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Evening star., 1953-05-13
Allen Tells Stevenson
He Could Win in India
By the Associated Press

NEW DELHI, India, May 13.-
United States Ambassador
George v. Allen told Adlai Stew
enson, Democratic candidate for
President last year, today that
"if the $50 million Indians had
been able to vote in our last
election, there wouldn't have
been any doubt of the outcome. "
Sir, you're id solid Demo-
cratic territory" added Mr..
Allen, an appointee of Repub-
lican President Eisenhower, at
a reception on the Embassy lawn
for Mr.. Stevenson.
Some 500 Embassy officials,
employees and their families
turned out to meet Mr.. Steven
son, who is making an extensive
tour of the Far East.
THE Ambassadors remarks
have confirmed the impression
that I should have run for Office
here" Mr.. Stevenson quipped,
but am loath to report that
nobody in India suggested that"
Evening star., 1953-05-13

ident of Pennsylvania State
College.
AS Mrs. Eisenhwoer and Mrs.
Doud drove to the cabin, they
came through the Gettysburg
country and had a look at the
Chief Executives 189-acre farm
that overlooks the battlefield.
Before he left the White House
Evening star., 1953-05-13

Yesterday. Gen. Eisenhower held
the last of the congressional get
acquainted luncheons. Senator
Morse. Oregon independent, who
nolted the Eisenhower ticket in
November, was a guest.
Senator Morse said the lunch
Evening star., 1953-05-13
NutionuIists Raid Isle

HONG KONG, May 13 (P).-A
pro-Nationalist Chinese news
paper reported today that sea-
borne Nationalist guerrillas shot
up Communist battalion in
raid on Tungshan Island off the
South China coast last Thursday.
Evening star., 1953-05-13

con was excellent and that he
had enjoyed the occasion great
ly. That fact, however, he told
newSmen, would not deter him
from continuing his war on
Eisenhower policies,
Evening star., 1953-05-13
War Casualties
List Grows l53
To 134,e58 TotoI
BY the Asseciated Press

Announced United States bat
tie casualties in Korea reached
134,958 today, an increase of
153 since last week.
This was the smallest weekly
increase since last March 26,
1852, when a rise of 1913 was
announced. The decline reflect
ed a comparative lull in fight
ing during the current truce
negotiations.
The Defense Departments
weekly summary, based on noti-
fications to families through last
Friday showed:
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OO4AOVCo OCSA CdoO.
Includes killed in action,
2,290 fatally wounded and 226
dead, originally reported miss
ing.
ZAfter deducting from gross
total 1912 returned, 1885
known captured and 226 known
dead.
Following is a breakdown of
the casualties by services:
NovT,
Evening star., 1953-05-13

No sub-contracting. Our own
sheet metal workers, plumbers,
electricians, will install, and our
air conditioning mechanics will
service your unit.
Evening star., 1953-02-01
New Machine Developed to Set
Type on Photographic Film

which automatically adjusts
type-size as chosen by the opera
tor delivers the correct image to
the photo film.
Then the film, when developed
either negative or positive as
desired-is available for proofs
or makeup or for engraving on
metal plates.
Foundation officials say the
typesetting process is flexible,
permitting the mixing of tthe
various sizes of type, as in ad-
vertisements. or leaving SPACES
as for pictures. They say en-
cravings ideal for otl-sLu p-.44.-
ing can be made from the films.
Behind "Photon" are two
French telephone engineers who
invented the new typesetting
device, and American Mechani-
cal. Photographing and Electron-
les techniques-All linked to-
gether by the foundation. The
co-inventors, Rene A. Higonnet
and Louis M. Moyroud, are active
in the development. which they
began while France was under
the NaZi heel.
Evening star., 1953-02-01
Volunteers Are SOUGHT
For information Desks

An appeal for so women volun-
teers to take charge of eight
information desks for service
personnel on leave in Washing
ton has been issued by the
Armed Services Hospitality Com
mittee, 1850 Pennsylvania avenue
NV.
Housewives without children
who can work from 9 am. to
noon, noon to 3, or 3 to 6 pm,
are needed, the committee said
Evening star., 1953-05-20
Dutch Approve Plan
To Relax Sovereignty
BY the Associoted Press

THE HAGUE. May 20.-The
upper house of the Dutch par
lament today approved. 81 to 4,
constitutional amendments au-
thorizing the government to
yield authority to supranational
ORGANIZATIONS.
The amendments permit par
tiCipation in such European Or
ganizations as the Schuman
Plan coal and steel pool and the
projected European Army. The
lower house approved the
amendments 66 to z last Decem-
Der, and the official proclama-
ton putting them into effect is
expected in about five weeks.
Their main points:
Power is given the government
to entrust legislative, admins
trative, and judicial authority
by agreement to international
organizations.
Where required by "the devel-
opment of international legal or
der" parliament may by two
thirds vote ratify treaties even
though they conflict with the
constitution.
The government may declare
war without parliament's con-
sent when an existing state of
hostilities prevents a session Of
parliament.
Evening star., 1953-05-20
G. 0. P. Leaders Seek Support
On Excise Profit Tax Issue
Martin Calls Meeting in Step to Ease
House Mays and Means Hostility

House Republican leaders at
tempted today to get an agree
ment with G.. o. P. members of
the Ways and Means Committee
for group approval of an extern
sion of the excess profits tax.
Speaker Martin arranged a
meeting in his Office this after
noon to determine whether
Chairman Reed and his fellow
Republicans on the Ways and
Means Committee would consent
to reporting out such an extern
sion measure.
Besides Speaker Martin and
the Republican members of the
Ways and Means Committee,
others invited to the conference
included Majority Leader Hal
leck and Chairman Taber of the
Appropriations Committee.
The House leaders, although
confident that the six-month tax
extension proposed by President
Evening star., 1953-05-20

Eisenhower last night will be
passed by the House. repeatedly
want to have the bill go through
regular legislative channels in
the House.
They do not want to bypass
Ways and Means unless Chair
man Reed and other committee
members refuse to report out the
excess profits tax extension bill,
and insist on a House vote on
Mr.. Reeds bill for a personal in
come tax cut June 80.
Some congressional leaders
forecast a quick and bitter bat
tie over the extension request.
The President outlined his tax
views in a Nation wide radio
speech last night. He firmly
opposed immediate tax cuts and
called instead for continued high
revenues to keep our Nation Sc
(See CONGRESS, Page A-8)
Evening star., 1953-05-20
Church Group Named to Eye
Communist Peril and Conuress

being the councils president,
also is the neWly-elected presi-
dent of the Council of Bishops
of the Methodist Church, con-
tended there is a right way
and wrong way to combat COM
muniSm."
Urges Stand for Truth.
"The right way" Bishop Mar
tin said, lis to stand without
compromise for Christian truth
and action and to point out
clearly and concretely every area
of conflict.
"T'he wrong way is to pin a
Communist label on social lib
erals and advocates of reform
procedure widely resorted to
today. Such methods create con-
fusion of mind in which many
people no longer distinguish be-
tween communism and honest
social criticism In the old-fash-
ioned American way. Such con-
fusion plays into the hands of
the Communists and aids the
enemies of the American way of
life.
Some people are SO fright
ened about Communist infiltra-
ton that they pay no attention
to the danger of un-American
methods of fighting it. Other
people are so alarmed by the
wrong methods of dealing with
communism that they ignore the
danger of communism itself. I
am sure that the committee will
deal effectively with both aspects
Of the problem"
The general board at it's
March meeting adopted a reso-
luton upholding the right and
duty of Congress to make in
vestigations, but urged that it
guard against abuses which the
board said bring Congress into
disrepute.
Others on Committee.
In addition to Bishop Sheriff.,
Bishop Oman and DR.. Flem-
ming, Bishop Martin appointed
the following clerical and lay
leaders to the committee: Jasper
E. Crane. Wilmington, Del; DR..
Robert P. Daniel. president of
Virginia State College, Peters,
burg, Va; DR.. Franklin C. Fry,
president of United Lutheran
Church of America, New York.
DR.. j. R. Mccain, presi-
dent-emerltus of Agnes Scott
College, Decatur, Ga; DR..
Reuben E. Nelson, general
secretary of the American
Baptist Convention, New York:
Charles C. Parlin, New York at
torney and Methodist layman.
Englewood. N. j.; Mrs. Norman
Vincent Peale. vice president
of the national council, New
York; DR.. Paul c. Payne, board
secretary of the Presbyterian
Church, U. S. A.. Philadelphia;
Thomas B. E. Ring. Philadelphia,
and Charles E. Wilson. treasurer
of the national council, New
York.
Charles H. Tuttle. legal coun-
sci to the national council, Is
an ex-ofncio member.
Evening star., 1953-05-20
Taft Enters Hospital
For Treatment Of Hip
By the Associoted Press

Senator Taft of Ohio, the Sem
ate Republican leader. entered
Walter Reed Medical Center to-
day for an X-ray and treatment
of a hip that has been causing
him pain.
Office aides said the hip had
been bothering him recently. and
that he had visited the hospital
several times for treatment.
They said he expects to be in
the hospital several days.
Senator Knowland, Republi-
can, of California. chairman of
the Senate G. o. P. Policy Com
mittee, acted as majority leader
when the Senate met.
Evening star., 1953-05-20

when they leaped out of the
police cruiser, the shadows took
form and fed.
The policemen reasoned that
the three must have vanished
into any one of a number of
doorways in the area and began
looking for wet footprints. A
doorway in the 500 block of M
street yielded a fresh. wet print.
Inside they found a 15-year-
old colored boy not so sound
asleep as he appeared at first
glance. He admitted being the
lookout for the burglary attempt.
The. second boy was arrested at
his home and the third is being
sought.
Evening star., 1953-05-20
Seckinger Angered
By Plan for Single
Inspection Agency
Calls Idea Of Tokinq
Functions From Health
Department Funtustic

District Health Director DAN
iel L. Seckinger today blasted as
"cockeyed and NScreWy' a pro-
posal to take inspection func-
tionS out of his Health Depart
ment.
His fighting-mad criticism of
the latest proposal in a series
aimed at revamping the city
government came as the District
Commissioners called in affected
department heads for their opin-
ions. Under consideration is a
proposal to crate a new depart
ment of licenses and inspections.
Budget Cuts Studied.
Other developments in the
efforts of the Commissioners to
put their reorganization plan
into effect included:
/. The House Appropriations
subcommittee is considering
cuts in the Districts 1854 budget
as a means of forcing savings
under reorganization. So far,
reorganization has added to the
cost of the city government.
2. Senator Beall, Republican,
of Maryland, sent a letter to the
Commissioners asking them to
"go slow" in changing the Setup
of the Health Department.
3. j. Thomas Kennedy, direc-
tor of the District Department of
Weights, Measures and Markets,
joined DR.. Seckinger in criticiz-
ing the proposed licenses and
inspection department. His
agency would be abolished and
become a part of the new depart
ment.
4. Police Chief Robert V. Mur-
ray approved the proposal be-
cause it would relieve the Police
Department from it's duty of
assigning 80 policemen to con-
duct license inspections over
the city.
5. DR.. Wallace M. Yater, presi-
dent of the District Medical
Society, sent a letter to the
Commissioners saying the pro-
posal to take the inspection func-
tions from the Health Depart
ment was "of grave concern to
the society,""
Amazed at Proposal.
Appearing before the Commits
sionerS, DR.. Seckinger said he
was amazed at the proposal to
remove the Bureau of Food In
spection and Public Health En-
gineering out of his department.
Speaking of the management
office, in charge of surveying,
reorganization proposals, DR..
Seckinger said their accepted
management principles are so
cockeyed and Screwy as applied
to public health that they are
pathetic considerations for
the Nations Capital"
The proposed shakeup, under
the overall reorganization plan,
calls for the establishment of a
single licenses and inspection
department. Its aim would be
to end the seemingly endless
and often overlapping inspec-
tions required for one to obtain
license or permit of any sort,
according to reorganization Off
cials.
Where, "Dr. Seckinger asked,
an any place in the country,
would a proposal be seriously
entertained that would ham,
(See REORGANIZATION, A-5.D
Evening star., 1953-05-20
Weeks Talks Senate
Out Of Probing Plan
To Gust DR.. Astin
EIIender Coils Issue
Too Sweeping for
Group to Handle

Secretary of Commerce Weeks
today talked a Senate subcom-
mittee out of investigating his
plan to oust DR.. Allen V. Astin
as director of the Bureau of
Standards.
Secretary Weeks testified in
closed session of a subcommittee
studying appropriations for the
Commerce Department.
Senator Ellender. Democrat. of
Louisiana reported later that the
problem was so sweeping that
the subcommittee decided it
would not have jurisdiction over
all aspects. He said Chairman
Thye of the Senate Small Busi-
ness Committee also had asked
the Appropriations subcommittee
to stay away from the Astin
affair.
Still Must Go.
Secretary Weeks today main
tanned his attitude that DR.. Astin
must leave the Bureau of Stand
ards this fall after a committee
of scientists recommends possible
successors and another commit
tee completes a study of the
bureaus tests on battery adda-
tive, AD-X2. Senator Ellender
said he asked Secretary Weeks
to let DIR. Astins fate be deter
mined by the forthcoming report
on AD-X2.
Secretary Weeks. however. de-
clined this request on grounds
that the real reasons DR.. Astin
must go involve administrative
problems rather than AD-X2
Senator Ellender reported.
AD-X2 Cited Originally.
Secretary Weeks originally
cited the AD-X2 controversy
when he disclosed plans to dis
miss DR.. AStin.
Jess Ritchie, manufacturer OF
AD-X2 and a long list of dis
tributors and users of the chemi-
cal, asked to testify before the
Appropriations subcommittee il
it investigated the Astin affair
Senator Ellender said he and
Subcommittee Chairman Bridges
of New Hampshire agreed that
the problem was too extensive
| for the subcommittee to investi-
gate at public hearings.
Evening star., 1953-05-20
BY the Assoeioted Press

CHICAGO. May 20.-The Ma
tional Council of the Churches
of Christ in the U. S. A. today
named a 15-member committee
to watch developments in Con-
gresS and elsewhere which
threaten the freedom of the
people and institutions of the
United States"
The committee, headed by the
Right Rev. Henry Knox Sheriff.,
presiding Bishop of the Episcopal
Church. includes Bishop G.
Bromley OMAN, Methodist
Bishop of Washington. and DR..
Arthur S. Flemming, director of
the Office of Defense Mobiliza-
ton.
Appointment of the commit
tee on the maintenance of
American freedom" was an
nounced at the bimonthly meet
ing of the councils General
Board, the organizations interim
policy making body. by Presi-
dent William C. Martin of Dali
las. Tex.
Cites Communist Threat.
Bishop Martin, in a statement,
expressed his personal hope that
the committee will help the
churches to recognize any threat
of Communist infiltration into
American life.
mo body Of people is more
concerned to combat commu-
nism than the church groups of
our country" Bishop Martin
said. IF any Communists are
carrying on their subversive work
under the guise of serving the
church, all who have a response
bility for leadership in the
church should insist that such
deception shall be exposed"
Bishop Martins appointments
were authorized by the councils
General Board at a meeting in
New York in March.
Bishop Sheriff. was the first
president of the council. a fed
Grafton of 80 Christian churches
which claims more than 35 mil
lion members.
Bishop Martin, who, aside from
Evening star., 1953-05-20
Gasoline Price Boost
On East Coast Studied
BY the ,\ssocioted Pres,

NEW YORK, May 20.-Major
oil companies are studying the
possibility of increasing gasoline
prices along the East Coast, is
was learned here today after an
nouncement of substantial price
boosts in the Detroit area.
In the Detroit area Standard
Oil lifted its prices 10 dealers l
cent a gallon for regular gasoline
and 1.6 cents for premium fuel.
AS a result. Detroit motorists are
now paying 20 cents a gallon for
Standards regular gas and 81
for premium, including taxes.
Evening star., 1953-05-20
Youth Fleeing From Police
Betrayed by Wet Footprint

The rainy season may be
tough on the rest of us, but it
makes good footprints for police
men to follow.
Detective Sergeants s. F. Cox
and Vincent Antonelli followed
that basic detecting principle
early today to arrest two youths
who have admitted attempting
to break into a Southeast gro
cery. A third has been impli-
Gated.
"All we needed was money"
one of them told police.
The two detectives saw three
suspicious shadows near the Dis
trict Grocery Store at 426 M
street Sc, about . an. but
Evening star., 1953-05-20
Rainy Spell Is Ended,
Fair and Warmer Ahead

Washington'S rainy spell ap-
parently is at an end. for the
time being at least. the Weather
Bureau said today.
Although the skies were partly
cloudy today, the bureau did not
expect rain. The temperature
will climb to about rs degrees by
the afternoon with high hu-
midity.
Tonight will be fair with a
low of So degrees. the bureau
predicted. Tomorrow will be fair
and warmer.
Evening star., 1953-05-20
Consider the Life
OF Bill Collectors

BILL CoLLEcToRs-BiII collectors.
like the FBI, sometimes have to go
around the world TO do their job. For
o story on these potent but persistent
men, see Poee AIS.
SAILOR HUSBAN Nd His RoyoI
Hishness, the Duke Of Edinburgh, is q
soiIor by training and tradition. For q
story on the Queen Of EnsIond's sailor
husbond, see Pose B..
Evening star., 1953-05-20
Tunisiun Sheik Killed

TUNIS, Tunisia, May 20 (P).
Unidentified assailants shot
and killed one village sheik in
Tunisia today and set fire to
the Offices of another. The mur-
dered local leader was Mohamed
Moktar, sl1eik of Sidi Asker.
Evening star., 1953-05-20
Another Polish Pilot
Flies MIG 10 West;
Lands on Danish Isle
Fastest Soviet Fighter
Suid to Be of Newer
Type Than Jurecki's
BY the Associated Press

ROENNE, Bornholm. Denmark,
May 90. Another Soviet-built
MIG G-15-said to be the Commu-
mist worlds fastest fighter plane
was dumped into allied laps
today by young daredevil Polish
pilot who crash-landed his prize
on this rocky Baltic island.
Unconflrmed reports said he
told Danish police his MIG plane
was of a type newer than that
landed on Bornholm March in
another freedom dash by a
Polish pilot, 1t. FranciSzek ia
recki.
The refugee pilot was reported
to have said he was a close friend
of 1t. Jarecki, whose MIG was
the first to fall undamaged into
the hands of allied experts. 1t.
Jarecki is now in California.
He is seeking citizenship so
he can become an officer in
the United States Air Force. His
plane was returned to Poland
after it was given a careful
eXamina ton by western aviation
experts.
Today's Plane Quickly Wrapped.
Witnesses caught a glimpse of
the MIG landed today before
it was hastily wrapped up in a
huge canvas by the Danish mil
itary. They said they could dis
Germ no difference between it
and the plane flown by 1t.
Jarecki.
Tight-lipped police gave out
little information except that
the pilot had asked for political
asylum.
There was a possibility, how
ever, that he and 1t. Jarecki
had discussed the possibility of
flight to the West. Both presum-
ably were stationed at Slupsk
Air Base in northern Poland,
only about five minutes jet air
flight from Bornholm.
1t. Jarecki came down on tiny
Roenne Airport-not made for
Jet landings-but the pilot today
succeeded in making an even
more risky landing. He set down
on the military training ground
north of the town.
Hops Electric Wires.
Touching at a speed of $50 to
ITS miles per hour, his plane
bounced on several knolls, tee
tered to the edge of several
bitches. and even managed to
hop some electric wires before
coming to an abrupt stop in a
thicket of small trees.
Apparently one of the planes
wings was pulled loose and the
undercarriage smashed, but the
rest of the plane was intact.
The pilot stepped out smiling and
unScratched.
The plane was covered where
it stopped because the authorities
were afraid that if they moved it
they would accidently fire the
guns. The trigger is mounted
near the steering pin.
Technicians on Way.
Col. Erik Rasmussen. Danish
air force inspector who examined
the first MIG delivered by 1t
Jarecki. left Copenhagen by all
with five technicians to have a
look at this one.
Western military experts gen.
orally consider a MIG-15 a prize
catch. About three weeks ago
the United Nations command ir
the Far East offered 100000 tt
any Communist pilot in Kores
who brought his MIG-15 un.
damaged to the Allied side. Thu!
far, there has been no announce.
ment of any takers.
At the time of the offer by Gen
Mark Clark, a United States All
Force spokesman in Washington
said it applied only to flyers o1
Russian-type jets operating ir
the Korean war area, not tt
those in Europe,