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Evening star., 1952-07-04
,Neorby Delegates; Votes Solicited BY Mail and Wire

lstarted pouring in within the last
week. Before that practically
nothing was heard about him.
Stack Of Telegrams.
MFR. Lewis passed q stack Of
kilograms to the reporter. From
ILynchburg. Va. one read: "As
mother Of five sons and four sons
lin-law who saw active service In
World War III, one Of whom is
even now on foreign soil. I beg you
Ito vote for Senator Taft as our
best hope for world peace"
From Stephens City. Va: Sen
Iator Taft is . loyal and proven
American. good legislator and
the best qualified candidate for
the Republican nomination. Sem
lator can be elected II nominated. /"
From an Arlington couple: I'VE
want Eisenhower. We are two Of
many thinking young Republicans
and protest Taft ruthless disra-
gard Of public wishes. II Taft is
nominated he won't have our
Votes"
From Lynchburg: ''Virginians
want q man who Is not too deep
in politics to be President. Ask
your neighbor or the Lynchburg
News. Democratic but fair paper,
conducted q poll here with signed
ballots as follows: Eisenhower.
$40: Taft. Isl: Russell, log;
|Kefauver, ~ ... = :
The Maryland delegates, like
the Virginians. get four, five and
|six-page kilograms every day or so
from Senator Lodge Of Massachu-
sets. Gen Eisenhower's campaign
manager.
II haven't read them" Mr.. Ray
said. They're too long for me" {"
Mr.. Ray. who has been identified
Jas Taft sympathizer, said much
of his pro- Eisenhower mail comes
from the Baltimore area, on the
other hand. he said, Sheriff Carle-
ton G. Beall Of Prince Georges
County. a delegate from the 5th
District, gets Eisenhower sup
porters' letters from the Annapolis
area.
1T looks to me like they're or
ganized." Mr.. Ray said. I'm a
delegate at large and they must
be working on us out Of Balti-
more. It looks like the district
delegates got their letters from
other areas.
Most Of my mail says some
thing like this: Tn q Democrat
but will vote Republican il Eisen-
hover is nominated And q large
number Of the writer's underscore
the 'if.' It's more than coinci-
flence
Evening star., 1952-07-04
Capt. Duvol Takes Post
AS Admiral Forts S Aide

Navy Capt. William H. Duval
has assumed his duties as chief OF
Istaff to Rear Admiral George H
Fort. commandant of the Potomac
River Naval Command.
Capt. Duval succeeds Capt. Fred
|erick L. Riddle, who will retire
from the Navy next month. Capt
Duyal has been with the Bureau
Iof Naval Personnel.
Evening star., 1952-07-04
Army Offers 5-Year Lease
|0n Old Wilson Line Pier

The Army Engineer Corps today
offered the old Wilson Line pier
for five-year lease.
The property includes land and
frame buildings located at 636
Maine avenue S.W., a frontage of
40 feet. Its use will be COM
mercial.
Sealed bids win be accepted by
the District engineer. Washington
district, First and Douglas streets
NV. until 2 pm. July %.
The lease will be subject to
revocation at will by the Secretary
Of the Army. y
Evening star., 1952-07-04
Heart Attack Blomed
In Deuth on Highway

A 78-year-old man believed to
have been struck by 0 hit-and-run
car when found dead ON Airing
ton boulevard yesterday actually
died Of a heart attack, an autopsy
revealed.
Joseph Henry Roberts of 5
South Garfield street. Arlington,
apparently collapsed in the center
OF the four-lane highway as he
was crossing near Irving street,
two blocks from his home.
Arlington County Coroner DR..
w. c. Welburn told policee the
victim was already dead when he
wassUtruck by . car about ESQ
an
Evening star., 1952-07-04
Belgian Beauty Contestant
Loses $4,000 in VaIuabIes
By the Assoeiated Press

LONG BEACH. Calf, July A.
The Belgian entry in last weeks
Miss Universe contest here, told
police yesterday that $1,000 in
jewelry and cash were lost or
stolen.
Marianne Mullender. 25, who
competed as Miss Belgium under
the name of Myriam Lynn, said
she checked a bag containing the
money and jewelry at the hotel.
During her stay she frequently had
access to the bag. When she went
to check out. the valuable were
gone. she told police.
Listed as missing were family
Jewels, $500 in American money
and TOO Belgian francs.
Evening star., 1952-07-04
Congress
Continued From First Page.)

legislation standing in the way of
adjournment. Conference COM
mittees. however, convened much
earlier to prepare the legislation
for floor consideration.
Some of the Republicans were
demanding that Congress finish
its work and quit in time for them
to catch late afternoon planes or
trains for Chicago. The Demo-
Icratic leadership would make no
promises but there were indica-
tions that efforts were being made
to quit not later than S or $50
pm.
Other money measures still In
conference awaiting final congress
sional action include the $46 bill
lion military spending bill; a
81 ,01S, 600, 900 bill to provide funds
for the State. Justice and Com
lmerce Departments; a $667 mil
lion civil functions measure for
rivers, harbors and flood control
projects, and $76 million bill
for congressional expenses.
In addition. Congress has on its
pre- e-adjournment agenda a bill
increasing social security insur-
ance and public assistance bene-
fits, q CT bill Of rights for Korean
veterans. a measure calling for
more than a 81 billion expansion
|of defense housing, and a bill as
suring farmers high price supports
in the next three years.
The Senate scheduled the price
support bill for consideration
at the opening of today's session.
Among the bills passed yester-
day were ones extending for nine
months the Presidents emergency
wartime powers. a long-range
shipping bill and the $541. .727, ,845
Interior Department money bill
carrying funds for many reclama-
ton projects.
The House yesterday defeated
Ia Senate-approved bill setting up
Ia Joint Congressional budget
agency designed to give Congress
a tighter hand on Federal SPEND
ing. The Senate. however, added
1t as an amendment to the SO
omnibus appropriation bill in
hopes the conferees on that meas
ure might accept it.
DC. Area Projects Included.
The military construction bill
carried authorization for numer-
Gus projects in the Washington
area. Some Of these items were
cut or eliminated in the Senate
passed measure.
The Senate eliminated a House.
approved item of $846, 900 for the
Army Map Service here, and re-
duced from $7O7.000 to $500, 900
an item for Boiling Air Force Base.
The Senate also cut out $685.
600 the House had approved for
the Marine Corps Schools at
Quantico.
construction funds for several
projects in the nearby Maryland
area also were cut or eliminated
in the Senate version Of the bill.
These included:
Fort George q. Meade, 1886, 900
instead Of $1.454,000 as approved
by the House: the elimination Of
$687 900 for the photographic
ofice at Suitland: q reduction
from $428, 900 to $379, ZOO for the
Naval Ordnance Laboratory at
White Oak: q cut from $4,767, 900
to $4.S37. 900 for the Naval Air
Test Center, Patuxent River. and
elimination Of $1.616.0OO for the
naval communications station at
Annapolis.
Evening star., 1952-07-04
Merchant Marine Bill
Sent 10 White House
BY the Associated Press

Congress last night completed
action on a compromise bill to
build up the American Merchant
Marine. The compromise omits
controversial changes in tax de-
ferment provisions Of existing law
Senate passage. coming a few
hours after House approval. sent
the measure to the White House
for President Truman's signature
Senate-House. conferees were
unable to agree on acceptance Of
either Senate or House tax
changes and compromised by elm
mating both of them from the
bill in favor of further study.
AS passed originally by the SEN
ate, the bill provided for defer
ment of normal and surtaxes on
earnings Of Government-subsi-
dized ship operators which were
put into a reserve fund for future
ship replacement and expansion
of construction.
The House originally voted to
limit the deferment on such earn
ings to normal corporate taxes
only.
A major provision of the legis-
lation would permit payment Of
construction subsidies to opera.
tors engaged in United States
foreign trade regardless of whether
the ships built with the subsidy
money operate over essential trade
routes. These subsidies. designed
to help Offset higher construction
costs in the United States, now
are limited to operators who use
approved essential routes.
Evening star., 1952-07-04

nored. Take the, case of J. Paul
Marshall of Montgomery County.
an alternate for William G. Pur-
nell, Senator Taft's campaign
manager for Maryland 1s ss
1.-THE Eisenhower letters show a
definite pattern" Mr.. Marshall
said. "Quite a little Of their mail
comes from the Baltimore -Towson
area. Their theme is that the
writer's are Democrats wing would
vote for Eisenhower but hot for
Taft. All more or less follow the
same format."
Asked about smear" campaign
literature such as the newspaper,
a copy of which re-
Gently was distributed by the
Evening star., 1952-07-04
Senote Votes Bill to Bor
Torch Clothes Shipment

The Senate passed and sent to
the House yesterday a bill barring
interstate shipment of highly in
flammable wearing apparel.
The bill, which applies also to
fabrics to be used in wearing ap-
parel, is designed to outlaw the
sale in Interstate commerce Of
such things as torch" sweaters
and Jackets.
Evening star., 1952-07-04
By Alex r. Preston

One day, not SO long ago, q
candidate for President sat down
and penned personal greetings on
1.206 photographs of himself.
Then he signed his name, Robert
A. Taft.
;. His staff had each picture
mounted in a black, wooden frame,
boxed them for mailing and sent
them to every delegate to the
Republican National Convention.
They arrived. ready to hang.
This neat piece of political
propaganda. with more than the
ordinary personal touch. was just
one item of the. so to 100 tele-
grams. letters, pamphlets and
books which the average Chicago
delegate has received every day
for the last two weeks.
Fill Wastebasket Daily.
II get a big wastebasket full OF
them every day. said l.. S. (Ted)
Ray of Montgomery County, one Of
Maryland's delegates at large.
Oren r. Lewis, of Arlington. one
of Virginia's 10th District dele
gates, confirmed the experience OF
others in both States. The pro-
Eisenhower letters and kilograms
follow a pattern. The pro-Taft
communications seem to be sent
with little in any organized effort
behind them. " = y =
."The Eisenhower letters started
coming first in what you might
characterize as personal mes
sages," said Mr.. Lewis. a Taft
''They obviously are a
copy of the same letter with some
Most of them come
right here from the 10th District. !"
Delegate w. e. Trusler of vir-
ginia's 9th District was inter-
viewed at his hardware store in
the small town Of Manassas. He
get not only the mail. kilograms
and literature, but delegations in
groups of three or four come call
ing on him. .s Pm 800 $50
why" he said, ,r"if I tried toI
answer every one'o of those letters
I'd have to hire myself a secre-
taly."
Mr.. Trusler was a delegate In
1924 when Calvin Coolidge was
nominated.
But it wasn't like this" he said.
Sees Sentiment Divided.
Although he is a Taft supporter, l
Mr.. TruSler said he believes the |
sentiment in the 9th District Isl
about evenly divided between his
avorite and Gen. Eisenhower.
Even the alternates aren't ig-I
Evening star., 1952-07-04
Truman Signs. New Bill
COVERING Child Actors

President Truman has signed
legislation to permit child actors to
participate in professional stage
shows here.
The new law reduces the age OF
actors permitted from IA to seven
years. It specifies that youngsters
shall not appear on the stage
after 1880 pm.
Permits for such appearances IN
professional performances are re-
uuired to be issued by the Dis
|trict's school authorities. ~,
Evening star., 1952-07-04
Some Things on Table
You Just Don { Eat,
Court Advises Hotel

Silverware, napery and
dishes are not part Of q meal,
the United States Court Of
Appeals held yesterday.
Nor are bed linen, towels,
draperies, light bulbs and car
pets parts Of q room, the court
declared. \
The opinion was expressed
in upholding a decision Of the
Board Of Tax Appeals against
the Statler Hotel.
The hotel had sought to
avoid payment of sales or use
taxes on these materials on
the grounds that they become
part Of . room or q meal and
are sold as part .of those units
for which sales tax Is paid.
Evening star., 1952-07-04

Total n.2O6)----51O AIS 131 $50
subject to possible appeal to Conven-
tion Credentials Committee.
"other'' column includes warren go,
California, and 8, Wisconsin,; Stassen
Colorado. /; Minnesota. 24; McKeldin
maryland 24); Macarthur (Oklahoma.
| 81: Wedemeyer Nebraska, II.
Evening star., 1952-07-04

lMaryianders for Taft Committee
hut which the Ohio Senator de-
|r1ounced, Mr.. Marshall said:
1T didn't get that copy Of Head
lines. If + did Imust have thrown
it away. But ! got another issue Of
Headlines about two days ago."
Mr.. Lewis. thumbing through a
mountain Of campaign propaganda.
picked up couple of books from
the pile. One was former Presi-
dent Hoover's answers to 40
questions on. foreign policy. An
other was about the beliefs Of Gen.
Douglas Macarthur.
The Arlington delegate has
noticed the same thing that others
had: That Macarthur literature
Evening star., 1952-07-04
How Delegates
[.Stund Now

The latest Associated Press
tabalGtion OF delegates to the
Republican, National Contention
based on delegates pledged. in
structed or aDilli1sg to eIpress a
preference. on candidate co1sces-
sions and on the outcome OF
contests that still ear be APP
peGled to the convention Cre-
deBtiGls Committee:
REPUBLICAN tcemplets,.
Taft. 5I0.
Eisenhower. AIS.
Others, 131.
Uncommitted and disputed, $50.
Total, l .206.
Needed to nominate. 6O4.
Evening star., 1952-07-04

started pouring in within the last
week. Before that practically
nothing was heard about him.
Evening star., 1952-07-04

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Evening star., 1952-07-04

Although he is a Taft supporter,
Mr.. Trusler said he believes the
sentiment in the 9th District Is
about evenly divided between his
favorite and Gen. Eisenhower.
Even the alternates aren't ig-
Evening star., 1952-05-11
Allied Patrols Raid
FrontIine Positions

SEOUL. Korea, Sunday, May II.
P)-Allied patrols raided Com
munist frontline positions yester-
day with one unit chasing the
Chinese Reds in two-hour clash
on the east-central Pukhan River
sector.
A thick overcast hid Communist
targets from Allied warplanes.
The 9th Army reported 16 Reds
were killed in the running skir-
mish involving one Allied patrol
and two Communist squads east
of the Pukhan. The communique
said the Reds tried to break off
the action and were pursued for
80 minutes.
On the western front, patrol
clashes followed an artillery duel
early this morning. Allied troops
we're forced to withdraw from an
outpost west of Korangpo but
later reoccupied it without a fight.
The United States 5th Air Force
announced 10 Allied planes were
lost to enemy action last week.
Nine were downed by ground fire
and one destroyed in combat with
Russian built MICS. Thirteen
Communist planes were reported
destroyed, one probably destroyed
and five damaged in dogfihts with
the MICS.
Evening star., 1952-05-11

muke's foster children have been
placed in permanent homes before
they were old enough to enter
school. some of them come back
to visit her.
And she expects this year az
usual to get cards and letters
saluting my other mother"
Evening star., 1952-05-11
Mother Is Queen for q Day
Amid Corsdges and Bon-Bons
Deeper Significance
Of Observance Is
Stressed by Trumun

Children love their mothers the
year round but today's the day
they show it with flowers, bon
bonS and pretties.
This has been going on since
1914 when Congress passed a law
to make tthe second Sunday In
May flag holiday" That means
a display of the flag on Govern
ment buildings and private homes.
AS it turned out, it also has
come to mean a display Of cor
sages. a shower of greeting cards
and a run on the candy stores. =
President Truman in proclaim
ing this years Mother Day looked
at it's deeper significance.
Let us all on that day. he
said, through prayer and through
renewed expression of love and
respect. pay honor to our mothers
and to the ideals which they have
taught U.S."
One mother tomorrow viii be
thinking not only of her own two
but of the 81 youngsters she has
Imothered. Those are the children
she has boarded during the past
IA years for Family and Child
Services of Washington. !
She is Mrs. Frank Dismuke of
Fairfax Station, Va, a foster
mother for the Red Feather
agency.
Love is the main thing, whether
it's for a month or several years" "
she says.
She has been without a foster
child only two days since she took
the first baby into her home in
January, 1888. She and her hus-
band live in a frame house with a
cherry tree in the backyard.
There's a dog and a mother cat
with a family of three kittens.
Although most of Mrs. Dis
Evening star., 1952-05-11
West Drafting Reply
To Reds on Germany
By the Associated Press

LONDON, May 10.-American,
British and French officials COM
pleted today what is expected to
be the final draft of the Vests
reply to a Russian note proposing
unification and free elections in
Germany.
The text of the reply will now
be submitted to Washington. Bonn
and Paris. If there is no change
in the wording the note may be
delivered to Russia Monday or
Tuesday.
The three Western nations are
seeking mainly to test the sin
cerity of the Russian offer for free
all German elections. Russia sug-
gested that a commission ap-
pointed by the four big powers
might be set up to study the elec-
tion question. She rejected use OF
a United Nations committee to dc
this job.
West Germany Is working to.
ward a peace contract expected
to be signed by the end of the
month with the Western allies
In many quarters the Russian
note was interpreted as a ster
to delay or halt West Germany
closer relationship with the West
ern Allies.
Evening star., 1952-05-11
Adenauer Stakes Fate
On Desperate Efforts
To Line Up With West
BY the Associofed Press

BONN. Germany, May 10
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer
cracked the whip at a secret
meeting today over critics of the
projected West German-Allied
peace contract within his govern
ment coalition.
The 76-year-old statesman was
reported ready, as a last resort, to
threaten to resign unless all the
coalition-his own Christian DEM
ocrats and the rebellious German
Party and Free DemocratS-lines
up quickly for the deal to end
the occupation and ally this ma
ton defensively with the West.
It was a critical week end, a
week end of decision as DR..
Adenauer and his full cabinet met
with parliamentary leaders of the
three government parties in his
Ichancellery on tn Rhine.
Fate of Plans at Stake.
At stake was the fate of plans
to bind West Germany's 48 mil
lions politically and militarily to
the West. just seven years after
German capitulation in World
War II.
The three government parties
could kill both the peace contract
and the European army treaty,
which would recruit 100000 Ger
man soldiers for Western defense
simply by refusing to ratify them
in parliament.
But if the coalition holds DR..
Adenauer can whip these pacts
through parliament and overcome
the anti-rearmament Socialists as
he did in the case of the Schuman
plan to pool West European coal
and steel.
A reinforced police guard kept
newsmen away from the chancel-
lery, even barring admittance to
the grounds, but that did not block
off indirect reports of what hap
Ipened.
Answer Objections.
BY accounts from the outside:
The chancellor, who has worked
eight months to seal the contract
with the West, welded a verbal
blacksnake on the rebellious party
leaders.
He went over the bulky docu-
ment paragraph -by-paragraph.
He catalogued objections and
tried to persuade the leaders to
his viewpoint-that he is getting
the best possible deal and they
should not heed the siren song
of Moscow about unifcation of a
neutralized Germany.
He warned them that refusal to
ally with the West could have fate
full consequences for Germany and
Europe.
Tomorrow the party leaders will
meet in private sessions to frame
their answers to DR.. Adenauer. He
will get these Monday.
Evening star., 1952-05-11
BY Robert Eunson
Associofed Press Stoff Writer

TOKYO. Sunday. May 11.-Op-
timism for a quick Korean truce
which one month ago scared like
the vapor trail of a jet fighter
slashing high into the Korean
sky has vanished.
In it's place are gloom and
pessimism.
Around the floppy tents at Pan
munjom where the armistice talks
are now in their 11th month you
will find some who doubt if there
ever will be a truce in Korea.
Grounds for the optimism were
there all right, but they disap-
peared April 19 when the figure
for the number of Allied-held
prisoners who wanted to be re-
patriated to North Korea fell
about $4,000 short Of the number
the Communists expected.
The optimism began March 81
when the Red delegates started
to show signs of agreement. They
recognized the principle of volun-
tary reparation.
Leaks Lead to Optimism.
The Communists expected about
10000 of their prisoners back
and that's about what the Allies
expected to give them, U. N. Off
GERS have said since.
Although the statements were
made in closed session and sup
posedly secret. there were ap-
parent leaks. as.
Communist newsmen on the
roadside at Panmunjom whis-
pered about an approaching agree
ment, based on a new formula.
Optimism .Snowballed.
Further reason for optimism
was sighted when it was learned
that the H. Ms had Just about
given in on expecting any more
prisoners back from the Reds
Evening star., 1952-05-11
Women's Bar Enfertains
80 Judges Of City Courts

The Women's Bar Association
last night entertained more than
80 judges of the city's courts at
a buffet supper in the Shoreham
Hotel.
There were no speakers. Mrs.
Sarah Perrin. president, explained
both members and judges heard
enough speeches" during their
daily activities. Several members
pitched in to provide a musical
program instead.
Evening star., 1952-05-11
Envoy 10 Chang Says
Formosa Can Be Held
By the Associated Press

TAIPEH, Formosa. May TO-
United States Minister Karl l..
Rankin said today he shares the
belief of Admiral Arthur w. Rad
ford that this Chinese Nationalist
stronghold can be held against
Communist assault.
Mr.. Rankin, who is going home
tomorrow on a three-month leave,
said FormoSa's economic and mill
tary position has improved ma
terially since 1850.
Replying to written questions
asked by the Associated Press,
Mr.. Rankin said he had the i'm
preston that Formosa today is one
of the best-goverened parts Of
Asia. He said he was confident
the China mainland eventually
would be liberated from the Reds.
THE practical effects of in
creased American military and
economic support have only re-
Gently become apparent" Mr..
Rankin said. But the accom-
plishments of the Chinese govern
ment and the people, together with
their confidence in continuing
American support, have already
produced notable improvements
in all major fields"
Asked whether he thought the
NationalistS would get the whole
hearted support Of the people
if they returned to the mainland,
Mr.. Rankin said:
II am sure the people of China
will welcome liberation from COM
munism and the restoration of
genuine sovereignty and freedom" "
Evening star., 1952-05-11
FOUND.

COLLIE DOG, female, about yr. old, with
leather collar; vic. Lexington rd. and
Wilson blvd, Arl., Wednesday. Call ia.
1888.
COLLIE, male, sable and white; vic. Forest
Glen School, on Thursday, May 8. ST..
6709.
fARAKEET, young blue male: found in
downtown section. LU. 4-7925.
WATCH, woman's. May 3. northeast OF
Chevy Chase Circle on Western ave
Call Wo. 1905 after $50 pm.
Evening star., 1952-05-11
Storlines Outdin Traffic

The thousands of starlings
which now flock nightly into
London's Trafalgar Square cre-
ate a shrill din heard above the
roar of the traffic.