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Evening star., 1953-08-23
Jet Pilots Told to Stop Soaring
People With Sonic Booms'

early 1851, the last two occur
ring June II.
"The blasts were audible in
from moderate to extremely
strong degrees to a civilian
population of million" it con-
tinued. THE excitement of fam
lilies in the affected area reached
a point of terror in some in
stances.
Denial Of responsibility by
nearby Air Force agencies did
not absolve the Air Force in the
public mind"
The Air Force directed COM
mands to take every precaution
to assure that flight operations
producing sonic booms are con-
Quoted well outside the civilian
domain and cautioned public in
formation officers against hastily
denying responsibility for such
occurrences. Authorized demon
strations are to be reported in
advance.
Evening star., 1953-08-23
Convict Is Seized
In Turnpike Killings
And Priests Death
Son Of Clergyman
Linked to Murder
In Kansas City
By the Assoeioted Press

LOGANSPORT, Ind, Aug. %.
-FBI agents today captured
23-year-old convicted rapist
wanted in the murder of a Kan
sas City priest, in the shooting
of a soldier in Missouri and for
questioning about the recent
Pennsylvania turnpike slayingS.
Agents seized William j.
Townsend here just 10 minutes
after he arrived in Logansport,
where his father, a minister.
lives.
Missouri police issued a pick
up order for Townsend Wednes-
day. They quoted Mrs. Clara
Lyston of St. Louis as saying
Townsend admitted killing the
Rev. Robert A. Hodges.
The priest was found shot to
death near Kansas City last
month on the bank of Little Blue
River.
Wanted in Missouri.
1t. Chester Oliver of the Mis-
souri, highway patrol said there
was evidence Townsend and a
gang may be implicated in the
turnpike shootings. Two truck
drivers were found shot to death
in their vehicles along the road
last month, and a third was
wounded.
Two Federal complaints are on
file against Townsend in Mis-
souri,. They charge him with
fleeing the State to escape prose-
cution in the shooting of Pvt.
Gordon Bunfill near New Lon
don. Mo-. on August IL. and to
escape questioning in the Staying
of Father Hodges.
A third Federal complaint
filed in Louisville, KY. August
18 charges Townsend with inter-
state transportation of a stolen
automobile.
Denies Being in 3 States.
Townsend denied ever having
been in Missouri, PENNSYLVANIA
or Kentucky.
In Kansas City tonight Marlin
NJ. Volz, a foreman of a Jackson
County grand jury, announced
that the grand jury indicted
Townsend last Wednesday on a
charge of first degree murder in
the Staying of Father Hodges.
The indictment was not made
public until the arrest was made.
A State charge OF assault with
(See TURNPIKE. Page A-3)
Evening star., 1953-08-23
u. 5. Pressing Fight
To Bar India From
Korea Conference
ENJOYS Make Direct Plea
In Foreign Capitals to
Win More Support
BY jones E. Roper
Stor Stoff Correspondent

UNITED NATIONS, N. Y,
Aug. 22.-The United States to-
day appealed directly to scat
tered foreign capitals to vote
against India's participation in
a forthcoming political confer
ence on Korea.
1t was an extraordinary move.
but the United States faced a
stiff fight in trying to bar India
from the conference.
The conflict increased today.
After an Indian delegation meet
ing, an Indian spokesman said
I'VE are still in it." He said
India has no intention now of
Withdrawing from the contest
as the United States has sug-
gested.
At the same time, South Ko-
rean Representative Ben. C..
Limb. said in an interview:
I'VE cannot accept India as a
participant because this confer
ence should be limited to the
parties most vitality concerned
with the Korean problem. We
, cannot permit India's participa-
/ ton"
Hope For Change.
Authoritative sources reported
that American ambassadors in a
number of capitals were appeal
ing to the foreign governments
to support Americas stand
against India.
! The United States hoped these
governments would change the
instructions they have given their
delegates to the United Nations
General Assembly now in spec
ial session here.
The General Assembly is de-
batting which nations should at
tend the conference scheduled to
begin by october % to plan the
long range future of Korea.
A majority of delegates agree
that U. N. should offer confer
ence seats to North and South
Korea, Russia, Communist
China and the Is U. N. members
who fought for South Korea.
/ Great Britain and it's Com
monWealth followers also want
| to invite neutral India, but the
United States and South Korea
are fighting back with bare
knuckles.
Vote Now Appears Close.
The United States, in putting
its ambassadors to work around
the world, hopes to persuade
some governments now planning
to vote yes" to change their
ballots to abstention when the
Indian dispute comes up.
The United States also hopes
to persuade some countries now
planning to abstain to change
their votes to nos"
The ballot now promises to be
(See U. N, Page A-9)
Evening star., 1953-08-23
Pictures on Poee A-3.

FlCIufeS on Io9e 40.
an oncoming truck head-on,
knocking it into the car he was
passing, and then hit a car fol-
lowing the one he struck first.
Prince Georges Police Corpl.
Donald Forsht identified the
dead man as Edward R. James.
Al, colored, of Hickory. N. c.
Manslaughter, reckless driving
and illegal passing charges were
filed against the soldier driver,
Willie Conner, q. colored, of
Union, S. C. He suffered a bro
ken arm and head injuries and
was admitted to Walter Reed
Hospital.
In another accident, a 13-
year-old boy suffered a broken
leg when struck by a moving
truck as he was climbing onto
parked truck in the 600 block
Of Morton place NE, late yes
terday.
He is Godfrey Hewlett, col
ored, of 1904 Fourth street NE,
admitted to Casualty Hospital
and reported in good condition.
Police said the boy was a
helper on the truck he was
boarding. The passing truck,
driven by Garnett P. Jones. 27,
colored, of $50 Morton place NE,
struck his left leg, police said.
No charges were filed against
the driver.
Evening star., 1953-08-23
Queen May Offer
Title to Churchill,
London Paper Says
BY the Assoeioted Press

LONDON, Sunday, Aug. 23.-
The mass circulation Sunday
Pictorial said today Queen Eliza
beth II is thinking of offering
Prime Minister Sir Winston
Churchill a dukedom to ease him
into retirement from public life.
If he accepted, the ailing 78-
year-old statesman would be
eligible for a seat in the politi-
cally unimportant House of
Lords.
This would be the end of his
political career, because the job
of Prime Minister and other top
government positions are usually
filled by members of the House
of Commons.
Stories of Mr.. Churchill's
elevation to the peerage-as a
reward for his services to the
nation-have kicked around for
years. Mr.. Churchill repeatedly
has refused all these offers be-
cause he wished to remain in
Commons. The highest honor he
has accepted is the Knight of the
Garter. the top accolade a COM
moner can get without becoming
a peer.
Rumors that Mr.. Churchill
would retire have circulated here
since June 81 when his doctors
announced he had been ordered
to take a long rest to avoid a
complete physical breakdown.
Evening star., 1953-08-23
vogeIer SuesI.
For Half Million
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK, Aug. 22.-Robert
Vogeler, jailed for a year and
a half in Communist Hungary,
has filed a half -million-dollar
suit against his former employ
ers, an attorney disclosed today.
The attorney, Jacob Rosen-
berg, said he had filed and served
a summons in the suit against
the international Telephone and
Telegraph Company and a sub
sidiary, the international STAN
dard Electrical Corp.
He declined to disclose de-
tails of the sult, except to say
it dealt with the period of
Vogeler's imprisonment, and was
not a salary matter.
Mr.. Vogeler said at his Mount
Kisco, N. Y, home tonight that
he would leave any comment on
it to Rosenberg.
Mr.. Vogeler was a vice presi-
dent and representative of I. T.
and T. in Hungary when he was
jailed in late 1949 on charges
of espionage. He was released
in 1851.
His attorney said Vogeler left
the firm the first of this year.
Evening star., 1953-08-23
$50 Americans Free
In 18Th POW Swap;
One Heard Of Dean
Prisoners Are GIeefuI
On Arrival at Comp;
Many Are Puerto Ricons
BY the Associated Press

PANMUNJOM, Sunday, Aug.
23.-The first OF $50 Americans
freed today by the Communists
from North Korean prison camps
arrived here shouting and laugh
ing. A light rain marked the
10Th day of Operation Big
Switch.
Many Puerto Ricans were
among the repatriates.
Three truckloads of Ameri-
cans were followed almost i'm
mediately by a similar number
of South Korean army personnel.
A total of $50 South Koreans
were coming back today.
Even as the first allied troops
reached the exchange point at
9 am. g pm. Saturday, EDIT
truckloads of shouting, flag
waving North Korean war pris-
oners were sent back to the
Communists.
Many had stripped down to
their underwear. A total of g.
402 were being returned.
sQuick Exchange Made.
The Reds completed returning
the first group of American and
South Korean prisoners today in
exactly five minutes.
The American soldiers whooped
cowboy yells as they got their
first look at fellow American SOL
diers.
Three South Korean soldiers,
just returned, began cursing and
shaking their fists at North Ko-
rean officers as the South Ko-
reans dismounted from trucks.
1,709 Total Released.
With II more days to go in
Operation Big Switch, to fall
within the 30-day period stipu-
lated in the truce agreement, the
Reds have released 1,709 Amer
leans while 1904 more await
freedom.
Conclusion of the exchange
was set for September 3 unless
unfor seen obstacles, such as the
weather, should require length
ening it
A total of 437 U. N. Command
personnel was returned Saturday
"a Americans, % British,
Australians, 13 Canadians,
French, Turk, l Colombian and
300 South Koreans. Eighteen of
the Americans were litter cases.
Saturdays return completed
repatriation of the 16 Canadians
and % Colombians the Reds said
they held.
Dean May Be Last.
A report by returning Marine
End 1t. Henry E. Clifford OF
Staten Island, N. Y, added
weight to speculation that Maj
Gen. William F. Dean will be
among the last Americans re-
patriated. Gen. Dean, COM
(See POWS, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1953-08-23
j. ). Arms Aid
Faster,
Stassen Says
Russio's H-Bomb
Underseores VqIue,
He Tells President
BY the Assoeiafed Press

DENVER, Aug. 22.-Foreign
Aid Chief Harold E. Stassen
said after a conference with
President Eisenhower today that
RuSsia's indicated possession Of
the hydrogen bomb underscores
the Importance of free world
collective security.
At the conference. Mr.. StaSsen
gave the President report
showing big speedup in United
States deliveries of military
equipment to friendly countries
all over the world. He later told
neWSmen he believes current
prospects for world peace are
somewhat brighter" than they
were when Gen. Eisenhower took
office.
He noted. however, that the
President has stressed that "the
grave danger of war is a con-
tinuing matter"
Over So Billion in 6 Months.
Mr.. StaSsen's report on de-
livery of military equipment,
made public for the first time,
covered the first six months Of
the Eisenhower administration
1t showed that from January
through June the United States
delivered $2.363, 100000 worth Of
military equipment abroad.
That was more, Mr.. Stassen
noted, than was delivered dur
ing all of 1852. During the first
half of last year, he said, the
total was $3.50 million while
in the latter half it was
$1,447, 100000.
Mr.. StaSsen said the first
order Gen. Eisenhower gave him
last January was to step up de-
livery of military supplies abroad.
The shortages which then ex-
listed, Mr.. Stassen reported, have
been almost wiped out.
Gen. Eisenhower also con-
ferred at the summer White
House with Philip Young, chair
man of the Civil Service Com
mission. Mr.. Young predicted to
reporters that the administration
will lop an additional 100000
jobs from the Federal payroll by
next July l.
Reduced $4,000 Jobs.
Mr.. Young said the roll has
been reduced by 10000 jobs be-
tween the time the Eisenhower
administration took Office in
January and the end of June.
He said about half the reduc-
ton was accomplished by not
filling vacancies as they occurred.
Mr.. Young said he favors re-
vision of the veterans preference
act ''in the interests of the vet
erans themselves" He said that
in the case of Federal jobs for
which no civil service examina-
tion is required-about 1874 900
Of them-lmore veterans would
be hired to fill them if it weren't
for the legal stipulation that
they cannot be removed.
Modification of that provision
would open more positions to
veterans, Mr.. Young continued.
Mr.. Stassen's report dealt in
part with the 5000 million Ko-
rean relief program which his
agency administers. He said sup
(See STASSEN, Page A-6.)
Evening star., 1953-08-23

day after firing him last March
following a controversy over the
bureaus unfavorable report on a
battery additive known as
AD-X2.
At the time Of the firing.
scientific groups protested so
vehemently that the Secretary
backed down to the extent of say
ing DR.. Astin could remain until
a special committee of scientists
had a chance to evaluate the
work of the bureau under his di-
rection.
Mr.. Weeks decision to rein
state DR.. Astin permanently to
his $15,000-a-year job repre-
sented complete reversal of the
firing order.
Testing Functions Shifted.
Yesterday, DR.. Astin said in
an interview he sees "a very
promising future for the bu-
reau" under the new admins
trative arrangement announced
by the secretary in his rein
statement order.
This would separate the bu-
reau'S function as a technical
testing agency for the Govern
ment from it's activities in test
ing and evaluating commercial
products. The latter would be
placed under direct control of
the secretary and he would have
the final say on what products
should be tested and whether
or not reports on them should
be published.
Mr.. Weeks also announced
that James G. Worthy, Assist
ant Secretary of Commerce for
Administration, would be placed
in charge of the bureaus ad-
ministrative and personnel poll
cies.
II have had a lot of contact
with Mr.. Worthy" DR.. Astin
said, land I am sure I can work
with him."
He also said he believes it is
entirely fitting for the secretary
to have the determination of
what products should be tested.
"It has never been intended by
anybody" he said, that the di-
rector of the Bureau of Stand
(See ASTIN, Page A-2.)
Evening star., 1953-08-23
Picture on Poee AS.

Picture on Poee AS.
Free, county detective chief.
Earl Acuff, SO, of what used
to be a house in the rear of 6203
Field street in Seat Pleasant,
was jailed in lieu of 81 900 bond
on an arson charge.
Just before the fire, cub scouts
were having a cubmobile race. a
soap box derby sort of affair. on
Field street. Their homemade
coasters had to be dragged out
of the way to let six pieces of
fire equipment go charging up
hill to the blaze.
When Seat Pleasant police ar
rested Acuff, they led him out Of
the burning house.
Evening star., 1953-08-23

Picture on Poee AS.
stood on the ledge at Fort Ham
ilton Veterans Hospital while
more than a thousand persons
watched.
AT 1890 last night, Mr.. Her.
man carefully took off his shoes
and socks and laid them on the
ledge.
1T won't be long now" he told
frustrated rescuers who stood at
open windows along the four
foot ledge.
Clergymen. members of his
family, nurses and physicians
had been rebuffed during the
afternoon.
Two attempts by firemen to
Evening star., 1953-08-23
Burned-Up enont Is Accused
In Seat Pleasant House Fire

Mad at his landlord, a Seat
Pleasant man set fire to his
rented home yesterday, Prince
Georges County police reported.
"The place was 80 per cent
wrecked" said 1t. Vincent S.
Evening star., 1953-08-23
MaIenkoV Says
Adenauer Aims
Mean New War
Soviet Premier Blasts
West German Regime
In Bitter Broadcast
BY the Asseeiated Press

LONDON, Sunday, Aug. 23.-
The Kremlin today accused
West German Chancellor Kon-
rad Adenauer of leading Ger
many down the road to war in
a bitter broadcast blast by So
Wet Premier Georgi Malenkov.
1t made a new call for quick
German peace conference.
This is part of a new prop
aganda campaign apparently
aimed to influence the upcom-
ing German election.
MalenkoV's speech was ad-
dressed to East German govern
ment leaders who were sum-
moned to Moscow last week for
urgent talks at the Kremlin.
They have been entertained Law
ishly since their arrival in Mos
COW Thursday night.
Moscow Radio broadcast both
Malenkov's speech and a COM
munique on the negotiations with
the top East German Commu-
rists here.
Concession Made to East Zone.
The communiuue announced
several Soviet financial conces-
slons to the hard-up East Ger
man regime.
1t said East German repara-
tions payments to Russia will
end next January /, and East
German occupations payments
will be cut to not more than five
per cent of the regimes revenue.
The communique also wiped
out German debts to Russia ac-
cumulated since the war. The
amount involved was not named.
The Russians further agreed
to step up deliveries to East
Germany of food, coal and
other goods to a value of $50
million rubles. The value on the
ruble is set officially at 25 cents.
but is worth less.
The communique said. that in
answer to German pleas, the
Russians had agreed to release
some German prisoners held in
Russia since the war. Western
sources have estimated that
Russia still holds many thou
sands of Germans as prisoners.
AS a final gesture, the Rus
slams agreed to exchange am
bassadors with the East German
regime.
Charges War in Asia.
The broadcast said Malenkov
charged that the Adenauer gov
ernment does not want Germany
to get peace treaty, and added:
1T does not want a peaceful
settlement of the German ques-
ton. The Bonn bosses are push
ing Germany on the road to a
new war.
They are again setting Ger
many against the peoples Of
Western and Eastern Europe"
This kind Of language was
common in the era of Stain but
Is new in the Malenkov regime
Adenauer policy, Malenkov
said in his blast apparently
aimed at influencing the coming
West German elections. lis full
of consequences for the German
people, the same consequences to
which the country was brought
by the policy of the Hitlerite
clique.
Mankind has condemned the
heads of this clique as war GRIM
inals. But are not Adenauer and
his group following in their foot
steps?
will German mothers watch
silently how the militariSts are
preparing for new and more ter
rible slaughter for their chill
dren?
"Will German youth agree to
(See MALENKOV, Page A-9.)
Evening star., 1953-08-23
Man Killed, Z Hurt
In 4-Car Smashup

A motoriSt was killed and IL
other persons, including his wife
and four sons, were injured yes
terday in a four-car smaShup
on U. S. 301 near Upper Marl-
boro in Prince Georges County.
County police said soldier.
passing a car on a hill, rammed
Evening star., 1953-08-23


defense that includes a retalia-
tory attack so vast and so ready
that no nation would dare at
tack us"
MI. Talbot was principal
speaker at the annual banquet
of the Air Force Association, at
tended by more than 1000 per-
sons in the Hotel Statler.
Mr.. Talbot said all the tradi-
tional barriers that have shell
tered the United States now have
been wiped out by the modern
concept of air power in the hands
of a potential enemy, as we'll as
by the enormous power of hydro
gen and atomic bombs. He said
that the Red air force has better
than 10000 active airplanes. in
cluding heavy turboprop
bomber that compares with the
American B-36 intercontinental
bomber.
IF a nation has enough air
power" he warned, "the destruc-
ton it can inflict upon another
nation is beyond our imagina-
ton"
On the reasSuring side, Mr..
Talbot said Boeing'S new heavy
jet bomber, the B-52, has sur
passed expectations in flights
covering more than 700 hours
of constant testing. The "X"
and "Y" models of the .B-52
Stratobomber are the only ones
that have flown.
Guided Missiles in Production.
The AFA original policy state
ment, which has been approved,
stressed that Russian aggression
could only be deferred by the
threat of immediate, decisive
military defeat.
AS to guided missiles, Mr.. Tai
bott remarked:
1--WE have some models in
production. They are quite
expensive to produce and to
operate. To insure the minimum
expenditure of our Air Force
funds. we will not go into
quantity production of these
missiles until we are satisfied
with the capability, the economy,
and the reliability of operation
of each model"
Mr.. Talbot decried budget cuts
for the Air Force, especially the
way they would affect pay, hous-
ing and other benefits for officers
and enlisted men. He said this
trend to decrease the pay
particularly was "penny-wise and
pound-foolish."
II am determined to reverse
this trend" he promised. Res
toration of the various benefits
would be true economy"
Eisenhower Sends Praise.
Gen. Eisenhower, who was un-
able to attend the banquet, wrote
that the AFA membership gives
the Nation "a wealth of military
and civilian talent that will de-
vote itself to our defense needs,
even as it always keeps in view
the potential usefulness of the
airplane in bringing this world
closer together in purpose as well
as in time.
no real security rests
in a second-best Air Force.
Those sentiments are as true
today as they we're in 1947. In
fact, they have become even more
pertinent"
Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg, re-
tired Air Force Chief of Staff
told the convention:
Il am not one of those who
face the future with despair
The United States is no frail
reed to be bent to the ground
! by a single blast.
But if we doze, if in our COM
placency we forget the deadly
earnestness of the enemy, his
ever-increaSing technical COM
petence, and his undoubted
ability to deliver his new wea-
ponS, then, I say, our strength
will not avail u.s."
Evening star., 1953-08-23
By George Beveridee
Stor Staff CoFrsspondent

RICHMOND, Aug. ga l.
cent a gallon increase in the
State gasoline tax to help pay
for critically-needed improve
ments to Virginia's arterial high
ways has been proposed by an
official State study group, it was
learned yesterday.
The present Virginia tax is
6 cents a gallon, the same as in
Inner Belt Hishwoy Link Proposed in
Arlington. Poee At
Maryland. The District tax is a
cent less.
The tax boost, along with a
corresponding increase" in truck
Oil tax, would bring between So
million and $40 million in addi-
tional annual revenue. This,
under the new proposal, would
be earmarked for primary
arterial highway construction"
The proposal, virtually certain
to stir a major fight in next jan
uary'S biennial State legislature
session, repeatedly has been made
by a special committee of the
Virginia visory Legislative
Council. It was made to the
council.
1t is the direct outgrowth of
study ordered by the legislature
Evening star., 1953-08-23
ey the Associated Press

NEW YORK, Sunday, Aug. %.
"A Navy veteran balanced pre-
cariously on a 14th-floo hospital
ledge early today as firemen laid
a desperate plan to prevent him
from carrying out a marathon
suicide threat.
From l pm. yesterday to l
am. today Sidney Herman, %,
Evening star., 1953-08-23
DR.. Astin, Optimistic
On Bureau S Future,
Sees Issues Resolved
Reinstuted Director
Hopeful Under New Plan
Announced by Weeks
By Allen Drury

A relieved and happy DR.. Allen
V. Astin looked forward today to
"a very promising future" for
the Bureau of Standards, conf
dent that his differences with
Secretary of Commerce Weeks
have been resolved in "a man.
ner satisfactory to all concerned"
Mr.. Weeks reinstated DR.. AS
tin as director of the bureau Fri
Evening star., 1953-08-23

Gen. Kenney Is Elected President of
Air Force Association. Pooe Az
Evening star., 1953-08-23

Text Of Secretary Weeks Settlement
Announcing Reinstatement. Page AZ
Evening star., 1953-08-23
Reds Can Blast
U. 5. Anywhere,
Talbot Says
Strong RetoIiotoY
Force Is Essential,
Secretary Believes
By Harry Lever

Russia's air force is so power
full now that it could launch an
immediate atomic attack on any
part of Europe or the United
States. Air Force Secretary Tai
bott warned last night.
That is why America must re-
tain a defense against this
Evening star., 1953-08-23

(See LEDGE, Page A-6D
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Weather Forecast

Mostly sunny, high near 80. Fair to-
night, low about GA. Tomorrow fair and
a bit warmer (Full report on Page A-2D
Evening star., 1953-08-23

(See U. N. Page A-9)