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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-29
BY CECILIA LEE FINE


To celebrate their 35th we'd
ding anniversary last fall, Mr..
Chauncey B. Schneider and
his wife Polly of Arlington, Va,
took three days off, flew over
Niagara Falls. made a boat
scheduled for Toronto and
headed straight for the Afri-
can violet exhibits at the Ma
tional Canadian Exposition.
1t was a busman's holiday for
both.
Before leaving home. Mr..
Schneider of the Army engi-
neers. had made a last-mintue
check on the new thermostat
of the African violet propo-
gator in the basement. His
wife had given final instruc-
tons to the sitter" who was
to tend the flowers in their
absence. 1t was a genuine
break in routine for the
Schmeltzers to be away from
their violets for even "a con-
secutive hours.
Pleasant Memory
Today the trip is a pleasant
memory but the baby plants
that got their start at that
time are now mature and have
taken over both the living and
dining rooms above stairs.
The loveliest, in nuances of
pink. white, lavender. and pur-
pie are placed on low tables
before a giant picture window
that looks out on a sunken
garden bordered with crocuses,
lilies of the valley, azaleas and
wild violets. This spring
blooming dogwood trees have
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cites among Mrs. Schmeltzer's
more than 1900 African violet
plants, she says that her stock
does not begin to exhaust the
possibilities of the versatile
violet.
AS for Mrs. Schmeltzer's
favorite, positively it's blue
boy. the birthday violet her
husband gave her in Missis-
sippi some 16 years ago. This
plant she kept with her
through all the vicissitudes of
travel as an engineers wife.
and still had when she and
her husband finally settled in
their permanent home in Vir-
ginia.
Because she credits her
hobby with having helped to
pull her through the conva-
lescent period after a serious
illness several years ago. Mrs.
Schneider is completely dedi-
Gated to aiding the sick with
generous gifts of violets which
she sends through the Visiting
Nurses Association of her COM
munity. Many a hospital room.
also. has been frightened by
a gift of bloom sent anony-
mously from her store.
Expensive Hobby
Il 1.-THE with violets. too"
she adds. Whenever friend
brings another to buy one of
my plants, set aside a plant
to give to someone who will
benefit by it," Some years ago
friends insisted that Mrs.
Schneider let them pay for
the plants they wanted. Re-
luctantly she finally agreed
because hers was an expensive
hobby and that would enable
her to expand the nursery.
Now several books are filled
With the names of friends
whose orders are being carried
out below stairs. To all these
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tury atmosphere will be Gre
ated by hostesses in Colonial
gowns, white-wigged town
criers' from yeSteryear, CO.
lonial horsemen and children
in Colonial dress dancing on
the historic, oak bordered
Dover Green which was laid
out in 1717.
The homes to be opened
will range from the Dickinson
Mansion Q740 to the con-
temporary Colonial home of
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Mr.. and Mrs. E. w. Buchanan,
which is just now receiv-
ing finishing touches, and
which is beautifully furnished
in the 18th century period.
Homes, gardens and public
buildings of historical interest
will be open from IL am. to
5 pm. on Saturday and from
l pm. to 5 pm. on Sunday.
Growing of a May Queen
and a pageant will be held orl
the campus of Wesley Junior
College at 3 pm. on Saturday.
Programs or other informa-
ton may be obtained by writ
ing the Friends of Old Dover,
P. o. Box A, Dover, Del, or
the State Development De-
partment. Dover.
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Dover Doorways Will
Open Next Week End

House and garden tours are
not just limited to the Wash
ington area.
Doorways to the past. when
Colonial forefathers we're
founding America. will open
at more than a score of homes
In Dover, Del. next Saturday
and Sunday.
On "Old Dover Days" the
public is invited to visit stored
old homes and gardens and
browse through exhibits of
early Americana. An 18th CEN
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Mrs. Schneider will serve as
consultant and adviser even
after the plants have left her
own care.
1T may sound trite," says
Mrs. Schneider, but violets
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have become my way of life"
Her friends and neighbors
all call Mrs. Schneider 1.-The
Violet Lady" To her mind it's
the highest praise anyone
could give her.
Milford chronicle., 1956-03-09

end. He is returning to the hos
pital this morning Monday, for
further treatments. Our best goes to
him for his speedy recovery.
DR.. and Mrs. C. Greylock Noble
were in Harrisburg, Pa, oger the
weekend visiting their daugh-
ter's family. Their small grand
son who has been visiting them
here returned with them to well
come new baby to the family cir
Gle.
Speaking of grandchildren, two
other Greenwood families report
new grandchildren this week. To
Mr.. and Mrs Gardner Rogers, Jr.,
small daughter, Deborah Gail,
and to Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey Dick
erson's son, Bobby new grand
daughter, Deborah Marie. She is
the first child of Mr.. and Mrs.
Bobby Dickerson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clayton Downes re-
port a lovely vacation time in
Florida where they did quite a
bit of swimming and sightseeing.
This past Wednesday,. Mrs. Clay
ton Downes and Mrs. Arthur Laugh
cry motored to Wilmington and
had lunch with Mrs Ronald Case.
The birthday crowd sad lots of
fun last Wednesday when they re-
served tables at the Woil0er r in
Harrington and surprised Dorothy
Omwake with a birthday luncheon
and lovely gift Of towels and a
round-robin birthday card full of
cash. Twenty girls were present
and three lovely babies also were
delightful guests. Dorothy was
really surprised and that was a
thrill for us.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence Meredith
were Saturday evening guests of
Mr. and Mrs. Arnold nodge of Dover
who were entertaining a number
of their friends at Alexander's
Restaurant in Dover. After the
dinner the guests enjoyed the
evening at the Hodge home.
The Girl Scouts are especially
happy to welcome Mrs. John Gra-
den and Mrs. Walter Warwick who
have so kindly offered to work
with the local troop. If anyone else
wishes to volunteer in this in
teresting work, their hope will
be gratefully accepted.
Mr.. and Mrs Harvey Dickerson
and Gary spent Sunday in Phila-
delphie visiting Marie's aunt and
uncle, Mr.. and Mrs. George Bockus.
Milford chronicle., 1956-03-09
LOST, ONE CRIME

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Up
Ordinarily police have a crime in
hand and go hunting for the crimi-
nal-but not this time
They had the criminal in hand
and had to go hunting for the crime.
A man came into headquarters
and said he'd broken into a con-
fectionary somewhere" and taken
SIS.
Police couldn't find the place so
booked him on vagrancy charges.
Milford chronicle., 1956-03-09
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Milford chronicle., 1956-08-10
SideIiahts

0 Employees at the National
Science Foundation-a govern
ment research agency in Wash
ington-noticed a peculiar odor
as they scurried through the
corridors this week but thought
mo, it couldn't be. Not here.
But they were wrong. A girl re-
Searcher had been bringing
pet skunk to work for weeks
All of sudden the little stinker
decided he didn't like the place.
The skunk was rushed to sur
gerry. The researcher was un-
available for comment.
O Boston Cathedral High School
Coach Jack Mccarthy is persist
ent. anyway. He says'he missed
a golf shot on the 14th hole OF
the Marshfeld, Mass, country
club course last week. then fired
a practice shot from the tee that
went for hole-in-one. But he
couldn't count it in mis- score
This week he dropped one into
the cup with one shot on the
sixth hele, and this time it was
not for practice.
Milford chronicle., 1956-08-10
Steel
Back k-fo-Work

The 650,OO0 members Of the
United Steelworkers Union
streamed back to work this
week under an unprecedented
three-year no-strike contract.
Agreement to end the month
old nationwide strike was
reached by negotiators in. New
York late last week. The back
to-work movement started grad
ually, slowed by the necessity
for each steel company and in
dividual union locals to reach
agreement on minor contract de.
tails.
The master agreeemnt in the
industry calls for a wage boost
over the life of the three-year
pact which the union says
amounts to 45.6 cents per hour.
The companies say the settle
ment will be worth between
50 and SIS cents an hour to the
workers. Pre-Strike wages in
the steel industry averaged S2.46
an hour.
The agreement also provides
for automatic wage adjustments
based on the cost of living, Sun
day premium pay, seventh
paid holiday year and a So
week supplemental unemploy-
ment benefit plan guaranteeing
SIS per cent of base pay in the
event of layoffs.
Milford chronicle., 1956-08-10
BURMA: Reds Move In

indicated crossings in consider
ably greater strength than pre-
viously.
Burma officials also claimed
that Chinese army units along
the border have been reinforced
by regular army troops in the
past few months. Previously Red
regulars served only as nu-
Icleus of a frontier security force
manning outposts from which
were maintained security
chain of irregulars enlisted from
the peasant population.
In June, the Burmese govern
ment was in touch with Peiping
concerning charges that illegal
Chinese immigrants crossed the
border between China's Yunnan
province and Burma. Among
them was at least one Chinese
Communist army political Off
Ger.
Milford chronicle., 1956-08-10
In Short !.

Reported: That the Eisenhow-
er administration was consider
ing a plan to cut the size of the
six American Army divisions in
West Germany without sacrific-
ing their fighting strength" by
reducing the number of support
and supply units.
Killed: Twelve of the Is resi-
dents of the Reagan Nursing
Home in Puxico, Mo-, when a
fire swept furiously through the
structure during the night.
Convicted: In Federal District
Court at New York, six Com
munist party leaders of con-
spiracy to teach and advocate
the violent overthrow of the
United States government.
Reopened: At Moscow, talks
between Japan and Russia for a
formal declaration of peace be-
tween those two countries =
which have been in a technical
state of war ever since the end
of World War II.
Ordered: An extra year al
hard labor for the SO mutinouS
Georgia convicts who smashed
their own legs with 10-pound
sledge hammers to protest hard
work" at a Georgia prison
camp.
Milford chronicle., 1956-08-10
Collision
Mystery Deepens

One of the big questions con-
cerning the tragic collision OF
the luxury liners Andrea Doria
and the Stockholm was an
swered in part this week, but
the answer merely served to
deepen the mystery of how the
two ships collided.
Ever since the accident
which cost dozens of lives and
sent the Doria to the bottom of
the Atlantic-marine experts
have been puzzled as to how
with modern radar equipment
aboard each ship-the collision
could have occurred.
This week the Italian Line,
operators of the Doria, an
nounced in New York that the
IDoria's radar was in operation
during the fog and that Captain
|Piero Calamai himself had
watched the approaching Stock
holm on the radar screen.
The lines first announcement
on the subject went no further
than this, however. The net re-
suit was that it was even more
difficult to account for the col
lision since apparently at least
one ship was aware of the prox-
unity Of the other for some time
prior to the impact.
The captains of both liners
have declined to state publicly
the ''hows" and ''whys" of the
disaster. They say the full story
must await official investiga-
tions.
Although the collision oc-
CURED outside the territorial
waters of the United States, a
party of US. congressman in
spected the heavily damaged
Stockholm in a Brooklyn dry
dock. Rep. Herbert Bonner Cd
NC), chairman of the group,
said the committee was inter-
ested in determining whether
the two ships had conformed
with the international conven-
ton for safety of life at sea and
whether there is a need for
changes in safety standards.
Milford chronicle., 1956-08-10

disarmament adviser a month
off to pursue certain political
activities" These consisted of
what continued to be one-man
band trying to start a parade
away from Nixon.
Stassen was basing his activity
on the premise that a lot of peo-
pie don't want to vote for Nixon
because they don't want him for
president if anything happens to
Eisenhower. There is no ques-
ton this premise has a certain
validity.
President Eisenhower himself,
in his first press conference
since his ileitis operation, told
reporters that Nixon was per-
fectly acceptable to him. He
went on, with words reminiscent
of his statements when the
Nixon candidacy was in the
news earlier this year, that he
did not want to forecloSe Re-
publican convention action on
the vice presidency since the
picking of candidates was the
delegates job.
The President also said, in re-
gard to his own candidacy and
health, that he feels good but
not as good as a year ago. He
however, that he has no
doubts he would be able to car
ry on for another four years in
the White House.
Milford chronicle., 1956-08-10

egation would do if left on its
own. The bandwagon pull is
very strong.
Averell Hartman claim ed
some of the Kefauver delegates,
but didn't say how many. He
did say he wasn't going to with
draw, ever.
New Destination
A Democratic National Com
mitteeman from Missouri, a
Symingtcn man, said however
that it might be well for Harri-
man to withdraw. The idea
would be to let the bandwagon
now start heading for Novem-
Der, instead of merely for Chi
cago.
eff the race is over, it's over"
said Mark Holloran, which sug-
gested that if Hartman removes
the last chance for a convention
deadlock, the Syrnington forces
will also get out Of Stevenson's
way.
Kefauver's withdrawal pro-
duced a marked lift in Demo
cratic enthusiasm for the cam
paign. They began to talk about
being able to beat the champ il
November, and were encour
aged by Harold Stassen, wht
said they would have a chance
if the Republicans forced the
president to carry Richard
Nixon as second man.
Speculation Aroused
Kefauver's action also aroused
talk of giving him the second
spot on the Democratic ticket,
although he said there were
many ''ifs" about whether he
would want that. A bigger eff"
was whether either he or Ste
venson could reconcile the bit
terness produced by Kefauver's
attacks on Stevenson during the
primaries.
Hartman, asked about his at
titude toward the vice presi-
dental nomination, merely re-
iterated that cit is a highly hon
orable post"
The wiseacres were still say
ing, however, that Gov. Frank
Clement of Tennessee, the con-
vention keynoter, wasn't Sc
lected for that honor for moth
ing. They expect him to go right
ahead onto the ticket with
Stevenson.
The Democratic situation was
thus taking on a more regular
lied atmosphere, while the Re-
publican waters, hitherto very
quiet, were still being disturbed
by Stassen.
President Eisenhower gave his
Milford chronicle., 1956-08-10
Border Crossed

1Si WI @t0SoOA
Over the postwar years, the
young nation of Burma has hac
no scarcity of trouble with hel
ill-defined northern boundary
with China. Her troops there
have fought impartially against
indigenous Communist guerril-
las, former Chinese Nationalist
bands which float into Burma
whenever the Communists
breathe too close on their heels,
and other bandit-like factions.
Bigger Scale
This week Burma faced trou-
BILE of a seemingly different sort.
Chinese Communist troops re-
'portedly occupied about 1000
square miles of her northern
territory. They arrived by force
and clashed with Burmese army
elements on the way in. The
fighting repeatedly resulted in
some casualties.
Premier Ba Swe'S government
said it was seriously con-
cerned." A foreign office state
ment said Burma has brought
the matter to the attention of
the Chinese government in
Peiping.
Burma, which has pursued a
neutralist policy in the Cold
War, has had friendly though
not close relations with its big
Communist peighbor. The rela-
tions have been based on the
five principles" to which Chi
ncse Premier Chou En-lai and
Burma's former Premier, U M,
pledged themselves in 1854 The
principles cali for territorial in
tegrity and n-aggresSion,
among other things.
Previous Incidents
Communist patrols have
crossed Burmese borders in the
past. but in each case they with
drew after Burmese protests.
Peiping has blamed the incur
sions on errors of local COM
manders.
This weeks reports, however,
.(AuRiobts Reserped. AP Ne,psfeqtures,
Milford chronicle., 1956-08-10
Quote
British Prime Minister Sir

British Prime Minister Sir
Anthony Eden, in Z speech
to Parliament on Egypt's
seizure of the Suez Canal:
mo arrangements for the
future of this great interna-
ti0nal waterway could be
acceptable to Her Majesty's
government which would
leave it i'm the unfettered
control of a single power,
which could, as recent
events have shown, exploit
it purely for purposes of
national policy"
Milford chronicle., 1956-08-10

IN the primary
seemed for a
time to have
doomed tb &
campaign of
the 1852 can
didate.
Democratic
leaders there
had said, prior
to Kefauver's
withdr W al,
t h a t TIL e y
didn't know
what the del
Milford chronicle., 1956-08-10

F- OIIIIS~NN 70 DC Aol14y UCOIoINEs
And a great deal of Kefau-
Iver's strength, before he decided
to bow out in favor of party
unity, was in the Middle West,
where Stevenson needs help.
/ Take the Minnesota case,
where Kefauver's direct victory
Milford chronicle., 1956-08-10

Middle Ea S t
the strength
of N asser's
position and
the weakness
of that of the
British.
+ r o m a
strictly eco
nomic point of
view the ma
tionaliZation
of the Suez
Canal made a
considerably
Milford chronicle., 1956-08-10

with this or separately Nassel
may get from the Russians
enough economic help to &c
ahead with his Aswan High
Dam and with a general pro-
gram of industrialization of his
nation.
Even if Nasser does not gel
this much from the Russians he
is virtually certain to come back
from Moscow with enough po-
litical laurels to constitute an
other major triumph.
And then it will be question
for him of what next. There are
several possible targets. The
most obvious of them are Israel
and the British protectorates
and British oil concessions in
Arab countries. Since Isreal is
capable of defending itself ade-
quately, the more likely target
is such British areas as Alden,
Oman and Qatar.
This is the course of develop
ment which the British can
look forward to if they accept
without finn resistance Nasser's
naturalization of the Suez Canal
and unilateral control of that
waterway.
On the other hand there is
the danger for the British that
unless they are exceedingly
careful in resisting Nasser they
can manage to arouse the entire
force of Arab nationalism
against themselves and the
West in general. Any resort to
military action would be likely
to have this effect, for example.
An effort to blunt the Nasser
threat by contributing large
quantities of arms to Israel
might push things in the same
direction.
Economic Levers
At the same time the British,
and the Western Powers to-
gether, do have in their eco
nomic power a certain amount
Of leverage against Nasser. By
The cautious use of the threat
against him of economic war
are, there is perhaps the posi-
)ility of forcing him to accept
certain minimum of internal
ional control over the Suez
Canal and its toll rates which
IAN protect in some measured
he interests of shipping nations
and nations which receive goods
shipped through the canal. For
such program it is possible
that Britain can get a consid-
erable degree of international
support among other nations
which are concerned in the
canal.
In this there is perhaps the
hope of a solution so far as the
canal itself is concerned. Be
yond the immediate issue of the
canal, however, there is the
much more important issue of
the relations of the West with
Arab nationalism. The Western
Powers, including the United
States, face permanent and very
serious difficulties in this area
unless they are able to work out
in the near future a construc-
tive approach to relations with
The Arabs on which ultimately
cordial ties can be built up. The
prospects that this may be done
seem dim right now. And at any
rate it seems fair to say one
hing about the Middle East:
Things are going to get a lot
worse before they get better, if
hey ever do get better.
Milford chronicle., 1956-08-10
Party Morale Is
Given Marked Lift
BY ]. Nj. ROBERTS
Associated Press Nerps AnnLysf

ME Ada: Stevenson bandwagon began adding extra
sections this week to handle the traffic headed for
Chicago.
There was no sure way of telling how many of Estes
ketauver pledged delegates would obey his request that
they drop him and go for Stevenson But the switch
Milford chronicle., 1956-08-10

Suez Is Only Part
Of Egyptian Crisis
By THOMAS p. WHITNEY
Associated Press Foreign NetUs AnaIys

THE reverberations of the naturalization of the Suez
Canal by the Egyptian government echoed all over the
world this week.
They promised to be just portion of general prob
lem which would be labelled "the Egyptian crisis"
The naturalization of Suez was the stroke which
Milford chronicle., 1956-08-10

Egyptian PRESIDENT NaSSer cnoSe
in order to recoup his prestige
among Arabs, endangered by
the refusal of the United States
to assist Egypt with construc-
tion of the Aswan High Dam.
1t was a very effective stroke
too. 1t dramatized for the whole