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Evening star., 1952-08-12
AFL Official Plans
Denver Conference
With Eisenhower
Letter Carriers Union
President Accepts
Generals Invitation
By jones Y. Newton
By jones Y. Newton
Stor Stuff Correspondent

ATLANTIC CITY. Aug. IA
top official from the American
Federation of Labor will meet
soon with Gen. Eisenhower for
his discussion of campaign issues.
william c. Doherty, AFL vice
president and head of the Letter
Carriers Union. said he had ac-
cepted an invitation to confer
with the Republican candidate in
Denver.
While Mr.. Doherty ostensibly
will discuss ways of carrying out
a platform plank for improvement
of mail service, it was indicated
he would also talk over other
things with the general.
Has Been Democrat.
Mr.. Doherty, however, pointed
out that he is a lifelong Demo-
crat. He cautioned against in
terpreting the Denver visit as an
indication he was about to switch
party affiliations.
The Doherty- Eisenhower meet
ing was revealed today as the
AFL's Executive Council opened
the second day of its summer
session. The ruling committee of
the federation's political league
will hold an important meeting
tomorrow.
The council expressed great
concern over the latest initiation
threat. The labor leaders said
they had information indicating
the Governments next price in
dex would show a sharp advance
in living costs. The index will be
made public later in the month.
Profiteering Charged.
The latest cost increases, the
council said, cannot be attributed
to wage increases, but to profiteer-
ing at all levels of trade from
producer to retailer. The labor
leaders said that big business was
primarily responsible for the sit
uation. They said that big busi-
ness had persuaded Congress to
weaken price controls.
The council did not suggest any
specific action by President Tru-
man to meet the threat of inf1a-
ton. They said Mr.. Truman had
all the facts and should take
whatever action he feels is neces-
Sary.
Explanation Asked.
AFL President William Green
reported results of his efforts to
iron out differences over jurisdic-
ton between the powerful ma
chinists and carpenters unions.
There are signs the machinists
may leave the AFL because of the
dispute.
Mr.. Green had been asked to
get an explanation from A. j.
Hayes, machinists president, as to
why his union was using Federal
agencies rather than negotiation
ito win the juriSdictional quabbles.
The council decided, however
That MIR. Hayes answer was not
satisfactory. Mr.. Green was told
to seek q further explanation from
the rnachiniStS head.
Evening star., 1952-08-12
CoElsen Denies Accident

ROTTERDAM. The Neither
lands. Aug. IL. R.-Capt. Kurt
Carlson denied today a police re-
port from Germany that he was
involved in a motorcycle accident.
The hero Of the saga Of the
freighter Flying Enterprise had
been reported to have suffered q
broken collarbone at Leck last
night.
Evening star., 1952-08-12
Mountain ScoIer Feared
Killed by Lightning
BY the Assoeiated Press

SEATTLE. Aug. 12.-Coast
Guard district headquarters re-
ported this morning that one Of
two missing University Of WASH
ington mountain climbers was
dead atop Mount Stuart in the
Cascades. presumably hit by
lightning.
He was Paul Brikoff, 20, Of
Seattle.
His companion, Alan Robert
Grant. 10, Seattle, was found at
the 7.000-foot level, badly burned.
Evening star., 1952-08-12
Cost|yMi|itary
Buying System
To Be Strapped
Order to Eliminate
Procurement Waste
To Be Issued Soon
By John A. Giles

Defense Secretary Lovett shortly
will order the armed services to
halt costly competitive buying
designate one agency to
buy those items which all use and
to cease construction of duplicat-
ing facilities.
The new orders, effective Sep
tember s, will cover a wide range
OF subjects including procurement.
production, warehousing and dis
tribution of supplies and equip
ment. They come in the wake Of
caustic congressional criticism and
a virtual congressional order that
drastic action be taken. Congress
inserted little-noticed rider in
the Military Appropriation Act
which strengthened the secre-
tary'S hand and left little doubt
as to his authority.
The single purchase of many
supplies and equipment. including
lumber, desks, chairs and many
others, is contemplated.
The regulations will define
common use items as those used
for the same general purpose"
This will eliminate slight differ
ent specifications, as in the case
of stenographers' chairs for the
Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine
Corps. BY the use of the differ
ent specifications the services
have avoided the usual single pur-
chase plan.
Competing Bids to End.
An eventual end to separate
purchasing of many items by the
Army's seven technical services
many times bidding against each
other-also is seen as a result.
The technical services are the
surgeon generals Office, Ordnance.
Engineers, Quartermaster, Trans
portation Corps and Chemical
Corps. These buy a number of
common supplies separately and
store them separately. Thus,
warehouses of two or more of the
branches with identical stocks and
separate inventories are not un-
common on some bases.
The orders also will require a
military service to obtain common
use supplies from the nearest depot
no matter what service controls it.
Shipping costs will be cut.
Consolidated Depots Planned.
Consolidation of depots or ware
houses also are contemplated. The
Army and Navy have been operat-
ing virtually next-door medical
supply depots serving customers in
the area and the Pacific theater
but not each other.
An important provision will pro-
hibit the construction of such
things as new bakeries and laun-
dries on posts if similar facilities
are available on nearby posts of
another service.
The move is seen at the Penta.
gon as tremendous advance and
comes in the wake of caustic Con-
gresSional criticism of wasteful
procurement, warehousing and dis
tribution practices by the armed
forces. No estimate of possible
savings has been given but officials
think it will be considerable.
Evening star., 1952-08-12
Swiss Wreck Kills 4

INTERLAKEN. Switzerland, Aug.
IL N.-Four persons were killed
and nine severely injured when
q local passenger train collided
with a freight train while shunt-
ing in Interlaken-East station yes
terday.
Evening star., 1952-08-12
Mop on Pose A. 10

program which the last session of
Congress authorized.
The Portsmouth plant will take
four years to complete, but por-
tions of it will go into operation
as soon as they are built.
Difficult Separation Process.
At the plant, the Acc will use
the gaseous diffusion process to
separate fashionable uranium-235
from nom fashionable uranium -238.
The two types of uranium are
chemically the same. Thus, they
are difficult to separate.
In the gaseous diffusion process,
uranium in a gaseous compound
is pumped through a series of
screens and the U-235 that re-
mains can be used to power atomic
bombs.
22 Miles From Portsmouth.
The plant will be on $500 acres
of land near the Scioto River, %
miles north of Portsmouth. It
will use water from that river, and
at the start-electricity from ex-
isting plants. Extra electric gen.
orators will be built later to sup
ply the 1.8 million kilowatts of
power that the completed plant
will need.
Up to 10000 workers will be on
the job at one time to build the
plant, but not more than 1900
are expected to be needed during
the first year.
A permanent staff of 1000 will
man the facility. All but 800 will
be hired locally.
Lesson at Oak Ridge.
The gaseous diffusion process is
an improved version Of the system
used at the original A-plant at
Oak Ridge, Tenn. Acc, however,
will avoid some Of the housekeep-
ing troubles that developed at Oak
Ridge when the Government built
its own city.
In Ohio, Acc will let private
enterprise furnish the housing that
will have to go up near the sparse
ly populated site. Only so families
will have to be moved out.
The announcement disappointed
residents Of Kentucky, Tennessee,
Indiana, Illinois and West Vir-
ginia. All had been secuted as a
possible site for the plant.
Hailed by Official.
Ohio's 1t. Gov. George D. Nye,
"a resident of Pike County where
the plant will be built, hailed the
Aces announcement as the an
swer to Southern Ohio's need for
further industries.
ut will help all of Southern
Ohio" he said.
Peter Kiewit Sons Co., Omaha,
Nebr., is the principal construction
contractor. Concerns doing some
|of the key design and architec-
tural work include Union Carbide
& Carbon Corp, New York; Giffels
& Wallet, Inc, Detroit; Sargent &
Lundy, Chicago; Singmaster &
|Breyer, New York; Smith, Hinch-
man & Grylls. Inc, Detroit; Burns
g. Mcdonnell, Kansas City, and
Holabird and Root q Burgee,
Chicago.
Evening star., 1952-08-12
Marines Off
Red Charges on
Bunker Ridge
Heavy Loss Inflicted
On Foe Attempting
To Retoke Height
BY the Associofed Press

SEOUL, Korea, Aug. 12.-United
States Marines late today beat
back 400 Chinese Reds charging
Bunker Ridge, won early this
morning by the Leathernecks in
a sweeping attack on the Korea
western front.
A United States 9th Army staff
officer said the Chinese suffered
heavy casualties in their attack,
thrown against three sides of the
entrenched Marines.
Before the attack began. the
Marines estimated they had killed
or wounded $50 Reds in the sector
since bitter fighting erupted last
Saturday.
A Marine spokesman said the
Chinese were thrown back, but
utilization efforts continued at
dusk. He said the Reds used ar
tillery an dmortars in support of
the lnfantrymen.
Marines met the charge with air
strikes, mortar. tank, artillery and
small arms fire.
Battle Near Panmunjom.
The battle site is a few miles
east OF the truce-talks town of
Panmunjom.
Marine me-throwing tanks
and rif1emen burned and blasted
the Chinese of Siberia Hill just
before midnight. The Marines
then swept on and captured Bun
ker Ridge dominating the sector
For a time in midafternoon, q
Marine spokesman said, the entire
Siberia area had been quiet as
a church mouse"
But later in the day an Ameri-
lcan officer reported Chinese troops
were attempting to infiltrate
Bunker Ridge. There was a steady
crackle of rifle fire in the sector
but the officer reported the Ridge
and Siberia Hill still firmly in the
hands of the Marines.
Since Saturday the fighting fol
the mob had been bitter. The Chi
nese made their first bid to wiz
the hill Saturday. 1t changed
hands six times before the Ma
rineS finally secured it.
3 Allied Ships Hit.
The Navy announced that Com
munist shore batteries hit the
American destroyers j. R. Pierce
and Barton and the British frigate
Mounts Bay in separate actions
the past week. One American and
one British sailor were killed and
IA sailors wounded. None of the
warships was seriously damaged.
American B-29 Super-Forts and
B-26 light bombers last night hit
the area north of Wonsan which
had been blasted earlier in the
day by a 150-plane fighter bomber
attack.
The United States Far East Air
Forces said the Super Forts
smashed a metal fabricating plant
turning out ordnance supplies
The B-26s mopped up on a chem
ical plant and troop area.
United States 5th Air Force war
planes hit the Chinese in the ST.
IBERIA sector with rockets, bombs
and flaming gasoline prior to the
Marine assault.
Flames Sprayed on Hill.
Marine flame-throwing tanks
thundered to within 20 yards OF
the crest Of Siberia and sprayed
the hill with soaring flames.
Rifiemeh. yards behind the
tanks, picked off the Reds which
escaped the flames.
The attack on Siberial Hill was
a diversionary action to throw the
Reds off guard for the main as
|sault on Bunker Ridge-long held
by the Reds and named because
Of its stout Notifications.
An 9th Army staff officer said.
"The diversion was a success. The
Chinese were completely fooled
and badly confused"
Evening star., 1952-08-12
3 Jets Delivered to French

ST. NAZAIRE. France, Aug. IL
F.-The American freighter Sea
Herald arrived of this port last
night with eight American jet
planes for the French Air Force.
Evening star., 1952-08-12
Atom Plant 10 Be Built
In Southern Ohio at
Cost Of S1.2 Billion
Layout Near Portsmouth
Will Be Key in New
Expansion Program
By james E. Roper

The Atomic Energy Commission
announced today it will build a
$1.2 billion atomic plant near
Portsmouth. Ohio.
This will be the key new facility
in a So billion atomic expansion
Evening star., 1952-08-12

ToWoFd Candidacy. Page A.
President Truman. but he did not
answer directly when asked if he
had a specific program to present
to the Chief Executive.
Little to Say About Visit.
When he was asked what he
could say about his visit he re-
sponded simply that he had come
to Washington at the invitation of
President Truman to have lunch
con with the cabinet.
That is literally all I can say"
he laughed.
After the meeting with the
President, Gov. Stevenson said he
plans to go to Democratic national
headquarters and meet the staff.
That is the only thing he had in
mind for the moment, he said.
Gov. Stevenson arrived in Wash
ington 80 minutes late due to a
fog in Springfield, Ill.,, but White
House Press Secretary Joseph
Short said the only effect on the
schedule would be to set every
thing back half an hour.
This meant that the cabinet
luncheon would start about 1870.
Sparkman ON Hand.
Senator Sparkman Of Alabama.
the vice presidential nominee. was
on hand to sit in on the campaign
planning II his presence was de-
sired.
Gov. Stevenson came in on a
regularly scheduled fight of Amer
lean Airlines' flagship. Virginia.
Other passengers were allowed to
alight before the Governors party,
including Wilson Wyatt. his cam
paign manager. and Stephen A.
Mitchell, new chairman of the
Democratic National Committee.
The expected arrival OF the Illi-
nois Governor had drawn a large
crowd Of spectators at the airport
gate and while the crowd was kept
back by the airport police, they
broke into applause as he came
down the ramp.
The Governor was wearing a
brown business suit and a pam
anna hat.
First to greet him was Senator
Sparkman and then Gov. Steven
son shook hands with White
House Secretaries Matthews j.
Connolly and Mr.. Short.
Shakes Hands With Group.
Gov. Stevenson then shook
hands with the District group,
including Melvin Hildreth, Demo-
cratic National Committeeman
for the District; District Commits
sioners F. Joseph Donohue and
Renah Camalier, Milton S. Kron-
helm, treasurer of the Stevenson
Sparkman Club of the District,
and Stan Karson, head of the
Young Democrats.
Maj. Robert v. Murray, super
1ntendent of police, was in charge
of the policing and walked with
the party as Gov. Stevenson went
to the White House car which
carried him to meet President
Truman.
Gov. Stevenson expressed salts
faction with the outlook for a.
victory in November when a re-
porter asked him how he sized up
the situation. Then when an
other reporter wanted to know if
he had a set campaign program to
take up with President Truman
he said he expected to discuss that
matter only with the Chief Ex-
ecutive.
Airport passengers gave Gov.
Stevenson q burst Of applause as
(See TRUMAN. Page A-3l
Evening star., 1952-08-12
Stevenson Arrives for Par|ey
With Truman Voices O ptimism
Over Prospects for November
Spurkmun Amono
Crowd GREETING
Him at Airport
By Joseph A. Fox

Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson, Demo-
cratic candidate for President, ar
rived at National Airport at 1915
pm. today for his conference with
President Truman.
The Illinois Governor greeted
questionerS with the statement:
Things look pretty good for
November"
Gov. Stevenson said he expected
to talk over campaign plans with
Evening star., 1952-08-12

Doubtful Tone Token by Stevenson Poper
Toword Condidoey. Poee A.
Evening star., 1952-08-12

President Truman, but he did not
answer directly when asked if he
had a specific program to present
to the Chief Executive.
Evening star., 1952-08-12

(See TRUMAN, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1952-03-02

stricken with polio in 1850, and
the local chapter made possible
his extensive treatment.
Evening star., 1952-03-02
New Fec Head Foresees
'Unfreezing' Of 1eIeVision
RY tha Associated PLass

Paul A. Walker, new chairman
of the Federal Communications
Commission. said yesterday his
agency still has hopes of "un-
freezing" television before the end
of this month.
However, he said it now appears
to be impossible to meet the March
Is deadline for opening up new
station grants, mentioned by for
mer Chairman Wayne Coy, shortly
before he left the commission re-
Gently.
Mr.. Coy, who had previously
given a dozen tentative "unfreeze''
dates during the last two years,
left Government service to become
'television advisor to Time, Inc.
Mr.. Walker said, in response to
inquiries. that it was impossible
at this time to set a specific date
for lifting the freeze on new TV
station grants which the COM
mission invoked in October. 1948,
in order to survey TV interference
problems and other factors relat-
ing TO a projected Nationwide
video service.
"All we can say is that we have
high hopes of unfreezing before
the end of March," he added.
Evening star., 1952-03-02
aIent Search FinaIist
Calls for Deferments
For Young Scientists

Scientists and engineers MAJ
serve their country better in tn,
laboratory than in the armec
forces, a young scientists de.
clared here yesterday.
If the American public does
not soon wake up to that fact
said George w. Luhrmann, jr.
II, of Cedar Brook. N. j.. the Ma.
tion's shortage Of technologist.
might well bring about its ruin
Young Luhrmann. a senior al
Phillips Academy. Andover, Mass.
is one Of 40 Science Talent Search
f1nalists. here to compete fol
$11, 900 in Westinghouse science
scholarships. Judging will be to-
morrow at the Hotel Statler.
IF Congress should defer sci
entists more readily than other
students, a cry Of discrimination
would soon be raised throughout
he land" the youth said.
Discrimination or Destruction.
But it is a case Of discrimina-
ion versus destruction" he went
IN, land the public must be made
o realize this fact"
Another speaker at yesterdays
session, A. C. Montieth. vice pres
ident of the Westinghouse Elec-
sric Corp, said the Nation needs
50, 900 scientific and engineering
college graduates a year. but that
for the next few years only IT,
900 will be available yearly.
The Western world, he said,
must look to the engineer and
the scientist for it's defense, be
cause in sheer manpower we are
hopelessly outnumbered.
Quality Not Quantity.
I'VE must rely on quality, not
quantity" he said. New and bet
ter weapons developed and built
by the engineer are the only fac
tors that can give US a real de-
tense"
He also said that the United
States was the only Nation which
did not grant deferments to en-.
sineering students during the
early phases of the last war.
Today's session Of the flve.day
institute. which began Thursday.
will include a demonstration Of
the 60-ineh eyeiotfon at the Car.
negie Institution. Later at the
statler there will be q panel on
plant and animal life Led by Dr..
Remington Kellogg. director Of
the National Museum, New ads
vanees in physics will be discussed
by DR.. x. LARK -Horovitz. head Of
the physics department Of Purdue
University,
Evening star., 1952-03-02
| Dairy EmpIoye Robbed
L0f $500 by HoIdup Man

A dairy truck driver told police
yesterday he was robbed Of $500
by a holdup man who approached
him just after he had made Q
delivery at Ninth and p streets
INV.
John w. Davidson, 81, Of 32l
Decatur street NV, an employe
of the Chestnut Farms Dairy, said
he was about to get into his truck
when a young colored man stopped
him and said. 'This is stick-up.
Give me your money" The BAN
dit held his hand in his pocket
as if he had a gun. Mr.. Davidson
said.
The robber ran south on Ninth
street after taking the money.
most Of which was in SO and $40
blS Mr.. Davidson said. A sus-
|pect was picked up on Seventh
street a short time later.
Evening star., 1952-03-02
Lonq-Awoited Civilian Pinch
May Never Come, Officials Say

taken by some steel men that
some individual items-such as
sheet and strip steel, currently
reported in surplus at some mills
should be removed entirely from
the ALLEGATION system.
Instead, Mr.. Fleischmann holds
the control framework should be
kept intact, but with allocationS
boosted as rapidly as is necessary
to take up any slack In mill
capacity.
To do otherwise, the production
chiefs agree, would be inviting a
breakdown Of the GIMP system
while 1t still Is urgently needed for
such critical items as steel plates,
structural steel, many aluminium
items, and virtually the whole
range Of copper and brass pro-
ducts.
Before loosening up consumer
goods markedly. the DpA would
undertake to fatten the allotments
for defense plant expansion, basic
metals development, railroads,
highways. shipbuilding and other
defense supporting activities.
Another priority claimant which
would 90 ahead Of consumers Is
the national defense stockpile. II
has been bled Of considerable
quantities Of aluminium. copper
and other metals and should be
repaid as soon 90 possible, Of
fcals state.
Why the Turn-AbOut?
Mobilization informants say
Mr.. Fleischmann hopes his survey
will indicate civilian metal sup
plies in the April-June quarter at
least as good as at present and,
for some types Of metal, perhaps
better. All hands agree that O
loosening is in prospect after mid
year.
! Why the turn-about? Several
reasons are advanced, officially
and otherwise. In the strictly non
official category. the prolonged
consumer buying "lull" is most
frequently mentioned. Business is
ordering cautiously, no longer i'm
pressed by Washington forecasts
Iof shortages and possible revival
of heavy infiationary buying.
i The stretch-out Of the aircraft
program is another factor. Cut.
backs Of plane production sched-
uleS six to nine months hence
lmean an immediate easing Of de-
mands for basic aluminium today.
Evening star., 1952-03-02
Youth Rally Opens
Nine-Day Methodist
Evangeistic Mission.

A nine-day District Metho.
dist Evangelistic Mission for Met
ropolitan Washington" opened las
night with more than l,500 young
people attending a youth rally il
Lisner Auditorium, Twenty -firs1
and H streets NV.
The young men and womer
heard DR.. Kenneth w. Copeland
pastor Of Travis Park Methods
Church, San Antonio, Tex, de.
clare they face 'the most difficult
job and the greatest challenge oi
any generation of youth"
But We do have confidence thai
you have the kind of heart ano
courage that will reach out and dc
something with this sad world we
have left you." the preacher said
Dr.. Copeland urged his audience
to have faith in God and in His
power.
God belongs in our day as
much as atomic energy" he as
serted. THE Christian view of life
is to do the things man needs TO dc
for today"
Bridges of Love.
Communism depends upon in
ducing people to hate in order 10
achieve its ends, the visiting minis
ter said. But Christ urges today S
youth to build bridges "of love,
sympathetic understanding and
brotherhood" between people and
nations rather than barriers. That
is the Christian answer to Com
muniSm. he declared.
Nearly 500 Methodist churches
in the Alexandria. Washington
West and Washington East dis
tricts are taking part in the mis-
sion. Climax of the drive will be
a mass meeting at $3.50 pm. next
Sunday in thine Arena with
Methodist Bishop Hazen q. Wer-
ner Of Ohio as the speaker.
Central points of the drive will
be visitation by teams from In.
dividual churches to prospective
members and evangelistie services
OF 7'45 pm, each night. today
through Friday. In local churches,
Clefgyf1en from numerous states
will occupy the pulpits during this
week,
The mission Is being directed by
supts, John, H, Pearson of Alex
andrla. Philip c. Edwards of the
Washington East, and John G.,
MILAN of the Washington West
districts, They are working under
the supervision of Methodist Bish-
ops John Wesley Flint of Wash
ington and Paul Neff CARRIER of
Richmond. DR.. Eugene Goley of
Nashville, Tenn, is executive di-
rector. of the mission.
School of Evangelism.
The more than $50 visiting pas
tors will attend the School of
Evangelism at 10 am. tomorrow
through Friday in Hamline
Church, Sixteenth and Allison
streets NV.
Youth leaders taking part in
last nights rally were Neil j.
Leverenz and David Harrison.
Alexandria District; Dorothy M.
Ehlers and Judith E. Spencer,
Washington East District, and
Nancy L. Russell, Washington West
District.