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Evening star., 1953-09-27

window. To top of the "fun"
they took a car from a parking
lot and pushed it down a railway
embankment.
Throughout the Nation. the
plague of destruction for de-
struction's sake has descended
darkly.
Boston. for example, spends
$4,000 a year just to replace
glass which vandals have
smashed in the schools.
In Los Angeles. the Whining
ton Junior High School was
vandalized $4,000 worth before
it was even opened in 1951-and
since then has been hit 10 more
times.
Chicago suffers $4,000 yearly
damage to school property alone.
In Detroit, the Builders Asso-
citation estimates annual vandal
tolls ranging from 100000 to So
million and the Department of
Parks and Recreation says it
suffers a yearly bill of $4,000.
All for the fun of breaking
things. No wonder Los Angeles
Police Chief William H. Parker
had a hint of fire in his eyes
when he said to me, 'TheSe
youngsters can destroy some one
else's hard work. But could they
build themselves the things they
so gleefully ruin?"
Oh, but children have always
raised Cain. OF course they
have. We'd think something
wrong with a boy who didn't do
mischief once in a while. But
the problem here is that mis-
chief has boundaries. When
youths who still haven't earned
dollar cost the Nation millions
of dollars-for no intelligible
reason-it is time to take a hard
look.
"Good Old Days" Recalled.
Capt. William Hartung of
Baltimore's bureau of aid and
prevention, remarked nostal-
gically, In the good old days,
sure. boys were boys. But they
knew the difference between a
prank and a crime. They'd
snitch. but they wouldn't steal.
They'd dump a garbage can,
sure, but they wouldn't set a
building on fire..
Something seems to have hap
pened to youngsters in the last
two or three years. A disease of
destruction" one juvenile judge
called it. There's been a big
change" observed Norbury S..
Teter, assistant director of the
Youth Study Center in Phila-
delphia. The crimes children
commit are much more serious
and a little on the psychotic
! side"
What can we do about it?
Who is to blame? What do the
children themselves say? Do we
need a return to discipline? Is
it all the parents fault? Shall
we throw children in Jail? Are
we coddling them to death? Shall
we make the parents pay?
All these and other questions
will be dealt with in this series.
The problem is no longer a one
city challenge. 1t is Nation
Evening star., 1953-09-27
Head Of Army's G-2
To Face Mccarthy
GriIIinu tomorrow
BY the Associated Press

Senator Mccarthy. Republi-
can, of Wisconsin said last night
he is going ahead with question
ing of top Army intelligence Of
f1cers despite advice it might
hurt America by showing up
who operates our intelligence. "
The Senator spoke at a re-
gional conference of the Junior
Chamber of Commerce. He in
vited the delegates to attend a
meeting tomorrow of his Senate
Investigations subcommittee.
One witness, he said, will be
Maj. Gen. r. c. Partridge, head
OF Army Intelligence.
Friends at the Pentagon asked
me not to question these gen.
erals" Senator Mccarthy said.
They said it might do the coun-
try a diSservice-if the enemy
could see who operates our in
telligence it might give him too
much aid and comfort"
Red Employees Shielded.
Senator Mccarthy said that, in
testimony he took recently in
New York. "a two-Star general
testified he was under orders not
to give the names of those per-
sons who had cleared Army en-
ployes later accused of being
members of the Communist
Party.
He said the general, whom
he did not name. also testified
he is authorized to give the
names of persons who cleared
any one later accused of a crime,
such as theft.
Senator Mccarthy told his au-
dience they would get the same
picture of the intelligence. Sys-
TEN we have" if they attend his
committee hearing tomorrow.
The Senator renewed his criti-
cism of allied trade with Com
muniSt China, saying none 'o1
Americas allies could be half
loyal to the free world"
Critics Blood Money.
He singled out Great Britain
particularly, as what he callec
IAN elleged ally traffickine
in blood money" He called again
for action by the United States
Government to cut off American
aid to any ally which ships goods
behind the Iron Curtain.
President Eisenhower SO fal
has refused to do this. Las
month Gen. Eisenhower, acting
under a 1852 mutual assistance
law, approved continued Unitet
States aid for Britain, France
Norway and West Germany ever
though they sent strategic good
to Iron Curtain countries.
This is permitted under tht
1852 law when the President car
show it is in the national in
terest.
Senator McCarthy's fiance,
and secretary, Miss Jean Kerr
sat directly in front of the roS
trum during his hour long i'm
promptu speech. They will b.
married Tuesday. To the obvious
delight of the audience, he ad
dressed an occasional remark tc
her.
Evening star., 1953-09-27
Supertunker Launched

TRIESTE, Sept. 26 tR.-The
32.000-ton oil tanker Mare
Adriacum, billed as the fastest
supertanker in the world, was
launched today at this northern
Adriatic port. The new super
tanker will join the Italian mer-
chant marine.
Evening star., 1953-09-27
Irrigation Dam Seen
As Help to Refugees

New hope has come to thou
sands of Arab refugees in the
promise that the Yarmuk River
project i'll Jordan will be under
taken. Amman reports.
A 60-mile strip of arid land
lying east of the River Jordan
stretches southwark from the
Sea of Galilee to the Dead Sea
On this poor land the refugees
have been trying to live.
The irrigation dam and reseE :
voir, to be built by a United Ne
tionS agency, will enable an esti-
mated 10000 refugee families
to make a living.
Evening star., 1953-09-27
Vandalism
Continued From First PageD

units. slashed the tires of trucks.
Fort Lauderdale, Fla. April 7,
1953-Young vandals stole a city
bus, smeared city water tower
with paint, threw coconuts
through hotel windows, smashed
glass display cases, broke auto
windshields.
San Francisco. Feb. 8, 1874
four-alarm fire at Daniel Web
+ ster School was set by juvenile
vandals
Portland, Ore. May 81, 1852
Automobiles and street lights
were shot at by four students
roaming the city in a car, firing
out the windows with a Spanish
automatic and % revolver.
Tonkawa. Okla, Nov. 80, 1852
VandalS desecrated five churches
burned two of them. Bibles
were torn up. Across the wall of
one church. GO to He'll" was
Scrawled.
White Plains, N. Y, July 7.
1953-Two boys poured gasoline
in the living room of house
nearing completion and burned
it to the ground. Damage: !:
$4,000.
Detroit, March 3. 1953-Van-
dals raided the Lothrop branch
of the Detroit Public Library.
stripped books off the shelves,
smashed glass cases and tore
rare books to bits. hurled index
cards into heaps on the floor
Eand doused them with glue.
"Senseless Destruction"
You try to make sense out of
it. The police can't. Sheer,
senseless destruction" was the
only way Police Commissioner
Thomas j. Gibbons of Philadel-
phia could describe it. These
youngsters don't have one iota OF
responsibility" he said. They
don't care whose property it. is
they don't care how valuable
They just destroy"
Take this case in Los An
geles:
Two 13-year-olds ran away
from home in the fashionable
! Westwood section and made for
! San Pedro. There they slipped
aboard a beautiful new $4,000
fishing boat which the owner
had been stocking with $1,000
worth of equipment.
The boys started it up and
headed for sea. They neglected
| to open the intake valves on the
| cooling system and within 3 OF
miles burned out the engine
Then they chopped off the mast
Then they threw a $4,000 fishing
net overheard. Then they found
! the owners shotgun and shot
! the cabin full of holes.
$4,000 Damage to Boat.
/ Finally the boat drifted ashore
with $4,000 worth of damage
for the hapless owner, who hao
saved for four years to buy the
boat and hadn't yet even taker
it on a maiden voyage.
Or. can you make any sense
! out of this one:
In Palatine Township, north
west of Chicago, four youths sci
out on what they called a "gooc
time" First items of amusement
was pouring gasoline over al
empty farmhouse and sending il
up in flames. Next, they drove
to Arlington Heights and over
turned a parked auto. Then or
to the home of high schoo
principal. where they threw 6
flaming torch in through the
Evening star., 1953-09-27
Subversives
Continued From First Page.)


difficult or impossible to deport
aliens who had been naturalized
even though it was obvious they
were in a position where they
could do the country harm.
He mentioned the case Of
Australian-born Harry Bridges.
whose election from the country
the Government has sought for
IL years. Mr. Bridges is president
of the West Coast Longshore-
mems Union, as well as labor
unions in Hawaii. "A Federal dis
trict court conviction of Mr.
Bridges for perjury in denying
he was a Communist in a nat
uraliZation hearing 10 years ago.
was set aside by the Supreme
Court.
Affects Taft Hartley.
The official said Mr.. Bridges
was just one example of a large
number Of ex-aliens the Gov
ernment would like to deport
for security reasons but could
not under present law.
In the draft of a message to
Congress for amendment of the
Taft-Hartley labor law, a docu-
ment described as a working
paper" and never made public.
the White House discussed the
problem of Communists.
Despite the controversy over
the proposed Taft-Hartley mes
sage, the part dealing with Com
n1uniSts probably will remain
intact. 1t recommended elimina-
ton of the Taft-Hartley pro-
vision requiring affidavits disa-
voWing communism of union
officers as discriminatory and
ineffective.
THE problem of Communists
in the United States" the work
ing paper" read, should be dealt
with by general legislation on a
broad front. Early in the next
session of the Congress I (the
President shall make recon-
mendations for general legisla-
ton dealing with this problem.
Act May Be Tightened.
The official said this meant
that it was the intention of the
White House to have thorough
look at subversive activities con-
troll laws and probably call for a
rather extensive amendment of
the Subversive Activities Control
Act of 1850, the so-called McCar-
ran Act. This law, among other
things, requires Communist-ac-
ton and Communist-front Or
ganizations to register with the
Attorney General.
The law administered by the
SubverSive Activities Control
Board, also requires the organi-
cations to list members and con-
tributorS.
There was considerable doubt
the administration will go so far
as to request Congress to out
law the Communist Party, but
the legislation may be frightened
to require registration of indi-
viduals.
Another law, the old Smith
Act, now provides severe penal
ties for persons conspiring to
overthrow the Government and
the Communist Party has been,
at least technically, held to be
such a conspiracy in the con-
viction of Communist Party
leaders in New York and else
where.
The problem of preventing
Communists from holding Office
in labor unions will be dealt
with IN the new legislation to be
Evening star., 1953-09-27

wide. From coast to coast, I
found no city which had escaped
it. From New York, where young
sters have ravaged the parks. to
st. Louis, where they have
smashed parking meters with
baseball bats, and on to San
Francisco, where they have de-
spoiled museums and wrecked
movie houses the disease of de-
struction" is rampant.
But in the orgy of ruin youths
seem to have saved their darned-
est for the schools. Some of the
havoc they have wreaked on
schools would make Peck's Bad
Boy seem like a cherub.
Tomorrow: The School Wreck
ers.
Distributed by The Register and Tri-
oune Syndicate)
Evening star., 1953-09-27
French Tunisiu Chief
Promises Satisfaction
By the Assoeioted Press

TUNIS, TuniSia, Sept. 90
The new French resident gen.
eral arrived here today said
that France intends to satisfy
the legitimate aspirations of the
Tunisian people,"
Pierre Voizard, Frances new
top administrator of this North
African protectorate of 3.5 mil
lion people made the statement
in a message addressed to the
Bey, nominal ruler, at a recep-
ton in the palace at Carthage.
Evening star., 1953-09-27
Ives Calls on 6. 0. P.
TO Avoid Politics in
Revision Of Taft Act
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

Senator Ives Of New York
urged fellow Republicans yester-
day to toss politics out of the
window in considering proposed
changes in the Taft-Hartley
labor law.
Senator Ives, staunch sup
porter of President Eisenhower,
said that so far as he is per-
sonally concerned he intends to
work in the next session of Con-
gress toward making Taft-Hart-
ley "a decent act" that both
organized labor and manage
ment will consider fair.
I'VE Republicans must toss
politics out of the window in
proposing changes in the act"
he said in an interview. I'VE
must do our work without
thought of political benefit of
deficit. If the Democrats want
to make a campaign issue of
Taft Hartley, our best answer
to them will be a non-partisan
approach"
Democrats Hint Plain.
Democratic leaders indicated
strongly at a recent Chicago
rally that they intend to take
as much advantage as they can
from the controversy aroused
by Martin Durkin's resignation
as Secretary of Labor.
Senator Ives, who often voices
administration views. pointed
out that to meet his 1852 cam
paign promises. President EiSen-
hover need recommend only
limited changes in the present
law.
The President promised only
to try to do something about
economic strikes and about the
Communist OATH" Senator Ives
said. Il think he could make
recommendations along those
lines that would not be highly
controversial"
Senator Ives said he was pre-
pared personally to sponsor
changes in the law which would
permit unions to picket plants
, which had taken over the filling
of orders held by a struck firm.
He added something would have
to be worked out to legalize the
g closed shop in building trades,
printing and other industries.
The Senator said he had no
information on when Gen. Els
enhoWer may fill the Durkin va
cancy. but hoped that no at
tempt would be made to choose
another man from organized la
boris ranks for the job.
Ching Is Mentioned.
ITS unfair to labor to pick d
man from its ranks because that
salways must involve choice
between the CIO and the AFL,
he observed.
!. Chairman Smith of the Sen
ate Labor Committee has sug-
geSted that Gen. Eisenhower
take his time about filling the
Cabinet vacancy. The New Jer-
sey Senator added the name of
DR.. James Douglas Brown,
Princeton University industrial
relations expert, to what some
sources said was already a
lengthy White House list of pos
sible appointees.
Some politicians believe the
name of Cyrus S. Ching. former
Federal mediator, is high on this
list. There also were reports
that Mary Donlon, chairman of
the Workmens Compensation
Board of New York. was being
given some consideration.
Evening star., 1953-09-27
Duke Visits ShetIunds

LERWICK, Shetland Islands,
Sept. 26 (P).-The Duke of Edin-
burgh, plotting his own De Hav-
illand Dove plane, arrived here
today for the first royal visit to
the Shetland Islands in II years.
The main object of his visit was
to open Lerwick's new playing
field.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1953-01-16
SO. ALBEMARLE
GROUP MEETING
IN ENGELHARD
Executive Committee Meet
ing Announced for
Wednesday

A six county executive meeting
of the Southern Albemarle Asso-
citation is announced for EngeI-
hard, Wednesday, January 81, by
Lawrence Swain, President, of
Manteo, and Leon Balance, vice
president for Hyde County. From
all indications this will be the most
important meeting of the Southern
Albemarle Association this year
and it is expected that all men,
bers who possibly can will arrange
to attend. The meeting will be
called to order in the High School
Auditorium at exactly 1890 am,
and the following is the agenda
for the day:
1870 am, invocation; 1926,
call to order; 10:40 am, Standing
committee reports, special COM
mittee reports; 11:30 am, commit
tee appointments; 11:45 am, COM
mittee caucus for the appointment
of chairman and to map out pro-
gram for the year; l pm, lunch
at the Hotel Engelhard; 2 pm,
convene for afternoon session;
2;05 pm, DR.. W. T. Ralph, chair
man of the Roads and Bridges
Committee, will lead discussion on
the Alligator River and Croatan
Sound bridges; pm, adjourn
ment.
1t might be expected that this
meeting might run into extra time
tand that adjournment may be de-
layed, but if we are prepared for
submission of reports and can keep
the meeting moving the agenda
will not be impossible. Please be
prepared and to the point.
Since all counties will De asked
to participate in the legislative
program to the extent Of the full
annual dues the members of the
executive committee are hereby re-
quested to pay for their lunch in
dividually. 1t is felt that it would
be little too much to ask the host
county to also pay the full bill for
the entertainment of the quarterly
and annual meeting of the execu-
tive committee and of the assocla-
ton.
1t is also urgently requested that
those who plan to attend will noti-
fly Leon G. Balance, vice-president
for Hyde County, just as soon as
you receive this letter. 1t is easy to
forget such notification and also
almost impossible to arrange for a
group that the number in attend
ance cannot be depended upon. Mr..
Balance has set January II for
the deadline for such notification.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1953-01-16
CAPE POINT ROAD TO BE
BUILT ON HATTERAS I'D

Buxton.-A paved road from the
Hatteras Island highway to Cape
Point here will be constructed dur
ing the spring, it was stated to-
day by A. C. Stratton. of the Ma
tional Park Service with offices in
Manteo. The highway spur will
pass close to the ocean beach from
Hatteras Lighthouse to the Cape,
where a parking area for automo-
biles will be constructed.
This will be one of the first ply
steal changes to be made through
the former State Park lands
which during late December was
decided to the Cape Hatteras Ma
tional Seashore Recreation area.
Contract for building the road has
already been let, it was stated.
In addition to the new road
through the Cape area, plans are
underway to develop a museum in
the former lighthouse keepers
quarters near the base of the mon
ument and also to make arrange
ments for tourists and others in
the area to be privileged to climb
to the top of Americas highest
lighthouse, it was stated.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1953-01-16
r E. S E A RICH
BACKED BY
POLIO FUND

Recent successes in the search
for an effective, safe and perma-
nent preventive of paralytic polio,
have intensified the need for
March of Dimes funds to explore
and exploit the findings, accord
ing to Basil O'Connor, president
of the National Foundation for
Infantile Paralysis.
Certainly the discoveries con-
corning gamma globulin did not
mean the end to polio problems"
Mr.. O'Connor said. "While they
solved some problems, they also
created many new ones"
The two main findings, Mr..
O'Connor said, were that % gam
ma globulin provides marked pro-
lection of a temporary nature "a
gainst paralytic polio and (2) it
may modify the severity of polio
during the late stages of the in
cubation period of the disease,
even though it may not prevent
the disease completely if given
after the infection has taken place.
Limitations Cited
Mr.. O'Connor cited three i'm
portant limitations to the use of
gamma globulin.
..,. 1T gives only temporary
protection. Thus the search for a
permanent vaccine must contin-
ue.
2-GG is in very short supply.
Techniques for increasing the
supply for reasonable use must
be developed.
Gamma glohulin research
is incomplete. 1t must still be de-
termined, for example, if GG will
permit the mild, inapparent form
of polio infection that leads to
an active long-lasting immunity.
Large sums of March of Dimes
money must be invested before
solutions to the above problems
are found, MIR. O,Connor pointed
out.
May Smother Epidemics
"Our scientists insist that all
we can reasonably hope for at
this point" he said, "is that gam
ma globulin may be used in at
tempting to smother polio cpl
denies in hard-hit areas. The fl
nal answer will still have to be
a safe and effective vaccine that
will provide relatively long-last-
ing immunity. Efforts to produce
such a vaccine for widespread hui
man use are being hopefully pur-
See POLIO, Page Five
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1953-01-16
A WOMAN DIES AFTER
STRIKING FISH TRUCK
COinjOck Woman Collides Head On
With Truck Driven by Donald
Midget of Manns HarbOr

Mrs. lola Lee Walker, 40 year
old Coinjock woman, was instantly
killed, her companion, Geo. A. Rob
erts, about As, of Southern Ave
nue., Elizabeth City, received a
fractured arm, a head injury and
numerous cuts and bruises in an
automobile accident that occurred
on NC 1853 during the early part
Of Saturday night.
Roberts who is a civilian en-
ployee of the NAT at Weeksville,
was taken to the Elizabeth City
hospital where he was treated for
his injuries and admitted.
Investigating highway patrol
men said the accident occurred one
and three tenths miles east
of tBarco in Curritnck County at the
intersection of NC "a.
Involved were fish truck be-
longing to Robert Beasley of
Manns Harbor and driven by&Don-
aid Midget, and the automobile
in which Mrs. Walker and Roberts
were riding.
The Patrol said the car, which
was driven by Mrs. Walker, cross
ed the center line of the highway
and collided head on with the
truck. Mrs. Walker is said to have
been driving the automobile. She
was dead when the ambulance ar
rived at the scene.
She is survived by her husband,
G. N. Walker of Coinjock, one son,
Terry Lee; her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert E. Lee; two sisters,
Mrs. Margaret Cartwright and
Miss Mary Lee, both of Norfolk;
and three brothers, Vernon and
Wilbur Lee of>Norfolk, and Aaron
Lee of Elizabeth City.
Investigating the accident were
Sgt. L. B. Lane, Corp. R. A. Trip,
Pfc. r. C. Holt, and Patrolman o.
L. Wise, all of the highway pa
troll.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1953-01-16
BEING A GOOD
FELLOW COSTLY
IN MOST CASES
Finds 1t Doesn't Help When
1t Comes Time to Pay
Bills

Too often a fellow with limited
capital gets in a jam when he
trusts out his goods too far. F. L.
Peele of Hatteras was in the oil
business. He couldn't say "no" to
his friends and neighbors; he lik-
ed to help all of them. His collec-
tions weren't on hand when it came
time to pay his bills. He gave a
check for $1,700 to the NJ. L. Dan
iels Oil Co. in December 1851, and
after doing so, his collections didn't
get in on time to get to the bank.
He did his best to work it out
with the oil company; he said he
paid. off part of it, but he lost his
agency, and the company got out
a warrant in September. At that,
with all his efforts, it finally came
to trial Tuesday. Judge Baum gave
a 30-day suspended sentence, and
812 months to pay off the $1,7O0
at the rate of 5000 per month. No
body works any harder, or goes
farther to help folks than this
man, but when it comes to bust
ness, oil companies don't take any
thing off for that.
For a brutal assault during the
Christmas holidays on slender
Clarence Hassell, Deputy Sheriff
at Manns Harbor, Van Buren, Twi-
ford of Stumpy Point was fined
$40, and required to pay HasselPs
doctors bill. This with costs and
fine amounted to $500.
John Coolidge Mann, colored,
got drunk Jan. 9th and while in
Jail tore up a towel belonging to
the county. He got a suspended
30-day sentence and was ordered
to pay so cents to buy a new tow
ell. Court costs and all came to
$21.20.