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Evening star., 1956-12-30
d. Car Deaths
All Record Low

District traffic officials were
holding their breaths, figura-
lively. last night in hopes the
city could get through the last
two days of 1856 with a new
safety record.
With the city we'll into what
was expected to be a quiet week
end and New Years eve celebra-
ton. the national fatality toll
was running behind predictions.
Throughout the country, the
count last night was 81, with
eight additional deaths in fires
and 10 in other types of acci-
dents.
In the District, the traffic IA
tality count for the year was at
an all-time low of 56-the best
since the city began keeping such
records in 1923.
1854 Was Record Low
This compared with the record
high Of 135 in 1884. with 72 last
year and with the previous low
of SO in 1854.
The Nationwide trend for the
holiday week end encouraged
safety officials.
A comparison Of countrywide
New Year and Christmas period
performances was made by
checking the number of vehicle
fatalities reported by pm.
EST on the Saturday Of each
week end. Last Saturday the
total was 113 at that hour. This
Saturday it was 81.
Ned H. Dearborn, president of
the National Safety Council.
stated:
The toll is running gratify-
ingly below our estimate. We
urge every driver to keep it that
way during the entire holiday
period. 1t would be a wonderful
way to start 1857"
NSC had predicted that 400
Americans would be killed in
motor vehicle accidents during
the New Year period that began
at s pm. Qocal time) Friday
night and will end at midnight
Tuesday.
1888 Worst Period
A total that high would set a
new record for a New Year Pc
riod. exceeding the current mark
Of 407 that was compiled during
a four-day holiday at the end
Of 1852 and the beginning of
1858.
The record for any holiday
period was written during this
years observance Of Christmas:
706 deaths in trafic, 81 in fires.
l24 in other accidents for an
overall total Of S84.
There are a number Of factors
that could hold down the New
Year toll.
First. travel Is not so wide
spread. New Year celebrators,
by and large. drive around dis
tricts where they live instead Of
heading for far-of family
home.
Then. State and city police
aroused by the heavy Christmas
are cracking down on
violators.
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Dr.. Miles Will Heed
Chemical Society Unit

DR. wyndham Miles. historian
at the Army Chemical Center,
Edsewood, Nd. has been elected
chairman Of the American Chem
cal Society's history division.
Dr. Miles succeeds Dr.. Eduard
.Faroer. chief chemist Of the Tim
Der Engineering Co here. who
VIII represent the history divis-
ion on the soeietys national
council.
Evening star., 1956-12-30

ing some 1000 persons who
crossed State lines to avoid
prosecution. confinement or the
giving of testimony in State
cases.
Identification through finger
print file search, for State au-
thorities. of some 14,500 fugitives
and the supplying of information
on their whereabouts.
Drinks Case Cited
Mr.. Hoover noted that the year
was marked by arrests and con-
Ivictions in the million dollar
Drinks robbery at Boston in
1850. the kidnapping of little Peter
Weinberger. and the acid blind
ing Of labor columnist Victor
Riesel, He added:
During this era Of spiralling
crime rates. it has been en-
couraging to see some types Of
offenSeS yield to the pressure of
effective law enforcement and
preventive technioues.
Federal bank robbery, bur-
glary and larceny violations are
an outstanding example. After
progressively rising to an all
time peak of more than 500 per
year in the postwar period, these
offenses were spotlighted at a
series Of special law enforce
ment conferences sponsored by
the FBI throughout the United
States in 1855. The benefits of
these conferences were reaped
in 1856. Federal Bank Robbery
Act violations decreased approx
imately 16 per cent"
In the field of domestic in
telligence. Mr.. Hoover reported
for the past year:
Nine additional Smith Act ar
rests of alleged Communist Party
leaders, charged with advocat-
ing violent overthrow of the Gov
ernment;
Twenty more Smith Act con-
victions of party functionaries,
bringing the total of such con-
victions to 1903:
At years end, 81 others await
ed trial on Smith Act charges.
Mr.. Hoover expressed deep
appreciation for the aid given
his agents by local law enforce
ment officers throughout the
country, asserting;
Cooperation Hailed
Our profession is character
lied by a spirit Of mutual CO.
operation which benefits not only
the individual agencies, but also
the citizens whom they serve.
alone, no law enforce
ment agency can hope to meet
the challenge Of the modern-day
underworld.
He noted that the FBI makes
available wide variety Of cost
free services TO local police de-
partments. including the twice.
a-year FBI National Academy
courses here for local police. par
ticipation in local and regional
police training schools and SCI
entific examination OF local case
evidence in the FBI laboratories.
He reported some 100000 such
examinations we're made in 1856.
During the year, MIR. Hoover
said, FBI experts attended 542
local and regional training
schools devoted exclusively to
civil rights matters to explain
Federal law in relation to "the
rights and privileges which are
to inhabitants of our
country as well as the rights and
of law enforcement
officers themselves.
During the year, the FBrs
fingerprint file rose to l43 mil
lion cards. Of which some 30 mill
lion are related to law violations.
Evening star., 1956-12-30

Americans in increasing num-
bers have decided TO learn more
of the Russian language than
the word "nyet," which the So
Wet representatives at the United
Nations have made 50 familiar.
Enrolment in courses in Rus
sian has shown a sharp upward
trend, especially in the last two
years. according 10 a report 70
the American Language Associ-
alton.
The report was presented to
the associations convention yes
terdsy BY Valeris T1mins Of
Regis College. Weston. Mass.
secretary-treasure Of the New
England chapter Of the Ameri-
can Association OF Teachers Of
Slavic and East European Lam
guages.
lOV Per tent increases
The report was based on ques-
tionnaireS answered by 30 uni
.yersities and colleges. Sixty-one
per cent said enrolment in Rus
sian courses had increased from
Ione-tenth 10 more than double
The big upward trend showed up
in the last two years. Only "a
per cent said enrolment for
Russian had declined or that
the courses had been dropped.
The University Of Oklahoma
reported an increase Of 10 per
lcent. Smith and Mount HoIyoke
Colleges and Syracuse UnlveY-
sity. increases Of 100 per cent.
Evening star., 1956-12-30

the previous record year of 1885,
by 267.000.
Police Chief Robert v. Murray
said yesterday that figures or
December crimes here would mol
be compiled until about Janu.
AIRY Z.
But the entire year will show
a drop under 1855, he said. or
December 10. Metropolitan Police
reported that serious crime here
for the IL months ending Novem-
ber 80 was 9.6 per cent under the
preceding 12-month period.
Decrease in ID. C.
The District had 1908 major
crimes in the year ending last
month. compared to 1882 crimes
in the preceding period.
The national 1855 total was
2,262. 500, compared to 2.267, ,00C
in 1854.
Current FBI tabulations show
increases in all major crime
categories except robbery. which
dropped of only slightly as a
whole although there was q ma
jor decrease in violations of the
Federal bank robbery act.
Final 1856 statistics will not be
available until spring when the
annual FBI uniform crime re-
ports bulletin is published.
The FBI director again paid
tribute to the assistance given
his investigators by confidential
informants. reporting that near
ly 200 persons-"in including many
dangerous fugitives" - were ar
rested each month during the
year through information OBJ
tanned from confidential sources.
More than 1900 of these ar
rests involved subjects of FBI
investigations" Mr.. Hoover said.
"The remainder were made by
other law enforcement agencies
on the basis of information sup
piled by FBI informants and
transmitted to the authorities
concerned
Property Recovered
'Recoveries of stolen and con-
traband merchandise and valu-
ableS attributable to FBI infor-
mants totaled more than ia
million dollars in 1856. But these
figures tell only part of the story,
for there is no yardstick for
measuring the investigative time
and funds saved or the human
suffering prevented through the
efforts of informants."
In relation to the indicated
major crime record. Mr.. Hoover
reported these countermeasures
in the area of FBI Jurisdiction:
An increase of more than 400
Federal convictions over the
10.528 recorded in 1855. with
attendant fines, savings and re-
coveries of more than S120 mil
lion.
About 100 more convictions in
interstate auto theft cases. with
more than 1920 cars valued at
SIT 100000 located.
A l6 per cent increase in con-
Ivictions involving interstate
transportation of other types Of
stolen property.
A 20 per cent increase in con-
.victionS for cries against gov
ernment property.
Location of about 300 fueitives
a month, the years total includ-
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Series of 6 Floats to Set
Inaugural Parade. Theme
BY WILLIAM A. MILLEN

series Of six floats designed will set the
theme for the Inaugural Parade required rckery eng
neer1ng to make them turn corners easily
The theme Consent of the Governedaken from phrase
IN the Declaration OF Independencew illustrate under
the United States free enterprise system These
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EorIy Figures Reveal
Increase in u. S. Crime

Preliminary figures show 1856 another record year nation-
ally for major crimes but the Districts decreased
FBI Director Edgar Hoover said statistics the Nation
indicate increase of IL 1855 In yearend
report to Attorney General Browne said data now
available points to 2month total Of across the
Evening star., 1956-12-30
PAGEANT OF PEACE SCHEDULE

Today
, oo.4 pm,-organ concert OF Hungarian music
7-73o pm.-Puppet show
ao-s3 30 pm.-concer by the Air Force Band and the
Singing SerEeantS
Tomorrow
Z .3o-s3O pm-Firs; Baptist Church Choir
s.3o-s pm-st Johns Episcopal Church Georgetown
Choir.
New Years Day
1903 80 pm--carllon concert
TIE free reindeer for children win Be open
from ii pm daily, All events are on the EAipse.
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1956-08-17

of Greek ship carrying cement to
Israel, stopped by Egypt, the car
go practically confiscated. Israel
brought that case to the councils
attention on at least two occasions
the last time, only a couple of
days before NasSer announced his
appropriation of the Canal.
The issue is UN issue. Given
the cooperation of the Big Powers,
the UN could settle it, too; GER
tainly the UN could have prevent
ed the Nasser action on the canal.
IN HIS LIMITED way, Secre-
tary-GeneraI Dag Hammarskjold
is trying to do what he can. He
has been in touch with leading
delegations here - including the
Egyptian and Israeli representa-
tives. Right now, Andrew w. Cor
der, his executive assistant, is in
the Middle East. In fact, Cordier
is due to visit Beirut, Amman,
Jerusalem, and Cairo this coming
week.
Cordier's visit is supposed to be
in connection with helping new
UN MEMBERSHIPS get ready for
the next general assembly, which
will convene in Nov emper. But
Cairo, Jerusalem, and Beirut are
hardly capitals of new" member
states; only Amman is in that cat
egory.
There is no doubt that Hammars-
kjold had reasons not only for
sending "Andy" Cordler - he had
reasons, as well, for insisting that
the Cordier trip had nothing to do
with his own previous peace mis-
sions or with anything else except
to assist new members to prepare
for the Assembly sessions. Be that
as it may-the fact is that Cordier
is on the spot. And if the big pow
ers want the UN to help-the UN
could make the effort.
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1956-08-17
British See
Peril Boost
For IsrueIis

LONDON (JTA) Increased
danger for Israel is seen here in
Egypt's seizure of the Suez Canal
and parliamentary circles indicat-
ed that they will, therefore, con-
tinue their fight that the British
government should embark on a
policy of sending defensive arms
to Israel.
The Arab-Israel problem ap-
pears to have been touched upon
briefly during last weeks discus
sions among Secretary of S ia e
John Foster Dulles, Foreign Sec
retary Selwyn Lloyd, and Foreign
Minister Christian Pineau on the
Suez situation. Nothing in the ma
ture of a decision on any aspect
of the Israel-Arab dispute was
taken at the meeting.
THE BRITISH government cam
celled licenses for a consignment
of munitions destined for Lebanon
aboard the Egyptian freighter
''Star of Lebanon" However,
Foreign Office spokesman later
said that the munitions would be
shipped to Lebanon as soon as pos
sible, but not in Egyptian bottoms.
Israel Ambassador Eliahu Elath
had a 55-minute meeting with
Lloyd at Elath's request and it is
thought that he conveyed the Is
rael government views on the
Egyptian naturalization of the
Suez Canal Company.
During a debate in the House
of Lords, Lord Attlee, prime min
lister of the late Labor govern
ment, called for supplying Israel
with more arms, insisting that the
situation had changed as result
of the Suez Canal situation and
that Israel should be in position
to defend itself from aggression by
the Egyptian dictator. Lord Attlee
said if the British government had
taken stronger position on free
dom of passage through the Suez
Canal earlier, it might have been
SPARED this trouble"
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1956-08-17
Beth FL Gets
Rabbi Wner
For Holidays

Engagement of Rabbi Gershon
Winer of Denver's BMH Congre-
cation to conduct high holy day
services for Congregation Beth FL
has been announced by Jerome
Smith, congregation president.
Rabbi Winer, "a, ordained by the
Jewish Theological Seminary, also
has received degrees from the Ye-
SILVA University and Columbia
University Teachers College.
THE FATHER of three children,
Rabbi Winer is a former national
president of Hanser Hauie, He
brew youth movement; education
al director of Massod Hebrew
Camps, member of the ZOA ma
tional administrative committee,
secretary of the Rabbinical AS
sembly of Americas law commit
tee and member of its executive
committee.
He will be assisted by Cantor
Norman Migdal and the Beth FL
choir. Cantor Solomon Rothstein
will chant for the orthodox SER
vices.
SEATS FOR the orthodox SER
vices may be obtained from the
seating committee from 7:30 to
9:30"p.m. Mondays through Thurs
days and 9 am. to noon Sundays.
Morris Meckler is seating commit
tee chairman.
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1956-08-17
Killings Cited
In UN Report

UNITED NATIONS, NY. (JTA)
- Repeated shootings involving at
least nine dead and 20 wounded
among Israelis, Jordanian, and
United Nations observers along
the Israel-Jordan border now con-
stitute "a greater threat to the
policy of cease-fire than had so
far arisen" UN Secretary General
Dag Hammarskjold warned h e
Security Council.
The secretary general attached
to his two-page report II pages
summarizing reports direct from
the field by the United Nations
Truce Supervision Organization's s
chief of staff, Maj. Gen. ELM.
Burns. The Burns reports support
Hammarskjold's warning that the
Jordan-Israel incidents have Gin
volved clear elements of the cease
fire assurances. Gen. Burns data
shows:
Between June 26 and July % Is
rael filed 130 complaints with the
Israel-Jordan Mixed Armistice
Commission, while Jordan coun-
tered with 270 complaints. During
the same period Israel casualties
numbered nine dead and eight
wounded; Jordan reported seven
wounded; at least five UN military
observers were wounded, four OF
them seriously"
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1956-08-17

The Phoenix B'nai Birth
Lodge turned in a near
sweep of honors at the re-
cent district meeting of the
mems service organization
at Los Angeles while the Phoenix
women's chapter received the dis
trict award for membership acqui-
sition and retention for the second
straight year.
Burton Lewkowitz of the local
Herman Lewkowitz Lodge $50 was
elected district third vice presi-
dent while the lodge walked off
with these awards:
BOY SCOUT Award, committee
chairmanned by M. B. Goldman
Jr.; Howard Desky Award for
Anti-Defamation activities, COM
mittee headed by Lewkowitz;
membership activities, Leon Fran
els; Herman Lewkowitz Scholar
ship Prize of $500, Howard Polk,
outstanding AzA youth leader.
The district includes eight West
ern states and British Columbia.
Phoenix President Stanley Klebe
and delegates Irwin Cantor, Pat
Barnett, Nat Silverman and Phil
Barer were besieged with inquir-
les at workshops about their pro-
grams. other delegates showed
particular interest in the vocation
al guidance program conducted by
Eli Schlossberg committee and the
membership orientation program
headed by Chester Stoloff.
LEWKOWITZ, Francis, and Sol
Geller also attended.
Phoenix women attending were
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1956-08-17


no mistake about that point. It is
lack of action at the UN on the
part of the big powers-or, worse,
actions encouraging Nasser and
his Arab League junta-that spill
ed the canal about the ears of
confused West.
EVERY ONE here remembers the
Security Councils resolution of
September, 1851, calling for free
passage of all shipping through
the SueZ Canal. It is worth stop
ping a moment now to recall some
of the details attendant upon that
resolution.
Israel had proposed the meas
ure. Israel had complained against
Egypt's illegal blockade of Israel
bound shipping. But the resolution
which Israel drafted and was
passed by the council did not re-
strict its freedom of passage"
clause to Israel only. The resolu-
ton recalled the Constantinople
Convention of 1888 which guaran-
teed that ships "of all flags Of all
nations without distinction" were
to be permitted to use the canal
in peace and in war.
THEN-IN ITS operative clause
- the resolution told Egypt it
must keep the ditch open for all
shipping wherever pound" That
is why the resolution was passed
because Israel had been smart
enough to word it broadly enough
to apply to all maritime nations.
The United Nations could have
reaffirmed that 1851 resolution
any number of times. Opportuni-
ties were not lacking. Remember
the Bat Calm? A wishy-washy
plea to Egypt was made by the
council when Israel complained
against that seizure in 1854. More
recently, there has been the case
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1956-08-17
Terrorist Mefed
Death Sentence

TEL AVN (JTA) - An Israeli
military court has sentenced to
death an Egyptian member of a
suicide squad which had infiltrat-
ed Israel and attacked Israeli
troops. The verdict must be re-
viewed by the army's chief OF
staff, Maj. Gen. Moshe Dayan.
The defendant, 20-year-old Mus
tapha Atie Abu Arakat, in state
ment just before he was sentenced,
said he was sorry for what he had
done and asked the courts mercy.
The chief witness against the
Arab was an Israeli soldier who
had been wounded when his three
man patrol found and attempted
to arrest Arakat and companion.
The two Arabs fired on the patrol.
The patrol replied, killing the sec
ond Arab and wounding Arakat.
In an unsuccessful attempt to
flee. Arakat threw a hand grenade
at the patrol, but the exploding
fragments missed everyone. When
he was captured, he was found to
have a machine gun and dynamite
| in his possession.
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1956-08-17
ISRAEL OPENS
PIPELINE TALKS
OIL FIRMS

LONDON (JTA) - Israel gov
ernment representatives have op-
ened negotiations with British and
American oil companies on a plan
to build an oil pipeline from Elath
to Haifa to bypass the Suez Canal,
it was reported here from Jerus-
alem.
The pipeline could be built in
one year for $50, 900, 900, the report
said. It would be 16 inches in di-
ameter and carry 10000 tons of
oil year. The line would termin-
ate at Haifa, where the oil would
be refined at refineries which now
operate at far less than capacity
because of the Arab refusal to sell
oil to Israel or to pipe it into Is
rael. The Israel plan is for tankers
to unload in the Gulf of Akaba, at
Elath, the report stated.
At the same time, it was indi-
Gated here that the Foreign Of
flee has given no consideration,
nor does it intend to give any
thought, to proposals for digging
an alternate canal or the conStruc-
ton Of an oil pipeline across Is
rael.
Apart from the cost, it is felt
that such a canal or pipeline would
have to be constructed only in the
event of closure of existing facili-
ties. If such a situation ever arose,
the Foreign Office believes, tn e
Arabs would be equally prepared
to halt supplies through a cross
Israel pipeline or blockade the Red
Sea entrance to an alternate canal.
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1956-08-17
B'noi Birth District Picks
LeWkoWi+z, Honors Lodge

racial and religious discrimination
by government contractors, urging
a federal conference to find means
of eliminating racial tensions such
as evoked by the school desegra-
ton, and commendIpg organiza-
tions refusing to patronlze hotels
for practicing discrimination.
Other resolutions called for up
holding the United Nations, urged
liberalization of u. S. immigration
policies, and cited legislators who
supported a U. S. Senate resolu-
ton protesting Arab economic and
visa boycotts against Jewish Am
ericanS.
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1956-08-17

Mrs Arthur kaufman, Mrs. Har-
ry Rubenstein, Mrs. Harry Rob
bins, Mrs. Elmer Lory, and Mrs.
Abe Feldstein.
Lewkowitz's new office will ele-
vate him to Western states grand
president in three years.
Jacob Shemano of San Francis
CO was elected grand president at
the convention. Mrs. Gilbert Den
ton of Los Angeles is new women's
head.
THE DISTRICT adopted resolu-
tions praising the federal Presi-
dents Committee on Government
Contracts for efforts to eliminate