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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-04-11
Invitation to Negro
To Richmond Fete
Cancelled as Error

NEW YORK, April IL (P.-
DR.. Gillian B. Powell, prominent
New York Negro and a native of
Virginia. has been asked to re-
turn an invitation to a dinner
in his home State to which he
was invited last week by the
Governor himself.
DR.. Powell. publisher of the
Amsterdam News in Harlem, had
already accepted the invitation
to the dinner for distinguished
Virginians' in Richmond on May
II. The dinner was described as
part Of a celebration of the 350th
anniversary of the first perma-
nent English settlement in
America. at Jamestown.
The invitation was signed by
Gov. Thomas B. Stanley and
Frank A. Ernst. president of the
Virginia State Chamber of Com
merce.
DR.. Powell's secretary, Miss
Z. M. Holden. said yesterday
telegram had been received
Tuesday requesting that the in
vitation be returned.
DR.. Powell was not available
for comment.
In Richmond. the executive d.
rector OF the Chamber of Com
merce. Vernon Kemp. said last
night there had been an error"
in issuing the invitation. He said
the names of the some 600 per-
sons invited had been compiled
variously."
DR. Powell. a physician as we'll
as a publisher. was born in New
port News. Va. in 1894. In
who's Who in America" he is
listed as a graduate Of Virginia
Normal College and Howard Uni
versity, both Negro institutions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-04-11
D.C.Heads Approve
One-Way Streets
18th and 18th
To Change; Bus
Lanes Backed

The Commissioners agreed to-
day to make Eighteenth and
Nineteenth streets NV. COM
panion one-way streets between
Constitution avenue and Dupont
circle. and to provide some of
the bus lanes sought by the
D. c. Transit System.
The plan was drafted yes
terday at a conference between
George E. Keneipp, traffic direc-
tor. and o. Roy Chalk, transit
company president. 1t provides
that:
On May /, Eighteenth street
will become a one-way-north-
bound street between H street
and Connecticut avenue.
On the same day Nineteenth
street will become a one-way
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-04-11
The
Rambler
Park Men Stumped
By AiIing Trees

Americans are sentimental
about dogs, birds, trees and
cats.
Arrange them to- your own
taste.
To city people trees rate
high.s So ~>r-e,e
The Rambler remembers
when the construction of the
Thomas Jefferson Memorial
neceSsitated the removal of
some of the cherry trees at the
Tidal Basin.
Women garden club mem
berS manacled themselves to
the doomed trees and chanted
Joyce Kilmer's:
! think that !. ,oiu never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
Another bit of verse written
In New York amid alien sky
scrapers by a young woman
from Maine goes:
The trees that grow on city
streets,
But for the traffic and the
trains,
Would make a noise as thin
and SiCeet,
As trees on country lanes.
That was Edna st. Vincent
Millay.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-04-11

south bound street between Du-
pont circle and Pennsylvania
avenue.
The streets already are one
way south of those points.
On May l3 bus lanes will be
established on each of die
On Eighteenth street the
bus lane will be along the east
side of the street and will be
effective during the evening
rush hour. from 4 to $50 pm.
On Nineteenth street the bus
lane will be along the west side
of the street, effective in the
rush period from Z to
$50 am.
AT the same time bus lanes
will be established on Thirteenth
street NV. between H ana E
streets. The north bound bus
lane along the east side of the
street will be effective in the
4 to $50 pm period. The south
bound lane on the west side of
the street will be effective in
The 7 to $3.50 am. period.
The period between May l
and May IL win give an oppor-
'tunlty for studies of the results
of the one-way rule and also
provide a Today notification
period for the bus lane pro-
visions. Mr.. Chalk said.
Must Reroute Buses
The Public Utilities Com
mission will have to provide for
the rerouting of buses on the
two streets and the establish-
ment of bus stops.
Mr.. Chalk has asked for bus
lanes on a number of streets.
Mr.. Keneipp said the establish
ment of bus lanes on the three
streets will give a demonstration
of the plans feasibility.
The initial steps will affect
the Connecticut avenue buses.
Mr.. Chalk said he is confident
that travel will be speeded up
considerably" Making the two
streets one-way will be a tree
mendous advantage" he said.
Other traffic will be barred
from the lanes reserved for buses,
with a few exceptions. Taxicabs
may enter the lanes to pick up
and discharge passengers. Also.
"a motorist may enter the lane to
make a right turn. The bus
lanes will be marked with dash
lines and large signs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-04-11

gravitaton works. whether we accept or not"
Although hate was deliberately fostered during World
War it than the aftermath Of our own Civil War.
World War II fought with still less hate and its end
found us helping to rebuild our enemies
Perhaps it is than coincidence that the Old
Testament prophet-Isaiahw predicted the coming Of
the Messiah also predicted And they shall beat their
swords into powshares, and their spears into pruning
hooks nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
neither shall they learn any more"
AS Gandh proved, one man armed with love unto
death is more powerful than all the armies of time.
Tomorrow: Walter G. Kem
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-04-11
Public Hearinq
Promised Soon
On We|fareBiI|
Morse Sponsoring
Measure to Meet
Shocking Needs

An early public hearing has
been promised on a new bill by
Senator Morse, Democrat of
Oregon, to tie together the Dis
trict's various welfare regula-
.tions and laws.
One of the principal features
of the measure is to provide
emergency public assistance for
periods not exceeding so days
to take care of such situations as
the hungry children in public
schools disclosed recently.
II do not know to what ex-
tent the bill ! am introducing
will meet the shocking needs of
the District of Columbia in the
field of human welfare" Senator
Morse told the Senate late yes
terday. "but I shall hold early
hearings on the bill in an en-
deavor to have the record
demonstrate to what extent the
bill would be helpful Tin
meeting) a need which some of
US have with our own eyes seen
lis a crying one"
Recently Toured Slums
Senator Morse heads the well
fare Subcommittee Of the Senate
District Committee which will
hold the hearings. He recently
toured the Stun areas of the city
to get first-hand knowledge of
conditions here.
Addressing the Senate. the
Oregon Senator declared: Il
merely wish to say that one need
only attend the hearings on pub
lie welfare problems in the Dis
itrict of Columbia. which / have
been holding during the past
several weeks. and to go
to the under developed areas OF
the District of Columbia to know
that we have a great moral OBJ
legation to the District of Column
bia which We are failing to full
fill.
IF we really mean it when
We bow our heads to spiritual
tenets such as the one that we
are our brothers keeper, we can
not justify the course of action
being followed at the present
time in the Congress, on the
basis of false-economy proposals,
because we have no moral right
to economic in the case of the
welfare needs of less fortunate
brethren"
Senator Morse told the Senate
| the legislation is designed Il
make close relatives responsible
for the support Of needy per-
sons.
Receives Union Resolution
In general, a welfare recipien
must live here one year t,
qualify. This requirement MAJ
be waived. however. under thu
emergency 60-day relief pro
gram.
/ Meanwhile. Senator Morse re-
ceived a resolution from tho
Industrial Union Council of thu
District Endorsing the use of sur,
plus food ito relieve the deplor
liable condition of INDECENT NAL
Inourished families. particular.
the children, in the Nation
Capital"
The labor group said that tn
present use of surplus food her
lis obviously much-too -limite,
program" because it is only
stopgap measure.
About $4,000 worth of foot
has been distributed under tn
recent emergency welfare pro
gram of the Commissioners, re
Isulting from disclosures o
hungry children in the schools
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-04-11
WHEN PEOPLE see stump

WHEN PEOPLE see stumps
Of recently cut big trees in the
parks they are disturbed.
Some think the trees were
too old to withstand high
winds and had been shattered.
This nature lover thought
he knew all about it. He went
to George Harding, horticul-
turist of National Capital
Parks, to be assured he was
right.
Dutch elm disease?
YES" said Mr.. Harding,
"but there is another that is
giving us great concern. 1t is
called 'scorch.' The leaves be-
come brown and the tree dies. /"
Horace v. WeSter, National
Capital Parks plant patholo-
giSt, was present.
"Scorch is a virus disease, y
he said. 1T is not known how
it is transmitted, but we think
it is carried by the sucking
insects"
The virus, as most school
children know and many
adults are learning, lives
within the cells of living
things. 1t cannot be touched.
A tree with scorch is doomed.
"We think that scorch was
here before the Dutch elm
disease" Mr.. Wester said.
Fortunately it does not affect
as many trees. The Dutch
elm disease is epidenic In
Washington and has been for
several years"
.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-04-11
Hearing Set April 80
In Police Boys Club Suit

ination is against the public pol
icy of the District of Columbia A?
Also. have the D. c. Commits
sioners ever made any represen-
tations to the Metropolitan Po-
lice Boys Club on the question
of its continued policy of segre-
gation?"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-04-11
A Tlrnnght fur Tnhay
Lenten Reflections on How the Bible
Has Affected Lives of People You Know
BY JOY ELMER MORGAN
President. Senior Citizens OF America

The greatest of these is love- First Corinthians xiii, 10
Untold wars have been fought in the of religion
and yet religion chief hope of ending mans violence
against The love of felowman is incucated by them
all It is one of the laws of life.
But in the teachings of Christ it is than law;
is the supreme law which admits of no exception
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-04-11
Early Action in Senate
Pledged on Ketchom Post
Smothers Advises Morse of Intent
To End Trouble on Juvenile Judge

Senator Morse Democrat of Oregon today had promise of
early Senate action the nomination of Orm W. Kecham
Judge of the declaring that failure
confirm him this week has created "a difficult situation in
the District.
promise Acting Majority Leader Smathers
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-04-11

DUTCH ELM disease Is a
fungus carried by a beetle one
third the size of a lady bug.
The beetle feeds in the cleft
of small stems. 1t does little
harm. But if it is carrying
the fungus, the damage is
done.
Year after year the foliage
thins. The trees breathing,
called Transportation, becomes
impaired. If only one or two
limbs are affected, drastic
pruning may save the tree.
But trees that have been the
special care of National
Capital Parks, such as those
in the Ellipse behind the
White House, have been lost.
Mr.. Harding says most at
tempts to save diseased trees
amount to "quackery." They
must be cut down and burned.
The disease gets its name
because it was discovered by
the Dutch. Elm trees in
Northern France and Belgium
were dying after World War /.
Some thought it was from
artillery fire. But they were
dying along the canals of
neutral Holland. The Dutch
discovered the fungus and
the carrier.
1t was first observed in this
country in Cleveland in 1880.
Then New England and New
York. In 1884 it was noticed
in Brunswick, Md. After that
it came down the Potomac
about Is miles a year. 1t was
first found in Washington in
l947.
OF some $4,000 cultivated
elm trees in Washington, that
is those growing along park
ways and streets, but not in
wooded areas such as Rock
Greek Park, 426 were found
to be contaminated last year
and destroyed. That may not
sound like many, but the
disease has a way of hitting
the noblest elms, trees more
than 100 years old, in West
Potomac Park near the Lin
coin Memorial.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-04-11

Tomorrow: Walter G. Keim
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-06-09
TODAY'S WEATHER REPORT

District and vicinity - Mostly
cloudy and continued cool with
showers. High near 60. Lowest
tonight in middle SOS. Monday,
cloudy with rain likely. Highest
in COS. Winds at 7 pm. Saturday
northeast IL to 20 miles per
hour.
Virginis-Cloudy and cool to-
day with showers. High in COS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-06-09
Small Tornudoes
Hit Florida Area

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, June
R.-A series of small lorna
does ripped through North
Central Florida today. uproot-
ing and splitting hundreds q
trees and damaging four houses.
No injuries were reported.
The Weather Bureau said the
tornadoes seemed to occur along
a line Of heavy thunderstorms
that moved across the State in
late afternoon and evening.
One twister took away part
of the roof of the Otis Fort
home in the Ocala National
Forest near Lake Bryant about
20 miles east of Ocala. Another
hit the farm house of Mr.. and
Mrs. A. D. Langford near State
Road 26 about 20 miles west of
Gainesville. An empty house
down the road also was ripped
to pieces.
The farm home of Harry Polk
about is miles south of Jack
Isonville was demolished by an
other tornado.
Highest winds recorded at
Jacksonville were 81 miles an
hour.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-06-09

for purchase of a new house anc
Furnishings for him.
] The committee brought ou
; that the 100000 was given OF
kicked in by union members anc
employers. some of whom die
not know Mr.. Kralstein. A for
mer business manager Of a New
York bakers local and five bak.
cry shop owners said they were
Ipressured into contributing tt
the dinner fund because they
feared trouble" If they did moi
do SO. Mr.. Kralstein told the
committee that the testimonial
dinner was a common practice
and that various labor union Of
f1cials received impressive pres
entations Of cash or other gifts
Notes Misrepresentation
| The trend of the committee's
hearings to date on the Bakery
Workers Union, Senator McClel-
Ian said, also justifies a state
ment that:
obviously there has been some
incorporation Of funds. We
have not yet developed the full
extent. After all, we have just
started this phase of the investi-
cation. But there is already evil
dence Of use of union funds for
personal purposes-and I under
line personal purposes.
Senator Mcclellan and Com
mittee Counsel Robert F. Ken
nedy preferred at this time not
to go into a detailed discussion
of individual witnesses heard last
week or to be questioned this
week.
They strongly indicated, how
ever, that use Of union funds for
personal purposes had something
to do with a charge last week
that James G. Cross. Bakery
Workers Union president. had
put a girl friend" on the pay
roll Of Los Angeles local and
spent substantial sums Of money
on her.
Mrs. Kay Lower Of Los An
geles. who was identified as the
I;tgirl friend" admitted receiving
money fom Cross but she invoked
the Fifth Amendment on further
questions.
Mr.. Kennedy said the commit
tee has not heard from Mr.. Cross
but intends to call him for ques-
ltioning Thursday or Friday. He
and Senator Mcclellan disclosed
that the committee wants to
question the union president not
only on whether he gave Mrs.
Lower money or gifts which were
recorded as union expenses but
also whether there is a lack
of democratic procedures" in the
union.
Still another purpose Of the
hearings this week. they said.
will be to determine whether
there was collision" between
ceftain union officials and en-
ployers. They refused to elaborate
on the term "collusion" and in
dieated the answer would de.
pend on developments at the
hearings.
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and the extreme southwest por-
ton in 70s. Monday, cloudy,
rather cool and rain likely.
Maryland = Cloudy and cool
with showers likely today. Tenn
peratures between IS and SO.
Monday. cloudy with rain likely
Continued rather cool.
Upper and Lower Bay-Cloudy
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|Meany Drops
Tv Appearance

NEW YORK, June 8 (R.-The
Columbia Broadcasting System
said today that George Meany,
president Of the AFL-CIO, has
withdrawn from tomorrow's tele-
vision show Comment on Khru-
shchev" because he feels the
program will give a propaganda
advantage to the Russian leader.
The network will present the
panel discussion as a sequel to
last Sundays televised interview
with Nikita S. Khrushchev, Sec
Rotary Of the Soviet Communist
Party.
Mr.. Meany had been listed as
one Of the panelists.
Irving Gitlin. CHS director of
public affairs. said Mr.. Meany
Informed us he did not realize
the program involved rebroad-
cast Of brief film excerpts from
the Khrushchev interview on
Face the Nation These film
excerpts were to be selected by
the participants, who would base
their comments on them.
MIR. Meany suggested that
excerpts simply be read on the
program, and then be COM
mented on. He did not want to
appear on the program because
he felt the film excerpts would
give further broadcast exposure
and propaganda advantage to
Mr.. KhruShchev."
Mr.. Gitlin went on to say, I'VE
believe Mr.. Meany's Judgment is
mistaken. We feel that he would
have made an important con-
tribution to an expression of the
American viewpoint on Mr..
Khrushchev's statements. We
respect his reasons. however. and
are sorry that he has with
drawn"
The program is scheduled for
television from 3 to 4 pm. edit
and on radio from 1905 to II
pm. edit.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-06-09
Butchers Union
Of $4,000 Seeks
Probe of NLRB

A congressional investigation
of the National Labor Relations
Board was demanded yesterday
by a 50.000-member union
which asserted that the board
was biased against labor and
abused even the I'aft-Hartley
Act.
Amalgamated Meat Cutters
and Butcher Workmen (AFL-
CIO) officers made punlic let
ter to 10 Democratic and Re-
publication congressional leaders
declaring the board mas been
packed from top to bottom with
biased pro-employe personnel
who have deprived organized
labor Of the very statutory rights
which Congress created the
board to protect"
Earl w. Emerson and Patrick
E. German. president and Sec
retary- treasurer respectively OF
the union, said Federal courts
here frequently have reversed
board decisions as an unwar-
ranted failure to follow prece-
dent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-06-09
Gulf Turbulence Moves
Into Florida, Loses Force

MIAMI, Fla, June 8 P.-A
tropical disturbance which
moved northeastward from the
Gulf of Mexico, passed inland
tonight with heavy rain but wind
velocity of only 5 to 10 miles an
hour. a United States Weather
Bureau forecaster at Miami said
at $3.50 pm. edit.
Forecaster Gilbert Clark said
that apparently ended any dan
Iger of wind damage for Florida.
He said the disturbance might
regain strength after reaching
the Atlantic sometime tomorrow
morning.
The disturbance, called a
depression. earlier had been
identified as a type of system
which. could mushroom into a
storm or the seasons first hur-
ricane. The hurricane season
officially starts June Is.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-06-09

attack September "a, 1855. He
got them three time a week al
first, then twice q week, and A.
nally the schedule was reduced to
once q week.
Asked If going of the regular
schedule meant that the danger
Of another heart attack had
passed. Mr.. Hagerty said. I'm
not going to answer that"
He also said he did not know
whether Mr.. Eisenhower is re-
ceiving any other medication. He
added Mr.. Eisenhower's weight
is. now l72l2 pounds, just what
his doctors want. compared with
a top weight Of 178 before the
heart attack.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-06-09

dication, he said, of the dit.
turbance's arrival over land.
Mr.. Clark said the disturb
ance's arrival over land more
than four hours earlier than ex-
lpeeted was due to the fact that
the turbulence, unlike a hurri-
cane. had no "eye" and its posi-
ton could not be pinpointed in
the Gulf.
He said small craft warnings,
displayed all around Florida's
coast. would remain alpft.
The heaviest squalls had been
expected in the Apalachicola
Bay area Of Florida's panhandle,
but the wind blew harder at
Tampa on the west coast Of
peninsular florida.
Small craft warnings also were
hoisted north along the Atlantic
Coast to Cape Hatteras, N. C.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-06-09
President No Longer Takes
Anti-CooguIont Drug Weekly

President Eisenhower no longe,
gets weekly doses Of an anti
coagulant drug prescribed after
his 1855 heart ATTACK.
Press Secretary James C
Hagerty disclosed yesterday, in
response to a reporters inquiry
that Mr.. Eisenhower discon-
tinued about q month ago his
regular routine Of taking the
drug weekly.
Mr.. Eisenhower doesn't need
the treatments regularly any
more, Mr.. Hagerty said. and will
take them only very intermit-
tently" from now on.
The treatments, to prevent
blood clothing. began soon after
the President suffered his heart
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-06-09

called CeSLlmOnlal dinners.
Making clear that in general
he saw no objection to such
functions and the presentation
Of reasonable gifts or plaques
to labor officials or anyone else
the Arkansas Democrat declared
1T would appear (from dis
closures thus far at hearings
about the Bakery Workers
Union) that in some instances
the testimonial dinners ap-
preached if not actually
amounted to a form of shake
down Of employers, and possibly
union members. too.
Cites Apprehension
1T appears doubtful to me
that liberal contributions would
be made to people whom the
donors do not know and in whom
they have no special interest,
except out of sense of APP
prehension that If they did not
so contribute they might suffer
some retaliation at least to the
extent Of inconvenience. if not
worse"
Senator Mcclellan empha-
sized that evidence thus far at
the hearings is inconclusive. He
explained that 1t is too early to
say whether the testimonial
dinner practice is flagrantly
abused or whether it enables
anyone to violate or take ad-
vantage Of possible loopholes in
the Federal income tax laws.
But the committee" he said,
might want to determine If any
tax legislation is necessary to
protect the Governments inter-
est in taxes. We would want to
determine. for instance, whether
such donations were improperly
charged OF as business expenses
or as gifts and If any income
taxes were paid on them by any,
body"
His views on the investigation
OF the Bakery Workers Union
covered a still wider range to the
point Of declaring that the hear
ings already have shown a fla
grant case Of dictatorship" at,
least in the Los Angeles local.
Seeks More Testimony
There would seem to be COM
plete control of the policies Of
the union by the president of
the union with virtually no check
by the members" Senator Nc
Clellan remarked. I'VE are 60
ing to look closer and have more
testimony on that matter"
His comments on the testi-
monial dinner were mainly in
connection with testimony last
week concerning Max Kralstein,
q union international vice presi-
dent. Mr.. Kralstein admitted
last Thursday that he got more
than $4,000 at a dinner gwen
for him at the Waldorf Astoria
Hotel in New York last year.
He said most Of the money went
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-06-09

"a series Of small tornadoes
tore through North Central
Florida, telling or splitting
hundreds of trees and damag-
ing several houses, but causing
no reported injuries. Twisters
were reported near Ocala.
Gainesville and Jacksonville.)
Forecaster said reporting sta.
tons at Apalachicola, in West.
ern Florida. and at Tallahassee
said winds from the Gulf dis
turbance had changed from
southeast to northeastern in