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Evening star., 1950-03-17
Two 6. 0. P. Senators
And State Department
Clash on Red Charges

The State Department and two
Republican Senators engaged ir
an angry exchange today over
charges that Communists an6
fellow travellers have been en-
ployed in the department.
Immediate subject of the ex-
change was John S. Service. q
Foreign Service officer, accused
by Senator Mccarthy, Republican
of Wisconsin, of being pro
Communist"
Senator Mundt. Republican, OF
South Dakota said the depart
ment's defense of Mr.. Service
came with poor grace" at a time
when the career diplomat has been
ordered home to appear before
the departments loyalty board.
"Cover Up" Is Charged.
His criticism was prompted by
a 400-word statement by Deputy
Undersecretary of State John E.
Peurifoy, defending Mr.. Service
and saying that Senator Mccarthy
had revived dead, discredited,
disproven" charges against the
officer.
Mr.. Service. now assigned as
American Consul General at CAL
cutta, has been called home. on
the recommendation of the Civil
Service Review Board that he ap-
pear personally before the depart
(See COMMUNISTS. Page A-6.l
Evening star., 1950-03-17
William BIockburne, SO, Dies;
Zoo Head Keeper for So Years
Retired Official
Once Wus Circus
Animal Trainer

William H. Blackburne, whose
exciting life with wild animals
embraced SO years as head keeper
at the ZOO, died last night at the
age of SO.
Death came at his home, 1410
Harvard street NV, after an ILL
ness of several months, and ended
one of the most poignant stories
of mans love for animals.
Not until he was 81, still COM
paratively vigorous in the twi-
light of an active life, did Mr.
Blackburne retire from the Zoe
on December 80, 1943.
On February /, 1891. this 1.-the
powerful man had transported
the beginnings of the Zoo from
the backyard of the Smithsonian
Institution, handful of animals
he nursed along with loving care.
When he left his office in the
cupola of the lion house for the
last time, with the incessant jun
gle chorus ringing In his ears, the
Zoo had become home to more
than 5000 birds, reptiles and
mammals.
To thousands of Zoo visitors
Evening star., 1950-03-17
Five Million Roosevelt Letters
Are Made Public Property
Brief Ceremonies at Hyde Park Open Rich
Source Material to Students

during Mr.. Roosevelt's II years
in Office.
About IS per cent of all the let
ters became public property. The
rest were withheld for another 25
years. They might embarrass per-
sons still alive, or might affect
our relations with other nations.
The letters are in boxes which
fill the shelves lining four rooms
of the Federal library.
Confidential letters are marked
by red folders.
Said Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt
at the ceremony:
With the tremendous public
thirst for the facts concerning the
stirring events of the past two
decades, it will be a useful and
healthy thing for important seq
ments of the story of these years
(See ROOSEVELT, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1950-03-17

Working manfully with high
powered magnifying glasses, Mr..
Spessard examined about 200
shamrock packages a day. He was
about 10000 behind yesterday
Eventually all will be examined
and sent on their way.
And bejabbers, it'll be a brave
postman who knocks on Mr..
O'Toole's door several weeks from
now and hands him his st. Pat
rick's Day shamrock.
But the potatoes will be saved.
The Agriculture Department then
can devote full time to plans to
destroy them.
Evening star., 1950-03-17
$4,000 NoreCut.
'0ffDefenseStdff
Than Planned
Civilian Personnel
Reduced 10000
Since Last AUGUST

Defense Department officials
disclosed today that they have
reduced their civilian personnel
by $4,000 more employees than the
originally planned $4,000 reduc-
tions.
Gen. Joseph T. McNarney,
chairman of the National De-
fense Management Committee,
told a House Civil Service sub
committee that civilian employ
ment had been reduced by 163,-
600 persons since last August,
when Secretary Johnson an
nounced the cut-back program.
Vacancies Not Filled.
Gen. McNarney and other de-
fense officials were the first wit
nesses called by the subcommittee
which is investigating reports of
Government overstatfing.
The subcommittee wants to de-
termine whether the Defense De-
partment's experience can be util-
lied by other Federal agencies in
reducing personnel.
Asked whether the civilian lay
offs had hurt the departments
efficiency, Gen. McNarney replied
that "in fact it has resulted in
more efficiency"
He said the additional $4,000
drop in employment resulted not
from dismissals but from simply
not filling any vacancies"
Would Use Two Methods.
The General was asked whether
he thought that dollar cutbacks
by Congress or agency manage
ment committees can most effec-
lively trim Federal employment.
"It may be necessary to use
BOTH" he replied.
The subcommittee is headed by
Representative Williams, Demo-
crat, of Mississippi. Chairman
Murray of the full committee also
sat in on today's proceedings.
Evening star., 1950-03-17

figured in four-car accident on
Shirley Highway near the Penta-
gon this morning.
Arlington police said Mrs. Jor-
dams car bumped into another
car which had halted to assist a
third car with a fiat tire. Mrs.
Jordan was injured by a fourth
car which ran into her when
she got out to see about the
damage in the first accident.
A Fire Department hook and
ladder wagon from Truck Com
pany 10 skidded making a turn
from Fourth street S.W. to Vir-
ginia avenue last night, sideswip-
ing four parked cars. The dam
age was estimated at $50.
Some Virginia Schools Closed.
All District schools operated as
usual today. but those of Falls
Church and Fairfax and Charles
Counties. Va. closed. All other
nearby schools were reported open.
All-night sanding by the SAM
tation Department and Capital
Transit Co. paid dividends. While
streetcars and buses ran 5 or 10
minutes late during the morning
rush hour, there were few tie-ups
Slow-moving traffic was ths
chief alibi of late workers. There
were few bottlenecks as often de-
velop on such days, but Capital
Transit's Macarthur boulevard
line was stalled for 20 minutes
when traffic tumble involving
five cars blocked the road at Man
ming place NV.
Three buses also were held I'D
by slippery Georgetown hill on
the Trinidad line. On other hills
cars skidded and swerved, some
times touching bumpers with other
Evening star., 1950-03-17
Element No. 98 Foun'
By Atom Smashers;
Proves Heaviest Yet
Unstable Metal Lends
Aid to Idea All Matter
Wus Created in Instant
By Rennie ToyIor
Associated Press Science Reporter


BERKELEY, Calf, Mar. IT,
The atom smashers have produced
another new element, a strange,
heavy substance which seems to
fit dramatically into the jigsaw
puzzle of creation.
The newcomer is No. SO in the
list of known elements which make
up the universe. 1t does not now
exist naturally on earth, but may
have for a few f1eeting minutes
"in the beginning" when matter
was formed.
The discovery was reported to-
day by a team of University of
California scientists working un-
der contract with the Atomic En-
ergy Commission. They are DR..
Stanley G. Thompson, DR.. Ken
meth Street, jr., DR.. Albert Ghiorso
and DR.. Glenn T. Seaborg.
Sixth Atomic Age Addition.
| No. SO is the sixth addition to
the roster of elemental substances
since the dawn of the atomic age.
Before that, there were only 90
known elements and No. 90 was
uranium. All the new ones have
come from building UP uranium
by bombarding it with nuclear
particles.
No. SO was neptunium, a short
lived substance which automati-
cally turned into element "a,
plutonium. the atom bomb fuel.
No. 95, americium, and No. 96,
curium, were next. Last January
the research team found No. 81
and named berkelium after this
university city.
: The researchers produced No. 98
by bombarding curium with alpha
particles, which are the cores of
helium atoms. The result was
the heaviest atom ever known.
But it was so unstable that it
turned back into cirium after
a couple of hours. They had to
work fast to identify it chemically
Able to Predict Properties.
The amount of the new element
so produced was too small to be
seen. However, they had been
able to predict some of it's prop
critics. They knew it would have
some relationship to element 66, a
rare earth named dysprosium.
This name comes from a Greek
word meaning "hard to get at.'
With quick chemical procedures
they confirmed the discovery.
The researchers suggested that
No. SO be named californian
They added, however, that the
best they could do to justify the
name would be to point out that
"the searchers for another ele-
ment (gold a century ago found
it difficult to get to California"
No. SO has no future as source
of atomic energy, said DR.. Seaborg
but it adds to mans understand
ing of matter.
The new element adds a tiny
bit of support to a prevailing
theory among scientists that all
other matter was created in an
instant; that at the moment OF
creation all its various forms were
present, including not only the 80
conventional elements, but also
every possible variation of those 90.
Evening star., 1950-03-17
Sunday Reading

Flower lovers, attention. The
first National Flower and Gar
den show staged in Washing
ton will open next Thursday
at the Armory. A special
feature article on the show has
been written by Wilbur H.
Youngman, The Stars garden
editor. This story. and others
by flower experts, will be in
the enlarged Farm and Gar
den Section of your Sunday
Star.
DR.. Edwin S. Powell, spring
bulb expert, has contributed a
story as has Ben Y. Morrison,
acting director of the National
Arboretum. The growth of
part-time farming in this area
will be analyzed by James
Birchfield, The Stars farm
editor.
These special features, plus
the usual full news reports,
will be carried in :
Chr Snnnau Star
Evening star., 1950-03-17
Reds May Be on Spot
lover Acheson Plan
TO End Cold War
Every Condition Listed
In Program Coils for
Soviet Turn-About
By John N. Hiehtower
Associated Press Sfoff Writer

State Department officials spec
ulated today that Secretary Ache
sons seven-point list of require
ments for ending the cold war may
have put Russia on the spot-even
though not intended that way.
For the first time, Mr.. Acheson
laid down in detail. in a California
speech yesterday, the conditions
under which he thinks the Com
muniSt and non-Communist world
might exist together on a live
and-let-live basis.
Every condition he laid down
called for a major retreat by Rus
sia from some political or propa-
ganda position. Mr.. Acheson
fastened to add that he did not
think the Russians were in a
mood to accept his program.
See Weakness as Sole Danger.
Nevertheless, he also got across
the idea that he did not think
either side of the East West con-
f1ict wants a shooting war and
the only danger lay in weakness
on the part of the West. There
fore, he called for Western
strength and unity including a
total effort on the part of the
United States to win the cold
war.
After his major speech at the
University of California at Berke-
ley MIR. Acheson emphasized that
acts of the American people
themselves make foreign policy in
an informal talk to a meeting of
Northern California's World At
fairs Council at the Palace Hotel
in San Francisco.
"The world listens to our Gov
eminent but also it sees our coal
strike" he said.
ut hears what we say over the
radio. 1t reads what is written
in the press. 1t watches the at
titude of our church groups. II
knows the views of our labor
leaders"
Explains Farley Opposition.
Mr.. Acheson's Berkeley speech
it was learned from associates
here, was designed primarily fol-
the purpose of telling the Amer
lean people why he thinks it is
not possible now to have a Bic
Three or Big Two or some other
kind of meeting which would
solve basic problems between the
United States and Russia.
He also was anxious to give
what he considered broader
perspective to those who believe
that If the United States and
Russia could just get together on
control of atomic weapons the
world troubles would pretty well
be over.
While Mr.. Acheson designed his
seven points for American con-
(See ACHESON, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1950-03-17

seasons only measurable snow
also blanketed Southern Mary
land, Virginia and the Carolinas.
While it gave the younger set
its first sleigh-riding fun of the
season, it also created sharp
hazard on highways and streets.
But no traffic deaths and COM
paratiVely few serious accidents
resulted as autoists skidded and
spun on thin sheet of ice that
coated many streets this morning.
The snow and ice came to the
aid of extra-duty policemen who
have been working overtime be-
cause of rising tide of robberies.
No robberies were reported over
the 24-hour period, police said.
They attributed the lull to the
lnclement weather.
So Accidents Reported.
Police reported SO accidents
from l pm. yesterday. when the
swirling snow began sticking, un-
til 1880 am. today. Nine persons
were injured in eight of the acci-
dents, only one seriously enough
TO be admitted to a hospital.
Mrs. Carolyn Jordan, about 20,
OF 1886 Fitzergald lane, Parkfair-
fax, was admitted to Arlington
Hospital with multiple head cuts
and other injuries when she
Evening star., 1950-03-17
Cherry Blossoms Due
To Bloom for Festival
Despite Snowfall

The snow is not going TO
keep the cherry blossoms from
coming out in time for the
Cherry Blossom Festival the
last week end of this month.
Edward c. Kelly, special as
sistant to the superintendent
of National Capital Parks,
said the buds are about nor
NAL for this time in March.
If there is an extended spell
of cold weather. the buds will
not swell as. big as normal,
however, he added.
Evening star., 1950-03-17
Navy 5trategists Tell
Congress Tight Funds
|Cramp Preparedness
sy the Assoeiotsd Press

It's funds and strength clipped
sharply, the Navy is pressing a
top-priority program to deal with
the submarine menace In any
future war.
But naval strategists made plain
in disclosures to Congress that
Evening star., 1950-03-17

they are not too. happy about the
state of the Navy's readiness.
They said the billion dollar
budget cut they are taking means
the fleet air arm will have to fall
back on second-line aircraft next
year, while combat ship strength
will be trimmed to 239 vessels
from the present 288.
Presenting a $4,0O8, TOO 900
spending figure for the IL months
starting next July /, Admiral
Forest P. Sherman, Chief of Naval
Operations, said the Navy is fol-
lowing the old maxim of doing the
best it can with what it has. OF
all the thinned-down programs,
he said, submarine defenses come
first"
Throughout the Navy's appro-
priation ran evidence of yelled
concern over Russia's reported
concentration on her submarine
Evening star., 1950-03-17

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad
March II R.-Rita and Greta
Lowell, Trinidad's Siamese twins,
died last night, 10 days after their
birth. The babies. joined face to
face, outlived their mother, Mrs.
Rita Lowell, by four days. Their
father is an unemployed stone
mason.
Evening star., 1950-03-17
uorontines Shorocks From Ireland u to Save PootoesD

/ Since Washington National Air
port is a great international mail
center, the shamrocks were ar
irving here by the sackful on
every plane from Ireland.
Evening star., 1950-03-17

The Bureau of Entomology and
Plant Quarantine sent Plant In
spector L. L. Spessard to the
Customs Office at the City Post
Office with instructions to mi
Evening star., 1950-03-17
Other St. Potrick's Stories

Sons Of Erin Observe Day Here with
Prayer and Fets. Poge Al
Irish Mark First St. Potrick's as Free
Nation. Page Az
St. Potrick,s Called Good Doy for Nor
Irish to Remain at Home Page D-3
Evening star., 1950-03-17

nutely examine every shamrock
plant for traces. of the golden
nematole, or eel worm. The worm
doesn't hurt shamrocks-just
potatoes.
Evening star., 1950-03-17

Navy Asking For Money to Build Four
super-Biimps to Fight Subs. Page Al
Evening star., 1950-03-17
Bill Seeks Higher Idle Pay

Chairman Nicely of the Senate
District Committee today intro
duced a bill Ito rewrite extensive
sections of the District Unem-
ployment Compensation Insur-
ance Act. One of the principal
changes would be to raise the
jobless benefit payments from
$40 for 20 weeks to $50 for 26
weeks.
Evening star., 1950-03-17
Late News
Bulletins
DR.. Adolf Never. "a, Dies

BALTIMORE P.-Dr. Adolf
Meyer, "a. world famed psy-
chiatrist and professor emeritus
of psychiatry at John Hopkins
University, died at his home
today of a heart attack. He had
been ill almost two years.
Evening star., 1950-03-17
Potato Argument Put Off

A Senate argument over tight
ening Government controls on
potatoes and liberalizing them
on cotton and peanuts was put
off today until Monday.
Earlier Story ON Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1950-03-17

Pictures Of Wosbinston's First ReoI Snow
of Winter. Page 81
Evening star., 1950-03-17

who saw Mr.. Blackburne moving
among the animals. he seemed to
know each as a personal friend,
and from countless yarns he spun,
it was apparent that this was a
Evening star., 1950-03-17

(see BLAcKBURNE, Page A-so
Evening star., 1950-03-17
Snowfall Me|ts
After GIaziinq
District Streets
New Storm Possible;
So Accidents Reported
And Traffic Slowed

Rising temperatures today
cleared most OF the streets of yes
terday's 3-inch snow, but the
Weather Bureau said there was a
chance of more snow or rain Sun
day.
Arriving less than a week be-
fore springs official arrival, the
Evening star., 1950-03-17

(See SNOW. Page A-6.)
Evening star., 1950-03-17

(see NAVAL POWER, Page A-30
Evening star., 1950-03-17

(see COMMUNISTS, Page A-6.)
Evening star., 1950-03-17
Guide for Re a ers

An Associated Press Newspaper
Evening star., 1950-03-17
Siumese Twins Die

(See ACHEsON, Page A-4J
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1950-10-21
New Death Dates
Set For Seven

MA~RTINSVILLE, Va. (ANP)
Judge Kennon C. Whittle set new
execution dates last week for the
seven Martinsville men condemned
to the electric chair for the rape
of a white woman.
The dates were set Immediately
after Atty. Martin A. Martin an
nounced in Richmond he would ap-
peal to the Virginia SupremeCou
Of Appeals a ruling by Judge A.
Ray Doubles which denied writs
of habeas corpus to the seven men.
Four of the men, Joe Henry
Hampton, Frank Hairston Jr., and
Booker T. Millner, all FL, and Ho-
ward Lee Hairston, 20, were or
dered electrocuted on Nov. II. The
other three will go to their deaths
on Nov. 20. They are John Clabon
Taylor and James Luther Hairston,
both 81, and Francis De Sales
Grayson, 38.
The men were convicted for the
rape of the wife of a Martinsville
merchant on Jan. 8, 1949, in the
Martinsville circuit court in April
1919.
To date, the State Supreme court
has upheld the circuit
courts handling Of the case; the
U. S. Supreme court has refused
to review the case, and Governor
Battle has turned down the COM
mutation of the death sentences.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1950-10-21
Falls In
Fire, Dies

PHILADELPHIA (ANP) Cecil
Lane Jr., 6, died at Methodist
hospital early Thursday morning
~ hours after he had been rush
ed there by his father following
the boys fall into a fire near his
home.
The child received second and
third degree burns when he fell
CONTINUED on Page ~
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1950-10-21
By Jimmie N. Jones

If there is any doubt as to the
seriousness of the verdict of first
degree murder with mercy grant
ed by the jury or Court as in the
Holiday verdict, here is an ex-
ample: According to the Associat-
ed Press, The Parole and Pardon
Board of the State of Ohio denied
a parole to Miss Velma West, of
Painsville, Ohio, found guilty in
the first degree murder of her
husband, Thomas Edward West, in
1928 -. According to Percy Low
cry, Chairman of the Board, Mrs.
Vanwoert, mother of the prisoner
made application for parole con-
tending her daughter was suffer
ing with a bad heart. . Lowery
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1950-10-21
Why Send
Abroad What
Isn't At Home

WHY SEND ABROAD IN g.
NEW YORK (ANP) DR.. w. E.
Dubois, American Labor party
candidate for the U. S. Senate,
questioned tn policy of sending
aboard what we do not possess
at home" during a speech here last
week.
Appearing on the "Voice Of the
People" TV program beamed from
station XPIX, the noted author
scholar-world traveller, said in a
three-minute talk:
eff we were really burning to
spread freedom and democracy,
wher could we start better than
at home? w would profitably be-
gin with the police in New York
and the jails of New Jersey. Then
for permanent employment, we
might concentrate on Georgia, Mis-
sippi and Louisiana.
"Instead of this, we want to
abroad what we do not possess at
home"
He pointed out that 1--WE gave
but little attention to the plight
of the mass Of Chinese people so
Continued Page 4
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1950-10-21
From Police BIOtter
By Jimmie N. Jones

la Hanover st., and Mary Eta
Walden, 2O8 Bruen st.
A fine of $500 and cost and
80 days in the workhouse was
dealt to Salvion w. Williams, of
218 Jones st., Friday afternoon,
when he was found guilty Of
converting $193, received as a
deposit on a gas conversion burn
er he promised to install for Mrs.
Margaret Ingals, Of FLA Lexing-
ton ave, to his personal use. Chief
Justice Paul Sherer suspended the
fine and the day portion of the
w. H. sentence on condition that
he make restitution and on his
promise of future good behavior.
Robert l.. Dixon, 16 Carver Pl.
was fined $50 and cost for driving
while drunk Two offenders
Of the numbers games were fined
in Municipal Court Friday they
Arthur R. Warwick, 20
Hawthorn st., $40 and cost as a
repeater and William James Bark
ley, 1865 W. Fifth ST., $25 and
cost as a first offender in the
numbers game.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1950-10-21
Group Asks
Negro Membership

ROANOKE, Va. CAMP DR.. C.
Lydon Harrell, newly seated presi-
dent of the Medical Society of
Virginia, recommended here last
Wednesday that Negro physicians
be granted membership I'm the
society at both the local and state
levels.
Delivering a prepared address
before delegates attending the
1O3rd annual convention of the So
ciety, DR.. Harrell said:
NEGRO doctors are anxious e to
join our local and state societies
which will make them eligible to
membership in the American Me-
dical association.
81 feel hat they are justified
in their ambitions and request"
He said a poll conducted among
Negro physicians within the state
revealed "their qualifications to
be as high as those of the white
DOCTORS"
GAS a public health measure,
we need more Negro physicians
and we need to keep them better
trained after they start to practic-
ing medicine"
He added that while "there ap-
pears to be nothing in the con-
stitution or bylaws of the local
medical societies to exclude them
from membership -. there is a
clause in the state constitution
which states that only white ply
cisians may become members. This
puts the Negro physicians in our
state at a great disadvantage"
Earlier, the S ociety had adopt
ed a resolution by DR.. John T.
Hundley, president-elect, to in
vite Negro doctors to attend the
groups scientific sessions. Another
resolution, which would have per-
mitted Negroes to participate in
all sessions, fell short by five
votes of the necessary two-thirds
majority.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1950-10-21
Woman Convicted Of
Murder in 1923 Is
Denied Parole

said she visited his office and
spoke of her daughters condition
and asked for consideration of
The Board denied the applicat-
ion after the medical attendant
said, "There's nothing alarming in
the condition Of the applicant"
Mrs. West was charged with
Staying her husband with a ham,
mer and after being found guilty
Of first degre murder with mercy
received the mandatory life sent
ence. She would have been eligi-
bic for parole in 1948, but for one
infraction of prison regulations;
she escaped with two other inma-
ties and was recaputred in Texas.
Thus she was on the receiving end
of additional time. William Holt
day will be eligible for parole in
1870 and will be 81 years old on
condition of good behavior in pri-
son.