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Evening star., 1953-03-31
Chou Believed Thinking
OF India as Neutral State

NEW DELHI, Mar. 81 (R.-
Official quarters speculated to-
day that Communist Chinese
Premier-Foreign Minister Chou
En-iai was thinking of India
when he proposed handing over
Korean war prisoners who op-
posed repatriation to q neutral
state. But the same sources said
they are convinced India would
not agree to serve asa dumping
ground for the POW,s.
It was generally believed here
Prime Minister Jawaharlal Ne
hru-if India were asked to be
the neutral state"-would re-
fuse because Of the past history
Of bitter violence involved in
Korea prison camps.
Formal official reaction to
Chou En-lai's proposal was lack
ing today because Mr.. Nehru
Evening star., 1953-03-31
Kansas Prosecutor
Charges Arm Smear
In Roberts Fee Case
By the Assoeioted Press

TOPEKA. Kans., Mar. 31.-At-
torney General Harold r. Fatzer
says he is the victim of a "delib-
crate smear attempt" on the part
Of the Kansas governor because
OF his part in the Yves Roberts
fee incident.
Mr.. Roberts resigned as chair
man Of the Republican National
Committee Friday after a Kan
sas legislative investigative COM
mittee found he violated "the
spirit" of Kansas lobbying law
IN handling the sale of a building
to the State in 1851.
Mr.. Roberts received an $1l 900
fee for his role in the transaction
He said he acted as a public re-
lations counsel and did no lobby
ing.
Mr.. Fatzer's charge yesterday
brought an immediate retort
from Gov. Ed Arm that the At
torney Generals statement was
"cowardly and untrue"
The bitter exchange was
touched of by charges made on
the floor of the House of Repre-
sentatives that Mr.. Fatzer'S of
f1ce has violated both the spirit
and the letter Of the law" in
expenditure of it's funds.
Mr.. Fatzer denied the charges
and declared they stemmed
from the part he played in the
investigation of the Roberts fee
incident.
The accusations against the
Attorney Generals Office were
made by Representative Howard
Bentley, Republican, chairman
Of the House Ways and Means
Committee.
They were brought out dur
ing an argument over an amend
ment designed to restore a $34,-
440 cut the Ways and Means
Committee made in the biennial
appropriation for the Attorney
Generals office. The amendment
was rejectedFby the House, 66-18.
Evening star., 1953-03-31
Diplomats in Moscow Look
BohIen for Peace Reaction
Observers Expect
Him to Arrive
With U. S. Message
By Eddy Gilmore
A..oeiai.d Pres. Foreign cor..pond.n,

Associated Press Foreign Correspondent ,
MOSCOW, Mar. 31.-Western
diplomats speculated here today
that both Britain and the United
States may soon offer diplomatic
assurances Of interest in recent
conciliatory Soviet moves.
The feeling was spanked by
British Ambassador Sir Alvary
Gascoigne's hurried trip to Lon
don and the imminent arrival Of
the new American envoy. Charles
e. Bohlen.
Observers here believe that Mr..
Bohlen, expected in Moscow
within the next 10 days. may be
bringing q message from either
Secretary Of State Dulles or
President Eisenhower.
(The United States Chief
Executive told q news confer
ence March 10 that any Rus
sian peace move would never
be met less than halfway by
his administration. Other
American ofi1cials have said
the Russians should back up
their recent peace talk with
concrete action.)
British Envoy Returning.
Moscow observers also believe
that Sir Alvary may bring back
some indication of interest from
the British government when he
returns to his post here. The
British envoy left Moscow early
today for urgent consultations
with the Foreign Ohice in Lon
don but was expected back in a
few days.
In view of the conciliatory ex-
preSSionS from Moscow, several
observers have felt the Western
powers should make some con-
crete gesture to show their In
tereSt in recent Soviet moves.
Such a gesture, it is Speculated,
could come in the form of q
friendly communication from
Britain's Prime Minister Church.
i'll or Foreign Minister Anthony
Eden.
Sir Alvary's abrupt recall to
Evening star., 1953-03-31
Only Handful Of Reds
Probe Korean Front
After Bloody Battle
By the Assoeiosed Press

SEOUL, Mar. 31.-A mere
handful Of Communist patrols
probed Allied lines along the
155-mile Korean battle front to-
day in the wake of bloody tight
ing on the western end Of the
line.
The days biggest explosion
was provided by destruction Of
a 15-car Communist ammunition
train caught in the open by an
American B-26 bomber.
Stormy skies curtailed aerial
warfare. but some warplanes
roared out at dawn to pound
Red communications and 'front.'
line positions.
The 9th Army reported light
probing attacks in the Punch
Bowl area on the eastern front
and in the White Horse Noun
tain sector of central Korea. AL
were turned back easily. the
army said.
No activity was reported on
the western front where Marines
on bloody Vegas Hill broke up
two Chinese stabbing attacks
yesterday.
The 9Th Army reported Allied
ground forces killed or wounded
1894 Communists last week. The
figure is the highest in about five
months. It does not include Red
losses from bombings and artil-
lery FIRE. The report covered
the battle for Old Baldy Hill and
some OF the fighting for outpost
Vegas.
Evening star., 1953-03-31
1aber Raises Sights
For Budget SIas1es
To S11.5 Billion
BY the Assoeiu,sd Pres.

Representative Taber, Repub-
hcan. Of New York raised his
budget-cutting sights today and
said Gen. Eisenhower'S agency
heads were being modest in their
own estimates of what they can
save.
Mr.. Taber, chairman Of the
House Appropriations Commit
tee, set q new budget reduction
goal Of $12.5 billion. a boost Of
$2.5 billion over his original
target.
Some administration officials,
leading of with President Eisen-
hover. have been speaking of
the budget cutting problem as
an extremely tough one.
ReSciSSiOn Included.
Mr.. Taber said his $12.5 bill
lion goal includes not only re-
ductionS in new money request
ed, but cancellation of money
voted previously by Congress but
not yet spent. The technical
name for that is rescission.
We're going to make enough
cuts so that the budget will be
balanced, not only in appropria-
tions but in recoveries," he said
In an interview, adding that
I'm talking about rescissions."
New funds for the Defense
Department alone, he said, can
safely be reduced by from SIS
billion to So billion without
jeopardizing national defense.
There have been unconf1rmed
reports that the Defense Depart
ment, instead of agreeing to a
reduction, will ask more than
the $46 billion recommended by
former President Truman.
Expects to Do Better.
Mr.. Taber didn't display much
enthusiasm for proposed new
appropriation cuts volunteered
by the heads of four agencies.
''We always did better than
that" he said. referring to the
3.5 per cent cut Secretary of
Labor Durkin said his depart
mental budget could stand. Mr..
Durkin told a Senate Appropri-
ations Subcommittee the new
appropriation requested by Mr..
Truman for the Labor Depart
ment could be trimmed $10.4
million.
Previously the Justice Depart
ment said the Truman requests
Tor it could be cut $7.45O. 600
from the $191.9 million original
~ sought. and the Agriculture
and Commerce Departments vol
unteered cuts Of $130 million and
$l69 million. respectively.
Cut Ordered by Benson.
And word got out that Secre-
tary Of Agriculture Benson has
ordered that the Washington
staff Of the Production and Mar
ketlng Administration be cut by
75O. 1t now numbers 2,347.
Mr.. Taber con1plimented agen-
cy heads for their moves in the
direction OF economy but left no
doubt he and others on the
purse holding Appropriations
Committee would seek fields for
further pairing.
Evening star., 1953-03-31
London Sodist Suspect Seized
Near Scene of Six KILLINGS
Most-Hunted Man
Meekly Surrenders
To Officer on Beat
by the Associated Press

LONDON, Mar. 31.-John
Reginald Christie. Britain's most
hunted man, was taken quietly
by police today for questioning
about the grisly Noting Hill
murder house strangling Of six
women and perhaps more.
A crowd of 200 quickly gather
ed outside the police station in
suburban Putney where Christie
was escorted. Scotland Yard
officers were called hurriedly to
direct the questioning.
The balding. 55-year-old clerk
who disappeared just before the
women's bodies began coming to
light last Tuesday was seized
while strolling a quiet Putney
street only five miles from the
murder house in London's sleazy
Noting Hill Gate district.
Submits Meekly.
A strapping 43-year-old po-
liceman. Thomas Ledger, was
walking his beat along the
River Thames when he stopped
a man resembling Christie's
well-publicized description. He
asked him to go to Putney police
station. Christie meekly agreed.
The finding Of Christie ended
a week-long search which ex-
tended throughout England.
The whole nation was stirred
by the bizarre murders. The
claptrap murder house so far has
yielded up the remains Of six
women.
Seventh Staying Indicated.
PathologiStS, meanwhile, were
examining bones dug up from
the garden Of Christie's former
home to determine whether they
had unearthed q seventh victim.
AS Christie was picked up.
pretty policewomen in off-duty
clothes Stalked London'S back
Evening star., 1953-03-31

appears nappy 1Itef De1n8
sworn In yesterday rs
Ambassador to Russia.
London presumably was con-
nected with Communist China's
offers on exchange Of Korean
war prisoners and the recent
conciliatory Russian moves. In
dicating the urgency Of his trip,
the Ambassador few to Berlin
on q regular Soviet airliner
rather than wait for q special
plane to be sent from London
for him.
Chou Proposal Played Up.
The Soviet press and radio
gave prominent attention today
to the proposal by Chou En-lai,
Red China's Premier and For
eign Minister. that Korean war
prisoners unwilling to 60 home
be handed over to q neutral
state"
Western diplomats here at
tached great Importance to the
proposal, taking the view that,
as stated. it offers q settlement
Of the Korean war.
The Soviet press made no
comment on the proposal but it
was apparent it will receive
Soviet backing.
Evening star., 1953-03-31

Cowles. Minneapolis. publisher;
Eugene Holman, New York. presi-
dent of Standard Oil; Deane w.
Malott, Of Ithaca. N. Y. presi-
dent Of Cornell: David B. Robert
son, Cleveland. president of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire
men and Enginemen, and
Charles A. Thomas. st. Louis,
president Of Monsanto Chemical
Co.
Evening star., 1953-03-31
BY J. A. o'Leoy

The new Department Of
Health, Education and Welfare
was only one step away from
becoming q reality today.
Only the signature Of Presi-
dent Eisenhower to o resolution
passed by the Senate late yes
terday is needed to bring the
new department. into existencS
within 10 days.
It will replace the Federal
Security Agency, and Mrs.
Oveta Culp Hobby. head Of that
agency, is expected to be ap-
pointed the first Secretary of
the new department. This will
make her a member of the
Presidents cabinet and raise
her salary from $17,500 to $22,-
500.
President Eisenhower pro-
posed creation of the new de-
partment in his first reorgani-
zation order of March IL. Under
the reorganization law. the plan
would not have taken effect for
60 days. But, congressional
leaders, finding no opposition,
decided to pass q special reSo-
luton putting 1t into effect at
an earlier date.
Protests Are Mild.
A few Democrats made a mild
protest against hasty action. con-.
tending there is no emergency to
justify it, but no votes were cast
against it. Most Senators had re-
turned to their offices before the
resolution passed without a roll
call.
Senator Margaret Chase Smith,
Republican, of Maine, steered the
resolution through the Govern
ment Operations Committee.
Senator Hunt. Democrat Of
Wyoming, said the plan is def
Evening star., 1953-03-31

still is touring the India Burmese
frontier with Burma's Premier U
Nu.
A government source who de-
clined the use Of his name said
Chou's proposal had "been re-
ceived favorably in official cir
cles here. This may bring the
viewpoints of the two parties
concerned nearer and it there
fore is hoped the proposal will
lead to reopening negotiations
for an agreed settlement"
Evening star., 1953-03-31
.'Humm-Buqqs' Concert

The "Humm-Buggs." District
barbershop quartet. will present
a concert Of songs composed by
its members at 8 pm. April 16
at Pierce Hall, Sixteenth and
Harvard streets NV. In a no.
tice Of this concert in yesterdays
Star. the date was in error.
Evening star., 1953-03-31
Speaker 10 Discuss Views
OF Spencer on Home Rule

The home rule views Of Sam
uel Spencer. District Commis-
sioner-designate, will be dis
cusSed tonight in q talk over
Stations WCFM and WWDC by
Mrs. Montgomery Blair. jr.
Mrs. Blair will appear on
WCFM at 7::25 pm. The pro-
gram will be rebroadcast over
WWDC at 9:35 pm. It is one
in a weekly series, Home Rule
in 1953." sponsored by the Dis
trict League Of Women Voters.
Station WWDC said it was
incorrect in making an earlier
announcement that Mr.. Spencer
would speak.
Evening star., 1953-11-22

through a big hole in the middle.
Weaver intercepted a pass on
his own % and returned to the
AZ to start the Colonials to a
touchdown in the second period.
He also took the Colonials across
midfield with a pass to Ciemni-
ecki on the Richmond %, from
which point Ciemniecki took a
pitchout from Quarterback Bob
Sturm and dashed around right
end to score.
Still in the second a tumble
recovered by Neal on the Rich
mond as opened a drive for an
other score. Eight running plays
reached the 10, where the CO.
lonials needed only inches for a
first down. Trying for those
inches. Weaver stumbled through
a hole at right tackle and kept
his feet until across the goal.
The Colonials didn't work up
a decent threat all during the
third period. and in fact didn't
come to life again until after
Richmond scored early in the
fourth. But after Richmond
made it's only move of the game
the Colonials got two more quick
scores.
An interception by Donofrio
on the CIV 80 started one drive.
The final ii yards were by Danz
outside of left tackle. and on this
occasion he too seemed more in
tent on picking up a foot needed
for a first down than in scoring.
But he slipped and spun away
from several tacklers and made
it all the way.
Finally Bodolus put CIV close
to its last score with a pass in
Perception with which he lurn-
bered SO yards to the Richmond
4. On the next play Donofrio
was given a nice hole in the
middle. and he stepped over to
end the scoring.
Evening star., 1953-11-22
BY the Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 21-
The Philadelphia Eagles powered
to their sixth straight victory to-
night, $50, over the winless
Chicago Cardinals.
Bobby Thomason's passes,
plus the running of Jerry Will
llams, Skippy Giancanelli. Don
johnson and Jim Palmer, ripped
the Cardinal defenseS to shreds.
Defensively, the Eagles, led by
Chuck Bednarik, had no trouble
with the Chicago runners and
pasSers.
The game was televised ma
tionally with the Philadelphia
area blacked out.
ThomaSon didn't have one of
his best games. although he
completed 18 of "a passes for
264 yards and one touchdown.
johnson. former University OF
California halfback. was the top
ground gamer for the Eagles
with 54 yards on 10 carries. but
1t was Williams, a cast-off of
the ,os Angeles Rams, who de-
Evening star., 1953-11-22
BeIvoir- Game
Will Be TeIeVised

The Thanksgiving Day service
football game at Griffith Stadium
between the Quantico Marines
and Fort Belvoir Engineers will
be shown on television over
WMAL-TV starting at 2 pm.
The two clubs are meeting in
a benefit game. the proceeds to
go to the Armed Services Welfare
Fund and to the Variety Clubs
Chil0ken's Hospital Fund.
Evening star., 1953-11-22
CIV, IS
RICHMOND, 7
Third Italian Driver
Dies in Pan-Am Race;
Argentine Leading
BY the Associoted Press

DURANGO, Mexico. Nov. 81.
Italian Lancias and Ferraris
traded the lead today in the big
sports car division of the Pan
American road race in a fierce
speed duel which cost the life
of Italy's Felice Bonetto-one
of the worlds most beloved rae
ing drivers.
Argentina's daring speed de-
mon, Juan Manuel Fangio, took
over the lead in total time for
the 1912 miles run from South
ern Mexico to the United States
border at Ell Paso, Tex. after
the tragic death of the 50-year-
old Bonetto. The five-day race
ends Monday.
The pipe smoking, gray-haired
Bonetto, who won the first lap
of the worlds most dangerous
race Thursday, was the third
Italian driver to be killed in the
first three days of the race.
Four spectators were killed on
the first day when a speeding
car crashed into a group of
watchers along the road. Antonio
Stagnoli and his co-pilot, Gui-
seppi Scotuzzi. died as the re-
suit of first day crash.
There were two laps in the
race today, total of 500 miles.
Fangio, driving Lancia, was
first over the finish line at Dur
ango to end the second lap of
today's run. 329 miles from Leon.
However, the lap was won by
Piero Taruffi of Italy, with a
Lancia. Taruffi, 81, had won
both laps yesterday, and Bonetto
was second. Bonetto was leader
in elapsed time when today's
first lap, from Mexico City to
Leon began.
Humberto Maglioli, in Fer
rari, won the 261-mile leg from
Mexico City to Leon as Bonetto's
car smashed into an electric
light pole in the town of Silao,
just short of the end of the lap
near Leon. Bonettos neck was
broken and he died at once, said
an examining doctor. His body
remained in the car an hour as
officials kept the road clear of
rescue workers because other
machines were roaring past con-
stantly 1T high speed.
Three Lancias followed Magli-
oil into Leon, driven by Fangio,
and Guido Mancini and Eugenio
Castellotti.
Evening star., 1953-11-22
CIV
Continued from Page CID

scored three, and one each by
Carl Bodolus and Jack DAILY.
Richmond'S only touchdown
came in the fourth period after
the Colonials had 21-0 lead.
1t was on a long pass play total
ing 81 yards from Quarterback
Bill Bauder to Halfback Ed
Elliott, an extremely speedy run
ner. He caught the pass on the
CIV 25 behind Bob Sturm of
GW-usually an excellent pass
defender-and dashed across un-
touched.
Other than that the Spiders
made nothing that could be con-
strued as even a minor threat.
They crossed the 50-yard line
only four times, and the only
time they got as far as GW'S
40 they fumbled.
That touchdown pass was
Richmond first completion
after nine blank attempts, and
altogether the Spiders connected
with only three of Is tries. Their
initial first down-they got four
all afternoon-didn't come until
9 minutes and so seconds of the
third period had gone by. Rich
mond also lost the ball four times
on fumbles and had four passes
intercepted.
The CIV senior linemen who
were playing their final game
were the bulwarks of the team S
defenSes. Bodolus. Stubby 220-
FOUNDER, gathered in two of the
fumbles and made one of the
interceptions. Guard Bill Neal
and Tackle Johnny Prach also
recovered fumbles, while Center
Steve Korcheck-the outStand-
ing defensive man all year-waS
responsible for one pass inter-
ception and messed up numerous
other attempts.
One of the Richmond fumbles
and three of the interceptionS
gave the Colonials their sendof
to touchdown drives. But the
opening scoring drive came after
Weaver ran back a punt to the
Richmond 81. Weaver also was
responsible for most of the
yardage down to the 10. from
which point Boland merely went
Evening star., 1953-11-22
Radios Fine Passing
Hands Panther Coach
First Losing Season
BY the Assoeiofed Press

PITTSBURGH, Nov. 81. -
Quarterback Tony Radios, play
ing his final college football
game. pulled a jittery Penn State
football team together today to
direct ITO triumph over Pitt
for the second year in a row
by the same margin and hand
Lowell (Red) Dawson of the
Panthers his first losing season
as a college coach.
Radios adroit passing and
quarterbacking resulted in all the
scoring for the Lions who
knocked repeatedly at Pitts door
throughout a dreary afternoon
before 42,277 fans in this 53rd
traditional game of the series.
End Jimmy Garrity kicked a
15-yard field goal in the second
quarter after Radios hit Full
back Bill Straub with a 50-yard
pass. Straub headed down the
sidelines for a touchdown only
to be grounded from behind by
fleet-footed Henry (Model-T)
Ford.
79-Yard Run by Moore.
Seconds later. Radios handed
off to Halfback Lenny Moore on
trap play and the brilliant
sophomore from Reading, Pa,
scooted down the sidelines for
79 yards and touchdown.
Penn State took the second
half kickoff and drove SO yards
for its second touchdown with
Buddy Rowell hitting off left
tackle from a foot out for the
score.
Radios pin-point passing ac-
counted for As yards in this
touchdown drive. Garrity con-
verted.
Pitts deepest pentration came
in the dying moments Of the
game as the 6-point favorite
Panthers hit the Penn State 6.
The victory was Penn States
seventh against three defeats for
the season and the 21st in SO
games with the Panthers. 1t
was Pitts fifth loss in nine games.
The Panther's tied mighty Ok
lahoma, TT, this season.
Radios, 23-year-old senior from
Steelton, Pa, attempted 25
passes and completed 13 for 100
yards. Pitt gained only 60 yards
passing.
The Lions rolled up 231 yards
over the ground. Pitt got SO,
most of them in the first half.
Penn Ben State ---------- 10 Z 0--15
Penn State scoring: TouchdownS--
| Moore, Rowell. Conversions--Garrity
C2). Field Solidarity,
Evening star., 1953-11-22
Ben HOGAN Picks
a Winner!
From Up Close
BY Tom Anderson

June Is, 1953-Jack Joyner,
WBIR, was among those
present when Ben Hogan
was interviewed following
his 67 in the first round of
the us. Open in Pittsburgh.
One of the reporters, re-
LAYS Jack, asked Hogan how
he apparently had cured his
strained back muscle over
night.
Hogan said he had applied
Ben-Gay to the aching area
"That stuff's great" ne
said in effect.
Ben-Gay, ne Bengue, is a
tube of ointment practically
every household keeps in
the medicine cabinet.
Knoxville Journa
Evening star., 1953-11-22
Florida High SchooIer
Scores on Even Dozen
BY the Associated Press

CLERMONT, Fla, Nov. 21.-
Harold Cummings. 17-year-old
senior fullback for Clermont
High School, scored IL touch
downs last night in an 1914
victory over st. James of
Orlando.
He had three touchdowns in
the first quarter, four in the
second, one in the third and four
in the fourth.
Scoring runs included an 83-
yard kickoff return at the start
of the second half, a 70-yard
kickoff return. two jaunts of 40
yards each and two others of
35 yards.