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THE EVENING STAR
WotA/ngfon, 0, C., Tui*ay, March If, 7959
TIBET
Nehru Will Attempt
To Obtain Truce
-J Continued From First Pace
to dominate large sectors of
tQe Kham and Ando regions
In the southeast and north
’ Hst.
i
f Leniency Offered
The official newspaper of
Red China, the Peiping Peo
ple's Daily, offered leniency to
rebels who surrender, but
promised severe punishment
* for those who "stubbornly re
sist.” The warning was broad
cast by Peiping Radio.
The newspaper said Red
China's purpose is to “wipe
out all the rebels” and to es
tablish peace and order. It
warned against any foreign
Intervention.
Two groups of petitioners
called on Mr. Nehru—lndian
nationals of Tibetan origin and
Tibetan nationals who reside
in India. Each group of about
100 presented the same re
quests:
1. India’s active support of
their demands for the safety
of the Dalai Lama.
2. Dispatch of an Indian:
mercy mission of doctors and
nurses to Lhasa to help those
wounded in last week’s fighting.
3. Assurance that India will
immediately refer Tibetan de
mands for autonomy to the
United Nations.
4. Permission for Tibetan
refugees to enter India freely.
Calls For Patlenee
"Have patience, the trouble
is not in Tibet alone” Mr. Nehru
told the petitioners. "It is
part of the whole world’s situa
tion. What we need is wisdom,
wisdom and patience, and
ultimate victory will be yours.”
“There is nothing you can
do here,” he said, "it is better
for you to return to your
homes. I will do my best.”
Mr. Nehru told the peti
tioners he was inquiring into
the whereabouts of the Dalai
Lama.
"I’ve no reliable information J
now,” he said “I only know
what I’ve read in the news
papers."
The Chinese Reds insist Ti
betan rebels abducted the Dalai
Lama and whisked him off to
South Tibet. Refugee circles
in India say the ruler fled to
escape Communist capture and
is now with holdout forces in
South Tibet.
Would Restore Dalai Lama
The Reds have elevated the
rival Panchen Lama in the ,
missing ruler’s place but indi
cated they would again make
the Dalai Lama head of the
local Tibetan government if he
returns smd collaborates with
them.
Mr. Lukhwangwa, Tibetan
Prime Minister from 1949-54
who headed the group of Ti
betan nationals, said the dele
agtions would go back t© North
east India as Mr. Nehru coun
seled. But he said a small
committee would remain in
New Delhi to maintain con
tact with the Indian govern-
VIRGINIA
Continued From First Page
return to a massive resistance
policy and assert the State’s
sovereignty in line with the
resolution of interposition
adopted in 1956.
Mr. Silverman said he regret
ted Gov. Almond did not accept
the group’s invitation to be on
hand to hear what it had to
say to him as well as about
him. Gov. Almond told the
group his schedule would not
permit him to be away from
his office at the time but said
he would be glad to receive a
delegation of as many as a
dozen from the group in his
office later. The crusaders
declined.
Gov. Almond had voiced his |
support of massive resistance,
during his campaign for Gov- I
ernor and had echoed that view
up to the first of this year.
When the resistance laws died
in court, however, the Governor
conceded there was nothing
more he could do to bar inte
gration.
“But his voice no longer rings;
out against Federal tyranny,
and it appears he wishes this
legislative body to surrender
and submit to the ruthless
might of Washington,” said Mr.
Silverman.
He said the members of the
crusade were on hand because [
they felt Gov. Almond had sur
rendered the State.
Long Fight Forecast
"The fight will be a long and
hard one. Many of our people i
will have to languish in Federal I
jails for refusing to obey the
edicts of Federal courts. . . .j
Virginians, however, have al
ways been ready to pay this
price,” said Mr. Silverman.
While the Perrow commis
sion’s recommendations re
mained secret, advance word
indicated it proposes to leave
intact a section of the State
constitution requiring Virginia
to maintain public schools. The
program generally would allow
localities and individual parents
a freedom of choice in main
taining public schools or oper
ating under a system of tuition
grants for private education.
During today's brief Assem
bly session a number of new
bills were introduced. Among
them were two measures by the
Richmond delegation providing
tax credits for individuals mak
ing contributions to private
schools.
Schools in Arlington. Alex
andria, Warren County and
Norfolk were desegregated last
month by Federal court de
crees. In Warren, however, all
white students have remained
out of the desegregated school.
ment and keep the Tibetan
refugee community advised of
developments.
The Peiping broadcast said
the Red Chinese Army, "active
ly helped by the people of
Tibet, both ecclesiastical and
secular.” has put down the
rebellion in the capital of
Lhasa and "is mopping up the
rebels in some other places in
Tibet.”
Bearing out predictions in
India, Peiping said the com
munication of Tibet, which
had been postponed until 1962,
must go into effect. But it
added the start of the opera
tion would be worked out with
the new Chinese hand-picked
regime. «
Democratic Reforms
"The TibetaA people ur
gently desire democratic re
form because they know that,
unless reforms are carried out,
Tibet cannot become prosper
ous and make progress,” the
People’s Daijy said.
The broadcast also repeated
earlier charges, denied by Mr.
Nehru yesterday, that the
northeast Indian trading center
of Kalimpong was the base for
the rebellion.
In Moscow, the Soviet army
newspaper Red Star accused
the United States and Britain
of backing and inciting the
Tibetan rebels.
"United States imperialists
tried to transform Tibet into
one of their main bridgeheads
for aggression against the Chi
nese people,” Red Star said on
a Moscow broadcast. -
Members of the Nationalist
Chinese Parliament on For
mosa continued to call for an
offensive agiinst the China
mainland to support the
Tibetan revolt. Various indi
vidual members also urged that
United States support of the
rebels be sought under the
mutual defense treaty between
Nationalist China and the
United States and that Clflang
Kai-shek’s government take the
rebels’ case to the United Na
tions.
Tea Firm Faces
Anti-Trust Suit
By the Associated Press
The Federal Trade Commis
sion has filed an anti-trust
suit gainst the Nation’s fifth
largest food chain, the National
Tea Co. of Chicago.
The FTC accused National
Tea of violating the Clayton
Act in acquiring 13 corpora
tions and their 440 stores dur
ing the last seven years. The
complaint said National Tea.
by acquiring competing firms,
may have substantially les
sened competition and tended
to create a monopoly.
The commission went beyond
the National Tea case and
criticized what it called in
creasing concentration in the
food industry. It reported that
20 per cent of the retail food
stores account for 72 per cent
of total sales.
The firm has 30 days to
answer the FTC complaint.
If the antitrust charges are
upheld, the commission could
force National Tea to get rid
of firms and stores it has
bought since 1952.
Eisenhower Receives
Armed Forces Hymnal
President Eisenhower today
received the first copy of a new
armed forces hymnal which the
Pentagon is distributing to all
service . units. The President
received his inscribed copy
from members of the Armed
Forces Board of Chaplains.
The new hymnal, replacing
the one published in 1941, is
the product of eight years’ re-
Workers of New York
Roast Mayor in March
.NEW YORK, Mar. 31 (AP).i
Mayor Robert F.
today got a roasting from a
throng of city workers, vari
ously estimated from 2,600 to
8,000, who marched around
City Hall Square to protest a
fiscal belt-tightening by the
city.
Mayor Wagner's Democratic!
city administration has said
it will be necessary to elimi
nate or reduce pay increases
for employes. The Mayor;
blames the Republican State
administration of Gov. Nelson
A. Rockefeller for failure to
grant the city certain taxing
powers.
The pickets turned out, be
ginning early in the morning,
despite rainy weather and the
threatened loss of pay for
leaving their jobs without per
mission.
Some Institutions Close
Some city institutions, such
as museums and the Bronx Zoo,
were forced to close for the day
ifrom lack of workers. But it
appeared that the demonstra
! tion had taken away from work
far fewer than the 30,000 which
'leaders had anticipated. The
I city has 80,000 empioyes.
The American Federation of
State, County and Municipal
Workers Union claimed 8,000
showed up for the picket march
around City Hall Park. Police
i put the figure at 2,600.
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PROTEST IN NEW DELHl—lndian demon
strators swarm in front of Red China’s Embassy
in New Delhi, India, yesterday, protesting Com-
Jury to Study
Alford Ballots
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Mar. 31
(AP).—A Federal grand Jury
today begins an examination of
ballots cast in last year’s elec
tion ’in which Representative
Dale Alford unseated veteran
Representative Brooks Hays.
The jury last week opened an
investigation of possible Fed
eral law violations in the victory
of Mr. Alford, who ran as a
write-in candidate, over Mr.
Hays, the Democratic nominee,
in the November general elec
tion. Mr. Alford, a segrega
tionist, criticized Mr. Hays’
willingness to accept Integra
tion.
Won by 1,200
Mr. Alford won by about
1,200 votes in Arkansas’ sth
district. Since then he has
been seated as a Democrat.
After hearing several wit
nesses on March 23, the grand
jury asked United States Dis
trict Judge J. Smith Henley to
impound all ballots and re
lated records in the six
county sth district.
Judge Henley issued the order,
and the jury recessed until to
day to permit the ballots to be
collected.
At Danville, Aik., a Yell
County official refused to turn
the ballots over to deputy
United States marshals because
the documents already had
been impounded in other litiga
tion in the State courts.
So far no action has been
taken to resolve the Yell County
1 situation.
Jury Has Ballots
\ The jury has the ballots from
[ the other five counties, includ
| ing Pulaski (Little Rock), the
[ heaviest voting in the State.
More than 60,000 votes were
cast in the Alford-Hayes con
, test.
The grand jury inquiry fol
i lowed an investigation by the
[ FBI on two specific complaints
I to the Justice Department. One
i of these charged that in cer
tain precincts more ballots were
counted than there were per
sons registered to vote. The
second alleged that anonymous
campaign literature, prohibited
by Federal statutes, was circu
lated. Attorney General Wil
■ liam P. Rogers said the com
, plaints came from responsible
sources, but he did not identify
them.
I
search and editing by repre
-1 sentatives of the Catholic,
Jewish and Protestant faiths.
: It contains separate sections
> for the three faiths, plus some
• common sections.
■ i Whatever the number, they j
made their unhappiness plain.
Mayor Wagner drew a re
sounding chorus of boos as his
' car brought him to City Hall at
1 midmoming.
Two pickets in Bermuda
■ shorts caried dead fish and!
signs reading: “Don’t Try to*
iHook Us With the Same Old |
i Line." Mayor Wagner has just
returned from a Bermuda va
-1 cation.
Other Jibes at Mayor
i Other placards bore similar
i , jibes, such as: “We Don’t Want j
: a Vacation in Bermuda—Just a
Living Wage” and “Bermuda;
Bob. Do Your Job.”
. At a news conference held
> amid the demonstration. Mayor
Wagner said he had received
• no report from any department
that absentees had impaired 1
essential city activities. He
added:
“I have been here for six
years and you get used to these
things.”
The Mayor explained that
money available for pay in
: creases will be spread about on
i merit rather than under pres
-1 sure.
The demonstration was
’ planned as a one-day affair.
I Police and Fire Departments
i and other vital services will
i not be affected by the stoppage,
: union leaders have said. The
I school system is not involved.
Churchill Is Robbed
Os Jewels and Cigars
LONDON, Mar. 31 (AP).—
Burglars broke into Sir Win
ston Churchill’6 home last night
and stole 4,500 pounds ($12,-
600) worth of jewels and furs
—plus an undetermined num
ber of his famous big cigars.
Sir Winston is vacationing in
Southern France. Lady Church
iH was spending the week end
with friends in Kent.
The burglars climbed over a
wall enclosing a garden at the
rear of the Hyde Park residence
and made their way in through
a third-floor window, appar
ently using a ladder.
The burglary was discovered
by the butler, Fritz Schmidt,
when he returned to the house
from a dinner engagement
shortly after midnight.
“The rooms all through the
house had been ransacked,” he
told a reporter. “I called Scot
land Yard immediately.”
Most of the loot belonged to
Lady Churchill, who will be 74
tomorrow. It included jewelry
worth about 1,500 pounds ($4,-
200) and furs valued at 3,000
pounds ($8,400).
The house has eight bed-
Bill Planned
ToCurb Risks
Os Radiation
The United States Public
Health Service woufd be given
full authority to protect the
Nation from the hazards of ra
diation under a bill Senator
Hill, Democrat of Alabama, will
introduce after the Easter re
cess.
Senator Hill, chairman of the
Labor and Public Welfare Com
mittee, said he is in full accord
with the National Advisory
Committee on Radiation, which
recommended recently that re
sponsibility for radiation con
trol should be vested, not in
the Atomic Energy Commis
sion, but in the one agency
which has no other responsi
bility than protecting the Na
tion’s health. The Senator
pointed out that the AEC has
other and possibly conflicting
responsibilities.
Senator Hill today advised
Dr. Russell Morgan, chairman 1
of the advisory committee, that j
his bill will give the Public
Health Service comprehensive
power to police all radiation
hazards.
Senator Hill also asked Sec
retary Flemming of the Depart
ment of Health, Education and
Welfare to co-operate in draft
ing the bill.
Federal Employes
Decrease Again
By the Associated Press
The sixth successive monthly
decrease in the number of
j civilian employes on the Gov
| ernment's payrolls was reported
yesterday.
Senator Harry F. Byrd, Dem
ocrat of Virginia, chairman of
the Joint Committee on Reduc
tion of Non-Essential Federal
j Expenditures, said the executive
; agencies reported they had
12.335,224 civilian workers in
February, a net reduction of
2,596 as compared with Jan
i uary. •
He said the civilian agencies
reported a rise of 3,237 in the
number of their workers, while
the military agencies reported
i the number of their civilian
j workers was down 5,833
enough to produce the over-all
net decrease.
Senator Byrd said the num
ber of civilians on payrolls of
the Army, Navy and Air Force
was 1,078,169. while the civilian
agencies reported 1,257,055.
Dock Strike Ends
PHILADELPHIA, Mar. 31
(AP). —Some 4,500 longshore
men returned to work yester
day in the port of Philadelphia,
ending a week-long stoppage in
dry cargo operations. The work
resumption resulted from a ten- 1
tative agreement reached Sat
urday night by union and em
ployer representatives at a
meeting with Federal Mediator
John R. Murray.
munist China’s abolishment of the Dalai Lama’s
regime in Tibet.—AP Wirephoto via radio from
New Delhi.
rooms and three reception
rooms.
In the absence of Sir Win
ston and his wife, the resi
dence was occupied only by
four servants.
“The 'four of us went out
last night together for dinner,”
said Schmidt. “We left at
about 7:15; returning after
midnight.”
“The thieves didn’t miss a
room. They pulled out drawers
all over the house, opened cup
boards and scattered the con
tents all around.”
The stolen Jewels included
an 18th century diamond
brooch and the gold-encrusted
collar and jeweled medal of
the Grand Dame of the British
Empire, a royal award received
by Lady Churchill several years
ago.
There Is a 24-hour police
guard on the Churchill house
when he and his wife,are in
residence. It stands in a dead
end street where there have
been a number of burglaries
in the past two years.
This is the first time the
Churchill home has ever been
broken into.
Teachers Go
On Strike
GARY, Ind., Mar. 31 (AP).—
Striking teachers picketed the
seven schools of the Calumet
Township Metropolitan school
district this morning, urging
arriving pupils to go back home
and challenging parents who
brought their youngsters. Re
duced classes were assembled
anyway.
Rudy Dittrich, principal of
Devault Grade School, said the j
teacher pickets demanded of
parents:
“Are you union?”
And if the reply was yes,
pickets said, “Well, take them
back home.”
Mr. Dittrich said the strikers,
members of Local 662 of the
American Federation of Teach
ers, also were telling children
there is no school.
About 5,000 pupils are in the
schools affected. Calumet
[Township senior and junior
high schools are Included.
The union struck after the
Metropolitan School Board,
formed last year in the town
ship outside Gary and Griffith,
announced it no longer would
consider the federation the bar
gaining agent for the teachers.
Mr. Dittrich said 10 of his
16 teachers were out, but classes I
were being conducted for 130
pupils who showed up, out of
340 scheduled to return this
morning after the Easter holi
day. Two hundred others were
due at noon under the school’s
staggered schedule.
Actress' Husband
Sues for Divorce
LOS ANGELES, Mar. 31
(AP).—Actress Vivian Vance.
45. who plays Lucille Ball’s pal
Ethel in TV’s “I Love Lucy.”
was sued for divorce yesterday
by actor Philip N. Ober, 50.
Mr. Ober declared Miss
Vance has treated him in a
cruel and inhuman manner
and caused him great mental
anguish.
The couple married August
18. 1941, at Marblehead, Mass.,
and separated last February 6.
Mr. Ober asked the court to
divide more than $160,000
worth of community property.
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Bullet Wound
Fatal lo Man i
■
Nathaniel Mlnick. 38, a de
liveryman shot on February 28
by thieves who stole the liquor
he was carrying but not the
money, died at Casualty Hos
pital early today.
Ffve youths trapped by police
in similar circumstances a
week later have been questioned
in the shooting, police said.
Mr. .Minick. who lived at
1834 Massachusetts avenue SE..
was making a delivery from
the Congressional Liquor Store,
406 First street S.E., to a
house in the first block of E
street N.W.
As he neared the house two
men approached, told him to
step into an areaway, and
1 grabbed at his uackages. In
the ensuing scuffle a shot was
fired, wounding Mr. Minick in
the stomach.
The assailants made off with
the four bottles of liquor, 12
cans of beer and jar of olives
he was carrying, but made no
attempt to rob him of some
S7O he had.
After the shooting, police
warned liquor store owners to
report any suspicious delivery
requests. On March 7 the
: owner of Brookland Liquors at
3000 Twelfth street N.E., alerted
police after receiving a tele
phone order to deliver whisky,
cigarettes and beer to a base
ment apartment in the 600
block of Girard street N.E.
Two detectives rode to the
address with the deliveryman
and found five youths, some
armed with blackjacks and
rocks, waiting in ambush.
Kansans Finally
Select 'Mother'
WICHITA, Kans.. Mar. 31
(AP).—A 67-year- old woman,
recuperating in a hospital
from injuries received in a fall,
was notified today that she has
been selected officially —as
Kansas mother of the year.
She is Mrs. Irene Henderson
Kelley of Atwood, mother of
three daughters and one-time
president of the Kansas Fed
eration of Business and Pro
fessional Women.
Announcement of the award,
by Mrs. John Selfridge of
Wichita, State chairman for
the American Mothers' Com
mittee, ended a period of con
fusion touched off by erroneous
mailing from its New. York
headquarters of selection let
ters to 40 Kansas women.
Three of those erroneous no
tices of selection were received
by members of her Selection
Committee, Mrs. Selfridge said.
She said Mrs. Kelley’s physi
cian reported she would be out
of the hospital in a few days.
She was injured in a fall a
week ago.
Cigarette Output
Sets Record
By the Associated Press
Americans stoked up a new
. record last year by smoking
; cigarettes at the rate of 185
i packs for every person 15 years
• of age and older.
1 The Agriculture Department,
in announcing the record yes
; terday, said last year’s cigar
, ette output was 470 billion—
. up 6 per cent from the 1957
i record.
I Last year's cost to smokers:
. $5 billion.
Eisenhowers Send
Glass Gifts to Akihito
TOKYO, Mar. 31 (AP).—Twoh
large boxes of Steuben glass- i
ware from President and Mrs. i
Elsenhower arrived In Tokyo i
by plane last night to join the l
growing collection of wedding i
gifts for Crown Prinoe Akihito i
and Miss Mtchiko Shoda. i
Reliable sources said the Ei
senhowers sent a crystal bowl |
and an electrically illuminated |
vase, valued at $1,400.
The American Embassy Is
expected to deliver them In the ;
next few days. The wedding
Is April 10.
Japanese law prohibits the
Crown Prince from accepting
gifts, so the-Diet (parliament)
hastily pushed through a bill
last month lifting the ban be
tween March 21 and April 30.
The first foreign gift to bei
received was a silver and gold 1
Peruvian objet d’art from Pres- j
ident Manuel Prado of Peru
and his wife.
The imperial household an- 1
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Dr. Harold P. Morris of the
National Cancer Institute at
the National Institutes of
> Health. Bethesda, will speak at
! the Prince Georges County Can
cer Crusade’s “kickoff” lunch- -
eon at 12 noon tomorrow at the
| First Methodist Church, 4318
Hamilton street, Hyattsville.