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Evening star., 1951-09-05
Virginia High Court
Backs Segregation in
Racial Case Appeal
Rules Couch Line Acted
Legally in Evicting Negro
Who Wouldn't Yield Scot
BY the Associoted Press

STAUNTON, Va. Sept. 5.-The
Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals
today held that a bus company
acted properly under the State law
lin evicting a Negro from a bus
because he refused to relinquish
the only available seat beside a
white woman.
The 6-1 majority opinion upheld
the State Corporation Commission
in refusing an injunction against
the Carolina Coach Co. of Vir-
Iginia.
The majority opinion holding
that the State law banning the
seating of the races ION contiguous
seats" worked as fairly for one
race as it did for the other drew
the fire of the one dissenting judge
Justice c. Vernon Spratley.
Judge Spratley said that it
seemed to him discrimination was
the same IN lntraState commerce
as it would be in interstate COM
merce if discrimination in fact
existed.
And in this case, he said, Ever
EFT Raney, the Suffolk colored
man who brought the action after
being evicted from a bus there
in April, 1850, had been the vic
tim of discrimination.
Justice Willis D. Miller's ma
jority opinion said that the Vir-
ginia statute on segregation on
carriers gives no paramount
rights or privileges ;. to one race
over the other or one individual
over another.
"It is not due to any discrim-
nation but to circumstances ap-
plying alike to alas well to
white citizen as to a colored one
that a member of one race or the
other may under some conditions
find no seating accommodation
available" he added.
Evening star., 1951-09-05
2-Month u. 5. Defici'
is S3,661,OOO,OOO
BY the Assoeiaied Press

The Government went in the
red $3,661 100000 in the first two
months of the current fiscal year
which began July /, the Treasury
reported today.
The deficit for July and August
this year was nearly five times
that of the same months last year
when spending exceeded income
by $788 million.
July and August expenditures
this year jumped to So, ,826, 900, 900
compared with $5,528, 900, 900 last
year.
Revenue receipts also rose, but
on a smaller scale-from $4,740,-
600, 1000 in July and August, 1850
to $6,165, 100000 for the same
months this year.
Chief factor in the spending rise
for the two months was an outlay
of $5,954, 100000 by the Defense
Department, compared with $2,-
268, 100000 a year ago. Othel
spending increases: Atomic
energy, $217 million from $101
million; arms aid to friendly for.
eign countries. $248 million anc
$29 million.
Revenue receipts increased this
year due to increases in tax rates
voted late last year and rising in
comes. Income taxes went up a.
: incomes increased.
Evening star., 1951-09-05
Bank Window Found Open,
Silver Spring Calls FBI

Discovery by police of an open
basement window early today at
the Takoma Park branch of the
Suburban Trust Co. resulted in a
rush call to the FBI.
The open window was noticed
by Pvt. Samuel Foster of the Ia
koma Park police, as he was pa
trolling the area about 1:20 am.
Investigation revealed, however,
that bank employees had forgotten
to lock the window yesterday and
nothing was taken from the build
ing, police said.
The bank, located at Carroll
and Willow avenues, was broken
into about six weeks ago and SIS
in cash taken,
Evening star., 1951-09-05
O'Conor Demands u. S. Revoke
Communists Press Privileges
Senator's Resolution Asks Ban on Toss
In Retaliation for Czech JuiIino of Outis

ganization, be deprived of the
privileges accorded to members O!
the press in the United States, >
Senator O'Conor told the Senate
They should be expelled from
the press galleries of Congress
and their credentials and diplo-
matte passports be withdrawn. AL
other correspondents from Com
munist countries should be SUBJ
jected to the same restrictions
placed upon United States cor
respondents behind the Iron
Curtain"
At the same time the State
Department described as a Com.
munist trick" the story of {
secret telephone line" used t.
help convict Mr.. Oats.
Senator O'Conor noted that tn,
new Czechoslovak ambassador
Vladimir Prochazka, said las
(See OATS. Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1951-09-05
Catholic Editor Called
In Gambling Probe
By the Asseeiated Press

SNOW HILL, Md, Sept. 5.-The
editor of the Baltimore Catholic
Review was summoned today to
tell the Worcester County Grand
Jury what he knows about gam
bling in the county.
The summons was served on the
Rev. John Sinnott Martin. Last
week he published an editorial in
the review saying he doubts crime
conditions in the county are as
"lily-white" as a statement by
States Attorney John L. Sanford
jr., would indicate.
Almost at the same time the
summons was served, Father Mar
tin received a seven-page letter
from Mr.. Sanford, warning him
that "if you fail to appear before
the grand jury /. ! intend to
ask the court to have you cited for
contempt"
The jury begins a new term in
October.
Mr.. Sanford, who was elected
last year and Immediately en-
barked on a sweeping reform pro-
gram, is a Catholic.
Evening star., 1951-09-05
Indian Denied Grave
In Iowa Is Buried
WithAr|ington Honor!
High OfficiuIs Attend
Rites for Sergeant
Killed in Korea

Sergt. John R. Rice, the Winnie
bago Indian who was offered a
final resting place through Presi-
dent Truman's intervention, was
buried today with honors in Ar
Ilington Cemetery.
A unit of the Army Band and
Ia platoon of the Sd Infantry Di-
vision marched before the horse
drawn artillery caisson bearing
his fiag-draped coffin through the
cemetery. Two Senators and a
cabinet officer were among those
in attendance.
Three colonels were in the cars
following the caisSon as persona,
representatives of the President
the Secretary Of the Army and the
Army Chief of Staff.
Died in Korea War.
Sergt. Rice was killed in Kores
a year ago tomorrow while serving
with the 1st Cavalry in the break
out of the Pusan encirclement.
His attractive 29-year-old wife
mother of three children, bought
burial plot for him in a Siou1
City Iowa) cemetery. The funera
was held up by the cemetery man.
lagement because the sergeant wa.
not a Caucasian.
The incident attracted nationa
attention and President Truman
(See INDIAN. Page A-2.)
Evening star., 1951-09-05
Mrs. Blight Lee Sobs
After Questioning
In Gambling Inquiry
Supported by Deputy
On Emerging as Jury
Resumes Investigation

A 45-minute questioning by the
District grand jury today left
Mrs. Blight Lee on the verge of
collapse at the reopening of an
investigation into deep rooted
gambling operations here.
Weeping bitterly, Mrs. Lee had
to be supported by a United States
deputy marshal as she emerged
from the jury room and went to
rest in a court room set aside for
witnesses.
She was comforted by her hus-
band. whose name was linked by
Senate crime investigators with
the alleged numbers operations
of Charles E. Nelson. Lee had
testified as the first witness when
the grand jury resumed its probe
this morning after a 5-day holiday
recess.
Others Also Left in Tears.
Mrs. Lee was the fourth woman
left in tears after examination BY
the jurors. Last week, those who
came out crying were Mrs. Vir-
ginia Madge Nelson, wife of tbs
key figure in the investigation;
Mrs. Leona Weightman, ste
nographer at Nelson's horsebreed-
ing farm at Ritchie, Md, and Mrs
Lees mother. Mrs. Alice Pearson
Mrs. Pearson told reporters
Thursday she did not know of the
whereabouts of the Lee couple
but the following day they turned
up suddenly at District Court and
accepted service on long-out-
standing subpoenas.
Still red-eyed half an hour after
completing her testimony, Mrs. Lee
walked out of the courthouse, arm
in-arm with her husband. He
complained that she had been
yelled at" in the jury room and
said she never got over the shock
of an armed robbery at their for
mer home in Arlington.
In Prince Georges County, prep
arations were pushed for a related
grand jury investigation to be
Launched October /. Circuit Judge
Charles C. Marbury announced
the selection of Edward j. Smith,
40, vice president of the Meadow
Gold Ice Cream Co., to be fore
man of the county grand jury.
Senators Stalled Again.
Meanwhile, the Senate District
Committees plan to investigate
crime here met with another delay
Chairman Nicely of the District
Committee and two aides today
went to an executive session OF
the Senate Rules Committee in
tending to ask again for $4,000
with which to finance the inquiry
The committee, however, could
mot muster a quorum and Senator
Neely postponed his request.
Chairman Hayden of the Rules
group reiterated his belief that
(See GAMBLING, Page A-30
Evening star., 1951-09-05
Mossadegh Threatens
To Kick Out Britons
Unless Talks Resume
Gives l5-Doy DeodIine
For Reopenine Porleys
On NutionuIized Oil
By the Associated Press

TEHERAN, Iran, Sept. 5.-Iran':
Nationalist Premier threatened
today to throw Britain's oil re-
finery technicians out of Iran
unless the British resume Anglo
Iranian oil negotiations within Is
days The Iranian Senate gave
Premier Mohammed Mossadegh a
vote Of confidence on this "get
tough" policy and he will ask a
similar vote in the Lower House
tomorrow.
The ultimatum confronted the
British with the prospect Of re-
opening talks on proposals they
already consider Unacceptable OF
having their technicians who
have remained at the Abadan
refinery tossed out of Iran.
(In London, government Of
f1cials said Britain is ready at
any time to resume oil talks
with Iran if the Iranian gov
ernment has any worthwhile"
counter-proposals, but Britain
has received no new proposals
which could form the basis of
an agreement. There was no
sign that Britain would volun-
tarily withdraw the $50 picked
technicians left behind at Aba
dan following Trans seizure of
Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. holdings.
The British already have indi-
Gated they would use force, if
necessary, to protect Britons
remaining in Abadan.)
Sees Threat to Economy.
Fixing the deadline, Mossadegh
said the British within two weeks
from tn date of handing over our
proposal must be ready tc
talk or notify us of any views or
contemporaries" He said any
further delay would benefit the
position of the Anglo-Iranian Co.
and bring on an economic crisis in
Iran.
But his speech gave no indica-
ton that he planned any compro-
mise in his naturalization pro-
gram. Apparently he still opposes
the British demand that British
general manager be installed for
the oilfields and refinery, working
under the supervision of the new
National Iranian Oil Co. He said
only that he would be willing to
have an operating board of direc-
Evening star., 1951-09-05
Late News
Bulletins
EnoLI:nn Trv Va&aI
GumbIinq Tax Vote

The Senate Finance Commit
tee today voted for a tax on
gambling estimated to raise
$4OO million a year. The action
completed major committee
work on a. Sc billion tax bill.
Earlier Story on Page A-2.)
6 to 80 Auto Rise Seen
Price Director Disable said
today that automobile manu-
facturers probably will be grant,
ed an increase Of from 6 to 8
per cent in the price of new cars.
Earlier Story on Page A-25.)
Evening star., 1951-09-05
I'd Division Seizes
Korean Ridge in Face
|0f Bitter Resistance
Ferocious Bottle Raging
For Three Other Hills
Along Eastern Front
By the Associated Press

UNITED STATES EIGHTE
ARMY HEADQUARTERS, Korea
Sept. 5.-United States I'd Divi-
sion infantrymen smashed theil
way to the top of a bloody ridge
in East Korea today. They were
locked in bitter battles for three
other heights.
Second Division troops drove
through heavy Red resistance anc
Enemy Chiefs Awoit Reply From Ridswo,
on Resumins PorIeys. Page A.
captured the hill mass north OF
Yanggu. Then they pressed for
ward to assault another height
just to the north. Reds. dug Sc
curely into ,crags and ridges
checked the American drive.
In the same sector other &c
Division soldiers were locked in q
heavy day-long fight with Com
munists atop two towering crests
The Americans have been trying
to knock the Reds off these crest;
for week. The Communists have
withstood daily infantry assaults
and continuous artillery lombard
ment.
North of Parallel.
The I'd Division action, in the
center of a limited United Nations
offensive, was the only significant
engagement on the front Wednes-
day. Yanggu, at the eastern end
Iof Hwachon Reservoir, is sever
miles north of the 38th Parallel
Censors would not permit CORE
spondents to say how much far
ther north the battle line is.
To the east of the I'd Division
Ientrencheed Reds stopped South
Korean marines trying to push
out west of the Punch Bowl
Other South Korean marines pa
trolled far north of the bowl
roughly 20 miles north of the Par
allel and 90 miles from the East
Coast.
North Korean Reds attacked
three points on ridge line
dominating the valley. The at
Itacks began before midnight and
continued four hours. The Com
|munists finally pulled back. They
still held some parts of the ridge
line.
Elsewhere along the battlefront
only brief patrol clashes were re-
(See KOREA, Page A-4D
Evening star., 1951-09-05
Featured Reading
Inside Todoy's Star

GAS REFUNDs-Thot refund check
going out to the Washington sos con-
sumer this month is the product Of
months Of work ond continuing COM
plieotions. Its snos ridden itinerory is
troeed on pose B-l.
MIDDLE EAST-A fierce notionolism,
fonned by Moscow, is sweeping the
desert londs Of the Middle Eost, reports
Louis J. Alber Of the North American
Newspaper AIlionee. His story from
Boadod appears on poqe A-36.
Evening star., 1951-09-05
How to Avoid Debt
Explained for $3.50
BY the Associated Press

ATLANTA, Sept. 5.-A course
in how to keep out of debt is being
offered by the Smith Hughes Vo-
cational School here, and all it
costs is $3.50 registration fee.
How to Avoid Financial Diff
cultieS," is one of several courses
the school has scheduled in. q
training program designed for per-
sons in the sales and distribution
fields.
Evening star., 1951-09-05

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Evening star., 1951-09-05

SAN FRANC1SCO. Sept. o.
The japanese Peace Conference
got down to business this morn
ing.
The United States and Britain
faced a clash with Russia at the
Bntish-Americon Droft Of Proposed Con-
ference Rules. Poee A-l6
Connolly Sees Long Senate Debote on
Ratification. Pose A-3
outset over control of the meet
ing called to sign a peace treaty
with Japan.
President Truman opened the
conference last night with chal-
lenge to the Russians to make
good their talk of peace by sign
ing.
The conference will show, Mr..
Truman said, who seeks to make
peace and who seeks to prevent
it; who wishes to put an end
to war and who wishes to con-
tinue it,"
Russia's chief delegate, Andrei
Gromyko, has said nothing.
Whether the Russians will try
to wreck the conference or mere
ly protest the British american
sponsored treaty may become
known today.
Rules Adoption Up First.
First order of business for the
So delegations is organization OF
the conference and adoption OF
rules
If the Russians plan to f1libuster
they would have to do 1t before
the rules are adopted. If the
rules are adopted, RuSsia's ex-
pected proposals for changes in
the treaty would be out of order.
And any attempt by the Soviets
20 talk the conference to death
could be halted.
Mr.. Gromyko told British Dele
gate Kennenth Younger he ex-
pected the conference to last a
month.
American and British delegates
hope to see the treaty signed by
Saturday, or early next week at
the latest.
The Russians may try to use
stalled Korean armistice talks as
q trading point here-peace in
Korea for whatever Russia wants
written into the treaty.
GrOmykO Grimly Hears Challenge.
Mr.. Gromyko grimly heard the
Presidents challenge at the con-
ference opening last night in the
War Memorial Opera House.
Mr.. Gromyko, who had Joined
briefly in the swelling applause OF
the historic assemblage when Mr..
Truman rose to speak, sat with
folded hands throughout the talk.
Later he told reporters he had no
comment,
Today the hour was at hand for
Mr.. Gromyko to speak up and
presumably indicate for the first
time his strategy-whether to
try to wreck or merely protest
the British-American sponsored
treaty.
Secretary of State Acheson,
temporary president of the session
as chief delegate of the host
country, was due to be elected
permanent president and Ambas-
sador Percy C. Spender of Aus
tralia to be named vice president.
The rules up for consideration
at the conference today are tough.
They were designed by the United
(Sno TPFATY Page A
Evening star., 1951-09-05
Truman Calls On
Russian Bloc to
Help Build Peace
BY Joseph A. Fox
Stor StoH Correspondent

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. s.
President Truman turned home
ward today after once again vigor-
ously challenging Soviet Russia
and her satellites to join the
other free nations in building a
peaceful world.
Formally opening the confer
ence of SO countries convened last
Text of President Trumon's Address 10
Treaty Delegates. Pose A. 5
-------
night in War Memorial Opera
House to sign the pact that
readmitS Japan to the community
of nations, the President hailed
the agreement as fair to victor
and vanquished, and then with an
oblique thrust at the obstruc-
ZIONIST threat that has come from
Communist bloc. he declared
firmly and pointedly:
THE treaty now before us offers
more than talk of peace; it offers
action for peace. This conference
will show, therefore, who seeks
to make peace and who seeks to
prevent it. Who wishes to put
an end to war, and who wishes to
continue it," The treaty will
work, he added. 1t does not con-
tain the seeds of another war.
Flying to Missouri.
Today, as the conference gets
down to work, the President is
flying to Missouri to spend a few
days at home in Independence
before returning to Washington.
He took off from International
Airport at 7:02 am. Q0:02 am.
EDIT, he was due in Kansas City
in early afternoon.
The President never once re-
ferred to communism or the
Soviet as he spoke in slow,
measured terms, but the implica-
tions were plain.
Occasionally there was a de-
parture from text and once, in
IA harsh break from the overall
conciliatory tone Of the talk. he
shot out:
There are thugs among ma
tionS just as there are among in
|dividuals." He recalled that some
OF those nations represented in
his audience "are now engaged in
a hard fight to uphold the United
Nations against international
lawbreaking in Korea"
80 Per Cent Vote Cited.
An appreciative litter broke the
solemnity Of the occasion at an
other point when he cited the
progress made by Japan in the
postwar years, and recalled that
more than 80 per cent of the elig-
ible voters participated in a recent
election.
"I wish the same percentage
would obtain in the United
States" he said.
The Russian delegation, headed
by Deputy Foreign Minister An
drei Gromyko, sat just few rows
removed from the speakers plat
form, and some of the group, in
Guiding Jacob Malik, the one time
belligerent presiding officer of the
United Nations Security Council,
used headphoneS to take advan-
tage Of an interpreters version
of the speeches. Mr.. Gromyko used
no hearing aids.
Several times interrupted by ap-
plause, by the audience of some
$500, Mr.. Truman received a
standing ovation when he con-
cluded. The Russians stood but
did not applaud.
Attend Reception.
Later, however, they went with
the other delegates to a reception
at the Palace Hotel where the
President greeted the heads of
each delegation personally and
made a short talk to the rest of
the visitors.
II am very certain that when
you have finished this conference
(See TRUMAN, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1951-09-05

resolution which was referred to
the Foreign Relations Committee.
I'VE should demand that repre-
sentatives of Tass, the Russian
propaganda agency which mas
querades as news gathering Or
Evening star., 1951-09-05

tect the rumble of the wheels
after President Truman, in hi:
best back-platform style, lam
basted the interests" special
privilege boys" economic fossils
and against everythings" for &c
solid minutes-or better-yester-
day at luncheon that brought
together some 750 party leaders
and workers from II States tc
greet the Chief Executive.
The Presidents campaign like
talk appeared to be as much of
Evening star., 1951-09-05
Soviet Blocks Prompt Adoption
Of Anglo u. S. Rules for Par|ey;
Protests Absence ofRed Chinese
Conference Gets
Down to Work at
Son Francisco
BULLETIN

SAN FRANCISCO P.-Rus-
Sia blocked immediate adoption
of BritiSh-American rules for
control of the japanese peace
conference today and protested
Red China's absence from the
meeting.
Evening star., 1951-09-05
Here's How to Keep Up
With Radio, TV News

Harry Macarthur. The Stor's rodio
and teIevision eOIumnist. hos been COW
erins show business in Washington since
Evening star., 1951-09-05
By q Staff Correspondent Of The Sior

bY STdTT correspondent OF IHS SIuT
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. S.
There was a suspicion here today
that the Truman bandwagon was
really starting to roll for SO.
At any rate, a lot of Western
Democrats thought they could de-
Evening star., 1951-09-05

Senator O'Conor, Democrat, of
Maryland, today renewed his de-
mand for the United States to
expel from the Congressional
press galleries all newspaper cor
respondents from Iron Curtain
countries in retaliation for the ar
rests and imprisonment of Asso-
ciated Press correspondent Will
liam Oats in Czechoslovakia.
His statement on the floor OF
the Senate was accompanied by g
Evening star., 1951-09-05

rodio and teleyision. Don't miss Mr..
MoeArthur's column in The Stor. Phone
Sterling 5000 for home delivery.
Evening star., 1951-09-05

Text Of Trumon Tolk to Democratic
Luncheon. Poee A-6
Evening star., 1951-09-05

Toss Correspondents Work Here in At
mosphere Of Complete Freedom.
Pose AL
Evening star., 1951-09-05

The Government today asked
United States District Court in
Denver for an Injunction to end
the strategic copper strike for
at least 20 days.
Evening star., 1951-09-05

(See IRAN, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1951-09-05

Lote New York Markets, Poee AT
Evening star., 1951-09-05

(See TRUMAN, Page A-30
Evening star., 1951-09-05
BY the Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. S.
The japanese Peace Conference
got down to business this morn
ing.
The United States and Britain
faced a clash with Russia at the
Evening star., 1951-09-05

(See OATIS, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1951-09-05

(See INDIAN, Page A-2.)
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(See TREATY. Page Az.
Evening star., 1951-09-05

Temperatures Today,
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(See GAMBLING, Page A-3)
The guardian., 1951-02-17
TRENTON SIX
TRIAL DATE
OFF TO MAR. 5

TRENTON, N. J.-(CNS)-Due
to an emergency appendectomy
operation on Mario H. Volpe,
Mercer County Prosecutor, SUI
perior Court Judge Ralph j.
Smalley declared a re-schedul-
ing of the second murder trial
of the six Trenton men who
plead for their lives. The new
date is March 5. All six men
are accused of numbering 72-
year-old William Horner, a Tren-
ton shopkeeper, during a hold
up in January, 1948.
Since the trial began two de-
tectives asked to withdraw from
the case because they believed
four of the defendants inno-
cent. Later new trial was ord
cred, after the first trial re-
suited in a mass conviction and
death sentence, on the ground
that vital police records should
have been made available to the
defense attorney, George Pei
lettiere, who charged the pros
ecutor, Volpe, had clamped a
"blackout" on tthe records.
Judge Smalley said the defense
should receive all police records
over which there was no argu-
ment, and he would determine
which others should be used.