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Evening star., 1952-08-18
Drafting Of Filipino Student
By u. 5. 10 Be investigated
BY the Asseeioisa Prsss,

/ MANILA. Aug. 18.-The Foreign
Once said tooay it has instructed
its Ambassador in Washington to
investigate the case Of q Filipino
American student drafted into the
United States Army.
The 21-year -old student, August
Cea. jr.. son of a Filipino father
and American mother, was drafted
last April and Is a private at
tached to a company, 10th In
fantry Regiment. at the Indian
town Gap Military Reservation in
Pennsylvania. Il. sses.-.
Augusta O. Cea. his father, has
|petitioned the Foreign Office to
obtain his sons release. He said
the youth may be shipped over
seas for combat duty In a month
or so. The elder Cea said the
youth did not mind fighting for
1.-THE Philippines but mot under a
foreign flag"
A Foreign ONCE spokesman said
the younger Cea went to the
United States on a permanent visa
and was q first-year liberal arts
student in New York University
when drafted.
Evening star., 1952-08-18
Mossadegh Runs Fever,
Ordered 10 Take Rest
BY the Associated Press

TEHERAN. Iran, Aug. 18.-Pre-
mier Mohammed Mossadegh, who
has been running a high fever
for the last couple of days, was
reported much improved" today.
An official source said the aged
premier had gone to the noun
tains to get away from the swell
tering capital and that his phys
ician son, DR.. Golam Hosein Mos
sadegh, had ordered him to 60 to
bed and see no one for the next
five days.
Unconfirmed reports said Mr..
MoSsadgeh has been consider
ing naming a four-man council
to carry on his duties while he is
i'll. Parliament has given the pre-
mier virtual dictator's powers for
the next six months.
One informant said MIR. MoSsa-
degh was just worn out from the
pressure of recent work and not
seriously i'll. ts. .-
Evening star., 1952-08-18
AFGE Chiefs Praise
Stevenson After Talks
Special Dispatch 10 The Stor

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, August 18
Satisfactory discussions" with
Gov. Adlai Stevenson of Federal
employe problems were reported
by two American Federation OF
Government Employees officials
Saturday following an interview
with the Democratic nominee foI
the presidency.
The two Washington men
James B. Campbell. AFGE presi-
dent, and Hal. j. Miller, editor OF
the Government Standard, will
confer in Denver Tuesday with
the Republican candidate, Gen
Dwight D. Eisenhower.
"Gov. Stevenson has a keen
grasp of Government personnel
problems" Mr.. Campbell stated,
adding that he had recommended
to the Democratic candidate that
fair treatment of Federal en-
ployes was an important key" to
governmental efficiency.
Evening star., 1952-08-18
Nine. Chang Resting
In Hospital on Coast
By the Assoeioted Press

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 18.-
A dermatologist said today it is
"just a question of time" before
Nine. Chang Kai-shek's skin all
ment responds to treatment.
DR.. Edwin l.. Bruck of the Uni
versity of California medical center
examined the. 54-year-old first
lady of Nationalist China yester-
day. He said the inflammation
may respond in four or five days
or may take two or three weeks"
Nine. Chang was reported rest
ing well and in good spirits at
Franklin Hospital. She arrived
late Saturday on a plane from
Hawaii, where doctors had recon-
mended she proceed to San Fran
cisco for treatment of the ailment,
believed caused by nerves.
K. w. Yu, a member of her
party. said Nine. Chang is being
treated with cortisone.
Evening star., 1952-08-18
Greek Parliament Ends
In Uproar Over Charges
BY the Associotsd Press

ATHENS, Greece, Aug. 18.-
Greece's Parliament broke up in a
row today when the opposition
leader, Field Marshal Alexander
Papagos, charged that last Sep
TENDERS elections were "dishon-
est and corrupt"
After a 10-minute recess had
quieted things down, Marshal
Papagos explained that he had
not meant to blame the present
coalition regime of ailing Premier
Nicholas Plastiras and his deputy,
Sophocles Venizelos. He said he
referred to the previous Venizelos
regime which staged the election.
The extraordinary session was
called to debate Greece's worsen-
ing economic situation. A vote Of
confidence is expected Wednes-
day. If the government loses the
vote, it will automatically be
forced to resign.
Marshal Papagos called for new
elections. declaring the Plastiras
regime holds a majority Of only
one or two deputies. The popular
war hero predicts new elections
would sweep him to power.
Evening star., 1952-08-18
Auto Crash Kills 7,
Six From One Family,
On Nevada Highway
By the Associoisd Press

FALLON, New. Aug. 18.-Six
touring members of a New York
State family were wiped out
yesterday and a San Francisco
man was killed in a head-on crash
that turned a section Of U. s.
Highway 40 into a blazing pyre.
Cars driven by Raymond A.
Roosa. Woodbourne, N. Y, and
Alfred Flifka. San Francisco, col
lided squarely in the center Of the
four-lane highway 80 miles east
of Fernley, New. Mr.. Roosa's car
was headed West. --. ..... .e
Both drivers were killed.
Churchill County authorities iden-
titled the other dead, all members
of Mr.. Roosa's family, as: His
wife Theresa. son Raymond, jr.,
about II; daughter Mabel. about
I9, and the drivers father and
mother. Mr.. and Mrs. Archie
POnSp
Evening star., 1952-08-18
Windsor Reaches Puris;
Has Lumbuqo Attack
BY the Assoeiated Press

PARIS. Aug. 18.-The ailing
Duke of Windsor arrived In Paris
from Italy yesterday with a sud-
den and painful attack Of lum-
bago to add to his troubles.
The Duchess Of Windsor had
to help the former King Of Eng
land walk from their train to a
waiting automobile.
The duke was stricken with an
attack Of gastro-enteritis a week
ago while on a yachting trip to
italy. A member Of the Wind
sors' household staff said the
dukes lumbago has absolutely
nothing to do with his illness In
ITALY,"
Evening star., 1952-08-18
|NpA Acts 10 Provide
Extra Steel for Autos
And Building Projects

The Government took steps to-
day to provide automobile
makers, other manufacturers, and
the building industry with addi-
tional steel to overcome scarcities
still critical as the result Of the
steel strike.
The action by the National Pro-
duction Authority, would allow
users to obtain supplies of high
priced so-called conversion steel
in the last three months of this
year and the first three months of
1852. This steel would be in ad-
dition to the users ordinary allot-
ments.
The step has been asked by
automobile producers who claim it
will go far toward meeting their
plans to produce 1,150,000 cars
in the final quarter of this year.
NPA had told the industry earlier
that allotments of ordinary steel
probably be no large than to pro-
vide for production of 1886, 900 cars
Costs $50 Per Ton More.
Conversion steel is steel pro-
|duced by a plant in excess of that
plants capacity to roll 1t into
shapes. It is then moved and
shaped in another mill. It costs
about $50 a ton more than steel
produced and rolled in one inte-
grated plant.
While the conversion steel will
be available for building, It may
mot be obtained for recreation and
entertainment structures. still
under ban.
NPA Administrator Henry H
Fowler said the use of conversion
steel is designed to maintain in
dustrial production and construc-
ton as well as employment as the
highest possible levels in the six
months beginning October /.
May Obtain 500 Tons.
Any steel user with an author.
lied production schedule may OBJ
tain up to 500 tons OF conversion
steel per quarter in the last three
months Of 1862 and the first quar-.
ter Of 1853 without charging II
against his allotment. If he needs
more he may. with NPA approval
obtain up to, 40 per cent. of each
quarters allotment under rules
safeguarding defense production
Barring further work stop.
pages" Mr.. Fowler said, 1--WE an.
ticipatee that by the middle o1
1853 the output of Americas stee.
mills should be sufficient to sup.
port both the mobilization pro.
gram and the non-military pro.
duction. When that time ar.
rives. he added. orders such a.
those issued today will be M
longer necessary.
Evening star., 1952-08-18
g Believed Drowned
AT English Resort
By Flash Flood !
BY the Asseeiated Press

LYNMOUTH, Eng, Aug. 18.-I
Army engineers blasted and bull
dozed their way today through the
debris of flash food believed to
have drowned 80 persons in Eng
lands southwest resort coast.
Thus far nine bodies have been
recovered from among the rain
washed boulders and house wreck
age along a 15-mile stretch of the
Devon coast. Still missing and
presumed dead were 80 more viii
layers and vacationers.
This picturesque vacation town
was almost washed into the sea
by water which poured over the
banks Of the Lyn River at the
height Of the food early Saturday.
The Army Engineers were rae
ing against newly threatening
skies in an attempt to put the
Lyn back into its course. More
rains might spread the waters,
over a still larger area.
Property Damage High.
First estimates put the property
damage in the whole flooded area
at over Z million pounds (almost
$40 million).
The catastfophe's full force fell
on Lynmouth. a picture postcard
little holiday resort which turned
into q boulder-strewn shambles
when cloudbursts Friday changed
the placid little Lyn into torrent
boiling through the main street.
The flood damage here alone
was estimated at more than 2 mil
lion pounds-over $5.5 million
Twenty houses and 20 hotels had
disappeared. At least 40 other
houses were damaged.
Police sealed of the town to
prevent looting. More than $500
villagers and holidayers had been
evacuated from the ghost village
to inland bathrooms and halls
hastily converted into refugee
centers.
Five Vacationists Dead.
Five vacationists, including
three Boy Scouts, were listed
among the dead and nine vaca-
tionists among those missing and
presumed dead. /
Survivors from Lynmouth gave
q graphic description of the terror
that suddenly burst on them in
the night.
Comedian AL Raie, appearing at
the local music hall, told how the
audience hurried out as the noise
Of the flood drowned a sopranos
voice.
II saw a chain of women walk
ing hand in hand toward their
hotel" Raie said. Then the
sidewalk disappeared and the girl
on the end of the chain was swept
out to sea-"
At one hotel Phyllis Biggs, the
manager, shepherded the fright
ened guests through an upstairs
window onto the roof. There,
while the Lyn roared past beneath
them and the hotel shuddered
from boulders crashing against
its walls. they huddled together
and sang the hymn, "Oh God,
Our Help in Ages Past"
Evening star., 1952-08-18
Youth Faces Charge
OF Numbering Father
By the Assecioied Press

PARKERSBURG, w. Va, Aug.
18.-State police said they would
charge a 17-year-old boy with
murder today, accusing him of
beating his father to death in a
fist fight.
According to police the youth,
Richard Thompson, brawled with
Wilbur Okey Thompson, 46. Au-
thorities said the dispute arose
when Richard told his father that
Mr.. Thompson's divorced wife
thought her teen-aged daughter
was1spending too much time away
from home. The girl made her
home with Mr.. Thompson.
Evening star., 1952-08-18
The Weather Here and Over the Nation

tered thundershowers likely in the
mountains. Low tonight Of 66 to
72. with go In the extreme west.
Tomorrow, generally fair with
little change in temperature.
Wind: Variable, about S miles
an hour. from the southeast, at
1880 am.
District Medical Society rag
weed pollen count for "a hours
ended at 8 o'clock this morning,
81 grains per cubic yard of air. .
River Report.
(From u. s. Engineers.)
Potomac River cloudy at Harpers Ferry
and clear at Great Falls; Shenandoah
cloudy At Harpers Ferry.
Evening star., 1952-08-18

District of Columbia and vicin-
ity-Some cloudiness with high
near SO. Low tonight about 70.
Tomorrow, fair and rather warm
in the afternoon.
Maryland-Some cloudiness this
afternoon and evening with scat
tered thundershowers likely in the
mountains. Low tonight of IS to
70, except so in the extreme west.
Tomorrow. generally fair with
little change in temperature.
Virginia-Some cloudineSs this
afternoon and tonight with scat
Evening star., 1952-08-18

Commission to combine the three
firing programs in Government
into one unified system, there is a
good chance that non-yeteranS
might get these appeal rights.
Besides suitability dismissals.
there are separate loyalty and
security risk firing programs. Mr..
Truman wants. them all combined.
All employees have appeal rights
lin loyalty cases to an impartial ap-
|peals board, but there are no i'm
partial appeal reviews in security
risk cases.
Civil Service Commission off,
cials are just beginning work on the
program of combining the three
systems. They say that legisla-
ton would not be needed to extend
appeals rights to non-veterans in
suitability firings. This could be
done by a Presidential executive
order, the same as extending ap-
peals rights to all employees in
security risk cases, they say.
Whether the commission will
propose extension Of appeals
rights to non-veterans in suita-
bility firings has not yet been dis
cussed by commission officials
But they say there is a definite
possibility this will be done under
a unified dismissal program.
/ 4 X X 4
MERIT SYSTEM-There will
be a new bipartisan move in
Congress next year to decentralize
to the various departments and
agencies the right to recruit and
examine in the filling of Federal
jobs.
However, considerable changes
will be made in the legislation
that passed the Senate during the
past session of Congress but which
failed to pass the House.
The measure was shelved by
the House Civil Service Committee
after lengthy hearings, primarily
because of the objections of vet
erans' organizations. The veter-
ans groups claimed the plan
would wreck veterans preference
! AS a result. it's expected that
the new bill to be introduced next
year will be rewritten to- provide
specific safeguards for veterans.
Another feature of theI new bill
will contain greater police and
enforcement powers for the Civil
Service Commission to crack down
ion agencies which abuse their
Evening star., 1952-08-18
TruiiIIo Inuuquroted

CIUDAD TRUJILLO, Domini-
can Republic, Aug. 18 R.-This
Caribbean republic has inaugu-
rated Gen. Hector B. Trujillo Mo-
lima as its new president. He
succeeded his elder brother. Ra-
fael Leonidas, who had been presi-
dent since 1880 except for a brief
period from 1884. I.
Evening star., 1952-08-18
Voice of America Ship
Docks at Athens Port
BY the Associated Press

ATHENS, Greece, Aug. 18.-The
Voice Of Americas seagoing radio
station Courier docked at Athens
port, nearby Piraeus, today pre-
paratory to beginning broadcasts
to Iron Curtain countries. XXI
The Courier will remain iri
Piraeus three days before depart
ing for the Greek island of Rhodes
in the Mediterranean just west Of
Turkey, where it will anchor per-
manently for broadcasts.
Evening star., 1952-08-18
Cancer Bomb Ordered

NEW YORK, Aug. 18 R.-
Montef1ore Hospital in the Bronx
says it will receive a high-inten-
sity radioactive cobalt bomb"
next month from Canada to help
in the treatment of deep-seated
cancer.
Evening star., 1952-08-18
Joseph Pfister, Artist
Who Pointed Truman
BY the Assoeiofed Press

CINCINNATI, Aug. 18.-Joseph
Pfister, who painted portraits Of
President Truman and Other
noted persons, died at a hospital
here Saturday night. He was II
his early SOS.
His portrait subjects included
the late actor. John Barrymore;
Senator Bricker. Republican. o1
Ohio and the late Georges
Clemenceau, World War Premier
of France.
Evening star., 1952-08-18
Official Study Describes Tactics
Used by Reds Against Catholics

maze In CQlS QlrecClOn In
Poland the government has not
been as successful in making in
roads upon the unity and in
tegrity of the epiScopature." 80. =
Methods Vary.
Communist methods against the
Roman Catholic church vary ac-
cording to the strength of the
church in each country, the re-
port says. where it is strongest
a working arrangement is sought;
where it is weakest the organiza-
ton is completely subverted."
When church organizations are
brought under State control, the
study said, appointments to &C.
clesiastical posts from the highest
to the lowest come from the State
or State-approved religious or
ganizations.
"Only those priests who have
proven themselves loyal or friend
ly toward communism have any
chance Of being selected. The
subject matter of sermons. lee
lures and other activities relating
to parishioners are often supplied
by the state. Suitable topics in
clude Soviet peace propaganda,
the Stockholm Peace Appeal
hate-America and anti-West
propaganda. items appealing to
the nationalistic aspirations OF
the particular people concerned
(Such as the Oder-Neisse region
for PolandD, the need for full
filling factory and farm produc-
ton norms and lately bacteria
logical warfare.
Financial Strings.
I'm addition, the various
churches are entirely dependent
upon the States for their finan-
|cial support"
The report says that if a church
receives a donation it has to be
turned in to the State and suct
high fees are charged for the use
of State records in such cere.
monies as baptism (pariSh records
having been conflscated) that
neither priest nor parishio1el
could afford them.
Should priest object to the
foregoing subjugations." the re.
port says, ''he knows what will
happen to him. There are many
instances of the treatment &C.
corded such persons. the most in
famous example being the case o1
Cardinal Mindszenty in Hungary
Evening star., 1952-08-18
Lody TempIer Aids Soldier

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaga. Aug.
18 (R.-Lady Templer. wife Of
British High Commissioner Sir
Gerald Templer, gave first aid
treatment to . British soldier to-
day. He suffered q fractured
shoulder when the armored car
which was escorting the Templers
ran into q ditch.
Evening star., 1952-08-18

cedureS. Nom
veterans ca n
only appeal on
reduction : in =
force economy
diSlnissals.
The right to
appeal on fir
ings and other
personnel griev-
ances has long
been sought by
non = veterans.
Now, with Pres
.ident Truman'S
order to the
Civil Service
Evening star., 1952-08-18
By John N. Hishtower
Associated Press Stuff Writer

:. The State Department yester-
day released a study of the tac-
tics by which Communist govern
ments are capturing youth and
chaining churches to the State in
their drive to kill all religion.
The report. prepared by official
experts for use by Government
agencies and by private scholars
and writer's, asserts that the ulti-
mate aim of Communist policy
toward religion sis its extinction. 2"
It describes numerous shorter
steps aimed to reach that goal by
stages.
In one of the primary drives,
the study says. religious education
for the young has generally been
removed from the schedule of
church activities and youth Or
ganizations. including those of
Catholic youths. have been re-
organized into federaitons which
wage a crusade against religion. "
Another such step is to make
churches subservient to the Com
munist State. the review states, in
the pattern of relations between
the Russian Orthodox Church and
the government Of the Soviet
Union.
In the case of the Roman Cath
olic Church in the satellites" the
report says, Communist efforts
are directed toward creating Ma
tional Catholic churches which
swear loyalty to the State or en-
Iployes of the State and which
have no relations with the Vatican
and Western churches and in.
f1uenceS -.
Attacks Hierarchy.
ut is a general satellite policy
to attack the church organization
and it's leaders rather than Chris
tianity ITSELF"
The report recalls that in the
past several years a number OF
Eastern European Red govern
ments have taken calculated
steps to divorce the local Roman
Catholic hierarchies completely
from Rome and If possible trans
form them into so-called National
Catholic churches" subservient to
the Communist State.
'ThiS aim has been partially at
tanned in Romania, Albania and
Hungary" it says. I'm Czecho-
slovakia some progress has been
Evening star., 1952-08-18
Hole Seen in Sun

Astronomers at Italy's Bendani
Observatory have discovered a
hole in the surface of the sun big
enough to hold a planet several
times the size of the earth.
Evening star., 1952-08-18
The Federal Spotlight
The Federal Spotlight ... .ss
Unified Firing Plan May Give
Appeal Rights to Non-Veterons
By Joseph Young

combine the Governments three firing systems
extension rights
suitability hrngs and other personnel
Suitability" fringS involve of
Evening star., 1952-08-18
Wants 'Birchine' Restored

Sir H. Williams. member Of
Britain's Parliament, has askea
the home secretary if he will "re-
store birching" for boys cruelty to
animals. ---''''
Evening star., 1952-08-18
Six From Two Families
Are Killed at Rail Crossing
By the Associated Press


BINGHAMTON, N. Y, Aug. ID.
= Six persons were killed last
night when their automobile was
struck by a westbound Erie Rail-
road passenger train at a grade
crossing on a private driveway
near here.
The dead all were members Of
two families.
They were identified as Adel-
bert Lee Houghton, his wife and
their 6-month-old child. of Bing-
hamton, and Russell Tompkins,
%, his wife. Hazel, 81, and their
2-year-old daughter, Vickie Lee.
The accident occurred on the
private driveway leading into the
Tompkins' home at Langdon,
about five miles southeast Of here.
Evening star., 1952-08-18
Woman and 2 Daughters
Among a Burned to Death
BY the Assoeioied Press

SAN ANGELO, Tex, Aug. 18.-
Four persons, including mother
and her twin daughters, burned
to death yesterday in a. three,car
collision about five miles north Of
here. ..... ...-
The dead: Mrs. Vernon Milan,
IS; her twin daughters, Brenda
Sue and Linda Lou, Is months,
and Leroy Renfro, all of Lamesa.
Tex.
A third member of the Milan
family. Jimmy Ross. 9, was criti-
cally injured.
Officers said the Milan car. in
which all the victims were riding.
collided with another car and was
thrown into the path of a third
car. The Milan car then burst
into flames. g..
Evening star., 1952-08-18

INSTRUMENTATION and other factors.
At present only veterans have
these appeal rights, as well as ap-
peal rights in other grievance pro-
Evening star., 1952-10-04
By Lewis F. Atchison
Ster Stoff Correspondent

CHICAGO. Oct. Redskins
coaches who believed they had
covered every bit of ground getting
the team ready for tomorrow's
game with Green Bay at Milwau-
kee faced a couple of puzzlers to-
day and admittedly were worried.
The problems: How to get au-
tomobiles from Midwestern ga
RACES into Washington next week,
and how to move wives. babies and
personal possessions to the home
city.
Coach Curley Lambeau and his
aides didn't have their usual con-
fident air as the team prepared to
entrain late today for Milwaukee.
They had given their men instruc-
tions on how to block Packer
plays, knock down passes and who
to tackle. But they couldn't tell
'em what to do about their do
mestic problems.
Worse Than OvercOnfidence.
"All I've heard the last couple
Of days is, My cars ii Indiana,
and, Mines in Ohio and, How is
your wife gonna make the trip?'
Lambeau said. Their (the play
ersO minds are on autos and fami-
lies, not the ball game. And ]
don't like it. It's worse than be-
Evening star., 1952-10-04
Fort Eusfis Drops Boiling
From Undefeafed Ranks
Special Dispatch 70 The Stnr

FORT EUST1S, Va, Oct. A.
Boiling Air Bases football team is
missing from the list of unbeaten
teams today, having been upset,
TO. last night by another powerful
service team, the Fort Eustis
Wheels.
The Wheels converted blocked
kick into the games only score
before a crowd Of 10000 to end
Bolling's winning string after
three straight and mark up their
own fourth straight win.
Ted Daffer, star guard at Ten
nessee last year, blocked a punt by
Bolling's Dom Fucci in the third
period, and Eustis took over on
Bolling's Is. One play netted moth
ing, but, on the next, Gene Shan
non went around end to score and
Sam Rebecca added the extra
point.