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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-18
EIectronics Urged as Tool
To Solve Troffic Woes

Eectronc computers be used to initiate the now Of
a busy intersections determine the Of teps and
changes designed to the problem highway
ference at the Sheraton-Park Hotel told today.
Harry H. Goode professor electrical engineering
sy of Michigan meeting Of Highway
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-18

- washington. ID. e.
JANUARY ~, 1888
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-21
Marine Is Killed
On Military Road

Corpl. Wallace C. Pollard, 20,
was killed and another Quantico
Marine injured last night when
their car rammed tree on Mill
tary road NV. near the Six
tenth street overpass.
Corpl. William J. Loughran.
26, Holyoke, Mass, was reported
in fair condition today in Emer-
gency Hospital. He suffered a
conclusion and fractured ribs.
Police said the auto, driven by
Corpl. Loughran, hit the tree
after it sWerved while passing
another car. Before it hit the
tree the car snapped a telephone
pole in two, police said.
The death brought the District
traffic toll for 1856 to %. COM
pared to Is deaths at this time
last year.
Diana M. Boyd, 3, daughter Of
Mrs. Helen Boyd, $50 F street
S.W., suffered skull fracture
yesterday when she ran into the
street near her home and was
struck by car. The child was
listed in fair condition today in
Children's Hospital.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-21
Confidential Files Gets
10-Cent Saucer Inquiry

might have confidential files,
sent it to the Federal Bureau
of Investigation.
The FBI, never one to pass
out military secrets, made dis
Greet inquiries.
Then the FBI forwarded the
letter to the Air Force, advising
that nothing derogatory OF in
dicative of subverSion could be
found in the woman's activities.
So the Air Force reached into
its nonclassified files and plucked
out the latest summary on the
number of sightings Of UFO tun-
identified flying Objects, to-
gether with an explanation of
why people think they see flying
saucers-or what 1t is they see
which the Air Force can or can't
explain.
The lady's 10 cents was tapped
to he summary and both were
mailed to her address in Los
Angeles.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-21
Kefauver Minnesota Upset
Jo|ts Stevensons Hopes
50 Nominee
Will Stay in
Primaries
BY GOULD LINCOLN

Senator Estes Kefauver Of
Tennessee, by his smashing vic
tory over Adlai Stevenson in the
Minnesota primary yesterday,
has become the front-running
candidate for the Democratic
presidential nomination.
Senator Kefauver has won "a
and possibly 28-of Mime
sofas 80 delegate votes in the
Democratic National Convention
next August. Mr.. Stevenson is
sure of only two delegate votes,
in the 5th congressional dis
trict, largely the city of Minne-
apoliS.
In one of the two districts re-
manning in doubt, the Sd and
9th districts, Kefauver moved
ahead by a narrow margin, &C
cording to latest returns. In the
other. the Senator was not far
behind and was gaining.
With just eight scattered pre-
cincts unreported in the Sd
district, Senator Kefauver went
ahead for the first time, 33,073
to 33,065. This district includes
suburban Minneapolis and sew
eral adjacent counties.
Stevenson Lead Shrinks
In the sprawling 9th district
of Northeastern Minnesota.
where nearly half the precincts
remained to be counted, Senator
Kefauver shrank Mr.. Stevenson's
lead to 1879 votes. OF 452 pre-
cincts in the district, 258 gave
Mr.. Stevenson 1864, Senator
Kefauver 23,515.
A week ago the Tennesseean
won all eight of New Hamp-
shire's delegate votes against
a slate entered in that State
flor Mr.. Stevenson. In the
third presidential State primary
to be held April in Wisconsin,
Senator Kefauver will pick up
I28 more delegate votes, giving
him a total Of so or more to
less than a handful for MIR. Stew
enson. The 1852 Democratic
presidential nominee is not en-.
tered in the Wisconsin race.
Mr.. Stevenson, In Chicago,
said his Minnesota defeat would
not end his fight for the presi-
: dental nomination; that he
!, would continue in the contest
|, and campaign in other States
where he had entered the pri-
maries. He is entered in Florida,
California and Illinois and in
Alaska. In the first two and in
Alaska he will be directly OPP
posed by Senator Kefauver.
Mr.. Stevenson also said that
the unprecedented vote" in the
Continued on Page AS, Col. 1
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-21
APPLE QUEEN HAS
SEEN THE WORLD

MIMI MACARTHUR WILL REIGN
Daughter Of career diplomat Doug
los Macarthur u and Mrs. Moc-
Arthur, and granddaughter Of SEN
otor Alben Borkley, Mimi hos spent
10 years in Pois and hos lived in
Spain and Belgium, too. Doisy Gle
lond tells about MINIS reaction to
being chosen queen Of the 18th on
nuol Shenandoah Apple Blossom Fes-
tivoI. Poee Be-.
ARE YOU A FATALIST?-Do you
believe you'll go when your time
comes? You're eheotine yourself it
you do. soys Dr.. Peter J. steinerom
in "How to Stop Killing Yourself"
He explains why on The Stor's Feo-
ture Pose. A-39.
WHAT WOULD YOU Do?-lf your
new husbond insisted his younger
brother, Is. OF odds with his parents,
must come to live with you? The
Family Council discusses the prob
lens involved ond the husbands feel
ines in the matter on The Stor's
Feoture Pooe, ABS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-21

Broadwater called on him to
clarity some of the terms he laid
down in an 11-page memoran-
dunn to the Commerce Subcom-
mittee as minimum require
ments" for the company to con-
slider staying in business.
Mr.. Harris said he also haG
conferred yesterday with the
District Commissioners in an
effort to clarity some of their
objections to the Broadwater
proposal.
The Broadwater memo and
a commentary on it by Presi-
dent Samuel Spencer of the Dis
trict Board of Commissioners
were discussed earlier in the
day by the full Transportation
Subcommittee of the House In
terstate and Foreign Commerce
Committee.
No new session of the group
was set, but Mr.. Harris said he
would try to clear up some seri-
Gus questions raised by both
documents.
The BroadWater terms gen.
orally paralleled those set forth
last week in bills to restore the
company's franchise by Chair
man Mcmillan of the House Dis
trict Committee and Representa-
tive Broyhill. Republican of Vir-
|ginia. Two new suggestions were
added, however-to drop the
legal requirement for free trans
fers and that for special school
fares no higher than half the
adult fare.
Mr.. Harris said some of the
CTC suggestions seemed to be
fringe stuff and unnecessary"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-21
Washington Is So q Good Ballet Town,
But Live Bur|esque Is Another Thing

cities either. It's going over big
in one-night stands"
Representative Carroll Kearns,
Republican of Pennsylvania, a
onetime railroader who became
"a concert singer. possibly Is one
of Congress most loyal support
ers of the arts. What did he
think OF Mr.. Kirwan and ballet?
did Mike Kirwan really say
that?" Mr.. Kearns asked. What
Ia delightful fellow he Is You
know, we'll get him a front-row
seat at a good ballet. He would
love it."
Mr.. Kirwan, by the way, put
in a plug for another form OF
entertainment.
II am like Oliver Wendell
Holmes" Mr.. Kirwan said. He
said, Give me burlesque.' He
went to them until he was 90"
Mr.. Hayes said Justice Holmes
liked burlesque all right, but he
also was fond of opera.
"It's interesting to note" Mr..
Hayes said, "that ballet is doing
nicely in this town. It has been
years, though, since we've had a
theater showing live burlesque."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-21

were thrown out Of balance last
year when Congress enacted a
pay increase for city employees
at a cost of SO million.
U. S. Pays 20 Per Cent
Therefore, he said, the fiscal
subcommittee of the House and
Senate had to go to work and
after many weeks of study and
extensive hearings they came up
with a bill for new revenue, 80
per cent of which would be paid
for by District taxpayers, and
10 per cent by the Federal Gov
ernment. He said the Joint FiS-
cal subcommittee of the House
and Senate were unanimous in
recommending the pending bill.
He was supported by Repre-
sentative O'Hara. Republican Of
Minnesota, ranking minority
member of the House District
Fiscal Subcommittee, who told
the House it was not a pleasant
thing to load new taxes on Dis
trict residents, but that more
revenue is required and he
thought the fiscal group had
done "as good a job as pos
sible' under the circumstances.
Mr.. O'Hara said he thought
the new or higher levies are as
equitable rs possible, and he
said he hoped he would not have
to go through this headache
again for some years." -
A somewhat different view was
given the House by Chairman
Mcmillan of the House District
Committee. He recalled he had
proposed that the Districts gen.
eral sales tax be increased from
2 to 8 per cent. This was rejected
by the fiscal subcommittee, as
well as by the District Commits
sioners.
Mr.. Mcmillan said he hoped
the bill as passed would avoid
"a new tax increase bill for 10
to Is years but that he doubted
this would be the case.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-21
By the Associated Press

The Nations Capital was
warmly defended today as a
place where culture can lift her
pretty head, and where chloro-
form isn't needed to get GUS
toners into q ballet.
Washington" Promoter Israel
Field said, sis one of the best
ballet cities in the country"
This will come as a surprise
to Representative Michael Jo-
Iseph Kirwan, Democrat of Ohio
Mr.. Kirwan began the debate
during a hearing on q proposed
National Civic Center. Part Of
the plan calls for an opera
house, designed for good music
and good dancing.
Mr.. Kirwan couldn't see the
need for such a building.
You have to chloroform them
to get 500 to look at a ballet
Mr.. Kirwan said. Don't let any
body kid you on that score. 1t
takes a lot Of good courage to
sit and watch somebody 60 into a
toe dance"
Hes wrong there. my friend"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-21

said Mr.. Field, who fetches in
everything from Louis Armstrong
and his Dixieland All-Stars to
the Ballet Russo de Monte Carlo.
We've had fabulous crowds for
ballet"
The Field promotions include
summer shows in the 4,056-seat
Carter Barron Amphitheater
Last summer the Canadian Ma
tional Ballet was here for IA per-
formances.
I'VE had an 80 per cent SELL
out" Mr.. Field said. "On many
nights. we were turning them
away"
Patrick Hayes, who brought in
the famed Sadler's Wells Ballet
from England. had a similar
story. Five performances in a
3. 426-seat theater. Every seat
sold. Choice seats grabbed up
at Sc. And, so far as Mr.. Hayes
knows, little or no chloroform
was used.
Ballet is good business all
over the country now" Mr..
Hayes said. mot Just in the big
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-21
By the Associated Press

If you want information on
flying saucers, don't address your
request to Confidential Files.
Washington, D. c."
Takes too long. And besides
you may be investigated by the
FBI.
A woman out in Los Angeles
(name withheld by various Gov
eminent agencies) dashed of a
note on January Is. 1t said:
Confidential Files
Wash, D. c.
Dear Sirs-Please send me q
bulletin of flying saucers, or the
address where / can get infor-
nation about them. am inclos-
ing 10 cents.
Thanks"
Seemed like a simple, direct
approach-except for the ad-
dress.
The post Office. casting about
for some Federal agency that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-21

passed soon and that appropria-
tons measures would be passed
on schedule"
Mr.. Eisenhower opened his
new conference with a report
that the Defense Department
has accepted wholly or in SUBJ
stance, IS per cent Of the Hoover
Commission recommendations
affecting it.
He said, of course, there had
been considerable progress, too,
in other departments but he said
he was especially satisfied with
the Defense Department report
because of a total of some $50
Hoover Commission recommen-
dations, some 1875 pertain to the
Defense Department in one way
or another. He added that he
thinks a vote of thanks to the
commission, headed by former
President Herbert Hoover, is
called for.
Quizzed on Kefauver Win
The farm discussion came up
lat the news conference when a
reporter asked Mr.. Eisenhower
what he thought Of Tennessee
Senator Kefauver's victory in
the Minnesota Democratic pri-
mary, especially If it indicated
ia revolt against the administra-
tons farm program. Senator
|Kefauver has supported rigid
price supports.
Mr.. Eisenhower said he could
mot give any analysis of the Min
|nesota vote-that it was some
thing to be studied.
He remarked that the Mime
sofa primaries were very impor-
tant, recalling that the large
write-in vote for him there in
1852 did as much as any single
thing to convince him that he
should, as he put it. take this
political business seriously. He
Continued on Page AS, Col. l
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-21
State Winds Up First Case
Against Negro in Boycott

come, first serve" request on the
buses unreasonable because, he
said, it would violate city and
State laws requiring separate
but equal facilities in public
transportation.
Compromise Offered
Mayor Gayle told of offering
the Negroes a compromise ar
rangement where 10 seats at
the front Of the bus would be
reserved for white passengers
and 10 seats at the rear for
Negroes.
That is substantially the same
policy Mr.. Bagley had testified
earlier that the bus company
has had in effect all the time.
But the bus company manager
also admitted he had received
complaints about drivers dis
obeying what he called the COM
pany policy.
Mayor Gayle also testified
that recent "get tough" policy
was adopted in an effort to bring
the boycott to an end by dis
couraging white residents OF
Montgomery from supporting
the protest.
The Mayor announced the
policy on January 81 and urged
white persons to refrain from
giving rides to Negroes.
SO Others Involved
Circuit Judge Eugene Carter
is presiding at Mr.. Kings trial
and also will decide on the guilt
or innocence Of the other SO
boycott defendants who, like Mr.
King. have asked non-jury trials
Each case will be heard sepa-
rately.
The State was partially sue
ceSsful yesterday in getting evil
denced admitted which was de-
signed to show that Negroes have
been threatened and inundated
to keep them from riding buses
during the mass protest against
segregation which began Deem
Der 5.
Judge Carter permitted two
Negroes to testify about threats
they said they had received, but
See BOYCOTT, Page AS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-21
Westinghouse
Is0yer
Union Approves
Mediation Plan
By the Associated Press

The Westinghouse Electric
Corp. strike. one of the longest
in the Nations modern labor
relations history, is over.
Strikers weary Of picketing
idle plants for 156 days headed
happily back to work.
The dispute-punctuated at
times by violence-probably cost
hundreds of millions of dollars
in lost wages and business.
Settlement came last night
when the striking International
Union of Electrical Workers
voted to accept a peace plan
proposed two weeks ago by Gov
eminent mediators, but changed
somewhat in the unions favor
since then.
Nine Plants Reopen
Westinghouse announced that
eight of its consumer products
plants will get back into produc-
ton today. They are at Spring
field, Mass; Metuchen, Bloom
field, Belleville and Trenton, N
j.; Fairmont, w. Va, and Mans
field and Columbus, Ohio.
The bulk of the $4,000 strikers
represented by IUE are expected
to be on the job again in a mat
ter of days. However, at some
heavy machinery plants. notably
the company's East Pittsburgh
works, it will take a month to
restore production.
The strike, started in mid-Oc-
tober, delayed by nearly half a
year introduction of the 1856
line of Westinghouse products.
For that reason the company
now expects To step up output
considerably beyond pre-strike
levels at all consumer product
plants"
A strike of nearly 10000 West
inghouse workers represented by
another union. the Independent
United Electrical Workers (UE)
will continue pending a separate
settlement. But an early agree
Continued on Page AS, Col. 6
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-21

MONTGOMERY, Ala, Mar.
81 (R.-The prosecution closed
its case today against the Rev.
Martin Luther King, jr.. the
first of 80 Negroes brought to
trial for the boycott by their
race against segregated city
buses.
Circuit Solicitor William F.
Thetford rested his case after
the manager of the bus company
Montgomery City Lines, Inc,
had been recalled to the witness
stand for further cross-examina-
ton by Negro defense attorneys.
The bus company official, J. H.
Bagley, testified that white pas
sengerS as well as Negroes have
been arrested for refusing to
comply with segregated seating
arrangements on Montgomery
buses.
1t was the arrest of a Negro
seamstress, Mrs. Rosa Parks, that
led to the boycott, which started
December S.
Mrs. Parks was fined $14 for
refusing to move to the Negro
section of a bus.
Tried to Settle Issue
Shortly before the State rested
Mayor w. A. Gayle testified the
City Commission had Offered
everything we could" in a futile
effort to settle the boycott.
The Mayor also defended his
membership in the pro-white
Montgomery County Citizens
Council, saying, Il wouldn't join
anything that advocated vio-
lence."
! Negro defense attorneys, in
cross-examining Mayor Gayle
and Mr.. Bagley, sought to show
that the boycott began as a
climax of a long series of COM
plaints from Negroes about con-
ditions on Montgomery City
Lines buses.
Mayor Gayle and Mr.. Bagley
both said they had received
complaints before the start of
the boycott.
The Mayor, on a question by
Defense Attorney Arthur D.
Shores of Birmingham, said he
considered the Negroes first
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-21

APPROPRIATIONS Bill. Inc meas
ure now goes to the Senate.
No attempt was made during
consideration Of the bill to re-
store 50 million stricken by the
House Appropriations Commit
tee, which had been asked tt
bring the Federal payment to-
ward city costs this year up tt
the presently authorized SIC
million.
The Federal payment enacted
by Congress for this fiscal veal
thus stands at $18 million.
Most of the sos million was
to take care of pay raises to Dis
trict Government employees
Among the items were $4,000
for metropolitan policemen who
worked on their days off during
the transit strike last summer
and $3.50, 900 in public assistance
grants.
Meeting Set Tomorrow
Meanwhile, the Senate District
Committee called a special meet
ing for 10 am. tomorrow to &C,
on the new revenue raising bill
passed without an objection late
yesterday by the House.
This bill provides for an in
Grease in local tax levies amount
ing to at least $40 million fol-
the fiscal year beginning July I
plus So million increase in the
authorized Federal payment to
bring it from $40 to $22 million
This increase later will have tt
be appropriated as an actua
grant when Congress considers
another supplemental bill to take
care of capital improvements thai
could not be included in the
regular city government budget
Senator Bible, Democrat oil
Nevada, chairman of the Fisca
Subcommittee of the Senate
District Committee, said hi
wanted action as soon as pos.
sible. Ne said he hoped the
revenue measure could cleal
Congress before its Easter recess
eve will push along with thi.
measure as fast as we can be-
cause we know of the urgency
as to time" he said.
Obligations to Be Met
Early passage Of the revenue
bill has been pushed becaus,
there are still some obligations
that must be met, notably pay
ment of the increased salaries TO
District employees voted last year
| There was no great ado abou
the bill in the House. It haG
been advertised in advance tina
the measure was coming up. Blu
when the bill was called up fewer
than SO members were present.
Within q minute or two, anc
without any objection, the Hous.
adopted the rule forbidding an!
amendment from the floor to tn,
revenue bill as it came from thu
District Committee and as rec
Commended by the House Rules
Committee.
Representative Smith. Demo
crat of Virginia, outlined thu
Icity's needs and called attention
to the fact that city finances
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-21

a good bill that would help the
farmers.
Mr.. Eisenhower told a news
conference the complex measure
that passed the Senate night
before last would bury farmers
under increasing SURPRISES that
eventually would break down the
high prices it seeks to establish.
He emphasized that he be-
Ilieves farmers understand that
his administration is working
hard to establish q program
that would give them what he
called 100 per cent Of parity in
the marketplace. He stressed,
however. that trying to estab-
lish fair prices for the farmers
by law through rigid high price
supports could only pile up
trouble.
The Senate, in complex ma
neuvering. first voted to uphold
the administration flexible price
support system and then
amended the measure to give it
the effect of forcing high price
supports on most basic COM
modities by a ban against con-
Sidering much Of the present
surplus in applying the system
Congress Scoreboard
Asked what he thought about
the progress of his legislative
program generally IN view OF
some Republican charges that
this Democratic-controlled Con-
Igress was a do-nothing Congress,
the President said he had not
thought Of comparing the score
board with past years.
He went on to say that the
farm bill seemed to have got
into something Of jam and
that the school construction bill
seems to be on dead center, while
the highway building program
appears to be making some prog
ress.
He added he was hopeful that
the foreign aid bill would be