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Evening star., 1951-12-26
Duck Mechanical
Puts Pup (Ordinory)
In Hospital (AIos)
BY the Associated Press

CHICAGO, Dec. 26.-If Smokey
Donald Miller's 10-month-old pup,
has any spaniel blood, he didn't
show it yesterday. A duck sent
him to the hospital. It was Dom
AIDS Christmas present, q me-
chanical duck.
When 8-year-old Donald wound
up the acknowledgement duck
and put it on the floor, Smokey
turned tail. He shouldn't have.
The duck ran over Smokey's
tail. It's gears took q firm hold
on the appendage.
Donald's father. Lonnie, car
ried the bowling Smokey to the
Animal Welfare Shelter where
Humane Officer Allen Glisch re-
moved the duck by taking it
irrevocably apart with screw
driver and ships.
Smokey lost only o little hair
and dignity.
Evening star., 1951-12-26
By Elton c. Foy

Assoeioted Press Military Affairs Reporter
The United States probably will
turn down any new proposal by
Great Britain to revive the COM
bined chiefs of staff" the joint
high command which shaped
strategy in World War II.
There was belief in some quar-
ters here today that Prime Minis
ster Churchill might have this
plan in the portfolio of proposals
he is bringing next month to talk
over with President Truman.
The Pentagon holds that while
the combined chiefs agency was
highly useful in the prosecution of
an actual. global war, with all its
ramificationS, such an Anglo
American command would not be
needed to operate in a North At
lantic Alliance. Presumably this
view has been passed along to
the President.
The combined chiefs of staff
was created in February, 1912,
through agreement between Mr..
Churchill and the late President
Roosevelt. The organization then
was about what its name indi-
cated-the membership of the
chiefs of staff of the two nations.
The CCS operated both as a
spade-work group and admins
trative agency for the broad, glo-
bal strategy conceived in general
outlines by the two chiefs of state
and turned over to the profess
Evening star., 1951-12-26
Tory Agent Hires
Exorciser to Rid
Her Home of Ghost

LONDON. Dec. 26 (NANA-Kem-
news) Mrs. Barbara Hewitt. 80
a Conservative Party political
agent. has had to call a profess
sional exorciser into her bunga-
low home at Dorking, in Surrey.
Her teaspot lid would vanish a
few minutes after it had been
put on the kitchen table; cans Of
shoe polish used one morning
had gone the next; ornaments
moved from one room to another.
A poltergeist expert from Lon
don asked: els there a hill near?"
Mrs. Hewitt said that there was.
and that behind it there once was
a haunted house.
The ghost breaker carried out
a ceremony of incantations, and
the trouble is reported to have
stopped.
Evening star., 1951-12-26
BY the Associated Press

A Senate subcommittee has ac-
cused the Army Of "inexcusable
and indefensible waste" but 1t
says it is clear that mo one serv-
ice is more prodigal or more pru-
dent than the others"
Waste by military forces is not
intentional, the report said. but
simply resulted from unconcern
with economy, an absence Of gen.
uine enthusiasm for efficiency. a
widespread lack OF any real cost
consciousness
In a report TO the Senate made
public last night, the Armed Serv-
ices Subcommittee on Defense
Preparedness suggested that pro.
Evening star., 1951-12-26
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Evening star., 1951-12-26
Riot
AsFaroukMakes
Gesture 10 West
Pro-Westerner Named
RoyoI Cabinet Chief:
Police Disperse Mob
By the Associated Pres,

CAIRO, Dec. ga clear indi-
cation from King Farouk that he
wants a settlement with the West
touched off violent anti-palace
and anti-Western demonstrations
today. The King appears to be
worried about burgeoning Com
munist activity and to want
alignment with the West in the
cold war with Russia.
In Alexandria, police used teal
gas to break up a student mob o1
5000 demonstrating against the
appointment of DR.. Hafez Aft
Pasha. strong pro-Westerner, as
chief of the royal cabinet and ad-
wiser to Farouk on foreign ano
domestic affairs. Seven police
were reported injured there BY
missiles thrown by the demon.
strators. Two students were hurt
Earlier reports that police opened
fire were denied.
Students Dispersed.
In Cairo police dispersed q
shouting crowd of Fouad Univer-
sity students and were ordered or
a state of alert against further
outbursts. The press reported 9
state OF emergency already was ir
effect.
The Leftist and Communist.
inspired section of the pres.
stepped up its clamor for flrmel
government action against the
British, using the term traitor
to describe any Egyptian advo.
eating a settlement. This sectior
of the press has openly advocated
Egypt'S alignment with the Com.
munist bloc of nations, a step thu
new chief of the royal cabinet
would oppose.
The appointment by Farouk Of
Af1fi and another pro-Westernel
to places in the royal cabinet /:
interpreted to mean the Kine
wants a settlement with the Wes
based upon recognition of Egypt.
national demands. The Egyptian!
seek full control of the Anglo.
Egyptian Sudan and want evacua.
tion Of the British from the Sue;
Canal zone. The West, mean.
while. has been rebuffed in 1t,
Invitation to Egypt to join {
Middle East command for de.
tense against possible Communis
aggression.
Wafdists Jolted.
The appointments apparentl,
were jolt to the dominant Wafd.
list Party. whose leaders have
insisted upon no compromise with
the British. They want tn.
British to clear out at once.
But Farouk appeared anxiou.
to steer Egypt's course toward ar
alliance with the West in ths
cold war. The palace apparently
has been alarmed by Wafdist
flirting with Communist power.
in efforts to back up their de.
mands that the British leave.
The Kings nomination of Aft
to the post, which is a liaison jok
(See EGYPT, Page A-33
Evening star., 1951-12-26
Florida Negro Leader
In NAACP Killed by
Bomb Blast at Home
Wife Also Is Injured
By Explosion Beneath
Bedroom of House
BY the Associated Press

MINIS, Fla, Dec. 26.-A bomb
explosion last night killed a Negro
prominent in national affairs of
his race.
He was Harry T. Moore, 46.
state secretary of the National
Association for the Advancement
Iof Colored People.
His wife, Harriet, who teaches
school at Lake Park near West
Palm Beach, was hurt.
The bomb exploded beneath the
bedroom of their small. frame
house about a mile from here.
Minis is tiny community 20 miles
south of Daytona Beach.
Mr.. Moore'S mother, who
teaches school in Jacksonville,
and his daughter, Annie, who
teaches in Ocala, were also in
the house but they were not hurt.
Home Only for Holidays.
Apparently some one who knew
Mr.. Moore's movements planted
the explosive, since his job keeps
him on the road over the State
most of the time and his family
had come home only for the
Christmas holidays.
M/Sergt. George Sims, brother
in-law of Mr.. Moore and just
back from Korea. lives nearby.
He took Mr.. Moore and his wife
to a hospital at Sanford i'm
mediately after the blast shook
the house about 10:30.
Mr.. Moore died shortly after
reaching the hospital. Attaches
said today they thought Mrs.
Moore's injuries were not serious.
Led Drive for Votes.
Mr.. Moore also was a school
teacher until he took his NAACP
job and had been executive sec
retary of the Progressive Voters
League of Florida, Inc, which be-
fore 1948 conducted State cam
paign to get Negroes registered to
vote.
Two Federal Bureau of Investi-
cation agents were reported in
vestigating and coroner's jury
was called to determine whatever
facts might be possible. Gov. Full
Ter Warren said he was sending
an investigator Immediately.
| Joe Warren, a farmer friend of
the Moores living nearby, said Mr..
Moore's job was a salaried one
and kept him on the road most
of the year. Ordinarily, he said,
(See BLAST, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1951-12-26
Ridgway Authorized
To Extend Agreement
BY the Associated Press

Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway has
been authorized, if he sees fit, to
extend for 80 days the agreement
with the Communists that the ex-
listing bate lines in Korea shall
be the line for an armistice in
event one can be negotiated.
Diplomatic officials who reported
this today indicated they expect
both sides to agree to temporary
extension while negotiations go
forward on other details of the
cease fire.
A 30-day trial period for reach
ing an accord ends tomorrow (to-
day. Washington time). The
United Nations and Communist
delegates last November 81 drew
a ceaSe-fire line and agreed this
would be the permanent line il
an armistice were signed in 80
days. If not, negotiations would
continue and the line be redrawn
to reflect any subsequent battle
gains before signing of an armis-
4 tice agreement.
Evening star., 1951-12-26
Two Top Steel Groups
To Map Union Policy
In Current Dispute
President Murray Musters
Key Committees for ToIks
On Strategy at Pittsburgh
BY the Assoeiated Press

PITTSBURGH. Dec. 26. The
highest authorities in the CIO
United Steelworkers Of America
meet here tomorrow to decide
whether they will go through with
Ia Nation wide strike at midnight,
December 81.
Philip Murray, president Of both
the CLIO and the USW. has sum
|moned the steelworkers' two most
powerful groups into action-the
36-member executive board and
the 170-member wage-policy COM
mittee.
Apparently there are only two
courses open to the steelworkers:
/. They, like the steel companies,
can accept President Truman's
mandate that there must be no
interruption of steel production.
2. They may strike and face q pos
sible presidential Taft-Hartley Act
breakdown
The President asked both COM
panies and union to turn the dis
|pute over to the Wage Stabiliza-
ton Board for settlement. Mr..
Truman said the workers, If en-
titled to a wage raise, would get
it; and the companies, if entitled
to price increase, would get it.
To agree to the presidential re-
quest. Mr.. Murray will have to
back down from his previous
statement that the steelworkers
will not work without a contract.
He can do this gracefully If his
executive board and wage policy
committee order him to do so
tomorrow.
The union wants an 18h-cent
hourly pay raise, guaranteed an
nual wage. the union shop, i'm
proved incentive and premium
pay and other benefits. The steel
workers now get q little less than
50 an hour.
Evening star., 1951-12-26
Fear of Steel Strike Seen
CAUSING Turmoil in Marker

NEW YORK. Dec. 26 DR.
Strike fear turned the steel market
into turmoil this week, The Iron
Age, Woodworking trade weekly
said today.
1t reported telephone calls,
kilograms and visits to see If
needed metal could be squeezed
out before a January l strike, %
as well as renewed interest in
premium priced metal.
Discussing possible effects of
'even a short steel shutdown" the
publication noted that furnaces
would have to be banked before
any strike deadline, and 1t would
take at least three days to get
back into full production after
workers returned.
Evening star., 1951-12-26
OPS Says Steel Firms
Can Absorb Pay Boost
BY the Asseeia.ed Press

OPS has filed an official memo
randum declaring that steel profits
|are high enough for the industry
to absorb, without a price increase
any reasonable" wage boost for
|steelworkers.
The document, Submitted to
Economic Stabilizer Roger L. Put
nam, also sets forth the view that
steel wages are sufficiently high
that the CIO steelworkers would
be satisfied with q reasonable
crease-involving no piercing OF
the wage ceiling.
Both sides in the dispute are well
aware, OPS Director Michael v.
Disable wrote, that the steel strike,
now scheduled for January l,
would be "a major blow to the
defense program"
I'm fact, it is very easy to make
both parties look utterly silly, If
they insist that fairness requires
Ia weakening Of sterilization rules
for their sake-and both Of them
know it." Mr.. Disable said. 4
Evening star., 1951-12-26
Quirino Plans 10 Pardon
Kuroda, japanese General
By ,he Assoeioted Pres.

MANILA, Dec. 26.- President
Elipdio Quirino announced Christ
mas night he plans to pardon Jap
anese Gen. Shigenori Kuroda, now
serving a life sentence for war
crimes in the Philippines.
Il believe that by pardonina
him, Gen. Kuroda can become very
instrumental in the promotion o1
better understanding between the
Philippines and Japan in the true
Christian spirit" said the Presi-
dent.
The President observed that
Gen. Kuroda's conduct has beer
exemplary" He added that ths
former commander of japanese
armed forces in the occupied is.
lands "has become Christian"
Evening star., 1951-12-26
Mail Orders Accepted
For The Stars Almanac

The Stor edition Of the 1852 Infor-
nation Please Almanac is now oyoiIubIe
for moil orders. The price is $l.lo.
Send your name ond address to "Infor-
nation Please Almanac, The Evening
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Washington 4, D. c." Make checks
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This foet-paeked S96-pose book,
edited by John Kieron, con be bought
for 81 at the business counter in The
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throughout the Washington area. Buy
one todoy.
Evening star., 1951-12-26
Payment Of Interest
On Gas Rate Refunds
by Court
Appeals Tribunals Action
Saves Approximately
So, 900 for Company

Inc UnlLed states Court OF Ap-
peals today disallowed payment
OF interest to consumers on ex-
cess gas rate refunds.
The increased rates. totaling
about 81 $50, 900, had been thrown
out in a 1850 District Court ruling
and refunds to consumers were
made after the appellate court
later upheld the lower courts ac-
ton.
At the time it rejected the rate
increase, District Court ordered
interest at 5 per cent to be paid
by the company on the refunds.
But today's action by the ap-
pellate court overturned that
phase Of the lower court ruling.
Roughly about $65,000 in interest
payments was saved the WASH
ington Gas Light Co. by the tri-
bunal's action.
Based on Error.
In ruling that District Court
was in error in the interest uues-
ton, the appellate court stated:
There is no reason to believe the
rate increase was not sought in
good faith.
"The public body public
Utilities Commission) charged
with primary responsibility au-
thorized the higher rates Our
conclusion is based on the equi-
ties, not on lack of power of the
District Court :"
The opinion went on to point
out that when an earlier suit
based on the increase was pend
ing in the Court of Appeals I'VE
denied an application for in
terest. That action is to be con-
strued only as a ruling that wei
did not deem such an allowance
to be proper :"
The court held that the law
firm of Roberts & McInpis,
which helped to represent con-
is entitled to participate
n some $4,000 in legal fees.
Fees From Other Sources.
While the court pointed out that
Mr.. Roberts had told the Fedora
lion Of Citizens Associations,
which initiated the fight on the
gas rate increase, that he did not
expect compensation, it held that
It was not apparent" that the
1rm intended to renounce fees
rom sources other than the fed
ration.
Claims Of Attorneys Vernon VII
Baker and Herbert P. Leeman, for
ner officers Of the federation, to
'art of the legal fees were put
lp to decision by a special master
lamed by District Court.
An application for a new rate
Increase by the gas company is
low on file with the PUG.
The tribuna, which handed
lown today's opinion, was COM
'osed Of Judges Henry w. Edg-l
rton. David Bazelon and Charlesll
'ahy. The rulings came as a rel
ult OF appeals In cases involvinglf
ne gas light company and theIe
'UC appealing from O DistrictIt
,ourt ruling. d is
Evening star., 1951-12-26
Gambling Squad Nets
"a Dice Players in
Early Morning Raid
'Puddinheod' Jones' Place
Found Too Busy at a AN.
For q Good DeIicutessen

Police who figured the deli
catessen business couldn't be good
enough to account for "a persons
in the store at 4 am. rounded up
Alfred T. (Puddinhead) Jones
again today.
Jones, a, colored, and oft-men-
toned figure in Washington gam
bling circles, operates the deli
catessen at 1923 S street NV. and
lives in the $500 block of Thir-
teenth street NV.
BY mid-morning, Thomas Wad-
den. assistant United States at
torney. and Arnold Bauman,
counsel for the Senate District
crime inquiry. had been called in
to pose questions for Jones.
Broke in 20 Minutes.
Led by Inspector Clarence H.
Lutz, a five-man gambling squad
walked freely into the delicates-
sen. but they weren't in time to
keep one Of their undercover men
from going broke. Capt. John
Monroe said they had given the
undercover man $25 in marked
money and sent him into the store.
He was broke in 20 minutes and
the raiders said they found $21
OF the $25 on nine different per-
sons.
After going through an un-
locked iron grille gate leading to
the second floor, police found so
persons. some of them gathered
around a table on which a pair
OF dice had just been thrown,
Capt. Monroe said.
On the floor, he said, they
found:
A loaded .32-caliber revolver,
one switch-blade knife, two other
knives. IL marijuana cigarettes
and a small vial of a liquid they
believed to be a narcotic.
No Drinking Found.
In an adjoining room, men and
women were seated around tables,
but no drinking was In evidence.
Jones and Charles A. Dorsey,
50, colored, Of the 1900 block of
Eighth street NV, were charged
with setting up a gaming table.
Brought before United States
Commissioner Cyril S. Lawrence,
both men were released on bonds
OF $4,000 and a hearing was set
for January 16.
The other 81 persons, all COL
ored, were f1ngerprinted, but not
charged.
Evening star., 1951-12-26
Senators Report Waste in Army
No Worse ThonO nOther Services
+ Sowing Suggested os Promotion Factor;
Cost Consciousness Move Praised

motion for military officers be
based in part on demonstrated
ability to conserve men, money
and materials"
The group had previously criti-
cized what it termed waste by the
Air Force, Navy and Marines.
In a separate statement of his
own, the subcommittee chairman,
Senator Lyndon B. johnson, Dem
ocrat. Of Texas, commended Sec
retary OF the Army Pace for initi-
ating q "cost consciousness" pro-
gram in the Army.
obviously. anyone who tries tc
eliminate waste from the armed
services has cut out q tough job
(See WASTE, Page A-3).
Evening star., 1951-12-26
II Slain and 8 Kidnoped
In Philippine Christmas
By the Associated Press

MANILA, Dec. 26.-Eleven per-
sons were killed and eight kid
mapped in Christmas Day violence
in the Philippines.
Seven of the dead were Com
munist Huks, three were bandits
and one a policeman.
Among those kidnapped were
Mayor Joaquin Andres of Lallo,
Cagayan Province, in Northern
Luzon, the towns chief of police
and a policeman. The Philippines
News Service said the kidnapers
were Huks.
Evening star., 1951-12-26
u. ). Is Believed
Ready 10 Pay
Ransom
State Department Said
To Be Awaiting Word
Of Hungary on Details
BULLETIN

BUDAPEST. Hungary (R.-
There were some signs indicat-
ing that the four American flyers
held by Hungary after having
been forced down by Soviet
fighters have been released or
will be released tonight. But
there was nothing official.
Evening star., 1951-12-26

Committee on which Senator
Tobey also served, called atten-
ton to its recommendation for
creation Of a crime commission
of distinguished citizens to carry
on the fight against gamblers and
other underworld characters.
I'VE should broaden that plan
now" he said.
Evening star., 1951-12-26
De Gusperi Heads for Puris

ROME. Dec. 26 R).-Premier
Alcide de Gasperi left by train
today for Paris where leaders of
the European Council nations are
scheduled to make decisions on
the creation of a European army.
Evening star., 1951-12-26

escaped and three were released.
Not one of the 155 returned to
Allied lines. a U. N. command
spokesman reported.
Disclosure Called Shocking.
An official communique called
the Communist statement "a
shocking disclosure.
It was the first Red reply to a
U. N. demand for an accounting
of 1858 missing non-Korean
troops who have been listed by
various Communist sources as
prisoners.
The Communists said they are
still checking to see what hap
pened to the. 1872 others.
Inferentially they blamed AL
lied war planes and artillery for
many of the 571 deaths. They
died, the Reds said, of air attack,
artillery fire and disease.
Mail From Prisoners Delivered.
The Reds made their report in
a note. 1t was delivered during an
unproductive armistice session
Wednesday at Panmunjom during
the closing hours of a 30-day Ko-
rean truce trial period.
At the same session the Com
munists delivered the first bundle
of mail from Allied prisoners in
North Korea to their families.
The number of letters was not re-
ported. But the package was large
enough to hold several hundred
letters. ..
The Communist note also:
/. Rejected an Allied demand
for an accounting of $4,000 South
Korean troops missing in action.
2. Asked the Allies what hap
pened to 44,205 Reds the Com
munists say were captured.
8. Charged the Allied list of Red
captives submitted last week was
1,456 short of the announced total
of 132,472.
Try to Account for 1858.
The letter, handed to Rear Ad-
miral r. E. Libby at Panmunjom
by North Korean Maj. Gen. Lee
Sang Cho, said the Reds were
trying to account for 1858 Amer
ican and other non-Korean troops
The U. N. said they were listed
in Red broadcasts, publications
and other sources, but not in
cluded in an official compilation
of 1859 men in six North Ko-
rean prison camps.
The letter said:
"Our investigations revealed
that 726 of the prisoners of war
were either killed by air attacks
and artillery fire during escort
from the front to the camps or
escaped or were already released
by our side or died of diseases :. . :.
Continuous investigation of the
remaining 1872 is underway"
The letter asked the Allies to
give "the source of the names of
the individual prisoners" to "fa-
cilitate our investigation"
Reds Report Escape of IS.
A U. N. command communique
said the Reds reported on the
fate of &c of 110 U N. prisoners
reported to the international Red
Cross last summer but not listed
last Wednesday in a trade of
prisoners rosters with the Allies.
"All but one have escaped, the
Communists claim" the COM
munique reported. "The 66th SOL
dier is listed by them as dead"
The communique gave no other
details of the reported fate of
the rest of the 726 men who were
prisoners "at one time"
1t reported no progress was
made by either of two subcommit-
tees Wednesday. The groups ad-
journed to IL am. Thursday g
pm. Wednesday EST)-last day
of the truce trial period.
The U.N. command spokesman
said the period would expire Off
cially at midnight Thursday Go
am. Thursday EST.
Evening star., 1951-12-26
726 More G|s
Listed by Reds;
571 AreDea
152 Escaped and 3
Were Released, Reds
Report at Truce Site
BY the Associoted Press

MUNSAN, Korea, Dec. 26.-The
Communists today accounted fo1
726 more American prisoners, but
said 571 of them had died. The
others escaped or were released,
they said.
None of the 726 was named
in a prisoner list submitted by the
Reds last week.
The Communists said 152 of the
previously unaceounted for troops
Evening star., 1951-12-26

Wind and Fresh Snow Bog Down Korean
War. Poee "A
Evening star., 1951-12-26

escaped and three were released.
Not one of the 155 returned to
Allied lines, a U. N. command
spokesman reported.
Evening star., 1951-12-26

(See FLYERS, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1951-12-26

(See BLAST. Page A-3.)