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WEATHER FORECAST
Clear and cold tonight, low 15. Tomorrow
partly sunny and quite cold, high 26. (Full
report on Page A-2.)
Temperatures Today
Midnight 18 6 a.m. 17 n a.m. 24
2 a.m.-._ 19 8 a.m—lß Noon._l”2B
4 am.—l7 io a.m.—2l l p.m 29
105th Year. No. 16.
Administration
Again Tries for
Burke Airport
Senators Question
Commerce Officials
On Delay in Relief
A special subcommittee of the
Senate Appropriations Commit
tee today launched a full-dress
inquiry into the problem of
providing Washington with a
second airport and drew from
Administration spokesmen a
recommendation that the 6000
acre site a Burke, Va., would be
the best location.
Louis Rothschild, Undersecre
tary of Commerce for Transpor
tation, said the administration
knows the need of an additional
airport here and hoped the in-;
quiry would establish a pattern:
by which it could proceed.
In this he lent support to the
declaration of President Eisen
hower in his budget message to
Congress that he soon would ask
for $35 million to proceed with
the Burke project.
MATS Flights Shifted
Other testimony before the
subcommittee headed by Senator
Holland, Democrat of Florida,
brought out that about half of
the flights of the Military Air
Transport Service already had
been transferred from congested
Washington National Airport and
that the remainder would be
shifted to the Andrews Air Force
Base by July 1.
It was brought out also that
the SSO million Burke project
would be designed to handle jet
type commercial planes and this
led to a technical discussion of
the effect of the jet blasts on
residents of the airport vicinity.
On this point James Pyle, re
cently appointed administrator
of the Civil Aeronautics Author
ity, and Bartholomew Spano,
CAA expert, explained that all
commercial jet planes on order
are to be equipped with noise
dampeners and that none of
them would be equipped with the
noisy afterburners required for
military craft.
Bolling Question Raised
Other questions raised in the
examination of the Commerce
officials inc»UiVd the possibility
of the removal of all of the!
traffic of the Bolling airfield and
the Anacostia Naval Air Sta
tion from the Washington areal
to Andrews or somewhere else.
Under questioning from com
mittee members, Mr. Pyle
agreed that this would greatly
simplify the entire prcvem of
Washington’s air passenger!
service.
Testimony developed that al
ready instrument flights have
been transferred from Bolling
to Andrews. The committee al
so was told that the shifting of
the entire services of the two
bases from the Anacostia River
would entail the construction of
additional facilities at Andrews
and that it was expected that
necessary appropirations would
be brought up for consideration
shortly.
Senator Holland and others
subjected Commerce officials to.
a rather sharp questioning as to:
why more had not been done in'
See AIRPORT, Page A-4
South Carolina Fire
Kills 6 in Family
LORIS, S. C.. Jan. 16 UP).— Six
persons perished in a fire which
raged through their living
quarters in the rear of a case in
this Eastern South Carolina
town last night.
Joe Blackman. 46. a painter;,
his wife, Carrie May; and their
four pre-school age children died :
in the flames that swept through
the six-room living quarters in
the one-story frame building.
Another couple who lived in
the rear of the building, Mr. and
Mrs. Wade Whittiken, escaped.
Firemen brought the flames
under control before the build
ing was demolished.
The fire broke out just before
midnight. The cause was un
known.
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I TELLING OF A MURDER—This is David Vernon Hall, 15,
[ as he was moving from one room to another at Silver
I Spring police station while he was telling his story of the
! murder of Georgette Anne Hentgen, also 15, of Silver Spring.
‘ —Star Staff Photo by Gene Abbott.
Police Accuse Youth, 15,
Os Killing Girl Classmate
White Cowboy Hat, Footprints in Snow
And Broken Stick Are Clues to Arrest
Footprints in the snow, a broken stick and a white cowboy
■ hat—these clues led police to the arrest of a 15-year-old ''prob
lem” boy for the murder of his 15-year-old classmate. Georgette
Anne Hentgen.
"We are convinced beyond a doubt that David Vernon Hall
is the killer.” said Inspector Car-1
roll V. Miller of Montgomery
County police.
The adopted son of Mr. and
Mrs. Thomas Hall, 9013 Bradford
road. Silver Spring, twice was
■ questioned by police before he
1 led them at 6 p.m. yesterday '
to the snowy banks of a Silver
Spring hill to re-enact the crime.!:
Acting out a signed confession
given after his arrest at 2:10 1
p.m. at Montgomery Blair High
School, the boy showed how he :
struck the girl once over the 1
head with a dogwood branch, 1
then carried her body 75 feet to
the spot where it was found
Monday evening.
Says Girl Hit Him
A good-looking, brown curly
; haired youth. Hall said he struck
the frail. 4-foot-11, 90-pound
girl because she had hit him
when he teased her about a boy
friend.
Young Hall spent the night
in Rockville Jail after juvenile
authorities waived jurisdiction
because a capital offense is in
volved. The preliminary hear
ing on a murder charge was
; tentatively set for January 28 in
Silver Spring Peoples Court.
His family retained former
State’s Attorney J. Hodge Smith
to defend Hall.
At 8:20 a.m. today, young
Hall still was covered up in bed.
Jailer John T. Young asked the;
178-pound, 5-foot-10 youth if j
he had slept well, had enjoyed :
Red Hungary
Plans to Try
U. S. Woman
Communist Hungary is hold
ing an American woman photog-;
rapher, Mrs. Dickie Mayer-
Chapelle of Milwaukee, for trial
on grounds she entered the coun
try without a visa.
An American legation official
in Budapest interviewed Mrs
Meyer-Chapelle yesterday, the
j State Department disclosed to
day.
Press Officer Lincoln White
said this Government "is still
pressing for her release.” He as
sumes that the legation will be
! permitted to provide her with
legal assistance.
The penalty under Hungarian!
law for entering the country
without a visa was not known,
Mr. White said. Asked if it had
been established that the pho
tographer had actually entered
! without a visa, or if her passport
'had been examined by American
officials, Mr. White said he could
provide no other details.
The State Department spokes
man said United States authori
ties are also investigating reports
from Vienna that Richard Rora
bach, an American student from
New York City, had been ap
prehended on the Austria-Hun
gary frontier by Hungarian
police while helping refugees
escape.
Cuba Puts Lid on News
HAVANA. Cuba, Jan. 16 (&).
The interior minister yesterday
clamped censorship on all news
papers, magazines and foreign
news agencies. Censors were
given precise Instructions to pro
hibit the publication of news, ar
ticles or editorials "capable of
. affecting public order."
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his breakfast. The boy answered.
“Yes, sir,” to both questions.
Troubles in Family
Today detectives were wrap
ping up the loose ends to
strengthen their case against
the youth whose foster father
last night sadly recounted
troubles he has experienced
rearing him.
It is a history of illness includ
ing psychiatric treatment, poor
school work and surliness, para
doxically mixed with a lively in
terest in church and respect for
elders. He was an altar boy at
the Episcopal Church of the
Ascension and St. Agnes.
Though Hall and Georgette
were 10th grade schoolmates at
Montgomery Blair and the fam
ilies lived two blocks apart, their
parents were not acquainted.
It was not until they had made
many tests in the area of High
land Elementary School, where
the couple had gone sledding
Monday, that police turned back
to the youth in the cowboy hat
for their No. 1 suspect.
Twice before they had ques
tioned Hall after a 10-year-old
girl said she had seen him with
Georgette. But each time Hall
said he had left her about 1p m.
The pieces began fitting to
gether yesterday so police had
their confession less than 24
hours after the body was found
!at 5:30 p.m. Monday.
Police got a big break from
the weather. Snow on the
ground had encrusted, leaving
firm prints. And they were able
to measure and photograph them
before snow fell again yester
day.
By fitting the girl's small boots
into tracks alongside of those of
larger male tracks, police learned
what the youth later was to telL
them—that he and Georgette
had decided to leave the popular
Continued on Page A-5, Col. 1
Cold Persists, Icy Streets
Likely Again Tomorrow
Sun melted snow will refreeze
tonight and traffic routes not
dried before sundown will be
dangerous for driving tomorrow
morning, the Weather Bureau
.reported.
The 2.1-inch blanket that ac
cumulated during the night
Picture on Poge A-21
closed school in Washington’s
neighboring counties. Classes
in the city were held as sched
uled.
No more snow is expected to
night or tomorrow. A hißh of
32 degrees was forecast for to
day, with a low of 15 tonight.
The high tomorrow is forecast
around 26.
Incoming trains and buses
ran as much as an hour late
today, because of weather else
where. Airlines reported traffic
was normal.
Many persons were injured
yesterday and today in falls on
icy streets, sidewalks and porch
steps. In the District alone, po
lice reported a total of 47 persons
with fractures and lesser In
luries since yesterday morning.
Metropolitan police said they
did not expect the most drastic
snow traffic regulation to be in
voked today. It calls for ar
rests of drivers whose autos stall
Budget Rises to $71.8 Billion
As President Asks Economy
$206.8 Million
Budget Asked
For District
No Immediate Need
Seen for New Taxes
InSpending Proposals
By HECTOR McLEAN
President Elsenhower today
asked Congress to appropriate
a record-breaking $206,843,100
for District spending over the I
next fiscal year, which begins;
July 1.
! The city spending budget,
which has increased regularly
Other District Budget Stories. Poge A-8
every year except in 1953. passed
the S2OO million mark for the
first time. It is balanced against
estimated revenues by plans to
use up $6.6 million in surpluses
from previous years, by requests
for $16.8 million in Federal loans
and by a request for appropria
tion of the $23 million which
Congress has authorized as an
annual Federal payment to the
District's General Fund.
Thus, unlike recent budgets,
it poses no immediate need for
new taxes to finance the pro
j posed spending.
Budget officials, however, said
they will not be able to tighten
up their estimates of income
until next April after a look at
first returns from the District’s
newly increased income taxes.
Small Reserve
The 1958 budget allows only
$275,000 as a reserve for later
contingencies out of total oper
ating expenses of $159.3 million
Also, it foresees a year-end sur
i plus of only $1.6 million, of which
$1.3 million will be in the ear-!
marked motor vehicle parking
fund.
The budget included plans for
hiring 1,128 more District em
ployes at an increased yearly
cost of $3.7 million. Os these,!
325 would go to the public senool
system as part of the budget's
only major surprise—that the
Commissioners had agreed to re
duce the city’s approved pupil
teacher ratio to one teacher for
each 32 pupils.
In the fourth year of the Dis
trict's 10-year $305 million pub
. lie works program, $47.4 million
was requested to finance con
struction. The Highway Depart -
: ment was to spend the biggest
chunk—s 22.2 million. Another
$4.6 million was to come out of
the water fund, and $2 million
out of the sanitary sewage works
fund. The general fund, which
finances all other spending, was
to cover $18.4 million of new
I construction.
Up to $167 Million
Budget Officer Walter L.
Fowler said this would bring
total spending under the public
works program to $167 million—
s 4 million more than was orig
inally planned for the four-year
period.
Nevertheless, he stressed, the
spending has provided less con
struction than the District origi
nally expected because of price
increases since 1955.
By and large, the Commis
sioners’ budget, as submitted to
Congress by President Eisen
hower, was the same as that
recommended to the city heads
by their Budget Office last Aug
ust, and on which the Commis
isioners held a public hearing in
L October.
because the wheels don't have
snow tires or chains.
Cloudiness will increase to
morrow and the cold will con
tinue, the Weather Bureau said.
In a flve-day forecast for the
period starting tomorrow and
continuing through Inauguration
Day, the bureau predicted more
snow Friday and again near the
end of the period. Tempera
tures will average 6 to 8 de
; grees under the normal high of
44 and low of 29, the forecast
said.
Traffic police in the city and
neighboring counties reported
no serious highway Jams from
this latest precipitation.
The heaviest snowfall ended;
by 1 a m. today but there were
light flurries later.
. At 1:28 a.m., a Fire Depart
ment battalion chief called a
’ truck company to the Dupont
Circle underpass to removed ici
. cles 8 feet long, hanging from
foot-thick roots. The icicles
1 were hanging over the south end
1 of the northbound lane.
The bulk of the snow here
1 came from a disturbance in the
South which moved off the coast
• over the Atlantic Ocean early
' today. Had the storm veered
: north Instead of going out to
■ sea. the Washington area could
■ have received as much as a foot
1 of snow, the bureau here said.
Record s44Million Asked
For District's Schools
Enlarged Elementary Teaching Staff,
Building of New Classrooms Sought
By JAMES G. DEANE
i Washington’s public schools today won a major victory In
their long effort to get funds for more teachers and other im
provements to give the city’s children a better education.
President Eisenhower asked Congress to approve an unprece
dented budget for the District school system to make classes
smaller and pay for building a large installment of new classrooms.
The record school budget, almost $44 million, also provides
other significant gains, including
the present number of
I; elementary school supervisors
j and an even greater increase in
the testing staff.
The enlarged testing staff in
cludes nine psychologists. They
, are expected to help materially
■ in coping with individual learn
ing problems and improving
I pupil achievement.
:| Some requests of the Board of
| Education were turned down, in
:! eluding special reading and arith
■ metic teachers for secondary
| schools, some junior high school
| counselors and additional funds
\ for building-maintenance and re
’ pair. But the overall cuts were
much less drastic than has been
J usual in past years.
212 New Teachers Asked
j The most spectacular item in
, the $44 million budget is $1,049,-
• 400 for 212 additional elemen
tary teachers. Most of these will
be used for the purpose of reduc-
I ing the city's average elementary
i class size from the present 35
pupils to 32 pupils.
;! School officials long have con
i tended that classes were too
large for adequate instruction.
This has been underscored in
recent months by tests results
showing the city’s achievement
averages lagging behind national
standards.
The achievement averages of
Negro children, in particular,
have been shown to be in need of
improvement by tests given since
racial integration. Negro schools,
under segregation, were especial
ly understaffed.
Commissioner Robert E. Mc
$76 Million Is Sought
To Aid Drought Areas
By the Associated Press
President Eisenhower, back
from his tour of the drought
area, is asking Congress to ap
prove $76 million of emergency
relief for the farmers and ranch
ers there.
His program will require $26
million of new appropriations
by Congress plus authority to
use SSO million already appro
priated for other disaster or farm
purposes.
A request for the $26 million
was sent to Congress Monday,
the first day of Mr. Eisenhower's
; drought tour.
Os the proposed $76 million
for drought aid. $36 million
would be made available for use
, during the remainder of the cur
rent fiscal year ending June 30.
, An additional $35 million would
;be earmarked for use in the
! fiscal year beginning next July 1
. and 5 million for the following
fiscal year, beginning in mid
-1958.
, Mr. Eisenhower announced his
, program at a conference late
yesterday in Wichita, Kans.
!i Immediately after that meet
,|ing with representatives from 15
, droueht-hil Great Plains States
, Mr. Eisenhower flew back to the
Capital, ending a 4-500-mile
aerial and ground inspection
tour which started Sunday and
took him into six of the States
with the greatest damage.
Alhough the President called
for continuation and expansion
of emergency aid, he told his
audience of about 700:
“I am convinced that the State
and local governments should
assume greater responsibility in
helping solve the recurring prob-
Heavy Snowstorm
Lashes Northeast;
Called Dangerous
NEW YORK, Jan. 16 1/ P>.—A
heavy snowstorm today hit
much of the Northeast, which
i only yesterday suffered its cold
i ost weather of the winter.
The New York Weather Bureau
described the storm "as dangcr
-1 ous and intensifying.”
The snowfall slowed trains,
buses and automobiles and
caused some delays in airplane
. schedules.
Snow extended from New Eng
land to near Chesapeake Bay in
i depths ranging from three to
t eight inches, the Weather Bu-
I reau reported.
Forecasters were keeping a
! close watch on what they called
'■ “this dangerous and intensify
. ing storm as It plods along its
’ present northeasterly path."
l The frigid wave generally
i abated, although below zero;
I readings still were recorded in!
; the northern parts of New York
State and New England.
! i
Laughlin declared, in comment
ing on the new budget, that the
Commissioners in approving the
i increased teacher funds were
mindful of the achievement prob
lem. He also said that he expects
the more generous budget will
lead to improved instruction for
the city's pupils.
Supt Hobart M. Corning
t called the operational budget
• “quite gratifying," asserting:
■ “The major things from the in
’ structional standpoint have been
I reasonably well taken care of.”
> Dr. Corning was somewhat less
• enthusiastic about the school
■ construction allotment, which
i totals $8,904,500. He said proj
ects allowed would still leave the
school system “very short" of
needed classrooms. For this rea
-1 son, he said, a long-term bor
' rowing program being urged by
j school officials for a construc
tion speedup is “very impor
; tant.”
( Part-Time to Continue
The classroom shortage, he
said, will necessitate a sizable
1 increase in part-time classes
i next September and for some
; years to come, until a building
program can be carried to con
clusion.
j The borrowing proposal, a five
year program bearing a tenta
tive price tag of $69 million, for
: inally was submitted to the Dis
trict Commissioners Monday. It
is not involved in the budget
! plans announced today.
Overall the total recom-
Continued on Page A-8, Col. 1
lems of agriculture, including
distress.
“I think this would aid ma
terially in a more effective ad
ministration of these programs
and in better adapting them to
local conditions and actual re
quirements.”
In addtiion to proposing a
supplemental $76 million in
emergency aid for the drought
areas, Mr. Eisenhower called for
a reappraisal of the credit poli
cies of both Federal and private
. lending agencies to determine
whether loans can be extended
to farmers and ranchers under
i more liberal terms.
But in this case, too. he urged
a secondary role for the Fed
eral Government.
“I want to see private lending
institutions continue to be the
principal source of credit, with
Federal programs merely sup
plementing as needed,” he said.
In that pattern, the President
said he agrees there is need for
; “cheap credit, good credit.” He
was called upon to help make
it available all along the way
Continued on Page A-4, Col. 4
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Toscanini Dies at 89 '
i
At Home in New York
ii
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, NEW YORK. Jan. 16 UP).—
; Arturo Toscanini, a poor Italian
boy who became one of the
■ world's foremost orchestra con
ductors, died in his sleep today.
i He was 89.
Death came at 8:40 a.m. at his
_ home in Riverdale, the Bronx.
’ His son, Walter, said the famous
maestro had suffered a stroke
on New Year's Day and had not
fully recovered from it.
Toscanini’s brilliant career
spanned 70 years, and won him
practically every honor the
musical world has to offer,
i He had already scored great
- success before he came to the
i United States in 1908. In this
■ country he swept on to the
heights.
Quit in Disagreement
For seven seasons he con
, ducted at the renowned Metro
-1 politan Opera in New York—
; during the era of such never-to
be forgotten artists as Caruso,
■ Melba and Scotti. But a dls
i agreement, never explained.!
) caused him to quit the Met in
1915. never to return.
He went back to Italy, but in
i 1921 returned to the United
I States with the La Scala Or
chestra and toured the country,
i Five years later he began a 10-
year association with the New
• York Philharmonic Symphony
>; as director.
i, Toscanini went into semi-re
: tirement in 1936, but the next
year accepted an offer to direct
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WILL HURT MORE
THAN THIS YEAR'S
By th* Associated Press
The record Federal peace
time spending in the next
fiscal year is going to cost
every man, woman and child
in the country an average of
$416 each.
At the same time, each
person’s share of the all-time
! record revenue to be collected !
will amount to $427 each.
The extra sll each makes up
the expected surplus for debt
reduction.
The new average of $416 for
spending will be $lO higher
than in the current fiscal pe
riod, sl7 above fiscal ’56 and
$22 over the fiscal 1955 level.
As for taxes, the $427 per
capita in the coming fiscal
year will be sll over the cur
rent period, $lB above the
fiscal 1956 level and a
thumping $59 over fiscal
1955.
S3B Billion Fund
Sef for Defense
Size of Units Based
On Combat Power
By JOHN A. GILES
The time-honored measure
ments of military power—march
ing divisions and "wings" of
planes overhead—will begin to
disappear under President Ei
senhower’s S3B billion atomic
age mlitary budget sent to Con
gress today.
‘‘The combat power of our
divisions, wings and warships
has increased to such an extent
that it is no longer valid to
measure miltary power in terms
of the number of such units,”
the President said. “The overall
combat power ... is much more
important than its mere size.”
He went on to speak of “the
widening impact of the new and
vastly more powerful weapons
now being introduced ... in in
creasing numbers and varieties"
and added;
"Virtually every aspect of the
defense program is affected by
the introduction of these new
weapons, including military
strategy, tactics an organzaiton.”
Army, Air Force Units Cut'
Thus, the Army, which now
has 19 divisions, will drop back
;to 17. To compensate, it will
form six entirely new and
smaller outfits called "atomic
support commands.”
j Mr. Eisenhower called these
organizations "particularly suit
able to provide atomic support
for the forces of our friends and
allies abroad.” The nature of
these compact, swift moving
units was not further explained.
The Air Force, which now has
133 wings and will reach 137 by
June 30 largely through trans
ferring units from one category
to another, will drop back to 123
by the end of fiscal 1958.
The composition of the Air
Force, Mr. Eisenhower said, is
being adjusted to "embody the
new concepts.” Part of these
new concepts will be the forma
tion of the first guided missile
wing Another part will be the
scrapping of the %36 bomber.
Continued on Page A-9, Col. 7
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ARTURO TOSCANINI
—AP Wirrphoto
the National Broadcasting Com
pany Symphony Orchestra that'
was formed especially for him.
' He was given carte blanche to
do with it as he wished. Its
. broadcasts were widely popular.
‘ season after season.
,1 In the spring of 1950, Tos
canini. at the age of 83, made a
’ coast-to-coast tour that covered
20 cities and enabled many thou
sands who had known him only
through his broadcasts or re
, cordlngs to see him in person.
Toscanini conducted his last
See TOSCANINI, Page A-26
5 CENTS
Bars Tax Cut,
Urges Fight
On Inflation
By GARNETT D. HORNER
President Eisenhower today
sent Congress another balanced
budget, estimating Federal ex
penditures at $71.8 billion and
!revenue at $73.6 billion for the
1958 fiscal year.
He ruled out any tax cuts so
that the anticipated $l.B billion
Budget Message Portiol Text.
Page A-9
surplus could be used to shave
down the national debt.
In other moves to combat in
flationary pressures, the Presi
dent put out an order to hold
down on hiring of new Govern
ment employes and advised hold
ing back on even “meritorious”
I spending programs that are not
i urgent.
$2.9 Billion Increase
His spending estimates went
I up $2.9 billion over the current
fiscal year, however, mainly be-
I cause of increased defense costs
and "urgent” need in the
domestic field for such r.hings
as more schools.
Proposing increases of $2 bil
lion for the armed forces, S4OO
million for the Atomic Energy
Commission and $250 million for
foreign economic aid, the Pre
sident explained:
“In the face of continuing
, threats to world peace, our col
lective security must be strength
• ened through alert international
i policies and a strong defense. . ..
, Events in recent months have
, dramatized the need for strong
, collective security.”
Revenue to Rise Also
In submitting his budget for
i the 1958 fiscal year starting next
; July 1, Mr. Eisenhower also re
i vised his estimates of both re
; ceipts and expenditures for the
current 1957 fiscal year ending
[ June 30.
; His new 1957 estimates are for
receipts of $70.6 billion, up $4.3
. billion from his forecast of last
j January and SB2B million from a
; mid-year review last August; and
. for expenditures of $68.9 billion,
• up $3 billion over the last Jan
uary foiecast but down $193 mil
lion from the August prediction.
, The President now estimates
the June 30, 1957, surplus at $1.7
billion, up $1.3 billion from his
, forecast a year ago and down
$l2B million from the August es
timate.
Sees Prosperity Continuing
The balanced budget for 1958
! was based on expectation of in
-1 creasing general prosperity to
1 bring into the Treasury steadily
rising revenue from existing
• taxes. His $73.6 billion revenue
. estimate for the new fiscal year
compares with actual receipts of
[ $68.1 billion for fiscal 1956. which
ended last June 30.
Conceding that actual results
. may not bear out his predictions,
i Mr. Eisenhower said: “They are
• the best estimates we can make
. at this time, but, since they
• relate to a period six to 18
[months away, significant
changes may take place before
: the fiscal year 1958 is ended.”
; His budget message asserted
. confidently that the prospect for
• America’s c.ontinued economic
. growth is “bright.” But he em
• phasized that this goal can be
See BUDGET. Page A-13
Pakistan Town Cut Off
KARACHI, Pakistan, Jan. 16
'(JP.i.—Several thousand persons in
Hindubagh faced starvation to
day after three feet of snow cut
off the mining town from the
rest of Pakistan. Plans were made
to airdrop food.
FBI TRACKS
'KING OF OSAGE' •
THE FBI TRACKS Banker William
K. Hale, "King of the Osage Hills,” in
one of the bureau's most fantastic
cases in the ninth of Don Whitehead's
series on the FBI on The Star's
Feature Page, A 28.
HUMPHREY BOGART, for all his
growling, really liked people. Holly
wood Columnist Bob Thomas, who
come to know the outspoken actor
well, recounts some memories of him
in the first of three stories today on
poge B-18.
FASHIONS FROM HISTORY con
cern Star Fashion Editor Elcni, who
ventured into Brooklyn to see some of
♦he designs of yesterday which inspire
today's clothes. Her story is on poge
1-3.
DIPLOMATS' DAUGHTERS had a
fling in Newport News, Vo., yesterday
, as they became honorary shipwrights
in the maritime city. Star Corre
| spondent Ruth Dean tells about their
day on poge B-2.
1
Guide for Readers
• Amusem'ts B-18- IS Editorial A-18
i Business and Feature Fage A-28
i Finance B-16-17 Lost, Found A-3
• Classified C-5-11 Obituary ... A-26
' Comics A-30-31 Radio-TV .. A-29
• Crossword . A-30 Sports C-l-4
Editorial Woman's
Articles ...A-19 Section 1-1-1
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