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THE WEATHER:
Sunny today; high near 80. Fair and not
aa cold tonight; low about 80. Increasingly
cloudy and warmer tomorrow.
Hourly Temperatures
Noon —3B 6 pm 43 10 pm 39
3 pm 43 g p.m 4111 pm 37
4 pm. 43 0 p.m 39 Midnight.. 36
107th Ysor. No. 88.
D. C. Layoffs
Slated After
Cuts in Budget
Austerity Programs
Also in Prospect
For Departments
By SAM EASTMAN
SUr BUS Writer .
Additional economy mores to
bring District spending In line
with House budget cuts will be
ordered this week by the Com
missioners.
Budget officials expect to
complete detailed plans within
a few days for reduced spend
ing In the departments affected
by the supplemental appropria
tion slash.
The economy measures will
Include temporary layoffs dur
ing the remainder of the fiscal
year for some city employes
along with austerity programs
in the departments.
The House passed a sl4 mil
lion supplemental appropria
tions bill, more than $1 million
short of the amount requested
by the District.
$2 Million Restored
The House action restored
$2 million which the Appropia
tiona Committee had cut from
the spending requests for the
school system and the police,
fire and sanitary engineering
departments. The committee
reductions for other depart
ments were permitted to stand.
Engineer Commissioner A.
C. Welling, meanwhile, voiced
a strong hope last night that
Congress will grant the full
$32 million Federal payment
authorised for next year.
Questioned on the WWDC
radio program, “Report to the
People,” he wa3 asked about
congressional suggestions that!
the city consider early taxl
raises as a means of meeting e
prospective deficit.
“I for one would continue tc
press for a larger Federal pay
ment rather than to press for
tax increases," Gen. Welling
said. He explained that it would
not be possible to act on the
tax question until after Con
gress decides how much the
City Is to be allowed to spend
in the next fiscal year and how
much Federal help will be pro
vided. *
Future Deficit Feared
He said the city might face I
a deficit of $9.4 million by mid- i
1960 unless some relief is
gre n ted.
The Senate Appropriations
Committee Is expected to swing
Into hearings soon after the
Easter recess next week on
the supplemental appropriation
passed by the House last Tues
day. Then the unit is expected
to take up the $237 million
House-passed budget for the
1960 fiscal year.
In the immediate future, how
ever, District officials have said
that between 300 and 400 city
workers may have to be fur
loughed because of the House
appropriation reduction.
Relief Checks Cut
Budget officials explained that
the District must take some
immediate steps to save funds
even though a part or all of
the House appropriation reduc
' tion may be restored. By taking
action now, they said, the im
pact of the money-saving meas
ures will be less than if applied
over a shorter period of time.
Schuyler Lowe, director of
the Department of General Ad
ministration, said that the de
tailed plans for spending re
ductions in the departments
would be ready for submission
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EASTER DEVOTlONS—Practicing their Easter prayers, these children
stand before a scaled-down altar at the St. Franeis Episcopal chapel in
Potomac, Md. Left to right; Liza Noyes, lan Buchanan and Carolyn
Andrews.—Star Staff Photo.
Joyful Easter Heralds
Season of Blossoms
200,000 Estimated Visiting Capital
After Bad Weather Retards Influx
In traditional reverence, Washington Is observing Easter,
Sunday today.
Clear but crisp weather may find the temperature In the
high 20s during scores of sunrise services in the area, but a
warming to 50 degrees is predicted for later in the day.
Easter, a day of religious rejoicing, also heralds Wash-
ington’s most beautiful season
as myriad blooms and blossoms
begin to stir from a wanning
earth.
It also marks the unofficial
opening of the tourist season,
with an advance guard of
thousands already here. In
clement weather in some parts
of the country where Wash
ington’s tourists originate,
however, has retarded the nor
mal surge.
Nevertheless, some 200.000
[Visitors were expected over the
long week end, particularly at
the Capitol, which experiences
its heaviest tourist traffic dur
ing the Easter recess. This year,
the visitori will be stepping
through an army of workmen
who are hard at work extend
ing the East Front.
Hotel Rooms Plentiful
Bourbon A. Dawes, executive
vice president of the Hotel
Association of Washington,
said the city has “an over
abundance” of vacant rooms,!
with only five of 35 hotels re
porting no space last night.
Bookings are good for the
spring season, however.
The annual flood of school
children already has started
and will continue to grow dur
ing the next few weeks, he
said.
Week-end travel, which
soared late Friday and early
yesterday, subsided as thou
sands settled around traditional
Richmond Mayor Pays
Irate Motorist's Fine
RICHMOND, Va., Mar. 28,
(APi.—Mayor A. Scott Ander-!
son has taken personal action
to sooth an irate Fairfax Coun
ty motorist convicted of failing
to pay a parking ticket.
He refunded a court fine with
his personal check.
Norman r. Mathias, 49, of
Fairfax road, McLean, had
written Mayor Anderson to
complain of a summons and
the subsequent fine of $8.85.
He said he got the parking
ticket last September when he
and his wife, Anna, stopped
for breakfast while traveling
through the city. They found
the ticket when they returned
to the car.
Due in Charlottesville and
with little time to spare, Mr.
Mathias, an economist with the
Public Housing Administration,
left town without paying the
ticket. On November 21, Fair
11
> family Easter meals at home.
! in Washington, the cherry
blossopns were beginning to ap-
I pear and should toe at the height
of beauty in about 12 days.
! Some of the large chain food
. stores will be closed tomorrow,
. but banks in the area will open.
Eggs to Roll
• The traditional Whit* House
egg-roll will be held between 9
a.m. and 4 p.m. tomorrow. Chil
-1 dren under 12 accompanied by
>! a parent will be admitted.
;{ Climaxing Holy Week ob
s seivances, dawn church serv
. ices will fie held all over the
area in imposing amphithea
ters, in city and suburban parks,
| on church lawns and on coun
try hillsides.
One of the larger ones will
be* the sunrise service of the
Knights Templar s Grand En
campment at Arlington Ccm
i etery at 7:30. . *1
The Organized Bible Class
■ Association service will be in
{the Carter Barron amphi
theater at 6:30 a.m. and
the Trans-Eastern Ministerial
Association of Southeast Wash
! mg ton and Bolling Air Force
Base will be held at Arnold
I Field, Bolling, at 6:30.
I At 5:45, the Calvary Baptist
. Church Young People will
; gather on Hains Point.
Another will be held on the
i University of Maryland campus
r at 6 am., and still another at
■ Great Falls Park on the Vlr-
I ginia side of the Potomac.
11 fax County police served Mr
Mathias with a summons to
i Richmond traffic court.
Mr. Mathias asked the court
to drop the case because he was
a visitor and it was a first of
fense. The court refused, and
the economist paid the $8 85.
, He then wrote Mayor Anderson.
| asking reimbursement of the
[ fine from the city.
I The mayor apologized because
the court did not first send a
warning letter before the sum
mons. About reimbursement,
1 Mayor Anderson wrote:
h "I have no authority to do
so. Nevertheless, because I am
' so anxious that Richmond be
1 attractive for people to visit, I
am enclosing my personal check
1 in the amount of $8.85.” Mr.
Mathias wrote Saturday term
! lng Mayor Anderson "a splendid
. gentleman ... our good feeling
! toward Richmond has been re
established.”
WASHINGTON, D. C. MARCH 29, 1959-186 PAGES
Study Reveals
Cancer Secret
Researcher Learns
Its Ability to Grow
By RENNIE TAYLOR
Asioritttd PrMl Science Writer
SAN FRANCISCO, Mar 28—
A medical researcher after 10
years of scientific work appar
ently has uncovered the secret
of cancer’s ability to grow at
the expense of its victim.
From what he has learned,
he can prevent an implanted
cancer from growing in a rat,
and he can let a rat cancer
get started, then stop it.
This suggests that there can
be away of stopping early can
cer in humans, or preventing
the growth of malignant cells
that have been unavoidably
left in the system after re
moval of the original cancer
In that event, surgery fol
lowed by the researcher’s meth
od of drug treatment could
mean cure. Or a small cancer,
treated early, might be starved
■to death.
But the method has not been
tried on humans. It has been
used only on rats. It is not
ready for the cancer patient.
The* is too much difference
between rat and human cells
to make the transition easy
And the rat cancer stopping
drugs are poisonous to man.
One of them causes a form of
madness.
However, there are related
drugs which aTe less poisonous
to humans and which still can
stop rat cancer. The question
remains whether these drugs,
also, could stop human malig
nancy.
The experimental findings
were made under the direction
See CANCER. Page A-8
SORRY
Today’s issue of Sunday, The Star Magazine, appears
with reduced content, without color, and is printed by
the offset rather than the rotogravure process.
Detroit Qravure Corp, which ordinarily prints the
magazine, has been forced to suspend operations tem
porarily and today’s magazine had to be printed else
where on an emergency basis.
The following advertisers, who had scheduled color
advertisements to appear in this issue, are presenting
their merchandise in other sections of the paper: ,
Curtis Brothers Furniture Co, Page F-8.
Woodward & Lothrop, Page A-11.
Jelleffs, Page G-3.
In addition, these other advertisers, who had sched
uled color pages, have postponed their advertisements to
a subsequent issue of Sunday:
The Hecht Co. Lever Brothers
Dole Hawaiian Pineapple ‘ Imperial Margarine”
Chun-King Foods Daystrom Furniture
Salem Cigarettes
The Sunday Star regrets this inconvenience to its
readers and advertisers and is making every effort to
provide you with your regular colorful Sunday maga
zine as soon as possible.
Talks on Reunification
By Germans Sought
j
Peiping Ousts
Ruler in Tibet,
Installs Rival
Rebellion Crushed,
Chinese Radio Says
In First Account
TOKYO, Mar. 2$ (APl.—Red
China today abolished the
Dslal Lama’s regime in Tibet,
elevated the rival Panchen
Lama in his stead, and imposed
military rule on the rebellious
Himalayan land.
Peiping asserted the revolt
that erupted March 1$ was
crushed in two days and 4.000
A Gentle Man Fill* Rain « Now
Tibet Ruler. Fag* A-4
rebels were esptured. It ad
mitted rebel bands fought on
la various parts of the land of
Lamas, and asserted these
bands were being mopped up.
Broadcasts from the capital
of Red China asserted the 23-
year-old Dalai Lama was ab
ducted by the rebels and "under
duress" tore up the 1951 treaty
with Red China under which
he was allowed to retain nom
inal rule.
This tended to bear out re
ports from India and elsewhere
that the Dalai Lama had made
good his escape from Lhasa,
the capital, and had joined the
rebels, probably in Southern
Tibet.
Presumed With Tribes
Presumably, the Dalai Lama
is with the fierce Samp* tribal
warriors, who from positions
in Southern Tibet have been
fighting the Chinese Reds for
three years.
The Panchen Lama la>t wax
reported at Ms religious head
quarters at Shlgatse. southwest
of Lhasa. The 21-year-o l d
spiritual Vader now may be in
Lhasa He is considered the
spiritual equal of the Dalai
Lama but traditionally wields
no temporal power He gen
erally has been considered more
complaisant toward the Com
munists than the Dalai Lama.
Peiping asserted the com
mand center of the revolt was
Kalimpong. in Northern India
where the trade routes wind in
from Tibet.
Nationalist China airdropped |
supplies to the rebels in their
stronghold south of the
Tsangpo river, Peiping said,
thus supporting Chinese Na
tionalists’ claims that they
have been aiding the rebels
The Tsangpo river flows south
of Lhasa.
Radio Stations Set Up
Peiping said “radio stations
were set up there by agents
sent by the imperialists and
the Chiang Kai-shek 'Na
tionalist! clique to further
the*r intrigures.”
Trouble broke out, Peiping
said, after the Dalai Lama was
scheduled to attend a the
atrical performance in the au
ditorium of the Tibetan mili
tary command. Accounts from
See TIBET, Page A-8
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Murder Leads
MEXICO CITY. Mar. 28
(AP).—Criminologist Alfonso |
Quiroz Cuaron reports murder |
accounts for more deaths in
Mexico than anything but
heart attacks and malaria.
Mexican homicides claim an
average of 48 out of every 100.-
000 persons a year, his findings
show.
U. S. Blockade Studied
As Answer to Berlin
Action in the Dardenelles and Baltic
Weighed if Soviet Squeeze Develops
A naval blockade of Russia In the Dardanelles and Baltic
Sea area Is under consideration by American officials as a
possible measure short of nuclear war with which to answer
the Soviet Union if it tries to squeeze the West out of Berlin,
The Star learned yesterday.
So serious a countermeasure would be reserved for "a
time appropriate,” officials said,
indicating full knowledge that
so warlike an act would be pos-1
sible only after warlike provo
cations from the Soviet bloc. i
Russia has demanded that 1
the United States, Britain and
France withdraw their occupa
tion forces from West Berlin
and has threatened to turn
over to Communist East Ger
many the control of Western
access routes to Berlin.
The West has proposed a
foreign minister’s meeting Ini
Oeneva May 11 to be followed'
by a summit conference as soon I
as Issues are narrowed enough
to justify a gathering at the
top level.
Turkey, Denmark Involved
Turkey and Denmark would
be key countries in any block
ade or slowdown of Soviet
shipping out of the Black and
Baltic Seas.
Turkey controls the Bosporus
and Dardanelles Straits, while
Denmark lies across the Kat
tegat outlet from the Baltic
Sea.
Amertc.-*! officials say the
naval blockades already are a
part of tins country’s plan
ning process Representatives
m NATO embassies available
U. S. Voices Sympathy
For People of Tibet
By th« Associated Press
The United States declared
yesterday it is “profoundly
sympathetic” with the Tibetan
people in the face of “bar
barous intervention’’ by Com
munist China in Tibet.
■ftie State Department said
the intention of the Commu
nist government at Peiping is
to destroy the "religious and
political autonomy <of the
Tibetans) and to pervert their
institutions to Communist
ends.”
This intention, the State De
partment said, was disclosed by
Red China's action abolishing!
the Dalai Lama’s regime and
imposing military rule on Tibet.
Such action "is a blatant
violation of Peiping’s solemn
pledge of May 1951 guarantee
ing the Tibetans political and
religious autonomy” the state
ment added.
The United States noted that
among the five Chinese appoln- j
tees named to an administra
tive control committee there is
a deputy political commissar of
the Chinese Communist Army.
It said this is evidence of Pei-;
ping’s intention and added:
“The Communist order states j
the Panchen Lama will act as
chairman of the new Tibetan
Science Set Straight
On Baseball's Curve
By HERMAN SCHADEN
Star Staff Writer
A baseball does, too, curve.
Every sandlotter from the
time of Abner Doubleday has
known it, but through the
Picture on Pag* A-18
years some stubborn scientific
folk have insisted it's all a
mirage.
Now some scientists have be
come convinced through sys
tematic tests, that Whitey
Ford and Billy Pierce really
ire fooling batters with curves
and not imagination.
It took a baseball fan
scientist, Dr. Lyman J. Briggs,
to deliver the proof. Formei
director of the National Bu
reau of Standards, and now
National Geographic Society
research director. Dr. Briggs
did it with baseballs, air guns
and wind tunnels.
Dr. Briggs even deduced
that the biggest roundhouse a
pitcher may expect to throw
is 17 inches, and the most ef
fective speed about 100 feet per
second.
In order to attain a curve
of that magnitude, the pitcher,
must spin the ball at 1,800 rev
olutions per minute, for the
spin and not the speed is the
big item.
He got help from Pedro
/wtffizWi '
• |
'here this week end said they
' j had not been informed the idea
'had been considered by the
| Atlantic alliance.
| The plan may be considered
1 here this week at the Western
’ Big Four and NATO foreign
‘ ministers’ conferences.
i
Plans Under Discussion
1 Pentagon sources said yes
ter that blockade plans had
been under discussion by the
| Joint Chiefs of Staff. But, they
{added, no definite plan now
exists.
State Department Press Offi
cer Francis Tully, asked for
comment on The Star's article,
said:
i "We are considering many
different possibilities from time
jto time of things that might,
or could be done but as to any
military decisions that might
be made, 1 can’t comment.” j
The possibility of blockading,
Russia* in the Turkish Straits
and the Baltic is known to have
been discussed by some mem
bers of Congress. One Sena
i tor advocates the move as a
, measure short of nuclear war. 1
Senator Mansfield, a member
i of the Senate Poreigto Re'a
l i See BLOCKADE, Fate A-S
'regime. The Panchen Lama has
I never been the primary rsllgi
’ ous leader of Tibet and it is
i clear that the replacement of
the Dalai Lama has been ef
fected by foreign intervention
without the consent of the Ti
betan people. The Panchen
Lama was brought up in China
i and came to Tibet m the wake
of the Chinese Red Army.”
"A significant feature of the
Chinese Communist statement
yesterday morning.’’ the State
Department said, "is the ad
mission that Tibetan resistance
to Chinese Communist rule is
widespread and continuing.
"The statement admits that
the Communists have been try
ing to suppress by force this
1 Tibetan resistance since last |
May. By their count at least
20.000 Tibetan patriots are in
rms against them. They also
state that the entire Tibetan
army has joined the resistance
movement.
“The United States is pro
foundly sympathetic with the
people of Tibet in the face of
the barbarous intervention of
the Chinese Communist impe
rialists. to deprive a ploud and
brave people of their cherished
religious and political autonomy
and to pervert their institu
tions to Communist ends.”
Ramos and Camilo Pascoal.
Washington Senators’ pitchers.
Dr. Briggs knew what made
a ball curve—the combination
| of spin and the wind pressure
‘ as it whipped through the air
But he wanted to know the
. relative part each played at 60
: | feet, about the distance from
i the pitcher’s mound to home
plate.
In one phase of the experi
ment he slipt baseballs at this
’ distance with a special air gun
’ and attempted to photograph j
■ the flight. This gave the speed !
and extent of the curve, but
■ tailed to detect the amount of
, j spin.
So Dr. Briggs moved his base
to the Bureau of Standards
wind tunnel. By dropping the
ball, spinning at a known speed,
; across a wind stream moving
at a known speed, he was able
to compute the curve that would
result if a pitcher were throw
ing the ball 60 feet.
It really was much more
complicated than this, as Dr.
Briggs relates it for more sci
entific minds. It even involved
1 attaching a light fiat tape to
.a baseball, and having the
• Washington pitchers at Griffith
( Stadium throw, it. The spins
i of the pitch was determined
by the number of twists in the
i tape. I
Teen Circue
Without Sawduet
See TEEN
Appearing Today
After Page C-4
20 CENTS
Ministers
To Get Plan
This Week
By EARL H. VOSS
SUr SUIT Writer
A plan to bring together
representatives of East and
West Germany for talks on
beginning the reunification
process will be put before the
Western foreign ministers here
this week.
The move would not be taken
at West German Initiative but
on orders of the four occupying
powers in Germany—-the Soviet
Union, Britain, France and the
United States.
One es Many Plans
This is one of many sugges
tions collected by allied experts
in working-group sessions in
Paris the past few weeks.
If the foreign ministers of
the United States. Britain,
France and West Germany ap
prove a plan along these lines
at their meeting here Tuesday
and Wednesday, it is expected
to be placed before the 15
NATO foreign ministers when
they open their three-day con
ference here Thursday.
It will be the first foreign
ministers’ conference involving
the United States that Secre-
I tary of State Dulles has not at
{tended since the Republicans
came to power in 1953. Mr.
Dulles is suffering from abdom
jinai cancer.
Acting Secretary of State
Herter will represent the United
, States. President Eisenhower
will deliver a brief but lmpor
; tant address to the council on
Thursday at the Departmental
Auditorium.
Foreign Minister Maurice
Couve de Murville of Fiance is
scheduled to arrive in Wash
ington today, and British
Foreign Minister Selwyn Lloyd
is due Tuesday. Mr. Lloyd was
{here only a week ago for the
Camp David talks between
Mr. Eisenhower and Prime Min
ister Macmillan.
West Germany's attitude
toward the idea of talks with
East German representatives
is not yet known. Chancellor
Konrad Adenauer is anxious to
avoid any move which would
imply undue recognition of the
East German regime.
West German Ideas
But the West Germans
themselves have advanced
in working group sessions in
Paris some suggestions for
first-step talks with Germans
from the Communist Eastern
Zone on starting a rapproche
ment bv reuniting communi-
See POLICY, Page A-8
Death Sentence
Given 4 in Iraq
BAGHDAD, Iraq, Mar. 28
<AP' An Iraqi peoples court
tonight sentenced to death four
Air Force officers convicted of
bombing a Baghdad radio
transmitter during the Mosul
revolt earlier this month. The
announcement brought cheers,
applause and dancing in the
aisles by spectators.
Condemned to death were
Col. Abdullah Naji. Capt. Kas
sim el Azawi, Lt. Achmed Ashur
and 2nd Lt. Fadhil Nasser.
They went on trial Tuesday,
accused of taking part in the
revolt led by Array Col. Abdel
Wahab Shawaf, who was killed
during the uprising in North
ern Iraq.
Col Naji and Lt. Nasser were
charged with piloting the planes
that bombed the Baghdad radio
compound outside the capital
and the two others with arming
their rockets. Little damage
was done in the bombing but
a sentry was killed.
WHAT IMPRESSED
MIKOYAN MOST?
SIX THINGS Anastas Mikoyon,
Soviet Deputy Premier, envied on
his recent trip through the United
States ore recoiled in an article in
This Week, Poge 4.
IN A CORNER of the District
thert is another "Holy Land." Visit
the Fronciscon Monastery with Sun
day, The Star Magasine, Poge S.
EASTER will find Children's Hos
pital as busy as ever. For a look
into thp wards at this time of the
veor see "Career Girl, 1959,” an
Page G-6 I the Woman's Section.
ICE SKATES are preparing tar
a big show, despite the season. The
Leisure Sportsman tells what it's
all obout in Star Sports. See Sec
tion H.
Complete Index on Page A-2