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Evening star., 1950-12-13
Singapore Mosque
Yields Riot Weapons
BY the Associated Press

SINGAPORE, Dec. 13. Police
made a surprise raid on Singa-
pores imposing Sultan Mosque
today and uncovered a stock of
ammunition. crowbars and clubs
apparently used by Moslems in
Singapore's three-day reign of
bloody rioting over custody of a
Moslem reared Dutch girl.
British authorities believed the
raid on the mosque had delivered
the heaviest blow to fanatics who
had used the mosque as a head
quarters for the riots which by to-
day had taken a toll of Is known
dead and at least 180 injured.
Authorities ordered the Mcslem
high priest (KathD, who had led
them on their raid, to keep the
mosque closed except for prayers
on Friday-the Moslem Sabbath.
Although the city itself grad
ually returned to normal, Moslem
sources not involved in the riots
estimated that a force of 1000
still was carrying on violence in
predominantly Moslem areas of
the island. Smaller groups sent
out trucks to block roads and burn
army and police vehicles in Sec
tions far from where they lived.
Eyewitnesses said rioters were
being supplied by trucks with an
uninterrupted flow of bottles for
use in their attacks.
Evening star., 1950-12-13
Fire Kills Occupant
I0f 18th Street GARAGE

A man sleeping on the second
floor Of a two-story garage died
early today in a fire that damaged
the building at the rear of 1911
Fifteenth street NV.
The victim was Kenney G.
Richards, IS, colored, who rented
the garage about a year ago for
sleeping quarters and place to
store his junk cart.
Firemen from No. 9 Engine
Company found the man lying
beside the bed shortly after they
answered the alarm at lis am.
Efforts to revive him failed.
Firemen said the blaze, which
burned out the second floor, prob
ably started from one of two oil
stoves in the room.
Another fire at 1914 P street
NV. about Z am. damaged the
first floor apartment of a three
story brick row building. Mrs.
Sadie r. Davis, colored, owner of
the building and occupant of the
apartment, said she lit a match to
look under the bed for her slippers.
She then went to the basement
to remove ashes from the fur
mace and, on returning, found the
room ablaZe.
Evening star., 1950-12-13

Congress and the country to-
day had the grim word of a group
of scientists and other experts
that national survival depends on
far faster and bigger mobilization
of manpower and resources.
A Committee on Present Dan
GER" including such we'll known
men as James B. Conant, presi-
dent of Harvard University. and
Vannevar Bush, this Nations
scientific chief in the last war,
called for:
/. A universal military service
law under which all youths ex-
cept the totally unfit would take
two years Of military training on
reaching 18 or graduating from
high school.
2. At least 3.5 million men in
the aimed forces.
8. Economic controls more
exacting than those in effect"
4. Great expansion of the
equipment and supplies program
beyond present goals.
S. Sharp cuts in Government
expenditures for non defense pur-
poses.
6. Active leadership and aid by
the United States, with armed
forces if necessary, in q world
effort to prevent or halt Commu-
mist aggression.
Such an allied force, strong
enough to offer effective resist
ance to military aggression is nec-
essary to supplement this Nations
present superiority in the atomic
field, the committee declared.
It must be hastened before So
Wet Russia feels it has built up
Evening star., 1950-12-13

New Zealand is ordering four
types Of planes to re-equip its air
force.
Evening star., 1950-12-13
Science Unit Warns Survival
depends on Quick Mobilization

its defenSes against air attack and
has made enough atomic bombs to
risk war, the committee added.
The partisan committee
formed here yesterday to give
continued attention" to problems
affecting the national defense, in
cludes former Secretary of War
Robert P. Patterson, Tracy S.
Voorhees,. former Undersecretary
of the Army: Julius Ochs Adler,
general manager of the New York
Times; Will L. Clayton, former
Undersecretary of State; William
L. Marbury, Baltimore lawyer who
was a principal legal assistant to
the War Department during World
War II. and Robert E. Sherwood,
author and playwright.
'The hour is at hand when our
country must mobilize its man
power and resources on a scale
great enough to meet the real and
present danger. and that scale is
very great indeed" the committee
maintained in a statement issued
by DR.. Conant.
UNLESS an adequate supplement
for the atomic potential of the
United States is brought into ex-
istence, the time may soon come
when all of Continental Europe
can be forced into the Communist
fold and the British Isles placed
again in even greater peril than
in 1910.
"The bitter fact is that our
country has again been thrust
into a struggle in which our free
existence is at stake, a struggle
for survival. We have no time
to lose"
Evening star., 1950-12-13
Only Existing Copy
OF Frost's 7st Book
'Auctioned for $500
BY the Associoted Press

NEW YORK, Dec. 13.-What is
thought to be the highest price
ever paid for a work by contem-
porary American author-$3, 500
has been paid for the only existing
copy of Robert Frost's first book.
The book, Twilight and Other
Poems" was auctioned yesterday
at a sale of first editions of Ameri-
can authors, assembled by Earle
j. Bernheimer of Beverly Hills,
Calf, at the Parke-Bernet Gal
leries.
Frost items, books and manu-
scripts comprised about 230 lots of
the 404 catalogued. The Frost
items brought $14,699.
The author, in an inscription on
the front endleaf, wrote that two
copies of Twilight" were printed
in 1894 in Lawrence, Mass. He
gave one copy to a girl and kept
the other, which he later de-
StrOyed.
Evening star., 1950-12-13
Meyers
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Continued From First Page)
days from his sentence for good
behavior in prison.
Meyers was indicted in Federal
Court in Baltimore in April, 1948,
on charge of evading $15.658 in
Federal income taxes. Liens to-
falling $465.812 have been filed
against Meyers by the Internal
Revenue Bureau.
Divorced Last April.
Last April, Meyers was divorced
by his second wife, a pretty former
model. She obtained the divorce
in the Virgin Islands and at the
time explained that she and her
husband had agreed that a legal
separation would be the best thing
"for our children. They have
three children.
Meyers was convicted in District
Court here of inducing a wartime
business associate. Beriot H. La
MARIE to testify falsely before a
Senate War Investigating SUBJ
committee. After the conviction,
President Truman dismissed him
from the Air Force.
Evening star., 1950-12-13
Dispersal
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build on eight sites about 20 miles
from downtown Washington. Each
site would provide ultimately for
10000 employees. The total of
10000 includes $4,000 now in the
fimsy. temporary buildings in
downtown Washington, which
would be raZed, and the $4,000
figure Mr.. Jones gave.
Better Off Than in 1910.
Mr.. Jones said the Government
is convinced the dispersal plan is
"a true emergency program" be-
cause of the unsettled interr a.
tional situation and the condition
Of the World War I and II tenn
porary buildings which are in
bad shape and should be torn
down.
Mr.. Jones said that Washington
is in much better shape now than
it was 10 years ago to provide
homes for additional workers. In
the Government plans are pro-
visions for decentralization, which
would mean moving agencies with
total Of 5000 employees to other
cities.
Mr.. Jones was questioned about
the encroachment on State juris-
dictions by the outlying develop
mentS.
He said that a committee has
been at work on a system of pro-
posed payments in lieu of local
taxes and he hoped this could be
submitted to Congress at it's next
session.
Question of Jurisdiction.
Chairman Holland of the sub
committee asked whether such
payment provisions and other
matters protecting the jurisdiction
Of the States might not be writ
ten into the legislation now being
considered. Mr.. Jones replied
that he would find out how far
the plans for payments in lieu
Of taxes had gone.
He pointed out that if the Gov
ernment builds near Gaithersburg,
Md. employees could be expected
to move to Gaithersburg and to
build new houses in that area.
This would increase the taxable
property there.
w. E. Reynolds, public buildings
commissioner, said it was planned
to buy sites of 200 to $50 acres.
He said generally these areas
would be farm lands and therefore
the local tax base would be az
fected to a minimum extent.
Evening star., 1950-12-13
IHomburgers Come
AS Square Meal,
With 4 Corners

Don't despair of the American
inventive genius.
A machine turning out square
hamburgers is operating at the
regional convention sponsored by
the Washington Restaurant Asso-
citation in the Hotel Statler.
The operator merely presses
the little valve down and the beef
goes round and round and comes
out square.
1t has been introduced in Cali
fornia. Reports are that the pub
lie response to a square meal at
less than 81 has been tremendous.
Evening star., 1950-12-13
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK. Dec. 13.-A bakers
wife with recipe of her own won
the $25.000 first prize yesterday
in national recipe and baking
contest.
The award was presented to
the gray-haired, motherly Mrs.
Peter Wuebel of Redwood City.
Calf, by the Duchess of Windsor
at a celebrity clustered luncheon
in the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. She
baked what she called an orange
Kiss Me Cake"
A $4,000 junior first prize in the
contest, sponsored by Pillsbury
Mills, was won by 17-year-old Mrs.
Bernard Derousseau of Rice Lake,
Wis, who married at Is and is
the mother Of two children. She
baked cookies known as Cherry
Winks."
Peanut Pie Wins $4,000.
Second prize of $4,000 in the
senior division went to Mrs. T. L.
Green. jr., of Columbus, Ga. for
peanut pie. and third prize of
$4,000 to Mrs. Robert G. Walker
of Kenosha. Wis, for rolls.
Mrs. Wuebel said she was going
to divide her prize money with
her daughter. Mrs. Frank Ami
bale of Redwood City. The daugh-
ter sent in the recipe for her
mother.
Mrs. Wuebel, who was born in
Germany and came to this coun-
try 81 years ago, also won a Gen.
eral Electric kitchen set.
Nov, I'll have to get a new
house to go with the kitchen,
she exclaimed.
Mrs. Derousseau first started
cooking at the age of s. She and
Evening star., 1950-12-13
Wife of Baker Wins $4,000
In Recipe Contest at Waldorf

her husband Bernard. a 24-year-
old laundry route salesman, said
they would finish paying for a
house they bought recently.
Mrs. Green, second prize winner
in the senior class, said she
handn't expected to win anything
and consequently hadn't planned
what to do with the money.
Il was so surprised I could
hardly talk" she said.
Mrs. Walker, third prize win
ner, commented:
Il am very excited. I suppose
that sounds trite. but that's the
only way to describe it,"
"Best of Glass" Winners.
Prizes of $1,000 each were
awarded these best of class
winners in the senior division:
Mrs. Verne E. Starke of Clare
mont. Calf, dumplings: Miss
Lille F. Young of CORTLAND. Va,
for her cobbler in the dessert
class; Mrs. Natalie Townes of
Kirksville. Mo-, cookies: Mrs. F.
A. Riecke of Pasadena, Calf,
pies; Mrs. Clara E. Fischer OF
Weatherly. Pa. cakes, and Mrs.
Frederika A. Vici of Ripley. Ohio.
bread.
In the junior division, second
prize of $4,000 went to Miss Eve
lyme Hymers of Brighton. Mass.
and third prize. 81 900. to Barbara
Maddox of Los Angeles.
One hundred contestants, from
u to rs years old. from SO States,
the District of Columbia and
Puerto Rico, stood before 100
electric stoves to bake their recipes
in the finals of the contest yester-
day in the Waldorf grand ball.
room.
Evening star., 1950-12-13
Emergency
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and Appropriations Committees
and cabinet chiefs.
Senator Taft was invited to to-
days session for the first time
since the President began bringing
in bipartisan groups to discuss the
defense picture after the Korean
outbreak.
Emerging from the meeting,
Senator Taft read this statement
to reporters:
"We agreed fully that a dan
gerous emergency exists for the
people of the United States.
"We agreed with the Presi-
dents general program for build
ing up the armed forces as rapid
ly as possible.
"As to the proposed declaration
of national emergency, we did
not feel that we were sufficiently
advised as to the legal effect of
such a declaration, or the pro-
gram which must accompany it
to take a final position on that
question.
Controls Are Discussed.
"If the declaration is legally
necessary to advance the develop
ment of our armed strength, we
would be for it,"
Senator Taft said this state
ment had the approval of four
Of his top conferees-Senate Mi
nority Leader Wherry, Senator
Bridges of New Hampshire, rank
ing Republican on the Appropria-
tions and Armed Services Com
Senator Millikin of Colo
RADIO, chairman of the Republican
Senate Conference Committee,
and House Minority Leader Mar
tin.
The President saw about q
score of Congressman today and
the first word of what had hap
pened came from Senator Wherry,
who told reporters Mr.. Truman
was considering an emergency
declaration, but wanted to talk
to more people first and that to-
days conference was only the
start of a series.
Asked about the prospect for
wage-and-price controls. Senator
Wherry said that will be an
SWered in his announcement, I
think" meaning the prospective
emergency declaration.
Representative Martin said
some of his Republican associates
didn't know enough about the
Presidents emergency program to
make up their minds on it.
Speech Will Be on TV.
The Friday night speech has
been offered to all networks, &C
cording to Acting White House
Press Secretary Stephen T. Early,
and it will be televised also.
In New York Gov. Dewey, titular
leader of the Republican Party,
prepared to tell the Nation what
he too thinks should be done.
A spokesman said in Albany
last night that Gov. Dewey will
make major address in New York
City tomorrow night. In it he
will touch on the international
crisis and outline defense steps he
thinks should be taken.
Chairman Vinson Of the House
Armed Services Committee said
after a talk with Secretary of the
Army Pace yesterday that STEP
up can be expected soon in tank
production. Mr.. Vinson has been
urging 24-hour-a-da shifts in
tank plants.
Senator Lyndon c. Johnson.
Democrat. of Texas, chairman of
a Senate Armed Services pre-
paredness subcommittee, told the
Senate yesterday that thus far
lthe United States has succeeded
IN throwing up only "a chicken
wire defense instead Of a wall of
armed might"
Evening star., 1950-12-13
State Of Emergency
Would Cut Time Laa
On Arms De|ivery33
By John A. Giles

A cut of as much as third
from the time lag between appro-
priation Of funds and the actual
delivery of armed forces weapons
will be possible in some cases un-
der national emergency declara-
ton.
Defense officials made this esti-
mate today as they emphasized
that a speedup in procurement Of
tanks, airplanes and other war
gear is one of the two principal
BENEFITS from such an action.
These officials saw an additional
purpose-its impact on home
front morale. There is not the
concern felt at the time that
United Nations forces were win
ming in Korea over the American
public becoming lackadaisical in
its attitude toward the rearma-
ment program. Nevertheless, one
Official said, it would serve "to
make clear this is a real emer-
gency period. one of national
peril" existing not only in the
Far East but in Europe.
Effect on Procurement.
AS to procurement, the declara-
ton would allow. among other
things:
l. A speedup in contract nego-
tiations. not allowance in peace
time.
2. Decentralization of time-con-
suming procurement programs.
8. Purchase of materials any,
where in the world wherever they
are available.
4. An increase of assembly lines
in the services own arsenals and
In contract plants.
S. Speedup in factory manpower
recruiting.
6. Expansion of the stock of
machine tools needed for the
manufacture of intricate weapons.
Objective to Save Time.
I'm peacetime the objective is
to save money; in an emergency,
under war conditions. to save
time" one Army official said in
summing UP the benefits.
Eugene M. Zickert, Assistant
Secretary of the Air Force, re-
ported only last week that it
would take anywhere from one
year to 18 months to realize the
effects" of the current fiscal years
budget. 1t is that time lag that
the Pentagon hopes to cut by one
third.
Military buyers still have to
spend So billion by June 80 for
equipment and supplies that Con-
gress already has approved. Due
to pass Congress soon is a bill
to give them another SO billion
q total of SIT billion.
Orders at So Billion a Month.
Since the Korean war began
last June orders have been flow
ing out at So billion a-month
rate and the total to date is about
SO billion. But because the
funds must be obligated during
the current fiscal period the pace
of contract letting-a lot of it by
negotiation under an emergency
declaration-will have to hit SO
billion a month or better soon.
About 40 per cent of the total
will go for Air Force and Navy
planes. -5.sss
Evening star., 1950-12-13
u. S. Envoy Leaves Israel

TEL AVN, Dec. 13 (P.-James
G. Mcdonald, retiring American
Ambassador to Israel, left Tel
Aviv for New York by plane TO-
day. He was seen off by Israel
government representatives, mem
bers of the diplomatic CORDS,
American Embassy staff members
and many other friends.
Evening star., 1950-12-13
Library Contract Is Let

HARRISONBURG, Va, Dec. 10
P.-A contract for construction
Of the first unit of the Rocking
ham Public Library was awarded
here yesterday to the Nielsen
Construction Co. of Harrisonburg.
The bid of the Nielsen firm was
S91 942
Evening star., 1950-12-13
Dewey Robinson Rites

BEVERLY HILLS, Calf, Dec.
.13 (P.-Funeral services for
Dewey r. Robinson, So, character
actor of the stage and screen, will
be held here tomorrow. A native
of New Haven, Conn. Mr.. Robin
son died Monday night at Las
Vegas, New.
, 1950-10-07
ANNOUNCEMENT

DR.. Robert M. De Fretas,
B. a. O., D. Specialist in Eye
Examination Refraction Or
thopticsi announces that on
Tues. Oct. 10 & Wed. Oct. IL.
from 10 AN to II Pm. and
2 p. M to 5 P. NJ, complete
%optometric service will be Of
fered to the Municipality of
St. Croix.
The latest designs in Eye
glasses prepaid or c. @. D.
, 1950-10-07
Sale Of
Municipal Property

No acceptable offer having
been received for the KAISER
four-door Sedan offered for
sale on bids opened August 80,
1850, Reimbursement of sale
is hereby made. Bid forms are
obtainable from the Depart
ment Of Finance, either in
Christiansted or Frederiksted.
Bids open at the Finance Of
flee in Christiansted at 200
pm. October Is, 1850.
HARRY E. TAYLOR.
Administrator for ST. Croix
, 1950-10-07
Feast Of the
D e die alton
ST. Johns Church

O1s JOuM OnUECh
October A. October II, 1850.
Week day services at 6:15 am.
and at 7::45 pm, except on
Thursday, Saturday, Monday.
Sunday: Masses at 800 and
$50 am. Evening service at
7:30.
Preacher FIR. MacLaughlin.
Preacher on "Wednesday
night, October 18th. Father
A1drich.
, 1950-10-07
vIcoRP LOAN
No. q

The Virgin Islands Corpora
ton will establish a Loan Di-
vision during this month.
There will be three types of
Loans: % Crop production to
subsistence farmers for credit
extended by VICORP; (2) Wa
ter and soil conservation and
pasture improvement loans for
credit extended by VICORP,
and CD commercial and indus
trial loans.
Type () Loan was explain
ed in an earlier press release.
Type (2) Loans will be to ex-
tend credit to land owners for
water and soil conservation
practices and pasture improve
ment. No loan will be made if
financial assistance applied
for is available elsewhere. This
is definitely a long-range pro-
gram and large landowners
should plan for a five-year pro
gram at least.
The application forms are
now available and can be Sc
cured from the Loan Division
at the Corporations main Of
flee at Central Factory or
from Mr.. Henry Schuster at
Bethlehem. All interested per-
sons should prepare their APP
~plications Immediately since it
is necessary that we receive
all of them at an early date in
order that proper plans can be
prepared to effectively sched-
ule the equipment.
Information concerning Type
(3) has been released.
NORMAN S. OLSON
President
, 1950-10-07
WHILE it was thought best to forego the

ings since they were serving no purpose. Our people, conSs-
tentIy hospitable and c~onsiderate of others, permitted others
to enjoy the privilege Of flaying our representatives. Often
these called meetings of others served no purpose except to
give the speakers an opportunity to vent their spleen upon
Others in the same position. We often wonder if one legislator
does not owe another legislator from a neighboring island a
sense of ethics to avoid, if nothing else, using the public plat
form for purely personal purposes. Of course our people do
not seem to resent such uneaIed for visits.
THE IDEA OF Informative meetings is good, and should
be continued. Most of themeetngs held are political and con-
Quoted during campaign time, and in these there is little that
is really worthwhile since the candidates pull no punches and
believe that the more flashing the better. It is the change
from this type Of public meeting that makes the other type so
welcome. More Of it should be demanded BY the voters, for.
this is the means Of getting to know their representatives bet
ter and to keep close check on their activities in the Council.
til hoped that more Of these meetings can be conducted
and that there will be heavy attendance, attention given and
much good produced.
, 1950-10-07
Editorial
INFORMATIVE PUBLIC MEETING
IT IS GOOD that certain legislators see the ad,

IT'S GOOD that certain legislators see the a~dvisabiity
of conducting informative meetings. In a community such as
this, it is not always possible for all political happenings to
reach everyone through the press. Then, too, the population
is small enough for members of the Council to reach the peo-
pie directly. In these meetings the legislator can tell what is
happening in the Council, why certain bills are presented for
consideration, and why the particular Councilman voted as
he did on a particular measure. Such meetings also give the
legislator a sense Of responsibility to the people who sent him
to the legislature, making him conscious that what he does
must be in the best interests of his constituents.
, 1950-10-07
BarbeI's Taxi Service
Courteous & Dependable
IsIDRO BARBEL : Manager
NOTICE

October 4th 1850
To Whom it May Concern:
I, the undersigned beg to
say I am not responsible for
any debt centralized by my son
Edrington Newton. who has
left my home from September
Both and has not returned.
and who is supposed to be
roaming around Town, the Pc
lice is asked to check upon
him.
Laurel outlook., 1950-09-06

Dyer. Mrs. w. K. Simmons led
devotions and Mrs. o. K. Chap
man conducted the business meet
ing in the absence of the circle
chairman, Mrs. Eugene Mills. Mrs.
Simmons will be the October host
ess to the group.
Returning Monday to their home
in Los Angeles were w. ]. Gum
NOV and his daughters, Mrs. T.
w. Kennedy and Miss Willette
Gummow. The California people
had been guests for two weeks at
the Walter Gummow and N. j.
Edison homes.
Spending the week end at Vir-
ginia City were Nh. and Mrs.
Hugh Boyd, Charles Boyd, Mrs.
John Price and Mrs. Don Hunter.
Laurel outlook., 1950-09-06

MI. and Mrs. Gordon Allan and
children returned Saturday from
Yellowstone national park where
they had spent a week.
Laurel outlook., 1950-09-06

to Kansas. Mrs. Edward Bender
and daughter, Pat, Joined them at
Scottsbluff, Neb., for the return
trip.
Laurel outlook., 1950-09-06

Guests at the Hugh Sweeney
home over the holiday week end
were Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Riskin of
Helena.
Laurel outlook., 1950-09-06

Twelve members we're present
for the first fall meeting of circle
4 of the w. S. C. S. Friday after
noon at the home of Mrs. John
Laurel outlook., 1950-09-06

Mrs. Earl Fuller was a guest
several days last week at the home
of her sister, Mrs. George Blevens,
at Powell, Wyo.