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HUNT HIM OUT!
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burns and black powder smudge
arou9d the wound. A man commit
ting suicide is always afraid he'll
miss. So he invariably thrusts the
end of the barrel against his head.
l don't, of course, know why Mr..
Grimm would want to commit sui
eide. l question if anybody knows.
Do any of you people?"
He watched their faces and saw
only blankness. No one spoke.
Mr.. Craig adjusted his tie, which
did not need to be adjusted. II rec
ognize suicide when l see it," he
assured them. And it's folly to
think it's anything else. I'll have all
you people cleared through the
proper authorities. Grimm's death
will 80 to the press as suicide.
There will be no further investiga-
tion."
liz SHOOK hands with Jameson,
nodded briefly to the others, and
left.
Ten minutes later, Reeves admit
ted him into a chemical and ballis-
tics laboratory.
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"Hmmm! Did you make a mold
of Grimm's hand?"
yes"
ANY nitrates imbedded in the
wax?"
Il don't know yet. The killers
hand, covering !Grimm's. received
most of the powder Combustion,
I'm quite sure. I'll make the nitrate
test now.
go ahead. I'll wait"
Reeves nodded. Deity he made
a solution from sulphuric acid,
Evening star., 1949-08-21

diphenylamine, and distilled water.
He applied this to the molds. In less
than twenty minutes dark specks
became visible on two of them.
HIS first one," Reeves pointed
out, was made of Grimm's hand,
and contains merely a trace But
here are six, and they include Jane
sons as we'll as the rest. Notice they
are all free from the nitrates except
one. But this one mold reveals the
guilty man. You can see the blush
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particles of nitrate blown into the
skin between thumb and first finger
caused by the invisible backfire of
the weapon"
Invisible backfire," repeated
Craig. $50 fine and so gentle that
the hand does not feel its effects.
Yet the killer is branded by the
same explosive force which de-
stroyed his victim"
MIR. CRAIG turned away and
walked to a window looking out on
the darkening Potomac. He was
facing difficult decision. 1t wasn't
question of right or wrong. Rather
it was concerned with the ultimate
effect of what he intended to do.
Suppose his reasoning was wrong?
He was thinking now of the gov
ernment geologist, killed in an auto
mobile accident. Remembering, also,
the woman typist who had been
found dead in gas-filled bedroom.
Was it merely a coincidence that
both these people had died the way
they did? And following their strange
deaths had come the apparent sui
eide of Marcus Grimm. Even the
security of the Directors home had
not protected Grimm. Grimm must
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Evening star., 1949-08-21

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Evening star., 1949-10-31
Toledo Man Kills Wife, Drives
To Detroit to Reveal S|uyinqs
BY the Associated Press

DETROIT, Oct. 31.-A Toledo
businessman. enraged by his third
wife's interest in teaching music,
beat her to death with a hammer
early today and then fatally
wounded her mother.
Tossing aside the hammer, he
jumped in his car and raced to
Detroit to tell his daughter about
it. He was stopped twice on the
way for speeding and released
when he told officers he was ION
a very important errand."
The 67-year-old building ma
terial salesman, John A. Harding,
was held here for Toledo police
II couldn't resist it," he told
Patrolman Walter O'Dell of Crosse
Pointe Woods. i've had the i'm
pulse for weeks"
officers in Toledo, notified by
authorities here, rushed to the
big. rambling Harding home. They
found Mrs. Mildred Harding. 46,
dead in her bedroom. Nearby was
her mother. Mrs. Maude Thomp-
son, critically injured.
Mrs. Thompson died at S am,
in Toledo hospital.
When Harding arrived at Crosse
Pointe Woods, an elite Detroit
suburb. he aroused his daughter,
Mrs. Robert Goodhand.
HE seemed breathless and de-
pressed" she told police. He
started to tell me something and
finally blurted out, You might as
well know. I've just killed Mil
dred and her mother. I hit them
with hammer. I'm pretty sure
they're dead"
Mrs. Goodhand was a daughter
of one of Mr.. Harding's earlier
marriages.
BY the time police officers called
by Mrs. Goodhand came to the
house. however, Harding had
grown calm. -.
Thanks Police.
Thank you for coming. gentle
men," he said. I'm very sorry
at getting you out so early. But
this Is important. killed two
people in Toledo-my wife and
her mother"
Under questioning by Mr..
ODell. Harding said he had mar
ried his wife is years ago, just at
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Hoffman
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would have a multitude of helpful
consequences.

would have a multitude of helpful
consequences.
1T would accelerate the devel-
opment Of large scale, low-cost
production industries. It would
make the effective use of all re-
sources easier, the sitting OF
healthy competition more diff
cult"
Mr.. Hoffman said 1t was his
considered request" that the
Marshall Plan countries have by
early 1850 "a record of accom-
plishment and a program which
together will take Europe well
along the road toward economic
integration."
Concrete Results Needed.
limiting that the United States
was going to demand concrete re-
suits from its aid funds, Mr.. Hoff-
man continued:
''The people and the Congress
OF the United States. and. I am
sure "a great majority Of the
people of Europe have instinc-
lively felt that economic integra-
ton IS essential If there is to be
an end to Eurone's recurring eco
nomic crises.
"A European program to this
end-one which would show real
Evening star., 1949-10-31
4 rs the Ana01an 3olux !!

DILL FREEMAN would be the first to tell
- you he's no exception; you'll find
FOLKS like him on every Main Street in the
country. Folks who today are opening up
new frontiers" for themselves in the
American "do-it-yoursef'' spirit. They're
making their own energy and ideas add up
to better life for themselves and their
families and for America
An example of the strength of this do-it-
yourself spirit is all around you: 78 million
Americans, wanting to take care of their
own on their ouss, are providing for their
wives and children through life insurance.
Their Life insurance serves another way,
as well. It indirectly makes Opportunities
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talked about it and I've tried tx
get rid Of it," he said. II thought
it was gone. But it broke out
today"
He gave this description of the
killing to ODell:
TITS been hell for Is years. She
was so busy I thought she was
giving me the brushoff. I've had
an impulse to kill. not her partic-
ularly, but any one.
Came Back With Hammer.
Last night we went to movie
It was the first time she had been
out with me in weeks. We got
back and she went up to 60 to
bed. I followed her up and some
thing she said. that didn't hear
very we'll. led me to think she
might be cheating on me.
thought that would explain her
GOODNESS.
Il went down and got the ham
mer out Of tool drawer in the
pantry. I came up and she was
in bed reading. I held the ham,
mer behind me until I got beside
her. Then I struck her on the
head.
"Her mother came in from
another room. didn't have. any
thing against her mother. She
had lived with us for three years
and there wasn't any unpleasant
ness because she was there. But
when I saw her I let her have it,
too"
Harding came to Detroit, he
said, because Mrs. Goodhand had
"a smart husband who might have
good advice to give me-"
On the way he stopped at Tenn
Evening star., 1949-10-31
Britain and Canada
Open Talk With u. ).
On Customs Difficulty

Representatives of the United
States, Britain and Canada are
meeting here today in the first
Of series of discussions aimed
at smoothing out some customs
technicalities facing a foreign ex-
porter who wants to sell goods in
this country.
The talks began at II am. with
q warm-up meeting at the Treas
ury Department, in which the
visiting experts were greeted by
Undersecretary of the Treasury
Edward H. Foley, jr., and Customs
Commissioner Frank Dow.
Later this afternoon, the first
working session is to get under
way at the Customs Bureau, 1912
H street NV.
Treasury officials emphasized
the talks will be strictly confined
w VAlS lldkc
nothing to do with the question
OF lowering this country's tariff
barriers to foreign products.
They are designed to inform
American officials about the diff
culties British and Canadian ex-
porters encounter in the red-tape
snarl of United States customs
procedures-and to give British
and Canadian officials a better
understanding of those procedures.
One possible outgrowth of such
discussions, it was said. is legis-
lation designed to simplify the
United States customs system,
removing some of the principal
technical barriers to the influx
of foreign goods.
It is expected that similar talks
will be held in the next few
months with other countries fac
ing similar problems in their
dealings with the United States,
the Treasury Department an
Hounced.
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lisa fact that the earnings on life insur.
ance assets are Of direct financial impor.
tance to every policyholder j.. because:
. The premiums you pay do not cover all
the costs of insuring you. -
Income earned by the investment of life
insurance assets pays part of the cost Out
Of each dollar of total income of all life
insurance companies, about SOf now comes
from premiums and about 20s from invest
ment earnings. >..
Iftherate of interest available on prudent
investments were higher, the cost of life in.
smance to you could be lower. ,-
Life insurance is a sevvicel Your agent d
trained to help you use it most effectively.
The Institute Of Life Insurance central
source of information go East 42nd Street,
New York II, N. Y.
Evening star., 1949-10-31

promise Of taking this great for
ward step successfully-would, ]
strongly believe, give new impetus
to American support for carrying
through into 1852 our joint effort
toward lasting European. recov-
cry"
Mr.. Hoffmap's speech climaxed
numerous recent demands that
Europe do something more posi-
tive toward unification while the
American aid program is still in
effect.
AS Mr.. Hoffman spoke, the
OEEC Council had on its agenda
a British proposal for all member
states to eliminate trade quotas
on so per cent of their commerce
with other members.
Asian Aid Plan Proposed.
An American official disclosed
here yesterday that United States
experts are drawing preliminary
plans for Marshall Plan in Asia
designed to help halt the spread
OF communism in the Orient. He
predicted that the project would
win support in Congress. The pro-
jected program would not involve
as large an outlay of money as the
system Of American aid now func-
tioning in Europe.
Early estimates contemplate q
request to Congress next summer
for 81 1000 900 900 to $1,25o, ,000, 900
for the first year of the proposed
Asia program. said the informant.
Smaller requests would taper of
the program in the next two OF
three years, just as it is intended
to ease OF Marshall Plan appro-
priations for Europe.
The informant saids the experts
believe the following countries
should be invited to participate :
India. Pakistan, Ceylon, Burma,
Australia. New Zealand, the
Philippines and perhaps In
donesia and Viet-Nam, the In
dochinese state recently given in
creased self government by
France. Emphasis would be
placed particularly on aiding
those countries which have the
Chinese Communists at their
doorstep.
Evening star., 1949-10-31

Il ask you to keep uppermost in
your minds this thought: you are
not merely partaking in laud-
able civic effort, but you are rem
dering personal service to Christ
Who identified Himself with every
needy person, For I was hungry
and you gave me to eat; I was
thirsty and you gave me to drink:
I was stranger and you took me
in; naked and you covered me:
sick and you visited me- May your
response to Christ's plea merit His
promise of reward: Come, blessed
of my Father. take possession of
the kingdom prepared for you
from the foundation of the world" I"
Evening star., 1949-10-31

perance, Mich. and awakened his
son Robert. He told him and his
wife. you won't know what I've
done until you see the papers to-
day"
I'm relieved" he told Ralph
CARRIER. chief assistant prosecutor.
1--WE been suffering for a long
time. This wouldn't have happened
if she had been a good wife. But
I feel relieved now, even If I burn
for it."
Harding owns several buildings
in Toledo. His wife was widely
known as popular radio enter
tainer as we'll as music teacher.
She conducted her music classes
at their home.
Evening star., 1949-10-31
Chest
Continued From First Page.)

avenue NV, and the final parade
will begin November % at Con-
necticut avenue between and K
streets NV.
Police Supt. Robert J. Barrett
has cleared orders for all four
Community Chest demonstrations,
with a different route for each
leading from the point of assem-
bly, to the Washington Hotel,
where the Chests report lunch
cons are held.
First Report Due Today.
All the drives major units were
to bring in their first returns, in
cluding those in the five nearby
communities covered by the Chest
Federation. The units are: Gov
eminent. Business I Qarge firms
Business II (small firms), resi-
Dental, advance gifts, Alexandria
Arlington, Prince Georges, Fairfax
and Montgomery.
A sizeable group of Washington
business firms was expected to re-
port completion Of solicitation.
Some Government units were ex-
pected to report 100 per cent OF
their quotas already achieved.
Thousands of churchgoers yes
terday heard appeals from the
city's clergy to give generous sup
port tq the drive.
Pastoral Letter Read.
The Most Rev. Patrick A.
OBoyle, Archbishop of Washing
ton, addressed a pastoral letter to
all Catholics in which he declared
that the drives Red Feather SYM
Dol should also mean to Catho-
lies the traditional color signifyine
Christian charity - love Of God
and love of neighbor."
Archbishop O'Boyle's letter was
read in all Catholic churches.
THE purpose of the Community
Chest-the assistance Of the poor,
the helpless, the aged and the
handicapped-is a forceful recon-
mendation and an impelling mo-
tive for its support by all of our
Catholic people," declared the
archbishop.
THE motive becomes even more
compelling" he continued, when
we realize that the Community
Chest Fund substantially assists
many who, as st. Paul says, have
a special demand on our charity
as members of the household of
the faith
Personal Service to Christ.
"A contribution to the Cemmu-
nifty Chest campaign Is an express
sion Of your charity toward your
fellow citizen. and without such
charity our Christian civilization
cannot survive; 1t Is an indorse-
ment of the primacy in our COM
munity- Living OF the religious con-
cept Of life. .
In urging you to support this
campaign" the letter concluded.
Evening star., 1949-10-31
CIO

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Evening star., 1949-10-31
laborer Freed After Quiz
In Park S|ayinq Of Boy

Release Of 48-year-old laborer
n the Harrison M. Walker mur-
der case left police without an
apparent lead today.
The colored man was arrested
Saturday in Shows court NV,
near the home of the 8-year-old
colored boy whose body was found
in Rock Creek October 8. Police
wanted to check on his move
ments the day of the murder
and thereafter.
Satisfied that he could throw
no light on the crime, police let
him 60 yesterday.
Evening star., 1949-10-31

for more jobs, for better schools and high
ways =. for better living. These oppor-
tunities come from life insurance dollars
invested in industry and government, in
homes and on farms.
Since life insurance does so much for 90
many, more and more people turn to it
every year. While life insurance must grow
to meet their needs, the business remains
a personal business, too. For each Of the
country's 10000 trained life insurance
agents givo~ '';s individual service to the
men and \ in his community. These
Agents It 584 individual life in
surance co.4-.>anies competing actively to
help Americans help themselves! f.
Evening star., 1949-10-31

anti-Communist groups in the
CIO.
They are deep and fundamen-
tal." Mr.. Murray said.
He described some of the prac-
tices he said were carried out by
the left-wing elements. then con-
cluded with:
Certain definite. constructive
constitutional changes designed to
put an end to these practices in
CIO will be offered. 1t is my hope
that this convention will respond
to the recommendations of your
committees when they are placed
before you on this subject"
Harry Bridges, president of the
longshoremen and outspoken left
winger, had no comment on Mr..
Murray's remarks. Donald Hen
derson. head of the Food, Tobacco
and Agricultural Workers, said he
would reply on the convention
f1oor-possibly later today.
The three top officers of the i'm
portant United Electrical Workers
were absent at the opening ses-
sion. They are President Albert
J. Fitzgerald. Secretary Treasurer
Julius Emspak and Organization
Director James j. Matles. No ex-
planation was given for their alb
sence.
Battle Already Under Way.
Casting out of the left-wing
unions would not necessarily mean
shearing off the nearly 1000, 900
members Of those unions. Plans
are ready to move In fast and set
up rival right-wing units in the
contested fields.
The action, If It actually occurs
at the convention or Just after the
f1ve-day conclave, will touch of
drives to recapture the left-wing's
rank-and-file membership for the
CIO. That would be certain to
be resisted-possibly by creation
of a third labor federation, even
though such step Is pooh-pooed
by the left-wing leaders now.
The ,slam-bang organizational
warfare already has begun. That
is part of the reason for a last
minute weakening of the left
wing front.
MIR. Bridges and leaders of the
United Electrical Workers made
l1th-hour appeals to Mr.. Murray
to give them a face-saving way
to remain in the CIO. Mr.. Muir
ray listened in private, but pointed
to the convention floor for the
answer.
Three Most Likely to Go.
The three unions most likely to
be booted out are the United Elec-
trical Workers; Mine, Mill and
Smelter Workers. and Farm
Equipment Workers. Merger Of
the electrical and farm unions
last week gave the rightists one
more argument for removing those
two unions. because the farm
equipment union almost a year
ago had been ordered by the CIO
Executive Board to merge with
Walter Reuther's United Auto
Workers.
The other unions are Bridges
Longshoremen, the Marine Cooks
and Stewards, the American Com
munications Association, the
Food, Tobacco and Agricultural
Workers; Fur and Leather Work.
ers, Furniture Workers, Fishermen
and Allied Workers, United Pub
lie Workers and United Office and
Professional Workers.
After Mr.. Murray'S keynote
speech Secretary OF State Acheson
was scheduled to address the dele
gates.
Evening star., 1949-10-31

MRS. MILDRED T, HARDING,
Killed by hammer blo,Ds.
-AP Wirephotos.
the time she was gaining promi-
nence as a pianist and violin
teacher.
Harding said he had become
frenzied over his wife's devotion
to music and her lack of interest
in him.
I've gone to doctors and I've
Evening star., 1949-10-31
Labor
Continued From First Page.)

steel supplies. The move affected
two Chevrolet and one Fisher
Body plant in Flint. General Mo-
tors was expected to put some
Of its factories on a four day
week starting today.
Pennsy Income Declines.
3. Nash Motors announced last
Saturday it would suspend as
sembly of cars at its two main
plants in Wisconsin about the
middle of November because OF
steel and coal shortages. That
would affect about 10000 workers
4. The Pennsylvania Railroad
reported today that the coal anc
steel strikes have chopped $21..
100000 from the roads earnings
this month. For the first nine
months of this year the railroad
reported a deficit of s1,573,635
compared with a net gain of $2O,.
441,156 for the same period last
year.
S. Violence in the coal fields
was reported over the week end
Two coal truck drivers in the
Clearfleld County area in Penn
sylvania said they were fired on
Alabama authorities said they re-
ceived telephone warning that a
gang would try to free four men
arrested on a charge of ambush
ing coal truck. The threat did
not materialize and the men were
out Of jail on bond today.
Coal Talks May Be Brought Here.
Government conciliators, mean
while, showed signs of centering
attention more actively on the coal
strike. Cyrus w. Ching, Federal
mediation head, continued to
strive for an agreement in the
steel strike, but it was reported
that Federal officials will call the
coal talks to Washington.
Mr.. Ching was represented as
feeling that something must be
done this week to spur the coal
contract talks to a faster pace.
John L. Lewis, United Mine Work.
ers chief, limited last Saturday
that he might call out the 10000
anthracite miners and 10000 min
ers west of the Mississippi to
join the soft coal strikers. Nego-
tiations between the mine union
and Northern and Western opera
tors have been broken off entirely
by the operators.
The pension aspect and other
issues of the steel controversy
were debated last night by Secre-
tary Of Labor Tobin and Her.
man w. Steinkraus, president OF
the United States Chamber o1
Commerce.
Tobin Denies Moral ISSUE"
Mr.. Tobin declared that tn,
presidential boards findings, &C
cepted by the union, were fair
Mr.. Steinkraus blamed the strik'
on the union. He said more tim,
should have been given to stud,
Of the complex question. H,
suggested that both parties com
to Washington to work out pen
sion plan with the help of Gov
ernment officials.
Mr.. Tobin said he thought ther,
was no great moral issue" in
volved, and he added:
If a steel company official en-
joys an employer-paid pension O.
$4,000 a year. I can't see VIII!
there is any objection to employer.
paid pensions for the rest of tn,
industry's workers"
Mr.. Steinkraus said Mr.. Muir.
rays insistence on employer-paic
pension health insurance woulc
remove the incentive element from
the American economic system
He compared it with what /.
happening in England. Under ar
employer-paid insurance system
he said, "every individual woule
be a kept woman or a kept man.
Evening star., 1949-10-31

SAO1ltl1luCO 1Olu T Ii oG 1dSG.J f.
of this Qeft-wing) group that
they are not serving the interest
o fthe Communist Party in this
convention will satisfy this dele
CATION"
The convention opened With the
CIO torn wide open by the worst
factional war in its history.
Top UE Officers Absent.
Mr.. Murray said there was ne
way to reconcile the differences
between the pro- Communist .ane
Evening star., 1949-10-31

The British Empire is tho
worlds biggest producer Of cacao,
with Brazil second.
Evening star., 1949-01-20
| Telescope May Be Used
lin Detection OF Cancer
By the Assoeiofed Press

BALTIMORE, Jan. 2O.-Astrono-
my's seeing -1eye telescope, the
Schmidt mirror, has been trained
now on man, and one of his mortal
Affections.
The Schmidt mirror sees wide
area of the sky in a single photo,
and this principle may make mass
examinations for detection of stom-
ach cancer possible.
Large-scale tests employing the
device in process called photof1u-
ography are under way at the Johns
Hopkins Hospital under auspices of
the United States Public Health
Service.
Physicians are hoping that from
the current experiments may come
examination programs for the larg-
est possible number of presumably
healthy people. Their immediate
aim is to approach what chest X
rays accomplish in the fight on tu-
berculosis.
The undertaking at Hopkins is
Evening star., 1949-01-20

the first Of its kind for stomach
cancer. It is under direction Of
Drs. Robert Sloan, John Roach and
Russell Morgan.