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Evening star., 1951-09-02

ington and Baltimore would be
they say not in their places, OF
course. but in another place two
or three blocks down the board
walk. Boys and girls from Wash
after midnight and making
blanket dates" Residents fire.
quently complained of blanket
parties" lasting we'll into the
mornings.
Many families that had been
going to Ocean City season after
season began spending summers
at other resorts when their chill
dren reached the teen-age. Ocean
City examples were considered too
IdemoraliZing.
AS for the gambling. there was
an open crap game at one
place in Ocean City. and chuck
a-luck or birdcage could be
played. There was no roulette,
however. or any plush" gam
bling resorts.
ChurchgOers Disturbed.
But when it was reported that
Baltimore gamblers were taking
over the bookie establishments up
the coast from Ocean City. the
regular summer residents who for
the most part are family,
Ichurch-going people, became very
disturbed.
There is no evidence that Ocean
City ever became an important
outpost for the industry" ex-
posed by the Kefauver Committee
Such gambling as existed was, for
the most part, only the familiar
small-change games, bingo, slot
machines and the customary To-
cent games along the boardwalk
in which participants roll balls for
prizes of merchandise.
While Jack Sanford has sue
ceeded in ending popular pastimes
of this sort by having them de-
Evening star., 1951-09-02

Iclared games of chance instead of
permanent population is only
4 500 and everybody knows every
body.
He knew what would happen
when he ended liquor sales at the
American Legion clubhouse on
Sundays. Some indignant Legion
naires call him a draft dodger,
although he made every effort,
including a personal trip to Wash
ington, to get into the armed
forces. despite disability.
That doesn't stop Jack San
ford. The efficacy of his closing
down the bookie establishments
is best atteSted by the recent ex-
perience of one summer resident.
He was going to visit the Atlantic
City track so he tried to buy a
Daily Racing Form at large
newsstand on the boardwalk. The
woman news-vender explained that
she wasn't getting it any more,
that there was no demand.
Things Are Really Tight.
AS for the ban on teen-age
drinking, a slender 26-year- -old
WaShingtonian who certainly
doesn't look under 81, is in the
habit of carrying his military dis
charge papers with him. Without
them he has had difficulty in
buying a beer. His petite, 23-
year-old blond wife, who often
accompanies him, can never con-
vince the wary bartenderS of her
legal age, and has to be content
with slipping at a ginger ale.
The bartenders vie with one
another in telling how bad con-
ditionS were. A girl would only
have to be tall enough to get her
chin above the bar to get drink
Evening star., 1951-09-02

whooping 1t up on the boardwalk
games of skill in the County Court
at Snow Hill, there are still few
left. Groups of middle-aged women
descend on the Pokerino game and
play for the merchandise just as
| if they were on shopping trip.
Fascination, which Is legal at
Atlantic City, and Fortune, a
marble game, have been declared
illegal. The proprietor of the For
tune game defended it in court as
a game Of skill. He brought along
a boardwalk piano player who tes-
titled as an expert. The witness
said he had played thousands of
times and won often. In a court
test, he was pitted against the
clerk of the court who had never
played. The clerk won. The de-
cision was that it was a game of
chance.
City Taxed Games.
Although slot machines and bin
go are illegal in Worcester County
the Ocean City Council passed an
Ordinance a few years ago taxing
bingo games at $1,000 a season
and slot machines. pinball and all
similar amusement devices at 500
a machine. This helped pay for
extension of the boardwalk and
paving of side streets.
But it also paid of in an un-
fortunate way. 1t caused lot of
Icynicism. Many residents blamed
reinforcement officials for per-
mitting the games and machines
to operate, but the fact remained
that the community itself, through
its elected representatives. had
voted to take a "rakeoff" on ille-
gal gambling in levying the tax
Perhaps the biggest beneficiary
Iof the recent breakdown was
Worcester County's one legal form
Iof gambling at ocean Downs, a
harness track across the bay. The
total receipts of the parimutuel
machines there has been running
% per cent ahead of last year.
Jack Sanford announced that
he was going to run for States
attorney in July of last year.
There were five candidates for
the Office in the Democratic pri-
maries in August. He missed get
ting a plurality of the Ocean City
vote-800 voters-by only 20. In
the total county vote he was 600
votes ahead of the machine can
didate, who finished second.
His police force has consisted
of sheriff and two deputies. He
did not utilize the police of the
ocean City municipal administr
ton which had opposed him IN
the election.
No Spectacular Raids.
There were no spectacular raids
in his cleanup champaign. AS the
summer season approached he
merely informed the operators of
games of chance that if they
opened. he was going to close
them. They didn't open.
AS for the teen-age drinking,
his deputies obsverved sales to
minors in a couple of places and
their licenses we're promptly re-
voked. One place, that had been
considered one of the worst Of
tenders. did not even apply for
of it's license when the
season opened. 1t became impos-
sible to buy a drink on Sunday.
Tavern owners knew that their
Evening star., 1951-09-02
Frequency Distance Factor

NEW YORK.-The distance ra-
dio waves can travel under water
depends on their frequency. Very
low frequency signals of long wave
length, such as Is to so kilocycles
may penetrate salt water for sew
eral hundred feet. Very high fire.
quencies of short wave length pen
citrate only few inches.
Evening star., 1951-09-02

5000 liquor licenses would be taken
away from them if they were
caught violating the law.
This resort is not dry by long
shot. There are still 25 places
where liquor can be sold legally
over the bar.
Two night clubs up the beach
are beyond the Ocean City limits
and in Worcester County, where
liquor sales always have been IL
legal. One of them has a sign in
front of it, Bring Your Own Bot
tle."
Although June was little
warmer than the average, this
years season was slow in starting.
The hotels and the cottages did
not fill up right away. Some of
the proprietors were crying the
blues. People would not come if
there were no slots or bingo, they
said. The thing to do was to sell
out and get out quick, they said
then. They were fortunate that
they didn't take their own advice.
Boom Still Going On.
Then the 1851 boom began. 1t
is still going.
1t is reflected In recent real
estate sales. A large unimproved
lot fronting on the boardwalk at
Seventh street recently brought
$4,000. In 1926 the entire block
containing that lot was sold for
$4,000.
Smaller lots that could be had
for $4,000 10 years ago are bring
i0g $4,000 today.
Jack Sanford's stock began to
90 up as the boom developed. He
began to close up the games of
chance with merchandise prizes
the l0-cent games. When the
committee Of the Maryland Legis-
lature investigating gambling
came to the Eastern Shore to hold
hearings, they invited him to tes-
tify. He sent them word that he
couldn't; that he was too busy
prosecuting gamblers at the time.
He later testified before the
committee at subsequent hearings
in Annapolis and startled hearers
with this testimony:
While I don't want to knock
the churches. both the churches
and fraternal orders are among
those most active in promoting or
ganized crime-if you call gam
bling crime-and they would be
among the first to take offense
if an effort were made to stop lot
terieS and slot machines. The
Catholic church, of which l am
a member, is one of these"
Pastor Won't Comment.
When this reporter visited Dan
Tremper, the Mayor of Ocean
City, Mr. Tremper suggested a
call on Msgr. Eugene T. Stout. 4
pastor of the little Catholic mis-
sion church. St, Mary of the Sea,
about that statement. The Mayor
n RI h. l. Il l.
Evening star., 1951-09-02
Koppers Official Named

PITTSBURGH, Sept. / (P.-
Koppers Company, Inc. today
named A. B. Fisher, jr., operating
manager of Koppers Freyn engi-
neering department Offices in
Chicago.
Evening star., 1951-09-02
By George Kennedy
Star Stoff Correspondent

OCEAN CITY, Md. Sept. /. -.
This extensive summer resort is
ending the biggest season of It's
history-without gambling.
This has been a surprise to
many. They were of the opinion
that the games of chance were
one of the foremost attractions
of the place.
Gambling in one form or an
other had become so associated
with Ocean City that many had
lost confidence in the Atlantic it
self, the booming surf, the ocean
breezes, the white sand in the
brilliant sunshine and the cool
nights, as attractions that would
fill the hotels and cottages.
But they were wrong. Today
there are more people than ever
on the boardwalk watching the
bronzed urchins tumble in the
surf the box. kites flying in the
stiff breeze and the Shapely girls
in brief swim suits lending life
and color to the scene.
This Labor Day week end is
expected to break all records and
the lucky ones who made reSer-
vations early in the season are
now arriving
All Due to One Man.
This surprising change in an
old resort is entirely due to one
man, John L. Sanford. jr., States
attorney of Worcester County,
who said that if he were elected,
he was going to close up the gam
bling places and end teen-age
drinking in Ocean City and its
environs, and he meant what he
said
John Sanford is a native of Bal
timore, the son of an English
father and an Irish mother, a
Carroll of more recent emigration
than the CAROLS of Doughoregan
Manor. He attended Loyola High
School, a Jesuit institution, in Bal
timore, then wens to Washington
College at CheStertown on the
Eastern Shore. He took his law
degree at the University of Mary
land Law School, and hung out his
shingle in Berlin, few miles in
land from Ocean City in Worces-
ter County. His wife is an native
of Ocean City, and the Sanfords
live here every summer. They
have no children.
At Al, States Attorney Sanford
is alert, direct and fortnight. He
keeps his dark hair cropped close,
in crew style, and told this inter
viewer that he didn't mind being
called that short-haired so-and-
So"
Has Wide Backing.
People not usually associated
with reform movements, such as
owners of resort hotels, bar
tenders, tavern proprietors and
taxi drivers, seem to be for the
States attorney and his clean
up. for the most part. Almost
everybody you talk to is for the
prosecutor.
Not everybody, however. AS Mr.
Sanford was well aware before
he started, a man who disturbS
the established order of things,
is bound to make enemies. And
they are bound to be particularly
bitter in a community where the
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1951-12-21
Armed Forces
Discharge for Some Reserves

Congressional legislation passed ear
ller this year is the reason why MANY
reServiSts called to active duty with
out their consent will spend this
Christmas at home.
The legislation states that veterans
who were recalled without their con-
sent from the Volunteer or Inactive
Reserve may not be required to serve
more than limited period of active
duty.
The legislation defines a veteran as
one who served a year or more be-
tween Pearl Harbor and Sept. 2. 1945.
Individual Variations
Such officers must not be required
to serve more than II months. enlisted
men Is months. Many of the enlisted
men, however, will be released earlier
than the maximum time. The Army,
for example, plans to release all of
its reserve enlisted men covered by
the legislation by Dec. 20. The Air
Force says its reserve enlisted men
who fall under the legislation will be
released after they have put in IL
months. The Navy plans to keep en-
listed reserves the maximum time.
The services have also announced
that, generally, they do not plan to
call to active duty reservists who do
not receive pay for attending drills.
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The men named by Teitelbaum is
sued statements denying participation
IN any such tax shakedown ring. Oil
phant resigned his post one day after
denying the charges.
Subsequently, an Internal Revnue
Bureau lawyer testified that Oliphant
matted move that would have de-
!ayed criminal fraud prosecution of
Ieitelbaum's income tax case at about
the time Teitelbaum alleged he re-
fused to be shaken down.
Mystery Witness
Linked by the testimony with Oil
plant in the Teitelbaum case was a
mystery witness, Henry w. Grune-
wald, a Washington private investi-
gator"
Attorney General ]. Howard Nc
Grath has ordered Justice Depart.
ment attorneys to put all the evidence
IN the Teitelbaum affair before a
grand jury
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1951-12-21

more American financial aid to Brit.
ain. AT the same time, he has indi-
Gated the seriousness of Britain's
plight by announcing that Britain can
not meet its scheduled S13, 1000, OOO. 900
defense program on time.
His announcement comes at a time
when the United States is pressing
hard for a Speedup in military pro-
duction in the West. Some observers
hoped Churchill would delay his an
nouncement until the conference with
President Truman, but the doughty
prime minister replied: 1.-THE United
States may as well get the bad news
now"
U. S. officials have repeatedly de-
clared that the world today is in great
danger because of the Soviet reaction
to the buildup of strength in the West.
Churchill is taking the position that
the danger of war is not as great as il
was three years ago at the time of the
Berlin blockade.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1951-12-21

have 10000 to $4,000 South Ko. an
prisoners, and 10000 to $4,000 UN,
prisoners. Of the U.N. group, the col
onel estimates that 1000 to $500 are
British, 1000 are from other countries
and the remainder are Americans.
Discrepancy in Figures
His figures on possible American
prisoners don't coincide with a recent
U.N. atrocity report. Col. James M
Hanley of the U. S. Eighth Army said
recently the Reds have killed about
$500 Americans after taking them
prisoner. Fewer than 1000 Ameri-
cans have been reported missing in
action, so Hanley's figures would
leave only about 5000 Americans as
potential prisoners.
The Red negotiators agreed to take
up the prisoner question after EIGHT
days of Allied pressure. U.N. COM
mand spokesman had accused the
Communists of blackmail and using
the. prisoners as a human club" TO
force acceptance of Red terms for
policing a truce.
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In Short

Announced: by the Atomic Energy
Commission, that new designs already
have been incorporated into nuclear
weapons as a result of recent tests in
Nevada.
Revealed: by mobilization officials
IN Washington, that steel for schools.
highways and hospitals will remain
scarce through most of 1852.
Signed: by President Truman, an
executive order providing for emer-
gency controls over radio and tele-
vision In the event of an air attack.
Forecast: cut of American High
Commission personnel in GERMANY
from 1900 field and headquarters en-
ployes to about 900 by July l.
Retired: Joe DiMaggio, 37-year-old
New York Yankee outfelder. DiMag-
gio was named on every annual all
star team during his 13-year ca:
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who handled the case, Ward Kemn.
now an Air Force lieutenant colonel
was questioned early in the week bv
committee Investigators.
Democratic Party Chieftain Frank
2. Mckinney declared this week that
President Truman should do some
thing dramatic and drastic" about
the scandals disclosed in the hear
ings.
Mckinney made the statement
after defending a 1916 stock venture
by which he and Frank McHale. his
close personal friend, picked up S68.-
600 each on 10-month investments of
only $1,000. The stock deal was dis
closed in bankruptcy proceeding.
The President already has shown
anger at disclosures that have re-
Elected on him and his administra.
ton" A full-scale government house
cleaning, directed by the President.
was expected to be underway by the
new year.
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The WSl; his N33l
NATION: Scandal JoIts Administrators

M INK coats and deep freezes
4N4 were meant to make life
happier for those who owned
them: Recent history shows thew
can also bring misery.
For the Truman Administra.
ton' these luxurious commodities
have provided some king-size head
aches Before the 'ixers" turned I'D
IN the current inquiry into the ma
tlons income tax collection and en-.
torcement services, there were the
influence peddlers" in the Recon.
Itruction Finance Corporation nrobe
and before them, the "five-percent
ers." Mink coats and such have beer.
mentioned more than once.
Accepts FavOrs
T. Lamar Caudle, ousted assistant
attorney general, told the House subj
committee investigating the tax COL
lection system that he had dealings
with members of law firm which de-
tended 40 or so criminal tax fraud
cases. Members of the firm did him =
number of favors, he said Tbev
nelped get his wife a mink coat at
wholesale and they gave him a tele-
vision set at Christmas. CaudIe re-
peated that he had never done snv
1avors for the tax lawyers.
That was the start of the story Tbi.
week, the subcommittee head, Rem
Cecil R. King (D-Calif), told Caudle:
You have utterly failed as a public
official. The damage you have done
to your government will take a lone
time to repair"
The emphasis was on the 'TeiteI-
baum Affair" at the King committee
hearings this week.
Abraham Teitelbaum first took the
stand week-and-a-half ago. He testi-
fed that he was approached last win.
ter by two men who demanded $500
OOO to fix" his tax troubles.
Tax Official Resigns
The two men told Teitelbaum
Chicago attorney who was formerly
counsel for the family of AL Capone
that they were part of a Washington
Clique" Teitelbaum said he was told
the clique included Caudle: Charles
OIlphant, chief counsel in the Bu-
reau Of Internal Revenue since l947.
Jess Larson, general services admin.
and two former commission
erS OF internal revenue-Joseph Nu-
nan ana George j. Schoeneman.
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KOREA: Hopes for Armistice See-saw

NIB Korean truce talks have at
i times been marked by a sus-
penSe worthy of the best in mvs-
terry thrillers.
With regularity that has often
proved exasperating, the an
nouncement has come, from Korea or
Washington, stating: "A truce in Ko-
rea is felt to be closer than at any
time during the negotiations.
This week, the announcement was
made by observers" in Washington.
The new surge of optimism sprang
from the Communist agreement at
Panmunjom to begin immediate dis
cussions on the exchange of prisoners
Of war.
Basis for Optimism
The Red action at the truce table
set of speculation that a cease-fre
order was nearer than front line re-
ports indicated.
The White House gave no official
confirmation, but the rumors were
spanked by the conference between
President Truman and the Joint
Chiefs Of Staff following the chief
executives premature return to Wash
ington from his Key West vacation.
1t was understood that President
Truman and the jos had agreed in
their conference on the next moves to
be made in the Korean truce negotia-
tons.
BY agreeing to talk about exchang.
ing prisoners of war, the Communists
yielded to inSistent Allied demands on
this, the next-to-last issue on the
armistice agenda.
Red Charge
Characteristically, a Red charge
came at the same time. The Commu-
nists stated that Red-held Kaesong.
site of the Red truce delegations
camp, had been attacked by a U.N.
plane. A United Nations investigation
OF the enemy complaint verified the
charge.
AS subcommittee composed of one
delegate from each truce team took
up the prisoner exchange issue. the
Communists proposed all prisoners be
released by both sides when an armis-
tlce IS reached. The United Nations
insisted on "fair and equitable" ex-
change, which was interpreted as a
nan-tor-ma swap.
BY fair and equitable" the U.N.
meant also that it was aiming for an
exchange which would give neither
side an advantage if hostilities were
resumed. Prisoners not exchanged.
presumably. would be released only
after a formal peace is reached.
The U.N. pressed for the exchange
Of information on the location of POW
camps and names and nationalities of
prisoners they hold. The Reds have all
the Allied information on prisoners
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Defense
Plans for Defense

Pentagon officials worked this week
to lind a plan by which the Air Force
Army and Navy can be expanded be-
yond present goals without upsettina
the U. S. production machine and ci-
william economy.
The big job was to soften the inn
pact such an expansion was sure ts
have.
Defense Secretary Robert A. Lovett
already has disclosed that the Joint
Chiefs OF Staff and the National Sc
curlty Council have approved plans 70
start building a 143-wing Air Force
instead of the SIS wing objective set
earlier in the year.
Expansion Plans
The Army is planning to add az
least three more divisions to its force.
If approved by President Truman
and Congress, all of these plans will
require sharp increases in production.
Even under the present rearmament
program, production of some major
weapons has been tagging.
The Air Force, meanwhile. has
limited that it has developed guided
missile armament for strategic bomb
erS. That means the big ships could
fight their way through enemy inter-
ceptors to protected targets deep in
the Eurasian continent. Presumably.
the bombers could launch the missiles
and let "homing" devices in the mech
aniSm do the rest.
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WIN the russians. Inc president is
opposed to direct negotiations with
the Soviet boss, and has said so many
times.
Churchill may be disappointed when
he finds that he will have to confer.
not with President Truman alone, but
with whole staff of presidential adj
ViSerS as we'll
The British leader has a liking for
the kind of diplomatic relationship
that existed between him and the late
President Roosevelt. That was a tight
personal tie-up and a continuous CO.
operation, often by telephone, across
the Atlantic.
President Truman, in comforting
with foreign leaders, takes along his
staff of administrative assistants-and
they often do most of the talking.
Washington observers do not expect
the President to change his habits
before the meeting with Churchill
next month.
Churchill has announced publicly
that he does not intend to ask for
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Egypt
The Bridge

Inc bridge
Red beret wearing parachute trooDs
of the British 10Th Brigade stood bv 2
ready to bulldoze some Egyptian huts.
The huts made up a tiny Egyptian
village. They had to be RACED, the Brit
lsh said, 50 that a new road and
bridge could be built between the
British garrison at Suez and its water
filtration plans on the narrow Sweet
water Canal. The purpose of the road
and the small bridge was to bypass a
friction area near Suez where bloody
clashes have occurred recently.
The Egyptians wanted to refer the
matter of the bridge to the national
government in Cairo. The British
commander in the Suez citv district
said the order for the bridge would
be carried out. There had been one
24-hour postponement already. he
said.
The British paratroopers got the
word. The little Egyptian village was
level1ed' to make way for the new
road and bridge.
The reaction in Cairo was bitter.
Acting Foreign Minister Ibrahim Frag
Pasha announced that Egypt was con.
Slderlng recalling her ambassador
from London.
In Paris, Egyptian Foreign Minister
Salah FL Din submitted to United Ma
lions Secretary General Trygve Lie a
memorandum complaining about Brit
aims demolition of the village.