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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-04
Garment Workers
Ordered to Strike

NEW YORK, Mar. 4 (R).-
The International Ladies Gar
ment Workers Union has or
dered 10000 workers in seven
Eastern States to strike the
dress industry tomorrow morn
ing.
This would be the first major
walkout in the $l-billion-a-
year industry in rs years.
The strike order, issued last
night from the ILGWU's dress
Joint board, followed fruitless
efforts by City Labor Commits
sioner Harold A. Felix to medi-
ate a contract dispute.
Contract negotiations came
to a halt Saturday with the
union demanding a Is per cent
wage increase. a 35-hour week
for piece workers and other
improvements. Representatives
of five employer groups offered
a per cent package increase
The present wages in New
York average $2.l0 an hour. In
Connecticut. Delaware, New
Jersey. Pennsylvania. Rhode
Island, Massachusetts and up
state New York, the average is
lower.
Affected by the strike would
be $1,000 workers in this city
and $4,000 elsewhere. About
80 per cent are women.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-04

of rebel Fidel Castro in an out
break today. The cadets burned
domitory mattresses and furni-
ture and smashed dining room
equipment. They shouted rebel
slogans. Police ended the riot
ing with several arrests.
A police guard was strength
ened at three arts and CONNER
cial schools in Havana where
students have been striking to
protest arrests.
In Santiago de Cuba. stu
dents of almost all private
schools went on strike to pro-
test police tactics. Properties
in the heart of the city were
damaged by a large explosion.
Rebels ripped up railroad
tracks and exploded a bomb
aboard passenger train bound
from Pinar Del Rio to Havana.
There were no casualties.
Two policemen and a soldier
were wounded in a rebel at
tack on rural guard posts at
Cabaiguan in Las Villas Prov
inca
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-04
BY the Associat ted Press

The Army today released de-
tailed plans for selecting two
unidentified Americans killed
in World War II and the
Korean war for burial beside
the Unknown Soldier in Airing
ton Cemetery.
An enlisted man who has
won the Medal of Honor will
make the final selection in each
instance.
The World War II service
man will be chosen from among
Americans who died in the Flu
ropean, North African, Far
East and Pacific theaters.
Two candidates will be chosen
in preliminary Gel emonies. The
European-North African serv-
iceman will be picked from IL
unidentified Americans who
persisted in these theaters. The
choice will be made in a May IL
ceremony at the American Me-
mortal Cemetery at Epinal,
France.
The ,Pacifc-Far East eandi.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-04
DAYLIGHT TIME
BEGINS HERE
ON APRIL II

The District Commission
ers, faced with a number
of unreliable reports that
spring is in the air, today
took action to further the
spread of the delightful
rumor.
They solemnly declared
that daylight saving-hard
on cows but a boon to golf
erS-should start promptly
at 2 am. April 81, a Sum
day.
At that time clocks
should "be advanced" one
hour. according to the
Commissioners.
Their order added that
the return to normalcy
should take place at 2 am,
october 26. when time
shall be returned to the
standard time now appli-
cable to the District" This
means the clocks should be
turned back one hour
though the Commissioners
did not elaborate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-04
FLYERS Life;
Decorated Grave Daily

Maj. Edmond Perry Sykes. who
was killed in a crash at Osan
Air Base in Korea last June 10.
according to an Air Force
spokesman at the Pentagon. He
was a member of Headquarters
Squadron. 5Sth Fighter-Bomber
Wing.
Mrs. Sykes apparently came
to this area from Akron. Ohio.
to DE near her husbands grave.
Mrs. Swisher said she went out
last night about 1890 and did
not return to her quarters.
Mrs Sykes received phone
calls almost daily from her
parents in Akron asking her to
come home. but she refused,
Mrs. Swisher said. Mrs. Sykes
had no children.
Robert Conkle, owner of the
tourist home, said he last saw
Mrs. Sykes last night walking
her dog in the yard.
"She was a very beautiful,
well-dressed, intelligent wom-
an" he said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-04
By NORMAN WALKER
Associated Press stan Writer

Take a pencil and a map of
America. Draw a line down the
West coast, another under the
Great Lakes. and a third down
the Atlantic Coast from Maine
to the Carolinas.
You have marked of the
main trouble spots in Amer ca IS
ailing economy. They cover the
country's greatest manufacture
ing centers, the areas with the
heaviest population and thus
the most politically important.
The rest of the country is
beginning to feel the pinch, but
it's not too bad.
Even in the troubled areas,
business is still thriving in
many respects, gliding alone on
the momentum of Americas
fabulously rich and diverse
economy.
Sidewise Movement
Progress is sidewise, not
going up or down." said Presi-
dent Lee Miller of the Citizens
Fidelity Bank & Trust Co.,
Louisville, KY.
It's important to remember
our Observation-Disclosures still
luSty and active with the great
est potentialities in history.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-04
Tipsy Driving Test
Measure Signed

President Eisenhower today
signed into law a measure pre-
scribing chemical tests for per-
sons accused of driving while
drunk.
1t allows such tests OF the
blood, breath or urine and sets
standards for establishing the
degree of intoxication.
The bill, sponsored by Sem
ator Morse, Democrat of Ore
gon. had been sent to confer
ence to iron out differences
between the House and Senate.
The House had made provi-
sion for the breath tests as well
as extending the application of
the measure beyond the offense
of drunk driving so as to in
clude negligent homicide and
manslaughter. Both Of the
House provisions we're con-
tanned in the final bill.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-04
Tax Cut Seen
If Upturn in


Z Senate Republican Leader
Knowland predicted today that
the Eisenhower administration
will consider proposing a tax
cut in mid-April if expected
signs of an economic upturn do
not develop by then.
The Senator said that un-
doubtedly the economic situa-
ton will be reviewed at that
time and alternative ways of
stimulating business considered.
"A tax cut is one of those
alternative proposals" he
added.
AS to others. he mentioned
the speeding UP of the highway
building program. enlarging
some public works programs,
and moves to stimulate home
building.
Senator Knowland talked
with newsmen at the White
House after he and other Re-
publican congressional leaders
conferred with President Eli
senhower.
He said the possibility Of a
tax cut was not discussed di-
rectly. There was some discus
sion, he told questioners. about
stepping UP the rate of highway
construction. He said the Re-
publican leaders will get a re-
port on this problem later.
Mid-April will be a key
period in administration plan
ming to combat the current
economic situation. The Presi-
dent has predicted that March
should offer more job oppor-
tunities that should start the
beginning Of the end of the
recession If statistics avail
able in mid-April should show
unemployment rising in March,
the administration would be
under great pressure to take
some action such as a tax cut
to help swing the economy
upward.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-04
Senators Push
burkhart Quiz
Family Life Question
Stirs Heated Clash
BY WILLIAM HINES
Star stan Writer

A fight over the pertinence
of testimony about a witness
family life developed today in
the tense but slow-moving SEN
ate Rackets Committee INQUIRY
into the United Auto Workers
strike against the Kohler Co.
A heated exchange, between
Chairman Mcclellan, Democrat
OF Arkansas. and Senator Cur
tbs, Republican of Nebraska.
arose during the latter's ques-
tioning of JAW Organizer
Robert Burkhart.
Mr.. Burkhart, an interna-
tional union representative who
took an active part in the early
stages of the Kohler strike, was
on the stand for the second
day. He already had under
gone a searching inquiry into
his former political views when
Senator Curtis announced his
intention to attack the witness
credibility.
Curtis Quotes Report
Reading from notes, Senator
Curtis quoted a September "a,
1858. copy Of the 'Kohlerian. I"
a newspaper published by JAW
Local 1888. The paper reported
the arrival in Sheboygan, Wis,
of "Mr. and Mrs. Robert Burk-
hart" and the fact that they
had taken an apartment.
The Senator then read from
a November IL, 1858, issue
which reported the presence of
Grace Burkhart" at q meet
ing of Local $685. women's aux
iliary.
Turning to the witness, the
Nebraska Republican said,
Nov. as a matter of fact, she
wasn't Mrs. Burkhart. was she?
Answer yes or no."
Mr.. Burkhart addressed Sem
ator Mcclellan. He said:
I'D like to appeal to the
chair. Mr.. Chairman, this refers
to the woman who is now my
wife. 1 am willing to testify
about the Kohler strike and
about all other pertinent things.
I have tried to be a good wit
ness.
But now the honor of my
wife is involved and l appeal
to you as gentlemen.
Union Attorney Joseph l..
See LABOR. Page AS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-04

A woman who visited the
grave of her jet pilot husband
daily was found dead today in
a car in front of the Fairfax
County tourist home where she
was staying.
The body of Mrs. Frances
Ann Sykes was discovered about
6:45 am. by a motorist pass
ing the tourist home at 5806
Arlington boulevard. Police
said a hose had been placed
over the exhaust pipe and
through the rear window. A
blanket was stuffed around the
hose in the window. The mo-
tor was still running.
Fairfax County police ruled
the death a suicide.
Mrs. Zilpha Swisher, who
helps operate the tourist home,
said Mrs. Sykes had been stay
ing there since August. She
said the 34-year-old woman put
flowers on her husbands grave
daily at Arlington Cemetery.
Mrs. Sykes was the widow Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-04

Ailing. sure, but not down on
his back.
Measured in income, profits,
employment and production
he has slipped back only a few
notcheS from record achieve
ments even for the worlds
leading Nation. But he has
been accustomed to constant
success.
I'VE were living in a FOOLS
paradise thinking business
would keep going on up" says
Holmes Whittemore, general
manager of Jones & Lamson
Machine Co.. at Springfield. VT.
But will our economic patient
get well on the dose of aspirin
and rest prescribed by Presi-
dent Eisenhower? Or Is he
getting worse and needing a
stronger remedy?
This is the key problem in
Washington and many State
capitals. facing mounting de-
mands for stronger emergency
pump-priming measures.
People Called Realistic
A comprehensive survey by
the Associated Press reaching
down into the grass roots of
America shows that people are
facing the situation with a
hard-headed attitude. They are
neither discouraged, nor par
ticularly optimistic.
They see 1858 as a year of
trial and trouble, but are re-
markedly unanimous in con-
fidence that our current eco
nomic stumble will somehow
Straighten out and lead to new
high plateaus in 1859 and 1860.
Data collected from coast to
coast suggests a buyers market.
Down at Chattanooga. Tenn,
it's tough selling power lawn
mowers in January SHOWS. yet
L. B. Jackson's hardware store
got terrific response" from a
cut-rate sale. He sold 100.
And I don't recall ever SELL
ing one before in January in
the dozen years I've been at
the store" said Mr.. Jackson.
Many businessmen feel it's
time for more vigorous mer-
chandising. fancier packaging.
aggressive selling. One Of those
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-04
President Sets
Career Plan
For Executives
FiVe-Mun Board
To Advise CSC on
Top Personnel

President Eisenhower issued
an executive order today estab-
fishing a program to improve
selection, development and
use" Of top-ranking civilian ca
reer employees Of the Govern
ment.
He appointed flve-man BIZ
partisan Career Executive
Board to advise the Civil Serv-
ice Commission in developing
and applying policies under
which the new program will
operate.
A White House announce
ment said the new program is
designed to:
/. Assure that career execu-
tives are people Of the highest
quality.
2. Make the most effective
use of career executives.
8. Assure the retention in
Government Of able executives
and to secure for them a re-
warding career.
4. Provide prestige through
greater recognition Of the i'm
portance of Government ca
reer executives.
Applies to Super Grades
The program applies to quail
flied personnel in civil service
grades Is. II and 10 outside of
schedule c political appointees.
In those grades, starting sal
aries range from $4,000 to
$4,000.
To become a career execu-
tive" a Government employee
in such a job must be rec
commended by the head of his
agency. approved by the Ca
reer Executive Board. and des-
ignated by the President.
Under the Presidents order,
the board will perform the fol-
lowing functions:
/. Receive nominations from
Federal agencies for employees
to be designated career execu-
tives. and pass on them for
recommendation to the Presi-
dent for such designation.
2. Maintain experience rec
ordS of designated career ex-
ecutives and develop a special
roster of eligibles for use by
agencies in filling suitable va
cancies.
8. Develop methods for reg
ular appraisal of executives.
Training Aid Provided
4. Assist the Civil Service
Commission and agencies in
developing effective training
programs for career executives.
S. Recommended any changes
required in job classification
practices so as to permit greater
debility in assignment of
career executives.
6. Recommend to the Civil
Service Commission and the
President appropriate steps to
strengthen the program.
Mr.. Eisenhower named DR..
Arthur Flemming as chairman
of the Career Executive Board.
Other members are: Secretary
of Labor Mitchell. Civil Service
Commissioner Frederick j.
Lawton, Charles B. Stauffacher,
vice president of the CONT
mental Can Co., and James H.
Taylor, manager of personnel
administration of Proctor &
Gamble Co.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-04
Pre-Sunnmit Proposal
Rejected by Dulles
Pessimistic
Over Latest
Soviet Notes
BY EARL H. VOSS
Star stan Writer

Soviet conditions for holding
a pre-summit Foreign Minis.
ters' meeting are not accept.
able to the United States. Sec.
rotary of State Dulles told re.
porters today in a news con-
ference heavily weighted with
his peSsimism.
The severe restrictions the
Soviet Union has demanded
would preclude a meeting that
would give hope of alleviating
tensions and resolving signifl-
cant issues, the secretary de-
clared.
Mr.. Dulles went so far as to
say he knows of no substantive
matter that could be taken up
either .in pre-summit negotia-
tons or at the top level where
there is a likelihood of agree
ment with the Soviet Union.
But he did not exclude the pcs
sibility of finding some.
The Soviet Union last week
end proposed an April meeting
Of as many as 20 foreign min
listers to approve an agenda
and name the participants Of
a summit meeting. But before
converting the foreign ministers
conference, the Kremlin wants
the West to agree to a June
date for summit talks in Gen.
eva.
DiStaSte Indicated
Secretary Dulles today indi.
Gated a clear distaste for INCLUDE
ing Soviet satellites in any high
level meeting but seemed re-
signed to this if necessary.
Soviet Foreign Minister An
drei Gromyko has proposed. in
a note to the French govern
ment. that Poland. Czechoslo-
vakia and Rumania join him
on the Soviet side of the table.
while the British, French and
Italian foreign ministers sit
with Mr.. Dulles on the other
side. Mr.. Dulles commented
only on the Soviet note to
Paris because the side memoire
to the United States is not
being made public at Moscow's
request.
Besides the East and West
participants, Mr.. Gromyko also
favors participation of "un-
committed powers" meaning
nations like India, Yugoslavia,
Egypt, Sweden, Afghanistan
and Austria.
If it is found to be in the
interests of peace to accept the
affection of listening to the
Soviet satellites parrot the
Moscow line, Mr.. Dulles OBJ.
served gloomily, Il suppose we
will have to have it,"
Changes Considered
On disarmament. Mr.. Dulles
said there are certain prospects
for change in the United States
See SUMMIT, Page AS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-04
Capitol Leaders
Pact
On Disability
Some Differences
Of Opinion Appear
On Authority to Act

Congressional leaders voiced
approval today of White House
arrangements by which Vice
President Nixon would take
over as acting President if
President Eisenhower becomes
disabled.
But differences Of opinion
cropped out over whether the
Eisenhower Nixon agreement
announced yesterday would
give Mr.. Nixon sufficient con-
stitutional authority to act and
whether Mr.. Eisenhower legally
could reclaim his ONCE.
There also were demands
that Congress act quickly
toward clearing up the ques-
ton about who makes the de-
cision that a President is dis
abled. The Constitution does
not specificy how that shall be
done.
The administration has pro-
posed a constitutional amend
ment to clear up that and other
details of the disability matter.
Democratic House leaders have
commended an act of Congress
would be sufficient.
G. o. P. Reported Pleased
Senate Republican Leader
Knowland said Republican con-
gressional leaders expressed
their approval of the Eisen-
hover Nixon agreement in a
conference at the White House
today.
Both Senator Knowland and
House G. o. P. Leader Martin
said they thought the White
House statement should inn
prove the chances Of congress
sional action this year on a con-
stitutional amendment.
Mr.. Martin contended that.
with the problem taken care
OF for the next two years, Con-
greSS should be in a better
mood to plan for the future.
The Eisenhower Nixon agree
ment, is in line with the pro-
visions of the proposed con-
stitutional amendment except
that it does not require
cabinet approval for the Vice
President to take over executive
powers on his own initiative.
In making terms of the
agreement public. White House
Press Secretary James C.
Hagerty emphasized that Mr..
Eisenhower still thinks the
Constitution should be amended
to specify exactly what should
be done in case Of presidential
disability.
He explained that Mr.. Eli
Senhower and Mr.. Nixon had
reached an agreement between
themselves on procedure to be
followed in the absence of a
constitutional amendment.
The agreement provides two
Continued on Page AT. Col. 1
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-04

VlQual senators 10 appear or
let them take the initiative on
testifying personally, sending
letters or saying nothing.
Baker Questioned Again
In open session this morn
ing, the probers resumed ques-
tioning Of George T. Baker,
president of National Airlines.
Mr.. Baker, also president of
Public Service Television, Inc,
which last year won Miami
TeleviSion Channel 10 from the
FEC, yesterday accused Demo-
cratic Senators Kefauver of
Tennessee and Holland and
Smathers of Florida of having
been particularly active in be-
half of another applicant for
that channel, Col. A. Frank
KatZentine.
Mr.. Baker also listed several
other Democratic and Republic
can Senators. especially some
members of the Senate Com
merce Committee, as having OPP
posed a televiSion award to the
National Airlines subsidiary.
Press Quiz of Whiteside
Although Richard A. Mack
resigned late yesterday as a
commission member, the House
subcommittee today gave no
sign of easing its investigation
of his financial dealings with a
Miami lawyer, Thurman A.
Whiteside.
Mr.. Mack, who voted with
three Republican members of
the commission to give the
Channel 10 award to Public
Service. has insisted that he
judged the case strictly on its
merits and yielded to no pres
sure and took no payments in
the matter.
The question of having Sen
ate members testify before the
House subcommittee came up
when Chairman Harris, DEM
ocrat of Arkansas, put in the
record several letters he re-
ceived from Senator Monroney,
Democrat of Oklahoma. Those
letters were an exchange of
correspondence between Sen
ator Monroney, as chairman of
the Senate Commerce Commit
tees Subcommittee on Avia-
ton, and the then FEC Chair
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-04

man George C. McConnaughey
in 1856 and 1857.
Sees "POlicy Problem"
These letters indicated that
the Senate subcommittee was
concerned about the policy
problem" Of a television license
being granted to an airline.
That was during the period
that the FEC was considering
four applications for the Miami
Channel 10 award. Senator
Monroney wrote that a policy
problem existed in the posi-
bility that the TV license might
be awarded by one regulatory
agency, the FEC, to an airline
applicant regulated by another
agency. the Civil Aeronautics
Board.
Senator Monroney, in send
ing the correspondence to
Chairman Harris, made no fur
ther comments on statements
yesterday by Mr.. Baker that
several members of the Senate
Aviation Subcommittee, inclu-
ding Senator Monroney, appar-
emily tried to persuade the FEC
not to grant the TV license to
the National Airlines subsidiary
SchOeppel Denies Role
Mr.. Harris announced that
he received a telephone call
from Senator Schoeppel, Re-
publican of Kansas, an Aviation
Subcommittee member, explain
ing that he had not participated
in the policy discussions that
led to the correspondence be-
tween Senator Monroney and
Mr.. McConnaughey. Senator
Schoeppel said he called this
to the attention of the House
subcommittee, because he had
been mentioned yesterday by
Mr.. Baker.
Representative Wolverton, Re-
publican of New Jersey. then
raised the question of whether
letters such as those received
from Senator Monroney today
and from Senator Kefauver
last week concerning the Chan
mel 10 case were intended to
take the place of the appear
ance of Senators before this
See AGENCIES, Page A-6
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-04
SOME YACHTSMEN
CRUISE ALL YEAR

THE CRUISING SEASON moy
not begin for most bootownen for
several weeks yet, but for Philip N.
Julien, IT,, ond his wife Dorothy,
its all the yeor round. See the
Leisure Sportsman Pose, A-l9.
THE BIBLE SERVES os q blue.
print for o life Of service soys Miss
Winifred c. Thompson, superin.
tendent Of the children's Center,
Lourel, Nd, in todoy's Lenten
Thought on Poee 81.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-04
House Probers Differ
On Quizzing Senators
Group Seeming TV Cose to Hold
Private Session on Extent of Inquiry
BY LEE M. COIN and ROBERT X. WALSH
Gtars SLAIN
Star Stan Writer

House subcommittee members seeking evidence Of pres
the Federal Communications Commission differed
today whether Senators mentioned by witnesses should
be formally invited to testify
The Legislative Oversight Subcommittee went into closed
session this afternoon to decide whether to request the nd
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-04
IN AMERICA
E Economic lied
SidesIip, Not ToiIspin

Business hos slipped some notehes
from its prosperity peck. But Amer
icons sePerolly, q comprehensive
Associated Press survey indicates,
feel thot the economic chill will
somehow be cured otter trioI ond
trouble in 1858. This is the second
Of five articles on the Notions
economic pieture.l
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-04
WEATHER FORECAST

Mostly sunny today. Fair tonight, lowest
around 80 degrees. Fair. little warmer
tomorrow. Full report. Page A-21
Temperatures Today