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Evening star., 1951-12-31
IKu KIux Deny part
In Florida Bombings;;
Warren AssaiIs White
BY She Associated Press

MIAMI. Fla, Dec. 31-The Ku
klux Klan denied any knowledge
of recent bombings in Florida at
ia meeting Saturday night shortly
after Gov. Fuller Warren blasted
Walter White. executive secretary
Iof the National Association for
the Advancement Of Colored Peo-
/ pie, as hired Harlem hate
Emonger."
| The robed and hooded Klans-
men burned a 15-foot cross and
bitterly criticized those who would
blame them for the Florida bomb
ing outbreak.
Gov. Warren said Mr.. White
I"has come to Florida to try to
stir up strife" and continued:
/ This hired Harlem hatemonger
has poured purchased wrath upon
Florida because one of its good
Icolored citizens was murdered by
a cowardly assassin"
Hits Lack Of Action.
In New York, Mr.. White said
that Gov. Warren must be making
his violent outbursts because his
conscience is bothering him"
If the Governor had acted
properly" Mr.. White said, "there
never would have been this series
Iof bombings and other outrages
which have disgraced Florida and
jeopardized the lives of people in
Florida, both residents and tour
lists"
/ Mr.. White said he will 20 back
to Florida Wednesday to continue
working on the case of Harry T.
Moore, Florida secretary of the
NAACP, who was killed Christ
mas night when a bomb exploded
under his home at Minis.
Mr.. White has charged Gov.
Warren consistently has refused
10 take any steps to uphold law
and order in connection with re-
cent Miami bombings and the
shooting of Negroes charged with
rape in Lake County.
Klansmen met at Woodville.
near the State Capital city of Tai
lahassee, Saturday night.
Blasts Called Part of Pattern
Florida Grand Dragon Bill
Hendrix Of Tallahassee and Grand
Dragon Tom Hamilton of South
Carolina attended. Mr.. Hendrix
said the Klan had nothing to do
with Mr.. Moore's death and
added the Klan is guiltless of
bombings and planting explosives
at Negro, Catholic and Jewish
centers in Miami.
Alex Miller of Atlanta, southern
director for the B'nai Birth Anti
Defamation League, told a Miami
Beach meeting that the bomb
ings in Miami "are part of a pat
tern that has been developing all
over the South in the last two
years"
He cited dynamitings in At
lanta, Birmingham and Dallas
and said there had mot been a
single arrest of any culprit" since
the dynamitings began.
Evening star., 1951-12-31
MiI|ikan's S Grandson Killed
BY 'Hot Wire In Puddle
By The Assoeiaied Press

PASADENA. Calf, Dec. 31.-A
high tension wire lying In rain
puddle electrocuted a grandson
OF Noble prize winning Physicist
Robert A. Millikan yesterday.
Robert S. Millikan, 20, was driv-
ing home from a party. His ca,
hit a power pole and a wire fell
to the ground. Young Millikan
stepped from the car into the
puddle and was killed instantly
by the current from the fallen
power line.
The youth was here on holiday
vacation with his brother Michael
both students at Yale University
His father. Clark NJ. Millikan, is
professor Of aeronautics at Cali
fornia Institute of Technology.
Evening star., 1951-12-31

leagues have high hopes that the
Ecurrent Irregularities in Govern
ment will result in a similar pub
lie cutlery and action by Congress
to strengthen the merit system
still further.
DECLINE - Government en-
Hployement here has dropped for
the fourth consecutive month. The
Governments executive branch in
the Washington area now has
248,500 employees, a decrease OF
about 500 the past month. Total
Federal employment throughout
the country rose slightly during
November to a total of 2,515,900,
an increase Of 7,700 during the
month.
RE TIRE EMEN - JASPER D.
Evans. one of the most popular
employees at the Naval Gun Fac
tory, is retiring after more than
Al years of service: Known affec-
tionately to the Factory's thou
sands OF employees as Jack" Mr..
Evans was a master boilermaker
and supervisor in charge of the
metal processing shop.
Top Naval officials as we'll as
his many colleagues joined in
praising his valuable service to
the Navy. During his career, Mr..
Evans was awarded many cita-
tions, topped by the Meritorious
Civilian Service Award for his
outstanding contributions to the
Mark 102 Rocket Launcher pro-
gram. Mr.. Evans was a pioneer in
the movement to have a retire
Iment law enacted for Govern
ment employees and was one of
the five Gun Factory employees
who organized the joint retire
ment association.
/ CAPITAL ROUNDUP - David
A. Kosh has been named assis-
tant to General Services Admins
Itration's general counsel on trans
Iportation and public utilities
DR.. At. T. Mcpherson has been
Appointed associate director of the
National Bureau of Standards
William j. Lochridge has been
ielected president of Boiling Air
Force Base Lodge 967. American
Federation of Government En-
Iployes. Others elected were Will
Imer P. Roland, Jack S. Starr and
Frank Campbell, vice presidents:
Catherine S. Burton, secretary
treasurer; and Alton Cox, ser
Igeant-at-arms The following
Iemployes at the Bureau of En-
Igraving and Printing have re-
tired after outstanding service
Alvah r. Orcutt, Fred c. Mattern
Mrs. Sadie E. Balderson, Mrs
i Irene M. Hausler, Mrs. Mary A.
Meeks, Mrs. Elaine c. Roache
Mrs. Pauline D. Virgil, James A.
IGarnes, George Donaldson, Ro-
bert v. Montgomery, Roscoe
Rothschild. Thomas A. Walsh
Harry w. Zoeffel, and Mrs. Anna
E. Duchesne Former Con-
gresham Tom Burke of Ohio has
resigned his position as labor and
manpower adviser in the National
Production Authority's motor
vehicle division and office of
labor. to make the race again for
Congress.
Evening star., 1951-12-31

which are now political patronage
plumS. under the civil service
merit system.
The commission has long felt
that collectors of internal revenue
and customs. as well as post
masters, should be brought COM
pletely under the merit system. 1t
feels that certain other patronge
jobs should be converted into
civil service positions.
/ Commission officials are moi
under the delusion that an en-
ploye with civn service status
automatically is above suspicion
in regard to wrongdoing in Office
But they point out that very few
career employees have ever beer
involved in scandals.
T They cite the current situation
to prove their point. Only few
of the officials and employees in
tvolved can be classified as career
workers.
Mr.. Ramspeck feels that the
very fact that employees receive
their jobs through a competitive
merit system, rather than through
political patronage, makes them
less susceptible to temptation
and influence. An employe ap-
pointed through the Intervention
of political figure is really moi
his own boss and feels beholder
to his benefactor. This is not con.
ducive to integrity in Office.
1 It's well to remember that tht
! civil service merit system was ere.
I ated nearly 10 years ago as a re.
suit Of widespread irregularities o.
the spoils system which was ther
in effect. Many job holders tool
more interest in assuring the elec.
tion of their political patrons thar
they did In doing the work they
were paid to do.
/ 1t eliminated In the tragic as.
ssassination of President Garfield
by a disappointed Office seeker
which in turn led to public in.
dignation and outcry which
brought about establishment o1
the civil service merit system.
Mr.. Ramspeek and his col.
Evening star., 1951-12-31
Only One Lynehing
Listed by Ius'kegee
In Report on 1851
BY the Associated Press

i TUSKEGEE, Ala, Dec. 81
Mob violence, in the United States
declined during 1851 from the
previous year. Tuskegee Institute
said in its annual report.
The school listed the unsolved
killing of a Florida Negro, Melvin
Womack, 27, a migrant worker. as
the only lynching. and severely
criticised one other incident, tech
nically not lynching. 1t was the
Staying of a Negro prisoner by a
Florida sheriff who was exoner-
ated by a coroner's jury. To be
classed as a lynching by Tuskegee
at least two persons must attack
the slain man.
The 1ynching OF Womack. the
report said. took place near Winter
Garden. Fla, March %. Womack
was dragged from his house.
beaten and shot. An anonymous
note to the Orlando Morning SEN
tinel said four white men took
part.
Died Before Giving Reason.
An inquest and subsequent grand
jury investigation did not reveal
any clues and Womack died three
days after the attack without be-
ing able to identify his attackers
or give any reason. It was learned,
however. at least one other Negro
had been beaten.
1T is thought the night riders
lynched the wrong man, Tuskegee
President F. D. Patterson said.
The other incident criticized In
the report was the Staying of SAM
uel Shepherd and the shooting OF
! Walter Lee Irwin November 6 by
Sheriff Willis v. Mccall.
Sheriff Mccall was taking the
two men from Raiford prison tc
Travers, Fla. for new trial mo-
tons after the United States Su-
preme Court had set aside theiI
convictions in the rape of a white
girl at Groveland, Fla, In 1949.
The sheriff said he shot the
men because they attacked him
when he stopped to Ak a fiat tire
Attempted Lynchings Prevented.
i Tuskegee's report listed three
attempted lynchings which were
prevented during the year:
| At Colonial Beach Va q noot
OF some 500 persons became in.
Icensed' at Policeman Charlie.
White and a special officer ovel
alleged mistreatment Of a pris.
loner.
/ At Brundidge, Ala. Forrest
Jones, 35-year-old Negro farmer
was shot in the hand as he flee
from crowd of white person.
after a rumor spread that he
kidnapped a white woman. The
rumor later was proved un.
founded.
Lafayette Miller, 21-year-olc
Negro parolee, was moved from g
jail at Greenville, N. c., to prison
because he probably would have
been lynched." Miller was &C.
cused Of killing a white man anc
kidnapping his wife.
The 1881 figures showed a de.
cline in mob action from the pre-.
ivious year. In 1850 Tuskegee':
report listed two lynchings anc
seven attempts.
Evening star., 1951-12-31
Mrs. Peron to Return
To Work in February
BY the Assoeioted Press

BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 31.-Mrs
Eva Peron, wife of Argentina s
president. expects to return to hel
work in the Ministry of Labor ano
Welfare in February. the news
paper La Presna, now published
by the pro-Peron labor unions
said yesterday.
The newspaper said the an
Inouncement of Mrs. Peron's plans
was made in a meeting she had
with members of the union feder-
alton yesterday.
She had been Ill since Septem-
ber and underwent surgery on
November. Her ailment never has
been announced, but DR.. George
Pack. cancer specialist of New
York. was reported to have per-
formed the operation.
Evening star., 1951-12-31
Sitter Says She Killed
Child After Watching
Murder Story on N
BY the Associated Press

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 81. - A
i6-year-old baby sitter told police
how she watched a murder mys-
terry on television, then strangled
a sleeping 6-year-old girl with a
stocking.
II did it, but I don't have any
reasons" sheriff's investigators
quoted the high school sophomore,
Delora Mae Campbell, as saying
soon after neighbor discovered
the tragedy early yesterday.
Delora Mae, in jail on a mur-
der charge, told deputies that as
she lay on the couch after watch
ing the television program, she
had a vision"
I saw girl lying In bed with
her arms folded across her chest
and a green necktie around her
neck" Delora Mae said.
Mother Works at Plane Plant.
The girl was Donna Joyce Is
bell, blond daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Roy Isbell. She died with
her fathers black Navy sock
wound tightly around her throat
and with the end of a sheet wad-
ded into her mouth.
Donna didn't scream" said
Delora Mae. She just lifted her
arms once, then fell back"
1t happened Saturday night
While Donna's mother was work.
ing the late shift at Douglas Air
craft. The father, a petty officer
was on duty at the Los Alamitos
Naval Air Station. The dead girls
8-year-old brother, Roy Allen,
slept through it all on a nearby
twin bed.
i got scared and went next
door" Delora Mae said. Nobody
was home and I went to the next
house"
Ran Away From Home.
There she found DR.. Sidney G.
Wilmer, who called the sheriff's
office.
Capt. Jim Burns of Homicide
said Delora Mae, one of six chill
dren. lived with an aunt and uncle
who took her in after she ran
away from home at Fort Lupton,
Colo.
II often felt like strangling my
brothers and sisters" Capt. Burns
quoted her as saying.
. The Isbells, near collapse from
the tragedy, said Delora had
taken care of their children once
a week for the past four or five
weeks.
Evening star., 1951-12-31
OPS Treble Action Slated
By Court in Scrap Case
BY The Associotsd Press

The Office of Price Stabiliza-
tion's first treble damage and in
junction action against q scrap
metal dealer is due to be heard In
United States District Court at
Birmingham, Ala, on Thursday
The defendant. Charles Temer-
son & Sons of Tuscaloosa is
charged with violating a price
ceiling regulation in the upgrad-
ing of scrap iron and steel.
OPS is seeking an injunction
against the firm and its three
partners, Moses A., Jake H. and
Abraham I. Temerson, and treble
damages Of $1,437 90 on alleged
overcharges involved in shipments
consigned to the Kilby Steel Co.
of Admission, Ala.
Evening star., 1951-12-31
Tempo Building K
Tops OFF Fire Drill
With False Alarm

District firemen got a little drill
Of their own during a fire drill
early today at the Defense Depart
ment's Temporary Building K.
The fire drill at the building on
Seventeenth street near the Re-
f1ecting Pool was going along fine
until someone pulled the wrong
lever. The lever was on a fire
alarm box.
Firemen and fire trucks rushed
to the scene, ready to dampen the
flames. But the only thing damp
ened was their enthusiasm when
they discovered there we're no
flames to put out.
Evening star., 1951-12-31
Scientists Urge New
Method Of Deferrinq
Students in Draft
BY the Asseeicted Press

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 31.-Tht
American Association for the Ad.
vancement of Science has recon-
mended that the differences in
college entrance requirements be
taken under consideration in de-
ferring top students from military
service.
That recommendation was made
by Henry Chauncey of Princeton
University, as president of the Ed
Iucational Testing Service Com
mittee. That group was set UP
at the request of Maj. Gen. Lewis
B. Hershey, director of the Selec-
tive Service system.
Mr.. Chauncey in his report
pointed out that normally students
from colleges which select their
undergraduates very carefully are
superior in the military deferment
tests to students. from colleges
whose entrance requirements are
less strict. At the same time. he
said, individual students may be
of equal ability.
Survey Covered $4,000 Students.
The committees report was
based on a survey of $4,000 coll
lege students. including men in
all four years, who took the ability
tests this year.
Higher average grades were
registered in New England. the
Middle Atlantic region. East North
Central. West North Central and
Pacific.
The passing grades were lower
than the country as a whole in
the South Atlantic, East South
Central and West South Central
and in the territories.
A new method of breeding
was one of the most significant
scientific discoveries reported tc
the association which closed its
meeting here yesterday.
This is a German chemical dis:
covery, reported by DIR. Roger
Adams. University of Illinois, who
said it appears to open a new field
of great possibilities.
Two Kinds Of Forsythia.
He said there are two kinds oi
forSythia, the yellow-flowerine
bush of early spring in Northern
States. The pollen of one kind
will not fertilize the flowers of the
other.
German chemists examined the
two pollens and found out that
they were different chemically
With chemical treatments they
changed these pollens slightly
Thereupon either kind of pollen
fertilized the plants which never
had been susceptible before.
DR.. Adams pointed out that this
was entirely different from the
ways in which cross-breeding has
been done. X-rays, colchicine and
other chemicals have been used
to cause mutations, that is
changes in the heredity of plants
and animals. The changes are
uncontrolled, and one out of
thousands is sometimes useful and
occasionally makes it possible to
do hitherto impossible cross
breeding.
The new chemical method is a
possible shortcut to improving
food plants. He said there are
no reports of trying the chemical
change for animal breeding.
Evening star., 1951-12-31
Taft Moy Compoien
In Southwest in March
BY the Assoeiated Press

Senator Taft of Ohio, a candi-
date for the Republican presiden-
tlal nomination, may campaign in
the Southwest in March.
Senator Taft's office said to-
day nothing definite has been ar.
ranged, but that the Senator is
giving some thought to such a
trip.
Evening star., 1951-12-31
) Scottish Hikers Die
AS Gale Sweeps Moor
BY the As,oeiuted Press

PERTH, Scotland, Dec. 81
Three mixers died of exposure or
bleak Rannoch Moor over the
week end, and a fourth person
was still missing today.
A fifth member of the party
Mrs. Anne Tewnion, 27, staggered
into Courrour Lodge suffering
from shock. She said she and foul
men, including her husband, Sid
ney, 80. had set out Saturday
from the lodge to hike Is miles
across the moors to Loeb Ericht
A gale blew up, and members n
the party were separted.
Evening star., 1951-12-31
All Least s. Killed
And Is Missing in
West Europe Storm:
BY the Assoeioied Press

LONDON. Dec. 31.-At least g.
persons were dead and 18 MISSING
las raging winds swept the coast.
and waters of Western Europe
today for the fourth day running
[ The latest known victims o1
perhaps this areas worst storm
of the Goth century were /;
sailors whose bodies were report
ed washed ashore near Borkum
in West Germany.
In Britain, where winds hi
100 miles an hour, at least Il
persons were dead and damage
was counted into the hundreds OF
thousands of dollars. Flooding
streams added to the havoc today
Another 10 persons, most ot
them fishermen, were dead ir
Irish coastal areas and at least
is Spanish fishermen lost then
lives in the mountainous seas.
Captain Sticks to Ship.
Two Norwegian sailors went
overheard to their deaths when a
huge sea in the Bay of Bisca,
washed the bridge off their tank
er. The body of one seaman was
recovered and II other person.
were missing in the wrecking of 6
Dutch tanker and a Norwegian
steamer in the same storm
whipped area.
One seaman was killed in tht
disabling of the 6,711-ton Ameri.
can steamer Flying Enterprise
Rescue vessels took 40 crewmen--
including the dead man-and II
passengers off the crippled shil
as she wallowed with 60-degre'
list $50 miles southwest of Ireland
Capt. Kurt Carlson grimly stucl
to his bridge alone while twt
United States Navy ships-a de.
Istroyer and a troop transport
raced to his aid.
The biggest single shipwrecl
death toll reported came from
Borkum, in West Germany. Ses
police there said 13 bodies hat
been washed ashore from th'
1.494-ton German cargo shil
Irene Oldendorff. which lef
Emden only this morning with /.
cargo of coke for Sweden.
The police were unable to sa,
Immediately whether this was he
entire crew.
Tanker Broken in Two.
Seventeen Of the missing wer
aboard the Dutch tanker Gemms
and the Norwegian steamer Oes.
thav, broken in two In the wile
Bay of Biscay. Nine members o.
the Oesthav's crew. including 6
woman, were reported by rescue
vessels to have drifted away il
the stern half. Eight were missing
from the Gemna and a rescue
vessel reported it had taker
aboard the lifeless body of a ninth
icreWman.
The Spanish schooner Nina
Entegro radioed its home port o.
iStantander it had picked up anc
was towing the forward half o.
the ship.
Recent maritime reference book
do not list a tanker Testka.
Two deckhands were blown of
their vessel near Hull and drowned
At Dysart a l3-year-old boy wa
killed when a light pole fell OF
his hut. A man who tried to res
cue him collapsed and died.
At st. Ives in Cornwall wind
piled mountainous sand drift
which reached the rooftops. En-
tire streets were impossible.
Evening star., 1951-12-31

morrow cloudy and warmer;
showers by night, turning colder
in west portion.
Virginia-Cloudy tonight; low
1853 degrees. Tomorrow, cloudy
and warmer; showers by night.
Wind at 1885 am, east, south
east, 7 miles per hour.
Evening star., 1951-12-31
The Weather Here and Over the Nation

District of Columbia-Cloudy
today; high near Sc degrees
Partly cloudy and mild tonight;
low 48 degrees. Tomorrow, fair
windy and warmer; showers at
night.
Maryland-Cloudy and mild to-
night; low $3.50 degrees. To-
Evening star., 1951-12-31
$27.1 Million for Aid
Allotted Greece by ECA
BY the Asseciafed Press

The Economic Cooperation Ad-
ministration announced today an
allotment of $27 million in eco
nomic aid to Greece.
It includes 50 million for the
purchase Of crude oil and petro-
leum products from Iran, Saudi
Arabia, Bahrein, Kuwait, Iraq,
Israel and Qatar.
The rest Is to help Greece clear
up her intra European payments
position.
Evening star., 1951-12-31
Chile Begins Smelling

SANTIAGO, Chile, Dec. 81 up
The first four tons of smelted
copper ever produced in copper
rich Chile have emerged from the
smelling plant at Paipote. in
Northern Chile. Western Ger
many is reported buying all
Paipote's output.
Evening star., 1951-12-31

II Is cOHeagueS
think the situ-
alton will ac-
complish what
the Civil Serv-
ice Commission
has unsuccess-
fully attempted
to achieve for
years.
They feel that
the c u + I e n t
scandal will re-
suit in Con-
greSS pl c in e
more Govern
m MT j o b S ,
Evening star., 1951-12-31
One Moment
With God
BY EDWARD L. r. ELSON
Pastor. National Presbyterian Church.
THINGS TO REMEMBER
AT NEW YEARS

49, ANSF 49G14t ~
Not ony is it good to forget with
discrimination. but it is important
to remember with accuracy. Re-
member year is but a drop in
the sea of eternity. Remember
your chief purpose is to develop
a personality worthy of eternal
survival. Remember God has en-
dowed you with ample powers for
life. He needs your soul as an
unobstructed channel. Remember
Christ lived and died and rose
from the dead to redeem you.
Remember this is still Gods uni
verse.
fReadino for today: Philip
plans 3:14-f5.J
prayer: Help me to remem-
Der that my strength for the
netD year cometh from Thee.
Anen.J
Evening star., 1951-12-31
Red Tope Bors Benefits

Asked why he had drawn nc
unemployment pay. a man at
Stockport, England. said: "You
have to do too much signing this,
that and the other"
Evening star., 1951-12-31
Humidity.

Hisn and Low Of Last "a Hours.
High. So. Mt 3:35 pm.
Low. A. at 1850 am.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest. 90 on June 2.
Lowest, IL. on February 8.
Evening star., 1951-12-31
The Federal Spotlight
More Jobs Under Civil Service
Seen Resulting From Scandals
By Joseph Young

Civil Service officials along with country have
concern the scandals Revenue and
oer agencies but they feel that will emerge
stronger civil service merit system
Chairman Robert Ramspeck the Commission is
Evening star., 1951-12-31

An intense cold is expected to into the North
Central of the country tonight with temperatures
along the Northern tier of States west of the Great Lakes
Rockies Mild weather will continue in the third
the Nation Precipitation will extend from coast to
with exception of the Gulf States Montana and North Da
kota Snowfall will be heavy the Western States The East
will have rain for the New England States where
will be- mixed with rain. ~ ZAP Wirephoo.
Evening star., 1951-12-31
River Report.

River Report.
fFrom U. 8. Engineers.1
Potomac River cloudy at Harpers Ferry
and Great Falls; Shenandoah cloudy ai
HarpeTs Ferry. -
Evening star., 1951-12-31

revelations brought out in the
House by the King subcommittee.
However, Mr.. Ramspeck and