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Evening star., 1952-02-15

court fight to block a police
financial QUESTIONABLE sent out by
the probers.
About the same time the No. z
man Of the department, Inspector
Walter Storm. retired as assistant
superintendent and executive Off
Ger Of the department.
Only a few weeks ago Inspector
Oscar j. Letterman, also an as
sistant superintendent, applied for
retirement and is scheduled to
leave his duties February 20. He
was a candidate for the job Of
chief, which went to Maj. Murray
when Maj. Barrett left. Inspec-
tor Letterman said he saw no fur
+ther opportunity for him in the
Police Department.
Acquitted During Trial.
Inspector Bullock, who was in
dicted along with Nelson and Il
others, was acquitted midway in
the District Court trial on a
directed verdict by Judge James
r. Kirkland. The other defend
ants subsequently were convicted.
Since his acquittal, Inspector
Bullock has been on leave with
pay after being Immediately re-
instated to the force. Commis-
sioner Donohue explained that
until the bar committee makes
its report and the Commissioners
have acted on it, the inspector
will remain on leave.
Commissioner Young said that
Inspector Bullock became eligible
for retirement last Monday when
he reached the age of IS. He also
has reached the necessary Is
years Of service on the force, an
other factor which makes him
eligible for retirement.
Case Still Under Study.
Mr.. Donohue explained that
normally the Commissioners would
approve the retirement applica-
ton. to become effective March 1.
But since the bar committee still
is studying the possibility of ad.
ministrative action against In
spector Bullock, the Commissioners
agreed not to act until after
we've been advised by the COM
mittee."
The Commissioners added they
expect to receive this report from
Attorney John Laskey. Francis
w. Hill. jr.. and John j. Wilson
before February 27, when Inspec-
fSee BULLOCK, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1952-02-15
President Requests
SITS Million More for
Current Operations
Veterans Administration
Fund Of $2S5 Million Top.
Supplemental Money Bill
BY the Assoeiaied Press

President Truman has askes
Congress for $715,238,1 ,165 more Il
finance current operations.
The largest slice of the supple.
mental appropriations requested
by the President yesterday /.
$685.. 100000 for the Veterans Ad.
ministration.
It was explained that 10000
more trainees registered under the
"GI bill" benefit program thar
were anticipated. Also l1eedins
financing are insurance for Ko.
rean casualties automobiles votee
for disabled veterans by the las
Congress, and veterans compen.
sation and pension payments.
Other Sums Needed.
Other sums are needed for the
Post Office Department, $1S9, $685..
600, to. cover increased, cost o.
railroad mail transportation un.
der an ICC order last November
Treasury. $26,640. 900, to cove
salary increases and enforcement
OF the new gambling law; Com.
merce. $77.416,170, for Federal ali
to highways; Housing and HON.
Finance Agency, $48, ,875, 900, most.
ly for defense housing.
Other sums asked include: $25,.
796. 900. mostly for assisting crit.
ical defense housing areas ir
obtaining health and welfare ia.
cilities; $77,416,170 for the De.
partment of Commerce, with mos
Of it going to the Bureau of Pub.
lie Roads to reimburse States fol
work done under Federal aic
highway authorizations.
Funds for DPS.
Also requested is $3.3. millior
for the Displaced Persons Com.
mission; $3.5 million for the De.
partment of Agriculture for forest
fire fighting. and $10,825, 900 fol
the Small Defense Plants Admin.
istration, mostly for establishin,
a revolving fund 'to be used ir
taking prime contracts from Gov.
ernment agencies and letting sub.
contracts to small businesses"
Evening star., 1952-02-15
Enemy Losses in Koreo
Placed at 1,615,593

The Army today estimated
total enemy casualties in Korea at
l,615.593. an increase of 1929 in
la 12-day period.
The summary listed 170,163
Communist prisoners Of war held
by United Nations forces. OF this
total l1l,523 are North Koreans,
20.754 are Chinese Communists,
|and 37,859 are civilian internees.
Announced American battle
casualties through last Friday
totaled 105.108. Non-battle cas-
!ualties are not announced.
Evening star., 1952-02-15

A promiscuous burglar whe
didn't much care whose house hi
entered chose a police captains
last night.
Capt. Otha r. Sanders Of the
harbor precinct was trying to gel
Ito sleep at home, 4601 Chesapeake
street NV, last night when the
man entered, flashed q light ir
his face and then fed when he
saw the captain was awake.
BY the time the police officer
could pull on enough clothing
grab his gun from q night table
and give chase, the burglar had
made his escape.
Two Of the captains neighbors
were not 30 lucky.
Evening star., 1952-02-15
Prichett Dies in Chair
After Justices Reject
Last-kinute Appeal
Sentence Executed
For SIoyine in 1949
Of B. & O. Engineer

Fred S. Prichett died in the
electric chair at 1912 pm. today
after a last-minute effort to save
him failed.
Chief Justice Vinson turned
down a plea for a stay of execu-
ton. The condemned mans at
torneys had sought a review oi
the case after the United States
Court of Appeals--meeting in ar
unusual night session last night
denied a stay Of execution.
Prichett. Al, was condemned tc
death for the July 10. 1949, slay.
ing Of Clyde L. King. locomotive
engineer for the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad.
Refused by Minton.
Immediately after Judge Vim.
sons ruling, Attorney James j
Laughlin began looking for an.
other Supreme Court jurist to pre-.
sent the case again. But after
Justice Minton also refused to re-
view the case. Mr.. Laughlin said:
"It's all over"
Asked If any further effort
would be made for a stay of execu-
ton, Mr.. Laughlin's associate, Al
bert J. Ahern, declared:
mo further effort can be made. "
Last night the appellate court
began hearing arguments in the
Prichett plea at $3.50 o'clock and
handed down its decision shortly
after midnight. Chief Judge
Harold M. Stephens and Judges
e. Barrett Prettyman and James
M. Proctor sat in the case.
Refuses Lunch in Cell.
Officials at the District Jail said
that Prichett spent a normal
night In his cell as his lawyers
pressed his plea. He ate his usual
breakfast this morning, they said,
but refused lunch.
Prichett. a native Of Albe-
marie County, Va, was employed
as a mechanic for the Capital
Transit Co. at the time of the
Staying.
He was released from a vir-
ginia penitentiary in 1946 after
serving IL years Of a 20-year SEN
tence for the Staying of a CWA
worker in Charlottesville.
The trial record disclosed that
the victim was shot after he failed
to produce a nickel Prichett
wanted for playing a slot machine.
Six Shots Fired.
The shooting of Mr.. King oc-
eurred in the lexington yards of
the B. & o. as Mr.. King was in
the cab Of his locomotive. Six
shots were fired, and one of them
struck Mr.. King in the back.
burial the trial. witnesses tes-
titled that Mr.. King and Prichett
had scuffied in front Of the King
home, where Prichett was a ROOM
er. The testimony showed that
the scuffle took place when
Prichett and Mrs. King returned
from a birthday party. which Mr..
King had been unable to attend
because he had been called to
work.
Evening star., 1952-02-15
Byrd Asks Congress
To Slash So Billion
From Truman Budqet
Spells Out in Detail
How to Trim Proposed
1854 Billion Program
By J. A. O'LeoN

Congress had before it today a
recommendation for a cut OF
nearly SO billion in President Tru-
mans 1854 billion spending
budget for next year from Sena-
tor Byrd. Democrat. of Virginia.
The Virginian, who has fire.
quently been at odds with the
President. criticized Mr.. Truman
sharply for failing to take the
lead in cutting other parts of the
budget to compensate for the cost
LOT preparedness.
Economy Goal Lauded.
Several members of the Senate
Appropriations Committee ap-
plauded Senator Byrd's economy
goal, although some thought it
would be difficult to reach 80
billion. Senator Young, Repub-
lican, Of North Dakota thought
it could be reached. Senator Nc
Clellan, Democrat, Of Arkansas
said $7.5 billion might be the best
Congress can do. Senator Ellen
der, Democrat, of Louisiana said
he had aimed at Sc billion of saw
ings. but added maybe we can
do better"
The Byrd Budget" spells out
in detail just where the knife
could be applied, touching every
category except interest on the
public debt.
He would reduce the civilian
personnel force of 2,613,000 pro-
vided for in the Presidents
budget to 1882, 900, or by 231, ZOO
jobs. This would account for
about 81 billion in salary money
and 5000 million in related ex-
Ipenses.
Here are the major operations
Senator Bryd proposes:
Foreign aid - Eliminate all
economic aid, for an estimated
saving Of $2.5 billion, and reduce
overseas military aid from So
billion to $7.9 billion.
Military establishment-Reduce
the Presidents figure of $49.6 bill.
lion to SAT billion. He also
recommends a 500 million cut in
programs related to the military,
such as stockpiles. atomic energy,
Maritime and Coast Guard.
Veterans affairs - Take 5000
million off the Presidents $4.2 bill
lion figure. by reducing admins
trative personnel and eliminate
what the Senator calls abuses OF
medical and surgical facilities.
Major Proposals Listed.
Domestic civilian agencies -
Make an overall cut of So billion,
scattered through such functions
as welfare, housing, Agriculture.
Commerce and Labor.
Senator Byrd's recommends
tions are based on the amounts
President Truman expects to
spend in the year beginning July /,
as distinguished from the new
appropriations he is asking this
session to approve. A substantial
part Of the spending budget fol-
next year already has been ap-
lpropriated in prior years. and a
large percentage Of the new ap.
preparations to be made at this
session will not be spent until
1854.
Senator Byrd recommends tina
new funds for future years be helt
to essential requirements and tina
congress make q searching review
(See BYRD, Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1952-02-15

lshot fired at point-blank range
as he was addressing a crowd in
a cemetery near Teheran. He
was speaking on the fifth anniver-
Isary of the assassination of one
of Trans first nationalist martyrs.
| MIR. Fatemi was rushed to a
Teheran hospital owned and op-
Grated by Mr.. Mossadegh's son,
DR.. Gholam Hossein Mossadegh.
Hospital attendants said the chest
wound would not be fatal.
The would-be assassin was
seized by the crowd, which
scufled with police in apparent
anger over police failure to pre-
vent the attack. He told police
only that his name was Moham-
med.
Premier Has Been Threatened.
The Moslem terrorist organ
ization. Fedayan Islam, which
has boasted that it assassinated
the late premier, Ali Razmara,
has publicly threatened Mr..
Mossadegh and his followers with
death unless the government
frees Navab Safavi, one of its
leaders.
Police have surrounded Mr.
Mossadegh's residence since the
threats, and the aged premier
has not appeared in public for
1.-TWO months.
Mr.. Fatemi resigned as deputy
premier last December to run for
Parliament. He was among IL
national front deputies elected
from Teheran.
Mr.. Fatemi was shot down at
Shannon Cemetery in the pic
turesque foothills some 10 miles
from Teheran.
| He and other national front
leaders went there today to COM
memorate the nth anniversary of
the assassination Of the NATIONAL
list editor, Mohammed Masood, by
AN unknown gunman who escaped.
Mr.. Masood, who edited the ex-
treine Nationalist newspaper, n
Mardi Emrooz, has been hailed as
one Of Trans earliest Nationalist
martyrs.
| Attempts Made on Shah.
MIR. Fatemi, 38, owns and edits
the nationalist newspaper. Bakh-
ltar Emrooz, one Of Mossadegh's IS
strongest hackers. AS deputy pre-
mier, he served as government
spokesman and ordered the expul-
sion Of four foreign correspond
ents.
There have been a number of
assassinations and plots against
leaders in the last two turbulent
years in Iran.
Premier Ali Razmara was slain
last March by members of q Sc
cret terror society. He was sue
ceeded by Mr.. Mossadegh, who on
several occasions has said plotters
have sought to slay him. At
tempts also have been made on
the life Of Trans ruler. Shah Mo-
manned Reza. Pahlevi.
A riot broke out in Parliament
last December II between Mr..
Mossadegh's friends and foes. Mr..
Mossadegh had gone to the stormy
session to address the Deputies.
Later he declared that "only by
Ichance" did he escape a plot
against his life. He demanded
extra security precautions.
Evening star., 1952-02-15

Is1onerS that Inspector Bullock
made the application last Monday.
He recommended that the city
heads hold up action.
Commissioners John Russell
Young and Joseph Donohue ex-
Iplained they want to receive the
result of an investigation of the
Nelson trial record before acting.
A special committee of the Dis
trict Bar Association is studying
the transcript from the trial to
determine If the inspectors in
volvement warrants disciplinary
action.
Fourth to Ask Retirement,
Inspector Bullock becomes the
fourth high-ranking police officer
seeking retirement within four
months.
Maj. Robert j. Barrett retired
as chief on grounds of physical
disability last November. At that
time he was. under investigation
by the Senate District Crime
Committee and had just lost Q
Evening star., 1952-02-15
Borkley Hopes to Leave
Hospital Next Week
sy Inc Associated prs,s

Vice President Barkley expects
to leave the Naval Medical Gem
ter in Bethesda some time next
week.
Mr.. Barley underwent q minor
eye operation eight days ago.
Evening star., 1952-02-15

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Evening star., 1952-02-15

tise in Woshinston's No. ] classified
metium. The Stor eories more eIossi-
fled ods than the three other Wesh-
inston newspapers combined. Consult
this tremendous showcase for your.
needs.
Evening star., 1952-02-15
Phone The Star Today
For Sunday Want Ads

The Stor will accept classified dds
for the Sunday poper until Z pm. to-
morrow. but you con help asoid On
overflow Of last minute coils by calling
Evening star., 1952-02-15
Bullock Files
For Retirement;
Action Held Up
Murray Recommends
Delay in Ruling Until
Triul Report Is Made

Police Inspector Albert I. Bull.
lock, who was acquitted by q de
rected verdict at the gambling
conspiracy trial of Charles E. Nell
son and Is co-defendants, has
applied for retirement. but the
District Commissioners today
withheld action on the request.
Police Supt. Robert v. Murray
informed the District Commits.
Evening star., 1952-02-15
Right-Hand Man
OF kossadeg|l
Shot in Iran
Hossein Futemi Was
Deputy Premier Until
Race for PorIioment
By the Asseeiated Press

TEHERAN, Iran, Feb. 15.-Hos-
sein Fatemi. right-hand man of
Premier Mohammed Mossadegh,
was shot and wounded today by
Ia youthful Moslem terrorist who
shouted. There is no god but
Allah"
Mr.. Fatemi, former Deputy Pre-
mier. was felled by a single pistol
Evening star., 1952-02-15

Trial Of AP Reporter Demonded by Hos
sein Fotemi's Newspaper. Pose A-9
Evening star., 1952-02-15

It. Lewis Peters, Borrett's Ex-Aide, Trons-
tered to Stotisticol Bureau. Pose ALI
Evening star., 1952-02-15

fSee BULLOCK, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1952-02-15

(see RELIEF, Page A-14.)
Evening star., 1952-02-15

tsee REVENUE. Page A-3o
Evening star., 1952-02-15

tsee KING. Page A-sO
Evening star., 1952-02-15

(See BYRD. Page A-5.)
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-05-03
MORE ABOUT POLITICS BUT THIS TIME
IN DISCUSSION OF LANGUAGE

Key West High School and Convent students write
interestingly in The Citizen and their language excep-
tionay good for persons of their But all of slip
up even those oldsters who have diligently studied Eng
lish for half a century more.
We don't want the students to think we are critical
or preachy when give them tip about slip that
often among persons two three times older than
the students Everybody, except know-al, is pleased
to receive information that helps him. With the students
writing in a kindly, not critical vein
we will proceed point out slip that often in the
of English, among persons who have graduated
from college,
student writing in The Citizen said politics are
booming everywhere in The Key West High School"
Politics is of many in English that plural
in form but singular and should not be used with
plural construction. Politics is not are and the is
true of headquarters is whereabouts is is, econom
les Is, hundred dollars is the amount and so with
many other that plural in form and singular in
sense.
If young folks today are similar to young folks of
day, then they think that using big words is prefer
able to using simple words but the is true Simple
words if used concisey, have impact that big words
lack. 1t has been remarked many time that when
a woman is able to write he speaks he she be-
comes a great writer. Attaining that goal to be
easy, but ii is hard hard, hard. AS writer, with
exception here and there, sits at typewriter picks
up pen pencil to write he instantly changes his mode
of thinking He thinks that because he is going write
he has to be careful in picking his words and sometimes
stops writing to look in book of synonyms find
better" word usually adjective adverb to ex-
press his meaning.
Another fault the usage of too many adjectives
adverbs The editor of the New York News which has
far greater circulation than any other daily newspaper
In the United States recently assigned the of his
paper the habit of using as sdecves and adverbs
as possible and making it point to use hard-hittng
verbs.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-05-03
SCIENCE
NEWS
BY HOWARD w. BLAKEsLEE

by f1OWaRD w. BLAk ESLEE
Associated Press Science Ediio.
BOSTON Up - The mysterious
Virus X is really 80 new diseases.
The doctors are not yet ac-
quainted with most of them and
so they call these troubles Y.
How the wonder drug anti-biot-
les brought this to pass was de-
scribed to the Society of American
Psychologists today, in a SYM
postum on viruses.
When anti-biotics, such as peni-
cilling, streptomycin, aureomycin
and all the others, save our lives
or cure serious illness they kill
a lot of our most dangerous germ
enemies. That leaves our bodies
open to attack from a less dan
gerous but large host of viruses.
Because of the anti-biotics, the
psychologists have been discover
ing them in rapid succession.
We always had them, but they
were Jumped together under vague
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-05-03

names like congestion, catarrah.
summer flu and number of bowel
troubles, Now that they are out in
the open they number at least 80.
The psychologists are worried
about the anti-biotics all Of us are
getting in our daily food. We get
tiny bits from milk, due to giving
them for cattle diseases. Also from
pork because anti-biotics are given
to make pigs grow faster. From
chicken and eggs for the same
reason. Parenthetically the Swiss
cheesemakers are tearing their
hair because these anti-biotics in
milk interfere with making their
holes.
The psychologists fear that
these tiny quantities viii sensitize
us so that some cannot take anti
biotics when i'll. They also reported
today that the anti-biotics In milk
kill some germs in our bodies
which make vitamins for us.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-05-03

Business
Mirror
BY SAM DAWSON

NEW YORK LAP - The tax col
lector is the last person you'd
think would be worrying today.
But businessmen say that shrink
ing corporate profits are cutting
into the u. S. Treasury's take from
industry, and this drop may offset
its greater bite on the pocketbooks
of individuals.
If this proves to be so, II means
that private citizens will bear a
greater percentage share this year
of the burden of supporting the
government, even though the in
come tax rates aren't going up
again.
Tax receipts from both business
and individuals in March came to
10 billion dollars. But the Treasury
is reported to have expected the
big payment month to bring In IL
billion dollars.
Treasury Secretary Snyder says
he still expects, when he closes
his books June 80 on the present
fiscal year, to record a total Of
62A billion dollars in taxes--as
estimated in the budget In Janu.
airy. If he collects as much this
May and June as he did in those
months last year, he'll make it.
Individual income tax payments
are unquestionably greater this
year-as you must know. As long
as individual incomes stay high,
the new higher rates will bring a
golden flow to the Treasury. But
many think that the Treasury over.
estimated corporate earnings and
therefore the amount Ii would get
In income taxes from business.
So far this year most companies
are showing lower gross earnings
on which income and excess profit
taxes are levied. And most COM
Ianies are setting aside less mon
ey now for tax payments than
they did at this time year ago.
Total dollar sales of manufac.
turing companies in the first three
months of this year ran per cent
above year ago, the National
City Bank of New York says In
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-05-03
Daughter Left

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. IA pistol
twirling in the hand of a young
man fired. The bullet struck his
wife above the left eye.
Crying 1--WE killed my wife,
23-year-old Lynn Price knelt on the
floor and put a fatal bullet through
his own temple.
that was a week ago. Thurs
day night, Mrs. Doris Johnson
Price q, died. Two operations
failed to save her life.
The couples 22-month-old daugh-
ter died in January. A daughter
three weeks old survives.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-05-03

It's May letter. But it notes that
total costs Of doing business (be-
fore taxes) rose 4 per cent--and,
therefore, gross corporate earn
ings on which to levy income taxes
were lower.
Those companies that report how
much they set aside, the bank
says, reveal that IL per cent less
money is going to the Treasury,
than a year ago. So far, these
reports show a total of 165 million
dollars less set aside for taxes,
the bank finds, with only minority
Of the companies reporting as yet.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-05-03

Scientists measure the size Of
tiny germs by photographing
them through the microscope.
Evening star., 1952-05-28
HOLLYWOOD,

| @4SAAAS4 NVAf\4&s
Tony Curtis is on suspension at
Universal. And Tony is burning.
He says they took away his dress
ing room at the studio. and his
top billing on tour with Piper
Laurie. And now, because he's
vacationing with his wife Janet
Leigh on her Durango location
for NAKED Spur" they've taken
away his salary. I advised him to
talk it over with his boss, VIII
liam Goetz.
Clark Cables girl guide in Paris,
is Joan Stewart, ex-Metro secre-
tary. now attached to SHAPE
headquarters That other ref
ugee from marriage, George Sand
ers. has been to only one party
since he left wife Zsa Zsa.
Warmers offered Humphrey Bo-
Igart the best picture on the lot
Alma Mater In this Bogey
would have played q hard-bitten
football coach, but he turned it
down to make Mash 66" at Metro
When Corinne Calvet sees
Thunder In The East" she'll
discover that much of her ziss-
]and-zat was left on the cutting
room floor Jimmy Stewards
twins gave him Q .three-foot-long
shoehorn for his birthday.
Mitzi Gaynor postponed her
marriage to Richard Coyle from
her 21st birthday in September
until some time in 1858. Reason,
she will be starring on the stage
for six months in the operetta
"Jollyana." Prince Ally Khan
told his chums that the reason he
can't gamble in the Little Casino
in Cannes Is because he owes the
casino operators 100000 &.
Marlene Dietrich's astrologer,
Carroll Fighter. was caught be-
tween two heavenly bodies when
he planed to New York last week
|-Marlene on one side and an
other client, Hildegarde Neff, on
the other
Jerry Lewis collided with pro-
ducer Hal Wallis at Hillcrest Golf
Club Saturday. At the end of q
three-hour talk, Hal kissed Jerry
on the cheek, and Jerry agreed to
start Scared Stiff" with Dean
Martin on June 6, after a rewrite
by their own writer's Betty
Cradle tells her studio, Goth Cen
tury-Fox, that she's now anxious
to race through the remaining