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Evening star., 1956-08-31
Man Gets Life
In Car Wash
Case

ELLICOTT CITY, Md, Aug. 81
(R.-Richard L. Simmons. %.
one of three men accused of
murder in the Staying of a Silver
Spring car wash operator. was
sentenced to life in the Mary
land penitentiary today.
Judge James MacGill handed
down a verdict Of guilty without
capital punishment.
Simmons was accused with two
other Negroes in the April %
Staying of Arthur Chyatte, 6l-
Iyear-old partner in the car wash
operation.
Mr.. Chyatte was shot in the
head as his wife looked on.
Eddie Lee Daniels, %. and
James A. Sullivan, %, also were
charged with the holdup-
Staying.
Daniels was convicted June l3
OF hrst-degree murder. He was
sentenced July 20 to be executed
IN the gas chamber. Sullivan
has not yet been tried.
Mr.. Chyatte. his wife Sophie
and his partner, Meyer Klein.
were counting receipts when
Daniels approached, shot Mr..
Chyatte and fed with about
S400
Summons, an art student. was
accused Of being driver of. the
getaway car in which Daniels
and Sullivan we're passengers.
Separate trials were granted
the three men at the request of
their attorneys.
Evening star., 1956-08-31
Uncle Sam Offers Borgoin
In Buffalo, Elk and Deer

purchase the animals alive are
Buffalo. mature animal not less
than two years of age, $3.50. ami
mails under two years, SIPS: elk,
not less than two years of age,
$50, and under two years. $50.
A butchered carcass OF a buff
falo weighing about 450 pounds
will be sold for $125 to Sl50. de-
pending on where purchased,
plus transportation charges.
A slaughtered whole elk weigh
ing from $50 to 300 pounds will
sell for $50 or $l10; a half elk
for $45 or SIS.
Meanwhile. for the first time
the female seals Of the Pribieof
Islands fur seal herd are being
harvested. the Interior Depart
ment announced yesterday.
Director John L. Farley Of the
Wildlife Service said 1t was
planned to kill some 10000
females during the annual-har-
vest on the islands in the Berine
Sea, of Alaska.
He said this was being done
to maintain the herd at a level
considered desirable from the
standpoint Of biology and eco
nomics.
The herd contains about
1.750.000 seals. When placed
under protection in 1911 by in
ternational treaty it numbered
only i25.000 animals.
The annual harvest permitted
since 1916 has ben limited 70
surplus males. and about 2 mil
- males have been killed. Z
Evening star., 1956-08-31

lprovocation has taken place re-
Gently in London against one OF
the members of the Soviet ath-
letic team. Nina, champion of the
Olympic Games and Europe and
a merited master of sport of the
USSR.
Match Called OFF
"This provocation was aimed
at blackmailing this world-fa :
nous sportswoman. AS a result
of this provocation, Nina is de-
prived of the possibility to take
part in the forthcoming friendly
athletics match between the
USSR and Great Britain.
For feeling of solidarity and
as a sign of protest against this
dirty provocation framed against
Nina, the Soviet athletic delega-
ton refuses to take part in this
match and is returning to the
USSR."
Officials of the British ANA
teur Athletic Association con-
ferred with the Russians.
A Soviet Embassy spokesman
described Nina's arrest as "a
very unfriendly act"
He said she did not believe
she stole the hats and considered
See ATHLETE, Page A-6
Evening star., 1956-08-31
President Plans
Tied
To His Record
No Whistle Stops
And Name CuIIinq,
He Tells Reporters
By CECIL HOLLAND

President Eisenhower, appear
ing fit and relaxed, promised
today to wage a vigorous re-
election campaign that will
make clear to the American
people the record of his ad-
miniStration.
He emphasized. however, that
he would not engage in a barn
storming, whiStle-stop campaign,
as he did four years ago, nor
would he indulge in any petty
name e-calling.
Mr.. Eisenhower set forth the
broad outline of the campaign
strategy he intends to follow in
a news conference.-the first he
has held since he was renomi-
mated last week at the Republi-
can National Convention in San
Francisco.
Answers Questions Quickly
The conference, as usual, took
place in the ornate Treaty Room
of the Old State Department
Building, and Mr.. Eisenhower
seemed to be the coolest and
most relaxed person in the wilt
ing heat of the place.
To newsmen he seemed as
ruddy as ever and he answered
a wide-ranging variety of ques-
tions with something of his old
snap that had been missing since
his ileitis operation. He flashed
his smile at intervals, laughed
easily at number of sallies, and
had a quick reply for most
questions.
AS for his health, Mr.. Eisen-
hover said he feels as good now
as he did before he was stricken
with the abdominal ailment last
June. He added. however. that
as for his golf and swimming, he
has not yet gotten back into his
old form. One had to get used
to playing golf again, the Pres;-
dent declared.
Mr.. Eisenhower's one show of
irritation in the news conference
came when he was asked if he
planned to discuss his health
during the campaign. He pointed
out that he will undergo a COM
plete medical examination before
the November 6 election and his
doctors will report publicly on it,
Look Cor Themselves
The President went on to say
that if you people"-meaning
the reporters-think he is
healthy. they can 50 report: II
not, they can report that.
Mr. Eisenhower said the de-
tails of his participation in the
Republican campaign have not
been completed. but he stressed
what his approach will be.
This administration. the Pres
ident emphasized. has record
and he was going to stand on
See POLITICS, Page AS
Evening star., 1956-08-31
Zoo Welcomes Joe Smith,
.K-Ton African Hippo

the Zoo last summer from Tan
ganyika Territory. Arusha is a
couple Of years older than Joe
and of course heavier But he1.
eventually outweigh her.
They are stsndins for Bongo
and Pinky. the full grown hippos.
Bongo is a rather old party. with
more than 40 years behind him.
While he is hardly on his death
bed, someone Of these sad days
Bongo will shuttle off; thus Joe
Smith in the wings.
DR.. Mann said Joe Smiths
arrival would be this years big
gest event. except for the ap-
preaching arrival Of a brace OF
rhinos. They are due at the Zoo
shortly. Since they will be the
first pair Of their species ever
brought to America they got top
billing.
Joe Smith docked in New York
yesterday. He travelled via Milan
The gang Of keepers took his
enormous crate of a van into
the Elephant House yard today
and doused him with water te
Nl him OF
Evening star., 1956-08-31

United States-and 40 per cent
OF the number needed for VIC
tory-waS music to the ears of
the Stevenson encourage, with
only the faintest of overtones of
trouble.
The trouble revolved around
the sticky question of civil rights
"a matter studiously skirted
throughout most of the discus
sion. 1t came in the form of a
telegram from one Of the most
powerful men in the South, Sem
ator Richard Russell of Georgia,
which spelled out distinctly
qualified Endorsement of the
Stevenson -Kefauver ticket.
Public Relations BobbIed
1t was also the occasion for
the first serious public relations
fluff of the Stevenson campaign,
quickly corrected by Mr.. Steven
sons press aide, Roger Tubby.
At the end of the afternoon,
Mr.. Tubby relayed to reporters
what was taken to be a telegram
to Mr.: Stevenson from Senator
Russell which he had read in
the closed meeting. 1t said:
Unless there is some unfor-
seen development, I believe you
can safely count on the Southern
States once more giving an over
whelming majority to the Demo-
cratic ticket in a restoration of
the old solid South. If no seri-
Gus mistakes are made we will
elect our ticket in November.
Personal regards. :"
The language of the message
Continued on Page AS, Col. /
Evening star., 1956-08-31
nv RICHARD RODGERS

A young male hippopotamus
was delivered here today in the
Zoos most important acquisition
to date this year.
Director william NJ. Mann
said he was naming it Thomas.
But he discarded that to grant
a reporters request for a more
outstanding handle. why not
call 1t Joe Smith," the news
asked.
DR.. Mann considered the mo-
ton gravely. "All right, why
not?" he said. Wen call him
Joe Smith"
II should be noted here that
DR.. Mann does not mix Lolitics
with his animals He could not
have been thinking OF the Re-
publican Conventions Joe Smith.
that wrath entered in the lists
against Richari Nixon
This Joe Smith comes from
Africa. He weiehs about 1000
pounds and is perhaps years
old. DR.. Mann said.
Joe has a bride waiting for
4 im She Is Arusha. who came "a
Evening star., 1956-08-31

in protest against this dirty
proyocation against Nina"
The husky red-haired Soviet
champion. 27. was still missing
while the furore reached top
diplomatic level.
The discus thrower won the
1852 Olympic gold medal under
her maiden name of Romasch-
kova. She is a favorite for the
Olympic title at Melbourne next
November. She is a school
teacher married to a doctor and
of a 2-year-old boy. She
speaks no English.
Regarded as Fugitive
She is regarded as a fugitive
in Britain for failing to appear
in court yesterday to answer
charges she stole five hats valued
at a total of $3.50 during a
shopping tour in a West End
store Wednesday.
After being booked, Nina was
released under $14 bail in the
care of a Soviet Embassy official.
Then she disappeared.
There was a strong suspicion
she has sailed aboard a Russian
freighter.
Konstantin Krupin, leader of
the Soviet team, issued this
statement:
"AS is well known. a dirty
Evening star., 1956-08-31

OeAACA 0CAAlOCl dbtC lGdQeTS pre-
pared to meet today with party
chiefs from five Midwestern
States.
After the conference with rep
resentatives of Illinois, Indiana,
Michigan. Missouri and Ohio,
the Democratic standard bearer
and his aides promised a full
fiedged. no-holds-barred news
conference"
Exhausted but jubilant, the
Democratic hierarchy looked
back on meetings in four of the
Nations six major regions and
felt confident that it had stolen
a significant march on the op-
position.
Stevenson Twits Newsmen
OF all the troupe, perhaps the
least affected by the crosS-coun-
try tour was Mr.. Stevenson. AS
the party left the airport at
Knoxville last night on the final
leg OF its journey, the presiden-
tial candidate bounded aboard
the plane to the cheers of a large
group of spectators.
The Chicago rest will be
brief one. Between now and
the official opening" of the
Democratic campaign at Harris
burg, Pa, on September 13, Mr.
Steyenson's schedule calls for
nine major public appearances
in different cities between Los
Angeles and New York.
Head Of Steam Generated
1t isn't only that the Democrats
feel there is no time to lose.
Somewhat to their own surprise,
this warmup trip has generated
a head of steam which the Ste
venson engineers would hate to
see go to waste.
The pressure reached its cli-
max yesterday at Knoxville when
leaders of 10 Southern States
promised unanimously to back
the Democratic ticket in the
political reconstruction of the
old solid South. The pledge,
which carries with it one-fifth of
the total electoral votes in the
Evening star., 1956-08-31
EgyptChurges
Israeli Ruids
Killing 13

JERUSALEM, Israeli Sector.
Aug. 81 (Pl.--A United Nations
truce supervision spokesman an
nounced Egypt accused Israel of
killing l3 Egyptian soldiers in Is
raeli raids early today on Egyp-
tian territory.
He said the Egyptians charged
two Of their men we're killed and
two wounded in raid between
Der Balagh and GAIA City; five
were killed near Rata. in the
southern part Of the Egyptian
held GAIA Strip and six were
killed in the Ell Auja area. across
the Sinai border stretching from
Rafa to Eilat.
Evening star., 1956-08-31
Chicago Polio Toll
Rises to o71 Cases

CHICAGO. Aug. 81 (P.-Chi-
cago'S polio outbreak spurted
upwards today as 13 cases were
reported to bring the years toll
closer to the 1000 mark.
The 1856 count now stands at
97l cases including 90 deaths.
The serious surge. which began
on July 5. had declined during
the last two weeks. But the last
two days have seen % more
cases.
In 1852, the previous high
polio year, Chicago had SOB
cases and 33 deaths at this date.
Four years ago. the count finally
hit 1903 cases.
Since July 5. more than l.3
million doses of Salk vaccine
have been distributed to inocula-
ton centers.
Evening star., 1956-08-31
S29.9 Million
Asked for Roads
3 Bridges Included
In D. c. Projects
BY GEORGE BEvERIDGE

The biggest road construction
budget in its history has been
submitted to the Commissioners
by the District Highway Depart
ment.
The request, cleared by the
Department of General Admin
iStration, asks the city heads to
support a budget of about 81
million for operating expenses
and a big $22.9 million for
capital outlay. The 81 million
for operating expenses was with
in about $4,000 of the amount
originally requested by the de-
partment.
Thirteen projects, making up
the proposed $22.9 million con-
struction program, include three
bridges. major improvements to
existing streets and key parts of
the city's ambitious new express
way systems.
About $11 million alone would
be devoted to three projects on
the Inner loop" freeway net
work proposed to encircle down.
town Washington with non-stop.
high-speed roads.
Additional U. S. Funds
The funds requested of the
Commissioners. however, repre-
sent only the Districts share of
the total project costs. Most of
the important jobs qualify for
liberal new Federal highway aid.
This fact emphasizes the ambi-
tious size of the new highway
proposals.
All the projects have been
widely discussed in the past.
None are new.
The $22.9 million construction
request exceeds the current years
capital outlay appropriation by
$8.3 million.
1S Major Projects
In addition to pure road i'm
provements, the budget money
would provide vast improvements
in street lighting. and many new
fire alarm and police patrol box
installations.
Following are the 13 major
construction projects and the
amounts requested for them:
/. Southwest freeway, S24
million. This would supplement
Continued on Page AS, Col. 4
Evening star., 1956-08-31

Week Ends. Poee Al
looking around so he would
know who to prosecute"
Mr.. Haight and two others
from the district attorneys S
Office appeared about $3.50 am,
fCSD and parked about 200
yards from the school-cars
blocked them from driving
closer.
Crowd Suddenly Angered
Mr.. Haight talked to officers
for a time. then started walking
toward the school. When he
was about so yards away. some
action by him or the mob of
400 suddenly angered the crowd
The men packed and milled
around him. shouting and ours
ing. At one time he tried to
shake away, and members of the
mob pushed and showed him
Two sheriff's officers fought their
way through the crowd and res
cued him.
If any Negroes registered they
we're expected to do so today
None had appeared by mid
morning.
The crowd began gathering
about 7 am. Several white stu.
dents walked through the moi
into the school about $40 am.
but they did not speak to any
in the crowd.
Dangling over the entrance tc
the school this morning was q
new effigy of a Negro. 1t was sc
placed that no one entering the
school could fail to see it. Ar
effigy hung from the school flag
pole Yesterday was there today
Evening star., 1956-08-31

nrmeo. Pu9e AS
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morning and was larger than a
Soviet blast last Friday which
he announced in California
Sunday.
He told a news conference he
could not describe the exact size
of yesterdays explosion until
further tests have been COM
pleted by the Atomic Energy
Commission.
His Sunday announcement
said the Russians had exploded
a nuclear device on Friday with
a yield less than a megaton---
that is. one million tons of TINT.
There was no indication of how
much larger yesterdays blast
was.
In making the announcement,
Mr.. Eisenhower again pointed up
the secrecy surrounding Soviet
tests of atomic and hydrogen
weapons in contrast with this
Governments policy in announc-
ing American tests we'll in adj
vance.
Cites Words, Not Deeds
He said it is notable that while
Soviet diplomats talk about
plans for aholishing atomic wea-
pons, the Russians go right
ahead without announcement
and in great secrecy testing these
weapons.
Mr.. Eisenhower used the word
atomic" in referring to the new
series of Russian tests. White
House Press Secretary James c.
Hagerty told newsmen later that
the President used the word in
a general sense to cover both
atomic and hydrogen bombs.
From the information now
available here, Mr.. Hagerty said
yesterdays explosion in Siberia
could have been either an atomic
or hydrogen weapon. He said it
could not be pinpointed further
until evaluation of Acc data is
completed.
Mr.. Eisenhower replied with a
fiat none" when asked whether
the new Soviet tests mean any
change in United States defense
planning or spending.
Security Needed
He emphasized that this coun-
try has to go on the assumption
that Russia's ultimate intentions
for domination of the world have
not changed. and that as a first
element in striving for peace in
the world this country must
maintain its own security.
The Soviet nuclear explosion
See EISENHOWER, Page AS
Evening star., 1956-08-31
o2-Yeur-OId Man
Is Yoked, Robbed

A 92-year-old man was yoked
and robbed Of about 81 in the
1900 block of East Capitol street
shortly after noon today.
The victim. who suffered no
apparent injury, was Charles F.
Barnes. of 1887 A street N. E.
He identified his assailants as
two colored men, l8 to 81 years
old.
Evening star., 1956-08-31

IA similar figure in downtown
Mansfield was cut down Wednes
day.
This year the school was or.
dered migrated, by Federal Cour
decree, for the first time. Yes.
terday, Judge Joe E. Estes re-
fused to postpone his integratior
order. School authorities hac
asked for a one-year delay.
! BY mid-morning, streets lead
ing to the school were blocked
with automobiles, parked side by
side but apparently without pre-
arrangement for blocking access
to the school.
| About 8:45 am, a MANSFIELD
police car drove slowly through
the crowd. with those in thu
car passing out cigars.
/ Close to the school, person.
in a panel truck from a grocery
handed out cold soda pop to thu
crowd. which after two hour.
of standing in the heat appeared
to be thirsty.
4 Supt. R. L. Huffman was thC
first faculty member to appear
today. He Immediately was sur,
rounded by the crowd.
/ Mr.. Huffman said, Nov yo,
guys know I'm with you, bu
I've got this mandate hanginl
over my head" AS he said that
he ran his finger across hi
throat.
Entrances Pointed Out
Some of the men told MI
Huffman that they had checke,
all entrances where Negroes pos
sibly could slip into the school
Nov remember" Mr.. Huff
man went on, there's two door
in back. Now I'm not tellin
you what to do, but I'm jus
telling you about those doors.
Last night a Negro attorne
asked the Governor of Texa
to send additional law enforce
ment officers to prevent possibl
violence at the school.
Yesterday an aroused mob O
$50 men and boys milled arounl
the school, threatening to us
guns to keep the Negroes from
enrolling.
The threatened violence wa
the first in Texas in connection
with desegregation OF publi
schools in compliance with tn
i United States Supreme Cour
ruling. Approximately 70 Texa
school districts in West, Soutl
and Central Texas. includinl
San Antonio, Austin and corpu
Christi. have integrated withou
any incidents.
Mansfield, in North Texas nea
Fort Worth, has a population
Of about i.450. The school dis
trict has about 688 white stu
dents and So Negro students
Previously the Negro high schoo
students were transferred to an
other school district. The Mans
field district has a separate Nc
gro grammar school but had m
Negro high school.
i The request for additional Of
ficers was made in a Telegram
TO Gov. Allan Shivers last nigh
by l.. Clifford Davis, Fort wort
Negro attorney representing tn
children seeking admission +
tine high school. He said he wa
! making the request TO "assur
, that Law and order will be main
itained."
Evening star., 1956-08-31
Hot? Reed This

DENVER, Aug. 81 PD.-High-
er elevations in Colorado and
Wyoming received light to heavy
snow early today. The State
Highway Patrol said light snow
fell at Estes PARK and in North
ern Colorado. On Trail Ridge
road. west Of Estes Park. the
fall was heavy.
Evening star., 1956-08-31
Texas Mob of 400 Blocks
High School Integrotion

MANSFIELD. Tex Aug 81 QP-A bitter mob, vowing no
Negroes would register at Mansfield High School despite
Federal Court decree sweed to 400 youths
morning second-day registration began.
An assistant district attorney mobbed, showed and
today when he appeared in the middle of the
Evening star., 1956-08-31
New Red Nuc|ear Blast
by President
Soviet Tells
Of Tests on
Aug. "a, 80
Dill HrIkI
BULLETIN

LONDON, Aug. 81 : (P).-
Soviet Russia announced to-
day it had held nuclear
weapon tests August "a and
80 Ito evolve new types suit
able for the arming of differ
ent kinds of troop forma-
tionS."
Evening star., 1956-08-31
Democrats Wind Up Tour
Exhausted but JubiIont
Final Conference Held at Chicago Todoy;
South Promises 1t Will Be Solid Again
By CROSBY S. MOVES
Star STAFF Correspondent

CHICAGO. Aug 3l.-The Democratic high command
looked forward today to brief respite the abors which
mad taken it around the country route since
Monday.
Hoeo up at the Sheraton Blackstone Hotel after
return from Knoxville Tenn last night Ada Stevenson and
Evening star., 1956-08-31


begins next July /.
The sum is another record
breaker among city budgets
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Official chort Showing Comparisons in
D. c. Budget: Poee AIS
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which. with only one years ex-
ception, have climbed steadily
upward in the last decade.
1t is bigger by $11 million
than the appropriation for the
current year. It is greater by
two-thirds than the appropria-
ton for 1945.
The recommendations were
made to the District Commits
sioners by the Department of
General Administration under a
presentation procedure inaugu-
rated this year.
In the past, Government de-
partment heads were permitted
to file their budget estimates
without regard to the availability
OF revenues to meet their needs.
This year they were ordered to
keep their requests within antic-
tpated revenues.
$19 Million Cut
To make sure this was done,
the administration department
screened the budget and whacked
of $6.5 million from operating
expense requests and $l2.5 mil
lion from capital outlay (con-
struction) requests.
AS a result of the blue-pencil-
ing, the requests submitted to
the Commissioners stand at
$l57,284.600 for operating ex-
penses and $48,25O,OOO for capital
outlay.
The budget figures are pred
lcated on the full authorized
S2S million Federal payment to-
ward District upkeep, and
higher revenues under local tax
legislation enacted last year to
increase city income by $40 mill
lion annually.
Total anticipated revenues for
all OF the Districts five admin
istratlve funds is $207 million
Deduction of the budget requests
leaves a negligible surplus of
Sl.5 million that is the more
minuscule considering that Sill
million of it belongs to the all
but untouchable Motor Vehicle
Parking Fund.
General Fund at Top
Characteristically, the heavi-
est money demands come from
those agencies grouped for A.
nancing purposes under the So
called General Fund. The scaled
down financial requirements of
these departments. which in
clude schools, health and well
fare among many others, are
pagged at $158.2 million of which
SIT million would be allowed for
construction work.
The highway fund. chief sup
plier of the mushrooming high-
way construction program, lists
total fund requirements of $30.4
million. All but So million of
this would be for construction
Out Of the water fund would
come slightly more than $40
million. divided about $3.50 be-
tween operating expenses and
the construction needs for the
water system.
Sanitary sewage requirements,
to be met by the sanitary sewage
works fund, total Sc million. two
thirds of which would go to con-
struction.
Sources of Money
Out of the parking fund. SAP
300 is the estimated requirement
all of it for operating expenses.
The continued absence of capital
outlay items leaves a Sill million
surplus to tack onto the multi
million dollar accumulation over
the years.
The revenues expected to flow
See BUDGET, Page AS
Evening star., 1956-08-31

crowd. Grady Haight, the Tar
rant County D. A.. was white and
shaken when the mob finally
released him.
One unidentified person in the
mob claimed Mr.. Haight was