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Evening star., 1951-12-27
Heurich Tract Sold
For Over Million

The Christian Heurich tract in
Prince Georges County has been
sold for slightly over a million
dollars in cash to be developed
into a residential community.
The 376-acre tract, at Queens
Chapel and Colesville roads. near
University Park. was sold to the
Contee Sand & Gravel Co.. Inc,
OF Laurel, by the three heirs of
Christian Heurich, long time
Washington brewer who died in
1945 at the age of 1O2.
Fancis Key of Philip B. Key
Realty Co., 8644 Colesville road.
Silver Spring, who handled the
transaction. said he believed the
sale is one of the biggest cash
land deals made in the Washing
ton area in recent years.
Mr.. Key said the Laurel firm
plans to subdivide the tract into
building lots and resell them to
builders. He said the owners en-
vision planned community" of
commercial, semidetached and
apartment development.
The land-planning firm of
Pierre Client & Associates, 1886
Jefferson place NV, has been
retained to drew up plans for
the community. That company
planned nearby Langley Park,
where about 10000 persons live.
Next step is submission of plans
to the Maryland National Capital
Park and Planning Commission
Mr.. Key said. Then zoning ap-
proval will have to be sought from
the Prince Georges County COM
missioners.
The Heurich tract, which is now
Zoned residential and is COM
pletely surrounded by residential
developments, was used as a sum-
mer estate by the Heurich family
and as pasture. land for the brew
er's prize dairy herd.
Evening star., 1951-12-27
Former Army AII-America
10 Marry al Fort Myer

Army 1t. John Daniel Foldberg
%, an All-American end at West
Point for 1850, is to be married at
g o'clock tonight in the Fort Myer
Chapel.
The BRIDE -to-be Is Miss Mary
Catherine Zimmerman, 20. daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond
Rudolph Zimmerman, 1907 Ken
more drive NV.
1t. Foldberg.' now stationed at
Fort Benning, Ga. was captain
of the 1850 cadet team and was
president of the 1851 senior class.
Miss Zimmerman's father said
his daughter. junior at the Col
lege Of William and Mary, met
1t. Foldberg last year while visit
ing at West Point.
The ceremony will be performed
by Chaplain Robert M. Homiston,
Evening star., 1951-12-27
Truman AwaifsUnion
Move Before Aetna
TO Avert Steel Strike
BY the Assoeioied Press

INDEPENDENCE. Mo-, Dec. ~.
The time for decision on the
threatened steel strike moved in
on both President Truman and
the United Steel Workers Union
today.
The first move is the unions,
and is expected at the USW Exec
utive Committee meeting called
for today. That session is the
USW's only answer so far to Mr..
Truman's request that the New
Years Day walkout be put off
while the Wage Sterilization
Board considers the workers pay
demands.
If CLIO President Philip MUIR
rays steelworkers comply with the
Presidents request, the heat is off
the Chief Executive for the mo-
ment, but if they tell him mo-"
quick action on his part is strong.
ly indicated.
Insists on Production.
He has told both union and
management that the defense
vital metal must keep rolling out
of the mills.
Shortly after his arrival here for
a working Christmas visit home,
Mr.. Truman also said he would use
any law on the books, and any
power Of the presidency, to keep
production going.
White House aids declined to
talk about published reports that
the President has hopes for an
early settlement of the wage dis
pute.
Any such settlement would have
to come quickly. Steel mills start
banking their fires three to four
days ahead Of a stoppage, since
steelmaking is not a process that
can be simply shut of when a
whistle blows.
Thus some production will be
lost if the strike threat stays in
force past tomorrow, even if it
should be called off before the
walkout deadJine.
May Use Taft Law.
Application of the Taft-Hartley
laws emergency provision for 30
day anti-strike injunctions is con-
sidered the most likely White
House STEP It was in answer to
a question on whether he would
use the Taft-Hartley law that the
President made his statement
about use of any law on the books
or any power of the presidency.
The arrival in nearby Kansas
City yesterday of Press Secretary
Joseph Short, Secretary Matthew
Connolly and Administrative Aide
Donald Dawson strengthened the
Presidents working staff for that
and any other business that may
arise.
Mr.. Dawson, however, stopped
only a short while with the party,
then went on to visit relatives in
Missouri. But he still would be
quickly available if needed.
The President was out in white
tie and tails last night for a dinner
given by Blevins Davis, wealthy
lpart-time theatrical producer, at
the Davis estate near Independ-
Ience.
Evening star., 1951-12-27

This liberal joseph Young.
Interpretation of the new law
means that all Government work.
erS will be entitled to the maxi
mum credit allowed. depending
on total length of service. EN-
Iployes with less than three years
service will receive 13 days an
|nual leave, those with from three
to Is years will get 20 days and
those with more than IS years
will receive 26 days. All Federal
workers will receive 13 days sick
leave a year.
Meanwhile, thousands of Fed
|eral workers will forfeit some of
their unused annual leave when
the current work year ends on
Saturday. This is because the law
provides that employees, with a
few exceptions, may not accumu-
late more than 60 days leave
from one year to the next.
Some employees will forfeit leave
lin excess of so days because of
the national emergency. which
keeps them on the job. In past
years. quite a few employees have
forfeited leave because of duty,
and this year the added respon-
Isibilities have resulted in greater
forfeiture of leave than usual.
X Il
TRANSFERS-The Civil Serv-
ice Commission has decided to
shelve, for the time being, its
plan to place a freeze on the
transfers of Defense Department
Iemployes to other agencies. De-
fense officials are unhappy over
the commissions decision, but the
commission won't be swayed.
The commission feels that the
peak of Government employe
transfers has long since been
reached, and that there aren't
enough Defense Department
workers transferring to other
Federal agencies to justify such
"a ban. Commission officials feel
Ia job freeze would be rank dis
elimination against Defense De-
partment workers. since no job
freeze is now in effect in private
industry or in other Federal agen-
|cieS.
+
CODE OF CONDUCT-Admin-
istration officials are discussing
plans for regulations setting up
a code of conduct for Govern
ment employees to observe in deal
ing with outsiders. The plans
are the outgrowth of the current
scandals in the Internal Reye-
nue. Bureau and several other
Federal agencies.
Evening star., 1951-12-27
Police Fire
On Rioting Students
In Cairo, Alexandra
BY the Associated Press

CAIRO, Egypt, Dec. 27.-Polict
fred on rioting Egyptian student.
today as protest demonstration.
broke out in Cairo and Alexandra
for the second day in row ovel
the apparent entry of the palace
into power politics.
Buckshot fired from police riot
guns injured Is students at Alex
landria.
Several students and police
were reported injured in Cairo
The students overturned and sci
fire to a streetcar near the
parliament building and police
waded in with billy clubs.
Ten students were arrested and
Cairo traffic piled up for blocks
before several hundred police re-
stored order.
The disturbances spread to
secondary school students today
Four secondary schools in Alex
|andria were ordered closed, in
Guiding the Abbasia school, near
the Alexandria main railway sta
Ition where police fred on the
students.
Thousands of secondary school
students in both Egypt's major
cities were involved in the dem.
onstrations.
Fouad and Mohammed AL
Pasha Universities in Cairo anc
Farouk University in Alexandra
were ordered closed indefinitely
yesterday after collegiate riots
against King Farouk's appoint
|ment of pro- Western advisors on
his palace cabinet.
Police used tear gas against a
mob of 5000 in Alexandria yes
|terday. Seven police were reported
Evening star., 1951-12-27
z Richmond Youths Killed
As Auto Crashes Into Wall
BY the Associated Press

RICHMOND, Va, Dec. 27.-
Two Richmond youths were killed
today when their automobile
crashed into a stone retaining
wall.
One Of the youths, Gray Miller
18, son of Judge Henry r. Miller
jr.. of Richmonds Civil Justice
Court, was killed outright. His
companion, Alfred Withers Ad-
olson, also Is, died in the Medical
College of Virginia Hospital
shortly after the accident.
Judge Miller said the two boys
had attended a debutante party
at the Commonwealth Club and
that his son apparently was TAX
ing the Addison youth home at
the time of the accident.
Their deaths raised Virginia S
traffic toll for 1851 to 978.
Evening star., 1951-12-27
Two Killed, 9 Hurt
In Two Maryland
Highway Accidents
BY the Associated Press

Maryland State Police today
investigated two traffic accidents
that killed two persons and in
jured at least nine others-one
critically. One wreck involved
four automobiles.
The deaths ran Maryland's
traffic fatality toll to 534 for the
year.
One dead and eight injured was
the toll of an auto-bus collision
yesterday on U. S. Route 40, eight
miles east of HagerStown.
State police said Edsel Good
Nicholas, 90. of Blue Ridge Sum-
NIT, Pa, was killed when his car,
crossing the highway, was struck
and demolished by a Greyhound
bus en- route from Washington to
Pittsburgh.
The bus left the road and
crashed into a tree.
Girl in Car Injured.
Gene Boyer, Is year old
Waynesboro, Pa, girl who was
riding with Mr.. Nicholas. suf-
fered a fractured skull, fractured
right leg and internal injuries.
Her condition was critical at
Washington County Hospital,
.Hagerstown.
Three other passengers in the
Nicholas car were hurt.
William A. Siedling, 33, of
Washington, D. c., the bus driver,
received possible ankle fractures.
Three injured bus passengers,
~all taken to Washington County
Hospital. were Earl K. Jewett, 25,
Flint, Mich, sprained back; Wiley
D. Hunt, 81, Inkstin, Mich,
cracked ribs, and James Gala
brese, jr, Glennfield, Pa, head
cuts.
New York Woman Killed.
The other accident, on Route
40, near Elkton. Md. killed Mrs.
Fanny Liebler, 66, of New York
City.
Mrs. Lebler's husband, Isadore.
was admitted to Union Hospital,
Elkton, Md. suffering from shock.
First 1t Stewart Alexander. IS,
of Route IL, Pennick road, Rich
mond, Va, was treated for cuts on
his forehead ap6 hop6
State police investigators said
MIR. Liebler. who is Ct, was driv-
ing when his car went out of
control. crossed the separating
parkway and crashed into the car
driven by Mr.. Alexander. Two
other vehicles smashed into the
wreck. None of the other per-
sons in the accident was hurt
seriously.
Evening star., 1951-12-27
Secret Red Mines
May Be Of German
Design, Navy Says

Navy officials said today that
Ipressure-type mines used against
American ships in Korean harbors
may have been made from de-
signs obtained by the Russians
from German experts after the
war.
That type of mine is we'll known
to many countries. including the
United States, but there is no in
dication that plans for any such
secret mine device were stolen
from the Navy, a spokesman de-
clared in commenting on pub
lished reports that Russian spies
stole the design for the mine from
the United States.
The same type that damaged
some ships in Korean harbors
was used by the Germans in the
Thames River against the British
in the early part of World War II,
the naval spokesman explained.
II the Russians developed the
mine, he added. they probably
obtained information and con-
struction details from German
ordnance experts after the war.
Nothing Secret.
There is nothing particularly
secret about the mines that turned
up in Korea, naval officials said.
1t Is also generally known by ex-
pertS throughout the world that
the Russians always have been
mine conscious" and have spent
considerable time and effort in
constructing such devices.
Mines found in Korean waters
are operated by pressure of vessels
passing over them. Their clock
mechanism can be set at pre-
determined intervals so that the
mine could explode on the passage
of one ship or any number of
vessels.
Mines Not Suspended.
The mines are set on the floor
of the waterway instead of being
suspended from anchored cables.
This complicates the job of the
mlnesweepers and adds to the
hazards OF ships in harbors.
A New York Daily News story
today recalled that United States
Navy minesweepers attempted to
clear Wonsan Harbor in the
early fall of 1850. Within the next
few weeks three minesweepers
were sunk. with loss of more than
80 men, according to that story.
Troop transports had be held up
for several days. Experts then
found the pressure type mines of
Russian make. the story stated.
Evening star., 1951-12-27
'lckes, Sick In Hospital ,
Is Reported Better

Harold l.. Ickes, former Secre.
tary of Interior. is i'll at George.
town Hospital with a nerve
disorder.
Mrs. Ickes said her 77-year-olo
husband had been in the hospital
for about a week, suffering from
painful nerve root condition
She said it was no dread disease
and that Mr.. Ickes is getting along
all right.
He joined the cabinet in 1888
early in the administration OF
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
and continued in Office under
President Truman until 1916.
Since retirement he has lived
on a farm at Olney. Md.
Evening star., 1951-12-27
Cost Of Insurance
On Maryland Autos
May Rise "a Per Cent
By the Assoeiated Press

BALTIMORE. Dec. 27.-Highel
automobile insurance rates are ir
prospect for Maryland car owners
The State insurance commits!
sioner said yesterday the Nationa
Automobile Underwriters Associa-
ton has been discussing higher
rates with him but as yet has
filed no schedule.
There were indications the rates
might go up about "a per cent
lon fire, theft. collision and So
called comprehensive coverage ir
the counties outside Baltimore.
The prospective increase in Bal.
Itimore is somewhat less percent.
Iagewise but the rates in the city
ARE already higher.
These same rates were reduced
last April by Is per cent in The
counties and 9 per cent in Balti.
more. In April. 1850, there was 6
I6.5 per cent reduction. The pro-
posed increases would bring tht
rates back to about what they
were two years ago.
No change is contemplated il
the rates on liability insurance
These rates were increased abou
20 per cent in June.
Evening star., 1951-12-27
Steel
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based on the Capehart Amend
ment. This permits ceilings to
be raised to cover INCREASES in
wages, raw materials and other
business costs up to last July 26.
1t would not cover any increases
resulting from current wage talks.
Mr. Putnam quoted Benjamin
Fairless. president of the United
States Steel, as saying he felt
the industry is entitled to an i'm
mediate price rise under the Cape
hart formula,
| II told Mr. Fairless that if steel
is entitled to an increase under
Capehart, it would get the in
crease whether or not it grants a
wage increase" Mr.. Putnam
added
Mr.. Putnam said the first batch
of figures submitted by steel COM
panies in support of a Capehart
increase did not seem to justify it
but that new information is being
prepared.
| Estimate Called Meaningless.
A United States Steel spokesman
has termed meaningless" the
Office of Price Stabilization'S esti-
mate of the steel industry's earn
ings for 1851.
The estimate, before taxes, is
put at s2.6 billion, which the
OPS pointed out, is $1.2 billion
over the 1947-49 standard used in
determining whether price ceilings
are generally fair and equitable. :"
The steel representative asserted
that since taxes are definitely a
business cost. there is no such
thing as earnings before taxes"
If the union agrees to let the
WSB settle the dispute, panel
will be named next week. 1t
likely will be made up of two
members representing the public,
two labor and two industry.
The President has named 10
steel companies from whom testi-
mony would be taken. All 10 have
accepted the Presidents proposal
that the board hold hearings and
recommended a compromise. Any
settlement would be expected to
form the basis of agreements with
the remainder of the steel indus
try and the union. Hearings be-
fore this panel likely would start
the week of January s..
If the union REJECTS the plan,
the Government has two means
Iof keeping steel flowing. 1t cam
seize the steel companies and
make the strikers work for the
Government. Or the President
can invoke the Taft Hartley Act
and seek a court order banning
the strike for 80 days.
Evening star., 1951-12-27
No Signs Yet Of Increase
In District Rates

District Insurance Supt. Al
bert Jordan said his Office has
had no word of any plans for an
increase in automobile insurance
rates in Washington. Personal
liability rates were raised sub
stantially here last June.
Spokesman for several insur-
ance firms also said they knew
of no such plans. But they
pointed out that increases usually
are announced with little, if any,
advance notice by the insurance
companies. And they indicated
higher rates might we'll be needed
sometime next year because of
steadily rising costs.
Evening star., 1951-12-27
PARKING Lot DELAYED

An injunction temporarily pre-
venting the sale Of the armory
lot in Silver Spring has been
served on the Maryland National
Capital Park and Planning Com
mission.
A suit, which asks return of the
lot near the Hecht Co. to county
ownership, was filed in Mont
|gomery County Circuit Court
Friday. The temporary restrain
ing order was issued yesterday
The County Council says the for
mer Board of County Commits
sioners did not have authority
to transfer the property to the
commission. which since has re-
|ceived a $4,000 down payment on
an offer of $500,000 from the
Hecht Co. to use it as parking
lot for its Silver Spring store.
Evening star., 1951-12-27

on her and called me a sucker
She slapped me in the face.
told her never slap me, never dt
that-and that's all I remem
ber :"
Mrs. Sloan's body, clothed ex.
.cept for her dress, was found or
her bed. Twenty-four stall
wounds had gouged into her chest
throat and head. A blow through
the heart had killed her, Coroner
Herbert P. Lyle said.
Mrs. Sloan left her HUSBAND
Robert in September, and prom,
Used Christophel she would marry
him when she got a divorce, de.
tectiveS said.
Evening star., 1951-12-27
Fourth Andrews Escapee
Picked Up in Baltimore

The fourth of seven Andrews
Air Force Base prisoners who fed
the guardhouse Christmas Day
was picked up in Baltimore early
today.
He is John Shaun. %, of Balti-
more. Officials at Andrews said he
was arrested at am. today and
was being held at Fort Meade.
One other had been picked up
previously and two returned VOL
unfairly. Still at large are Hamil-
ton Carter, 81. of Baltimore;
Joseph M. Holmes, 25, of Chester
Pa, and James w. Bowlin, %. OF
Route l, Drummer, N. c..
Evening star., 1951-12-27
MARYLAND Gets FIuoride

Fluoride was added to the water
supply of more than 100000 SUBJ
urban Maryland residents this
afternoon.
The Washington Suburban San
itary Commission was to place in
operation fiuoride feeders at its
Patuxent River Filtration Plant
near Laurel and its Burnt Mills
plant near Four Corners this af-
ternoon. The chemical, sodium
silicof1uoride. is expected to pre-
vent tooth decay among children
in the urban areas of Montgomery
and Prince Georges Counties.
Evening star., 1951-12-27
Get School Board Names

Members Of the Fairfax County
Board of Supervisors who will take
office Tuesday are receiving rec
concentrations of citizens groups
and parent teacher associations
for School Board appointments.
Under a new county executive
form of government which also
takes effect Tuesday. the School
Board will be appointed for the
Evening star., 1951-12-27

injured by stones and two students
were hurt. The students shouted
Slogans against Hafez Afifi Pasha
powerful banker and industrialist
who was named by Farouk Mon
day to head his royal cabinet.
Afif1 has declared himself pub
licly in favor of a defense link
with the West-a policy Premier
,Mustapha NaShas Pasha's govern
ment hastily turned down ir
mid October.
Aflfl is liaison man between
Farouk and Nahas and was pic
'tured as working for a compromise
settlement of the bloody dispute
with the British over the Suez
Canal and the Sudan.
Evening star., 1951-12-27

the Korean war.
He is Pfc.
Hugh D. Will
kerSon, a for
mer employe of
a sheet metal
firm in Vienna
and son of Mrs.
Cassie Wilker-
son, Box SO.
v e n n a.. His
W / t e, M r S.
Sylvia w. Will
kerson, said he
W as seriously
wounded in the
left arm, chest
Evening star., 1951-12-27
BY the Assoeioted Press

BY the Asseeioted Press
CINCINNATI, Dec. 27.-"The
next thing I remember-I was
going up the road with blood on
my hands. I do not remember
how I picked up the scissors or
anything"
But Frank Chrostophel, %, told
Sheriff Dan Tehan of a conversa-
tion he said led up to the fatal
stabbing of dark-haired Mrs
Elizabeth Sloan. also %, at her
College Hill home yesterday.
The ex-Marine said he stopped
at her home to object to the way
she was acting" and to tell her
he planned to re-enlist.
Betty accused me of cheating
Evening star., 1951-12-27

and side by artillery shell frag-
ments.
Pfc. Wilkerson, "a, has been
transferred to a hospital in Japan,
his wife said. He had been in
Korea since last July with the 2lst
Infantry Regiment. He entered
the Army in September, 1850.
Evening star., 1951-12-27
Billie Nose, III, Dies

ELKO. New. Dec. 27 (P.-Billie
Nose, an Indian who said he could
remember when Salt Lake City's
population of 10 persons lived in
Ia single log cabin. died Tuesday
night. He was believed to be 112
wears old.
Evening star., 1951-12-27
The Weather Here and Over the Nation

District of Columbia-Cloudy,
cold and windy today; high in mid
50s. Fair, colder tonight; low %
degrees in city and 18 degrees in
suburbs. Tomorrow, fair and cold.
Maryland-Fair and colder to-
night; low 1915 degrees in west
Evening star., 1951-12-27
QuintupIet Calves
Born to Frederick
Cow, but Three Die
BY the Asseeiafed Press

FREDERICK, Md, Dec. 81
iSilad D. Bittle's Holstein COW had
Iquintuplets Tuesday. But three
Iof them died. apparently crushed
by their mother.
The owners son Clarence said
all five were apparently normal
at birth and weighed a total of
I174 pounds.
Henry r. Shoemaker, veteran
county agent, said he had never
heard previously of five calves be-
ing born at one time.
Evening star., 1951-12-27

the Civil SerV-
ice Commission
tomorrow. The
regulations en-
body the find
ings of t h e
Controller Gen.
eral, who ruled
recently tn a t
all iii t airy
service and past
terms OF Fed
eral service are
to be counted
for leave pur-
poses.