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The Nome nugget., 1950-08-30
gate the complaint.

gave IllC SOlAIpAoAAI. Tomorrow the Council meets again, and it will be Malik's last days as president, so he is expected to uncork his strongest propagan- da weapons. Britain's Sir Clad wyn Jebb takes over as president Friday.
 Malik's latest propaganda de- vice was an alleged protest against continuation of the war, purport- edly signed by 39 U. S. officers and men held prisoner in North Korea. There was one glaring de- feet in the protest" however. It was couched in terms which long have become familiar to the world as the communist way of saying things.
 In Washington. meanwhile, the Truman administration was at tackled by Sen. Taft R.-Ohio), who demanded the President clear up what the Senator called complete lack of both plans and policy" to meet the threat of World War III. He suggested the re-arming of Western Germany and Italy against a possible Rus sian attack.
 Secretary of State Acheson was attacked in another quarter. The Veterans of Foreign Wars in con- vention in Chicago were prepar- ing to vote on a resolution calling for the discharge of both Acheson and secretary of defense Louis Johnson.
 The Reds in North Korea step- ped up their propaganda against American bombings, claiming in a broadcast from Pyongyang, their capital, that U. S. bombers hit a field hospital. The broadcast said a protest note had been sent to the U. N.
 But the unrelenting American attacks from air and sea contin- ued, putting a steady drain on communist supply lines through cue Korea. The planes also at- tackled heavily all along the 120- mile battlefront, listing 25 tanks and 87 trucks destroyed or dam aged in yesterdays raids.
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When the Secretary of Defense, Louis Johnson, at tempted to account for the spent by the
 military establishment in the last few years he pointed out that SAP OO0 O000 900 used to iquidae World War H.
 This is surprising sum- Mr. Johnson's explanation includes two items, terminal leave pay and "the amounts paid to contractors whose wartime produc- tion contracts were ternated It migh be interesting information for the people of this country to know ex- actly how much money, whether millions or billions, used to settle the claims o war contractors In tact there have been rather unsavory stories in con- nection with the approval of termination contracts
 This brings mind another fact that is not generally known in the United States In 194O and 1941 when the Government of the United States attempting to persuade the nations ndustraliss to convert to the manufacture of materials, many of the nation s leading manufacturers refused to convert their plants to defense production until their terms met by the Government.
 Of course, the magnitude of the conflict made this
 silly but should not be overlooked that many of the n- dustriasts only insisted upon the construction of new plants but that the Government, in making the first wargoods contract should allow sufficient profit to the indusriasts pay for the plant This meant in essence that the Government would pay for the plants and the industrialists would them. Upon subse- uent orders the Government would pay profit to the industriasts who had thus acquired the plant con- Structed by the Government.
 In the face of the danger that confronts the tion there are some labor leaders who remember what happened in 194O and 1941. They remind business men that here are no profits under Soviet rue and assert that the nation cannot afford the luxury of strike by the nations ndustriasts As George Meany secretary of the American Federation of Labor says the ndustr asts demanded that there be tax defense prOduc tion profits that they have veyear plant amortization and that the government meet their demands before they began produce If anybody is interested in the subject and will take the trouble to study the record of 1940 and 1941, they will find that MT. Meany is telling the truth
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Korean Situation
 At A Glance ...
Continued from Page One)

seemed likely the communists now were under orders to strike for Pusan at all costs.
 However, a spokesman for Gen. MacArthur'S headuarters in Tok- yo said the Reds had lost the chance to make a quick march on Pusan. He said Allied ability to move reinforcement quickly to any threatened point in the U. N. beachhead-in-depth on Korea, re- moved chances for success for such quick thrust.
 The new Red roadblock near Pohang, posed a serious threat. Yongchon, some 25 miles south- west of Pohang, is astride main highway leading westward to Tae- gu. It is on the road southward from the Red central front push at Uihong. The same road leads south from Yongchon to Pusan.
 British troops, vanguard of more United Nations ground forces yet to come, stepped ashore in South Korea, about 1,500 strong, to fight beside the Americans and South Koreans. To the vail of bagpipes, English soldiers and Scottish "La- dies from Hell" disembarked with some of their own battle equip ment. A Scottish officer said they weer ready to go." In the British force are units of the famed Ar gyll and Sutherland and the Mid dlesex regiments, especially train ed for the type of war which is raging in Korea.
 Along the blazing 45-m e northern front, the Reds have committed 10000 troops in the twin attempts to take Pohang, No. 2 east coast Allied port, and en- velop Taegu, forward U. N. base.
 North of Aegu, hub of the cen tral front, Red forces showed back South Koreans four miles in an advance in the Uihong sector, driving to within IS miles of Tae- gu, to try a new avenue for an at tempted breakthrough.
 An Allied intelligence officer said it was in this sector that the giant communist offensive might begin to develop. The focus of the offensive may be determined as soon as the elite Second North Ko- rean Division is returned to the line. There are signs of Red rein forcements in the rear of this sector. Two Red division, the 18th and 18th, are not far away and could be brought into action in case of a breakttTough.
 The Allied air attacks continued around the front. Air and ground reports for Tuesday listed four Red tanks destroyed, two ammu- hilton dumps exploded, 28 ve- hicles of all types knocked out and between 12 and IS artillery pieces put out of action.
 B-29's dropped 23O tons on en- emy railyards at Chongjin, 60 miles south of Soviet Sibera. Light bombers plastered Red supply lines.
 U. S. Navy guns plastered the North Korean positions around Pohang. The South Korean navy reported the destruction of two Red ships yesterday off the south west coast.
 Soviet Russia opens a new
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Wednesday. August 30. 1850

lieu OC4CAASCS HI oOOIAA AAOASo " day in battles growing hourly in ferocity. Furious fighting wrecked the outskirts of Pohang, eastern anchor of the United Nations line, as the Reds suffered bloody losses for few yards of ground.
 The Reds were throwing 10000 troops at the eastern end of the Allied line in the north in an all- out bid to seize Pohang, No. 2 AL lied port.
 Another 10000 troops were blasting at the central sector of the Allied northern wall, driving down from Uihung, some 18 miles north of Taegu, rail hub which is the Allied forward base. Under an umbrella of artillery and mor- tar fire, the Reds dented the de- fense line there for about two third of a mile. "
 Indications were that another 10000 Red troops-the North Ko- rean 18th Division-was edging eastward across the northern front to a point where it could be plunged into either of the big bat tles-the Unhung drive o rthe Po- hand assault-in an attempt to ram through a decisive power blow. Collapse of the Allied line at either point would bring the Reds flooding into Taegu.
 ' furious was the Pohang bat tie that at times both sides were counterattacking at the same time. The Allied troops held to the port city and roads leading westward to Taegu, but they had lost Kigye nine miles northwest of Pohang, which changed hands three times in 48 hours.
 On the Naktong River at the western end of the northern front, element sof the U. S. First .Caval- ry Division kicked off against Reds entrenched on a 1.700 foot hill four miles northeast of Wac gwan, a town 12 miles northwest of Taegu. The attack was against Reds in company strength or greater, and gained to within 200 feet of the summit of the hill in five hours. To the south on the western front, U. $. artillery blasted Red attempts to cross the Naktong River, inflicting heavy losses.
 On the southern end of the l20- mile battle line in South Korea, U. s. Negro troops and South Ko- rean units threw back six deter mined attacks in 48 hours, al- though none was in great strength. Subok Mountain-named Battle Mountain by the CTS because of the bloody fighting there-chang- ed hands for the eighth time in two weeks and was back in Allied hands after a day-long fight.
 The United States threw out a hint it intended eventually to toss out the communist regime which rules North Korea beyond the 33th parallel. The psychological war fare branch of the Far East Com mand, in an air raid warning leaf let being dropped in North Korea, has advised citizens to move away from target cities and tells them "you can held build strong, free Korea after the communists have been driven out"
 The war of words will continue
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said it would welcome an on-the- spot U. N. investigation.
Evening star., 1950-03-25
Frank Buck, Bring I'm Back
Alive Game Hunter, Dies at 66
Hoir-Breodth Escapes
Marked His Searches
For Rure Animals
BY the Associated Press

HOUSTON. Tex, Mar. 25.-
Frank Bring EN- Back Alive)
Buck, famed wild animal hunter,
died today at Hermann Hospital
here. He was sc.
Attendants said a lung ailment
caused his death. Shortly before
entering Hermann Hospital a
month ago, Mr.. Buck was exam
ined at the University of Texas
M. D. Anderson Hospital for Can
Ger Research here.
Services will be held at fu-
neral home here at 4 pm. tomor-
row. The body will be cremated.
Death in bed overlook the man
who had lived a life of hair
breadth escapes in many parts
Of the world.
Flom the time he was 18, Mr..
Buck roamed the earth. In 1911
he made his first jungle expedi-
ton to South America-the first
of a series in search of rare ami
mails and reptiles that built his
reputation. Thereafter. he went
to Malaga, India. Borneo, Burma,
Evening star., 1950-03-25
DC. Living Costs Drop
.1.6 Pei. in ; Months,
Reaching 2-Year Low
Food Declines Most;
Fuel and Electricity
Among Higher Items
By Malcolm Lomborne. Jr.

Washington's cost of living
dropped 16 per cent in the three
month period ending February Is
and was the lowest in two years
This was the good news today
from the Bureau of Labor Sta
tistics, which also reported a
drop of two-tenths of l per cent
in the cost of living for the coun-
try as whole between mid-Jan-
uary and mid-February.
Retail prices of goods and serv-
ices bought by moderate income
families in Washington are sur
veyed only every three months, as
against monthly checks nation
ally.
The agency said the consumer
price index for Washington on
February Is was the lowest since
February, 1948. The three month
drop in living costs was attributed
to lower food costs. Food prices
here dropped A per cent. Fuel
electricity and refrigeration prices
increased 13 per cent, while most
clothing and miscellaneous prices
remained unchanged.
For anyone barking back to
OPA days, the BIS noted that
prices here in February were still
22.3 per cent above those of June,
1916.
The two-tenths of l per cent
decline reported for the country
was attributed to a drop of six
tenths of per cent in food prices
and one-tenth of l per cent for
clothing.
Living costs in large cities now
are is per cent lower than a year
ago, but rs per cent above the
June, 1916, level.
The bureau said average food
prices declined in February in A
of the 46 cities surveyed.
Biggest food price declines ma
tionally were IA per cent for
eggs. bringing that item to it's
lowest February level since 1912,
and 2.8 per cent for fruits and
vegetables. Lesser declines were
noted for fats and oils, dairy
products and sugar.
Rents rose two-tenths of per
cent in February, with prices of
fuel, electricity and refrigeration
as a group increasing two-tenths
of / per cent also. House fur
nishings rose three-tenths of /
per cent during the month.
Evening star., 1950-03-25
Scared Elephants Run Amok;
One Rolls on Circus Attendant

The elephants tore loose from
their handlers and set out on a
rampage through this Los Angeles
suburb that caused uncounted
damage.
Frightened residents deluged
the police station switchboard
with hysterical stories of monsters
roaming through their backyards
and crashing through fences. One
of the elephants wandered into
Ia tile manufacturing plant and
set a night watchman screaming.
Sergt. Stevens and other officers
and circus attendants finally
cornered the elephants in aevacant
lot, quieted them and led them
back to the circus train. The
train departed soon afterward' for
San Fernando. Calf.
The showgrounds were virtually
empty Of patrons at the time of
the outbreak.
Evening star., 1950-03-25
2Ex-Convicts Arrested
In Safe-Cracking Case

Police today reported arrest Of
two safe-crackers with long police
records on charges OF Iooting the
safe of the Standard Transfer
Co. earlier this week.
"A total of $1,000 in cash and
$1,000 in travellers checks was
taken from the safe of the COM
pany on Thursday night in the
company office at Fourth and
Bryant streets NE.
Charged with housebreaking
are Robert James Judd, 28. of
the 900 block of Maryland avenue
NE, and Ernest White, jr., 38.
of the TOO block of Fourth
street NV.
When they appeared before
United States Commissioner Cyril
S. Lawrence today. bond was set
at $500 each and the case was
continued until April 4.
Police said that Judd has been
convicted of housebreaking in the
past and has been arrested before
on robbery and assault charges.
White, police stated, has been con-
victed of grand larceny, robbery
and has served time in Alcatraz.
The pair were arrested last
night in a rooming house in the
900 block of Eighth street NV.
Neither man admits the house,
breaking, police stated, but the
travellers checks were recovered
in the room where the pair were
arrested.
Evening star., 1950-03-25
Crock-Shot Detective Hits Hand
Of Suspect Raising Loaded Gun
Fires Revolver as Orde,
To Drop Weapon to
Floor Is Unheeded

Precinct Detective Eden E.
Ernst is a man who takes his
craftsmanship seriously.
Facing a loaded shotgun last
night. he put a bullet fright where
I wanted TON the trigger hand
of a suspect.
The man. listed as Arthur James
Smith, So. colored. of TOO Fiji
teenth street NV, was treated at
Gallinger Hospital and removed
to the central cellblock, charged
with assault with deadly weapon.
Smith was ordered held by Mu-
nicipal Court Judge Armond w.
Scott in SO, 900 bond. The case was
continued until next Thursday.
"I've been teaching marksman-
ship for five years." laughed De-
teetive Ernst, 80 I ought to be
able to put my shot where I
want it,"
Holder of expert ratings for
both pistol and rifle, the detective,
who has been on the force for 71z
OF his 20 years. is also coach of
Evening star., 1950-03-25

the rifle team at Coolidge High
School.
Detective Ernst, who has beer
a plainclothes man at No. 2 pre-
cinct for the last 10 months, ex.
planned the incident this way:
He answered call for a man
with a shotgun" at the Fifteenth
street address. There. Mrs. Lucille
Majors, II. colored, who lives in
basement apartment. said she
had been threatened by Smith
her landlord. who was then up
stairs In his own apartment.
Revolver in hand. Detective
Ernst cautiously. .climbed the stairs
and on the second floor found two
other policemen from No. 3 pre-
cinct-Pvts. Jack E. Hudson and
Philip N. Wagner-outside Smith s
apartment.
open the door. it's the police, II
shouted Detective Ernst.
The man refused. but in answer
to kicks on the door by the officers
he finally pushed the door open
Detective Ernst was about IL feet
from the door.
"All of us were in plain view,'
recalled Detective Ernst. He held
the shotgun at an angle. pointing
toward the floor in our direction. ~
Drop the gun." ordered the de-
tective.
The man didn't reply but slowly
began to bring the muzzle of the
weapon upward.
when he came level with my
stomach" Detective Ernst said, 81
fired, and got him right where ]
wanted ton the right wrist"
The shotgun slipped sideways
and the three officers leaped into
the room and grabbed it. A 16-
gauge, it was found to be loaded
with the safety catch off.
Married, Detective Ernst lives
at II Hawaii avenue NE, and has
a 32-year-old son. Billy.
Evening star., 1950-03-25
u. S. Attoche at Prague Rides
On Escape Flight, Is Amazed
Former Baltimore Librarian Is Sure Many
Did Not Know Plane Was to Be Diverted

Czechs heard the news on foreign
broadcasts. strengthening their be-
| lief that big events have happened,
or are about to. in this Com
munist-governed state.
Asked about reports current in
Prague that at least one Czech
government official and several key
Communist Party members were
aboard the planes, Miss Kosmak
said:
Il didn't recognize any one i'm
portant aboard my plane. And I
didn't recognize any one important
among the passengers from the
other planes. But then I would
probably be able only to recognize
President Kelement Gottwald
among the top Communists in
Czechoslovakia."
|. I'm sure lot of people on my
plane were not in on the plot.
They just seemed terribly sur
prised. 1 don't think most of the
passengers on my plane knew
what was happening"
Miss Kosmak, who has been
~ n
Evening star., 1950-03-25
BY the A.soeiotsd Press

POMONA, Calf. Mar. 25.-Two
elephants frightened by a passing
train broke away from their circus
keepers last night, ran amok for
an hour and a half and critically
injured an attendant who tried to
load them back on their train.
Leroy Spellman, 20. circus at
tendant. was seriously hurt when
a Atom female elephant picked
him up in her trunk. threw him
to the ground and then rolled on
him. He was taken to Pomona
Hospital with multiple abrasions
and internal injuries. r
Police Sergt. Ed Stevens said
the huge animals were being led
back to the circus train after a
performance of the Clyde Beatty
Circus here. A blast from the
whistle Of a passing train threw
them into panic.
Evening star., 1950-03-25
Senators ConsiderLaW
To Get Sex Offenders
Names for Agencies
Would Require Police
To Notify Government
Of Arrest Of Employees

A Senate subcommittee Is
studying the need for a law that
would compel District police to
pass along to Government agen-
cies the names of all employees
arrested on morals charges.
This was revealed today as the
basic reason for the appearance
on Capitol Hill this week OF
Police 1t. Roy Blick, vice squad
chief, and Sergt. James K. Hunt
er, whose forte is anti-com-
muniSm.
The question of whether police
were informing the Government
about the arrest of homosexuals
was raised before the Senate Dis
trict appropriations subcommittee
by Senator Wherry. Republican,
Of Nebraska.
List Not Turned Over.
Senator Wherry indicated he
Is anxious to clear the Govern
ment of poor security risks as
represented by easy-to-blackmail
perverts.
1t was learned that, contrary to
some reports. police have not
given the subcommittee a list of
known sex offenders.
The purpose of the subcommit-
tee, headed by Senator Hill, Dem
ocrat, of Alabama, is to Cd learn
whether the police are passing
along the names of offenders, (2)
whether more policemen are
needed to cope with such prob
lens, and 90 whether a law is
needed making mandatory the
supplying of offenders names to
personnel and loyalty boards.
1t was pointed out that the ap-
preparations subcommittee simply
passes on the police department
budget. 1t does not have legis-
lative powers. But it can recon-
mend to the proper authority that
new legislation is indicated.
Cites Newspaper Reports.
From the super secret proceed
ings it was learned there has been
no systematic practice by police
of passing along names of sus-
poets to the Government.
Whether there is need for legis-
lation probably will be developed
in other sessions of the subcom-
mittee. It also may decide
whether there is need for a thor
ough investigation by a COM
mittee authorized to conduct q
ull-f1edged inquiry.
Yesterday Representative Hoff-
man, Republican, of Michigan,
asked for an investigation on the
basis of a newspaper columnist's
reports of immortality in the
State Department.
Evening star., 1950-03-25
Outlook for Blossoms Dim;
Cool Week End Forecast

With the Weather Bureau pre-
dieting cooler temperatures for
the Washington area over the
week end, things were looking
bleak today for the openings OF
the Cherry Blossom Festival.
Edward Kelly, National Capt.
tai Parks spokesman, saw very
little chance" that the buds
would open in time for the start
of the festival next Saturday
What is needed, he explained, is
at least a week of real spring
weather, which is something the
forecaster can't seem to find on
his map just now.
The outlook calls for increasing
cloudiness with a few sprinkles
of rain today and a high about
10 degrees under yesterdays IS
Tonight will be clear with a low
of IS in the city and 80 in the
suburbs. More clouds and COO
weather are expected tomorrow
with rain in the afternoon OF
evening.
Evening star., 1950-03-25
Gun-Lashing Suspect
In Robbery Of Druggis'
5urrenders 70 Police
Short-Order Cook Goes
To Headquarters; Hunt
For Another Continues

A 26-year-old short order cook
wanted in the pistol whipping and
robbery of a District druggist on
March Is. walked into Police
headquarters last night and sur
rendered. police revealed this
morning.
1t. Edgar E. Scott. head of the
Robbery Squad, said the man,
Augustine F. Lawrence, of the
300 block of Lancer place, Queens
Chapel Manor. Md, was charged
with armed robbery.
Police said that Lawrence also
had been charged with participa-
ton in the holdup of the Plaza
Hotel recently, when $50 was
taken from the night clerk.
When he appeared before United
States Commissioner Cyril S. Law
renee today, bond was set at
$4,000 on each count, total OF
$4,000. The case was continued
until April 4.
Still sought is a man who helped
beat and rob Marvin Silver. 45. OF
818 xenia place Sc, of $38 in
cash and 1882 in checks. Mr.,
Silver spent three days in the hos
pital after the beating.
Detectiyes Given Credit.
1t. Scott gave credit for Law
rence's surrender to the painstak-
ing work of three detectives who
have been working on the case.
Lawrence knew they were closing
In on him and decided to give
himself up. 1t. Scott said.
The three were Detective
Sergts. Nunzio Bonaccorsy, Paul
E. Clark and E. D. Crandall. They
obtained at the scene Of the rob-
bery-the sidewalk outside Mr..
Silver's drugstore at 4141 Wheeler
road s. E.-parts of license num-
bers Of cars seen in the vicinity.
With only the partial numbers
to follow, the detectives began
checking all license registrations
which contained these fragments
OF numbers, 1t. Scott said. They
finally ran across one automobile,
with Maryland tag, which Law
renee did not own but borrowed
occasionally.
Lawrence has a record for rob-
berry, 1t. Scott related, and he
seemed likely suspect. At pres
ent he is on three years probation
(See ROBBERY. Page A-2l
Evening star., 1950-03-25

ROME, N. Y, Mar. 25 (P.-A
second airman died today of burns
suffered in the crash of an Air
Force transport plane Thursday
He was Maj. Charles J. Boise. jr.,
80. formerly of Syracuse. Maj.
Boise, a flight instructor, was in
the pilots compartment when the
CAT crashed just after taking off
from nearby Griffiss Air Force
Base during a snoWsterm.