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Evening star., 1950-02-13
Major Markets Closed
For LincoIn's Birthday
By the Assoeioied Press

NEW YORK, Feb. 13.-Domestic
security and commodity exchanges
closed today in observance of the
Lincoln's Birthday holiday. Live
stock reports, however, were issued
as usual by the Agriculture De-
partment.
Remaining open were the Lon
don Stock Exchange, Canadian
Securities and the Winnipeg grain
market.
Evening star., 1950-02-13
Grand Jury Indicts
Man in Rape Attempt
Aboard Cabin Cruiser

A 40-year-old man was indicted
today on charges of attempting to
rape a young mother aboard a
cabin cruiser docked at Maine
avenue S.W.
He is Joseph B. Vines, colored
of the 400 block of N street NV
Two additional counts accuse him
of striking her.
Police quoted Mrs. JEANNE Will
liams, IS. as stating that Vines
hit her when she tried to tele-
phone for help. She said she sue
ceeded in taking an iron pipe from
him and striking him with it. The
attackr was frightened away by
"a milk deliveryman. The at
tempted attack occurred January
|26. .,.
Charged With Theft.
In another indictment, Vines
was accused of entering another
boat on Maine avenue two days
earlier and taking a radio and
cigarette holder. The boat is
owned by Albert C. Leitch.
Anita v. Miles, 81, of the $500
block Of Fourth street Sc, was
indicted on a charge af assault
ing policewoman, Precinct. De-
tective Louise F. Kelley.
Police said she struck the po-
licewoman in the eye and broke
her eyeglasses while under arrest
for alleged disorderly conduct at
Union Station.
The indictments were among
so returned by the grand jury be-
fore District Court Judge Alexan-
der Holtzoff.
A Gallinger Hospital employe,
James William Kinard, 35, COL
ored, of the 1900 block of Rose
dale street NE. was indicted on
charges of stealing approximately
$500 worth of drugs from the hos
pital.
Trio Held for Larceny.
Three men were indicted on
housebreaking and larce
charges, accused of obtaining
nearly $4,000 from two stores.
They are James Nelson, 43, of
2300 block of Sixth street NV,
David j. Wilson, At, of 600, block
of Second street NV. and Albert
r. Jackson, Is, of the 400 block
of New York avenue. All are
colored.
In another indictment, three
men were accused of taking ST.
026 from the Stagecoach Restau-
rant. 1906 Good Hope road Sc,
last November. They were listed
as Perry w. Holmes, Al, of the
$500 block of Canal road NV,
Charles M. Thorne, "a, 1900 block
OF U street Sc, and Richard j.
Elam, 81, 1900 block of Good Hope
road Sc.
Abortion Indictments.
Two persons were indicted on
abortion charges. They were
Louise E. Jones, 81, of 14O0 block
of w street NV. and Leola M.
James, 80, of 100 block of G
street NE. Both are colored.
Four persons were indicted on
charges of promoting a numbers
racket. They were Edna R. Cur
tbs, 80, Of the 300 block of Fiji
teenth street Sc; Ellie L. Knox
40, Of the 800 block of c street
NE; Noble D. Butler, As, of the
1400 block of North Capitol street,
and Frank Harris, 40, of-the first
block of New York avenue NV
All are colored.
Evening star., 1950-02-13
Former Miners Suit
For Welfare Fund
Audit Opens Here

The United Mine Workers well
fare and retirement fund was un-
der attack in District Court today
Judge Burnita Matthews was
hearing argument on suit
brought by former coal miner,
George Livengood, who has asked
a court accounting of the now
poor welfare fund.
Mr.. Livengood contended the
one-time $100 million fund had
been unlawfully dissipated. He
asked the court to oust the trus-
tees-John L. Lewis, representing
the union. and Senator Bridges,
Republican, of New Hampshire,
representing the public. The third
trustee, Ezra Van Horn, quit sew
eral months ago with blast at
Mr.. Lewis and Senator Bridges for
improper expenditures" from the
fund.
Senator Bridges has filed a
cross-claim in the Livengood suit
asking to be relieved of any re-
sponsibility and to be replaced as
trustee.
Today's hearing before Judge
Matthews was on several motions.
Mr.. Livengood is asking access to
welfare fund records. Mr.. Lewis
has demanded outright dismissal
of Livengood's suit.
Mr.. Livengood, 54, is a former
beneficiary of the welfare fund.
He was ousted from the UNIV
after he filed the suit, and the
union now claims that since Mr..
Livengood is no longer a union
member or beneficiary, he has no
right to sue.
Retirement and welfare bene-
fits were suspended last Septem-
ber when the fund dipped to
dangerously low level. The pay
ments have not been resumed
since because Of court litigation.
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in Central Italy, in 1875. His
father was an Italian singer,
Maestro Cavaliere Vincenzo Saba
TIM. His mother was an English
woman.
The writer became a natural
lied British citizen in 1918. His
first wife. whom he married in
1905, divorced him in 1881. Their
son. Rafael. jr., had been killed
in a motor accident in 1927.
In 1885 he married Mrs. Chris
tine Dixon. She was at his bed
side when he died.
Evening star., 1950-02-13
WuIther League Plans Play

The Senior Walther League OF
the young peoples. society o1
Trinity Lutheran Church, Mount
Rainier, Md, will present 8
comedy. 1.-THE Adorable Imp" al
the church at 8:15 pm. Thursday
and Friday.
Evening star., 1950-02-13
Communists Whip Up
German Hate for U.S..
Citing Dresden Raid
BY the Associufed Press

BERLIN, Feb. 13.-Communist
leaders whipped up a bitter hate
campaign against the United
States and Britain in Soviet-oc-
cupied East Germany today.
1t was the fifth anniversary of
the destructive bombing of Dres-
den, ancient center of German
culture, by fleets of American and
British planes.
Royal Air Force records of the
February 1915 air raids were not
made public, but news accounts
indicated then that the raids
were intended to assist the army
of Soviet Marshal Georgi Zhukov,
advancing from the east.
Qn London a Foreign Office
spokesman said the bombing
decision was made at the Yalta
Conference. He said Dresden
was the Germans main COM
munications center in chat Sec
tion. He declared the German
people Should remember the
German bombing of Warsaw in
1889 which started the whole
chain of events.")
Minute of Silence Observed.
In the ruins of the old Saxon
capital today all street traffic was
ordered stopped for one minute
of silence at noon.
Communist organizations in all
other towns and villages of the
Russian zone sponsored "remem-
ber Dresden" observances.
The Soviet Army's official news
paper, Taegliche Rundschau, told
the 20 million East Germans
destroyed Dresden reminds you
fight against .the imperalistic
robber."
Dresden's Mayor wrote in the
chief Communist Party organ,
Neues Deutschland, that the
Anglo-American raids killed 35,-
600 civilians, but had mot been
a military necessity"
Russians Fear no Backfire.
Mayor Walter Weidauer added:
For this dreadful deed, we
shall remember the American and
British war-mongers again and
again. We wish tirelessly to recall
this horrible destructive work to
all Germans who have been
bought by Wall Street and have
become traitors to our German
fatherland."
Soviet officials in East Germany
indicated they feared no backfire
from the hate campaign, since the
Western powers apparently had
no documentary proof that Russia
wanted Dresden bombed at the
time it was hit.
Soviet publications recently
have claimed that the Anglo
American Air Forces tried to wipe
out several East German cities be-
cause they had been marked for
Russian occupation by the Yalta
Conference in January, 1945, and
were about to be captured intact
by the Red Army. ....
Communist editorials today
drew. a pathetic word picture of
Dresden on February 13, 1945, de-
scribing it as -everhowing with
refugees and wounded imagining
they would be spared air attack
because of the city's cultural
significance.
Used in Counterattacks.
The London Daily Express on
February 16. 1945, said that Dres-
den had been used as a rail and
road junction to feed German
troops into the counterattacks
against Zhukov's army.
The Communist writer's today
charged the Anglo-American
raiders five years ago turned four
and one-half square miles of the
inner city into ashes, destroying
priceless art galleries. museums
and palaces, but failing to hit rail
way, industrial and military tar
gets on the outskirts of Dresden.
They alleged the planes swooped
low to machinegun civilians shell
tering in open spaces from the
fires which ragged through 10000
homes.
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Evening star., 1950-02-13
Eliot PTA to Meet

The Eliot Junior High School
Parent Association will
meet at 1880 pm. Wednesday at
the school, Eighteenth and B
streets NE The Washington
Boys Club Band will present a
program.
Evening star., 1950-02-13

Denmark estimates 1949 grain
output at 100000 tons, well
ahead of the previous year.
Evening star., 1950-02-13

Haiti is preparing important
tax exemptions for firms develop
ing new industries.
Evening star., 1950-02-13

The Hungarian Government re-
ports spending $11,740,000 for
scientific research in 1949.
Evening star., 1950-02-13
WHITE SWEATER
FOUND.

CAT. young male, gray and black striped
tabby; vicinity Pierce Mill EN-. SAL.
DOG, vic. Georgia ave. and Madison ST.
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Evening star., 1950-01-20

District payroll and recommended
that capital improvements such as
schools, bridges and other large
projects should be financed by a
Federal loan.
He suggested also that the cost
of number of agencies be trans
ferred from the District to the
Federal Government, mentioning
the National Capital Park and
Planning Commission and the
Zoo. He asked that the pending
budget be reduced to the size of
this years outlay and that the
Federal payment be not less than
30,0OO,O0o.
Mrs. Milton Dunn, speaking for
the League of Women Voters of
the District, protested the elini-
nation from the Commissioners
budget of an item Of $7s0.000 for
the construction of a modern
health center in the northwest
central area.
Calls Situation Desperate.
She said the situation "now has
become desperate" The aban-
doned Polk School assigned to the
Health Department for use as a
health CENTER, she said, is about
half the size needed and had bad
plumbing, decayed floors and poor
lighting. To make matters worse,
she said, the owners of building
at 1880 Ninth street NV, where
a maternal and child welfare GEN.
ter is located. have served notice
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smaller increases than they had
anticipated.
Last year he asked a $4,0O0,-
100000 tax rise. Congress did not
give it to him.
The conferees at the White
House included House Speaker
Rayburn, Majority Leader McCor-
mick and Chairman Doughton of
the House Ways and Means Com
mittee.
Secretary of the Treasury Snyder
also sat in on the session.
Meanwhile. Senate Republicans
had the word of Majority Leader
Lucas that the Senate will take up
excise tax repeal at this session.
The Illinois Senator led q sue
cessful fight yesterday against o
motion by Senator Cain, Republi-
can, of Washington to set aside
other matters and consider imme-
diately the repeal of wartime taxes
on such things as furs, cosmetics,
phone calls and transportation.
Evening star., 1950-01-20
they will not renew the lease in
the coming fiscal wear.

they will not renew the lease il
the coming fiscal year.
Clifford H. Newell, a past presi.
dent of the federation, speaking
today for the Arkansas Avenue
Community Association, suggest.
ed a Federal loan for schools and
other capital outlays.
Urging economy, he protested
that the size of the budgets had
increased much more in recent
years than the increase In the
city's population.
He recommended also that the
cost of the Washington aqueduct,
the National Capital parks, the
Zoo and the Planning Commits
sion, amounting to more than
SIS 100000, be shifted to the Fed
eral Government.
Others on the witness list in
clude John B. Duncan, president
of the Federation Of Civic Asso-
Citations and Mrs. James H. Cox, of
the District Congress Of Parents
and Teachers Associations.
Executive Sessions Ended.
The Bates subcommittee yester-
day concluded its executive ses-
sions. during which CITY officials
appeared to lay before the legis-
lators financial problems of vari-
GUS departments and agencies.
After the public hearings are
completed Monday, the subcom-
mittee plans to mark up" the
Evening star., 1950-01-20
D. 6. Budget
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income tax payments paid by Dis
trict residents and the increasing
amount of land in the District
taken for Federal use and there
fore removed from District tax
lists.
II hardly need remind you," he
told the subcommittee, that the
District now is receiving real es-
tate taxes from less than so per
cent of the total land in the Dis
trict."
The size of the Federal pay
ment, he said, is "ridiculously low"
in proportion to the amount of
Federal income tax paid by resi-
dents of Washington. He sub
mitted figures to show that in
1916, the latest year for which
separate figures are available, Dis
trict residents paid $153,OOO, 900
in Federal income taxes. He esti-
mated that for 1949 Federal
income tax payments for the Dis
trict would total about $780,
600, 10000.
Citizens Urge Tax Cut.
He said the Federation of Citi-
zens' Associations was urging a
reduction of the real estate tax
rate to 50 since the budget indi-
Gated a surplus and since the sales
tax was yielding more money than
expected.
An outright call for an "era of
economy" was voiced by John H.
Connaughton, past president OF
the federation and it's delegate
from the Petworth Citizens Asso-
citation. He said there should be
no new employees added to the
Evening star., 1950-01-20

like Alger Hiss do these things?"
The prosecutor reminded the
Jurors that Henry Julian Wad-
leigh, an oxford graduate and
former State Department employe,
admitted stealing several hundred
documents and giving them to
the Russians.
Wants Facts Judged.
"If Wadleigh could do it Hiss
could do it" Mr.. Murphy declared.
Lets stop all this argument of
asking how a man like Mr.. Hiss
can do it. Let's judge the facts
here"
Replying to defense attacks on
the character and the previous
Communist activities of Mrs. Hede
Massing, Mr.. Murphy said:
Sure she was spy. But how
do you trap a spy. You have to
use people who worked with them.
Do you think we should have got
ten Secretary Hull on the stand?
Mr.. Murphy sketched Mrs. Mas
sings testimony that she and Mr..
Hiss argued in the 1930s about
getting the services of Noel Field
for Communist Party operations
in Washington.
Doesn't that show an inclina-
ton by Hiss to be a spy?" the
prosecutor asked. Doesn't it show
at least a probability that he gave
secret documents to the Com
munists?"
"Cloak of Innocence"
Mr.. Murphy dealt briefly with
the fact that a defendant comes
into court robed in CLOAK of
innocence" which is presumed to
stay with him until he is proven
guilty.
"The presumption Of innocence
theory was made for the innocent
not as a shield for the guilty
Mr.. Murphy said. Keep that in
your minds when you are in The
jury room-and see whether Mr.
Hiss cloak is not full of holes"
The prosecutor began a satir-
ical analysis of Mr.. Hiss side o1
the story with the quotation: 20
what a tangled web we weave
when first we practice to deceive.
Mr.. Murphy made particular
fun of Mr.. Hiss performance in
identifying Mr.. Chambers in Au-
gust, 1948, as George Crosley'
after asking Mr.. Chambers to talk
and subjecting him to other tests
Tells Another Story.
Again, the prosecutor illustrated
his point with a little story. He
said a giraffe once met a hippo
potamus.
IT don't remember you at ALL
said the giraffe.
You must remember me-" the
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hippopotamus replied. "We were
in the jungle together.
mo-" said the giraffe, II just
can't place you."
But we ate together, we lived
together" the hippopotamus pro-
tested.
Let met look at your teeth, -
the giraffe said suddenly. The
hippopotamus complied and the
giraffe peered a moment into his
mouth.
"Ooooooooh!" said the giraffe,
81 remember. George Crosley!"
Even Mr.. Hiss joined in the
laughter, and Mr.. Murphy added
dryly: George Crosley my aunt. "
There was no smile on Mr.. Hiss
face as he listened intently to Mr..
Murphy's scathing words. He sat,
tight-lipped, beside his wife Pris-
ella, his hands tightly clenched in
his lap.
Evening star., 1950-01-20
AIger Hiss Prosecutor Launches
Showdown Effort for Conviction

nary features, Mr.. Murphy said,
including the fact that Mr.. Hiss
has called no less than 10 char
acter witnesses, prominent people
testifying as to his excellent"
reputation for loyalty and truth
fulness.
"I ask you," Mr.. Murphy
thundered, what kind of a
reputation should - good spy
have? Of course, it has to be
good"
Arnold and Brutus.
The prosecutor said Benedict
Arnold could have called George
Washington as a character wit
ness, and Brutus could have called
Caesar before he stabbed him.
Until he was thrown out of
Heaven, in fact, the devil could
have called the Lord himself as a
character witness, Mr.. Murphy
said.
"The devil, too, was a fallen
angel" he observed.
Character witnesses belong to
another era" the prosecutor add
ed. This is the age of reason
the age of the common man, and
what we want is facts, not gos-
sip about a persons reputation" !"
Mr.. Murphy told the jurors to
analyze the facts by applying
their everyday experience. "the
things you have learned from
childhood"
Borrows First Trial Simile.
Borrowing SMILES from his first
trial summation. he spoke of the
problem of q parent who tells his
son to stay away from the water,
and then finds him with wet
feet.
"You don't know whether he
may have spilled Cliquot Club on
them, but you figure he went near
the water" Mr.. Murphy said.
Another parent tells his child
not to raid the icebox, and later
finds the boy with jam on his face.
do you need a stomach pump
to find out whether he ate the
jam?" the prosecutor asked.
Those are conclusions which come
to you naturally"
Denies Discrediting Psychiatry.
Mr.. Murphy said he thought he
had shown in cross-examination
that there was no factual basis
Evening star., 1950-01-20

for the opinion of two defense
mental experts that Mr.. Chambers
is a "psychopathic personality
and pathological liar" He denied,
however, that he intended to dis
credit the profession of psychiatric
medicine.
"I have respect for the profess
sion of medicine" he said. II
think you can assume that in pre-
pairing my ross-examination of
the two doctors. I had plenty of
competent advice from psychia-
trists.
There is no suspicion of any
thing wrong with Mr.. Chambers
mind at all"
The prosecutor criticized Mr..
Hiss lawyers for attacking Mr.
Chambers with the psychiatric
testimony. after failing to ask him
questions which bore on this
point.
Acted With Dignity.
"Mr. Chambers was here for
seven days on that witness stand
Mr.. Murphy said, land in my
opinion he acted with dignity and
decorum.
ATTACK him when he's here
don't clip him from behind when
he's gone.
Consider Mr.. Chambers. What
sacrifices he has gone through
How many here have thrown
away a 100000 job-for what? To
be hit on the head with the
charges of doctors who have never
examined him."
Mr.. Murphy contrasted Mr.
Chambers action in resignine
from Time Magazine, to avoio
embarrassment to his friends
when the Hiss Chambers contro-
versy started, with that of Mr.
Hiss, who allegedly hung on to his
$4,000 a year job with the Car
negie Foundation until John
Foster Dulles persuaded him tc
|quit."
Says Hiss Was Fencing.
"He hung IN tn that 500 0f0-
he hid behind the skirts of that
almost public foundation" Mr.
Murphy said.
"And Mr.. Hiss was here. Smil.
ing. Charming. Equivocating 9
little. Fencing.
Ladies and gentlemen, these are
things you have to assess for your.
selves"
Mr.. Murphy cautioned the jury
not to be influenced by the emo
tional" question:
"How could a handsome mar
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ment charges that he falsely
denied to a Federal grand jury
last December Is that he gave
State Department secrets to Mr..
Chambers in 1887 and 1888 for
transmission to Russian spies.
In the second count Mr.. Hiss
is accused of falsely denying that
he saw Mr.. Chambers between
January /. 1887, and August 2,
1948.
Il told you in the beginning
that the facts would be proved
by the immutable documents
themselves" the prosecutor said,
pointing to the pile of papers lying
on the counsel table.
There. ladies and gentlemen
are the documents. They have
not changed in IL years and no.
body can change them"
Tells Story of Moses.
Mr.. Murphy told the story o1
Moses, who went into the noun
tains to pray. While. he was gone
his people wearied of God and
made a golden calf, which they
worshiped.
When Moses returned the peo-
pie fatty denied they had been
worshiping false gods. But, Mr.
Murphy said. there was the gol-
den calf, the immutable evidence
that they were lying"
Once again the prosecutor
whirled and pointed to the papers
"And there, ladies and gentle.
men. are the immutable evidences
of the lies in this case. There Ii
the golden calf"
Mr.. Murphy took up a state
ment yesterday by Defense Attor-
ney Claude 3. Cross, that this
is mo ordinary case"
Courtroom Is Leveller.
"This, in fact, is an ordinary
case" he said. "The courtroom
Is the great leve1ler. This man
in a criminal trial. is just plain
ordinary defendant. .
1--WE have one rule of law, and
1t is applied to Alger Hiss just
the same as it would be applied
to a man operating a 10-gallor
still"
The case does have extraordi-
Evening star., 1950-01-20

District supply bill ana send it
to the executive committee of the
full House Appropriations Com
mtttee, to be handled as part of
the new omnibus appropriation
measure for the whole Govern
ment.
Evening star., 1950-01-20

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