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Evening star., 1952-04-13
BY the Assoeioted Press

NEW YORK. April 12-It was
40 years ago that the unsuitable
Titantic sank.
No peacetime. deep sea ship dis
aster, before or since, took more
lives. None ever broke more hearts.
The Titantic went down with
1913 men, women and children.
Only TIL were saved. 1t was epic
drama and it began. like all great
drama, quietly confidently, with
out a shadow
On Sunday, April IA, 1912, the
new 45.000-ton queen of the At
lantic run was steaming westward
on her maiden voyage from South
ampton to New York. She moved
under clear, starlit skies, in a Sc
renity of superlatives. The Ii
tanic. everybody said, was the new
est. biggest, most luxurious, safest
liner af1oat.
Warm Below Decks.
Late in the afternoon, the air
became cold and damp, the decks
were deserted. But it was warm
and comfortable below. PasSen-
gers wrote letters or read in the
beautifully appointed library. Some
played cards. Others chatted in
the salons.
In the evening, an Anglican
clergyman led a large group in a
Ihymn-sing in the D-deck salon
AT 10 o'clock. stewards served bis
cults and coffee. BY IL, most OF
the passengers had retired.
On the bridge, watch officers
saw only black. calm seas. The
Titanic sped on at her full 81
knots.
About Is minutes before mid
night, at a point some $50 miles
south of Cape Race. Newfound-
land, the crows nest lookout
sounded the alarm bell. The first
officer also had sighted the peak
of a huge iceberg. He shouted
to the quartermaster to starboarc
the helm.
The huge ship responded bu
her forward motion was so great
she slid obliquely against the ice.
berg. There was a gentle lifting
motion.
Double Hull Ripped Open.
| Many passengers paid no heed
Some card players saw the ice.
berg's 100-foot peak sweep pas
their portfolios, stopped theil
game only long enough to debate
it's height.
Below, the Titanic was dying
The submerged bulk of the ice
mountain had ripped open thu
Evening star., 1952-04-13
Navy Will Aim Giant Skyhook'
AT Mysteries of Cosn1ic Roys

it's job, will be carried off into
space-there to disintegrate.
Chance at 100000 Feet.
John T. Holloway of the Naval
Research Offices nuclear physics
branch told a reporter:
"At around 100000 feet, about
80 per cent of the weight of the
blanket of air surrounding the
earth is below you. And thus, at
attitudes above that, there is a
rich opportunity for studying these
cosmic rays in what we believe
to be their primary state"
Studies of the rays in this state,
Mr.. Holloway said, might help
towards solving the riddle of their
origin. Some scientists believe
they originate in the sun; others
think they come from some other
place within the milky way; still
others think they come from re-
gionS OF outer space far beyond
the Milky Way.
Aside from the interest in cos
mic ray origin, he said; scientists
want to learn all they can about
the nature of these particles as
a likely aid in the study Of atomic
energy.
Evening star., 1952-04-13
Air Fare 10 Europe
Drops Third May |
And Travellers Line Up
BY the Associated Press

A one-thlrd reduction in air.
plane fares to Europe goes into
effect May /. Already the bar
gain-buyers are queueing up at the
ticket counters.
For the summer, the round-trip
fare between New York and Lon
don will be $486. a saving of $225
from the current rate. Next No
vember l the off f-season rates goes
into effect, $50 cheaper still.
Extras Are Eliminated.
The reductions apply not to
f1rst-class passage but to travel by
air coach. This means riding in
a plane with more seats, a bit less
leg room. no berths or lay-pack
chairs. no free meals or free
drinks.
For the most part the airplanes
are as big and as powerful as for
first-class passage. And the speed
and safety requirements are the
same.
Advance transatlantic book
ings by air are double and in some
cases even quadruple what they
were at this time a year ago.
says a statement by E. o. Cooke
vice president of sales for Trans
World AirlineS.
Tourist Record FOreseen.
Tourist travel to Europe this
summer will break all records"
Sir William P. Hildred of
Britain. director general of the
International Air Transport Asso-
citation, calls the slash in rates
at a time when costs are rising
Evening star., 1952-04-13
Bolivia S Revolution
Appears Ended With
Rebels Victorious
By the Associated Press

LA PAz, Bolivia, April 12.-Bo-
livia's bloody three-day revolution
appeared ended today with the
rebels victorious and most of the
defeated government regimental
officers held prisoner.
First aid was still being admin
istered at public hospitals and
private clinics to a great many
persons injured in the fighting.
(Reports from Oruro, Bolivia,
yesterday said 1000 had been
killed and more than 5000
wounded in the revolt.)
Among the officers of the de-
feated military junta reported
held were Gen. Nestor Salinas
zambrana, president of the Mill
tary Justice Council; Col: Luis
Olmos. commander of the Sucre
Regiment; Luis Pinto Telleria, di-
rector of colonization for the De-
fense Ministry: Col. Felix Orsini,
head Of military aviation; Col.
Antonio Pariente, battalion of the
Sucre Regiment; Col. Luis Mariaca
Pando. commander of the Bolivar
Regiment, and Maj. Felix Vasquez,
commander of the Abaroa Regi-
ment.
Herman Siles, civilian leader of
the rebels and vice presidential
candidate in the presidential elec-
ton last May which the junta
avoided, announced to the La
Paz crowds yesterday the rebels
had won. He said he would hold
power until Victor Paz Estenssoro,
eXiled leader of the National Rev.
olutionary Party (MNR), returns
from Buenos Aires and forms a
cabinet.
Mr.. Paz EstenSsoro received
more votes than any other can
didates in the May election but
did not get clear majority. He
went into exile after the junta
took over. One report said he
would reach La Paz Monday.
Evening star., 1952-04-13
By Fronk Corey

ASSUCldteu FTeSS science Reporter
The Navy is building the worlds
largest unnamed balloon-which
it calls "The Giant Skyhook" k"-
and hopes to launch it next sum-
mer in a new attack on the mys-
teries of cosmic rays.
Navy scientists hope to learn
more about their possible effects
on weather. radio communication,
rockets, guided missiles and high
flying airplanes.
The new balloon is designed to
carry scientific instruments to
heights never. before achieved for
any lengthy period. 1t is expected
to reach an altitude of $4,000
feet-or more than % miles.
At that height, scientists believe
it will be possible to make the
most thorough studies yet achieved
of the rays in their primary
state, as distinguished from "sec-
ondary" particles into which most
of the rays evolve at lower alti-
tudeS.
135 Miles "Viking" Record.
The Navy has sent rockets to
tremendously greater heights than
125. 900 feet. The present record
of a Navy viking" rocket is 1876
miles, and the Naval Research
Laboratory is planning to launch
another one in June which is ex-
pected to better that altitude con-
Siderably.
But the flight of a rocket lasts
only about 10 minutes. So. for
more leisurely and thorough stud
les of the rays, the Office of Ma
val Research uses big balloons
whose flights last eight to ten
hours.
The Navy has launched many
"skyhook" balloons since it's cos
mic ray program was begun in
1947 but the greatest altitude so
far achieved has been Ill 900 feet
$4,000 feet short of the
area believed to contain a new
pay-off on cosmic ray research.
The new giant skyhook" is un-
der preparation for launching at
an unspecified point, probably in
the southwestern United States,
sometime this summer.
Gas Expands With Height.
The big, pear-shaped plastic
bubble has diameter of 178 feet,
is 290 feet long and has a capacity
for 8 million cubic feet of helium.
Less than 2 per cent of this volume
will be gas filled at launching, the
being filled as the gas
expands with increasing altitude.
The balloon is made of polye-
thylene plastic-the same stuff
used in home refrigerator bags.
The material is only 1/10O0 of an
inch thick, yet the balloons weight
is 625 pounds.
It will carry an aluminium "gon-
dola"-about 6 feet high and sew
eral feet acrosS-which will con-
tain scientific instruments for re-
cording the activity of the rays.
Means will be provided for
automatic release of the gondola
at the end of a specified time or
after the balloon has descended
to a certain height, and it will be
parachuted to the earth. The bal
loon itself, when it has completed
Evening star., 1952-04-13
Biggest Tragedy in Sea History
CI0imed Titanic 40 Years Aqo

double hull OF steel plates and
the cold seas rushed in.
The wireless cracked out dis
tress signals. At least seven ships
heard the pleas but only the cruise
ship, Carpathia. 48 miles away,
was to be of any help. Later she
gathered the survivors, carried
them to New York;
The Titanic's giant engines
stopped. started, stopped again. A
murmur of apprehension spread
among the passengers as they
gathered on deck. But it was only
a whisper now.
Told to put on life preservers,
the passengers did and watched
calmly as the crew prepared the
Is lifeboats.
Still no panic. The ship re-
mained on even keel, her great
wounds invisible below deck. A
pipe high up on one of the ships
four stacks emitted a deafening
roar as the engineers released
steam in the giant boilers. Rock
cts were fired from the bow. This,
then. was real distress and now
the passengers knew it.
Women and Children First.
The order went out: Women and
children first into the lifeboats-
and the lifeboats only had room
for one third of the people aboard.
Some women elected to stay
with their husbands. Many had
no choice. Fame and fortune had
no vote. Those remaining behind
included John Jacob Astor, Ben
Iiamin Guggenheim, Archibald w
Butt. Isidor Strauss.
The bow of the Titanic began
to dip. But the first lifeboats
were only partly filled with women
and children as they swayed down
toward the dark sea. Later life
boats were filled to over-crowding
On the slowly sinking deck, the
ships orchestra played and peo-
pie aboard and in the lifeboats
sang Nearer My God to Thee"
At 2:20 am. Monday, April Is
about two and a half hours after
the collision. the Titanic's lights
went out. Almost as a goodbye
| signal. they flashed on again for
moment. The stern rose, ma
chinery was torn loose and every
thing movable rushed in a great
roar toward the disappearing bow
| The sea closed over the stern OF
the Titanic and the last unre-
corded words of its victims. The
water became calm again and the
night quiet. except for the low
means from the lifeboats under
the clear. Star-lit SkV.
Evening star., 1952-04-13
Tour Of Embassies
Brings Record S11,5OO

The House and Embassy Tour
yesterday set new record, bring
ing in $11.500 for the Washing
ton Home for Incurables.
Two years ago was a banner oc-
casion when $4,000 was realized
for the Homes benefit. Yester-
days tickets were $3.50 each.
Six embassies, the Apostolic
Delegation and three houses were
on the tour. Eight were decorated
by Washington area garden clubs
with floral arrangements. The
public voted at each place for ar
Irangements they liked best.
Last night the officials tabulated
the votes and came out with these
winners:
At the British Embassy, the ar
Irangement made by the Neigh
borhood Garden Club of Airing
ton. Va.
Yugoslav Embassy, Rockville
Garden Club, Rockville, Md.
Chilean Embassy, Rock Greek
Garden Club.
Home of Hon. and Mrs. Orme
Wilson. 2406 Massachusetts ave-
nue. NV, Kenwood Garden Club.
Union of South Africa EN-
bassy, Silver Spring Garden Club,
Silver Spring, Md.
AdmiralS House, home of Chief
of Naval Operations, near Thirty
fourth street and Massachusetts
avenue, on the Naval Observatory
Grounds, Wesley Heights-Spring
Valley Garden Clubs; The Meth
erlands Embassy, the Trowel Gar
den Club, and the Austrian EN-
bassy. the Glenwood Garden Club.
The home of Mr.. and Mrs.
George. Hewitt Myers, 231O S
street NV, and the Apostolic
Delegation made their own floral
arrangements.
Evening star., 1952-04-13
Claims by japanese
Evacuated From Coast
Face Further DELAY
BY the Associated Press

| oy me ASSocioIed PfeSS
Some 1880 United States citi-
zens of japanese ancestry, who
were hurriedly evacuated from the
West Coast during the last war,
are facing another delay on Gov
ernment settlement of their claims.
Although Congress last year or
dered speedup in settlement and
payment of these 10-year-old
Iclaims, the Senate Appropriations
Committee has killed a $14 million
fund voted by the House for this
purpose.
The committee action still is
subject to Senate approval, which
may come next week when it con-
siders an omnibus deficiency ap-
preparation of some $960.641 1928
to finance Government operations
during the rest of this fiscal year.
Moved From West Coast.
The claims result from the
rushed evacuation by the Army of
all persons of japanese ancestry
from the Pacific Coast at the start
of World War II.
More than 10000 persons of
Japanese ancestry were ordered
to move and leave their homes,
businesses and growing crops be-
hind. Many Of them were placed
in camps.
Later Congress authorized par
tial payment of claims for losses
of crops, household furnishings
and automobiles, and forced sales
or abandonment of property. Some
$4,000 claims for about $130 mil
lion were filed.
Slow settlement Of these claims
brought a congressional act last
year ordering quick compromise
of claims at $4,000 or not more
than three-fourths value at the
time, whichever was less.
Agree on $500 Claims.
Justice Department officials re-
ported they agreed to settle 1850
claims. on an average basis Of
AZ cents on the dollar and asked
|$14 million to carry out the Or
ders of Congress.
Closed hearings on the bill
made public yesterday. show that
Chairman McKellar and Senators
Ferguson, Republican, of Michigan
and Mcclellan, Democrat, of Ar
kansas sharply questioned the set
Elements and got the Appropria-
Etions Committee to eliminate the
funds. They promised later con-
sideration when the regular JUS
tice Department appropriation bill
is considered. -
Justice officials said they sus-
pected fraud in only one of some
$4,000 claims and that proSecu-
ton cleared the suspect.
Justice Department officials ex-
planned that nearly 5000 claims
involving more than $95 million
all of them above $4,000, remain
to be setted, probably through
formal court action.
Evening star., 1952-04-13

example of just how far the Sen
ora goes in for realism. A wax
musician squints over a cigarette
dangling in his mouth.
To get this realism, Sonora An
tunez explained, she spends months
in the native villages of her SUBJ
Ijects, "saturating myself with at
lmosphere."
Then she takes her subjects out
of the hills and spends a few
months with them at her studio
in Mexico City.
So, behind each of her life-sized
reproductions lies some story.
Pointing to the exhibit of an
Otomi Indian family scene, Sonora
Antunez said the old man had
died of typhus shortly after re-
turning to his village from her
studio.
His widow came to me to ask
for aid" she said. THE life sized
figure of her husband was in my
studio. A very moving thing hap
pened. She saw the figure
Though motionless, she believed
her husband was alive. And it took
almost two years of patient ex-
planation to convince the woman
that her husband was dead
and not sitting there in my studio. u
A Tarahumara Indian, poised
with a bow and arrow, sports a
scrawny set of whiskers. Sonora
Antunez said the Indian, while
posing, had plucked the whiskers
from his chin and then watched
as she stuck them in his wax
reproduction.
Exhibit Open Daily.
The exhibit will be on display
through May and possibly until
June. 1t may be seen at the Pan
American Union at Seventeenth
street and Constitution avenue
from 9 am. to $50 pm. on week.
days, and from 9 am. to IL: 80 D. m.
on Saturdays.
Sonora Antunez plans to con-
tinue working with wax and hopes
to set up a Continental Museum"
in Mexico City. She is a member
|of the Mexican National Institute
.of Anthropology.
The exhibit, valued at $25,O00
tentatively is scheduled to reach
Paris this summer. At present,
the Sonora is worried about the
Washington heat. A temperature
|of ITO degrees would cause the
figures to drool away, she said.
If the heat gets that bad, Mike
Lever, public relations man at
The Union, said he'd probably
apply ice packs to the figures or
turn a fan on them.
One figure was almost lost in
Mexico City when mistaken for a
|cadaver. Shippers started to send
the figure to Washington in dry
ice =. which usually accompanies
|en-route cadavers.
Evening star., 1952-04-13
Girl Killed in Elevator

WICHITA, Kas.. April IL (P.-
A l2-year-old girl was crushed to
death in an elevator accident in a
downtown office building today.
Carol Louise Cavitt was trapped
half way out of the main passen-
ger cage as the elevator rose sud-
denly from the ground floor with
the doors open.
Evening star., 1952-04-13
Soldier Dies After Fall
NASHVILLE Tenn

NASHVILLE, Tenn, April IL (P)
Pfc. William Raymond Genth-
ner. 19, of Gardiner, Me-, died to-
day OF injuries suffered in a fall
from a viaduct March 16. The
soldier. on leave from Fort Camp
bell. KY, tried to walk to the
guardrail and fell to- boxcar
standing in the railroad yards
below.
Evening star., 1952-04-13
Ticket Punches Differ

CHICAGO-No two railway
conductors punches are exactly
alike in pattern OF design of the
perforation. Each is registered in
the name of the conductor who
currently uses it.
Evening star., 1952-04-13

perhaps the bravest step since
Atlantic air service began"
Most of the. lines are coupling
the low fares with all-expense
package tours" of Europe.
Evening star., 1952-04-13
Fiji Needs Hotels

Only lack of good hotels is
keeping Fiji's fifth largest indus
try - tourism - from climbing
closer to the top, the Fiji Publicity
Board is certain.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-11-29
Swiss Climbers
OF Mt. Everest
Still A Puzzle

NEW DELHI, India Ultima
layan travel experts here have a
favorite indoor sport these days.
trying to figure out whether the
Swiss mountain climbing expedi-
ton has succeeded in conquering
Mount Everest.
There has been no direct word
for some time from the climbers
and their native companions. The
expedition sold exclusive news and
photo rights in order to finance
the try, and this may have some
thing to do with the present lack
of news.
Some veterans Of travel in the
Himalayas believe the Swiss team
has already made its first try at
beating the subzero temperatures
and bone chilling winds of the
worlds tallest mountain, the sum-
NIT of which no man has ever
reached and lived to tell about it.
Others say the infrequent reports
indicate the team is taking plenty
of time, selecting safe routes and
avoiding any waste of energy and
supplies in a determined effort to
conquer the more than %, 900 feet
high mountain.
One native with the team has
been killed and three others injured
thus far. That is proof of how
tough it is to climb across Ever
eSt's snowswept icy heights.
The puzzler is the report brought
back by a native runner on Nov.
is saying the team had established
a station only $50 feet from the
top. But that report was nine days
old when |. was received. Since
then there has been no public word
from the expedition.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-11-29

room and six foot tiled bath tub.
The room he's double decked hunks.
Proudly Rhodes told me that he
has fitted every comfort and con.
venience in the house into $50
square feet.
The kitchen which is separated
from the living room only BY a
low counter, has vegetable bins.
storage space, a small refrieera.
tor, stove, sink and work sDace.
A deep freeze down stairs holds
the bulk of the Rhodes groceries
A storage closet for canned goods
on the first floor opens to the
floor of the kitchen through a slit
just high enough for No.2 cans
upright, and other cans on their
side. Rhodes raced down the stairs
and handed four or five cans
through the opening Just to prove
the convenience Of il.
me 1nvenfor has buried Me
waste baskets IN special boil, m
cabinets which close avsemsslesl.
iY. All Rhodes closet doors elesa
automatically, because Of HE per.
feet balance he has worked es,.
And being . timing genius, me-.
doors do not close vnfIl MRS.
Rhodes has pulled evt HE are.
esriss Or dishes tiaaf she needs.
Lining the walls of the living
room are two touches, a built.in
radio. built in bookshelves, q desk.
and more storage cabinets. All
done in a blonde wood.
The couches, Rhodes explained.
are part of his ideal house.
IF don't feel like sitting IN.
right after dinner / can flop down
on one Of them without having to
go to my bed room.
Foam rubber on the touches and
chairs and beds throughout the
house, will of course form none az
the rust which springs do.
The dining room table made a
durable non-spot plastic folds into
the wall giving extra space in the
living room.
Since fresh water b euiy q.
tsinabIs BY rain and ls hestod ky
the sun, Rhodes hes devised .
water saver for ii,s Kitchen slnk.
When you run HE water 10
make n hot, instead a. wsssina
mat fresh wafer, n gees down O..
pipe back Into iAa elstsrn.
The Isle Of Mark Time now has
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-11-29
Residential Building Record
For 1852 Is Seen By Experts

wide open on a question which
has long been debated but has
never had such supporting evil
dence:
The trial was outrigh anti-Jew-
ish. Eleven of the IA accused men
were Jews. They were accused Of
conniving with Jews in Israel and
the United States. Perhaps the &C.
cused men we're persuaded to con-
fess under threats of violence
against all Jews in Czechoslo-
vakia.
If that was the reason the sacri-
fices-11 were sentenced to the
gallows, three to life imprison-
ment-seem to have been in vain.
A wave of Jewish suicides was
reported as the trial neared its
end and a reliable source said
anti-Jewish attacks had begun.
There is an interesting question
which can't be answered: Do
these trials, chill the enthusiasm
of American Communists? They
must realize from these examples
that the life Of a Communist lead
er is in more danger when his
own party is in power, as in East
ern Europe, than when it isn't,
as here.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-11-29
Confessions OF Former Czech
Leaders Follow Set Pattern

can Communist party, for exam
pie, were tried in New York a
couple of years ago they not only
confessed nothing but seemingly
tried to make the tria! a night
mare for the judge and the gov.
eminent.
They were aided in this by the
difference in legal systems. Here,
where a mar has tc be proven
guilty, their lawyers were in court
to defend them. In Prague it is
the obligation of the defense law
yers to help on the prosecution.
In a book still talked about
Arthur KoeStler's Darkness at
Noon"-an attempt was made to
explain why veteran Communist
who had fallen from grace would
condemn himself for offenses he
did not commit.
The explanation, in brief, went
like this: No matter how rotten
he might think Stains leadership,
the most important thing to the
accused Communist is the eventu.
al triumph of world communism.
Therefore, instead Of publicly
condemning the regime which he
earnestly thought was running cor :
muniSm, be would publicly con-
denim himself for the sake of the
party and his hope that maybe
it could win out in the end.
There are probably other less
idealistic but more practical ex-
plantations for the trial comics.
sions.
Hypnotism has been suggested
as one. Police terror sounds more
likely, either through torture to
extract compliance or threats of
punishment for the accused mans
family and friends If he didn't con-
fess in open court.
(Karl Radek, old Bolshevik and
journalist, provided the classic ex-
ample Of the absurdity of these
confessions during his Moscow
trial in 1887. He made an extra
ordinary admission, undoubtedly
with tongue in cheek, since he was
said to be sardonic.
(Radek said he pleaded guilty
not only to all the crimes of which
he stood accused but to all those
of which he might be accused. He
was reported to have been let off
with a 10-year prison term. Some
Of his co-confeSsorS were shot,
In the Prague trial the Commu-
nists in power tipped their hands