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Evening star., 1953-09-18
New Anti-Rabies Serum
Studied by U. n. Group
By the Associoted Press

ROME, Sept. ia new,
stepped-up serum treatment
under study by experts of the
World Health Organization who
was hailed today as giving
strong promise of reducing or
eliminating rabies deaths from
animal bites.
The new treatment is being
tested by a group of experts
here headed by DR.. Karl Habel
of the United States National
Meteorological Institute at
Bethesda, Md.
A preliminary report on the
experiments described the "hy-
perimmune" serum as "a new
and potent weapon against
rabies"
Heretofore, the experts said,
millions Of people every year
have been subjected to a long
series Of vaccination treatments,
as first established by Pasteur, to
prevent rabies in people bitten
by infected animals"
Evening star., 1953-09-18

and his position was overrun by
the Chinese Reds. The enemy
soldiers believed him dead and
stripped him of his pistol and
personal effects.
The position was retaken in
a counterattack. Medical at
tendants placed 1t. Walls on a
stretcher, where he regained
consciousness.
The officer, however, refused
to allow the attendants to carry
him to the rear until the wound
ed men of his command had
been removed from the field.
The lieutenant's parents live
at Rehoboth Beach, Del.
The young officer still has one
arm in a cast. He was under
treatment in the hospital at
Camp Pickett, Va, before COM
ing to Walter Reed. Doctors
said he is well on the road to
recovery.
Evening star., 1953-09-18
Romanians and Czechs
Reported Arresting Jews
BY the AssoeiGfed Press

VIENNA, Austria, Sept. 18.-
A campaign against Jews which
flared throughout Communist
East Europe in 1852 has been
secretly reopened in Romania
and Czechoslovakia, usually re-
liable sources report.
Dozens of Jewish leaders were
said to be under arrest-and
some under long prison SEN
tences-in the reported new drive
to wipe out Jewish opposition to
communism.
1.-THE anti-JewiSh show is on
again." the informantS stated.
So far as is known here, Hun
gary. Poland and Bulgaria have
not taken part in the revival.
Evening star., 1953-09-18
Ex-Student of Maryland u.
Gets DSC at Walter Reed

Officers Candidate School at
Fort Benning, Ga. last year,
and went into action with the
18th Regiment. Sd Infantry
Division.
Last April the young lieu
tenant was leading a support
element through an artillery
and mortar barrage near Ujang-
Nj, in Chorwan Valley.
Hit in the legs and unable to
walk. the lieutenant crawled for
ward with his men and remained
in command until struck in the
arms by machine-gun bullets,
the Defense Department re-
ported.
1t. Walls lost consciousness
Evening star., 1953-09-18
Boat Used as Home
OF District Couple
DESTROYED by Fire

A Washington couple was left
homeless last night, when fire
destroyed a 59-foot cabin cruiser
on which they lived.
The victims were Mr.. and
Mrs. Eugene v. Copeland. The
craft was anchored in the
Potomac River on the Maryland
side south of Jones Point when
the fire broke out after an ex-
ploSion on board ship.
This was about 1880 pm, and
it was about two hours later
before fire-fighting apparatus
could be summoned. The Dis.
trict fire boat, rehearsing for
tomorrow's regatta, responded
but was unable to reach the
burning craft because Of shall
low water. On shore, the Oxon
Hill (Md0 Volunteer Fire De-
partment also was unable to
reach the cruiser with its hoses.
The Copelands had chartered
the boat, the Tone" with an
option to buy it, from Albert w.
Pearsall, jr., a navigator special
ist in the Navy Department. Mr..
Pearsall lives at 1927 Forest road,
Kent Village, Md.
The cruiser burned to the
waters edge, and the Copelands
lost virtually all their possessions.
They had lived on it for about
18 months and had been docked
in the 800 block of Maine ave-
nue. S.W. Mr.. Copeland is a
Greyhound bus driver.
Mr.. Copeland told Harbor
Police the fire may have been
started by a faulty generator.
He and his wife were brought
back to Washington by the Har-
Dor Police patrol boat.
Evening star., 1953-09-18

A former University of Mary
land student yesterday received
one of the Nations highest
awards for valor at Walter Reed
Hospital.
The Distinguished Service
Cross went to I'd 1t. Henry r.
Walls. who at the age of % led
his troops against the Reds in
Korea despite severe wounds.
1t. Walls, the son of Henry r.
Walls. ST., a chemist attached to
the Maryland State inspection
service at College Park, and
Mrs. Walls, entered the Army in
1851 while a student at the uni
versity.
He graduated from the
Evening star., 1953-09-18
Gift Grows by Interest

A $1.4 million gift to the British
Chancellor of the ExcFequer, 25
years ago, with the stipulation
that 1t be kept on interest to re-
duce the British debt, now totals
$40 million.
Evening star., 1953-09-18
Is Pounds of Fish

BOSTON.-Per capita con-
sumption of fish in the United
States, amounts to about 13
pounds, a figure which is consid-
erably less than in most Euro
pean countries.
Evening star., 1953-09-18
Most Church BUILDINGS

PHILADELPHIA. - Pennsyl-
vania has 1927 church build
ings, more than are to be found
in any of the other States.
Evening star., 1953-09-18
Cubon Sugar Acreage

HAVANA-Cuba has approxi-
mately seven million acres of it's
land devoted to the raising Of
sugar cane.
Evening star., 1953-12-23
Swiss, Eye on Neutrality,
Won't Go 10 Korea ParIev
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

BERN, Dec. 2S.-The Swiss
government decided today to re-
fuse any invitation to a Korean
peace conference.
q. N. Special Representative
Arthur H. Dean suggested to the
Communist negotiators at Pam
munjom December 8 that some
or all the member states of the
Neutral Armistice Commissions
in Korea be invited as observers
to the peace conference. The
five countries concerned are
Switzerland. Sweden. India, Po-
land and CZechoSlovakia.
The Swiss cabinet, meeting for
the first time today after its
confirmation in Office by the
Federal Parliament yesterday,
decided to adopt a negative at
titude" toward Mr.. Deans pro-
posal, communique said.
I'm view of the reserve i'm
posed on our country by its pol
icy of neutrality" the commu-
niQue said, "it would be inop-
perfume for us to be represented
at the (Korean) political con-
ference"
Evening star., 1953-12-23
SpeIImon in Seoul
For Christmas Visit
BY the Associcted Press

SEOUL, Dec. 23.-Francis Car
dinal Spellman, archbishop of
New York and vicar of all Cath
olics in the armed forces, arrived
here by plane today for his an
nual Christmas Visit with allied
troops in Korea. q
The big foNr-engined Constel-
lation bringing the cardinal from
Japan landed at Seoul City Air
port at 12::45 pm. He was met
there by 9Th Army commander,
Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor. and
Maj. Gen. Thomas F. Hickey,
commanding general of the
United States 9th Corps. where
Cardinal Spellman will celebrate
the Christmas eve midnight mass.
Evening star., 1953-12-23
Price of Christmas Dinner
Appears Same as Last Year

That Christmas dinner. with
turkey and trimmings, will cost
the typical Washington family
just about the same as their
Thanksgiving feast-if prefer
ences and appetites remain un-
changed.
Christmas buying at food
stores this week remains prac-
tically normal. There's al
ways more invested for the
kitchen Christmas week than
during. the Thanksgiving mar
keting period. Market people
expect the total will be about
the same as last Christmas.
Turkey completely dominates
the scene at Washington's mar
kets this week. Pound for pound,
the Christmas bird will come
about as dear as its Thanksgiv-
ing counterpart. A check of
comparative prices indicates that
at some markets the smaller
Evening star., 1953-12-23
P0W's Mother Sadly
Leaves Tokyo for U. 5.
BY the Assoeiofed Pres.

TOKYO, Dec. 23-Mrs. Portia
Howe packed tonight for a long
homeward journey. a sad but
devout mother who says her
war prisoner son one day will
realize he made a mistake in
turning Communist.
Her plane left at 10:40 pm.
(8:40 am. EST. 1t is to make
one stop in the Aleutians and is
due in Seattle at IL pm. psf
today g am. EST Thursday.
The Alden (Minn.) housewife
expects to spend Christmas with
her family. She is taking
presents bought in Japan for
her three other children.
Mrs. Howe flew to Japan IL
days ago in an effort to see her
POW son, Pfc. Richard Tenne-
son, in Korea. She failed. But
she said tonight her hope is not
shaken.
Pfc. Tenneson, 20, is one of
% Americans who today shouted
down a last-minute allied loud
speaker appeal at Panmunjom
that they come home.
Evening star., 1953-12-23
YuIe Season Isn't Entirely Bleak
For False Robbery Victim

A 24-year-old Chevy Chase
man will be home for Christmas
this year. but it's the only bright
spot in an otherwise bleak holi-
day season for him.
For awhile yesterday it ap-
peared that James Q. Groshans
of 6908 Strathmore street, Chevy
Chase, might be some place else
on Christmas Day.
Montgomery County police
answered a report from Mr..
Groshans that he had been
beaten and robbed of $3.50.
Taken to Suburban Hospital, Mr..
Groshans was examined and
found to be in good condition.
It then appeared to police that
Mr.. GroshanS hadn't been beaten
by anybody.
Finally he told police he had
dreamed up the whole thing.
But after. hearing the rest of the
Evening star., 1953-12-23
West Point System
Urged 10 Keep Teachers

Brig. Gen. Louis w. Prentiss
thinks the Army has an idea
which might help curtail the loss
of Wilson Teachers College
graduates from the teaching
profession.
The District Engineer Com
missioner yesterday suggested
requiring teachers college grad
yates to agree to serve as teach
ers for a stipulated period, on
the model of the military acad-
emy. West Point graduates
must agree to serve in the
Army for a time, the general
pointed out.
Gen. Prentiss raised the point
after Assistant School Supt.
Norman j. Nelson had cited the
loss of "quite a few" Wilson
graduates to Government jobs
offering higher pay.
Mr.. Nelson, who was arguing
for teacher pay raise. was du-
bious about the generals sug-
gestion. He questioned whether
it would be fair, since teachers
colleges elsewhere don't have
any such requirement.
Evening star., 1953-12-23

Christmas turkeys are a cent or
two higher. The larger birds,
from Is pounds UP. are going
at unchanged prices.
If you're in a hurry-or tired
you can find the pre-stuffed,
ready -to-bake" turkeys at all
the chain food stores. with prices
ranging from SO to 65 cents a
pound for the smaller ones and
So cents a pound for the big
ones. And the supply is plenti-
full.
Most VEGETABLES are plentiful
with prices fairly reasonable.
That cranberry sauce to go with
the turkey may come a cent
higher or lower than on Thanks
giving-and canned sauce is in
creasing in popularity.
The reason food prices, on
the whole, remain unchanged
from Thanksgiving is that the
chain stores booked their holi-
day stocks in advance at the
same prices.
Evening star., 1953-12-23
Rhee Praises Americans
In Christmas Greefinu
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

SEOUL, Dec. 23.-"No other
Nation in the world is so deserv-
ing Of blessings from the Prince
of Peace" as America, South Ko-
rean President Syngman Rhee
said today in a Christmas greet
ing to the people of the United
States.
Thanking Americans for the
aid their Nation gave this THY
war-torn country since North
Korean Communists invaded it
June Is, 1850. the South Korean
President said:
Standing beside us here in
Korea are thousands of your
sons. Your daughters are also
helping us. in hospitals and the
great work of the Red Cross.
They are far from home and
they miss their loved ones ter
ribly. We can only do little to
make up for the lonesomeness
of separation-but that little we
are doing.
Every American knows that
he is welcome in Korea"
Evening star., 1953-12-23

with signs. Firm Is Our Stand" !"
one proclaimed. Long Live
Peace" said another. Long
Live Our Victories" said still
another.
II Take Part In Dance.
Only II Americans were
counted inside the compound.
The Indian Command said three
were in a nearby hospital and
did not hear the broadcasts.
Two others apparently remained
inside the huts where the pris-
oners live. The Indian COM
mand said 10 were inside the
compound.
A few miles from the COM
pound where the allied broad
casts were made, Communist
explainers won back IL of ESQ
Chinese and l North Korean
out of AZ interviewed on the final
day of explanations.
1t was the ninth day that the
Communists have tried to
change the minds of some 22,-
500 Chinese and Korean prison.
| erS.
Evening star., 1953-12-23

story, police decided not to press
charges of giving a false report.
Mr.. Groshans said today ne
was broke. His wife is expect
ing a baby next month. The
rent is unpaid, he said, and he's
out of a job.
With Christmas three days off,
he decided yesterday to try and
get a loan and buy his wife
a present. The loan company
turned him down. Afraid to
tell his wife of his failure to
get a loan, he invented the rob-
berry story, he said.
Mr.. and Mrs. Groshans of
Hayman, Ind, design and make
puppets for a living. They have
hopes of a job next month, but
right now there's nothing in
sight.
We'll make out" Mr.. Gro
shanS said. II don't know how,
but We'll make out"
Evening star., 1953-12-23
State Department
Official and Wife
Hurt in Collision

An auto accident with inter-
national aspects sent a State
Department official and his wife
to the hospital with minor in
jurieS last night.
A car driven by Roberto
Riccardi, AZ. of 4555 Cathedral
avenue NJ, listed as the second
secretary Of the Italian EN-
bassy and one driven by William
o Baxter. department director
with the State Department, who
lives at 4221 Forty-third street
NV. collided at Cathedral ave-
nue. and Forty-fourth street NV
The crash sent Mr.. and Mrs.
Baxter to Georgetown Univer-
sity Hospital. where they were
treated and released.
FBI Man Hurt.
In another traffic accident,
William A. Des Marais, 80, of
GAL Randolph street NV, a
supervisor with the Federal Bu-
reau Of Investigation, was slight
ly injured. His car and one
driven by Virginia R. Gerhardt,
81, of GOT Somerset place NV.
crashed at Georgia avenue and
Van Buren, street NV.
Police said the Des Marais car
rolled on through the intersec-
ton. struck a streetcar and then
rolled over the curbing after the
driver was thrown out. He was
treated at Walter Reed Hospital.
Girl Hit BY Truck.
An eight-year-old girl suffered
an arm injury when struck by a
truck in an alley at the rear of
100 West Virginia avenue NV,
yesterday afternoon.
She was Gloria HofStetter, 1717
West Virginia avenue NV. who
was admitted to Casualty Hos
pital. Driver of the truck was
listed as James T. Knox. %,
colored, of 537 Seventh street
Sc.
Evening star., 1953-12-23
Living Costs
Continued From First Page.)


prices had not declined in pro-
portion to sharp drops in beef
cattle prices in 1923
Picture Fairly Stable.
But the report. prepared by
the departments Bureau OF
Agriculture Economics, which
made the study. declared:
"It appears that retail prices
of beef have generally reflected
the declining prices for live
cattle in 1852 and 1858.
There were scattered ex-
amples of very depressed prices
on some of the lower grade cattle
sold in the local livestock
markets. There were also few
cases of extremely wide margins
on lower grade meat sold in re-
tail meat stores. But this was
not the usual situation. In gen.
eral, the margins picture ap-
peared to be fairly stable"
Marketing margins were de-
fined as returns for marketing
services performed, such as
labor. rent. supplies and equip
ment, as well as management
and profits.
Increase in Slaughter.
The bureau said it appears
that falling prices for cattle. es-
pecially for the lower grades,
were caused by an increase in
slaughter as beef cattle popula-
ton scared to new peaks. It said
the heavy slaughter was aggra-
waited to some extent by distress
sales from drought areas.
prices of retail beef, whole
sale beef carcases and live cat
tie generally followed parallel
trends" the report continued
Certain lags in the adjustments
of these prices from month to
month resulted in cratic month
to-month variations in margins,
but such variations have not
been unusual in the past and are
not at all peculiar to the recent
situation"
The bureau said that in max
ing its study, it used basic rec
ords already in its files, as well
as information gathered by. sur
vey teams sent into retail meat
markets in Boston, Buffalo,
Jacksonville. Fla, Dallas, ST..
Louis. Los Angeles, Seattle, Min
neapolis, st. Paul and Mont
gomery, Ala.
Records From Stores.
1t said it also obtained records
from "a national and local chain
store groups which sell through
about 1000 outlets in II major
metropolitan areas and data
from industry associations.
The bureau said the price de-
clines were sharpest for the
lower grades Of cattle. rejecting
large increases in the slaughter
supply of those grades. But many
retail stores. it said, did not
cnange their regular marketing
practice of stocking largely the
better grades.
Evening star., 1953-12-23
POWs
Continued From First Page


Koreans who were not inter-
viewed individually. All of the
$50 South Koreans interviewed
earlier elected to stay with the
communists.
The tape-recorded broadcast
to American prisoners in the
north camp was made by Maj.
Edward Moorer of Tacoma,
Wash. His voice booming from
the loudspeakers sent the pris-
oners into a demonstration de-
scribed by one observer as IAN
awesome display Of the collec-
tive mind shutting out what it
fears"
Indian guards stood outside
the compound gate as the broad
cast began.
Prisoners Told of Chance.
Nov is the time. Come for
ward and inform the guards
nearest you," the broadcast said.
"You have nothing to fear. If
you really want to come home,
now is the chance for which you
have been waiting" Maj. Moor
er's voice continued.
1--WE believe that there are
some among you who desire to
be repatriated-who want to re-
turn home. but who are being
forcibly prevented from express
ing your free will by fear, threats
and strongarm methods of GER
tain of your fellow prisoners.
1T is clear that your so-called
representatives are withholding
information and restricting your
freedom to speak and act as in
dividualS."
Strange Dance Starts.
Inside the compound the
Americans, the Briton and the
South Koreans capered in a
weird dance, shouting the Com
munist "Internationale," "Soli-
darity Forever" and other songs
to drown out the loudspeakel.
News correspondents standing
outside the wire identified from
pictures Sergt. Richard Corden
of East Providence, RI, strid-
ing about the enclosure with a
short coat thrown over his
shoulders as he led the demon
stration.
Sergt. Corden and British
Marine Andrew Condron pre-
viously had been identified as
leaders Of the non-Korean pris-
onerS.
do any Americans want to 90
home?" Sergt. Corden shouted
as the first broadcast ended.
moi" the others yelled in
unison.
Then the British marine
shouted:
do any British want to 20
home?"
He answered his own question
with q loud mol"
Dance Grows Wilder.
The dance grew wilder inside
the compound. The broadcast
words were lost in a cacaphony
OF shouts and noise.
The dancers locked arms and
formed two circles. Grinning
from ear to ear. they raced
around and around. faster and
faster.
Inside each circle stood q pris-
oner dressed in women's clothes
OF many colors-yellow, green,
blue and white. A Korean said
the exhibition was the tradi-
tional Korean harvest dance.
American prisoners pointed
and laughed at the American Of
ficers. correspondents and other
observers outside the compound.
The prison fences were hung
Evening star., 1953-12-23
Dulles Puts Defense
OF Europe Square|y
Up 10 Key Allies
By Gornett D. Horner

The United States has put
squarely up to France and other
key allies in Western Europe
q Hateful choice" involving
whether American troops are to
stay on their front line of defense
against a possible Soviet attack.
Secretary of State Dulles indi-
Gated in a National Press Club
luncheon speech yesterday that
the choice les between these
principal alternatives:
Prompt ratification Of the
European Defense Community
Treaty providing for integrating
German soldiers into a six-na-
tion European army.
2. Finding some other way to
legalize the arming of German
troops like bringing West Ger
many directly into the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization.
3. Withdrawal of American
troops from advanced positions
in Germany which might make
'untenable" any attempt to
throw back a possible Soviet
invasion of the rest of Western,
Europe.
Foundation "PrecariOus."
Mr. Dulles argued strongly
for early action to bring the
EDO into being as by far the
best way to remedy what he
called the presently ''precari-
Gus" foundation for Western
European defense plans.
His discussion of what might
happen if the EDO project fails
apparently was an attempt to
explain what was behind his
warming in Paris last week that
the United States would have
to undertake an "agonizing re-
appraisal" of it's basic policies
regarding Europe unless EDO
came into being soon.
1t was the strongest public
prodding yet for action by
France. whose Parliament has
been the main stumbling block
holding back ratification of the
EDO treaty for the last Is
months.
He remarked dryly that so far
"welghty utterances" about con- |
sumation of EDO being urgent
and essential seem not to have
sunk in"
Then he delivered a strong
hint-without saying so directly
that if the EDO project is all |
lowed to die, American partici-
patton in Western European de-
tense might be limited to So
called "peripheral" action like
atomic bombing from bases in
Spain.
Front Line in Germany.
He pointed out that present
Western European defense plans
involve a forward strategy" of
protecting the entire area of the
prospective EDO countries
France, Italy, Belgium, the Meth
erlandS, Luxembourg and West
Germany - with an advanced
front line in Germany. Asa
part Of this strategy, he said
substantial part of the United
States Army now occupies ad-
vanced positions in West Ger
many. Then came his key
warning:
1t is unacceptable to the |
United States that it should con-
tinue indefinitely in the role of
a principal defender of Ger
many, while the Germans them
selves look on as mere OBJ
servers"
He pointed out that without
EDO it is not legally permissible
to draw on German strength for
the common defense. He recalled
that the forward strategy" was
adopted more than three years
ago on the assumption that Ger
man soldiers soon would be TAX
ing part. And he warned that
the basic strategy will have to
be re-examined if that prospect
disappears.
Evening star., 1953-12-23
Peanut Oil Soles Up

Nigeria sold 9,311 tons Of pea
nut oil in the 1858 first half, twice
that of 1852.
Evening star., 1953-10-18
OES Activities
| In Local Chapters

Eastern Star chapter activities
this week are:
Federal - Monday, rehearsal
for officer, $50 pm. Tuesday,
Friendship Club banquet, Boad-
moor, $50 pm. Wednesday,
Home Board with Mrs. Elizabeth
England. Thursday, initiation.
Warren G. Harding-Tuesday
September and october birthdays
honored. Friday, Home Board
with Mildred Long.
Chevy Chase-Monday, Home
Board with the matron.
Harmony - Thursday, grand
visitation. .,
St. Johns Monday, initiation
Tuesday, Temple Board.
Columbia - Tuesday, meeting
and style show.
.Joppa Lodge - Wednesday
grand visitation.
Martha-Tuesday, Home Boaro
with Mrs. Gwendolyn Zuch. Fri
day. Home Board to entertain
guests at Masonic and Eastern
Star Home.
bethany Saturday, Boosters,
square dance, Palisades Recrea-
ton Center.
TAreme-Wednesday, initiation
Acacia - Today, ham dinner,
1904 Thirteenth street NV. l
to 7 pm. Tuesday, initiation.
Brookland - Monday, G.. M
Sorority luncheon. 1880 p.m.'
home of the matron. Wednes-
day, past matrons, home OF MIS-
Dorothy Preston.
Cathedral-Monday, Ways ano
Means. home of Anna Daven-
nort wednesday, card party
benefit of Ways and Means
home of Leslie NJ. Clagett.
.Mizpah - Today, rehearsal OF
oficers. 2 pm. Tuesday. grano
visitation. Wednesday, bowling
Columbia alleys.
lebanon - Tuesday, Home
Board with Mrs, Louise Price
Treaty Oak-Monday, meeting
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, meet
ing.
Brightwood-Thursday, grane
visitation.