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Evening star., 1950-08-22

bulk, simply eat an ounce of crispy
ALL-BRAN daily, drink plenty Of
waterl If not completely satisfied after
10 days, return empty carton to
Kellogg's, Battle Creek, Mich. GET
DOUBLE YOUR MONEY BACKl
Evening star., 1950-08-22

Malaga has more Chinese popu-
lation than native Malayan.
Evening star., 1950-08-22

A United States built dredge is
opening UP the harbor of Bar
ranquilla, Colombia.
Evening star., 1950-08-22
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MINISTER GRATEFUL, OV-
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"I am a retired minister and very
grateful that eating ALL-BRAN
overcomes my constipation. I shall

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fastfood every chance
Iget. ;" E. H. Harmer,
726 Lincoln St., Sno-
homish, Wash. Just
one Of many unsolic-
tied letters from ALL
BRAN users! If you
need help for consti-
patton due to lack of
Evening star., 1950-08-22

JUST A FLASH IN THE PAN-"No more disanno,n.. ,, 49,.
tUs me says Peeos Pete the propecto on IN do nv
ogging IN the Yellow Pages my Classified Telephone Dract
Pete knows gold mine buying information when he
ne me you're looking for jewelers. To Tacabs or almost
anytng ese Just turn to the Yellow Pages Your sopnnc nr
phone Company. a' Aeie-
Evening star., 1950-08-22
Periodic Counting

About two-thirds of the inhabi-
tantS Of the world are now period
ically counted by means of a
census.
Evening star., 1950-02-04
Hydrogen Bomb Could Destroy
New York, Physicists Warn
II Scientists, as Worried Citizens Urge
U. S. to Promise Not to UseWeopon First

met yesterday and planned to-
days statement which was made
at a news conference.
He added that they had no fur
thre plans for action and that
they acted today as worried citi-
zens."
The scientist said:
I'VE believe that no nation has
the right to use such a bomb no
matter how righteous its cause.
This bomb is no longer a weapon
of war, but means of extermina-
ton of whole populations"
"We shall not have a monopoly.
The Russians will be able to make
one, too. They will probably need
a shorter time.
1--WE must remember that we do
not possess the bomb but are only
developing it and Russia has re-
ceived, through indiscretion, the
most valuable hint that our ex-
perts believe the development
possible" P"
DR.. Bethe said the "indiscre-
(See SCIENTISTS, Page A-2.)
Evening star., 1950-02-04

Street.-The headed the powerful
Bank of England from 1920 to
1914.
King George vi made him a
peer on his retirement as a reward
for his long banking service.
The Bank of England is sub
stantially the equivalent to the
United States Federal Reserve
Bank. It has broad advisory pow
ers over finance throughout the
British commonwealth and the
empire.
Lord Norman held the governor
ship longer than any man in the
banks 250-year history.
His widow survives. There is
no heir to his title.
Worked in New York.
Ealy in his career he was with
the New York City banking firm
of Brown Bros. He Travelled ex-
tensively in the United States and
associates said he acquired a de-
tailed knowledge of American
banking and business problems.
Still earlier he was q partner in
(See NORMAN, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1950-02-04
Red SkeIton Reports Theft
OF Ex-Wife's JeweIry
By the Associated Press

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 4.-Red
Shelton told police today that a
burglar had taken more than
$4,000 worth of Jewelry and sill
verware from his ex-wife's apart
ment and that some one had
ripped screen off his own home.
Maybe the tax boys are mad
at my jokes" he quipped.
The comedian said that Mrs.
Edna Shelton Borzage, his pro-
ducer-writer, who last year di-
yorced Director Frank Borzage,
returned to her apartment last
night to find a French door
jimmied open.
Shelton reported that the thief
ignored a Boston bulldog and
took a diamond wrist watch, a
diamond bracelet and silverware.
That Watchdog" Red said
scornfully, "he must have held the
dashlight for the burglar"
Evening star., 1950-02-04
By John A. Giles

The Navy has ordered it's per-
sonnel to stop calling graduates
of the Naval Academy at Annap-
oils, Md. trade school boys" and
high-ranking officers 'brass hats"
Both are terms of derision.
The term trade school boy" had
been used both in and out Of the
Navy for years but it found wider
usage within the service during
the war when Reservists made UP
more than 80 per cent of the total
naval strength.
High-ranking officers in both the
Army and Navy have been called
brass hats" for generations be-
cause of the ornamental gold braid
on their caps. The term originated
in the British Army.
But now the Navy Department
Evening star., 1950-02-04
Potato Dumping Plan
May Cost Government
Up 10 S50,0O0,0O0
40 Million Bushels Due
To Go to Farmers for
Cent q Hundred Pounds
By Malcolm Lomborne, Jr.

The Government has launched
a dumping program for surplus
potatoes that may cost the Gov
ernment up to $50,O00,o0o
Secretary of Agriculture Bran
nan gave the go-ahead signal yes
terday for ridding the Govern
ment of as much as 40,000,0 ZOO
bushels of 1949 crop potatoes. The
potatoes are being bought by the
Agriculture Department in order
to support the farm price at a
national average of $1.25 a bushel.
This is required by law.
Officials admit that their ef-
forts to sell surplus potatoes to
foreign buyers, relief agencies in
this country and alcohol plants
have not succeeded.
To Be Dyed Blue.
Accordingly, Secretary Bran
nan proposes to sell back to farm
ers at l cent a hundred pounds
potatoes which cost the Govern
ment the equivalent of $1.85 a
hundred pounds. But, before the
transactions is completed, depart
ment agents will dye the potatoes
blue-at Government expense.
This is to prevent them getting
back into regular trade channels.
The farmers are required either
to feed the repurchased potatoes
to their livestock or to spread
them on fields for fertilizer.
Senators Criticize Proposal.
Mr.. Brannan's proposal drew
sharp criticism from several Sem
ators. Other Senators warned,
on the other hand, of tighter con-
trols on potato production if the
support program for this crop is
to continue.
Senator Mccarthy. Republican,
of Wisconsin declared the latest
action of the Government seems
to be putting pigs and livestock
ahead of hungry kids" He sug-
gested all farm food surpluses be
made available for free distribu-
ton to needy persons.
Senator Aiken, Republican, of
Vermont said many relief agen-
cies do not know they can get
the potatoes merely by paying
transportation COSTS
Puts Loss at Half Billion.
Senate Democratic Leader
Lucas declared that the disposal
plan emphasizes the need for
effective controls over both
planting and marketing of pota-
toes if we are going to continue
Government price supports"
Senator Anderson. Democrat, of
New Mexico, who not long ago
was beset with the same potato
problem as Secretary Of Agricul-
ture, agreed with Senator Lucas
that unless Congress passes ef-
fective potato controls it probably
will halt the price support of po-
tatoes.
The situation was aptly
1Cao pOTATOTc pooo A-20
Evening star., 1950-02-04
Sailor Who Missed His Ship
Wanted to See More Of U.S..

The ship had been here for about
a week on a training cruise.
In his yen to see what makes
America tick, Johansson started
out at the Casablanca, favorite
night spot for service personnel
at 421 Eleventh street NV.
At any rate that is where he was
picked up. police said, before he
was taken to the gun factory.
Reporters Immediately sought
to interview him there on his OBJ
servations of American life. Then
red tape reared It's ugly head.
Evening star., 1950-02-04
; Aboard Air Force Cal
As Il Falls in Caribbean
By the Associated Press

SAN JUAN, P. r., Feb. A
United States Air. Force C-47
transport with two officers ano
one enlisted man aboard crashed
into the sea late last night just
off the Puerto Rican coast.
One body was recovered this
morning. Army and Navy rescue
officials said there was no hope OF
finding either of the other two men
alive. The plane hit the water
at full flying speed.
Officials said the plane took off
between heavy transforms from
its base here. carrying $500
pounds of equipment for use in
amphibious maneuvers. 1t crashed
a few minutes later 2 miles north
east of the United States Naval
Station here.
Rescue operations began at
once. with tugs, crash boats, sea-
planes and an Air Force Bit
search plane racing to the scene.
A Marine shore patrol reported
it had sighted the tail of the plane
SO yards off shore in shallow
water.
Evening star., 1950-02-04
Labor Rending Britain
With Class Warfare,
Churchill Charges
Wartime Controls Kept
For Power Over People,
Conservative Chief Saws
BY the Assoeioted Press

LEEDS, England, February A.
Winston Churchill accused the
Labor government today of tear
ing Britain apart with class war
fare at the most critical hour in
its peacetime history.
Mr.. Churchill said the Labor
ties. taking a leaf from Soviet
RusSia's book, have kept wartime
controls in order ito get every
one into their power, and make
them stand in queues for the IA
vors which an all-wise and
all-powerful governing machine
chooses to bestow."
In speech prepared for an
election campaign rally in the
town hall of this textile center of
100000 people, the 75-year-old
Conservative Party leader de-
clared:
Even if all our strength were
united We should be confronted
with the hardest task and problem
we have ever faced in time of
peace.
Sees Party Politics" Dominat ton.
But we are a deeply divided
nation. Glass warfare has rent
the unities and comradeship which
brought us through the war. Party
politics dominate the scene. A
great gulf of principle and doc
trine is open in our midst"
Leeds is one of the biggest cities
in the industrial north of England.
which both of the major parties
regard as a main battle-ground in
the general election February %.
Deputy Premier Herbert Morrison,
Labor's chief political strategist,
broadcasts from here tonight.
In the 1945 election Labor won
five of the six Leeds seats in the
House of Commons and lost the
other one by only 1913 votes. Be-
cause of a redistricting of the
nation. seven are at stake this
time.
Mr.. Churchill said all the gov
ernments of the Western world
except that of Laborite Prime
Minister Clement Attlee desired
strongly to lift wartime controls
as soon as possible after peace
came.
Cites U. s. Action.
The United States led the
way" he said, land in 1946 by a
most daring decision of policy they
swept away practically all the
wartime controls, prices, rationing
and regulations of all kinds which
they regarded as a great evil likely
to hamper their recovery.
"As I said in Parliament more
than two years ago, they threw
the reins on the horses neck
and trusted him to pull their
wagon up the hill
although a presidential elec-
ton has taken place meanwhile,
none OF these controls have been
reimposed. The strong horse still
has the reins on his neck and
is still pulling the wagon up the
hill, and letting us hitch-hike be-
hind him"
Evening star., 1950-02-04
Finder Gets His Rest
Before Returning
Producers 100000
By the Associated Press

LOS ANGELES, Feb. A.
Film Producer Virginia Pfeif-
fer had some anxious hours
after she lost a tin box con-
tanning 100000 in gems and
negotiable securities.
But Dan Bobo, an aircraft
worker, found the box on his
way home from the all-night
sniff, and decided to get his
sleep before notifying police.
Miss Pfeiffer- had it back last
night.
She told officers the box fell
from an airlines limousine
taking her to hollywood after
a fight from Memphis. Tenn,
where she attended her moth
er's funeral. The securities
had been her mothers.
Evening star., 1950-02-04
Reds Stop Inspecting
Berlin Truck Traffic
BY the Associoted Press

BERLIN. Feb. 4.-The Russians
abruptly dropped all inspection of
Berlin-bound truck traffic shortly
before noon today.
Soviet frontier guards started
moving stacked up vehicles
through the Helmstedt frontier
post at the rate of one every
minute.
Earlier today the Soviet zone
Economic Commission had sent
word normal" clearance of truck
traffic would start Monday.
West German border police said
the backlog of waiting trucks
that had reached a maximum of
230 was rapidly disappearing.
The police said at the rate the
Russians were waving all traffic
through, the border would be clear
by midafternoon.
C. A. Dix, American transport
officer, said he had received the
earlier assurance of plans to per-
NIT normal traffic from East
German authorities, but added
he would wait to see if it was true.
Evening star., 1950-02-04
Navy Bans Derisive Expressions
Like Brass Hats and 'Airedo|es'
Trade School Boys Term for Annapolis Men
Barred, Along With 'Gyrene' and Mustang

states that those and other SIM
liar terms serve only to bring
about disunity within the service,
whereas every effort is being made
to bring about unification of the
armed forces. The policy is set
forth in the Navy Public Rela-
tions News Letter." a weekly pub
lication issued 'by authority of the
Secretary of the Navy to inform
flag and other ranking officers,
commanding officers, executive
and staff officers of current poll
cies -" -,.. .-
Another term which naval per-
sonnet are forbidden to use above
a whisper is black shoe Navy"
This refers to non-aviation per-
sonnel and is applied principally
by the aviators who alone are al
(See BRASS, Page A-2.)
Evening star., 1950-02-04

SINGAPORE. Malaga, Feb. 4
R.-American Ambassador Philip
c. Jessup and Mrs. Jessup arrived
here today from Jakarta Cor a
round of conferences. DR.. Jessup
will meet with Malcolm MacDon-
aid, Britain's commissioner gen.
eral for Southeast Asia, and other
British officials. He will fly to
Rangoon Tuesday for the con-
ference of American diplomats.
Evening star., 1950-02-04

A Swedish sailor. who was
AWOL when his ship left here
yesterday, explained 1t all today.
He wanted to see more of Amer
lea.
At least. that is the way Lars
Johansson was quoted by officers
at the Naval Gun Factory. He is
the guest" Of the armed services
there.
Sailor Johansson was missing
when his ship. the Swedish cruiser
Gotland, left here for Bermuda.
Evening star., 1950-02-04
Lord Norman, Is, Dies;
Mystery Man Headed
Bank Of England
Once Powerful Financial
Figure Beeon Career
With New York Firm
BY tbs Assoeiofed Press

LONDON, Feb. 4.-Lord Nor
man. long time governor of the
Bank of England and a powerful
man of mystery in the world of
finance, died in his sleep early
today at his London home. He
was 78.
AS Montagu, Collet Norman
"the Sphinx of Threadneedle
Evening star., 1950-02-04
Communist SABOTAGE
Against Atlantic Pact
in Europe
Expected to Shift From
France, With Big Drive
Occurring in Italy
By Preston Grover
Asaoeioisd Press fofeisr censspondent

~ssoe'oIsp f'sss 1ofefSh ~cHesponoem
PARIS, Feb. "A Communist
sabotage attack, aimed at smash
ing the Atlantic Pact and Marshall
aid. is spreading over Western
Europe.
For the moment the attacks
seem confined largely to France.
But American sources here think
the biggest drive ultimately will
come in Italy.
In France there are two imme-
diate objectives:
/. To prevent unloading of
American military equipment COM
ing to Europe under the military
aid program.
2. To cripple Frances effort to
save Indo-China from the Com
munists. Forces fighting the
French-sponsored regime there of
former Emperor Bao Dai are
viewed by the French government
as the Spearhead of a Red thrust
through Southeast Asia.
The Communist operation plan
here in France is clearcut. A real
grievance held by a local group is
linked to a Cominform political
aim. And the Communists have
real workers grievances" to ex-
plot.
Wages have Jagged behind
prices. Months ago the govern
ment promised to lift the freeze
order on wages and permit some
collective bargaining. The freeze
is still on.
The Communists have had no
trouble getting Socialist labor
unions to 60 along with demands
for wage bonuses and higher pay
Often the Reds have maneuvered
the unions into demonstrations
against low wages, American aid,
and the 1ndo-C China affair, all in
a bundle.
Communist TRADES blame Mar
shall aid for low French wages and
European unemployment. Work
stoppages are real and damaging
The Communist official newspaper
L'Humanite. in one edition listed
more than score of them in the
Paris area.
Communist leaders well-known
in France have been sent as shock
troop organizers to the main CEN
tiers of the country. Dock Workers
at Marseille, always trouble spot,
refused to load ships carrying
arms and men to Indo-C China.
Supplies for the troops in the Far
East often arrive sabotaged.
Stern Government Action.
Responsible sources in Paris say
the Red attacks will be met by
the sternest kind of governmental
action. Quick arrest of agitators
in a recent Communist-inspired
strike at the st. Nazaire govern
Evening star., 1950-02-04
By Howard w. BIokeslee
Assceiofed Press Science Editor

NEW YORK, Feb. 4.-Twelve
top American physicists. nine OF
them A-bomb experts, warned
solemnly today that one hydrogen
bomb can destroy New York or
any other large city.
They said using the H-bomb
would betray morality and urged
that the United States promise
not to use it first.
The group was headed by DR..
Hans Bethe, Cornell University
professor, who was one of the
leading American A-bomb makers
at Los Alamos, N. Mex.
Another warning on the atomic
energy race came last night from
DR.. Frederick Seitz of the Uni
versity of Illinois. He told the
American Physical Society meet
ing here that there is grave
danger that Russia will pass us in
the next decade"
DR.. Bethe said his colleagues
Evening star., 1950-02-04
Quake Destroys Iran Towns

TEHERAN, Iran, Feb. 4 (E.-
Several villages were destroyed and
two persons killed in another
earthquake in tile tiabandi area
south of Bushire on the Persian
Gulf. the government press re-
ported today. The government
said 20 were killed and two in
iured in the quakes near Bushire
last week.
Evening star., 1950-02-04
Driver Hurt as Car Lops Of
Z Poles, Rolls Over. Twice

A motorist, who apparently fell
asleep while driving on South
Capitol street early today, wound
up in Casualty Hospital.
According to police, the car
driven by Eugene Davis, %, COL
ored, of 936 Howard road Sc,
snapped of two steel light poles
near Firth Sterling street and
turned over twice before coming
to stop right side up.
Mr.. Davis was reported to have
suffered severe back injuries.
Evening star., 1950-02-04

made the statement to reporters
as he appeared at the Capitol to
testify before the Senate House
Atomic Energy Committee. Alarm
ed Congressmen called him for
questioning about the extent of in
formation that the British SCENT
list, DR.. Klaus Fuchs, now under
arrest in London. may have OBJ
tanned in this country.
Reporters asked Gen. Groves
for comment about a report that
information said to have been
passed on by Fuchs would have
given the Russians at least years
headway on atomic work.
Conduct Stirred No Suspicious.
Gen. Groves said year would
be very small amount of time"
gained by the Russians from in
formation received from Fuchs-if
the reports are correct-and from
the Canadian spy ring whose &C
tivities were revealed four years
ago.
Gen. Groves also told reporters
in response to other questions that
Fuchs conduct was never such as
to arouse any suspicious, as far as
! know"
The British scientist worked on
the atomic project from 1943 to
1946 as one of a British mission
Gen. Groves said he was "vouched
for" by the British government
and that American authorities at
that time had no way of checking
on him.
Access Not Unlimited.
Gen. Groves said Fuchs did not
have unlimited access to atomic
information. But he emphasized
that the British scientist was
given information about the
atomic bomb and participated in
discussions on proposed new de-
velopments.
Gen. Groves was asked if this
meant that Fuchs knew about the
plans for a deadly hydrogen bomb.
Gen. Groves refused to answer
directly, but left the impression
that this was one of the develop
ments being considered at that
time.
Gen. Groves recalled that he
testified before a congressional
committee in 1946 that it would
take the Russians from five to
seven years, with technical assist
ance from this country. to devel-
op an atomic bomb. Russian
progress, he added, indicates "they
got lot more help" than he had
anticipated.
The committee met with Gen.
Groves at 10:3o am. and was still
in session two hours later.
Senator Tydings, Democrat, of
Evening star., 1950-02-04
Excise Tax Cuts
May Go Beyond
Snyder r'sGoa|
House Group Likely
To Propose Billion
Instead of 655 Million
By J. A. O'LeoV

The House Ways and Means
Committee may give taxpayers
more relief from wartime excise
levies than the $655 100000 re-
duction asked by Treasury Sec
retary Snyder. The cuts may
come closer to 100000.
Informed sources believe the
committee will try to raise enough
revenue to balance the excise cuts
by closing so-called loopholes in
corporation taxes, but observers
doubt this session of Congress will
give the Treasury the $1,000, ,000,-
900 net increase in revenue it
asked for yesterday. Most of this
increase would have to come from
raising the rates on the incomes of
corporations in the high brackets.
At least three Democrats on the
committee indicated today they
are ready to make some cut in
the amusements admission tax,
particularly to help moviegoers.
Representatives Young of Ohio,
King of California and Eber-
harter of Pennsylvania, all DEM
ocrats, thought this tax should
be considered. The Treasury left
admissions, Photographic equip
ment, local telephone bills and
electric light bulbs off its list of
tax reductions.
Local Phone Reduction Urged.
Mr.. King complained that
Photographic supplies are carry
ing too heavy a tax burden, with
a Is per cent rate, while other
articles now paying 20 per cent
would be reduced by the Treasury
program.
Mr.. Eberharter thought that
since the Treasury is ready to
cut the tax on long distance tele-
phone calls from Is to Is per
cent. some relief should be given
home owners in the Is per cent
tax on local telephone bills.
The committee was told that
cutting the admissions tax in half
would amount to 5000, 900 900, and
similar cut on local phone bills
would be about $125, ,000,0 900.
These two items would bring the
Treasury's tax cuts close to a bill
lion dollars.
The committee is in recess to-
day, but starting Monday morn
ing, it faces several weeks of hear
ings before any decisions will be
made.
Corporation Loopholes Are Target.
Under questioning yesterday,
Secretary Snyder agreed there is
merit in the arguments for trim
ming the excise levies not on the
Treasury list. He said the reve-
nue. experts studied the entire
schedule and picked what they re-
garded as the most urgent for
immediate relief.
It is not likely, however. the
committee will go to the floor of
the House with relief for six or
seven items and leave three or
four others untouched.
The Treasury wants to Offset
the excise cuts by raising $780,
100000 from closing corporation
loopholes, $400. .O0o, 900 from higher
estate and gift taxes, and $675,-
100000 by raising the income
taxes on corporations with net
income of $4,000 or more.
The Ways and Means Commit
tee consists of Is Democrats and
10 Republicans. The Republicans
are expected to vote solidly for
Evening star., 1950-02-04
High School Graduates
In Pictorial MAGAZINE

Tomorrow's Star will contain
photos of the mid-year grad
uating classes of Anacostia,
Central, Coolidge, Eastern,
Mckinley and Roosevelt High
Schools. Graduates of other
Washington area high schools
will be pictured in later issues.
The first group of class photos
will be found on Pages 8-9 of
The Pictorial Magazine of
Chr Smnnat1 Star