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Evening star., 1950-04-27
Country Club Owner
10 Die for Killing Wife
BY the AssoSio,ed Prsss

CAMBRIDGE. Mass. April 27.-
The former owner of a fashion
able country club today faced
death in the electric chair for
the Staying of his wife.
Marshall w. Cox. 90. Of Con-
cord was convicted yesterday of
first-degree murder by Superior
Court jury. Judge Joseph L. Hur-
ley imposed the mandatory death
penalty. but set no date for ex-
ecution.
The prosecution introduced tes-
tlmony that Cox killed his wife
by clubbing her on the head and
then stabbing her with an ice
pick as she sat at a piano playing
a, Mozart sonata in their home
two years ago.
Police testified that Cox told
them he killed his wife because
he didn't want her to worry about
the cost of repairing a roof which
Icaved in at his Stow Country
Club. The job would have wiped
him out financially. he said,
Witnesses quoted Cox as say
ing it seemed like a mercy and
kindneSS" to kill his wife-whom
Evening star., 1950-04-27
State School Status Urged
For Washington College
BY the Associated Press

CHESTERTOWN, Md, April 27
Washington College should be-
come a full-fedged State institu-
ton, Chairman William L. Mar
bury of the Maryland Commission
of Higher Education declared last
night.
In a speech before about $50
students and faculty members at
the old Eastern Shore College, Mr.
Marbury said, Maryland needs a
small liberal arts college"
: He added that:
1T will become more and more
clear that if Washington College
is to continue as a useful liberal
arts college without substantial
private aid, it will have to become
an integral part of the State sys-
tenn"
Evening star., 1950-04-27

Communist"-a charge he has
denied.
Senator Mccarthy and Senator
Brewster. Republican. of Maine,
protested the closed hearing in
the Amerasia case. Senator Brew
ster said that what Mr.. Bielaski
has to say will blow the Amerasia
case wide open" and for that rea-
son the proceedings should be
public.
Meanwhile, the committee has
reached no decision on what to do
about John j. Huber, a Mccarthy
witness who disappeared while
waiting to testify in the baltimore
case Tuesday.
Evening star., 1950-04-27

could make either Mr.. Budenz OF
Browder liable to perjury charges
Browder also ridiculed the testi-
mony of Mr.. Budenz that Mr.. Lat
timore, widely-known Far Eastern
affairs expert, was known in party
circles by the letters IL" and
"XL."
No Prepared Statement.
Browder had no prepared state
ment and was questioned by Ed
ward P. Morgan, committee coun-
sci, about various details OF
the Budenz testimony.
Mr.. Morgan-Do you know Mr.
baltimore?
Browder-I do not.
Mr.. Morgan-Have you ever met
him?
Browder-I have not.
Mr.. Morgan-Have you ever
seen him?
Browder-Not to my knowledge
Later on, Browder said he had
never heard Mr.. Lattimore's name
mentioned in party circles.
A crowd of spectators, many of
them women, filled the Senate
caucus room to hear the Browder
testimony, as spectators have in
even larger numbers in other
hearings in the baltimore case.
Browder has denied before
that he ever referred to Mr.. Latti-
more as a Communist. In copy
right story yesterday in the New
York Compass he also wrote that
the Budenz statement was false
as whole and in detail" He said
the testimony given by Mr.. Bu-
denz, now an assistant professor
of economics at Fordham Uni
versity, was incredible and vague
to the point of vacuity."
Senator Mccarthy said it was
silly and ridiculous" for the COM
mittee to call Browder without
being prepared to question him
vigorously and in detail. He said
the committee could not have
prepared itself for a thorough
cross-examination which he con-
tended is necessary to develop in
formation from the witness.
Amerasia Case Is Next.
After hearing Browder in pub
lie session, the committee plans a
closed session with Frank Bielaski
a former agent of the wartime
Office of Strategic Services, on the
Amerasia case.
This case has come up several
times in the committees investi-
cation. It involves the arrest OF
six persons, including John S.
Service, veteran State Department
career man, on charges of OBJ
tanning illegally classified Govern
ment documents for use in the
magazine AmeraSia.
A Federal grand jury exonerated
Mr.. Service and two others. Two
pleaded guilty and were fined, one
being Philip Jaffe, co-editor OF
the publication. The indictmen,
against the sixth was dropped
Mr.. Service was restored to duty
in the State Department. He is
one of several State Department
employees accused of being pro
Evening star., 1950-04-27
GI Serial Number Nay Not Be
Exclusively Yours, VA Finds

work. 1t hadn't been on the job
long before it kicked out two cards
for the same number.
The machine was calm about its
accomplishment. but the VA peo-
pie weren't. They knew they were
in for a long. hard pull-and they
have been.
The VA says the duplication
showed up more among officers
than enlisted men. One possibility
for error: The Army. Navy and
Marines might each assign the
same number.
But there also were Implications
within a single services, and that
went for enlisted men as well as
officers. a VA spokesman said.
Il don't know why" said the
VA man. II guess they were
hustling them through the induc-
ton centers too fast"
Evening star., 1950-04-27
RFC Seeks 10 Keep Its Loss
Down in Sale OF Lustron
BY the Associated Press

Officials of the Reconstruction
Finance Corp. sought a way to
hold below $50 million the Gov
ernment's loss in loans to the
Lustron Corp, which is now in
receivership.
The lending agency announced
plans yesterday to ask the Federal
Court at Columbus. Ohio, to set a
date for foreclosure sale of Lus-
tron properties.
The RFC, as holder of a first
mortgage on the plant, has prior
claim to any money realized from
foreclosure sale.
A high source said the agency
will bid for the property at the
sale, thus fixing a price that other
seekers of the assets must at least
equal.
Evening star., 1950-04-27
BY Arthur Edison
kssocioted Press Sscff Writer

That serial number you CTS
wore during the war: remember
how the Army or the Navy or the
Marines always said it was your
very own? And that they always
gave a different one to every
customer?
Well. it turns out there were
some Implications after all-mat-
ter of fact. a lot of them.
How many Implications, no one
knows for sure.
The case of the duplicate serial
numbers started to develop when
the Veterans Administration be-
gan paying off special dividends
on CT insurance.
One of those big machines that
lives On punched cards went to
Evening star., 1950-04-27
Communists
Continued From First Page }

and false" numerous parts of the
testimony of last week of Louis
F. Budenz, former Communist
official, who placed Mr.. baltimore
a sa member of Communist cell.
He denied Mr.. Budenz's statement
that he had dissolved the Com
munist Party in 1943 and set it up
in committee form under another
name in order to obtain American
acquieScence in a Red China and
a Red Poland.
After saying he had never met
Mr.. baltimore, the witness stated:
HE definitely was known to me
as a person of anti-Communist
views of very profound char
acter."
Questioned About Field.
Browder was asked whether
Frederick Vanderbilt Field,
wealthy New Yorker who was de-
Scribed by Mr.. Budenz as Soviet
agent, was member of the Com
munist Party. He said that he
never knew definitely, but as
sumed that he was member and
that he had co-operated with Mr..
Field.
Mr.. Budenz also had described
Philip Jaffe, who was convicted in
1945 of illegal possession of Gov
eminent documents, as a Soviet
spy. Browder said he did not know
If he was a member of the party,
but that he had accepted him as a
friend.
The witness said he believed he
would know whether a person was
a Communist, and certainly would
know all of the people in the top
party echelonS. Browder said he
was expelled from the party by
William z. Foster, the present
Communist leader who accused
him of having been "a false friend
OF the Soviet Union since 1921" be-
cause he attempted to promote
better American Russian rela-
tions.
Went to Moscow in 1946.
After his expulsion in 1946,
Browder went to Moscow to see, as
he put it, that not all of his re-
lations in the Soviet Union had
been severed. In the Russian
capital, he said, he was received
"aS an old and trusted friend" and
given a job representing Soviet
publishing houses in this country.
He gave up that position last year.
Mr.. Browder said he accepted
the job of distributing Russian
literature in an effort to improve
relations with the United States.
AS to efforts of the American
Communists to change this Gov
ernment's policy toward China,
Browder said there was no occa-
sion for that from 1912 until the
end of the war because the Gov
ernment position was substantially
in accord with the Communist
view.
The witness was asked what
agencies and instrumentalities
American Communists used to ac-
complish their objectives.
Public Relations Pushed.
He replied that they used every
channel of public relations and
relied mostly on public speeches
and their own party publications
to spread their doctrine.
The testimony given today
Evening star., 1950-04-27

ADVERTISEMENT. A
Evening star., 1950-04-27
Rail ParIeys Resume,
But Peace Prospect in
Diesel Issue Is Slim
by the Assoeiassd Press

CHICAGO. April 27.-Prospects
for q quick peace appeared dim
today as talks began in a new
effort to avert a major railroad
strike.
Railroad and union officials
were summoned to a Government
arranged conference to settle q
dispute which almost led to a
strike yesterday on four major
lines.
The strike was put of for two
weeks under a truce arranged
Monday by Francis A. O'Neill. jr..
chairman Of the National Media
ton Board.
Strike Call Postponed.
The Brotherhood Of Locomo-
tive Firemen and Enginemen post
poned its strike call to May 10 to
permit new negotiations between
union and carrier representatives.
The dispute has been going on
for years.
The strike issue is the unions
demand that the railroads hire
an additional fireman for multiple
unit diesel locomotives.
The engines now are operated
by one engineer and one fireman.
The strike was called against
the Southern Railway, the Santa
Fe, the Pennsylvania's System
west of Harrisburg, Pa; and the
New York Central and it's affili-
ated lines west of Buffalo, N. Y.
Free to Strike Any Time.
The prospects for quick settle
ment appeared remote because
both the carriers and the union
have stood firm in their long
standing deadlock on the question.
However, David B. Robertson,
president of the union, expressed
hope an agreement might be
reached in two weeks.
All regular procedures under
the railway labor law have been
exhausted in the dispute. Under
the law, the union is free to strike
at any time.
Evening star., 1950-04-27
Two Die as Wind Topples
Wall of Concrete Blocks
BY the Assoeiosed Press

WELLSBURG. w. Va. April 27.
High winds toppled part of a
high wall of freshly laid concrete
blocks yesterday, burying five
workmen in a heap of rubble at
its base. Two of them died and
the other three were injured
critically.
-Four of the workers were on a
scaffold AZ feet high when strong
gust blew over the top 6 feet of
the 6-inch- thick blocks forming
the screen backing for new
drive-in theater.
The fifth was unloading a truck
at the foot of the wall.
Domenic Cionni, II, of Follans-
bee, w. Va, and William Black,
81, of Wellsburg, died shortly after
the accident,
Evening star., 1950-04-27

he termed "a bright and happy
little bird u"-hecauSe she wouldnS
be able TO take IT."
The defense argued for acQuit-
tai on the ground that Cox was
insane at the time OF the killing.
He spent long period in q men,
tai hospital after the Staying be-
fore being declared sane.
Two defense pSychiatristS testi-
fed Cox suffered from a manic
Oppressive pSychoSiS when Mrs.
Cox was slain on February 81.
le4S.
Evening star., 1950-04-27
First Company Offer
Is Awaited in Strike
OF Phone InstaIIers
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK, April 27. - The
first company wage offer to 10000
striking telephone installation
workers was expected today in a
brighter overall phase of. negotia-
tions between the Bell Telephone
System and the CIO Commurfica-
tions Workers Of America.
The installation workers Divi-
sion 6 yesterday announced the
forthcoming pay parley and said
it would cover all wage issues. The
company made no comment.
The installation employees, on
strike throughout the Nation
since Monday, have refrained
from picketing-an action that
could tie up telephone exchanges
over the Nation because some
100000 other telephone workers
probably would not cross their
picket lines.
Un Washington, telephone
workers were on the job. mainly
because striking Western Electric
employees refrained from throw
ing picket lines around Chesa-
peake g. Potomac Telephone Co.
buildings. The Western Electric
workers, however. voted to start
picketing Monday if their issues
are not settled by that time.j
Virginia Walkout Predicted.
A general Nationwide strike
deadline. set for yesterday morn
ing. was postponed indefinitely
Tuesday by the unions national
president, Joseph A. Beirne He
announced possibility of overall
settlement with the company
The company and the unions
long lines division 10 negotiated
yesterday for the first time with
out Federal mediators.
However. in Richmond, Va, a.
walkout by some 5000 workers was
predicted by Alfred v. Atkinson,
president of Division 33. Last
night Mr.. Atkinson said the di-
visions executive board would vote
today to file notice of strike.
He made the announcement
after negotiations broke down
yesterday between the union and
the Chesapeake g. Potomac Tele-
phone Co. when the company re-
jected a new union settlement
offer.
June Date Possible.
If the union elects to serve
notice it will strike, the walkout
could be set for early in June.
Virginia State law forbids public
utility workers to strike without
giving advance notice of five
weeks.
The installation men are de
manding a minimum 1925 hourly
wage after eight years. The union
said the present wage after six
years is $1.69 an hour in some
areas and $1.57 in others, with a
merit" top Of $2.15.
CWA International Vice Presi-
dent A. T. Jones predicted yester-
day the first break would come
in the LESS complicated" nego-
tiations now going on in Georgia,
Virginia, Maryland and Washing
ton, D. C.
Evening star., 1950-04-27
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Evening star., 1950-08-14
Bio Seven Coaches Pick
Oklahoma 10 Retain Title
BY the Associated Press

KANSAS CITY, Aug. 14.-Okla-
homa of the Big Seven and Detroit
and Tulsa of the Missouri Valley
Conference are favored to domi-
nate football in the Midlands this
fall.
Coaches of the two conferences
named their favorites at meeting
here yesterday held in connection
with clinics of publicity men Of the
schools and the Midwestern ON
cials' Association.
Oklahoma, nursing a victory
string of 21 games, including two
Sugar Bowl titles, got the noe
over Missouri. 1949 runnerup. The
Sooners had four flrst-place votes
one second, one fourth and one
fifth.
Missouri was picked first BY
only one coach, but was placed
second by four and third by three
Belief among the coaches thai
Oklahoma would not make q run
away of the race, as it has don,
the past two seasons, was reflected
in the balloting.
Nebraska picked for the cham.
pionShip by two coaches. Kan.
sas came in for enough support
however, to edge Nebraska fol
third place.
Tulsa, which finished fifth ir
the Missouri Valley last year, rar
a dead heat in favoritism in that
loop with Detroit, defending
champion.
Evening star., 1950-08-14
Colts Show Up Well,
But Lose TO SteeIers
On Late Field Goal
Special Dispatch 10 The Stor

BALTIMORE, Aug. 14.-The
Baltimore Colts have served no
tice they will not be a one-man
team in the approaching National
Football League campaign.
Although losing, 1927, to the
Pittsburgh Steelers in an exhi-
bition at Municipal Stadium yes
terday, the Colts showed the dis
appointing crowd Of $4,000 that
they have more than just Y. A.
Title to throw at the opposition
this season. little was the lone
standout on the Baltimore club
last year.
Leon Campbell, Chet Mutryn.
George Buksar and Veto Kissell
all figured prominently in the
Baltimore attack. particularly
Buksar. who got off some fine
punts and intercepted two passes.
BukSar, formerly with the
Chicago Hornets, intercepted Joe
Geri's pass and scurried At yards
for a touchdown after the first
seven minutes Of play. The Colts
scored again in the opening min
uteS of the second quarter on a
77-yard drive. Mutryn figured in
this drive when he picked up a
ball fumbled by teammate Billy
Stone and ran IS yards.
Dick Poillon, long with the
Washington Redskins, set up the
next Baltimore score when he in
tercepted a pass on the Pittsburgh
IS. The Colts travelled to the
Steeler 3. but when they failed
to gain. Rex Grossman kicked a
field goal for a ITO lead. The
Steelers tailed in the same period
on a 45-yard drive.
Then came Bobby Gage. On
the opening kickoff of the third
period the former Clemson star
took a lateral from Charles Sea-
bright on his own "a and ran all
the way. A few minutes later he
took Buksar punt on his % and
did it again. Pittsburgh led, 20
II. at this point.
The Colts reRained the lead at
24-2o, Pittsburgh recaPtured it at
27-24 and Baltimore tied it on a
field goal. With a minute remain
ing. Geri booted a field goal to
give the Steelers victory.
Evening star., 1950-08-14
Lew Jenkins Back
As Mess Sergeant
With District Unit
By the Assoeiutsd Press

Lew Jenkins, former world
lightweight boxing champion, is
going back to his old job of mess
sergeant with an Army outfit
about to be reactivated.
Jenkins, a Texan, who now lives
in WINFIELD, Pa, near Philadel-
phia, volunteered and has passed
his physical examination at Fort
Belvoir. He has signed up with 9
District of Columbia Reserve unit
which is being called to active
duty.
I'm a soldier at heart and
figure the Army needs me now,
Jenkins said. During World Wa
II he was a mess sergeant in th'
1st Cavalry Division in the Pacif1'
theater. He was in the Arm.
from 1943 to 1948.
Jenkins won the world light
weight title in 1910 by knocking
out Lou Ambers. He held tn
championship two years. He at
tempted a comeback last year
scored seven straight knockouts
then was stopped by Beau Jack
another former champ, in 81,
rounds here last April.
Evening star., 1950-08-14
|Kiner Gets His 2OOth Homer,
Calls Pursuit OF Ruth Futile
By the As,oeiafed Press

PITTSBURGH. Aug. 14.-Ralph
Kiner, the box Office attraction of
the last-place Pirates, added an
other baseball to his private col
lection today-then said he
doesn't think he'll be in the ma
jor leagues long enough to eclipse
Babe Ruth's all time output of TIA
home runs.
Kiner grinned as he accepted
the ball from a fan who had been
listening to the Cubs-Pirates
broadcast and knew how badly the
home run king wanted the SOU
venir. 1t was his 32d homer Of the
season and the 200th homer the
26-year-old Californian has
smashed in his comparatively brief
tour of duty in the National
League and he'd alerted friends in
the radio booth that he wanted
mo. 200" for keepsake.
Ralph took a look at Ruth's
record and said he guessed it was
futile" even to think of cracking
out SIS more homers. The Babe
got TIA in % years, so of them in
1927 when he set the season mark.
Ahead of 1949 Pace.
In his first year with the
Pirates in 1946, Kiner hit %
homers. Then he smashed 81 in
1947, 40 in 1948 and 81 last year.
This season the quiet-mannered
slugger who has yet to be called
a colorful guy, is three games and
two days ahead of his 1949 pace.
And that despite the fact he was
bothered in the early season by a
training camp injury and missed
a few games a couple Of weeks
ago because of a back ailment.
A Ruth Kiner comparison
shows Ruth didn't play 100 games
or more in any one season until
1919 when he got in 1870. Ruth
started in 1914 as a pitcher. In
1918 he was used often as a pinch
hitter and also played in left field.
He wound up with IL homers.
But it was in 1919 that you start
Evening star., 1950-08-14
Du Ponf- -Brough Team
Favored in Nationals,
Despite Essex Loss
By the Assoeiosed Press

BROOKLINE, Mass, Aug. IA
In spite of their surprising loss in
the finals of the Essex women's
tournament, Mrs. Margaret Os-
borne, du Pont and Louise Brougt
are favored to retain their cham
pionshir in the National doubles
tournament which begins today.
Mrs. du Pont and Miss Brough
eight times National and foul
times Wimbledon champions
were whipped in straight sets, 6-3
6-1, yesterday for the first time
since 1943.
Their conquerors were Dori
Hart and Shirley Fry.
The Brough-du Pont team /
seeded first and the No. 2 team
among the women is the Hart-Fr.
combination in the Nationals.
BillytTalbert and Gardnar Mul
10y are seeded first among Ameri
can men entrants in this 69th an
nual doubles tournament at Long
wood Cricket Club.
Ranked as the first foreign pai
among the men are the Australian
pair of Jack Bromwich and Franz
Sedgman.
Bulge Patty sprained his ankle
in the doubles finals of the men'I
tournament at Newport, R. I.
Casino yesterday and he may moi
be able to participate. He anc
Ted Schroeder make up the seconc
seeded domestic team.
Evening star., 1950-08-14
Owners Refuse 10 Enter
Horses al Hazel Park
BY the Assoeioted Press

DETROIT, Aug. 14.-Owners
failed to enter any horses today
for Tuesdays races at Hazel Park,
apparently sticking to their de-
cision to strike unless their de-
mands for increases in purses are
met.
Races will go on today, entries
having been made Saturday. Hazel
Park is in its 32d day of a sched-
uled 50-day meeting.
In an effort to avert the threat
ened strike, Richard Connell,
Hazel Park president, offered to
increase purses $1,000 a day, or
distribute in purses half of the
tracks daily take from pari-
mutuel betting. This has aver
aged about $4,000.
The Horsemen's Benevolent and
Protective Association, made up
Of owners, demanded Saturday
that daily purses be increased
from $4,000 a day to $4,000
In addition they asked that min
imum purses per race be raised
from $1,400 to $l,700.
Evening star., 1950-08-14
National Capital Casters
Win In Penn State Meet
BY the kssoeiaisd Press

HARRISBURG. Pa, Aug. IA
The National Capital Casting Club
returns to Washington today with
most Of the honors in the Penn
sylvania State fly and bait casting
championships completed here
yesterday.
Washington won II Of 81 pos
sible first places in bait casting
yesterday after winning ~ of SO
events in the fly casting division
Saturday.
Fletcher Rawls and Richard
Ward Of Washington tied with
perfect scores of 100 in the Glass
A fish fly event with Ward win
ming the cast-off, 10 to 76. Jay
Reed Of the Capital club won the
wet fly championship with SO
points.
Glass A winners in bait casting
included Charles Allison, Wash
ington. s-ounce accuracy; Harvey
Irwin, Washington, fisherman'S s
bait; George Merrick, Washing
ton, bait distance, and S. j.
Thompson. Hagerstown, Md, a-
ounce accuracy.