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Evening star., 1953-08-31
New Polio Case in D. E.,
; More in Prince GEORGES

One new case of polio was re-
ported in the District today. It
was the 37th case so far this
year, as compared to a total Of
80 cases reported at this time last
year.
The new case, according to the
Health Department, is a 29-year-
old man living in he 400 black Of
Thirty-third street NE. He has
been admitted to Providence
Hospital.
Meanwhile, Prince Georges
County reported three new cases
over the week end. This brought
the county total to 29-com-
pared to So at this time last
year.
The new cases include: A 31a
year-old girl of the $500 block
of Twelfth avenue, Silver
Spring, taken to Children's Hos
pital; 10-year-old boy of the
200 block of Audrey lane, Oxon
Hill, taken to District General
Hospital; 27-year-old woman
of Clinton, who has been taken
to George Washington Univer-
sity Hospital.
Evening star., 1953-08-31
Koreans Must Settle
Unity, Kim Declares
BY the Assoeiofsd Press

TOKYO, Aug. 31.-The Reds
Pyongyang radio said today
North Korean Premier Kim II
Sung declared that unification
of the war-torn peninsula must
be settled by Koreans them
selves"
The broadcast, heard in
Tokyo, said Kim listed that as
one of two main tasks of the
Korean political conference.
The other, Kim said, is to
"kick out America and its Allied
troops from South Korea"
The broadcast said Kim out
lined his stand in a one-hour
speech before the North Korean
labor (Communist) party's sixth
central committee"
Kim declared North Korea will
make utmost efforts for peace
at the conference, the broadcast
said, but he warned that "others
cannot intervene in our internal
political affairs
Evening star., 1953-08-31
D. {. Hacker, 80, Dies
Of Bay Diving Injuries

A 30-year-old District cab
driver died at Mount Alto Hos
pital today from injuries received
in a diving accident yesterday
at Randall Cliffs, Md, on the
Chesapeake Bay.
He was identified as Charles
Eugene Becker. According to
the Hack Inspectors Office, Mr..
Becker lived at GOT Fourth street
NV, when he applied for his
cab permit last April but has
lived at three other addresses
since then, the latest being listed
as 1014 D street NE.
Mr.. Becker suffered a broken
neck and head injuries in q dive
into shallow water at the beach
resort.
He was taken first to the Cal
vert County Hospital at Prince
Frederick, Md, and then trans
ferred to Mount Alto. He died
at 1920 am. He is a veteran
Of World War II.
Evening star., 1953-08-31
JET Crashed Into Sea,
Fishing Boat Reports
By the Associated Press

OCEAN CITY, Md, Aug. 81
A chartered fishing boat re-
ported to the Coast Guard today
that an airplane plunged into
the Atlantic Ocean "a miles
southeast of Ocean City.
The report by radio from the
Luv-Lou said the plane was a
jet and it crashed with terrific
explosion.
The Coast Guard here had a
boat standing by ready to go to
the scene but was waiting for a
further report from planes which
took off from the Navy base at
Chincoteague, Va.
The Luv-Lou few a red PEN
nant from an outrigger to guide
a plane to the scene. The plane
and four other charter fishing
boats In the area were not able
to spot Immediately any sign of
the plane or passengers in the
water.
Evening star., 1953-08-31
5000 Reds Arrested Trying
ToUpset West German Voting
Mass Entry to Disrupt BoIIotine Next
Sunday Is Broken Up by Police

| swing the vote away from pro-
Western Chancellor Konrad Ad-
enauer.
About 1000 of the young Reds
were arrested as they crossed the
border at Helmstedt. In other
areas, IA were nabbed in Schles-
wig Holstein state; $50 in Bebra,
130 in Coburg. ITO in Altenau. 80
in Munich and 80 in the Rhine
land-Palatinate state.
Hauled Back in Trucks.
Some of the Communist agents
we're hauled back to the border
by truck. Others were ar
raigned before West German
courts or held for questioning
An estimated $4,000 worth of
West German marks were con-
f1scated.
Some of those forced back
across the border into East Ger
many cursed the police as trail
tors and swore they would be
back. Some. however. said un-
der questioning that they had
been forced into the campaign
by threats against themselves or
their families.
The West German government
has charged Moscow with spend
ing huge sums in an under
ground campaign against Mr..
Adenauer's Christian Democrats.
Although the Communists can't
hope to win government control
in West Germany, they would
like to seat neutral regime that
would block defense efforts with
tho West
Evening star., 1953-08-31
Ben Gold Surrenders
To u. ). Authorities;
$4,000 Bail Fixed
Indicted on Charges
Of Lying on Red Link;
Union Offers Bond
BY the Assoeiated Press

Ben Gold, Fur Workers Union
president, surrendered today on
a three-count indictment charg-
ing he lied when he Swore in an
affidavit in August, 1850. that
he was not a. Communist.
Mr.. Gold showed up at the
Office of United States Attorney
Leo A. Rover and vas taken
by marshals to the clerks office
to post $4,000 bail.
This bail was fixed Friday by
United States District Judge
Charles F. Mclaughlin at the
Governments request.
Two attorneys, Harold Cam
mer of New York and David
Rein of Washington, accom-
panied Mr.. Gold when he sur
rendered. The lawyers said MIR.
Colds union, the International
Fur and Leather Workers. ar
ranged to post the bail in the
form of United States Treasury
notes.
Mr.. Gold swore in statement
filed with the National Labor
Relations Board that he was not
then a member Of the Com
munist Party, had no aflliation
with the party, and did not sup
port its policies.
The indictment charged that
all three statements were false.
Mr.. Gold, 81, used to be an
avowed Communist, but claimed
he severed his party ties in
order to sign the non-Com-
muniSt AFFIDAVIT filed with the
NLRB.
Unions whose members sign
such afidavits are eligible to use
the services of the NLRB. Mr..
Colds union, which claims a
membership of 100000. was
kicked out of the CIO in 1949
on charges of being Communist
dominated.
Evening star., 1953-08-31
Free-BaI|ooning Piccard
Ends Flight in River
By the Associated Press


RIVERVIEW BEACH, N. j.,
Aug. 31.-A family habit OF
floating through the strato-
sphere in free balloon ended in
river yesterday for Donald L.
Picard.
The son of DR.. Jean Picard,
noted scientist who made the
first free balloon flight into the
stratosphere, took off from Ches-
ter with four others.
The flight ended a few miles
away when the balloon and its
occupants came to rest uncere-
moniously in the middle of the
Delaware River.
Thousands of Sunday excur-
SioniStS at a nearby amusement
park lined the shores to witness
the balloons descent into the
river.
The balloon was towed to
shore by motorboat.
Young Picard is a research
engineer living in SWarthmore
Pa, near Philadelphia. His IA
ther now teaches at the Univer-
sity of Minnesota.
Evening star., 1953-08-31
Gasoline Station Owned
By Barrett Is Looted

Former Police Chief Robert j.
Barrett reported to police that
his gasoline station had been
broken into during the night
and $50 taken from a desk
drawer.
Mr.. Barrett acquired the serv-
ice station at 1855 Benning road
NE, about year ago.
Citizen Barrett was unable to
refrain from indulging in his
old profession. He cast an expert
eye over the premises and came
up with a reconstruction of the
crime.
A jimmy was used on the front
door and a crow bar was used to
force open a desk in which the
money was kept. was Mr.. Bar
rett's diagnosis.
Evening star., 1953-08-31
KnowIand Talks With Rhee
And Prime Minister Paik
By the Assoeluted Press

SEOUL, Aug. 81. - Senator
Knowland, Republican, of Cali
fornia conferred with President
Syngman Rhee for an hour to-
day at the presidential mansion.
United States Ambassador
Ellis o. Briggs sat in on the
meeting which the United States
Embassy called routine"
It was Senator Knowland's
second meeting with the South
Korean President since the Sem
ate majority leader arrived in
Korea Friday on a fact-finding
survey.
Senator Knowland also met
with South Korean Prime Min
lister Paik Too Chin after his
talk with Mr.. Rhee.
Mr.. Paik, who also is the
finance minister, is said to have
discussed South Korea's eco
nomic problems.
Senator Knowland plans to
visit Freedom Village, the allied
prisoner of war repatriation CEN
ter at Munsan, tomorrow.
Evening star., 1953-08-31
Ex-Boxer Seized
By Police in Chase

Police arrested an ex-prize
fighter early today after a wild
chase through Northeast Wash
ington and into Maryland.
After the chase, Washington
police charged James B. Cara
way, %, of the 1000 block of
Greig street, Seat Pleasant. with
unreasonable speed, exceeding
10 miles an hour, failing to
change the address on his regis
tration card and running with
out lights to avoid apprehension
Pvts. Harold E. Jones and
Francis M. Pilkerton, of No. 9
Precinct, started chasing the
speeding auto on Benning road
near Oklahoma avenue NE.
The chase ended in Prince
Georges County on Central ave-
nue. after a dozen police cars had
joined in.
Pvt. Jones fired several shots
at the speeding car but didn't
hit it. Caraway, now an en-
ploye of a Washington automo-
bile dealer, was scheduled to ap-
pear in Municipal Court today.
Evening star., 1953-08-31
1917 Scorcher
Due Today as
Records ToppIe
Yesterdays 1913
Broke 72-Yeur Top:
More Tomorrow

The temperature headed for
101 degrees this afternoon and
promised to be the hottest day
of the year.
Yesterday the mercury scared
to 99.3 degrees, smashing a 72-
year-old heat record for that
date by four degrees. No relief
was in prospect from the heat
wave that has driven the ther-
mometer above 80 degrees for
six straight days.
Yesterday was the hottest day
so far this year. Tomorrow the
Weather Bureau said the tenn
perature would hit 100 degrees
again.
May Smash Another Top.
If the mercury climbs to 101
degrees today, it will break the
record for this date also. The
record for the day is 100 degrees
set in 1882.
Besides the willing effect on
people, large numbers of whom
sought relief at beaches and other
resorts yesterday, the heat and
lack of rain was scorching the
Districts trees.
National Capital Parks had
some 200 men out today watering
the trees along Constitution ave-
nue. from Fourth to Fifteenth
streets, on Mount Vernon boule-
ward and around the public build
ings. It hasn't rained here since
August II.
Surpasses July Heat.
The high yesterday came at
3:45 pm. The previous record
high of 95 for the date was set in
1881 and equaled in 1882. The
previous high for the season was
recorded at SO on July 80.
Yesterday was somewhat more
comfortable than it might have
been, since the humidity regis
tered a low 20 per cent at the
time of the peak temperature.
, And, the Weather Bureau added.
the all-time high for August was
106, set in 1918.
The hot dry weather was
blamed on an air mass which
has stagnated over the area. The
air was cool when it came from
Canada, but it has been warm
ing up all the time.
Texas Hits 1O6.
Among the hottest spots east
of the Mississippi were Waldorf,
Md, and Gordonsville and
Strasburg, Va, all recording 103
degrees. Baltimore and Rich
mond both had 101. The hot
test in the country was 106 in
Presidio, Tex, the Weather Bu-
reau said.
A National Capital Parks hor-
ticulturist said that Washing
tons trees had not recovered
from the previous dry spell from
the first of June to mid-July
when the latest onslaught came.
He said the scorch of the
sycamores is the first he could
remember in his 20-odd years
of service, and that even large.
mature oaks were suffering. The
effect now, however. is not con-
sidered as serious as it might
have been earlier in the season.
Evening star., 1953-08-31
Revived POW to Reioin BewiIdered Family

An hour after the letter was
received the Brooklyn home was
plunged into sorrow. An Army
Department telegram said Capt.
Harry was missing in action.
Hope faded as months passed.
Then last June, a repatriated
captain from Korea contacted
the Harrys. He said he had
seen Capt. Harry in a prisoner
of war camp.
Naturally, their joy was un-
bounded.
Two weeks ago came ofdcial
word: the captain was listed
as dead in q POW camp.
Evening star., 1953-08-31
South Korea Denies Bid
For Van Fleet Services
By the Assoeiated Press

SEOUL, Aug. 31.-A South
Korean government spokesman
today denied a report that PreSi-
dent Syngman Rhee has asked
Gen. James A. Van Fleet to COM
mand ROK military forces as
Korean general of the army.
DR.. Karl Hong Kee, director
of the government Office of pub
lie information, said such a re-
port is absolutely unfounded.
Evening star., 1953-08-31
322 Liberated POWs
Board Transport
By the Associated Press

INCHON, Korea, Aug. 81
The transport Gen. Black loaded
322 liberated American war
prisoners today for return to the
United States.
The ship is scheduled to leave
for the two-week trip to San
Francisco tomorrow after taking
aboard more prisoners sent back
today by the Reds.
Evening star., 1953-08-31

Since then, the radio in the
Harry home has seldom been
turned on. Announcements of
returning prisoners - bringing
JOY to so many others-only
deepened their sorrow.
But early today an excited
neighbor telephoned the Harrys.
Capt Harry, alive and well, had
been officially announced among
those in the days prisoner ex-
change. He is due home in a
couple Of weeks.
There were no quotes" from
the Harrys. They were not
speechless, just incoherent with
JOY.
Evening star., 1953-08-31
Reds Expected
To Return 500
Yanks
indications Are Seen
TotuI Will Be Above
3,313 Promised
BY the AsSoeioted Press

PANMUNJOM, Aug. 81
Another $50 Americans, mostly
sergeants and officers, were freed
today amid indications the Com
munists may send back up to 500
more Americans than the 1913
originally promised.
The Reds also released $50
South Koreans on this 9th day
of the Korean war prisoner ex-
change.
The Communists promised to
send back 400 prisoners tomor-
row-100 Americans, Is British,
20 Turks, S Australians and
another $50 South Koreans.
One of the Britons to be
handed over tomorrow will be
1t. Col. James P. Carne, top
ranking British officer held by
the Communists, Red newspaper
men said.
Col. Carne, commander of a
battalion of one of Britain's
great fighting unitS-the Glouces-
terShire regiment-was cap
tured in April 1851 in the fierce
Imjin River battle.
Return of All Reaffirmed.
The Communists, meanwhile,
reaftlrmed assurances they will
return all Allied prisoners who
want to go home include those
accused of crimes before or after
their capture.
The Reds gave the assurances
at a 1-hour and 49-minute Ses-
sion of the Joint Military Armis-
tice Commission after Mai, Gen.
BlackShear M. Bryan, senior
Allied delegate, asked whether
the Reds would repatriate all
prisoners who want to return.
The meeting was called at Red
request.
The Communist Peiping ra-
dio said the Communists
lodged second strong protest
against American assistance to
Chang Kai-shek in the plot to
detain" captured Red Chinese
soldiers.
The broadcast said Red Dele
gate 1t. Gen. Lee Sang Cho
protested that Chinese Nation
alist agents landed at the allied
POW camp at Koje Island last
Wednesday and Thursday to in
duce Chinese POWs not to re-
turn to the Red mainland.
1897 Americans Returned.
In Pusan, the U. N. POW
Command said II Nationalist
representatives visited anti-Red
Chinese POWs last week in U.
N. camps on Cheju Island.
A U. N. command said the
NationalistS reassured the Chi
nese that they will not be forced
to return to Red China. The
representatives, the statement
said, also urged the Chinese to
cooperate when they are turned
over to the neutral nations re-
patriation commission, which
will decide their fate.
The Reds have returned 1927
Americans, leaving 486 still
scheduled for repatriation, ac-
cording to their early figure.
But liberated Americans who
were at Kaesong over the week
end said more than 1000 nom
Korean POWs were still awaiting
repatriation.
They said most of the men
were American and British SER
geants and officers.
The Reds said recently that
their 1913 total did not include
some POWs captured in the last
days of the war.
Others Seen at KaesOng.
1t. Maxey H. Hall, jr., of In
dianapolis. Ind, said 290 Ameri-
can officers were at Kaesong. He
said he had no idea how many
enlisted men were being held
there.
Sergt. 1/c Earl Dantzler of
Richmond, Va, said more than
promised Saturday to return all
See POWs. Page Az.
Evening star., 1953-08-31
BY the Assoeiosed Press

NEW YORK, Aug. 31.-The
parents and wife of Air Force
Capt. Ronald C. Harry. IS,
learned today that he is coming
home from Korea as a released
prisoner of war.
But that is only half the story.
Capt. Harry went to Korea in
February, 1852. In June of that
year, Mr.. and Mrs. Chester
Harry of Brooklyn, his parents,
and his wife, Gertrude. got a
happy letter from the captain.
He felt fine and. in his next
letter, would send them q pic
ture.
Evening star., 1953-08-31
Trieste StaysCaI
As Italian Troops
Move 10 Border
YugosIovio Officially
Denies Charge Tito
Has Annexation Plans
BY the Assoeioted Press

TRIESTE, Aug. 31.-This big
Adriatic free port went about
business as usual today despite a
clamorous word war between
Italy and Yugoslavia over the
long disputed Trieste free ter
ritory."
Despite italian troop move
ments toward the border, the
charges and counter charges
that each nation planned to
grab part of the occupied zone,
Trieste city remained free of
demonstrations or even unusual
public interest in latest develop
mentS in the long dispute.
Yugoslavia officially denied
yesterday Italian charges that
that President Tito was getting
ready to annex the territory's
Zone B, south of the port city
which Yugoslavia occupies and
administers under the Italian
peace treaty.
U. S. Support Charged.
Yugoslav Foreign Undersecr0-
tary Ales Bebler also charged
yesterday in a speech at Idrija,
on the Slovene coast, that the
Italians were "endeavoring with
all means available" to annex
the United States-British occu-
pied, Zone A of the territory,
which includes the port.
Bebler asserted that "the Ital-
ians are getting the support of
the Anglo American military
government in Trieste"
United States diplomats in
Rome and Belgrade were report
ed relatively undisturbed over
the increased tension between
Italy and Yugoslavia.
officials in Rome confirmed
that an Italian infantry regi-
ment and an armored battalion
had been deployed along the
Yugoslav border north of Trieste
and that other army units in
Northwest Italy had been put on
the alert. But the officials
termed these actions routine ex-
erciseS' as part of maneuverS
under way in the area for some
time.
Ship Movements Reported.
Rome newspapers reported,
without official explanation. that
an Italian cruiser, two destroyers
and a number of small vessels
sailed last night into Venice Har-
Dor, across the Northern Adriatic
from Trieste.
Trieste's Italian-language press
echoed Rome's fears at possible
new Yugoslav moves and the
city's political leaders conferred
about the situation. The gen.
eral public, however, remained
unexcited.
Italy's 1947 peace treaty pro-
vided that all Trieste be free
territory under United Nations
supervision but the Western pow
ers and Russia have never been
able to agree on an international
governor. In the absence of this
agreement, the British-American
and Yugoslav occupations of the
two zones have continued.
The Western allies have been
hopeful Tito and the Italians
would reach agreement on Tri-
este in direct negotiations, but
SO far the two neighbors have
not even been able to agree on
bases on which to start talks.
Evening star., 1953-08-31
The Russian Army:
Fact and Speculation

RUSSIA'S ARMY-Whot is it's
structure, ond how big O port moy
it be expected to play in shaping the
course Of Soviet policy? Prof. Harold
J. Bermon Of Horord University, on
ossociote IN the Russion reseorch
center there, sums up whot is known
about the Communist fighting mo-
chine in q filled feature on
pnoe A-S
Evening star., 1953-08-31
5 Drown in Truck Mishup

TOKYO, Aug. 81 R.-Five
persons were drowned when a
truck carrying 80 villagers
plunged into a river near SEN
dai, Northern Honshu, yesterday,
the newspaper Asahi reported
today. One is still missing and
four others were injured.
Evening star., 1953-08-31


recommended diShonorable dis
charge and dismissal forth
with"
All the charges in some way
involved the suspended police
officials finances in the years
1946-48.
Specific Counts.
These are the charges against
Bullock on which the board
found him guilty.
/. Failed and neglected" to
file District income tax returns
for 1916, 1947 and 1948. This
single specification came under
the heading Of conduct unbe-
coming an officer"
2. Failed to obey the order of
q superior officer. This stem
med from Bullock's refusal to
explain. when ordered last April
by Police Chief Robert v. Muir
ray, the source of nearly $4,000
income over and above his police
salary in the period 1946-48.
2. Refused in May, 1852, to
explain this extra income to the
Senate District Crime InveStigat-
ing Subcommittee and refused to
heed the request of Chief Muir
ray to give him the answers to
the income questions. which
Bullock refused to provide the
Senators. These two specifica-
tions were listed under the Trial
Board charges of conduct pre-
judicial to the reputation and
good order of the force.
The board, which consisted of
three top District government
officials and headed by former
Rent Control Administrator
Robert F. Cogswell, departed
from it's Stif1y formal findings.
to blast the suspended inspec-
tor in no uncertain terms.
Called Unfit for Office.
OF Bullock'S refusal to respond
to Chief Murray's queries, the
board declared that such refusal
"by one of the highest ranking
officers of the Police Department
-. partly on the ground that it
might incriminate him, or on
whatever grounds should be
sufficient to stamp such a per-
son as undesirable and COM
pletely unfit for public Office"
And the board observed of
Bullock's conduct, it was mot
only 'prejudicial to the reputa-
ton and good order of the force,
Z. but was conduct prejudicial
to the reputation of the Com
mlssioners Of the District of Co.
lumbia and its government, the
chief of police and. the entire
law-abiding citizenry of the Dis
trict of Columbia"
Board Charges Arrogance.
Bullock's conduct before his
chief was in itself. the board de-
clared, arrogant, defiant and
altogether contumacious." His
performance before the Senate
subcommittee was characterized
by the boards comment that it
could cite "at least 200" ex-
amples of Bullock's apparently
evasive answers of I don't know
I can't remember or, I can't
explain. u
The board quoted one Senate
subcommittee members reac-
ton on this point: "It is the
grandest pattern of evasion I
have ever seen in my life"
In its findings, the board fur
ther noted that Inspector Bull
lock ''Is yet to answer" the ques-
tions Chief Murray asked him.
Suffice it to state" the panel
declared, that his actions be-
fore the Senate and the chief
of police have earned his own
condemnation"
Appeal Is Planned.
Bullock's attorney, Charles E.
Ford, promptly announced he
intends to appeal the decision to
the Commissioners and to the
courts, if need be.
Mr.. Ford also offered some
(See BULLOCK, Page A-5.
Evening star., 1953-08-31
Bullock Guilty on All Counts;
B|istering Verdict on Inspector
Asks Dishonorab|e DISCHARGE
Bourd Scores
Police Officer
In Income Probe

A special trial board today
found Inspector Albert I. Bull
lock guilty on all counts of vio-
lating three sections of the
Metropolitan Police manual.
The board, none of whose
three members is a policeman,
Evening star., 1953-08-31

Summary Of Boords Findings on
Bullock. Poqe "A
What Bullock Wouldn't Tell. Poee AS
Evening star., 1953-08-31

temperatures Today.
Evening star., 1953-08-31

Makers of women's knit clothes are
trying for that hand-knit look this
season. Eleni tells which figures need
what clothes.
Page B-5.
Evening star., 1953-08-31

An Associoted Press Newspaper
Evening star., 1953-08-31

(See BULLOCK, Page A-5)
Evening star., 1953-08-31

See POWs, Page Az.