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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-14

mler Pierre MendeS-FTance.
Whether a Republican Front
leader can win a majority of
the badly splintered National
Assembly is an open question
The Front controls some 100
Assembly seats. far short of a
majority in the 627-member
house.
The Socialist Party, led by Guy
Mollet, scheduled two-day
convention at Puteaux, a Paris
industrial suburb. Local Social
list organizations have been call
ing for a Republican Front cab
met and the convention was ex-
pected to reflect their views.
Also opening today was a
three-day convention Of the. new
political group led by Piene
Poujade. which showed unex-
pected strength in the January
2 elections. Unlike most French
conventions. the Poujade meet
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-14

One responsibility of good
citizens is to vote. In order
to vote you must register.
Show Congress-and the Ma
ton - that WashingtOnians
are good citizens. Register now
at the District Building and
Vote in the election May l.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-14

calling it ''fiagrants and 1srAan
amendments to make the latter
more like the former.
AL condemn the attack, Ehe
Soviet and 1raniarf proposals.
adopting a Syrian suggestion.
also would have the council de-
eide Israel should pay adequate
compensation" for loss OF Syrian
life and property.
The operation cost a reported
Sc Syrian and 6 Israel lives.
Israel said it was to quiet Syrian
guns that had fired on Israeli
fishing and police boats on the
sea. which is within Israel near
the Syrian border. But Syria
complained to the U. N. that it
was open aggression"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-14
BoIiviun Rood Busy

Economic Importance Of the
new Santa Cruz-Cochamba high
way was proven by the traffic
flow, developed within months Of
the completion of this Bolivian
road
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-14
Military Action by Reds
In Formoso Area Doubted
BY the Associated Press

American officials expect Red China to continue to use
diplomacy rather than seeking its foreign policy goals
despite steady military budup opposite Formosa
officials who reported this today did not make clear how
long looked for this words policy to prevail
Speculation lately that Red China might tire Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-14
Personnel Declared Safe
In North Jordan Riots

Department spokesman said last night that about
burned three buildings of Southern Baptist
mission Thursday in North Jordan.
spokesman mob destroyed the school, dispensa
outside the compound at Ajlun. The
hospital inside the compound not touched he said
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-14
French Sessions to Pick
New Premier Launched

PARIS IA l4-Frances political parties launched
series of important meetings today aimed deciding who should
ahed French cabinet and what policies he soul follow
chance the post expected TO to
Of the Republican Front made mainly OF the
Socialist Party and the Radical Socialist followers of former Pre-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-14
Observation-Disclosures
Foreign Aid Under U.N.

UNITED NATIONS, n. Y, Jan "A (H-Secretary General
Dag Hammarkod yesterday advocated administration
economic aid under auspices of international organization
such the United Nations rather than atmosphere
strife"
His comment made at a conference his de-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-14

NEW YORK-Chrstne White of Washington cata-
Quilted into the lead of the Broadway hit "Hatul of RAIN"
Wednesday when the star Shelley Winters broke her ankle
Christine 49, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs James An
drew White 4731 Ecott street NV. She graduated
from Woodrow Wilson High School and the University of
North Carolina and has had only Broadway and movie bit
parts until Although she learned the role perfectly
Miss Winters understudy, she is studying her script
again in her New York apartment.-AP Wirephoto.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-23
3 TELEVISION SETS
DEFEAT MOTHERS
PLEA FOR AID

A 3l-year-old mother of
two, who said she was des-
tltute because her husband
did not support her. was
denied emergency aid by the
Welfare Department when it
was learned she owned three
television sets and six radios.
The woman, a polio victim.
who sells papers and post
cards for a living, appeared
before Juvenile Court Judge
Edith H. Cockrill. Judge
Cockrill ordered the woman's
husband, a plumber, to pay
$40 a week to support his
family.
The mother said she has
been living on 81 worth of
groceries given to her by the
Salvation Army since last
Wednesday. She said she
gave the food to her chill
dren and has been subsisting
on bread.
The woman told Judge
Cockrill she needed her three
television sets for her hus-
band, her children and her
self. despite the fact her
cooking gas was cut off last
week and that she is three
months in arrears on her
electric bill.
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u. S. AtoII Ntoy See
British Bomb Test

LONDON, May % (P.-An
authoritative source said yester-
day Christmas Island, the big
Pacific atoll claimed by the
the United States, will be used
Jas a base for Britain's first
hydrogen weapon tests next year.
There was no official con-
Ifirmation, but an admiralty
spokesman said preparations
have been started for setting UP
an airfield on the Pacific island
which lies on the equator rough
lily halfway between Australia
and California. Ships of the
Royal Navy and chartered mer-
chantmen already are load
ing hundreds of tons of stores
and airport equipment in Scot
fish ports for transportation to
the BritiSh-run territory.
Britain has made clear she
has developed hydrogen weap-
IonS, but thus far has not tested
them. 1T has long been assumed
that her first series of hydrogen
AS distinct from atomic-tests
will be held in the Pacific with
i'm l8 months.
British-American talks have
been under way in Washington
for several weeks about the fu-
ture of the 220-mile-square is
land.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-23

Eastern Communist countrie.
who were charged with Tito.
ism" The Shakeup in othel
Communist-bloc nations ha:
fallen in line with the recent
Kremlin assault on the per.
sonality cult" or one-man Sta.
linist dictatorship.
Shehu and Gen. Enver Hoxha
boss of Albania's Communist
Party, ran the country at the
time of the Xoxe trial. Hoxhs
last month got on the band.
wagon with an article in the
party paper, Zero 1 Populit, de-
nouncing the cult of the individ-
ual. He also accused the Sc
curity police force of making
itself more important than the
party
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-23
Conodu Will Modify
Grounded Comet Jets

OTTAWA. May % (P).-The
Royal Canadian Air Force said
yesterday its two Comet jetliners
will be modified in Britain to
make them safe for operational
use.
The two British-built planes,
which cost $l,544,000 apiece.
have been grounded for nearly
two years after two Comet
crashes off Italy which took Sc
lives.
The Air Force said a decision
has been made to have modifica-
Itions carried out on the two
Comet transports Ito permit full
operational use of the speedy
jets"
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u. S. Afraid to Death
TOf 'Eggheods,' PTA Told

willing to go further should be
shunted off into trade schools
or even (if they have obtained
a bare minimum of education)
into doing that humble work in
the world that must be done by
somebody"
IF a boy is a born truck
driver" DR.. Baxter suggested,
why don't we start him driving
a truck?
THE tragedy is that men are
not born equal. There are some
who were out of step when the
egg was fertiliZed."
In metropolitan high schools,
particularly. DR.. Baxter said,
there are small cores of trouble
makers who hold down the level
of all because so much teacher
time is consumed in just dis
cipline.
1T isn't worth it, keeping
these mugs on" Dr.. Baxter said.
TO try to keep these obnoxious
boys on is Just a sin. They
might as well be made to drop
out of the usual sort of school
and enroll in a trade school with
quite a different sort of disci-
lpline.
This is undemocratic. of
course. But there is nothing
more undemocratic than the way
the gods have distributed genes
among the population of the
world.
When one thinks of the ma
ture of the human mass, with the
endless differences between man
and man." DR.. Baxter remarked
"one wonders not at the MANY
failures of mass education, but
rather at the amazing degree of
Its success.
Anyone who teaches in a
metropolitan high school today
is either a saint. or just insensi-
tive"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-23
japanese Rescue
Crashed U.S.. Pilot

TOKYO, May % (P).-Two
Japanese men probably saved a
Minnesota pilot from burning to
death after his F-86D Sabre Jet
crashed into a Japanese home,
the Air Force said to-day.
First 1t. D. j. Horn of Grand
Rapids, Mimi, rode his disabled
jet down into a deserted field
yesterday. 1t plowed half mile
through the field, then t.ashed
into a farmhouse. A 3-year-old
Japanese boy was killed. his
father was injured and the house
burned.
The Air Force said Isao Shindo
and Eichi Hayashi saw 1t. Horn
crawl from the cockpit and drop
Unconscious a few feet from the
plane as it burst INTO flames
The two japanese dashed In and
dragged the airman to safety.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-23

THE coLoRS: New deep blue, light grey, medium
grey, dark grey, tan and dark brown.
THE SIZES: Two and three button models for
reauors, shorts, longs. extro longs, porys ond
short portIys in the group.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-23

not need to surface to obtain
much of the information II
sought. A periscope would have
done the trick.
High-Speed. color-fllm, motion
picture cameras. working through
the periscope could record val
liable data for study by nucleaI
physicists in Russia.
Reasonably accurate estimates
of the energy yield and efficiency
of nuclear explosion can be
made by measuring the time OF
development of the bombs fire.
bali and by analyzing the color
spectrum of the light emitted by
the bomb.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-23

APRoA NAASAJ Wd4QN1Cu ullO IIlt
northeast corner of the zone less
than II hours before defamation
time, the patrols reported re-
peatedly that their sweeps had
disclosed" no unknown shipping
in the area.
Ships, Planes ScOur Area
This meant that none had
been seen. 1t did not neces-
sarily mean that nothing was
there. six ships and a half
hundred planes secured one
comparatively small part of the
zone for two days in hunt fol
a missing American airman
who was aboard a light bomber
when it crashed. This intensive
hunt, with thousands of men
serving as lookouts, sighted
nothing except drifting trash
from passing ships.D
The Marshall Islands are
easy reach of long-range
Soviet submarines basing on
or Red China ports. To
slip into the warning area, close
enough for a good look at the
bomb test, could have been a
simple operation for Russian
submerSibleS.
In the first public demonStra-
ton of a thermonuclear explo-
sion. to which selected American
neWsmen and civil defense OBJ
servers were invited, the precise
location and time for the shot
were announced in advance.
Movies Through PeriscOpe
For a Russian submarine com.
mander there was no problem
about being at the right place
at the right time.
A submarine, on this type Of
technical reconnaissance, woulc
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-23
EIectronics to Run
Railroads Of Future

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (P).--
"Ghost" trains operating without
crews may run the railroads OF
the future.
Speakers at the second annual
Railroad Management Seminar
at the University of Michigan
said crewleSs trains have been
operated by electronics for up to
10 miles on a trial basis. But the
perforated tape that master
minds the operation is likely to
be restricted to freight yard
operations for the next several
years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-23
Purge May Hit
Albanian Premier

BELGRADE. Yugoslavia, May
I23 (P1.-Reports from Albania
indicate Premier Mehmet Shehu
may be the next Red leader to
be purged on charges of Sta
linism.
Experts here on Balkan af-
fairs see Premier Shehu as a
likely scapegoat for the 1949
trial and execution of Interior
Minister Koci Xoxe as a "Yugo-
slav agent and supporter of Yu-
goslav imperialistic aspirations
in Albania"
Xoxe has not been cleared
as have many other leaders of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-23
Attorney Indicted,
Accused of Rope,
Biting Womon's Eur

A 44-year-old attorney was
indicted yesterday on charges of
raplng a 36-year-old woman, of
cutting her and biting her on
the ear last February 8 in his
home in the 1900 block of Riggs
place NV.
He is Donald Weed, The in
Idictment accuses him of assault
with knife. The third count in
the indictment accuses Weed of
ldisfiguring the woman by biting
her ear. She also suffered a
broken jaw.
The woman attacked had re-
Gently been released from jail.
She had been sent there on a
drunkenness charge and was
staying temporarily at the law
yer's residence, police said.
Court papers list the woman's
address in the 900 block of L
street NV.
Willie Arts, 81. colored, was
indicted on a charge of first
degree murder in the fatal
shooting of a woman friend on
May in an alley in back of his
home in the 1000 block of Mon
tello avenue NE.
The victim was Juanita t.
Butler, %, colored. of the 1900
block of I street NE. Police said
the shooting took place during
an argument after a drinking
bout.
The indictments were among
Is returned by the grand jury
before Judge David A. Pine of
District Court.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-23

SAN FRANCISCO. May % up
! America sis afraid to death of
eggheadS." DR.. Frank C. Baxter
says.
yet behind all science, all
knowledge. are eggheads." con-
tends DR.. Baxter, University of
Southern California professor
whose television Showmanship
won him a 1856 Peabody Award
for his diScourses on Shake
speare.
"Eggheads-I hate the word
are the people who set the pace, "
DR.. Baxter told a press confer
ence last night before addressing
the National Congress of Parents
and Teachers.
/, I'VE are talking. assume, of
the socially valuable intelligent
people. not the superficial intel
lectuals.
{ I'VE are losing something pre-
Z cious in not knowing how to ind
/. our leadership potential" DR..
Baxter continued.
I'VE are bankrupt in world
leadership today. You can see
lin Washington that policy is
made day by day"
Winston Churchill was a lead
er of world stature, DR.. Baxter
said, "but now Churchill is
through"
Under present methods of
mass education, DR.. Baxter
argued, "some of the waste of
human stuff is inexcusable.
1T is wrong that the superior
student with rich capabilities
should be denied the chance to
unfold to the limits of his powers
1T is sin that the mediocre
and the unpotential should set
the pace for their betters.
"One wonders whether there
should not be some point in
public education where those
unable. uninterested, and un-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-23
Cunudiun Output Rises

OTTAWA. - Canada's gross
national product for 1855 climbed
to 26.6 billion dollars, an in
crease of more than 10 per cent
over the 24.1 billion achieved in
1854, a recession year.
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Did Red Subs in Pacific
Spy on H-Bomb Test?
BY ELTON C. FAY
Associated Press Military Reporter

PEARL HARBOR May 90 lF1.-Only Moscow really know.
whether unlimited Soviet observers the
a Handicapped H-bomb.
Aircraft and desoyers of the test task force swept
sections OF the danger repeatedly
days preceding and the day the Hbomb drop made
Except for one instance in which japanese fishing craft
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-07
Murray Hits 'FoIsehood,'
Cancels D'Ewort Heorino

without foundation in fact. ]
am surprised that a newspaper
with the reputation of the Wash
ington Post would carry such
pure fiction as a news story.
1.-THE Yellowtail dam resolution
will stand on its own merit and
President Eisenhower, I am sure
will have the advice of his de-
partment heads as to whether
he should sign or veto the resolu-
ton.
Il have not discussed the
Presidents action on the bill
with any member of his admin
istration and no one can produce
any evidence that / have done
so. Certainly I would not be q
party to any attempt to imply
That the President of the United
States would enter into a cheap
political deal or horse trade as
the Post terms it.
Il repeat there is not an iota
of truth in the allegation.
las a result of this false
charge l have no choice but tC
vacate the hearing that had beer
tentatively set ON Mr.. D'Ewart's
nomination. After the President
has acted on the Yellowtaif Dam
resolution ] viii consult with
members Of the Senate interior
and Insular Affairs Committed
as to what procedure should be
followed in connection with the
-D'EWart nomination.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-07
Youths Explain
Crime Sprees

Ten boys and a girl appeared
in Juvenile Court yesterday
charged with crimes that brought
them $4,000 in>loot.
The boys, most of whom came
from above-average homes, tolc
Judge Edith H. Cockrill they got
involved "just for thrills"
Police called them THE Reb-
els" and they had INDUCED in 9
Iyear-long series of houSebreak.
Iings in the District, Montgomery
and Prince Georges Counties.
The case of the girl, who is Is
was continued for study. She il
charged with receiving some o.
the $4,000 worth of jewelry taker
lin a burglary at the Discount
wholesalers Show Room, 555:
South Dakota avenue NE. or
May 10. She admitted the
charge. Her family said they
would obtain an attorney for hel
before the next hearing.
Three boys were committed Il
the Welfare Department and
fourth was sent to the Nationa
Training School for Boys. TIVE
cases were continued for further
study. One complaint was dis.
missed when the boys famil!
said they had arranged a sum
mer work plan and private
schooling for him.
The boys range from 8 to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-07
By the Associated Press

A Senate committee hearing
on President Eisenhower's NOM
ination Of Wesley A. D'Ewart tt
be Assistant Secretary of the
Interior was called off yesterday
as a result of a news story.
Senator Murray. Democrat Of
Montana. chairman of the In
terror and Insular Affairs Com.
mittee which was to have helc
the hearing June 10, cancelled it
He said he did so "as a result
Of a false charge" in a story
carried Tuesday morning by thu
Washington Post and Time:
Herald.
The papers article said Sem
ator Murray made horst
trade" with the Republican ad-
minlStration by scheduling the
hearing with the understanding
the President would not veto q
bill involving Yellowtail Dam in
Montana. The bill would pay
Grow Indians IS million fol
land required by the project ano
permit its construction.
Mr.. D'Ewart. former Montana
Congressman, opposed Senator
Murray in a senatorial campaign
in 1854. He has been acting as
Assistant Secretary of the In
terror since last October.
Senator Murray said in a state
ment:
1.-The article is absolutely
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-07

one of the vendors, said none
|of the items displayed by Mr.
Martin is sold by his concern or
his chief competitor.
Loss Estimates Vary
The hearing was held open by
Chairman Bible because he
found considerable variance in
estimates of how much money
the District would lose in taxes
if vending machine operators
are given the exemption.
The current range in estimates
of lost revenue was between
100000 and $4,000. Behind
this was the earlier estimate by
Mr.. Martin that the District
might lose as much as several
thousand dollars year"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-07

him his refusal would not bar a
hearing. but that at such a hear
ing he would be expected to an
swer questions concerning Com
munist Party membership and to
file an affidavit later.
Thereupon. Mr.. Robson
brought court action to force the
issuance OF the document. The
U. S. District Court dismissed his
complaint and he appealed.
In upholding the lower court
today. the appellate tribunal de-
clared in part:
I'VE cannot assume the in
validity of hearing which has
not been held or the illegality of
questions which have not been
asked -"
The opinion was written by
Judge E. Barrett Prettyman and
concurred in by all seven of the
other judges sitting as full
court
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-07
Robson Loses Appeal
In Fight for Passport

Denial of passport for Euro
pean travel to singer Paul Robe
son was affirmed today by the
U. S. Court of Appeals for the
District of Columbia.
The court held that Mr.. Robe
son had failed to exhaust his
administrative remedies by not
seeking a hearing from passport
officials but instead asserted the
invalidity of the regulation pro-
viding for one"
Mr.. Robson had applied for
the document on June 20, 1858
He was told the issuance of the
passport apparently was pre-
cluded because of alleged Com
munist activities. Passport Off
Gals told him he could seek a
review by conforming with GER
tain regulations including the
filing of a non-Communist aft
davit. This the singer declined
to do
The passport Office then tolo
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-07
President to Speak
At Fitness PurIey

President Eisenhower plans to
drive to Annapolis on the evening
of June 10 to address the final
session of a two-day meeting of
a conference he has called on the
fitness of American youth.
Vice President Nixon viii act
as chairman of the conference at
the Naval Academy.
White House Press Secretary
James c. Hagerty said today the
President plans to arrive at the
Academy around S or 6 pm,
attend a barbecue supper and
address the conference. He will
drive back to Washington the
same evening.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-07
Official Register
Proposed for D. c.

Representative Hyde, Repub-
lican of Maryland, has intro
duced legislation to prescribe
administrative procedure for the
District Government and to re-
quire publication of an official
document to be known as the
District of Columbia Register.
This register would contain
the complete text of regulations
adopted by the Commissioners
and independent agencies of the
District.
The purpose of his bill, Mr.
Hyde explained, lis to achieve
a reasonable degree of uni
formity in the procedures before
the agencies of government in
the District, to have the pro-
cedures accessible to everyone,
easily understood, and to assure
due process"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-07

years old. They are charged in
one or more Of dozen crimes,
Including unauthorized used of
automobiles, entering an ice
cream stone. q laundry, a barber
shop and other stores.
Several parents blamed their
boys situation on going along
with the gang at Paul Junior
High School,"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-07
Planners to Meet

SINGAPORE, June 7 (P.-
An official announcement says
military staff planners of the
eight SEATO nations will meet
here June 11-27.