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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-08-02
Forged Prescription
Traps Drug Addict

A man accused of forging a
narcotics prescription was ar
rested in a drug store last night
at Twelfth and F street NV. as
he was trying to have the pre-
scription filled, police said.
1t. H. H. Carper, head of the
narcotics squad, seized Joseph
Christopher Asturi, 81, of the 600
block of G street NV. Police said
they found four morphine tablets
in one of his pockets.
A prescription for 10 morphine
tablets had been forged on the
prescription blank of a physician
with offices in the 1900 block Of
I street NV. Asturi told police
he obtained the blanks from a
man in Baltimore.
He also told police he is free
under $1,000 bond on a similar
charge in Pittsburgh, his former
home. In Municipal Court this
morning, Asturi waived prelimi-
nary hearing and was held for
grand jury action under $500
bond. Judge Nadine L. Gallagher
also ordered immediate hos
pitalization.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-08-02
lightning Kills Five Hiker!
In Grand Teton Canyon
By the Associated Press

briggs, Idaho, Aug. "A boil
of lightning killed five Mormon
Church camp mixers and injured
eight others huddled beneath &
mountain wilderness tree yes.
terday.
The victims, four teen-age girl:
and a woman camp counsellor, al
of Idaho Falls, were part of 6
group of 81 hiking through G
canyon in the Grand Teton range
about Il miles east of here.
A sudden thunderstorm broke
over the rugged country, driving
the group to cover under some
large trees. Fred Miller, only mar
in the group, said he had just
warned the party to "get away
from the tree" when the bolt
lStruck.
Mr.. Miller, stunned himself, ap.
piled artificial respiration to siz
unconscious girls.
Two historical girls ran to the
campsite, 212 miles distant, to gel
help.
Volunteers removed the bodies
'on horseback.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-08-02
By Cecil Holland

Vienna-born Hede Massing to-
day told Senators her story OF
coming to Washington in 1884 and
recruiting two State Department
offlcials-Noel Field, now missing
behind the Soviet Iron Curtain
and the late Lawrence Duggan-
into a Russian espionage ZAP
paratus."
Mrs. Massing, former wife Of
Communist Gerhardt Eisler, testi-
fled as the Security subcommittee
continued its investigation OF
whether any subversive forces have
influenced American Far Eastern
policy.
Mrs. Musings testimony dealt
with details brought out at previ-
Gus hearings.
The subcommittee, headed by
Senator McCarran, Democrat, OF
Nevada, has conferred it's inquiry
thus far on the Institute of Pacific
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-08-02
Six Days as Private
Conyinces Drafted
Indiana Doctor
BY the Associated Press

CHICAGO, Aug. DIR. Robert
IBeconovich, 81, a Hammond Und. }
doctor who was drafted last week
when he refused to accept a COM
mission, has changed his mind
after six days as an Army private.
The public information officer at
Fort Sheridan said the young doc
tor left there yesterday for Fort
Sam Houston, Tex, after express
ing willingness to accept COM
mission in the Officers Reserve
Corps.
The Army spokesman said DR..
IBeconovich's change of heart was
being forwarded to the Office of
the Army Surgeon General in
Washington, and that he probably
will be granted the commission he
previously Spurned.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-08-02
Allies Gain 7 Miles
On Central Korea Front

UNITED STATES 9th ARMY
HEADQUARTERS, Aug. AT
lacking Allied troops gained more
than 2 miles on the Central Ko-
rean front today. They met only
small groups of Reds.
The advance was made south of
IKumsong, Communist supply CEN
ter. Infantrymen advanced from
5000 to 1000 yards. Patrols
Engaged into small groups of Reds
Communist forces made light
probing attacks early this morn
ling on either side of the Allied
advance. They were stopped.
The Reds made two of these at
tacks northeast of Kumhwa, IL
miles southwest of Kumsong.
Another predawn Red attack
was made northwest of Yanggu,
30 miles southeast of Kumhwa.
Elsewhere the battlefronts were
quiet. Warplanes flying north of
battle lines followed up yester-
days 500 sorties, hammering at
Red supply lines.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-08-02
BY the Associated Press

LONDON, Aug. "A special
plane was ordered to stand by
today to carry a British cabinet
mission to Teheran for Anglo
Iranian oil talks.
The Foreign Office insisted nc
final decision on sending the mis-
sion had been made. A spokesman
added, however, it might come at
any moment.
Britain still is awaiting clearer
replies to one or two questions ii
has raised with Iran. They center
on Britain's insistence that both
sides clearly understand the basis
on which the talks will be held.
Teheran dispatches said bitter
Iranian resentment at the arrival
of four British destroyerS at
Abadan this week threatened to
break down an agreement for re-
newal of the talks at the eleventh
hour.
President Truman's special en-
voy in the Oil crisis, w. Averell
Hartman, was reported concerned
over the possible adverse effect of
IBritain's display of force. British
Iplanes also were reported to have
flown over Iranian territory in the
refinery area and Mr.. Hartman
was informed that the Iranian
government was protesting both
to Britain and Iraq. Iraqui bases
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-08-02
New Red Guide for Party Chiefs
Doesn't Sound Like Friendship

States" declares the new hand
book, full of hope for q new ex-
istence and find only slave-like ex-
Iploitation.
"A debauch of reaction charac-
teriZeS the United States in the
postwar period"
Wall Street is described as the
country's great banking center
and the pamphlet claims that
American foreign policy is de-
termined here"
Sixty families, the guide con-
tends, control the United States
and are ''the contemporary slave
owners" Four names are men
tioned-Morgan, Rockefeller, Du
IPont and Mellon.
Considerable material is in
cluded concerning the economic
plight of the Negroes in the South,
the MexicanS along the Rio
(See PAMPHLET, Page A-3.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-08-02
British Plane Ready to Take
Mission to Iran for Oil Talks
New Negotiations Threatened by Teheron's
Resentment at Arrival of English Ships

were said to have been used by the
British warships and planes.
A dispatch from Baghdad yes
terday said British troops basec
near Basra. in Iraq, had beer
alerted for a possible emergency
for several days, but that the alert
had been Cancelled when the pos.
Sibility of renewing talks devel-
oped. Raj planes continued t.
arrive near Basra, however.
Teheran dispatches said discorC
flared today in the Iranian Malls
lower house of the Iranian Parlia-
ment, as Mr.. Hartman waited fol
word from London as to when the
British mission would arrive.
Delayed by "FormalitieS."
Iranian deputies were quoted as
telling Parliament the arrival Of
warshipS made it impossible tt
start oil talks in a friendly spirit.
A British Foreign Office Spokes.
man said the mission was delayed
because of certain formalities.
This could mean the mission mem
bers had yet to comply with for
'eign travel regulations.
Yesterday the cabinet studied g
report from Mr.. Hartman
then sent off reply to Iran. A
Foreign Office spokesman said ar
answer is expected probably to-
day. He indicated Trans reply
(See IRAN, Page A-3.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-08-02
Committee Condemns
0atis imprisonment;
Press Club Also Acts
Trumun's Proclamation
Puves Way to End All
Czech Trade Concessions
By Gornett D. Homer

Congressional and National Press
Club resolutions condemning Com
Imunist Czechoslovakia's imprison-
ment of Associated Press Core
spondent William N. Oats CO.
incided today with a presidential
proclamation paving the way fol
ending tariff concessions to Czech
oSlovakia.
The House Foreign Affairs Com
mittee yesterday adopted a reSolu-
ton denouncing the sham trial
and unjust conviction" of Mr.
Oats on spy charges and calling
on Government agencies to take
all possible action to bring about
his release"
Mr.. Oats immediate release
was demanded in a resolution
adopted by the National Press
Club Board of Governors. 1t
charged the Czech Communist
regime had distorted all honest
reporting through perverted proc
esses of justice"
President Truman signed a
proclamation authorizing the can
collation. of all tariff concessions
to the Soviet Union and her satel-
lites, including Czechoslovakia. He
then ordered the cancellation into
effect August 81 for 13 Communist
lands. but excluded Czechoslovakia
and Russia herself, among others,
until further legal steps are COM
|pleted.
The Presidents order will have
the effect of increasing tariffs
after August 81 on any goods i'm
ported from Albania, Red China,
Estonia, the Soviet zone of Ger
many, Communist-controlled parts
of Indo-China, North Korea, the
Kurile Islands, Latvia, Lithuania,
Outer Mongolia, Romania, South
ern Sakhalin and Tannu Tuva.
Secretary of the Treasury
Snyder was directed to deny trade
benefits to these countries under
the proclamation establishing the
basic authority for carrying out
a Congressional order to cancel
tariff concessions to Russia and
all countries dominated by Mos
COW as soon as practicable.
The congressional order was
contained in an amendment to re-
cent legislation extending the Re-
ciprocal Trade Act. Carrying out
another amendment, the President
also fatty enlarged imports from
Continued on Page A-3, Col. S.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-08-02
.Provdo Takes Note
OF Petition Story,
Calls Ii Serious
By the Associated Press

MOSCOW, Aug. Pravda
commented today on experiences
of reporters of the New York Post
and the Madison (Wis.) Capital
Times, who had trouble finding
signers to a petition bearing the
Declaration of Independence.
The Communist Party paper
said it proved the Declaration
had been buried in America along
with the freedoms it guaranteed.
It told of the failure of the
Madison paper to get more than
one signer out of 112 asked on
the Fourth of July, and of how
the New York Post could get only
10 out of 161 to sign.
I'm the joke of the American
Journalists" said Pravda, there
is a serious meaning. what, in
fact, is left of the notorious Amer
lean democracy after ITS years?"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-08-02
Polish Vessel Under Guard
In Sweden After Mufiny
BY the Associated Press

STOCKHOLM, Aug. 2.-The
Polish minesweeper Hedregfar-
iczon docked in the port of Ystad
today with all officers locked in
their cabins after a mutiny by
crew members in the Baltic, the
Swedish defense staff said tonight.
The ship, which carries crew
of SO men and officers, was placed
under police and naval guard in
Ystad harbor.
Preliminary reports from hear
ings by Swedish authorities indi-
Gated the mutiny was started by
eight men, who later were joined
by eight others. The 16 mutt
|neers were reported to have asked
asylum in Sweden as political
refugees.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-08-02
By Ernie Hill
Correspondent of The Stur and
Chicooo Daily News.

UNITED NATIONS, N. Y, Aug
l2.-The Soviet press has turned
out a 50-page pamphlet callee
Notes for Agitators contrasting
strangely with it's new English
language fortnightly magazine
News.
Notes for Agitators is printed ir
Russian and is being distributed
to key party leaders through the
world to give them the line or
what to preach about the United
Estates.
Fresh off the press, the pamphlets
contains none of the soft words
about better Soviet relations with
the Anglo-Saxon world as does the
News which has adopted a curious
lpattern of friendship.
Immigrants go to the United
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-08-02
Hede Mossing Repeats Story
That FieId, Duggon Joined Reds
Ex-Communist Tells Senators of Coming
Here to Enlist Former State Department Men

Relations. This is a private or
ganization established in the 1920s
for objective study of Far Eastern
problems.
With Mrs. Massing on the
stand, the subcommittee released
a number of letters and docu-
ments to show what Robert Nor
ris, the committee counsel, said
were connections between persons
named by Mrs. Massing as Com
munistS and the institute.
Mrs. Massing testified that she
and Alger Hiss. former State De-
partment official, competed for
Fields services after Field re-
luctantly agreed to join her ap-
paratus and, as she said, ''betray
his country"
Hiss is now serving prison
sentence for denying under oath
that he gave secret information to
a Communist spy ring operating
(See SECURITY. Page A-2.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-08-02
Influence Man Probe
Begun by Grand Jury;
Senator's Blast Mason
He Is Complete Fraud
Hoey Says as Court
Action Is Revealed

A Senate subcommittee today
denounced pudgy Sam Mason as
"a complete fraud" who worked a
confidence racket ito sWindle ap-
proximately quarter million dol
lars from his victims" on promises
to obtain cheap leases of Govern
ment property.
Chairman Hoey of the Senate'S
Subcommittee on Investigations
announced a Federal grand jury is
starting an inquiry into Mason's
activities. Witnesses told the SUBJ
committee Mason said the Gov
eminent, in fear of atomic attack,
was planning a vast underground
construction program, and many
buildings would become surplus. "
Senator Hoey said in a speech
prepared for the Senate that he
was filing a formal report covering
the fantastic Vaccinations" OF
Mason, a New Yorker, who has
said his real name is Samuel D
Mussman. He lost a leg in World
War I and draws $195 monthly ir
Government compensation.
Paid No Income Tax.
Testifying before the Hoey
group, Mason said he has paid nc
income tax since 1929. He sale
he had a scheme to bride public
officials, and asked the Senators:
whats wrong with that?'
Mason acknowledged collecting
around 100000 from five witnesses
against him, but said he turned ii
all over to a mysterious Vince
Eungart, in Washington. He said
Eungart was to use the money to
obtain leases, but has gone to Aus
Itralia.
In District Court this morning,
the Justice Department started
the machinery rolling to prosecute
Mason on possible charges of per-
jury and obtaining money by false
pretenses.
Other Violations Reported.
Attorney General McGrath filed
a letter in the, criminal clerks Of
flee authorizing a Washington
attorney, Irving Goldstein, to pre-
sent evidence in the case to the
grand jury, in which capacity he
will serve as special assistant to
the Attorney General.
Basis for the appointment, the
letter said, was that the Justice
Department is Informed that
Samuel D. Mussman, alias Samuel
Mason, violated District of Column
bia code sections on perjury, and
by obtaining money and property
or other things of value through
false pretenses with intent to de-
fraud"
The Attorney General added
that the department also has been
informed that Mason has ''vio-
lated other criminal laws of the
United States"
Maximum penalty for perjury
on each count is 10 years, while
false pretense holds a maximum
of one to three years per count.
Sworn In Immediately.
Mr.. Goldstein, who has had an
active civil and criminal law
practice here for many years, is
a former assistant United States
attorney for the District. He was
(See RACKET. Page Alb
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-08-02
Auto Price Boost
To Be First Test
0fNewControIs
ChrysIer Files PIeo;
OPS Admits Law May
Permit Increase
By Robert K. Welsh

The new economic controls law
today headed for its first major
test as most automobile manufac-
|turers prepared to ask further
price boosts, perhaps up to 10 per
cent, on new cars.
The Office of Price Sterilization
said the Chrysler Corp. has 'un-
officially" given notice it will seek
a 912 per cent price increase. An
OPS spokesman said that such re-
quests might have to be granted
in most cases because the new law
requires price ceilings to reflect
business cost rises up to last
Thursday.
The legislation, signed by Presi-
dent Truman late Monday after
congressional approval of a Sen
conference report, got
Ioff to an otherwise stormy start
at the Capitol and White House.
The Presidents criticism OF the
legislation drew the fire of Re-
publicanS in both branches of
Congress. Senator Ferguson, Re-
publican, of Michigan aimed a
blast at an OPS order earlier this
week fixing pork price ceilings
which would allow increases of
3 to 8 cents a pound for some
pork chops.
political Maneuver" Charged.
"That was a shocking political
maneuver," he telegraphed Chair
man Owen J. Cleapv of the Mich
Iigan Republican Central Commit
tee, 'by announcing the order just
after Congress had passed a new
controls law, the administration
seeks to identify the increase with
the new law. It seeks to excite
the public and to confirm its own
propaganda line that the new law
would wreck the imitation pro-
gram. The Truman administra-
ton may shout to the housetopS
about insufficient control author
ity but it actually wants high
prices and imitation"
The Ferguson telegram, which
also contained charge of "polit-
ical double dealing" by the ad-
ministration, was in reply to Mr..
Cleary's telegram. which said peo-
| pie were confused by the OPS
order.
| Price Stabilizer Michael v.
Disable Immediately invited Sen
ator Ferguson to visit OPS. He
said the Senator then could decide
for himself whether the pork price
ceilings were justified in view OF
the squeeze" that packers SUI
Ifered because of sharp rise in
the price of lean hogs.
The principal attack on Presi-
ldent Truman in the House yester-
day came from Representative
Halleck of Indiana. Republican
deputy floor leader. He asserted
the President "has shown he
would rather plan politics than
enforce the economic controls law"
President Truman, according to
Mr.. Halleck, 'is determined that
the new law shall not work if he
can help it," Mr.. Halleck re-
peated the general Republican
contention that the new law is
adequate to cope with imitation
"if it is properly and judiciously
administered"
Senator Moody, Democrat of
Michigan, an Representative
Javits, Republican, of New York
supported the Presidents warm
IingS that the new law would dam
age" American families and
should be repaired" by further
congressional action.
'The new law" Senator Moody
said, will not protect the Ameri-
can consumer nor t. American
(See CONTROLS, Page A-4.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-08-02
.EmergeneyCrewsRu r
Argentina S Railways
As Strike Continues
Schedules Kept Up
On BIust-Torn Lines;
Aliens Are Blamed
BY the Associnted Pes,

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina
Aug. 2.-The anti-Peron Brother
hood of Engineers and Firemer
remained on strike on two mair
lines for the second day today but
emergency crews of inspector:
and roundhouse workers kept al
Argentine railroads operating.
Committing trains were running
on nearly normal schedules on al
four main lines damaged yester-
day by a dozen explosions which
tore up sections of track.
Mounted police, sent to pro-
vincial railway stations to keeI
order, were withdrawn.
Alien Forces Blamed.
The government charged thai
the explosions were set off by
criminals inspired by forces alier
to the country"
Private reports reaching here
said the strike had paralyzed the
two big rail centers Of Junin tc
the west and Ingeniero White te
the south. 1t apparently had not
spread to Buenos Aires and Ro-
|sario, largest cities in Argentina
The lines were blown up after
the strike call by the engineers
and fremen who man the state
owned railways.
The Government, in its com.
munique on the bombing, did moi
mention the strike which TIT
union said was called because The
regime had refused to let the
union elect it's own officers.
Shops Reported Damaged.
Railroad shops at Tolosa, neal
La Plata, were said to have beer
damaged by explosions.
1t was difficult to assess tht
effect of the strike on a nation.
wide basis because trunk tele.
phone lines were closed to Abbott
Perez MILAN and Monte-thret
key points. The government
owned company said the line
were down because Of a sever,
storm.
Through trains to the west ant
south were reported to be runnin!
behind schedule or to have beer
Cancelled altogether.
Gen. Peron broke Argentina
last railway strike January Is b.
using his wartime emergenc,
powers to draft strikers. Abou
300 rail workers were arrested anc
some were tried for crime
against the State"
The newspaper La Prensa wa
closed and taken over by tn,
government after it printed tht
strikers side of the argument.
The president still has thes'
emergency powers and may in
woke them again.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-08-02
u. Legation Plane Feared
Sabofaged at Saigon
By the Associated Press

SAIGON, Indo-C China, Aug. O.
American sources reported today
an attempt to sabotage a plane
used by the United States Lega-
ton here. They said iron filings
had been discovered in an oil filter.
Robert Blum, chief of the United
States Economic Mission to Indo-
China, said something abnormal"
was discovered on the plane, but
he could not say definitely it was
sabotage. He was due to fly to
Bangkok Saturday in the plane.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-08-02

DALLAS, Aug. 2 (R.-M. Aura
|of Dallas paid $1,542.5O for Dallas
County's first bale Of cotton and
said he would send it. to Germany
for auction. Proceeds would GO
Ito some German charitable cause.
IC. c. Witherspoon Of India, Tex,
grew the first bale.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-08-02
60 Reported Killed
In Czech Mine Riots

BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Aug. 2.
The newspaper Politika reported
today that Czechoslovakia police
killed go workers and arrested 200
after riots in uranium mines. The
source of the information was not
given.
Politika said a Soviet engineer
was killed when he tried to inter-
vene in the strike, caused by diff
cult working and living conditions.