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Evening star., 1950-04-12
Acheson Drops Plan to Remove
300 by Sea From Shanghai
S500,000 Project for Americans Cut Off
In City Abandoned as Lost Channel Is Mined

carry through this plan,' Mr.
Acheson said, since any attempt
to run through the mine fields
would entail serious risks.
THE department will continue
every effort to assist Americans
to get out of Shanghai.
Mr.. Acheson said that in earlier
negotiations the Communist au.
thorities refused permission fol
the use of commercial planes OF
for travel by rail to other ports.
Planning for the evacuation
started in mid-January following
closure of all United States con-
sulates in Communist China after
the Communists seized some con-
sular property at Peiping.
The 300 Americans now strand
ed include official personnel as
we'll as some American citizens
with no official standing.
Meanwhile, Mr.. Acheson said
all the American official personnel
from Peiping and Tientsin will be
on their way out of China by the
end of the week. Consul General
o. Edmund Club and the last
members of his staff at Peiping
are leaving there today for Tien-
tsin from where they are sched-
uled to sail Friday with the last
remaining members of the Tien-
tsin staff.
The Associated Press reported
from Hong Kong that SO Shang-
hal refugees, including four Amer
leans. had arrived there from
Tientsin. They had Travelled tc
Tientsin by rail and thence tc
Hong Kong by ship.
Evening star., 1950-04-12
Police Guard Menuhin
In Israel for Concerts
BY the Assoeic.sd Press

TEL AVN, Israel. April Ia
Police were assigned to guarc
world famous Violinist Yehud
Menuhin today when he arrived
at LYDIA Airport for a series oi
concerts in Israel.
Many Israeli newspapers fol
weeks have heaped bitter criticism
on Menuhin for his appearances
in postwar Germany. Some news.
papers accused him of sympa.
thiZing with the NaZis.
Concert sponsors said Menu.
hin's appearance In a German
music hall was in his capacity a.
an American soldier and at the
direction of the American occu.
patton authorities.
Evening star., 1950-04-12
Raft Sighting Report
Directs Hunt for u. ).
Plane 10 Baltic Isle
Confirmation Still Lacking
That Objects Seen Are
Clue to Missing Craft
BY the Asseeiated Pre.s

WIESBADEN, Germany. Apri
12.-The search for a missing
United States navy patrol plane
concentrated today off the DAN
ish island of Bornholm after q
rescue pilot reported he had
sighted what appeared to be
either traces of survivors OF
wreckage from the plane.
But three hours after receipt
of the first report there was no
confirmation at United States Air
Force headquarters in Wiesbaden
that this was positive clue to
the plane, a four-engined Pri-
vateer which disappeared Satur-
day on a flight from Wiesbaden
to Copenhagen.
Russia protested yesterday that
an American plane of the B-2e
type had fired on a Soviet fighter
over Latvia on the Baltic coast
Saturday and disappeared after
the Red plane returned the fire
Navy Plane Unarmed.
American officials expressed be.
lief the Soviet protest might havs
referred to the missing Navy
plane-a four-engine, single tai
version of the B-24 bomber. The
American plane was unarmed anc
had instructions not to fly ovel
Soviet territory, American off.
cials said.
| (Secretary of State Acheson
told a news conference today
that he would have to get full
information from the Defense
Department before he could re-
ply to the Russian protest. He
said defense officials were inves-
tigating the incident energeti-
cally. At the White House,
Press Secretary Charles G. Ross
said the matter did not come up
at President Truman's morning
staff conference.)
A Danish pilot who circled the
area off Bornholm said the Amer
ican search pilot might have mis-
taken a Russian buoy for life
raft. Bornholm is about 800 mile
southwest of Latvia.
Weather over the Baltic wa,
favorable and all planes were or
dered to concentrate their effort!
on the area near the Baltic Island
Danish naval craft also sped to tn,
scene.
/ Capt. B. M. York, the pilot whit
spotted what appeared to be &
raft. said it resembled "a yellow
rubber dinghy" He dropped
smoke flares to mark the spot, II
tSee PLANE, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1950-04-12
Lute News
Bulletin
Truscott Moy Retire

Inspector Floyd A. Truscott,
assistant superintendent of po-
lice, is slated to appear t0mor-
row morning for examination
before the Board Of Police and
Fire Surgeons. The examina-
tion was an indication that the
S0-year-old veteran may be
retired.
Evening star., 1950-04-12
Soviet Says ItuIy Stalls

LONDON, April IL (P.-Russia
accused Italy today of stalling on
reparations due under the peace
treaty. The official news agency
Tass said a note pressing Italy for
action was presented to Ambassa-
dor M. Brozio in Moscow Monday.
Evening star., 1950-04-12
304 Korean Rebels Slain

SEOUL, Korea, April IL [P.-
The Defense Ministry said today
that 304 Communist trained guer.
rillas from North Korea have been
wiped out and another band the
same size surrounded. The army
lost IL dead and % wounded in
the rnopup, the ministry said.
Evening star., 1950-04-12
Senate Leaders Delay
.FEPC Action 10 Give
Priority 10 Foreign Aid
Democrats Accused by
Wherry Of Waiting Till
After Southern Primaries
By J. A. O'Leory

Administration leaders once
more have put off Senate con-
sideration of the Fair Employ
ment Practice bill. already passed
by the House. this time to give
the right of way to the $685.
100000 foreign aid bill.
Republican Floor Leader Wherry
of Nebraska accused the Demo-
Gratis of delaying the controversial
civil right measure until after
their party primaries in the South
are "out of the way"
mo primary campaign is caus-
ing any delay of the FEPC." re-
torted Majority Leader Lucas Of
Illinois. 1T will be brought up"
Foreign Aid to Set Priority.
Senator Lucas announced after
a meeting of the Democratic
Policy Committee late yesterday
however, that priority will be given
the foreign aid bill, which includes
s2.85O, ,OO0, 900 for another year OF
Marshall plan funds for Western
Europe.
One reason the administration
is giving right of way to the
foreign aid authorization is te
have it clear the Senate in time
to put the ECA money in the
omnibus appropriation bill. The
omnibus bill is pending in the
House and probably will be passed
about May /.
Senator Wherry said the Demo
Gratis are making only a gesture
in promising to bring up the civil
rights issue later. He pointed out
that other important legislation
will be piling up as the time for
adjournment approaches.
Although Congress demonstrated
last year it can stay in session all
through the summer when it wants
to. most observers believe men,
bers will try to adjourn in July
or early August this year because
of the congressional elections.
"Immaterial" to Southerners.
Senator Russell, Democrat, of
Georgia, leader of the Southern
opposition forces in the civil rights
clash, said it was "immaterial
to his colleagues when the bill is
brought up.
We'll give them all they want
in the way of fight, I'm sure" he
said.
Nevertheless, Senator Lucas
predicted I'VE are going to have a
very good record in Congress
when we finish" He recalled that
the administration forces were in
the same position last year when a
lot of people said we were not
going to get anywhere.
Mr.. Lucas reported that Presi-
dent Truman was pretty well
satisfied" with the legislative
progress thus far.
In addition to the economic laid
bill. Senator Lucas predicted Sen
ate approval of the following
measures:
Military aid to Atlantic pact
nations.
Increased social security bene-
fits.
Extension of the rent control
law.
Reduction of some excise taxes
Increased borrowing power fol-
the Commodity Credit Corp. which
carrier out the Governments farm
price support operations.
The Senate leader also predicted
that Congress would let about AZ
per cent of Mr.. Truman's 81 Gov.
eminent reorganization plans ge
Into effect.
Evening star., 1950-04-12
Truman Attack
.0nNcCarthy|s Is
Libel Taft Says
President Is Urged
To End Suspicion Of
Treason Among Aides
BY the Associoted Pres,

Senator Taft, Republican, of
Ohio, demanded today that Presi-
dent Truman eliminate any
suspicion of treason" from the
administration "if he can"
Senator Taft, chairman of the
Senate Republican Policy Com
Evening star., 1950-04-12

Hawai- Lonsshoremen to Challenge Sub
poeno in Communist Inquiry. Poge A-3
Evening star., 1950-04-12

(see GONZALEZ, Page A-30
Evening star., 1950-04-12
Guide for readers


An Associated Press Newspaper
Evening star., 1950-04-12

tSee PLANE, Page A-4D
Evening star., 1950-04-12

See HOLDUP. Page A-2)
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(See CRIME, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1950-04-12

30 ncn,n: ,n.ns CENTS
Evening star., 1950-08-06

State Governors dncluding the present
executive of the Empire State-Theodore
Roosevelt). Daniel Webster, Wendell
Phillips, Horatio Seymour, Salmon P.
Chase, Caleb Cushing. Rufus Choate,
Joseph H. Choate. Elihu Root, David
Dudley Field, Stephen j. Field, Stewart
L. Woodford, Charles Sumner, Joseph
Story, William H. Steward, Nelson Ding
ley Edward Everett. Matthew Hale, Ed
ward Everett Hale. Bishop Phillips
Brooks, Bishop Henry c. Potter, Higgin-
son, Holmes. Longfellow, Bryant, Emer-
son Curtis, Lowell. Motley, Bancroft,
Prescott, three Abbots, Bret Harte, Sted-
man and Stoddard." A similar list, COM
piled in 1850, would be- much longer.
Half a century ago The Star Gus
tomarily ran series of small adver.
~ =, tisements under the head
oPec'oi ing Special Notices." A
Notices representative group of
these, cited from the issue
of August 10, 1900, included: Insurance
That Insures, Latimer & Nesbit, 1921 G
street; Change for Manhattan Type
writer. John G. Parker, 619 Seventh
street.; Protect the Flowers by using
rubber flower sprinkler, Holmes &
Co.. rubber goods. 511 Ninth street;
Cheapest Way to Keep Cool with
an Electric Fan. National Electrical Sup
ply Co., 1923 New York avenue; Win
dow Glass. 8 in. 10 in. and putty. all
for cents. Charles E. Hodgin, 913
Seventh street.; Fall Suits and Over
coats. Fred. Gatchel. Tailor. 604 Thir-
teenth street.; chesapeake Beach Lots,
T. A. Wickersham, Office at Bath Houses
on Broadwalk" "We Save You Time
on builders materials and hardware, j.
E. 1'urton & Sons. 1928 Sixteenth street.
and .1007 K street."
'The Hartford Avenue Colosseum BIZ
cycle track near Baltimore" reported
The Star for August 8,
motorcycle 1900, ''is prolific of sensa-
Crosh tions, and last night, while
the motor machines were
breaking all track records, Frank Star
buck Of Philadelphia. one of the most
popular riders of America, had leg
crushed and torn to pieces. The acci-
dent occurred in the second heat of the
Evening star., 1950-08-06
MiscOnceptionist.

motor race. Charles Miller and Joseph
Judge were on one motorcycle and Frank
Starbuck and w. j. Wilkinson on the
other. The heat was for 10 miles. The
two motorcycles were going at a terrific
speed. 1t was all over in fractional part
OF second. Wilkinson was seen shooting
through the air; then a rush of human
ity closed around the scene, and a crowd
followed an improvised litter made of
human hands and arms" But "Wilkin-
son was not badly hurt. Starbuck, on
the rear seat, got the full force of the
collision with the post and had his right
leg terribly lacerated. Blood few all over
the people in two boxes. the post num-
bers being % and 90. The force of the
collision broke down the partition be-
tween the boxes Starbuck, like Wilkin-
son, was picked up while unconscious.
The Philadelphian was at once put in
wagon and sent to Johns Hopkins Hos
pital."
In The Star of August 8, 1900, it was
announced that the famous Meier Family
a.. was playing a return en-
me meier gagement at Chevy Chase
Family Lake. They were high
% divers and fancy swim
mers. five in number, including 'the
infant prodigies, Little Elma and Baby
Minnie" Against the background of
"the beautiful Wooded Island and Fairy
Lights they performed all manner of
aquatic feats and thus justified their
claim to be superb artists" Spectators
journeyed to the lake resort by way of
Connecticut avenue cars which crossed
Rock Greek Valley on the Calvert Street
Bridge. Those cars were owned by the
old Capital Traction Co., which had
much to do with the development of
Chevy Chase. Col. T. E. Robertson re-
members when there were only, three
houses between the bridge and Chevy
Chase Circle. He says that hundreds
Of people used to make the trip from
downtown Washington to the lake of
pleasant evening, to listen to section
Of the Marine Band play-and presuma-
bly, to watch the Meier family OCCASION
ally swim. Does any reader know what
became Of Little Elma and Baby Minnie,
"the infant prodigies?"
Evening star., 1950-08-06
By A. ", Shermon

I VISITED Yugoslavia both last year
i and this year. In both journeys I
covered a large part Of the country and
spoke to people in all walks Of life, from
cabinet ministers to political prisoners.
from Kulaks to shock-workers. My most
intimate contacts were with students and
university professors.
The most striking impression that the
two visits gave me was the extraordinary
change which. has come over the whole
atmosphere of the country within this
one year. Last year there had been only
a change in foreign relations. This year
one could everywhere see and feel a
change in internal policy and thought
Last year pictures of Stain were still
to be seen everywhere, and Yugoslav
Communists still thought of themselves
as better Stalinists than Stain. Most OF
them still hoped that some day the So
Wet Union would come to terms and
every one would be friends again. Criti-
still suspect year ago.
All this has changed since last year.
Both leaders and rank and file are now
in the throes of a renaissance. Per-
sonal freedom" and mo dogmas" are
question. It is now generally accepted
that the Soviet Union began to go wrong
long time ago-some say 1886, some
much earlier. But the most encouraging
feature is that the Yugoslav Communists
are beginning to apply doubt and criti-
cism to themselves.
Even half year ago it was impossible
to discuss with them the problem of how
Yugoslavia could avoid becoming the
same sort of State as the Soviet Union
not because it was forbidden. but because
the concepts would have meant nothing
to them. Today, such a question pro-
vokes lively discussion, and reveals diff
fering points of view. Some deny the
danger, and simply denounce Stain as
a peryerter of the feminist golden age
Others admit the danger, but claim that
positive steps are being taken to over
come it. They cite the recent reductions
in administrative staffs, the gradual de-
centralization of political and economic
power, and the wide measure of freedom
of discussion which now exists.
The last point has indeed become Of
fetal government policy. One of Mar
shall Tito's leading ministers. Mr.. Pijade,
declared to the British students delega-
Evening star., 1950-08-06
Milk Delivery Hours

certainly believe in respecting the
rights of others. I sympathize with the
"milkmen" and their long, bad hours.
However:
I am a working mother. leave home
around 7:30 am. and do not return un-
til pm. on most evenings. My milk is
delivered around am. 1t is on my steps
until come home to take it in. Although
there is an insulated box for it, it sours
every day that is extremely hot, and is
sour the second day with normal weather
for this season Of the year. Milk that has
been frozen during the winter months is
not recommended. either.
1t seems to me that there must be
hundreds of mothers in the same situa-
ton. Couldn't milk be delivered in the
afternoon. as it is in some cities? Bac-
terra grow rapidly in milk With such
diseases as polio quite prevalent, one can
not take chances with such a vital food
for children as milk.
Kathryn b. Smith.
Evening star., 1950-08-06
Getting Work Done
By Bruce Berton

A wise friend of mine was asked by
the president of company to look over
it's operations. He was to make sug-
gestions, and be paid fee.
Unannounced he dropped in at the
office one morning, Strolled around
slowly, and into the presidents room.
How many people have you here?" he
asked.
About 500," the president answered.
Suppose that tomorrow no customers
should CALL no mail be delivered, no tele-
grams or telephone messages received.
How many of your men would be able to
keep themselves constructively busy?"
The president was silent for quite
while. II am sure of three" he said
finally, "and fairly sure of fourth"
My friend rose. Five hundred people;
497, or maybe 496 of them. just doing
the work that is pushed their way; only
three self-starters,, maybe four. That's
the matter with your business"
He put on his hat. II have earned my
fee
Another friend made profitable sue
cess of "one-man" business. He was
a good fellow, but rather commonplace.
often wondered how he did it.
"One day a week I stay home" he
told me- II shut the door Of my library.
cut off the telephone. Then I sit down
and think. Just think about my busi-
ness The next monning go downtown
with my plans all made. Everything
seems clearer I can work three times
as fast"
To these not very exciting comments on
working habits venture to add couple
of my own:
l. never have bowed down before
the altar of that pagan god, the great
American business lunch.
When some one phones, Lets have
lunch and talk this thing over" an
swer, "I'll call at your Office and we'll
settle it in is minutes; lunch would
take two hours"
2. 1t is temptation. as we grow older.
to became paper shufaers-picking up
letter or memo. laying it down, picking
up another and so forth. try to fight
against this. When I pick up a paper
from my desk. my intention is not to lay
it down until have dealt with 1t and
got 1t off the desk for good.
These comments read like the product
of mediocre mind. cheerfully admit
it. I am a mediocre fellow. All I can
claim is that I have managed to rock
along fairly comfortably in a high
pressure town, and have outlived many
men much smarter.
Copyright. 1850. King Features Syndicate. 1neJ
Evening star., 1950-08-06

tion that it was the intention of the
government to make a free struggle of
ideas possible again. He admitted that
at the moment the man in the street in
Yugoslavia could hardly yet publicly dis
cuss unorthodox ideas with confidence,
but gradually this condition would de-
velop. Beginning with the universities.
the government had taken the first
steps. he claimed. to make the citizens
realize that they have right to think
and not merely to conform to party
line" He spoke of the intellectual
liberation" which the Yugoslav Com
munist Party had experienced since the
break.
Though a substantial minority of the
people bankers after prewar days, or
even after the Austro- Hungarian EN-
pire, support for the Cominform is al
most nonresident. At the time of the
Cominform resolution, some thousand
odo supporters were expelled from the
Communist Party. and during 1949 over
1000 people, nearly half of them stu
dents who had formed groups of one
sort or another, were arrested. At pres
ent there are some 600 in labor camp
Evening star., 1950-08-06
Fifty Years Ago in The Star .

Gable connections with Portugal were
inaugurated on August 2, 1900. and The
Star two days later print
Lobe 70 ed the messages which
PortuooI passed between President
Mckinley and King Car
los I. The former rendered best wishes
for the perpetuation and increase of the
friendly relations between the two coun-
tries" His majesty expressed his sim
cere appreciation for "the amicable con-
gratulations." He was an artist of some
distinction and friend of learning, but,
like Mr. Mckinley himself, was destined
to pay with his life for his high position.
The Bar Association of the District of
Columbia, meeting at the City Hall,
adopted resolution re-
In Homage ported in The Star of
To Marshall August 6, 1900. provid-
ing for the appoint
ment of committee to arrange cele-
bration of the centennial of John Mar
shall's elevation to the Supreme Court
on February 4. 1901. Henry E. Davis,
sin a brief but eloquent address," ex-
planned to the assembly "the nature of
the movement" to pay honor to the
Association, he said, had appointed 40
members to cooperate with the Wash
ington lawyers interested. Wayne Nc
Veagh was to be the orator of the oc-
casion. The objective aimed at was ito
preserve the blessing of civil govern
ment in the United States"
On August 7, 1900, The Star reprinted
an article from the New York Times,
=, reading in part as fol-
Phi Beto Koppo lows: "The great bulk
NotobIes Of college presidents
and professors, past
and present. has been recruited from
the ranks of Phi Beta Kappa. But
not among famous educators alone are
to be found those whose undergraduate
scholarship was meritorious In every
branch of activity-commercial, military,
naval, legal scientific. theological-many
master minds have been from Phi Beta
Kappa. Several of our Presidents
jefferson. j. @. Adams, Pierce, Garfield
and Arthur-were Phi Beta Kappa men,
as were also United States Senator'S and
Evening star., 1950-08-06

and assigning doctors for essential
armed service need. Proponents of
moral suaSion" insisted legislation to
draft doctors would be discriminatory
and unconstitutional. Their moral sua-
sicL" had both inducements and sane
tionS. The inducements included trust
fund supported by voluntary contribu-
tions OF non-Service doctors and guar
antees that former patients would re-
turn upon discharge. Those resisting
mandate of moral suasion" would be
subject to professional discipline, ostra-
cism and sanctions.
An equal number of us minus one)
believed this would be a rule of men
rather than a rule Of law. We believed
that draft legislation was the only
equitable method of procuring service
doctors. Our present crying need is for
doctors OF company grade. They must
have superior physical vigor to face
great hazard and hardship. Company
grade doctors must bear the brunt of
arduous field duty. Therefore we feel
it is equally discriminatory to leave pro-
clrement and assignment to the vicis-
STUDIES of human reluctance to elect
hardship and sacrifice. The lesser evil
is the compulsion of law to serve the
Nations survival and security Moral
suasion." so-called. leaves no remedy for
selfishness, cowardice or breach of moral
contract. We contend that those who
were exempted in World War II. and
were educated in whole or in part by
ASTP or Via subsidy. have an unpaid
moral debt to their country. We who
were not exempted. and served with our
sons in World War II. believe payment
of that debt should be compulsory by
law and not left to the caprice of moral
suasion."
Thomas E. Mattingly, MD.