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offenses were committed in a
three-day period last month.
Il don't know what it is going
to take to make you stop this
practice" Judge Cockrill said
You're either going to kill your
self or kill somebody else"
In May of this year he finished
six hours at the traffic school.
List of Injured
The injured we're identified as:
Warren w. Halbritter, jr., 10,
son of Mrs. Grace Halbritter
812 Jefferson street NV, a
plumbers helper.
Charles Edward Haas, 10, of
1850 Chillum road, Mount
Rainier, Md.
The Halbritter youth suffered
"a possible skull fracture. Young
Haas suffered a possible fracture
of the ankle and a broken nose.
Both were cut and bruised.
Anne Arundel police said the
youths were motoring through a
driving rainstorm. The road
narrows at the bridge and police
believe the youths did not see
the span in time to swerve into
the center of the road.
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ders were authorized during the
CD operation.
Besides giving the defense ad-
miniStrator extraordinary pow
erS. one order would authorize
the Secretary of Defense to
establish whatever military areas
would be required to perform
missions assigned to the armed
forces.
Report to President
Both the administrator and
the Defense Secretary would be
required to report Immediately
and periodically to the President.
The order. it was said, would
apply only for the limited period
Immediately after an attack on
the United States and pending
the converting of Congress. For
the sake of the present civil de-
tense drill, it was assumed that
Congress would not be in session.
The proclamation discussed by
Mr.. Snyder at midnight brief
ing OF reporters would direct the
Secretary of Defense to assist
the Civil Defense Administration
in accomplishing assigned tasks
with all available personnel and
facilities needed.
THE authority contained in a
document of the type outlined, "
said Mr., Snyder, would differ
from martial law in that, among
other things, the authority to
restore law and order would be
delegated to a civilian official.
namely the Federal civil defense
administrator, rather than to the
military"
Function Outside ID. C.
In the situation now simulated,
civil agencies of the Federal
Government are assumed to be
Ifunctioning at undisclosed loca-
tons outside Washington. Many
State and local governments also
are assumed to be carrying on
their functions. Some municipal
See ALERT, Page AZ
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Burma Rebels Kill IS
In Attack on Train

RANGOON, Burma, July 81
R.-Rebels willed at least is
people and carried off 80 others
as hostages in an attack on the
Rangoon-Prome mail train, il
was reported today.
The engine and six coaches
were derailed by a mine. The
rebels kept up continuous fire on
the train from both sides of the
track for an hour. They set fire
to the coaches before leaving
with their prisoners.
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Final OK Put
On 5 Buildings
Federal Projects to
Cost SIG Million
BY DON S. WARREN

Five Federal building project,
for the District having a tota
estimated cost of nearly Silt
million now are clear for actor
as a start on Washington's new
Federal building-tempo remova
program.
Final congressional action or
the five projects was given last
night at an unexpected meeting
of the full Senate Public Works
Committee. These already have
been approved by the House
Public Works Committee.
Since they all come under the
lease-purchase program for Fed
Ieral buildings already authorized
by Congress this gives the 60
ahead signal to the Public Build
IingS Administration.
3 Projects Held Up
Three other projects approved
by the House Committee are
being held up in the Senate fol-
a further review. These have an
estimated ceiling cost of $500
million.
The three projects include new
headquarters for the U. S. Geo
logical Survey, a combined GEN.
ter for the Weather Bureau and
Coast and Geodetic Survey, and
a Federal Office building in the
block bounded by PENNSYLVANIA
avenue, H street, Seventeenth
street and jackson place NV.
However. Committee Chairman
Chavez said there was chance
the committee might Reconsider
these projects next week.
Reason for holding up the
1922 million Geological Survey
and $500 million Weather Blu
reau projects was that both have
been proposed for suburban To-
cations. and Senator Chavez has
voiced strong concern about
Federal agencies leaving Wash
ington to go to the suburbs.
Review of Use Planned
Senator Chavez said the $27.5
million Seventeenth and Penn
sylvania avenue project was in
tended for use by the Veterans
Administration. but that he
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ROADS CLOSED
AS ROCK CREEK
WATER RISES

Rock Greek continued
rising today and Park Police
announced they had to close
all of Rock Creek Parks
roads except Porter and Til
den streets and Park road
NV.
Park road and Tilden
street may have to be closed
before the day ends, officers
added.
Police said the water, 10
feet above normal by noon,
threatened to wash away
Military road bridge over the
creek.
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- -
in Alert. Poee A. Is
said President Eisenhower dis
cussed the proposition yesterday
at a meeting of the National
Security Council while the imag-
mary nuclear attack was un-
derway.
124 Weapons Fired.
In the simulated assault ii
was presumed that an enemy
fired" or dropped" a total OF
124 hydrogen and atomic weap-
ons on rs United States targets
and IS targets in Canada. One
of the supposedly hard-hit areas
was Metropolitan Washington,
much of which would have been
leveled by a five-megaton bomb
detonated at the Fourteenth
street bridges.
The exercise also assumed that
atomic bombs equivalent to TO-
600 pounds of TINT we're dropped
on Andrews Air Force Base and
Fort Belvoir.
Peterson, Flemming to Confer
Mr.. Peterson and Arthur
Flemming, director of the Office
Of Defense Mobilization, sched-
uled a meeting early today to
review the mythical situation
after yesterdays attack.
DR.. Flemming declared 1.-THE
whole schedule of Operation
Alert 1856 is far ahead of last
year."
Mr.. Peterson, who was ex-
lpected at this emergency press
headquarters late today, said
IFDCA is concentrating on the
problems of providing immediate
relief" to the target areas, in
GLIDING the provision of medical
supplies, hospitals, mass feelings
and the huge problem of hous-
ing millions supposedly evacu-
ated from bombed areas.
Through his spokesman, Pres
ident Eisenhower said the para
mount concern of the Govern
ment in q nuclear attack would
be the relief and rehabilitation
of the civilian population. To
expedite such work, he said, a
series Of "tryout" executive or
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House Conferees Named
On Retirement Bill

onto the executive pay measure
strongly favored by the admins
tration, the Senate moved to
make sure that the retirement
legislation will not suffer presi-
Dental veto.
The Senate previously had
approved the retirement bill and
yesterday approved it again as
part of the executive pay bill,
Since the House already has
passed the executive pay meas
ure, this sends the entire legis-
Ilation to conference.
The catch-all bill also pro-
vides staggered six-year terms
for the three civil service COM
missioners, instead of the pres
ent system whereby the commits
Sioners served at the pleasure of
the President.
Top Jobs Increased
Also. the Senate bill would in
crease the number of scientific
and technical $40. O00-to-$15, 000-
a-year jobs in the defense and
research agencies. The number
of new jobs approved by the
Senate is las. compared to the
nearly 400 approved by the
House. This difference will have
to be Strengthened out in con-
ference.
The conferees also will have
to settle the differences between
the Senate's civil service retire
See PAY, Page A-9
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accused the Democratic majority
of "embellishing" the findings
about a 1925 contract held by
Dunbar & Co.. Springfield, Ill.
If things were so bad. the Re-
publicans suggested, why did a
local Sangamon County grand
jury last December report no
evidence of criminal violation
after a study that included the
House subcommittee's hearings?
Although the contract has been
under investigation by the SUBJ
committee for more than a year,
the majority and minority re-
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CHURCH SERVICES
HELD AT AIRPORT

TRAVELLERS WORSHIP = Between
flight coils on Sunday morning, No
tionol Airport loudspeoken announce
church services. Limousines ore volt
ing to whsk stopover travellers to the
MATS ehOpeI. See story on pose as.
OVER 70-HOw does q eIersymon OBJ
tom soeiol security eoverose3 The
answer TO this question and other in
formation on pension eoveroee ore re-
ported by Roy Henry in Security for
You" on poae Abb.
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BY the Associated Press

Democratic House investiga-
tors said today an Illinois sur
plus foods distribution contract
brought "inordinate profits" to
a Republican officials company
and involved personal relation
ships by school officials which
were inconsistent" with Their
public duties.
Republicans on the Govern
ment Operations subcommittee
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SideIiehts on Flood Domoee. Other
Weather Stories. Poee AZ
downpour. Police and firemen
labored through the night in res
cue operations there and else
where in the area.
The bodies of three men and
two women we're found in the
flood off Wightman road, which
runs from Goshen road in the
Laytonsville, Md, area.
The five dead we're identified
as Rachel Stewart, SO; Ann Bal
ley. 80; John H. Gray. 80. and
Leonard E. Beckwith, 81, all COL
ored and all of Germantown, and
Harold Plummer, colored, %, of
Gaithersburg.
Cars Close Together
The cars, one upside down.
were found close together 100
yards downstream from Seneca
Greek bridge about 3 miles from
Gaithersburg. Fire Chief Lee
Henry Miller of Gaithersburg
said the bodies of two men we're
found in one of the cars about
8 am.
A Maryland State Roads Com
mission workman summoned a
search party including Mont
gomery County police, flremen,
and bulldozer and crane oper-
ators. One woman'S body was
found 200 yards downstream
from the cars, and a half mile
away firemen found the bodies
of another man and woman.
The body of a Rockville fire.
man, father of two children,
was recovered early today after
he drowned in Rock Greek some
1900 yards inside the Viers Mill
road entrance to Park Lawn
Cemetery. He was Elwood H.
Smith. 80, of 1915 Stanley ave-
nue.. Rockville, employed as meat
market manager in a Safeway
store in GaitherSburg.
Checking Abandoned Cars
j The fireman was checking
with other firemen two cars
abandoned near the creek bank
at the time he was swept away.
He had remarked shortly before
that Il can't SWIM" according
to the report.
The torrents drenched Mary
land and left many Washing
ton County residents cleaning
up some of the heaviest flood
damage in years. The weather
station near Hagerstown record
ed &C. inches OF rain. South of
there, families had to be evac-
uated from a number of homes
at Keedysville. where the Little
Antletam Creek burst from its
banks.
The heavy rain here had no
direct relationship to two small
but potent tornadoes which
struck Richmond, Va. the
Weather Bureau said. The bu-
reau recorded an official IS inch
of rain for Washington, as COM
pared with AIS inches at Balti-
more and about inches at
Harpers Ferry. w. Va.
Although yesterdays rain CEN
See WEATHER, Page Az
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Egypt Facing
Aid Cuts
Dam Plan involved
Other Projects
BY EARL H. vOSs

The decision by Great Britain
and the United States to cancel
their $40 million offer of grant
aid to Egypt for f1rst-phase con-
Istruction of the Aswan dam will
have the additional effect OF
slashing other United States aid
to Egypt by more than half,
American aid officials disclosed
today.
President Canal Abdel Mas
Iser's government will get less
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than $12 million in the current
fiscal year, ending next June 80.
Last year Egypt got about $27
million from the United States.
United States aid to Egypt has
varied in inverse ratio to Col.
Nasser's GOODNESS toward the
West. In 1855 America spent $40
million on foreign aid for Egypt.
Other Projects Involved
Foreign aid appropriations now
being sought before Congress
include approximately $25 mil
lion for Egypt, to be spent before
next July l. But that amount
was set before the Aswan dam
project fell through.
More than half Of this money
had been intended for projects
ancillary to the Aswan dam
highways and railroads to con-
struction sites. railroad and other
See EGYPT, Page AS
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Three D. C. Youths Killed
In Anne Arundel Crash
Judge Warned One of Victims Yesterday
Thut Speed Would Cause His Deuth

Three District youths killed and two companions
were injured last night when their bridge on
Route SOl in Anne Arundel County, Nd just Prince
Georges County line.
Anne Arundel police said they have determined who
was driving the Ocers said the auto smashed the
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Sweeping Civil Defense
Powers to Be Tried Out
President to Give Peterson Authority
To Deal With Theoretical Bombing
BY JOHN v. HORNER
Star STAFF Correspondent

NEWSPOINT" July 2-President Eisenhower leading the
Nation in its huge civil deenes exercise has authorized the
test of executive order which would extraordinary
powers in Civil Defense Administrator Peterson to deal
with the theoretical nuclear bombing crisis.
spokesman at emergency press headquarters for
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Panama Gives
HedrfYGreefine
To Eisenhower
American Chiefs
Of Stote Meeting
To Strengthen Ties

PANAMA. July 81 (R.-Presi-
dent Eisenhower arrived today
to join 10 other chiefs of state
OF the American republics in q
conference aimed at strengthen
ing the bonds of inter-American
solidarity.
He was greeted warmly at the
airport by Panama's President
Ricardo Arias Espinosa. He also
received a 21-gun salute and ac-
companying honors. Then he
was driven to the United States
Embassy for a brief rest. Later
he joined the other presidents in
an informal meeting at President
AriaS palace on the waterfront
Mr. Eisenhower had breakfast
on the plane as it flew from
Washington, and Press Secretary
James c. Hagerty told reporters
the convaleScing President stood
the trip very WE'LL"
Mr.. Eisenhower appeared some
what pale but spoke in a clear
sharp voice in a brief airport
address expressing appreciation
for being present at the parley
concentrating the first Pan
American conference 100 years
ago.
Dulles Arrives First
United States Secretary OF
State Dulles arrived 20 minutes
ahead of Mr.. Eisenhower. The
Americans were driven in open
cars to the United States En-
baSsy. Several thousand Pana-
manians and some Americans
from the United States Canal
Zone turned out to wave and
shout Salutes.
Mr.. Eisenhower stood up in
the rear of his car most of the
way, waving one hand and then
the other and beaming his famed
smile at the noisy crowds.
At the embassy he was escorted
to the personal quarters of Am
bassador Julian F. Harrington.
The suite overlooks Ell Panama
Hotel where most of the other
Presidents are staying.
Mr.. Eisenhower remained there
until time to drive to Mr.. Arias'
palace to join the other chiefs
of state in formal calls on their
host. They operated on a four
minute schedule, taking their
turns alphabetically. That put
Mr.. Eisenhower, representing the
'Estados Unidos." seventh in
line.
Informal Conferences
After the reception there was
an opportunity for informal con-
ferenceS and posing for indi-
vidual and group pictures in the
palace dining room. y
This was a prelude to a cere-
mony in which Mr.. Eisenhower
placed a wreath at the tomb of
Panama's assassinated President
Jose Antonio Remon at the ma
tional cemetery.
The plane which brought Mr..
Eisenhower here touched down
at $50 am. EDIT.
An honor guard of the PAN
anna national guard saluted and
the band played the United
States national anthem.
The first one out of the plane
behind President Eisenhower was
his brother. DR.. Milton Eisen-
hover. Next came Sherman
Adams, Mr.. Eisenhower's per-
sonal assistant. and Mai. Gen.
Howard M. Snyder, the Presi-
dents physician.
Mr.. Eisenhower wore a brown
summer-weight suit and carried
a brown felt hat.
Mr.. Arias greeted him with
hand outStrstched.
Recalls 1924 Duty
In a brief airport speech. Pres
ident Eisenhower said it was a
privilege for him not only to
meet the other Presidents at the
See PANAMA, Page AS
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STOCKS
IN THE SPOTLIGHT

NEW YORK R1.-Following are the
sales tadd O0). high, low, closing price
and net change OF the 20 most active
stocks for the week
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Marines at Paris Island See TrioI q,
Blow TO Corps. Pose Al
lola Berman's own before he
sped away from this base this
morning for Charleston, S. C..
to catch a plane for an undis-
closed destination.
His departure came after
yesterdays nth day Of the
widely-publicized trial which
saw:
/. Two 1S-year-old survivors
graphically describe the death
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-21
BY CECIL HOLLAND
star stan Correspondent

PARIS ISLAND, S. c., July
2l.-Court martial Of Marine
Sergt. Matthew C. McKeon in
the drowning Of six recruits in
a night march was in recess
here today to permit the
sergeant's chief counsel to rush
on on a mysterious trip having
Serious implications" regarding
the trial.
The description Of the mission
was New York attorney Emile
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tlon Alert 1856 said the plan
would replace a Hypothetical
limited martial law proclamation
used in the civil defense drill last
year. emphasizing civilian rather
than military control.
Murray Snyder, assistant
White House press secretary
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-21

Illinois Federal Regimes cIosh in FunC
Scandal. Poqe Al;
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SenOte Foreign Aid Vote Delayed Unit
Tuesday. Poee Al;
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bug" in Orders Delays Military Role
in Alert. Pace Alb
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8 Die in Maryland Floods;
Bridges OUT Roads Closed
Five Perish
InCurs Swept
OffHighwoy

Six persons were dead in near
by Maryland and the area was
spotted with floods and washed
out bridges today after last
nights torrential rains.
Montgomery County. Md, was
particularly hard hit by the
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Recalls 1924 Duty

In a brief airport speech, Pres
ident Eisenhower said it was a
privilege for him not only to
meet the other Presidents at the
See PANAMA, Page AS
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Dwellings Okoyed
In Prince Georges
Recent building permits issued
in Prince Georges County in

/ Recent building permits issued
in Prince Georges County in
clude:
C. H. Rutter. 104 Swami road. Suit
land, owner and builder: dwelling at l26
Swami road, .Suitland; cost, $4,000.
IHyattsville. owner and builder; two dwell
inss on Maple avenue, Laurel; cost,
II. E. Fox. s6l6 Georgia avenue, Silver
Spring, owner and builder; dwelling at
1870 Hsl hed street. District Heights;
olde Beaver Dam Estates, Inc. 931l
HARRINGTON drive, Bethesda, owner and
builder dwelling at 29O6 Hawthorne
court. Hyattsyille: cost, S12. 900.
West Laurel Acres; Inc, ,407-B Laurel,
ing on Ashland drive. Laurel: cost.
Harry A. and Evelyn A. Miller. 1907
Nicholson street, Chillum owner and
builder; Dwelling at 1903 Nicholsoni
Anthony Campanile. 5s05 Chillumgate
road. Chillum, owner and builder: dwell
Ing on Tenth place. Hyattsvi'le; cost,
Marvin j, Sears. 1891 jackson street
builder; dwelling at 2s0s IackaT wanna
,, Pepper Mill Village, Inc, 1850 New
and builder; two dwellings on Central
avenue, Seat Pleasant; one to cost
Sl5.SO0 and one to cost S15,750
Ihomas and Bertha V. McDonough.
Church road, Mitchellyille owners and
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builders; two DWELLINGS at 1916, 231s
Belleview avenue, Cheverly: cost, Sill ZOO
| and $4,000.
Otto Gottlied. els Maryland avenue
Falkland, owner and builder; dwelling
S1l 900
Robert E., Dugard, 57OO Fifteenth
avenue, .Hyattsville. owner; r. H. Best,
sf tne OHiaer d%eiiins at 2293 S Muskosee
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Country living close Like
living
bright electric kitchen with breakfast
nd bath Wit
lots Of oraEe second floor $4,000 preetOns
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GLOVER

Continued From Page D-25
material sent out" says
Schnitzer. There have been
dance companies, jubilee sing
ers, violinists like Isaac Stern,
symphony orcheStras and
plays.
Touring dramas are per-
hapS the most complicated
part of the program. Besides
language problems. there are
rehearsal times to be arranged,
sets to move. And unfor-
tunately we don't have per-
manent 'repertory companies
set up and ready to CO."
No Paris This Year
This summer, for example,
the United States did not par
ticipate in the International
Drama Festival at Paris al
though, three productions went
the year before.
One point which ANTA's
staff frequently has to explain
is that not all American en-
tertainment abroad is part of
the officially-supervised cul-
tural program.
Many artists go overseas on
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personally arranged tours, par
ticularly to west European
capitals long familiar with
American entertainers.
I'VE are most interested"
says Schnitzer, "in those areas
especially in the East where
our culture is less known and
where it isn't as easy to make
arrangements"
The enterprise inevitably
operates in many areas also
visited by entertainers from
the Soviet Union.
I'VE are never in direct COM
petition with the Communists"
Schnitzer says. THE Reds
give everything away. We do
our work with normal Ameri-
can business methods"
The program is conducted
through a somewhat complex
committees within-co
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system designed to make sure
that both official interests and
artistic purposes are kept in
neat balance.
Basically, an advisory COM
mittee set up by ANITA first
screens tour projects, sends
approved items to a board in
Washington that includes rep
resentatives of the State De-
partment, United States In
formation Agency. Defense
Department and other agencies.
They keep their fists off
the professional side" says the
general manager, land con-
centrate on the fiscal end and
the ACCESSIBILITY Of sending a
particular group to a specific
area"
ANITA Handles Details
After final okay, ANITA
works out all the details.
I'm the field the artists are
under the wing of the State
Department all the way" ex-
plains Schnitzer. "They know
they're going to be worked
offStage as well as on-and
they do wonderfully"
Each year, about 50 million
has been spent setting up show
tours. Presidential emergency
funds were used to get it
launched, and Congress just
recently allocated funds for
another II months.
During debate some Con-
gressmen said they thought
two items should henceforth
be committed from the enter
tainment list-jazz bands and
ballet dancers.
Schnitzer is glad that re-