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Evening star., 1953-06-05
Floods and Famine
ImperiI South China
BY the Asseeiofsd Press

HONG KONG. June 5.-Three
big rivers in China's Kwangtung
Province are out of their banks,
and reports from the Communist
mainland indicate the flood
famine crisis in South China
may be the worst since 1947.
The West, East and North
Rivers all were reported flooding
in Kwangtung. Some sources
said at least 80 per cent of the
provinces rich rice lands were
inundated.
The daily train from Canton
to the Hong Kong border failed
to arrive today, and railroad Of
f1cials said a bridge had washed
out at Sheklung, about 40 miles
inside Red China.
A Canton newspaper editor,
who fled to this British colony
when the Communists took over,
said today the floods appeared
to be less serious than in 1947
but the effect would be worse.
In 1947 we got thousands of
tons of ECA rice from America, ;"
he said. II doubt that the
Communists have any such
stocks to take up the slack
despite their bumper crops of
1851 and 1882"
Anhwei Province. north of the
Yangtze River, repeatedly has
been hard-hit by the flooding
HWai River. This has given rise
to speculation here that the
Reds much-publicized Hwai
River flood control project has
failed to measure up to advance
rennVfc
Evening star., 1953-06-05
Slayer Of Two Killed
After Reign Of Terror
BY the Associoted Press

STARKV1LLE, Miss. June A.
A Negro was slain: yesterday
after he had killed two white
men, beat two white women and
terrorized a rural community.
Sheriff Bill Harpole identified
the attacker as Odom Smith, 28,
and the dead victims as Oliver
Sharp, IS, and his son, Lonnie
Sharp, 81, farmers.
Mrs. c. c. Gatlin and her 16-
year-old daughter Monnell were
beaten. neither seriously. Smith
also shot at his 60-year-old
father, Grant Smith. but missed
him.
Sheriff Harpole said Smith
was killed by Barrett Morgan
about 46, and that a justice of
the peace court ruled the death
justifiable homicide.
The sheriff said Odom Smith
apparently went berserk after
getting into an argument with
his family.
Evening star., 1953-06-05
End Of Free Service
For Non-Indigenis
Is Sought by Doctors
., the Assoeioted Press

NEW YORK, June 5.-An end
to Federal rules requiring States
to give free diagnostic service to
crippled children whose families
can pay for it. is urged by the
American Medical Association.
The ANA House of Delegates,
ruling body of the 140. 60-mem-
ber doctors organization, passed
a resolution yesterday urging
abolition of the system.
State welfare programs, in
order to receive Federal aid,
must provide the service regard
less of "the economic status Of
such child's family or relatives. !"
the resolution said
It was introduced by DR.. Cleon
"A. Nafe of indianapolis, who
termed the requirement "socialis-
tic"
DIR. Martin 1854 President.
The ANA elected DR.. Walter
B. Martin of Norfolk, Va, as
preSident-elect. to be installed at
the organizations meeting in
June. 1854, in San Francisco.
Association presidents are chosen
a year prior to installation.
DR.. Martin, 65, chief of medi-
cal service at Norfolk's Hospital
of st. Vincent De Paul and a
consultant at the United States
Public Health Service Hospital.
will succeed the newly installed
president, DR.. Edward j. Nc
Cormick. Toledo, Ohio.
The House of Delegates gave
DR.. Martin 118 votes against So
cast for DR.. Robert B. Robbins
of Camden, Ark.
Gellenthien Vice President.
DR.. Carl H. Gellenthien Of
Valmora. N. Mex, was elected
vice president for a one-year
term beginning this month. He
got SO votes against SO for DR..
Patrick j. Sullivan of Dalton,
Mass.
Registration at the week. long,
102d annual meeting, which
closes today. has topped $4,000,
making it the largest gathering
of doctors ever assembled in the
Nation.
Previous largest gathering was
in 1947 in Atlantic City, N. j.,
when 10000 attended the asso-
citation sessions.
Evening star., 1953-06-05
Albany Pastor Named
By Reformed Church
BY the Assoeio,sd Pres.

PELLA, Iowa, June 5.-Dr
Frederick Zimmerman of First
Reformed Church, Albany, N. Y,
yesterday was elected president
OF the general synod of the Re-
formed Church in America.
The national synod is in ses-
sion at Central College here in
connection with Central's GEN.
tennial celebration. Born in
Great Britain, DR.. Zimmerman
for many years was executive
secretary Of the church's Board
OF Home Missions.
The Rev. Daniel Y. Blink of
Scotia, N. Y, was elected vice
president.
AT the principal opening ses-
sion of the synod last night, DR.,
Henry A. Poppen, retiring presi-
dent, missionary in China for IS
years and World War II pris-
oner OF the Japanese, reported
Evening star., 1953-06-05
Wilson Testimony Sought
In Du Pont Antitrust Trial
BY the Assoeioted Press

CHICAGO, June 5.--A General
Motors spokesman said yesterday
Secretary Of Defense Wilson will
be called next week as a defense
witness in the Governments IS
civil antitrust trial Of the Du
Pont Co.
The spokesman said Secretary
Wilson, GIN president from
194l until he Joined President
Eisenhower'S cabinet in January.
would be subpoenead to appear
June II.
General Motors and the u. s,
Rubber Co are defendants with
Du Pont in the antitrust trial.
The Government contends the
Du Points have used stock hold
lngS in the two firms to influence
GIN and U. s. Rubber polic;ts.
1t has asked the Federal Court
to order the Du Points to sur
render their stock interests in
the firms.
Evening star., 1953-06-05
By Thomos R. Henry
S1.y S@sfe rorraxnnndent

NEW YORK, June 5.-The
human blood fraction gamma
globulin gives a slight-but ex-
tremely expensive protection
against paralyzing polio in major
epidemics.
This fact was reported to the
American Medical Association
here by DR.. Joseph A. Bell Of the
Public Health Service Infectious
Disease Laboratory at Bethesda,
Md. Experience in two large
epidemics, he said, shows five or
six cases per 10000 children
would be prevented by general
gamma globulin incubation.
A single incubation requires
the material recoverable from
a pint of blood.
EvaluatiOn Difficult.
And AvalIa tim nf this ma
terial, he explained, is extremely
difficult because of the nature of
polio itself. Nearly everybody
has the infection at some time
or other, but is never aware of
it. The great majority of cases
are harmless. But nearly every
year there is an epidemic some
where, with an exceptional num-
ber of cases which end up with
permanent paralysis or death.
There is no question, DR.. Bell
SAID that gamma globulin con-
tains antibodies against all three
known types of polio. During an
epidemic where there is a gen.
eral incubation of children. no
protection appears during the
first week. The greatest value
appears to come from the fifth
to the seventh week after inocu-
lation. From then on there is
practically no protection.
Except in tremendous epi-
demics," he said, mass use Of
gamma globulin in children Of
a community does not offer
much hope of preventing a sub
stantial portion of paralytic
cases. 1t is conceivable, how
ever, that its mass public health
use under very specialized and
localized circumstances might
precipitate an early decline in
the epidemic peak. but this
would be very difficult to estah=
liSh.
Success Only in Rare Cases.
"The individual parent is more
concerned. about his child than
Evening star., 1953-06-05
U. 5. Presbyterians
Get Plan 10 Increase
Annual Budget 1917
BY the Asseelofed Press

MONTREAL. N. c., June S.
A $5.743.774 budget for 1854 got
attention today as commissioners
to the General Assembly of the
Presbyterian Church in the U. S.
began mapping a program for
the coming year.
The General Council Commit
tee said the budget represents
"the absolute minimum amount
needed for the security of our
work"
1t is an increase of about 10
per cent over church spending
for last year, and is the first
budget figured on a calendar year
since the assembly switched from
a fiscal year ending April l..
The assembly opened last
night with the election of DR.
Frank w. Price, veteran mission
airy to China, as moderator. The
Richmond, Va, churchman won
by a 262-165 vote over DR.. l.
Nelson Bell of ASheville. The
election of DR.. Price was regard
ed in some quarters as a victory
for forces favoring the reunion
of the Southern church with the
Presbyterian Church in the
U. S. "A. (Northern) and the
United Presbyterian Church.
DIR. Bell on Reunion Group.
This morning DR.. Bell, iden-
titled with anti-reunion forces
was chosen to head a subcom-
mittee studying the proposed
plan of reunion, however. The
assembly itself is not expected
to act on the plan until later ir
the six-day session.
The General Council Commit
tee said presbyteries during 1875;
have set a record by raising 81
per cent of the amount asked by
the General Assembly to meet
its budget for the present nine
month period. In comparison
the presbyteries raised 81 pei
cent of their quotas for the IL.
month period ending April /.
Standing committees met thi!
morning and the general assem-.
bly, held a second session thi!
afternoon to consider action or
reports received last night.
Pension Plan Urged.
| These included a committee
report urging that all minister.
be brought under a pension plar
set up in 1910, and another ask
ing that $4,000 be given tt
Montreal College for a Specia
program in religious education.
Dr.. Price, who will head ar
estimated 100000 Southern
Presbyterians, was born in China
of missionary parents and served
there for 80 years before his
return last year. He was the
last Southern Presbyterian Mis-
sionary to leave China. and was
a prisoner of the Communists
for several years.
The new moderator will be-
come pastor of a rural church
near Lexington this fall.
Evening star., 1953-06-05
Many Suicides Reported
After Czech Monetary Shift
BY The Asseeia,ed Press

NEW YORK. June Off
cials Of the Council of Free
Czechoslovakia said yesterday
they have word that a wave of
suicides is sweeping Czechoslo-
vakia in the wake Of monetary
reforms"
Cancellation of all state Sc
curitieS held inside Czecho-
slovokia and virtual confisca-
ton of savings accounts will re-
duce living standards by so pei
cent. and reports of despair OF
the population have already
reached here from underground
sources. they said.
Jan Papanek, ousted by the
Communists in 1948 as CHIEF
Czechoslovak delegate to the
United Nations, told reporters
he had received reports that the
death rate in Prague. the CAPT.
tai, had increased so sharply
that delays of eight to 10 days
in burialS of the dead were now
current.
The monetary changes were
announced last Saturday but
had been widely anticipated In
CzechoSlovakia early in May
setting OF mass buying.
Evening star., 1953-06-05
Garden Hoses Fight Fire
In Chevy Chase Home

A blaze that broke out in a
suburban home early today was
held in check by water from
garden hoses until Chevy Chase
(Md.) firemen arrived.
The fire, believed to have been
caused by defective television
wiring, started in a den in the
home of Navy Comdr. Roger ].
Crowley. 7103 Pomander lane,
Chevy Chase.
Damage was estimated at
about $4,000. When firemen
arrived shortly after 3 am. resi-
dents we're using two garden
hoses to fight the flames.
Evening star., 1953-06-05
Republicans Delay
Taft-Hart|eY Act
ReVisions for Year
BY the Asseeicied Press

Republican leaders have agreed
to put of any revision of the
ft-Hartley law until next year,
Chairman H. Alexander Smith
of the Senate Labor Committee
disclosed today.
Senator Smith said he and
Senator Taft, Republican. Of
Ohio will try to get committee
agreement on a revision bill, but
that neither sees any "impera-
tive necessity" to push it through
the Senate this year.
Senator Smith called of a
committee meeting scheduled for
today after being postponed
twice in the past two weeks.
The session to draft amendments
to the law, is not likely to take
place until the week after next.
Claims Mutual Support.
Senator Smith said it has been
demonstrated" that both unions
and management like the kind
of law the Taft-Hartley Act is"
He said reaction to a series OF
amendments, which his commit
tee staff drew up last month, in
dicated that neither unions nor
MANAGEMENT would be adverse
to letting the present law stand
for another year.
Senator Smith said he has
talked to Senator Taft in the
past few days an dthat they are
agreed on this program:
Attempt to get substantial
committee agreement on amend
ments to the law: introduce a
bill embodying those amend
ments: circulate the amendments
and give Congress a chance to
study them: then take them up
in the Senate next year when
the 83d Congress meets for its
final session.
Unions Won't Risk Change.
Neither the CIO nor the AFL
would be likely to agree with
Senator Smiths statement that
organized labor now feels Taft
Hartley is a pretty darn good
law"
Nevertheless, both big labor
organizations are believed ready
to accept the Taft = Hartley
law for a while longer rather
than risk the possibility OF
changes they would consider
much tougher.
Senator Smith said commit
tee Democrats he has talked to
are in agreement with the plan
not to press for amendments this
year. Failure of the Eisenhower
administration to recommend
any specific changes in the law is
cited by committee Democrats as
go one major reason to withhold ac-
ton now.
A possibility still exists, Sena-
tor Smith said, that the White
House will come up with recom-
mendations for revision. But he
did not appear optimistic this
would happen.
Evening star., 1953-06-05

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the rain. All sizes.
Evening star., 1953-06-05

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Evening star., 1953-06-05
Poison Curbs SnuiIs

Poison bats offer the best
control yet discovered for the
giant snail, reports L. j. Dunn
bleton, quarantine officer of the
South Pacific Commission, head
Ouartered in Noumea.
Evening star., 1953-06-05

that the church has 1914, ATS
communicate members and IA
600 baptized members.
Stating that the synod repre-.
sents the Oldest Protestant de.
nomination with a continuous
history in the United States, DR..
Poppen said it has 794 churches
In this country. 1t also supports
mission work in India. China,
Japan, Arabia and Africa, he
noted.
Evening star., 1953-06-05
Dr.. chesney to Retire
From Johns Hopkins
BY the Associated Press

BALTIMORE. June 5.-Dr.
Alan M. Chesney. dean Of the
Johns Hopkins University Med.
ical School for "a years, will re-
tire at the end of this month.
DR.. Detley w. Bronx, uni.
verSity president, said DR.. Ches-
ney would continue in an emeri-
tus capacity.
The 65-year-old dean is q past
president Of the Association of
American Medical Colleges and
the Medical and Chirurgical
Faculty Of Maryland.
Milford chronicle., 1953-08-21
SeafOrd Plant Wins
Safety Competition
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Mr.. Riederer also announced
that the +. F. Sl0comb Corpora
tion was the winner in Group B,
with a total of 68 employees work
ing 1926 man hours for the peri
cd. The plant has worked a total
Of II months without an accident.
There were 73 plants participa-
ting in the contest with 28.S75
employees working a total of 30
O45,994 man hours with 14O lost
time accidents and 9,051 days lost
Ior the January to June period.
There were 80 plants reporting no
accidents during the period.
Honorable mention in Group A
include, DUPONT Whining
ton Shops; Dupont Company-Edge
Moor Plant; Hercules Powder Com
pany; DUPONT COmpany-Newport
Plant; Amalgamated Leather Com
panies, Inc; Allied Kid Company
Specialty-New Castle Division: Ma
tional Vulcanized Fibre CO.-Wil-
mington Plant; Dupont Company's
Carothers Laboratory; Atlas Pow
Ger Company-Atlas Point Works:
The L. d. Caulk Company; Dupont
Company's Textile Research Lab
oratory; DUPONT Companys Engin-
eerlng Research Laboratory; Du-
Font Company's Grasselli Research
laboratory; Dupont COmpany's
pioneering Research Laboratory:
DUPONT COmpany's Mechanical De-
Yelopment Laboratory; Ralston
Purina Company Atlas Powder
Company's Central Research Lab
oratory; Dupont COmpany's Slime
laboratory; Delaware Power and
Light Company-Edge Moor; Del
aware RayOn Company; sLobdeli
united Company; J. E. Rhoads
ana Sons Co.; The Texas Com
pany; Delaware Coach Company:
John H. Mulholland Company:
Dravo Corporation.
Honorable mention in Group r
include: Diamond Ice and Coal
Co.-Coal Division; Dupont Com
pany's Haskell Laboratory: A. G.
Layman Machine Company: Dn-
Pont COmpany's Pigment Research
Laboratory; Baker Layton Machine
Company; DUPONT Companv's
Minquadale Laboratory; and Bro
sius and Smedley Company.
Milford chronicle., 1953-08-21
Know Your Eligibility
Rating Under S. S.
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test, or if death benefits are claim
ed, as long as the applicant meets
the retirement test, these benefits
are payable regardless of the
other income or assets in the
family.
For example, Mr.. Milbouer stat
ed, income from the rental of a
house, income from private pen
siOns or annuities, veterans pen
siOns, assistance from sons or
daughters, or any other income
which is not classified as earnings.
will not interfere with eligibility
for social security benefits.
Mr.. Milbouer then went on to
explain the retirement test. A
qualified worker who is totally re-
tired and has no earning at all, is
entitled ito receive monthly bene-
fits for all twelve months of the
year. Qualified workers who are
partially retired might qualify for
benefits for some months. If
worker does not earn more than
SIS per month in wages, he may
receive benefits for all such
months. If a self-emplOyed person
does not have net earnings from
self-emplOyment of more than
$500 for the year, he may receive
benefitsTfOr all months of the year
even though business was especial
ly good in some months. If the
self-emplOyed person clears from
his business net earnings of 5000
to $1725 per year, benefits might
be payable for one or more
months depending upon the
amount of profit he receives from
Milford chronicle., 1953-08-21
BoRER CONFUSION

AMES. Ia. - (P) - The corn
bOrers have even the experts con-
FUSED in Iowa this year. Harold
GundersOn, Iowa State College ex-
tension entomOlOgist, says the
DOrers normally reach their egg
laying peak around June II and
nave finished laying by June 25.
But this year the laying continued
throughout July.
Farmers normally spray when
they find 100 egg masses per 100
plants. But that rule doesn't appIv
this year because eggs laid early
already have Matched. And Gun
derson says the experts have no
other rule to offer that will helm
the farmers protect their crop.
Milford chronicle., 1953-08-21
tbe business.

the business.
There are two other categories
that many people don't know
about" Mr.. Milbouer said. These
are the 20 year old workers and
the self-employed persons who do
not actually take a substantial
part in the running of their trades
or businesses. Both of these class
es may receive benefits regardless
of the amount of their wages or
self-employment income providing
they have sufficient credits in
their social security accounts"
For the convenience of local
residents, a representative of the
Wilmington Office is in the City
Office Building, Milford, the End
and 4th Wednesday, $3.50 a. m,
Milford chronicle., 1953-08-21

water about two hours. The first
anyone knew Of the accident was
when the two injured men stag
gered into the lobby of the Hotel
Henlopen around 400 a. m. The
two night clerks, John Dick and
Joseph Bedford, gave first aid to
the exhausted men and called the
RehOboth ambulance which took
them to the hospital.
The. Rehoboth Airport says the
plane must have sunk Immediately
and otherwise would be a total loss
because of the salt water immersion.
Capt. Frank Covelsk' of the Re-
hOboth Beach Patrol has instructed
all tifeguards to be on the lookout
for any wreckage that may wash
ashore.
Milford chronicle., 1953-08-21
Two Make Shore
AS Plane Crashes
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N. j., for servicing of the planes
radio.
AS he approached Rehoboth the
visibility was so poor he was unable
to locate the airport and decided
to land on the water as near as
possible to the shoreline without
hitting the beach. Hartman had a
Mae West life preserver and was
able to assist Pullman in getting
ashore. Pullman was aided in keep
ing aflOat by his flying togs that
became inflated.
1t is believed they were in the
Milford chronicle., 1953-08-21
MINK FOOD HUNT

VANCOUVER, B. c. - up - A
hunting expedition returned to
Vancouver with an unusual catch
ID tons of sea lion meat. The five
man expedition left this port a
month previously aboard the for
mer minesweeper for a hunting
trip along the stOrm-battered reefs
off the coast.
Bill Dave, mink ranchers, led
the party. The meat will be ground
up into mink feed.
Milford chronicle., 1953-08-21

each month, and the Delaware EN-
plOyment Service Office, George
town, the 1st, End and Srd Friday,
10000 a. m.
Milford chronicle., 1953-08-21
Memorial Bridge
Sets Traffic Record
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5s,O5f vehicles crossed the span.
Previous high day for 1853 was
set on August 2nd when 37,0SS We
hicles were counted.
The weekend traffic from mid
night Friday to midnight Monday
morning totaled 102,S7S. This was
not a record, however. Three weeks
ago more than 100000 crossings
were counted in the three day
period.
Milford chronicle., 1953-08-21
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-04-29
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