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Evening star., 1950-02-09
Mo- Inquiry Is Told
OF Frantic Pleas by
Navigator TO Turn
By the Assoeioted Press

NORFOLK, Va, Feb. 9.-Min-
utes before the battleship Missouri
ran aground, her navigator made
frantic" recommendation to the
commanding officer that the ship
be turned right, a naval court of
inquiry heard today.
1t. E. D. Arnold, who was officer
of the deck when the Mighty Mo"
grounded in Chesapeake Bay Jan
uary IT, testified that while the
navigator was recommending this
action to avoid "shoal water" the
ships operations officer told the
skipper. There is plenty of water
to the left of the buoy"
The buoy referred to was one
OF two that marked a secret naval
electronic recording range, par
alleling the main channel, which
the Missouri was attempting to
run.
captain OrOereQ check.
A moment after the third come
right" recommendation by the
navigator. 1t. Comdr. Frank G..
Morris, the plotting bridge re-
ceived a report from the fantail-
extreme stern of ship-that the
propellers were stirring up mud"
1t. Arnold said.
Comdr. Morris is a defendant
before the court together with the
Missouri's commanding officer,
Capt. William D. Brown, and her
operations officer, Comdr. John r.
Millett.
1t. Arnold said Comdr. Morris
first recommendation to turn right
came when the ship was about 200
to 300 yards from a range buoy
that 1t. Arnold had spotted
through his binoculars.
Capt. Brown seemed doubtful
OF Comdr. Morris plotting of the
ships course after the navigator's
second recommendation and told
him to go to the chart house and
check his plot, 1t. Arnold testified.
Capt. Brown told Comdr. Millett
to follow Comdr. Morris and check
the plot. the witness said.
1t. Arnold said that after the
navigator first recommended the
ship be turned right, the opera
tions officer told Capt. Brown I'VE
are all right, or something like
that"
Ship Ends Test Run.
1t. Arnold testified that while
he was on the main plotting
bridge, eight levels above the main
deck, he heard no recommended
tions from the executive officer of
the main navigating bridge, four
levels below the plotting bridge.
The executive officer. Comdr.
George E. Peckham, testified ear
lier this week that while on the
main bridge awaiting a shift in
navigating control from the pilot
ing bridge he had messaged
recommendation that the ship
come right and moments later
that her engines be turned full
speed astern.
The Missouri arrived at the
naval operating base about l:30
am. today from a two-day post
repair trial run of the Virginia
CapeS.
After reloading she will proceed
on a training cruise to Guam
tanamo Bay, Cuba, interrupted by
the ships grounding.
Evening star., 1950-02-09

II WeItu
talking, Police Inspector Walter
Wyrod said.
With the FBI taking part in the
inquiry, authorities here were in
contact with Boston and other
Eastern cities.
At the same time police were
checking recent jewelry and fur
jrobberies in the Nation in an ef-
fort to determine if any loot had
appeared here and been handled
by a fence.
Drinks in Boston was robbed
January II by nine men who
escaped with $1,500,000. A day
earlier holdup men took $4,000
from the Statler Hotel in Boston.
Circulars on the five under ar
rest here were distributed to cities
on the Eastern Seaboard.
On a routine checkup the five
were seized at 3:15 am. yesterday
in a so-called "hoodlum neighbor-
hood" A paper bag in the car
bulged with $4,000 IN $lOO pllls
and $9,150 in $50 bills.
Held on a technical "for- -investi-
CATION" charge were John Zach.
35, and his bride of three weeks.
Dorothy, %; Merico Depietto. 90;
Steve Settas, 29, and Steve Vitale.
rs.
A second woman, described as a
friend of Depietto, was arrested in
Grand Rapids, Mich, for ques-
tioning. Depietto has lived in
both Grand Rapids and Brooklyn.
N. Y, police said.
Police said Zach was a onetime
associate of Harry Fleisher, for
merly of the Purple Gang and now
in Federal prison on a fugitive
sentence for fleeing two long
prison terms in Michigan.
Evening star., 1950-02-09
Zoning Plan Prepared

A master zoning plan for Ia
koma Park, Md, probably will be
completed by the Maryland-Na- :
tional Capital Park and Plan
ming Commission by the end of
April.
Blair Lee, III, vice chairman of
the commission, said the plan
had been given priority because
of critical conditions" at Takoma
Park.
A public hearing has been set
for March IA on similar plan
for the Bethesda Chevy Chase
area.
Evening star., 1950-02-09
Maryland
and
Virginia
- News in Brief
Utility Strike Control
Proposed in MARYLAND

Legislation to authorize the
State to take over strike bound
public utilities was before the
Maryland General Assembly to-
day. The measure includes an
emergency clause which would
make it effective Immediately
after the Governor signs it.
Senator P. G.. Stromberg, Demo-
crat. of Howard County, who in
troduced the bill, pointed out that
If his proposal becomes law soon,
Marylanders may be spared the
hardships suffered in the tele-
phone strike of 1947. Another
strike threatened by telephone
workers recently was postponed
for two weeks.
Evening star., 1950-02-09
Miss Bergman Leaves
Hospital Bed Briefly
BY the Associated Press

ROME, Feb. 9.-Ingrid, Berg
man left her hospital bed briefly
today for the first time since her
son was born last Thursday.
The attending physician, DR..
Pier Luigi Guidotti, said the
Swedish film star was able to
walk around her suite in swank
Villa Margherita Clinic. He also
reported her week-old baby was
progressing normally" He said
there was no cause for concern
about the infants health.
During the morning, Reno
Rossellini, brother of Roberto
Rosselini, who is to marry Miss
Bergman, said her Juarez Mex
ico) divorce from DR.. Peter Lind
strom of Hollywood was expected
within a matter of hours"
Meanwhile one of Rome's lead
| ing Catholic newspapers raped
Americans who have advocated
banning Miss Bergman's latest
movie, "Stromboli, because of her
tangled romance with Rossellini
Let he among you who is with
| out sin cast the first stone," de-
clared II Populo. official organ OF
Premier Alcide de Gasperi's Chris
tian Democratic (Catholie) Party
This support by Mr.. De Gasperi's
official paper indicated the
church's censor board probably
would approve the Aim at least
for showing to adult Catholics.
! Ireland's peat production is
Evening star., 1950-02-09
Paddy Wagon Borrowed

Police Of Cumberland, Md,
could find neither law breakers
nor their paddy wagon" after
they were called to a basketball
game there yesterday to queu
threatened riot.
The police left the gymnasium
empty handed, only to find their
patrol wagon missing. 1t was
learned later that some boys
had loaded their girl friends
aboard to coast down a hill
lust for a ride."-AP.
Evening star., 1950-02-09
Tox Cuts DELAYED

The Maryland Senate Finance
Committee today delayed action
on bills sponsored by Gov. Lane
to cut income and real estate
to cut income taxes. Chairman
L. Harold Sothoron indicated
deeper cuts might be made.
Meanwhile. in Baltimore, the
Income Tax Division of the State
controllers Office advised Mary
landers to delay filing returns
until the Legislature has acted
The tax cuts will apply on 1949
income, it was explained.
Evening star., 1950-02-09
French Labor Reeoins
Bargaining Rights
BY the Associated Press

PARIS, Feb. 9.-French trade
unions will soon be permitted to
engage in collective bargaining
with employers for the first time
since the outbreak of war in 1899.
BY vote of 451 to 0. the Ma
tional Assembly last night passed
a bill restoring the right to bargain
collectively. The legislation will
remove official ceilings and con-
trolls placed on wages just before
the outbreak of war. 1t requires
compulsory conciliation attempts
in labor disputes but leaves arbi-
tration optional.
Evening star., 1950-02-09

q lew AICIllpCiS
of the House Appropriation Com
mittee who are disturbed over the
fact that career employees with
as much as 80 to 40 years of serv-
ice have lost their jobs during the
Defense Departments recent 1885,
900 civilian layoffs. They want to
protect the jobs of these careerists.
These members feel the indus
trial skill and know-how of these
employees is invaluable to the
country's defense program.
Also, it is felt that it would
cost the Government more money
In the long run to contract out
to private industry the work that
it cannot turn out in defense
establishments because of heavy
civilian personnel cuts.
Representative Engel of Michi-
gan, ranking Republican member
of the House Appropriations Sub
committee on the 1851 military
money bill, made these very points
during a closed-doors meeting of
the group.
Assistant Secretary of Defense
w. J. Mcneil told the subcom-
mittee that operation of the
veterans preference law is fore
ing some of those people with Is
or 80 years of service, with high
technical skills and perhaps of a
supervisory class, to be replaced
by people with less experience be-
cause of the operation of veterans
preference"
1T has serious effects" Mr..
Mcneil added. He said longtime
careerists in a number of cases
have been bumped" by vet
Grams with only a few months of
experience.
MORE TO COME-The House
Civil Service Committees charges
of fragrant personnel and civil
service violations at. the Army
Finance Center in st. Louis will
be followed by similar inveStiga-
tions of other military installa-
tions around the country. Cen
orally, the complaints are being
made by civilian employees, who
charge their rights are being
ignored and civil service regula-
tions violated by military brass.
X
BEP-The Presidents Fair En-
ployment Practices Board for the
Federal service is expected to
hand down its decision within the
next few days on the complaints
of colored employees in the Bureau
of Engraving and Printing that
the agency Disseminated against
them because of their race.
The FEPC Board last week con-
cluded it's hearings. The employees
asserted they were denied pro-
motional opportunities and ad-
vancement as a result of discrimi-
nation. BEP officials denied the
charges. -.
II
MEETING-One of the most
interesting employe dinner meet
ings of the year will be held at
Sis pm. Monday by the Society
for Personnel Administration
Senator Humphrey, Democrat, of
Minnesota is to be the guest
speaker.
Senator Humphrey, one of the
Evening star., 1950-02-09
PinboHs Still on Issue

Pinball machines soon may be
classed as a public nuisance" in
Arlington County.
Commonwealth's Attorney Den
man T. Rucker today warned that
court action or a county ordinance
will be sought against operation
of the machines.
The announcement was made as
Arlington businessmen received
assurance from a pinball firm that
the devices were legal under State
statutes and county ordinances.
Evening star., 1950-02-09
Bomb Breaks Up Meetinq

A tear gas bomb hurled through
a window broke up a meeting of
CIO organizers and textile plant
workers here last night at Glen
Lyn, Giles County, Va.
Town Sergt. Harry Shepard
said grenade type bomb was
thrown through a basement Win
dow of Zell's restaurant and into
a private room where the meet
ing was in progress.
No one was injured, Sergt
Shepard said, but tear gas drove
every one from the room and also
forced patrons to leave the res
turant upstairs.-AP.
Evening star., 1950-02-09
Fothers Twins at 50

The proudest father in Ewing
ton, Va, is Luther r. Moses, re-
tired merchant. One set of
twins is two weeks old and the
second set one year old Re-
ferring to them, he said yester-
day:
II suppose it is something of
q rarity II suppose a person
could almost call it curiosity"
Mr.. Moses is So years old, and
his wife 25.-AP
Evening star., 1950-02-09

top-ranking members Of the Sen
ate Civil Service Committee, will
discuss Some Points of View on
Personnel Administration" The
dinner meeting will be held in the
cafeteria of the South Agriculture
Building. The price is $1.65. Call
Republic Sill, extension 701, for
reservations.
!; X *
A'sO-Thomas A. Sullivan of
the Army Departments Adiutant
Generals Office has been given the
Meritorious Civilian Service Award
for "outstanding performance of
duty" for his work in the space
control program in connection
with the unification program.
Miss Bernice w. Clark has re-
tired as an AGO civilian employe
after 81 years of service with the
agency. In 1943 she was present.
ed with the award for Meritorious
Civilian Service.
X x&
BEAUTY COURSE-A lot OF
Government girls who would like
to take the series of beauty courses
that are being offered by the John
Robert Powers models have beer
unable to contact the representa-
tive OF the Federal Recreation
Committee in their particular
agency. The recreation group Is
sponsoring the courses.
If this is the case, telephone
Mrs. Eleonore Dmitrieff, secretary
of the Federal Recreation Com
mittee, at Sterling s400, extension
2495. incidentally, the wives and
daughters of Federal workers are
also eligible to take the courses
which will begin week from
Monday.
x
DANCE-Government employees
hailing from Massachusetts, are in
vited to attend the dance spon-
sored by the Massachusetts, Society
OF Washington at 10 pm. tomor-
row in the Shoreham Hotel.
BE sure to listen at GAS p.m,
epery Saturday oUer WMAL,
The Star station, to Joseph
Young's Federal Spotlight radio
broadcast, featuring additional
ne1Ds and UietUs of the Gouern-
ment Scene.J
Evening star., 1950-02-09

S / t u a ton has
tended to rally
support for the
D e t e nse De-
partment's 1851
fiscal budget re-
quests. S m e
m e m b ers of
Congress want
to give the de-
Tense establish
ment even more
money. than it
asked for.
TIL e n, t 90,
there are quite
Evening star., 1950-02-09
Greet Dane Breeder Dies

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Feb. 9 (P.-
Miss Helen E. Lesniak, 48, owner
Of one of the largest Great Dane
breeding kennels in the world.
died yesterday of cancer. She
owned the Helles Dane Farms
here.
Evening star., 1950-02-09
Soviet Leads u. S. in War Planes
And Their Output, Expert Soys

That's one reason, he indicated,
why Russian progress in develop
ment of a supersonic atom carry
ing craft "is a secret on which our
intelligence resources are concen-
trated ,"
Evening star., 1950-02-09
S Found With S37,15O
In Paper Bag 0uizzed
In Brink S Robbery
By the Associated Press

DETROIT, Feb. 9.-Police grilled
four men and woman today on
their possession of a paper bag
containing $37,150 in cash.
Whether there was any evidence
Evening star., 1950-02-09
The Federal Spotlight
The Federal Spotlight
Adequate Funds for Defense
Personnel Hinted for 1851
By Joseph Young

House Appropriations Committee
hints that Army Departments fare
we'll in the matter of personnel funds for the
Some declare further civilian
size will have to be made during the fiscal
they increases defenGe.---
employees called 1op-ankng members OF the Sen
Evening star., 1950-02-09

linking JIle 1--we
with the ST.
100000 Drinks,
Inc, robbery in
Boston, how =
ever, police re-
fused to say.
The five, ar
r e S t e d in a
parked car here
early yesterday,
i n S i S t e d the
m o n e y repre-
S e n t e d gam
bling proceeds.
Beyond that
t hey weren't
nIs
Evening star., 1950-02-09

High and Low for YESTERDAY.
High, AZ, at 2:54 pm,
Low, "a. at 1902 am.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest, 79 on January IS.
Lowest %, on January 20.
Tide Tables.
FURNISHED by United States Coast and
Geodetic SurYey)
Evening star., 1950-02-09

Milan, Italy. police are seeking
pigeon salesman who sells
nothing but homing birds.
Evening star., 1950-02-09

Ireland's peat production is
about 4,o00. 900 tons a year.
Evening star., 1950-02-09
Monthly precipitation in inches In tn,
q apital (current month to datel:

Automobile lights must be turned on
one-han hour after sunset.
Precipitation.
Evening star., 1950-02-09

For one thing, the international
Evening star., 1950-04-26
u. 5. Ship 10 Evacuate'
1000 From Red China.

Evacuation Of Americans from
Shanghai after prolonged delays
was announced by Secretary of
State Acheson today.
He said a special train carrying
Americans and other foreign ma
tionalS who had exit permits
from the Communist authorities
in Shanghai and desired to leave
is now en- route to Tientsin, where
a ship will meet them Friday.
The special train left Shanghai
yesterday morning Qast night
Washington time). In addition,
Mr.. Acheson said, other passen-
gers have travelled by train to
Tientsin during the past week.
The arrangements were made
after Communist authorities
blocked numerous efforts to pro-
vide evacuation by sea.
Mr.. AcheSon said almost 1000
persons are involved. He had nc
exact figure on the number OF
Americans leaving. 1t has been
estimated previously that about
800 Americans were ready to leave
Shanghai.
The American Presidents liner
Gen. w. H. Gordon Is due of
Taku Bar, deep-water anchorage
for Tientsin. Friday. Mr.. Acheson
said the Americans and other
evacuees from Shanghai will be
transferred by local lighters to the
Gordon.
Evening star., 1950-04-26
Capt. Studds Named
AS Director OF Coast
And Geodetic Survey

Capt. Robert F. A. StuddS, O
native WaShingtonian and 4 vet
eran of 81 years in the Coast and
Geodeuc Survey. was nominated
today by President Truman to be
director of the organization.
The promotion will give him the
rank Of rear admiral.
He succeeds Rear Admiral Leo
Otis Colbert, who retired on April
I after a. years in the Survey.
Capt StuddS, who is So. was
reared in Northeast Washington
and was graduated from Catholic
University in 1917 with an engi-
neering degree. After a brief Serv-
ice in an engineering capacity in
the District government he served
during World War I with the Army
Engineers. He Joined the Coast
and Geodetic Survey after the war
as a deck officer. later was COM
miSsioned ensign and rose throuh
the grades.
Now chief of the division Of
charts in Washington, Capt
Studds has served principally in
the field. He has commanded the
vessels Explorer and Surveyor and
in recent years has conducted sur
veyS in the Aleutian Islands where
the survey has been using new
electronic methods for work in an
area where fog and adverse
weather are major problems.
Capt. and Mrs. Studds have
three small children. Their home
is at 5605 Thirtieth street NV.
Evening star., 1950-04-26
Bills Filed 10 EnIarqe
Bethesda Play Center

The Bethesda Chevy Chase rec
reation center will be enlarged by
80 adjoining acres. If Congress
approves bills sponsored yesterday
by Senator Tydings. Democrat,
and Representative Beall, Repub-
lican. both of Maryland.
The area involved is the re-
naming portion of the old Animal
Disease Station. The companion
measures offered by the two
Marylanders would transfer the
title from the United States to
the Maryland National Capital
Park and Planning Commission.
1t would be used for public
park. parkway or playground pur-
poses. Title would revert to the
Government If it were used for
anything else.
The proposed legislation was
offered after negotiations between
the planning body and the Agri-
culture Department.
{ The area involved is bounded
by Kenwood, Somerset, Chevy
Chase Terrace and Chevy Chase
Gardens and by Bradley Boule-
ward Apartments.
Evening star., 1950-04-26

The Goldenbergs, like the other
neighbors, had watched with in
terest the movements of the
strange trio that had moved into
a community made up mostly of
war veterans families.
Wed see them come in at any
time of the day or night, driving
an old model Cadillac" said Mr..
Goldenberg. "All night long the
lights would be on, and there
would be parties. Oh, the parties
weren't loud. but they were going
on, all right. Then during the
day it looked like the boys were
sleeping"
The tenants were sporty
dressers, but they didn't do much
for the house. They let the yard
get cluttered up with trash, and
that wasn't becoming to such a
community.
I'VE couldn't understand why
the Cadillac always had different
license plates" said a woman liv-
ing across the street. We talked
that over lot.
People seemed to be coming
and going all the time. There were
lots of girls"
One Of Men Shot Himself.
She and other neighbors were
not happy about the way the boys
turned their car around in a grass
circle fronting the house. The cut
ting of the wheels did the grass no
good.
About a week ago." she said,
Il saw the blond. good Hooking boy
coming out of the house, limping
and there was a policeman with
him. We heard the boy had been
shot"
Prince Georges police reported
that Byron Eugene Heslop. %.
one of the tenants, shot himself
accidentally April IL with a %
caliber revolver.
Today a new and SIMMER Cadil-
lac drove up to the house. In It
was the rental agent, who had let
the men have the place.
We weren't too anxious to dc
IT," ne remembered. I'VE prefe,
families in our places. But the
ooys seemed like nice lads"
Evening star., 1950-04-26
-Four Bandits Who Got 81 100
In 2 HoIdups Sought by Police

Police today were seeking two
holdup men who took almost
$1,000 from a downtown food
store and two others who got Sl0o
Evening star., 1950-04-26

then made him kneel while they
scooped out approximately $1,000
in cash. They started swearing
when told by Mr.. RoSenfield that
the store kept no sacks Of money.
They forced him to open q safe
but found nothing in it,
Before leaving, the bandits took
$35 from the wallet of one Of the
customers. John Wilkerson of 935
H street NV. They did not at
tempt to rob any Of the others
except MFR. Rosenfield, There
bandits took all the change he
had in his pockets.
AS they walked out Of the store.
one of the holdup men said TO his
companion; Joe. get the car. ="
They disappeared after warming
the II people not to stand up for
at least 3 minutes. After about >
minutes Mr. Rosenfield ran to the
phone and telephoned police,
His wife. Mrs. Charlotte RoSen-
field, entered the store a few mo-
mentS later.
Evening star., 1950-04-26

VA t41C AlOOl.
After emptying two cash reg
listers they took another $35 from
a customer who had come in to
buy a loaf of bread. They also
obtained some small change"
from the store managers pocket.
In the holdup at the Central
Frozen Custard Store in the 1900
block of Central avenue NE.
about 1870 pm. five hours after
the Eleventh street robbery. two
colored men accosted the man
ager. William Klaff. 35. as he was
checking the cash register. Mr..
Klaff and a clerk. Rebecca Parks,
II. colored. Of SIG Timothy ave-
nue. NV. were told to lie on the
floor.
One of the colored men carried
80 automatic and the other a
long knife. Mr.. Klaff Informed
police.
Maurice S. Rosenfield, 81, man.
ager of the Super Freez store, said
the two men who held up his store
wore topcoats. The men were
about IS and 80 years old. One
was blond and hatless, Mr.. Rosen-
field reported. and the other was
dark.
One of the men asked for
luncheon meat and the other for
cigarettes. After being waited on,
they pulled automatics from their
topcoat pockets and ordered the
employees and customers to lie on
the floor at the rear of the store
Prodding Mr.. Rosenfield with
a gun. they made him walk so
feet to the front of the store and
open the cash registers. They
Evening star., 1950-04-26

Those strange comings and 60
ings at 1900 Sixty eighth avenue
Defense Heights, Md, dropped
into place like jig-saw puzzle to-
day.
For days the residents Of this
quiet, new housing development,
had wondered about the fashily
dressed young men and their fire.
quent visitors who turned night
into day.
1t all cleared up about $50 am.
when a flock of policemen sur
rounded the brick-and-frame 11a-
story cottage atop a hill and ar
rested three men tied in with some
of the Districts recent bold hold
ups.
Next door at 1902 sixty-eighth
avenue, the Goldenbergs were
frightened.
MY father -in-law woke me and
said police were hammering at
the house next door," said Gerald
Goldenberg. Il was afraid there
would be gun play and moved my
two children to a room away from
the house."
Evening star., 1950-04-26
Plans Studied 10 Bring Reich
Closer 10 Atlantic Setup

Secretary Of State Acheson said
today that numerous proposals for
bringing Western Germany into
closer association with the North
Atlantic treaty setup are being
studied.
He told a news conference, how
ever. that none of the proposals
have come up for decision by him.
His comment was in response to
question about published reports
that the United States is con-
sidering a suggestion for revision
Of the occupation statute for
Western Germany to give the
Bonn republic greater control over
its foreign affairs and preparing
the way for inviting it to join the
North Atlantic Treaty.