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Evening star., 1953-09-18
All East Germans Urged
To Help in Potato Crisis
BY the Associated Press

BERLIN, Sept. 18.-The So
Wet zone government urged all
East Germans today to help
peasants to dig out the potato
crop this week end.
The slow progress of harvest
work has raised fear in East
Germany that the bulk of the
1853 crop might be ruined by
sudden subfreezing weather.
Potatoes are the basic food
for the vast majority of the 18
million East Germans.
With $4,000 volunteers" from
Soviet zone factories already
sent to the farms. only 16 per
cent of the potato crop has been
harvested in the past few weeks,
the East German Ministry for
Agriculture and Forestry said in
an official bulletin.
Evening star., 1953-09-18
Oy the Assoeiosed Press

ALBANY, N, Y, Sept. 18.-The
New York Legislatures champion
of the older set, Senator Thomas
c. Desmond, has come up with
some new advice for those about
to retire: Stay off the farm"
Senator Desmond, chairman of
the Joint Legislative Committee
on Problems of the Aging, said
in a committee report released
yesterday that farming is a "gi-
gantic gamble"
The Newburgh Republican
added:
Farming today, contrary to
Evening star., 1953-09-18
Interior Official Sees
Too Much Politics in
Power Policy Debate
Solicitor Davis Cites
Congress Mandates in
Defending Program
BY the Associated Press

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS
w. Va, Sept. 18.-Solicitor Clar-
ence A. Davis of the Interior De-
partment said today that from
the beginning there has been
far too much politics and fa1
too little arithmetic" in discus
sion of the Eisenhower admins
tration's public power policy.
The Interior Departments re-
sponsibility in the power field, he
said. boils down to the sale of "a
surplus Government product to
benefit the largest possible num-
Der of people, giving preference
to public agencies, to help recoup
a Government investment"
Mr.. Davis discussed the new
Federal power policy in a speech
prepared for the Public Utilities
Association of the Virginias. A
former attorney general of Ne
braska, Mr.. Davis has had a part
in formulation of the new policy
/ Cites Congress Mandates.
Mr.. Davis said the department
has mandates from Congress:
l. To dispose of Federally pro-
duced electricity primarily for
the welfare of the reclamation
project where it is produced. the
water users and the liquidation
of the project costs.
2. To dispose of such energy
by the most widespread distribu-
ton to the largest number OF
domestic and rural customers.
3. To give preference to mu-
inequalities, co-operatives and
public organizations.
These criteria are obviously
subject to certain administrative
discretion in their application. y
Mr.. Davis said. personally,
believe that what has been done
in some cases is only distantly
related to the rather clear cri-
terra established by the Con-
gress."
Questioned on. Meaning.
He said that as he interpret!
the numerous laws containing
the preference clause "the wore
preference must imply a choice
between reasonably comparable
alternatives, and that preference
does not mean exclusion of al
! ternatives before exercising tht
/ preference"
Mr.. Davis was asked by a re.
porter if he meant that a pri.
vate utility having many do
mestic and rural consumers il
the same area in which a prefer
ence customer is located could bt
sold available Federal power
which a preference customer with
fewer consumers also wanted.
He replied that was not his in
depreciation. He said ne was aim
ing at what he described at tht
practice in previous administra;
tions of trying to get preference
customers for Federal power ever
if it entailed construction of Gov
erment transmission lines fol
great distances.
Mr.. Davis declared that Con
gress has never authorized tht
Government Ito engage in th'
power business as SUCH"
He reiterated Secretary Nc
Kay's declaration that the Gov
ernment will continue to con
struct multi-purpoSe projects bu
will not assume primary respon
sibility for supplying the powe.
needs of an area.
Evening star., 1953-09-18
Riggs Bank InstoIIs
Closed V Circuit

NEW-FANGLED TV-It seems no
time since television made its bow
TO the world. Now it is bronehins
out for commercial use, such az
Riggs National Bonk demonstrated
todoy. For story on how the bonk
uses Tv to gain more office space,
see pose AIS.
PRACTICE DOES IT-In sports,
cooking or dancing, the younger set
is looking up. In her evey-Fridoy
look at the Teen Scene, Sharon Doron
toIks Of golf and lobster contonese;
Of stopping stotie and improving done-
ing. Her column is on pose BIZ.
BURIED ALIvE-Life in q Czech
prison is like being buried alive. A
cell is like q tomb and the inmots
is q mon in pursotoy." Williom N.
ootis Of the Assoeioted Press tells
more Of his imprisonment by the
Communists on pose "A.
Evening star., 1953-09-18
By Miriom Gutenberg

Juvenile Court Judge Edith H.
Cockrill today gave whole
hearted" Endorsement to a CO.
ordinated attack on juvenile de-
linquency and promised as much
cooperation as the law allows.
The Council on Law Enforce
mentS' Executive Committee
wants the council to study ju-
venile arrests, prosecution and
disposition of cases in the highly
secret Juvenile Court.
Asked if she would make cases
available for such a study-in
view Of her secrecy policy-Judge
Cockrill said at first that the
cases Of juveniles who have
turned 18 and are now in the
adult courts would provide a
basis Of study.
Asks More Facts on Study.
When it was pointed out that
the councils Executive Commit
tee had In mind q study Of 16
and 17-year -olds who are adults
in all but chronological age.
Judge Cockrill said:
"I intend to cooperate in any
study to the fullest extent that
is permitted by law and that
seems reasonable to accomplish
what we all know needs to be
accomplished"
She said she would want to
know more about what the study
was intended to accomplish.
When there is agreement on
that, she said, "I will try to find
ways and means to accomplish
it."
The law enforcement councils
Executive Committee also said 1t
would recommend that the
council urge the Commissioners
to set up an official co-ordinat-
ing group to bring together the
widely scattered efforts to fight
juvenile delinquency.
Approves of Project.
Judge Cockrill, who is mem
ber of the council. said such a
proposal was exactly in line"
with what the Juvenile Court
Advisory Committee has urged.
She added that she had hoped
the survey by United Community
Services last spring was be-
ginning and that the Commis-
sioners would then take some Of
fetal action.
What has been needed all
along" she said, "is an overall
look at what the facilities are,
what is lacking and what are
the best ways to succeed in pre-
vention and correction"
Judge Cockrill said she did not
believe the agencies dealing with
juveniles showed a lack of desire
to cooperate. Instead. she said.
it was q lack Of coordination
that forced them to go along
Independently.
AS an example she cited the
budgets. Each agency, she said.
was so concerned with its own
problem of getting enough
money to operate that it did not
consider other agencies with
interrelated problems.
She said she believed that in
adequate facilities and stats of
the children's institutions re-
suited In repeaters. increasing
the work of her staff. Yet, she
said, no connection has ever been
Evening star., 1953-09-18
Chairman Mcconnell May Get
Post as Secretary Of Labor
White House Leans to House Leader,
But Fate of Committee Roses Doubt

until Gen. Eisenhower returns
to the White House.
The labor post has been vacant
since former Secretary Martin
P. Durkin resigned last week
Mr.. Durkin was sharply critical
of the administration, accusing
leaders of running out on an
agreement to recommend 19
changes in the Taft-Hartley
labor relations law.
Mr.. Mcconnell was an invest
ment banker before coming to
Congress. and in recent years
has been active in labor legisla-
tive matters. He has taken a
middle-of -the-road position on
changing Taft-Hartley. Last year
he was the sponsor of Federal
coal mine safety legislation which
was very much sought by John
L. Lewis United Mine W0rke: S.
Held Taft Law Hearings.
In the last session of Congress.
Mr.. Mcconnell conducted three
months of hearings on amend
ment of Taft-Hartley. He took
an active part in discussions at
the White House of an adm:nis-
tration program for changing the
law Mr.. Durkin, who returned to
his old post as president of the
AFL Plumbers Union. claimed
the discussion led to agreement
which the White House later re-
pudiated.
Mr.. Gwinn's position on labor
matters is typified by his stand
on the Taft-Hartley law: He
believes it is too favorable to
unions, and should be frightened
up. The dilemma of administra-
tion leaders is heightened by the
fact that good relations with
labor are of particular impor-
tance to them now, in the wake
of the Durkin resignation.
1t is doubtful if the choice of
Mr.. Mcconnell as head of the
Labor Department would be en-
tirely satisfactory to union lead
ers, but generally he has been
well regarded by both industry
and labor.
Amendments Forecast.
Senator Murray, Democrat, of
Montana, said meanwhile the
Republican Party has lost popu-
larity by failing to take a formal
stand on revision of Taft
Hartley.
Senator Murray, former chair
man Of the Senate Labor Com
mirtee, said it was unlikely that
Congress would amend the labor
law in the session starting next
January. The administration
has set that as it's goal.
"The resignation of Secretary
Of Labor Durkin was injurious
to the Republicans, and I don't
think you can argue that it was
not" the Senator added.
In st. Louis, where the AFL
convention will open Monday,
AFL President George Meany
fired an angry blast at Gen.
Eisenhower and his administra-
ton. He said the President sis
not strong enough to stand up
for his point of view against the
people who seem to control the
administration in Washington.
Mr. Meany said employers
"feel they have labor over a
BARREL" but I'VE are not going
to be showed around"
Evening star., 1953-09-18
Senators to Probe
Defense Metals Need
BY The Associoted Press

A Senate Interior Subcommit-
tee will start closed-door hear
ings in Seattle September 81 tc
investigate "the dire straits" OF
the United States in regard tc
metals needed for defense.
Senator Malone, Republican
of Nevada. the subcommittee
chairman, said the hearings will
continue three days in Seattle
then shift to Henderson, New, tc
look into what he said is "ar
extreme shortage of titanium fol-
defense purposes"
Evening star., 1953-09-18

ply" of appeasement of the Tru-
man administration which Adlai
Stevenson now dresses up in
new language once again"
president Eisenhower" Sen
ator Ferguson told his applaud
ing audience, "haS at last given
America what it so desperately
needed-a truly global policy
that recognizes the problem of
communism in Asia as we'll as
in Europe"
The Michigan Senator took off
the gloves in attacking state
ments made by former President
Truman and Mr.. Stevenson, the
1852 Democratic candidate for
President.
Criticism Called Ineffective.
Their criticisms of the Eisen-
hover administration, he said,
had no more effect ION the tow
ering strength" of the President
than the winds that beat unsuc-
cessfully upon the Rocky Noun
talnS.
Republican leaders mean
while pressed President Eisen-
hover himself to stop off in
Chicago to answer Democratic
charges that the Republican
farm program has gone sour
and that United States allies are
being confused by American for
eign policies.
Gen. Eisenhower is due to stop
over here briefly Saturday to
pick up his son, John. and fam
lily on the way back to Wash
ington from his vacation in Col
orado.
Senator Ferguson referred to
Mr.. Stevenson, in his speech, as
that "droll champion of egg
heads" He defined an egghead
as "a person with both feet
planted firmly in mid-air."
GAS long as the radical egg
heads control the Democratic
Party. as they do now" Senator
Ferguson continued, this coun-
try cannot survive another Dem
ocratic administration"
AssaiIs Democratic Rally.
Declaring he had been a stu
dent of contradictions all his
life, Senator Ferguson said he
had never seen such a display
as the Democrats put on in
Chicago during their big get
together this week. He pointed
out that in one breath the Dem
ocrats told us everything Presi-
dent Eisenhower was doing was
leading to disaster, and in the
next breath they Dragged cit
was only Democratic votes in
Congress that was helping him
do it,"
"Then they told us that our
foreign policy was a failure
abroad, and in the next breath
they charged us with having
appropriated the foreign policy
of Harry Truman and Dean
Accom-" he added.
"They took another breath
and said the American people
had voted for a change and they
weren't getting it. And in the
next breath they charged us
with attempting to wreck the
civil service because we were try
ing to bring about change.
Mr.. Truman charged us with
running a wrecking crew. Mr..
Stevenson charged us with run
ming a government by post
ponement. Evidently they for
got to compare speeches
Farm Aid Moves Cited.
The Democratic charges that
the Eisenhower administration
was doing nothing for the Amer
ican farmers, Senator Ferguson
said. were wholly false. He
added that farm law of
1888 was being carried out to
the letter; that Eisenhower was
Continued on Page A-10, Col. 10
Evening star., 1953-09-18
Ferguson Hits
Back at Critics
OfG. 0. P. Rule
Foreign Policy Has
Backbone, He Says
At Chicago Meeting
BY Gould Lincoln
Stor Stoff Corresnondent

CHICAGO. Sept. Ex-senator
Ferguson of Michigan. chairman
of the Republican Policy Com
mittee of the Senate. keynoting
a two-day conference of Repub-
lican women and Midwest and
Rocky Mountain Republican
State chairmen, declared today
that President Eisenhower has
given America a foreign policy
with real backbone in it."
He said this was in contrast
to the "cookie-pushing philoso-
Eisenhower Predicts 6. o. P. Midwest
Rally to Aid Porty. Poee A-3
Evening star., 1953-09-18
Russia Tells Of Tests
With New A-bombs,
Says Il Wants Ban
U. N. SpecuIotes Thot
Another Disarmament
Proposal Is Near

MOSCOW, Sept. 18. - The
Soviet government today claimed
successful tests of "new-type"
atomic bombs in recent weeks
but said it still wants an inter-
national ban on mass destruction
weapons.
The announcement by the
Soviet news agency Tass said
the blasts occurred Gin the last
few weeks" but gave no details
of "new-type" weapons tested
(In Washington. a spoKes-
man for the United States
Atomic Energy Commission
said the Russian announce
ment merely confirms" the
ABC's statement August 81
that a Observation-Disclosures
plosion Of about the same
power as recent United States
tests in Nevada had taken
place August % in Russia.
The previous statement added
the explosion would appear
to be part of a series"
(The American spokesman
emphasized again that the
August % explosion was a
"f1ssion," or atomic, blast.
Observers in Washington con-
cluded from this that the
Soviet explosion apparently
did not involve the thermo-
nuclear reactions of a hydro
gen bomb.
Speculation Stirred at U. N.
(Moscow's a mn ou ncement
stirred speculation at United
Nations headquarters in New
York that it was timed to pave
the way for new Soviet dis
armament proposals to the
U. N. Assembly. which has just.
opened it's eighth annual ses-
sion. These we're not expected
to differ materially. however.
from previous Russian dis
armament offers the U. N. has
repeatedly rejected0
The Soviet statement said
that, although the Soviet Union
"is able to give attention to the
of atomic weapons"
it would pursue policy of at
tempting to reach agreement
with other nations on arms cuts
and the prohibition of mass
weapons under strict
international control.
Asserting that Russia consid-
ers putting atomic energy to
peaceful uses it's most important
task, the statement said the So
viets are carrying out the task
of employing atomic energy for
industrial purposes"
Announced in IzveStia.
The Soviet announcement on
page 2 of the government news
paper Izvestia said:
I'm the last few weeks, in ac-
cordance with the plans of SCI
entif1c research work in the
sphere of atomic energy in the
Soviet Union, there were carried
out trials of some new types Of
atomic bombs. The trials were
carried out successfully. They
fully confirmed the calculations
and suggestions of scientists, en-
gineerS and constructors. ;"
Acc Stands on Statement.
The Acc Spokesman in Wash.
Evening star., 1953-09-18
Acc Stands on Statement.

The Acc spokesman in Wash
ington indicated the commission
had found nothing additional of
interest to add to its August 81
statement. At that time, the
Acc said it would make no fur
ther announcement about Russian
tests unless intelligence indi-
Gates information of greater in
terest."
I'VE are standing on the Au-
gust 81 statement. the United
States spokesman said last night.
A previous Russian explosion
apparently had involved some
kind Of hydrogen blast. On Au-
gust 81 the Acc announced that
the Soviets had conducted atom
ic tests August IL involving both
fission and thermonuclear reac-
tions. Thermonuclear is a term
scientists often use to describe a
hydrogen explosion.
Evening star., 1953-09-18

Continued on Page A-10, Col. l.,
Evening star., 1953-09-18

(See U. N, Page A-2)
The Nome nugget., 1953-08-07
Valdez Votes to Use Sales Tax Money for Tractor
 But Not for City Schools

VALDEZ, Alaska, R- Valdez voters approved a proposition on Tuesday to use about $36,OOO of city sales tax money to pay for a tractor and grader, but rejected a proposal to divert 25 percent of future sales tax revenues to city schools.
 The local sales levy was put into effect in January, 1852, and funds were earmarked to pay off the city's obligations on Alaska public works projects.
 The Alaska Public Works Office recently sanctioned a special cleo tion to let the voters decide on whether specific tax monies should be diverted for other pur- poses.
The Nome nugget., 1953-08-07
Singer Dick Haynes
 Picked Up for Deportation To His Native Argentina

WASHINGTON, R- sing CT Dick Haynes was picked up Thursday for deportation to his native Argentina.
 Atty. Gen. Brownell announced the arrest, made by immigration service inspectors at Los AngelesI
 Brownell said the reason for the 34-year-old Haynes deportation warrant was that during World War II he filed a certificate for exemption from military service as a citizen of a neutral nation.
 The attorney general said that Haynes thus is ineligible for na- turalization under the McCarran- Walter Act land therefore auto matically deportable"
The Nome nugget., 1953-08-07
Juneau Youth Is Found on Mount Roberts After 15
 Hours Lost In Heavy Fog

JUNEAU, R - A 16-year-old Juneau boy lost IS hours on near by rugged Mount Roberts was found by searchers late Thursday huddled beneath an abandoned weather instrument shelter near the summit.
 The youth, Bob Mohr, was hun gry, cold and miserable, but un- harmed.
 He started up the mountain at l pm, Wednesday and lost his way in a heavy fog. His parents, thinking he was with friends, did not report his absence until late Wednesday evening.
 Shortly before midnight, Ju- neau police and volunteer fire men organized the seasons first mountain search party: By day light they had been joined by volunteers from Juneau and Douglas, Forest Service workers, Coast Guardsmen and National Guardsmen. The Civil Air Patrol sent planes flying around the peak.
The Nome nugget., 1953-08-07
DIRECTORS ELECTED
 FOR ALASKA AIRLINES

SEATTLE, R- An Anchorage merchant, Keith M. Lesh, has been elected director of Alaska Air lines.
 Other new directors listed by Airline President Nelson David are: w. L. Walker, present treas urer of the company, and Julius A. Rippel.
 Reelected were Homer w. Rob- inson, Fairbanks; Nelson David Ross A. Urquhart, Los Angeles: Frank c. LaGrange, and Arthur Schneider, New York.
The Nome nugget., 1953-08-07
Ice Wall, Wind and Cold Turn Back Climbers Near Summit of Mount Drum

ANCHORAGE, R-A sheer ice wall less than 500 feet from the summit has turned back four mountaineers and left 12,002-foot Mount Drum in the Wrangell Range unconQuered.
 The story of their failure was told Wednesday by Bob Goodwin and Ernst Baumann of Anchor age when they returned home to rest. The climb was begun last Wednesday.
 Leader of the foursome was Phil Butler, 32, Fairbanks climber who pioneered a cosmic ray ex- pedition atop Mount Wrangell earlier this season.
 The fourth member of the crew was Keith Hart of the University of Alaska. Hart narrowly missed death near the top when he jumped aside just in time to avoid being crushed by a 5OO-pound boulder crashing downhill.
 The party was turned back Fri day by the ice wall, high winds freezing temperatures and dense clouds. It was the second time an attempt has been made to climb the peak which is 25O miles east of Anchorage.
The Nome nugget., 1953-08-07
THURSDAY SCORES American Leauue

Washington 4, Cleveland l Chicago 6, Philadelphia 4 New York 5, Detroit 2 St. Louis 8, Boston '
 National League Brooklyn Az, Milwaukee 3-3 New York 2, Chicago 6 Pittsburgh 4, Cincinnati 3 St. Louis 2, Philadelphia 0
 Coast League Sacramento 10, Hollywood 2 Seattle 5, Los Angeels 4 Oakland 13, San Diego l Portland 2, San Francisco 0
The Nome nugget., 1953-08-07
Five Die in Bus Crash

HYDRO, Okla, R-Five per sons were killed and 24 injured Thursday, many critically, when a Greyhound bus and car pull ing a house trailer collided on a bridge and then plunged 25 feet into a ravine.
The Nome nugget., 1953-08-07
KISS OF DEATH

MEXICO CITY, R - An aged man dropped dead yesterday after a passionate kiss.
 Officials made this report:
 A woman whose husband had left her was approached by the elderly man. She said she accep- ted his advances because she had gone without food for two days.
 He kissed her once-a long, pas sionate kiss-and then dropped dead.
The Nome nugget., 1953-08-07

Reindeer are now being raised in Scotland for the first time in 800 years.
The Nome nugget., 1953-02-20
House Bill Would Give Prospectors Territorial Aid
By JIM HUTCHINSON

JUNEAU, LR - Both houses of the Alaska legislature held only morning sessions Thursday, turn ed to afternoon committee work and prepared for the first night hearing.
 The House and Senate Educa- ton Committees held joint meet ings Thursday night with the Territorial Board of Education to survey. an oversize headache on the Alaska school situation.
 The House considered half a dozen bills. One was introduced by Mrs. Edith Bullock and would authorize the territory to loan materials and equipment to pros pectors under rules laid down by the Mines Commissioner.
 The measure includes a provi- sion that the commissioner can take the equipment back from any unsatisfactory prospector.
 Mrs. Bullock said the intent is to allow the Mines Department to help and encourage a limited number of hand-picked prospec- tors in specific areas or on spe- cific projects which the commis- sioner thinks holds good promise.
 She said it was desired by the department and not intended to spread territorial largesse freely among any prospectors seeking a handout.
The Nome nugget., 1953-02-20
Board of Education
 Recommends $300-a-Year Raise For Alaska Teachers

JUNEAU, LR The Territorial Board of Education recommended Thursday night an across-the- board salary increase of $500 yearly for teachers, plus an extra $50 for each years teaching ex- perience in Alaska.
 The highest increase possible under the proposal would be $900 for teachers with a masters de- gree and 12 years of Alaska teaching.
 Everett Erickson, Commission CT of Education, said II years is the longest record of anyone now teaching in Alaska.
 Erickson said a $100 annual in crease already provided for teachers also would remain in effect.
 Possible increases would vary under the boards suggestion ac- cording to the amount of school ing. A teacher with only three years of college would get the $50 bonus for a maximum of four years teaching experience, or $2OO atop the $500 blanket increase, for a total of $500.
 The board made it's suggestion at a conference on the school budget with the joint House Sen ate Education committees.
 Erickson estimated it would cost $750,00O for the biennium.
 A. H. Ziegler of Ketchikan, longtime board member, told the legislators the board felt the ad- ditional increases for years of ex- perience would encourage experi- enced teachers to stay in Alaska.