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The Nome nugget., 1951-08-10
Envoys At Kaesong Sit In l3l Minutes Of Dead Silence

JUN. ADVANCE HEADQUAR- TIERS, Korea, (P) - Deadlocked United Nations and communist truce negotiating delegations sat for two hours and II minutes in dead silence today, each waiting for the other to change his po- Sition.
 The unprecedented silence was precipitated, the United Nations command said, when the commun- istS refused to talk about any thing except a buffer zone To- cated where they want it.
 Vice Adm. C. Turner Joy, chief JUN. delegate, proposed several alternatives to break the dead lock. Then he waited for North Korean It. Gen. Nam H., head of the Red delegation to reply. Nam said nothing.
 FIJI 1O1 lllIIlQCCS, IIOUOuy SpOhS.
 When negotiations resumed after a five day break, JUN. dele gates offered a series of alter natives intended to break the dis agreement over where to end the shooting war.
 The five Red generals refused to consider anything except buff fer zone back along the 39th parallel.
 Adm. Joy tried to break the deadlock by proposing that nego- tiators temporarily pass over this question and go one to the next point that deals with concrete arrangements for the realization of a military armistice and the resultant cease-fire."
The Nome nugget., 1951-08-10
RB-45 Jet Bomber Attains Speed 8S6 Miles per Hour

SHREVEPORT, La.,P)-Barks- dale Air Force base reports that an RB-45 jet bomber has averaged a speed of 886 miles per hour believed to be a record for that type of plane.
 This speed was made possible, it was explained yesterday, by a ''jet air stream" which travelled at a speed of from 225 to 300 miles per hour. The stream is an air current which encircles the earth at certain stratas of the atmosphere.
 Barksdale sources said the planes average was made on a recent 13-minute 5O-second 205- mile flight from Fort Worth, Tex, tc Shreveport.
The Nome nugget., 1951-08-10
Director National Bureau Standard Resigns To Take Job In Private Industry

WASHINGTON, P)-Dr. Ed ward U. Condon resigned today as director of the National Blu reau of Standards. He said: 'I can no longer afford to accept the Se- were financial sacrifice involved."
 President Truman accepted the resignation, effective Sept. 30, with regret" He said Condon has served "in a most critical po- sition with continued and loyal attention to his duties.
 Condon, whose government sal ary is S14,OOO a year, said he is leaving to take a job in private industry. A physicist and an eX- pert on atomic energy, he was di- rector of research for the West inghouse Electric Corp, before entering government service in 1945.
The Nome nugget., 1951-08-10
International SOurdOugh Reunion To Be Held In San Francisco Aug. 16-18

SEATTLE, '(P)-Pioneers of the Klondike gold rush will hit the trail for San Francisco next week for the 20th annual convention of the International Sourdough Re- union of Alaskans and Yukoners of both Canada and the States, August 16 to 18.
 Many of the original '98 stam- peders will be present, including Dr. w. E. Thompson, 92, formerly of Dawson; Crystal Morgan, dau- ghter of the late Jack McQueStion of 1884 vintage and one of the founders of the Yukon Order of Pioneers; A. V. "Art" Buel, gold rush cartoonist of now historic events; J. J. "Jack" Devine of Detroit, partner of D. E. ''Griff" Griffiths who initiated the famous dog races at the mid-winter Ice Carnival in Fairbanks; Shel Wet tach of the Sourdough Roadhouse near Nome; Dr. K. Falkenberg and A. C. "Clem" Alexander, who took the Edmonton trail north; Judge E. Coke Hill, a former Fairbanksan now in San Fran cisco; A. w. Hawks of Santa Bar bara, who built the first tram over Chilkoot Pass, and numerous others of the Klondike clan.
The Nome nugget., 1951-08-10
HIST Investigates Cribbingg Scandal At West Point

WEST POINT, N. Y, (P) - A private presidential inquiry into football emphasis at the nations service academies-prompted by the cribbing scandal at the US. military academy here - was under way today.
 President Truman, an avid foot ball fan, told his news conference yesterday he was attempting to find a remedy for the situation at West Point without killing the patient.
 All but a few of West Points varsity football team were among the 90 cadets who have been dis missed for violating the academy's honor system by cribbing in exams.
 Meantime Earl Blaik, head foot ball coach and director of ath- letics at the academy, began build ing his 11th army football team from the remnants of a squad that could have been one of the nations best until it was riddled by the current cribbing scandal.
 Gone is his son, Bob, who iden- tified himself as one of the 90 involved cadets, just a short time after the father told sports writ CTS in New York City he would stay as coach at the military academy.
 Young Blaik, who would have been senior, was quarterback. Some rated him as the nations best.
The Nome nugget., 1951-08-10
Senator Mccarthy Brands 23 State Department Officials Communists

WASHINGTON, (P) - Senator Mccarthy R-Wis) offered today to let "committee headed by a good Democrat" decide who is right in his latest feud with the State Department and some fellow senators over his charges of com munism in government.
 Mccarthy used his senatorial immunity from libel suits yester- day to name in the Senate 26 per sons he identified as State De- partment officials and employees charged with communist activi- ties"
 This stirred majority leader Nc Farland O-Ariz) to protest wig orously against what he called a senator's use of his immunity "to smear any individual" or become a character assassin"
 McCarthy's Senate speech, well publicized in advance, drew large crowds to the Senate public gal leries, but few senators listened to the entire exchange.
The Nome nugget., 1951-08-10
US. May Have To Send More Than Six Divisions To Atlantic Pact Army

WASHINGTON, (P)-A warn ing by Senator Connally O-Tex) that the US. may have to send more than six divisions to the At lantic Pact army has intensified the bitter troops-to-Europe battle.
 In passing $56,O62, ,405,89O money bill to finance the mili- tary establishment for the fiscal year, the House declined by vote of 131 to 84 to put a Six-division lid on U. s. contributions to the European defense army.
 The Senate checked it's earlier controversy over troops for Eu- rope in resolution which said ''it is the sense" of the Senate that only four US. divisions |. in addition to the two already there should be sent to Europe.
The Nome nugget., 1951-08-10

cation trip, planned in August, to sing here tomorrow.
 Her accompanist will be Capt. Lindley Mordecai, professional ac- companist, who is a doctor at Ladd Air Force Base.
 We have heard by mukluk from Fairbanks that Capt. Mordecai is also an outstanding artist and al- though he is not sClOing on the program, it is hoped that he will perform a number for us during the intermisSion.
 Mrs. Baker, who it is reported, started singing at the age of three, has selected very fine program.
 One group which children and adults alike will specially enjoy is Little DamoseP' by Novello and "Adele's Laughing Song" from ''Die Fledermaus" by Strauss. This number has been performed 21 times this season at the Metro politan.
 Lovers of opera music have al- ready expressed their delight that she has included selections from Traviata from Verdi and the Bar Der of Seville by Rossini.
 Mrs. Baker is opening her con- cert with a group of religious classics including "How Beauti- ful Are the Feet" from the Mes siah.
 While in Nome Mrs. Baker will be the house guest of MT. and Mrs. c. R. Jackson.
The Nome nugget., 1951-08-10
BOY SCOUT OFFICE MOVED TO ANCHORAGE

The Alaska council of Boy Scouts was recently moved to An chorage from Juneau.
 Maurice F. Powers, territorial scout council executive, made the transfer, according to Ken Ubbel- ohde, in charge of the Gastineau district. Powers had made his headquarters in Juneau since early in 1949.
The Nome nugget., 1951-08-10

of the VIVA Fair. Mrs. Baker s concert will be a rare treat for the people of Nome as she has a beautiful voice of rare flexibility which is known as a spinto lyric soprano.
 During her professional career, Mrs. Baker has been prima donna for the Ferris Hartman Light Opera Company and appeared in concerts and recitals in many parts of the United States, as well as Panama and Central America.
 Voice teachers under whom she has studied include Madame Lil- lian Edwards of Paris and Lon
The Nome nugget., 1951-08-10
Coast Guard To Crapple Oil Slick In Yakutat Bay
(By the Associated Pressl

Grappling operations were to be undertaken by the Coast Guard today at an oil slick in Yakutat Bay, Alaska the area where two planes with Al persons aboard disappeared late last month.
 The slick was spotted just be- fore dusk Wednesday by Fish and Wildlife plane among reefs and shoals two miles from Yaku- tat.
 Oil on the water was the latest clue to the possible fate of a Korean airlift DC-4 which van- ished July 21 with a crew of seven and 31 passengers, or a small Norseman plane which has been missing since July 27 with a bush pilot and the wife and daughter of a wealthy New Jersey scientist.
 Further south, heavy fog ham, pered a search for Queen Char lotte Airlines float plane which disappeared six days ago on a 37-mile flight to the fishing vil- lage of Tofino, on Vancouver Is- land, B. C. Six loggers and the pilot were aboard.
The Nome nugget., 1951-08-10
SYDNEY. Australia. (P1 =

SYDNEY, Australia, (P - The Sydney Sun reported today that southeastern Australia has been hit by it's heaviest snowfall. Ho- bert, it's streets covered with two and one half inches of snow, re- ported temperature of 28.9 de- grees-coldest in 49 years.
 Melbourne had two snow falls this morning and Geelong, Vic toria, reported the first snowfall in 50 years.
The Nome nugget., 1951-08-10

don, and with John Monroe of the Peabody Conservatory of Music, in Baltimore, Md.
 When asked to take part in the VIVA Fair, while on tour in Nome this summer, Mrs. Baker was told how few and far between are the chances for the people of this area to hear fine music and see the artist too. Mrs. Baker most gra- ciously accepted the invitation of the Fair and even gave up a va
Evening star., 1951-09-27

Campbell's delicious TO-
mato soup children
will love it. Serve it hot
for those school day
lunches.
Evening star., 1951-06-07
sy tl.s Assseiaftd rrsss

MOSCOW, june 7.-Shefia has
had its own Invasion from Mars"
scare, and the Soviet Ministry
Uf education tioeSn't ike Il. =
A year ago q cUupfg ct soviet
seieHtific writers came out WITH
q story that the Tuuguss meteor
ite Of 1905, which fell IN Eastern
Siberia, probably was really an
atomic powered space ship from
mars.
Ever since then peasants in the
provinces Of Eastern Siberia,
whose newspapers had reprinted
the Moscow essays, have been
sending q shower of letters tn
the editors. The people want to
know Just when the next visit
from Mars can be expected. SO
they could be prepared.
This was disclosed today in the
Teachers Gazette. the Ministry OF
Education's official organ. The
article dealt sharply with the tWo
writer's originally responsible fot
the story a year ago and with
certain. pedagogues and lecturers
In the provinces" who, it said
seized upon the space-Ship theory
Of the Turlguss neteroite and
spread it around. presenting ID Of
"the latest unqualified word OF
science"
Evening star., 1951-06-07
RFC Grants 3 Loans,
Rejects Is Others

Continuing its goldfish bowl
policy. the Reconstruction Finance
Corp. reported today that be-
tween May % and 80 it granted
% loans totaling $1,380.867. 1t
also rejected rs applications for
loans amounting to $1.528.825.
The latest list provided in ac-
cordance with the recently an
nounced plan to publish such in
formation every week contains the
following approvals by Washing
ton headquarters of the agency:
Antenna Research Laboratory.
Inc, Columbus. Ohio, $25. 900; Big
Stone Tanning Co., Ortonville.
Mimi, $4,000; Jefferson Engi-
neering and Manufacturing Co.
and Jefferson Tool and Gauge
Co., Detroit, $4,000: and the
Merrill-Stevens Dry Dock & Repair
Co.. Jacksonville, Fla, s426, 600.
No washington or nearby Vir-
ginia and Maryland appfovaia
were In the Nst. RfaC does mol
make public the names of unsue-
ceSsful applicants.
The Richmond office approved
Ia $4,000 loan for Louis Groh &
Son, Clay Bank. Va.
The loan to the Jacksonville
dry dock concern was the largest
The smallest was $4,000,
Evening star., 1951-06-07
Truman Sees Rites
In Masonic Temple

President Truman, a $50 degree
Mason. last night attended q
ceremony in the George Washing
ton Masonic Memorial Temple
marking the presentation to the
lodge Of a bust Of the President.
The bust, the work Of reiix de
Weldon. was presented to the
Alexandria Washington Masonic
Lodge by Robert South Barrett,
past grand master Of Virginia.
Witnesses to the ceremonies
said later the President expressed
his appreciation of being invited
to the ceremony, and said he
thought the bust is q very good
likeness.
About $50 people, including Ru-
dolph r. Cooke, Virginia grand
master. and Edward Buckmaster,
master Of the Alexandria-Wa
lington Lodge, attended the brief
Exercises.
Accompanying President Tru-
man from Blair House were John
r. Steelman. assistant to the
President; Maj. Gen. Harry H.
Vaughan. the Presidents military
aide; Mai. Gen. Wallace H. Gra-
ham, presidential physician, and
Donald Dawson. personal assist
ant.
Evening star., 1951-06-07

by more than 5 per cent.
The Senate's provision was at
tached to the Labor Federal
Security money bill for 1852, but
committee sources said, in all
probability. 1t will be tackled on
to the other department appropri.
alton bills as well. The Senate
will begin debating the Labor
Security bill today.
It has not yet been decided
whether the defense agencies will
be exempted from the provision,
but some Senators predict the
defense units also will be required
to take the 5 per cent cut.
This reduction would eliminate
about 100000 present Federal
Jobs Throughout the country.
However agencies could absorb
these cuts by not filing vacancies
caused by normal personnel turn
over, Very few f1rings would be
necessary. And in the case Of the
expancing defense agencies, it
would not mean any reduction in
present employment. but a 5 per
cent reduction in the amount Of
new employees to be hired.
Government personnel ofhcials
Evening star., 1951-06-07
Soviet Scientists ScoId Writers
Who Spread 'Spoce-Ship' Hoax

AS a result Of all this, said thsI
Gazette, q special meeting Of the
committee on meteory Of the
u. 8. s. Il. Aeadenay OF Sciences
was called To EXPOSE the faisity
81 TINS idea" The committee vas
to make it plain that the Tdnguss
rffeteorite long ago had been
satisfactorily explained by Soviet
Scientists as d large nneteorite
which exploded before hitting the
earth's surface and disappeared
III dust IN the earth's atmosphere
where it caused unusual atYnoss
pf1eric phenomena for months
after.
Tartly criticized for propagaf-
dizing the space-ship IDEA were
the magazines 'Technics and
Youth" and "KnowiedgeLPower y
Both are publications for young
people, carrying popular science
articles. The first is published BY
the central Committee Of the
|Komscmois (Youf1g Communist
League1 and the latter by the
Ministry Of Labor reserves.
The editorial boards of these
two magazines, said the Gazette,
are guilty Of serious mistakes
In printing this material.
Evening star., 1951-06-07
IL. S. Envoy Discounts Connaughton Enters
Significance Of Soviet Petition 10 intervene
Army Move Near Iran In Gas Rate Fee Case

John II. Connaughton, former
president Of the Federation of Cit
liens Associations, yesterday act
K on behalf of q Washington gas
consumer to intervene in the at
torney's fee controversy stemming
from the gas rate case.
Mr.. Connaughton, lawyer
himself, filef the petition to in
tervene in District Court for John
v. Case, 1101 Massachusetts, ave-
nue. NV. Mr.. Case has been iden-
titled both as an economist and
ia utility rate analyst. He has tes-
titled in favor of a gas rate in
crease.
The action followed a fiareup
in the federation in opposition to
SIS 900 in lawyers fees awarded
by the court last month to Vernon
v. Baker, Herbert p. Leeman and
the firm Of Roberts & McGinnis.
Mr.. Connaughton also contests
the award of $--2,715 expenses to
the Roberts firm.
The petition asked that the
|fee-and expenses award order be
|set aside and new triap held
ION that aspect Of the gas case
only.
It was charged that both Mr.
Baker. chairman of the Fedora
ton public utilities committee,
and Mr.. Leeman, Federation
president. declared publicly they
would act In the original rate
case as a public service and with
out charge.
The petition also declared that
Mr.. Baker, on a later date, said
the Roberts firm likewise would
charge no fee.
Acceptance of the fee award
would violate agreements with
the Federation and the people OF
Washington" the petition charged
Evening star., 1951-06-07
Missing Diplomats NeverR Raised
Suspicion of Red Leuninqs Here

Donald Quart MacLean and
Guy F. DeMoncy Burgess, British
foreign service officials who may
have disappeared behind the iron
curtain, were liked and free from
any suspicion of Communist lean-
ings while at their country's En-
bassy here.
Acquaintance said Burgess, a
40-year -old bachelor, and Mac
Lean, 38-year-old husband of the
former Malinda Marling of Wash
ington, knew each other from their
student days at Cambridge Uni
versity in the early 1905.
But their service in the chan
Gerry Office here was at different
times and differed greatly in
point of rank and responsibility.
Burgess left here on leave last
May 10 after working since last
August 7 as a second secretary
with mot particularly exciting or
work, Embassy spokes-
men said. His duties were de-
scribed as comparatively nom
and did not bring him
into close contact with highly
confidential information. He dealt
principally with refugee problems,
special reports and miscellaneous
matters.
MacLean. on the other hand.
was an exceedingly able and ex-
perienced" diplomat who at the
time of his departure in Novem-
ber, 1948, was acting head of the
chancery with the rank of top
first secretary. That was princi-
pally an administrative post, but
it had considerable to do with
transmission of cables and other
messages.
MacLean came here in May,
1912, as an acting first secretary.
He previously had been in the
British diplomatic service since
1885, mostly in the Foreign ONCE.
After leaving Washington he was
stationed in Cairo. Since last
November he headed the Amer
lean department of the Foreign
Office.
He married Miss Mar1ing in
England in 1910. They have two
sons. MacLean was a son of the
late Sir Donald MacLeafl, leader
of Britain's Liberal Party.
A brother, Alan MacLean, was
secretary to Sif GladWyn Jebb,
Britain's representative on the
Evening star., 1951-06-07
5-Year Term Given
In Theft Of R Cars

Sidney David Hurst, 25, South
Carolina auto body shop operator
who admitted stealing 46 late
model automobiles in Washington
and nearby Virginia. was SEN
fenced yesterday to i've years in
prison on eight counts OF auto
theft.
Alexandria District Court Judge
Albert. v. Bryan also imposed q
five-year suspended sentence to
begin when Hurst is released from
prison.
During the time of the sus-
pended sentence, the Judge ruled,
Hurst must make every effort to
pay for his thefts.
They said 80 Of the stolen cars
have been. recovered, 80 Of them
from the Washington area.
Judge Bryan told Hurst he will
be given every opportunity to show
you want to make B0od )" AAA said
the defendant mad fn&de q cso6d
start ny co.operSting VITA FvaeFAl
authorities"
Hurst was arrested on his way
to give himself up. his attorneys
said. He voluntarily supplied the
FBI with information that led I'd
his indictment, described Oh one
Of the "naost fantastic cases Of itt
| kind"
Evening star., 1951-06-07

United Nations Security Council.
Alan MacLean, now on leave in
England, recently became head Of
the information branch Of the
British delegation to the u. N.
Donald MacLean is well re-
'membered by British Embassy
personnel and others here for
what was described as great eff
cheney and tireless energy. Ac-
|quaintances in Washington said
that a breakdown he repeatedly
suffered last year might have re-
suited from overwork.
Burgess Slightly B0Okish.
Burgess was described today as
"a good conversationalist - when
he wanted to be and slightly
bookish. although not aridly aca-
|demic."
He made friends easily. He was
rather good looking. short, with
black Wavy haiK" While in Wash
ington he lived at 400 Nebraska
avenue NV. One of his favorite
paSttimes, an acquaintance re-
called, was to drive automobiles.
The acquaintance remarked that
''he liked to be ON the move"
Burgess at one time was private
secretary to Hector Mcneil who
then was minister Of state for
foreign affairs. Later he was q
member Of the Far Eastern De-
partment Of the Foreign Office
with special interest In Chinese
affairs.
At his London club, the Re-
form Club. officials said they had
not seen him for some time.
People in London who knew
the tw omen said the yapparently
had no pronounced political lean
ings.
The advancement of Burgess in
the foreign service was compare
lively rapid. He joined the Foreign
ONCE in early i947 and the WASH
ington appointment last summer
was his first overseas appoint
ment. During the war he worked
in several British government de-
partments, including the Ministry
of Information. Previously he was
employed for q short time by the
British Broadcasting Corp.
Both men, according to an ac-
quaintance here. occasionally
tapped the bottle" The ae-
quaintance remarked that per
haps they just went of on a toot
Ito Paris"
Evening star., 1951-06-07
The Weather Here and Over the Nation

District of Columbia - Sunny,
high near SO degrees. Some cloudi-
ness tonight; low near GA degrees.
Tomorrow. cloudy with high near
80 degrees: chance Of showers by
night.
Maryland-Some cloudineSs, low
56-64 degrees tonight. TOMORROW.
Evening star., 1951-06-07
Maryland
and
Virginia
Virginia Income Tox
Due for 1871 Cut
in Brief

A late squirt in corporation in
come taxes appeared certain to
assure virginians of a IS per cent
State income tax reduction this
year.
Under the Byrd automatic re-
ductfon law. a refund of 10 to 20
per cent to taxpayers Is made
the general fund exceeds
500 million. The Associated Press
said today it now appears that
the fund will be over $l03 million
by the end Of this fiscal year on
June 80, which would mean a IS
per cent cut.
The reduction will be effective
on tax bills due December 10.
Evening star., 1951-06-07

cloudy. high 1880 degrees. with
scattered showers likely by night.
Virginia-Increasipg cloudiness
with scattered showers and thun-
derstorms likely in the southwest
portion tonight and tomorrow.
Low tonight $3.50 degrees.
Wind: Northwest, Z miles per
hnlJr at 11.3f) a m
Evening star., 1951-06-07
Peck to Run

Robert A. Peck, 37-year-old auto
dealer, has announced as the first
Republican candidate for the Ar
lington County Board since 1916.
His nomination is subject to the
party's mass meeting June as.
Two county board seats are to
be filed In the election this fall
those held by the chairman, Mrs.
Florence Cannon, an independent,
and Democrat F. Freeland Chew.
Both have indicated they will seek
reelection.
Meanwhile, Conmonwealth's At
torney Denmall T. Rucker for
mally announced his candidacy
for denomination in the Demo-
cratic primary August T..
Evening star., 1951-06-07

In o t n e r
words. the Sen
ate groups pro-
viso would cut
an a g ncy' s
personnel funds
at least 5 per
C e n t below
W h a t t h 9
q 6 g n c y asked
Tor. OF course.
congress, voting
on in di viduai
m ney bills.
could cut an
agency's per-
sonnet budget
Evening star., 1951-06-07
st. Morys Mon Appointed

Joseph D. Weiner, Leonardtown
attorney and member of the st.
Marys County Republican Central
Committee, has been appointed by
Gov. McKeldin to be one of the
five commissioners of the State
Accident Fund.
Evening star., 1951-06-07
The Federal Spotlight
Mon Defense AgenciesFoceCut
Despite Senate Action on Rider
The Federal Spotlight
By Joseph Young

Some non-defense
appeared inevitable today despite the Senate Appropriations
mittees rejection Of the Jensen
would have limited agencies ng vacancies
The Senate group instead with formulas