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Evening star., 1952-12-28
British Atomic Spy
TO Be Freed Soon
By the Associated Press

LONDON, Dec. 27.-TWo Lon
don newspapers said tonight that
DR.. Alan Num- May-the Western
Worlds first convicted atom spy
will be freed from Wakefield
prison Monday.
The British Home Office con-
firmed that May would be re-
leased this month but declined to
specify the day.
The shy little 41-year-old Brit
ish scientist, caught in the Ca
madam spy plot in 1916. will have
served six years and eight months
of the 10 year sentence for pass
ing vital atomic information along
to the Russians.
The Home Office said he was
being released early for good
behavior"
May was arrested in London
after a young Soviet embassy
clerk in Ottawa swung his al
legiance to the West and spilled
the story about the Russian spy
ring.
The scientist was supposed to
have received about S700 and two
bottles of whiskey for his serv-
ices. May himself contended he
did it for the safety of man
kind" He never publicly re-
pented.
A month after Mays arrest,
the Russian who had been identi-
fled as head of the spy ring
Col. Nikolai Zabotin-was recalled
to Moscow. Four days after he
got back. he was reported dead
from heart failure.
Evening star., 1952-12-28
Theft of Bread From Ndzis Bars
L Liberte Crewn1on rom u. S.

une said, was released 5l2 hours
after the vessel docked and after
the French Line had protested
his detention to Washington.
The paper gave this account:
During World War II, Girondel
was put to work by the Nazis
baking bread for their armed
forces.
From the bakery near Paris
he smuggled out loaves of bread
for his starving wife, children and
friends.
Caught, he was tried by a Ger
man military tribunal and SEN
fenced to a concentration camp.
On his legs he bears the scars
Of Nazi beatings.
The Herald Tribune says it got
its information on Girondel from
French Line officials and that its
account of the chefs record was
confirmed by United States I'm
migration authorities.
Evening star., 1952-12-28

lion the first year and about $50
million the third year.
The Montgomery group feels
the State-which showed a SIS
million surplus this year-is in a
better position than the counties
to withstand the increasing bur-
den of school costs.
The Green report - called a
good job by many-came up with
a weak compromise to assure
some school legislation this COM
ing Assembly session, school
groups contend.
The Commission had charged
that under Senate Bill 48, teachers
stood to gain only 81 million in
pay raises while the bills pro-
visions were to cost the State more
than So million a year.
The Montgomery PTA group
points out. however. that State aio
is based on 1.25 times the mini
mum salaries. Although the
Evening star., 1952-12-28
Plane Will Rush
Scientist to See

By the Associoted Press

DURHAM, South Africa. Dec.
27.-The government placed an
Air Force plane at the disposal Of
Prof. j. L. B. Smith today to en-
able the famous scientist to reach
"a small Indian Ocean island
where a prehistoric fish is re-
ported to have been landed.
Time is vital to the success of
Prof. Smiths mission to bring
back the fish - the Coelacanth
Latimeria Chalumnae-which be-
longs to a species 800 million
years old and may provide the
answer to the mysteries Of mans
evolution. All land animals, in
Guiding man, are believed to have
originated from the Coelacanth.
It was caught on December 20
and it is feared it may decompose
unless additional supplies of for
malin reach the island in time.
Refrigeration is not available at
the island, the whereabouts of
which Prof. Smith has kept secret
Evening star., 1952-12-28
Condor
Continued From First Page.)

me-" DR.. Condor said, sis a shock
ing thing to all decent Americans,
to many friends who
know my 12-year record of i'm
portant service on a wide variety
of secret military projects, coupled
with the complete absence of any
evidence of failure on my part to
safeguard security on these prof.
ectS.
"The committee says my friends
are of questionable loyalty but
nobody has questioned it but the
committee ITSELF"
He said committee statements
about my contempt and disdain
for security regulations are out
rageous and contemplate lies"
THE committee" DR.. Condor
said, initiated it's attacks on me
because of political spite work for
the part I had in bringing about
passage of the act establishing
the Atomic Energy Commission.
'It is furious with itself because,
after five years of spending thou
sands of dollars of public funds
it has not been able to find the
slightest evidence of misconduct
on my part. So it resorts to the
snide smearing tactics for which
it Is so notorious. @
disgusting as this committees
antics are, I am sure the country's
scientific program is strong enough
to forge ahead despite the harm
that is done to it by these dis
honorable representatives of the
people.
Attacked in 1948.
The committee in 1948, labled
DR.. Condor weakest link" in the
Nations security. DR.. Condor
protested that he had not received
a chance to testify. The commit
tee invited Dr.. Condor to take the
witness stand, and finally sub
poenaed him.
Testifying last September 5, DR..
Condor repeated denials of
Evening star., 1952-12-28
Gen. Eisenhower May Discuss
|StoIin Overture With Senators

over-from football to water con-
servation."
He said Premier Stalins latest
peace statement was discussed
very slantingly." and the Church
i'll visit mentioned briefly
Il was here to renew an old
association" Mr. Douglas said.
Senators to Confer.
Senate Republican leaders who
will confer with Gen. Eisenhower
soon. include Senator Taft of Ohio,
scheduled to be majority leader
in the new Congress; Senator
Bridges of New Hampshire. who
will serve briefly as acting Senate
President; Senator Millikin of Col
orado, Chairman of the Confer
ence of G. o. P. Senators; and
Senator Saltonstall of Massachu-
sets, who was assistant Republi-
can leader in the last Congress.
House Republican leaders con-
ferred with Gen. Eisenhower last
week before Premier Stalin's state
ment that he would welcome dip
lomatic conversations looking to-
ward an Eisenhower-Stalin con-
ference on world problems. John
Foster Dulles, who will be the Re-
publican Secretary of State. said
Yesterday that the United States
will seriously and sympathetic
ally" receive any Korean peace
proposals which Premier Stain
wishes to make.
Volume Of Mail Drops.
The Office staff at Gen. Eisen-
hoWer's Commodore Hotel head
quarters say there has been no
volume of mail as the
result of news that Premier Stain
favors a meeting with the general.
According to Albert Leman. as
sistant press secretary, some so
kilograms have been received but
have not yet been analyzed for
sentiment. The volume of mail
has been dropping off steadily
from a pre-holiday peak Of 4,600
pieces last Monday. Today. it was
down to 1000 with "just a trickle"
dealing with the Stain offer, Mr..
Leman said.
The general, it was announced
plans to stay home again tomor-
row for final day of rest before
resuming his full schedule on Mon
day. It is possible that even the
usual trip to church will be passed
up. Mrs. Eisenhower, who has been
suffering from a cold for several
days, was ordered to bed today
by Brig Gen. Howard Snyder, the
family physician. Her condition,
he told reporters. was not serious.
Evening star., 1952-12-28
BY the Asseeioted Press

NEW YORK. Dec. 27.-The
Herald Tribune said today the
criminal record" of one Liberte
crewman who was denied shore
leave by immigration officials con-
sisted of stealing bread from the
Nazis.
The paper identified the crew.
man as Renee Girondel, French
Line chef since 1884.
Mr.. Girondel was one OF the
272 members of the Liberte crew
who were kept on board after the
liner docked Wednesday morning
Authorities reported that 27O
of them had refused to sumbit to
McCarran-W Walter Act screening
One was a Communist and one
had a criminal record"
The Liberte sailed today for
France.
Mr.. Girondel. the Herald Trib-
Evening star., 1952-12-28
Maryland Murder Suspect
Also Wanted in Robbery

A Glenarden (Md) man charged
with murder early yesterday faced
another charge last night of armed
robbery. Prince Georges County
police reported.
Police identified him as James
Otis Tyree, %. colored. Held with
him on armed robbery charges
were George Proctor, 20, and Lem
uel r. Douglas, 20. both of Hunts
vile. and two teen-agers. All are
colored.
The five men are charged with
the holdup and robbery on De-
cember of Schneider's Liquor
Store. Collington, Md. They got
$135 in the holdup. police said.
The arrests were made by De-
tective Sergt. Earl j. Huber and
Corpl. John L. Tucker.
Tyree was charged with murder
IN the fatal shooting early yes
terday of Robert Lee Peaks, A,
colored, of Glenarden in a dance
hall on the Collington-Queen Anne
road.
Evening star., 1952-12-28

county now has $2,940 minimum.
this figure has no effect on the
amount of State aid the county
receives.
The local group also has blasted
the Green Commission recon-
Imendation to increase in the third
year from IS to rs cents per $100
assessed valuation the minimum
tax rate a county is required to
levy for schools. This would cost
Montgomery $4,000 in 1886
when it becomes effective, the
group says.
If the PTA group fails to force
Overriding of the veto. it will then
work for Improvements" in the
Green Commission recommended
tions. The Governor is practically
committed to sign a bill passed
along lines of the Green recon-
Imendations.
Evening star., 1952-12-28
By Crosby S. Noyes
Stor Stoff CORRESPONDENT

NEW YORK. Dec. 27.-When
Gen. Eisenhower gets back to his
desk Monday morning something
may be done to ease the growing
curiosity here over two unexpected
news items which the general has
received during the Christmas
holidays.
The news items concern Rus
sia's Premier Stain and British
Prime Minister Churchill. Prem
ier Stain said he would regard
favorably a meeting with Gen
Eisenhower on easing world ten
sions. And Prime Minister Chur-
chill announced he was coming
to the United States to see Gen
Eisenhower. Mr.. Churchill is due
to arrive in New York aboard the
Queen Mary January S.
Neither of these items is likely,
however, to draw much more Off
cial comment than the carefully
noncommittal statements already
made. The policy of keeping mum
on matters of national Importance
is at this point perhaps the most
solidly established rule of Gen.
Eisenhower's New York head
quarters.
There was speculation today
that Premier Stalin's apparent
overtures may be one subject of
discussion when the general meets
with Republican leaders in the
Senate. That meeting originally
was scheduled for the coming
week.
A staff member said today,
however, he had no definite word
when it would take place.
Mr.. Churchill's visit to New
York-he is due to arrive aboard
the Queen Mary January 5-has
quieted rumors that the general
might be planning a western trip
between now and his Inauguration
on January 20.
Douglas Visits General.
Lewis Douglas, an old friend
and former Ambassador to Great
Britain, is known to have invited
the general to his Arizona ranch.
He dropped in to pay a call at
the Eisenhower home today. But
the possibility that the general
will get out to Arizona in the
final week before his move to
Washington appears slim.
Mr.. Douglas. upon leaving the
Eisenhower home. said his 90
minute conversation with the
President elect wandered all
Evening star., 1952-12-28
Arnold Bus WaIkout
Still DeadIocked as
Il Enters 18Th Day

The Arnold Bus Co. strike en-
cred its 18th day today with both
sides still deadlocked.
No service is scheduled today.
Tomorrow. about 40 buses will be
in operation with the reduced
emergency service during morning
and evening rush hours and about
a dozen buses running during the
midday period.
Union and company negotiators
will meet tomorrow with Federal
Conciliator Gilbert McCutcheon
in further efforts to break the
impasSe.
The company has announced
that a Is per cent cut in person.
mel will be necessary after the
strike because of anticipated busi-
ness losses which management at
tributes to the dispute.
Propaganda, Says Union.
The union Immediately branded
this announcement as "propa-
ganda designed to weaken the
spirit of the employees on the eve
of a scheduled negotiating meet
ing"
Bernard Wahle, executive vice.
president of the company, said it
would be necessary to reduce the
normal force of 300 drivers. me-
chanics and clerks by Is per cent
even if the strike were to end i'm
mediately.
He predicted that only 80 or 80
buses will be necessary to handle
the traffic compared to the normal
130 vehicles.
All Rights to be Demanded.
A union announcement declared
the union will insist that all en-
ployes be returned to work with
out discrimination and with full
seniority and other rights.
THE company's so-called study
has not been made available TO
the union" the announcement
said in part. I'VE cannot tell,
therefore, whether the company's
alleged expectations of loss of
patronage are grounded in fact
or are part of strategy designed
to use the employees difficulties in
the dispute with the company as a
springboard for further cuts in
service. :"
Evening star., 1952-12-28
Group
Facing Dilemma on
Teachers Pay Bill

The all-Republican Montgomery
County delegation to the General
Assembly appears likely to get of
on the wrong foot no matter which
way it votes next month on over
riding the governors veto of a
bill to increase teachers minimum
pay.
Tremendous pressure is being
exerted in the county to swing the
delegations support behind the
bill.
The delegation. however, must
face reality when it casts its bal
lots. Its votes to override the
veto could enrage the governor to
a point where other county legis-
lation would be endangered.
State Parent Teacher Associa-
tion groups in general have urged
that the veto of the pay measure
Senate Bill 48-be overridden.
Among the leaders in the move
is the Montgomery County Council
of Parent Teacher Associations.
Senate Bill 48 would increase the
present $4,000 minimu INTO $4,000
for certified teachers and hike the
ye&f.ly raises from $100 to $3.50
for a 12-year instead of a 16-year
period.
Urges Veto Be Upheld.
The Green Commission-which
recently completed a study of the
State system of school financing
urged the governors veto be up
held.
The commission came forth
with it's own recommendations
calling for a similar $500 a year
raise with little increase in State
aid during the next two years.
The new minimum would not be
used in calculating equalization
funds to be paid the county.
The wealthier counties-Mont-
gomery, Prince Georges, Anne
Arundel-feel they would receive
an inadequate share of State
funds under the Green Com
mission recommendations.
The issue boils down to a clash
between advocates of more State
aid for schools and proponents OF
local school financing. Gov. Nc
Keldin is a strong supporter OF
the latter.
Cite Drop in States Share.
The Montgomery PTA grour
feels that the State has failed tt
carry its share of school operat.
ing costs in recent years. In the
last five years. they point out, the
States share in the county ha:
dropped from "a per cent to 2;
per cent.
The result is. they say, that rea
estate owners in the county are
being called on to pay tremend.
ously increased taxes to support
the schools. The county has nj
authority to ttax Intangible wealth
for support of schools.
Under Senate Bill 48. Mont.
gomery stands to gain $2,835, ,00(
over the three-year period 1853
1856. Under the Green Commits
sion recommendation the count,
would get only $545.000 and mos
of it would come in the third yea
when the minimum pay would b'
raised to $4,000 with the new fig
ure being used in equalization fune
calculations.
Senate Bill 48 would provide
So, ,280 600 more a year in State
aid. The Green Commission woulc
cost the State only about 50 mil.
Evening star., 1952-12-28
Eastern Star News

Eastern Star chapter activities
include:
Martha-Friday, initiation.
Warren G. Harding-January 6,
Potomac Power Co., demonstra-
ton. for Ways and Means. Con-
tact Vera Tadlock, Ii. 7-7767 or
Ida Falconer, HO. 2-3045.
Evening star., 1952-12-28
Who's Who Lists Student

Carol Trojan, 2135 r street
NV. a senior at the University
of Arizona, is listed in the new
Who's Who Among Students in
American Colleges and Universe
ties. A history major. she is the
daughter of Walter Trojan, chief
OF the Washington bureau of the
Chicago Tribune.
Evening star., 1952-12-28

charges that he knew about es.
Ipionage or subversive activities
charged to some of his associates.
The committee last night COM
Imented:
"Dr. Condon's appearance, how
ever. served to confirm the COM
mittee's belief that because of his
propensity for associating with
persons disloyal or of questionable
loyalty and his contempt for nee
essary security regulations, that
he is not qualified for accepta-
bility to any security position.
THE committee did not, nor
does not now. possess information
that Dr.. Condor was a Communist
or committed any act of espionage.
However, because of his associates
and disdain for security regula-
tions the committee recognized
his vulnerability in any post Of
security"
Committee amazed"
The committee added that it
was amazed at the numerous
instances in which it was dis
closed that DR.. Condor was ac-
Iquainted with known or suspected
espionage agents"
The committees report was
handed to reporters Tuesday for
publication in Sunday morning
newspapers. DR.. Condor said he
learned the contents from Wash.
iington friends. He put out his
denial yesterday even before
newspapers published stories on
the charge.
Corning Glass officials in Corn.
ing, N. Y. declined comment on
the report about it's employe.
Evening star., 1952-12-28
Scientific Association
Names President-EIect
BY the Associoted Press

ST. LOUIS, Dec. 27.-Dr. War
rem Weaver, director of Natural
Sciences of the Rockefeller Foun-
dation, today was named presi-
dent-elect of the American Asso-
citation for the Advancement of
Science.
He will take office in 1854.
DR.. Edward U. Condor. now
director of research of Corning
Glass Works, Corning, N. Y. will
become president January /.
DR.. Condor succeeds DR.. Detlev
w. Bronx. president of the Johns
Hopkins University at Baltimore
Evening star., 1952-12-28

or defended by any of the officials
involved"
Many Indicted, Few Punished.
The report added:
ALSO unexplained is the ulti-
mate result: Although the FB1
Investigation which was launched
on a full scale after Mr.. Caudle' S
exclusion from the case is re-
ported to have cost nearly quar-
ter of a million dollars. only four
minor figures in this fragrant ma
tional scandal were ever punished
Many others were indicted,
under both Federal and State
laws. But the cases against them
seem to have evaporated as soon
as public interest in the affairs
subsidized
The report said Mrs. Ford. "as
Mr.. Clark's alter ego and growing
favorite. contrived to build an
impregnable empire of admin
strative power before Mr.. Clark
left to accept his Supreme Court
appointment"
Asked for comment, Mr.. Ford
told a reporter he had read parts
of the report and found it "a
sort of Alice in Wonderland af-
fair"
so far as I am concerned" he
said, there are just three accu-
rate things in he report: One,
my name is spelled correctly; two,
! was Deputy Attorney General,
and three, I had to take some
cases away from Mr.. Caudle.
Ford Now Practicing Here.
"If I hadn't taken the cases
away from him the committee
would have criticized me for that
and they'd have been damn well
justified in doing it."
Mr.. Ford, who resigned from
the Justice Department in August
1851, now has a law office here
AS to Mr.. Caudle, the subcom-
mittee's majority report said he
never sold himself for riches or
for power"
But it described his career as
"the most accurate reflection OF
decay within the Department OF
Justice that the subcommittee has
come upon"
Summing up the shortcomings
of the lawyer from Wadesboro
N. c. the report said:
"He was weak, and the naive
code of a country lawyer did moi
serve him we'll in the corruptine
sophistication of the Washing
ton he knew; he made errors o1
Judgment, some of which played
their part in destroying public
confidence in the Government ne
served; and he swallowed more ir
the name of personal loyalty thar
and man should stomach
Representative Rogers. in &C.
cusing Mr.. Caudle of violating 6
public trust, said "he received {
mink coat and $4,000 from person!
interested in cases before him."
Caudle Is 'Uplifted.'
"How 'honorably-motivated' Car
one man get?" he added.
The mink coat incident, ir
which Mrs. Caudle received Z
$2,400 fur in 1851 through a New
York tax lawyer. was described il
the subcommittee report as "tht
darkest cloud on Caudle's repu.
tation."
At his home in WadeSboro, Mr.
Caudle commented that he was
"uplifted" by the subcommittee
report
If it hadn't been for the Chel1
committee" he remarked jubi.
lantly, I'D have been another
Dreyfus."
(Alfred Dreyfus was a French
omcer falsely accused and con.
victed of treason in l948. After
several years imprisonment on
Devils Island he was vindicateo
In a new trial.)
"They said was weak" Mr.
Caudle added. "Well, everybody
to his own opinion, but If any
thing I was too friendly. It's Just
my Southern way Of doing things
Evening star., 1952-12-28
Women Gets u. N. Role

An Australian woman doctor.
Dr.. Elizabeth Wilmot, has become
maternal and child welfare ad-
wiser for the Western Pacific re-
gion for the United Nations World
Health Organization.
Evening star., 1952-12-28
Press Installed in Mission

Modern printing equipment Is
being installed in headquarters of
IA mission in Papau, New Guinea.
Evening star., 1952-12-28

New German Stamps Out
A new German stamp marks
the centenary of the German Ma
tional Museu mat Nuremberg.
Evening star., 1952-12-28
Justice
Continued From First Pageo

looked like departure which has
not yet been adequately explained
or defended by any of the officials
involved"
Manv Indicted. Few Punished.
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Americas First Nuremberg Laws"
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pated in and benefited from the
Hitler regime. Some of his col
leagues who accompanied him to
New York were also Nazi Off
Gals.
L'Heureux'S office meanwhile
denied a visa to DR.. Ernest B.
Chain, a Jew who fled Hitler
Germany and became co-discov-
erer of penicillin. DR.. Chain
sought to attend dinner held in
New York by the Weizmann In
Stitute of Science of Israel.
The Visa Division barred this
Nobel Prize winner for Security
reasons" but it refused to tell
why they considered him such a
deadly menace. There were SINH
lar cases in which L'Heureux
used the 1850 McCarran Internal
Security Act TO deny visas to dis
tinguished foreigners. These tact
les were widely condemned as
Iron Curtain" methods.
When Congress sought to adopt
a Displaced Persons bill to relieve
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Israeli athletes who took part
in the Olympics at Helsinki are
believed to have learned a lot
that will prove valuable in i'm
proving sports in Israel. The large
showing of Jewish athletes from
throughout the world also held
out promise for an exciting Ma
cabbi game in Israel next year.