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Evening star., 1951-03-16
Auto Case Defendant
And Witness Held

A defendant and his main wit
ness were ordered held for the
grand jury by District Court Judge
Alexander Holtzoff yesterday in
connection with perjury charges.
The action came during the
trial of Milton R. Lewis, 80,
colored, Of the 1900 block of
Eleventh street NV, on a. charge
Of unauthorized use of an auto
mobile.
Lewis principal witness was
Luther Willis, colored, of the 800
block of Third street S.W. Willis
had testified he had heard the
owner of the car tell Lewis who
runs a garage, to pick up the
automobile for repairs.
The jury had begun to delib-
crate. when evidence was un-
covered by the prosecution that
Willis was in jail at the time for
drunkenness. The case was re-
opened and the jury called back.
Furnished with the new evi-
dence. the jury quickly found
Lewis guilty Of the unauthorized
use charge.
Willis is being held for alleged
perjury and Lewis is to be IN
vestigated on the accusation that
he induced the witness to lie. The
two men met for the first time in
jail, 1t was said.
Assistant United States At
torney Thomas A Walden pro-
secuted Lewis on the unauthorized
use charge and helped uncover
evidence that Willis was in jail at
the time of the offense.
Evening star., 1951-03-16
Modern Home Space
Priced Out Of Market,
Architects Here Told

Pietro BelluSchi, one of the coun-
try's foremost contemporary ar
chitects, believes high construc-
ton costs are preventing the ar
chitectural profession from making
its proper contribution to modern
society.
Addressing meeting Of the
Washington Chapter, American
Institute of Architects, in the Ho-
tel Statler last night, Mr.. Belluschi
said:
The cost of houses has risen
beyond our ability to purchase
them, unless the parts are reduced
to the irreducible minimum.
I'VE have rediscovered the func-
ton Of space. only to find that
1t is impossible to proviGe space.
1t is the creation of SPACE that
makes house modern. but space
has become too expensive a COM
modify for us to create"
BoX-Like Budgets.
The Italian born, Portland
(Oreg.) architect who is a men,
Der of the District Fine Arts Com
mission and dean of the School of
Architect and Planning of the
Massachusetts, Institute of Tech
nology, said the American people
have reached a stage of develop
ment that entities them to expect
gracious and imaginative" archi-
lecture.
Instead, he said. they are
forced by high costs to accept
"box-like structures"
High prices are not only short
changing today's family of the
Volume of space which families a
generation and more ago obtained
as a matter of course, but are
preventing architects from reach
ing their full creative powers" he
said.
Attitude of Mind.
AS for the so-called modern ar
chitecture. Mr.. Belluschi said he
believes too many architects are
employing the cheap cliche out
OF the pseudo-modern book" and
added:
I'VE claim simplicity is a great
virtue, but should not confuse sim
plicity with a poverty of inven-
ton. Modern architecture is not
a style but an attitude of mind"
In reply to a question, he said
he believes there are "extenuating
circumstances" for the existence
Of the Fine Arts Commission.
"A community such as Wash
1ngton probably needs to assume
a certain amount of responsibility
to see that very bad things are
not built" he said. He added. |
however, he thought it wrong in
principle" for any small group of
men to be required ito pass on
things architects do and to have
the right to veto their work"
Branch Elan presided at the
meeting.
Evening star., 1951-03-16
Man Who Escaped Chair Now Faces Long Term for Staying

A man who stood in the shadow
of the electric chair for four years
today faces a long prison term
instead.
The defendant. Baxter Griffin,
43, colored, of the 1900 block of
Eighth street NV, pleaded guilty
yesterday in District Court to
second-degree murder in connec-
ton with the shooting of Lee
Hunter, 80, also colored, in the
victims home in the 100 block
OF Ninth street NV, in February,
1947.
Griffin had been convicted of
Evening star., 1951-03-16

had an open knife in his pocket.
The defense contended the knife
would lend support to Griff1n's
contention that he had shot in
self defense.
Before Griffln's conviction in
1947 on the first-degree murder
charges the Government had Of
fered to accept a plea of guilty To
Second-degree murder, it was re-
vealed yesterday by United States
Attorney George Morris Fay. At
that time, however, Griffin pre-
ferred to go to trial on the more
serious charge of first degree.
Evening star., 1951-03-16

t1rst-degree murder In March,
1947.
The United States Court of Ap-
peals at first confirmed the con-
vlction and the case went to
Supreme Court. That tribunal
sent the case back to the Court
OF Appeals. Finally, last year the
appellate court reversed Griff1n's
conviction and ordered a new
trial.
The reversal was based on the
fact that the prosecution, at the
time Of trial. failed to disclose
that the victim of the shooting
Evening star., 1951-03-16

In testifying in his own behalf
four years ago. Griffin said he had
shot in self-defense during an
argument over a card game.
The plea to second degree
murder made yesterday was be-
fore Judge F. Dickinson Let's,
when Griffin same up for retrial.
Judge Let's referred the case to
the probation officer for investi-
CATION. pending sentence, for
which no date was set.
Griffin now faces a possible
maximum sentence of Is years to
life. In a f1rst-degree conviction,
the death penalty is mandatory.
Evening star., 1951-03-16
New Dam HELPS French Town

SAINT ETIENNE, France.-The
water supply of Saint Etienne,
textiles and metals town in CEN
trail France, has been improved
vastly by the new La Vallette Dam
on the Lignon River. Capacity
of the dam is nearly is billion
cubic feet of water.
Evening star., 1951-03-16
u. S. Forest Area Lurqe

deem, Md.
The forest area of the United
States, exclusive of Alaska, is
larger than the combined area of
France. Germany. Norway, Italy,
Sweden, Belgium and the Neither
lands.
Evening star., 1951-03-16
Cos Energy Increases

OKLOHONdA CITY. Natural
gas accounts for about 20 per cent
of the Nations total energy out
put. 1t was 13 per cent in 1916.
Evening star., 1951-03-16

One OF our manufacturers of stncv pieces closed out his
discontinued fabrics Needless say bought them knowing
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automatic locking device that sitting comfort
oe iteSt IN hardwood frames removable onepece
Serta mattress reversible nnerspring cushions en-
gneered spring construction tued arms
luXuTlouS 1flnged bases magnificent of
covers in outofths colors Just five of
the many styles illustrated here
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Evening star., 1951-03-16

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combined with tailoring. There styles for club wing Tushons
round and flat modern chairs The sofa 76 and "a
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Evening star., 1951-06-09
Navy Pilot Survives Crash
OF Plane in PENNSYLVANIA

SOMERSET, Pa, June 9 (P).-
A Navy fighter pilot was being
treated here today for slight in.
juries suffered in the crash land
ing of his plane in rugged hill
country near here.
Somerset Community Hospital
said 1t. P. A. Veres of Pittsburgh
was brought here by Pennsylvania
State police. The extent of his
injuries was not reported, but the
hospital said he was in a salts
factory condition.
1t. Veres was attached to the
As ,000-ton carrier Franklin D
Roosevelt.
He took off yesterday afternoon
from Norfolk Naval Air Station
on a cross-country proficiency
flight, headed for Anacostia base
in Washington, D. c. However
he radioed the control tower al
Andrews Air Force Base that hi
was changing his course and head
ing for Pittsburgh.
Near Wellersburg, his engine
failed and he brought the plane
down in a crash-landing. Hi
lphoned the Norfolk base that thu
plane was demolished.
Evening star., 1951-06-09
Two Seized in Hi-Jackinq
Of $4,000 in Cigarettes
BY ihs Asseeiatsd Press

BALTIMORE, June e-Twt
men accused Of hi-jacking q trucl
carrying $4,000 worth Of Gig.
iarettes were captured by FB.
agents here yesterday after ar
ieight-block chase through mid.
town.
The G-men flushed Charles B
Meushaw, %. from a roomine
house and ran him down in 9
Ik1ase through the crowded down.
town district. He was booked fol
Ia hearing before United States
Commissioner Ernest Volkart Wed.
Inesday on a charge of theft from
an interstate shipment.
Vernon Howard Finan, 81, Of
Baltimore was arrested a short
time later on the same charge
Special Agent c. H. Carson Of
the FBI said Meushaw and Finar
Ihi-jacked trailer driven by Franz
Lemaster of Baltimore from Rich.
mond, Va, to Jersey City, N. j.
last Tuesday.
Mr.. Lemaster had stopped t,
eat at diner in Trainer, Pa, MI
Carson said, and was jumped b,
the two men when he returned
i to his truck.
Evening star., 1951-06-09
Controls
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are needed, the council said, $50
they can be used in effective
combination
Chairman William Boyle of the
Democratic National Committee
yesterday wrote $4,000 party work.
ers asking them to launch let
ters-to-Congress drive urging ex-
tension and strengthening of the
1850 Defense Production Act.
Price Index Declines.
Other developments along the
economic front included:
/. The Governments wholesale
price index declined three-tenths
OF per cent for the week ended
June S, almost at the level before
wages and prices were frozen last
January. Farm prices declined IL
per cent for the week, principally
because OF lower average prices
for grains and livestock.
2. Senator Taft, Republican, ot
Ohio, said the Wage Sterilization
Board, if it is to be continued
should be established by law, in.
stead of by presidential order al
at present. Senator Taft favored
spelling out such a boards func.
tions and giving it subpoena pow.
ers.
3. Economic Stabilizer Eric John.
ston held a first school" session
fol key men in wage-price stabili.
zation agencies. The idea, sale
Mr. Johnston, was to review pres
ent control policies and the entir'
economic situation with wage ant
price control officials. He chartet
similar sessions every six week
or so.
Evening star., 1951-06-09
IAN Federal Divisions
Ordered by Truman
To Save Manpower
BY the Assoeioted Press

President Truman today ordered
Government departments an d
agencies to give top priority to
IA program of conserving man
power in the Federal service.
He put the Budget Bureau and
Civil Service Commission in charge.
He asked them to advise all units
Iof the executive branch on how to
save manpower and bring about
|" ma aximum effectiveness and
economy in the utilization of per-
sonnet"
In a letter to Budget Director
Frederick ]. Lawton, he said the
present emergency has caused
great demands on the Nations
manpoWer resources and some
shortages in special areas.
1T is extremely important" he
said. "that all possible steps be
taken to eliminate these shortages
and to assure the availability OF
manpower for all essential mobi-
lization activities. Adequate solu-
tion to our manpower problems
will require the exercise of en-
ergy, imagination and ingenuity
on the part of every employer anc
Iemploye.
/ "The Federal Government, al
the largest single employer in the
country, should set the example
in accomplishing this objective.
Evening star., 1951-06-09
U. 5. Protest Reported
Against French Levy
On Defense Imports
BY the Associo.ed Press

LONDON, June 9.-The United
States has complained that France
is making the United States pay
duties on equipment being i'm
ported to build up American bases
planned for Western European de-
fense. reliable informants said last
night.
Gen. Bradley, chairman of the
United States Joint Chiefs of Staff,
is understood to have taken up
this matter with French military
leaders in Paris early this week.
Gen. Bradley, who has been con-
ferring with Western European
military leaders, talked with
French Defense Minister Jules
Moch and chiefs of the French
armed services.
The United States and France
agreed some time ago on the con-
struction of bases on French ter
ritory as part of North Atlantic
pact defenses. Whether the United
States has to pay duty on all mill
tary equipment she is bringing into
France was not learned. Britain
levies no charges for military
equipment brought into this coun-
try by American forces stationed
here.
Gen. Bradley is understood to
have expressed impatience at re-
strictionS the French have i'm
posed on flights by American air.
craft. He repeatedly pointed out
to the French that the American
bases are being built in France in
the interest of all IL North Allan
tic allies.
What answers the French may
have made to his objections were
not disclosed. No official French
comment was available immedi-
ately.
Evening star., 1951-06-09
3 Bowie Ex-0fficiaIs
And Comeback Men
To Be Tried June q

Three former Bowie race track
officials and a trio OF agents who
handled comeback" bets at the
track last fall will be arraigned
Tuesday in Prince Georges County
Circuit Court on charges of book
making and conspiracy to violate
Maryland gambling laws. They
will be tried June %.
Judge j. Dudley Digges set botr
dates yesterday after ruling that
bookmaking counts in indictments
returned by the April grand jury
are valid.
Previously. the court had upheld
legality of conspiracy count:
against L. Edmund O'Hara, track
manager; his brother, Thomas ]
|O'Hara, mutuel machines super.
visor; cashier Raymond c. Koh.
!lepp and betting agents Norman
Hellwig. Paul (Coney Island,
Eckert and Richard Remer.
Phone Service Illegal.
Judge Digges based yesterday
decision on the contention it il
illegal for unlicensed persons t,
have telephones at the track t,
service outside customers.
While the judge was handing
down his decision, Remer was Oh
his way to Upper Marlboro from
Miami, Fla, in custody of Primo
Georges Detective Sergt. Vincen
S. Free. Sheriff Carlton G. Beal
said Remer, who was apprehendet
in Miami several days ago, hat
been denied an extradition hear
ing by the Governor of Florida
He is due in Upper Marlboro to-
day.
Defense Move Fails.
Another defense move failet
yesterday when Judge Digge
overruled a motion to dismiss tn,
indictments on the ground Crane
jury witnesses were improperl,
sworn.
The same question was raiset
recently by attorneys for a mar
charged with rape. They con.
tended grand jury witnesses mus
take their oaths in open court in
stead Of in a room separate from
the courtroom as has been tn,
practice in the county for a half.
century.
Judge Digges held the pro
cedure proper but ordered sus
pension Of criminal trials unit
the State Court Of Appeals ha
ruled on the matter.
Evening star., 1951-06-09
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Time and Space DwindIe
For Michigan Worm Army
By the Assoeiated Press

SAULT STE. MARIE. Mich
June 9.-The worm army con
tinues to advance-but it is run
ming out of time and space.
The caterpillar horde that hai
infested Upper Michigan and part
of Ontario now has eaten its wa!
to the Cedarville- -Hessel mich
area, about 40 miles south of thu
500 and right on the shores ol
Lake Huron.
Trees in the area look like they
had never leafed out at all. Man
that was a short summer" they
seem to say.
The plague is due to end shortly
however. The worms haven't ye'
devised a way to get across the
Straits of Mackinac to Lower
Michigan. They have only about
five days left before they ge
sleepy and want to curl up In /:
good cocoon.
Evening star., 1951-06-09
Blast Fire Races Building
On Mine Near Waynesboro
BY the Assoeioied Press

WAYNESBORO, Va, June g.
An explosion and fire destroyed
the washhouse of the non-opera-
tive Crimora manganese mine, 10
miles northeast OF Waynesboro,
early yesterday.
Waynesboro firemen were called
about midnight but could not save
the three-story corrugated iron
building and confined their ef-
forts to wetting down several
large oil drums to prevent fur
Ither explosion.
Cause of tha blast. which blew
off the roof Of the 200 by so foot
building, was not determined i'm
mediately. Also destroyed were
three diesel motors and two large
generators.
The mine is owned by Domin-
lion Manganese Corp, as subsidiary
of H. A. Brassert Co. of New
York City. During World War II,
1.-THE mine was one Of the largest
single producers Of manganese in
the United States.
Evening star., 1951-06-09
Mickey Cohen Used
Safe Deposit Boxes,
Tax Witnesses Say
BY the Associated Press

/ LOS ANGELES, June 9.-Gam-
bier Mickey Cohen kept at least
two safe deposit boxes under fic-
Ititious names, Federal witnesses
say, during the period he is ac-
cused of evading $156,123 in in
come taxes.
Miss Aurora Lenci testified yes
terday that Cohen rented boxes
under the names Of Allan Weiner
and Donald Duitz while she was
employed at various Hollywood
banks.
United States Attorney Ernest
ITolin said additional witnesses
would tell Of other boxes rented
by Cohen under aliases.
Miss Lenci was a witness at the
trial of Cohen and his wife La
vonne on charges that they failed
to pay enough income taxes in
1946. 1947 and 1948.
Another witness yesterday was
la bank president, who resigned
after public disclosure he loaned
Cohen $4,000. He is Harold w.
Brown, former head Of the Holly
wood State Bank. He left his post
ito avoid embarrassment to the
bank" after Cohen told the Ke-
fauver Senate Crime Investigat-
ing Committee of the loan last
November. Mr.. Brown testified
the money was repaid.
Bail Bondsman Louis GlaSser
testified Cohen had property val
ued at $250.000 in 1949. Cohen
and several of his men were
charged in March, 1949, with
numerous violations in connection
with the beating of a radio re-
pairman. AL Pearson. Cohen fur
nished bail bonds for all, listing
his home at 100000, personal
property at $4,000. business inter-
|eSts at sos, 900 and his bank ac-
count at $1,000. The men later
were acquitted.
A furrier, A. 7. Lipsey, testified
he delivered a $1,000 mink coat
and $2,400 stone marten cape
to Mrs. Cohen in .1947.
Evening star., 1951-06-09
MocLeon's Wife Secluded
With Family in Country

TATSFIELD, England, June 9
(CDN Melinda MacLean, Chi
cago-born wife of the missing For
eign Office official, is remaining
strictly incommunicado in her
country home here.
So is her mother, Mrs. Dunbar,
who has flown here from Paris to
comfort her daughter. The cur
tains of their home were drawn
and frantic pounding on the door
by relays of reporters failed to
produce results.
The MacLeans' two young sons.
Fergus, aged 7. and Donald. aged
5, are both down with the measles
and Mrs. MacLean is expecting
another baby at almost any mo-
ment.
Evening star., 1951-06-09
Hosting Of Red Flag Thworted
AS Gov. Warren TuIks in Alaska

the campus to watch for any
demonstrations or covert acts"
An ROTC guard saw an at
tempt to raise the Red flag and
chased two offenders. Both es-
capped but one was recognized.
DR.. Moore said the two were
part Of small number of radical
or prank-playing students that
l"can be found on any university
campus"
Meanwhile. Radio Station
KFAR here reported another act
OF vandalism during the COM
mencement ceremonies.
Manager Al Bramstedt said
some one deliberately cut the ra-
dio transmission line before the
Warren speech, preventing the
California Governors talk from
being broadcast.
Evening star., 1951-06-09
BY the Asseeiofsd Press

FAIRBANKS, Alaska, June e.
DR.. Terris Moore, president Of the
University of Alaska, today con-
flrmed reports that two university
students lowered the American
flag and tried to raise the Red
flag during commencement exer-
cises May 81 at which Gov. War
rem of California spoke.
One of the students, identified
during a chase afterward, was
expelled. His identity was not
disclosed. The identity of the
other student still is not known.
DR.. Moore said the faculty had
been forewarned that certain
students would try to "ball up
the exercises. Members of the
university's Reserve Officers
Training Corps were stationed or
Evening star., 1951-06-09
Russians
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the Russians to leave because. 1t
said. their mission had been
achieved. Only 26 persons were
to the Soviet Union
between September. 1949. and
September, 1850.
When the truck was loaded it
drove away from the door. At
the same time. Maj. Hartel ap-
preached the car and asked Rus
sian Col. Alexander Smirnov if he
would follow the truck and an
American sedan. The Russians
refused.
Maj. Hartel, assisted by a lieu
tenant and two G1s. then opened
the drivers door,
Together they dragged the
struggling stocky Russian sergeant
driver. Vasili Elistratov. from his
seat. Two GIs held Elistratov in
an armlock until an American
lieutenant entered the Russians
car.
The Russian sergeant was put
into an American sedan.
Unable to Operate Car.
For Is minutes the Americans
were unable to start the unfam-
iliar, German-built car. When
they did they could not make it
run.
Five members of the American
escort team spent minutes push
ing the car back and forth in the
small, dirty courtyard before they
finally got it to move.
An American corporal was Or
dered to sit in the back of the Mer-
cedes between the Russian colonel
and his aide, Senior 1t. Vasili
Pivorarov.
The convoy then roared off and
reached the Ems River bridge at
the American-Soviet border. 78
miles east of Salzburg, without
incident. Here the Russians were
handed over to Soviet authorities.
Sergeant Caused Trouble.
1t. Gen. S. Leroy Irwin told
correspondents in Salzburg the
Army had made every effort ito
permit the Russians to leave in
the best possible fashion and with
the most courtesy" without giving
the impression of force.
After I gave them orders to-
day, they were willing to CO." he
said, "only the sergeant caused
trouble and seemed reluctant to
leave. Possibly he did not want
to go back" Gen. Irwin added:
"On the other hand, it appeared
evident that they had to try to
create an incident if they could"
He said he was satisfied with the
way the matter was handled.
For the Russians, it is a bad
thing not to have their way but
it is a good thing to show we
can have our way, too"
Gen. Irwin said a Soviet flag
over the mission building had
been removed and other flags
found inside the building would
be returned to Soviet authorities.
Frankly, am glad to be rid
Of them (the Russians" he con-
cluded.