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The Glacier reporter. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1953-current, 1953-10-02
TRUCK WRECK CLAIMS LIFE
OF WALLER MAN TUESDAY

Leon Earl Bliss, 80, young
man born and raised in the Waller
community, but now married and
making his home in Lewistown,
was instantly killed on Tuesday
night of this week on Highway
No. 2, II miles west of Browning
and about two miles west of Dus-
tvs Inn when a heavily loaded
truck and semi-trailer left the
grade, careened along the borrow
pit for some distance and then
smashed into a tree.
Coroner c. Murl Beck was mott
fled of the accident, and with
Jack w. Rape went to the scene
of the disaster, arriving only
short time after the occurrence.
After careful examination it
was concluded that the accident
was caused by possibly toe much
speed, considering the road and
the heavy load. There were two
curves in the road not far from
where the truck was found, and
it may have been that the driver
dozed for an instant and lost con-
troll
Bliss was driving for the Great
Falls Builders, and had on
heavy load of lumber, which he
was bringing back from the Flat
head. When the truck hit the
tree, the heavy load on the trail
err was forced up over the cab by
the impact, and Bliss was caught
in the cab, probably being killed
instantly. He had a broken neck
and other bruises and decorations.
No inquest was deemed neces-
sary.
Bliss was a veteran of World
War II. He was raised in the Va
lier community, being of a large
family.
The body was taken to Conrad,
and funeral services will be held
in Waller the latter part of this
week. Mrs. Bliss came, and &C.
companied the body to Conrad.
The Glacier reporter. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1953-current, 1953-10-02
TRAVEL IN GLACIER PARK
UNDER 10000 FOR THE YEAR

WEST GLACIER * Ola c r
Parks 1858 travel is expected to
fall just short of 100000. The fig
ure is now at $4,000.
However, 1858 will be second
best travel year in the parks his
tory, exceeded only by 1852, with
63O,949. Second best year had
been 1851 with 500,125.
Travel through Glacier, now in
the gold and reds of fall, contin-
ues. Through traffic stops when
snow blocks Logan pass on the So
mile long Comprehension high
way annually in late October.
The Glacier reporter. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1953-current, 1953-10-02

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The Glacier reporter. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1953-current, 1953-10-02
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The Glacier reporter. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1953-current, 1953-10-02

FOR SALE-Tiny Mod ern
Spinnet Piano must be taken up
in your vicinity. Amount due
may be handled in small monthly
payments. For full particulars,
write Credit Manager, Box 1899
Great Falls, Montana. 9-18-2tc
Evening star., 1953-05-10
Lost Of a Series Of NATo Survey Stories.


his most conservative strpes He is checking up
mans the dividends He also Is collecting evidence
to guide his future policy.
From everybodys point vew this is good thing
Europeans and American officials alike, it like
approach that promises lift the subject of American aid
of the of emotonals prejudice and politics in which
it has been immersed holds the that the American
people at last clear picture of what they doing
in Europe and why they doing it.
1t isn't surprising if at this point the whole subject
inspires average with confusion dsmay
Since the end of the has been trying to
with succession of whose purposes lost in
meaningless tumble of alphabetical agencies and whose
obectves tooofen couded in overoptmistc sales
manship.
The Taxpayer-Is Saint Sucker?
For the most part his reports have been master
pieces in black white The taxpayer painted saint
sucker either saving the world being taken for the
ride of his suffering The confusion has
spread with each journalistic angle catch phrase gmmck
and punchline.
to take of the distortion out of this picture There is
confidence that realistic appraisal of the and
accomplishments of the American aid program will help to
dSpe doubts and focus attention the real problems that
the free world faces today
In 1947 when the emphasis in aid shifted
from direct emergency relief to planned program for
reconstruction the obecves perfectly clear They
To rebuild Europes washattered by providing
the essential and material that Europe could not afford
herself.
imitation and relieve Europe critical shortage
of dollars
g. To check the spread OF Communism and strengthen
the development of friendly democratic by
ing employment and living standards
At the time elaborate arguments needed to show
the need for such In spite OF the money that had
of the much of Europes industrial MACHINE stood idle
It predicted that at least decade would pass before
the damage could repaired and Europe restored
bance of prosperity Considering the general level of morale
and particularly the strength of communism in several sr
egic countries there to believe that the
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Evening star., 1953-05-10

the satellite world and to write
sickening compliments of their
captors in letters home.
"Secret Weapon" Feared.
Some Washington higher-ups
believed the answer must be that
the Chinese Reds had a sort of
psychological secret weapon"
which they had loosed on our
prisoners of war. What this ter
rible device could be they did
not know, but apparently it had
affected almost every prisoner.
There was concern not only
over the minds of our soldiers.
but also over the propaganda
victories that were being won in
the Far East with the we'll
circulated American confessions.
So when the Communists Of
fered to free sick and wounded
prisoners, Washington intelli-
gence agencies were anxious to
talk to the men who appeared to
have been most seriously victim
lied. They wanted to know what
the Chinese technique was. and
how it could be combatted in the
future.
When the prisoners were re-
patriated at Panmunjom those
on the Pentagon list of GIs most
effectively used by the Reds were
singled out for special attention.
Secrecy Was Original Idea.
The original idea in the Penta-
gon was to bring these men to
Valley Forge Hospital in COM
plete secrecy. Valley Forge is a
psychiatric center, although it
also has some of the best Army
facilities for treatment of tuber-
(COntinued on Page A. Col. ~
Evening star., 1953-05-10

1914-built terminal a terrible
place." so outgrown that mail
handling overf1ows on outside
sidewalks in all kinds Of weather.
Twenty-nine antiquated
horse-drawn wagons haul the
mail in 1853 Philadelphia. .
In Miami gasoline scooters and
Streamlined "caddy" carts speed
deliveries. But in New York,
biggest Office of all, employees
there As years say there hasn't
been a device introduced in re-
cent years that has boosted eff
f1ciency.
Or take the case of Marjorie
Ort. She airmailed a letter in
San Francisco at 4 o'clock one
afternoon. At the same hour q
letter was dropped in a suburban
mailbox 10 miles from Wash
ington. The West Coast letter,
travelling about 5000 miles, was
delivered at the Associated Press
office in Washington at noon
Evening star., 1953-05-10

son, a Truman appointee now
succeeded by Republican Post
master General Arthur Summer
field, always claimed the postal
system to be the best in the
world. He said its major trouble
was the deficit, and the inability
of Congress to decide if it wanted
to raise rates enough to make
the mails pay their own way. or
to continue to subsidize them out
Of tax money.
On the current investigatory
front, 20 inspectors for weeks
have been delving into postal
affairs in New York to deter
mine why it ranks about 40th
in efficiency. Lesser investiga-
tions are going on in other places.
At a top level, the department
is studying management and ac-
counting problems as vel as
mail operations. Congress has
Continued on Page A-12, Col. 81
Evening star., 1953-05-10

the next day. The suburban
letter reached the same address
almost 20 hours later. :.
isolated and disSimilar, these
Incidents have one thing in COM
mon. They pinpoint the gigantic
and complex problem. the Eisen-
hover administration faces as it
tackles operation of the largest
non-military business" in the
world-the United States postal
system.
At least three major investi-
cations by Congress and the Post
Office are under way to determine
the ailments and possible cures
for this sprawling department
which employs $4,000 people,
operates 10000 Offices and spends
SIS billion a year. A three
quarter billion dollar annual def
cit Is one of its biggest woes.
The system has defenders as
well as critics. Former Post
master General Jesse M. Donald
Evening star., 1953-05-10
Mostodon' S Bones,
Almost Complete,
Discovered in Ohio
BY the Associated Press

AKRON, Ohio, May ga mas
todon skeleton an exultant ex-
pert described as "in an exqui-
site state of preservation" was
found today near Mogadore, east
of here at the Portage County
line.
William E. Scheele, director
of the Cleveland Museum of
Natural History, said, There is
almost no decomposition of the
bones. and almost all of them
are there. The only thing miss
ing so far is the tusks." Digging
for them will continue tomorrow.
The extinct elephant-like ami
NAL, which Mr.. Scheele said was
mature and we'll developed, was
lying on its side. only 2 feet
below the surface when found
by men digging a ditch with a
power shovel.
Evening star., 1953-05-10
Man Thought
Dead dShoWsUp
As Foote Heir

A man presumed dead, but who
turned up after 40 years absence
has been identified as an heir
to the $750,0OO Foote property in
Fairfax County.
He is Joseph Foote, who in 1888
was legally declared dead by an
Arlington Circuit Court decree.
Until his recent temperance.
Joseph Foote had not been seen
by his family since 1912.
Joseph Foote came back to
Fairfax County after he read in
a Cleveland, Ohio, newspaper
about proposed sale of the 33-
acre Foote property at Seven
Corners in Fairfax County.
Fairfax Attorney Robert J.
McCandliSh, jr.. said two other
members of the Foote family
Mrs. Virginia Jackson and Frank
Foote, met Joseph Thursday and
identified him as their long
missing brother. Mr.. McCan-
dish said a petition probably
would be filed in Fairfax Circuit
Court to make Joseph Foote
formally an heir to the estate
Another sister is Mrs. Margaret
Jackson, OF SIG Forty-fourth
street NE.
Joseph Foote thus will become
the fourth heir to share in the
sale of the valuable property
bought by his father. Frederick
Foote, a former slave, for $500
after the Civil War
The Lynne Investment Corp
Of Washington has contracted to
buy the estate to build q shop
ping center.
Evening star., 1953-05-10
War Veteran PAGES
On 9TH Floor Ledge
BY the Associoted Press

ERIE. Pa. May "a 22-year.
old Korea veteran perched on a
four-foot seventh floor ledge Of
the Erie Veterans Administra-
ton Hospital tonight and brushed
aside pleas to come inside by
saying:
Il like it out here, the fresh
air is fine"
Ernest Pugh, acting hospital
manager, said Joseph Spiegel of
McKeeSport, Pa, cut a screen in
window of the psychiatric
ward. then clambered onto the
ledge.
Mr.. Spiegel did not threaten
to jump. Instead, he walked
slowly along the ledge from
time to time. He watched fire.
men more than 125 feet below
stretch nets in an effort to catch
him if he fell.
The veteran went onto the
ledge at $50 pm. edit. Four
nOufS later ne climbed from the
ledge onto the top floor of the
eight-story building and went
into penthouse, where he
picked up telephone and told
the hospital operator he wanted
to make a call: But when psy-
chiatrists got to the roof, he had
climbed back to his ledge again.
Emergency f1oodlights we're
set up. Firemen with their nets
matched Mr.. Spiegel's stride.
step by step. Now and then Mr..
Spiegel would lean against the
side of the building. But to all
pleas to return inside, he just
muttered:
Il like it out here. The fresh
air is fine"
Evening star., 1953-05-10
Big Tax Boost
Forbes Studied
In Congress
1870 Cent Increase
In Property Levy
Among Proposals
By. Don S. Warren

Proposals for big tax increases
for the District now are being
put into tentative form for con-
sideration of the Senate District
Committee, it was learned last
night.
AS yet there is no apparent
commitment on any phase of the
problem, but delay at the Budget
Bureau on the Districts huge
PUBLIC works program obviously
has Inspired thoughts of alterha-
tives.
The tax boost plans at present
are on the staff level, with bills
being drafted for later considera-
ton.
If these tentative plans should
be adopted. District taxes would
be increased by about $40 mil
lions to cover present and i'm
pending budget demands.
Official VerificatiOn Hinted.
Heard in congressional cor
ridors are suggestions for a Is or
20 cent increase in the realty
tax, a broadening of the base Of
the per cent sales tax, a boost
in the District cigarette tax and
perhaps others.
The only official verification
was the statement by Robert c.
Albrook, clerk of the Senate Dis
trict Committee, that some pre-
liminary studies were under way
and that: I'VE are looking over
the whole structure of the Dis
trict taxes"
There now is agreement that
the Districts mounting fiscal
problems should be considered
at joint hearings by subcommit-
tees of the House and Senate
District Committees.
Joint Hearings Due.
The Senate group already has
invited joint hearings. Yester-
day, Representative O'Hara.
chairman Of the Fiscal subcom-
mittee of the House District
Committee, said he was convinced
it would save time and effort.
The only question was when a
convenient time could be ar
ranged. House and Senate off,
cialS are to consult this week.
One Senator said the joint hear
ings probably would be started
next week if other business pre-
vented beginning late this week.
Among suggested reasons for
proposing new District taxes is
the cool reaction so far evi-
denced on Capitol Hill to the
Commissioners plan for an eight
year. $685. million public works
program.
This still is awaiting a pro-
nouncement by the Budget Bu-
reau. The plan calls for Fed
eral grant of $108 million over
(See TAXES, Page A-12J
Evening star., 1953-05-10
D. {. Area Startled
By Thunder as JET
Cracks Sonic Wall
Conclusion Marks
Feet, Believed First
Time Near Capital

An airplane flew faster than
sound over Andrews Field, Md,
yesterday. probably the first
time one has passed through the
sonic barrier in this area.
When it cracked the sound
wall, two thunderclaps sounded.
Frightened residents called police
and newspapers. Prince Georges
County police said they under
stood a plane crashed or ex-
ploded.
The same pilot is scheduled to
take his F-86 Sabrejet through
the sonic wall again tomorrow.
He was only practicing yesterday.
Capt. Alvin r. Norman, 30,
the flyer, said he wasn't permitted
to tell his exact speed. II was
going faster than sound, though, !"
he said.
That was at least 763 miles
an hour.
An Air Force public relations
officer said he doubts if a plane
has ever penetrated the sound
wall in this area before.
I'm sure this is the first time
it was ever done here for demon
stration purposes" he added.
A Navy Department press Of
ficer agreed that yesterdays feat
probably was the first time a
plane has broken the sound bar
rier over the Washington area.
although he said he believes it
has been done before at Patux-
ent Navy Base in St. Marys
County, Md, about so miles from
Washington.
Capt. Moorman's boss, Col.
Jack D. Dale, jr., explained that
plane going through the sonic
barrier acts a bit like lightning
(See SONIC, Page A-12.)
Evening star., 1953-05-10
Attacker Of Woman
Linked 10 HoIdup Of
Maryland Store
Description Of Bondit
TuIIies With Thut of
Fuirfux Convict

A Prince George County liquor
store was held up yesterday by
an armed robber who answered
the description of the escaped
Virginia convict wanted for as
saulting a young Fairfax County
mother.
Prince Georges County police
said there was a very good pos
sibility" that the liquor store
bandit was the fugitive Virginia
prisoner.
The robbery took place about
4 pm. at Schneider's Liquor
Store in CoIlington. Md, off De-
fense highway between Route 301
and Bowie road.
Mrs. Beatrice Schneider, 36
who operates the liquor store
with her husband, said a man
wearing khaki trousers and a
white T-shirt came in and asked
for a beer.
Woman Held Up.
Mrs. Schneider went to the
rear of the store where iced beer
is kept, and discovered that the
man had followed her. She said
he pulled out a small, shiny
pistol.
II said don't shoot-what do
you want?" recalled Mrs. Schnei-
der.
The gunman demanded money.
She emptied the cash register
of about $50 and gave it to him.
She said he then told her to go
in a back room and lie down on
the floor for 20 minutes if she
wanted to stay alive. Before she
obeyed his command, Mrs.
Schneider said, the bandit
turned and fled to a car parked
outside.
Fairfax Search Continues.
The lookout broadcast for the
bandit described him as a man
between 25 and 80, about feet
II inches tall and weighing ITS
pounds, brown hair, blue eyes and
ruddy complexion.
The fugitive Virginia prisoner
is Richard Parker, q, of Rock
bridge County, Va. He is des-
cribed as a Stocky-built man
with brown hair and blue eyes.
He was wearing khaki prison
trousers and shirt when he walk
ed away from a road gang on
Shirley Highway Friday and
raped a 21-year-old Franconia,
Va. housewife, Virginia State
police reported. Parker was serv-
ing IL years for knitting his wife.
Posses of police and prison
guards with bloodhounds search
ed miles of woodland in Fairfax
County all Friday afternoon and
night. The foot search was
abandoned yesterday morning
after the bloodhounds appeared
to have lost the fugitive's trail.
Extra State and Fairfax County
squad cars continued to search
all roads in the area last night.
Evening star., 1953-05-10
Top Jet Ace
Buqs 18th Red MIG
By the Associated Press

SEOUL, Sunday. May 10. -
Capt. Manuel j. Fernandez, jr.,
of Miami, Fla, today became the
worlds foremost jet ace. shooting
down his 18th Red MIG plane.
Capt. Fernandez, who flew the
first pictures of the returned
U. N. prisoners of war from
Korea to Japan, has been an
ace since February 18, when
he downed his fifth and sixth
MICS on the same day.
On March 81 he scored an
other double kill. April II he
bagged his 18th Red plane with
out firing a shot. He maneuvered
the pilot into crashing.
Evening star., 1953-05-10

L1ldG EcIl1lSy1VdLlld COWIl. I1GTOCS
welcomes awaited other return
eeS-but not these.
They, the Army seemed to sug-
gest, were the fallen ones. Some
how, this group had been con-
taminated by the Communist
virus. They needed psychiatric
treatment; their brains must be
"unwashed." Presumably, after
that they would emerge once
again as good, clean American
heroes.
Then, almost overnight, the
National conscience received an
unpleasant wrench. In inter-
views with doctors and newsmen,
the Phoenixville soldiers in
sisted that they weren't Com
munistS. They weren't mentally
deranged. They were, on the
other hand, very angry at the
reception they received from
their countrymen.
A Colossal Mistake.
What they said had the ring
of clear truth. In the embarrassed
aftermath, everyone agreed: The
incident, from start to finish, had
been colossal mistake. Someone
had blundered. Who?
What was the mistake that had
been made? How had it come
about? What was the real story
of Phoenixville?
The real story was that Ameri-
cans, as a people fond of heroic
dreams but untouched by the
dirty reality of war. had utterly
failed to understand the situation
of their kinfolk in the alien
prison camps. In their own
security, they had not reckoned
with the weakness of flesh and
the sweetness of life to a lonely
man, even an American, facing
death far from home.
In the PhoeniXville story, they
had a lesson to learn.
Experts Saw Incident Coming.
It was no last-minute brain
Storm-no hurried error by a
minor official-which brought
the % to Valley Forge Hospital.
For months. top officials of the
Defense Department and of
Americas security and psyche
logical warfare agencies had seen
this incident coming and racked
their brains for a means of ham
ding it.
They were much aware Of a
fact of which the public had
been told little: That there were,
among American POWs in Com
munist hands, many who had
served the propaganda cause Of
their captorS.
1t seemed incredible to many
Of these officials that the Com
munists could have induced hun
dreds of our soldiers to do their
bidding-to sign confessions"
Of atrocities that had never ex-
listed, to broadcast the baldest
Communist lies over Chinese ra-
dio stations, to join "roadshow"
confession teams and blacken
the name of America all over
Evening star., 1953-05-10
Next Seowoy Step?
Conodions Wonder

LAST CHANCE FOR THE SEAWAY
The Conodions hove told US to
fish or cut bolt on the St. Lawrence
Seowoy. President Eisenhower hos
thrown his support behind the project
otter a meeting with Conodion Prime
Minister St. Lourent. Now, where
do we 90 from here? The question
is exomined by Stor StoH Writer
WiIIiom Hines on Poee AT.
RAH! TIGER! SIS BOOM All
Greet FoIIs' merry go round, believed
the oldest in the Notion, hos gone
out Of business and its wooden oni-
moIs hove been sold into posture"
A Iocol Prncetonion hos the tiger in
his dining room. The story. by Stot
StoH Write, Som Eostmon, oppeors
On Pose AIS todoy.
Complete index, Poge AZ
Rodio- TV. Programs. Poaes E-4-5
Evening star., 1953-05-10
27,317 Youngsters
Stage Parade Here
For Traffic Safety
$4,000 See Procession
Of School PotroIs;;
DiMueeio Is Marshal

A record turnout of thousands
of excited youngsters beat out
a cadence of traffic safety re-
minders on Constitution avenue
yesterday in the National School
Safety Patrol Parade.
In costumes ranging from blue
jeans and checked shirts to the