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Evening star., 1951-07-17
Thunderstorm Drops
Mercury II Degrees;
Cool Spell Forecast
Three Days Of Less Heat
Will Begin Tomorrow,
Weather Bureau Says

A welcome thunderstorm sent
Washington's heat spell reeling
with an 11-degree temperature
drop just before noon today, and
the Weather Bureau called it a
foretaste of still happier things
to come.
A three-day spell of cooler
weather is due to start tomorrow,
the bureau said. 1t will come on
the heels of more thundershowers
expected later this afternoon and
evening, added the forecaster.
Early this afternoon, the bu-
reau still was predicting temper
atureS in the high 3Os for later
in the day. But what had looked
like another 90-degree scorcher
was reduced to something much
more bearable by the storm which
broke unexpectedly shortly be-
fore II am.
Lightning Strikes House.
BY noon, the mercury had
skidded from 81 to 73 degrees-a
notch below last nights minimum.
While it returned to IA shortly
after the rain stopped, a blanket
of clouds precluded any sharp
climb Immediately. The sun broke
through again only gradually.
During the storm, lightning
struck house at 2424 Wisconsin
avenue NV, damaging a Chin
ney, police reported.
While overcoats can safely stay
in mothballs, the mercury won't
top 80 tomorrow, according to the
forecaster. Relief from the high
humidity also is promised. North
east breezes will prevail.
Record Almost Matched.
The hot weather so far this
summer has almost matched last
years all-summer record already,
the bureau reported. Up to yes
terday, there have been II days
this year with temperatures in the
COS, as compared with only seven
in the same period last year and
Is for the whole of last summer.
Last years high of 96 hasn't been
exceeded yet. however.
Yesterdays high was 80 at
4:40 pm. The lowest last night
was IA.
The heat sent three persons to
hospitals yesterday.
Evening star., 1951-07-17

indication that he was troubled
about anything.
His mother, Mrs. Violet Hasty,
reported Larry missing about 9
pm. last night. Police broadcast
a lookout for him, describing him
as 5 feet 9 inches tall, weighing
100 pounds with brown eyes and
brown curly hair.
His father has been vacation
ing in Indiana for the past week
with another son, William, 25.
This morning Larry's cousin,
Robert Bolinger, 18, who has been
staying at the Hasty home, started
out early to look for the missing
boy.
David Ludeman, IA, of IT'S
Lawrence street and John Nc
CURE, 13, of TIL Lawrence street,
told young Bolinger they had been
playing horseshoes with Larry
yesterday afternoon. Young Boil
niger asked them to suggest any
neighborhood hiding place where
Larry might be.
1--WE told him all the places we
Evening star., 1951-07-17
Tobin Tells White Collar Group
To Join Unions, Reap Benefits
Labor Secretary Speaks to RetoiI Clerks,
Cites Higher Pay in Organized Labor

whom belong to unions) have
gone up ITO per cent since 1885,"
the Secretary said. THE average
weekly earnings of clerical and
professional workers have gone up
only 80 per cent. The average
factory worker in March of this
year was making $64.33 a week,
or $1.57 an hour. The average
worker in your field of retail
trade was making $48.95 or $1.24
an hour"
Mr.. Tobin said there are lot
of white collar workers who still
turn up their noses at the bene-
fits of trade unionism."
He said they don't want to
degrade the white collar by be-
longing to the same labor move
ment with workers who wear
overalls." But, he added:
THE factory workers earn more
money. They can buy their fam
(See LABOR, Page A-3D
Evening star., 1951-07-17
Volunteer, II, Signs
To Read to Patients
In Army Hospital
BY the Associated Press

PHOENIXVILLE, Pa, July IT,
The little boy, two books under
his arm, stepped up to the Valley
Forge Army Hospital entrance,
hitched up his jeans to meet his
Hopalong Cassidy sweater and
told the military policeman:
1--WE come to read to the blind
patients"
The soldier took 11-year-old
Eddie S. Dworchek to Col. John
M. WEIGH, commanding officer.
The Colonel thought both Eddie
and his idea were wonderful, par
ticularly after he listened to the
boy read from the two books he
hugged under his arm: Biog-
raphies of Lou Gehrig and Joe
DiMaggio.
So he signed him up, the
youngest volunteer ever registered
at the Army hospital. His moth
er, Mrs. Dworchek said he spent
a year in a hospital while recoy-
ering from a bad heart ailment.
Evening star., 1951-07-17

knew about and I told him he
might look in the attic because
that's always a good place to
hide" David volunteered.
Young Bolinger returned home
and found his cousins body. DR..
Macdonald said the lad died
some time last night.
Larry's hands were tied with two
strips of cloth used as curtain ties.
One strip had been tied to each
wrist. Then the two strips had
been tied together loosely.
The lace curtain had been tied
to the rafter. The bottom had been
tied to leave sizable loop in the
end. The loop was so loose that
young Bolinger slipped it over
Larry's head without untying it
after finding the body.
DR.. Macdonald said it would
have been possible for Larry to
stand on the suitcase, slip his head
through the moose and lean. for
ward to strangle himself. The
loop, caught under his chin, kept
him from falling to the floor.
Evening star., 1951-07-17
Chicago Bar Poll to Determine
Douglas Stand on Judgeships
Senator, in Unusual Action, Asks Comparison
Of His Choices With Trumun Appointments

competent, free and pure. There
is nothing more important for a
Senator to do than to strive for
this. 1t is in that spirit that
am trying to act"
Senator Douglas made it clear
that if the decision of the bar
associations should go against his
choices. this opinion, added to
the recommendations of the
President. will weigh very heav-
lily with me-" He said that on the
other hand if his pair of choices
are preferred, II shall feel con-
firmed in my judgment and
strengthened in my resolution.
believe that such decision would
also have a beneficial effect upon
the Judgment of others
(In Chicago, Clarence P.
Denning, secretary of the bar
association, said today the group
will consider Senator Douglas
(See DOUGLAS, Page A-3D
Evening star., 1951-07-17
By jones Y. Newton

Secretary of Labor Tobin today
described the IS, million white
collar workers in the country as
"the frontier of the American
labor movement" and he urged
them to join trade unions.
Pointing out that only 2 mil
lion of the white collar workers
now belong to unions, Mr.. Tobin
commented:
These workers need organized
labor, and organized labor needs
them"
Mr.. Tobin, in addressing the
convention of the AFL Retail
Clerks International Association
here, declared that workers who
are members of unions have
gained greater benefits and higher
pay and in other ways than those
employees who are not organized.
THE average weekly earnings
OF production workers (most of
Evening star., 1951-07-17
Boy Found Hanged in Attic, His Hands Tied

With his hands tied behind his
back and a moose fashioned from
a lace curtain around his neck, the
12-year-old son of a District po-
liceman was found strangled this
morning, suspended from a rafter
in the attic of his home.
The boy, Larry Hasty, of 7O2
Lawrence street NE, died some
time last night, Coroner A. Ma
|gruder Macdonald said. His body
was found shortly after 8 am.
Capt. jeremiah Flaherty of the
Homicide Squad said he believed
the boy tied his own hands be-
hind his back, then climbed on a
suitcase under the hanging cur
tain and slipped his head through
the moose.
DR.. Macdonald said he would
delay issuing a death certificate
pending further investigation.
Larry, son of Pvt. j. F. Hasty,
of the Twelfth precinct, was last
seen alive about 6 pm. yesterday
All his playmates told police he
was in good spirits and gave no
Evening star., 1951-07-17
.Baudouin Takes Oath
Formally Proclaimed
King Of the Be|gians
20-Yeur-OId Monarch
Assumes Powers Day
After Leopold Abdicutes
BY the Associated Press

BRUSSELS. Belgium, July IT.
Twenty-year Baudouin I was
formally proclaimed King Of the
Belgians today. He succeeds his
father, Leopold III, who abdi-
Gated yesterday after an Inflated
reign of II years.
Standing erect in front of his
red and gold throne in the Ma
tional House of Representatives,
the young monarch took the oath
to uphold the constitution and
assumed the royal powers.
Loud bursts of cheering and
applause roared up from the as
sembly as the youthful King
spoke
New King Takes Oath.
Slowly and clearly, Baudouin
said: Il swear to observe the con-
Stitution and the laws of the
Belgian people; to maintain the
national independence and integ-
rity of the territory"
The new ruler took the oath
in the khaki uniform of a lieuten-
ant general, highest rank in the
Belgian Army. He wore only one
decoration-the crimson sash of
the Order of Leopold.
Outside cannons doomed, church
bells pealed and thousands of
Belgians cheered in the bright
sunlight. 1t all was in marked
contrast to yesterdays brief, quiet
ceremony at which Leopold signed
his abdication papers before $50
persons in a royal palace ballroom.
Today thousands packed the
hall, built to house 22O persons.
After taking the oath, the King
gave a short speech, first in Flem-
ish, then in French.
Il will devote myself to the
service of the nation" he said.
Pays Tribute to People.
He paid tribute to the people
of Belgium for their attitude dur
ing the war and to the war dead.
He also gave praise to his fathers
reign.
The 49-year-old Leopold gave
up his throne yesterday still con-
tending his surrender to the Ger
mans in 1910 was only after the
army had fought valiantly to the
extreme limit of it's resistance. j."
His enemies had accused him of
being pro-German and also con-
demned his wartime marriage to
the beautiful commoner, Mary
Liliane Baels.
AS the controversy threatened
to split the country. Leopold re-
turned to Belgium in July last
year after a plebiscite showed So
per cent of the voters wanted
him. But he turned his powers
over to Baudouin temporarily
August /, after Socialist strikes
and riots threatened a revolu-
tionary march on Brussels.
Evening star., 1951-07-17
Russians Offer Iran
Machinery for Use in
Oil Naturalization
Move Described as Taking
Advantage Of Aeheson
Refusal of Expert Help
By Georue Weller
Foreign Correspondent of The Star on
the Chieaao Dolly News

ABADAN, Iran, July 1.-THE
SovietS have made another clever
move in their campaign to win the
confidence of Iran. They have Of
Ifered to help Iran obtain ma
Ichinery and power equipment
needed IN Matchmaking oil.
The Soviet offer is couched in
terms beautifully aimed to take
advantage of the American posi-
.tion here. left exposed by the state
iments of Secretary of State Ache
son in mid-May.
At that time Mr.. Acheson warned
the Iranians that if they did not
treat with the Anglo-Iranian Oil
Co., they could expect no help
from American oil experts. He in
formed Premier Mohammed Mos
Isadegh that the largest American
oil companies had all agreed that
they would not send help to Iran
and would obey the expected Brit
lsh technical boycott.
Disclaim Concessions.
The Soviets, quick to see this
opening, Immediately made a
secret offer to Iran for tools and
materials.
To assure the Iranians that
their move was purely friendly,
the Russians said that they did
not want any oil concessions now
such as they have hitherto angled
for in Northern Iran.
For the British to be driven out
Iof Southern Iran is victory
enough, they asserted.
What the Russians did ask in
return was a long-term working
agreement under which Iran
would pay it's machinery bills
over many years.
Payment would be made in ex-
actly the thing Iran wants most
to sell: Crude, unref1ned oil. The
Russians are willing to undertake
their own refining.
Blessing to Government.
The Soviet offer came as we'll
timed boon to the Iranian govern
ment, which has now more or less
accepted that the Abadan refinery
must shut down. Losing the re-
finery, even temporarily, leaves the
1ranians in a glut of unmarked
able oil. The Russians are the
first to come to their rescue.
The purchase of Soviet tools, il
is believed, can lead naturally tc
the use of Soviet experts. The
Russians, however, did not en-
phasize this point. They under
lined Russia's need for a regular
stable source of nearby oil.
Russia now has 13 tons of golo
belonging to Iran, taken for safe
keeping" in wartime, never re-
turned, but still used as backing
for the Iranian national currency
Evening star., 1951-07-17
Congress Set TO Take
Final Action Today
On ood-ReIief Funds
Truman to Tour Areo;
Senator Mcclellan Hits
Pork Barrel Charges

Congress today prepared to
complete action on f1ood-relief
funds for the inundated Missouri
Kansas area as President Truman
headed for his home country for a
closeup view of conditions.
The House yesterday voted
$25 million for stricken commu-
mites, upping by $40 million the
figure that the President proposo d.
This morning the Senate Ap-
preparations Committee voted
against increasing the fund to
$25 million.
Action Is Unanimous.
Senator Saltonstall, Republican,
of Massachusetts, told reporters
the action was absolutely unani-
nous" He stressed, however, that
the action did not mean that ad-
ditional funds could not be voted
later. He said the committee felt
it would be more sensible to await
for complete data on needs and
then take whatever action might
be necessary.
The President took off at 12:47
pm. in the presidential plane In
dependence, accompanied by
Charles E. Wilson, defense mobi-
lizer, who wants to get an idea of
what the flood has done to defense
plants in the hundreds of miles
under water.
Mrs. Truman and Miss Mar
garet Truman also went along,
and will stay a few days at their
Independence home.
Truman to Cast Vote.
The presidential party will land
lat Grandview, the old Truman
homesite in Jackson County. Mis-
|souri, and Mr.. Truman will motor:
(See TRUMAN, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1951-07-17

rose to be king
of the un d er-
world.
The orgonizo-
tion he created
still is with US.
The gong hos cut
out most of the
rough stuff; now
operates by big
business methods
with skilled &C.
countonts o n d
luwyers on the
noyroll
Evening star., 1951-07-17
Red Gets His Chance
To Surrender-After
Attending GI Class
BY the Associated Press

by tne associated Press
TOKYO, July 1.-THE
front-line training class in
tactics recessed in Korea.
The men rose to stretch
all but one. He remained
squatting.
Sergt. Robert Mccarthy of
Charleston, Mass, glanced at
the squatter-then gave a
double-take.
Hey" he hollered, "this
guys Chinese"
He was. He had come in
to give himself up and twas
just waiting for the right
time"
Evening star., 1951-07-17
House Election Set Todoy

BLUEFIELD, w. Va, July II
fR.-Strongly entrenched Demo-
Gratis figured they'd have little
trouble today in electing Mrs.
Maude Elizabeth Kee to fill the
unexpired term of her late hus-
band to the House. Her Repub-
lican opposition in the special
Fifth District election is Cyrus
Gadd,
Evening star., 1951-07-17
Passage Of Leave Cul
Predicted as Senate
Votes on Bill Today
Furry of Muneuvers
Expected to Put Over
Money Measure Rider
By Joseph Young

Amidst a furry of legislative
maneuvering, sponsors of the 20
day leave plan legislation for
Government employees today pre-
dicted their proposal will become
law.
The prediction came even as
the Senate prepared to vote this
afternoon on the graduated 13-
to-26-days annual leave bill. ap-
proved last week by the Senate
Civil Service Committee.
|, The 20-day rider on the 1852
independent Offices money bill ap-
parently is on its way to becom-
ing law.
Senate Civil Service Commit
tee members are going ahead with
their plan to have the Senate vote
today on the graduated leave bill
They acknowledge, however, there
isn't too much hope of heading
off the amendment that would re-
.duce the present 26 days annual
leave. But they hope Congress
later will approve the graduated
leave bill to supersede the 20-day
leave rider.
A neat bit Of strategy by the
House-Senate conferees on the
independent Offices bill last Fri
day night apparently blocked the
hope of the graduated leave spon-
sors to substitute that measure in
place of the 20-day leave rider.
To Ask House Agreement.
Although the conferees infor-
mally agreed on the 20-day
amendment, the House conferees
technically rejected it. This is
because the Senate already had
approved the rider and the House
had not.
Therefore, the House conferees
will report back to the House
either today or tomorrow, that
they are in disagreement over the
leave cut amendment. However
they will recommend that the
House recede from it's original bill
and agree to the 20-day leave
plan
If the House agrees-and this is
distinct probability-it will
mean that both the House and
Senate have accepted the 2O-day
plan AS result, neither the
House nor Senate can knock this
provision out of the bill, and when
the appropriations measure be-
comes law, the leave-cutting
amendment also would take effect.
Chairman Johnston of the Sen
ate Civil Service Committee had
hoped to have the Senate refuse
to accept the conference report
and instruct it's conferees to 90
back and insist on killing the
leave rider. This would have paved
lie way Tor Senate approval of
the graduated leave bill.
Legislative Fireworks Expected.
Now. however. even Senate ap-
proval of the graduated leave bill
wouldn't head off the 2Ozday-
leave rider from becoming law.
What Senator Johnston hopes for
is Senate and House passage of
regular graduated leave legisla-
tion at this session to supplant
the 20-day leave proviso.
If the 20-day rider becomes law
it also would provide that Federal
employees use all of their 1851
calendar leave by June 80, 1852.
Meanwhile, the House Civil
Service Committee meets on Fed
eral pay raise legislation amid
indications that fiat raise of
$500 to $3.50 will be voted for all
Government classified and postal
The Senate Civil Serv-
ice Committee has approved an
8.4 per cent average pay increase
for Federal workers.
Evening star., 1951-07-17
British Peer StroneIed
By Piece of Lobster
BY the Assoeiaied Press

LONDON, July 1.-THE coroner
found today that Lord Holden
51-year-old deputy speaker of the
House of Lords, was strangled to
death by a piece of lobster.
Holden collapsed and died July
6 while eating lobster salad at the
home of a friend.
A pathologist who performed a
|postmortem examination said the
peer had a large lump Of lobster
flesh lodged in his larynx.~
Evening star., 1951-07-17
U. N. General Assembly Moy Adjourn
if Koreo Geese Fire Is Set. Poee A-3
Kohlbers Charges U. S. Mode Deal With
Soviet to End Koreon Wor. Poee A-3

was made in the fifth day of
armistice conference at Kaesong.
Delegates are still arguing about
the agenda.
The spokesman. Col James A.
Norell, said he had no idea how
long delegates would be working
on the agenda.
No Heated Arguments.
The negotiators spent an hour
and 35 minutes on it today. They
will resume at 10 am. Wednes-
day 6 o'clock tonight EDIT.
There was considerable back
and forth discussion" Col. Norell
said. but no heated arguments.
Allied announcements about
armistice meetings were brief,
but Communist reports were even
shorter. The North Koreans
Pyongyang radio merely gave the
time the meeting opened and the
time it closed. It's reports have
been terse since the talks resumed
Sunday.
North Korean Gen. Nam II, chief
Communist delegate, opened to-
days sessions, a United States
Army announcement said. Most
of the 55-minute morning session
was devoted to a discussion be-
tween Gen. Nam and Vice Admiral
c. Turner Joy, chief United Ma
tions delegate, of the Allied pro-
posals for the agenda.
Considerable time was required
in clarifying definitions and in
making translations.
Statements Are Read.
In the afternoon Gen. Nam
elaborated on the Reds idea of
what the agenda should include.
He apparently came with the
English and Chinese translations
of his remarks already prepared.
Both Admiral Joy and Gen.
Nam. who do virtually all the
talking, read their statements.
During give -and-take discus
sions across the topped ta-
BILE they have plenty of time to
write their replies while transla-
tors are reading the English and
then the Chinese translations.
"The afternoon session of the
conference was more formal" the
Army statement said. 1t added:
THE United Nations command
delegation felt that some progress
may be recorded in the conference
sessions"
For the third day there were
no Red guards near the tiled
building where meetings are held.
The Allied party saw only two
armed Communists in Kaesong.
Both were North Korean police.
One stood in a traffic circle with
a red flag in one hand, white
flag in the other. He presumably
was directing the almost non-
existent traffic. The other was
1edulIlS al OK CdTG.
Conferees in Good Spirits.
Negotiators appeared to be in
good spirits when they came out
of today's sessions.
AS they met, U. N. bombers
swept across the quiet war front,
following up the heaviest night
raids of the Korean war. The
United States 5th Air Force flew
116 sorties last night in radar-
controlled bombing attacks on Red
air fields, troop concentrations and
supply centers.
Today B-29 Superforts dropped
high explosive bombs on the rail
yards at Sinmak, only 33 air miles
northwest of Kaesong. Other
B-29s hit Opa, between Pyong-
yang and Sinanju, and Hungsu,
just north of Sinmak. More than
100 tons of bombs were dropped
in all.
Associated Press Correspondent
George Macarthur said the Reds
made several small probing at
Evening star., 1951-07-17
Charge Against Minister
Breaks Up Iran Parliament

TEHERAN, Iran, July II (P.-
Trans Parliament broke up in con-
fused shouting today following
charged by deputy that Interior
Minister Fezlullak Zahedi plotted
Sunday nights Communist
(See IRAN, Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1951-07-17

Former Senote Crime Committee
Chairman Estes Kefouyer's own account
Of how the Copone heritose is at work
among US is given in Crime in Amer
ies" stortins tomorrow in The Stor.
Evening star., 1951-07-17
The Copone Heritage
Is With Us Still

In the twenties Scor-Foced Al ca.
pone mode the name Chicago synony-
nous with sonsster. Guns crooked.
There wus blood on the streete nc ha
Evening star., 1951-07-17
Communists Raise New Point
In ruce Conference, but U. n.
Reports More Progress Made
Delegates Continue
To Debate Agendo
For Armistice Talk
By the Associated Press

MUNSAN, Korea, July 17.-An
Allied spokesman said Commu-
nists raised a new point in Ko-
rean war ceaSe-fire discussions
today. But that came as no sur
prise to the United Nations dele
cation.
The spokesman did not report
the nature of the new point.
Both he and an official COM
munique said some progress"
Evening star., 1951-07-17
By Gould Lincoln

Senator Douglas, Democrat, of
Illinois, whose recommendations
for appointments to two Federal
judgeships in Illinois were ignored
by President Truman last week,
said today he would seek advice
from the Chicago Bar Association
and the Cook County Bar Associ-
alton on the fitness of the Presi-
dents appointees as compared to
those lawyers he recommended.
Il am deferring my decision as
to how shall vote on conf1rma-
Douglas Convinced Truman Will Run Again
t"The Political MilI"D. Poee A
ton (on the Presidents appoint
ments) until after I have this
additional counsel from the Chi
cago bar. In these days it is i'm
portant that we keep the courts
Evening star., 1951-07-17

(See FLOOD, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1951-07-17

(See IRAN, Page A-5.)
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(See TRUMAN, Page A-4l
Evening star., 1951-07-17

Douglas Convinced Trumon Will Run Again
"The Political MilPD. Poee A. 10
Evening star., 1951-07-17
Weather Forecast

Cloudy, humid, showers this afternoon and
evening. High today 80. Low tonight g.
Tomorrow cloudy. high 80. Gull report
on Page A-2)
Midnight -79 6 am. ---75 II am. S4
2 am. III am. ---75 Noon 73
4 am. ----75 10 am. 81 pm. -78
Evening star., 1951-07-17

(See TRUCE, Page A-30