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Evening star., 1951-03-20
Chicago's Frozen Woman
Is QuadrupIe Amputee
BY The Associated Press

CHICAGO, Mar. 20.-Mrs. Dor
Iothy Mae Stevens, Chicago's frozen
woman, became quadruple ampu-
tee yesterday.
Physicians at Michael Reese
Hospital amputated all the fingers
of her right hand and parts OF
fingers on her left hand excluding
the thumb. On March 8, doctors
removed her legs 8 inches below
the knees.
Mrs. Stevens, %, colored, was
found frozen stiff in South Side
alley February 8. Her body tenn.
Iperature was recorded at 81 de.
grees, about "a degrees below
normal.
She was thawed out slowly al
room temperatures and made G
rapid recovery with her tempera
ture approaching normal. Doctor.
had hoped that no amputation.
would be necessary. However
damage to muscle tissue caused
the loss of her legs and death o.
tissues in her hands started 6
general deterioration Of her con.
dition.
Doctors said they believe NJ
further amputations will be nee.
essary. They started extensive
skin grating on her left leg yes.
Iterday in the first of a series o.
Reconstruction surgeries.
Evening star., 1951-03-20
Explorers Removed
After Panama Sinkinq

An American archaeological ex
pedition in Panama has beer
sighted and is being removed from
the scene where it's boat capsizet
last Saturday. the National Geo
graphic Magazines Office said to-
day.
One of the party, Richard H
Stewart, a photographer for tn,
magazine. was reported flown t.
Colon by an Air Force helicopter
DR.. and Mrs. Matthew w. Sterlinl
and Robert Rands. archeologist!
with the Smithsonian Institution
were said to have remained be-
hind to await another boat t.
pick up what equipment the!
saved.
The boat sinking was reported
near the town of Cocle del Mort,
in the river of the same name
The expedition was the 18th tt
the mid-Americas made by DR.
Sterling. In this one, which wa!
to have continued about foul
months, the party was pushing
into the Western Panama section
visited in 1902 by Columbus.
The discoverer of America wrote
extensively about the area, bu
since then, for 449 years. almos
nothing has been recorded. 1t i
this gap that the party hoped tt
fill with words and pictures.
Evening star., 1951-03-20
GaI|inger Orderly Seized
In Theft From Policeman

A Gallinger Hospital orderly
charged with taking $40 from a
policeman's wallet while the po-
liceman was being X-rayed at the
hospital was to appear in Munich
pal Court today.
Pvt. Randolph Fries of No. 10
precinct left his civilian clothes
in a hospital dressing room yes
terday while he was being x-rayed,
but he also left friend watching
the room. When he returned and
discovered his $40 missing, the
friend pointed to Edward Whitted,
80, colored, of the 1900 block of
Third street NV, an orderly, who
had been in the room.
Whitted said he had only S. on
him, police said, but Pvt. Fries
found two $40 bills in his watch
pocket. Whitted was charged
with petty larceny at No. 5 pre-
cinct.
Evening star., 1951-03-20
Slave Labor Inquiry
By u. n. Authorized
BY the Assoeioied Press

SANTIAGO, Chile, Mar. 20
The United Nations Economic
and Social Council yesterday au-
thoriZed competent, impair
tial" worldwide investigation Of
slave labor charges and rejected
a Russian counterproposal for 6
Communist dominated inquiry.
The successful BritiSh-Ameri-
can resolution authorizes U. N
Secretary General Trygve Lie anc
the director general of the Inter
national Labor Organization tc
appoint a committee of not more
than five members "qualif1ed BY
their competence and impair
tiality."
The Russian proposal. support
ed in the voting only by the So
Wet Union, Poland and Czecho-
slovakia, called for proportiona,
representation on the committee
from the trade unions of the
world. With only government.
controlled unions permitted in tht
Soviet bloc. those nations woulc
have had a ruling majority.
The West has charged thar
from 2 million to 20 million slave
laborerS are working in the Sovie
Union under inhuman conditions
Russia has denied the charges
refused investigation in her terri.
tory and countered that thl
worlds only slave labor exists il
territory controlled by the "capi.
talist, imperialist" governments.
Evening star., 1951-03-20
Rosa|ind Magruder,
Brokers' Widow, Dies

Mrs. Rosalind Wright Geddes
Magruder, 73, Washington resi-
dent most of her life. died today
at her home, the Highlands Apart
ments, 1914 Connecticut avenue
NV. She had been Ill for three
months.
Mrs. Magruder was born in
Washington, the daughter of
Charles Wright Geddes and the
former Annie Read Hill, both of
old Maryland families. She was
graduated from the Sisters of Holy
Cross School here. Her husband,
Herbert S. Magruder, a stock
broker, died many years ago.
| She long had been active in
Magruder Chapter of the Daugh-
tiers of the American Revolution
here and was recording secretary
at the time of her death. She
also was member of the Ameri-
can Clan Gregor Society, be-
longed to its council and was
treasurer Of its Fund for Future
Planning. She devoted much
time to Red Cross work.
Surviving are three sisters, Mrs.
o. o. van den Berg. Mrs. Joseph
P. Kelley and Mrs. Daniel Dillon,
all of Washington.
Funeral services will be held at
$3.50 am. tomorrow in the I'm
maculate Conception Church,
Eighth and N streets NV. Burial
will be in Mount Olivet Cemetery.
Evening star., 1951-03-20
IAurioI Sails Tonight
For u. ). and Canada
Despite Strike Crisis
By the Assocjoted Press

PARIS, Mar. 20. President
Vincent Auriol sails tonight to
spend II days, make 30 speeches
none of them about politics
and preside at 18 official meals in
the United States and Canada.
With him will 60 his wife, an
entourage of 29-officials and 9TH
Iers-and huge load of steamer
trunks and suitcases. Ten big
packing cases of silver, cham
Ipagnes and wines already have
been shipped.
The trip to see President Tru-
man and Canada's Prime Minister
Louis st. Laurent will cost France
about $180,000. The National AS
sembly has not yet voted the
money to pay the bill.
The 66-year-old president, a
veteran Socialist politician from
the south of France, leaves his
country at an awkward moment.
Strikes of gas, power and trans
port workers have thrown the
capital into a crisis. Should the
trouble turn political and result
in the downfall of Premier Henri
IQueuille's week-old cabinet, Mr..
Auriol would pick Mr.. Queuille's
successor.
The strike wave. reliable sources
said, will force one change in the
presidential plans. His party was
due to leave st. Lazare station by
train late this afternoon for LIE
HaVre. but strikebound suburban
lines halted all trains in and out
of the station.
Instead the group will go by
automobile to board the lie de
France for her sailing just before
midnight.
The party includes the Auriols'
son Paul-one of his fathers
chief secretaries; Foreign Min
lister Robert Schuman, two Am
bassadors. three detectives and
five servants. 1t is the smallest
group Protocol Chief Jacques Du-
maine could gather for such a
trip.
Mr.. Schuman has too much
work here at home to make the
whole trip. He returns to France
when Mr.. Auriol goes to Canada
for four days.
Evening star., 1951-03-20
Printers Ask Congress
To Name Park for Gomper!

A resolution asking Congress to
name a District park after Samuel
Gompers, pioneer American labor
leader, has been adopted by Co.
lumbia Typographical Union
No. 101.
The printers proposed that the
park at Massachusetts, avenue and
Tenth street NV, where a statue
of Gompers already stands, be
called GomperS Square.
Gompers was one of the found
ers of the American Federation OF
Labor. He led the movement to
give labor a voice in Congress and
fought for legislation favorable to
labor.
Copies of the resolution were
sent to President Truman, the Dis
trict Commissioners and the Sen
ate and House District Committees
The union also adopted a res
olution supporting meeting
called here today and tomorrow
by the United Labor Policy Com
mittee to map community fight
against "phony price controls
unfair tax laws" and for con-
tinued rent controls.
Evening star., 1951-03-20
By ChorIes J. Yorbrouqh

Big guns and men who can
write backward began a Today
air defense of Washington today
The guns are 80 and 120-milli-
meter weapons. trundled into
perimeter positions around the
District yesterday by Fort Meade's
35th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Bri-
gade, commanded by Brig. Gen
Homer Case. If you woke up this
morning and found one next
door, this may explain it.
The men who have to write
backward are radar plotters in
Capt. Rayfeld Burgers 503rd
Operations Detachment, on whose
shoulders falls the complete re-
sponsibility of picking up and
tracking by radar enemy" air.
craft.
Plots Planes Course
They write backward because
the planes course. which they
draw on the back of a transparent
plexi-glass board. is to be read
from the front.
There's no trick to it." one of
them replied. Usually you can
get the hang of it in about an
hour, but there's nothing to it
after you do it eight or 10 hours
a week"
Frequently, in similar defense
exercises, one plotter will be ham
ding the course of several planes
at the same time, based on radio
or telephone reports, which come
in at about one-minute intervals.
Gun and radar troops and their
protecting machine gunners
Slogged into muddy positions
throughout yesterdays rain. I'M
mediately. they were alert for
simulated air attacks which may
come at any hour of the day
Evening star., 1951-03-20


wife, Mrs. Joan Graham Vorobey,
lives at 508 Bellevue drive, Falls
Church. She is the mother of
daughter born October whom
1t. Vorobey had never seen. His
father is a machinist at the Naval
Gun Factory here.
Awarded Silver Star.
1t. Vorobey was awarded the
Silver Star Medal last September
for gallantry in action near
Seoul. His citation describes how
he dismounted from his tank at
a blind curve and reconnoitered
on foot. discovering Communist
self-propelled guns around the
corner.
Remounting his tank, the cita-
ton relates, 1t. Vorobey directed
fire at the enemy vehicles and
killed the escaping enemy crew.
men. His action was credited with
enabling United Nations troops
to clear the sector with a mini
mum of casualties.
A veteran of World War II in
the Pacific, 1t. Vorobey was dis
charged from the Army in 1945
and was graduated from George
Washington University three years
later. He re-entered the Army in
July. 1949, and was transferred
from Fort Knox, KY, to Korea last
August.
Came to u. S. Before 1920.
Mr.. and Mrs. Vorobey came to
the United States from Russia be-
fore 1920 and settled in Wash
Iington in 1884. 1t. Vorobey's
brother. Sergt George J. Vorobey,
"a, is attached to the Army coun-
ter intelligence section In Ger
many.
1t. Vorobey also is survived by
two sisters, Mrs. Stella Devlin of
Baltimore and Julia Vorobey of
the Hilltop terrace address.
Evening star., 1951-03-20

Mr.. Fedder had undertaken. The
witness explained he left after
calling at the home of one of the
part time employees of Mr.. Feddel
and returned to Washington.
1t was later that night, accord
ing to Mr.. F'edder, that the al
legged threats occurred. Mr.. Fed
der admitted he had overStated
the number of cards he had
.proceSsed to Senator Mccarthy s
employees because their attitude
was threatening and he wished tc
quiet them.
Committee Counsel Edward A
McDermott went to Oklahoma
lover the week end to take state
Iments as to charges of irregulari-
ties in the mailing of Saltwater
newspaper during the campaign
in which Subcommittee Chairman
Monroney, Democrat, of Okla
homa, was elected to the Senate.
Statements Obtained.
10 Ferguson, defeated .Repub'
Ilican candidate for Governor, hac
charged that thousands of copie
of the newspaper, which favored
the candidacy of Mr.. Monrone1
and other Democrats, were mailed
in violation of postal regulations
Mr.. McDermott said he obtained
statements from the newspape.
publisher and Oklahoma posta
authorities to the effect that thu
mailing received prior clearance
with the post Office.
The subcommittee was to hole
an executive session at noon tt
determine on the future cours,
| of the inquiry, Mr.. McDermot
said.
Evening star., 1951-03-20
Big Guns and Rodor 7 Today Begin
To-Day Air Defense of Capital

or night for the next 10 days
They'll eat and sleep near then
guns.
In dryer quarters, Capt. Bur-
gers men set up their plotting
boards, devices, gadgets and COM
munications, which tell them
everything from moonrise time
and dew point to the pin-pointed
position of aircraft. To avoid con-
fusion, the attacking planes will
carry radar responder, which
signals Identification.
Work In Operations Center
In the operations center, first
appearance of an attacking plane
will be yellow circle on the trans
parent board - drawn by one OF
the backward writer's on the basis
of information telephoned OF
radioed in from a distant rada1
screen.
The first board has circles rep
reSenting so to $50 miles around
the target area. A second one is
an enlargement of the 50-mile
circle on which the course is
plotted after directions from a
more accurate radar beam.
This information goes to the
gun positions. A computer deter
mines altitude, azimuth and di-
rection.
A third transparent board lists
the identity of the aircraft, the
raid number and number of air.
craft at what altitude. A space
for "remarksp usually contains a
notation as to what unit picked
up the plane.
In last summers exercise, when
gun positions were set up within
the city. B-45 jet bombers, simu-
lating B-29S, flew missions day
and night. Only one got through
without being picked up and
tracked bv the gun radar-
Evening star., 1951-03-20
.Truscoff Resigns Position
In Guam Government

Floyd A. Truscott, former As.
sistant superintendent of the
Metropolitan Police Department
has resigned as assistant to the
public safety commissioner o1
Guam, the Interior Department
sas reported.
An Interior Department spokes-
man said Mr.. Truscott resigned
because of the i'll health of him
self and his wife. The Truscotts
are returning to this country, the
spokesman said. but it is not
known if they are returning di-
rectly to Washington.
Mr.. Truscott retired from the
police department in May. 1850,
because of physical disability. He
accepted the Guam post a short
time later.
Evening star., 1951-03-20
Draft Debate Ruling
Reyives Hope Of Veto
On Troops TO Europe

A House Rules Committee de-
cision has given Republicans new
hope for putting across a draft
bill amendment giving Congress
a veto on the dispatch of troops
to Europe.
The committee yesterday placed
the debate on the measure under
q rule permitting any amend
ment to be offered from the House
floor. The four-day debate begins
April 3.
The House version of the man
power bill would lower the draft
age from 10 to 1872, extend the
service period from 81 to Is
months and provide for eventual
universal military training.
G. o. p. Aims Outlined.
But the Republicans are advo-
eating additions and changes.
Minority leaders hope to line up
enough votes in the next two
weeks to put through the follow
ing:
l. An amendment to bar the use
of United States troops as part
of the North Atlantic Pact army
in Europe without express con-
greSsional approval. The Senate
bill does not contain such a pro-
vision but the upper chamber is
debating a separate resolution on
the subject.
2. An amendment to put a CELL
ing on the combined strength of
the armed forceS-probably at
million. the figure voted by the
Senate.
Separate UNIT Provision. M
.> g. An amendment to divide the
draft part of the measure from
provisions for UNIT when the need
for the draft ends. UNIT is in
cluded in the Senate version.
4. An amendment providing for
q cutoff date for the new draft
bill instead of an indefinite opera
ton period recommended by the
House Armed Services Committee
and voted by the Senate.
Republican leaders contend they
will be able to get enough support
from Democrats to carry their
amendments.
Elsewhere on the manpower
front, the Defense Department an
nounced it would not ask colleges
and universities to speed up their
courses unless full mobilization
became necessary.
Evening star., 1951-03-20
Duplex Tourist Cabin Razed
By Fire Near WOODBRIDGE

A duplex tourist cabin on Route
I, 4 miles south of Woodbridge,
Va, was destroyed by fire today.
The Occoquan-Wo Woodbridge-Lor-
ton Fire Department, headed by
Chief R. w. Hall, prevented high
winds from spreading the flames
to IS other duplex units. The
destroyed building was unoccu-
pied. The owner, Edward War
Irington. said the units are rented
Ito families of service personnel
lat Quantico and Fort Belvoir.
Damage was estimated at $4,000.
Volunteer f1remen from Quantico,
IFranconia and Penn Daw also re-
Isponded to the fire, which Chief
Hall said might have started from
Ia kerosene heater.
Evening star., 1951-03-20
House Votes TO Punish
.GI Housing Side Deals
BY the Assoeiated Press

The House passed and sent to
the Senate yesterday bill aimed
at halting "side payment" de-
mands by real estate dealers SELL
ing property to veterans.
The legislation was recon-
by the Justice Depart
ment. 1t said there were "all too
many cases" in which real estate
dealers accepted under-the- table
payments by veterans in excess of
property appraisals by the Vet
erans' Administration. CT loans
cannot be made on properties SELL
ing for more than their VA-ap-
praised values.
Sellers would be subject to
treble damages. If the veteran
sued and won, he would get three
times the down payment. If the
Government brought the action.
the Government would get two
thirds the penalty and the veteran
one-third, or his money back.
Evening star., 1951-03-20

Iresentative Horan, Republican of
Washington.
Judges in the contest were Miss
Florence Bergman, art editor OF
THE Star; James V. Cupoli, artist
and art teacher: and Mrs. Gladys
Harrison, art editor of the Times
Herald.
The show also includes an ex-
hibit of school children's work
sponsored by. the Art for World
Friendship Committee of the
Women's international League for
Peace and Freedom.
Evening star., 1951-03-20

p a I e II I S I e 90
ported today.
First 1t. Alex
ander Vorobey.
son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Joseph G.
Vorobey of 543
Hilltop terrace
Sc, was killed
January IA in
combat n e ar
.SeOul, K o + e a,
while serving as
a tank COM
m a n er with
the Sd Division.
Tf UorohnHytc
Evening star., 1951-03-20
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nervous and confused. He said:
It's not my intention to lie tc
this committee.
Also DisintereSted.
The witness said he was read
Ing a newspaper" during part ot
the conference at Mr.. Becker'S
home.
Il was tired and not too much
concerned at the time"
You were diSinterested alSo?'
Senator Hennings asked.
Yes, Id say I was disinter-
eStcd.' The witness added, I'm
so confused now I can't even
think"
Would you like to pause now
and reflect to see if you want to
change any of your testimony"
Senator Hennings asked.
No. I believe I have told the
truth so far as know it.
MI. Becker told the Subcom-
mittee he was only doing his duty
when he arranged with the wit
nesses to talk over their stories
and to ascertain the facts"
The counsel said he conferred
with them at his home because MIR.
KiermaS had been too busy to sec
him in Office hours.
Asked About Procedure.
The witness could not be sure of
when he had discussed the teStl-
mony on another occasion with Mr.
Surine. He was asked what he
had said to Mr.. Surine on the laU-
ter occasion and replied:
Il might have told him it was
my first time to testify and asked
him about the procedure.
What did Mr.. Surine tell you
about the procedure?"
He told me to tell the truth"
Did you have any conversa-
ton with Miss Kerr about the tes-
timony before the committee?"
Mr.. Kiermas replied that per
haps" they had talked ABOUT his
appearance. In reply to a ques-
ton as to what Miss Kerr hao
said to him, Mr.. Kiermas sale
she told him, Good luck
The witness said he visited Miss
Kerr at her home. WAS she in
bed at the time?" Senator Hen
nings asked.
Il don't recall"
You don't recall if she was in
bed, standing up or sitting down.
Il think she was in bed. the
witness replied.
Broke Hip Recently.
Miss Kerr, who broke her hip re-
Gently while on vacation will not
be called as a witness until she
has recovered enough to take the
stand.
did you discuss your appear
ance with Senator McCarthy?'
Senator Hennings asked.
Il believe So
"When did the conversation take
place."
The witness replied it was yes
terday afternoon and the Senator
had merely asked him if he was
all set to testify.
$4,000 Cards Involved.
Mr.. Kiermas said earlier hi
first got in touch with Mr.. Feddel
about the last minute job or
Saturday, November 4. Severa
hours later, Mr. Fedder drove tc
the Senate Office Building here
Mr.. Kiermas said, to take de,
livery on some $4,000 cards
stamps and a small down payment
for his services.
The witness could not recall
where the money for the doWr
payment came from. He said HI
was with Mr.. Surine at the timt
of the delivery and that he hac
obtained the postcards from tht
home of Mrs. Lee.
Mrs. Wilma Lee, wife of Rober
E. Lee, minority clerk of the HOUSE
Appropriations Committee, hac
told the Senators she got into the
postcard project as a volunteer
Mrs. Lees husband testified HI
also worked as volunteer, being
a kind of messenger boy"
Checked on Progress of Job.
Mr.. Kiermas said he and Mr.
Surine drove to Baltimore on Sun.
day afternoon, November 5, tt
check on the progress Of the jot
Evening star., 1951-03-20

After a car explosion rocked
the main street of Lourenco Mar
ques, Mozambique, it was learned
that native had filled the radia-
tor of a truck with gas, not water
Evening star., 1951-03-20

Grenada (Windward Isles) and
Oomonica Geeward Isles) will
issue new sets of stamps with
values in cents and dollars in
stead of pence and shilling valu-
Evening star., 1951-03-20
Washington Officer,
Son of Russian-Born
Couple, Dies in Korea

The 24-year-old son of a Rus
sian-born Washington couple has
been killed in action fighting
Communist forces in Korea, his
Evening star., 1951-06-28
III Health Wipes Out Indictments of Hunt

at his Chicago home. The laweyer
said Hunt is receiving 100 per cent
disability payments from two In
surance companies.
Hunt was indicted here last
February on charges Of agreeing
to receive compensation from
three private Arms for representa-
|tions on their behalf before the
War Assets Administration while
he was employed by WAA as .
consultant. The offenSes charged
occurred in April, May and june,
1915. according TO the indictment
He was accused Of acting fol
Albert J. Gross. head Of the Gross
Co, and for the A. r. Wagner Iron
Works, both of Milwaukee, and on
behalf Of a real estate arm owned
by Frank Seiden and his two sons
lot New York.
Hunt was charged with helping
procure steel from WAA for the
two Milwaukee firms and with try
ing to reacquire from the Govern
|ment the Lido Beach Hotel on
Long Island. N. Y. for the Seidens
Until Judge Keech's action yes
|terday, Hunt was facing q maxi
mum penalty Of 10000 fine and
two years Imprisonment on each
count Of the indictment.
Evening star., 1951-06-28

Because trial would place his
life In jeopardy" James v. Hunt.
|a key figure In the congressional
|five-perecenter inquiry yesterday
won dismissal Of o four-count In
|dictment charging him with IL
legal conduct while a Federal
consultant.
District Court Judge Richmond
lB. Keech issued the dismissal
order, after receiving memoranda
from four lnedi al authorities.
Evening star., 1951-06-28
Arnold BusIine TuIks
With Union Resumed

Representatives Of the Arnold
Buslines and 500 company em-
ployes. members Of the AFL
Amalgamated Association Of Street
Electric Railway and Motor Coach
Employees. Local 1919. resumed
negotiations today at q third ses-
sion on q new contract. The union
is seeking an increase Of 80 cents
AN hour and other benefits.
Spokesmen said the negotia-
tions were progressing" but ap-
|parently settlement on the pay
raise issue was coming slowly. The
present union contract expires
August 10.
Evening star., 1951-06-28
Rugs Reduced

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S-sox54 cetton chsnllss 1875 Now4.o7
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9.97
1-z7x4S Braided cettons 6e5 Now
3-sexeo Brsidsd cestens s.e5. kow--5.e7
s-2oxss cetsen Chenille Nursery Rugs were e.e5 Now
4.o7
WGL-North Building :.
Budget Homefurnishines, Fourth Floor