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Evening star., 1951-12-13
Truman Plans 10 Re- Submit
PapaI Envoy Nomination

President Truman said today
that he would re-submit the
nomination of Gen. Mark Clark
to be Ambassador to the Vatican
to the Senate in January. Then,
he said, it will be up to Congress
to take whatever action it chooses.
The Presidents statement came
at a news conference after he was
told that Chairman Connally of
the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee had said that the con-
troversial nomination, which went
to the Hill in the closing hours of
the last Congress would stay in
the committee pigeon-hole.
Evening star., 1951-12-13
Violet Petals Used
In Championship
Cocktail of Year
BY the Assoeiofsd Press

PARIS, Dec. ia cocktail
with violet petals sprinkled in it
won the 1851 championship of
France last night for Michel
Filippi, 28, q bartender from Nice.
Other ingredients: Equal parts
of gin and dry vermouth, two
dashes creme de cacao, spot of
kirsch. a strong liquer; orange
peel. S
Evening star., 1951-12-13
Government Enters
Steel Talks in Wake
Of Murray's Action
CIO Chief Summons
Top Poliey-Mokers
To Meeting Monday
BY the Assoeiated Press

PITTSBURGH, Dec. 13.-The
Government stepped into the steel
wage talks today with Federal
mediators flying to Pittsburgh for
conferences with the CIO United
Steelworkers and officials of the
United States Steel Corp.
Cyrus S. Ching, mediation
chief. sent two aides to the
stalled negotiations after Presi-
dent Philip Murray Of the Steel
workers summoned his top policy
makers to Pittsburgh for possibly
momentous meetings today.
Clyde M. Mills, assistant direc-
tor of the Federal Mediation
Service, and Walter A. Magglio,
acting general counsel, were told
by Mr.. Ching to talk with both
sides today and tomorrow and
report to him on the status of
negotiations.
Formal Preliminary Step.
Mr.. Ching's action. according to
a Mediation Service spokesman,
is a formal preliminary STEP"
The spokesman declined to COM
ment when asked if this meant
the negotiations have hit a snag.
Mr.. Murray's call for a meet
ing of the unions strategists has
the industry talking about the
outcome of the negotiations.
Mr.. Murray emerged from a two
and one-half hour session with
company representatives yester-
day and announced his negotia-
tors will meet Monday with the
USW executive board and wage
policy committee.
Strike Authority Seen.
edwin A. Lahey of the Chi
cago Daily News, writing out
of New York today, said Mr..
Murray will ask for and get
final authority to strike the
steel industry on New Years
day. Mr.. Lahey said Mr.. Muir
ray will get the authority on
Monday when he meets with
the policy committee of the
Congress of the Steelworkers'
Union.)
AS Mr.. Murray walked out he
said:
eve will submit a report on the
status of negotiations when we
meet with the executive board
and the wage policy committee. ]
would not care to add anything to
that right now"
The announcement touched of
speculation in some steel quarters
that Mr.. Murray has hit a snag II
his negotiations for the % de.
mands he wants incorporated il
the new contract.
Company Won't Comment.
Company sources, however
would not comment on Mr.. Muir.
rays action, nor on the posi-
bility of a crisis in the pact talks
now in the third week.
Meanwhile, Mr.. Murray and hi!
negotiating team held anothel
meeting today with Big Stee
representatives.
Mr.. Murray has said publicl.
that he wants a substantial wag,
increase over the average hourl,
$1.95 pay his million membel
union now earns. Also he want.
a union shop, guaranteed annua
wage. and improved premium ane
incentive pay.
Evening star., 1951-12-13

Mr.. Oliphant, who resigned
recently as the bureaus general
counsel, allowed the statute to
run out on 1912 because he had
promised to hold a conference
with Representative Morrison,
Democrat, of Louisiana about the
case.
Forwarded Day Before.
AS for the year 1943, the sub
committee was told that Mr..
Oliphant forwarded necessary in
formation from the bureau to the
Justice Department only the day
before the statute of limitation as
to that year would expire.
Adrian w. De Wind, the sub
committees chief counsel, said
that "it is clear that responsibility
Evening star., 1951-12-13
New Chino RoiIwoy Reported

HONG KONG. Dec. 13 (P.-A
newspaper dispatch from China's
southern Kwangsi Province re-
ported today that the Chinese
Communists are building q Sec
ond railway in Southeast China.
Some sources said 1t may be part
OF preparation for an attack on
xndo-C China.
Evening star., 1951-12-13

fled section of The Stor.
The Stor offers more classified Sc
leetions thon the three other Wosh-
ineton newspapers combined. So con-
suit this tremendous showcase. And
now is the best time to sell outerown
toys and other gift items through Star
Classified. Phone Sterling 5000. Coll
today TO place Sunday DDS and ovoid
q rush as the z pm. Saturday deodIine
sspprooches.
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sion to survey the field of tax
scandals and related issues, and
told reporters that he might have
some word on that later this week.
Won't Dismiss McGrath.
The President made it clear ne
has no plans to fire Attorney Gen
eral McGrath or Democratic Ma
tional Chairman Frank Mckinney.
Throughout the brisk colloquy,
Mr.. Truman strongly defended the
course he has followed. He de-
clared that every instance of
wrongdoing that has been dealt
with by the House investigating
subcommittee previously had been
developed by the executive branch
of the Government and that Con-
gress was coming along and get
ting the headlines.
He emphasized that no cabinet
designations are in prospect, max
ing particular reference to the
case of Mr.. McGrath, whose dis
missal had been called for by
members of Congress because of
the Justice Departments part in
the tax investigation.
The President also said that
Chairman Mckinney was not to
be dropped because of the pub
licity attendant upon the huge
stock profit he made in a tractor
firm headed by man whose war
time Government ordnance con-
tracts were criticized by Mr.. Tru-
man. then a Senator.
Mckinney Defended.
The President said acidly that
he was not one to give a man a
job and then pull the rug from
under and he added that Mr..
Mckinney suits him down to the
ground.
The President held today's news
conference as reports were rife
in Washington that he intended
to take a new tack in dealing with
malfeasance or misfeasance in
Government. This report had
been borne out by Mr.. McKin-
ney's statement Tuesday that the
President was angry and was
going to take drastic" action
soon against employees who had
been disloyal to him.
1t was somewhat of a surprise
then when the President smiling
ly came before his news confer
ence and said he had no special
announcements to make but that
he understood there were a great
many questions to be asked and
he would try to answer them.
The first question dealt with
the prospect for drastic action"
Asks Phraseology Change.
The President calmly asked
that the phraseology be changed
and said that it should be con-
tinued drastic action.
Then Mr.. Truman added that
wherever drastic action has been
necessary in these things (scan-
dals) that the President has
taken it and that he will con-
tinue to do so.
Another reporter wanted to
know how the President proposed
to implement his course, whether
it would be done through regular
channels or by some special or
ganization.
Mr.. Truman responded that
when he made up his mind he'd
let the press know.
He was asked if he might set
up special prosecuting group
as was done in the Teapot Dome
case when former Democratic
Senator Atlee Pomerene and Owen
j. Roberts, then a prominent at
(See TRUMAN Papp A-2N
Evening star., 1951-12-13
OIiphont Allowed
D. 6. Tax Case to
Die, Probers Told
BY Cecil HoIIond and
George Beyeridqe

An Internal Revenue Bureau
official testified today that Charles
Oliphant, former general counsel
OF the bureau. was warned re-
peately about the expiration of
the statute of limitations in a tax
case involving two Washington
men-Samuel and Sidney Kolker.
The official. E. Riley Campbell,
said he sent several memoranda
Evening star., 1951-12-13
Swiss President Elected

BERN. Switzerland, Dec. 13. up
Defense Minister Karl Kobelt,
so, was elected President of the
Swiss Confederation today for the
year 1852.
Evening star., 1951-12-13

O14C III CNO SIdolI1llS oil UdCGlCo
over North Korea.
Four of the MICS went down
before the blazing guns Of Amer
Allies Demond Pledge Against "Deoth
March" in Prisoner Exchange Poee "A
ica's hottest jet ace. Maj. George
A. Davis, jr., of Lubbock, Tex. In
16 days he has bagged IL planes.
including nine MICS.
One of the pilots reporting a
kill" was 1t. John w. Honaker
of 300 North Kenmore street.
Arlington. A veteran of the MIG
Alley battles, he was credited
with damaging a Russian-made
jet on September 20 and with
shooting down an enemy Las on
November 30.
On the ground, a series of minor
battles f1ared today as Allied in
fantrymen carried the war to the
Reds for the second time in "a
hours.
The 5th Air Force said none
Of the Sabre jets was shot down.
but one ran out of fuel, caught
fire and crashed. A helicopter
rescued the pilot.
Outnumbered More Than 2 to 1.
Heavily outnumbered Sabres
knocked down four MICS and
damaged one in a morning bat
tie over Sinanju in Northwest
Korea.
Nine more MICS were destroyed
in the afternoon. Pilots reported
two probables.
Sixty-four Sabres were matched
against 145 MICS in the two bat
ties.
Mai. Davis bagged two planes
in each fight.
YEA, I went up twice today"
he said. "We were just north of
the Sinanju River when we saw
a flight of about so MICS. I Just
led my II planes into the middle
of them"
Maj. Davis, who said the after
noon battle was pretty easy."
thought all the Communist pilots
encountered today were Chinese,
but he declined to say why. They
really had their culls up there to-
day." he said.
Allied Troops Attack Again.
United States 9th Army head
quarters said an Allied raiding
team battled Red ground troops
north of Korangpo on the western
front most of this morning. The
raiders returned to their own lines
before noon under cover of an
artillery barrage.
An Allied unit battled for seven
hours yesterday with Red troops
south of Panmunjom, site of the
truce talks.
On the eastern front Allied
troops threw back three Red prob
ing jabs today west of the Mum
dung Valley. The central front
was quiet.
Allied infantrymen reported 81
Reds killed or wounded in yes
terday's tank-supported raid.
The fight was out of sight and
range of the truce talks but it
was inside the proposed 2l2-mile-
wide buffer zone. Truce negoti-
ators could hear the roar Of
artillery.
The Allies ran into Chinese
company. which was soon in
creased to almost a battalion.
Casualties Drop Off.
IT was the same kind of attack
the Reds have been throwing
against the Allies at various
points for two weeks. But this one.
was bigger, and tanks were used.
Communist casualty figures re-
leased today by the 9Th Army WV
idly Illustrated the drop in action.
In the first seven days of De-
cember. the 9th Army said the
Reds lost 2,225 killed, 1,186
and II prisoners, total
Of 3,488 The week before the
figures were 6,256 killed, 1887
and SO prisoners, a total
Of 1912.
Allied casualties were only a
small fraction of these figures.
They are not announced from
Korea.
Evening star., 1951-12-13

for the matter rests with Mr..
Oliphant."
Before calling Mr.. Campbell as
a witness about the Kolker case,
the subcommittee again ques-
toned Bert K. Master, a Holly
wood Fla) businessman, about
the sensational story of a $780,
600 attempted shakedown related
to the investigators last week by
Evening star., 1951-12-13

Two More Tox Officioils ousted From
Posts os Probe Goes on. Poee AZ
ExAeent Surprised to Heor Coudle Got
Job After FBi Report. Poee AS
Evening star., 1951-12-13
Grond Jury Reported Questioning Young
lntensNeIy on RFC. Poee AS

Thomasville, Ala, which still owes
$333,712 of a $455,759 loan it OBJ
tanned from RFC in 1949, was
arrested yesterday for alleged
misapplication of funds from the
Thomasville Bank and Trust Co.
Mr.. Boykin explained in
Thomasville that he introduced
Mr.. Suits to former RFC Chair
man Harley HiSe at the time of
the loan application. He declared
he did so only to help a con-
Stituent. He was with Mr.. Suits
and Mr.. Hise only about 10
Evening star., 1951-12-13

course. And one
way for you to
find economical
gifts this Christ
mos is through
the "misceIIone-
Gus for sol e"
ods in the cIossi-
Evening star., 1951-12-13
Norway Started Idea
Christmas Reindeer

Reindeer become port Of chirstmos
custom via Norway. historions soy.
The giving of gifts preceded the
reindeer as port Of Christmas, of
Evening star., 1951-12-13
Truman to War on 'Wrongdoers>
May Resort to Special Agency;
Backs Mckinney and McGrath
Says she'll Root Oui
Any FoithIess
Public Servants
By Joseph A. Fox

President Truman declared to-
day that he would continue to
root out faithless public servants
from the Government, declaring
Solemnly that wrong -doers have
no house with me no matter who
they are or how big they are" :"
He told reporters they could
quote him directly on this point.
The President for more than
half an hour discussed Govern
ment scandals at a news confer
ence. but refused to say what fur
ther action he might take to
implement his present course of
dismissing the guilty as their cases
are developed.
He left open the possibility that
he might set up a special commits
Evening star., 1951-12-13
By Robert X. Walsh

The name of Representative
Boykin, Democrat. of Alabama,
already figuring in a Senate sub
committee study of an RFC loan
to a paper company and in the
House hearings on tax scandals.
came up today in connection with
the FBI arrest of an Alabama
lumberman and two bank officials.
w. P. Suits. president of the
Suits Lumber Industries of
Evening star., 1951-12-13

WMAL and WMAL-FM, The
Evening Star Stations, will
broadcast a recorded tram
script of today's testimony be-
fore the House committee in
vestigating the tax scandals,
from 8 to 9 o'clock tonight.
Evening star., 1951-12-13

Meeroth eot Gift From Munitions Mon.
Newspaper Asserts. Poee A-3
Nixon Asks Truman for Secret SEC Study
on Empire Ordnance. Poee A-3
Evening star., 1951-12-13

Lote New York Morkets-Pooe A-4I.
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sion to survey the field of tax
scandals and related issues, and
told reporters that he might have
Evening star., 1951-12-13

(See RFC. Page A-6D
Evening star., 1951-12-13

Continued on Page AS, Col. 81
Evening star., 1951-12-13
u. ). JET Pilots
Shoot Down 13
MICS in Korea
Ace Gets a, Arlington
Flyer Bags /; Infantry
Makes Minor Attacks
BY the Associated Press

SEOUL. Korea, Dec. 13 -
American Sabre Jet pilots won
Ihistory's biggest all-jet victory
today. They bagged 13 Commu-
mist MICS, probably knocked
down two others and damaged
one in two slashing air battles
over North Korea.
Four of the MICS went down
before the blazing guns of Amer
Evening star., 1951-12-13
Guide for Readers

An Associated Press Newspaper
Kodiak mirror., 1951-03-03
City Loses Dollar On
 Every Ton Of Freight

The city council learned Monday night that the city dock account has lost one dol lar on every ton of freight the longsnoremen have handled during the first seven months of the present fiscal year. The city's fiscal year runs from March to March.
 Mayor Lee Bettinger read figures from the record that showed the city received $2 30 per ton for freight handled which cost it $3.35.
 "Only through rentals and leases on city owned property at the city dock have we been able to keep the accounts in the black. " the mayor said.
 He estimated that the tstal money lost on the handling of
Kodiak mirror., 1951-03-03
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sound film.

sound finn.
 Ivor Schott, Kodiak School superintendent and club mem Der, gave a vocational talk on his classification, teaching. proceeding the film. He out lined the importance of the teaching profession and told of the service it renders to the public.
 Guests attending the meet ing were Jules Radinsky and A. Mckenzie of the Naval Station, Russ Swartz of Bob Hall Air Service, H. Evans, Clyde Nichols of Dallas Texas. and visiting Rotarian Leonard Hopkins. s>
Kodiak mirror., 1951-03-03
Film Shows Kodiak Scenes

Several Kodiak residents and some good color shots of Kodiak were seen Tuesday by members of the Kodiak Ro- tary Club 5533 when the Standard Oil Company film, Alaska, was shown.
 The film was furnished the club by Merrill Coon, local agent and member of the club, at the request of the enter tainment committee.
 Ray Martin, Mill Vokacek and William Stone were in the film, which was taken during the Kodiak Fourth of ;, July Celebration, a Rotary spon- sored event. several years ago. Don Horter. professional photographer, made the film.
 Other Alaskan cities and scenes were included in the
Kodiak mirror., 1951-03-03
Shupp Has Lien Against George
KODIAK MIRROR

A labor lien against the Ko- diak Ice and Cold Storage Co.,. for an alleged debt of $2, 282. . s5, was recorded this week by the Shupp, Chase and Tolbert Construction Co.
 The lien claims the money due is for labor and equip ment furnished, under a con- tract entered into between the company and Wallis s. George of Juneau, its presi- dent, between August IT, 1850 and November 20, 1850.
 The lien claims that no part of the sum was paid the com pany for it's construction work. and is placed on the dock, fish shed, and equip ment of the cold storage com- pany, located at the city dock, lot I block 20.
Kodiak mirror., 1951-03-03
varIands Leave

MT. and Mrs. Russell Var land and son Tommy left on the USS Funston yesterday. They plan to visit their daugh- ter in San Francisco and later settle in California.
 Varland was employed at Ft. Greedy for the past three and a half years and Mrs. Varland managed the Stork Shop. She recently starred in a stage play presented by the Kodiak Community Players.
Kodiak mirror., 1951-03-03

Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Nell son were incorning PIMA pas sengers Thursday from Am chorage. Nelson testified as witness in the KnagiR case which was heard by the grand jury. : ~
Kodiak mirror., 1951-03-03

freight for the first seven months was $7,559. Despite the loss from handling freight the city dock account showed a profit of $13,OOO for the same period. Gross revenue for the period was around $4O,0OO.
 Mayor Bettinger recom- mended that the dock com , mittee bring in a suggested raise in freight handling rates to the next meeting. At a previous meeting he had sug- gested that the committee study the situation.
 H. E. Spencer was ap- pointed by the council to serve as city building inspector on a fee basis. He will check and approve all building applica- tions submitted ts the council for approval.
 {, Earlier in the meeting Floyd. Cape presented an application for the construction of . garage on property near the Jay Tolbert house on Mission Road. The application also contained the name of Nor man Dalton. Both are en- .ployed at Kodiak Naval Sta 'tion. The application was tabled until Spencer can in- .spect the plans and site of the
 planned building.
 The council also tabled a re-
 quest for payment of money
 expended on the construction ,of a road to his property near the schoolyard by Joseph E.
 Murphy.
 ] Tn a letter to the council
 Murphy asked that the city pay him $116. The council indicated it needed further study of the matter before taking action.
 Councilman Bud Metzgar pointed out that should the city honor one bill for. pay ment the city council would probably receive many other such bills. 4e a.. j..
 If we paid every one who has done work on the road to his property we would soon run out of money" Metzgar said.
 The council approved pay ment of other current bills, not for road work, presented.
 The city council does not have the authority at present to grant social security pay ments for city employed workmen. At the previous meeting Elvin Foster, on be- half of the longshoremen, asked that the city start pay ments. Mayor Bettinger said a bill to authorize such pay
 ments is now before the Ter ritorial Legislature.
 Icsl1ndc naua
Evening star., 1951-06-22
Students S Baseball Thesis Wins
Position With House Committee

baseball, the professors said they
wanted economics, lot batting
averages"
In his thesis, he appeared to
favor the reserve clause" but
there were some aspects of its
operation he didn't like.
AT this point, he said. he is
neither for nor against the
reserve clause" focal point OF
the committees investigation. He
said at the time he wrote his
thesis there were lot of angles
he did not explore. particularly
the affect of the reserve clause
on minor league players.
"The commodity baseball sells
lis competition on the ball field,
he explained. People pay to see
teams supposedly equal. In orde,
to maintain equality of competi-
ltion on the ball field, there has te
be some limitation on the buying
and selling of players. Otherwise
the rich clubs would be able te
buy all the good players. The
question is how far this limitation
should CO."
AS for the conclusions in his
thesis, young Craig said there
were some parts of it he woulc
rewrite If he had it to do over.
After a year of law school," he
Igrinned, "it seems rather juve.
mile"
Evening star., 1951-06-22
By Miriom Ottenberq

Chairman Celler of the House
Judiciary Committee and its mon
oply subcommittee today an
Inounced the appointment Of Peter
Is. Craig. the young law student
whose college thesis on baseball
had both the committee and a
New York law firm bidding for his
services.
The 22-year-old Craig will as
sist the monopoly subcommittee in
Its forthcoming investigation OF
whether the reserve clause" that
ties players to a single club is
Igood or bad for baseball.
| The thesis that got the young
baseball expert the job was writ
ten while he was at Oberlin Col
|lege, from which he graduated
last year. He has just finished
his first year at Yale University
law school. aF
For Mr.. Craig, the committee
job and the New York law firms
Ioffer to meet whatever salary The
committee offered stems from a
childhood hobby. The law firm
represents organized baseball in
terestS.
| Il was born interested in base.
ball." Mr.. Craig said.- "All through
high school I compiled old records
from baseball's hall Of fame. Then
lin the summer, I worked on Sport
ling News (the baseball weekly.
When I got to college, ! major.
ed in economics and had to write
a thesis. When ! decideS to de
my thesis on the economies o1
Evening star., 1951-06-22
Board Clears Policeman
OF Faulty Report CHARGE

Policeman William F. Nolan of
the 18th precinct, was exonerated
yesterday by a Police Trial Board
that heard a Department of Agri-
culture forester charge the officer
failed to make a complete report
|of an automobile accident in May,
1850.
The complainant. Arthur M.
Sowder Of 2410 Twenty first place
NE. told the Trial Board Pvt,
Nolan's report quoted him as say
ling he had been driving at a speed
Iof 20 miles an hour before his car
was involved in an accident. He
was going only Is miles an hour,
MFR. Sowder said. Mr.. Sowder was
convicted in Police Court on
charges of colliding and failing
Ito yield the right Of way.
Evening star., 1951-06-22

was done In an Objectionable
way although he conceded the
President had power to take the
action.
Mr.. TruEaan's smiling refusal at
yesterdays news conference to en-
gage in a verbal battle with Gen
Macarthur was ascribed in part
to confidence the custer inquiry
is going well as far as the admin
istration is concerned.
Some Of his aides apparently
have concluded that the less the
President says about the matter
now, the quicker the furore will
drop OF the front pages and be
relegated to secondary mention
in radio and television.
Mr.. Truman turned away with
a mo comment" a question as
to whether he thought Gen. Mac
Arthur'S Texas transforming trip