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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-01
By the Associated Press

President Eisenhower has
signed the foreign aid money bill
supplying $S,766, 100000 to 81 ma
tons for the next year to rein
force their armed services and
economies in the cold war.
But the measure, signed yes
terday, contains two features the
administration found objection
able during the congressional
fight on foreign aid.
Most important. the amount of
money was $1.093, 405,0 900 less
than the President wanted, a cut
Mr.. Eisenhower maintained
would mean Americas security
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-01
Foreign Aid Bill Signed;
81 Nations to Get Funds

and free world partnership will
be seriously impaired"
The other stipulation fought
unsuccessfully by the administers
ton stops further arms aid to
Communist Yugoslavia. This was
inserted by Senators led by mem
bers of Mr.. Eisenhower's party,
Republican Leader Knowland, of
California. and Senator Bridges,
Republican of New Hampshire.
Yugoslavia, however. still can
obtain military equipment on or
der, plus future material for
maintenance and spare parts.
There also is a provision allow
ing YugoSlavia SIS million Of
economic aid.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-01
Capture of Bermuda
PIunned in 1872

HAMILTON, Bermuda. - In
the War of 1912 United States
naval officers made elaborate
plans to capture Bermuda from
the British. A fleet of vessels
was even assembled for this
purpose. but was diverted to the
capture of a feet of English
merchant ships and the plan to
seize the island was never car
ried out.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-01


terrent power, and I think we
have to explain that to our al
lies"
Admiral Radford said this
shift in weapons and forces
should be gradual land I think it
will be more and more apparent
by 1860. I think we will
begin to move more rapidly as
these new weapons come into
being"
Senator Saltonstall also raised
questions about estimates Of
Communist military strength by
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-01
Controversy Cited

Secretary Of the Interior Seaton
yesterday.
Controversy Cited
Mr.. D'Ewart's confirmation
was the subject of lengthy, argu-
|mentative hearings by the In
terror Committee.
The chairman, Senator Muir
ray, Democrat of Montana, de-
feated Mr.. D'Ewart in 1854
Senator Murray disassociated
himself as head of the con-
firmation proceedings for that
reason.
But the 1854 Montana cam
paign came up anyway, with
anti-D'Ewart witnesses produc-
ing two publications they said
were used against Senator Muir
ray.
Anti murray Booklets
One booklet was entitled
James E. Murray and the Red
Web Over Congress-" The other
was called THE Red Record
and Communist-Front Associa-
tons of Senator James E. Muir
ray"
Mr.. D'Ewart said he had nc
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-01
Rodford Warns Against
Overestimoting Russia

Admiral Arthur w. Radford has linked forecast of
reductions in the of United States armed forces with
against "hyserca" overesmates of Soviet military might
These opinions Of the chairman of the Joint chiefs of staff
made public yesterday by Senate Armed Services
ttee air than month after Admiral Radords
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-01

Secretary Of the Interior Seaton
yesterday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-01


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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-01

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The Nome nugget., 1956-02-27
Crippled Globemaster
With Two Dead Engines
Guided to Safe Landing

LONDON, R = Rescue planes
shepherded a crippled U. S. Air
Force Globemaster to a safe land
ing in Iceland Saturday after two
dead engines nearly forced her
pilot to ditch in the Atlantic.
The us. Air Force reported
that all 16 airf1aen aboard were
safe as the big four-engine trans
port landed at the Air Force base
at Keflavik.
The plane was enroute from
Goose Bay, Laborador, to Prest-
wick, Scotland, when the grim
two-hour battle with failing en-
gines began about 900 miles west
of Iceland.
Air-sea rescue planes were dis
patched from Keflavik after the
pilot radioed he was losing alti-
tude and was considering ditching
in the sea.
Later the pilot messaged he was
managing to nurse the craft along
on the two remaining engines.
The Nome nugget., 1956-02-27
Russian Embassy in
London Complains of
Propaganda Balloons

LONDON R-The Russian En-
bassy has complained that propa-
ganda balloons are descending on
its palatial premises in London's
millionaire row.
And to make it worse, the bal
looms are being sent up by Rus
SLAMS.
Nikolai Belokhvostikov, Soviet
charge d'affairs, called at the For
eign Office Friday to protest
against a balloon campaign by
the National Alliance of Russian
Solidarists," Russian emigre
movement.
Belokhvostikov said Alliance
members were sending up chill
dren's balloons carrying "provoc-
alive" pamphlets from outside the
embassy grounds. The balloons
drift onto the Soviet area, he said,
and a number have wound up
tangled in Ambassador Jacob
Malik's rose bushes.
Minister of State Anthony Nut
ting was reported to have ex-
pressed regret an embassy had
been subjected to annoyance, but
was said to have pointed out the
emigre group was committing no
crime.
The Nome nugget., 1956-02-27
SON SHOOTS FATHER
INSTEAD OF STRAY DOG

UHRICHSVILLE, Ohio, R-
Stalking a stray dog with a shot
gun, Victor Deromedi accidentally
shot and killed his aged father
Saturday.
Deromedi, believing the dog
had rabies, had cornered it out
side a rear door of his home. He
fired just as the father, Joseph,
Sc, stepped ont the door. The blast
hit the father in the abdomen.
The Nome nugget., 1956-02-27
Coon Hound Spends
Ten Days Locked in
Trunk of Automobile

DOVER, Ohio, R-Farmers at
nearby Newcomerstown were tell
ing a story about a hidden
Mike"
Mike, a coon hound owned by
Kenneth WEIGH, was hidden acct
dentally for 10 days in the trunk
of All automobile.
The dog leaped into the trunk
when Paul Miller was making a
delivery at Welch's farm, and
Miller closed the trunk without
noticing Mike.
Miller said he used his car daily
while Mike was in the trunk and
even made one trip back to the
Welch farm. But he never heard
a bark.
A bit weak when discovered,
Mike came around rapidly when
given water and food.
The Nome nugget., 1956-02-27
Reds Refuse to
Account for 2,72O
Missing Prisoners

PANMONJOM, Korea, R-The
Communist side of the Military
Armistice Commission Saturday
refused to account for 2,720 miss
ing Korean War prisoners, includ-
ing $50 Americans.
1t returned the list of names
presented by the United Nations
Command last Nov. 26 and said
1--WE are not responsible for
them"
Rear Adm. Walter E. Moore,
senior UNC representative, angri-
ly termed the reply mot satisfac-
tory"
The UNC indicated last Novem-
Der there was little hope any of
the missing 2,720 men were still
alive. Moore said at the time:
"What we want is names, ranks,
serial numbers, notification of
deaths and of the whereabouts of
bodies of those repotred dead"
The name of US. Air Force
Capt. James A, Van Fleet Jr, son
of the former US. 9Th Army COM
mander in Korea, was included.
The Americans were made up
of 244 soldiers, 1870 airmen, l3
marines, and 3 naval men,
The Nome nugget., 1956-02-27
COLD FOX IS BOLD

TUNBRIDKE WELLS, England,
bitter cold wave
drove a starving fox into the
home of Mrs. Fraser Simpson.
She found the animal curled up
asleep in an armchair near the
fire.
The Nome nugget., 1956-02-27

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-16

discernible change in the relative
length. were the length of our
standard meter to undergo APP
preciable change, even though
very gradually. confusion would
ultimately result, not only in
everyday buying and selling but
In the mass production of inter-
changeable parts and in most
fields of scientific and engineer
ing work"
The meter bar was measured
at Sevres. a suburb of Paris. 1t
was compared there. using mi
croscopes. alongside the interna-
tional standard meter bar.
DR.. Lewis v. JudSon, chief OF
the Standards Length Section
lugged the bar from here to
France. The bar itself, of a
platinum-iridium alloy, weighs
perhaps seven pounds. But he
had it inside a padded wood
cylinder. and that was inside a
brass tube. and that was inside a
wooden box.
1T weighed all in all about
IS pounds" he said yesterday,
land I carried it personally.
didn't let the porters carry it.
did it myself"
DIR. ,JudSon brought, his nrec-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-16

actions here are measured in
terms of inches, feet or yards.
But actually, these measure
ments are guided by metric
measurement. One yard equals
0.914402 of a meter. That bar
at the Bureau of Standards is
the final authority on how much
cloth you get when you buy a
yard of material, and it is the
last word on where your back
yard ends and the neighbor S
begins.
Manufacturers visit the Bu-
reau regularly to check meas
IurementS against the bar.
! DR.. Judson's trip was the third
time our bar has been sent
abroad for comparison with the
international standard. The
other occasions were in 1908 and
I1922-23.
The bars alloy value is about
$4,000. The bars actual value
can hardly be estimated, since
/ it is practically irreplaceable.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-16
Army Reseryists
Hunt Space Here

Washington area Army Re-
servists may have some fine
training quarters coming UP by
1860, but right now they're al
most without a roof over their
heads.
Under an Army program call
ing for 1900 new training CEN
tiers over the Nation within the
next four years, the District area
will get eight new armories,
which also are to be used as COM
munity centers.
Until then, the District Mill
tary District under command Of
Col. Robert q. Lowe is launch
ing a facility-leasing program.
Temporary quarters will be
leased for units which are being
forced out of aforementioned
quarters. The District does not
now lease any facility.
An announcement is expected
Tuesday on locations of the
facilities to be selected and
leased.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-16

ious burden back to Standards
last Tuesday.
The national meter here is one
Of 80 finished in 1889 under sup
ervision of an international CON-
mittee. One of them was desig-
mated as the international STAN
dard and the others were dis
tributed to various governments.
The layman's everyday trans
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-16
Industry Accidents Rise
Here Despite Fewer Jobs

Safety Council. urged employers
and unions to reactivate safety
committees already established
and to organize safety groups in
each organization where none
are now functioning.
These committees, he said,
should contact Robert A. Meyer,
lof GOT Sixteenth street NV,
chairman Of the Safety Coun-
ellis Subcommittee on Con-
struction.
At a recent meeting of Mr.,
Meyers committee, the group
recognized need for action in
preventing injuries in the con-
Istruction industry. 1t was urged
that each construction project
ARRANGE at least one meeting a
month, at which time all super
Ivisory employees. including fore
men and union shop stewards,
should take the lead in discuss
ing hazards of their particular
job.
Mr.. Howat also urged subcom-
mittees of the Safety Council in
transportation, manufacturing
retail trade and utilities to re-
double their efforts toward
making their particular indus
try a safer place to work.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-16
Trip to France Proves
Our Meter Still a Meter

Thank heaven and the Bureau of Standards this
surfing note in world of changing values national standard
meter bar basis of all length measurements
tested and found true
Did somebody say what? So this-f that out at
Standards had been found be off, industry would
Dr. Allen " ASn Standards director, yester-
day 1T gratifying that there no
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-16

Despite a decrease in private
industry employees here, 46l more
accidental injuries were reported
for the fiscal year ending june
80 than during the previous year
In a report by the Citizens
Advisory Council on Industrial
Safety for the District, last year.
injuries totaled 26,l54-with the
construction industry responsible
for 33s of the 461 increase.
Other injury increases were
noted in retail trade services
transportation, organi z tion S
utilities and wholesale trade
Real estate remained the same
while a decrease in injuries wa.
noted in communications. fl.
nance. professional and manu-.
featuring.
Improper handling of object.
was the cause Of more than q
per cent of injuries, with fall.
of employees, eye injuries. strikine
against objects, falling object.
and persons stepping on object.
accounting for an additional 81
per cent.
/ AS a suggestion to the con.
struction industry. p. Y. K
Howat. cochairman of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-16

LENGTH STANDARD UNCHANGED:
bar assists in removing it from its special carrying
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1956-06-22

READ THE WANT ADS
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1956-06-22

Advertising wonderful tool but like everything else
The Federal Trade Com
bargains appear frequently III
print
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1956-06-22

Alabama l.. writing page two
months attributed much
segregation failure
Vet the have been a
Supreme Court showed
pe"rrd to b" the newspaper pre-
readers
That three pending
state universities Oklahoma
Jim Cruw state We warned edtou1ly
ooneni in the three pending practice
makes equality impossible and that violate
Constitution"
later II
specifically passing
upon the separate but equal
purpoSely
- 1889 newspaper
agreed rule 10
provide equal facilities November
Ccber IL that any
constitutional inequality except Segregation itself"
The following June the
of these TO submit whether
the question
the court could in the exercise Of is permit effective
gradual adjustment; from
And observed This further please
hoped week BY week decision
pecve.r the Justice Department legally
required segregation tribunal
And this probabilities
decision DECLARING bat providing
effective gradual adjustment odd the
until months later the decision
iaSt-is months later the inlplementng decrses
What mcisraes mgh; have accomplished during tses- four
toward building hrasal
segrvSatonists
charged with sudden
ma, srs~ar~ MONITOR
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1956-06-22

dragned Indignation program
in Washington - c. which school authorities
proceeded very we'll
Problems developed because Washington
schools vaunted Negro
With the white schools the teaching
%
II left alone IN" D. q school authorities
Of education viii time
school The theory
pubic schools the South including
exhibited It's weakness
dr-n began To attend classes together
Naturally children receiving
the stick education facilities aggregate
up
the exceptional Negro
held their but few instances moved a
The behind the
pointed obtain public
Washington schools working well
hoscrS that the efficacy the u
segregation decision would be demonstrated
nations capital There indication
"a whole,
Considering problems
pointed
meddng
bunch Dixie politicians members
publicity
u G. school schools
plan
that the Minnesota
the capital the past 20 His voting record civil rights
residing
district In 100 per to date.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1956-06-22

Travelled to our old City Mo the other
day by the the hllby
of song
moanfu gives laugh the
billy music is not a favo1te Of ours
two-day witt a
ago a family reunion eliminating exhibition
which the wife mother three sisters two
sorted grand nieces and nePhews took part
Pop up md a remarkable recovery
from partially parsyzng growed little about the
but the fvoy continued Pop e straitaced in his later
complained end he grabbed
grandchildren pretty little Patty took Of himself
Momma happy a cucking henw assorted children
grandchildren grandchildren surrounding
r , ~, ' ,','., p .", a S , -s vi, i
proud ability a smooth step
especially the better
slim of how
to young Des
Moines
already dgnined
partner go to town ballroom floor when occasion warrants
Us? should
endurance smooth relaxing around the
floor in time to the music
We admit like youngsters do nerbugging
the fancy However when not heavy
around our shoulders we didn't 20 for the fancy intricate steps Of
which DE Vema Newman
knows and negotiate gracefully of the steps the youngsters
tripping claims don't
dance relaxed with do the other ladies' Trouble
whke around the dance floor and
there's place we won't be led!
Reading the local paper in Kansas City we observed where local
million dollars advertise the city
products availability corporations to
build plants
The go-getting town with everybody town
otherwise
Champion golfer Ayce Stewart husband
Detroit visited few days faces dill
stock last she's undecided
theatre roles and part
and which she has
established the most successful independent
worshppng rented build
building Si5 900
credit monthly church club
and live
a program
"SPOKESMAN"-C Newman
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1956-06-22

Powell Amendment all the
appropriation above
every they
consideration but consideration
Compliance with Constitutions interpreted the
United States Supreme Court Of FIRST Importance.
Amendment would fail Federal
complies requires
whch steps comply
support wfuly
Constitution.
suggest
support
ution OF United Afro American
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1956-06-22

The Rev Mcdowell Southern Presbyerans
speaking fraenal delegate
curious statement the other
After "confessing that Christian leadership
failed in preparing its Indignation
Richards added
One compel love- by law
Which leads for that matter
hate to do obeytng he law
DIT Richards appears trap as those
Southerners who prejudice
OF the
individual to like another That $ not Is purpose
Hut Il do something else
II to
hates prejudices public
Moreover and does supported
OF all citizens the
available to all citizens without
o
And that special To preferment public
situations whether compulsory voluntary
We demand We anything
Afro American
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1956-06-22
BY Constance Daniel


Washington, ID C.-~Two Fed
eral city groups one profession
al and one poiitically-affiiiated--
now, openly or furtiveIy are lead.
ing segregation die-hards In their
respective areas Of activity. One
Is the District Of Columbia Bar
Association. The other Ia the
League of Republican Women Of
the District Of Columbia.
Six weeks ago, on May s. the
Bar Association desegregated, on
a voice vote led by its hard
working liberal element. The Or
ganization's die-hard membership,
led by a group Of seven. a month
later asked the District Court 10
mIIlify this voice-vote on the
grounds that II was Illegal, and
that the two-thirds vote required
10 amend the bylaws could not be
shown Whatever the courts ruI.
ing on this, we think that the open
and aggressive fight for desegre-
cation waged by the liberal mem.
beers, was worth their effort. n
credit 10 their group. and a sound
step forward
Much less can b. said for the
District of Columbia League Of
Republican Women, where no
significant effort toward de-
segregation has been discern
abb. As stated In this column
for the week ending February
~. (see Lincoln Day Irony
Most of the thousand GQpers
who attended the Lincoln Day
rally o.. here. FEB - were bliss.
fully unaware that the District of
Columbia League OF Republican
Women. that sponsored the event
in cooperation with the Republi.
can National Committee. Is "A Jim
Growing organization which ex-
cludes Negro women from mem
bership. and in which the moral
climate OF which Deputy Attorney
General William +. Rogers spoke
40 feelingly is conspicuous by it's
absence.
The alibi Is, This Is private
club The out has been an off
the-beatcn-pa path token club for
Negro women, known ~ the 'Vir.
ginia White Speel Club II
was 10 this latter club that Negro
women wishing To join with other
Republican women here were di-
rected, II is the club 10 which we
were directed by Mrs Nora
kearns. then and now President Of
the National Federation OF Re
publican Women.
After the District OF Columbia
Leagues last election Of officers.
We checked Its office 10 zee
whether under the new president.
Mrs. William Foster Durdick,
there had been any change in the
policy Of excluding Negro women
from membership. Mrs Rethei
Murphy. the Leagues secretary.
said that there was no change
that the coIored women deserved
their own organization
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1956-06-22

AS We go 10 press, FEB, Q
the routinsIy acknowledged ap,
piicants Of a number Of Republi'
can women VINO are Negro, are IN
the hands Of u. c. League Off.
cials."
And As We go 10 press on June
II, they are stlll there, without
further answer, some six months
after filing They include, az we
said at the time, that of a Re.
publican woman whose prosperous
free forebears, in Cleveland. Ohio,
had directly participated In the
Convention that sent Lincoln "a
the White House. and whose fam.
lily came 10 Washington when one
member became law clerk for
LncoIn's Chief Justice, Salmon
Portland Chase.
Mrs. Bolton, Africa and the
Doorstep Job
On June 8, Republican Con
gresswoman Frances Payne B0I,
ton, Of Cleveland, addressed half
a thousand Howard graduates
and their seven thousand guests
at the Iniyersity's recent Com.
mencrmrnt said: We must
help create "A climate Of opinion
In which solutions are possible"
Last fail. Mrs. Bolton. a mem.
her Of the House Committee on
Foreign Affairs. made an extern
siVe tour OF African countries.
Impressed. she told H. US grad
yates that Americas race rela-
lions are important "to millions
outside the United States
statement with which few viii
disagree. since few viii relate u
to themselves.
Token Exports
But our overseas neighbors are
not naive Europe. Africa or else
where They are fully aware Of the
difference between our token ex-
ports Of democracy what is in
our sample cases like Frank
Snowden in Rome. and Ralph
Bunche at UN and the kind that
they find on our doorsteps, like the
exclusion Of Negroes from a
political group affiliated with the
Presidents party, right here under
the sound of the Presidents voice
and the voices OF the most import
ant party leaders. and In full view
OF the same officials who are bid.
ding heavily for the Negro vote"
and the closely related labor
vote"
All the Way Across the Board
Right Here!
AZ We told the gal who kept
lucrative overseas Job
under our nose. Thank you kind
ly. Let's do II right here in Wash
ington"
Orchards die had The toughest
job. az usual. is on the doorstep.
Take a bow Max Rabb. Maybe the
nt-hearted will come to. at long
last. and provide you with some
door step examples where they
count.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1956-06-22
Roy Wicr On Job

our Minnesota Congressman Roy wisr Third district Democrat
was right On the Job last called the
SeSakahoh ct Juvenile delinquency
powerful House District umh
wr SAYS the investigation sponsored
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1956-06-22
All the Way Across the Board
Right Here!

Total Of l Aa2 900 marriages oc-
CURED IN the ". 3. last year: a
three per cent increase IL predict.
ed this year.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1956-06-22

News or the Insignificant Of Americas racial differences
mouth that there
being prosecuted visiting
asking they back prosecuted
rho Communists meanwhile oc
Finally the Americans sometimes
world
To
rnhghteninE that stl
heracy sacv
equality man
should have oa,Erown all this prejudice Witch
pau