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Evening star., 1953-08-16
By IsobeIIe Shelton

Life is pretty exciting these
days for an attractive young
New Yorker of 81, who since her
arrival in Washington last Janu-
ary has met just about all the
important perSonages in town,
including many world figures
who have come to visit.
The fortunate young lady is
Miss Eleanor Lansing Thomas,
a lively, intelligent miss with
gray eyes and short, curly brown
hair, whose friends call her Ellie.
She is a distant cousin of Secre-
tary of State John Foster Dulles.
and she came to Washington
with the new administration to
serve as Mrs. Dulles social sec
retary.
The title doesn't begin to sug-
gest the scope of her duties.
which are as varied and as un-
predictable as the demands on
the time of a high official family.
They have included such tasks
as playing canasta with Mamie
Eisenhower, filling in as the fifth
member at a private Dulles din
ner party for Vice President
Nixon and Gov. Dewey of New
York, riding around to Embassies
in a chauffeur-driven Cadillac
limousine delivering calling cards
for Mrs. Dulles, and shopping for
gifts for the Secretary to present
to foreign leaders on his world
travels.
What an evening"" she says
of the Dewey-Nixon dinner.
Nixon lighting my cigarettes
on one side and Dewey on the
other. My ears were just Tapping
all evening. But I have to re-
member that I'm not just Ellie
Thomas any more. I can't run
around and tell all my friends
what Nixon said"
Conosto With Monte
The canaSta session with Mrs.
Eisenhower took place one day
at the Dulles house. Mrs. Dulles,
no great enthusiast for the game
herself. thoughtfully provided
foursome so that Mrs. Eisen-
hover could indulge in her IA
vorite pastime. The other play
ers were Mrs. George M. Hum
phrey. Mrs. Herman Phleger and
Mrs. Thomas C. Kinkaid. When
Mrs. Humphrey had to leave
early, Ellie filled in.
The First Lady was "just
absolutely delightful" reports
Miss Thomas. 1.-THE very best
thing about her is that she
makes you forget she is First
Lady. Just to be with her
assures you a light. jolly time.
We just giggled and had fun"
More prosaically. the young
social secretary also pays the
Dulleses' household bills and ar
ranges with a caterer for the
Secretary's frequent formal din
ner parties. (The Dulleses prefer
to give these in their home when
ever possible, but the kitchen is
not large enough for on-the-
scene preparation of the food0
She also handles Cousin jan
cts" correspondence, helps her
keep up voluminous clipping files,
and does routine shopping chores
Evening star., 1953-08-16
half of Winston Churchill's cam

half of Winston Churchill's cam
paign.
Finding herself entranced with
politics, she decided to come
home and pitch in for Gen. Eli
Senhower. whom I admired tre-
mendously." She worked at the
Citizens for Eisenhower head
quarters lin charge of the speak
ers' bureaU until after the con-
vention, spent the rest of the
campaign at New York State Re-
publican headquarters doing re-
search and writing speeches.
She was still trying to get over
the heady excitement of victory
when Mrs. Dulles phoned her one
day to ask if she would like to
go TO Washington as her social
secretary. "She told me I could
have a week to make up my
mind" says Ellie, "but I knew
by the time I hung up the phone
what was going to say"
Evening star., 1953-08-16

Fechtelers will stop off in Lon
don on their way to Italy.
Present at yesterdays party
from the Defense Department
were the Secretary and Mrs.
Charles E. Wilson. the new
chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
new Chief of Staff Of the Army
and Mrs. Ridgway. Both Admiral
Radford and Gen. Ridgway were
sworn into their jobs yesterday
Others were the former chair
man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
and Mrs. Bradley, former Chief
OF Staff of the Army and Mrs.
Collins, Admiral and Mrs,
Carney, Chief of Staff for the
Air Force and Mrs. Twining and
Commandant of the Marine
Corps and Mrs. Shepherd.
Expected from the cabinet
were Attorney General and Mrs.
Brownell. Secretary of Labor
and Mrs. Durkin, Secretary of
Welfare Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby
and Secretary of the Army and
Mrs. Stevens.
Among the diplomats who said
they would drop by were the
Arg gen tine Ambassador and
Sonora de Paz, Chinese Ambas-
sador DR.. Wellington Koo, the
Greek envoy. the Indian AM
basSador and Mrs. Mehta and
the Ambassador from Israel and
Mrs. Eban.
Others were the Korean Am
bassador, DR.. Yang; the Liberian
envoy, the Ambassador from
Paraguay and Sonora de Boatt-
ner, the Portuguese Ambassador
and the Thailand Ambassador
and Nine. SaraSin.
Evening star., 1953-08-16
Social Secretory's
Life Gay, Exciting
Ellie Thomas, Who Does Social Chores
For Mrs. Dulles, Meets World Leaders

for both DulleSeS, including pur-
chasing socks and an endless
supply of mystery stories for
Cousin Foster"
Her Office in the Dulleses' spa
cious Norman-style home on
Thirty second street is in the
un-f1ooded, air-conditioned Ii
brary whose broad expanse of
windows look out over Rock
Greek Park.
Except when Mrs. Dulles has
a luncheon engagement the two
women lunch together in the
large, beautifully-appointed din
ing room on the terrace, which
also overlooks Rock Creek Park.
Secretary Dulles joins them
whenever his State Department
duties permit.
An Education, Too
The library also houses the
cream of Mr.. Dulles carefully
chosen volumes on world affairs.
and on dull days (Such as now,
when the social season is prac-
tically at standstill) Miss
Thomas browseS among them.
"It's pretty wonderful to have
a job that's such fun you feel
you should pay to work there
instead of getting paid. It's even
better when you get an educa-
ton at the same time" she says
delightedly.
Meeting and talking to United
States and world leaders is a
wonderful education all in itself,
the young New Yorker added.
At one or another of the teas
and predinner cocktail parties
at the Secretary of States she
has chatted with most of the
Ambassadors to Washington.
the two Undersecretaries and
most of the Assistant Secre-
taries Of State and many mem
bers of Congress, in addition to
visiting foreigners like French
Foreign Minister Bidault and
the Acting British Foreign Sec
retary. Lord Salisbury.
Normally hers is a 9-to-5 job
Monday through Friday. But on
the evenings when the Dulleses
plan to entertain she goes home
to her small Slickly-modern
apartment at the Dupont Plaza
to rest and change her clothes,
arriving back at her employers
in time to give the dinner table
a final check and set around
the place cards.
She always stays on for the
cocktail hour, to meet the IA
nous guests, then leaves, usually
to dine with any one of several
young men who are currently
keeping her evenings busy.
Her presence, properly dressed
for the evening, relieves Mrs.
Dulles of the hostess constant
nightmare-the possibility that
one of the guests at her care
fully planned dinners may have
to drop out at the last minute.
I'm there in case some one
should faint" she sums it up.
So far, no one has.
The arrangement Of the seat
ing chart for dinner, strictly &C
cording to rank, of course, is
mot too hard, really" says the
social secretary. I'VE are al
ways careful not to invite too
many people with the same rank
Evening star., 1953-08-16
Miss Baldwin
Is ENGAGED

Mr.. and Mrs. J. Hicks Baldwin
announce the engagement of
their daughter Mary to Mr.. Al-
Ian R. Broadhurst, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Roscoe v. Broadhurst
of Bethesda, Md.
Miss Baldwin received her
ABB. degree from Allegheny Col
lege. The bridegroom-ele is
completing his senior year at
Denison University.
Evening star., 1953-08-16
SPORTS JACKETS

cotton sotin, with long sleeves, by Bri-
eonce, were l4.o5 7.44
Beau BrummeII striped blazers, by John
Miller, we're 1875 s.S8
eoIico-lined broid-bound denims, by
John MILLER, were 22.o5 1888
Evening star., 1953-10-31
BY the Associated Press

CINCINNATI, Oct. 31.-A 30
year-old former Army private
who duped doctors and hospitals
in eight States with his pose
as an experienced physician will
serve the next three years in
Jail.
His fantastic story unfolded
yesterday after he pleaded guilty
in Federal Court to charges of
misrepresenting himself as a
doctor to Army officials.
He is Harold K. Rain, who
used the name of DR.. Samuel
P. Hall in performing scores of
operations. The Federal Bureau
of Investigation arrested him
September 9 after he asked a
magazine editor if the publica-
tion would be interested in buy
ing the story of the masquerade.
Rain said he went to the Uni
verSity of Chicago as pre-
medical student and attended
lectures. too, at the University
OF Illinois School of Medicine
and Cook County Hospital. His
claims could not be verified.
Rain continued:
After his training" a medi-
cal placement agency referred
him to the Inland Lime g. Stone
Evening star., 1953-10-31
Milk Strike Settled
In New York Area;
Workers Get Raise
Six-Duy WoIkout Ended;
Slightly Higher Prices
For Consumers Seen
BY the Asseeioted Press

NEW YORK, Oct. 31.-After
lengthy negotiation, a six-day
milk strike in the New York-New
Jersey metropolitan area was
settled today. bringing employees
higher wages and the regions IL
million inhabitants the prospect
of higher prices.
Dealers said huge tank trucks
already were heading from coun-
try farms toward the milk
starved area with the fresh fluid
milk. They said it should start
coming out of processing plants
for distribution to stores and
homes at about l pm.
Actually, however. the first load
of processed milk moved from a
Sheffield Farms plant in the
Bronx at 9:15 am.
$3.50 a Week Boost.
Samuel j. Cohen, attorney for
the AFL international Broth
erhood of Teamsters, said the
200 companies involved in the
dispute had granted a package
increase amounting to about
$3.50 a week. The attorney said
the actual wage increase is Sc.
The two-year contract also con-
tains fringe benefits and other
improvements, negotiators said.
Wages now range from $82 to
$125 a week.
Irving r. Wisch. chairman of
the industry negotiating COM
mittee. said he does not believe
the retail and wholesale prices
of milk will increase "aS much
as one cent a quart" as a result
of the dispute.
He said he would guess off,
hand, without studying it, the
price increase will be one half
a cent per quart wholesale and
retail"
The agreement ending the
strike of 10000 drivers and plant
workers was hammered out in
a 13-hour, all-night session in
City Hall.
Area Completely Dry.
Company officials warned
that the area, which normally
uses S million quarts of milk
a day, was completely dry. They
said that it therefore would be
at least "a hours before the
firms can be operating at suffi-
cient capacity to meet all de-
lnandS.
Mayor Vincent R. Impellitteri
got the regular negotiators to-
gether at City Hall late yester-
day after threatening to lock
them in until the, walkout was
settled. He did not carry out
the threat, however, although a
police guard had instructions to
keep newsmen away from the
negotiatorS.
Mr.. Impellitteri remained at
City Hall until midnight.
Evening star., 1953-10-31
Soldier Gets IS Years
For Aiding Soviet Agents
BY the Asseeie.ed Pres.

BERLIN, Oct. 31.-A United
States military court sentenced
an American Army private to
Is years at hard labor today
after he admitted working with
Soviet secret police agents to
obtain information in the United
States zone of Germany.
The soldier, Robert w. Dorey.
20, of Somerville, Mass. pleaded
guilty to violating the Smith
Act by affiliating himself with
the Russian and East German
secret police. He surrendered to
Army agents in West Berlin last
August 81 after II months in
the Soviet zone.
In admitting he worked with
the Communist police. Dorey
said. 1T wasn't voluntary on my
part" He contended the Rus
slams threatened his life and
also those of his mother. his two
sisters and his two brothers If
he failed to Cooperate"
Evening star., 1953-10-31
Neutra|s Deny Reds
Violated Plane Truce
By the Assoeiated Pres.

PANMUNJOM. Oct. 31.-A
neutral nations inspection team
said today it found mo evidence
whatsoever" that the Com
munists had violated the armis-
tice agreement by shipping
Grated combat planes from Man
churia to a North Korea air.
base at Uiju.
The report was signed by
Czech, Polish, Swiss and Swedish
members of the team which the
Neutral Nations Supervisory
Commission sent to Uiju to make
an investigation:
The probe was ordered after
the U. N. command protested
that the Communists were NOV
ing warplanes into North Korea
in violation of truce terms which
permit only the replacement of
worn-out combat craft,
The chief of South Korea S
Air Force, 1t. Gen. Choi Yong
Duk, said, Yesterday in Tokyo
that the Reds have moved 400
fighter planes into North Korea
in violation of the armistice. He
said the planes are based at 80
newly repaired airfields.
The report was made at a
21a hour session of the Military
Armistice Commission today.
Evening star., 1953-10-31
MaIik Declares U.S..
Fans War Hysteria
To Raise Arms Funds
Tells U. N. Our Atrocity
Charges Are Aimed at
Larger Appropriation
BY the Associated Press

UNITED NATIONS, N. Y, Oct.
31.-Russia's Jacob A. Malik de-
clared today that the new United
States atrocity charges were
part Of a campaign to step up
war hysteria and thus justify in
creased expenditures for arms.
Mr.. Malik told the United Ma
tions Assembly's 60-nation Polit-
ical Committee that United
States officials do not want a re-
Taxation of world tension. He
spoke after DR.. Charles w. Mayo.
United States delegate. men
toned yesterdays statement by
Maj. Gen, William Dean, who
said he had considered suicide
while a prisoner of war because
he feared he might be forced to
disclose secrets.
Dean has been free for some
time now" Mr.. Malik said. "Why
did the press have to come up
with that statement today and
why did the American delegate
have to bring it up? Because
they don't want a relaxation of
tension. They want to step up
the cold war and war hySteria.
Germ Debate Nears End.
Mr.. Malik spoke as the Political
Committee neared the end of its
debate on germ warfare. The
United States already has asked
the Assembly to take up as a
separate question the Army's
report of Communist atrocities
in Korea in which the United
States charges almost 10000
were killed, including more than
5000 Americans.
Mr.. Malik said he had read
in the United States press that
the whole story of the "so-called
atrocities in Korea was brought
out to step up the arms race"
Dr.. Mayo led off this morn
lng's germ warfare debate by
repeating United States charges
that the Russians ran a torture
center in Korea to wiring germ
warfare confessions" from cap
tured American airmen.
Mr.. Malik again denied the
charge
Voting on Two Resolutions.
The balloting was on two reso-
lutionS:
/. Russia's demand for an AS
Sembly call to all nations which
have not done so to ratify the
1925 Geneva convention against
meteorological warfare. This was
aimed at the United States
which has refused to ratify it,
(See U. NJ. Page A-20
Evening star., 1953-10-31
Housewife Parachufes
26,5OO Feet From Plane
By the Asseeiated Press

BAKERSFIELD. Calf, Oct.
31.-A 29-year-old housewife to-
day claims an unofficial United
States altitude Jump record for
women after parachuting from
26.500 feet.
1T was a real thrill" said
Mrs Clara Pichardo-Hyers of
Los Angeles. formerly of the
Dominican Republic, after land
ing in a cotton field five miles
southeast of here yesterday.
Her husband, Harry, a ships
purser. said he was strongly
against the jump but added:
"She made the preparations
while l was at sea-"
Mrs. Pichardo-Hyer dropped
$4,000 feet from a five-place
plane before opening here para
chute.
Associates said she bettered
the United States women'S alti-
tude Jump mark by $500 feet.
The record is 10000 feet and is
held by a Russian. they added.
Evening star., 1953-10-31
BY John A. Giles

DR.. Charles Mayo, world
famous surgeon and U. N. dele
gate, may be asked by the De-
tense Department to help it
decide what to do in the case of
former military prisoners in
Korea who co-operated with
their Communist captors or gave
false germ warfare confessions.
The Soul-searching effort to
establish some sort of principle
to be used in the POW cases
came IN the wake of release last
night Of films explaining the
mental and physical torture used
by the Reds to extort "con-
fessions" of germ warfare from
Is flyers while they were held
captive.
In a far-f1ung examination of
all aspects of the intricate prob
lem, the Pentagon is exploring
the cases of five airmen who re-
sisted the Communists as well as
10 ex-priSoners from whom their
captors wrung false confessions.
DR.. Mayo'S recent presentation
to the U. N. of a most detailed
and scientific explanation of Red
means of eXtorting confessions"
led to the suggestion that he
would be of invaluable help to
the military in coming TO a de-
ciSion.
The filmed statements of the
Is men-Which runs four hours
and was released to television
and newsreel companies-were
made with American interroga-
tors upon the prisoners return.
In addition to these American
recordings there were four films
made by the Reds Of "confes-
Evening star., 1953-10-31
in Haunted House
Gang Of Teen-Agers
Seized in Warrenton
Two Accused Of HoIdup
Attempt; Mystery Of Two
Missing Girls Solved

Seven members of a teen-age
gang that operated in Alexandria
and Arlington, using a haunted
house" as a headquarters, were
taken in custody last night at
Warrenton, Va.
Two of the boys are charged
with attempted armed robbery
and two other boys are being held
on warrants accusing them of
contributing to the delinquency
of minors.
The arrests solved the mystery
of the whereabouts of two IA
year-old girls being sought by
Arlington police.
The girls, first reported to be
13, were last seen Thursday
night in the company of three
boys who were believed to be
planning holdup.
All were members of the
Haunted House Gang" who
met at night in boarded-up
house near the Arlandria shop
ping center on Mount Vernon
avenue in Alexandria, police
said. The boys would go out
on foray and the girls would
wait until the boys returned
with a stolen car; then they
would all get in the car and
race" police said.
Secret Pledge Required.
Members were required to take
some sort of secret pledge,
police said after questioning the
group at Warrenton last night.
One of the gang would tell
police about an incident, but
when other members of the group
were called in, all would present
contemplate attitude" State
police said, and would refuse to
cooperate with law enforcement
officers.
Arlington and Alexandria po-
lice said they would queS-
ton the youths today about
other incidents in which juve-
niles have been suspected OF
break-ins and thefts.
But commemorative Attorney
Charles G. Stone of Fauquier
County made it clear today that
he is not going to relinquish GUS
tody of the two boys charged
with attempted armed robbery.
The same pair is charged with
possession of a stolen auto, a We
hicle Arlington police said was
stolen Thursday on Columbia
pike.
The other five were brought tn
the Arlington police station fer
questioning.
Mr.. Stone said the three girls
and two boys rode the car stolen
from Columbia pike down to
Fauquier County early yesterday
morning.
Frightened Away by Customer.
About 2 pm. he said, the boys
left the girls IN the woods and
headed for Halfway, Va. between
The Plains and Middleburg
Using a % rifle, he said they
went into Charlie CornWell'S
store and told Mrs. Ethel Cock
rell, who was in charge of the
store, that it was a stickup. She
argued with them for a while and
when a customer entered. they
went away, he reported. /
Mr.. Stone said the boys, one |
(See GANG, Page A-2D
Evening star., 1953-10-31
Court Kills Chance
OF Boxing Match
For Title of Mayor
BY the Asseeia,ed Press

MANILA. Oct. 3l.-The Phil
ippines Supreme Court has final
ly killed any chance of boxing
bout for the title of mayor of
Cebu, the islands second largest
city.
The court yesterday reversed
an order by President Elpidio
Quirino replacing Mayor Jose
M. Rodriguez with Vincent del
Rosario. 1t said there was in
sufficient cause for his dismissal.
A long legal battle followed
Mr.. Quirino'S original order. At
one point the claimants chal-
lenged each other to a ring
match to settle the issue, but it
never was held.
Evening star., 1953-10-31
EXCL Who Posed as Doctor
In 8 States Gets 3-Yedr Term
Won Experts Reputation Until Arrest
After Trying to Sell Story to Magazine

Co. of Manistee, Mich. as COM
pany doctor.
From there he went to Mis-
sissippi, Arkansas and st. Louis,
Mo-, where he worked in a Sani-
tarium for four months.
First Major Surgery.
He became a resident physi-
clan at Camden-Clark Hospital
in 1947 at Parkersburg, w. Va.
Here he performed his first ma
jor surgery unassisted. Here,
too. he married a nurse.
They had three children. The
couple was divorced and he re-
married the day after the de-
cree.
From West Virginia Rain
moved to Ravenna, Ohio. He
was resident physician at Port
age County Hospital from Octo-
ber. 1947. to July. 1948. On the
move once more, he went to a
clinic at Stephensville, Tex. Here
he acquired a reputation as a
specialist in obstetrics and
gynecology.
But the State Medical Board
caught up with him and fined
him $50 for practicing without
license.
Undaunted, the dark-haired
and scholarly looking Rain
asked an ex-patient for a po-
sition as company physician in
San Antonio, Tex.
Accepted by Army.
'Dr. Hall" then applied to the
Army at Fort Sam Houston and
got accepted as contract ply
sician. This was the job that
got him into difficulties with the
Federal authorities.
But the law had not caught
up with him yet. He became a
staff member of the Olney. ILL.,,
sanitarium clinic at $1,000 a
month. An operation there on
Mrs. Alberta Gross was "close to
fatal" said Judge John H.
Druffel.
you realize you have taken
the lives of many people in your
hands," the judge lectured Rain.
you realize you are a menace
to the public. 1t is fortunate
for you you are not up for man
slaughter"
When he was arrested in Gin
cinnati, Rain explained his BIZ
zarre career by saying his
mothers dying wish was that he
become a doctor.
However. the court was told
his mother was still living.
Evening star., 1953-10-31
Electric Saws Used to Free
Woman Pinned Beneath Truck

Firemen using electric saws
and jacks worked for an hour
early this morning to free a
woman trapped in the cab of an
overturned truck.
In fair condition at Emergen-
cy Hospital was Mrs. Evelyn Da-
Wis, 20. colored, of Elizabeth City.
N. C. Her husband, Willie Davis
%. also was admitted with a
fractured leg.
According to police Mr.. Davis
tlat-bed truck overturned at Q
am. when he failed to make a
turn onto K street NV. at the
bottom Of q steep hill on Wis
Evening star., 1953-10-31

conSin avenue. Mr.. Davis told
police that when he applied his
brakes they failed. The truck
crossed K street and rolled over
in the railroad siding near the
Georgetown Channel.
A smaller pickup truck which
was loaded on Mr.. Davis truck
was thrown off and skidded to
within 10 feet of the seawall.
Mr.. Davis was thrown clear when
his truck struck a utility pole.
No charges were placed
against Mr.. Davis. He told police
that the brakes on his truck had
been worked on only hours be-
fore the accident.
Evening star., 1953-10-31
Our Church Music
Is in q Bad WAY

CONSOLE TO PULPlT-somethins
is wrong with church music. thought
Dr. Beverdee, musicion for u
yeors. So he joined the church min
istry 10 find out. Harriet Griffiths
tells his story on pose AS.
GHOST HISToRY-HoIloween is os
old os the hills. Where ghosts,
witches and jock o'Ionterns come from
IS told by Horry Bocos on pose A.
Evening star., 1953-10-31
Ridewoy Heads Home
After Far East Tour

TOKYO, Oct. 31.-Gen. Mat
thew B. Ridgway, United States
Army Chief of Staff, left for
the United States this afternoon
after inspecting military facili-
ties in the Far East.
Gen. Ridgway's route was not
disclosed but last week the Army
said in Washington he would
stop in Alaska to inspect Army
installations.
The former 9th Army U. N.
commander here arrived from
the United States last Tuesday
and spent two days touring Ko-
rea.