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Evening star., 1951-07-01
Kidnapped Premier of ThuiIond
Released as Revolt Dies Down

Premier Pibulsonggram of Thai
land has been released by the
rebels of his country and is back
in charge of the government, the
State Department was advised
last night.
The department said it had
been advised by the United States
Embassy at Bangkok that the
Premier was released uncondi-
tionally.
Fighting which broke out after
the Premier had been seized was
reported dying down and was ex-
pected to end soon, the depart
ment was advised.
There was no additional de-
tails in the brief message from
the embassy.
The release of the Premier fol-
Evening star., 1951-07-01
Cars Crash on Route 301;
; Injured, One Killed

-Four persons were injured, one
fatally. in a two-car collision on
Route 301 in Charles County, Md,
last night.
Curtis Butler, colored, So, Of
Marshalls Corner in Charles
County, died in Physicians Mem
orial Hospital about two hours
after the accident. Also injured
were Weston E. Carlson, 80, of
1889 Fifteenth street Sc, driver
and only occupant of one cara:
Gladys Kerney, 38, colored, of
Issue. Md, and James c. Wood
land, jr., 43, colored, of La Plata.
Their injuries were not believed
serious.
Maryland State police said Mr..
Woodlan's car pulled out of a
driveway into the path of Mr..
Carlson's vehicle.
Evening star., 1951-07-01

eaSt-central front, northeast of
Inje, but withdrew under brisk
small arms fire. A minor action
continued at one outpost at day
break today.
Barrages Exchanged.
Both sides exchanged mortar
and artillery fire, but it was re-
latively light. Allied air attacks
continued. One bombing raid was
aimed at Pyongyang's air field.
Allied air patrols spotted an
estimated 1900 vehicles moving in
various directions behind Com
munist lines in North Korea. More
than 900 were moving south to-
ward the front and about 400 were
moving north, a pooled field dis
patch said.
In the South Korean port of
Pusan. the 8,457-ton Jutlandia was
ready to leave on two-hour notice
for Wonsan. 80 miles north of
the 38th Parallel.
Counseling patience, a high Al
lied officer in Tokyo said, Folks
ought to calm down little. It's
my guess that not thing will
happen for hours at least"
There was no hint of any time
limit in Gen. Ridgway's invita-
ton.
Hickey May Negotiate.
An informed staff officer said me-
gotiations probably would be con-
Quoted on chief-of- staff level,
as done in the German and Japa-
nese surrenders ending World War
II.
This would mean that 1t. Gen.
Doyle o. Hickey, chief of staff for
Gen. Ridgway, would represent
the United Nations commander.
However, the staff officer said
the identity of a Communist rep
resentative would have some bear
ing on this and added that he
felt certain Gen. Ridgway himself
would take some part in negotia-
(See KOREA, Page A-7.)
Evening star., 1951-07-01
June Rains Total
$50 Inches, Near
ALL in1e Record

Another month like June and
Washington will have wild rice
growing in the streets and a
waterfowl in every pot.
Sixteen days of rainfall sluiced
a near all-time record for the
month-6.69 inches, the Weather
Bureau said last night in an
nouncing a temporary end of the
rain, at least for today.
The all-time record rainfall for
any June was 6.86 inches in 1947.
One of several thunderstorms
which fitted in and out of the
area late yesterday poured .35 of
an inch of rain.
The forecast today calls for
fair, a temperature high of about
IS degrees and cooler tonight.
Evening star., 1951-07-01

present economic controls for 81
days. His action, in turn, came
Just eight hours before the au-
thority to control prices, wages,
credit and rents was due to expire
at midnight last night.
The articles to which Price
Stabilizer Michael v. DiSalle's
price freeze order applies include
many household appliances, shoes.
apparel, cotton textiles and ma
chinery.
Hopes for Consent Later.
OPS had planned to place these
articles under ceiling prices based
on pre-Korean levels plus certain
cost increases since then. In most
cases these ceilings would have
become effective tomorrow and
OPS said they would have forced
some price reductions although
permitting increases in some cases.
Because of the ban on rollbacks,
(See CONTROLS. Page A-33
Evening star., 1951-07-01
u. n. Armistice Offer
Provides for Buffer
Zone on Present Line
Halt to Reinforcements
And Exchange of POWs
Also Are Included
By John M. Hiehtower
Associated Press Sioff Writer

ArmiStice terms which the
United States, in consultation
with its United Nations allies,
would like to see established in
Korea are understood to have
been communicated to Gen.
Matthew B. Ridgeway for use if
and when the Communists accept
his offer of truce talks.
Following substantially the pro-
visions of an eight-point cease
fire plan laid down by q United
Nations committee last Decem-
Der, the terms are understood to
call for creation of a buffer zone.
This would be roughly along the
line of the present battle positions.
in the general area of the 38th
Parallel, but cutting across rather
than precisely following it.
Beyond this, reliable informants
said the United States would like
to get agreement with the Com
munists to:
Cd Halt all fighting through
out the peninsula.
CD Stop reinforcements on both
sides.
90 Get access to all Korea for
a commission to prevent truce
violations.
(4 Exchange prisoners of war
one-for-one. (The Allies hold al
most 100000 Chinese and North
Korean prisoners; the enemy is
believed to have up to 10000
Allied prisoners, perhaps fewer,
since no accounting has ever been
made.)
(5) Make provision for admins
tration of the buffer zone.
60 Provide for the security of
forces and care of refugees as
necessary.
The terms are still under con-
sultation between the United
States Government, which exer-
cises the UN command in Korea
with Gen. Ridgway as it's agent,
and the Is other governments
which also have forces fighting
there. Thus they are regarded by
officials here as tentative proposals
subject to revision. Changes might
also be desirable, it was said, de-
pending on what response the
Communists might make to Gen.
RidgWay's offer.
Nevertheless, informants said
the conditions had been outlined
for Gen. Ridgway by this Govern
ment because it was necessary to
act promptly.
On the nature of Communist
reaction, official opinion here holds
that while quick response is pos
sible, the Reds may take several
days to make their position known.
Authorities here appear con-
vinced that the Communists can
(See TERMS, Page AID
Evening star., 1951-07-01
Congress Approves
Stopgap Funds Bill
In Session al Night
Emergency Action Tokel
To Meet July Expense
As Fiscal Yeor Runs Out
By Cecil Holland

After laboring overtime in an
unusual Saturday session, Con-
IgresS last night finally approved
a compromise emergency money
bill to operate the Federal and
District Governments in July.
| The stop-gap measure was nec-
eSsary since none of the regular
appropriation bills for the fiscal
year which began at midnight last
night had been approved.
! Final congressional action on
the legislation was competed by
the Senate at 8:15 pm. The
House had acted only a few min
Iutes earlier.
Plans were made to speed the
measure to President Truman for
his signature. before midnight.
The President was cruising in the
yacht Williamsburg on the Po-
tomac but arrangements were
made for him to stop at some con-
ivenient point to receive the bill
by messenger.
Truman Sends Letters.
The President intervened in the
last-minute legislative scramble
to win restoration of funds he had
requested earlier in letters yes
terday to Chairman McKellar and
Chairman Cannon of the Senate
and House Appropriations Com
mitteeS.
Mr.. Truman said amendments
tackled on to the emergency legis-
lation by the Senate would result
lIr1r+;r,,oL ~ nor1 - -, -
Evening star., 1951-07-01
Easing of Controls
On Auto Purchases
To Be Considered

The Federal Reserve Board
tomorrow will discuss whether
to ease credit controls on the
purchase of automobiles, &C
cording to Chairman May
bank of the Senate Banking
Committee.
Senator Maybank said he
had been advised of the
boards plans by its chairman,
William McChesney Martin,
jr.
The Senate has passed a
bill which would give the auto
purchaser Is months to COM
plete his installment payments
instead of the IS months the
reserve board now requires.
The one-third down payment
would not be changed. The
House Banking Committee has
approved a similar measure.
Evening star., 1951-07-01
Civilians Take Over Control
OF Samoa, Trust Territory
By the Associated Press

The Navy today will hand over
to civilian authorities administra-
tive responsibility for American
Samoa and the trust territory in
the Pacific Ocean.
Samoa, an American possession,
will be governed by Phelps Phelps
of New York, recently appointed
by President Truman as the is
lands first civilian governor.
Ebert Thomas, former Senator
from Utah, will take over as high
commissioner of the 96 islands
and island groups in the trust
territory. The territory, wrested
from Japan in World War II, is
administered by the United States
under agreement with the United
Nations.
Mr.. Phelps and Mr.. Thomas
along with other territorial Off
cials of the Interior Department
have been in the islands since
early this year preparing for the
transfer of authority.
Evening star., 1951-07-01
RoIIbacks Forbidden,
OPS Orders Freeze
OF Many Prices
Congress Bon Brings
Reaction; Stopgup
Control Bill Signed
By jones Y. Newton

Faced with a congressional ban
on rolling back prices during July.
the Office of Price Sterilization
last night ordered a freeze of man
ufacturers' prices on a wide va
riety of products at yesterdays
levels.
The OPS action came just a
few hours after President Truman
signed the stopgap bill extending
Evening star., 1951-07-01

early today. as so FBI agents.
80 State troopers, bloodhounds
and armed posses sought 27-year-
old Warren Lee Irwin through
dense brush and woodlands.
Miss Barker. in company with
relatives, left the Pennington po-
lice barracks at lis am. FBI
agents were driving them back
to Washington.
The manhunt began shortly
after the girl ran screaming
for the protection of State troop
ers who had forced Irwin to aban-
don his stolen car on a highway
about eight miles southwest Of
Flemington shortly before noon
yesterday.
1t continued far into the night
with so searchlights probing the
uhlckets and eight oloodhounds
Inosing for Irwin's scent from the
point where he fled across a
Iplowed field under fire and dived
into the underbrush.
Miss Barker, choir singer and
high school girl, who was kid
naped at gunpoint shortly after
her fiance placed an engagement
ring on her finger, told a story
of how she was threatened and
ASSAULTED six times while she was
a captive.
The girls father. William Rolfe
Barker. a guard at the Treasury
Department, and the couple with
whom she lived, Mr.. and Mrs.
Erwin M. Wade of Riverdale.
were taken to Pennington by FBI
agents last night.
They arrived at 1920 pm. and
Immediately went to see the girl.
Her father was with FBI agents
for about an hour. but otherwise
the family remained with her
until they left.
| Rain drenched the New Jersey
countryside and hampered search
Operations for a time, but stopped
later. Police set up seven major
Iroadblocks and Is cruisers main
Itained a constant patrol through
the region.
Helicopters Expected.
Two helicopters are due this
morning from Lakehurst Naval Air
Station to aid the many police
and more than 200 civilians en-
gagged in the manhunt.
/ Half a dozen walkie- -talkies
were brought into service. An
area of about 20 square miles had
been trimmed with cars on the
bordering roads, and was being
Systematically covered.
State police said residents OF
the sparcely settled rural area
near the Delaware River were ter
Irified that Irwin would pick one
of the isolated homes for a last
ditch stand. He was believed to
have two guns and was described
Iby the FBI as being very dam
gerous."
The scene is less than 10 miles
from the former estate of Charles
Continued on Page A-4, Col. ~
Evening star., 1951-07-01

lowed a battle in the streets of
Bangkok between sailors and
marines on one side and soldiers,
police and airmen-loyal to Pibul-
songgram-on the other. Artil-
lery and machineguns were used
in the fight.
The battle apparently was part
of an old army-navy feud and had
nothing to do with East West
tension over Communism.
It started Friday with the
fantastic daylight capture of the
fantastic daylight kidnapping of the
raiding party of sailors who carried
him off from the American
dredger Manhattan just after it
had been presented to the govern
ment and anointed by Buddhist
(See THAILAND. Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1951-07-01
By the Assoeiofed Press

Senator Hickenlooper, Republi-
can of Iowa, told the Senate yes
terday that lone of the most
prominent persons" who worked
for the American atomic project
IN World War II was a Russian
spy.
Officials of the Manhattan Dis
trict, the Army's name for the
suDer-secret atomic work, were
forbidden to prosecute the per-
son." the Iowan said.
HE was a traitor and spy and
they knew he was selling secrets.
Yet administratively higher au-
thority prevented the Manhattan
District from prosecuting him."
Senator Hickenlooper made the
Evening star., 1951-07-01

the national finals there August
IL.
The 15-year-old boy. who lives
at 919 North Randolph street,
Arlington, won the championship
in 32.1 seconds. His best heat,
however, was in the Class A
finals-31.8 seconds-the days
record.
Don won by q car length over
James Potter, jr.. 12-year-old
Glass B champion. who won his
championship in 32.4 seconds.
Jimmie. who lives at 2049 Thirty
fourth street Sc. was runnerup
in Class B last year.
The championship run at Derby
Downs-on Pennsylvania avenue
Evening star., 1951-07-01
High War; ime Atomic Worker
Soviet Spy, Hickenlooper Says

statement in a speech defending
and praising 1t. Gen. Leslie r.
Groves. who headed the Manhat-
tan District.
One obvious aim of the speech
was to answer Senator Mcmahon,
Democrat Of Connecticut, who
had criticized Gen. Groves Sc
curity performance as chief of
the A-bomb project, earlier this
week in a session of the commit
tees which investigated the firing
Of Gen. Macarthur.
Senator Hickenlooper conceded
that spies got information on the
atom bomb during the Manhat-
tan District days" But he added
See SECRET. Page A-3)
Evening star., 1951-07-01
Radios Listeninq
In Vain for Red
.ArnisticeRepIy
Front Is Relatively
Quiet but Artillery
Borroges Are Hurled
By the Assoeioted Press

TOKYO. Sunday, July Pow
erful American radio receivers in
Japan and Korea listened in vain
today for any Red reply to the
United Nations offer to discuss
an armiStrice in Korea.
Near midday the Reds still
ignored the United Nations offer,
extended more than "a hours ago.
Broadcasts from Peiping and
Pyongyang, the Chinese and Ko-
rean Communist capitals, carried
only the usual propaganda. The
Pyongyang radio became maudi-
BILE at 8:15 am. today (6:15 pm,
Evening star., 1951-07-01
Missing DEC AirIiner Is Found
In Rocky Mountains; so Dead
PIone Guides Ground Seorchers to Scene;
Debris Scattered Over 150-Yurd Area

hillside" He said there were no
signs of life.
Guided by State Patrol Chief
Gilbert r. Carrel in a radio
equipped plane, rescue parties
converged on the area, 18 miles
west of Fort Collins and IL miles
north Of Estes Park at the gate
way to Rocky Mountain National
Park.
Included among the passengers
were six officials of the Rural
Electrification Administration.
Four Of them, including George
w. Haggard, of 1411 Brandywine
street NV, deputy administrator
of REA, were from the Washing
ton area. The others are:
Arthur w. Gerth, 3513-A Staf-
ford street. darlington, Va, chief
of the application and loan di-
vision.
I. Thomas McKillop, of 1928
Rayensworth place. Alexandria,
Evening star., 1951-07-01
Ferguson 1917 Slash
Would Ruin Districts S
Service, Officials Fear
Congress Is Told Thot
Extra Costs Would
Exceed Any Savings
By Don S. Warren

District officials have advised
Congress that adoption Of the
Ferguson plan for an arbitrary 1C
per cent cut in agency jot
funds would wreck many services
and probably would create new
cos, exceeding any possible saw
ingS.
Their official reports to the Sen
ate Appropriations Committee, re-
leased last night, showed that the
proposed cut would mean the loss
of as many as 1888 city positions
BY more conservative calculations
it would be no less than 1926.
Actual dismissals of worker.
would be considerably less be.
cause of vacancies and other fac.
tors.
AS serious as this would be, how.
ever. city officials said loss of vita
public service would be greater
And on the money angle, the.
estimated that while some SGT mil
lion would be saved by the II
per cent cut it would mean al
actual cash loss of far more that
81 million in revenue collections
due to lack of enforcement.
Would Affect Gallinger.
Summing up, they said it would
be necessary:
To close a number of vital wards
at Gallinger Hospital; to cancel
the opening of a second children's
ward at the Districts tuberculosis
Sanatorium at Glenn Dale. Md.
To eliminate programs at nu-
recreation and play CEN
ters; cause longer delays before
a qualified applicant could get
public assistance;
To reduce the hours of service
of the public library; lessen police
and fire protection; to put an end
to the five day work week for po-
lice and delay collection Of garbage
and trash.
In addition, they said it would
mean larger classes per teacher
and a threat to public health and
safety by reductions in health,
jail, parole and court work.
Test in Next Two Weeks.
Some District officials told their
stories calmly but some almost
wept as they contemplated an ap-
plication to the District of the
economy cut Michigan Republican
Senator Ferguson has applied so
far to two of the Federal supply
bills. One official, for instance
said he had come down with a
serious heart ailment because of
overtime work due to lack of suffi-
cient help.
The Ferguson proposal probably
Will meet its test sometime in the
next two weeks. The House al
ready has acted on the 1852 city
supply bill, reducing it to $137.7
mlllion-still an all time high
out lt'yet is to be written up by the
District subcommittee of the Sen
ate Appropriations Committee
More funds are expected to be
recommended there, modified. per-
haps, by the Ferguson personnel
cut.
Senator Ferguson has indicated
he might soften his economy cut
Continued on Page Ala. Col ~
Evening star., 1951-07-01
Body of Woman Sought
At MARYLAND Beach

Anne Arundel County police
early today were still dragging the
waters off Loeb Haven Beach,
Md, for the body of a woman
tentatively identified as Laura
Cromwell, abuot 40, of Washing
ton.
Police said the woman fell from
q boat short distance from
shore. Loeb Haven is between
Beverley and Woodland Beaches.
Evening star., 1951-07-01
Lie Puts Peoce Responsibility SquoreIy
Up TO Communists. Poee At

EDIT. Saturday,. BY IL am.
g pm. EDIT. Saturday. no re-
ply had been heard from Peiping.
Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway's
message to the Red field command
proposing armistice talks was
being repeated in Korea, Chinese
and other languages. He invited
the Reds to a meeting aboard the
Danish hospital ship, the Jut-
landia. in Wonsan harbor on
Korea's northeast coast.
The battlefront lull heightened.
Two Red platoons made explora-
tory jabs at Allied lines on the
Evening star., 1951-07-01
FBI Arrests KiImurtin,
Elusive Check Forqer
By the Associoied Press

DENVER, June 30.-Robert ].
kilmartin, Sc, described by the
Federal Bureau of Investigation
as one of the Nations most skilled
check forgers, was arrested here
last night.
kilmartin had lived in Lowell
ana Basin, Wyo., for the past
year, posing as cattleman. He
was arraigned today on a charge
OF interstate transportation of
stolen property and jailed in lieu
of $4,000 bond.
Evening star., 1951-07-01
Awaiting WHISTLE
Airmen Continue
North Korea Raids
BY the Associated Press

U. S. 5th AIR FORCE
HEADQUARTERS. Korea,
Sunday. July 1.--Allied fight
ers and bombers streaked
into Communist North Korea
today in bright, hot weather
keeping up their drumming
attacks on the Reds.
Nobody has blown a
whistle on us yet" said an
Air Force officer. Until the
whistle blows. we go right
on"
Evening star., 1951-07-01
Arlington Boys Fourth Entry
Wins Soap Box Derby Crown
Don Sheets, IS, Beats
Jimmie Potter, Il,
Gets Akron Trip
By Meredith S. BueI

Don Sheets, three times a top
contender for the Washington
Soap Box Derby crown, finally
won the coveted coaster cham
pionship yesterday in his sleek
racer. BLACK Lightning"
Don now goes to Akron. Ohio,
as the Districts representative in
The Winners Story. Pose AIT
Pictures Of Soop Box Derby Competition.
Pose Alt
Evening star., 1951-07-01
Inside Todoy's Star

The first time on officer loses a
trusted subordinate in combot he is
toeed with mony borrowing problems.
Marine 1t. Jerry o'LeoY, former os-
sistont city editor Of The stor, tell.
OF such on experience in O feature
article from the Koreon front on
Pose AS.
sodio Programs, Pes. C-8-o
Complete Index. Poee AZ
Evening star., 1951-07-01

U. S. Mediotors Coll Lobor Scene Peace
full Despite Trouble Here. Poee Az
Western Union Strike Set Tomorrow.
Page Az
Wolfson Group Willing to Sell Control il
Copitol Transit Co. Poee At
up until minutes of the midnight
deadline, was averted in an
eleventh-hour agreement to con-
tinue discussions with the COM
pany, a union leader announced
early today. Within a few min
utes. company officials confirmed
the truce.
Traffic SnarI Anticipated.
First effects of the Capital
Transit strike were to be felt by
churchgoers this morning. But by
Monday morning. if the strike ex-
tends that long, a monumental
snarl of traffic was expected as the
city returns to work.
The 100000 who normally ride
the street cars and buses would
have to fall back on taxicabs and
private automobiles, and police
expect these to choke the down.
town area and the main routes
in and out of the business region.
A formal firm offer" was made
by the Capital Transit Co. six
minutes after the strike began.
The offer, in the form of a letter
to the union, differed little from
previously reported verbal offers.
Workers Get Orders.
Some confusion existed among
Capital Transit operators making
runs after midnight. Some said
they believed they were to COM
pleet the days work., which in
some instances ran several hours
after midnight The union said,
however, that runs started after
midnight would be completed, and
then the vehicles would go to The
barns. These instructions were
being passed out to motormen at
Union Station, where several
streetcar and buslines converge,
and at other points.
The company's formal offer was
to be considered at a mass men,
bership meeting in Constitution
Hall at / am Mr. Cushman said
that the contract had expired at
midnight. and added:
THE strike is on"
The Capital Transit Co. work.
ers voted a week ago to strike
if the contract were not settled.
Last-ditch negotiations were
held into the night as Federal
conciliators tried to avert the
strike.
District Commissioner F. Joseph
Donohue and Cyrus Ching, head of
the Federal Cancellation Service,
entered the sessions yesterday
afternoon to lend their support to
the three-man conciliation COM
mittee hearing the issues.
Snag On Seniority.
The biggest snag during the
meetings was reported to be the
unions request for a strong
seniority clause in the new con-
Continued on Page AS, Col. ~
Evening star., 1951-07-01
Capital Transit Strike Begins
Threatening to Tie Up Traffic;
WIN. & A. Wa|kout Is Averted
Employees Reject
18-Cent Pay Raise
In 1,785-to-41 Vote
BULLETIN

Union members early today
voted 1,785 to Al to reject a
Capital Transit Co. offer of
wage increases totaling Is cents
an hour, and in effect voted to
continue the strike which began
at 1901 am.
Evening star., 1951-07-01
Girl Is Rescued;
Jersey Police
Hunt kidnaper
RiverduIe Victim FIees
As Coptor Doshes
From Cor to Woods

A suspected murderer was the
object of New Jerseys biggest
manhunt in the woods near Flem-
ington early today after he kid
naped a 17-year-old girl here
Thursday night and assaulted her
six times while holding her cap
tive with snub-nosed pistol.
Carolyn Barker of Riverdale,
Md, was on her way back home