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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-08
SenatorsHear
School Plea for
More Teachers
Officials Detail
Case for Filling
1870 New Posts
BY JAMES G. DEANE

| District school ofiicials today
took to the Senate their plea for
more teacher funds.
The Board of Education is
hoping to get Congress to add
1870 teachers to the city's ele-
mentary staff. The board also is
trying to ditch a plan to cut the
junior senior high school staff
for economy.
A delegation headed by school
board president c. Melvin Sharpe
was to appear before the Senate
District Appropriations Subcom-
mittee today.
Senator Stennis, Democrat of
Mississippi, subcommittee chair
man, yesterday promised to give
the school issue a full hearing.
Citizens are slated to be heard
at 10 am. tomorrow.
Seek 1870 in Elementary Schools
School officials went to the
Capitol armed with a detailed
outline of their case for hiring
100 more elementary teachers
and hating the high school cut
back.
The District Commissioners
have indicated backing for a
majority of the 1870 new teachers.
This was made known last week
after the school board had in
formed the city heads of an
upward swing in enrolment
forecasts.
A total of around 100 was re-
ported to have the Commits
sioners' Endorsement.
City officials still repeatedly
favor the proposed economy
slash in the higher grades. how
ever. This slash already has
been approved by the House.
Only the Senate now stands
in the way of carrying out the
Icutback next September.
See Big Argument in Problems
School officials are relying
heavily on the force of current
classroom and administrative
problems in seeking Senate help
Supt. Hobart M. Corning al
ready has cited, in House hear
iings, difficulties connected with
IMMIGRATION and widespread pupil
achievement lags in asserting
the school systems need for
more teachers.
Recent tests have shown large
numbers Of the city's school
children to be below national
standards in basic, subiects-too
many. according to school ad-
ministrators.
Plans are being made for ex-
tensive remedial teaching to
counter these lags. But these
plans in secondary schools will
be blocked if any teacher reduce
ton takes place. officials have
declared.
Say Glasses Are Too Big
Principals and teachers also
have been protesting that classes
at all grade levels are too large
for proper instruction. for bright
children as we'll as the less able.
Officials have warned that a
teacher slash in high schools
would hurt teacher morale, over
load many classes, and cause
elimination Of some courses and
school activities altogether.
Discipline problems also are
serious. and teachers are needed
to cope with them. principals
have said.
Most of the 1870 requested ele-
mentary teachers would go mere
ly to meet expected higher en-
rollment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-08
Foirfox Body Found
Dead in His Crib

A three month old Fairfax
County boy was found dead in
his crib yesterday.
The child was Charles Crouch
son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Donald
Crouch, 300 Monticello drive
Jefferson Village. Members Of
the Jefferson Rescue Squad at
tempted to revive the baby fol
nearly an hour.
DR.. Claude Cooper, Fairfax
medical examiner. said the baby
suffered a respiratory infection
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-08
CONVENTIONS
TODAY

The Independent Order Of
B'nai Birth Supreme Lodge
goes into its fifth day Of ses-
sions in the Hotel Statler.
The National Association
Of Mutual Savings Banks
meets in the Shoreham
Hotel.
The Highway Transporta-
ton Congress begins a three
day session In the Mayhower
Hotel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-08
The
Rambler
Little Items Add
To Big Contracts
BY JACK JONAS


driver, unaware of the loss
kept going. Some youngsters
nearby converged on the
lanterns.
AS procurement officer, one
of Mr.. Brennan's tasks is tt
scan contractors bids for city
jobs, and his reasoning went
like this:
Lanterns cost money. This
particular contractor otter
did work for the District gov.
eminent. Loss of things like
lanterns are eventually
chalked up to overhead. Anc
the loss of three lanterns con-
ceivably could affect the cost
of a city job in the future.
Mr.. Brennan got out of hi,
car and rescued the lanterns
The contractor was notified
and he sent a man to pick
them up.
Comfort
Tom Coll figures there's
at least one startling who's
gone through a Washington
summer before.
This particular startling
has built a nest in an air
conditioner in one of the
windows at the National
Council of Catholic Men,
1912 Massachusetts avenue
NV, where MIR. Coll works.
But if the startling was
seeking cool comfort for her
fledglings, she's going to be
disappointed. They're not
going to turn that air con-
ditiOner on until the birds
leave the nest, for fear of
disturbing them.
Mrs. John lola, at 22O
Allison street NV, also has
a bird problem. She can't
turn the light on in her
bathroom. The reason: A
robin has built a nest just
outside the easement win
dow, and the light disturbs
mother robin at night.
Chustised
A lady we know, who isn't
afraid to put boorish people
in their place. was attending
the opera the other night
when news of Alben Barley;
death filtered through the
audience.
A couple behind her seemed
particularly concerned, and
she could hear them dis
cusSing whether they ought
to disrupt the operas enjoy
ment by others by leaving
Immediately or waiting for in
PERMISSION. They decided tt
wait.
After the intermission, theil
place was taken by two
women. During the quietel
parts of the act, our FRIEND
heard such phrases behinc
her as &C.. and then I washed
my slips !" and Il put my
girdle in to soak. -"
This went on for some time
Our friend turned, pointed {
firm forefinger at one of thu
women, and said;
Lets wait until we ger
home to do our laundry, anC
enjoy the opera, shall we?"
The women subsidized.
Name
Why do they call 1t Har-
ward street?
This was a part Of the Co
lumbia Heights subdivision,
where many of the streets
originally were given the
names of colleges.
There were, for example,
Harvard, Yale, Princeton,
Columbia and Dartmouth
streets. When the Commits
Sioners, about so years ago,
changed the naming system
to make outlying streets
alphabetical, Harvard fitted
right in. But Yale was
changed to Farm o n I,
Princeton to Girard, and
Dartmouth to Lamont.
Column bia street was
changed to Columbia road.
Any Princeton Tigers who
are around can take some
solace from the fact that
Princeton street reappeared
as Princeton lane in the
Park View area east Of Co
lumbia Heights.
Street Scenes
A man telling a companion
as they walked along F stree
near Ninth street NV: "Ther
I looked again, and / founc
out l didn't have three ace
at all. I had only two" =.
A man getting out OF hi
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-08

William A. Backus last night Improvement
was awarded The Evening the Committee of 100.
Cup for outstanding public his community
ice in Arlington County the enterprises
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Greece Seeks
u. N. Action

UNITED NATIONS. N. Y,
Mar. 10 (R.-Greek Ambassador
Christian x. Palamas today for
mally requested the United
Nations Assembly to consider the
Cyprus case at its meeting next
autumn.
Mr.. Palamas gave Secretary
General Dag Hammarskjold a
letter making the formal request
this morning.
He did not request an urgent
meeting of the Assembly. The
Assembly is expected to convene
in mid-November, after the
United States presidential cleo
ton. The Cyprus crisis will not
be taken up here until that time
unless a request for an extraor-
binary session is made later.
The General Assembly in 1854
decided it was not appropriate
to adopt a resolution on Cyprus.
The Greek action today was the
result of the British exile of
Archbishop Makarios, who has
been leading the union with
Greece campaign in Cyprus.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-13
Emil REEVE to Quit
Textile Union Post

NEW YORK, Mar. 10 up. -
Emil Rieve, president Of the Tex
tile Workers Union since it:
founding in 1889, says he viii
retire for the sake of his health
Mr.. Rieve, "a. said yesterday
hs would not seek reelection a
the unions national convention
in Washington in May. He saie
his health would no longer per
NIT the constant exertion, Ions
hours and nervous strain which
the presidency demands"
Mr.. Rieve said in a letter tt
locals announcing his retiremen
that he would retain his vic'
presidency in the AFL-CIO.
He also said he hoped tina
after he leaves the union presi
dency he "can continue to MAXI
a contribution in some pos
where the organization can avail
itself of my experience, withou
imposing the day-to-day de-
mands faced by the president.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-13

PARIS. Mar. Is P.- Premier
Guy Mollet's bill for sweeping
emergency powers to quell the
Algerian rebellion went to the
Senate today backed by over
whelming approval in the Ma
tional Assembly.
The Senate was expected tC
act tomorrow or Thursday. The
measure authorizes broad powers
to impose martial law, shake ur
the Algerian administration and
break up vast landed estates for
the benefit of Moslem tenant
farmers.
The Paris governments action
to smother the nationalist re-
belion came as a wave OF
Algerian troop assertions plagued
the French army in the North
African territory.
In session that went on past
midnight, the National Assembly
adopted Mr.. Mollet's bill by a
1876 vote. Earlier it had ap-
proved the three main sections
1896 451-72 and 465-49. The
largest government vote came on
the section empowering Mr.
Mollet'S resident minister ir
Algeria, Robert Lacoste, to take
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-13

situation, saying, "The future Of
the free world should be a mat
ter of grave concern"
Trade union leaders in Greece
called a nationwide genera
strike Friday to protest the bar
barous acts of the British ir
Cyprus and the arrest and alb.
duction of Archbishop Makari.
Ios." The executive committee
of the Greek General Confedera.
ton of Labor also called on theil
countrymen to attend specia
services in all churches to pray
for the success of the Cypriot
movement.
Athens police rounded up Isl
alleged Communists yesterday a.
scattered rioting again swept thu
Icity. At least n persons wer'
injured.
! British troop installations IL
lNicosia were the target of tw'
bomb attacks last night but NJ
injuries were reported.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-13
FOUND

PUPPY, female. brown and white, vic.
Sunset g.: Owner or good Va. home.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-13

strong patriotic leadership" OF
Indonesia's leaders and extended
President Eisenhower'S invitation
for President Soekarno to visit
the United States.
Mr.. Soekarno accepted the in
vitation for his first trip to the
Western Hemisphere and an aide
said he probably would make the
trip in the spring.
U. S. Shows Neutrality
After his talk with the Presi-
dent, Mr.. Dulles talked last night
with Premier designate Ali Sa-
stromidjojo. The latter headed
a pro-Communist government
for two years until supplanted
by the pro-Western Moslem
Masjimi party last August. Mr.
Sastromidjojo is certain to have
Communist support for his new
government and possibly may
have some Reds in his cabinet.
At a news conference before
his departure, Mr.. Dulles COM
pared Indonesia's struggle for in
and freedom with
the early days of the United
=
Much of the American Secre-
tary's conversations with MIR.
Soekarno and the other Indo-
nesian leaders centered on Amer
lean aid to the big island re-
public.
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LOST

BEAGLE, male, z mos, brown head. and
brown, black. and white body, in Wake
field Forest, Annandale, Va, area: an
swers to the name Of ''Ruffy." Reward
I'D liz
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India Due 10 GET
.GreaterU

NEW DELHI, Mar. 10 up.
Informed sources said today
the United States. in a move to
counter the Soviet economic Of
.fensive and boost American rela-
'tions with India, has decided to
increase aid to India "substan-
TALLY"
The sources said that the State
Department probably would give
India a record $70-75 million for
economic development during
the 1867 fiscal year. This
would be about so per cent
higher than the ALLEGATION this
year.
In addition, the sources added,
India next year would get tech
|nical assistance of about $40 mil
lions. This is about what she is
getting this year.
In addition, the sources added,
India next year would get tech
Inical assistance of about what
she is getting this year.
With India also in a good
position to get something from
President Eisenhower's special
regional fund for Asia, sources
said. total American aid to In
dia apparently was made dur
ing Secretary of State Dulles
weekend visit. He repeatedly be-
canie convinced something had
to be done to improve shaky In
dian-American relations.
The major Soviet offer so far
has been a longtime credit to
pay for a 500 million steel mill.
United States Ambassador John
Sherman Cooper is said to be-
lieve the United States should
provide $500 millions in various
forms Of aid for the Indian sec
ond five-year development plan,
which starts next month. The
sum would meet about one-third
of the anticipated foreign ex-
change deficit.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-13
Billy Rose to Wed
Joyce Mathews

NEW YORK, Mar. 10 (P.-
The New York Daily News said
today that Billy Rose, Broadway
Snowman, and blond Joyce
Mathews will be married April
2 at his estate at Mount Kisco,
N. Y.
The News said Miss Mathews,
former wife of Milton Berle, an
nounced the date yesterday. She
is in Doctors Hospital. recover
ing from an emergency ap-
pendectomy.
Mr.. Rose. Sc. was formerly
married to the late Fanny Brice
and Eleanor Holm, swimming
star. Miss Holm named Miss
Mathews in her suit for divorce
from Mr.. Rose.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-13
Jordan Charges
Israeli Attack

AMMAN. Jordan. Mar. 10 up
Jordan accused Israeli forces
today of attacking a Jordaniar
border village, killing a 70-year-
Iold woman and injuring three
members of the Jordan Nationa.
Guard.
1t. Col. Mohamed Ishaq, Jor.
dan delegate to the United Ma
tons Mixed Armistice Commits
sion, claimed the attack was
made yesterday on the village OF
Bartha, which straddles the
boundary between Jordan and
Israel.
Col. Ishaq claimed the Israelis
fired with automatic weapons
and mortars for three hours. He
said it was believed return fire
from the Jordan guard had hit
several ISraelis.
The Israelis claimed that Jor-
dan troops fired earlier yester-
day across the border at Bartha,
killing a policeman and injuring
two others in the Israeli portion
of the settlement.
It was the first serious incl
dent reported on the Israel-Jor-
dan frontier in four months.
Canadian Maj. Gen. E. L. M
Burns, chief of the United Ma
lions Truce Commission, has sug-
|gested that his staff of observers
make surprise, visits in border
areas to investigate charges that
troops are massing. Both Arabs
and Israelis have claimed the
other side is concentrating forces
along the frontiers, where under
the United Nations armistice
agreements only defensive forces
are permitted.
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Southeast Asian atomic power
students and technicians. hac
been expected to be located ii
the Philippines or Ceylon. Botf
wanted it.
Basis for Cooperation
The cooperative agreement
was signedsby Prince Wan anc
Air Marshal MUM M. Vajayant
Rangsrisht. chairman of the
Thai Atomic Energy Committee
and Mr.. Dulles. Thai Premier P
Pibulsonggram presided.
Mr.. Dulles said in forma.
statement the agreement lays
the basis for further cooperation
between Thailand and the United
States in this important field
including establishment of an ex-
perimental reactor in Thailand
which will facilitate Thailand's
fight against disease"
Before leaving Jakarta to fly
here, Mr.. Dulles praised the
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Assembly Votes MoIlet
Strong Algerian Powers

every military measure including
the invocation of martial law.
Only the followers of Pierre
Poujade, the antitax leader,
voted against Mr.. Mollet as a
group. Communist Leader JAG
ques Duclos surprised most po-
litical observers when he threw
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-13
CyprusCIashes
Break Out; Isle
|Strike-Bound

NICOSIA, Cyprus, Mar. Is up
AN anti-British strike con-
tinued in Cyprus today. keeping
commercial life on the riot-torr
island almost at q Standstill.
The spontaneous shutdown by
Cypriot shopkeepers and workers
is protesting Britain's exile Of
Archbishop Makarios. leader Of
the union-with- Greece move
ment.
Business places in the Turkish
and Armenian quarters remained
open.
The big United States-owned
Cyprus Mines Corp. at Scourio-
tissa. southwest of Nicosia, re-
ported that none of its 1900
employees had Joined the strike
Many of the workers there are
Turks. The American concern
exports about $28 million worth
of copper a year.
Teen-Agers Stone Police
Defiant teen-agers stoned po'
lice in Nicosia, and mobile re-
serves and military forces were
called up to disperse the demon.
strators. Six persons were ar
rested at a church where youths
three times climbed to the steeplt
and rang the bell after stoninl
police.
At Nicosia's biggest elementar.
school, children from 6 to l:
years jeered and hurled rock!
lat police.
Court records disclosed that
76-year-old nearly blind prizes
of the Greek Orthodox archbish'
opric has been arrested and face
a possible death sentence To-
carrying loaded revolver. Elmer
Igency measures now in effec
|provide the death penalty TO
such offenses. However, tn
priest, Hieronimous Christodou
lou, was released on $l40 bail TO
"a hearing March 20.
A 17-year-old boy was sen
Itenced today to five years il
prison for carrying a gasolin
bomb.
! A ban on long distance tele'
phone calls on the island wa
lifted after being in force since
Friday night.
Envoy Leaves London
| Meanwhile, the Greek Ambas'
isador to Britain, Basile Mostras
left London for Athens. He wal
recalled in protest at the exilt
Iof Archbishop Makarios but hi
recall does not mean a breal
i'm diplomatic relations
| AS tensions continued to mount
a United States State Depart.
ment spokesman in Washington
said the United States has sug.
Igested to Britain that she fine
some way of resuming ,legotia.
lions with Cypriot leaders Il
the dispute over the island!
future,
Greek Foreign Minister Spyro!
Theotokis announced that hi!
government was making vigor'
Gus representations to the UniteC
States over recent development
in Cyprus.
Mr.. Theotokis said Greece!
Ambassador to Washington wa
instructed to direct special at.
tention to what Greece term.
the threats to the West con.
tanned in the controversy.
Greek Premier Constantine
Karamanlis called for decisive
United States intervention in thu
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tanglement with the Commu-
|nists.
Mr.. Lacoste, waiting in Paris.
was expected to rush back to
Algeria as soon as the Senate
acts and then to launch an all
out effort to end the rebellion.
Mr.. Mollet's announced aim is
to restore order as prelude to
Algerian elections which would
designate a leadership empow-
cred to negotiate an improved
status for Algeria.
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his bloc of $50 votes to support
| of the bill.
| Just back from Moscow and
the Soviet Communist Party
Congress. Mr.. Duclos made 1t
clear his votes were going to Mr..
Mollet in an effort to bolster
the Reds current campaign for
a popular front" with the
Socialists.
In a statement to the Assem-
bly,, Mr.. Mollet made it equally
clear he was avoiding any en-
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Dulles Signs Agreement
Givinq ThoiIond Reoctor

BANGKOK Thailand, Mar. 10 C9An experimental atomic
reactor will be built in Thaiand result OF
today by Secretary of State Dulles and
Thaiand's Foreign Minister. Prince Wan Wathyakon.
promised to Southeast Asia at last years
Colombo Plan Conference.
The installation which become training center for
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traditional
mari and Queen Koanak Of cabodia receive the blessings OF subject IN
ruled his kingdom of million people for since the abdcaton Of his son.
now MINISTERIAL Wiephoto.
The Southern Jewish weekly., 1956-06-29
Pertinent Fourth Of July Thoughts

On July 1875 in Philadelphia thirteen states resolved
a equal and they out TO assert
independence against Great Britain the mghest of
the powers that time
fledgng United States numbered only three million
people who lacked and financial and in the
beginning of the struggle suffered many military
The logic of events against them but they came
through the aid of America sending her
money and Today the thirteen states
become fortYeight and the million Americans have
multiplied to than l60 millions.
One help making comparisons with Israel today
The Asop brothers of the New York Herald Tribune recently
interviewing Ben Gurion, remarked the logic of events
with less than million Israelis facing As million Arabs
being against Israel The Israeli Premier replied that he
who looks for logic in history is stupid.
Perhaps better way of putting it is that there diff
kinds of logic There is logic of numbers and logic
of other forces By logic numbers Israel today
as America of 1876 stood fail but there another kind Of
loQof just of dedicated purpose. and this logic
transcends the logic of numbers
The Southern Jewish weekly., 1956-06-29

Jewish businessmen confronted with crucial choice
Either along with the White Citizens Councils and lose
the Negro patronage the time becoming objects of
Negro enmty Or defy the Councils which represent in
many places the entire power structure of the community
The choice often the CALLING by the fact that
Of the White Councils openly antSemitic while
others repeatedly repudiate responsibility for
propaganda peddled at their meetings The local White
Citizens Councils are tending toward federation and such
federation will be unique among dehagogc organizations of
its type if it does not take antiSemc coloration Mean
while general Identification of Jews with the dominant
white elements tend feed antSeitc feelings among Ne
roes only the South but also in other parts of the
country Actually there have been variations in Jewish
attitudes i'll the South While the public school
litigation there apprehension the possible
sequences to Jews of open conflict segregation
Most Southern Jews and most Southern Jewish communities
sought to remain aoff neutral from the situation After
the first Supreme Court ruling declarations of support and
commendation made by the Southern rabbnate With
the advent the White Citizens Council movement
reverson TO neuralism However, of the rabbis
outspokenly to support the idea of ntegration
The Southern Jewish weekly., 1956-06-29

Young
It personal pleasure to present trophy
to the winner of the emporaneous speaking contest This
is annual award, which have given since Mrs.
Moscovitz Southern Youth Commission chairman
dozen years ago.
Being close children have captured several i'm
presons which have firmly rooted hearts
We convinced that bascalY American children
religious than their parents and depore that in most
adult discussions the chdrens future almost
wholly neglected element of debate It true that at
temp made make children religious without providing
them with basic understanding of religion.
While young people to be told what to believe
great many want to have the unknown explained
that they understand and be free to make their choice
degree of religion When children of the level
thrown together for discussions of this nature they tend
work for themselves various answers which have
long and lasting meaning for them.