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TEXT OF VAN DOREN STATEMENT
1Wos Involved, Deeply Involved. -

unfortunately agreed, after
some time, to his proposal.
Explains Program
I met him next at his Office,
where he explained how y the
program would be controlled.
He told me the questions I was
| to be asked. and then asked
if I could answer them. Many
of them could. But he was
dissatisfied with my answers
They were not entertaining
enough
He instructed me how to an
swer the questions: To pause
before certain parts of the an
swers, to skip certain parts and
return to them, to hesitate and
build up suspense, and so forth
On this first occasion and on
several subsequent ones he gave
me a script to memorize, and
before the program he took
back the script and rehearSeo
me in my part.
Would Supply Answers
This was the general method
he used throughout my IA weeks
on "21." He would ask me the
questions beforehand. If
could not answer them ne woul(
tell me the answers or, if there
was sufficient time before the
program, which was usual. HI
would allow me to look them ur
myself.
A foolish sort of pride made
me want to look up the an.
swers when I could, and tt
learn as much about the sub.
ject as possible. When l coulc
answer the questions right of
he would tell me that my an.
swers were not given in an en-.
PERTAINING and interesting way
and he would then rehearse me
lin the manner in which I was
to act and speak.
After the first program, or
which I tied Stempel three
times, Freedman told me tina
! See TEXT, Page A.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-02
AirIiner Crash
Inquiry Begins
26 Die, One Suved
InVirginiu Tragedy

Investigators today began
trying to piece together the
puzzling reason why a Piedmont
Airlines DC-3 crashed high on
a Blue Ridge mountain neal
Charlottesville, Va, killing 26
persons and miraculously leav-
ing one survivor.
It may be weeks before the
Civil Aeronautics Board ven
lures an opinion on the cause
of the tragedy. The CAB will
hold a public hearing at Char
lottesville about a month from
now. Teams of experts were
sitting the debris, about 300
yards below the 3,200-foot peak
of Bucks Elbow Mountain, Il
miles northwest of Charlottes-
vile.
There the plane. bound from
Washington to Roanoke, Va
crashed about $40 pm. Friday
touching off a 36-hour search
by hundreds of volunteers.
One Passenger Alive
The most surprising develop.
ment was finding alive E
Phillip Bradley, 80, Of Clifton
Forge. Va. a passenger who wa.
thrown in his seat from the real
of the plane, through its tori
out nose, and suffered only &
twisted hip. He had lain there
helpless, crying for aid, until
helicopter crew spotted thu
wreckage yesterday morning.
Throughout the day, tn,
bodies of the other % pas
sengers and three crewmen werl
arduously borne by Stretcher tt
the rocky and wooded mountain
peak and relayed by helicoptel
to an emergency ward in Uni
verSity Hospital in Charlottes,
vile. FBI fingerprint expert
helped identify the bodies.
Plane OFF Course
What caused the crash, frs
in 667,350,068 passenger mile
for Piedmont AirlineS? Com
pany and Civil Aeronautici
Board officials could find NJ
quick answer.
H. K. Saunders, Piedmon
See CRASH, Page B.,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-02
Van Doren Admits Deception
Tells Of Rehearsing Answers
'21' Shows
All Rugged,
He Testifies

Charles Van Doren testified
at a congressional inquiry to-
day that he received full ques.
ti0ns and answers that per-
mitted him to win $l29, 900 on
the television quiz show
Twenty-One.
The 33-year-old Columbia
University English instructor
ETC to strike hard at misleading Tv
DDS. Pose AS
who became. the most celebrated
of the big ~money-winners on
TV broke his long silence to
tell what he described as the
whole truth"
From the time of his first ap-
pearance on Twenty-One in
1856, he related, the show was
completely rugged. During adj
vance briefing sessions he was
given every question to be asked
him. If he did not know the
answer, that was supplied, too,
along with coaching on how
the answer should be delivered.
Regret Expressed
Mr.. Van Doren, suspended
recently from a $50,000-a-year-
job as a commentator with the
| National Broadcasting Co., told
his story in a prepared state
ment read at an open hearing
of the House investigating sub
committee and then answered
questions.
His boyish face was drawn
and his eyes were bloodshot as
he took the stand.
Beginning his statement, he
said in the pleasant, cultured
tones familiar to millions of TV
viewers:
II would give almost any
thing I have to reverse the
course of my life in the last
three years."
He told how he had lied from
} the start to cover up his role
;; in the rigging of the program.
He lied the day after the TV
quiz scandals first broke in
1858 by telling a network tele-
vision audience he had never
been given any questions and
answers on Twenty-One, he
said.
Jury Testimony Recalled
He lied again, Mr.. Van Doren
related in the same measured
tones, when he appeared before
! a grand jury in New York last
January. And he lied once more
last month in a telegram to
the congressional Investigators
which proclaimed his innocence
OF any wrong-doing.
Mr.. Van Doren named Albert
I Freedman, a producer of
Twenty-One, as the man who
, persuaded him to cooperate in
, rigging the show and then
> coached him.
, A telling argument Mr..
Freedman used, he said, was
, that as the scion of a famous
literary family and a member
, of the Columbia University
faculty, Mr.. Van Doren would
! increase public respect for the
+ intellectual life, for the teach
ing profession" by making a
good showing.
He said Mr.. Freedman also
told him ut was all entertain
. ment" and that coaching Of
contestants was routine.
Perhaps I wanted to believe
e See QUIZ, Page AS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-02
Steel Dispute
Briefs Filed
In High Court
Mood Of Futility
Rules as Mediation
Begins Once More
BY LEE M. COIN
star stan Writer

The Supreme Court today
received final legal briefs on the
steel strike injunction as union
and company negotiators re-
sumed mediation in a mood OF
futility.
Bargaining teams for the
steel companies and the United
Steelworkers of America met
separately this morning with
officials Of the Federal Medi-
alton and Cancellation Service.
No progress was indicated in
efforts to settle the 111-day
strike.
Joseph F. Finnegan, director
of the mediation service, sched-
uled additional separate meet
ings with the negotiating teams
this afternoon at the Labor
Department. He announced no
plans to bring the negotiatorS
together.
Oral Argument Tomorrow
The union and the Govern
ment filed their brief in prep
aration for oral arguments be-
fore the high court tomorrow
morning. The briefs elaborated
on arguments presented. to the
court last week when the union
petitioned fro reviek of the 80
day Injunction issued and up
held by lower courts,
If the Supreme Court upholds
the injunction, the strikers
would have to go back to work
Immediately. If no settlement
is achieved during the term OF
the injunction, the 100000 steel
workers would be free to resume
their strike next January.
The Union Arguments
Union Counsel Arthur j.
Goldberg reiterated his argu-
ments that:
/. The Taft-Hartley injunc-
ton is unconstitutional because
it gives the courts the admins
trative or legislative function o.
declaring a legal strike illegal.
2. Even if the injunctive law
is constitutional, the steel strike
does not imperil the national
health or safety, a condition re-
quired for an injunction.
8. Even if the strike does i'm
peril the national health OF
safety, this danger cocld be
eliminated through less drastic
remedies than an industry-wide
injunction; the Government
cold use its ALLEGATION powers
to obtain steel for defense from
innsbruck plants, or could seize
a few essential plants, or the
courts could enjoin the strike
at essential plants and let thu
work stoppage continue else
where.
Governments Arguments
The Justice Department brie
commended that depletion o
steel inventories and growing
unemployment fully establish
the imminence of great eco
nomic disruption" This dis
ruption, the Government said
is sufficient to warrant an in
junction against the strike.
Reopening of a few Stee
plants would be impractical
See STEEL, Page A,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-02
Woman Killed,
Child Is Saved
In Home Blaze
Pussers-by Ruise
Ladder to Free
Trapped Mother

A woman was killed, an
elderly man overcom me by
smoke. and two persons were
rescued by passers-by today
when flames raced through the
second and third floors of a
house at 1408 Eighth street
NV, police said.
Another woman dropped her
8-year-old son from second
floor window safely into the
arms of a neighbor, and then
climbed down a ladder fur
nished by a passing truck
driver.
Police tentatively identified
the dead woman as Virginia
Burley, about 40. Her body was
found on the third floor, where
she apparently was trapped by
flames shooting up the stair
well.
Hugh H. Minis, Y, who has
q rear room on the second
floor. near where the fire
started, was found unconscious
in q second-floor bathroom.
Carried to Safety
He was carried down the
stairs to safety by a fireman,
and taken to the Washington
Hospital Center, where he was
treated for smoke inhalation.
Police said Mrs. Bertha Ken
nedy, so, was sleeping in a Sec
ond-floor front bedroom when
the smell of smoke awoke her
about $3.50 am. Her son, An
drew, was asleep on a couch.
She made her way through
the smoke-fil room to the
door, opened it, and discovered
the hallway also was clogged
with smoke.
Meanwhile, her next-door
neighbor, James F. Frisby, SO.
attracted by the excited cries
of youngsters watching the fire,
ran from his home at 1410 to
the front yard of the burning
house.
Mrs. Kennedy grabbed up her
son. opened a front window,
and called to Mr.. Frisby to
catch the boy. She dropped him,
and Mr.. Frisby made perfect
catch.
Climbs Down Ladder
At this moment, a red-and-
white pickup truck with a lad
der on the roof was passing
the house. The two men inside,
seeing Mrs. Kennedy's plight,
stopped, and one grabbed the
ladder and put it up against
the burning house. The trapped
woman climbed down unhurt.
The rescuers then climbed
back in the truck and drove
away. Police said they would
like to locate the men to con-
graduate them for the rescue.
Sixth Battalion Fire Chief
Sidney G. Carter said the
flames burned out a second
floor rear room, raced up the
stairwell. and destroyed the
rear Of the third floor. The first
floor of the brick row house was
vacant.
Chief Carter said the dead
woman was apparently trying
to make her way to a front
window. and then fell. The
cause Of the fire has not yet
been determined.
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some time, to his proposal.
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WOMEN & THOMAS hAR.
ROW By Jobs P. MSv4sSsd.
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with financial ruin. . leading
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-04

estimate by the amount and
the rate Of a radioactive gas,
argon-40, released from the in
terror of the earth, along with
water and some other chemi-
Gals.
The oldest sedimentary rocks
date back about 2.5 billion
years, he explained. Before
that the earth-formed about
as billion yeras ago-was COW
cred by fire-made rock which
solidifled as the earth cooled
Something had to erode OF
rot" or weather these rocks
1t took living things and the
products they released. includ.
ing acids. and rootlets growing
out to break rocks apart. an6
bacteria to do this rotting Job
This process broke the initia'
rock into fine particles such a;
sand. clay and quartz.
Life began very simply. Their
acquired more complex forms
and abilities. DR.. Turekiar
theories.
Fossilized life dates bach
only about 500 million years
To be preserved, animals had II
contain calcium or lime, in or.
der to form skeletons whic
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-04

LASTED. said DR.. Roger Revelle.
Of the Scripps Institution of
oceanography. La Jolla. Calf.
But there must have been
living things long before that
time. he said. So this early life
must have consisted Of only
single cells. There were no
complex or multicelled forms
Of life until the composition Of
the oceans changed.
This change. DR.. Revelle
thinks. was the formation OF
limestone to supply lime and
calcium in the seas with which
organisms could form shells
and also develop into multi
celled creatures.
Calcium was the glue To
stick the cells together" he
explained.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-04
Sleep Disease Hits
2More From u.

SEOUL. Korea, Sept. 4 CAP.
United States 9Th Army
medical authorities reported
today two more Americans
have contracted encephalitis-
known as sleeping sickness"
They identified the victims
as Specialist 4/c George L.
Means, 20. Of Lawton, OKLA,
and Herbert Lyons. 35. Of Mil
waukee. Wis. a civilian en-
ploye Of the Vinnell Corp.
Specialist Means was de-
scribed as improving slowly.
Mr.. Lyons. a utilities super
visor. was in poor condition.
Another American stricken
by the disease. Pfc. Royce
butcher Of Client, N. Y, is
seriously i'll but is said to be
improving steadily.
All three are at the United
States Army 12lst Evacuation
Hospital in Ascom City.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-04
Negroes Told to Drop
Feeling Of Inferiority

ready to yield. Look for the
weak spots and move in on
them"
DR.. Roen said his study OF
personality and Negro-white
intelligence" showed that per-
sonality traits-which develop
from environment--have more
to do with Negroes abilities To
score in intelligence tests than
is true In the case Of whites
These traits include lack OF
self-con1dence in anxiety and
lack Of emotional adjustment
Negroes, DR.. Roen explained
do not have these traits ex-
clusively while white lack
them. but the traits have q
greater effect on Negroes test
performance. This. he said
seems to indicate that an inner
feeling of inferiority is re-
flected in a lower performance
record.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-04
ny Star stan Writer

CINCINNATI, Sept. 4.-The
Negroes own sense Of inferiority
has brought about much of the
discrimination of which he
complains and the apparent
lower status which the white
majority ascribes to him.
This point of view was ex-
pressed before the American
Psychological Association yes
terday by two educators APP
preaching the problem from
different points of view.
In what he frankly described
as a 'preachment," DR.. Sam
uel I. Hayakawa of San Fran
cisco State College urged Ne
groes to stop regarding them
selves as inferior as the first
step in changing white at
titudes toward them.
BY contrast, q statistical
study Of Negro and white
soldiers was the basis Of the
statement Of Or. Sheldon r.
Roen Of the University of New
Hampshire that certain mega
tive self-perceptions Of Ne
groes play a role in their per-
Torrance of intellectual tasks"
Not Separate
Both educators stressed the
view point. shared by all but
a handful of scientists. that
there is no innate intellectual
inferiority that marks Negroes
as separate from other humans.
DR.. Hayakawa. a Japanese
American who lived among
Negroes in Chicago and wrote
a column for the Negro weekly,
The Chicago Defender. said his
message was for the Negro
middle class" the upper 10 per
cent of approximately 10
million Negroes in the United
States. He likened their situa-
ton to life in a concentration
camp.
Imagine such a camp" DR..
Hayakawa said. with barbed
wire strong on posts and guards
walking around. Then one day
the guards go away. and later
the barbS rust of and finally
the wire rusts away. Only the
post remain. Yet the inmates
stand around inside, and do
not break out. Today, in this
metaphor. the barbs and wire
have rusted away. and I say to
the Negro that If everybody
stands around. nobody is ever
going to break out"
Similar Problem
The problems Of the Negro
are those of ANY immigrant
group" DR.. Hayakawa said. but
are somewhat accentuated by
the Negroes former slave status.
Still. he pointed out. other
groups, including Nesei on the
West Coast, suffer from the
ghetto complex"
There is far too much sense
Of inferiority among minori-
ties" he declared. Members Of
minorities think Of doing things
II they'll let me- as a result,
many firms today have not
hired Negroes simply because
nobody ever applied for q job"
Even the business concern
that hires a ''house Negro" or
two just to demonstrate that
it has no anti-Negro policies
is susceptible to exploitation by
Negroes as a source Of en-
ployment opportunities. he
said. IF the one or two Negroes
do well, maybe the personnel
policies will change and more
will be hired" he speculated.
DR.. Hayakawa summarized
this advice to Negroes in these
words:
There are all sorts of places
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-04
Theory Traces
Life on Earth
3BiIIion Years
BY ALTON BLAKESLEE
Associated Press Science Writer

NEW YORK, Sept. A new
time clock puts the beginning
Of life on earth at 3 billion
years ago.
But living things didn't start
getting complex - or acquire
skeletons either-until only
500 million years ago.
These are theories. Evidence
for them was described to the
first International Oceanogra-
phic Congress.
The life time clock of 3 bill
lion years was proposed by DR..
Karl K. Turekian, Yale Uni
versity geologist. 1t Is further
back than some other estimates.
DR.. Turekian reached his
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-04
inspection Head
Named at IRIS

Internal Revenue Commits
sioner Dana Latham has an
nounced the appointment Of
Vernon D. AGREE, jr., as as
sistant commissioner for in
spection of the IRIS. The ap-
pointment, made by Treasury
Secretary Anderson, took eff
feet September l..
Mr.. AGREE had served as act
ing assistant commissioner
since June /. He joined the
IRIS in 1858. Before June l, ne
worked as director Of the in
ternal security division of the
inspection service.
Mr.. AGREE served with the
Army's Criminal Investigation
Division in Europe during World
War II. He and his wife and
their four children live at 1900
Cross street in Lanham, Md.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-04
FTC CHARGES
LEG COURSE FAILS
TO SHAPE UP
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press
A New York firm today
was accused of making
false claims that women
can buy a pair Of exqui-
site legs to have for your
very own"
The firm, Modern Meth
DDS, Inc, sells 12-week cor
respondence courses with
the claim that they can
add curves to skinny legs
or reduce heavy legs.
The. Federal Trade Com
mission said the courses
are not very reliable and
the company misrepresents
various aspects of its
courses in advertising. The
firm has 80 days to reply
to the charge.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-04
Red Agents Landing
In West Called Hoax

MAINZ. Germany. Sept. 4
(AP).-A story that FIVE Rus
sian agents parachuted into
West Germany was exposed as
a hoax last night by West Ger
man police.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-04
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-08
NAACP Loses
Suit in Florida

TAMPA, Fla, Aug. 8 (AP).
-Florida's pupil assignment
law cleared its second major
legal hurdle yesterday when a
Federal judge dismissed a pub
lie school indignation suit
brought by a group of Tampa
Negroes. 81.
The action by District Judge
George w. Whitehurst. vir-
tually eliminates any chance Of
Negro pupils entering all-white
school this fall.
Judge Whitehurst, a 68-year-
old jurist born at Waughula,
Fla, upheld the defense con-
tention that the Negroes should
have taken their problems to
the county school board before
filing the suit.
The suit was the second in
Federal Court in which the
controversial 1856 law became
entangled. The other was at
Miami. in which District Judge
Joe Leib upheld the act.
The legislature enacted the
measure as a means of cir
cumventing the United States
Supreme Courts order outlaw.
ing public school segregation.
Attorneys for the National
Association for the Advance.
ment of Colored People said
Judge Whitehurst's action
would be appealed to the Court
of Appeals at New Orleans.