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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-14
FIN Stations
Other AM Stations
TODAYS TV
HIGHLIGHTS

500, WTOP t9)-Big Ten Bas-
ketball; Purdue VS.. Michigan
State.
$500. WRC (A-Pro Basketball:
Boston VS.. Philadelphia.
500, WTTG ~ Sigma OF
Progress: Featurettes on
Georgetown Alumni Associa-
ton: Prince William Electric
Coop, Independent Military
Air Transport.
500, WRC "a - Perry Como
Show: Larry Storch replaces
Fred Allen: also, EZio Pima
and the singing -Four Coins"
head the guest list.
Air Transport.
$3.50, WMAL #(7)-Champion-
ship Bowling: Ed Kawolics
VS.. Don Carter. During
this match, perfect 900"
game is rolled-first time be-
fore cameras.
500, WTOP t9l-Stage Show:
Jack Carter emcees, with
George Raft. Dolores Haw-
kins and the comedy team OF
Wallis and Carroll.
$3.50, WRC t4)-Star Theater:
Tab Hunter and JEANNE Car
son appear as Jimmy Duran
te's guests.
$3.50, WTOP (9) - Ford Star
Jubilee: COLOR "Blithe
Spirit" comedy about a man
whose attractive wife returns
as a ghost to plague him and
his second wife; Noel Cow
ard, Claudette Colbert. Lau-
reen Bacall and Mildred Nat
wick.
1000, WRC (H-George Gobel;
Henry Fonda. Paul Anderson.
U. 8. heavyweight lifting
champion. guests.
1000, WMAL (D-Eddy Arnold
Show: CPremiere) Eddie sings
Young at Heart" ANY
Time" and Gamblers Gull
tar"
1850, WMAL az - Town and
Country Time: Starts half
hour later.
ll:l5, WTOP (9)-Film Studio 8;
bad Lord Byron" with Joan
Greenwood Q952).
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-14
School Petrol Gets
Plaque From Bonn

German Ambassador Heniz L.
Krekeler yesterday presented to
the American School Safety
Patrol a trophy from a similar
organization in Germany.
The trophy. intended to SYM
bolize the common aims and ties
of friendship which connect the
safety patrols of the United
States and Germany" is a relief
carved in wood depicting patrol
activities.
The border carries the seals
and names of the cities in both
countries that were first to or
.ganiZe patrols: Detroit, Chicago
Newark, Kornwestheim. Karls-
ruhe, Cologne and Dusseldorf.
The plaque was commissioned
by Dusseldorf.
Russell E. Singer, executive vice
president of the American Auto
mobile Association, which spon-
,sors the American patrol, &C.
'cepted the plaque from Ambassa-
ld6r Krekeler at the Embassy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-14
TODAY'S RADIO
HIGHLIGHTS

200, WMAL Metropolitan
Opera: Lucia Di Lammer-
moor" with Lily Pons, Jan
Peerce and Frank Valento.
GAS, WTOP - News of Greater
Washington: Newsman Paul
Mills is anchor man in pro-
gram Of recorded reports on
the weeks doings.
500, WRC -- Jayne Mansfield,
actress, talks about Marilyn
Monroe.
1000, WRC - Vice Presi d e II t
Richard M. Nixon introduces
one of the years 10 outstand-
ing young men. from SPRING
field, III.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-14
BALTIMORE TV

(Here are evening programs
on nearby Baltimore stations
which differ from those available
on local channelsD
6:00-(2-Lassie.
| 6:00-QD-Corliss Archer.
500 - 13) - Movie: Park
Row."
6:30-(2)-Buffalo Bill, Jr.
6:30-QD - Ramar Of the
Jungle.
7:O0-QD-I Search for Ad-
venture.
10:30-(1D-Mr. District At
tOrney.
10:30-Q3)-John Wayne.
1l:15-QD-Your Hit Parade.
11:30-l3) - Half hour Play,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-14
Answers to Our Presidents.

Salmon Portland Chase was
born on January Is, 1908.
2-This was the great Fred
erick's tribute to George WASH
inRton.
'-Charles Curtis OF Kansas
wss Vice President under Hoover.
Questions on preceding page.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-28

they came to the stand--I didn't
even do what every lawyer does,
talk once more with the witness
just before presenting his testi-
Imony."
Mr.. Gerber said he had re-
Ispected the wishes of all prospec-
tive witnesses who asked not to
be called for public testimony
land that included some colored
people who said they didn't want
to get at cross purposes with the
INAACP National Association for
the Advancement Of Colored
People,"
Denies PrecOnceived Ideas
Mr.. Gerber insists that he came
to the subcommittee counsel as.
signment with no preconceivec
ideas about indignation. He say
he now has some about tn,
Washington situation and i.
making up his mind about in.
tegration in general, but he won
talk about his opinions while thu
hearings are going on.
Nor would he comment on tn,
handling of disorders over in,
tegration at Clinton and nearb.
towns in his own State of Ten,
nessee, except to say that INT
decent citizen approves Of con,
duct like (John) Kasper'S.
Kasper, secretary Of the Sea.
board White Citizens Council o.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-28

Many received only a thank
you"
"Is that all?" one barely
whispered when she was stopped
after the opening line.
Deliveries varied from a mild
whisper to powerful shout.
Mr.. Preminger never an
nounces those he selects fol
screen tests" an aide said. But
one, 16-year-old Winifred Oak
sen of Baltimore, was told she
was very good" and Mr.. Prem
niger wrote down her phone
number.
Came From Boston
Some girls travelled consider
able distances to try out. Green
eyed Nureen Murphy came all
the way from Boston.
II missed the tryout in New
York SO made sure ! would bt
heard here" she said.
The entrants included Mango
Lucey, who placed second in thu
Miss America contest recently
She is a junior at the University
Iof Maryland.
Mr.. Preminger plans to in
troduce his selection, after fur
ther tryouts in Europe. October
81 on a television program.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-28
Meeting

Hank Leader says this one
was passed along to him as
true:
A man was hurrying to a
8 am. appointment in a down.
town Office building.
He got into the lobby Just
as the operator was about to
close the doors of the crowded
elevator. He squeezed inside
and the operator shut the
doors. 1t was so crowded he
couldn't turn around.
He stood there looking at
the other passengers as the
elevator started up, and they
stared back at him. It was
decidedly embarrassing, the
man reported later, but he
decided to pass it off noncha-
lantly. He addressed his ele-
vator audience:
Il suppose you're all won
dering why I gathered you
together here this morning.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-28
II TyOut as Saint Joan
Before Preminger Here

Otto Preminger, movie pro-
ducer-director, turned the Shore
ham Hotel ballroom into a cast
ing studio this morning as he
tried out 81 girls for the role OF
George Bernard Shaw's saint
JOAN"
He watched the aspirants,
some nervous, some calm. as
cend the small spotlighted stage
and begin the lines in Scene 6:
Perpetual Imprisonment! Am
i not then to be set free?"
Watched Over $500
Washington is the 18th city
Mr.. Preminger has visited. look
ing for a girl. between is and
%, to play the role when pro-
|duction begins next January in
London. He has watched more
than $500 girls so far and has
checked of three as good pos
sibilities."
Most Of the readings were cut
OFF at Mr.. Preminger's request
after a few minutes. So he
called forward:
you have talent but we can't
use you for this spot"
you should keep at it,"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-28
Eisenhower to Luy
Stone at St. Sophie
AT Sunday Service

President Eisenhower viii at
tend services and lay q corner
stone Sunday at st. Sophia
Greek Orthodox Cathedral, it
was announced today.
The neo-Byzantine structure
at Massachusetts, avenue and
Carried street NV, has been
lin use for more than year. It
lis complete except for some in
terror decoration.
President Eisenhower will lay
THE cornerstone at 1915 pm, d.
lrectly after the service.
The ceremony is one Of a Sc
lfies Of events ia the week-Iong
Biennial Church-Laity Congress
of the Greek Orthodox Church
of North and South America
which opens formal sessions here
Monday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-28
Teachers Back
Wells

The faculty of Roosevelt High
School today defended Mrs
Elva c. Wells. principal o.
Roosevelt, against suggestion.
she was unable to cope" will
rising enrolment at the school
In a letter to School Supt
Hobart M. Corning, signed b.
40 Of the SO faculty members
the group said that "havinf
daily opportunity to see anC
work with Mrs. Wells, we den,
without reservation that she hal
failed in. any way to cope with
her job
The letter was directed a
statements made by Wesley Viii.
liams, member of the Board o.
Education, after Mrs. Wells has
testified before the House sub.
committee investigating Dis
|trict schools.
Mr.. Williams said in ont
statement that some witnesses
testimony was an admission o.
their inadequacy.
Today's letter from the Roose.
welt faculty said in part:
"She is an eminedtly superiol
administrator whose zeal, cour.
age and devotion in solving tn,
problems and maintaining the
standards of this school have
won the admiration and loyalty
|of all Roosevelt teachers ant
recognition from prominent edu.
Gators.
I'VE are grateful for the firm.
ness and justice with which sh.
maintains discipline and for he,
insistence upon high standard,
Of teaching, of achievement ant
|of conduct"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-28
SUNDAYS BEST READING
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Show Slip in Teen Sports

VACUUM OF INACTIVITY 1851 interest in active
sports has slipped among our teeners. Read Giberts
what Young People Think" in The Sunday Star and
learn the startling results of national poll Of teen
ayers sports and why 1t means health
menace. You will find Star Writer George Flynn's
story based on similar survey conducted locally
just eye-opening.
ROSE AMONG THE REDS" new six-part series by
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-28
BY EDMOND LEBRETON
Associated Press Stan Writer

william E. Gerber, the con-
troversial counsel Of a House SUBJ
committee investigating WASH
Iington's racially integrated
schools. has a way of fixing
gentle brown eyes on a witness
and exclaiming softly:
mol You don't say"
With a pause, a lowered voice,
a bit Of testimony is underlined.
Has Mr.. Gerber, as some
critics say, been building up a
lopsided picture of the results
Of racial mingling in the WASH
ington schools as he marshals
and questions witnesses before
the predominantly Southern SUBJ
committee?
The counsel shifts his cigar
and fires some questions right
back at any such suggestion:
Have you ever seen me brow
beat a witness? Put words in
his mouth? Do you know that
not a single witness has been
called before this committee
against his WHIP"
Mr.. Gerber's early activities
in the Memphis political organic
cation of the late E. H. Boss
Crump included some fisticuffs.
But here he is courteous to wit
lnesses and has been known to
drop a line Of questioning that
seemed to be embarrassing the
man or woman on the stand.
A Limit ON witnesses
AS to the selection of princi-
pals and teachers called to give
the subcommittee their views on
the effect indignation had on
studies and discipline, Mr.. Ger
Der said, "You can't put 1000
people on the stand"
II feel as though have worked
Iup this case with honest wit
nesses who say what they think, /"
Mr.. Gerber continued. From
the very beginning / relied on
records furnished by the school
administration. We had prelim-
mary interviews with about 500
of the personnel, picking them
lat random. l didn't even know
lat the time whether each per-
son We asked in was white or
colored.
Il didn't see those we called
to testify publicly again until
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-28
Street Scenes .

A man in a letter carriers
uniform stopping his car in
front of the Ben Franklin
Post Office to deposit a letter
in the mail box there.
A man to a woman as
they stood in line for a tour
at the Bureau of Engraving
and Printing: Il wonder if
they give out do-it-yourself
kits?"
A cocker spaniel enjoying a
ride in a rowboat being towed
down Maine avenue S.W. on
a boat trailer. -.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-28
The
Rambler
Good Sumoritcn
No Help at All
BY JACK JONAS

Spike Drugan, visiting from
Ohio, says he's convinced
Washington people go all out
to be helpful, even If they
sometimes don't know what
they're doing.
"Enroute from Frederick, "
he says, Il got lost of Massa-
chusetts avenue and wound
up on the corner of X street
and some other avenue.
II pulled to the curb and
asked a gentleman to direct
me back to Massachusetts,
avenue so I could find my way
to the Mall and the Smith
sonian Institution. The old
gent was very courteous and
said he was going just that
way
Il let him in the car and
of we went. We wound up
three-quarters of an hour
later, somewhere near the
White House, and / found out
the old gent didn't know where
he was going, either.
He apologized for his stu
pidity, got out of the car, and
went his way"
Logic
Mrs. George Field, 1870
College View drive, Silver
Spring, Nd, says an interest
in baseball was spanked in
her 7-year-Old son for the
first time this summer.
what can we use for
bases" he asked his father.
Mr.. Field suggested the
three trees in their back
yard might serve admirably
as first, second and third
bases. Home plate, he said,
could be a piece Of scrap
lumber.
Several days later, Mrs.
Field went out to call her
son in from play. She noted
that the young team had
picked up home plate and
moved to a neighbours yard,
which, she says, is "a junior"
forest" And, quite logi-
cally, they were using trees
for first, second, third,
fourth and fifth bases.
Mrs. Field says she stayed
around a little IOnger-just
long enough to hear the
jubiliant shout Two and a
half Outs!'"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-28
School Official Lays Lower Level
OF Negro Teachers to Segregation

DR.. Hansen replied he could
not.
Mr.. Williams asked:
do you think it is fair to a
child to put him in a school
predominantly of the other
racer"
1T depends upon the child
and his adjustment" DR.. Ham
sen replied He said the COM
mittee charged with approving
transfer requests ''has tried to
be humane" He did not state
how many transfers it has
granted.
Questioned on Cracks"
DR.. Hansen was questioned at
length about the background and
operation of the city's integra-
ton plan, as well as about the
new "four-track" division of stu
dents introduced this fall in the
city's high schools. His personal
outlook on racial matters also
came under scrutiny.
DR.. Hansen told the investiga-
tors he regarded Washington
indignation as "a miracle of adj
iIjustmentv
/ He said he did not believe the
indignation program was haSty
rim the light of conditions" at
1.-THE time 1t began in September
1854.
/ There was great tension in sew
leral areas at that time because
of crvwding in colored schools
land empty seats in some white
schools. he said.
He cited the area of the Blu
chanan Elementary School, Thir-
teenth and G streets Sc, then
i'm the white division and only
partially occupied. There, he
said. tension had mounted to the
point where parents of pupils
lpatrolled the streets while their
children went to and from school
THE only reasonable answer"
he said. was to permit the chill
dren to get together"
/ Mr.. Williams wanted to know
whether there had been outside
pressure from the White House
or other sources to speed inte-
Igration.
mo, not to my knowledge, .
lDr. Hansen replied. He said the
Question should be addressed to
School Supt. Hobart M. Corning
The school official said he be-
lieved the school board took
steps necessary for Washington. .
! DR.. Hansen admitted that 1.-THE
preparation of our teachers for
indignation did not include q
complete understanding of prob
lens Of integration.
This he blamed, however
partly on segregation itself. This
he said caused an "insularity, .
which impeded interchange OF
information between the city's
two former school divisions.
Under questioning, DR.. Hansen
gave racial breakdown Of pupil
assignments in the city's new
I"four-track" high school course
Iof study.
Tenth graders this fan have
been divided into four groups
in general according to ability.
so Colored at Top
| The breakdown showed thai
only SO Of 365 students enrolled
in the top track, an honofs
course, are colored. On the othel
levels the totals were:
4 College preparatory. a0S white
1856 colored: general. GAS white
E1.453 colored, and basic, Isl
white, 1919 colored.
| The general course include.
lstudents specializing in business
trades and similar subjects who
do not plan to continue educa-
Ition after high school. The basic
course is for retarded or slow
learning students.
DR.. Hansen said the basi;
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-28
Inquiry
Called Useless
ByPauI Butler
j Ruyburn Refuses to
Join Discussion Of
District Politics

National Democratic Chairman
Paul Butler today challenged the
usefulness Of the congressional
probe of District schools.
In a letter to the local branch
of the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored
People. Mr.. Butler said his views
on the current hearings are iden-
tical with those of Adlai Ste
venson.
Replying to a telegram from
Eugene Davidson. president Of
the local NAACP branch, Mr..
Butler said, I fully agree with
Gov. Stevenson in this matter"
Mr. Stevenson had said he be-
lieves the hearings "are serving
no constructive purpose"
Rayburn Won't Comment
House Speaker Rayburn re-
fused to be drawn into any pub
lie discussion about the investi-
cation during a press conference
which he held yesterday.
The question was raised be-
cause it was understood one or
more groups or individuals had
sent wires to the Speaker ask
ing a halt to the hearings or sus-
pension Of the school subcom-
mittee counsel. william Gerber.
Hearings of the subcommittee,
which Chairman Davis Of Geor-
gia has indicated may come to
a close next week, are continue
ing without the presence Of sew
leral members.
ADA Protests Probe
The District chapter Of Ameri-
cans for Democratic Action yes
Iterday made public a resolution
protesting the subcommittee in
vestigation.
1t called the conduct of the
investigation "disgraceful." It
said it supports the demand of
Representative Wier. Democrat
of Minnesota, for the dismissal
of Mr.. Gerber as subcommittee
counsel. It described Mr.. Ger
ber's conduct as arrogant and
Iprejudiced.'
The chapter said it is apparent
the inquiry is being conducted
for the purpose of discrediting
integration everywhere and to
arouse resistance to the Supreme
Court decision.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-28

program is compulsory for
youngsters entering high school
with sixth-grade reading achieve
Iment or lower.
He stressed. however, that
youngsters will be able to move
upward from one track to an
other if they manage to meet
the requirements. He also as
serted that not all youngsters
retarded in reading are "unedu-
cable" Many may have ply
Geological or other blocks that
can be corrected, he said.
He also asserted that the
present range of achievement
scores among the city's tenth
graders, which he said extends
from third to 18th grade. lis
mot uncommon.
Il had that same experience
when / was principal Of a high
school in Omaha, Nebr.," he de-
clared.
Questioned on Home
DR.. Hansen's own outlook
came into question when Mr..
Williams asked him how he hap
lpened to buy a home where he
did. DR.. Hansen replied he
bought when he found a house
he could afford and where the
neighborhood seemed desirable,
with schools close by.
The house is at $50 Quesada
street NV.
Mr.. Williams asked whether
Inc would have bought a home in
"a colored neighborhood.
NO the school official re-
piled. But he added:
"As / mingle in school gather
Iings / have learned to respect
Those people and their customs. "
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-28
Gerber Insists He Took Probe Job
With Open Mind on Integrotion

Washington, is appealing from a
years contempt Of court sentence
resulting from his whipping up
anti-integration feeling in Gin
ton just before the outbreak. He
also is awaiting trial on another
charge based on alleged similar
action.
I'm Jew and proud Of it,
Mr.. Gerber said. "As a member
of a minority group I would have
a natural inclination to be in
favor Of anything favoring a
minority race.
But in Memphis there was no
clamor, no demand for integra-
ton. 1t was not a public ques-
ton. So / started on this job
with an open mind, to try to the
best of my ability to put the
testimony on as impartially as
! know how"
TOOK FINANCIAL Loss
Mr.. Gerber, who has a busy
law practice in Memphis, said he
took on the assignment 'at ter
rife financial loss" because he
thought a factual study might
be OF some service not only to
the committee but to the coun-
try as a whole"
He said he had never pfevi-
ously met any members Of the
subcommittee and that he got
the invitation to serve as coun-
Isel in a telephone call July
from two Tennessee representa-
tives while l was in Memphis
attending to my business and
planning my vacation"
A Memphis resident for nearly
all his 81 years-Mr. Gerber's
parents brought him there from
Russia at age sand a Crumr
man from 1920 on, Mr.. Gerber
has held Office as city attorney
and district attorney general. He
resigned after World War II, he
said, to set up a law firm with
his son. He has been out Of
active politics since 1913, the
year Senator Estes Kefauver de-
feated the Crump organization.
Mr.. Gerber says he has .'al-
ways been a Democrat" and will
vote for Adlai Stevenson.
"Kefauver, too?" he was asked
IF I vote for Stevenson, Of
course I'll have to vote for hin
too" he replied.