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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-05-09
Screening Committee
Studies Candidates
For School Board
Terms of Sharpe, Head
Of Group, Mrs. Smith and
Hall Expire Next Month
By Colt HendIey, Jr.

More than a dozen candidates
are being considered by special
screening committee of three Dis
trict Court judges for appointment
to the Board of Education. it was
learned today.
| Terms of three of the nine
members of the board expire
June 80.
| They are C. Melvin Sharpe,
board president, who has served
for IL years; Mrs. Philip Sidney
Smith, who has been on the board
% years. longer than any other
member. and Woolsey w. Hall, the
freshman member who was ap-
pointed last October to serve an
unexpired term.
Judge James r. Kirkland, head
of the Screening Committee, said
the appointments will be made
within the next few weeks. The
other members are Judges Henry
A. SchWeinhaut and Richmond B.
Keech.
Candidates Not Identified.
Judge Kirkland declined to
name the candidates being con-
Sidered and gave no indication
whether the present members
would be reappointed.
During the past year the Board
of Education has been a center of
controversy as its members battled
with each other and with School
Supt. Hobart M. Corning. A num-
Der of civic organizations have
called for new faces on the board,
some have recommended replac-
ing DR.. Corning.
Dissension on the board in the
last two years repeatedly has led
the judges to feel that a change
in membership might be a good
thing, some sources indicate.
Sharpe Joined Board in 1899.
Mr.. Sharpe, retired Potomac
Electric Power Co. executive, who
has been active in many fields of
civic work, was appointed to the
board in 1889 and took over as
president in March, 1949, when
Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle re-
signed.
Mrs. Smith, widow of a we'll
known geologist, first was named
to the board in 1928. Also active
in other civic work. she is vice
president of the Board of Library
Trustees.
Mr.. Hall, retired Treasury De-
partment purchasing assistant. is
a past president of the Federation
of Civic Associations and has
taught in Junior and senior high
schools here.
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BY the Associated Press

PASADENA, Calf, May g.
Want to spend the summer in 6
castle in the Austrian Alps, com.
plete with servants, automobile
and food?
It'll only cost you a good useC
car.
The offer is extended by Count
Pail Almeida, owner of the castle.
The count and his family want
to come to the United States this
summer to visit his friend, DR.
Robert K. Yeaton, English pro-
fessor at Pasadena City College.
Austria'S financial restrictions
will not let the count take enough
money out of the country for the
trip.
So to make the American visit
he cooked up the exchange plan
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-05-09

President Truman today fell
back into a boyhood role and ham,
mered out 1.-THE Little Fairy
Waltz" on a specially designed
piano presented to him in Music
Week ceremony at the White
House.
Explaining that that was the
first piece he had ever learned and
occasionally hitting a blue note
like any youngster, the President
smilingly labored through the
waltz and then swung into the
difficult Mozart's Ninth Sonata in
"A Major, and the Minuet by
PaderewSki.
The piano was the gift of Music
Week sponsors including the Ma
tional Recreation Association
members of the American Society
Iof Composers. Authors and Pub
fishers, and the National Piano
Manufacturers Association, whose
members co-operated in building
THE Spinet-type instrument from
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5 Wounded as Police
.0pen Fire on Strikers
Price,
SO Seized in PumpIono
As Instieators of Tieup;
Order to Return Defied
BY the Associated Press

PAMPLONA, Spain. May g.
Police fired on a crowd of strikers
demonstrating today against the
high cost of living. Five were Sc
riously wounded.
Fifty of the workers, taking
part in a general strike which has
|paralyZed this industrial city. we're
arrested as "instigators" of the
Istoppage, which began yesterday.
Civil Governor Luis Valero Ber-
mejo gave the strikers an ulti-
matum to return to their jobs by
p pm. this afternoon or face
grave sanctions. The workers
Idef1ed the ultimatum. showing up
in front of the factories but re-
naming outside discussing last
nights skirmish with police dur
ing a previous demonstration.
Strikers Go to Plant.
Today's fighting began when
strikers went to a plant where
workers wanted to return to their
jobs, and forced them to stay out.
| A short time later. the strikers
tried to march up the Plaza del
Castillo to the civil governors pal
ACE, to renew their protests against
the high cost of living.
Police opened fire. After the
vOlley, five persons lay still on the
ground. Nearly so others sus-
tanned minor injuries after police
welded clubs among the demon
Strators.
The strike remained solid, with
mo indication that it would end
before tomorrow. It's tone was
similar to that of other recent
STRIKES in Generalissimo Francisco
Francois country, all protesting
the sharp rises in living costs,
about which the government had
promised to take drastic measures.
Police Concentrated.
Most of the city's police were
concentrated around the civil gov
ernor's palace.
Club-swinging police and guards
men firing into the air halted
the strike demonstrations here
last night.
Blows from night sticks in
jured a number of persons
as demonstrators were routed
throughout the city, but when the
fighting had died down the gen.
eral strike here, involving some
10000 workers, was still on.
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in 1920. He served for a few
months in the field artillery and
then transferred to the Corps of
Engineers. His first two years
duty were spent in the engineers
school at Camp Humphrey. Va,
now Fort Belvoir.
He studied at Rensselaer, Poly
technic Institute, Troy, N. Y. and
then was assigned as an inStruc-
tor at Washington State College,
Pullman, Wash, where he re-
manned until 1923.
His next tour was for two years
at Fort Logan, Colo, after which
he was transferred to the
Panama Canal Zone. He served
as assistant district engineer for
the Memphis (Tenn) district I'M
til 1889 when he was made as
IsiStant district engineer at Homo
lulu.
Col. Robinson was at that post
when the japanese struck Pearl
Harbor.
Was Awarded DSM.
During World War II, he filled
various engineering assignments
in the Pacific area. He received
the Distinguished Service Medal
for his work in planning and
completing the engineering con-
Structlon on New Guinea. His
citation said he performed nu-
merous personal reconnaissance
into the forward area at great
personal risk. He also holds the
Bronze Star medal.
In June, 1914, he was made
commanding general of the 52O1st
Construction Corps and in De-
Icember, 1945, appointed chief en-.
glneer of the United States forces
in the Middle Pacific Area with
the temporary rank of brigadier
general. He resumed his perma-
nent rank of colonel in July. 1916.
when the Army put into effect it's
general reduction in rank pro-
gram.
He was appointed district en-
glneer of the Honolulu district in
July, 1916, and a year later re-
turned to the United States to
be district engineer at Galveston.
Tex.
Col. Robinson was assigned as
division engineer for the South
Atlantic Division, with headquar-
tiers in Atlanta in June, 1949.
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Truman Again Asks
More Drastic Curbs
And Tax Increase
Says Price, Wage and Rent
Controls Will Be Needed
For Two or Three Years
By Joseph A. Fox

President Truman today re-
newed his demand for tougher
economic controls and higher
taxes ito hit imitation and hit it
hard" as an offset to the multi
billion dollar defense spending
program.
Addressing some 400 industrial
lists attending a meeting of the
Interior Departments Industry
Advisory Council, the President
took an oblique dig at Capitol
Hill opposition to the administra-
ton request for extension of con-
trolls beyond June 80 and urged
particularly that the businessmen
impress on Congress the need fol-
higher taxation. The President
has asked for a $40 billion tax
boost.
Emphasizing that price and
wage curbs and rent regulation
will be required for the next two
or three years, the President de-
clared:
There are some people who
think we can now abandon price
and wage controls and still stop
imitation. They say that heavy
taxes and other so-called indirect
controls can do the whole job from
here on. But as bigger and big
ger military orders hit our econ
omy, that will be clearly impos-
Sible.
"Of course. heavy taxes are
needed, and I'm doing my level
best to get the Congress to enact
enough taxes to keep the budget
in balance. I would be delighted
if each of you would urge your
Congressman and Senators to
raise taxes. am serious about
this; I think you ought to be ask
ing the Congress for higher taxes.
But when you do that, be sure to
(See TRUMAN. Page ABB
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-05-09

Chairman Russell-When the
committee recessed on yesterday
Senator George, I think, had
about concluded his questions
He is not present now. So, .
I will now pass to Senator Byrd.
I,have been requested, Mr.. Sec
rotary, to ask if you are ready to
furnish the name of the individual
whom you told the committee
about in China whom you had
seen fit to relieve of his duties
and return to the States.
(Secretary Marshall was &C
companied by Felix Larkin, gen.
eral counSel.D
Gen. MARSHALL have not To-
Gated the man yet. I might say
that when I said I had seen fit
to relieve him-I inquired about
him and said we ought to get him
out of there, and they reported
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-05-09
Friend Of Husband
|0f Mary Astor Takes
Overdose Of Pills
Dancer Is Seriously III;
Suicide Attempt Follows
Tour Of Night Clubs
BY the Associated Press

BEVERLY HILLS, Calf. May 9
"A dancer who accompanied
Actress Mary Astor's husband or
"a tour of night clubs Monday
night when Miss AStor took an
overdose of sleeping pills is her
self in a hospital this morning
Police said the dancer also had
taken an overdose of a sleeping
potion.
The woman was identified by
Police Detective Sergt. Joe Geb-
Ihardt as Joan Blair Casparis, 33
The detective said her escort
Monday night was Broker Thomas
Wheelock, husband of Miss AS
tor.
An attending physician reported
today that Miss Casparis is in
Ia serious condition but expected
to recover. She was still uncon-
Iscious several hours after being
taken to California Lutheran
Hospital in Los Angeles.
Miss Astor, who took sleeping
pills after period of dependency
was reported as out of danger
after treatment.
Sergt. Gebhardt said Mr.. Vince
lock told him Miss Casparis was a
friend of 20 years standing. He
quoted Mr.. Wheelock: This sit
Iuation has nothing to do with Miss
AStor's action"
Police characterized Miss Cas-
paris action as attempted suicide
They said they found a bottle half
filled with blue capsules. There
were no notes.
Sergt. Gebhardt s&id Miss Cas-
paris had been living at the home
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Bethesda Dentist Honored

BUFFALO. N. Y, May 9 (P).-
DR.. H. Trendley Dean, director of
the National Institute of Dental
Research at Bethesda, Md, was
awarded the Jarvie Fellowship
Medal for distinguished service
to dentistry" yesterday during the
S3d annual meeting of the Dem
tai Society of the State of New
York.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-05-09
Defense Secretary
Clashes With Wiley
At Senate Hearing
By J. A. O'LeorY

Defense Secretary Marshall and
Senator Wiley. Republican, of
Wisconsin clashed sharply today
over whether this Government or
its Allies brought about the dis
missal of Gen. Macarthur as Far
East commander.
Beginning his third day on the
stand in the Senate investigation,
Gen. Marshall fatty denied that
"our Allies determined Gen. Mac
Arthur'S removal. The Secretary
told Senator Wiley, who repre-
Sents Gen. MacArthur's home
State:
They gave no expression of
that kind even remotely, that I
can recall, pertaining to his re-
lief"
Senator Wiley had suggested
that because Macarthur on the
ground 10000 miles away, had a
different idea as to how the battle
should be carried on, that when
he gave those ideas to his su-
periors here in Washington, and
they must have given them to the
Allies, they disagreed with his
ideas and you people came
to the conclusion that he was
violating a directive of some kind
which justified his removal"
Created "2 Voices" on Policy.
Gen. Marshall said the Mac
Arthur public statements were Gre
ating the effect of ''two voices"
expounding American foreign pol
icy.
An indication that some heat
was being generated in the closed
session came when Senator Wiley
put this question to Gen. Mar
shall:
DO you mean to say that a
man in Gen. MacArthur'S posi-
ton, who was Chief of Staff when
you were colonel, had no right
to discuss or recommend to you
leaders in Washington? Is that
what you mean is a violation of
policy?"
Gen. Marshall replied there was
no limit on Gen. Macarthur sub
hitting his views to Washington,
but added ''there is a great diff
ference between that and the
public announcements"
Martin Letter Brought Action.
Earlier, Gen. Marshall con-
f1rmed a general belief that the
Macarthur letter to House Minor
ity Leader Martin on March 20
brought the issue to a head.
Senator Wiley went back to his
original contention with this
query:
Suppose you had said to the
Allies. you gave us this command
and we are going to keep Mac
Arthur on the job, what would
have happened?"
The Secretary replied: II would
feel that we were jeopardizing our
entire relationship on a collective
security basis"
Senator Wiley asked for docu-
ments from the Allies that would
support that statement. The Sec
rotary told the Senator to ask
the State Department for such
documents.
Reason for Not Using JapS.
Earlier, Gen. Marshall said that
no japanese have been used in
Korea because it might bring into
play Russia's treaty to aid Red
China in the event of japanese
Continued on Page AS, Col. A.
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Bulletin
Panama Riots Break Out

PANAMA CITY, Panama (R.
Shooting and mob attacks
broke out in this capital today
during a general strike (which
paralyzed the whole tense city.
The strike was directed against
President Arnulfo AriaS' can
collation. of the 1916 conStitu-
ton.
Earlier Story on Page A-2.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-05-09
Nominated
For Four-Star Rank

President Truman today for.
mally nominated 1t. Gen. Mat
thew B. Ridgway to head the Fal
Eastern command with four-stal
rank.
Gen. Ridgway, successor to Gen
Macarthur, will be designated a!
commander in chief, Far East
general in the Army of the United
States.
This amounts to a temporary
promotion. The officers perma.
nent rank is major general.
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Macarthur Text in Commons

LONDON, May 8 (P1.-The texts
of Gen. MacArthur's speech be-
fore Congress and the testimony
made public before the joint Sen
ate Armed Services and Foreign
Relations Committee will be
placed in the House of Commons
Library.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-05-09

A Navy pilot and his co-pilot
were killed and five other Navy
men escaped this morning when
a twin-engine transport crashed
and burned near the PatuXent Air
Station in st. Mary's County, Md.
Identity of the victims was
withheld pending notification of
next of kin.
Comdr. A. o. Worse, public in
formation officer at the station,
said one of the engines of the
craft apparently caught fire al
most Immediately after the take
off in a northWesterly direction
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-05-09

planning, and is a past president
of the Community Chest Fedora
ton.
In another appointment, Rus
sell Macdonald, former Housing
and Home Finance Agency Of
fetal, was named purchasing Of
f1cer for the commission. He sue
ceeds Col. Vincent E. Stack.
Col. Stack is being retired from
(See PLANNING, Page A-3)
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Marshall Denies u. N. Caused
Macarthur Custer, Says He
Created Two Voices on Policy
Partial Text of Testimony
Marshall Reviews Events Leading Up
To Custer of Macarthur From japan

FOLLOWING is a partial tram
script of Defense Secretary Mar
shaHS testimony on Far Eastern
policy given today before the
Senate Armed SerUiceS and For
eign Relations Committees:
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Plants Grow Here
March to November

The growing season for plants in
the Washington oreo is from eorIy in
March to Iote in November Good
eordens require special core through
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BULLETIN

The dead in the plane crash
were identified by the Navy as
1t. David Lee Thompson, 80, of
Clarksburg, w. Va, the pilot,
and Comdr. William Janeshek,
IS, of Port Washington, Wis,
co-pilot.
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Continued on Page AS. Col. ~
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(See ASTOR, Page A-30
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Guide for Readers

An Associated Press Newspope
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CONTINUED on Page AS, Col. f.,
Evening star., 1951-01-09
National Gateway Backs
Easing Of Building Curbs

The National Gateway Citizens
Association last night Endorsed a
request to the National Produc-
ton Authority to relax it's order
barring construction of public and
recreational facilities. The request
came from the Northeast Council
of Citizens Associations.
NPA halted all n-essential
construction some time ago to con-
serve critical building materials.
Recreational facilities of some
types are included in the order.
The group opposed a move by
the Northeast Council which
would give it representation in the
Federation of Citizens Associa-
tions. Members declared this
would give member bodies Of the
council double representation III
the federation.
Mrs. Jewel E. McCauley spoke to
the group on civil defense and
personal safety measures in case
of an atomic attack. She was sent
by the District civil defense Or
ganization speakers bureau. Gill
bert c.. Vincent, association
president, conducted the meeting
in the Church of Christ, Twenty
eighth and Douglas streets NE.
Evening star., 1951-01-09
District Wins $4,000
After ; Years in Court

District tax officials yesterday
won the final court round in a
three-year effort to collect $4,000
from the Riggs Development Co.
and the Colonial Mortgage Corp,
on income from sale of 156 row
houses built here during the war.
The Supreme Court refused to
review a decision last September
by the United States Court of
Appeals upholding a ruling by the
District Board of Tax Appeals
against the two companies.
The Riggs and Colonial COM
panies, with offices at BIT Ninth
street NV. claimed that receipts
from the sale of 88 dwellings near
New Hampshire avenue and Pea
body street NV, and 68 in Dexter
Heights Sc, were not subject te
the District corporation income
tax.
They declared the property
from which the sale income was
derived was a capital asset ane
therefore should not be included
in computing income tax pay
ment.
The multiple dwellings were
built in 1943-44 under War Pro-
duction Board restrictions fol
rental purposes. The companie!
explained that they sold the
houses in 1946 and 1947 because
of changes in the CT Bill o.
Rights (which created an unprec'
edented demand for housing fol
veterans"
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fornia, killing perhaps eight per-
sons.
But the town of Cherryvale in
Southeastern Kansas was in an up
roar last night after 25-year-old
woman reported a man answering
Cooks description approached her
car in what she thought was an
attempt to kidnap her. She told
Police Chief Albert Clark there
was another man with him.
FBI agents in Houston were
keeping an eye on Cooks sisters
home there after a hitchhiker said
he lode across Texas from Ell Paso
with short Stocky man resembl-
ing the gunman.
Darrell E. Hall, 81. told police
the man kept pistol on the seat
between them. The car was a
1949 or 1850 sedan with Texas
license plates.
Cook is wanted by the FBI for
the desert Staying last Saturday
OF Robert H. Dewey, Seattle sales
man. near Blythe, Calf, and for
questioning in the probable killing
of Carl Mosser, his wife and three
children in Oklahoma. The search
for their bodies continues near
Okmulgee. Their blood-spattered
car was found January near
Tulsa.
Evening star., 1951-01-09
Movie Distributor Says Legion
of Decency Tries Censorship

film, Vatican source said Fran
els Cardinal Spellman's boycott
appeal Sunday was "a just con-
demnation of the unusual i'm
prudence on which this film is
based"
In Albany, Democratic Assem-
blyman Thomas F. Duffy of Long
Island City, Queens. sent a tele-
gram to the State Education De-
partment's motion picture divi-
siop here contending the film
should not have been licensed.
In New York City, Republican
State Assemblyman Samuel Roman
wired Gov. Thomas E. Dewey
demanding that the showing OF
the film be stopped Immediately
And on Fifty-eighth street, in
front of the theater where the
movie is being shown, a dozen
pickets marched for several hours,
but apparently to little avail.
The Rev. Patrick j. Masterson,
executive secretary of the legion,
which evaluates stage plays and
movies, later denied Mr.. Burstyn's s
charge.
1--WE are not censors," he said
"We judge films exclusively on the
basis OF morality and decency."
Evening star., 1951-01-09
Gttery Citizens F. c:.s Oregon
To Texas Report Seeing Killer
Best Leeds on Cook
Found in California
And New Mexico
BY the Associated Press

SAN DIEGO, Calf, Jan. g.
Badman Bill Cook, "a, is still at
large today somewhere. in the
United States or Mexico-and that
leaves officers plenty of territory
to comb for the Missouri ex-
convict.
Men resembling him were re-
ported yesterday in Texas, Oregon
and Kansas. But the FBI here
frankly was at loss to explain
how or where Cook-if it was he
got back across the Mexican bor-
der, and so far north in 80 hours.
Early today two possible leads
turned up, one in New Mexico and
the other at Chula Vista, 9 miles
south of here.
Pawned Watch for Gas.
A Chula Vista service station
attendant telephone FBI here that
a man resembling Cook drove into
the station and pawned a watch
for 10 gallons of gas and $40 cash,
saying he had been rolled" at
Tijuana, across the border in
Mexico.
Driving a green 1850 Ford sedan,
the man told the attendant he was
heading for San Francisco and
wanted to pick up a sailor to help
him drive. The FBI said the at
tendant did not get the sedan's
license number.
New Mexico State police re-
ported man tentatively identified
as Cook was sighted at Vaughn.
N. Mex.
A filling station attendant iden-
tlfied him from a picture.
Nervous and Armed.
The man, very nervous and
armed. got gasoline and drove off
without paying. officers said the
attendant told them.
He was headed east toward Clo-
Wis, N. Mex, in a black Chevrolet
with a California license.
These reports are the nearest
direct clues leading to the des-
who blazed trail of ter
ror through Oklahoma and Cali