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Evening star., 1951-07-17
.17-Cent Wage Raise
Accepted by Workers
OF Western Union
BY the Associated Press

Western Union company en-
ployes have voted to accept COM
Ipany offer OF a 17-cents-an-hour
wage boost.
Adolph Brungs, head of the
Western Union division of the AFL
Commercial Telegraphers' Union.
said today that the count of bal
lots is not complete, but the vote
for accepting the proposal is sub
stantial.
Some $4,000 employees are in
volved. They had planned to
strike July 2. but called it off to
consider the company's offer.
]. L. Wilcox, Western Union vice
president, said at that time the
company had offered a 13-cent
pay boost effective July l and a
Accent boost effective after Sep
tember l. Both increases are sub
ject to approval of the Wage
Sterilization Board.
In addition, 5000 messengers
will get an immediate pay hike of
71a cents, followed by 21a cents
more on September /. This, too,
is subject of Wage Board approval.
Messengers now receive rs cents
an hour. Adult employees average
$127 an hour.
The company has estimated the
wage boost will cost it $12.5 mil
lion a year. 1t has asked for an
increase in rates.
The dispute involved workers
outside Metropolitan New York.
Employees there had settled earlier.
Evening star., 1951-07-17
BY the Assoeioied Press

CINCINNATI, July ia tight
Tipped Marine stood silently by a
dag-draped casket here yesterday
and kept a final rendezvous with
his buddy.
The two left college back in 1917
to fight in World War I. They
trained together at Quantico. Va,
and went into battle together in
Flance. Side by side the pair
fought their way to command of
adjoining companies in the Marine
5th Regiment.
One, Capt. Jack West, was re-
ported killed in an attack shortly
after the bloody fighting at Bel
leau Wood in 1918. But his friend,
also a captain, crawled into no.
mans land with two corpsmen
and found Capt. West, his skull
but still alive.
Evening star., 1951-07-17
Public Warned on Use
OF Sex Hormones

Use of sex hormones without
first obtaining the advice of a
physician may lead to irreparable
injury, a Food and Drug Admin
istration spokesman warned today.
DR.. Erwin E. Nelson, medical
director of the agency. empha-
sized that improper use of testo-
Sterone, the male sex hormone
can stimulate growth of dormant
cancer cells present in the pros
tatic glands of many men.
His warning came on the heels
Iof Food and Drug Administration
legal action against two Los
Angeles mail order houses who
were distributing testosterone with
directions for self-administration.
DR.. Nelson said sterility is another
potential danger from misuse of
testosterone.
He also warned against serious
injury to women's reproductive
organs from unsupervised use OF
the female sex hormone, estrogen
Both the male and female sex
hormones are of great value, wher
used under the supervision OF
qualified physicians after adequate
examination and diagnosis" he
said. For the laymen without
such supervision, they are ex.
tremely dangerous drugs"
: The Ninth Circuit Court of Ap.
pealS in Los Angeles directed thu
: Los Angeles District Court, OF
$ June Is, to issue permanent in
!. functions restraining the Maywoot
Pharmacal Co., and Vita Phar.
macals, Inc, from interstate dis.
tribution of the hormones with
!, directions for self-administration
A temporary injunction late
was is aed.
Evening star., 1951-07-17
Flood
Continued From First Page.)

! 'NNoIltlnueQ from FrSL Pdge.)
proximately $4,000 of their mer
will be available for the jobs.
North Kansas City. Mo.-a resi-
DENTAL and industrial area thai
has been a ghost town for three
!dayS-began returning to normal
| Because of flood dangers the
1000 residents had been evacuated
and business and industry shut
down.
The Missouri River, however
failed to breach the dikes and
North Kansas City was never
flooded.
BulldOzerS at Work.
BulldozerS were at work in To-
lpeka, the Kansas State Capital
scraping 6 inches to 2 feet of silt
from streets where the flood wa
tiers had receded.
The city'S water system still
was in trouble. Broken mains
caused a vast drain on the supply
and flood waters still were around
the main plant.
Half of the 10000 Topekans
forced to leave their homes had
returned. Many, however, won't
be able to go back for days.
Many hard-hit Kansas towns
Manhattan, junction City, Ottawa,
Abilene, Lawrence. Salina, Great
Bend and others-surveyed their
damage and turned to rehabilita-
ton work.
Train srvice showed some i'm
provement. Two of six major rail-
roads operating through Kansas
City were able to provide train
service out of here last night.
AS the foow waters rushed east
ward across Missouri. Army en-
gineerS at st. Louis called for more
help to sandbag dikes along the
Mississippi River. The Missouri
empties into the Mississippi north
of st. Louis.
The swollen Mississippi has
inched its way into the river front
industrial area in St. Louis, but
officials hope a major overflow can
be averted.
Evening star., 1951-07-17
AttIee Says Britain
Is Ready to Aid u. S.
Victims of Flood
By the Assoeiated Press


LONDON, July 17.-Prime
Minister Attlee said today
Britain stands ready to
send any aid it can for
victims of the disastrous
floods and fires in Kansas
and Missouri.
He told the House of
Commons his Labor gov
ernment is making in
quirieS in Washington to
determine what help is
needed.
Conservative A. C. Bos-
som suggested the British
Parliament should send a
message to Congress ex-
pressing it's deepest SYM
pathy."
Mr.. Attlee said he would
arrange for the Speaker Of
the House to send the mes
sage. He said he was sure
the House also would sup
port his own weekend mes
sage of sympathy to Pres:-
DENT fiTruman.
Evening star., 1951-07-17

Because someone stole a suit
case from a bus yesterday. a
mother with day-old child may
never see the gifts her husband
bought last week before he died.
It was bad enough for Mrs:
Doris B. Krezell, "a, Of 5046
Sargent road NE, when her hus-
band, Stanley, died of a heart
attack last Wednesday. But it
makes things a little worse to miss
the gifts Of clothes worth $3.50
her husband intended for her.
Mrs. Helen Underwood. Mrs.
Krezell's mother. was taking the
suiGase to her daughter yester-
dak morning-carrying out the
Evening star., 1951-07-17
runun
Continued From First Page)

over to Independence to vote in
a local bond election.
He will be met by Maj. Gen.
Lewis A. Pick, Chief of Army
Engineers, who will accompany
him in a swing over the food
area.
From Independence. the Presi-
dents party will fly over Kansas
City. Mo-, and Kansas City, Kans.,
then follow Kansas River up
stream to Manhattan and Fort
Riley, Kans. They will turn
south to Cottonwood Falls, Ma
rion and Florence. Kans., then
follow Neosho River down to
Commerce and Miami, Okla,
thence back up Missouri State
line to Grand View.
Total length of the trip was
estimated at between $500 and
5000 miles.
"POrk Barrel Charges Hit.
The President is expected back
in Washington tonight.
In the meanwhile. Senator
Mcclellan, Democrat. Arkansas,
pointed to the flood as an ex-
pensive answer to critics who call
flood control projects pork bar
rel" legislation.
"If Congress a few years ago
had appropriated $500 million for
flood control reservoirs in Kan
sas." he told the Associated Press.
we would have been spared this
flood loss of at least twice that
amount"
Gen. Pick. has estimated that
the damage will be at least $3.50
millions and may be much higher.
Senator Mcclellan said similar
potential flood danger exists in
at least 100 other places over the
country. and he added: "A flood
like the Kansas City food could
happen at any of these places
and as at Kansas City, it could
be prevented"
But, he said, too often when
Congress votes money for flood
control some one raises a cry Of
pork barrel"
What is happening at Kansas
City," he continued. lis an abso-
lutte refutatiol. of this false
charge that these projects are of
a pork barrel nature"
Brooks Voices Similar View.
A similar view was expressed by
Representative Brooks, Democrat,
of Alabama, in a House speech
yesterday. Speaking of the cur
rent floods, he said:
"A little money timely spent
night have saved this great sec
ton of the Middle Vest from
some of this appalling loss of life
and property.
But we have allowed ourselves
to listen too intently to those
WIZ, WllC1 11OON OO1lOAO1 ol4O 11df.
igation projects arise in this Con-
gress, cry out loudly that this is
pork barrel"
Senator Mcclellan predicted
that the Appropriations Com
mittee, of which he is a member.
will restore some of the food con-
troll project cuts which the House
made this year.
Lesson Seen by Chavez.
For the fiscal year which started
July l. the House voted a total
of $498, $4,000 for flood control
and navigation, compared with
Mr.. Truman's request for $24,-
259, 900.
Senator Chavez, Democrat, of
New Mexico, also said that "pos-
sibly and extremely probably" the
Senate Appropriations Committee
with restore some Of the flood con-
troll items eliminated by the
HoYJsa
Evening star., 1951-07-17
'Mr. Chips Prototype
Dead in Wales at 81
Rx the Associoted Press

PORTMADOC. Wales, July IL
Mr.. Chips is dead.
William H. Balgarnie. who was
the inspiration for novelist James
Hilton's best-seller Goodbye, Mr.
Chips" has died at his home here
at the age of 81.
He was senior classical master
at the. Legs School, Cambridge
where dr. Hilton was one of his
pupils.
Evening star., 1951-07-17
Presents From Dead Husband
Tolls Wife Are Stolen on Bus

surprise Stanley had planned be-
fore he died.
Mrs. Underwood left it on a
bus when she got off, but the bus
had already started when she re-
called it. She waited for the same
bus to return and the bus driver
told her he had seen a woman
pick the suitcase up and leave.
Now the mother is waiting at
the hospital hoping whoever took
the suitcase will return it. Mrs.
Underwood. who will pay reward
for the suitcase and its gifts, is
waiting at home for the woman
to call. Her number is Lawrence
s-s&2.
Evening star., 1951-07-17
Moth Is Giunt

EDMONTON (P.-That was no
ordinary moth that Mrs. H. Estrin
caught in her home. The intrduer
had 5-inch wingspread.
Evening star., 1951-07-17
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Evening star., 1951-07-17

A THE EVENING STAR
~ Washington, D. C.
TUESDAY, JULY II, 1851
The Tribune. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1951-19??, 1951-08-11
Countries
Protest Prosecution
of DIR. Dubois

From countries in Europe the indigna-
ton of students, artists scientists, writers,
workers for peace at the Indictment of
Dr. w. E. B. DIBoiS and his associates in
the former Peace Information Center for
refusing to register as agents of foreign
principal is being cabled daily to the
National Committee to Defend DIR. w. E..
B. Dubois and Associates in the Peace In
formation Center. The World Federation
of Scientific Workers aware of DR.. Du
Bots life time devotion to science and to|
its great traditions took note of his cou-
rageous stand in his work for racial equal
ity, international understanding and peace
at its second Assembly meeting in Paris
The Union of Employees in Arts and
Culture Services of Czechoslovakia ex-
pressed their gratitude to the National
committee for the defense of DR.. Dubois.
In the name of all the Czechoslovak artists
and technicians of the theatres, cinemas,
radio, music they strongly protested against
the terrorization and suppression of the
personal liberties of the defenders of peace
and expressed their solidarity with all hon
est people fighting for peace.
In four cables the Peace Committees of
Roumania and the students of Masaryk
University of Czechoslovakia pledged their
support in the fight to keep DIR. Dubois and
his associates free. Speaking for eleven
million people the Permanent Committee
for tie Defense of Peace in Roumania said !:
"The Roumanian signers for p "a ct Of
peace are filled with Indignation and pro-
test the arbitrary indictment of the emf
C. H.. II D0.n
and his associates We consider this an
outrage against the holy right of every
man to defend mankind's most precious
possession +. peace. We express our peo-
Piles brotherly solidarity with DR.. Dubois
and associates and our full belief in the
victory of the forces fighting for peace.
We wish you complete success in your cou-
rageous fight for the defense of peace"
The Tribune. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1951-19??, 1951-08-11
CARD OF THANKS

Dear Editor and Co-workers in the Roa-
ncke Tribune contest: 1t has been pleas
ure to work with you. To my many loyal
friends, both white and colored, | extend
my sincere appreciation for helping me to
win first place in this contest Loving peo-
pie and having them love me is my whole
life. Thank you for your faith in me. To
you dedicate this poem:
/ pray to God that may live better
life today,
Than have lived in all the years that
now are put away.
If only from this very dawn, until the
time is night,
Until all the silver stars have disappear
from sight
These four and twenty hours brief, that
God has given me,
With ears to hear, tongue to speak,
and eyes with which to see;
| pray that / may keep the faith, and
do the best / can.
To help my loved ones and to serve my
every fellow man;
To comfort the afflicted and their every
fear dispel,
To bear my crosses patiently, and do
my duty well.
ELSIE F. CAVITY
The Tribune. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1951-19??, 1951-08-11

Miss Clince Hortense Tyler, daughter
Of the Rev. and Mrs. John Tyler of Charl-
ton Ave-, was recently married to Robert
M. Hinton of Kenbridge, Va. in an in
formal ceremony on the lawn of her home.
Mrs. Hinton, a graduate of Virginia
State College, was given in marriage by
her brother, Charles Tyler Reverend j.
Tyler, father of the bride, performed
the ceremony.
The bride wore an ankle length gown
of white lace and Marquisette over taf-
feta and carried pink carnations Mr. Bur-
rell was best man.
Following the ceremony, the bridal par
ty left for Kenbridge where reception
was given in their honor at the bride
groom's home. Later the newlyweds left
for Canadian trip.
Mr.. Hinton is a graduate of Virginia
State College and Columbia University.
He is also member of the Kappa Alpha
Psi fraternity. Mrs. Minton is a member
Of the Zeta Phi Beta sorority.
The Tribune. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1951-19??, 1951-08-11

Roanoke closed her fourth hard-fought
Tribune subscription contest Monday night
The finals were made in the lovely home
Of Mr.. and Mr.. John CAVITY, 1923 Fairfax
Avenue, N. w.
According to the prediction of the con-
testants from the very beginning, Mrs.
Elsie CAVITY walked away with first prize
which was two crisp one hundred dollar
bills. Mrs. CAVITY started out four years
ago in quest of this grand prize. She first
won fifty dollars, then one hundred dol
lars. Last year Mrs. Canty won the hun
dred and fifty dollar prize, which was Sec
ond prize IT, year she reached the top
and walked away with the coveted two
hundred dollars. With the determination
Of Jersey Joe Walcott she knew she could
win and she proved that she could.
The second prize winner was the hard
hitting Mrs. Maize Roy, who made her
first bid for the grand prize offered an
nlally in The Tribune contest She gave
Mrs. CAVITY a close race but trailed to win
fifty dollars.
Third prize winner was the young Miss
frances Kasey. This was Miss Kasey's
second bid for the grand prize. She fought
we'll and was the happy recipient of the
one hundred dollar prize.
The fourth and last prize winner was
Mrs. Gretchen Keeling, who also was a
new conner into the contest game. She re-
ceived the fourth prize of fifty dollars with
The Tribune. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1951-19??, 1951-08-11
Roanoke Tribune
Changes Its Name

One of the steps taken by the Editor and
publisher of The TRIBUNE to guarantee
better newspaper for our readers and
better service for our advertisers was to
change the name
Heretofore we have attempted to pub
lish two distinct papers, namely, "The
Roanoke Tribune and charlottesville
Tribune" After year of experimenting !,
we found that to be impracticable. Our
main aim is to supply newspaper service
tc the estimated two hundred thousand
potential readers around us. We do not
need to attempt to "ear mark the papers
fc'' every city that we serve in this vast
area. Therefore we have eliminated the
word Roanoke" and adopted the name,
"T he TRIBUNE" which is applicable for
any state Or city.
years campaign of vigorous effort to
enlist as many of the potential 100000
renders as possible is being formulated.
III s will not only give all of our readers
open a virgin field for our national adver-
tisnrs.
Our free picture service (of public in
teresD has already proved to be great
boost to our paper. Special occasions and
news of public interest will be covered by
The TRIBUNE upon due notification. Sim
ply call and staff photogra pher and re-
porter will be on the job.
This is a newspaper which thousands of
people in these parts have been wanting.
Well hers. it is Let's make good use of it.
The race has never been in greater need of
sane and sober tribune than now Let's
pitt The TRIBUNE in every home 1t can
be done. 1t MUST be done
The Tribune. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1951-19??, 1951-08-11
DR.. Bunche
Returns Home
To Belle Island

DETROIT-One of the high
lights of the celebration of
the 25ath anniversary of the
founding of this city was the
appearance here Cat Belle
Isle, where the sanguinary
race riot of June, 1913, oc-
curred) of DR.. Ralph j.
Bunche, a native of Detroit.
Dr.. Bunche told his audi
ence:
81 can recall hundreds of
good times spent right here
on t h is island, swimming,
hiking and even an expert
ment with a five-cent cigar,
conducted without my faith
er's knowledge.
"Now, $50 years after it's
founding, Detroit has become
fully of age. It's record as a
border city might we'll serve
as a model for the world.
And demonstrated here daily
is the brotherhood that fos-
ters peace and progress"
The Tribune. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1951-19??, 1951-08-11
More Than Five Hundred Dollars
Awarded ContestantsllIn Tribune
Sensational Subscription Contest

a broad smile of satisfaction.
The Editor and Publisher of The Trib-
une is deeply grateful for the very fine
job done by each contestant who partici-
rated. And as proof of our appreciation
Of the fine public response, we are deter
mined to give our readers greatly i'm
rrived paper from every point of view.
We know no better way to prove our sim
cere gratitude to our many loyal readers
and advertisers.
The Tribune. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1951-19??, 1951-08-11
CARD OF THANKS
The ROANOKE TRIBUNE
5 Gilmer Ave-, N. w.
Dear Editor and Co-workers:

Dear Editor and Co-workers:
| wish to express my appreciation to
each person that helped me run fourth in
The Tribune contest 1t was pleasure to
get subscribers for the paper, knowing that
it is the only paper we have in Southwest
ern Virginia. +
Let us work together to help make our
paper what we would have it to be.
Again | say Thanks.
Respectfully yours,
GRETCHEN KEELING
Evening star., 1951-09-05
ey the Associated Press

HOUSTON, Tex, Sept. 5.-A
gang of juveniles used an agec
woman's love of cats to blk hel
of what they estimated at $4,000
to $4,000 in less than a year:
time.
Police yesterday revealed they
had broken the unusual extortior
racket of II children, aged 8 to 16
Crime prevention detectives E
E. Kirkland and Leo Horton saic
the story started last Halloween
night when Mrs. Amelia Ed
monds, 76, saw three boys throw
ing rocks at a cat.
The detectives said Mrs. Ed.
1nonds rebuked the boys for being
cruel. Then to persuade the lad
not to torture the animal an!
more. she gave them each 81.
Next day the boys again man.
aged to throw stones at a ca
near Mrs. Edmond's house. Agar
they were given a cash rewarc
to leave the animal alone.
The word spread to other boys
SooA they were bringing cats tt
Mrs Edmonds and threatening te
torture them unless she bought
theF animals at So each. Mrs
Edh1onds bought the cats.
Almost every day she bought
Evening star., 1951-09-05
VA 10 FurIough 5000,
Including $500 Here

The Veterans Administration
ANNOUNCED today that it will cut
its employment by 5000 by Octo-
ber 10, including 1,500 jobs in the
Washington area.
VA said that budget cuts i'm
posed by Congress caused the lay
offs.
The reduction will be made
among VAS administrative en-
ployes. VAS medical and surgery
personnel are not affected.
VA officials said that the actual
number of employees who will be
dropped will be about 5000. The
other 1000 job reductions prob
ably can be achieved by not FILL
ing vacancies.
Thirty-day dismissal notices
will be sent to the employees in
volved next Monday.
The VA said the reductions-in-
force will be carried out in &C
Icordance with civil service regu-
lations. under which veterans get
top retention rights.
At the peak of its employment
in February, 1947, the VA en-
Iployed 220,131. VAS present en-
Iployment total is 1872 ,259, includ-
ing about $4,000 jobs in Wash
ington.
Evening star., 1951-09-05
Truman Starts 50 BondWogon
Rolling With Political Speech
'Fontostic' New Weapons Being Developed,
He Reveals in Democratic Porty Luncheon

a bomb-shell to the party workers
as his assertion that new weapons
are being developed which would
destroy civilization in the event
of another all-out war.
1T is fantastic what can happen
with the use of new weapons that
are now under construction in
this country, not only the one
which we all fear the most, but
there are some weapons which are
fantastic in their operation"
The President didn't disclose
what weapons he had in mind,
but he left no doubt about the
weapons he will hurl against the
Republicans in 1852.
For just a second, as he swung
into the windup. 1t appeared that
Mr.. Truman was about to disclose
his own intentions about next
years campaign-but he backed
away asserting he did not know
who the candidates would be, as
(See POLITICS, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1951-09-05
Boys Blk Cat Lover Of $3 900
By Threats to Torture Animals

cats, and the detectives said a 13-
year-old boy soon became the
brains" for the group.
The boys told the detectives
they had gotten from $4,000 to
So 900 from Mrs. Edmonds in 10
months.
The gang leader thought of
"refinements" to get money. He
called and told Mrs. Edmonds he
had found a cat with a broken
back but needed money to take
it to veterinarian. She gave
him $40.
A surprisingly number of "in-
jured" cats were found near the
home Of Mrs. EdmondS.
Police started an investigation
last Friday after receiving a cal
from Mrs. EdmondS' maid.
The II boys were arrested over
the week end. Eight were released
to their parents. The leader and
two brothers, 8 and Is, were
turned over to the probation de-
partment.
Mrs. Edmonds said she had
been giving the boys money for
nearly year, but she didn't think
lit was as much as they claimed
She said she lives on a monthly
allowance left to her by a brother.