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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-22

The Blue Cross Commission
today announced its strong OPP
position to the administration
major health insurance plan fol
Government workers.
The commission. national CO.
ordinating agency for the 81 Blue
Cross plans in the country, said
the plan would provide nothing
to almost SO out of 100 en-
lployes."
At a meeting Of its Executive
Committee in Chicago. the Blue
Cross said:
while the proposal can bring
some relief to those afflicted with
the highest and most disastrous
costs-chiefly those in the higher
income brackets-it will pay
nothing toward the cost Of most
illnesses"
The statement criticized the
administration for refusing tc
approve a payroll deduction plan
for purchase of basic health
coverage by Federal employees
"as private business has done.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-22
Blue Cross Opposes Plan
For u. S. Health Surety

The major health insurance
plan is strongly backed by Presi.
dent Eisenhower and his cab
met and was sent to Congress
last week. Under the proposal,
the Government would provide
rs per cent of the cost of Federal
employees and their dependents
above certain basic amounts.
The employees or the dependents
would have to pay the first $3.50
each for surgical expenses, $500
for hospital costs and $500 to
5000 for medical costs. Then the
Government would pay rs per
cent of the expenses above these
costs.
Civil Service Commission
Chairman Philip Young last
week declared that the major
health plan would result an
nually in benefits to so out Of
1000 Government workers as
result of major illnesses in
Cured by themselves or de-
pendents.
The plan has the solid sup
port of Federal employe unions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-22
Fragrant Dance Halls

HONG KONG, Mar. 20 (P.-
The Canton newspaper TAX
Kung Pao reports Red China S
dance halls are waiting fragrant
odors from the floor. They come
from powders made by a state
owned chemical concern and
spread so that dancers favor
the air with their steps. the
paper saws.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-22
Pension Kept
By Educator

ATLANTA, Ga, Mar. % P1.-
Trustees of the Georgia Teachers
Retirement System have refused
to disturb the S518 monthly pen
sion of DR.. Guy Wells. whose
racial views brought him under
fire of two State education agen-
cies.
The trustees said in a resolu-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-22

ing legs stump can shape it so
that an artificial leg may even
Itually be attached. A man with
both legs gone hobbled onto the
stage on makeshift artificial
legs.
Made Of Odds and Ends
II don't know just what to call
these" DR.. Buchanan told ttS'
doctors, because We constructed
them out of odds and ends we
had around the department. The
important thing is, he is getting
around"
Yesterday, the doctor heard
that rheumatoid arthritis in a
pig is the same puzzling disease
that cripples men.
And medical scientists are sac
Iriflcing arthritis pigs for the sake
of a future arthritis cure for
men.
DR.. H. j. Stafseth, Of the Di-
vision OF Biological Science at
Michigan. State University, said
that things like this make
it difficult Ito decide when medi-
cine is strictly human or veter-
mary medicine"
He pointed out that about 80
diseases of animals are COM
municable to man. Veterinar-
ians with Government services,
civilian and even private prac-
titioners have rendered out
Standing services by eradicating
such devastating diseases as foot
and mouth disease and Texas
fever" he said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-22

en-. He now is executive secre-
tary of the Georgia Council on
Interracial Relations.
The State Board Of Educa-
ton, which administers the COM
mon school program, last week
asked the trustees to discontinue
DR.. Wells pension IF legally pos
sible."
Almost simultaneously. the
Board of Regents of.the univer-
sity system stripped DR.. Wells
of his title of president emeritus
of the women's college.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-22

yeaf-OlQ woman, VINO Two years
ago survived a hip operation,
proudly walked across the stage.
The physician was DR.. Josephine
Buchanan, chief of the physical
medicine and rehabilitation
service at District General.
The elderly woman was Mrs.
Jane Brown. colored. of 1919
Twelfth street NV. Nearly two
years ago Mrs. Brown fell and
injured her hip. Two hospitals
turned her down. she declared,
because she was so old.
Artificial Joint Made
Mrs. Brown had an artificial
hip Joint made during an oper-
alton at District General and
within months DR.. Buchanan's
department had her walking
again. DR.. Buchanan emphasized,
at the scientific assembly of the
American Academy of General
Practice. that the family physi-
clan must be primarily respon-
sible for rehabilitating sick per-
sons at home.
Fifteen patients from District
General were used by a staff OF
hospital therapists to demon
strate techniques Of restoring
action to nearly paralyzed
muscles and helping amputees
walk again.
DR.. Buchanan declared that
the majority of her patients come
to the hospital after a shock
which often paralyzes one side
of the body. She showed both
homemade and complicated me-
chanical gadgets used to exer-
else the afflicted muscles.
She declared the family doc
tor can duplicate many of these
instruments in the patients
home and declared that the
patient may have a better chance
for recovery at home rather
than in the hospital.
The parade of patients across
the stage included men with one
leg used to demonstrate how
intensive bandaging of the miss
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-22
Appeal in 81 Million Suit
IAooinst N Show Denied

later. the National Broadcasting
Co. in its Big Story" program
presented a fictionalized version
of the case. Bernstein sued for
81 million damages but Judge
Keech found against him.
In today's opinion the appel
late court pointed out that Bern
STEMS name was not used in
the program and that mo fea-
lures derogatory to Bernstein.
other than those which appeared
in the court records or in the
publicity as of the time the events
were depicted.
The court declared it had
nothing to add to Judge Keech's
long, careful and exhaustive
opinion in the case" The appel
late opinion was written by Judge
E. Barrett Prettyman and con-
Cured in by Judges Charles
Fahy and Walter M. Bastian.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-22

ton adopted unanimously yes
terday that they are without au-
thority to discontinue or curtail
benefits of any retired member
of the fund.
A retired member retains 1.-The
inalienable right to exercise his
privileges as a citizen even
though his views and activities
may be repugnant" to others. the
trustees declared.
DR.. Wells, So, retired three
years ago as president of The
Georgia State College for Wom-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-22

The U. S. Court Of Appeals to-
day ruled against a man who
asserted his right to privacy was
violated by the television pro-
gram 1.-The Big Story"
In its action, the court up
held a previous ruling by Federal
Judge Richmond B. Keech.
The complaint in the case was
lCharles Bernstein, now a De-
tense Department employe liv-
ling in Front Royal, Va. Bern
lstein had been convicted in the
Iearly 1905 of the shotgun STAY
ling of Milton Henry, reputed
gambler, and was sentenced to
be executed.
He maintained his innocence
THE death sentence later was
Icommuted and Bernstein was
given a Presidential pardon in
1915.
Approximately seven years
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-22
Tourist Spending Up

OTTAWA, Mar. % (P.-The
Bureau of Statistics estimates
foreign visitors spent 1929 mil
lion in Canada in 1855 as COM
pared with 1903 million the
year before. But Canadians WIS.,
iting other countries spent SAL
million in 1855 compared with
1887 million in 1854, the bureau
figures.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-22
Do-It-YourseIf Theropy
Here Amozes Doctors
Rx CHARLES G. BROOKS

District General Hospital physician today amazed family
all country with lecture and live demon
sraton of what she called sort of rehabtave
therapy."
Amory applause of her patients 10512
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-22

the Last Supper will be placed on public exhibition
for the first time March 81 at the National Gallery
of Art. The gallery announced the canvas more
than feet wide has been lent to it by Chester Dale,
the gallerys president 1t will be shown with other
goth century paintings from Mr.. Dale'S collection.
The Spanish surreast spent nine months on the
painting, which depicts in almost Photographic
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-22

detail transparent Christ seated at table with
IL grieving disciples The gallery reported Dali had
this to say about his new work: Contrary to the
anecdotal and obscure conceptions in paintings on
this same subject wanted to materialize the maxi
ness, based on the celestial communion of the
number twelve. -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-11

mo assurance that normal COM
|munieations facilities have been
restored. -.
"The United States strongly
protests this interruption +. and
expects that the Hungarian au-
|thorities win prevent such an
interruption in the future"
The department said the Hun
garian Foreign Once, while
tranmitting one message for the
United States Legation during
the breakdown. refused to ham
die coded material and it added:
ut is an accepted principle
of international law that
diplomatic missions have the
right at all times and under all
circumstances to communicate
freely and privately with their
governments.
Hungarian authorities have
now within a brief period disre-
garded this principle for the Sec
ond time"
Mr.. zador promised to trans
init the protest to his Communist
government.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-11

mention Of criminal procedure:
and said:
"In the application of the
Constitution to segregation or
all common carriers, primary
emphasis will be placed upon
voluntary compliance with the
law as enunciated by the Su-
preme Court of the United
States"
Mr.. Brownell said that trans
portation companies puzzled
about what course to take in
the face of local segregation
statutes may confer with Justice
Department officers either in
Washington or in the field ito
define their legal rights and re-
Sponsibilities."
The Supreme Court has be-
fore it q motion to reconsider
its November IS ruling in the
Alabama cases. Holding an opin-
ion session yesterday, the court
did not act on the motions.
Mr.. Brownell declined to say
what further steps may be taken
liz his call for voluntary compli-
Iance fails to get results.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-11
ID. c. Man Leaves
To Join Russians
In Antarctic Study

The chief Of the Weather Blu
reau's station facilities and me
neurological observation division
has left Washington to join
Russian scientific expedition Il
Antarctica.
Gordon D. Cartwright, mete.
orologist who has held the bu.
reau posts since 1858, departed
for Capetown. South Africa, by
plane yesterday. He will sail
with the Russians for their base
at Mirny, Antarctica, and an
18-month scientific sojourn.
Mr.. Cartwright's assignment is
part Of an International ex-
change Of scientists gathering
data on the Polar region during
the 1875 International Geo.
physical Year.
A major part Of Mr.. Cart
wright's studies viii be a con-
centrated effort to learn more
about the Polar land mass and
its relationship to the surround
ing waters and air that combine
to make the Antarctic a weather
factory"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-11
Hungary 70 End
Message Cutoff
b. the Associated Prsss

A United States protest to
Hungary against . new cuton Of
communications with the Amer
lean Legation at Budapest has
brought a reply that things
should be back to normal today.
Thor Zador, first secretary of
the Hungarian Legation here,
told newsmen after receiving the
protest late yesterday that he
was "99 per cent certain that
by tomorrow everything will be
all right"
1t was the second time since
the October 20 Hungarian revolt
that communications were sew
cred between the Budapest Le-
cation and Washington. A State
Department note handed to Mr..
1ador said the second interrupt
|tion began Sunday and contin-
|ued for more than "a hours.
while the Department of
State is again receiving some
kilograms from the legation in
Budapest" the note said, ut has
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-11
SAC, 900 Gem Robbery

DALLAS, Tex, Dec. IL B.-
Earl H. Woodnorth, a New York
jewelry salesman. reported to po-
lice two masked men beat him
up in his downtown hotel room
last night and escaped with gems
valued at $4,000. Police said
Mr.. Woornorth is about IS, lives
in River. Edge, N. j., and is q
salesman for Harold Cohen, Inc.
a wholesale jewelry firm in New
York.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-11
Federated Press Folds;
Labeled as Red Front

NEW YORK. Dec. IL Dr.
Federated Press, a labor news
agency which once had some 200
customers but lost most Of them
after it was labeled a Commu-
mist front. has suspended opera
tons.
The closing down was dis
closed yesterday by the agency's
managing editor, Carl HaeSsler
of Detroit.
The agency was described as a
Communist front in q handbook
published a year ago by the SEN
ate Internal Security Subcom-
'mittee. 1t had never been in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-11

conference here yesterday with
80 United States district attor.
neys from IA Southern States
Each of the States in which they
serve has segregation laws, which
Mr.. Brownell has called now 6
dead letter"
The conference was called
after the Supreme Court on
November Is ruled that statutes
of the State of Alabama and the
city of Montgomery, Ala, re-
quiring racial separation on
public bus systems were uncon-
stitutional. Mr. BrownelI said
the courts decision established
that enforcement of State and
local statutes and ordinances re-
curing the segregation of the
white and colored races on
intrastate carriers violate the
due process and equal protection
clauses of the 14th Amendment
Of the United States Constitu-
ton"
ice Ruling Recalled
Mr.. Brownell recalled that the
Interstate Commerce Commits
sion had already ruled a year
ago that segregating passengers
by race on interstate transporta-
ton systems violates the Inter-
state Commerce Act.
Last month. in calling for
yesterdays conference, Mr.
Brownell said that intrastate
segregation in the future, by any
transportation company, would
be "a crime against the United
States" He added that anyone
inducing a company to continue
segregation practices lis equally
guilty" of the same crime.
But in yesterdays statement
the Attorney General avoided
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-11
Concert Cancelled

The Institute Of Contemporary
Arts concert by Natasha Litvin,
which was to have been open to
members Of the Corcoran Gal
lery of Art tomorrow. has been
Cancelled,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-11
BrowneII Tells BusIines
To Map Own Inteqrotion

Attorney General Browne yesterday called for voluntary
compliance first step toward ending racial segregation
local buses and other public transportation.
The Attorney General in effect asked
to make their adjustments to last Supreme
decision striking down local bus segregation laws.
Mr. Brownel made his statement an al-day
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-11

cluded in the Attorney Generals
list Of subversive organizations,
or undergone any extensive in
VeStigation, Mr.. Haessler said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-09

Nine months before the Japanese
attack on Pearl Harbor in December,
194l, the AAF recalled Wade, put
majors leafs on his shoulders, and
assigned him to Army intelligence
in Washington. From here he went
to New York and then Cuba He was
named operations officer of the 14th
Air Force in Florida in 1916.
Wade stayed there until 1949 when,
now a colonel, he was ordered to
Athens, Greece, as Air Attache to the
American Embassy. Two years and
one star later, he flew direct to Rio
from Athens to a similar assignment.
While in Brazil, he added another
star and became chief of the Air
Section of the Joint Brazil-United
States Military Commission.
A command pilot with numerous
decorations, including the DiStin-
guished Service Medal, Legion of
Merit, Army Commentator Medal
and foreign decorations from Japan,
France, Cuba, Greece and Brazil,
Gen. Wade was retired from the Air
Force without fanfare at the Penta-
gon last November. Earlier, he had
refused pass in review" ceremony
at Boiling Field, the Air Forces
parade grounds
Il didn't think it would be fair to
take the airmen from their duties
just to parade by some general they
probably never heard Of" he
explains
Now a public relations executive
with an insurance organization, Gen.
Wade lives here with his wife, the
former Helen Moran. of a long
standing prominent Washington
family. The Wades were married in
1942 and have no children.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-09

On April 6, 1924, the flyers, accom-
panied by a mechanic for each of
the Douglas biplanes, set out from
Seattle, Wash. Cruising at 10 miles
per hour, three of the four planes
that started out-the fourth crashed
IN Alaska-returned to Seattle ITS
days later. The first airplanes to
circle the globe, they covered $4,000
miles and passed over % countries
DR.. Paul E. CARRIER, curator of the
National Air Museum at the Smith
sonian Institution, says 1t. Wade
and his companions made the first
westward airplane crossing of the
Atlantic Ocean as we'll as the Pacific
on the global flight
During the trip across Europe. the
flyers set down at Paris and were
guests OF Gen. John j. PerShing at
the famous Folies Bergere. Wade
was so pushed that he slept through
the entire performance of the all
girl show.
Two years after the flight, Wade
and Writer Lowell Thomas were pre-
pairing a trip to the Antarctic in
search OF OIL Maj Gen. Mason
Patrick, Army Air Chief, frowned on
the ldea-Said the Army couldn't
spare Wade. No believer in the in
oiSpensible man, Wade promptly
resigned his commission.
ironically, he and Thomas failed
70 raise the money for the explora-
ton, SO it was abandoned. A civilian
again, Wade went to work for Con-
Solldated Aircraft in California as a
wee president and chief test pilot
Consolidated sent him to Rio de
'sneiro, where he eventually left the
company to set up his own export
import business.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-09
7-ozzie and Harriet. Comedy.

7-0zzie and Harriet. Comedy.
While his house is being redeco-
roted, Ozzie'ss doctor friend
spends a few nights with the
Nelson's.
9-The Millionaire. Dromo.
THE Story Of Salvatore Michoel-
angelo Buonorotti. A hord-
working shoemaker receives
tox-free gift Of million dol
lars from an anonymous bene-
foctor and invests the money in
valuable pointing.
9:25
5-Motthew Warren. News.
$50
5-New Orleans Police Dept.
THE Runaway Country Girl"
7-Ford The0ter. Dromo.
The Morriooe Plon." Story OF
young couple struggling to
keep up instoIlnnent payments on
household appliances. Eddie
Brocken. Mona Freeman.
9-I've Got q Secret. Panel.
1000
4-This Is Your Life.
5-Uneovered. Mystery.
A beautiful blond helps investi-
ootor Mark Sober track down O
counterfeiter-k killer.
7-Boxing. National.
Cormelo Costa vs.. Paul Jor9en-
sen. 10 rounds. Feotherweiohts
Madison Square 0orden.
9-20th Century Fox Hour.
Men Against Speed" Men who
drive the sleek, powerful rocina
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-09
progrom Lstings WEDNESDAY

cars OF 40 miles per hour, ehel-
longing deoth OF every turn on
the course ForIeY Granger. Mona
Freemon.
1890
4-Twenty One. Quiz.
5-The Hunter. Adventure.
I0:45
7-Fomous Fights.
Billy Grohom vs.. PoddN TOAhng.
Madison Square Gorden. D00oAR
Der l8, 1853.
4-News and Local News.
Horkness. Sprooue.
5-News.
Warren.
7-News. Weather. Sports.
Mccoffrey. Allen. Malone.
9-News. Weather. Sports.
Richards. Douglas. Donleis.
11:10
5-Feoturom0. Film Shorts.
ll:l5
4-WeotheF. Sports. Music.
Strinoer. Simpson. Les P0M.
9-The Late Show. Movie.
Ia Hours. Sleeping Car 70
Trieste" l948. A vital dioV
containing secret information 10
stolen aboard the Orient Express
jean Kent. British.
11:2O
1.-The Night Show. Movie.
Were Going to Be Rich" 1898.
Creole Fields. Brion Donlevy.
British.
1880
4-Tonisht. Steve Allen.
1910
5-Thou9ht. lnspirotionoI.
100
9-WeotheV.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-09

cars OF l40 miles per hour, ehel-
longing deoth OF every turn on
the course. ForIey Granger. Mona
Freeman.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-09
December IL

6:55
7-Louis Allen. Weather.
TOO
4-GoIden Playhouse. Drama.
5-Long John Silver. Adv'nt're.
The Eviction" Robert Newton.
7-Jim Gibbons. R. RendeIl.
Sports. News hiohIiohts.
9-Rom0T Of the Jungle.
"Sovooe Challenge" Jon Hall.
7:l5
7-JOhn Dolly. News.
1880
4-Eddie Fisher. Songs.
5-FederoI Men. Police.
Losing Gamble. Wolter 6reozo.
7-Disneylond. FontosyIond.
Hour. "Pluto's Day." The win
ner Of the ToiIwooeers' Academy
Award os the most promising
dog octor" foces q fierce bull
dog, on onory mother hen, chip
hunks and and an unfriendIy
octopus, Walt Disney is host.
9-Giont Step. Quiz.
Top prizes ore four year COL
leoe education and travel to for
eien countries for contestonts
between 7 and ~. Bert Parks
conducts.
7:45
4-NBC News.
Dovid Brinkley. Chef HuntIey.
500
4-Hirom Holiday. Comedy.
Hirom is forced to perform num-
erous feots Of skill while he is
being chosed through on ItoIion
carnival by two revolutionary
leaders. WoiIy Cox.
5-WoPneF Brothers Premiere.
! Hour, IS Min. Truck Bust
ers." 1913. A group Of inde-
pendent truckers stonds up
against O trucking noonote who
is trying to freeze them out
Richard Trovis. Don Costello.
o-ArthuT Godfrey Show. Color.
$50
4-Fofher Knows Best. C'm'dy.
Kothy helps wouId-be business
tycoon return from his dream
world of finoncio conquests to
reolity and honesty.
7-Novy Log. Dromo.
Peril on the Sea-" Dromo Of
mireeIe in the fog in the North
Atomic sowing carrier planes
during fleet exercises conducted
by the NATO nations. Robert
Shoyne. Robert Quarry.
900
A.kVnEk Thanka1 Color
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