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Evening star., 1953-08-28
Gaspe PrOspector,
Arrested in Hunters
Death, Faces Charge
BY the Assoeiafed Press

GASPE, Quebec. Aug. o.
Canadian authorities yesterday
arrested a 37-year-old ore pros
pector for the murder of two
young Pennsylvania hunters
whose bear-gnawed bodies were
found in the Gaspe wilderness in
June.
A coroner's jury held the pros
pector. Wilbert Coffin, respon-
sible for the deaths of Richard
Lindsay. II, of Hollidaysburg,
Pa. and Fred Claar, 20, of East
Freedom, Pa. He was immedi-
ately arrested on a murder war
rant by provincial police.
Crown Prosecutor Noel Dorion
said Coffin will be arraigned in
nearby Perce today. 1t is prob
able he will be tried only on
the charge of numbering young
Lindsay.
Bones Found Stripped.
7he skeletal remains of the
youths father, Eugene H. Lind
say, At, also were found in the
woods. An earlier jury declared
his body had been so thoroughly
stripped to the bone by maraud-
ing bears that it was impossible
to determine cause Of death.
That jury had determined the
two youngsters were shot to
death before the bears got to
them "by person or persons un-
known"
The elder Lindsay had $70O
in cash with him when he went
into the bush. No trace of the
money has ever been found.
Coffin, who has been held as
q material witness for two weeks,
did not take the stand today, on
advice of counsel. Instead, he
waited in police custody outside
the parish hall where the jury
met.
Earlier he had admitted that
he met the three PennSylvanians
while slugging through the Gaspe
forest on June 10. He was the
last person known to have seen
them alive.
Hall iS Crowded.
A capacity crowd jammed the
tiny hall as evidence linking Cof-
I'm to the grizzly crime came
from a Montreal women named
Marion Petrie, Al, who, police
said, was commonly known as
Mrs. Wilbert Coffin"
She told the jury Coffin visited
her June IA. bringing her a
series of articles which Clarence
Clarr, father of one of the vic
tins. and Mrs. Lindsay identified
today as belonging to the hunt
ers. Among them was a pair Of
binoculars which Mr.. Clarr said
he had let his son.
Miss Petrie's brother, Harold,
said Coffin sold him a pistol for
SIS on June 18, claiming it was
a souvenir from his wartime
overseas service.
Evening star., 1953-08-28
Bandit Defies Shots, but Yields
As 3OO-Lb. Cobbie Sits on Him

''look out" Mr.. Becker began
shooting it out with the robber.
Canned goods went gathering
and rolling as the customers
stampeded.
The robber fled, with Mr..
Becker after him. Outside, the
gunman pretended to surrender,
then smashed Mr.. Becker on
the head with his gun. The
two men wrestled and slugged
each other in the street.
A store clerk jumped into the
fight. The robber bit his arm.
Then appeared the husky cab
driver. Aaron Tobin, 6 feet. 2
inches tall.
Mr.. Tobin felled the gunman
with a couple of punches-then
sat on him.
The alleged gunman. Herman
Williams, 35, colored, of Florence,
N. c.. was booked on charges
of robbery, illegal possession of
gun and felonious assault.
Evening star., 1953-08-28
NLRB Orders 0rioIe
To Deal With Union
For lis Bus Employees

The National Labor Relations
Board today ordered officials of
the Oriole bus lines to recognize
drivers local $50 AFL as bar
gaining agent for operators.
In an opinion handed down
in San Francisco, Trail Exam
iner Martin S. Bennett found
the company guilty of procrasti-
nation and refusing for almost a
year to recognize and bargain
with the union.
Known legally as Oriole Motor
Coach Lines, Inc, the company
operates a feeder bus system be-
tween the District and nearby
Maryland points not served by
Capital Transit Co, Tt operates
principally in Montgomery and
Prince Georges counties and
does about 100000 gross busi-
ness year.
Because Of respondents (Ori-
olesO demonstration of its will
ingneSs to resort to unlawful
methods to counteract an at
tempt by employees to achieve
self-organization through a Ia
Dor organization Of their own
choosing, I believe that the COM
mission of other unfair labor
practices may be anticipated" !"
Examiner Bennett asserted.
He ordered the company to
deal with Division $50. Amalga-
mated Association of Street,
Electric Railway and Motor
coach Employees of America,
AFL.
At the same time MIR. Bennett
ordered that copies of his ruling
be posted in Orioles shops where
thev can he seen hv en0nlnvoS
Evening star., 1953-08-28
135 at Plant Give Blood

MARTINsBURG, w. Va, Aug.
% (SpeciaD Employees Of Inter-
woven Stocking Co. here consti-
tuted the entire list of persons
contributing the 135 pints of
blood at the periodic visit of the
Red Cross Bloodmobile here on
Tuesday. The unit made its
headquarters at the mill on this
visit.
Evening star., 1953-08-28
Russia Again Denies
II Picked Up Flyers
From Downed Plane

Russia again has disclaimed
any wledge of survivors
among the 16 missing crew mem
bers of an American RB-5O
bomber shot down by Soviet jet
fighters over the Sea Of Japan
July 20.
The State Department an
nounced late yesterday receipt OF
a new note from Moscow Saying
the Soviet had no information on
survivors and rejecting American
protests.
The RB-50's co-pilot, Capt.
John E. Roche of Washington,
was rescued by an American de-
stroyer in the Sea of Japan sew
eral hours after bailing out of the
bomber.
Red Boats at Scene.
American rescue vessels saw a
dozen Soviet PT-type boats in
the area, presumably picking up
other survivors Of the crash who
were sighted in the water.
In note sent to Moscow Au-
gust S, the United States asked
the Russians-who previously
had denied knowledge of any sur
vivors-to make an exhaustive
investigation and communicate
promptly all information devel-
oped.
Protesting strongly the "unpro-
voked attack" the American note
also demanded appropriate COM
pensation for the loss of the
plane and the lives of any of its
crew members who may have
been killed.
Protest Is Rejected.
The latest Russian note re-
jected this protest. charging that
the RB-50 was over Soviet terri
tory when attacked and asking
Evening star., 1953-08-28
BY the Asseeiated Press

NEW YORK. Aug. 28.-A 800
pound taxicab driver yesterday
ended an attempted holdup of
a Bronx supermarket. He sat
on the alleged robber after a
gunf1re-studded chase.
1t happened this way:
A gunman ordered Cashier
Dorothy Mackanesi, Is. to fill a
paper bag with money. The
robber grabbed the bag and
showed the woman to the floor.
Abraham Becker, an off-duty
policeman, had been shopping
Warning some 200 customers. to
Evening star., 1953-08-28

assurances against any further
territorial violations.
The State Department said
yesterday it stands on the testi-
mony of Capt. Roche and other
evidence that the RB-50 was at
tackled not over Soviet territory,
but over the Sea of Japan about
40 miles southeast of the nearest
Soviet land at Cape Povortny.
Evening star., 1953-08-28
Divinine Rods Work
For Playful Children
By the Associated Press

KANKAKEE. Ill. Children
have discovered a new pastime.
It's finding buried pipes with
homemade "divining rods" made
from coat hangers. They hold
two coat hanger rods in front
of them and walk slowly around
their home. When they come to
a buried pipe the two wires
slowly are pulled together and
cross over the spot where the
pipe is buried.
It has something to do with
electro magnetic action. But the
children don't care about any
high-flown scientific principles,
it's just plain fun.
Evening star., 1953-08-28
Cubu Tuxes Fiber

Cuba has placed a tax of three
cents a pound on cordage, twine
and thread of henequin. sisal.
manila or abaca fiber in a move
to subsidize henequin planta-
tlOnS.
Evening star., 1953-08-28

Here's the inside story Of what happened:
We've had yen for bring csoeAT THEIR PRIcEhe
suit Chairman Of the Board Ambassador Lorge
VP And that
The kind Of that usually young valuation
given CONSERVATIVE! It's very
And every precious price!
Evening star., 1953-08-28
Regularly $75!

The next step was just as important!
We knew these fobr deserved nothing the best So before
Of anywhere these bolts toor who
dealing superb
ALWAYS MUCH with for less
magnificent tailoring operations
usually the susofn mode sus And
demanded every single this 2owoy stonodd
Evening star., 1953-09-06
7 Injured as Quake
Rocks Athens and Corinth
By the Assecio,ed Pres.

ATHENS, Greece, Sept. 5.-A
strong earthquake rocked Athens,
Corinth, and other central Greek
areas today. Seven persons were
reported injured.
The tremor, which came in
the wake of last months dis
astrous earthquakes in the Ionian
Islands, was felt as far as Khal-
kis, on the island of Evvoia, so
miles north of Athens. It was be-
lieved to center off the western
coast of the Peloponnesus. The
shock was particularly strong at
Corinth and nearby Isthia. All
the injuries we're reported there
and about so old houses, mostly
uninhabited, were razed.
1t was one of the strongest
shocks ever recorded at Greek
observatories, knocking the
Athens seismograph out of ac-
ton.
The disaster that struck the
IonianS took a death toll eSti-
mated at around 1000, injured
hundreds of others, and left
about 10000 persons homeless.
The government estimated today
that 95 per cent of the buildings
in the three devasted islands had
either collapsed or were damaged
beyond repair.
Evening star., 1953-09-06
Rx the Assoeinted Pres.

HONOLULU, Sept. S. Cor
poral "Slick" heads home today
by plane. stout in his contention
"I never squealed on anybody
to the Communists "
He's the only healthy repa-
triate in a group of otherwise
sick and wounded Americans be-
ing sped East by the Army after
release from Korean war prison
camps.
Those reports that he rated"
on fellow prisoners to get better
treatment? "All a mistake" he
said in an interview here cut
short by the Army.
ct was friendly with every
body. They had nothing against
me-"
Yes, his fellow prisoners called
him "Slick."
And what about those reports
he went absent without leave in
Tokyo in fear of reprisals?
"I went out and got drunk
and missed my plane and de-
cided to stay drunk" he said.
But he wasn't running away
from any one.
Before he flew to Tokyo, he
had been scheduled to return to
the United States by ship direct
Evening star., 1953-09-06
By the Asseeinfed Press

YONKERS, N. Y. Sept. s.
For Sergt. John B. Grifhths, just
released by the Communists, the
JOY of Korea's Freedom Village
is about to turn to heartbreak.
At his parents request, a
chaplain will visit the 31-yeaI-
old soldier to tell him the bride
he left brief four months after
their marriage and the son he
never saw both are dead.
Sergt. Griffth's folks man
aged, somehow to avoid tell him
the tragic news during his i'm
prisonment. They feared its ef-
feet on him.
Sergt. Griffiths and the former
Anne Frezzano were married on
Easter Sunday. April 9, 1850.
He went overseas the next
August after saying goodby to
his bride at the Office of the
YonkerS Herald Statesman,
where she was telephone oper-
ator.
John jr., was born January 30,
1851, two months after his faith
er fell into enemy hands. The
baby died two days later, but in
those two days young Mrs. Grit
fithS got off a letter telling he1
husband the news.
Sergt. Griffiths wrote back OF
Evening star., 1953-09-06
Girl Scouts Rescue ; Men
From Minnesota Lake
By the Assoeioted Press

WEBSTER, Wis, Sept. 5.-A
thankful resort operator today
said he and two of his guests
owed their lives to some little
angels "a party of Girl Scouts
who rescued them from the mid
die of a Minnesota lake.
Guy R. Laib, of Webster, said
his canoe capSized in Lake Sag
anaga, on Minnesota's northern
border. With him were Gene
Scott, Cicero, Ill, and Jim Rad
aska. Chicago. The men. wear
ing life preservers. clung for two
hours to the overturned craft.
They were chilled and near ex-
haustion, Mr.. Laib said, when
three canoes of Girl Scouts
reached them. The girls pulled
the men into their canoes. Since
adding all three men to the can
oes would overload them, one girl
gave up her place to make room
for one of the victims. The girl
then started swimming to shore
and was picked up by another
canoe sent out to meet her.
Mr.. Laib said the girls took the
men to their Scout camp, where
the victims were given first aid,
hot soup and coffee.
Evening star., 1953-09-06
Car Skids Off Bridge,
Driver Suffers Bruises

A driver escaped with minor
bruises last night when his car
plunged 20 feet off the north ap-
proach of the Eleventh Street
Bridge and landed against a
corrugated iron building.
Police Pvt. M. S. Riordan said
Frank S. Mauck, jr., 40, of 200
Modoc Way. Forest Heights, Md,
walked to an ambulance stretch
er. after he was helped out of
the badly damaged, 1953-model
car.
Pvt. Riordan said the car,
headed south, apparently spun
on the rain-slick bridge paving
and backed off the bridge ap-
proach.
1t came to rest with the rear
end tilted up against the build
ing, it's front end buried in the
mud. Mr.. Mauck appeared to
have only bruised knees.
Evening star., 1953-09-06
Latest List of POWs Freed

T/sergt Bernard F. Rivers, North
Oxford, Mass
1st 1t. Francis A. Strieby, Okonoko,
sergt. 1Lc. Jerome G. cOnsbruck.
Cart Kenneth s. Brazil, Citrus
MTsergt. Alfred D. Watkins. Columbia.
1St 1t. Joseph Moreland, Wichita,
c,sds seTgt; n1s William E. Koski' Ety. MINI.
s1sergt. William E. Koski ELY. MINI.
w. o. Felix J. McCool, Miami, Fla.
Sergt. l/c. Bennie L. Betty. Mid
Maj. George R. Hansen. Madison, Wis.
Mai. Harry E. Gibb, Clarksville, Tenn.
Capt. Joseph L. OConner. Spring City,
ist 1t. Charles NJ. Kerr. Lima. Ohio
Sergt. lie John A. Roach Richmond,
sergt. 1Ic James E. Prickett, Alamo,
Col. Andrew J. Evans, ir., Montgom-
cry, Ala.
serst;c lie Charles JOhansen' Ian
lst Ii. Robert L. Wood, Parker Dam,
ist 1t. Henry D. WOLF, Phoenix, Ariz
Lit. Col. Frank H Schwable. Arlington,
Col. Walker N. Mahurin, George Air
Force Base, Calf.
ST LIT. Jonn >. quinn AlLauend, (alll
Pfc Bobby r. DeGraw, oxford. Miss.
Sergt. Horace Bradley, ir., Lake
George, N Y.
Mfsergt. Lionel E. Michaud, Willow
Point Conn.
Corpl. Wilburn C. watson, Burnsville,
Miss.
Sergt. Paul Portee, High Point, N. C.
Corpl. Wesley P. Biers. Kimberley,
1st 1t. Albert w. C. Naylor- Foote.
Berwyn. Ill.
NJ jsergt. Davis T. Harrison, Yadkin-
vile N. c.
Seret. Herman L. Peterson, Graham,
Mfsergt. curtis NJ. Neal, Quitman,
Capt. Theodore r. Harris, Van Nuys,
Sergt. Martin r. Watson, Deep River,
Conn.
Evening star., 1953-09-06
Sixth Armored Veterans
Urge Consisted Units
By the Assocloted Press

CHICAGO, Sept. 5.-Veterans
of the Army's 9th Armored Di-
vision urged today that "ar-
mored units of corps or army
size" be included in the Ma
TONS combat forces.
The recommendation came in
resolution adopted at the an
nual reunion of the 9Th Armored
Division Association. Members
all served in the European thea
ter during World War II.
The group contended in its
resolution that the war in Korea
blinds us to the fact that de-
cisive warfare is fought on a
continental basis"
Evening star., 1953-09-06
Slick Heads Home Denying
He SuueoIed on Fellow POWs

from Korea. At the last minute,
after chaplain intervened, he
was referred to medical Offices
and sent to Tokyo by plane.
That's when reports came
from other released prisoners
that "Slick" was avoiding a sea
trip home, in fear of his life.
But "Slick," his hand shaking
while he drank a cup of coffee
during last nights interview, said
it was all a mistake that fellow
prisoners were out to get him.
Yes, there was animosity in
prison camp against men who
were too friendly to the Reds.
But he wasn't one.
Yes, there was one incident
with fellow prisoners in camp.
He didn't care to talk about it.
He said military intelligence
officers had talked to him after
his release from prison and that
was that. An intelligence officer
at Hickam Field, after breaking
up the interview. said "Slick"
was not in custody and was 60
ing home like all other returning
prisoners.
The plane is due at Travis Air
Force Base, near San Francisco,
tomorrow morning.
Evening star., 1953-09-06
Chaplain to Tell Freed Soldier
His Wife and Son Are Dead

his JOY and his longing to see his
family. Then on July 2, 1851,
his wife died.
His rare letters were addressed
to the home they had set up
after their marriage. and were
forwarded to his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. John j. Griftiths OF
Connerton, Pa.
The elder Griffiths had gotten
word that their son had lost an
eye through the brutality OF a
Chinese guard.
Not wanting to disturb him,
they wrote that his wife and
little boy were we'll. Always they
found a way to excuse his wife'S
not writing.
The sergeant was freed last
night, and his parents have gone
to the Red Cross with a heavy
request: Would the Red Cross
arrange for a Catholic chaplain
at Freedom Village to tell him?
Evening star., 1953-09-06
Kansas City Awaits
Next Mystery Blast;
Police Are BdffIed
By the Assoeio,sd Pres.

KANSAS CITY, Sept. 5.-Who
is next? That's the big question
tonight in Kansas City, where
five business houses have been
blasted by bizarre, unexplained
bombingS this week.
The almost nightly bombings
began a week ago when the
show window of one of the city's
most fashionable clothing stores,
Woolf Brothers. was shattered.
Herbert v. Woolf, who owns a
string Of race horses and once
won the Kentucky Derby with
Lawrin. said he knew of no rea-
son why his store was bombed.
The latest explosion came last
night at the Glass and China
House about so blocks south of
the main business district. The
bomb tore out three windows
and did about $4,000 damage.
The story was the Same-no
apparent reason for the bomb
ing; no threats. no attempts at
extortion. no labor trouble.
Between the two bombings,
there were others at the South
Side Plaza store of Rothschild's,
another leading clothier; Mil
grams food store, and the Beryl
Berry Motor Co.
Police Chief Bernard Brannon
is asking the same question every
one else is-who is doing it and
why? He says his men haven't
had a single break since the
bombings started. Not even a
bomb fragment has been found
to help solve the mystery.
The Kansas City Crime Com
mission has offered $4,000 re-
ward for information leading to
the conviction of the apparently
capriciouS bomb tossers.
Evening star., 1953-09-06
BY the Assoei0tsd Pres.

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. s.
Washington Cd. C.1,lCorpl. Mich
olas ". Tosques was "all goose
pimples" when he landed with
366 other returned American
prisoners of war from the trans
port Marine Adder here today.
He is expected to arrive at Ma
tional Airport, Washington, at
$50 am. tomorrow.
The 25-year-old soldier. who
spent 28 months as prisoner of
the Reds, said the worst part of
it for him was the meager POW
diet.
Il used to be a chow hound, ;"
he said, "but I didn't get very
far with that bug dust they fed
u.s." Bug dust was the POW
term for the mixture of rice.
millet, corn and sorghum that
was the basic staple at Camp l
Evening star., 1953-09-06
Held 28 Months by Reds,
ID. c. Corporal Flying Home

near the Yula, where Corpl. Tos-
ques was held.
The soldier dropped from 158
pounds when captured to 1877
pounds when he reached Free
dom Village August Is. Since
then he has regained 10 pounds.
At the pier to meet him were
three friends of his family, Mr..
and Mrs. j. H. Holm, former
Washington neighbors who
moved to San Francisco a year
ago, and Mrs. William DiStan-
islao, Hayward, Calf.
Corpl. ToSques, who enlisted in
the Army in July 1850, and was
sent to Korea within the month,
does not plan to stay in the serv-
ice. He hopes to return to WASH
ington to finish the remaining
three months of his apprentice
ship at the Bureau of Engraving.
His father, who lives at 1908
Eighteenth street NE. is also an
engraver.
Evening star., 1953-09-06
Test Suit Planned
In TideIands Case
BY the Associoted Press

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. Sept.
5.-Attorney General John M.
Dalton said today he plans to
join other States, or perhaps file
a suit of his own, to test a 1858
Federal law giving the title of
offshore oil lands to California,
Florida, Louisiana and Texas.
II think that the action of
taking away property belonging
to all of the States in the Union
and giving it to few is contrary
to the Constitution of the United
States" Mr.. Dalton said in a
statement.
Assistant Attorney General
Will F. Berry, jr., attended a
conference of attorneys general
in Washington July 10 to discuss
the possibility of a test case and
since then has conferred with
other States about their plans.
Mr.. Dalton said he thought
Missouri probably would join
with Alabama in a suit which
that State plans to file in the
United States Supreme Court.
Other States also may join.
Evening star., 1953-09-06
Baltimore Man Is KILLED, ,
| Hurt as Truck Hits Car

A Baltimore (Md) man was
killed and his companion in
jured last night when their car
was struck in the rear by a
truck on U. S. Route l, at Muir
kirk, Md, Prince Georges County
police reported.
The dead man was identified by
police as Hobson Blevins, jr., 29.
Reported in satisfactory condi-
ton at Leland Memorial Hospi-
tai was Melvin Humphrey, 90.
He suffered multiple cuts and
bruises, a conclusion and a
broken left leg.
Details of the accident and
the identity of the truck driver
were not available at the Hyatts-
vile police station three hours
after the accident, the dispatcher
reported.
Evening star., 1953-09-06
Civil Air Patrol Plans
Conference in Omaha

Gen. Carl A. Spaatz, retired,
wartime chief of the Air Force,
will head the list of Civil Air
Patrol and Air Force officials who
will meet in Omaha next Satur-
day and Sunday for a series of
top-level conferences.
He is chairman of the national
executive board of the CAP, civil
ian auxiliary of the Air Force.
Maj. Gen. Lucas v. Beau is
CAP national commander.
Also attending from Washing
ton will be Col. Draper F. Henry,
CAP deputy commander; Col.
Mills s. Savage, chief of staff for
personnel; 1t. Col. Robert B. r.
win. special assistant for plans,
organization and requirements,
and 1t. Col. Walter w. Thomp-
son. deputy chief of staff.
Evening star., 1953-09-06
Northern Virginia
Fair and Exposition
Opening tomorrow

A carnival midway will spring
up today on a temporarily un-
used runway at the Hybla Valley
Airport.
1t is one of the last attractions
to be set up in preparation for
the opening tomorrow OF the
Northern Virginia State Fair.
Sponsored by the Mount Ver-
non Lions Club and the Penn
Daw Volunteer Fire Department,
the fair and industrial exposition
will open at noon tomorrow and
close at midnight Saturday The
airport grounds are on U. S.
Route l, few miles south OF
Alexandria.
Fair Chairman Paul NJ Mayer
said the six-day event has been
planned for two years and is the
first area spectacle of its kind
in 81 years.
The exhibitors - automobile
and truck dealers, farm equip
ment and building firms. furni-
ture and appliance companies
will display their wares in huge
circuS-type tents. Area civic
groups and youth organizations
also wall have exhibits.
The Army drill team and tie
90-piece Army band will be fea-
tured at the fair Thursday night.
Air Force, Navy and Marine units
also will participate throughout
the week.
Visiting dignitaries at tomor-
rows opening ceremony will in
clude the Fairfax County Com
missioners, District Commissioner
Renah F. Camalier and Repre-
sentative Broyhill, Republican, of
Virginia's 10th District.