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Evening star., 1951-07-05

Two captains and two sergeants
all infantrymen-today received
Congressional Medals of Honor
from President Truman for con
spicuous gallantry" against Red
forces in Korea.
The Chief Executive presented
the Nations highest military
award in a noon ceremony at the
White Houses Rose Garden. while
proud relatives of the heroes
looked on.
The presentation brought to 81
the number of Army men who
have won the medal for personal
exploits beyond the call of duty
in combat with enemy forces.
Seven of the recipients, including
those honored today, have been
returned to his country. Twenty
are listed as missing or killed in
action.
President Praises Men.
The four infantrymen, who
survived heavy enemy fire in per-
sonally attacking Red troops
which were threatening to wipe
out American forces. are.
Master Sergt. Stanley T. Adams
of Olathe, Kans.
Capt. Raymond Harvey, of Pas
adena, Calf.
Sergt. Einar H. Ingman, oi
Tomahawk, Wis.
Capt. Lewis l.. .Millett, of Hav.
erhill, Mass.
AS President Truman loopec
Evening star., 1951-07-05
Forgery Of GWU Check
CHARGED 10 D. {. Woman

A 30-year-old woman, charged
with forging a George Washington
University check for $151. ap-
Ipeared in Municipal Court today
Judge Nadine L. Gallagher con.
tinued the case unity July 13 ano
set bond at $1,000.
The defendant, Miss Ronnie
Meyers Of the 100 block of Ninth
street NV, was arrested Tuesday
for allegedly passing the check
June /. at Kann's department
store.
Police said Miss Meyers tolc
them she got the check from Mary
Doris Day, 81, of the 100 block
of Gayle street NE, who last
June Is was arrested on a charge
OF passing number of stoler
GWU and Government checks.
/ According to police, Miss Meyer.
went to New York when she reac
about Miss Days arrest and re.
turned here just prior to hel
arrest by 1t. David A. Higgins anc
Sergt. Ben Clark of the checl
and fraud squad.
Evening star., 1951-07-05

Chester Peters got his portable
typewriter back yesterday with
the help of police, the Corporation
Counsel's office and $40.
1t seems around Mothers Day
Mr.. Peters, a 22-year-old Howard
University student who lives al
420 Kenyon street NV, needed
money to buy his mother a pres
ent. He took his portable type
writer to Meyer Edelman at $50:
Georgia avenue NV. and got SIS
leaving the typewriter as host.
age"
When he went back with S. te
claim his typewriter, Mr.. Edelmar
had upped the price to $3.50. Sc
Mr.. Peters returned the next time
with $3.50, only to find the price
had risen to $40. Successive Wis.
its found the price of his SIS type.
writer steadily increasing tt
$3.50. SIS and $50, Mr.. Peter.
said. so he went to police.
The pawn squad investigated
Evening star., 1951-07-05

Cut down by machine-gun fire
in the leg, the sergeant. a veteran
Iof World War II combat in North
Africa and Italy, rose and charged
into the Communist force. swing
ing his rifle butt and bayonet.
Four times, he was rocked to the
ground by grenade blasts. Later,
so enemy dead were counted with
mi bayonet wounds.
Knocked Out 4 Enemy Posts.
Capt. Harvey. commander OF
Company C of the 17th Infantry
Regiment, 7th Infantry Division,
single -handedly knocked out four
enemy positions which were pin
ming down his outfit from hills
near Taemi- Dong.
| He "braved hail CT fire and ex-
Iploding grenades to advance te
THE first enemy machine-gur
nest. killing the crew with gren.
AIDES" Next, he knocked out q
second emplacement, killing the
crew with carbine fire. With his
unit again halted by heavy fire
he charged alone to wipe out g
third emplacement. and eliminated
a fourth-a camouf1aged pillbox-
by getting close enough to sweep
it with carbine fire and hurl gren-
AIDES into the box Sits.
/ Sergt. Ingman, who took charge
of an infantry squad last February
personally wiped out two machine.
gun nests which had mis- uni
pinned downs
/ He ran forward alone to the frs
position. throwing a grenade into
Evening star., 1951-07-05

it. Halfway to the second nest,
he was knocked down by grenade
and machine-gun fire. But he
rushed into the nest and killed its
crew with rifle fire before he col
Ilapsed. unconscious, across the
emplacement.
Led Men to Victory.
Capt. Millett, commander o1
Company E, 9th Infantry Regi.
ment, 25th Infantry Division, wor
his award for superb leadership
conspicuous courage and consum.
mate devotion to duty"
When one of his platoons was
pinned down in an attack neal
Soam-Ni last February 7, the 80.
year-old captain led a second pla.
toon to its aid. then led botl
lplatoons-with fixed bayonet-ul
the fire-swept hill. Charging
ahead of his unit into the enemy
he bayoneted two Red soldiers, al
the while shouting encouragement
to his own troops as he threv
grenades, clubbed and bayonetet
the enemy.
Although wounded, the captain
refused to be evacuated until tn
enemy position was taken.
Of the Medals of Honor wol
for the fighting in Korea, the De
fense Department said, % hav
been awarded to Infantrymen, tw'
to Combat Engineers, two to mem
bers of the Army's newest branch
Armor. and one to a member o
! the Army Medical Service.
Evening star., 1951-07-05
Pl lant Protection
Problem Handed
To Two Boards
Involves Documents
And VituI Facilities,
Sawyer Asserts

The Government today took
steps to safeguard vital industrial
plants from sabotage, espionage
and other hazards.
The problem of assuring and
improving the protection of plants
has been assigned to two Govern
ment boards: The Facilities Pro-
lection Board, just set up by the
National Security Councils Inter-
departmental Committee on In
Iternal Security, and the Industry
Evaluation Board, set up in the
commerce Department last Janu-
1ary.
Secretary of Commerce Sawyer
said that the program sis directed
as much toward the protection Of
documents and other sources Of
information useful to an enemy as
it is toward maintaining and pre-
serving the continuity of op-
Grafton of plants and the various
facilities upon which they depend"
Standards of Security.
He said the program will enable
the Government to develop and
Improve standards of security for
key industrial plants and their
service facilities. Among the serv-
ice installations. he listed electric.
gas and water systems; storage
facilities; communications CEN
: ters; rail, air. highway, pipeline
and water transportation systems;
; ports, harbors and locks and
other industrial facilities inclu-
ding stockpiles on which essential
military and civilian production
depend
The Industrial Evaluation Board
already has been engage l. iden-
, tifying key industrial facilities and
} their supporting economic re-
sources. Guided by this list, the
i Facilities Protection Board will
t see to providing and improving
v Government programs for the
physical protection of the plants
and facilities. 1t will have the
n task of checking whether protec-
e ton agencies are on the job.
DIR. Rosinger Chairman.
: The Evaluation Board is COM
q posed of representatives of the
= Commerce. Defense and Inter-
ior Departments, Atomic Energy
Commission and Defense Produc-
t ton Administration, with a Ma
Itional Security Resources Board
representative sitting in as an
observer.
DR.. Kurt E. Rosinger is chair
man Of this board and will serve
as temporary chairman of the Fa-
Icilities Protection Board as well
during its organization period.
The protection board is COM
posed of full-time representatives
I of the Defense, Justice. Interior,
i, Commerce and Labor Depart
: ments and the Atomic Energy
I Commission.
n The two boards will rely
e heavily on experience gained dur
f ing World War II.
Evening star., 1951-07-05
Georgetown Homeowner Wins
Fight to Use Modern Windows

of the Old Georgetown Act
passed to insure uniformity OF
construction. Principal advocate
against Miss Gibbs plan was
Walter M. Macomber, chairman
of the Board of Review and one
time Williamsburg architect.
The District Commissioners
heard the case, refused to rescind
Miss Gibbs building permit as
requested by the Fine Arts group
and told Miss Gibbs she could
strike a compromise with the
commission or proceed with the
window plan.
Evening star., 1951-07-05
Georgetown Group Plans
Erection Of Historic Signs

Historic names of streets in Old
Georgetown soon may be placed
on intersection posts at the ex-
pense of residents of the area
Brig. Gen. K. S. Bradford, presi-
dent of the Georgetown Citizens
Association, indicated today in a
letter to the District Commits
Sioners.
Gen. Bradford asked the city
heads to ascertain the cost of the
markers which would be placed
under signs bearing present names
of the streets. The Commissioners
promised to obtain cost estimates
Recently the Commissioners in
formed the association the District
lacks funds to erect the historic
signs.
Evening star., 1951-07-05
Goldsmith Will Head
.Lansburgh' S Under
Chain Ownership

Ralph Goldsmith. vice president
and. general manager of Lansburgh
& Bro. here. will be president
under an arrangement by which
control of the department store
passes to the City Stores Co. OF
Wilmington. Del.
Herbert j. Schwartz, president
of City Stores Co. and Sol Lans-
burgh, now president of the store
here, announced this today in CIV
ling details of the contract tc
Exchange preferred and common
stock of LanSburgh's for preferred
Iand common stock of City Stores
I Change of control to the Will
Imlngton concern, operators of II
main department and speciality
stores Throughout the country, was
reported yesterday. Lansburgh's
established in 1860, is one of the
largest and oldest department
stores serving the Washington
area. It has a sales volume Of
approximately $40 million.
Heads of the two stores said il
lis contemplated that Mr.. Lans.
burgh will retire as president ano
be succeeded by Mr.. Goldsmith
Bernard H. Feustman will con.
Itinue as treasurer. Mr.. Goldsmith
lalso will be member of the City
Stores board of directors.
Mr.. Goldsmith, on behalf of the
board of directors of the Lans-
Iburgh organization, stated that
policies and operations of the
company will remain unchanged
City Stores Co., he s"'d, plans tc
carry out a program for expan-
sion of the main store as well as
for the building of suburban
branch stores.
Besides Sol Lansburgh, the
president; Mark Lansburgh, vice
president and secretary. and Mr.
Goldsmith, who is a grandson OF
Gustave Lansburgh. one of the
founders of the store, other prin-
Icipal stockholders of the concern
Iare:
Mrs. Minnie Goldsmith, mother
Iof Mr.. Goldsmith; Mrs. Aline
Lansburgh, Mrs. Irma Cohn and
Mrs. Blanche Singer, all daugh-
tiers of the founders. Other prom
Iinent stockholders include Bernard
IFeustman, a son-in-law of one of
the founders; Harold Singer. a
grandson of one of the founders,
and assistant general merchandise
manager; Arthur T. Lyon, a
grandson and divisional mer-
|chandiSe manager, and James
|LanSburgh. a grandson and q
divisional merchandise manager,
and Mrs. Samuel T. Schwartz.
Evening star., 1951-07-05
District Auto Traffic
27% Above Normal
During Transit Strike

The volume of auto traffic
in the District during the
transit strike was 27 per cent
above normal, the Highway
Department said today.
D. S. Brinkley, director Of
the Departments planning
section, said counts were
taken at eight major loca-
tions in the city rejecting
general conditions.
Mr.. Brinkley said that on
a normal weekday approXi-
mately 10000 cars move into
the general central area of
the city. An increase of 81
per cent was indicated dur
ing the two days of the strike,
he said.
Evening star., 1951-07-05
Fireworks InjureFour,
Many Arrested in Sale
And Use Of Explosives

District residents had a fairly
quiet July 4 without fires and in
Ijuries as a result of fireworks, po-
lice said today. But in nearby
Maryland and Virginia, at least
four persons were injured.
In the District about score OF
persons were arrested for illegally
discharging fireworks, seven OF
them in the first precinct. Most
arrests were made on complaints
and violators each forfeited SIS.
First precinct Pvts. F. N. Man.
thos and I. w. Brews~ confiscated
about 5000 worth of fireworks yes
terday in an alley in the 400 block
of Tenth street NV.
The two policemen, patrolline
in scout car, entered the alley
when they noticed unusual activ-
Iity there. Police said they found
the fireworks in a 3-foot square
box in a station wagon bearing
Maryland tags.
Driver of Car Arrested.
Raymond j. Briscuso, Is, driver
of the car, of the 5000 block o1
Livingston street NV, was ar
rested and charged with illegal
possession of fireworks. He posted
$100 bond for an appearance in
Municipal Court today.
Police regulations permit "safe
and sane" fireworks such as SPAR
klers, torches, fountains and COL
ored lights. The law bans the
sale, delivery or setting off o1
firecrackers, caps for cap pistols
torpedoes, Roman candles, devil
chasers and any other fireworks
containing powder or other ex-
Iplosive composition.
A proposal is pending before
the Commissioners to ban all fire.
works. The amendment would
permit displays, however, on ap-
Iproval of the Commissioners, the
fire chief and the fire marshal.
Is Arrested in Nearby Area.
Arlington Hospital reported
three adults who suffered minor
burns and 9-year-old girl who
was burned on the abdomen by a
roman candle. All were treated
and released.
At least Is persons were arrested
for fireworks violations in nearby
Maryland and Virginia. Police
said there were numerous viola
ticns, but most violators were only
warned.
Sam Shanker, Al, of $500 North
Sixteenth street, Arlington, was
charged with offering to sell fire.
works at his store at Lee highway
and Upton street. Charles A. But
Ter, 80. OF Selma, N. c., was
charged with selling fireworks
from his automobile parked in the
1000 block of Lee highway. Charles
Warren Buckley, 36, of the 1200
block of North Frederick street
Arlington, was booked for dis
orderly conduct in connection with
discharging fireworks.
IL Charged in Maryland.
In Maryland, IL fireworks ar
rests were reported.
Montgomery County police al
Bethesda said they picked UP three
youths who were throwing big fire.
Icrackers from a moving automo-
bile. They also arrested an adult
Prince Georges County police
arrested Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph j
Spencer, proprietors of store al
Wells Corner, for selling fireworks
yesterday.
Detective sergt. Wilson ]. Purds
Evening star., 1951-07-05
Press Club to Receive
japanese Bomb as Gift

The National Press Club next
Sunday will receive a gift from
the National Press Club of the
Philippines three-foot, 1d2-
pound Japanese bomb which failed
to explode when the islands were
hit in December, 1941.
Purpose Of the gift is to arouse
interest in Philippines Achieve
|ment Week.
The bombs explosive charge
has been removed. club officials
were assured.
Evening star., 1951-07-05

The windows which Miss Cath
crime Gibbs wants to put into a
remodeled house may be too mod
ern for Georgetown but not too
modern for the District Commits
SionerS.
Miss Gibbs, who lives at 1882
Twenty-eighth street NV. is re-
modelling a house she owrs at
28l7 Dumbarton avenue NV, and
wants to install modern" type
windows.
This, the Fine Arts Commission
and Board of Review contends. is
not in keeping with the purposes
Evening star., 1951-08-19
1t Speaks for Itself

The decision against filing formal report
on the investigation of General MacArthurs dis
nissal is sensible one. During its lengthy
hearings the joint committee headed by Senator
Russell of Georgia listened to some 2 million
words of testimony encompassing all shades Of
conflicting opinion.
The substance of the testimony was made
public and the whole record will be put before
the Senate for such use as may seem desirable.
Meanwhile public opinion has hardened. It Is
extremely doubtful that any minds would be
changed if the committee should undertake to
issue formal reports. For the conflict inherent in
the testimony would be carried over into the
majority and minority reports. That woul6 serve
no useful purpose. The testimony speaks for
itself and the committee acted wisely In voting
to let the matter rest.
Eight Republican committee members have
announced that they will file statement OF
their views, and it goes without saying that this
statement will be critical in the extreme Of the
administration. 1t may be that this report will
goad pro-administration Senators into making
some kind of reply But the committee should
stick to its decision against formal report. The
Macarthur. battle has been fought to stale
mate and it is time to let the dust settle.
Evening star., 1951-08-19
Truth About Russio?

It is unfortunate that Americans must
learn the truth about conditions in the
Soviet Union only through sporadic vis-
its to that country by trade unionists.
With the possible exception Of some
members of the OAR, the American
Legion, the Boy and Girl Scouts and q
few Hibernians. doubt whether many
Americans believe that Russians are
starving and growing thin on q diet Of
caviar, sturgeon, black bread and cab
bage soup.
II we can believe the newsreels, there
are probably more undernourished. ILL
clad and ill-housed persons in Wash
ington than in Russia. Any one who has
ever visited the slums of Alexandra,
Washington, Bethesda or Richmond
knows that skinny. underpaid and fire.
quently unemployed American makes
sorry picture beside those well-set-up
Muscovites Who look as though they
never got out of the heavyweight class.
1t is q known fact that most American
politicians are completely ignorant Of
the world they live in beyond a 300-nnile
radius Of their home base. Thanks to
elf-imposed censorship here, practi-
cally no one knows anything about the
Soviet Union. since few newsstands
carry Soviet periodicals. Except 1.-The,
international Student House, no theater
Evening star., 1951-08-19
Fifty Years Ago in The Star

l50'men went out at McKeesport merely
in sympathy, having :. no obligation
to the Amalgamated, but they tied up
another tube mill" Blast furnaces in
65-acre area at McKeesp0rt were shut
down. The only mills apparently i'm
mune from the fever are the Great
Homestead and Carnegie works. , Mean
while. men, had quit work at Joliet, Ill.
and others at Chicago and Milwaukee
had strike calls under consideration.
Gloom is settling deeper on the business
community. Il. Today witnessed a re-
doubling of the efforts on the part Of
large vested interests to shape the situa-
ton toward a settlement. -. The Ameri-
can Steel Hoop Co. is trying to deal di-
rectly with the workingmen. Il. Notice
has been served upon the strikers at one
mill at Canonsburg. Pa. and another at
Warren, Ohio, that unless work is re-
sumed next week the mills will be re-
moved"
The Star on August II. 1901, quoted
the New York Times to the effect that.
while hazing appeared
Trouble at to have been abolished
West Point at West Point. theEe
still were social diff
ferences" between plebes and upper class
men. Those differences took the form Of
complaints on the part Of the seniors
against their younger contemporaries
for minor infractions Of the rules Of the
academy, incessant emphasis on "brac-
ing" and such teasing as was involved
in the question: Say, mister, how long
will It be before you are alive?" Recent
criticism of conditions at the Point, how
49,. 49, ~ r..s,v tsv = rar. U s ,srrttad ~ ~ Il
sit on benches and to listen TO band
Evening star., 1951-08-19

The wedding was to be an event Of the
autumn social season in Washington,
with Cardinal Martinelli offlciating. Re-
ferring to Mrs. Rengifo's first marriage.
it was explained that 1t had been not
ably happy. The general lost his life
when he was passenger on ship
which burned at sea. In his memory
his widow gave to st. Aloysius Church
-. chalice, which is daily used in that
church in the celebration of mass This
sacred vessel is of gold and is enriched
with superb diamonds and emeralds,
gifts to Mrs. Rengifo from her husband
and also from her mother"
Inquiry at st. Aloysiuse yestrday con-
firmed the facts thus set forth. The
chalice still is in use.
The Star for August IL. 1901. included
this story: "Proverbial politenesS of
Polite ductors was iIiustrated yes
Carmen terday /. when car on
the Connecticut avenue line
was backed half square to allow q
young lady passenger to alight and pick
up handkerchief she had dropped.
The conductor saw the gauzy piece Of
lace in its fight and stopped the car
without being requested to do so. The
young lady alighted and returned to
get it, While she was doing this the
conductor gave three bells to the motor
man and the car backed down the line
to meet her. ]"
A dispatch from Pittsburgh to The
Star for August is. 1901, explained:
Steadily and in
Strikes N Western sidiously the
Pennsylvania strike fever ls
spreading, infect
ing new regions daily. Il. Yesterday
Evening star., 1951-08-19

A quotation of an article in the
Shanghai Mercury appeared in The Star
on August 10. 1901. as fol-
Russia lows: "The su Pao dis
in chinu courses on the Russian
aggressive designs on the
Pamir If she gets this. then Chinas
new dominion will next be engulfed.
There are rumors that Russia wants
the port Of Newchwang, but, the powers
do not assent to this. Even II she got
Newchwang, she would be by no means
satisfied, for her designs on the new
dominion are of long standing. Without
the PamirS, the province Of the new
dominion would be Of little use to her.
for the Pamirs between block the COM
municationS. If she gets the new
dominion, then Tibet will become an
easy prey. Besides, the soil Of the prov
ince is excellent and there are gold
mines which the Russians are anxious
to exploit. Meanwhile, the province Is
overrun by Russian travellers. who re-
port on the richness Of the soil and
the abundance Of its products. i. With
such an Unsuitable and sleepless enemy
on our Western frontier, 1t surely be-
hooveS us to be on our guard and
strengthen our defenses before it is too
late"
on August IL 1901, The Star society
editor announced the engagement of
Mrs. Regina Bar
Borbour- Rengito bour Rengifo.
choliee daughter OF the
late Mr.. and Mrs.
James L. Barbour and widow Of Gen.
Julio Rengifo, formerly Charge dAffaires
Of Colombia, to Eugene Thiebaut,
stately First Secretary Of the French
Embassy In this city and now holding
n similar post ct Berne. Switzerland.
Evening star., 1951-08-19
Letters to The Star
Puerto Rico's Position

Edward TomlinsOn seems to inisinter-
prets Puerto Rico's political picture Id
his article, Puerto Rico on the Thresh-
DID, In The Sunday Star Of August 5.
Under Public Law 500, 8lst Congress.
accepted by the people OF Puerto Rico
In popular referendum III June, Puerto
Rico Is organizing constitutional gov
ernment. But also. within Public Law
600. the Puerto Rico Statute Of Federal
Relations. compact between the islands
people and the United States. continues
in effect.
United States citizenship as extended
to Puerto Ricans in 1917 and Puerto
Rican citizenship as extended to United
States citizens with one years residence
in the island continues The privileges
and immunities clause Of the Constitu-
ton extends to Puerto Rico. Except for
internal revenue laws. Federal laws ex-
tend automatically to Puerto Rico unless
locally inapplicable. Foreign imports are
subject to the same tariff rates as in the
continent. The authority Of the Puerto
Rican Legislature Is limited to purely
local matters. The government Of Puerto
Rico Is locally financed. A Federal Dis
trict Court sits In Puerto Rico as In any
State. Federal immigration. laws apply
to Puerto Rico. Some joint Federal and
insular programs, where expenses are
shared by both governments, operate in
Puerto Rico grant t-in-aid laws).
Accordingly, Mr.. Tomlinson is in error
when he says that:
Cd The island is not self-supporting;
ca political ties with the mainland are
hardly perceptible; 80 the island makes
its own laws (the island does not par
ticipate in Federal legislation which ap-
plies to Puerto Rico); (4) every official