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Evening star., 1952-12-23
Man Who Likes
ToSeeEngines'
Held asFirebug
Seven BIuzes Here
Laid to EmpIoye Of
Naval Gun Factory

A lathe operator at the Naval
Gun Factory early today was
charged with setting fire to seven
dwellings and police said he would
be questioned about some Is recent
fires.
Roy A. Mattson. 20, of the first
block of Elmira street Sc. was
accused of arson. He is a former
Army private.
II like to see the fire engines
run like the excitement" De-
tcctive Wayland H. Fallin quoted
him as saying.
Mattson was arrested at 1880
pm. last night after five weeks
of watchful waiting by a special
fve-man team of policemen and
inspectors from the Fire Marshal's
office. The team first began fol-
lowing him after he was seen at
many fires in the city.
Seized as Precaution.
Police said they decided to ar
rest Mattson last night to reduce
the possibility of fires being set
during the Christmas holidays.
The investigating team had
been hopeful they would catch
Mattson in the act of setting fires.
But he told police he became
worried after reports five weeks
ago that police had an arson
suspect spotted. No fires were set
in the last five weeks, police said.
Most of the fires were set in
the Easements of apartment
houses or rooming houses, police
said. Some did serious damage
but most were extinguished before
flames gained much headway.
Police also said they are ques-
tioning Mattson about numerous
false alarms which have been
keeping the Fire Department run
ming in recent months.
| Working on the five-man team
with Detective Fallin were Pvt.
Harry @. Barbour and Pvt. Byrd
H. Hall. of the 11th precinct, and
Inspectors Kermit Mullins and
Warren Kelley of the fire mar
shals Office.
i They arrested Mattson last
night as he left his apartment to
keep date with a girl in a neigh
borhood restaurant.
Police Report Confession.
Under questioning at the police
station house. Mattson readily
admitted setting a number of fires,
Detective Fallin said.
Specifically, he is charged with
setting fires at 45O1 First street
Sc. IS Forester street S.W.,
4309 HALEY terrace Sc, 4336 Hal
ley terrace Sc, 1902 HALEY ter.
race Sc, 16 Danbury street Sc.
and 4301 First street S.E.
Mattson was held under $4,000
bond by Judge Andrew j. Howard,
jr.. in Municipal Court today. The
case was continued until Janu-
ary %.
Evening star., 1952-12-23
SpeI|man Arrives in Korea
For Holiday Tour Of Front
By the Assoeioted Press

SEOUL, Dec. 23.-Cardinal
Spellman of New York arrived
today for his second Christmas
tour of the Korean battlefront.
He was met by Gen. James A.
Van Fleet, United States 9th Army
commander.
He will conduct a mass at 9th
Army headquarters tomorrow and
will see President Syngman Rhee
of South Korea.
He visited wounded United
States servicemen at hospitals in
the Tokyo area and celebrated
mass at the Tokyo Chapel Center
Iearlier today.
Evening star., 1952-12-23
Cafe Owner DioIs
With Tongue to Ask
Aid After Robbery
by the Associoted Press

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. GA
cafe owner, his hands and feet
bound, summoned aid by dialing
Ia telephone with his tongue after
an attractive brunei and her
male companion robbed him of
I$4, 900.
Giobatta Perrazo, 40. was clos
ing his Lucky Ace Cafe when a
tall young woman asked to use
the phone last night.
Then, Mr.. Perrazo told police,
AN armed, masked man entered,
istruck him and bound him.
He said the woman reappeared
and held the pistol as the man
Irif1ed a cash box.
Mr.. Perrazo struggled to the
phone, knocked the receiver from
the hook. dialed the operator with
his tongue and shouted for help.
The operator notified police.
Evening star., 1952-12-23
Star Phone Services
On Holiday Schedule

During the Christmas holidays The
Stor's telephone services will observe
the following closing hours:
Wednesday, December "a.
Main switchboard, 8 pm; classified
department, 6 pm; business counter.
8 p.m.; circulation department. 8 pm.
Thursday, December Is.
Main switchboard, s pm; classified
department, II noon; business counter.
6 pm; circulation department, s pm.
Night service lines will be pIoeed in
operation subsequent to close Of moin
switchboard both evenings.
Evening star., 1952-12-23
Holiday LuN Settling Down
On Eisenhower Headquarters
General Sees Only Three Visitors;
John Roosevelt Pays Unonnounced Call

Information Service; Hamilton
Fish Armstrong, editor of the
magazine Foreign Affairs. and
Bernard Kilgore. president of Dow
Jones Corp, publishers of the Wall
street Journal.
Mr.. Connolly told reporters he
had known Gen. Eisenhower fol
many years. They once shared 9
house in Paris while the genera,
was major serving on the BattIe
Monument Commission, and Mr.
Connolly was making movies fol
the Fox Picture Co. His call, r.
said, was a purely social one anc
they did not talk business"
Mr.. Armstrong said he and tht
general discussed foreign polio!
"in general terms" adding tina
he was not interested in any ap
pointment in the new administra
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Evening star., 1952-12-23
Safety Council Sees
$50 Traffic Deaths
On Holiday Week End
Rain Is Promised.
By the Assoeioted Press

CHICAGO. Dec. 23.-Motor
travel over the four-day Christ
mas week end may kill $50 per-
sons, the National Safety
Council estimated today.
The estimate covers traffic
deaths occurring between 6 pm.
tomorrow and midnight Sunday.
The council cautioned against
driving in bad weather and
against driving after drinking.
1t advised those who must drive
to start early. take. it easy and
allow extra driving time for bad
weather.
Evening star., 1952-12-23

January l instead of when he is
inaugurated as Vice PRESIDENT.
January 20. His aim was to give
the man appointed to his place
Thomas H. Kuchel-an edge in
seniority over the crop of new
Senators taking Office January 3.
Seniority is important in commit
tee assignments.
AS a result, Senate officials said,
Senator Nixon will fall two days
short of the six years of congress
sional service needed to qualify
for a pension when he caches
62, and instead can get back only
what he contributed to the re-
tirement fund.
He served two terms IN Lhe
House and two years in the Sem
ate.
Evening star., 1952-12-23
.budenz Testifies Reds
o|nf|uence
Foundation Grants
Funds Sought to Aid
Their Cause; 30 Named
As Tokine Port in Drive
By jones E. Roper

Louis Budenz. the reformed
Communist, said today that the
Communist Party made an organ
lied attempt between 1885 and
1945 to penetrate charitable foun-
dations and use their funds to
help the Red cause.
Mr.. Budenz named 80 persons
he said were Communists who
have received grants or, working
for foundations. influenced the
granting of funds to Red sympa-
thizerS.
Mr.. Budenz testified before a
Special House Committee as it
concluded a month of hearings
on Communist influences on tax
exempt foundations.
He was a member of the Com
munist Party fron1s 1885 to 1945
when he resigned. he explained
today ito return to the Catholic
Church" He now teaches at
Fordham University and Seton
Hall College. He testified that, as
managing editor of the Commu-
mist New York Daily Worker, he
knew many Americans who were
under Communist discipline, al
though not listed anywhere as
members of the party.
Unlisted Group Valuable.
These unregistered Communists,
he said, were considered more val
liable than regular party members
They were especially useful, he
said, to a special subcommission
of the Communist Party's Cultural
Commission.
Mr.. BudenZ said the Subcom-
mission was set up to penetrate
charitable foundations, encourag-
ing them to grant funds for work
in fields that interested the Reds,
especially China and the rest of
the Far East, and Eastern Europe,
including Yugoslavia. The SUBJ
mission, he said, also sought to
block grants to anti-Communists
He said the subcommission re-
ported regularly to the Soviet
Politburo, frequently expressing
satisfaction with progress made.
Mr.. Budenz said that Alexander
Trachtenburg, a leader in this
work, once suggested that he was
using capitalistic funds to destroy
capitalism.
Three Were Main Target.
Chief target of the subcommis-
sion, Mr.. Budenz said, were the
Carnegie, Rockefeller and Guggen-
helm Foundations. The Reds
never hoped to control the funds,
but merely wished to influence Ger
tain grants, Mr.. Budenz said.
In answering questions from
Committee Counsel Charles M
(See FOUNDATIONS Page A-6.)
Evening star., 1952-12-23
Bulletin
Arnold Bus Writ Refused

RICHMOND, Va. (P).-Judge
Harold F. Snead today turned
down a bus drivers union re-
quest for a temporary injunc-
ton to restrain the State from
seizing the Arnold buslines,
operating in Arlington and
Fairfax Counties. 4
(Eearlier Story on PageA-2.)
Evening star., 1952-12-23

Memorial Rites Held for Victims of Crosh
Page Al
investigating the crash in which
87 were killed. The CHA, loaded
with a crew of IL and 104 home
ward-bound servicemen, crashed
in flames moments after taking
off from Larson Air Force Base
Saturday.
General Makes Report.
The report was made by Maj
Gen. Victor E. Bertrandias OF
San Bernardnio, Calf.
He said his first days inves-
tigation had not discovered the
cause of the accident. And he
said ne saw nothing in the in
vestigation so far to indicate that
C-124s should be ordered from
the air.
The Air Force said all main
tenance records on the CHA are
being studied, but that it has
been determined already that all
the regular maintenance checks
had been made before it took of
from Larson.
Tests Completed.
I'm addition. the airplane was
teSt-flown on the day before the
accident and everything checked
out satisfactorily" the Air Force
said. It noted, too, that the chief
pilot, 1st 1t. william N. O'Connell
had more than 1000 hours of fly
ing time, including more than 400
hours in C-124S.
1t. O'Connell had just COM
Ipleted his instrument check in the
plane three days before the crash
and was fully qualified in C-124
Instrumentation procedures, the
report said.
The weather at takeof time
was we'll above the minimum re-
|quirements fro takeof from Lar
son, the report noted. adding that
the planes total gross weight Of
168, 900 pounds was well within
the allowance 10000 pounds per-
mitted at takeoff.
Evening star., 1952-12-23
Cary Grunt in Manila

MANILA, Dec. % (P.-Film
star Cary Grant and his actress
wife Betsy Drake arrived yester-
day on the Norwegian motorship
Vigan, en- route to Hong Kong.
They are on a leisurely cruise.
Evening star., 1952-12-23
By Crosby S. Noyes
Stor Stoff Correspondent

| oIuT oIuTI NoT9sPoHueHI
NEW YORK, Dec. ga holi-
day lull seems to be settling down
on Gen. Eisenhower's New York
headquarters.
There were only three visitors
this morning. They were Jack
Connolly, chief of the newsreel
section of the United States Public
Evening star., 1952-12-23
BULLETIN

NEW YORK CSpeciaD -
Gen. Eisenhawer met at lunch
today with former Presi-
dent Herbert Hoover, Secretary
of State designate John Foster
Dulles and Arthur S. Flemming,
former member of the Civil
Service Commission, to discuss
ways and means of reorganizing
the executive branch.
Evening star., 1952-12-23
Nixon May Lose Pension
For Yielding Seniority
BY the Associated Press

The extra seniority CALIFORNIA;
Senator Nixon is giving his sue
ceSsor may cost the Republican
Vice President-elect his congress
sional pension.
Senator Nixon has submitted
his Senate resignation Elective
Evening star., 1952-12-23
Travel Rush
Expected 10 Reach
High Point Tonight
Holiday Rain Forecast
May Cause Delays in
Air and Rood Traffic

District train, air and bus
terminals today girded for the
peak pre-Christmas travel rush,
expected tonight and tomorrow.
Merchants prepared for a last
minute influx of shoppers, too.
Many downtown stores will join
those in the suburbs in staying
open late tonight.
Unfavorable weather put some
what of a damper on Yuletide
Evening star., 1952-12-23

Picture Of New California Senator ond
Fomily. Poee A.
Evening star., 1952-12-23

spirits, and the Weather Bureau
didn't hold out much better pros
poets for the big day itself.
Rain Is Promised.
The forecaster predicted rain
late today. tonight and tomor-
row, and the f1ve-day forecast
threatened more for Friday. The
Evening star., 1952-12-23

Other Christmos Stories and Pictures.
Pose B.
Evening star., 1952-12-23
Preliminary Inquiry
Fails 10 Find Cause
OF Crash Fatal 10 81
Air Force Discovers
No Reason to Ground
CHA GIobemusters
By the Associated Press

The Air Force said today pre-
liminary investigation of the
Moses Lake (WashD air disaster
has failed to turn up a cause for
the crash of the giant CHA
Globemaster. 1t said, too, it has
not found any reason to order
the grounding of C-124s.
Air Force headquarters released
an interim report from the group
Memorial Rites Held for Victims Of Crosh
Evening star., 1952-12-23

(See EISENHOWER, Page AS.
Evening star., 1952-12-23

(See FOUNDATIONS, Page Az
Evening star., 1952-12-23

Permanent copies Of The Stars centen-
nial rotogravure section on extra-heavy
paper can be bought separately for 10 cents
at the business counter in the lobby of The
Star Building.
Kodiak mirror., 1952-11-22

TODAY there are no far away places. For
 London, Paris, Moscow and Tokyo only matter of hours by air. And with every passing day. advances in aviation bring enemies. That is why we are now engaged in building the most effective air force the world has An air force designed for but purpose. To defend you and all of the things you hold dear
 But defense your job, tool And of the best ways to do your job by buying IL S. Defense Bonds regular ly Why not start now-1nake today your "D' Day! By buying bonds you help build the great economic strength that backs up armed forces And today history has taught us one lesson-peace is for the shong
 Remember, too, when you buy bonds you make one of the safest investments in the world today. For Defense Bonds are as safe as America
Evening star., 1952-11-15
A|exandrian Gets Jail
On Gambling Charge

Nicholas Lafragiola. 80, of the
2400 block of Commonwealth ave-
nue., Alexandria, was given a 12-
month jail sentence and fined
$500 in Fairfax Trial Justice
Court yesterday after he pleaded
guilty to a charge of operating q
gambling table. :
Ten months of the 12-month
term was suspended, and Lafra-
giola will be required only to serve
two months in jail. Police said
he was the renter of a house in
the 1900 block of Huntington
avenue just south of Alexandria
where IS men were arrested in q
gambling raid october Is. Lafra-
giola surrendered to police several
days after the raid.
Three others charged with OPP
Grating gambling tables at the
house were fined $100 each and
given 12-month suspended Jail
sentences They were Frank p.
Paulin OF the 1900 block of Cali
fornie street NV; Leon H. Wag-
goner of Baltimore and Lawrence
L Glannon of the 5400 block Of
Fifty-sixth avenue, Riverdale, Md.
All pleaded guilty. All were ar
rested during the raid.
Others arrested in the raid for
feited collateral on gambling
charges.
!. The sentences were imposed by
Fairfax Trial Justice Robert Fitz-
gerald. on recommendation of As
sistant Commonwealth's Attorney
Bernard F. Jennings. The de-
PENDANTS were represented by At
torney T. Brooke Howard.
Evening star., 1952-11-15
Death Penalty Upheld
In Soldier Rape Case
By the Asseejctsd Press

ANNAPOLIS, Nov. IS. - The
Court Of Appeals yesterday upheld
a rape conviction and death SEN
tence given jeremiah Driver, %.
|year-old Negro soldier from Bal
timore.
Without clemency from the
Governor. Driver will be hanged
for raping a 20-year-old Negro
girl in a vacant lot several blocks
from her home last January.
Driver, unmarried father OF
two children, and stationed at
Fort Meade at the time, also was
convicted Of unnatural sex rela-
tions with a 19-year-old Negro
girl the same night.
His lawyer contended Judge
Herman M. Moser in Baltimore
Criminal Court should not nave
admitted a confession at the trial.
He also charged the Judge was
improperly influenced in passing
sentence by probation report
saying in part it was "also ru-
mored" Driver had raped a white
woman and approached" white
child.
Evening star., 1952-11-15
Worker Critically Injured
When Hit by Falling Tree

A 20-year-old construction
worker is in critical condition in
Casualty Hospital from injuries
received when he was caught un-
der a falling tree yesterday.
Prince Georges County police
said the injured man, Edward
Dare. lives at Dunkirk, Calvert
County, Md. The accident o.
CURED about ! pm. at Gateway
boulevard and Foster street, Dis
trict Heights.
Witnesses said Mr.. Dare, an
employe Of a firm clearing the
site for a housing project, was
watching while a bulldozer pulled
a tree down. They said the tree
snapped close to the ground and
fell in a direction opposite to that
which the workers intended.
Persons nearby, police said
yelled to Mr.. Dare to get out OF
the way but said he ran in the
wrong direction. Mr.. Dare was
hit on the head when the tree
crashed.
Evening star., 1952-11-15
Marines Stage Realistic Battle,
But Civilians Miss Air Show

Lectures and movies indoors are
being substituted for the all
phases of the demonstration.
But the visitors donned foul
weather gear for today's outdoor
activities.
Real show of the day comes
with the assault landing on q
beach studded with concrete pill
boxes and bunkerS. .r
Pick OFF PillbOxes.
From across a man-made lake
deep in the area named "Gaudal-
canal" west of U. S. highway /
landing craft put the Marines
ashore after the area has been
pounded by naval gunf1re and
aircraft. Fixed charges scattered
over the enemy area give II
reality of sound.
One by one, using the Marine
battle pattern of phosphorus
smoke to cover advance of q
flame thrower and explosives man
they pick of the defended pill
boxes with the aid of tanks.
1t is close enough to the real
thing for the two narrators on
the battle scene.
Both young lieutenants, they're
Korean veterans who have LED
their platoons into problems such
are staged here today.
It isn't merely a show. The
Marines taking part would be do
ing it even though no spectators
were present.
Evening star., 1952-11-15
Fairfax Will Dedicate
New WestIaWn School

The new Westlawn Elementary
School in Fairfax County will be
dedicated at 3 pm. tomorrow.
The building is at 1920 West
Grenstead street in the Westlawn
subdivision near Falls Church. The
dedication ceremony will take
place in front of the school, or in
the cafeteria if it rains.
Speakers will include School
Supt. w.. T. Woodson; Harold
Ford. director of education. and
Mrs. Louise Murphy, principal
of Westlawn School. The Rev. Ed
wards Yost of Trinity Lutheran
Church will give the invocation,
and the Rev. Cecil H. Franks of
the Boulevard Baptist 0hurch will
pronounce benediction.
The new 19-classroon Westlawn
School opened in September.
Evening star., 1952-11-15
Assault Suspects. Case
Handed 10 Air Force

Civil authorities here have
turned over jurisdiction to the
Air Force the case Of a 24-year-
old airman. charged with assault
with intent to rape an Army col
|onel'S wife.
Assistant United States Attor-
|ney John B. Diamond III yester-
day directed dropping the case
against Airman &c Henry Wesley
Nichols. He said this was done
at the request Of the complainant.
Mrs. Harold F. Handy. So, of the
Westchester Apartments. Mrs.
Handy preferred to have the mill
tary authorities handle the COM
plant, Mr.. Diamond said.
Nichols is assigned to Boiling
Air Force Base. He is charged
with severely beating Mrs. Handy
when she resisted his advances
in an automobile on the apart
ment grounds at 1000 Cathedral
avenue NV. police said.
Evening star., 1952-11-15
oCountyP Policemen
Injured When Auto
Crashes Into Cruiser

Two Prince Georges County
policemen were injured last night
when their cruiser was struck
broadside by an auto which ran
through a red light. police re-
ported.
The injured policemen are De-
tective Sergt. Wilson Purdy, So
and Pvt. o. o. Husk. Both are
reported in good condition at
Prince Georges General Hospital
Sergt. Purdy received chest in
juries and Pvt. Husk had a pos
sible conclusion.
Thomas Rose, Al, colored, of
the 7700 block of Blair road, Silver
Spring. who police said was driv-
ing the car that struck the cruiser,
was not hurt. He was charged
with driving under the influence,
speeding and passing through a
red light.
The accident occurred at the
intersection of Largo road and
Central avenue about $50 pm.
Michael M. Conner, 81, of 1911 A
street NE, who was driving a
third car involved in the crash,
told police he stopped for a red
light when the Rose car crashed
into his rear fender. passed him
on the right and ran into the
intersection. Police said the scout
car. driven by Sergt. Purdy, had
just entered the intersection when
struck.
Evening star., 1952-11-15
Bay Bridge Business
Exceeds Estimates
by the Asseeiated Press

BALTIMORE. Nov. 15.-Wher
Maryland opened it's $45 million
bridge across Chesapeake Bay last
July 80 the experts figured i,
would carry IL million vehicle.
in its first year and collect about
1874 million in tolls.
The score for the first three
months, through October:
Vehicles-579. 900, a little more
than half the estimated flrst-yeal
total.
Tolls-$1.190,O0 not quite hall
the estimated first-year total.
While heavy traffic months are
over until next spring, the toll.
are not expected to dip too sharp
ly. The bridge is on a New York.
Florida route which affords a by.
pass of Philadelphia, Baltimore
and Washington.
Evening star., 1952-11-15
County Heads Reject
Hospital Bids 10 Cut
Cost Within $4,000

New bids viii be asked on con-
struction to expand emergency
and X-Ray facilities at the Prince
Georges General Hospital.
The county commissioners, in
Upper Marlboro yesterday, re-
jected all figures submitted by
builders and ordered the project
readvertiSed.
Plans for closure Of space be-
tween B and D wings are to re-
main substantially as originally
drawn, but specifications for ma
terials will be revised.
Ss2.s6s Bid.
Commissioner Edward ]. Wa
ters moved for the discard of pre-
|vious offers. He acted when Hos
|pital Supt. Harry w. Penn, jr.,
informed the board his institu-
ton is not in q position to add to
the $4,000 appropriated by the
county.
The low bid on the project.
which would triple emergency
room facilities. was $32, 500, a
figure that did not include q 6 per
cent architects fee.
Mr.. Waters said he believes
specifications can be changed to
provide satisfactory construction
within allotted funds.
In other business, the commits.
sioners approved the appointment
of John Helm, supervisor Of trans
portation for the Board Of Edu-
cation, to be member of the
county Traffic Safety Committee.
Garage Protested.
They referred to the school
board letter from the Mayor
and Council Of University Park,
protesting erection of a garage on
the Northwestern High School
grounds.
Declaring that they have been
informed that the proposed ga
rage would be large enough to re-
pair and service all school buses
used in the upper half Of the
county, the town officials said:
ITO us, that would mean a def
mite trend toward commercialisn
Immediately adjacent to our resi-
dental town. The entire area
which surrounds the school is
presently zoned residential, and
construction Of q garage in this
area does not seem justified"