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Evening star., 1951-07-14
France Parades Might
OF Arms on BastiIIe Day
BY the Associated Press

PARIS, July 14.-France put or
her biggest display of military
power since the war for her tradi-
tional Bastille Day parade today
showing off new tanks and other
motorized weapons.
Military attaches of all nations
on the crowded presidential plat
form, craned their necks as two
new 50-ton tanks, with 1000
horsepower motors and mounting
100-millimeter guns on their oscil-
lating turrets, churned dust from
the Champs Elysees.
Other production from French
factories included a
highspeed mobile assault gun of
-millimeters, 13-ton light tank
chasers, rocket-launching ramps,
jet-propelled assault boats, and An
eight-wheeled reconnaissance car
with drivers facing fore and aft
and able to travel in either direc-
ton at maximum speed.
Other sections of the two-hour
long parade included two regl-
ments of Sherman tanks and a
regiment of Aston Ere |ch tanks
Evening star., 1951-07-14
British Requisition 1ankers
Beinq Built for Polish Line
By the Assoeioted Press

LONDON, July 14-Under
American pressure. Britain today
requisitioned two new oil tankers
nearing completion here for Com
munist Poland.
The tankers were requisitioned
by the Admiralty under British
defense regulations. a Foreign
Office spokesman announced at
his daily news conference.
Some weeks ago the United
States protested formally against
delivery of the new vessels to the
Polish Ocean Lines.
The United States looked on the
oil tankerS as highly strategic
vessels and shipment of strategic
goods to Communist countries is
banned.
The tankers, both of about 1900
tons, are the Tatry and Beskidy,
being constructed by Bartram &
Sons of Sunderland.
Evening star., 1951-07-14
a British Destroyers
Ordered 10 Red Sea in
Dispute With Egypt
Action Follows HoItinq
And Search Of English
Merchant Vessel
BY the Associated Press

| LONDON, July 14.-Four British
destroyers will sail shortly" for
the Red Sea, where a British mer-
chant ship was boarded and
searched by an Egyptian corvette
two weeks ago, the Admiralty said
today.
The four Warships now are sta
toned with the British Mediter-
ranean feet, based at Malta.
The Admiralty said they will
put in at Aqaba. a Jordan Red Sea
port. and at Alden, a British pro-
Itectorate on the coast of Arabia.
Aqaba is at the northern end
of the Red Sea, while Alden stands
near it's southern entrance from
the Indian Ocean.
Morrison Acted Quickly.
An Egyptian frigate stopped the
British freighter Empire Roach
July l The Empire Roach's cap
tain said his ship was boarded by
the Egyptians. detained for sew
eral hours. some of its stores were
looted and it's radio smashed.
| Britain sent sharp note to the
Egyptian government. At the same
time, Foreign Secretary Herbert
Morrison summoned Egyptian Am
baSsador Amr Pasha to the For
eign Office and gave him a tart
l20-minute going over.
| Mr.. Morrison told the House OF
Commons a few hours later that
he was comforting with the Ad-
miralty about sending warships te
the area to protect British ship
ping.
Dispute Is of Long Duration.
Britain and Egypt have been al
odds for a couple of years over
interference with shipping.
Previously the Egyptians hac
limited their interference te
searching of vessels passing
through the Suez Canal, connect
ing the Mediterranean with the
northern end OF the Red Sea. The
Egyptians gave as their reason fol
the continued searching a desire
to prevent military goods reaching
Israel, nation with which Egypt
and other Arab nations fought q
short and bitter war three years
ago.
Evening star., 1951-07-14
Sawyer and Disable
Still Fight 10 Retain
Strong Controls Bill
G. 0. P.-Southern Bloc
Makes More Progress
In Cutting Down Measure

Administration leaders today
continued their apparently losing
battle to save the strong points
in economic controls legislation.
Congress was in recess until
Monday, but before quitting for
the week end a House coalition
of Republicans and Southern
Democrats chopped away still
further parts of the administra-
tons controls bill.
In a radio talk, Secretary OF
Commerce Sawyer warned thai
Imitation will do the country great
harm unless we keep controls
He said that "as soon as control!
can be abandoned or alleviated
they will be-" But he added:
1T is childish to pretend tina
inf1ationary pressures are no
upon us +"
Disable Hits "SeIfish Few"
Price Director Michael v. Disable
declared that "a selfish few ir
business were out to wreck price
controls. He refused to identify
the "few." He added that amend
ments to the controls bill tackeo
on in the Senate and House would
make control Of prices very diff
cult.
The House version of the bill tt
extend wage-price-rent controls i:
expected to be completed by nex1
Thursday. The bill then will go tc
a conference committee.
The Senate measure reduces
President Truman's present pow.
ers over the Nations economy ano
gives him none of the new au-
thority he asked. The House bill
appears certain to be as rough-ii
not rougher-on the administra-
ton.
Representative Dollinger, Demo-
crat, of New York told the House
yesterday that it lis not controlled
by Democrats; it is controlled by
an unholy alliance of Republicans
and Dixiecrats."
Politics" Charges Snapped.
Mr.. Dollinger's statement drew
from Representative Halleck, Re-
publican. of Indiana the counter
charge that Democrats IS were play
ing politics" with controls, and
asserted the House has yet to
adopt lone single amendment
which affects wage or price con-
trolls"
AS party spokesmen swappeo
charges of politics" over the con-
trolls action, Farm State spokes-
men from both parties readieo
their big guns to kill off price
rollbacks Monday.
In a wordy session yesterday
the House adopted an amendment
which cut out of the administra-
ton bill proposed additional au-
thority for the President to create
new Government corporations by
Executive Order.
The expiring Defense Produc-
tSee CONTROLS, Page A-2.)
Evening star., 1951-07-14

the U. N. negotiating team, al.
though no agreement had evel
been reached on this.
3. They propose to leave to fur.
ther negotiations the size of tht
area of the neutral meeting place
and other related questions.
(The EngliSh-language text as
heard from the Peiping radio
contained no mention of accep-
tance "in principle" as ap-
peared in the earlier transla-
tion-from Korean to japanese
to English-of the Pyongyang
radio broadcast late last night.)
Authentic Reply Awaited.
Gen. Ridgway's headquarters
said:
There will be no comment un-
til we have received a properly
authenticated message"
However, convoy members at
the U. N. peace camp were told to
be ready at am. today Is
pm. Saturday EDIT to leave fol-
KaeSong on one hours notice
Among them were the 20 CORE
spondents that Red guards tried
to cut out OF the convoy Thursday
precipitating the armistice crisis
. The Pyongyang broadcast was
recorded by japanese monitors OF
Kyodo News Service at 9 O'Clock
last night q am. EDIT. That wa:
80 hours after the U. N. COM
mander laid down his terms fol
renewing armistice talks.
The Pyongyang and Peipine
broadcaStS we're addressed tt
Gen. Ridgway and signed by the
two top Reds in Korea-Gen. Kim
II Sung, North Korean premier
and Gen. Peng Teh-huai, com.
mander of Chinese forces ir
Korea.
Text of Red Reply.
The Chinese Red radio early
today broadcast the following Eng.
lish-language text of a reply by
Gems. Kim II Sung and Peng Teh.
huai to Gen. Ridgway:
Gen. Ridgway:
"Your letter dated July 18th
has been received. In order tt
eliminate misunderstanding anc
arguments over some side ques.
tions and to enable the work Of
peace negotiations to proceed
smoothly, we agree to your pro.
posal of fixing the Kaesong area
as neutral zone during the pc.
riod of the meeting, and that both
parties do not carry out hostile
acts of any kind within this area
and all armed personnel be ex.
cluded from the area of the meet.
ing place and from the route.
through which your delegation ane
ours travel to the area, of thu
meeting place. AS to the size OF
the area of the meeting place anc
other related concrete questions
we propose that these be left tt
(See TRUCE, Page A-8.)
Evening star., 1951-07-14
Rescued Yachtsman
Tells Of Killing Shark
BY the Associated Press

HONOLULU, July IA
Iyachtsman who killed a shark
that kinda nibbled" at his toes
while he bobbed alone in the Pa
cific was en- route to Honolulu
today. agreeing with his friends
that he's "the luckiest man in the
world"
Ted Sierks' friends in Pasadena.
Calf, messaged him aboard the
United States destroyer escort
Douglas A. Munro: mo more
poker with any one having your
luck"
Mr.. Sierks fell overheard from
the sloop pApache Wednesday
during the annual 2,225-mile Los
Angeles-Honolulu yacht race.
Thirty hours later he was picked
up by the Munro, which was
making one last desperate sweep
OF the Pacific before needing
orders to abandon the search.
In a radio interview yesterday
he told how he killed one of the
sharks that bothered him:
1T was after my bare feet. It
kinda nibbled on them. I grabbed
it by the tail, turned it over and
ripped its belly with my knife.
=. The whole thing was over
in 20 seconds"
Mr.. Sierks Tended off many other
sharks that swan around him.
Meanwhile, the schooner Morn
ing Star from Los Angeles, pace
setter since the race began, ran
into stormy seas as it neared the
Diamond Head finish line. The
Morning Star appeared certain to
finish first. some time late today.
On corrected time basis, how
ever, the real winner of the race
will probably be the tiny ketch
Sea Witch of San Francisco, which
had a six-day han, gap.
Evening star., 1951-07-14
Reds Accept Ridgway Demands
Agree to Kaesong Neutral Zone
And Entry Of 20 Allied Newsmen
Some Questions
Left to Luter
Negotiation
BY the Associated Press

SEOUL, Korea, Sunday, July Is
Chinese and North Korean rad
los last night and early today re-
ported acceptance of Gen. Mat
thew B. Ridgway's demands for
equality in cease-fire talks.
Japanese monitors in Tokyo re-
ported top Communist command
ers told Gen. Ridgway in a mes
sage broadcast by Peiping radio
early today:
/. The Communists agree to
establish a neutral zone around
Kaesong in which no hostile act
would be committed and all armed
personnel would be excluded.
2. They agree to allow 20 United
Nations newsmen to go to Kae-
song. as part of the personnel of
Evening star., 1951-07-14
Virginia Crashes
Kill 8, Including
2D.C. Women
Three Others Injured
In z FutuI Accidents
On Highway No. I

Eight persons were killed and
three injured in two spectacular
automobile head-on crashes early
today on United States Highway /
in Northern Virginia.
Two Washington women who
work for Capital Airlines and a
Fort Belvoir sergeant were killed
about 6 miles south of Woodbridge.
when their convertible collided
with a tractor trailer and burst
into flames about $3.50 am. State
police reported.
In the other crash. about two
hours earlier II miles south Of
Fredericksburg, three members Of
Ia Florida family and a friend. who
were en- route home from a FAM
lily reunion in Alexandria, we're
killed along with a soldier in
the other car.
NlCtlmS are LlSteu.
State police identified the dead
in the Woodbridge accident as:
Miss Rose Ward, "a, of Apart
ment 4, 2008 Hillyer place NV:
Miss Geraldine Goudy, "a, of 1118
Allison street NV, and Sergt.
Ray Spidham Fry, 81, of the list
Aircraft Battery Co., AAA Gun
Battalion, Fort Belvoir, Va.
Listed as dead in the Fred
ericksburg smashup were:
Mrs. Ann kaufman, Al, of Fort
Lauderdale, Fla; her two sons.
John Kirby, 10, and Carl, Is; a
friend of the Kaufman family,
Robert Ashley Walton, 10, of
Pompano. Fla, and William Scott,
25, a colored soldier stationed at
the A. P. Hill military reserva-
tion.
Another Kaufman son. James.
IL, was in critical condition at
Mary Washington Hospital, Fred
Iericksburg. Two other colored
soldiers were treated at Mary
Washington and transferred to
the Fort Belvoir hospital. They
are Pfc. John Holmes and Sergt.
R. C. Carter.
Woman Driving Convertible.
i One CT the Washington women
was driving the convertible in the
Woodbridge accident. police said,
jalthough it belonged to Sergt. Fry.
Friends of Miss Goudy said she
does not drive and presumed that
Miss Ward must have been at
the wheel.
/ Capital Airlines officials said
Miss Ward, native of Kingwood.
Nv. Va, had been with the firm
only two months. Miss Goudy was
from Akron. Ohio, and had worked
for Capital since January. They
were employed in the space reser-
vation department.
| Sergt. Fry was the son of Mrs.
Irma Fry of Cowiche, Wash. He
had been in the Army since April.
1948, and served in Guam from
November, 1948, to January. 1850.
i Mrs. Kaufman, her three sons
and their friend had started back
to Fort Lauderdale last night after
a family reunion at the home of
Mrs. Kaufman's parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. John Wickham, 1912 Tenth
street, Alexandria.
Police said John Kirby Kauf-
man was driving one car and
iSergt. Carter was operating the
other.
Evening star., 1951-07-14
Egypt Will Shun Talks
With Britain on Arms

ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, July IA
P.-Egypt announced last night
a cabinet decision to shun any
military conferences with Britain
as long as Egypt's national as
pirations" are unsatiSfied.
The decision made Thursday
night was announced after official
sources IN London said earlier yes
terday\ that Egypt has refused to
go along with plans for all-Africa
defense talks that were to have
been held soon in Pretoria. South
Africa, or Nairobi, Kenya.
Prime Minister Salah ell Din
PaSha refused to comment on the
London report, which said Egypt's
attitude would delay the talks.
Evening star., 1951-07-14
BY the Associated Press

President Truman today threw
tthe administration weight behind
a move to appropriate SIS million
! for emergency relief in the flooded
Kansas (Kaw) River valley.
The White House announced
the President had been in confer
ence overnight With Speaker Ray
burn and Chairman Cannon of
the House Appropriations Com
mittee and had asked them for
the money.
The appropriations group had
an emergency session scheduled
this morning to consider the
matter.
The White House announce
ment also said Mr.. Truman had
asked Secretary of Agriculture
Brannan to survey the situation
and see that necessary food is
available. and to provide loans
and other assistance for farmers
"to help them get started again
when the flood waters recede."
Last night the President dis
Evening star., 1951-07-14
By George Weller
foreign Correspondent Of The Stor and
the Chicago Daily News

TEHERAN. Iran, July IA
Stirred by President Trumans an
nouncement yesterday that he will
be relieved, Ambassador Henry F
Grady today replied that he hoped
to be allowed to remain at his
post until the oil crisis was solved
The White House. Mr.. Grady
suggested, was basing its plan of
replacement on a casual sugges-
tion he made last May and rem
dered out of date now by the
worsening oil situation.
The presidential announcement
obviously hit Mr.. Grady hard be-
cause it arrived at the same time
with a flash from Washington that
his son-in-law, John p. Davies, jr
Evening star., 1951-07-14
Man Saves Child in Car
Hit by a, 500 Volts
BY the Associofed Press

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, July IA.
"A man after being knocked to
the ground twice succeeded in his
third attempt to rescue his baby
yesterday from an automobile
tangled in power lines carrying
4 500 volts.
The car blew a tire and snapped
off a utility pole, bringing the
power lines down upon it.
Seven of the eight passengers
leaped to safety from the charged
vehicle. Then Coy Davis Duley
of East Rochester, returned to
save his 16-month-old daughter
He suffered first and second degree
burns. His daughter was not
Iinjured. a
Evening star., 1951-07-14
y Are Killed in Crash
OF Bio British Bomber
BY the Assoei&ied Press

LINCOLN, England. July A.
The whole crew of seven British
|airmen was killed today in the
crash of four-engine Lincoln
bomber which plunged into a COW
pasture and burned.
The Lincoln is Britain's largest
|piston-engine bomber aside from
70 B-29S given the Raj by the
United States.
1t was the second big Raj crash
in So hours. A twin-engine trans
port crashed Thursday night, kill
ing all 10 men aboard. 4
Evening star., 1951-07-14
10 to IS Inches
OF Rain in ; Days
Preceded Floods
BY the Associated Press

TOPEKA, Kans., July IA
Here is the recipe Mother
Nature used to cook up the
most disastrous flood in Kan
sas and Missouri history:
The wettest month of June
in Kansas history added to
an abnormally heavy rainfall
in May and topped with 10
to is inches of rainfall in
three days over the already
soggy eastern part of the
State.
That brought seven major
rivers roaring to new high
marks.
Evening star., 1951-07-14
Things Just Too Dull
At Press Camp, Boys
Ask for VoIIey Ball
BY the Associated Press

MUNSAN, Korea, July IA
Things got so dull today at
the United Nations Korean
cease-fire press camp that a
public information officer
telephoned Seoul and asked:
Can you send up volley
ball and a broken-down net
for some broken-down cores
pondentS?"
Evening star., 1951-07-14
Fire Wrecks Grain Elevator

UTICA, N. Y, July IA GA
100000 fire early today destroyed
a grain building and its grain ele-
vator. All of Utica's fire apparatus
was used to fight the flames and
protect petroleum tanks of the
Standard Oil Co. at the barge
canal terminal.
Evening star., 1951-07-14
'Acheson Truce Stand
Gets Mixed Reaction
Among Lawmakers
Secretary Feels Armistiee
Should Be Based on
Present Bottle Lines
By the Associated Press

Secretary Of State Acheson's
stand for a Korean armistice on
the basis of present battle lines
got mixed reception among law
makers today.
Mr.. Acheson told q news con-
ference yesterday he feels the
truce should be based on the
fighting frnnt as 1t now exists and
indicated We did not favor with
drawal to the prewar dividing
line Of the 38th Parallel.
While Senators looked on this
as more advantageous than a
cease-flre at the 38th many of
them said they won't be satisfied
unless definite strides are taken
in any truce agreement toward
unification of Korea.
Senator Bridges of New Hamp-
shire, top Republican on the SEN
ate Armed Services Committee
said the present battle line, which
bulges north of the 38th Parallel
would be more desirable" as a
dividing line than the prewa1
boundary between North and
South Korea.
Wants United Korea.
But that doesn't satisfy our
aims at ALL" he said. What ]
am for and what thought we
were fighting for is a completely
united Korea"
Senator Hunt, Democrat. OF
Wyoming, another committee
member, said the dividing line
doesn't make so much difference
If the truce provides for "free
and open inspection" by the
United Nations on both sides te
prevent a recurrence of aggression
What good would it do tc
settle on either line, then get Out
OF Korea and have tt . same thine
happen all over again?" he asked
Senator Cain. Republican, Of
Washington said he believes thai
ANY truce which does not cover
a unified Korea is not a truce
that will last"
Senator Long, Democrat. oj
Louisiana observed, however, il
would be "a lot more to our ad.
vantage" to settle on the present
battle lines instead of the 88th.
Senator Mccarthy, Republican
Iof Wisconsin said the question o1
la dividing line is far overshadowec
"by what we have lost already ir
prestige in the Orient by sending
our delegates marching with a
white flag down a corridor o1
armed Chinese to negotiate with
the Reds"
Lawmakers Confused.
Il am satisfied that military
leaders did not want to agree tc
any such an arrangement but
that Acheson and (Secretary oil
IDefense) Marshall insisted upor
Ut" he said.
The breakof in negotiations left
lawmakers confused about the
next step in Korea.
But Vice President Barkley TOLD
an audience in French Lick, Ind.
last night that even if a truce
comes, it must not be the cause
Iof letdown in American military
preparations.
mo greater disaster could be.
fall our people than to be lulleo
into the conclusion that a settle
ment in one locality between de.
mocracy and autocracy would set.
tie that question everywhere and
for all people and particularly fol
our own people," he said.
Senator Lodge, Republican, o1
Massachusetts, said the Soviet.
may have proposed the cease-flrt
in Korea to "lull the American
people into a sense of false Sc.
Evening star., 1951-07-14
Reds Train Purutroopers

TAIPEH, Formosa, July IA (F.-
Unofficial reports published here
today said Russia is training
Chinese paratroopers in Siberia
and China. Training bases in
China were said to be at Harbin
and Kalgan. 4
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Weather Forecast

Sunny, some cloudiness high today IS.
Fair tonight. low So. Tomorrow. sunny,
little change. Gull report on Page A-2.)
Temperatures Today.
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tSee IRAN. Page A-3.>
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(See TRUCE, Page A-8.)
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tSee CONTROLS, Page A-20
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(See FLOOD, Page A-3)
Evening star., 1951-06-10
PRExY'S BIG DAY

to the carbon and read it off gravely
while the audience listened in grow
ing glee.
The lid blew off completely
when he read Page One for a
third time.
FORMER MAYOR John F.
Hylan of New York suffered a
comparable debacle In the course
of delivering a speech he had not
bothered to read in advance, he
came to one phrase that read,
This reminds me of my favorite
story about a travelling salesman"
1t turned out that the Mayor
had never heard the joke be-
fore, and he laughed SO hard
his glasses fell off and smashed
on the floor. The dean finished
the speech for him.
JUST BEFORE he delivered his
commencement address, Prexy
Alexander G. Ruthven, of the
University of Michigan, found
himself with a problem on his
hands.
Michigan prides itself on attract
ing students from every corner of
Evening star., 1951-06-10

uP LACAA S@hA-
pus careers in a ceremony
called ''Commencement Day"
After their sheepskins are handed
them, they settle back to listen to
some visiting dignitary who is ex-
pected to say a few well-chosen
words, but frequently doesn't know
when to stop.
ROUNDING UP a sufficiently
impressive party to make the
Commencement Day address is
the thankless job of the univer-
sity's president. Often, said party
doesn't show up until the last
minute. When Winston Churchill
appeared at NIT. in l949, Presi-
dent James R. Killian Jr. was
asked, Weren't you worried that
your star speaker would fail to
arrive?"
DR.. Killian replied, "As a mat
ter of fact, my star speaker did
fail me" 1t developed that Jan
Christian Smuts had been asked
originally. The press was told only
that "a great international per-
sonality" would be on hand. but
his name was withheld temporar-
lily to build up suspense.
But Smuts was stricken with
pneumonia and couldn't make the
trip. DR.. Killian appealed to Henry
Luce, of "Time-Life," for help.
Luce knew that the Churchill
autobiography was about to be
published and suggested that
Churchill might welcome a nom
commercial excuse for coming to
America to boost the sale of his
memoirs. DR.. Killian asked him
and he accepted.
And that 8 how it came about
that for probably the only
time in his life Churchill filed
the role of substitute speaker!
THE CH0STWRITER for a
Commencement speaker at one
college had dictated his remarks
to a secretary who typed them in
triplicate and unfortunately put
all three copies in one binder.
When the speaker got to the bot
tom of Page One, he turned over
Evening star., 1951-06-10

ALONG about
IA this time
e cry ye r
thousands of
American boys
and girls grad
uate from col
lege, winding
n& AI,nsp nu~.
Evening star., 1951-06-10

CHURCHILL botted for Smvts
the world. This sunny morning
five ebon-hued, turbaned youths
presented themselves in a body in
DR.. Ruthven's study and bowed in
unison. Haven't you a spokes-
MANI" asked the perplexed Doctor.
Don't any of you talk English?"
One youth detached himself
from the group, smiled know
ingly, and assured him, 81 do.
Dear Sir or Madam, as the case
may be :"