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Valley frontiersman., 1949-08-04
HIGH WATER STOPS SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT

School superintendent William T. Zahradnicek still was missing from his desk in the Palmer school office at press time this week. MT. Zahradnicek is be- lieved to have been delayed by the floods which have closed the Tok cutoff, and until recently the Richardson Highway. He is expected as soon as traffic can be resumed over the highway.
Valley frontiersman., 1949-08-04
VISITS OUTSIDE

Mrs. George Kezak and her nephew, Marvin Pasquan, were among the southbound passen- gers on the steamer Alaska, which sailed from Seward last week.
Evening star., 1949-12-01
Father Of Five Is Sentenced
To Die for Assault SIayinq
By the Assoeiossd Press

FORT WAYNE, Ind, Dec. L.
Franklin Click, 25-year- -old father
of five children. today was SEN
fenced to death in the electric
chair for the assault-slaying Of
Phyllis Conine, l7-year -old high
school girl.
> An Allen County grand jury re-
turned a first degree murder YER
dict at 3:42 am. after considering
the case all night. Judge William
Sehannen was aroused from bed
and he came to the court room and
Immediately sentenced the celery
farm worker to die next March ~
in the Michigan City, Ind, State
prison. ..,-.
Clicks wife was in the court
room. Click smiled and seemed re-
lieved. He drank a cup Of coffee
in his cell and went to sleep i'm
mediately.
Click also is under indictment in
two other sex murders, those of
Miss Anna Kuzeff and Miss Will
helma Haaga., and had already
been sentenced to life imprison-
ment In the kidnap-rape Of a 19-
year-old Fort Wayne housewife.
The State said Click admitted
Staying Miss .Conine.
Evening star., 1949-12-01
Higher Compensation Start,
TODAY for War Disabled

Increases in compensation for
disabled veterans went into effect
today, and those eligible will get
their first checks for the larger
amounts on January l, the Vet
erans' Administration announced.
The increases amount to $1.20
for each 10 per cent Of disability.
The former rate extended from
1880 to $138. The new rate is
from SIS to $3.50. Widows with
one child will be increased from
500 q month to $105. For each
additional child, the rate went
from SIS to SIS.
The same statute also raises the
rate Of presumptive service-con-
nected cases of World War I to
the 100 per cent rate of the de-
finitely established service-con-
nected cases. They had been lin
tied to IS per cent.
Evening star., 1949-12-01
Woman Badly Burned
When Gas Explosion
Damages Her Home

Mrs. Maude p. Coupe. so. Of 315
Quackenbos street NV. was in
serious condition at Casualty Hos
Ipital today with severe burns about
the body, suffered in a gas explo-
sion at her home yesterday after
noon.
The blast, which occurred about
|3 pm, started small fires in the
kitchen and living room. blew out
la large front picture window and
cracked the walls throughout the
5-room frame bungalow, fremen
said. The roof was raised about
an inch from its supports.
Mrs. Coupe. a Christian Science
practitioner, was alone in the
house, according to police. 1t is
believed she was in the kitchen at
the time Of the explosion. Four
jets on a kitchen stove were open
when flremen arrived, they said,
and these were ignited from a pilot
light on nearby refrigerator, 1t
was believed. r-.
Curtains in the kitchen were
burned, some papers, and a glove
that was lying on a living room
table, firemen said. Mrs. Coupe
was burned about the face, chest
and arms.
Window panes throughout the
house were broken and the large
front window was pitched about
Is feet into the front yard. Panes
in two windows at the home Of
Mrs. z. E. Rice, next door, were
broken. The blast was felt
throughout the block.
Immediately following the ex-
tp1osion, Mrs. Maize Schoenthal of
323 Quackenbos street. ran to the
home and saw Mrs. Coupe stag
gering toward the front door. She
opened it and Mrs. Schoenthal
assisted her from the wrecked
building.
There, was no damage in the
basement. firemen said, and a
closet full of dishes in the dining
room was undamaged.. The blast
passed it by, hremen said.
Evening star., 1949-12-01
By Spencer Moose
Pres. Foreign Correspondent

Assoeiofed Press Foreign Correspondent
CHENGTU. China, Dec. L.
There was drama and nervous
excitement in the last hours ir
Chungking.
There was a brush, too, with 9
pistol-waving Chinese general.
Waiting at Peishiyi Airfield ir
the northwestern outskirts OF
Chungking Tuesday, we could
hear the noise of cannon and
machinegun fire. 1t seemed to
come from the south side of the
Yangtze River.
I finally managed to board the
last civil plane out for Chengtu
ITO miles northwest, the new Ma
tionalist. capital. That was 1917
hours after I arrived at the air.
field.
Demolition squads were ready
to blow up all the installations.
Generalissimo Chang Kai-
shek's four-engine Skymaster was
still at the field. He few here
later.
A telephone call to the city
from the airfleld at nightfall
brought this account:
Things are getting tenser.
We've been hearing the sound of
machinegun and cannon fire.
Shops didn't open today. Buses
didn't run.
There are no police on duty.
Soldiers are on guard everywhere.
Chinese paper money is worthless
except at the telegraph station
and postofice.
There are crowds of people at
street corners waiting to see what
happens.
Airf1eld rumors said the city
would change hands peacefully
once the Nationalist troops pulled
out in an act Of good faith.
From Peishiyi, planes went out
to bomb the Reds. One returning
from a mission cracked up on
Evening star., 1949-12-01
Matthews Urges U. 5. 10 Cut
BUDGET and Ease Tax Load
BY the Assoeiofed Press

ST. PAUL. Mimi, Dec. 1.-Sec-
retary of the Navy Matthews
thinks Government expenses, in
cluding military items, must be
pared because the taxpayer Is
"burdened beyond endurance"
|. The taxpayer cannot be fur
ther squeezed for revenue without
dangerously impairing his produc-
tive capacity and gravely threat
ening extinguishment Of the Ma
tons economic, life." Mr.. Mat
thews said last night at closing
sessions of the annual meeting Of
the Navy League.
Despite cutbacks in the Navy
program. Mr.. Matthews said this
country Is still much stronger
than all the rest of the world in
its seapower." He added, how
ever, that the Navy could use more
aircraft carriers lin the opinion
of many of u.s."
Evening star., 1949-12-01

invitation Of the National Asso-
citation of Manufacturers.
Mr.. Gordon Is majoring in Eng
lish at Georgetown. He is also
president of the Philodemic De-
batting Society, oldest college de-
batting club in the United States
and OF the Washington Club OF
Georgetown. His parents are Mr.
and Mrs. James Gordon.
The 40 student representatives
will compete in an essay contest
at the end Of the three-day ses-
sion, in which they will appraise
the convention proceedings. Prizes
Of 81 900. $500, $3.50. 500, and two
of $50, will be awarded for the six
best essays. ,ai ~ az
Evening star., 1949-12-01
100ChineseD Diplomats
In Europe Forced 10
Make Grim Decision
By the A.,oeiotsd Press

LONDON, Dec. 1.-Approaching
recognition of Communist China
makes this a month Of grim de-
cision for nearly 100 Chinese Ma
tionalist diplomats in Europe.
Informed Chinese sources say
most of them admit privately they
must soon make one OF three
choices.
They can return to China. where
a victorius Communist regime may
look harshly on their past services
to Generalissimo Chang Kai-shek.
They may switch their allegiance
to the Red government. as six
members of the Chinese Embassy
staff in Paris did october TO-
anniversary of the founding OF the
old Chinese republic.
Or they may remain political
refugees in Europe. band OF un-
happy men without country.
Envoy Settles in Paris.
Some. like Foo Ping Chang, the
former Chinese Ambassador to
Moscow, have already taken the
latter course. Foo purchased a
home In Paris. settled down there
as a private citizen. Several
others including some diplomats
ousted from Iron Curtain coun-
tries by recognition of the Red
Peiping regime, have followed his
example.
Ambassador Cheng Tien-hsi, the
scholarly Chinese lawyer who
heads in London the largest Chi
nese mission in Europe, is not ex-
pected to return to his homeland
when British recognition of the
Reds ends his job here.
A former judge Of the 1nterna-
tional Court of Justice and
longtime resident of England he
will likely remain here as private
Chinese citizen.
Aside from the October 10 revolt
in Paris, heads of the Chinese en-
bassies and legations in Europe
have kept their STATS in line. There
has been no outward break in
loyalty.
Many Ask What Now?'
Privately. however. many Chi
nese officials. especially those Of
minor rank, are beginning to ask
What noW?"
Informed Chinese sources here
believe many Of the junior diplo-
matte workers will retain their
jobs, at least temporarily, under
the Communist regime.
The shortage of trained and
qualified requirements from Red
China makes such a course almost
inevitable. they say.
The Reds opened a school Of
foreign service almost as soon as
they occupied Peiping year ago,
but output of trained officials is
far short Of the demand.
Evening star., 1949-12-01
Chinese Reds Convict
8 0rienta|s on Charge
OF Espionage for u. 5.
By the Associofsd Press

TOKYO, Dec. 1.-The Peiping
Communist radio tonight said
eight orientals had been convicted
in Mukden Of spying for the
United States.
Their convictions and subse-
quent prison sentences were re-
sponsible for the expulsion Of tho
American consulate in Mukden
headed by Angus Ward. MIR. Ward
himself was convicted by a Muk-
den Red court of beating coolie.
The American State Department
caid the charge was frameup.
The radio said the eight were
sentenced on November 26 to pris-
on terms ranging from two to six
years. One of the defendants was
q Chinese American.
New "Manchukuo" Held Aim.
The eight, said the radio, were
accused of trying to set up "sec-
ond Manchukuo" for the United
States.
(Manchukuo was q puppet
state established by the Japa-
nese in Manchuria in 1934.)
The broadcast said the eight
four Japanese. one Chinese. one
Formosan, one Inner Mongolian
and one Chinese-American-told
the Communist court they had
obtained military and political
information for Americans.
One of the Japanese defend
ants. Hirotsune Sasaki. the radio
continued, told of meeting a Mr..
Nishida (first name not given) on
numerous occasions at the Amer
lean consulate in Mukden. 1t
was his assignment, Sasaki al
legedly testified, to laid Ameri-
can imperialists in building a
second Manchukuo."
l. Stakes Reported at Sessions.
Another defendant, WI Jen-
chic, the Chinese American, re-
portedly told the court he worked
under the supervision Of an Amer
ican intelligence officer named
Hunt of the Mukden consulate
headed by Mr.. Ward.
The Peiping broadcast said
American Vice Consul William N.
Stokes attended the court sessions.
Monitors here say the radio did
not mention that Mr.. Stokes had
been arrested and later released
by the Reds.
A previous broadcast gave the
last names Of several Americans
the Red radio said were members
of the spy ring. 1t gave the names
as Barandson, Senglaut, Nishida
and Walsh. No first names were
given.
Evening star., 1949-12-01
U. 5. Expert Says Soviet
MAY Quit Reich in Year i.

Russia may make separate
German peace treaty and with
draw her occupation troops from
Germany within a year, State
Department official said today.
Henry B. Cox, a department
expert on German affairs. reviewed
Russia's establishment of a puppet
government for the Eastern zone
Of Germany in an article pub
lished in the State Department
bulletin.
Indications also point" he
wrote, ito the Soviets concluding
possibly a separate peace treaty
with their newest satellite and
withdrawing Soviet occupation
troops within q year."
Evening star., 1949-12-01
Christmas Trees
For Alaska Are
Cargo Mystery
BY the Assoeiofed Press

SEATTLE, Dec. Goals to
Newcastle, ice boxes to Eskimos-
and now it's Christmas trees to
Alaska.
Longshoremen were puzzled to-
day as they loaded 130 bales Of fir
Christmas trees.
They are going from Orin Farr
Of Rexford, Mont, to Sidney Uric
of Woodrow, near Seward, Alaska,
in the steamer Denali.
"The boys thought there must
be some mistake. They nearly
threw 'em off the pier" Emil Han
son, stevedoring company super
intendent, said.
Alaskans customarily use spruce
and other native evergreens for
Christmas trees.
Evening star., 1949-12-01
Bradbury Heights Bus
Service to Continue

The Public Utilities Commission
was advised late yesterday by the
Washington. Marlboro and An
napolis Motor Lines, Inc, that
the company is withdrawing its
request to discontinue the Brad
bury Heights local service between
Z pm. and las am.
A public hearing, set by the
PUG for 10 am. tomorrow, will
be Cancelled.
Evening star., 1949-12-01
-ABC Board Is Upheld
On License Revocation

The Commissioners today sus-
tanned the Alcoholic Beverage Con-
troll Board in its findings that the
license of Mr.. and Mrs. Bernard
Cortland, proprietors of the South
land Restaurant, 628 Fourth street
S.W., should be revoked because
it is not q bona fide restaurant.
The Commissioners ordered a
delay in enforcing the order until
January 81, which is the end OF
the license year. The Commits
sioners said the stay would give
Mr.. and Mrs. Cortland chance
to build up their food business.
Under the ABC regulations .
restaurant must do at least 50 pei
cent of Its business In food. s
Evening star., 1949-12-01
AP Reporter Leaves Chungking
On Last Civil Plane for Chenqtu

landing, but the pilot stepped out
unhurt.
Outgoing traffic from Chung
king reached unprecedented pro-
portions.
All day long planes Of the Ma
tionalist air force and Claire
Chennault's Civil Air Transport
shuttled between Chungking and
Chengtu. Evacuees included men,
bers of the Nationalist Parliament
which never was able to reconvene
in Chungking for lack Of quorum
The rapid change for the worse
finally decided CAT Base Manager
Roger Severt of Fremont, Iowa,
that 1t was time to evacuate.
He and Mechanic William Muir
ray of Gary, Ind, hastened to
pack equipment. Chungking ceased
to be a CAT base when three
planes pulled out one after anoth-
er. Explosions Of unknown origin
could then be heard in the dis
tance. r
Plotting the three planes were
George Heninger. Detroit: Douglas
Smith, Brownsville. Tex, and
Merrill johnson. Norristown. Pa.
would have left in Mr.. Hennin-
gers plane but for dramatic in
cident.
Mr.. Henninger asked three pas
sengers not on the flight manifest
to move into another plane. His
was overloaded. he explained.
The trio left. Suddenly, how
ever. one of them-a general.
reappeared brandishing a gun. He
pointed it at me and five Chinese
passengers and shouted angrily,
This plane is under arrest! Get
out at once! Your luggage can be
removed"
Argument was useless.
The passengers travelled in Mr..
Smiths plane. Nobody minded
Mr.. Smiths plane was a regular
passenger transport and much
more comfortable.
Evening star., 1949-12-01
|AAF Wants 10 Control
Or Disband Air Guard ,
Gen. Walsh Charges

Maj. Gen. E. A. Walsh, presi-
dent of the National Guard As
ISOLATION of the United States,
charged yesterday that the Air
Force would just as soon elimi-
nate the Air National Guard If
it cannot obtain control Of it.
He delivered his attack before
the Air Section Committee on
National Guard Policy at the Pen
tagon. This is group set up
by the National Defense Act and
composed of regular Air Force
and Air National Guard officers
to originate all policies and regu-
lationS affecting the organization,
distribution and training Of the
National Guard.
Tried and competent leaders
of the Air National Guard" Gen
Walsh told the committee. con-
tend that the Air Force has failed
to provide training program for
the Air National Guard except in
the case Of certain requirements
for individual proficiency by air
crews with which to accomplish
M-Day Assignments" This is
despite the fact, he said, that
the "Air National Guard has been
in existence for more than three
years with 514 units organized
and Federally recognized.
ITO date" he continued. "the
Department of the Air Force has
given the Air National Guard
commanders no indication of how
each unit would be specifically
employed on M-Day in the event
of sudden emergency. In other
words, the Air National Guard
commander has only the vaguest
idea as to what his specific mis-
sion would be in the event OF a
sudden attack on the United
States"
He charged further that the
Air Force has made no attempt
to standardize tactical procedures
or prescribe tactical doctrine for
Air National Guard units.
Gen. Walsh also called atten-
ton to the lack of a pilot replace
ment program for the air guard.
Unless this is speedily adjusted.
he asserted. the air guard will
wither and die. because it cannot
live indefinitely on the wartime
reservoir of pilots. He also pro-
tested an order Of the National
Guard Bureau prohibiting the ap-
pointment and commissioning Of
second lieutenants in the Air
Guard.
ITO shut of the flow Of re-
placements in the lowest commits
stoned grade" he said. "is COM
pletely unsound, and If continued
in effect for a substantial period
of time and consequences will be
disastrous"
Evening star., 1949-12-01
Long Trip to Hospital

Because there Is no doctor or
lonely Pitcairn Island, in the Pa
cific, one of the islanders, Wen
dell Christian, recently made
8, 3,000-mile trip to New Zealand to
have his broken leg attended to-
being rowed out to the liner Port
jackson in a whaleboat when it
called at Pitcairn.
Evening star., 1949-12-01

open at least
until 1851, so
long as there
is the demand
for their occu-
pancy.
he Farms
h a d b e e n
scheduled to
close last Sep
tember 80. but
this date was
postponed when
the girls living
there a S k e d
that the quar-
fars ram q In
Evening star., 1949-12-01

tive OF WASH
ington college
students to at
tend the 54th
c on G ess of
American In
dustry in New
York City from
December 7 to
8.
Each Of the
48 States and
he District
will send an
o u t s t anding
student to the
Evening star., 1949-12-01

open. To keep the Farms on a
f-sumcient basis, the monthly
rent was raised an average OF
$3.50. Some housing officials feel
this is the main reason for the
i 500 drop in tenancy. but appar-
entity the new rentals and the
closing OF unused quarters at the
Farms has enabled 1t to skirt
financial loss during the past few
months.
POWERS MODELS Another
grooming and beauty course is
going to be offered Government
girls-this time by the famous
Powers models.
The Federal Recreation Com
mittee will sponsor the courses
that will be given by the John
Robert Powers organization. The
recreation group says the course
will be given at q "very low cost. "
Included in the self improve
ment course will be information
about grooming, speech, comport-
ment exercises for posture and
health). wardrobe suggestions and
facts about line and color to
improve individual appearance,
makeup (the proper use of cos
metics). and personality develop
ment.
A special preview demonstra-
ton of the course by the Powers
models will be given by the recrea-
ton group at 8 pm. Wednesday in
Barker Hall, Seventeenth and K
streets NV. for Government per-
sonnel and recreation officials.
The regular courses for Govern
ment girls are expected to begin
within the next month or so-as
soon as the Recreation Committee
works out final details with the
Powers organization.
MORE LEEWAY-In line with
the Hoover Commissions recon-
mendation, the Civil Service Com
mission has announced it will
allow Government departments
and agencies great leeway in re-
assigning administrative employees
to other types OF executive po-
sitionS.
For example. an employe' en-
gagged In budget work may be
transferred to another type OF ad-
ministrattve position within his
agency. 7''
Until now, the commission would
not allow such transfers unless
the employe had specific expert
ence in the type Of position to
which his agency wanted to re-
assign him. Consequently. most
such transfers never materialized
since few employees had the neces-
sary experience required by the
commission.
The commissions new policy
will give administrative officials
and employees the opportunity fol
greater responsibilities and broad
er experience in the various types
of administrative duties in their
agencies.
Also, the new program calls for
the advancement to administra-
tive duties of professional per-
sonnel, such as scientists and en-
gineers who show particular execu-
tive ability.
The commission says the new
program will benefit administra-
tive employees in getting more i'm
portant positions and, at the same
time, will improve Government
operating practices.
\ X \ 4
CAPITAL ROUNDUP-William
C. Doherty, president OF the AFL
National Association of Letter
Carriers, is in Europe as a mem
ber of the AFL panel taking part
Evening star., 1949-12-01
Few Contract Changes
Planned by Textile Union
~ TIE Associofsd Pres

NEW YORK. Dec. 1.-The CIO
Textile Workers Union plans to
renew all it's contracts in the WOOL
en- and worsted industry for an
other year without change-with
the exception Of about a dozen 1t
considers "Substandard."
The decision, made by the
unions Woolen and Worsted Pol
Icy Committee, was announced
yesterday by President Emil Rieve.
Present agreements will con-
tinue in force until February /,
1851, with a wage reopening al
lowed August J., 1850.
Venezuela's crude oil production
hit a. new high Of 1,434,342 bar
reis q day.
Evening star., 1949-12-01

in the organization Of q World
Labor Federation. Mr.. Doherty
will return shortly before Christ
mas. The problems of Gov
ernment personnel Offices will be
discussed by the Society for the
Advancement of Management at
7 o'clock tonight at 1926 K street
NV. Among those participating
will be Michael Levine Of the Civil
Service Commission. Albert Evans
of the Bureau Of Prisons, Eliza
beth Mulholland Of the Federal
Security Agency and H. D.
Cochrane of the Forest Service.
A. j. Ted Meurer, graphic de-
signer in the Tariff Commission.
has resigned after 80 years of
Government service. Several fare
we'll luncheons In his honor were
rendered him by his colleagues.
The Board of Civil Service
Examiners at the Pentagon an
nounces exams for radio me-
chanics, at salaries Of $1.34 to
$2.48 an hour, and for semi
automatic teletypewriter repair
man, $l.27 to $2.36 an hour. Ap-
ply at Room 2E-1o30, the Pen
tagon.
Evening star., 1949-12-01
6. U. Senior 10 Attend
Congress Of Industry

Richard Alan Gordon, 81, Of
1888 Bryant street NE. a George
town University senior, has been
chosen as the official representa-
Evening star., 1949-12-01
The Federal Spotlight
The Federal Spotlight
Arlington Farms Closing Put Off
Until at Least January, 1851
By Joseph Young

tenants during the last six months
Public Housing officials have decided keep Arlington
Government girls at least until January 1881
the 1000 occupants who
would remain
Evening star., 1949-12-01

(The Federal Spotlight radio
program featuring additional
neDs and views OF the Govern
nent is heard each Saturday at
GAS pm. oper WMAL. The Star
Stdtion.)
Evening star., 1949-12-01

after the first Of next year.
Acting to put these doubts at
rest, PHA officials have informed
the girls the Farms will remain
Evening star., 1949-12-01
Weather Report

District OF Columbia-Sunny
with. highest temperature about
so degrees today. Increasing
cloudiness with lowest near 35
degrees tonight. Tomorrow most
ly cloudy with possibly some rain
Notwithstanding cloudi-
ness and a little colder tonight
Tomorrow mostly cloudy with
some rain likely in the east and
a few snow flurries in the west
Virginia-Increasing cloudiness
tonight. Tomorrow mostly cloudy
with possibly a little rain.
Wind velocity, 10 miles per
hour: direction, west northwest.
River Report.
(From U. 8. Engineers)
Potomac River clear at Harpers Ferry
and at Great Falls: Shenandoah clear ai
Harpers Ferry.
Evening star., 1949-12-01

The Sun and Moon.
Automobile lights must be turned on
one-hah hour after sunset.
Evening star., 1949-12-01

CAPITAL ROUNDUP-William
C. Doherty, president Of the AFL
National Association OF Letter
Carriers, is in Europe as a mem
ber of the AFL panel taking part