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Evening star., 1950-07-16

me to have an active interest, I'll
be pleased to help in any way I
possibly can. But it has to come
from him."
He said he had made it policy
never to go over the head of any
of his top personnel, never to take
away any of their responsibility.
At the same time, however, he
said he had fought against the
fare increase until q wage increase
put the company in the red. When
he was reminded that lay-offs had
followed the wage increase, he
insisted there had not been
enough of them to compensate
for the increase costs.
Explains Labor Policies.
He said he thought the bus
fares were too close to the cab
fares now. He remarked that he
was aware of the problems of the
working man and how every penny
counted in his budget.
Asked about his labor policies,
in view of the fact that he laid
the fare increase at labor's door,
he said:
"All businessmen should let the
people who help them make the
money share in the profits in
some way because capital actually
puts up the money to management
and labor and lets them work with
the money"
AS an example of his policy,
he said when he liquidated the
Tampa Shipbuilding Co. he took
in several hundred supervisory and
Office workers as partners" and
Evening star., 1950-07-16
WoIfson Denies Any Gambling Connections

gave them 80 per cent Of the
profits, amounting to more than
81 1000. He said he did not
include union members in this
distribution because the union
would not let them take bonuses.
At the time, he said, 5000 persons
were working in the shipyard.
The 38-year-old industrial mag
nate said he had driven a truck
and loaded pipe himself in the
early days.
Asked later about that, his
associates said he worked as a
boy in his fathers small scrap iron
business. They told this story
of his beginnings:
He was attending the University
Of Georgia on a football scholar
ship and had been chosen all
Southern end when he had to
quit school to help support his
family.
Borrowed to Start Business.
In 1882. with Sc, 900 borrowed on
the family's life insurance poll
cieS, he and his brothers started
the Florida Pipe and Supply Co
BY 1946. the business had net
worth Of more than $4,000, 900.
In December, 1945, he bought
the Tampa Shipbuilding Co., which
was then ready to close up. He
went to the French Government
and got contracts to build $3s
million worth Of ships. wher
the contract expired two years
later. he liquidated the yard.
BY this time, he was spreading
out in half a dozen different
directions ns-theaters, real estate
supply houses and construction
companies. In Florida alone
assets from the businesses in which
he and his family own SO per cent
or more amount to $1,000, 900. HI
was the largest stockholder ir
Monogram Pictures until he sole
his interest a year ago. He /.
the largest stockholder in Merritt
Chapman & Scott, the New YorE
construction firm.
He Is also in the insurance
business with Frank Leahy, coach
of the Notre Dame football team
and longtime friend:
And he'd like to buy the Wash
ington baseball club if he could
do 1t on a satisfactory basis"
He has invested more than
100000 in a home now being re-
modelled for him on Ellicott street
He said his two older children
will go to public school. He has
a daughter, IL, and two sons
age 8 and az.
Evening star., 1950-07-16
Milk, Airport,
Crime Probe
Await Action
Congressional Units
To Be Busy This Week
On District Legislation

District problems ranging from
milk to crime probe and from
a new airport to supplemental
budget requests await action this
week by congressional units.
A batch of minor legislation
also is on the agenda.
AS to milk, a subcommittee OF
the House District Committee will
resume hearings. Tuesday at 10
am. on proposals to open the
Washington market to importation
Of milk from States beyound pres
ent District inspection.
Senate Agriculture Committee
hearings on similar ideas will be
resumed Thursday.
Hearing on Crime Probe.
The crime probe issue, as to
whether an additional $4,000
should be granted the Davis SUBJ
committee of the House District
Committee. for continuation OF
it's probe of the Washington situ-
alton. is to be considered at an
open hearing tomorrow. This will
be before the Stanley Subcom-
mittee of the House Administra-
tions Committee.
The Senate-passed plan for
building new commercial air.
port for the National Capital, tc
relieve over-crowded Washington
National Airport, still is awaiting
action by the Beckworth Subcom-
mittee of the House Commerce
Committee.
Chairman Beckworth said last
night he was hoping to get action
from his subcommittee soon
since he was convinced "addeo
commercial airport facilities here
were needed. He said he hoped
the problems could be worked out
with the least possible confusion
for the future"
On this he did not elaborate,
except to say that he considered
the House hearings had been con-
cluded.
The whole picture was COM
plicated at recent hearings by
suggestions that the need of a
new city airport might be obviated
by the closing to military use of
the Army's Boiling Field and the
Naval Air Station or by the pos
sible conversion to public use of
the Andrews Air Field. None of
these suggestions, however, has
been approved by affected mill
tary services.
Budget Requests Up.
The Bates subcommittee of the
House Appropriations Committee
tomorrow will resume executive
hearings on 1851 supplemental
budget requests for the District.
These include funds for establish
ing a civil defense organization
for the District.
Legislative authority for civil
defense work will be considered
by the Senate District Committee
at 2 pm. tomorrow.
Consideration of the budget re-
quest for civil defense is going
ahead now on the assumption that
Congress before the end of this
session will complete action of the
legislative authority.
At its meeting tomorrow. the
Senate District Committee is ten
tatively scheduled to act on pro-
lection of Old Georgetown against
commercial developments and to
provide for a stadium for Eastern
High School. among other re-
quests.
Evening star., 1950-07-16
james G. Yoden Dies at g.;
AFGE Head and Civic Leader

James Garfield Yaden, SO, presi-
dent of the American Federation
of Government Employees and one
|of Washington's best known civic
leaders. died yesterday at Gar
field Hospital.
Mr.. Yaden, who served four
terms as president of the Fedora
ton of Citizens Associations,
fractured his hip two weeks ago
when he fell out of bed at his
home, 4119 Illinois avenue NV.
Although in i'll health for several
years, he remained active until
his recent injury. His associates
considered him a rugged" man
with a world of courage and a
fighting heart"
A long time power in AFGE, he
was elected president of the AFL
union in September 1948. He
won the presidency after a close
and bitter battle waged with
former AFGE chief James B,
Burns. The membership has
doubled since he became presi-
dent.
Was csc Official.
Mr.. Yaden had been a Civil
Service Commission official for SO
years. After his election to the
presidency of AFGE he resigned
from the Government. At that
time he was a member of the
commissions Board of Appeals
and Review, having held the post
for several years.
Mr.. Yaden's career had been
marked by continuous leadership.
This included Government. civic,
patriotic, fraternal and church
activities.
His colleagues in the Federation
Citizens Associations said yester-
day he was lone of the best"
Federation presidents. He was
president from 1926 to 1928. After
a flye-year period be was re-
elected and served from 1888 to
1885. This was the only time a
Federation president has been re-
elected after stepping down. civic
leaders addeu.
AS a member of the Petworth
Citizens Association for more than
80 years, he was past president and
a delegate to the Federation for
years. He was stauncf advocate
of national and local suffrage, and
more recreational activities in the
schools. He firmly believed that
District Government positions
should go to District residents and
taxpayers.
Spanish War Veteran.
A SpaniSh-American War vet
eran, he was past department
commander of the United Spanish
War Veterans. He was president
Evening star., 1950-07-16
3From District
Among 6 Facing
Contemplation
Mrs. Bella Rodmun
And Elizabeth SusuIy
Included in List "a.

The House Committee on Un-
American Activities has voted to
request contempt citations against
Mrs. Bella Rodman. At, wife Of
Samuel Rodman. Washington
builder.
The committee also asked cita.
tions against five other persons,
two others from Wash
ington. Chairman Wood said the
cases would be brought before tho
House as soon as they can be
prepared.
Action was taken yesterday
against the Polish-born Mrs. Rod
man, of 3700 Massachusetts, ave-
nue. NV; Pasquale Leonard James
Branca, drug firm salesman of the
800 block of Allison street NV.
and Elizabeth Sasuly, union off,
cial, also a resident of the apart
ment house at 3700 Massachusetts,
avenue.
The three appeared before the
committee last summer during its
investigation of Communism in
the District. They refused to state
whether they were members of
the Communist party. on grounds
of possible Standardization.
Citations for contempt also will
be sought in the case Of DR.. Clar-
ence Hiskey, wartime atomic
scientist, for his refusal to answer
questions regarding his alleged as
sociation with Arthur Adams,
Soviet atomic spy.
Hiskey Was Put Into Army.
DR.. Hiskey now is a member Of
the faculty of the Brooklyn Poly
technic Institute.
An official committee report said
this of DR.. Hiskey: "AS a result
Evening star., 1950-07-16
French Officers S
Wife and Girl, 4,
Die in Collision
Maj. cIey-MeIin and
7 Others Injured in
Delaware Crush
SpeeiaT Dispatch to The srur

BRIDGEVILLE. Del, July 15.-
The wife of a French officer
stationed in Washington and q
4-year-old Hyattsville girl were
killed in a head-on crash of two
cars on a rain-soaked highway
near Bridgeville. Del, today
Eight other persons were injured
In the collision.
The dead are Mrs. Robert M
Clery-Melin, 27, whose husband
is a major stationed at the Penta-
gon. and Mary Joyce Lynn, 1913
Jennifer street. Hyattsville, who
died at the Milford Del.) Hos
pital several hours after the crash.
Maj. Clery- -Melin, 81; two sons
Bernard. 10, and Baudouin, 8, and
their governess, Paulette Broger,
Is, are in fair condition at the
hospital. A daughter, Brigette, 2,
was not hurt.
The Lynn girl was in the other
car with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Joseph w. Lynn, and grand
parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Joyce Fren-
eel, 5000 Vista street NE. Mr..
Lynn, 81, has a brain conclusion.
Mrs, Lynn, %. is in satisfactory
condition. The Frenzels are re-
ported in fair condition at the
hospital.
Delaware State police said the
accident occurred on a straight
stretch of Route 404 about two
miles southeast of Bridgeville dur
ing a driving rain. Police said
one of the cars apparently started
skidding on the wet highway. and
the two vehicles crashed head -on.
The Clery- Melin family was re-
turning from a vacation at Reho-
both Beach and the other family
was bound for the same beach.
Maj. Clery-Melin and Mr.. Frenzel
were listed as drivers of the cars
Police said traffic was tied UP
about a half hour while the vic
tins were carried away and the
wreckage was cleared.
Maj. Clery-Melin was assigned
to the Office of the Secretary OF
Defense, North Atlantic Treaty
Organization division. Standing
Group branch. He has been in
this country since ApriK His resi-
dence here is at 3408 Garrison
street NV.
NeighborS said Mr.. Frenzel and
Mr.. Lynn are railroad workers.
The Lynns have no other chill
dren. according to rleighbors.
Evening star., 1950-07-16
Children SompIing
Poisons Add to
Home Injury List

The curious, hungry and thirsty
kiddies were at it again last week
the Red Cross Home Accident
Survey reported.
One drank a disinfectant, an
other tried linseed oil, a brother
and sister ate rat poison and still
another tried ammonia. A boy
swallowed a dime and a nickel.
There were no fatalities amone
the children, but they were among
122 residents treated at Washing-
ton hospitals for home accident
injuries.
Three persons died-two from
falls and one from burns. Boiling
bea@s which spilled severely
burned a 49-year-old woman and
q man suffered body burns when
he fell asleep while smoking.
Evening star., 1950-07-16

Of the Grand Army of the Re
public Memorial Day Corp. for 19
years.
Mr.. Yaden had been chaplain
Of both the Petworth Masonic
Lodge and Lawton Camp. United
Spanish War Veterans. He also
was a past Grand Chancellor of
the Knight of Pythias, belonged
to the Odd Fellows, and served as
president of the Community Gen.
ter Council Of the Public Schools
for six years.
He taught the Yaden Bible Glass
at the Petworth Baptist Church
for 90 years.
Mr.. Yaden was born in Tennes-
see but reared in Kentucky. He
was teacher in Kentucky public
schools and a member of the Ken
lucky House of Representatives
from 1905 to 1908. He was a life
time Republican.
On coming here in 1910, Mr..
Yaden was employed at the Cen
sus Bureau for two years before
joining the Civil Service Com
mission. He was chief examiner
of the commission from 1920 to
1888.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Nellie M. Yaden; a son, j. Ed
ward Yaden, Forester street
Sc; a daughter, Mrs. Arthur P.
Kent, 3704 Gunston road, Alex
andria. and a grandson, William
Edward Yaden. Three brothers
and four sisters also survive.
Funeral services will be held at
2 pm. Tuesday in the Hines fu-
neral home, 2901 Fourteenth street
NV. Burial will be in Cedar Hill
Cenaetarv
Evening star., 1950-07-16
1t. n. G. Thomas, Porotrooper,
Is First D. &. Casualty in Koren
Severely Wounded
24-Yeor-OId Man
Is Removed to Jupun

Second 1t. Howell G. Thomas.
jr., "a, of 3449 Seventeenth street
NV, an airborne infantry officer,
has been dangerously wounded in
Korea.
He was the first Washington
man to be named as casualty on
the Defense Department lists.
His father, a telegrapher for the
Atlantic Coast Line railroad, re-
ceived Defense Department tele-
gram last night stating that his
sons condition was dangerous. -
The father is a widower.
Earlier he had telegram saying
that Lit. Thomas was Slightly
wounded.
The shock of the change in the
report prostrated the father. 1t.
Thomas is his only child. He has
been evacuated from Korea and
is at the Tokyo General Hospital.
Jerry" his father said, had
always wanted a military career.
He was born in New York and
came here with his family when
of high school age. He attended
Powell Junior High School, Cen
trail High School, Fishburne Mill
tary Academy at Waynesboro, Va,
and, after a year at Virginia Mill
tary Institute, enlisted in the Air
Force at 18.
1t. Thomas did not leave the
United States during World War
II, his father said. He was at q
Louisiana Air Force base in 1945
when his mother died.
Attended G. w. u.
After the war, he entered
George Washington University. He
was cheerleader in 1948, his
father said. In the spring of 1949,
together with his friend Mark
Taynton, jr., of Beech Tree Farm,
Falls Church, Va, he enlisted in
the Army and they were sent to
Fort Benning. There he earned
his parachute insignia as a para
trooper.
He transferred to the Air Force
his father said, and was training
as a pilot.
| Jerry had 26 hours in the air
at Chanute Field, Ill.," the father
said, "and then he was observed
stunting. They grounded him and
he went back in the infantry"
Last fall, as second lieutenant
he left for Japan with his friend
1t. Taynton.
Casualty List Issued.
| Late yesterday the Defense De-
Ipartment issued a new list of all
II wounded and 16 injured. II
contained no Washington area
: names. The list:
The wounded:
1t. Robert C. Adams, Austin
Tex; 1t. John C. Barronton, Cor
dele, Ga; Capt. Alexander P
:. Bolding, jr., Bonham, Tex: Pvt
Billie D. Grieser, Delavan, ILL.,;
!, Sergt. John w. Harper, Augusta
Ga.
! Sergt. Arthur j. Johnson, ST.
/ Paul, Mimi; Sergt. 1/c Arthur j
i Mcmillan, South Gate, Calf; Pfc
Albert Vargas, Oakland, Calf. !;
Pfc. Jerry Vitale, New York, N. Y;
Pfc. Robert Warren, Erie, Pa, and
Pfc. Donald E. Withers, Oil City,
Pa.
The injured:
Pvt. Richard F. Burke, Cape
May, N. j.; Pei Oscar L. Cotton,
Evening star., 1950-07-16
Floridu Investor Tells
Of Labor Policies;
Plans to Live Here
By Miriam Gutenberg
SfoY Stoff Corresnonden&

MIAMI, Fla, July 15.-Louis E.
WolfSon. head of the Florida
group controlling the Capital
Transit Co. in Washington, last
night came to grips with rumors
that he was fronting" for rack
eteers out to make quick profit
by speculating in the transit
company.
In an exclusive interview with
The Star, he was asked directly
if there were any truth to these
rumors. This was his answer:
II have no direct or indirect
connection with any gambling
group, past, present or future. I
have never gone into any business
deal with anyone I had to front
for. All of my business deals have
been with my brothers or close
associates.
II never want to be put in the
category of getting into any situ-
alton where I would be considered
a tit-and-run promoter.
"It means a lot more to make
money by accepting a challenge
and achieving success after over
coming challenging problems than
to move into easy money without
challenges.
mo one can ever take a persons
reputation away from him. He
can only lose it himself"
WOlfson Moving to Washington.
In the same interview, Mr..
Wolfson held out a hope that the
transit company may, at some
future date. be able to reduce
fares on its own initiative through
streamlined operations.
Mr.. Wolfson came here to
testify before the Senate Crime
Investigating Committee on his
$150,000 contribution to Florida
Gov. Fuller Warren's 1948 cam
paign.
Although Mr.. Wolfson is NOV
ing his family to Washington in
August. he said he does not plan
to get into the operations of
Capital Transit unless he is called
into it.
II have utmost confidence in
the ability of j. A. B. Broadwatef,
the executive vice president, he
explained. THE management is
entirely up to him. If he advises
Evening star., 1950-07-16
Heavy Rain Won 'tLift
Wafer Restrictions
lin Suburban Area
By Chorles A. McAIeer

Gall the rain in the world" won't
lift water restrictions now imposed
on suburban areas Of nearby
Montgomery and Prince Georges
Counties.
That was the pessimistic note
sounded yesterday by Dwight B.
Gait. chairman of the Washington
Suburban Sanitary Commission,
the agency which supplies the
water. ....
1--WE have all the raw water we
can use, but f1ltering it and get
ting it into the system is another
thing" Mr.. Gait explained. That's
where we are inadequate at the
present time"
The situation viii be relieved
next spring with completion Of
a major part of a $40 million con-
struction program now in prog
ress. Mr.. Gait said.
At present the commission OPP
crates two filtration plants-one
at Willis School, near Laurel, and
the other at Burnt Mills. Be-
tween them, they can produce ap-
proximately 20 million gallons
daily. Water consumption in the
two counties, however, exceeds %
million gallons day, causing the
commission to buy additional
water from the District.
Storage facilities for filtered
water as well as water mains and
pipe lines also are inadequate due
to the sudden growth of the two
counties.
The $40 million program in
cludes an increase in facilities at
the Willis School water treat
ment plant capable of filtering an
additional 10 million gallons of
water daily.
Construction of a dam and res
ervoir with a capacity of about
6 billion gallons also is planned.
The dam will be built on the
Patuxent River two miles north
west of Laurel, and a mile
stretch of river will be converted
to a lake.
Triadelphia Lake, the commits
sion's main water source at pres
ent, is on the Patuxent about four
miles from Ashton, and has a
water capacity of 612 billion gal
Ions.
Current restrictions forbid wat
ering of gardens and lawns and
washing of cars with hose lines.
New sod may be watered. provided
a 15-day permit Is obtained from
the commission.
Evening star., 1950-07-16
Alexandria Man Burned
When Gasoline ExpIodes

Robert c. Brewer, 26, Of Presi-
dental Gardens, Alexandria, was
burned on the face, arms and
chest yesterday while burning
brush at Lake jackson In Prince
William County.
Arlington Hospital. where he
was admitted, said Mr.. Brewers
condition was satisfactory. At
tendants said he was burned when
gasoline exploded as he poured
1t on some brush he was trying
to burn.
Evening star., 1950-07-16

Of his association with the known
Soviet espionage agent. Arthur
Adams, he (Hiskey) was removed
from employment by the Man
haitian Engineering District and
was inducted into the United
States Army"
The report further stated that
afer he was inducted he tried to
get an atomic research engineer to
pass data to Adams.
Yesterdays action brings to so
the number of citations voted by
the committee in recent months.
Thirty-nine of these developed
from the hearings on communism
in Hawaii.
Two Others Are Named.
The two others named yester-
day, according to Frank S. Tav-
enner, jr., committee counsel.
were: Marcel Scherer. of New
York, who recently testified in con-
nection with an investigation Of
a witness, and Esther Tice, former
organizer for the United Electrical
Workers in Cincinnati.
Scherer is now a co-ordinator
of the New York Labor Peace
Conference. which is pressing the
Stockholm peace petition drive.
When Mrs. Rodman testified
before the committee on June 28
last year, she was asked whether
she had ever collected funds or
received contributions to the
Communist party. She refused to
answer, on grounds of possible
standardization.
Represented by Durr.
Clifford Durr, former president
Of the National Lawyers Guild,
represented Mrs. Rodman at the
hearing.
Elizabeth Sasuly also refused,
on grounds of possible self-in-
elimination, to answer a series Of
questions. One was whether she
knew Gerhart EiSler, former mo.
l Communist" in the United
States, who escaped aboard the
Polish liner Batory while facing
two jail sentences.
She identified herself as the
legislative and political action di-
rector of the Food, Tobacco and
Agricultural Workers Union, and
the legislative representative OF
the Mine, Mill and Smelter
Workers.
Another Witness Heard.
The decision to recommend
contempt action against Miss Tice
was reached by the committee in
record time. It was based on her
appearance at a hearing yester-
day.
The group also heard from an
other witness who. like Miss Tice.
formerly was employed by the
United Electrical Workers Union.
This union recently was thrown
out of the CIO on the ground
that it hewed too close to the
Communist party line.
Marjorie Steinbacher, a former
secretary for the UE in Cincin-
natl. described Miss Tice as "the
brain" behind the preparation of
Communist party literature in
Cincinnati.
Miss Steinbacher said she and
her former husband were Com
munists at one time, but quit the
party when they learned it was
not "just political party"
"The straw that broke the
camePs back" she testified, was
a piece of party literature advo-
eating free love.
THAT was just too much for
me-" she said.
Evening star., 1950-07-16

Corbin, KY; Pvt. Fred T. Hamper,
Lemay, Mo-; Pfc. Richard Kayse,
Melbourne. Fla: M/Sergt. Frank
l.. King. Raleigh. N. C.
Pfc. Robert E. Lake, North
Syracuse. N. Y: Pfc. Eugene G..
Lee, Bolair, w. Va; Pvt. Jesse j.
Lilly. Stevenson, w. Va: Sergt.
1/c Gerald E. Long, Aurora, H.:
Corpl. George F. Miller, jr., Bar
tlesville. Okla; Pfc. Elmore w.
Pattison, Sylvania, Ohio; Sergt.
Herman Scamehorn, Spring Ar
Dor, Mich.
I'd 1t. Kenneth G. Smart, Truro,
Iowa; Pvt. Wesley C. Stewart,
Pittsburgh; Pfc. William II.
Thornton, Brighton, Tenn: and
M/Sergt. Charles A. Wiley, HAM
mond, Ind,
Evening star., 1950-07-16
J.F De Buuqh Appointed

MARTINSBURG, w. Va, July
is Especially John F. DeBaugh
has been appointed to the Berke-
ley County Farmers Home Admin
istration Committee for three
year term. He succeeds James
Van Metre, whose term has ex-
pired
Evening star., 1950-07-16
Fuirfux Citizens to Meet

The Fairfax County Federation
of Citizens Associations will meet
at the Annandale School at $50
pm. Thursday.