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today with high in upper 70a. Fair and
warn tomorrow. (Full report on Pace A-2.)
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Russia Moves
To Void Pacts
Os Friendship
Seen as Retaliation
For West's Approval
Os German Arms
MOSCOW, April 9 UP). —The
Soviet Union’s ruling Council
of Ministers asked Parliament
today to scrap Russia’s treaties
of friendship and alliance with
Britain and Prance. The move
was in retaliation for ratifica
tion by those nations of the
Paris agreements rearming West
Germany. *
There is no question Parlia
ment, the Supreme Soviet, will
Austrian T rtaty Pressed Again in Soviet
Note. Page A-13
take the action promptly in a
special session to dramatize the
cancellation. The treaties were
signed during World War n
when the three governments
were allied against Hitler.
Threat to Russia Charged
Today’s announcement, read
at a news conference, asserted
the Paris agreements bring West
Germany into an alignment di
rected against Russia.
It said that by signing the
friendship treaties, Britain.
France and Russia "took re
sponsibility to prevent the re
birth of German militarism and
also not to join any alliance di
rected against one of the con
tracting powers.”
“Regardless of this,” the decla
ration added, “the government of
Great Britain signed and the
British parliament approved the!
Paris agreements providing for |
remilitarization of Western Ger
many and its involvement in a I
military grouping directed against
the Soviet Union.”
An identical charge was di
rected against France.
West Not Surprised
British and French officials
expressed little surprise at the
announcement. State Depart
ment reaction in Washington
also was calm. In efforts to de
lay or defeat ratification of the
Paris agreements, Russia first
threatened last December to
abrogate the friendship anc
alliance treaties.
In replies to Soviet notes then,
Britain and France contended
there was no justification for the
Russian action. They asserted
moves to bring a rearmed West
Germany into the Western mili
tary alliance were defensive in
character and not incompatible
with their treaties with the So
viet Union.
In London the announcement
was regarded by some as a
desperate last minute attempt
by Moscow to stir up opposition
in the West to rearming the Ger
mans.
Some leftwing Laborites in
Britain have defied the official
party policy and are solidly
against giving the West Germans
arms. These leftwingers—notably
Aneurln Bevan—have accused
the Conservative government of
being partly responsible for con
tinuing tension between the East
and West.
Greyhound Parley
Resumes Tomorrow
CHARLESTON, W. Va., April
9 (JP). —Union and company
representatives are scheduled to
meet here Monday afternoon to
resume negotiations for a con
tract between the Atlantic Grey
hound Corp. and its striking AFL
bus drivers.
Approximately 725 drivers who
struck at midnight last Wednes
day are members of the Motor
Coach Employes Union, Division
,1493. Their walkout idled At
lantic Greyhound operations in
all or parts of 10 States and the
District of Columbia—f ro m
Pittsburgh to Jacksonville, Fla.
Atlantic Greyhound normally
handles about 43,800 passengers
a day.
The union said it was calling
the strike because the company
refused to negotiate this week.
Mark Twain's Books
Soviet Best Sellers
LONDON. Sunday, April 10
<#>) —Mark Twain’s books have
become bigger sellers in Russia
than ever, Moscow radio said
today in a program beamed to
North America.
More than six million copies
have been printed in Russian
and the 24 other languages used
in the Soviet Union, the broad
cast said.
Woman ' Amazed '
By Power of Star Ad
Mrs. C. M. hod on occasion re
cently to use the automotive columns
et The Stai Classified and to quota
her, she was "amazed'' at the pull
ing power of Washington's Star sales
man. She sold her cei the first day
her ad appeared.
Like Mrs. C. M.. if you have some
thing to sell, and went to sell it
quickly, tall it to the responsive
audience of Star readers.
It's easy to place aa ed in The
Star Classified. Jest phene Starting
3-5000 end ask tor an nd-taker.
Sunday Sfaf
WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION
Mightier Than All the World's Swords
THC DISTRICT LOSCS BOTH WAYS
Men and Tax Dollars
Are Going Suburban
But Population Survey by Board of Trade
Shows Reversal of Numerical Trend by '6O
The District is not only losing ;
population to its nearby suburbs,
but the residents it is losing are j
chiefly of the higher-bracket
taxpayers.
This is the obvious and
ominous conclusion to be
drawn from a survey of popula-;
tion in the District area made
by the Board of Trade.
The study put the District l
population at approximately
640,000 last January, a loss of
about 10,000 in a year. It sees
a reversal of the trend in num
bers, with a rise to about 870,000
by 1960.
The rise, however, Would be
accompanied by an increase in
the proportion of the colored
population. From the point of
view' of city revenues the dis
turbing factor is that the me
dian income of colored families
is (3.824, or 69 per cent of the
Income Talk Setj
On D. C. Budget
B? HECTOR McLEAN
Federal Budget Bureau offi
cials will confer tomorrow with
District financial experts on of
ficial estimates of the city’s in
come during the next fiscal year,
which starts July 1.
The session is preparatory to
the opening Thursday of con
gressional hearings on the Dis
trict’s proposed $175-million
budget for the fiscal year 1956.
The meeting, to be held at
10 a m. in the office of District
Budget Officer Walter Fowler, is
one of three or four held each
year. In them. District finance
officials must Justify their esti- |
mates of the city’s expected in- .
come to Budget Bureau repre
sentatives, who have power to I
revise the figures if they think
it advisable.
In Financial Squeeze
The meeting is particularly
significant in view of the Dis
trict’s current financial pre
dicament.
On the basis oi the last offi
cial estimates, the city’s budget.
was sent id Congress showing
an outright deficit in the Gen
eral Fund Uwhich finances every
thing but highways, water works,
sanitary sewers and motor ve
hicle parking) of $860,489. Also,
the budget was lacking the usual
sl-million reserve fund.
Later, unofficial estimates of
1956 income by District officials
indicated increases which per-1
mitted restoration of the $1 mil- !
lion reserve and a cut in the
deficit to $710,489.
Director Schuyler Lowe of the
Department of General Admin
istration said yesterday he ex
pects the unofficial totals to hold
up under the Budget Bureau's
examination, although some of
the figures which make up the
total probably will go up slightly
and others will go down.
Hearing Thursday
The figures approved by the
Budget Bureau, though, are
those which will be on Capitol
Hill Thursday.
It is then that the annual
hearings on the District budget
will start before the District sub
committee of the House Appro
priations Committee, headed by
Representative Rabaut, Demo
crat. of Michigan.
Other Democrats on the flve-
Bee FISCAL, Pag* A-l
★★★S WASHINGTON, D. C., APRIL 10, 1955—168 PAGES.
median for white families, which
lis $5,574. The figures are for
the District and nearer suburban
i areas.
j The data for this study were
I developed by Dr. Jerome P.
Pickard, research director for
the Board of Trade's Economic
j Development Committee,
i Dr. Pickard's Ph.D. from Syra
i cuse University was granted for
j his studies in economic geog
! raphy.
Dr. Pickard breaks down his
840,000 total for the beginning of
this year in this way: White
population, 475,000, or 56.5 per
cent: non-white, 365,000, or 48.3
per cent.
His breakdown Tor the pro
jected 1960 figure of 870,000.
gives 450,000 white persons, or
51.7 per cent, and 420,000 non
white, or 48.3 per cent.
The eventual stabilization of
the city's population, perhaps at
See POPULATION, Page A-4
Window Slammed
On Arms Prevents
Man's Death Leap
CHICAGO, April 9 UP). —A
janitor slammed a window on the
arms of a young airman as he
tried to leap out of an eighth
floor office today and kept the
distraught youth pinned safely
until help arrived.
Police identified the service- j
man as Airman 2/c James R.
Setty, 23, of Lincoln Air Force |
Base, Lincoln, Nebr. Policeman |
John Keller said Setty told police
he is AWOL from the base and
had been drinking the last three
days.
The airman was spotted climb- ;
ing out the window of a vacant!
office in a west side building by !
janitor John Kupisch. Mr. Ku
pisch slammed the window on |
Setty’s arms and yelled to a tel- j
ephone operator on the floor to
notify police.
Policemen Keller and Peter i
Shoup responded to the call, j
They and Mr Kupisch struggled
with Setty as he dangled outside
the building and pulled him to
safety.
Talbott in Madrid
; MADRID. Spain. April 9 UP)—
! Harold E. Talbott, United States
Secretary of Air Force, arrived
here from Washington today for j
a four-day visit.
Doctor Bars Garner's Trip
To D.C. for Rayburn Party
j UVALDE. Tex., April 9 (JP).—
“Cactus Jack” Garner had his
tuxedo all brushed and his best
clothes laid out, but the doctor
says he can’t go to Washington
next week to help honor his old
friend, House Speaker Sam Ray
burn.
Arthritis in both feet will pre
vent the former Vice President
Trumon, Stevenson to Speak at Dinner
Here tor Rayburn Page A-12
from making what was to have
; been his first trip to the capital
since he quit public life 14 years
ago, bitter over his differences
with Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Bascom Timmons, chief of the
Dallas Times Herald Washington
bureau and long-time friend of
John Nance Garner, reported to
night thai the doctor had vetoed
the trip.
"Put on your shoes and walk
through the corridors of the
Corsi lo Rejecl
New U. S. Post
Immigration Expert
Still Irate Over Ouster
BY MARY McGRORY
Edward J. Corsi, ousted by
the State Department as deputy
Refugee Relief Administrator,
will not accept any consolation
prize job.
The New York immigration
expert has not yet given this de
cision to Secretary of State
Dulles, and declines in the
meantime to comment directly
on the question. But in bitter
statements yesterday, the Itali
an-born Mr. Corsi, who ran for
Mayor of New York in 1950,
made plain he has burned his
bridges behind him.
Mr. Corsi said he planned to
confer today with Republican
National Chairman Leonard Hall
at Mr. Hall’s request.
Mr. Corsi came to Washington
last December amid considerable
fanfare. He came under attack
by Representative Walter, Dem
ocrat, of Pennsylvania. Last
week, he learned to his surprise
that his job had been "tem
porary” all along.
Since then, he had been try
ing to decide whether to take a
new, presumably non-controver
sial job, a South American im
migration survey, which Mr.
Dulles offered him Friday.
When Mr. Corsi was sworn in
for the refugee job, Mr. Dulles
called him “my old friend” and
the “best qualified man in the
United States” to solve refugee
problems.
Blasts "Some People”
In his comments yesterday,
Mr. Corsi blasted not only at
| Representative Walter, who has
I charged him with “Communist”
associations, but also “some peo
ple” in the Department itself,
who, he said, wanted him for
! “liberal” window dressing and
i wanted to do business as usual.
In addition. Mr. Corsi had
reproaches for the Republican
high command who, he said,
i deserted him in his hour of need.
“Herb Brownell (Attorney
General). Sinclair Weeks <Sec
| retary of Commerce), Secretary
; Dulles,” he said. “I’ve known
! them in the party all my years
as a Republfcan. But after Rep
resentative Walter made his un
founded charges, nobody spoke
out. nobody was around. I’ve
never felt so much a stranger:
I’ve never been so lonesome in
this town.”
“Do you realize that no single
Republican except Jack Javits
i (New York Attorney-Oeneral)
See CORSI, Page A-17
■ Capitol, just from the Senate to
i the House of Representatives,
, and I will put you to bed for
• i three months,” Mr. Timmons
i said the doctor told Mr. Garner.
[ Except for his bad feet, the
i 86-year-old Mr. Garner is in
1 excellent health. He had been
i looking forward to attending the
I fete next Saturday for his fellow
I Texan and had reservations to
fly from San Antonio.
Mr. Garner told friends he had
not worn anything on his feet
except a soft sort of house shoe
| for 14 years.
Mr. Garner himself was Speak
er of the House before becoming
Vice President in 1932
The dinner is to honor the
73-year-old Mr. Rayburn for
service to country and party.
His 42 years in Congress tops the
record of any present Senator
or Representative and he has
been Speaker longer than any
other man in history.
WilsonloClarify
His News Ban,
Slop 'Snipers'
Services Reported
Fighting Directive
By Over-Compliance
BY JOHN A. GILES
Defense Secretary Wilson will
clarify his information ban
Tuesday with an assertion that
it cannot be used to cover up
exposure of errors or graft and j
that the military must stop
flooding his office with trivia for
clearance.
Close associates pictured the
Secretary as not being too happy
over the storm which his direc
tive blew up. But. they said that
he felt the attention drawn to
the problem of stopping leaks of
technical information to the
enemy was healthy and in line
with President Eisenhower’s
views.
Admittedly the order was poor
ly drawn. The original draft
was written by lawyers. Mr
Wilson and his deputy. Robert
Anderson, tailored it further to
suit their views.
Over-Compliance Charged
Asked if, after Mr. Wilson
makes his explanation at a news
conference Tuesday, a new clari
fying directive would be issued, j
a high official who has conferred
with the secretary replied:
“J don’t think military officers
need orders in two-syllable words
to comply with the meaning, j
It is true that the section re
ferring to a test of the ‘con
structive’ nature of subordinates’
utterances could be subject to j
misinterpretation. Mr. Wilson,
I am sure, will address himself
to this problem.
“However, the services have j
gone overboard in their com
pliance. They have attempted
to nullify the order with over
| compliance.”
He referred as an example,
to the Navy’s formal letter stat
, ing that an obituary complied
with the section of the order
requiring that information “con
stitute a constructive contribu
tion to the primary mission” of
1 the department.
In another instance the Air
’ Force submitted calendar art
for clearance under the order.
The art was returned with the
statement that there was no ob
, jection to its use. Added was
' this notation:
“However, we dont believe
1 these winter scenes will compete
very well with Marilyn Monroe!”
Secrets Leak to Enemy
! Mr. Eisenhower told Mr. Wil
. son—in no uncertain terms—
| after a series of irritating inci
dents involving defense informa
; tion that he wanted technical
, military secrets withheld from
, general circulation. But Press
Secretary James C. Hagerty said
. Friday he opposed any censor- ;
t ship of “legitimate news.”
This admonition followed a
. Cabinet meeting. There R. Karl
Honaman, director of the Com- ]
merce * Department’s Office of
, - Strategic Information, offered
; an elaborate presentation with
photographs and charts on how
' classified material was reaching
' the enemy.
Now Mr. Honaman may move
to the Pentagon as a deputy in
charge of public affairs and in
formation.
One incident that brought this
about, It is said, is inter-service
rivalry In the field of guided
missiles. Through ths warfare,
mostly in the technical journals,
valuable information finds its
way to the enemy, the adminis
tration believes.
Attacks by Top Officials
Attacks by one top official on
another also was deplored by
officials.
However, In both these cate- i
gorles, observers were inclined to
believe that such incidents now
are far fewer than in some
previous periods, such as during j
the row over the B-36 bomber, i
Mr. Wilson’s friends said his
directive was “well intentioned,”
but they admitted that it was
subject to misinterpretation.
“He has not the slightest in
tention to shut off the flow of
legitimate news,” an official said.
“He will stress this Tuesday.”
Girl Gone 43 Days
Found in Stream
TORONTO, April 9 UP).—. A
body believed to be that of 8-
year-old Judy Carter, missing
from her home here for 43 days,
was found floating in a stream
today.
Police Chief Clarence .Wide
man of Markham Township,
where the discovery was made by
two boys fishing in a tributary
of the Rouge River, said tenta
tive Identification had been made
from clothing on the body.
The girl is believed to have
been the victim of a sex crime.
She vanished February 25
after visiting playmates near her
home. ,
'Lift' for Easter
YONKERS, N. Y., April 10 UP).
—The Yonkers Railroad Co. is
making it easy for churchgoers
on Easter Sunday. Between 8
and 11 am., the only fare re
■ q(fired on the company’s bus
: lines in Yonkers. Mount Vernon
I and the Bronx will be the
phrases “going to church” cr j
1 “coming from church.” a
Stevenson Leads in Canvass
Os Democratic Leaders, Faces
Strong Fightfor's6 Nomination
S.O.S. FOR THE YOUNG
3,000 Children Need
Help Only Few Receive
Camalier Pledges Mental Health Setup
As Survey Shows City Fails to Meet Problem
BY MIRIAM OTTENfcERG j
At least 3,000 Washington
children are desperately In need
of the kind of expert help now j
available to only a few hundred
youngsters here.
A survey by The Star showed
that among the children need
ing help are:
A 10-year-old boy who tried
to commit suicide with a sheet
while in the Receiving Home for
Children
A 12-year-old housebreaker
and chronic runaway who firmly
believes—because his mother has
told him—that he’s just like his
father, and he knows his father
is in St. Elizabeths Hospital.
A 12-year-old who went into
such uncontrollable rages that
he had to be pulled off a school
mate he was trying to choke to
; death.
A 6-year-old semi-invalid who
is fine as long as she stays in a
convalescent home but who gets
such serious attacks of asthma
when she returns to her real!
MISSING 10 DAYS
INSIDE OF JAIL
TROYES, France. April 9
(/P).—Joseph Robidoux, 32,
who had been missing
from Clairvaux Prison since
March 31, was found today
—still in the jail.
He had been hiding out,
armed with a set of dupli
cate keys which enabled him
to move around at night and
steal food from the prison
stores.
Destroyer Hit
By Submarine
NORFOLK, Va., April 9 VP).—
An Atlantic fleet submarine
rammed a destroyer late Thurs
day somewhere off the Virginia
Capes, causing some damage to
both vessels, the Navy announced
today.
Although details of the acci
dent were sketchy, apparently
being withheld under the new
defense department order on re- j
stricted information, the ships
were identified as the submarine
i Jallao, a unit of Submarine
: Squadron Six. and the Destroyer j
H. J. Ellison of Destroyer Flotilla
Four.
The Jallao was cruising at i
periscope depth, according to a
Navy information spokesman,
when she rammed into the Elli
son. A hole was torn in the de
stroyer’s bottom and one com
partment flooded.
The only apparent damage to
the submarine was in the con
ning tower.
There were no personnel In
juries, a spokesman said.
Eisenhower Makes
Quick Visit to Farm
By the Associated Press
President Eisenhower paid a j
quick visit to his Gettysburg j
farm yesterday.
The President arrived at the '
farm at 12:20 p.m., had lunch j;
with Mrs. Eisenhower and
I started back for Washington at
3 p.m.. arriving shortly after 5. !
The First Lady, who has been
staying at the nearly rebuilt
farm home, remained there. The
White House announced she will
spend another 10 days at Gettys
burg, resting and recuperating
from a recent respiratory ill
ness.
Mrs. Eisenhower previously
had planned to be back In
Washington this week end so
she could join her husband in
greeting youngsters at the an
nual Easter Monday egg-rolling
on the White House grounds.
The White House said a fur
ther reason for her remaining
at Gettysburg was that she is <
supervising the almost-completed j
interior decorations of the house. j
The President will attend 11 j <
a.m. Easter services at the Na- i
tional Persbyterian Church. i
There's a Tight Little Isle
Right Here in the D. C. Area
Compact is the word for Momingside, Md., a
town just a fast 20-minute slide down the Suitland
parkway from the Capitol.
Its five-year history has been dotted with crises
over water and sewage troubles and jet plane
crashes.
Now the little town is facing a new future—
and a different kind of reputation as a place to live.
Read the Story of Momingside by staff writer
George Flynn on Page A-10 of today s Sunday Stai.
Trial Banter
Courtroom whisperings and comedy
don’t reach the ears of jurors, but Jack
Jonas, who covered the big police bribery
and conspiracy trial for The Star, lets
readers in on some tidbits.
Page A-24.
An Associated Press Newspaper FIFTEEN CENTS
I home that doctors fear her lungs
will be affected.
Mental health experts esti
mate there are in Washington |
3.000 children who are that seri
ously maladjusted. They figure
there are.another 5,000 school
age children with emotional
problems who have not yet
reached that acute stage.
On the eve of The Star’s pub
lication of its findings. Commis
sioner Renah Camalier an
nounced last night that a Men
tal Hygiene Division will be cre
ated in the Health Department
‘unless something extraordinary
occurs," on or before June 1.
"In this way.” he said on the
weekly “Report to the People"
broadcast over Station WWDC.
‘the hand of assistance to the
emotional child will be not only
strengthened but extended.”
The Star, in two weeks of
interviews with Health Depart
ment. school, welfare and hos-
See MENTAL HEALTH, Page A-6 j
Sun to Enliven
Easter Parade
Thousands in Area
To Attend Churches
Nature promised to foster the
joyous spirit of Easter in the
Washington area today with
sparkling sunshine and extra
balmy temperatures.
Residents prepared to join
Christians the world over in
celebration of the Resurrection, j
beginning with sunrise services j
expected to attract record
throngs of worshippers.
President Eisenhower will be
among other thousands of
churchgoers during the day when
he attends morning services at
the National Presbyterian
Church. Mrs. Eisenhower, re
cuperating from a recent illness,
was at their Gettysburg (Pa.)
farm.
No Easter Parade
Easter caught the area be
tween blooming periods so far
as the famous cherry trees and
many other flowering shrubs and
] trees were concerned. The cherry
blossoms were pretty well done
for, and the double blossoms have
yet to make their appearance.
| as, in general, have the azalea
! and dogwood.
But there were some blossoms
around to enhance the spring
scene, including the yellow jon
quils, spiraea, Japanese quince
and others.
No formal Easter Parade was
scheduled for Connecticut av
enue this year, but the avenue
was almost certain to be the in
formal promenade for the spring
fashion and finery of the season.
Warm Day Predicted
The weather forecast was for
a mostly sunny day with high
temperatures in the middle 70's,
several degrees above normal for
this time of the year.
The forecaster predicted sunny ,
and warm weather also for to
morrow when young egg-rollers
come into their own, spilling over
from the White House grounds
to the Capitol lawn, the Zoo and
area playgrounds.
The President is expected to
welcome the crowd on the south
lawn of the White House. Thou
sands of children annually con
verge there to i;oll, toss and aat
eggs.
The southeast and southwest
gates of the grounds are to be
open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. to
admit children no more than 12
years of age and the adults who j
accompany them. The Army,;
See EASTER. Page A-4
Vaccine for Danes
COPENHAGEN. Denmark,
April 9 VP).— The Salk polio vac
cine will be administered to
400,000 Danish children on a vol
| untary basis if American reports
on the vaccine satisfy Danish
| experts, the health department
announced.
Poll Shows Kefauver
As Firm Contender,
Harriman Backed
BY GOULD LINCOLN
Adlai Stevenson is out in front
for the Democratic presidential
nomination in 1956. but a poll of
party leaders Indicates he will
! face plenty of opposition.
Much more pronounced, in
answers and comments elicited
by The Star’s exclusive question
aire, is opposition to the re
; nomination of the defeated 1952
vice presidential candidate. Sen
ator John J. Sparkman of Ala
bama.
So far. there appears to have
been no crystalization of senti
ment in support of a single
potential candidate for the presi
dential nomination to run
against the former Illinois gov
ernor Two possible opponents,
Gov. Averell Harriman of New
York and Senator Estes Kefauver
of Tennessee, are revealed by the
poll as having real support.
Sent to Party Leaders.
The Star sent a questionnaire
on presidential and vice presi
dential preferences to 159 Demo
cratic leaders—s 4 State Chair
j men and 105 members of the
National Committee. There were
three vacancies in the National
; Committee. Replies were re
| ceived from 70. Every State in
the Union, the District of Co
lumbia and the Virgin Islands
were represented in the replies.
The score on Mr. Stevenson
for the presidential nomination
stood as follows: 43 yes, 17 no,
and 10 undecided.
The score on Senator Spark
man for the vice-presidential
nomination stood as follows: 20
yes, 32 no. and 18 undecided.
Several of the replies pre
dicted that the vice-presidential
| nomination will be decided, at
the time of the 1956 Democratic
National Convention, by the
presidential nominee. That is
i usually the case. Should Mr.
Stevenson be renominated, he
; would be in position to insist on
the renomination of Senator
Sparkman as his running mate.
Questions Asked
The Star put these questions
| to the Democratic leaders:
1. Do you favor the renomina
tion of Adlai Stevenson for Pres
j ident in 1956?
2. If not, who is your choice
for the presidential nomination?
3. If Mr. Stevenson declines to
| run, who is your choice for the
presidential nomination?
4. Do you favor the renomina
| tion of John J. Sparkman for
Vice-President in 1956?
5. If not, who is your choice
: for the vice-presidential nomi
nation?
Senator Kefauver was the
choice of six who opposed re
nomination of Mr. Stevenson.
Gov. Clement of Tennessee was
the choice of two.
• Each of the following received
one choice: Gov. Harriman. Gov.
Shivers of Texas. Gov. Meyner Os
New Jersey, Gov Williams of
Michigan, Gov. Johnson of Colo
rado, Speaker Rayburn of Texas,
Senator Johnson of Texas, Sen
ator Symington of Missouri and
Senator Russell of Georgia.
Harriman Shows Up Well
That seemed to tag Senator
Kefauver as the outstanding
challenger. But Gov. Harriman
was the choice of 11 of those
who gave a preference for the
presidential nomination in the
i event Mr. Stevenson declines to
run. In this list Senator Ke
-1 fauver got only seven choices.
Senator Kerr of Oklahoma
had three choices Gov. Williams
and Senator Barkley of Ken
tucky each had two choices.
Each of the following received
one choice: Senator Morse of
Oregon (who recently joined the
Democratic Party), Senators
Russell and George of Georgia
and Stephen A. Mitchell of Illi
nois. former Democratic National
Chairman.
Senator Kefauver led in the
choices for the vice-presidential
nomination by those who op
posed the renomination of Sen
ator Sparkman. He had six
See POLL, Page A-6
Montgomery Ward
Showdown Nears
WOLFSON VS. AVERY—The big
business battle of 1955—t0r control
of Montgomery Word—is scheduled
tor April 22. For what the major
contenders soy about themselves and
their opponents, see Page A-23. For
whot leading District brokers think
about it. see Pago A-26.
WIRE-TAP WORRIES - Though
Uncle Sum would like to tap wires,
he is censored by a number of fin*
legal points. For an examination
of the problems contronting the Gov
ernment in this field, read Phil
Yeager and John Stark on Page
A-25.
"LIMITED" ATOM WAR-There
has been much talk about "limiting"
nuclear war. But has there been
much thought bohind the talk? Earl
H. Voss explores the thinking, pro
and con. of military exports on this
vital topic. Read his story on Pago
A-21.
Comoiete Index. Page A-2
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