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Evening star., 1951-02-07
'Operution uck' Debates Tires
Of Communist Supply Trucks

Smith, director o. 5th Air Force
combat operations:
If we can stop those trucks
moving at night. we can stop the
war. That sounds like a sweeping
statement but it's true.
When they move during the
day our fighters can strafe them
to a standstill. With operation
tack we hope to stop them at
night and disrupt their supply
lines"
The other night 3,776,0O0 roofing
nails were dropped on roads used
hy the Chinese Reds. Next day
the Air Force claimed IS trucks
destroyed and 10 damaged.
Evening star., 1951-02-07
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
WOODBRIDGE, N. j., Feb. T.
A red commuter train flashed
toward Jerseys North Shore resi-
Dental area last night. It was
making good time.
A quiet section of town, a
temporary wooden trestle and a
grinding, tearing crash in the
wintry night.
Silence-just a billowing cloud
of dust and dirt mingled with
soaring steam from the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad express-followed
by piercing, chilling cries.
Eighty persons died. Those who
Evening star., 1951-02-07
By Tom Stone

Associated Press War Correspondent
UNITED STATES 5th AIR
FORCE HEADQUARTERS, Korea
Feb. THE 5th Air Force un-
veiled Operation Tack" today
Pretty sharp idea, too.
Planes range along the roads
behind Communist lines and drop
nails. Millions of nails-stubby
f1at-headed, 112 inches long. The
kind you use to lay asphalt roof
ing.
The purpose is to flatten Com
munist tires, especially the tires
of supply trucks that move in the
night. Says Col. Stanton P
Evening star., 1951-02-07
Russia Hints Big Four
Talks Con Be Widened

MOSCOW, Feb. 7 (P.-New Rus
sian notes on proposed Big Four
meeting reiterate that German
rearmament is the chief threat to
peace, but they leave the door
open for talks on other world
problems-in the Council of For
eign Ministers as set up by the
Potsdam agreement.
The Russian notes, latest in an
exchange with the Western Big
(See ACHESON, Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1951-02-07
Mother Got Lost Word in Moy From
Soldier Son Killed in Koreo. Poee All
Conndion Reported Rejecting Place on
U. N. koreon Committee. Poqe AS

| U. N. koreon Committee. Poee A.
on the ridges just south of Seoul
At their backs was the Han River
still an ice-covered way of retrea
but now on the verge of thawing
On the central front, Unitee
Nations forces with South Korean.
in the lead pushed northware
toward the 38th Parallel.
High Ground Secured.
On the east coast, South Korean
forces secured high ground three
miles east and west and five miles
south of Kangnung, coastal
road town II miles south o1
Parallel 38. Allied naval power
blasted the Reds in Kangnung
itself.
The whole complexion of the
war had shifted once again. The
Allies had regained the initiative
in their 14-day-old limited
offensive and the Reds were giving
ground.
Allied artillery was in position
to pour shells into the former
South Korean capital of Seoul
abandoned January 4 for the
second time by anti-Communist
forces.
Three tank forces prowled the
southern approaches to Seoul to-
day for the third straight day
shooting up Red rearguards.
Task Force Fisher rolled within
four miles of the Han River and
was only seven miles southeast OF
Seoul. Task Force Bartlett and
Dolvin met heavy Red resistance
as they rumbled to points 8 to 10
miles southeast of Seoul. Late
in the day they made their Gus
tomary nightly withdrawal to
bivouac positions.
Hills Cleared of Reds.
In their thrusts, Task Force
Dolvin pushed up the main road
toward Seoul, Task Force Fisher
ranged east of the highway and
Task Force Bartlett fought up d
parallel road three or four miles
west of the main artery.
Doughboys cleared the hills of
Chinese as the tankers fought up
valley roads.
An American infantry company
stormed hill three miles west
of Anyang with cold steel when
small arms fire and grenades
(See KOREA. Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1951-02-07
Satellite Armies
Ignore Treaties,
.Acheson Says
Huge Red Forces, Not
German Aiming, Cause
Tension, He Insists
By Gornett D. Homer

w S0tuStt u. tIOtHST
Secretary of State Acheson to-
day charged that Russia's Eastern
European satellites are building
up great armies above peace treaty
limitations.
He told a news conference that
this might be suitable subject for
discussion at proposed confer
ence of the Big Four foreign
ministers.
Mr.. Acheson described a Soviet
note delivered Monday to the
American, British and French en-
voys in Moscow as a somewhat
grudging move toward agreement
with Western inSistence that the
proposed conference cover major
problems other than German
demilitarization.
He asserted that the real cause
of world tension now is the great
mass of Soviet and Russia satel-
lites armaments and not the re-
armament of Western Germany as
charged by Moscow.
Same Old Technique.
The latest Soviet note contains
a propaganda blast in the usual
Russian technique of charging
other people with what they are
doing themselves, Mr.. Acheson
said.
Russia first proposed last No
vember that the Big Four foreign
ministers meet to discuss demili-
tarization of Germany. The United
States, Britain and France have
insisted in counterproposals that
the conference not be limited to
Germany but cover all major prob
lens causing world tension.
In its latest reply Monday, the
Soviet government insisted that
plans for arming West German
units as part of a combined force
for Western European defense is
the biggest problem. but conceded
the possibility of discussing other
Questions also at a meeting of the
Council of Foreign Ministers COM
posed in the manner provided for
by the Potsdam agreement.
This presumably was move to
bring Communist China into any
discussion of Far Eastern prob
lens which the United States
would not agree to.
Il Satellite Armies Built Up.
Mr.. Acheson refused to discuss
this point today. He said the
Russian note was a somewhat
grudging move in the direction Of
opening up the conference as de-
sired by the Western powers, but
that still the Soviet wants to re-
strict the freedom of the foreign
ministers in discussing problems
other than Germany.
| In saying that the huge Soviet
and satellite armies are at the
heart of the worlds troubles, Mr..
Acheson pointed out that very
considerable satellite armies are
being built up in addition to the
Red Army itself.
The armies of Bulgaria, Ro-
mania, and Hungary are supposed
to be limited by their peace
treaties, he said, but still great
armies are being built up to cause
tension. Asked if these arma-
ments went above treaty limits, he
said he assumed so.
The satellite armies are a direct
threat to Yugoslavia, where Mar
shall Tito has rebelled against
Kremlin dictation and is resisting
Cominform pressure.
MIR. Acheson said he expected
early agreement with the British
and French on a reply to the
latest Soviet note. Meanwhile. he
would not speculate on what the
reply might be.
Evening star., 1951-02-07

escaped considered themselves
lucky.
Mrs. Isabella Darlington of
Asbury Park is one of these.
Il was thrown out of the win
dow, smashing my face and landed
in three feet of mud. A mans
leg was lying alongside of me and
/ got up and fed" she said.
Mrs. Josephine Brydon of South
Belmar, clutching bloodied rag
to her face, said she was saved
"by landing on a pile of dead"
They talked as acetylene torches
bit their way through twisted
metal in the glare of f1oodlights.
1t happened so quickly that
(COntinied On papa A6 ro1 o
Evening star., 1951-02-07
Tobey Tells Sheriff
Louisiana Governor
Should Kick Him Out
Senator Blasts Kings
Failure to Enforce
Anti-GombIine Laws
BULLETIN

Sheriff Frank j. (King)
Clancy of Jefferson Parish, La,
promised the Senate Crime In
vestigation Committee today he
would go home and clean up all
gambling in the parish. Chair
man Kefauver then told him the
committee would recommend
dropping contempt proceedings.
BY the Assoeioted Press
Senator Tobey, Republican, ot
New Hampshire told Sheriff
Frank j. King" Clancy of Jeffer.
son Parish, La, today that il
Louisiana's Governor had "some
CUTS" he would kick Mr.. Clancy
out of office.
Senator Tobey's outburst fol.
lowed testimony by Mr.. Clancy
before the Senate Crime Investi.
eating Committee admitting tha'
he had broken his oath of Office
by failing to enforce anti.
gambling laws.
Mr.. Clancy, a political power II
Jefferson Parish has been sheriff
since 1928.
"If you had a Governor who hac
some CUTS, he would kick you ou
(See CRIME, Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1951-02-07
Late News
Bulletin
Anti-U. S. Charge Rejected

@HtTV' . = HuTye INC TeIt6U
LAKE SUCCESS P.-The
u. N. Political Committee to-
day overwhelmingly rejected
Russia's charges that the
United States had committed
aggression against China. Only
the five Soviet bloc countries
voted to support the charges
and 40 countries opposed it.
Yugoslavia, Burma and Indo-
nesia abstained.
Earlier Story on Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1951-02-07
Allied Columns Reach
Last Hills GUARDING
Approaches 10 Seoul
Yonks Use Boyonets to
Drive Reds From VituI
Heights at One Point
By Glen Clements
Assoeioted Press Foreign Correspondent

TOKYO, Feb. 7.-Allied ground
forces smashed forward today
with three powerful tank columns
to the last hills guarding the
plains of shattered Seoul.
American doughboys with fash
ing bayonets drove Reds from
vital heights at one point.
The Chinese and Korean Red:
were digging ir for a new stanc
Evening star., 1951-02-07
BY the Associated Press

"oS0o4e4ANdG, ~. y - leu. -
A crowded conn muter train
plunged off newly-erected
trestle last night, killing 80 per-
sons and injuring about 500. 1t
was the Nations worst train
wreck in 80 years.
Throughout the night and far
into today, rescue workers hacked
List Of Known Decd in New Jersey Troin
Wreck. Poee A-3
through the twisted mass of
wreckage. They said other bodies
still may be found in the
crumpled coaches and debris.
The 11-car. Pennsylvania Rail-
road train, THE Broker" swerved
wildly and jumped the tracks as
it sped onto the midtown over
pass. The cars, jack-knif1ng
crafty. hurtled down 20-foot
embankment.
The new, temporary overpass
had been put in service only few
hours before the crash.
Four Still Unidentified.
The dead included bankers,
lawyers and businessmen, prom
inent in their localities and civic
life, most of them home-bound
from New York Offices.
In mid-morning the list of
known dead stood at 70 with three
bodies still unidentified.
The rush-hour crackup was the
worst in the Nation since 1919,
when lis were killed in a wreck
at Nashville, Tenn, and more
disastrous than a 1943 accident
outside Philadelphia that took 80
lives.
1t was the third major train
wreck in the Metropolitan area
in less than year. A total of
nearly 200 died in the three
crackupS.
ICC Orders Inquiry.
In Washington the Interstate
Commerce Commission ordered an
inquiry into the new disaster, with
a public hearing to open tomor-
row.
In Newark, the FBI said it
was investigating to determine
whether sabotage was involved >
The railroad, conducting its own
investigation, said it could offer
no immediate explanation for the
cause of the wreck.
On orders of Gov. Alfred E.
Driscoll of New Jersey, the States
attorney general, Theodore Par
sons, also began an investigation.
He reached the scene early today,
and sent an assistant to hospi-
tai to question the critically in
jured engineer of the wrecked
train.
THE Broker" was loaded to the
aisles with home-bound COM
muters-mostly from New York
on their way to Red Bank, Long
Branch, Asbury Park and other
communities on New jerseys
wealthy North Shore.
Engineer Joseph H. Fitzsim-
mons, a veteran of 33 accident
free years on the road, blamed
the overcrowded coaches and the
new trestle for the tragedy.
Alive but injured, the 57-year-
old Mr.. Fitzsimmons said from a
hospital cot:
THE moment my engine passed
over the trestle and lurched
sharply I felt the rest of the cars
would never make it.
Started to Sway.
'I hit the trestle at about 25
miles per hour and the speed of
the train certainly couldn't be
blamed for the crash. When I
started to sway, I applied the
brakes, but it apparently was too
late"
Passengers and at least one
(See WRECK, Page A-3)
Evening star., 1951-02-07

A Washington food retailer
hinted today he was reluctant to
write the District Office of Price
Sterilization about ceiling
meat price violations by some
packers for fear of having his
supply cut off.
Despite complaints for the last
week from retailers that whole
Livestock Slaughter Control OFder Awoits
DiSoIle's OK. Poee Az
sale prices were putting a price
squeeze on their profit margins,
the District OPS has not received
any written complaints on the
subject.
I'VE don't know why complaints
have not materialized," an agency
spokesman said.
On the other hand the retailer
made this observation: IF we
start naming names they might
not have any more meat for US. -
Evening star., 1951-02-07
jersey Train Wreck Toll Rises
To 81 Known Dead; 4 Agencies
Start Inquiries Into Disaster
500 Are Injured
In Pennsy Crockup
On New Overposs
BULLETIN

WOODBRIDGE, N. ]. (P.-
Authorities said today that a
crack commuter train was trav-
cling twice it's authorized speed
when it roared off the rails
here last night, killing 80 per-
sons.
Evening star., 1951-02-07

(See MEAT, Page A-5D
Evening star., 1951-02-07

(See KOREA, Page A-5)
Evening star., 1951-02-07

(See STRIKE, Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1951-02-07

CONTINUED on Page AS, Col. q
Evening star., 1951-02-07
Guide for Read ers

An Associated Press Newspope
Evening star., 1951-02-07
BY the Associated Press

(See CRIME, Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1951-07-10

of his power, nor for that matter
Catholic us thespains at their
best.
They add up rather to a light
weight summer evening in the
theater with Wilder running con-
siderably ahead of his Irish col
league in whatever honors are to
be distributed. His play gives visit
ing director John McGiver, a
former C. U. actor and playwright.
q chance to show that he is a
quite artful fellow at staging dra-
matte whimSy.
O'Casey, a literary dramatist
who is vociferously discussed and
rarely produced, was not notably
inspired in the writing of the cur
tain-raiser on c. us fire summer
play program.
He is merely an IriShman max
ing a joke-shaggy dog type
about a loud-mouthed husband
who talks himself into taking over
the housework while his robust
wife goes out to NOW the meadow.
THE End of The Beginning" is,
therefore, hardly more than a
busy piece of slapstick which is
played with one of those synthetic
brogueS that sometimes makes too
much of a chore of listening.
The O'Casey farce has been
staged with a broad recklessness
that recognizes the characters as
stock figures Of Irish comedy.
There has been a tactful deletion
of the authors bawdy song for
Dairy and Barry. but it repre-
sents no serious loss. Moreover
the language spoken by Ted
Doyle, Margaret Brady and Gil
Rathbun in the three roles of
THE End of The Beginning" has
been tidied up in spots.
Wilder's Pullman Car Hia-
watha" is 20 years old this year
and it has had an active enough
life to have become familiar to
Evening star., 1951-07-10
Where and When
Current Screen Attractions
and Time of Showing

Stage.
"ScarecroW" $50 pm.
Carter Barron Amphitheater,
Rock Creek Park-"Faith of Our
Fathers" $40 pm.
Screen.
AmbaSsadOr-"St on a
Train; lis, 3:20, 5:25. 7:30 and
$40 pm.
Capitol-"Excuse My Dust;
11:00 am. las. 4:30, tbs. and
1000 pm. Stage shows: 100. 3:45,
$50 and 9:15 pm.
COlumbia-"On the. Riviera;
1925 am. 1:25. $50, 5:35. TAO
and GAS pm.
Dupont-"The Brave Bulls;
ITO, 3:15, $40. 7:30 and $40 pm.
Keith's-"Francis Goes to the
Races; HAS am, LAS, 3:45.
5:45, 7:45 and GAS pm.
"Winslow Boy; /, 2:45,
4:30, $40, sos and $50 pm.
Metropolitan - Little Big
Horn; 12:45, 3:45, $40 and $40
pm.
National - Follow the Sum;
11:20 am. 1:20. 800. $40. 7:20
and 9:20 pm.
Palace-"Take Care of My Little
Girp:: 1920 am, 1:25, $3.50. 5:35,
7:40 and 9::45 pm.
Pix-"Bitter Rice; 2:10, 4:05,
5:55, 7::50 and GAS pm.
Playhouse -"T Tales of Hoff-
mann; 2::30 and $3.50 pm.
Plaza-"The Dancing Years.,
HAS am. 2::20. 500. TAO and
1920 pm.
Trans-Lux-"Circle of Danger;
1920 am. 1:05. $50, 4:30. 6:15,
800 and 9:45 pm.
Warner - Strangers on q
Train; 11:15 am. 1:20. $3.50
5:35, 7:35 and 9:45 pm.
Evening star., 1951-07-10

many in the theater, on the radio
and television.
Nevertheless, it still is the re-
fection of poet-philosopher's
mind that is one of the century's
most captivating. This is the
play, of course. which is the di-
rect ancestor of Wilder's later
I"Our Town" and contains many
of the dramatic simplicities which
made the subsequent work such a
universal delight.
1t is a brief, def1antly formless
work which needs only ingenious
direction and acting to hold the
interest of those who have read
it and seen it several times be-
fore. This test, which few play
wrights other than Wilder can
meet, is met in the production
directed by McGiver on this oc-
caSion.
1t is invariably amazing how
much Wilder had stuffed into his
one-act commentary of life and
death on a train bound from New
York to Chicago. Out of frag-
ment of this and that, all strung
on a simple narration by a char
acter outside the play, he tells a
remarkable lot about the world,
people. Immortality, remorse, love,
and the wonder of being alive.
X x K
Pullman Car HiaWatha" re-
Quires a large cast but the various
members of it are. mere symbols
spun into the light for a quick,
revealing speech and out of it
again.
Most of the players involved are
newcomers to c. us well-trod
stage. but they serve well the pur-
poses of Wilder, McGiver and the
simple, effective setting designed
for the play by Jim Waring.
Light summer entertainment
seems to have been the aspiration
of the program. This is it, thanks
more to Wilder than the O'Casey
who was young and uniformed as
Evening star., 1951-07-10
Hollywood Diary
Fiery Shelley Gets Advice
From Once-Fiery Betty
,By SheiIoh Grohom

expected around the end of this
month. Which is why Bob is cut
ting short his current trip to
London where he is setting up to
make a picture before reporting
to Broadway for the revival o.
"Of Thee + Sing"
George Brent will have Mar
guerite Chapman as his leading
lady in the Robert Lippert pro-
duction, Murder in Safety" to be
shot in London. George has
finally finished his $100,000-a-
picture deal at Republic. There
will be very few contracts of that
nature offered to anybody again.
y y X ~
Van johnson has inherited the
Italian secretary Robert Taylor
had in Rome when Bob made
"Quo Vadis." No. this is not the
signorina who told a palpitating
world that Robert loved her. This
maiden is called Tulia Ticilia.
released by North American Newspaper
Alliance.)
Evening star., 1951-07-10
Flanagan to Address
Lions Club Tomorrow

Chairman James H. Flanagan
of the Public Utilities Commits
sion will discuss strikes at 1915
pm. tomorrow at a luncheon of
the Lions Club of Washington in
the Mayf1ower Hotel.
At that time, the club will pre-
sent $500 to the Washington
Home for Incurables, $500 to the
YMCA for it's servicemen's room
and $3.50 to Emergency Hospital
Evening star., 1951-07-10

"a playwright when he wrote "The
End of the Beginning"
4 4 4
Bulletin board: Movie fans anx-
Iious to meet an Academy Oscar
face to face will find Jose Ferrer's
prize for "Cyrano" in Hecht's win
dow all this week :. Glen Echo
will hold two more additions. July
I13 and 20, to find a girl to sing
with Vaughan .-onroe's band on
his one-night appearance at the
amusement park ballroom on July
rs Farewell to Love" will
open the 10th annual Court pro-
gram of the Roosevelt Center
IMasquers on Thursday evening. ;.
Eight one-actors will constitute
the series Playwright Bill Nc
Cleery is acting the leading male
role in his comedy, Good House
keeping" at Peterborough. N. H.
this week Helen Hayes was
the star of the same work al
iOlney two seasons ago Noe
Coward's ways and Means" will
open the darlington Players
summer season tomorrow night al
34th street Park, South Fairling-
ton Four outdoor theater-in-
the-round productions will con.
stitute this summer series
James Carberry, pro tenn manager
of RKO Keith's here. will be honor
guest at showmen's luncheon
today prior to his departure fol
Little Rock, Ark. -. There he viii
take over management of the
Rowley United Theaters Mex
week at Mclean, Va. summer
theater East Lynne" of all things
|. Few moderns, Mclean pro-
ducers believe, have seen the ia.
Imous old tear-jerker They art
Ito correct this ignorance of how
virtue triumphed on the stage
when great-grandpa was thea
Itergoer.
Evening star., 1951-07-10
HOLLYWOOD.

HOlI4 WOOD.
Betty Hutton is talking again
after her throat operation. and
| her first words constituted some
quite amazing advice to Shelley
! Winters. 1t happened at the sur
prise party Shelley threw for
Farley Granger in Farley's apart
iment. Calm down." said Betty
to Shelley. II used to knock my
self out. too. Save 1t for the
screen"
Director Ella Kazan has the
sweetest deal in Hollywood. He
not only gets whopping salary
from goth Centpry- Fox for direct
ing viva Zapata. but has written
lin his contract that the studio rents
| the Joe Swerling House at Malibu
| for him at $1,250 month for
three months plus his telephone
and other utilities!
u X y
Talked with the glamorous Mrs.
George Sanders the other am.
and she now plans to go to Eng
land because George has been
begging her to make the trip. "It
was wonderful to take a month off
from married life." said zsa Zsa
frankly. But George says he
needs me, so I shall go to London.
But I don't know how long ]
shall stay"
Cornell Wilde and Jean Wallace
were seen looking for house at
the beach. Sounds like they'll get
married very soon.
Doris Bowling and Anatole Lit
yak making a twosome around
town. Anatole was supposed to be
getting married to the German
actress, Hildegarde Neff. But life
changes rapidly on Hollywood S
romantic front.
| 4 II
/ Humphrey Bogart has been
playing cricket in Africal The
theme song for '"The African
Queen" company before they took
of for London was, incidentally
"Bongo, Bongo. Bongo. I do Want
to Leave the Congo"
Katharine Hepburn is called q
skinny old maid" by Bogart in
THE African Queen" script. After
the scene had been shot Katie,
twho-whatever she doesn't have
has sense of humor, remarked
Very apt"
Gloria De Haven will have a
slight operation on her vocal
chords. She strained them with
too much singing Then Gloria
will take of for four weeks o1
Ivacationing in Europe.
1 I have just learned that Tony
Curtis is flying back to Hollywood
from his personal-appearance tour
to see his father, stricken with q
heart attack. Earlier Tony hac
called wife Janet Leigh and given
her the news that he had lost
IA pounds on his eight-shows-daily
PA jaunt to boost THE Prince
Who Was a Thief"
II X \
/ Eleanor Parker believes in be-
ilieving in her husband, Bert Fried.
lob. She is putting up some of the
money for his meet picture
1 Eleanor. of course, will star in it
Il The Robert Cummings baby is
Evening star., 1951-07-10

Eleanor Parker believes in be-
lieving in her husband. Bert Fried
lob. She is putting up some of the
money for his meet picture
Eleanor. of course, will star in it
The Robert Cummings baby is
Evening star., 1951-07-10
The Passing Show
c. ~. Opens Summer Plays
With Wilder, O'Cosey Pair
By Joy Curmody

excellent playwrghts that Catholic University
showing its first summer drama Dill Whlcn
opened last night .,
represented OCasey and Thornton Will
respectively THE End of The Beginning and
Hawata Neither reflects its creator at the zenith