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Evening star., 1951-05-18

An historical tour of downtown
Washington, a tree walk in Lafay-
cite Park and a visit to Shenan-
doah National Park, Va, are
among the attractions arranged
for this week end by the National
Capital Parks.
Trees from far away, as well as
varieties native to this area, will
be discussed during the walk to
be conducted by Park Naturalist
Francis Williamson from 3 to S
pm, tomorrow in Lafayette Park.
The event will be organized at the
Jackson statue in the center of
the park.
Also tomorrow a bird walk in
Dumbarton Oaks Park will be held
from 7 to $3.50 am. under Mr..
Williamson's direction. This group
will assemble at r street and
Lovers lane, between Avon place
and Thirty-f1rst street NV.
Historic sites of the downtown
area will be visited and discussed
during the historical tour to be
held from 2::30 to 4::30 pm. Sun
day. The sites will include the
Evening star., 1951-05-18
Meehan Heads Committee
For Merrick Boys Camp

Robert M. Meehan, president O.
the 1851 Merrick Boys Camp, ha
been elected chairman of thu
executive committee to direct thi!
summers operations of the camp
located at Maryland Point. neal
Indian Head, Md.
Twenty-Five Washington bust.
ness and professional men named
to make up the committee in
clude:
Evening star., 1951-05-18
THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. c. ** B.


John j. Carmody, James B.
Carry. James A. Cassidy, Maurice
R. Colbert. James E. Collif1ower
John F. Donahue. Rutherford j.
IDooley, James B. Evans, Hugh P.
Flynn, Thomas A. Flynn, DR.. Leo
IB. Gaffney, Al Philip Kane, DR..
Joseph V. Kennedy, Michael F.
Keogh, C. J. Mack, Richard A.
Mahar, Charles P. Maloney M.
Joseph Matan. Alfred A. McGar-
raghy, DR.. Edwin C. Mcnamara,
William F. Nelson, James ]. Nolan.
Evening star., 1951-05-18

James H. Pugh, John A. Reilly
and Leonard P. Walsh.
The camp, founded in 1884.
provides two weeks vacations
each summer for more than 1000
Washington boys. They are
recommended by teachers, clergy
men and social workers. The camp
is conducting its annual fund ap-
peal to send an additional 900
boys to camp this July and August.
Headquarters are at 2026 ]
street NV.
Evening star., 1951-05-18

servations in Fort Totten Park
beginning at Hawaii avenue ano
Allison street NE. from Z to $3.50
am. tomorrow and in the Kenil.
worth Aquatic Gardens from Z
to $3.50 am. Sunday. The latter
event will be organized at the
parking area near Douglas street
and Kenilworth avenue NE.
Mule-drawn canal barge trips
will begin at Lock 8, on Thir-
tieth street, one block south Of
M street. at 2 pm. tomorrow and
Evening star., 1951-05-18

Sunday. Return trips will be
made from Lock 5. Brookmont,
Md, at 4 pm. One-way or round
trip tickets can be purchased from
Government Services. Inc. 1885
Twenty first street NV. during
the week. A limited number will
be available at the barge before
departure.
Evening star., 1951-05-18
Adult Program Headed
By Kieffer at st. Johns
SoecioI Dispotch 10 The Stor

ANNAPOLIS, May 18.-John S
Kieffer, st. Johns College faculty
member. has been appointed di-
rector of adult education, Presi-
dent Richard D. Weigle announced
today.
Mr.. Kieffer has been closely
connected with the colleges adult
education program since 1910 and
has conducted adult seminars in
Baltimore. Easton, Hagerstown,
Annapolis and Washington. D. C..
Evening star., 1951-05-18

Cabbage is a member of the
family including Brussels sprouts,
kale, turnips and rutabaga.
Evening star., 1951-12-10
Two Attendants Charged
In Mental Patients S Death
By the A.soeiatsd Pre,x

CAMBRIDGE, Md, Dec. 10
Two attendants at the Eastern
Shore State Hospital were charged
today with manslaughter in the
death of a mental patient.
Warrants were issued for John
Abbott, 25, and Earl Gonder, 30,
both Of Cambridge.
They were accused of causing
the death of 64-year-old Harry
Burns Of Cambridge, who died
December 2. The hospital said he
died three days after scuffling
with the two attendants.
The warrants were issued by
Magistrate Charles H. Gibson at
the request of States Attorney
Calvin Brinsfield.
DR.. Robert G. Blackwelder, SUI
perintendent of the hospital, de-
scribed the men as excellent at
tendants," and said they were
suspended few hours after the
patient died.
DR.. Blackwelder said the man
had high blood pressure and a
severe heart condition. He said
the struggle occurred when the
patient tried to get up and the
two attendants forced him back
in bed,
Evening star., 1951-12-10
Philippines Typhoon
Kills "A and Leaves
Thousands Homeless
BY the Asseeioisd Press

MANILA, Dec. 10. - A raging
tropical typheon ripped through
the Central Philippines today. It
killed at least IA persons, left
thousands homeless and wrecked
millions of dollars worth of crops
and buildings.
AS the 125-mile AN hour storm
churned into the Sulu Sea, Asso-
ciated Press Correspondent Frank
A. White reported from Cebu City
on Cebu Island. that at least IL
persons were dead and hundreds
homeless.
Mr.. White said virtually every
building made of light materials
was partially wrecked and many
large structures lost roofs or sus-
tanned other damage. Cebu bore
the brunt of the storm.
The PHILIPPINE News Service re-
ported two persons killed and III
injured at Iloilo, on the southern
tip OF Panay Island west of Cebu.
The News Service said thousands
were homeless.
Heavy Casualties Feared.
On Negros Island, between
Cebu and Panay, the news service
estimated property damage in
Bacolod City at a quarter million
dollars and said 1850 were re-
ported homeless.
Radio communications with most
of the devastated central islands
were disrupted. Authorities feared
casualties would be heavy.
Mr.. Whites dispatch vas ra-
diced from the freighter Elizabeth
Bornhofen. which apparently rode
out the storm at anchor In the
harbor.
Some IS miles south of the
typhoon's path. dying winds and
quieter seas permitted rescue YES
sells to resume evacuation of 90 600
rain-soaked. frightened refugees
from Camiguin Island, where
Hibok Hibok volcano continued to
spout molten rock and ashes.
Naval Vessels Assist.
-Four Philippines naval vessels f.
and a japanese freighter were
ferrying the homeless refugees
across the strait to three ports .
on the big island of Mindinao. /
The evacuation was speeded up /
late today as Hibok Hibok showed
no sign of cooling off.
The typhoon lashed Samar. /
Leyte and Cebu with terrific |,
winds and rain. Tonight it was
south and west of Panay Island,
which forms the western rim of |,
the Sulu Sea. ]
Winds in the center of the ,
storm repeatedly were losing some s
of their violence. II
Evening star., 1951-12-10
By John v. Horner

The political millennium is al
hand.
They're turning down free pub
licity for two of the leading Re
publican presidential prospects.
This situation is sure to battle
a city packed with politicians
publicity seekers and press agents
Nevertheless. it is true.
It's harder to get into the Eisen-
hover or StasseE headquarters
than to find a Christmas package
authorizing you to peek before
December IS.
At Taft headquarters. by con-
trast. the doors are wide open.
Everybody welcome. Even report
ers and photographers bent on
seeing how much work is done to
launch a presidential campaign.
Openings Come Later.
The unusual situation Of the
publicity-shy campaignerS will not
continue. They are simply wait
ing for some propitious moment
to hold gala openings. Meanwhile.
they don't want newspapermen
around the preliminary ac-
tivity.
So, you can't yet enter the
elaborately decorated suite with
the red-white-blue motif reserved
at the Shoreham Hotel for the
promotion of Gen. Eisenhower.
And you aren't yet permitted to
roam through the Munsey Build
ing Office space rented for the
campaign in behalf Of Harold E.
StasSen.
Both the Eisenhower and Stas-
sen headquarters here are for re-
gional work. The national cam
Evening star., 1951-12-10
Home for FoundIinqs
Dedicates Room 10
Catherine Norton

The Washington Home for
FoundlingS yesterday honored the
late Mrs. Catherine Haraine Nor
ton, long time social worker who
was on the homes board Of direc-
tors.
approximately so Of Mrs. Nor
toms friends and associates were
on hand for the dedication of an
assembly room at the home. 45lO
Forty-second street NV. Walter
s. Pratt, jr.. president of the
board Of directors, placed a photo
graph Of Mrs. Norton and an IL
Illuminated scroll in the room in
honor Of her "helpfulness and
vision"
1t was Mrs. Norton's suggestion
that the rs by 50-foot room be
turned into an assembly room and
furnished in a home-like atmos-
phere, according to Miss Evelyn
Hibbard. director of the home. The
room has been furnished with
early American cushioned furni-
ture. The room, with a seating
capacity Of 100 persons, will be
loaned to community groups for
meetings.
Planned New Program.
Mrs. Hubbard paid tribute to
Mrs. Norton as a personal friend
and professional counselor who
had helped us all along the way
to develop our new adoption pro-
gram which is living memorial to
Mrs. Norton" 1t was Mrs. Norton's
idea just before she died a year
ago today that the founding
home have a license to tempo
rarily adopt babies instead of hav-
ing babies placed in the home by
licensed placement agencies. Such
ia plan has been in operation .
month.
The home has is babies and
has room for 10 more, Mrs. Hib-
bard said.
Adoption applications are now
being received at the home from
childless couples. Mrs. Hibbard
added
Others Pay Tribute.
Besides Mrs. Hibbard, tribute
was paid to Mrs. Norton by the
Rev. Edward Roach of the Church
OF the Blessed Sacrament. who
was Mrs. Norton's pastor in
Hyattsville; DR.. F. Reid Isaac,
general secretary of the Board Of
Child Care of the Baltimore Con-
ference of the Methodist Church,
and Col. Campbell Johnson, as
Sistant to the administrator of the
Selective Service System, who was
an associate of Mrs. Norton on
the Council Of Social Agencies.
Also present was Mrs. Norton's
widower, Thomas F. Norton, and
the priest who married lhem. the
Rev. Lloyd P. Mcdonald of ST.
Mary's Seminary, Baltimore.
A tea was held following the
dedication
Evening star., 1951-12-10
McKinney
Continued From First Page. }

one stock purchase and sale. He
met Mr.. Cohen about Is years ago
in Indianapolis when Mr.. Cohen
was with the Reserve Loan Life
Insurance Co., a concern which
later moved to Texas. He said
he did not know whether any of
Mr.. Cohen's ventures, besides En-
pire Tractor. ended in bankruptcy
AS for the company'S transac-
tions or negotiations with the
Government. Mr.. Mckinney de-
clared he knew nothing about
them and had never asked any
Government agency to do favors
for any concern in which he was
interested.
And" he added. II paid taxes
on every cent Of the profits I got
from the Empire Tractor stock"
Mr.. Mckinney insisted also that
he and Mr.. McHale did not go into
the Empire Tractor stock deal as
a Joint venture. He said he did
not know until later that Mr.. Nc
Hale had bought some of the
stock. When he decided to sell
his stock, Mr.. Mckinney said, he
told Mr.. McHale of his plan. MIR.
McHale replied that 'it sounded
like a good thing to do and said
he would sell his stock, too," Mr..
Mckinney said.
Bankrupt in 1948.
Details Of the case were re-
vealed today by L. Leroy DENIM
ger, referee in bankruptcy in
Philadelphia, who took extensive
testimony after Federal Court
Judge George L. WEIGH threw the
tractor company into bankruptcy
in 1948.
Assets Liquidated.
The Empire Tractor Co.. or
ganized by Mr.. Cohen in 1916, is
still in bankruptcy. Mr.. Dein-
niger explained that all its ply
sical assets. including plant and
materials in Philadelphia. have
been liquidated and most Of the
have received about IS
per cent of their claims.
The bankruptcy case is still
open, Mr.. Deininger said. because
trustees appointed by the court
are pressing two claims. One is
a libel suit for 81 million against
Time Magazine, scheduled to be
tried soon in Philadelphia. The
other is an effort to collect funds
from the Argentine government
for tractors the company said
were ordered but cancelled.
Evening star., 1951-12-10
Reserve Board Opens
Oral Arguments on
1ransamerica Today
by the Axsociotsd prsx.

The Federal Reserve Board
called for oral arguments today
on a Government effort to break
up the worlds biggest banking
combine.
The Reserve Boards solicitor,
G. Rowland Chase, brought the
case against Transamerica Corp,
a holding company which has ac-
quired stock in banks with almost
TOO Offices in five Western States.
The Transamerica banking en-
pire was started in 1904 by the
late A. P. Giannini with a single
bank.
Mr.. Chase said in a written brief
that Transamerica deals "have
concentrated more economic power
IN one small group of men-per-
hapS in only one man-than prob
ably has ever happened before in
the business life of our country"
Transamerica says it is being
prosecuted simply because it is
big, that its bank acquisitions
have brought improved business
facilities and served the public
interest.
One Of the Reserve Boards
governors. r. M. Evans, who acted
as hearing officer in preliminary
stages, found the corporation
guilty of violating the Clayton
Act He recommended
that Transamerica be forced to
divest itself of stock in all but one
Of the banks in its system.
He would permit Transamerica
to keep its link with the Bank of
a California chain which
is by far the biggest in the Trans
system and probably the
largest in the world under one
name.
Mr.. Chase wants to cut the tie
between Transamerica and the
Bank of America and also to for
bid interlocking directorates
among the banks involved.
Evening star., 1951-12-10
Outside Heart Baby
Given Chance TO Survive
BY the Associaisd Pres,

TACOMA, Wash, Dec. 1o.-Six-
day-old Deborah Angelo today was
given a good chance Of becoming
the first baby to survive an "out-
side heart" operation.
The surgeon who performed the
operation gave that report. He
said that in no other such case
has child lived more than IL
hours.
Deborah was born Wednesday
to Mrs. Elvon Angelo Of nearby
Puyallup. The surgeon said her
heart at birth was completely
outside the chest" The arteries
ran into the body below the ribs.
The doctor, who insisted on re-
naming anonymous. said the op-
Grafton consisted of laying open
the chest from the neck to the
navel and then placing the heart
under the breast bone.
The baby is the Angeles first
child.
The father is a high school
mathematics teacher.
Evening star., 1951-12-10
DushieII Hummett Ends
Sentence for Contempt
BY the Associotsd Press

ASHLAND, KY, Dec. 10.-Mys-
terry Writer Dashiell Hammett. an
executive of the Civil Rights Con-
gress, has been released from the
Federal correctional institution at
nearby Summit, KY, after serv-
ing q six-month contempt of
court sentence. Good behavior
got him 80 days off.
Warden G. c. Rexroad said
Hammett was freed yesterday.
The writer was sentenced for con-
tempt in Washington, July 9. with
millionaire leftist Frederick Van
derbilt Field and w. Alpheus
Hunton.
All three refused to tell q Fed
eral Court who furnished $780,
600 in bail bond posted by the
Civil Rights Congress on behalf OF
IL convicted Communists.
Evening star., 1951-12-10
Priest on Georgetown
Law Debate Team

A Catholic priest studying law
at Georgetown University will Join
two other law students Wednesday
and Thursday to defend the uni
versity's national Law debate title
in New York City.
Members of the GEORGETOWN
University team are the Rev. Jo-
seph M. Snee. S. j.: George J,
Melburger and Charles j. Filzer,
Father Snee is one of four regu-
larly enrolled Jesuits in the law
school. When Georgetown Uni
versity won the District finals last
month, it was the first time that
Catholic priest had stood in the
United States Court of Appeals
and argued case.
The arguments of the District
finals were presented in the Court
OF Appeals. Georgetown defeated
Catholic University in the finals,
winning the American Security &
Trust Co. Trophy for the second
straight year. Other schools that
entered the local competition we're
Howard, George Washington. Ma
tlonal and Columbus Universities
The debate is known as the
National Inter-Law School Com
petition. More than 100 law
schools have been participating
Georgetown University won the
national title last year.
The question being argued this
year is that Of the rights and
privileges of witness before a
congressional investigating COM
mlttee, as presented within the
frame Of subsequent criminal
prosecution for refusing to testify
Supreme Court Justice Burton will
preside at the finals.
Evening star., 1951-12-10
Ex-Convict Back in Prison
After Ride With Policeman
BY the ASsoeioied Press

SALINAS, Calf, Dec. 10.-Out
of prison only three weeks, George
William Wells, 35, was right back
behind bars today-charged with
kidnapping, armed robbery, auto
theft and speeding-all because q
policeman offered him a ride al
4:30 am. yesterday.
Policeman Ernest Leezy said
Wells didn't like it when the drive
led to the police station because
Wells was incoherent. Mr.. Leezy
said Wells pulled a gun and
threatened to kill him, but COM
promised by manaclng him to a
telephone pole with his own
handouts.
Wells took the police car. He
traded that Sc miles away for
Rancher Bill Collins auto, trad
ing shots with the rarcher as he
sped away.
Wells whizzed through Gilroy
Officers r. j. Edwards and Ed
Piedmont gave chase in a run
ming gun battle at 80 miles an
hour.
Wells ran out of gas and took
of on foot. Mr. Edwards brought
him down with a flying tackle.
Evening star., 1951-12-10

paign for the general is being
directed from Topeka, Kans. The
main effort in behalf of Mr.. Stas-
sen is being exerted in New York.
In Standard Oil Building.
But the Offices set aside for
Senator Taft in the Standard Oil
Building, 261 Constitution avenue
NV, are his national head
quarters.
The man in charge there is
Victor A. Johnston. former direc-
tor of the Republican Senatorial
Committee. AS director Of or
ganization, he presides over a staff
occupying four rooms on the fifth
floor and three rooms elsewhere
in the building. Two of the latter
are used by the publicity organi-
zation. of which L. Richard Guy
lay is chief and Basil Littin of
Fairfax is assistant.
The organization at Taft head
quarters is far from complete, as
are those for the other prospec-
tive candidates. But a heavy vol
ume of mail is being processed for
the Ohioan voter registration in
formation is being distributed and
volunteer workers are being en-
rolled both during the day and at
night In charge of the volun-
teer list is Mrs. Jean Murray, who
requested prospective workers TO
telephone Sterling OIL.
If you want to support Mr..
Stassen, you'll have to wait until
his local staff gives the word.
And if you're for Gen. Eisenhower.
the signals will be called after
Senator Lodge returns to town
and holds a press conference at
the Shoreham.
Evening star., 1951-12-10
Police Advised Him
To Fa|sify Gun Story,
Riqsbee Tells Court

James A. Rigsbee today testified
in District Court that he falsified
parts of his confession to police
pertaining to the Staying of Joseph
H. (Big Joe) Scheve at the sug-
gestion of police.
In his confession. Rigsbee had
said he left a Ninth street pool
room after an argument with
Scheve, purchased a gun from a
man he met at a bus terminal
and then returned to the pool
hall where he shot down Scheve.
Premeditation Charged.
The prosecution is contending
that his leaving to purchase a
pistol showed premeditation, a de-
cisive element in a first-degree
murder charge, which is being
pressed.
On the witness stand today.
Rlgsbee asserted that he first told
police he had the gun with him
all the time. He declared that
Detective Sergt. Robert Kirby.
now under indictment on gam
bling conspiracy charges, told him
the jury would believe Rigsbee
was carrying the gun with the
intention of shooting Scheve. So
Rlgsbee decided to change his
story, he testified.
Earlier today District Judge Ed
ward M. Curran ruled out certain
phases of psychiatric testimony
tending to show that the defen-
dant was mentally deranged at
the time of the Staying.
Statements Ruled Out.
Judge Curran held that only
utterly irrational" statements
which might have been made by
Rigsbee were admissible. This
ruled out testimony concerning
events of early childhood and
other statements.
DelehSe Attorney James j.
Laughlin said today he did not
expect the case to go to the jury
before late Wednesday. Scheve
was slain two years ago. This is
the second trial Of Rigsbee in con-
nection with the case. He had
been previously convicted of Sec
ond degree murder in the Staying.
but that verdict was upset by the
United States Court of Appeals
The defense is claiming temporary
insanity and self defense.
Evening star., 1951-12-10
Egyptian Government
Considers Diplomatic
Break With Britain
by the Associated Press

CAIRO, Egypt, Dec. 10.-Egypt's S
government today considered sew
ering diplomatic relations with
Britain following leveling of an
Egyptian village by road-building
British soldiers.
Acting Foreign Minister Ibra-
him Farag Pasha said a decision
would be made soon. The cabinet
held two lengthy sessions yester-
day but a spokesman said only
that Anglo Egyptian relations
were discussed.
In the Suez Canal Zone the
British announced that two of
their soldiers were stabbed, beaten
and killed and a third was crit
ically wounded in Ismailia's Arab
quarter Saturday night.
An Egyptian communique re-
ported another Egyptian dead
from wounds received in the fight
ing at Suez last Tuesday, raising
to 81 the number of Egyptians
reported killed.
Clubs Lands COnfiscated.
The Egyptian cabinet yesterday
also approved a royal decree con-
f1Scating the lands of the 78-year-
old British-founded Gezira Sport
ing Club in Cairo, center of much
of the capitals social life.
The clubs 150-acre establish
ment includes a race course, polo
field and golf course, leased from
the government and situated in
Cairo'S most expensive foreign res
idential section.
Informants said that the cabi-
net also decided yesterday to dis
charges all Britons employed by
Egyptian government depart
mentS. The order repeatedly would
affect about $50 teachers, techni-
clans and other experts.
The proposal to sever diplomat
ic relations resulted directly from
British forces aggression in Suez, "
said the acting foreign minister
in referring to the demolition
Saturday of an Arab village out
side the city.
Demolition Not Resisted.
Heavily guarded British engi-
neers bulldozed down the Arab
huts with tanks to make way for
a new road and bridge.
Egyptian police had failed to
heed government orders to resist
the demolition. The new road,
linking the British garrison area
at SueZ with a water filtration
plant. bypasses a favorite spot for
Egyptian snipers. The British
said they completed it under the
protection of their troops yester-
day. without opposition.
A full severance of diplomatic
relations would mean the depar-
ture from Egypt of Britain's entire
diplomatic staff here, though con-
sular representation would con-
tinue. This would leave an
estimated 23,500 British civilians
in Alexandria, Cairo and the Suez
zone without the protection of
diplomatic representatives.
Evening star., 1951-12-10
Mack Lands in New Delhi

NEW DELHI, India. Dec. 10 up.
Representative Peter Mack,
Democrat. Of Illinois arrived here
yesterday on his world good will'
tour. He flew in from Karachi
in the small plane which already
has carried him to more than a
score of world capitals. He will
remain here two days, then fly
on to Calcutta.
Evening star., 1951-12-10
|RychrstmasS Seals
The Weather Here and Over the Nation

District of Columbia - Partly
cloudy, cold today; high 48 de-
grees. Fair, cold tonight; low 80
degrees in city and 26 degrees in
suburbs. Tomorrow, sunny and
little change in temperature.
Maryland-Fair, cold tonight;
Evening star., 1951-12-10
Chemists Elect President

NEW YORK, Dec. 10 ,P.-The
American Chemical Society an
nounced yesterday that it's 1853
president will be DR. Harrington
Daniel, University of Wisconsin
chemistry professor who worked
on the World War II atomic
energy projects.
Prof. Daniels was nominated Of
the society's diamond jubilee
meeting here last September
Yesterdays announcement gave
the result of a Nationwide vote
by the society's $1,000 members