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Evening star., 1953-07-16
Carolina Republicans.
Elect Successor
To Edgar Morris

A successor. to Edgar Morris,
Washington businessman and
civic leader, has been named to
the disputed Craftsmanship Of the
South Carolina Republican Party.
D. F. Merrill of Easley, S. c.,
was elected State party chairman
at a meeting Of the State Exec
utive Committee in Columbia.
S. c.. Gin the interest Of harmony
and unity"
Meeting 'Disavowed."
Mr.. Morris "disavowed" a
meeting April II at which he was
removed from absentee leader
ship of the party. He main
tanned he still was party chair
man and asserted there was
nothing official" about the latest
meeting.
National Committeeman j.
Bates Gerald, who led the meet
ing in Columbia Tuesday which
elected Mr.. Merrill, in turn de-
clared that another Executive
Committee meeting called by
State Party Secretary Ed Moore
of Sumter for tomorrow is "of
no concern to U.S."
Mr.. Moore was unseated at
Tuesdays meeting and replaced
by w. B. Wilson of Ridgeland,
who once before held the Office.
Split Started Years Ago.
A split in the regular Repub-
lican ranks began nearly three
years ago with Mr.. Merrill's suit
to declare the General Repupli-
can faction illegal.
The legality of Mr.. Gerald's
group was upheld in Circuit
Court and Mr.. MerrillS election
means that his pending appeal
to the State Supreme Court will
be dropped, Mr.. Gerald said.
Mr.. Morris could not be
reached for comment.
Evening star., 1953-12-16
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Evening star., 1953-12-16
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Evening star., 1953-03-08
Navy Told to Avoid
Questionable Items
In its Publications

Secretary of the Navy An
derson has warned COM
manding officers to. take
greater care in clearing ma
terial printed in station and
ships newspapers, watching
especially for anything that
may be indecent or porno-
graphic. i.
He issued an order stating
that several publications
which had come to his at
tention contained articles,
cartoons, Jokes and other
features verging upon the
pornograpfiic." !" Inadequate
supervision, he said, results
in publications which merely
transmit 'trite and pointless,
or even indecent matter.
with resultant diScredit to
the Navy"
Evening star., 1953-03-08
.776Persons Treated
ForHomeAc Accidents
Here Last Week

Among 116. persons treated at
local hospitals last week, one
was injured when struck by q
golf ball as he stood in his back
yard and another dislocated his
Jaw while yawning.
The District Red Cross Safety
Service, which reports each week
on home accidents, total Al
falls, seven burns, 13 acc ital
poisonings, eight foreign OBJECTS.
% cuts and 10 miscellaneous in
juries for last week. In addition.
eight deaths occurred, with six
due to falls and one due to- an
accidental shooting. One infant
died of suffocation.
While opening a coffee can
one man cut his fingers, which
required five stitches. A house.
wife sustained second degree
burns when her clothes ignited
from a gas stove.
One child pushed bead in his
nostril and another youngster
had a bolt removed from his
nose. Children ate and drank
unknown quantities Of roach
powder. aspirin. linament. tur-
pentine, gasoline, kerosene, ter
ramycine tablets. worm pills and
reducing pills.
The report showed that 922
injuries have already occurred
in 1858.
Evening star., 1953-03-08
Is Your Car Atom Bomb Proof?
ACC Will Find Out March II

Meanwhile, in New York 1t
was announced that the Atomic
Energy Commission will allow
the public to see for the first
time. via television, the havoc
created by an atomic explosion.
A pooled telecast, over ABC,
CHS and NBC. will be made Of
the blast itself, expected at 800
am, (EST). It will also be on
radio. Later in the day cameras
will be allowed to move in close
to show the damage caused to
the two frame dwellings, several
of the automobiles and various
types of bomb shelters in the
target area.
At atomic explosion at the
same site was telecast a year
ago over improvised relay facil-
tiles, providing somewhat spotty
and shaky pictures of the blast,
but cameras were not allowed
to show the effects of the
explosion.
-Four mountain peaks will be
used to relay the picture of the
blast to Los Angeles and thence
to the Nations televiewers.
Atop each peak will be 10000
pounds of microwave relay equip
ment, including generators and
dish-type antennas. Manning
the gear on each peak will be two
technicians, cooking on a port
able stove and sleeping nights in
pup-tents as they prepare for
the coverage.
Evening star., 1953-03-08
Airman Guilty in Staying
OF Irish Judge S Daughter
By the Associated Press

BELFAST, Northern Ireland,
Sunday, Mar. ga jury found
21-year-old Airman Ian Hay
Gordon guilty but insane today
in the murder of a high court
judges daughter over a REDUCED
kiss.
Patricia Curran. the 19-year-
old victim, was found November
IL with 81 stab wounds on the
grounds of the lonely home Of
her father, Justice Lance Cur
ran.
Gordon was one of several
hundred airmen housed In a
former country mansion near the
Curran home and had been in
troduced to the girl by her "a
.year-old brother, Desmond Cur
ran.
Gordon confessed he met Pa
tricia the night Of the Staying
and said he blacked out when
she objected to his kissing her,
The defense argued he suffers
from a split personality.
Evening star., 1953-03-08
Masonic Council Gets
New Grand Master

David M. Jones, 6713 Four
teenth street NV, was installed
last night as grand master of the
grand council of the District
Royal and Select Masters. The
council is one of the four bodies
which constitute the York Rite
Of Freemasonry.
Mr.. Jones succeeds Theodore
c. Lewis.
T., Mr.. Jones is a member Of Fed
eral Lodge No. 1, Brightwood
Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, a
past master of Washington
Council, Royal and Select Mas
ters, past commander of Colum-
bia Commandery of Knight
Templar, and a Shriner.
Richard Waldt succeeded Mr.
Jones as deputy grand master
Other grand officers are R. B
Doing, principal conductor oi
work; r. L. Hebbard, treasurer;
Otto B. Roepke, recorder: S. T
Farmer, chaplain; V. E. Burner
visitor and lecturer; w. G. Dow
den, captain of the guard; w
S. Pawl, conductor of the coun-
Gil; G.. L. johnson. marshal; G
C. Russell, steward, and F. H
Hunsaker, sentinel.
The Association of nlustriou'
Masters was formed as a new
constituent council. Arthur B
Miller was elected president
Gerald Mccullough is vice preSi'
dent and secretary-treasurer i
Virgil Costello.
Evening star., 1953-03-08
'John Doe Sends In
$500 This Time as
His Income TaxGft
BY the Associoied Press


ST. LOUIS, Mar. John
Doe" a citizen proud OF my
country has done it again. This
time the anonymous taxpayer
mailed in $500. in $50 bills, with
his John Doe" income tax form.
z. M. Finn, assistant director
of the. st. Louis Internal Revenue
Office, said John" has been doing
this sort Of thing for 10 or IL
years. His donations have ranged
from $400 to $1,000, Mr.. Finn
said
Most donations carry no ex-
planation. One year, however, the
Office received a scrawled note
with the money. It said the un-
identified contributor had reach
ed an age where money was
no longer of use to him, that he
had no one to leave it to, and
that he was showing he was
proud Of my country"
Evening star., 1953-03-08
Both See Reason to Hope
For Continued Progress

CD Organization: Interna-
tional institutions should be
conStructively used to promote
these policies.
The Government of the
United States welcomes the in
itiative taken by the United
Kingdom Government in con-
nection with these problems OF
common concern.
The two Governments be-
lieve that there is reason to
hope for continued progress to-
ward a better balanced, grow
ing world trade and toward
the restoration of a multilater-
al system of trade and pay
ments. The nature and scope
of the measures which may be
taken by governments to fur
ther such progress. and the
timing Of such measures, will
require further study.
Inc Government OF the
United States will undertake,
and continue over the next
several months, an inten.
Sive examination and re-
view of the general subjects
discussed at the present meet
ings, including the suggestions
resulting from the Common
wealth Economic Conference,
and possible alternative sGg-
gestionS, in order to arrive at
a sound Judgment with re-
spect to the specific courses Of
action which might be taken.
The two governments intend
to have further discussions
with each other, with other
governments, and with the in
ternational organization con-
cerned, including the organiza-
tion for European Economic
Cooperation.
Evening star., 1953-03-08
Mccarthy Clears
kapIan. Of Wrong;
Suicide Is Doubted
Nv n. A,,oeintad Pra.,

Senator Mccarthy, Republic
can of Wisconsin, said yeSter-
day his Senate Investigations
subcommittee has found Moth
ing to indicate any wrong doing
by Raymond Kaplan, Voice Of
America employe whose death
has been ruled a suicide.
The subcommittee has been
conducting search for waste and
SubverSion in the voice, but
Mccarthy said it never had any
plans to call Mr.. Kaplan as q
witness.
Mr.. Kaplan, AZ, a radio engi-
neer, said in a purported suicide
note to his wife and son that he
had done nothing wrong but
that "once the dogs are set on
you, everything you have done
since the beginning of time is
suspect"
Senator Mccarthy, telephon-
ing from New York, where the
investigations subcommittee met
in closed session yesterday, said
co-workers of Mr.. Kaplan ex-
pressed grave doubt" that his
death was a suicide. He was
killed by a truck Wednesday
night in Cambridge, Mass, and
witnesses said he hurled himself
into its path. A certificate of
suicide was issued.
Senator Mccarthy said the
subcommittee was curious as to
why MIR. Kaplan would commit
suicide and had decided to go
over his files and to take testi-
mony from his co-workers.
I'VE have found nothing to
indicate he was guilty of any
Wrong-doing of any kind" Sen
ator Mccarthy said.
The Senator also said it ap-
peared Mr.. Kaplan was "active
in recommending against" the
location of a powerful short
wave Voice transmitter in Wash
ington State. Senator Mccarthy
contends atmospheric conditions
in that area would interfere with
overseas broadcaStS.
The subcommittee still is
studying, Senator Mccarthy
said, the note left by Mr.. Kaplan.
He said this was obtained from
the State Department.
Senator Mccarthy said the
subcommittee may resume its
public hearings here tomorrow
He indicated the next hearing
is likely to deal with the ques-
ton of whether waste was in
vo1ved in the equipping Of ships
as floating transmitters for the
Voice.
Evening star., 1953-03-08
Man Wounds Himself
After Arguing With Girl

An Alexandria man shot him
self last night after an argument
with his girl, police reported. The
wound was not believed serious.
George William Hickey, jr., 25,
of lot East Bellefonte avenue,
Alexandria, was reported in sat-
isfactory condition in Mount Alto
Hospital. He was taken there
from Alexandria Hospital.
Corpl. Andrew. Hail of the
Alexandria force said Hickey
shot himself in the upper chest
with 90 caliber rifle.
The shooting occurred on Sem
mary lane, near the Southern
Railway tracks.
Corpl. Hall said a passerby
found Hickey, and the victim
asked him to notify his parents.
who were driving from Alexan-
dria to Wilmington, Del.
Evening star., 1953-03-08
Cattle Crisis Eased
Without Support Of
Prices, Benson Says
By Jones {. Roper

Secretary of Agriculture Ben
son proudly reported last night
that he has checked a two-year
decline in cattle prices-and
without Government financial
aid.
Secretary Benson said he
helped end OPS price ceilings
and cattle grading rules. had
started a program for greater
beef consumption, encouraged
farmers to market their animals
in a more orderly manner, and
formed a cattle advisory commit
tee to study the situation further.
within 80 days after taking
Office" he said in a press state
ment, I'VE had checked the price
decline that had been under way
for almost two years."
Sale. to Canadians Helps
Secretary Benson got help
from an unexpected market de-
velopment-the sale of about Is
loads of slaughter steers and
heifers to Canadian packers.
The sale. made through the Chi
cago market last week, reversed
the usual flow of Canadian cat
tie into the United States. The
Canadian buyers presumably
were attracted by American
prices.
The Associated Press reported
cattle offerings on the Chicago
market last week weer so per
cent larger than a year earlier,
with almost all prices, especially
on heifers, being marked down.
The Agriculture Department said
the problem Of lower cattle prices
was inherited by the present adj
ministration."
Orderly Marketing Cited.
1--WE found little being done
or planned (by the Democrats)
to check the costly Decline" said
Secretary Benson, adding that
within IA days after. the Repub-
licans took over, President Eisen-
hover abolished OPS price
controls on meat and compulsory
grading of cattle.
Then retail prices fell, Secre-
tary Benson said, and some stores
in the first eight weeks of this
year sold up to so per cent more
meat than year earlier.
The increase in sales volume, I"
Secretary Benson said, "plus the
cattlemen's adoption of orderly
marketing, quickly f1rmed up the
price situation.
There was one thing on which
all segments Of the industry were
united. namely. they wanted no
part of price support program.
The Agriculture Department
said the pattern followed in
handling the meat situation will
be followed ''in solving the many
other difficult problems inherited
by this administration"
Evening star., 1953-03-08
BY the Assoeiatsd Pres. .

LAS VEGAS, New, Mar. IA
hundred or more automobiles,
some new. will be exposed to
the st. Patrick's Day atomic
blast to determine how safe you
would be in your car if the real
thing went off.
No. / in the Atomic Energy
Commissions spring series, is
designed chiefly to put the scar
ing heat of a nuclear explosion
on the things folks deal with
daily. Two frame houses will
be in the target area, one only
nalf a mile from the blasts
center.
The Federal Civil Defense Ad-
ministration found itself without
enough money to build or buy
all the things it wanted to study.
so it promoted the cars from
manufacturers and dealers. It
told them:
Zone of the great gaps in our
knowledge is the amount of pro-
lection afforded by typical
American automobiles. Because
the American public owns and
operates nearly 40 million auto
mobiles, it is certain that an
enemy attack would find many
thousands Of people in cars"
j. Staten Jenner, director Of
the project, says FCDA is proud
Of the patriotic response.
Agreement With Dealers.
The cars will be driven here
at their owners expense, and
back again for exhibition pur-
poses If they can be driven. In
an agreement with each dealer,
FCDA put it frankly:
I'm making this contribution
to this important atomic test, !
understand there is a possibility
the condition of this car may not
permit its return"
But in a more optimistic tone.
it also said: 1T is anticipated the
great majority Of vehicles will
not suffer major damage"
In return for his expense and
risk, the dealer can have a re-
served seat at Charleston Park,
40 miles or more from where
the bomb goes off. and the
chance to display the car in his
home town if he gets it back.
Two auto groups, the National
Auto Dealers Association and the
American Manufacturers Asso-
citation, co-operated in lining ur
cars for the test. OF those on the
ground so far. the most distant
comes from Harold j. Moye o1
Newton, Mass.
To help assess what woulo
happen to humans, many Of the
cars will contain dummies. They
will be placed in various posi-
tions, crouching on the floor OF
seated behind the wheel, fol
example.
The automobiles will be de.
ployed over the target area or
the Aces big proving ground
northwest of here. Under plar
worked out by a committee from
the FCDA and the Society o1
Automobile Engineers, they viii
be in clusters of three, facing ir
every direction from the tower
which will hold the bomb.
Some will have full gas tanks
some empty; some will have win.
dows up, some down. All body
types will be used, in models from
1946 to 1858. And Of course they
will be at different distances.
Evening star., 1953-03-08
Mourning Radio Moscow
Makes Poison Gas Charge
BY the Assoeiossd Press

LONDON, Mar. Moscow
radio today interspersed its re-
ports of mourning services for
Josef Stain with charges that
American troops use poison gas
against Communist forces in
Korea.
Monitors listening in on the
Moscow dictation-speed broad
casts for the Soviet press said
the programs were made up
largely of items reporting mourn
ing meetings of various bodies in
diqerent parts of the U. S. S. r.
"But they also included items
on the United Nations and al
legations of the use of poison gas
shells in Korea by the United
States forces" the monitors said.
Evening star., 1953-03-08
Sound Internal Policies z
Called for in Agreement

They also agree that the
essential elements OF work.
able and productive economic
system within the free world
should include:
,.(A Sound internal policies:
!. international economic poll
cies cannot succeed unless they
are based on sound internal
policies, by debtor as well as
credit or countries. During the
course of the conversations,
the United States representa-
tives made it clear that the
Government of the United
States welcomes the intention
of the Commonwealth govern
mentS, expressed in their De-
cember communique, to follow
the internal financial and eco
nomic policies needed to
achieve a freer exchange Of
currencies and trade.
(B) Freer trade and curren-
cies: The freeing and expan-
sionof world trade must cover
currencies as well at trade. On
the financial side the objective
should be the eventual con-
vertibility of sterling and
other currencies and the grad
ual removal of restrictions on
payments. On the trade side
the objective should be to
bring about the relaxation Of
trade restrictions and dis
Evening star., 1953-03-08
Comn1uiiiqul4lel:s u: on den Tolks

Of certain bases IN the United
Kingdom. The prior under
standing was confirmed that
the use Of these bases IN an
emergency would be . matter
for joint decision by Her Mai
eSty's Government and the
United States Government in
the light of the circumstances
prevailing at the time.
Evening star., 1953-03-08
Shop Owner Lands
0ne-Punch Knockout
On Bandit Suspect

The owner of a cleaning shop
felled a holdup suspect with one
punch yesterday.
The proprietor, Lawrence
Trice, 80, colored, operator Of
Larry's Cleaners, 101 Seventh
street Sc, was a few doors away
at the time of the holdup.
Learning of the attempt, he
ran to the store and met the
suspect leaving Mr.. Trice let fly
with his fist scoring a clean
knockout. The suspect, Roosevelt
johnson, q, colored, of 658 G
street NE, was treated at Gal
linger Hopsital, then booked on
a robbery charge.
Miss Alberta Manning, colored.
a clerk, identified johnson as
the man who had entered. the
shop shortly after noon and took
$25 from a cash box after SHOW
ing her to one side. An identical
sum of money was found in
Johnson's pocket, police said.
Liquor Store Bandits.
In another daylight robbery,
two bandits, one armed with a
pistol, took between $1,000 and
81 500 from the Bernstein Liquor
Store, 108 M street Sc, about
2:2O pm.
The bandits. both colored,
forced Manager David Winakur.
SIS. of 5000 Eastern avenue, Sill
yer Spring, Md, to open the
register and turn over the cash.
Police believe the thugs fled in
sedan bearing Maryland tags.
Market Robbed.
Another bandit got $75 and a
pound of bologna from Miller's
Market. sol A street NE, about
4 pm. t'-5- ~ hfjs
Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Miller
proprietors of the market, were
in the shop when a lone colored
man entered and demanded a
pound of bologna. His next re-
quest, backed up by a pistol. was
for all the cash ! in the register
and in Mr. Miller's pocket. After
getting the money, the bandit
fed.
Boy Reports Robbery.
A 14-year-old boy. left in
charge of a delicatessen by his
father. told police he was held
up and robbed of SIS by a masked
bandit shortly after 6 pm.
The lad, George Casey. jr.
was tending the Ritz Carry Out
Shop, 466 o street NV. while
his father had gone home on ar
errand.
The boy said he was talking
with his father on the telephone
when a colored man entered, his
face hidden by a blue scarf with
eye-holes in it. The youth tolc
his father to wait and, turning
around looked into the muzzlt
of a pistol. The bandit took ST.
from the register and fed, the
boy declared
Evening star., 1953-03-08
THE SUNDAY STAR. AT
Washington, D. G.. -
SUNDAY, MARCH 8, 1853

ordinations in a way which.
in the words Of President Eli
Senhower's ate-of the Union
message, will recognize the
Importance of profitable and
equitable world trade" It is
in the interest of the United
States to take such measures
as are exemplified in the Pres
ident's message in order that
the members of the free world
may the better pay their way
by their own efforts.
Co Development: The crea-
ton of conditions. both by
creditor and by debtor coun-
tries, which will foster inter-
national investment and the
sound development Of the re-
sources Of the free world. In
this connection, the Govern
ment of the United States en-
phasized it's intention to en-
courage the flow of investment
abroad.
Evening star., 1953-03-08
Rockefeller in Burmu
On Asian Study Tour
BY the Assoeiated Press

RANGOON. Burma, Mar. t.
John D. Rockefeller, Sd, arrived
here today for a private visit.
He will leave Monday for In
dia and Pakistan before return
ing to the United States.
"The purpose of my world trip
is to get a background under
standing of the countries Of
Southeast Asia and Asia which
have become increasingly inn
portant," said Mr.. Rockefeller,
who is chairman of the board
of trustees Of the Rockefeller
Foundation.