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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-22
~ CHARLES G. BROOKS

an acute shortage Of hospital
facilities for emergency cases in
the downtown area may result
from the shift of hospitals away
from the hub of the city, a sur
vey by The Star reveals.
At the same time the neal
vacuum of medical facilities in
the Southeast and southern
Prince Georges County areas al
ready has been aggravated By
the removal Of Providence Hos.
pital from Second and ID streets
SIC. TO a new building at Twelfth
and Narnum streets NE. neal
the outer northeast borderline
The entire picture of hoSpita
relocations in the metropolitan
Washington area as projected
two years into the future wher
present building and moyinl
plans are completed shows:
/. Emergency : room facllitie,
greatly leSsened for the area,
where the greatest number o.
ambulance calls are centered.
2. The vastly expanding pop
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-22
1o Outbourd Boots
Disappear in Fog
In Catalina Race

LONG BEACH. Calf. April 81
lPl.-The Coast Guard searched
Catalina channel waters tonight
for 16 cupboard motorboats miss
inr with probably 40 or more
persons aboard in race from
the mainland to Santa Catalina
Island.
Originally the Coast Guard said
rs were unaccountcd for out of a
fleet Of 200 which were in the
race.
Darkness ended air hunt and
hampered the sra search. There
was fog over the channel waters,
too
Tho biz search began at dusk
When the little boats failed to
show up al Avalon on the island.
The Coast Guard said many of
those originally missing returned
10 such mainland "orty as New
port Beach and Balboa, whi'o
others arrived at Catalina 18th
mus, some Is miles from Avalon
on the island. Four we're towed
into Avalon by a fishing boat.
The 2l-mile race was from Los
Anecles-Long Beach harbor to
Avalon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-22

with Speaker Rayburn of Texas
took the lead in spreading Dem
ocratic gospel at the Woodrow
Wilson centennial dinner in the
National Guard Armory.
Speaker Rayburn, in more
drastic terms than those used BY
Senator Barley, accused the
Republicans of boasting to theil
big business friends they were
responsible for defeating Presi-
dent Eisenhower's proposals ir
the interests of the people.
1.-The Republicans are not ever
in step with their Commander
in-Chief," said the Speaker in g
prepared speech-much of which
he jettiSoned. He said he woulC
put it in the record" so as moi
to infringe upon the radio time
of Senator Barley.
Mr.. Raybury urged that a di-
vided party should not be al
lowed to remain in control Of
the Government.
They have not changed in a
hundred years. They still have
the old Hamiltonian theory that
the way to make the country
prosperous is to make the rich
very rich and that prosperity
will trickle down to millions OF
workers and farmers.
The Woodrow Wilson dinner
sponsored by the Democratic
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-22
3 Juveniles Hurt
In Street Bottle
After Gunq Purty

Three juveniles we're injured
last night when IL teenagers
leaving a Saints" and Aces"
gang party attacked two men
and a woman in the 1000 block
of Massachusetts avenue NE,
Washington police reported.
Police said a total of "a teen
ayers were brought into the
Ninth Precinct Station for ques-
tioning last night Police said IL
were questioned in connection
with the fight and II Others were
picked up at Eighth and East
Capitol streets because they
we're rowing and looking for
trouble
In a third incident involving
juveniles. Park Police reported
about 80 teen-agers, all colored,
surged through a carnival at
Oklahoma avenue and Bennins
road NE, forcing about half of
IIle CONCESSIONS 10 close. Nine
teen Park policemen, two of them
mounted on horses. finally drove
the looting, fighting youths from
the carnival grounds.
In the fight on Massachusetts
avenue. police said Frank Davis.
is, Of 1914 Blaine street NE. and
Ronald Norton, l6. of u Ana
costa road Sc. suffered knife
cuts about the neck. Both we're
treated at Casualty Hospital and
released.
Also injured was Fred S. john
son, 81. Of 800 Eighth street
S E., who suffered a cut on tho
head. Police said the injured
were members of the gangs.
Capt Louis Peters said Tire
fight started when Carson z
Bum, 81, of Newark. N. j., JOIN
Lee. 81, of 1872 Maryland ave
NE, and a woman companion
alighted from a car.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-22

General Administration Director
Schuyler Lowe has ordered a
full investigation.
Half a dozen different agen-
cies are involved. Spokesman fol-
all of them admitted yesterday
the system needs improvement
While collections for payments
at District General and Glenn
Dale Hospitals. the District
Training School and private
hospitals are also involved, the
largest problem is at St, Eliza
beths Hospital. There. the stays
may be longest, the bills largest
and the most people affected.
At st. Elizabeths alone during
the past fiscal year, 1875 of the
daily average of 1876 District
patients paid something on theil
bills. Collections amounted tt
81 ,242.461 SO.
Mr.. Lowe said he started out
with the idea of collecting more
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-22
How Old Do You Think
The Average G-Gir| Is?

a couple of robot calculating
monsters called UnWac.
How many Government work.
ers are Washington born, how
many out-of -towners. in what
kind Of dwellings do they live
and where? Census was asked,
rapid-fire like.
The census man, stunned. said
wait a minute while he went to
confer with Univac. Univac. it
later turned out. only blinked its
tubes incredulously and issued a
message that said in effect: Tell
that guy to go soak his head.
Answers Too Costly
"You see," the census man ex-
planned, lit would cost the Gov
eminent So million to get the
answers to those questions.
One of the medical insurance
organizations offered few clues
based on its 10000 Government
worker membership. For exam
pie, the outfit reported. So per
cent of its contract holders are
married. Like csc and Univac,
the company had no idea how
many children these FederalS
have.
Traffic being what it is, The
Star was eager to learn how
many automobiles are owned ny
Government employees, where
they drive from and to. etc. The
Board Of Trade statistical and
population expert, DR.. Jerome
p. Pickard. was consulted.
DR.. Pickard laughed and
laughed.
MY dear boy 1885 years." he
finally got out, what you need
is a staff Of research consultants
who can spend SIX weeks on
that"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-22


peace, asserted last night that
the United States had won a
long list Of cold war victories"
but that these had created new
foreign policy problems
The President went beyond
Commute prepared address be-
Text Of President eisenhowers Ad-
dress. Poee AS.
fore the American Society Of
Newspaper Editors at the Hotel
Statler to call for creation Of
a rotating advisory board" Of
private citizens to assist the
Government in keeping its poll
cies abreast of the times. He
did not elaborate on the sugges-
ton.
In his prepared speech, Mr..
Eisenhower challenged the So
Wet leaders to prove their peace
full intentions by "abolishing the
wrongs of Stain such as the
division of Germany and Korea.
Soviet Change Stressed
Every day, he said. someone
says that we're losing the cold
war (Only today. a poll at the
ASNE convention showed that
the editors thought. Sd to q.
that the United States is losing)
But. the president added. he has
also heard others take exactly
the opposite line.
Declaring that the Russians
are depending less on force. Mr..
Eisenhower said that when a
policy is satisfactory it is not
changed. It is changed only
when necessary and I'VE can
take some comfort from the fact
that they (Soviets) had to
change" he said.
| Mr.. Eisenhower then licked of
American foreign policy sue
cesses in blocking Communist
aggression in Korea and Indo-
China and in averting trouble in
Iran, Egypt, Trieste and Guate-
mala.
Now" the President asserted,
j"these are cold war victories"
Cautious Help Voiced
He told the editors that I'VE
have reason for cautions that a
new, a fruitful. a peaceful era
for mankind can emerge from a
haunted decade"
He warned, however. that THE
future alone can show whether
the Communists really want to
move toward a just and stable
peace.
And in an aside to the Krem-
Inns new collective dictator
ship" as he put it, the President
said: The interests and pur-
poses of the United States and
See EISENHOWER, Page AT
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-22

Don't drop dead, lads-but the
average age of the Washington
area Government girl is 38.5
years.
And. ladies. before you I'M
sheath those claws-the aver
age Government male here is
Ais years old.
These are the facts. accord
ing to the Civil Service Commits
sion They do not take into
account provisional employees.
many of whom are high-school
age.
The Commission, which likes
to keep statistical tabs on Fed
eral workers, produced a hand
full of interesting though prob
ably useless figures to satisfy a
survey by The Star.
Among them:
Males constitute So per cent
OF the Washington area Federal
work force.
Median Salary $4.345
"Median' salary Of all en-
ployes is S4,345.
More than two-thirds Of the
workers are employed in WASH
ington, with $4,000 in nearby
Virginia and $4,000 in the adj
iacent Maryland areas.
But Civil Service only scratched
its head when pressed for further
statistical detail like: What's the
size Of the average bank account
Of the Government worker?
We'll, we wouldn't have that. :
a csc spokesman replied. But. .
he allowed. being Government
worker myself zero would be my
best guess.
The Star surveyors turned TO
the Census Bureau. which owns
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-22


Editors here that he questioned
the sense in multiplying and
charging weapons of a destruc-
tive power already almost in
comprehensive"
Foreign Policy Assailed
The candidate for the Demo-
cratic presidential nomination
described the stopping of H.
bomb tests. like the one the
United States has scheduled for
the Far Pacific next month. as
"a step which would reflect our
determination never to plunge
the world into nuclear holocaust,
a step which would reaffirm our
purpose to act with humility and
a decent concern for world opin-
ion"
Senator Anderson Disagrees
Senator Anderson, Democrat
of New Mexico, chairman of the
Senate House atomic energy
committee, told newsmen later
that he could not agree with
MI. Stevensons proposal.
I'VE know that the Russians
have made eight shots in siS
months and we know something
about the materials involved.
Senator Anderson said, adding
] There is no indication thai
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-22
MYSTERY JUNGLE
PENETRATED

SEA OF TREsS-The leost known
corner OF the world, hundred thou
sond square miles OF green black
Jungle where no birds scream nor
monkeys ehottcr, where deody smokes
Turk in the donkest, most lmpene.
treble growth known TO mankind, is
colombio's coostol choeo.
Here United Stotcs and Colombian
engineers orc surveying and mapping
Tor q link in the Pom 1Amcueon High.
way. Stor Science Editor Thomos R.
Henry tells about this incredible lost
frontier in q series OF gripping stores.
Rood the first tomorrow IN The Stot
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-22

isn't she beautiful" came
from various points in the throng
Inside the church they waited
in the veStibule for two minutes
until the strains of Trumpet
Voluntary" by Henry Purcell
signaled the starting time of the
bridal procession.
Mr.. Truman and his 32-year-
old daughter looked solemn and
nervous as they walked down the
45-foot aisle to the chancel steps
The bridegroom was waiting
there with the best man, John
Continued on Page AS, Col.
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Picture on Pose ALI

~ = -
Phenicie. both %. we're put I'M
der technical arrest in custody
Of their commanding officer and
relieved of duty.
The dead man is Harrison F.,
Finley, colored, of 202 Morgan
street NV.
Chief of Detectives E. L. Scott
and Capt. Richard j. Felber of
the Homicide Squad said they
have been given this informa-
ton on the fatal shooting:
Pvts. Phenicie and Rosenberg
were walking a Second Precinct
beat when they saw woman
passed out and a crippled man
in a drunken condition in a va
cant and condemned alley house
on Logan's Court.
Wagon Is Called
/ The policemen put in a call
for wagon.
At the same time. they noticed
a third person-Finley-urinat-
ing against building in the
alley. They put him under arrest
on disorderly conduct charges.
When Pvts. Angelo Bonac-
corsy. 30, and Arthur Boggs, 80,
arrived with the wagon. the two
DRINKS were put aboard. Then
Pvts. Phenicie and Rosenberg
brought over Finley.
He broke away and started
running. Pvt. Bonacc orsy
reached him first and Finley
started fighting him. When Pvts
Phenlcie and Rosenberg Joined
the fracas. Finley grabbed Pvt
Rosenberg's club and started
failing Pvt. Bonaccorsy, break
ing his wrist watch and beating
him about the arm and shoulder
Pvt. Rosenberg tried to re-
J trieve his billy but it was being
swung too wildly to be caught
Then he and Pvt. Phenicie
stepped back 10 feet. At that
range. they fired five shots while
Pvt. Bonaccorsy was still being
beaten.
Pronounced Dead on Scene
Pvt. Rosenberg fired three
times and Pvt. Phenicie twice
Three bullets struck Finley in
the chest. He was pronounced
dead on the scene.
An inquiry was set for IL a m
tomorrow to determine the Cir
cumstances of the shooting.
Pvt. Bonnaccorsy was treated
at Sibley Hospital for arm apc
shoulder bruises and relea Sed
Police said Finley's only known
previous record was a charge Of
assault with a knife in May
1855, in which he was sentenced
to serve 80 days and pay $50
and disorderly conduct charg,
for violating Alcoholic Beverage
Control regulations in which HI
forfeited IS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-22

exchanged vows until death do
us part
A gentle. brief kiss marked the
end of the simple ceremony at
which the Rev. Patric L. Hutton
officiated.
Former President Harry S.
Truman assisted Margaret out
of a limousine in front of the
church at 400 O'Clock midst the
cheers of a waiting crowd esti-
mated at 1000. At the head of
the steps Margaret turned and
faced the crowd with smile and
gesture of greeting. Some of the
waiting bystanders had been
there since noon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-22

Ing prOInOJlOn procedures ant
placing them more on a meri
basis. There has been much
criticism in Congress and amonl
employe groups over lack of 6
formal promotion program il
Government.
csc officials acknowledge thu
lack of an official program o.
selecting employees for promo.
ton has resulted in a haphaz.
ard and sometimes personal.
patronage or political typt
method of promoting employees
Full Details Requested
The CSC asked agencies t
give full details of various pro.
motions and the factors wh,ct
went into the selection of en-
ployes for advancement.
There is legislation pending ir
Congress to put promotions on a
merit basis by setting up promo
ton boards in each agency. The
measure is sponsored by Chair
man Johnston of the Senate Civil
Service Committee. An identica,
bill has been introduced in the
House by Representative Moss
Democrat of California.
While believing promotion must
be placed on q merit basis, the
csc appears rather cool to the
Johnston bill. 1t says the meas
ure might hamper rather than
improve things.
John w. Macy, jr., the CSC's
executive director. declares:
The decision as to whether
the commission will indorse OF
oppose the Johnston Moss bill
VIII be up to the three Civil Serv-
ice commissioners.
Study Seen Necessary
However. we at the commits
sion agree that something should
be done to improve the Gov
ernment's promotion system
Whether it should be through
legislation or through executive
action has not been determined.
Il think that we should not
go overheard and condemn
everything about the present pro-
motion methods in Government
before We have a chance to look
into things and see just what is
happening. That's why the COM
mission is asking all agencies tc
furnish US with information
about how they are awarding
promotions.
Certainly lot of improve
ment is needed. But we Should
be careful not to condemn
everything about the present
setup Just because a relatively
few disappointed employees may
complain about being passed
over for promotions. It's only
human nature to grippe and bC
disappointed and feel something
is wrong if the other fellow get.
the choice job instead of you"
James A. Campbell. presiden
Of the AFL American Federation
of Government Employees, de,
clares that formalized promo
ton system in Government il
urgently needed. The AFGE'
Continued on Page Al, Col.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-22

Under the circumstances ! do
not believe we could call OIL
ours"
Mr.. Stevenson combined sug-
geStions for ablishing Amer
ica's leadership in the world with
a point-by-p attack on adj
ministration foreign policy which
he said. was one of "sterility,"
-;:trigid, unimaginative" approach
that fails to take advantage of
new opportunities"
Sees Iniative Lost
During its three-year tenure
the Eisenhower administration
he added, has "lost the initiative"
abroad and ''the marginal supe-
riority over Russia" in arma-
ments which were inherited from
the Truman administration.
Mr.. Stevenson said it was fan
tastic" that I'VE have SO mis-
managed ourselves of late that
We must now try to prove we
love peace as much as the Rus
slams and are just as much con-
.cerned with the problems of eco
nomic development and national
independence As they are"
The 1852 Democratic standard
bearer, whose speech was vel
received by the editors, also sug-
gested the channeling of foreign
economic aid through the United
Nations. He said that if the
Soviet Union should refuse II
participate in such assistance
the implications would be clear
to all the world
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-22

London Talks
British and Russians
Try New Diplomacy
BY CROSBY S. MOVES

european Correspondent or Inc Star
LONDON, April 2l-If official
silence can be taken as a USE
full measure of diplomatic pro-
gress, an earth-shaking story is
in the making here.
The visiting Soviet leaders
have now had four full-dress
Oxford Students Rozz Russions About
Poor Old Joe" Poee A.:
meetings with Prime Minister
Eden and his top advisers. In
the words of a barcelona COM
munique they have had frank
and useful exchanges" on
Europe, the Middle East, dis
armament and Anglo-Soviet re-
lations. And curious as it may
seem that is exactly all that
anyone in Britain is willing to
say so far as the serious business
of this very businesslike con-
ference with Communist Party
Boss Khrushchev and Soviet
Premier Buleanin is concerned
To those schooled in the circus
atmosphere of earlier East-West
meetings this is all most I'M
usual. Those whose formula fol-
dealing with Russians calls for
open disagreements openly
arrived at may find it also q
little disquieting. The British, il
seems. are testing a theory they
have held for a long time: That
if direct top-level meetings have
any place in modern diplomacy
at all, the Strictest privacy is ar
absolute essential. And Britain
is perhaps the only place in the
Western world where such a
meeting could be held.
The well-drilled British press
is showing enormous lack Of
curiosity about the talks. con-
See CONFERENCE, Page Al
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-22

on hospital bills. Now. he said,
he is working on the idea of try
ing to strike a balance between
the interests of the taxpayers
and those of the patients and
their relatives. He expects rec
Continued on Page AS, Col. 3
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CSC Starts Drive
To Revise Federal
Promotion System
All Agencies Ordered to Submit
Reports on April Announcements
BY JOSEPH YOUNG

The Civil Service Commission has instructed all
Federal departments and agencies to submit reports of
every promotion made during April the first step
in drive to revamp the Governments promotion syS-
tenn The Star learned Yesterday.
The Commissions action is directed at STRENGTHEN
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-22
SIaY
District Man
In Alley Fight
z Officers Placed
In Technical Arrest
Pending Inquiry

A 33-year-old laborer was shot
to death last night by two Wash
ington policemen who reported
he tried to escape arrest and
failed one of them with a night
stick.
The two policemen. Pvts. Rob-
ert G. Rosenberg and Dale l..
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-22
Wilson Centennial Dinner
Hears BorkIeyHitG.O.P.
BY GOULD LINCOLN

Sounding the Democratic charge that the Eisenhower adj
favos he interests and Big Business
Barley of Kentucky last night expressed ferven wish that
Government shall
of money, by money and for money"
The former weep of the Truman Administration, along
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-22
DC. Hospital Collections
Force Some Onto Relief
BY MIRIAM GUTENBERG

The Districts methods of collecting hospital bills are
forcing patients their relatives relief while
others who afford full rates suspected of getting
off easy, it learned yesterday.
The system, compounded by a compleXity Of laws and
decisions causing such injustice and inequty that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-22
Margaret Truman WEEDS
In Simple Ceremony
Becomes Bride of Clifton DuneI, jr.,
At Church in independence, Mo.
BY BETTY BEALE
star Gtad Cnrrerpnndep

INDEPENDENCE Mo, April 2l.-Radiant Margaret Tru-
daughter of the 33d President of the United States be-
came the bride Of Clifton Daniel r, this afternoon
In her hometown of Independence in little red brick Trinity
Episcopal Church that only half filed Americas
daughter the handsome York Times
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-22
Stevenson Urges U. S.
To Halt H-Bomb Tests
Calls on All Nations to Follow Our Lead
AS Evidence of Desire for World Peace
BY JAMES y. NEWTON

Adla Stevenson yesterday that the United states
prompt stopping
of the hydrogen bomb of proving to the world
desire for peace
Stevenson other should called upon
follow lead If they persist further tests know
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-22

OUT pUIICy,
He told a luncheon of the
American Society of Newspaper
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-22
President Stresses
Cold War Victories
Editors Are Told
He Sees Hope
Of Peaceful Era
BY RICHARD FRYKLUND

President Eisenhower, voicing
a cautious hope for an era of
peace, asserted last night that
the United States had won a
long list Of cold war victories"
but that these had created new
foreign policy problems.
The President went beyond a
Commute prepared address be-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-22
WEATHER FORECAST

Cloudy, windy, high md-60s today.
Chance of showers this morning Cooler
tonight, tomorrow. Gull report, Page A-2)