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Evening star., 1950-01-23
Special Officer Opens
Drinks Doors With
File and Penknife
By the Assoeiufed Press

BOSTON, Jan. 23.-Detectives
investigating a $1,50O,000 raid on
Drinks vaults expressed the be-
lief today that the bandits used
nail files or penknives to open
six doors to the cashiers cage.
They switched their theory that
the gunmen used a pass key or
master key after Special Officer
Arthur Ahern opened half a
dozen locks with a fingernail file
and penknife. e
The demonstration was given
last night on new locks installed
at the armored transportation
company's raided garage vaults,
Mr.. Ahern said, however, that the
old locks could have been opened
just as easily.
The special officer tried his ex-
pertinent after noticing scratches
on a door leading into the build
ing.
Test Becomes Farce.
"The test of locks became a
farce after a while" Mr.. Ahern
said, 1--WE were all able to open
them-all six doors"
Detectives said they opened
door after door by simply insert
ing a nail file or blade of a pen
knife through the crack between
the door and the frame and slid
ing the tongue of the lock.
Police Commissioner Thomas F.
Sullivan and Police Supt. Edward
w. Fallon witnessed the demon
stration.
When Mr.. Ahern opened the
last door barring the way to the
firms vaults, Commissioner Sulli-
van described the security as "out-
rageous."
Supt. Fallon said he was
amazed" He repeated his crit
icism of what he termed Brink S
''laxity" and added that the place
was absolutely unprotected"
Drinks Officials Silent.
Brink officials did not comment
Immediately.
The demonstration was given
shortly before three carloads of
detectives swarmed into the COM
pany's garage to examine steel
gray canteen truck-the same
color as Drinks trucks.
The owner of the vehicle was
released after long grilling by
top detectives. They said they
were convinced that neither the
owner nor his truck was in the
vicinity of the holdup.
The vehicle was picked up in
the city's North End, near the
scene of the robbery. It was i'm
pounded for six hours while po-
lice went over it with a fine
tooth comb.
Detectives said the owner-a
caterer - explained satisfactorily
that he was at the Charlestown
Navy Yard, making a delivery of
food at the time of the robbery.
Evening star., 1950-01-23
Tucker, I Associates
Cleared Of Fraud in
Automobile Venture
By the Associoted Press

CHICAGO, Jan. 23.-The for
mer head of the bankrupt Tucker
Corp. and seven associates in a
$28, 100000 venture to mass pro-
duce a rear-engine automobile
yesterday were acquitted of Gov
ernment charges of fraud.
A Federal court jury returned
the verdict for Preston T. Tucker
and the other defendants on
charges of mail fraud. conspiracy
and violation of Federal Securities
regulations in promoting manu-
facture and sale of the car.
The jury, which heard the Gov
ernment's 73 witnesses in the
three-month trial reached its ver-
dict on the fourth ballot after II
hours of deliberation.
The case went to the jury at
1885 am. Saturday without any
defense testimony. Defense at
torneys contended simply that the
Government had not proved any
of the charges in its 31-count in
dictment.
Mr.. Tucker, 46, was president
and board chairman of the cor
poration from the time he
launched it in 1947 until it sank
into bankruptcy last March.
Others acquitted were Fred Rock
elman, SO, executive vice presi-
dent; Robert Pierce, SO, treas
urer; Mitchell w. Dulian, SIS, sales
manager; Otis Radford, As, a for
mer treasurer; Floyd D. Cert, go,
underwater of a $17,500.000 stock
issue; Harold A. Karsten, So, an
assistant in the early promotion,
and Cliff Knoble. SO, advertising
nonaopr
Evening star., 1950-01-23
THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. c. ~ A
New Showdown Near
lin Senate Committee
On Easing Of DIP Law

*Another showdown in the fight
to liberalize the Displaced Persons
law is due in the Senate Judiciary
Committee early this week.
AS the committee met in closed
session today, it was under in
structions to report bill to the
Senate by Wednesday. Opponents
of the liheralizing measure. al
ready passed by the House. sue
ceeded in postponing Senate &C
ton last Fall. They mustered a
majority to send the measure back
to the Judiciary Committee, under
a mandate to submit another re-
port by January Is.
A copy of a proposed measure,
hammered out by a subcommittee,
repeatedly is ready for considera-
ton but apparently no final agree
ments have been reached.
McCarran Critical.
Chairman McCarran has been
tight-lipped about any progress
made in revising a bill passed by
the House last year to liberalize
the Displaced Persons Act of 1948.
A bitter foe of the measure, he
recently declared there is com
plete breakdown in the admins
tration of the present law and said
it is permitting the entry into this
country of subversive aliens.
The Displaced Persons Commis-
sion denied it.
The House bill would increase
the number of displaced persons
eligible for admission to this coun-
try from 205,000 in two years to
$4,000 in three years. 1t also
would:
l. Advance the so-called "cut
off" date-the date by which war
refugees must have reached DIP
camps to be eligible for United
States. entry-from December %.
1945, to January /, 1949.
2. Eliminate the present re-
quirements that 80 per cent Of
the DPS must be farmers and 40
per cent must be from the Baltic
states.
Truman Appeals Cited.
President Truman. in his State
of the Union Message this year,
renewed his appeals for LIBERAL
lied displaced persons law. He
repeatedly has said the 1948 act
discriminates against Catholics
and Jews. Senator McCarran, q
Catholic himself. has denied this.
Despite his opposition, Senators
Ferguson, Republican, Of Michi-
gan. and Magnuson, Democrat, Of
Washington, members of the Judi
ciary Committee, said they expect
the group to send to the Senate a
bill substantially like the House
measure.
Evening star., 1950-01-23
D. 6. BUDGET
Continued From First Page.)

NSOl1Gl1AucO 1Oll IL Sb IdScJ
relieve the Southeast problem, g.
600 children would have to be
jammed into 1000 seats in the
schools of the Southeast by 1858.
She was accompanied by her son
Philip, 8, whom she presented to
the committee, protesting he was
not getting proper training.
Mrs. Stein contended triple
shifts of classes would be neces-
sary by the end of 1852 unless
bigger steps were taken in con-
struction. She advocated the
building of big high school for
the area to accommodate both
white and colored pupils, while
protesting the Districts dual
school system.
- Strayer Report Cited.
DR.. Farley called the school
housing situation in Southeast
"the worst overcrowded" in the
District. He said the Strayer
school survey report substantiated
this finding. He cited statistics on
the population increase in the
area, school overcrowding an esti-
mates of future needs in support
of his budget recommendations.
"If you start now" DR.. Farley
told the subcommittee, "the new
Junior high probably will not be
ready for use for two years. and a
new senior high would not be
ready for probably three years"
Mrs. Craig made a plea for a
larger play area for the new STAN
ton School now under construc-
ton, emphasizing that part of its
old playground is being taken for
the new structure. She asked
that this be enlarged by using
land now occupied by temporary
NCHA housing.
Patterson Called at 204%.
Mr.. Horton said the Patterson
Evening star., 1950-01-23
School PrineipaIship
Row in luII Pendinu
Special Board Session

The Board of Education squab-
BILE over the rejection of Miss
Eleanor P. McAuliffe for the post
OF principal of Sousa Junior High
School was in a temporary lull
today, pending the calling of a
special session of the school board.
= Adelbert w. Lee. chairman of
the boards personnel committee,
said that c. Melvin Sharpe, board
president, indicated he would call.
a special session if three board
members requested it, as provided
in the board rules.
1t was Mr.. Lee who first de-
manded special session so he
could justify his stand in voting
against Miss McAuliffe for the
new post. Miss McAuliffe now is
assistant principal at the Paul
Junior High School. Last We'd
neSday, the board, by a vote of
five to three, turned her down for
the Sousa job after School Supt.
Hobart M. Corning had recon-
mended her.
Lee Calls Meeting Sure.
Mr.. Lee said he was gathering
further information to present to
the board--and to the public-to
back his opposition of DR.. Corn
ing's candidate. Because of this,
he stated. he was going to hold
off asking two other board mem
bers to join him in requesting the
special session.
A special meeting of the board
Is a "sure thing" Mr.. Lee stated,
adding that the whole squabble
had reached a point where such a
meeting was necessary to clear
the air and maintain the dignity
of the board. Much further de-
lay would be harmful, he said.
Standings of the three top can
didates for the school job were
printed first in The Star last Fri
day. They indicated that, on the
basis of ratings given Miss McAu-
life by the Board of Examiners,
she was the most qualified can
didate for the Sousa post.
Corning and Staff Meet Today.
DIR. Corning and his staff were
scheduled to meet today to decide
whether Miss McAuliffe's name
should be re-submitted to the
Board of Education. One of his
staff, Lawson j. Cantrell, associ-
ate superintendent in charge of
Junior high schools, did not agree
with DR.. Corning and supported
John D. Koontz, assistant prin-
cipal of Kramer Junior High
School, for the post.
The third candidate considered
was Frank A. Stutz, assistant
principal at Deal Junior High
School.
Evening star., 1950-01-23
BY the Associoted Press

BY the Associoied Press
GLEN BURNIE, Md, Jan. 23.-
"I'l never live in that place
again." said Charles Hartenstein
after a fire in his four-room cot
tage took the lives Of his four
young children yesterday.
The children, ranging from 8
months to 5 years old, suffocated
when a kitchen oil stove caught
fire.
Mr.. Hartenstein and his wife
had left the children asleep in the
house and had gone to the filling
station they. operate on the Fur
mace Branch road. about so yards
away.
They were getting ready to open
the station for business When a
neighbor rushed up to tell them
their home was on fire. BY the
time they reached the house the
smoke inside was so dense they
couldn't go In by the doors. They
had to smash first-f1ocr bedroom
windows to get in.
Evening star., 1950-01-23
Un-Americun
Continued From First Page.)

and referred all matters concern.
ing uranium to atomic officials.
Contract With Canadian Firm.
The Shattuck firm, it was ex-
planned, was the one which earlier
had supplied the approved 42C
pound shipment.
A contract also was made, the
witness said, with the Canadian
Radium & Uranium Corp, which
carried provision that the Man
haitian District should have a
years option on it's uranium sup
plies. The contract, said the wit
ness, was signed in March, 1943.
The committee has been told
that subsequently the Canadian
Radium &. Uranium Corp. supplied
Russia with the 1000 pounds of
uranium compounds that neither
Gen. Groves nor the Atomic
Energy Commission knew had left
the country.
Committee sources made it
clear that the investigators would
go further into this contract. The
Canadian Radium & Uranium
Corp. was the United States sales
representative of the El Dorado
Mining & Refining Co.
Groves to Be Recalled.
Gen. Groves, who testified be.
fore the committee early las
month, is due to be recalled thi
week.
Also expected this week, prob.
ably Wednesday, is former Vics
President Henry A. Wallace.
Gen. Groves testified that Mr.
Wallace never approached him tt
get atomic secrets or exerted pres.
sure to give the Russians atomi,
materials. Later, in an interview
Gen. Groves told reporters he
withheld secret reports on atomic
development from Mr.. Wallace
because he preferred not to" show
them to him.
Mr.. Wallace, the Progressive
Party's candidate for President
asked for chance to be heard
by the committee after a radio
commentator broadcast a charge
that Mr.. Wallace cleared the way
Tor the uranium shipments.
Evening star., 1950-01-23

and School Association, asked fol
funds for a gymnasium, a larger
cafeteria and for completion of ar
auditorium for the Francis school
Stoddert Shelter Asked.
Henry Backenheimer urgee
$4,000 FOR a recreation shelter fol
the Stoddert School and Mrs
Edward Candee, speaking for thu
Play Center Mothers Council
asked funds for a field house fol
Langdon Park and supported thu
plea for the Stoddert playground
shelter.
Arthur E. Morrisette of thu
Hilltop Recreation Council, speak,
ing for 16 southeast groups, askec
funds for more recreation facili.
ties for the area.
Henry D. Hamilton, speaking
for the Hospital Council, stressed
the need for increased appropria.
lions for med edicaIcharity patien5l
at private hospitals.
Graves H. Wilson, for the veter.
ans Cooperative Housing Asso.
citation and residents of the Naylol
Gardens Apartments, protested
against the deletion by the Com.
missions of an item of 100000 fol
a play area for the Stanton School
which had been requested by the
Board of Education.
Other improvements Sought.
Howard Woodson, for the North.
east Boundary Citizens Associa.
tion. asked for several improve.
ments for the area, especially fol
flood prevention in the valley Of
Watts Run. Joseph A. Quander
for the Garf1eld-Tur PTA
asked for a new junior high or
Pomeroy road Sc, a new South.
east elementary school and addi.
tions to the Anita Turner School
c. A. Baker, for the North Randi,
Community. Association, askee
that funds for construction of {
new bridge over the Anacostis
River be deferred until a public
hearing can be called on it's loca.
ton. The Commissioners have
recommended the span be built or
the line of East Capitol street
Mrs. James T. Macintosh of the
Hillcrest Citizens Association
urged additional housing and play
areas for the Anacostia High
School.
Washington I. Cleveland, man.
ager of the District division o1
the American Automobile Asso.
|ciation, asked the subcommittee
to restore to the budget an item
of $39, 300 for expansion of the
driver-training program in Dis
trict high schools. He protested
that the Commissioners had cut
the sum from the budget.
Evening star., 1950-01-23
Veide Would Drop Idea
OF Impeoching Kaufman
BY the Assoeiofed Press

Representative Velde, Republ-
can, of Illinois, suggested today
that Congress abandon any idea
OF seeking impeachment proceed
ings against Judge Samuel Kauf-
man, who presided at the first
Alger Hiss trial.
Mr.. Velde, a member of the
House Un-American Activities
Committee, was among those who
had suggested impeachment pro-
ceedings against Judge Kaufman
when the first Hiss trial ended in
hung jury.
In statement today, Mr.. Velde
said:
Since justice has finally beer
done, impeachment proceedings
against Judge Kaufman should
not be further considered. The
American people have long been
noted for their tolerance and un-
derStanding of the difficulties OF
the inexperienced and are STEPPED
in the spirit of forgiveness of the
mistakes of their fellow men,"
Evening star., 1950-01-23

School now was at 2O4 per cent
of it's capacity.
Mr.. Nessen, speaking as first
vice president of the Washington
Highlands Citizens Association,
led off with the argument that
Southeast citizens "pay 100 per
cent of their tax load but get
only SO per cent in school facili-
ties" He said there could be no
challenge of the finding that
Southeast was the worst area"
as to school facilities. He said he
had protested two years ago that
the Patterson School was built
for 720 pupils and had 1000 in
1948. Last fall, he added, the
Patterson enrolment was 1,424.
Mr.. Nessen said the Southeast
area now had enough pupils to
fill the new buildings requested
and won audience applause when
he added:: IF in the future we
have to use halls and stairways,
we parents who love our children
will be in there fighting"
Hine Plight Outlined.
The crowded, rundown condi-
ton of the Hine Junior High was
outlined to the subcommittee by
Mrs. Donald DetWiler, speaking
for the Southeast Washington
Citizens Association. She urged
the subcommittee to restore to
the 1851 budget an item of $780,
900 to begin construction of the
projected new $2,000,0o0 junior
high.
Aside from affording, relief to
this school, she said the building
of new junior high might serve
as the turning point in the regen-
Grafton of the section. She pleaded
with the subcommittee also to
provide funds for an enlarged
playground for the school by ac-
quiring land between Seventh and
Eighth streets Sc. from c street
north to the alley.
Miss Mary E. Hayes, secretary
of the Francis Junior High Home
Evening star., 1950-01-23
Frederick Osborn 10 Quit
u. n. Atomic Commission
By the Assoei ted Press

President Truman announced
today the resignation of Fred
erick H. Osborn as deputy United
States representative on the
United Natiors Atomic Energy
Commission. 1t is effective Janu-
airy 81.
Mr.. Osborn attributed his ac-
ton to the pressure of other
duties.
Pending appointment of a suc-
cessor, the President named Johr
c. Ross, deputy United State.
representa- We in the U. N. Secur-
ity Council, to serve also as act.
ing deputy on the atomic energy
group.
Evening star., 1950-01-23
Fuirfux Bonds to Be Topic

The Fairfax County school bond
issue will be the subject Of a panel
discussion sponsored by the Holm
Hall School arent-Teacher As
sociation at $3.50 pm. tomorrow at
the school.
Evening star., 1950-01-23
Fire Toll Rises to Seven

TORONTO, Jan. % (R.-Death
toll Of a basement garment fac
tory fire here last Friday climbed
to seven with the death in a hos
pital last night of Mrs. Isadore
Singer, 81. Her husband was
among the six other victims.
Evening star., 1950-01-23
Hiss TO File Appeal
Immediately After
Sentence "Wednesday
BY the Associoted Press

BY the Asseeioted Press
NEW YORK, Jan. 23.-Alger
Hiss, convicted of perjury and
branded an aide of prewar Soviet
spies, will file an appeal immedi-
ately after he is sentenced in
Federal Court Wednesday.
The one-time high-ranking
State Department official. an ad-
wiser to President Roosevelt at
the Yalta Conference, faces a pos
sible maximum sentence of 10
years in prison and $4,000 in fines.
Hiss was free in $4,000 bail
after the jury of eight women and
four men found him guilty Sat-
urday about "a hours after they
received the case.
His Chief Defense Counsel,
Claude B. Cross, said yesterday at
his home in Brookline, Mass, that
the appeal will be filed with the
United States Circuit Court of Ap-
peals here as soon as sentence is
imposed.
Silent tn Basis of Appeal.
MIR. Cross refused to state what
grounds would be cited in the
appeal. Before appealing, the de-
fense lawyer is expected to ask
the trial judge to set aside the
conviction. Any appeal from the
Circuit Court would be to, the
Supreme Court.
The 45-year-old Hiss and his
wife, Priscilla. were reported to
have spent the week end at the
home of friends studying the
record of the trial.
Hiss and his wife, who testified
for him, were not available to
newsmen. But friends reported
the defendant kept protesting his
innocence and remained firm in
his belief that the conviction
would be reversed on appeal.
Hiss Is Shocked.
Friends said Hiss was shocked
at the outcome of the trial, and
told them he had been confident
the jury would disbelieve the
story of his chief accuser, Whit
taker Chambers, admitted ex-
Communist courier.
"It just seems impossible that
any one would believe Chambers,
the admitted perjurer," Hiss was
quoted as saying
BY its verdict the jury showed
it believed Mr.. Chambers testi-
mony that Hiss fed him Govern
ment secrets for relay to Soviet
spies. The Governments case was
built mostly on Mr.. Chambers
accusations, and the main ques-
ton for the jury was to decide
which man was lying-Hiss or
Ir. Chambers. The latter admit
ted on the witness stand that he
had lied at times.
Hiss was convicted on two
counts of perjury for lying before
a Federal grand jury investigat-
ing espionage. One count was for
his denial that he gave United
States secrets to Mr.. Chambers.
The second count was for his
denial that he had seen MIR.
Chambers after January l., 1887.
Mr.. Chambers charged that Hiss
gave him the secrets in 1888.
Hiss could not be charged now
with espionage because the statute
of limitations bars prosecution at
this late date. 'jr'
Sentence will be imposed on
Hiss by Federal Judge Henry w.
Goddard, who presided at the
trial.
Assistant United States Attor-
ney Thomas F. Murphy, who
prosecuted Hiss. would not COM
ment yesterday on what sentence
the Government would recon-
mend.
Hiss was tried previously on the
same charges, but the case ended
in jury deadlock last July 8.
The jury was eight for conviction
and four for acquittal.
The jurors in the second trial,
obeying instructions from Judge
Goddard, have refused to discuss
what went on in their delibera-
tions.
Evening star., 1950-01-23
Arlington Forest Citizens

The Arlington Forest Citizens
Association will meet at 8 pm.
tomorrow at the Arlington Forest
Methodist Church, Lee boulevard
and North Henderson road.
Evening star., 1950-01-23
Catholic Daughters Dance

Court Forest Glen, Catholic
Daughters of America, will give a
square dance at $3.50 pm. Friday
in the auditorium of the Silver
Spring intermediate School.
Evening star., 1950-01-23
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