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Evening star., 1953-02-07
Messenger Jailed;
Hid 1900 Letters
By the Associoted Press

MIAMI, Fla. Feb. 7.--Charles
w. Lewis, 80, who admitted hid
ing more than 10000 letters in
the Dade County Courthouse
basement, faces at least a year
in prison.
Federal District Judge. c. C..
Wyche yesterday sentenced Lewis
to three years intprisen and rec
commended that he be paroled at
the end of one year. The letters
were addressed to Dade County
officers.
Lewis attorney said he had
made countless loans from
small-loan companies - aug
ment his $275 monthly salary to
pay medical expenses for his
wife. The attorney said Lewis,
in an effort to catch up, made
bets with bookies and lost.
The judge sharply criticized
loan sharks and bookies and said
he was sorry for any one who
got into the hands of loan
sharks"
Lewis was a messenger in the
county tax collectors Office and
admitted rifling the letters of
small sums of money, hiding
thousands of letters in a room
in the basement and throwing
others away.
Postal inspectors said about
$400 was missing from letters.
most of them intended for the
tax collector. County officials
said it will be years, perhaps a
generation, before records are
Strengthened out. since some let
ters contained deeds and other
important documents.
Evening star., 1953-02-07
Conunt
Continued From First Page.)

a fight on the 'Conant appoint
ment, but only two Senators
spoke against him-Case of
South Dakota and Dworshak of
Idaho. both Republicans. They
objected to views DR.. Conant
expressed in 1914 about the in
dustrial development of postwar
Germany
Only 10 Senators were on the
floor when the nomination went
through on a voice vote about 7
pm.
Cites Red Plot.
The Senate Foreign Relations
Committee meanwhile released
closed hearings in which Gen.
Smith testified he was sure there
was a careful, well-laid plan"
to inflltrate selected and highly
trained Communists into the
Federal Government.
He denied implying depart
ments were riddled with Com
munists. For example, he told
the Senators, he knew of only
two Communists in the State
Department-Alger Hiss and a
relatively subordinate employe
fired some time ago. Hiss is
now serving a prison term, con-
victed of perjury in denying he
passed state secrets to a Red
courier. y
The CIA, Gen. Smith said,
turned up one employe of its
own who had been a Communist
and had lied about it when he
got the job. Gen. Smith said he
was convinced the man had sew
cred his Communist connection
COnant Testimony.
The hearings in the, Conant
case, also made public yester-
day. showed that in committee
he was questioned about his at
titude toward private and pa
rochial schools. but this issue
was not mentioned in the floor
debate.
There had been reports Of
possible Catholic opposition be-
cause Of speech DR.. Conant
made last year on the subject
of public and private schools,
but it did not develop. DR..
Conant told the committee his
speech was not anti-religious,
but only intended as a boost for
the public schools.
Senator Case questioned
whether DR.. Conant could be
effective on the German assign
ment because in 1914 he had adj
vocated strict control of Ger
man industry. The present
policy is to tie Western Germany
into the free world defense sys-
tenn.
The Foreign Relations Com
mittee was told, however, that
in 1914 DR.. Conant was speaking
with a background of knowledge
of the atom bomb, and was fear
full that in the postwar era an
industrialized Germany might
secretly make atom bombs.
Evening star., 1953-02-07
Cash Is. Needed Most
In Dutch Flood Area;
Clothing Leaves Here

Cash, rather than blankets and
clothing, is now needed for
f1ood-stricken Holland.
This was the word today from
official sources, as Washington
area donors arranged to send
6 tons of clothing and blankets
to the victims.
Two Shipments Arranged.
Five tons left the Netherlands
Embassy last night for New
York, to be placed aboard a
Dutch steamer scheduled to
leave for Holland at noon to-
morrow. Another shipment of
about a ton, raised in a separate
drive by Mrs. w. c. Rountree
of 536 Southampton street. Sill
yer Spring, Md, and her friends.
was to be picked up today by
a truck loaned by Walter Reed
Army Medical Center, prepara-
tory to shipment to Holland.
The NetherlandS-Ame
Foundation, 1140~Fifteenth street
NV, is now the accredited col
lecting agency in the Washing
ton area to receive contributions.
Clarence A. Aspinwall is chair
man of the Washington chapter.
Mrs. Rountree centered her
activities among the $40 fam
lilies in the big Northwest Park
Apartment development at New
Hampshire avenue and Piney
Branch road. The response was
so great that she had to move
furniture out of her living room
to provide additional storage
space for the gifts. q,
Meanwhile, at 1890 o'clock
last night, DR.. Stanley Horn
beck, former American Am
bassador to The Netherlands,
kicked off a 24-hour radio mara
thon on Radio Station VOL to
get money contributions.
Truck Donated.
Arrangements for a tractor
trailer truck to carry the five
tons of supplies to New York
were made by Mrs. j. M. w.
Koning Hamilton, former direc-
tor of United Nations War Re
lief for The Netherlands. The
vehicle is being donated by
the Powell Transportation Co.,
Inc.
AFL Truck Drivers Union,
Local 639, is paying Elmer
Carter, of AS Fourth street NE,
to drive the tractor-trailer. Mr..
Carter is waving his layover pay
in New York to make the trip.
Another Powell employe, Joseph
M. Kirchhofer, of New York, Is
donating his services to unload
the truck.
Evening star., 1953-02-07

Stassen Holland would not be
able to meet it's commitments
to the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization this year.
Mr.. Beyen said he could not
predict what the situation might
be a few months from now but
declared. II repeat, that at this
moment it is impossible to sur
vey the cost of reconstruction
involved
In their talks with West Eu-
ropes leaders, Mr.. Dulles and
Mr.. Stassen are reported to
have pushed the idea that the
continents salvation lay in
unity.
In his farewell statement to
the Dutch, the Secretary said
the United States had made a
big investment in Western Eu-
rope on the theory that unity
could be realized, and added:
IF it appeared that there
were no chance of getting efec-
tive unity and if, in particular,
France, Germany and England
should go their separate ways,
then certainly it would be nee
essary to give a little re-think-
ing to Americas own foreign
policy in relation to Western
Europe"
Referring to Hollands flood
damage, Mr.. Dulles said his re-
port to Gen. Eisenhower and
Congress will. am certain, be
sympathetically received"
Evening star., 1953-02-07
Confessed Arsonist, Is,
Discovers Hospital Fire
BY the Associoted Press

WILLIAMSBURG, Feb. 7. -
The 13-year-old Newport News
boy, admitted to Eastern State
Hospital January for observa-
ton after he confessed he start
ed five fires in Newport News,
was the first to discover a fire
which broke out in the mental
hospital late yesterday, Will
liamsburg fire authorities were
told.
Two blankets, authorities said,
had been placed behind a radi-
ator and became ignited. The
fire caused no damage.
The boy was admitted to the
hospital after confessing he de-
liberately set the fires, including
the spectacular high school blaze
of last December %.
Evening star., 1953-02-07
Controls
CONTINUED From First Page.)

Mr.. Reuther's CIO Auto Work.
erS Union is trying for pay boosts
in the motorcar industry.
Controversial Program.
Controls have been controver-
sial ever since they were i'm
poeed.Sb the Truman admins
tration in January, 1851. They
were credited by some with re-
tarding the post-Korean infla-
tionary squirt. But many busi-
nessmen and economists have
called for their removal for some
time as no longer necessary.
The President will have au-
thority until April 80 to restore
controls if imitation breaks out.
He told Congress, too, he will
ask for new control authority if
the need arises after April 30,
when the present control au-
thority is due to expire.
Dropping controls ultimately
will save the taxpayers about 81
million a month in Government
administrative costs. The stab
lllzation agencies will fire more
than $500 workers in the next
few months. Some notices have
gone out already and an official
said there would be more next
week.
Some workers will stay on a
bit longer for liquidating pur-
poses. mainly to clean up still
pending cases involving control
violations. So the full savinee
will not develop until after June
30.
. Most Goods Under Ceiling.
An Associated Press business
survey conducted in 20 cities yes
terday showed that most goods
already are selling below ceiling
levels and that many surpluses
have developed buyers markets.
A few major raw materials
still in tight demand-copper,
for example-eventually may
mean higher prices on goods
made with those products.
A spokesman for the National
Retail Dry Goods Association,
representing about $500 member
stores from coast to coast, said:
Removal of controls will elm
mate the expense of keeping
records. which is an astronomical
figure for business in general.
In addition, retailers will be per-
mitted freedom of merchandise
ing, being able to price goods on
a realistic basis in keeping with
public demand"
A major appliance dealer in
Chicago thinks his merchandise
will go up somewhat because of
possible labor cost increases and
lively bidding by manufacturers
for materials in short supply.
But he said the increases won't t
amount to more than a dollar on
a $40 item, and we expect busi-
ness to continue strong"
Sees No Price Boosts.
A Sears, Roebuck & Co. Off
cial in Los Angeles said he an
ticipates nothing in the way of
price boosts, and a Filene De-
partment Store spokesman in
Boston termed the dropping of
price controls only IAN academic
discussion" because most prices
are at or well below ceilings
particularly in mems wear and
practically all wooden and cot
ton goods.
A grocery chain executive in
Dallas said we're already under
ceiling on more than 800 items. y
If labor costs spiral sharply
higher now that wage controls
are off, then an upward price
trend would be unavoidable in
many lines, industry leaders em-
phaSized.
But the consensus in citv after
Evening star., 1953-02-07

and river walls along a 20O-mile
stretch of the country's battered
east coast. They raced against
the possibility of further dam
age during the next big tides,
which are due in a week.
A government spokesman said
yesterday that nearly half the
500 gaps have been filled.
Belgian experts predicted that
it will take two or three months
to pump flood water from the
stricken Antwerp area. Some
10000 acres have been flooded
and 1000 cattle drowned in that
region, the hardest hit in the
country.
Evening star., 1953-02-07
THE EVENING STAR AS
Washington. D c -
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY Z, 1858

Best public affairs program
"See It Now"
Best audience participation,
quiz or panel program-"What's
My Line?"
Best children's program,
Time for Beany."
The fifth annual awards pro-
vided an interesting statistic in
the Hollywood New York; fight
for TV supremacy. Seven win
ners were from New York
shows, five from Hollywood.
Evening star., 1953-02-07
5rr FN'Hsy
Roberto QuinIon Acts,
To Divorce Broker
BY the Assoeiated Pres.

ST. LOUIS. Feb. 7.~Roberta
Quinlan, st. Louis-born televi-
sion singer. filed suit in Circuit
Court here yesterday for a di-
vorce from John j. Quinlan. a
Wall Street broker and execu-
tive of the Republic Aviation
Corp. Farmingdale. NY. ~
The blond entertainer, charged
in her petition that Mr.. Quii1lan.
her former manager. was jealous
and abusive and forced her to-
support him. They were mar
ried in kes-Barre. Pa, in 1948
and separated last September 6.
Evening star., 1953-02-07

jority Of consumer products, de-
control would result in no wide
spread boosts. and might well
bring some cuts.
Evening star., 1953-02-07

Sofewoy will continue TO sell meat
at the lowest possible prices consistent
with good business procedure. The lift
ing Of OPS controls does not change
this long standing policy. Good busi-
ness procedure dictates that Sideways
prices reflect changing market condi-
tions.
Evening star., 1953-02-07

With the removed of OPS Controls
from the sale Of meat, Sofewoy wilt
once again be oble to bring you all Of
the popular cuts of meot, prepared IN
the way our customers have demon
stroted they prefer them. OPS cutting
and trimming regulations forced many
popular cuts off the market and forced
Sufewoy to sell cuts that we're not
trimmed to offer the best value to our
customers. -
Evening star., 1953-02-07

Sofewoy will continue to sell top
U. S. Government grades of beef and
lamb. Just the top grades, too, of veal
and pork.
Evening star., 1953-02-07
FOUND.

fOLICE DOG, young, female. almost
black, pointed ears vic. Silver Spring.
DOG, small collie, tan and white, young,
friendly. ia. 9-4434.
Evening star., 1953-02-07

Sofewoy will continue to sell meat,
no matter the kind, cut or grade, under
its famous money-bock guarantee. ALL
YOUR MONEY BACK WITHOUT RE-
TURN OF THE MEAT If YOU ARE
NOT COMPLETELY SATISFIED,
Evening star., 1953-12-17
Moscow Says Berio, Six Aides
Have Confessed to PIottinq

had used his position to collect
"a treacherous group Of plotters
hostile to the Soviet state" His
own "traitorous" activities, it de-
clared, went as far back as the
Russian civil war of 1918-20.
when he had established links
with foreign intelligence serv-
ices under the control of
British intelligence organs.
"It has been established" the
announcement continued, that
IBERIA and his accomplices car
ried out criminal measures in
order to resuscitate remnants of
bourgeois nationalist elements
in union republics, to SOW hatred
and discord between the peoples
of the U. S. S. r. with the Great
Russian people" (the Russians
themselves as distinct from other
nationalities in the Soviet
Union. They principally inhabit
the Russian Soviet Federal
Socialist Republic, which COM
prised the greater part of the
Czarist Russian empire).
The defendants also were ac-
cused of attempting to sabotage
the country'S collective farm
system and of interfering with
the efforts of the Communist
Party and government to bring
about "a steady improvement of
the well being of the Soviet peo-
pie"
The announcement was the
first official word on Beria since
August when the Supreme So
Wet (Parliament) confirmed his
custer from the government.
Meantime many rumors as to his
alleged whereabouts have been
heard outside the Soviet Union.
In Washington, American Off
cials expressed surprise that the
Kremlin had decided to bring
the Beria case back into promi-
nence at a time when a Big Four
foreign ministers meeting ap-
pears imminent.
Evening star., 1953-12-17
Fire Kills Four Children
In Pittsburgh Apartment
By the Associo,ed Press

PITTSBURGH, Dec. 17.-Four
small children died last night in
a fire which swept the family's
quarters in a three-story apart
ment house in suburban Rankin.
They were Barbara Jean Allen,
s; her sister, Carol Anne, 4. and
her brothers. Dennis, 3, and Ray
mond. II months.
The mother. Mrs. Pauline Al
len. tripped and fell down the
stairs while trying to carry the
baby to safety. Dazed and bad
ly bruised. she CROPPED her way
to the door and called for help.
Several other families in the
building ESCAPED unhurt.
Firemen said an over-heated
stove may have CAUSED the fire.
Evening star., 1953-12-17
By he AssoeIated Press

MOSCOW, Dec. 17.-All Soviet
newspapers, even Soviet Sport,
published today the govern
ment's announcement of confess
sions from Ex-Police Boss Law
remit P. Beria and six associates
to plotting against the state.
Russians Immediately started
guessing when and how the ac-
cuSed men would be tried. The
announcement did not dwell on
this, except to say that a special
session of the supreme court will
handle the case.
The most surprising thing to
Russians, perhaps. was the dis
closure that v. N. Merkulov, min
lister of state control. had be-
come a co-defendant with Beria.
Merkulov was a Beria deputy,
and Beria in turn was the lead
ing vice premier of the Soviet
Union, under Georgi Malenkov,
before his arrest June 26. For
Is years he headed the US s. r.
police network, under both Sta
lin and Malenkov.
The government announce
ment said Beria and his associ-
ates aimed at using "the organs
of the Ministry of Internal At
fairs. b. against the Communist
Party and the government OF
the U. S. S. R. in the interests of
foreign capital to grab power
and to liquidate the Soviet
worker-peasant regime with a
view to restoring capitalism and
securing the domination of the
bourgeoise (middle claSs)."
Said to Admit Guilt.
Beria, who headed the !. ma
tion's police activities from 1888
until his arrest, was first dep
uty prime minister and min
lister of internal affairs Under
Malenkov. The internal affairs
post controls police, intelligence
and related work.
The statement said Beria and
his associates admitted their
guilt of having. committed a
number of the most serious state
crimes" 1t declared that the
former police boss had been
committed for trial on charges
of high treason, organizing an
anti-Soviet plot and counter
revolutionary work.
Similar charges were listed
against other defendants besides
Beria and Merkulov who were
identified as:
v. N. Merkuloy. former min
lister of state security and long
Beria'S deputy.
V. G. Dekanozov and S. A.
Goglidze, both former ministers
of internal affairs IN Georgia,
the native republic Of both Beria
and Josef Stain.
P. Y. Meshik, a former minis
ter of Ukraine internal affairs.
L. E. Vlodzimirsky, described
as the former head of the in
vestigation department "for par
ticularly important affairs of the
U. S. S. R. MVD (secret police) ;"
B. z. Kobulov, former Soviet
deputy minister of internal af-
fairs, who had previously served
in a similar position in the
Georgia administration. a.
The statement charged Beria
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-09-22
RingrOse House Sold

BALTIMORE ~ - A Baltimore
businessman has purchased the
fashionable home Of Mrs. Naomi
Ringrose for q price in excess
Of $50. 900.
Mrs. RingrOse was sentenced Of
live years in prison last May for
embezrling S5S0.000 from the So.
eial Security Credit Union. where
she vas manager nearly eight
years.
Her possessions were sold last
week at auction as officials tried
to recover as much Of the short.
age Is possible.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-09-22
Sweden's Reds
Prepare For
Louder Cutlery
o. GODFREY ANDERSON

/ STOCKHOLM p Sweden 5
pockst-SlFed Communist par.
To-, long q small voiee crying In .
capitalist wilderness. Is getting
ready % shout louder.
Six provincial Communist week
lies Nal be converted into daily
newspapers 20 bolster the official
party organ NY Dag New Day
In Stockholm. the party central
committee announced TINS month
I Best estimates are there are less
than $500 Communists now
among Sweden's seven million, q
sharp drop from he ell time peak
membership Of Go.oo0 the party
claimed In 1857.
Despite declining mbers
there apparently Is no lack Of par.
q funds. The emphasis now Is on
fighting against what the Cen
trail Committee calls American
lnflltrati0n" and q recent party
manifesto calls Oh SWedes % Join
battle against the miserable
newspaper comics and other ex.
pFessi0ns Of the Impsrlalis, spirit
Of violence and cultural decline 4"
Sparkplug Of sne new campaign
Is Communist Deputy Erik Karls.
son. whom Swedes call the Red
Professor Small, sIOeky. square.
ehlnned HARRISON - . dark man
In q land Of blonis - once taught
az Lenin University IN Moscow
As secretary general he Is virtual
ly all-powerfal in the Swedish par
~. Party chairman Hiding Hag
berg, who comes from Lulea IN
Sweden's strategic north. play,
q secondary role.
Under the RED Professor" and
some 50 permanent officials. the
party has softened rs propaganda
tone since the October Congress
Of the Soviet Communist party
While warning Of war, Il talks
mainly Of peace and cooperation
but the United States Is still the
biggest enemy.
Neutral Sweden's increasing
trade with Iron Curtain eountrie,
Poland. Cxech0sloyakia and Hun
gary ell had exhibits at the recen
Stockholm Trade Fair - is eneour
aged by deed IS well as words
some companies trading with ths
East are reliably reported 10 b,
managed by Communists who qui
official party jobs for these assign
ments.
Communism In Sweden has nev
er made much Roadway. The ma
tons generally high standard o
living and its broad state socia
security system b.unted Red weap
lons.
i The Communist vote in parlla
mentary general elections dropped
from Sd per cent Ia 1913 20 "a Del
cent In 1882.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-09-22

In and bought the same thing for
less. the CT got mad.
The French rebuffed the Ameri,
cans socially. The language bar.
rier was an additional handicap.
The Moroccan government once
threatened 10 close down post en-,
changes and eommissaries.
With few exceptions. the Ameri'
cans learned 10 live among them.
selves-ostraciEed BY the French
aud in turn. Snubbing the French.
That's worrying some far-seeing
FFenchmen.
when these Americans 20
home, one said. they are going
10 spread q great deal Of iIl.will
In America against the French"
Capt Godfrey (Bonesl olden.
burgh Of Lacrosse. WiS.. CON-
mented
Il don't eonaOne what the
Preach are doing. but lbs no worse
than Americans did b. American
airmen in Topeka. Ian. ] paid ex.
orbitaut rent for a Tat there and
- did lots q other American Air
Force personnel
Jacques Gillo,esux. q Preach.
man employed IN the French resi-
dent generals office. said:
Americans entertain too lavish
~ Cor the French I can't afford
20 invite them back and I'd fee
uncomfortable accepting their in,
viiations. 50 | don't go"
The French fear American IN
nuenee IN Morocco. where their
hold Is shaky. They say Americans
refuse 20 acknowledge the help the
Frenchmen save N lifting this bar.
ren land 10 a booming country. Ia
90 years
Americans accuse the French
here Of thinking only about money
And the French agree. one OBJ
served
Nest Frenehmen left their beau
iifui France Tor this hot, ugfy
country 90 set -ich
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-09-22

NEW YORK k-Count that day
- whose low descending sun
aaes no old crusade aband0nod-
O. ne new crusade beggn.
We live n erusading times No
matter shat . fellow sets oui %
q today Il ends up - . crusade
Yes, wheiheT he's simply seeking
world peace, merely demanding .
sssarn 10 the sid standard. Jasi
tFying 10 save the shopping crane
O. seriously locking ior q place 30
BARK his car.
Thars what Il 80 Interesting
about Sir Alexander u Maxwell .
crusade. Win typical English IN
deFsgatemeui, Sir Alexander, char
nan Of the British Travel and Holi-
DAYS Association, doesn't even call
hls program q crusade al al.
But his goal Ia 10 Do something
about British Restaurant cooking
and 10 millions Of world tourists
thai sounds Ike one Of the most
w0rthwhile crusades Of history.
Where Sir AlexandeFs crusade
falls Elai Ia that he doesnt want %
do much about changing English
cooking. ile past wants u called BY
iis right name. Specifically. be
wants Britain'a restaurant menus
printed IN English instead o. IN
French.
As Il Il now. he hints. neither
Che waiter nor the customer know
what the menu says. One mas
meat often turns out 10 be another
mans poison Cor, a. they say IN
Paris. ''fish"l. And FAR from fiat.
tering the French. added SIR Alex.
nnder, the menus are printed IN
unErammaiical cooking French
-. 80 slrociously bad Is 10 be an
insult Ia the language
he feels the Engllsh.speakinR
tourists set an inferioriiy complex
from the menus. and that Is Every
bad for the digestion
Certainly Sir Alexander's inten.
tons are kindly. patriotic and
wholesome. Bot be Is Fisking the
launching Of . mighty tempest
from . small tea pot.
A British restaurant menu print.
ed In French lends . subtle air Of
mystery 10 the meal. The average
tourist tastes Il. looks again al the
menu. and Is Immediately con.
fused. ie doesn't know whether "a
file suit against Parliament or the
French prime minister. He's an.
sure who Is 10 blame.
n isn't the French terms on the