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Evening star., 1951-08-24
d. {. Groups 10 Visit
Civil War BattIefieIds

More Civil War battlefields will
be visited Saturday - this time
around historic Fredericksburg,
Va.-under auspices of the Ma
Itional Capital Parks weekly recre-
Iational program.
Buses will leave 1915 F street
IN. w. at 8 a. m. for the Fredericks-
burg National Military Park, re-
turning to the city about s D. m
A park historian will lead morn
ing tour of the Chancellorsville
Battlefield. After the noon hour
there will be visit to the jackson
Shrine at Guinea Station, where
Gen. "Stonewall" jackson died
from wounds received the night
he made the famous flank march
that won the battle for the Con-
Ifederates. Fredericksburg and the
nearby Wilderness contains some
Iof the most bitterly contested
ground in the United States.
A tour through Fort Washing
ton. some ID miles down the Poto-
mac River. will be conducted by
Historian George T. O'Brien, SUM-
day afternoon. The trip will be
made by bus leaving 1416 F street
N. w. at 1:45 p. m. Fort Washing
ton was built between 1914 and
1924.
A visit will be made to the site
OF the earlier fort destroyed in
1914 by the British. Private cars
will meet at 2 p. m. at the en-
trance to the old brick fort, which
can be reached via Nichols avenue
and South Capitol street S. E. and
Maryland State Highway 224.
Evening star., 1951-08-24
Guard Unit IN Korea
To Get District FIau

The Commissioners today sent
"a District flag to the District Ma.
tional Guards 7l5th Transporta-
tion Truck Company in Korea
and used one Of the units officers
as courier.
The large gold-fringed banner
was presented to 1st 1t. Elmort
Middleton. 33. Of 1880 Bowen road
Sc. who Is returning to Korea
Tuesday after an emergency leave
1t. Middleton said the members
Iof the company. one of the first
National Guard outfits to 60 into
Federal service in Korea, had
asked him to bring back the flag
In case We don't get to visit
them In Korea, we want the men
to know we haven't forgotten
them,' said Commissioner F
Joseph Donohue.
Evening star., 1951-08-24
Moscow Seen Spurring
Rebellion Against Tito
BY IN. Assoeioted Pres.

VIENNA, Austria. Aug. "a
Western officials believe Moscow
is hoping for an internal revolt
against Yugoslavia's Premier
Marshal Tito rather than plan
ming any immediate military ag-
gression by that Balkan country's
Soviet satellite neighbors.
Intelligence officers here said
last night they think anti-Tito
elements In Yugoslavia may be
greater than generally estimated
that the Russians possibly know
about more internal resistance
and are building an underground
movement.
They based the beliefs on the
declaration yesterday by Soviet
Marshal Klementi Y. Voroshiloy
in Bucharest, Romania. that the
Tito regime cannot long con-
tinue" and that the Yugoslav
people viii find a way to "liber-
ate themselves.
Marshal Voroshilov's statement
echoed those of Deputy Premier
". I. Molotov last month in War
saw.
Evening star., 1951-08-24
Ex-U. S. Marshal Jailed
And Fined in Conspiracy
BY the Assoeiated Press

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. a.
Former United States Marshal
Edward J. Carrigan today was
sentenced to five years in prison
land fined $1,000 for conspiring to
defraud the Government.
Also sentenced were Jack C.
Reynolds, 48. Oakland labor lead
er, three years and $4,000 fine,
and Raymond Gaines, Al. sus-
pended United States deputy mar
shal of Oakland, two years and
81 900 fine.
The three were convicted OF
lconspiring TO get money from
Phil Davis. Oakland automobile
dealer, on the promise they could
lpreVent him from being sent to
la prison where his treatment
would be more severe.
Davis was serving six months
in a prison farm for negligent
operatioRsof his speedboat which
cut OF q girls feet at Lake Tahoe
Evening star., 1951-08-24
Colombo Sets Election
For Congress Sept. Is
BY the Assoeioied Pres

BOGOTA. Colombia, Aug. "a
The government announced yester-
day that congressional elections
postponed in June, would be held
September Is.
The election will be the second
under a state of siege in force
since the bloody revolt of April
1948, following the murder of
Liberal Party leader Jorge E
Gaitan.
The Conservative Party controls
the government. The Liberal
Party has announced it's refusal
to go to the polls under a state
of siege. But a Liberal Party
splinter group will vote.
Evening star., 1951-08-24
Engineer al Hospital
Held in Drug Sales
10 Face Arraignment
By III. Assoeiaied Press

NEW YORK, Aug. 24.-A Bel
levue Hospital engineer will be
Iarraigned today on narcotics
charges. accused of aiding a $780,
000-a-year dope peddling business
in the CITY, owned institution.
The maintenance engineer
Benjamin Provenzano, 43, was ar
rested yesterday as an alleged ac-
lcomplice Of 42-year-old Mariana
Rubino. described as 'ringleader"
in the hospital heroin business.
Police said Provenzano ad-
Imitted dumping is ounces of
heroin--worth about 100000 re-
tail value-into the East River
after Rubino was seized Wednes-
day night.
Rubino is charged with using
Bellevue's main waiting room to
contact dope clients. and Of hid
ing illicit heroin in hooks and
crevices around the hospital.
The customers came from the
outside and mingled with visitors.
Provenzano assertedly helped
Rubino to guard the drug caches
and used signals to warn Rubino
iii any one approached while the
latter dipped into his supplies to
provide customers waiting on the
hospital grounds.
Police said Provenzano also sold
narcotics, some to patients at
Bellevue. for So a shot"
Provenzano, a hospital employe
for "a years, served a years term
in Rikers Island Penitentiary for
illegal possession of narcotics. He
was released about four months
ago as a ''rehabilitated drug ad-
dict" Police said he had been
helping Rubino since going back
to work at the hospital and was
paid OF in drugs.
Rubino and Riccardi were ar
Iraigned yesterday in Felony Court,
each on charges Of possessing
narcotics with intent to sell.
Rubino was held without bail for
a hearing next Thursday. Ric-
lcardi was held in $4,000 bail
pending grand jury action.
Evening star., 1951-08-24
Sewage Plant SIudee
Yields Vitumin BIZ
BY the Assoeiased Ptess

Sludge from municipal sewage
treatment plants offers a new and
large potential source of vitamin
Biz for supplementing the diets
of certain farm animals, three
PENNSYLVANIA scientists reported
today.
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Evening star., 1951-08-24
Lion in Basement
10f Apartment Brings
troubles 10 Owner
By the A..oeiatsd Pres.

1 NEW YORK Aug. "a. Stumped
by the problem OF how to house
a lion in Manhattan, a war vet
leran with ambitions of being an
animal trainer has more trouble
today. 81
The veteran. Weldon Minnick
427. was charged yesterday with
lneglec.lng his 150-pound lion
about the size Of a big st. Bernard
dog.
1 Agents Of the American Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to
animals seized the lion last night
lin its temporary quarters in q
midtown apartment house base
ment,
The animal allegedly had not
been fed, watered or exercised
during its "a hours in. the base
ment.
The agents shared and trussed
the animal. unsnapped its chain
and took it away in truck after
giving it water and feeding it meat
from a butcher.
The ASPCA gave Minnick a
summons charging neglect when
he showed up at the house later
with parcels of meat.
The superintendent Of the
apartment house, Walter Preston,
had given Minnick permission to
house the lion in the basement
until he could find other quarters
When the owner did not return
in "a hours, MIR. Preston called
the ASPCA.
Minnick's lion housing difficul-
ties have been publicized since
he got the animal from a movie
company a few months ago. He
and the animal have been hired
for publicity stunts from time
to time.
Evening star., 1951-08-24
IA .THEEVENING STAR Washington. D. c.
81,

1t must have given the lords OF the Kren1-
lin great satisfaction -. a sense OF accom-
plishn1enf, even :. when their 1ass agents
cabled that our National Science Founda-
ton was about to be reduced to a state of
almost complete inactiveness because the
House Appropriations Committee had cut
its request from ID million to $3oo, 900.
II twould therefore appear that the House
has learned little from World War II, when
scientists in America, living in an atn1os-
phere of freedom, and provided with ample
funds, succeeded in harnessine the laws OF
nature 20 forge weapons so powerful :. :.
atomic weapons as to sta9ger the in1agi-
nation and arnitilate our fascist enemies
Today, with Russia on the loose, waiting
only for the right moment to strike at us -.
today, when our entire military organization
looks to the miracles of science and research
for military supremacy in the race for super
ornaments and corresponding war tactics,
the National Science Foundation J. bull
wark of executive scientific strength ;. is
virtually shelved by Congress!
For America it's the "BelieVe 1t or Not"
Congressional error OF a generation :. . and
wind fall victory for Stain and his mob
it, in its scholarly but oVerly-conservative
fashion:
Evening star., 1951-08-24
Ominous RumbIings
Begun by Muunu Loo
BY HE Associcted Press

HILO, Hawaii, Aug. 24.-Mauna
Loa. Hawaii's great, restless vol
Icano. started rumbling ominously
yesterday.
There is a good chance that
she will erupt, but we can never
predict" said DIR. Gordon Mac
Donald, director of the Hawaii
Volcano Observatory.
The last eruption of the 1850
foot giant was IA months ago.
Evening star., 1951-08-24

group will also follow UP such
cases as changed addresses which
could cut down on the amount
Iof gifts.
A volunteer worker in REQ
Feather campaigns since 1929, MI.
Loehl is also a member of the
Welfare Committee of the Board
lof Trade.
Evening star., 1951-08-24
FumiIy Of Six Killed

CHICAGO, Aug. "a (P).-A fam
lily Of six was killed last night in
a heao-on truck-automobile col
lision south of Chicago. Police
identified the dead as Robert D,
Bowers. As. of North Lake City,
his wife Irene, 40, and their four
children.
Evening star., 1951-08-24
Puloski. Columbus Doys Set
BY the Associated Press

President Truman issued pro-
clamations yesterday calling fol
observance of October IL as
Pulaski Memorial Day. in honor
of the Polish general who was
killed in the Revolutionary War
and Of October IL as Columbus
Day.
Evening star., 1951-08-24

: ness Unit III
flor the 1852
.R e d Feather
sUSO Campaign
lit as an
:"nounced today.
. Mr.. Loe h !
will also head
ian evaluation
:c o m m t tie e
which will To-
cate potential
Id o n ors who
|have not been
IS olicited IN
previous C a m ;
Evening star., 1951-08-24
F0reclosing
SCIEN NC

It is astonishing in this day of So billion dollar
Committee should boggle over a. million dollar
fund designed to replensh the armory of scientific
ideas from which defense draws its strength In
cutting the request for the National Science Foun
dation by o8 percent-from IA million to $500 OOO-
on any effort to stimulate more basic scientific re-
search. The IA million dollars asked was below the
154mlon annual authorization set by Congress
when it established the foundation last year In
view of the many difficulties which preceded the
establishment of the foundation, this new blow is
profoundly disheartening
The foundation, under direction of Dr. Alan T.
Waterman, had proposed to spend eight million
dollars in support of basic research and five million
for 210O graduate fellowships in the sciences and
engineering. Some basic research is being done
by universities, by the Atomic Energy Commits
sion, Public Health Service, Department of Ag-
riculture and to limited extent by the armed
forces themselves. But there is no coordination
no effort to survey the field and plug the gaps.
Likewise, the demands of the military are con-
stantly increasing the need for scientists but the
supply is diminishing.
In these circumstances ID million dollars for the
Science Foundation is not luxury, but remark
ably small and prudent investment. The United
States has been Nation of applied science; Ameri
cans have been geniuses at developing the basic
ideas borrowed from others-as for example, on the
atom bomb. But DR.. James B. Conant, who heads
the foundations advisory board, has repeatedly
pointed to the need to concentrate more effort on
the fundamental research of which applied science
is made The Science Foundation needs help in its
job of promoting the raw material of scientific
ideas without which technology alone would soon
falter. (fron1 The Washington Post)
Evening star., 1951-08-24
Insurance Man Appointed
Official Of USO Campaign

Emil A. Loehl. assistant sec
Iretary of the Acacia Mutual
Life Insurance Co.. has been
named executive assistant of Bust
Evening star., 1951-08-24
Horrimon to Meet Again
With Trans Premier

! TEHERAN. Iran. Aug. "a GP).-
w. Averell Hartman planned q
last meeting with Iranian Premier
Mohammed Mossadegh today be-
fore leaving for secret conferences
with Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito.
| Mr.. Hartman. President Tru-
mans woodworking diplomatic
trouble shooter, gave no hint oi
what he will discuss in Belgrade
with the Yugoslav leader, who has
been under increasing Russian
pressure.
Mr.. Harriman's Jump from one
crisis-laden trouble-spot to an
other comes after the collapse o1
talks between Britain and Iran or
oil naturalization.
Today's conference with thu
Iranian premier is not expected tc
bring about any immediate re.
opening of the negotiations which
Mr. Hartman has said he hope:
are only suspended" mot ended
Evening star., 1951-06-17

A TRUCK driver has chance to become
IA rich man these days. If he's on his toes,
md has the nerve. he may parlay load of
fresh fruit or vegetables into fortune
The fruit and vegetable business is at best
high-speed gamble, with rich rewards and
numerous dangers perhaps the last busi-
ness frontier where a man can start small and
hope to hit bonanza in few years.
Anybody who can scrape together down
payment on a secondhand truck can become
"wildcatter," as the one-man trucking COM
pany is known. At last count there were
3,243,268 truck owners in the us. If
trucker hauls few long distance loads,
saves his pay and keeps his eye peeled
for a farmers crop, he can graduate
into the ranks of the ''gypsies.''
A gypsy is rowing merchant who buys
truckload of produce where it is plentiful and
sells it wherever he can.
One of these venturesome drivers may buy
load of fresh lemons in Central California
and start east across the mountains If he
Evening star., 1951-06-17

the unpicked remainder of the Mexican crop
also froze.
Luckily for the rest of us, the produce
spectators tend to equalize supply and de-
mand by rushing crop to the area where it
is most scarce. Many of them go broke,
but some get rich and acquire a whole
feet of trucks.
A notable example is Harry Scheid, the
3O-year-old owner of the Scheid Distributing
Company. At Is he started out as night dis
patcher for a trucking company. At II he was
ready to gamble. He drove his first long haul
"a lotion truck with l8 tons of watermelons.
At the top of treacherous Donner Pass in
California, gear broke, his truck started
down the ice-sheathed road out of control.
1t was doing 80 when it hit the bottom and
sheared off half the trailer against bridge
post - but Scheid held the truck on the road.
He still claims it rolled 10 miles uphill before
he could stop it. The melons were a total loss.
Evening star., 1951-06-17
by Keith Monroe

hits city during heat wave, he'll get SIG
box for his fruit, because housewives will be
storming the groceries for lemons to make
lemonade.
If the weather along his route is temper
ate, he may have to grab an offer Of so
box. If he's really jinxed, the lemons may
spoil before he can sell them
He May Make Killing
WHEN his truck is empty, he may gamble
again by loading up with Iowa corn or Maine
potatoes, and heading westward Maybe he
winds up in Mexico buys another cargo of
tomatoes or peppers, and sells it in Los Ange-
les. There's no telling what the price will be.
In one three-week period last winter, the
retail price of tomatoes started at IL cents
pound, climbed to As cents as news came in
that California's crop was sub-standard and
Texas's and Floridas had been spoiled by
frost. Then it fell to Is cents as hundreds of
loads of Mexican tomatoes poured in to fill
the vacuum, shot up again to 40 cents when
Evening star., 1951-06-17

Scheid was far from discouraged. He saved
his money and by l947 he had built up big
enough bankroll to get back into business
He staked $4,000 on several truckloads of
Puerto Rican pineapples bought in Mobile,
Ala, and headed them for Los Angeles.
Unluckily his trucks broke down on the run
from Mobile and two thirds of the load
spoiled because the drivers didn't re-ioe it.
No wholesaler would touch Scheid's pine
apples
Evening star., 1951-06-17
Hot Maize

AFTER nine days of futile struggle to sell it,
he got an idea. He picked up the telephone
book, and found restaurant which featured
tall, cold pineapple drinks. The restaurateur,
who had been losing customers in droves dur
ing the pineapple shortage, was glad to buy
the remainder of the load for enough to enable
Scheid to break even He's been pyamiding
his money ever since
Driving gypsy truck can be dangerous.
Highjackers occasionally drop onto a truck
from an overpass, or waylay it at rail-
road crossing Scheid has been held up twice
and slugged once. And there's no telling what
kind of man may turn up at the wheel of
wildcatter. Some years ago three young driv-
ers were arrested in Montezuma, Kan They
had stolen load of milo maize from Kansas
farmer, and sold it the next morning to a
feed store in Hooker, Okla That night they
broke into the store stole the milo again,
trucked it back north and sold it the following
day at Rolla, Kan.
Although truck-driving is apparently the
Continued on page Is
Evening star., 1951-06-17
I11[[TT7 BUSINESS

One-man trucking companies have made fortunes
single haul of tomatoes, lost them week later
ON melons. Here's the story of ''wildcatters
Wheels They have to be tough, smart and lucky
by Keith Monroe
, 1951-07-26
SPORTS
Hubert Francis

NEW YORK: The Cleveland In
dams and the New York Yankees
were engaged in a battle for first
place in the AL, and what a bat
tie it was ! Mike Garcia opposed
Eddy Lopat, and both pitchers
were sharp. The Indians jumped
on Lopat in the 1st inning for a
lone tally when Mitchell and
Avila opened with singles, and
Mitchell scored from 3rd on Doby's
long fly. This one run loomed
larger and larger, as Garcia held
the Yanks scoreless for s innings
Gil McDougald singled to open
the 9th but neither Woodling nor
DiMaggio could do anything with
Garcia. Berra singled to move
McDougald to 3rd and to keep
Yankees hopes alive. Then came
the dramatic finish. Big Johnny
Mize, who had won the previous
days game with an 9Th inning
homer, walloped a Garcia offering
in the gap between right and cen
ter fields, and while Kennedy and
Dolby raced like mad after the
little white pellet, McDougald and
Continued on page a
, 1951-07-26
Mon Stabbed in
Chest: Accused Held
In Christiunsted Juil

Leonica Garcia was stabbed
during a braWl with two other
men, Leonardo Alicia Morales
and Manuel Alicia Colon, on
Tuesday night, July Oath, at
Estate Sion Farm. Morales,
who is alleged to have done
the stabbing is held in the
Christiansted Police Station.
Bail was set by Judge Cane
gaia at 5000.
According to Police reports,
both Colon and Morales pre-
sumably went looking for
Garcia. The former is said to
have kept the victim in con-
versation when Colon alleged
~ made the attack, after
which all three engaged in fist
fights. Garcia managed to
break away and ran but was
overtaken by Morales who
stabbed him.
Police first got the report
when the victim was brought
to the Christiansted Hospital;
Colon was seized as material
witness by the Police and
brought to the Station b u t
was released when Morales
was arrested.
, 1951-07-26
Ser. SAYS
Men Between Aces
1926 Must Register

Men between the ages Of IS
and rs, separated from the
Armed Forces and not previ-
ously registered, are required
by law to register at a Selec-
tive Service Local Board with
in 30 days Of the date of their
separation. This also applies
to those separated from the
Coast Guard, the Coast and
Geodetic Survey and the Pub
lie Health Service.
Major Christmas, Virgin Is
lands Deputy Director of Sc
lective Service, made that
statement today in comment
ing on reports he said he had
received from Local Boards to
the effect that they knew in
stances in which the separated
men were not complying with
the law.
Major Christmas quoted Sc
lective Service regulations as
follows:
Every man who (a) has
been separated from active ser
vice in the armed forces, the
Guard, the Coast and
Gecdetic Survey, or the Public
Service, (b) has not
Continued on page A
, 1951-07-26
Personal Mention

Mrs. Corine Williams of
Leesbury, Florida, and her
4-year-old daughter, Linda, are
the newest visitors from the
mainland that are seeing St.
Croix for the first time. They
are spending three weeks here
as guests Of Mr.. and Mrs. Otha
w. Nealy.
Mrs. Williams husband is
principal Of the Lake County
Training School in Florida.
They were schoolmates and
classmates of the Nealys from
childhood.
, 1951-07-26
Mock Wedding of
Tom Thu1n and Jenny
June Next Fri. NIGHT

Patrons will have some fun
next Friday night, August 3rd
when they witness a mock
wedding of Tom Thum and
Jenny June at the Lutheran
Parish Hall at 7::30 sharp. Re
hearsals are continuing, under
the direction of Mrs. Lillian
Small.
In addition to the wedding
there will be recitations, songs
and musical selections.
, 1951-07-26
Ru1nor U. S. Forces
Equipped With
Atomic A~rtillerYShells

AS the fighting slowed down
on the Korean battlefronts
awaiting the outcome of the.
present truce talks, there is a.
rumor that frontline United.
Nations troops have been sup
piled with atomic artillery
shells. The report was met by
silence at headquarters, how
ever.
One Brigadier General ex-
pressed complete disbelief in
the report. He said atomic
shells were tried out success
fully at the proving grounds
recently but beyond that he
knew nothing.
An airforce official said that
there was no official announce
ment that he knew Of concern
ing atomic artillery ammuni-
ton. If there were such am
munition, he said he doubted
if a preliminary announce
Continued on page A -,
, 1951-07-26
Jungle Casino Wus
Denoted Free TO
Youngsters forD Dances

The Jungle Casino was do
mated absolutely free of all
cost with all the facilities for
use of the youngsters who
were scheduled to learn dane
ing, by Mrs. Anna Brodhurst,
who is also a member of the
special committee directing
the activities each evening.
During use of the Casino hall.
the bar has been closed.
Use of the Hall was offered
by Mrs. Brodhurst because the
Kids were unwilling to dance
on the grass or, for that mat
ter, learn dancing in public.
The first evening over three
hundred kids of all ages
crowded into the hall. Some of
the supervisors then decided
that it would be best to divide
them into two groups u to IS
and 6 to II. This plan seemed
to have worked out well but
caused some misunderstand-
ing between some Of the
Continued on page a
, 1951-07-26
Republican Try TO
Cut Off Secretary
OF States Salary

House Republicans agreed
by a vote Of Il to 80. yesterday
to make a party fight for an
appropriations bill rider to cut
off Secretary Of State Dean
Acheson's salary. The vote in
COP conference was disap-
pointing to party leaders who
had hoped for unanimous get
Acheson' sentiment.
Some Republicans admitted
privately that the rider has
little or no chance of winning
House approval. Democratic
leaders predicted fatty that it
will be rejected.
In a last minute attempt to
win more support for the rider
sponsors revised the language
of the $1,051, LIZZIE appropri-
ations bill for the State, JUS
tice & Commerce departments.
The rider would be aimed
solely at. Acheson, instead Of
carrying broad terms that
might apply to numerous state
officials.