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WEATHER FORECAST Partly cloudy, less cold tonight, low near 40. Milder tomorrow, some scattered show ers. (Pull repc.t on Page A-2.) Temperatures Today Midnight 31 Bam 26 11 am 45 2 am—29 8 am—3o Noon 49 4am 24 10 am 39 1 p.m 52 104th Year. No. 61. President Set To File Name In 2 Primaries 3 Rivals to Pick California Slate; Wisconsin List to Be Flown West By GOULD LINCOLN President Eisenhower, taking his first action as an avowed candidate for re-election, cleared the way today for entry of his name in the California and Wisconsin Republican primaries. Significant as a promotion of G. O. P. harmony, he named Vice President Nixon, Senate Republican Leader Knowland and California Gov. Goodwin J. Knight as a committee to select a slate of convention delegate candidates pledged to Mr. Eisenhower’s re nomination. { There have'been signs of personal rivalry among the three men in California politics; the President’s action, with their approval, as sures their.unity behind his can didacy. The President, at the same time, signed a certified list of pro-Eisenhower Wisconsin can didates for election as delegates to the Republican National Con vention to be held in San Fran cisco on August 20. Written Consent Required California and Wisconsin are among those States whose laws require written consent from the President before slates of con vention delegates can be entered for the Republican primaries in his name. The President’s name already has been entered in sev- j eral other State primaries whose laws do not require specific con sent. Press Secretary James C. Hag erty said Mr. Eisenhower signed the papers this morning “in or der to make it possible for the people in those two States to de cide whether they want him as the Republican nominee for: President." The deadline for his action in! regard to Wisconsin was 5 p.m.j tomorrow. The Wisconsin pri-' mary is set for April 3. The Cali- j fornia primary will be held Junei 5. Deadline for Mr. Eisenhower’s! action was March 7. Will Fly Candidate List j Mr. Hagerty said that Wiscon-j sin Republican Representatives | Byrnes, Davis and Laird —all on! the pro-Eisenhower delegate list certified by the President—plan to fly to Madison, Wis., tonight with the signed list and join others of the 30 delegate candi dates tomorrow afternoon in presenting it at the State Secre- 1 tary of State’s office there. The President launched his campaign for renomination and re-election with his address to the American people delivered from the White House last night It was heard by millions of voters. It will be followed by other television appearances at stra tegic moments. Anticipating the attacks which the Democrats al ready have started making on him as a “part-time” President, Mr. Eisenhower effectually dis closed his own confidence in his ability to carry on another four'! years. This may or may not slow i down the health issue which i Paul M. Butler, Democratic na- 1 tional chairman, raised yesterday immediately after the President! disclosed he would run for a sec-t ond term. Mr. Butler saici the American , people will never elect a Presi-:! dent who at 65 years of age had! j a serious heart attack andjs un able to be a full-time Chief Exec- ! utive. But Republicans today ( expressed a belief that Mr. Eis-:, enhower already has done much to take the sting out of such at-; tacks, and voiced confidence that! Continued on Page A-5, Col. l' Rhee Warns World On Communist Slogan SEOUL, Korea, Mar. 1 (JP). —[ President Syngman Rhee warned j! the free world today against “the Communist phrase ‘re laxation of tension’ because the 1 Communists themselves never practice it.” Mr. Rhee spoke to a huge crowd massed in the Seoul Stadium to celebrate the 37th 1 anniversary of the ‘‘declaration of independence” signed by a group of Korean patriots in 1 1919. The Japanese crushed the ■ movement. MAKE §tar YOUR FOOD SHOPPING GUIDE Today and every Thursday in the pages of The Star you will find the widest variety of top food volues at prices designed to stretch your budget dollar further. For oil your week end and week long grocery needs . for the biggest listing of food items, bargains and specials SHOP THE STAR FIRST BEFORE YOU BUY (She fhetring Mas Phone ST. 3-5000 ★★ Alaska Sights Soviet Balloons Joint Program Asked In Note to Moscow By JAMES E. ROPER The United States disclosed today that Soviet weather balloons have flown over Alaska. The revelation came in an ! American note to Moscow pro-t posing that the United States,! Soviet Union and any other In-1 terested governments work out a joint program for the use of balloons to gather weather In formation. The American note was in re ply to a Soviet message of Febru ary 18 renewing Communist | protests over the flight of j American balloons across Soviet ! territory. The Soviet note of February 18 also proposed that I Moscow be allowed to exhibit the American balloons in Washing-i | ton and European capitals to! demonstrate the Soviet conten tion that the American balloons were intended for espionage pur poses. Brushed Off By U. S. ! Today’s reply by the United States brushed off this sugges tion as propaganda. The American note said that at the time the Soviet govern ment was objecting to the tran sit of United States balloons over | the U. S. S. R., “its own balloons 'were passing over and landing on the territory of other coun tries.” “It is noteworthy,” the Amer ican note continued, “the Soviet balloons have flown over United States territory and that authen ticated reports have been received of the recovery of Soviet balloons on the territory of several coun tries including Japan, Turkey, Iran, Finland and Germany.” State Department Press Spokesman Lincoln White told reporters that the mention of Soviet balloons over American territory referred to Alaska. Mr. White said he did not know whether the Soviet bal loons carried photographic equipment such as those carried by some American balloons. Note Delivered in Moscow The American note delivered in Moscow today said: “There would appear to be no scientific or other reasonable | purpose which would be served by exhibits of the nature pro posed by the Soviet government. The United States Government can only assume that pursuit ofj this matter through exhibits or; other means would be for propa ganda ends apparently intended to exacerbate the international atmosphere. j “While perceiving no construc tive purpose in the type of ex i hibit proposed by the Soviet gov ernment, the United States Gov ernment, in order to promote progress in an area of interest to all governments, is willing to work out internationally through co-operative arrangements with the Soviet government and other | interested governments, a joint; program for the utilization of techniques and equipment, in cluding the type of balloons re ferred to in the Soviet note, which it (the United States) has developed In meteorological re search.” School Hit by Fire, Closes for One Day The 450 students of Seat Pleasant Elementary School,; Md., had an unexpected holiday ( today after an early morning , fire damaged the building. Flames burned cloakrooms on the first and second floors and damaged the roof of the Prince j Georges County school. The fire started before children arrived [ for classes. School was called off for the day, but classes were scheduled to resume tomorrow. Prince Georges County Fire Marshal Lawrence Woltz, esti mated damage to school supplies and the building at about i SIO,OOO. The probable cause, he said, was spontaneous combus tion. WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1956-SEVENTY-TWO PAGES. 5 I 1 fmm ml! AFTER THE ANNOUNCEMENT—Sequence pic tures made from an NBC monitor screen in New York show President Eisenhower in his White House office after his speech on the second-term decision. Impasse Stalls Lobbying Probe Deadlock Threatens To Stymie Inquiry By J. A. O’LEARY The Senate’s much-heralded broad lobby investigation by a bi-partisan eight-man commit tee was in danger today of dying before it gets started. Made up of four Democrats and four Republicans, it ran into an impasse at its first meet ing yesterday afternoon over rules of procedure to govern the Inquiry. One member said today he believes the investigation al ready has fallen apart, unless the Democratic and Republican leaders who proposed a bi partisan set-up step in and un tangle the controversey. Although it had been expected [the committee would elect Sena tor Gore, Democrat of Tennes see. as chairman and would begin planning the scope of the Inquiry yesterday, it held a 90- minute session without reaching any decisions Senators McClellan, Democrat of Arkansas, and Bridges, Re publican of New Hampshire, were delegated to inform, the press that the committee thought it advisable to define rules of procedure first, and that Sena tors Gore and Bridges had been named a subcommittee to do that. No Plans to Meet But it was learned today that those two Senators have no plans for a conference. Indications were that the inquiry may be at a standstill, unless Democratic Leader Johnson and Republican Leader Knowland take a hand.: Meanwhile, the separate George committee investigating I the activities of John M. Neff, an oil company attorney, in con nection with the natural gas bill. | is in recess until tomorrow. It ; heard conflicting testimony yes- 1 terday as to whether Mr. Neff: offered a $2,509 contribution to 1 the campaign of Senator Hicken looper, Republican of lowa. Mr. Neff’s offer of a $2,500 contribution to the campaign of Senator Case, Republican ofj South Dakota, touched off de mands for the proposed broad lobby inquiry. Senator Bridges told reporters the eight-man committee wanted See LOBBY, Page A-10 Legislator Is Fed Up With Ban; On Bcead in House Restaurant Man does not live by bread | alone but Representative Bur-! dick, Republican of North Da-j kota, is fed up with the bread-j less policy of the House restau-j rant. He complained today that the restaurant's refusal to serve j bread, free with meals is even less palatable than its practice of dishing out string beans with practically everything on the menu except ice cream. h This is not the first time the!: North Dakotan has been burned!: up about congressional eating facilities. He disclosed that he offered to have a grain elevator in his State send wheat to Washington to supply solons with the staff of life gratis at lunch in the Capitol. This might not "solve the Benson surplus wheat question but would be a national gesture in the right direction,” he said. But he was informed by the House restaurant manager, *he said, that this would cost too Broad Changes Asked In Civil Service System More Independence and Greater Power Urged for Commission by House Group By JOSEPH YOUNG The House Civil Service Committee today recommended sweeping changes In the Government’s Civil Service system. Chairman Murray declared the report was unanimously ap proved by the committee. He called it one of the most impor tant blueprints for strengthening civil service ever submitted by a committee of Congress. The committee’s major proposals were: 1. Replacement of the Civil Service Act of 1883 with a new: , law to give the Civil Service Commission more power and en forcement authority in dealing with agencies on personnel matters. More Independence 2. Greater Independence of action for the CSC through the establishment of six-year, over lapping terms of office for the three Civil Service Commission-. ers. The terms would be on a ! staggered basis, with the term of one commissioner expiring at the end of two years, one at the end of four years, and one at the! end of six years. At present the commissioners are appointed to indefinite terms and serve at the pleasure of the President, j Under the committee’s pro posal. the thre™ commissioners 1 would still be appointed by the; President and confirmed by Con-! gress. However, the committee proposed a requirement that at least one of the commissioners have previously served five or more years in the'classified civil - service. Present Policy Hit 3. Criticized the present pol icy whereby the CSC chairman is also chief personnel adyiser to the President. The committee declared that the commission chairmanship is a full time job in itself and that the chairman should not have any responsi bilities at the White House. 4. The commission be given complete independence of action and freedom from influence or domination by any other agency in Government. Its next re sponsibility should be directly to the President and the Congress. 5. The CSC should establish permanent re-employment lists of career employes who lose their Jobs in agency reduction in-force programs. When an agency undergoes a cut-back, other agencies in the area should freeze existing personnel vacan- ] 1| much for baking and also re- ( [quire the serving of butter. Banning of free bread in the i House restaurant, Mr. Burdick ■ [said he was told, resulted from ! [the conduct of some members of ( Congress who “used to come in 1 and order a cup of coffee, grab _ all the bread they wanted and ' not buy anything else.” Mr. Burdick said he could see , the manager’s point and also . the estimated $8,500 annual cost j of dispensing bread freely. But J he added that the argument! | seemed overdone. “If a Congressman filled up 1 on bread he would not be apt to buy any of the string beans,” he surmised. “If is too bad that because we might not eat string beans we cannot have bread.” Mr. Burdick announced he does 1 : not eat bread. While refusing to yield in his defense of the right; : of other House members to have it, he did not go so far as to suggest they patronise the Senate restaurant where rolla or corn > bread go with most meals. Behind him are (left to right) his wife, Mrs. Eisen hower’s sister, Mrs. Gordon Moore; their mother, Mrs. John S. Doud and Mrs. John Eisenhower, wife of the President’s son.—AP Wirephotos. ■ cies so that the displaced em-; f ployes may be hired. I 6. Simplify Classification Act procedures by reducing the pre sent 18,000 types of job classifl , cation titles and standards to about 800. , Rights Issues Review 7. The CSC should review thei ■ lack of appeals rights on per . sonnel matters for non-veteran! employes, such as are enjoyed | by veterans. The committee asked: ; the commission to stibmit to Con-! . gress proposed legislation for an , equal basis of appeals rights fori i veterans and non-veterans alike.; , 8. Establishment of a new . Board of Appeals to expedite ac tion on employe appeals. 9. New financing of the Civil Retirement System, whereby Con- I gress would appropriate futjds j for this purpose to individual agencies each year. The committee was extremely : critical of the Federal employes ■ security program, but refrained from making recommendations, for needed changes. It declared that such action should await! results of the current study be ing made by the Commission on Government Security. , The committee declared, how ever, that Congress never in- I tended that the arbitrary firing : procedures should be used in in stances involving non-loyalty! .type cases. Unless disloyalty or : i security of the country is in-; i volved. employe dismissals should : be handled under regular Civil Service procedures, the commit-! tee said. i Nehru Says He Asked ! Eisenhower to Visit ! NEW DELHI. Mar. 1 (/P)._ Prime Minister Nehru told a i questioner in the upper house , today that he wrote twice last ! year to President EisenHower urging him to visit India. Mr. Nehru said the President replied a visit would be difficult “owing to his heavy responsibil ities.” Foreign ministry and parlia mentary sources reported Mr j Nehru is anxious to have Presi-! dent and Mrs. Eisenhower tour! India. They said he wants to | show them that their welcome! would be as big as that given Soviet Premier Bulganin and Communist Party Boss Nikita! Khrushchev. j Trade Bill Rejected i MANILA. Mar. 1 (JP).—The Philippine House of Represents-: tives Commerce and Industry' Committee yesterday voted down! a proposed bill for establishing trade relations with Red China and Russia. | BULLETIN Moncure Bill Passed RICHMOND, Mar. 1 (Spe | cial)—The State Senate this afternoon passed and sent to the Governor the Moncnre Bill taking away Arlington’s rirht to elect its school board. The vote was 28-5. ’Flag Day’ Held By Red Cross 30-Day Fund Drive Opens in D. C. Area Running up a large flag sym bolic of mercy, the District Com ! missioners today proclaimed this “Red Cross Flag Day,” the start of the annual Red Cross ! campaign for members and ! funds. j In a ceremony at the District • Building, the Commissioners , 1 ' Picture on Page A-23 urged all citizens of the District to fly the Red Cross flag for 30 days, “signalizing the Red Cross theme of People Helping People.” The big flag was presented to Commissioner Samuei Spencer iby Charles H. Tompkins, chair man of the Washington area campaign, and Daniel W. Bell, chairman of the District Red ! Cross chapter. It will fly in front of the District Building through out the campaign. The month-long drive In the District and the six suburban chapters has a goal of $1,523,474. About 22,000 volunteer solicitors are taking part. 'The first report luncheon of the campaign will be held to morrow in the United States Chamber of Commerce Hall of Flags. Report luncheons will be held each Tuesday and Friday by dif ferent campaign divisions. These are the division quotas for the campaign: Government employes, $678.-j 914; general business. $381,413; residential, #127,500: downtown buildings and small business. $92,629; special events, $7,087;j Alexandria, $40,321; Arlington,: 1 $45,770: Fairfax, $41,955; Mont gomery, $67,564; Prince Georges, $35,962, and Prince William. $4,359. Pushbuttons Peril Health Os U. Dr. White Says By CHARLES G. BROOKS j The United States is “one ofj ! the unhealthiest countries in the ;world today,” Dr. Paul Dudley! White, heart consultant to Presi-1 dent Eisenhower, told a House [ Appropriations subcommittee in: testimony made public today. Dr. White pointed out that while coronary thrombosis is in | creasing in this country, two [noteworthy changes have taken [place in the American way of [living. He declared that “we now have; so many pushbuttons that we have stopped the use of our mus xles, and that may be more im- Iportant than anything else. ... I “Also,” he added, “our diet has become richer and richer. :We have increased the fat con i tent of our diet from 30 per cent ito over 40 per cent in these last 130 years.” [ Dr. White, who asserted thatj |the stress and strain of the! presidency was not the cause of I President Eisenhower’s arterio-; sclerosis, recalled that when he was a youngster “we used to t crank the ice cream freezer for; the Fourth of July; now we get, [ice cream two or three times a day in any drugstore. That is one indication of the change that has come." He added, however, that while these changes have occurred simultaneously with the increase in coronaries, it has not been Metropolitan Edition New York Markets, Pages C-6-7 WMAL—RADIO—TV Board Expels Negro Coed At Alabama Action Is Agreed On as Result Os Unproved 'Plot' Charges BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Mar. 1 (A*). —Autherine Lucy, Negro coed, today was expelled from the University of Alabama for unproved charges that school authorities conspired in mob action against her. There was no official announcement from the Board of Trustees, but members confirmed that the action was agreed upon at a meeting last night. They asked that their names not be used. The action came within hours after United States District Judge H. Hobart Grooms yesterday ordered the board to vacate an order excluding the 26-year-old Bir mingham woman from the campus for safety reasons. D. C. Gets New transit Plan j Would Buy CTC; Kampelman Out By HECTOR McLEAN Top District officials today turned down the application of one would-be private transit operator, and immediately were promised a new bid by another applicant. The District Commissioners and the Public Utilities Com mission rejected the bid of at torney Max M. Kampelman. He represents the new District Transit Co., and Minneapolis investors and bus operators whg want to run an all-bus system here when the operating fran chise and charter of Capital Trapsit Co. die by act of Con gress next August 14. After reporting this at a f House - Commerce Subcommit i tee hearing, the District officials . heard attorney Edward F. Colla day testify that he would sub mit to them Immediately three ; proposals to buy out the Capital i Transit Co. on behalf of Morris Fox and Louis Brodsky, owners of B. & F. Transportation Co., a Washington trucking firm. | To Consider Proposal i Chairman Oren Harris of the ■ subcommittee adjourned the hearings until further notice to ! let District officials consider the proposition. The hearing was the fifth in a series on the Com -1 missioners’ proposal to set up a [ Government authority to own ! and operate the transit system. A key element in the Colladay plan concerned willingness of , present CTC owners to sell. ’ After the hearing company rep resentatives would say only that ! the matter is being considered. Mr. Kampelman said, after re , jection of his application was announced, that he would carry ’ the case to Congress. He ; charged that the District offi cials involved are too emotional ly involved by their support of Government ownership to Judge fairly his proposal. Would Buy CTC Mr. Colladay said his clients were ready to buy Capital Trans !it stock at sl4 a share. He listed three different proposals. One is aimed at purchase of i the controlling stock interest owned by Florida multimillion- < aire Louis E. Wolfson and his associates. This, “through ar- > rangements now actively pending ' 1 See TRANSIT, Page A-10 i proved yet that they are causes !of the increase. j Researchers throughout the; country, though, have beenj j working on the theory that ex cessive blood fats in the circula tory system have something to jdo with hardening of the ar teries, particularly the heart arteries This, of course, makes the heart prone to a blood clot, or a bursting of a vessel, and subsequent damage to the heart. He pointed out that the Presi dent was in excellent apparent I physical condition when he ex amined him last August 1. He passed, he added, "with flying colors, electrocardiogram and everything. He was in excellent health the day before the at tack." Dr. White declared that only if dally electrocardiograms were to be taken of a person might it be possible to “catch a patient | who will have It.” I Dr. White declared that “hard work never killed any man, hard work both physical and mental. Most cardiacs not only can work, tbut should.” He declared that exercise is beneflcial to most persons and declared that “I have a suspicion that it may be protective of the coronary arteries, too.” Last night President Eisen hower told the Nation that work and exercise within limits were prescribed for him by his doctors. • 5 CENTS He gave the university until Monday to take the action re admitting her. Andrew Thomas, attorney for the university, was closeted with Judge Grooms in the judge’s chambers this morning, but de clined comment on reports that new legal steps are contem plated during the day. Coed Is ‘Shocked’ “I am shocked at this new turn of events,” said Miss Lucy in a statement this morning. “I ' have done all that I can. I was ' looking forward to returning to ; school. At this point there is ! nothing more that I can say.” Mrs. Ruby Hurley, southeast ern regional secretary for the i National Association for the Ad . vancement of Colored People, . said, “I wouldn’t say her state , ment means acceptance or non ! acceptance of the order. The J matter will be decided in con ( ference of the attorneys with 1 Miss Lucy.” 1 Thurgood Marshall, NAACP | chief tounsel. said he had no comment. He represented Miss ' Lucy at the hearing before Judge Grooms yesterday, i The NAACP has sponsored ■ Miss Lucy in hpr 2Vi -year legal i battle for admittance to the all ■ white university. Meanwhile, at Montgomery, : the House of Representatives 1 passed a resolution today that s would require Miss Lucy to tes s tify Monday before a legislative , committee investigating Com munist activity in Alabama. The resolution passed the House, 75 to 0, and was sent to ; the Senate. ' Cites Rise in Tension . Representative T. K. Selman . of Walker County, who mtro . duced the resolution, said "Ra . cial tension in Alabama has { mounted too fast in the last few months. I believe it is the work r - of Communists working through ’ the National Association for the ‘ Advancement of Colored Peo • pie.” The resolution would create a ' five-member committee in the • General Assembly with power to subpoena witnesses in an effort i to determine if the NAACP is "directed and controlled by Com munists.” In the Senate, unanimous voice approval was given to a resolution which would ask Con gress for Federal legislation to provide funds "to finance an apportionment of Negroes among the several Northern and Western States, areas where Negroes are wanted and can be assimilated.” At the start of the hearing before Judge Grooms yesterday Mr. Marshall was allowed to drop allegations that the trustees and university offi cials named as defendants had conspired with outsiders in mob rioting that drove Miss Lucy from the campus at Tuscaloosa February 6. Mr. Marshall told the court Continued on Page A-10, Col. 7 GONZAGA SENIOR TAKES ESSAY PRIZE STORY OF A STREET—Top win ner in The Stor'i annual essay con test is Gabriel G. Kajeckos. For moro obout Him, for the winning entry and for o run-down of oil prize winners see poge B-13. LOVING BUT ST R I C T—That's Joan Crawford's recipe for bringing up her four adopted children. The movit star folks about her youngsters in today's installment of her story on page B-3. OUR HUMAN WEAKNESS—Francis J. Garner reflects on the weakness of man and the forgiving nature of Jesus in "A Thought for Today" on poge A-29. WILL IS STILL AT IT-When it comes to an officer, Will Stockdalo sees nothing but brass—much to the discomfiture of Sergt. King. His latest adventure in the best-selling "No Time for Sergeants," appears today on The Star's Feature Poge, B-23. Guide for Readers Amusem'ts A-34-35 Financial --C-6-7 Classified B-IS-22 Music B-15 Comics B-26-27 Obituary .... A 26 Cross-word . 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