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return were repeated with en-
phasis. To this Judge Clark
replied that it is not customary
to call a judge insubordinate.
Today. he explained that he
considers himself no more an
employe of the State Depart
ment than he considered HIM
self an employee of the Treasury
as Federal judge in the United
States.
AS he sees it, the question Of
who pays his salary has little
bearing on the question of judi
cial independence. He is fur
thermore hopping mad at the
treatment he has received. add
ing that he has hundreds of
letters" from German friends
who feel as he does. His final
verdict is typical:
1--WE came to Germany to
teach Germans democracy and
said that ad nauseam. One Of
the fundamental principles Of
democracy is an independent
judiciary. If people in the State
Department had had any sense.
they would have left the judges
alone. That they didn't do so
was incredible folly. They have
made a shocking exhibition Of
themselves before all of Germany
and the whole world"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-12-31
3 Hold Up Store,
Escape With $50

Three bandits last night held
up the Little Market. 3l5 H
street NE, and stole about $50.
Rosario Mareno, SIS. the owner,
said the three men, all colored,
entered and one pulled out a
gun. Joseph Truscello. 66, of 1913
Eighth street NE. who also was
in the store, was ordered to hand
over his wallet, which contained
no money. The bandits fed north
on Eighth street NE.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-12-31
Policeman Injured
In DRUG Arrest

United States Commissioner,
Cyril S. Lawrence, today held for
the grand jury a 20-year-old man
on whom a police officer broke
his right hand while making an
arrest yesterday on a narcotics
charge.
Under $4,000 bond on charge
of possessing marijuana is
Tommy w. Tavenner, of the 1400
block Of N street NV, a floor
sanders helper.
The injured policeman, Dante
A. Longo, a narcotics squad UNI
dercoverfnan. told Commissioner
Lawrence this morning he be-
came acquainted with Tavenner
in a poolroom in the 1900 block
Of Eleventh street NV.
Later, Detective Longo said,
the man offered to share a hand
rolled cigarette containing the
narcotics, with him, but said he
could not sell one.
When Detective Longo identi-
fled himself as an officer, he said,
Tavenner swung at him. The, Of
ficer said he hit Tavenner once
with his fist and broke his hand,
but kept him under control until
a patrol wagon arrived.
Sergt. Joseph Gabrys, of the
narcotics squad, told Commits
sioner Lawrence a charge of as
sault on a police officer would be
presented directly to the grand
jury.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-12-31
Indian Sign Put
On Mother-in-Low
In Tribal Adoption
BY the Asseeioied Pres,

LODGE GRASS, Mont, Dec
31.-A white man who partici-
pated in an Indian ceremony
was under sacred oath today
never to exchange words or
glances with his mother-in-law
The oath carries a lifetime
guarantee.
It took a Grow Indian adop-
ton ceremony to do the trick
Eric Stanton, a Kentucky bev-
erage company official, became
the first white man adopted by
the tribe in five years yesterday
at q pre-New Years rite of the
tribes War Dance Society.
One of the duties, listed high
on the Indians list of social
protocol. is to avoid conversation
with or about his mother-in-law,
look at her. or be seen or talked
about by her.
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Noyes
Continued From First Page.)

!
about it. Mr.. Knorr was friend
of his and when the judge
learned that he was in Jail. he
got busy and prevailed upon
German officials to set bail. sup
plying half himself. Once out Of
custody, Mr.. Knorr promptly
brought action against German
officials who had locked him up
in the first place. A German
court dismissed the case. When
Mr.. Knorr appealed. Judge
Clark's court upheld him in his
right to sue the officials. That
same night however. the high
commissioner issued decree
which had the effect of out
having Mr.. Knorr'S suit and re-
versing the decision of the
court.
After that, events followed
swiftly. At the beginning OF
December, the American Bar
Association in Germany, OF
which Clark is an active member,
published a resolution roundly
condemning the commissions
action in the Knorr case. A few
days later, Judge Clark received
a cable from Secretary of State
Dulles, advising he would not
be reappointed when his term
expired on January 8. The job.
it was explained. was considered
surplus. Judge Clark was or
dered home Immediately for con-
Sultation.
The Judge cabled back that
the job of chief justice could
never be surplus as long as the
court existed. There were, in
fact, 142 cases pending at the
time. of which SO already had
been argued.
Gable From Bedell Smith.
He also pointed out that a
Federal judge could only be re-
moved for cause and refused to
return to Washington.
The next cable, signed by Un-
derSecretary of State Bedell
Smith. supplied the cause. Judge
Clark was being suspended for
gross INSTRUMENTATION. Orders to
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a bottle of fresh water. with a
nipple on it. for bait"
Ray Chitwood, Lost Creek,
WASH. if his honorable mention
tale is believed, almost was killed
learning about a deer with in
credible reflexes.
Last fall I pretty near got shot
while deer hunting" wrote Mr..
Chitwood. Coming around a
bend in the trail saw a large
buck standing. looking away from
me. 49,
II shot the deer in the back
of the head. He turned around SO
quick to see where the shot came
from that the bullet came out
between his eyes and went right
back into the rifle barrel"
That's a Joke. Son.
Honorable mention also was
awarded to William Robinson,
Lancaster. Pa, whose falsehood
took the form of a joke.
Another fellow and I were
building a house. When we were
putting on the siding noticed
that he was throwing away about
half the nails.
so I said, What's the mat
ter with those nails you are
throwing away?'
1.-The ones I am throwing
away have heads on the wrong
end he replied.
That made me mad.
"'You big fool I told him.
Don't you know those are the
ones we use for the other side
of the house?'"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-12-31
French Forces Clash
With Wet Mimi at
Northwest Base
BY the Associated Press

HANOI, Indo- China, Dec. 81.
The French today reported
their first stable clash with the
Communicated Wet Mimi at
Diem Bien Phu-the last major
French position in Northwest
1ndo-China and perhaps the first
objective of the winter rebel
campaign.
The French said patrols NOV
ing out from their heavily forti-
fled position on the plain lust
north of Laos fought for more
than an hour with rebel units
they encountered. The French
claimed 81 Wet Mimi dead and
said their own losses were light,
Foe Forced to Retreat.
= Mobile artillery and fighter
planes finally forced the Wet
Mimi to retreat. the French said.
The Wet Mimi yesterday were
reported active close to Diem
B1en Phu for the first time since
French paratroopers grabbed
the post and its airstrip five
weeks ago. Since then the
French have poured men and
arms into it.
News of the Wet Mini activ-
ity there aroused speculation
that it was the rebels first ma
Jor target and that their dash
across central Laos to the Me-
kong River last week was a
diversion to draw off French
forces.
French Air Attack Pressed.
French planes, meanwhile.
kept up heavy strafing and ma
PAIN bombing of Wet Mini
troops at various points in Indo-
China. but there was no word
OF other activity in Laos.
In the vital Red River delta.
the French-held bastion around
Hanoi. the French continued
their mop-up drive and reported
killing 80 rebels and capturing
Is.
The French admitted, too, that
one OF their patrols fell into a
big Wet Mimi ambush SIS miles
southeast of Hanoi and suffered
"appreciable losses"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-12-31
Bandit Gets $4,000
In Houston Bank HoIdup
BY the Associated Pres,

HOUSTON, Dec. 31.-A bandit
flashing a gun for a short mo-
ment, escaped with an estimated
$780, 900 from the Houston Ma
tional Bank this morning.
The bandit, making daring
foray into the bank Offices in an
underground vault. pulled the
gun on Denny N. Allen, 10, and
ordered him to put several stacks
of SOS, Sos and SIS into q
leather brief case he was carry
ing.
The bandit was about %
years old.
About $50 am, when there
were a number of customers in
the bank. the man walked
downstairs to the vault where
young Allen was working.
He flashed the gun long
enough for me.N to see it. and
then put it back in his pocket,
He told me Just give me some of
the big bills and put it in this
brief case,'" young Allen said.
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3, the Associated Press

CAMP FR1EDLAND, Ger
many, Dec. 31.-A 35-year-old
German woman from Soviet
slave labor village in Siberia said
today she had seen 100 men shot
down because they dared lead a
strike against the Russians.
Brigitte Gerland, arrested in
Dresden in 1916 while a free
lance journalist. said she had
been sentenced to five years
hard labor by a drumhead So
Wet tribunal without ever being
told why. @1
Her five years expired in 1851,
but she was not released then.
She was freed this week and
entered West Germany. She said
that after a brief interview with
Soviet secret police in Dresden
and the rapid-f1re passing of
sentence on her. she was shipped
to a slave labor area at Vorkuta,
inside the Arctic Circle in ST.
IBERIA.
Guarded by Soviet Troops.
! No actual prison camps exist
at Vorkuta, she said, but Soviet
soldiers form ring of steel about
it, leaving slave laborers to move
in comparative freedom in the
guarded zone. More than 80
per cent of the workers at
Vorkuta are Ukrainians, she
added.
She was assigned to road and
rail construction gangs working
in the icy Arctic tundra. Last
May, she related. an organized
strike broke out in the sprawling
coal pits of the Vorkuta district.
She believes so mines were in
volved and heard from others
that in 80 of the pits the strike
was 100 per cent effective. And
she estimated that each of the so
mines works up to 5000 laborers.
Soviet troops moved in at once,
and 100 strike leaders were ruth
lessly moved down by rifle and
Tommygun bullets. Lesser fry
in the desperate action against
Soviet force were taken from
Vorkuta and never heard from
again. She never learned what
the strike was against. nor the
final outcome, for shortly after
the public executions Of the lead
ers she was moved to a camp in
East Prussia.
It was from this camp that
she was sent to a transit sta
ton and later freed. She stayed
briefly at Camp Friedland, West
Germany's biggest transit camp.
then left for her home in Stuff
CART;
American Soldiers Held.
At Herleshausen, German
prisoners of war returning home
after almost a decade in Soviet
captivity told of an "interna-
tional camp" whose 1000 pris-
onerS included American and
British soldiers.
They said the camp was sit
uated near Moscow and that be-
sides American and British pris-
oners, it held French, Austrians,
Dutch, Belgians, Romanians.
Iranians and HungarianS.
One returnee. former Wehr-
macht 1t. Kurt Stotzka, said it
was understood only "a few Of
the prisoners" were Americans
or British. He said only meager
details Of the international
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Jupon's Biggest Daily
Plans English Edition

TOKYO. Dec. 31.-The news
paper Asahi, Japan's biggest
daily which claims 5000, 900 cir
culation announced today it will
start publishing an English
language evening edition January
20.
The announcement said the
English edition "Asahi Evening
News" will take over the Tokyo
Evening News which was started
in 1852.
Another big national daily,
Mainichi, has been publishing an
English language edition since
before World War II.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-12-31
81 Freed by Turkish Court
In Communist Plot Trial


ISTANBUL. Turkey, Dec.
31.-Eighty-one alleged Com
munist plotters can stop worry
ing about jail sentences at the
end of their trial. The govern
ment freed them yesterday be-
cause they already have served
more time than the maximum
sentences asked.
Some had been held more
than two years. Their mass
hearing. before a military court
on charges of trying to over
throw the government, opened
october Is. There is no indica-
ton when it will end.
Eighty-six other defendants
still are being held. And the
trial of all 1877 will continue.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-12-31
Judge Clark Leaves
For u. ). With Blast
Al 'Gestapo Methods
BY the Assoeioted Press

PARIS. Dec. 3l.-Williarn
Clark. ousted chief justice of
United States Courts in Ger
many. left for home today. He
accused American officials in
Germany-who changed the
combination of the safe in his
Frankfurt office-of "Gestapo
methods"
In Bonn. a United States High
Commission spokesman said
consulate authorities in Frank
furt changed the combination Of
the safe in Judge Clark's Office
to protect classified material.
The spokesman denied the
judges Geographic charge his
papers had been tempered with.
He said the High Commission
had recommended that the State
Department have the safe and
Judge Clarke's files sent to
Washington to be screened in
his presence so the jurist could
claim any personal documents.
Judge Clark's latest angry blast
was in a telegram to United
States High Commissioner James
B. Conant at Bonn. The Judge
dispatched it just before board
ing a train for Cherbourg to
catch the British liner Queen
Mary for New York. ~
The wire said:
Understand my personal and
office files were tempered with by
your office. Shocked at use Of
such Gestapo methods"
Judge Clark. of Princeton. N. j..
was suspended by the State De-
partment last month after ignor-
ing an order to return to WASH
ington for consultations prior to
dismissal. The State Depart
ment said he was no longer need
ed. Judge Clark charged he was
being forced out because he had
been critical of high commission
policies. III
Mrs. Clark, former news cor
respondent Sonia Tamara, stayed
in Paris and will go to Germany
Saturday to wind up his affairs.
Judge Clark had to return
home, however, because the
State Department recalled his
diplomatic passport while he was
mentioning in the Canary Is
lands and gave him one allowing
only travel to Paris and back to
the United States.
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German SIuve-Lobor Woman
Tells of Seeinq Reds Kill 72O

camp" were available. since no
Germans were in it.
Eight hundred former Ger
man army officers and men
crossed into West Germany here
last night after their release
from Soviet prisoner of war
camps
Another 1000 prisoners were
due to be released by Communist
authorities today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-12-31
Windy Tale Helps Virginion
Sail to Title of Liar No. ]
Cust-Iron Yarn
Takes Over as
Biggest Whopper
BY the Associated Press

BURLINGTON, Wis, Dec. 81.
MIR. Bee Mcintyre of Rich
mond, Va, a liar with a pen
chant for detail, was named to-
day by the Burlington Liars Club
as the flower of American false
hood.
A cast-iron kettle "about 8
feet across and about 2 feet
deep" won Mr.. Mcintyre the
title of worlds champion liar"
for 1858 because the kettle was
swept of its feet by the strang-
est wind ever imagined.
Mr.. Mcintyre wrote:
1.-THE strongest wind I ever
hear Of hit our place last sum-
mer, along with a slam bang
thunderstorm. The wind was so
strong that it picked UP our
cast-iron wash kettle (about 3
feet across and about 2 feet
deep. and blew it out of the
country.
and the wind blew that ket-
tie so fast that while it was sail
ing across our front yard the
lightning struck at it five times
and missed"
OutlieS a Texan.
On the strength of his phe-
nomenal gale, Mr.. Mcintyre will
rule in 1854 as the hero of liars
fashioning their fiction for the
next contest.
Mr.. Mcintyre succeeds a
Texan, Harry v. Cummins of
Dallas. who took the 1852 honors
with a tale about mosquitoes he
encountered in Korea. Although
they were six feet tall they de-
cided to devour him on the spot
because they feared that eff we
carry him home the big mosque
toes will take him away from
U.S."
Another Texan, L. c. McRob-
erts of Kingsville, this year won
honorable mention which is
awarded by the judges to fab
relations which, according to the
clubs rules of crystalline deceit,
did not quite make the grade.
Mr. McRoberts wrote, during
drought years on the South
Texas coast, Baftin Bay becomes
so salty that the fishermen use
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-12-31
Dulles Doing Better
Than Predecessors,
Mccarthy Declares
eY the A.,oeiuted Pre,,

MIAMI, Fla, Dec. 81
Shortly after a talk with Vice
President Nixon, Senator Nc
earthly. Republican, of Wiscon-
sin, said last night he thought
Secretary of State Dulles was
doing a Job infinitely better
than his predecessors"
But Senator Mccarthy re-
iterated to a news conference
that he was opposed to any trad
ing with Communist countries
and especially with those coun-
tries directly engaged in war
with the United States.
The Senator previously had
disagreed with Mr.. Dulles and
President Eisenhower because
they would not stop Britain and
other allies from trading with
Communist China.
Dinner With Nixon.
Senator Mccarthy said he had
discussed many thing with Mr..
Nixon at a dinner Tuesday night
but he did not want to talk about
them now. Also present at the
dinner was William Rogers, Dep
uty United States Attorney Cen
eral. who came here with Mr..
Nixon.
The Wisconsin Senator said
he thought communism would be
one OF the main issues Of the
next presidential campaign. but
not the only issue. 1.-THE people
determine the issues, not the
politicians" he said.
Senator Mccarthy declared he
had no intention of being a can
didate for President himself
However. he said he planned to
do a great deal of speaking
in States where there are close
Senate contests during the COM
ing congressional campaign.
Cites Farm Price Drop.
In order to win the next presi-
dental election, Senator Nc
Carthy said the Eisenhower adj
miniStration would have to regain
the IA per cent drop in farm
prices.
He said II per cent of this
drop was under the Truman adj
ministration and that after a
3 per cent drop under Gen.
Eisenhower the Republicans
checked the decline. He added he
was sure the administration was
on the right track with it's pres
ent agricultural policy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-12-31
High PoW Death Rate
On Release by Japan
Revealed in Study

Deaths among those who were
held prisoners by the japanese
during World War II rose to a
tragic figure. four times the nor
NAL death rate, in the first two
years after the prisoners were
liberated.
But after that the death rate
fell to about the normal for the
general population.
This and other data on the
mortality of World War II pris-
oners was presented to a meet
ing of the American Statistical
Association and allied societies
whose conventions ended yester-
day. Thirteen organizations of
statiSticianS. economists and
similar groups concluded their
programs, which had a total of
about 100 meetings with about
600 speakers participating.
The data on mortality among
former prisoners was given in a
papers by DR.. Bernard M. Cohen
of the National Research Coun-
Gil and DR.. Maurice z. Cooper,
a Veterans Administration ply
sician. It was a result of a
study made by the council at
the request of the VA.
$500 Cases Studied.
The paper was more a pres
entation of the statistical
method employed than of the
date resulting. The study was
based on a sample of $500
prisoners, 1900 from the South
west Pacific area and a like
number from the European
Mediterranean areas. The names
were taken from the Army files
of all liberated World War II
prisoners.
While the death rate among
Pacific prisoners was appreciably
above the normal rate, there
was no excess mortality among
those who had been held pris-
onerS in Europe
Among men 20 to 81 years
old of the 1900 Pacific prisoners
there was a total of So deaths
in the six years after their
liberation. OF this number 81, or
"a per cent, were deaths due to
tuberculosis and accidents.
Thirty of the So deaths oc-
CURED in the first two years
after liberation. OF the 80, seven
were due to tuberculosis and 16
were accidents. The expectations
based on the 1949 life expect
ancy table for white males in
the United States are / death
from tuberculosis and 4 from
accidents.
UndernOurishment q Factor.
The high Incidence of tuber-
culosis is held due to the insult
f1cent food and other condi-
lions endured by those held
by the japanese and the length
OF time they were imprisoned.
Similar analyses for the Eu-
ropean prisoners show no excess
mortality. The favorable figures
for the ex-European prisoners
was due to better food, better
treatment and generally shorter
terms of Imprisonment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-12-31
Indians Count P0Ws,
.135 Chinese Ask
To Return 10 Reds
BY the Associated Press

PANMUNJOM, Dec. 31.-In-
dian troops made a year-end
head count of Chinese war pris-
oners in their custody today and
1875 of the 1885 checked asked to
return to Communist China.
They were turned over to the
Reds this evening.
An Indian spokesman empha-
sized that the count was not a
screening and did not substitute
for interviews which ended De-
cember %.
However, Indian guards gave
prisoners wishing to return home
every chance to ask for repatria-
ton.
There was no indication wheth-
er the count would be extended
to the pro-Communist north
camp which holds % Americans
who refused to return home.
South Korea Protests.
South Korea's Foreign Minis
ter Pyun Yung Tai limited that
if the Indian command contin-
ues it's program the ROK govern
ment might take steps to free
the anti Communist POWs.
UNLESS the Indian guards re-
verse their attitude" Mr.. Pyun
told newsmen, 1--WE cannot let
our anti-Communist prisoners
remain in their charge any
longer"
He did not say why he opposes
the head count and there was
no comment from the Indian
command.
An Indian spokesman told
neWsmen to call him tomorrow to
find out whether the count will
be continued.
The 1876 Chinese who asked to
go home were promptly returned
to the Communists. It was by far
the largest transfer of prisoners
since the formal POW exchange
ended.
RepatriatiOns Incidental.
The 1876 of 4,385 tally was
about 81 per cent, approx
mately the same as for the 10
days when prisoners attended
explanations.
Officially, the count is being
made to give the Indian COM
mand an opportunity to check
it's prisoner rosters and to find
out exactly how many captives
it holds.
An Indian spokesman empha-
sized that ANY requests for re-
patriation must be regarded as
entirely incidental to the head
count" But observers pointed
out that the method used ap-
preached a de facto screening.
Prisoners walked one at a
time into the wire-inclosed cor
ridor around the compound and
were handed a piece of paper
on which he wrote his name and
serial number.
Chance to Ask Return.
The prisoners were kept sew
eral feet apart as they moved
along to a gate where they
handed the slip of paper to an
Indian officer for checking
against a master roster.
Each captive was alone with
the officer for several seconds
long enough to ask to go back
to Red China if he wished.
The count began in enclosure
B which has 10 compounds
holding Chinese prisoners listed
as refusing to go back to Com
munist rule. Prisoners from a
few compounds were interviewed
by Red explainers prior to
December %. Many Of the cap
tives. however, have not been
asked whether they want to
return home.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-12-31
Rosenbergs Depicted in Play

BUDAPEST. Hungary, Dec. 81
R.-A three-act play about
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg,
called Loyalty" has opened in
Budapest theater The Rosen-
berg couple. executed in the
United States as atomic spies,
are presented as heroes in the
play by Miklos Gyarfas.