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Evening star., 1950-05-26
u. ). Limits Diplomats
OF Romania 10 Area
5 Miles Around D. T..
Move Is in Retaliation
For Curb on American
Legation in Bucharest
By the Assoeioted Press

The United States today clamped
tight restrictions on the move
ment of Romanian diplomats in
the United States. The move was
in retaliation for actions taken
against the American Legation in
Bucharest by Bulgaria's Commu-
mist government.
Announcing the step at a news
con ence, Undersecretary of
State Webb said Romania has
been informed that the United
States will reduce its personnel
IN Bucharest in accordance with
Romanian demand that the staff
be slashed to 10 persons.
Must Obtain Permission.
The travel ban restricts the
movements of Romanian Minister
Mihai Magheru and his staff to
an area of IS miles around the
District Of Columbia.
Minister Magheru was told in
a note Mr.. Webb sent him today:
permission to go beyond the
area described shall be requested
in advance of the Department of
State according to a prescribed
form. of which a facsimile is in
closed herewith. :"
That means the Romanians can
travel freely about Washington
and the immediate vicinity, but
must have special permission from
the department if they want to go
anywhere else in the United
States.
May Impose Other Bans.
Romania has travel restrictions
on the American diplomatic staff
in Bucharest.
This is the first such action tax
en- by the American Government
against any of the, Communist
bloc countries, but similar bans
may be imposed on other Red
satellite diplomats.
The United States already has
broken relations with Bulgaria,
another Soviet satellite.
Mr.. Webb said the United States
is considering a demand from
Czechoslovakia for a further re-
duction Of the American Legation
staff there-following up a recent
two-thirds cut.
Evening star., 1950-05-26
Norton of Alabama
Nominated 10 Board
OF Federal Reserve
Doty Made Assistont
Interior Secretary;
Trumun Picks Others
Pictures on Page A-3J
By Joseph A. Fox

President Truman today nom
mated Edward Lee Norton, a Bir-
mingham (Ala) banker, to be a
member of the Board of Cover
nors Of the Federal Reserve Sys-
tenn.
The term is for IA years from
February l Of this year. Mr.. Nor
ton will succeed Ernest G. Draper
Mr.. Draper Is leaving the Re-
serve Board after a decade OF
service. It was said today at the
board that his age-65-precludec
reappointment.
His successor is chairman OF
the Birmingham branch of the
Federal Reserve Bank Of Atlanta
and the appointment, it was said
was proposed by Frank Nicely,
chairman Of the Atlanta institu-
ton.
Choice Anticipated.
Mr.. Norton was unable to ac-
cept the post when 1t was first
vacant. it was said at the Reserve
Board, because of his health.
Mr.. Norton's appointment had
been anticipated. The decision
to pick him was reported to have
been influenced by the work done
in behalf Of the Truman admins
tration by Democratic Senators
Hill and Sparkman Of Alabama.
The nomination was one of five
which President Truman sent to
the Senate. Included in the list
was that Of Dale E. Doty. now
assistant 10 the Secretary Of In
terror, who Is to be an assistant
secretary under the new Reorgani-
zation Act. Concurrently with
the Doty nomination 1t was an
nounced that President Truman
would appoint Vernon D. Nor
throp, now executive officer in
the department, to be administra-
tive assistant secretary. another
reorganization post. This office
is not subject to Senate conflrma-
ton. Both Mr.. Doty and Mr..
Northrop are career employees.
Other Nominations.
The other nominations were all
for reappointments and included: !:
Nelson Lee Smith, Federal
Power Commission. for the five
year term ending June %, 1855.
Paul r. Rowen, Securities and
Exchange Commission, for the
term expiring June 5, 1855.
George E. Sterling, Federal
Communications Commission, for
the seven-year term ending July
i. 1857.
Evening star., 1950-05-26
33Die in Flames
When Streetcar
RamsGasT Truck
Few Yet Identified
In Chicogo's Worst
Transit Accident
By the Associcted Press

CHICAGO. May ga wall of
fire enveloped a crowded streetcar
after it struck a double trailer
gasoline truck last night and SO
persons perished in the flames.
Thirty others were injured, at
least three critically. About 20
remained in hospitals.
The spreading flames from the
thousands of gallons of gasoline
in the huge truck set fire to eight
two-story buildings and several
automobiles. No bodies were found
in the wrecked buildings. But
more than 100 persons-mostly
Negroes-Were made homeless.
The accident occurred near the
end of the evening rush hour at
$50 pm. (EST). near the heavily
populated Sixty third and State
street district, on the city's South
Side.
Scene of Terror.
The crash and a deep roar were
followed by black smoke and bill
lowing flames that surged along
State street like rolling flood
waters.
Panic followed the crash and
there was terror and confusion at
the scene long into the night.
Thirty three pieces of fire equip
ment answered the extra alarm
fire. -Four hundred policemen
were on duty.
Traffic snarled as more than
10000 persons milled in the vi
cinity. flocking to the scene of
Chicago's worst streetcar accident.
The frantic, trapped passengers
screamed Historically as they
fought to flee from the flaming
streetcar. Thirty-two of the esti-
mated 48 passengers burned to
death, their lives snuffed out in
matter of minutes after the
collision. Many of their bodies
were piled in a charred mass at
the rear doors.
Only Few Identified.
The truck driver perished in
the cab of his truck. It was load
ed with between 1000 and 5000
gallons Of gasoline.
Only a few of the dead pas
sengers were identified. One was
believed to have been the motor
man. Paul Manning. AZ.
The conductor escaped by jump
ing through a rear window. About
Is passengers escaped in the same
manner. many of them with clothes
af1ame. The rear doors on the
street car jammed and the Chicago
Transit Authority ordered an in
vestigation.
The crash occurred as the street.
car-one of the new streamlined
type-moving south in State
street, swung suddenly to the left
to enter a switch back siding in
a vacant lot on the east side of
the street. A flooded underpass at
Sixty-fourth street had made it
necessary to re-route the car.
Witnesses said the car crashed
into the northbound truck. Gas
oline poured out of the torn sides
OF the trailers, spilling and spray
(Cao rDACIY nor. Ao>
Evening star., 1950-05-26
Anti-GambIinq
BiI|Approved
ByCon1mittee
Curbs Transmission
Of information Before
Stort of Roce
By Miriom Ottenbero

The Senate Commerce Commit
tee today reported out an anti.
gambling bill aimed particularly
at the big-time bookmakerS.
The measure would bar the
transmission and broadcast OF
gambling information before a
race begins but would permit the
same information to go over the
wires and on the air once the
race starts.
The bill defines gambling in
formation on horse or dog race
as meaning bets or wagerS. the
scratches. Jockey changes. weights,
probable winners. betting odds or
changes, in the betting odds"
Criminal Penalties Attached.
The committee virtually re.
wrote the anti-gambling bill pro-
posed by the Attorney General.
Unlike the Justice Department
bill. this one attaches criminal
penalties. which would leave part
Of the job of enforcement up TO
the Justice Department.
The Justice Department had
proposed a one-hour delay in the
broadcast of race information, but
that limitation was stricken out
as discrimination" against
radio.
Chairman Mcfarland of the
Commerce subcommittee which
held hearings and rewrote the
Justice Department bill. explained
in a statement why the commit
tee is focusing its attention on
transmission Of gambling infor-
nation before the race.
The large operators. whom Sem
ator Mcfarland described as tho
Ericksons and the Adonises." need
certain information in advance Of
a race, the Senator said. He was
obviously referring to gamblers
Frank Erickson and Joe Adonis.
He also estimated that there are
perhaps so large bookmakers and
they handle perhaps less than 10
per cent of the estimated 81 bill
hon annual bookmaking turnover.
knowledge of the odds. Senator
Mcfarland said. permits a large
operator who generally disdains
bets of less than $780, to know
the extent of his betting hazards.
With that knowledge. the Senator
went on, the bigtime bookmaker
can insure himself by laying OF
the bet with another bookmaker
or by telephoning part or all OF
the bet to an agent wagering at
the track.
Blow Seen at Big Operation.
Senator Mcfarland said the
subcommittee believed the pro-
hibition they proposed will strike
a heavy blow at the large opera
ton"
IF it does" Senator Mcfarland
said. I'VE will have accomplished
great zeal OF good since the
evidence tends to prove that such
corruption and bribery as takes
place emanates from the big OPP
orator whose income is Of such a
nature that he can easily afford
large-scale payments to continue
his operations outside of a law"
The Senator predicted that,
while small-time bookies are less
concerned about advance informa-
ton, they will also be hampered.
Legitimate newspapers and ra-
dio stations could still continue to
or publish most of the
racing information they do today.
Senator Mcfarland said.
While betting information on
baseball was barred in the Attor-
ney Generals bill. the committee
left baseball out of its bill.
Evening star., 1950-05-26
Severe Quoke Recorded

NEW YORK, May 26 (P.-A
fairly severe" earthquake, probab-
ly in the South Pacific area. was
recorded last night on the Ford
ham University seismograph. The
Rev. Joseph j. Lynch, seismologist
s":I the tremors were recorded at
6::GHS:05 pm. (EST) and 8:39:35
pm.
Evening star., 1950-05-26
Lute News
Bulletins
Amerosio Prosecutor
Explains Fines

Robert M. Hitchcock, Buffalo
IN. ~ lawyer, today testified
before the Senate subcommittee
studying the 1S45 Amerasia
Magazine case. Chairman Tyd-
ings said Mr.. Hitchcock, who
prosecuted the case, explained
why the Government accepted
fines against two defendants
rather than take the case TO
trial. The statement will be
made public later today.
Earlier Story on Page A-3.)
Emergency Pay Bill Signed
President Truman today
signed the emergency resolu-
tion assuring Federal and Dis
trict government employees their
regular pay checks for the rest
Of the fiscal year. The resolu-
tion authorizes Federal agencies
to draw on funds contained In
the deficiency appropriations
bill that h still pending in
Congress.
Voter Loan Bill Posed
The Senate today passed and
sent to the White House a bill
TO authorize $23 million In loans
from the Treasury 10 the Dis
trict for Improvement Of the
water system.
Earlier Stcry on Page B-1.)
Evening star., 1950-05-26
Home Owners and Buyers
Read Tomorrow's Star

Every Saturday The Star
real estate section offers more
homes for sale than any other
Washington newspaper. Pro-
spective home buyers get a
wider choice and a head start
on Sunday to shop for the
home to At their special needs.
For the latest real estate
news and sales offers, read The
Star tomorrow and every
Saturday.
Phone Sterling 5000 for home
delivery.
Evening star., 1950-05-26
Train Crew Gets Ticket

GLENDALE, Calf, May 26 (P).
Because a Southern Pacific
train stopped 13 minutes at a
crossing, Police Officer Ardeen C.
Meen gave the crew q traffic tick
ct. A city ordinance limits trains
to five minutes at crossings.
Evening star., 1950-05-26
Ship Sinks in Collision

DUNGENESS, England. May 20
R.-The Spanish freighter Cabo
Espartel. 3.7l2 tons. sank in the
English Channel today after coll
liding with another vessel in fog.
Her crew of 81 was rescued.
Evening star., 1950-05-26
Earlier Story ON Page C-1.)
By the Assoe;uted Presa

~ u'S s<ss0NtStGd TISS9
ST. ANDREWS, Scotland. May
26.-Frank Stranahan of Toledo,
Ohio. today won his way into the
final round of the British Anna
teur golf championship with a
4-and-3 victory over 54-year-old
Cyril Tolley of England.
Stranahan's victory assured an
all-American cast in tomorrow's
36-hole finals. He will oppose
either Dick Chapman of Pine
hurst. N. c., or Jimmy McHale
of Philadelphia, who were waging
bitter battle in the other semi
final match.
Chapman and McHale were all
square after II holes, the lead
having alternated several times.
The veteran Tolley, who first
won the British title 80 years ago
when he was one Of the longest
drivers in the game, defeated
young Joe Carr of Ireland on the
goth hole of their quarterfinal
match this morning, but he could
not cope with the straight-shoot-
ing American this afternoon.
Big Gallery Follows Match.
Stranahan shot 81, / over par,
to lead Tolley. 2 up, at the turn,
and methodically whitfield the big
man down on the back nine.
Stranahan won the championship
two years ago.
A large gallery followed the
match, chiefly for sentimental
reasons. Tolley not only was the
last surviving Englishman in the
tournament, but he is one of
the immortals of British amateur
golf. He won the championship
both in 1920 and 1929, and seven
(See RPTTISH ANRATETTP A2o
Evening star., 1950-05-26

OF Wi0-foSf arms k0ce. P00e Al
~-~---------
Allied sectors. Warning the dem
onstators away from West Berlin,
the Reds brought in 5000 "Peo-
pies Police" from the surround
ing Russian zone to augment a
force of $4,000 already on duty
in East Berlin.
100000 More on Way.
With 10000 more young Ger
mans repeatedly en- route to Ber-
lin, special Allied precautions
went into effect at dawn today.
Five British armored cars and so
soldiers occupied a strategic post
behind barbed wire, 500 yards
from Potsdamer Platz. The square
is the traditionally riotous juno
ture oftthe Russian, British and
American sectors.
Through binoculars the troops
constantly kept watch on the big
square. surrounded by war-ruined
buildings. East and West German
police guarded the opposite sides
of the square.
Other potential trouble spots in
mid-city also wele stated with
an Allied military reserve.
The total Allied force Of 5000
officers and men was on the alert.
Predicts Western Victory.
Maj. Gen. G. K. Bourne,
Britain's Berlin commandant.
predicted that the rally would end
in "clear victory for the West
ern Allies"
The Communists gave every
appearance of not looking for
trouble during Sundays six-hour
parade in the Russian sector.
Their leaders called on the FDJ
for "order and discipline" and is
sued this command:
Under no circumstances over
step the (Russian) sector boun-
Diary. M
BE watchful against all pro-
vocateurs who want to mix in
with your 10-person groups.
Follow the orders of your
(See BERLIN, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1950-05-26
Allies Tighten Berlin
Defense Red Youths
Pour Into East Sector
zoe, 900 already in City;
300, 900 More on Way;
Victory for West Seen
By the Asspeiofed Press

BERLIN. May 26.-The West
ern Allies intensified their precau-
tions today against Communist
violence as 100000 young East
Germans jammed the city's Rus
sian sector for the mammoth Red
youth rally.
Communist officials appeared
anxious to keep their Free Ger
man Youth" (FDD out Of the
Evening star., 1950-05-26

(see GE ELECTION, Page A-3.I
Evening star., 1950-05-26

,See BRITISH AMATEUR, ABB
Evening star., 1950-05-26
Stranahan, Chapman
Win Way 10 Finals
In British. Amateur
U. S. Victory Assured
As Ohioon Eliminates
54-Yeor-OId ToIIey
nlu F-sAp
BULLETIN

ST. ANDREWS P.-Dick
Chapman messed out Jimmy Nc
Hale. l UP. in their semifinal
match and will meet Frank
Stranahan tomorrow in the
finals of the British Amateur
golf championship. Chapman,
former United States champion,
lost to Willie Turnesa in the
British Amateur finals in l947.
Evening star., 1950-05-26

(See CRASH, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1950-05-26

eost German Police Swormins in Berlin:
Some Escape to West. Poee A.
Military Aid Accord Seen Ending Thseot
OF Mid-Eost Arms Race. Pooe AS
Evening star., 1950-05-26

(See BERLIN, Page A-40
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1950-04-14

Henry Newman Lawrence, son
of Rev. and Mrs. Alfred S. Law
renee Of Chapel Hill, and Miss
Margaret Katheryn Huckabee,
daughter Of Mrs. James CASTOR
Huckabee and the late Mr..
Huckabee Of Durham, will be
married at 5 Pm. tomorrow
Saturday in the chapel at
Duke University. All friends Of
the couple are invited.
Wedding guests who are here
with Rev. and Mrs. Lawrence
are Mrs, Dudley w. King and her
daughters, Carol and Margaret,
of New York; Mrs. Martin G.
Wright, Litchfeld, Conn; Mrs.
r. E. Gribbin, Jr., and Alice and
Bobby Gribbin of Clemson, S. C.
and Rev. and Mrs. A. Stratton
Lawrence, Jr., and their sons, Al
fred and Tom, of Baton Rouge,
La.
Other out-of-town guests Ito
be at the Carolina Inn) include
Mr.. and Mrs. John D. Wise, Jr.,
Mr.. and Mrs. John D. Wise, 3rd,
with their son John D. Wise, 4th,
all from Pittsburgh, Pa; Mr.. and
Mrs. Lewis T. Breuninger, Jr., of
Washington, D. c., and Mr.. and
Mrs. William Lee Kinney of Win
ston-Salem.
The couple will live in Cairo,
Egypt, where Mr.. Lawrence is
stationed with the American En-
bassy as a diplomatic courier
with the State Department.
Their apartment there has a bal
cony overlooking the Nile and an
other balcony overlooking golf
course. It is in the same building
in which Bobby Caldwell lived
when he was in Cairo with the
State Department.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1950-04-14
Chapel Hill Chaf
Continued from first pa0s)


story Of how she had just missed
getting the books.
/ am sorry for Mrs. Lewis's
loss but / am glad those books
are now in my home.
Weeks ago somebody left q
pair of plastic-rimmed spectacles
(bifocals) at my house. ! ad-
vertised, but there was no re-
sponse. The spectacles are in a
case bearing the name of Ridge
way, the Raleigh optician. ! am
about to send them to Ridgeway,
thinking maybe he knows TO
whom they belong If what / am
writing now leads to their re-
covery by the owner | hereby
waive all rights to any payment
for a found" advertisement
and direct that Gas an equivalent
for such payment) the owner
send 81 to the Red Cross.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1950-04-14
Thomas Melville Stanback, 3rd

A son was born to Mr.. and
Mrs. T. NJ. Stanback, Jr.. last
Sunday, April 9, in Watts hospi-
tai. His name is Thomas Mel
vile Stanback, 3rd. The Stan
backs also have a two-year-old
daughter, Margaret.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1950-04-14
NOTICE OF CANDIDACY

] hereby announce my cam
didacy for the office of Clerk of
the Superior Court Of Orange
County subject to the Democra-
tic Primary on May 27, 1850.
EDWIN NJ. LYNCH
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1950-04-14
Miss Bowman TO Be Bridesmaid

Miss Betsy Bowman of New
York will arrive this evening for
a weekend visit with her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. F. o. Bow
man. From here she will go to
Jacksonville, Fla, where she will
be a bridesmaid in the wedding
of Miss Elizabeth Schofeld to
William Walton, Jr., on Satur-
day, April %.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1950-04-14

gray eyes and are fiattered and
charmed by the way he smiles
at them. The purposeful move
ments of his left hand have led
some of the onlookers to predict
that before very long he will be
definitely diagnosed as a south
paw. just before / wrote this
piece ] telephoned to ask how
he was getting on, and his
mother told me that at the mo-
ment he was taking sun bath.
His favorite pastirne when he
is in his carriage is kicking his
shoes off. "A real Southerner,"
says his father. He wants to be
barefooted.'
On a summers day nearly
three years ago Mrs. H. Bertram
Lewis said to Mr.. Brewster, who
has a bookstore, just across the
green from her home in Litch-
field, Connecticut: Il wish !
could get set Of Dickens-one
with good large print" He re-
piled: why, / just sold one yes
terday, to a couple coming
through here on the way back
to where they live in North Caro-
lima" Then he told her whom he
had bought the set from-an
old-time acquaintance of hers. 1t
grieved her to think of how mar
rowly she had missed getting
the books. If she had just made
her want known a couple Of days
sooner!
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis were at
the Carolina Inn last week for
a short stop-over on their way
back to Connecticut, and they
were introduced to some Chapel
Hill people by Mr.. and Mrs. Will
liam Starr Myers. One Chapel
Hill woman, learning that the
Lewises were from Litchfeld,
recalled passing through there
in the summer of 1947 and ex-
claimed upon the loveliness of
the town. She told how much she
treasured the memory of the
beautiful homes and lawns and
gardens, and specially the
spacious green. She remarked
that she had an ever-present re-
minder of Litchfield in the form
of a set of Dickens she had
picked up at a bookstore there.
1t was this bit of reminiscence
that brought out Mrs. Lewis's
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1950-04-14
Newcomers Club Meeting

The Newcomers Club will
meet at A Pm. Tuesday, April
18, with Mrs. w. NJ. Dey at 401
East Rosemary lane. The pro-
gram will include the election of
officers for the coming year.
Evening star., 1950-01-13
THE EVENING STAR Washington, D C ** Ais
Partial Text Of Acheson Address on Problems in Far East

great interest in many quarters in
trying to point out a logical incon-
sistency.
They say if you do so and SO in
Greece, why don't you do so and
so in China? The idea is that we
must always act exactly the same
way in every country in the world,
and if you don't somebody rings up
score one on the cash register That,
I think is not a helpful way of
discussing foreign policy and it is
a very false trend.
Common Sense Thing.
The United States, in my judg-
ment, acts in regard to a foreign
nation strictly in regard to Ameri-
can interests or these wider inter-
ests which affect American interest.
And If it is to American interests or
those wider interests which affect it,
to do one thing in one country and
another thing in another country,
then that is the consistency upon
which propose to advise the Presi-
dent: and l am not in the slightest
bit worried at all because somebody
can say, We'll, you said so and so
about Greece; why isn't all of this
true about China?" I will be polite.
I will be patient, and I will try to
explain why Greece is not China,
but my heart will not be in that
battle.
Evening star., 1950-01-13

The Communists did not create
this. The Communists did not Gre
ate this condition. They did not
create this revolutionary spirit. They
did not create a great force which
moved out from under Chang Kai-
shek. But they were shrewd and
cunning to mount it, to ride
this thing into victory and into
power. 80
What has our attitude been to-
ward the people of Asia? 1t has
been, I submit to you, that we are
interested-that Americans as indi-
viduals are interested in the peoples
of Asia. We are not interested in