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Evening star., 1950-10-21
Joint Trials Set in Chicago
For All N Color Cases
BY the Associated Press

All pending court challenges
against the Federal Communica-
ton Commissions recent color
television decision will be tried
jointly in Chicago.
Pilot Radio Corp. announced late
yesterday it will drop action
brought in the Brooklyn division
of the New York Federal Court
and join in the Chicago case.
Radio Corp. of America and its
subsidiaries, National Broadcast
ing Co. and RCA-Victor Distribut-
ing Corp, had filed suit in Dis
trict Court there.
The FEC accepted the plan
after having advanced a proposal
of it's own to have everything con-
solidated in New York.
The court actions contest FCC's
selection of Columbia Broadcast
ing Systems color plan for COM
mercial licensing. They contend
that present set owners would
have to buy additional equipment
to receive CHS color signals in
black and white.
Evening star., 1950-10-21
Goodyear Workers Win
12c-an-Hour Wage Rise
BY the Associatsd Press

CINCINNATI, Oct. 21.-Good-
year Tire & Rubber Co. yesterday
announced wage boosts averaging
about IL cents an hour for some
$4,000 workers at Goodyear plants
in 10 cities.
The new wage contract with the
CIO-United Rubber Workers was
signed here after six weeks OF
negotiations, and sets the pattern
for the rubber industry.
Another of the big Four" rub
ber companies of Akron-the B
F. Goodrich Co.'s still at the
bargaining table here where the
union held its international con-
vention last month.
The URW went into the bar
gaining for a flfth-round wage in
crease asking 25 cents an hour as
a general raise. The 12-cent wage
gain represented a general wage
increase averaging 1012 cents
hourly, plus one and a half cents
to correct interplant inequities.
Under the new scale of pay, eff
fective retroactively to October 18,
the average hourly pay of the top
paid main plant workers at Akron
would be near 50 an hour.
Evening star., 1950-10-21
Farouk Orders Probe
OF Scandal Continued
BY the Associo.ed Press

ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, Oct. 81.
king Farouk I wants the cur
rent investigation into an alleged
arms supply scandal to proceed
regardless of whether members of
the army or of his court are in
volved.
Instructions to that effect were
disclosed last night by Premier
Mustapha Nahas Pasha. Farouk
returned to Egypt yesterday after
two months vacationing in Italy
and France.
Last week, a group of political
leaders opposing the government
told the king in a statement that
they suspected some of his high
palace aides of completely in a
munitions scandal.
The statement-without prece-
dent in Egyptian history-charged
"misrule" by the Wafd Party in
power, urged the King to uproot
corruption" in government, and
warned of the possibility of
sedition.
Evening star., 1950-10-21

hopes it's not too late to enter
George Washington University.
They figured they have sailed
between 700 and 800 miles since
leaving Rhode Island September 2
and have gotten about half way
to their destination, Jacksonville.
On the journey. they experienced
the fringe of a hurricane, a broken
topmast and plenty of headwinds.
They have been towed by an 83-
foot Coast Guard boat and late
yesterday by small landing craft
from Quantico, which was return
ing from searching the jet plane
crash area off Maryland Point.
They helped pay their way by
Mr.. Ward giving lectures and
movies of some of his experiences
in Greenland. Alaska and the
Arctic.
Skipper Ward said he traded
an outboard motor to a Dane in
Greenland last year for the 20
foot, 38-year-old whaleboat. Zenta
was brought to Rhode Island on
big ship and fitted out there for
the voyage South.
Evening star., 1950-10-21
u. n. Day Program
To Be Held tuesday
Al District BuiIdinq

Washington's United Nations
Day program will be held on the
steps of the District Building at
1905 pm. Tuesday.
The program, sponsored by the
National Capital Sesquicentennia1
Commission in cooperation with
the National Citizens Committee
for United Nations Day, will in
clude a special message written by
Cordell Hull, former Secretary Of
State.
The message will be read by
Melvin Hildreth as chairman Of
the U. N. Day Committee for the
Nations Capital.
Ringing of Freedom Bell.
The ceremonies will begin on
the last stroke of the ringing Of
the Freedom Bell in Berlin, to be
broadcast by the Columbia Broad
casting System and Station
WTOP, starting at noon.
Music by the Army Band, vocal
selections, prayers and a talk by
Second 1t. Trevor w. SWEET, a
platoon commander of the 25th
Infantry Division, hospitalized at
Walter Reed for wounds received
fighting n Korea, will be included
in the District Building program.
1t. SWEET, "a. is the son of a
retired Army officer, Col. Trevor
SWEET, 4402 Stanford street, Chevy
Chase, Md.
American e. Chorus.
The American University chorus
will open the program, and will
conclude it with the national an
them. Miss Jeanette Wells is di-
rector. A soloist will be Miss Ro-
berta Long, 1912 Franklin street
NE, an employe of the Commerce
Department.
The Commissioners, veterans
organizations and religious leaders
will participate. The latter include
the Very Rev. Msgr. James E.
Cowhig, chancellor of the Arch
diocese of Washington; Rabbi Isa-
dore Breslau, president of the
Jewish Community Council of
Greater Washington, and DR..
Frederick E. Reissig, executive di-
rector of the Washington Fedora
ton of Churches.
Evening star., 1950-10-21
Simons Pleads Guilty
To Theft OF PIufonium
By the Associated Press

DENVER, Oct. 21.-Sanford L.
Simons. %, pleaded guilty yester-
day to stealing plutonium from
the Los Alamos IN. Mex.) atomic
energy project in 1916.
Sentencing of the former Uni
versity of Denver research scien-
tist was postponed by District
Judge Lee Knous pending investi-
cation by a probation officer.
Simons was arrested August 81.
He admitted taking the plutonium
as a souvenir" and said he was
relieved at being arrested because
he didn't know what to do with
the vial of radioactive material
buried beneath his house.
Plutonium is used in manufac-
turing the atomic bomb.
Evening star., 1950-10-21
United Thunk Offerino

The semiannual ingathering Of
the united thank offering of the
women of Christ Episcopal
Church, Georgetown, will take
place at II am. Sunday. There
will be a sermon by the rector,
the Rev. John r. Anschutz.
The Mems Club will meet at
$3.50 pm. Wednesday at the home
Of John M. Rails, 1917 Twenty
ninth street NV.
Evening star., 1950-10-21
GI Hospital Death Rate
Al Record Wartime Low

Maj. Gen. Raymond Bliss, Army
surgeon general. says preliminary
evidence indicates that the hos
pital death rate among Korean
war casualties is the lowest for
any military campaign in the Ma
tion's history.
Gen. Bliss, who has just re-
turned from survey in the Far
East. spoke to a meeting of Army
Medical Library consultants yes
terday.
He said data indicated that
among every 100 hospital cases in
Korea there had been only one
death. compared with three in the
last war and eight in World War 7.
Evening star., 1950-10-21

The saga Of Zenta, a tiny,
Danish-built sailboat which two
young men had hoped to sail
from Rhode Island to Florida, was
drawing to a close today as it
made its way up the Potomac
River.
Lack of winds has slowed their
progress up the Potomac and they
may not arrive here until tonight
or tomorrow.
But. the way they explained it
last night after docking at the
Marine base at Quantico, too much
wind along the coast-and from
the wrong direction-prevented
them from getting any farther
south than the lower Chesapeake.
1--WE decided our time had run
out and we had to get back to
school," Bud Ward, 27-year- old
Gainesville (Fla.) writer, lecturer
and former Weather Bureau en-
ploye, declared after docking at
the base. "
With him was 24-year-old Mar
vim Stephens of Arlington, who
Evening star., 1950-10-21
Four Catholics Executed
In Red China as Spies
BY the Associated Press

HONG KONG, Oct. 21.-The
Peiping radio said today that Chi
nese Communists executed four
Chinese Catholic churchmen, in
cluding two priests, Monday in
Hupeh Province on charges OF
espionage.
The executions took place in the
town Of Shihchichuang. The
radio said the Catholics were con-
victed by Peoples Court of hav-
ing pin-pointed a bombing target
for Nationalist planes in August
1948.
Names of the priests were given
as WI Ya-to and Chao Ya-keh.
Evening star., 1950-10-21
Army Now Organizing
HeIicopter Companies
BY the Associafsd Press

The Army announced yesterday
that it is organizing helicopter
companies for flying jeep"
service.
Each company will be equipped
with % helicopters. Two of these
will be used for command and
scouting purposes. The remainder
will be employed to move light
cargo and men.
The Army expects the helicopter
companies to facilitate river cross
ings and troop operations in Arc
tic, amphibious, mountain and
jungle warfare where ground
transport conditions are bad.
Adoption of the plan follows the
successful use of helicopters for a
great variety of missions by the
Marines in Korea.
Evening star., 1950-10-21
French Cabinet Faces
Showdown Today on
Rearming Germany
BY the Associated Press

PARIS, Oct. 21.-The conflict
within French Premier Rene
Pleven's coalition government over
rearming Germany comes to a
head at a cabinet meeting today.
The thorny subject may tear
apart Mr.. Pleven's middle of the
road team, but most observers
think a compromise can be found.
Invaded and occupied by the
Germans three times in the last
10 years. France traditionally mis-
trusts an armed Germany. Today
the Communists are taking ad-
vantage of that tradition to por-
tray the United States as an
enemy of France, because she IA
yors German rearmament.
The wounds of the last German
invasion are still fresh enough so
that the Red propaganda hits
responsive spot in the minds OF
many Frenchmen.
The Socialists-already vieing
with the Communists for votes In
next years election-have the most
to lose when Communist propa-
ganda succeeds.
This is one reason why the
Socialists are taking so strong a
stand against the principle" of
German rearmament
Yesterday the Socialist Deputies
voted, 80 to 5. against the "prin-
ciple" more than the fact.
The Socialists are a minority in
the cabinet. They are outnum-
bered by the Radicals and the
slightly rightist Popular Republi-
cans (MRP).
The Radicals think the Socialists
are butting their heads against a
stone wall in opposing the United
States on Germany. Many of the
MRP-following Foreign Minister
Robert Schuman-want the Ger
mans taken into the European
community as a matter of prin-
eiple.
If the cabinet is to survive, some
compromise must be worked out
by Tuesday when Mr.. Pleven is
due to make a statement on Ger
man rearmament before the Ma
ton Assembly.
Evening star., 1950-10-21
40th Anniversary

Sunday marks the 40th an
niversary of the Rev. Charles B.
Austin ordination to the gospel
ministry. He has been pastor of
the West Washington Baptist
Church 27 years. He is dean of
the present pastors of the Dis
trict of Columbia Baptist Con-
vention. He will preach tomorrow
at II am. and 8 pm.
Evening star., 1950-10-21
Indo-Chinu
Continued From First Page.)

the French charge have been
training the guerrillas on a large
scale recently.
Meanwhile, the French have dug
in with heavy armor along the
Red River delta while reinforce
ments were mobilized to bolster
new positions for a stand against
the Wet Mimi forces.
The French communique said
the withdrawal of Langson gar
rison was not decided under pres
sure of the enemy"
TT was apparent for several
months that progress made by the
enemy in augmenting its strength
and armament as well as its abil-
ity to maneuver, required our
forces to adopt new combat tao
tics based on the reconstruction
of mobile units possessing strong
fire power" the statement said.
1t added that "the only means
to constitute such mobile reserves
was to regroup our battalions i'm
mobillzed on the frontier"
2 Lines of Retreat Open.
Severe reverses suffered at
Dongkhe showed the necessity for
this new plan of action which is
being rapidly implemented." said
the statement, adding:
mo further withdrawal of our
troops is foreseen."
Two lines of retreat lie open for
the big Langson garrison. One
withdrawal route lies southwest
along Colonial Route l through
dangerous Wet Minh-infested
mountains to Hanoi 100 miles
away.
Along this perilous highway
comparative safety would await
French troops at the strong post
of Phulangthuong, so miles south
west.
The other path to safety for
the harassed Langson column lies
southeast along Colonial Route 4,
which leads to Moncay at the sea.
The first French station along this
route is IL miles away.
Route Is the principal supply
highway for the remaining French
| frontier garrisons. None of the
garrisons along the clay road
twisting through jungle-covered
hills is as strong as Langson.
Frontier Abandoned.
\ The evacuation of Langson sig
nailed the abandonment of the
! frontier to the Wet Mimi. The
French may continue to hold
minor posts strung out eastward
to Moncay, 80 miles away, but the
main positions already have been
yielded to Ho Chi Mimi.
From Laokay far to the west
for 100 miles the frontier to Lang
son, the Wet Mini are in unchal-
lenged control. The frontier door
to Red China, pried open by Ho
Chi Mimi, includes two of the
main invasion routes at Caobang
and Langson.
The French declaration in to-
days communique that their
troops would not withdraw, indi-
Gated an attempt may be made to
hold their garrisons east of Lang
son. This 100-mile wide zone an
chored at Moncay on the Gulf of
Tonkin, will be easier to hold be-
cause of good road and sea COM
munications to strong French
troop concentrations on the Red
River delta
Evening star., 1950-10-21
Youth Gets Recognition

A 19-year-old Singapore youth
who first gained stage fame by
entertaining British prisoners of
war has won an opportunity to
perform with an Australian the
atrical company.
Evening star., 1950-10-21
Scientist
Continued From First Page)

sinki, Finland. They did not know
what his plans were after that.
but they said he had stopped in
Munich and Copenhagen on the
way to Stockholm. They said his
wife's maiden name was Nordblom
and that she carried a Swedish
passport.
The Helsinki Office of Finnish
Airlines said Pontecorvo, his wife
and three children arrived there
on September 2 from Stockholm
There was no immediate informa-
ton as to where they went after
that or as to their present where
abouts.
Milan newspapers quoted the
scientists father, Massino Ponte-
carvo, as saying there was no rea-
son to believe that his son would
not return to England by jan
uary, when he is scheduled to
take over a professorship at the
University of Liverpool.
Until that date" the father
was quoted as saying, There is
no reason to be alarmed over his
absence from England"
Studied Under Noted Physicist.
The papers said Pontecorvo was
born in Pisa, Italy, in 1910, ano
studied under Italy's leading phy-
sicist and 1888 Nobel Prize win
ner, DR.. Enrico Fermi.
He is of Jewish origin and flee
to France in 1910, later joining
Fermi at the Chalk River atomic
energy project in Canada during
the war.
Rome's pro-CommuniSt news.
papers were the only ones to ig-
more the story altogether. A pro-
Communist newspaper in Milar
said the reports were part of "a
tendentious campaign" and addec
that if Pontecorvo wanted to &c
to Poland, "he is a free either
with his papers in order and car
go where he likes"
Secret Service Chase Reported.
Chicago Daily News correspond.
ent George Weller in Rome re.
ported that Pontecorvo slipped
across the Iron Curtain barely IL
time to escape arrest by British
secret service agents trailing hin
as Communist spy.
Mr.. Weller indicates that tn,
scientist made two recent de-
partures from Italy, the first Sep
tember l, when he left with hi
family for Sweden, and the sec
ond more recently, when he is re
ported to have gone to Prague
from Venice aboard a Czech plane
When Pontecorvo first emplanet
eastward, Mr.. Weller reported
British secret service agents ane
"Interpol, or international police
were apparently sent to find hin
in the Italian Tyrol after the ply.
sicist pleaded an automobile
breakdown as an excuse for miss.
ing his scheduled talk at tn,
September Congress on Nucleal
Physics at Oxford.
Throughout August Pontecorvc
had been tenting in the mountains
near Lake, Como. His decision
against returning to Britain fol,
Evening star., 1950-10-21

Mexico's westernmost possession
is Guadalupe Island, 180 miles
southwest Of San Diego, Calf.
Evening star., 1950-12-06
This and That

Many persons. young and old, will re-
ceive guppies for Christmas.
It may be a good thing to enumerate
some of the essentials of their care.
No matter how much one points out
the right thing some one is always doing
the wrong thing, but that makes no diff
ference-one must try, just the same.
Care of guppies, small tropical fishes,
demands some prior consideration.
It will not do just to throw them from
the paper bucket in which they are pur-
chased into bowl of cold water.
That way, lies many diseases.
sf Ssas
The necessary preliminary thing is to
have the water into which they are put
the same temperature as the water from
which they come.
That seems plain enough, but it is the
rule mostly violated, just because 1t is not
thought of beforehand.
Another reason it is violated is that
the new guppy owner has never stopped
to think in advance of the need for imi-
tating the conditions in nature as much
as he can,
In nature, fishes seldom if ever go at
one jump from water of "a degrees, let
us say, to water at so degrees.
In nature, water changes temperature
very slowly, so that the living creatures
in 1T have chance to readjust them
selves.
SO before everything else. II you give
Evening star., 1950-12-06
The District Should Be Included

Sponsors of the new Youth Correction Act
may have acted wisely in leaving the District
out of the scope of the law when they finally
pushed it through Congress last September Con-
gressional delay had already held up passage of
the. law for some eight years, and almost any
compromise to get 1t through would have been
justified.
But the opinion Of Chief Judge Laws of Dis
trict Court that ut seems absurd that law which
is good for the whole country shouldn't be good
for the Nations Capital" deserves some heavy
underscoring. The Youth Correction Act, de-
scribed elsewhere on this page, is q good law. 1t
should apply to the District as well as the rest
of the country. The technical difficulties of
adapting our system of courts, our parole board
and our city financial setup to the requirements
of the new law should be worked out as quickly
as possible.
A special District Committee of the American
Bar Association, headed by Judge Laws is a.
work on the matter. They hope to have special
bill, or an amendment to the present act, intro
duced at the current session of Congress. Men,
bers of the present Congress have been educated
to the need and the benefit of this law after
long period of careful work The process might
have to be started all over again with the new
Congress. The need for action is urgent, and
the Bar Associations committee deserves the
hearty support of all members of the community
interested in the welfare Of our youth.
Evening star., 1950-12-06
By Charles E. TroceweN

ing, so that within several months there
will be many more.
Guppies are live-bearers- is, the
new fishes are born alive, perfect images
of their parents, about one-fourth inch
long.
This is so small that they may be de-
voured by their own parents, so that
some hiding material, in the form of
water plants, is necessary. ....
So determine, once guppies are con-
templated, to use some plant material,
secured at any pet dealers. This, too.
should be done in advance, and placed
in the bowl or tank. There should be
clean sand on the bottom.
Fish, water, sand and plants-these
are the essentials. the beginning of
guppy care. These are charming little
fishes, to which an entire family of
watchers can become attached. At
tached to fishes? Why. ofScourse, if you
put yourself into them and their care
Make no mistake about it, these little
slivers of life have an infinite capacity
for getting your attention, no matter how
adult you are. Do not make the mistake
of regarding them solely as children's
toys. Actually they are not playthings.
but living things, out of their natural
habitat, but still trying to do the best
they can, in their odd way. Treat them
WE'LL then, not in any offhand manner,
and they will reward you for many
day.
Evening star., 1950-12-06
Steamboat Blues

had fine louer. his name ,Das Jim,
never ,DiH loDe any other but him:
His heart iOas set upon foreign scenes
And he boarded steamer for New
Orleans
The river foUs doUn and the boats
90 by,
I'll hear their phistles until / die.
tied on my ribbons and blacked my
shoes
And stood on the landing, but II aras
no use,
For came on Creole ,pho told me he
My jim, dance sdnlbn In Panama.
The riUer fotDs do,pn and the boats
90 By.
I'll hear their Dhistles until I die
A bulltrog hollers where the cotton's
1Dhite, -
And the moon shines long IN the sum-
mer night.
But 1Dalk In my dreams through
foreign street
With its cries and music and dancing
feet. .. @
The riuer fo,Ds do,on and the boats
90 bg,
I'll hear their Uhistles until / die q
BEUIAH MAY.
Evening star., 1950-12-06
Letters to The Star

Bancroft, plus the United States Infor-
nation Service.
Please bear in mind that In addition
to local tours, our guides must be in
formed also about Arlington, Alexan-
dria. Mt. Vernon, Annapolis. and-sone
of us-the Skyline Drive, Richmond.
Williamsburg and Jamestown. Our earn
ings are those of the average bus driver.
and no more.
Any mistakes we make we are ready
and anxious to correct. But do really
think that your method Of presenting
them In your article of the other day
was way below your usual standards of
fairness and good taste.
John r.. Shannon.
Amalgamated Association of Street Elec-
trio Railway and Motor Coach En-
ployes of America, AFL.
X
I read with special interest Mary
Vaughan's article, describing her expe-
rience on sightseeing trip in Wash
ington recently. l. too, took the So trip
not so long ago with visitors from out
of town, and can verify some of the
mis-information" thus cleaned.
Esther A. Roberts.
Evening star., 1950-12-06

or get guppies, determine to use a small
thermometer.
This is not difficult to remember or
hard to. do, if one thinks of it in advance.
The small bucket of newly arrived fish
is tested first. Say it shows 70 degrees.
That is not bad temperature for gup-
pies, hardy tropicals, among the few that
may be kept SO low.
Seventy-two to IA degrees is better.
But say the bucket tests 10 degrees.
Now test the water into which they
are to go. It should have been drawn
the night before, so that all the chlorine
can pass off. If this water tests higher
or lower, it should be equaliZed, some
way, either by heating, or pouring in
a small amount of warm or cold water,
as the case may require.
Seems a great deal of trouble?
It is not one-tenth the trouble of try
ing to cure such small creatures of the
white fungus spots that may appear on
them If the water temperature change
is too great.
Guppies do well in small amounts of
water, they are so small, but nothing less
than quart should be used. This Is a
bare minimum for pair. Two gallons
is much better for pair. 1t may seem
large, at first, and it is, for such small
things, but they have way Of multiply