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Evening star., 1953-05-26
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Gated in her bed on the first
floor of three story stone row
house at Ills Massachusetts,
avenue NV.
Everett D. Green, So, owner of
the place. was taken to Emer-
gency Hospital with four cuts on
the neck and chest. Not seriously
injured, he was to be removed to
police headquarters for question:
ing.
Police said he was found face
down in an inch or two of water
in the bathtub of his basement
apartment. He was clad in un-
dershirt' and trousers. A bloody
towel was found nearby.
Yesterday a deputy United
States marshal went to the
building, which Mr.. Green at
tempted to operate as a rooming
house, though Miss Brown was
the only tenant.
Mr.. Green was to have been
evicted. but on agreement of At
torney Herman Miller, represent
ing the plaintiff, he was permit
ted until today to try to raise the
necessary funds.
Mr.. Green was unaware that
eviction had been postponed
again today because of the
threatening weather.
Denies Starting Fire.
Detective Sergt, A. D. Clarke
said Mr.. Green's injuries appar-
emily were Self-inf1icted. Mr..
Green denied this. or that he had
set the fires. He said he had dis
covered the fire on the second
floor and went on down to the
basement to ''cool Off"
Firemen were called at TAI
am. and two minutes later the
t1rebox was pulled at Twelfth
and L streets NV.
Sergt. Clarke quoted neighbors
as saying Mr.. Green told them
he would rather blow up the
place than to lose it for $7O0."
Battalion Fire Chief A. N.
Wright said a next-door neigh
bor, Mrs. Lillian Ashburn, of 11l3
Massachusetts, avenue NV, was
visited by Mr.. Green last night.
HE told me he was having
trouble keeping the place and
wanted to borrow $780," Mrs.
Ashburn was quoted. He said
he would set the place on fire
or blow it up before he would
lose it"
Mrs. Ashburn also recalled
hearing a banging" next door
about midnight. Police found
sledge hammer in the basement.
Found Unconscious.
When firemen entered the
place, they found Miss Brown
unconscious in her bed. Efforts
to revive her with a respirator
were given up at $40 am.
The investigation showed the
fire had been set in two places
in the basement, one on the
second floor and another under
a stairway from the first to sec
ond floors. Marshal Roberts said.
Little piles of trash were found
at all four spots. An odor of
turpentine was detected on the
first floor.
The second floor fire was in a
dining room just back of the
bedroom where Miss Brown was
found. The bedroom was not
burned.
A plug on a 1la-inch gas line
leading into the basement had
been removed. police said. They
found a Stilson wrench on the
floor near the bathroom.
Damage to the building was
slight, firemen extinguishing the
blaze before it gained headway.
Neighbors said Mr.. Green and
Miss Brown were the only occu-
pants and that Mr.. Green had
lived there for about foT years.
Evening star., 1953-05-26
Movie Receipts Drop
$108 Million in Year
BY the Assoeiafsd Press

I by Inc ASsocIdfed Press
HOLLYWOOD. May 26.-The
annual movie box Office figures
announced today by the Film
Daily Yearbook show a $108 mil
lion drop from those of the pre-
viouS year.
The trade paper yearbook
listed 1852 theater receipts of
81, ,170. 900, 900 for 1852 as COM
pared with $l.27S,000,000 for
1851.
Television was listed as the
big competitive factor for de-
clining receipts.
Evening star., 1953-05-26
Woman, 50, Killed
In Northwest Fire
Blamed on Arson
House Owner, Facing
Eviction, Found With
Cuts on Neck, Chest

An elderly woman today lost
her life and a man was injured
in fire which Fire Marshal
Raymond Roberts said had been
touched off in four places.
The dead woman was Miss
Betty Brown, 80, found suffo-
Evening star., 1953-05-26
Stevenson to See ibn Suud

DHAHRAN. Saudi Arabia. May
26 (P).-Adlai Stevenson few to
the capital city of Riyadh
aboard royal plane yesterday
to meet King Ibn Saud of Saudi
Arabia. He was accompanied by
United States Ambassador Ray
mond A. Hare and two aides.
Evening star., 1953-05-26
Holiday Food Ads
In The Star Tomorrow

In observance OF Memorial Doy
mony Washington ore0 food stores
will be closed this Saturday. For this
reason the majority Of the food od-
Vertisers plan to schedule their heovy
concentration Of ods in The Stor for
Wednesday insteed Of Thursday.
Be sure to shop the ods in The
Ster tomorrow fer holiday week -end
feed beEsoiR3.
Evening star., 1953-05-26
Secret Truce Plan
Not Published by
Stars and Stripes
BY the Assoeiofsd Press

wv SNSe~sAStOS VhoSo
TOKYO, May 26.-Pacific
Stars and Stripes, unofficial
publication of the Far East
Command. did not publish
today the Associated Press
story giving details of the
secret United Nations truce
plan divulged by reliable
South Korean sources.
The U. N. command re-
fused to comment on the
A. P. story which quoted the
sources as saying the allies
offered at a secret truce ses-
sion to turn over to the U. N.
General Assembly the final
disposition Of prisoners who
refused repatriation.
Evening star., 1953-05-26
New York Grand jury
Probe Of Water Front
Ordered by Browne||
BY the Associoted Press

Attorney General Brownell
today ordered a New York grand
jury investigation of waterfront
scandals.
The Attorney General said he
has instructed United States At
torney j. Edward Lumbard of
New York to, present before a
jury there the evidence which
$50 FBI agents have been gath
ering for several months on
crime along the New York-New
Jersey waterfront.
Calls 1t "Shocking."
Mr.. Brownell said the water
front situation involved shock
ing evils"
Testimony before the New York
State Crime Commission devel-
oped evidence of terror, murder
and colluSion involving political,
labor union and shipping in
terestS.
The FBI investigation was au-
thorized by former Attorney Cen
eral James P. McGranery last
December. Mr.. Brownell said
the probe "has become a major
project in the Department of
Justice"
Check Federal Aspects.
The task of the New York Jury
will be to determine if any viola
ton Of Federal laws was involved
in the events described to Con-
gress members and the New York
commission.
Much of the testimony related
to acts which would fall solely
within State Jurisdiction. but. Mr..
Brownell's announcement indi-
Gated that income taxes have
figured in the Federal inveStiga-
ton. He said that certain parts
of the situation have been in
quired into by the Bureau of
Internal Revenue and other
investigative units of the Treas
ury Department."
The New York jury will con-
vene June g.,
Evening star., 1953-05-26
Happy Home-Moking
Is Instructors Goal

HELPING HOMeAAKERS-Thot's
whot Edythe N. Turner hos been
doing for 30 yeors. For more about
the home demonstration osent ond
her lessons in hoppy home -moking.
see Violet Foulkner's story on Pose
81.
QUEENS c0MPANioNS-Think
you'd like TO be Iody-in waiting to
Queen? MoIIie MeGee sketches the
tosks Of the British Queens feminine
minions in the Iotest Of her series on
Young EIzobeth II on Poee BE-.
Evening star., 1953-05-26
Israel SIuyinq Luid to Arobs

TEL AVN, Israel, May 26 up.
An Israeli military spokesman
charged today that Arab infll-
traitors from Jordan killed a
Jewish woman and injured two
other women and three children
in attacks yesterday on three
Israeli villages. Israel protested
to the United Nations Mixed
Armistice Commission.
Evening star., 1953-05-26
Jim Hunkin HELPS
Jim Hunkin Rescue
A Third Jim Hunkin
By the Associafsd Press

BT the Associated PFeSS
MEVAGISSEY, Cornwall,
England, May 26.-Jim Hun
kin fell out of his rowboat
while fishing in the bay yes
terday.
Jim Hunkin, who was
standing on a nearby dock.
jumped in to save him.
Jim Hunkin came running
with q life preServer and
threw it to the two men in
the water. They made shore
safely.
The three Jim HunkinS
are not related.
Evening star., 1953-05-26

"~S A>NNSSN bCSduoc LildJ was
the only condition by which
Congress would agree to repeal
the Thomas rider.
Meanwhile, the Senate today
is expected to approve a bill pro-
viding for repeal of the Thomas
rider. The Senate measure,
however, does not reduce the
leave accumulation maximum.
Leave Limit Extended
The House committees bill
would allow Federal employees to
use their 1852 annual leave by
January 2, 1854. This is a six
month extension over the terms
OF the Thomas leave law, which
requires employees to use their
1852 leave by this June 80.
After the January 2. 1854.
date, under terms of the House
committees bill, employees could
use their annual leave each year
unrestricted, subject only to the
leave accumulation maximum.
The committees 26-day leave
maximum total would not affect
present employees who have &C
cumulated over that amount.
They could still carry this leave
from year to year. 1t would only
involve those employees who now
have less than 26 days of accum-
ulated leave. They could not
compile more than 26-day total
in the future.
Sponsored BY BrOyhill.
The House bill repeating the
Thomas rider was sponsored by
Representative Broyhill, Re-
publican, of Virginia. The COM
mittee, however, amended it to
reduce the leave accumulation
limit.
The committees bill also
makes it easier for employees to
use their excess leave each year
over the Christmas and New
Years holidays. Under the pres
ent law, employees must use their
excess annual leave by the final
day of the last pay period of
the year. This usually falls
around December 81 to %, with
the result that employees have to
forfeit their leave or else draw
on their next years vacation
time in order to take a holiday.
The committees bill would
extend the leave year so that
excess leave could be used over
this holiday period.
Evening star., 1953-05-26
By Doris FIeeson

Democrats are in possession
of copies of a letter addressed
by Budget Director Joseph
Dodge to Secretary of Defense
Wilson May Z which virtually
orders Mr.. Wilson to slash de-
fense expenditures so as to
achieve a balanced budget.
They believe it supports their
charge that desirable fiscal
Evening star., 1953-05-26
New Allied Proposal
Reported 10 Leave
P0Ws' Fate 10 u. n.
By the Associated Press

SEOUL, May 26. - Authorita-
tive South Korean sources today
revealed that the secret new
allied truce plan would give the
United Nations General Assem-
bly, the final say in determining
the fate of war prisoners who re-
fuse to return to their Red home
lands.
The informants said the pro-
posal handed to the Communists
Evening star., 1953-05-26
House Group
Acts 10 Drop
Leave Rider
Accumulated Time
Cut to 26 Days to
Win Booking on Floor

The House Civil Service Com
mittee today voted to repeal the
Thomas use-it-or-lose-it annual
leave law, but reduced the 60-day
accumulation maximum for Fed
eral employees to 26 days.
Committee members said the
leave accumulation maximum
Evening star., 1953-05-26

Money Alone Doesn't Give MiIitoy
Security, Kyes Soys. Poee AZ
Evening star., 1953-05-26

II MICS Shot Down in One Doy. Fight
ing on Sround DwindIes. Poqe AS
Evening star., 1953-05-26

$4,000 FederoI Jobs Dropped, $500
Here. Commission Soys. Poee AZ,
Evening star., 1953-05-26

See FEDERATION. Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1953-05-26

(See TRUCE, Page A-50
Evening star., 1953-05-26

Continued on Page A-3, Col. ~
Evening star., 1953-05-26

Some cloudineSS tonight, low about as
Tomorrow, fair, cooler and less humid
CFull report on Page A-2)
Temperatures Today.
Evening star., 1953-05-03
POWs Taken to Valley Forge
Resent Communist Label

is from the Washington area.
The Phoenixville hospital was
picked by the Army to handle
soldiers who might have accepted
Communist doctrines while in
captivity in Korea. A new plane
load of returning POWs reached
Travis Air Force Base in Califor-
MIA today.
An Army spokesman said to-
night:
mo one is required to take any
psychiatric treatment without
his own consent.
The men have been told they
can take treatment or if they
don't want it they are free to go
home. It's up to them, entirely.
Even after they start treat
ment they are free to stop it and
leave when they want"
He explained that the only
thing that can require their stay
is their physical condition. If this
appears unsatisfactory, medical
officers can keep them under
treatment.
The group of soldiers who ap-
peared to have been influenced
by communism while undergoing
privations Of the prison camps
are part of a larger group sent
to Valley Forge for medical care
before being released.
Evening star., 1953-05-03
5 Perish as Plane
Crashes in Takeoff
BY The Associated Press


LOCK HAVEN, Pa, May g.
A small private plane clipped the
top of a barn soon after takeoff
today. then crashed in flames,
killing the pilot and four others,
two of them small children.
The pilot was identified as
Richard Smart. 81 year = old
guard at nearby Rockview Pen
itentiary.
DR.. Doris Kissell, Clinton
County coroner, tentatively iden-
titled the others as Mr.. and Mrs.
Donald Larimer and their two
children, Barry, 3. and Kim. 18
months. Mr.. Larimer also is a
prison guard.
The five bodies were taken
from the Wreckage near the air
port in this central Pennsylvania
town.
The plane, a four-seated,
single -engine Piper PAGER 20,
failed to gain altitude in taking
off from the airport at the east
edge of town. Witnesses saw it
falter, hit the top of a barn and
come down on Great Island in
the Susquehanna River. The
plane burst into flames as it
crashed.
The river flows past Lock
Haven at the rim of the airport.
Mr. Smart had borrowed the
plane from his brother-in-law,
the Rev Curt ]. Wetzel, a Bap-
tist minister. who used the air.
plane to broadcast Sunday SER
mons from the air and to travel
to churches in the area.
Evening star., 1953-05-03
Special Dispatch TO The Stor

PHOENIXVILLE, Pa, May 2.
Twenty American ex-POWs,
some of whom the Army says
are suspected Of having been
converted to Communism, ar
rived at Valley Forge Military
Hospital today-and promptly
sent out word that they're not
Reds.
The Pentagon had put spe-
cial security restrictions on the
planeload of soldiers because
they may have been misled
under conditions of duress and
hardship during the period Of
their captivity Gin Communist
hands in Korea)."
AS soon as the men settled
down in Valley Forge Hospital,
Army Public Relations Officer
Maj. James Campbell inter-
viewed them.
Damned Mad to a Man."
ITO a man." he told Star
correspondent, they are damned
mad about the publicity they
have been getting.
"They were mad as hornets.
They took the attitude that they
had been branded a bunch of
Reds and resented it. I expect
they will make their resentment
known when they talk to re-
porters."
Hospital authorities arranged
to allow news reporters to talk
to the soldiers tomorrow. The
Pentagon at first ordered names
of the soldiers withheld, but
amended this later to allow the
use of names in connection with
interviews if the soldiers did not
object.
None from Washington Area.
None of the 20 at Phoenixville
Evening star., 1953-05-03
Russians PiIofed ) MICS
Shot Down, Prisoner SAYS
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE,
Calf, May 2.-An American
soldier, captured by the Reds in
Korea, declared today he saw
seven enemy MIG fighter planes
shot down and that three of
them had Russian pilots"
The soldier was Corpl. Wen
dell H. Treffery of Terryville,
Conn. who was held captive in
a Red camp along the Yalu
River.
1nterviewers asked him how
he knew three of the MIG pilots
were Russian. They para
chuted," he said, land walked
through our village. I never saw
a North Korean with blond hair. ="
Evening star., 1953-05-03
Pianist Seeks Divorce,
Asks Wife for AIimonv
BY the Assoeiated Press

LOS ANGELES, May Mrs.
Helen Hoffman, IS, formerly
married to a member of the
Heinz food-packing family, was
sued for divorce yesterday by
William Hoffman, a concert
pianist, who asked alimony.
Mr.. Hoffman said that because
of a heart condition he is un-
able to continue piano playing
and asked $233 a month support.
He asserted that his heireSs wife
is worth 100000, but that he
has been forced to collect $25
week unemployment insurance
in order to live.
He asked for a divorce on al
legations of adultery.
Mrs. Hoffman was the widow
of Rust Heinz, grandson of the
late H. j. Heinz.
Evening star., 1953-05-03
u. n. Troops Smash
Attack by Chinese
In Battalion Force
By the Associated Press

SEOUL, Sunday, May 3.-Chi-
nese Reds shattered a week long
lull in the Korean war early to-
day with a battalion attack that
stalled in hand-to-hand fighting
in United Nations main line
trenches between the Hook and
Little Gibraltar on the western
front.
The attack by up to 750 Reds
fell between the two outpost posi-
tions, 10 to II miles north
east of Panmunjom where re-
newed armistice talks were in
recess for the day. 1t brought
the heaviest frontline fighting
since ground action quieted with
the resumption of the truce talks
last Sunday.
trade Small Arms FIRE.
The Chinese and entrenched
allied troops traded heavy small
arms, mortar and artillery fire
during the clash.
The Reds touched off the at
tack with four probes of the U. N.
main line northeast of Panmun-
jom a few minutes before mid
night. They pulled back about
two and one-half hours later.
Eighth Army said the only
other action reported during the
night was squad and platoon
fighting between North and
South Koreans on the eastern
front.
Planes Blast Foe.
The night ground f1are-up
followed heavy allied air thrusts
at Communist road and rail
functions and troops and supply
centers with SIS miles of the
western front throughout Satur-
days clear daylight hours.
Sixteen B-29 SuperfortS and
hundreds of light bombers and
fighter bombers streamed over
North Korean territory. The
Superforts dropped 160 tons of
bombs on supply buildings and
troop shelters and supply build
ings at Taechon and Uchon, both
west of Kaesong, headquarters
of the Red armistice delegation.
Returning pilots reported big
fires in both area.
The North Korean communi-
que. heard in Tokyo, claimed an
Allied minesweeper sunk by Red
coast artillery on HWa-do island,
off the Korean east coast. The
claim was not confirmed.
Evening star., 1953-05-03
Increase Of Tritium
In the Air Hints al
H-Bomb Explosion
By Fronk Corey
AsSoeioted Press Science Reporter
By the Associated Press

The amount of tritium in the
air jumped last November,
scientist reported yesterday and
physicists wondered whether it
came from a hydrogen bomb ex-
plosion.
There have been unofficial re-
ports. never confirmed by the
Government, that the United
States exploded the worlds first
H-bomb at Eniwetok last No.
vember /. Tritium is a possible
ingredient of atom bombs, and
the fact that the amount of it
in the air increased lends pos
slble new credence to the reports
of an H-bomb blast.
DR.. w. F. Libby of the Univer-
sity of Chicago said in a report
to the American Physical Society
that the average atmospheric
content of tritium shot up tenn
porarily in mid-November.
DR.. Libby himself made no
reference to hydrogen bombs,
Eniwetok or to the fact that the
dates he mentioned were soon
after the reported H-bomb test.
In fact, he told the society that
atmospheric tritium increase of
the type he mentioned could be
accounted for by a period of
drought.
Heavyweight Form of Hydrogen.
But some scientists who heard
his report said they are still
puzzled by the coincidence of
the dates mentioned with the
period soon after the unoflcially
reported H-bomb blast at Eni-
wetok. These scientists, not
connected with the Atomic
Energy Commission, declined to
be quoted by name.
Tritium, the heavyweight form
of hydrogen, weighing three
times as much as ordinary hy-
drogen. is formed in the atmos-
phere in minute quantities by the
action of atomic neutronS gen.
Grated by coSmic rays.
Normally, there is never more
than Is to 20 grams (four to
six ounces) in all the worlds
atmosphere, never more than
about 40 pounds distributed in
very tiny amounts among the
waters of the planet.
Concentration TripIed.
The Chicago scientist gave
these figures:
On October IA, 1852, which
would be a couple of weeks prior
to the unofficially reported d
H-bomb blast at EniWetok. the
tritium concentration for a given
area of atmosphere was % atoms
of tritium to 10 billion-billion
atoms of ordinary hydrogen.
On November II, the tritium
concentration had increase
almost twofold and on November
19. it had more than tripled.
Thereafter, it gradually went
down to normal.
Evening star., 1953-05-03
Rugby Interest High

Japanese interest in rugby
football has been stirred by a
visit from the Oxford University
team and the city of Osaka alone
today boasts so teams.
Evening star., 1953-12-20
Bulgaria Election Today;
Only One SIate-AII Red
BY the Associated Press

ISTANBUL, Turkey, Dec. l9.-
Premier Vulko Chervenkov of
Communist Bulgaria told his
people today they were lucky
not to have to choose between
two or more candidates in elec-
tlons for the national assembly
tomorrow
BulgarianS will vote yes or no
on a single slate of candidates
picked by the Communists in
the first national election since
1949. In the 1852 municipal
elections. the Communists
Dragged they got a 98.7 per cent
yes vote.
Chervenkovs broadcast, moni-
tored here, said BulgarianS were
fortunate to have free elec-
tions" with mo capitalist land
lords to exert pressure, nobody
to falsify the results, no bribes.
no discrimination and no prop
erty requirement for voting"
Evening star., 1953-12-20
Turns to Diesel Trucks

Aleppo, Syria's largest city
and center of the truck market,
is reported turning rapidly to
diesel trucks. because of lower
operating costs. and is expected
to afford a good market for truck
manufacturers,
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1953-04-09

Mr.. and Mrs. w. Gardner spent
few days last week with Mr.,
and Mrs. James Gardner and
baby of Garriettsville.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wayne Robbins
and Mrs. Madge Ullman and
Della King were at Caldwell on
Saturday.
W. w. Marsh visited relatives
at Berne, Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Crum and
family visited Mrs. Donald NAL
lett and family one evening last
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Miracle
and baby of Canton, were week
end visitors at the Floyd Miracle
home. Mr.. and Mrs. Denzil Hogue
and family were Sunday visitors
at the Miracle home.
Albert (Jake) Mallett of the
U. S. Army, who has been serv-
ing in Korea, has received his
discharge and is now home with
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Glen
Mallett of LeWisville route.
John c. Mcconnell of Column
bus, was j weekend visitor at the
home Of his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Floyd Mcconnell and sons.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Miller and
family of Summerfield, spent
Easter with Mr. and Mrs. Guy
Blair.