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Evening star., 1951-08-11
Injured Women Trapped in Col
BY Tree Uprooted in Crash

from Bailey's Cross Roads, AMMAN
dale and Arlington.
Together they hoisted the dou-
ble-trunk tree from the car. The
door was forced open and Pvt.
Marcy squeezed into the vehicle
to carry out the injured victims
within Is minutes after the acci-
dent.
The driver, Miss Clarissa ].
Cunningham, 20, of 6501 Culmore
street. Falls Church, was admitted
to Arlington Hospital with a
broken shoulder. Two passengers,
Mrs. Ruth H. Olson, 48. of 1908
Van Ness street NV, and Miss
Mary Fedele, 20, of 1765 Massa-
chusetts avenue NV, were treat
ed at the hospital for face and
head cuts, and released.
Evening star., 1951-08-11
Plant Dispersal Plan
Hit by Congressman
From Industrial Areas
They Insist Spreading
Will HobbIe Defense,
Couse Population Shift
By the Associated Press

Members of Congress from es-
tablished industrial areas bitterly
protested today against President
Truman's new plant dispersal pol
icy.
Mr.. Truman'S aim is to spread
out the Nations industrial plants
to make them less vulnerable to
any enemy atomic attacks. But
opponents argue the dispersal will
hobble rather than help defense
preparedness by draining vitality
from existing industrial regions
and forcing costly population
shifts.
The administration has power
full means to enforce the dis
persal policy-award of defense
contracts, granting of defense
loans. ALLEGATION of critical ma
terials and other measures.
AS announced by Mr.. Truman
yesterday, the policy is to disperse
new industry and expanding in
dustry, but not to interfere with
established operating units. No
part of the country is to be built
up at the expense of any other
section, the President said.
New Englanders Vehement.
The most vehement objections
were registered by New England
ers, whose representatives in Con-
gress disregarded party lines and
joined forces to defeat a similar
dispersal provision in the economic
controls legislation enacted last
month.
Representative Heselton, Re-
publican. Of Massachusetts, termed
the dispersal policy outrageous" +"
He said IAN identical plan was
cleanly defeated by a bipartisan
majority of both chambers"
Representative Martin, Repub-
lican, of Massachusetts, said Con
|gresS has indeed fallen to a low
estate when the executive branch
continually circumvents its wishes
by subterfuge, indirection and
outright defiance" He accused
the President of resorting to
methods which have been the
chief weapons of the dictator
ships"
Easier to Protect"
Mr.. Martin, House Minority
Leader, scoffed at reports that
dispersal of plants within a mar
keting area of 10 to 20 miles was
what the administration has in
mind. He said it is clear that the
intent is scattering industry to
isolated areas"
Senator Green, Democrat, of
Rhode Island, who supports most
administration policies, argued
that concentrations of industries
and people carry their own pro-
lection.
"It is easier to protect compact
industrial areas than to provide
air and other defenses for scat
tered plants, since it is evident
the enemy has the air power to
reach any part of the country" "
he said.
Evening star., 1951-08-11
Forouk's System
Fails Him at Rate
Of S775 a Minute
BY The Associated Press

CANNES. France. Aug. IL
King Farouk's gambling system
backf1red again today. The Egyp-
tian monarch lost $4,000 in a
card game that ran from midnight
to 8 am. Casino officials said.
Riviera mathematicianS figured
he lost at the rate of SITS for
every minute of actual play. This
brought his losses over a two-day
period to $157. 700. Earlier the
King. who had made some big
winnings on his honeymoon tour,
claimed he had developed his own
system for winning Magistrates at
the gambling table.
Queen hartman, who is report
ed expecting a child, watched her
husband play for an hour and
then retired.
Evening star., 1951-08-11
SweItering South Texas Plains
Swept by SIS Million Storm

yesterday was lot at Preside in
the Big Bend country.
The hail in Hockey County
struck about dozen farms. Hail
stones piled up three feet deep in
spots.
1--WE been here since 1924 and
I've never seen anything like it,"
said R. L. Edwards, who farms IL
miles west of Lubbock. He lost
700 acres of cotton several inches
high, a lost estimated at between
$30,000 and $4,000.
In Northwest Texas, a bolt Of
lightning knocked out power in a
new residential section of Wichita
Fails. An estimated 1000 homes
were darkened for more than an
hour.
The thundershowers on the
South Plains ended five weeks of
Extremely hot, dry weather for
that section.
In two weeks there have been 81
deaths over the State caused by
heat. Crops, gardens and pastures
suffered.
Evening star., 1951-08-11
Picture on Page Az.

Picture on Pase Az.
she was taken into custody and
charged with felonious shooting.
Detective George Coppage said
the distraught woman told him
she also had planned to shoot
their 7-year-old daughter Sharon
and then kill herself.
1t. Edgar o. Robinson, 80. of
SOB South Twenty-sixth road, was
shot in the left chest and arm.
At Bethesda Naval Hospital his
condition was said to be not
serious.
Considered Action for Weeks.
Police, called to the Robinson
home, found Mrs. Robinson on
the bed. There were Slight wounds
on her chest which police said
were self inflicted with a butcher
knife.
Later, as she asked about her
husband. Mrs. Robinson said she
hoped he would recover.
Mrs. Robinson told police she
had considered the action for sew
eral weeks.
1.-THE thought of him leaving
home was constantly on my
mind" Detective Coppage quoted
her. "I thought he might be
called away any time because Of
his service. I just thought so
much about it I couldn't stand it
any longer"
Fired When He Was Asleep.
Last night the Robinsons had
gone out. Mrs. Robinson said the
thought of him leaving continued
to Cypress her. About 4::30 am.
she got a 80 caliber pistol they
had owned for seven years.
HE was asleep" she told po-
lice. "I fired twice and he woke
up. He grabbed the gun from
me-"
1t. Robinson apparently stag
gered to the telephone and called
police. They found him in one
room and his wife in the bedroom.
Neighbors said the Robinsons
moved into the duplex about a
month ago. They seemed to keep
to themselves and rarely visited
with others living close by, they
said.
1t. Robinson is attached to the
executive Office of the Secretary
of the Navy at the Pentagon.
Evening star., 1951-08-11
Right of Crime Probe to Quiz
Witnesses on TV Faces Test
Question Moy Go to Court After Senate Stick
To Contempt Citoton of Cleveland Men

New York underworld, activities
A frequently bitter f1ve-hour
debate preceded the vote sustain
ing contempt citations against
Morris Kleinman and Louis Roth
kopf. described by Senator Ke-
fauver. Democrat. of Tennessee
as members of lone of the largest
and most sinister criminal gangs
in the United States"
Citations Going to Jury.
Kleinman and Rothkopf refused
to talk because they said, their
constitutional rights were violated
by TV, newsreel and radio broad
casting of the hearings.
The Senate's vote sustained con-
tempt citations originally votec
(See CONTEMPT. Page A-3.}
Evening star., 1951-08-11

Three rescue squads, two police
departments and one fire COM
pany joined forces this morning
to free three injured women from
an overturned convertible on
Columbia pike near the Arlington
Fairfax County line.
Fairfax County police said the
convertible had run off the road,
knocked down a newspaper deliv-
cry box. uprooted a tree and
turned over. The tree fell across
the car. pinning the occupants
inside.
Sergt. Peirce Lysinger and Pvt.
Herbert Marcy of the Fairfax
force were met at the scene by
about a half dozen Arlington
policemen, one Arlington County
fire company and rescue squads
Evening star., 1951-08-11
Prices Turn Up
AS Pressure on
Controls Mounts
9-Week Drift Down
Reversed in First
Full Week of Law
By james Y. Newton

Pressure on Government eco
nomic controls was mounting to-
day as the Labor Department re-
ported that prices had turned
upward for the first time in 10
weeks.
The departments Bureau of
Labor Statistics said its index of
general Wholesale prices rose OIL
per cent in the week ended August
7, the first full week after the
new controls law became effective.
Prices gradually had drifted
downward in the previous nine
weeks Changes in wholesale prices
usually are reflected at retail at
some later time. The bureau said
that wholesale prices now are 1873
per cent above the level at the be-
ginning of the Korean fighting.
Beef System Under Review.
There were these other develop
mentS in prices and wages:
/. Retail meat dealers suggested
that hamburger prices be raised
3 or 4 cents a pound. At the same
time they suggested to control Of
f1cialS that ceilings on sirloin
steak be lowered somewhat. The
Government is reviewing it's en-
tire beef price control system.
2. The Wage Sterilization Board
refused to approve the full pay
increases negotiated last spring
for $4,000 workers in the West
Coast lumber industry.
The board allowed the lumber
workers 1917 cents an hour wage
increase, holding them to the gen.
eral formula of 10 per cent above
January Is, 1850, levels. This cut
3 cents an hour from the proposed
1512 cents settlement.
3. The Wage Board also an
nounced it will approve deferred
pay increases agreed on before
the wage freeze last January 26,
provided the increases are not un-
reasonable in size. There have
been more than 800 cases involv-
ing deferred pay increases before
the board.
Would LegaliZe Contracts.
In another action affecting la
Dor, the Senate Labor Committee
unanimously approved a bill to
legalize thousands of questioned
work contracts.
A similar bill has been intro
duced in the House. The Senate
bill was sponsored by Senators
Taft, Republican, of Ohio. and
Humphrey, Democrat, of Mime
sofa.
1t grew out of a Supreme Court
ruling that top officers of the
AFL and CIO had to sign nom
Communist oaths, under provi-
sions of the Taft-Hartley Labor
Act, if affiliated unions were to
be allowed legal use of National
Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
facilities.
Thousands of labor contracts,
worked out in conjunction with
the NLRB, were signed during a
period when top labor union chiefs
had not yet signed such oaths.
They now have done so.
The Taft-Humphrey bill would
validate these contracts.
The bill also would permit en-
ployers and unions to agree on
union shop without a referendum
of workers involved, unless 80 per
cent of the workers signed a pc
ton demanding referendum.
Evening star., 1951-08-11
u. ). Stocks Of Wheat
And Corn May Soften
Effect Of Crop Deficits
Surpluses Available
As Floods, Drought
Cut Grain Prospects
n -. 80 A :.
By Ovid A. Mortin
Assocloted Press s.aff Writer

Big Government wheat and
corn stores may make the diff
ference this year between food
shortages and plenty.
The grains were bought in pre-
vious bumper years under a price
support program. Some officials
had wondered what they were
going to do with the one-time
surpluses.
But an Agriculture Department
crop report yesterday indicated
that floods in some places and
drought in others had converted
a potential problem to a benefit.
Current Level High.
The most serious shortages
without the stored grains-would
have been felt in livestock feed
grains, especially corn. While a
somewhat larger crop of corn
than last year was forecast, the
volume would not be large enough
to maintain the current high level
of production of meat, dairy and
poultry products.
But a reserve of about 750 mil
lion bushels of corn will make up
the deficit in this years crop, now
forecast at 3.207.000,000 bushels.
The Government had set goal
of 3,375, 100000 bushels.
Similarly, with wheat, reserve
of about 375 million bushels will
give the Nation an ample supply
of the bread grain despite the
fact this years crop is indicated
to be the first one below a billion
bushels since 1943. The wheat
crop was put at 998 million BUSH
els, compared with 1,026,000, 900
last year
Second Largest in Volume.
Weather factors, principally
floods in the Midwest, cut produc-
ton prospects for both corn and
wheat during July-88 million
and 72 million bushels, respec-
lively.
In some other sections of the
country, dry, hot weather ad-
versely affected some crops.
Nevertheless, the aggregate VOL
ume of adj crops was indicated to
be the second largest on record,
rejecting a large planted acreage.
Record crops we're forecast for
hay, rice and grapes, while soy
beans and tobacco we're indicated
to be near-record.
Among crops below average are
wheat, barley. rye, f1axseed, dry
beans, peanuts, potatoes, sweet
potatoes, peaches, plums and
Iprunes.
Evening star., 1951-08-11

Roosevelt had known him since
1918, and seven years later, when
FDR closed his desk at the Navy
Department to campaign for Vice
President, it was Mr.. Early who
acted as advance agent.
Mr.. Early's "indispensabilitv'
became more realistic when Presi-
dent Truman insisted he remain
on as special assistant to smooth
out the wrinkles of a new office
Steve did so, though he often had
complained he was going broke
at the White House and needed
more lucrative employment.
In mid-1945, Mr.. Early saw a
chance to make a break to pri-
(See EARLY, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1951-08-11
90 Accused Cadets
Backed in Plea for
Discharges
Senator Russell Sees
No Need for Probe in
West Point Cribbing
BY the Assoeioied Press

WEST POINT, N. Y.-donor-
able discharges for the 80 cadets
accused of cheating Ch West Point
examinations had additional sup
porters today-including a lawyer
and some Military Academy off,
cials.
Honorable discharges would
permit the cadets to leave the
Military Academy without the Of
fetal stigma implied or contained
in other forms Of discharges.
The talk of the method of dis
missal in many quarters was fast
taking the place Of debate on
whether the cadets should be
turned out at all. There were in
dications that many Of the cadets
themselves were more axious to
get the honorable discharges than
to fight the dismissal order.
Exactly what form the dismis-
sails will take, and just how many
cadets finally will be affected may
be known in the next few days
Two screening boards now in ses-
sion hope to complete examina-
ton of individual cases sometime
over the week end.
AS the cheating scandal ap-
preached its climax it became
in Washington that
Congress has definitely decided
against an investigation at the
academy.
Chairman Russell of the Senate
Armed Services Committee said
today that he saw mo need" for
an investigation by his group. The
House Armed Services Committee
took a similar stand earlier this
week.
The latest honorable discharge
demand came yesterday from John
Mel. Smith of Harrisburg, Pa, an
attorney and retired Army colonel,
who came here voluntarily to aid
one of the accused cadets. Gilbert
tsee WEST POINT. Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1951-08-11
Young Wife Charged
In Husbands KiIIinq
BY the Associated Press

CUMBERLAND, Md, Aug. IL
A murder charge was filed today
against 22-year-old Shirley Schurg,
who has been held in the county
jail here since her husband was
shot at their home near Frostburg
Monday morning.
The husband, George A. Schurg,
27-year-old brickyard worker, died
last night at Miners Hospital in
Frostburg of chest wound. He
had been shot with a small caliber
rifle.
William F. Baker, investigator
for the Maryland State Police,
said Mrs. Schurg apparently was
angry at her husband when he did
not come home until lis Monday
morning.
The shooting was in the living
room of their home. Despite the
bullet wound which pierced his
lung, Mr.. Schurg got in his car
and drove to the hospital.
The couple has two small chill
dren.
Evening star., 1951-08-11
Defense Spending CuI
In Foreign Aid Bill Is
Opposed by Conna||y
Senator Urges Reduction
In Economic Assistance
To Trim Funds Outlay
BY the Associated Press

Chairman Connally of the Sen
ate Foreign Relations Committee
said today Congress can't provide
for a buildup in the free nations
defense strength and cut military
spending at the same time.
Senator Connally's comment
was made in announcing that the
Senate Foreign Relations and
Armed Services Committees will
|go to work Monday on revising
the So billion foreign aid authori-
zation bill.
The House Foreign Affairs
Committee has sliced $651 million
from the total. Senator Connally,
however. said he believes any size
able reductions made by the Sen
ate committee must come out OF
the economic aid.
eve have to build up military
defenses and we can't cut down
on military spending at the same
time" he said.
Cut by House Group.
The bill pending before the
Senate committees would author
ize $6.3 billion in military outlays
and $2.2 billion in economic as
|sistance to the free nations.
The House committee clipped
$3.50 million off military and eco
nomic funds for Western Europe
and slightly more than $100 mil
lion off funds for other areas.
Senator Connally said he wants
to study further a House commit
tee amendment giving operation
of the foreign aid program to a
new Mutual Security Administra-
ton.
He said previously that Senate
proposals for creating separate
agency have some good points. -
Although the House committee
bill carries a statement that
nothing in it shall be construed
to infringe on the powers and
Evening star., 1951-08-11
By the Associated Press

The right of the Senate Crime
Investigating Committee to re-
quire witnesses to testify in tele-
vised hearings Is headed for a
possible test in the criminal
courts.
BY a 38-to-13 vote. the Senate
yesterday stuck to it's citations
accusing two Cleveland (Ohio)
witnesses of contempt of Con-
gress for refusing to testify last
March 26 at Crime Committee
hearings. The hearings were COW
cred by television, newsreels and
radio as well as the press.
The committee plans to tele-
wise hearings here next week,
opening Wednesday, exploring
Evening star., 1951-08-11
Truman 'sCounty
Airport Project
PassageLike|y
Appropriation Bill
OutIoy Of $19 Million
Due for Vote Tuesday
By J. A. O'Leary

The fight to stop an Air Force
project at Grandview
in President Truman'S home coun-
ty in Missouri is expected to fail
when the $5.7 billion military con-
bill comes to final vote
in the House Tuesday.
The bill, designed to strengthen
defense bases overseas and at
home, was about to pass late yes
terday when Representative Gross.
of Iowa questioned
the wisdom of expanding the
airport into a military
installation. He called it need
less duplication of facilities
planned at a nearby Air Force
base at Sedalia, Mo.
Members in charge Of the bill
defended the $19 million Grand
view project, which will permit
transfer of the continental all
command from Mitchell Field
L. I. 1t also will be the base fol
an interceptor squadron to protect
nearby Kansas City.
The. House tentatively rejected
the motion to eliminate Grand
view, Sc to 16. on a standing vote
but Mr.. Gross sought a roll call
The House was operating under
a gentleman's agreement there
would be no record votes yester-
day, so leaders put the bill aside
until Tuesday.
Reject Flood Fund Cut.
Meanwhile, the Senate Appro-
priations Committee, spurred on
by the recent disastrous floods In
the Midwest, decided not to
economic at the expense of the
river. harbor and flood control
program.
The Senate group added nearly
$123 million to the $514.4 million
House total in the Army Civil
Functions bill. reversing the House
decision to avoid starting any new
projects this year.
The Grandview project is one
of several Air Force expansion
proposals in the military construc-
tion bill. including a .$43 million
expenditure at Friendship Inter-
national Airport, between Balti-
m oro anI Mo cto iy,n%o~,
The bill also authorizes SIT S
for construction at An
drews Air Force Base here and
new construction at Army. Navy
and Marine posts in the vicinity
Of Washington.
No Projects in Iowa.
There was a brief tilt in the
House over how the military con-
struction program is being dis
tributed among the States. Iowa
is one of only four States in which
there are no projects, out Mr.
Gross said he was not attacking
the Grandview proposal for that
reason.
When Representative Andersen
Republican, Of Minnesota called
attention to the volume going to
the Southwest, including $35 mil
lion in Texas, Speaker Rayburn
made one of his rare Interruptions
in debate, The Speaker, a Texan
suggested the Minnesota member
was making partisan speech.
Il just want to say that I'm no,
little enough to want anything
built in my State that is not justi-
fed" the Speaker said, adding
that he did not think any men,
Der of the committee would dc
that. Mr.. Anderson said he had
not intended to reflect on the
Speaker.
Evening star., 1951-08-11
Arlington Wife Shoots
Navy Officer, Fearing
HeWouId Go Overseas
Planned to Kill Herself,
Daughter Also, She
Tells Detectives

An Arlington woman who feared
her Navy lieutenant husband was
being called into overseas service
shot him today because ! couldn't
stand it any longer"
That's what Mrs. Marian Eyleen
Robinson. 35, told police after
Evening star., 1951-08-11
Steve Early, Aide to Roosevelt,
Former Defense Official, Dies
Pullman Executive
Was Stricken Tuesday
With Heart Attack

Stephen T. Early, 81, press Sec
retary and intimate to the late
President Roosevelt, died today.
He suffered heart attack last
Tuesday and died at George
Washington University Hospital
shortly before l pm. today.
Since he left the White House
after eight years in the press
office. Mr.. Early had been vice
president of the Pullman Standard
Car Manufacturing Co.
He took time out from that post
for stint as Deputy Secretary of
Defense, an Office from which he
resigned shortly before Gen.
Marshall took over as head of the
department.
Yesterday morning Mr.. Early
was reported improving but he
took a turn for the worse last
night.
Steve Early gave up colorful
career as Washington correspond
ent and newSreel representative
to take a seemingly indispensable
role in Government.
At the age of 19. he broke in
with the United Press here in
1908, five years later moved over
to the Associated Press and
pounded out news copy until 1927.
He had become Washington rep
resentative for the Paramount
Publix Corp. and Paramount News
when President Roosevelt sum-
him as press secretary il.
1898.
Mr.. Early had the background
for the job. and he had the re-
spect and friendship of the news
men with whom he dealt. Mr.
Evening star., 1951-08-11

(See FOREIGN AID, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1951-08-11

tSee TRUCE, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1951-08-11

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An Associated Press Newspope
Evening star., 1951-08-11

(see CONTEMPT, Page A-3.}
Evening star., 1951-08-11

(See EARLY, Page A-3.)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1951-12-29
Immortal
Albums" To
Include Host
Of Stars

NEW YORK-(ANP) - Billy
Eckstine, Earl Hines and Lionel
Hampton will be among the galaxy
of tan stars to appear on RCA
Victor's 1852 lineup of releases un-
der the Treasury of Immortal
Performances"
In this II album lineup Benny
Goodman takes the lead in the TOP
list, as he did last year, and Enrico
Caruso in the long-hair depart
ment.
The Caruso collection contains
10 songs and operate arlas re.
corded from 1916 to 1920.
Pop Albums in addition to the
Benny Goodman Trio set, includes
waxings by Lionel Hampton, Ear
Hines, Billy Eskstine, Jelly Roll
Morton, Sidney Bechet, the Metro
nome All-Stars and Artie Shaw.
One album, "Great Trumpet Art
ists," features Johnson, Louis Arm
strong, Elridge, Gillespie, Beri-
gan and Bederbecke. Another set,
"Great Tenor Sax Artists" con-
tains selections by Hawkins, Ven
tura, Berry, Webster, Freeman and
Jacquet.
Goodman Trio sides feature
Goodman, Krupa and Wilson. These
were originally recorded in 1885
and 1886. The Eskstine Hines
disks date back to 1910 to 1912.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1951-12-29
Babies May Soon
Announce
Own Arrival
AT Hospital

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Babies
who are born at the Tallahassee
Memorial Hospital in the near fu-
ture may announce their own ar
rival to anxious fathers.
Hospital Administrator H. R.
Willers set up a microphone in the
delivery room with a speaker in
the "Stork Club" - the fathers
waiting room.
Willers said that not only will
the microphone give the father the
thrill of hearing his baby's voice
soon after birth-it will also serve
the utilitarian purpose of keeping
the father in his place instead of
pacing nervously through the hos
pital corridors.