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THE WEATHER: X*?., Windy and mild tonight with rain ending and followed by partial clearing; lowest about 42. Partly sunny tomorrow; high around 50. Temperatures Today Midnight 37 6 am—ls 10 a.m—34 8 am... 34 8 a.m .35 11 a.m—3s 4 a.m...34 8 a.m—3s Noon ...38 107th Year. No. 54. Phone ST. 3-5000 *** WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1959-36 PAGES Home Defend: J& 5 5 CENTS . Johnson Rule, f Os Senate Hit ByProxmire Average Senator Has No Voice,' He Protests By GOULD LINCOLN Star Staff Writer Declaring that*the “typical Democratic Benator has noth ing to do with determining the legislative program and pol icies of this party In the Sen ate." Senator Proxmire, Demo crat of Wisconsin, today staged a one-man revolt against Sen i ate Majority Leader Johnson. Senator Proxmire demanded a return of power to the Demo cratic Conference. In which all Democratic Senators partici pate in decisions on programs and policies. The Wisconsin Senator, first elected in a 1957 special elec tion to fill a vacancy caused by the death of the late Repub lican Senator Joseph McCar thy and re-elected last Novem ber. is a member of the “lib eral” group of Democrats. Speech First of Series In what he billed as the first of a series of Senate speeches on the Senate Dem ocratic leadership. Senator Proxmire pledged himself to a continuing fight to secure a stronger voice for the “indivi dual Democratic Senator” in, , all party matters He complained that the cur rent leadership of the Senate personified by Senator Johnson —has dominated the chamber, i Since he has been a Senator only two party conferences have been held, he complained, and even at those there was no discussion of vital issues and legislation. In his prepared speech Sena tor Proxmire said that his party in the Senate “enjoys a leader who has been more ex travagantly and widely praised by his colleagues and the press throughout this country than any other leader who has graced this body.” He referred, of course, to Senator Johnson. “Most consider this leader ship an important national as set," Senator Proxmire con tinued, but he added that he Intended “to discuss the full * implications of this leadership and the power it has generated fin a later speech.” For the purposes of his speech today, he confined him self to a discussion of the needs of periodic party caucuses, pro viding “at least some guidance by the membership and com prehensive briefing of all Dem ocratic Senators by the lead ership." “I honestly and bluntly thinic it will improve the leadership," Senator Proxmire said. “With out such a caucus we Demo cratic Senators have immensely stepped up the horsepower and speed of this new streamlined Senate automobile, but we have tossed away the road map so that we are never sure where we are being taken." In these perilous times, he said, the Nation needs strong and effective leadership, but it is even more important that the leadership be truly repre sentative of the majority of See PROXMIRE, Page A-6 Gen. Marshall Grows Weaker FORT BRAGG, N. C.. Feb. 23 <AP'. Gen, George C. Marshall weakened today. His condition remains serious. In a medical report on the 78-year-old general, Col. George M. Powell, Army physi cian, said: “He shows an indication of an involvement of the pitui tary gland as evidenced by a definite increase in water out put byway of the kidneys. This involvement has compli cated his treatment.” Dr. Powell explained that the complication of treatment ooncemed the feeding of Gen. Marshall, which heretofore has been by intravenous solution and through a plastic tube into his stomach. Gen. Marshall suffered a stroke at his winter home in Pmehurst January 15 and has been hospitalized here since. Last week he suffered a sec ond stroke, which was accom panied by mild pneumonia Col. Powell reported today that the pneumonia was un der control. PHONE SERVICES FOR TODAY Tho Star's holiday telephone services will observe the following closing hours today: Classified Department—9 p.m. 'Classified ads may be placed in person at the business counter in The Stor lobby till 9 p.m. l Circulation Department 9:30 p.m. Main Switchboard—l 2 midnight. As usuol, night service lines will be placed in operation following closing of main switchboard. * * She Ibenitra mas v J V WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION upn /t, _. l ■ apt ' f wm 1 ~ ... II: .. IPS ■ . SAVED FOR A RAINY DAY—Harry Crumpacker, 436 Argyle drive, Falls Church, drives through the rain in his top-down Austin Healey, with television set, crib ana mattress purchased at the Washington Birthday sales. Miss Carol Hart, 2128 Thirty-first street S.E., has an umbrella but it can’t cover all.—Star Staff Photo by Randolph Routt. Birthday Sale Shoppers Swarm in forßargains Long Queues Form Despite Rain; Bus Provided for 'Sleeping in Line' Washington Birthday sales shoppers bucked dripping skies today to take advantage of traditional bargains offered 5 by downtown and suburban merchants. Long queues formed in front of stores for all-night vigils. Toward morning, umbrellas and raincoats began popping out, and before the day was over these items loomed big on the shopping lists. Because of the rain, crowds were not expected to reach the i ~ George Washington Celebration Con tinaes in Areo. Page 8-1 massive proportions of past years. But there was no stop ping the veterans who have shopped fair weather or foul on this event. The Weather Bureau ex pected rain to continue throughout the day, but for the i colder elements to hold off until tonight. 40 Extra Policemen Ready to keep traffic moving was an extra detail of 40 police men, while plainclothes opera tives were assigned to anti- j shoplifting details. Merchants offiering ey e catching “leaders” had the earliest lines. At a Ninth street television shop, six University of Maryland members of Alpha Epsilon Pi Fraternity lined up at 7 o’clock last night. “We get a television set at one of these sales every year,” explained Shel Taubenfeld, 19, a Maryland sophomore. “The kind we get just about last from one year to the next.” United Typewriter Co. at 813 ,Fourteenth street N.W., one of the birthday sales pioneers, i came up with a new gimmick to go with its annual 99-cent typewriters. Bus Chartered A Greyhound bus carrying the sign “Rain or shine, you can sleep in line,” was char tered for an all-night stand at the shop, and 35 grateful cus tomers clambered aboard. Unfortunately, their sleep was somewhat fitful because of an all-night game of tag with the police. The bus was moved first to |an alley behind the Franklin Hotel. About 1:45 a.m., when the snores were thd loudest, the police ordered the bus driver, Frank R. Kay. 37, of 2917 Commonwealth street, Al exandria, to cut the motor or move on. The hotel guests were complaining of the noise. To cut the motor would have Thieves Get $2,172 At Hechinger's A total of $2,172 was taken by safecrackers who broke Into the office of the Hechinger Lumber Co. at 5925 Georgia avenue N.W. over the week end. police reported. Pvt. Joseph D. O’Leary of the 6th precinct said the thieves apparently came in through an airshaft on the roof, dropped 6 feet to the first floor ceiling, cut a hole and dropped 15 more feet to the office floor. The Intruders must have been slender and agile, Pvt. O’Leary said. The hole they cut for .passage was less than 1 foot wide and they apparently used a rope or a ladder to make their escape. The policemen said the men used the store's own electric i tools to punch the dial and open the safe. Pvt. O Leary said they ignored several thou , sand dollars worth of checks and change. The robbery was discovered | this morning* by the manager, 'Robert B. Lamar. meant cold and discomfort for, > his guests. So Mr. Kay got a i permit from the police to park until 7 am. at Fourteenth 1 and H. I Promptly at 7, the police j were back, exhorting Mr. Kayi ; to move again, so he went back! to the alley. By then, the; transient sleepers were fully 1 aroused, and were heading for their sales bargains with large, numbered broadsides estab lishing their place in line. No 1 man in line, probably jin the whole world, was W Townsend Raplee, 62, an order filler at the United States Post Office Supply Center, 3089 V j street N.E. Mr. Raplee had been on hand 51 hours before i he caught the bus—since Fri day night. He now has been first five years. “It got down to 17 degrees, but I was afraid to give up the ship because my friends j ’ would call me chicken,” he l said. , | Eight girls over 6 feet tali organized a commanding pha- See HOLIDAY, See Page A-2 i Eisenhower Back i From Gettysburg , President Eisenhower was! : back in the White House today! t after a Sunday trip to his Get tysburg (Pa.) farm. Mr. Eisenhower motored to his farm yesterday, arriving r about 10:30 a.m. He left there , about 3:40 p.m., arriving at . the White House gates at -5:30 p.m. The President spent some time walking around the farm. , inspecting his cattle and vis ; ited with his son, daughter-in | w and their four children at their cottage in a corner of | , Uie farm. Radio Sextant Unveiled As Navigational 'First' CEDAR RAPIDS, lowa, Feb 23 (AP'.—Collins Radio Co. said today that for the first: i time in history the moon has 1 been tracked continuously through the use of a new pre cision radio sextant, j Since the moon gives off ex tremely weak radio waves, the • company said in a statement. , the feat of developing a sextant to back the moon accurately is a "major breakthrough in . navigational systems.” s | The conventional sextant is , an instrument for measuring I angular distances, used especi ally at sea to observe altitudes ; so as to ascertain latitude and longitude. The company said the radio r sextant functions as a precise . compass, furnishing the direc . tion of north with more than : j 10 times the accuracy of present [ marine compasses. Collins said the radio sextant could be used in many ways: Two or more ships could ren dezvous at any point with com plete radar and radio silence: , approach to fogbound ports would be made easier: radar picket vessels would know then exact position and would be able to pinpoint enemy vessels or aircraft coming m for an attack; vessels in task forces Symington Hit On Duties Hagerty Scores Resignation Talk By the Associated Press The suggestion by Senator’ Symington, Democrat of Mis-: souri, that cancer-stricken Sec-’ retary of State Dulles resign l brought a retort today from White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty; “It is remarkable what peo ple will say to get ti\eir names in the papers.” In reply to questions, Mr. Hagerty told reporters Presi dent Eisenhower is aware of. Senator Symington's sugges-' tion, but had no comment about it. “He is also aware.” Mr. Hag erty said, “that many other members of the Senate are say ing that we should avail our selves of Mr. Dulles’ services." Mr. Eisenhower paid his fourth visit to Mr. Dulles at the hospital today, leaving the iWhite House at 11:30 a.m., after a 75-minute conference with Acting Secretary of State | Herter. Mr. Dulles gets his third i X-ray treatment for cancer [today after a Sunday respite i at Walter Reed Army Hospital Confers With Nixon He talked about the inter national situation yesterday with Vice President Nixon and See DULLES, Page A-6 First Atomic Ship Readied in Soviet LONDON, Feb. 23-(API. Russia says the world’s first atomic surface ship soon will be ready to put to sea. Moscow Radio gave some 'details of the 16.000-ton ice breaker Lenin which was launched at Leningrad in December. 1957. The broadcast said the Lenin, which is completing dockside tests, is powered by three atomic reactors which can de velop 44.000 horsepower. and convoys could disperse, yet still maintain knowledge of each other’s position, and missiles could be directed to a given geographical position. The radio sextant, designed and constructed by Collins, utilizes a five-foot parabalic dish type antenna. The sex tant receiver used in the sys- I tern is the most sensitive re ceiver of its type ever con structed. the company said. Dr. David McCoy, assistant director of research and de velopment for Collins, said the company has been tracking the moon since late in the summer of 1958 at its observatory near Cedar Rapids. He said much of the project still is under security wraps. The new radio sextant has been delivered and installed! aboard the Navy's experimental navigation ship, the USS Com pass Island. The new sextant also tracks the sun with high precision, the company said The firm added that solar tracking is difficult because radio signals from the sun are extremely weak and noisy. Collins said further that the moon is even more difficult to track since its signals are about 50 times weaker than the sun s. Macmillan Conferring With Khrushchev Freed Cyprus To Be Allowed Army of 2,000 British Get Absolute Authority Over Two Military Bases LONDON, Feb. 23 (AP).— Britain disclosed tonight that a 2,000-man army, 60 per cent Greek and 40 per cent Turkish, will defend the new Republic of Cyprus. The government published a white paper with full details of the independence agreement worked out here among British, Greek, Turkish and Cypriot representatives last week. The white paper outlined these additional points; Britain will have absolute control of two areas on the Eastern Mediterranean island | for use as military bases. It can exclude anyone from the I areas. This was one of the | thorniest points in the negotia ; tions. ! The constitution of the pro posed Republic of Cyprus will come into force “at the earliest practicable date.” Simultane ously sovereignty over the is land colony will be transferred [to the republic. Britain, Greece and Turkey [ jointly agree to guarantee the new republic's "independent I territorial integrity and secu-, i rity.” Under a separate defense treaty, Greece, Turkey and the new republic will join forces: i against any aggressor threat-1 ening any one of them. | PRISONERS FREED; I CYPRIOTS CHEER NICOSIA, Cyprus, Feb. 23 (AP).—Greek Cypriots cele brated wildly as the British turned loose more than 900 po litical prisoners yesterday. Only | two incidents marred the ju bilation. ! The detainees had been held without trial under emergency regulations as suspected mem bers of EOKA, the Greek Cy priot underground which has been waging a terrorist cam paign against the British since 1945. The government announced all detention camps on the is land were being closed and emergency regulations lifted. The action had been assured by the agreement last Thurs day in London to give Cyprus independence, but the release of the prisoners came quicker ! than expected. Hundreds of other Cypriots imprisoned after conviction of violating the emergency regu lations were not affected by the first amnesty. But many of these are expected to get re duced terms or release soon. Flags Unfurled The barbed wire gates of the Mammari and Kokkinotrimi thia detention camps swung open shortly after 3 p.m. yes terday. A stream of buses jammed with detainees and with some riding on the roofs, headed for Nicosia. Greek flags and EOKA banners, ap parently kept hidden in the camps, were unfurled. The de tainees banged on the sides of 1 the buses, shouting “Long Live IMakarios” and “Long Live | EOKA.” British troops living in tents along the routes to the capital waved and hurled mild ribald ries at those in the buses. The detainees shouted and waved back. The military forces were confined to their barracks, and British civilians stayed off the streets. Weeping relatives embraced the detainees at Nicosia’s Pha neronemi Cathedral, where a thanksgiving service was held Thousands packed the streets around the Cathedral. Taken to Homes The detainees were later taken to their homes through out the island. Local celebra tions went on far into the night. In the only serious incident reported, a crowd of Turkish Cypriots in Pergamos village stoned a convoy of detainees and their families. A 7-year ; old Greek boy got a serious head wound. Reds Seek Ideas LONDON, Feb. 23 (APi.— i Moscow radio today invited the American and Russian people to suggest what should be done ;;to stimulate Soviet-Unned States contacts in science, cul ture. trade and student ex changes. The broadcast asked for proposals to be sent to the Soviet radio by letter, cable or tape recording before March 10. CUBAN BLOODBATH Batista Mass Killings Drew Swift Reprisals By ROBERT BERRELLEZ Associated Press Staff Writer HAVANA, Feb. 23 —Hundreds tortured or killed ... scores executed in retribution. . . . They are figures, good round figures, and with repetition they come to have little meaning. But behind them, getting down to individual cases, they have a shocking meaning. They are the fruit of a dictator- ship and of a revolution which 1 conquered it. The full scope of the atroci ties charged to Fulgencio Ba tista's police state may never be known. Fidel Castro's revolutionary government estimates 20,000 Cubans—thousands of them inj [no way connected with the I rebellion—were tortured and I killed by Batista's national i police and army. > Batista fled this country January 1, and his government fell apart. The Castro forces took over. So far Castro's mili tary tribunals have executed more than 300 men—former policemen and soldiers—for taking part in the Batista kill ings. Many more will face firing squads before the book is closed. These executions have drawn criticism in the United States. The Castro explanation is that his military tribunals had to move fast to keep vengeful i Plan for Jobless March , Eased Off by AFL-CIO ; By LEE M. COHN Stor StoS Writer SAN JUAN. Puerto Rico, Feb. ! 23.—The AFL-CIO Executive: Council will water down the! idea of a march on Washing ton by jobless workers and settle for some sort of Capital conference to dramatize the un-employment problefn. pre vailing sentiment among mem bers meeting here indicated to day. Walter P. Reuther, president; of the United Auto Workers, proposed the march earlier this I month and w ill press for back ing by the council. But key council members and advisers on strategy fear a march would do more harm than good by [arousing resentment of tough : tactics. Instead of authorizing a march the council is expected to schedule a Washington con ference of union representa tives within a month or two along the lines of last year's "Put America Back to Work [Meeting” in the Capital. After the mass meeting, dele gates would disperse to button hole Congressmen. AFL-CIO ; President George Meany and several other top men in the! labor federation also would seek a meeting with President Eisenhower. The unemployment confer ence would seek action on an economic program the council will wrap up in its closing ses sions today or tomorrow at the It's 'Mac the Hat' Now, With Soviet Assistance LONDON, Feb. 23 (AP).— They used to call Harold Mac millan “Mack the Knife” when he was an economy-minded de fense minister. He’s “Mac the Hat” now\ The handsome white Astrak han the British prime minister unveiled on his arrival in Mos cow is the talk of London. Nikita Khrushchev was en tranced by it. A Bond street outfitter rushed into production with a reproduction (“The Prime Minister for a London style show opening to day. James McNulty, secretary of I the British Felt Hat Makers' j Federation, called it “an admi rable hat, an excellent hat” The Sunday Dispatch asserted the headpiece “did more for Anglo-Russian relations in 10 minutes than diplomatic ex changes do in a month, i Whoever thought it up. the dispatch declared, should be | recognized by the Queen in her next honors list. The hat itself has been lying in mothballs in one of Mr Macmillan's dresser drawers for years. He bought it on a tourist trip to the Soviet Union in 1929 "Mr. Macmillan acquired a black fur hat for this new ! visit,'' his housekeeper told a reporter, “but just before he left he found his old white one. “I brought the nap up by Holiday Edition No Night Final Editions Today For slmoit two months the guns of tiring squads have echoed in Cuba. Dispatches tell of new executions almost daily. Whot is the underly-' ing story? Robert Berrellez, on As-! sociated Press correspondent from , Arizona, hos scrutinized the records r ond interviewed scores of Cubans.! This is the first of three articles on I the atrocities of the Batista regime ond their aftermath. , Cubans from turning to lynch ; rule in routing out men known s to be Batista henchmen. Whatever the verdict of his- I tory, there are piles of evidence to show the way things went - under the fallen Batista's re . gime. His men were out to stamp out opposition and end a revolution. Civil rights meant nothing in Cuba for months. . One man alone. Maj. Jesus. Sosa Blanco. W'as accused of , responsibility for 108 victims. See CUBA, Page A-6 plush Caribe Hilton Hotel. The ( federation's top governing body ■ already has urged the ex* ‘ pansion of Mr. Elsenhower* 1 :: budget through ambitious pro*! . grams on housing, school con-, I struction, aid to depressed j areas and public works. Resolutions are forthcoming' on other economic programs including Federal standards 1 for unemployment compensa tion The council also will call'. ; j for shortening the work week i , from 40 to 35 hours to go i along with an already de ■ manded increase in the mini mum wage from $1 to $1.25 i[an hour. II All the council members are ' [as eager as Mr. Reuther. who; i heads the Economic Policy Committee, to blast what many [ have called the "callousness” I of the Eisenhower administra . tion on unemployment. Al though the economy has re i covered substantially from the i recession in the area of pro duction. 4.7 million workers | were jobless at the last count As the council moves toward See LABOR, Page A-6 , [I 1 J Avalanches Kill 22 SRINAGAR. Kashmir. Feb. ■ 23 (AP). Avalanches have i killed 22 people In snowbound ; I Northern Kashmir in the last i ■ I few weeks. There also have: s been heavy livestock losses. f p ''s v-> v . V j j9|r f “MAC THE HAT —AP wmphoto tia radl* rubbing it with a hot cloth. I must say the white one suits him much better than the black one.” Said the Premier's wife, Lady Dorothy: “It’s a kind of off-white—a wonderful hat. tall and lined.” One newspaper cartoon had Mr. Khrushchev, in his own black fur hat. asking Mr. Mac millan. "What detergent do you use?” 9 Another cartoon showed a huge picture of Mr. Macmillan on a billboard with the caption, “If you want to get ahead, get a hat!” Soviet Chief Sees Briton In Kremlin ! MOSCOW, Feb. 23 (AP).— Prime Minister Macmillan and Premier Khrushchev met for 2Vs hours in the Kremlin today and apparently discussed the disarmament deadlock between the West and the Russians. Only one adviser disar mament expert Con O’Neill accompanied Mr. Macmillan. Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd and Ambassador Sir Patrick Reilly to the first formal con ference of the British delega tion’s visit. The official Soviet news iagency, in a brief dispatch after the meeting, said that I Mr. Macmillan and Mr. Khrushchev had “friendly con j versations.” Have Country Week End With Mr. Khrushchev at the talk were First Deputy Premier Anastas I. Mikoyan, a recent jvisitor to the United States; Foreign Minister Andrei Gro myko; Deputy Foreign Minister Vassily V. Kuznetsov; Jacob Malik, Soviet Ambassador to Britain: M. P. Geogadze. secre tary of the presidium of tho .Soviet Parliament, and Z. A. .Loginov, deputy head of the Foreign Ministry's European department. Mr. Macmillan atid Mr. Khrushchev got down to for mal Kremlin talks after a get acquainted week end in the country. The British Prime Minister got second billing in the Mos cow press, however. The Com jmunist Party organ Pravda de voted top space to an editorial lauding the Red army—which marked its 41st anniversary yesterday—and gave only brief mention to the Khrushchev- Macmillan parley. Cheered at University When Mr. Macmillan visited towering Moscow University today with a message of good will from British youth, he re ceived a riotous welcome. Thousands of youngsters 'jammed corridors and fought i their way up and down ele vators in the 32-story building. Mr. Macmillan took it all with good humor, waving and smiling at the crowds. Now and again a slight look of strain came over his face as they closed in around him. Security officers in'light blue suits fi nally gave up trying to keep See MACMILLAN, Page A-2 Atlantic Cable Out of Operation LONDON, Feb. 23 (AP) The $35-million telephone cable between Scotland and New foundland was still out of op eration today more than 24 hours after developing a fault toward the western end. The British Post Office said service was being maintained by I radio channels “but there may be delays in connecting tele phone calls to North America." In Montreal, Douglas F. Bowie, president of the Ca nadian Overseas Telecommuni cation Corp., said the fault had been tracked to a spot about 200 miles east of Clarenville, Newfoundland. A cable ship has been sent to the area, ha said. It was the first major break since the cabie went into op eration in September, 1956. POLITICAL GAME PLAYED IN AFRICA THE CAMEROONS hove bccomt the center of a new ond fascinating politicol issue on the awakening continent of Africa. Smith Hemp stone, a contributing writer for The Stor who is touring Africa, todoy reports the rules ond back ground of the political football game now being played to dtcida their future. See his ,story or Page A-15. INCOME TAX COLLECTORS again are extending receptive and demanding hands to the public. However, you may not have to cross the Government's palm with as much money as yoa think. For tips on possible ways to save on your income toz, see Sylvia Porter's j story an Page 8-16. Guide for Readers Amuse'ts A-14-15 Lost, Found A 1 Classified 8-7-12 Music A-7 [Comics 8-13-15 Obituary A-16 Crossword 815 Sports A-17-19 Editorial A-8 TV Radio A-12 i Edit'! Articles A 9 Womon's Feature Page A-13 Section 8-4 6 * Have The Star Delivered to Your Home Daily and Sunday Dial STerlmg 3-5000