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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-04-11
COP. Ball Team, Beoten72-5
Hopes for Revenge in June

and a pretty girl in a bathing
suit presented the hitter with
a watch at second base.
Besides Wheeler, Representa-
tives Mendel Rivers, Democrat
of South Carolina, and Harlan
C. Hagen, Republican, of Min
nesota, got this special treat
ment. Rivers made the only
outfleld catch, too.
Umpires zeke Bonura, Jimmy
BloodWorth and Ed Levy, all
former major league players,
borrowed rule from the con-
gressmen in making their de-
ciSions. In case of a dispute,
the umpire counted the number
of protesters from each team
and decided in favor of the ma
jority.
This gave the Democrats an
advantage. They had "a in
uniform to the Republicans 10.
The Democrats got IL hits off
Representatives Osterta G
IN. ", Bates (Mass.) and Ayers
(Ohio).
But Representative C.. w.
Bishop of Illinois, manager of
the Republicans, said it will be
different when Representative
Glenn Davis of Wisconsin, is
available to pitch in June.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-04-11
Lost Boy, 4, Traced to Home
Through PoIicemon's Memory
Child Discovered
Roaming Streets
About Midniqht

Midnight was no time for a
blond. blue-eyed 4-year-old to
be roaming the streets.
So little Bobby Childs finished
part of the night at the Women's
Bureau and the rest sleeping
peacefully at the Receiving
Home.
Bobby was Shivering at Four
tenth and Irving streets NV,
clad only in blue jeans and
sweater, when P F. O'Brien OF
1851 Hobart street NV, hap
pened to see him.
Bobby wasn't sure where he
lived and said his mother WASH t
home. 1t wasn't until Pvt. John
Levandoski reported for duty at
the 10th precinct today that he
recognized the name and re-
membered Bobby was missing
another time, about two months
ago.
Meanwhile. the boy could tell
police only that his fathers
name was Bobby and his
mothers Virginia.
Finally, about 4:30 am, they
bundled a sleepy and tired Bob
by off to the Receiving Home
for q long sleep in a private
room, and a good breakfast on
arising late.
Police said Bobby lives at 1903
Fairmont street NV, about five
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-04-11
High Commission Waiting
| In Row Over DISCHARGE
BY The Associated Press

BONN. Germany, April IL
The United States high COM
mission took a wait-and-see at
titude today on the statement
of a discharged official that he
would continue to report for
work and stay in his Govern
ment-owned apartment.
j. M. Franckenstein, an Off
cial of the commissions infor-
nation division, claims he cannot
be discharged because he is a
veteran of the armed forces and
holds seniority to four other per-
sons in his office. He is the hus-
band of Magazine Writer Kay
Boyle.
Mr.. Franckenstein said "the
attempt to dismiss me is only a
subterfuge in order to avoid
passing upon my loyalty"
The high commission says Mr.
Franckenstein was dismissed as
an economy move and not fo1
security reasons. Officials said
he was given notice his job here
would end May 8 and 1--WE GER
tainly expect him to report fol-
work until then"
Meanwhile, many other high
commission officials are being
discharged in an economy move
BY July l, the staff will be re-
duced to about $50 Americans
and $500 Germans. This in
wolves firing 81 Americans ano
1853 Germans.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-04-11
Newark Mayor Accused
Of Getting Extortion Cash
BY The Associated Press

NEWARK. N. j., April IL
Mayor Ralph Villain has been
accused of receiving thousands
of dollars extorted from city
employees in a presentment by
the Essex County grand jury.
Top officials of Villains de-
partment of parks and public
property, including the Mayors
brother, James. were named as
the actual collectors of the
money.
The grand jury said only the
two-year statute of limitations
saved number of officials from
indictment on the charges. This
was taken to mean that the al
legged eXtortionS were halted
some time ago.
A presentment is a report of
a grand jury on conditions
which it may feel to be unsavory
and in need of a public airing,
but in which it feels no indicta-
BILE offense has been committed.
It provides for no punishment
or further legal action.
The presentment bristled with
criticisms of all five of Newark's
city commissioners, now engaged
in a campaign for reelection,
and said Mayor VILLAIN was
guilty of "a violation of a public
trust"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-04-11
RiverdaIe Man Held
In Attack on Girl in Car

An 18-year-old Alexandria girl
who left birthday party early
today because of "unwelcome at
tentions," accepted a ride from
a man who was arrested later
and charged with attacking her.
Held without bond in HyattS-
vile Jail after the incident was
Alfred M. Hicks, %, a Riverdale
carpenter. He was charged with
assault with intent to rape, and
assault and battery.
Police said the girl left a tav-
ern party in Colmar Manor
about 3 o'clock this morning and
was looking for a cab or bus.
Hicks drove by, said he was
going to Alexandria and offered
her a ride, police said.
Police pvts. Joseph E. Thorn
berry and Edmund w. Rupert,
on routine patrol, saw Hicks
auto parked at Lanham speed
way. They said the girl had no
idea she had been driven three
and one-half miles in the wrong
direction.
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Sabres Bag ; MICS,
Reds Drive R0Ks
Off Strategic Hill
BY the Associated Press

SEOUL, April 11.-Sabre Jets
blasted three Communist MICS
out of the North Korean sky in
swirling air battle shortly before
dusk today, the 5th Air Force an
nounced.
Three other MICS were re-
ported damaged, but the claims
haven't yet been confirmed by
gun camera films.
On the ground, two Chinese
Communist companies, about $50
men, drove tough South Korean
infantrymen off shell pitted
Texas Hill. the central front peak
which has changed hands nine
times in the past week.
South Korean defenders of
Texas Hill hurled two counter
attacks against the key knob
after dawn but both were beaten
back, an 9Th Army briefing Off
Ger said. The second attack car
ried the South Koreans to the
top, but Is minutes later they
were forced to pull back.
Only Major Land Action.
The Chinese attacked with
burp guns, hand grenades, NOR
tar and artillery less than IL
hours after losing the hill in the
furious see-saW battle which has
ragged almost continuously since
Sunday.
The Texas Hill fight was the
only major action along the
155-mile battle front as negotia-
tors in Panmunjom signed an
agreement for exchanging sick
and wounded prisoners which
could pave the way to a Korean
truce.
Last night, B-29s from Oki-
4ld w a bOI1lOCO a 41O-oSIC NOII1-
muniSt supply dump near Sin
anju, leaving it mass of flames.
The dump had been left I'M
touched for weeks while the
Reds stocked it with valuable
war materiel.
Supply Areas Bombed.
Other United Nations war;
planes struck troop and supply
areas elsewhere in North Korea.
Four U. N. planes were lost
behind enemy lines during the
past week. One of the four
the first United States Sabre jet
lost in air combat since March
13-was piloted by a double MIG
ace, Capt. Harold Fischer, jr.,
of SWea City, Iowa. He failed
to return from his 10th combat
mission Tuesday and the Com
munist radio has said he was
captured after parachuting from
his crippled plane.
The other three planes-an
Australian Meteor jet, an F-84
Thunderjet and a Sabre-Were
lost to Red ground fire.
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LOST Since September,
Man Found Dead in Mud

The body of a man found on
the Anacostia mud fats yeSter-
day has been identified as James
H. Robinson, ST., IS, colored, of
606 Third street NV, missing
since last September.
Identification was made by
DR.. Eddie P. Lee of the Howard
University Dental School through
a plate he made for Mr.. Robin
son three years ago. The body
was found by William r. Coates,
81, colored, of 1926 Division ave-
nue. NE. Death was attributed
to natural causes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-04-11
By the Associated Press

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla, April
lit will be different in June,
the Republicans said after los
ing to the Democrats, 1875, in a
congressional exhibition baseball
game here last night.
But if the G. o. P. wants to
turn the tide in the baseball
series when they play the annual
game for the Evening Stars
Summer Camp Fund in Wash
ington June 5, the best way is to
get Representative w. M. Fire
balD Wheeler, Democrat, of
Georgia, out of Congress.
Wheeler pitched all the way
in the five inning game and gave
up only five hits when practically
any fly ball to the outfield was a
base hit. He struck out seven.
And he hit a double-one of
three extra base hits in the
game.
1t took an hour and a half
to play the five innings. That
was because of frequent filibust-
erS, appeals to the rules COM
mittee and an extra special treat
for any congressman to get more
than a single.
On the rare occasion of the
extra base hit, play was stopped
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-04-11
Wu's Resignation as Head
Of Formosa Accepted

TAIPEH, Formosa, April IL
The Chinese Nationalist govern
ment last night accepted the res
ignation of K. C. WI as governor
of Formosa and appointed O. K
Yui to succeed him.
Yui is a prominent banker and
former finance minister.
The action by President Chi
ang Kai-shek's cabinet followed
by less than "a hours a vote by
the ruling Kuomintang party to
accept Wu'S resignation.
WI remains in the cabinet as
a minister without portfolio.
Wu's resignation climaxed a
long series of disputes with Ma
tionalist authorities on economic
financial and other matters.
Yui is governor of the Gen.
trail Bank of China and chair
man of the board of the Bank
of TaiWan (FormoSa).
Some observers predicted WI
eventually might be sent to
Washington to replace Yelling
ton Koo as ambassador.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-04-11
Killed 7 Who Caught Him
In Robbery, Man Admits
BY the Associated Press

GRAND HAVEN. Mich. April
IA 25-year-old former mental
patient early today confessed the
brutal Staying of a 22-year-old
Robinson Township farmer and
his 19-year-old wife who sur
prised him in the act of robbing
their home last night.
State police said Harold Greg
Dry, farm worker here, admitted
the Sayings of Andrew Kuntz
and his wife Ethel, shortly after
his capture on the farm of Ber-
nard Corbett, a quarter Of a mile
from the scene of the Sayings.
Kuntz, according to Ottawa
County Sheriff Gerald Wander
beck who discovered the bodies
of the slain pair, had been
blasted to death by shotgun.
His wife had been stabbed.
Sheriff Vanderbeck said there
was evidence that Mrs. Kuntz
had been raped before being
killed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-04-11
Kidric, Close Associate
Of Tito, Dies Of Leukemia
By the Associated Press

BELGRADE. Yugoslavia, April
11.-Boris Kidric, 40, boss OF
Yugoslavia's economic program
and close associate of President
Tito, died today.
Mr.. Kidric, a member of the
powerful Federal Executive
Council, had been ill of leuke-
mia since November. At the re-
quest of Marshal Tito, specialists
from Britain and Denmark were
called here to treat him.
Mr.. Kidric had the tough task
of housekeeping for a country
with a lean larder and little
ready cash. He took over the
job of economic car at the end
of the war when the country's
industry was devastated and its
agriculture gone to seed. At first
he geared the nation to fit the
Soviet economy, then, when
Marshal Tito broke with the
Kremlin, he had to switch sig
nails and divert Yugoslavia S
channels of commerce from east
to west.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-04-11
FIemming Denies Back Pay
To Three Rent Officials
By the Associated Press


Three officials of the Office
of Rent Sterilization have lost
their appeal after being sus-
pended in connection with a plan
to give lump-Sum leave pay
ments to SO employees.
Arthur Flemming, acting mo-
bilization director, turned down
their application for restoration
to duty with back pay, but left
open the question whether they
will be restored to duty at all.
That decision will be made by
William G. Barr. acting rent
sterilization director, who orig
inally suspended them.
The officials are Edwin D.
Dupree, jr.. general counsel;
John j. Madigan, deputy direc-
tor in charge of administration,
and Linda A. Matteo, personnel
director.
The leave pay device. called a
gross improperly" by Mr.. Flem-
ming, involved employees resign
ing, collecting in cash accumu-
lated credit for annual leave
time, then Immediately being re-
hired as temporary employees.
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Girl Taking Rabies Shots
On Failure 10 Locate Doq

An 8-year-old Washington girl
had to start taking rabies shots
today because the dog that bit
her cannot be located.
Barbara Oder, 8, daughter of
Mrs. Frederick Oder of 434
Orange street Sc, was bitten on
the face yesterday as she walked
along Mellon street Sc, near
Nichols avenue. Mrs. Oder said
it was not a severe bit, but it
was necessary to start the rabies
shots because there was no way
of telling if the dog had rabies
unless it can be located.
Mrs. Oder said the dog
resembled a large beagle hound.
She asked owners of the dog to
get in touch with her so it can
be examined to determine
whether it is rabid.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-04-11
Teddy RooseveIt's
Famous Big Stick
Finally Located
BY the Associated Press

OYSTER BAY, N. Y, April
1.-THE late President Theodore
Roosevelt's big stick" object OF
search, has been found here
Admirers presented the knot
ted club to him years ago in
recognition of his famous words,
Speak softly and carry a big
stick"
Sponsors of a movement to
convert Mr.. Roosevelt's old es-
tate here into a national shrine
began the search for the stick
recently.
Spry, 82-year-old Joseph Kertz
for many years a Long Island
railroad conductor, returned
from his winter home in Clear
water, Fla, this week and said
he had it.
He said Mr.. Roosevelt, who
rode the Long Island, gave it
to him shortly after the Presi-
dents White House term ex-
pired in 1909.
Mr.. Kertz said the stick was
made from part of an uprooted
tree and was polished and in
Scribed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-04-11
japanese Unions Sue
To Hold May Day Rally
By the Associated Press

TOKYO, April 1.-THE Gen
eral Council of Japan Labor
Unions, which claim 3 million
members, today filed a suit in
Tokyo District Court for permits
sion to hold May Day rally in
the Imperial Palace plaza-scene
of bloody anti-American rioting
after similar rally last year.
The suit named Welfare Min
lister Katsumi Yamagata as de-
PENDANT. He has banned use of
the plaza for the rally. The labor
group said the ban violates the
constitutional right of free as
sembly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-04-11
Swimmer Does 80 Miles
In CircIing Miami Beach

MIAMI BEACH, Fla, April II.
Jimmy Woods. Shelby, N. c..
swimmer, staggered onto the
beach early today after SWIM
ming 80 miles around this resort
city-the first person to COM
plete the swim.
Woods came onto the beach
at his starting point at 1917
am, Is hours and 2 minutes
after he entered the water
shortly before midnight Thurs
day.
From noon to about $50 pm.
Friday, Woods said he battled
a strong north current and barely
held his own but after that the
wind died down and he managed
to finish.
He said his left ankle and
knee sort of gave out" and sew
eral times he had to massage
the left leg to keep going. He
said he was very tired" and
was going right to bed.
Woods. who was accompanied
by two lifeguards in a rowboat.
plans to leave today or tomor-
row for his home and said he
will go to California in June and
attempt to swim from California
to Catalina Island and back.
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| Officials Here Voice
Cautious Optimism
Over Pact in Korea

American officials were hope
full but wary in reacting today
to the signing of the agreement
at Panmunjom to exchange all
ing prisoners of the war in
Korea.
The news caught most of the
House members out of town on
an Easter holiday that ends
Monday. Representatives and
Senators who were reached ex-
pressed caution pending a
chance to study the agreement.
In Moscow, the Communist
Party paper Pravdo came out
with an editorial coincident with
the signing of the agreement
to exchange disabled prisoners
starting April 81.
Pravda charged open and hid
den enemies of peace in Korea
are using extraneous means to
prolong the conflict. It predicted
total failure" for any Western
effort to tie in the questions of
Indo-China and Korea terrific
rial division with the prisoner
negotiations.
Senators Hickenlooper, Repub-
lican, of Iowa, and Sparkman,
Democrat, of Alabama, both
members of the Foreign Rela-
tons Committee, applauded the
prisoner exchange agreement, as
did Senator Lehman, Democrat,
of New York.
Senator Hickenlooper added,
however, that he felt 1--WE are
again being fooled in the small
number of our prisoners being
exchanged"
Senator Sparkman advised:
eve must press forward and do
all we can, but we must be very
cautious. We must be careful
not to be swept away on a wave
of optimism"
Senator Lehman said he was
very happy about the exchange
accord but added: 1--WE must not
permit ourselves to be lulled to
sleep into a false sense of Sc
curity."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-04-11
Boys Club Picks ;
For Commissioners

The Washington Boys Club
yesterday elected three members
to serve one-day terms as Com
missioners" of the District next
Monday.
The brief tenure Of ONCE
marks the start here of National
Boys Club Week.
Elected were: Jack Bailer. IA.
of 100 SiXty-fourth place NE, q
student at Maryland Park Junior
High School; Norman Comes,
IA, of SO Sixteenth street Sc.
Holy Comforter School, arNi
Wayne Smallwood, 13, Of 1856
Fourteenth street NE, Eastern
Junior High School.
They will assume office in Dis
trict Building ceremonies at 10
am. Monday. Their day will in
clude inspection tours of tho
Fire and Police Departments,
District Jail. the city's Poplar
Point tree nursery. sewage
treatment plant and civil de-
Tense command center at the
National Guard Armory.
The three senior Commission
ers will fete the juniors at a
1915 pm. Touchdown Club
luncheon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-04-11

blocks from where he was
found. and that his mother is
Mrs. Virginia Childs. She said
today she would call for him at
the Receiving Home.
Laughing and dimpled, Bobby
said:
This must be a good home
here, they've got a lot of kids
here. I don't want to go home. -
1t. Kathryn Boyd of the
Woman's Bureau said she would
take up the matter of Bobby's
late hours on the street with
his father, William Childs, and
warn him that it must not hap
pen again.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-04-11
Peace Aid Pledged
By HammarskjoeId
On Taking U. N. Post
By the Associated Press

UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.
April 11.-Dag Hammarskjoeld
of Sweden took over as secre-
tary general of the United Ma
tions yesterday and in his in
augural speech quoted from
Abraham Lincoln'S Gettysburg
address to dedicate himself and
the U. N. to a continued cam
paign for peace.
The former Swedish deputy
foreign minister took the high
est international post in the
world as successor to Norwegian
Trygve Lie. The 47-year-old
Swede was sworn to the U. N.
oath by Assembly President Les
ter B. Pearson of Canada.
Mr.. Lie retired to a sideline
seat in the packed Assembly hall
and listened as delegates de-
livered official greetings to the
new secretary general, and in
Guided for the most part tribute
for Mr.. Lies part in building
up the organization since early
1916.
Vishinsky's Greeting Brief.
Russia's Andrei Vishinsky, in
one of the briefeSt statements
of the ceremony, confined him
self to voicing a greeting to
the new executive.
1t was Russia's enmity to-
ward Mr.. Lie, especially after the
Korean war outbreak, that
pushed the Norwegian into re-
signing.
Mr.. Hammarskjoeld, who en-
tered on a five-year term at
$4,000 a year, tax free, told the
Assembly he would meet all
problems with an open mind
He invited the Assembly to cor
rect him if he failed.
With the U. N. debate on old
Communist peace proposals con-
tinuing into next week, diplo-
matte sources predicted that a
Burmese complaint against Ma
tionalist China will be quietly
shelved until the next General
Assembly meeting in September.
Seeks to Avoid Debate.
The United States is hopeful
that settlement of the issue
the latest hot case for the U. N.
can be arranged long before
that time rolls around. The
American delegation is working
at top speed to smooth out the
dispute and avoid a U. N. de-
bate at the present time.
The Assembly's Political Com
mittee, meanwhile, continues
work Monday on a Polish reso-
luton containing the old Red
peace proposals. The United
States yesterday denounced the
resolution and called for it's
quick rejection. The Russians
and the Poles are expected to
make long speeches early next
week before a vote can be taken,
but defeat of the proposal ap-
peared certain.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-04-11

ing to Panmunjom from prison
camps, and provides that no
more than 800 persons from each
side will be inside the Panmun-
JON neutral area at one time.
1t also provides that prisoners
will be exchanged in groups of
Is at time, accompanied by
rosters giving name, rank, ma
tionality and serial number.
While the liaison groups met
to sign the agreement, U. N.
neWsmen, jeep drivers and other
allied personnel across the road
listened to Radio Moscow on a
powerful portable radio.
They heard an English Ian
guage broadcast on the latest
remarks by Russia's chief dele
gate to the U. N, Andrea Vishin-
sky, on the Korean situation.
Mr.. Vishinsky was quoted as
saying that the trade of sick
and wounded is the first step
and that nothing should stand
in the way of repatriation of
all prisoners of war, and an
end to the Korean war.
Also during the meeting,
Communist and Allied officers
exchanged prisoner of war mail.
The allies delivered a bag with
600 letters addressed to prison.
ers in North Korean stockades
and received from the Reds
$500 letters from allied cap
tives.
More Letters Exchanged.
Capt. Albert K. Jones, Middle
town, N. Y, postal officer, said
about 1.70O of the letters were
from Americans for delivery to
families and friends in the
United States. The rest were for
other parts of the world.
Capt. Jones said there has
been a marked increase in both
the incoming and outgoing mail
in the last two weeks.
Staff officers of both sides met
for almost three hours this aft
ernoon and agreed on all i'm
portant administrative details
for the exchange of sick and
wounded.
Col. Willard B. Carlock, Gal
weston, Tex, senior U. N. staff
officer, informed the Chinese
that the United Nations COM
mand would deliver to the Reds
400 litter cases among the $500
Chinese and Koreans to be re-
turned.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-04-11
Balloon Cable Snaps,
2 u. S. Soldiers Hurt
By the Associated Press

PANMUNJOM, Korea, April / /
Two American soldiers were
injured today when high winds
broke loose one of four helium-
filled balloons used as markers
for the neutral armistice zone.
One soldier was bruised badly
on his right hip and the other
suffered a broken left hand and
nose when a balloon cable
snapped.
Both were hospitaliZed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-04-11
Zorin, Replaced U. N. /.
Delegate, OFF for Home
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK, April 11.-Val-
erin A. Zorin. deputy Russian
foreign minister who recently
was replaced as permanent Rus
sian delegate to the United Ma
tons, left for home yesterday
after telling newsmen he had
absolutely nothing" to say to
them.
Mr.. Zorin and his wife sailed
on the French liner Liberte. A
large number Of minor Soviet Of
flcials were at the ship to bid
him good-by.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-04-11
Aircraft Firm Cuts Poy

LOS ANGELES, April IL P.-
North American Aviation Corp.
announced yesterday a Scents
-an-hour wage reduction-effec-
tive April 27-for its 43 900 work.
ers under a cost of living escala-
tor clause in their contract.