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vaccine on themselves before
asking for volunteers.
I'VE were fine the morning
after we took the shots, so we
put out a call. Volunteers came
rushing in with great enthusi-
asm--they were glad to get the
Shots" he said.
So far no one has suffered
any i'll effects. though there
we're 'rumors" that some had
become sick. These were found
to be untrue. DR.. Edsall said.
The tests are designed TO find
out how much vaccine will be
needed TO provide maximum
immunity to the Asiatic flu.
Virus Isolated in June
I'VE are testing different
amounts Of dosage. and trying
to determine whether more
than one shot is necessary. So
far We haven't got any firm
answers. but we hope to have
the data in a few days" the
Walter Reed physician said.
He said he is convinced the
vaccine. developed by pharma-
ceutical manufacturers after
isolation of the virus at Walter
Reed in June. will provide i'm
munity to the disease.
Il think it will work to
See FLU, Page At
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u. N. Session
On Hungary
Due Sept. 10

UNITED NATIONS, N. Y,
Aug. 10 (P.-The United Ma
tons today called a special
meeting Of the General AS
sembly for September 10 to
debate the Hungarian problem.
The Assembly president,
Prince Wan Waithayakon of
Thailand. notified the 81
member nations of the decision
this morning after polling
members Of the Assembly's
steering committee.
The Special Assembly. meet
ing just a week ahead of the
regular 1857 session. will be
concerned primarily with the
l50,000-word report of the
U. MS committee OF inquiry
which blasted Russia for its
brutal suppression OF last
falls Hungarian uprising.
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campaign to prepare for an ex-
pected Asiatic flu epidemic this
fall or winter. A meeting was
to be held today at the District
Medical Society. 1913 NJ street
NV, to determine how COM
munity resources can be mus
tered here to best fight the
disease. Representatives of in
terested health groups and
agencies were to attend.
DR.. Daniel L. Finucane. Dis
trict director of Public Health.
said it will be at least a
month" before any mass in
oculation campaign can start
here, however.
Sees Delay Of Month
Il know there is no vaccine
in the city now and I suppose
IL VIII De sometime next month
before We get any in quantity"
He said the start of the pro-
gram will be small" at best,
and there's no telling when
we can go ahead full throttle. /"
Meanwhile, physicians at
Walter Reed are attempting
with the help of the volun-
teers-to find the most eff
flcient way to use the new vac
cine and get results fast" DR..
Edsall said.
The physician, a civilian. said
he and four colleagues tried the
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armies are united under thu
joint command of an Egyptian
officer and both are heavily
stocked with Soviet arms. But
Col. Nasser has kept his owr
Communists suppressed.
Foreign Plotting Charged
Purpose of Mr.. Kuwatly's TRIP
was officially announced as a
medical checkup in Alexandria
He few to Alexandria after
seeing Col. Nasser and went to
a hospital.
The events that brought
Communists to power in the
army of Missouri-sized Syria
began-in the best fashion Of
Soviet RuSSia-with charges of
foreign plotting to overthrow
the government.
We'll informed sources here
said Syria's charge last Tuesday
that the United States was
seeking to GUST Mr.. Kuwatly
was used as a blind for the
leftists.
The government ordered
three American diplomats out
Of the country after charging
a United States plot to buy
a pro-American regime with
economic aid offers after a
coup d'etat. The State De-
partment called the charges
pure fabrication and expelled
See SYRIA, Page A-3
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months Of it's operation, it had
expanded in round numbers
$194.000." he said.
I'VE have so far conducted
public hearings on seven major
subjects and areas as follows:
Il. Portland. Greg. Team
sters racketeer case.
80. Frank Brewster's misuse
of union funds.
g. The Dave Beck misuse
and speculation of Teamster
funds.
a. Violence arising out OF
activities of certain labor lead
ers in Scranton, Pa.
IS. Improper activities and
misuse of funds by ranking Of
ficers of the Bakers Union.
"6. The misuse and misap-
preparation of union funds by
the president and treasurer OF
the United Textile Workers.
~. The current hearing Of
racketeer invasions in the labor
field in the New York area, and
See RACKETS, Page AS
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ing pack Of wolves. ready to
pounce on the peoples sheep,
"Kitev was unarmed," the
Moscow Radio told its home
service listeners. but charged
on his motorcycle into the pack,
killing the leader.
"Thereupon the wolves began
TO retreat, with Kitev in pur-
suit across a cornfeld.
He killed two more in the
same manner, but one attacked
him.
He warded off the attack by
kicking the beast.
"Kitev then loaded the three
wolves onto his motorcycle and
took them to his village"
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.McEIroy and Smith
Confirmed by Senute
sy the Associated Press

The Senate confirmed by
voice vote today President Eli
senhower's nomination of Neil
H. McElroy as the new Secre-
tary of Defense.
Also confirmed by voice vote
was the nomination of James
H. Smith, jr.. 47-year-old Colo
RADIO rancher. as new foreign
aid chief to succeed James B.
HOLSTER.
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new authorization, II approved
would give the committee a
total of 100000 for the first
year of its existence.
In a statement requesting
Senate support of his resolu-
ton, Senator Mcclellan said
inquiries to date have shown
that there are at least IL fields
Of major investigations that
should be covered. These, he
said are:
Labor and management col
fusion. undemocratic processes
misuse of union funds, includ-
ing welfare and pension funds
racketeer control, secondary
boycotts. extortion and robbery
organizational picketing, vio-
lence. paper locals. political
activities and improper activi-
ties by management to prevent
organization.
Senator Mcclellan also re-
viewed the activities of the
committee since its inception in
February.
LAS of July 81, the first six
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Bigger Aid Fund
Urged by Dulles
Warns Cuts
Threaten
SecurityPIon
BY ROBERT X. WALSH

The Eisenhower administra-
ton rushed its big guns into
action today in a desperate
last-ditch drive to save the
foreign aid bill from severe
cuts.
Secretary of State Dulles
and two other top-level advo-
Gates of the mutual security
system pleaded with the Sem
! ate Appropriations Committee
to restore the 5000 million
slashed by the House or risk
weakening the program and
wrecking the bipartisan foreign
policy idea.
President Eisenhower him.
self talked with Speaker Ray
burn at White House break.
fast. They discussed only for.
eign aid and whether the
Senate and House eventually
might agree on far more than
the SIS billion in new money
voted by the House last week.
The President wants Congress
to provide at least $3.3 billion.
Comments on Talk
Mr.. Rayburn told reporters
later that the President asked
whether the House might agree
to a larger amount if the Sem
ate voted it and the bill went
to conference. Mr.. Rayburn
said he told the President that
if the Senate added something
and he thought the additional
amount was necessary he would
do what he could to help OBJ
tain it.
The Speaker did not disclose
what he personally believes
would be an adequate amount.
The Senate Appropriations
Committees closed session be-
gan shortly after 10 am. and
continued the early afternoon.
Secretary Dulles lost no time
in presenting the administra-
tons protest against the House
cuts.
He told the Senator'S that he
believed the House action was
not an intentional move t
harm the national interest or
the mutual security program.
He insisted. however, that it is
not only false economy but
would amount to dangerously
eroding the security policies"
which for q decade have been
sponsored by Democratic and
Republican leaders in Congress.
Sees Program Imperiled
He warned that such drastic
cuts would seriously affect this
country's relations with friendly
nations abroad and put the mu-
tual security program in real
peril.
He declared that the House
seemed so intent on saving
money that it failed to make
clear whether it favored q
basically different political and
military policy than is advo-
Gated by the administration.
THE House action Tin cut
ting the foreign aid new money
to SIS billion would involve
a serious crisis of confidence
in the United States and the
dependability of its policies"
Mr.. Dulles told the Senate
Continued on Page AS, Col. 1
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Knight on Motorcycle
Stays Big, Bad Wolves

LONDON, Aug. 10 (P).-Mi-
khail Kitev is a mean man on
a motorcycle, Radio Moscow re-
ported last night.
He had finished his night
shift duties as a tractor driver
and was roaring happily down
the road the other evening
around Ulyanovsk.
And there in the darkness
he plunged into the type Of
crisis that Soviet movie-makers
love.
On one side, with the Soviet
equivalent OF a Western-style
Little Nell. stood a frightened
flock Of sheep from a collective
farm.
On the other stood a snarl-
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CROSBY, Mimi, Aug. 10 tA).
"A huge silvery balloon rose
from a cavernous iron mine
today carrying an Air Force
doctor skyward for a 24-hour
look at the brink of outer space.
AS helicopters lowered
around the huge pit, Mai. David
G.. Simons, "a. began his I'M
lprecentsd experiment in aerial
medicine.
Mai. Simons, chief of the
space biology branch of the
aero-medical laboratory at
Holoman Air Development
Center. Alamogordo, N. Mex,
planned to rise to a maximum
altitude of 100000 feet, then
remain there until starting his
descent tomorrow afternoon.
II the fight is successful 1t
will break all previous altitude
records by manned balloons.
The major, a native Of Lam
caster. Pa. peered out Of port
holes in his gondola--a silver
capsule 7 feet high and 3 feet
in diameter-as Air Force prof.
ect Man High" got underway.
In his FIRST radio report. he
said Everything is going we'll"
At that time the balloon was at
$4,000 feet.
An endurance test of mans
ability to live in an artificial
atmosphere for long periods Of
time at high altitude. the fight
was expected to give the Air
Force important information
on what pilots Of the future
must contend with during
travel through space.
Scene Of the launching was
H. M. Hanna Co.'S Portsmouth
Mine on the Guyana iron range
in North Central Minnesota.
Hundreds Of cars gathered
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Space BoIIoonist Begins
lO2, 0OO-Foot Ascent

near an observation platform
overlooking the mine to wit
ness the event.
The open pit mine was used
for launching to prevent sur
face winds from tearing the
big polyethylene plastic gas
bag. The pit is about a mile
long and a quarter mile wide
at its outer rim. The conical
shaped section from which the
balloon was launched is AIS
feet deep.
Winzen Research Inc, Min
neapolis. project contractor
for the Air Force, said the bal
loon would go 80 miles south
east on ascent, then float 400
to 500 miles across North Da-
kota before starting its descent
near Miles City in Eastern
Montana.
The balloon was designed 10
expand to a capacity Of 3 mil
lion cubic feet-202 feet in di-
ameter.
The pressurized gondola was
equipped with a myriad of in
struments TO record Mai.
Simons physical reactions dur
ing the fight and to collect
other scientific data.
Two radios will keep the of
ficer in constant contact with
the ground and tracking planes.
Mai. Simons' trip to the top
Of the atmosphere underwent a
preliminary test June when
another Air Force officer trav-
eled to $4,000 feet in the same
gondola.
The highest man has flown
by any means was on Septem-
Der 7. 1856. when Capt. Ivan
Kincheloe climbed to 1876, 900
feet in a Bell X-2 rocket plane
over California.
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Copehort in Paraguay

ASUNCION, Paraguay, Aug
10 Ex-senator Capehart, Re-
publican of Indiana. arrived
yesterday from Buenos Aires on
a two-day visit. He will see
President Alfredo Stroessner
and other officials who will
decorate him with the grand
cross Of the Paraguayan Order
Of Merit.
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to purge right-wing opponents
Thirteen officers we're fired OF
resigned in Damascus and a
number fed to Beirut.
While Premier Sabri Assaults
Moscow : oriented government
seemed to have been strength
ened, President Shukri Kuwat-
ly's profesSed neutrality be-
tween East and West-already
cloudy behind Russian arms
deals-became a little more in
distinct.
Sick President Approves
Mr.. Kuwatly had once threat
ened to resign rather than let
Communist supporters take
complete control of the army
But the week ends virtual coup
d'etat by leftists came with
formal approval of the sick
president.
Mr.. Kuwatly signed a presi-
Dental decree Saturday jump
ing Gen. Bizry from lieutenant
colonel to general and making
him army commander in chief
and chief of staff, an official
announcement said.
Then, amid rumors that Mr.
Kuwatly had resigned-which
Mr.. Assali denied-the Presi-
dent few to Egypt yesterday
In Cairo for the third time in
six months, he talked with
Egyptian President Nasser fol
more than an hour.
The Syrian and Egyptian
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BULLETIN
Giant Directors OK.
Move to Frisco

NEW YORK, (P.-The d.
rectOrs Of the New York
Giants voted today 70 move
the teams baseball franchise
to San Francisco in 1858.
Horace StOneham. president
Of the Clans, said the vote
was 81.
"Details in sports sectiOn)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-08-19
Pro-Russion Officers
Seize Syrian Army
Riehtists Pur9ed After Leftist Leaders
Get Control Through Virtual Coup

BEIRUT, Lebanon, Aug 10 Q-Volatle Syria apparently
moved closer to the Communist bloc today proSovet
officers purged rghtsts from the politically powerful army
Gen. Aft Bizry known throughout the Middle East as
the most extreme efist in Sya army took control of the
army the week end usually reliable sources said
Gen. Bizry 43, known Communist Immediately began
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STAR PREVIEWS
AREA FOOTBALL

GRID PROSPECTS for some 10
Oreo high school football teoms. on
annual Stor feature. begins today.
Written by Bob Honson. Dick Stay
and Dick TierneY. the series is in
the Sports Section, Poss AIS.
OLD AND NEW ore mixed at the
onnuol Both County Horse and Pony
Show at Hot Springs. Va. Dolores
Phillips describes the scene on
Poee BIS.
WOOL JERSEY can solve some
Of your background dress problems
in economical fashion. soys Eleni on
Pose B-4.
NO FANFARE morks Montgomery
County's move to establish an air.
port in the lOweT port Of the county.
What hos been done to dote is told
BY Charles YorbrouSh in his column
Wings and Wheels" See Poeo
Az.
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100 Soldiers, Civilians
Volunteer for Flu Tests
Asiotic Disease InocuIotions Given
For Month at Walter Reed Institute

About 100 soldiers and civilian volunteers taking part
here in tests to determine the best the Asatic flu
vaccine, a Water Reed Hospital physician said today
DR.. Godfrey Edsall director of the Division of Com
muncable Disease of the Walter Reed Army Institute of
Research said the tests have been going for about
month"
We stin need few days to to any conclusions
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-08-19
Senate Racket Probers
Request $50, 900 More

Senate racke investigators today requested additional
$4,000 to their inquiry labor egu-
larities through next January.
Rackets Committee Chairman Mcclellan Democrat Of
Arkansas, submitted resolution which he said had been
ported unanimously by his eght-man select committee
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-08-19
AppeaIsCourt
Again Reverses
Watson Verdict
Mallory Precedent
Invulidotes Duckpin
Murder Trial
BY WILLIAM G. POLLARD

The United States Court of
Appeals today for the second
time reversed the 1irst-degree
murder conviction of Clarence
E. Watson, jr., 23-year-old
former Pentagon shoeshine boy,
relying on the Supreme Court
decision in the Mallory case
dealing with detention prior to
arraignment.
Watson has twice been con-
victed of f1rst-degree murder
in the duckpin Staying of Miss
Alyce o. Taggart, a 45-year-old
Government secretary. on July
5, 1858. Miss Taggart was slain
in her room in Scott's Hotel,
2l00 block of o street NV.
Watson's first conviction had
been set aside on grounds that
a written confession was lille
gally admitted as trial EVIL
dence. The court at that time
ruled that an unreasonable
length of time had elapsed be-
tween the time of arrest and
arraignment.
New Trial Excluded Confession
Last December, Watson was
again convicted at trial where
the written confession was ex-
cluded.
A jury at that time found
him guilty of Staying Miss Tag
CART while attempting to rape
her, a first degree count. At
the same time, the jury found |
him guilty on a lesser charge |
of second-degree murder on a
count which had originally
charged murder through pre-
meditation. He was sentenced
to death.
First Assistant United States
Attorney Edward P. Troxell
said the decision will be studied
to determine what future action
will be taken. United States
Attorney Oliver Gasch is on
vacation.
Court sources not wishing to
be quoted expressed the view
that it would be impossible to
convict Watson upon retrial in
light Of the appellate ruling.
Attorney to Ask Dismissal
Attorney Albert j. Ahern,
jr., representing Watson, said /
he will seek dismissal Of the /
murder indictment against his
client in view of the appellate
court decision.
In the unanimous opinion to- /
day, written by Judge John A. I
Danaher, the appellate court |
declared it was bound to apply |
the Mallory rule in the Watson |
case.
1t was pointed out that Wat
son had been apprehended at |
$40 pm. when he returned
home from work.
During the evening and part
Of the night he was questioned.
denying guilt until about 3:15
am, when he made the first
oral inculpatory disclosures.
They were repeated to various
officers next morning before 9
am. when the courts in the
District were opened. Many |
judges were available, but /
Watson was not presented be-
fore any of them" continued /
the Court of Appeals decision. /
After 9 in the morning, still /
without arraignment and lack |
ing judicial warning, the ac- |
cused re-enacted the crime and
accompanied by the police,
went to his apartment where
the police obtained the articles
OF clothing later offered in evil
dence against him. The situa-
ton in this particular was
not unlike that presented in
Mallory. where the court had
concluded that the consent
was an immediate accompani-
ment to a confession of the
crime and derives color. from
the confession. Some hours
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-08-19

Mr.. E. L. wanted to sell his
piano quickly. He placed
an ad in the productive
Star Classified and found
a buyer the first day his ad
ran.
II you have something 10
buy, trade or sell, and want
speedy results always use
Star Classified. WASH
ington's preferred CLASH
fled medium by more than
? to ] according TO a recent
American Research Bureau
survey.
Coll Sterling $4,000
Ask lOr an Gd.tdker
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Rain Too Little
And Too Late
Milk Price Rise
Sought in Virginia

Rain fell too little and too
late today as the Virginia Milk
Commission scheduled a public
hearing in Richmond at 10 a m.
September IL to decide whether
milk prices should be increased
to bail out drought-stricken
farmers.
District milk prices usually
follow the pattern set by the
Virginia Commissions.
The hearing was called
shortly after State Agriculture
Commissioner Parke Brinkley
reported little help from rains
falling over much Of southern
and central Virginia. The best
he hoped for was some pastur-
age and light cutting of alfalfa
in some sections If the rains
continue.
Rise Usually Temporary
Should the commission de-
eide on a milk price increase
it probably would follow past
practice of granting a temper
airy one-half or cent increase
over a six-month emergency
period.
: In the Washington area. .06
of an inch Of rain had been
measured this afternoon, not
enough to aid parched lands or
Shrunken rivers.
Weather Bureau observers
said most of the rain was NOV
ing east Of Washington and
Baltimore, bringing relief to
the Eastern Shore, but so far
doing little for the District,
Northern Virginia and inland
Maryland.
Because no rain was falling
to the west, nothing indicated
an improvement in the flow Of
the Potomac River. But the
Salisbury area Of the Eastern
Shore, and Patuxent River
basin. got more than an inch
of rain.
The forecast called for rain
ending by morning. clearing
and warmer tomorrow after
noon. Fair weather with
temperatures averaging a cou-
pie of degrees below normal is
expected tomorrow through
Saturday.
Trees In Bad Shape
One Of the problems in the
Washington area has been saw
ing the Districts much-ad-
mired trees. National Capital
Parks reported trees under its
care are harder hit than in the
1884 drought. and estimated
500 would die this summer.
This is about $50 more than
were lost last year.
In an effort to save as many
as possible. the agency has d.
verted men from other assign
ments to watering trees. This
was made possible by giving up
on watering all lawns but those
in the downtown parks and
around the monuments.
Another scourge has hit the
trees, something called "scorch"
because the virus seems to burn
the leaves. The fight against
the new disease. striking at
elms and sycamores. has been
handicapped by scanty knowl-
edge.
National Capital Parks said
about 500 trees have been dis
eased in the District, about 225
Of these in the parks. Unless
some way is found TO stop the
blight, these and other trees
seem doomed.
John w.. Batson, in charge
Of trees under the District Gov
eminent, said the drought sit
ution is not so acute with his
10000 trees. He said extra
watering the past two months
will save most OF them, but
about 100 young trees will die.