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Evening star., 1951-08-28
Tighter Election
Laws Sought
By Senate Unit
Group Will Consider
Control Proposals at
Hearing Next Month

Public hearings to consider q
general overhauling of election
laws to curb Objectionable cam
paign practices and reduce the
cost of running for public Office
will be held by a Senate subcom-
mittee next month.
The hearings were announced
today for September 13 and II
by Chairman Gillette of the SEN
ate Elections Subcommittee, which
investigated the controversial
TydingS Butler campaign in
Maryland last year. The subcom-
mittee also is planning an inquiry
into the 1850 Ohio campaign.
Senator Gillette sent identicai
letters today to Guy Gabrielson,
chairman OF the Republican Ma
tional Committee, and to William
Boyle, chairman of the Demo-
cratic National Committee, ask
ing them to testify on September
13 and aid the subcommittee with
any suggestions they may have.
Without mentioning by name
the Maryland campaign in which
Republican Senator Butler de-
feated former Democratic Senator
Tydings, the Gillette letter said:
"Our own investigations of the
recent election indicate real need
of amendatory legislation dealing
with the expanding use of de-
famatory or scurrilous literature
in a campaign and also the rapid
ly mounting cost of conducting
elections to these Federal Offices
which, if allowed to continue. may
well prevent candidates of mod
crate means from presenting their
to the electorate.
"Our studies will certainly ex-
tend into the field of possible
to the Corrupt Prac-
tices Act and all legislative mat
ters pertaining to elections for the
Federal Offices referred to-"
Evening star., 1951-08-28
Girls, 10. and II, Lead Pickets
In Protest Against Red Czechs

against the new Ambassador pre-
senting his credentials to Presi-
dent Truman.
EliSka's father, Josef Hasek,
also a former member of the
Czech Parliament, is a nexport-
here. And .Eliska was
just as proud-"Oh, yes. If this
helps. I'm glad."-to join the pro-
test against communism.
DR.. Josko used to be journal
list. But I left the paper in 1899, .
he recalled. II couldn't be a Nazi
either"
Went Into Politics.
The war years. he said, were
hard for him and his family, but
when his country was liberated he
went into politics. "And then, y
and he shrugged his shoulders,
"the Communists put me in prison
Luckily, my family escaped to
Austria"
Another spokesman for the Sc
to SO free Czechs, who picketeo
the White House for an hour, said
they wouldn't work like the Reds
force citizens to work in the old
country.
I'm Czechoslovakia," he said,
"the Communists force people to
picket the American Embassy. But
we won't picket their Embassy
here"
The reporter had to walk around
the long circle with him as he
said:
We're quiet and serious here.
We want Otis freed. We want the
church freed, the forced laborers
freed. w want a NV, dmocratic
CzchoSlovakia.
Ex-EnvOy Looks On.
Watching the demonstration
was DR.. Juraj Slavic. Ambassador
from Czechoslovakia here until the
Reds usurped power. Although he
and his wife did not take part in
Evening star., 1951-08-28
Alexandra. Hospital
Forbids Adopfions
Through Third Party

The Alexandria Hospital Board
of Directors voted last night to
ban all third party" adoptions of
babies born in the hospital.
The action means any mother,
hospitalized there, who wants to
place her child for adoption will
have to go to the city's three
licensed agencieS-the Public Wei
fare Department, Catholic Char
ities Of Northern Virginia and the
Children's Home Society of North
ern Virginia.
Heretofore. there have been
many instances in which doctors
or lawyers arranged for the adop-
ton while the mother was in the
hospital. AS a result, the licensed
agencies have complained their
adoption programs have been
hampered seriously.
State law requires adoptions to
be handled by licensed agencies,
except that a mother may do so
directly with a prospective foster
parent.
The Alexandria Bar Association
will be asked to consider reports
of illegal placement of babies for
adoption by third parties at its
6 meeting. The Arling-
ton Bar Association already has
a committee to study
reports there.
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went for another hour. Every once
in a while that animal would
jump out of the water, and they
yelled. I was getting pretty weak,
by then. could just barely raise
my head.
Then when I happened to roll
slightly more than usual, after
holding my head over the side for
theN thousandth time, my hand
happened to hit a small penknife
/ carry in my left pants pocket.
Faint and exhausted though ! was,
I studied the possibilities care
fully. Finally I gathered all my
remaining strength. and sat up.
Then I stood UP and walked back
to one of the swivel chairs.
II said to Joe, who was holding
onto the rod, Well. ! am feeling
better. Let me handle him for, a
while. We argued a little but he
gave in. and Mary went with him
into the cabin. I carefully slipped
my penknife out and opened it.
That big brute Of a fish jumped
out of the water.
"I cut the - - ----- loose, ("
Mr.. Barnes said.
Evening star., 1951-08-28
District Will Invite Bids
On Work al Blue Plains

The Commissioners today ap-
proved advertisements for bids or
erection of a new inflrmary and
laundry at the Home for the Aged
and Infirm at Blue Plains.
The construction will cost about
$3.4 million. One month will be
allowed from the date of adver-
tisement to the date for receipt
Of bids.
The building program will take
about two years. and when it is
finished some 200 senile patients
now at st. Elizabeths can be moved
there. The home now has a popu-
lation of 460.
The new building will replace
a 45-year-old two-story structure
at Blue Plains, which probably will
be used for recreation purposes.
Evening star., 1951-08-28

A parade of pickets milling
around the White House this
morning when DR.. Vladimir Pro-
chazka arrived included a pair
hardly old enough to carry a pick
ct sign, and yet old enough to
remember the grim privations of
Communist terrorism.
The new C2echoslovakian Am
bassador to the United States
drove his big black limousine
through a line in which a l0-year-
|old an an 11-year-old girl carried
signs proclaiming:
I'VE are the victims of Commu-
mist terror"
The girls smiled grimly as the
new Ambassador drove into the
White House grounds in a big,
black limousine.
Leading the picket line, Eva
Josko, IL, of 1850 Monroe street
NV, ana EllSka HaSek, 10, OF
$500 Porter street NV, were
proud to hold their signs.
Recalls Flight From DAath.
I'm glad l can help my coun-
try somehow" Eva said. She re-
membered her flight from death,
or enSlavement, from her home
in 1948. and how long it seemed
before papa" was able to escape
from prison.
The children were followed in
the line by two older men who
carried a sign asking, "Are you
going to show Truman the list of
your slave camps?"
Eva'S 'papa," Mattel Josko. for
mer member of the Czech Parlia-
ment and undersecretary of
finance, was proud, too. He's part
of the Council of Free Czechoslo-
vakia which, with the American
Sokol, a free Czechoslovak party,
sponsored the protest today
Evening star., 1951-08-28
Dog Days Pound Blue Marlin Hit Ocean City Correspondent

the biggest one I ever saw. have
caught some good-sized blues
cumming down in the bay with
Harvey Jones and Al Lee and the
boys. But 1t seems that the cap
tain meant blue marlin, whereas
the marlin they catch here are
white. Such excitement you never
saw. It was like we had hooked a
tarpon in the Potomac River.
II gave Mary the tackle to
handle for a while. but after I
got rid of that cucumber sand
wich I felt better. That was about
Q or 2:30 o'clock. We followed
that beast around and around,
and to and fro, all over the ocean.
The other boat captains we're
chattering like mad over their
short wave. It seems that only
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board and took our seats in the
swivel chairs to see what would
happen.
There we're number Of other
boats out. perhaps dozen. and we
all went round and round and to
and fro in a great circle. The cap
tains talked to each other over
their short wave radios. But no.
body had any strikes.
There must be something
soaring these fish, said Capt.
LittleStrom. Along about noon we
ate our lunch, but still no bites.
ut was about an hour later
that I began to notice that the
cucumber sandwich I had had for
lunch must not have been real
fresh. Things don't usually dis
agree with me, but Stale vegetables
like cucumbers are sometimes not
so good for me. And it was about
the same time that became con-
scious of that slow ground swell.
I don't know if you ever noticed
it or not. It's long, slow up, then
a long down, then slow up, then
down, slow up, down, up, down.
And the skyline at the horizon
wobbles a bit.
Like Train Hitting a Calf.
THAT was when it struck. My
bait was out about so or Is yards,
I guess. Well, if the Capitol Limit
ed had hit a calf on a down grade,
it couldn't have been more sudden
or stronger hit. My line began to
run out, and my reel sang. Mary
and this Joe. began to yell and
holler. Everybody screamed and
gave me advice. AS a matter of
fact. there was nothing to do. He
was running and that was that.
After while he semed to stop and
I began to reel in. The captain
turned the boat toward the fish.
I reeled in. Then he began to run.
All of sudden he jumped out of
the water. What an animal. He
was as big as a Hereford heifer.
The captain began to yell he's a
blue. he's blue You gotta blue!'
Well, if that was a blue it was
Evening star., 1951-08-28

Editors Note: The dog days
OF August do strange things to
people. Small boys are lDGrned
to leGve of summing in stag
11ant pools, dogs 90 mad. Our
Ocean City correspondent tDriteS
about 500-pound blue marlin.
BY q Summer Resident From Washington.
OCEAN CITY. Nd. Aug. 20
Delayed sporting circles in
this oceanside resort are agog
over reports that a party aboard
the Ella Elk, Capt. Ovid Little
strom, recently hooked a blue
marlin.
This big fish was on the line
some six hours. Capt. Littlestrom
estimated it's weight at about SOC
pounds. This is not large for blue
marlin, as they run as high as
/ 500 pounds. White marlin run
from 40 to 140 pounds. Only two
blue marlin ever have been caught
off Ocean City.
Your correspondent located D.
Hamilton Barnes, who had the
Ella Elk under charter when the
exciting event occurred, and Sc
cured for himself an exclusive in
terview. Mr.. Barnes was enjoying
an after-breakfast pipe on the
porch of the Vamardel Hotel and
|graciously talked at length about
the spectacular experience.
II own a dairy farm up near
Gophersburg in Frederick County,
he said. "This is my first trip to
the ocean, although have been
fishing on the Potomac and on the
bay a few times with Harvey
Jones, Howard Drake, Dave Col
laday and that bunch from Wash
Iington.
The way I happened to come
down here was that my daughter
met a fellow named Joe something
lat college and he lives down here
at Berlin. So nothing would dc
but the Mrs. and I must come
down to Ocean City. We've been
here about q week.
well, the other day this Joe
Evening star., 1951-08-28
Radar and Guns EncircIe
District in AA Drills

Units of the 45th AAA Brigade
were moving into radar and gun
stations around Washington to-
day for repetition of the field
training obtained during Exercise
Metro" last fall.
The brigade, which is based at
Fort Meade. Md. is trimming the
city with Comm. and 120-mm.
guns, along with communications
and radar networks. Air Force
units will simulate bombing runs
over the area to give the ground
defenders practice in spotting,
aiming and firing"
Evening star., 1951-08-28
Arlington Man Injured
In EdIl From Ladder
OF the letters which Senator Wiley,
Republican, of Wisconsin, said had
q clear ring of authenticity"

A Washington dairy employe is
IN Arlington Hospital today with
internal injuries he suffered when
he fell from a ladder about pm.
yesterday as he was painting near
the top OF his two-story home.
He is William Corder, 81, of
2o2S North Taylor street. Arling-
ton.
Members of the family said Mr..
Corder fell when the ladder
slipped.
Evening star., 1951-08-28

the picket line, they watched
Igrimly.
The group. which carried out
their demonstration in an orderly
way, failed to attract more than
the usual number of onlookers. A
few policemen on special duty
there had nothing to do. as the
picketers broke up quietly after DR.
Prochazka left the White House.
Evening star., 1951-08-28

marlin. So they all refused to go
home
Round and round. to and fro,
slow up, slow down. front up, tail
down, tail up, front down, this
side down, that side down, they
Evening star., 1951-08-28

and my Mary came and said, Pop,
you gotta go marlin fishing! I
didn't. want to go but after we had
an argument, Mary began crying
and it seems she wanted to go but
Evening star., 1951-08-28

two blue marlin have ever been
caught off Ocean City. They get
to be 1,500 pounds in weight
sometimes. Capt. Littlestrom and
this Joe boy we're near crazy with
excitement.
Round and Round for Hour.
Round and round we went for
another hour. BY that time be-
came conscious of that half canta-
loupe I had had for breakfast.
When that was gone I began to
feel sort of bad and laid down in
the little cabin. That slow
ground swell Is not Just sloW UP,
Evening star., 1951-08-28

"Foscinotion" Come at oeeon City Ruled
All Chance, No Skill. Poee AS
Evening star., 1951-08-28
Anonymous Tip
Raises Cry for
Police Inquiry,
Wiley Thinks Letter
Accusing Coptoin Hos
Ring Of Authenticity

An anonymous letter detailing
a police captains improved for
tunes after his promotion is one of
the reasons behind fresh demands
for congressional investigation
Of Washington crime, it was
learned today.
The letter was believed to come
from numbers writer. It was one
Evening star., 1951-05-18
U. S. HoIts Daily Reports
IOn Foes War Losses
BY the Associated Press

UNITED STATES 9th ARMY
HEADQUARTERS. Korea, May
l8.-The United States 9Th Army
today discontinued issuing daily
figures on enemy casualties.
An officer explained that ac-
curate estimates of enemy dead
and wounded could not be made
while some Allied troops were
withdrawing and while Allied
Iatrillery continued to pound the
Reds.
The officer said figures would
be released only when Allies
troops could go into an area and
actually count the enemy dead
or when it was possible otherwise
to make more accurate estimate
He added. however, that overall
enemy casualty figures would be
issued when battle campaigns are
concluded.
Evening star., 1951-05-18
West Germans PIedqe
Strict Curb on Trade
with Chinese Reds
By the Associated Press

BONN, Germany. May 49,
Western Germany will impose
strict controls over trade with Red
China this week, government
spokesman said yesterday.
His announcement followed tes-
timony before a Senate subcom-
mittee in Washington that stra-
tegic materials worth millions of
dollars have poured from West
ern Germany into Red China since
the start of the Korean war.
Special License System.
The spokesman said system of
special licenses for trade deals
with China will be set up. In the
future, he added. no goods Of any
kind will be shipped legally to
China without a license. He de-
clared that whatever strategic ma
terials have reached China from
West Germany since the start of
the Korean war could only have
reached there Illegally.
In West Berlin, authoritative
sources said Red China is receiv-
ing $4,000 worth of material
from industry in the western sec
tor of the city. Much could be
considered useful for war pur-
poses.
Some of the factories shipping
the goods are in operation only
because they received aid under
the American-hnanced European
Recovery Program.
Officials Threaten to Quit.
Some officials on the United
States High Commission have
threatened to quit unless they are
given authority to exercise tighter
controls on what the Germans
ship out Of West Berlin. Since
the Allies rewrote the German
occupation statute, Americans in
Berlin are without power to exer-
else any controls over interna-
tional deals by West Berlin in
dustries. East-West barter is the
only trade that comes under
scrutiny.
Sometimes the goods are
shipped to Western countries such
as Belgium or Holland, and then
to Hong Kong before reaching any
destination in China. In other
cases ships go direct from West
ern European ports to the Chinese
mainland. Payment is made in
British pounds sterling or some
times in Swiss francs, deposited in
either London or Zurich as credit
for the firm to purchase vital raw
materials.
Evening star., 1951-12-30

bases. The clean, Weu-de-
signed kitchen at Boiling is
one of the best equipped of
its type and probably will be
the model for the entire Air
Force.
It's sole purpose is to provide
WE'LL balanced box lunches for
airmen who leave or stop over
at Boiling each day. 1t. Iver
S. .Hewson, who directs the
operation of the one-Story
n-f1ight kitchen, said that
since it opened less than
year ago. it has increased its
service from $50 lunches dur
ing the first month of opera
ton to we'll over 1000 in
recent months.
This production is expected
to be stepped up soon. when
the in-tlight kitchen be-
comes better known to pilots.
This is indicated by the fact
that although nearly 5000
persons leave Boiling each
month, only about 1000
lunches are prepared.
Each box lunch prepared at
Boiling contains two pieces OF
fried chicken. a roast beef or
ham sandwich, two cookies, a
Evening star., 1951-12-30
BY Harry Lever

A SPECIAL in flight kitch-
"A en-" service at Boiling Air
Force Base has solved the diff
ficult problem of feeding the
crew and passengers of
military aircraft a substantial
meal during a long nonstop
fight.
This innovation does not
merely represent a conven-
ience to far-fying airmen. 1t
also has been a vital factor
in permitting long distance
bombing runs and special
missions to proceed without
time wasting Interruptions
necessitated by landing for
dinner.
It has not been so long since
a pilot leaving Boiling for the
West Coast in an Air Force
plane had to set down at
Dayton, Ohio; Omaha, Nebr..
and maybe at Denver. Colo,
so he and his crew could get
a meal. Then more time would
be lost rounding up the men
for takeotf.
This is all gone now on the
average military flight, be-.
cause of research done at
Boiling and other Air Force
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MONDAYS Proceedings

The first case on the criminal
docket on Monday, the State VS.
Harold Bruce Lennon, was passed
over when Solicitor Walter w. Co.
hoon announced that the clerk had
received, a pardon for Mr.. lennon
froGn Governor Scott
For the second successive term
the case against Elizabeth H.
Champion was continued upon ev-
idence presented by letter from
her physician that she was unable
to travel from her Pennsylvania
home.
Attorney Forrest Dunstan pre-
scented a letter from DIR. Elliott B.
Floyd of Norfolk which certified
that N. C. Mann, whose trial on the:
charge of issuing a bad check was
appealed from recorders court,
was confined to Lee Memorial Hos
pitaT and, consequently, unable to
appear for trial. Judge Stevens di-
rected the sheriff to call the. ,hos-
pital and verify the statements in
the letter. Sheriff Cahoon later re-
ported that hospital authorities
told him that Mr.. Mann was suffer
ing from diabetes and was even
then being prepared for an opera
ton for throat tumor. The case
was ordered continued. & ~
Dave Whitson, appealing a judg-
ment of recorders court, said that
he wished to comply with the
judgment of that court. Judge
Stevens ordered him to pay the
fine assessed in the lower court,
plus the accumulated costs.
Annie Moore, Negro, explained
that she appealed the recorders
judgment in an assault case by
mistake. The judge ordered Mrs.
Moore to comply with the judg=
ment and pay the accumulated
costs.
James Bryant, colored, appeal
ing judgment in which he was
charged with assaulting his wife,
Nora Bryant, through his counsel,
Wallace McCown, was sentenced to
IL months on the road, suspended
upon good behavior for two years,
plus fine of $40 and costs.
Norman Grear Miller pleaded
guilty to driving while drunk and
without an operators license.
Judge Stevens sentenced him to
one year on the roads, suspended
upon good behavior and the pay
ment of 5000 fine, $50 to be paid
at once, the remainder at the Oc-
tober term of court.
Bond Forfeiture Case
Counsel for Frank White and
Archie Burrus, bondsmen for
Litchfield Peele who appealed the
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PEOPLE, our legislators go away
from home to act as our represen-
tatives. The jurors themselves
were to act as vital cogs in the
judicial process.
He told the grand jurors that
they were to act upon. certain bills
of Indictment; that they had also
duty of "presentment," in which
they were charged to, bring indicr-
ments against violators of the law
that they knew of who might 9th.
erwise remain unprecedented. FL
rally, they had the duty of inspect
ing the condition of the property
Of the county, it's courthouse and
jail, ard to make inquiry into the
manner in which the county off
GERS were fulfilling their duties.
County Homes
Told by the clerk that Dare
County has no county home, the
judge expressed himself on that
subject in general. 1t has been a
mistake, he said, for so many coun-
ties to do away with county homes
for the poor and aged. Nowadays,
he declared, "They farm some poor
old person out for $50 or $40 a
month to care for 'em, and you
can't even feed mule on that in
these days"
Judge Stevens then spoke OF the
great number of violations of mo-
tor vehicle laws. He described some
of the common violations which are
the cause of so many accidents.
Zone would believe from going
around the state that the line in
the center of the highway was a
stripe you put your left wheel on!"
He said the one-armed driver made
two serious mistakes: he couldn't
do a good job of driving with one
hand, and he "can't do good job
of huggin' with the one hand eth
er!"
The judge summarized the
crimes with which the jury might
have to deal, and spoke last of per-
jury. This was the crime that he
could deal with to the full limit of
the law without a twinge of con-
science, Judge Stevens said, be-
cause the whole judicial process
was based on witnesses telling the
truth, the whole truth and nothing
but the truth, as their oath re-
quires of them. "The liar" he con-
cluded, "is the worst known char
acter on EARTH"
Grand Jurors
Members of the grand jury were:
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than moral and actual values" he
said, he could not say. But certain
fundamental tenets that might he
thought by some to be old-fashion-
cd, but which are in reality time
less, we would do we'll to return
to for our guides in conducting
cur lives, the judge stated.
He recapitulated briefly the bas-
&c principles of our government of
divided powers, describing the
functions of the executive, legislat-
i've and judicial branches. It is
"the judicial branch which comes
home to the people," he declared;
our executives are remote from the