in Eastern Europe.
The organization which
claims IL million adherents,
adopted a resolution calling
upon Kremlin leaders to permit
the formation of free and DEM
ocratic parties Sin all SEMI
colonial or colonial countries in
Eastern Europe"
The resolution specifically
asked the Soviet government to
permit three representatives of
the Socialist International at
once" to go to Hungary ito talk
to the Hungarian workers as
the representatives of the demo-
cratic Socialists of all the
world"
Action Deferred
The federal of "a anti-Com-
munist Socialist parties, because
of sharp dissension within the
French delegation, postponed
until tomorrow the vote on a
British resolution condemning
British-French armed interven-
ton in Egypt. The resolution
had been introduced after a
sweeping attack by British La
Dor Party leader Hugh Gait
skell on British-French policy
in the Middle East.
The council of the interna-
tional opened a three-day meet
ing here yesterday, with dele
gates from 90 of the "a member
parties attending.
Honor Anna KethIy
Social Democracy is today
the strongest political force in
Eastern Europe and would take
over at once, should it be granted
the freedom to organize" said
Morgan Phillips, president of the
World Socialist Federation and
secretary of the British Labor
Party
AS a practical step the inter-
national established a special
fund to revive the Social Demo-
cratic party inside Hungary.
1t decided the fund should be
named after Anna Kethly, Hun.
garian Socialist, to be used at
her discretion. Speaking to the
international, Miss Kethly APP
pealed for help for Hungary in
every manner short of war.
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was capable of connecting"
Mr.. Gauss recommended to
wartime Secretary of State, Cor
dell Hull, that Generalissimo
Chang be told when he under
takes to negotiate peace with
Japan :. that finishes all Amer
lean assistance to China now
and for the future"
The incident is reported in a
782-page volume dealing with
United States Chinese diplo-
matte relations for 1912. The
book, compiled by the State De-
partment historical division, is
tho first of a special series on
relations between the two coun-
tries from 1912 until 1919.
Vincent's Prediction
Chinas wartime internal
struggles between Generalissimo
Chiang's Kuomintang party and
the Chinese Communist were re-
ported by State Department Of
flcials, some Of whom later be-
came controversial for their
reporting.
John Carter Vincent, counse-
Tor Of the United States Embassy
in Chungking In 1912, predicted
that if Russian armies proved to
be major factor in defeating
the Japanese, liberal and Com
munist elements will be strength
ened" in China.
ut will be one of the major
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other arrangements" implying a
separate peace with Japan.
In a bristling dispatch to
Washington, Mr.. Gauss COM
mented:
1T is unfortunate that Chang
and the Chinese have been built
up in the United States to a
point where Americans have
been made to believe that China
has been fighting the Japanese
for five years. Looking the
cold facts in the face. one could
only dismiss this as rot"
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revolution October % arrived
yesterday. The letter was mailed
October %. 1t took a month
and eight days for what used
to be an overnight 200-nlile
train haul.
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"A. P. Mail Arrives

VIENNA. Dec. / (P).-The
first mail received here from
the Associated Press Office in
Budapest since the outbreak of
the Hungarian anti Communist
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Chiong's Threat to Make
Separate jap Poet Barred

Confidential State Department for 1912 released
terday told how Generassmo Chang Kahek by
delivery of United States planes military supplies early
World War H. threatened to make separate peace Japan
The threat dismissed by then United
Clarence Gauss blu Of the type that Madame
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FOUND

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Streets Get Cost
Dose of Linseed Oil

Seven of Washington's streets
are covered with linseed oil, but
don't worry.
They aren't slippery, and the
oil will save taxpayers money in
the long tax-ridden run.
The latest street-spraying job
is on Hardwood road NE. be-
tween Taylor street and Michi-
gan avenue.
Motorists lately have been Cog
Cling in alarm and suspicion al
the foamy white COOP being
spread over the length of the new
concrete thoroughfare. But it is
only an emulsion of linseed oil
kerosene and water designed tt
preserve the surface.
Keeps Salt Out
Linseed in the crevices of the
>,Jlcrete keeps salt from creeping
IN. cryStalizipg and causing the
streets to crumble.
The salt is scattered on streets
in winter to melt ice.
The District Highway Depart
ment started experimenting with
linseed- oil two years ago. AS
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Delegation Named
To Rhee INAUGURAL

President Eisenhower has
named a special delegation to
represent him at the August Is
inauguration of Syngman Rhee
to a third term as president of
South Korea.
Walter c. Bowling, American
Ambassador to Korea, heads the
delegation as the Presidents
personal representative. Others
with the rank of special am
basSador are DR.. Frederick Brown
Harris, chaplain of the Senate;
John Hay Whitney, New York
financeer. and Robert Gordon
Sproul, president of the Univer-
sity of California.
Three other members of the
delegation selected by Secretary
lof State Dulles are Senator
Hickenlooper. Republican OF
Iowa; Representative Judd, Re-
publican of Minnesota, and Gen
Lyman L. Lemnitzer, American
Far East Commander.