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Evening star., 1950-11-23
California, Nevada
Floods Recede, but
Emergency Continues
BY the Associated Press

The great California and Nevada
floods of 1850 seem to be over.
But Gov. Earl Warren says he
will not terminate the California
state of emergency just yet.
Although the crisis appears to
have passed, he explained, there
is danger of new dixie breaks or
flooding.
Raging waters are receding In
most rivers but they left damage
estimated at SIT million in CALI
fornia and Sc million in Nevada,
half of it in Reno.
8 Dead in California.
Californians counted eight dead
and $4,000 persons driven from
their homes. Reno had one
death. ~
More than 5000 homeless were
sheltered by the Red Cross in
Marysville.
There was one happy note. The
homeless were to have Red
Cross sponsored turkey dinner.
Reno businessmen formed an
emergency lending corporation to
aid f1ood-stricken competitors.
Reno Stocks Ruined.
Several small businessmen and
a few large ones were virtually
wiped out as the Truckee River
poured into store Easements
stacked with Christmas merchan-
disc.
All flood areas report stagnant,
muddy water standing on rich
farm lands. Farmers estimated
it would take weeks for the evil
smelling water to seep in.
Thousands Of head of livestock
were lost and acres of crops de-
stroyed.
Road and bridge losses stag
gered the highway department.
Two main highways from Cali
ifornia to Nevada, U. S. routes 40
and so, were both washed out.
The department said it would be
the middle of next week before
they could be opened to traffic.
Evening star., 1950-11-23
Auf|1or-Critic Of FBI
Is Old Friend OF
Truman, Ross Says

BY the Assoeiafed Press

The White House said yesterday
that the author of a book highly
critical Of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation is longtime friend
OF President Truman.
4 Presidential Secretary Charles G.
Ross gave that description to
newsmen when asked if Mr.. Tru-
man knew Max Lowenthal. New
York lawyer, who recently wrote
% book entitled 1.-THE Federal Bu-
sreau Of Investigation"
The book is long and sharply
Scritical survey of the FBI under
the regime of j. Edgar Hoover. 1t
shas already stirred angry COM
Sment among Mr.. Hoover's admir-
sers on Capitol Hill and may be-
come a target of inquiry when
Congress returns next week.
At his news conference yester-
day. Mr.. Ross was asked to COM
Ernent on Mr.. Lowenthals asser-
Ntion that President Truman twice
rejected proposals that he promote
FBI Chief Hoover to become head
Of a SUPER intelligence agency.
Truman Reading Unknown.
II have no information on that
whatsoever. Mr.. Ross said
Il Mr.. Lowenthal said in his book
sfthat Mr.. Truman turned down
suggestions for merging the FBI
! and the Governments Central
Intelligence Agency with Mr..
4 Hoover as the overall director.
Under questioning, Mr.. Ross
said he did not know whether Mr..
& Truman had read Mr.. Lowenthal's
book. But he said Mr.. Lowenthal
is a friend of the President dating
back to Mr.. Truman's early days
Ia the Senate.
On Capitol Hill. Representative
Harrison, Democrat, of Virginia
said he had read reviews of Mr..
LowenthaPs book, and he COM
mented:
- "I regard it as a lot Of malicious
pif1e."
Hoover's Record Praised.
Mr.. Harrison said Mr.. Hoover's
standing with the American peo-
pie is such that II don't know of
any one who could write a book
that would discredit him in their
eyes,"
The Virginian, a member of the
House Committee on Un-Ameri-
can Activities, said Mr.. Hoover's
record of achievement is 80 out
standing that no mud slung at
him Is going to stick"
Some reviewers have interpreted
Mr.. Lowenthal's book as evidence
that Mr.. Hoover is less popular
at the White House than he is in
Congress.
Mr.. Lowenthal said in his book
that the latest suggestion for pro-
noting Mr.. Hoover-who has been
&ACo& Va O1iC Ia S1l1NC 40Af-CdlllG
some months ago when Rear Ad-
fmiral Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter re-
signed as chief of the CIA.
LowenthaI Questioned in House.
However, Mr.. Truman picked
LII. Gen. Walter Bedell Smith,
former Ambassador to Moscow,
as Admiral Hillenkoetter's sue
ceSSor.
Mr.. Lowenthal was questioned
by the Committee on n-American
Activities last fall after Repre-
sentative Dondero, Republican, of
Michigan. described him in a
House speech as showing an ''un-
swerving loyalty to Soviet +. ssia."
In reply, Mr.. Lowenthal told
the House committee his record
had been passed on "by some of
the leading men in the United
States Senate and by men who
had been President. both on the
Democratic and Republican side"
Evening star., 1950-11-23
Threat Against FBI Chief
Lands Man in Jail
BY the Associated Press

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 23.-Frank
J. Corsoro, 81, Dunkirk, N. Y,
was arrested at a hotel last night
on a charge of sending a threat
ening letter through the mails.
The recipient: j. Edgar Hoover,
director of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation.
Evening star., 1950-04-09
was the later Easter, April II. in
1919 they explained

was the later Easter, April II. In
l949. they explained.
But business has been going
along very WELL" an official of one
of the larger department stores
said. Dresses, hats, shoes and
accessories have sold as we'll as
ever for this Easter. Coats and,
women's suits not so we'll"
Another store executive re-
marked that we're satisfied with
the season because business has
been steady even If it hasn' t
broken any records"
Shopping throngs yesterday
seemed interested mainly in last
minute purchases of accessories
to go with new outfits purchased
earlier. Some speciality shops,
particularly hat and shoe dealers,
said their business yesterday was
better than average for Saturday.
1t was about the same as on the
Saturday before last Easter which
was better than 1948, they added.
The influx of visitors for Easter
and the cherry blossoms caused
no special problems for railroad,
bus and airline companies. Trans
portation companies look for a
different situation when most of
the visitors start home late to-
day or tomorrow.
Evening star., 1950-04-09
Premiers Of Pakistan
And India Sign New
Peace Agreement
By the Associoted Press

NEW DELHI, India, April g.
The Prime Ministers of India and
Pakistan today signed an agree
ment aimed at ending the COM
munal fighting between Hindus
and Moslems that has plagued
both countries since they won in
dependence from Britain in 1947.
1T will be presented simu1tane-
ously to the India Parliament and
to the constituent assembly of
Pakistan on Monday, April TO-"
communique announced.
Details were not officially dis
closed. The pact is generally be-
lieved. however. to include at least
two major points:
/. Establishment of commits
sions which would investigate any
further communal outbreaks and
report their recommendations for
remedial action to the two gov
ernments.
2. A program to be carried out
in both nations for the protection
and rehabilitation of minorities-
Moslems in India and Hindus in
Pakistan.
Prime Ministers Liaquat Ali
Khan of Pakistan and JaWaharlal
Nehru of India signed the agree
ment at Government House after
seven days of discussion. They
took two days longer than ex-
pected. but the atmosphere was
cordial and the delay was at
tributed to minor drafting prob
lens. The two plan other meet
ings on common problems
I'VE discussed everything on
earth and under the sky" Liaquat
Ali Khan told newsmen just be-
fore he left by special plane for
his capital, Karachi. "A fund of
good will on both sides was main
tanned throughout"
Asked why it took seven days
to reach the agreement, the
Pakistani executive smiled and
said: The climate of New Delhi
was very good. AS I am leaving,
It's getting hot"
He said Nehru has accepted his
invitation to visit Karachi, but
no date was fixed.
Evening star., 1950-04-09

Vim relation to foreign affairs in
time of crisis"
The former Senator declared
that ''it might be different" if
American Government followed
the British pattern whereby a
vote of no confidence destroys one
administration and Immediately
and automatically clears the way
for another"
Under our system" he said,
we are going to have another
two and one-half years of the
present administration, whatever
happens, and, in that time, incal-
culable harm can be done if We
lack foreign-policy unity"
Mr.. Dulles says he saw that OF
which he speaks when he accom-
panied Secretary of State Mar
shall to Paris in the early fall of
1913.
That" he recalled, was time
when the Berlin blockade had
marked a new height in Soviet
pressure. A whole group of ex-
posed Western nations were wcn-
dering whether they should stand
firm or make terms with Moscow.
I am confident that only the fact
that I, recognized as a Republican,
was there. assured some of them
that American foreign policy
would have continuity whether
Truman or Dewey won. If the
time ever comes when such ex-
posed nations begin TO doubt Cur
policy, then We can expect to be
abandoned by most of those whom
we today call friends"
Unity Needed on Asia.
Mr.. Dulles believes that receipt
by President Truman of an ad-
vance copy of his rev book, War
or Peace" which will appear April
l8, "helped rebuild the relation
ship between myself and the ad-
ministration which was so thor
oughly shattered in the last cam
Evening star., 1950-04-09
Dulles!

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partisanship and create it in
Asia where Democrats. up to now
have never wanted it,"
Doesn't Share Mccarthy Views.
If he succeeds in his new job
Mr.. Dulles indicated. he will
probably pass up the prospect OF
another election battle next fall
with Senator Lehman.
.But il three or four months
show it isn't working" he added,
then I may decide I can do
more outside than I can by con-
tinuing in the department."
Already under fire from Repub-
lican arch-conservatives because
he has accepted President Tru-
mans bid, Mr.. Dulles avoided
involvement in the Senator Nc
Carthy State Department contro-
versy.
"Of course" he commented, "if
shared Senator McCarthy's
feelings towards Mr.. Acheson I
would not be assuming this re-
latlonship. But I do not under
stand that it is fixed Republican
party policy to discredit the State
Department. If it were, then my
acceptance of this position would
certainly run athwart of it,"
Recalls Lehman Campaign.
Mr.. Dulles believes the present
State Department plight,
and the collapse of bipartisan
ship. came about, in part, because
of the Lehman campaign last fall
in which he Dulles) was attacked
as pro-Fascist and essentially un-
informed on foreign affairs.
That vicious smear attack
against me- he said, hurt the
whole idea of bi-partisanship, and.
coupled with Senator Vanden-
berg's current physical incapacity,
resulted in it's ultimate collapse.
Last fall the same foul tactics
were used by the Democrats
which. they now complain, Re-
publicans are using. On the basis
of what was done to me, some
Republicans saw an alibi for TAX
ing the lid off. 1t is a problem
which will not be quickly and
easily repaired"
Mr.. Dulles was asked about the
fiat announcement by Senators
Malone of Nevada and Watkins
of Utah that they are two Re-
publicans for whom Mr.. Dulles
will not speak in his new job.
Some Republicans Disagree.
Il know" he said. that many
very sincere Republicans just do
not believe in the bipartisan
theory. They believe it is the
opposition duty to oppose
Within limits, I agree. But that
normal role cannot be carried out
Evening star., 1950-04-09

clock on the fifth floor at 1910
1t seems probable, police say, he
was slain only few minutes later
when he ran the elevator to the
next floor.
The intruder then descended
the stairway with his bloody knife.
Mr.. Carpenter probably was killed
between 1880 and l am. in view
OF the distance to be covered, DO
lice added.
Not At Usual Place.
At about this time one of the
workmen. seeking Mr.. Carpenter
to tell him they were ready to
check out, called for him when he
was not at his usual station beside
the E street door. the only night
entrance.
Police believe the intruder
heard the call and made his
escape. probably eluding the two
Workmen on the big. partitioned
floor to leave by the E street
door. which was found open
a short time later with the KEY in
the inside lock.
Mr.. Carpenter had mentioned
to the workmen that he would
step out for breath of fresh air
after his partner returned.
Police believe he picked up his
scarf with the intention of going
after visiting the washroom.
There is little to indicate
whether he surprised the intruder
there or was waylaid.
1t was believed, however, tina,
whoever descended the steps hearc
the workman calling Mr.. Carpen.
ter about l a m. This circumstance
may have hastened his Job O.
binding the victim.
The rope was tied about ar
ankle and looped around the
other, but was not secured fur.
ther. A handkerchief had beer
stuffed into the watchman's
mouth and the scarf knotteG
loosely over the face.
Evening star., 1950-04-09
McCorron Says Deod|ine Ruins Gaming Probe

interstate movement OF slot ma
chimes and OF information useful
to gambling syndicates.
Senator Mcfarland said he had
to limit the Tuesday session to
the planning of future hearings
because so many persons had re-
quested TO testify. Also. he said.
the first scheduled witness, At
torney General McGrath, would
be out of town that day.
II will be arranged. Senator Nc
Fsrland said. for State and local
officials over the country TO de-
scribe problems resulting from
gambling rings and discuss needs
for Federal legislation.
He said his committee had re-
ceived many calls from officials
throughout the country since At
torney General McGrath sub
mitted his two bills.
Mayors Testimony Sought.
Mayors to be asked to testify
include David Lawrence of Pitts
burgh, Quigg Newton of Denver,
William w. Wohlfarth of Miami.
Thomas DAlesandro of Baltimore
and Fletcher Bowron of Los
Angeles.
Some Senators are grumbling
about having two investigations
running at the same time and
touching on the same subjects.
One Democratic leader who
withheld use of his name said :;
We'll probably have to 60 along
with both hearings. If we don't,
we'll be accused of trying to COW
er up"
But Senator Kefauver said he
thought a method could be worked
out between tho tu+o Sora+a ,,o,,,.
Evening star., 1950-04-09

to avoid too much conflict or du-
plication
The Commerce subcommittee
is interested primarily in the IL
legal use OF interstate communics-
tons" Senator Kefauver said.
We would so beyond this 10 IN
clude crime syndicate operations,
the numbers rsekets. and horse
race bookmaking services and
methods used 10 corrupt local Of
ficals."
Senator McCarran said he will
Try TO help Senator Kefauvsr get
approval Of this inveStisation. But
he insisted neither the Judiciary
Committe nor the Commerce sub
committee can do a complete lob
before Congress sdjourns this
summer.
Evening star., 1950-04-09
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Continued From First Page.)
ate should remove this limitation
Some Democrats have expressed
the view privately that Republi-
cans would seek to use a crime
investigation for partisan advan-
tage in the coming congressional
campaigns.
Representative Macy. Repubi-
can. OF New York, accused Demo-
cras Of "smothering" a crime in
vestigation measure he introduced
in the House. He said they fear
ed they would be embarrassed
through an expose of links be-
tween big city political machines
and crime.
Senator Kefauver has said the
Democrats. as the party in power
would stand to gain prestige from
any revelations produced by a
crime investigation launched by
them.
Executive Session Ordered,
While Senate action still Is
awaited on the Kefauver plan, a
subcommittee of the Senate Com
merce Committee. headed BY
Senator Mcfarland, Democrat. Of
Arizona, will start to map out it,
own crime study at an executive
session Tuesday.
The Mcfarland group has be.
fore it two bills recommended +,
the Justice Department to curl
Evening star., 1950-04-09
6. W. u. Cold Orator Wins
With Woman Riuhts Talk

Mrs. Martha Trail, a George
Washington University student, of
1884 Southern avenue Sc. yes
terday won first prize for Original
oratory" in the Grand National
Forensic Tournament at Mary
Washington College. Fredericks-
burg, Va.
Mrs. Trail, a junior, took first
place with talk on wonen's
rights
Evening star., 1950-04-09

paign" and led to the presidential
offer of the new post.
Il believe" he said, that there
is no question of the need of
trying to establish bipartisan
ship. 1t would seem that our re-
cent disasters in the Far East
would have created a demand for
national unity in the only part of
the world in which we have never
had it. Instead, the Communist
gains in China have led to the
wholly illogical idea on the part OF
some that our entire State De-
partment is incompetent and that
Republicans should not support it
anywhere.
Mr.. Dulles was asked why the
-partisanship behind European
aid, the United Nations effort and
the North Atlantic pact was never
duplicated in American China
policy.
Place in Top Echelon.
II do not know" he replied
except that the Democrats did
not want it in the Far East. The
bipartisan idea really started in
conversations between myself and
Secretary of State Hull during
the Dewey-Roosevelt campaign of
1914. The idea went on from
there in some parts of the world
but, in respect to Asia, the ad-
ministration chose to go along
with a policy that was never
thought out and, like Topsy, just
grew"
To work, Mr.. Dulles believes
bi-partisanship must be based on
inclusion in the top State Depart
ment ecnelon of minority-party
members with three specific quail
f1cations.
"They must" he said, "be rea-
Sonably competent in their field
They must be placed at a level
where they can take part in every
stage of policy development, and
not be just ushered in after policy
is set and when they can only
rubber stamp it or disrupt COM
mitments already made. Finally
they must be loyal and stalwart
members of the opposition party
in order to get a measure of CO.
operation"
Evening star., 1950-04-09
Weather
Continued From First Page)


that the same chilly conditions
will prevail in most other parts of
the country.
The northern half of the
United States felt mass of cold
air that swept in from Canada
and sent the mercury tumbling
the mid-30s early today. But the
District will escape heavy rains
forecast for Midwest sections and
the snow expected in some of the
Central Plains States, Northern
Rockies and Upper Great Lakes
region.
This Casters temperature will
come nowhere near the all-time
high of 86 degrees in 1947. The
Weather Bureau said that today
nevertheless will be more COM
Portable than the coolest Easter
on record. That was in 1923 when
early risers shivered in IS degrees
and afternoon paraders moved
briskly in 38-degree temperature
Fairly warm sunshine at so de-
grees helped the Watergate show
of to good start yesterday with
preliminary Navy Hour"
broadcast. AS the show went on
the skies became overcast and
snappy breeze whipped across the
water.
The wind brought handicaps to
some of the performers, especially
4. Bella Kremo and his hat-juggling
routine. The cherry blossom
princesses, clad in strapless eve
ming gowns. also noticed the
weather change. Some of them
borrowed coats of their military
escorts.
Crowned by Matthews.
But Joan Russell of Connecticut,
2o-year-old queen of the festival.
will be on hand with her princesses
this afternoon. The coronation
ceremony will not be held again
today.
The Spring crown was placed on
the girls dark tresses yesterday by
Navy Secretary Matthews. Annie
Laurie Martin, 11-year- old daugh-
ter of Mrs. Benjamin Yancey
Martin of the Westchester Apart
ments bore the crown on a satin
pillow to the center of the stage.
The temperature made a final
thrust as the show was about to
end. Rain began to fall as the
cast assembled on stage for the
finale and singing of the pageant's
theme melody, Spring Is a
Wonderful Thing"
The queen and princesses were
to breakfast at noon at the Carl
ton Hotel and return there after
today's show for a buffet supper.
Park police meanwhile counted
about $4,000 automobiles circline
the tidal basin. Police said traffic
was steady throughout the after
noon but below normal" for the
cherry blossom spectacle.
Crowds on downtown streets
presented pre-Easter shopping
parade on a par with those of
other years. Department stores
and specialists reported salts
factory but unspectacular" busi-
ness yesterday and earlier last
week.
Sales Drop Slightly.
Dollar volume of retail sales
probably fell slightly below that
of the week before Easter last
lac +- ii
Evening star., 1950-04-09
Dulles Sees Defeats
In Asia Setting Back
II. S. in Cold War
BY the Associotsd Pres.

WATERFOWL. N. Y, April
8.-John Foster Dulles said
today that there was too much
public concern about a shoot
ing war and not enough
about the disaster that could
result from loss of the cold
war.
Mr.. Dulles told interviewers
that despite improvement in
Europe. the United States
position in the cold war was
Worsening because of set
backs in Asia.
Evening star., 1950-07-13
; Die, Z New Polio Cases
Are Reported in Virginia
BY the Assoeio,ed Press

ROANOKE, Va, July ia
third death and two additional
cases Of polio were reported today
in the current outbreak of infan-
tile paralysis in Wythe County,
In Southwestern Virginia.
Two-year-old Juanita Ann Tur-
pin, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
c. E. Turpin of Wytheville died
last night in Roanoke's Memorial
and Crippled Children's Hospital.
The additional cases brought to
the Roanoke hospital last night
were 4-year-old from Max
Meadows and a 21-year-old man
from Wytheville.
Meanwhile, one Wytheville case
brought here as a suspect" was
found not to have polio.
Yesterdays cases raise the total
for Wytheville and Wythe County
to 10.
Evening star., 1950-07-13

bed mountain passes in s1 at
tempt to break throu~~'l !. l.-..a9cen
Taegju and Taejon.
Reinforcements, believed to be
Korean veterans from Manchuria,
are reported in Seoul.
Fifth Air Force light bombers
and fighters continued to support
ground forces. B-29s struck a
marshalling yard. four road inter-
sections, two tanks and six barges.
Fighters conducted close support,
straflng and rocket bombing, with
tanks. trucks, armored cars, We
hicles, locomotives, railroad cars,
warehouses and bridge reported
destroyed.
Far East Bomber Command
B-29s attacked railroad and high
way bridges.
There was no change in naval
operations along the East and
West Coasts.
Evening star., 1950-07-13
Three AIeutian Air Bases
To Be Kept in Operation
BY the Associated Press

The Defense Department said
today it will keep in operation
three air bases in the Aleutian
Islands-Shemya. Cold Bay and
Adak. &5
1t notified Senator Magnuson,
Democrat. Of Washington of its
reversal of an earlier decision to
close them.
Senator Magnuson told q re-
porter the bases, which provide
the shortest route to Tokyo, were
to have been closed for economy
reasons, but that the situation in
Korea had caused a change in the
plans.
Shemya, which has cost 500
million, is 1900 miles from Fair
banks, Alaska and 1000 miles
from Tokyo. Senator Magnuson
said it is 1000 miles shorter than
the mid-Pacific route via Homo
lulu.
Evening star., 1950-07-13
D. {. Dentist AssaiIed
By Rockville Jurist

A Washington dentist received
a tongue-lashing in Rockville Po-
lice Court today as he was convict
ed of reckless driving, but ac-
quilted of driving while drunk
charge.
DR.. F. F. Shelter. who lives in
Kensington, was fined 500 on
the reckless driving charge after
Trial Magistrate Alger Y. Barbee
told him he should be condemned
for driving in such a condition" {"
DR.. Shelter, whose Office is at
1922 I street NV, was arrested
early February 20 on Connecticut
avenue near Watkins avenue,
Chevy Chase.
Police testified his car was
swerving from side to side and
that he was unable to walk un-
assisted. They added his speech
was slurred and there was a
strong odor of alcohol about him.
The dentist admitted drinking
three cocktails several hours
earlier at his home, but insisted
his condition resulted from hav-
ing taken sedatives prescribed for
him when he had two teeth ex-
tracted.