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TOtss Girls! TeenerS!

13-S1o.e5 HOODED RAIkcoATs SIS
Gobordine in checks solid coIors Broken sizes
2-S13.e5 REVERSIBLE COATS S-------$7
Hooded AIwoo plaid reverses to ton oobordne Size g.
$3.50 TOTS SNOW SUITS
Full zip front, some with snop crotch. to 3.
22-S1.es "sLUMBERLITE" LAMPs----S1
Pastel coIored night light with cord.
6-$5.95 WOOL JERKlN SETS---------$l
Two-pc. set with suspender skirt Blue.
12-7se ALL-WooL "LE RoI" sox- 25e pr.
Foncy trimmed cuffs. In red only. Sizes Va.
36-Sl.99 GIRLS GYM ITS--------25e
Cotton twiI blue only, Broken sizes ! to Is.
42-PAJAhAA TOPS AND BOTTOMS --25e
seersuekers. Prints and stripes. Sizes to z.
l25-$4.e5 PARTY DRESSES
PIoid royon ocetotes Sizes to 6x
35-S2.59 DR.. DENTON SLEEPERs 81
and 2 pc. styles. Broken sizes to 8.
1e-S7.95 WOOL FLANNEL JAcKETs---S3
AIl-wooI; royon lined. Classic styles. Navy. to Ok.
l3-s1os5 3-Pc. TOTS SNOW SUITS S.
Zip front popIin iocket plus wool ski points. 3 to g.
o-S37o TOTS RAINCAPES ------ ST
Hooded; cotton eobordnes copen blue with red trim.
3 to Ok.
48-sls.so BUNNY COAT SETS, sl3 plus tax
White bunny fur coot. hot and muff. to 6.
4l-7ec ALL-WooL MlTTEks 25e pr.
Self-co|or bunny fur trim. In broken sizes to s.
1888 CORDUROY JUMPERS -----Sl
Postes! Built up shoulders tie back. Size s.
2l-59c PLASTIC NUMBERS RS-----25c set
"Ideor' numbers to in postic eontoiner.
17-59c PENCIL CASES set
Includes pencils, erosers, oroyons and ruler
lbs prs.-79e FINGER GLoVES----25e pr.
Heavy cotton. Mony ooIors. Sizes to s.
8-5.e8 TEEN SKIRTS & BLoUSES - ST
Gobordne zpside skirts and long sleeve bIouses g. s.
o-S12e0 TEEN FoRMALS LS-----$1
Lovely royon toffetos Slightly soed, 10 to Is.
2O-$2o8 TO 1898 SWEATERS -S1
AII-wooI siip-ons; long or short sleeves. 10 to g.
l5-$2.98 TEENERS' BLOUSES
Long sleeve style Cotton prints. to s.
Is prs-59e WOOL BooTEES --25e pr.
Dony postes two-tones ond solid coIors.
65-$l HAND MADE CAPS
AlI-wooI cops for infonts. Pink and blue
1-S1.98 COAT e. BONNET SETs-----25e
Dotted Swiss White coat lined in blue.
17-S198 "BEAcON" ROBES SSl
Wrop style with royon sotin trim. Pink ond blue.
MoRToNs- Downtown onIy-simIor Values OF sE Store
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SpOi'fsaUeu1'

5l-$z9e to $4.ee BLoUsEs- Es--------Sl
Royon crepes, sotins. tissue foiIes. 81 to 38.
ll-S2oe CORDUROY JUMPERS--$l. 80
Green blue and brown. Sizes 10 to 6.
l2-S5.95 VELVET TOPPERS $4.39
Full belt; pockets. Royon velvet. z to g.
$3.50 WOOL cARDIGANS -$l.7e
Assorted ooors. Sizes "a to 40.
3l-$l to $l.9e WOOL SWEATERS s----7ee :
Sip-on styles. All eolors 81 TO 38.
$3.50 to $4.95 SKIRTS
AIl-wooIs. eobordnes eorduroys. "a to 30.
5-S5.95 WoMEN'S JUMPERS ----$l
Royon foie. Many coIors Broken sizes SO to "A.
41-$28e to $4.e5 WoMEN's SKIRTS $1.7o
Royon toffetos, eobordnes. foIes 81 to. 38.
3o-$6.95 WoMEN'S cARDIGANS-- $3.50
Virgin wool. pockets. Sizes 40 to 81.
-$e.7o TO $14.e5 RAIkCoATS--$ $5.e5
Corduroy, royon oobordine, royon sotin 10 to 8.
2l-$2.3e to $4.9e BLoUSES-
Wool jersey. Many coIors. Sizes 81 to SO.
48-"JANTZEN" SWEATERS S-25% off
Were 50. TO to $le.e5. Sizes 81 to 40.
26-S4.S9 NYLok cARDIGAkS---$ $3.50
Beautifully styled. Sizes "a to 4o
lo-$3.5e to $3.50 SLACKS-
AII-wooIs, royon eobordines and corduroyss t
24-$1 .oo-$3.8e PEDAL PUSHERS --Sl
AII-wool, eorduroys royon eobordines. II to 18.
2l-$1.7o-$3.89 CORDUROY VESTS-$1
Button front with tob pockets Sizes 81 to 38.
43-$I MISSES RAYoN BLoUSES-
Royon jerseys; nultfoment royon erepes. 81 TO 40
MoRToEs-Downtown Only. Similar Bargains Sc Store
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Safecrackers GET $50,
Miss $1,000 in Arlington

Safecrackers robbed two Airing
ton motor companies of about
$3.50 last night but failed to gel
about $1,000 in cash and checks
on a shelf in one of them.
They broke into the Rosslyn
Auto Body Co., 1877 North Lynn
street. through a rear window
Turning the safe over, they
entered through the bottom and
removed a petty cash box esti-
mated to have contained about
$28. Encountering the metal of
the top shelf. they apparently
thought they had delved all of the
way inside the Strongbox.
On top of that shelf. according
to E. L. Lee, company treasurer,
was 81 200 in checks and $500 in
cash as we'll as valuable company
records.
Cash and checks amounting to
1924 were removed from an Office
safe in the Alcova Motor Co., 1901
Columbia pike by robbers who
broke in through a side window.
The robberies made a total of
three in the last two nights in
Arlington. The Thompson Weld
ing Co. of Rosslyn was entered
Thursday night and the safe
broken open, but nothing was
taken.
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Mobile Telephone Trucks
HeIp Handle Blast Calls
BY the Associated Press

SOUTH AMBOY, N. j., May
20.-The New Jersey Bell Tele-
phone Co. reported switchboards
in all central Offices within Is
miles of last nights blast ''lit ur
like a Christmas tree" with
queries.
Off-duty operators were called
back to answer emergency calls
from as far south as Asbury Park
Is miles away.
The company sent five mobile
telephone trucks from Newark to
handle hospital and police calls.
Operators in South Amboy
stayed at their posts as the ex-
plosion shattered all Office win
dows. Several operators were
hurt.
Toll service between the Amboy
section and Metropolitan North
Jersey was cut off.
Radio amateurs jumped into the
breach. Four men using portable
equipment stationed their auto in
South Amboy and relayed mes
sages for the Red Cross and from
anxious friends and relatives OF
residents here.
Messages from amateur oper-
ators from points between Maine
and Washington, D. c., were re-
ceived and answers transmitted.
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Mrs. Madsen Lands Here;
lis Taken 10 ReformatorV

A 22-year-old wife who shot her
Air Force husband to death in
Germany was landed here today
from overseas and taken to the
Women's Reformatory at Alder
son, w. Va.
Mrs. Yvette Madsen, mother of
two children, was turned over to
United States deputy marshals
after she was flown here from
Frankfurt. She was to be taken
to Anderson by automobile, it was
said.
Mrs. Madsen's conviction for
the pistol Staying last October of
her husband, 1t. Andrew E. Mad
sen of Oakland, was affirmed last
week by the United States High
Commission Appeals Court, the
Associated Press reported.
She will serve a 15-year SEN
tence at Anderson.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-05-20
Regional Planning Group
Meets al Natural Bridge
BY 'he AsseSietsd Press

NATURAL BRIDGE, Va, May
20.--A two-day meeting for the
organization of a State wide as
ISOLATION of VirglnianS interested
in regional planning continued
here today.
Objects of the association. &C
cording to its temporary chair
man, Mrs. Robert S. PickenS. is to
coordinate the economic life OF
Virginia communities with the
conservation of natural. historic
and aesthetic resources.
Principal speakers last night
were Mrs. PickenS of Ashburn.
chairman of the Loudoun County
Planning Commission, and Paul
E. Middleton of Arlington. former
member of the India Economic
Council and now with the slum
clearance and urban development
division of the Housing and Home
Finance Agency in Washington.
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South Amboy School
.Wos Starting Prom
when BIost Came

SOUTH AAiBOY. N. j.. May
20.-LaSt night was prom night
at ST. Mary's Parochial High
School,
Girls and their escorts began
arriving for the dance.
Then came the explosion.
White tuxedos were Splsttered
with oil and dirt,
There wasn't skirt left whole.
We tripped all over ourselves get
ting away, said one girl.
Decorations were torn and
tangled. The school was a wreck.
There won't be any more dances
| for a while,
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Explosion
Continued From First Page.)

Continued From First Page0
sey City. and Syverd Hagen of
Brooklyn. @77
IT thought it was an atomic
explosion" Mayor John Leonard
said. ut was the first thought
that hit me-"
He stayed up all night at City
Hall. He said 5000 of the city's
1000 homes were damaged.
Charles Bersin, a coal barge
worker who was an eyewitness to
the blast, said he had the same
feeling.
81 thought Stain was over
here" he relates.
The city seemed ironically peace
full at dawn this morning. White
helmeted military policemen were
posted at strategic points through
out the area, and f1remen moved
quietly through the city distribute
ing sheets of wallboard for patch
ing purposes.
Military mines which had been
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Pakistan Embassy. An attache
there said he simply didn't know
It was recalled that during his
recent visit here, Prime Minister
Liaquat Ali Khan of Pakistan said
his country was buying military
supplies in the open market. He
conferred with United States de-
tense officials about the possibility
of obtaining surplus war materials
but no positive results of these
conversations have been an
nounced.
Liaquat Ali said Pakistan
needed ornaments because it had
not received an equal share with
India in the wartime equipment
accumulated there when the In
dian subcontinent was divided
into two separate states.
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Two Children Missing
On Visit to BIost Scene
BY the Associated Press

SOUTH AMBOY, N. j.. May 20.
A 20-year-old girl. missing in
the explosion area overnight, re-
turned home today. but two chill
dren still were unreported.
The three went to look at the
blasted city last night.
Eileen Dorman of South Amboy
told her parents she had become
frightened and stayed overnight
with relatives.
The father of Joan Matusow. II,
and her brother Joseph. 10. of
Perth Amboy. still absent. said he
was frantic" about the missing
children.
Families of the three told police
they had run out shortly after the
explosion to see the excitement.
About rs million acres in the
United States are desert. swamp.
rocky or barren land.
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Ishowered off the barges during the
big explosion caused several small
scale blasts during the night. But
these seemed just f1recracker stuff
by comparison.
These mine explosions were con-
centrated in the wharf area, and
the military commander guarding
that section said it would remain
closed to all personnel until Army
mine detector specialists could be
brought in later today to clear the
explosives.
Army of Rescue Workers.
An army of rescue workers, re-
cruited from throughout the New
York metropolitan area, toiled the
night long.
Red Cross headquarters in
Washington dispatched six dis
aster specialists to the scene.
Ralph Balm, disaster service di-
rector said supplies of blood
plasma also were prepared in the
regional blood center at Phila-
delphia for hospitals in the area
Searchlights played over the
area as rescue workers movec
through a light drizzle to the &C
compartment of the wailing ST.
rens of scores of ambulanceS.
The big blast came at 6:25 pm
(EST) with a long, low rumble
that rocked the earth in three
States-up into New York Cit,
about 80 miles away to the north
and across the State line into
Pennsylvania so miles to the
West.
Mushroom of Smoke.
Witnesses said it was a perfect
picture of what an atom bomt
explosion must be like. A mush.
room of smoke shot up over the
waterfront and there were 6
series of spluttering explosions
pouring white flames on the fringe
of the blast area.
The big munitions cargo in Il
freight cars had come here by raj
and was being transferred to -four
barges. 1t was to be taken Out
into Raritan Bay to be loaded onto
an ISbrandtsen Line ship bounc
for the Far East.
The loading crews at work OF
the munitions barges appeared tt
bear the brunt of the casualties
The Pennsylvania Railroad an.
nounced that 20 to Is men wer,
working on the deck and "all art
presumed missing"
Investigation Started.
Authorities said they had nj
idea what set off the blast. The
Middlesex County prosecutors Of.
flee said it was starting an i'm
mediate investigation.
The explosion came just as the
Friday night shopping rush wa.
getting under way. The towr
seemed to stop for a short moment
then broke out in a burst of con.
fusion and panic.
| People came scurrying out o!
houses and shops. Glass Sprin.
killed. down from windows and car.
on all sides of the streets. Motor
lists got out of their cars and ran
One witness said nobody
seemed to understand what hat
happened. People were cut b.
! flying glass and they stood as i
hypnotized as blood poured from
their wounds" Mrs. Andrew Kud
rick said.
Public buildings were taken owe
as first aid stations. A morgu,
r was set up in a garage on MAR
street. What few dead were foune
during the early hours were badl,
mangled.
! Armories in nearby Perth Am.
boy, Elizabeth and New Brunswick
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-05-20
Two Girl Babies Born
While South Amboy
Is Rocked by BIost
By the Associated Press

SOUTH AMBOY, N. j., May
20. While this city was
rocked by a munitions blast,
two girl babies were born at
South Amboy Hospital last
night.
Both infants and their
mothers, Mrs. Frank Kris
kowski of Sayreville and Mrs.
Fred Page of South Anboy,
were reported in good con-
dition.
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n Jup Boots MISSING

TOKYO, May 20 R.-A sud-
den storm early today scattered
a fleet of a. fishing boats of
Southwest Kyushu Island. Twen-
ty-two boats and 141 men were
reported missing.
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Salesman Is Hit Aquin

Despite general theater crisis
in Austria. the Vienna premiere of
the American stage show, Death
of Salesman" was a great sue
cess and widely acclaimed.
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The Mason-Dixon line was
surveyed by two British surveyors,
Charles Mason and jeremiah
Dixon, beginning in 1763.
There are from five to II cubs
in a VOLTS litter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-05-20
were thrown open to shelter dis
aster victims whose homes had
been shattered.
City Hall Is Hospital.

aster victims whose homes had
been shattered.
City Hall Is Hospital.
The South Amboy city hall was
turned into an emergency hospital
and a public school took emer-
gency medical cases. Fire trucks
helped transport the injured.
For the first time in three years
the Coast Guard put all it's per-
sonnet on emergency standby Or
ders in New York waters. All
State police were alerted for extra
duty.
The explosion blew the top off
a tall brick chimney on South
Amboy powerhouse. A Pennsyl-
vania Railroad train was just
pulling into the station when the
munitions went up. The blast
blew out the trains windows, in
juring IA passengers and two
crewmen.
Electric and telephone service
was disrupted in parts of the
city. Only emergency calls were
accepted into the stricken area
after full telephone service had
been restored.
One of the four barges involved
in the blast sank quickly into the
harbor. The three others burned
for four hours and five minutes
Job Was Nearly Over.
The job of loading the barges
with the munitions cargo was al
most completed when the explo-
sion occurred. Dock workers said
the job had started at 10 am
and there was only about 20 min
utes more work to be done at the
time of the blast.
In New York City, Hans j
ISbrandtsen, president of the line
whose ship was standing off South
Amboy, said one of his vessels was
awaiting a cargo of munitions
before starting for India.
Mr.. Isbrandtsen refused to say
whether it was a private or Gov
eminent shipment his vessel was
awaiting.
This was the second munitions
blast in the South Amboy area
On October 4, 1918, a series OF
TINT explosions rocked nearby
Morgan, destroying munitions
plant 21a miles from the site oil
last nights disaster. Sixty-three
were killed in that explosion.
just 10 days ago, the Coast
Guard had ordered extra precau.
tons on the loading of explosives
at South Amboy because the docks
there are "too close to thickly
populated sections"
Rear Admiral Ed H. Smith sale
on May 8 that the new maximum
for a single loading at South Am.
boy should be 500 pounds. Long.
Shoremen protested then that the
restrictions were ridiculous anc
would drive business to Other
Eastern ports.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-05-20
Arms Shipment Wasn't Part
OF u. S. Military Aid
By the Associated Pre-.

Defense Department officials
said today that the munitions
shipment which blew up in South
Amboy. N. j., last night. was not
under their control. A military
aid program officer said as far as
he knew the explosives were not a
part of any scheduled shipment to
Europe or any country receiving
official military assistance from
the United States.
The FBI refused to comment on
whether it was investigating.
Speculation that the shipment
might have been bound for Paki-
stan was not confirmed at the
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ana Mrs. Davies had intended to
give for Mrs. Tydings' debutante
daughter, Eleanor. But in gen.
'eral the tendency has been to let
the young have their fling, since
their future is SO questionable,
and Miss Tydings, among many
others, will have a dance for her
friends.
Because Washington and the
good earth of America were in
violate in the other world wars,
all this has been taken for
granted. 1t has apparently oc-
Cured to very few people-not
including Congress and the Ad-
ministration-that the Capital is
bound to be a prime target in
any kind of atomic warfare and
perhaps something should be done
about it pronto.
The President has declared
that of course the Government
will not flee the city. This is con-
fldence-inspiring but hardly sub
stitute for an aggressive program
of civil defense or war disaster
preparation.
Voteless Washington. accus-
toned to Being low man on the
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peace of appeasement or a
."phony" peace On Soviet Russia S
terms, is the object of IFWVO
which was organized at conven-
ton in Paris in late November by
representatives of several nations.
Though invited, no Iron Curtain
nation sent delegates. While the
organizations constitution did not
express any anti-Communist aims.
the IFWVO went on record in sup
port of the United Nations action
in Korea which plainly revealed
it's opposition to the Communist
concept. Mr.. Newcomb empha-
sized.
Fully aware of the difficulties
now in the road to real peace and
of the lateness of the hour, the
American secretary general nev-
ertheless is confident that there
is a. great potential force for peace
among war veterans if it can be
moblllzed. And there are 10 mil
lion members in the 80 affiliated
veterans organizations. The target
for next year is 40 million in 80
countries.
Men Know Wars Horrors.
These men know war from eX-
perience, modern war with all it's
horrors for soldier as well as civil
ian. In our age. too, men in uni
form who survive again become
men in overalls or in business suits,
citizens active in their community,
as are IFWVO's members. They
have stake in peace for their
families. They have the civilian
rather than the professional SOL
dier viewpoint, which is most i'm
portant
Among the purposes of the new
international veterans organiza-
ton are support Of, and co-opera-
ton with, the United Nations, on
whose manifold agencies it hopes
to be represented; support and
encouragement of an effective
democratic union among Western
European nations; and establish
ment of a clearing house of in
formation about various measures
in effect in member countries for
assisting war veterans through
education. medical care, and the
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80 Million Veterans
New Head of International Organization
Sees Ex-Soldiers as Force for Peace

like, so that ideas may be circu-
lated among all member nations.
There is another mission which
1.-TWO might well undertake, as
result of recent developments.
Much has been said recently about
whether our European allies are
doing enough for themselves.
about whether there is among
their people a real will to resist
and. on this side of the Atlantic,
there is reviving cult of isola-
tionism bred in timidity and fear.
Could React Dangerously.
These doubt-provoking influ-
ences could react dangerously for
Western democracy.
An international organization
of veterans. it would seem, would
be the best agency for promoting
united all-out effort. all-out mu-
tual support, and essential eco
nomic and military cooperation
among Western nations, because
OF its close contact with plain
people. Particularly should this
be true of 1.-TWO since there is
link in its top officers between
two longtime friends and allies,
the United States and France
which are so vital to continued
unity among Western democra-
cies. Both the organization's s
president, Albert Morel, and its
secretary treasurer, Roger Parme-
Ian, are French. Other Western
European nations are represented
on the executive board.
Charter members of the IFWVO
through veterans organizations, in
addition to the United States and
France, are Denmark, Belgium
Italy, Finland, Turkey and Yugo-
slavia. Veterans groups of Great
Britain and several other nations
have indicated interest in men,
bership since the November Or
ganization meeting. American Vet
Grams organizations represented in
1FWVO are Disabled American
Veterans, Blind Veterans Associa-
ton, American Veterans Commit
ttie. and American Teterans OF
World War II, Am. cts. It is
hoped that the American Legion
and Veterans of Foreigns Wars
will join. They had no representa-
,tives at the Paris meeting
Secretary General Newcomb. a
Navy f1ier on anti-submarine pa
troll in the South Atlantic during
the Second World War, has
served lere since June, 1947, as
Executive Director of Amvets, and
is experienced in work with war
veterans. Now 35 years old, ne
is a Republican politically, and
was in business before the wal
and afterward until he took his
post with Amvets.
He is due a hand for courage
and faith in his new assignment
Evening star., 1950-12-25

horrible event constantine Brown.
was in 1945 when, with the war
over both in Europe and the Pa
cific. the American people looked
forward to long years of peace
and prosperity.
That hope was to be frustrated,
however, by the gathering of ever
darker clouds on the eastern hori-
zon. In the ensuing years the
growing menace Of Russia and the
expansion of its power, with the
aim of dominating the whole
earth, made each Christnos a
little less bright than its prede-
cesSor.
The sense of crisis was in the
air a year ago. as we prera-ei
to leave 1949, and it wcs not may
weeks in the new year before the
signs of impending conflict hes an
to appear. The threat of North
Korean invasion was growing
perceptibly and by March Korea
was an even chance of being the
point of aggression, as Russia
shifted the emphasis in it's expan-
sion from Europe to Asia.
Started in Mid Year.
The year was just five days
short of its mid-point when the
Korean Reds launched their null
tiple invasion of South Korea: and
the United Nations, in brilliant
display of determination to deal
effectively with threats to the
peace, went into Korea unre-
Gen. MacArthur's leadership. BY
September We appeared on the
point of winding up the fist
major threat to the authority of
the world organization.
Then came the development
against which everybody had
hoped, but for which no prepara-
tions had been made-the inter-
vention of the Chinese Commu-
nists - and the withdrawal of
United Nations forces from all of
North Korea.