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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-02
Mystery BIost
Rocks Freighter

VANCOUVER. British Co
lumbia. May 2 (AP).-An I'M
explained explosion sent flying
oil sweeping through the en-
CINE room and holds OF the
Norwegian freighter Ferngulf
last night. Five crewmen and
q Canadian Navy 1lremen were
injured.
The explosion ripped through
the 7.500-ton Ferngulf as she
rounded Point Atkinson, north
Of the Vancouver harbor.
The ship radioed for help
when it began to list. A Royal
Canadian Air Force helicopter
flew q doctor to the Ferngulf
and he treated the injured be-
fore they and the other 80
crewmen were removed by sew
eral small boats.
Seventeen Canadian Navy
f1remen, dressed in bulky as
bestoS suits. boarded the yes
sci and, after a two-hour battle.
brought the fire under control.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-02
POTOMAC FEVER
FLETCHER KNEBEL

Mrs Clare Boothe Luce quits as Ambassador. woman
will anything have the last wordeyen II the word is
'unclel"
Jack Kennedy campaigns in California. He's trying to
appear matWe-and 10 minutes Los Angeles
freeway will make anyone look 10 years older.
o. p Chairman Morton urges his party to get across
to Republican he did that last year
but told him how to bring the voters back with him.
Nomination for Time Magazines 1859 man-o- the year
Henry r. Luce husband whose wife did just what he
told her.
fellow who door to Cape Canaveral is forming
the American Association for the Abandonment Of Science
once glossary: Stenographer-A girl who bust
ness school the boss she's going to marry dies
An old flame of Prince Rainier Of Monaco him
walking with Princess. There she said. "but for
Grace go l."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-02
DC. Says SIoop,
Parked in Alley,
Must Be Shifted

Bruce w. Wetmore. owner of
the boat parked in what his
neighbors thought was every
body's alley, has been told to
move it from about IL feet of
public property.
Mr.. Wetmore. who lives at
4420 Forty-fourth street NV,
parked his boat alongside his
house recently. He fenced of
the alley, part Of which he owns.
The neighbors complained.
He had received a District
permit to fence it OF. but yes
terday the District surveyors
office found that he had parked
his 22-foot sloop so that it was
setting party on public space.
Police came by and told him to
move it. 1t weighs 2 tons. Mr..
Wetmore said he hoped to
angle it to one side and comply
with the order.
Nontheless, he said, the fence
stays up.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-02

venge." Senator Scott said Mr.
Inglis "took on on cloud 9" in
his estimate of Mr.. Strauss.
Charges Rejected
Mr.. Strauss, who has been
serving under a recess appoint
ment as Commerce Secretary,
was offered a chance to reply
to Mr.. Inglis' statements. The
Secretary rejected the allega-
lions against him one by one.
Specifically he denied that
he had opposed the sending of
radioactive isotopes to Europe
for medical research. He said
this was an old and unfounded
story which originated in a
column"
Mr.. Strauss accused Mr.. In
glis of giving a false picture OF
the Secretary's stand. as Acc
chairman, on scientific matters.
Mr.. Strauss said it was he
who pressed for the atomic
monitoring system by which
this country was able to detect
secret Russian testing of nue.
lear weapons.
This was all that saved us
from being completely sur
ptised by the Russians atomic
ability MIR. Strauss added.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-02

Oppenheimer is director of the
institute.
Mr.. Strauss made a strong
pitch for quick adoption of
the metric system, but a cur
sorry survey after his speech
indicated that it fell on UNI
impressed, If not deaf. ears.
Physicists universally use the
centimeter- gram-second sys-
tenn, and engineers use the
kilograIll -meter-second system.
DR.. Samuel Goldsmith of
Brookhaven National Labora-
tory on Long Island said the
problems of converting from
Inches to centimeters are
|minuscule alongside other prob
lens facing physicists.
DR.. John Kane of Brook
haven scoffed at Admiral
Strauss insistence on the deci-
NAL system as the only work.
able one. He pointed out that
electronic computers figure in
terms of 1-2-4-8-16 instead OF
1-I0-100-1 .OO0-10 5000 and get
there faster and surer.
/ AS far as could be learned,
DR.. Kane was the only Last
Strauss" member on hand
DIR. Kane said it was the
first time in his history as an
APPS member that he had at
tended a banquet. and empha-
sized that the other nine orig
inal committeeman were moi
lconscientiously boycotting Mr.
Strauss speech.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-02

Nhuitt - 1tncAhl Almt koi N.t
Westclox Division. La Sale,
III, and ElRin National Watch
Co, Elein. Ill.-have imported
many such dials. have dis
tributed many 10 the public and
stu possess some.
The other company. Bulova
Watch Co. Flushing. N. r..
was cited for a single watch
with a strontium 90 dial. Il
was trade marked westfeld.
transferred 10 q Loulsburg. N.
C. jeweler and sold TO someone
In 1855. the Acc said.
An Acc spokesman said In
general a watch with q dial
containing strontium 90 would
not be more hazardous than the
more common ones that have
radium compounds to provide
luminosity.
Could Be Dangerous
But. he said. in some circum-
stances they might be more
dangerous-if the wearer kept
It on while he slept and slept
with his arm over his face near
his eyes, for instance.
A General Time Corp. execu-
tive said the dials and hands
involved In its case "were inn
ported a long time ago-five
or six years ago" and were used
only in repairing watches, not
in those newly manufactured.
He said none Of the inn
ported parts had been used
since the Aces inspection and
the firm intends to follow Acc
instructions in disposal Of the
stock.
An Elgin Official said "the
luminous dial watches sold by
Elgin were laboratory tested to
insure that the radiation level
Is well within safe limits. The
company had not been informed
by the Swiss supplier that
strontium 80 was the luminous
agent used in the imported
watches.
Elgin said il imported 1000
such watches and sold 1900 of
them. I'VE are cooperating
fully with the Acc by hating
the shipment of any imported
watches in which the strontium
80 was applied, although our
tests clearly indicate that the
watches were not dangerous"
the spokesman said.
Bulova Statement
The Bulova company said
in New York that it had never
had strontium 80 in its watch
dials and had none in its pos
session.
The company said the Acc
order was based on a single
watch imported five years ago
and which had been destroyed
by the Acc tests. 1T is impos-
sible to tell whether even that
one watch j. had been refin-
.ished by someone after it left
our hands," Bulova said.
AT any rate" the company
added. mo traces of strontium
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-02

There we're a few minutes
before curtain time. The huge
old-fashloned Metropolitan
Opera was jammed 70 is
topmost tier AZ II has been
every night for the almost
legendary Holshol Ballet from
Moscow. ! sat there remcm-
berlng myself as a shy young
reporter trying 70 do an In
tervlew with one OF the most
vivid women the world ever
knew. Anna Paylova.
She was old when / saw her.
That Is TO say. she was old
IS ballerinas 90. But seen
on the stage she was grace
and beauty almost beyond
compare. Her body was dis
ciplined and controlled to the
point that even today the
legend Of her makes her per-
haps the greatest OF all time.
She was a proud and a some-
what astrlneent women. iras-
chile and dlfiicult. Her feet. /
remember. looked almost de-
formed. 50 muscled and
arched were they by count
less hours Of dancing on her
points.
Somehow. she liked what /
wrote and asked me to eat
with her late after the per-
formancE We ate at the old
Hermitage Hotel in Nashville.
Tenn. where I. the young cub
reporter, was Just starting
out. I have known a number
OF intense persons. but none
so intense as she. There was
a fire which burned in her at
ell times. a flame dedicated
to perfection and to the aris-
tocracy OF the Verities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-02
Spucemen Start
Langley Training

LANGLEY AIR FORCE
BASE. Va. May 2 (AP).-A
familiarization and training
program for the seven service
men selected for this country's
man-in-space project has be-
gun at the Langley Research
Center of the National Aero
nautics and Space Administra-
ton.
One Of the seven astronauts
will be tapped for Americas
first attempt to place a man in
orbit around the earth. The
project is named Mercury.
All seven astronautS are mar
ried men with children. They
have been detailed to NASA
by their respective military
departments.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-02
The Bolshoi stirs Memories Of Meetings
With P0yIoyo. DoniIoyo and TolIehief

That dinner and that little
woman have remained vivid
through ell the years that
have passed. She died Just
a few years later. And when
I read the news OF her pass
ing ! mourned - n an old
and dear friend had gone on
into the mysterious realm to-
ward which we all. plodders
and dancers. are iourneying.
From that time on ] was
q balletomane.
They are a wondrous breed
OF people--the dancers--liv-
ing a life that Is almost mo-
nastic IN It's isolation. In
time, / came to know some OF
those who helped make the
American Ballet. Greatest
OF these. Of course. was Alex
andra Danilova, VINO was one
OF the many trained in the
Bolshol school and who came
10 America IN the years OF
revolution and trouble.
One runs into dancers In
odd places. In early l945 in
Calcutta. India. while the war
still famed in Europe and
Asia, Brig. Gen. Robert Ney-
land. famous in civil life as
coach OF the University Of
Tennessee football team. took
me to dinner at the Five
Hundred Club. 1t was man
aged by a huge. bulky man
who moved easily like a
boxer. even though he had
run to fat. His wife was q
dancer and it turned out he.
too, had been one Of those In
the old Russian company
many years before.
When I mentioned I knew
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-02

90 were found at Bulova. and
Bulova has never ordered any
watch dials or hands so treated.
and TO our knowledge. has never
received any so treated"
The Acc also mentioned
American Phosphors Corp.
Valley Force Center. King Of
Prussia. Pa. as having imported
a quantity OF strontium 30
without an Acc license.
The Acc letters 10 Elgin.
General Time and American
Phosphors directed the COM
panies to apply for an Acc IL
cense authorizing them to dis
pose Of any strontium 90 in
their possession.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-02
Iroqi Troops Bar
Tribesmen' S Exit

VAN. Turkey, May 2 (AP).-
Iraqi government troops have
captured 555 tribesmen trying
to flee into Turkey. Kurdish
refugees from Iraq were quoted
as saying last night.
The governor and police
chief of Hakkari province in
Turkeys southeast corner
quoted the Kurds as saying the
Rekan tribesmen we're thwart-
ed when troops Of Iraqi Pre-
nier Abdel Karin Kassem sur
prised them attempting to cross
the Turko-Iraqi border near
oramar.
The tribesmen we're taken
to Mosul, site Of an abortive
anti-Kassem revolt last March.
The Kurds did not say when
the escape attempt was made.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-02
8 Seized by Reds
Return to Jupun

OTARU, Japan. May 2 (AP)
Eight Japanese fishermen
captured and detained in Rus
STA for allegedly violating Rus
sian-claimed waters off North
+ern Hokkaido last year returned
here today.
The fishermen returned from
Homlsk, Sakhalin. via a jap
anese Maritime Safety Board
patrol boat which was per-
mitted to enter the Russian
port.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-02
A BoIIetomone Reminisces

DanlIova and frequently saw
her dance. he went into such
a rhnpsodlc eulogy Of her
beauty and grace that his
young wife looked coldly upon
him. Az last. he said. "Oh,
wen. that was long ago and I
am old and fat and this is
India"
He wrote a note 10 her and
Il dutifully was delivered a
few months later.
American ballet grew out
OF the old Ballet Russo Co.
and the genius OF George
Balanchlne. the choreo-
grapher. Il developed its
own technioues and began 10
reflect the culture In which
II had its being. The Russians
have no greater dancer than
Maria Tallchief. daughter OF
an Usage Indian chief and
an American mother. /
remember her backstage at
ballets as a moody young girl.
Her associates leased her.
saying. Heap big chief, max
ing heap big medicine" She
went on TO become a legend
herself.
Swan Lake was beautifully
done. The Russians have
opulent sets and their casts
are large. They reacted. as
all companies do. to the loud
approval Of the crowd. Dance
critics here differ about the
Bolshoi. although all agree
II is a great institution. But
the crowds which pack each
performance love It all. And
Bailerina Maya Plisetskay's
fiery brilliance somehow re-
minded me of Tallchief. But.
for me. it was also an evening
Of remembering how ] got
to be a balletOmane.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-02
RighfsAccord
ByG.O.P.Seen

HIGHLAND PARK, H.. May
q (Ap) "A national Republic
can committee today opened
the second session OF a long
range policy meeting with its
chairman convinced that the
civil rights issue will not trout
bic the 4l-member group.
Charles II. Percy. chairman
Of the q. o. p. Committee on
Program and Progress. said:
Our final report. unlike
Democratic statements on civil
rights, is not going to grasp for
tricky words intended 10 mean
something to some people and
something different TO other
people"
Mr.. Percy. president Of Bell
a. Howell Co.. a Chicago cam
era manufacturing concern.
said yesterday the matter OF
civil rights was discussed by
the committee. and he added:
There seems to be a feeling
that we promptly will reach
basic agreement in this area"
The committee. set up In
February after authorization
by the Republican National
Committee. will report on what
it thinks party policy should be
in four broad fields: Peace and
national security. human rights
and needs, the impact OF SCI
ence and technology and eco
nomic opportunity and progress.
Mr.. Percy said the report
may be ready by September l..
Senator Morton. @. o. P.
national chairman who at
tended the session yesterday
and then returned TO Washing
ton, said the committees report
will have its impact on the 1860
Republican platform makers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-02

political party activity in the
immediate future.
Imperialism is presently
trying to create splits by calling
for the creation of parochial
parties and other groupings.
he said in a speech to the Gen.
eral Federation of Trade
Unions.
THE purpose of this is to
play one of us of against the
other so that the foreigners can
sit as spectators. But we shall
Illustrate imperialism"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-02

labels\that Mr.. Strauss pinned
on Inglis allegations.
Mr.. Inglis. who said he would
feel safer about the future OF
this country's national security
if Mr.. Strauss were not in Presi-
dent Eisenhower cabinet. also
got a going over from Senator
Pastore, Democrat Of Rhode
Island, who presided at the
hearing, and some Other COM
mittee members.
Argument Disputed
Senator Pastore disputed the
argument that Mr.. Strauss in
sistence on developing the H
bomb disqualified him from
serving as Secretary Of Com
merce.
Senator Pastore said the de-
cision to develop. the H-bomb
was made by former President
Truman, and added:
f"That was a presidential de-
cision, and / don't see how it
can be used to disqualify any
one"
Mr.. Inglis testified he had
urged that this country refrain
from H-bomb development
tests If Russia would agree to
do likewise.
Senator Pastore asked what
H-bomb testing had to do with
Mr.. Strauss nomination.
Mr.. Inglis replied that as a
cabinet member, Mr.. Strauss
would be in position to Inllr-
ence decisions on whether or
not emphasis should be put
on negotiations for tapering of
the arms race"
Basis of Opposition
Senator Pastore said he gath
cred that Mr.. Inglis' OPPOSE
ton was based on Mr.. Strauss
actions and opinions when he
served as chairman of the
Atomic Energy Commission.
and that Mr.. Inglis feared Mr..
Strauss influence on the Pres
ident as cabinet member.
Mr.. Inglis agreed.
Another nuclear physicist,
David L. Hill of New York,
testified that Mr.. Strauss has
character traits that should
disqualify him from the cabi-
net post.
Mr.. Hill. formerly on the
staff of the Los AlamoS, N
Mex, atomic laboratory. said
Mr.. Strauss has a facility
for repeated misrepresenta-
lions when such distortion
serves his personal policy
goals" He also cited what he
called Mr.. Strauss personal
vindictiveness toward those
who have disagreed with his
official positions" and his car
rogant usurpation of authority
and responsibility"
Mr.. Inglis, a theoretical
physicist at the Aces Argonne
Laboratory in Chicago. is chair
man of the Federation OF
American Scientists. He testi-
fed that Mr.. Strauss used tao
tics that were narrow-minded
vindictive and sometimes un-
ethical.
This brought a retort from
Senator Scott, Republican OF
Pennsylvania. that he never had
heard testimony more infested
with a venomous desire for re-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-02

from the speed Of light down
to the wave-lengths of atomic
particles, his APPS audience was
not 100 per cent behind Mr..
Strauss.
"The metric system is no
better than the binary system
that we use in computers." one
physicist commented after the
address.
No Boycott
Mr.. Strauss pitch for the
adoption of the meter in place
Iof the yard. the kilogram
in place OF the pound and the
liter in place of the gallon APP
parently was designed as the
oil to be poured on troubled
waters. His appearance had be-
come a cause celebre in the
meeting, just concluded. of the
physical society.
AS anti Strauss elements
promised, there was no boy
colt. One of the organizers of
the Last Strauss Committee"
set up to oppose his. appear
ance last night, was on hand
| to listen. And by contrast. a
prominent member of the So
ciety's council. which refused
to Withdraw the invitation to
the controversial speaker, was
not there.
Asked to explain the absence
of DR.. v. C. Weisskopf, vice
president and apparent presi-
dent-elect, from the head
table, public relations CHIEF
Eugene Kone said:
DR.. Weisskopf is vice presi-
dent of the American Physical
Society. He customarily but
not automatically succeeds the
president at the January, 1860,
meeting. There is no explana-
ton for his absence from the
head table,"
Friend Of Oppenheimer
Other sources speculated
that DIR. Weisskopf failed to
show up because he is a friend
of DR.. j. Robert Oppenheimer
who was ousted as an atomic
energy adviser when Mr.,
Strauss was head of the Atomic
Energy Commission.
The ghost of DIR. Open
heimer-a former APPS presi.
dent--loomed large over the
meeting. DR.. George E. Uhlen-
beck, president of the society
said in introducing the speaker
that Mr.. Strauss was "a
man of strong opinions with
whom many physicists may not
always agree"
No Enthusiasm
He recalled that the Com
merce Secretary was chairman
of the board of trustees of the
Institute Of Advanced Study at
Princeton. NJ, and referred to
1.-THE brilliant leadership oi
(the institute's) director. DR.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-02

ton of Social Progress" and
Workers of the World Unite"
On the other hand, Premier
Abdel Karin Kassem appeared
to some observers to have raised
a restraining hand against
Communist demands.
City Is Decorated
Baghdad was garlanded in
crepe paper, palm fronds, Iraqi
national flags and portraits Of
Premier Kassem for the most
assiduously prepared public
celebration since. the revolution
which destroyed King Faisal's
pro- western monarchy last
July.
Communists called the rally
significant because it is being
celebrated for the first time
during the. Iraqi democratic
republican regime which. since
its inception, has become the
edifice Of peace. liberty and
democracy in the Middle East. !"
The demonstration followed
a five-day newspaper campaign
for Communist participation in
the Kassem government, which
is expected to be balanced soon.
Warns on Split
Perhaps with this in mind
Mr.. KaSsem said in a May Day
enaarl1 that he il OFlDosnd tn
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-02

STERLING, Colo. (AP).-
Sterling Police Chief Hugh
O'Neal found a real collectors
item while cleaning out his desk
"a United States penny made
in 1899.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-02
Strauss Stirs Dispute
On the Metric System
BY WILLIAM HINES
star Science Writer :.

The years most controversial speaker talked
last night on years least controversial topc-the metric
system.
But even on that Secretary of Commerce Strauss
did not find himself unanimously supported by his audience
at the annual banquet the American Physical Society,"
Although physicists accustomed to the metric system
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-02
Acc Bors Watches
With Strontium DioIs

Three Matchmaking companies have been ordered by the
Atomic Energy Commission ohalt distribution any lum-
nous dials containing strontium 90.
sronum 90. deadlest element OF radioactive falou
bone cancer taken into the human system in sucient
quantities 8A
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-02
Strauss Says Critics
Made FoIse Charges
BY the Associated Press

Lewis L. Strauss has fired back at Of his SCIENTIST
critics with the support Of several Senators.
Mr. Strauss testifying at Senate Commerce Committee
hearing nomination to be Secretary of Commerce yes
terday false charges leveed at him by David
r. Inglis, atomic scientist.
Untrlth" and unqualified falsehood" were some the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-02
Communists Dominate
Iroq May Day Parade

BAGHDAD May (APp.-Many thousands OF workers and
peasants paraded through Bagdad last night in Iaqs first
of May Day.
Communist organizers in the forefront Of crowds
celebrating international labor day. Banners proclaimed
Long the Alliance Of Workers and Peasanthe Founda
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-02

DIRECTIONS. Take Fourteenth Street
or Memorial Bridge out Shirley Highway
to EdSaH Road Erit to oUerpdSs, cross
Shirley HighWdy to Beryl Road and con-
tinue direct to Bren-Mar Park Apartments.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-02
warns ON Split

Perhaps with this in mind
Mr.. KaSsem said in a May Day
speech that he is opposed to
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