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WEATHER FORECAST Mostly cloudy and turning colder with strong northwest winds tonight, low 34. (Full report on Page A-2.) \ Temperatures Today Midnight 45 6 a.m—s4 11 a.m.._.62 3 a.m—4B 8 a m 58 Noon 63 4 a.m—s2 10 am 61 1 p.m 64 104th Year. No. 56. Phone ST. 3-5000 ★★ WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1956-THIRTY-FOUR PAGES. George Backs Dulles on New Soviet Tactics Other Democrats Regard Secretary As Too Optimistic Chairman George of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee agreed in part today with the testimony of Secretary of State! Dulles that the Russians have been forced to revamp the policies communism has fol lowed for 30 years. Some other Democrats on the Foreign Relations Committee, however, disagreed with the Secretary’s statement at a crowded open hearing yesterday that the free world is relatively stronger than it was a year ago in relation to Soviet strength, j Asked if he was surprised by the Dulles contention that the Russians have been forced to change their policies, Senator George said: “No. I think the Russians have been in the process of changing their methods. I don’t think they have abandoned their ultimate objectives, but they are attempt ing to follow some parts of our program.” Can’t Avoid Topic Senator George said he was not optimistic ovv the possibility of avoiding discussion of the dell cate Middle East situation in the | coming political campaign, a hope expressed by the Secretary ! The Senator said he does not see how discussion of a subject so : vital to the free world can be avoided. Commenting on the Secretary’s testimony as a whole. Senator George said: "I thought he made a very good appearance." It was an open statement and for that reason helpful to our present day relations." In his testimony Mr. Dulles declared the Russians have made “very little progress’’ in their at tempts to take over the world and he said their new efforts to employ economic aid and sim ilar measures to penetrate for eign countries mean they are “playing our game.” “We can beat them at that game.” he confidently declared. In the course of the 3%-hour session. Senators Mansfield. Democrat of Montana: Barkley. Democrat of Kentucky, and ; Humphrey, Democrat of Minne- j ■ota. took issue with Mr. Dulles’ assertions of confidence, and Senator Morse. Democrat of! Oregon, said as the hearing con cluded that “I don’t share that optimism at all.” New U. S. Policy Urged Senator Humphrey and Sen ator Sparkman. Democrat of! Alabama, called today for a change in United States policies to meet the Soviet maneuver. Senator Humphrey said Russia's change of policy “is a clear indi cation that we should change, ours." And Senator Sparkman called it “tragic” that, as he put it. “we haven't shown suffi cient change to meet these de velopments.” On the G. O. P. side, Senator Aiken, Republican of Vermont, said the Democrats tried without; success “to find a weakness in Dulles' policies and in Dulles.” And Senator Saltonstall, Repub lican of Massachusettts. said Mr. Dulles' testimony “made sense.’’! Policy Being Changed Mr. Dulles told the Senators the 30-year-old Soviet policy of violence and intolerance for non- Communist systems of govern ment is giving way to a new creed. “They were past masters of violence and subversion," he said. “Now they are using mutual! security and economic aid.” Mr. Dulles said the new Rus sian approach makes the Soviet more acceptable in some parts at the world, but America's posi- Continued on Page A-2, Col. 5 STOCKS IN THE SPOTLIGHT —————— j NEW YORK im —Following «re the •ties <»dd OO). hiah. low. closing price •nd net change of the 20 mou active c took a for the week’ Bale* High Low. Close. 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Find out “how to be an exciting women" by reading this series. You'll learn why Joan Crawford feels "mar riage is the greatest love affair of all"—she will tell you how to be smartly and originally dressed. Beginning Monday start reading "Joan Crawford's Story" in The Evening Stor. Phone Sterling 3-5000 for home delivery. l&ienina V v J V y WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ♦ '■ ' ' ' FATAL DUST STORM—Canyon, Tex.—Autos slow to a creep as dust, whipped as high as 17,000 feet by a four-State storm in the Southwest, blows across the highway from Canyon to Amarillo. This photo Three Road Jobs Set in Virginia Work at 7 Corners Starts Next Week Construction is about to begin on three major highways proj ; ecU in nearby Virginia—Seven Comers and Baileys Crossroads interchanges and a new four lane divided section of Glebe road in Arlington, j Work will start next week on the Seven Corners project at Ar lington boulevard and Leesburg pike at Falls Church. The In terchange will tie in with the new 815 million shopping center and Wilson boulevard. Hillwood avenue and Sleepy Hollow road. Rea Gets Contract Lonnie Bolton. State Highway Department resident engineer,, said the highway commission has given final approval to aj $1,446,803 contract with the Rea Construction Co. of Charlotte,! N. C. The Highway Department an-! nounced on November 3 it was awarding the Job to the Rea firm, the lowest bidder. The award later was held up when another bidder complained about Rea’s bid. ; Mr. Bolton said the State has concluded that the Rea bid was ! in order. 2-Year Project The construction, which will carry Arlington boulevard be jneath Leesburg Pike, will take two years, according to the contract terms. C. W. Kestner. Culpeper dis trict engineer for the State Highway Department, said there; will be no overpass at Baileys Crossroads but the intersection will be broken up to speed, traffic, j The Glebe road project calls Tor a four-lane divided highway from Washington boulevard to Lee highway (Routes 29-211). Cost of this work, Including right-of-way acquisition, will ex ceed 81 million. The section of Lee highway near Glebe road also will be im proved. Mr. Kestner said. Feed for Blood NOWATA, Okla.. Feb. 25 (IP). —Farmers will have a chance ! nere next Wednesday to ex \ change their blood for feed. . Charles A. Whitford. chairman i of the Nowata General Hospital Board, said each donor at the visiting bloodmobile will receive a 100-pound sack of feed. Bullet Just Stings Boy jFleeing From Stolen Car A 17-year-old youth, fleeing ; from a stolen car, stopped a | policeman’s bullet last night, ; but it didn’t stop.him. ; Arrested later, he said he had felt only a slight push and a ; Picture on Page A-22 ■ sting and that the bullet dropped out of his coat. The shot was fired from less than a block away and police had no explanation why the boy was not wounded seriously. They conjectured the bullet could have been a spent ricochet or that it was defective. The slug was one of three he heard fired as he and another! youth ran from the car near; Eighteenth and N streets N.W. at about 11:15 p.m.. he said today during questioning by Juvenile 1 officers. Police Pvt. W. K. Valentine, who said he fired only two shots, was unaware that either of them struck the youth because, he said, "they kept right on running and got away.” He said he was with Pvt. George M. Ritchie in a Third Precinct scout car and saw three colored , boys get into a car at Eighteenth i , M k ' ff ■ 1 - V s,s6, H / fJx * I I I II i 1 I TORNADO DAMAGE—Summerfield, 111.—Miss Avanell Brown, Chicago, and Jerry Brown of Detroit search the wreckage of their mother’s home after a tor nado ripped off a wall. Five persons were in the house, but no one was seriously hurt —AP Wirephoto. , I Seoul's Air Chief Is Coming to U. S. ! SEOUL, Korea. Feb. 25 UP).— iLt. Gen. Kim Qhung Yul. South Korea’s air force chief'of staff, and five aides will leave Seoul Tuesday for a one-month visit to the United States. They will be official guests of Gen. Nathan F. Twining, United States Air Force chief of staff. The party will visit major Air Force bases in the continental United States, including head- 1 quarters of the Tactical Air Com mand. Air Defense Command. Air Materiel Command, the Air University and the Air Academy. The ROK visitors also will meet with United States Air Force officials in Washington to discuss possible expansion of! ROK air power. : and Church streets N.W. and i drive off. • j The scout car pulled alongside ’ the car at Eighteenth and N streets, and before the two police l men could get out, the driver of i the car and the youth on the right side piled out and fled. Pvt. Ritchie held the boy who; I sat in the middle of the front! seat and Pvt. Valentine started to chase the other two. | En route toward Connecticut ; avenue, he said, he shouted a de ’ mand to halt and then fired the first shot. ' On the second, he said, he ’ leveled his revolver, aiming low at the two fleeing figures. ! The youth who was struck said jhe heard no demand to halt and 1 heard three shots. The third ) one, he said, apparently hit the pavement "because I saw sparks at my feet.” i He said the one that struck . him about waist high "slowed me . a little. I felt a kind of a pushi and a little sting. I put my hand j . around to my back and celt the: > bullet drop out of the inside of j my coat.” : Two of the youths are being ; held and the third is sought. Two I are parolees from the National i Training School. All are colored. was taken just outside the Canyon city limits. The storm, accompanied by wind gusts up to 95 m.p.h., was blamed for several deaths on highways where visibility was reduced to zero.—AP Wirephoto. President, Appearing Fit, Flies Back From Georgia By GARNETT D. HORNER • Star Staff Correxpondent THOMASVILLE, Ga., Feb. 25.—President Eisenhower flew back to Washington today after winding up a vigorous 10-day hunting and golfing vacation with a 10-hour hunting day during which he bagged his legal limit of 12 quail. He took off from Spence Air Force Base at Moultrie, Ga., at 11:09 a.m. today in his personal plane, Columbine , 111, and was expected to land at Washington National Airport about 1:45 p.m. The President was taking to | Washington with him the close ly-guarded secret of his decision about a second term which he is i expected to announce-next week ■ The announcement might come i at his Wednesday news confer ence As Mr. Eisenhower was board ing his plane, a woman yelled !to him, "Stand right up there and tell us you’re going to run.” j The President laughed heartily !but made no reply. He paused near the plane steps to shake hands with 4-year-old ; Michael Miller, a polio victim ; sitting in a wheel chair. "Hello there, young man.” the President said. “Thanks for com ing down to see me.” Tests of Stamina Mr. Eisenhower flew here a week ago Wednesday, with his, doctors’ report that he was medi cally fit to undertake a second term, for a personal testing of ihis physical stamina. From all appearances, he must be satisfied with the unex pectedly strenuous tests through which he has put himself. < His performance here, the way he has looked and acted, has given a big boost to speculation that the President will make himself available for a second term. He has made it clear that his decision would be based mainly ■ on his own feelings as to whether he could carry on his Job effi ciently. ; MaJ. Gen. Howard M. Snyder.) Mr. Eisenhower’s personal phy-i jsiclan, said yesterday he had not ■been fatigued at all by his vaca-i it ion activity here. The pace the President set for! himself was something of a sur prise. His doctors had indicated! before he left Washington that; he would play less than nine! holes of golf at a time while here and delay until late in the spring undertaking a full 18-hole round. But after finishing nine holes last Friday in his first appear ance on a golf course since his September 24 heart attack. Mr Eisenhower played out the full 18 Wednesday and agam Thurs day. Then yesterday, the five month anniversary of his heart attack, the President left his vacation retreat on Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey’s plan tation for quail hunting at 8:45 a m —and did not come in until 6 45 p.m. He and Mr. Humphrey, riding a mule-drawn hunting wagon most of the time between flush ing of coveys by their hunting dogs, took time out for lunch at picnic tables in the field. They brought home 12 quail each. Total of 52 Quail This made a total of 52 quail and one turkey bagged by the President during five days and two half-days he hunted while !here. Flying home with the Presi dent were sJrs. Elsenhower: her mother, Mrs. John S. Doud, and their hosts. Secretary and Mrs. Humphrey. Mr. Eisenhower returns to Washington today, rather than have another day of hunt ing and fly home Sunday, in order for him and Mrs. Elsen hower to attend a birthday party for Secretary of State Dulles {tonight. | John Hay (Jock) Whitney, New York financier and sports man. Mrs. Whitney and William jE. Robinson, president of the I Coca Cola Co., also flew to Wash ington on the Columbine 111. 1 Mr. Whitney has a plantation neighboring the Humphrey place I here, and Mr, Robinson has been I his guest. Storms in West Take 12 Lives Negroes Ask One-Hour National Work Stoppage Representative Powell Issues Call For Protest on Alabama Arresft By the Associated Press Negro leaders have called for a one-hour work stoppage March 28 by all members of their race throughout the Nation In support of the Negro boycott against segregated buses in Montgomery, Ala. Representative Adam Clayton Powell, Democrat of New York, yesterday Issued a call for the work stoppage and said; it would be coupled with a day of prayer. A spokesman for Negroes said; in New York that prolonged na tional work stoppages and mass, fastings by the Nation’s Negroes were possibilities if the racial crisis in Alabama is not resolved. He said members of all races and faiths will be urged to Join with the Negro demonstrators. "Gandhi-Type” Movement Mr. Powell. Negro pastor of a 15.000-member New York con gregation. said the demonstra tion March 28 would be desig nated “National Deliverance Day of Prayer” and that no Negro of any age would attend school or work between 2 and 3 pun. A spokesman said this might be a forerunner to a possible “national Mahatma Gandhi type movement.” The late In dian leader made famous a pas sive resistance program of fast ing and nonviolent opposition to British rule. While plans for the work stop page were being made in New . York, Negroes walked the streets of Montgomery in a mass 24- hour pilgrimage to prove their j willingness to walk If necessary to carry on their 11-week-old boycott in protest against aegre gation on city buses. Ninety of them walked to the courthouse in Montgomery for arraignment on antlboycott in dictments returned by a grand jury Tuesday. All pleaded pot guilty and their trials were set to start March 19. A court officer said 10 more warrants were out standing. This brings the num ber of defendants to 100. Defense attorneys filed de murrers contesting the indict ments which charged violation of Alabama’s law against “ille gal;’ boycotting. Maximum pen alty under the law is six months iin jail and a 81.000 fine. Circuit Judge Eugene Carter withheld a ruling on the de ’murrers which said, in effect, that the State has failed to make out a rase even if the facts alleged in the indictments are I true. Folsom Gets Support At the State capital, Gov. James E. Folsom of Alabama won support from about 15 newspaper editors and publishers and radio and television broad casters for a proposed bi-racial commission to settle differences between the white and Negro races. Afterwards the Governor said: "Anybody with any sense knows that Negro children and white ’ children are not going to school ’ together in Alabama any time f in the near future ... in fact, riot in a long time.” At Charleston, S. C., Roy Wil ’ kins, executive secretary of the ' National Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People, ! termed the indictment of 100 ! Montgomery Negro leaders “the ! Soviet communism method." “Here we have the police j > knocking on doors and taking ' men away,” he told the Southeast * Regional Convention of the NAACP.” I Other Developments Other developments on the ■ segregation scene included: t BALTIMORE—About 300 min s isteis attending the Baltimore I and Washington conference of . the African Methodist Episcopal i Church protested what they I termed the “humiliation, arrest and persecution” of Negroes in r Montgomery. They adopted a ; —•— Christmas Finally Comes To Flood-Ravaged Town . YUBA CITY. Calif . Feb. 25 (^P). 1 —Two Santas are here today to 1 give the children of this flood ravaged town some of the be ■ lated cheer, and presents, they I missed when they had to flee the day before Christmas. About 1:30 am. December 24 , a Feather River levee broke at i nearby Shanghai Bend, letting in . a wall of water which smashed i hundreds of houses and flooded almost the entire town of 12,000. There wasn’t much warning i and when the waters finally went down 39 dead were found.. Six , teen thousand acres of farm land ■ south of town are still inundated, i “Santa Claus Rudely Awak * ened,” headlined the town weekly ■ as the two Jolly fellows in red arrived yesterday to start the i gift-giving at a carnival on the * main street. i But Gov. Goodwin J. Knight; got the greatest applause. That; Home Section Pages B-1 to B-12 WMAL—RADIO—TV 5 CENTS 'j I resolution calling on the Federal j I Government to “exhaust every effort to give relief to these citi zens whose civil rights have been violated.” NEW ORLEANS Catholic Action of the South, official newspaper of the archdiocese, declared in a front-page edi- j torial that Catholic members of the Louisiana Legislature who prepare bills to force segrega tion in private schools are sub ject to automatic excommunica tion if the laws are put into j TAMPA, FLA.—An unidenti -1 fled Negro who refused to move to the rear of a segregated bus assaulted the bus driver and then j fled from the crowded vehicle. The white bus driver. Perry Coker. 50, received facial lacera tions. CLAYTON. ALA—Nearly 300 residents of Barbour County or -1 ganized a white citizens' coun cil pledged to preserve racial segregation in the county, where Negroes outnumber white resi dents. I OXFORD. MlSS—Allen Eng lish, a Southern disc jockey for an Oxford radio station, said he to hire a plane and fly lover Chicago Monday dropping 25.000 Confederate battle flags. ’ Mr. English. 27. said he con ’ ceived the idea after Mississippi ■ born Disc Jockey A1 Benson, a > 48-year-old Negro, showered : copies of the United States Con : stitutton on Jackson, Miss., ’ Wednesday. Boy, 3, Strangled By Toy Balloon, Dies | OCEAN PARK, Calif.. Feb. 25 ! UP -Three-year-old Daniel Ro | mero died after he swallowed a | toy balloon while playing near his home yesterday. He ran to his father. Reuben Romero, and collapsed at his feet. Unaware of what was wrong, the father j took the child to a nearby doc tor’s office, where adrenalin was administered. A fire department inhalator squad, trying to resuscitate the boy, discovered the partly in flated balloon was lodged in his windpipe. The unconscious child was rushed to Santa Monica Emergency Hospital, where the balloon was removed surgically, but too late to save Daniel’s life. STUDENT STUDYING MANHOLE CASE FALLS IN MANHOLE Charles D. Atchlssion. of all people, fell into an open i manhole today. Mr. Atchission, 28. of 2025 | I street N.W.. was crossing Seventeenth street near G : street N.W. when he fell into the hole where coal was be ing delivered. A George Washington Uni versity law student and clerk I at U. S. District Court, he was on his way to the court to study a landmark decision among negligence cases. He pulled himself out of i| the hole and later was treat- j ed for cuts and bruises. At the court, sore and shaken, he settled down to study the decision with new found intensity. The decision dealt with the case of a woman who fell into a manhole. . was when he told the crowd of i several thousand, the State must build a giant dam on the river to control future floods. A million-dollar patch more than a mile long has been made i in the levee but the river still curls darkly by. Loudspeakers blared Christ , mas carols along with a tune i called "Reindeer Rock” as the I youngsters rode free on the fer- I ris wheel. Sixteen jets roared overhead. Entertainment from : Hollywood was promised for to . day, with three tons of toys being handed out. I Christmas in February was . inspired by the Inglewood • (Calif ) Lions Club, which first ■ started a toy drive. Then the I local Lions and almost everyone ■ |else in town took it up. i! The toys eventually came from as far away as New York, ■Chicago, Seattle. Vancouver, ;Ib. C. and Santa Barbara. Tornadoes And Dust Stir Havoc By tht Associated Pr*n Tornadoes in Illinois, tarngdl* , winds in Ohio and dust storms in the Southwest left at least , 12 dead and scores of injured today. Property damage was , heavy The twister struck with de structive force In at least four Southern Illinois communities ! across the Mississippi River from St. Louis. The known death toll was six. Several persons are reported missing. The num ber of Injured had not been determined immediately. Winds of tornadic force hit Hamilton, Southeastern Ohio ; jcity of about 60,000. Four per sons were reported injured. Dam -1 age was expected to run into thousands of dollars. * Three Cities Lashed > Severe thunderstorms and winds also lashed Cincinnati, ■ Dayton, Columbus and surround ! ing areas in Ohio. i Tornadoes hit Shelbyviile, i Martinsville, and Franklin in ■ South Central Indiana. Threg ’ suffered minor Injuries at Mar ■ tinsville. No deaths were re ported. > Severe thunderstorms and ■ tornadoes also were reported - during the night in Northeast I Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas. ■ In the Southwest, the season’s ■jworst dust storm blew out into the Gulf of Mexico after lashing ■ Eastern New Mexico. Oklahoma, ' West Texas and parts of Kansas. ! The howling “black blizzard” ’ fanned prairie fires, ripped off 5; roofs and killed six persons. Warnings were out for small • craft to stay in port along the • Gulf Coast as the storm whipped iup the waters. The storm *lao i spread its pall into Louisiana Skips Along River The tornadoes in Southern Illinois struck the towns of East St. Louis, Millstadt. Summerfield and Trenton as a storm moved into the area from the South . west. One twister skipped along 1 south of St. Louis along the ' Mississippi. Then it veered ; eastward along Highway 60 for .about five miles into the Sunt merfleld area. Several homes and farm build ; mgs were destroyed. In Summer field. where at least three were [ killed and seven Injured, 16/ ’ homes were leveled. There werft . no lights in the town of 400 , and the fire station and dll equipment were destroyed. |j Thirty airmen from the Scott [ See STORMS, Page A-t i Warning Issued For Small Craft In Nearby Waters Small craft warnings were posted in the lower Potomaa River and Chesapeake Bay day as 25-to-40-mile southwest erly winds blew in toward Wash ington. The Weather to day would be warmv with tem peratures near 70, lut that the wind will continue strong tonight and tomorrow, shifting to arrive from the northwest. There is a chance of scattered showers or thunderstorms this afternoon and early tonight, forecasters added. Tonight’s low reading is ex pected to be around 40 degrees. Tomorrow's forecast is cloudy and colder. The wind got up around 30 miles an hour in some sections this morning. It blew out a 9-b.v-10-foot plate-glass window ot the Meres Hairdresser Shop, 232 West Broad street. Falls Church, Va. No one was in jured. LUNCH AND LENT PROBLEM SOLVED LUNCH AT CHURCH—for 30 years, the Episcopal Church of tho Epiphany has offered cafeteria lunches for downtown businessmen and women attending mid-day services during Lent. Details of this popular prngram are explained on page A-6. EVERYBODY'S ORGANIZED—From 1 potato chip makers to atomic scien tists, from supermarket owners ts 1 pencil manufacturers, they're ell or ganised. And Washington increasingly is becoming their headquarters city. Read Robert J. Lewis' story about this 1 growing phenomenon. Story and pic tures on page- B-1. Guide for Readers . Amusements A-11 Lost, Found ...A-l ’ Churches -- A-6-9 Music A-9 . .Classified A-14-21 Obituary A-10 ! Comics B-10 Radio-TV „B 10 Cross-word ..B-IO Real Estate.. B-1.-9 j;Editorial A-4 Society A-14. j Edit'l Articles A-5 Sports ...A-12-13 Hove The Star Delivered to Your Home Daily and Sundoy Dial STarling 3-5000