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Evening star., 1950-03-17

Bridgeport, Conn, two days be-
fore arriving in Washington to
open the Zoo. Others surviving
are three nephews, DR.. Charles
Keefer, Washington; Sylvester
Harding. Ocean City. N. j., and
Horace Harding. Philadelphia,
and two nieces, Mrs. Rena Col
Inns, Toms River. N. j., and Mrs.
Constance Moser. Arlington.
Funeral services will be held at
7 pm. tomorrow at the Chambers
Funeral Home, 1400 Chaplin
street NV. Burial will be in q
family lot at New Canaan, Conn.
Evening star., 1950-03-17
Naval Power
Continued From First Page. )

fleet-especially her adaptation
to the elusive snorkel-type sub
mersibles. These subs, perfected
by the Germans, can remain sub
merged for long periods by using
a chimney-like breathing" device.
The Navy is earmarking more
than $3.50 million in 1851 for re-
search and development. Most of
it, it was indicated, will go for
gadgets to track and kill "snor-
kels," which are now able to
evade conven tional search
methods.
But Admiral Sherman made
clear he did not consider the
money adequate for the job of
meeting a World War III submar-
inc menace.
He told the House Appropria-
tions Committee:
Il would be less than candid if
I did not indicate to you that a
reduction of 80 patrol-plane
squadrons to 20, and from ITO
destroyers to 140. decreases the
means available to the Chief of
Naval Operations to meet his re-
sponsibilities for the naval de-
fense of the country. .-
In other words, while I sup
port this as being the best pro-
gram available to us, it is far
from providing the Navy COM
pletely adequate means for COM
batting submarine threat"
Most Drastic Cuts Are in Air.
It is in it's Air Forces that the
Navy faces its most drastic cut
backs. -..a.--
Although President Truman
raised naval air appropriations to
$538,718,000 from $497, ,523, 900
recommended by Secretary of De-
fense Johnson, the Navy says it
must: se
l. Eliminate 5000 enlisted avia-
ton billets and remove 1878 naval
aviators from flying duty.
2. Reduce flight training by 500
students year.
8. Close five air stations and
reduce five more to a partial
maintenance status, and shut
down four more major overhaul
and repair establishments.
The biggest pinch will be fell
in the Navy's plane procurement
program.
This would be cut % per cent
from this year and almost halved
from 1949. The Navy estimated it
will have only 66.5 per cent of
operative first-line combat air.
craft available in 1851 against its
full combatant requirements.
| Maintenance of this figure viii
hardly Offset losses suffered II
normal use, the committee wa
told by Vice Admiral John H
Cassidy. Deputy Chief of Nava
Operations for Air.
Under funds budgeted for tht
! fleet air arm. the Navy will b.
able to buy BIT new aircraft dur
ing 1851.
Simply stated. Admiral Cassad,
said. this means naval aviation
will be $40 planes short Of its
needs.
eve are planning to meet thi.
deficiency by the operation of sec.
ond-line aircraft" he announced
Evening star., 1950-03-17
Rocket Powder Blast
Kills Two at Arsenal

DOVER. N. j., Mar. 17.-An ex-
plosion ripped through a rocket
powder blending building at Plea
tinny Arsenal today killing two
men.
Cause of the blast was not i'm
mediately determined.
Authorities said Nhe victims
James E. Doyle, so, of Dover and
Daniel H. Costello, SO. of Rock
away, were alone in the small
building when the explosion oc-
CURED. Three others working
nearby were injured slightly.
Guglielmo Marconi obtained his
first English patent for wireless
telegraphy in 1896.
Evening star., 1950-03-17
Judith CopIon's Range Extended to D. G.

to go to Washington, where she
has an appeal pending on another
espionage conviction.
Miss Coplon. %. and Valentin
A. Gubitchev, 33-year-old Russian
engineer, drew prison sentences Of
Is years last week.
He still is in Jail, but will receive
a suspended sentence next Mon
day and be put on boat for his
native Russia. 80
Evening star., 1950-03-17
Reservation Areas Luroe

Reservations and tribal lands
of the American Indians and
ESkimos who are wards of the
United States Government would
cover an area twice the size of
PENNSYLVANIA.
Evening star., 1950-03-17
Ships to Be Converted

A shipyard at Kiel, Germany,
has orders to convert a United
States To tanker and 10 former
British corvettes into whaling or
whale-processing ships. 80
Evening star., 1950-03-17

Army engineers have spent
hundreds of thousands of dollars
clearing water chestnut plants
from the Potomac River.
Evening star., 1950-03-21
Sparks Burn Rope,
Man Falls ; Floors

A steeplejack was injured crit
ically today when rope by which
he was suspended in a Dorchester
House incinerator apparently was
burned in two by flying sparks.
Norman Manton, AZ, of Phila-
delphia fell three floors to the
base of the stack. He suffered
severe head injuries and was taken
to Emergency Hospital.
Mr.. Manton was replacing
bricks in the 10-story- high stack
of the apartment house at Six
teenth and Euclid streets NV.
seated in rope chair attached to
the inch thick pulley rope.
Police theorized that the rope
may have been set aflre by pieces
of trash ignited by smouldering
ash near the top of the stack.
They said there had been no fire
in the incinerator since midnight.
Officials of the Minimum Wage
and Industrial Safety Board, who
investigate such accidents, said
an engineer would be assigned to-
day to try to find why the rope
burned.
Mr.. Manton was employed by
the Chemical Fireproofing Corp.
of Washington. He and two other
men had worked on the incin-
orator three days last week, re-
suming the job today. Mr.. Man
ton was living at the Central
YMCA while employed on the job.
Evening star., 1950-03-21
Florida Court Uphold,
'Anti-Bookie' Law
sy the Assocjofed Pres.

TALLAHASSEE. Fla, Mar. 2l.
The Florida Supreme Court to-
day upheld the States so-called
anti-bookie law. .
In a unanimous decision the
court said the State has full power
to prohibit use of private or leased
telephone and telegraph wires for
distribution of gambling informa-
tion.
The law has been under attack
almost from the time it was
passed. amid legislative bribery
charges, in April. 1949.
Justice Glenn Terrell, writing
the courts opinion, said the law
did not violate the State and Fed
eral constitution clauses guaran-
teeing free enterprise. did not
restrict interstate commerce and
was well within the police powers
of the State.
Validity of the law was chal-
lenged by Radio Program Press
of Baltimore and Walter M.
Hagerty.
Mr.. Hagerty is the owner of
Intra- State News Service. which
the State Public Utilities Commits
sion cut off from wire service last
fall on grounds that it was dis
tributing racing information to
illegal bookmakerS.
Evening star., 1950-03-21

uary and February was 43 degrees.
But for the first 20 days of March,
when the mercury usually is ris-
ing, it dropped to an average of
1872 degrees.
Only in 1872. when the aver
age was 44.6 degrees, and 1889-90,
when it was 44.2, has Washington
experienced warmer winters than
that just ended.
Last January was the warmest
on record here, with an average
of 48.4 degrees. 1t hit its peak
January 26. when the reading
was 70.
AS for snow there was SO little
of it that no record was found
to equal it. According to the down.
town records, only 2 inches fell,
12 inch less than the previous
record in 1901.
Evening star., 1950-03-21
Spring Floats In on Ron but Cherry Blossoms Are Far Behind

Edward j. Kelly of National
Capital Parks said it would take
about 10 warm days to bring the
blossoms out in time, days in
which the thermometer reads 10
degrees or so.
The Weather Bureau saw moth
ing like that in store for Wash
ington. Normal temperatures, with
the maximum under 60 degrees,
were forecast for the remainder
Of the week. followed by a cooler
week end with some rain.
If the blossoms fail the festival,
it will be the first time since the
postwar revival of the event.
One year blooms burst about 10
am. on the festivals opening day,
some sort Of record for super
accurate timing.
Elsewhere there were signs Of q
Evening star., 1950-03-21

The weather did a fair job to-
day of keeping pace with the
calendar. This, the first full day
OF spring. was introduced last
night with four-fifths of an inch
of rain. And today's tempera-
lures, headed for the middle SOS,
promised to stimulate a bit of
sap-riSing.
The semibalmy atmosphere is
scheduled to hang on for a while,
the Weather Bureau said in pre-
dieting a low of SO for tonight
and some chance of occasional
rain tomorrow.
But prospects were none too
good for q blooming of the Tidal
Basin cherry trees in time for the
annual Cherry Blossom Festival
the week end Of March 81.
Evening star., 1950-03-21
BY Joseph Young

The House Appropriations Com
mittee took action today to require
all Government employees to take
their entire 26 days annual va
cation leave this year.
In reporting the omnibus 1851
appropriations bill, the committee
approved a provision prohibiting
any further accumulation of an
nual leave this year.
AS approved by the committee,
every Government worker must
use up his rs days vacation before
December 81.
However, employees will be per-
mitted to carry over their &C
cumulated leave from former
years. For example. an employe
who may have so days accumu-
lated leave, besides the 26 days
coming to him this year, would
be permitted to retain the so days.
The committee said the provi-
Evening star., 1950-03-21

to farm products yesterday in the
face of strong administration pro-
tests.
Senator Connally told reporters
the substitution move would fail
as he called his committee into
session to consider the aid pro-
gram.
The Economic Cooperation Ad-
ministration has asked a $780,
100000 authorization plus the
right to spend $3.50 million which
will be left over from the current
year.
Comally Is Confident.
Senator Connally appeared con-
f1dent his committee would ap-
prove the entire cash amount
asked by the administration.
Senator Hickenlooper, Repub-
lican. of Iowa said he will ask
for roll-call vote on his amend
ment to trim $500 million off the
authorization.
The farm products fore sh
amendment in the House COM
mittee came from Representative
Vorys, Republican. OF Ohio.
Mr.. Vorys said that in the past
the Secretary of Agriculture has
furnished only Sis million o1
Government surpluses out of q
total ECA food program COSTING
over $2.4 billion.
There is no excuse now fol
using new funds to buy more agri-
cultural products for a Govern
ment program. when we already
own and have paid for this gigan-
tic surplus" he said.
Kee Sees No Saving.
Chairman Kee. who opposed
Mr.. Vorys' proposal, said in his
opinion the bill doesn't save any
thing"
In the first place, Mr.. Kee con-
tended, 1t puts an added burden
on the farm price support pro-
gram by taking billion dollars
worth of ECA purchasing power
out of the open market. He saic
it also ties the hands of the ECA
ECA officials are opposing the
move, also. They argue it would
support Communist claims that
Europe is being used as a dumping
ground for American surplus from
production and would hamper re-
covery efforts.
Evening star., 1950-03-21
Committee Cuts Package Budget
By Billion Asks Deficiency Curb
And New Rule on Fund Transfers
Ban on Vacation Corryover
By Federal Employees Voted
Leave Already Accumulated Will Not
Be Affected by Committee Proposal

sion should be re-enacted each
year by Congress to cut down
eventually on the amount of ex-
cess annual leave accumulated by
Federal workers. 1t also recon-
mended that the House and Sem
ate Civil Service Committees re-
view the entire leave situation
with view to establishing a
sound and equitable leave policy
which will prevent the abuses pos
sible under legislation"
In acting on the annual leave
situation, the committee refused
to consider a more drastic move
that would have required all ex-
cess annual leave of Federal work
ers to be wiped out by July l..
Committee members stressed that
under the new provision, Federal
workers will not lose a single dag
of their leave privileges. They
only will be required to use up
tSee LEAVE, Page A-6.)
Evening star., 1950-03-21
Durant's Bonds Found
In Veterans S Room
On Anonymous Tip
Young Mon Admits Theft
Of $4,000 in Securities
From Philosopher
BY the Associofed Press

HOLLYWOOD, Mar. 2l.-Two
detectives, acting on a tip. early
today arrested a scared" Boston
youth and recovered s314,0O0 in
bonds, stocks and jewelry stolen
from the home of philosopher Will
Durant.
George B. Roden. %. recently
discharged from the Navy, was
arrested in his room. Detectives
T. T. Belcher and Raymond Keeley
said the loot was found in the
back of an overstuffed chair. They
did not disclose the source of
their tip.
1T scared me to death when I
saw all that I had" Roden told
the detectives. II was afraid some
one would bump me off for it. -
Saw People Leave.
The officers asked him how he
happened to choose the Durant
mansion for a safecracking job:
Il just happened to be going by
and saw the people leave. I got
in the house by taking a glass out
of a window"
Police counted $278,000 in bonds
and $4,000 in stocks, all nom
negotiable. Also found was $500
in jewelry belonging to Mrs. Mat
tie SturZ of New York, a house
guest in the 15-room Durant man
sion.
Mrs. Ariel Durant, wife of the
65-year-old writer, discovered the
wall safe jimmied and standing
open when she awoke yesterday.
Loss Taken PhiIosophically.
Roden was booked on suspicion
of burglary.
DR.. Durant, when first told of
the loss yesterday. took it philo-
sophically:
I'D be willing to give all 1 have
for another 10 years of life" He
estimates it will take that long to
finish the last two volumes of his
six-volume monument STORY of
Civilization" He has spent 35
years on it so far.
Roden told the detectives that
he had no difficulty opening the
Durant safe as he found it only
partially locked.
Evening star., 1950-03-21
RoinfoII Begins z Days
Before 'Ruin-Mukino'
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK. Mar. 2l.-Rain
fell by the bucketfull today, two
days before a Harvard scientist
tentatively scheduled an attempt
to manufacture rain from the
clouds to fill the city's half filled
reservoirs.
DR.. Wallace E. Howell of Har-
ward said he might start artificial
rainmaking Thursday If there are
any rain-f1lled clouds to pepper
with dry ice pellets.
Rain on this first day of spring
was being whipped by wind which
reached a peak velocity of ~ miles
an hour at La Guardia Field.
Evening star., 1950-03-21
Daily Worker Seeks Funds
To Continue Publication
By the Associated Press

NEW YORK, Mar. 21.-The
Daily Worker. Communist news
paper, has appealed to its readers
for contributions to guarantee
it's continued publication.
Editor John Gates said in an
editorial yesterday that the paper
has an immediate $175,000 def
icit," despite what he termed a
successful subscription drive and
every possible economy" in the
papers production.
Gates is one of IL top Amer
ican Communists appealing their
conviction on charges of con-
spiracy to advocate forcible over
throw of the United States Gov
ernment.
Evening star., 1950-03-21

reawakening from such spring
landmarks as forsythia, Japanese
ounce, winter honeysuckle, jas
mine, crocus, and even coloring
in the magnolia buds.
Many of the plants had bloomed
in the premature spring" of Jan
uary, fact that may detract
somewhat from Washington's US
ual colorful spring flower mosaic.
Although the area has just
passed its third warmest winter
in the Weather Bureaus history,
such things as gardens have been
strangely retarded. With the
early springs of the last three
years, gardeners generally have
been busy by this date.
Downtown Weather Bureau
records tell why. The average
temperature for December, jan
Evening star., 1950-03-21
Rep. Ralph f. Church Co|Iopses
And Dies at House Heorinq
Illinois Republican
Was Arguing Against
Truman NLRB PIun

Represe TIA tive Ralph E.
Church, Republican, of Illinois
collapsed and died today while
testifying at a House committee
session. He was 66.
Representative Church was ap-
pearing before the House Com
mittee on Expenditures in the
executive departments. He was
opposing one of President Tru-
mans reorganizatlo ton plans which
would, in substance. abolish the
office of general counsel of the
National Labor Relations Board
and transfer his functions to the
board and its chairman.
Mr.. Church had introduced a
resolution which called on Con-
fSee CHURCH, Page A-7.)
Evening star., 1950-03-21
Justice Official Urges
Caution in Curbs ON
Communist Party
Opposes Bill to Make
Membership q Crime
For Federal Worker
By Miriom Ottenbero

Legislation making it a crime
for a Federal employe to belong
to the Communist Party was op-
posed by a Justice Department
spokesman today as unnecessary
and probably unconstitutional.
Peyton Ford, assistant to the
Attorney General. in a letter to
the House Committee on I'm
American Activities, also eau
toned against acting prematurely
on proposed Communist-curbing
measures.
Mr.. Ford pointed out the con-
viction of IL Communist leaders
in New York will be argued on
appeal in June.
AT that time" he wrote, some
Of the most important of the con-
stitutional questions raised by the
existing legislation and by the
bills now pending before your
committee will be submitted for
determination. The decision in
that case will be most important
one and action which may prove
to be premature in the light of its
outcome should be carefully
weighed"
Provides Fine, Prison.
Mr.. Ford's letter came as the
committee opened hearings on the
House version of the Ferguson
Mundt bill and one sponsored by
Committee Chairman Wood.
Mr.. Woods bill-the one criti-
cized by Mr.. Ford-would provide
for fines of up to $4,000, or i'm
prisonment for not more than
three years. or both, for Federal
employees and workers employed
on national defense jobs who are
| (See UN- Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1950-03-21
Shanghai Evacuation
Trip Called Off, Liner
Due 10 Sail for Japan
Shipping Official Holds
Little Hope Of Reaching
Agreement With Reds
BY ths Associated Press

HONG KONG, Mar. 21.-The
American President Lines today
Cancelled the liner General w. H.
Gordon's trip to evacuate foreign
nationals from Red-held Shang-
hal.
Chinese Communist officials
earlier refused entry into Shang-
hal harbor of two shallow draft
tank landing ships needed to carry
evacuees through water which
may be mined.
j. j. Bergman, Hong Kong
manager of APL, said the door
was left open for a last minute
agreement but he had little hope.
One hundred and three pas
sengers for Shanghai were taken
off the Gordon late today and the
liner was rescheduled to depart
for Yokohama at 8 pm. q am.
EST.
Evacuation Stymied.
The Communists refusal to let
two civilian-manned LISTS enter
Shanghai harbor stymied plans
to evacuate more than 400 Amer
leans and 1900 nationals of other
countries.
The Reds decision was made
known only after the LISTS had
cleared Nagasaki, Japan, yester-
day for Shanghai.
Nationalists say they have
mined the waters of the Whang.
poo and Yangtze Rivers leading
into Shanghai harbor. The shall
low-draft LISTS are needed to les.
sen the danger of accident. They
were scheduled to reach shangha.
tomorrow.
Fifteen foreign consulates ir
(Cee TTnN Dooe AN
Evening star., 1950-03-21
Face Lifting Operation
On Used Car Leads 10
Arrest al Rockville
Washington Man Held
After Stolen 1916 Auto
Is ResoId os lo48 Model

A Rockville garage which police
say may be a face lifting" op-
Grafton for stolen autos was under
investigation today after the ar
rest of one man on larceny
charges.
Recovery of stolen 1916
Chrysler, so altered that it was
apparently legally titled, sold and
resold as 1948 model, brought
the arrest yesterday of the suspect
and touched off the inquiry by
Maryland, Washington and Vir-
ginia auto authorities.
The arrested man was Robert
L. Richards. 29-year-old unem-
ployed roofer. OF the 5000 block
OF Sherrier place NV, who is
charged with grand larceny.
He was placed under $4,000 bond
by United States Commissioner
Cyril S. Lawrence and the case
was continued until tomorrow at
the request of the Government.
A second suspect is sought.
Chrysler Reported Stolen.
Washington police auto squad
members, 1t. Jacob Wolf and De-
tective Sergts. Charles I. Smith
and John G. Williams, began a
routine check on February 8, when
Edward D. Jones, 3410 A street
Sc, reported his 1916 Chrysler
stolen.
The hunt was intensified when
they received information that the
car had been reconditioned and
resold. Their investigation, much
of it through tedious checking
of records, led to Wisconsin
avenue used-car company. which
had legally bought the car and
resold it to an Army lieutenant
colonel in Virginia.
A parts or chassis number was
found to correspond with a num-
ber on the stolen Jones car, the
police said.
Purchased as 1948 Model.
The car had been equipped with
l948 motor, the proper num-
Der of which appeared on the title.
Chrome trimming and other
equipment had been altered, the
police charged. to such an extent
that the used car lot and the
colonel had bought it as a 194S
model.
Sergt. Williams said they learned
Richards had bought the motor
and wrecked car from an auto
parts firm in Washington. He also
said Richards had rented an
eight-car garage on Rockville pike
between Rockville and Bethesda
The plant contained new auto
motive equipment, spray guns and
dyes. Police also found a baby
seat, from the Jones car, in junk
pile in the garage.
When Mr.. Jones car was stoler
it was blue. When police recov-
cred it, the color was black.
Police want to know, among
other things, how extensive the
operation is. how long it has beer
going on and, in the case of tht
re-made Chrysler. who is the loser
Evening star., 1950-03-21
| Motorist Tuunts
Catch Me- After
Rdmminq Auto

John c. Schellenberg would like
nothing better than to oblige the
South Carolina driver who
rammed the back of his car early
today and then taunted: Catch
me-"
Mr.. Schellenberg tried, but lost
the 1949 blue sedan after a short
chase. He lives at 1909 M streets
NE.
He told police the car, with
South Carolina tags struck the
back of his car at Fourteenth
street near Rhode Island avenue
NV, causing SIS damage.
All the offending driver did, MIR.
Schellenberg related, was stick
his head out the window and yell,
Catch me.
Evening star., 1950-03-21
Aeheson,s Condition, Rejected in Russia:
Reply Unlikely. Poge Al

AcheSoH CONDITIONS REJECTED IN RusSIo;
Reply Unlikely. Poge Al
Truman made it clear
yesterday through an aide he is
sticking by his Secretary of State
and approves the cabinet mem
ber's conduct and policies.
lMr. Truman's blanket in
dorsement of Mr.. Acheson was
seen as an effort to strengthen
the prestige of his foreign af-
fairs adviser, and get away from
a situation that prevailed in
1945 when Edward r. Stettinius
was constantly under attack,
and was rumored facing replace.
ment by James E. Byrnes, an
eventuality that developed.
Goes to Unusual Lengths.
In saying in Key West that
reports that Mr.. Acheson would
be replaced by Chief Justice
Fred M. Vinson were "fabrica-
tions," the President went to
unusual lengths to deny a rumor
affecting his official family.
(And when he went further
and said he thought the Secre-
tary of State was doing a good
job. it was evident that he
wanted to put everybody on no.
tice that he is squarely behind
his top man in the State De-
partment who has been having
his troubles because of the Hiss
affair and other matters.)
Senator Wherry, long time criti,
of Mr.. Acheson, said in a speech
prepared for a Founders Day eel.
ebration in Lincoln, Nebr., tina
Mr.. Acheson is '"undermining ou
national economy and losing tn,
peace"
Secretary of State Dean Ache
son is the most powerful man il
the Government today" Senate
Wherry declared. "The voice j
the voice of President Truman, bu
the hand is the hand of Dear
Acheson.
Apparently he has become S,
powerful, as the idol of left-wing
appease Russia agitators tina
President Truman is fearful
should he fire Acheson, he will los
the support of this radical, so
cialistic pressure group in tn
coming elections and in 1882"
Two other Republicans, Repre-
sentatives Byrnes, of Wisconsin
(See ADHESION paoe A.AN