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WEATHER FORECAST
Cloudy and turning much colder tonight,
low near 24. Rather cloudy and quite cold
tomorrow. (Full report on Page A-2.)
Temperatures Today
Midnight 41 5a m 40 10 a.m 36
2 a.m 41 6 a.m 40 11 ajn.___36
4 ajn—.4l 8 Noon 36
104th Year. No. 364.
School Leaders
Oppose Return
To Segregation
D. C. Officials Call
Proposal of Davis
z Group Impossible
By JAMES G. DEANE
District school leaders will op
pose any attempt to carry out
the Davis subcommittee’s pro
posals to water down or kill Dis
trict school integration.
Board of Education members
today dismissed as impossible a
proposal to restore segregation.
Most also frowned on a pro
posal to “liberalize” boundary
rules, giving parents the major
say on where pupils go to school.
Even Representative Davis,
Democrat of Georgia, chairman
of a subcommittee recommend
ing a return to school segrega
tion in the District, said today he
did not expect this to be done
officially but it might be done
otherwise.
He predicted, at his home in
Stone Mountain. Ga., that a con
tinued exodus of white families
from the District would ac
complish segregation by leaving
the schools there exclusively to
Negroes.
Doesn’t Expect Action
The only official means of re
segregating the schools, he said,
would be by action of the Dis
trict school board or by congres
sional enactment.
At for the first alternative, he
said he knows the makeup of
the board and does not expect it>
to take any such action. He saw
no prospects either of a con-;
gressional enactment.
“There are not enough mem
bers who would vote for it," he
said.
Walter N. Tobriner, who led in
drafting present integration pol
icies, said allowing a choice of
schools on the basis of race
would be indefensible under the
Supreme Court anti-segregation
decree.
Several others said “liberal- j
izing" would result in chaos.
McLaughlin Opposed
District Commissioner Robert
E. McLaughlin also took a stand
against reversing or altering the
present integration program. He
said an attempt to change boun
dary rules would be Impractical
Four Southern Congress mem
bers Representatives Davis, i
Williams of Mississippi and Jones
of North Caiolina. Democrats,!
and Broyhill, Republican of Vir- i
ginia—yesterday made the let's-!
revive-segregation proposal.
The proposal was tacked onto
the 46-page report sponsored by
the group that lashed at District
integration as "too hasty,” ill
prepared and laden with prob
lems which, the Southerners
said, disqualified the city as a
model for others.
Il.vde and Miller Critical i
Representatives Hyde of
Maryland and Miller of Ne
braska, Republicans, refused
yesterday to sign the report.
They issued their own joint!
statement in which they de
clared the majority report “does
not appear to be well-balanced,
or objective.”
The two dissenting members
also declared restoration of seg
regation would be Impossible
Continued on Page A-2, Col. 6
Temperature of 24,
Season's Lowest,
Predicted Tonight
The coldest weather of the,
season is in store for Washington
area residents tonight.
Temperatures here were ex
pected to drop to 24 degrees to
night as a low pressure area,
which has already spread up to
four inches of snow in Indiana,!
Ohio and Pennsylvania, moved
in from the west.
The Weather Bureau has pre-;
dieted possible snow flurries in;
the area during the day and
skidding temperatures to chill
Washington tonight and tomor-!
row. The previous low tempera
rure this season, registered on
three days this month, was 29
degrees.
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has caused some light snowfalls
from the central Great Lakes
region eastward into New Eng
land and southward through
parts of West Virginia, Kentucky
and Eastern Tennessee, is ex-) 1
pectcd to move to the northeast.
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Bolivian Workers Ignore i
President's Hunger Strike)
LA PAZ, Bolivia, Dec. 29 OP).
—President Hernan Siles Zuazo
today continued a hunger strike
with which he hopes to persuade
the nation's workers not to
block his United States-backed
economic stabilization program.
He met with no immediate suc
cess.
Siles ate his last meal at noon
yesterday. But today, tin miners
at Liallagua in Western Bolivia
- still remained away from their
t jobs. Strike leaders have con
tended wage increases are in
’ sufficient to meet higher prices.
The President told reporters
in his office last night he did
s not want to use force to halt
t the walkout or to head off a
threatened railway strike. The
. latter would prevent delivery of
i supplies to Bolivia's hungry
r cities.
The Central Workers Union.
t headed by Juan Lechin, former
j minister of mines, and the of
. ficlal National Revolutionary
. Party have both urged Siles to
, abandon his fast.
, The country has been plagued
.by food shortages in recent
months, and the United States
, ha* been rushing rations into the
landlocked nation via Chilean
s Ports. The supplies are being
. distributed by rail and truck.
, The stabilization plan to curb
! spiraling inflation was adopted
recently at the recommendation
of United States experts. The
International Monetary Fund
• also supports it. Siles said that
• it is meeting with "resistance on
■ the part of some leaders”—a ref
■ erence to leftist union officials.
Another Fire Flares Up i
On Coast, But Is Halted (
, _ i-
1 MALIBU. Calif., Dec. 29 UP).—
Just as a change in winds gave
' firemen hope of control soon
] over the third disastrous brush
; fire to strike this area since
; Wednesday, another broke out
‘ today down the coast at Palos
1 Verdes Estates.
The new fire, however, was
' controlled in a few hours after
burning about 200 acres. The
scene is approximately 25 miles
. via highway, but is actually di
j rectiy across Santa Monica Bay
, from the fires that have plagued
. this area.
Authorities were not discount- i
ing the possibility of arson. An
officer, who declined use of his i
name, said: "There's nothing!
i! definite about it being incendi
; ary. A car containing two men
S was seen in the area just before
. j the fire broke out.”
Like the earlier ones, the Palos
! Verdes blaze also was in a sec
, tion dotted with expensive
homes. Singer Dorothy Kirsten
[ and concert violinist Joseph
, Szigeti were among those living
. in the immediate area.
i Hope to Control Others
hire fighters still were hoping
ifor control soon over the third
. fire in the Santa Monica Moun
, tains.
I State officials and firemen of :
.■two companies—Los Angeles and
; Ventura—made this tally of
. fire’s rampage in the brush-cov
i ered mountains:
I Destroyed—6s homes.
Burned brush and timber—
> 27.000 acres.
The fire situation in brief:
One fire whipped through
’ Lake Sherwood yesterday, burn
ing a half dozen homes in a mat
■ ter of minutes, sending wildlife
swimming for their lives in the
lake, and scorching the area's
fire station.
Another sudden blaze which
flared up near Malibu Thursday,
, night, burning homes a few hun- i
dred yards from the Pacific
Coast highway, and twice forcing
deputies to start evacuating the
jsheriff’s substation.
The biggest of them all, a
26.500-acre burn at Zuma Beach,
north of here, where even beach
front mansions were destroyed
by flames which leaped across
the four-lane coast highway.
desert winds, the
With a Population of 2.5 Billion,
World Is Overcrowded, Scientist Says
By THOMAS R. HENRY
Star Staff Cor respondent
NEW YORK, Dec. 29 -Man,
most indications to the contrary,
still has some sort of a future
on earth.
It may be a glorious future, if
he doesn't make too much of a
mess of present potentialities.
This was stressed by Dr. George
W. Beadle of the California In
stitute of Technology in his re
tiring address as president of the
American Association for the
Advancement of Science here
last night. Dr. Beadle is being
succeeded as president by Dr.
Laurence H. Snyder. University
of Oklahoma geneticist.
A major problem. Dr Beadle
said. Is decreasing the human
birth rate to an extent compat
ible to the resources of the earth
Lower birth rates in the • past >
usually have accompanied in- <
creasing prosperity and educa
tion. but only after a lag of sev- i
eral generations ThU may be
Tar too long under present clr- i
cumstances. '<
"For a world with half Its
nations industrialized and half >
not," Dr. Beadle said, “the pres
ent population of 2 5 billion is i
fy too large. More than half,
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PRESIDENT ZUAZO !
The President said that he ]
would like to resign in the face |
of such resistance but that such |
a step would mean “frustration
1 of the recovery program." Then ,
he announced this plan, saying it ,
• was designed to safeguard the ,
; people’s future:
• '1 am resorting to a hunger |
! strike as the sole means of giving ,
• pause for thought to those leaders j
' who are making impossible de- ,
mands on a President who re- j
• jects dictatorial methods.”
I Siles said he had cabled Vice ]
' President Nuflo Chavez, head of f
' Bolivia's delegation to the United <
I Nations, to return home from i
- New York. If he cannot return,!
i the President said. Senate Presi
• dent Juan Leghin will be alerted
_as the next in line. t
■ scourge of crews along miles of
' flrelines, dwindled early today,
i For the first time in almost a
i week a moist sea breeze drifted
i across mountains.
Forester Optimistir
Encouraged by the change,
Deputy State Forester James
1 K. Mace said he believed the
the Malibu blaze snubbed under
some time today.
The Zuma fire was brought
under control during the night.
Gov. Goodwin Knight yester
day in Sacramento certified to
President Eisenhower that an
emergency existed in the Malibu
;area of Lcs Angelea County.
■He requested Federal assistance.
Fire officials were concentrat
ing on controlling the Malibu
blaze yesterday when, according
to Mr. Mace, the Lake Sherwood
; area "just blew up.”
Mr. Mace asked State officials
: to certify the Lake Sherwood
section in Ventura County also
i an emergency area.
The Governor already has de
clared that a state of disaster
exists at Lake Sherwood, en
abling all resources of the State
!; government to be used.
Possibility of Arson
Flames started a half mile
from the lake community of
! nearly 100 homes early yester
day afternoon. The cause has
not been determined, but the
possibility of arson is being in
vestigated.
Near Lake Sherwood the
flames menaced Hidden Valley,
where George Brent, Eve Arden
and Alan Ladd have big!
1 ranches. A wind shift saved
■ them.
' Another tongue of flame
headed toward Thousand Oaks,
! a community at the western edge
’of the San Fernando Valley.
Bulldozers halted it.
1 In the mountains between
Lake Sherwood and Zuma Beach,
flames from the Lake Sherwood
; Are moved into little Sycamore
| Canyon from one side as flames
1 from the Zuma fire, on the
coast, moved in from the other.
The two fires met near the
. SIOO,OOO ranch of Actor Duncan
Renaldo. "Flames shot com-
I pletely over my house.” he said.
'Newsmen trapped there helped
Mr. Renaldo and six firemen
tavejthe big ranch house.
the people of the world are un
derfed, poorly housed, get little
modern medical care and are
inadequately educated. It is
small wonder that populations
who see so little hope in other
directions can be so easily led
to war by power-hungry charla
tans.”
War wasn’t so bad in the past.
Dr. Beadle said. It was self
regulated and ended in a victory,
usually a hollow victory, for one
side
"But.” he stressed, "with wars
of nuclear weapons it is entirely
conceivable that there will no
longer be victors. Both partici
pant* and onlookers may perish
from blast, radiation and star
vation ’
Everybody knows this, Dr
Beadle said Man has means both
or cutting his birth rate and in
creasing his resources. Apparent
ly he is taking no advantage of
them.
There is nearly universal
agreement, he aald. that war to
day is synonymous with madness
but "progress la being made with
discouraging alownes*.
It is difficult for empty stom
achs to know right from wrong
,If presntiy available scientific
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D. C., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1956—26 PAGES
Celebes Island
Revolt Erupts in
Fiery Disorder
Thousands of Homes
Burn; No Tie to Coup
In Sumatra Is Seen
JAKARTA, Indonesia, Dec. 29
(/P).—Word of an uprising on
Celebes Island was received here
today. Celebes is at the oppo
site end of the Indonesian is
land republic from Sumatra
where rebellious army factions
already are defying Jakarta’s
rule.
Unlike the bloodless coup on
Sumatra, informed sources said
the Celebes incident was a vio
lent demonstration that left
thousands of homes burned to
the ground.
Details were sketchy, but there
was no indication the Celebes
rebels had tried to seize power,
or that the uprising was con
nected with the Sumatra crisis
that already has jarred the gov
ernment of Premier Li Sastroa
midjojo. Through the eight
years of Indonesia's independ
ence there have been isolated
j rebellions staged by fanatic re
ligious groups wanting to set up
separate states and other groups
opposed to the Jakarta govern
ment.
Fires Set in 10 Villages
Informants said the Celebes
rebels—members of a “Defend
ers of Justice” movement that
tried in 1950 to set up an inde
pendent Celebes state—struck
Thursday at Kabeana in South
i Celebes.
■ The informants said 3.713
buildings in Kabeana, including
21 schools, were burned and that
! flies were set in 10 neighboring
villages.
There was no report of any
deaths.
The Celebes islanders, mostly
Christians, long have pressed for
more local automony—one of the
demands of the army officers
who have seized the government
machinery in north and central
Sumatra. Most of Indonesia is
Moslem. Celebes is the third
largest of the 3.000-odd Indo-
Sce INDONESIA. Page A-3
Summerfield
Resignation
Report Spiked
AUGUSTA. Ga., Dec. 29 (JP). —
President Eisenhower today
spiked reports that Postmaster
General Summerfield was plan
ning to resign from the cabinet.
Mr. Eisenhower did so with an
announcement here, where he is
getting in a week end of golf,
that ne will nominate Mr. Sum
merfleld for a new term when
Congress reconvenes next week
Mr. Summerfield is conval
escing in Florida from a recent
throat operation. There have
been reports he intended to re
tire as Postmaster General, and
that he would be succeeded by
Leonard W. Hall, chairman of
the Republican National Com
mittee.
In announcing Mr. Eisenhow
er’s plans to keep Mr. Summer
field in the cabinet. Assistant
White House Press Secretary
Murray Snyder said a provision
of an 1872 law makes it neces
sary for the President to sub
mit a new nomination to Con
gress in order to do so.
Mr. Snyder said the law ap
plies only in the case of the
Postmaster General among cab
inet members. It stipulates that
the head of the Post Office De
partment shall serve for four
years and one month—the dura
tion of a presidential term.
Asked whether Mr. Summer
field plans to serve the full four
years of Mr Eisenhower’s second
term Mr. Snyder replied he only
could say that the Postmaster
General has no current plans to
resign.
knowledge of agriculture were
applied on a world-wide basis
hunger would become unneces
i sary. But the economic, political
> and social problems inherent In
doing so are made enormously
I more difficult by the fact that
they must be solved in terms of
a world divided into many na
, tions.
"In the time required to in
crease food production enough
' to feed 2.5 billion people there
will, unfortunately, be many
i more than that to feed. With
the present excess of births over
' deaths the world's population is
annually Increasing by 30 to 40
million Production must more
than catch up with present
needs."
Hope that the birth rate will
drop with better education all
over the world. Dr. Beadle said,
is dimmed by recent trends. This
is especially true, he said, of the}
marked postwar Increases in
the population of this country
with the highest educational
levels ever known on earth.
Voluntary birth control proba
bly is no answer, he said, adding
that It only means that the more
competent will limit the size ol
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t terday after arriving for a brief vacation at Augusta, Ga. After photographers
i snapped a few pictures, he gestured that the session was over and said he had
J to ‘get going.” With him were his son, Maj. John Eisenhower (left) and Tom
1 Bright of Niagara Falls, Ontario, a member of the Augusta National Golf Club.
—AP Wirephoto,
Chou Curtails
Visit to India
Believed Preparing
r For Moscow Trip
; NEW DELHI. India. Dec. 29
—lndian officials announced
| today that Communist Chinese
jj Premier Chou En-lai will cut
J short his return visit to India.
No reason was given lor the
! I sudden change of plans, which
involves postponement of a
.; scheduled trip to Nepal. In
formed sources believe Chou has
. been called back to Peiping. Red
. China’s capital, for urgent con-
I sultations to prepare him for his
r visit to Moscow starting about
[ January 7.
Chou came here late last
month for talks with Prime Min
■ ister Nehru and an extended tour
■of India. Later he conferred
t with Burma’s leaders on a Chi
’; nese-Burmese border dispute. He
i; will return here tomorrow after
■ a visit to Pakistan.
An Indian government spokes
■ man said Chou will leave New
Delhi for Peiping on New Year's
■ Day. Chou and Mr. Nehru were
: to have spent the holiday and
■ most of the next day touring
t Northern India.
Chou is expected in Afghan
is istan January 19 to resume his
■ Asian tour.
Mr. Nehru was reported to
■ have discussed with his cabinet
• today his talks with Chou. The
t Prime Minister also gave his
' ministers a report on his recent
• trip to North America and
i Western Europe. On his return
last night Mr. Nehru received
the same type of hero’s wel-l 1
come he had received after hisj!
tour of Russia 18 months ago I
and his tour of Europe last sum
:mer. i
An official spokesman said Mr. ;
Nehru reviewed his talks with i
President Eisenhower. Canadian
Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent. ..
British Prime Minister Eden,
and West Oerman Chancellor i
Konrad Adenauer. The spokes
i man said he could give no de
tails of the cabinet session.
Quake in New Zealand
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Dec. 29 iA*). —A series of earth- !
' quakes shook the Bay of Plenty |
[ and Poverty Bay areas on the ,
’ east coast of New Zealand's '
| north island early today.
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Eisenhower Will Inspect
Six Drought-Hit States
AUGUBTA, Ga., Dec. 29 (JP).— President Eisenhower’s;
j inspection tour of drought-hit areas of the Midwest and
Southwest will take him into six States January 13-15, his
headquarters announced today.
Mr. Eisenhower plans to make stops in Texas, Oklahoma, >
New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado and Kansas for an on-the-spot)
survey of the worst parching of
that region in many "years.
The White House announced
earlier this month that the Pres
ident would make such a survey
in mid-January. Some of the
details and the specific dates
were made known here today as
Mr. Eisenhower was enjoying a
week end of golf in advance of
the reconvening of Congress next
week.
The drought area tour sched
ule calls for the President to 1
leave Washington by plane the
afternoon of Sunday, January
13. He will fly to San Angelo.
Tex. and stay overnight at
Goodfellow Air Force Base there.
WUI Fly to Oklahoma
The actual inspection of
drought regions will start the
next day, January 14. in the San
Angelo area. Then he will fly on
to .West Woodward. Okla., and
to Clovis. New Mexico.
That evening he will arrive ati
Tucson, Ariz, and spend the;
night there at David-Monthan
Air Force Base.
On Tuesday, January 15, he;
will fly from Tucson to Pueblo,)
Colo., then on to Garden City.;
Kans. Late in the afternoon he
will arrive in Wichita. Kans.,
where he is scheduled to meet
with representatives of farmers,
ranchers, industry, banking.
Government and agriculture
schools from all the States hit
by the drought.
Mr. Elsenhower will fly back
to Washington after the Wichita
meeting. He will be accompanied
on the tour by Secretary of Ag
Storm-Battered Liberte
Forced Back for Repairs
LE HAVRE. France. Dec. 29
OP).— Storm damage forced the
51,839>t0n luxury liner Liberte,
two day* out of Le Havre with
533 passengers en route to New
York, to turn back toward the
French coaat in heavy sea* today
Veteran Capt. Raoul de Bau
dean. making his first crossing
in command of the Liberte. de
cided to put about after high
waves smashed three cargo
booms and stove in a cargo
hatch The liner messaged that
It was Impossible to make repairs
at net.
Capt. De Baudean commanded
the lie de France when that
vessel won praise for Its partici
pation in rescuing survivors of
the Andrea Doha sinking five
months ago.
The Liberte * crossing normal
ly takes five days. She is the
former Europe, buflt by the
Gomans at Hamburg in 1924)
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riculture Benson. Secretary of
the Interior Seaton, members of
the White House and Agricul
ture Department staffs, and a
representative of the Army con-;
cerned with the conservation as- !
pects of the drought problem.
Will Get Air View
In addition to ground inspec
tion tours in the six States, the
President plans to fly low over
the entire drought region. As
sistant White House Press Sec
retary Murray Snyder said.
Mr. Eisenhower first an
nounced in October he would
visit the drought regions. The
White House said then he would
make the tour with a view of
determining what additional
Federal aid is needed.
Winds of 15 to 25 miles an
hour kept the President from
getting an early start on the
golf course today, but Mr. Sny
der said Mr. Eisenhower hoped
!to get in a round later in the
day.
He also was looking forward to
the arrival from Washington of
!a favorite bridge-playing pal—
Gen Alfred M Gruenther, who
recently retired as supereme
commander of allied forces in
Europe. Just before leaving the
White House yesterday Mr.
Eisenhower awarded a dis
tinguished service medal oak
leaf cluster to Gen. Gruenther.
who becomes president of the
American Red Cross January 1
The President flew here from
Washington, smiling broadly as
See EISENHOWER. Page A-2
i and taken over by France after
World War 11.
Officials of the French Line—
the Compagnie Oenerale Trans
atlantique—did not know when
she would make port here, but
, immediately set about prepara
tions to csre for the passengers
They said the mid-Atlantic storm
was of exceptional violence
The passenger*--140 of whom
boarded at Southampton and
i the rest at La Havre—presum
i ably will go on to New York
i aboard other craft. There was no
estimate of how long the Liberte
: will be laid up
Among the American* aboard
I were Violinist Kenneth Gordon.
: who played recently before
Prince Rainier and Princes*
1 Grace of Monaco, and Holly?
wood film producer Howard W
Ham ti and his wife. French pas
sengers include Gen Jean plat
French representative on the
North Atlantic Treaty standing
in Washington
REAL ESTATE
SECTION
Pages B-l to B-4
T roops and
Economic
Aid Involved
By the Associated Pres*
The Eisenhower administra
tion tested the wind of congres
sional and public reaction today
to a double-barreled idea for
| keeping Mldle East peace with
'military pressure and vast eco
nomic aid.
Secretary of State Dulies, who
worked out the idea, was ready
to unveil it officially with Presi
dent Eisenhower at a New Year's
Day conference with Democratic
and Republican leaders of Con
gress at the White House.
Meanwhile, the suggestion was
allowed to "leak” to some news
men. In that way, the adminis
tration hoped it would not come
as a complete surprise to the
legislators on Tuesday and the
public would be prepared for
possible new United States policy
moves in the troubled Middle
East.
Purpose of the idea—still too
tenuous to be called a proposal
—was understood to be primarily
this: To put Russia on notice
that any Middle East aggression
would not go unchallenged.
Covets Middle East Ports
! Russia since the time of the
Czars has coveted the Middle
East s warm water ports. Now
the area's vast oil resources are
an added lure. With British and
French prestige waning in the
; Middle East, new and bolder
! Soviet economic and military
|intrusions are expected.
Britain and France have been
urging the United States to step
into the power vacuum before
Russia does.
Mr. Elsenhower was reported
; ready to throw the full force of
;his office into a vigorous appeal
to the congressional leaders to
back this Idea:
1. Specific standby authority,
similar to that voted him to
deal with the Formosa crisis In
early 1955, to use United States
troops in the Middle East if he
deemed it necessary.
2. A far-reaching economic aid
program for the Middle East,
perhaps totaling as muen as a
half-billion dollars. This would
go to both Israel and the Arab
countries on assurances from
them that they would end their
bitter rivalry.
Reaction Awaited
Although Mr. Eisenhower is
reported in favor of Mr. Dulles’
! idea. It Is possible he would de
cide not to press it if the con
gressional leaders gave it a cold
reception. That was that hap
pened when Mr. Dulles himself
broached the standby authority
idea with the leaders last April
10, at a time of Arab-Israeli
border clashes.
Initial congressional reaction,
somewhat slow in appearing,
seemed cool. Os three Bentaors
reached, one Democrat opposed
the standby idea, another Demo
crat withheld comment, and a
Republican thought it all right.
Senator Mansfield, Democrat
of Montana, opposing, said the
United Nations is the place to
solve the Middle East peace rid
dle.
Senator Green, Democrat of
Rhode Island, scheduled to be
come Foreign Relations Commit
tee chairman, <l(cllned comment
| "until there a formal pro
posal.” >
Senator Wile/, Republican of
Wisconsin, former committee
chairman, said he favors stand
by authority If Mr. Elsenhower
judges he should have it.
Mr. Dulles is flying to New
York City tomorrow, and will
confer at lunch Monday with
U. N Secretary Oenerai Dag
Hammarskjoid on "the whole
Middle East situation," as the
State Department announce
ment put it yesterday. He also
will talk with Henry Cabot
Lodge. Jr., United States Am
bassador to the U N
Mr Dulles Is due back in
Washington shortly before noon
Tuesday
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