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the Case contribution came from
the personal funds of Howard
|B. Keck. president of the Su-
|perior Oil Co. There was fur
|ther testimony that two contri-
buttons of $4,000 each from. Mr..
Keck's funds were offered to a
Republican Finance Committee
in Nebraska, only one of which
was accepted.
Senator Goldwater promised a
fight today if any one tries to get
him of of the Senate's new BIZ
partisan Lobby Investigating
Committee because he received
the $3.50 contribution from a
member of the Keck family.
Hell, no." said Senator Gold
water, when asked if he had
any thought of leaving the
new committee. eff they want
to start a fight, let them try to
|get me off. They are question
ing my honesty. and I know I
am honest, if nothing else"
Gift From Matthew Keck
The Associated Press reported
that Arizona records show the
contribution was from Matthew
Keck of Chicago.
Senator GoldWater said he
knew there had been a contri-
button from the Keck family,
but he thought it was from Will
liam Keck, father of the presi-
dent of the company. He saic
William Keck was the only one
he knew.
1.-THE Keck family has been
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Nixon's RocioI Statement
Untrue, Dr.. Davies Says

DR.. A. Powell Davies. minister
Of All Souls Unitarian Church,
declared yesterday Vice President
Nixon's statement that racial
segregation had been abolished
in Washington is not true.
THE uniformed police, our
most conspicuous embodiment of
law enforcement. are being used
to collect money for the segre-
gated Police Boys Club" the
minister told his congregation
yesterday.
THE management of this club
has arrogantly refused to follow
President Eisenhower's policy of
racial indignation and is defiant
of the principle repeatedly re-
affirmed by the United States
Supreme Court.
yet the administration, here
in the seat of the National Gov
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Pupils 'Short-C Changed,
Is Teachers Loment

dents have been in this kind OF
dead-end situation for years. as
others were before them. This
helps to explain the low achieve
ment level of many present high
school students. And the Situa-
ton is not getting any better, or
any easier to do anything about.
City class-size averages are big
ger now than they were eight
years ago, and in grade schools
they were bigger then than eight
years before that.
an a class Of 40 with a AZ
minute class period. how many
minutes will each pupil have to
recite?" one junior high school
teacher asked this writer, then
supplying his own answer: Hell
be lucky If he gets to talk once
a week"
With five such classes. the
teacher also would be respon-
sible simultaneously for the edu-
cational progress. in his particu-
lar subject, of 200 children. A
mathematics teacher, with ITS or
1870, said candidly: Frankly, ]
don't spend much time with the
individual children" He also said
he rarely gets a chance to sit
down all day.
Some Pupils Unprepared
There also was the business
teacher who said that at the
start Of every term she has to
stop and teach the alphabet to
some children before she can
start unraveling the mysteries
of her own subject.
At one junior high school,
where only 80 of nearly ITO be-
ginning seventh-graders were up
to grade level in reading last fall
and many were unable to write a
sentence, teachers also are hav-
ing to enlighten children on ele-
mentary rules of family living,
social conduct, hygiene and
m erals. Administrators and
counselors have to work overtime
even getting some children. to
come to school.
But these thlngs-as "appall-
ing" in the assistant. principals
word, as many of them are
aren't the only reasons the city's
teachers think the present situa-
ton in the city's schools carries
serious risks.
TOMORROW: The Teachers
and IntegratiOn.
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How to Bar Indignation
Divides Alabama Citizens

known elected representatives of
Alabama as too radical" in
Guiding Gov. James Chg JIM
Folsom, Senators Sparkman and
Hill, and various Alabama men,
bers of the House.
Ace Carter, real name Asa
talked freely for the most part
during an interview. He seemed
nervous, although he is obviously
of a phlegmatic temperament,
Mr.. Carriers three-room suite
in a downtown office building
was a busy place although il
was Sunday. Callers were fire.
quent and the phone jingleo
every minute. A younger brother
helped out.
(which council are you from?'
Mr.. Carter, husky and dark,
complexioned, asked as he greet
ed me with a handclasp.
I'm not from any council"
replied, II am from The Wash
ington Star"
"Is that the paper Fulton
Lewis is always talking about or
the radio?" asked Mr.. Carter.
Probably not" I said.
Veteran of Pacific War
Mr.. Carter said he was 80
born in the small town of Ok.
ford, Ala, so miles east. He fin.
ished Calhoun County High. en-
listed in the Navy at II and
served in World War II three
years in the Observation-Disclosures
re-conquest and Okinawa-as a
radioman. He was discharged In
1916 and went to the University
of Colorado because he had
trained there for the Navy. He
was graduated in 1949, with a
degree in political science and
journalism. He went to work as
newscaster for a radio station in
Yazoo City, Miss. moved to radio
in Admission, Ala, then to radio
job in Denver, and back to
Birmingham in 1858. His last
radio job was as commentator
for the American States Rights
Association. segreg zionist
group which now does research
for DR.. Whitley's councils. Mr.
Carter said he resigned as COM
mentator over policy differences
with the States Rights Associa-
ton president, DIN Horton.
Mr.. Carter said he had or
ganized so citizens councils, 5 in
the last few days, and that his
association had between 10000
and $4,000 members.
His organization, he said. stood
"for segregation and to forward
the movement to decentralize
Federal Government power. Re-
affirmation of the rights OF
States-assertion by the States
of their right to govern them
selves"
Opposes SWAY System
I'VE" Mr.. Carter added on
the subject of segregation, shave
no intention of accepting eva
sion or circumvention on this
thing from the politicians of the
South. We will not accept such
so-called cures, for example, as
the three-way school system"
The reference was to approval
by the Alabama Legislature of a
plan for white, colored and
mixed schools (take your choice
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eminent, does nothing about it.
The District Commissioners, APP
pointed by the National Gov
eminent, do nothing about it.
The police are required to col
lect money for a VIGOROUSLY seq
regated activity.
"Vice President Nixon told us
on February Is that the admin
istration Of which he is a men,
Der has abolished racial segre-
cation in the District of Colum-
bia.' It is not true"
DR.. Davies asserted the time
has come to show "by deeds, not
words. that we are sincere about
non segregation. For my own
part, I shall make no contribu-
ton to the Metropolitan Police
Boys Club until it ends its policy
of segregation, and I hope that
many Washington citizens will
do the same"
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Democratic, but is interested in
supporting conservatives in both
parties and I hope they are never
denied that right" said Senator
lGoldwater. He added that it
was through a Democratic law
yer in California that his cam
paign received aid from the Keck
family three years ago.
The Arizona Republican said
on an ABC-TV program yester-
day that he could name flour or
five Democrats who received con-
tTibutions" from the same source.
He did not elaborate.
Senator Goldwater said that
neither Mr.. Keck nor any of
some 200 other contributors to
his campaign has ever asked q
special favor of him.
Today's hearing before the
George committee brought out
that Senator Hickenlooper had
no knowledge of the inquiries
Mr.. Neff was making in Iowa
about his vote. Both Mr.. Good
win and Mr.. Edison testified they
never contacted the Senator,
and never accepted any contri-
button.
Would Be Shocked"
Mr.. Edison testified today that
after Mr.. Neff mentioned the
possibility of a $4,000 contribu-
ton, he told Mr.. Neff, "You
surely don't expect to contact or
have Senator Hickenlooper con-
tacted on that basis" Mr.. Edison
said he added that the Senator
would be quite shocked"
Mr.. Edison quoted Mr.. Neff as
agreeing that Senator Hicken-
looper must not know contri-
button was available.
The committee also called Mrs.
Goodwin, who testified she lis
tened in on telephone converse
ton on February 10 between her
husband and Ivan Evans, who
is Mr.. Neff's lawyer in the cur
rent proceedings. She substan-
tiated her husbands testimony
that Mr.. Evans told Mr.. Goodwin
not to be surprised if he was
called to testify.
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which was put forward as 9
possible answer to the Supreme
Court decision outlawing segre.
cation.
1--WE intend to keep the present
school system, he continued
land to keep it segregated. ANY
other formula would be a sur.
render to Federal power.
This can be done only by
people retaining control at thu
grass roots - a control that viii
force the politicians either out
of office or into a position O.
absolute defiance of the SUI
preme Court edict. Centraliza'
ton (of power is destroying thu
American way of life. The ISSUE
must be met now"
NAACP "Fanaticism" Hit
Mr.. Carter said the racia
situation in Alabama is danger
GUS in the sense that the NAACP
through it's fanaticism, is goad
ing the white people of the Soutf
to unplanned action"
| The councils leader said III
was opposed to Gov. Folsom:
plan to set up an interracia
commission to devise ways o.
easing tensions. The Governors
plan, he added, was to pack thu
commission with newspaper edi'
tors who would agree TO "play
down the future actions OF the
NAACP."
That would not be a gooe
thing" Mr.. Carter commented
because if a murderer is al
your door you want to know
about it. The NAACP is muir
derer of our American system
They make use of all of the
Negroes shortcomings. instead Of
trying to improve the Negro"
The Negroes lot, Mr.. Carter
said, had improved over the
years. but he never had beer
able to realize that it requires
responsibility to maintain free
government-never been able to
live up to that responsibility
But he said he favored full edu-
cation of Negroes and equal pay
for equal work for them.
Mr.. Carter added that segre-
CATION must be maintained al
any cost"
Voted for Macarthur in so
He said neither President Eli
senhower nor Adlai Stevenson
was acceptable to him as a presi-
Dental candidate in 1852 anG
that he wrote in the name Of
Gen Douglas Macarthur.
Mr.. Carter now operates a fill
ing station in Birmingham, anc
he said he receives no part Of
the SO a year dues paid in oy
his thousands of members.
Hill Ferguson Of Birmingham
a member of the Alabama uni.
versity board of trustees, was
another approached (by tele-
phone) on the race situation.
You Yankees" began Mr.
Ferguson. ARE getting just what
you want"
But I am a Virginian, suh,'
I interjected, not thinking at the
moment he was serious.
ut is a rotten, rotten situa-
tion," Mr.. Ferguson went right
along. You Yankees are doing
everything you can to stuff the
Negroes down our Threats ano
we are not going to take it il
we can help it.
1T is just one holy mess. AS
long as the courts shove this
down our Threats we are just
going to have serious trouble
and lots of it,"
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CONVENTION
Continued From First Page

Godspeed in your endeavor.'
The Governors speech was
one of the first matters before
the convention. Other items to
be taken up today included elec-
ton of a temporary chairman
and temporary committee APP
pointments.
Two controversial problems
were awaited. One Isl a protest
against the seating of Fairfax
Falls Church Delegate Dean
Brundage. The other is a pro-
posal by Delegate H. Dunlop
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that with Arab nationalism
flushed to a new high by pride
over Gen. Glubb's custer, the
Arab states might decide to go
into action.
Syria's Premier said Ell Ghazzi
flew to Cairo with his defense
minister and chief of staff. With
Syrian President Shukri Ku-
watly they were to confer with
Premier Canal Abdel Nasser on
the Egyptian Syrian defense
nact.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-05

You can't vote in the Dis
trict IL you don't register. Now
is the time to qualify. Regis
tration headquarters on ground
floor of the District Building.
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against the spirit" of the 20
year Anglo-Jordan treaty signed
in 1913.
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6uiz En-
Questions and answers
from the news
by TOM HENRY

Wonderful . What are considered the
Seven Civil Engineering Wonders Of the
United Stafes2
Chicago sewage disposal system; Colo
RADIO River aqueduct; Empire State Build
ing; Grand Coulee Dam and Columbia
River basin project in Washington: Hoover
Dam in Arizona Nevada; Panama Canal
and (pictured) the San Francisco Oakland
Bay Bridge. - Mrs. y.L.C., Memphis, Tenn.
Trouble Maker :. How did a startling
recently cause SIPS damage 10 home?
The bird, building nest in the caves.
picked up live cigarette butt and started
a fire. H.K., Buffalo, N. Y.
Life Begins :. What percentage of the
nations $4,000 active air pilots are over
20 years of age?
20 per cent $4,000; 1854 pilots are 60
or over. - M.H., atlanta
Corny 4 I6-year-oId Mississippi farm
boy has broken the worlds record for corn
pIONAGItDU. IIOW NiNCU COfN ara ne Set JFO"
a single acre?
Lamar Ratliff raised 3O4 bushels on one
acre of land. les, Sioux Ciiy, la.
Spuds How may housewives buy
potatoes in the future?
By the label Federal researchers say
potatoes will be marked for boiling, frying
or baking. WIND, Scranton, Pa.
MotelS How many motor courts are
there in the United States?
$4,000, according to the Chicago Motor
Club. This is nearly twice the number in
existence 10 years ago.
- NEE, Portsmouth, Ohio
MOTE. We will poy 81 for question ond Used Ia this
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Chronic bronchitis may develop If
your cough. chest cold. or acute bron-
chitis is not treated and you cannot
afford to take a chance with any medi-
cine less potent than Creomulsion. II
goes into the bronchial system to help
loosen and expel germ laden phlegm
and aid nature TO soothe and heal raw,
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Get large bottle of CreomulSion at
your drug store. For children get
miider. taStier Creomuision for Chill
dren in the pink and blue package. Adv.
Evening star., 1956-08-16
.Coss, Moyne Win
In Army Tennis

FORT BRAGG. N. c., Aug 1e
Especially Lit. Cliff Mayne Of
the 1st Army and Pvt. Tim CosS
of the Sd Army, seeded first and
second, respectively. in the ALI
Army tennis championships, con-
tinued their march through the
opposition yesterday.
Mayne, the Nations goth
ranked player from Fort Mon
mouth, N. j.. ousted Pvt. James
Terley of the 1st Army, g.
6-3, while Coss, a Washing
tonian stationed at Fort Jackson
S. c., routed Pvt. Paul Grants OF
the lst Army, 6-1, 6-1.
1t. Steve Potts, a Pentagon
officer representing the I'd Army
also advanced. trimming 1t
Charles Hickok of the 4th Army
6-2, 6-3.
In the All-Army golf cham
pionships. the 4th Army, headed
by Pfc. Ray H. Moore of Fort
Bliss, Texas, holds the team lead
with a low score of SOL compared
to 500 for second-place Sd Army
Moore leads individual shooters
with a 36-hole total of 14l after
firing a 72 yesterday. Trailing
him is Pvt. Wallace Bradley. also
of Fort Bliss, at LAG.
Evening star., 1956-08-16
Demus Heads Field
In Virginio's
ennis Tourney

RICHMOND. Va, Aug. 16 (P),
One Of the best mems fields
in recent years-56 strong
opens play today in the State
tennis championships at the
Country Club of Virginia. Two
of the top seeded players drew
first-round byes.
Seeded first in the Mems
is Bill Demas Of Quantico, Mid
die Atlantic and District OF
Columbia invitational champion
He played Bob Figg Of Richmond
in the first round.
Don Floyd. the. defending
champion from Arlington and
No. Q seed, drew a first round
bye. as did Gene Wash, former
Richmond champion, seeded
fourth. Bernard Segall. Tide
water champion from Porths-
mouth, was seeded third. He met
Ralph Johnson of Richmond in
a first round match.
Mrs. Raymonde Jones Of Ft.
Monroe, who lost in the 1855
women's finals to Donna Floyd
of Arlington last year, heads a
slim 13-player field in that divi-
sion. Mrs. Ann Gray of Wash
ington is the only other seed.
Both Mrs. Jones and Mrs.
Gray had first round byes. One
win for each would put them in
the semifinals.
The doubles draw was sched-
uled today,
Evening star., 1956-08-16
District Tennis
Holds Doubles

Ted Rogers. Phil Neff. Leif
Beck and Don Floyd make up the
semifinals Of the District tennis
championships, on the Rock
Creek courts.
First seeded Rogers ousted
flfth-seeded Doyle Royal yester-
day, rs, 2-6, ct; Neff, No. 8,
defeated Henry Foss. 60. rs,
and Beck erased fourth-rated AL
Talkin, 3-6. 6-3, 6-3, In q
match continued from Tuesday.
Floyd, who gained the semi
finals Tuesday, and Beck divided
two sets last night, with Floyd
winning the first, 60, and Beck
the second, Us. Beck led, 20,
in the third when darkness
halted play. They will finish
Saturday morning. Rogers and
Neff win clash at 6 pm. tomor-
row.
In doubles at 6 pm. today,
Rogers and Nick Powell play
Clyde and Hal Freeman and
Beck and Barney Welsh oppose
Phil Dobyns and Joe McSurely.
At $3.50, Buddy Adair and Fred
Reed meet Paul Gilbert and Bob
McTigue with the winners to
face Jack Sloat and Earle Brown
at $3.50.
Evening star., 1956-08-16
Miss FryPIays
Mexican Champ

MANCHESTER. Mass, Aug. le
R.-Defending Champion Shir-
ley Fry of st. Petersburg, Fla.
today met 2l-year r-old Yola Ra-
mirez. Mexicos two-time Ma.
tional titlist, in the singles quar-
terminals of the 29th annual Es-
sex County invitation tennis tour
nament.
Miss Fry. reigning Wimbledon
queen and top-seeded here, LED
an uneventful advance of favor
.ites yesterday by eliminating
Mrs. Nell Hopman, wife of Aus.
tralia's Davis Cup captain, 6-1
81.
Second-seeded Louise Brougt
of Beverly Hills. Calf, defeated
Joan Johnson of Los Angeles
rs, 6-l; third-seeded Darlene
Hard Of Montebello, Calf.
eliminated Lois Felix of Meriden
Conn, 60, 6-1, and fourth.
seeded Shirley Bloomer of Eng.
land downed Mexico's Rose Mari;
Reyes, Go, 60.
In the system of staggered
singles quarter finals. Mis-
Bloomer was slated to meet Mrs
Betty Rosenquist Pratt Of ia,
maica, B. w l., today with th'
other quarter-f1nals tomorrow.
Evening star., 1956-08-16
&c
To Open at Home

Montgomery Junior College,
with a home football field this
season for the first time in its
10-year history, opens practice
at 6:15 pm. Wednesday, Sep
tember 5. The Knights again
will be coached by Frank (Rube)
Rubini. athletic director, who
also begins his 10th year.
The Knights open an eight
game schedule with q home game
against Naval Receiving Station
at 2 pm. Saturday, September
|29. The home field is located
across from the school in Jessup
Blair Park.
George Mandes. 190-pound
guard formerly Of st. Johns
High and Bob Willoughby, l80-
pound halfback from Anacostia
High. are co-captains.
The schedule:
>, September 29-Navai Receiving Sta
October at oallaudet. a:so.
Oc!op OSc!toper 53-Army Chemical Center. 2.
w OvStooe5 2O-Potomac State ct Keyser,
October 26 = George washington
!, November s-,saltimOrs Junior College
November io-chowan Junior colless
lat Murfreesboro, N, C., l:30
november l7-Bainhridge Navy, 1880.
Evening star., 1956-08-16
HAGERSTOWN NOTES

nim at Charles Town. His agent
is Donald Hawakins of Boyce,
Va. a trainer who was claimed
out of racing stock at Charles
Town.
John P. Turner, jr.. Mon
mouth Parks racing secretary,
who recently returned from the
record meeting at the New Jer-
sey track. is serving as steward
here with William Harron and
Joseph Flanagan. the State
steward. Turner's father is stew
ard at the Atlantic City track.
All told, six favorites romped
home on Hagerstown's first pro-
gram as the horses ran accord
ing to their Charles Town form
The 5-and-8 daily double COM
bination returned a paltry $3.50
after War Phar and Bandurris
won easily.
Jockey Charles NJ. Clark. who
led the Charles Town riders with
43 winners. picked UP a single
victory yesterday. as did Shirley
Payne. leader among the Charles
Town trainers.
Oddly enough. Clark. who is "a,
has an agent i've years his
junior. He is Frank Greco Of
Laurel, Nd. whose father Is a
trainer here.
Evening star., 1956-08-16

Shoe, Inc, a firm owned by
Sheppard, president Of the USTA,
Sheppard replied yesterday to
the HTA, an association of l8 of
the leading pari-mutuel tracks,
that use of the name for stand
ardbred horses is not a violation
of the rules.
1T has been our practice for
more than 80 years to name the
horses Hanover" Sheppard said.
He asserted that "if we called
the horses Hanover Shoe Joe or
Hanover Shoe Sally or something
like that. it would be a trade
name Hanover" from the names
have overlooked the fact that
Hanover is a geographic name
as well as a corporate name"
While the HTA demanded that
the change in name be made in
80 days. Sheppard said he would
present the demand to the USTA
at its December meeting.
The USTA licenses horses.
grooms. drivers and generally
controls harness racing in States
where those activities are not
governed by a State race COM
mission.