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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-03
Fellowship
Picks Officers

Allen M. Laster, a member o.
Keller Memorial Luthera n
Church, was elected president o.
the Lutheran Laymen's Fellow
ship at a meeting in Luthel
Place Memorial Luth er a r
Church Friday.
Mr.. Laster, a retired Govern.
ment ernploye who has been {
brotherhood member four years
succeeds Thomas P. Hickman
The former is vice presiden
Iof the Organized Bible Glass AS
ISOLATION of Washington ant
vice president of Keller Me
mortal Church congregation. HI
lives at 1856 S street Sc.
v Other officers elected wer,
Frank S. Harris, of st. Luke
Lutheran Church, Silver Spring
Md, vice president; Henry Han
son, jr., of Christ Lutheran
Church, Bethesda. Nd. treas
urer, and Martin A. McGrory. o
Luther Place Church, secretary
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-03
Boy and Foster Mother
Hove 1t Out in. Court
BY Rouson

charges Of stealing q bag Of
groceries.
Parents Vanished
| It was also stated the family
he lived with had taken him in
at the age of 3-when his parents
split and vanished.
Judge Edith H. Cockrill asked
him about that mile-the one
he had expressed resentment
over.
"Yeh," he explained. "it was
me who was doing the walking"
1T might interest you," Judge
Cockrill said that I had to walk
a mile to school and l didn't get
paid for it,"
In what was probably the enc
of an impasse, Judge Cockril
sent the boy off to the National
Training School.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-03
BOY AND GIRL
By JOHN McKELWAY

A flow OF invective. marked by
the utter absence of any warmth
was loosed in Juvenile Court yes
terday by a woman who had
tried to rear a strapping 17-year-
old since he was 3.
Unequivocally, she was sick of
the whole thing. The feeling of
the boy, who also spoke, was
mutual.
Scarcely pausing for breath,
the woman let go with:
He has showed no respect for
us. I tell him he'll come to no
good end and he says he'll knock
my teeth out. :. His father will
ask him to pay in some money
for rent and he says he's not Ia
and we're responsible for him
. He's a heavy eater. He
wants country club food. >. He
says he don't get nothing out Of
Sunday school. He's not
dumb child. He's highly in
telligent. He wants to keer
me in a nervous state it seems
!. My husbands had a heart
attack. . The boy just doesn't
care. We can't control him.
Boy Speaks Up
Some time later the boy, col
ored. got up to say:
Every time 1 come home
there's an argument. If the!
(the foster parents) don't argue
they get me in the argument 81
I walk out. Every time there
something missing in the hous'
they say I did it,"
Going on, he said he quit hi.
job lin Maryland" because HI
had to walk a mile to get to it.
Previously, probation Officer
said the boy was quite glib ane
showed a quality of being abl'
to talk himself out of anything
He added the youth had giver
up his job because it cut sharpl.
tinto his social jaunts. known
previously to the court and re-
: Gently discharged from keeping
by the Public Welfare Depart,
ment, he had come to court OF
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zy Sourly.
Mr.. Heinsite frowned. well,
If you'd listen to me-" he said.
you wouldn't make leads like
you made on this hand and we'd
start beating some of these con-
tracts"
Mr.. Muzzy had opened the
deuce of diamonds, Mr.. Dale
winning with the king. Mr.. Dale
had then quickly cashed three
spades. two hearts and three
clubs for game.
"Muzzy," continued Mr.. Helm
site with an air of great
patience, II know your diamond
opening follows the book in that
it was the fourth best from your
longest and strongest suit.
You know the rules, all right,
but you don't know the excep-
tions. With such a weak suit
and no side entries, you should
have tried to hit long suit in
my hand.
open the unbid major, spades.
and then Dale would have to
play the diamond suit himself.
With your ace behind his king,
he wouldn't have chance for
nine tricks"
"a very sound speech, although
rather long" remarked Mr.. Dale.
But you do me too little credit,
Heinsite. Muzzy could have
opened his hat and would still
make three no-trump on this
hand.
"On a spade opening I would
win with dummy's king and lead
the four of hearts. If you played
low I would duck and let Muzzy
win with the ten. He still
couldn't lead diamonds and I
would win any other return and
test the heart suit for a 3-3
break.
Il wouldn't get it. but I would
still have another play, I would
cash all my spade tricks and
then play four rounds of clubs.
Muzzy would have to win the
fourth club and there he would
be, just where he started.
HE would have to lead a dia-
mond because he would be out of
all the other suits. Thus I would
make my king of diamonds after
all"
We'll, let's get on to the next
hand" suggested Mr.. Heinsite.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-03
Why We Soy

OLD CUSTOM: When we are
not allowed to do something, it
might be said that We are
turned down" The allusion is
to an old English custom of
turning a glass upside down
when no more drink is desired.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-03
OUR PRESIDENTS
BY HONORE M. CATUDAL

1.-The President-elect took
the oath of office in the White
House. 10 years ago today, be-
cause March 4 fell on Sunday
Which President?
To-day is the 173d anniver-
sary of the birth of the wife OF
the President who succeeded
Andrew jackson. Who?
3-Who was President when
the Star Spangled Banner was
made our national anthem BY
Act of Congress?
ANSWERS on Next Page)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-03
WORD GAME
Find "A or more words in
FULMINANT IT,

meaning" coming on suddenly
with great severity. Average is
40; time limit, 80 minutes
Rules of the game-1. Words must BE-
of four or more letters. .. Words which
So such as bats cars" are moi
used 3. Only one form Of a word is
used. f. Proper names are not used.
Answer 10 PERIDOT
pert, period. pier, pied, poet, pore. port
ripe rite riot, roped, rote. tier. depot,
deport. diet. dire, dirt, dorp, dote, dope
doer. drip, drop. tepid tied, tired, tier.
toed, tore. torpid, topper, trod, trio, tried,
trip tribe, trope, tripod.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-16
-e0pardl

The man, Arthur Shay, escaped with
his life only by an unusual stroke Of
luck - the leopard was stuffed.
The fellow who threw it at him IS
Paul Zimmerman, a taxidermiSt in
Kenya. He has stuffed animals for
such celebrated hunters as Ernest
Hemingway and Robert Ruark.
Lily" the leopard, has also gained
a measure of fame, although post
humOusly, in several jungle films.
Shay, her victim here, went to
Africa to make educational pictures
for TVS Zoo Rarade." He named
the leopard - after a family con-
ncction. He explains, when saw
her hurting through the air, It put
me in mind Of my mOther-in-law.' .
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-29
Tricks With Scarfs
By ELEM SAKES


THO MOST WOMEN scarf most magical change
the neckne dress a
generally speaking provide
that is pleasing in a costume
double the impact
fashion duet Decorate colare neckine
styled another bulky
pillbox hat.
Another bit of fashion intrigue drapng
Vnecked jacket wrapping
a waiSthne
ingenuity many would make
a Houdini jealous
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-29

These are the Standardization
rates for the first three minutes. all
day Sunday and every night after 8
O'Clock. They do not include the
1872 federal excise Tax.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-21

Cooper repeated and walked
away.
The administration apparent
ly too kthe matter seriously,
since no move to nominate q
successor was made for months
Then, early in May, Repre-
sentative Davis, Democrat OF
Georgia, called the Juvenile Court
handling Of teen-age hoodlums
the great loophole" in law en-
forcement here.
Davis Planned Action
Mr.. Davis declared that unless
the vacancy" in the court is
filled in the near future, he would
go into the whole situation to
determine what steps are neces-
Sary to remedy it."
He held of, however, when he
was told by Justice Department
spokesman that the plan was to
send up the Juvenile Court nomi-
nation with that of the three
judges for the newly created
family court. Later, he was made
chairman Of a House District
subcommittee named to investi-
gate juvenile delinquency and the
schools but he did not specifically
include a Juvenile Court investi-
cation in discussing the scope Of
the inquiry.
The family court nominations
were made public. There was still
no mention of a successor for
Judge Cockrill. Senator Kefau-
yer had made his feeling known.
In a letter and a telephone
call to the Justice Department,
he let it be known that he would
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-21

munist Party dictator under fire
of strong criticism,
Radio Warsaw also announced
a meeting Of the Central Com.
mittee Of the Polish Communist
Party held during the past few
days was interrupted because Of
the national holiday and will be
resumed on Monday.
In a preliminary report or
the Central Committees deliber.
alton. Warsaw radio yesterday
quoted Polish party chieftain Ed
ward Ochab as saying that the
blame for Poznan could not be
placed entirely on 'provocateurs
and agents." He said the party
and government must accept
blame for disregarding workers
protests about low living stand
ards and high production quotas.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-21

ton of East and West Ger
many. The trade bait. long
held out most enticingly by the
Reds to add to the not-unnat-
ural desire Of all Germans to
be once again one country. is
beginning to find a lot more
suckers as the German econ
omy wakes fatter.
And from Paris, Nehru
brought first-hand reports of
the imminent disappearance of
the French overseas empire.
He did this sorrowfully, on the
surface, because he said the
French really did want to do
the right thing in Africa. The
right thing, of course, in
Nehru'S book, is for France to
depart from Africa quickly,
completely and quietly. Then
there can be two or three more
neutralist nations to bolster
the forces of those already
existing which profess to see
no inherent evil in the Red
imperialism. Then the strength
of the free world will be even
further vitiated by the drain
ing off of priceless economic
and political advantages, not
to mention military ones.
Nehru has never attempted
to hide his dislike for the dem
ocratic West. although he does
try to. gloss over his sentiments
with prattle about "nonin-
Movement" Egypt's President
Nasser has been playing fast
and loose in the field of poll
tics ever since he directed the
overthrow Of King Farouk. and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-21
Eisenhower Is Blomed as Senate
Rejects Public Power Proposal

icant test inherent in what is
done about development Of the
biggest yet undeveloped site
at Hell's Canyon. Co-ordinat-
ing with the White House
campaign Of pressure upon the
Senate, electric utilities con-
Quoted a high-powered drive
themselves in personal con-
facts with Senators by tele-
phone. wire and letter, be-
seeching defeat of the bill
for public development of
Hell's Canyon.
They rallied behind the
corporation known as the Ida
no Power Co., though it is al
most entirely Eastern-owned,
which already has started to
work on the Snake River under
a license granted by the Fed
eral Power Commission some
months ago which Democrats
and conservationiSts were seek
ing to annul by the bill which
the Senate defeated, 81 to Al.
The Idaho Power Co. plan
calls ultimately for three small
dams. Its plan. according to
best expert evidence, will not
realize the full potentials of
the Snake River and will fore
close forever the proper devel-
opment of the whole Columbia
River system as projected by
the U. S. Army Engineers.
In the most tense and dra-
matte scene in the Senate this
session the Senators were re-
minded in closing debate of the
inadequacieS of the Idaho
Power Co.'s plan; of how the
people and industries in the
developing region will be de-
prived Of the full benefit Of
their water resources; Of how
they must pay 6.29 mills per
kilowatt hour for electricity
generated there by the Idaho
Power Co. as compared with
three mills if it were developed
publicly. 1t was pointed out
also how public development
would be self liquidating as
are all such water resource
enterprises, and would return
a nice profit to the U. s.
Treasury.
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- =
Mental Health Bill.
For Alaska Passed

The House yesterday passed
and sent to the White House q
bill to set up a program of men,
tai health treatment for Alaska
The legislation would author
ize a $6 million appropriation to
build mental hospital facilities
in Alaska and a total of $6.s
million over a 10-year-period tc
help administer the new pro-
gram.
The bill. passed by a 13O-1C
standing vote, also would give
Alaska a million acres of land
The territory would use income
from the land to support mental
programs.
AlaSka's mentally i'll now are
being cared for mainly in 9
private hospital at Portland,
Greg, which has a contract with
the Government.
The Alaska legislature would
prescribe commitment proce.
dures for the new program.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-21
Final Revision Drive
Aimed at Civil Riqhts Bill

amendment, offered by Repre-
sentative Doyle, Democrat of
California, provides that no in
vestigating subcommittee of the
civil rights commission could
have fewer than two members,
one from each of the major
political parties.
The House rejected. usually by
margins of 20 or 80 votes, a wide
range of amendments that would
have greatly changed key provi-
sions in the bill. Representative
Jones, Democrat of Missouri,
tried unsucessfully to have the
proposed commission investigate
complaints of voting or other
civil rights violations based on
political affiliation."
Other defeated amendment
moves would have refused Fed
eral court jurisdiction in civil
suits on civil rights complaints,
deprived the commission of ex-
pense funds, stripped it of in
vestigative and subpoena powers,
and prevented commission probes
of complaints made by "any
Communist or person disloyal to
the United States"
The House convened yesterday
noon in tense atmosphere as
leaders and prominent members
for and against the bill made
obvious efforts to prevent a
REPETITION of the stalling and
squabbling Of the previous aft
ernoon.
Representative Smith of Vir-
ginia, chairman of the rules
committee and a leading foe of
the bill. took the floor to urge the
House to act with more orderly
procedure and with more celer-
lily"
He said he had conferred with
leaders and wanted to suggest a
plan whereby each side would
be limited voluntarily to five
minutes on each amendment.
This would enable the House to
complete work during the after
noon and then arrange to take
a final vote Monday. he ex-
planned.
Representatives Celler, Demo-
crat of New York. and Heating,
Republican of New York, who
have directed the fight for the
bill, agreed with this arrange
ment, as did Republican Leader
Martin. The House then went
ahead on the bill and adhered
so we'll to the plan that mem
beers wound up work on the
amendments before 6 pm.
One Of the few touches Of
bitterness occurred when Mr..
Celler criticized Representative
Powell, Democrat of New York,
a supporter of the bill. because
he left for Europe in the midst
of the floor battle.
Mr.. Powell was defended by
Representative Dawson. Demo-
crat Of Illinois. Both are Negro
members of the House, but Mr..
Dawson opposed MIR. Powell's
antiSegregation amendment that
figured in House defeat of the
Federal aid school bill earlier
this month.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-21
Unified BANDITS
HANDCUFF CLERK
TO WHEEL OF CAR

NEW YORK (R.-Two
disappointed bandits hand
cuffed a supermarket clerk
to the steering wheel of his
car yesterday after they
found only $25 in his wallet.
The clerk. Ray Gantz. 80.
told police they handed him
the wallet back intact with
a single comment: "Pfooie."
Then they handcuffed him
to the steering wheel.
Mr.. Gantz managed to
drive half a mile to a police
station despite his bonds.
Police had to file the hand
cuffs off his wrists.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-21

The showdown on the Hell'S
Canyon bill in the Senate
this week should open the eyes
Of the public. at least that
part of the public which is
interested in proper conserva-
ton Of our natural resources,
including our water resources.
For it fixed responsibility
upon President Eisenhower
himself for the administra-
tons conservation policy
which has been severely criti-
cized-and properly-because
it permits exploitation of our
natural resources by privileged
private interests for their
profit to the detriment Of the
public interest.
This was exposed in the
personal pressure brought by
the White House upon Sena-
tors, on q scale not heretofore
seen in this administration,
in the effort. ultimately sue
cessful, to swing enough votes
to defeat the Democratic
sponsored bill. The measure
provided for a Government
constructed high dam across
the Snake River gorge along
the Idaho Oregon border to
develop the river for produce
ton Of hydroelectric power,
flood control, navigation and
reclamation.
The effect of this admin
istration maneuver goes far
beyond Hell's Canyon, in which
the whole Pacific Northwest is
interested, in its implications.
1t should finally awaken people
all over the country to the
administrations determine
ton, as stressed here frequent
ly. to turn over all still-un-
developed water resources to
the private power monopoly
to develop as it pleases, with
out proper consideration Of the
public interest, and at high
rates to yield a handsome
profit.
Once again the private
power barons are back in the
saddle in government, from
where they had been driven
during the Roosevelt Truman
era. They realized the signif-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-21

court must be confirmed by the
Senate before taking Office, the
administration decision not to
try to replace her at this session
means no successor can take her
place on the bench until the
next Congress.
The two Democrats who
shared in opposing a replace
ment are the two considered
responsible for her appoint
ment nearly seven years ago
Representative Cooper and Sem
ator Kefauver. e-.er
The administrations reluc-
lance to tangle with either of
the legislators-which puzzled
some Of their colleagues on Cap
itol Hill-was considered the rea-
son why the judge has remained
on the bench nearly a year since
her term expired.
Had Picked Candidate
The administration, it was
learned. had settled on a candi-
date months ago. The candidate
was Orm w. Ketcham, 37-year-
old Navy veteran. father of four
and presently in the Justice De-
partment's Antitrust Division.
He had the support both of the
District Bar Association and the
Republican State Committee. as
well as the individual support of
prominent attorneys and social
work leaders here.
Since Judge Cockrill's term
expired while Congress was not
in session, it was not until Janu-
airy that the movement for a
successor got underway-and the
opposition emerged.
On January 8, the National
Probation and Parole Association
wrote Attorney General Brownell
condemning Judge Cockrill's adj
ministration of Juvenile Court
as causing "a loss to the ma
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-21
BY ROBERT X. WALSH

~ ASOD6Ab4 AAs VAAOAA
Awaiting a final roll call Mon
day in the House, the civil rights
bill today was the center Of
eleventh-hour but not too hope
full efforts for a revision that
might give it a fighting chance
in the Senate.
The measure, with a few
amendments, won tentative ap-
proval by the House late yes
terday during a flve-hour ses-
sion made mild and expendi-
tious by a "gentlemen's agree
ment" to curtail talk and dilatory
tactics.
A main inducement to that
agreement was the poStponement
Of final roll calls until Monday
on moves to knock out any of
the Professionally adopted amend
mentS, return the measure to
committee, or pass it.
Both sides in the battle said
the postponement provides ad-
vantages, in addition to cooling
on tempers and permitting the
legislators to proceed in orderly
fashion.
Opponents reported they saw
nothing on the weekend horizon
to indicate the bill would ever see
the light of day in the Senate
during the drive for adjourn
ment. Some of the bills hackers,
on the other hand, welcomed
the additional time to push for a
possible compromise that might
satisfy Southern members in both
branches.
One such compromise pro-
posal, known to have been Of
fered informally in various
huddles, would revise the bill
by eliminating especially con-
troversial sections. These now
would allow the Attorney Gen
eral to institute civil actions in
Federal Courts on complaint Of
violations Of voting and other
civil rights.
Such a compromise would
leave in the bill the section pro-
Viding for a presidentially-ap-
pointed bipartisan commission
Of six members to study civil
rights problems and investigate
complaints. 1t might also re-
tain in watered-down form the
provision for a Justice Depart
ment civil rights division headed
BY an additional Assistant At
torney General.
Yet, the flood Of amendments
presented by Southern Demo-
Gratis and a few Northern Re-
publicans yesterday were CEN
Tered as much on the proposed
commission and civil rights d.
vision as on the court action
provisions.
The House disposed of more
than 20 amendment proposals
yesterday. 1t tentatively adopted
bnly three. Two Of these, sub
nitted by Representative Dies,
Democrat Of Texas, would require
that complaints to the commits
zion be in writing and that
HE commission investigate al
legations of illegal voting as
veil as deprivation Of voting
nights. The other successful
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-21
POTOMAC FEVER
FLETCHER KNEBEL

The Nation suffers mock A-bomb attack in Operation
Alert" Republicans it's drastic but necessary Anything
take the countrys mind of Operation Operation"
Gov. Hartman campaigns in Kansas Hartman has good
name in the Farm Belt 1t isn't Benson
fellow from Milwaukee says that two can live as cheaply
in theory-but not in Milwaukee
The Eisenhower team has flexible public power policy
dam that decided not to build in Idaho replaced
with dam that it won't build in Egypt.
Atomic Boss Strauss new Hbomb that doesn't
kill folks by fal-out. It's great comfort how
hard the scientists working make killed only
purpose
discussion is argument that nobody particularly
interested in
Labor Leader Jack Kroll Ike has let the working
down. Terrible feeling too All alone with friend
White House to rescue him from prosperity
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-21
CONSTANTINE BROWN
Events inimicoI to West Expected
From Tito-Nosser-Nehru Meeting

Just exactly what the three
leading "neutralists" Of the
world may have talked about
as they lolled together on
YugoSlavian dictator Tito's
Adriatic island retreat will
probably not be revealed in
words. But events of the next
few months. and perhaps
years. will without a doubt
sharply remind the free world
that their talk was not without
its consequences. Unfortunate
ly, these consequences will hold
no good for the West in its
struggle to survive against the
deadly menace Of communism.
Indian Prime Minister Nehru,
who Joined his two neutralist
confreres in their little huddle
on Wednesday, brought with
him the news, bad for the over
all cause of the West, from
London, Bonn and Paris. In
London. Nehru learned at first
hand just how serious the
rapidly accelerating decline of
the once great British Empire
really is.
From Bonn, he brought in
telligence as to the surprising
growth of neutralism in that
democratic republic, and the
spreading resentment among
the German people against
continued occupation by for
eign troops. He also had news
of the surge in sentiment for
direct talks with the Commu-
mist East Germans in another
effort to achieve the reunifica-