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Evening star., 1950-01-31

mated they were acting as spies.
They are probably here taking
pictures of fortresses and trying to
learn all they can about the A
bomb" he shouted. 1--WE are feed
ing them and clothing them. But
don't educate them so they cen
start another war in a few years u
Councilmen who opposed Mr.
Coffey's order described the action
as "a sorry spectacle" Diet men,
bers refused to comment.
Action Called Regrettable.
State Department officials ir
Washington termed the councils
action regrettable.
1t was the first such incident
since the Japanese came to this
country earlier this month.
Congress authorized the Army
with State Department co-opera-
ton, to bring the visitors to this
country and provided funds TO,
the trip.
An Army spokesman in Wash.
ington said the local incident
would not interfere with plans tc
tour a number of other cities
If the Boston Council wanted tc
ban them from their meeting
that is their prerogative," he
said.
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mendouS factor in preserving such
peace as we have in the world
Senator Tydings said.
"If we build the bomb, that ad-
vantage, or at worst equilibrium
of great destructive ornaments
will combine to act as a deterrent
to the outbreak OF another war"
Chairman Connally of the SEN
ate Foreign Relations Committee
and also a member of the atomic
group, had voiced similar views
Sunday.
Chairman Mcmahon of the
Joint committee thus far has not
publicly set forth his position.
Neither has Chairman David E.
Lilienthal of the Atomic Energy
Commission in any categorical
statement.
The committee heard yesterday
from DR.. j. Robert Oppenheimer,
chairman of the Aces General
Advisory Board and one of the
United States scientists who
played key role in development
of the present uranium -plutonium
bomb.
In previous meetings the COM
mittee has taken testimony from
members of the Acc, from Gen.
Omar Bradley, chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff. and Robert
LIE Baron, chairman of the Aces
Military Liaison Committee.
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said "you may say the news was
received with surprise and aston
ishment. He is the chief of the
Allied commanders government
section.
The American tour was ar
ranged by Gen. Whitney to en-
able the. legislators to see the
processes of democracy so that
democratic education in Japan
could be accelerated.
II am sure the answer will come
from the people of Boston ana the
great commonwealth of Massa-
chusetts," Gen. Whitney said.
Gen. Macarthur had cabled
Boston's Mayor John B. Hynes
January 20:
"I know there will come from
this visit to your great city, so
long identified in the forefront
of leadership in the evolution OF
American democracy. much wise
counsel and inspiration.
Evening star., 1950-01-31
Polio Sufferer Dies;
a Months in Luna

A 28-year-old woman suffering
from polio. who had spent much
of the last four months in an
iron lung" died yesterday at
Freedmen's Hospital.
She was Mrs. Frances j. Strange
colored, mother of two and wife
of Trevelyn Strange, mechanic
of 5135 C street Sc.
Mrs. Strange entered Gallinger
Hospital last September and was
placed IN a respirator because of
paralysis of the muscles control
ling her breathing. She was
transferred to Freedmen's jan
uary S, when she regularly was
able to spend periods outside the
iron lung"
A Freedmen's doctor said Mrs
Strange appeared to be in fair
condition during the week end,
but died suddenly yesterday
Health Department officials have
not yet listed the death as polio
AdGdlity.
A department spokesman an
nounced today, however, that the
death Friday of '14-year-old Joe
Justh, who had suffered the
effects of polio since 1914, has
been listed as the first official
polio death of the year.
The private physician who filled
out the death certificate listed
the cause of death as respiratory
paralysis due to residuals of
polio" He said the boys nerve
centers had never properly re-
covered from the bulbar polio
attack. and that he had had
periodic episodes of respiratory
paralysis" during the last few
years since leaving the iron
lung"
Evening star., 1950-01-31
Japanese Consider
Snub a Reflection
On Boston Council
BY the Assoeiosed Press

|, TOKYO, Jan. 31.-A snub
of IA Japanese legislators by
the Boston City Council was
regarded by most japanese
today more as a reflection on
the Council than on the
visitors.
There was no official reac-
tion from the japanese gov
ernment. One official pointed
out the Japanese had Gen.
Macarthur behind them in
their tour of the United States.
The general, as Allied occupa-
tion commander. arranged the
tour.
One japanese expressed it
this way: Boston? Isn't that
where they ban books and
plays that win literary
awards?"
Evening star., 1950-01-31
H-Bomb
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services in the technical aspects
Of the military application of
atomic energy and the solving of
many of the logistical problems
incident to the use of atomic
weapons.
President Truman told his news
conference last Friday that the
decision on developments of the
H-bomb is his alone to make and
that the decision had not yet
been made. His statement had
the immediate effect. of bringing
out in the open for the first time
mention of the hydrogen bomb by
name by key atomic and con-
gressional leaders.
Among them was Chairman Ty-
dings of the Senate Armed Serv-
ices Committee and a member of
the Atomic Committee.
'"The fact that we have atomic
bombs in considerable numbers,
while the Russian stockpile is still
relatively small, has been a tre-
Evening star., 1950-01-31
Firemen, Knee Deep in Wine,
Fiqht Blaze Fatal to Worker

MIR. Wyllie was one of five men
on duty in the storage area that
covered an acre of closely packed
vats. officers prevented his wife
Mable, from rushing into the
flames when she learned her hus-
band was inside.
About rs vats exploded. One
blast shook windows more than a
mile away.
Paul Hofer, president of the CO.
operative group of Is grape grow
ers who operated the winery, said
at least 100000 gallons of wine
was lost. some of it more than IL
years old. He said insurance will
cover part of the $1,000,000 loss
AS the blaze progressed, flood
of red port, sherry and other wines
guShed into the streets.
Evening star., 1950-01-31

for veterans in his two firms here
at 221 G street NV. and 1915
Half street Sc. A number of dis
abled veterans are completing
their training there now.
The largest artificial limb con-
Germ in the world, the company
was founded in 1861 by Mr.,
Hangers father, j. E. Hanger, in
Richmond. He established the
firm in Washington in 1883 and
separate corporations of the same
name have been set up through
out this country. Canada, France
and England.
Born in Churchville. Va, Mr.
Hanger was married to the for
mer Tolbert Willoughby of Wash
ington in 1907. From 1915 to
1888 he spent most of his time in
France and England setting UP
companies. He returned here in
1923 to establish firm in New
York. His fellow workers say he
was one of the most accomplished
filters of artificial arms with "hu-
man" hands in the world.
| Mr.. Hanger established perma-
nent residence here in 1888 ano
lived at the Kennedy-W Warren.
He was member of tht
French American Chamber O.
Commerce in Paris and the Man
haitian French-American Club il
New York.
Surviving are brother, Hugh
H. Hanger, president of the Phila
Idelphia Hanger Co., and sister
Mrs. Princetta H. Collins o
Princeton, N. j.
Funeral services will be held a
2 pm. Thursday in st. Alban'
Church. Burial will be in Rocl
Creak Canaterv
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Atomic
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Continued From First Page)
ever, still is in the drawing board
stage.
Experiments with animals have
shown that the deadly effects of
gamma radiation from fission are
greatly reduced by a lead shield
protecting the spleen. 1t has been
recognized ever since the expert
ence of Japanese victims that some
of the major damage is to white
blood cells and the bone marrow
where they are manufactured.
The destruction leaves the body
with no defense against infection.
Some white cells also are manu-
factured in the spleen which can
be given partial protection. 1t
obviously is impossible to protect
the bones.
I In other experiments radiation
damage was greatly reduced when
the animals breathed almost pure
nitrogen. But it was stressed. this
is only of theoretical interest since
human being deprived of oxy-
gen would soon die.
New Machines Developed.
New designs of the great atom
smashers-the cyclotron, the lin
ear accelerator, the synchroton
and the cosmotron, all machines
which hurl protons and neutrons
against the nuclei Of atoms with
energies of millions of volts-are
being built and installed at the
various Acc stations.
Most notable of these is the
bevatron, now under construction
at the commissions radiation
laboratory at the University OF
California. 1t will give nuclear
particles an impetus of close to a
billion volts and a speed within
one per cent of that of light
10000 miles second.
The attention given during the
past few months to reactions
within the nuclei of the lighter
elements would undoubtedly have
a bearing on hydrogen bomb re-
search If this is undertaken. But
the immediate purpose is a better
understanding of what goes on
inside the heart of the atom
Physical theories still are highly
unsatisfactory.
Two New Processes Evolved
Two new means of atom smash
ing have evolved. One is to bonn
bard atomic nuclei with fast
protons, instead of the slow neu-
irons used in uranium fission. The
other method is spallation, In
which bits are chipped from an
atomic nucleus. More than $50
new isotopes of elements have
| been obtained in this way.
Evening star., 1950-01-31
Appeals Court Rules
{. &P. Must Pay DC.
Tax on Directory Ads

The Chesapeake and Potomac
Telephone Co. must pay the Dis
trict gross earnings tax on it's
million-dollar annual receipts
from telephone directory adver-
tising.
This ruling was made by the
United States Court of Appeals
yesterday, in reversing a Board of
Tax Appeals decision that favored
the telephone company.
Under the decision, the District
will get $4,000 taxes on the tele-
phone company's 1949 gross re-
ceipts of $1,300,000 from it's "yel-
low book" ads.
The issue turned on whether the
sale of advertising space in it's
book was a public utility service"
in the meaning of the gross earn
ing tax statute.
Board Ruled Negatively.
The Board of Tax Appeals said
no. Advertising being mot es-
sential' to the operation of the
telephone system, it was not a.
part of the companys public
utility services ANY more than
the sale of peanuts, popcorn,
chewing gum and candy at al
baseball game is part of playing
or viewing the games, )" the board
said. The yellow book" proceeds
thus were untaxable, it added.
But Judge David A. Bazelon of
the Appellate Court wrote that,
whether the service is essential OF
not, the company enjoys a par
ticularly dominant" position in
the field of directory advertising
by virtue of it's franchise as a
public utility monopoly in the
telephone business.
'It alone is able to compile and
keep up to date a directory of
telephone numbers" Judge Baze-
Ion wrote. Without such a COM
pilation as focal point, adver-
tisers would hardly be attracted
to the same extent. In addition,
only the telephone company can
so easily assure advertisements of
an entry into every home and
public place which boasts tele-
phone"
Self-Interest Cited.
The judge concluded that sit
may well be true that the COM
pany need not sell advertising,
but at the same time it recognizes
that its economic self f-interest is
well served by doing So"
"Once having embarked on such
a course, it must assume the obli-
cations which attend the bene-
fits" the court declared.
Evening star., 1950-01-31

gency calls cannot be recognized
as such until they are handled
Complete. efficient service, wheth-
er it be emergency or otherwise,
can be maintained if operating
forces stay on the job in the pub
lies interest.
1--WE have no way of providing
emergency service to the exclu-
sion of other kinds of service if
telephone employees strike or hon.
or picket lines established by 9TH
Eers. In the event of a strike we
will do our utmost to provide tele-
phone service"
With. the promise of support
from the CIO' and it's 5000, 900
members. the CWA has announced
intention of using telephones as
much as possible in an effort to
break down automatic dial equip
ment-something that did not oc-
cur during a six-week national
strike in 1947.
Special Numbers Can be Used.
Mr.. Beirne said yesterday that
by use of special numbers which
would not be jammed by over-use
OF the lines, service can be main
tanned for doctors, nurses, fire,
police and other emergency serv-
ice. The union offered to main
tain this service without cost 70
the company. A similar offer in
1947 was rejected by the company
In Washington, both sides in
dicated they will begin bargain
ing tomorrow as planned. MIR.
Watts said membership of Divi-
sion So has not taken a strike
vote, and will not do so until
management's attitude is deter
mined.
Mr.. Watts said the Washing
ton divisions expect to do every
thing possible to "overwork the
people doing our jobs" meaning
the supervisory personnel which
the company customarily calls on
to keep its lines functioning in
an emergency. However, the
union has no plans for a routine
and concerted use of the tele-
phones in an effort to break down
the system, he said.
Slip in Wage Equality Charged.
| CWA officials cited figures tc
show that telephone wages have
slipped since 1889 in relation tc
wages in other industries. One
example cited was the fact that
auto workers, who earned 1C
cents an hour more than tele-
phone workers in 1899, now earn
81 cents more.
H. T. Killingsworth, vice presi-
dent of the A. T. g. T. in charge
of the Long Lines Department
said national union leaders seek
ing to run down the telephone
job have not revealed the true
facts about telephone wages.
plant craftsmen earn a weekly
average of $80.81 in New York
$77.49 in Kansas City, and $80.4s
in Boston. Operators earn 6
weekly average of $5o.51 in New
York, $44.25 in Kansas City anc
$48,65 in Boston,"
Evening star., 1950-01-31
Phones
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= b.
strike will be spearheaded by Di-
vision 6, Western Electric in
Istallers, statesmen and warehouse
men. This group of little more
than 300 belongs to a division of
100, 900 members set to strike tele-
phone installations in DO States
After bargaining for several
months, they have complied with
all required strike notices.
The Western Electric employees
plan to picket all exchanges and
Offices of Western Electric and the
telephone company. 1t then viii
be UP to each telephone worker
to determine whether he should
cross the picket lines. Mr.. Beirne
and other union officials said they
believed most workers will go of
the job.
Beirne Outlines Alternatives.
Mr.. Beirne, in a press confer.
ence yesterday, outlined these de.
mands as alternative to the giant
walkout:
A wage increase (amount moi
specified), a 35-hour week to Off
set chronological unemployment
shorter apprentice periods, mar
rowing of geographical wage diff.
ferentials, a negotiated ane
improved pension plan. better
vacations and paid time for vot.
ing.
C. H. johnson, c. g. P. vict
president and general manager
said the "CWA union Leadership
airily brushes aside the fact tha'
in many areas bargaining negotia'
tions have not even started"
Emergency Service Clarified.
In answer to union offer tt
provide emergency service during
the strike, he said:
"Mr. Bierne knows, as do al
telephone employees, that emer
Evening star., 1950-01-31

Obtaining an adequate supply
of uranium from which the fis-
sionable isotope 235 can be ex-
tracted still is a major problem.
The only American source now
being exploited is vanadium ore
from Colorado. More, widely dis
tributed over the country is the
uranium-bearing mineral, carno-
tite. The content of the precious
element is quite small and up to
now it has not paid to extract it..
Research in progress, however,
promises to make this practical.
The commission also reported
that it has joined hands with the
United Kingdom and South Afri-
can governments in research work
on the extraction of uranium from
South African gold ores. There
is some prospect that these will
yield considerably supply.
Evening star., 1950-01-31
BY the Associated Press

CUCAMONGA, Calf, Jan. 81
Firemen stood knee deep in wine
yesterday to fight a fire that killed
one man and caused damage esti-
mated at 81, 100000 to the Pioneer
Vineyard Association.
Firefighters heard the screams
of Thomas B. Wyllie, 40, from a
flaming storage building but they
were unable to reach him.
Mr.. Wyllie's body was found
later inside one of the 10000 gal
Ion vats. Firemen said he evi-
IDENTIFY climbed atop the wooden
structure to escape the flames and
then fell in when the super-heated
liquid exploded and blew the top
off the tank.
Evening star., 1950-01-31

form me that normal production
will be resumed on Monday with
out reference to this proposal,
would then want your reply to
this proposal by pm. Saturday
February 4, and urge your accept
ance in the national interest"
Mr. Truman actually had ap-
pointed such a board and was
about ready to name it when Mr.
Lewis suddenly ended a 52-day
mine strike last November. The
board was made up of David l.
Cole, Paterson IN. j. labor law
yer; w. Willard Wertz, former
chairman of the Wage Stabiliza-
ton Board, and John Dunlop
Harvard University professor and
labor arbitrator.
Truman Is Reluctant.
The President has been reluc-
tant to use Taft-Hartley, which
he is pledged to have repealed
Mr.. Lewis is scheduled to re-
sumo new contract negotiations
here at pm. tomorrow with
Northern and Western coal oper-
ators, who produce more than half
cf the country's soft coal.
Also set for tomorrow is Dis
trict Court hearing on a National
Labor Relations Board petition for
an injunction against the Lewis
three-day work week and strikes.
Biggest increase In the list of
strikers came in four Central
Pennsylvania counties Arm
strong, Cambria, Indiana and
Somerset where practically
everybody worked his three days
last week. About 10000 went on
strike there yesterday.
The strikers were led by the
900-man Rosedale local of Beth
lehem Steel Corp. in Cambria
County. The local voted not to
go back to work without a con-
tract, then sent columns of mo-
torized pickets speeding to other
mines in the areas to persuade
workers to lay down their tools.
More Walk Out.
Out walked 1900 employees at
three other Bethlehem subsidiary
mines. nearly 1000 at pits of the
Rochester & Pittsburgh Coal Co.
and 800 at three Berwind- White
Coal Co. operations. Another
1000 were led out, mostly by
Rosedale pickets, at a dozen
other mines and 1000 more went
out in the Indiana area.
James Mark of Clearfield, UNIV
district president, telegraphed
John Hanzel, Rosedale local sec
retary, ordering the men back to
work and telling the local to
quit picketing other union
miners"
The message said:
eff the men are intent on pick
citing, they should picket the nom
union mines, of which there are
plenty"
Mr.. Hanzel said the local would
vote later on Mr.. Marks tele-
gram.
Practically every mine in
Northern West Virginia was shut
down. About 20,500 of the State.
120, 900 miners are idle. Most
of these mines have been closed
the last four weeks.
Evening star., 1950-01-31
Planners
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land differences of opinion be-
tween you and ourselves may
arise"
The letter then pointed out
that the planners have not Gus
tomarily assigned priorities.
Hopes for Modification.
The letter expressed hope that
on further consideration the PLAN
ners might modify their attitude
regardless of their views on the
two proposed sites.
The Commissioners also took up
a supplemental resolution the
planning commission adopted
Friday calling on the Commits
sioners to study the need for
additional bridge capacity across
the Anacostia River, both from
short and long range point OF
view"
Evening star., 1950-01-31
$751; 900 Bid Is Low
For College Infirmory
By the Associated Press

RICHMOND, Va, Jan. 81
Gov. Battle yesterday authorized
acceptance of a low bid of $751;
900 submitted by R. H. Wattinger,
Richmond, for an infirmary build
l. ing at Mary Washington College
Fredericksburg.
The Governor also approved bids
of $11,810 by the Art Metal Con-
struction Co. for metal cabinets
and $2,316 by the American Ster-
ilizer Co. for sterilizers to be used
in the infirmary.
Evening star., 1950-01-31
Duiries Cut Milk Price

MARTINSBURG, w. Va, Jan
31.-Efective tomorrow the price
Of milk will be cut a cent a quart
a spokesman for all three loca.
daries said today. The cut will
put the price in line with the scale
in the Washington and Baltimore
area.
Evening star., 1950-01-31
Conner Ruled Insane
In Killing Of Children;
To Be Sent 10 Hospital

John Steven Conner. Fort Bel
voir civil engineer who shot and
killed his three children Decem-
ber 7, will be committed to
mental institution this week.
The 39-year-old West Point
graduate yesterday was adjudged
Of unsound mind by sanity COM
mission in Alexandria Corpora
ton Court. The commission also
held that Conner was insane when
he fired the three fatal blasts
from a shotgun at his Cameron
Valley home.
Under Virginia law the commits,
sion's finding of insanity both
now and at the time of the crime
means Conner never can stand
trial for the triple murder. He
can become free man again if
the superintendent of the hos
pital where he is committed and
two other State hospital superin-
tendents agree that he is sane.
Veterans Hospital Care Asked.
Judge William P. Woolls said
he would commit Conner to a
State mental institution within
five days. Defense Attorney T.
Brooke Howard asked that Conner
be sent to a veterans hospital
and Judge Woolls gave Mr.. How
ard until Thursday to find legal
basis for the request.
Besides Judge Woolls, other
members of the Sanity Commits
sion were DR.. J. c. Watson and
DR.. Jerome Baum. They deliber-
ated only II minutes before find
ing Conner insane. He did not
testify.
Mrs. Conner wept quietly as the
verdict was read. 1t was her
first outward sign of emotion at
the four-hour hearing. Earlier,
she related details of the tragedy
in loud. firm voice.
"The sound of a gun awakened
me-" she said. II ran into the
front room and saw him fire the
third shot.
Got Cigarette for Husband.
"He then asked me if I wanted
him to shoot me. I said no. I
backed down the hall. He kept
asking me again and again if he
should shoot me because the chill
dren were dead and he was going
to kill himself. I kept saying no"
Mrs. Conner said she told him
to put down the shotgun, but he
refused and reloaded it.
"He asked me for a cigarette. I
got it. and he smoked while hold
ing the gun to his side"
Mrs. Conner said she suggested
they try to help the children, but
he told her they were dead. She
told him not to take his own life.
and started for the door.
He asked me where I was 60
ing. I just said was going out,
and left"
Had Been Working Excessively"
Mrs. Conner said she ran to the
home of neighbor, who called
police.
She said her husband had been
working excessively" and had
been attending night classes for
three months before the tragedy.
He also had been doing a lot of
housework because she had had a
minor operation about a month
before the shooting, she added.
He had more active care of the
children than most fathers" Mrs.
Conner testified her husband often
played games with neighborhood
children. He was chairman of
teen-age activities for the COM
munity, she added.
Brig. Gen. Sidney L. Chappell,
retired Army psychiarist, testified
that board of doctors at Walter
Reed Hospital in 1888 decided
Conner suffered from a psychosis
of psychogenic depression. AS a
result, Conner received a medical
discharge from the Army after his
graduation from West Point. He
stood 18th in a class of 800, the
court was told.
Evening star., 1950-01-31

ians throughout
the world, died
yesterday at the
w a S h / n g ton
Sanitarium. He
had been a pa
tent there five
weeks.
Mr.. Hanger
devoted his life
to the rehabili-
tation of am
putees. He was
instrumental in
setting up an
apprenticeship
program in 1914