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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-05
Silver Slate

A startling new issue has
cropped up in the current
Montgomery County campaign
for delegates to the State con-
vention. 1t was injected into
the campaign by the Lee
Caddington machine by re-
ferring in the press rather
sarcastically to the SILVER
haired" women candidates on
our independent slate.
Here is political leadership
indeed! The color of a candi-
dates hair as qualification
for election is admittedly a
novel issue. Arise from your
apathy, We Silver-haired voters
and all We who will one day
have silver hair. Monday, May
Z, is your opportunity to take
a strong stand on this world
shaking issut. The League of
Women Voters QUESTIONABLE
overlooked this issue, so as a
public service here's the stand
of the Sterling Silver Slate:
Richard Abel is definitely
for silver hair.
Shirley Barshay is unequiv-
ocably committed to it.
James Mann calls it a white
plume of courage.
Alice Hostetler of the silver
hair has no choice.
Felix Putterman is for hair,
never mind the color.
Frank Morris, noting the
silver threads among the gold,
bows to the inevitable.
Margaret Schweinhaut, the
principal target of the attack,
is committed for life to silver
hair.
The machine slate is against
silver hair.
The above slate stands Z
square for silver hair.
Remember: The silver hair
you vote for on May Z may one
day be your own.
Margaret Schweinhaut
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-05
Retirement Plan

The letter by Carl HaneS, in
which he points out the
shameful discrimination in
fixing United States Civil Serv-
ice retirement payments de-
serves serious and effective
consideration throughout the
United States.
The absurd increase in the
cost of government in recent
years is due in part to the
unfair management by indi-
viduals who are listed for
some of the highest retire
ment payments.
Even though the work week
is now shorter than it was
some years ago, salaries are in
many cases now 400 per cent
TO 500 per cent higher than in
former years. Some former
employees. now retired, put in
years Of overtime work for
which they received no pay,
while today's employees receive
extra pay for overtime work.
The fact that employees now
pay more dollars into the re-
tirement fund than did the
employees of 80 years ago does
not mean that the employees
of 80 years ago contributed
less value.
The discriminatory retire.
ment schemes have been al
most unbelievably unfair.
The sooner this outrageous
injustice is corrected the better
it will be for the American
public.
Richard L. Giss.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-05

tons have played large part in this
inquiry. or at least in the conclusions
reached. Undoubtedly abuses have arisen
out of the service of woes in Govern
ment. They should be corrected wherever
possible and by whatever action neces-
sary. But neither action nor criticism
should be carried to the point where this
form of genuine service to the Govern
ment is destroyed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-05
The Enterprise

Time is eternal
And mans searching soul
Shall reach at last
Its outer destiny,
As does the long mare
Mouin0 to the tdthomed Shodi,
The long, green hill
n-fotpino to the sea.
Katherine Reeves =
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-05

@. Please give some infor-
nation about the cemetery at
Hamm, where Gen. Patton
and other World War II
American dead are buried
F. S.
A. Hamm is a suburb Of the
city of Luxembourg. reached by
the Boulevard du General
Patton. The American ceme-
terry has 5,076 graves, each
marked with Carrara marble
stone. Graves Of Christians
bear a cross, those OF Jewish
faith a Star Of David. The
graves OF a few American
Moslems are marked with a
crescent and star.
@. Who named the earth?--
d. Z.
A. The 10th verse OF the first
chapter Of Genesis states that
God called the dry land
earth" 4
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Questions and Answers
By THE HASkIN SERVICE

readeI can get an answer o. mail
10 any factual question by wVtting The
Evening Star Information Bureau,
1000 Eve 81 NV Washington 3
D { Please nelns' cents Tor
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LETTERS TO THE STAR
It's Time for q Bow

Pen names may be used II
letters carry tDriterS' correct
names and addresses. All
letters are subject to conden-
SGttOn.
Otto Strasser has not been
able to make much Roadway
with his political ideas, but
he nevertheless belongs to
those dangerous agitators who,
without actually being Com
munists, play into the hands
of the Russians by trying to
undermine Germany's alliance
with the West. 1t is therefore
important that we should not
overlook the fact that Otto
Strasser is bitterly anti-Amer-
lean and that in the past he
was a promoter for Hitler's
ideas of Selling political power.
Gerry R0lph.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-04
Poroders at Alabama u.
Protest Negro Student

Last night about l1:l5 o'clock.
however, crowds of men gathered
around a cross which had been
set afire In the center of Uni
versity avenue. which bisects the
campus. Firecrackers and some
bombs were set off.
After going to the presidents
home the crowd marched around
the girls dormitory and then
about haitian estimated 500
walked down to the f1agpole in
the heart Of Tuscaloosa.
AS they marched the students
sang Dixie" and chanted Keep
'Bama white; to hell with Au-
Uterine
Several students said police
tried to persuade them to stop,
but did not use force.
Nelson Cole, editor of the
student-published Crimson and
White weekly newspaper. said
that as the demonstrators broke
up, there were cries Of. I'VE
want no Negro students here"
The demonstration lasted UNI
til about Q am. before the stu
dents went quietly TO their rooms.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-04
Seven Seized
lin Liquor Raid

Seven persons were arrested
last night as l8 Montgomery
County policemen and detectives
simultaneously raided five houses
in the rural area suspected of
illegally selling whisky.
Eight detectives from Rock
vile and Silver Spring and uni
formed men from Rockville.
some of them volunteers, visited
the houses shortly before II pm.
and surprised 80 colored persons.
Charged with selling liquor
without a license and having I'M
taxed whisky in their possession
with intent to sell were Ethel
L. Campbell, So, of Mount Zion:
Leroy Jackson, 81. and Virgie
jackson, Sc, of Brooke Grove.
and Mabel v. Waters, 40, of
Emory Grove.
Charged with illegal sale were
Albert j. Butler. 48. and Hilda
Butler. as, of the Gaithersburg
area. and Elsie E. Neal, So, of
Emory Grove. All are colored
and are free under bond for COL
lateral pending hearings March
S in Rockville Peoples Court.
police said.
Capt. G. w. Linthicum, chief
of detectives. said the places had
been under surveillance for three
weeks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-04

TUSCALOOSA, Ala, Feb. 4 up.
An estimated 1000 men stu
dents, some chanting keep
'Bama white; to hell with. Au-
Uterine" demonstrated early to-
day against enrolment Of the
first Negro student at the Uni
versity Of Alabama.
The singing. shouting crowd
gathered on the university cam
pus and marched to the home of
Or o. c. Carmichael, school pres
ident. Told he was out Of town,
about 500 of the students
marched downtown and later
disbanded.
Police described the disturb
ance as lone of those panty
raids" but the cries of members
OF the group all were directed
against the newly admitted Negro
woman. There were no arrests.
Autherine Lucy, 26-year-old
Birmingham secretary. attended
her first classes yesterday. She
was escorted throughout the day
by police and there was little evi-
dence Of any reaction except
curiosity.
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Navy Plane Falls
In Ocean, z Killed

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla,
Feb. 4 R.-Two flyers we're
killed and two others para
chuted to safety today when a
twin-engine Navy transport
caught fire and crashed into the
Atlantic Ocean 2 miles off Fort
Lauderdale beach.
One man was tangled In his
parachute lines when he was
picked out Of choppy seas by the
charter fishing boat, Venture,
and was believed to have
drowned.
The second man was badly in
jured when taken from the water
and died about II am. in Brow
ard General Hospital.
Names of the dead were with
held by Naval authorities.
Capt. Robert w. Anderson, the
pilot, said the plane caught fire
over Miami Beach. After an
unsuccessful attempt to put out
the blaze. he ordered the crew
to bail out of Fort Lauderdale,
80 miles UP the coast.
The plane, an RAG, was on a
routine training mission from
the Opa-Locka Marine Corps Air
Station In Miami.
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threatened to block the famed
Skagerrak and Kattegat. At least
IL ships were stuck fast in the
ice pack while scores more were
marooned in icebound ports.
A helicopter few a veteri-
marian to shoot 80 pigs starving
to death aboard an abandoned
lfreighter off the coast of the
Danish island of Zealand.
Other aircraft were called in
to ferry food and fuel to iso-
lated isles in the Scandinavian
area.
Reports Of a serious fuel short
age came from behind the Iron
Curtain. Poland called for fuel
saving measures and ordered
bonuses to increase output from
the mines.
Sports calendars were thrown
into chaos across Europe as race
meetings and football games were
cancelled by frozen. ow-cov-
cred grounds and poor gate ex-.
.pectation.
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House Unit to Quiz
Rid9woy on Article
BY the Associated Press

Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway Is
scheduled for congressional ques-
tioning next Wednesday about
his magazine article charges that
important military decisions
were made for political reasons.
Representative Skies, Demo-
crat of Florida, chairman of the
House Appropriations Subcom-
mittee handling Army funds,
said the former Army Chief of
Staff would be quizzed behind
closed doors by the full Defense
Subcommittee headed by Rep
resentative Mahon, Democrat of
Texas.
Gen. Ridgway touched of q
controversy by writing in the
Saturday Evening Post that
when he was Army Chief of Staff
pressure was brought upon him
to fit his ideas of Army needs
into "preconceived politico-
party line" based on
budget considerations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-04

and then, will be interpreted as
a clear defeat for the British
team.
In all preliminary criticism,
there's an important reservation
that something may in fact lie
under the generalities. But it is
safe to predict that unless Sir
Is able to show that
progress on these various points
was more substantial than APP
pears in the joint communique,
he will be in for a rough time
not only from the opposition but
his own party as well.
Generally Disappointed
AS most Europeans interpret
them, the practical results of the
have been disappoint-
ing. 1t was understood that a
major effort was to be the de-
velopment of a co-ordinated al
lied policy in the Middle East,
where the challenge Of Commu-
mist diplomacy is most threat
ening. But here, despite a num-
Der of vaguely hopeful sugges-
tions, the sum total of British
and American ideas still adds
up roughly to zero. And the de-
cision to invite France to join
the party hardly improves the
chances of clear. unified action.
The major criticism of con-
ference so far is not for its
failure to lay down positive pro-
grams. What raises most Euro
pean eyebrows and promises new
problems for the British Prime
Minister is something less de-
fineable--the tone of the joint
accomplishing the
Of communism and the
redrawing of the theological lines
separating East from West. 1t
See PARIS, Page A-3
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-04
By J. A. OLEARY

Senate leaders are meeting to-
day to decide what to do about
the charge of Senator Case, Re-
publican of South Dakota, that
an unidentified lawyer inter-
|ested in passage of the natural
gas bill tried to contribute $4,000
Ito his campaign for reelection.
II a formal investigation is
decided upon, one question they
may consider is whether to try
to postpone voting on the gas
bill, scheduled to begin Monday.
Meanwhile, speculation was
rife in Capitol corridors as to
whether the Case disclosure
would upset the margin of six
or more votes supporters have
been counting on to pass the
measure.
Drops Like q Bomb
The Case speech dropped like
Ia bombshell during another
monotonous day of debate on
the bill. which would change the
method of regulating producers
of natural gas by the Federal
Power Commission.
Senators Fulbright, Democrat
lof Arkansas, and Monroney,
democrat of Oklahoma, in
lcharge Of the bill. quickly de-
manded that Senator Case name
1.-THE man, and give the Senate the
full facts. But. up to this morn
ing. Senator Case had not dis
closed the name of the man.
When the Senate recessed
about 5 pm. Until Monday,
Senate Democratic Leader john
son of Texas and Republican
Leader Knowland of California,
both supporters Of the bill, con-
ferred with Senator Case in q
nearby cloakroom for 80 min
utes. but announced no con.
illusions.
Senator johnson said he and
Senator Knowland would meet
again this morning to go over
the whole situation. He prom
Used a statement would be is
sued after the conference.
Press for More Facts
According to Senator John.
son, more information on the
incident will be obtained by
Senator Case. He indicated that
other facts also would be gath
cred by some agency" which
he did not further identify.
Senator johnson told re-
porters there had been no charge
that the contribution was oil
money, or that any promise had
See NATURAL GAS, Page Az
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-04

ll3 IN 1Ve Gays.
Latest fatality reports from
Europe's worst storm in the Goth
century showed France hardest
hit with 81 dead. Britain re-
ported Is deaths. Italy, IL; Den
mark, II; Germany and the
Saar, 10: Turkey. 10; Austria, 4:
Netherlands. 4: Switzerland. 3;
Yugoslavia, 2, and Belgium, !.
Temperatures plummeted tar
below freezing during the night
after a slight Ietup Friday had
raised hopes that the great freeze
might be about to thaw.
Reports of death and suffering
poured in from all parts Of the
United Kingdom and the Euro
pean mainland.
In Glasgow, six Lascar seamen
died from fumes as they huddled
over a makeshift stove aboard
their ship.
Power Shortages
In parts of London electricity
was cut of to conserve power.
Garbage has not been collected
in the capital for 10 days be-
cause of icy streets.
Damage in the famed flower
fields of southern France was
estimated as high as one billion
francs tS2.3 million
For the first time in Is years
snow covered the French Riyi-
era, blanketing cars and villas
and snarling traffic. The tradi-
tional Festival of Flowers" may
be Cancelled because OF extensive
damage to the carnation crop.
Cannes and Nice shivered under
inches of snow.
In traditionally sunny Italy,
|sub-zero temperatures brought
traffic chaos across the land.
A doctor and his sister were
killed near Pisa when their car
skidded of the road. In Genoa,
the 2.755-ton Norwegian tanker
Fernfjord was smashed against
the pier and a busload of Ger
man students touring Tuscany
was forced to take shelter in
local houses.
A foot of snow covered the
eastern Italian coast near Bari
and 'Grigento reported the heav-
lest snow in 40 years.
Skaggerak Icebound
In Denmark, a fleet OF ice
breakers was modified to keep
the sealanes clear as ice floes
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-04
SEE HOME BUYS
IN THE STAR FIRST

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section first for just the home you've
been looking for, in the right Ioeotion
at price you con afford to poy.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-04
Betsy Told to Weep No More,
There's q Patent on Her ears

tears as that for which the
Brooks own the patent.
He described 1t as IAN in
efficient air pump which pro-
duces drops of water through
Sits in the eyes Of the doll but
prevents it from squirting out
in a jet stream"
The novel result of this new
combination is a doll which in
the hands Of young child can
produce an illusion Of tears with
out precision of operation -. a
weeping doll for which there
has been a demand for many
years"
The Brooks had filed the in
fringement suit against Ideal
Toy and Baltimore Products Co.,
distributor Of the Betsy Wetsy
dolls.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-04
Raging Blizzard
|bdtters Texas
Storm PoroIyzes
Panhandle Towns

PLAINvIEW. Tex, Feb. 4 up.
"A raging snowstorm continued
to lash West Texas today. para
Lying transportation and pilins
drifts to rooftops.
National Guardsmen using
heavy trucks last night battled
the blizzard to bring in motor
lists and passengers marooned
south of here after about 80 cars
and a bus were stalled by drifts
Iup to s feet high.
Huge Drifts Piled Up
This South Plains city Of 49,
900 appeared to be bearing the
brunt OF the snowfall. Early
today more than 3 foot Of snow
had fallen and roaring north
wind had swept 1t into huge
drifts that in places reached the
caves OF homes.
At Dalhart. Amarillo. Lubbock
and Abilene, where the driving
snow was still raging. the fall
2 to 8 inches. Far west
Texas. which was blanketed yes
terday. had SHOWS ranging up to
10 inches.
All but the southern and east
ern part Of the State remained
under a coating of ice and snow
today as freezing rains and sleet
continued to fall at Wichita
Falls, Texarkana, Longview,
Tyler, Dallas, Fort Worth. and
Mineral Wells.
16 Deaths Reported
At least l6 deaths have been
blamed on the blizzard since 1t
roared into the Panhandle this
mid-week and then spread over
most of Texas. Most Of the
deaths were due TO traffic mis-
haps on ice-glazed highways and
streets, others to fires and suf-
location from faulty stoves. and
one man died of a heart attack
while shoveling snow.
Ice on wire knocked out 166
telephone circuits and a number
Of power lines in the State. The
bitter cold, which dropped to
near zero in the Panhandle
earlier, sent gas consumption to
a record high.
Virtually all highways in the
Panhandle and South Plains
were impossible early today be-
cause OF the snow drifts. City
buses in Lubbock and Amarillo
ceased operation yesterday af-
ternoon and in Amarillo all I'M
derpasses were closed.
Schools have dismissed and
many businesses have closed
because employees could not get
to work.
The storm centered along the
Gulf Coast in the vicinity OF
New Orleans also continued to
cause snow In, Eastern New Mex
leo and freezing rain and thun-
Iderstorms from Central Texas
Eastward to the Atlantic Coast.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-04

BALTIMORE. Feb. 4 R.-
Two dolls cried in Federal Court
yesterday but the Judge ruled
only one had a right to and the
other was stealing her stuff.
Judge RosZel C. Thomson ia
vored Jacob and Max Brock and
their American Character Doll
Co. of New York, manufacturers
of Tiny Tears" weeping dolls,
and held their patent for the
novel tear-producing mechan-
ism had been infringed by Ideal
Toy Corp. Of New York and its
Betsy Wetsy" weeping doll.
In an 11-page opinion. Judge
Thomson said the accused
doll" Betsy Wetsy, used the
same mechanism for producing
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in particular. The impression
is that 1t will do little TO quiet
the storm of criticism which
swirled around the Prime Min
listers head before his departure.
1t seems more likely in fact that
Sir Anthony will be called to an
early account in Parliament for
what seems like his failure to
put across the British case or
win any significant point in his
talks with President Eisenhower
and Secretary of State Dulles.
China Issue Raised
Among other things. he will
be asked what precise satisfac-
ton he was given on such ques-
tons as exchange OF atomic
information. liberaltZing Of trade
with Communist China, support
of Britain in her dispute with
the Saudi Arabians and help in
an alarming drain on Britain's
foreign exchange.
On some Of these points, public
statements have been discreetly
silent. On others, they have
been disturbingly vague. There's
room to believe, for example.
that Sir Anthony would have
preferred something stronger
than an assurance of continuing
"close cooperation" on atomic
questions or hope that friendly
discussions" will persuade the
Arabians to see the light.
Admitting disagreement on the
question of relations with China
may provide Sir Anthony with
a useful political escape hatch
when he faces his critics. The
British are the last people to
expect sensible changes in
American policy during an cleo
ton year. But reafflrmation of
trade controls. softened only by
a promise to review them now
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-04
BULLE TIN
Lodejinsky Resigns

The international Cooper
alton Administration said to-
day Wolf Ladejinsky, cOntrO-
versial figure in a security
case a year ago, has resigned
as a land reform expert in
Wet Nam. II gave no details
and declined to discuss reports
that MIR. Ladejinsky had been
requested to resign.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-04
Senators to Ask Probe
Of Gas Bride Charqe
Plan Monday
Vote Despite
Case Inquiry
RlIllETlN
BULLETIN

Senate leaders decided today
to ask for the creation Of q
select Senate committee to de-
velop all the facts on the state
ment of Senator Case, Repub-
lican of South Dakota, that an
unidentified lawyer interested
in the natural gas bill tried to
contribute $4,000 to his cam
paign for reelection. They
also decided to go ahead with
plans to vote on the gas bill
Monday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-04
Europeans Disappointed
In Eden's Showing Here
British Criticism Of Sir Anthony Grows
On Feurs He Failed to Sell Major Points
By CROSBY S. MOVES
European Correspondent Of The Star

PARIS. Feb 4Whatever effect 1t may have on the rest
world impression here is that the Washington
conference will little to bolster British Prime Minister Sir
Anthony Edens shaky political position at home
Already there evidence that the results of the conference
have disappointed Europeans general and Engishmen
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-04
CHURCH LEADERS
ATTEND SCHOOL

FOR CHURCH LEADERSHIP
Christion School in the Nations copi-
toI trains Ieoders for oreo churches.
For q story about this yeor- round
prosrom, with o winter registration
Of some 1000 representing rs de-
nominations, see The Stor Church
Section. Pose As.