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bridge, and send her out through
a few miles of water exposed to
possible operations of American
submarines.
There was nothing particularly
Iportentous about the laying of the
keel of Archerfish. She displaced
l 500 tons, or one-fiftieth the ton
mage of the huge vessel fated to
be her adversary. She was only
Ione-third the length of Shinano,
and her crew Of 81 men and Of
ficers was about one-fortieth of
the 5000 estimated full designed
complement Of the Japanese ship.
On First Patrol.
On December 23. 1943, while
Shinano was still building, Archer
fish departed Pearl Harbor on her
first war patrol. Too bad she
could not have stayed for Christ
mas, but orders must be obeyed,
and operations seldom take notice
of such things. Besides. her crew
had been brought up to the fever
pitch Of enthusiasm. Christmas
or no. she was eager to be on her
way.
On her first patrol Archerfish
and her disguised crew fought
heavy weather for two solid weeks,
but finally she reported radar con-
tact with four large and five small
er ships heading in the general
direction of Formosa. The leading
ship was attacked and sunk and
Archerfish's patrol report stated,
I'VE had celebrated the first an
niversary of our keel laying in
right smart fashion"
Months passed. and she was a
veteran. The vast Pacific was her
playground and her no-man's
land. Then, as Joe Enright, her
skipper, recorded in the fifth war
patrol report of Archerfish, on
November %, 1914, she was pa
trolling submerged to the south
and west of the western entrance
to Sagami NADIA, or outer Tokyo
Bay. No ships had been sighted.
mo contacts of any kind Except
fishing boats) had been made thus
far in the patrol. which had be-
gun 20 days before.
At 17lS she surfaced. the visi-
bility having decreased to such
an extent that surface patrolling
was feasible and desirable.
"Radar. contact" These words
never fail to bring a shiver of
anticipation to the submariner.
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Polar Flight From U.5 5.
Reaches Denmark
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Nov.
|21.-Twentieth Century Vikings,
winging their American-built
plane across the Polar icecap,
blazed a dramatic new era of COM
merce in a California Europe
flight ending here last night.
Thirteen crewmen of the Scan
dinavian Air Lines plane Arid
Viking brought their % passengers
to landing in a soft Danish
drizzle at Kastrup Airport-just
% hours and z minutes after leav-
ing Los Angeles.
They had spent % hours, 3S
minutes in flying the 1882 miles.
-Four hours, 20 minutes were spent
on the ground at Edmonton,
Alberta, and the United States
Air Force base at Thule, Green
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Careless Motorist Is Loser Also in Irish Sweepsakes

Lanier Payne is in jail today
and police have confiscated the
Irish Sweepstakes ticket which he
hoped would win him a fortune
all because he forgot to set the
emergency brake on his car.
Payne. 26. colored. of the 500
block of Keefer place NV. wa
arrested in Chapel Oaks. Md,
Iearly today and charged with pos
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session of a lottery slip.
County Police Pvts. ]. H. Vins
cent and Robert Duncan found
the sweepstakes ticket in Payne's
wallet when they asked him for
his automobile registration card
after Payne's car had rolled back
ward so feet down hill. through
"a hedge and into a yard at I'LL
Fifty-seventh avenue.
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then. from that point, they draw
range and bearing, and thus locate
the position of the enemy ship at
the same instant.
Your own ship twists and turns
in the dual effort to gain firing
position and to keep range to the
target so that he will not sight
her, or get radar contact on her,
but. keep close enough so that
her radar will have no difficulty
in keeping contact on his much
larger bulk.
After a few minutes of chase
the targets course is determined
to be roughly 210. The targets
speed is 20 knots; he is zigzagging,
and by the size and strength of
his radar pip is mighty big and
mighty important. Radar also in
dicateS four smaller vessels; one
ahead, one on either beam and
one aStern.
The well-drilled crew are re-
spending beautifully and solving
the problem like clockwork.
Approximately one hour after
the initial contact, the patrol re-
port states. Saw the target for
the first time, an aircraft car
Irier! From here on it was a mad
race to reach firing position"
1t is every submarine shippers
dream to find himself in hot pur-
suit of such a target. The jack
pot-an aircraft carrier! The
biggest game of all! Archerfish,
the huntress. Can she bring this
monster down in his own environ
ment?
Copyright, 1852, by Edward L. Beach
Published by Henry Holt g. Co., Inc
Distributed by the Register and Tribune
syndicate)
(To Be Continued Tomorrow
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y .
u. S. Navy Photo.
From the size of the pip, the range
and the speed which the first few
hasty moments of plotting show
this target to be making, there is
no doubt whatever in the minds
of any of the crew of Archerflsh
that she is really on to something
big. The word passes almost in
simultaneously throughout the
ship. Something big and fast!"
With the ease and sureness OF
long practice, tracking stations
are manned. On the first word
of radar contact the officer of the
deck had turned the bow OF
Archerfish directly toward the
contact, and had stopped. This
gave the plotting party an imme-
diate indication of the direction
of target movement. AS soon as
this had been determined Archer
fish roared off in hot pursuit. not
directly at the target, but on such
course that she might have an
opportunity of getting ahead OF
him.
Full Speed, 18 Knots.
Within minutes after the initial
contact Archerfish was pounding
along at full speed, 18 knots
throwing a cloud of spray ano
spume from her sharp knifelike
bow as she hurried across the sea
This is where the long, monot-
onous labor of patrol starts to
bear fruit. Plotting and tracking
the target is no simple matter
Every minute a range and bear
ing. Every minute plotting parties
plot the ships course and its posi-
tion at the instant of the MARK:
Evening star., 1952-03-12
Inter- Racial Status Voted
For Langley Playground

Designation of the Langley
Playground in Northeast Wash
ington as an inter-racial recrea-
tion unit was voted yesterday by
the District Recreation Board.
Only one person showed up at
a public hearing called by the
Recreation Board to consider the
matter. He was Walter B. San
derson of the Bloomingdale Civic
Association. who urged that the
playground be made inter-racial.
The playground has been oper-
|ated as a white unit. Declining
Use by white children caused Milo
Christensen. recreation superin-
|tendent. to recommend that it be
made biracial. since the neighbor-
hood has both colored and white
residents.
1t is located near Langley Jun
ior High School and Mckinley
High School at Second and T
streets NE. Last fall the Board
of Education shifted Langley from
white to colored students. The
public swimming pool there has
been operated as a biracial pool
for several years by the Interior
Department.
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House Action Likely Today
On Burke Airport Funds

An appropriation of $1.4 mil
lion for Burke Airport in nearby
Virginia may come up for action
today on the House floor.
Recommended to the House by
its appropriations committee, the
item is $500, 900 less than re-
quested by the Commerce De-
partrnent and the President.
Whether a fight to knock out
the $1.4 million from the third
supplemental appropriation bill
will be made on the floor prob
ably depends on Representative
Anderson. Republican, of Mime
sofa. He tried, but failed by a
vote of Is to IL, in the Appropria-
tons Committee, to strike the
whole item.
Representative Flood, Democrat,
lof Pennsylvania, and other de-
Tenders of the new airport to re-
lieve congestion at Washington
National Airport, were prepared
to make a strong fight to keep
the item in the bill.
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An Arlington father, who
searched for his son by telephone
was reunited with him today after
a 30-year separation.
Frank Sobolewski, 81, of 131:
North Veitch street, had sought tc
reach his son in a letter. writing
campaign and with the help o1
friends in Texas, but last week he
decided to place person-to-persor
calls to his son in towns neal
Corpus Christi, where he had last
heard from him.
Mr.. Sobolewski knew that his
son, whom he hadn't seen since
he was 2 years old, had adopted
the name of Crawford and Wher
he phoned Portland, Tex, and
asked for Frank Crawford, his
search was successful.
The father made arrangements
for his son to fly here.
How 1t Happened.
Mr.. Sobolewski tells this story
of the separation:
His son was born in 1919. while
his father was in the Army. His
mother died about a month after
he was born.
MI. SoboleWski remarked in
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U.S.. Urged 10 Permit
|G! Pay Deductions
&nst -
For Health Insurance

The president-elect of tht
American Hospital Association to.
DAY urged bthe Government tc
hermit military service pay de.
sdhctions fof voluntary health in.
surance plans. y
DR.. Edwin L. Crosby, director
OF Johns Hopkins Hospital, added
that the Government might even
share the cost of voluntary health
insurance program premiums, as
lis now customary in private in
dustry.
The suggestion that the Gov.
ernment aid servicemen to main.
tain health insurance for then
dependents was made during q
nearing by a subcommittee of the
Senate Labor and Public Welfare
Committee. The group is con-
sidering bills introduced by SEN
ator Lehman. Democrat, of New
York. and Senator Humphrey
Democrat, of Minnesota, to pro-
vide maternity and infant care
for servicemen's wives and chill
dren. All costs would be paid by
the government.
DR.. Crosby. pointing out that
under the present system de-
pendents of military personne'
are eligible for disqualification ir
military hospitals if facilities are
available, said:
1T should not be the purpose
OF the Federal Government to
establish a huge system of Fed.
eral hospitals competing with
those hospitals that provide care
to the general population.
DR.. Crosby said, however. i.
Government would help service
men maintain voluntary health
insurance policies, wives and fam.
lilies would be permitted to receive
"just as much protection at home
D.. as they would receive at mill
tary installations"
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any sense to check on a person
months after she has left the
Government.
The fault isn't the commits
Ision's. 1t simply doesn't have the
money to hire enough people to
make these Investigations, with
the result that many employees
ARE in the Government for up
Ito year before their background
and loyalty can be checked. It
doesn't make for the best kind
Iof national security.
X II X
OBLIVION-The Communist
dominated United Public Workers
Iof America, which once figured
SO prominently in the news, is
fast slipping into oblivion. SO far
as it's Federal employe member
ship is concerned.
The union has closed It's Fed
eral Office here and has discon-
tinued its telephone. Most If its
staff here has been dismissed be-
cause of lack of funds and nothing
to do. What little business it does
have to transact here is done in
the Office space of another left
wing union kicked out of the CIO
UPWA still has it's New York
Office for it's State, county and city
worker members. but its Federal
employc membership is just about
depleted. Best estimate is that
IUPWA now has maximum of
IS 900 members, but not more than
1900 of them are Federal workers.
These 1900 Federal employees are
scattered, for the most part, in
the Post Office Department and
the Bureau of Engraving and
Printing.
Strangely enough, although
UPWA has been completely dis
credited as a Communist-domi-
mated group and has been ex-
PEELED by the CIO for it's pro-Red
Ileanings, the Federal Government
has never bothered to bar it Off
Icially from Federal premises. It
II may be that this is because
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Threatened SHORTAGE
OF Potatoes in D. {.
Drives Prices Higher

Washington is beginning to feel
a potato shortage, food experts
here said today.
One food authority said the
market here now is getting only
inferior potatoes. And in next
weeks market they will be very
scarce, he said, warning that a
black market situation may de-
velcp.
Earlier this year, potatoes were
advertised in retail stores at 10
pounds for SO cents. Now they
have climbed to where they are
selling around 10 pounds for 81
cents.
Where few years ago the Fed
eral Government had potatoes to
burn, a real shortage is threat
ening for a number of reasons,
dealers say. They expect no price
Improvement until May, when
effects Of the new harvest will be
felt.
Speculation Seen.
One food broker said he could
not get the supplies he needs-he
deals in carload lotS-and is now
practically out of business. One
limited that spectators may be
holding stocks for higher prices.
Wholesalers here say that white
potatoes are not easy to get. One
said this is due to the short crop
in Maine. He said Maine pota-
toes are being shipped to the west
and Canada is buying American
potatoes.
The Agriculture Department ex-
planned that at this time Of year
the potato supply is relatively
short. Some freight cars are tied
up shipping seed potatoes, but
last years crop was shorter than
1850, the 1851 figures being 325.7
million bushels over the country
against the 1850 crop of 1895 mil
hon. Around 100 million bushels
OF the 1850 crop were bought by
the Government to support the
price. The potato price support
program under which farmers
were guaranteed high prices, was
dropped January l. 1851.
New Potatoes Appear.
The department pointed out
merchants are still selling the old
crop out of storage pits. although
new potatoes from the deep South
are appearing. But this new crop
is comparatively small against the
Nations output and is considered
in the luxury class. ..
Wet, cold weather that gave
the potatoes a blight disease and
interferred with their storage
qualities; the demand in the West
for Eastern potatoes; a reduction
in yield per acre of per cent and
a cut in planted acreage of 20 per
cent all have contributed to the
potato shortage, the department
explained.
Illustrative Of the price clinb,
the department. quoted the Feb-I
ruary. 26 price on the New York
market; Maine potatoes, Sass per
100 pounds. and Idaho potatoes
S6.46: These figures compare with
March 3, 1851: Maine, s2.38 per-
100 pounds, and Idaho, $4.14.
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Prince Georges Backs
ice Transport Study

An Interstate Commerce Com
mission inquiry into Washington
area transportation problems to-
day has the formal approval of
the Prince Georges County COM
missioners.
In a unanimous action yester-
day at Upper Marlboro, the board
urged that hearings be held on
measures pending in both houses
of Congress to initiate the ICC
Investigation.
The resolution also asked that
Congress appropriate the neces-
sary funds for the study.
Commissioner Edward j. Waters
offered the resolution.
Last night, the Alexandra
Council adopted resolution in
dorsing the idea of a Greater
Washington Regional Council to
promote inter- -jurisdictional CO.
operation. The resolution, offered
by Councilman James M. Duncan
does not commit the Alexandra
government to support any spe-
cif1c plan for setting up the re-
gional council.
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1921. The next year, he decided
not to stay in the Army and hi.
wife and boy left for Texas to lool
for a place to start music bust.
ness.
While the search was in prog.
ress, the child stayed with hi.
stepmother's grandparents.
After few months the busines.
failed and Mr.. Sobolewski came tt
Washington. where he re-enlistec
in the Army and was assigned tt
the Sd Calvary Band.
Agrees to Crawford Offer.
Meanwhile, the grandmother
died and the Red Gross wrote thai
the Crawford family was willins
to take care of the boy. Mr.
sSoboleWSki agreed.
Later, when he wanted the boy
to rejoin him. he was unable tt
locate the Crawford family.
Mr. Sobolewski acquired tht
Veitch street property in 1922
living at first in a tent. Later HI
built small metal house and ther
the two houses now on the prop.
erty.
Mr.. Sobolewski has no othe,
children. He has been disabled
since 1884.
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.Luray Miller Fined
For Alleged Sale Of
Us. Stored Wheat
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Te-.:s..s.s..By aseAssss;sssd Ps.ss sss.is, sss
|. HAHR1soNBURGs va Mar
tt2.-A Federal District Court has
fined 4 William C arnsberger
managers of a Shenando h valleS
milling firm, 81 900 for illegal use
Iof Government-stored wheat..,
& Harnsberger was. Charged with
converting 1924 bushels of wheat
which the Government. under the
Commodity Credit Corp. storage
program, had stored at the Page
Milling Co. at Luray.
The defendant, a resident of
Luray and former chairman OF
the Page County School Board
pleaded guilty yesterday. The
court ordered that the fine be
paid within 10 days.
Harnsberger made full restitu-
'tion of the grain, which was
valued at approximately $4,000
His attorney said. in fact, that
Harnsberger was the first person
to report the shortage to the Com
modify Credit Corp.
Federal Attorney Howard Gill
mer. jr.. agreed the offense did
not merit prison sentence.
M. L. Walker, an investigator
for the Agriculture Department
told the court that the Page Mill
ing Co. was having financial
troubles at the time the shortage
occurred.
He said Harnsberger decided to
mill the Government wheat and
planned to replace it later.
HarnSberger, who was manager
of the Luray concern, is now man.
lager of a smaller mill at Benton
vile, in Warren County,
Evening star., 1952-03-12

iBois and Mrs. Hazel d. Faulkner.
have received cash awards for
meritorious suggestions. Wen
dell Hayes has been elected presi-
dent of the State Departments
Jefferson Lodge No. 1419, Amer
lean Federation of Government
Employees. Others elected were
Ruth M. Ulbrich. vice president;
Alma Marie Smith, secretary, and
Helen v. Riegger, treasurer.
The Naval Research Laboratory
has a vacancy for scientific re-
port analyst, grade GS-11. :.
Superior accomplishment awards
have been given to four employees
in Agriculture Departments Pro-
duction and Marketing Admins
tration. They are Hilda M. Bailey.
John L. Buntin. Charles A. Bur-
meister and Tom w. Dawsey. I.
Daniel w. Alexander, a commod-
ity specialist and assistant chief
of the Tariff Commissions Tex
tile Division. has retired after 80
years of Government service. (.
Fourteen employees in the Labor
Departments Wage and Hour and
Public Contracts Divisions, who
have completed 10 years of serv-
ice in the department, have been
awarded service certificates. They
are Gloria M. Bianchi, Ellen F.
Calvert. Raymond j. Doyle. jr.:
Oscar j. Carrico, John c. Fraser.
Rose Todress, Alfred E. lizard.
Blanca Escobar, James r. Wason.
Max Schiferl. Charles E. Foster,
Jack I. Karlin, James E. PATCH
ing, jr.. and Dorothea Tuney. :.
The Civil Service Commission has
announced exams for policewom-
en- in the District, $3,077 a year.
and for dietitians in various Vet
erans' Administration hospitals
and regional Offices, $1,000 to $5.-
$40 year.
Evening star., 1952-03-12
U. N. Aids Refugees

GENEVA. Switzerland. Mar. IL
R).-Two thousand destitute Rus
sain refugees in Shanghai will re-
ceive United Nations aid equal to
SO United States cents per day
each, the United Nations high
commissioner for refugees said
yesterday.
Evening star., 1952-03-12
Briton Killed in MuIuyu

SINGAPORE, Mar. IL (R.-
w. H. Franks, 26. a district police
commander, was killed while lead
ing an attack on a Communist
terrorist camp near Kulim, ir
Northern Malaga, yesterday. Mr.
Franks. a Londoner, was in charge
of the police district in Southern
Kedah. One Malay constable Is
presumed dead.
Evening star., 1952-03-12

UPWA was fading out from the
Federal employe picture anyway,
but it would appear to be just
good common sense and a pre-
caution for the future to bar
UPWA irrevocably and perma-
nently from the Federal scene.
Another thing should be noted
regarding UPWA's infamous ca
reer. Some Federal employees
have confused UPWA,s operations
with other Government employe
unions, often to the detriment of
the latter groups when it came
to organizing workers. The fact
is that, with the exception of
UPWA. all other Government en-
ploye unions-both for classified
employees and postal workers-are
thoroughly patriotic organizations.
RETIREMENT-A Senate Civil
Service subcommittee meets today
in executive session to consider
the type of bill it will report to
the full committee on increasing
civil service retirement annuities.
The amount of the increase or
the way of financing it has not yet
been decided on, but one thing is
certain: The subcommittee will
report favorably a measure to in
crease the annuities of retired
Federal workers. Arguments of
the Civil Service Commission, not
withStanding, the subcommittee
feels the case for an annuity in
crease has been we'll established.
: Meanwhile, the fight over the
bill has developed into the most
bitter struggle over civil service
legislation of the last 20 years. On
one side are ranged such figures
Jas Chairman Johnston of the
Senate Civil Service Committee,
Senator LANCER, Republican, of
North Dakota; Representatives
Miller of California and Rhodes
|of Pennsylvania, Democrats, and
Iother members of Congress, as
we'll as the various employe
unions. On the other side, oppos-
ing the increase. stands the Civil
Service Commission, led by Chair
man Robert RamSpeck.
There will be more charges and
counter-charges in the weeks to
come. The outcome remains in
doubt. The chances Of the Senate
approving an annuity increase
seem fairly good. In the House,
the prospect isn't as bright, al
though the situation isn't hopeless
by any means.
X X
CAPITAL ROUNDUP - Civil
Service Commissioner James Nit
chell is the new president of the
American Society for Public Ad-
ministratiOn. Two Marine
Corps civilians. Mrs. Melba C.. Dil
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The Weather Here and Over the Nation

District Of Columbia and vicin-
ity-Mostly sunny, with high of
So today. Some cloudiness to-
night, with low near 35. Tomor-
row, mostly cloudy and becoming
windy and milder, with rain likely
by night.
Evening star., 1952-03-12
Alexandria Rotary Elects

The Alexandria Rotary Club
yesterday elected Robert q. Whit
ton as president: Eugene E.
Simpson. vice president; Paul
Hulsish, secretary; T. c. williams.
treasurer: c. Page Marshall and
William c. Cokely. directors.
Evening star., 1952-03-12

Maryland and Virginia-Some
cloudinesS tonight, with low of
3O-35. Tomorrow cloudy, becom-
ing windy and milder. with rain
likely in the west portion by after
noon and in the east by night.
Evening star., 1952-03-12
Maryland
and
Virginia
New Fire Station
III. Bethesda Opposed
News in Brief

A petition signed by SO persons
opposing a proposed new fire SUBJ
Station on grounds of the National
Institutes Of Health in Bethesda
was submitted to the Montgomery
County Council yesterday.
Preston B. Haines, president oil
the Bethesda Fire Board. told the
Council that the new station is
needed to serve residents in the
northern section Of the Bethesds
district. The Council reserved
decision.