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Evening star., 1952-05-01

President
Today

The President of Nicaragua and
Sonora de Somoza are scheduled
to arrive at $3.50 this evening for
a six-day visit to Washington. Al
though the visit is billed as "un-
Official" there will be several
parties.
Assistant Secretary Of State Ed
ward G. Miller, jr.. will meet the
presidential party at the airport
and tomorrow evening MIR. and
Mrs. Miller will give a reception
for the visitors at the Carlton
Hotel. Hours are 6 to 8 o'clock
Earlier tomorrow. at o'clock,
the Nicaraguan leader will lunch
with President Truman at the
White House, and at 3 o'clock to-
morrow Mrs. Truman will receive
Sonora lie Somoza and Sonora de
Sevilla-Sacasa. The latter is the
wife Of the Nicaraguan Ambassa-
dor to Washington and the
daughter Of the Nicaraguan Pres
ident.
Saturday evening the visiting
President will be honored at a
reception for $500 being given by
the Nicaraguan Ambassador and
Sonora de Sevilla-Sacasa in the
Hall of Americas in the Pan Amer
lean Union Building. The recep-
ton is scheduled to begin at $50
Sunday morning at 10:30 there
will be another reception, this
time in the Nicaraguan Embassy
for Nicaraguans in the Washing
ton area, Nicaraguan consuls in
the United States and a few per-
sonal friends of the visitor-who
was once his country's Minister
to Washington. That evening
there will be q dinner in his
honor at the Nicaraguan Embassy
Sunday afternoon the presi.
Dental encourage will attend the
double header baseball game be-
tween the Washington Senators
and the st. Louis Browns. They
will be guests of Assistant Secre-
tary Miller. The President is saiC
to be an ardent baseball fan.
Monday noon the President viii
address a meeting Of the Organi.
zation of American States. follow.
ing which he will be the luncheon
guest of the OAS council.
On that evening and the follow
ing there will be dinners in hi!
honor at the Embassy.
Evening star., 1952-05-01
Woods
Plan
Style Benefit

Mrs. Arthur Woods entertained
friends yesterday who will serve as
|patronesses for the forthcoming
American Red Cross Flood Relief
Fund benefit. Mrs. Woods has
loaned her Georgetown home for
the May 8 affair which will be a
showing Of British Home Indus
tries fashions.
Present for the tea yesterday
were Mrs. Robert A. Lovett, Mrs.
Ray Atherton. Mrs. Hugh D.
|Auchincloss, Mrs. Robert Low
Bacon. Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss,
Mrs. Thomas Finletter, Mrs.
Dwight Davis, Mrs. Albert Dewey,
Mrs. Clifford Folger, Mrs. George
A. Garrett. Mrs. E. Roland Harri-
man, Mrs. w. John Kenney and
Mrs. Harold Coolidge.
Models for the fashions will be
drawn from pulchritudinous Cap
italites. Mrs. Charles Empson,
wife of the British Minister. will
be one and Mrs. AuchincloSs'
daughter. Miss Jacqueline Bouvier,
Mrs. Charles Collingwood and Mrs.
John E. B. Mitchell.
The fashions will be knitted
wear for town and country pro-
duced by Home Industries. Ltd.
The knitting project was started
by the Dowager MarchionesS of
Reading for the purpose of giving
home hound women in Britain an
opportunity to play a part in
their country's vital export drive.
The number of knitters has now
grown to 5000 women who have
made a significant contribution to
this drive and to knitted wear
styles everywhere.
Mrs. Empson, who is in charge
Of the sale Of tickets at her home.
1889 S street. announces that
there are still about SO seats
available for the showing. Tickets
are S. each.
Evening star., 1952-05-01
Society News:
Gen. R. S. McLoin
Retires From Arnnv
Impressive Parting Salute Is Given
Army Cont aiier; Porty Follows

lwell Taylor, Mrs. T. B. Larkin,
Mrs. Anthony McAuliffe, Mrs.
Alexander Boiling, Mrs. Harold
r. Bull. Mrs. George Decker, Mrs.
Rubin Jenkins. Mrs. Charles L.
Bolte and Mrs. Bradley. All are
wives Of generals and all were
accompanied to the festivities by
their husbands.
Secretary Leaves
Secretary Pace took one look
at the long line outside and de-
cided he wouldn't have time to
offer good wishes. He already had
done it, anyway, at the reviewing
stand. Senator Saltonstall and
his wife must have been among the
first to go in. At least he came out
not too long after the party be-
gan with a sandwich in his hand,
which. incidentally, he turned over
to friend still waiting to get in.
Others on hand for the parade
and party in honor Of the g.
year-old general were Federal
Power Commissioner and Mrs
Harrington Vim ber1y, Mrs.
George Holmes, Maj. Gen. and
Mrs. Lewis B. Hershey-the lat
ter still on crutches because Of her
injured foot; Maj. Gen. John M.
Devine, District Engineer Com
missioner and Mrs. Bernard Rob-
inson, the Secretary Of the Senate
and Mrs. Leslie Bifhe, Mrs. War
rem L. Stevenson, Mrs. Parker
West and the former commander
of the United States Forces, Car
ibbean. Gen. William Morris, who
recently retired, and Mrs. Morris.
It was fortunate for the men
that we had warm weather yester-
day. Because of it, there were no
'topcoats worn and the porch of
the club was turned into a "check
ROOM" All around the bottom of
the porch railing were hats, in
cluding Gen. Shepherds. which
had been carefully placed on top
of his swagger stick and gloves.
This new locale for the headgear
also made for a quicker depar-
ture-no checkroom tieups.
To name a few more of the hun
dreds there-Mrs. Lesley j. Nc
Nalr was receiving warm greet
ings from every one; Maj. Gen.
Thomas w. Herren, commanding
general Of the Military District oil
Washington, who is leaving the
middle Of this month for the Far
East Command, was there with
his wife: 1t. Gen. Jeffery Keyes,
who was retired last year after
commanding the United States
forces in Austria and has since
been recalled to duty, was present
as were Maj. Gen. Paul Streit,
Commanding General, Army Med
ical Center; Maj. Gen. Roy H.
Parker. Chief of Chaplains; chief
Of the Legislative Liaison Depart
ment of the Army. Maj. Gen.
Miles Reber, and the chief of the
Chemical Corps. Maj. Gen. E. F.
Bullene, and Mrs. Bullene.
After the receiving line broke
up at 8:15. Gen. Collins presented
a citation to Gen. McLain. He
apologized to Mrs. McLain because
her name wasn't included in the
citation but said, I'm including
you now"
Gen. Collins then spoke ex-
temporaneously and highly praised
Gen. McLain'S work over the
years and said that "he would be
greatly missed" Every one agreed.
Evening star., 1952-05-01
Hood Photo.

Maj. and Mrs. Maurice E. Cope
land Of Fort Ritchie. Md, an
the engagement Of their
daughter, Patricia Lee, to Mr.. Rob-
ert B. Sherry, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert E. Sherry.
Mr.. Sherry is a graduate of the
University Of Maryland. where he
studied mechanical engineering.
Evening star., 1952-05-01
THE EVENING STAR B-3
Washington, D. G.
THURSDAY, MAY 1. 1859
Miss Royburn
Guest

Mrs. Lawrence Westbrook was
hostess at a luncheon yesterday in
honor of Miss Lucinda Rayburn.
Speaker Rayburn's sister who Is
in Washington on a three-week
visit from Texas. The party went
of beautifully despite the fact
that the hostess suffered a badly
sprained ankle on the rain-wet
front steps Of her apartment the
day before.
Present at the party were Mrs.
Robert BARLEY. Miss Rayburn's
niece; Mrs. Thomas Hennings, jr..
Mrs. Fritz Lanham. Mrs. Brooks
Hayes, Mrs. Eugene Worley and
Mrs. Leslie Carpenter.
Evening star., 1952-05-01
Army Daughters

A talk on present day Japan
will be given by Mrs. Roland H.
del Mar before the Washington
Chapter, Daughters Of the United
States Army. at luncheon to be
held at pm. Monday in the Bur-
lington Hotel. There will be an
IL o'clock business meeting pre-
ceding the luncheon. Mrs. Robert
c. Mcdonald is in charge Of res.
ervations which close tonight.
Evening star., 1952-05-01
Society News:
By Ann ck

The cannons fired aA >.et For
Lesley j. McNair, bringing to al
end yesterday another distin
guiShed Army career. Honoree
was 1t. Gen. Raymond S. McLain
who retired after 80 years of mill.
tary service. He has been Control.
Ter of the Army since 1949.
Army Chief of Staff and Mrs
j. Lawton Collins were hosts al
the reception in the Officers Club
at the end of Generals Row.
Some 800 people went down the
receiving line. and It took them
almost two hours to do so.
The ceremonies on the parade
grounds got underway as the
cannons fired IS rounds while Gen
McLain and Gen. Collins stood
at attention on the porch of Quar-
ters 8. the Chief of Staff's home
Following this, Col. John L
Throckmorton, Senior Aide to
Gen. Collins, escorted the men to
the reviewing stand. After the
rendition of honors. the playing OF
the National Anthem and the
reading Of the retirement order,
smartly clad troops passed in re-
view.
After the parade on the field,
the two generals moved to the
back of the reviewing stand to
watch the anti-aircraft guns,
drawn by MA tractors. and the
radar units as they circled the
field.
Officiols Present
Among the guests in the review
ing stands were the Chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Mrs.
Omar Bradley, who had their
young grandson, Hank Beukema,
with them; Secretary of the Army
Frank Pace, the Commandant of
the Marine Corps and Mrs. Le-
muel c. Shepherd; Senator and
Mrs. Leverett Saltonstall and
Senator Homer Ferguson.
The Governor of the United
States Soldiers Home and Mrs.
Wade H. Haislip were there for the
impressive ceremony. So were the
Dean of the Diplomatic Corps and
Mrs. Munthe de Morgenstierne,
Belgian Ambassador Baron Silver
cruys. Nine. Bonnet, without her
husband, the French Ambassador
French Minister Counselor Jean
Daridan and Mrs. A. S. Mike
Monroney, wife of the Senator
from Oklahoma.
The Officers Club is not far
from the reviewing stand and
most every one walked, enjoying
the first real spring weather we've
had in week. The slowly moving
line going into the club gave the
guests an opportunity for lots of
conversation.
The generals and their wives re-
ceived in the ballroom on the
second floor. Mrs. McLain wore a
two-piece blue costume, a white
orchid corsage and a white straw
hat. trimmed with blue ribbon.
Mrs. Collins chose a full-skirted
blue dress, with a sweetheart
neckline. She wore a diamond
necklace and a lavender orchid,
but no hat.
Several elaborate buffet tables,
ladened with turkeys, Virginia
ham, hot biscuits and a variety
of canapes were in the ballroom.
In addition to cocktails, coffee
was served. Taking turns pouring
were Mrs. John E. Hull, Mrs. Max
Evening star., 1952-05-01
John Bonnets Will
Leave for Havana

Mr.. and Mrs. John c. Bonnet,
with their sons, John, Christopher
and Jeffrey. will depart this Sun
day for Havana. Mr.. Bonnet is
the newly appointed Attache of
the United States Embassy in
Cuba.
En- route to Miami, the Bonnets
will visit Mr.. and Mrs. Jay Cole
man, and Mr.. and Mrs. Grady Lee
in Atlanta.
Evening star., 1952-05-01
Anne HddIey Is Engaged

The Vice President of the United
States and Mrs. Alben w. Barkley
announce the engagement of Mrs.
Barkley's daughter, Miss Anne
Carleton Hadley. to Mr.. Weldon
Behrend of San Augustine, Tex.
The wedding will take place in
Evening star., 1952-05-01
Harris Ewing Photo.

June, but whether it will be in
Washington or Paducah, Ky., has
not been decided.
Miss Hadley is a member of
the junior class at Sophie New
comb College. Mr.. Behrend will
graduate in June from Tulane
University.
Evening star., 1952-05-01
Return to Copit0I

Mr.. and Mrs. William N. Dunphy
have returned to their Macomb
street home from a five-day holi-
day in Bermuda.
Evening star., 1952-09-03
BY the Associated Press

NEW BRIGHTON, Mimi, Sept.
3.-The largest known unnamed
balloon, intended to bear cosmic
ray recording equipment aloft,
was launched today.
However, the giant skyhook,
about the size of an 18-story
building, developed several holes
during imitation and the pay
load" of scientific instruments was
cut off before launching.
It was set free at GAO am.
(CST). About two hours later,
a timing device ripped out one
panel of the balloon and it fell
near Lake City, Mimi. some so
air miles southeast of the launch
ing site. 1t had reached an
estimated altitude of $4,000 feet.
Donald F. Melton, in charge of
the unprecedented launching,
said a new giant skyhook" will
be constructed. but it will take at
least several months.
Mr.. Melton said the balloon,
made of strips Of fragile poly
ethelene plastic with a total area
of about two acres, was frankly
Evening star., 1952-09-03
Top Red Leader Killed
In Ma|ayan Police Trap
BY the Associated Press

KUALA LUMPUR. Malaga.
Sept. 3.-Security forces battling
Communicated guerrillas in Ma
laya announced the death of ono
of the top Red rebel leaders to-
day in police jungle squad am
bush.
The announcement identified
him as Cheung Kit Min, 33, Com
munist state committee member
for Malacca and one Of the Ma
layan Communist Party's general
staff directing guerrilla activities
in Malacca State.
Cheung was killed in an ambush
in Alor Gajah, only eight miles
north of the town Of Malacca.
One Of his aides also was wounded
in the ambush but escaped.
The Malayan government had
offered a reward of $4,000 Straits
dollars ($24,675) for Cheung alive
and $4,000 ($11,515) for him dead.
Evening star., 1952-09-03
$93,40O Is Deducted
From 80 Agencies for
Administrative Setup
Commissioners Top Funds
To lounch Department;
Police Yield $4,000

The District Commissioners to.
day tapped the funds of 30 munic-
ipal agencise for a total of $685.
400 to help operate the newly
created Department of Genera.
Administration.
The department. just starting
under the direction of Schuyler
Lowe who was sworn in yesterday
will take over many of the per-
sonnel and administrative matters
formerly vested in the individua,
agencies. The changeover is part
OF the city government reorgan-
ization plan.
The assessments ordered today
by the Commissioners amount tt
about one-sixth Of / per cent o1
each Of the 80 agencies total ap.
preparation for the current fisca
year. The biggest sums come
from; such expensive department.
las police, $4,000; Gallinger Hos.
|pital. $9,100: fire, $500, ane
public welfare. $7,700.
OF the remaining IS city agen.
|cies most will be excluded either
because they receive no specific
appropriations or because they
will not figure in the reorganiza.
ton program. Appropriations fol
the existing Offices that will bt
incorporated into the new ad.
|ministration department will bt
taken over by the department fol
operation purposes.
Evening star., 1952-09-03
TwoGunmenGet
$4,000 Payroll
In Ho|dup Here
Flee After Robbing
Construction Shack
In Southeast

Two gunmen staged a payroll
holdup. which netted about $4,000
shortly before l pm. today in
Southeast Washington.
The pair entered the Standard
Construction Co. construction
shack at Alabama avenue and
Fifteenth place Sc. apparently
while a third waited outside as
a lookout.
Woody Coviller, carpenter fore
man who was in the shack with
five other persons. said one of the
men told the group:
This is a holdup. Get in the
back ROOM"
The gunmen then picked up
several bank sacks containing
about $4,000.
They took the money from Jack
Rosenblatt. timekeeper on the con-
struction job. They also took keys
to station wagon, apparently in
move to fell pursuit. The men
fled afoot, police said.
They were described as light
skinned colored men. One carried
a .38-caliber pistol and the other
a .32-caliber pistol.
Evening star., 1952-09-03
PurteI| Won't Seek
Help From McC Cahhy

Freshman Senator William A.
Purtell, West Hartford. Conn,
manufacturer. running for a full
six-year term against Democratic
Senator Benton. said today he was
not asking or expecting any help
from Senator Mccarthy, Wiscon-
sin Republican.
The question came up at his
first press conference at the Cap
itol because of the continuing po-
litical and legal battling between
the Communist-hunting Senator
Mccarthy and Senator Benton, an
administration supporter.
NO" he told reporters, II am
not asking any help from Senator
Mccarthy. I can beat Mr.. Benton
without help from anybody"
Senator Purtell gave a humor.
Gus twist to his prediction of vic.
tory by assuring reporters. II can
put the screws on Mr.. Benton"
He is the head of the Holo- Krone
Screw Corp.
He is a resident. of West Hart
ford, Conn. He was appointed
last Friday by Connecticut's Re-
publican Gov. Lodge to succeed
the late Democratic Senator Brien
Mcmahon.
Last May Connecticut Republic
cans nominated him to run for
the full six-year term. Another
Republican convention this Thurs
day and Friday will nominate a
candidate for the four remaining
years Of the unexpired Mcmahon
term.
Senator Purtell confidently pre-
dicted victory in Connecticut for
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Evening star., 1952-09-03
Release Plan Ready
For Reserve Officers

Plans for the early release from
active duty of several thousand
Army reserve officers who were re-
called involuntarily to active duty
as individuals were announced to-
day.
The Army said the release of the
officers earlier than Is required by
law was made possible by the large
number who have elected to re-
main in service and the increas-
ing number of officers from officer
candidate schools and ROTC.
Thirty per cent of the reserves
involuntarily called have been vol
unteering to remain. Some 5000
still are on duty. Professional per-
sonnel Of the Army Medical Serv-
ice and certain other technical
specialists such as engineers will
not be granted early release.
The others will be relieved in
accordance with the following
schedule!
1. Those who served at least
one year in World War II and who
are overseas will be returned as
soon as requirements arrive. In
any event. they will be en- route
home by November 80.
2. Those who served one year
in World War II and who are now
in the United States will be re-
leased not later than November
80.
3. Those who served less than
one year in the last war will be re-
leased not later than next March
81.
Evening star., 1952-09-03
Cosmic Ray Balloon Launched
Successfully Minus Instruments
'Skyhook,' the Size Of history Building,
Develops Several Holes While Being inflated

only experimental to determine
if such a thing could be success
fully handled. While holes ap-
peared in the balloon as it was
being inflated with helium and no
instruments were carried. the
launching itself was called sue
cessful by Mr.. Melton.
Mr.. Melton said that excessive
handling may have caused the
holes. The balloon had been laid
out in preparation for launching
last week, but had to be put back
into a box when winds rose.
The big transport bag was made
by General Mills. Inc, for the
Office of Naval Research. It was
physicists latest attempt to get up
high enough-a predicted % miles
and stay there long enough
about "a hours to thoroughly
study cosmic rays, a still puzzling
source of energy. The balloon
was to provide a big hook" to
carry a small laboratory inte tlae
upper atmosphere.
The balloon was launched al
University Airport, q small field
about seven miles north of Min
lneapoliS-St. Paul.
Evening star., 1952-09-03
7 Men Killed, 4 Burned
In Ship Fire at Norfolk
BY the Assoeioted Press

NORFOLK, Va. Sept. 3.-Fire
swept through the Norwegian
freighter Hopeville early today
and the Coast Guard said two mer
were killed and four burned.
The fire ragged for two hours
before 1t was extinguished by fire.
fighting equipment from Norfolk
the Coast Guard, the Navy anc
the Hampton Roads Port IF Em.
barkation.
The victims were all Norwegians
The 5,300-ton Hopeville, owned
by KlaveneSs & Co. of Oslo, ar
rived in Norfolk yesterday with q
cargo of manganese ore and ma.
hogany logs.
It was docked at the Norfolk
& Western Railway cargo piel
when night watchman Morgan
Short discovered the fire at 3:3(
am. His prompt warning possibl,
saved further casualties.
The fire. its origin not de.
termined, was confined to thu
ship.
Evening star., 1952-09-03
Course Is Planned
For Working Couples

HOME TEAMWoRK-How to get
along better when both husbond ond
wife work will be fought in a speeioI
Department Of Agriculture Gloss this
foil. How the Gloss operates is de-
seribed by Stor stoff Reporter Betty
Miles on pose B-l.
NEWS OF THE sERvIcEs-News
notes obout the activities Of Woshins-
ton oreo servieemen and women ore
reported in The stor's feoturs Here
ond Abroad" Pose AIS.
THREE DOLLAR HAT-EIeni points
out fhot the price tos doesn't neon
everything when it's time to shop for a
foil wordrobe. Her story Of the borsoin
and style hunters oppeors on pose 81.
Evening star., 1952-09-03
Nun, Revealing Death
Of Bishop Ford, Says
Reds Abused Him \
Catholic PreIute Beaten
And Bound With Ropes,
His Secretary Reports
BY the Associated Press

HONG KONG, Sept. 3.-A Cath
olic sister today said Chinese
Communists heaped indignities
on Maryknoll Bishop Francis x.
Ford and-before his death on
February 21-forced him to un-
dress before her in a Canton
prison.
Sister Joan Marie Ryan. in seri-
Gus condition herself after two
years in prison, brought the first
word of the 60-year-old bishops
death.
Bishop Ford, a native of Brook
lyn and a veteran of "a years
service in China, and Sister Ryan,
his secretary, also of Brooklyn,
were placed under house arrest on
December %, 1850. at Mei-hsien.
Kwangtung Province.
Charged With Spying.
On April IA, 1851, they were
charged with spying and were
started on tortuous 210-mile trip
to a Canton prison.
The sister related:
Their bus stopped at village,
Hinning, and the Reds tied Ford
with ropes and led him about
the town.
Students beat him with ropes.
sticks, stones and refuse. He was
knocked down several times, but
each time arose and-calmly and
with dignity-walked on.
The students were so out Of
control that the guards fled and
she and the bishop had to return
to the bus depot unattended.
Bound With Wet Ropes.
At a second village, the guards
bound the Bishop with wet ropes
which contracted as they dried.
She said the final humiliation
was in the Canton prison - the
Reds forced him to undress be-
fore her.
Sister Ryan said that on August
16 she was shown a death certifi-
cate ascribing Bishop Ford's death
to old age and natural causes.
Monday the Reds took her to a
grave. told her the Bishop was
buried there and forced her to
sign a document saying he died
of natural causes.
Evening star., 1952-09-03

counted. lanky Tom Mechling. 81,
was leading Senator Pat McCar-
rams hand-picked candidate for
the Democratic senatorial nomina-
ton by 500 votes-with only about
500 more to be counted.
An unofficial tabulation early
today gave Mr.. Mechling 15,777
votes to 15,078 for Alan Bible. AZ.
Nevada's widely-liked former at
torney general.
The Democratic nominee will
try in November to oust Repub-
lican Senator George Malone. who
easily won denomination.
Former ID. C. Newsman.
Mr.. Mechling is a soft-spoken,
boyish-l looking. former newsman,
who until seven months ago
worked in Washington, D. c., with
Evening star., 1952-09-03
Smyrna Headquarters
Set Up by NATO Forces
BY the Assoeioted Press

ISTANBUL, Turkey, Sept. s.
A NATO announcement said to-
day headquarters of Allied land
forces in Southeastern Europe
have been established at Izmir
(Smyrna) on Turkeys Aegean
coast.
Supreme Comdr. Matthew B.
Ridgway and 1t. Gen. Willard G..
Wyman. who will command the
1zmir headquarters. are expected
to arrive in Turkey soon. After
comforting with top Turkish off,
cials. Ridgway will fly to Erzerum,
deep in the interior, to spend
three days with Turkeys Sd Army
which guards the eastern frontier
with Russia.