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Weather Forecast
Mostly sunny>and less warm today, high in
upper 60s. Partly cloudy and cooler to
morrow. (Full report on Page A-2.)
Hourly Temperatures
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Poll of G. O. P. Leaders Backs
Eisenhower and Nixon in '56;
Few Will Name Second Choice
Nixon, Knowland,
Warren, Dirksen
Among Alternates
BT GOULD LINCOLN
The Etsenhower-Ntxon ticket
of 1982 will be overwhelmingly
renominated in 1956, a poll of
Republican Btate Chairmen and
all members of the Republican
National Committee indicates.
A questionnaire on presiden
tial and vice presidential prefer
ences was sent by The Star to
159 Republican leaders—s 3 State
Chairmen and 106 members of
the National Committee. Replies
were received from 99. Every
State in the Union, the District
of Columbia. Alaska, Puerto Rico
and the Virgin Islands are rep
resented in the replies.
President Eisenhower is the
unanimous choice of all 99 for
renomination.
Richard M. Nixon is supported
for the vice presidential nomin
ation by 92, including seven who
make it clear their approval is
contingent on the idea that Mr.
Eisenhower will run again and
wants Mr. Nixon on the ticket.
Pour are undecided about Mr.
Nixon and three are outright
opposed to his renomination.
Questions Put To Leaders.
The Star put these questions to
the G. O. P. leaders:
1. Do you favor the renomina
tion of Dwight D. Eisenhower for
President in 1956?
2. If not, who is your choice
for the presidential nomination?
3. If Mr. Eisenhower declines
to run, who is your choice for the
presidential nomination?
4. Do you favor the renomina
tion oi Richard M. Nixon for
Vice President in 1956?
5. If not. who is your choice
for the vice-presidential nomin
ation?
Only 31 of the 99 who answered
/' suggested an alternative candi
f date for President —in the event
Mr. Eisenhower declines to run.
The rest declined even to specu
late on such a contingency.
Two Californians led the list of
17 alternative candidates named.
Vice President Nixon was tied at
seven second-choice votes, with
Senator William P. Knowland.
Chief Justice Warren, another
Californian, had five votes. So
did Senator Everett M. Dirksen
of Illinois.
Next on the list was former
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New
York, with three votes. Ambas
sador Henry Cabot Lodge, jr- of
Massachusetts and Secretary of
the Treasury George M. Humph
rey. from Ohio, each received two
of the honorable mentions.
Others Supported
Each of the following had one
supporter for the presidential
nomination, with Mr. Eisenhower
out of the picture:
Representative and former
Speaker Joseph W. Martin, Jr.,
of Massachusetts; Senator Lev
erett Saltonstall of Massachu
setts; former Gov. Howard Pyle
of Arizona, Secretary of State
John Foster Dulles; Gov. Theo
' dore R. McKeldin of Maryland;
Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby, Secre
tary of the Department of
Health, Education and Welfare;
Representative Charles A. Hal
leck, Jr., of Indiana; Senator
Clifford P. Case of New Jersey,
and Milton S. Eisenhower, the
President’s brother.
Proposed for the vice-presiden
tial nomination—in preference to
Mr. Nixon or in case Mr. Nixon
does not run were Senator Dirk
sen, Senator Knowland, Senator
Mundt of South Dakota, Gov.
See POLL, Page A-7
Japan's .Foreign Minister
Set to Leave for U. S.
TOKYO, Sunday, April 3 (/P).
—The newspaper Yomiuri Shim
bun reported today that Foreign
Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu is
to leave for the United States
within two days for direct talks
with American Government lead
ers on Japan’s new foreign pol
icy towards her Communist
neighbors.
Although Washington's re
sponse to the projected mission
was still pending, it was reported
that plane reservations already
have been made for flights leav
ing Tokyo Monday or Tuesday.
At a top level conference of
leaders of the government and
the Democratic Party Saturday
night at the Prime Minister’s
/ residence it was definitely de
cided to send Mr. Shingemitsu
to Washington to review the
whole range of Japanese-Ameri
can relations.
Al Schacht's Story
Starts Tomorrow
Al Schocht, baseball's Clown
Prince, begins the riotous story of
his comic career tomorrow in the
first of 14 daily installments to ap
pear in the sports section of The
Star.
The new series is a condensation I
of Al Schacht's recent boak, "My |
Own Particular Brand of Screwball."
’Tomorrow's opening chapter portrays
the lowly peginmng of the immi
grant Schacht family in America >
after arriving from Russia.
A Time for Decision
City's Future Planning Hinges
On Zoning Report This Week
Decisions Must Be Made on Direction
Which D. C. Development Will Take
Washington this week will get the second in a series of
reports paving the way for revision of the National Capital’s 35-
year-old zoning regulations.
The revision will produce months of municipal controversy,
affect millions of dollars in property values—and shape the
development of the Capital for years to come.
First signs of the fight already,
have come to the surface. Al-'"
most every preliminary move— How We Got
and the revision is still In its •
early stages—has brought rum- That Way
blings of opposition.
Also involved are basic differ
ences whloh for years have di
vided Federal planners and mu
nicipal officials over bridges,
highways and other projects
which shape the development of
Washington.
The fate of the zoning revision
hangs on a reconciliation of this
conflict—but far more is at
stake.
Such a reconciliation, for the
first time, would lay the ground
work for a "comprehensive plan”
for the future development of
Washington which would have
the support of District officials,
Federal planners and residents.
In fact, the one point on
which there is some general
agreement is that decisions must
be made now—within the next
six to nine months—on funda
mental policy questions which
will permit drafting of a de
tailed comprehensive plan.
The patterns of such a plan
would show how zoning should
be used- to shape the growth of
Washington.
The comprehensive plan would
say where the business district
should be, and how much of It
there should be; how much land
should be used for homes, for
apartments, for shopping cen
ters—and where these should be;
where new schools and parks
Our Great Industrial Migration *
Textile Unions Hit Solid Wall
Os Opposition in South's Mills
BY JOSEPH A. FOX '
As they attempt to pursue the migrating textile industry into
the South, labor unions find themselves up against an almost
solid wall of opposition.
They helped push the manfacturers into Dixie. But they can't
get in themselves.
Union organizing is a cloak-and-dagger job south of the Ma
son-Dixon line. Labor representatives trying to build up thier
forces often must go into hostile *
territory on a sub-rosa basis.
The union-minded among the
workers themselves move quietly
among the associates whose co
operation they seek. Manage
ment reprisals can be tough.
Letter Is Tip-Off
The following letter—in part—
received at Southern organizing
headquarters of the CIO Textile
Workers In Charlotte, NT C., is a
tip-off on conditions in many
sections. Unpunctuated, and with
Third of a Sarie*
capital letters scattered indis
criminately through the text,
the letter read:
“Thanks for the circular.
“It sure give the Big Brass a
Big Scare.
“I think both these mills Is
ready to Join the*union.”
The writer, who had received
some union publicity material,
inclosed a list of key workers in
the mills; designated by number
a couple of taxi drivers through
whom contact might be estab
lished. and also gave the name
of an individual In the town who
was sympathetic to the union.
“Don’t show this bum ritting
to enybody,” was the closing ad
monition.
The missive, coming from a
South Carolina community, was
unsigned. ,
Source Guarded
“We get lots of communica
tions like this one,” says Ken
Kramer, assistant director of
Southern organization for the
CIO. He would not let the
source of the letter, nor its full
text, be made public, explaining
there were clues in it which
might be traced back to the
writer with disastrous results.
Antagonistic management is
not the only adverse factor the
unions must buck in the South.
The mill workers themselves for
the most part want nothing to
do with organized labor. Neither
do the people generally.
If pressed, workers will admit
and so will management
spokesmen that union agita
tion has raised wages to their
present level, even though the
going rates are so much below
those which have hurt Northern
industry.
But reaction to that is: “So
what?”
A pat phrase of the region j
goes something like this:
"These people down here are |
third and fourth generation i
Anglo-Saxons < there are no
Negroe* in the mills) who have |
W\e Sunday
★**s
The District has drifted into a
crisis ove, its zoning policies. It
began in 1920 What has happened
since then that gives rise to the
approacning conflict? There are two
schools of thought on what we should
do next to preserve the city's char
acter as city and Capital. Far tha
full story, Page A-22.
streets, highways, sewers and
water mains should service them
Only when such a comprehen
sive plan is available, the zoning
technicians declare, can they
should be —as well as what
draft a new zoning map and
regulations to help make the
dream of the comprehensive
plan come true.
The 51-page report to be
issued—probably on Tuesday or
Wednesday—will cover “Popula
tion and Employment” in the
District and the Metropolitan
Area. As a foundation for the
basic policy decisions which will
guide the city’s destiny—even as
Pierre L’Enfant’s original plan
directed development of the
existing city—the report will
examine the history of popula
tion growth here and will make
some estimates about what will
happen in the future.
It also will examine the his
tory of employment here, its
trends and what may happen.
*
been taught to give a day’s work
for a day’s pay. They think for
themselves and don’t want out
siders coming in to dictate to
them.”
Gaston Is Example
An insight to. this situation
is offered just west of Charlotte,
in Gaston County. With 114
mills, Gaston has reportedly the
biggest concentration of mill
workers in the country. It is
a good area in which to study
the southern textile situation.
The county is the site of Bel
mont College, an old institution
conducted by the Benedictine
Order of the Catholic Church,
whose student body of some 500
is drawn largely from mill fam-
See MIGRATION, Page A-7
I Was a Slave Laborer
'Routine' MVD Check Results
In American's 9-Year Captivity
Civilian Arrested
By Red 'Allies'at
Dresden in 1945
BY JOHN H. NOBLE
In ColltbortUon With Martin L. Orou.
NEW YORK. April 2—After
Mr. Pratt of the United States
State Department signed a re
ceipt for me in the presence of a
Soviet MVD officer at the Rus
sian headquarters in Karlshorst,
East Berlin, we crossed into the
free Western sector, where I
happily told waiting reporters:
First in a scries of. 10 article* by 31
year-old John H. Noble at Detroit,
who wa* a Soviet priioner tram 1945
until hi* releora from the Russian
slave labor camp in Arctic Vorkuto
last January. He has since returned
to th< United States In this taries
ha describe* his personal experiences
and First hand observations ot tha
Soviet people theii leaders, and their
unique system ot mass forced labor.
“I have a lot to tell." That
was at 3 p.m. last January 8.
Now. a few months later. I
have sorted the memories of my
9‘/a years in Soviet prisons, more
than four of them spent in
Russia itself 50 miles above the
Arctic Circle at Vorkuta—where
I and some 400.000 other slave
laborers from every nation in
th* world and 250,000 “tree”
WASHINGTON, D. C., APRIL 3, 1955—196 PAGES.
Train Wrecked
By Rockslide;
35 Are Hurl
New York Central
Express Is Derailed
South of Albany
ALBANY, N. Y., April 2 (IP).—
Ten cars and two diesel units of
a New York Central passenger
express jumped the tracks early
tonight about 15 miles south of
here on the east side of the Hud
son River. More than 35 persons
were estimated to have been in
! jured.
Inspector Joseph Sayers of the
State police said a rotkslide
caused the crackup.
The engineer, W. T. Kelly. 62,
of Tarrytown, was reported in
critical condition at a hospital
in Albany. Fireman Francis
Temple 33, of Ossining was re
ported In fair condition.
A member of the Volunteer
Greenport Rescue Squad, one of
several rescue and fire units sum
moned. estimated the number
of injured at more than 35.
The diesel units and the first
10 cars of the combined Pace
maker and advance Commodore
Vanderbilt, bound for Chicago,
jumped the tracks on a slight
curve about a mile and a half
south of Schodack Landing.
Diesel Lands in Creek
The two mainline tracks at
that point run about 10 feet
above the river and at the foot
of a steep precipice of rock and
shale.
The first diesel unit went end
over-end across the outside, or
eastbound track, and the unit
landed on its side in about four
feet of water in Schodack Creek,
an arm of the Hudson,
a tavern car, a combination crew
dormitory and baggage car and
one end of the diner were de
railed. Hie four rear cars, all
coaches, stayed on the tracks.
A railroad spokesman said be
tween 300 and 1,000 feet of one
track were ripped up. Wooden
ties were tossed about like
matchsticks.
Shale Slides onto Track
A fisherman who witnessed the
accident said boulders and shale
slid from the embankment onto
the westbound track just as the
train approached about 6 p.m.
Passenger* said the engineer
slammed on the brakes, but it
was too late.
The leading diesel unit went
Into the water about 150 feet
north of where the slide occurred.
The rest of the train kept going
for about 100 yards beyond that
point.
Two Pullmans landed on their
sides against telegraph poles.
The poles were broken off and
the railroad's communications
lines broken. Other cars were
tilted at crazy angles.
Two Taken from Cab
Lewis Dearstyne of Rensselaer,
who was visiting relatives near
the scene, laid a ladder from the
river bank to the diesel unit in
the water and volunteer rescue
worker crawled across it to pull
the fireman and engineer from
the cab.
Trainmen at the scene said
140 coach passengers and 44
Pullman passengers were aboard.
Persons living near the scene
said that they heard passengers
screaming and shouting for some
time after the accident. Cries
of “bring a stretcher here,” punc
tuated the lowering dusk.
Nearly two hours after the
crash, rescue workers still were
helping passengers out of the
damaged cars.
The wreck blocked the main
line tracks of the New York Cen
tral. The railroad planned to re
route passenger trains. <
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JOHN H. NOBLE
1
Soviet people produced one
twelfth of all Russia’s coal.
From 1945 until 1950 I was a
Soviet captive in Red prisons,
dungeons and converted Nazi
concentration camps—East Ger
man death mills where more
than 75 per cent of the prisoners
died I was never charged with
a crime other than some vague
Inference that I had “helped
American authorities” in the
Russian sector of Germany,
ironically at a time when the
United States and the Soviet
Union were wartime allies. Then
lee NOBLE, Pagt A-7
Tourist Attractions
Draw Heavy Influx
Os Sightseers Here
Hotels Hit Capacity;
City Traffic Tangled
By Rush of Visitors
Tremendous crowds of visitors
Joined area residents under
sunny skies yesterday engulfing
the Cherry Blossom Festival and
other Capital tourist attractions.
Swamped hotels and congested
traffic around the attraction bore
witness to the massive turnout
for the week end.
Park police estimated 125.000
persons came to the Tidal Basin
area during the day with 20,000
witnessing the Cherry Blossom
Festival program.
Ernest Eure, a guide at the
Lincoln Memorial, estimated 10.-
000 person visited there during
the day.
At the White House, Lt.
Thomas W. Holder, of the White
House Police Force, said 6,094
persons toured the Executive
Mansion between 10 a.m. and
noon.
Union Station officials said
trains coming in carried extra
cars and airlines reported flights
into National Airport were loaded.
Hotels Swamped
Washington hotels were so
swamped with customers yester
day that they even referred cus
tomers to their competitors— ;
area motels.
•‘We’ve been trying for the;
past two hours to locate rooms
for hundreds of people who just
wandered in,” a hotel official
said late yesterday. “There isn’t
even a broom closet available
and we're suggesting they check
in the suburbs for rfiotel accom
modations.”
But if the hotelmen had it
bad the policemen had it worse.
•'lt's been just one continuous
rush hour all day long,” a weary
Park policeman moaned. “Thank
goodness the sightseers are out,
though. They slow things down
enough so that we haven’t had
any serious accidents.
Tours Short of Buses
Sightseeing tour operators
didn’t have enough buses aAd
limousines to transport their
clientele, and had to borrow
from transit operators.
Cecil Hamrick, operator of the
draw span at Arlington Memorial
Bridge, said the flow of traffic
continuously during the day was
“as big as the bridge possibly
could handle.”
“Thank goodness we didn’t
have to raise the bridge,” he said,
"or we never would have been
able to unsnarl the traffic.” He
said* the flow of traffic into Vir
ginia was as heavy as the traffic
coming into Washington.
McClellan Says Services
Spoil $lO Million in Food
BOSTON, April 2 (Jp. —Senator i
McClellan, Democrat of Arkan
sas. said today about $lO million
worth of spoiled food will be de- i
stroyed this year because of
overstocking by the armed
forces.
He told a Massachusetts Tax
payers Association meeting there
is a need for “better business
practices in the management of
Government.”
The Senator cited as “costly i
examples of mismanagement”: i
1. Last July the Government
had moie than an eight-year
supply of short-lived flashlight l <
batteries.
2 In 1951, the Army shipped i
807.000 pounds of tomatoes from
the’ West Coast to New York, 11
while the Navy shipped 775.000 1 <
pounds the other way. i
Senator McClellan said Con- i
gress and the people “are be- 1
coming concerned about the
Federal Government's activities 1 1
in competition with private en- i
terpnse.” i
125,000 See Cherry Blossoms
In Sunny 75-Degree Weather
20,000 Jam Jefferson Memorial Area
For Crowning of Maine Girl as Queen
The Tidal Basin, ringed by a
three-strand necklace of cherry
blossoms, people and automobiles
yesterday, was set for more
thronging thousands as the
Cherry Blossom Pageant close*
its 1955 run this afternoon.
There is a promise of mostly
sunny skies and temperatures in
the high 60s.
A crowd of 20.000 watched the
first performance of the Pageant
Picture* of Blossom Festival Highlight*
and Today'* Program en Page A-4.
Trode Board Enviiwn* Great National
Festival Here. Page A-29
yesterday afternoon In tha
matchless setting of blossoms
which weathered last week's
frigid temperatures. The sun
smiled most of the day. The
temperature was 75.
125,000 Estimated
Park police estimated that
more than 125,000 persons
roamed the grounds around the
Basin, snapping pictures at the
rate of about one exposure for
each blossom. Blistered feet and
headaches sent 28 persons to the
three First Aid stations operat
ing in the area.
Today’s Pageant program. A
repeat of yesterday's, will start
at 2 p.m.
Mild temperature prevailed
I last night, left the Queen and !
Princesses quite comfortable in
shoulderless gowns as they—and
thousands of spectators—listened
to the Army Band’s serenade on
the steps of the Jefferson Me
morial.
Crowd Arrives Early
The daytime crowd, which
Park Police Chief Harold Stew
art’s estimate put at 20,000 dur
ing the show, began arriving be
fore noon. By 2 o’clock, all the
seats were taken and thousands
stood on the walkways ringing
the Jefferson Memorial and the
steps of the rotunda.
The 53 princesses arrived at
1 o’clock in a police-escorted
motorcade. With each rode her
personal escort, an officer of the
Navy, Army, Marines, Air Force
or Coast Guard or Naval Acad
smy midshipman.
Early arrivals were entertained
by the uniformed Air Force Sym- I
phony Orchestra, which played
at the base of the memorial. |
before the huge pink and silver'
stage.
To open the show, *the Air j
Force “Singing Sergeants” and;
the George Washington Uni- j
versity Girls Glee Club sang,
in arrangement of musical com
edy songs. j
Then came the parade of prin
3 Adults and Baby Unhurt
As Truck Plunges Off Bridge
Four persons, including a 3- i
month-old baby, rode through '
a bridge railing in a truck last
night, dropped 18 feet into a :
creek and emerged unhurt, Fair
fax County police reported.
The driver. Paul J. Shrader. 26.
of Richmond. Va., told police
Pvt. F. J. Parrish he had been
driving steadily for two days
and had fallen asleep as the;
rented truck carrying his furni- ;
ture was going along Route 236 j
in Fairfax County toward Alex-1
andria.
With him were his wife, his j
3-month-old daughter. Connie
Jean, and his brother. Eugene j
Shrader. The truck had been
rented in Alexandria.
The truck sheared off a 15- |
foot railing beside the bridge
over Turkey Run. Pvt. Parrish
said, then plunged into the
creekbed The water was only
five or six inches deep.
Paul Shrader suffered a
scratched arm. Connie Jean was
examined at Alexandria Hospi
tal and found to be unhurt. Mrs.
Automation
New machines have brought about a new
technology with a new name. For a re
port on what automation is and what its
economic and social implications are, see
Page A-27
An Associated Prass Newspaper FIFTEEN CENTS
i cesses. A blue curtain was
drawn across the stage and one
; at a time the officer escorts
were announced. Each crossed
to the center, introduced his
princess and her State and
tured to welcome her as she
stepped from behind the curtain.
As the introductions went on,
a few of the military men under
took to make nominating
speeches. . . . "from America’s
dairyland, Wisconsin, I present
, ...” "from Virginia, gateway to
the south . . “I now give you,
from the power State, Tennes
| see, . . and “from the great,
great state of Texas, I present
Then the curtains were opened
| and revealed the princesses sit
ting against a backdrop of a
painted pink cherry tree bloom
ing against a pinker painted
sky.
Finally, to the music of “Pomp
' and Circumstance,” brown
' haired Jeanine Raymond, queen
of the festival, was Introduced.
Secretary of the Interior McKay
proclaimed the Maine beauty
regent of all festivities and
placed on her head a coronet of
brilliants
“May your reign be successful
and very happy,” said Mr. Mc-
Kay, to the queen and the show
was on.
A-Blast Slated Today
At Six-Mile Altitude
LAS VEGAS, Nev., April 2 </P).
—Atomic testers said today they
plan to explode at about ~ix
miles’ altitude tomorrow an anti
aircraft device—the kind that
might wreck an entire formation
of enemy planes.
That’s the highest yet in the
current test series, so far as
veteran observers know. Nine
atomic devices and one TNT
blast have been fired on Yucca
Flat since February 18.
An official statement said to
morrow’s device would be “the
one described in a joint Atomic
Energy Commission-Department
rt Defense statement” last Sun
day.
That announcement, officially
| disclosing plans to add atomic
anti-aircraft weapons to the Na
| tion’s already extensive nuclear
! arsenal, said: “Because of their
i great power, atomic air defense
; weapons will greatly Increase our
ability to repel an enemy air
attack."
j The device will be dropped
from one of about 40 Air Force
I planes participating in the test.
No troops will take part.
i Shrader and the brother were
| not injured.
The truck was a total loss.
Pvt. Parrish said. Most of the
! furniture was smashed.
The Annandale Fire Depart
ment Rescue Squad took Connie
Jean and her mother to the hos
pital.
Man Injured Critically
As Auto Overturns
Paul R. Johnson, 32. of 280
; Fifteenth street. S.E.. was in
jured critically last night in a
car wreck in Anne Arundel
i County, Md., county police re
j ported.
Officers said he suffered frac
tures of the spine and skull when
his brother's auto left a curve,
hit a utility pole and overturned
on Route 416.
The brother. George K. John
son. 46. of 12903 Hathaway drive,;
Silver Spring. Md.. was not In-,
Jured seriously, police said. 1
Bigger Payment
To D.C. Backed
In Congress
Neely and McMillan
Also Urge Holding
Os Joint Hearings
BY DON S. WARREN
Chairmen of both the House
and Senate District Committees
yesterday spoke out for an in
’ crease in the Federal payment to
help meet spiralling costs of
running the Capital city.
Senator Neely. Democrat, of
West Virginia, and Representa-
City Might Get $6 Million a Year From
Fayrall Tax Pago A-12
Col. Lane Sees Threat to District in
Local Tax Spiral Page A-12
tlve McMillan, Democrat, of
South Carolina, told The Star
that they were convinced an in
crease in the Federal share of
costs was justified.
Just how much the increase
should be. they left to develop
ment of the facts.
Committee leaders voiced their
views as they agreed that there
should be joint House-Senate
Fiscal Subcommittee hearings on
the new city revenue plan now
being whipped into shape by Dis
trict Commissioners.
When this will be submitted to
Congress is not yet certain. City
officials are now conferring with
the Budget Bureau on what
should be done.
Urges Larger Payment .
Senator Neely said: “I’ve al
ways been for a more liberal
Federal payment. Under the
present circumstances I’m in
I favor of doing more than in the
past. Yes. I mean more than the
S2O million authorized under last
year’s Public Works Revenue Act
for the District.”
He said he had no figure in
mind in advance of hearings on
the actual needs, but declared:
“I favor going to whatever ex
tent is reasonably necessary.”
Mr. McMillan said he thought
the United States should raise
the Federal payment enough to
cover the costs of the impending
new round of city worker pay
raises.
The District committees in
Congress, he stressed, have no
jurisdiction over increases in
the pay of the city’s classified
workers. Their pay is consid
ered by the Post Office and Civil
Service Committees as a part of
the Federal Government pay
issue.
“If the costs of the District
government, in this respect, are
handled in this way,” Mr. Mc-
Millan said "the committees
that order the pay raises should
find the money to pay for it.”
He said he meant that insofar
as the District government class
ified workers’ pay raise was con
i cemed, the Federal Government
should pick up the bill.
The District Committees, Mr.
McMillan pointed out. handles
only questions of pay for district
police, firemen and school em
ployes.
Complaints From Taxpayers
The chairman of the House
committee said he had received
"numerous” complaints from
Washington taxpayers against
proposals for another round of
higher taxes to meet increasing
municipal costs—mostly, but not
exclusively, because of city
worker pay raises.
However, he did not quarrel
with the general assumption that
if Congress raises the pay of
classified Federal workers, lt
could be expected that similar
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Yemen Ruler Abdicates;
Army Coup Reported
CAIRO, Egypt, April 2 (/p.—
A spokesman for the Yemen le
gation in Cairo said tonight the
ruler of his Red Sea desert klngp
dom has abdicated for "health
reasons.” *
However, the Yemenite pre
mier Seifulislam Hassan, In
Cairo for an Arab League meet
ing. said he had a report that the
ruler, 64-year-old Imam Ahmad,
was surrounded by army units
in his palace at Sana, the Capital.
“I presume he has abdicated
by now," said the bearded prem
ier.
An earlier report from Ye
men’s neighboring British pror
tectorate of Aden said the army
forced the Imam’s abdication
because he refused it permission
to punish a village that molested
eight soldiers. The Aden report
said Ahmad was succeeded by
his brother. Seifulislam Abdul
lah, who had been foreign min
ister.
Salk Test Report
Due in 10 Days
FOLIO VACCINE—In 10 day*, tha
world will know whether tha Salk
polio te*t* ware successful. For on
*w*r* to question; all parent* ora
a*king about the ntw vaccine, mu
Pagt A-27. But thu place ta look
for the final word on tha vaccine—
whether if it to be given to thou lend*
of children ar not—i* a laboratory
in Betheida, the Biologic* Control
Laboratory of tha United State* Pub
lic Health Service. See Pegu A-30.
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