WEATHER FORECAST Fair, milder tonight, low 48. Partly cloudy and warmer tomorrow, high 75. (Full report on Page A-2.) Temperatures Today Midnight 52 Bam 45 11 a.m 58 2 a.m 48 8 a.m 49 Noon 62 4 am—4s 10 am.... 58 l p.m 62 104th Year. No. 146. Phone ST. 3-5000 ★★ Thousands Get Civil Service Job Security Career Status Given Those Hired During Korean War Period By JOSEfH YOUNG The Civil Service Commission today issued new regulations, effective July 1, which will give permanent career status to thou sands of Federal workers. The employes involved are those who have been filling posi tions vacated by workers who transferred to tne defense and security agencies during the Ko rean war and afterward. Since 1950 the employes who transferred to Federal jobs es sential to defense have had re employment rights to their old jobs and their replacements have been denied the right to career status and were subject to re placement at any time. The CSC’snew regulations end the re-employment rights for 'mployes who transferred to de fense agencies. These workers will have a period of six months in which to exercise their re employment rights. At the end of that time, their re-employ ment rights will be abolished. However, very few of these workers are expected to return to their old jobs, since most of them are making higher salaries in their present positions. In fact, that is why most of them transferred in the first place during the Korean war. Security for Thousands This will result in giving per manent job security to the thousands of employes who re placed them. Until now these employes have not been given any permanent claim to these jobs, nor have they been able to count their years of service in these positions towards secur ing career status. Under the new regulations, these employes will be allowed to count the years they spent in the jobs for career-status pur poses. This will result in career status for most of them, since it only requires three years of service to qualify *for career status and most of them have put at least that much time in the jobs. For those with less' than three years of service in the jobs, the time they already have spent will be counted‘to ward the three-year require- i ment. For those employes who al-j, ready had enough years of service 'j previous to the Korean war to , qualify for career status, the ! CSC’s new program will give , them permanent rights to the job in that they no longer will;, be subject to displacements. This ' protection against displacement' also will apply to employes re ceiving career status for the first time as a result of the new order. Standby Program Set Up The commission's new program also sets up a standby program In the event of critical emer gency situations. Employes will be allowed to transfer to defense and security agencies with re-employment rights if the CSC determines that the job they will fill is "immedi ately essential to the national! security.” Even then, the em-| ployes’ re-employment rights 1 will expire after two years. Until now, employes who had transferred to defense and re lated security bureaus had un limited re-employment rights, provided they lost their jobs in a reduction-in-force program. In its move to abolish these re-em ployment rights in six months’ time, the CSC is giving these em ployes the right to take their old jobs back whether they are laid off or whether they merely want to return to their old positions. The CSC said it expects very few of these workers to return to their old jobs, thus clearing the way for career status and much greater job security for the thousands of employes who have replaced them in their old Jobs since 1950. Dulles Plans Vacation By the Associated Press Secretary of State Dulles ar ranged today to spend the next 10 days at his island retreat in Lake Ontario. The State De partment disclosed that Mr. Dulles would leave Washing ton this afternoon and fly to Watertown, N. Y.. from where he will go to Duck Island. He will return to his office here June 4. DEADLINE 10 TONIGHT FOR PLACING YOUR WEEK END WANT ADS In the Big £>tar CLASSIFIED The deadline tonight far want adi to b« published in the Satur day or Sunday Star it 10 o’clock by telephone or 9 o’clock at the buiinoti counter in The Star lobby. If you have something to buy, trod* or Mil, got fast action by putting Woihington’o Stor iolei man to work for you. Coll STerling 3-5000 .djfe lor on ad-tnkrr * 1 , :jff- • Jfek- Hi ■•••■' v»-o*v •' -•' THE MIDDIE WAY —Annapolis.—Victim of custom, Tecumseh, the old fig urehead from the battleship Delaware, gets another dose of warpaint from midshipmen at the Naval Academy. He is painted every time Navy engages Army in athletic competition, which will happen five times tomorrow during June Week. Applying the colors are, left to right, Bert Melnick, 23, of 1300 North Adam street, Arlington; Richard Rodney, 19, of Rock Hill, S. C., and Hugh Bestick, 21, of Laurinburg, N. C. (Story on Page A-13.) —Star Staff Photo. Capitol Building Funds Boosted $27.8 Million OK'd By House Group The House Appropriations i Committee, in a mood to push [ahead with Capitol Hill construc tion projects, today recommended !an outlay of (27.8 million in the fiscal year beginning July 1 for the architect of the Capitol. | This is an increase of $16.1;, ; million over grants made for the I current fiscal year. Most of this is due to the desire of House leaders and the House member ship generally to keep rolling on projects for the legislative branch. Included in the bill, which is expected to come up for House j action next week, is an item of! $lO million toward the construc tion of the third House Office Building, for which a site has been acquired west of the present New House Office Building, and sl2 million additional for the [extension and rebuilding of the east front central section of the Capitol Building itself. SIOO Million Total The construction and remodel ing program is now estimated to cost a total of SIOO million, in cluding $64 million for the new House Office Building. Remodel ing of the old House Office Build ing will cost about $9 million and remodeling the present new House Office Building about $9.5 million. The newest office building will be four stories above ground with a multiple-level structure under ground ranging from three level? below the surface at the west end to five levels underground at the east end. It will provide underground parking accommo 'idations for between 1,800 and 2,000 automobiles. The structure will be built in an area bounded by South Capitol street on the [east. Independence avenue on the nprth, C street on the south' and First street on the west, i At the Capitol, the big plaza! now filled with automobiles [would be cleared and an under ground garage could be built to (take care of them, according'to! ;J. George Stewart, architect of ithe Capitol. Avenue Widening Deferred In regard to long-pending recommendations for widening of Independence avenue. Mr Stewart said it had been defi nitely decided by the House Office Building Commission that they want no action taken now. For the east front project Mr. Stewart and other officials nad asked for sl6 million but this was cut back by $4 million be- See CAPITOL, Page A-5 Wilson Aide Hails Far East Defenses MANILA, May 25 (/P).—United States Deputy Secretary of De fense Reuben B. Robertson, jr„ said today he is encouraged at the build-up of defenses against communism in the Far East. He called for continued Ameri can aid to the program. Mr. Robertson arrived from Saigon on the last leg of a tour of East Asian military installa tions of the United States and its allies. iEhe Ibraitw Sfar y J Vy WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION K^/ WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, MAY 25, 1956—SIXTY-FOUR PAGES. Deal to Buy Out Holdings Possible, Wolf son Says Promises Early Meeting With Bell On Capital Transit Proposal By HECTOR McLEAN Louis E. Wolfson has indicated it would be possible to work out a deal under which Capital Transit Co. might buy out his stockholdings by August 14. This was disclosed today by Representative Harris, chair man of the House Commerce subcommittee handling the. Washington transit crisis. He also is the ranking member of conferees who will meet with a Senate group Monday, when an attempt will be made to recon cile the widely divergent transit bills passed by the two houses iof Congress. Mr. Harris said his group had asked Mr. Wolfson for his re ; action to a plan proposed by j Daniel W. Bell under which CTC would buy out Mr. Wolfson, us ing the proceeds of a mortgage bond issue on company property. At the same time, the invest ment firm of Alex. Brown & Sons would promise to buy and try to resell all stock turned in by other stockholders at the same price paid to Mr. Wolfson. Mr. Wolfson’s letter said: “Mr. Bell, president of the American Security and Trust Co., Unable to Raises2s Bond, Boy Stays in Jail 6 Weeks An 18-year-old youth who i came to Washington to help sup- 1 port his family in Hemphill, W. j Va„ was released today after spending six weeks in District' Jail because he could not get $25 1 to pay his bond on traffic charges.. Municipal Court Judge George D. Neilson, who ordered the youth to jail on April 13 for failure to make SSOO bond on i charges of unreasonable speed rand failing to yield the right of way to a pedestrian, today re leased him on his personal bond. The youth, Charles Ray Rec tor. was charged after an acci dent April 13 at Nineteenth street* and Columbia road N.W., in which Mrs. Louise Howie. 64. of 2100 Connecticut avenue N.W, was injured. Mrs. Howie was admitted to Emergency Hospital with a fractured left leg and head injuries. She will be re leased in several days, the hos-: pltal said today. Young Rector told police he is one of 15 children in a coal-) mining family. His father is a disabled miner suffering from silicosis. The youth came here a year ago, found a job as a , soda fountain clerk and started sending money home. When he lost his job and could not pay his room rent, he moved in with a friend. He was driv ing a borrowed car when the I accident happened. On April 13. the case was con- Itlnued in Municipal Court be ,! cause Mrs. Howie was in the . hospital and could not appear, j Sympathetic policemen tried un successfully to find a friend to put up the $25 for young Rector's . bond. An investigation ordered to day by Judge Nellson disclosed > the youth had been a model prisoner both in police custody and the banking firm of Alex Brown 61 Sons, are both fully j and financially able to discharge any agreement that they may make. I “You have my personal assur . ance that either lor Mr. J. A. B. ■Broadwater (president of CTC' : will meet with Mr. Bell and his . associates at the earliest possible i time convenient to all parties . and endeavor to formalize a plan . that will be mutually satisfac i tory to Mr. Bell and his group i as well as the stockholders of • Capital Transit Co. “I concur with Mr. Bell that the stumbling, block preventing further movement on behalf of . either party is the lack of a See TRANSIT. Page A-8 and at the jail. In ordering him released on his personal bond, Judge Neilson continued the case to June 22. Police Pvt. Russell L. West. 1 who investigated the case, said today he would try to get the boy a room at the YMCA and find him a job in a drugstore. At the jail, he had no visitors. British Blueblood Party Troubled by Wet Guests LONDON, May 25 (/P).—River •police hovered anxiously around I \ today as champagne-inspired ; ■young British bluebloods cli ■ maxed a debutante party by egg -1 ing two guests to dive fully clothed into the Thames. | 1 The fun-loving Duke of Kent, ] 20-year-old cousin of Queen. Elizabeth 11, was one of the 300 revelers aboard the 190-toot mo ' torship Royal Princess. But he didn't take part in the swtm ijmlng. i The party off the picturesque . ' Chelsea section of London cele brated the social coming out ot 1 I Felicity and Penelope Drew 18- ( year-old twins who were pre l sented to the Queen in March. Young Kent—son of the Duch- ; ess of Kent—attended with a ■ pretty blond whom newsmen < could not identify. Champagne flowed even more I freely than the Thames, which I i is somewhat sluggish off Chelsea. I . The guests became gayer and ■ gayer. i i Midway through the celebra i tlon somebody cast off the moor ing lines and the boat began to . drift on the ebb tide. Skipper I Herbert Whincup hurried to the I bridge, started the engines and ’ brought his craft back to dock. Teach Science Abroad, i Eisenhower Proposes Army Payoff Charge Denied By Cap Maker Senate Probers Order Witness to Produce Records By CECIL HOLLAND A New York military cap maker today branded as "a lie"; sworn testimony that he received kickbacks allegedly to “pay un der the table” to Government personnel but refused to produce records to support his story. The manufacturer. Sol. O. Schlesinger of Lawrence, N. Y.,t pleaded his constitutional priv ilege under the Fifth Amend ment against producing the rec ords and said they might tend to incriminate him. He added that he was under an income tax investigation. Mr. Schlesinger was a witness before the Senate Investigating subcommittee which received testimony Wednesday that he had been given $27,745 in kick i backs on two 1950 contracts land said the money was to go 'to Government personnel. Records Are Ordered Chairman McClellan peremp-i torily ordered Mr. Schlesinger to produce his records at a hear ing next Tuesday. The Senator issued the direct order after the witness admitted that he had not brought any records in 'answer to a subcommittee sub poena. Mr. Schlesinger contended that the $27,745 he received by i six checks from the J. Mackey j Shoe Co., was for “returned 'damaged merchandise.” The ! Mackey firm supplied visors and chin straps for Air Force caps being made by the Id,eal Uni form Cap Co. owned by Mr. I Schlesinger. Mr. Schlesinger said, however, he had no specific records to show the amount of returned damaged goods because he had turned over the receipts to Miss .Jane Mackey of the shoe firm after he had received credit. At a hearing Wednesday Miss .Mackey said Mr. Schlesinger de manded the kickbacks and told her the money was to be used “to pay under the table” on the Government contracts. She flatly denied that the payments were for returned goods. Colonel at Hearing Mr. Schlesinger described as "a downright lie” and “utter false hood” testimony that he said the kickbacks were for payments to Col. Louis H. Shirley, of the 1 Army Quartermaster Corps. Col. Shirley, who was the of ficer who awarded the contracts to the Schlesinger firm, was an attentive listener at the hearing. He was scheduled to testify at the afternoon session. Subcommittee Counsel Robert Kennedy placed in the record an affidavit by Mrs. Marie O. Dor man, who was a bookkeeper for Mr. Schlesinger’s company. She swore that she had no knowledge ; of large quantities of goods being returned to the Mackey company and no knowledge of the checks that Mr. Schlesinger received. Mrs. Dorman’s affidavit also said she had no knowledge of a separate bank account Mr. i Schlesinger maintained at the Baldwin National Bank. Bald ! win, Long Island, in which the checks were deposited. Mr. Schlesinger said Mrs. Dor- Continued on Page A-5, Col. 3 More champagnp corks popped, then one guest, shouted. "How about a swim " A friend offered to bet him £5 (sl4> he wouldn't jump In. The guest took the bet, popped his bowler hat on his head and leaped off the bow end, yelling “The fiver is minp.'' A lifebelt was tossed to him and he was retrieved, still wear ing his bowler. A second guest then offered to jump in for 10 pounds. Annoyed at this inflationary trend, some of the other stags tossed him into the Thames. He was rescued by a passing vessel manned by British Sea Scouts. They ceremoniously piped him back aboard the Royal Prin cess amid cheers. At this point a police patrol boat arrived to Investigate and skipper Whincup said it might be a good idea if they stood by. Wealthy Mrs. H. M. Drew, mother of the twins, commented:, “Everybody seemed to have had a splendid time. I had no idea two men had jumped in the river until we were saying goodbye. Then when I shook hands, noticed they were ter ribly wet.’’ Stevenson Is Accused Os Aiding Big Business Kefauver, in Florida Talk, Mentions Retention by RCA in Monopoly Case By GOULD LINCOLN Star Stuff Correspondent TAMPA. May 25.—1 n the closing days of the Florida presidential preference campaign, Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee is trying to pin a big business label on Adlai Steven-, son, his active rival for Florida's 28 votes in the Democratic National Convention. Senator Kefauver developed this new line of attack in an address yesterday in Plant City. He called attention to the fact 1 that Mr. Stevenson was employed i last year by the Radio Corpora tion of America to argue its case J Stevenson Hits G. O. P. Arms Policy. I Poge A-7] in the Supreme Court against an j anti-trust action brought by the j United States. He said Mr., Stevenson has been strangely silent during the campaign on the growing concentration of | economic power in America and 1 its effect on individual initiative 1 and enterprise—to the detriment l of small business and industry. “I did noi mean to criticize a House Fight Due; On Housing Bill Rejection of Senate Figures Expected By J. A. O’LEARY The 1956 housing bill is on its way to the House today, where a fight is in prospect over the lib eral low-rent public housing pro gram the Senate approved yes terday. Senate Republicans failed. 41 to 38. to reduce the authorized number of public housing units from 135,000 to 35,000 a year for the next two years. But public housing always has faced an uphill road in the House, and this year is not ex pected to be any different. If the House goes along with the lower administration figures, the end result probably will be a compromise in conference. Interest Plan Defeated The Republicans also failed by a one-vote margin <4l to 40 > to raise the interest rate on Gov ernment loans for housing proj- ' ects on college campuses. They argued that the lower interest rate discourages private investors from co-operating on college projects and will tend to put the i whole job on the Government. The vote on the interest rate[ was so close both parties re sorted to parliamentary delaying! tactics to give absentees time to ] reach the chamber. On the first!; roll call the Republicans were i] ahead by one vote. But the Dem- i ocrats were more successful in i rounding up absentees and fin ally came out on top. The device , used to gain time for Senators ( who were en route to the cham- , ber was to have members arise | one by one and ask the chair how ] they were recorded. ,| Helps Older Persons 1 Highlights of the bill are: 1 1. A new section would help ' elderly persons to obtain better • housing, both through more lib- ( 1 eral FHA mortgage insurance and by making it easier for them ' to get in rental housing projects. ' Authorizes a special program of . 15,000 public housing units an- \ ! nually for five years for elderly ! persons in addition to the regu- [ lar public housing units. 2. Increases to $3 billion the , authorization for FHA insured , mortgages for the coming year. , 3. Extends FHA home-repair , loans for three years, with the; See HOUSING, Page A-8 Body of Woman Found in Closet CARSON CITY, Nev„ May 25 i/P).— I The body of a young blond woman, possibly garrotted, was found last night in a clothes closet of an apartment here. Identification was not immedi ately possible. Sheriff Lester Smith said the , apartment where the body was found formerly was occupied by a Carson City bartender. He asked authorities throughout the West to help locate the man, whom he named as William E. Boswell. Fingerprints were to be taken from the body to be compared with those taken from a motel room registered to a Mrs. Ann Harris Van Ryen. who sheriff Smith said is missing. Also [missing is Mrs. Van Ryne's 1953' station wagon. Mrs. Van Ryne's attorney, j Prince Hawkins of Reno, said her family is socially prominent in Philadelphia, but declined to name it. , Metropolitan Edition Ntw York Markets, Pages A-22-23 WMAL—RADIO—TV lawyer for representing any side in a law suit,” said Senator Ke fauver. "Mr. Stevenson's case was somewhat different. At the time he accepted the RCA re tainer he was titular head of the Democratic Party. What he said and did might well have been regarded as reflecting the views of the party and the direction it was going.” One of the main lines of at tack by the Democrats against President Eisenhower and his administration is that the Re publicans provide a government of, by and for big business. Sen- Continued on Page A-8, Col. 1 i LIGHT FROST NIPS < RURAL REGIONS , 48 DUE TONIGHT S j Unusually late frost ap- ! peared in Washington sub urbs early today as ther- , mometers hovered around ( freezing in some areas. The lowest temperature ] officially recorded for Wash- j ington was 43 degrees at 4:15 j < a.m. But a 28 was recorded , at Berryviile, Va., and frost was reported at Vienna, ( Winchester, Aldie ana An nandale. There were few re ports of crop damage. In New England, however, record-breaking low temper- ; atures were reported and there was millions of dollars' damage to fruit trees and vegetables. The Massachu- I setts loss was estimated at $5 million. The Weather Bureau pre dicted, however, that the un usually cool days are on the way out. It won t be quite so cool tonight, with a low around 48. Saturday will oc partly cloudy and slightly warmer, the bureau predicted (New England Crops Hit, Pg. A-21 ; U. 5., Reds Study Trading Visits The administration today ap- j patently has embarked on a . course of action which could lead to an exchange of Russian and American official visits on [ the highest level. The word “apparent” is neces sary. because the maneuvering over invitations was obscured by denials and deliberate confirma tory hints yesterday in the White House. Pentagon and State De partment.'Curiously enough, the most solid news of the exchange came from the usually silent i Soviet Embassy. This much was clear today: 1 Both the Soviet Union and the ] Government of the United States want to try out a small-scale;' exchange of official visitors. But further than that, Krem- 1 lin leaders Bulganin and Khru- i 'shchev have hinted they would i like to visit this country them-j] selves. President Eisenhower has indicated he would like to i see his old World War II “friend” | and correspondent, Soviet Mar shal Zhukov, come over. And the Joint Chiefs of Staff showed yesterday they would like to i visit Russia. If both nations are willing to make lower-level exchanges at this time, both obviously are willing to consider the top-level visits if all goes well with the initial experiments. | Soviet Being Prodded The key action yesterday was the indirect notification to Rus sia that the Joint Chiefs of Staff would probably accept an invi- : tation to inspect the 3ovict armed forces—if such an invi tation is forthcoming. The' matter was handled in ; such away as to leave no doubt that the Soviet government was, being prodded to bid the ameri ' can military high command to visit Moscow and tour the coun try. The unusual affair was han dled by the White House and the I Defense Department. Th*- state I Department remained—perhaps i skeptically—silent. Gordon Gray, Assistant Secie ijUrjr of Defense, reportedly went i : over the matter with Unde; sec-' retary of State Herbert Hoover, 1 ■jr., at a luncheon meeting. The White House's contribu tion was a remark by Assistant , Press Secretary Murray Snyder [ Continued on Page A-S, Col, 1: 5 CENTS Asks Schools To Instruct Free Nations WACO. Tex., May 25 (/P). — President Eisenhower, terming communism essentially “a gi gantic failure." today urged America’s great universities to help provide needy free nations with modern science education centers in a “dynamic" move to promote world peace. The President also sounded a strong new appeal for a Euro- Partiol Text of President’s Speech ot Baylor University. Page A-11 pean union. He declared it “seems nearer today than at any time in centuries" and would amount to “a mighty pillar of free strength in the modern world.” He added: '"A free United States of Eu ; rope would be strong in the skills of its people, adequately endowed with material resources and rich in their common cultural and ar tistic heritage. It would be a highly prosperous community.” Says U. S. Must Help In a foreign policy address de livered in connection with Baylor ! University commencement exer icises, Mr. Eisenhower hammered at the idea of need for free world co-operation in the struggle against communism—and at the idea of need for the United States to play a leading role in providing help. In what seemed to be a plea for congressional enactment of the administration's $4,908,000,- 000 foreign aid program, the President spoke out against be ing “penny wise" in that field, saying it could lead "only to greater risk and greater cost.” About 12,000 persons were at James Connally. Air Force Base when the presidential plane Co lumbine landed at 11:04 a.m. EDT. The official welcoming committee included Gov. Allan Shivers, a Democrat who sup ported Mr. Eisenhower in 1952, and Jack Porter, Texas G. O. P. national committeeman. Warns of Red Threat Speaking in the big Heart O’ Texas Coliseum in his native State, the President said in his speech, nationally televised on the Columbia Broadcasting Sys tem: “Today a militant, aggressive communistic doctrine is domi nant over much of the world's surface and over hundreds of millions of the world's people.” He called communism "cruel, intolerant, atheistic . . , com mitted to conquest by lure, in timidation and force.” and added it “poses a threat from which even this mighty Nation is not immune.” The President flew here from Washington this morning for his address and to accept his 38th honorary degree, this one a doc torate of laws. Mr. Eisenhower's proposal that American universities set up sci ence education centers in needy free nations was set forth in See EISENHOWER. Page A-5 Mysterious Blast \ Kills Chicago Man \ CHICAGO. May 25 UP).— A man was killed today in a mys terious blast of a bomb or other high explosive he walked in a North Side street. Police said the victim's body was blown at least 10 feet from the point of the explosion. The body was found lying down on the sidewalk in a pool of blood near 1252 Catalpa avenue. Both legs were torn off by the blast. Police theorized that the man may have been carrying the ex plosive and it exploded acciden tally or prematurely if it had been a time bomb. Papers found in the victim's pockets bore the name C. W. •or Mike i Campbell, 58, of a South Side address, some 20 miles from the scene. A car listed under Campbell's name was parked across the street from the spot where the man's body was found. 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