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Evening star., 1950-06-24
BY the Associated Press

Ell PASO. Tex, June a.
People from Montgomery, Ala. to
Abilene, Tex. excitedly reported
seeing fire balls in the sky last
night-but the pilot whose jet
plane might have caused the weird
lights said he was completely in
the dark about the phenomena.
There was no way to be sure
that the plane had anything to do
with what many people saw, but
the popular explanation seemed to
be that the setting suns reflection
on trailing vapor played a colorful
trick on the fancies of spectators.
1t. James Bryant of Roswell,
N. Mex, said he few to Biggs Air
Force Base here from Langley
Field, Va. where he is stationed
At no time, said 1t. Bryant, did he
Evening star., 1950-06-24
Partial Passenger List

member Of the Mission Band oi
Friars Of the Atonement at Gray.
moor. near Peekskill, N. Y. He
was en- route to Deer River, MINI.
to preach there tomorrow.
DR.. and Mrs. Leon M. Ajemian
New York.
Miss Marian Frankel, Latrobe
Pa.
DR.. A. E. Cardle, Minneapolis.
Richard w. Thomson, New York
Miss Marie v. Rorabaugh, 66
Germantown, Pa.
Miss Louise Spohn, Hartsdale
New York.
Mrs. Oscar s. Schafer and son
John, 8. Port Chester, N. Y.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl D. Schlach-
ter. Upper Montclair, N. J.
Miss Helen Mary Meyer, New
ark, N. j.
Miss Ellen Ross. II, Clifton,
New Jersey.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Hokanson,
their son. Tommy. 5, and daugh-
ter, Janice, Z. of Dumont. ". J.
Alfred w. George, railroad
trainmaster, Portland Ore.
Evening star., 1950-06-24
Intruder in Queen Mory's Home
Stubs HousekeeperSeven Times

injuries were described as quite
serious" Her helper. Mrs. Wini-
fred Ralph. 40, had two black
eyes and other superficial in
juries.
Scotland Yards highest officials
went into an immediate emer-
gency conference to discuss the
apparent laxity of security ar
rangements around the Queens
home, Marlborough House, an old
landmark built by Sir Christopher
Wren.
The intruder was believed to
have scaled a vine-covered wall,
then entered the house through q
window. He apparently prowled
through several rooms but did not
enter the Queens private apart
ments on the second floor.
What he was after was not
certain. Marlborough House con-
tains one of England's finest art
collections. Nothing appeared to
have been taken.
Evening star., 1950-06-24
By Harry Lever

Final preparations were COM
pleted today for the annual model
airplane meet to be held all day
tomorrow at Andrews Air Force
Base.
Indications were that the thou
sands of persons expected to at
tend the show would encounter
few traffic problems now that the
new South Capitol Street Bridge
has been built.
There will be plenty Of free
parking space at the scene of the
show.
The best way to get to the air.
base is to drive south on Four
teenth street NV, to Maine
avenue S.W., down Maine avenue
to M Street S.W., and along M
street to South Capitol Street.
Turn right there. and proceed
over the South Capitol street
bridge. About $50 yards beyond
Evening star., 1950-06-24
Johnson and Bradley
Return From Pacific;
Will Call on Truman
Defense Head Says He
Hos All Focts About
Our Situution' There
By John A. Giles

Defense Secretary johnson and
Gen. Bradley returned today from
a two week Pacific tour during
which they said they got "all the
facts about our situation" in that
area.
Mr.. johnson said he would re-
port his findings to President Tru-
man next week.
The four-engine plane carrying
the defense chiefs landed at Ma
tional Airport at 11:11 am. after
a nonstop flight from Anchorage,
Alaska.
Also aboard the plane was Col.
J. Monroe Johnson, chairman of
the Interstate Commerce Com
mission, who had suffered a di-
gestive upset at Anchorage after
a flight from Tokyo. Col. johnson,
who is u, said here that he felt
all right.
Macarthur Won't Return.
Secretary johnson told report
ers that he and Gen. Bradley got
all the facts about our situation in
the Pacific from our commanding
officers all over that area" includ-
ing Gen. Macarthur, Supreme
Allied Commander in Japan.
He said that his conversations
with Gen. Macarthur were very
satisfactory and that stories about
the general returning to this
country were without founda-
ton"
The Defense Secretary described
the defenses in the western Pa
ciflc as lone picture from the
standpoint of American security" ."
Silent on Details.
He would not go into any de-
tails concerning his findings or
possible recommendations to the
President. He said his data first
would be submitted for evalua-
tion to the Joint Chiefs of Staff
which Gen. Bradley heads, and
the Secretaries of the Army,
Navy and Air Force.
I'VE had busy trip with the
minimum of social activity" Sec.
retary johnson said. For in
stance, five formal dinners were
scheduled, but we cut it down to
one"
Secretary johnson and Gen
Bradley will leave tomorrow after.
noon for Norfolk, where both will
speak before the Defense Depart
ment's Joint Orientation Confer
ence composed of 60 selected ci-
william leaders aboard the aircraft
carrier Midway. Immediately
after the. speech they will return
to Washington.
+ Mr.. johnson has been reluctant
to discuss the conferences with
Gen. Macarthur. But he did say
last night at Anchorage that Oki-
nawa would remain a permanent
bastion in the Nations Pacific
Ocean defenSes as long as the in.
Evening star., 1950-06-24
by the Assoeioted Press

LONDON. June 24.-An in
truder broke into 83-year-old
Queen Mother Mary's home early
today. stabbed her housekeeper
seven times and beat up the
housekeeper's helper. Queen Mary,
asleep in another part of the
house, was not disturbed.
Scotland Yard arrested a 26-
year-old Irish gardener named
Gerald O,Brien and charged him
with attempted robbery and as
sault. The charge said: Being
armed with an offensive. weapon.
he did assault Alice Knight (the
housekeeper) with intent to rob. F"
OBrien will be given preliminary
hearing in Bow Street Court Mon
day.
Authorities at st. Georges Hos
pital said Mrs. Knight, 66, had
seven knife wounds, apparently
infIicted with q penknife. Her
Evening star., 1950-06-24
Shute Leads
Demuret,1 Up,
In PEA Play
Earlier Story on Page Ali.
By MerreII WhittIesey

COLUMBUS, Ohio. June "a
Jimmy Demaret, three down to
45-year-old Denny Shute at the
end of nine holes of their third
round National PGA match today
at Scioto, cut the margin to one
after IL holes by winning the 18th
with a par and 18th with a birdie.
Shute shot 80 for the first nine
while Demaret had a 81.
Eddie Burke, who defeated Sam
Snead yesterday, was five down
after IL holes to Texan Ray Gaf-
ford.
Virginia's Chandler Harper and
Bob Toski both played the front
nine in 8 under par SO and were
even at the turn.
Harper was 2 down at the sixth.
but birdied the seventh for q win.
the eighth for halve and won
the ninth when Toski 3-puttedl
after being partially stymied.
Lloyd Mangrum held a 4-hole
advantage over Chick Harbert
after IL holes.
Evening star., 1950-06-24
Typhoon Near Okinuwu
Heads Toward Jopon
BY the Assoeioted Press

TOKYO. June 24.-A typhoon
moving $50 miles northwest of
Okinawa today sent winds of 35
miles an hour whistling across
that big United States air base
south of Japan.
Weather officials said the ty-
phoon was headed toward the
southern japanese island Of Kyu-
shu but no damage was expected
either there or at Okinawa. Winds
in its center had dropped to 10
miles an hour. They were at IS
miles when the typhoon was first
spotted yesterday.
Evening star., 1950-06-24
PLANE WITH So MISSING IN LAKES REGION
Fire Ball in Sky Over Wide. Area
Points Finger at Jets Pilot
Texons, AIobomons and Men at Seq Report
Meteor-Like Phenomenon at Same Time

see anything unusual as he tipped
along at 10000 feet.
He talked to a reporter after
Biggs Field had first said infor-
nation about the jets flight was
secret, then changed its official
mind.
1t. Bryant said he didn't think
his plane left vapor trail, but if
it did the setting suns rays re-
f1ecting on the vapor and the
plane could have given the illusion
of fire.
But this left the question: How
could people in Montgomery have
seen the reflection at the same
time as those in Dallas. Between
those cities. all the reports of fiery
phenomena came at about the
same time, TAO pm. (CST.
Besides, most people said the
(See FIRE BALLS PAGE A-3)
Evening star., 1950-06-24
Richitt Case Settled,
Police Say, by Report
Calling for Reprimand
Recommendation Signed
By II Inspectors Due
To Be Submitted Monday

Police officials were confident
today that the case of Capt. An
tthony Richitt has been settled by
an inspectors recommendation
that he be let off with a repri-
mand instead of trial board
charges growing out Of dispute
with Police Supt. Robert J. Bar
rett.
The inspectors to whom Mai.
Barrett turned for advice" last
month, will submit to him Mon
day report signed yesterday by
II of them. Two other inspec-
tors did not attend final confer
ences this week. it was learned.
The report refused to go along
with findings by Daniel B. Maher,
former special assistant corpora
ton counsel, that. there was
enough evidence to justify board
charges Of insubordination. neg
lect Of duty. conduct unbecoming
an officer and conduct prejudicial
to the reputation of the force,
against Capt. Richitt.
Maher Refuses Comment.
Mr.. Maher, who resigned June
Is. indicated great interest when
informed Of the report today, but
said he would not comment. He
declared that my connection with
the Richitt case terminated at
that time and for that reason /
don't think I ought to say any
thing"
Maj. Barrett, Capt. Richitt and
Assistant Police Supt. Walter T.
Ic>~ rrNYYYrrr No. a.
Evening star., 1950-06-24
BY the AssoSio,sd Press

MILWAUKEE. Wis, June IA
A big Northwest airliner with So
persons aboard disappeared last
night in a thunderstorm over Lake
Michigan.
Hours after dawn today, search
ing planes and surface craft found
two oil slicks and a little unidenti-
fable wreckage on the lakes
choppy surface east of Milwaukee.
One slick was about miles of
shore. the other about / mile out.
The search was concentrated near
the one farthest from shore.
But there was no actual trace Of
the big four -engined airliner or
its occupants. The plane was en-
route from New York to Seattle.
Fog which cut visibility to about
900 feet hampered the search by
Army. Navy and Coast Guard
planes and surface craft from
Evening star., 1950-06-24
Model Plane Show Tomorrow
To Attract Crowds to Andrews
New Bridge Expected to Prevent
Traffic Jams; Parking Space Ample .

the bridge. take left turn. This
road becomes the Military High
way, q wide. modern road that
runs right to the contest area at
Andrews.
At the left turn, motorists will
see d sign pointing the way to
Andrews.
The base itself will have plenty
of signs pointing to the model
meet area. and Air Police will be
on hand to offer any directions re-
quested.
! Those going to the field by bus
will find full schedules in the
box accompanying this story.
The contest area is so large
everybody will have a chance to
see what is going on without any
crowdine, or inconvenience.
The Air Police will be ready at
the end of the show to direct
Evening star., 1950-06-24
Nicely Denied Record!
OF Wire Tapping; FBI
To Make Own Probe
Secret Shimon Report
Held Up 10 Months
Before Step Is Token
By Miriam Ottenbera

The Justice Department has re-
fused to give the Senate District
Committee access to the Shimon
report involving allegations of
wire tapping. Committee Chair
man Nicely disclosed today.
Senator Neely said the Justice
Department explained the Federal
Bureau of Investigation either has
been or will be instructed to make
its own wire tapping investigation.
The Senator said he had not
asked the Justice Department why
it had held the report for 10
months before bringing the FBI
into it.
The long-secret report on Police
1t. Joseph Shimon, former chief
investigator in the United States
attorneys Office. was prepared by
police last September and turned
over to the Justice Department.
Those who have seen the report
say 1t includes a statement by one
of 1t. Simmons subordinates that
he arranged for Howard Hughes
phone to be tapped during the
Senate War Investigating Com
mittee's inquiry into Hughes air.
plane contracts.
Last week Senator Nicely asked
Police Chief Robert j. Barrett for
his copy of the report. Maj. Bar
rett told the Senator that since it
had been prepared for the Justice
Department he could not release
it without Justice Department
permission.
So Senator Nicely asked the
Justice Department to give Mai.
Barrett that permission. That is
what the Justice Department has
now refused to do.
Senator Nicely said he would
take the matter up with the COM
mittee at its next meeting to de-
termine what steps should be
taken now to inquire further into
the case without the report.
Evening star., 1950-06-24

Coast Guard stations at Kenosha,
Racine and Milwaukee.
The oil slicks were no conclusive
evidence that the big plane had
crashed into the lake. A tanker
or other lake ship might have
made it.
Airline Still Hopeful.
Northwest Airlines officials re-
fused to give up hope that the
plane may be safe. They said 1t
had enough gasoline to fly as far
as Billings, Mont.
1t was possible, they said. that
the plane may have been thrown
off course with its radio out Of
commission and gone into the
Northern Wisconsin woods.
Meanwhile searchers reported q
third Oil slick on the east side Of
the lake about IL miles northwest
of Benton Harbor, Mich. Lake
sailors have said Oil Sticks are
fairly common in the steamship
lanes. resulting usually from fuel
oil seepage Of ships.
But, if the big plane did crash
into the Lake, officials Of the air.
line said. it could not stay afioat
very long with its capacity load.
Ran Into Thunderstorm.
The Weather Bureau said the
New York to Minneapolis-bound
plane encountered a heavy thun-
derstorm and strong winds in the
Southern LAKE Michigan area at
the time 1t last reported by radio
(See PLANE, Page AID
Evening star., 1950-06-24
Fight Seen in Senate
Over Pike Nomination
To New Acc Term
; Incumbents Are OKd
Without Hearing; Block
Loid to HiekenIooper
By the Associoted Press

A new Senate flareup over the
Atomic Energy Commission ap-
peared to be brewing today around
the figure of Acting Chairman
Sumner T. Pike.
Mr.. Pike, nominated by Presi-
dent Truman for a new four-year
term on the commission, got q
sharp rebuff yesterday when his
reappointment was held up by
the Senate-House Atomic Energy
Committee.
Senator Mcmahon. Democrat,
of Connecticut, committee chair
man, told the Senate the action
was taken at the request of Sena-
tor Hickenlooper, Republican, of
Iowa, the ranking Republican
member, who has been q severe
critic of past Acc operations.
No Reason Given for Action.
No reason was given for Senator
Hickenlooper's latest action. He
commented in Des Moines: 81
haven't announced my personal
position yet on the Pike nomina
ton"
While Mr.. Pixies nomination
was held up, three other reap
pointments were approved with
out the formality of a hearing
They were:
Gordon Dean of California fol
a three-year term, Thomas Muir
ray of New York for a two-yea1
term and Henry Dewolf Smyth
Evening star., 1950-06-24

White House plane independence
arrived under bright sky with
the President and his guests on
the flight from Washington-Gov.
Lane Of Maryland and Mayor
Thomas D'Alesandro of Baltimore
Mayor Takes First Flight.
Although a vigorous aviation
booster, who played a leading role
in the development of Baltimore's
SIS million airport. Mr.. D'Ales-
andre only consented to take his
first flight today because of the
Presidents invitation.
The President digressed from
his text to comment on Mayor
d'Alesandro's first airplane flight.
Il was most pleased to intro
duce the Mayor of your great city
to his first flying experience" Mr..
Truman said. Il think he is going
to like flying-in fact, he made
me an offer to buy the Independ-
ence."
Feels Like Wright.
Mr.. D'Alesandro, in introducing
the President, told the crowd, ~
fell like one of the Wright BROTH
ers. This is a great day for all of
us. especially me.
This airport will keep Balti-
more in the forefront of the trans
portation industry and will mean
as much to the development of
commerce as our harbor and rail-
road facilities"
Defeating the airport, the
President said "Air transport is
becoming more and more an es-
sential part of our way of living
and the National economy. A
great industrial and commercial
clty-such as your city of Balti-
more - will have increasingly
greater need for facilities to han
die growing amount of air traf-
nc. This airport will meet the
need. It has been planned for
the future"
The President disappointed
Maryland political leaders by fail.
ing to suggest that Friendship
might share the traffic now reach
ing a saturation point at Ma
tlonal Airport. Friendship is
about 10 miles southwest of Bal
timore.
Mr.. Truman is said to be in
sympathy with the Senate-passed
bill to authorize a new airport
for Washington within easy driv-
ing distance.
Friendship. developed with s3
(See TRUMAN, Page A-3)
Evening star., 1950-06-24
Year S Hottest Day
With High of 96
Predicted Here

The hottest day Of the year was
in prospect for Washington today
as the Weather Bureau predicted
the temperature would soar to SO
degrees.
At / pm. the mercury had
reached %. equaling the years
heat record set on May 6. The
humidity reached As per cent.
The forecaster said thunder
storms late today or tonight will
bring relief. Tomorrow will be
fair and not so hot or humid, the
forecaSter said.
Evening star., 1950-06-24
Toll Could Be Worst
In u. S. Commercial
Aviotion History
by the As.esis,.8 Pres,

II all aboard q missing
Northwest Airlines DC-4 are
lost. the ton would be the most
disastrous in American COM
mercial aviation history.
The missing plane carried q
crew of 3 and 55 passengers.
The previous high was that
of an Eastern Air Lines plane
which crashed here November
/. 1949, killing SIS persons. The
airliner was rammed by q
fighter plane piloted by a Bo-
livian Army flyer.
The heaviest toll in world
heavier-than-air aviation his
tory occurred March IL, 1850.
when 80 persons died In the
crash of a transport near Car
diff. Wales. The plane was
loaded with fans returning
from a Dublin soccer match.
Evening star., 1950-06-24

spite the conflict which shakes
the world" And he expressed
confidence the American econ
omy will continue to grow and
expand" so that it can do its part
in maintaining the peace. He
dedicated the airport Ito the
cause of peace in the world"
The Flying President" with an
air-travel record of S3,766 miles
since he took Office, left immedi-
ately after his brief address for a
week end in Missouri with men,
bers of his family at Independ-
ence and Grandview. On his re-
turn Monday he will have added
1000 miles to his record.
The crowd that witnessed the
dedication of the huge Friendship
Airport got a thrill as the big
Evening star., 1950-06-24
Dr.. Conont Undergoes
Emergency Operation
ey the Asseeiated Press

BOSTON, June 24.-President
James B. Conant of Harvard Uni
versity was reported in good con-
dition today after an emergency
operation for acute Inflammation
of the intestines.
DR.. Conant was stricken yester-
day shortly before his scheduled
plane departure for Europe. He
was taken to the Phillips House
of Massachusetts, General Hospital.
DR.. Dean A. Clark. hospital di-
rector. said DR.. Conant will require
an extended convalescence.
Evening star., 1950-06-24
Bullet Strikes Man
In Mouth, but Only
Dents Upper Plate
BY the Asseeiated Press

BALTIMORE, June 24.-A bull
let hit Morris Maisus in the
mouth, but all it did was cut his
lip and dent his upper plate.
The bullet disappeared. Mr..
Maisus didn't worry too much
about the lost bullet. He was too
glad to be alive.
The 55-year-old tavern owner
told police Negro holdup man
fred two shots at him last night.
then scooped about 800 from the
cash register and ran out.
Evening star., 1950-06-24
Truman AssaiIs
Aviation Critics
foolish Fears
President Dedicntes
Friendship Airport
To Cause of Peace
By W. n. Shippen
Sior StoH Correspondent

BALTIMORE, June 24.-Presi-
dent Truman today welcomed the
new Friendship International Air
port into an air transportation
system which, he said, has at
tanned it's proper place in the Ma
tons economy despite foolish
and fears" and the
criticism of "mossbacks.
The President voiced faith in
prospects for permanent peace de-
Evening star., 1950-06-24
Bidau|tCabinet
Falls; Blow 10
Pool Talk Seen
QueuiIIe Is Believed
Likely Selection to
Form New Regime
BY the Associated Press

PARIS, June 24.-The govern
ment of Premier Bidault fell to-
day on an issue of confidence.
The defeat came in the midst of
a portentous European coal-steel
pool conference in which France
has taken the lead. Some OBJ
servers said the cabinets fall may
be q blow to those negotiations.
However, Foreign Minister
Schuman, father of the Schuman
plan for industrial cooperation,
remains a prime candidate to re-
tain the Foreign Ministry in any
succeeolng government, unless his
own party, Mr.. Bidault's Popular
Republican Movement tMRP)
decides against it.
Former Premier Henri Queuille,
Radical Socialist (moderate)
whose government holds the post
war endurance record in France
13 months-may be the choice to
take the premiership. Mr.. Bidault
succeeded him in Office last
October.
Vote Is 352 to 23O.
The vote against MIR. Bidault
was 352 to 230. His own MRP
and the Radical Socialists sup
ported him against combined op-
position of Socialists, Communists
and the extreme right wing De
Gaullists.
The vote was on the question
which ordinarily would be a minor
domestic issue. The government
opposed a Socialist demand for
wage increases under a ruling
forbidding such appropriations
without providing special funds.
Mr.. Bidault made it a broad
issue of confidence in the whole
government and the policies of
the coalition cabinet. The So
cialists heretofore have supported
the coalition without joining it in
the cabinet.
The net result of today's vote
may be new general elections in
France this year instead of the
regularly scheduled ones in 1851.
This may come about if Mr.. BIZ
dault's MRP refuses to join a
coalition with Queuille's Radical
Socialists. In that event Mr..
Queuille could not command the
necessary majority in the Ma
tional Assembly.
MRP Might Benefit.
New elections might benefit the
MRP. The vote would be under
the present complex system of
proportional representation. which
would give the MRP many more
seats than if it were by districts.
After the Assembly vote, Mr..
Bidault and his cabinet presented
their designations to President
Vincent Auriol, who accepted
them. Mr.. Auriol then called in
the president of the Assembly
Edouard Herriot, and representa-
tives of the various parties, in
cluding the Communists, to dis
cuss the situation.
A Foreign Ministry spokesman
said that despite the fall of the
cabinet, a meeting of the six dele
cations discussing the coal-steel
pool plan would be held today.
Mr.. Schuman remains foreign
minister until a new cabinet is
formed. The six nations are ex-
pected to recess their talks briefly
(Ca~ mn AT%SY
Evening star., 1950-06-24
Mrs. Roosevelt in Puris

PARIS, June "a (P.-Mrs. FL
eanor Roosevelt arrived in Paris
last night for a five-day stay that
will include q luncheon Tuesday
with President Vincent Auriol.
Evening star., 1950-06-24
Three Oil Sticks,
.Wreckage Seen
off Milwaukee
No Survivors Sighted;
Northwest AirIines
Still Voices Hope
BULLETIN

MILWAUKEE, Wis. Up
1t, Harry MacDermaid, public
relations officer in the search
for a missing Northwest air.
liner. said today he had been
informed that 'unmistakable"
wreckage had been sighted ga
miles east OF Milwaukee.
Evening star., 1950-06-24

Text Of Presidents Speech Dedieotins
New Airport. Poge A-3
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lsee DEFENSE CHIEFS, Pig. Az
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W. ather Forecast 8 {

Sunny. warm. humid; high in middle eos
today. Thunderstorms this evening, low
tonight 70. Tomorrow fair, less warm.
(Full report on Page A-2D
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(See ATOMIC, Page A-23
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Guide for Rea ders

An Associoted Pres. NewspoE
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(see MODEL PLANES, Page A-2o
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(See PLANE. Page A-2J
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tSee FRANCE, Page A-3)