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Evening star., 1950-12-27

Reds still held off their threatened
second invasion of South Korea
with their vast tide of manpoWer
Gen. Macarthur estimated 444,-
406 Reds are deployed along the
front stretching across the penin-
Sula south of Parallel 38. He re-
ported 277,173 of those troops are
Chinese and the rest are North
Koreans.
Nearly a million others. he said
are either en- route to the front
or in reserve in Manchuria.
ii Divisions Identified.
In the forefront of the expected
assault is a revamped Red Korean
Army of % divisions and three
brigades. Eleven Of the divisions
were identified during the past
II days as their patrols probed the
Allied defense positions.
Many of the new North Korean
divisions are believed comprised
of newly trained troops. Head
quarters said as many as 10000
Koreans were reported in train
ing in Manchuria. Headquarters
added:
The enemy has the capability
of placing several additional
North Korean divisions in the
field in the very near future"
The new Allied field commander
in Korea set the motto for his
troops. 1t. Gen. Matthew B.
Ridgway met President Syngman
Rhee for the first time and said:
II aim to stay"
Strong Fight Indicated.
His remark, coupled with rede-
ployment of the 105.000-man
United States 10th Corps in
Southeast Korea and regrouping
of United States 9th Army troops
all along the 150-mile border, gave
mounting indication that the Al
lies intend 10 make a strong fight
for the republic.
Chinese and Red Korean patrols
probed restlessly for soft spots
along the 150-mile border. This
is customary Communist prelude
to battle.
A spokesman at South Korean
Army headquarters told Associ-
ated Press Correspondent Bill
Shinn that two Chinese companies
were wipea out yesterday neal
Chonggong, on the 38th Parallel
36 miles north of Seoul.
Sporadic patrol clashes were re-
ported farther west in the plains
area, Mr.. Shinn added.
Mass Attack Expected.
Military sources said the Reds
when they hit, likely will throw
massed thousands into battles as
they did in North Korea. There
they crushed by sheer weight OF
numbers an Allied offensive and
turned the United States 9th
Army back down the road into
South Korea.
Now the 8th Army. including
its British, South Korean and
other units, is strung along the
mountainous defensive terrain
fronting the Parallel 38 border.
Sharp valleys and broken noun
tain terrain stretch along the
border. Before the war erupted
both North and South Koreans
maintained strong defensive posi-
tions there.
Military sources in Tokyo said
Allied troops can command al.
(See KOREA, Page A-3D
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Mercury Dips 10 IS,
Coolest This Winter

The coldest weather of the win
ter gripped Washington this
morning when the temperature
dropped to Is degrees at 7 am.
It had not been that cold here
since last March g.
Tonight, the forecaster pre-
dicted, the temperature will drop
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Remington Gave
Secret 10 Reds,
Ex-Wife Says
Testifies Miss Bentley
Received 'FormuIo'
For Explosives
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK, Dec. 27.-The di-
vorced wife of William H. Rem
ington testified today that he
turned over "a top secret" formula
for explosives to an admitted Rus
sian spy ring courier.
The formula. which was to be
forwarded to Russia. would make
explosives from garbage, she said.
Mrs. Ann Remington gave the
testimony in her second day on
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Subzero Cold Wave Follows Snowstorms
Over Much of Nation. Poee Az
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the witness stand at the perjury
trial of her former husband, one
time Commerce Department econ
omist. Remington, 33, denied to
a Federal grand Jury here that he
ever was member of the Com
munist Party.
Yesterday Mrs. Remington tes-
titled they both were members of
the party.
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Tells of Meetings.


Continuing her testimony about
the explosive, Mrs. Remington de-
scribed series of meetings with
a courier who she said she learned
later was Elizabeth Bentley.
cat one meeting he (Reming-
tom had information he was very
excited about" she said. He
called it top-secret and wanted
to be sure it got to Russia"
This was the explosive formula,
she said.
At one point today, Mrs. Rem
ington remarked, II would like to
say that I am a very reluctant
witness. 1t is extremely hard to
testify against the father of my
children, but I hold no malice
against him personally"
Orders From Browder.
Mrs. Remington on her second
day on the stand declared she
and Remington took orders"
from people running Earl Brow
der's 1850 campaign for President.
Browder is the former head Of
the United States Communist
Party.
She said they held Communist
meetings at their home at Croton-
on Hudson and in their New York
City apartment.
Questioned by Federal Judge
Gregory F. Noonan about who at
tended the Croton on Hudson
meetings, Mrs. Remington at first
said she preferred not to answer.
Under the insistence of Rem
ington's defense lawyer, she then
named "a couple named Katz.
Sidney Meyer, Katz md his wife.
and Helen North, wife of Joe
North"
Told of Talks.
Previously she had mentioned
talks at their home between her
husband and Joe North, then a
writer for New Masses. which she
described as a Communist line
magazine for intellectuals.
Mrs. Remington told of a Mex
leo honeymoon with Remington
where she said they met Mexican
Communists at party headquar-
ters there.
They carried letters of intro
duction, she said, to Alexander
North, brother of Joe North; Ted
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Trumon's Appontees to Subersives Boord
Foce Senate Hearing. Poee AS
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135OOOOReds Poised to Strike
u. n. in Korea Macarthur Says;
Liqht Attacks in Center Repe||ed
North Koreans in
Forefront of New
Communist Push
BY the Associated Press

TOKYO, Dec. 27.-Gen. Mac
Arthur's headquarters said today
more than 1,35O,OOO Reds are
poised to strike at United Nations
forces in Korea.
Light attacks we're beaten off
along Korea's midsectioh. but the
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Red Chinese Expected TO Have War Mo-
g. chine Of II Million by 1852. Poee "A
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(See REMINGTON, Page A-60
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Continued on Page AS, Col. S.
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Sunny and cold; highest around 25 this
afternoon. Clear and cold; low IL in CITY,
5 in suburbs tonight. Tomorrow sunny;
high about 80. (FulI report on Page A-2O
Midnight, % am. ---16 II am. 20
am. 30 8 am. ---16 Noon -----22
4 am ---18 10 am. --18 pm. "a
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(See TRUMAN, Page A-6.)
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(See MARITIME, Page "A
Evening star., 1950-08-08
Truman Will Ask
Fifteen Billion More,
Senator Byrd Says.

Senator Byrd, Democrat. of Vir-
ginia predicted today that within
two weeks the administration will
ask Congress for another. SIS to
sic billion for defense purposes.
The Senator came directly to
the International Apple Associa-
ton. convention at the Hotel Stat
Ter from a Senate Finance Com
mittee meeting. @
Most of such an amount should
be raised by cutting out monde
fense spending" Senator Byrd
declared. But the only present
source of such a request is from
the income tax"
The total revenue from corpora
ton, individual and excise taxes
this year will be $40 billion, Sena-
tor Byrd pointed out.
IF we have to collect an addi-
tional $50 billion from income" he
said, "it will mean a 100 per cent
increase in the present income tax
l don't think we can do it, but
citizens better prepare for very
high tax increase.
Several times during his address,
the Senator pledged his support of
President Truman in "all efforts to
end this war in Korea" :"
Senator Byrd, a Winchester ap-
pie grower. criticized Mr.. Tru-
mans domestic policies, however.
The convention was told yes
terday that housewives soon will
find apples on their grocery
shelves. pre-baked and packed in
triplicate like tennis balls.
M. E. Knoufe, apple professor
from Peach Glen, Pa, said the
new product will be on the market
in the near future. The speaker
also described the merits of
having the new product on the
market in the near future, Mr..
Knoufe described the merits of
frozen apple juice-another new
conner to the processing field.
The juice already is being
marketed in small quantities. Mr..
Knoufe said.
The professor noted that last
year 40,892, ,625 bushels of apples
were used in producing apple
sauce, apple butter. vinegar, sliced
apples, baby food and the juice.
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Free Star Movies
Playground Film
Program for TONIGHT
Washington, $3.50 pm.

Washington, $3.50 pm.
Lafayette, Oliver street anc
Broad Branch rd. NV.
Twin Oaks, Fourteenth ano
Taylor streets NV.
Taft, Eighteenth and Nom oe
streets NE.
Rosedale, Seventeenth ano
Gales streets NE.
Jefferson, Eighth and H streets
S.W.
Hillcrest. Thirty-second and
Denver streets Sc.
Parkview, Otis and Warder
streets NV.
Bundy, 429 o street NV.
Smothers, Forty-fourth and
Washington streets NE.
Barry Farms, 1880 Sumner road
Sc.
Arlington, 8 pm.
Lyon Village, Lee highway and
North Highland street.
Alexandria, 9 pm.
Mt. Vernon, Mt. Vernon avenue
Montgomery County, 9 pm.
Bethesda, Wisconsin avenue al
end of Norwood drive.
Prince Georges County, 9 pm.
Green Meadows. Sligo Park
road, Sligo Park.
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Senator McCorron
Works as Usual
On 18th Birthday

Senator Pat McCarran, Demo-
crat. Of Nevada. observed his 74th
birthday today by working as
usual.
He was greeted by his office
staff with box Of red roses.
Reminded of his birthday, Sena-
tor McCarran took off the wall
and placed on his desk a placard
reading:
"A person does not grow old by
living a number of years; he
abandons his youth by deserting
his ideals"
That's my birthday" he told
visitors. ,
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By George Beveridee

After watching the Army's com
bat engineers in action. about 55t
West Point cadets moved in today
for closer look at what make!
the Corps of Engineers tick.
Yesterday. with battlefield real.
ism the keynote, they saw E
picked team of combat engineers
pave the way for an armored-
| infantry attack over an 1,100-yarc
mo mans land" at a Belvoir COM
bat range.
! For the West Pointers. all mem
bers of the Military Academy:
1852 class, it was the first leg Of
a three-week training trip that vii
end on August 26 with a joint
amphibious maneuver with Nava
Academy midshipmen at Little
Creek, Va.
Disembarked at QuanticO.
The cadets disembarked yes
terday from the transport USs
Okanogan at Quantico and movee
by bus to the Engineer Center
here to watch the experts in ac'
ton today. They divided init
three groups to watch as man,
demonstrations.
At Tompkins Basin on the Po'
tomac River today. members o.
the Pontoon School set up float
ing metal bridges, 'prefab" build,
ings, a portable airplane hangar
and even a portable sawmill te
show what they can handle II
the way of massive equipment
At the heavy equipment" ares
north of Accotink on Route 613
another group demonstrated
equipment used for digging, hoist
ing and carrying out other me-
chanical assignments.
The operation of Engineer sup
ply troops was featured in tht
third demonstration at the Lor-
ton Combat Range near Pohici
Creek. AS a highlight. a Specia
unit showed the cadets how tt
make topographic and photomap:
under field conditions.
In each of the demonstrations
officials said, the cadets got in
side glimpses of some OF the latesi
experimental models Of equip
ment under study at the Engineer
Research and Development Lab
oratories.
Attack On PiIl-BOx.
In yesterdays mock battle
MIA Qight) tanks, and M-3s
tank troop-carriers from the 3ro
Armored Cavalry Regiment al
Fort Meade, Md, moved out of 9
woods through simulated artillery
fire in the first step of attack or
an enemy" pill-box three-quar-
ters of a mile away.
An armored engineer platoon
part of the Engineer Combat bat
talon which supports EACH, ar
Evening star., 1950-08-08
10 New Cases Raise
Area Polio Toll 10 III;
d. T.. Accounts for Sc

The Washington area polio
count rose to 1T today with the
report by health departments of
10 new cases.
Six new District victims were
reported by the Health Depart
ment. making a total of So COM
pared with 18 the same date last
year. The new District cases are:
A l4-year-old colored girl of
the $500 block of Benning road
NE, an 11-year-old colored girl
of the 300 block of Sixteenth
street Sc. a 21-year-old girl of
the 31O0 block of Connecticut ave-
nne NV, all at Gallinger Hos
pital; a 45-year-old woman of
the 2700 block of Twenty-ninth
street NV. at George Washing
ton Hospital; a 3-year- old boy of
the 1900 block of Eighth street
NV. and 3-year-old girl of
the 5000 block of Tunlaw road
NV, both at Children's Hospital.
Two in Fairfax.
Fairfax reported two new cases,
raising it's total to II. They are:
A 3-year-old girl of the 100
block of Jackson court and a
7-year- old boy of the 1900 block
of Elmwood drive. both of Falls
Church. They were admitted to
Children's Hospital.
Montgomery County now has
IL polio cases. The latest victim
is 37-year- r-old woman of the
87O0 block of Baron road, Silver
Spring, who is in Walter Reed
Hospital.
A 7-year-old boy of the 11OO
block of Roth drive, Forest
Heights, Md, who was admitted to
Children's Hospital, gives Prince
Georges County to4al of 20 polio
cases this year.
The outbreak in Wytheville. Va
the town hardest hit this year,
appears to have let up, the Asso-
ciated Press reported.
Only three new cases were listed
over the week end for the town of
$500 inhabitants, raising Wythe-
ville's total to 79 cases. Wythe
County had IL new cases over the
week end, boosting it's total to 1870
Virginia's death toll, due to
polio, is %. The latest victim was
a 2-year-old boy from Giles
County.
Evening star., 1950-08-08
55OCudets View Mock Battle
In Fort BeIvor No Mans Land

mored division, then swung into
action.
The cadets, watching from a
grandstand, saw an engineers
MA (ShermanD tank, outfitted
with a bulldozer nose. cut through
a log tank trap to scoop out
mines and fill up a crater. Next,
with covering fire from the tanks,
the engineers moved a bridge
across a creek.
With infantry riflemen de-
ployed at their sides, the engineers
then showed how to pave the way
with explosives. ..r
Jet Propelled Snake.
One of the most effective. the
MI Snake" is a jet-propelled
aluminium tube. 100 feet long,
filled with explosive. When the
snake" reaches a distance of $50
feet, a cable automatically deto-
mates the long. worm-like pro-
jectile.
Cutting through barbed wire
masses with torpedoes. the engi-
neers' final contribution was to
place against a side of the pill
box a charge Of heavy explosive,
capable of blowing a hole through
three feet of reinforced concrete.
After that, the infantry moved in
with f1ame-throwers and small
arms to take the position.
1t. Col. r. S. Morrison. an Air
Force officer of the academy, who
is commanding the cadets train
ing trip, said this is the first year
Fort Belvoir has been included
in the annual training visits.
Leave Tomorrow.
The cadets will leave at about
noon tomorrow for Fort Eustis,
Va. where they will study Trans
portation Corps activities until
Saturday. Then they will move on
to the naval amphibious base at
Little Creek. AS at Belvoir, the
West Pointers, for the most part,
will be spectators until they par
ticipate in the full-scale assault
landing maneuver in conjunction
with the midshipmen.
The cadets, garbed in their
white uniforms, will visit Wash
ington for several hours tonight.
Buses will bring them to the
Washington Monument grounds
at 5:45 pm. and pick them up
for the return trip to Fort Bel
voir at 10 pm.
Evening star., 1950-08-08
Man Breuks Out of Store
Into Arms of Policeman

A housebreaking suspect literally
broke out of store at 910 Thir-
teenth street NE. early today
and into the arms Of the law.
While fellow officers, alerted by
a paSserby, searched darkened in
terror of Whites Super Market
with flashlights. Pvt. C. w. Chaillet
went to the rear. Suddenly a man
burst through heavy wire grating
covering a window. Pvt. Chaillet
grabbed him. At the ninth pre-
cinct station the man was listed
as Charles w. Mayo, colored, 25.
of 4731 B street Sc. He was to
appear in Municipal Court today
on housebreaking charge.
Evening star., 1950-08-08
Sesqui Events
Where to Go,
What to Do

This year marks the 150th
anniversary of establishment of
the permanent seat of the United
States Government in the Dis
trict of Columbia. The National
Capital Sesquicentennial Commits
sion has scheduled the following
events in observance of the city'S
150th birthday (free of charge
unless otherwise noted:
Today.
Virginia State Honor Day, with
Gov. Battle as guest of honor at
ceremonies preceding Faith of
Our Fathers" Paul Green's pag-
cant honoring George Washing
ton, at the Sesquicentennial am
phitheater, Sixteenth street and
Colorado avenue NV. at $50 pm.
Tickets. at 90 cents to $2.40, are
available at trailer in front OF
the District Building, Fourteenth
and E Streets NV; at Stabler'S
Ticket Mart, 1892 F street NV;
at Super City Music stores. 1850
F street NV. and lilo Seventh
street NV, and at the amphi-
theater box office.
Tomorrow.
Maryland State Honor Day,
with Gov. Lane and State officials
taking part in pre-pageant cere-
monies at 7:45 pm.
Continuing.
THE American Professional" "
paintings and drawings recording
four centuries of American his
tory, at the Corcoran Gallery OF
Art, Seventeenth street and New
York avenue NV. Guided tour
of the exhibit at pm; "Cities in
the Wilderness" 1892 to TITS.
"Washingtonia" exhibit of pic
lures, pamphlets and rare books
from the collection of the District
Public Library, at the Corcoran
Gallery.
Also, plan of Washington" ar
chitectural exhibit. Gallery hours:
10 am. to 4:30 pm.
Makers Of History OF Washing
ton" paintings of great Americans
and their families. the National
Gallery Of Arts, Sixth street and
Constitution avenue NV. Picture
OF the week: THE Skater" by
Gilbert Stuart, famous painter of
George Washington. Picture-of-
the-week lectures at 1890 and
2:30 pm. Gallery hours: 10 am.
to S pm.
"MileStoneS in American
Achievement" an exhibit marking,
Evening star., 1950-08-08
Recruits Sought
By Coast Guard;
Draft Is Speeded
Z Moves Mark Action
On Munpower Front
In District Area

A recruiting drive for Coast
Guard reServistS and draft exam
ination calls for larger numbers
of nearby Maryland and Virginia
ment today marked broadening
military manpower moves in this
area.
Coast Guard headquarters urged
former Coast Guardsmen and re-
servists, including SPARS, to join
a new reserve in which organized
units eventually will be formed
and receive pay for training.
Enlistments, open to former
- Coast Guard personnel between
IT and As. will be for inactive
duty. When the organized units
are set up there will paid training
on assignments at sea and in port,
and in the fields of aviation and
port security. The former Coast
Guard Reserve was demobolized in
June, 1916, although some officers
remained on extended active duty.
s Fail to Appear.
The draft examination center
at Arlington Farms reported no
trouble in handling larger groups
that began reporting yesterday
when District Boards and IL sent
90 men. Another eight men failed
to appear. Boards l and IA are
scheduled to send about 100 men
tomorrow.
Because Of the increased quotas
for September and October as well
as a comparatively high rejection
rate among the "a and 25 year
olds examined since July "a, near
by Virginia and Maryland boards
also started sending more men to-
day. Their overall totals now will
be about 100 instead of the 40 or
so tested on Tuesdays and Thurs
days at Arlington Farms.
Men joining the armed forces
or expecting to be called into serv-
ice. either as reservists or draftees,
can obtain from the Veterans
Service Center, 1400 Pennsylvania
avenue NV, the latest available
information about their rights and
benefits under several existing
laws and regulations.
Information Available Free.
w. E. Leonard, manager of the
center, said his staff has COM
piled such material not only for
veterans but all prospective serv-
icemen. Information will be given
without charge to applicants, he
said.
The Army-Air Force recruiting
Office here reported that yester-
day was one of its most satiSfac-
tory days since the start Of the
Korean fighting. Although on sew
eral occasions it has interviewed
more than the "a men who applied
yesterday, its acceptance Of So
was the largest total for any day.
Several Of those accented had
applied earlier this month.
The Navy recruiting Office ac-
cepted six of 18 applicants and
also signed up nine previous ap-
plicants. The Marine Corps Office
took three of 36 applicants.
Meanwhile, another Army Re-
serve unit in the District was
alerted for active duty and the
District Air National Guard pre-
pared to begin it's annual two
weeks of field training.
The headquarters company of
the 80th Signal Base Depot, a
small reserve outfit sponsored by
the Chesapeake g. Potomac Tele-
phone Co., has been alerted but
not given a reporting date. The
unit is commanded by Col. E. c.
Cover
Evening star., 1950-08-08
Virginia Airport Site
Within ! Hour Of DC.
Indicated by Report
By Harold B. Rogers

Some site in Virginia, within
80 minutes by car from downtown
Washington. is likely for the pro-
posed new airport for the Metro
politan area.
This is indicated in the favor
able report of the House Com
merce Committee on a Senate
passed bill for construction of the
big airfield. The committee ap-
proved the bill last week.
Filed with the House yesterday,
the committee report says def
nitely that no sites are under
consideration within the District
"or Immediately adjacent thereto" I"
In addition to indicating that
the Civil Aeronautics Administra-
ton wants the airport within half
an hours ride from the city, the
report points out that the new
field should be relatively close to
Washington. National Airport for
the transfer of passengers, bag
gage and other cargo.
Confers With Delegation.
The committee report quotes
D. w. Rented, CAA head, as say
ing he already has consulted with
the Governor of Virginia, as vel
as with delegations from nearby
communities in Virginia.
He said he would hold fur
ther consultations with interested
groups if the bill becomes law.
No decision has been reached
as to the exact location. but II
has been disclosed that at least
four different sites in Virginia
we're surveyed by Commerce
subcommittee during a recent
flight over the territory.
No matter where the airport
ultimately is located" the admin
istrator was quoted as saying,
there will be those who oppose
the location, as well as those who
favor it. We will endeavor to Sc
lect the best site considering,
safety, free flow of traffic, and
the public convenience. Additional
restrictions win only serve to make
our task more difficult"
1854 Earliest Date.
Even if work could be started
this year, it is estimated the new
field could not be completed until
1854.
AS of today the National Air
port is saturated" the committee
declared, "and is unable to ac-
comodate additional increases in
air traffic. One of the major fac
tors preventing any increase in
the capacity of the airport is it's
physical location. 1t is situated
Immediately opposite Boiling and
Anacostia Airports."
So congested is the air because
of the proximity of che three
fields that delays to aircraft COM
ing in for instrument landings at
Washington National amounted
to more than $40 hours in 1949,
the report said. Actually only %
per cent of the landings were
made without delay, and The long
est delays ran to more than two
hours.
The new airport, is was recon-
mended, should he terminal
airport of the international class" {"
Evening star., 1950-08-08

the sesquicentennial of the Ii
brary of Congress, as well as of
the District at the Library, First
and B streets Sc, 9 am. to
10 pm.
An exhibit of old pictures, prints
and portraits of early Washing
tonians, at the Central Public Lii
brary. Seventh and K streets
NV, 9 am. to l pm.
The Freedom Train exhibit
at the National Archives exhibition
hall, Constitution avenue between
Seventh and Ninth streets NV,
O. am. to 5 pm. a..
Evening star., 1950-08-08
Family Reunion Slated
Sunday at Snow Hill

The Willis Gordon Garnett
family group will have their re-
union and picnic Sunday at Snow
HILL" the home of Mr.. and Mrs
Robert o. Gordon. Senator A
Willis Robertson will speak.
"Snow Hill" is on Route 81
about IA miles south Of Frede-
ricksburg.