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Evening star., 1951-02-23
2Col|ege Men
FaceU.S.Charge
OF Extortion
One Shot by Police
Going With Intended
Victim to Rendezvous
BY the Assoeioted Press

BALTIMORE, Feb. %. - Two
young college men were held fol
grand jury action today on a Fed
eral charge growing out of what
police described as $4,000 eX-
tortion plot.
Ordered held in $4,000 bail after
their arraignment before the
United States commissioner here
were Edward c. Riggin, 81, jun
ior in the Arts and Science College
at the University of Maryland
and Warren Jackson Gore, o.
year-old engineer and Johns Hop
kins University graduate.
The charge against them is US
ing the mails for attempted ex-
tortion.
Riggin was wounded when State
police trapped the pair Wednesday
night. Police said they accom-
panied the intended victim on his
payon rendezvous.
Demanded for Protection"
Col. Carey Jarman, State police
superintendent, gave this account
of the arrests:
Last Tuesday a letter demand
ing $4,000 for protection was re-
ceived by Chris C. Campbell of
Boring, Md. Mr.. Campbell last
May was fined $4,000 and received
a suspended three-year prison
sentence on a series of abortion
charges.
The letter made no specific
threat. but demanded $4,000 for
protection"
The letter was followed by sew
eral telephone calls giving Mr
Campbell instructions on hoy to
deliver the money.
Mr.. Campbell notified State
police and Post Office authorities
He told them he was warned in
one of the calls that unless he
paid the money I'VE will get some
one close to you"
Police Hidden in Car.
Wednesday night Mr.. Campbell
drove to the appointed spot on
Haucksville road near Route 30
Crouched on the floor of his auto
mobile were 1t. John P. Novickl
and Trooper Charles E. Holley OF
State police.
Blinking his lights twice as in
structed, Mr.. Campbell then wait
ed until an automobile drove up
behind him and blinked its lights.
Mr.. Campbell then threw out a
package-a core of paper around
which was wrapped $40 bills.
When a man stepped out of the
suspects car to reach for the roll
of bills 1t. Novicki and Trooper
Holley leaped out of Mr.. Camp
bells car and ordered the two to
surrender.
The driver of the car. who later
was identified as Gore. got out
with his hands up. but the other
occupant bolted across a field and
disappeared into a wooded area.
He was wounded in the arm as 1t.
Novicki fired at him. The fugitive
was picked up a short time later
at a friends home in nearby
Hampstead and identified as
Riggin.
Evening star., 1951-02-23
Young Republican Chiefs
To Meet and Heur Mundt

The Executive Committee of the
Young Republican National Fed
Grafton will meet at II am. to-
morrow at the Lafayette Hotel
Sixteenth and I streets NV.
Following, the business sessions,
a reception and banquet will be
held at 7 pm. with Senator
Mundt, Republican, Of South Da-
kota addressing the group.
Evening star., 1951-02-23

who told of seeing the two boys
one 10, the other IL, put match
to the mans clothing as he lay
in the street in the TOO block OF
Eighth street NE. about IL pm
The match went out, the wit
ness said, and the boys applied
another to the mans shirt. When
the fire started. the two walked
away and the witness, instead OF
extinguishing the flame, followed
them. He later returned to the
scene and told police where one
of the boys lived.
They were arrested at their
homes. and are held on charges
of mayhem.
Evening star., 1951-02-23
Strutford PTA to Meet

The Stratford Junior High
School Parent-Teacher Associa-
ton will hold its first meeting at
|8 pm. Tuesday in its new build
ing on Old Dominion drive. Arl-
|ington. "a a,
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Doris FIeeson to Address
American U.CIub Sunday

Miss Doris Fleeson, syndicated
columnist for The Star, will
speak on American Democratic
Ideals and Present Day Realities, y
at a meeting of the American
University Political Club at $3.50
pm. Sunday at the home of DR..
Paul F. Douglass. university presi-
dent. on the campus grounds.
Mrs. Alben Barkley, wife of the
Vice President, and a trustee of
the university. will be the honored
guest at the lecture.
Evening star., 1951-02-23
Graduated From Temple u.

James A. Gordon Of 1923
Twenty-first street NV. was grad
uated from Temple University in
Philadelphia yesterday with the
Bachelor Of Arts degree.
Evening star., 1951-02-23
Graham Road PTA

The Parent-Teacher Associa-
tion of Graham Road School
Falls Church, Va, will meet al
8 pm. Tuesday in the National
Garden Baptist Church. Falls
Church.
Evening star., 1951-06-28
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Just $50 of these famous
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lmperfections too slight to
motter in use. In dainty
white covers, sonforized for
woshobility. Cool for sum-
mer.
5th Floor. Washington: 3rd
Evening star., 1951-06-28
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Evening star., 1951-06-28
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sucker, cotton eobordine,
poplin, pique, chonbroy and
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Evening star., 1951-06-28
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Women's Shoes

Including Loird Sehober,
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Potent leather, black suede.
Spring and summer styles
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Evening star., 1951-06-28
Seconds, o.o5 g. 1925 Cotton
BroodIoom Carpet

Choice of two handsome
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pile carpet in white, hunter
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Evening star., 1951-06-28

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Evening star., 1951-06-28
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Evening star., 1951-06-28
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Evening star., 1951-06-28

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Evening star., 1951-06-28

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Evening star., 1951-06-28
Tailored Cameo
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Discontinued toilored styles, swish them
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3.99
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252" wide to pair, 80" long. Eeeshell.
Washable 1872
9th Floor, Washington; 3rd Floo
Evening star., 1951-06-11

Panama has joined the war on
aftosa (hoof and mouth disease) .
Evening star., 1951-06-11
Robertson Plans Bill
To Guarantee Banks
Small Business Loans

Senator Robertson, Democrat,
Of Virginia today is introducing
legislation to permit the Federal
Reserve system to underwrite aid
to- small business.
The Robertson bill would author
ize any Federal Reserve banK to
guarantee any chartered banking
institution against loss Of princi-
pal or interest on loans OF no more
than 10-year maturity to a busi-
ness the lender bank finds cannot
get help on a reasonable basis
from customary sources.
.oans would be limited to 80
p, cent of the unpaid balance
and the total loans permissible
would be limited to the combined
surplus of Federal Reserve banks.
Senator Robertson is one of
those backing the move to abolish
the Reconstruction Finance Corp.
and is proposing the reserve loan
set-up as an alternative to
financing small business aid
through the RFC.
That agency, he said. "inevi-
tably will operate at a large loss
If it goes extensively into small
business loans.
The Federal Reserve system, he
argues, can render the same
service to small business without
expense to the taxpayers.
Evening star., 1951-06-11

Three men accosted two young
women and then kicked a soldier
who tried to intervene, police said
today as they charged the three
with assault with deadly weapon
"a shoe.
The soldier, Corpl. Bruce ].
Church of Boiling Air Base was
treated at the hospital there for
head Bruises
Police arrested Luther T. Mid
lin. %, of the 1900 block of Har-
ward street NV: his brother.
Claude c. Midlin, IS, of the same
address, and Jesse H. House, %,
of Durham, N. C.
Detectives said the three ap-
preached Isabelle A. Boyd. IT, Of
HAS Church street NV, and 10
Ann Harting, 20, of 1888 Newton
street NV, while the young
women were standing on street
car loading platform at Four
Iteenth and H streets NV. shortly
after midnight.
When Corpl. Church objected to
the remarks to the young women,
police said, Miss Boyd was slapped
and the Corporal knocked down
and kicked on the head. The three
men charged were to appear in
Municipal Court today.
Evening star., 1951-06-11
Man Bites Policeman
And Faces Judge
On Drunk Charge

Police Pvt. Edwin F. Goodall
of No. II Precinct has II teeth
marks in his left leg today, placed
there by a one-legged man who
didn't want to be arrested.
James King, 47, colored, of the
1400 block of Eleventh street NV
has a lump on his head where
Pvt. Goodall broke his night
stick. He also must face grand
jury action on assault charges.
The policeman explained it all
to Municipal Court Judge Thomas
c. Scalley after he had ,impec
to the witness stand.
He said that he placed King
under arrest in the 240O block oi
Nichols avenue Sc. last night
latter King had caused a disturb.
ance in a restaurant. When he
grabbed King by the seat of The
trousers to help bin along to the
police station, King bent double
and clamped his teeth into the
policeman's leg. Pvt. Goodall ex.
lplained.
The policeman said he shook
King loose but then King sunk hi.
teeth into the fingers of Pvt. Good.
Iall's left hand.
At that point, Pvt. Goodall sale
Ihe broke his night stick on Kings
head.
Judge Scalley ordered King tt
pay a $40 fine or serve 10 days ir
Jail on the drunk charge which
Pvt. Goodall placed against him
Evening star., 1951-06-11
|New-Trial Motion
Argued in Jury
|Tampering Case

Final arguments were being
made today by counsel at District
Court on a new trial motion for
lBennie C. Caldwell. 81, convicted
last month on jury tainpering
charges.
The final argument by Defense
attorney Henry Lincoln johnson,
ljr.. centered around the dual role
played by John e. Bradley, sr.,
who hired out as a worker for the
defense while serving as an in
former for the prosecution.
] Assistant United States Attorney
william Hitz previously stated in
Opposing the new trial motion that
lhe had instructed Mr.. Bradley not
Ito accept employment by the de-
tense while serving as an informef
for the Justice Department in the
caldwell case. Mr.. Hitz prose-
|cuted Caldwell on the jury-tam-
lpering charges.
Before final arguments on the
motion got under way today. Mr.
lHitz announced to the court that
lMr. Bradley would be taken before
la grand jury to tell of the part
Ihe has played. Mr.. Hitz had IN.
Idicated on June /, the opening
day of the hearing on the new.
trial motion. that Mr.. Bradley
probably would be taken before
grand jury.
/ Much Of the testimony at thu
|lhearing on the motion for a new
trial has centered around a report
that Mr.. Bradley made to Mr.
Hitz, an affidavit the detective
made later in behalf Of the de-
tense. The affidavit was Offered
Iby the defense in support Of th'
new trial motion.
Attorney johnson argued toda.
that he had been "deluded" BY
Mr.. Bradley in connection with
the case, whether or not Mr.. Hit
J had been aware at the time Of
Mr.. Bradley's actions.
Evening star., 1951-06-11
RAYMOND Rhine Dies;
In GP0 for "a Years

Raymond Rhine, SO, a Govern
ment Printing Office ,bookbinder
for nearly a quarter of a century
died Friday at Sibley Hospital
after an illness Of two years.
Mr.. Rhine had suffered from q
heart ailment.
Born in the District, he attend
ed public schools here. He learned
his trade with the Stockett-Fiske
Co. here and went to work for the
GPO about 1927.
He was q member of Calvary
Baptist Church for many years
and also belonged to the Book
binders Union, Local No. 4, anc
Lafayette Lodge No. 10. F. A. A. M
Mr.. Rhine lived at 1929 Carltor
avenue NE.
He is survived by his widow
Mrs. Frances c. Rhine of the Carl
ton avenue address. and a daugh.
ter. Mrs. Dorothy Frances Wang
ner of 2216 Charleston place
Lewisdale, Md.
Funeral services will be held al
10 am. tomorrow at the Hine'
funeral home, 1901 Fourteenth
street NV. Burial will be il
Cedar Hill Cemetery.
Evening star., 1951-06-11
nAboutto Inherit 500, 900 oAirman's Ga|Ianfy
of Womun RecIuse Falls Dead Puts Him in HOSPITAL

Martha E. Waggoner. about 10.
recluse who died March 20.
Mr.. Crothers and Mrs. Wag-
goner were first cousins. Mr..
Crothers testified in County Court
Friday that he had heard of the
eccentric widow, but never had
seen her.
Mrs. Waggoner was the widow
of DR.. Don Morris Waggoner. a
Lewistown physician. Few peo-
pie had seen her in recent years.
She allowed no one on the
grounds Of her large home.
Glen Ratcliff. attorney for a
dozen or more other claimants to
Mrs. Waggoner's estate, has an
nounced he will appeal Judge
SCOTS ruling.
Evening star., 1951-06-11
Judges
Continued From First Page.)

Court bench in New York only
four years ago. He is a Democrat,
an Episcopalian, has two sons, six
grandchildren and divides his
time between a New York apart
ment and a home in Southamp-
ton. Ions Island.
Murphy Graduated From G. U.
The new Judge Murphy, cer-
Itainiy one of the biggest on the
bench in view of his 6-foot, 4-inch,
I220-pound build, was graduated
from Georgetown University in
1927.
A native New Yorker, he also is
"a Fordham University graduate. &
After his successful prosecution
Of the Alger Hiss case, he was de-
Iscribed by his wife as "a man Of
tender feeling who wouldn't bart
la fly" +ggs s
Es Before the Hiss case, his name
was high among the Nations top
prosecutors. AS an assistant
United States attorney, he prose-
IcOted Eleanor Paternotre, who was
charged with income tax evasion
land settled for 81 million after
pleading guilty.
Rejected Price Control Post.
I Last February he rejected ar
offer to come. to Washington as
head of price control enforcement
Mr.. Dimock is native of Eliza
beth, N. j. He attended Yale and
Harvard, was admitted to the New
York bar in 1914 and was with
the New York law Arm of Hawk
Iins, Delafield and Longfellow from
1913 to 1941.
From .945 to 1948 he was chair
man of the appeals board, Office
lof Contract Settlement In Wash
lingtor.
He has been a member of the
Beard of Editors of the American
Bar Association Journal since
1914.
Evening star., 1951-06-11
Diplomats
CONTINUED From First Page.)

a London Sunday newspaper that
there was widespread sexuel per-
version in the Foreign Office. He
asked Mr.. Morrison to start an in
quiry on those lines and to con-
slider criminal libel proceedings
against, the newspapers editor If
the charge was proved false.
Mr.. Morrison replied he would
not like ION the spur of the mo-
ment" to reply on the legal impli-
cations. adding that the writer Of
the article ''is not a gentleman to
whom any of us need to pay too
much attention"
Urges No Prejudgment.
Mr.. Morrison did not reply when
another Laborite, G. r. Chetwynd,
asked if the disappearance might
be connected with the private lives
of the two.
A member asked Mr.. Morrison
If MacDean and Burgess had any
connection with the Soviet Union.
Mr.. Morrison replied:
Il think that this is matter
which we should not PREJUDICE one
way or the other at this stage"
Another member asked: Was
Mr.. Morrison satisfied Burgess
had no Communist associations.
The foreign minister replied there
was no regular week
check on Foreign Office officials,
adding Il would not like it to
come to that do not think it
would be deserved"
MIS- Chief In Washington.
Meanwhile, the head of Britain's
unter-espionage organization,
Sir Percy Sillitoe, few to Washing
ton last night for conferences with
FB1 heads.
Purpose of his trip was not
Iofficially announced, but unofficial
sources said he may discuss ways
Iof streamlining Britain's complex
secret service system.
/ Sir Percy heads MI-5-mili-
Itary intelligence bureau-which
deals with counter-espionage. A
special branch of Scotland Yard
covers political espionage, while
the Foreign Office and the Min
listry of Supply maintain separate
secret. services. Critics say the
system lacks coordination.
/ MIS- and its chief already have
faced transatlantic criticism ir
connection with the flight, re-
portedly to Russia, of Atomic
Scientist Bruno Pontecorvo, one
OF the top men at Britain's atomic
energy station at Harwell, as well
las over the belated uncovering OF
IGerman-born Klaus Fuchs as an
atom spy.
Evening star., 1951-06-11

They were avowed Communists
at that time"
The witness said he had lengthy
with top Communist
leaders, Mao Tze-tung and Chou
En-lai. on the subject Of COM
|munism.
Mao Tze-tung I found to be a
phoilosophic, studious, quiet indi-
Ividual." Gen. Wedemeyer declared.
He speaks no English and most
of our conversation was conducted
through an interpreter.
Chou En-lai is a charming in
dividual-disengaging. You really,
all of you. would like him very
much and be impressed at first
with his sincerity"
Million Reds i'm l946.
Gen. Wedemeyer. who said he
was fairly conversant" with
fMarxist theory. recalled that both
men were "avowed Communists,
and they were proud Of the fact. "
Under questioning by Chairman
Russell. the officer estimated the
strength of the Communist move
ment in China in 1946 at 8 million.
THE Chinese, Communist MILL
tary would work in the fields and
then would don a uniform and
take a rife and fight and then
the next day might be working in
the fields again. :" !" he said. The
general thought there must have
been connivance" between the
Chinese Reds and Soviet Russia
in the taking over of Manchuria
after Japan's surrender.
'It was no time at all before
the Chinese Communists were
pouring into Manchuria and re-
ceiving the arms of the japanese
that had been turned over to the
Soviet armies in that area" Gen.
Wedemeyer testified"
Early End Of Inquiry Sought.
Gen. Wedemeyer, the eighth
witness in the investigation. was
called amid demands of some
members Of the investigating
group-Senate Armed Services
and Foreign Relations commit
tees-for an early termination Of
the inquiry.
Senator Hunt, Democrat, OF
Wyoming, planned to ask the
committee during the day to end
the investigation on or before
June 80. The inquiry is now in
It's 32d day of closed hearings
Chairman Russell said the mat
ter would be put to the committee
for a decision. Several members
indicated they would oppose a fiat
termination date.
/ One of these was Senator Cain
Republican. of Washington. He
said he would not agree for q
closing date but might be willing
to set limit on the number o1
witnesses who should be called.
In addition to Gen. Wedemeyer
the committee has scheduled Louis
johnson, former Secretary of De-
fense, and Averell Hartman, pres
idential adviser. as the next wit.
nesses. A long list of others has
been suggested. either formally Oh
1 informally. and Chairman Russell
has said he will name a subcom-
lmiltee to study the suggestions
with a view toward working out
some compromise on the addition.
al witnesses.
Senator Green, Democrat, o1
) Rhode Island, said the hearing!
should be brought to a close now
He explained that principals ol
both sides of the controversy have
] been heard and that the testi.
,lmony of other witnesses would b
.ipointless.
Evening star., 1951-06-11
syshs Asseeio,ed press

LEWISTOWN, H., June liza
73-year-old Texan collapsed and
died yesterday, just a day after
he inherited $500, 900 estate
from an eccentric woman relative
he had never seen.
William F. Crothers Of San An
tonic collapsed in the lobby Of a
Lewistown hotel, where he had
been staying since he came here
in connection with the estate
June s. Death apparently was
due to a heart attack.
Only Saturday. Fulton County
Judge Albert Scott signed an or
der declaring Mr.. Crothers the
legal heir to the estate of Mrs.
Evening star., 1951-06-11
RomuIo Agrees to Run

MANILA, June II R.-Liberal
Party leaders said today Carlos P
Romulo, foreign secretary. has
agreed to run for Senator in No
vember If he is nominated at the
party convention this summer
They said Mr.. Romulo would not
campaign actively for nomination
Evening star., 1951-06-11
First Nipsy League

Britain has its first Nipsy league
-Nipsy being poor mans golf"
played by miners in the summer
time with a wooden peg which
they drive instead Of a ball. while
Icalculators measure the distance
the nipsy has been hit.
Evening star., 1951-06-11
New zeuIond BoIsters Unit

WELLINGTON, New Zealand,
June II (R.-New Zealand will send
1903 men to reinforce its artillery
unit in Korea this week. They will
Tbe flown to Sydney, Australia. in
three Consultations and sail from
there for Kure June 1S in the ship
Taituan.
Evening star., 1951-06-11

Registration of motor vehicles
in Switzerland is at a new high
of 264. .487 units.
Evening star., 1951-06-11

Cuba has ordered all green cof-
fee seized and sold to roasters at
the ceiling price.
Milford chronicle., 1951-02-16

Mr. and Mrs. J. Maurice Evans
and son Jimmy and daughter Par
para OF Wilmington motored here
ana visited their parents, James
M. Evans and Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
+. Hickman on Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Townsend of
Wilmington, visited Mr.. and Mrs
Andrew Davidson over the week
end. wen
Matthew Pusey of MARYLAND
spent the weekend with his Sis
ter and brOther-in-law, Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles M. Keen.
Young Robert Theodore Derrick
son observed his first birthday on
Saturday, February 8, at the home
OF his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Oliver
DerricksOn.
Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew Berger Of
Philadelphia attended the viewing
OF Mrs. Mae Moore Donawav at
her home on Sunday evening.
The services at Bethel Methodist
Cnurch on Sunday were inspiring
Inere was an increase in Sunday
schoOl over the previous Sunday
Wnlch was extremely cold.
The worship service was we'll at
Tended. Rev. d. c. Wildey delivered
an inspiring sermon on Brother
MOOD" on Sunday morning and in
the evening the sermon was based