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neutral nations are not suit
able?"
Gen. Nam said it would put a
neutral in an embarrassing po-
sition" if it we're not first decided
to ship prisoners out of Korea.
This also would be true, he said,
if the Allies refused to agree to
a nation named by the Reds.
Gen. Harrison said it was i'm
practical" to ship prisoners
overseas" but added:
THE only difference (betwe@a
movement to Europe or an Asian
country is the short period of
actual travel on the sea. Yet
you would make these few days
vital matter"
The only reasonable solu-
tion." Gen Harrison declared,
was to keep prisoners in Korea
until their fate is ironed out.
Urged to Make Progress.
After discussing Switzerland
and Sweden as possible neutrals.
Gen. Harrison told the Reds if
they wanted to make progress in
the talks they would agree to
either nation-or name one
themselves.
The Reds asked for the recess
after accusing the allies of show
ing no effort to speed the talks.
After the session, Rear Admiral
John C. Daniel remained behind
for a meeting of liaiSon groups
handling the exchange of sick
and wounded prisoners.
For second straight day, Ad-
miral Daniel demanded the re-
turn of more than 375" allied
sick and wounded prisoners
under the current exchange.
He said the allies had "indis-
putable evidence" the Commu-
nists still hold these prisoners
and that they wanted to come
home and were fit to travel.
Admiral Daniel said the figure
was based on incomplete ques-
tioning of allied prisoners re-
turned last week.
The Reds again turned down
the appeal.
Evening star., 1953-05-02
Physical Society Urges Steps
To Undo Harm in Astin Case

personnel has been engaged, full
or part time. on Defense De-
partment work.
All this, he stressed, demands
an environment favorable to
scientific thinking and metho-
do.ogy," with the highest posi-
tions in the civil service open to
bureau scientists.
The Physical Society state
ment, read by Prof. Enrice Fermi
Of Columbia, was:
"The council of the American
Physical Society has been deeply
concerned with the impact of the
Astin dismissal on the morale
and effectiveness of physicists in
Government laboratories. The
councils apprehension has been
partly relieved by the temporary
reinstatement of DR.. Astin, and
by the accompanying declaration
OF Secretary Weeks that his pre-
viouS action did not imply any
reflection OH the scientific integ-
rity of either DR.. Astin or the
Bureau of Standards. However,
much more is needed to undo the
harm that has been done; and a
fundamental principle should be
made very clear.
Objective Methods.
1T is the duty of the scientist
to investigate scientific and tech
nical problems by openly stated
objective methods without shad-
ing his opinions under political
or other pressures. On this prin-
ciple the progress of science de-
pends. We have never doubted
that the work of the bureau has
been conducted in this spirit.
THE council urges that an
authoritative statement be made
that this principle forms the
rule of ethics for scientists in
Government service, and that no
scientist will be penalized for
adhering to them. We believe
such a statement would do much
to relieve the uneasiness caused
by the Astin incident"
An organization of scientists
concerned solely with the con-
ception and development of new
weapons and entirely free of the
military services was urged by
DR.. Lloyd v. Berkner, director
of the Brookhaven laboratories
of the Atomic Energy Commits
sion.
If connected with the Defense
Department at all, DR.. Berkner
said, this organization should
report only to the Secretary of
Defense directly and should
have at all times free access to
the President and all sources of
information in the Govern
ment'S possession. 1t should
operate, he said, with completely
independent funds.
Evening star., 1953-05-02
American JETS Comb
North Korea, Blast
Red Supply Bases
BY the Associated Press

SEOUL. May. 2.-The United
Nations command sent hundreds
Of Sabre jets and flghter-bombers
over North Korea today in a
search for Red MICS and troop
and supply targets.
No MICS were sighted, but the
Air Force said several targets
were smashed. &
Fighter-bombers plastered rail
bridges near the North Korean
capital of Pyongyang. Thunder
jet pilots claimed two bridges
destroyed and two damaged.
Australian Meteor jets, Marine
Panther jets and bomh-carryins
Sabres pounded frontline tar
gets in Western Korea, the Air
Force said.
Sixteen B-29 Superforts from
Okinawa bombed targets on the
Haeju Peninsula west of Kae-
song. headquarters for the Com
munist armistice delegation,
Eleven Superforts hit supply
buildings and troop shelters at
Taechon while the other five
bombed similar targets at Uchon,
6 miles to the southeast, the
Air Force said.
The South Korean Sd Corps
was activated on the eastern
front today, boosting the ROK
strength almost to that of United
States forces in the 9th Army.
Only a few light skirmishes
were reported along the 155-mile
battle line.
A Chinese platoon attacked
an allied listening post near
Panmunjom before dawn. About
35 Communists were cut down
and the Reds hastily withdrew,
the 9th Army said.
Sixty North Koreans charged
another listening post and lost
an estimated As killed and
wounded.
Shortly after midnight Red
loudspeakers across the front be-
gan broadcasting more appeals
for peace. One announcer called
on American troops to make
peace. stop fighting and tell the
folks back home to write Post
Evening star., 1953-05-02
Operators Turn In
License for Nursery
Over Baby's Death

Operators of a Maryland Park
nursery home where a baby was
injured fatally last week volun-
tarily turned in their license
last night.
Montgomery Morrow, Prince
Georges County sanitation Off
Ger, said he visited the home
and suggested the nursery license
be relinquished until "the diff
Guilty is cleared up"
Investigation Underway.
Prince Georges County police
are conducting an investigation
into the death of James Cecil
Henderson, jr., seven-month- old
son of Mrs. Edna C. Henderson
of 2418 G street NV. The in
FAINT, which had been placed in
the nursery a week before, was
pronounced dead at Prince
Georges General Hospital week
ago Friday.
Mr.. Morrow said he spoke to
Mrs. Arleen F. Tenant, the
nursery operator. in her home
at 4O7 Sixty-fifth avenue. The
license was turned in as he sug-
gested.
They did it voluntarily" he
said. Il felt they were trying to
do the right thing"
The police probe was touched
off by a report on the baby's
death by DR.. James I. Boyd,
county medical examiner. DR..
Boyd said the infant died as a
result of contusions to the face
and intra -cranial hemorrhage.
The bruises, he said, were caused
by multiple blows to the head
and face"
Mistreatment Denied.
DR.. Boyd said he could not
ascertain how the infant had
been beaten. Mrs. Tenant de-
MED the baby had been mis-
treated but said he cried nearly
all the time and might have
butted his head against the side
of the crib.
When he visited the Tenant
home last night, Mr.. Morrow
said, there were four children
there. He said arrangements
were made to return them to
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porter in covering all branches
of State and local government
in the State of Virginia his
express diligence through his
newspaper and devotion to the
cause of justice and fair play
to ALL"
Miss FleeSon was honored "in
recognition Of her outstanding
work as political reporter in
Washington. her distinguished
record as a war correspondent in
Europe"
Mr.. Baillie was cited "in rec
ognition of his long and bril-
liant career as a reSourceful re-
porter and alert press associa-
ton executive, his phenomenal
rise from a bureau member to
president of the United Press
his leadership in seeking
postwar freedom of news among
nations"
The award was given Mr..
Taishoff lin recognition of his
brilliant career as an editor and
publisher of Capital Broadcast
ing -Telecasting Magazine.
Mr.. Thompson's award was "in
recognition of his more than 80
years of wholehearted devotion
to the teaching Of Journalism"
Newbold Noyes. jr., national
news editor of The Star, ac-
cepted the award for his news
paper.
In a talk on How to Tell the
TRUTH" Mr.. Noyes discussed the
trend from purely objective re-
porting to interpretive" re-
porting, citing both the difficult
ties and the hazards involved.
THE rule of objectivity," he
said, was for newspapers what
a girdle is for a woman-an ad-
mission that all is not quite
what it should be, and an effort
to make the best of what you
have under the circumstances.
IF we newspapers now are
going to throw away our girdle,
does it not follow that we must
get on with our setting-up ex-
erciSeS?
1--WE are. it is clear, setting out
these days to give our readers
a kind Of service our fathers
felt they had to deny them. OBJ
viously we cannot hope to sue
ceed unless, at the same time,
Evening star., 1953-05-02
Journalism Medals Awarded
To The Star and Six individuals

We correct those conditions
which set such Arm ceiling
on what the previous genera
tions dared try to do"
Much Accomplished.
Mr.. Noyes said that much had
been accomplished along this
line in recent years. but not
nearly enough. He declared
newspapers never have had men
good enough to do the reporting
job the papers are trying to do.
This is a rough statement, +"
he conceded. "It would be time
for me to take to the hills if I
did not knoW-as I do know
that the last people who ever
would misnterpret or resent
what I have just said are my
colleagues in the news-reporting
business.
mo one tries harder than they
do, day after day. to live up to
the ideal of excellence their job
demands of them. And no group
Of earnest StriverS ever was more
acutely aware then they are how
utter and inevitable is their daily
failure"
Attacks Two Probers' Methods.
Miss Fleeson attacked the
methods of Senator Mccarthy
and Representative Velde in a
talk on THE Press and Individ-
ual Responsibility"
1T is time" she said, Ito re-
mind some Of our leaders that
the founding fathers did not
adopt e pluribus uniformity as
the national motto. They said
e pluribus unum' in conscious
affirmation of their conviction
that from the many voices of
Americans free to speak, to
question and to argue, one strong
national will could best be forged.
Il have often thought how
much l should enjoy hearing
that many-Sided genius, Thomas
Jefferson, testify before the
House Un-American Activities
Committee. I would be willing
to bet my swell new medal that
he would have lost his temper if
Senator Mccarthy had attempt
ed to make a private deal with
the Barbary pirates"
The medals were presented as
a part of the schools annual
journalism week program.
Evening star., 1953-05-02

Office Box STA, Washington,
D. c." The announcer did not
say who holds the box.
(The Post Office today was
silent about Box STA which is
located in the BENJAMIN
Franklin Station on Pennsyl-
vania avenue. between Twelfth
and Thirteenth streets NV.
Postal inspectors said in ac-
cordance with the depart
ment's usual custom, the
names of the persons or organ
izations which rent boxes can
not be released. They added
the department was check
ing" the incident.)
Planes from two American
carriers pounded Communist
coastal batteries and frontline
supply centers in Eastern Korea
yesterday. the Navy said.
American Sabre jed pilots shot
down three Red MICS in dog
fights over North Korea during
the week ending Friday, while
not Sabre was lost in combat.
Far East forces announced.
Evening star., 1953-05-02
Ives Plans foERevive
Hearings on FEPC

The long struggle for a Federal
fair employment practice bill will
be revived soon at the Senate end
Of the Capitol.
Senator Ives. Republican, of
New York. has arranged to start
a week of hearings on May 10
before a Senator Labor subcom-
mittee on a bill to enable the
Federal Government to inveSti-
gate and act on complaints of
discrimination by any employer
OF so or more persons.
In announcing the hearings to
the Senate yesterday, Senator
Ives urged interested civic organi-
cations to send their top officers
to testify.
The chances for passage of an
FEPC bill this year are not
bright. in view of the Senate's
crowded docket and Southern
opposition.
Evening star., 1953-05-02
Christian Science Monitor
Wins Award al Dallas
BY the Associated Press

DALLAS, May 2.-The South
west Journalism Forums top
distinguished service award
that for newspapers-went to-
day to the Christian Science
Monitor.
Presentation of seven distin-
guished service awards by DR..
Umphrey Lee, president of
Southern Methodist University
ended the three-day forum
jointly sponsored by SMU and
the Press Club of Dallas.
The award for distinguished
service in radio reporting in
1852 went to Clifton M. Utley,
news analyst for the National
Broadcasting Co. and principal
speaker at the awards luncheon.
Other ward winners and their
fields: James B. Reston, New
York Times. newspaper report
ing; Ralph McGill. editor, At
1anta Constitution, editing;
Richard H. Rovere, Washing
ton correspondent for New York
er magazine. magazine report
ing; Edward r. Murrow, Colum-
bia Broadcasting System. tele-
vision reporting, and Humble Oil
& Refining Co., Houston, indus
trial publishing.
Evening star., 1953-05-02
| New School Aid Plan
Injected Into Debate
On Submerged Lands
By J. A. O'LeoN

Senator Green. Democrat. Of
Rhode Island. will ask the Sem
ate next week to give all of the
States Federal funds for educa-
ton to make up for benefits he
says are being conferred on q
few coastal States in the sub
merged lands bill.
In offering his plan yesterday,
Senator Green contended the
pending bill gives off-shore min
eral resources chiefly to Cali
fornia. Texas and Louisiana.
His amendment would require
these States to report to WASH
ington every six months the
amounts they collect in leasing
revenues. The Treasury would
then take a comparable amount
OF Federal money and apportion
it to all the States according to
their percentage Of school popu-
lation. The coastal States, how
ever, would share in this distri-
button only if the leasing reve-
nues they had already collected
fell short of their share under
the school population yardstick.
Would Compensate States.
All previous efforts by the
opponents of State ownership
OF the submerged lands to have
the leasing revenues earmarked
for Federal aid to education
have failed.
The Green plan would not in.
terfere with ownership of the
submerged lands by the coastal
States out to their historic boun-
daries. But it would require the
Federal Government to compen-
safe the other States for assets
which the opponents claim are
being decided away by Congress.
Senators who have voted
against earlier amendments may
f1nd this one more difficult to
oppose because it benefits all
States.
Morse Sees Give-Aways.
No votes were taken on the bill
yesterday. but Senator Morse,
Independent, Of Oregon, took ad-
vantage of the lull to predict
that the administration may fol-
low up this bill with proposals
to give away other natural re-
sources now under Federal
control.
If that happens, he predicted
some of the liberals who talked
for a month against the sub
merged lands bill, would keep the
debate going even longer on any
subsequent proposals.
Senator Morse also restated
his willingness to act on new
rules to prevent fllibusters.
I'VE are going to get rid Of
the f1libuster technique applica-
BILE to all issues, or else we are
going to use it in order to protect
the peoples interest where it
needs to be protected" said
Senator Morse.
The Senate has agreed to dis
pose of all remaining amend
ments Monday and take a final
vote on the bill at 2 pm. Tuesday.
Evening star., 1953-05-02
Secretary Humphrey
SIashes Office Staff
To Save S98,6OO
By the Assoeiotsd Press

Secretary of the Treasury
Humphrey has started economy
at home-in the Secretary's Of
fee.
Treasury personnel officials
said reorganization of the Sec
retary's Office ordered by Mr.
Humphrey took 80 persons of
the Treasury's payroll for a saw
ing Of $147,000 year. The Sec
retary's Office last year employed
an average Of 467 persons, with
salaries of $2.585,000.
At the same time, however
Secretary Humphrey had added
a deputy secretary and three as
slstants to the Secretary. Those
salaries add up to $48,4O0.
So the net saving in the Sec
retary's Office is $98,600 a year
Other Cuts Ordered.
Beyond his own Office, Mr..
Humphrey has ordered further
payroll reductions which will
abolish SO jobs with salaries to-
falling $220,000 a year. These
are to be effective by July /.
Added to the reductions already
made in the Secretary's Office,
that totals $3l7.600 payroll saw
ings under the new Treasury
dispensation in effect or ordered.
The Treasury (excluding the
Bureau of Internal Revenue,
Coast Guard, Customs Service
and Secret Service) now employs
an average of 1909 persons.
Mr.. Humphrey reduced the
Secretary's payroll by changes
and cuts in the old technical
staff.
The Secletary's office, as the
high command of the Treasury,
includes top assistants and spe-
cialized staffs.
OU JODS "lpeO OuC.
Secretary Humphrey threw
the technical and tax advisory
stats together as the analysis
staff, putting them under Dan
Throop Smith, of the Harvard
Business School. who is direct
ing the Treasury'S survey of tax
alton.
The personnel office said the
reorganization wiped out 25 jobs
in the old technical staff and five
in the old tax advisory staff.
These ranged from typistS earn
ing about $4,000 a year to top
civil service jobs paying a maxi
mum $4,000 a year.
The G. o. P. Civil Service Jobs
were those of George C. Haas,
longtime policy adviser to the
Democratic administration, who
retired, and L. L. Ecker-Rasz,
former head of the tax advisory
staff, who accepted a lesser posi-
ton in Mr.. Smiths analysis
staff.
In addition, the Treasury is
consolidating its three libraries
INTO one general library, reduc-
ing the payroll by two or three
persons and savings about 5000
square feet of space.
Evening star., 1953-05-02
Gift Made Easy

ATHENS, Tenn. (P. Roy
Carnfill of the Cedar Springs
community recently pledged the
sale of a calf to help with the
building of a new church. Within
a week one of his cows gave birth
to twin calves. Ten days later
a second COW had twins and a
week later a third COW had twins.
Evening star., 1953-05-02
BY Thomas R. Henry
Science Editor Of The Sfor

DR.. Allen V. Astin, director of
the Bureau of Standards now
temporarily relnstated after be-
ing dismissed by Secretary of
Commerce Weeks. presented his
concepts Of the place of the bu-
reau in national life at the an
nual banquet of the American
Physical Society last night.
After his address, which re-
celved an enthusiastic reception,
a statement was issued by the
society's council that much more
(than DR.. Astin's reinstatement
Is needed to undo the harm that
has been done and a fundamen-
tai principle should be made
clear"
DR.. Astin, one of the two main
speakers, carefully refrained
from touching on the contro-
versy. but his statement of his
own credo and that of most of
the bureau staff was unmistak-
ably applicable.
The organizations primary
reason for existence, he said, is
that of custodianship and de-
velopment of uniform standards
for physical measurement upon
which all basic understanding in
science depends.
There was great concern a few
weeks ago, he said, when one
member of the staff made what
was considered a serious error
in application of a standard of
length. His measurement was
wrong. 1t had been found, by a
single wavelength of light, about
billionth of an inch, or one
part in five million of the length
being measured.
1--WE believe" he said, "that
complete freedom of inquiry
is essential. We believe that
not only programmed research
but fundamental research is nee
esSary. We believe free COM
munication between scientists is
essential, as is freedom of publi-
cation limited only by strict
national security requirements. 3"
Standardized Practices.
The bureau. he said, saves the
Government money by its tests
Of all articles purchased by
Federal agencies, but of more
significance is its development of
standardized practices. In times
of emergency, he said, its facili-
ties should be placed entirely at
the disposal of those charged
with the national defense. Since
World War II and especially
since Korea, he stressed, at
least three-fourths of the bureau
Evening star., 1953-05-02

their parents after the nursery
license was turned in.
This morning. a Star reporter
called the nursery and was told
only that the children would be
returned this morning. A man
who answered the phone added:
I'VE have been instructed not
to make any more reports on this.
I can't talk any more"
Evening star., 1953-05-02
VA
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all VA-approved loans are for
home purchases. however.
Mr.. Gray said the higher in
tereSt rate also should help elm
mate discount charges many
builders have been forced to pay
in order to get money from
lenders at the 4 per cent rate.
Most of these discount charges
have been passed on to the vet
Grams lin the form of higher
price or lower quality construc-
tion." he added.
3 Million Loans Made.
More than 3 million home
loans have been made to veterans
under the CT program. Of these.
about 10000 have been paid in
full and VA has had to make
good guarantee claims in only
u of per cent of all the loans.
Mr.. Gray said this record is
another fact which should "at-
tract lenders to the program"
In another move today VA
announced it has removed re-
StrictionS on how a per cent
gratuity payment on GI loans
may be applied. The gratuity.
which equals 4 per cent of the
guarantee portion of the CT
loan up to maximum of $160,
formerly could apply only toward
reducing the principal. Now, it
may be used to pay toward the
first year taxes and insurance,
first installments on the loan or
in other ways.
Not Yet Caught Up.
VA records indicate that new
fiscal policies had not yet caught.
up with money available for GI
loans at the old 4 per cent rate.
For the first three months of this
year, for example, VA received
about $4,000 requests per month
for approval of loans. These
figures compare with 26,790
loans approved in January, 1852.
During the last few months.
however, business and industry
officials have waged intensive
campaigns to win increases in
home mortgage interest rates.
Evening star., 1953-05-02
The Weather Here and Over the Nation

District and vicinity-Partly
cloudy and cooler tonight and
tomorrow. Low tonight about so.
Maryland-Scattered thunder
showers in east portion this eve
ming, cooler in west. Low to-
night, 1852. Tomorrow, partly
cloudy and cooler.
Virginia-Scattered thunder
showers in southeast portion
early tonight. with storms-pos-
sibly locally severe-in southeast.
Cooler tonight, lower 1856.
Evening star., 1953-05-02

Tomorrow, some cloudiness and
cooler.
Wind - Southwesterly, 1920
miles per hour tonight and
tomorrow.
River Report,
(From U. s. Engineers.)
Potomac River cloudy at Harpers Ferry
and clear at Great Falls; Shenandoah
cloudy at HarperS Ferry.
Humidity.
tReadings at National Airport.)
Yesterday Pct. To-day Pct
Noon II MidniRht 80
pm. 4S s am, - SO
pm. - 25