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Evening star., 1950-12-20
Cancer Recognized EorIy

Various types Of cancer were
recognized snd described by Hip
pocrateS as early as 400 BIC.
Evening star., 1950-12-27
Griffis Is Selected
As Envoy 10 Madrid

The Government is ready to
resume full diplomatic relations
with F'ranco Spain after a lapse
OF tive years.
At noon today, the White House
announced that Stanton Grifis,
recently Ambassador to Argentina,
would be nominated as Ambassador
to Madrid when the new Congress
convenes.
The Spanish government was
expected to announce today that
Jose Felix Lequerica, chief of mis-
sion here, would be it's new AM
bassador.
The exchange of Ambassadors
had been forecast earlier.
The American Government had
consistently opposed resumption
of full diplomatic relations with
the Franco government, but the
increasing threat of trouble from
Russia brought about a change Of
heart.
Norman Armour, the last Am
bassador to Spain, was withdrawn
in December, 1945. In December,
1916, the United Nations asked
its members to withdraw their
heads of missions from Madrid.
This action was lifted by a U. N.
resolution last month.
Evening star., 1950-12-27
Ironion Deputies, Editors Stage
Sitdown Strike in Parliament

to carry on their sitdoWn in Par
lament in full sanctuary and can
not be molested, even though the
government is sorely displeased.
The custom is called "bast. "
They sleep in the Parliament,
warm their meals there on the
heating stoves and entertain a
steady stream of visitors with bit
ter attacks against Premier Ali
Razmara.
The "bast" was touched off by
the governments action suppress
ing three newspapers and failing
two editors on charges of violating
the press law which forbids publi-
cation of articles insulting" to
government officials.
The editors were freed and the
newspapers given permission to re-
sumo publication this week after
the demonstration started. But
the demonstrators said they would
continue their "bast" until the
press law is changed.
Evening star., 1950-12-27
300 American Troopers
Join Berlin Garrison
BY the Associated Press

BERLIN, Dec. 27.-More than
300 former constabulary troopers
returned from West Germany to-
day to join the American 9Th In
fantry Regiment in garrisoning
West Berlin.
The troopers, reorganized and
equipped in Bavaria, become
the regiments first battalion.
They travelled 100 miles
through the Soviet zone in a
special train without incident.
The remainder of their battalion
is expected to arrive here later
this week.
The 9th Regiment, which is
shortly to be equipped with a
score of Pershing tanks, 4repre-
sents one-third increase in
American military strength in
Berlin. 49,
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By WiIIiom J. Waugh
Associated Press War Correspondents


SEOUL, Korea. Dec. 27.-Ko-
rean government officials esti-
mated today more than half Of
this capitals civilian population
has been evacuated southwark.
Before the war Seoul had an
estimated population of is mil
lion. Clarence Ryee, official gov
ernment spokesman, estimated the
figure was closer to l million after
the Reds were driven out by
United Nations forces in Septem-
her.
I'm three days Seoul will be
quiet and southbound trains won't
be crowded." Mr.. Ryee said. Five
thousand refugees are being
shipped south daily by train and
$4,000 others by truck, ships and
planes"
Mr.. Ryee said minor govern
ment officials and national as
semblymen were evacueting, but
President Rhee and his govern
ment will remain until ordered
to leave by the 9th Army"
National assemblymen, he ex-
planned, were not evacuating as
group but as private individuals.
He said that if the military sit
Evening star., 1950-12-27
-Four Using Homemade Key Flee
CuIpeper Jail; One Captured
Convicts Overpower 69-Yeor-OId Guord;
Auto Is Reported Stolen After Escape

A convict was recaptured and
three were still at large after
they overpowered a 69-year- old
guard at a State prison camp
near Culpeper, Va, today.
The break occurred shortly
after 2 am. when they used a
home made skeleton key. A car
was reported stolen a short time
later from a neighboring farm
house. State police believed the
three missing men used it for
their getaway.
The recaptured man is Curtis
Bedab Fultz, 80, of Wise County,
Va, serving II years on house
breaking charges.
Camp officials said Fultz sur
rendered to prison guards about
Evening star., 1950-12-27
Dulles 10 Speak Friday
On U.S.. ForeignP Policy

John Foster Dulles, Republican
consultant to Secretary of State
Acheson, will make a major speech
Friday night. defending American
policies of building collective Sc
curity with other non-Communist
nations.
The State Department an
nounced Mr. Dulles will speak at
a dinner of the American Asso-
citation for the United Nations at
the Waldorf Astoria in New York.
The speech will be broadcast over
the Mutual Network from 8 to
$50 pm.
Mr.. Dulles, long a close asso-
ciate of Gov. Dewey of New York
and Senator Vandenberg in de-
veloping bipartisan foreign pol
icy, is expected to attack the idea
of limiting United States defenses
to the Western Hemisphere as
urged in recent speech by for
mer President Herbert Hoover.
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By Thomas R. Henry
Science Editor Of The Sfur

CLEVELAND, Dec. 27.-Bridges
of stars between universes and
ancient crashes of billion star
galaxies were described before the
American Association for the Ad-
vancement of Science. meeting
here today.
DR.. Edwin F. Carpenter of the
University of Arizona presented
the conclusions of years of study
of aggregations of island universes,
the largest of which are COM
parable in size to the 30 billion
star Milky Way system. The
nearest of these is nearly a mil
lion light years away from earth
and separated from the Milky
Way system by vast voids of star
less space.
Some of these star systems are
hermits of space Some congre-
gate in groups of a dozen or more.
The Milky Way galaxy, of which
the sun and its planets are a part,
belongs to such a group. Some
are grouped in twos and threes.
When two such systems are
Evening star., 1950-12-27
All Use,
OF Cadmium Halted
BY NPA as Of Jan. |
New Order Lists Items
In Which AIIoyine
Material Is Permitted
By The Assoeiated Press

The National Production Au-
thority today ruled out all nom
essential uses of cadmium, prob
ably the best of rust-resistant
alloying material, effective jan
uary /.
The agency said the action was
taken to conserve cadmium for
defense needs. For certain i'm
portant munitions items there is
no known substitute.
The order listed the items in
which cadmium may be used, and
barred all unlisted products. The
permitted uses include:
Cadmium plated products -
parts FOR aircraft parachtues,
safety belts. bomb slings and
shoulder harnesses. electric con-
trollers and switches, special types
of moving parts which require
close tolerances, working parts
which are subjected to immersion
in sea water, certain electrical
contact parts and special types OF
steel nuts, bolts, studs and screws.
Cadmium containing items-low
melting-point alloys for fire pro-
lection systems. electrical fuses
and safety devices, dental instru-
ments and inspection gauges,
pigments for special luminous
paints. inks and coatings; silver
brazing alloys, alloys for resist
ance welding electrodes, railroad
signal wire and electronic tubes.
The order excludes cadmium
from such products as building
hardware. fittings and trim on
autos and pleasure craft, bicycles
and lawn mowers.
The element is produced by
zinc mines.
NPA simultaneously modified
it's aluminium conservation order
slightly. 1t will permit manufac-
turers of certain parts to cut their
consumption only Is per cent pro-
vided the parts serve a functional
purpose, that substitution is i'm
practicable and that the parts do
not exceed one per cent of the
total weight of the finished
product.
Evening star., 1950-12-27
More Than Half Scouts People
Reported Evacuated to South

uation permitted the National As
sembly would reconvene January
Is in Seoul.
Most of the civilian evacuees
are walking.
A United Nations official who
asked that his name not be used
Said the U. N. Commission on the
Unif1cation and Rehabilitation Of
Korea was keeping in touch with
the situation but the problem was
one for the army and the Korean
government" ~
The u. N. official said:
IT am surprised at the number
of people who stayed in Seoul the
last time who are now leaving.
People you normally would think
have no reason to fear Com
munism-waitresses, hotel maids,
dance hall girls and farmers-are
pulling out"
Asked what was being done with
these evacuees once they reached
the tip of the peninsula. he replied
that some already had been re-
moved to Chejudoi, about 200
miles offshore. He said it was his
understanding that up to 10000
could be cared for on this one
island.
Mr.. Ryee said Koje Island,
about so miles offshore, also was
being used.
Evening star., 1950-12-27
Murderer Kills Self
In Cell Day After Lane
Signs Death Warrant
Baltimore PoIicemon's
Killer Had Been Doomed
To Execution Jan. 26
BY the Associated Press

BALTIMORE, Dec. 27.-Edward
L. Grear, As, whose death war;
rant was signed yesterday, COM
mitted suicide today in his cell
at the Maryland Penitentiary.
Warden Edwin Swenson said
Grear slashed his throat with a
razor.
Grear, who was colored, was
convicted of the murder of a
Baltimore policeman, John w.
Arnold. Gov. Lane yesterday set
January 26 for the execution.
Warden Swenson said a guard
outside Grear's cell was unaware
of the condemned mans suicide
until he heard strange noise like
a man strangling." The guard
found Grear dying at $40 am.
Heard of Warrant by Radio.
Warden Swenson said Grear
heard over the death house radio
last night that his death warrant
had been signed. BY this morn
ing, several hours after Grear
took his own life, the warrant
had not reached the penitentiary.
The warden said he did not
know how the man got the razor.
The Governor had said he could
find mo justifiable reason to
alter the death sentence.
T. Barton Harrington. Balti-
more attorney who defended
Grear, had asked for executive
clemency after the Court of Ap-
peals upheld the hanging verdict
Shot Two Policemen.
Grear shot two policemen who
left their prowl car to investigate
gunfire in an alley December 12,
1948. Mr.. Arnold, So, died 18
days later. Patrolman Norman
Mike recovered.
Grear testified he confessed
after hours of punishment by
waves of police. The Court of
Appeals refused to believe it.
"Grear's story on its face is i'm
possible Judge Charles Markell
said in the State high courts
unanimous opinion last January
"He could not be tortured for
SO hours between II in the morn
ing and half past l at night, or
by bands of Is or 80 policemen
in a place where there were only
three"
Evening star., 1950-12-27
By the Associated Press

TEHERAN, Iran, Dec. 27.-Six-
teen Deputies and editors opposed
to Trans government were camped
in Parliament today in the
Persian version of a sitdown
strike. They are protesting recent
suppression of opposition news
papers for publishing stories the
government considered insulting
to government officials.
The demonstration, a centuries
old way of showing opposition
to government policy, started
December 20 when the three Ma
tional Front Deputies carried their
bedrolls into Parliament and an
nounced they would stay there
until government attacks against
the press stopped. They later
were joined by three other
Deputies and 10 editors.
According to Persian custom,
the demonstrators are permitted
Evening star., 1950-12-27
Gen. Ridgway Touring
Korean Front as Reds
Indicate New Attack
Walker Successor TuIks
With Divisional Chiefs;
Foe Mossine for Drive
BY jack Macbeth
Associoted Press War CORRESPONDENT

WITH UNITED NATIONS
FORCES NORTH OF SEOUL,
Korea, Dec. 27.-Lt. Gen. Matthew
B. Ridgway, new commander of
the United States 9th Army, left
today on a jeep tour of the Korean
front amid mounting evidence the
Reds are about ready to strike.
Gen. Ridgway arrived from the
United States via Tokyo yesterday
He took over the command of
1t. Gen. Walton H. Walker, who
was killed Saturday in a jeep acci-
dent near the front.
Before leaving for the front,
/ Gen. Ridgway conferred briefly
with corps and divisional COM
manders.
A high-ranking officer at United
States 9th Corps reported, con-
tinued enemy buildups at the
front and added:
They are ready and capable of
attacking us at any moment"
The corps spokesman estimated
there is one Chinese corps, about
10000 men opposite the Repub-
lie of Korea 9Th Division and an
unknown number of North Ko-
reans are elsewhere along the
| front.
The spokesmen stated the Chi
nese, apparently becoming bolder,
were showing themselves in day.
light more than they have pre-
viously.
Gen. Ridgway, at a news con-
ference, paid tribute to Gen. Walk
ers "indomitable spirit" adding
his record will long last in this
Army and 1 am proud to succeed
| him"
/ The commanding general asked
newsmen to guard especially
against security violations and
against publication of stories
which might give rise to friction. -
He added: There is too much
at stake"
Evening star., 1950-12-27

11:45 am. when they traced him
with bloodhounds to woods about
seven miles south of the camp.
He offered no resistance.
Fultz was one of five prisoners
who shot a guard and broke away
from officers of the same camp
October "a. He also was the first
to be recaptured after that
escape.
The other three missing men
are Raymond J. Blais. "a, of Paw
tucket. r. l., serving three years
for storebreaking; Orvil Richards
27, Of Roanoke. Va. % years fol
storebreaking with added time fol
trouble making in prison, and Roy
Allen Kelly. %, also of Wis
! (See ESCAPE, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1950-12-27
Niece of Mrs. Mestu
Engaged to Mai. Ellis
By the Associated Press

LUXEMBOURG, Luxembourg
Dec. 27.-Announcement of the
engagement of Mrs. Harriet Eliz-
abeth Lyeth- Tyson to Maj. Lewis
Ellis, assistant air attache at the
United States Embassy in London
was made here last night. The
bride-to-be is niece of Mrs.
Perle Mesta. American Minister to
Luxembourg.
The announcement was made
by Mrs. Lyeth-Tyson's parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. George Tyson of
Newport, r. I. The couple will be
married in early spring at the
Luxembourg Legation.
Evening star., 1950-12-27
Broader Tax Program
Will Be Necessary,
White House Says
Announcement Coming
At Appropriate Time
On Defense Payments
By joseph A. Fox

The White House announced
today that sit is positively certain
that much broader and expand
ed tax program will be necessary"
to meet the cost Of defense.
The statement was issued by
Press Secretary Joseph Short, who
last night had told newsmen that
he doubted very much" if the
President would send a new tax
request to Capitol Hill in January.
1t was understood that some
misunderstanding had arisen by
this comment in the light of Pres
ident Truman's earlier statement
that new and heavier taxes would
be sought to put the rearming
program on a pay-as-you-go basis
as nearly as possible"
Short Refuses to Amplify.
''The President" Mr.. Short said,
will make known his views and
recommendations on the new taxes
necessary for the defense program
at an appropriate time. In the
meantime, it is positively certain
that a much broader and expanded
tax program will be necessary to
meet the heavy cost of the defense
program in the calendar year 1851
and subsequently,
Mr.. Short would not go beyond
the statement nor would he am
plify when the appropriate time"
for the announcement would come.
1t is taken for granted, however,
that in his forthcoming State of
the Union Message, the President
will touch broadly on the tax issue
and that in the subsequent eco
nomic and budget messages he
will go into detailed figures.
At the Tresaury, a high official
told reporters Mr.. Truman was
standing pat on his past posi-
ton that large tax increases
would be necessary to cover las
much as possible" of the big in
crease in defense costs.
Talks to Start Soon.
This official, who did not want
to be quoted by name, said ad-
ministration leaders would begin
talking over the tax situation
with Congressional tax leaders
soon after the new Congress con-
venes. He added that the ad-.
ministration would present it's
tax proposals to the Congress in
"few weeks"
Back at the White House today,
after spending Christmas at his
home in independence, Mo-, the
President went to work on the
State of the Union Message, which
will be the first to go to Capitol
Hill and will come soon after
(See TRUMAN, Page A-6)
Evening star., 1950-12-27
Results of Years of Research
On Island Universes Revealed
Ancient Crashes of Biion-Stor GoIoxies
Described at Convention of Scientists

within less than a million light
years of each other, it might be
assumed that the mutual attrac-
ton of gravity would raise titanic
tides of stars. After years of
observation, DR.. Carpenter report
ed. he has been able to find no
evidence of such cosmic tides. But,
he said, photographs show several
double galaxies which appear to
be tied together, across voids of
several thousand light years, by
tenuouS ribbons of light which
are supposedly made UP of thinly
scattered stars. These have been
interpreted as filamentS drawn
from each galaxy by gravitational
attraction.
Lack of other evidence of star
tides in the universes, he insisted,
makes such an explanation highly
improbable. On the other hand,
the universes are known to be
rushing through space at enor-
nous speeds and every now and
then two are bound to crash.
Although such collision would
be incomparably the greatest
(Con+;~,,oJ -. r.-. n 49, \
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to IL degrees in the city and five
degrees in the suburbs. The mer-
curry is not expected to go above
25 today.
Sections of Western Maryland
experienced beloW-zero weather.
The mercury plunged to IA below
at Oakland and 6 below at Frost
burg.
It will remain cold for two or
three days at least, the forecaster
said, but there is no prospect of
snow Washington is feeling the
effects of a cold air mass which
swept out of Canada and brought
subfreezing weather to the Mid
west and the Eastern seaboard.
Ice on the Lincoln Memorial
Rejecting Pool was an inch and
a half thick this morning. Park
police said skating will not be
permitted on the pool until the
ice is at least three inches thick.
Evening star., 1950-12-27
Featured Reading
In Todoy's Star

NEW FACES IN CONGRESS-A
lawyer with experience here on the
stoffs Of congressional investigating
committees. Fronk T. Bow, Republican.
of Ohio, is ticking q scot os member
of the House. Also sketehed todoy is
Jackson E. Belts, Republican. Of Ohio,
victor in the November elections. See
Poee At.
BUILDING AN ARMY TAKES TINE
Its not on cosy thing to build on
ormy. The problems foeed in O build
up Of the ormed forces ore explained
by WilIiom Hines, Stor writer, on Poes
A-l0.
Evening star., 1950-12-27
Seaport Security
Rules frightened
By Coast Guard
Action Taken Despite
Threat of Strike by
Left-Wing Unions
BY The Associated Press

The Coast Guard today laid
down new port and ship security
rules designed to screen subver-
sives from the ranks of the Ma
tons maritime workers.
The security regulations were
ordered into immediate effect by
Vice Admiral Merlin ONeill, Coast
Guard commandant. He acted
in the face of a strike threat at
West Coast ports, the embarkation
point for men and supplies to
Korea.
Heads of two unions-both ex-
PEELED from the CIO this year on
charges Of following the Commu-
mist Party program-threatened
a strike at Coast Guard hearings
here month ago unless the then
regulations were changed
to suit them.
The final regulations put out
by Admiral O'Neill differ in many
respects from the initial pro-
posals, but whether the changes
go far enough to kill the danger
of a strike could not be determined
Immediately.
Bridges Involved in Threat.
The e-threatening union
leaders were Harry Bridges of the
10000 m mber International
Longshoremen and Warehouse
mems Union and Hugh Bryson,
jr.. of the 0,000-member Marine
Cooks and Stewards Union. Both
unions are chiefly active on the
West Coast.
Bridges and Bryson centered
much of their fire on a proposal
to empower the Coast Guard to
deny any worker the security
card" to be required for employ
ment on United States vessels or
waterfront facilities. This would
have allowed denial of a card to
a worker:
when reasonable grounds are
found to warrant the belief that
such person is affiliated with, or
sympathetic to, any organization,
group or combination of persons
subVersive or disloyal to the Gov
ernment of the United States"
Provision Rewritten Extensively.
That provision was rewritten ex-
tensively in the wake of arguments
by the two union chiefs that such
charges are too vague and no man
could defend himself against them.
They contended that security card
denials should apply only to per-
sons convicted of or proved to be
trained for spying or sabotage.
AS put into effect by Admiral
O'Neill, the provision now reads
that the basis of card denials shall
be reasonable grounds for the be-
lief that the individual:
81. Has committed acts of trea-
son or sedition, or has engaged
in acts of espionage or sabotage:
has actively advocated or aided
the commission of such acts by
others; or has knowingly assoei-
ated with persons committing such
acts: or
%. Is employed by, or subject
to the influence Of, a foreign gov
ernment under circumstances
which may jeopardize the security
interests of the United States; or
"3. Has actively advocated or
supported the overthrow of the
Government of the United States
by the use of force or violence: or
a. Has Intentionally disclosed
military information classified
confidential or higher without
authority and with reasonable
knowledge or belief that it may
be transmitted to a foreign gov
ernment, or has Intentionally dis
(See MARITIME, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1950-12-27
Bulletin
Mother DELAYS FIiqht

MIDDLEBURG, Pa. - Mrs.
Clara Smith put off plans at the
last minute today and post
poned her flight to Washington
to visit her 20-year-old son,
Pfc. Robert L. Smith, who lost
parts of both arms and legs in
Korea.