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Evening star., 1951-04-04
BY the Associated Press

WILMINGTON, Del. April A.
A young sheet metal worker who
believes in being his brothers (or
|sister's) keeper set in motion yes
terday dramatic series of events
that may save the life of a Will
mington woman. IT
Here is the story as pieced to-
gether from accounts of a doctor,
a minister. Air Force officials and
the sheet metal worker. The
names of the doctor and of the
Wilmington woman were with
held.
The Rev. Charles F. Schreiner
of the Cathedral Church of St
John administered the last rites
of the Episcopal Church to the
woman Monday night.
Then he walked to a corner
store and told a friend he thought
/ it was a shame that the woman
was going to die.
The sheet metal worker, Charles
w. Shoffie, overheard the con-
versation. broke into the conver-
|sation and told of a miracle drug
which he said he had read about
in a dispatch from Chicago.
Telephones Doctor.
"Why didn't the doctor use the
drug?" He asked.
Mr.. Schreiner said he didn't
know and he telephoned the doc
tor to ask why.
The doctor said he knew Of the
drug, but that it wasn't available
in this area.
Mr.. Shoffie located the news dis
patch and at his own expense, tele-
phoned the doctor in Chicago and
asked him if he could send the
drug to Wilmington.
The doctor agreed to package a
small quantity and send it to Will
mington together with directions
for it's use.
Wanted Confirmation.
Then Mr.. Shoffie telephoned the
New Castle County Air Base and
interested 1t. Col. Raymond Titus
of the 18th Fighter Wing. He
said he'd okay a mercy flight to
Chicago if he could get conf1rma-
ton on the story.
So Mr.. Shoffie arranged a three
Evening star., 1951-04-04
CONTACT
LENSES Now SAC. .95

Washington, D. C.-If you need
or wear glasses, you should be
interested in a Washington Con-
tact Lens firms offer Of their
newly discovered fluidless cor
neal contact lenses for only $49.95.
The reason they are able to sell
them at such a low price is be-
cause they manufacture the
lenses themselves in their own
large laboratories. Budget pay
ments are available. These lenses
are so invisible your own friends
won't know you are wearing
them. Made of plastic, they are
SO safe, football players wear
them. No impressions or fluid
needed. They are tiny-about
half the size of a dime, feather
weight and tissue thin. Call at
once at D. C. Invisible Contact
Lens Service Co., Cos 14th St.
NV, Suite 203 Westory Bldg.
Phone Republic 1888. No ap-
pointment is necessary. If you
prefer, phone or write for ap-
pointment or for Free Booklet.
Open 9 AM. to 6 PM, including
Saturday.
Evening star., 1951-04-04
James D. Mann Appointed
Counsel for D. T.. Prices

District Price Director Vincent
A. Holmes has announced ap-
pointment Of James D. Mann as
counsel for the District Office of
Price Stabilization. Mr.. Mann is
former executive secretary of the
District Bar Association.
Mr.. Holmes also announced these
other appointments:
Arthur M. Owens. former Gov
ernment accountant. as account
ling officer: Victor C. Case as bust
ness analyst, and James Alan
Brown, Stephen Henry Folk and
John D. Wood, jr., as investigators
on the enforcement staff.
Evening star., 1951-04-04

A 1921 Utah law prohibited
cigarets but it was repealed two
years later.
, 1951-06-26
Bishop Davis Returns
To Puerto Rico After
V. l. Ceremonies

Bishop James P. Davis, head
of the Catholic Diocese of
Puerto Rico an dthe Virgin Is
lands, left for his headquarters
in Puerto Rico yesterday after
presiding at graduation cere-
monies in ST. Thomas and
St. Croix.
Bishop Davis arrived in St.
Thomas last Thursday for
Commencement Exercises at
st. Peters and Paul's School;
on Friday night he attended
the ceremonies at St. Patrick's
School in Frederiksted which
had their first High School
graduation and on Sunday
morning he said Mass at the
Baccalaureate services in Holy
Cross Church and at night
gave the commencement adj
dress to the first graduates of
the St. Mary's High School
and also to the thirty-third
graduating class Of the gram
CONTINUED on page ~
, 1951-06-26
Commencement
Exercises Tomorrow
Night on Whurf Area

torty-seven students will
receive diplomas at Commence
ment Exercises to be held to-
morrow night on the Christian
sted Wharf area. AS custom
airy, the top Of the cistern at
the Federal Post Office will be
used as a platform, weather
permitting.
Rev. Halvor Delemos of the
F'sted Moravian Church will
deliver the Commencement
His Excellency Morris F. de
Governor of the Vir-
gin Islands and Administrator
for St, Croix Harry E. Taylor,
will be among the distinguish
guests on the platform.
, 1951-06-26
Futher Murphy Now
At Holy Cross: Futher
Gallagher to St. Thos.

Father John Murphy, CSSR,
who arrived here recently is
stationed at the Holy Cross
Roman Catholic Church in
Christiansted, and is an assist
ant to Father Superior Hart.
Father Murphy is no stran-
ger to the Virgin Islands; he
was in St. Thomas for the past
ten years, where he was SUI
perior at St. Peter & rauls
Church.
Father John Gallagher, who
was here for the pass two 4 j
a half years was recently
transferred to St. Thomas.
, 1951-06-26
U. N. Secretary
General Cut Vocation
To Help Win Peace

United Nations secretary
general Trygve Lie, cut short
his vacation in his native Nor
way and is due to leave by
plane for New York by way Of
London in the hope that he
can help to bring about a
cease fire in Korea and even
ltually an end to the war
British and French officials
said their governments are
studying ways to follow up the
peace overtures made by So
Wet representative Jacob
Malik.
Assistant Secretary Of State
Dean Rusk conferred further
with Allied representatives in
Washingtoa. In the meantime
the communist Chinese Peip-
ing radio broadcast an edi-
torial from the official news
paper Peoples Daily" which
said: The Chinese people en-
dorse the Malik proposal.
, 1951-06-26
Another Shiploud Of
u. S. Army Veterqns
Arrive in California

Another shipload Of more
than 5000 Army combat vet
Grams arrived in San Francis
co on rotation aboard the
transport General Pope. Two
thousand four hundred Navy
men returned aboard the es-
cort carrier "Bataan" and the
Mount Mckinley which dock
ed at San Diego. Several hun
dred other veterans landed at
Seattle from the transport
General Patrick"
, 1951-06-26
U. S. Ready to Join
In Pedce Tulks
If Security Assured

President Truman declared
that the United States is ready
to join a real settlement of
the Korean war if it will end
aggression and restore peace
and security.
The President spoke at the
dedication of the Arnold Air
force Engineering Develop
ment Center at Tulla Homa,
Tennessee, on the first anniver
sary of the Korean conflict.
He added a warning against
rash actions which would take
unnecessary risk of a world
war or weak actions which
would reward aggression.
He attacked Republican cri-
ties Of his administration,
charging them with spreading
SANDER and lies, and reiterated
his confidence in Secretary of
State Dean Acheson.
, 1951-06-26
Members OF the
Lutheran Choir to
Hold Cake Sole

Members of the Christian
sted Lutheran Church Choir
are planning to hold a "Cake
Sale" at the Parish Hall on
July 4th, it was announced
yesterday by Mrs. Hulda Dyer,
chairman.
Proceeds from the sale will
60 towards the Church Repair
and Organ Fund.
A drive is one to raise $15-
900 to repair the ancient build
ing and purchase a new organ.
donations which were
collected before the drive
amounted to a little less than
$1,000, and was used to pur-
chase 1000 square feet of spe-
cial lumber for the ceiling.
Special appeals are being
sent out by all members and
friends of the congregation to
aid in raising the necessary
funds.
, 1951-06-26
ODonnell Says U. S.
Should Hove Bombed
Munchuriun Bosses

The Senate's Foreign Policy
Investigation ended yesterday
with testimony by Airforce
Major General Emmett O'Don
nell, former head of the Far
East Bomber Command.
General O'Donnell express
his opinion that the United
States should have bombed
Red Chinese bases in Man
churia the moment the Chi
nese entered the Korean war.
He said that American bomb
ers are ready to deliver the
most horribly destructive
blow the world has ever seen
if Russia provokes a third
World War.
O'Donnell said that commu-
mist veterans Of the Korean
air war are being sent to Rus
STA to train Soviet flyers in
new American combat techni-
ques.
, 1951-06-26
High School PldY dt
ST. Puul's Tonight
Instedd Of Bethsedu


The hilarious comedy "Our
Gal Sal" will be presented for
a second time tonight, but this
time at St. Paul's Schoolhouse
in Frederiksted. 1t was origin
ally scheduled for Bethesda,
but through a misunderstood
ing the change was effected.
Many patrons who saw it in
Christiansted are nevertheless
planning to 60 to Frederiksted
to see it again.
, 1951-06-26
DROP LEAFLETS TO
JAPANESE WHO THINK
WAR rs STILL ON

The U. S. Navy has sent
planes to Anathan Island in
the western Pacific to drop
leaflets in an attempt to con-
vince IS japanese holdouts
that World War II has long
since ended.
One Of the Japs IS said to be
, 1951-06-26
OVER 1000 FIGHTING
FOREST FIRE IN
NEW MEXICO

Near Silver City, New
Mexico, more than 1000 fire
fighters are battling to control
a fire that has burned over
$500 acres in the black range
wilderness area, according to
news reports.
, 1951-06-26

holding the others under sub
lection by threats. They have
but one machine gun.
Evening star., 1951-01-19
By Miriom Ottenberq

Millard F. Caldwell, Fedora
civil defense administrator, to-
day told a Senate Public Work.
subcommittee that dispensing key
parts of Government to sites q
miles away from Washington
would make the Capital "rela'
lively safe from atomic attack by
reducing it's attractiveness as ar
enemy target"
At the same time, the subcom-
mlttee was told by other witnesses
that:
l. An emergency plan is being
developed to get key agencies to
safer spots in case an attack ap-
pears likely before permanent
structures can be built under the
Governments dispersal plan.
2. The number of Government
employees to be removed from
Washington permanently by shift
ing some agencies to other parts
of the country "a process com.
monty called decentralization
will be substantially in excess
of the 5000 employees previously
figuring in plans.
Members of the subcommittee
Evening star., 1951-01-19
Temperature Expected
To Soar 10 Sc Today

The temperature is expected 10
soar-for January, that is-to sc
degrees by this afternoon. the
Weather Bureau said.
Yesterday saw the thermometer
climb to IS degrees at $40 pm
within two degrees of the all-time
high for January 18 set in 1929.
It was back to AZ degrees by 7:45
am. Today's sc will fall short
of a record also, the bureau ex-
planned, as the high for this date
IS SO degrees, also set in 1929.
The temperature had reached
81 degrees by / pm.
The forecast called for the mild
weather to continue with the tenn
perature dropping to about 4S de-
grees tonight. Tomorrow will be
fair and warm.
The Weather Bureau said such
mild weather in January is not
too unusual. A few days OF warm
weather during the month are
considered normal.
Evening star., 1951-01-19
BY the Associated Press

ON THE TIBETAN-INDIAN
FRONTIER, Jan. ia Tibetan
official said today that invading
Chinese Communists won their
big victory in Tibet without fir
ing q shot-using fireworks and
psychological warfare.
This official. who reached India
after accompanying the Dalai
Lama on his flight from Lhasa,
said Tibet virtually lost the war
when her strongest fortress at
Cnamdo, near the Tibetan-Chi-
nese border, capitulated in the
first days of the Chinese invasion
early last October.
"The Chinese won this victory
without firing q single shot from
a real gum" the ofiicial said
They used skyrockets and other
Evening star., 1951-01-19
3 Russian Divisions
Believed Near Mukden
By the Associated Press

TAIPEI, Formosa, Jan. 19.-
Qualified Chinese Nationalist
sources said today that unsub-
stantiated reports indicate the
presence of three Russian divisions
in the Mukden region of Chinese
Communist Manchuria.
The sources said they had no
information whether this included
the Port Arthur area. Moscow OBJ
tanned the right to station mill
tary forces there under the Soviet
Chinese Nationalist treaty of Au-
gust, 1945.
They said there was no con-
firmation of November intelligence
reports that eight Russian divis-
ions were in Manchuria.
A high official said, "Manchuria
is solidly behind the iron curtain
and it is very difficult to get ac-
curate information on what's hap
pening there"
The sources said Russian tech
nicians are directing the con-
version of Tsingtao, a Shantung
province port, into a naval base.
Evening star., 1951-01-19
Frostbitten Soldier, Only ID,
Brought Back From Korean War

up. except the big toe of his left
foot, and doctors believe it will
soon.
Hobbling around in Korea
James was grabbed up and placed
aboard a hospital evacuation
plane last December. He arrived
here December 26-just another
wounded CT.
But James was pretty proud of
a birth certificate his mother got
for him while she was trying to
induce him to get out of the Army
a few weeks after his enlistment.
He showed it to some hospital
pals. They quickly spotted the
birth date: April S, 1886. That
set the ward buzzing.
Finally the buzzing got to the
doctors and nurses, then an Of
ficer showed up with a lot of
questions, including: What about
seeing your birth certificate?"
It showed James was born near
(See BOY SOLDIER, Page A-4.1
Evening star., 1951-01-19
Plane, 5 Aboard, Missing
On Denver-Cody Flight
By the Assoeioted Pres,

DENVER. Jan. ia private
plane with five persons aboard
was reported overdue today on q
flight from Denver to Cody. Wyo
The plane. owned by Paul Stock
Cody Oil man, left Denver for the
Northwestern Wyoming city al
2:30 pm yesterday.
The Civil Aeronautics Admins
tration said the pilot, Ralph Mey-
ers, 80, Cody. an ex-naval flyer,
picked up four passengers here
for his employer.
They were identified as Mrs.
Mable Overly. 40, Mr.. Stocks sec
retary: Don K. Weaver, So. pro-
duction manager of the Wiltshire
Oil Co., Los Angeles; a "Mr.
Brown" Denver petroleum geolo-
gist, and another whose name was
not Immediately available.
There were no reports Of the
plane by CAA stations between
Denver and Cody, about 800 miles
to the northwest.
Evening star., 1951-01-19
100 al Citrus Cannery
Overcome After Blast
BY the Associated Press

DADE CITY, Fla, Jan. 19-
More than 100 persons were over
come today at the Pasco Pack
ing Co. when a tank containing
a sterilizer powder exploded and
fumes spread about the plant.
Injured persons were brought
in large patches to the hospital
here.
Mrs. w. M. Larkin. an Associ-
ated Press correspondent, re-
ported persons were lying all
over the place-in halls. floors
everywhere.
She said doctors were working
over them.
Extent of the injuries is not
known.
First reports said that work
man dipped wet cloth into the
tank and it exploded.
Smoke and fumes quickly filled
the sectionizing plant where fruit
is cut into sections for putting
into cans.
The Pasco Packing Co. is re-
ferred to as the worlds largest
citrus canning plant.
Dade City is about So miles
Northwest Of Tampa.
Evening star., 1951-01-19
Valentine Quits Sterilization Job>
Is Replaced by Eric Johnston;
Resignation Asked by Truman
Differences Over
Wage and Price
Controls Blamed
BY Joseph A. Fox.

Alan Valentine resigned today
as administrator of the Economic
Sterilization Agency because OF
differences on policy in the or
ganization. The White House an
nounced the appointment of Eric
Johnston. president of the Motion
Picture Association of America,
as his successor.
Mr.. Valentine quit, at the Pres
ident's wish, as result Of what
he called an honest difference of
opinion" with his associates over
the precise timing and methods =
for the introduction OF overall
price and wage controls.
In announcing the change, the
White House made public an ex-
change of letters between Mr..
Valentine and the President which
bore out reports of a split in the
newly created agency.
Mr.. Valentine has been accused
In some quarters of dragging his
feet" in the application of price
and wage controls and Charles E.
Wilson, defense mobilization direc-
Evening star., 1951-01-19
$50 10 $100 Extra Pay
For Combat Duty
Asked Of Congress-
Officers Would Get
Higher Fieu4e-m Plan
Of Defense Department

The Defense Department asked
Congress today to provide extra
pay for combat of 500 a month
for officers and $50 a month for
enlisted men.
The pay would be retroactive to
last June ~ when Americans en-
tered the Korean war.
Pilots. paratroopers. submariners
and others who receive extra pay
as an incentive or for hazardous
duty would not be eligible. Of
ficials told reporters that the new
rates not only would be to COM
pensate for hazardous duty, but
would also serve as an incentive
for enlisted men to become officers
Men Avoid Commissions.
They disclosed that the Army
was having difficulty getting en-
listed men to take commissions be-
cause the casualty rates among
second lieutenants runs three
times higher than that OF enlisted
men. since the junior officers
lead their plAtoons.
The of6cials said that the com.
bat pay bill II passed would bt
administered conservatively and II
was the present disposition moi
to get far beyond the man who
is doing the shooting and is being
shot at"
Minimum Combat Time.
To be eligible for the extra
pay serviceman would have tt
have at least six days of combat
duty in the month. If a man were
killed with less than six days o1
combat duty. however, his next
OF kin would receive the extra
combat pay for that month.
The department sent the pro.
posed legislation to Congress with
these cost estimates:
About 100000 per month for
each Army division in combat
About $1,171 900 per month for
Q war strength Marine Corps d.
vision including attached Navy
personnel.
Evening star., 1951-01-19
Federal Cafeferias
Raise Meal Prices

Federal cafeterias operated by
Government Services, Inc, will
increase their food prices begin
ming next Monday.
The more than $4,000 Federal
employees who patronize the cafe
terias daily will find that the
prices of most entrees will have
been raised by 5 to 10 cents.
Robert A. Ayers, GSI's general
manager, sid the reason for the
price increase included cafeteria
workers wage raise of 71a cents
an hour and expansion of en-
ployes' health and insurance pro-
grams, as well as a general in
crease in operating costs.
Mr. Ayers added that GSI will
attempt to Offset the price in
crease somewhat by Offering five
different luncheon combinations
instead of the present three. All
lunches will include an entree.
one vegetable and bread and but
ter. At least one combination
will be offered for IS or 40 cents,
Mr.. Ayers said.
Cafeteria income exceeded ex-
penses by the slender margin Of
about one-sixth of a cent per tray
served in 1949. but income barely
covered expenses in 1850, and ex-
penses continue to rise" Mr..
Ayers said.
The price of some entrees will
remain unchanged. some will be
increased 10 cents, "but the great
majority will be increased only S
cents" Mr.. Ayers said.
The wage increases and addi-
tional welfare benefits for GSI
employees resulted from the sign
ing of a new contract between GSr
and the United Cafeteria and
Workers, Local All.
Evening star., 1951-01-19
Allies Reoccupy
Wonju With No
Red Opposition
1000 Of Foe Killed
In Rout Of Big Force
Southeast of Yongwol
BY the Associated Press

TOKYO, Jan. ia United Ma
tions prowl force reoccupied the
ruined and abandoned road-rail
hub of Womb today without meet
ing any opposition.
Two unsupported Allied attack
regiments on another sector of the
snow-clad East-Central Korean
battlefront killed 1000 Reds and
routed the remainder of their
strong force in a continuing fight.
A big Red offensive effort was
still expected to break out all
across the peninsula at any time,
Allied patrols have been enter
ing and leaving Wonju, the key
traffic junction in Central Korea.
since the United States I'd Division
withdrew Tuesday from looping
line miles south of the town.
Only civilians were on hand to
watch the reinforced patrol re-
enter Wonju today:
Enemy Force Smashed.
The two U. N. attack regiments
normally 5000 men-smashed a
large enemy force 7 miles south
east of YongWol, on the eastern
end of the war front.
I'VE put the enemy on the run. "
an officer said tersely.
The fight started yesterday and
was still raging today. Yongwol
is 33 miles northeast of Chungju.
Allied-held highway center, and
13 miles east of Chechon.
Seven hundred of the enemy
were killed by air strikes and the
remainder by ground troops.
Bodies were counted in the snow
where they lay sprawled.
Patrols in Widespread Actions.
The battle near Yongwol came
during sharp patrol actions.
cracking all along the Korean
war front. that looked like pre-
liminaries of a third major drive
by Chinese and North Korean
Reds down the center Of the
peninsula. Communist forces
continued to shift to central and
eastern sectors in a way reminis-
cent of the two previous enemy
offensives-thep plunge across the
Chungchon River and the drive
into Seoul.
The Allied attack around Yong
vol was not claSsed as an offen-
sive, but an officer said: ut must
be quite a scrap. The area is
full of those jokers."
Elsewhere along the front Com
munist patrols tried to close gaps
(See KOREA, Page A-3)
Evening star., 1951-01-19

Subcommittee the 18-year- -old
draft program is "soundly con-
ceived" to meet needs of both the
present and the future.
His testimony was to be fol-
lowed later today by Gen. Brad
ley, chairman of the Joint Chifs
of Staff: Gen. j. Lawton Collins
Army chief of staff, and Gen
Hoyt S. Vandenberfi Air Force
Chief of Staff.
Stressing the Importance of vol
untary enlistments to the Navy
Admiral Sherman said he re-
garded the proposed 27-month
draft service-training period as
"too low to meet needs of the
Navy except for a small proper
ton of our personnel"
May Have to Raise Sights.
At the same time, he:
/. Declared unless interna-
tional conditions improve" the
Navy may we'll have to increase
it's portion of the present expan-
sion target of a 346-million total
armed force strength by next
June 80.
2. Declared he felt any draft
service period below 81 months
would "lower the efficiency Of all
the military services"
The naval chief pointed out that
technical duties and conditions OF
life aboard ship demand the
longer service provided by volun-
tary enlistments.
Morse Questions Goal.
Subcommittee Chairman Lyn-
don Johnson, who consistently
has questioned adequacy of the
3.5 million June 80 strength tar
get, drew Admiral Sherman's
comment that the Navy's man.
(See MANPOWER. Page A-4,)
Evening star., 1951-01-19
BY The Asseeioied Press

BATTLE CREEK, Mich, Jan
ia 14-year-old who ran away
from his sixth-grade classroom in
West Virginia is at the Army
Percy Jones Hospital here-s
frostbite soldier-casualty of the
Korean war.
He is Pfc. James D. Byrd, sor
of Mr.. and Mrs. Cecil r. Byrd OF
Youngstown, Ohio.
II wanted to get in the Army
since I was g." James beameo
to reporters. Tried three times
before made it. though. Finally
a recruiting sergeant in Colum-
bus, Ohio, believed I was 18-like
said. He signed me up last
June g."
The lad. big for his age, got
all his toes and fingers frostbitter
in a fox hole while fighting ur
the west coast Of Korea with the
7th Infantry Regiment of the 8tf
Army. But all now have cleared