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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-02

NA0A AN0oOAADs
/. The continuing reduction in
United States Army manpower.
Q. The suggestions Of Russia
Undoubtedly for propagands
purposes) that the Soviet Union
will withdraw its forces from oc-
cupied areas If the United States
pulls its troops out Of Europe.
8. The apparently still remote
possibility that the NATO struc-
ture itself might crumble because
Of tensions among its leading
MEMBERSHIP United States on
one hand. Britain and France
on the other.
Fighting Element Unchanged
Up to now, Mr.. Wilson has In
sisted that the steadily progress
sing cut In total army manpower
is not affecting the combat eff
fectiveness Of the five Army divi-
sions in Western Germany.
Whatever trimming has been
done in Army troops in Europe
Mr.. Wilson has insisted. has been
among service-type. support
troops, not in fighting elements.
However, Mr.. Wilson leaves
for the Paris session fresh from
budget making meetings. At
those meetings, the force lev
els" of the military services for
the next fiscal year are deter
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-02
US. Hopes to Fill Quota
Of Refugees by Christmas

Continued From First Page
medical examination by q United
States Public Health Service
doctor. who viii X-ray his lungs
and look for readily discernihle
signs Of serious or communicable
disease. A doctor can look at $50
patients in one day, If need be.
Takes Three Days
After three days-the time re-
quired for development Of the
X-rays-he viii return, and If
ali is well. he will simply sign a
parole agreement with the i'm.
migration officer. He and his
family. if he has one. will take
of on the first available plane
for Camp Kilmer, where 1t is
hoped. the private agencies who
have been sponsoring the Hun
garians brought here under the
refugee act, will help him to
settle down in a new country.
Gen. Swing is ready to come
to grips with the thorny prob
lem Of admitting former volun-
tary Communists who may be
among the applicants.
OF the $500 refugees who have
been issued visas under the ref
ugee act some so voluntary party
members turned up. They proved
to the satisfaction Of immigra-
ton authorities that they had
detected, and SO were "paroled"
in.
Gen. Swing, while in Vienna,
talked to two young Communists,
who dramatically illustrated their
detection from communism.
One poured gasoline along a
street in Budapest; the other
struck a match to it, thus de-
molishing the Russian tanks
rumbling in.
ITO parole these violent young
men who rebelled against the
people who brought them up"
as he puts it, is good enough
for me-" says Gen. Swing. "I'll
take a chance on them"
Proof Is Required
But" he adds, "a self-serving
statement will not do in these
cases. We require either eye
witnesses or documentary proof"
AS for the hue and cry that
Communist secret agents may
have infiltrated the refugees, the
general is calm about it. He
agrees with Mr.. Walter that the
dispatch of a Red agent is no
haphazard operation to be
achieved in such a way.
If hard-core Communists turn
up among those admitted, they
can be deported. But Gen. Swing
emphasized that PAROLES" will
have the same status as those
admitted with yisas under the
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U. N. TROOPS

Continued From First Page
Italian or Canadian flown flying
boxcars and swing off with OBJ
vious eagerness to see the camp
and colleagues already arrived.
They usually stay a few days
at Abou Suweir and then 60 of
to one Of the advance camps
near Ell Ballah, 30 miles south
along the canal road from Port
Said (the farthest south British
units are dug in is about "a
miles,.
Language Barrier
At Abus Suweir, the Colon
bians, who tend to keep to them
selves because of the language
barrier, concentrate on physical
training and drill-their stubby
arms swing high across barrel
chests as their sergeant chants
IunO, dos. tres, quatro and their
diversified boots kick up Egyp-
tan sand.
Nearby the Danes listen to
lectures on walking patrol
through wooded areas. 1t is a
continuation of basic training
interrupted on one days notice
in Denmark. The Norwegians
have set up a hospital in a low
brick barracks building and are
ready to serve 1000 men. Capt
Hans Riddervold, one of seven
doctors. proudly displays an
X-ray Of a soldiers knee (nor-
mali taken on a newly set-up
portable X-ray machine. He also
points out convalescing Dane
who had an appendectomy 10
days ago and is now helping
out in the hospital. cI can
Fundamentally recommend this
hospital" said the patient.)
I'VE have had only one case
of what you call here gippy
tummy." Capt. Riddervold said
That is because we prepare our
own food and chlorinate all
water twice." And there are nc
bedbugS in the barracks, Capt
Riddervold said. thereby killing
a rumor going around Abou
Suweir.
Get Along Well
The troops still get along well,
using a variety Of approaches.
They range from the Dale Car
negie technique of a Swedish
captain, who threw his arm
around the shoulder of a Cana
dian captain in charge of con-
struction work and invited him
over to the Swedish mess for a
chat about repairs needed in the
Swedish area. to the Indian ma
jor who turned to an Egyptian
corporal who had strayed from
a jeep and thereby held up a
convoy, and shaking his swagger
stick said loudly: You get in
that seat and stay there and
don't move. or the next time I'll
leave you in the desert"
The Swedish captain and the
Indian major both got what they
wanted and the United Nations
army slowly took shape.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-02
Humphrey Scores
immigration Laws

NEW YORK. Dec. l (P.-Sen-
Iator Hubert H. Humphrey, Demo-
crat of Minnesota, said today
the United States is ''handcuffed''
by present immigration laws in
trying to assist Hungarian ref
|ugees.
Senator Humphrey told the
annual youth forum Of the New
York Daily Mirror, that he plans
to introduce a bill in Congress
to modify present immigration
and refugee laws. He presumably
spoke before being informed of
President Eisenhower's decision
today to admit 21,50O Hungarian
refugees to the United States.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-02

cade. In the District, the in
crease was 16 per cent.
Nationally, there were 257,00O
families receiving general public
assistance in 1945 compared with
$4,000 families in 1855. In this
category, the only one where the
Federal government does not
share the bill-the District has
shown a decrease.
AS fast as recipients of gen.
eral assistance turned IS or were
pronounced totally disabled, they
were shifted to one of the
Notwithstanding programs. AS a
result, general public assistance
cases here rose from an average
Of 794 cases in fiscal 1945 to a
high for the decade of 1924 in
fiscal 1850 and then dropped to
573 in fiscal 1856. for a decrease
Of 81 per cent during the decade
Program S Years Old
Nationally. the program for aic
to the totally and permanently
disabled got underway in 1851
In its first year, $4,000 were
receiving payment. BY 1855, this
figure had grown to 244 1000, ar
increase of 90 per cent.
In the District. an average OF
1853 we're receiving aid as totally
disabled in fiscal 1851. THAT
year. there we're still 1928 cases
on the average on general public
assistance BY fiscal 1856. the
number receiving aid as totally
disabled had risen to an average
Of 2.252, an increase OF 1893 pei
cent
Aid to the totally disabled ha,
continued TO rise. During Sep
TENDER, 1892 we're receiving this
form OF aid.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-02

OICCO0 AoIuBCC AkIAVA1
Refugee Relief Act. Practically
the first order Of business for
the new Congress win be the
consideration Of O law that will
adjust the status Of the "paroled"
Hungarians. making them imme-
diately eligible for visas which
will put them on the road to
citizenship. if that is what they
want. The general anticipates
no difficulty whatever with such
legislation.
Press criticism of the Army
handling of the poor and tired
frets Gen. Swing not at
all. He points out that the al
Tentative to having the refugees
come to an Army camp where
the hospitality is simple, is put
ing them in third-rate hotels in
large cities.
I'VE are admant," he says
that these people can sit down
when they get here and be talked
to and have a little option In
their future lives"
The parole clause makes It
possible for the Hungarians to
come over at once, providing for
their relief and the relief Of the
hard-pressed Austrians, who are
frantically trying to take care OF
100000 additional people within
their narrow borders.
General Swing is anxious to
get moving" on this humans
tartan project. AS a first move,
he may fly to Vienna to see that
there is adequate personnel.
They are an outstanding
group of people," he says Of the
Hungarians he saw coming into
Austria. I'VE are not getting
castoffs. We ought to be happy
that we can bring these people
over here. They are a cross
section Of a very wonderful race"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-02
Eden Acquires Ton
Under Caribbean Sun

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Dec. /
P.-A week Of swimming. loaf
ing and occasional table tennis
under the Caribbean sun has
given Prime Minister Eden q
deep tan. A spokesman said to-
day he came for a rest cure and
ne certainly is having it,"
Newsmen we're told that only
a grave crisis would cause Sir
Anthony to cut short projected
three-week stay at his vacation
cottage. the Golden Eye.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-02

sent the father to a life term,
detectives said he told them.
They said Edmonds carries a
newspaper clipping Of the Albany
murder and told them his father
was paroled a year ago and has
remarked.
The Marine, six feet, one inch
tall and weighing 1877 pounds, is
accused of the strangulation
Staying of George Pierre Lefeb-
vre, SO. an ex-Army sergeant of
Nashua, N. H., in Mr.. Lefebvre's
bachelor apartment at 1922 M
street NV, the morning of No
vember Is.
In a confession. he said Mr..
Lefebvre made improper adj
vances."
Edmonds, arrested at Albany,
Ca. when he wrecked Mr.. Le-
febvre's auto in what he said
was a suicide attempt, had been
AWOL from Marine barracks
here at Eighth and Eye streets
Sc.
Accepted Invitation
He told police he first saw Mr..
Lefebvre when the tall, be-spec-
tacled student stopped him on a
Georgetown street and asked if
he'd like a cup of coffee. Mr..
Lefebvre had driven slowly past
the walking Edmonds several
times, the Marine said. HE re-
minded me of my father" police
quoted him.
Edmonds. in a more detailed
account of his movements be-
tween the time of the murder
and his arrest. said yesterday ne
was heading for his home in
Albany Ito solve a family prob
lem." The problem, he recounted,
was a younger sister who has
been living with their grand
mother. Now that the father has
been paroled and remarked, Ed
monds said, the father wants the
daughter to live with him. Ed
monds opposed this, he said.
The sister. he said, was on her
mothers lap when she was shot.
Edmonds said he accompanied
Mr.. Lefebvre to the apartment
in the early morning hours of
November 10 and later accepted
his invitation to use one of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-02
Troop-Cut Issue Facing
Wilson at NATO Por|ey
BY the Associated Press

Secretary Of Defense Wilson will North Atlantic
Treaty Organization conference in Paris week hence There
will again the question whether the States plans reduce
ton Of its forces in Western Europe.
The question has point at this meeting for sew
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-02
Staying Victim Reminded
Marine of Own Fother

young Marine charged with the Georgetown Staying OF
American University student told police
saw the victim "he reminded me of my father" -
Husky Pvt Jim Edmonds, facing murder only 49,
his father shoot and kill his mother the
Albany Ca home II and testified the trial which
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-02
D. c. RELIEF FOR PAST DECADE

Table showing amount Of money spent annually on public
assistance and number Of cases for the period
Fiscal 1916 through Fiscal 1855
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-02
TAILORED BY MUNsINcwEAR

Neil Orders Will RsssIv. Immodlo.o Attention
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-05
Ministers Protest
Arrest Of Neqro

TAMPA, Fla, Oct. 5 (P.-
Negro ministers. protesting the
forcible arrest of an official Of
the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People
called a public meeting tonight
ito tell the truth about certain
events in Tampa"
The Tampa Interdenomina
Itional Ministerial Alliance SAID
it considered the events in ques-
ton illegal and against good
morals"
A five-man delegation of the
Alliance told Sheriff Ed Black
burn yesterday that Tampa'S
Negro citizens were upset, up
stirred and organizing" because
of reported circumstances of the
arrest Monday of William A
Fordham, SO, president of the
Florida branch of the NAACP.
Mr.. Fordham was placed in
handouts in a patrol car when
arrested on charges of double
parking and resisting arrest, He
said he was kicked and beaten
when he objected to driving his
own car from the scene. Arrest
ing officers said they used only
enough force to get handouts
on him and put him in the patrol
car.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-05
Thief Forces Wuy
Into Auto, Takes
$5l From Woman

A Defense Department en-
ploye told police a husky bandit
forced his way into her auto,
made her drive him several
blocks to a wooded area and took
her purse containing $51 early
today.
Victim of the holdup was
Marguerite B. Townsend, "a,
colored. of 51O6 Grant street
NE. She said she stopped for
a stop sign at Fiftieth street, a
block from her home, when the
man opened her auto door and
got in.
She told police he held his
hand IN his coat pocket as
though he had a gun and told
her to drive several blocks down
Fiftieth street to a wooded area,
There he took the purse and ran
into the woods.
She said the bandit was
colored, about %, 6 feet tall, 1876
pounds and was wearing a tan
trench coat and tan hat.
In another case, Mrs. Rose
Aidman of Akron, Ohio. a guest
at the Mayflower Hotel. told
Sd precinct police someone
entered her room between S pm
and IL pm. and took her gray
mink cape. She valued the fur
at $4,000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-05
Side Money Given
Gambling Dealers
Is Ruled TuxubIe
BY the Associated Press

The United States Tax Court
ruled today that side money
received by a dealer in a gam
bling casino represents compen-
sation for personal services ano
is subject to income tax.
Lawrence E. Bevers, a dealer
handling blackjack, roulette anc
dice games in Las Vegas (Nev.)
gambling houses, tested the ques-
ton in connection with his in.
come tax return for 1858, during
which he received 1923 in side
money"
He commended that this money
represented tax-free gifts.
The tax court explained "side
money" this way:
The Las Vegas casinos in which
Mr.. Bevers worked prohibited
any determination between deal
ers and players and supervised
all games to make sure that nc
special favors or services were
extended to any individual pa
iron. However. many players
habitually place bet for the
dealer in making their owr
wager. and turn over any result
ing winnings from that bet to
the dealer.
The dealers report all such
receipts to the management.
The tax court said the ques-
ton presented was identical
with a l948 case in which IL
held that tips received by tax
drivers are not gifts, but are
taxable as compensation for per-
sonal services.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-05
Mrs. Otis HEDGES,
Maryland Resident
For Many Years

Mrs. Otis B. Hedges, rs, a res
ident of Southern Maryland for
many years. died yesterday at
Congressional Manor Sanitar-
Iium in Rockville.
Mrs. Hedges and her husband,
who died in 1915, moved to
Southern Maryland in 1888,
where they lived on a farm
near Hollywood. For the past
two years, she lived with her
daughter and son-in-law, Mr.
and Mrs. Irwin C. Murray, of
l5725 Utah avenue, Chevy Chase,
D. c. Mr.. Murray, a retired
builder, is the former president
of the District Building Supply
Co.
The former Iva M. Freeman,
Mrs. Hedges was born in Casey
ILL.,. and lived in Flat Rock for
many years before coming to
this area. She was active in
the Methodist church there, and
was a past matron of the Order
Of Eastern Star Lodge No. $40.
Besides her daughter, Mrs
Murray, Mrs. Hedges is survived
by three sisters and brother:
Mrs. Frank Spenny, Casey. ILL.,;
Mrs. Margaret link, 1922 Wake
| field road, Bethesda; Miss Elsie
M. Freeman, TIT Irving street
NV, and Arthur C. Freeman.
Quincy. Ill.
Surviving also are two grand
children, Irwin c.. Murray. jr..
$500 Indian Head Highway
Oxon Hill, Md, and Mrs. Joann
Murray Fischer, of the Glass
manor Apartments, Glassmanor
Md; and four great grandchil-
dren.
Services will be held at 3 pm
tomorrow at the S. H. Hines
funeral home, 1901 Fourteenth
street NV. Burial will be in
Rock Greek Cemetery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-05
j. W. Powell,
Railway Head

John Weston Powell. 80, presi-
dent of the Virginia Blue Ridge
Railway since 1880, died yes
terdsy at Doctors Hospital after
a brief illness.
He played an important role
in the construction of the rail-
way in Central Virginia and in
the production of lumber there
When the chestnut blight dev-
astated the timber in that
region he was active in the
development of industrial plants
along the railroad line.
Mr.. Powell came to Wash
Iington in 1914 from Camisteo
IN. Y. He had interests in
Canada. the Central and South
Iern States and British Honduras
in his early days in the lumber
business. He lived at 1725
Seventeenth street NV.
Mr.. Powell served as a captain
in Army ordnance during World
War I.
He was a member of the vestry
of Epiphany Episcopal Church
1917 G street NV.
Surviving are his widow Helen
and a brother, Milton C. Powell
ST., of Pasadena, Calf.
Services will be held at II
am. tomorrow at the Epiphany
Church. Burial will be private
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-05
Toll in India Floods
Sours to $40 Dead

NEW DELHI, India, Oct. s
R.-Official reports said today
more than $40 persons died in
India during heavy rains in the
past six months.
The latest count included
some 1870 deaths in September
in floods sweeping wide areas
between Calcutta and Lucknow
to the north.
Calcutta, midas largest city,
and the railroad terminal city of
Howrah were hit yesterday by
a roaring tidal wave nearly "a
feet high that swept down the
Hooghly River.
The Hooghly. flowing through
the heart of Calcutta. today rose
to within 6 inches of its high
est mark since 1890, following
the fourth tidal wave in SO
hours.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-05
Suez Users Name
Six to Committee

| LONDON, Oct. S (R.-Six
nations were named today to
run the new Suez Canal Users
Association and chart ways for
a peaceful settlement of the
Suez crisis with Egypt. The ma
tons we're the United States,
Britain, France, Italy. Norway
and Iran.
A seventh nation will be APP
pointed to the associations
Executive Committee when the
full membership to SQUADRON
made up Of Is countries-is COM
Ipleted.
This was announced in a COM
munique following the windup of
the associations inaugural ses-
sion.
Three nations-Pakistan. Japan
and Ethiopia - attended the
conference, which opened Mon
day, as observers because they
had not yet decided whether to
Join. The communique said
election of the seventh member
of the Executive Committee will
take place when these countries
make up their minds. They are
believed likely TO Join in the
future. Ethiopia has been men
toned as the seventh member
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-05
Stolen Body Found
Safe With Woman

CHICAGO, Oct. S (P.-A
brown-haired young wife TOLD
police today she wanted a baby
so much that she stole l-month-
old Ronald Joseph Butcher from
his crib last night.
The baby was found unframed
with Mrs. Gladys Bynum, "a, in
the basement apartment she
shares with her husband, Charles
in the same Southwest Side area
where the child was kidnapped.
Il wanted a baby SO much
just took one she told Capt
Patrick Deele. Mrs. Bynum ano
the baby were taken by police Ia
confront the infants mother
Mrs. Lois Butcher, 81
Mrs. Bynum's story affirmed
that Of Mrs. Butcher. Relating
how the two women met in a
store yesterday afternoon, Mrs
Bynum said she had worn a
maternity dress and padding &c
make her friends think she was
expecting baby Of her own.
The child's abduction set in
motion a search of the area BY
100 policemen.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-05
Zanzibar Greets
Princess Murquret

ZANZIBAR. Oct. 5 CP.-The
East African isle Of Zanzibar
gave a turbulent welcome today
TO Princess Margaret, first men,
Der Of the British royal family
to visit the protectorate in 80
years.
Thousands cheered and a nat
terry Of guns sounded a welcom-
ing salute to the royal yech;
Britannia.
Margaret will be the guest OF
the pro-British sultan, Seyyid
Sir Khalifa Bin Harib. She was
formally welcomed by his son
and heir. Prince Abdalla--an i'm
posing figure in black turban
carrying a iewel-hilted silver
sword.
Margaret drove in an open
car through crowded streets 10
the sultan's palace. Steel-hsi-
melted police cleared a path as
the crowds massed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-05
Michel Detroyot,
French Air Ace

PARIS. Oct. 5 R9.-Michel
Detroyat. 81. French ace who
helped reorganize Argentina Is
air force after being sentenced
to national indignity for collab-
grafton with the Nazis in World
War II, died of an embolism to-
day in a suburban clinic.
The son of a calvary general,
Mr.. Detroyat was one of Frances
top test and acrobatic pilots be-
tween the two world wars. He
escorted Charles Lindbergh on
his triumphant tour of airfields
after the United States pilots
solitary Atlantic crossing in
1927.
During World War II Mr.. De-
troyat Joined an air transport
group working for the Nazis ano
also was accused of carrying in
tensive pro-collaboration prop
uganda. He fed to Argentina
at the liberation of France ano
came back five years ago after
an amnesty.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-05

Deacons of the Takoma Park
Presbyterian Church at the
time Of his death, Mr.. Gould
also served as a trustee of the
church for IS years. and fol
many years as treasurer.
Worked as Teller
After his retirement from the
Government Mr.. Gould worked
as a teller for four years in the
Citizens Bank of Takoma Park
He is survived by his widow
Edna; a son, Arthur, of Nor
wood, R. l.; a daughter, Mrs
Irene Woolbert, San Jose, Calf !;
brother, Orrin, of North Graf
ton Mass, and four grandchil-
dren.
Services will be held at 2 pm
tomorrow at the Takoma Park
Presbyterian Church. Burial
will be in Fort Lincoln Cemetery
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-05
Drugstore Theft Fails,
Clerk Can't Open Safe

on the door, officers said. Inside,
the two holdup men forced the
clerk and porter to the rear of
the store and made Mr.. Leonall
hack at the safe lock with a
small axe when he told the men
he didn't know the combination.
Failing to open the safe, Mr..
Leonall was relieved of the axe
and one of the intruderS tried
his hand at it. He failed, too.
Police said the men insisted
that they knew Mr.. Rubin" had
money in the safe. They were
referring to Abe Rubin, 40, of
4420 Sedgwick street NV,
owner of the store, police said.
firing of the effort to break
into the safe, the men ordered
Mr.. Leonall and Mr.. Meyers to
the basement. The pair then
were believed to have joined a
third man in the main part of
the store and left with him in
a car.
Police broadcast a lookout for
three colored men.