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Evening star., 1952-11-27
Wet Mini Are Cautious
In Indo-Chinese Attacks
BY the Asseeiuied Pres,


WITH FRENCH UNION
FORCES AT MA SAN, Indo-
China, Nov. 27.-Cautious Com
munist-led Wet Mini forces threw
light probing attacks at this sur
rounded fortress last night.
A brisk skirmish on the defense
perimeter lasted about Is minutes
Casualties on both sides were
light.
The French command has been
expecting an all-out assault by
at least $4,000 enemy encircling
the key stronghold. 1t believes
the Wet Mimi suffered extreme
casualties in the air attacks which
may have forced a change in
plans.
A spokesman said French
fighter planes, attacking targets
on the basis of information sup
piled by a prisoner yesterday
destroyed a Wet Mimi regimental
command post less than 2 miles
from Ma San. Senior officers
stress. however, that a major as
sault can come at "any moment.
Evening star., 1952-11-27
By the Assoeiufed Press

NEW YORK, Nov. 27.-Gov.
Theodore R. McKeldin of Mary
land predicted yesterday that the
Eisenhower administration would
reopen closed tax cases in it's
search for corruption in Govern
ment and would cut European
arms aid to help Korea.
Gov. McKeldin was one of Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower's early
supporters and nominated him at
the Republican convention in
Chicago.
The Governor said in a Town
Hall address not to expect miracles
from the new administration. He
said the Republican program
would develop slowly.
Gov. McKeldin said the follow
ing assumptions could safely be
made of Gen. Eisenhower's policies
as President:
1. A search for corruption
"some of which has not even been
suspected. Many who think
they have fixed things with the
Office of the Attorney General and
escaped their just penalties may
find their cases reopened."
2. The Korean war mo longer
will be secondary to the defense
plans for Europe. It will become
the Nations most important prob
lem"
8. Incitement of rebellion will
be encouraged in Communist
dominated countries and Nation
alist Chinese troops used perhaps
for hit and run strikes against
Chinese Communists.
4. Cuts in the budget and taxes
and the consolidation Of Govern
ment departments, including the
firing of personnel in the "highe,
salaried brackets" who got their
jobs for political reasons.
S. Plans will be paid against a
recession that might be normally
Evening star., 1952-11-27
McKeIdin Expects Republicans
To Cut Arms Aid to Europe

in the offing in the event that all
war threats came to an end"
Gov. McKeldin said that Gen.
Eisenhower was not going to seek
out corruption in government in
"a spirit of vindictiveness or parti-
san advantage" He said there
will be exposures of rottenness,
some of which has only been
limited up to now. some of which
has not even been suspected"
Gov. McKeldin said that Her.
bert BroWnell, ir., new Attorney
General designate, will conduct a
cleanup job that will warn "all
those in the new administration
that the selling Of privilege, the
improper forgiveness of taxes, the
waste and misuse of public funds
and the other abuses of public
trust are not to be tolerated"
Evening star., 1952-11-27
Delivery Man Reports
He Wus Robbed of $58

A drugstore deliveryman told
police last night he had been
robbed of $50 after making his
deliveries in an apartment house
at 1920 Tilden street NV.
Nathaniel Cunningham, 80. en-
ployed by the Woodley Pharmacy.
1927 Connecticut avenue NV,
said he was stopped at the back
door of the apartment by a light
skinned colored man, about %
years old. The man pointed a
nickel-plated revolver at him, took
his money and SIS in checks, and
ran.
Evening star., 1952-11-27
DC. Coed Finds Skull
OF Fish Believed 10 Be
ESQ Million Years Old
By the Associated Press

DELAWARE, Ohio. Nov. 81
An Ohio Wesleyan University
coed has found part of the skull
of fish that scientists believe
may be $50 million years old.
Thelma Cook of Washington,
D. c., a senior majoring in
zoology and botany. found the
skull plate Undecided ip a CO.
pound boulder while on a geology
field trip in nearby gravel pit.
The fish, macropelalichthys,
sometimes grew to lengths of 80
feet. 1t was heavily armored on
the outside and had no bones on
the inside.
Miss Cooks discovery is con-
Isidered particularly important be-
cause it is a complete skull plate
Few of these have been found,
Evening star., 1952-11-27

firing at deep submergence. but
this is an emergency.
mo. l tube fired by hand. Tube
is clear!" The very welcome re-
port is received after a few anxious
seconds with a profound sense of
relief.
Resume fire." But the exec
has not needed that command.
No. 2 torpedo is already on its
way. followed a few seconds later
by No. 3.
The watchers on Batfish's bridge
had hardly. expected anything
quite so dramatic as what they
saw. One torpedo must have hit
into a magazine or possibly into
a tank carrying gasoline. The Nip
Evening star., 1952-11-27
Hits Umbrella

HALIFAX, Canada (P.-Two
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, women
had a narrow escape when a bolt
of lightning struck the umbrella
carried by Mrs. E. Purchase. Ac-
companied by another woman,
she was walking along the street
when the lightning made siz-
zling sound" and blue flame shot
from the steel tip.
Evening star., 1952-11-27
OPS information Office
Headed by Nee CIonohon
BY the Assoeioted Press

w. w. McClanahan, jr.. has
been named director of the Office
of Price Sterilization public in
formation division, OPS Chief
Tighe Woods said yesterday.
Mr.. Woods named Mr.. McClan-
ahan to succeed Max r. Hall.
who resigned early this month to
join the Mutual Security Agency.
Mr.. McClanahan. 38, is a native
of Springfield. Tenn. and a
former managing editor of the
Nashville Tennessean and the To-
ledo Times.
Evening star., 1952-11-27

sub had simply exploded. with a
brilliant red-and-yellow flame
which shot high into the night
sky. furiously outlined against the
somber, sober grayness.
And as quickly as the flame
reached its zenith, it disappeared,
as $500 tons of broken, twisted
Japanese steel plunged like a rock
to the bottom of the ocean.
And before Batfish returned to
base. two more Jap submarines
were sent to the bottom by her
torpedoes.
lCopyright., 1852. by Edward L. Beach.
Published by Henry Holt e. Co., Inc
Distributed by the Register and Tribune
Syndicate.)
(To Be Continued Tomorrow
Evening star., 1952-11-27

although other Ohio Wesleyan
students have found pieces Of
other ancient fish in the area.
DR.. G. Winston Sinclair, chair
man of the university's DEPART
ment of earth sciences, said the
discovery, if confirmed, will be
named after Miss Cook.
Miss Cook is the daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. j. Williamson CooE
of 4915 Forty-fourth street NV,
Washington, D. G.
Evening star., 1952-11-27

tack, crediting to his superior
Iradar the fact that he had been
Ialerted before the Jap, and trust
ing to his belief that he could
keep the enemy from detecting
him. His plan is to get up ahead
Iof the other submarine and to
head in toward him while the un-
Isuspecting Nip is pounding along
in nearly the opposite direction.
All the while. Batfish is racing
through the black, night at full
speed. She has pulled off abeam
of her quarry, just within maxi
mum radar range in order to be
outside range of the less-efficient
Iradar carried by the enemy, and
she is rapidly overhauling him.
Several more minutes pass. Fyfe
lis on the point of asking for more
information. when again the
bridge speaker blares it's muffled
version of Sprinkle's voice &C. K.
Sprinkle, executive oficer) Gap
tain, we've got him on zero two
zero, making ii knots. Range is
seven oh double oh, and distance
to the track is two five double oh.
This looks pretty good to me.
Recommend we come left and let
him have it,"
"Okay, Sprink. Give me a
course to come to-" The captain S
voice has assumed a grim finality,
Ia fiat quality of emotionless de-
|cision.
A few more tense moments pass.
Again the speaker near the
skipper's left elbow reproduces
ISprinkle's familiar voice. Hes
crossing our bow now. Range,
four oh double OH"
At 1,500 yards the keen eyes on
Batfish's bridge distinguish a blur
in the gray murk, and at 1000
yards the sinister outline of a
Japanese I class submarine is
made out-the first time during
the whole evening that the enemy
has actually been sighted. He
wallows heavily in the slight chop
of the sea-low, dark, and un-
calmly.
At 1000 yards the Jap is broad
side to Batfish: Fyfe's plan has
borne fruit. for his own bow is
exactly toward the enemy, and
he has all the advantage of sight
ing.
Sudden Danger.
Almost Immediately the tele-
phone talker standing under the
coming tower hatch shouts loudly
so that his message is heard in
the coming tower as well as on
the bridge:
Number one did not eject!
Running hot in the tube!'
Something has gone wrong. The
torpedo should have been pushed
out Of the torpedo tube by the
Ihigh-pressure air election system
Instead, it has stuck in the tube
and the torpedomen forward car
hear it running in the tube.
This is critical, for it will b,
armed within a matter of sec.
onds, and then almost anythins
could set it off. Besides, the moto
is overspeeding in the tube and i
could conceivably break up unde1
the strain and vibration-whicl
might itself produce suffcien
shock to cause an explosion.
The shippers reaction is instant
Tubes forward. try again, b,
hand. Use full election pressure!'
Full pressure is used only whel
Evening star., 1952-11-27
German Police Smash
Bio Black Market Rinq
BY the Associated Press

27.-Frankfurt customs police
said yesterday they had smashed
one of West Germany's biggest
postwar black market rings in a
raid which yielded six and a half
tons of green coffee beans and
$4,000 pairs of nylon stockings.
At least II persons were re-
ported arrested in the raid yes
terday at Frankfurt's big market
hall.
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FOOLHARDY MEN
Continued rom Page One)


Guard District headquarters to in.
vestigate. 1t had been learned that
the men made port in Ma~iel,
Cuba, some distance from Havana
yesterday orning at IL a. m.
Failure of the men to make any
report of their arrival had resulted
in hours Of needless concern and
considerable expense in sending
communications inquiring if they
had been seen.
Since the duty of the Coast
Guard is to promote safety at sea,
the authorities here would have
been remisS in their duties if they
had made no effort to trace the
trio. The government spends sew
eral millions of dollars each ear
in providing aids to navigation and
in assisting travellers on the water.
ter.
1t. Pearson stressed the neceSSi-
ty for all voyagers, whatever the
size of their boats, to make a re-
port of their arrival in port in or
der that unnecessary time and eX-
penSe will not be consumed.
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Search For Lost Parakeet
Nets Water MOccasin In
Mangrove; Perez Kills 1t
FIREMAN USES
WOODEN OAR
TO BREAK NECK
OF DEADLY SNAKE

A water mocassin in the man.
grove instead of the missing para
akeet was the result of the "a.
hour search Of Fireman Pedro Pc.
rez and parakeet owner Mrs. Julia
Melville yesterday.
eve were looking for "Bobo' in
the mangrove back of the airport,
said Mrs. Melville yesterday. "Mr
Perez called and whiStled for my
bird"
Perez poled the boat from the
boulevard to the search area. He
was standing in the bow when
suddenly he said:
Water mocassini"
Mrs. Melville turned her eyes
from sky whence she hunted her
bird, to water beneath the boat.
There was the deadly snake in thfe
water.
''Mr. Perez took the pole, just
n wooden pole and hit the snake
on its neck and killed it. l have
never seen anything like it," she
marvelled. "There he was in his
panama hat white shirt, no wea-
pom save the pole. and he actually
killed the snake"
Mrs. Melville is so pleasantly
surprised by the gallant treatment
she has received from the Key
West Fire department that she has
almost recovered her sense of loss
OF the pet parakeet.
"Never have l seen such courte-
GUS BEHAVIOR" she said yesterday
at The Key Wester where she is
q guest" And such well-inform.
ed man. While we we're looking for
the parakeet, Mr.. Perez pointed
out the angel fish .mullet and other
fish that we saw in the shallow
water"
The only casualty of the search
expedltlon was a wide fl0ppy hat
Mrs. Melville wore to protect her
self from the sun.
1t went overheard twice, but
again in the gallant Perez rescued
it.
Today though still lacking her
parakeet, Mrs. Melville has stored
up sightseeing experien~-~ of the
Island which few visitors can ever
claim. She has explored the terri
tory between the Gulf and the At
lantic by boat. She has seen wa
tel moccassin killed, and above all
she has seen the Key West Fire De-
partment in action.
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Stock
Market

NEW YORK PA fairly steady
price structure was maintained to-
day in the stock market despite
adverse dividend action taken by
two leading corporations.
Changes ranged from around a
point lower to fractions higher
with several areas of weakness.
National Distiilers, which has
been under somewhat severe pres
sure in recent sessions, announced
that the fourth quarter dividend
would be Is cents when declared
in October as compared with 81
cents previously paid quarterly.
High taxes and increased operat-
ing costs were blamed for the re-
duction. The stock almost imme-
diately sold eff fractionally at a
new low for the year.
Packard Motor Car directors
took no dividend action. The ad-
verse effect of the steel strike was
blamed. The company paid IS
cents in March of this year and
total of 80 cents last year. The
stock was heavily traded I'M
changed to an eighth lower.
Railroads, which led the market
higher on the last two days, de-
clined today with a few plus signs
helping to stem the fall.
Steels most of the time traded
higher, while motors were largely
unchanged.
Aircrafts and radio-teIevisions,
favorites Wednesday, were some
what lower today.
Non-FerrouS metals and some
oils, air lines and chemicals were
higher.
Lower stocks included Union Pa
cific, Atlantic Coast Line Railroad,
Sinclair Oil, Youngstown Sheet &
Tube, Air Reduction, General
Electric, Philco and Douglas Air
craft.
Higher were Chesapeake & Ohio,
Eastern Air Lines, Kennecott Cop
per, American Cyanamid, West
inghouse Electric, Bethlehem Steel
and Zenith Radio.
The Curb Exchange today was
mixed. Higher were Sterling Inc,
Canada Southern Oils, Ainsworth
and McWilliams Dredging. Lower
were Pepperell, Singer and Cuban
Atlantic Sugar.
Corporate bonds were narrowly
mixed. U. S. governments in the
over. the counter market were
steady.
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RETAIL LIQUOR
Continued From Page One)

tOO0tlnu6u ClVIu axe OuSJ
proponents of dog racing in the
county.
A concensus of opinion among
the members seemed to indicate
that dog racing would hurt BUSH
ne, ID exert a bad moral in
fluence on local citizens.
John Gavilan summed up the
situation when he said, 81 really
don't thin a dog track is going
to help our business or that of
any other merchant in Key West.
The working man and the sailors
in Key West are going to be
cleaned. They might go out there
and bet more than they can af-
ford and thu grocery man is 60
ing to be left holding tie bag.
I have figures from Miami that
show that small, neighborhood
business falls off from so to rs
per cent when the dog racing
sea- On is - progress. And 1 don't
think it will bring tourists to
Key West. I've had place near
the beach for a long time aid
the sort C tourist that comes to
Key West is the conservative -
he wants to relax or go fis.. ing.
Miami has enough dog and horse
tracks. If they wanted that sort
of action they would stay there"
State Represe native Bernie
c. PapY. who was scheduled to
address the group at Yester-
days meeting at the Elks Club
Annex. was unable to be pres
ent because of a trip TO Miami.
According to word at the meet
ing. PapY is throwing his A',p-
port fou- square behind the op.
position to the track.
Earlier, the group had consid-
cred assessing the individual
member of the association a fee
to be used in combating the
track, but when the membership,
almost to a man, came through
with voluntary contributions
this proved unnecessary.
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Political
Notes
BY The Associated Press

An i-climatic of''~'al an
nouncement is expected possibly
today to confirm what has been
made obvious by the sweeping en-
dorsement of Eisenhower, the Re-
publican National Committee and
tens of thousands of Americans:
Nixon will remain the COP vice
presidential nominee.
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. the
Republican presidential candidate,
and Sen. Richard Nixon, his run
ming mate, today marched side by
side back to the political wars af-
ter a dramatically fearful reunion
in Wheeling, w. Va, yesterday.
Democratic presidential candi
date Gov. Adlai Stevenson, in
Springfield, Ill. working on a new
campaign schedule, was silent on
political funds and on the COP
"vindication" sessions.
But Eisenhower made It clear
in an address to shivering thou.
sands in Wheeling that his mind
has been washed of doubts that
Nixon did wrong in accepting
$ls. 900 in privately raised expense
funds from wealthy Californians.
He said a total of 107 of the l38
COP committee members all
who could be reached - favored
keeping young Nixon on the ticket.
And the flood of kilograms that
swamped national headquarters in
Washington after Nixons radio
TV explanation of his fund dashed
whatever hopes Democrats may
have had that disclosure of the
donations might force him TO quit.
The wires almost unanimously ia
vored his staying on. officials said
Eisenhower said last night:
so far as I am concerned, he
has not only indicated himself
but feel that he has acted as a
man OF courage and honor and,
so far as am concerned, stands
higher than ever before"
Indicating that the politically I'M
precedented case was closed as far
as they are concerned. Eisenhower
today took on a whistle stop SEIZED
ule in West Virginia and Mary
land, and Nixon few west TO Salt
Lake City 70 resume his interrupt
ed campaign tour Of the Far
West.
Nixon had flown about 100
miles from Missouls. Mont. yes
terday at Eisenhower bidding 70
confer at Wheeling. The general
met the plane and = dramatic
scene followed as the two, both
with tears in their eyes. claSped
hands warmly and half-embraced.
Stevenson. meanwhile, mapped
plans 10 patch up political troubles
in the Southland. Tomorrow he be
gins = quick lnvasaon ii Indiana
aud Kentucky. to Be followed BY =
ma ior teaevIston- radio speech IA
Chicago Monday and flying visits
10 Ohio and Iowa next week.
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CAPT. ELDREDCE

Continued from Page One)
noon for tea and an interview.
At least was apprehensive after
the scaling of ladders aboard the
submarine Sea Dog recently. Mar
garet was composed and said
they had stairs. / thought of buy
ing a trapeze ensemble for dangl-
ing and swing manoevers. The
Monterey looks terrifyingly big.
She is big Her length is 623 feet,
her beam is II feet and she looms
about 81 feet from water level to
the topside flight deck. We learn
ed this while on tour with Comdr.
w. H. Keighley, executive Off
Ger who showed us around the
carrier. Visions of being swooped
through the air in one Of those
breeeheS of etiquette gadgets to
board the enormous carrier dan
Fed through my imagination.
Instead the captains gig" met
as at the pier near the Admins
lration Building over on the Naval
Station shortly after B pm. A gig
Is not an old fashioned buggy.
It's a trim launch. The center
cabin is banked with lounge seats
facing each other. Courteous es-
cort was provided by Ensign T.
Ross, USNR. who helps publish
the ships paper, Tale Hook i"
Comdr. Keighley met us as we
drew along side. We Swarmed up
the side. | guess that's what you
call our climbing of swing steps
with rope guards and trailed
through passage ways to the capt
aims cabin.
After exchanging greetings we
sat down in the comfortable
quarters for iced tea and tea
cakes, Capt. Eldredge explained
the word gig with a jingle which
goes like this:
The officers have their motor
boats
And the Captain has his gig
II won't so any faster
But 1t makes him feel so big"
Capt. Eldredge told Of asSum-
Ing command Of the Monterey al
Philadelphia where the carrier
was undergoing face lifting. He
relieved Capt. John P. Fitzsim-
mons. The Monterey then moved
on to Norfolk. Va. before going
to Cuba and thence to Key West,
OF his new command Eldredge
stated that every navy man nat.
uraly looks forward to going 90
sea and that carrier duty at sea
was more exacting than land
based duty and had "more salts
faction" He smiled and added
Elf man really wants tour OF
land duty. be should joan the
Army"
Inspection u the carrier was
limited due 10 the late hour when
the crew gces of duty and heads
for the showers, bat We we're i'm
pressed with the tour conducted hy
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Comdr. Keighley. In the expansive
ward room we admired a painting
done by DR.. E. J. Brauer dental of
ficer of the Monterey, were awed
by the size of the flight deck, the
depth of the elevator pits which
raise the plane from below and
the mechanismS for catapulting
the flierS off into the wild blue
upward. There are no guns on
the Monterey since she is a train.
Ing carrier. not q combat ship at
present.
Her past war record is right up
there on the flight deck though,
where VIP'S can see it. Her COM
bat score is painted in bright
colorS under an arch Of gold and
IL battle stars from the MarianaS
through Okinawa and the Phillip
inc Liberation. Painted insignia
Of the old Japanese Rising Sun"
show that the Monterey accounted
for III enemy planes in the air,
Sitting duck symbols show she
got 3S6 enemy aircraft on the
ground. q enemy ships were sunk
In action.
Battle-scarred, she was re-
commissioned September 1880 and
is now in service Of q postwar
mission, the important training of
qualifying Naval and Marine
aviatorS.
The grimness of warfare his.
tory Is lightened by an item treas
ured by the whole ships personnel
It's a silver hors d'oeuvres tray
presented 10 the Monterey by
mermaid Of the movies. Esther
Williams in honor OF her visit 10
the ship. She was wearing q fiuf.
~ nylon dress. not the usual bath
ing suit; But there were breexes
that day during some Of the shoot
lns Of scenes for the film Skirts
AhoS
And 50 10 shore In the so With
Captain EldredEe who Aas en-
route 10 Admiral lrylRk T Duke s
ard then for "heIos 80 MAS
friends he kne~ II key Vest.
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MONROE GENERAL
Continued from Page One)

(Contlnueo from rage One)
of who will organize the Blood
Bank. Albury said that if the hos
pital gives its facilities and the
time of its employees for blood
donations. it should have control
of the blood intake, and it should
be known as Monroe General
hospital Blood Bank. The Ameri-
can Red Cross has told Albury
that it would not be able to coop
crate if the bank is limited to hos
pital control. Commissioner Har-
riS suggested that Allen and Al
bury work out the problem and
take whatever steps are neceS-
sary. This was approved.
The fact that Conger Life In
surance has about $500 in unpaid
claims outstanding at the hospital
was brought. before Commission
erS attention. These date back to
last year, Albury said. He has re-
peatedly written the Miami COM
pany but so far they have not paid
these disqualification claims owing
to the Monroe General.
Commissioners voted to inform
the company and patients who
have disqualification with the COM
pany that policies will not be hon
ored.
Albury reported the state and
county pension system for hospi-
tai employees goes into effect on
September 30.