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Evening star., 1952-02-06
Patient Goes Berserk,
Shoots 7 Policemen
BY The Asseeioted Press

NEW YORK, Feb. Ga male
Ipatient broke loose in the psy-
chiatric ward at Bellevue Hospital
today, seized q patrolman's gun
and wounded two policemen in a
wild fusillade Of shots.
Patrolman William Kennedy,
80, was wounded in the neck. His
condition is serious.
Patrolman' Michael Bonura, Is,
suffered a flesh wound.
The patient, Frank Fraga. 26.
was subdued and confined in the
hospital prison ward.
Police said DR.. Lester Abend
was about to examine Fraga,
brought to the hospital by four
|patrolmen after q disturbance at
his home.
Fraga picked up a chair and
crashed it down on the head Of
Patrolman John Mallon, 20. then
ripped jMr. Mallon's gun from its
holster.
Fraga fired six quick shots.
two Of the bullets glancing off the
shield of Patrolman Robert Vope-
lax, who was not injured. Another
bullet ripped through Mr.. Vope-
|lak'S uniform.
A male nurse and two hospital
attendants rushed into the exam
|ination room but when they ar
rived Fraga had been pinned to
the floor.
Fraga's wife, who had asked
police to take him to the hospital,
said her husband had been up
set" since the death Of his mother
a few months ago.
Evening star., 1952-02-06

n that part OF the Districts
proposed 10-year highway plan
which calls for elimination OF
streetcar lines goes into effect.
Capital Transit will expect COM
pensation from the city.
E. C. Giddings. vice president Of
the company, made this clear to-
day when asked for his reaction
to the new plan announced last
week.
Mr.. Giddings reserved judg-
ment on the desirability OF the
program to the company. He said
it is still being studied.
But, he emphasized, "any pro-
posal eliminating streetcar lines
would mean compensation to the
company for losses on Its invest
ment."
The official pointed out the
transit firm has tens Of thousands
of dollars invested in track. and
rolling stock alone. II these facil-
tiles had to be abandoned to
make way for the highway pro-
gram, before reaching normal life
expectancy, the District would be
called upon to make necessary
adjustments, Mr.. Giddings said.
AS for approximating the pos
sible cost should that development
come about. Mr.. Giddings said the
economies and operation" Of each
carline involved would have to be
judged at the time OF abandon
ment.
And, he added. the company
cannot foresee the status Of each
line eight to 10 years from now,
the period allotted for completion
Of the proposed highway program.
Has Proved Prudent.
He conceded that, in some cases,
like the II treet-Kenilworth
streetcar line, it has proven 'pru-
dent" as far as the company was
concerned to transfer the opera
ton to buses exclusively.
But the same cannot now be
said Of any streetcar line cur
rently in operation. Mr.. Giddings
said.
I'm fact, none can be seen to be
reaching that point" where aban-
donment would be prudent" toI
the company. the official added.
Highway Director John N.
Robertson later acknowledged that
the District has not figured such
compensation in the estimated
Evening star., 1952-02-06
Rockville Dates Set
For Income Tux Aid i.

Deputy collectors Of internal
revenue will be in the Rockville
firehouse late this month and early
next month to help persons pre-
pare their Federal income tax re-
turns. The dates are:
February ~, % and 20 and
March 8, 4, 5. 6. 7, 10, II, IL. 1S,
IA and II.
Evening star., 1952-02-06
Speedy House Passage
|Of Wetbdck Bill Seen
By shs As.oeic,sd Pres,

The House is expected to APP
prove quickly . Senate-passed
measure levying stiff penalties for
smuggling farm laborers from
Mexico into the United States.
The Senate passed the measure
by voice vote yesterday after an
afternoon Of debate.
It would fix penalties Of up to
50, 900 in fines and i've years in
prison for those who snnuggle i'm
migrants into the United States.
or conceal and transport them
after they are here.
Evening star., 1952-02-06
By he Assoeiatsd Press

- iF
GRAssE. France. Feb. "a
hotel manager and his brother
got suspended sentences Of three
years and were fined 10000 francs
(about $17O) yesterday on charges
of theft. following the loss Of
Jewels belonging to Mrs. Frank
Jay Gould, daughter-in-law Of the
late American railroad magnate.
The jewelry. said to be worth
more than $67. 900, was placed by
Mrs. Gould in a strong box at the
Hotel Provencal in Juan-les-Pins
i'm 1916. It was four years later
in 1950-that she discovered the
Evening star., 1952-02-06
Union Closing FM Stotion

NEW YORK. Feb. 8 R.The
AFL international Ladies Gar
ment Workers Union win close
WFDR. the last of its three fire.
quency modulation stations. on
February Is because of high OPP
Grating costs.
Evening star., 1952-02-06
Frenehmen Gel TemsIn Theft Of Gould Jewels

jewels were no longer there. Cop
les had been substituted.
Robert Gouin, the hotel man
ager. who was sentenced with his
brother Marcel. was said to have
paid about $2.857 in francs To
Mrs. Gould in partial restitution,
Evening star., 1952-06-24
BY Charles E. TroceweN

diseases and some Of them are scarcely
worth considering, but the fact that the
flea may carry the eggs of tapeworms
makes this problem to be given care
full attention.
It is not so much the grown flea that
threatens as the eggs.
These are perfect little creations of
nature, glistening like pearls. when seen
with magnifying glass against O dark
background such as a mahogany chair
seat.
Until the friend Of cats happens to
see one Of these eggs and realizes what
it Is and its danger of being swallowed.
in food or otherwise, he will be happily
ignorant Of it.
The old adage that what you don't
see won't hurt you' has received many
clarifying setback in recent years.
We no longer believe in such SNUG
bit of philosophy. It was based on
nothing much, except ignorance.
Even the cleanest of housekeepers
often refuses to admit that her cat has
feas.
It has feas all right. lady, but they
don't bite you. so you say they do not
exist.
The fleas are a great nuisance but
they may be kept down With combing
and the proper use Of fleaPowder.
Under no circumstances should O
Evening star., 1952-06-24

powder be used which contains DDT.
Every package should be examined for
this. Furthermore, no powder should be
used on cat that does not contain on
its package the plain statement thatAit
is intended for cats.
The flea egg makes q special problem.
1t Is these that get down in cracks in
the hardwood floor and then suddenly.
when the family is away on vacation,
hatch out and run riot.
In some cases, professional extermina.
tors must be called In. II the house.
holders had known about flea eggs, as
well as fleas. all the trouble might have
been saved.
Wherever cat sleeps or lies for any
time in summer. there are flea eggs, in
all probability. Care should be taken
to sweep them up with a dry cloth and
burn them.
This is continuing process but it is
worth it. both for the health and COM
fort Of the household pet as well as the
safety of its human friends.
If strict attention to this matter is
teamed up with care as to food and
water (not all cats drink water) the pet
cat will take summer in its stride.
Daily use Of the vacuum cleaner on
the floors. rugs and cushions (not on
the cat) is a fhot weather must for a
home that contains one Of these most
ancient Of animals.
Evening star., 1952-06-24
This and That

Hot weather care Of the house cat has
its special problems.
Fortunately for the feline population,
in most cases, cats are used to hot
weather.
Their ancestors came from Egypt,
where it is almost as warm as it is here.
Down through the ages, whether liv-
ing in hot or cold or temperate climates,
cats have held on to their thick coats.
This means that they can take it.
They do not open their mouths
as much as dogs, when it is hot, but do
so only when fat and exercising too
freely.
Despite the fact that they keep their
coats, they benefit from a. thorough
weekly combing:
They do not. even in nature, keep all
their fur.
Hot weather causes some Of the
undercoat to drop out.
It is the removal of this that Puss is
engaged in when she licks her coat.
Also. she is after feas.
If the excess hair is kept combed out.
there will be less exercise ground for
feas, pest both to the cat and to her
human friends. Not all persons suffer
from the cat and dog flea, as it is called.
Those that do. however, know that the
bites are very itchy. to say nothing Of
heing insanitary. a
The cat has been blamed for many
Evening star., 1952-06-24
In Fairness to Mr.. Flanagan

If the Lands report is to become factor
in senatorial deliberations over the reappoint
ment of James A. Flanagan to the Public Utilities
Commission, Mr. Flanagan's detailed and vigorous
reply to that report merits attention, too. While
the Lands report was submitted to House
subcommittee, copies of it have been supplied
the Senate District Committee weighing the
Flanagan nomination Members of the Senate
committee last week held up further consideration
of Mr. Flanagans record and fitness for
reappointment until the Lands criticism Of the
PUG and the Capital Transit Company could be
studied. In all fairness, Mr.. Flanagan should be
given every opportunity to have his say.
The PUG chairman had difficulty In giving
his side during stormy meeting of the Senate
committee last week. He was confronted with
several controversial parts of the Lands keport-
although It had not yet been released and
Evening star., 1952-06-24
Letters to The Star .

The simplicity that was previously at
tributed to it is no longer tenable. It
has been observed under different sets
of experiments to behave both as a par
ticle and as a wave. Incredible as that
sounds, those seem to be the facts. That
anything should be both matter and
energy, at one and the same time, is an
abstract concept of the highest order!
It is concepts such as this that science
now requires.
Time was when it was an axiom of
physics that matter could be neither
created nor destroyed. A similar axiom
held true for energy. These two truths
a priori' served the purposes of science
well during three centuries. In our time
We have seen these two time -honored
laws negated. and found to be fallacious
theories, just as phlogiston and the
ether were believed in at one time, yet
neither ever existed. The principle Of
the convertibility of matter and energy
is so well established. and such is the
adaptability of human nature, that it
awes no one today, and the writer gifted
with the light touch treats it with
humor. A paraphrase of Wadsworth is
tempting: Newton! Thou shouldst be
living at this hour"
1Saur0 T. Bazan,
Evening star., 1952-06-24

courage shoppers to insist on getting
their cakes fresh. Most of the wrapped
packets have the date stamped on them.
Unsold stale cakes go back to the man.
ufacturers on sale-or-return basis;
the team thinks there should be SIM
liar system for British shops.
The cakes and biscuits team has ad-
dressed its first eight recommendations,
not to the trade, but to the Ministries
Of Food and Agriculture. Envying the
Americans for the whiteness Of their
flour, the team asks that the extrac-
tion rate for flour used in the making
Of biscuits and cakes in this country
should be 72 per cent as it was before
the war. and not 81 per cent as it is
now for the home market. The team
believes this would help the maker
and please the public.
British farmers. the team suggests.
should be induced to grow the right
kind Of wheat for biscuit making and
Evening star., 1952-06-24

tivity to study American industrial
methods. Most of the conclusions
reached by the teams on American
management, labor relations. and at
titudes are now familiar. not to say
hackneyed, but in the latest report, one
on cake and biscuits. the technical dis
coveries are unique.
Unlike many of the earlier reports,
this one directly concerns the ordinary
citizen. and especially the ordinary
housewife. If the cakes and biscuits
team has its way. the cake-shop window
will be filed with whittier flour, stale
cakes will disappear from the shops, and
families will eat biscuits instead of
bread with some Of their meals. All
these ideas. it seems. are already COM
monplace in the United States.
But the team has found it difficult to
compare British and American stand
ards of bakery productivity. because tho
taste in cakes and biscuits in the two
Evening star., 1952-06-24

although Mr.. Flanagan had not been permitted
to see an advance copy When the PUG chairman
sought to answer the Lands charges he was
baked by barrage of questions and heated
comments from several of the Senators. Now,
however, Mr.. Flanagan has submitted to the
Kennedy subcommittee of the House District
Committee lengthy answer to many of the
points raised by the Lands report-including
questions which seemed to puzzle some members
of the Senate District Committee. If the Sena-
tors are not satisfied with Mr.. Flanagan's
statement, they should call him for further
questioning, under calmer conditions than pre-
vailed at the previous session. There are two
sides to the issues discussed in the Lands report
and the Senate committee should weigh both
sides before reaching decision on the Flanagan
nomination.
Evening star., 1952-06-24
June "a

step softly: this toitholden place
Would Danish me-or you;
Wear hidden courage in your heart.
And ternseed In each shoe.
TomorToao's folk inQuirin0ly
win stare at trampled grass:
No marpel theirs like ours tonight
Who iDitness ,oIat ioiH pass.
HotD late the dark! A sound a. soft
As young birds ttoittering;:
The beat of dancing feet tDhich thron0
This green and secret ring.
Yet there are others light as moth,
A zephyr as they fly:
Delight Is theirs; tol,at darklin0 joy
To n,oDe and nystity!
Hold fast ,oithin your inward eye
What all ,oiH disbeliepe,
A tDorld beyond our sense and sight.
ON 1ch midsummer ere.
- Anna 7. HordiRa {
Evening star., 1952-06-24
British Report On What's Cookinq in u. S.

countries Is scarcely comparable In
Britain. IS per cent of the people pre-
Ter sweet biscuits; in the States 60 per
cent go In for unSweetened crackers.
They eat crackers instead of bread with
their soup, preference which does so
much for mass production in the bakery
that the team wants to see the same
taste encouraged in Britain.
The Swiss roll and fruit cake, gen.
orally considered an essential part of the
English tea. are not at all favored in
the States There they 60 in for light
sponge cakes known variously and i'm
partially as angel cake or devils food.
Even wedding cakes are usually "un-
fruited," sometimes cream-layered and
rarely more than two tiers high. Dough-
nuts, Of course. are made by the thou
sands and the team describes in detail
vast machine for turning them out.
It is no mere happy coincidence that
American housewives prefer the cakes
and cookies which can be mass pro-
duced. They are led to this preference
by advertising and an active sales policy.
This simplicity has decided effect on
the bakery. The British visitors saw q
continuous-flow bakery where two men
looked after plant producing five hun
dred cup cakes every minute. They saw
another gadget that injects cream into
the heart of a cream bun at the rate
Of / ,440 cakes an hour.
Nothing seems to have impressed the
British bakers more than the wrapping
and packaging Of American cakes and
biscuits. In the whole of their tour
they never saw biscuit tin. The Amer
leans sell their wares in small wrapped
packages. transparent where the sale
depends, as it often does, on what they
call "eye appeal" Most Of the goods
are sold in self-service stores and very
often, it seems, to impulse buyers"-ie.
to women shoppers who do not set out
to buy biscuits but who find the visual
allure Of the transparent packet ire
sistible.
Americans favor quick sales and en-
Evening star., 1952-06-24
Chino Policy

Kathryn O'Neill states that Gems.
Wedemeyer and Macarthur advised that
another attempt be made to bring the
Chinese Communists into the National
ist government.
Gen. Wedemeyer's 1947 report on
China was suppressed. 1t was generally
known that Wedemeyer. former COM
mander of United States forces in China.
who had been sent on an exploratory
mission to China in 1947, did not agree
with Gen. Marshall's policy.
AS for Macarthur advocating any such
step. it is beyond belief. He knew the
Communists far too well to be taken in
by them.
Some Republicans may have been
fooled by the Communists. but they
weren't Macarthur or Wedemeyer.
Mrs. ]. Noftsinger.
Evening star., 1952-06-24
For Joint PIonninq

House approval of the bill to reorganize the
National Capital Park and Planning Commission
brings closer to realization a long-nurtured
proposal for co-ordinating the future planning
OF Greater Washington. Lack of such teamwork
In the past years has brought many of today's
traffic, zoning and public service headaches in
the Metropolitan Area.
Actually, the legislation passed by the House
is much more than NCPPC reorganization
measure In addition to revising and enlarging
the commission itself, the bill would create an
entirely new overall planning agency, to be
known as the Regional Planning Council. The
council would be the co-ordinator of all official
planning activities in and around Washington
Its 10 members would represent planning
agencies of the Federal and District govern
mentS, OF six nearby Maryland and Virginia
counties and of the cities of Falls Church and
Alexandria.
The bill bears little resemblance to the
original NCPPC reorganization bill introduced
several years ago and opposed by many of the
suburban planners. The nearby areas COM
planned that under that proposal they would be
dominated by Federal authorities, without an
adequate voice in planning that would affect the
future development of the adjacent communities
The House bill is compromise that was worked
out after long study and numerous consultations
with planning authorities around the District
All of these authorities have indorsed the idea
OF Regional Planning Council, superimposed
over all the local planning agencies but with
limited powers of coordination and persuasion
The legislation has been reported favorabty
by the Senate District Committee so that only
Senate approval is needed to make the plan
effective. With all jurisdictions agreed on the
urgency of creating the co-ordinating council,
there is no reason why Senate action should be
delayed.
Evening star., 1952-06-24
Raw Materials Preview

Editorial comment on the findings of the
Presidents Materials Policy Commission undoubt-
edly will be more definitive in 1875 than in 1852.
For in that year the quarter-century projections
of the commission will have reached their end
date, their truth or falseness being as clear to
observers as the printed form in which they
were publicly released this week.
It is safe today, however, to indorse one
basic thesis on which much Of the commissions
report is founded, namely, that there is no such
thing as purely domestic policy toward
materials that all the world must have; there
are only world policies that have domestic
aspects" The United States, in other words,
cannot assure to itself a self-suficiency in
essential materials by programs Of boarding at
home and procurement abroad without regard
to the welfare Of friendly nations.
Our own dependence upon foreign sources of
supply came clearly to light in World War II, the
point at which we completed cycle that had
been long time in the making-the shift from
being raw materials surplus nation to a raw
materials deficit nation. In the period of peace
or half-war which has followed the trend has
not been reversed. Today, of "a categories of
strategic and critical materials listed by the
Munitions Board, the United States imports all of
its supplies in more than 40 and part of its
supplies in virtually all others
Neither the Presidents commission nor any
realistic economist will interpret this circum-
stance as one of crisis. Against a certainty OF
mounting demand, however, it is equally certain
that the problem may not safely be disregarded
In the commissions opinion the great corrective
available to our own country is that of hexbility
broadening our usable resource base, tapping
new sources Of supply and adapting needs to
the kind of supply available. Combined with
intelligent conservation Gas against sheer hoard
ing), constant emphasis on chronological
progress, and an integration of materials produc-
ton and exchange among the free nations, this
hexibility, in the commissions opinion, can
provide the answer to the foreseeable demands Of
the present quarter -ceNtury.
Evening star., 1952-06-24
Republican Tempers Short

Almost everything That comes from Texas Is
bigger or better or louder than the corresponding
product from elsewhere.
This is rule that applies this year to
politics, particularly to the bitter Taft-Eisen-
hover fight over the Texas delegation to the
Republican National Convention. Actually there
are delegate contests headed for the Republican
convention from Louisiana, Georgia, Florida,
Missouri and scattering of other States None
OF them, however, has aroused the amount of
heat that has been kindled under the SO votes
from Texas.
The Texas delegation was chosen in the last
analysis by the Republican State Executive
Committee. Favoring Senator Taft, the executive
committee favored pro-Taft slate of delegates
despite heavy preference for General Eisen-
hover recorded in the State Republican primary
The committee explanation was that the primary
was loaded" with overnight Republicans"
Democrats who merely wanted to defeat Taft
and who wouldn't be voting for any Republican
on November anyway. In FACT defenders of
the committee action now claim the Eisenhower
drive in Texas is a sinister attempt "to destroy
our American two-party system and smear
Senator Taft"
Eisenhower supporters, joined openly last
Saturday night by the general himself describe
the maneuverings of the pro-Taft faction in
Texas as betrayal of the whole Republican
FarCy, SCeal ana q rutnleSS QlSIranCnlSemenC
of the very sort Of young voters needed to bring
Republican victory.
Either the credentials committee or the
convention as whole eventually will resolve the
question of whether the pro-Taft slate will be
seated, whether pro- Eisenhower delegation will
take its place, or whether the States 38 votes
might be divided The whole row would be
funnier if it's bitter overtoneS did not threaten
a deep and lasting scar within the party.
The Republican Party has not won presi-
dental election since 1928. 1t has indeed become
a minority party. To win in 1852, it will need a
reasonable atmosphere of harmony within its
own ranks and the qualities to attract several
million so-called independent" voters. The
aspirants for Republican nomination and the
delegates who will make the convention choice
could do worse than give a serious reading to the
letter addressed to the delegates by Senator
Bridges of New Hampshire.
"If we 60 into the presidential campaign as
a militant, united party, our chances of winning
are excellent" he wrote. "Our chances Of losing
are equally great if we enter the campaign
pickering and divided"