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Evening star., 1953-08-03
Man Survives Fall
In Silver Hill Well

A Naval Gun Factory machin-
ist was recovering today at Cas-
ualty Hospital after being over
come in a 31-foot we'll at his
home yesterday.
The victim, James S. BickingS,
30, of 4817 Wood road, Silver
Hill, Md, was reported in good
condition.
He was treated for chest in
juries, shock and gas inhalation
after falling into the we'll while
cleaning it, according to Prince
Georges County police.
Police said Mr.. Bickings and
two neighbors, George Geier,
1924 Wood road. and William
Adams, 1859 Longview road, were
working on the we'll when Mr..
Bickings fell to the bottom.
The District Heights, Morn
ingSide and Silver Hill rescue
squads helped rescue him.
Evening star., 1953-08-03
Auto Headlights Guide
Plane 10 Crash Landinu
BY the Associated Press

KENT ISLAND. Md, Aug. s.
Quick thinking residents of Kent
Island estates used automobile
headlights last night to guide a
fuelless private plane down to a
nearby field.
Neither of the planes two oc-
cupants-Dr. Carlisle E. Mckee,
40, of Pittsburgh, and his wife
Nancy-was injured, although
the plane crashed through tele-
phone wires and tore off a wing
in the landing.
DR.. Mckee and his wife were
returning from Washington.
where they had taken some
friends to their summer home at
Rehoboth, Del, when they en-
countered a storm over CheSa-
peake Bay.
They became lost and ran low
on fuel. Residents of the area
heard the plane in trouble about
GAS pm. Several got into their
cars and turned the headlights
on a nearby field.
The plane hit the wires and a
stone gatepost. then skidded 500
yards across the field.
Evening star., 1953-08-03

time President has ever en-
tered into such a close working
relationship with a CSC chair
man.
The purpose is to give civil
service matters more Importance
in the Government scheme of
things and to expedite action
on all personnel problems 1t
was felt that previously the COM
mission did not have the prestige
and power needed to formulate
and enforce personnel policy in
the Government. The nom
partisan National Civil Service
League. for the past few years
has urged that the commission
chairman be made a member
of the White House staff and
President Eisenhower followed
this suggestion when he issued
an executive order several
months ago designating Mr..
Young has his representative on
all perSOnnel mdCCerS.
Mr.. DuFlon is a management
engineer and has conducted
many execu tive development
programs for major firms in the
United States, Europe and South
America. He also has served a
number of companies as a con-
sultant on management and per-
sonnel techniques and served as
assistant manpower manager and
assistant to the president of the
Bigelow-Sanford Carpet Co. of
New York. A graduate of Prince
ton University, Mr.. DuFlon is
married and has three children.
Mr.. DuFlon will be assigned
to the office of Joseph WinsloW,
who last week was appointed
deputy to Chairman Young in
the liaison work between the
csc and the White House.
CONGRESSIONAL REPORT
The special House Civil Service
subcommittee investigating the
civil service system and Federal
manpoWer practices will issue
their first report later this week.
X
SENATOR TAFT - Govern
ment employees have lost a strong
friend in the death of Senator
Taft.
Although regarded as a con-
Evening star., 1953-08-03
President 10 Defer
Note on Taft-HartIey

President Eisenhower has de-
cided not to send to the present
session of Congress a message he
had prepared recommending
changes in the Taft-Hartley law.
Press Secretary James C. Hag-
erty indicated today the decision
to hold up the message was
reached out of Difference to the
memory of the late Senator Taft,
Republican. of Ohio, co-author
of the labor measure. He said
the possibility that the President
might issue a statement shortly
outlining his Taft-Hartley views
had not been ruled out.
White House staffers and con-
greSsional leaders have been
working for weeks on amend
mentS to the labor law. An out
line of the contents of the pro-
posed message to Congress en-
bodying their tentative conclu-
Sions was published in The Star
last Friday.
Evening star., 1953-08-03
Norris Takes Over
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.,
Meets on Budget Cut

DR.. Forbes H. Norris of Win
chester, Mass, has assumed his
post as Montgomery County
school superintendent. He sue
ceeds DR.. Edwin w. Broome. who
retired Friday after nearly a
half-century with the school
system.
DR.. Norris will meet with the
county School Board at 8 pm.
today in Rockville to discuss
budgetary problems.
On tonight'S agenda is consid-
GRAFTON of both capital and oper-
ating budgets, sharply cut by
the County Council. .
The School Board must deter
mine construction priority to
meet the $3.2 million slash from
its requested $7.2 million capital
budget.
The county council also Topped
off nearly 81 million from the
boards requested expense budg-
ct. To give the School Board
considerable leeway in meeting
the new budget, the council
Jumped the appropriations into
a few large categories.
The School Board also is slated
to hear a delegation from Con-
neticut Avenue Estates concern
ing school bus transportation.
Evening star., 1953-08-03
Wife Held in Fatal Stabbing
OF Husband in Argument

Mrs. Geraldine Williams, 81,
colored of the $500 block of
Addison Chapel road, Chapel
Oaks, Md. yesterday was
charged by Prince Georges
County police with murder after
her husband, John D. Williams,
was fatally stabbed in an argu-
ment over who should buy the
groceries.
Detective Sergt. James P.
Kearns said the quarrel occurred
soon after Mr.. Williams drove
his wife home from st. Eliza
beth's Hospital, where she is an
attendant.
According to Sergt. Kearns,
the husband, a 58-year -old en-
ploye of the National Bureau of
Standards, was stabbed in the
left chest about 9:15 am. with
a 4-inch Switch-blade knife. He
was driven by neighborS to GAL
linger Hospital, but was pro-
nounced dead soon after arrival.
| Mrs. Williams was held with
| out bond.
Evening star., 1953-08-03

servative on most issues, Sena-
tor Taft supported the major
benefits enacted by Congress for
Government employees during the
past 10 years, including pay
raises, retirement increases, lib
eraliZed workmanS' compensation
benefits and others.
Senator Taft not only gave his
powerful support to these bills
on some occasions he led the
fight for Congressional enact
ment. For example, Senator Taft
was the man primarily response
BILE for the liberalization of the
civil service retirement system
in 1948. The bill, after being
passed by the House. ran into
trouble in the Senate and its
prospects looked dim.
In desperation, the bills spon-
sors asked Senator Taft to take
over. The Ohioan, who knew
very little about the civil service
retirement system, met with Civil
Service retirement officials and
received a hurried briefing on
what the complicated omnibus
measure contained. The next
day Senator Taft handled the
measure on the Senate floor and
amazed everyone with his in
tricate knowledge of the legisla-
ton. His deft leadership routed
the opposition and saved the day,
The bill was approved and be-
came law.
Il y
LAYOFF - The Civil Service
Commission has issued dismis-
sal notices to "a of it's employees
here and denoted 38 others. The
actions. become effective Au-
gust 80.
Adjustment of the commits
sion's Loyalty Review Board and
economy moves in the investiga-
tions and service record divisions
accounted for the dismisSalS and
demotionS.
4 + II
CAPITAL ROUNDUP - Mrs.
Katharine Kay Johnston, an
administrative assistant to the
Social Security Administrator,
has resigned after II years serv-
ice. Edna Gaver of the Rural
Electrification Administration is
the Agriculture Departments
cover girl of the month. The
Civil Service Commission has ex-
tended to August IL the deadline
for accepting applications for
the postmaster exam at Glenn
Dale, Md. Miss Georgy Hud-
son of the Bureau of Engraving
and Printing is retiring after So
years in the Government. ..
Congress has recommended that
a firm of management consul
tants survey the operating pro-
cedureS of the Federal Trade
Commission. The Civil Serv-
ice Commission has approved
placing 10 Federal Housing Ad-
ministration jobs in political
schedule G,
Evening star., 1953-08-03
Seven Killed in Fire
AT Texarkana Hotel
BY the Associated Press

TEXARKANA. Tex. Aug. g.
Seven persons we're killed early
today when fire swept through
a second-story hotel on the
Texas side of this border city's
business district.
Four other persons were in
jured, two critically. as the
flames swept the 12-room Hotel
Avenue, which occupied a single
floor above a cafe and a clothing
store on Main street.
Mrs. B. Baker. owner of the
hotel. and two other persons es-
capped without injury.
The bodies of the seven dead
were taken to a funeral home
The hotel register was destroyed
in the fire. and Identification was
incomplete.
The dead were described as:
Jim G. Covington, jr., 33, of Dali
las, Tex: Roy Crouch. a boy
about II years of age, a man
about so, a boy about 19, believed
to be from Ashdown, Ark; a
woman in her early 30s.
Another body was burned be-
yond recognition.
Five of the victims were found
in one room.
Cause of the fire was unknown
However. Mrs. Baker said she
believed 1t started at the head OF
the stairway.
Evening star., 1953-08-03
13O Arlington Teachers
Enroll in Workshop

One hundred and thirty Ar
lington teachers have enrolled
in the third annual summer
workshop to be held August 10
to 81 at Washington-Lee High
School.
They will study such subjects
as How to Improve the Teach
ing of Reading" and Human
Relations in the Classroom.
The workshop is sponsored by
the county school system in CO.
operation with the University of
Virginia and George Washing
ton University.
Two evening meetings will be
open to the public. One will be
on August IL on family life edu-
cation. and the second August
19 on the gifted child.
Evening star., 1953-08-03

Mrs. Sara r. Montague, 98
who claimed to be the first
woman hired by the Government
under the Civil Service Commits
sion, died Saturday.
Coincidently, her stepson, Viii
liam Pepperill Montague. 70,
Johnsonian professor emeritus al
Bernard College, Columbia Uni
versity, died the same day.
Mrs. Montague lived at 1918
l street NV. She had been N
Washington since she was 81.
after teaching school in her ma
tive Altoona, Pa.
She passed the Government
clerk test in 1883 with a mark of
SO. according TO her niece, Mrs.
Helen Sullivan, 1865 Sixteenth
street NV.
Assigned to the Treasury De-
partment, Mrs. Montague took
part in a test against a machine.
The Treasury's chief actuary
invented a machine that added,
Subtracted and multiplied. It
Evening star., 1953-08-03
D. c. Men Seriously Hurt
In Calvert County Crash

Two District men were in
jured, both seriously. when their
Car ran off a Calvert County
road yesterday and smashed into
an embankment.
Maryland State Police listed
them as Richard Leech, 81, of
the 200 block of Fifteenth street
NE, the driver, and Francis
Dunn. 81. a next-door neighbor
and passenger in the car.
Police said Mr.. Leech suffered
a possible skull fracture and Mr..
Dunn severe cuts about the face.
arms and legs. Both were taken
to the Calvert County Hospital
in Prince Frederick.
The accident occurred at 6:15
pm. on Route 260. a half mile
west of Mount Harmony.
Evening star., 1953-08-03
AttIee in YuqosIuviu

BELGRADE. Yugoslavia, Aug.
3 (P0.-Britaln's No. / Socialist,
former Prime Minister Clement
Attlee, arrived here today on a
holiday visit as the guest of
Yugoslavia's Communist govern
ment. Aneurin Bevan, leader of
British Labor's left-wing faction,
is visiting Dubrovnik, also as a
government guest.
Evening star., 1953-08-03
Koreu Reds Pick Nam Il
As FOREIGN Minister

TOKYO, Aug. 3.-North Ko-
rea's Pyongyang radio Sunday
said Gen. Nam II, chief Red
delegate to the Korean truce
talks, has been appointed for
eign minister in the Kim II
Sung North Korean government.
! The broadcast, monitored in
Tokyo, said the appointment was
made by the North Korean Peo-
pies Central Committee.
Evening star., 1953-08-03
Congress in Brief
Senate:

Considers foreign aid and Ko-
rea relief appropriations with
recess for Senator Taft memorial
services in Capitol rotunda.
Banking Committee, in closed
session, considers amendment to
Small Business Administration
bill.
House:
Considers minor legislation,
recesses for Senator Taft me-
mortal services.
Ways and Means Committee
considers decisions of past tax
cases,
Evening star., 1953-08-03
Burglars Runsuck Dresser
In Mayor D'AIesundro's Home

but succeeded only In knocking
off the knob of the combinat ton.
Nicholas, returning hom e
shortly before midnight, appar-
emily frightened off the burglars.
He thought he heard a noise up
stairs, went out and called a
a friend and when they both re-
turned, found the house had
been entered.
The Mayor and Mrs. D'Ales-
andre are scheduled to dock in
New York tomorrow aboard the
liner United States.
Evening star., 1953-08-03
D. {. Man Reports Theft
OF Tomahawks, Etc., Etc.
BY the Assoeiated Press

BLUEFIELD, w. Va, Aug. g.
1t looked as if an Indian uprising
might be in the making here
over the week end.
Charles Firngirsh of Washing
ton. D. c., told police some one
broke into his car and took u
Indian tomahaWks and 70 Indian
rattles.
The other missing articles,
however, sounded less Warlike {:
"18 dragon cups and saucers, IS
pairs of sunglasses, 81 comic
viewers and four jumping mon
keys"
Mr.. Firngirsh did not list his
occupation. Officers presumed,
however, he was a novelty sales
man.
Evening star., 1953-08-03
The Weather Here and Over the Nation

District and vicinity - Partly
cloudy tonight, lowest about 81 l..
Tomorrow, variable cloudiness
and chance of showers.
Maryland-Partly cloudy to-
night with scattered showers in
west portion, lowest 58-65. To-
morrow, considerable cloudinesS
and scattered showers.
Virginia-Partly cloudy with
scattered showers in northwest
tonight, lowest 64-70. Tomorrow.
Evening star., 1953-08-03
Church Sponsors Boot Ride

st. Louis Catholic Church on
Route /, Groveton. Va, will
sponsor a moonlight boat ride
tonight to raise funds towards
a new church addition. The
boat will leave the Wilson Line
pier on Maine avenue S.W. at
$3.50 pm.
Evening star., 1953-08-03

White House
W i'll W ork
closely on all
p e rson n e ]
problems.
Pre- S d ent
E is e n h over
designated Mr.
Young as his
personal rep
r e S e MT a tive
or all civil
service a n d
p e rson n e ]
m a n agement
problems. 1t
HI,oc tho fret
Evening star., 1953-08-03
D. {. Youth, 16, Dies,
; Teen-Agers Hurt
In Head-on Crash

A 16-year-old District youth
was killed and three nearby
Maryland teen-agers seriously
injured in a three-car collision
early yesterday on Route sol in
Prince Georges County.
The dead youth was identified
as William Tayman, of 509 M
street S.W. He died about two
hours after being taken to
Prince Georges General Hospital
with head injuries.
He was a passenger in a car
driven by Robert Mumford, IT,
of Clinton, Md, who is in criti-
cal condition at the same hos
pital with head and internal in
jurieS.
The other injured youths are
Allen Brown, 16, of Camp
Springs, Md, and John AmoroSi,
Is. of $500 Auth road, Camp
Springs. The Brown youth has
internal injuries and is reported
In an undetermined condition.
The Amorosi boy suffered a bro
ken leg and was transferred to
Walter Reed Army Hospital.
Both were riding in the Num-
ford car.
In Head -On Crash.
According to police. the ac-
cioent occurred on a hill on
Route 301 about 3 miles north
of State Route 214. in, the Col
lington area, shortly after am.
yesterday.
Police said the Mumford car
was passing a car driven by
Robert Willer, "a, of New Wind
Eor. Md. when it crashed head
on into another operated by Carl
A. Coan, jr., 10, of Falls Church.
Mr.. Coan, who has been stay
Ing at mis- family's summer home
at Sherwood Forest, Md, suf-
fered minor injuries and was re-
leased after treatment. Mr..
Willer was urhurt.
Evening star., 1953-08-03
Postmaster Confirmed

The Senate today confirmed
the nomination of Roy T. Bow
man to be postmaster at SPRING
! field. Va.
Evening star., 1953-08-03
Third ShipIoad Of Food
Arrives for Germans
BY the Associated Press

HAMBURG. Germany. Aug. 8
The freighter American Clip
per, third ship to bring Ameri-
can food for East Berlin and the
Soviet zone under President Eli
senhower's relief program, ar
rived here today.
The 8,228-ton vessel carried
900 tons of lard, flour, kimmed
milk and beans. This brought
relief food stocks shipped so far
to Hamburg to 4,400 tons.
Evening star., 1953-08-03

some cloudiness with scattered
showers and moderate tempera-
lures in north and east portion
and quite warm in southwest.
Wind - Northeast at 1916
miles per hour tonight, becom-
ing east to southeast at 10-15
miles per hour tomorrow.
Humidity.
tReadlngs Washington National AirportD
Yesterday Pet To-day Pct.
Noon - 81 Midnight -- -
pm So 8 am rs
s pm so 10 am IS
Evening star., 1953-08-03

The Union Trust Company will welcome
applications for direct loans of $4,000 to
SIS, 1000 or more from many types of small
businesses, for wide variety of construc-
tive purposes. Every effort will be made to
adapt the terms of loan to the individual
requirements of each borrower.
We cordially invite well-rated small busi-
nessmen to regard this Bank as their head
quarters for sound commercial credit as
we'll as for all our other efficient banking
and trust services.
Evening star., 1953-08-03

+ For the benefit of the small business firms
in the District or nearby communities, we
have established Small Business Loan De-
partment at our Main Office at 5th and H
Streets N. w.
Such firms represent substantial volume of
local business and employment Their con-
tinued we'll being is important to the eco
nomic health of our entire community. A
dependable and understanding source of
local bank credit for this important busi-
ness group should meet community need.
Evening star., 1953-08-03
The Federal Spotlight
The Federal Spotlight
Young Names Personnel Aide
For White House Lioison
By Joseph Young

Chairman Philip Young Commission to-
day appointed Henry DuFlon 3yearod New York consult
ing management engineer to his assistant in the aison
work with President Eisenhower Federal matters
The appointment another development in the
Evening star., 1953-08-03
River Report.

(From U. S. Engineersl
Potomac River clear at Harpers Ferr,
and at Great Falls; Shenandoah clear a
Harpers Ferry.
Record Temperatures This Year,
Highest, 80. on July 30.
Lowest %. on March
High and Low of Last "a Hours.
High. 90, at pm
Low. Ga. at 4:10 am.
Evening star., 1953-08-03

ago by President Eisenhower in
which the commission and the
Evening star., 1953-08-03
The Sun an,

Monthly precipitation in inches in tn,
Capital lcurrent month To datel.
Evening star., 1953-08-03

Tide Tables.
Furnished by United States Coast anC
Geodetin S,irynvN
Evening star., 1953-11-06
3 Hurt in 7 Crashes;
Snow Is Factor as
Car Skids Into Bus

Three persons were injured in
two separate traffic accidents
here early today, one of which
was partly due to the seasons
first snowfall.
William F. Booker. %, a Fort
McNair soldier who lives at 2032
Thirty-s seventh street Sc, was
admitted to Casualty Hospital
with leg injuries after a head-on
collision with a bus at $50 am.
Police said his car Skidded on
wet Streetcar tracks as he was
driving east on M street, near
Seventh street Sc. The car
crossed the street and collided
head-on with a Capital Transit
Co. bus driven by Thomas G.
Mattingly, 81, of TOO Elmhurst
street, District Heights.
None of the occupants Of the
bus was injured, police said, and
no charges were placed.
A Quantico Marine and a Dis
trict woman were injured in a
two-car crash at Sixteenth and
K streets NV. at 1880 am.
In undetermined condition at
Emergency Hospital were Pfc.
Edward j. Barry, 10, and Miss
Ann HuddleSton, 81, of 1921 New
ton place NV. Both were being
treated for head injuries.
Police said the two were pas
sengers in a car driven by Pvt.
James c. Bartlett, %, also a
Quantico Marine, which collided
with an auto driven by Army
1t. Col. Neil S. eastman, A, of
Forest Glenn annex of Walter
Reed Hosnital.
The accident occurred in the
intersection as Pvt. Bartlett's car
was crossing Sixteenth street.
Police said Col. Cashman's car.
moving south on Sixteenth.
struck the Marines car on the
right side. Col. eastman was
charged with colliding and a
hearing was scheduled in Cor
poration Counsel's court Novem-
ber 10.
A 65-year-old pedestrian, Nor
rls Shapiro, of 325 Farragut
street NV, was reported in fair
conoltlon at Emergency Hospital.
Evening star., 1953-11-06
Court Is Last Resort
of Power Plan Foes
BY the Assoeiatsd Press

In the wake of affirmative &C
ton by President Eisenhower
opponents looked today to the
courts as their only means OF
halting or delaying construction
by New York State and Canada
of a huge st. Lawrence River
power project.
The last formal requirement
for the State to participate in
the estimated $500 million devel-
opment was met yesterday when
Gen. Eisenhower signed an exec
utive order designating the
Power Authority of New York
as the United States partner in
the project.
The controversial st. Lawrence
seaway is not directly involved
but the power project is regarded
as a necessary preliminary tc
that undertaking.
Opponents have already peti-
CloneQ the united states Court
Of Appeals to rescind or have
reviewed the Federal Power Com
missions order granting New
York a 50-year license to con-
struct and operate the United
States half of the power project
Speedy court action seems GER
tain. Secretary of State Dulles
has told Canada the Eisenhower
administration will cooperate in
expeditions handling of the liti-
cation.
Present indications are that
the court will hear arguments
probably by mid-December, with
a decision expected sometime in
January.
Evening star., 1953-11-06

big truck skidded on the slippery
highway just as it started to
snow. The overturned truck and
spilled cargo blocked one lane
of the highway. Police had to
divert traffic onto the other lane.
The driver, Thomas M. Anderson
of Portsmouth, Va. was treated
at Alexandria Hospital for minor
cuts and bruises and released.
Evening star., 1953-11-06
Big Truck Oyerturns
On Shirley Highway

A tractor trailer loaded with
$500 pounds of dog food over
turned on Shirley highway about
a quarter mile south of Fran
coma, Va, early today.
Fairfax County police said the
Evening star., 1953-11-06

where he was admitted after
being struck by car yesterday
on Georgia avenue near Taylor
street NV. Police said Mr..
Shapiro was struck by a car
driven by James M. Larkins, So,
of 1912 Dale drive, Silver Spring,
at about $40 pm. No charges
were placed.
Evening star., 1953-11-06
Boron Carbide Formed

PITTSBURGH.-A substance
called boron carbide, almost as
hard as a diamond, is formed
when coke and boron are heated
together in an electric furnace.
It is used to make precision
tools.
Evening star., 1953-06-22
Romon Coffmon

bottom, we should have a figure
of about $4,000 feet, or about
half a mile more than Mt. Ever
est.
The height Of a mountain is
judged by the distance Of its top
above sea level. On that basis.
every peak which has been meas
ured with care has shown a
height less than that of Mt.
Everest.
It is true that an aviator made
a claim several years ago that
he had crossed a mountain
higher than Mt. Everest, while
flying from the border of India
to western China, but his alti-
meter may have been out Of Or
der. No confirmation Of his claim
has been made.
n Everest keeps its place as
Evening star., 1953-06-22
Ukcle Rays Corner

IL is time to take another look
at Mount Everest! The last time
I wrote about this famous peak,
no one had reached the top-or,
if any one did, he failed to tell
about his success.
Now the situation is changed.
On the first day of June, the
world was told that two men had
gone to the top. They were mem
berS of a British expedition, and
the news was sent out on the
day before the crowning of
Queen Elizabeth II.
Mount Everest ranks as the
tallest peak on earth. If we
counted height from the bottom
of tf1etocean. certain peaks on
Pacific lands would be taller.
The Is J! q Of Hawaii. for ex-