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103 d Year. No. 107. Phone ST. 3-6000
Maryland Loss
Seen in Taxes
On Virginians
Broyhill to Tell
McKeldin. Plan
Will Be Costly
BY GEORGE BEVERIDGE
Maryland stands to lose money
by withholding Income taxes of
Virginians who work In the Free
State. Representative Broyhill,
Republican, of Virginia, con
tended last night.
The Virginia legislator said he
will use this argument at a meet
ing with Maryland's Gov. Mc-
Keldin In Baltimore tomorrow,
in an attempt to win exemption
for Virginians from Maryland’s
new withholding tax program.
Withholding Virginians’ taxes,
Mr. Broyhill asserted in a state
ment, “will in the long run cost
Maryland money in interest and
administrative cost.’’
Could Seek Refund
Here’s the way he figures it:
Under the Maryland tax setup,
the State would withhold 2 per
cent of the income (after e>erup
tions) of Virginia residents who
work there. The Virginians, how
ever, could apply for a refund of
the amount needed to pay Vir
ginia State income taxes.
Since the income taxes of Vir
ginia and Maryland arq “about
equal,” this would mean Mary
land would derive no financial
benefit. Instead, it would be
wasting money for paper work
In addition, Mr. Broyhill con
tended, Maryland would have to
pay 6 per cent interest on the
amounts so recovered by the Vir
ginians.
"That Is strictly according to
Maryland law and it can readily
be seen that Gov. McKeldin’s
State will be the loser,” Mr. Broy
hill said.
May Appeal to Congress
Mr. Broyhill said he would ask
the Governor at tomorrow’s 4:45
p.m. meeting to "correct the sit
uation” if he can do it adminis
tratively. If necessary, however,
Mr. Broyhill said, he would take
the matter to Congress.
State Senator H. Wlnship
Wheatley. jr„ of Prince Georges
County. Md., said he wouldn't
deny that such losses might re
sult in the case of the Vir
ginians.
But he told The Star he felt
that “in over-all revenue gains,
it’s worth that loss not to have
any exclusions that would
weaken the withholding pro
gram.”
(Other intsances also might be
found, he said, where costs
would not seem to justify reve
nues from specific groups of
employes. But the main purpose
of the new plan is to reach all
Marylanders through an all-in
clusive program, he said, and
“I think the .total gain will sus
tain such costs.”
Mr. Broyhill said he asked Gov.
McKeldin for the conference
after "scores of complaints”
from among the “hundreds of!
my constituents (who) earn their j
living in nearby Maryland.”
$1,600 Taken
In Arlington
The Acme Grocery in the 1
Washington and Lee Shopping
Center. Arlington, was robbed of
$1,600 by a gunman last night,
Arlington police reported.
Detectives Jackey R. Snoots
and Elmer Ridmor said the
holdup occurred about 9:30
o'clock as Ralph Dillingham,
manager, placed the day’s re
ceipts in a safe at the front of
the store at 102 South Wayne
street.
Detective Snoots said the hold
up man, about 35, "barged”
through the front door as a
small boy, just leaving, swung it
open. This was about half an
hour after closing time.
The-gunman ordered the man
ager and a clerk, James Diggs,
23, of 912 North Iverson street,
Alexandria, to go to the back of
the store until he left.
Mr. Dillingham, 37, of 364
West Lee street, Alexandria, said
he told the man he expected his
son. Roger. 8. to arrive at the
store any time, and not to hurt
the boy.
As the man was departing,
Roger arrived, the manager said.
The gunman ordered the boy to
Join his father and the clerk in
the store, but Instead the young
ster ran away down the street,
police said. The boy was the
one who called police, detectives
said,
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WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION
29 Asian-African Lands
To Open Bandung Parley
BY 6AMES E. ROPER
Star Staff Correspondent
BANDUNG, Indonesia, April
17 (Sunday),—The Asian-Afri
can Conference, greatest assem
blage of have-not nations in
modem times, convenes here to
morrow—with Communist China,
neutralist India and the demot
cratic Philippines fighting for
leadership.
The meeting could become a
milestone in relations between
George Sees Hope Bandung Conference
Will Help Stabilize World. Togo A-2
the worlds of white and non
white peoples.
Between 800 and 1,000 dele
gates from 29 nations represent
ing 1.4 billion persons—more
thap half the world’s popula
tion—gather in glistening white
Freedom Hall—the old Dutch
Concordia Club—for seven days
of debate. The United States is
conspicuously not invited.
The meeting place is appropri
ately re-named. The subject of
freedom, or anticolonialism,
probably is the one issue on
which all the delegates can
agree. Another is racial discrim
ination. The conference also is
likely to call for greater eco
nomic development.
But even on these broad sub
jects, national rivalries will ap
pear, and the delegates may
brawl over Just how they will
express themselves in condemn
ing sin.
U. S. Has Major Stake
The United States has the
greatest stake in the outcome. It
could be catastrophic if Red
China and the other Communist
delegation, North Vietnam,
should seize control of the con
ference and coalesce a sizeable
number of countries behind Com
munist leadership. This seems
highly unlikely.
The Philippines’ Carlos P.
Romulo and Thailand's Prince
Wan are set to try to torpedo
Red efforts. Less predictable is
Indian Prime Minister Jawahral
al Nehru, who himself aspires to
leadership of Asia and now finds
competition in the form of Com
munist China’s Chou En-Lal.
Messrs. Nehru and Chou ar
rive in Indonesia today, the latter
staying overnight in Jakarta.
They plan private consultations
during the conference. Here
again, the United States has a
tremendous stake, for Nehru-
Chou cooperation could spell
trouble for all the Western world.
On the other hand, a bitter split
would be a Godsend.
The conference agenda, even
the rules of procedure, technic
ally won’t be decided until to
"lnorrow. But Indian sources said
the delegates would get together
today to try to settle- differences.
This in effect extends the con
ference work schedule one day.
India Offers 8 Items
India is proposing eight agenda
items, including the subjects of
Indo China, peaceful use of
atomic energy and a catch-all
heading known as “world ten
sions.” India will try to side
track demands from Arab coun
tries for discussions of the Israel
problem.
Helping defend western ideals
will be other friendly powers
such as Pakistan and Turkey.
Powell Seeks to Meet Chou.
An outsider will be Represen
tative Adam Clayton Powell,
Democrat, of New York. He ar
' rived today and immediately
started collecting credentials as
I a news reporter for the Chicago
Defender, Negro weekly publica
tion.
He told The Star ”1 am trying
to arrange a private conference
with Chou. I am requesting the
conference as a Negro instead of
in American congressman.”
Mr. Powell declined to say
what he would tell Mr. Chou,
out he was obviously prepared to
praise the trend of race relations
in the United States.
“If anybody Jumps on the
United States for race relations,”
he said, “I am going to call an
immediate press conference and
tell tlffese Asian reporters the
truth.
"Two years ago Washington,
our Nation's capital, was a hor
rible place with Negroes barred
from movies and restaurants.
Now all that has been changed
without a single incident, and
it’s a good town.”
TALBOU WARS ON BOTTLENECKS
Air Force Rushes Base Construction
To Meet 137-Wing Goal by 1957
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By JOHN A. GILES
The Air Force has stepped up
Its air base construction program
by almost 50 per cent over the
last five months, moving into
high gear to meet its goal of 137
wings by 1957.
Air Force Secretary Talbott—
who, along'with Defense Secre
tary Wilson, told Congress last
year that the base building pro
gram was a major bottleneck to
expansion—ordered all stops
pulled out Last-minute changes
in plans and even locations of
bases, an old bugaboo in the pro
gram, are barred.
| Mr. Talbott told the planners.
ito finish one program before
mapping another. Second-guess
ing on contracts after construe
| tion is underway is taboo.
V'
POWELL
Seeks Talk with Chou
—AP Phots
CHOU ARRIVES
JN NEW U . S. CAR
BANDUNG, Indonesia,
Sunday, April 17 UP). —Red
Chinese Premier Chou En-
Lai arrived at Bandung air
port today to attend the
Asian-African conference.
He drove to town in a new
American Chevrolet.
The Communist premier,
whose trip to Indonesia has
been marked by super se
curity measures, flew in
from Jakarta where he
spent the night.
Craven Admits
Double Slaying
In Alexandria
Confesses Knifing
His Grandparents
In Fit of Anger
Charles Earl Craven has con
fessed the brutal slaying of his
grandparents, Alexandria police
announced last night after they
brought him back from Florida
to face double murder charges.
Police said 22-year-old Craven
had given Detectives William
Gosney and Robert Jones a
Picture on Page A-4.
signed statement in which he
admitted stabbing the couple to
death after they accused him of
taking some personal possessions
from them.
The bodies of Ernest C. Crav
en, 82, and his wife, Annie, 61,
were found in the kitchen of
their apartment at 113 North
Columbus street, Alexandria, on
March 22. He had been stabbed j
!23 times and she had been
stabbed seven times. A medical 1
examination indicated they had
been dead a week or more.
A Policeman Remembered
The search for Charles Craven
began that night when an Alex-1
: andria policeman remembered
that the elderly oouple had a
grandson who had been in an
institution for the feeble-minded.
Police discovered that the grand
son had left home the day be
fore the bodies were found. He
lived with his mother and step
father at Uda in Fairfax County.
Police said Craven admitted in
his statement that he used his
long hunting knife for the double
slaying. It is the same knife that
police later recovered from a
teen-age high school boy who
said Craven had given it to him
j before leaving town.
Two Charges of Murder
According to police, Craven.
said in the statement that his j
grandparents' accusations an-!
| gered him and he killed them, j
Craven has been indicted on
two charges of murder. He is to
be given a mental test before
trial arraignments are made. The
mental examination was ordered
last week by Alexandria Corpora
tion Court Judge William P.
Woolls on request of Craven's at
torney, John Waller.
Craven spent six years in a
Virginia institution for the
feeble-minded. He was released 1
last June.
As a result, worldwide base
construction projects now are
being let at an average of slls
million monthly. -This compares
with S6O million a month only
last November.
The air arm has received al
most $6 billion for base construc
tion since the start of the build
up when the Korean war broke
out It still has $922 million
awaiting contract from those
funds. However, officials plan to
accelerate the letting of con
tracts even further in the
m°riths ahead.
Ninety-five per cent of the
funds are going for runways,
hangars and other operational
facilities. Permanent housing,
recreational facilities and other
non-operatlonal projects will
come later.
WASHINGTON, D. C., APRIL 17, 1955 —206 PAGES.
Crazed Inmates
End Texas Riot,
Free Hostages
Give Up Weapons
After Six Hours;
13 Persons Hurt
RUSK, Tex., April 16 (A 5 ).
Eighty crazed Inmates rioted to
day at the Rusk State Hospital
and held a superintendent and
two other persons hostage at
knife-point for six hours before
giving up.
At least 13 persons were in
jured.
The rioters, all Negroes, sur
rendered their hostages, gave up
their knives, baseball bats, scis
sors and other weapons and re
turned to their rooms- after a
dramatic doorstep talk with
Texas Ranger Capt. Bob Crowder.
The riot leader, six-foot Ben
Riley, a teen-ager from Topeka,
Kan., held an ice pick in the
back of the captive superin
tendent, Dr. Charles W. Castner,
as he bargained with the Texas
Ranger.
Drops lee Pick and Knife
They talked aboirt 20 minutes
on the steps of the hospital's
maximum security building.
Then Riley threw down the ice
pick and a big knife from his
belt.
At that signal, other riot
leaders walked from the building
and also threw down their
weapons.
Dr. Castner, unhurt, was freed.
Also freed, but beaten up, were
the other hostages, Clyde White,
ward superintendent, and Bill
Curtis, attendant.
The hospital disclosed tonight
that the 80 rioters, all inmates
of Ward 7 on the second floor
of the building, had released the
72 inmates of Ward 6 on the
ground floer shortly after the
riot began. Thus, there were 152
inmates milling about in the
building during the six-hour re
bellion.
Asked Recreation Area
Mr. Castner said the rioters’
main complaints were that they
didn’t have a recreation area
such as that provided in the
maximum security buildings and
are in a secluded area sur
rounded by a 12-foot electrified
fence.
Earlier, Riley and other riot
i leaders had told newspapermen,
whom they demanded to see, of
other complaints. They said at
tendants beat them with rubber
hoses, they weren’t given the
same food as white patients, they
weren’t allowed outside as often,
and they couldn’t bathe without
attendants’ permission.
Capt. Crowder, a big, impres
sive man, arrived from Dallas
about 3 p.m. Moments later
he walked through the gate and
up to the building held by the
1 rioters. Riley, who had de-
I manded to talk to a Texas ran- :
ger, appeared.
Thousands Look on
While thousands of alerted Na- j
tional Guardsmen, State high
i way patrolmen, law officers and I
i others watched from the sur- j
rounding fence, Capt. Crowder
talked to Riley.
Capt. Crowder said he told
Riley: "Now, I think you will
get more consideration from the
board (the State Hospital Board,
whose members the rioters had
demanded to see) if you’ll throw
down your weapons and act like
men."
The rebellion began at 9:30
a.m. when inmates jumped Dr.
L. D. Hancock during his morn
ing round.
B&O Train Kills Man
Sipping Beer on Tracks
i A 65-year-old man was killed
by a passenger train last night.
; apparently as he sat on the
railroad tracks, drinking beer
! and watching an oncoming
freight train.
Police said Charles Swann,
colored, of no fixed address, was
swept from the tracks by a B&O
Railroad train at Brookland ave
nue and Taylor street N.E. Police
theorized he was sitting on a
rail watching a freight train roar
by when the passenger train, ap-
I preaching from the opposite U
rection, struck down.
e Preliminary plans for bases
e contained in the military con
® struction bill for the next fiscal
y year either have been made al
ready or will have been com
- pleted by the time the measure
- passes Congress. ‘ This should
- permit a faster rate of construc
e tion than formerly, when most
n preliminary designs were drawn
e up only after passage.
o The Air Force now has 121
- wings and is scheduled to go to
e 131 in the next 15 months. Air
craft procurement and pilot
e training already are geared to
i. this expansion. A wing operates
I from 35 to 75 planes, depending
:,; on type. However, numerous
r | spares and tanker planes greatly
I I increase the number of craft as
l signed to a wing.
Truman Assails President
On Partisan' Asia Policy
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DECADES OF FIRST LADIES—Three women whose residence at the White House
spanned decades, smilingly pose in this historic picture as they gathered to help
honor Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn in a testimonial dinner. Mrs. Woodrow
Wilson is seated; Mrs. Harry Truman is on the left and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt
at the right.—Star Staff Photo by Paul Schmick.
'Free' Police
Details Hit
Constitution Hall
Among Targets
BY MIRIAM OTTENBERG
A new drive to make more
commercial enterprises pay for
police aervices with Constitu
tion Ball and the National Guard
Armory as special targets —is
now under way at the Capitol
and the District Building, The
Star learned yesterday.
Constitution Hall, under
behind-the-scenes attack from
three directions, faces the immi
nent loss of its privileged status.
During the last fiscal year, police
| records show, police details
around Constitution Hall totalled
11,247 man-hours.
Coupled with the moves to
1 require payment for police serv-
I ices at more commercial events
is a proposal to establish a pool
|of off-duty policemen to be
j tapped for these special assign
ments. Under this plan, pay
ments by promoters of these
events for police services would
go into a Police Department
fund. This fund would then be
used to pay the off-duty police
men assigned to the events.
3 Places Pay
Here's what lies behind the
latest agitation:
Under a 1948 law authorizing
payment for police and firemen
posted in or around licensed
premises, only three places- are
beihg billed for police services—
Griffith Stadium, Uline Arena
and Turner’s Arena. Spokesmen
for these places have protested
bitterly that the law is discrim
inatory. The arenas have point
ed particularly at the National
Guard Armory, where police are
frequently stationed but no fee
is charged because the armory
is not a "licensed premises ’.
At the same time, Police Chief
Robert V. Murray has protested
that he is forced to strip the
residential neighborhoods of the
men on the beats to supply spe
cial details. That's why he wants
to use off-duty policemen. He
can't do that now because the
money that comes in from the
places that do pay goes into the
District’s general fund and is not
available to pay policemen.
Tnese were the developments
aimed at ending charges of dis
crimination. getting more rev
enue for the District and keeping
policemen as far as possible on
their neighborhood beats:
Report Vanishes
1. It was discovered that
the whole question of charging
more places‘for police and fire
serivees had been Investigated
by the District’s Internal Audit
office last fall but its recommen
dations apparently never reached
the Commissioners. The report
disappeared sometime between
January and April.
When a report* asked ques
tions about the report and efforts
to locate It failed, Schuyler
Lowe, director of general ad
ministration, ordered a copy
prepared and signed by the six
officials who had approved It
the first- time. The copy was
sent to the Commissioners late
Friday afternoon with a recom
mendation that it be referred
See POLICE, rage A-f
An Associotod Press Newspaper
VISITOR JAM INCREASES
4,000 DARs Arriving
For 64th Convention
Already jammed with week-ending tourists, Washington today
began receiving the vanguard of more than 4.000 Daughters of
the American Revolution, arriving for their 64th annual Conti
nental Congress.
. The national patriotic society will formally open Its five-day
• convention at 8:30 p.m. tomor- i
. row in Constitution Hall. The
I meetings, together with dozens
, of auxiliary functions, will cqn
-1 tinue through Friday.
Today, Miss Gertrude Carra
way, president general of the
society, will lead the annual
| memorial service for members
who died during the year. It will!
be at 2-30 p.m/in Constitution
; ? Hall. From a stage banked with
1 flowers and lighted candles, the i
roll of the departed members
1 will be called.
After the service, officers will
' lay a wreath on the Founders’!
' Memorial Monument outside the
1 DAR buildings at Seventeenth j
and C streets N W.
Nixon to Give Opening Talk
1 Vice President Nixon will ad- j
, dress the opening session tomor- I
i row night. Other speakers will 1
include Secretary of the Navy.
Thomas on Tuesday and Senate!
Majority Leader Johnson and
Minority LeacfapHE—mland on
: Thursday.
Besides holding annual elec
: i tlons, the convention will act on
i a legislative program, vote on
[ resolutions, revise by-laws and
i accept new members.
At preliminary meetings yes
■ terday, the society’s National j
i Board of Managers acted to ad
-1 mit 2.110 new members, bringing j
the national total to more than j
182.030. The board also accred- 1
1 ited seven new local chapters, to j
i raise the total number to 2,782.
The board also voted to give I
a new United States flag to tne
Senate to be used in the Senate!
Chamber. Mounted on a 10-foot -
I pole and topped by a 12-inch
! eagle, the flag will be presented 1
SERVICED CAR
Ex-Gasoline Attendant
Weds Kerr's Daughter
810 LAKE, Minn.. April 16
(/Pi.—A Minnesota man who first
met Senator Kerr, Democrat, 6f
Oklahoma, when he serviced the
wealthy Oklahoman s car at a
gasoline station five years ago
as a high school youth was
honeymooning today with the
Senator’s brunette daughter.
Kay Kerr, 22, and Lowell D
Clark, 25, were married here last
night in the little Saron Lu
theran Church. The brldgegroom
enters the Army Monday
Mrs. Willard Clark, Montl
cello, Minn., sister-in-law of the
bridegroom, said only members
of the immediate families and
I two close friends of the bride
attended the ceremony.
I The church in which the wed
ding was held was the one in
which Mr. Clark attended Sun
day School as a boy.
Mrs. Willard Clark said Lowell
was working at a service station
in Elk River. Minn., when Sena
i tor Kerr drove in one day for gas.
She said "the Benator apparently
TRAVELING?
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Section today takes you to Kentucky,
Barbados, New York’s Westchester County
and romantic Paris. You’re sure to find
something of interest in
' Section F.
i ———
Far ether DAR news, features and pic-;
tures, see the Women's Section and
the Pictorial Magazine. Tha day- j
by-day convention schedule is on
Page D-8.
to Vice President Nixon, accord
ing to a tentative schedule, on
June 7.
j Last night, 170 members of
the DAR’s National Officers Club
heard a talk by Assistant SecrA
tary of State George V. Allen at
i their annual dinner at the May
| flower Hotel.
Mr. Allen, who until last year
was Ambassador to India, told
; the group that the United States |
must exercise “confidence, dig
nity and patience” to overcome
j the distrust most Asians feel for
i America’s motives in the Far
! East. Although the United
States position on the islands of
! Quemoy and Matsu is “perfectly
sound.” he said, it is popularly
I considered by Asians much as
I Americans might consider a
foreign power’s occupation of
islands in the San Francisco or
Los Angeles harbors.
Xt another dinner tonight in!
the Mayflower, Miss Carraway
will greet junior members of the
Society. Special guests will in
clude two young women who are
attending Lincoln Memorial Uni
-1 versity on scholarships provided!
by the Junior Membership Com- j
i mlttee.
The convention, which will
| manage to sandwich several
! sightseeing tours in with the
morning and evening business;
I sessions, will conclude on Friday
j with the president general’s re
! ceptlon at 3 p.m. in Constltu
: tion Hall and the annual ban
quet at 7:30 p.m. at the May
-1 flower Hotel.
5 took a liking to him" and told
t Lowell to write to him if he;
f were interested in going to'
• Washington after he finished
i high school. A year after he i
> finished school, Lowell wrote
5 Senator Kerr and in a short |
> time was on his way to Wash
ington.
Mrs. Clark said Senator Kerr
saw Lowell through George
1 Washington University and later
arranged for him to go to Okla- 1
1 homa A&M for one semester
Mr. Clark was on the Senator's j
■ staff between school terms.
The bride has been attending
i Wellesley College, Wellesley,
I Mass.
.I- ■ ■
Eastern Easter
I JERUSALEM, April 16 f/Fl
Thousands of Oriental Chris
tians lighted candles around the
I Holy Sepulchre this morning as
i Easter was celebrated in Jeru
! salem for the second time this
year. Eastern Christians still
follow the old Julian calendar.
FIFTEEN CENTS
Party Chieftains
Praise Rayburn
- Before 3,300
BY GOULD LINCOLN
Former President Harry S.
Truman charged the Eisenhower
administration last night with
“playing partisan politics” with
the Nation’s security, foreign pol
icy, resources and Civil Service.
“I referet to say ” Mr. Truman
declared at the mammoth Dem-
Text of Farmer Preiidant Truman’s
Speech. Fage A-3
It Was Mr. Sam’s Night, 3,000
Democrats Agree. Fage A-3
ocratic dinner honoring House
Speaker Sam Rayburn at the
National Guard Armory, “that
we have not seen such cynical
political behavior in any admin
istration since the early twen
ties.”
The former President paced
attacks by an array of Demo
cratic leaders on the present ad
ministration. the Republican
Party and, in some cases, on
the President himself.
He was supported in some of
his charges by Speaker Rayburn;
Adlai Stevenson, the party’a
titular head; Senator Lyndon
Johnson of Texas, majority
leader of the Senate: Represen
tative John McCormack of Mas
sachusetts, majority leader of
the House, and others.
Praise for Rayburn
The purpose of the dinner was
to honor Mr. Rayburn, who has
served longer than any other
man as Speaker and with great
distinction. All who spoke paid
high tribute to the character,
ability and courage of the Texan
who has served 40 years in Con
gress.
Wild spplause greeted former
President Truman as he jabbed
at the Republican administra
tion. No less enthusiastic was
the reception given Adlai Steven
son when he introduced Speaker
Rayburn. The guests rose and
cheered the 1952 Democratic
presidential candidate.
Mr. Rayburn got a tremen
dous, roaring welcome when hs
strode into the Armory with a
Texas Lone Star flag on the lapel
of his dinner jacket.
Behind Mr. Rayburn at the
head table on a screen of silver
and gold were huge pictures of
| Mr. Truman and the late Preßi
i dent Roosevelt, and an even big
ger cartoon depicting Mr. Ray
bum and the men the Demo
crats hail as the founders of
their principles —Jackson and
Jefferson.
Usually these affairs are In
honor of Jackson and Jefferson.
This time, the cartoon pro
claimed: "Well, we couldn't hava
been replaced by a nicer guy.”
In his criticism of the present
administration, Mr. Truman laid
particular emphasis on Mr.
Eisenhower’s 1953 order to the
i 7th Fleet directing it to no longer
prevent the Nationalist Chinese
on Formosa from attacking the
Chinese Reds on the mainland.
The Republican Administra
tion, Mr. Truman said, “must
have known that the picture of
an unleashed Chiang Kai-shek
invading China was a bare-faced
political fraud. But the Idea be
hind this was to attempt to dis
credit the sound policy of the
Democratic administration
| which was carefully designed to
: limit the conflict in the Far
; East.
To Do More Than Limit
| “Now the Republican admin-
I istratlon is desperately trying
j not only to limit the conflict
in Asia, but to get a*permanent
cease-fire there. I fervently hope
: they do. But the administration,
by this unfortunate political ma-
See DEMOCRATS, Page A-6
Schedule Released
For Polio Vaccine
DISTRICT SCHOOL PUPIL SHOTS
—The Public Health Department
releatei its schedule for tha first
and second series of Salk anti-polio
vaccinations that will begin April 26
for nearly 30,000 children free of
chorge. The listing appears on Page
A-11.
SEVEN CORNERS ROADBLOCK—
It’s no accident that nearby Virginia
j reads converge on one of tha worst
; traffic bottlenecks in the Metropoli
tan Area. Staff Writer George Flynn
| tells the history of the crossroads,
I its present troubles ond its bright
; future on Page A-17.
PITIFUL FLIGHT—An evacuation
comp it an ugly sight. The Star’*
Far Eastern correspondent, James E.
Rapar, takes readers on a tour of,
camps far refugees from communism
1 in North Viet Nam on Pago A-2.
MONEY WAITING—Soma $120,-
i 000 is waiting to ba divided among
200 mining parsont whose last
known oddresses ware in tha Wash
ington area. Financial Editor Don
ald I. Hadley tells all about it on
Pagu A-39.
VIRGINIA GARDEN TOUR—Vir
ginia’t finest homes tnd estates, in
cluding those es two Presidents, will
be open during Historic Gordon Week,
starting Saturday. The tour is de
scribed in an articl* on Pag# A-4.
Comotctc Index. Page A-2
Rodio-TV Programs, Pages E-5-7