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The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-08-11
investigation
 lnio Troop Train Crash 10 Begin

SIMMESPORT, L., Aug. llI'R|-- Plans were made today for an ottl- cial investigation into the cause of high speed, head-on train crash in which eight men died in fam ing wreckage, about 60 other per- sons were injured and one Marine was missing.
 Dr. J. c. Roberts, coroner of Pointe Coupee parish (county) said he would conduct a hearing soon to establish a verdict on where the fault lies"
 He said the crash was caused
 by a "garbled, forgotten or ignored
 message" received by the crew of
 a Marine troop train that plOwed
 into the concoming Kansas City
 Southern streamliner, the South
 ern Belle. The crash occurred
 about : am. fCSTl yesterday
 some 60 miles northwest of Baton
 Rouge, La.
 R. R. Sutter, superintendent of transportation of the Kansas City Southern that operated both trains, said the troop trains crew ignored an order to side track their train for the streamliner.
 Just why the crew of the troop train failed to switch it to the side track is something we may never know since most of those who might be able to give some reason are already dead" Sutter said.
 More than 50 persons, 26 of them Marines, were hospitalized.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-08-11
No. 1 efa sfeifs

We might as well face it. You and I may live to see the world ''blown to bits; and ourselves with it! Fright ening? The fact is-it is a time for fear; and yet, par adoxically, also a time for hope!
 During the Roaring Twenties," and for years before, most folks thought we were on a spiraling road to world prosperity. Nice thought, wasn't it? But where now is that world that "every day in every way was growing better and better"?
 Something startling has hap pened. Now the words are Fear" World Suicide"
 Dr. Harold c. Urey, nuclear scientist, writes: q am fright ened man. All the scientists know are frightened-frightened for their lives-and frightened for your life"
 An alarming turn of events, isn't it? Our world-yours and mine-is at the end of its tether;
Evening star., 1951-11-02
McKeIdin Paroles
Two More Of Gang
Sentenced in Ho|dups
By the Assoeiafsd Press

ANNAPOLIS, Nov. 2.-Gov. Nc
Keldin has paroled two more Of
Baltimore gang of five men SEN
fenced to long terms for a series
of armed holdups in 1914, the
State House announced.
They were among 20 granted
paroles from Maryland penal in
stitutions. The Governor commut-
ed sentences of two others.
David V. Collins, 81, and Will
liam Tyler. 25. both colored. were
approved for release under super
vision from Maryland peniten-
tiary, where they were sent by
Baltimore criminal court on Sep
tember II, 1914.
Collins was sentenced to 31h
years on conviction of five rob-
berries, two holdups and one case
OF carrying deadly weapon.
Gov. McKelden had reduced his
sentence to 81 years last July.
Tyler originally was sent up for
81 years for four robberies. For
mer Gov. Lane had commuted his
tern for 81 years last December.
Three companions in the series
Of holdups and assaults in Balti-
more parks and streets during
July, 1914. also received stiff SEN
tenceS. Robert Faulcon was pa
rolled from 31-year term in June
McKelden cut the sentences of
Robert Jones and James Ervir
from 80 years to 20 in August.
Other paroles, all recommended
by A. Earl Shipley, director parole
and probation include:
Lonnie j. Black, colored. SEN
fenced June 26. 1851. in Prince
Georges County Circuit Court to
IL months in the House of Correc-
tion on lottery charges.
LuciuS Kelly, colored, October
25. 1850, Prince Georges County
Circuit Court, three years, house
Of correction. assault and battery
Fulton B. Mitchell. colored,
June 20. 1901, Prlnce George S
County Circuit Court. u months.
house of correction, lottery.
Arthur L. Murray. jr., February
8. 1949, Frederick County Circuit
Court. six years. house Of correc-
ton. robbery.
Arthur j. Stacey. November IT,
1850, Prince Georges County Cir
cult Court. not more than five
years. reformatory. warehouse
burning.
Evening star., 1951-11-02
|AFL Lays Plans 10 Gel Out
Vote in Election Next Year.

The AFL today laid plans to
register as many as possible of Its
more than million members for
next years national election.
The top committee of Labor's
League for Political Education met
here to discuss ways of increasing
the registration at the polls of
union members and of raising
Ia huge fund for use in the 1852
election.
The league revealed that a spot
check among its $4,000 local
unions showed that only from II
to 81 per cent of its members were
for the 1850 elections,
Evening star., 1951-11-02
Inteqration Plan 0pposed By Northeast Council

The Northeast Council of Citi.
zens' Associations voted last night
to oppose the plan of racial in.
tegration of the District Fire De-
partment.
The group also passed a reso-
luton opposing any change in the
present fare structure of the Cap
ital Transit Co.
The resignation of Arthur B
McNerney as assistant deputy
warden of civil defense in the 12tt
precinct was accepted by the as
sociation with regret.
Mr.. McNerney, an attorney with
the Interstate Commerce Com.
mission said ir his resignation
that the people are too lax about
civil defense.
Evening star., 1951-11-02
Connecticut Avenue Group Backs Scott Over Veal

Thomas B. Scott today is as
jsured the support of the Connecti-
cut Avenue Citizens Association in
his campaign for the presidency
.of the Federation of Citizens As
IsociationS.
Mr.. Scott, who is president of
the Glover Park Citizens Associa-
Ition. will run against DR.. j. Ross
Veal in tomorrow nights election
was warmly praised by men,
berS of the Connecticut Avenue
Association who have served with
him as delegates to the Federation
and the Northwest Council.
Frank W. McCulloch, admins
Evening star., 1951-11-02

Itrative assistant to Senator Doug
las. Democrat, of Illinois, spoke
to the group about the activities
of the subcommittee on ethics in
Government. So far, he said, the
subcommittee has done little more
than Survey the situation ano
raise a good many questions"
Mrs. Joseph L. Miller, president
conducted the meeting in the
parish hall of All Souls Episcopal
Church, Cathedral avenue and
Woodley place NV.
Evening star., 1951-11-02

"They seem to forget" he said
that civil defense is just another
term for self defense"
The meeting was held In the
No. IL police precinct station
Rhode Island avenue and Seven
teenth street NE.
Evening star., 1951-11-02
Rabbi Ponitz to Preach

Rabbi David H. Panitz, spirit
ual leader of Adas Israel Congre-
cation, will preach on "A Jew
looks at Israel" at the 8:15 pm
service tomorrow in the syna-
gogue, Connecticut avenue and
Porter street NV.
Evening star., 1951-11-02
Elton -
Trueblood's
new book
clearly answering y
the challenge
Of Communism
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This new Trueblood book is
bold, ringing proclamation Of way
of life that can and must endure.
Stain has made clear what the Rus
sian way means for world desperate
for satisfactory and peaceful solu-
tions. If we have a better way, do we
know what it is? And can we tell the
world? Here, for the average man, is
an inspiring picture Of the kind OF
life that is possible for the individual.
for America and for the world. 1t is
q book that every Trueblood fan"
must not miss. $3.50
Downstairs Bookstore
Evening star., 1951-02-21
III. N. Trustee Unit Seuts
IItoIy, but Without q Vote
By the Assoeiotsd Press


LAKE SUCCESS Feb. 21.-The
United Nations Trusteeship Coun-
Gil voted last night. with only
Russia abstaining. to seat Italy
at it's sessions without a vote.
Italy is not a member of the
United Nations. The Soviet Union
has vetoed it's membership appli-
cation, along with eight others,
several times in the Security
Council. But Italy is admins
traitor for the U. N. of the
trusteeship area of Somaliland
under a General Assembly resolu-
ton.
The Council agreed to change
its rules of procedure to let Italy
take part in it's discussion.
Evening star., 1951-02-21
B-Hour Week Urged
In Pulp Industry 10
Aid Defense Program
BY the Assoeiaied Pres.

j NEW YORK, Feb. 81. - The
American plywood industry yes
Iterday was urged by Gov. Sher-
man Adams Of New Hampshire
to consider a 48-hour work week
to meet the demands of the de-
fense program.
In an address at the annual
meeting OF the American Pulp
wood Association. Mr.. Adams said
the industry should fully utilize
the 250,000 men who produce the
pulpwood required to keep the Ma
tons pulp and paper mills run
ming.
He and other speakers at the
meeting Of this group and of the
American Paper g. Pulp Associa-
ltion said the defense program
would make heavy demands on
the paper and pulpwood industry.
Mr.. Adams said the 48-hour week
would defer much of a prospective
labor shortage and combat In
fation.
The New Hampshire Governor
suggested that all industries con-
slider using more women as well
as older and younger age groups
In their industrial mobilization
plans.
D. C. Everest, chairman Of the
board of the Marathon Corp. of
Marathon, Wis, said the pulpwood
association faces a greater task
than it did at the start of World
War II,
Mr.. Everest said the Nations
consumption of paper and paper
board has increased from 1877
million tons a year in. the 1912
1945 period to about % million tons
in 1950-or so per cent in five
years. Even if civilian consump-
ton is cut back substantially. he
declared, the job of the industry
will be much larger than for
World War II.
Evening star., 1951-02-21
ID. {. Wage Board Studies
CHARGES Against 7 Firms

The District Minimum Wage
and Industrial Safety Board has
scheduled meeting for next week
to consider charges made by labor
leaders that the board permitted
the corporation counsel's Office to
allow forfeitures in industrial
safety violation cases.
/ In it's charges to the board. labor
leaders cited two recent cases in
volving deaths of workers. The
companies were allowed to forfeit
$3.50 instead of having the case
heard in court.
The board met yesterday after
noon and reviewed the cases. but
arrived at no decision. It agreed
to study the cases until next week
and then make a report to the
Commissioners.
Evening star., 1951-02-21
All Communism Is Threat
To World, Kerensky Says
BY the Associated Press

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, Feb
| I2l.-Alexander Kerensky. presi-
dent of the provisional Russian
government in 1917, declared last
night that Communism is the
enemy of the free world, whether
it bears the Tito or Stain label.
Tito is without any future" de-
clared Kerensky, who was exiled
from Russia almost 35 years age
by the Bolshevik revolution. "The
internal regime of Tito is the
same as that of the Soviet Union.
Kerensky's sentiments were
echoed by two other exiled Euro
pean statesmen-Grigore Gafencu,
foreign minister of Romania until
the Nazis seized control of that
country before World War II, and
IStanislaw Mikolajczyk, form er
prime minister of Poland.
Evening star., 1951-05-28
Warren Impeachment,
Asked inFIorida House.
By the Associated Press

TALLAHASSEE. Fla, May o.
The Florida House of Representa-
tives was asked today to impeach
Gov. Fuller Warren on grounds
that he wilfully disregarded his
duties and ignored evidences of
lawlessness" in state.
Representatives George Okell of
Miami. until recently one of Gov.
Warren's stout political supporters,
introduced the resolution calling
for impeachment on 10 counts of
alleged misdemeanors in office.
All of them involved complaints
that have been made publicly
about the Governor-about his
campaign expenditures, the con-
duct of his racing commission. his
reinstatement of three ousted
sheriffs and his attitude toward
the Florida gambling situation.
A tWo-thirds vote of the House
would Immediately suspend the
Governor from Office. and Senate
President Wallace E. Sturgis of
Ocala would take over his duties
The State Senate would then
within six months, conduct a trial
Of the governor. s
No Florida Governor ever has
been removed by impeachment, al
though the House twice, in 1868
and 1872. voted impeachment
articles against Republican Gov.
Harrison Reed.
Evening star., 1951-05-28
BY the Associated Press

A psychiatrist said today that
mental health Immediately, and
our chances of staying alive
eventually, are both grossly
threatened" by the current ma
tional debates over foreign policy.
It all springs from the personal
|qualms about what is going to
happen to me- and mime" DR..
William c. Menninger said in a
recorded radio address. DR..
Menninger is director of the Men
Ininger Foundation and a member
of the Committee on the Present
Danger.
DR.. Menninger said:
"As a psychiatrist, the major
portion of my life has been spent
in consulting with people who are
troubled or afraid, anxious or per-
picked. But it does not require
la pSychiatrist's experience to rec
ognize the unhappy and unsettled
state of affairs. 4. On all sides
one sees pickering, self1shness, in
|decisiveness, resentment, suspicion
and hostility.
THE net effect on eachAof us
Evening star., 1951-05-28
Reds Trailing
DeGospeiim in
Italian Voting
BY the Associated Press

ROME. May 28.-Premier AL
eide de Gasperi's anti-Red coali-
ton took a lead over its Com
munist opponents in the first
small trickle of returns today from
Italy's municipal elections.
The reports came from scattered
precincts and small towns in nine
of the % provinces which ballotec
yesterday and today for town anc
provincial councils.
Only lis of the 2,735 municipal
tiles had reported partial results
three hours after the polls closed
Most of the returns were on the
balloting for provincial councils
which were being elected for the
first time since they were elm.
mated under FasciSm.
Premier de Gasperi's Christian
Democrat Party was credited with
wrestling one town-Castello Con-
dino in the northern province o1
Trent-from the Communists anc
their fellow-traveling Socialist al.
lies.
Fights also are on for contro
of the big Communist-controllec
cities of Bologna, Florence. Genoa
and Milan.
Evening star., 1951-05-28
New Ruling Designed
To Avert Hordships on
Wholesalers, Retailers
By Francis ?. DouqIos

The Office of Price Stabiliza-
ton today relaxed price controls
on manufactured goods and said
that the step would result in some
increases. but probably more de-
creaSes.
The order applies to both re-
tailers and wholesalers and allows
adjustments in response to
changes in manufacturers ceiling
prices. It is designed to avert
possible hardships under new
manufacturers price regulations.
The manufacturers ceiling
prices are to be set by taking the
pre-Korean price levels and add
ing subsequent cost increases.
Manufacturers have until July 2
to comply.
Order Is Temporary.
OPS said a wholesaler or re-
taller buying from a manufac-
turer who has increased his price
under this system may set his own
price at a higher level to reflect
the higher cost to him of what
he buys. But if the manufacturer
has decreased his price, the
wholesaler or retailer must drop
his price also.
Todays action, OPS said, will
give relief to the seller who had
not raised his price to reflect
the higher price charged by his
supplier at the time the Janu-
airy price freeze went into effect.
OPS said the new order is a
temporary measure to apply un-
til more detailed price ceilings can
be arranged. 1t does not apply
to foods since price adjustments
already have been allowed on
food prices.
Disable Cites Results.
Price Director Michael v. Disable
said yesterday that the first step
in the beef rollback order, effec-
tive a week ago, is bringing the
price of beef within the reach of
the people. He ridiculed a charge
(See CONTROLS, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1951-05-28
Senate GroupV Riderto Ban
Accumulation of u. S. Leave
Full Committee Approval Is Expected;
All Federal Departments Affected

eral employees to use their 1850
annual leave by next June 80.
The Senate groups action prac-
tically dashes whatever hope some
employees may have had that the
Houses continuing rider for next
year might be rejected by the
Senate.
And it certainly kills any faint
hope that might have existed that
Congress would repeal the present
leave rider for the current year.
The rider originally was adopted
by Congress last year to prevent
employees from accumulating leave
and the resultant high cost OF
terminal leave cash payments to
employees for unused vacation time
when they left the Government.
However, the defense agencies
and other key units this year
fCa~+;-,,oI ~ ro~o A q ~o1 a
Evening star., 1951-05-28
By Joseph Young

A Senate Appropriations Sub
committee has approved the
House passed rider to extend for
another year the requirement that
Federal employees use all their 26
days leave during the same fiscal
year, it was learned today.
The rider was approved by the
Senate group on the Independent
Offices money bill, but the proviso
as written by the House applies to
all Government departments and
agencies. ....
It's expected that the full Sen
ate Appropriations Committee will
approve the rider.
J The rider provides that all Gov
ernment workers must use theil
26 days leave for 1851 by June 80
1852.
The present rider requires Fed
Evening star., 1951-05-28
Conferees May Break Price Controls Eased
Deadlock Today Over On Manufactured
Approval Of UNIT Plan Goods in ops Order
Compromise Would Drop
CiviIiun Control Ideo,
Adopt 2-Step Proposal
BY the Associated Press

Senate conferees repeatedly are
ready today to break a Senate
House deadlock over Universal
Military Training by agreeing to
a plan under which Congress
would decide later how the UNIT
program will work.
In exchange for accepting the
two-step plan provided in the
House bill, Senate conferees were
said to be asking that the House
drop its idea for control and di-
rection of UNIT by a five-membe1
commission with a civilian major
ity.
The stalemate over UNIT has
delayed final acton since April
II on legislation which also pro-
vides for extension and expansion
of the draft act.
Senators Reasonable"
Chairman Russell of the Senate
Armed Services Committee today
told a reporter the conferees he
leads "are willing to accept any
reasonable compromise as long as
it does not jeopardize the ma
tional security"
The UNIT program approved by
the Senate would have gone into
operation as soon as the Nation
was able to switch from the pres
|ent armed services buildup to a
long-range program of training
reserve military manpower.
The House took a different ap-
proach. 1t authorized flve-mem-
ber commission. of whom three
must be civilians, to work out
plans for a UNIT program. Con-
gress then would pass on the
plans. and if they were approved,
the commission would direct and
control the program.
Scores in Month.
Meanwhile, Draft Director Lewis
b. Hershey said last night college
men who took their aptitude test
Saturday should wait a month tc
Inquire bout their scores.
He said the Educational Testing
Service, Princeton, N. j.. will re-
port the scores directly to loca
draft boards.
An estimated 175,000 students
took the initial set Saturday
About 225,00O more are expected
to take part in similar tests June
I16, June 80 or July IL.
Evening star., 1951-05-28
u. S. Foreign Policy Rift Perils
Mental Health, Doctor Says

las individuals is feeling of in
security in varying degrees. The
public is not sure whom it can
believe, or whom it should follow
We don't know how to plan
nor for what. ;.
Lack of national unity is a
major factor in the personal
threat We all feel. At times it
seems that in itself it may be an
Iagent of the devil-or his counter
Ipart, communism-that threatens
us with our own self destruction.
Mental health Immediately, and
our chances for staying alive even
Itually. are both grossly threatened
by month-on-month political de-
bates between opposing parties
about our foreign policy and our
national defense. with the result
ing lack of a firm national policy,
firmly supported"
DR.. Menninger said "the only
treatment that is going to help
is to face the problem squarely
and take constructive action" to
reduce the present national dan
ger"
Evening star., 1951-05-28
Wars Can Be Prevented,
Bradley Tells Jewish Vets
RY the Associoted Press

NEW YORK, May 28.-"We
must learn how men live as char
Iitably together in peace as they
died for each other in war;" Gen
Bradley said yesterday.
Wars can be prevented just as
surely as they are provoked" the
chairman of the Joint Chiefs OF
Staff said.
Gen. Bradley's statement was
l4lcluded in a message to annual
memorial services of the Jewish
War Veterans of the United States
honoring Jewish servicemen who
have died fighting for thei1
country.
Evening star., 1951-05-28
CBS Color TV Upheld

The Supreme Court ruled to-
day in favor of the Columbia
Broadcasting Systems method
of color television. 1t upheld an
order by the Federal Communi-
cations Commission last Octo-
ber and subsequent decision by
a Federal Court in Chicago ap-
proving the CHS mechanical
spinning wheel operation for
commercial color telecasts. n
Evening star., 1951-05-28
Postmen May Use
Coddy Carts to
Ease Burden
BY the Assoeioted Press

The Post Office Department has
come up with new idea: Down.
town mail delivery via caddy cart.
Downtown, the caddy cart is as
foreign as a fairway.
But Assistant Postmaster Gen.
eral j. j. Redding says it may put
in an appearance "any time" to
take the load off the postman's s
shoulder. Mr.. Redding disclosed
the new use planned for the caddy
cart over yesterdays '.Facts We
Face" television program.
Evening star., 1951-05-28
Iran Denies Courts
Jurisdiction in Oil
Fight With Britain
Refuses Notification of
Complaint Presented to
Tribunal at The Hague
By fhe Assoeiated Press

TEHERAN, Iran, May 28.-
Iran refused today to recognize
the jurisdiction of the Interna-
tional Court of Justice in the dis
pute with Britain over nationali-
zation of Iranian oil resources.
Deputy Premier Hossein Fatemi
announced that the Iranian For
eign Office rejected a notification
from the World Court Of the COM
plant lodged there Saturday by
Britain and the Anglo-Iranian
Oil Co. The British earlier had
notified Iran of referral of the
dispute to the World Court at The
Hague, asking that the United
Nations sponsored body name an
arbiter.
The deputy premier said For
eign Minister Bagher Kazami in
formed the court that Iran would
not send a representative for any
hearing on the matter.
Reds Plan Mass Rallies.
Trans Communists were NOV
ing to take advantage of heated
nationalist emotions stirred by
the Oil dispute.
Red front organizations sched-
uled country wide mass meetings
tomorrow to fight imperialistie
Oil companies" The government
headed by Premier Mohammeo
Mossadegh, repeatedly was ar
ranging for tanks, armored cars
and special troops to maintain
order.
Meanwhile non-C o m m u n S
Moslem fanatics, who have threat.
ened holy war against the Brit.
Iish-controlled Anglo-Iranian Oi
Co., grew more restive.
Company Still Operating.
They pointed out that although
DR.. Mossadegh fathered the ma.
tionalization law-which ostensibl,
seized the properties of the bill.
lion dollar AIOC-26 days ago
the company is still doing bust
ness without interference.
DR.. Mossadegh is in furthe,
trouble because the compan.
stopped paying royalties after pas
sage of the law. These royaltiei
make up most of Trans incom'
and consequently the government
is living from hand to mouth.
Observers feared that in tn
present unsettled atmosphere
either of the two extremist group
might stage a lightning coup AM
seize control of the country.
The AIOC made a conciliator,
gesture yesterday to try to cain
the troubled waters. Board Chair
man Sir William Fraser, in
letter to Trans finance minister
announced that the company
resident manager, N. r. Seldom
would attend one meeting of tn
oil naturalization board "as
measure of respect to the imperia
government and the Iranian par
Lament