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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-03
Fellow Officers
Bid Farewell
To Subins

Officers Of the Naval Gun
Factory and their wives said
goodbye to Rear Admiral and
Mrs. L. S. Sabin at a farewell
party last night in the gun fac
tory's Ofhcers' Club.
Admiral Sabin, who was a
former superintendent of the
Naval Gun Factory. is ex-
changing his duties as super
intendent Of the Potomac River
Naval Command for new ones
as commander of the Amphibi-
GUS Forces Atlantic. His new
job also means a promotion to
vice admiral.
Admiral and Mrs. Sabin will
leave here on Friday for Nor
folk. Then she'll be off for AL
buquerque to visit her sister
and brother = in law, Admiral
and Mrs. George P. Kraker,
and to Monterey, Calf, to visit
her daughter. Mrs. George w.
Myer. She'll stay until June to
see the Sabin's other daughter,
Paula, graduate from San
Diego Women's College.
Among those attending the
party were Rear Admiral David
A. Tyree, who relieved Admiral
Sabin as superintendent of the
gun factory last January, and
Mrs. Tyree. Admiral Tyree will
assume command of the Poto-
mac River Naval Command
temporarily until Admiral Sa-
bins successor, Rear Admiral
Harold D. Baker, arrives in
August.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-03

the Fort Myer Women's Club
holds its monthly luncheon on
Thursday at Patton Hall, Fort
Myer. Also receiving will be
Mrs. j. Paul Breeder and Mrs.
John Van Houten. 1t will be
Mrs. Van Houten'S first meet
ing with the Women's Club
since her husband became
Commanding General of the
Military District of Washing
ton.
Program Chairman Mrs.
Samuel Loboda, has arranged
for the Madrigal Singers of
Washington-Lee High School
to entertain the guests.
Miss Florence Booker. super
visor for vocal music. Arling-
ton County is the choral di-
rector.
INDUSTRIAL COIlege OF
The Armed Forces
The Industrial College Wom-
ems Club meets for luncheon
on Thursday at the Fort Nc
Nair Officers Club. A demon
stratlon lecture on interior
decorating has been planned.
Members will hear a report
on the sideline group activities
of the club. which include,
hat making, bowling, square
dancing, golf and bridge.
Army Judge Advocate Generals
Corps
Mrs. Ira H. Num-. wife of the
Navy Judge Advocate General
will be the honor guest Of the
Army j. A. G.. when 1t meets
at luncheon on Thursday at
the Army Navy Country Club,
This affair is the annual
Law Day celebration, and 1t.
Col. Billie L. Murray, WAC is
the guest speaker. Her SUBJ
ject will be Women and the
Law"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-03
WEDDINGS
Crofton-Scofield

Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph j. Sco-
field announce the marriage
of their daughter Nancy
Brooke to I'd 1t. Richard
Douglas Grafton. USA. son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. H. Herbert
Grafton of Fort Lauderdale.
Fla. The wedding took place
yesterday in Trinity Episcopal
Church. The couple will live
in Frankfurt. Germany.
LlewelYn Leoch-T orreY
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Edward
Torrey of Silver Spring, Md
and Puerto Rico, announce
the marriage of their daughter
Elizabeth Anne to DR.. James
Stuart Llewelyn Leach, son Of
Mrs. James Llewelyn Leach Of
Green Lanes, Necastle STAFF
yorkshire. England, and the
late Mr.. Llewelyn Leach. The
wedding took place March "a
in the Church of st. Mary and
All Saints. Whitmore, STAFF
Yorkshire, England. The couple
will live in London,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-03
Mrs. Katherine Byron
Gives Buffet Supper

Former Representative Kath-
crime Byron entertained at a
seated buffet supper Sunday
evening at her home.
Around 80 guests including
former Ambassador and Mrs.
M. Robert Guggenheim, Mr..
and Mrs. Francis w. Hill jr..
and Mr.. and Mrs. Jess Bennett
attended the Easter party.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-02
Republican, Assemblyman

IA Republican, Assemblyman
Montivel Burke of Alhambra.
Mrs. Elizabeth Snyder. the
party's State chairman, thinks
both will win the Democratic
nomination in the June pri-
mary and with a little luck
take their November races.
The Sobieskis coordinate
their campaigning to get the
maximum political mileage,
While one appears at a club
meeting, the other usually is
talking to another group near
by. Then they switch audiences.
They have three children-a
son and daughter now at STAN
ford University and an elder son,
q Stanford graduate. now an
Army lieutenant.
Before we decided to run this
year, we talked it over with the
children" Mr.. Sobieski said.
They urged us to do it. So here
we are"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-02
Julie Harris Cited
For The Lurk' Role

NEW YORK, May 2 R.-
Julie Harris received the Barter
Theater Award yesterday for be-
ing the best American performer
Of the current New York season.
Robert Porterfield, managing
director Of the Barter Theater.
Abingdon, va, made the presen-
tation at q cocktail party at the
Sheraton-A stor Hotel.
The actress was cited for her
as Joan of Arc in
The Lark"
The award consists of "a deed
to an acre of land near the
Barter Theater" and Virginia
ham and a platter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-02

Neubergers Of Oregon. Richard
Neuberger won a United States
Senate post: his wife Maurine
was elected State Representative
Like the Neubergers, the So
bieskis are Democrats. What
makes their task extra formid-
able is that they're running in a
district where Republicans hold
an estimated 5.000-vote registra-
ton edge.
Mr.. Sobieski, 40, Los Angeles
born. Harvard-trained attorney,
is making his second try to repre-
sent the 25th Congressional Dis
trict. In 1854 he lost almost q
toll to Representative Pat Hill
lingS, Richard Nixon's successor
when Mr.. Nixon moved up to the
Senate en- route to the Vice
Presidency.
It's the first run for Mrs.
Sobieski, 48. who acts as her
husbands legal secretary. She
also seeks an Office now held by
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-02
Hearing on SobeIoff
DELAYED to Saturday
BY the Associated Press

A Senate Judiciary Subcom-
mittee said today a hearing on
Solicitor General Simon E. Sobe-
lofts nomination to be judge
of the Fourth Circuit Court OF
Appeals has been postponed un-
til Saturday.
The subcommittee, headed by
Senator O'Mahoney. Democrat
of Wyoming. had scheduled a
hearing for tomorrow morning.
The postponement was ordered
because of the death of Senator
Barley.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-02

NEW ORLEANS.-Comprising
almost SIS per cent of the worlds
spice crop is pepper, grown in
various forms in many parts Of
the world and a valuable export.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-02
No Hemp From MuniIo lPe pper Leeds Spices

NEW ORLEANS. - Manila
hemp is not a true hemp and is
mot grown in the immediate VIZ
Icinity of Manila in the Philip
pines.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-02
Man Runs for Congress
And Wife for Assembly

SAN MARINo Calf May 2lF9-Politcs family affair for
the John Sohieskis Of San Marino
John running for Congress- his wife Maryyn running for
the California Assembly
AS of they stand fighting though outside
duplicate the 1854 Of another Western political
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-11
Pupil Boycott Eases
In West Virqiniu

MATOAKA, w. Va, Sept. II
P).-A white boycott of four
Southern West Virginia schools
which admitted Negroes for the
first time this year eased some
what yesterday, but attendance
still was only about half the
total enrolment.
There are 1850 students en-
rolled in the four Mercer County
schools-two of them in Matoaka
and two in nearby communities
and 644 were in class yester-
day. Only 3O5 went to school last
Friday.
The total enrolment includes
as Negro children. One of the
schools involved. Matoaka Ele-
mentary School, has no Negroes
enrolled. The Boycott was voted
at meetings last Wednesday
night and Thursday by about
400 parents. a majority of them
repeatedly from outside Matoaka
proper but within the school
DISTRICTS
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Tension Eases,
Negroes Backir
.Sturcis School

STURGIS, KY, Sept. IL (P.-
Seven Negro students returned
to their classes for the second
straight day as racial tension at
Sturgis High School eased of
considerably.
Unlike yesterday. when only
an estimated so of $40 white
students showed up, observers
said at least $50 white children
reported to school with SIS to 10
coming on buses.
There were never more than
IS townspeople out in front of
the school and there were only
seven Is minutes after classes
started. A few National Guards
men walked posts, but two com
panies of Guardsmen there for
the opening marched of to their
camp area. once school started.
The seven Negro students ar
rived at the school As minutes
before the start of classes. They
came in two cars escorted by a
third. There was no demonstra-
ton.
One observer said much of the
tension among students eased
of when the high school foot
ball players let it be known they
were returning to their classes.
Children Re- Enrolled
At nearby Clay, Mrs. James
Gordon re-enrolled her two grade
school children at the all-Negro
Providence School.
There were about rs Clay resi-
dents gathered at the Clay
school, but it was an orderly
group. 1t was a group of Clay
residents which twice turned
back Mrs. Gordon when she at
tempted to enroll her children
in the alleviate school.
There were no National
GuardSmen in Clay.
The Sturgis situation reached
"a peak yesterday when only a
few white students reported for
school.
Across the street a crowd esti-
mated at from 600 to 1000
chanted: They'll (the white
Ichildren) never come back. We
want an alleviate school,"
Guardsmen Jeered
The crowd also jeered National
Guardsmen stationed three feet
apart along the school lawn, urg-
ing them ito go home; we didn't
ask for you...
Rocks were thrown when the
Negro students emerged from
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Kusper to Address
Alabama Rallies

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Sept. II
R.-John Kasper. leader of the
anti-integration demonstrations
at Clinton. Tenn, came to Ala
bama yesterday for a series of
appearances.
The 26-year-old Seaboard
White Citizens Council leader
from Washington. D. c., said he
would speak at council rallies
in Birmingham today and
Thursday. People are working
on other rallies possibly at Mont
|gomery and Mobile, he said.
Mr.. Kasper said he plans to
return to Tennessee and conduct
an organizational campaign
throughout that State when he
leaves Alabama.
Mr.. Kasper is free on $4,000
bond while appealing a one-yeal
sentence imposed when he ad-
dressed an anti-integration rally
at Clinton after a restraining
lorder was issued against him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-11

school at the end of the day and
were sped home by automobiles,
Adjutant General j. j. B. Will
liarns. in command Of the 800
Guardsmen in the immediate
vicinity, ordered two engineering
units alerted last night at Pa
ducah. They set up headquarters
at Camp Breckenridge, IL miles
from here, on a standby basis
along with other Guardsmen
already there.
Gen. Williams. who few to
Frankfort. the State Capital,
yesterday to confer with Gov. A.
B. Chandler, reported "the Gov
ernor was well pleased with the
station at Sturgis."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-11
jean Simmons Has Girl

HOLLYWOOD. Sept. IL (P-
Actress Jean Simmons gave
birth to a baby girl, her first
child, yesterday. She and her
husband, Actor Stewart Granger.
named the daughter Tracy after
their friend Spencer Tracy. Miss
Simmons and Mr.. Granger were
married December 20, 1850. He
has two children by a previous
marriage.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-11
Agency
Announces Awards
To 80 Scholars

The Graduate School of the
Department of Agriculture has
awarded 80 scholarships for the
1867 school year to men and
women representing IS Govern
ment agencies as follows:
Department of Agriculture:
Herbert Keech, Kathleen Nc
CURE. Harry Moore, Allen Ray
mond, Margery Richards and
Norman RosencranS.
Department of Air Force: John
Benedict and Beth Winters.
Department Of Army: Ruth
Barnes, Donald Curtis, Harold
Wilson and Leo zierden.
Atomic Energy Commission
Jasper Sellers.
civil Service Commission
Frederick Pfluger.
Department of Commerce:
Charles Cook. Mrs. Evelyn
Farmer. William Goad and
Daniel Reece.
District Government: David
Legge.
Farm Credit Administration
Morris Alexander.
Federal Power Commission
Neal Jennings.
Department of Labor: Ruth
Hutton.
National Institutes of Health
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-11
$l2 Million Bridge
In YugosIuviu Opened

BELGRADE, Sept. ii R9.-A
l$l2 million four-lane highway
bridge across the Sava River,
connecting Belgrade with West
Iern Yugoslavia, was opened yes
Iterday. 1t was partly financed
by the United States.
The United States contributed
I$5 million from counterpart
funds in Yugoslavia to couStfuc-
Ition Of the 800-foot-long bridge.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-11
Schools Quiet
In Louisville

LOUISVILLE, KY. Sept. II
R.-Kentucky's largest school
system was integrated peace
fully yesterday as some $4,000
white and Negro students at
tended elementary, Junior and
senior high school classes in
Louisville.
No pickets or crowds appeared
at any of the city's schools, al
though three women, two men
and a 4-year-old child paraded
with pro-segregationist signs in
front of the city and county
boards of education building and
the City Hall.
The picketS--bearing signs
reading 1--WE oppose race mixing
in schools" and forced integra-
ton creates racial hatred"-at-
tracted little attention. They
were led by James Dumas, ex-
.ecutlve secretary OF the White
Citizens Council of Kentucky.
Plans to picket Male High
School were called off by Willard
Grubbs, State chairman of the
White Council. Law enforcement
officers refused to guarantee the
|pickets would not be arrested
for creating "a clear and present
danger"
The city has about 1880
Negro school children.
Omar Carmichael, city super
intendent of schools, estimated
2,810 Negro students would at
tend previously all-white schools.
This included 160 senior high
school students. $50 Junior high
school students. and 1900 ele-
mentary pupils. Some white pu-
pills we're admitted to a few pre-
viously all-Negro schools.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-11

told reporters that they've had
Q disagreement ION the name of
the baby"
The princess appeared a bit
pale.
She also reiterated that her
movie career is definitely over
and added: II haven't the time
to miss the life of an actress"
Only Disagreement
Reporters Immediately wanted
to know if the couple had had
any domestic disagreements since
their marriage in Monaco last
April, and the Prince replied
that their only one concerned
the hoby's name.
The Princess said, 1--WE have
decided on about three names, "
but declined to say what they
were. She did add, however, that
Grace wasn't one Of them.
1--WE, change them so often, /"
she said.
The royal couple declined to
elaborate on their failure to
agree on a name or names.
They said they had no pref
erence for a boy or girl. Either
could inherit the Monaco throne.
Asked about plans for the
baby, Princess Grace replied:
/ II think If it is a boy the
Prince would like him to go to
the same school in Switzerland. :,
This was identified as lie Rosey,
e Role.
Asked whether she planned to
DO any shopping, the Princess
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-11

duties best in an atmosphere of
trust and respect"
More Fruitful Career
The President said that, "be-
cause strongly believe that we
must attract to the public serv-
ice the most qualified of our
citizens" his administration had
initiated various measures to
achieve that end. These meas
ures have been designed to "en-
able the Federal service to dc
its job better and at the same
time to make a career in public
service more fruitful and more
rewarding to the men and wom-
en- who serve the Nation"
In another development, de.
tense personnel officials attend.
ing the convention say they
doubt the recent Attorney Gen.
Ieral and Controller General de.
Icisions applying to the Govern.
ment Printing Office per dien
(blue collar workers would ap.
ply to Defense Department pei
diem employees.
The decisions upheld the right
to GPO craft employees to 9
shorter work-week than Al
hours if the public printer SC
decided.
See Congress Act Needed
Defense personnel officers
however, said they doubt thi.
ruling will apply to the 100000
blue collar workers in the de.
tense agencies whose pay i.
fixed by wage boards. They de.
clared the General Accountins
Office is part Of the legislative
branch of the Government anc
not the Executive Branch. They
said they feel the work-week o.
all Federal workers was set al
40 hours in the 1945 pay act anc
that it would take an act Of
Congress to change it.
In any event, a formal opinion
will be asked of the Controller
General. they said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-11

Sylvia Bunting. David Mccarthy
and William Stalters.
Department of Navy: Ralph
Burdick. Paul Childress. Louis
Lorenson and Jean Mock.
Post Office Departm e n t:
Thomas j. Miller.
Department of Treasury: Luis
Baez and Donald Hepner.
Veterans Administration
Richard Tobin.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-11
|Hoxie School
Litigation May
Set Pattern

ST. LOUIS, Sept. II (P).-The
Federal Governments course OF
action in the school segregation
troubles now erupting in the
South may grow out Of a case
Iargued before the 9th United
States Circuit Court of Appeals
here yesterday.
This is a test case for that
kind of situation" Attorney
General Brownell said in New
York. IT cannot say if it will
set a pattern for future action
It all depends on what kind OF
a ruling the court hands down.
The three judges are not ex-
pected to hand down their
decision for several weeks.
First Federal Case
1t is the first such case in
which the Federal Government
has interviewed and involves
Hoxie, a rural town of about
1900 in Northeast Arkansas
The Hoxie School Board las;
year put rs Negro youngsters in
classes with about 1000 white
pupils.
Trouble developed. Fedora
Judge Albert L. Reeves decided
it amounted to intimidation, ter.
rorism and threatened violence
He issued an injunction order.
ing three white supremacy
groups groups not to interfere
with the school board.
| White America, Inc, the White
Citizens Council Of Arkansas anc
the Hoxie Committee for Segre.
cation came to the appeals court
and asked it to wipe out thu
Injunction issued by Judg,
Reeves.
The Federal Government op.
posed this.
Give Boards Courage
Henry Putzel. jr., Justice De.
1partment attorney, asked the
court to affirm the injunction
and give other school boards
across the Nation courage tc
stand up and assert their rights
in overriding any personal feel
lings they might have"
state officials can be pro-
tected in Federal courts from
IpurpoSeful and formidable OBJ
struction to the performance Of
a duty imposed upon them by
the Federal Constitution" hi
argued.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-11
|OtheIIo in Yukut

LONDON. Sept. II B If
you've never gotten around to
reading Shakespeare's Othello,
here's good news for you, it can
be read in the Yakut language
now. Moscow radio reported the
development from Irkutsk, in
Siberia. Some time ago they
also did the Bard's Romeo and
Juliet.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-11
TODAY'S WEATHER REPORT

District and vicinity-Partly
cloudy with moderate tempera-
ture tonight and tomorrow. Low
tonight about so.
Maryland-Partly cloudy to-
night. warmer in the east, lows
In the SOS. Partly cloudy to-
morrow with little change Of
temperature.
Virginia-Partly cloudy to-
night and tomorrow. Low tonight
So to so. Somewhat warmer to-
morrow.
Wind-South to southwest. 10
to is miles per hour tonight. be-
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said, 81 hope to get a lot of
things for the baby"
The baby repeatedly is due
next February.
Will Stay Until November
About 125 reporters and pho
tographers boarded the liner be-
fore it docked, and interviewed
the Prince and Princess in the
ships observation lounge.
The Princess said she and her
husband would stay in the
United States until early No
vember. They plan to spend
some time in New York, Phila-
delphia and Ocean City. N. j.
The Princess family lives in
Philadelphia and has a summer
home at Ocean City.
Asked whether they would
visit the Pacific Coast, Princess
Grace replied: I'm not sup
posed to fly"
The royal couple occupied a
three-room suite on their voyage
here. They were accompanied
by Pierre Rey, the Princes ad-
ministrator. and Richard M.
Allan, public relations attache.
The party was welcomed by a
group including Marcel Palermo,
Monaean consul general in New
York. and James J. O'Brien. the
city's deputy commissioner OF
commerce and public events.
Soon after the ship docked, the
royal party left by automobile
for 9sS Fifth avenue, where
the couple will stay while in New
York.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-11

coming variable tomorrow. visi-
bility fair to good.
The District Of Columbia
Medical Society ragweed pollen
count for the "a hours ending
at 9 am. today is 81 grains per
cubic yard Of air.
River Report
tProm U 8 Engineersi
Potomac River clear at Harpers Ferry
and clear at Great Falls Shenandoah
clear at Harpers Ferry.
Temperature for HenteFdAy
Reading washington National Airport
Midnight ----- 81 Noon $1,000. 81
am. 1850 30 pm. 1890 90
am. 90 n pm. %
Record Temperatures This Year
Lowest. 20. on January "a, % and
February ~.