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Evening star., 1949-03-20
Treasure In A Trash Pile
ALLAN GOULD

dump. Suddenly the Geiger counter began
to click in excitement. The bulldozer moved
in to attack, uncovered six feet of rubbish
and there was the tube
I'VE had another case in New Jersey"
said kearney, where physician lost five
radium-filled platinum-iridi needles He
thought that they might have gone out
with the trash in a cardboard carton.
The trash was traced to the dump where
the operator saw man salvaging cardboard
boxes He took them to bakery. That was
where the needles were found In the bot
tom of box of bread"
Can't Get At II
RADlUM is practically indestructible In
more than one case radium sleuth has
tracked down a missing tube without being
able to do anything about it. One capsule
was located1n the ashes used as base for
concrete sidewalk. But it would cost too
much to break up the concrete. 50 the side
walk remains radioactive
Radium is also being stolen as we'll as lost
In one case radum sleuth equipped with
list of "a addresses of employees of labora-
tory cruised slowly along the streets The
snout protruding from his car looked like
machine-gun barrel 1t was attached to
Geiger counter. As the operator passed the
23rd address, the instrument began to click
huniedly. Under pile of socks in the
employees bureau drawer he found the
missing radium.
Not long ago kearney was puttering
around with counter" in his own Office
when the instrument started clicking. He
walked it to the door where it showed more
agitation.
Kearney had the door sill and some floor
ing removed and sure enough there was
radium needle. How long it had been there
no one knows
IN be darned." said kearney.
EMILE c. SCHUMACHER
Evening star., 1949-03-20

Henry kearney tracks down
missing bits of radium. They
may turn up anywhere - from
a city dump to a breadbox
W7HEN tiny bit of precious radium is
w lost or stolen. chances are grizzled
New Yorker by the name of Henry B.
Kearney will hear about it. Radium- hunter
kearney will have pretty good idea of
where to look. His experience shows that
the radium probably will be found, with the
aid of Geiger counter. in some unglamorous
place like city dump or sewer.
There are exceptions: Once it was traced
to the innards of radioactive pig; another
time to musically inclined sneak thief who
was trying to use radium-filled needle to
play Chopin record. In third case hen
named Mathilda betrayed herself by click
ing instead of clucking when the Geiger
counter was brought around
They'll Spot Il
DESPITE its size radium capsule or needle
is harder to conceal than an elephant when
you're searching with Geiger counter"
says kearney. An operator with a Geiger
field set can spot gram of radium at 5000
feet by its clicking. Even SIS milligram
Zone twenty y-eight thousandth of an ounce)
can be heard at 20 feet
One afternoon a radium sleuth raced
to the office of a frantic physician who
had lost a 100 -milligram piece Of ra-
dunn 1t was traced to the bandage worn
by woman patient. The woman had dis
carded the bandage in her home The tube
had dropped to the floor 1t had been picked
up by a vacuum cleaner. From there evi-
dence pointed to garbage can, refuse
truck and finally a dump.
A quickly summoned bulldozer numbered
behind as the operator walked over the
Evening star., 1949-02-21
United States Travel Agency
To Indicate lis Unofficial

The Federal Trade Commission
today approved an agreement
which requires the United States
Travel Agency, Inc, Sl5 Fifteenth
Evening star., 1949-02-21
Red Zone Police Loot
Berlin Subway Riders
Al Sector Border

BERLIN, Feb. Il (NANA).-
Some Of the richest men In Ger
many these days are the German
Russian police who operate along
the Russian sector border In sub
way and other city trains.
Daily, Western-sector inhabit-
ants are experiencing what peo-
ple'S democracy really means.
These German police have COM
plete control. They enter the sub
way. forcing all who carry ruck-
sacks. packages or shopping bags
to leave the train.
-Pocketbooks are searched first.
Any woman carrying West marks
loses them to the police. Food is
confiscated; even flowers are
seized. Twice passengers have
tried to beat up the police. so now
these men have been given police
dogs for protection.
Recently on a train which left
Potsdam for Berlin. packages had
been seized and the train was pro-
ceeding when one woman spied
another sitting with her pocket
book on her lap. She screamed,
That's my handbag the police
took away" The crowd surrounded
the woman holding the bag, while
the claimant opened it, disclosing
her identification cards. The bag
also contained butter, bacon and
flour.
Husband q Policeman.
That's not mine." said the
owner Of the bag. The other
woman finally explained. MY
husband Is q policeman and gave
the bag to me. The food was taken
from other passengers on the
train and I am to sell 1t in Berlin"
Another time, Ebba. q 12-year-
old girl. proudly showed her
friend Winfried a package from
the United States. Mother and
Ebba were waiting until father
came home to open it.
I'VE get packages every day"
remarked Winfried.
All Germans are interested in
neighbors having friends in the
States. so Ebba's mother ques-
toned Winfried on where they
were and what they sent. Win
fried answered. "We don't have
friends in the States. My father
brings the packages home. He
brings home money, too" Then.
looking around the room. she
added, your furniture is old. We
have all new furniture
Ebba's mother finally asked.
Where does your father work."
Hes a policeman in the Rus
sian sector" was the answer.
Winfried was sent home and
told not to return.
Paper Reports Incidents.
A Berlin newspaper has asked
all passengers to remember the
names of the police who take
away their belongings, also to re-
member those who are kind to
them. Under the heading, Rob
berry Of Luggage, this paper now
prints the names Of the policemen
and the stations where the con-
fiscationS occurred.
The police don't always win.
however. Recently several truck
owners agreed to make a trip with
IS trucks into the Soviet sector
for coal. AS expected, they were
stopped ct. the border. While the
driver prepared to show his papers.
his colleagues bound the police
man to a tree and proceeded.
Evening star., 1949-02-21

used n the eorporatiopS sdvsr-
tising matter and letterheads.
President Of the corporation Il
John e. Smith, jr.
Evening star., 1949-02-21

street N.W.s't0 stipulate that it
lis not . Government agency.
The agreement notes, the Com
mission said. that use Of the
The Nome nugget., 1949-10-19
Nominate Wall- gren To Power Commission

WASHINGTON, CP)-President Truman today named former Gov. Mon. C. Wallgren of Washington State as a member of the federal power commission.
 The President, at the same time, nominated James M Mead, for mer Democratic Senator from New York, to be a member of the federal trade commission.
 Wallgren was chosen to succeed Leland s. Olds, whose nomination for third term on the power com mission was rejected by the Sen ate in one of its major rebuffS to the President. The term expires June P, 1854.
 Wallgren's own nomination to the post of chairman of the Ma tional security resources board was shelved last March by the Senate armed services committee in another setback for MT. Tru- man. The President two months later withdrew that nomination.
 Wallgren's new nomination also is subject to Senate confirmation.
 However, Senators who opposed him for the resources board said they would have no objection to his appointment to another post.
 Both Wallgren and Mead are former members of the old Senate war Investigating com m i [ e e when it was headed by MT. Truman, then a member of the Senate.
 Mead was named to the trade commission to succeed Garland s. Ferguson for the term of seven years from Sept. 26, 1948.
The Nome nugget., 1949-10-19
Vishinsky Talks Of "Centlemen's Agreement

WASHINGTON, (P)-Secretary of State Acheson said today Soviet foreign minister Vishinsky is wrong in claiming that election of YugoSlavia to the U. N. security council would be illegal and con- trary to a gentlemen's agreement.
 Acheson drily told news con ference that as an eastern Euro pean Slav communist state, Yugo- slavia appears to be fully quail fled for a council seat, except that from Russia's point of view-it presently lacks complete domina- ton by the Kremlin.
 Acheson discussed the Ameri- can-Russian row over YugoSlavia as result of statements made by the Soviet foreign minister at a news conference in New York yesterday.
 Vishinsky said that what he called Anglo-American backing for Yugoslavia as a small nation, Eastern European member of the council would be illegal, would violate a gentlemen's agreement and would have painful effects" on United Nations affairs.
 Acheson said he thought that Vishinsky had implied that there was an understanding-evidently among the great powers-that he would be able to name a member of the council. Achesos asserted that was an agreement that he had never heard of.
 In response to a question, he said that there had been a kind of practice of selecting small na- tion members of the council on a regional basis and more or less by agreement among the nations in each region.
 The council has II members in all-fiVe are the so-called great powers which hold their seats per manently and six are elected every two years.
The Nome nugget., 1949-10-19
Proposed Land Not Suitable
 For Agriculture

PALMER, Alaska, (P)-TerritO- rial conserVationist Charles Will son of Palmer explained last week why the interior department has called the Dunbar withdrawal area near Fairbanks unsuited for mass agricultural development.
 He said studies made by the soil conservation service and the U. s. Geological survey disclosed that 30 per cent of the land in the area is permanently frozen swamp; 30 per cent is mountainous and un- suited to farming other than graz ing, and that of the remaining 40 per cent possibly fit for farming, only Is per cent has definitely been proved free of ice.
 Wilson said the report did not mean independent farming could not be carried on in the area.
 "Theer's some mighty fine land in there on which a hard-wOrking farmer no doubt could earn a good living" he declared, adding the land probably will be reOpened to independent settlement in the near future.
 He said the main agricultural drawback was that ice masses form through alternate periods of severe freezing and thawing, caus- ing the earth to shift and settle un-- evenly.
 Wilson said he expected reports on the Ninilchik, Fritz Creek, Ke- mai and Kasilof withdrawal areas to be made public by Dec. 1.
The Nome nugget., 1949-10-19
States Get Alaska's Cold And Snow
.fBy The Associated lPreSS)

A sWirling white previeW of winter banked five-foot snow drifts in Montana yesterday and dipped temperatures in the Rocky Mountains area as low as 12 de- grees.
 The windy snowfall was in con- traSt to the pleasant autumn Wea- ther which prevailed over most of the eastern half of the country.
 North winds, recorded at 55- mile speed in top gusts, piled the snow which fell mainly on the eastern slops of the Northern Rockies and in the northwest plains adjacent. The actual fall ranged from six inches at Cut bank, Mont, and five inches in Yellowstone National Park to ap- proximately one inch in most of the area.
 No emergency conditions were caused by the storm, authorities said. The early morning minimum of 12 degrees above zero was re- ported at Cutbank. The mercury was under the freezing mark at most Montana points.
 Washington state thermometers dropped like a bearish stock mar ket early today, but the weather man held out hopes that the cold snap soon would give way to warmer readings.
 Early morning readings showed a nippy 20 at Yakima in central Washington and 3 at Olympia. Walla Walla and Spokane regis tered 24 and Tacoma 25. It was 26 at Hoquiam, degree warmed at Bellingham, and the 29-degree reading at the Boeing airport in Seattle was the seasons lowest to date.
 (The temperature in Nome at TOO am. this morning was 38 de- greeS above zeroD
The Nome nugget., 1949-10-19
HALLOWEEN SURPRISE FOR NOME KIDS

A big surprise is in store for all the Kids" of Nome, big and small, on the evening of Hallow- cen.
 Through the generosity of some of our local merchants a real treat is promised. We have been asked not to reveal the surprise at this time, but~-will have more to say Friday. .......
The Nome nugget., 1949-10-19

LONDON, (P)-What does the well dressed man wear to the South Pole country?
 Gay Woolen plaids and stripes in bright warm colors-that's the stuff chosen by an Anglo-SWedish Norwegian expedition leaving for Antarctica next month on a three year expedition.
 Patterns have been selected to relieve the monotony of the polar snows," said a member of the ex- petition.
The Nome nugget., 1949-10-19
Secy. Syntington Opens Barrage. On Navy Critics

WASHINGTON (P)-Air Secre- tary Symington, hitting back at navy critics of the air force, ac- cused them yesterday of peddling old, false" tales and of letting possible enemies know "how this country would be defended"
 Symington, hinted, too, that the navy is circulating a second anon ymOus document. He said one is in circulation that attempts to rip apart strategic bombing and is "far more dangerous than the first"
 Symington was before the House armed Servoces committee, lead ing off the air force rebuttal to navy complaints against defense policies.
 In long hearings, the navy has complained that present policy puts too much stress on the air force B-36 big bomber and cut down on the navy.
 Admiral after admiral has taken the stand to belittle the posSibili- ties of the bomber. Their general contention has been that the big plane could not get through an enemy's defenses and would ac- complish little if it did.
 Symington said the B-36 still is "the best long-range bomber known"
 He added:
 ''The ability to fight from our own shores at the start of any war should not be looked on with con- tempt"
 The B-36 was designed with the idea that it would be able to fly from bases in this country on mis- sions against an enemy in any part of the world.
 Major missions would be hitting war production centers of the en- emy. This type of air war is called strategic bombing"
 Symington, when he told of the new anonymous document, said it is entitled "the strategic bombing myth"
 He said it is circulating around the country and has a disturbing similarity" to arguments the com- mittee has been hearing from the navy-even identical quotations.
 It is far more dangerous than the first document, Symington went on, because it attacks meth ods, principles, and objectives up- on which the country must rely in the event of war.
 The first anonymous document which has figured in the navy-air force row was circulated on Capi- tol Hill last summer. It suggested that the B-36 procurement pro- gram was surrounded by irregu- larities and instances of political pull.
 It touched off an investigation by the House committee. Finally, Cedric Worth, then a navy depart ment official,fi admitted he wrote it.
The Nome nugget., 1949-10-19
Ice Cream Center,

Ice Cream Center. owned by Nels Swanberg, Jr., moved its To- cation ytseerday and is now be- tween Munz Airlines and Wis Ap- parel Shop. Their former location was vacated as Cavota's is re- ported to be moving into that To- cation from Third Ave.
The Nome nugget., 1949-10-19

In the first 90 days of the inva- sion of Europe, the Army issued 125 million maps.
The Nome nugget., 1949-10-19

Legal Blanks at The Nugget office
Evening star., 1949-06-19
Miss Murray
Is Married
.InDunkirk

The wedding Of MIss Jessie
Kennedy Murray and Mf, Pred
eriek Campbell Thompson. bosh
OF Dunknk. N. Y. took place IN
81. Johns EplGccpal Church In
that city on Saturday. juns II,
Mrs. Thompson 10 the only
daughter Of Mr., and Mrs. lswts
Newton Murray of Dsinkirk. Her
mother. the former Miss narhafa
Kaufman. Ia o native ard
former residsn, of Washington.
where she made her debut and
wAs married.
After attending ths Madeira
School here. Mfs. Thompson was
n student al Dana Hall, WELLESLEY. i.
Mas. The bridegroom Ia . metal
lursist engaged In steel manaiss-
turing.
The wedding reception was hsid
outdoors at Dunkeid. residence OF
the brides parents, on us* shore
of iAks Erie Just ositsidf of Dun
kirk. Both Mira, Murray and Mira
Thompson have many relatives
and friends In Washington. and
among thnas who attended from
herr acre Mira Rudolph Msx
Kaufman. Mr.. and Mrs. esfs,usl
Hay Kaufman. Miss Joan kaafT-
mann. Mr.. and Mrs John Hoy
Kaufman, Mrs, L<si Cooks ard
Capt. Jamea o. Oawns. y. D ~.
and Mrs. 0a~ns.
/ Followlng tl1sir h0raeyfnpnn Mr..
and Mrs. Thompson viii uaaks
their tsnfns la f1inkiyk4
Evening star., 1949-06-19
Young Riders
Will Be Seen
Next Sunday

geasag1rvs ~4l3 AArr taf@s -
nsaxs--ana w.nnggsss s~~At its t4sta
ann4al rSlsEnAs NAsnt HesAs Ssse-~
rasxt Sunday ai Ese ksagss!s n
Potomac. Nc .nx n aasItase -
ssr gaaaes tse;~nAsAsgp sSaNs EeF
,saase unaes - tsaAas hunters
u.a6sT II. thw:w 10 . rsnaS sask
clASs ard o russs @crkEns CASA
The l.ties N taas rsa8 cssE .o@4F
gagnps
Nrneers al Ire Potomac hasst
believe IN early Fe<91ns tEassEssesaSsfa
fer ehsdrwn ana nAaay IN Ire
srv&ap are entering tlsss Shsaifwa
Ia tire tunsos ervata rttsr na0rsy
has bern oosaAted by N Eaa MFA
Ron~Yt Z. MogAa. NJ and Msa ).
"A CayfnRhasl ard Ire Chairman
ef the slaos ard Mira A q EAts"
Fa
MIA William v CArEcIl Ia feagas"
saS up ponies fns The sAs 80 thsa
the very ycuax Try uaAy have usstr
shAfw ei eseltaag 'AsAss AT0sand sas
spzc isssss s.ecw ercuisda
Auaang TIE exTwTt sosaus fAssfs
Is TanaA W4aNon a 'Aa ha9eSi
lst.ls Ems lash EGsa. tsas u 10 ,ias sae.
die whase father and EneitssT Nj,
and Mrs. harrington Wilson are
well- knoan nsurss In uAs asaew
ring ygmping ssnxiy ard ~ . PAR,
Godfrey Willis kauffnana. IL ard
his sistrr Ann ehlldFen Of Mt ard
Mra. uodfr~y wilia kausFmAnn.
come naturally by thelf love for
The saddle. their mother eesfag ere
Of In. outs,andins haE~waGnsn IN
thia section Of the hunt ecaatlS &,
The three children Of Mr. ard
Mrs r. Moran McI'onlhs Ellie
Mike. Jr and Peter love nothing 80
much as y day at the Kennels. and
their pony. Peter PIPER IS Fnach In
demand for both dogcast and rbd-
lnk Blend little Darcy Poole -
year old daughter ei Nj and Mira
w HalbcEt rcolr ~. Ia iearless,
rides like q veteran
Any number 81 AIDE attractions
have been planned by members of
The womsn's Cornmittee. there wiil
be run for young and old kocd food
! served by the Potomac Hand, cool
marques for spectators eeiseea
classes. booths ieaturinE rldang
equipment. sportSseAt, giits aad
gadgets
Mr.. Ray II Norton. ehauman
NJ the Potomac Hunt. and Mira.
Norton. Mr.. and Mira MeCnattas.
Mr. and Mrs Ralph p. Counsel
man. Mr.. and Mira kAuTmanFa.
Mr., Richmond n Keech and other
members Of the Hunt and aiaow
tCommittee promise spectators o
day of exciting spoft, reminiscent
Of the days when the Washington
Horse SHOW drew crowds from
both the hunt country and fTnsn
town.
Evening star., 1949-06-19
NeWMenbers
OfEnnbossy
Stoffs Here
By Katherine M. Brooks

The constantly changing Dip
lomatic corps in this Capital Is
acquiring a number of young
women members. The Cuban EN-
bassy now has four feminine at
taches. Senorita Consuelo Batista
has been on duty at the Embassy
for some eight years, and lis one
of the very popular and handsome
women in the diplomatic circle in
Washington. Within the past few
months Senorita Julio Rodriguez
Tomeu, her cousin, Senorita
Hortensia Rodriguez, and Senorita
Maria Luisa Logs have taken over
their posts at the Embassy.
Senorita Rodriguez Tomeu was
graduated from the University Of
Havana, and has the degrees of
doctor of public and diplomatic|
law, which corresponds to public
relations in this country, and also
doctor of philosophy and letters.
She served at the Ministry Of
Foreign Affairs in Havana for sew
eral years before coming here.
Her cousin, Senorita Rodriguez,
also was graduated from the Uni
versity of Havana. After a tour of
duty in the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs she was sent to the Cuban
Consulate in Boston in 1945, and
after two years was transferred to
the Embassy as chancellor, and re-
Gently promoted to attache. She
10 the daughter of former Senator
Santos Rodriguez Of Havana.
Senorita Loys, a daughter Of
Ramiro Logs, a retired lawyer Of
Havana, came to the chancellor's 6
office in September. 1948. and a.
short time ago was appointed at.
tache Of the Embassy. She, too, is
q graduate Of the University of
Havana and is completing her
studies In comparative law, at
George Washington University.
Anew counselor will come to the
Danish Embassy the first of Sep
/. tember. Mr.. Aage Hessellund Jen-
sen. He will be accompanied to
this country by Mime. Jensen and
their children. Mr.. Jensen is chief
of an administrative division of
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
and will take over the work Of
Mr., Povl Bang-Jensen and Of Mr..
Hans Bertelsen, counselors Of the
Embassy.
Mr.. Bang-Jensen, who has been
at this Capital since before the war,
has been transferred to the Danish
delegation to the United Nations
and with his very popular and. at
tractive family will give UP their
house on Cathedral avenue and
move to New York the first of
July. ~
Mr.. Bertelsen is acting consul
general in New York and will re-
turn to Washington July for only
D fortnight's stay before returning
to Denmark He has been trans
ferred to chief of an ]. economic
division In the Ministry or Foreign
Affairs to which he will report
September !.
Evening star., 1949-06-19
Yours,

Mai. Miles Fitzalan- Howard
says that it's not worth going to
Europe for just a week unless you
have q good reason such as his
own. Nevertheless. the son OF
Lord Howard Of Glossop is urg-
ing his Washington friends to
come to England for the big event
on July 4. He has asked for q
week of from his duties at the
British Military Mission, so he
can fly over on the 30th and &C
quire Anne Maxwell as q bride.
They'll honeymoon In this coun-
try some time In August.
Anne will have IA attendants
and Miles about eight ushers. In
England ushers do not lead the
wedding party up the aisle, each
returning with a bridesmaid on
one wing, so they don't have to
be equal In number. It's pity,
says Miles. because with the Amer
ican system they're all set for a
party afterwards.
Going over for the wedding. an
event of the London season, will
Evening star., 1949-06-19
.Coffin-BroWn
Morriogeon
Long Island

The marriage OF Mrs. Marie
Thrailkill Brown of Washington
widow of Thaddeus H. Brown OF
Ohio, to former Representative
Howard Aldridge Coffin Of Wash
ington and Detroit, took place
j yesterday. The ceremony was
performed in the Congressional
Chapel at Manhasset. Long Island
q the Rev. George Gerald Parker
. officiating.
-. An informal supper followed in
4 The garden of the home Of Mr.
4 Cofin's son and daughter-in-law,
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Guild Coffin
4 ut Rosslyn. Long Island. Only the
members of the two families wit
0 messed the ceremony and attended
o the supper. In the company were
In addition to Mr.. and Mrs. Rich
ard Comm, the formers brother
3 1n-law and sister. Mr.. and Mrs
Duncan Edmands. Of Boston, and
brother. Mr.. Deane Fiske Coffin
. Of Detroit. Completing the family
: party were Mr.. and Mrs. Thaddeus
Z II. Brown. jr.. of Washington.
IL Mr.. and Mrs. Cofiin will be at
home after July / at 2206 Wyoming
4 avenue