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EVERYTHING FINE UNTIL FEEDING TIME
MARYVILLE, TENN.— A hen owned by Blake Graham, a Maryville farmer,
chased off the mother of these pups and took over their care. Everything was
fine until feeding time, as the pups had little use for fresh eggs. Mr. Graham
ruled that they should go back to their mother Brownie shortly after the pic
ture was taken.—AP Wirephoto.
Hurricane Sam 'Killed'
As Pilot-Ejector Flops
By CHARLES J. YARBROUGH
Slat Staff Correspondent
CEDAR CITY Utah, May 26.—They rocketed a man-sized
dummy off a 1,500-foot cliff here yesterday at 612 miles an hour
In new research to save the lives of supersonic pilots.
His parachute failed to open and Hurricane Sam, the elec
tronics-filled dummy, smashed to pieces.
Most eloquent mourner at his rocky bier today was one of
the Nation's top test pilots. Bill
Bridgeman. of Douglas Aircraft,
who has flown over twice the
speed of sound but no one has
yet admitted how much more.
“Same Old Story”
"It's the same old story,” Mr.
Bridgeman snorted. “I’ve seen'
the counterparts of Hurricane
6am killed seven or eight times.
"Protection of the pilot is 500
times behind the progress of the
airplane, The research is not
going fast enough to keep up.
“They should turn such things
over to private industry to get
something done. When there is
a malfunction—fire somebody!”
Mr. Bridgeman and North
American Test Pilot George
Smith, only man to survive a
supersonic bail-out, were among
some 100 persons watching the
first press showing of Project
SMART—Supersonic Military Air
Research Track.
Newest Rocket Sled
The project, built and operated
for the Air Research Develop
ment Command, is the newest
rocket sled test track facility in
existence.
Located atop Hurricane Mesa.
15 miles from Zion National
Park, in Southwestern Nevada,
the project was built and put
into operation in about a year.
The tests now under way in
volve the observation of trajec
tories, blast effects and related
characteristics on full-scale
escape components as they
hurtle over the cliff.
Yesterday’s was the 39th test
run on the 12,000-foot track
which extends across the table
top—a 3* 2 -mile-long plateau
which ends abruptly at its 1,-1
500-foot escarpment.
Third in Series
The test fired was not a spe
cial demonstration for benefit of
the press, but was the third in
a series of 10 designed to eval
uate the structure of an P-86
seat ejection system.
A rocket-propelled sled with
TODAY'S WEATHER REPORT
District and vicinity—Pair to
night with low about 56. Partly
cloudy, warmer and more humid
tomorrow, high about 82.
Maryland—Generally fair to
night, low 53-57. Partly cloudy
and warmer tomorrow with
chance of showers or thunder
showers in the mountains in
afternoon.
Virginia—Fair with lowest in
50s tonight. Partly cloudy, warm
er and more humid tomorrow
with possibility of scattered
showers in western portion.
□s "«• [ U.S. |WMTHt« HJUAU I
WEATHER BUREAU FORECAST—The Central third of the
Nation will have showers and thundershowers tonight,
with a few scattered showers in the Pacific Northwest and
over the Great Lakes. It will be partly cloudy or clear over I
Florida and Northern New England, and mostly cloudy
elsewhere. It will be warmer along the Eastern Seaboard
and Texas Gulf Coast, and colder In Western Nebraska
AP Wlrephoto Map.
the dummy picked up a velocity
of 612 miles an hour in less than
3,000 feet, ejected the dummy
and then was halted by reverse
firing rockets and cable gear.
Top speeds thus far reached
have exceeded 1,000 miles an
hour. They are trying for twice
' the speed of sound, or roughly
1,500 miles an hour at this alti
-1 ture of 5.100 feet.
They could ascribe no causa
' for Hurricane Sam’s “death” im
mediately after the parachute
1 failure.
That is one of the reasons for
< testing. !
False Ads Charged
To Food Concern
( The Federal Trade Commis
• sion yesterday accused the Re
naire Corp. of falsely advertising
that its plan of purchasing food
and freezers saves housewives
money.
The Renaire enterprise is a
combination of 11 corporations,
the FTC said, and operates pri
marily in Washington, Mary
land, Pennsylvania, Delaware and
i New Jersey.
J. E. Hecht, vice president of
the Renaire Corp. of Washing
ton, said he had not been in
formed* of the complaint and
could not understand it. "Any-!
thing we claim we do, we do,”(
he said.
Renaire customers do not get
food at wholesale, the commis
( sion asserted. This is one of 12
advertising claims which the
.commission charges are false
(and misleading. In no case, the
commission said, “would sav
ings over a reasonable length of
’ time 'pay for a TV set, remodel
i a home, pay for a vacation, buy
an automobile or pay for a
I freezer.' ”
A hearing on the charges was
i set for July 17.
Winds—Southerly winds 15-20;
’ miles per hour tonight and to- 1
I morrow. Good visibility.
■lT«r Itpm I
(From U 8 Entlnecrsi
, Potomac Rtvrr dear at Harpers Ferry
and clear at Great Palls; Shenandoah 1
clear at Harnera Ferry. t
Temperatures (or Yesterdav
ißeddlnf Washintson National Airport) .
i Midnight 02 Noon 82 ;
1 4 a.m. 45 4 p.m H 5 j
S S.m. 41) 8 p.m. 51
Record Temperatares This Year
Highest 93. on May t:t and 14.
Lowest SO on January 24. 28 and
February 22
Hlab and Low of Last 21 Houra
I Huh, K 5 at 5:05 pm.
Low. 4.T, at 5:15 am.
Heart Is Stopped
By Electric Shock
During Surgery
NEW YORK. May 26 UP).—A
group of Brooklyn surgeons say
they have used a jolt of electric
ity to halt an 11-year-old girl’s
heart during an operation.
The surgeons at the State Uni
versity of New York College of
Medicine announced yesterday
that lt was the first successful
use of the electric current tech
nique in this country.
Michele Lauer of Brooklyn was
operated on a month ago to sew
uf> a hole in an inner wall of her
heart. A dry and quiet heart
was needed for the job.
Surgeons therefore employed
a mechanical heart-lung ma
chine to by-pass the heart for
an hour. They used a low volt
age electric shock to halt her
heart and a high voltage jolt to
start it pumping again 30 min
utes later.
Michele, recovered from the
operation, went home yesterday.
Good Samaritan
Slashed by Driver
What was intended to be a
good turn proffered a fellow
motorist in distress was met last
night by a slashing attack with
some sort of a sharp-bladed
weapon, Washington police re
ported.
Ray Absher, 36, of the 900
block of Sligo avenue. Silver
Spring, is in Casualty Hospital
as a result. He is being treated
for cuts on the head, arms,
! shoulders and back.
He told police he stopped his
car to help a motorist apparently
stalled at Seventh and I streets
N.E. As he approached the car
on foot, he said, the other driver
! jumped out and attacked him.
He described his assailant as a
slender colored man, about 23
years old.
Communion Breakfast
Representative Quigley of
Pennsylvania will speak tomor
row at the St. Agnes parish
Holy Name Society’s annual
communion breakfast. Members
will meet after the 7:30 a.m.
mass at the Family Tea House.
4050 Lee highway. Cherry
dale, Va.
Tlda Tahiti
I 'Furnishfrt by the Unlttd Suits Coast
»nd Geodetic Survey)
Today tomorrow!
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i™ 9:2$ pm IO:Oi om
Low 4:05 pm. 4;lipm
The Saw and Moon
J Rise* Sets
!“*>■ today 4:4? a.m. 7:24 p.m.
», u .2.'..V > U , i rrow 4:4)1 a m 7:24 p.m.
Moon.* today »:15p m 8 10am
A“ ,o ,m°b' | e llthta must bt turned on
ont>hal( hour after sunset
Precipitation
WbbJPKatlop In Inchee in the
Capital (current month to datei
j '-onth 1056 1955 AVI Record
January 1.00 n. 31 .7.24 7.83 -;tT
February 282 It 71 2.44 8.84 'B4
March 3.57 3.70 3.08 8.84 ’til
April 2,110 .2.57 3.0)1 0)3 'BO
May ,«7 338 hum moo '53
<!®!» - 2-70 3.41 111.04 00
July 2.33 t2H 10.03 ’Bt,
: August . ... 14411 4.7.1 14 41 -28
September ... O.OS 4.12 17,45 214
October . ... 0 4(1 2.85 881 217
November ... 1.03 2.73 7.18 '77
December 022 2.81 750 'Ol
Temperatures In Vmrlotis Cities
Abilene nil no Little Rock T'i 03
Albany oi 4n Los Angeles 05 50
Albuquerque 88 oo LouUvllie 75 50
M anta 0, 57 Memphis To oil
Atlantic City 50 52 Miami 83 on
Baltimore 02 45 Milwaukee o: 54
Billings 77 55 Minneapolis OT 51
Birmingham 70 Mr New Orleans 80 08
Bismarck 78 5o New York HI 40
Boise ?! 54 Norfolk 03 48
Boston 03 45 Okla City 70 Ml
Burlington 4|i .14 Omaha 73 50
charleston ?ii M7 Philadelphia 05 48
Charlotte 75 50 Phnenls nt oil
Chevenne 74 4? Pittsburgh 05 45
Chicago „ 74 58 P'tland. Me 55 38
Cincinnati 72 55 P'tland. Ore 74 54
Cleveland o? 48 Raleigh ?n 44
Columbus 71 so Reno 73 45
Denver £8 51 Richmond o? 45
Des Moines 73 58 St. Louis ?ti on
, Detroit 04 50 S Lake City Bti Art
fiHiH’S. .v 50 IV 2** n Antonio 02 72
Fort Worth tu ft Ban Diego 04 00
Houaton 88 On 8 Francisco 74 52
Huron 8] oi Savannah 71 03
tndianapollt 70 53 Seattle 70 s*t
ltec.tr ??« Wrgton KW
88 57 W,ChJU 65 ■*!
Gen. Clark and Rivers
Hit High Court and U. N.
CHARLESTON, 8. C.. May 26 VP).—Gen Mark W. Clark and
Representative Rivers, Democrat of South Carolina, last night
criticized the Supreme Court, the United Nations the United
States foreign policy and former President Truman.
The two spoke at the annual banquet of National Sojourners,
Masonic military group in convention here.
Gen. Clark lashed out at “efforts to change the intent and;
meaning of our great Constitu-, |
tion,” declared himself an im
plicit believer in States rights
and charged “too much concen
tration of authority and power
in Washington."
Mr. Rivers said:
"I believe the Supreme Court
of the United States has gone
completely crazy.”
Must Be Stopped
"Somebody has got to stop
them,” Mr. Rivers asserted.
“When people with no ax to
grind, people like Gen. Clark
'speak out, it’s time for the rest
of us to sit up and take notice ”
On the subject of the United
Nations, Gen. Clark said, “There
should be more United States i
(Days and fewer United Nations ;
Days, in my opinion.”
Mr. Rivers drew applause by
stating, “I have a special dislike
for the U. N. and the quicker we
get out of it the better we’ll be.”
i Both speakers warned against
: a foreign policy of appeasement
|,and both warned of the desire of
11 the Communists for complete
world domination,
i Mr. Rivers called for the cutoff
Mother Kills
Her 3 Children
■ LAKE WALES, Fla., Map 26
'A 5 )- —A mother killed her three
; children one by one yesterday,
I then tucked them into their
small beds and shot herself twice.
She is in critical condition in a
hospital.
Mrs. Lorene Calbeck, 34. was
found on the floor of her large,
well-furnished late model trail
er. The bodies of her three
children lay inches away.
Patrolman S. D. Bretton said
Mrs. Calbeck, described as a
“model mother” by some of her
neighbors, said she killed Shir
ley, 5: Pamela, 3, and 15-month
old Jan.
But she gave no reason. Three
notes she had written shed no
light. One of the notes was
dated April 20.
Police Chief Tom Petty and
, other officers tried yesterday to
question Mrs. Calbeck but she
had been given sedatives and
could not talk. They planned to
try again today.
Mrs. Calbeck killed the chil
dren by firing four pistol bullets
into the region of their hearts.
Mrs. Calbeck s husband, Mark,
Who is employed as a steel
worker at Sault Ste. Marie,
Mich., arrived here last night.
Relatives who accompanied him
said his wife had written two
|days ago and that “everything
seemed all right then.”
After the shooting Mrs. Cal
beck told Patrolman S. D. Bret
ton : “I did the shooting of the
children all by myself.” She
then said, “I don’t want to talk
about it any more.” and kept
silent.
Bridge Linking
Turnpikes Open
EDGELY, Pa.. May 26 UP).—
Traffic has begun flowing over
a new $25 million bridge across
the Delaware River, linking the
Pennsylvania and New Jersey
turnpikes and opening a toll
road system extending to the
Ohio-Indiana border.
The throughway system was
1 completed formally with a cere
mony yesterday in the center
of the big span. Govs. George
M Leader of Pennsylvania and
Robert Meyner of New Jersey
met at mid-bridge and shook
hands before the first automobile ;
crossed over
The traditional ribbon-cutting
ceremony was reversed. Instead,
the two Governors tied two rib
bon ends together to signify the
linkup of the turnpike system.
Industrial Leaders Present
The ceremony was attended
also by top officials of both
States as well as industrial lead
ers, who have eagerly awaited
i the bridge as a boon to the ex
pansion plans of the Delaware
Valley.
The new bridge is close to the
(vast Fairless Works of the United
(States Steel Corp. and its center
ispan provides plenty of room for
large shipping to pass through.
The linkup of the Ohio, Penn
sylvania and New Jersey turn
pikes provides uninterupted mo
toring for 719 miles. The dedica
tion of the Indiana toll road next!
year will extend the system al
most to Chicago.
Two States Share Cost
The mile-long bridge, contain
ing 20.000 tons of steel, was fin
ished under rush orders in 14
months. Pennsylvania and New
Jersey shared the cost. The two
States now have spent $713 mil
lion on their turnpike systems.
An estimated 10,000 cars are
expected to use the new bridge:
dally. The new roadway will cut'
about two hours off the driving
time from the Valley Forge in
terchange north of Philadelphia
to the New Jersey turnpike.
Drivers formerly had to pass
through Philadelphia’s heavy
traffic.
Fifth Mrs. Hearst Sues
For Maintenance
SANTA MONICA. Calif., May
26 VP). Publishing executive!
George Randolph Hearst, 51. eld-;
est son of the late William Ran
dolph Hearst. is being sued for
separate maintenance by his fifth
wife.
Mrs. Collette Lyons Hearst, 41,
a former actress, alleged extreme
cruelty and grievous mental suf
fering in the complaint filed in
(Superior Court yesterday. They
|were married in 1952.
I
of foreign aid and channeling of,
the money to the military. “You
ican’t buy friends with the Amer
ican dollar,” he declared.
i >
| Backs Gen. MacArthur
Os the Korean war “We didn’t
try to win,” Gen. Clark said,
“That was no way to fight a war
—Gen. MacArthur was 100 per
cent correct.” (Gen. MacArthur
favored bombing Red Chinese
bases in Manchuria.)
Mr. Rivers agreed, declaring!
Mr. Truman's firing of Gen.i
MacArthur was “one of the dark-!
est pages in American history."
He continued: “I don’t know
whether Truman after that can
Ibe trusted to properly evaluate
a situation and I speak now of
Salerno and Anzio.
“If Truman was referring to
people like Gen. Clark, I know
which one was squirrel-headed.”
Mr. Rivers evidently referred
to recent news stories quoting
Mr. Truman as saying the Anzio
and Salerno landings in Italy in
World War II were planned by
some “squirrel-headed general."
Mr. Truman said he was mis
Britons Praise
President's Plan
i
LONDON. May 26 f^ s).—Presi
dent Eisenhower’s "schools forj
peace” plan was enthusiastically!
welcomed today by two big
I * ,
British newspapers and was,
given wide front-page display by j
other papers.
In a speech at Waco, Tex.,
yesterday Mr. Eisenhower sug-i
gested that private foundations
and American universities join
in helping the free nations an
swer their educational needs by
establishing science and cultural
centers to promote world peace
Commenting on the speech,
the liberal News Chronical
stated:
"The Marshall plan helped to
set Europe on her feet economi
cally. The Eisenhower plan takes
a broader step » the field of
science, not as a charity but to
draw the non-Communist na-j
tlons forward together in sicen
tific progress.
“It is now common knowledge
that the new Communist offen
sive is based on Russia’s tech-!
nological skills, her immense
drive to produce an invincible
army of scientists. The Eisen
hower plan, if met in the spirit!
in which it is offered, could sup-'
ply the urgently needed answer.”;
Said the conservative Daily
Telegraph:
“His (President Eisenhower's) \
plan is bold and imaginative and
like all such plans is essentially
simple. It is based upon the
assumption that neither arms
not material prosperity are suf
ficient to win cold wars or com
petitions in co-existence.
“ It is in the world of ideas
and of the latest scientific tech- :
niques that the battle against
communism must ultimately be
fought and won.”
Polio Plane Passengers
Advised to Get Shots
Twenty-two passengers who'
flew from Baltimore to Pitts-!
burgh by Capital Airlines plane
Thursday night were advised
today to take antipolio shots.
This was described as purely
a precautionary measure. Active
polio virus had been spilled In
the plane when a virus shipment
to Johns Hopkins Hospital In
Baltimore was dropped in the
plane in Washington.
The plane carried no passen
gers from Washington to Bal
timore. At Baltimore's Inter
national Friendship Airport the;
22 passengers were taken aboard
for Pittsburgh and the crate!
containing the virus was re
moved and found to be leaking.
At Pittsburgh steps were taken
to decontaminate the plane and
it was returned to service. But
yesterday it was removed from
[Service at Flint. Mich., and wasj
ordered back to Washington for!
a check by Public Health Serv
ice inspectors.
Meanwhile crew members and
.those Involved In handling the
'virus, 19 in all, were given in
jections of gamma globulin as a
(precaution against polio.
The 2i passengers were urged
to take similar injections in what
was described by airline officials
as an abundance of caution.
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One-Time Scout
Named to Head
National Group
CINCINNATI. May 26 UP).—
(Kenneth K. Bechtel of San
Francisco yesterday became the
first one-time Boy Scout to be
elected president of the Na
tional Council of the organiza
tion.
Mr. Bechtel is the eighth pres
ident of the organization, which
is holding its 46th convention
(sere. Previous presidents were
not Scouts in their youth.
Mr. Bechtel succeds John M.
jSchiff of Oyster Bay. N. Y„
president since 1951. Mr. Schiff
iwas made an honorary vicepres-
I ldent.
Norton N. Clapp of Seattle,
Wash., was elected a vice pres
ident and Gerald F. Beal of
New York became treasurer.
President Eisenhower, who
earlier yesterday saluted the Boy
Scouts and/ their leaders in a
telegram, was re-elected honor
ary president.
The President said “never hasj
there been a greater need to'
train youth in citizenship and'
character and physical fitness.’
Sex-Case Principal
Surrenders Here
Roscoe Evans, colored, re
signed junior high school prin
cipal accused of committing an
indecent act with a minor boy.
surrendered to Washington
i police today.
j Arraigned before Municipal
Judge John J. Maloy, Evans
pleaded not guilty, waived pre
liminary hearing and was held
(for the grand jury under $2,500
bond.
ij His lawyer. John H. Wilson,
said the former head of Shaw
(Junior High had been in Wash
ington for some time.
' The principals resignation
becomes effective July 1. He has
been on leave.
i The warrant charges him with
an indecency involving a colored
pupil, 15. Police said Evans. 54,
allegedly committed several such
acts in the lavatory of his school
office just before the last Easter
holidays.
Detectives had earlier infor
mation that Evans was in a hos
pital in Philadelphia. They were
! promised that he would sur
render today.
The warrant is based on the
Miller Act. Conviction of the
felony is punishable by up to
10 years in prison.
Retirement Review
Will Honor Nine
Nine Army men will be hon
ored in a retirement review at
4 p.m. tomorrow at Fort Myer.
i The 3d (Old Guard) Infantry
i Regiment will pass in review led
by Lt. Col. Keith P. Fabianich.
executive officer.
Those retiring are:
Col. Charles G. Peterson, Office
of the Chief of Transportation;
Col. William K. Wilemon, Lt.
Col. Welma G. Wiehe and Lt.
Col. Francis J. Grogan. Walter
Reed Hospital; Maj. John S.
Bonkowski, Office of the Chief
of Ordnance; Maj. Prince H.
Danley, Office of the Chief of
Ordnance; Capt. William B.
Southwick and Maj. Ralph J
Wyman, Walter Reed Hospital,
and M Sergt. Murray W. Wol
gamott, Fort Belvoir.
Airline officials said all com
petent authorities consulted
agreed the passengers had been
in no danger. But Dr. Ludwig
Lederer, the airline’s medical di
rector, decided the passengers
should be reached by telephone
and the situation should be ex
plained to them. This was after
consultation with the office of Dr.
Jonas Salk, developer of the Salk
antipolio vaccine, and with Pub
lic Health Service officials.
Airline officials said they had
also started notifying 124 per
sons who were passengers on the
plane after the decontamination
operation at Pittsburgh and until
!it was taken out of service. They
t had been on flights between
I Washington and Norfolk and re
turn, and then to Pittsburgh,
( Cleveland. Detroit and Flint,
j. These passengers were being told
.(it was not believed they were in
. any danger.
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EN, HAM, SEAFOODS, LOBSTER. Cham
i pagna Corktotlt, win**, b**r. Dinner
j "On* $1.50; lunch from 75c. Air-con
ditioned. Free porking Closed Mon
-5 day 555 So. Wash. St., Alox., Va.
ICI. 9 4555.
Pardee. Banquets. Reception!
Duke of Kent Up on Roof|
Tossing Off Champagne
LONDON. May Yd VP).—Out
of the cold gray dawn over May
fair came a downpour—of cham
pagne.
And who was pouring it down?
None other than his royal high-
Uess the Duke of Kent. 20,-year
old cousin of Queen Elizabeth .H
land bright new star of the social
firmament.
The lanky duke, reportedly was
leading 17-year-old Penelope
id’Erlanger on a quiet stroll on a
rooftop 40 feet above Curzon
street. They were balancing on
a ledge 12 inches wide.
In his hand, according to com
petent observers, was a cham
pagne glass. He drained half
the glass and. it is reported,
flung the rest in the street.
The Idea caught on fast with
fellow guests at the debutante
party. Soon a Niagara of bubbly
was cascading on the street and
on any citizens who happened
to be passing
“It went on and on.” said
Marika Hopkinson, another 17- ,
year-old whom the duke escorted
to the party.
“A lot of people started com- i
plaining and got pretty annoyed.!
(But really it was all jolly good i
Ifun.”
Freed Youth's Victim
Released by Hospital
I The pedestrian struck by a car driven by the 18-vear-old
; boy who spent six weeks in jail for lack of $25 tp make bond on
traffic charges has also won her release.
Mrs. Louise Howie, 64. who received a fractured left leg in
the accident on April 13 was sent home today.
For Mrs. Howie the incident was the fourth time she has
been involved in an automobile
| accident. It was the second time
(she has been struck by a car,
according to relatives here.
Mrs. Howie, a widow, has
lived in Washington for the last
'2O years. She has held secre
tarial jobs from time to time
with the United States Chamber:
of Commerce and the Women’s
Home Economics Association.
Her husband was the late Dr.
Eugene Howls of Raleigh. N C.
She is a resident of 2100 Con
necticut avenue N.W.
i Meanwhile, job offers for
Charles Ray Rector, 18. who had
failed to make SSOO bond follow
ing charges of unreasonable
speed and failed to yield the
right of way to a pedestrian were
(received by police.
The boy, one of 15 children
in a coal miner’s family at
Algerians Kill
12 Frenchmen
ALGIERS, Algeria. May 26 */P).j
—Algerian rebels slashed the{ (
.throats of 12 French employes!
of a highway construction com-l
pany in Eastern Algeria today!
official sources said. Among the' 1
,dead was one woman.
The town was Oumach. about
150 miles south of Constantine,
jit is on the outskirts of the Aures
(Mountain region, where the Al
gerian rebellion flared more than
one and one-half years ago.
The new loss of French civil
ians came on the heels of wide
spread trouble in North Africa
from Tunis on the east to Mo
rocco on the west.
Mounting tension in Morocco.;
resulted in the recall of the!:
French commanding generalii
there. Gen. Gabriel Burgund.fi
after he issued an angry com-*!
munique denouncing critics ofji
the French Army.
After the slaying, at Oumach!*
informants said, the rebels car-!
tied off about 20 Arab residents!)
Two children were saved.
It was the third large-scale
attack on Frenchmen in the past
10 days.
A slaughter of nearly 20
French farmers in Western Al
geria was followed last week by
the ambushing of a patrol of '
French recruits freshly put in 1
uniform. Eighteen were killed f j
In the ambush, one was rescued. I.
but two are still missing. !
This new rebel outburst came
i nthe face of growing trouble |
in Paris over the policy pursued
by Premier Guy Mollet. I
He has scheduled a debate on
North Africa for next Thursday l
REMOVALS
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LONG DISTANCE
OVERSEAS
ifeurttg /Storage
of Wjshington
• life depository for 66 years
1140 Fifteenth Street, N.W. Dl. 7-4040
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DUKE OF KENT
Dance Floor Too Hot
—AP Wirephoto
Miss D’Erlanger explained that
the duke took to the roof be
cause the dance floor was so
frightfully hot.
"It was just one of those Spur
of-the-moment things,” she said.
“If the roof was more cool—
well, why shouldn’t we dance up
there ”
Hemphill, W. Va., is staying with
a friend at 1833 Lamont street
N.W. Yesterday he was released
after spending six weeks in jail
after sympathetic police brought
his case to the attention of
Municipal Court Judge George
D. Neilson. The judge accepted
the boy’s “persona!” bond ->nd
continued the case to June 22.
The accident occurred about
2:55 p.m., April 13. at Nineteenth
and Columbia road N.W. Mrs.
Howie was struck in the cross
walk and knocked about 20 feet.
Police reported that young
Proctor was returning the bor
rowed car to a friend and was
driving with a valid West Vir
ginia driver's license. The ac
cident resulted in about $lO
damage to the left front fender
of the car.
demanding approval of his ef
forts to restore peace in Algeria
with a strong hand and heavy
reinforcements of troops before
negotiating a new French-Al
gerian settlement.
'Careless Drivers
Get Police Blame
I Most of last week's traffic ac
cidents were blamed on late
afternoon and evening drivers
who didn't give "full time and
attention” to their driving.
This was the predominant
cause of accidents on the most
accident-prone streets, accord
ing to the Accident Investiga
tion Unit of the Metropolitan
Police Department.
Fourteenth street from the
Highway Bridge S.W. to Fair
<mont street N.W. again was the
[street where most accidents oc
curred last week. Thirteen of the
'traffic mishaps along this
’stretch were from 4 p.m. to mid
'night, police reported.
| Altogether 412 accidents oc
[curred the week of May 13 with
!1 12 persons being reported as
injured.
j '
Mineralogists Meet
The Mineralogical Society of
the District will meet at 7:30
p.m. today in Room 43 of the
National Museum. Dr. W. F.
Dietrich of the United States
Bureau of Mines will speak.
I WHYPAYMOREr
I WA. 7-4405
I Alum. Roper Gutters & Fixturei >
Noilt, Shutters, Copper Flothing I

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