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Inc laGlO is now 35.z5 TO J..
There has been considerable
Testimony before the House sub
committee investigating integra-
ltion of the public schools in the
District about the problems in
ltegration have brought and the
difficulty Of meeting them in
crowded classrooms and with
lack of facilities for teaching
retarded children.
Won't Discuss Inquiry
Dr.. Corning declined to dis
cuss the hearings of the sub
committee for which William E.
Gerber of Memphis is counsel.
He said.
Il can't comment on any phase
Iof the Gerber investigation for
reasons that must be apparent
to you"
He said he did not know
whether he would be called to
testify again. He testified, but
only briefly. last week. He said
other officers of the school sys-
ITEM have been called.
In other developments outside
the hearing it was disclosed to-
day that the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People has sent questionnaireS
/ to 500 public school teachers.
Eugene Davidson. president OF
the District branch of the or
ganization. said replies are now
being analysed.
Statement by Van Arkle
/ Gerhard van Ankle, in a state
ment, said, IF the Gerber hear
ings proved anything, it was the
validity of the Supreme Courts
position that segregation in
school systems produces Unequal
ity of educational benefits"
Mr.. van Arkle, an attorney, is
chairman of the newly formed
/ Washington Committee on the
Public Schools. He said:
I'm the decade before integra-
ton. the Washington school sys-
TEN saved literally millions of
dollars by shortchanging the Me-
gro children on their education. -
DR.. Corning said that DR.. Law
son ]. Cantrell. assistant school
superintendent in charge of jun
Tor high schools, has been sum-
moned to testify before the SUBJ
committee tomorrow.
Summoned Next Week
DR.. Carl Hansen, assistant SUI
perintendent in charge of high
schools, and Miss Edith Lyons
assistant superintendent in
charge of elementary schools,
have been summoned to appear
next week, he said.
He related that the school
board asked funds from the
Commissioners to employ 900
additional elementary teachers
This would bring the ratio down
to 80 to next year, with the
30-to-l goal to be met the fol-
lowing year.
The schools. however, were al
llotted enough money to hire
only 50 more teachers. This
would merely hold the line al
the present ratio. A diversion
iof funds provided for "a addi-
Itional teachers, bringing the to-
Ital to 1l6, which would result in
a 34.5-to-1 ratio. An additions,
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Finucune to TuIk

The Washington chapter Of
the Armed Forces Communica-
tons and Electronics Association
Will meet tomorrow at 1915
pm. in the Grand Ballroom Of
the Willard Hotel. Undersecre-
tary for the Army Charles C.
Finucane will talk on some Of
the new advances in communi-
cations and electronics as APP
piled to modern military opera
tions.
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No Quorum
Charge Denied
In School Quiz
Davis and Smith
Insist Full Group
Issued Probe Order

Two key members of the
House District Committee today
fatty denied there was any
question as to whether there was
Ia quorum present at a meeting
last June when the committee
ordered an Investigation of
Washington's school system.
They were Representative
Davis, Democrat of Georgia,
who was named chairman of
the special six-man subcom-
mittee. and Representative
Smith, Democrat of Virginia.
a veteran member of the Dis
trict group. who also is chair
man of the powerful House
Rules Committee.
The question has been bounc-
ling around for several days as
the Davis subcommittee went
ahead with its hearings. disre-
garding protests from one House
committeeman - Representative
Wier, Democrat of Minnesota
and spokesman for some outside
groups. that the hearings should
Ibe halted for consideration
again by the full committee.
Question Asked Before
More than once, outside of the
committee hearings, Chairman
Davis has asked about the
quorum question and had insis-
ted that there was a quorum.
The question still persisted,
however. and today The Star
asked Chairman Davis if there
had been a quorum present dur
ing the June meeting at the time
that the school investigation
resolution was considered and
approved.
1T is my recollection there
was a quorum" he declared. He
agreed that at one time in the
meeting there had been one less
than a quorum present, but that
later the thirteenth member
came in. making a quorum. He
said that a motion then was
made by Representative Smith
Ireconsidering actions taken earl
Ter and ratifying them with the
quorum present.
"As a result" said Mr.. Davis,
every action taken by the COM
mittee was ratified.
! This account of the June
meeting was corroborated by
Mr.. Smith. Il have a very dis
tinct recollection of that" he
added.
Explains Action
Mr.. Smith said there very
definitely was a quorum and that
when the thirteenth member ar
rived, he had made his motion to
Iratify earlier actions. partly be-
cause he was the author of, one
lof the bills approved that day
He said his resolution was to
ratify all of the actions previ-
ously taken and that it had beer
approved.
Mr.. Smith also voiced amaze
ment that anyone at this point
in the inquiry of the school sub
committee would want to Stor
its hearings. He said:
why in the world would any,
one want to stop the hearings
now?" he said. IF there are
those who disagree with testi.
mony SO far given, why wouldn't
they insist, instead, that thu
hearing be continued so that
they could come forward ano
present their own facts and
views"
Names of Is committee mem
Ibers present at the meeting au.
ithorizing the investigation were
not available. 1t was explained
that only the full committee
could authorize examination Of
the minutes of the meeting to
determine who was present
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proved"
| Mrs. Marjorie w. Nelson, a
mcfarland home economics
teacher, said she had been dis
turbed by obscene scrawling on
her classroom bulletin board and
door. She said she had con-
lf1scated obscene magazines and
pamphlets weekly" usually from
boys, and one colored boy was
reported to her by a colored
teacher to have exposed himself
in view of the teacher.
Mrs. Nelson said indignation
would have been better if it had
started on the elementary level
only.
Mrs. Jane Bernot, physical ed
ucation teacher at Roosevelt High
Schol, next door to mcfarland,
testified about troubles she said
she had had in her home-room
section.
She said her section was COM
posed of 'misf1ts" of the lowest
caliber in the school. who were
involved in fighting, truancy,
Hardness. pregnancies. boy-girl
relationships and other behavior
difficulties.
Girl Transferred
She said white girl had been
transferred out of the school
latter exchanging love letters with
a Negro boy. A colored boy
lwhcm she ordered to stop batting
a softball into the grandstand,
endangering girls, called her
crazy" she said.
She also complained about the
low quality of school work from
colored students. But she said
that, despite the problems,
Roosevelt is still tops" as a
school. She credited this to Mrs
Elva c. Wells. Roosevelt's prin-
lcipal, whom she said she could
not praise too highly"
Mrs. Wells also was praised
by Mrs. Miriam L. Beall, Roose-
welt home economics teacher
who said the principals eff
cheney had relieved teachers
greatly from disciplinary prob
lens.
I DR.. Regis Boyle, English
teacher at Woodrow Wilson High
School. was questioned about
indignation problems at Eastern
High School, where she taught
until a year ago, Eastern is al
Seventeenth and East Capitol
streets.
DR.. Boyle. who was adviser to
the school newspaper, the East
erner, described a series of edi-
torials printed by the paper
during the first year of inte-
grafton designed to ease item
Isions" in the school.
One editorial, she said, was
HEADED Hands on" and dealt
with a problem of "manhandling''
of girl students.
/ Asked what "manhandling''
meant, she told the committee it
didn't necessarily mean white
girls were being touched but we
felt girls were mishandled in the
corridors in a way that was not
uplifting"
"How were they manhandled?"
Chairman Davis asked.
"They we're touching certain
areas one wouldn't expect to be
touched in public" DR.. Boyle re-
piled.
Suggestive Action
! Mr.. Davis asked If it was "sug-
Igestive." and the former Eastern
teacher answered. Yes, def
Iinitely."
What parts of the body were
they touehing?' Mr.. Davis in
quired.
II prefer to let you use your
own imagination she said.
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4 AlOlu bllC oCCOIlu SlduC ACNCl "
not quite seventh grade.
How is it possible" asked
Mr.. Gerber, "for students on the
second, third. fourth and sixth
grade level to read and under
stand a book in the 10th grader
1T is not she replied.
How can you teach them?"
II put the slower of the slow
Into a group and obtained a
fifth-grade reader and worked q
whole semester in it," Miss
Prince said. Even then, few OF
the class passed, she said.
Are bright white pupils Suf-
fering because of integration?'
Mr.. Gerber inquired.
Beyond doubt" she replied
do you think the better
colored students are suffering
too?"
II do" she said.
Endorses Track" Plan
She added that she believed
la new "four-track" plan for di-
viding high school students by
ability. now under way in all
the city's schools in the 10th
grade, will help to remedy this
however.
Asked about discipline prob
lens, Miss Prince said there hao
been disorder in the halls, but
she added:
We're much better this yeal
than last because the junior
high moved out"
SIS it more difficult to teach
now than before integration?'
Mr.. Gerber asked.
"Oh, yes," Miss Prince re-
piled.
1 Miss Edith Davis, sixth-grade
teacher at Peabody Elementary
School. Fifth and C streets NE.
also told the committee of diff
lculties stemming from having g
wide range of abilities among
her pupils.
i Cites Class of "a
/ Last year, in her class of "a
Miss Davis said 10 were above.
average in intelligence scores. /;
average and nine below average
THE Is colored pupils split be.
tween the lower two groups
seven in the average and six il
the low one.
On achievement tests, she sale
the class showed a range from
second to 18th grade.
Miss Davis blamed most be.
havior difficulties on neighbor-
hood decline which she sale
started before indignation.
/ Two faculty members from
Macfarland Junior High School
Thirteenth and Upshur street:
NV, outlined teaching diff
culties yesterday.
Mrs. Myrtle T. McKnew, coun-
selor, told of a large backlog Of
requests for special psychological
tests for pupils who have either
learning or behavior problems
She said the school systems test
ing department is "swamped" Sc
that special attention for the
students is having to wait.
She also told of a special
social-adjustment class at the
school for serious problem pupils
Some Sex Problems
Asked whether the school hac
any sex problems, she said there
had been some. She mentioned
la 12-year-old colored gin who
became pregnant and already
had had one child before enroll
ing. The girl was removed from
the school before other young.
sters found out about it, she
said.
i The counselor said she thought
THE Supreme Courts indignation
ruling was "the correct decision
but that Washington indignation
would have gone better If it had
been more gradual. But she
asserted:
J Il think this year we are do
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The
Rambler
No Proof in Case
Of Grunddud Still
Ry LACK JONAS

Two years Of diligent re-
search have gone by, but the
still remains there at the In
ternal Revenue Service, wait
ing for lightning to strike.
It's a fancy thing-eyen
the Anaconda Copper people,
who came down to measure
and study it, were amazed at
its fine hand workmanship.
The name of the maker, r.
Bush g. Co., Bristol, and the
date, 1887, still are quite
legible.
Trying to pin 1t down as
George Washington's still
from up the Kitchen Stairs"
however, has been a frustrat-
ing experience.
Seizure OF the SJlll IN a RAID
by Internal Revenue agents
near Mount Vernon touched
off the search that led eventu-
ally to a bombed-out ware
house in England. It's prox-
unity to Mount Vernon was
not the only thing. Those
arrested as operators of the
still were believed to be de-
scendants of WaShington'S
slaves.
George Washington was not
exactly the father of his
country's distilling industry,
but he did have a distillery,
set up on money borrowed in
Alexandria. This particular
still, however, is a small one,
not of commercial size.
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Corning Sees Inquiry
Aiding School System
Hopes for More Teachers
For Better PupiI-Rutio

School Supt Hobart M Corning said today he believes the
testimony at the congressional hearings the cy schools
should stimulate the city to do for its school system
He mentioned particularly the need for additional elementary
schooacherS He said it hoped bring teach
the point where the ratio Of pupils teachers 80
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-27

IN SEARCH for a tie-in
with Washington, theories
have popped up faster than
facts.
The Internal Revenue Serv-
ice called on the Distilled
Spirits Institute for aid, and
they sent a man down to the
Library of Congress to look
through George Washington's
records.
He spent days porting over
Washington references, and
more days with Washington
manuscripts.
The inventory of the estate
after Wasfington's death, de-
tailed in one Of the reference
books, listed separately the
assets of the distillery, but
there was no mention of a
small still.
The DSI man left the refer
ence book at the Internal
Revenue Offices, and a man
there, who is something of a
Washington buff, began going
through the entire inventory,
item by item, from page / on.
Some pages later, under a
heading up the Kitchen
Stairs" was this listing:
lone still"
Now if George Washington
had a still up the kitchen
stairs. what was the end use
of its products?
One theory put forth was
that it distilled fine brandies
for household use and enter
tanning. Another was that it
turned out cheaper stuff for
the servants.
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Rambling

A visitor to Washington
reports ne witnessed this in
cident: A woman backed a car
out of an alley and crumpled
the fender of a car driven by
a man. He got out. asked her
sternly: Lady, did you take
lessons to learn to do that?"
NO. she snapped, Il taught
myself"
Beside the Internal Revenue
Service there is a yew hedge
and, as a man here points out,
the yew is of the genus
Taxus.
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ONE THING the Internal
Revenue people and the DSI
agree on is that if the still
was up the kitchen stairs it
wouldn't have been operated
there. In those days it was
certain to have been a pot
still, and the open flame
needed to operate it would
have been too much of fire
hazard indoors.
But the question still re-
manned whether the inven-
toried still and the one seized
near Mount Vernon we're the
same.
Internal Revenue checked
and learned that R. Bush &
Co. had been in business in
Bristol almost continuously
since 100. They abandoned
still-making some years back,
and are now in the ware
house business.
But some of their records
date back to 100, and again a
laborious search was made.
Unfortunately, the old records
were not complete--a German
bomb during World War IL
had destroyed some of them.
There was no reference to
the sale of a 1877 still to
George Washington, r. Bush
a. Co. said--somewhat regret
fully-in a message with a
letterhead of a style almost
as old as the firm itself.
The Washington buff at the
Internal Revenue Service still
makes an occasional hopeful
check through sources hav-
ing to do with the Mount
Vernon estate. And, he says
philosophically, even If it
doesn't turn out to be Wash
ington's, it's still a fine
museum piece.
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Spread in Reading

Miss Prince said she had been
confronted recently with a wide
spread in reading accomplish
ment among her pupils, ranging
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