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Evening star., 1953-04-23

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mittee for Better Radio: A talk
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Guinness and a BIC dramatiza-
ton of Henry III" starring
Catherine Lacey and Bruce Bel
frage.
800, WMAL-ABC. Playhouse
Cesar Romero stars in MY Hus-
band. Mr.. Forsythe."
$3.50, WTOP - Bing Crosby
Show: Rosemary Clooney is
guest.
1880, WRC - Vice President
Nixon: Address to the American
Newspaper Publishers Associa-
ton.
TeIevision Todoy.
$3.50, WTOP-Four Star Play
house: Charles Boyer stars in
"The Last Voyage"
$3.50, WNBW-Treasury Men
in Action: The drama is 'The
Case of the Cold Trail"
$3.50, WNBW-Ford Theater
Sally Forrest and Marshall
Thompson play the leading roles
in Life of the Party"
1000, WTTG-Author Meets
the Critics: DR.. Ralph Lapp's
THE New Force" is discussed
Evening star., 1953-04-23

grade level OF the textbook in
formation"
You see there, Commissioner
Frieda Hennock? That stuff is
educational.
X X II
THE BEGINNING-The most
famous feud in broadcasting
probably is that running contest
of wits which Jack Benny and
Fred Allen continued on tele-
vision the other evening. Many
stories have been circulated
about its origin, but naturally
only one of them is true.
1t was related recently by Bill
Thomas, New York advertising
man who was sitting with some
other people in Olmsted's wait
ing for Ralph Bellamy. Mr.
Bellamy never arrived, but Mr.
Thomas "reminiscences about
radios early days were fine. He
knew about the Benny-A Allen
feud because he was one OF
those who fed the flames afte,
it started spontaneously.
ut began" he related, when
Allen presented a young violin
prodigy, whose identity is now
lost in anonymity. He played
Schubert's THE Bee" and Allen
drawled that he knew a grown
man who kept trying to play the
violin and couldn't play that
WE'LL"
On his program a few nights
later. Benny, betrayed by his
writer's, boasted that he hao
played THE Flight of the
Bumblebee" in public at the age
of 10 and could prove It. 1t was
Aliens turn next.
That shows you how much
Jack Benny knows about music,
be said. "He doesn't know Schu.
bert's The Bee from Flight o1
the Bumblebee,' which was writ.
ten by two other fellows named
Rimsky and Korsakoff."
The high point in this long.
run debate probably was reached
the night Benny and Allen were
on the air together and Aller
drove home a particularly tell.
ing thrust. Benny paused the
famous Benny pause, ther
snarled: If. my writer's were
here you wouldn't dare talk tx
me like that"
Evening star., 1953-04-23
Prepare Yourself
For Film Repeats
By HoI Humphrey
HOLLYWOOD.

TV viewers who have been
watching the stuff pretty stead
lily this past winter had better
make plans right now for some
other type Of recreation during
the summer.
Summer video and radio pro-
grams were never much for quail
ity anyway. Sponsors always
have assumed that we leave our
homes around June IS and don't
return until some time in Sep
tember.
But instead of seeing cheap
summer replacement shows this
summer, we're. going to be
treated to repeats of what we've
been watching since last fall.
This practice will get loud
howls from those Eastern critics
who have been nti-Hollywood
from the start. because it's the
filming of TV shows which is
inspiring this new trend.
What cheaper way can a spon-
Sor find for holding on to his
choice network time in the sum-
mer than breaking out a can of
film which already is setting on
the shelf?
There is something to be said
for repeating the best of Groucho
Marks shows, or Burns and
Allen. Even if you have seen
these particular shows before,
they still are better than the
average summer replacement
programs that have been foisted
on us in the past.
Not all of the filmed shows will
be repeated. II Love Lucy" will
give way to some hot-weather
substitute. But of course Lucy"
has been repeating herself the
past several weeks to rest up
after the arrival of Desi, jr.
The repeaters won't all be con-
fined to Aim either. Ralph Ed
wards This Is Your Life" is
bridging the summer hiatus with
repeats OF kineScopeS.
But any way you look at it.,
TV viewing this summer is likely
to be duller than ever. Last
summer, viewers had the po-
litical conventions in Chicago to
break the monotony.
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! eyndicate.l
Evening star., 1953-04-23
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Evening star., 1953-03-12
Syn1ington Says Nation Suffers
From Bitter Pentoqon Rivalry

administration has changed from
Democrat to Republican but
one thing has not changed-the
policy of butter and guns has
not shifted in favor of guns"
He argued that the American
people should be given the truth
about the military strength and
production of Soviet Russia as
compared to the western allies
military strength and produc-
ton.
Questions on Defense.
Then he posed these questions:
/. What is our Governments S
estimate of that date when the
Soviets may have what they
might consider enough atomic
weapons to launch a successful
attack, by air and submarine,
against the United States?
2. Is our Defense Department
properly organized for the most
efficient utilization of the tax
payers dollar in building de-
fense against such an attack, by
that date?
8. And is the size and form of
our defense program aimed to-
ward the maximum national
defense possible against atomic
attack by that date?
In other words" he said, will
Evening star., 1953-03-12
BY the Assoeioied Press

PHILADELPHIA, Mar. ia
one-time Pentagon chief said
last night that if the American
people knew the truth about bit
ter rivalrieS in the armed Serv-
ices they would demand a
wholesale reorganization" Of
the Defense Department.
Senator Symington, Democrat
Of Missouri, former Secretary of
the Air Force, told the Bulletins
seventh annual forum that the
public is not being given the
truth about the defense effort
and continuance of that failure
may destroy u.s."
People Suffer as Result.
1.-THE Department of Defense
is suffering from inside compe-
tition, and the American people
are suffering because of it. If
the Pentagon operated under a
unif1cation law which gave ef-
f1cient business and military ad-
ministration, with less service
friction, we'd get far more de-
fense for far less money" he
added.
Senator Symington's speech
came in the closing session of
the two-day forum a short time
before Gen. Lord Ismay, Secre-
tary General of the North At
lantic Treaty Organization, said
the building of Europe's defense
forces is ahead of estimates
made by President Eisenhower
when he was chief of the NATO
armed forces.
Gen. 1smay reported NATO
now has mot less than so effec-
tive divisions and 1000 first line
aircraft" ready to meet any ag-
gression against the West.
He said Gen. Alfred M. Gruen-
ther, chief of staff to Gen.
Matthew Ridgway, NATO COM
mander, told me we are much
further ahead today than he
and Gen. Eisenhower had est!-
mated that we would be at the
end of two years"
Hits Failure to Tell Truth.
Senator Symington gave the
last-round punch to the forum
with a cauStic criticism of what
he called a failure to give the
American people the truth about
the defense situation.
''It is a sad fact that for a
long time some of our national
leaders-in both parties-have
not told us the whole brutal
truth about the world in which
we live the failure to tell
us the truth has already injured
us. The continuance of that fail
ure may destroy u.s." he said.
Senator Symington said the
Evening star., 1953-03-12

road, Arlington-on october o.
1851, for his Korean assignment
The 46-year-old colonel is a
native of Arkansas and was a
county school superintendent
from 1929 until he began active
duty with the Army in 1912.
A graduate of Ouachita Col
lege in 1927, Col. Taylor served
in military police battalions in
Minnesota, Georgia and Virginia
during World War II.
During tour of duty in China
beginning in 1916, he was COM
misSioned in the Regular Army
with the rank of captain. His
duties in China included assign
ments as provost marshal OF
Westf1eld Air Base, Peiping,
China; provost marshal of AGRS
in the China zone and deputy
provost marshal of Shanghai
China.
Col. Taylor's son, 1t. Donald l.
Taylor, %, has been with an ar
tillery unit in Korea for a year.
With Mrs. Taylor at the Ar
lington address live two other
children. Jacquelyn, 19, and
Steven. az.
Evening star., 1953-03-12
Fewer than 5000 Chinese Reds

Fewer than 5000 Chinese Reds
are held there, but for sinister
atmosphere, for controlled ten
sion and latent menace it is far,
far grimmer than the larger
new" Koje.
It's commander, bluff. hearty
Col. Forest r. Roush of Hills
boro, Ohio, summed it up:
"The thing you got to remem-
ber about these Communist
prisonerS-they are simply Red
soldiers who are still fighting at
every chance they get. You can't
ever forget it."
Lately, Camp Eight has been
plagued by a rash of suicides
that look suspiciously like Koje-
style Communist lynchingS Of un-
faithful Reds. In some COM
pounds, Red leaders have re-
gained a secret control. To find
and catch these leaders-an6
isolate them-Col. Roush and his
men have been using every means
available.
Sometimes a haraSSed prisoner
turns informer. At these times
the Red fanatics go almost crazy
with hate, and scream lisa
Tsa!", the chilling Chinese wore
for "Kill! KILL"
Tanned and controlled as they
are, these fanatical prisoners
Chinese and North Korean alike
are only waiting-waiting for the
first sign of weakness to regain
their incredible power in oul
midst.
Evening star., 1953-03-12
Draft Loopho|eC Curb
Goes 10 Eisenhower

An executive order which
would plug the so-called double
deferment" loophole in the draft
law and make it possible to call
men who were deferred first as
students and later as fathers is
on President Eisenhower's desk
awaiting approval.
The order was drafted by
selective service officials and ap-
proved by the Defense Mobiliza-
ton Committee.
It would make eligible fol-
service those men - approx.
mately 10000 who received
original deferments as students
and subsequently married and
became fathers. thereby receiv-
ing a second deferment under
present regulations.
The order was readied as the
Army announced a May draft
call for $4,000 men.
Evening star., 1953-03-12
Second Of o Series

Hayden Bull" Boatner, the man
who tanned Koje's fanatical Com
munists last spring, stared grimly
from a photograph.
"We have a lot of little prob
lems," Taylor said with a calm
but emphatic certainty, "but we
have uncontested control. Our
work now is to keep it, and we
will keep it. We have learned
our lesson"
From this room Col. Taylor
commands, with an authority
that is not seriously challenged,
more than 5000 pro-Communist
North Korean war prisoners and
the nearly division sized force
of American and Republic of
Korea infantry it takes to guard
them.
These are all the pro-Commu-
mist North Koreans left in AL
lied hands. Anti-Communist
North Koreans were removed to
the mainland months ago.
Scene is Different Today.
Today. as you walk the peace
full roads through the camp, it
is hard to imagine last spring. S
Red terror and the smoke and
flame and gunfire when Ameri-
can and allied troops fought to
regain control of the mutinous
camp.
Today, the once-notorious
Compound 76. where Communist
leaders captured the camp COM
mander, Brig. Gen. Francis T.
Dodd, is only an empty field-a
helicopter landing strip.
Today. in place OF the old
brooding terror, there is an air
of bustling wholesomeness
Nearly 5000 buildings stretch
far up the two V-shaped valleys
that hold the main camp. 1t is
for all the world like any other
big American Army post.
Prisoner work parties, with
their rif1e-toting guards, are ev-
eryWhere - gardening, building
fences, and building the stone
and adobe barracks that, six to
a compound, hold the new small
groups of 500 prisoners that now
give U. N. troops full control.
"They are pretty well behaved
now," Col. Taylor explains
They've lost a lot of crazy no
tions since last year. Now they
know we mean business and they
are more polite.
1--WE certainly don't mistreat
them. and you can't even say
we are rough. It's just that we
don't take any nonsense from
them, and they have finally come
to realize it,"
Col. Taylor listed the three
fundamental principles that
Evening star., 1953-03-12
Red Strikers Cripple
Italian Rail System
By the Assoeioted Press

ROME, Mar. 12.-Italy's gov
ernment-owned railroad system
limped along at something like
one-fourth schedule today as
more than 100000 Communist
led workers struck for higher
wages.
The nation wide walkout be-
gan at midnight and is scheduled
to last for two days.
The government, stating it
could not meet workers de-
mands, moved quickly to estab-
lish emergency services, includ-
ing an airlift to carry passengers
from the capital to major Ital-
ian cities.
The Transport Ministry in
Rome said that at am. today
only $50 trains throughout the
country had left from stations.
These were operated by men,
bers Of the non-C Communist Ital-
ian Free Confederation of Labor
(CISL, which is not participat-
ing in the strike.
Most railroad workers, how
ever, are members of the Com
muniSt-dominated and led Ital-
ian Confederation of Labor
(CGIL), which is striking.
Evening star., 1953-03-12
Chest Group Gives
Qualified Approval 10
Social Hygiene Unit

The District Social Hygiene
Society received conditional"
approval in recommendations by
the Admissions Committee of
the United Community Services
Health Section for 1854 Commu-
nifty Chest support yesterday.
The committee also called for
further exploration" of the Sal
vation Army Harbor Light Alco-
holic Center as 1t approved six
other agencies without qualifica-
ton for Chest participation.
The report on the Social Hy-
giene Society said it should place
more emphasis on work with
those persons in the community
who reach other people and who
are looked to as counselors,
rather than trying to reach the
consumer directly"
Should Evaluate Program.
The agency's board of direc-
tors, the committee continued,
should move Immediately to ana
lyZe and evaluate the practices
and program of the agency with
view to making it a more
vital force in the community"
The committee called for a
progress report to UCS quar-
terly, to serve as a basis for
1855 admission to Chest support.
Harbor light center, said the
committee, should do more work
relating to health service, and
the agency should make more
effort to keep records and sub
NIT monthly statistical reports
on service to UCS.
The group took no action on
the Washington Housing Asso-
citation, whose admission is un-
der study by the UCS Executive
Committee and Board of Trus-
tees.
Other Groups Admitted.
Recommended without quail
f1cation for admission were the
Children's Convalescent Home,
Christ Child Farm for Gonzales
cent Children, the District Soci-
ETY. for the Prevention of Blind
ness, the Instructive Visiting
Nurse Society, the Washington
Hearing Society and the Wash
ington Institute of Mental Hy-
giene.
The report will be forwarded
to the UCS Executive Committee
and the Board of Trustees for
final action.
Mrs. Henry A. Bartlett, chair
man of the health section, pre-
sided at it's meeting in the Bur-
lington Hotel.
Evening star., 1953-03-12
Van Fleet
JOHN ROUS.
Continued From First Page.)

it feels is advisable to remedy
the situation.
The group also will require
the Defense Department to fur
nish regular reports.
Chairman Saltonstall, Repub-
lican, of Massachusetts, said the
group was thus authorized to
pinpoint the responsibility and
find out whether the shortages
derive from Cd action or lack
of actions by officials, (2) wheth-
er laws need changing, or 90
whether economic conditions
were responsible.
Shortages Not Critical.
He stated that reports which
the committee had received be-
fore the return of Gen. Van
Fleet showed that the shortages
were not as critical" as the gen.
eral reported.
The wording of the resolution
made it clear that the subcom-
mittee also might investigate
Navy, Air Force and Marine
Corps ammunition supplies.
The public testimony by Gen.
Van Fleet and Gen. j. Lawton
Collins, Army Chief of Staff, and
other high Pentagon officials,
has been contradictory.
While Gen. Van Fleet re-
ported "a serious" and sometimes
critical shortage, Gen. Collins
declared emphatically:
There has never been q
shortage of ammunition in the
hands of our troops either to re-
pei an attack that actually de-
veloped or to conduct our own
operations" Pentagon officials
explained that the two generals
were talking about two different
types of warfare in their state
mentS.
inconsistencies Shown.
A review of Gen. Van Fleets
testimony, talks with committee
members who heard him in
closed-loor sessions and a COM
parison with hi previous remarks
showed several inconsistencies
and contradictions.
Last March % he was quoted
in a written question and answer
interview as saying: 1--WE have
enough equipment, men and
ammunition to NOW them down
as we did last April and May if
they attempt an offensive.
The 9th Army also has the capa-
bility of offensive action if neces-
sary."
Last June IS, the general told
the Associated Press that artillery
and mortar ammunition was ra-
toned in Korea but gun crews
had all they needed. Declining
comment on a suggested Con-
gressional inquiry, he said I'VE
hope he (the enemy comes. We
would pile him up on the barbed
wire and maybe end the war"
But this week Gen. Van Fleet
has told Senators about acute
shortages that have hampered
Evening star., 1953-03-12
Allies Engage Reds
All Across Korea;
Snow Foot Deep
BY the Associoted Press

SEOUL. Mar. 12.-Allied SOL
diers grappled with Communist
troops all across the storm
battered Korean Peninsula today.
Winter returned to the rugged
eastern front with a vengeance.
Front line reports said bowling
gales piled snow into 10 to IS
foot drifts. Almost foot of
snow fell in the bleak and barren
Heartbreak Ridge sector.
Snow, pelting rain and heavy
clouds again restricted Allied air
attacks. Most warplanes were
grounded.
The heaviest ground fighting
erupted before dawn on the CEN
trail front. An Allied patrol nosed
into no mans land and ran
smack into a force of 150-175
Chinese Reds.
Allies Are Surrounded.
The Reds quickly surrounded
the outnumbered Allies. identified
only as Europeans, and closed in
for hand-to-hand fighting.
Two reinforcing units raced to
the aid of the embattled patrol.
The first was intercepted by
Communists. The second fought
its way through to the first. Then
the combined force fought grimly
through screen of Reds, rescued
the patrol, and fought slowly
back to Allied lines.
The bitter fighting exploded
south of Pyonggang at 2 am,
and continued eight bloody
hours.
Other Allied troops held their
ground against four Red prob
ing attacks in pre-dawn dark
ness. The heaviest Communist
jab, by so to 80 Chinese, was
against an oft-hit outpost south
east of Kumsong on the central
front. South Korean soldiers
manning the post called up re-
Inducements and beat off the
Chinese in a 40-minute battle.
Supply Lines Attacked.
Night-fying Allied warplanes
braved the weather and Red
ground fire last night in attacks
on Communist supply facilities.
B-26 Invader bombers ranged
over the North Korean highway
network. Pilots reported at least
16 trucks destroyed.
Thirteen B-29 Superforts few
through a curtain of anti-air-
craft fire and unloaded 130 tons
of bombs on a Red supply and
troop base at Pohang, IL miles
southwest of Pyongyang, the Red
Korean capital. Another Super
fort pounded the Red lines.
The Air Force said a Commu-
mist MIG-15 probably was de-
stroyed yesterday near the Yalu
River deep in North Korea.
Navy planes struck Red targets
on the west coast yesterday.
The United States cruiser
Manchester and the destroyers
Chauncey and Mackenzie blasted
Communist shore targets on the
east coast.
The 9th Army said it's big ar
tillery guns opened up on a group
of Chinese and North Korean
Reds late yesterday and killed or
wounded at least 180.
The Reds were caught in the
open, apparently trying to re-
pair their rain-weakened forti-
f1cations under cover of mist and
approaching darkness.
Evening star., 1953-03-12

series on POW
violence, first
b e c a me a
w a S h i ngton
area resident
in November,
1850.
At that time
he W as a S.
signed to the
Army provost
marShal'S of
flee in the
Pentagon. He
left his home
at 4213
South TWn1fth
Evening star., 1953-03-12
Suffrage for Women
Approved in Mexico
BY the Assoeioted Press

MEXICO CITY, Mar. 12.-
Mexican women are about to get
the vote.
A constitutional amendment
to give the distaff ballot has been
ratified by Is States-the num-
ber necessary to make it effec-
tive.
The interior ministry an
nounced yesterday that Guerrero
State had become the 18th to
complete ratification.
Evening star., 1953-03-12
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even the limited mission of the
9th Army.
Hand GrenadeS Listed.
The general even listed hand
grenadeS as having been in
"acute" shortage, Chairman
Saltonstall said. Such a short
age had never before been noted.
The Pentagon admits heavy
shells have been in short supply
but in reserve stocks.
An inquiry showed this is what
happened: In World War II divi-
sions used about 400 grenades a
day and the daily average in
Korea has been $50. But in one
day last fall three Republic of
Korea divisions used 1000 each.
9Th Army reserve stocks naturally
went down and had to be refllled
from Far East Command stocks
in Japan and elsewhere.
Gen. Van Fleet will retire
March 81 after more than IS
years. service and five years in
the permanent grade Of major
general.
Evening star., 1953-03-12
Second Front
Bv John RondoIph

NSSUEIuIeu FTeSs TUTeTSH NOIT6SPOTIueIW
KOJE ISLAND, Korea, Mar
1--we have no big problems
now"
Col. H. L. Taylor, a straight
forward, quick-talking officer
wearing the green scarf of the
Military Police Corps, sat at a
big curved desk Communist pris-
oners of war had made for him
and waved his hand at a huge
map of Koje Island.
On the wall, the rock-bound
features of tough old Mai. Gen
Evening star., 1953-03-12
THE EVENING STAR AS
Washington, D. c. A"
4. THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1853

we be ready when that critical
day comes? The answer in my
opinion is no-and I believe the
facts prove it. In any case, why
not give the facts to the people?"