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ton was prepared to extradite
Mrs. Sharpe.
Mrs. Sharpe told The Star to-
day she was the victim of spite"
by the girls other grandmother
Mrs. Agatha P. Wray, who
swore to the complaint. She
said she expected to sue for
false arrest.
The warrant charged that
Mrs Sharpe did "feloniously, IL
legally seize, take and secrete
Victoria Jane Sharpe from the
person having custody"
The girl has been the center
of court action since her par
ents we're divorced several years
ago. The father is Warren F.
Sharpe and the mother is now
Mrs. Martha Peck.
Custody Proceedings Instituted
Mr.. Jester said the divorce
decree did not award the child
to one parent or the other, but
that the mother later instituted
custody and support proceedings
in Lynchburg.
The child's mother told The
Star her former husband had
called the Wray home the day
the little girl disappeared to tell
the grandparents not TO worry
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-23
Shotgun Bandit
Gets s., 1000 Haul
At MARYLAND Bank

NORTH EAST, Md, May %
IR).-A hooded, shotgun WELD
ing bandit fled with about $4,000
today after getting into the First
National Bank before it opened
and tying up the first employee
to arrive.
Lawrence Virgins, a teller,
said the bandit had a double
barreled shotgun and wore q
sheet over his face with eye-holes
In it.
Deputy Sheriff Leo Widows
said the bandit cut a hole in the
roof to gain entry to the build
ing on Main street in this North.
eastern Maryland community
More than 20 State police cars
converged on the area to Join
sheriff officers and FBI agents
in the search for the bandit. de-
scribed as about 40 to 40 years
old and Of short, medium build.
Mr.. Virgins was the only per-
son In the bank at the time.
He said as he entered he was
confronted by the bandit dressed
in khaki work clothes who tied
him up.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-23
PRESIDENT FIT
FOR ANY CRISIS,
SAY

President Eisenhower in
Dictated today that his doc
tors are confident he has
the physical capacity to
withstand any crisis that
might confront him in the
presidency.
He was asked at his news
conference whether his doc
tors had given him any adj
vice about his ability to cope
with mental and physical
fatigue.
The President said that
in the early days of his con-
valescence last fall he had
felt at times that his doctors
were getting too optimistic
about his condition. He gave
them several lectures on what
the strain of the presi-
dency involves. the President
said. but never was able to
change their minds that he
was fit to carry out the job.
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subordinates have blocked him
from seeing Mr.. Eisenhower
himself.
Attorney General Brownell has
ignored his criticisms, Mr.. Cain
said. and Sherman Adams, the
Presidents top assistant, once
gave him "unshirted hell" for
criticizing the team
President Eisenhower was
asked today if his White House
door was open to Mr.. Cain.
The President replied en-
phatically. yes
Mr.. Cain himself was on the
West Coast today. He could not
be reached for comment.
The SACB member has criti-
cized the security set-up for
uncomfortable delays in de-
termining whether an individual
was a risk and has said that
many decisions are unfair.
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Sees NoHurm
IfAII Abide
ByDecisions
BY GARRETT d. HORNER

President Eisenhower today
advocated keen rivalry among
the armed services as long as
his final decisions are carried out
loyalty.
The President told a news
conference he would be unhappy
indeed If there we're not strong
arguments among the Army.
Navy and Air Force about the
best ways to defend the United
States in this H-bomb age OF
rapidly changing military con-
ceptS.
He emphasized, however, that
such arguments must be con-
Quoted in a way not to alarm
everyone else and not to inter-
fere with loyal support Of final
decisions by the Commander in
Chief.
Mr.. Eisenhower, an Army man
for some 40 years. expounded his
views forcefully in response to
news conference questions about
current pickering among tho
armed services about their roles
and missions that came into the
open last week end.
Stresses Key Points
In his discussion the Presi-
dent stressed these points:
l. There are not enough arm
aments in the whole world to
make the United States safe II
it depends on such things as
planes. tanks and guns alone.
2. The strength of America is
everything it is-a sound spirit.
strong economy and even such
things as good school and farm
programs.
3. The main value of armed
forces now. so far as the war be-
tween the big atomic and hydro
gen bomb power is concerned. il
their deterrent value-the real
ization that If one power starts
trouble it is going to get trouble
in return.
Asks Fair Survey
Mr.. Eisenhower said problems
back of the current armed service
differences should be studied in
IA spirit of honest searching for
the truth and not just to try to
promote fight between Admiral
x and General Y.
Going back to his own military
days, he said there has been
controversy among the services,
at least ever since he Joined the
Army in 1914.
AS Commander in Chief. he
said he wants every responsible
officer to believe that the
safety of the Nation depends on
his particular mission. These
officers would not be doing their
duty unless they argued strongly
Continued on Page A-22, Col. |
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5 Chinese Graduates
Returned to Homeland

HONG KONG, May % (P).-
Five Chinese graduates of United
States universities crossed the
border into Red China today
with % other repatriates. They
arrived this morning aboard the
President Cleveland from San
Fancisco.
The returning graduates were
Dro Peng Chi-jui. Geologist, and
MS wife. a biochemist; Dr.. Lob
Yuan-chiu, instrument engineer
and graduate OF the ,Massachu-
sets Institute of Technology, sd
his scientist wife. a graduate of
Mount Holyoke College. and Tsai
Khi-ruey, professor Of education
from Ohio State University. re-
turning to Annoy University.
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Eisenhower Says Cain
Can See Him Any Time

II Harry P. Cain wants to give
President Eisenhower the true
facts" on the administrators
internal security program he
can drop over to the White
House any time and chat with
the boss-or so Mr.. Eisenhower
indicated in his press confer
ence today.
A former Republican Senator
from Washington, Mr.. Cain is
now a member of the Subversive
Activities Control Board as an
Eisenhower appointee. He has
criticized the program sharply
and in public. Last week Mr..
Cain indicated he does not ex-
pect to be reappointed when his
term ends in August.
The facts about the defects
have been kept from Mr.. Eisen-
hover. Mr.. Cain said repeatedly.
But. he has added. presidential
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A secretary In the Atomic
Energy Commission today faced
charges of spiriting her l0-year-
old granddaughter from a
Lynchburg (Va.) classroom and
from the custody Of the child's
maternal grandmother.
Mrs. Muriel NJ. Sharpe, 48, Of
1900 Massachusetts avenue NV.
posted $1,000 bond after WASH
ington detectives arrested her
at her Office yesterday.
Mrs. Sharpe refused to waive
extradition in Municipal Court
today and the case was contin-
ued until June 26 with bond re-
naming at $1,000.
ExtraditiOn Move Planned
Commonwealths Attorney
Royston Jester, III. said in
Lynchburg Mrs. Sharpe is ac-
cused of taking the girl, Vic
toria Jane Sharpe. from Ruffner
School last Tuesday and put
ting her in an automobile.
Capt. w. u Terrence of the
Lynchburg police said the child
was taken by a woman who
asked q teacher that she be
taken out TO have her picture
made"
Mr.. Jester said his jurisdic-
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Retirement Bill
Facing Test on
Senate Floor
White House Spurs
Effort TO Strip
Some of Benefits
By JOSEPH YOUNG

A last-minute White House.
inspired attempt to cut substan-
TALLY the benefits in the John
ston civil service retirement bill
will be made by Senate Repub-
licans today.
Senate Democratic leaders
girded to fight the Republican
amendments to the measure and
predicted the G. o. P. moves
would fail. Final Senate action
on the bill is expected today.
The bill came up on the SEN
ate floor briefly yesterday but
was temporarily set aside for.
action on two conference report
bills which had precedence.
The administrations decision
to fight the Johnston bill and
offer cost-reducing amendments
which would substantially cut
proposed employee benefits was a
sudden one.
G.. o. p. Surprised
1t took by surprise the Repub-
lican members of the Senate Civil
Service Committee, all of whom
had voted in favor of the bill in
committee.
While the administration never
has been enthusiastic about the
Johnston measure, it gave no
indication of an all-out fight on
1t in the Senate until yesterday
morning. The expectation had
been that the administration
would seek to modify the bill
when it reached the House Civil
Service Committee, where a more
conservative atmosphere gener-
ally prevails.
Senate Minority Leader Know
land and House Minority Leader
Martin. together with other key
1eOP0IIlIdh GOI1Sl CoSlOlldl lcdu-
ers, conferred yesterday with
President Eisenhower on the re-
trement bill.
Bill Unacceptable"
On leaving the White House,
Senator KnoWland said that the
Johnston bill was Unacceptable"
to the administration and that
amendments would be offered to
trim the benefits and cut the
cost. The decision to do so APP
parently was reached at the
White House conference.
Senator Carlson, Republican Of
Kansas, top minority member of
the Senate Civil Service Commit
tee. said last night he would
offer three amendments.
One would eliminate the pro-
See SPOTLIGHT. Page A-24I
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Eisenhower Approves
Keen Service Rivalry
$27,745 Bride Charged
In Army Cap Contract
BY CECIL HOLLAND

A witness testified today she
paid a New York cap manufac-
turer $27.745 in "kickbacks" for
what she was told were pay
ments under the table" on two
Air Force uniform cap contracts.
Other witnesses gave testimony
linking the money to an Army
colonel.
The witness was Miss Jane
Mackey of Montclair. N. j.,
whose now defunct shoe factory,
j. Mackey e. Sons, Inc. sub
contracted to make visors and
chin straps for the caps. Miss
Mackey was one of several wit
nesses as the Senate Investigat-
ing Subcommittee resumed its
inquiry into Army and Defense
practices.
She testified that the pay
mentS were made by check to
the Ideal Uniform Cap Co..
headed by Sol SchleSinger of
Lawrence, N. Y.
Associate Makes Statement
She quoted Mr.. Schlesinger,
whose firm received the prime
contract in 1850 for about
100000 Air Force caps. as telling
her that he was short Of ready
cash" and needed the money Ito
pay under the table to in
sure continuation of the con-
tracts"
Miss Mackey. who said she
suffered a breakdown after the
failure of her company and
spent some time in a mental
institution. testified that she
could not recall any names men,
toned by Mr.. Schlesinger as re-
ceiving the payments. She ex-
planned that he would tell her
Il have to go up and see the
See PROCUREMENT, Page AS
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good hunting ground for the
former Illinois Governor. 1t was
the only one of Floridas three
metropolitan counties which he
carried against President Eisen-
hover in the 1852 presidential
election.
Having met the enemy-Sen-
Iator Kefauver-in what is gen.
orally regarded as drawn battle
the Joint debate" in Miami
Mr.. Stevenson is doggedly going
about the business of cultivating
the voters. He spent yesterday
lin Tallahassee and Lake City,
speaking from the capitol steps
lin the former and attending a
countrywide rally in the second
place. He rolled into Jackson
vile late at night.
Gives Segregation Views
This will be his last day in the
northern part of the State. He
flies back to Miami tonight.
From that vantage point he will
make forays to Palm Beach and
other Southern points until he
leaves Monday morning for Los
Angeles and the final primary
battle with the Tennessean on
June 5.
At Lake City, Mr., Stevenson
again tackled segregation. He
made a strong statement that
the Supreme Court decision in re-
gard to the public schools should
be complied with.
whether you agree with the
Supreme Court decision or moi"
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Second Battle of SoIerno
BIozes Around Truman

NAPLES, Italy, May % (Pl.-
Harry S. Truman disclaimed to-
day the comments attributed to
him concerning the Anzio-Sa-
Ilerno beachhead-and added he's
embarrassed about the whole
affair.
Reporters accompanying Mr..
Truman on his tour through
italy quoted him yesterday as
Saying the two World War II
landings were unnecessary land
planned by some squirrel-headed
general" not named.
These developments followed:
l. The controversy over the
landings, previously criticized in
Congress and elsewhere, took on
new life. Gen. Mark w. Clark,
5th Army commander in the
landings. said he had just fol-
lowed orders. A British COM
mander accused Mr.. Truman of
talking nonsense.
2. Mr.. Humans secretary said
the former president made "a
complete denial" of the quota
lions attributed to him yester-
day. Fred zusy, Associated
Press correspondent who filed
yesterdays story, said Mr.. Tru-
mans comment was reported
exactly as he said it,, A re-
porter for the United Press filed
a similar story, and also stood
by it today.
3. President Eisenhower said
he and his wartime staff did not
favor carrying out the Anzio
beach landing exactly as it was
done, but that he does not think
it can be called a failure. He
said it would be long story to
tell who planned the operation.
4. Mr.. Truman himself spoke
to the reporters of three major
news services, several hours after
his secretary had issued the de-
NAL. The former President was
asked to comment on the COM
plete denial"
Wouldn't Make Such Comment
Il would make no comment
like that" said Mr.. Truman, re-
ferring to the quotations at
tributed to him.
II had been listening to the
conversation of several people
who had been there. am sorry
about it.
But it's a very embarrassing
situation and l hope you'll clear
it up.
Il don't want to embarrass
anybody. especially the people
who are with me and reporting
on me. I never scold anybody
when things don't go straight so
l wish you would clear 1t up"
In his original account of Mr..
Humans remarks, the Associ-
Iated Press Correspondent accom-
Ipanying the former President
quoted him as saying he didn't
know who planned the Italian
landings but there we're a lot
Iof easier places that could have
been picked
Eugene Bailey. secretary to
the former President. told Mr..
'Zusy today:
THE President makes a COM
plete denial of the quoted state
ment that he termed the Salerno
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Byrd Charges
Housing Abuses
Scandals Possible,
Eisenhower Told

Senator Byrd, Democrat OF
Virginia. revealed today he has
called President Eisenhower's
attention to recent reports from
the Controller Generals Office
which he said show that "the
elements which breed housing
scandals still persist" in the Gov
ernment's insured mortgage pro-
grams.
The Senator has received q
brief reply from presidential
assistant Sherman Adams, ac-
knowledging his letter and prom
Using a further reply shortly.
Inquiries on Corrective Steps
The .Virginian also released
copies of letters to Albert M
Cole, administrator of the Hous-
ing and Home Finance Agency
asking what steps are being taken
to correct the practices COM
planned of in the Controller
Generals reports.
The Byrd warning came as the
Senate prepared to start debate
today or tomorrow on the annual
housing bill, involving the usual
controversy over how many new
units of public housing should
be authorized.
The housing scandals of sew
eral years ago included charges
that some sponsors of apart
ment projects reaped wind
falls" by obtaining Government
insured mortgages for more than
the buildings cost. The rents
had to cover repayment Of the
inflated mortgages.
In 1854 Congress enacted new
laws to prevent a recurrence, by
requiring tighter supervision OF
cost estimates. Senator Byrd is
now trying to find out what
housing officials have done to
implement the new laws.
The reports referred to by
Senator Byrd, cover audits Of
the FILA insuring Offices in New
York, Cleveland and Kansas City
A fourth report covers the hand
ling of slum clearance projects
in is cities.
The Virginia Senator also made
public abstracts of the Con-
troler Generals report. They
listed a wide variety of criti-
cisms of procedures followed in
processing insured mortgages.
! Suspects More Irregularities
Senator Byrd wrote Mr.. Essen
hover on May is, in part, as
follows:
while the four reports are
directed to the administration
of only a small portion of the
vast Federal housing programs
as far as they go they clearly
show that the elements which
breed housing scandals still per-
sist. I understand more such
audits are being conducted in
some. If not all, of the rs FILA
insuring Offices and / strongly
suspect that the irregularities
and inefficiencies revealed in the
completed audits, or variations
of them. will develop as the rule
rather than the exception.
MY attention was attracted
to these audits by the General
Accounting ONCE testimony be-
fore the Senate Banking and
Currency Committee on March
81, 1856. At my request the
Controller General has supplied
me with the text of the reports
and l have formally asked Mr.
Albert NJ. Cole. Housing and
Home Finance Agency admin
istrator, for his comment and
a report on action taken pur-
See HOUSING, Page A-24
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President Views
Red Arms Cut
|nHopefu| Light
Proof Of Soviet Aim
Would Be Sign Of
Progress, He Says
BY RICHARD FRYKLUND

President Eisenhower said to-
day that if this country gets
proof of a Soviet arms reduction,
then he would view the cut as
real progress. 1t is a step in the
reduction of arms, he pointed
out.
Mr.. Eisenhower thus seemed
to stand a little closer to the
recent arms-cut comments of
his special adviser on disarma-
ment, Harold Stassen. than those
of his Secretary of State, Mr.
Dulles. The President-as did
his two Notwithstanding
his statement considerably, how
ever.
Two Reservations
Two reservations were made
by the President:
First, he said, we really don't
know anything about the re-
ported Red cut in military man.
power. We don't know if it
really will happen or what pre-
cisely the Soviets plan to cut.
Second, he said, the Soviet
Union still will be left with any
army of lis divisions, a 10000
plane air force and a large feet
of submarines.
The President speculated that
what the Soviet is doing now
might be what this country did
when his administration came
into power: Take a new look
at the armed services, streamline
the forces to adapt to modern
weapons and move people out of
where they are not needed and
into where they are needed.
Dulles Pessimistic
Secretary Of State Dulles has
been expressing a view of the
Soviet announcement described
as "pessimistic." Mr.. Stassen
has been called an optimist.
Mr.. Dulles believes the 1.2-
million-man reduction will be
a redistribution of manpower
which will make the Soviet
Union stronger militarily. Mr..
StasSen emphasizes the view
that any genuine reduction in
manpower would be one step
toward disarmament. and he be-
lieves this country should take
cautious ENCOURAGEMENT from
the announcement.
Mr.. Eisenhower said he had
talked with both men in his
See EISENHOWER, Page A-22
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Dredge Sinks,
Eight Men Die

MILWAUKEE, May % (P.-
A construction dredge, battered
by winds and rough water,
snapped tow line and plunged
to the bottom of Lake Michigan
early today, taking the lives of
eight of the 18 men aboard.
Three of the bodies were re-
covered Immediately and four
others within few hours as
Coast Guard boats secured the
area about 4 miles due east of
Cudahy. a suburb just south of
Milwaukee. The body of the
eighth victim has not been re-
covered and a sea and air search
continued.
The 10 survivors were taken
ashore aboard a tug, the James
E. Fucik, which had been tow
ing the dredge. and hospitalized.
None was reported in critical
condition.
Three OF the dead were identi-
fled as John Stranich. 80; Arnie
o, Void, 81, and Joseph Obrado-
vich, between so and so, all oil
Chicago. The others were not
Immediately identified.
The tug and the dredge be-
longed to the Fitzsimmons Con-
nell Dredge and Dock Co.. OF
Chicago.
The dredge had been scooping
out the bottom of the lake for a
power station near the disaster
scene.
The Coast Guard said choppy
water forced halt in the round
the-clock operations and the tug
took the dredge under tow as a
safety precaution. The l20-foot
dredge was carrying a heavy
power shovel.
En- route to a harbor haven,
the dredge suddenly dipped I'M
der the waves and started taking
on water. 1t sank quickly, be-
tween 2 and 3 am.
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and Anzio landings totally I'M
necessary and planned by some
squirrel-headed general That
was not the Presidents state
ment. He never told you that"
Mr.. Zusy, a Milwaukee native
who has been a journalist since
1887 and an Associated Press
correspondent for seven years
said:
my quotes were copied while
the President was talking to me
and are precisely as recorded
Both in my memory and in the
notes written down word by
word as he spoke the quotes are
as reported"
Spoken by Another?
Mr.. Bailey told Mr.. Zusy that
Mr.. Truman had talked earlier
yesterday with Michael Chinigo
of international News Service
and that "those were Chinigo's
words to the President"
1T could not be true that the
See SALERNO, Page Az
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-23
A HEART FLUTTERS
AND A TEAM FORMS

TROUBLED TlMEs-The Eisenhower
administration is rocked book with a
heort ottoek Robert J. Donoyon's
2lst article in q series on President
Eisenhower describes the teom OPP
proceh which woS adopted by the
Presidents advisers otter the heart
ottoek. The article is on The Stors
FeOture Poss, ABB.
HERE'S HoW-Foshion rolls up
IT'S sleeves" and the popular shirt.
voist dress takes on q new look. De-
rived from the boys shirts the girls
used to Svipe, the trend hos gone full
length into dresses the suburban set
odores. Elem, Stor foshion editor,
tells how il storted on poss B.5.
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Stevenson Carries Drive
To Friendly Florida City
BY GOULD LINCOLN
star stan Correspondent

JACKSONVILLE Flar May 23.-Adlai Stevenson, IN MS
drive to defeat Senator Keauver of Tennessee for
lordas Democratic National Convention votes plunged
today another handshaking round which took him to
ackSonvlles shipyards beaches and shopping centerS
It may profitable day, this county is regarded as
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BULLE TIN
Farm Bill Passes

The House today voted, 3O4
TO SO, for the new farm bill
and headed II toward the
White House. where approval
Is taken for granted.
Earlier story on Page All
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WEATHER FORECAST

Cloudy and cooler tonight. low IS. Fair
and cool tomorrow. with high Of Sc. Gull
report on Page A-2.)
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Temperatures Today
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