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Evening star., 1952-09-07

and husking corn by hand.
Things have changed.
But. I still get up with the
chickens!
From those early experiences
I gained an enduring belief that
independence is something to
be priced f1ercely as mans most
precious possession. And
that cooperation between free
men is the force that solves
problems too great for the in
dividual. I learned in my home
and on the land that indepen-
dence is faith in yourself. I
also learned that cooperation is
faith in your fellow man. The
farmers I knew in those days
expressed this creed in the
words: "I want to be my own
boss" When a mans barn
burned down, the neighbors
gathered to help him rebuild
it. So they lived both in inde-
pendence and in cooperation.
I know that since those SIM
pie, elf-sufficient days farm
ing has undergone an amazing
revolution. In the fields where
I once shocked wheat behind
a horse-drawn binder. the har-
vest is now a one-man job
with a self-propelled combine.
But to me, the most signifi-
cant fact Of the revolution on
the land is that the essential
character of our agriculture
has not changed. The family
farm is still the mainstay. The
farmer still wants to be his own
boss.
Al Y,v,a fox. That
Evening star., 1952-09-07
Pledges Positive,
Aggressive Proqroms

However, these all-wiSe bu.
reaucrats have plans far more
sinister than these schemes to
influence your vote with govern
ment money. Fear is being
broadcast by the administration
and it's phony front organiza-
tions. They are trying to scare
you into voting, not as your.
Evening star., 1952-09-07
Grain Storage Hoax
OF 1913 Recalled

You've seen them grow cyni-
cal and arrogant. They've just
been in power too long-far too
long. Systematically they have
tried to use the, vast powers Of
the Federal Government to
make the farmer a political cap
tive.
You don't have to look far for
evidence. The case is now per-
fectly clear in the grain storage
hoax of 1948. It is a story Of
perversion Of Government re-
sponsibilities and powers - a
story of a giant Federal farm
agency. backed by the peoples
dollars, deliberately driving
down the price Of grain to in
still fear in the minds of farm
erS.
It is a story of a government
agency spreading panic-using
press. radio and speeches to
paint a picture a false
picture :. of the lack Of storage
space for grain.
You were told at Dexter, Iowa,
on Sept. 18. 1948, that the 80th
Congress had prevented the
administration from providing
storage bins for farmers. You
we're further told that this would
make it impossible for many of
you to get price support loans.
The facts are now well
known-and here they are:
/. The 80th Congress did not
prevent the Commodity Credit
Corp. from furnishing storage
to farmers for their grain.
2. There was no shortage Of
storage space.
8. Contrary to the accusation.
the Commodity Credit Corp.
never has furnished storage to
farmers. It hadn't before and
it hasn't since.
4. The Commodity Credit
Corp. was selling its own grain
bins as surplus at the very
moment the Democrat candidate
accused the Republicans of hav-
ing stuck a pitchfork in the
farmers hack" /"
Now, who actually stuck that
pitchfork in your back? It was
none other than the Democrat
administration itself!
And now the agricratS are
trying to set the stage for a
repeat performance. This time
they are conducting . nation
wide. farm -by-farm so-called
educational" campaign to "ex-
plain" the well-known COM
modify loans to farmers. But
the fact is that much Of this
propaganda campaign is de-
signed to make you think these
loans have a Democrat price tag.
Evening star., 1952-09-07

methods Of maintaining and ex-
panding both security and OPP
portunities in agriculture. We
must mobilize all of the brains
In agriculture-farmers. your
farm organization leaders. your
farm-wise legislators. your agri-
cultural specialists and research
workers-to join with us to build
and improve our long range
farm policies and programs.
Our goal will be sound,
farmer-run programs that safe
guard agriculture-but do not
regiment you, do not put the
Federal Government in charge
Of your farms. We must. by
using good old-fashioned horse
sense, figure out sound methods
of maintaining agriculture'S
freedom to shift patterns Of
production without losing the
basic projections to which agri-
culture is entitled. We must
realize that no formula de-
veloped at any particular time
Is infallible. Conditions change.
What counts is being prepared
to do the right thing at the
right time.
Evening star., 1952-09-07

posed to have much to say
about the management Of these
programs.
But what happened? Do you
have a voice that carries weight
with the Washington agricul-
tural autocrats?
Or should I say "Agricrats." .?
Do they listen to you? Do
they welcome your farm organi-
zation leaders in their council?
Evening star., 1952-09-07

KASSON. Minn., Sept. 6.-Fol-
lotDinO Is the tert OF Gen. Eisen-
hotDer's speech at the National
PloiDin0 Contest today:
Evening star., 1952-09-26
Warrant Out for Suspect
In Mexican Plane Blast
BY the Associoted Press

MEXICO CITY, Sept. 26.-Police
said an arrest warrant was out
today for a person., identity un.
disclosed, who recently took out
a large insurance policy on a Mex
ican passenger aboard the Mexican
airliner nearly wrecked Wednes-
day by mysterious explosion.
Investigators said they believed
the explosion, in which several OF
the II passengers were injured
was caused by a bomb placed in
the baggage compartment by the
purchaser of the insurance policy
They refused to disclose the
identity.
One passenger on the Mexican
plane said he had seen a man ir
Mexico City put two suitcases
aboard the plane. then cancel his
passage at the last minute.
The blast blew out the side o1
the twin-engine DC-3 plane after
it took off from here for Oaxaca
The pilot brought the plane down
safely at the nearby Santa Lucia
military air base but several pas
sengers, including DR.. Henry Man
kin and his wife of Berkeley, Calf.
were injured by flying metal.
Evening star., 1952-09-26
u. 5. Loan Influence
Denied by Wyatt
By the Asseeiofed Press

SPRINGFIELD, Ill.,, Sept. 26.-
Wilson Wyatt, former Fedora
Housing expediter and now man.
aging the presidential campaign
of Gov. Stevenson, denied yester.
day he used influence in getting
a Government loan for a Florida
apartment project.
Mr.. Wyatt replied to story by
the Tampa (Fla) Tribune that
he helped three residents of Louis
vile, KY, get a Government loan
in 1949 for resort apartment
built at Sarasota, Fla, under Sec
tion 608 of the National Housing
Act.
Mr.. Wyatt said the loan was
made by commercial bank-the
Manufacturers Trust Co. of New
York-not by the Government
and was secured by an FHA-in-
Sured mortgage.
Gov. Stevenson's campaign man.
Iager said he was employed for
legal work only in connection with
closing the loan and this was some
three years after he left Wash
|ington and some four years after
the war was over.
Needless to say" Mr.. Wyatt
said, "it involved no influence
whatever"
Evening star., 1952-09-26
New York Police Say Wife
HELPED Rob D. {. Hacker
BY the Assoeiofed Press

NEW YORK, Sept. 26.-Police
held a red-haired young wife to.
day on a charge of master-mir1d.
ing the holdup here of her hus.
band. Washington, D. c. cat
driver.
They said the husband, Will.
Griffin, ~, Of 116 Twelfth street
Sc. Washington, had come here
to effect a reconciliation. but in
stead was robbed of $3.50 at gun.
point by three friends Of his wife
They were arrested.
Assistant District Attorney Law
renee Gresser, jr., of Queen!
County, said the wife, Mrs. Eileen
Griffin q, mother of three, met
her husband Saturday night anc
learned he had almost $500 with
him.
+ He said the wife,. working as q
waitress at a diner near Idlewilc
Airport, made a date to meet Mr.
Griffin again Monday. but mean
while arranged with three men tc
rob him. She had been living fol
the past three weeks with heI
mother at Jamaica, Queens.
Mr.. Gresser quoted Mr.. Griffin
as saying he no longer wanted a
reconciliation. but instead would
remain here to seek custody Of the
children.
"I can never forgive her." Mr.
Griffin said. These mugs had
guns. I could have been killed"
Evening star., 1952-09-26
Space in British Papers
On u. 5. Race Tops 1948
BY the Associated Press

LONDON, Sept. 26. - British
newspapers are giving the United
States presidential race much
more space than they gave the
Truman-Dewey contest four years
ago.
In the first three weeks of this
month, the London Times devoted
376 column inches to the cam
paign, compared to only So inches
to Truman-Dewey in all of Sep
tember, 1948.
For the Daily Express, the fig
ures are 800 inches now and los
inches then: Daily Telegraph, 438
now and 68 inches then; Daily
Mail. 219 now and "a then.
The increase in the number of
rationed pages in British news
papers may account for some Of
the increased space, but most OBJ
servers believe the British public
is more interested in this years
campaign.
Evening star., 1952-09-26

Pvt. Schaefer said both mer
were found semi-conscious 33C
feet from the point of impact
Their motorcycle. he said. was 11s
feet beyond the rider and his pas
senger. Both distances were meas
ured, the policeman declared.
The chase started near Peace
Cross, the policemen said, when
they saw the motorcycle weaving
in traffic. The police car was up
to 80 miles an hour at times,
Policeman Schaefer said, before
crossing into the District.
The policemen saw the crash
and watched the two riders tum-
BILE through the air, strike the
paving and roll. "They looked
like a couple Of birds for a while,
Mr.. Schaefer said.
Washington police will charge
Hebb with reckless driving.
Evening star., 1952-09-26
Capital Transit Melted
|$63,374 in August

The Capital Transit Co. had a
net income of $63,374 in August
compared with $53,713 in August
1851, the company reported today
August was the last month before
the new fare increase went into
effect.
Net income for eight months
this year was $653, ,421, compared
with $987, 1929 a year earlier.
Operating revenues for August
amounted to $2,259,592 against
81, ,400,628 a year earlier. Operat-
ing expenses were reduced to ST.
$40, ,058, compared with $780,, ,321
For the eight months, operating
revenues were $19,008.823, COM
pared with $19,096, ,952 and operat-
ing expenses totaled $15,166, 600
compared with $14,096,115.
Evening star., 1952-09-26
Officials Seek 10 Ban
New Tenants Movinq
Into SIum Alley
Citizens Group to Find
Other Units for Families
In Temperance Court
"a. u~.:~a H.:EE:AL.
By Horriet Griffiths

District officials today promised
help in seeing that no new tenants
move into unhealthy Temperance
court dwellings as the Washing
ton Housing Association and the
Central Northwest Citizens Asso-
ciation seek to rehouse the pres
ent residents.
Temperance court is dreary
alley between Twelfth and Thir-
teenth, T and u streets NV. The
housing association today called
for its speedy condemnation.
Growing up there in dilapidatec
brick row houses are at least u
children. There are heaps O.
trash around the alley. Rats hav'
bitten several children.
After making a report on ,
survey of the alley, officials o1
the housing association and DR.
Emerson Williams, chairman o1
the housing committee of the cit
liens association, visited the Dis
trict Building today.
On Board Schedule.
At the meeting in the Office OF
Commissioner Renah F. Camalier,
Assistant Engineer Commissioner
Thomas j. Hayes III, explained
that the Board for the Condemna-
ton of Insanitary Buildings had
the court on its schedule for next
spring.
While there is no question that
Temperance Court is a logical
area for board activity, he said,
there are 18 or 20 other alleys
Just as bad or worse.
But Col. Hayes. informed by
housing association officials that
two families recently have moved
out and another house is vacant
at Temperance Court, agreed that
the board would act meanwhile
where any building is vacated.
He noted that the association
and the citizens promised help in
rehousing present tenants at the
court. He said the board was
delighted" with such assistance,
since rehousing is one of its big
gest headaches.
One of the five-room buildings
IN Temperance Court is occupied
by Mrs. Estelle Brown, who has
SIX children and a grandchild.
Toadstools sprout on the dining
room wall from the dampness.
Kitchen Plaster Falling.
The plaster is falling from the
kitchen ceiling. Recently some of
it struck her 16-year-old daughter
on the head.
Mrs. Brown said she has had
her application in for other
with the National Capt.
tai Housing Authority since 1916.
That was the year she moved to
Temperance Court. Her small
rooms are neat, and her children
are nicely dressed.
But she has to put pals around
to catch the water when it rains.
Her rent is $50 a month, but
she says similar houses in the
court rent for $14.
Edward Cole, who has lived in
(See SLUMS, Page A-20
Evening star., 1952-09-26
OPS can't keep a secret.

A division chief yesterday or
dered his staff to keep price In
formation secret until formal
announcements are made. Within
hours, the secret directive about
Office secrets was very. very public
The order came from E. E
Fogle, director Of the OPS division
handling price controls on rubber,
chemicals, drugs and fuel. In an
inter-office memorandum, he told
his staff to withhold all price
information until the Office OF
Information announces 1t.
His memorandum complained
that his workers previously had
given out data that was not only
premature but. In some instances
incorrect"
Evening star., 1952-09-26
Hurled $50 Feet by Motorcycle
In Police Chase, 2 Escape Death

Two motorcycle riders were
thrown $50 feet. landed on paving
and survived last night when their
cycle struck safety island while
being chased by police.
One of them. Arthur Trimmer,
"a, of 1904 Bunker Hill road
Brentwood, Md. the passenger, is
in critical condition at Casualty
Hospital.
But the driver, James Clinton
IHebb. Sd, %, of 1872 Bryant
street NE, suffered only head and
LEG injuries and is in good condi-
ton at Gallinger.
Prince Georges County Police
men E. E. Schaefer and T. D.
Bird said they were about halt
block behind the cycle when II
struck the safety island in the
2600 block of Bladensburg road
NE. at a speed of about 80 miles
an hour.
Evening star., 1952-09-26
Price Officials Secrecy Order
KeDt Secretion d FewHours

When newsmen learned OF the
order, they ran to w. w. McClana-
han, jr., acting director Of public
information. He hadn't heard OF
the gag order. After investigating.
he said:
"The memorandum was issued
without the prior knowledge or ap-
proval Of the Office Of Public In
formation. There has been no
change in agency policy, which
has been to encourage the COM
plete public dissemination Of
news"
Reporters wanting to talk to Mr..
Fogle, author Of the memorandum.
couldn't reach him. Where he was
seemed to be the best-kept secret
Iof all. a
Evening star., 1952-09-26
Boys Clothes Inspire
Top Designer Wrogge

BOY sTYLE-Desisner sydney
Wrosse took foshion principle from
the boys" and oppIied it to women's
clothes. EIeni, The Stor's foshion edi-
tor, describes his work on pose B-5.
RUSSIAN FLUENcY-A Gloss in Rus
sion conversation will open at George
Washington University Mondoy. Mrs.
Helen Zhemchuzhnoyo Yokobson will
teoeh il. Writer Betty Miles tells about
the course on pose B-6.
SERIAL SToRY-There is onother
instoIIment Of Herman Wouk's Pulitzer
prize winning novel. THE coine Mu-
tiny" on pose Ais.
Evening star., 1952-09-26
By Jock Jonas

1t. Joseph w. Shimon today
refused to answer a question
about his wire-tapping activities
and said he might violate the law
if he did so.
His refusal came during a police
trial board hearing into admins
+trative charges that he lied to
the Senate and his superior
officers about wires that he tapped
during an investigation for Sena-
tor Brewster, Republican, of
Maine and others in 1916 and
'1947.
The lieutenant, now assigned
to No. 2 precinct, wouldn't tell
whether he knew the identity of
the person whose wire he tapped
at the Occidental Hotel. 1t. Shi-
mon said he made the tap while
Evening star., 1952-09-26
Order Want Ads Now
For The Sunday Star

Telephone d-tokers ore on duty in
The Stor's classified department until
10 o'clock tonight for the convenience
Of advertisers.
You con help avoid backlog Of coils
at The Stor switchboard tomorrow as
the noon deodIine for Sunday ods op-
brooches by ordering your od tonight.
The Stor eorries more classified ods
thon the three other Washington news
popers combined. Phone Sterling 5000
row TO advertise in Wushinston's No. !
classified medium.
Evening star., 1952-09-26
By the Associated Press

TORONTO. Canada, Sept. 26.-
A nationwide alarm was out to-
day for nearly half ton of gold,
valued at about 100000, which
vanished after it was placed in
an unguarded, padlocked cargo
shed at nearby Nation Airport
terminal.
Police said they believed the
gold had been stolen, but there
appeared to be some question as
to where the theft might have
taken place. Officials were close
mouthed about details of both the
disappearance and the subsequent
investigation.
If the bullion has been stolen,
it was Canada's third major gold
theft in four months.
Packed in six boxes weighing a
total of 848 pounds, the gold ap-
parently vanished late Wednes-
day. Police were not called in,
however, until yesterday morning
$150,000 Delivered Safely.
The six boxes of precious metal
were part of a shipment of 10 in
transit to Montreal. Only four of
the 10, containing about $15O,OOO
worth of bullion, were checked in
at the final destination.
Officials of Trans-Canada Air
Lines, which operates the air ter
minal. declined comment except to
say:
LAS far as TEA is concerned, the
gold is just missing. We have no
official knowledge that it was
stolen. Nor do we know exactly
what it is worth"
These details were known:
The gold was delivered under
guard to the airport by Drinks,
Inc, the armored money-car firm.
1t was turned over to TEA cargo
handlers who signed a receipt for
it and placed it in a wire-net
cage. The cage was locked with
Evening star., 1952-09-26
Peiipiing Farley
Ready 10 Start
Blasts at U. 5.
30 Countries Send
Delegates to Open
Peace Offensive
By William [. Ryon

ASSOCldLcQ HTSSS rOEelSn news Analyst
Opening barrages of a gigantic
world Communist peace offen-
Sive" will be fired this week end.
The thunder of the propaganda
guns will mark the first phase of
new Soviet tactical assault upon
the United States.
From about 80 countries-those
in Asia and those such as Canada
and Latin America bordering the
Pacific-delegates have assembled
in Peiping, capital of Communist
China to do the bidding of the
Moscow-Peiping axis in this latest
campaign.
The countries represented" by
the Communist inspired delegates
have a population of more than
a billion-and-a-half people and
cover two-thirds of the earth's
surface. Some countries, such as
Australia and Japan, have for
hidden passports to prospective
delegates.
COncocted by Russians.
Plans for this assault were con-
cocted in July, under Soviet guild
ance, at the conference of the
Communist World Council of
Peace in Berlin. The Peiping
meeting is a curtain raiser to the
mighty peace offensive which
reaches its climax December in
Vienna with a World Congress.
There is little doubt that the
offensive is tied in with the de-
ciSion of Moscow to summon an
all-union congress of the Soviet
Communist Party October S, the
first such congress in 13 years.
The peace congresses and the
Soviet Party congress all clearly
are part Of the Soviet grand
strategy in the cold war.
The major attack is in Asia.
One goal is the expulsion of
American influence through dam
age to American prestige. The
ultimate goal is Communist DOM
ination of all Asia. But the
Communist appetite will not even
be satisfied with that. In the
future are plans for domination
of the Middle East, Africa and
South and Central America. This
is a long-range program which is
underway now, among whose aims
is the engendering Of economic
crises in the West, and particu-
larly in the United States. It looks
toward cheap Soviet victory.
Opposed to Germ Warfare.
Here is what will take place in
Peiping, amid much noise.
The Congress of Partisans in
Defense of Peace in Asia and the
Countries of the Pacific Ocean,
the mouthful title of this meeting
will dutifully adopt resolutions
as follows:
1. Against remilitarization of
Japan. Demanding withdrawal of
all occupation forces (meaning
American forces now there under
a separate treaty. from Japan.
2. Against meteorological war
fare and weapons of mass de-
struction.
8. For the outlawing of war
propaganda.
4. For peaceful solution" of the
Korean conflict and other conflicts
threatening world peace.
S. For development of interna-
tional trade on "the basis of equal
ity and mutual advantage" for
development of cultural relations
among nations, for steps to raise
living standards of nations.
All these will be depicted as
Communist goals thwarted by
American warmongers and aggres-
SorS.
Evening star., 1952-09-26
$500, 900 in Gold Disappears
In Toronto Airport Mystery
Missing After Being Put in Uneuorded Cage;
Moy Be Third Big Theft in Recent Months

a small paddock. but no guards
were stationed near it.
An employe took some of the
boxes from the shed and started
to wheel them on a hand truck
to the waiting plane, 120 feet
away. Halfway there he left the
truck alone for three or four min
|uteS while he went 60 yards to
the post office to pick up mail for
the flight.
Time Of Disappearance Mystery.
The plane scheduled to carry
the gold arrived in Montreal at
10:45 pm. Wednesday,. Six boxes
were reported missing the next
day.
Both police and airline officials
refused to say whether there were
any signs of tampering with the
paddock on the by S by S foot
wire cage, or whether the wire net
ting had been cut. Nobody would
say definitely whether the six
missing boxes disappeared from
the cargo shed, whether they had
been loaded on the hand truck and
might have been grabbed while
the attendant was away, OF
whether they were put on the
Montreal plane and disappeared
later.
Police said they had warned
TEA to take more precautions
against theft after two break-ins
had been reported at the air ter
minal, 18 miles northwest of
Toronto.
Investigators said they believed
the gold had been stolen by a we'll
organized gang who had been
given an inside tip.
Tea officials declined to say
who owned the gold or where the
shipment had come from. It was
believed, however, that it had
originated at the rich gold mines
in Northern Ontario and was en-
route to Britain and Switzerland
Evening star., 1952-09-26
Shinon BoIks at Wiretop Quiz,
Says Reply Would Violate Law
Refuses to Tell TrioI Board Whose Phone
He Cut In On at Occidental Hotel
looking for a Cuban sugar swim
Idler, fugitive from justice.

looking for a Cuban sugar swim
dler. fugitive from justice.
Law Bars Wiretap Disclosures.
Robert Lynch. the defense at
torney, stressed that 1t. Shimon
was not refusing to answer on the
grounds that he might incriminate
himself. He said the refusal was
based on the belief that an answer
might violate the communications
law of 1884, which bars disclosing
anything heard on tapped wires.
1t. Shinon answered similar
questions freely during the Sen
|ate's 1850 investigation of the wire
tapping.
Daniel Maher, former assistant
corporation counsel, who appeared
previously as prosecution wit
(See SHIMON. page A-3.l