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Evening star., 1949-06-16

question had been distributed 20
Mr.. sayres once. where they
we're available 70 Asr. Hiss. very
few Of them had been circulated
in the ONCE where Ar- wadleash
worked
Miss Lincoln said Mr. wadieigh
was an 4-tnfreQuent" visitor !n the
asissts.at secretary's oshce. She
said she could not remember Mr..
wadieishs ever having taken
papers. out Of Mr.. Sayres or Mr..
Hiss rooms. adding she would not
have let him do so without first
consulting Mr.. Sayre.
MIR. Murphy asked II Miss
Lincoln would have stopped Mr.
wadleigh II she had seen him
entering Mr.. Sayres or Mr.. Hiss
room when that room was empty.
Il would" Miss Lincoln an
swered firmly.
Earlier In the afternoon, Mr..
Mclean drew an admission from
Walter. Anderson. chief Of the
State Departments records
branch, that most of the secret
documents In evidence passed
through upward Of Is department
onces. where they might have
been seen by more than 200
persons.
Evening star., 1949-06-16
league. War Veteran
In House, Probes Drop
In High School Cadets

An tnsrssagmtsces 10 fsa6 CIT wsss
the high ~hoca eacrs eosys has
attracted fewer ssuaents has a~wss
launched by Representative
TeAszse. p~rscxrai. oF TwxAs
A wounded VETERAN a. wcri9
War II. discharged a. a eaaazass.
ard . rs-nhex al ftse Hoaas~ nas~
trsrs Committee. tsse Texan aAs
wat m elaborate csesttosassasre 10
school esne4Als here and 70 Has.i-
sAry osrseAAis.
He has asked ossscssis fsseaxaans
MAJ. Gen H. r. oAy. casanxadsaz
otncer ot the Military passrtcs q.
Washington. about cooperation
Of the Army.
The euesasonnaiYes we're ~ns tc
30 ofsscials, including scsooa hnas1
President c, Melvin SHARPE. sapg,
Of Schools Hobart ~. corning
all high school prtrrspals. military
authorities and others.
In Q letter sent with I'll eaes-
tsonnAlres. Mr.. Traxas aald that
Ax q member ef the hoase DIS
trsc; Committee and tsse Reserve
Onacers Association ne was very
mtteh concerned about the appaf-
ent fall OF and lack Of interest,"
displayed IN The high school cadet
corps A. evidenced In the recent
drills held Of 0rifssh Stadium -
At the year-end competition Ai
the stadium. there we're but T3S
cadets from the white high
schools. This compared 10 an
average prewar enrolment OF
2.3eo. There were - companies
In this years competition. com
pared TO 81 companies Tn 1910,
His military training and ex-
perisnce. Mr.. Teague said. had
given him the opportunity 10
realize the benefits derived from
group military training. such as
sportsrnanship. team oo-opera.
ton. and ability 10 live and get
along with one another"
Evening star., 1949-06-16
ia Workers Hurt as Floor
|0f New Building coIIapses
~ the Assoeiessd Press

NEW YORK. June ls.-Four
teen persons were injured as
fourth and fifth floor supports Of
q large building under construe-
ton collapsed yesterday. sending
Q shower Of debris. wet concrete
lumber and workmen crashing
down to the third floor.
Several Of the Ia were hurt seri-
ously. Some were partly buried
beneath the avalanche Of freshly
poured concrete.
The 81 l.000. 900 building. which
occupies a whole block on Madison
avenue between SeveEty-sixth and
Seventy-Seventh streets, Is being
erected to house the Parke- Bernet
Art Galleries.
The weight Of concrete was be-
lieved to have caused the wood
forms to buckle. The support
structure went down with a
thunderous roar.
Housing officials after an in
vestigation pronounced the build
ing safe except for the portion that
collapsed.
Evening star., 1949-06-16

of the same size as that used on
scratch pads in MIR. Sayre's office
only" she added pointedly
"the top seems to be torn OF two
Of them where 1t said Depart
ment of State-Ofiice of the As
sistant Secretary"
The other two notes, the wit
ness explained. seemed to be writ
ten on a smaller-sized scratch
pad also used In the Office. Miss
Lincoln said she or a stenog-
rapher were present in the outer
room. between Mr.. Sayre's and
Mr.. Hiss Office, at all times during
working hours. She sorted incom-
ing kilograms, she said. turning
them over to MIR. Sayre and Mr..
Hiss for study. usually first to
Mr.. Hiss.
Took Brief Cases Home.
In the evening. Miss Lincoln re-
lated. she used to make sure no
confidential messages were left
on the two mems desks. The office
was locked before she left. Once
a week. the witness, said. she
would put all messages which were
no longer needed in sealed enve-
lope and turn them over to a
messenger from the communica-
tions division.
She did not know Of her own
knowledge what happened to the
material after that. she said. but
supposed that 1t was burned.
Miss Lincoln said both Mr..
Sayre and Mr.. Hiss took brief
cases with them when they left
the office. and that she assumed
these probably contained work
they were taking home with them,
The Government contends that
secret documents were removed
from the department by Mr.. Hiss
and copied in his home by Mrs.
Hiss on an old Woodstock type
writer which had belonged to her
father. - 4,a,
Miss Lincoln was asked by Mr.,
Murphy, and again under cross
examination by Edward Mclean,
one Of Mr.. Hiss attorneys about
Julian Wadleigh. a former en-
ploye of the departments trade
agreements section who has been
identified by Mr.. Chambers as an
other Communist who supplied
him with secret Government tn
formation In this period.
Earlier. the Government had
presented evidence showing that,
while almost all the documents in
Evening star., 1949-06-16
Defense Admits Handwriting
On 4 Popers Is That of Hiss

Mr.. Hiss, and that the other ont
probably was.
One Exception Noted.
The one typewriter document
which, according to Mr.. Feehan
was not written on the Hiss mach.
inc, was a summary of a 1888 dis.
patch regarding technical assist.
ance and data being supplied te
Japan by Italy.
Mr.. Feehan said this clearly wa:
written on another typewriter. anc
that the paper used bore part ol
the Government water mark. II
had been brought out in earlier
testimony that this was one oi
two or three Of the documents
which had not been distributed te
the Office Of Francis B. Sayre
then Assistant Secretary of State
where Mr.. Hiss worked at the
time.
MIR. Feehan mounted q platform
erected next to the jury box. as
he pointed out on huge photo
graphic enlargements Of the secret
papers those imperfections Of type
which, he said meant that these
papers had been written on the
Hiss machine.
For purposes of comparison. he
used four personal documents
known to have been typed on the
Woodstock.
Members of the jury. the attor-
neys for both sides and Fedora
Judge Samuel H. Kaufman. al
crowded forward to see the marks
which Mr.. Feehan had numbered
in red pencil. scrr+-o =
,as Type Imperfections Cited.
Each small letter "g" had Q
slight indentation In the lower
loop, the witness pointed out
Each small ''e." he said. gave "the
appearance of being thrust up
ward. at the bottom. The lettei
II" was slightly out Of line, he said
and the 20" was more heavily
printed on the right side than or
the left.
Miss Eunice A. Lincoln, a firm
precise person who was privats
secretary to Mr.. Sayre In l93'
and 1898, when Mr.. Hiss was hi.
assistant, said yesterday she be.
lieved the writing on the foul
handwritten notes was that Of MIR
Hiss.
Never Saw Notes Belore.
Miss Lincoln, a department EN-.
ploye since 1918. said she hac
never seen these notes before. Shit
added it was not. so far as sht
knew. Mr.. Hiss usual practice tt
make such memoranda from ca.
bles received in the Office.
The jury Of 10 men and twe
women appeared most interested
| in Miss Lincoln's testimony wher
she said the notes were on paper
Evening star., 1949-05-11
Mail Pickup Plane Crash
Kills 7 in West Virginia
BY the Assoeinied Press

CLARKSBURG, w. Va. May
IA small airmail pickup plane
crashed near the Harrison County
Airport today and the pilot and
his helper burned to death.
All-American Always identified
them as william r. Burkheart, 80,
the pilot. and William Steinbren-
ner, %, flight mechanic. both OF
Pittsburgh.
The plane was en- route from
Pittsburgh to Huntington, W. Va.
and made an unscheduled landing
here about $3.50 am. to pick up q
heavy express package. It ordi-
narily drops its mail and snatches
up outgoing pouches on a hook
without landing.
Personel at the airport said the
crew members made some engine
adjustments while they were on
the ground here.
The plane took OF and In q
few moments ground observers
saw smoke coming from 1t. They
could not tell whether it was
afire.
The plane wheeled and started
back for the field. 1t sheared on
the tops of trees for about 100
feet and crashed on an embank-
ment 1900 feet OF the east-west
runway.
Evening star., 1949-05-11
Brewster Fears Security Risk
In New Rudio Laboratory Here

Whether Washington is the
proper place 10 locate q proposed
4.475. 900 radio research labora-
tory-in which the Bureau of
Standards would study guided
missile teclnioues and other mill
itary and civilian applications Of
electronics-was hotly debated to-
day, without decision. in q closed
session of the Senate Commerce
Committee.
One point OF view, for which
Senator Brewster. Republican. OF
Maine is the committees chief
spokesman. holds that the project
should be located In q low-popu-
lation area for security reasons.
This also Ii the view OF the Ma
tional Security Resources Board.
Evening star., 1949-05-11
By Robert K. Welsh

A former Yugoslavian informa-
ton officer here charged at a
Senate hearing today that DIR.
Jose Vilfan, Yugoslav delegate to
the United Nations. is developing
a secret police network from a
Fifth avenue apartment house in
New York.
Bogdan RaditSa, YugoslaV
native who worked here from 1910
to 1912 and in New York from
1912 to 1914, asserted that ma
jority of the country's foreign
service employees in the United
States side with the Cominform
in its fight against Premier Mar
shall Tito.
Mr.. Raditsa testified at Senate
Judiciary Subcommittee hearing
on a bill of Senator McCarran,
Democrat, of Nevada to tighten
immigration regulations. He said
he broke with Marshal Tito in
1946 and returned to the United
States.
Evening star., 1949-05-11
Gen. fu. Who Surrendered
peiping, Reported Suicide
D. - Asszass.s sss.a

cANTOs. May ii--A usually
reliable source sAsd today that
Nationalist 0en. Fu Tno~yi. wtao
surrendered pslpsng 10 tlae Cen"
nun4sts. committed suicide yesssT-
day In peipanK
This Aoares. with PsiEanT eon-
nrctaors. aaid pa had hcen a6sssed
90 do assay with hinaeeI ~ Red
headers after as attsnps 70 escape
into Nationalist issTft0gY.
The ssaAea6s waa tslieTed herr 70
be the culsninsssnss Of 6aspates
n~swesn Fa ard tiae cosmnsaDaas
command. TIE Communists Rad
deran6eG isarogp gp%arasaon Of Pss
trnops Into tass fses AFuss
Yu sagrsndssed Psapsfsg Ia Jas-
uary. i
Evening star., 1949-05-11

Other committee members. IN
cluding Chairman johnson OF
Colorado, believe that unless the
new laboratory In built on the
grounds Of the Bureau OF Stand
ards here. the efficiency Of that
organization win suffer. They point
out that all other interested Gov
eminent agencies. including the
National military establishment.
see no reason why the laboratory
should not be In Washington.
There is no such thing Is a
safe place today, Senator johnson
said when the closed meeting
ended this morning. unless they
want to build this thing under q
mountain. Washington viii be rs
safe as any place can be. We will
lsee LABORATORY. Page A-s.1
Evening star., 1949-05-11
British Financial
Adviser Is Shot to
Death in Germony
Rx the Atseeieted Ptess

BERLIN. May ll.--Slr John
Sheehy, British Military Gov
ernment financial adviser. was
shot 10 death last night when
he surprised two burglars in
his home. officials announced
today.
No arrests have been made
British officials here said
Sheehy's wife telephoned police
shortly after the shooting.
She told them that Sir John
heard a noise in his home,
located at Vlotho. near Bad
Salzuflen. in Western Ger
many, and went to investigate.
Moments later he fell. fatally
wounded. He died almost
instantly.
Evening star., 1949-05-11
Berlin Celebrating in Last Hours
Of Blockade as Trains and Trucks
Line Up for Dropping Of Barriers
YugosIov u. N. Envoy Forming
Secret Police Net, Senators Told
Most of His Countys Aides in U. S. Side
With Cominform, Ex-DipIomot Says

The witness declared that the
main mission of Communist
accredited diplomats from Yugo-
slavia as well as Russia and satel-
lite countries is to work for the
Soviet government and world rev.
olution.
Communist diplomacy is moth
ing but legalized espionage" he
maintained. 1T is a subversive
network spread all over the free
world. Their agents are in
structed to work among people
who are not intelligent but think
they are.
"Tito's high officials in Yugo-
slav embassies and consulates and
in the secretarit of the u. N. have
developed a systematic activity in
behalf of world revolution and this
is not for better understanding be-
tween the United States and Yu-
goslavia."
Mr.. Raditsa made the following
other specific charges concerning
1See I'M Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1949-05-11
Acheson Takes Issue
With vandenberg on
Ambassador for Spain
Insists Thut Franco Must
LiberuIize His Rule
Before Bon Is Removed

Secretary of State Acheson said
today there must be some liberal
ization of Frances Fascist die
tatorship in Spain before that
country can be accepted into the
community OF free nations in
Western Europe.
His news conference remarks
differed sharply from the views
of Senator Vandenberg, Repub-
lican, Of Michigan, who earlier
today joined with Chairman Con-
nally of the Senate Foreign Re-
lations Committee in urging steps
toward exchanging Ambassadors
with frances Spain.
Mr.. Acheson said he attached
no Importance at all to the ques-
ton of whether the United States
has full-fiedged Ambassador in
Spain. In his opinion. the Secre-
tary added. the only Importance
of having an Ambassador instead
of a charge d affaires would be
a symbol.
Denial of Rights Cited.
It would be a bad symbol, Mr..
Acheson said. If sending an AM
bassador there was taken as an
indication that the United States
did not care much about Gen.
frances denial of fundamental
rights to Spanish citizens.
In adding his influence to Senate
pressure building up on the State
Department to have the United
Nations soften It's 1946 resolution
which bans member countries
from having diplomatic relations
with Spain. Senator Vandenberg
said he had opposed this step.
I'm the first place" the Senator
told reporters. this action was
totally inconclusive. Secondly, our
designation of an ambassador is in
no sense approval of the govern
ment to which he is accredited
u. S. to Continue Abstaining.
Mr.. Acheson said the American
representative would continue to
abstain from voting on a resolu-
ton pending in the United Ma
tions General Assembly to lift the
ban on maintenance of Ambas-
sadors to Franco.
The fundamental basic individ-
Evening star., 1949-05-11
| MongreI Saves
| Boy, 4, Aftocked
| By Larger Dog
sy sss Assssses~e Press

GILLESPIE. Pa. May us--A
little mongrel dox was the toast
Of his neishboriaood today for per-
forming the greatest heroisn os
It's ksnd--saying his master.
The dog. Chubby. jumped into
the fray when he asw his master.
Jackie Strickler. Z. being nsaalec
BIZ q larger dow. clsuoby foagiIt
the dog until family members res
cued the child. Jackie h IN fair
condition at q hospital where At
taches said one ear was torn on
and a facial nerve paralyxrd.
The bcy's grandmotifs said ine
large dog sud6eniy assaeked the
buy sfile the fwo we're playing
In the yard.
Evening star., 1949-05-11
Gen. Eisenhower to Fly
Here From Georqiu
By fhe Assoeicsed Pres,

AUGUSTA. Ga. May 11.-Gen.
and Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower
will leave Augusta by plane today
for Washington, an aide an
nounced.
The general and his wife have
been vacationing at the Augusta
National Golf Club for the last
month. Gen. Eisenhower has been
convalescing from an illness.
He came to Augusta April IL
from Key West. Fla. where he
went when he first became i'll.
Mai. Gen. Howard Snyder. his
physician. and other members Of
his staff have been with him here.
Evening star., 1949-05-11

Truman 10 Fly 10 Lille Rock
For 35ih Division Reunion

President Truman Is going 10
Little Rock. Ark. for the annual
reunion OF the 35th Division on
June lola. Cor. Sidney McMath
OF Arkansas said after . White
House call today.
The President plans 10 fly TO the
Arkansas capital and IL he fol-
lows the usual routine Of his an
nual visit with his old World
War buddies he viii make o
speech.
The trip viii be the Presidents .
first 70 Little Rock since hs en-
tered the White House.
Evening star., 1949-05-11
kafhy Fiseus Scholarship
Planned With Rescue Fund
by the Assoeicied Press

SAN MARINO. Calf, May IL.
The heroic men who partici-
pated In the Kathy Fiscus rescue
effort may assign their shares
of the $4,000 rescue fund to q
scholarship In the memory Of
the little girl.
Letters have been sent to the
100 men describing the plan.
They were written by Raymond
A. Hill. engineer In charge Of
the 52-hour rescue effort which
resulted in bringing the S-year-
old girls body to the surface
after she had fallen 100 feet into
a 14-inch well casing April 8.
Evening star., 1949-05-11
Burma Army AIerted
On Report Of Chinese
Red Activity aearby
Communist Force Making
Attack 90 Miles Awoy,
Rongoon Official Says
CHINESE REDS DRIVE on Coast,
Tighten Shanghai Moose.
Page ALL.
BY fhe Assoeioied Press

RANGOON, Burma, May IA
Burma army spokesman said to-
day a Chinese Communist unit of
500 men was on the attack at a
point only 80 miles from Burma's
northern border. and Burmese
troops were alerted against pos
sible drive into this country.
The spokesman located the
Chinese Communist force 80 miles
from the border. This would place
the Communist force in Southwest
Yunnan Province. Border forces
have been doubled to prevent any
Chinese Communists from joining
forces with Communists in Burma.
Meanwhile, government forces
recaptured from the rebels the
strategically located Central
Burma rail town Of Yamethin,
about 800 miles north of Rangoon,
the government announced. The
town fell to the revolutionary
Karens when they were advancing
on Mandalay. Later reports said
Yamethin was occupied by rene
gade elements of the White Band
Peoples Voluntary Organization
PVO).
The army spokesman did not
give details of the towns reoccu-
patton. but observers said the
government forces and PVOs ar
rived at terms.
The government said it's army
routed a large force of rebels from
the southeast coast who trekked
100 miles through the jungle in
an atempt to relieve their fellow
tribesmen in the Daiku sector. 80
-,.At~
Evening star., 1949-05-11
French Cabinet O.K.s Pact

PARIS. May IL tP,.-The French
cabinet approved the Atlantic Pact
today and win propose its adoption
by Parliament. which convenes
May II. The cabinet also APP
proved the Franco italian customs
union and the statute of the Coun-l
ell Of Europe.
Evening star., 1949-05-11
Siege Will End
AT 6:01 P.M.,
D. &. Time
SUCCESS OF BIG 4 TALK on
Germany Depends on Soviet.
Acheson Says. Page Az.
ey the Assoeiofed Press

BERLIN, May 1.-THE last
hours Of the Berlin blockade
licked away tonight in a spirit Of
celebration and deliverance from
events which brought the East and
West almost to the brink of war.
The end of the 327-day siege Of
Berlin was set for one minute
after midnight, which is equiva-
lent to 6:01 pm. Washington time
Trains and trucks lined UP near
the border between the British
and Russian zones of Germany.
The dropping of roadblocks will
start them along the 100 miles of
Russian-controlled territory that
makes an island of Germany's
greatest city.
Sixteen freight trains were
ready. along with scores of trucks,
automobiles and barges. The
trains from the west carry coal
and food--the things that the D.
100000 Western Berliners have
gotten only through the might of
the American-British airlift in
the last 10 months.
Counterblockade to End.
At the same time, the western
powers will relax their counter
blockade. Under that they kept
goods from flowing into Western
Germany from the eastern (Rus-
sian-controlled) zone. But it is
the Russians who take a diplo-
matte defeat out of the Berlin
blockade: western leaders say the
Russians, not reckoning with the
airlift, thought they could squeeze
the west out of Berlin.
1t was like county fair day at
Helmstedt, the British zone town
which is the main gateway for
transportation entering the Rus
sian zone en- route to Berlin.
Traffic jammed the ancient, wind
ing streets.
Five passenger cars arrived on
the railroad from Frankfurt, to be
attached to a British military
train from Bielefeld. The train
will move across the Zonal border
at 2:13 am. (8:13 pm. today,
Washington time). The American
cars carried almost 100 news and
radio correspondents, photog-
raphers and officials.
In the freight yards at Bruns-
wick and Hanover. near Helm
stedt, locomotives were garlanded
with evergreen boughs and flags.
First of Passenger Trains.
The train carrying the American
cars will be the first of five pas
senger trains which will go into
Berlin the first day. The first
train is due in Berlin at $50 am.
Q2:30 am, EDIT.
Heading the officials on the train
was Sir Robert Englis, director Of
transportation for the British
American Bizone, who said he
hoped there would be mo diff
Guilty"
For trains entering the Russian
zone the first test of the Soviet
attitude will come at Marien-
born, about 10 miles across the
border from Helmstedt. That is
where the Russians will check
the trains papers and either wave
them on or halt them.
The road vehicles will be the
first across the border. An Army
convoy will leave at one minute
past midnight and take the Auto
balm to Berlin at a normal mil
itary convoy speed of Is miles
an hour.
Newsmen Prefer Highway.
The convoy will be followed by
other trucks and by numerous
correspondents who preferred the
highway to the train for the trip
into Berlin.
Correspondents were officially
told that they could follow the
convoy or. if they wished, go
ahead at their own risk.
It seemed likely that the ma
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