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Evening star., 1953-10-30
Dead on Plane
BY the Associoted Press

BY the Assoeioted Press
HONOLULU, Oct. 30.-Pas-
sengers and crew aboard the
British Commonwealth Pacific
airliner which crashed and
burned near San Francisco yes
terday:
Passengers.
William Kapell, 81, New York
concert pianist.
Reginald F. Eastoe, so, en-
gineer of Dereham, Norfolk,
England.
John K. Briscoe, As, insurance
executive. London.
William j. Cox, 81, shopfitter,
Neutral Bay, New South Wales.
Australia.
Cyril G.. Mcdonald, 60, elec-
trical engineer, Caulfield. Vic
toria, Australia.
Jack w. Butterworth, So, en-
gineer, st. Kilda, Victoria.
Australia.
Bernard r. Fischer, 81, chief
passenger clerk, Brighton, South
Australia.
Paul Olsen, 80, master mar
iner, Cardiff, New South Wales
Australia.
John Feher, 49, matchmaker
Darling Point, New South Wales
Australia.
John A. Feher, Z, same ad-
! dress.
Mrs. Jean Chiverton, Van
couver, British Columbia.
Crew.
Capt. Bruce Dixon.
| First Officer Frank Campbell
Purser Walter Knight.
Navigator George Murtagh.
Radio Officer Vernon Walker
Flight Engineer Charles Cat
| tanach.
Hostess June Elder.
Hostess Amy Lewis.
All the crew were from
Australia.
Evening star., 1953-10-30

their feet and shouted: He is
right. Set the Italians free"
The Italian defendants -
for whom Prosecutor Alessandro
Casalegna two days ago de-
manded Jail sentences of "a and
% years-stood up in their court
room cage.
Court President Francesca
Sicher hammered for silence.
When he obtained it, he recessed
the session.
Mr.. Dal Fiume described the
Holohan murder as simply
grotesque" and said that it was
not "a political crime. but a
common one"
The prosecution has demanded
life imprisonment for the two
former United States Army men
being tried in absentia-Aldo
Icardi of Pittsburgh and Carl
Lo Dolce of Rochester, N. Y.
Even if convicted and sentenced,
however, Italy has no means of
enforcing the penalty. United
States courts have refused to
extradite them.
"Icardi," said Mr.. Dal Fiume
today, '"was not patriot who
wanted to serve his country, but
a vulgar thief who wanted to
take the MISSIONS funds"
Evening star., 1953-10-30
Bridges
Continued From First Page


location downstream from the
railroad bridge, connecting di-
rectly the proposed southwest
freeway with the Shirley Memo
rial highway. We therefore
recommend this location to your
consideration with a view to
holding a joint discussion with
your board in the near future.
"As it will be desirable to have
estimates of the cost of the i'm
provements directly involved in
this location, it is requested that
comparable estimates also be
prepared for the location recently
approved by the Board of Com
missioners (the E street BRIDGE :"
Commission Member Frederick
Bigger of Pittsburgh, who pro-
poseA. the letter, suggested that
a firm of outside experts be hired
to make the comparable bridge
cost estimates.
However, District Engineer
Commissioner Louis w. PrentiSS
and Public Buildings Commits
sioner w. E. Reynolds opposed
this. Gen. PrentiSS, foremost
proponent of the E street prof.
ect, suggested that District high
way officials. Planning Commis-
sion experts and Bureau of Pub
lie Roads officials should be able
to agree on the estimates them
selves.
"I don't see any sense" the
general declared, "in spending
a lot of money, which is hard
to get, to hire some one to make
a cost estimate because we can't
believe each other"
In response to questions by
Gen. Prentiss, his fellow COM
mission members said they felt
the time to reach a final de-
cision on the downtown bridge
question was after complete
studies were made to compare
the two bridge proposals.
The new Southwest location
Evening star., 1953-10-30
Adventists Earmark
SOB Million for 81

The general conference of
Seventh-day Adventists yester-
day appropriated $20,319. SAB to-
ward church projects in 1854,
including a record $12,469, 800 for
overseas work.
Treasurer C. L. Torrey said the
appropriation amounted to near
ly So million more than was voted
last year. He said it was made
possible by church members. who
gave more than $50 million in
tithes and offerings last year.
The Adventist leaders also ap-
proved a plan for a Nationwide
offering for Korean rehabilita-
ton, to be taken next spring. It
will supplement approximately
$500.000 already given toward
rehSbilitating hospitals, churches
and other denominational enter
priSes in South Korea.
In a special measure, the dele
gates unanimously voted to con
tinue our denominational stand
to refrain from participating in
politics or political movements. ;"
A church spokesman said this in
no way applies to individual
members.
Evening star., 1953-10-30

In 1910, Mr.. James joined the
Bureau of Public Roads. He was
one of its principal officers when
the first Federal aid lesiglation
was under consideration. His
writings on highway subjects
have been published in English
and Spanish.
His Highway Construction,
Administration and Finance,
published in 1928, was awarded
first prize in a worldwide COM
petition by the International AS
sociation of Road Congresses.
Mr.. James was awarded the
Department of Commerce gold
medal for exceptional service in
1850. He and his wife live at
6412 Beechwood drive, Chevy
Chase, Md.
Evening star., 1953-10-30
Communism
Continued From First Page,)

peak before 1947. At no time in
the last few years have they
been able to carry off success
fully mass demonstrations or
political strikes. But, in terms
of electoral strength, the parties
in Italy, France and Iceland
have succeeded in maintaining
their postwar position.
Two Main Objectives.
Middle East and North Africa
The Communist parties still
lack the strength to alter the
structure of society by revolu-
tionary action, except poten-
TALLY in Iran. Everywhere in
this region the Communists have
two major immediate objectiveS:
To build a cadre of trained Com
muniStS, and, to establish the
broadest. possible popular front
with local nationalist groups op-
posed to political ties with the
West.
Africa south of the Sahara
Although there are individual
Communists in this area, there
are no organized Communists
movements, with the exception
of an inconsequential party in
French Equatorial Africa. There
are Communist elements in Brit
iSh West African nationalist and
labor groups, but they exert
little influence. Communist in
f1uence in British East and Cen
trail Africa, the Belgian Congo
and Portuguese African terri
tories is insignificant.
Decline in Latin America.
Latin America - Communist
Party membership has dropped
from 100000 Immediately after
World War II to about 100000.
In II of the 20 countries the
Communist Party is now Off
NAN44y oAPP4 CoSCN. LII IlOtiC 10 IL
an important electoral factor
The Communists, as such, have
no present prospect of gaining
control over any Latin Ameri-
can government by electoral
means. Their direct participa-
ton in national politics is sig
nif1csnt only in Guatemala.
Asia-In attempting to fur
ther their detectives in this re-
gion. the Communists are re-
sorting to a wide range of tac-
tical devices. The staff report
concluded. however. that armed
struggle is a key concept in the
Communist strategy for seizing
power in areas like Asia.
Evening star., 1953-10-30

Mr.. James has been in charge
of this work.
He has represented the United
States in Latin America, and is
given much credit for the large
portion of the highway to Panama
now complete. He also has
represented this country at in
ternational road conferences of
North and South American
countries, and has advised South
American governments on road
problems.
Born at Ossining, N. Y, Mr..
James was graduated from Har-
ward University in 1901, and
studied at Massachusetts, Insti-
tute of Technology in 1905 to
1907. He then served as a dis
trict engineer for the Bureau of
Public Works of the Philippines.
Evening star., 1953-10-30
Clearing Skies Ease
Threat of Milan Floods
By the Assoeiated Press

MILAN. Oct. 30.-A bright sun
broke over northern Italy today,
ending a week of heavy rains
which had raised fears of a ma
jor flood disaster.
Rivers and streams which last
night still were ripping out small
bridges and washing away roads
began to recede and officials said
the situation was no longer
alarming.
Evening star., 1953-10-30
More G1s May Leave Reds,
Relatives Could Be 'ExpIoiners'

in Indian custody who by Com
munist accounts are refusing to
go home.
Gen. Thimayya said he told
the American there was nothing
in the Korean armistice rules
which would prohibit relatives
from serving as "explainers."
He added. however, that he did
not know if the United Nations
command intended to use any
relative for this purpose. Many
relatives of the % back in the
United States have been trying
to arrange for trips to Korea,
but nothing concrete has devel-
oped.
A spokesman for the allied
repatriation group said he could
make no comment on the possi-
bility that relatives might be
used as explainers
Evening star., 1953-10-30
Nixon Flies 10 Cambodia
To See King Norodom
BY the AsSocioted Press

SAIGON, Indo- China, Oct. 80.
United States Vice President
Nixon flew today from Bangkok,
Thailand, to Stem Reap in the
Indo- Chinese kingdom of Cam
bodia to confer with King Moro
dom Sihanouk.
The Vice President, on an Off
cial Far East tour, was scheduled
to fly later today to Phnom Penh
the Cambodian capital. Tomor-
row he goes to Saigon in neigh
boring Wet Nam, another Indo-
Chinese state in the French Un-
ION.
Evening star., 1953-10-30
BY the Associated Press

PANMUNJOM, Saturday, Oct.
31.-The Indian chairman of the
Neutral Nations Repatriation
Commission indicated last night
that another United States SOL
dier may be ready to turn his
back on the Communist and go
home.
1t. Gen. K. S. Thimayya dis
closed that the prisoner had
asked if relatives from the United
States could come to Panmun-
jom and talk to him. He did not
disclose the prisoners name.
Gen. Thimayya told newsmen
he believed more of them cal
lied prisonerS) will change their
minds and request repatriation. -
One American already has
done so. leaving % Americans
Evening star., 1953-10-30
II Bodies Recovered
In Air Wreck Killing
19, Including kapeII
BY the Associeied Press

SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 30
"The only survivors here are
rescuers."
That's how Coast Guard Chief
Wilson Jennings described by
radio the grim scene rs miles
south of here yesterday where a
British Commonwealth Pacific
Airline DC-6 crashed and
burned. killing all 19 aboard.
Among the IL passengers were
William Kapell, 81. brilliant New
York concert pianist returning
from an Australian tour. He
was the only American aboard.
Also aboard was an Aus
tralian. John Feher, and his
8-year-old son John, who was
being brought to the United
States for treatment of a
crippled arm caused by polio, ac-
cording to dispatches from
Sydney.
Australian Rail Men Die.
Other victims identified in the
Sydney dispatch were two Off
Gals of Australia's Victoria State
Railway-Cyril Mcdonald and
Jack ButterWorth - who were
coming to the United States to
study American rail techniques
and to take 80 new electric en-
gines back home, and a Nor
wegian sea captain, Paul Olsen,
on his way to take over a new
ship in the United States.
Two of the eight crew men,
berS were hostesseS.
The ship was only two min
utes from San Francisco air.
port on its trans-Pacif1c journey
from Sydney, Australia, via Hon
olulu. It crashed into fog
shrouded, 2,400-foot Kings
Mountain, disintegrated and
burned.
Seventeen charred and dis
membered bodies were recovered.
Search for the other two resumes
today.
Crash Cause. Still a Mystery.
The crash cause has not been
determined.
. Veteran Pilot Bruce Dixon had
checked by radio with the con-
troll tower at San Francisco air.
port just before the crash. But
there was no indication of i'm
pending tragedy as he said:
Five hundred feet on top (of
1,200-foot ceiling)."
Because of the fog, the ship
was on instruments.
After an Air Force H-19 hell
copter sighted the wreckage,
ground crews had to claw
through tortuous, densely wood
ed terrain and down a 45-degree
slope.
The bodies were lifted out with
a winch and 500 feet of cable.
Horses baked at the, going.
Several Men Collapse.
Some men collapsed from the
heat of numerous small fires.
One news photographer suffered
a heart attack.
The dead were taken to the
Redwood City National Guard
Armory on the San Francisco
peninsula.
At Honolulu, Mr.. Kapell al
most decided to stop over. He
changed his mind, however, and
continued on the flight to death.
MI. Kapell, who leaves his wife
and two young children, was 60
ing to Los Angeles to record
sonatas. He was booked for a
full concert season, including ap-
pearances with the Chicago and
San Francisco Symphony Or
cheStraS.
Evening star., 1953-10-30
HeIicopter Commuters

WHIPPANY, N. J. tP.-Exec-
utiveS of a firm here commute
among the company'S 68
branches in a plastic bubble. The
bubble is the nose of bright
blue helicopter which Mark
AntoR. president of the Suburban
Propane Gas Corp. says provides
swift travelling among the firms
A units along the Eastern Seaboard.
Evening star., 1953-10-30

t o m orro W
after 43 years
of service.
Congress in
1929 initiated
steps t h a t
have resulted
in extension
of financial
and technical
aid to the
Central Amer
lean countries
in the devel-
opment of the
Inter - Amer
lean highway.
Evening star., 1953-09-28
Loofinq Isn't Easy

In these clamorous days. when nobody
seems able to sit still for a minute few things
could be more timely than what two medical
authorities have just had to say in favor of
reviving the art of loafng Let their names be
enShrined here. They are Dr. Leo Taran, a
New York heart specialist, and DR.. o. Spurgeon
English, Philadelphia neuropsychiatrist. They
are good men whose experience with coronary
and mental cases has convinced them that our
society is driving itself much too hard And so,
in an effort to help, they have written out
delightful prescription for all of us-namely,
that we treat ourselves, periodically, to gener-
Gus doses of utter Incidence
Unfortunately, however, this is something
that can be more easily said than done. For
the art of loafing-now lost, as the two doctors
declares not simple art to pursue and prac-
tice. On the contrary anybody who would
aspire to it must reckon with two major
obstacles, among others: % vast body of
literature that has cast it into diSrepute with such
phrases as idle hands are the devils tools and
with smear words like "sloth" and "sluggardi-
ness; and (2) well-intentioned friends who
militantly insist that the loafer- -to-be, instead
of indulging himself in complete inactivity
should devote all his free time to some relax
ing" hobby like plodding up and down noun
famous hills to play golf.
In the teeth of such obstacles, it is obvious
that an individual, if he wants to develop into
a good loafer enjoying the respect of his COM
munity must do two things at the outset. First
of ALL he must make clear that his exercises in
Incidence are in keeping with the Taran-
English prescrption-that is to say, that they
are not to be confused with "sloth," but are
to be regarded merely as periodic escapes from
hard work. escapes undertaken solely for the
sake of his health. Beyond that, he must try
to educate his hobby minded friends to the fact
that the art of loafing, in its pure form, is the
art of doing absolutely nothing and that there
fore they profane that art when they presume
to argue against it in favor Of strenuous ac-
tivitieS like golf.
Once he does these two things (and he will
find them anything but easy, the aspiring
loafer will be free to get down to the concrete
business of practicing the art itself. At this
stage, however, he will run into additional
distractions of every sort that will
make it extremely difficult for him to do abso-
lutely nothing. But he should not let himself
become too discouraged. In due course, after
a number of false starts, he is likely to find
himself surprisingly adept, though not perfect
at sitting STILL staring at a wall or engaging in
some similar inactivity. Then, if he keeps
trying hard enough, he will come to know the
sweetness and restorative value of Incidence,
and he will appreciate more than ever these
singing words of Walt Whitman: II loaf and
, invite my soul; lean and loaf at my ease,
observing spear of summer grass"
How relaxing!
Evening star., 1953-09-28
This and That

The rabbit makes a special appeal
to some persons.
It's long ears, it's rather simple face,
and graceful speed, the coloration-
these are the physical parts of the
appeal.
The real charm lies in the total
aspect of the creature, so wild. so de-
fenseless, alive and yet so close to death
at all times.
The fate of the rabbit in modern
society has been lost in the larger
aspects of the fate of man, himself.
AS man hunts man, the world around,
after progressive education has pro-
PEELED him at every ones throat. the
fate of the rabbit may not seem worth
considering.
You may feel sure, however, that
many persons do consider it, as they
also puzzle and worry over what hap
pens to cats. dogs, birds and other
forms of life which somehow got mixed
up with the fate of man.
The rabbit lives, after a fashion, in
even the most crowded suburbs.
Crowded suburbs!
Twenty-Five years ago, in commune
ties not mile from the District line,
cows mooed, and small boys ponies
ramhled freely over neighborhoods.
There were the sounds of Growing
and the strident but musical call of the
hyla or spring peeper could be heard
far and near.
Now all that Is changed.
Evening star., 1953-09-28
Stepped-Up Enforcement

There is bad news for the cityS lawless in
the interlocking flying squad" crime prevention
and detection system which Police Chief Muir
ray is preparing to establish here This is not
an untried program to be tested as part of the
new fve-diStrict reorganization plan of the
Police Department. It is city-wide expansion
OF an experiment in crime suppression that has
produced good results in Washington's worst
crime area, Precinct No. 2.
The No. tryout was undertaken under the
leadership of veteran criminal chaser, Lieuten-
ant Joseph Shimon. Acting as co-ordinator
of precinct and headquarters detective opera
tionS Lieutenant Shimon set up an office in the
precinct. He was assigned by the precinct
commander to take over active supervision of
crime Investigations in the precinct, task
which requires constant overall direction but
to which the average precinct captain can give
only part-time attention. Chief Murray kept
close tab on the crime trend 1.-THE new
system and found not only that arrests and
solutions in crime cases began to increase but
that muggings, houSebreakings and other seri-
Gus offenSeS began to taper off.
The results certainly justify adoption of
the intensified detection plan on broad scale.
Under the proposed district reorganization,
Lieutenant Shimon will extend his flying
squad" operations to cover the entire new first
inspection district. This is expected to include
the First and Second Precincts and the Woman'S
Bureau. Other experienced detectives will be
assigned to operate similar squads in each of
the four other inspection districts. The field
squads will coordinate their activities as spe-
cial cases may require and all the squads will be
in touch with the Detective Bureau, through
their respective leaders. This integrated crime
detecting and crime preventing system is the
latest evidence of a new era in police protection
for city that has had more than its share of
bad publicity on the crime front. Better law
enforcement and fewer crimes ought to be the
net result.
Evening star., 1953-09-28
Art in Hoqerstown

If any excuse be needed for 70-mile run
through the beautiful hills of Western Mary
land on a sunny autumn day, it might be found
in visit to the Washington County Museum of
Fine Arts at HagerStown. The building referred
to is in itself a thing worth seeing. 1t is
modern classic in design and rises above
pleasant little lake in the city park
Within the walls of the museum, the gal
leries bridge the past with the future in terms
of a bright and vibrant present. Paintings,
hronzes, ceramics glassware, furniture, draperies
and books combine to provide an admittedly
small yet very inclusive cross section of the
eSthetic interests of refined and cultured COM
munity The museum is busy on an hour-to-
hour schedule. 1t has classes for children as
well as for adults, teaching the basic elements
of the ennobling arts; it serves music and the
drama through recordings and films; it stages
loan exhibitions of distinction. recent show
was a comprehensive display of Jewish
art, featuring ceremonial religious articles from
many different foreign countries, coming down
from the 18th century Rabbi David Schwartz
Of HagerStown'S Congregation B'nai Abraham
and DR.. Stephen S. KaySer of the Jewish
Museum in New York aided in obtaining and
arranging the materials exhibited.
The director of the Washington County
art center is Bruce EtchiSon former Coast
Guard officer who was educated at American
University here. He meets visitors at the gal
leryS front door and gives them hearty well
come in the Hagerstown tradition of generous
hospitality.
Evening star., 1953-09-28
Something to Cheer About

The lively interest shown by Wash
ingtonS baseball fans in yesterdays final game
of the 1858 season was not related to the PEN
nant race, since the Senators long since had
dropped out of it. Nobody seemed particularly
concerned over the shellacking which the Phil
adelphia Athletics were administering to the
home team. Yet those who watched the game
or who listened to. the broadcast we're tense un-
til the very end of the contest. There was a
very human reason: Mickey Vernon was fight
ing it out to the wire with AL Rosen of Cleveland
for the batting championship of the American
League. AS long as Mickey won-which he did
by less than two percentage points-Who cared
about the score of the final game?
OF course, the Harrismen didn't do so badly
the past season, considering preseason predic-
tions of the experts. 1t is no disgrace to end
up with 500 percentage, at the top of the
second division. But only the more faithful of
the fans could have maintained much interest
In the Mats games during the latter stages OF
the pennant contest except for the fine per-
formance at bat of Washngton'S popular first
baseman. Vernon had held the batting
lead by several points for number of weeks,
but Rosen refused to be shaken off, Toward the
end, the Indian slugger spurted up with
stretch challenge that could have brought him
victory on the last day of the season. Al, in
deed, piled up three hits yesterday, but Mickey
came through with two out of four trieS to give
him final percentage of S37 and the cham
pionShip. Vernon thus became the first Wash
Ington player to win the batting lead twice and
the fourth to win the batting crown. The others
were Ed Delehanty, Goose Goslin and Buddy
Myer
So the local big league baseball season
ended on satisfying note remembering too'
Evening star., 1953-09-28
By Charles E. TroceWeN

Now we have the roar of the power
mower and the screams Of the little
ones taught to express themselves, and
no hindrance.
Still the bunnies roam, beset by dogs,
kids and adults, to say nothing OF
motor cars and poisonous sprays.
In this rabbit we see the fate of
man, too.
Praised with the lip service of educa-
ton. CLOSED over by intelligence and
forgotten by most, the young rabbits
are on their own in todays suburban
jungles, where too often the SlunS OF
tomorrow are a-building.
Shed a tear for the rabbits, but also
shed few for man, who has nothing
better to do with his children nowadays
than send them to war.
The large feet, size 10. shall be
needed, as they slog through the mud
of foreign lands.
Already our banner is hoiSted from
pole to pole. and we are getting ready
to be tomorrow's master race, If we can.
it nightly.
Maybe the rabbit, pausing silent at
the street curb, thinks of his little ones
in the same way. and bemoans the dis
appearance of the old days and ways,
when happy rabbits only had to be
wary of Farmer Smiths boy and dog.
The old days are gone and will never
come again. We must make the best
Of the days we have.