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WEATHER FORECAST*
Hot and humid today with scattered
showers. Fair and cooler tomorrow. (Full
rqgort on Page A-2.)
Hourly Temperatures
Noon 91 6 pm —88 11 pm—.Bl
2pm 94 Bpm 84 Nf tonight* 80
4 p.m—94 10 pm 83 1 am 79
103 d Year. No. 219.
Chandler Leads
In Kentucky's
Primary Gains
Ahead of Combs
102,960 to 93,891
In Governor Bid
LOUISVILLE, Ky„ Aug. 7
(Sunday) UP).—Former Baseball
Commissioner A. B. (Happy)
Chandler stretched his lead!
early today in his political come
back fight for Kentucky’s Dem
ocratic Governor nomination, j
Returns from 1,318 of the
Bluegrass State’s 4,074 precincts
gave Mr. Chandler 102,960 votes
to 93,891 for Bert Combs, a
young mountaineer judge in his
first State-wide race.
Their battle was among the
hardest fought in Kentucky’s
turbulent political hißtory.
Denny Leads for Governor
In the quieter race for the
Republican gubernatorial nom
ination, returns from 1,018 pre
cincts gave former United States
District Attorney Edwin R. Den
ney 19,383 to 5,198 for James L.
Clay, an attorney.
Mr. Denney had the endorse
ment of John Sherman Cooper, 1
Ambassador to Indian and for
mer Republican Senator from
Kentucky.
Mr. Chandler, 57, who was
Governor in 1935-39 and United
States Senator in 1939-45,
Jumped ahead in early returns.
Some reports from the 3rd
Congressional District—Louisville!
and Jefferson County—put Mr.
Combs, 43, ahead for a brief pe
riod.
The regular organization in
the State's metropolis backed
him strongly. So did U. S. Sena
tors Alben W. Barkley, former
Vice President; Earle C. Clem
ents, the acting Senate major
ity leader, and Gov. Lawrence
Wetherby.
Chandler’s Lead Growing
But Mr. Chandler recaptured
the lead and gradually built it.
He ran well out in the State’s
rural areas to offset the virtu
ally complete returns of the 3rd,
which gave Mr. Combs 33,447 to
21,704 for Mr. Chandler.
His campaign co-chairman,
Joseph J. Leary, said “It looks
like a trend is setting in" for
a Chandler victory.
But Lt. Gov. Emerson (Doc)
Beauchamp, handling Mr.
Combs' organizational details,
said he expected his candidate
to win by 8,000 to 10,000.
There were only fragmentary
reports from the East Kentucky
mountains, which Mr. Combs
forces banked on. Early returns
came in quickly from areas with
voting machines. Long ballots
in areas having two-thirds of
Kentucky’s nearly three million
population slowed the count of,
paper ballots by hands. State
law required a halt in counting
ballots at midnight, local time,
until Monday, but reports still:
came in.
Leads in Ist, 2d Districts
Mr. Chandler led in the Ist
and 2d districts of West Ken
tucky. He had been favored to;
win the former, Mr. Combs the
latter. The former Governor
also was ahead in his home 4th.
the sth and 6th districts of
northern and central Kentucky.
He trailed Mr. Combs in scat
tered returns from the 7th, Mr.
Combs’ home district, and Bth,
in the mountains.
A third candidate, Jesse N. R.
Cecil, trailed badly. Some coun
ties were not keeping a running
tab on his votes.
State Representative John \
Young Brown, former United
States Representative who had *
lost to Cooper in 1946, trailed in;'
his bid for Democratic nomlna- '
tion for a State Senate seat. 1
Mr. Brown, a sales tax advo- 1
cate who strongly backed Combs, ‘
who, however, didn’t commit 1
himself to any specific tax pro
gram, had 3,459 votes to 5,551 1
for John C. Anggelis, a young J
lawyer, in the Lexington and; 1
Fayette County District with 45 s
of its 60 precincts counted.
The outcome will reflect na-.*
tionally by bearing on Senator ’
Clements’ political future and :
the makeup of Kentucky’s dele- 1
gation to the 1956 Democratic
presidential nominating con
ventions . J
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tion, with 73 persons aboard, :
skidded oiT a runway at Midway
Airport today, but no one was in- t
jured and the plane was not t
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GUNMAN UNDER ARREST—Air Force Staff Sergt.
Keith Becker leaves the Seat Pleasant (Md.) police
station for jail after the affray in his former wife’s
Suitland Manor (Md.) apartment. Star Staff
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BOTH FACED THIS GUN Marine Staff Sergt.
Charles Ellis (right) shows the .45-caliber automatic
he wrested from a berserk man to Prince Georges
County Police Pvt. Robert Zidek, who was held cap
tive earlier at the point of the gun.
Berserk Airman Holds
Pair at Bay With Gun
I An Air Force special invest!-:
gator last night went berserk in;
;the apartment of his recently
; divorced wife, held police at bay
|for more than half an hour and
'finally was overpowered by an
Armed Forces policeman after
firing two shots.
No one was injured in the
melee which drew hundreds of
residents of the heavily popu
lated Sultland Manor area to the
scene.
Police identified the gun wield-'
er as Staff Sergt. Keith Becker, 1
25, attached to the 1005th Special
Investigation Group, Bolling Air
Force Base.
Disarmed After Scuffle
He was disarmed after a
scuffle by Marine Staff Sefgt.i
icharles Ellis, an Armed Forces:
policeman, who had been held
at gunpoint for 10 minutes while
trying to talk the airman into
! surrender.
; Sergt. Becker was lodged in
the county Jail at Marlboro and
booked on seven charges.
On the scout car ride to the t
Jail, police reported, the airman!
kicked the driver s seat forcing
the car into a ditch. He was sub
dued again, his feet lashed to
his hands for the rest of the!
ride.
County Police Lt. Boyd Ham
ilton said he was held on four
charges of assault, and one each
of disorderly conduct, resisting
arrest and unlawfully discharg
ing a firearm. Bond was set at
SIO,OOO.
Received Trouble Call
The episode began around 8
p.m. when county police received
a trouble call from a neighbor
of Sergt. Becker's ex-wife, Bev
erly, 21, who lives in a second
floor apartment at <752 Homer
avenue.
As Police Pvts. William Welch
and Lawrence Wheeler ap
proached the entrance, Sergt.
Becker came to the upper win
dow, warned them to keep away
and fired one shot from his .45
caliber service automatic.
The policemen called for help.
Nearly a score of county. State
WASHINGTON, D. C., AUGUST 7, 1955-154 PAGES.
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■ and Armed Forces police scout
rears, ambulances and fire engines
r responded.
' As scores of neighbors started
I swarming to the scene, the arena
i was roped off. Residents were
'.warned by loudspeaker to stay
out of range. The front of the
: Homer avenue address was illu
' minated by fire engine search-.
■ lights.
Woman Removed
A woman in an adjoining
apartment was removed by flre
[ men from the second floor.
After standing by while more
guns, ammunition and tear gas
was brought to the scene, County
Police Pvt. Robert Zidek ap
proached the apartment and
asked Sergt. Becker if he could
come up for a talk.
“All right. Just you come up
: and I'll talk to you,” the airman
'agreed.
Pvt. Zidek reported that
I throughout the ensuing 20-min
ute talk, the airman menaced
, him with the automatic. His ex
jwife, who won a final divorce
.Ifrom him only last Tuesday,
cowered terrified in a corner of
jthe same room. *
j The policeman failed to get
See SUITLAND, Page A-16
Girl, 19, Rescued
In Anacostia River
An attractive girl about 19
years old was pulled out of the
Anacostia River at the Sousa
I Bridge early today by two pollce-
I men who had to robe her.
Pvts. Autry Martin and John
. Lynch of No. 11 Precinct arrived
. at the scene to find the girl
• swimming about 200 feet off
shore.
i Stripping to their trousers, they
. plunged in after her. She fought
. her rescuers off. District rescue
• firemen threw a rope to them and
’ they tied her and got her ashore,
i District General Hospital re
ported her condition as good. She
. wouldn’t tell her name, address,:
or occupation. l !
Johnson Hails
84th Congress
For Its Record
Senate Leader
Applauds Unity,
Achievements
By J. A. O’LEARY
Senate Majority Leader Lyn
don Johnson defended the first
session of the Democratic-con
trolled 84th Congress last night
as one of “unity and achieve
ment.”
The ailing Texas Senator, still
hospitalized after a heart attack,
Knowlond Rapt Failure of 84th Congress
on “Key" Bills. Pago A-5
pointed out that no session ever
adjourns without leaving some
unfinished business. But he said
in a statement this Congress
advanced. most major issues to
a point where the incomplete
bills can be dealt with early next
year.
Among these subjects he
listed:
1. The highway bill, which was
beaten in the House after pass
ing the Senate, “but there is
ample groundwork for another
look next year.”
2. Federal aid to school con
struction, which did not pass
either branch, but received
committee consideration in both.
Senator Johnson said the leader
ship "is keenly aware of the
pressing urgency of this prob
lem and hopes that needed
measures can be approved early
in 1956.”
Social Security Action
3. More liberal Social Secur
ity benefits for women and dis
abled persons, which passed the
House, but was held up for
hearings in the Senate Finance
Committee.
4. The bill to restpre 90 per
cent as the parity price support
level for basic farm crops, which
passed the House and will be
under study by the Senate Agri
culture Committee during the
recess.
5. The Upper Colorado River
basin project, which passed the
Senate but was sidetracked in
the House. Senator Johnson said
this will open for development
one of the largest under-devel
oped areas in the United Statfcs.
This is one of several water
resource projects the President
also has listed as urgent.
The Johnson statement took
no notice of President Elsen-,
hower’s statement Thursday;
that, while he has made no de
cision on the need for a special
session before January, he has by
no means ruled lt out as a pos
sibility.
j The highway, school construc
tion and water resources bills
were singled out by the Presi
dent, along with his health rec
ommendations, as subjects Con
gress should tackle early in the
next session.
i The Social Security and farm
parity changes are subjects the
Democratic leaders in Congress
originated. Both will have a I
lot of political appeal in an elec
tion year, and it is a safe as
sumption the Democrats will
push them in January.
Unity on Foreign Policy.
Laying stress on the whole
hearted support the Democratic-;
controlled Congress gave the 1
President on foreign policy,
Senator Johnson said:
"This session demonstrated
that national unity can be
achieved in the field of foreign
policy when men put national
interest above partisan interest.’’;
Senator Johnson said the
[Democratic promise to co
operate with the President was
fulfilled in the passage of the;
resolution to defend Formosa,;
on several important treaties
and when the President pre-j
sented his disarmament inspec
tion plant to the Big Four con-;
ference.
I At his Thursday press con
ference. the President praised
this spirit of co-operation on
foreign policy by both the 83d!
and the present Congress. But
be made clear his belief that the;
session was not as successful as
it should have been on domestic
legislation.
Senator Johnson said the box
score of bills enacted or deferred
is an interesting topic for study,;
but he added that "the real test
of a Congress is whether it met
the problems before the people;
See JOHNSON, Page A-4 !
2 Hours to London on Rocket Ship?
Routine by 1990, Astronauts Say
COPENHAGEN, Denmark,
Aug. 6 (IP). — “All aboard for Lon
don, please.”
The year is 1990. The place,
San Francisco.
You board the craft. Settle
down in your seat. Begin reading
[your newspaper.
Zoooooooooooooom!
"London, London. Watch your
[step getting off, please."
You fold your paper, put on)
your coat and step off into the!
i 1
Reds Have Fancy Plans for a Colony in
Spoct. A-26
S 1 :
chilly air of the British capital.
The trip has taken Just about
two hours.
A dream?
Not at all, say some of the
scientists who attended the week
long sixth annual congress of the
Transit Offer Spurned;
New Talks Set Today
IT'S HOT ENOUGH !
IN NEBRASKA TOWN
TO HATCH EGGS
! FALLS CITY, Neb., (A*).—lt
was hot enough to hatch eggs
, in Falls City this week.
About a week ago Alvin Bahr,
’ jr. sold off 30 hens, but did not
collect the qggs from their i
; nests. Friday Mrs. Bahr was 1
attracted to the henhouse by i
• “peeps” and found three new- 1
: ly-hatched chicks.
1 County Agricultural Agent 1
Tom Aitken said normal hatch- i;
' ing temperature is 104 degrees
; —which was Falls City’s max- \
• imum this week—and appar
ently in the hot sheltered nest, \ t
' the temperature remained high
enough to complete the incu
-1 bation of the eggs after the
[ hen was taken off.
PTA Head Quits
i
; On Race Issue
\ Protests Action
In Rollingwood
By CHARLES*L. HOFFMAN
Robert L. Thompson, presi
; dent of the Rollingwood Parent
'Teacher Association, yesterday
in the dispute over put
. ting 32 colored children from 2
miles away in the school this
Jfall. ji
s In an open letter accompany- 1
• ing the resignation, Mr. Thomp- 1
! son protested the association’s
176-to-55 vote against admitting ‘
■ the children. l
■ Six members of his executive >
> board and two of the school’s 1
I three trustees also signed the
• letter to PTA members, and re - >
' signed along with Mr. Thomp
• son.
The PTA last Tuesday in a
• mass meeting attended by some
500 area residents repudiated the
executive board's action in ac
cepting School Supt. Forbes H.
I Norris’ plan to transport the col- ' (
ored pupils two miles from the
; Lyttonsville area, two school dis
tricts away, to Rollingwood.
Mrs. Boone Heads Group
Mrs. William A. Boone, vice ,
; president, will take over as act- ’
ing president. She presided at 1
the meeting last Tuesday.
Mrs. Boone said that she was ,
“staying on for the good of the ,
children and the PTA.”
"I regard it my duty as an ;
. elected official of the PTA to I,
carry out the instructions of the
[ membership regardless of my!
j personal feelings,” she said. j
! The executive board has not ,
yet officially sent to the school
board the resolution protesting
the transfer and threatening,
■ legal action to block it. Mr.j
-.Thompson said that some board
;l members had challenged its val- :
• idity on grounds the PTA by-laws
bar the organization from seek- 1
1 ing to direct administrative ac
tions of the school.
l i Mrs. Boone, however, yester
day said she would personally ;
' deliver a qppy of the resolution
! to Dr. Norris’ office tomorrow so 1
■ that the school board can con- 1
> sider lt at its meeting Tuesday. '
.; i
New Leadership Needed ,
j Mr. Thompson, a State De
partment official, lives at 7500 I
Summit avenue. Chevy Chase. j’
j In his letter Mr. Thompson;'
said it was apparent from the
Tuesday night meeting that the;
[ executive board had “misread;
‘ the feelings of the community.”; :
j “I am of the opinion that' l
leadership closer to the thinking;
of the community is needed,” i
'Mr. Thompson said. i
| Mr. Thompson said that of ]
\ the 231 members who voted I
Tuesday, 96 had no children in i
the Rollingwood School. All, t
however, live in the school dis
trict and under PTA by-laws are |
[eligible for membership.
Mr. Thompson said that even ,
lif these votes were eliminated ]
Continued on Page A-4, Col. 1 I
• International Astronautical Fed-j
eration which ended today.
Sato one scientist: “In 30 or I
40 years a businessman will bej
able to eat breakfast In Sanj
Francisco, arrive in Europe. gO:
back to his hotel, wash up, have!
lunch, complete his affairs and;
return to San Francisco in time
for dinner
| "Transportation will be in;
[rocket ships traveling at 100,000
[feet at speeds from 3,000 to 4,000
! miles an hour.
"A ticket may be pretty expen
sive though, because rocket ships
[will be costly items. So if the;
businessman wants to save some
money he might take a ram-jet
plane. That will get him to
Europe an hour or ao later.”
For shorter trips—say from i
New York to Chicago—there will
Iffy' Cool Air Is on Way
—After Another Sizzler
Blistering 95 Forecast for Today;
Humidity May Drop Tomorrow
If you can hold out until to-;
morrow, the Weather Bureau
has a tentative order in for some ;
cool Canadian air which might
I help.
But for today, the bureau was
ire-telling a painful and familiar
Why Thermometers Vory Heat is
Where You Find It. Poge A-10
Wide Areos of Nation Hurt by Hebt
Ware. Poge A-8
Weotherman Tells How Hot It’s Been—
and Why. Poge A-23
story—"continued hot and hu-,
mid” with a high of 95 degrees.;
Scattered afternoon and evening;
thundershowers were included in
the prediction.
The figure on how much cooler
tomorrow might be was missing.j
but the bureau said a drop in;
humidity was a certainty.
The temperature dropped
eight degrees between 4 and 6
p.m. yesterday, after a high of;
96 degrees which held for about;
an hdur between 3 and 4 p.m.;
One could almost hear the sighs
of relief from downtown pedes-;
! trians at the eight-degree dip.
Scattered thunderstorms,
which puffed the wind up to a
30-mile gust in places, helped ac
count for the quick drop, the
bureau said.
The temperature sizzled in
the mid-90s yesterday after
noon. hitting 96 at 4:15. But it
was the above-normal humidity
of 47 per cent that hurt.
Hospitals had about a score of
“treated and released” heat cases.
Police estimated that many more
sought aid from private phys
icians. 1
Puerto Rico, Virgin Isles
Escape Hurricane Peril
SAN JUAN. Puerto Rico, Aug.
6 (Ip. —The Weather Bureau said i
late tonight Puerto Rico and the [
Virgin Islands no longer are in.
danger from hurricane Connie. 1
The threat passed vhese United
States islands an hour before
midnight, the official report said.
The bureau bulletin said the
eje of the hurricane, roaring
across the open Atlantic north
of here, had passed about 100
• miles north of San Juan.
“Its movement is taking the.
center of the storm away from
[the islands.” It said.
I Hurricane warnings in Puerto
Rico and the Virgin Islands were
ordered lowered at midnight,
local time <ll p.m. EST>. The!
Bureau added the likelihood of
dangerous winds had passed.
Flood Conditions Feared
As the hurricane fringes passed
San Juan, winds were mostly;
about 35 miles an hour, but there[
were a few squalls of 55 miles an
hour.
No Injuries or property dam-;
age were reported tonight.
The Weather Bureau said the
only danger here might be flood
conditions in the next 12 hours.
As the storm passed, the Weath
er Bureau said, five inches of
rain deluged this capital.
Puerto Rico had taken all the
hurricane precautions and the;
[Weather Bureau had posted
' warnings.
Storm Batters Ship
The storm's center was about
1,100 miles east-southeast of the
[Florida coast.
! A steamship, the Pelican;
State, trying to outrun the storm
after sailing from San Juan, re
ported at 1 p.m. that she was
being buffeted by 75-mile winds
at a position 140 miles north-j
east of the Puerto Rican capital. [
In the Virgin Islands, whipped
by gales and cloudbursts, the
production unit of a (Para
mount) movie, “The Proud and
Profane,” being made on loca
tion was offered for disaster re
ibe all kinds of slowpoke craft,
[probably jet helicopters,
i A British scientist summed
I things up with typical reserve:
| "Oh, there’ll be landings on
[the moon and high altitude
I travel and all that. But every
thing won't change in our life
time.”
Ever dream of direct TV from
Europe? Well, it’ll be better than
that in 25 or 30 years.
"By then,” said an engineer,
”we will have TV relay stations
'.set up on satellites whirling
[around the earth. That will
[mean we can transmit a TV pro
gram from any point in the world
and beam it up to the satellite,
which will relay it straight down.
There will be virtually slmultan-;
eous reception anywhere in the
world.”
| D.C. BOYS OVERSEAS
• -The Star’s flying reporter-photogra
pher team visits Washington area
servicemen in Germany. First of a
series" today in The Star’s Pictorial
Magazine,
WMAL—RADIO—TV
I Golf courses reported business
“way off,” but any spot offer
ing the possibility of a vagrant
puff of air was well populated.
Rock Creek Park’s vast shaded
areas had lots of business and
swimming pools were brimming
with people.
!| The heat record for August 6
1 was 106 degrees set in 1930, but
the plus-90 reading yesterday
helped round out the sixth
straight day that August has
i produced such temperatures. The
late and unlamented July had 18
days of over-90 heat.
Yesterday’s heat caused a tank
:i filled with acetylene gas to ex
-1 plode, ’ Arlington firemen re
ported.
The tank was at the Cherry
•jdale Cement Block Co., 1500 Ar
lington boulevard. Firemen said
the gas, used in welding, ex-
I panded because of the heat and
• blew off the top of the tank.
• I In Baltimore, a furious rain
• and electric storm struck last
•j night, injuring at least five
>; persons, flooding streets and
I homes, disrupting power and
causing more than 150 fire
■ alarms in 90 minutes.
1 The torrential rain, measured
unofficially at 1.5 Inches, also
' brought a temporary break in
the city’s longest and hottest
heat wave.
Whole residential areas were
blacked out by lightning. The
gas and electric company put 700
men into action repairing hun
dreds of breaks. The Chesapeake
and Potomac Telephone Co. said
3,600 phones were knocked out;
and 100 street lines were downed'
Iby falling trees. j
lief if needed. In addition to 21
[ vehicles, radio equipment and a
crew of 100 technicians, the
• film unit includes Technical
e (rector Louise Woods, a former
ember of a Red Cross disaster
team.
William Holden, his wife,
Brenda Marshall, and actress
Deborah Kerr have been on lo
cation In the path of the hurri
cane.
Storm warnings went up on
the north shore of the Domin
ican Republic, and a hurricane
1 alert was given for that island
and the eastern Bahamas.
The Weather Bureau’s special
week end alert to the south
, eastern United States coast re
i i mained in effect from Cape
• Hatteras southward.
Norfolk Girl Gets
p Miss Virginia Title
! ROANOKE, Va„ Aug. 6 (Ip.—
' Betty Sue Mathews, a blond
from Norfolk, was chosen “Miss
Virginia” tonight after nearly
four hours of competition foi;
: the winner and 16 other con
-1 testants.
The Judges’ choice of "Miss
; Virginia Beach” to represent
the State in next month’s “Miss
America” pageant at Atlantic
City brought cheers from the
[I.OOO spectators in the Hotel
Roanoke ballroom.
The audience also applauded
I the judges’ ehoice lor’second and
[third places.
Second place went to Shirley
Maxine Sours, of New Market,
“Miss Shenandoah Valley," and
third went to Mariane Louise
Cannon of Alexandria, “Miss
Northern Virginia."
73 Austrians Freed,
Tell of Red Revolt
VOESLAU, Austria, Aug. 6 (< ! P).
Seventy-three Austrian prisoners
sent home by the Russians to
day reported hundreds of slave
laborers were killed in a fight
with Soviet troops last year.
The Austrians said the clashes
occurred In camps of the Kara
ganda region of Central Asia
after thousands of the laborers,
Including Russians, rioted against
living conditions they deemed
unbearable. The laborers were
, reported finally beaten by So
viet tanks and guns.
The returning Austrians also
said the Russians are speeding;
up preparations for the release!
of most of their German and
Japanese prisoners.
They said the Germans and
Japanese are being withdrawn
from camps all over Russia and
shipped to a few centrally lo
cated compounds.
Today’s group was one of sev
eral returned from Russia since
the recent conclusion of the
Climber Toll 109
ROME, Aug. 6 (ip. —Mountain
climbing has claimed at least
109 lives in Western Europe this
year with the season juit past
the halfway mark. The toll at
this time last year wga 123.
FIFTEEN CENTS
Strikers Hit
Tying of Plan
To Bill's Veto
By HECTOR McLEAN
Transit strikers rejected a
company offer yesterday of
higher pensions and a 15-cent
package because manage
ment pinned it on a White House
veto of the company's death
sentence.
I Until talks broke down on that
; point, Federal mediators thought
r —-—■- - - •
! Survey of Mass Transportation Problem
, in D. C. Area to Start. Poge A-10
; a settlement in the 38-day tieup
was near. Despite the disap
, pointment, they scheduled an
j, other session today with both
. | sides.
Announcing today’s meeting
at 3 p.m. in his offices, Mediator
| James Holden said he knew of
J “nothing special—we're just op
. timists.”
■ The issue that ended yester
day’s mediation effort was the
, Capital Transit Co. insistence on
I its offer hinging on a presidential
veto of the bill that would put
j CTC out of in a year.
Objections Raised
: According to one report, one
high official on the AFL union *
‘ side agreed Friday to have the
’ offer include that provision but
( his associates refused to go along
'! with him.
Capital Transit officials said
; they were ready to sign the offer
■ that would cost them more than
* SIA million. But they said the
[ pact would be voided if President
( Eisenhower signs the bill Con
egress passed Tuesday.
l; Bierwagen Statement
j Leaving yesterday’s session,
[union president Walter J. Bier
wagen said: "We asked whether
any company proposal would be
contingent on the President
signing the bill. Their answer
was yes, that any discussion
would be contingent on a veto.
We will not have anything to do
t with any agreement that is a
t contingency.”
, Meanwhile, Senator Morse,
| Democrat of Oregon, warned
r the union it had everything to
1 lose and nothing to gain from
continued dealings with CTC.
. The company’s offer would give
s workers 10 cents more an hour
- when they go back on the job,
- and an additional 5 cents
March 1
l Pensions would go from the
- present S7O a month to SIOO.
5 Management would add SIBO,OOO
1 to its present $373,000 annual
pension contribution, Employes
I would pay half as much as the
- company contribution, as they
. do now.
. Workers would get seven in
stead of six annual holidays.
Workers with 25 years df serv
ice would get lour weeks vaca
tion. The top vacation period
now is three weeks, after 10
I years’ service.
The company now has a ceil
j ing contribution of $190,000 to
s the health and welfare fund. Un
f der the new pact, that ceiling
’would become the floor and there
J would be no ceiling. CTC would
match employe payments, which
s were $213,000 last year. The
t company's heavier load would
j lighten the employe burden.
: Morse Comments
'■ Meanwhile, commenting on re
-1 ports that both the union and
the company had asked the
j White House for a veto, Senator
‘ Morse declared:
j "The union will betray its pub-
lie trust if it allows itself to be
•used by those lobby forces which
| have been at work pressuring
; both the Federal Mediation Serv -
s ,ice and certain White House
staff members to get the Presi
dent to veto the bill. The union
t Continued on Page A-16, Col. 1
|U. S. Bayoneting
* In Korea Charged
.j SEOUL. Sunday, Aug. 7 (/P).—
t United States soldiers guarding
a neutral nations inspection
s team bayoneted three demon
. stratlng Korean army veterans
i in Pusan, Korean government
, sources said yesterday,
t, The inspection team was made
1 up of Swedish, Swiss and Com
» munlst Czech and Polish mem
. bers.
The three South Korean vet
erans were part of a crowd of
[4,000 joining in nation-wide
* [protests demanding the ouster
I of the Neutral Nations Security
Commission.*
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[LAST IN STAR SERIES
ON PARENTHOOD
FARENTHOOD WITHOUT HOK
:! UM—Listen to your heart in rois
; ing children, advises Howard Whit
man in the last of his series. See,
also a prominent Washington pe
diatrician's comments on the series
1 and letters from readers, all on
| Page A-20 and A-21.
Complete Index, Page A-2
; Radio-TV Programs, Pgs. E-7-9