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Evening star., 1952-03-23
Dutch Plane Crashes
In Frankfurt Suburb,
Kills Al Of At Aboard
By the Assoeiated Press

BY the ASsocoted Press
FRANKFURT, Germany, Mar.
22.-The kim airliner which
Dutch Queen Juliana planned to
use on her state visit to the
United States. crashed and ex-
ploded on a rain-fogged landing
attempt today and killed A of Al
persons on board.
There were four immediate sur
vivors but one, an Egyptian named
Girgis Fouad, died tonight from
body burns.
The plane, named the Queen
Juliana, hit in suburban thicket.
It was the worst plane disaster
in German history.
Landing by Instrument.
Bound from johannesburg to
Amsterdam, the four -engined DC
6 moved treetops for a quarter
mile in an instrument approach
to the Rhine-Main airport through
murky weather and then slammed
into the ground with a loud ex-
plosion two miles short of the
runway.
Flames licked swiftly across the
wreckage and into spindling ever
greens around it, kissing under a
drizzling rain. Two engines and
parts Of the wings lay to the
rear.
The planes pilot was L. E. j..
PoutSma, a Dutchman. One Of
the victims listed by Rome Air
port authorities was an American,
John Bickford. They did not
have his home address. He was
among 13 who boarded the plane
at Rome. Dutch, Englishmen,
Frenchmen, Italians, Germans and
Egyptians were among the dead.
A partial list of the dead re-
leased by kim included the names
of Mr.. Bickford and 1t. Col. E.
Angle of the United States Air
Force, stationed in Wiesbaden.
Also listed were E. CARRIER and j.
Jaffe, nationally unknown, whose
destination was New York.
Two Germans Risk Lives.
Two German truck drivers, Will
libald Hoffman, and KonardI
Beutel. saw the crash and hustled
to the rescue. They risked their
lives to pull survivors out of the
burning fuselage. !.
Fire and rescue equipment was
rushed to the scene by the United
States Air Force and German au-
thoritieS. United States Army
bulldozers broke a path through
the evergreens from a paved road
100 yards away.
Capt. Romeo H. Freer, jr., Of
La Plata, Md. fire and aircraft
rescue officer at the Rhine Main
field, plunged into the fuselage
upon his arrival and directed res
n1oyal of the victims.
Zone Of the first we pulled out
was still alive" he said. II guess
1t was q man, or it could have
been a woman. Most of the pas
sengers were still in their seats
with their safety belts fastened,
but some were scattered around.
We dug out some that were buried
in the debris"
Chaplain Gives Last Rites.
A United States Air Force chap
lain, 1t. Col. James H. Grad of
Savannah, Ga, administered last
rites as the bodies were moved to
Air Force ambulances.
The flames were quenced before
the fuselage was consumed and
much Of the baggage-including
three cases Of South African gold
was rescued.
One Of the passengers apparent
1y was reading a book titled Point
of No Return" 1t was found in
the debris.
Evening star., 1952-03-23

voted a leave accumulation ban on
Federal employees, set the ratio of
the number of employees to be en-
gagged in personnel work, and
asked the removal of age limita-
tion provisions on Federal employ
ment. In the past few years it has
voted to cut the annual leave of
Federal employees and to withhold
the salaries of some officials it
disapproved of.
The committees free reign In
these matters has the acquiesence
of Chairman Murray of the House
Civil Service Committee. Although
other members of the committee
are incensed over the matter, Mr..
Murray says he agrees with the
actions of the appropriations
group and won't oppose its legisla-
ton by rider tactics.
Another disturbing situation is
the practice of members of the
Appropriations Committee and
Others of sponsoring personnel
Limitation riders to the various
agency money bills when they
reach the House floor. For
example. the Whitten rider limit
ing promotions and the Jensen
rider limiting the filing of va
cancies are matters that should
be dealt with by the House Civil
Service Committee.
X X X 4
SENATE GROUP OBJECTS
The situation has angered the
Senate Civil Service Committee
which finds that these actions
Icomplicate things badly. The
Senate unit finds that some of its
Legislation is stymied in the House
Civil Service Committee because
the House Appropriations Com
mittee has taken over.
The Senate units members feel
that the House and Senate Civil
Service Committees are the ones
that know the most about civil
service and personnel problems
and therefore should be the ones
to legislate on these matters.
For an example of how the
Evening star., 1952-03-23
Arlington Tax Increase

The Arlington County Board is
thinking about increasing the
county's business license tax rate
from IL to % cents per $10O of
gross receipts.
Board members voted yesterday
to have a public hearing April II
on the proposed increase, which
county officials estimate would
raise business license revenue
from $3.50, 900 to 81 million. The
proposed rate would be the same
as now paid by Alexandria busi-
nessmen. Arlington's present max
imum rate is IL cents.
Evening star., 1952-03-23

Rain and win fall in the Middle Atlantic and New
England sections today There will be seet in New York State
urries forecast in the Great Lakes States while
will in the Northern Plains States Mixed rain and
slated for Northern Montana The rest of the country will
fair weather with rising temperatures the Plains
States to the Pacific Coast will be colder from the Mississippi
Valky eastward to the Atlantic CoaHA
Evening star., 1952-03-23

Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest, SO. on March 21.
Lowest. 15, on January 80.
High and Low Of Last "a Hours.
High, So. at 1901 Am.
Low, 49. at $50 pm.
Tide Tables.
FURNISHED by United States Coast
(5eodetic gurvevA
Evening star., 1952-03-23
The Federal Spotlight
Riders Subyerting Authority
OF House Civil Service Group
By Joseph YOUNG

The House Appropriations Committee appears
taking functions Of the House Committee
During the last four there
by the appropriations ge
have been under the jurisdiction Of the Civil
Evening star., 1952-03-23
River Rannrk

River Report.
(From U. 8. Engineers)
Potomac River muddy at Harpers Ferry
and at Great Falls; Shenandoah MUDDY
at Harpers Ferry.
Evening star., 1952-03-23

that some Capitol Hill observers,
tongue in cheek, suggest remaining
the appropriations group the House
Evening star., 1952-03-23

(Be sure to listen to Joseph
Young's Federal Spotlight radio
broadcast at 6:15 pm. eDery
saturday ouer Station WMAL.)
Evening star., 1952-04-02
OMAN Council
Plan for District
Up 10 President
Budget Bureau May
Try Reorganization
To Speed Home Rule

President Truman will soon be
called on to decide. whether an
attempt will be made to speed up
home rule for the District by the
indirect process of reorganizing
the municipal government.
Home rule legislation itself, al
ready approved by the Senate, is
begged down in the House Dis
trict Committee, a majority Of
whose membership is believed to
be against it. The bill may not
reach the House floor before Con-
gresS adjournS. If so, it would
be dead until revived by a new
Congress.
Meanwhile, in an effort to pro-
ceed with reorganization of the
District government regardless of
the fate of home rule. the Com
misSionerS last December SUBJ
mitted reorganization of their
own to the Budget Bureau. The
President told the bureau heads
to study it and to work out the
most efficient form of local gov
ernment. He also repeated his
previously expressed interest in
home rule.
Cool Reception of Plan.
The Commissioners plan is re.
ported to have met a cool recep-
ton in the Budget Bureau. It
has no connection with home
Evening star., 1952-04-02
Fire Causes Panic
On Subway Train
By the Associated Press

NEW YORK, April 2.-Fire in
a subway train on Manhattan
Bridge today sent passengers into
a panic. causing injury to at least
seven and prompting a man and
woman to break windows and leap
to the bridge.
Police said an eighth person
was taken to hospital with a
severe case of hysteria.
A flash fire struck the train at
$40 am. midway between the
Brooklyn entrance and the center
of the bridge, police reported
Smoke filled some of the cars of
the eight-car BMT Sea Beach
express.
A grounded third rail contact
was believed to be the cause of the
fire.
Passengers screamed. Clothing
was torn as men and women
struggled to get off the train. One
passenger said: Everybody was
fighting. Every one was scared u
A passenger said that one wom-
an almost fell between the ties
into the river but I grabbed her."
He was Max Fleischer, 48, who
escaped through a window with
his wife, Rita. They were sent
to a hospital.
Evening star., 1952-04-02
Sutton Is Given Life,
.Castigated by Judge
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK. April 2.-Bank
robber Willie Sutton was SEN
fenced today as a fourth offender
to 80 years to life imprisonment
by judge who said he wished
he could sentence him to death.
Judge Louis Goldstein said in
sentencing Sutton. Il only regret
that the law prevents me from
sentencing you to DEATH" Sutton
had pleaded guilty to a gun-carry-
ing charge.
Sutton stood, blinking and
handcuffed to two guards in Kings
County Court. but made no COM
ment during a 15-minute castiga-
ton delivered by the judge.
Sutton and his henchman,
Thomas (Scup) Killing, As. were
convicted yesterday by a Queens
County jury of holding up the
Sunnyside branch of the Manu-
facturers Trust Co. in Queens for
$64 900 in 1850.
Evening star., 1952-04-02
Two Big League Stars
Returning to Marines

RED Sox LOSE WILLIAMs-Ted
Williams. Boston Red sox sIueser, and
Gerry CoIemon. New York Yonkees
second bosemon, poss their physieoIs
for return to duty os Marine Corps
coptoins. See Pose C-l.
TIPS ON TAxEs-MoryIond stots
authorities would like residents TO get
those Stote income tox returns in
right owoy even though the deodIine
is April IS. For informotion on the
Moylond tox lows see the first Of q
series on Poee Az.
THE DISTRICTS IRON CURTAIN
The separation on the IoeoI govern
ment level between the District and
its neishborins counties is reoI. This
iron eurtoin in the heolth and weIfors
fields is examined today by Stor Re-
porter Crosby S. Noyes in the fourth
Of series on the need for Metropolitan
Areo plonnine. See Pose AIS.
Evening star., 1952-04-02
Commissioners Ask $4,000
To Plan ChiIdren's Addition
Fund Would Be for Girls Training School,;
Decision Follows Demands by Public

follows public demands from COM
munity leaders for immediate &C
ton to move forward with plans
for the Children's Center. One
children's institution is there now.
Funds for a second have been ap-
propriated.
This was the year when moth
ing was Sought by the Commits
sionerS for getting on with the
center After an article in The
Star Of March % showing the
shabby conditions at the District
institutions for children-and the
demands for action that followed
the Commissioners decided to
ask for the $4,000. 1t will pay
for plans for a third institution
at the Children's Center-the Ma
tional Training School for Girls
Evening star., 1952-04-02
Koshouty's Plot for Getting Even
Works, but Hits Wrong Iorqet

The diabolical plot of Andrew
Kashouty succeeded up to a point.
1T baffied the police and the State
Departments code experts. but to-
day it turned out to be as simple
as a telephone dial.
Kashouty, 63. of the 1900 block
|of Wisconsin avenue NV, was ar
rested as numbers suspect March
is because undercover men had
seen him too frequently in food
stores making notations on paper
sacks.
The notations "a series OF
meaningless letters-were intend
led to confuse the police, Kashouty
said. because one Of them tried tt
Evening star., 1952-04-02

next, rolls around he will have
been in office just about three
months short of eight years, as il
was on April IL, 1945, that he took
over after the death of Franklin
ID. Roosevelt.
Nearing 68-his birthday is May
8-Mr. Truman is in excellent
health, but he too recognized that
eight years in the presidency is a
tough grind, and he commented
that it was long enough for him.
The President, it is known, also
felt deeply about the new conSti-
tutional amendment which limits
a President to two elected terms,
but actually puts a limit of 10
years on Service-to take care of
those instances where a Vice
President succeeds a President in
mid-term.
While Mr.. Truman always has
told reporters that the amend
ment didn't apply to him, that
statement, according to an in
innate, did not accurately reflect
his feelings.
when that amendment was
Pv1Y- y
Evening star., 1952-04-02

rule. It's basic purpose is to
"Streamline" the local govern
ment's more than 70 agencies, for
the purpose of more efficient ad-
miniStration. It retains the
present commission form of gov
ernment. 1t makes each Com
missioner the administrative head
of one of three new bureaus.
under which are grouped most of
the existing agencies. The Com
mlssionerS, as a board, would de-
eide on policies. The plan confers
upon the Commissioners necessary
authority to make additional re-
groupings on the basis of further
study and experience.
Budget Bureau officials working
on the reorganization scheme
favor abolition of the commission
government and lean toward q
council-manager form of gov
ernment-in effect the same
plan favored in the home rule
legislation. But reorganization
authority of the President does
not extend to the election of off,
cialS. Therefore. the council of
nine members would be appointed
by the President, subject to Senate
confirmation, and there would be
no elected Mayor. A city manager
would be chosen by the council.
Some of the Budget Bureau off,
cials believe that if this plan were
approved by Congress, it would
be relatively easy to follow it up
with later legislation providing for
the election, rather than the ap-
pointment. of the city council.
The President will be asked to
decide as between the plan ia
vored by the Commissioners, and
(Cnnfin11nd NJ, Doue A-17 No1 a.
Evening star., 1952-04-02
Taft Greatly Cheered
BY His Victories in
Two Key Primaries
Says Nebraska Results
Show Minnesota Write-in
ReoIIy Wos Meaningless

Senator Taft OF Ohio today ex-
pressed qualification over results
lin the Wisconsin and Nebraska
primaries.
Commenting at a press confer
|ence on the results in Nebraska,
where he leads Gen. Eisenhower
lin a "write-in" race. the Senator
said:
"It showed that the write-in
vote for Gen. Eisenhower in Min
nesota really meant nothing. The
Eisenhower campaign for write
in votes in Minnesota had been
organized for six weeks. We did
not do anything about it. in fact,
asked that nothing be done. The
Nebraska results showed that
when we start even, the result is
reasonably close"
Senator Taft said winning "a
Of the 80 Republican convention
delegates in Wisconsin was what
he had expected. He COM
mented, too, that he had received
about 43 per cent of the total
vote in the Wisconsin primary and
that was what he had predicted.
Stassen's Hold Is Strong.
In explanation of the fact that
he did not receive a majority of
the total vote, Senator Taft said
Harold E. Stassen, one of his Wis
consin opponents, had a strong
hold on voters there and four
years ago had defeated both Gov.
Dewey of New York and Gen.
Macarthur. Gov. Warren OF
California, his other opponent,
had the support of the old La Fol-
lette Progressives who were still
important in the State, he said.
Furthermore. Senator Taft de-
clared, he had no doubt that many
Democrats had crossed over into
the Republican primary in Wis.
consin. He said he understood
they had been urged to do so anc
to vote for Gen. Eisenhower.
He pointed out that in yester.
days contest about 748,000 votes
had been cast in the Republican
primary and only 227,000 in the
Democratic primary. This, hi
said, was about three and a hall
to one.
Points to 1948.
Yet in 1948 President Truman
carried Wisconsin by more thar
so, 900 votes and in 1850 the Dem.
ocrats received more than 46 pei
cent Of the vote for State offices
Yesterday, he said. the Demo.
Gratis cast only % per cent o1
the total primary vote. In reply
Evening star., 1952-04-02

arrest him q month ago on a num-
bers charge.
It succeeded in the baffiement
campaign, but it wasn't the same
policeman who arrested Kashouty
this time. The notations were
turned over to the State Depart
ment for code tinkering. Then il
came back, without solution.
After hearing his case for lack
of evidence. Kashouty stepped
Outside United States Commis-
Tsioner Cyril S. Lawrence's Office
and explained:
To get even with the policeman
lhe merely stuck his finger into tht
different holes on a telephone dial
The letters appearing under hi!
fingers on the dial went into hi
lnotations.
Evening star., 1952-04-02
Witness Says Bo|ich
|0verspent Salary by
$4,000 in Five Years
Probers Hear Details
OF Expensive Living by
Ex-Revenue Official
By Cecil HoIIond

! Daniel A. Bolich, former assist
ant commissioner of Internal
Revenue, had proved expenditures
totaling $115,00O in the five-year
period of 1946-1951. while his Gov
ernment salary amounted to only
$50, 900, House investigators of tax
scandals were told today.
The testimony was given by
George H. Lemay of Boston, a spe-
cial agent of the Revenue Bureaus
intelligence division. The agent
said he has been investigating Mr.,
Bolich since last August.
Mr.. Bolich, the witness said
had acknowledged in a financial
statement, that he spent $82,0
during the five-year period, OF
roughly $4,000 more than his
Government income. The balance
totaling roughly $4,000, has been
unaccounted for, Mr.. Lemay tes-
titled.
LAWClISlNC 2tCII1Ss
The former revenue official, who
is said to have taken an unusual
interest" in the handling of sew
eral big tax cases, was pictured
before the House Ways and Means
subcommittee as an individual who
loved expensive items"
Mr.. Lemay testified records and
invoices had been found showing
Mr.. Bolich bought shirts ranging
in price from $25 to $3.50 each
$40 pajamas, neckties costing
$3.50 each, while his Government
salary at the time averaged $4,000
to $1,000 a year.
Mr.. Bolich has been linked with
tWashington's mystery man Henry
wv. Gruenwald and with others
in the 81 million tax case Hyman
Harvey Klein, Baltimore liquor
man, and in other tax cases.
He is scheduled to appear to-
morrow before the subcommittee
headed by Representative King,
Democrat, of California. His ap-
Ipearance was postponed today be-
cause he was called before the
Federal grand jury in Brooklyn.
Handled Own Transactions.
Mr.. Lemay testified Mr.. Bolich
owned homes in Brooklyn and
Spring Lake, N. j. In several in
stances, the agent said, he had
failed to report expenditures, in
cluding $4,100 for gardening
service, $2.400 for flowers and
$1,150 for political contributions.
Mr.. Bolich was revealed by Mr..
Lemay's testimony as a man who
handled most of his personal
transactions by cash or money
order, although both he and his
wife had checking accounts.
Under questioning by Assistant
Committee Counsel Donald Scha-
piro, Mr.. Lemay testified that Mr..
Bolich had an explanation for the
between the $50, 900
of Government pay and the $82,-
900 of money he has acknowl-
edged spending during the five
year period. The explanation, it
was said. would be brought out
when Mr.. Bolich teStifieS.
Evening star., 1952-04-02

AS longtime associate today
discussed the background of the
Presidents unexpected announce
ment Saturday night that he
would leave the White House in
January. it became known also
that friends are urging Mr.. Tru-
man to seek his old Senate seat
from Missouri this year-and he
lis not brushing them off.
The Presidents decision not to
run again was his oWn-and it
coincided with his statements to
reporters at the time that he had
made up his mind as to the
course he would take, and would
let them know when he saw fit.
Mrs. Truman, it is known, had
importuned the President to get
out, because she realized the toll
the presidency exacts. and she
felt, too, there was more happi-
ness to be found back home in
independence. When the time
came, however, to make a deci-
sion, the matter was one that
the President threshed out for
himself.
Recalls Length of Service.
To an intimate, he spoke of
the fact that when January 20,
Evening star., 1952-04-02
Morocco Rioters Sentenced

CASABLANCA, Morocco. April
2 R.-Prison terms of three
months to two years were pro-
nounced today against 81 Moroc-
can Arabs for taking part in a
riot at Safi on Monday. Three
persons. including a 10-year-old
boy, were killed when police fired
into a crowd demonstrating for
the release of two Arabs who had
been arrested.
Evening star., 1952-04-02
Nebraska and Wisconsin Voters
Put New Life in Taft Campaign;
Kefauver Sweeps Both Primaries
"a Delegates Won
By Ohioon, While
Warren Gets Six
By Gould Lincoln

OS1ldGOI d4G VI O111O UOUdS
moved again strongly into the
race for the Republican presi-
dental nomination, winning "a
out of 80 Wisconsin delegates tc
the Republican National Con-
vention. He was defeating Gen
Eisenhower in a "write-in" con-
test in the Nebraska presidential.
preferences primary rather han
dily
The fly in the Taft ointment
was his failure to win a majority
10 Of 2S Democrats on centroI COMMITTEES
Here Beck Kefouver. Poee AIS
of the total vote cast in Wis
consin. His vote, with all ex-
cept % precincts out of a total
3,204 reported, was 116,135 be-
hind the combined vote for Gov.
Warren of California and Harold
E. Stassen, former Governor of
Minnesota. If the vote cast for
Grant Ritter, stand-in candidate
for Gen. Macarthur were given
Senator Taft, the Ohioan still
would be $3.50 behind the War
ren-StaSsen vote.
The same primary contest
boosted Senator Kefauver of Ten
neSSee into front-line runner for
the Democratic presidential NOM
ination. BY an overwhelming vote
he captured all 80 of Wisconsin's S
delegates to the Democratic Ma
tional Convention. defeating two
favorite son candidates who had
declared for President Truman
before the President made his Il
shall not" run statement.
Kerr Comedies Defeat.
Senator Kefauver also was run
ming well ahead of Senator Kerr
of Oklahoma in the presidential
preference primary in Nebraska.
The Oklahoma Senator conceded
his defeat when more than half
of the Nebraska precincts had re-
ported. The result is a body blow
for Senator Kerr's presidential as
pirationS. Nebraska was supposed
to be good Kerr territory when
the Oklahoma Senator first en-.
tered his name, and Senator Kerr
had the support of the Quigley.
Boyle Democratic organization.
Gov. Warren won the six Wis
consin delegates who did not go
to Senator Taft. Mr.. Stassen, who
triumphed in the Wisconsin pri-
mary four years ago, ran third
there yesterday. He also was trail
ing far back in the Nebraska pri-
mary, where his name was on the
ballot. Yesterdays results vir-
tually relegate Mr.. Stassen to
the favorite-son category of Re
publican presidential candidates.
Associated Press tabulations in
Wisconsin for 1882 precincts out
of 3,204 in State wide races to
elect 10 Republican delegates at
large and an eight-vote Demo-
cratic slate showed:
Republicans - Taft, 313,999;
Warren, 260,215; Stassen, 1853, ,919;
(See PRIMARIES, Page A-3.)