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Evening star., 1950-08-26
80 VA Atomic Specialists
To Meet in Martinsburq
By the Assoeiated Press

MARTINSBURG, w. Va, Aug
|26.-Thirty Veterans Administra-
ton atomic specialists will meet
here Monday to discuss training
VA personnel in the medical and
defensive aspects of atomic war
fare.
The conference at the Martins
burg Veterans Hospital will be con-
Quoted by DR.. George NJ. Lyon,
special assistant for atomic medi-
cine in the VAS department of
medicine and surgery.
Attending will be experts from
the VAS research and education
service and IA veterans hospitals
in various parts of the country in
which radioisotop laboratories are
located.
Dr.. Lyon said the meetings will
concern only Pathological defense
plans for VA establishments. The
program will be co-ordinated with
those set up nationally and in each
State.
Evening star., 1950-08-26
$4,000 Bond Frees
Bookkeeper Linked 10
100000 Embez1Iinq

A contrite bookkeeper charged
with embezzling what may prove
to be nearly 100000 from the
international Association of Ma
chinists here, today was free un-
der $4,000 bond. awaiting grand
tary action.
At his Municipal Court arraign-
ment yesterday, Richard G. Rich
ardson, ~, of Ft. Hunt road. Alex
andria. was charged with only one
embezzlement count, involving
$2,700, taken from the Machinists
Office on August 18.
Just after his bail was put up
by q bonding company, Richard
son told reporters the total
amount taken over the last 18
months probably will come to
$4,000. Earlier, in court, Prose-
cutor William Glendon told Judge
D. Nelson authorities understand
the amount embezzled is closer to
$100.000.
Wants To Correct Mistake
AS the tall. good-looking de-
fendant posed for news photo
graphs in the court press room,
he admitted to reporters that "a
mistake has to be corrected"
81. want to get a job and start
afreSh." Richardson said. "I am
glad this has all come to an end"
He said he used the largest
part of the embezzled funds to
bet on race horses and to buy
such things as a television set.
furniture, new car and clothing
for his wife and three children.
Payroll Padding Charged.
AS payroll clerk for the ma
chinists' association, Richardson's S
duties included taking a check to
the City Bank here each Friday
and collecting cash for the Office
payroll. On at least four success
sive Fridays, it was said, Rich
ardson drew $2,700 more than
was required to meet the pay
roll.
Richardson, q native of WASH
ington, was graduated from Mont
gomery Blair High School about
10 years ago and then went to
work for the machinist organiza-
ton. -,
During court proceedings. Rich
ardson's wife and parents, all
obviously distraught, sat in the
rear of the court room. Richard
son is represented by Attorneys
Robert Hawkins and L. Harold
Sothoron, who is also a Maryland
State Senator.
Evening star., 1950-08-26
Major Who Shot Self
Is Reported Improved

An Army major who shot him
self yesterday with a German
''ourp" gun was reported some
what improved" but still in a
critical condition today at Airing
ton Hospital.
Maj. James T. Lakin, 35, of 818
South Florida street, Arlington,
nay be transferred to the Walter
Red Hospital today If his condi-
ton permits, Arlington Hospital
authorities said.
Maj. Lakin shot himself while
kneeling nude in his apartment
early yesterday morning. Five
bullets hit him in the chest and
upper left arm and shoulder. His
wife, Evelyn, witnessed the shoot
ing, which occurred while their
two young sons were asleep in a
nearby bedroom.
Maj. Lakin, an artillery officer
IN Europe during World War II.
is a Congressional liaison officer
for the Army Chief of Staff, sta
toned at the Pentagon. Police re-
ported he was respondent over the
possibility of war with Russia and
financial problems resulting from
law suit.
Evening star., 1950-08-26
Survivors
Continued From First Page.)

and the freight Mary Luckenbach
collided.
John Graham, A, Navy chief
hospitalman from Leslie, Ark,
was in the mess hall when the
crash came.
I'VE ran to the boat deck and
grabbed a line and slid over the
side. First I was in the water,
then I found a loaded life raft
and climbed aboard. Looking
back. I saw the ship rolling over
until her stack was under water.
She seemed to go down bow first. I"
when the crash came" said
Joseph Uzarewich, 25, a mer-
chant sailor of Bayonne, N. Y,
''the tables in the mess hall
started flying all over hell. I
ran UP the boat deck and down
the ladder. I landed in the water
and was in there about two hours
until I got picked up."
Comdr. M. K. Clementson, u.
S. NJ, and 1t. Comdr Julian I.
Schocken, second and third off,
GERS, respectively, said they were
the last to leave the Benevolence.
Picked Up by Army Ship.
They were picked up by the
Army cable ship Niles. They said
they were in the water only about
three minutes. The watches of
both men had stopped at 5::38
pm. PDT), 8:38 pm. eastern
daylight time).
The two officers said the Benev-
olence sank In about rs feet of
water about 20 minutes after the
collision. They were not injured.
Carl Totten of San Francisco,
Junior third officer. said he
climbed aboard a life raft and
threw out life jackets to those
in the water.
"The men in the water formed
life rings, holding hands in cir
cle," he related. This kept the
men without life preservers on
the surface.
About half the men were in
the water and about half in life
RATS. We changed of, some of
us giving the men in the water
a place on the raft to give them
a rest. Every one was really CO.
operating with every one else"
Some Men "Got Panicky."
Chief Boatswain's Mate H. L.
Runnels. San Pablo. Calf, said
men were hanging on to any,
thing they could find-boxes, rail-
ings, anything that would float"
Navy Fireman Chester Conner,
|26, Of Sheridan. Wyo.. said it
Evening star., 1950-08-26

through the dark water. its spot
lights picked up floating debris.
Lifejackets dotted the area of
the crash. Three empty life RATS
were spotted-one brand-new,
freshly painted raft with a bright
red cross.
1T wasn't a pretty sight," Capt.
Darragh said, when we picked up
the survivors"
Many of the men had stripped
themselves of most of their clothes
in an effort to keep afloat.
Some of the survivors were
transferred to the Army vessel
from numerous commercial fishing
craft which. volunteered to take
part in the rescue effort.
AS fog horns and ship bells
signaled through the night, the
search went on. Some six hours
after the collision, a few survivors
still were being returned.
Evening star., 1950-08-26
Executive Council
OF UNESC0 Is Urged
To Back U. 5. in Korea
Blythe Associo,ed Press

PARIS, Aug. 26. UNESCO's
executive council heard two strong
please today that it take immedi-
ate action in support of the United
Nations forces in Korea.
Indications were that the coun-
ell for the United Nations Educa-
Ftional, Scientific and Cultural Or
ganization would heed the pleas,
thus avoiding any split in the
specialized U. N. cultural agency
over Korea.
Quick Action Is Asked. 4
Or. Jaime Torres Bodet,
UNESCO's secretary general, and
Benjamin Cohen, deputy secre-
tary-general of the U. NJ, botn
asked for quick action.
Mr.. Torres-Bodet's speech
spiked reports that he was luke
warm toward UNESCO support
for U. N. action in Korea.
He said the U. N. secretariat
had suggested that UNESCO could
spread information about U. N.
ideals and aims in Korea, and
participate later in reconstruction
of the country after the war.
The secretariat also suggested
immediate assistance to civilian
refugees in Korea. This could
come in the form of diverting some
of UNESCO's funds to civilian re-
lief.
Secret Session Called.
Mr.. Torres-Bodet and Mr..
Cohen spoke at the opening ses-
sion of the Executive Council,
which then decided to GO into
secret session this afternoon.
Several Eastern European ma
tions are members of UNESCO,
but none has representatives on
the council. Thus the question of
a boycott by Soviet satellites Is
not involved.
Informed sources predicted the
council would approve support of
U. N. action in Korea after some
lengthy and perhaps heated de-
bate.
Any reluctance Mr.. Torres -Bodet
had toward UNESCO's taking a
stand on the Korean issue was
believed due in part to worry over
the agency's financial status.
Evening star., 1950-08-26
Cigarette Price Rise
Put at Sis Million
By The Asseeiated Pres.

The recent jump in cigarette
prices may cost smokers in this
country an extra $125 million in
the year started July l, the Agrl-
culture Department said today.
The penny-a-pack price in
crease was announced in July.
The department said the Ma.
tion's smokers consumed 355 bill
lion cigarettes in the year ended
June 80, a new record. This was
some 3 billion cigarettes more
than in the previous year.
Despite the record consumption,
total manufacture of 383 billion
lcirgarettes was about Z billion
less than in previous year, due
to the, smaller output for export,
the report said, ,t z1s.
b The department said SIS billion
cigars were smoked up-about
3l2 per cent fewer than in eacn
lof the two preceding years.
Evening star., 1950-08-26
Rails
Continued From First Page.3


has been directing past negotia-
tions.
White House Press Secretary
Charles G. Ross said fatty that
the Government won't make a
settlement with the unions under
seiZure-that 1t is up to the car
riers and unions to settle their
own argument.
Under terms Of Mr.. Truman's
seizure order. the railroads are
specifically allowed to deal with
profits as usual and wages and
working conditions are to be main-
tanned as they were at the time
of seizure.
The unions said they wanted
seizure to avoid having to strike.
BY acting as promptly as he did,
Mr.. Truman may have stymied a
bill sponsored by Senator Donnell,
Republican, of Missouri, to outlaw
all railroad strikes and require rail
disputes to be arbitrated.
Committee Opposes Bill.
The Senate Labor Committee
after having decided 12-1 some
time ago against acting on the
bill. sent it along to the Senate
yesterday-but with a recon-
mendation that the Senate de-
feat it.
With rail peace apparently as
sured, the bill now has much less
chance of Senate approval than
it would have had if strike oc-
CURED and was allowed to con-
tinue.
Senator Morse, Republican, of
Oregon, a member of the Labor
Committee, criticized Mr.. Tru-
mans seizure action.
Even though it is a token seiz-
ure, it leaves bad taste in my
mouth" Senator Morse said. "It
is a bad example for the rest of
the world"
Senator Morse suggested the
White House might have offered
"a settlement plan. He reminded
the Senate that "the dispute isn't
settled" and proposed the Sen
ate Labor Committee investigate
the entire situation, including
White House handling of it.
Most lawmakers. however, sale
seizure was the only thing thai
could be done.
Pace Asks Cooperation.
1--WE must not permit the flow
Of essential support to the forces
in Korea to be interrupted" Mr.
Pace said. II earnestly request all
Americans to give their help in
avoiding any dislocation of the
Nations economy during this
period Of critical world condi-
tions."
Meanwhile. presidential fact
finding board completed a five
week hearing in Chicago, into a
dispute over the pay and work
rules of conductors employed by
the Pullman Co.
The board will study the argu-
ments and present its recommen-
dations to the White House by
November 4. If the dispute is not
settled within 80 days of that date
the conductors are free to strike
Evening star., 1950-08-26
Youth Leaders Meet
On Conference Plans

Some rs young people meeting
at the Federal Security Agency to-
day were mapping out suggestions
for program of the Midcentury
White House Conference on Chill
dren and Youth.
The delegates from youth or
ganizations in 20 States convened
at the FSA yesterday. Late today
they expected to have reports
drawn up on a number Of prob
lens facing young people.
The morning session heard re-
ports from leaders of discussion
groups. Subjects discussed in
cluded the use of spiritual values
as a motivation for individual and
group behavior, the relationship
of adults and youths in the family
and community. how to achieve
improved intergroup relationships
in a community and what is ex-
pected of youth as they grow into
adulthood.
The youths are members of the
Advisory Council on Youth Parti-
cipation in the White House Con-
ference, scheduled for December.
Evening star., 1950-08-26
Matthews
Icy. I was speaking for myself
The speech speaks for itself"
Peace Is Objective.
Continued From First Page)

i AC 6PCC(A SPCaAO 1O4 4VoC11s
Peace Is Objective.
Speaking at the 150th ami
versary celebration of the Boston
Naval Shipyard last night. Mr..
Matthews said the Nation should
get ready to ward off any possible
attack and should boldly proclaim
''our undeniable objective to be
world peace"
ITO have peace" he said, I'VE
should be willing. and declare an
intention to pay, any price, even
the price of instituting a war to
compel cooperation"
He said that self preservation in
the present world can be pur-
chased only by those capable of
resisting successfully a violation
Of their rights. g. =
Cant Escape Role"
"Only the forces who do not
want peace would oppose our eff
forts to transform the hostile
nations embroiled in the present
international conflicts into
tranquil world" he said. I'VE
would accept that slander with
complacency, for in the imple-
mentation of a strong, affirma-
tive, peace-seeking policy, though
1t cast us in a character new
to true democracy-an initiator
Of war of aggression-it would
win for us a proud and popular
title-we would become the first
aggressors for peace.
TT is a role which, in my
opinion. we cannot escape"
Evening star., 1950-08-26
House Lobby Probers
Vote Contempt Charge
Against ; Witnesses
By the Assoeiaied Press


The House Lobby Investigating
Committee today voted contempt
Of Congress charges against three
defiant witnesses. They are:
Edward A. Rumely, executive
secretary of the Committee for
Constitutional Government.
Joseph P. Kamp. executive vice
president of the Constitutional
Educational League.
William L. Patterson, executive
secretary of the Civil Rights Con-
gress.
The committee action amounts
to a request to the House to cite
the three for contempt.
For the third time yesterday
Mr.. Rumely would not give the
committee the names of persons
who have made large purchases
of books from his organization.
The others previously had re-
fused to answer committee ques-
tions.
Evening star., 1950-08-26

took two hours and 20 minutes
for the first ship to arrive, and
"the water was mighty cold"
Most of the guys tried to keep
the RATS right side up," he said.
However, some of them did get
panicky. I did hear a lot of
screaming and yelling while was
lying on the raft.
There were many Somber scenes
as the rescue ships docked. The
body of man was lashed on the
fantail of one tug.
One woman, apparently nurse
was screaming and fighting hys-
terically. She was put aboard an
ambulance Immediately.
Fisherman Is Praised.
Jack Maroni, civilian quarter
master of Santa Rosa. Calf, had
praise for the unidentified pilot
of the fishing boat Flora who
pulled him and several others, in
cluding "a Catholic chaplain
whose name think was Riordan, u
out of the water. "That fisher
man ought to be given a medal" !"
he said.
The water was warmer when he
was sunk. off Okinawa in 1945,
said Gary La Velle, chief store
keeper of San Francisco. Mr.. La
Velle said he had asAifejacket on
when he hit the water, "but some
guy pulled it off me-" He said he
swan for an. hour, then was taken
onto a life raft.
One of the woman survivors, En-
sign Helen Wallace. rs, of NAL
bern, Ark, spent two hours in the
water. She was suffering from
shock and hysteria.
Evening star., 1950-08-26
How Long Will Smith
Head CIA, Morse Asks
By the Assoeiated Press

Senator Morse, Republican, OF
Oregon, said today he has asked
Secretary of Defense johnson to
find out how long 1t. Gen. Walter
Bedell Smith intends to serve as
head Of the Central Intelligence
Agency.
Gen. Smiths appointment to
succeed Rear Admiral Roscoe N.
Hillenkoetter as CIA head was
held up in the Senate yesterday at
REQUEST of Senator FIickenlooper.
Republican, of Iowa.
Senator Hickenlooper told his
colleagues he isn't questioning
Senator Smiths qualifications, but
wants to know whether the gen.
eral intends to take it for only a
year. The CIA has had three
chiefs since it was formed in 1947.
Evening star., 1950-08-26
$12.o Million Pledged
For Blue Ridge Parkway
By the Assoeiated Press

ASHEVILLE, N. c., Aug. 26.-
The National Park Service yes
terday promised to spend $12.9
million in the next two years to
complete the Blue Ridge parkway
from Shenandoah National Park,
Va, to ASheville.
Dudley c. Bayliss, chief of the
parkway section of the park serv-
ice, said contracts to be awarded
during the 1888 biennium
would complete the parkway to
Asheville and permit construction
of one or two additional links west
of the city.
Evening star., 1950-08-26
Ship
Continued From First Page.)

pulling survivors from the debris
Uttered sea so quickly that the
death list was held far below what
might have been expected in those
treacherous waters where the sea
swirls out through the Golden
Gate.
Shortly after midnight Capt.
Robert E. Voortmyer, marine SUI
perintendent of the San Fran
cisco Port of Embarkation, said,
Il doubt that any men will be
found alive out there now. Even
if they had survived so far, the
ebb tide is sweeping them away
to sea-
Only heroic efforts of the Coast
Guard and numerous commercial
fishing boats and private craft
which sped OF the rescue pre-
vented an appalling loss of life
as the hospital ship, her side
ripped open, listed rapidly anc
sank beneath the surface.
OF the known survivors tht
Navy listed 202 at Oak Knoll Nav!
Hospital in Oakland, SIS at Mare
Island Hospital, 81, at Lettermar
Army Hospital in San Francisco
81 at Treasure Island, 81 aboarc
the Coast Guard cutter Gresham
13 at Marine Hospital in Sar
francisco, two litter cases brought
in by the Mary Luckenbach ant
four who later reported safe from
their homes.
Many of these survivors were
suffering from shock and the chill
of immersion in the cold waters
eff the gate.
1--WE just came across them like
fish in the water" said Tugboat
Skipper G. j. Kaufman. "Radal
wasn't much good, the scope wa.
all cluttered waves anc
wreckage-so it didn't help much.
There were so many we didn't
know which ones to pick up first
They were all yelling to us. They
all wanted up to get to then
first"
Army Tug Picks Up 140.
An Army seagoing tug rescued
140 survivors, including six Navy
nurses.
It also brought back to For
Mason the bodies of three persons
including one nurse.
Then in quick turn-around
the tug put back to sea in thu
thick, choppy weather. to continue
searching with two powerful
searchlights the cold waters where
the two ships crashed.
i Capt. w. M. Darragh of Sar
Francisco, skipper of the big tug
took the vessel to the scene Of tht
ship crash shortly after the SOS
was received.
The white lights of his craft
and a dozen others in the area
could hardly cut the pea-sour
overcast that clung to the surface
Nurses Were Tied Together.
Henry Kesing, a civilian crew.
man aboard the rescue vessel, re.
lated how seven Navy nurses were
pulled from the chilly water
shortly after 7 pm. PDT).
/ '"They were all tied together anc
were hanging onto a large hunk
OF timber" Mr.. Kesing reported
They had been in the water
maybe two hours. One was hysteri.
cal and another died as soon as
she was brought aboard"
He said a Navy doctor, a sur
vivor OF. the Benevolence, con-
firmed her death as well as that OF
two other persons.
! AS the rescue craft plowed
Evening star., 1950-08-26
Rev. SompseIIe to Preach

The Rev. William D. Sampselle
of the Reisterstown (Md.) Meth
odist Church, will preach at the
IL am. service tomorrow at the
Mount Rainier Methodist Church.
Evening star., 1950-08-26
Trees to Curry Record
Of Berkeley War Dead
BY the Assoeioied Press

MARTINSBURG, w. Va, Aug.
26.-Sponsors of Berkeley County
War Memorial Park have decided
to plant 1875 sugar maple trees
to honor the county's dead in the
two world wars.
Mrs. Paul Lingamfelter, chair
man of the committee, said there
will be a bronze plaque at each
tree giving the honored mans
name and the place where he died.
Evening star., 1950-08-26
Uranium Found Near Orun

ORAN.-The first uranium de-
posit to be discovered In Algeria
was found recently near Oran.
Evening star., 1950-08-26

A 81 million industrial research
plant is now In operation in New
Delhi, India.
Evening star., 1950-08-26

West Germany's employed
totaled 13,680.000, at latest report.
Evening star., 1950-08-26
FOUND.

10sLON BULL. black and white found
On 1radiey blvd. Friday. 81. 6S09.
Evening star., 1950-07-23

While the world eyes Korea,
where America has charged
into conflict bearing the United
Nations flag, important Com
munist moves have taken place
also in Europe or been indi-
Gated there.
Reports of army command
changes in Bulgaria and Poland.
and troop movements near the
borders of Yugoslavia, Turkey.
Greece and Western Germany
have raised questions of Rus
sia's immediate or long term
intentions.
More definitely, diplomatic
maneuvers in the buffer states
have shown Russia riveting
more tightly the iron curtain
against the West.
There has been a pattern in
this. In Poland, Czechoslovakia,
Romania. Bulgaria and Hun
gary these are the results:
Closed-Western information
Offices.
Reduced-Western diplomatic
staffS.
Curtailed or ousted-Western
newspaper stats.
Jailed-A number Of local
citizens and, In some Ecases,
Evening star., 1950-07-23

United States and other West
ern powers had too many ENJOYS
on the job. These stats were
ordered reduced to fraction of
their previous strength. Usually
they were given a few days to
get out Of the country.
Meanwhile there were spy
trials. These. too, were cut to
a familiar pattern. Even citi-
zens Of the United States "con-
fessed" to spying for the United
States. In some instances facts
alleged in the confession" were
obviously untrue.
Often native employees of the
United States Embassies in the
Eastern countries were chosen
for trial. Sometimes they were
employees of press services or
other Western agencies.
But in the same period there
were also trials of native Off
cials, some of whom had been
avowed Communists. Many
were high in government serv-
ice. Most confessed" to spying
for the United States or giving
information to American en-
voys.
In each instance the United
States denied the charges In the
Confessions" 4
Evening star., 1950-07-23
BY Sherry Bowen

Western nationals on charges
Of spying for the United States.
There was a slight variation
of the model in Poland where
the United States voluntarily
reduced its diplomatic staff. In
the other countries part of the
stats were told to leave.
The whole operation was
completed in a few months. One
after the other the nations took
the same types of action. They
thereby cut themselves off even
more completely from the West
than had previously been the
case.
The prime target in each in
stance was the United States.
Britain and the Netherlands
were also favorites in the official
accusations issued by the gov
ernments. Relations between
France and Poland have been
particularly bad.
Western nations, especially
America, were called imperial
list powers. Where they had in
formation Offices. they were Or
dered to close them.
It was suddenly discovered
IN the border lands tHAt the