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Evening star., 1951-05-11
Boy, IS, Arrested in $4,000
IExtortion Plot on Vanderbilt

ing toy cap pistol, was arrested
near the gate.
He admitted writing the note
and said he got the idea after
seeing Mr.. Vanderbilt's photo
graph in a racing magazine two
weeks ago, Mr.. Scheidt reported
Mr.. Scheidt said the note reac
in part:
"If you tell any one, I will xii,
you and whoever you tell and II
you do not have the money I will
kill YOU"
1t bore a postscript saying:
This is no joke"
The boy lives in Elmont, N. Y.
near the racetrack.
The note was addressed to the
racetrack and received there by
Mr.. Vanderbilt. The sportsman is
Ia director of the Belmont Track
and also Of the Maryland Jockey
Club. a
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of Virginia, acted promptly after
a long hearing when the measure
was strongly supported by spokes.
men for the Federal Government
the District government and priv
ate institutions.
The plight of the private hos
pitfalls here was explained by
spokesmen for six of them. They
said the institutions are in great
need of funds to meet service OF
the expanded population. The
heavy cost of INDECENT care was
one of the major factors.
Mccormack Sponsors Bill.
House Majority Leader McCor-
mack is sponsor Of the bill for
the hospital grants. stressed the
need for such financial aid.
The measure would amend the
Hospital Center Act of 1916. which
established a big new center to
include Emergency. Garfield and
Episcopal Eye and Ear Hospitals.
This project will 60 on the Sol
diers' Home grounds.
The amendment would provide
not only for making Federal
grants to other private hospitals
Evening star., 1951-05-11
Senators Say Oil Venture Put
Dawson in Curious Position
Truman Aide Explains He Rejected Offer
Of Big RFC Borrower and Others to Invest

million loan from RFC: E. Merle
Young, whose wife was a White
House stenographer; James C.
Windham, a former RFC exsm-
iner who now works for the
Jacobs company, and Phil Regan
radio and television entertainer.
The Texas oil well venture
which never paid off came up at
the second days session of the
banking subcommittee that is
hearing Mr.. Dawson in connection
with complaints that he exercised
influence on some RFC directors
and activities.
The committee adjourned in
definitely shortly after noon when
Mr.. Dawson finished testifying
Hearings will be resumed later
after the report of the present
phase has been printed.
Mr.. Dawson denied again today
that he did anything wrong Sor
improper. But the issue of i'm
propriety in public office was i'm
mediately raised by Chairman
Fulbright, Democrat, of Arkansas
The Senator remarked that he
(See RFC page A-2O
Evening star., 1951-05-11
BY the Assecioied Press

NEW YORK, May 11.-Jame.
j. Moran, close associate of for.
mer Mayor William O'Dwyer, wa.
sentenced today to maximum
five years in prison and finec
$4,000 on a charge of giving per.
jured testimony before the Sen.
ate Crime Committee.
Moran, a former deputy fire
commissioner, told the crime com.
mittee he met Louis Weber
Brooklyn numbers racketeer
about half dozen times over 9
period Of several years.
But witnesses at Moran's tria.
in Federal Court testified that
Weber had visited Moran at least
Ill times at his fire department
Office.
Moran, 40, refused to testify
at his trial. A jury found him
guilty on Thursday.
The conviction was hhe first
Evening star., 1951-05-11
By the Associated Press

NEW YORK. May 11.-A
15-year-old boy who intended to
extort $4,000 from wealthy
Sportsman Alfred Gwynne Van
derbilt at Belmont race track on
threat of killing him has been
arrested, the FBI announced to-
day.
The boy was arrested last night
His identity was not revealed
He was placed In his parents
custody pending possible court
action.
Edward E. Scheidt, special
agent for the New York FBI, said
the boy sent a letter May 3 de-
manding the money from Mr.
Vanderbilt. The pay-of was to
be at Gate 6 of Belmont race
track at Z pm. (EST) last night
The boy, dressed in a blue
sweater and blue jeans and carry
Evening star., 1951-05-11
By Robert K. Walsh

A Senate subcommittee ques-
tioning Donald Dawson, declared
today that he was put in a
very curious position" by being
urged to take part in a $160,00C
oil well venture with a big bor-
rover from the Reconstruction
Finance Corp.
The same applied to Democratic
National Chairman William M.
Boyle, jr.. the subcommittee said.
Neither Mr.. Boyle nor Mr.. Daw-
son, however, participated in the
project.
Mr.. Dawson, an administrative
assistant to President Truman,
said he rejected the offer last
year because he could not af-
ford it." He explained that his
friends perhaps mistakenly as
Sumed he could participate and
therefore drew up an advance
letter listing his as we'll as Mr..
Boyle as each investing 10 per
cent.
Participants, according to sub
committee records, were Rex c.
Jacobs, Detroit manufacturer,
whose company obtained a So
Evening star., 1951-05-11
House Group Votes
LIQUOR Tax Increase
BY the Associated Press

The House Ways and Means
Committee today tentatively ap-
proved a $3.50 million increase in
Federal taxes on liquor, beer and
wine.
The rate on whisky and other
hard liquor would rise from SO to
|$10.50 per 100-proof gallon. Beer,
now taxed at So barrel, would
Ipay SO.
The increases on wine would
vary from a 2-cent-a-gallon hike
on light wines to 25-cent in
Grease on those containing more
than % per cent alcohol.
Champagne and other naturally
lfermented sparkling wines would
be taxed at II cents a half pint
instead of the present Is cents.
In each case, the rate increase
was less than the administration
had proposed. IL
Evening star., 1951-05-11
O'Dwyer's Political Associate
Given 5 Years for Perjury

here growing out of testimony be-
fore the crime committee.
Moran was appointed to q
SIS, ,000-a-year lifetime post as a
water commissioner by Mr.
IO'Dwyer shortly before the Mayor
resigned last year to become AM
bassador to Mexico. But after
testifying before the Crime Com
mittee Moran resigned under pres
sure from Mayor Vincent Impel-
litteri.
The prosecution charged that
Moran lied about the number of
Weber visits to block a senatorial
inquiry into reasons for his fire.
quent sessions with the Brooklyn
numbers boss.
Judge Charles A. Dewey, q visit
ing jurtst from Des Moines, Iowa,
imposed sentence. He remanded
tsee MORAN, Page 81
Evening star., 1951-05-11
Reds Casualties
Placed al So3,662

The Army estimated today that
the Communists had suffered
893 1862 casualties in Korea
through April 80.
This represents an increase Of
|68.102 over the figure as Of
April 81.
Latest announced American
combat casualties in the Korean
campaign total 64,055.
Accordance to the estimate the
North Koreans have suffered
I534,146 casualties and the Chinese
Communists 359,516.
The Army estimated that the
North Koreans had 314,381 battle
casualties and the Chinese Reds
306,279.
Non-battle casualties were
placed at 1906 for the North
Korean Reds and 1914 for the
Chinese.
The summary showed that
United Nations forces had cap
Itured 3,423 Chinese Reds and had
taken 143,699 Korean Reds as
prisoners.
Evening star., 1951-05-11
By Don s. Warren

The Senate Expenditures Com.
Imittee today released reports from
Government agencies opposing q
bill which would place the District
Government and three other agen.
cies under the control of the
General Services Administration
This is one of 13 bills designed
to carry out recommendations o1
the Hoover Commission on Gov
Iernment Reorganization.
Chairman Mcclellan of the
Expenditures Committee said to-
day 1t was his hope that early
hearings could be held on four OF
five Of the bills. which seem to
have the best chance for action
this session.
He said he thought one of these
Evening star., 1951-05-11
u. U.N.TroopsGaiin
In East, Dig in
On WesternLin
Reds Building Up in
Arc Northeast and
North of Seoul
BY the Associoisd Press

TOKYO, May 11.-United Ma.
tions troops showed ahead 3 miles
on the East Korean front today.
In the West they dug in to meet
an expected Red offensive.
South Koreans made the East
ern advance north of Parallel 38.
They met only light opposition.
One infantry company marched
into Inje without firing a shot.
| Elsewhere the front was quiet
except for restless, probing patrols.
But there was continual move
ment back of Communist lines.
The Reds were building up four
sizable pockets for a possible two
pronged drive on Seoul. They ap-
peared to be massing in an arc
north and northeast of the old
South Korean capital.
| Prepare to Meet Assault.
Allied outposts got set to meet
an assault. They sandbagged
their positions, built BOBBY traps
and strung barbed wire.
On the other side of the narrow
ing no-man's land, Reds were
moving up behind tank traps and
minefields. Automatic weapon fire
turned back small Allied patrols
probing too close to suspected Red
strength.
Front line dispatches today gave
this picture across the front from
West to East:
North Koreans slipping through
the hills were concentrating about
20 miles north of Seoul between
Munsan and Uijongbu. Com
munist fire forced back q South
Korean patrol on the extreme
West. Opposing patrols clashed
north of Uijongbu where Reds
planted fused mortar shells IN
mine fields. Artillery cut up Red
patrol southeast Of Uijongbu.
| U.>N. Patrols Turned Back.
Chinese turned back small U. N.
patrols probing the newest sus-
Ipected Red buildup Is miles north
least of Seoul. Tank traps, guarded
by automatic weapons, blocked the
approach to wooded hills.
Other Chinese moved down into
I the former no-man's land near
i Kapyong, 80 miles northeast Of
. Seoul. Heavy anti-aircraft fire met
Z siraiding u. n warplanes trying to
: break up this concentration.
: Communists fired 100 mortar
q, shells at a U. N. tank patrol
rumbling into Chunchon, IS miles
: northeast of Seoul. For the five
preceding days Allied patrols had
clanked through the city unop-
posed.
Reds were building up their
forces northeast of Chunchon.
American officers expressed be-
lief Reds might launch a diver
sionary attack in this area.
Smoke Screens Countryside.
Far to the north smoke pots
screened the countryside. Troops
presumably were moving under
the smudge.
Allied planes raided a Red con-
centration spotted southeast Of
Yanggu in the eastern sector.
i Loudspeakers blared across the
mountainous urging the Commu-
nists to hold their positions, tell
ling them reinforcements we're on
the way. But Allied officers said
there was evidence of a general
Red withdrawal between Yanggu
and Inje. 1t was in this Eastern
sector that the U. N. line moved
up.
The 9th Army revised its esti-
/ (See KOREA, Page A-2D
Evening star., 1951-05-11
ReserveChief Predict!
100000 New Units
OF Housing This Year
Martin Tells Senators
Prospects Are Good for
Control Of InfIution
By Francis P. Douglas

Chairman William McChesney
Martin, jr., Of the Federal Re.
serve Board, estimated today thai
construction of new housing will
run to IL million units this year
He said. that it formerly hao
been expected that new homes
would be held to 100000 OF
850.000 units. There were Ia
units started in 1850, an
all-time record.
Mr.. Martin testified before the
Senate Banking Committee which
is considering amendments to the
Defense Production Act and its
extension beyond June 80.
He told the committee the Fed.
eral Reserve Board is not con.
sidering any drastic or immediate
changes in regulation w, under
which installment credit term.
have been frightened. He urgec
that the amended act give au.
thority to place credit curbs or
the sale of old houses as we'll as or
new construction.
Optimistic on Imitation Curb.
Mr.. Martin said prospects fol
getting imitation nnder contro
are better now than at any tim
since Kores. But to succeed, h,
added, will require full and con
tinUed u 0f all the credit meas
lures now up for renewal in th'
Defense Production Act"
He said the total mortgage deb
outstanding on one to four famil,
houses, both new and old, is ~
times what is was at the end O.
World War II.
i Mr.. Martin said that undel
Regulation w the highly imitation
AIRY expansion of installmen
credit has been stopped.
Mr.. Martin said there are n,
indications now of a need II
change the regulations on dow1
payments and pay out periods TO
used cars.
While Mr.. Martin was befor
the Senate committee, Economic
Stabilizer Eric Johnston told an
other congressional group that tn
Governments aim is to stabiliz
prices and then hold the line, ant
not to push all prices back t,
Ipre-Korea days"
Appears Before House Group.
Trying to push prices back. HI
said, would be like trying to pusl
toothpaste back into the tube"
MIR. Joohnston appeared befor,
the House Banking Committee
This committee and it's counter
part on the Senate side are en-.
(See CONTROI paoe AN
Evening star., 1951-05-11
BIuze Sweeps Everglades

MIAMI, Fla, May II (P.-Fire
swept over 15-mile area IN the
tinder-dry mucklands of the Ever-
glades northwest of Miami today
but officials saw no immediate
danger to leveeS in the area.
F. D. r. Park, county engineer,
said the sawgrass and muck along
the Dade-Broward County line
and 2 miles north of Golden
GladeS levee was afire.
Evening star., 1951-05-11
House Subcommittee
'0ks Fund Grants for
D. Private Hospital,
Bill Backed Strongly
For Institutions Not in
Proposed New Center
By Harold B. Roaers

The House District Subcommit-
tee on Fiscal Affairs today ap.
proved and sent to the full District
Committee bill to authorize Fed.
Ieral grants to private hospital.
here which are not affiliated with
the new Washington Hospital Cen.
ter.
The subcommittee, headed by
Representative Smith, Democrat
Evening star., 1951-05-11
/. J. Groom, Banker,
lis Elected President
OF Board Of Trade
First Vice President
Named by Directors
To Succeed T. w. Owen

Thomas j. Groom, president of
the Bank of Commerce g. Savings,
today was elected president of the
Washington Board of Trade.
Stepping up from first vice
president, Mr.. Groom will replace
Thornton w. Owen July /, start
of the boards new administrative
year.
The organizations Board of Di-
Irectors also elected these other
new officers:
First vice president. E. D. Mer-
Irill, recently retired president o1
the Capital Transit Co.; second
vice president. Harry L. Merrick
vice president, Kal, Ehrlich &
Merrick Advertising Agency; sec.
lretary, Clarence w. Gosnell, pres.
lident. Clarence w. Gosnell, Inc.
builders: assistant treasurer, Johr
A. Reilly, president, Second Ma.
tional Bank.
Cassidy, Colladay Named.
James A. Cassidy, proprietor
James A. Cassidy Co.. building
products. was reelected treas
Iurer, and Edward F. Colladay, at
torney, Colladay g. Colladay, was
held over as general counsel.
The new president is an Ala
baman who began his banking
career in Mobile. He came to
Washington in 1921, completing
his education at Georgetown Uni
Iversity while working for the old
Washington Mechanics Savings
Bank, now the City Bank.
Mr.. Groom was elected vice
president and cashier of the Bank
Iof Commerce and Savings in 1880,
and president 10 years later. A
member of the Board of Trade for
more than 20 years, he is at pres
ent chairman of the Greater Ma
tional Capital Committees Advi-
sorry Committee.
Directors Named.
At a general membership meet
ing held last night in the May
flower Hotel, the following dirac-
tors were elected to serve three
year terms:
Edgar Morris, president of Ed
gar Morris Sales Co.; DR.. Oscar
B. Hunter, pathologist; E. K. Nor
ris, president of the Federal Stor-
age Co.; Mr.. Gosnell; Howard w.
Kacy, executive vice president of
the Acacia Mutual .fe Insurance
Co.; Bruce Baird, president of the
National Savings & Trust Co.;
Clark G. Diamond, executive vice
president of Chestnut Farms
Chevy Chase Dairy: Philip M. Tai
bott, senior vice president, Wood
ward & Lothrop, and Mr.. Cola
day.
The following directors were re-
elected for the same period: w.
Russell Lamar, partner, Lamar &
wallace; Edward r. Carr, realtor-
builder, and William j. McManus,
vice president, Chesapeake & Po-
tomac Telephone Co.
The election judges were Alfred
49, n@4~ an
Evening star., 1951-05-11
Indonesia 10 Continue
Rubber Exports 10 All,
Including Red China
Will Trude With All
Countries Supplying 1t
With Badly Needed Good.
BY the Associated Press

JAKARTA, Indonesia. May II.
I-Indonesia said fatty today she
intends to continue selling rubber
to any country-including Red
China-that can send her goods
she badly needs"
The stand of this major rubber
producer-a member of the United
Nations-waS expressed by Zirim
Zaino, Foreign Office spokesman
He added, however, that Britain's
decision yesterday to ban rubber
exports to Communist China
probably will be discussed soon
by the Indonesian cabinet.
Last Monday. Foreign Minister
Achmad Soebardjo declared here
that Indonesia would "sell to the
devil if this would serve the
peoples interests"
Cites Indonesia's Needs.
DR.. zain. head of the economic
section OF the Foreign Affairs
Ministry here, said Indonesia
does not want to anger the West
Iern world. but the young nation
sorely needs food and capital
goods to get her chaotic economy
in shape.
Those who can supply US with
what our people need can get our
products, including rubber, in re-
turn" zain declared.
He disclosed that Indonesia
needs 100000 tons of rice to fill
its own shortages this year. He
said Burma and Thailand will
provide $4,000 tons of this, and
Ihinted the remainder may be OBJ
tained from the Chinese Com
munists.
Peiping Seeks Barter Deal.
For the last three months, the
Peiping government through its
Jakarta Embassy has tried to ne
Igotiate barter agreement for an
exchange of Indonesia rubber and
other strategic goods for Chinese
rice and other items. To date,
no formal deal has been con.
Icluded, but zain said "negotia-
Itions have been progressing salts
factorily."
Indonesian experts predict this
nation will produce a record
100000 tons of rubber this year.
Last years total was $40, 900 tons,
of which about 100000 tons went
to Singapore for processing and
selling. Less than / per cent has
gone usually to Hong Kong or
other destinations accessible to
the Communists, while about 20
per cent is shipped to the United
| States.
Evening star., 1951-05-11
I'd Armored Division
To Join Eisenhower's S
Europe Defense Force
..HeII-on-WheeIs' Outfit
To Follow 4th Infantry
In Overseas Movement
By John A. Giles

Another Regular Army division
has been alerted for movement to
Europe to join Gen. Eisenhower's
composite defense force.
The Army said today in answer
to queries that the I'd Armored
Division at Fort Hood, Tex, had
been alerted for movement over
seas and already was preparing to
sail. 1t was learned elsewhere
that the division was scheduled to
move to Europe.
Previously the 4th Infantry Di-
vision at Fort Benning, Ca, was
alerted and only last Monday 1t
passed in final review before Sec
retary of the Army Pace.
One of Four Divisions.
There are now the equivalent
Iof two divisions in Europe, and
Secretary of Defense Marshall
has informed Congress that four
additional divisions will be sent
there. There has been specula-
Ition that two National Guard di-
visions also will be sent to Europe
but there has been no announce
ment of such a movement as yet
Two National Guard divisions
have been sent to Japan and the
Army has stated that they will
remain intact to complete their
training there. However, they
would be available for use in Ko-
rea if necessary.
| Like the 4th Infantry Division
presumably, the I'd Armored is
not up to full strength and will
have to be filled out when it
reaches its destination. An in
fantry division has $4,000 and
an armored division $4,000 when
at full strength.
Gen. Palmer in Command.
Maj. Gen. Williston B. Palmer
of Chicago is commander of the
Second Armored Division. He as
Sumed that command last Octo-
ber, after having commanded the
82d Airborne Division at Fort
Bragg, N. c..
The Second Armored Division
is one of the pioneers of the
Army's armored command.
Elements of the division first
saw action in North Africa in
1912. After the Sicilian campaign
the division trained in England
and landed in Normandy. The
division fought throughout the
European campaign.
Its nickname is Hell on
Wheels" division.
Evening star., 1951-05-11
Bill to Place D. &. Under GSA
Opposed in Agency Reports
Mcclellan Hopes to Stort Hearings Soon
On a or Reorganization Measures

should be the bill affecting the
city government. This measure
was introduced March Is by Sen
ator Mcclellan and Is other Sen
ators, including Senator Taft, Re-
publican, of Ohio and Senator
O'Conor, Democrat, of Maryland
Senator Mcclellan explained
that their introduction of the bill
did not mean these Senators were
sponsoring the measure as pres
emily drafted. Rather. he said
the measure was introduced at
the request of the Citizens Com
mittee on the Hoover Report SC
that the subject could be consid-
Iered by the Senate committee.
Staff Director Walter L. Reyn-
lolds and his assistant. Glenn X
Icz -r~@~ ~Yrr a prx<~, sn
Evening star., 1951-05-11

CHICAGO, May II R).-Three
unidentified men perished in an
early morning fire which destroyed
a rooming house for elderly people
A fourth man was missing. Three
elderly women and two men
escaped from the three-story brick
house at 1876 North Clark street
on the city's near North Side.
Evening star., 1951-05-11

eating Committee, Defense Secre-
tary Marshall read into the record
the letter Mr.. Truman sent to
Gen. Macarthur on January Is,
when there were fears the U. N.
forces might be driven from the
Korean peninsula.
AS the days session opened.
Gen. Marshall engaged in a sharp
exchange with Senator Hicken-
looper, Republican, of Iowa over
the relative perils to world peace
presented by Europe and Asia.
Gen. Marshall insisted that the
danger of Russia intervening in
Korea is more acute by far" than
in Western Europe.
Bradley Articles Cited.
In another development, SEN
ator Hickenlooper demanded to
know whether Gen. Bradley,
chairman of the Joint Chiefs Of
Staff, also should -"be recalled"
for criticism of British Field Mar
shal Montgomery in a current
series of articles in Life Magazine.
"I don't think so," answered
Secretary Marshall. He said the
situation is different because
Gen. Bradley is talking about a
past war"
But a present commander" re-
torted Senator Hickenlooper.
In the letter read by Gen. Mar
shall. the President told Gen.
Macarthur:
Our courses of action at this
time should be such as to con-
solidate the great majority of the
United Nations" the President
wrote. This majority is not
merely part of the organization
but is also the nations whom We
would desperately need to count
on as allies in the event the
Soviet Union moves against u.s."
Not Directive.
The President made it clear
that his message was not to be
regarded "in any sense as dl-
rective." 1t was intended to give
the Far East Commander an out
line of the political factors in the
whole world situation that should
be considered along with the
military problems in deciding
what to do in Korea.
Other developments today were {:
/. Gen. Marshall disagreed
with Senator Hickenlooper's con-
tention that Red China bases in
Manchuria should be bombed now
because Russia will intervene
anyhow to prevent final defeat of
the Chinese Communists in Korea.
2. The Defense Secretary de-
MED the present situation in Korea
is "a stalemate."
In his January 13 message to
Gen. Macarthur the President
listed the benefits that would
flow from successful resistance
in Korea in bolstering the effort
to check Communist aggression
generally. The message also
recognized that continued re-
sistance might not be possible in
the light of January conditions.
and continued:
In the worst case it would be
important that if we must with
draw from Korea, it be clear to
the world that that course is
forced upon us by military nee
essity and that we shall not accept
the result politically or militarily
Evening star., 1951-05-11


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