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Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-05-08
OUR LADY OF EATIMA

Father Karl A. Brand will be
guest speaker Tuesday, May IL,
when members of Our Lady of
Fatima Study Club hold their reg
ular monthly meeting at the home
of Mrs. Keith Montgomery.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-05-08
CARD CLUB

Mrs. Louis Hetrick entertained
members of her neighborhood
bridge club Tuesday evening at
her Wilson Ave. home.
Mrs. Stehen Trenshaw substi-
tute player won first prize. Mrs.
Herman Fought was awarded
second.
Evening star., 1953-04-08

would be mistake to junk the
long-range program for develop
ment Of the area"
He said he could understand
the need to slow up such pro-
grams and land acquisition in
times of stress such as this, but
did not think this should include
repeal Of the act.
Senator Beall, the Junior Re-
publican Senator from Mary
land, stressed the need for col
laboration in planning and de-
velopment of the National Cap
ital area.
This idea," said Senator Beall
suggests that the old philosophy
Of penny-wise and pound-fool-
ish might apply.
Calls for Caution.
1--WE have been operating un-
der this law for quite a number
of years. While we believe in
economies. I think we should
proceed here with a great deal OF
caution. Right now we are really
striving TO coordinate the three
political units, the District,
Maryland and Virginia, in their
planning and development pro-
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Evening star., 1953-04-08
Plans Made
ToFKFreed
POWsHome
By the Assoeioied Press

High-level talks are under way
at the Pentagon on means of
bringing home as quickly as
possible Americans who have
been prisoners of war of the
Communists, If and when they
are released.
One spokesman said the Mill
tary Air Transport Service has
q plan to fly released prisoners
home, should it be called on to
do so.
In the Korean war, MATS has
developed q vast airlift poten-
tial. In December, 1850, the
heaviest month of casualties,
MATS planes returned 6,352 i'll
and wounded to the United
States.
It takes the MATS standard
trans-Pacific airplane, the So
passenger C-197, 10 hours and is
minutes to fly from Japan to
Midway, 51a hours from Midway
to Hawaii and 10A hours from
Hawaii to the Pacific Coast.
The Army Surgeon Generals
Office said plans were for the
released prisoners to be flown to
American bases in Japan. Those
well enough for further trans
portation then would be trans
ported by air to the United
States. to go to military hos
pitfalls as close to their homes
as possible.
Evening star., 1953-04-08
Astin Dismissal to Be Probed
At Public Senate Hearing
Standards Bureau Test Of Additive
For Batteries Will Be First Phuse

tee became involved in the case
when DR.. Jess Ritchie. California
manufacturer of AD-X2, pro-
tested to the committee that the
Bureau of Standards treated his
product unfairly.
The committee had the Mass
achusetts Institute of Technol-
ogy make independent tests of
AD-X2. The committee reported
that M. I. T. tests showed the
chemical helped revive worn-out
batteries.
Secretary Weeks cited this ev-
idence in diSmiSSing DR.. AStin,
now scheduled to go off the Bur-
eau of Standards payroll April
18 after 81 years.
Democratic Senator Hunt of
Wyoming, member of the Small
Business Committee, announced
eight scientists at the Govern
ment's Los Alamos IN. Mex.)
Scientific Laboratory today tele-
graphed him their support for
a Congressional investigation to
head off any "State-controlled
pseudo-science resembling that
of the Soviet police state"
Information reaching us sug-
gests that the scientific objec-
tivity of the bureau has been
subordinated to the financial in
terests Of political friends" the
telegram said.
The scientists said that either
bureau scientists have been cor
rupted or Secretary Weeks has
made a serious mistake"
The telegram was signed by
John c. Alfred, John E. Brolley,
William c. Dickinson, David L..
Hill, oseph Lehner, Fred L. Ribe,
Thomas F. Wimett and G. Mil
ton Wing.
Evening star., 1953-04-08
Move to ScropD. c. Parks Law
Arouses Protests in Conqress

Proposals Of Budget Bureau
officials to scrap or modify the
Capper-Cramton park and play
ground land purchase program
for the National Capital today
drew protests from various mem
bers of Congress.
Sons stressed they are entire
ly in favor of economies but won-
dered if abolition of this program
of loans to the District and loans
and grants to nearby areas would
result in real economies.
Not all the immediate con-
gressional reaction took this line.
Senator Ferguson, Republican,
of Michigan, member of the Sem
ate Appropriations Committee,
warned that the time had come
when we have got to back up
some of these economies"
Makes Distinction.
The Michigan Senator, how
ever, made a distinction between
withholding an appropriation
request and a proposed change in
basic law.
AS to the latter reference to
the Capper- -Cramton Act, he
said: 1--WE will talk about that
when we see what legislative
changes NAV be proposed by the
Budget Bureau"
The move at the Budget Bu-
reau to repeal the Capper-Cram-
ton Act or to revise it was dis
closed yesterday in The Star.
This was a second step that
followed move by the Federal
budgeters to knock out Of the
Truman budget for 1854 sums
totaling $1,250,000 for land
purchase under the Capper-
Cramton Act.
OF this sum $479,00 was to
be advanced to the District
all to be repaid. The rest con-
cerned projects in nearby Mary
land and Virginia, to be repaid
so per cent to Is per cent.
Butler Dismayed.
Senator Butler. Republican. Of
Maryland said: "I am very much
dismayed at this report. I GER
tainly would be very much OPP
posed to repeal Of the Capper-
Cramton Act.
"It is the only orderly way to
carry on . program that is nee
essary to maintain the beauty
Of the National Capital area. It
Evening star., 1953-04-08
Lovett Hits 'Antiquoted' Army
Procurement of Ammunition
Ex-Defense Chief Says Shortage Blame
Cannot Be Placed in Complex System

Virginia, asked him: "Who is re-
sponsible for this ammunition
shortage. We want the name of
the official responsible for the
failure to let these contracts"
Mr.. Lovett replied that he
thought under the system and
procedure set up in the Army it
was utterly impossible to identify
an individual or a group of in
dividuals as those personally re-
sponsible.
Then he added: Assign it to
the Army as a whole"
AT one point last year, Mr..
Lovett said, he became so irked
with conflicting statements on
ammunition supplies by top
Army officials here that he went
over their heads for a direct re-
port by the Far East Command.
Evening star., 1953-04-08
GA Analyst Found
In Home With Gas On
And Rug Under Door
Note Indicates Attempt
At Suicide z Weeks After
Death of Other Officer

A Central Intelligence Agency
analyst was found unconscious
in the kitchen of his apartment
today, two weeks after another
CIA officer died of unexplained
causes.
Frederick E. Crockett, As, was
rushed at 10 am. today from
the Carlton Apartments, $500
Wisconsin avenue NV, to GAL
linger Hospital in critical condi-
ton.
Signs on his apartment win
dows: Danger, Gas-Do Not
Light Matches" attracted a boy,
who notified the building man.
ager, James Robertson, and led
to the discovery of the stricken
man.
Rug Stuffed Beneath Door.
Capt. Richard j. Felber,
homicide squad chief, said jets
of the kitchen range were open,
and a rug stuffed under the
door.
However. natural gas now
used in Washington homes is
non-toxic, fact that led police
to search further. They found
two empty medicine walls in the
kitchen.
At the hospital physicians
pumped out the victims stomach.
He was believed out of danger.
Capt. Felber said a note found
in the apartment pointed to
attempted suicide, but aScribed
no motive. The note asked that
a letter also in the apartment be
sent to Mr.. Crockett'S brother.
Certificate Awaited.
On March 81, James S. Kron-
thai. an administrative officer
in CIA, was found dead in his
apartment at 1862 Thirty-second
street NV. Found beside the
bed was an empty vial and a
note. A death certificate still
awaits a report on chemical
tests.
CIA officials said they saw
no connection between the cases
and did not believe the men
knew each other.
However, four CIA representa-
tives went to the Crockett. apart
ment today to help the police
investigate.
Mr.. Crockett has been with
CIA about two years. He was
born in Ipswich, Mass, July 20,
1907 and graduated from Har-
ward University in 1928.
He formerly was a public re-
lationS counsellor at Santa Bar
bara, Calf, where he was a
member of the Democratic Cen
trail Committee. Also he once
was employed by Goth Century
Fox.
At the outbreak of World War
II he was a lieutenant command
er in the naval reserve, but en-
tered the Army and was a lieu
tenant colonel when discharged.
Evening star., 1953-04-08
Korea Toll Of 1909
Is Highest in Months
By the Associafed Press

The Defense Department to-
day reported 1,039 additional
battle casualties in Korea, the
largest weekly rise since last No
vember IL.
The additional toll. rejecting
the recent bitter battles for west
ern front hill tops. raised the
war toll of American killed,
wounded and missing to 1872. .967.
The 1st Marine Division re-
ported 554 of the weeks casualty
increase. including 95 of the 1873
who were killed in action or died
Of battle wounds.
The Army's share of the in
crease was 440. largely borne by
the 7th Division fight for "Old
Baldy" and its supporting
heights.
The Marine action centered in
the Bunker Hill area, where all
but one of the hills taken in Red
onslaughts was eventually recap
tured.
Evening star., 1953-04-08

Nearly 10000 homes in the
Washington Metropolitan Area
lacked hot water and private
toilets or baths in 1850, the
Census Bureau reported today.
At least $500 homes didn't
even have running water. the
bureau said. And over A 500
about one-eighth of the areas
400, 900 dwelling units-had no
central heating. but relied on
fireplaces, stoves, portable heat
ers or weren't heated at all.
A total of 1850 Of the rented
units were found to lack hot
water and private toilets or
baths, and 1890 OF the owner
occupied homes we're in the same
condition. A private toilet Is one
available exclusively to the oc-
cupant Of the unit. said the bu-
Evening star., 1953-04-08
Census Shows 16, 900 Homes
Without Hot Water in District

reau. Central heating was miss
ing in 28,237 rented units and
16,421 owner-occupied-a total
of 44,658.
The enumeratorS chalked up
nearly $4,000 homes as dilapi-
dated.
The biggest group Of owner
occupied homes SO, $50 - were
found to be worth from $4,000
to $14,999. But the census men
also found 26.615 valued at $20.-
600 or more. And at the other
end of the scale were 1925 worth
under $4,000.
The biggest group Of renters
So, ,740-paid $50 to $74 month.
But 14,795 paid 500 and UP and
$50 paid less than $40.
Also counted were 115,303
homes with television sets. But
there were 250. $3.50 without them.
Evening star., 1953-04-08
Mccarthy Demands
Names Of Recipients
OF Tax Write-0ffs
Bureau Chief Reports
Total Of $30.5 Million
In Lost Three Years

Senator Mccarthy, Republican
of Wisconsin today branched out
into the tax investigation field,
AS chairman of a Senate appro-
priations subcommittee he di-
rected the Internal Revenue
Bureau to identify persons and
corporations that got tax write
offs exceeding $4,000.
The request, supported prin-
cipally by Senator Maybank,
Democrat, of South Carolina,
came after Internal Revenue
Commissioner T. Coleman An
drews told the subcommittee
that the bureau wrote off a
total of $30.5 million as uncol-
lectable in tax compromises dur
ing the last three years.
This represents the amount
the Government lost as a result
of the companies.
Commissioner Andrews re-
ported that such abatements to-
tailed 1913 million in 1852, $11.2
million in 1851 and $9.5 million
in 1850
Seeks Lawyers Names, Too.
Senator Mccarthy first asked
Mr.. Andrews to provide the
names of every one who got a
tax abatement in excess of ST.
600. Then he compromised at
$4,000 when informed that this
would require considerable paper
work. But he said he wanted
not only names and addresses of
the taxpayers, but also those of
lawyers who represented them In
compromised negotiations.
Mr.. Andrews testified before
the subcommittee studying the
fiscal year beginning July l.
He told newsmen he pulled a
boner" yesterday in testifying
that proposed SOS million cut
for his bureau would cost the
Government between $40 and $50
billion in uncollected revenue. He
explained he enormously sup
posed the cut would affect tax
collection activities.
Tells of Difficulties.
Mr.. Andrews began his testi-
mony today by disclosing that
the bureau is encountering many
difficulties in getting tax cases
settled because of fear on the
part of agents.
Positive action is being taken
to correct this situation" Mr..
Andrews promised, $50 that our
men can look taxpayers straight
in the eye and give them the
answers justified by the tax in
each case without delay and
without fear or favor"
Without naming Senator Will
lian1s, Republican, of Delaware,
Mr.. Andrews referred to that
Senator's criticism of appoint
ments made under the bureau
reorganization. He said he has
called in impartial officials
wholly new to the bureau" to
study the criticism and that he
would act promptly on any
changes they suggest.
Evening star., 1953-04-08
Civil Service Committee
Backs Moore Nomination

The Senate Civil Service Com
mittee today approved unani-
mously the nomination of George
Moore to be associate Republican
member of the Civil Service
Commission. Senate approval is
expected either tomorrow or
Friday.
Mr.. Moore, 80, is considered a
top expert on civil service mat
ters. A former career employe
with the Civil Service Commits
sion, Mr. Moore has also served
as chief counsel of the House
Civil Service Committee and
chief investigator of the Senate
Judiciary Committee and the
Byrd Congressional Committee
on Essential Government
Expenditures.
A native Of Kentucky, Mr..
Moore has lived most of his life
in the District. He now lives in
Silver Spring. Md, with his wife
and two sons.
Evening star., 1953-04-08
By james E. Roper

Chairman Thye of the Senate
Small Business Committee dis
closed today that the committee
will hold public hearings on the
dismissal of DR.. Allen V. Astin as
director of the Bureau of Stand
ards.
Senator Thye asked the COM
mittee to meet in closed session
tomorrow afternoon to plan the
inquiry. He could not predict
when public hearings would
begin.
The Minnesota Senator said
The committee would concen-
trate on investigating how the
Bureau of Standards tested a
controversial battery additive
known as AD-X2. Secretary OF
Commerce Weeks said the bu-
reau's allegedly biased attitude
toward the additive was one rea-
son DR.. AStin has been forced to
resign.
Senator Thye said that while
the committee hearings would
start with the battery dispute,
he could not tell where they
might lead.
"The committee wants to get
all the facts in the record" Sen
ator Thye told The Star. 1--WE
are not biased - we are only
searching for the facts.
1--WE want the facts as they
relate to AD-X2 and without
question we will go into the
functions of the bureau as they
relate to what they did with
AD-X2."
The Small Business Commit
Evening star., 1953-04-08
By John A. Giles

Former Secretary of Defense
Robert A. Lovett said today 1.-THE
Army as whole" was responsible
for Korean ammunition short
ages, and blasted what he termed
its antiquated munitions procure
ment system.
He said that under the Army
system of delegating authority
to several outfits it was impos-
sible to pin the sole responsibility
on one individual.
"The Army system and spe-
cifically the Ordnance Corps Sys-
tenn is so complicated, obsolete,
and time-Wasting and it's ac-
counting system so inaccurate it
is extremely difficult to obtain
the facts he told a Senate
Armed Services subcommittee.
Senator Byrd, Democrat of
Evening star., 1953-04-08
Sir Alexander FLEMING
To Marry Divorce
BY the Assoeioted Press

LONDON, April 8.-Sir Alex
ander Fleming. 71-year-old dis
coverer of penicillin, today took
out a license to marry, Mrs.
Amalia Coutsouris, a 40-year-ol
divorce.
A notice filed with London's
Chelsea registry Office said the
wedding will take place there
soon.
The scientists first wife died
four years ago. They had one
SON..
A Nobel prize winner and
emeritus professor of bacteri-
ology at the University of Lon
don, Sir Alexander now makes
his home in Chelsea, London's
Greenwich Village"
Evening star., 1953-04-08
Gambling Tax
Warrants Out
For 81 Here
Police Ready to Begin
Orderly Roundup Of
District VioIutors

The Bureau of Internal Rev.
enue has given the signal for
the immediate prosecution of 81
Federal gambling tax stamp law
violators here. with up to 81
cases in the offing.
Capt. John B. Monroe OF the
Police Gambling Squad said this
morning that his men are ready
TO begin an orderly roundup to-
day of 81 persons whom the
United States Attorneys office
has issued arrest warrants.
The cases are to be pressed
in light Of the recent Supreme
Court decision upholding the
controversial tax stamp law. The
continual roundup described by
police officials will clear much
of the backlog o. tax stamp cases
dating back to November, 1851.
when Congress enacted the law.
First Major Use of 1t.
The beginning Of the prose-
cutionS is the first major use
here of the powerful legal
weapon-a law requiring gam
blers to expose themselves to
local authorities even in juris-
dictionS such as the District
where gambling is illegal.
To date all of the persons
scheduled to be prosecuted un-
der the act have been convicted
of gaming charges since late in
1851. However, the Internal
Revenue Bureau is pressing in
veStigations of cases where per-
sons not hitherto convicted have
failed to obtain the stamps.
Convictions under the tax
stamp law are virtually assured
where persons have already been
convicted under local gaming
statutes.
Ten tax stamp defendants are
expected to be taken to Mu-
nicipal Court tomorrow. Their
names have not yet been re-
leased because, although the
men are now in jail on gambling
counts, the tax stamp charges
had not actually been made this
morning.
$50 Stamp Required.
The Federal law requires per-
sons to purchase a $50 stamp
from the Government If their
primary business is gambling. A
willful violation of the law, a
miSdemeanor, could mean a
maximum fine of $4,000 and a
year in Jail.
A violation not considered
criminally willful would mean
a minimum fine of $1,000 but
not over $4,000, and up to a year
in jail.
The backlog of cases, held up
pending the Supreme Court de-
cision, will be processed by the
Municipal Court. However, new
cases will be appended to grand
jury indictments on gambling
charges as they are returned in
the U. S. District Court for the
District of Columbia in the fu-
ture.
Two Indicted Here.
The first two persons to be
indicted on gambling counts and
charged at the same time with
violating the stamp act came
last Monday, when charges
against Victor Juliano and Jo-
seph L. Morisi were handed
down by the grand jury.
Stamp cases against seven
others, continued from last fall,
are scheduled for Municipal
Court action June 8. They are
Vernon Cooper, Edward Joseph
Harrison, Henry Jones, Frank
Lewis, Joseph A. Lee and Joseph
AlphonZo Rice.
A similar case against Robert
Lee Farrow is scheduled for q
June 10 jury trial.
Evening star., 1953-04-08
AECWou|dFree
.AtorrliicPowerto
Private Firms
Will Urge Congress
To Approve Policy
For Development
BY the Associoted Press

The Atomic Energy CommiS-
sion said today a policy program
to encourage private investment
in nuclear power has been adopt
ed by the Acc and approved by
the White House.
Details will be given Congress
when the Joint Senate House
Atomic Energy Committee be-
gins hearings after President
Eisenhower sends the recommen-
dations to Capitol Hill.
In answer to questions, a
spokesman said:
"The commission has formu-
lated power policy intended to
create a wider opportunity for
private investment in the pri-
vate power field, if the proposed
policy is accepted by Congress.
"The policy proposals have
been cleared by the executive
branch of the Government and
the details and terms of the
policies will be given to Congress
when the joint committee con-
ducts hearings on the subject.
"The development of the pol
icy has been gradual over a
period of years and reached the
final formulation stage in re-
cent months"
It had been learned earlier
that Congress may go to work
within a month on such recon-
mendations. James G. Hagerty,
White House press secretary, re-
fused to comment on the report
that the plan had been worked
out. however.
Remove Legal Blocks.
The proposals are understood
to contain Aces recommended
tions for removal of the legal
obstacles to private possession of
atomic materials and the private
building of reactorS designed to
generate electric power.
They also are said to include
plans for "incentives"-which
presumably means some form
of Government aid or subsidy
to help industrial firms shoulder
the huge financial burden of
building reactors.
One of Congress big jobs, in
addition to the policy decision
itself; will be the writing CT
security rules for the release of
fashionable materials and the
control of reactors.
Gen. Eisenhower, In his State
of-the-Union message, expressed
his anxiety to put the atom to
peaceful work in industry.
See Slow Development.
Experts estimate that within
two or three years an expert
mental reactor could be plroduc-
ing small amounts of high-cost
electric power. It would capture
heat given off in the atomic re-
action to make steam for the
generation of electricity.
But the guesses range from 10
to SO years on the time required
to bring the cost of atom
generated power down to a COM
petitive level with water power
or coal.
Eight companies in the utility,
chemical and construction fields
have been working on research
and development for a year and
half. Acc has provided tech
nical help and about three
fourths of the money.
At least two companies, Detroit
Edison and Dow Chemical, work.
ing as a team, have informed
ACC that, when technical prob
lens are solved, they would like
to build and operate a COM
mercial sized reactor plant using
private capital" Y