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Evening star., 1953-12-23
By the A.soeioted Pres.

RICHMOND, Ind, Dec. ga
parked car with two half-eaten
loaves of bread led police to the
capture in a hotel room early
today of the last two of 13
escaped Michigan convicts.
Police Capt. John Rizio said
the two men, after a brief
struggle, admitted they are
Robert Bowling, 33. a burglar,
and Roman Usiondek, 81. a psy-
chopathic killer. Michigan po-
lice had described them as
dangerous.
They and II others escaped
from the Southern Michigan
Prison at jackson last Satur-
day burning through bars in a
prison sewer with an acetylene
torch.
Policemen. Spot Car.
The tipoff came when cruising
Patrolmen Robert Matheny and
Lawrence Harris spotted a car
with Michigan license plates,
parked opposite the Wayne
County Courthouse.
In the car they saw the bread,
Evening star., 1953-12-23
Burgess, Missing Diplomat,
Writes to Mother i'm London
Briton, Quarry Of European Monhunt
With MucLeon, Doesn't Reveal Location

writing and the mailing of the
letter suggested the possibility
that Burgess sent it. to a friend
here to be reposted.
The fact that it was posted
in dockyard area also sug-
gested that Burgess, if actually
in an Iron Curtain country, sent
the letter to England by a sea-
man, who dropped it in a local
mailbox.
Pair Widely Hunted.
The disappearance of Burgess
and MacLean touched off the
most intensive manhunt in
recent European history. Thou
sands of policemen and secret
agents throughout Western
Europe joined in. If a hard clue
of their destination was ever
turned up. however, it was not
made public. The trail petered
out in France. Police said they
were last seen boarding a train
for Paris from Rennes after a
secret crossing of the English
Channel.
MacLean's Chicago-born wife
the former Melinda Marling, and
their two children went to live in
Switzerland.
In September this year, they
also vanished. The speculation
was that they had gone to join
MacLean somewhere behind the
Iron Curtain.
Last October, however, the
Soviet magazine New Times said
their disappearance "has not the
slightest connection with the
Soviet Union" This was the first
Soviet comment on the case
Evening star., 1953-12-23
BY the Assoeiafed Press

CARLSBAD, N. Mex, Dec. %.
-Bolstered by multitude Of
suggestions, Fire Chief Ira
Stockwell today took his turn at
trying to rescue a 2-month-old
pup from the bottom of a dry
water well.
Ideas by the dozen we're Of
fered by newspaper readers and
radio listeners.
It all began nine days ago
when 5-year-old Teresa Curtis
pushed two pups into a hole in
/ her back yard. It's about 10
inches wide at the top and 80
feet deep.
Her cousins, Dan Hardin, Is,
and Poe Hardin, II, rescued one
of the pups. They lowered a
burlap sack and the pup walked
into it. But the other little
mongrel SHE'D off.
The Hardin boys have been
keeping the trapped pup alive
by lowering bowls of milk and
cereal.
Yesterday a couple of Boy
Scouts tried unsuccessfuly to
Evening star., 1953-12-23
Eisenhower Assures
Federal Workers Of
Fair Play on Jobs
Increase in Shifting
To Political Status
Is Noted, However
By Joseph YOUNG

President Eisenhower has again
assured Government civil service
workers that they have nothing
to fear from his administration.
At the same time. however.
latest figures show that the Civil
Service Commission during the
past few weeks has been approv-
ing a greater percentage of Re-
publican agency requests to shift
policy making Jobs to political
appointment status.
A larger percentage Of Re-
publican agency requests for the
schedule C jobs-now under
civil service-has been approved
during the past few weeks, The
Star learned. For the first time
since the new classification was
created last April by President
Eisenhower, more Schedule G
jobs have been approved than
rejected.
The latest count shows 848
schedule c jobs approved and
80 rejected. The csc revised
its figure of 902 reflections since
in 80 of the cases the same re-
quest had been rejected twice.
Since November IL the csc has
approved 78 Schedule c re-
quests and so were rejected.
Higher Percentage Forecast.
csc officials disclose that dur
ing the coming weeks an even
greater percentage of these pol
icy-making job requests will be
allowed.
Word of Gen. Eisenhower's
new assurance to career Govern
ment workers came from Repre-
sentative Broyhill, Republican,
of Virginia.
He said the President told a
group of G. O. P. House mem
bers yesterday that civil service
employees have nothing to fear
from the recent Federal Court
ruling involving Government job
rights.
Visits White House.
Mr.. Broyhill visited the White
House yesterday to ask the
President to clarity the issues
raised by the decision last week
by Federal Judge Richmond B..
Keech. Judge Keech held that
the President had unlimited fir
ing rights over Federal workers.
Il told the President that
Federal employees were very much
worried about the situation" Mr..
Broyhill said.
He related that Gen. Eisen-
hover, with great emphasis" +"
declared that the administration
had no intention of raiding civil
service jobs. Furthermore, the
President said that Government
employees can be assured of re-
ceiving fair play at all times
from him, Mr.. Broyhill related.
Pre-1947 Situation Recalled.
Mr.. Broyhill said Gen. Ell
senhower recalled that prior to
1947 Federal employees did not
have special rights in excepted
jobs and that the court ruling
Continued on Page Az, Col. 5.).
Evening star., 1953-12-23
BY the Assoeiofed Press

LONDON, Dec. 23.-A Christ
mas letter in the handwriting of
Guy Burgess. British diplomat
who vanished 21a years ago. was
delivered at his mothers home
today. She said it was the first
real evidence that her son is
still alive.
Burgess and his Foreign Office
colleague. Donald MacLean. an
American affairs expert, disap-
peared on May 25, 1851. There
has been wide speculation that
they fled to the East to help
the Communist world in it's cold
war against the west.
Burgess mother, Mrs. Evelyn
Burgess Bassett, speaking from
her apartment near Piccadilly
Circus, said she was absolutely
certain" her son wrote the let
ter signed in his name.
'It is a wonderful Christmas
present." she said. ''It is the
first real sign we have had that
he is still alive"
A friend of Mrs. BasSett told
reporters it was quite a happy
letter." containing ordinary
Christmas greetings.
No Indication of Location.
There was no indication in it
of where Guy may be-" the
friend added.
The letters contents were not
published. The penned date was
simply November" The letter
was postmarked Monday night,
however, in the dockyard area
of London.
The lapse of time between the
Evening star., 1953-12-23
Time for POW Talks
Runs Out as y From
US. Spurn Last Pleas
1nternotionule' Resounds
While Red Americans
Dance With Koreans
By the Associoted Press

PANMUNJOM, Thursday, Dec.
24.-Time ran out last midnight
on efforts to change the minds
of % American war prisoners
who have stayed with the Com
munists.
The 90-day period for explain
ations to war prisoners expired
hours after the Americans and
other pro-Red captives chanted
songs, shouted and linked arms
in a wild dance to drown out
last-minute broadcast appeals to
return home.
An Indian spokesman said that
as midnight passed there was no
request for repatriation from the
prisoners in the pro-Red north
camp. The U. N. command said
earlier it's broadcasts yesterday
ended efforts to WOO home the
% Americans, l Briton and 327
South Koreans who stayed with
the Reds.
The Communists, who have
pressed repeatedly for an ex-
tension of the explanation Pc
riod, asked to interview more
Chinese prisoners from the anti
Communist south camp today.
But the Neutral Nations Re-
patriation Commission ruled
that the explanations had ended.
To Meet News Correspondents.
The commission approved a
request from the pro-Commu-
mist Americans and the Briton
to meet allied and Red news COR
respondents inside their COM
pound today.
Loudspeakers outside tn e
barbed wire enclosure broadcast
IL times yesterday-four ap-
peals each to the % Ameri-
cans, l Briton and II South
(See POWS, Page A-50
Evening star., 1953-12-23
Cost Of Living
Drops in Nation,
Still Rises Here
Price Index Shows
Decrease for First
Time in 9 Months.
BY jones Y. Newton

Living costs nationally de-
clined for the first time in nine
months in the month ending
November Is, the Government
said today. In Washington,
where prices are sampled every
three months. living costs rose
slightly despite a "a per cent
drop in retail food prices.
A sharp drop in food prices
affected living costs all over the
country, as well as in WASH
ington, and was primarily re-
Sponsible for the decline ma
tionally. Before the latest fig
ures were announced, national
living costs had set new all-time
record highs for four successive
months.
Wages of / million railroad
workers were tied to today's Bu-
reau of Labor Statistics con-
sumner price index. The wages
are adjusted every three months.
Actually the railroad workers
wages will remain the same.
They will lose a 1-cent-an-h hour
increase which they had picked
up on paper" in the two months
OF the quarter ending October IS.
Interrupts Rise.
The bureau said that nation
ally the retail prices of goods
and services dropped three
tenths of per cent in the month
ending November Is, interrupt
ing gradual rise which began
last February.
Food prices, declining for the
third consecutive month, dropped
IA per cent, and this was mainly
responsible for the general de-
crease. Transportation costs,
rejecting sharply lower prices
for used cars, dropped one-half
of / per cent for the month and
clothing prices were unchanged.
All other categories of goods and
services rose in price.
The Governments living cost
index on November Is was lis
per cent of the base period, the
1947-1949 average. This was six
tenths of l per cent higher than
a year ago and 13 per cent above
the pre-Korean level.
Prices Up Here.
For Washington, consumer
prices rose one tenth of / per
cent in the three months ending
November Is. despite a substan-
tial drop in food prices. Actually
over this same three months, the
national index remained un-
changed.
The Washington index for No
vember was 114.3 per cent of the
1947-49 average. This was four
tenths of l per cent higher than
a year ago and 1875 per cent
above the pre-Korean level.
Housing costs here rejecting
removal of rent controls last
summer. were up 1.6 per cent al
most offsetting the drop of "a
per cent in food prices.
Evening star., 1953-12-23
Nixon S Father, Is,
Stricken in Arizona

Frank A. Nixon, IS, father of
Vice President Nixon, is critical
ly ill in st. Joseph's Hospital in
Phoenix, Ariz., where he was re-
moved yesterday when stricken
while flying to Los Angeles from
Washington with his wife.
Attending physicians said he
is suffering from a gastric hem
orrhage. He was reported better
today and one physician said "it
looks like he might rally" the
Associated Press reported.
Vice President Nixon, who is
scheduled to make radio talk
here at 1920 tonight on his re-
Gently completed goodwill tour,
plans to remain in Washington
unless his father becomes worse.
The senior Nixons remained in
Washington with the Vice Presi-
dents children while their son
and his wife made their 10-week
As, 5,000-mile world tour.
Evening star., 1953-12-23
Jacquinot Withdraws
As French Plan 12th
Presidential Ballot
Coty Takes His Place;
Deadlock Still Firm,
No Solution in Sight
By the Associated Press

VERSAILLES, Dec. 23.-Louis
Jacquinot withdrew today as a
candidate for the French presi-
dency and his place on the 18th
ballot was taken by Rene Coty.
an independent Republican.
Mr.. Jacquinot. who is over
seas minister, had been put UP
by rightists after Premier Laniel
withdrew from the race last
night. Both houses of the
French Parliament have been
meeting since last Thursday in
an attempt to elect a successor
to President Vincent Auriol,
whose seven-year term expires
next month.
On the 18th ballot this morn
ing Mr.. 'Jacquinot received 338
votes and Marcel Edmond Nae
gelen, Socialist, 372. A ma
jority of AL was needed.
Despite last-minute attempts
at a compromise which would
permit putting Mr.. Auriol's
name before the congress
apparently fell through. Mr..
Jacquinot had proposed that he
and Mr.. Naegelen withdraw and
leave Auriol in the field. The
afternoon session to take a 12th
ballot had been postponed for
two hours (until noon EST
to permit the Socialists to talk
with Mr.. JacQuinot.
No solution was in sight to
the political deadlock, now in
its seventh day. AS fog and rain
shrouded the palace of Yer
sailles, there was talk the mara
thon voting would continue
through the Christmas holidays.
Premier Joseph Laniel with
drew late last night after it.be-
came apparent he could not bick
up support from middle the
road factions.
Evening star., 1953-12-23
Real Recession
Already Here,
Warns
Senator Asks G. O. P
For Standby Plan to
Avoid Depression
BY the Assoc,oted Press

Senator Douglas, Democrat, of
Illinois declared today this coun-
try is in real recession"
which might contain the seeds
of a full-scale depression.
Avoiding any prediction that
a depression will materialize,
Senator Douglas urged the Eisen-
hover administration to prepare
standby program which could
be used instantly if "the cumu-
lative forces of economic break
down" continue.
The administration has been
reported blueprinting such a pro-
gram, although officials have
publicly discounted that any,
thing more than a normal read
justment from unusually high
business activity is in progress.
Minimum Provisions Listed.
Senator Douglas, a former
University of Chicago economics
professor and the author of sew
eral books on economics, said
in an interview that such an
anti-depression program should
embrace as minimum:
A further decrease of "con-
sumption taxes" such AS excise
levies, to lower prices and thus
stimulate buying. In this con-
nection, the Senator said he
will support the excise tax cut
of about a billion dollars sched-
uled for April /. President Eli
senhower has asked that it be
postponed indefinitely.
2. An increase in personal ex-
emptions for income tax pur-
poses. step which Senator
Douglas said would increase
spending faster than any across
the board income tax cut.
3. A public works program, with
emphasis on slum clearance,
public housing. highway con-
struction, and school and hospital
construction.
Cites Industrial Slump.
Senator Douglas took pains to
emphasize he was not forecasting
a depression. But he said these
economic indicators are worth
study: the farm implement busi-
ness has been "hit very, very
hard: the automobile industry
is beginning to feel the pinch"
and steel demand is off; freight
car loadings were off IL per cent
last month from the previous
November; Montgomery Ward
sales were down Is per cent un-
der the same year.
Senator Douglas said the most
important depression antidote is
an increase in the spending power
of the average consumer.
BY next spring, he said, the
administration should have a
clear indication whether a de-
preston is definitely on the way.
IT it should decide one is, Con-
gress should be asked immedi-
ately to cut excise taxes beyond
the April reduction and raise
individual income tax exemp-
tions, now $500 a person. Senator
Douglas said.
Evening star., 1953-12-23
Parking ToIks Put Off;
TuIkers Cont Park
BY the Assoeioted Press

NORWICH, Conn. Dec. 23.-
The Board of Directors of the
Norwich Chamber of Commerce
has postponed discussion of Off
street parking until its next
meeting.
The directors were supposed
to take UP the issue at 5 pm.
yesterday. but not enough men,
bers showed up to form a
quorum. An official said the
Christmas shopping crowds
made it impossible for the
absent members to find places to
park.
Evening star., 1953-12-23
Shorehom Reports
Biggest Theft:
12O by 6 Foot Rug

Police today were trying to
solve the biggest theft in the
history Of the Shoreham Hotel.
Missing is a strip of gray-green
carpet 100 feet long by 6 feet
wide.
Hotel officials reported the
carpet vanished from a base
ment store room probably last
Friday. but was not missed until
yesterday.
Also puzzling both hotel Off
cials and police is how the
burglars managed to get the rug
out of the hotel without detec-
ton. 1t took four men to get
1t into the basement. 1t is
valued at between $4,000 and
$4,000.
Evening star., 1953-12-23
Star Phone Service
Thursday and Friday

Thursday. December 24-Moin
switchboard service to tST.. 3-5o00)
vorious departments Of The Stor in
eluding News, Classified Advertising,
Circulation and Business Counter ends
ot 9 pm. DeodIine for Sunday Wont
Ads olso 9 pm.
Friday. December 25-cIossified
Advertising Department closes at !
pm. tonly Deoth Notices oecepted.I
Business Counter and Circulation De-
pertinent close ot s pm. Main teIe-
phone switchboard service ends at
8 pm.
Night service telephone numbers
ss follows: News Dept. ST. 3-507S:
Detoil Dept, ST. 3-5079.
Evening star., 1953-12-23
Program Arranged
For Soviet-lron TuIks
BY the Assoeiated Press

TEHRAN, Dec. 23.-The Soviet
Union and Iran have agreed on
an agenda for fresh talks aimed
at the settlement of financial
and border disputes between
them. A previous try was broken
off last August on the overthrow
of Premier Mohammed MosSa-
degh'S government.
The agenda was arranged yes
terday at a meeting between
Foreign Minister Abdullah En-
team and Soviet Ambassador
Anatoly Lavrentiev.
Evening star., 1953-12-23

Associate Judge Stedman
Prescott. of Montgomery County
Circuit Court, made Christmas
merrier today for 19 young cou-
Piles with adopted children.
In a day-long session in his
chambers at Rockville, the judge
Evening star., 1953-12-23
japanese Get U. S. Ship

YOKOSUKA, Japan, Dec. %
G.-The U. S. S. Bath, last of
Is patrol frigates and so landing
craft to be turned over to the
japanese under a 1850 exchange
agreement, was delivered by the
United States Navy today.
Evening star., 1953-12-23
No Beef Profiteering,
Benson Probers Declare
BY the Associated Press

The Agriculture Department
reported today it has found no
evidence Of widespread, above
normal prof1t-making by beef
and cattle professors and dis
tributors in the past two years.
The report eliminated an in
vestlgation started in September
at the direction of Secretary Of
Agriculture Benson. He said
there had been consumer and
producer complaints that beef
(See LIVING COSTS, Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1953-12-23
Cash Talks When You
Soy 1t With Flowers

BLOSSOM BUSlNESS-Woshineton
residents say II with flowers to the
tune Of $3.50 eoeh during q yeor-
more thon people anywhere else in
the Motion. The job Of furnishing oil
these flowers is O tricky one. Stor
StoH Writer Mark Roberts discusses
the florist business on poae Ais.
Evening star., 1953-12-23
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Evening star., 1953-12-23
Christmas In Church

ChriSt's birth will be commemorated
in the traditional Christmas Eve and
Christmas Day services. The plans for
these services are outlined on
Page B-1.
Evening star., 1953-12-23

(See POWs, Page A-50
Evening star., 1953-12-23

The United States probably
will send Russia a new note soon
welcoming its avowed agree
ment to atomic talks and sug-
gesting ways to get them started.
Top officials, who are still
going over Moscow's Monday
Dulles Puts Defense Of Europe SquoreIy
Up to Key Allies. Poee AS
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-03-28

Mills filed a deed for the Keys
purchase in the courthouse last
week. He bought ore third in
terest in the Cudjoe property
from Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Gold
smith, and Mrs. William Warren;
one half interest was bought for
$26, 100 from Mr.. and Mrs. Char
les Henry Wardlow, and one fifth
interest was bought by Mills from
Mrs. Lenor x. Aliens estate.
Mills will be selling off acreage
lots in the near future. He will
file his plat of the new develop
ment as soon as the survey is
completed. The company develop
ing the property, known as Cud-
joe Realty, is headed by Mills.
While this purchase was In
fhe works, Mills looked ahead
to the days when even the Keys
are cVererowded and bought Up
fhe valuable black sand beach
strip for an Undiselosed price.
This magnificent sweep of sand
on the Caribbean is on the North
coast of Isle Of Pines. Until re-
Gently there was only one estate
on the whole four mile stretch.
Now Miamians and Islanders are
putting UP their homes on Bibya-
qua, as the beach is known on
the Island.
Some II miles out from Nue.
va Corona, the only town on ihe
island, Is Santa Fe, where
Mills has Just bought the 50
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-03-28
Keys Building Boom Reflected
In Quantity Quality Of Permits
Film TheDter In
Marathon; Water
Stations Boost
Permits Volume

The building boom on the
Keys is reflected in the large
number of permits and their
size issued in February and
March by County Building
Inspector Donald Cormack.
The largest permit was
taken out by the Florida
Keys Aqueduct Commission
for $143. 900 to build pump
ing stations and ground
storage tanks, at Tayernier,
Marathon and Tslamorada.
Largest single private permit
10 the new $20.7 Maratl,on
Thsster. Herbert Wood builder
took out fhe permit. The thea
ter will seat 500 persons.
Sadowski and Son took out a
$4,000 permit for eight cos
Cottages In Little Venice sub
division, Marathon.
State Rep. Bernie c. Pspy Is
building q $4,000 house an
SvssrIoaf Key. Another build
ing permit for 10000 was is
sued to A. S1urtz who is putting
Up . house al eoltview On pig
coppitt Key.
B. r. Brothers On Little T6sch
Key has taken q $40. 900 permit
for a frame house.
]. J. Hines is building a ST. 900
CHS house at Kew Largo. r Y.
Tuttle is building a frame house
for $500 on the same Key.
NJ. and ~. Dredging C0n v
is building an s. 300 CHS bo0 2
at Seaside, Key Largo.
John Greusel is building
S.. 900 frame house az GulivieW
Big Coppitt Key.
Fred Years is building a.
s.. 900 frame house on Big Piae
Key.
Joe johnson Is building .
5000 structure on SUgssiesf
Key.
Richard p. Eushby Is build
ing . $500 cas- eestsaa 81
ssseFess Subdivision, At Mare.
then.
Lester NJ. Card - building
$500 frame hausa al Punss
brixs, Bic pine Key.
S. e. Pyle is huildien . 81 soc
frame cottage 81 GelFxiew. Big
Ceppis Key.
c r. Shinn is hs ding = s. 90
Chs house ut TayngnieF Harbog.
Charles Anderson Il making