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WEATHER FORECAST Rather windy and fair tonight, low near 42. Pair and mild tomorrow. (Full report on Page A-2.) Temperature* Today Midnight 42 6 am—42 ll am.-_.65 2 am—42 S am—44 Noon $1 4am 42 10 a.m 52 Ipm 63 103 d Year. No. 299. Phone ST. 3-5000 ★★ WASHINGTON, D. C., . WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1955-NINETY-SIX PAGES. New Federal Compensation Board Named 2 of 3 Members Replaced Served in Truman Regime By JOSEPH VOTING The entire three - member United States Employes’ Com pensation Appeals Board—the final court of appeals for Fed eral workers seeking, compensa tion for on-the-job injuries—has been replaced by Secretary of Labor Mitchell. Taking their place are two Republicanjs and one Dem- Picturej on Page A-2 ocrat. The new members have had considerable experience in the field of workmen’s com pensation, but the suddenness of the complete change in the board’s membership has stunned and surprised Federal employe groups. Two of the former appeals board members were appointed during the Truman administra tion. The other, a Republican, was appointed by former Secre tary of Labor Martin Durkin, who served briefly during the early days of the Eisenhower ad ministration before quitting in a dispute over the administra tion’s labor policies. All are career employes. The appeals board jobs are under schedule A— excepted froip regular civil service. The jobs require no Senate confirma tion. Since the ousted appeals members had career status prior to their appointments to the appeal board positions, they also have job retention rights and! have been given civil service positions in the Labor Depart ment. Those Replaced The replaced board members are John Lawyer, chairman; Miss Grace M. McGerr and Willard H. Shaffer. The first two are Democrats and the latter a Republican. Mr. Lawyer has been ap-! pointed associate director of the Office of International Labor Af fairs. Miss McGerr has been as-; signed as special assistant to the director of the Bureau of Labor Standards to work on general workmen’s compensation prob lems, and Mr. Shaffer has been appointed a special assistant to the Solicitor of the Labor De partment. The new chairman. Theodore M. Schwartz, and Miss Eleanore Kerber, are Republicans. The third member. James J. Reid of South Carolina, is a Democrat, . Mr. Schwartz is former Assist ant Attorney General of New York State and from 1950 to 1955 was general counsel of the: New York State Workmen’s’ Compensation Board. Career Employe Miss Kerber is a career em ploye, bavin, served in the Office of Price Administration, the Of fice of Housing Expediter and other agencies before coming to the Labor Department in 1954 as an attorney in the Solicitor's of fice on compensation matters. Mr. Reid was a member of the South Carolina Industrial Commission for eight years and; chairman during the last four! years. He recently was elected! president of the International! Association of Accidents Boards' and Commissions. The board members' salaries range between $10,300 and 412.000 a year. Labor Department officials emphatically deny that politics played any part in the change. Undersecretary of Labor Arthur Larson said the change is in line with the Department’s "lateral transfer’’ policy, where by executives are shifted from time to time to give them wider experience. Talents Needed Elsewhere Mr. Larson said the talents of the replaced board members are needed in other parts of the Department. “We were fortunate enough tOj find three able and experienced people to replace them,” he added. Federal employe leaders ex-: pressed surprise at the change. They called it highly unusual and said they had not been noti fied ol any pending change. Em ploye groups had strong praise for the old board during the past few years for its record of proc essing cases speedily and its many decisions in favor of em ployes. "WONDERFUL RESPONSE" Says Mrs. W. V. Who Used the Big §>tar CLASSIFIED To Rant Htr Apartment. Sht Found A Tenant the First Day Her Ad Appeared. Because It Produces the Best Results, The Star Publishes More Classified Rental Ads Than The Other Two Washington News papers Combined. If You Wont To Rent An Apart ment, House or Garage Quickly Call STerling 3-500 C Aik far an Ad-Taktr ©he JBornina Rhode Islander Picked As New Revenue Chief Russell Chase Harrington of Providence, R. 1., has been se lected by of the Treasury Humphrey to be Com missioner of Internal Revenue Mr. Humphrey said last night he has sent such a recomendation to President Eisenhower. Mr. Harrington will replace T. Coleman Andrews of Rich mond, Va.. whose resignation, ef fective October 31, to return to private business, has been ac cepted by the President. Mr. Humphrey took the un usual course of disclosing his recommendation to thp President for a major Treasury post be cause. the Treasury said, Mr.* Harrington’s appointment al ready was "under discussion” in the press. It was learned that Mr. Hum phrey’s announcement was not issued until after a go-ahead had been received from Denver, where President Eisenhower is convalescing from a heart at tack. Presidential Press Secretary James C. Hagerty announced at the Denver White House that the! recommendation had been re-! ceived and will be acted on with-; in "a short time.’’ Mr. Harrington, like Mr. An-] drews, is an accountant. He is! a partner in the accounting firm! of Ernst 6k Ernst, with head quarters at Cleveland, Mr. Hum phrey’s home town. Mr. Harring-j ton said in a telephone iriterview Both Sides Rest Case In Haynes Murder Trial By RICHARD RODGERS Both sides rested today in the murder trial of Mrs. Katharine A. Haynes, who killed her hus band’s mistress July 19. but the! case is not expected to go to the jury before tomorrow. Today’s testimony centered on: conflicting opinions of the worn-; an’s mental soundness when she shot Nancy Penton, 19, in the , husband’s love nest at 232 Elev enth street N.E. The Government won a re traction from a defense peychla-, trist, who testified yesterday; Mrs Haynes was suffering a “mental defect” that caused the' killing. Used Wrong Term Under cross-exaffiination Dr. Francis R. Riesenman, a staff neuro-psychiatrist at St. Elisa beths Hospital, admitted his earlier description was wrong. “I did it without thinking," he explained. But prosecutors Harold H. Titus, jr., and Thomas A. Flan nery were unable to shake his testimony that the 28-year-old j mother of four was not mentally responsible for the killing. He clung to his statement that her “hysterical neurosis” was triggered when she returned to her Arlington home late July 18 and found her children alone. I Dr. Reisenman said she went , temporarily insane and pursued her husband and the girl to their trystimy place. The psychiatrist said her in stability was plainly indicated by the fact she told him her first thought on finding the children ■ alone was a recollection of a re cent sexual assault on a child jby a man in the neighborhood. Rebuttal Witness Testifies The Government put Dr. Ger hardt J. Gordon, medical director of District General Hospital : psychiatric services, on the stand in rebuttal. “Is a neurotic an insane per son?” he was asked. “No. A neurotic person is generally considered not insane,” Dr. Gordon declared, but added there are exceptions in cases of (“obsessive compulsion.” He said his study of police files on the case indicated Mrs. Haynes knew what she was doing. • “Would you say she was of sound mind?" i “Yes." The 93-pound defendant hud dled in her chair and shook with sobs while her lawyers and prosecutors wrangled over her sanity. i Federal Judge Matthew F. Me- CHEST 'DO IT DAY ' Business Opens Final Push to Reach Quota Today is “Do It Day” for the Community Chest. This is the day when every volunteer worker in the Chest’s business division is expected to “get up off his chair and com plete his assignment.” The 1956 campaign for $4 million has been on since Oc tober 1. ft ends this month, with mo6%i|divisions reporting this week anil the final over-all report duffwtt November 3. The business division reports on Friday. At last report, the campaign stood at 58.4 per cent of quota. Chest leaders Insist the key to the campaign's success is the response of the business com munity. To get volunteer workers to clean up their col lection assignments, the Chest has designated today “Do It Day.” Before nightfall, every ‘business worker is expected to ■ ip RUSSELL C. HARRINGTON Designated —BUr Staff Photo earlier yesterday he was only casually acquainted with Mr. Humphrey but that his partners knew the Secretary better. Mr. Harrington is 65. He said he has been a partner in Erast 6c Ernst for 15 years and has (been with the company for 35 (years. He is manager of its (Providence (R. L) branch. He (is treasurer of the United States Chamber of Commerce and for 'the past three years had been vice persident. The Treasury announcement said Mr. Harrington is severing his business partnership and his other business connections. Guire asked Dr. Gordon whether he ever personally examined Mrs. Haynes. The prosecution witness said he had not. ; The defense doctor said the slaying was a product of Mrs. Haynes' “catathymic crisis.” This : violent mental explosion later j produced amnesia which con tinues to today, he declared. “She may never regain complete comprehension of what hap pened,” he said. Defense lawyers Harry Ahern and William A. McCollam con |tend Mrs. Haynes is innocent because of temporary insanity. They say she was so mistreated [by her husband Willis, $2, she became mentally deranged. Mrs. Haynes did not take the stand. Mr. Ahern said she was in no physical condition to testify. Medical Opinion Permitted The Government's mental ex perts have not examined Mrs. Haynes. But they are permitted to give opinions on the same hypothetical question the defense posed to Dr. Riesenman in Dis trict Court yesterday. The hypothetical question, covering more than two pages of legal paper, reviewed the already testifled-to-highlights of Mr. Haynes' mistreatment of his wife. These points include; The two. wed 13 years, had See HAYNES, Page A-5 Griffith Reported Much Better; Still On Critical list Although still on the critical list, Clark Griffith was described as “much better” today by physicians attending him at Georgetown University Hospital. The 85-year-old president of the Washington Baseball Club was stricken with stomach hem orrages last weekend. They sub sided Monday and have not re sumed. but a pulmonary compli cation developed. The latter was not considered a setback, i Today Dr. Oeorge Resta. the club physician, said Mr. Grif fith's chances of recovery had "improved considerably." The congestion of the left lung is responding to treatment, he said. Mr. Griffith wilt remain in an oxygen tent for several days as a standard procedure. Described as “mentally alert,” the veteran of many baseball campaigns said today he wanted to go home. Hoping for the best, those around him said “it won’t be long.” have rounded up everyone on his list. Their success in meeting the business quota will decide the fate of the entire campaign.; Chest officials say. Even more than in other years, the Community Chest wants to meet its goal on time this year. The reason for the urgency is the widespread belief that a truly united fund—combining the big independent national agencies with the 110 Washing ton area agencies—is possible next year only If the Community Chest demonstrates its effective ness this year. The Board of Trade has told its members: “Today is the day we can avoid the emergency. Every Red Feather man is urged to take the whole day to wrap up his job.” So the spotlight is on Wash ington’s businessmen. Today is their day. Fought Voiding Jet Contracts, Admiral Says Later Took Job With Firm Making Planes, He Testifies By ROBERT K. WALSH A former Navy Bureau of Aero nautics deputy chief who became a vice president of the McDon nell Aircraft Corp. three months ago admitted to a House sub committee today that while in the service he opposed early termination of controversial jet plane and engine contracts with that firm and the Westinghouse Electric Corp. The witness was Rear Ad miral Lloyd Harrison, who joined the St. Louis airplane manufac turing concern last August 1, the day after he retired from the Navy. He defended his accept ance of the job as having been entirely proper, legal and in the best interests of the Govern ment itself. He related that to his surprise the job was first offered last March by J. S. Mc- Donnell, company president. Mr. McDonnell was promised an opportunity to return this afternoon as a witness and to offer a statement concerning the appointment of Admiral Harri son. Planet Proved Faulty The subcommittee is in its third day of hearings to deter mine responsibility for costly difficulties that developed be tween 1951 and early this year in Navy buying of F3H Demon planes with J-40 Jet engines which later proved inadequate. Mr. McDonnell declared, in continuing testimony he began late yesterday, that the original J-40 engine type apparently was suitable for the interceptor Jet planes specified by the Navy just prior to the outbreak of the Ko rean fighting. But the Navy re vised its specifications and called for an all-purpose, heavier fight er Jet plane.' The subsequent J-40 engine changes did not prove strong enough for the purposes of the bigger plane. At one point. Mr. McDonnell severely criticized "our friends of the great American free; press,” who. he said, have been] writing many inaccurate things about the Demon plane and the 1 J-40 engines. Doing Their Best’ j “They have been doing the best they could with the limited: time and knowledge they have.” he asserted, “but they have thoroughly clobbered the scien tific and technical aspects of the situation.” Representative Hoffman. Re publican of Michigan, a member of the House Government Op erations Subcommittee inves tigating the matter, observed that some newspapers may have “loosely” described the problem as involving “pishes that wouldn't (fly ” He remarked that "per haps they have to say some thing, to attract attention just like congressmen do running for office.” Mr. McDonnell apparently was not amused. He insisted that of the’ 60 P3H planes his com pany manufactures for the Navy, 23 did fly, He Insisted, however, that because of engine difficulties the planes were not deemed adequate for day-in and day-out flight, especially in com bat. He predicted that the in stallation of J-71 engines, be ing made by the Allison Divi sion of the General Motors Corp. jin the new model of the Demon jet, would prove thoroughly satisfactory. Questioning Is Pointed The questioning of Admiral Harrison was far more pointed and insistent than that of any previous witness during the last three days. Herbert RobaCk, subcommittee chief investigator, seemed irked when the witness several times said he could not remember particular discussions 'with other Navy officials con cerning the McDonnell and [Westinghouse contracts in re cent years. j Admiral Harrison said he was deputy or assistant chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics from 1952 until his retirement last July. During that time he had no di rect relations with the McDon nell or Westinghouse companies, he said. He added, however, that contract termination matters concerning those firms occasion ally came to him for review or approval as routine. He testified that he discussed with the late Admiral Apollo Soucek, then chief of the bu- Cowtlnued on Page A-20, Col. I 2 Injured in Crash; Lawmaker Unhurt Two persons were injured slightly today in an auto «cci ; dent at Seventh street and Inde pendence avenue S.W. involving Representative Kenneth B. Keat ing, Republican of New York. Mr. Keating was driving east on Independence avenue when his car collided with a station wagon driven south on Seventh street by Mrs. Myrie Oliver, 37, of 2709 Alabama avenue 8. E. The latter vehicle overturned on the left side. Mrs. Oliver and her 3-year-old i son Frank were treated at Emer gency Hospital for bruises and released. Mr. Keating was not i Injured. No chargee were filed by police. New Appeal for Peace Voiced by Eisenhower JH He es * arm tBI HPESsHr W' • f, 5 1 -■ ■ v.-, 4 Ijg| ON GUARD FOR DIPLOMATS—Geneva. A Swiss soldier, heavily armed and wearing a steel helmet, stares straight ahead as Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov (left) arrives by plane today for the opening of the Big Four Confer ence tomorrow. Mr. Molotov was the first of the Foreign Ministers to arrive at the Swiss city. (Story on Page A-10.) —AP Wirephoto via radio. Hospital Urged As CD Center | Trqjning Program Outlined for Upshur j District Health Director Dan iel F. Seckinger today recom mended use of the Upshur Street Tuberculosis Hospital as a civil’ defense disaster training hos-j pitai. ; The Commissioners yesterday agreed to close the institution at; Thirteenth and Upshur streets! N.W.. and use part of the savings! ’ to staff a lock-ward for dope ad-! diets and prisoners at District General Hospital. They ordered closing of the facility within 30 days. Except fOr the building. Fed eral civil defense has designed a portable. 200-bed hospital, completely Equipped with three operating rooms, a reception 1 sorting area, sterilizing rooms, ■ central supply area, laboratory, X-ray room and a pharmacy. Georgetown University Hos pital has expressed a desire to s obtain sueh a building for train i ing its students. Dr. Seckinger said in return the hospital would give short courses in disaster work to professional and med ical people in the area. George Washington University, Dr. Seckinger said, is consider . ing a proposal and the District Medical Society and the Red Cross favor the program. Other uses of the building, in addition to civil defense, would be for an out-patient rehabili tation center for patients in the Upshur street area; a geriatric day care center; transfer of al coholic rehabilitation center, , now at Twenty-third and M 1 streets N.W.. and consolidation > of child mental health clinic. 1 r Two Sailors Killed, Two Hurt in Crash [ DENBIGH. Va., Oct. 26 <*).— I Two Norfolk-based sailors were , killed and two others injured near this Warwick County com ' munity today when their car ! smashed into a concrete bridge ! on U. S. 60 and plunged 15 feet ’ into a creek bed. These and three other deaths reported to State police sent the I State’s 1955 traffic toll to 711— 1 106 higher than the same date last year. The sailors killed were George Edward Finger, 22. Beltsville, Md.. and Albert E. Deaton, jr„ 24, no address available. Denver Ray Enoch, 18, of West Virginia, and Phillip Hilde, 25, address unavailable, were taken I to Fort Eustls Hospital suffering . cuts, bruises, shock and gasoline ■ burns. All four were stationed r aboard the USS Neptune. . Polish Boxing Titlist l Asks to Stay in West HERFORD, Germany, Oct. 26 (/P).—Josef Pietron, amateur ’ heavyweight boxing champion of | Poland, has asked West German authorities tor political asylum. I police here reported today. The 21-year pugilist from I Krolevska Huta in Polish Silesia ; was touring West Germany as a 1 member of the Polish national boxing team. Arab Arms Deal Gives Russia Edge at Geneva West May Be Forced to Take Sidqs; Israeli Leader Appeals to Dulles Bjr CROSBY S. NOYES Xuropean Coriwandeat ol The Star PARIS, Oct. 26.—The strength of the Russian posi tion on the eve of the Geneva Conference lies in the fact! that they are not bluffing. Unless they get what they want in Europe, the; Russians appear ready and willing to provoke a new! Arab-Israel war or at leist force the West to take sides openly in an effort td prevent (a general conflict. In either, case, the Russians stand a good chance of comipg out on top. Already the arms deal between Czechoslovakia and Egypt has; raised tension in the Near East to the danger point. Unless the (Reds Reported in New Moves te Sell Egypt Arms. Fege A-9 Israel and Egypt Dispute New Rorder; Clash. Page A-10 Egypt Signs Military Feet With Saudi! Arabia. Page 1-10 deal is called off or unless the West moves quickly to counter Communist plans, the possibility of renewed warfare within the next few weeks is very real. Secretary of State Dulles,! French Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay and British Foreign Sec-; retary Harold Macmillan gave the whole of their final day here! to Middle East affairs. Through out the day the two principally i concerned—Mr. Dulles and Mr. ! Macmillan talked with each other and with Middle Ea6t leaders, principally Moshe Sha rett. Premier and Foreign Min ister of Israel. . Before Mr. Dulles finally left the embassy residence here to go to Orly Airfield for the flight to Geneva, he had a 20-minute talk also with Fatlm R. Zorlu, interim Foreign Minister of Tur key. “We had a fair and full dis cussion,’’ Mr. Sharett said when he came out of the United States Embassy residence where Mr. Dulles stayed during his three day visit, but would say nothing more. Nevertheless, the case 50C Go to Football Game On Three Navy Warships ! About 500 civilians were guests of the Navy on three es- 1 1 cort carrier ships that took them ( last Saturday from Bayonne,;! N. J., to the Army-Columbia! football game at West Point, . ' N. Y„ and back again. Vice Admiral Robert B. Bris- , 1 coe, deputy chief of naval oper- j , ations, in confirming the expedi -1 tlon said today it was not a routine trip, but was part of a standard practice of attempting to win more friends and recruits for the Navy. He said the cruise was not planned as a football outing, but : that the game happened to fall on the same date. The passengers on the 100-; mile round trip were identified 1 as members of the Navy League. ! Admiral Briscoe said the Navy’s policy was to run excursions whenever possible to keep civil , tans and Navy families inter ested in the service. . He explained the Navy Is find- Metropolitan Edition New York Markets, Pages A-42-43 WMAL—RADIO—TV 5 CENTS which he is reported to have laid: before the Western statesman is an alarming one. coming as itj does from the most moderate of; the top Israel leaders. On good: authority, he is the essence of; his warning: 1 Communist arms sales to Egypt threaten to upset completely the precarious balance of power in the Near East on which the five-| year truce has depended. Egypt, which still considers itself in aj state of war with Israel, will re new its effort to destroy the new; stats whenever: 1. It feels that a preponder-( ance of military strength is Ur its favor. ; 2. It believes that an attack: would not provoke the active! ;military intervention of the great! powers. | The balance of military strength already lies in favor of the Egyptians. In terms of manpower and many kinds of equipment, their forces are su-( perior to those of Israel. Heavy: new shipments of arms would tip the balance disastrously. Red Support Feared There is a strong suspicion 1 that the sale of arms has been; accompanied by a promise .of Russian support in case of war IThe merest hint of Russian in iterventlon in the Near East on the Arab side would face the (Western powers with a terrible 'dilemma and encourage an ad venturous policy by Egypt. ! For its part, Israel is deter mined not to sit still today and See NOYES. Page A-5 ing it hard to attract recruits and it was believed the cruises would stimulate interest. He pointed out that last week some 1 Navy wives were treated to a ! regularly scheduled cruise aboard a ship off San Diego. "It’s purely a matter of selling your stock,” Admiral Briscoe said The three craft used were na val reserve vessels assigned to the 3d Naval District with headquarters in New York. They have small regular Navy care taker crews and are operated by reservists for training purposes. Admiral Briscoe said he had no Information on a report that i the naval vessels, docked at West Point, prevented for more than ian hour the docking of an ex cursion steamer with 900 paying passengers. An Associated Press dispatch from New York said that vessel, the Peter Stuyvesant, had to wait that long for the naval ves sels to pull out on the return trip. Conciliations By Russians at Geneva Urged By ERNEST B. VACCARO Associated Pre» Staff Writer DENVER. Oct. 26.—President Eisenhower today invited Soviet Russia to match American con ciliatory efforts at Geneva and' lay the groundwork for the peace and progress “for which the whole world longs.” If the "new spirit” evidenced at the “summit conference” at Geneva three months ago is real, Mr. Eisenhower said, the foreign ministers will seek solutions for the reunification of Germany and clear away other barriers to peace at the four-power confer ence opening tomorrow. The President spoke out in a statement issued from his room in Fitzsimons Army Hospital, where his progress toward recov ery from a heart attack was reflected yesterday in the pub lication of the first close-up photographs since his seizure September 24. The President voiced hope Russia will respond in the same “genuine spirit of conciliation and accommodation” to the pro posals the United States will submit, along with Great Britain and France, and with which the republic of West Germany has been kept abreast. Conferred With Dulles Tpe President’s statement fol lowed two conferences here with Secretary of State Dulles before the latter’s departure for Eu rope and a letter to the cabinet backing Mr. Dulles 100 per cent in his negotiations at Geneva. “The world hopes.” the Presi dent said, that the conference he attended at Geneva did, in fact, create a "new spirit” which will make possible future solu tions of world problems. He repeated his belief that the “acid test” will come at the new conference when the foreign ministers tackle "concretely” the problems which, if unresolved, “create tension and danger.” “They will seek solutions i which are possible if that new spirit is real.” Mr. Eisenhower [asserted. “Foremost among these measures is the reunification of Germany within a framework of (European security." i Mr. Dulles said after his last (talk with Mr. Eisenhower that [the two share a “measured hope" for concrete progress. While he said he did not anticipate “spec tacujar results.” he looked for progress on German reunifica tion and on increased contacts : See EISENHOWER, Page A-J WELCOME PLANS UP TO PRESIDENT AND HIS DOCTORS Commissioner Samuel : Spencer said today any i plans to stage a big wel | come for President Eisen hower when he returns to the White House must wait for the President’s O.K. as well as the advice of his doc ! tors in Denver. The President is expected ! to return from Denver early j next month and spend a few j days at the White House be ! fore continuing his conva | lescence at his Gettysburg : farm. A booming welcome for the President has been ; suggested. ”1 am delighted to learn that the President is mak ing such excellent progress toward recovery and expects j to be able to return to, ] Washington soon,” Commis sioner Spencer said. "I am informed by the White House that his plans are not yet definite. Wheth- . er the Commissioners will make any plans for a wel come by the citizens of Washington will depend en tirely upon the President’s wishes and the advice of his doctors in Denver," Mr. Spencer said. A BABY SITTER SUES FOR MAYHEM LAW IN THE NEWS-For yean bobbytoxers and elderly ladies have wandered when it would happen- Now it has. A'Caiifomian baby-sitter suad 1 a youngster’s parents on junior'i mayhem and mada it stick. Paga $-24. Guide for Readers Amusements C-5-6 Lost, Found .. 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