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Evening star., 1951-10-14
By Bill Becker
Associoted Press Stoff Writer

LAS VEGAS. New. Oct. 13.-
Five Thousand GIs who may have
wondered what it's like to be on
a real hot spot should get more
than a rough idea in the first
atomic testing Of troops next
week.
Exercise Desert Rock" sthe
joint Atomic Energy Commission
and Army show. is designed to
prove the battlefield value of
Americas new weapons. The
series of brilliant blasts also may
throw light on two vital questions:
l. Is the military getting ready
to take over atomic control?
2. Are the new weapons adapt
able for use in Korea, if necessary?
With Acc and armed forces
brass converging on the Nevada
test site. about rs miles northwest
of Las Vegas, all signs point to
either Monday or Tuesday as the
opening day for what we'll may
be a new era in military tactics.
Specifically. the Acc and the
Army want to know whether A
weapons can be used successfully
in support of ground forces. The
nuclear weapons-be they bombs,
.artillery-type shells, or guided
missiles-presumably will be SINH
lar to those exploded FIVE times
in the desert here last January
.27 to February 6.
Psychological Facts Cited.
But for CT and brass alike. the
psychological factor is uppermost.
The foot soldier has to be con-
vinced that he can live and fight
through an atomic attack. His
officers think he can if he remem-
bers his training and follows in
Structions.
I'VE are bending over back
wards to see that no man is en-
dangered," is the assurance of
Maj. Gen. William B. Kean. COM
mandlng the Army's share in the
Desert Rock operation.
On display will be "the great
new tactical weapons" mentioned
by ACE Chairman Gordon Dean
last week just before he inspected
the test site.
Upon his return to WASHINGTON j..
Mr.. Dean conferred with Defense
Secretary Lovett. and speculation
arose on two points: % That the
tests may be the first step in turn
ing A-weapon custody over to the
military; and CD That the tests,
If successful. might be a potent
persuader to the Communists toI
make peace in Korea.
Inc maneuvers primarily will
involve an Army combat battalion
OF 900 men who will establish a.
battle position, dig trenches and
foXholes and string barbed wire
before each explosion. They will
move to safe positions as the ex-
ploslon comes. the Army says.
turn away from the point of burst
and wait for three seconds before
looking toward the fireball.
May Be Unable to See.
Those who fail to obey this in
truction may be unable to see for
5 to 10 minutes, Acc experts say.
Evening star., 1951-10-14

TO July l, as
S oon as tn e
President signs
the legislation
into law.
The rumorS
regarding the
pay raise bills
stemmed from
the fact that
agen-
cies, a Ire a d y
hard-p S S e d
by cuts in their
personnel funds
this year, would
~ n = y a ~ q
Evening star., 1951-10-14

enough money To meet the in
icreased payroll costs necessitated
by a Federal pay raise.
Furthermore, the fact that Gov
ment agencies normally are re-
quired to apportion their spending
on a quarterly basis resulted in
doubts that the retroactive fea-
ture of the pay raise legislation
could be paid to employees. This
/ is because the first quarter of the
1852 fiscal year already has come
and gone.
However. authoritative sources
both in Congress and in the
Budget Bureau say that once the
pay raise is signed into law, Fed
eral employees will get their raise
including the retroactive boost.
They say that is required by law
They point to the Anti-Def1ciency
Act which provides that Federal
Iagencies may apportion their ap-
preparations any way they wish
over the year to meet situations
that occur as a result of no ad-
miniStrative action on their part.
In other words, the act says
that if Congress approves a law
that requires the outlay OF funds
and doesn't actually appropriate
the funds. the agencies may 60
Iahead and apportion their avail
able money on the basis of the
law involved.
SUPPLEMENTAL MONEY-Of
course. Government departments
and agencies will need a supple
mental appropriation early next
year by Congress to meet their
increased payroll costs, if they are
not to run out Of money long be-
fore July /.
The retroactive feature means
that. starting from last July, 1t
will cost the Governments de-
partments and agencies some
where between $50 to $40 million
a month to pay for the increased
salaries voted by Congress. AS a
result. the fiscal year will be more
than half over by the time Con-
gress returns next January.
Capitol Hill sources say that
Congress undoubtedly will act to
meet the situation early next
year. While, the House and Senate
Appropriations Committees will
require agencies to absorb some of
the cost of the pay raise legisla-
ton. the groups members say.
enough money will be voted to the
departments and agencies to keep
them operating.
It's pointed out that If Congress
next year failed to vote supple
mental funds. many agencies
would be forced to fire Is to IS
per cent of their employees.
Some agencies that suffered Sc
we're budget cuts in their person.
mel funds this year will be able
to operate only until March or
April on their present money, as
a result of the Federal pay raise
legislation. That's why Congress
Evening star., 1951-10-14
$50 Snapshots Here
For Final Judging in
National Competition

National Snapshot Contest will be
chosen here tomorrow when $50
pictures by amateur photographers
in the United States and Canada
will be assembled for Judging in
the National Geographic Society
building, Sixteenth and M streets
NV. aA
Prizes totaling $4,000 will be
awarded to winners in the con-
test, sponsored by 80 leading
newspapers. In Washington, the
contest was sponsored by The
Star, which received more than
$500 snapshots in Is weeks.
Pictures taken by the first place
winners in each of the four cate
gories in. The Stars contest will
be included in the national judg-
ing.
Star Winners Listed.
The four Star contest winners
were Henry Gichner, 61I5 Thirty
third street NV; Edward T. How
ell, Wilmington, Del; c. H. Sever
! ance. 730 Fifteenth street NV,
and Mrs. Florence Sharp, SIT N.
Nineteenth street, Arlington. Mr..
Howell submitted his entry in The
Star contest because the compe-
tition no longer is sponsored in
Wilmington.
| Both local and national con-
tests are divided into four cate
gories: A, babies and children; B.
young people and adults; c, scenic
and still life; and D. animals and
pets.
First prize winners In each
class will receive $500 while the
grand prize winner will receive
an additional $1,000.
$3.50 For Second Prizes.
Second prize winners in each
class will receive $3.50 each and
third prize winners, $100. In ad-
dition, 70 special merit winners
will get $50 each and "a honor
able mention winners will get $25
each.
! Tomorrow's judging will begin
at 10 am. in the geographic So
ciety Explorers Hall where spe-
cial panels and lighting have
been set up to show the pictures
to their best advantage. Each of
the pictures has been printed in
llxl4 siDe in black and white.
1 The Eastman Kodak Company.
which also sponsors the annual
competition. said hundreds of
thousands of pictures were ad-
mltted over the country in the To-
cal contests conducted by news
papers.
! These pictures were narrowed
down to the $50 prints assembled
for final judging. This is the con-
tests 18th year.
| Judges Named.
Judges for the final selections
will be John Tondra. president of
the White House News Photogra-
pliers Association; Ylla. famous
animal photographer; Ivan Dmitri,
nationally known Photographic
Illustrator; Edwin L. Wisherd,
chief Of National Biographies
Photographic laboratory, and K.
w. Williams, manager of the
Eastman Company's Photographic
illustrations division.
| Selection will be based on in
terest and appeal of the pictures
as well as Photographic quality.
According to contest authorities,
the prints in this years contest
are better in Photographic skill
and subject matter than ever
before They credit the rising in
terest in amateur photography.
Evening star., 1951-10-14
Reds Abruptly Adjoin.
Panmunjom Talks but.
They Agree 10 Return.
By the Associated Press

MUNSAN, Korea. Sunday. Oct.
14.-Red liaison officers today alb
ruptly adjourned a meeting with
the Allies at Panmunjom. Nego-
tlators still were apart on how to
get the Korean cease-f1re talks
resumed but agreed to try again
tomorrow.
Many Chinese Red soldiers in
winter garb were seen in the area.
There were varied versions of
what happened at today's brief
S5-minute session.
An official Allied release said
the Reds showed an "unyielding
attitude" over the issue of set
ting up neutral zone.
Red neWsmen on the other hand
said that the Communist delega-
ton had demanded immediate ad-
mission by the Allies that their
planes strafed the Kaesong-
Panmunjom area Friday.
Eager to Talk.
A pooled dispatch. quoting the
Red neWSmen, also quoted United
Nations sources as saying such an
admission was not made a con-
dltion by the Reds for continuing
the liaison talks.
Despite the latest Red allega-I
ton that Allied planes had
strafed the aesong-Panmunjom
conference area, the Reds ap-
peared eager to get the talks 60
ing again.
The one question was definition
Of security area" around Red
held Kaesong, site of the talks
which were suspended August %.
United Nations officers mean
while sent to Tokyo their secret
findings on the latest Red COM
plaint-that three American Jet
planes strafed the conference area
late Friday. killing one Korean
boy and wounding another.
Investigators Shown Slugs.
There was a growing feeling
among Allied correspondents that
the inquiry supported the Red
complaint:
Correspondents at panmunjom
generally felt the Communists had
presented enough tangible evi-
dence to back up their case-al-
though there still were enough un-
known factors to make a clear-cut
opinion impossible" reported
Robert B. Tuckman, AP cores
pondent who accompanied the liai-
son officers.
The investigators talked to
15-year-old boy. saw the body of
a 12-year-old boy and a wounded
2-year-old, and were shown slugs
and bullet marks,
Asked by Chinese officer if he
had seen enough evidence of a
strafing. Col. Don Darrow replied.
yes" but added that he could not
tell how old the slugs were. /,
Protest Only Verbal. L
A United Nations command
spokesman noted. however: that
the Reds. had made only a verbal
proteseand requested a speedy in
quiry y
In the past they have followed
up such protests with violently =
worded formal complaints from
the top Chinese Red and North
Korean commanders. The fact
that they had not done so in this
instance and that they still were
going along with liaison talks, boil
stored speculation that the Com
munists actually want to resume
truce negotiations.
Communist correspondents at
Panmunjom contented themselves
with tear-jerking accounts of the
incident. but said the Reds re-
served the right to make further
demands They also repeated the
standard Communist charges that
the Allies were ''insincere" in the
effort TO arrange an armiStice.
Evening star., 1951-10-14

sunny with high 62-68. Tomorrow.
fair with little change in tempera-
ture.
Wind: Northeast at Z miles an
hour at IL pm.
Evening star., 1951-10-14
The Weather Here and Over the Nation

District of Columbia-Mostly
sunny with high in the middle COS.
Tomorrow. fair with little change
in temperature.
MARYLAND and Virginia-Mostly
Evening star., 1951-10-14
Shaw Village Bus Dropped

So few people visited Bernard
ShaWs village in England that the
bus has been Withdrawn.
Evening star., 1951-10-14
New Portugal Drug Rule

Portugal now requires that
pharmaceutical products retailed
within its borders be in single unit
packages.
Evening star., 1951-10-14
The Federal Spotlight
The Federal Spotlight
Federal Workers to Get Raise
Despite Delay, Officials Say
Bv Josehh Youno

The fact that Congress about raises
ernen employees without voting the appropriations
the legislation this led
would be denied salary boost until next year.
This been definitely Budget
Bureau officials and Capitol Hill legislative experts
Evening star., 1951-10-14

Scattered showers forecast today with
snow urries in higher elevations Showers expected
Mississippi Valley region Tempera
lures will continue cool along the Atlantic
Coast with warming trend indicated sections
southwark to the Gulf of Mexico expected i'm
the Northern Plains upper region Wrephoto
Evening star., 1951-10-14

They say that Government
workers will definitely get what
ever pay raise is voted them, to-
gether with the retroactive feature
Evening star., 1951-10-14

Tide Tables.
Furnished by United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey
Evening star., 1951-06-17
FRANCONIA

You can live very economically in
this white frame bungalow, because
there Is 3-rm. cottage on the
property that rents for $55 per mo-
assume GI loan Of $4,000. pay.
ments of $3.50 per mo. oW
TOWN & COUNTRY
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LYNHAVEN

For o small down payment you can
own this clean 5-rm. home, close to
transp. and shopping center. Owner
has been transferred and must sell.
FOR inspection call the once Of j.
LEM PRICE. OF. 1904.
Evening star., 1951-06-17

5 rooms. brick and stone, 3 bedrms.,
full din. rm., very attract. kit. with
dinette space, Keystone cabinets;
l Y baths. 2 fireplaces, full bSmt.
with finished recr. rm. partly in
knotty pine; must be seen to be
appreciated; by owner; S23,950
5l7 n; Illinois ST., Arlington, Va,
Evening star., 1951-06-17
HOUSES FOR sALE-NA.
WHOSATD

ali too smalla" We are Offering the
exception. New brick Cape Cod in
which the old and the new blend
into a lovely home. Features are
rm., dining rm., de luxe kitchen. full
bsmt. has VI bath; breezeway to
brick garage. Price. S24.95Q.
LURIA BROS.
OPEN TILL 9
2300 Wilson Blvd, OW. $500.
-17
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HOUSES FOR sALE-vA.
4-BEDROOM HOME

One OF those hard-to-find. big. roomy
older homes in q nice N. Arl. loea;;
tion on q lge. level lovely wooded
lot. Needs a little fixing but at
this price you can afford 1t. Owner
will take back 1st trust for entire
]. Fuller Groom Realty Co.
aa NYI AAor
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LOW DOWN
ATTENTION.!

Would you like a ranch-type house
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an outstanding No. Arlington loca-
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with settlement. To see any time,
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Evening star., 1951-11-22
Holiday Strike Hits
New York BusIines
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK, Nov. 22-About
40 bus routes in Manhattan and
the Bronx we're tied up today by a
wildcat strike. Union leaders later
gave their sanction to the Walkout
but said it will end at midnight
The stoppage on the Third
Avenue Transit System was spark
ed by a dispute over Thanksgiving
holiday pay rates.
Michael j. Quill. president of the
CIO Transport workers Union. at
first. repeatedly disapproved the
unauthorized strike. Later. he
told meeting of $50 drivers:
Go home and have your
Thanksgiving Turkey today with
your families and report back to
work tomorrow
Matthew Guinan, president OF
Local 100, said the Walkout will
end at midnight when normal
work schedules resume. !
Only about half the usual Ii
million daily riders on the affected
bus lines use the busses on holi.
day. ,...
The walkout came as prelude
to threatened cityWide striks
against private bus lines by TIN
TWU. 1t has been demanding pa,
raises and 2 cut in the work weel
to 40 hours.
Evening star., 1951-11-22
Wounded Sons Escort Body
Of Brother Slain in Korea

Purple Hearts and the Bronze Star
he won.
Richard wears the Purple
Hearts for wounds which led the
Army to send him home for a
medical discharge. His return to
his Lansing home was marked by
a reunion with his wife Theda and
their 3-month-eld son Stephen,
whom he saw for the first time
today.
The boys widowed mother was
at the railroad station together
with Michigan's Gov. G. Mennen
Williams and Lanslng's Mayor
Ralph w. Gregg when the train
arrived.
I'm so happy my boys are
home" she said tearfully before
she collapsed in the arms of other
of her family, including
another son. Walter, 26, a World
War II veteran.
Evening star., 1951-11-22

Sawyer feels that there is no need
to fill these positions, since he has
a capable enough staff right now
to handle all of Commences prob
lens
NFFE-Robert S. D'Amelio of
Detroit has won the National
Federation of Federal Employees
1851 merit award for consistent
and outstanding service. TO tie
union. Mr.. Amelio is a member
'of the executive committee of
NF'FE's Local No. 16 in Detroit
and the units former president.
He is well known here for his
work on Government employe
matters.
Runners-up for the NFFE out
standing award included two
Washingtonians, Robert E Lowe
Iof Local No. 2 and A. D. Sart-
well of Local No. 262.
X x x
TALENT AUDITION-The Fed
Ieral Recreation Committees 1851
talent additions for Government
employees, with television and
radio scouts in attendance, will
be on December 5. 10, II and l3
Those who wish to compete should
contact the committees represen-
Itative in their particular depart
ment or agency.
y
OPS--The pending resignation
of Mike Disable as chief of the
Office of Price Sterilization, has
OPS employees unhappy. The
Iagency has tough job to per-
form and one that is sometimes
not too popular, but it's employees
have an excellent spirit thanks to
the personality and appeal OF
Mr.. Disable. Many an empleye
has said it was worth dodging all
the brickbats that came theil
way, just so they could work for
their chief.
incidentally, Mr.. Disable, who
is expected to leave next month
may run for the United States
Senate from Ohio. He formerly
was mayor of Toledo.
X
EXAM-The Civil Service Com
mission has announced an exam
for photographers, photographic
aides and photographic craftsmen
at salaries of $4,000 to $500 a
year.
Evening star., 1951-11-22
Pickle Jar Rocket
Kills Student Who
Made II, Injuries 3
BY the Associoied Press

HOUSTON, Nov. ga bril-
liant high school lad who wouldn't
leave explosives alone blew him.
self to death yesterday when he
shook q pickle jar containing a
homemade rocket propellant.
The powerful explosion snapped
off the hand of another brilliant
student and possibly blinded him
for life, seriously burned and cut
two other teen-agers, badly dam
ased an automobile and shook the
neighborhood.
Killed was Ted Strong, jr., IT.
who only last week had been
dubbed my exploder" by his
chemistry teacher, Miss Frances
HollinsWorth. -.,
Warned by Teacher.
Miss Hollingsworth said she had
warned young Strong in the pres
ence Of his parents. She told the
parents she called him my ex-
ploder" because of his interest in
explosives.
He told me he would not fool
with anything he wasn't able to
handle" she said.
Yesterday, said the teacher, she
did not see the students mixing
'anything" in her chemistry class
in Lamar High School.
The explosion occurred on the
campus.
Losing a hand and possibly
blinded for life was David Dill
man, 16. Burned and cut we're
John Cramer, jr., II, and William
Calvin Montgomery, jr., IT.
"Three Intelligent Boys"
The teacher termed her three
pupils very intelligent boys"
'Cramer had built a Geiger counter
which tests radioactivity. Dill
man was to have spoken before
the Junior Academy of Sciences
at the University of Texas next
month.
Witnesses said the lads mixed
four chemicals in a small pickle
jar. The mixture was designed as
propellant to be used in a rocket
to be built to a physics formula.
The witnesses said Strong shook
the jar.
Evening star., 1951-11-22
Truman S Observer Backs
Reports Of Atrocities,
BY the Asseeioted Press

PORTLAND. Me. Nov. o.
Maj. Gen. Frank E. Lowe, U. S. A.,
retired, President Truman's per-
sonal observer in Korea for nine
months, yesterday termed as true
reports that $500 United States
troops captured in Korea were
victims of death by atrocity."
Declaring this knowledge is
general among the men fighting
in Korea. Gen. Lowe told the
Portland Young Republicans he
was surprised the American pub
lie had not been told of the
atrocities before.
He said military commanders
make desperate efforts to protect
their men from capture and even
ito recapture prisoners deep in
enemy territory.
Evening star., 1951-11-22
BY the Associated Press

Rent Stabilizer Tighe E. Woods
who has said second -echelon
moles'" were moving too slowly in
certifying defense areas for rent
controls, was rebuked yesterday by
tDefense Mobilization Director
fCharaes E. Wilson.
e.sME9Wilson's Office 1ef Defense
Nomination said in a statement
that Mr.. Woods, at closed meet
mg,.f explained his recent public
criticism of the advisory commit
tee on defense critical areas" II
added:
Criticism Held Unfair.
Representatives of all the other
interested agencies were of the
lopinion that the, current opera
Itions of the committee did not
merit such criticism"
Mr.. Woods had said in a tele-
vision program Sunday that the
procedure for restoring rent con-
'trol to defense areas was cumber-
some. He said $50 areas should
have been certified in the past four
months rather than the 48 which
he said have been. The certifica-
tion is by an inter-agency body
headed by Ivan D. Carson, who
said the process is being carried
on as rapidly as possible.
Wilson Confident.
ODM said Mr.. Wilson had ex-
pressed confidence in the re-
control machinery and had made
Mr.. Woods answerable to Housing
Administrator Raymond M. Foley
on policy over rent control in
defense areas.
Mr.. Foley was named as Mr.
Wilson's assistant. in charge of
housing and community develop
ment in connection with the de-
fenSe program.
Mr.. Woods, formerly responsible
to Economic Stabilizer Eric john
ston on defense policy, will con-
tlnue to report to him on non-
defense matters.
Evening star., 1951-11-22
BY the AsSoeiated Press

LANSING, Mich, Nov. 22.-Mrs.
Josephine Needham got her three
sons back from Korea on this
Thanksgiving Day.
One is dead, one crippled, and
the third is recovering from
wounds.
Two of the boys came home as
military escort with the body of
the third brother. Sergt. John
Needham, 25- who fell in action
last January with the '1st Cavalry
Division. $50
Both surviving brothers, Corpl.
Henry Needham. 81. and Corpl.
Richard. %, bore marks of the
wounds they received in Korea.
Henry's left leg is gone and his
left arm paralyZed as a result
OF a mine explosion on Suicide
Hill. His action-packed Korean
service is emphasized by the five