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Evening star., 1950-05-12
u. 5. Appeals Court Affirms
Sentence OF Mrs. Madsen
BY the Assoeiofed Press

FRANKFURT. Germany, May
12.-The United States High Com
mission Appeals Court today
affirmed the conviction and Is
year sentence.of Mrs. Yvette Mad
sen of Brooklyn in the murder of
her Air Force husband last
October 10.
The brunette mother of two
children Is scheduled to serve the
sentence in the, women's reforma-
tory at Anderson. w. Va. She has
been held in an Air Force hospital
at Wiesbaden pending the appeals
court decision.
The defense had pleaded that
she was temporarily insane when
she shot and killed her husband.
1t. Andrew z. Madsen, q former
Berlin airlift pilot, In their home
following party.
Evening star., 1950-05-12
BY John A. Giles

The Navy announced today
that its Viking rocket ascended to
a distance of 1864 statute miles
in the mid-Pacific last night to
establish a new record for an
American built single stage
rocket.
It was fred from the converted
tender Norton Sound In the first
shipboard launching of the vik-
ing, largest Navy upper atmos-
phere research rocket. The
launching took place at the equa-
tor near Christmas Island, sew
eral hundred miles south OF
Hawaii.
The previous altitude record for
an American-built single-stage
rocket was 10 miles. reached by
Evening star., 1950-05-12
Rocket Sours 1864 Miles
After Launching From Ship

another Navy rocket. the smaller
Aerobee.
Another rocket. the German
W., reached an altitude Of il4
miles when fired at White Sands
IN. Mex proving grounds In l945.
And a two-stage rocket ascended
to more than ESQ miles ut White
Sands in 1949. It was q combi-
nation Of the German v-2 and
Army's small WAC Corporal"
rocket.
The firing experiment was un-
der the scientific direction Of DR.,
H. z. Newell. jr.. Of the Naval Re.
search Laboratory here.
The Viking Is built for the Navy
by the Glenn L. Martin Co. OF
Baltimore. Nearly so feet in
length and ga feet In diameter.
the rocket Is fueled with liquid
oxygen and alcohol.
Evening star., 1950-05-12
by the Assoeioted Press

PLYMOUTH. England, May II.
Lord Mildmay of Flete. English
gentlemen jockey and close friend
Of the royal family, went SWIM
ming in the sea near here today
and disappeared.
Naval craft and planes set out
to look for him, and Royal Marine
Commands were diverted from
beachfront exercises to join the
search.
The 41-year-old bachelor peer
was reported missing after going
to the seafront for a morning dip.
He had a house at Mathcombe
Beach, an attractive sandy stretch
on the South Devon coast.
A search party found Lord Mild
mays clothes on the beach, along
with a bucket of fresh water which
he was accustomed to use to rinse
of the salt water when he came
from the sea.
Lord Mildmay, best known OF
English amateur steeplechase
riders. inherited E1S0.000 ($504,-
Evening star., 1950-05-12
Gambling Probers Ask
Every State for Clue
To National Syndicate
Costello Tronseript Goes
To Foy for Inquiry
Into Perjury Charge
Rx Miriam Nkknnhnrn
By Miriam Ottenberq

The attorney generals of every
State in the Union have been
asked to tell Senate gambling in
vestigators if they have any clue
to a national crime or gambling
syndicate. it was learned today.
Chairman Mcfarland of the
Senate Commerce Subcommittee
studying anti-gambling legisla-
ton said he sent out the letters
because his group had been told
repeatedly that legislation was
needed to cope with a national
crime syndicate. He wants to
know if there is such a syndicate
The Justice Department is also
combing the country for similar
information via it's United States
Attorneys.
Fay Gets Costello Transcript.
There were these other devel-
opments growing out of the Sem
ate's stepped-up attack on crime
/. Senator Mcfarland has sent
United States Attorney George
Morris Fay a transcript Of Frank
Costello's testimony before the
Commerce Subcommittee to de-
termine if there is any truth to
allegations the reputed gambling
king pin committed perjury be-
fore the subcommittee.
2. The newly-organized special
Senate crime committee. headed
by Senator Kefauver. Democrat
of Tennessee, met today to look
over prospects for the $17,500-
a-year job as chief counsel.
The Kefauver Committee inter-
Continued on Page AS, Col, 81
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Redheod Staying Spurs Hunt
For Gaming Trial Witness
Relatives Of Missing Waldorf Woman
Also Asked to View Remains

An intensive police search for
Bernice Franklin, red-haired wait
ress and the Governments star
witness in recent gambling trials.
was ordered today because of
startling similarity between her
description and that of a woman
whose strangled body was found
unclothed in ravine near Berke-
ley Springs, w. Va.
Inspector Robert v. Murray. as
,sistant chief of detectives. Or
dered the missing persons squad to
find out where Miss Franklin is.
She dropped from sight after her
last courtroom appearance sew
eral weeks ago.
Meanwhile. West Virginia au-
thorities asked relatives of Mrs.
Halle Mae Cobb, SO. of Waldorf,
Md, red-haired mother of six who
was reported kidnapped nine days
ago, to hurry to Berkeley Springs
Evening star., 1950-05-12
By L. Edqor Primo

Charges that DR.. j. Robert OPP
penheimer. noted nuclear scient-
ist, attended a Communist party
meeting in California in 1941, are
not causing any excitement today
among Federal security officials
or the Atomic Energy Commis-
sion.
In fact, these officials have a
great deal of information on his
past-much of it which he volun-
teered. Gen. Leslie Groves, di-
rector of the wartime Manhattan
Engineering District, the FBI and
the House Committee on Un-
American Activities have been
convinced of his loyalty.
Some of this information con-
Germs an admission by DR.. OPP
penheimer far more sensational
on the face of it-than any at
tendance at a Communist meet
ing, or the fact that his brother
Frank was a card-carrying Red
at one time.
This is that DR.. Oppenheimer
Evening star., 1950-05-12
Truman Move 10 Fire
Denham Is Possible
After Job Stands
Senate Rejects Effort,
To Abolish Position
In Reorganization
By Francis P. Douqlos

A move by President Truman to
fire Robert N. Denham as general
counsel of the National Labor
Relations Board was seen as pos
sibility today.
This expectation among some
in the NLRB came as sequel to
the Senate's rejection yesterday
of a presidential reorganization
plan which would have wiped out
Mr.. Denham's Office. The vote was
SO to 80. with 18 Democrats. chiefly
from the South, voting with IS
Republicans.
Later the Senate tossed into the
discard a second of the Presi-
dents 81 reorganization plans.
This plan-No. would have.
concentrated Treasury Depart2l
ment authority in the Office of the
Secretary. It was opposed by
bankers who feared it would less
en- the powers of the controller of
the currency. The plan was de-,
feated by a 65-to-13 vote.
Lack of Support Seen.
Along with the possibility that
Mr.. Truman might move now to
oust Mr.. Denham, the rejection
of the NLRB reorganization plan
brought statements from Republi-
can leaders that the Senate's ac-
ton was proof that Congress
won't support the Presidents. Fair
Deal.
Both Senator Taft, Republican,
/ of Ohio. and Senator Wherry, Re-
publican floor leader, drew this
conclusion from yesterdays ac-
ton.
Senator Taft, who urged the re-
lection of the NLRB reorganiz-
alton. said the vote indicates Con-
gress "is against most of these
Fair Deal measures" He said the
coalition of Southern Democrats
and Republicans on this measure
would not, however, continue on
the controversial Fair Employment
Practices Commission measure.
The FEPC became the pending
Senate business again today.
will Back Debate Curb.
Senator Taft said he and other
Republicans would support Sen
ator Lucas when he attempts to
invoke a limitation on FEPC de-
bate next week.
Senator Wherry said the labor
board vote showed that Scott
Lucas has only about one third
of the Senate with him when the
President wants to put over his
Fair Deal program Majority
Leader Lucas led the vain fight
to save the reorganization plan.
Senator Wherry said that "any
time a real crisis comes up about
the Fair Deal a coalition will take
control to ward it off" but that
Evening star., 1950-05-12
Court Orders Dennis
To Commence SERVING
Contempt Sentence
Communist Leader Loses
Long Fight to Escape
Years Imprisonment

Eugene Dennis. secretary gen.
eral of the American Communist
Party, today lost his three-year
fight to stay out of Jail for con-
tempt of Congress.
District Court Judge David A.
Pine directed that the Communist
leader start at once to serve the
one-year sentence imposed after
his conviction on the contempt
charge in District Court in June
1947. He was also fined $1,000.
Dennis had asked Judge Pine
to delay his commitment until
after June % when the Court of
Appeals in New York is scheduled
to hear arguments on his appeal
from his conviction on charges of
conspiring to advocate the over
throw of the Government.
Dennis was convicted on charges
of contempt growing out of his
refusal to testify before the House
Committee on Un-American Ac-
tivitieS.
Appealed Conviction.
Dennis appealed the conviction.
The Supreme Court upheld 1t last
May /.
Judge Pine also denied a mo-
ton for a new trial in the con-
tempt case on the ground that
new evidence had been discovered.
Dennis argued that the Su-
preme Court decision had placed
a new Interpretation on the stat
ute governing the challenging of
jury talesmen for cause. Defense
counsel did not know at the time,
he said. that Government en-
ployes could be challenged for
implied bias as a class instead Of
as individuals.
The court denied the motion on
the ground that the two-year limit
for requesting a new trial had ex-
pired in this case, and ION the
merit" of the defense argument.
Tried in New York.
While the appeal in the con-
tempt case was pending. the Gov
ernment had brought the case
against Dennis and 10 other
Communist leaders in New York.
Dennis was given a five-year
sentence on his conviction in New
York. He is free under bond
pending hearing Of the appeal.
Dennis acted as his own attor-
(See DENNIS. Page A-2.)
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main office at Fifteenth and K
streets NV. and 200 at the South
ems shops and Offices in Alex
andria.
Earlier it was planned to notify
these employees today whether
they would be laid off next week.
Improved conditions" reflected
in the ability to operate some
trains, and a backlog OF clerical
work here, now has extended the
assured employment time through
Monday. an official said.
The emergency ak already has
fallen on scattered groups of
workers. Washington Terminal
Co., which operates for all rail-
roads entering Union Station, was
forced to lay of 100 men Wednes-
day. They were employed as yard
crews and on the car department
forces.
Less than 100 Pennsylvania
Railroad employees here also may
go on forced vacation Monday.
Little economic pinch was re-
(See TRAINS. Page A-2l
Evening star., 1950-05-12
Charge Against Oppenheimer
Fails to Excite Acc Officials
NueIeor Scientists Post Checked Extensively
And Belief in Loyalty Established

and his wife entertained at their
California home one Steve Mel
son, Communist Party organizer
and alleged by the House COM
mittee to be a Soviet atomic spy.
There was an explanation for
this social contact and it was ac-
cepted by Gen. Groves.
Here is the background. as con-
tanned in official Government rec
ords:
DR.. Oppenheimer's wife had been
married before. Her first husband
fought with the International Bri-
gade on the side of the Spanish
Loyalists in the sos. She was on
her way to visit him in Europe
when she received word that he
had been killed in action.
When she arrived in Europe she
met Nelson. who had been her
husbands superior officer. Nelson
befriended her. After some months
she returned to the United States
and settled in California. There
(See OppENHETNTEP pooo A0>
Evening star., 1950-05-12
} Western Ministers
Debate Moderation oi
Controls on GERMANY
U. S., Britain Propose to
Give Bonn More Power in
Internal, Foreign Affairs
BY the Associated Press

LONDON, May 12.-The West
ern powers today debated lifting
some Of their occupation controls
on West Germany.
| Easing of restrictions came up
for discussion as the Western Big
Three foreign ministers began the
second session of their three-day
meeting on how to bolster West.
ern defenses against the threat
of Russian Communist expansion.
Secretary of State Acheson,
British Foreign Secretary Bevin
and French Foreign Minister Rob-
ert Schuman yesterday discussed
the shooting war in Indo-C China
and Malaga. and other possible
trouble spots. The conference
will last three days.
* The American and British dele
cations presented proposals today
for turning over to the Bonn gov
ernment more control of West
Germarly's internal and foreign
affairs.
An authoritative source said the
proposals did not contemplate
formal revision of the present oc-
cupation statute, but rather a Big
Three agreement not to exercise
full statute controls pending for
NAL review of the occupation
powers this fall.
Also on the agendc was consid-
Grafton of Frances proposal for
merging the French and German
industry potential. It was ex-
pected that the German problems
would occupy the foreign ministers
most of the day.
The initiative for relaxing some
OF the German controls came al
most entirely from the American
and British sides. They disagreed
on some points.
eAAoA A10VAFC SOuICCS SdlQ Lne
proposals covered:
Ship building - The United
States proposes to lift the present
tonnage restrictions on iGermany's
ship building indusry for export
purposes in order to ease unem-
ployment. The British have not
yet agreed to this in preliminary
discussions.
Foreign affairs - Both Britain
and the United States have pro-
posals to give the Germans full
diplomat voice abroad. This
would mean gradually elevating
proposed German consulates
abroad to embassy level. 1t also
would return to the Germans per-
mission to issue exit visas and
! (See MIN1STEPS pooa Ao>
Evening star., 1950-05-12
First u. S. Contingent
Leaves for Germany

BERLIN. May IL R.-The first
contingent of American employees
OF the United States Embassy at
Prague, ordered out in a reduction
forced by the Communist govern
ment, left Czechoslovakia today
for Western Germany.
Ten embassy staff members and
their dependents-a group of
about 80 persons in all-were in
this first exodus. About 90 MOI e
staff members and their depend
ants will leave tomorrow.
Remaining will be- a staff of
only Is.
The cut in the American diplo-
matte staff also affects the United
States Consulate at Bratislava,
Slovakia. Four Of six Americans
stationed there are being with
drawn, leaving only Consul Gen.
eral Winthrop Greene and one
assistant.
Evening star., 1950-05-12
Truman Plane, Carrying
Acheson, Hit by Bolt

President Truman's plane, the
Independence, was damaged
slightly by lightning Saturday
while en- route to Paris with Sec
retary Acheson, it was learned
today.
The incident occurred on the
first leg of the eastbound flight
In the vicinity of Newfoundland.
There was no excitement, one
of those aboard said and the flight
continued on schedule. The indie
pendence returned to Washington
and will be flown to Santa Monica,
Calf. for overhaul at the Douglas
Aircraft Co. plant where it was
built.
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to view the body of the murder
victim.
An abandoned automobile was
found on a lonely dirt road near
Sharpsburg. Md. about SO miles
from the ravine where the red
haired murder victims body was
found Wednesday.
In the glove compartment of
the car were length of rope and
two bobby pins of the color nor
mally used by red-head.
The sedan was abandoned not
far from the spot where q Sharps-
burg minister discovered a dress
which fits the murdered woman's
body. The car was stolen In
Brownsville. Pa. over the week
end.
The description of the slain
woman. who had been strangled
Il
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Norwegian Ship Afire
800 Miles Off Japan
BY the Associqied Press

SAN FRANCISCO. May Ia
Radiomarine Station KPH today
picked up a distress signal from
the Norwegian motorship Tails
man saying she was battling a
bad fire In her engine room at
latitude 24.15 N. longitude 137.45
east.
The 6,700-ton vessel expected
the United States Navy tanker
Shawnee Trail and the japanese
freighter Tokatisan Maru along
side to assist her. Both vessels
were reported speeding to the.
TaliSman.
The position given would place
the ship almost 800 miles due east
Of Yokohama.
Evening star., 1950-05-12
Late News
Bulletin
u. S. Sues J Oil Firms

The Justice Department to-
day announced a major anti
trust action against seven
large oil companies in cOnnec-
tion with their operations i'm
the far West. Attorney Gen.
eral McGrath said he had
filed a civil action in Los
Angeles against the Standard
Oil Co. of California, the Texas
Co., Shell Oil Co., Inc;
Tide Water Associated Oil Co.,
Richfield Oil Corp, General Pc
troleum Corp. and Union Oil
Co.
Evening star., 1950-05-12
U. 5. May y0rder
Of
Czech Diplomats
Retaliation Seen for
Proeue Expulsion of
2/3 of U. S. Stoff
By John M. Hiehtower
Associated Press Staff Writer

A wholesale election of Czech
diplomats from the United States
is expected to be ordered as retail
alton by the American Govern
ment for the forced cut in its en-
baSSy staff at Prague.
A detailed plan of action was
being worked out at the State De-
partment today by the highest Of
ficials. Authorities said the Gov
ernment would act quickly once a
final decision had been made.
A two-thirds cut in the Ameri-
can staff was ordered by the
Prague Government April % on
the ground that Americans were
working against the security of the
Czech Communist state.
Deadline at Midnight.
This week Ambassador Ellis O..
Briggs was told that the period
for cutting the staff would expire
at midnight tonight and that the
Czech government would not be
responsible for the safety of
American officials after that. Mr.
Briggs Immediately ordered 40 of
so American diplomatic employees
out of the country.
American authorities were
burned up at what they consid-
cred to be very high handed treat
ment. but had no choice except
to comply. They lost no time,
however. in making plans for re-
taliation. An American custer
order of the same scale as that
OF the Czechs would nfean that
approximately 20 of the more than
80 Czech diplomatic employees in
this country would get their walk
ing papers in day or so.
1t appeared that this would
mean the closing down of at least
two of the three Czech consulates
in this country. The consulates
are located in New York, Pitts
burgh and Cleveland.
Action Taken Against Britain.
In London, the Foreign Office
announced that czechoslovakia
has directed Britain to shut down
its library and information serv-
ices in Prague. Bruenn fBrno) !,
and Bratislava. It gave the
British ambassador until noon
tomorrow to comply.
A spokesman in the Foreign
ONCE said Britain has no choice
but to comply.
Czechoslovakia took similar ac-
tion against the United States In
formation Services recently and
the United States followed with
an order closing the Czech con-
sulate in Chicago.
Evening star., 1950-05-12

. MOSCOW, May IL P.-Jac-
queline Cochran. the noted Amer
ican woman flyer, and Mrs. John
K. Cannon. wife of the command
ing general of the United States
Air Force in Europe. will be sum-
mer guests of American Ambas-
sador Alan G. Kirk and Mrs. Kirk.
Evening star., 1950-05-12

mining and industrial center as he
headed toward home, the Presi-
dent declared:
"The Taft-Hartley law hangs
over the head Of labor, threatening
to destroy the gains of IS years.
There it will hang until we are able
to replace it with a law that is
fair to management and labor
alike.
THAT is something we must do
not only for the sake of labor,
but for the sake of the whole
country. I believe profoundly that
the Taft-Hartley law is a substan-
tial infringement on the basic free
dom to bargain collectively.
First Labor Law Reference.
II will not cease to night for its
repeal"
1t was the Presidents first ref
erence to the labor law on the
Northwestern trip which he will
climax Monday night with a
speech at a national Democratic
rally in Chicago.
The President was back in q
section of pleasant memory to-
day. 1t was in Butte. two years
ago, on another "non-political''
trip, that he delivered one of
the most effective speeches of his
drive to retain the Presidency.
Recalled Reception.
Acclaimed by his audience then.
President Truman told the Mon
tanans today that the reception
he got "was an inspiration to me
during the days that followed
Along with his pledge for a new
fight on the Taft-Hartley law, the
President discussed the "consid-
cradle progress" made in legislat-
ing for the workers in the last two
years in furtherance of the Gov
ernment's effort "too protect your
job and improve your welfare"
You sometimes hear it said
and I think this comes mostly
from the lunatic fringe among the
reactionaries - that the Govern
ment promises to make it possible
for people to live without work.
ing" Mr.. Truman scoffed. "They
say our Government programs
would make us a nation of dead
beats and loafers. That of course
Is absurd.
Defends Government Part.
The President defended the
part that the Government takes
in the economic life of the Nation.
and hit at "cries about Govern
ment interference with business
and about creeping socialism. -
Government action is necessary
ito prevent violent cycles of boom
and bust" Mr.. Truman en-
(See TRUMAN. Page A-20
Evening star., 1950-05-12
Railroads 10 Lay Off
1,5OO Here tuesday,
If Strike Continues
Southern's Moin Office
Force Will Be Hardest
Hit by Reductions

About l,500 Washington area
railroad workers may be laid off
Tuesday If the firemen's strike
continues that long. it was indi-
Gated today.
OF this number. 1000 work at
the Southern Railway System S