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D. c. Builder Tells
OF Events in Israel

A. 8. Kay, Washington builder
and honorary chairman of the
Washington Committee for
Israel Bonds, returned here yes
terday from Israel.
He said he had become aware
that Israel was modifying three
days before the Israeli Army
began to move because he saw
reservists assembling at stations
along the road. The hotel help
at the hotel where he was stay
ing were all called up, he said;
and when he went to visit a
cousin he found he. too, had
been called into service.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kay left Israel
on October 80 and few to Rome
and Paris. Others in the party
of 80 Americans who were on a
study mission for United Jewish
Appeal had left earlier, he said.
He had stayed over to check the
progress of a convalescent CEN
ter for disabled Israeli war vet
Grams he is building near Haifa.
He said the Israeli people he
saw on the streets were very
calm.
They have lived under ten
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-08

in the earth's crust and also a
decay product Of uranium.
Short Half-Lives
Efforts to obtain actual SAM
pies of actinium from the earth
have failed because the extreme-
ly minute amounts are mixed
almost inextricably with nom
elements Of similar
atomic structure.
The four forms of the ele.
ment have different half-lives-
the period in which half the
atoms originally present in a
sample explode and become lead.
One lasts only a few seconds.
The isotope studied at the
bureau had a half-life of 81
minutes. These short half-Ives,
DR.. Meggers explained, are the
reason actinium is so much more
radioactive than the longer
lived radium.
DR.. Meggers' report to the
academy was on the finger
prints" of the element-the
wave-lengths Of light produced
when it is rendered luminous.
Presumably its presence any,
where could be detected by the
appearance of any of the 500
wave-lengths detected.
Duplication of conditions as
much.as 10 miles below the sur
face of the earth was reported
to the academy by DR.. F. r.
Boyd of the geophysical labora-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-08
Physician Acquitted
On Abortion churqe

A physician was acquitted late
yesterday by q District Court
jury on charges Of producing an
abortion and of attempting to
produce one last March 20 on a
29-year-old woman.
He is DR.. Lewis L. Wayne, Al,
Negro. The complaining witness,
who also is a Negro, testified she
had gone to his Office In the 100
Block Of Eighth street NE. for
an abortion. DR.. Wayne denied
the charges He testified he had
treated the woman for a func-
tional disorder last February.
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crust. 1t is so radioactive that
DR.. Meggers and his associates
kept a speck weighing somewhat
less than a 60-millionth of an
ounce behind a screen of lead
two inches thick while they
worked. 1t is 100000 times as
radioactive as uranium, and its
radiation is almost identical
with that of radium.
In Iron Family
This element is actinium, of
which there are four isotopes, or
slightly different kinds of atoms.
The substance is a metal. falling
into the general family of iron.
Each isotope differs somewhat
in its radioactivity, and any
preparation is bound to be con-
taminated with something even
more radioactive. the theoretical
gas actinoin. In fact, Dr.. Meg
gers says. 1t was the probable
presence of actinon that re-
CURED the extreme precautions
to shield the workers.
Actiniun. like radium, is one
Of the natural transmutation
products of uranium 235, the
trigger material of hydrogen
bombs. 1t can be produced in
atomic laboratories by lombard
ing radium. The only substance
approaching 1t in radioactivity,
except for some of the new
synthetic transuranic elements,
DR.. Meggers explained. is the
equally rare and very Lived
element francium, also present
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tory Of the Carnegie Institute OF
Washington.
There pressures are 10000
times those at the surface.
Hitherto the nature of rocks
under such pressures could be
deduced only from pressure of
earthquake waves passing
through them. These made 1t
clear that they must be very diff
ferent in structure from those
encountered near the surface.
Both pressure and tempera-
lures Of 100 miles down must be
duplicated. This is accomplished
by two opposing piston faces
operating in a furnace.
Diamonds Formed
1t was under some such condi-
tionS that diamonds were form
led. Actually. DR.. Boyd explained,
somewhat higher temperatures
and pressures have been at
tanned by physicists Of the
General Electric Co., in their
artificial diamond research.
A depth Of 100 miles is well
within the so-called mantle OF
the earth. The crust extends to
IA depth Of about Is miles. From
there the mantle extends to
about $500 miles, surrounding
the core of the planet, the ma
ture of which still is highly con-
jectural.
"ReweighinK" the World
Duplication of the upper
mantle conditions, DR.. Boyd
said. shows that the familiar
rocks which form a major part
of the earth's crust break down
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into quite different forms at ex-
tremely high pressures.
Physicists of four nations are
"reweighing the world
That is, they are trying to
determine with an accuracy Of
one part in 100000 the ac-
CELEBRATION Of gravity-or the
rate at which the speed Of a
falling body increases as it APP
the earth or any other
mass which attracts it.
There are indications that
everything in creation weighs a
little less than has been sup
posed before.
This was reported To- the
academy by members Of the
Bureau Of Standards staff.
Also. 1t was reported. the
speed Of light. the most funda-
mental constant in creation,
may be a trifle greater. The new
determinations are made pos
|sible BY recently attained ex-
Itreme precision Of measurements
now used by Bureau of Stand
ards physicists-three billionths
of a kilogram in weight, 300 mil
'lionths Of meter in length. 100
millionths Of a second in time.
The new precisions were re-
ported by Drs. r. D. Huntoon
and A. G. McNish of the Bureau
staff.
Independent Efforts
The renewed effort TO deter
8
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sion for eight years. ne said.
/" Although they wanted peace,
they were always prepared for
any emergency. They had n.
place else to co.
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Rorest Element in Earth
Is Most Radioactive
BY THOMAS r. HENRY
Science Editor Of The star

The rares substance in the crust of the the most
radio acsive found described
by Dr. William Meggers Of the Bureau Standards before
the National Academy of Sciences started its annual
fall meetings at the bureau today.
There is less than 30 hlionh per of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-08
Independent Efforts

The renewed effort TO deter
mine the acceleration of gravity,
generally in the neighborhood Of
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lonth Of : gram per ton Of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-23

Stevenson four years ago by
1,102,878 votes to 949,28
1t is the view of Sam Ray
burn, Speaker Of the House OF
Representatives and leader oil
the Texas faction which sup
ported Mr.. Stevenson in 1852.
Mr.. Rayburn has proposed
that the State Convention al
Dallas May % indorse Senator
johnson as Texas ''favorite
son" presidential candidate AND
elect him as chairman of the
States delegation to the Demo-
cratic National Convention in
Chicago.
Friends in Shivers Camp
Senator johnson, Democratic
leader of the Senate. supported
Mr.. Stevenson's candidacy in
1852. Also. he has friends among
the followers of Gov. Allan
Shivers, who bolted the party
-four years ago and carried the
State Democratic Committee
with him.
Mr.. Rayburn's move ran head
on into Gov. Shivers' plans to
head the Texas delegation to
the national convention to fight
again for a strong States rights
plank in the party platform and
a candidate acceptable to him.
The Governor, in an interview
wouldn't comment on Senator
johnson as a "favorite-son'
candidate. But he said he would
oppose the Senator's selection as
chairman of the delegation.
And we are going to win," he
said.
Senator johnson is in no hurry
to make any move until he
has time to measure the re-
action. Meantime. Senator Rus
sell. Democrat of Georgia, and
other Southern Democrats have
spoken favorably of him.
Would Back Eisenhower
Gov. Shivers says he will sup
port Mr.. Eisenhower again if the
Democrats should renominate
Adlai Stevenson.
N. j. (Jack) Porter of Houston,
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the Republican National Com
mitteeman, said Mr.. Eisenhower
will carry the State again ire
CARELESS of the Democratic NOM
inee and regardless of whether
Gov. Shivers supports him OF
the Democrat"
Democrats do not attempt to
discount Mr.. Eisenhower's popu-
Ilarity in Texas. Ralph YarOor-
Iough. Austin attorney twice de-
feated for Governor by Mr.
IShivers and a likely candidate
again, put it this way:
"The present situation in Texas
lis that the Republicans will not
carry the State. There has been
very little, if any. decline in Pres
Iident Eisenhower's personal pop
'ularity.
But the people realize that
If they re-elect Mr.. Eisenhower,
they will have Republican poll
cies. The farm problem is the
big cause for the change in SEN
timent. The elimination of rigid,
80 per cent parity supports has
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had q disastrous effect in q larg'
section Of Texas"
Too Early to Tell
Mr.. Marlborough said the 10y
alists are well organized today
In contrast to 1852 "and we have
IShivers on the rum"
Gov. Shivers said Mr.. Essen
hover may have lost some farm
support, but that he has picked
up "a great many little people Of
deep moral convictions who havt
a worship for Eisenhower thai
transcends party lines" He sale
lit is too early" to assess thu
extent that one may Offset thu
other.
IF the Democrats nominate
a man like Stevenson or a labor.
dominated liberal" he said, Mr.
Eisenhower will have an easier
time winning Texas"
Gov. Shivers made it clear hi
lis opposed to any third-party
movement.
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House Office Building
TO Get Cafeteria

A new cafeteria for members
of the House and their STATS is
to be constructed in a building
in the courtyard Of the new
House Office Building.
Architect Of the Capitol J.
George Stewart said he hopes to
ask for construction bids on the
new building by June Is.
The new cafeteria is expected
to seat about $40 persons.
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AFTER THE DECISION
Texas 'LoyoIists' Pin
Hopes on johnson
BY ERNEST B. VACCARO
Associated Press Staff Writer

AUSTIN, Tex. Mar. 23-n anyone bring a measure
of unity among Texas Democrats pave the for
capture of the State from President Eisenhower it's Lyndon
B. johnson.
That least, the view of Democratic "loyalists
the State where Mr. Eisenhower defeated Ada
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-23

One Of a series by Associated Press re-
porters in the woke Of President
Eisenhower's decision to run oeoin.
, 1956-05-17
SHIPPING NEWS

The S. S. "Alcoa Runner, as
scheduled to sail from Balti-
more May Oh, New York May
18th and is due at Frederik-
sed : via Puerto Rico and ST.
Thomas : May 19h, accepting
freight from the above ports.
The S. S. "Alcoa Pioneer" is
cheduled to sail from Mobile
May 18th, New Orleans May
10th and is due at Frederik-
sted : via Puerto Rico and ST.
sted.
ALcoA A M CO.. INC.
Rob'4 1 M.erwin & Co. Inc.
agents
, 1956-05-17
CALL FOR BIDS

Sealed BIDS j nseptuple will
be received at the dept. Of
.Insular Affairs, Division of
Procurement & Supply, Chris
tiansted, Virgin Islands, until
am. May Is, 1856, and
an dthen publicly opened for
TELEPHONES, AND TELE-
o POLES.
Copies of Invitation to bid
may be obtained from the
Dept. of Insular Affairs, Divi-
sion Of Procurement & Supply
Christiansted, Virgin Islands,
upon request.
Alphonsso RomneY
Pro. & Property Officer
, 1956-05-17
PUBLICATION

It is hereby brought to pub
lie notice that the Govern
ment Of the Virgin Islands of
the United States has author
lied Reverend Paul Hender-
son C.SS.R. of The Holy Cross
Roman Catholic Church, Chris
tiansted, st. Croix, Virgin Is
lands, to perform civil-reli-
gious ceremonies in the Vir-
gin Islands.
! Government Of the Virgin IS
lands of the United States
Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas
April 10, 1856
Charles K. claunch
Government Secretary
, 1956-05-17
LUTHERANS


well over one hundred and
twenty five years, the con
gregation, including the veter
an organist, Miss |. Stevens,
have a deep affection for it.
It is so placed tina the average
visitor to the church will pro
badly think that the musical
notes are coming from her
pipes.
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10 High School Seniors
Awarded Scholarships

Ten outstanding Washington high school senos-nne
boys and ghave college scholarships
q Nationwide contest.
Four Arlington youths three suburban Maryland boys
District seniors and boy from Fairfax
the So million contest by 10 corporations
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-01
Rockville Voters Return
Mayor and Town Council

The Citizens for Good Gov
eminent administration in
Rockville started its second two
year term today after coasting
to victory in an almost-uncon-
tested municipal election.
Mayor Dickran Y. Hovsepian,
unopposed, polled 1910 votes to
lead the ticket. Returns showed
1876 voters out Of an eligible
3,761 cast ballots.
Mrs. Lila Thomson, critic of
the CGG program and the lone
independent candidate in yester-
days election, was defeated. She
received TIL votes in her bid for
q council seat.
The four council posts were
won by Alexander j. Greene.
with 1910 votes; Frank A. Ecker
1854; John E. Oxley, 1,lS7, and
Wendell r. Turner, 1,134.
A heavy vote in the Twinbrook
area Of Rockville put over a
referendum providing for the
issuance Of $250,000 for a civic
center. The proposal won by
607-567 as Twinbrook's 90-vote
majority in favor of the center
reversed a 50-vote majority
against 1t in the remainder of
the city.
The new administration will
see Rockville city officials get
ting paid for the first time. Sal
aries Of $1,000 a year for the
Mayor and 5000 a year for the
councilmen, voted recently by
the CGG administration, became
effective today.
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Delivery Boy, l8,
Is Ordered Held
In Rope Attempt

An 18-year-old grocery de-
livery boy was held for CRANE
jury action yesterday on ar
attempted rape charge by Judge
Grover Lee Small of the Hyatts.
vile Trial Magistrates Court.
The youth, William Lawrence
Moss, of the 5000 block of Arundel
road, Mount Rainier, is accused
of attempting to rape a 21-year-
old mother of two children in hel
apartment in the Riggs Manor
Apartments in Prince Georges
County last Thursday.
The mother testified she paid
for some groceries, delivered by
Moss, with a money order. She
said he returned later to obtain
her name and address. He fol-
lowed her into the kitchen when
she went to get a pen and tried
to assault her. She said Moss fed
the apartment when her children
began screaming.
Moss was ordered held without
bond.
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Arlington Democrats
To Hear Candidates

The Democratic Club of Ar
Ilington County will hear speeches
by three candidates for the Dem
ocratic Congressional nomination
in the 10th District at a meeting
at 8:15 pm. Thursday, at the
Lyon Park Community House.
Candidates invited to speak
are Morton Boyer, julius Bren-
Iner and Warren Quenstedt.
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@AAARA 0bNAAAOAASos
The Joint bond proposal was
revealed during a meeting of
the County Board and School
Board at the courthouse last
night.
School Board members said
their tentative bond proposal of
$4,492.l50 would provide about
half the school improvements in
cluded in a $9.4 million bond
issue rejected by voters in Feb
ruary.
So Million For Courthouse
County Board members re-
ceived estimates during the ses-
sion that necessary improve
ments to the County Court
house, including reconstruction
Of the present center wing to a
six-story modern building, will
cost about 50 million. This fig
ure would include 100000 for
parking sites in the courthouse
area. County Manager A. T.
Lundberg said.
Other funds in the proposed
So million issue would be $780,
900 for sidewalk approaches to
schools; $299, 900 for top priority
storm sewers, and $2l3.000 for
the Kirkwood road construction
project.
County Board Chairman Wes-
ley Cooper received almost
unanimous backing from Coun-
|ty and School Board members
for his proposal that the two
bond issues be Endorsed by Joint
resolution of the two boards.
IF they are not approved by
the voters, at least no one will
be able to say it was because
the responsible officials of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-01
county did not support the bond
issues" Mr.. Cooper said.

county did not support the bond
issues" Mr.. Cooper said.
Two withhold Support
County Board Members George
M. Rokzee, jr.. and Mrs. Leone
Buchholz withheld their in
dorsement of the school bond
proposals. They said they want
ed time to study the school
boards plan. ALI. five school
board members said they would
be willing to join the County
Board in a resolution supporting
both bond proposals.
School board action Saturday
may be a vote requesting he
County Board to certify to the
Arlington Circuit Court that q
special election be scheduled for
June 5 to vote on the school
construction bonds. The County
Board would act May IL on the
request and at the same time
would certify its own bond pro-
posal to the court.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-01
Four-Cur Collision
Injuries 3 in Virginia

Three persons were injured
yesterday in a four-vehicle &C
cident on Route !. four mile
south Of Woodbridge. Va.
Christopher Fleet, 40. Of Eller'
son, Va. was admitted to Alex.
andria Hospital suffering a frac.
tured back.
Mrs. Helen Prince. So. Of thu
5000 block North Wakefield
street. Arlington. was admitted
for head cuts. fractured wrist
and possible fractures of the
shoulder and knees. Her hus.
band, Lemuel. was treated fol
a fractured rib.
State police said a truck driver
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-01
Foreign Affairs Director
Leaving U. of Virginia

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, May
= (R.-John Gange, who has
directed the University of vir-
ginia's Woodrow Wilson Depart
ment Of Foreign Affairs since
1949. submitted his resignation
yesterday.
Mr.. Gange will leave this
spring to direct a summer re-
search training institute in Den
yer and then go to Western Ger
many as guest of Heinrich Won
Brentano, it's minister of for
eign affairs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-01

dance band, hopes to study me-
chanical engineering at Duke
University. A member Of the
school track team, he lives at
227 North Edison street. Arling-
ton.
Editor at Bladensburg
Robert Maurice johnson, II,
editor of the Bladensburg High
School yearbook and student
council member, wants to 60 to
Dartmouth College and become
an industrial manager.
A. member of basketball, track
and tennis teams, he lives at
1904 Seventy-second avenue in
Landover Hills, Md.
Robert L. Meriwether, II. of
Roosevelt High School in the
District, is editor in-chief Of the
yearbook. He was a delegate to
the National Red Cross Conven-
ton and National Citizenship
Conference.
A future college professor,
Robert plans to 60 to Harvard.
He lives at 5216 Fourth street
NV.
Fairfax High Student
Alan Thomas Ramsey, II, a
member of the executive council
at Fairfax High School, plans to
study physics at Princeton Uni
versity. He plays the clarinet
and was a member of the all
State Northern Virginia Band for
three years. He lives at SGT
Beulah road. Vienna, Va.
Charles Ward Van Way, IT,
is a member of the American
Amatuer Radio Relay League.
President of the Sidwell Friends
School science club, he plans to
study at Cornell. He lives at
490l Tilden street NV.
The National Merit Scholar
ship Corp. is financed by the
Ford Foundation and the Car
negie Corp. The johnson boys
award came from the Sears
Foundation. The Stewart-War-
ner Corp. gave the Hinely youths
award and the Carrera boys
scholarship from McGraw-Hill.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-01

anu tIlS NdtkOIldl McTlL OCIlOldE-
ship Corp. Of Evanston, Ill.
These promising seniors were
chosen with Sis other high school
students out of 10000 competing
for the scholarships, worth on
an average about $4,000.
Area Winners Listed
The winners. chosen for their
high scores on college aptitude
tests, their leadership abilities
and their xtra-curricular work
are:
Joyce Barbara Adams, Is, of
Wakefield High School, wants to
study music at Oberlin College
She won the Voice of Democ-
racy" Award for 1854 in North
ern Virginia.
Citizenship chairman of the
Arlington Council, Joyce lives at
242 North Granada street Ar
lington. She wrote and produced
a play in Latin.
James Sargent Campbell, II,
is a member of the National
Capital Astronomers. Editor-in-
chief of the Landon School
newspaper, he plans to go to
Yale and study law. A cum laude
student, he lives at Z East Mel
rose street in Chevy Chase, Md.
Nicholas John Carrera, II, a
student at Westinghouse High
School in Arlington, hopes to
study physics or electronic engi-
neering at Harvard.
Rows on Crew
winner of various science
awards, he sings in school and
church groups and rows on the
Wakefield crew. He lives at
2243 North Columbus street.
Barry Michael Casper. II,
Arlington ping pong champion
and a member OF the Washing
ton-Lee tennis team, wants to
study physics or chemistry at
Swarthmore College. He lives at
1882 North Thirty-fourth street
in Arlington.
James Vincent Donlan, II. of
81 Oxford street in Chevy Chase,
Md. wants to study law at
Georgetown University. He was
manager OF the Georgetown
Preparatory School football team.
works on the school newspaper
and is a student council men,
Der.
Elliott P. Hinely. II, a Bible
School teacher and member of
the Wakefield High School
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-01
To Attend Safety Event

RICHMOND, May l up. -
State Police Supt. c. w. Wood
son, jr., will head a delegation of
Virginia safety leaders to a re-
|gional conference Of the Presi-
dents Committee for Traffic
Safety May 14-15 in Miami
Beach.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-01
HooV to find
Peace bevond price

Material living is full OF promises that fade.
The blossom is bright but the fruit is uncertain
or unsatisfyifg. Many feel this. Searching for
satisfying answer to life S meaning and purpose,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-01

by Mr.. Fleet struck the rear oil
a car driven by Miss Bobby
Barnette, %, of Quantico, who
was making a left turn. Police
said Mr.. Fleets truck then
crossed the highway and was
struck by two other cars.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-01

The Leland Junior High
School PTA will meet at 8 pm.
May 8 at the school, Forty
fourth and Elm streets, Chevy
Chase. The meeting was incor-
Irectly announced for today in
yesterdays Star.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-01
DAV Group to Meet

The Mount Vernon Disabled
American Veterans Chapter No.
IL, will meet at 8 pm. tomorrow
at the Penn Daw Fire Depart
ment. Groveton. Va. Officers
Twill be nominated.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-01
MARYLAND VIRGINIA NEWS
SIS Million Bond Issue
Vote Sought in Arlington

The Arlington School Board expected Saturday
to ask for referendum June construction bond
issue Of nearly $4.5 million.
At the election voters have to vote
50 million worth Of sidewalk storm and other county
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-20

NOW EVEN MORE PEOPLE CAN ENJOY
Peoples service, selection and popular prices.
AS the Washington area grows, so grows Peoples
= with this big, beautiful up-to-the-minute
drug store, brand new inside and out.