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Evening star., 1952-11-25
Leoky Roofs and Unprotected
US. Buildings Laid to Economy
Officials Say They Have Only Half as Many
Workers as They Need to Keep Them Cleaned

week. The rest of the time the
slim cleaning force has time only
to pick up papers, dump trash and
empty ash trays.
Windows in Government build
ings are now washed every six
months instead of every three
months and Venetian blinds aren' I
washed once in two years.
Guards who used to patrol
throughout temporary buildings
every hour and permanent build
ings every two hours now patrol
every four to eight hours. Some
buildings are now simply locked
up and unguarded with no one
around to check on possible fire
or explosion, except officer on his
rounds of a group of buildings.
Treasury Roof Leaks.
The Treasury roof leaks and
has cracked plaster, but major
repairs like that are being put of
for fear emergency breakdowns
will demand large expenditures.
Other roofs are leaking, par
ticularly in temporary buildings.
After-hours elevator service has
been eliminated. except in defense
agencies with night shifts, and
day service has been curtailed. In
the daytime, employees have to
wait longer for an elevator. At
night, they have to walk possibly
(See RUu DINGS. Page A-4l
Evening star., 1952-11-25

imbursed with funds derived from
the sale of tickets to parade
stands, the Inaugural Ball. SYM
phony concert, a night Of enter
tainment, the souvenir program
and souvenir medal.
Mr.. McGarraghy said the In
augural Committee is being
swamped with requests for tickets
to the various events. He said
the ball will be an invitation af-
fair, with tickets selling for $3.50,
including the tax. Boxes seating
eight will sell for $500. including
tax.
The Young Republicans met at
the Wardman Park Hotel. It was
q victory meeting" Carl Shipley
presided.
Evening star., 1952-11-25
Prague Purge Trial
Gets 18Th Confession
From Former Official
Korel Svob Is Lotest
Of IA SIonsky Aides
To Testify on Plot
BY the Associated Press

VIENNA. Austria. Nov. 25.-
Karel Svab. 18th former top Com.
munist to confess" before q
Prague court, in the current
Czech purge trial, admitted to-
day that as former Deputy Sc
curity Minister he covered up q
widespread anti-Moscow con-
spiracy.
Svab is one of the three non
Jews among the II Reds on trial
for plotting to overthrow the gov
ernment Of President Klement
Gottwald.
Only one defendant-former
Deputy Defense Minister Bedrich
Reicin-remained to be heard as
the trial Of former Communist
Party Boss Rudolf Slansky and
his associates neared its end.
Admits Being "Titoist Type"
Radio Prague said that Svab
48, admitted he was a member OF
the "Titoist type" conspiratoria.
group led by Slansky. In his job
he said, he protected the criminal
activities of the "Trotskyites
zionists and burgeois national
lists"
He had made it possible, he said
for British and American spies
to operate in Czechoslovakia and
he had placed enemy elements
in the security organization.
The broadcast said that OSWALD
zavodsky, former commandant o1
the state security forces, had tes-
titled against Svab, but also hao
incriminated himself by stating
that he had helped the former
deputy minister.
Zavodsky said he placed "trai-
tors" in high positions in the state
police.
Strong Anti Semitic Overtones.
Western charges that the triaI
has strong anti-Semitic overtones
drew comment from the Commu.
mist newspaper Rude Pravo.
The paper indicated that the
Communist organizers of the trial
were attempting to prove that all
Jewish capitalists were "Zionists
traitors and anti-Semites," while
the average Jewish worker was
anti-Zionist.
THE Communists" said Rude
Pravo, "are uncompromising op.
ponents of anti-Semitism. But
the present-day bourgeoisie ir
1sreal leads the workers away from
the struggle against capitalism
The zionists made pacts with the
greatest enemies of the Jew, Hitler
and MuSsolini."
Although II of the Slansky
groups are Jews. Rude Pravo rea.
soned: These people who worked
with Slansky were anti-Semitic
The Zionist organizations ir
Czechoslvakia were nothine
else but a fascist fifth column. ;
Evening star., 1952-11-25
PoH Winner by Upset
In 4-WheeI Campaign

MOBILE CAMPAl6NER-Riehord n.
Poff. who will represent virsinio's 9Th
district in the new House, upset in
eumbent Re- ,.entotive Clarence G.
Burton with eompoien woeed in a
stotion wagon. Reod O profile Of the
new legislator on poee At.
TRIMMINGS GAL0RE-The women
Of PooIesviIIe tMd.I, Episcopal Church
ore preparing for o mon size tosk. On
Thanksgiving Day they'll serve turkey
to at Ieost 500 ceIebronts. Stoff Writer
Betty Miles tells obout o 40-yeor tro-
dition on pose B-4.
Evening star., 1952-11-25

information that is what the
President plans to do.
The White House declined i'm
mediate comment.
But already the President is
harried by the resignation Of his
third price stabilizer this year.
Tighe E. Woods quit late yester-
day, explaining that his main task
has been authorizing price in
creases that the law requires.
Senator Maybank's surprise
statement about a possibly quick
end to price and wage controls
came from Charleston. S. c., dur
ing a Mutual Broadcasting System
program. Reporters Roundup"
Reports Doom of Controls.
II have information" he said.
that the President is now con-
sidering doing away with price and
wage controls"
do you mean by executive
action?" a reporter asked.
Yes"
do you think it may come be-
fore Congress returns?"
"Yes."
The present price-wage controls
expire April 80 and there was a
good chance that Republicans will
kill or main the regulations If
President Truman doesn't.
May Name Deputy.
Under these circumstances, the
president was expected to let an
acting director-probably OPS
Deputy Director Joseph H. Free
hill-run OPS in the immediate
future.
MIR. Woods, in telling reporters
of his resignation, said that, 1T
seems all I have been doing is
to sign orders raising prices, and
I haven't particularly enjoyed the
role"
Amendments to the law, passed
as an emergency measure after
fighting broke out in Korea. di-
rect the administrator to sign Or
ders allowing price increases when
the cost of production goes up
Mr.. Woods said his letter of
resignation to the President, de-
livered at the White House yes
terday afternoon asked that he
be relieved of duty on the last day
of November.
''For some time" he said, 81
have been dissatisfied with the
law. I think it is a weak law. It
should get a thorough overhaul
ing from the Congress to get out
some of the special interest
amendments"
Beef Decision Postponed.
Before Mr.. Woods made his an
nouncement. an assistant handed
to reporters copies of a release
stating that the final decision or
the possibility of a rollback or
the ceiling prices of beef had beer
postponed until Wednesday.
Mr.. Woods made mention o1
this in the conference. and added;
1T seems to be very easy te
translate cost increases into price
increases but particularly diff.
cult to translate cost decreases
into price decreases"
Mr.. Wood who Is AZ, said he Is
going to get a rest at his farm
in Loudoun County, Va. He said
he has been working for the Gov
ernment since 1912, with never
more than a weeks vacation.
Evening star., 1952-11-25
Long Live the Bunkes

COPENHAGEN. Denmark. Nov.
Is R.-Christian Banke of Faa-
borg. Denmark. celebrated his
101st birthday today. Taking part
were his four brothers-aged 81.
80. SO and 70. A fifth brother died
recently at the age of 81. .
Evening star., 1952-11-25
{. & P. Cites Wages,
Initiation and Taxes in
Plea 10 Raise Rates
l0-Cent Phone Calls, Rise
To Subscribers Must Add
$3.5 Million, PUG Is Told
By John w. Stepp

Higher wages, taxes and other
infationary effects due largely to
the Korean war have forced the
Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone
Co. to seek higher rates here, a
company official declared today.
Stephen H. Fletcher, general
counsel Of the company, stated
the case as hearings on the rate
increase petition opened before
the District Public Utilities Com
mission.
c. & P. has asked for a scent
increase over the present nickel
charge for pay-station calls and a
down-the-line 10 per cent advance
In the charge to residential tele-
|phone users. The company calcu-
lates that these higher rates. with
similar raises in business tele-
phone service charges, would bring
in $3.5 million more gross reve-
nues. Federal and District taxes
would reduce the company's net
from this amount to SIS million,
however.
Stresses Tax Problem.
In his opening statement Mr..
Fletcher stressed the tax problem.
He pointed out that when the
company got its last rate increase,
effective in 1850. the Federal IN
come tax rate was 38 per cent.
This tax since has scared to SO per
cent. The company now is pay
ing annual taxes of $1.3 million.
Two wage increases within two
years have cost the company $4.5
million, the counsel declared.
These and other operational
cost increases have placed the
company in IAN inflationary
squeeze" since telephone charges
have remained fixed, Mr.. Fletcher
said.
Cite Plant Expansion.
A second company official. H.
Holmes Vogel, vice president, en-
phasized that during the post
World War II period telephone
rates have increased less than 20
per cent, while prices in general
have gone up more than 81 per
cent.
Mr.. Fletcher said that in 1949
c. & P. began a plant expansion
program that cost $685. million.
At first, he said, this expansion ap-
peared beneficial, due to an up
surge in revenues from greater
governmental and business ac-
tivity. But the advent of the Ko-
rean conflict caused a resumption
of the inflationary spiral, the Of
fetal said.
Mr.. Fletcher told the PUG that
the company faces a still larger
construction program to meet
continued demands for new and
better service.
The Mid-City Citizens Associa-
ton last night backed the request
for higher rates.
Evening star., 1952-11-25
DouqIos Eliminates Himself
As Prospect for Cabinet Job
Eisenhower Head quarters Promises
Major Announcement Late Today

ernment spending even during the
current fiscal year could be held
to about $40 billion instead of the
$79 or $50 billion that had been
indicated some time ago.
He also declared that the new
administration should be able to
keep spending below 500 billion
during the 1854 fiscal year. AS
for any tax cuts next year, Mr..
Taber said no answer could be
given until after President-elect
Eisenhower returns from Korea.
He added he was confident that
Gen. Eisenhower would not rec
ommend larger appropriations for
military spending. but that there
was no way of telling now, whether
the current amount could be sub
stantially reduced.
Cites Rate, of Spending.
Mr.. Taber based his expenditure
estimates on the rate Of spending
during the first four months of
the current fiscal year. He noted
that the Truman administration
itself apparently had planned to
spend considerably more than it
has been spending thus far this
year in military items in the bud
get.
Shortly before noon today. Gen.
Eisenhower conferred with Prof.
John R. Dunning. an atomic
scientist who worked on the Man
haitian project, but Prof. Dun
ming refused to say wheth<r
he was offered a place on the
Atomic Energy Commission.
Prof. Dunning, who is dean Of
engineering at Columbia Univer-
sity, talked with Gen. Eisenhower
for half an hour. He said they
discussed the general situation
and the future of the atomic
energy field"
Refused to Comment.
Prof. Dunning was asked
whether he and Gen. Eisenhower
talked about a possible appoint
ment to fill an existing vacancy
on the Atomic Energy Commis-
sion. He said he would not COM
ment. but he added that the con-
versation was mainly about
principles, not details"
AS a prominent physicist with
the old Manhattan project, Prof.
Dunning was one of the designers
Of the Oak Ridge CTennD plant.
He also was an observer at the
Bikini test of the atomic bomb.
He has said on several occasions
that he believes the public should
be given more information about
atomic energy.
Late today Gen. Eisenhower
planned to confer with Nelson
Rockefeller, who has served in the
Democratic administration as an
Secretary of State.
This appointment gave rise to
reports that Mr.. Rockefeller may
be given an important position
in the new administration.
With yesterdays announcement
that Ezra Taft Benson of Salt
Lake City would be Secretary of
and Gov. Adams the
assistant to the President, the
only remaining cabinet posts to-
be filled are Secretary of Com
(See EISENHOWER, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1952-11-25
Canadian Plane Crashes
Near Vancouver, KILLING 8
BY the Assoeioted Press

COMOX, British Columbia, Nov
25.-A Royal Canadian Air Force
four-engine bomber on a leisurely
supply flight crashed and burned
here late yesterday. Eight Of the
10 airmen aboard died.
The dead included three crew.
men and five passengers. The CO.
pilot and pilot survived, but were
badly hurt.
Names Of the 10 men were not
made public.
Evening star., 1952-11-25
Picture on Poss 81

Picture on Poss B-1
chairman of the citizens commit
tee, for members Of the District
Young Republican, Club.
The cost estimate Is about so
per cent more than the expenses
of the 1949 inaugural Of Presi-
dent Truman, according to Mr..
McGarraghy's figures.
Washington companies and in
dividuals will underwrite the
entire project. They viii be~re-
Evening star., 1952-11-25
inaugural Cost Here Is Placed
At$3OO,0 900 Gorroghy

That part of the 1853 inaugural
program sponsored here will cost
about $500, 900.
The estimate was made last
night by Joseph c. McGarraghy,
Evening star., 1952-11-25
Truman May Discard
Controls on Pay and
Prices, Maybank Says
Resignation Of Woods,
Plus Shuky Law, Seen
Speeding Programs Doom

Senator Maybank. Democrat. Of
South Carolina raised the possi-
bility today that President Tru-
man may end all price and wage
controls before January 8.
The chairman of the Senate
Banking Committee said he has
Evening star., 1952-11-25
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Picture on Pose A-3
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(See BUILDINGS, Page A-4)
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(See ROBINSON, Page A-4)
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(See EISENHOWER. Page "A.
Evening star., 1952-11-25
Bane Of Enemy Ships

It might well have been written Of the
Tang that her career was brief, brave
and glorious" for in the one year Of her
life she achieved an unequaled record.
See today's installment of Submarine"
Page AS.
Evening star., 1952-08-29
u. 5. EmpIoye Beaten
And Robbed Of Car

Montgomery County police to.
day broadcast an area-wide look.
out for a sedan bearing two men
who beat and robbed a Govern
ment Printing Once employe near
Cabin John, Md, shortly before
8 am. today. ssf
Detective Sergt. John Patrick
Leahy said the two men, one about
10 and the other in his mid-20s,
were reported to have taken their
victims car and his wallet con-
tanning $50.
Victim of the assault and rob-
berry was Arthur John Murray,
2416 Second street NE. Police
said he was a stereotyper.
Mr.. Murray told police he had
picked up the two men last night
near Fourteenth and H streets
NV. He said they drove around
most of the night and then drove
out Macarthur boulevard into
Montgomery County.
He said they stopped on a side
road and one of the men. who was
driving Mr.. Murray's car, hit him
on the side of the head, broke his
glasses and bloodied his nose. He
said they threw him out Of the
car after taking his wallet anc
drove away.
County police also are invest.
Iigating similar assault and rob-
berry OF District hacker which
occurred in the same general area
last week.
Evening star., 1952-08-29
By Richard Rodgers
Stnv S$nff rorrasoondans

BOWLING GREEN. Va. Aug
29.-Virginia's newest village is a
ghost town. and when it finally
does get people they'll start shoot
ing it apart. 49,. 49,.
The place is on the A. P. Hill
Military Reservation near here.
The architecture is old Euro
Ipean: But the village future is
pure Goth Century--it awaits the
gunners and the guns. It was put
up as a range for training GIs to
mop up resistance in cities.
Army camps have had combat
villages for years. but this one is
the most elaborate in the country
said Col. Julian Raymond. A. p
Hills post commander.
The village has 20 buildings
most of them three-story affairs
with gables and peaked roofs. II
even has village square.
Nationality Indefinite.
The Army denies it had any
specific nation, much less city, in
mind when the village was de-
signed.
cts just a place you might
see anywhere in Europe" Col
Raymond said. TITS not French
and it's not English and it's not
Polish. And it isn't Russian.
"It's certainly not American
either. 1t wasn't meant to train
soldiers to defend a city: it was
meant to give them an idea OF
what they might see some place
in Europe"
The homes. shops, church and
other structures are centered
Evening star., 1952-08-29
Autopsy Slated Today
On Youth Who Met
Death in Hotel Pool
An autopsy was to be performed

An autopsy was to be performed
today on Kenneth Hollander, 16,
Of Rochester. N. Y. who died early
last night, shortly after being re-
moved from the Ambassador Hotel
swimming pool.
The youth who was here at
tending the convention of Upsilon
Lambda Pi high school fraternity,
was discovered face-down on the
bottom of the pool near the CEN
ter. in about 51a feet of water.
Cards found in his wallet
showed he was a first-class SWIM
mer, having passed the difficult
tests of the Red Cross.
When the incident occurred,
there were about a dozen persons
in the pool, mostly Kenneth's fra
ternity brothers. There also were
a few others near the pool, which
has underwater lighting. making
it easy to see the bottom.
According to Detective Sergt.
G. w. Chapman of the Homicide
Squad, the boys had been warned
at least twice by Lifeguard VIII
liam II. ContoS to stop wrestling,
playing tag and engaging in other
forms Of horseplay. Their activi-
ties churned up the water of the
pool and made it difficult to see
the bottom.
Kenneth was discovered by Al
bert Boasberg, Of Buffalo, N. Y.
and Donald Carrel. of Welland.
Ontario, Can. while they were
swimming under the water.
The youth was taken from the
water by Bill McGrath, a Red
Cross swimming instructor Ken
meth was still breathing, but he
died despite efforts at resuscita-
ton by q Fire Department Rescue
Squad. Kenneth was pronounced
dead by DR.. p. G. Shea, Of CAL
linger Hospital.
DR.. Christopher J. Murphy,
deputy coroner. said he would
withhold q certificate Of death,
pending the post mortemA BINDINGS.
DR.. Murphy said the youths
Evening star., 1952-08-29
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Evening star., 1952-08-29
Sef-Sty|ed Diplomat
Fined in Assault Case

A self-styled Argentine "diplo.
mat" today was fined 5000 or
charges of growing out of ar
incident August Is in which police
chased and fired at him.
The man, Jose Sotomayor. 43
OF the 140O block of Girard street
NV, pleaded guilty to assault
ing a policeman with his car, fail
ing to obey the officers signal
and driving at an unreasonable
speed. The original charge of as
sault with a dangerous weapon
the car, was reduced to simple
assault.
Sotomayor had claimed he was
an employe of the Argentine En-
5assy when police first arrested
him after firing three shots at his
automobile. He had fled after
police said they discovered him
beating woman when his car was
parked at Vermont avenue and K
street NV.
The woman turned out to be
his wife Marie, who refused te
press charges. The Embassy de-
MED that Sotomayor worked
there.
Evening star., 1952-08-29
Free Star Movies
Playground Film
Program for Tonight

Programs presented through the
cooperation of the District Recre-
alton Department and the Film
Center Of Washington:
Washington, at Dusk.
Janney, Wisconsin avenue and
Albemarle street NV.
Brightwood. Thirteenth and
Nicholson streets NV.
Kalorama, Nineteenth street anc
Columbia road NV.
Ridge. Ridge road and Burn.
street Sc.
Hoover, Second and N streets
|S.W.
Anne Beers. Thirty-sixth place
and Alabama avenue Sc.
Hayes, Fifth and K streets NE
Briggs Moptgomery. Twenty
seventh and streets NV.
Watts Branch, Sixty-second and
Banks streets NE.
Randall, First and I streets S.W
This Schedule Completes the
Community Movie Program fo,
1881
Evening star., 1952-08-29
Revenue on Boy Bridge
Is $457, 900 in Month
BY The Associated Press

SANDY POINT, Md, Aug. 29.--
The new Chesapeake Bay Bridge
that cost $45 million to build took
in $457 900 during its first -four
weeks Of operation.
Bridge Director Louis ]. ODon-
nell said a total Of 252,124 vehi-
cles crossed the span during the
period for an average of more
than 5000 per day.
Evening star., 1952-08-29
Village Designed to Be Shot Up
In Virginia Has European Look

around a square, complete with
monument.
The buildings aren't plastered
When the shooting starts, carpen-
ters will be kept busy replacing
riddled planks with new ones
Plaster isn't needed. Nobody will
live in this settlement.
A few Of the buildings were left
open on one side or more, so in
structors can see how trainees arr
going about their inside jobs.
Pits line the founda ton walls
Trainers will crouch in the pits
and set off dummy bazooka charges
as trainees' tanks move down the
street. Real bazookas won't be
used, of course. The village
wouldn't last. Nor will the tanks
fire real ammunition.
Live Rounds to Be Used.
But foot soldiers will blast away
with live rounds. Cardboard Cum-
mics will be rigged to swing out
of windows and pop from stair
ways. Instructors will keep score
on the holes the GIs can drill in
the dummies.
Squads and platoons could move
in on the village today. Every
things ready for them. No formal
opening has been scheduled
though. Col. Raymond said he
didn't know when the first troops
would arrive to begin ventilating
his village.
A. P. Hill is a sort of military
boarding house, housing and feed
ing transient outfits which stor
there only long enough for ma
|neuvers. Col. Raymond calls his
job housekeeping" With houses
like these new ones, the phrase
takes on grimneSS.
Evening star., 1952-08-29
Accord Averfs Strike
Af Sand and Gravel Firm

A threatened strike against the
Smoot Sand & Gravel Co..
which supplies material for many
of the major construction projects
in the Washington area, was
averted last night when members
of Local II. Operating Engineers
Union, AFL. voted to accept the
company's latest wage offer.
The previous contract between
the union and the company ex-
pired a week ago. and a strike
had threatened after several ne
gotiating sessions ended in a stale
mate.
The new contract was offered by
management at O meeting yes
terday afternoon.