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Evening star., 1953-03-29
Prices Show Drop
Of I Per Cent?
Three-Month Period

Prices in Washington last
month showed a z per cent drop
in a three-month period but still
were higher than they were a
year ago, according to a Bureau
of Labor Statistics report.
In the price drop from No
vember to February, foods led
with a 29 per cent decrease.
House furnishings fell off 5 per
cent as did the cost of reading
and recreation, but apparel was
up 8 per cent while solid fuels
and fuel oil rose 3.3 per cent.
Housing costs increased by 3
per cent. Cost of medical care
rose 2 per cent.
Meats Lead Decline.
One of the main fcators in
depressing food costs was a per
cent decline in meats, poultry
and fish prices. Cereals and
bakery products slipped 4 per
cent with other foods at home
dropping by 5.4 per cent under
November's figures. Lower egg
prices were the main factor in
the Sd per cent drop.
Prices of all items last month
were up total of g per cent
compared to February. 1852.
Solid fuels and fuel oil were
up 81 per cent over the 1852
figure, while gas and electricity
rose Sc per cent and housing
climbed by IL per cent during
the year. Transportation costs
rose Sc per cent while medical
care was up 2.6 per cent over
a year ago. Meat, poultry and
fish were. down SO per cent.
however.
Beer and Whisky Drop.
Lower prices for beer and
whisky caused a decline of Z
per cent since last November
in the "other goods and serv-
ices" index.
The revised consumer price
index for Washington for last
February stood at 113, calcu-
lated on the basis that the years
1947 through 1949 represented
100. The index stood 11.2 per
cent above May, 1850, before
| the Korean war.
Evening star., 1953-03-29
Mrs. Eisenhower 10 Open
Cancer Drive Wednesday

Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower,
national honorary chairman of
the 1858 Cancer Crusade, will
open the local cancer campaign
officially at a luncheon at 1915
pm. Wednesday in the Hotel
Statler.
The local society seeks $780,
600 which will be used through
out the year for research, educa-
ton and service to cancer
patients.
The welcoming address at the
luncheon will be given by DR..
Murray S. Copeland, president
of the local division of the Can
Ger Society. Entertainment will
be provided by the Navy Band.
Evening star., 1953-03-29
| Roberts Calls 6. 0.P.
To Meet April 10
lon His Successor

c. Wesley Roberts yesterday
called a meeting Of the Republi-
can National Committee here
April 10 amid growing indications,
that President Eisenhower will
handpick the new committee
chairman.
Mr.. Roberts resigned Friday
after a Kansas State legislative
committee held that he was
guilty of violating the spirit"
of the State lobbying law when
he accepted an $1,000 fee for
handling the sale of a hospital
to the State.
Mr.. Roberts charged he was
the victim of "a fierce factional
fight in Kansas State politics."
but added that "as a practical
man" he knew his value to the
Administration was finished.
In his telegram to all National
Committee members yesterday,
he called a meeting for 10 am,
April 10 at the Mayflower Hotel
"for the purpose Of accepting my
resignation and electing my sue
cesSor."
Indications that the President.
as is customary, may make plain
his choice for the craftsmanship
brought agreement from Repub-
lican leaders that it will probably
be accepted without controversy.
Taft Sees Harmony.
Senate Majority Leader Taft
predicted there won't be any
fight over the choice.
Senator Taft said he had dis
cussed some possibilities with
other Republicans, but didn't
want to mention any names be-
cause he felt that would put
the men involved in the light of
being candidates when they
might not be available at all.
Mcintyre FAIRIES, California
national committeeman, who is
serving as chairman of the
party's executive committee, was
regarded as a possible choice.
Among others about whom
there was speculation were for
mer Senators Harry Darby of
Kansas and Fred Seaton of
Nebraska. both Eisenhower sup
porters before Chicago.
Barak T. Mattingly of st.
Louis, another early Eisenhower
backer, and Surrogate Judge
Leonard w. Hall of New York
also were mentioned.
Senator Taft said he thinks
it would be all right for the
committee to name an unpaid
chairman ''if it can find some
body who doesn't have Govern
ment contracts" Mr.. Roberts
has been paid at the rate of
$3.50 year.
Executives Suggested.
When reporters brought up
the names of B. E. Hutchinson,
longtime Chrysler Motors ex-
ecutive, and President Charles
M. White of Republic Steel,
Senator Taft said he didn't be-
lleve either could be persuaded
to take the job.
The name Of r. Douglas
Stuart, Quaker Oats executive
who has served as a financial
officer of the committee, was
mentioned. But Senator Taft
said he thought Mr.. Stuart is
likely to be named Ambassador
| to Canada.
Senator Bridges of New Hamp-
Evening star., 1953-03-29
Martin Boosts Hall
For COP. Chairman
By the Assoeioted Press

GREAT NECK, N. :, Mar. %.
House Speaker Joseph w. Mar
tin, jr., speaking at a testimonial
for Surrogate Leonard w. Hall.
gave him a boost tonight as a
possible Republican National
Chairman to succeed C. Wesley
Roberts.
Mr.. Martin praised Mr.. Hall
for his IL years service as Con-
gresham. Mr.. Hall was elected
Nassau County Surrogate last
fall.
Perhaps he might come back
to leadership in Washington" "
Mr.. Martin said of the guest of
honor. There is a vacancy in
the head of great committee,
a committee of which I served
as head for two years, the Re-
publican National Committee.
II know the responsibilities of
the job. We do need him there" :"
The 100 Hall supporters at
the dinner cheered Mr.. Martins
statement.
Vice President Richard Nixon
was among the speakers.
1--WE need a strong leader" /"
Mr.. Martin said. "The election of
1854 will be a question: will
the Republicans continue to
dominate Congress- A change
would stop the great program
now being unfolded in Washing
ton"
He added:
"The Republican Party must
be strong. The Republican Ma
tional Committee must be strong
and the national chairman must
be a great leader"
Mr.. Hall is one of several men
being mentioned to succeed Mr..
| Roberts who resigned from the
Craftsmanship yesterday.
Evening star., 1953-03-29

ADVERTISEMENT.
Evening star., 1953-03-29
FOUND.

COLLIES, 2: male, ! female; found In
Montgomery County. JU. S-9447.
vic. GEORGETOWN Hospital, about 2 weeks
ago. EN-. 2-S42S.
Evening star., 1953-03-29

shire, president pro tempore of
the Senate, said he thinks John
Danaher, former Connecticut
Senator, would have strong back
ing in Congress for the chair
manShip.
However, Mr.. Danaher has
represented copper interests on
bills before Congress and might
not be regarded by some COM
mittee members as a happy
choice.
Evening star., 1953-03-29
Civil Defense Plans
Fire Truininq Proqrum

A civil defense fire training
program will get under way to-
morrow at Hains Point and East
Potomac Park.
According to Fred Literal,
acting fire chief, drills are sched-
uled throughout this week start
ing at 9 am. and l pm.
Evening star., 1953-03-29
Rail Wreck Death Toll
Hits y as Rescuers
Continue Grim Task
BY the Assoeiated Press

CONNEAUT, Ohio, Mar. o.
A grimy, red-eyed band Of rescue
workers today dug doggedly at
the twisted skeletons of 19 rail-
road coaches in search of more
victims of an unbelievable,
three-train wreck.
They have found % bodies.
A deputy coroner said he be-
lieved more bodies may be found
under cars.
The odds against the accident
were a million to one.
The trains-one freight and
two passenger f1yers-happened
to be almost exactly at the same
spot at 10 o'clock CEST) last
night.
The scene was a deSolate Sec
tion Of the New York Central
mainline in far-western pen
sylvania, one-half mile from the
Ohio line. There are four tracks.
The inner tracks are used by
passenger trains, the outer by
freight traffic.
At exactly 10 o'clock, an 49,
inch pipe 35 feet long fell from
an eastbound freight. It bent
a rail on the westbound pas
Senger tracks.
At that instant, the west
bound Buffalo-to- Chicago ex-
press came roaring past at 80
miles an hour and hit the bent
rail. The locomotive wrecked
the freight and the freight cars
spun from the tracks and, in
turn, wrecked the flyer.
In seconds, the headlight of
the eastbound Southwestern
Limited split the night, hared
briefly across the tangled wreck
age in its path and piled head
long at 80 miles an hour into
the welter of twisted steel and
broken bodies.
Quiet Was Brief.
After long, anguished seconds
Of the sound of steel on steel,
grinding and tearing itself to
pieces, quiet came. but briefly.
Screams started to come from
the coaches, strewn like a care
lessly dumped pile of fence posts.
But for a little while, the
numbed senses of the uninjured
among the 400 persons involved
in the wrecks wouldn't function.
For a few minutes, no one did
anything.
The wrecked cars, thrashing
like alligators in the rapid-f1re
impacts, had sheared off tele-
graph poles. There was no COM
munication with the rest of the
world.
A railroad man - his heart
nearly bursting-ran three miles
to carry word Of the catastrophe
and to summon outside aid.
But passengers and trainmen
alike pitched into rescue efforts
long before outside help could
come. They paved through the
mangled coaches.
About $50 passengers needed
help. More than so later were
taken to hospitals.
Used CrOwbarS and Torches.
The rescue work went on for
hours. Professional rescue men
pried with crowbars and cut
through metal with acetylene
torches. .z-,,.,-.--
Numb with shock and the
chill night, scores of survivors,
including the walking injured,
milled around the shells of the
once-pluSh trains. Then the rail-
road managed to get locomotives
and few spare cars pushed in
close to each end of the wreck
scene and the more seriously in
jured were taken to hospitals at
Conneaut, Ashtabula, O., and
Erie, Pa.
With its mainline out of serv-
ice. the NYC switched some of it's
traffic to Nickel Plate tracks
nearby. Some trains which do
not stop at Cleveland were be-
ing rerouted above Lake Erie on
the tracks of a NYC subsidiary
in Canada.
The spectacular crash was a
complete surprise to everyone on
both passenger trains, except the
engine crew of the Southwestern
LOST.
Evening star., 1953-03-29
Ban on Nurses Strikes

West Bengal. India, is consid-
ering a bill to ban strikes by
nurses, Calcutta reports.
Kodiak mirror., 1953-04-04
F0, rnes N7>idenr Browns At |. q.

W. D Bolton, A, former ko liak ifs fer nen, drowned March 9, in a fishing boat ac- cident near San Clemente Is- land. He was fishing for aba lone and the boat is believed to have overturned in a storm.
 His body was found lashed to the rail of the 42-foot vessel by another fishing boat.
 Bolton left Kodiak in the fall of 1852. He owns a house and boat here. His son, Richard Bolton, resides in Kodiak. The account of his death was pub- lished in the Los Angeles Ex- aminer.
 Bolton is also survived by a daughter, his wife and mother.
 San Clemente Island is ap- proximately 75 miles south of Los Angeles.
 Read the Classjfieds
Kodiak mirror., 1953-04-04
Girl Scout Troop Meets At Ouzinkie

Dorothy Pestrikoff was in- vested into Girl Scout Troop One of Ouzinkie at the Baptist Mission last Saturday.
 The two leaders, Miss Emma Enoch and Mrs. R. Heinrichs officiated. Other members of Troop One are Ann Ambrosia, Bertha Robin son. Reka Ambrosia, Donna Torsen, Virginia Torsen, Alma Panamarlrff, Lucinda Squarts off, Catherine Ewell, Tina Ambrosia and Alice Boskof- sky.
 The troop committee women are Mrs. A. Torsen, Mrs. T. Panamaroff and Mrs. P. Squartsoff.
 The troop meets each Satur- day afternoon. This weekend the girls are planning an Easter egg hunt.
Kodiak mirror., 1953-04-04
Arctic Trading
 Tricks Revealed

Traders operating in the Arctic around the turn of the century occasionally came out on the short end of the deal in some of their business dealings with the Eskimos, Charles Madsen told the Rotary Club Tuesday.
 Rotary Club 5533 heard the forth ot a series of tape record ings by Madsen following the regular luncheon Tuesday. Madsen told of the goods used by the Traders, which con- sisted of flour, sugar. tobacco, rifles, beads and other com- modities.
 For such goods the traders received seal, fox and polar bear skins as we'll as ivory.
 Black tusks of ivory were valued higher than the con- ventional white and yellow pieces, Madsen said. One tribe of Eskimos found that by burying the ivory in a certain lake that it would turn black after a few days.
 Madsen traded for such a piece but upon arrival at Nome, where he sold the ivory, his black piece had turned yellow. He explained that after being removed from the mud and water and ex- posed to the air the blackness disappeared.
 He told of another clever Eskimo who sewed a fox tail to an Arctic hare skin and sold it to a trader for a genuine fox skin.
 Madsen's recordings will be transcribed next year and he hopes to have them published in a book. He has written to a publishing company and has made arrangements.
 Guests attending the meet ing were Birger Nelson, Ernie i Harding, Lcdr. Don Coogan, ] John Cushing, Dick Lightfoot 1 and William Mills.
Kodiak mirror., 1953-04-04
Nc ccutcneoH Beats One Indictment

Anchorage - One of eight counts in two indictments charging Stanley McCutcheon and A. U. Hassman with breaking territorial banking laws was dismissed Monday in Third District Court.
 The dismissal of the one count came on the grounds the charge cannot be prose- cuted under the statute of lim- itations. It accused the bank CTS of making an excessive loan to the Matanuska Valley Hotel on Jan. l. 1949. The three year statute of limita- tions ran out Jan. 1, 1852, and the indictment was not re- turned until the following November.
Kodiak mirror., 1953-04-04
Pagano Named Regular Cop

Frank Pagano has been as- signed to the Kodiak Police Department as a permanent patrolman replacing Cliff Mowry who resigned.
 John Boucher has been hired as a relief patrolman taking the position vacated by Pagano.
Kodiak mirror., 1953-04-04

Philip Strand, president of Pacific Alaska Contractors, Inc., was an outgoing PIMA passenger Tuesday for Seattle.
 Pacific Alaska have a con- tract with Aleutian Homes, Inc., for the construction of roads in the proposed housing area.
Kodiak mirror., 1953-04-04

Birger Nelson, engineer for the Kodiak Bear III the past five years, arrived here last week to ready Charles Mad sens boat for the spring hunt ing season.
 Madsen is scheduled to take out his first hunting party this week.
Kodiak mirror., 1953-04-04

Al LaRose was a PNA and VIVA passenger Tuesday for Seattle. He has been employed by the CAA on Woody Island.
Kodiak mirror., 1953-04-04

The Alaska Steamship Com pany freighter Square Knot is expected to arrive in port this weekend.
Kodiak mirror., 1953-04-04
N. m. Hunters Fly To. Hunt

Three hunters from New Mexico flew a Piper Pacer' from their home state to ie- mer, Alaska, came to Kodiak via PIMA and were flown te Olga Bay for a bear hunt by Ben Canham of Bob Halls AE Service.
 The air-minded hunters wlEs hunt the big Kodiak bears with guides Morris Talifson and Bill Pinnell who have a hunting camp at Olga Bay at the site of the abandoned Alaska Packers Cannery.
Kodiak mirror., 1953-04-04

The regular meeting of the PTA will be held April g at 7::45 in the home economies building. The program will be a talk by Mrs. Dorothy Ander-. son on the Edible Foods ak Our Doorstep.
 Refreshments will be served
Evening star., 1953-09-07

of them - particularly those
concerning the creation of a
provisional velrnmen Ca
third German government to
conduct alderman elections
and do many other things be-
S1des-were obviously prepos-
ferrous, unacceptable, and not
made in good faith.
5. The Eisenhower govern
ment has the grace pointedly to
retreat from a position taken
by its predecessor, that an in
ternational committee should
canvass the Soviet zone of Ger
many to ascertain whether
conditions for free elections
exist. That proposal could not
have been made in good faith.
Conditions for free elections
can be clearly formulated, and
all that is needed to guarantee
them is agreement between the
occupying powers. Free elec-
tions have been held in Austria,
with Soviet consent, and with
correct Soviet demeanor.
6. The note is excellent in
pointing out that some of the
questions the Soviets would like
to unroll are not within the
province of the four powers but
belong to the United Nations.
Evening star., 1953-09-07
Senator Douglas and Liberalism
Questioning Of Administration Postal Rute for Periodicals
Seen Putting Him in Category He Has Condemned
Dovid Lowrence

Senator Paul Douglas of
Illinois, Democrat, would be
classed as a liberal" by men,
bers Of his party and hence
as one who condemns loose
charges and wants investigat-
ing committees-in fact, all
members of Congress-not to
indict anybody without proof
and to refrain from character
aSSassinationS a gainst any
group of citizens, whether it
be the clergy or the press.
Yet a prepared statement
just issued by the Illinois Sen
ator puts him in the very cate
CORY which he and other
liberals" have so often con-
demned-politicians who ac-
accuse without proof and who
do not hesitate to impugn the
integrity of a whole group of
citizens if it suits a political
purpose to do so. Here is
what Senator Douglas says:
''Is the administration postal
plan a payoff for the pub
fishers? 1t is fact that the
ten top magazine publishers
in the country account for
over three-fourthS of the total
volume of second-class mail,
and it is also a fact that all
ten of these publishers sup
ported the Republican ticket
in 1852.
THE previous Democratic
administration had sought to
cut their subsidies drastically
in order to protect the tax
payer. I doubt that the new
proposals are a Republican
quid pro quo, but neverthe-
less it is striking how the po-
litical philosophy of the pub
fishers comedies with their
continuing to receive hundreds
of millions of dollars in mail
ing subsidies. I think I should
add that the big newspapers
do not get much of this sub
sidy."
The innuendo in the Sem
ator's statement is plain. He
implies that the magazine
publishers are the beneficiaries
of Republican administra-
ton and perhaps were not so
benefited under a Democratic
regime. But the fact is the
Democratic Party controlled
both houses of Congress for 18
of the last 20 years.
Would it be proper now for
some Republican Senator to
Evening star., 1953-09-07

ton was moved by Russias An
drei Y. Vishinsky.
The U. N. has been consider
ing disarmament and atomic
control since 1946.
The Russians, in their latest
plan, call for an immediate one
third reduction of all ornaments
and armed forces and for pro-
hibition of all atomic weapons.
They have agreed to establish
ment of a system of interna-
tional control and inspection, to
take effect simultaneously with
the prohibition of atomic
weapons, but have never spelled
out just how this inspection
would work.
The western powers, backed
by an overwhelming majority of
the so U N members, have ad-
vocated creation Of an interna-
tional authority to own and op-
crate all atomic facilities from
the mines to the plants actually
producing atomic energy. They
have insisted that this must be
done by stages, the first step be-
ing a census of atomic weapons
and a system of verification. AS
for disarmament, the West has
insisted that the first step must
be a worldwide arms census,
carefully verified.
Evening star., 1953-09-07
Constontine Brown
GeILSLQIIHIe bYoWr-
Political Review Day for Labor
Senator Morse Says Workers Should Call Roll Of Politicians
And That Some Employers Want Pool Of Unemployed

Constantine Bro,Un is on
UGcation. His guest colun1nist
for today is Senator Wayne
Morse, Independent, of Oregon,
leader and only member of that
party IN the Senate, lDho Of
terS labor some aduice on its
day.
BY Senator Wayne Morse
The American people are to-
day celebrating Labor Day. A
few sincere speeches express
ing deserved appreciation to
American workers for the con-
tribution of their toll to the
productive power of the United
State will be made by some of
our political leaders. A greater
number of politicians will en-
gage in doubletalk on Labor
Day, tested by the differences
between what they say and
their voting record in the Con-
greSS.
1t is my suggestion that
American labor check the vot-
ing record of each Congress
Sional politician who makes a
Labor Day speech or issues a
congratulatory Labor Day
press release. Further, I would
suggest that organized labor
make Labor Day, 1858, a poll
tical review day.
A review of the sorry record
of the 83d Congress on almost
every issue of vital concern to
the American people, including
the legitimate rights of labor,
will point to the ineScapable
fact that the powerful big busi-
ness forces which presently
are dominating both the Con-
gress and the White House are
conducting selfish and greedy
crusade against the interests of
the workers, the farmers and
the small-income consumers.
Labor Day, 1858, may we'll
mark a great turning point in
American labor history. Labor
has an opportunity to make it
a unification day by serving
notice on the politicians that
Evening star., 1953-09-07
Dorothy Thompson
Dorothy Thompson
y. S. Answer to Moscow Louded
Short and o-thePont Note Four-Power German Porey
Called Refreshing Statement of Western Position

The United States answer
to the Soviet notes of August
4 and Is is excellent.
/. It is Short-hardly more
than 700 words, in refreshing
contrast to the repetitious and
confusing verboSity of the
Soviet notes.
2. 1t is diplomacy, not prop
aganda. In contrast to the
Soviet notes, it is addressed by
a government to another gov
ernment, and not to a gallery.
8. 1t ignores Soviet criticisms
of Western policy, refusing to
prolong "a sterile discussion
which can only be harmful to
the cause of peace" The
United States refrains, that is
to say, from preceding a pro-
posed meeting of the four
foreign ministers by a barrage
of psychological warfare" It
assumes that If a conference is
held, its purpose must be to
reach agreement, and it re-
frains from prejudicing that
possibility by further rolling
the waters in advance.
4. 1t is coolly courteous. The
temptation to answer the
Soviets' proposals sarcastically
must have been great, for some
Evening star., 1953-09-07

In short, this note sticks to
the issue. and does not leap
at the various bats which the
Soviet notes have attached to
many lines.
The sole issue is whether
the Soviets are prepared to
send Mr.. Molotov to sit down
at conference with the West
ern foreign ministers and seek
a solution of the German ques-
ton and a peace treaty with
Austria.
The Soviets themselves pro-
posed such a conference
Though between the heads of
states) over a year ago; the
Soviets themselves proposed
that such a conference should
chiefly confine itself to the
German question.
At that time, the lame and
evasive American answer Gre
ated the impression that the
Soviets were trying to obtain
a settlement while the United
States was rejecting every
thing except unconditional
surrender.
The latest Soviet notes sug-
gest a reversal. This time the
Russians appear to be de-
manding the surrender Of the
Evening star., 1953-09-07

whole Western policy as the
price of peace" But, happily,
whoever framed this note
and the British, French and
West Germans all collaborated
depressed the temptation to
indulge in righteous indigna-
ton, renewing the invitation
to discuss the situation, while
suspending mutual recrimina-
tions in the form of diplo-
matte exchanges.
If, now, the Russians re-
fuse a conference, or continue
to dictate it's outcome in ad-
vance, their peace propaganda
will be exposed as patiently
fraudulent.
Some commenta tors have de-
scribed the United States note
as weak" and even tired"
I submit that shouting at the
top of ones lungs is oftener
a sign of fear and hysteria
than of strength.
Strength is calm, sovereign,
and reasonable. The United
States note does, indeed, imply
that the West is tired of
double-t talk, but not to the
point of losing patience and
poise.
Its tone is superior, without
being loud, smart-alec, or over
bearing.
And calm superiority is the
proper posture of a great
power.