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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-19
Dust Storms Swirl
Through 3 States,
Menace Wheat Crop
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

New dust storms swirling
across sections of Kansas, Okla
homa and, Texas are cutting in
to the Nations winter wheat
crop.
Strong winds yesterday kicked
up the third major dust storm
in 10 days in the three States
which supply most Of the coun-
try's wheat.
There was q cheerful note,
however. in today's weather pic
ture. Rain or snow was forecast
for all three States.
But considerable moisture will
be needed to give the soil the
soaking it requires.
In one Oklahoma county alone,
1t was estimated that damage
amounted to about one-third of
the crop. And last years crop in
that north central Oklahoma
county-Garfield $1S.5
million.
Blow Called Worst Ever.
County Agent J. B. Hurst, who
made the estimate. said farmers
there reported yesterdays blow
"the worst they've ever SEEN"
In Russell, in central Kansas.
county agent Gale Mullen said
most Of that areas wheat crop
is doomed unless moisture comes
Immediately.
A drought during the latter
half of 1852 and insufficient
moisture this winter left the
soil dry and loose. The high
winds can easily whip the soil
from around young wheat plants,
killing them.
The new dust storms brought
memories once again of the black
billiards of the 1930s. when wind
erosion put thousands of farmers
and ranchers out of business.
Visibility Limited.
Yesterdays blow. with gusts
up to so miles an hour, sent up
clouds of dust over Western
Kansas. At Great Bend, visibility
was cut to one-eighth of a mile
at times.
In Oklahoma motorists at
Enid in the central part of the
State reported dust so thick they
couldn't see their hood emblems.
Winds up to As miles an hour
picked up dust in the Panhandle
and West Texas, but light rain
fell in North and East Texas.
Southern California also SUI
fered from winds. Gusts up TO
81 miles an hour whipped up
dust from parched fields that
have been without rain for 20
days. Visibility was cut to IS
feet in the Chowchilla area.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-19
Lucille Ball and Arnaz
Sign So Million Contract
By the Asseeiatsa Press

NEW YORK, Feb. 19.-Lucille
Ball and Desi Arnaz have
signed a new So million con-
tract with Philip Morris & Co.
and CHS Television for 21a more
years of II Love Lucy" CHS
announced here.
CHS said yesterday it was a
mo option" document, meaning
it is not subject to the cancella-
ton privileges often contained in
TV contracts.
CHS said the contract Wits
Miss Ball and Mr.. Arnaz, her
husband, covers the remainder
of this season and runs through
1855.
The contract would make the
weekly cost of the show around
100000. including about $4,000
for network broadcast time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-19
Po|iceman's Good Work Brings Reduction in Fine

rior officer. He was fined SIS
on each count.
Police Chief Robert v. Murray
reported. however, that since Pvt.
Jefferson's misconduct, the po-
liceman has been instrumental
in clearing quite a number" of
HOUSEKEEPING cases in the ninth
precinct. The chiefs recommen-
dalton was taht Pvt. Jefferson's
outstanding police work" be
recognized,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-19

Owing to meritorious work in
recent months, the Commission
ers today decided to free a ninth
precinct policeman from paying
the $50 balance of q $3.50 fine
imposed on him last July by the
Police Trial Board.
Pvt. Ronald j. jefferson was
found guilty at that time of be-
ing absent from duty without
leave and also of making an I'M
truthful statement to his supe-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-19
Durkin Advisers Set to Start
Drafting Labor Law Changes

mentS already proposed to the
law.
Mr.. Durkin said he hopes to
get substantial agreement from
industry and labor on the
changes that should be made.
His announcement indicated
the administration, at least at
this time, is not supporting the
amendment program of Senator
Taft, Republican, of Ohio. Sew
eral weeks ago he introduced
bills proposing Is changes in
the law of which he is the CO.
author.
Seriously Split on Law.
The House Labor Committee
has started hearings on changes
in the labor law, and the Sen
ate Labor Committee will follow
suit shortly.
Labor and management are
widely split on the subject of
amending the law. The unions
advocate drastic changes, while
many industry officials believe
the law should either be tight
ened on the unions or left un-
changed.
Widely different views are
held by various members of Mr..
Durkin's committee, which in
cludes:
Public members, DR.. Sumner
H. Slichter, Harvard professor;
Cyrus S. Ching, former director
of the Federal Mediation Serv-
ice; DR.. Jean T. McKelvey, as
sociate professor, Cornell; DR..
Maurice T. Van Hecke, law pro-
fessor, University of North
Carolina. and DR.. Paul A. Dodd,
dean of the college of letters and
sciences, University of California
at Los Angeles.
Industry members-Harry M.
Moses, head of the Bituminous
Coal Operators Association;
David Zellerbach, San Francisco
industrialist; John j. O'Donnell,
New York contractor; Ben
Moreell. chairman of Jones &
Laughlin Steel Co., and Frank
Rising, president of the Auto
motive and Aviation Parts As
ISOLATION.
Labor members-AFL Presi-
dent George Meany, George M.
Harrison, president of the AFL
Railway Clerks; CLIO President
Walter p. Reuther. David j. Nc
Donald. president of the Go
United Steelworkers, and John
L. Lewis. president of the United
Mine Workers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-19


frigerators and toys.
The occasion is the annual
technical conference of the re-
Enforced plastics division Of the
Society Of the Plastics Industry,
Inc. at the Shoreham Hotel.
The military, already well into
the comparatively new business
with research and experiments,
not only has an eye on the in
dustry's quick growth, but has
virtually all of today's program.
800 Representatives Attend.
At IS, j. S. Finger. general
manager of the Libby Owens
Ford Corrulux division, is
among the 800 or more repre-
sentatives from the plastics busi-
ness-and one Of it's most awed
proponents.
AS chairman of one of 10 sub
committees formed to work in
an advisory capacity with the
military, his prime interest is
prefabricated buildings.
Some problems are being
solved. Some are solved and some
are being called virtually i'm
possible" he said. But we've
found that what is virtually i'm
possible today is on the produc-
ton line tomorrow.
I'VE just don't seem to know
how far we can CO."
A curiosity only a few years
ago. reinforced plastic "is one
OF the youngest and one OF the
most promising businesses in the
world" he said.
Show Sports Car Body.
Biggest item in the display
yesterday was Kaiser-Frazer's
new sports car, the plastic-body
DKF- due for volume pro.
duction before summer.
The smallest could be a valve
or a radio part. But in between
were boats. paddles, pressure
tanks, a chrome-plated bumper,
a pre-fabricated air shelter, a
toilet bowl. shower platform and
curtains, aircraft parts.
All branches of the military
have been experimenting and to-
day, w. r. Graner. of the Bureau
of Ships. told of tests with craft
up to a 36-foot LCVP Qanding
craft. vehicle, perSonneD. z
Other speakers were to in-g
clude Jay M. Stevens, of the
Nays Bureau of Aeronauties;
Maj. w. G. Ramke, Of the Wright
Air Development Center, Wright
Patterson Air Force Base; DR..
Porter w. Erickson of the Naval
Ordnance Laboratory. and Capt.
C. E. Brush. chief of the Coast
Guards Testing and Develop
ment Division.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-19
St. Lawrence Seuwoy
Bills Given Congress

Bills proposing development
corporation to finance, construct
and operate a st. Lawrence sea-
way and power project were in
PRODUCED yesterday in the House
and Senate.
Senator Lehman, Democrat
Liberal of New York, was joined
by nine other Senators in in
PRODUCING the Senate bill. Rep
resentative Roosevelt, Democrat
Liberal of New York, offered the
House counterpart,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-19
Dick Powell Operated On

SANTA MONICA, Calf. Feb.
10 (P).-Actor Dick Powell I'M
derwent an emergency appen-
dectomy early today and was re-
ported resting we'll at st. Johns
Hospital. He is expected to be
in the hospital a week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-19

off wares here
this week.
Ev en- two
r e p r esenta-
tives of Big
Steel are in
town to see
what's new in
r e / n + o reed
plasticS, such
as a complete
a u t o m obile
b ody slated
for mass pro-
duction, bath
tubs, BIO a t S,
pipelines. re-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-19
Diversified Display
Shows Expansion Of
Reinforced PIastics

An industry which turned 81
billion last year and is still so
young, it won't dare estimate
its own potential is showing
Evening star., 1953-12-06
Iron Curtain ExiIes
Oppose Recognition
OF Satellites by West

A group Of exiled leaders from
Iron Curtain countries empha-
sized yesterday that they are
strongly opposed to recognition
of the satellite governments by
the West and their admission
into the United Nations.
The Star, in an article in
Fridays editions, summarizing a
statement presented to Western
leaders by exiles from Central
and Eastern Europe, stated in
advertently that the group had
proposed such a step as a first
move toward eventual liberation
Of the satellites,
Charles E. Davila, former
Romanian Minister to the United
States, pointed out yesterday
that this was a misinterpreta-
tion of that part of the groups
statement, which said that, I'm
our view, a first step in this
direction would be the removal
of existing legal hindrances to
any assistance to the enslaved
peoples in their unceasing strug-
gle for freedom, such as the
recognition of the satellite gov
ernments and the admission of
some of them to United Nations
membership"
"In other words" Mr.. Davila
said, I'VE asked for the with
drawal of the recognition Of the
satellite governments and the
expulsion from the U. N. Of
those among them which were
admitted to membership. since
these actions have erected legal
hindrances in the way of West
ern assistance to the enslaved
peoples"
The groups statement, directed
to the foreign ministers Of the
United States, Britain and
France, warned against top-level
talks with Russia which might
lead to a permanently divided
Europe.
Evening star., 1953-12-06

this city have been without a
major newspaper.
I'VE believe the distribution OF
news to be a vital public service,
essential to the working of
free government. In the end this
consideration takes precedence
over every other"
From the beginning of the
strike, the Publishers ASsocia-
ton, which represents the struck
newspapers, has sought to have
the wage dispute arbitrated. The
unions latest refusal was made
by an overwhelming vote early
this week.
The New York Enquirer. a
small Sunday tabloid claiming
$4,000 circulation normally, an
nounced it would print tomor-
row as usual and also that 1t
would publish daily for the
duration of the strike.
The Enquirer began publish
ing daily early in the strike but
halted this practice Wednesday
so the staff could give its full
attention to the Sunday edition.
Generoso Pope, jr., the pub
Usher, said an organization had
been set up in the meantime to
publish on a daily basis. He
denied rumors that the En-
quirer dropped its daily edition
because of pressure from pub
fishers of the major dailieS..
Evening star., 1953-12-06

time to broadcast stock quota
tions.
The Wall Street Journal pub
lished as usual. But it already
was operating at capacity and
wasn't able to do much more
than take care of it's regular sub
scriberS. One newsstand sold
copies of the financial journal
under the counter to regular GUS
toners, rather than risk public
run on it's copies.
Commuters from Brooklyn,
Long Island, Westchester, Staten
Island and New Jersey were able
to get regional papers at home
although the demand quickly
outdiStanced the supply.
Harvard and Yale Universities
sent several thousand copies OF
their student dailies into the
big city.
The New York Enquirer, a
Sunday weekly with $4,000 cir
culation, went daily. boosted its
press run to 100000 and boasteo
for three days that it had the
only city-wide circulation ir
New York. Then it went back
on a weekly basis, explaining
that its Sunday edition was ham,
pered by its daily operations.
Thus it went last week in the
worlds largest city, a Goth cen
tury colossus with a 18th CEN
turv mind. AS Emanuel Teitler
of the Bronx put it:
"It's murder. I don't know
what's going on in the world"
Evening star., 1953-12-06

Humidity.
(Readlrgs WASHINGTON National Airport
Yesterday Pct Yesterday Pct.
Noon --~---- 25 8 pm. 81
4pm. 81
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest. 100. on Aug. 81 and Sept. 2.
High and Low OF Last "a Hours.
High. 81. at 3:30 pm.
Low, 46. at $50 pm.
Tide Tables.
Evening star., 1953-12-06

District and vicinity-Cloudy,
windy and mild today with
showers. High about 60. Clearing
and cooler tonight. Tomorrow
fair and cooler.
Maryland and Virginia -
Cloudy, windy and mild today
with showers and scattered
thunderstorms in the afternoon.
Evening star., 1953-12-06

"It will be nice to hear. /"
wheedled the producer.
The big nightcfubs were little
affected. Few of them rely
heavily on newspaper advertis-
ing. Most of them are pretty
well known to visitors as well
as New Workers.
Store Sales Recover.
Department store business fell
off early in the week. and then
Spurted again for some un-
known reason.
We're doing just fine" said
one of Macy's buyers.
But Bloomingdale's reported
business off slightly.
Peck & Peck ran its fashion
ads on television. Some stores
gave out advertising handbills.
Other enlarged the proofs of ads
intended for newspapers and
erected them as displays. Saks
34th Street had window display
with a sign that mourned:
These ads would have been
in the Sunday Times. :"
Mail and phone order depart
ments were hard hit. Most house
wives had no idea what items
were on sale or even available.
Maybe we're in for licking" !"
remarked one apprehensive mer-
chant.
Some of the struck newspapers
turned their comics over to TV
stations. where they were read
and displayed for children. 1t
was reminiscent of 1945 strike
of newspaper deliverers, when the
late Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia
read the comics over the air for
kids.
One railroad issued mimeo-
graphed summary of the days
news for passengers. A radio net
work sent sandwich men with
radios around their necks into
Times Square. Their signs read
"Ask me the latest news" and
they were prepared to give a
brief summary when asked.
"What Day Is It?"
Some people didn't even know
what day it was. they were so
used to checking this vital sta
tistic at the top of each days
newspaper An NBC newscaster
made point of informing listen
erS what day it was.
Broadcasters also gave free
one-minute spots to major re-
ligiouS faiths, whose churches
normally announce services
through the newspapers.
There were no want ads, OF
course, and none Offering work
Employment agencies took on a
bleak look and one reported:
I'VE have jobs but we have nc
people to apply for them"
Horse race fans were bereft OF
their entries and results, unless
they could get to a radio at GER
tain times of the day. Some Of
them pooled resources and paio
35 cents for the Morning Tele-
graph, a racing paper not af-
fected by the strike. It added
a news and financial summary
to its usual race horse data.
The Stock Exchange put out
It's own list of closing prices
every afternoon. Many of the
big Wall Street firms took radio
Evening star., 1953-12-06
II Gift for the true music LOUer
"BAYREUTH''
HIGH FIDELITY RADIo-PHoNoGRAPH
by BALLADIER

The term gh fidelity has all but lost much of its true meaning
that it originally meant "fahfuness to
music in other words instrument possessing high fidelity is
reproduces music sound like the original performance
The Bayreuth Baader is ready to stand this test Because
audo experts supervise inch of the production of
cusoassembled Baadier phonograph
vey guarantee that every the dozens of essentials for high
fidelity reproduction properly ntegrated into the instrument
you select for your home.
the great Baader radio monographs customas
sembed you the Campbell Music Company and backed by
Campbell's-al the way.
Evening star., 1953-12-06
ItoIion Strike Called

ROME. Dec. 5 up. - Italy's
biggest Communist and non
Communist unions today called
a general 24-hour industrial
strike for December Is. They
are demanding pay boosts.
Smaller unions set meetings for
next week to decide whether to
join the walkout.
Evening star., 1953-12-06

Sun, today 7:l2 4:46
Sun, tomorrow 7:12 4:46
Moon, today 7:34 am. 4:47 pm.
/ Automobile lights must be turned on
one-half hour after sunset
Precipitation.
Evening star., 1953-12-06
By the Associoted Press

NEW YORK, Dec. 5.-Back In
the 18th Century. the American
newspaper industry had it's be-
ginnings in little news sheets or
letters, printed spasmodically
and circulated only narrowly.
Before that there were town
criers to shout out the news.
Twentieth Century New York
City has been living in the 17th
Century for a week-deprived OF
all but a dribbling of news by
the first total shutdown in his
tory of all its major daily news
papers.
The city has its town cr'ers
up-to-date young men in front
of radio and television micro
phones. But like the criers o1
old, their tidings reach only
those within range of Their
voices.
New York also has it's little
news sheets-put out by restau-
rants, broadcasting studios, rail-
roads, stock brokers.
But 8 million New Workers.
and millions more of their fell
lows in the suburbs haven't
seen their regular daily news
papers in a whole week. Nor
mally, New Workers buy 5k
million papers day, and more
than one person usually reads
each issue.
A strike of 400 AFL photo
engraverS began Saturday
November 20. When 10000 other
newspaper workers refused tc
cross their picket lines. the six
biggest New York dailies shut
down. the thunder of their
presses suddenly silenced.
The last paper on the streets
was the Monday morning Her
ald-Tribune. Then it, too. shut
down in sympathy with the
others, although it was moi
struck. The Herald-Tribune en-
craving for picture reproductions
is done by a commercial firm.
Newstands Hard Hit.
The first effect of the strike
of course, was on newSStandS
tiny beehives spotted by the hun
dreds throughout New York anC
hourly fed tall stacks of ink
glistening newspapers. Th {
stacks disappeared and many oi
the newSStandS closed.
II never imagined they were
so important to business" saio
Bernard Herstik. a Bronx news
paper vendor, Of the daily
papers.
II don't even want to figure
what I've lost this week." la
mented another in downtown
Manhattan.
But in midtown New York
Paul Franko, who normally sells
1000 papers a day, figured his
losses at So to $40 a day.
The only newspaper vendors
to profit from the i'll wind were
those who specialize in out-of-
town papers. Among these is
William Hotaling, whose Times
Square stand is a mecca for
homesick visitors to New York
He couldn't keep up with the
demand. New Workers even
tried to bribe papers away from
the truckers before they reached
Mr.. Hotaling. .
One morning. shiny Cadillac
stopped near Mr.. Hotaling' S
stand. Out stepped State Su-
preme Court justice. He gravelJ
selected an out-of- town paper
then went on his way, armed fol
the moment at least with news
Of the outside world.
Evening star., 1953-12-06
The Weather Here and Over the Nation

High 58-65. Clearing tonight.
Tomorrow fair and cooler.
Wind-Southerly 20-30 miles
per hour in the afternoon shift
ing to West or Northwest tonight.
River Report.
tFrom S Engineers
Potomac River cloudy at Harpers Ferry
and cloudy at Great Falls; Shena ndoah
cloudy at Harpers Ferry.
Evening star., 1953-12-06

SPECIAL SECTION.
Christmas Book News-l6 Pages
This edition also contains
This Week Magazine OF 40
pages, a 10-pnge comic section
and 36 pages of rotogrGUure.
Evening star., 1953-12-06
US. WEATHER BUREAU MAP
pspanmeni Of Commerce

forecast today for the eastern third
Nation for northern New England and Southern
Florida Rain is due in the midwest and expected in
upper Mississippi Valley west through the
Northern Plains to the Rockies Showers and rain
dcted along the north Pacific coast 1t will be colder in New
England the central section Of the Nation and the lower
Mississippi Valley will continue cold in the DakOtas with
little temperature change elsewhere. ZAP Wrephoto
Evening star., 1953-12-06
| Hoover Con Recall
| About 100 Probes,
| Wasn't Subpoenoed
BY the Assoei0sed Press

By the Associated Press
NEW YORK, Dec. 5.-For-
mer President Hoover, ap-
pearing before the House
Baltic Committee, remarked
to newSmen today that he
has been before about 100
congressional committees
during his career.
I didn't have to be sub
poenaed, either" he said.
The Glacier reporter. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1953-current, 1953-11-06
LOCAL FLA CHAPTER
FEATURED IN MAGAZINE

A we'll written article written
by r. W. Harris, Vo-Ag. instruc-
tor in the Browning schools, was
published in the National Future
Farmer, official magazine Of the
Future Farmers of America, copi.
es of which were received here
this week.
The article is profusely illus
trated with pictures of the boys
who made up the delegation to
the Kansas City convention last
month, showing their costumes
and scenes from the presentation
of the Grass Thanksgiving dance
at the convention.
In the article Mr.. Harris ex-
planned the significance of the
dance. which was an annual
spring festivity in which the In
dians gave thanks to their Deity
for the grass that fed the herds
of buffalo that roamcd this area
before the advent of the white
man. He also explains that while
the younger generation still TAX
es pride in the customs of their
forebears, they also are making
rapid progress in modern meth
DDS of agriculture and livestock
raising, and have as part Of
their school activities one of the
best of Montana's many FLA
chapters.
The Glacier reporter. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1953-current, 1953-11-06
AUXILIARY MEETING PLANS
FOR COMING PROGRAMS

At a meeting of the American
Legion Auxiliary, held at the Le-
gion hall on Tuesday evening of
this week, plans were made for
attending the district meeting in
Conrad on November 7, and 9th.
er business was taken care of.
All members of the local or
ganization are urged to attend
the Conrad meeting if possible.
More workers are needed to
assist with the bingo games held
each Thursday evening in the Le-
gion hall, and anyone who can
assist is asked to contact Mrs.
Don Becker.
At the December meeting mem
bers are asked to bring Christ
mas shower presents" for the
Legion hall kitchen. The meeting
will be held at the home of Mrs.
VIM. Wright.
On Sunday, November Is, there
will be pot luck supper at the
Legion hall at 4:3O pm. Legion
members and guests are includ-
ed.