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Evening star., 1952-02-23
Premier and Cabinet
Resign In lndonesia
In Dispute on U. 5. Aid
lselatIenIst PerIIamsnt
Regarded 40 Unlikely
To Reilly AeeeptaNee
ey lhs AsIeeielsd PTssS

IAkAHFA, lndeneslA, Feb, 2a,
Premier 6eekiman and his To-
month-ola government quit today
and LETT for their unnamed sEa-
cessors the hot political issue of
whether Indonesia should keep
taking United States aid under
the Mutual Security Act,
President Soekarno accepted
Soekiman's resignation soon after
1t was submitted this morning and
prepared to name someone else
to form a new government,
Third Regime to Fall.
Soekiman's coalition govern
ment was the third to fall since
the island republic won independ-
ence from the Netherlands 26
months ago.
The cabinets fall became in
evitable after the premier'S own
party, the Moslem Masjumi, de-
cided last night to withdraw its
support because the foreign min
istry had agreed to United States
help. An executive Of the Masjumi
party-the country's strongest po-
litical faction-said the party
wanted a parliamentary decision
on the question-not just the
foreign minister's.
The general observation In
Jakarta political circles is that
any new government will have a
tough time getting the isolationist
Parliament to ratify an agree
ment for MSA dollars.
Agreement Signed.
The outgoing cabinet met for a
short session this morning but did
not discuss the MSA agreement.
to which 1ndonesia already Is ten.
tatively committed by the sigma
ture Of outgoing Foreign Minister
Achmad Soebardjo.
On his own hook. Soebardjo
signed an agreement with Ameri.
can officials In January to keep
on taking United States help un.
der MsA and 90 along with the
anti Communist pledges the act
requires. A storm Of protest from
Parliament. and other cabinet
members followed.
Opponents OF the move said
that Indonesia was being steered
from her aVowed neutral position
In the world struggle between
communism and the Western
powers,
Evening star., 1952-02-23
Bette Davis Adopts Boy

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. % R,-.
Blond Michael Woodman Merrill,
l month old. arrived yesterday at
the home OF Screen Actress Bette
Davis and her actor husband,
Gary Merrill, TO become their fos.
ter son. They have two other
children. Miss Davis b.year-oid
daughter barbara and On adopted
daughter, MArgo. 10 months.
Evening star., 1952-02-23
Gen. MacArthur'sS sSiaiI
Reduced 10 Three as
Routine, Army Says
AIDE Declares Col. Story,
Generals Pilot, Was
Forced 10 Resign
ey ,hs AwssIslsa Pies,

NEW YORK, Feb, 2s,--An aide
to Gen, MaeAFthup says the
former Far Eastern commander
has been forced to cut tlve mem
heFs from his eight-man personal
stan, The Array says the reduce
tion Is routine,
Gen, MacArthur's aide, Col,
Laurence q, Bunker, said last
night that orders from Army Sec
retary Frank Pace, jr,, came
through February IL directing
that the flve be transferred within
go days.
Col. Bunker added that, in adj
dition to the five, the resigna-
ton last month of 1t. Col.
Anthony Story, the generals
former pilot. also was forced.
In Washington, the Army said
the staff reductions had been
made In line with treatment ac-
corded other flve-star generals
who-like Gen. MacArthur-were
not assigned to any specific duty.
The Army said regulations pro-
vide an eight-man staff for FIVE
star officers in specific military
assignments. 1t added an arrange
ment for the personnel cut was
made last fall with Gen. Mac
Arthur, who was ousted from his
Far East post by President Truman
in April.
Precedent for the three man
staff for unassigned generals, the
Army said. was set after World
War II. President Truman was
reported to have decided that such
a staff would be sufficient to look
after any official business remain
ing for the generals.
Gen. Marshall is the only other
flve-star ofiicer not now assigned
to specific military duty. Army
officials reported Gen. Marshall
never had more than three aides
assigned to him.
Both Gen. Macarthur and Gen.
Marshall are still technically on
active duty although not assigned.
Their pay Is $is,7ei O year--in.
cluding base pay Of Sii.4B7, per.
sonal money, $4,000; subsistence.
$500; quarters. $500.
Gen. Macarthur had no com.
ment on the matter, but Col.
Bunker told newsmen In New York
that his chief did not agree TO
(See MACARTHUR. PAGE A.aA
Evening star., 1952-02-23
Late News
Bulletin
Relief Roll Din Passed

RICHMOND. Va. HD.--T'hs
House Of Delegates today te0k
Anal Assembly aetl0n on epeRs
Inc vlFsinia's relief rolls 10
public Inspection BY approving
Q senate amendment banning
publication Of the names Of
children receiving welfare ald,
Earlier 6tegy Oh Pags AsslD
Evening star., 1952-02-23
Mcmahon Hints Approval
.0i PROGRESS on n.Domb
ay mo AIssela,sd Press


The hydrogen bomb project
still ID top secret, but the head
OF the Senate House Atomic
Energy Committee says cautiously
he ID mot dissatisfied" with its
progress,
Senator Mcmahon, Democrat,
OF Connecticut, chairman Of the
group, told inteFvieWers on a
SBe radio program last hieht he
could not alVe details yet,
Dut he said the atomic stock.
pile 10 90 large that any attack
BY Russia new would be the
"height Of ieelishAesS" on 40 part,
Evening star., 1952-02-23
AttIse Discounts War

OXFORD, England, Feb. 90 L41,
Clement Attlee, Br1taih's Labor.
ite exsPrime Minister, said last
niaht, II don't believe The present
rulers OF Russia VIII preVeke q
third World war" but he eau
tiened Britain 10 DO on auard,
Hs spoke 10 the oxfeFd University
Club,
Evening star., 1952-02-23
Truman Stays on Yacht
After Return From Cruise
oy ths Associated Press

President Truman returned TO
Washington today from q week.
end cruise. but decided TO remain
aboard the yacht williamsburg 10
work and rest In the quiet OF his
staterooni.
How long he will stay aboard
was undetermined, stan members
said.
The President embarked Thurs.
day afternoon for the cruise In
nearby waters.
Mrs. Truman and Miss Mar.
aAret Truman are TO have dinner
aboard the yacht this evening and
then return 10 Blair House.
Evening star., 1952-02-23
JET Battle Costs Reds
One MIG, Produces
New American Ace
Two Other Red Planes
Damaged as 40 Fight
"a American Sobres
BY ,hs Assetlalsd stsM

SEOUL, Korea, Feb. ga jet
f1eht over North Korea today cost
the Reds one MtGsib fighter
plane and produced q new Amer
lean Jet ace,
ffhe new ace Is Nal, William +
WhiSner OF Shreveport, La
He brought his MIG fetal "a
Ave and eheuhalf Kills Just In time
Evening star., 1952-02-23

HGnsaASseS zSnsnsa
10 save q iellew pllet, Mai, j
Denald H. Adams OF Meunt
Clemens, Mich, whose plane had
been hit and couldn't aVeld enemy
Are,
Mai, WhisneF knocked down
the Red sWept-wing fighter IN a
battle between ~ American
Sabre Jets and 10 Red MICS,
Two other MICS were damaged
In the fight,
Shares KIN With GabFeski,
Five kills make a pilot Jet
ace, Mai, Whisner Is credited
also with damaging six MICS,
His one-half kill came Thurs
day when he shared in knocking
Evening star., 1952-02-23
NAT0Approves
$500 Billion
Plan for Arms
Hartman Program
Is Endorsed Without
Single Objection
BULLETIN

LISBON, Portugal (P.-The
North Atlantic Council unani-
mously approved today mas
ter economic program for a
three-year defensive buildup
against communism.
Not one of the IA Atlantic
Allies raised an objection as
the Council indorsed the study.
Evening star., 1952-02-23
BY the Assoeioied Press

LISBON, Portugal, Feb. 23.-
The Atlantic Allies lay down to-
day a carefully drawn plan to tap
Western taxpayers for $500 bill
lion for anti Communist arms--a
sum they believe can be scraped
up without bringing economic
ruin.
The cost will be spread over
the three years ending with 1854
and is equal to $3.50 apiece for
each Of the 400 million people in
the IL original Atlantic pact
nations.
The council Of the North At.
lantic Treaty Organization is ex-
pected to give Anal Endorsement
to the plan today.
Economic TiGhtrOpe.
Months Of intense study by
economic experts--the So.called ~
wise men headed by United States
Mutual Security Administrator W.
Averell Hartman -- went into It's
preparation. All the governments
involved were consulted repeat.
eddy.
The plan forms an economic
tishtrope for many OF the hard.
UP European nations. Many had
to increase their arms spending,
and the 1904 armament goals
were reduced slightly, TO make
ends meet Under the plan,
II yet down ways and means TO
finance an army that IA meant 10
include 30 fr0htalihe divisions and
20 In immediate reserve by the
end OK 1902, with planned eApanu
sion 10 some % divisions by the
end OF 1904,
Wide Network Of Bases,
Included In the plan ID q net
weFk OF aiEbases reaching irem
the Arctic 10 the BauateF, eeIau
Inuhieatlens, ships, tanks, Guns,
ammunition, uniforms, barracks
and such like,
The plan also pFeVidesl
NA1o governments must put
alrf,eld construction ahead of
many other budgetaFy items to
make sure the nearly 400 alrbases
IN West Europe are finished on
time,
Arms production Ia to be
speeded,
National resources-men, ma
chimes, metals and materials-need
to be used more efticiently to
stretch thin supplies, Coal. steel
and metal production need to be
boosted, and the Allies are urged
to avoid scrambling with each
other for scarce raw materials.
immigration Studied.
Some of the Allied nations
short of manpower need to review
immigration policies so they can
use other countries surplus men
such at Italy's 2 million unem-
ployed.
The European nations need to
increase their dollar earnings. One
suggested method is to hurry con-
struction Of the airbases which
would bring more American spend
ing in Europe.
The plan emphasizes more fus
ture attention be given to new
weapons clear reference toI
atomic possibilities. The experts
think some Of these weapons will
cut down manpower needs and
eventually lead to revision Of
present arms programs.
Faces Parliamentary snags.
The entire plan underlines the
idea that q substantial German
contribution In men and material
Is needed to reach the arms goals
the Allies have set.
The NATO Council yesterday
took a big step In this direction by
approving the French-sponsored
plan for o European army under
which German divisions would be
used.
France, West Germany, Italy
Belgium, the Netherlands and
Luxembourg-the proposed Euro.
pean army partners-now can 20
ahead with their treaty TO Get up
the army. II faces parliamentary
hurdles In oil countries. The stif.
fest ones are In France. which
still fears German aggression, and
In West Germany, which 10 de-
manding full equality In the al.
lance.
Evening star., 1952-02-23

Accuse ALLIES Of "AsMsGVs"
In kOIs lslsNd esmp, Pasa Al
Evening star., 1952-02-23

(See MACARTHUR, Page A.6)
Evening star., 1952-02-23

Some sunshine, hiah near a. today chance
OF light snow late tonight ana telAelTeW,
low tehight, 80, Continued Geld temeFFeW,
tFull report on Page A-a,)
Midnight, 9a Gam, 80 II am. =z=s7
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1952-06-05
Olney Area Members
OF Southern States
Coop to Meet

L. c. Burns and Mrs. Clark Toms,
both of Olney, will represent South
ern States members of the Olney
area at a district meeting Tuesday,
June 8, at 700 pm. DIST in the
Francis Scott Key Hotel, Freder-
lex, Md.
Plans for local Southern States
membership meetings in this area
during the coming summer will be
worked out at the meeting. E. G.
Armstrong, manager Of Arm
Strong Service, the Southern
States Cooperative Service Agency
at Olney will also attend.
At this session, membership
meetings for. several communities
III this area will be scheduled, and
plans and programs developed for
those meetings.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1952-06-05
Farmers Reaction
To Farm Program
Kept Under Wraps

Secretary of Agriculture Charles
F. Brannan has received thousands
If letters from farmers in response
o his request for opinions on his
arm subsidy plan, but the letters
are kept under lock and key.
Attempts by newsmen and others
% obtain cross-section samples of
he letters have been CURLY re-
buffed by department aides. Bran
nan, whose farm program was
riticized sharply by Congress last
year, ordered his department to
conduct the survey among Ameri-
AN farmers. A thick booklet ex-
planning the system was sent out,
with the request that farmers mail
suggestions to the Agriculture de-
partment.
Allan B. Kline, president of the
American Farm Bureau. charged
Brannan with trying to usurp
powers of Congress, but the ayr
culture secretary said he is merely
Interested in policy changes, not
new laws.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1952-06-05
Farm Construction
Expected to Drop
Despite Boom

Farm construction will suffer a
sight decline this year, the Labor
department predicted yesterday,
but construction business in gen.
eral will continue to swell under
the stimulation of defense projects.
In a joint statement, the Labor
and Commerce department said
only about SIT billion would be
spent on new farm building this
year as compared with $1.8 billion
IN 1851.
Also to suffer because of build
ing restrictions are expenditures
for commercial and religious build
ings. But government spending
for military and atomic energy
projects will hike the public build
ing figure to about $11 billion-a
Jump of about II per cent over
1851.
The statement predicted a partial
relaxing of Regulation x, which
should push private home build
ing to an all-time high during the
coming year.
Private investment of about $21
billion for construction will bring
the overall construction cost to
about $32 billion for 1952-an in
crease of about A per cent over last
years total figure.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1952-06-05
State Parks Will
Charge Visitors for
Services This Year

Maryland's outdoor pl ASSURE
seekers will have TO go dutch
Treat" this year when they visit
State Parks.
A recent meeting of the Com
mission of State Forests and Parks
brought out the fact that in the
past it has cost the State as much
as twenty cents to provide services
for persons visiting the Parks.
This season, the commission will
make charges for car parking, for
the use of outdoor fireplaces with
charcoal furnished, and for other
special services, according to Jo-
scph F. Kaylor, Director of Forests
and Parks. Charges will often
amount to less than ten cents per
person.
A breakdown on the "price-tag"
for Maryland park goers Includes:
fifty cent per car parking charge
at Sandy Point and Patapsco State
Parks and a twenty-five cent park
ing charge at Gambrill State Park
located in the less settled area, of
Western Maryland.
A season ticket for passenger
car or pickup truck will cost $500
at Sandy Point and Patapsco and
$500 at Gambrill State Park. A
twelvetrip ticket at Sandy Point
and Patapsco will cost park goers
three dollars. Parking tickets for
passenger buses or stake b d y
trucks will cost three dollars each
at aSndy Point and Patapsco.
Other charges m lie at State
Parks this season will include:
Fireplaces with charcoal, fifty
cents; reserved picnic tables, TWEEN
ty-five cents; tenting space, fifty
cents per day, $3.50 per week for
a limit of two weeks; trailer space
enc dollar per day, five dollars per
week; bathhouse o k ers, fifty
n s; locker key requirements,
twenty-five cents. Towels, bathing
suits and accessories may be rent
ed for a nominal charge at Parks
having facilities for swimming.
Practically every state except
Maryland has been charging for
the use of State Parks for many
years. Mr.. Kaylor pointed out that
funds appropriated by the State
Legislature have been insufficient
for the maintenance of the Parks,
regardless of necessities such as
drinking water, sanitary facilities
and car parking which must be
provided.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1952-06-05
Coal In Them Hills
Garrett County Has
Huge Coal Reserve
Mine Bureau Says

Castleman Basin, Garrett Coun
ty has bitnminous coal reserves
Of more than 232 million tons, the
y. S. Bureau of Mines revealed
this week.
The Bureau said it's recent study
Of coal reserves in Garrett "fur-
nishes facts that may help to in
crease Maryland's' declining coal
production.
The survey of the Castleman
Basin was begun by the Bureau
in 1947 and covered about 14,700
acres of land. Coal cores were
studied form 40 diamond drill
holes at the Bureaus Pittsburgh
experiment station.
Officials said analysis shows the
coal to be low to medium volatile,
bituminous in rank and strongly
cooking. Eleven beds were pene-
Itrated during drilling operations.
Reserves of more than ID inches
thickness were counted in the tab
Iulation. Of the total estimate.
120043.000 tons were measured
and 1881 900 were indicated and
40,845,000 were inferred.
The Bureau reported that the
upper Freeport bed in the basin
is estimated to contain more than
81 million tons of coal of % inches
on more thickness, some of which
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1952-06-05
Student Writing
Contest Judges
Are Named

Judges for the fourth annual
creative writing contest, Washing
ton Chapter, National Society Of
Arts and Letters, have been an
Inounced.
Woman's National Press Club, and
Washington correspondent for the
Christian Science Monitor, Josep-
hine Ripley, is chairman of the
judges. The ether judges are:
Agnes DeLano, author, lecturer
and chairman of the English De-
partment, Mount Vernon Junior
College, and Maxine LaBounty,
Coordinator of Childrens Services,
d. C. Public Libraries.
The contest, which is open to
high school seniors, offers a prize
of $250.00 to be used toward col
lege tuition. Contestants may sub
nit ~ a 1900 word essay, or q
a 1900 word short story or 81 an
editorial and feature story of
500 words each. The contest dead
line is May II.
Announcement of the award
winner will be made at the June
Injecting of the local National So
ciety of Arts and Letters chapter.
At that time hte society presents
its scholarships in the fields of art,
Music, drama, ballet and literature.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1952-06-05
Presbyterian Church
Law on Remarriage
Revised by Assembly

The Presbyterian Church has
discarded a portion of it's church
law which formerly permitted
Presbyterian ministers to remarry
q divorced person only after year
had elapsed since the divorce.
The change also strikes out a
phrase in the 2.5 million-member
church law which specified that
ministers could remarry only the
innocent party" to a divorce.
No restrictions concerning re-
marriage of the guilty" or Gin
nocent" party is contained in the
newly substituted section of the
church's Directory of Worship"
The Directory now specifies only
that the minister before remarry-
ing a divorced person, "shall as
certain whether there is pentitence
for past sin and failure, and in
tention to enter, with the help of
God, and through his church," in
to lasting marriage of Glove, for
bearance and loyalty"
The change, indorsed during the
past year by a majority of the
jchurch's 259 presbyteries, was APP
proved last week at the 1874 annual
General Assembly held in New
York.
At the same time, the delegates
passed a record budget of $19,086,-
600 for the coming year which in
cluded $7,683,276 for National Mis-
sions. Foreign Missions will re-
iceive $6,428,298. Christian Educa-
ton has been allotted $2.673,972
and general services" will be
given S949,897. General services
include departments of united pro-
motion, radio and television and
finance. Also, underwriting the de-
nominations official publication
presbyterian Life"
No specific amount is set Tor any
individual church, presbytery or
synod. Each church establishes its
own quota of giving to the fund.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1952-06-05
ARE YOU AGING?

The apparent immediate success
of the young of Heart" club in
Rockville, which includes women
from five separate churches, points
the way to new adult activity
which, we hope, is destined to de-
velop stronger community spirit
and a better understanding of the
problems of maturity.
Perhaps you will say that we
rave always had a community
spirit? That is quite true. Back
in the earlier days people were
more dependent upon their neigh
Dor for assistance in time of need.
IN my own life, which not yet spans
half century, ! have seen the
hospitality of the "old West" the
barn-raising, the husking bees, and
other community activities, wane
and die. Then came World War |,
and graet numbers of our popula-
ton moved to the cities and factory
towns. Only in the smallest COM
n:unicies can one find, today, sew
ing bees and the communal-hand-
made quilts. Welfare wark grew
up with the great need of the 1905
and in many istances has taken
the place of the earlier individual
and private charities.
Along with these changes has
come another change-the addition
Of more years to our lives. What
IS the result? More older adults
in our population.
AS l see it, the development of
older peoples clubs and activities
will fill in some of the community
gaps which appear as the addition
al years of later life loom up on
our horizons. Not only can such
organizations furnish recreation
and other forms of pleasure but
they can give rise to plans for
community centers for the conser-
walton of health; shops where low
crest incomes can be supplemented
through the use of idle skills;
studies where the adult who has
"always wanted to be an artist"
can practice his or her choice of
art; rooms where a sewing hobby
can be turned into a service to the
younger generation whom it seems
has neglected the needle and Thin
BILE for the double feature" and
the milkshake emporium, and
many other activities of a charit-
able or public nature. Therefore,
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1952-06-05
Dinner Meeting
To Be Held by
County Red Cross

The annual dinner meeting OF
the Montgomery County Red Cross
will be at the All Saints Episcopal
Church, at Chevy Chase Circle,
June II, at $3.50 pm. The dinner
will be prepared and served by the
woman of the church.
There will be an election of Of
f!cers and board members. Certi-
ticates of award will be presented
to blood gallon donors, and to vol
unteers who have served over 500
hours.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1952-06-05
Md. University Will
Graduate 1850 June Z

Graduation services will be held
Saturday, June 7, at the Univer-
,ity of Maryland, with 1850 stu
dents scheduled to receive degrees.
The number of graduates falls
SOC short of last years all-time
record at the school, with 473 de-
grees being conferred by the Col
lege of Arts and Sciences.
Baccalaureate services will be
held at 4:30 pm. next Sunday, in
the College Park Armory. The
Rev. Richard C. Hubbard of the
Grace Methodist Church, Cam
bridge, Md, will speak on "The
Smoking Mountain"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1952-06-05

when retirement comes, as it must
to most of us some day, we will
be able to find outlets for our
interests and our talents. Perhaps
we can tell the world:
mo more rocking chairs for me!
You young ones can just set back
and watch my dust, for l am one
of the young at Heart!"
prepared for the Montgomery
County Committee on Aging.)
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1952-06-05

may be low enough in ash and
sulfur to be of acceptable metal
lurgical quality.
"All the COAL" the Bureau of
Mines said, twill qualify for do
nestle and industrial use in near
by cities where smokeless coal is
in demand.
Evening star., 1952-12-17
Normal Pulse Rute

CLEVELAND.-Normal pulse
rate for adult men is about 70
beats per minute and is slightly
higher for adult women.