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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-02
Transit Profit Fails
To Cover Dividends

Capital Transit Co. earnings
In 1852 failed to cover it's in
creased regular quarterly divi-
dends and bond interest require
ments by more than $500, 900, the
company report for December
and the year disclosed today
The years net income was
81 .046, 389, a drop of % per
cent from 81. 413,250 in 1851. the
company informed the District
Public Utilities Commission.
The company increased quar-
terly dividends to IS cents a
share in January, 1852, although
just previously it had been
granted a fare increase, which
it's officials described as made
quate. A more substantial fare
increase was granted in August.
Last January the company
also cut a melon of So. AGO. 900 by
distributing special dividend
of $3.50 a share.
In the increase from Is cents
previously paid quarterly raised
dividend requirements for the
year to $1.40 a share or $1,344,-
900 on the 100000 shares OUT
standing. Bond interest for the
year amounted to around $240.-
600.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-02
Disaster Becomes Personal
When Sea Moves In on bikes
Tops of Houses and PopIurs Above Water
Put Crisis Statistics in Human Terms
By Crosby S. Moves
Stor Sfoff CORRESPONDENT

THE HAGUE, Feb 2-sometimes catastrophe comes in
terms of statistics So dead So many homeless many
people doing this that to with something that has hap
pened Today Holland catastrophe measured in mmedi
ate human terms You stand dixie side, almost
the ground standing there is water other
Side 80 feet below there dry land houses people and cattle
Catastrophe here not hard The dixie giving
AS this is written the radio brings the that Holland
in state of national emergency The greatest disaster
centuries has struck The traditional threat that the
have faced through the has become reality in wild
night OF wind and furious pounding tides.
In dozen places Hollands bikes have given Some
$500 miles of the densey populated nation
Western Europe under water and the worst is yet to
Road Disappears Beyond Dixie
The road blocks start Rotterdam The last just
south of the that any
for road blocks The road climbs steepy to the
the dixie Beyond that disappears Ahead for far
is the wndwhipped Here and there you
make out the roofs of Neat of poplar
tops showing above the water bend in the
left railroad causeway linking Holland with Belgium and the
SOUTH shows thin line above the flood But the great steel
towers that carry the for the trains twisted and
settled into grotesque positions
will be many days before the trains the south
back operation On the road down the dixie trucks
carrying dirt and tired crawl back and forth So far
tell the thin barrier of earth is the only thing
standing between the side and the miles of low
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-02
Judge Gives Is Reds a Choice:
Either Go to Russia or to Jail
Unusual PREDICTION Plan Is Offered,
But Counsel Rejects Idea of Expulsion

ton under the Smith Act is five
years in prison and $4,000 in
fines for each defendant.
Before the judge offered his
plan, he asked four of the con-
victed Communists how they felt
about going to Russia or to jail.
Three of them said vehemently
they had no intention of leaving
the United States The fourth
indicated she didn't like the idea
either.
Defense Attorney John T.
McTernan said he was very
much disturbed and "a little
shocked" at the judges questions
about such an alternative.
Five of the defendants are
Russian born. Two were, born in
Poland, one in Trinidad, one in
Hungary. -Four are native Amer
leans.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-02
Congress Hears
Second 1853 Talk
ON State Of Union
RY fha Associofad Press

Congress today heard its Sec
ond state of the Union message
of 1853.
On January Z, just Is days be-
fore his term expired, Harry s.
Truman sent up q l0,O00-word
message. It was a review Of his
administration without legisla-
tive recommendations. White
House sources said they believed
this is the first time that two
such messages have been deliv-
cred in the same year.
BY long custom the President
delivers such q message to Con-
gress each January in accord
ance with the provision of the
Constitution reading:
HE shall from time to time
give to the Congress information
of the state Of the Union, and
recommend to their considera-
ton such measures as he
shall judge necessary and ex-
pedient :"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-02
Republicans Acclaim
Eisenhower Order
To Withdraw Fleet
Martin HuiIs Domestic
Policy, but Democrats
Voice Disappointment
By Gould Lincoln

The man who received more
votes for President than any
other in history, Dwight D. Eli
senhower, was given an ovation
when he appeared before a joint
session of Congress today to de-
liver a momentous message on
the state of the Union.
The applause came from Re-
publicans and Democrats alike.
Reaction to his proposals was
immediate, as the members close
Mrs. Eisenhower Encourages General as
He Begins Speech. Page AS
ly followed the address. On the
Republican side, his announce
ment that the Seventh Fleet was
no longer to prevent Chinese
Nationalist attacks on Chinese
Communists on the mainland
was received with enthusiasm,
although the political implica-
tons are far-reaching.
Speaker Martin of the House
commented:
1.-THE decision to withdraw
the Seventh Fleet from the wa
tiers around Formosa is to be
applauded, and the implications
that further steps will be taken
to resolve the Korean issue is
heart-warming."
Domestic Program Hailed.
Mr.. Martin also praised highly
President Eisenhower's discus
sion of domestic issues, COM
menting:
Here at last is the leadership
that seeks to unite instead of
divide, that desires to strengthen
American institutions, not weak
en- them, and that is concerned
not with political expediency but
the long time welfare of peo-
Piles everywhere. It will be well
coined by the Congress and the
American people alike"
Members of Congress were
greatly interested to learn what
would be the use, if any, of the
Seventh Fleet, in the event the
Chinese Communists attacked
Formosa. held by the Chinese
Nationalist.
Allen Sees Return to Sanity
The first Republican President
to come before Congress with
legislative recommendations in
20 years made it clear that I'M
der his administration the
United States would not back
(See REACTION, Page A-5)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-02
Bernhard Will Return
To Flooded Homeland

NEW YORK. Feb. 2.-Prince
Bernhard of the Netherlands
decided today to return to his
flood-stricken homeland "be-
cause my place is with the Dutch
people. in the time of their
tragedy"
The husband of Queen Juliana
said he would leave by plane to-
morrow.
He previously had planned to
participate in week-long cere-
monies in connection with the
300th anniversary of the found
ing Of New York City by the
Dutch.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-02
District Jury Indicts
Ex-PoIiceman After
Beating Of Prisoner
Minnick, Now an Officer
In Florida, Accused of
Civil Rights Violation

Paul V. Minnick, former
Washington policeman. today
was indicted by a District grand
jury on a charge of violating the
civil rights of a prisoner whose
jaw was broken during 1851
cell-block fracas.
Minnick, 81, now a Homestead
(F'la.) policeman, was investi-
gated by the Federal Bureau of
Investigation in Florida in con-
nection with the fatal shooting
of a Negro on Christmas Day
Minnick was charged with MUIR
der in the Florida case, but the
grand jury refused to indict him.
Holder of a gold medal award
and Policeman of the Month
award here, Minnick had been
on the Washington force for 10
years before he quit last fall.
Investigated by FBI.
Today's indictment grew out
of an FBI investigation COM
pleted last May.
The complainant is William
H. Branch. colored, 26, of the
1900 block of Fifth street NV.
Minnick is accused of striking
Branch in the face with his fist,
knocking him down and kicking
him.
A police investigation of the
case last year led to an inquiry
by the Complaint Review Board,
composed of three civilians. That
group last June said there was
no cause for the case to be
brought before the Police Trial
Board. A few months later Min
nick resigned from the force.
Police records show that
Branch was found slumped over
the steering wheel of his parked
car and was arrested for intoxi-
cation.
Say He Was Abusive.
Police reported that Branch,
in the Ninth Precint station
house. became abusive and in
sisted on putting his valuables
back in his pocket as fast as
policemen took them out.
Minnick reported that while
he was leading Branch to the
cell block, Branch struck him
and Minnick hit him back
Branch, according to the record
was taken to Gallinger Hospital
where the diagnosis was a cut
mouth. He was returned to the
station and charged with an as
sault upon a police officer.
1t was later determined he had
suffered broken jaw and he
was taken to Freedmen's hos
pital.
In Municipal Court the charge
against Branch was reduced to
simple assault and he was &C
quilted by a jury January "a
1852. Municipal Court Judge
George D. Nelson then dismissed
the drunk charge and COM
mented that police appeared to
have used excessive force"
The FIJI investigation of q
possible civil rights violation was
! already underway.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-02
By the Assoeiated Pres.

NEW YORK, Feb. 2.-Thir-
teen convicted second-string
Communist leaders today were
offered a choice. either go to
Russia or to jail, but defense
counsel promptly rejected the
go-to- Russia alternative.
Federal Judge Edward j.
Dimock put forward his unusual
probation plan" as the Red
leaders were called into court for
sentencing.
It would permit any of the de-
PENDANTS who chose to go to Rus
STA, instead of to an American
prison.
The Communists were con-
victed January 81 of conspiracy
to teach and advocate violent
overthrow of the United States
Government.
Maximum penalty for convic-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-02

20 degrees; cloudy, warmer and
some rain tomorrow and tomor-
row night.
The temperature stayed above
the predicted Is degrees in the
city and IL in the suburbs over
night. but dropped to % at
5:25 am today. Low for the
winter was December 29's 10
degrees.
The magazine Pc Today
takes cognizance O. e day.
fatty stating that the grounding
is q phony and so stupid he
wouldn't know his shadow if he
saw it.
Every Grounding Day for Is
years." the magazine says, go
or more Boy Scouts have stood
eight-hour watches and no
grounding ever appeared, al
though the weather varied
greatly. Experts say the animal
knows less than nothing about
the day that honors him."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-02
Commitments 10 u. 5.
Denied by Churchill
sk the Assoeie.ed Pres.

LONDON, Feb. Prime Min
lister Churchill told an uneasy
British Parliament today he
made mo formal or informal
commitments" with President
Eisenhower during their meeting
last month.
The British leader also an
nounced Foreign Secretary An
thony Eden will make a statement
about Formosa tomorrow q
statement that is expected to ex-
press Britains deep concern at a
reported change in American poll
icy toward the island on which
Generalissimo Chang Kai-shek's
Nationalist Chinese Army is
based.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-02
blunt instrument, which he be-
lieves was a section of pipe.
Mash Torn Off

blunt instrument, which he be-
lieves was a section of pipe.
Mask Torn OFF.
Mr., Albert said as he straight
ened up, he saw the asSailant
was wearing a mask, which he
promptly tore off. He said he
recognized Col. DIES Islets, with
whom he and his wife had been
acquainted for some time.
Mr.. Albert said he and the
assailant struggled out into the
street, and the officer jumped
into a car and drove away. A
passing motorist drove Mr.. Al
bert to service station, where
he called the Clarendon Rescue
Squad.
The injured mans wife, Freda,
80, is an attractive young woman
now employed at the State De-
partment She was visiting rela-
tives in the West when the at
tack occurred. police said.
According to the police report,
the two men recently had a vio-
lent argument.
Mr.. Albert is a veteran of the
French Army who escaped from
France after the battle for Dun
kirk and became a pilot in the
Royal Air Force. He and his
wife met in Pragua, Czechoslo-
vakia.
The police arrested the colonel
at mis- home in the 100 block of
North Wayne street, Arlington.
Pentagon records show that
Col. Robert Eugene Mousseau
DIES ISlets was, graduated from
West Point in 1926. He has a
masters degree from Cornell
University and holds the Bronze
Star Medal with Oak Leaf
Cluster.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-02
New Faces in Congress:
A Bronx. Republican

YOUNG NEW YORKER-PouI A.
Elmo. new Representative in Congress
from the 18th New York district. has
had long experience in the Law
despite his comparative youth. He's
80. His career hos included q term
as member Of the New York City
Municipal Civil Service Commission.
Story on Poge 40.
BARKLEY AS TV STAR-The story
telling Weep" soys he wasn't exactly
scared on his television debut But.
he odds. he wos onxious. For oeeount
on o noted roeonteurs beginning Of
q new career, see story by Harry
Macarthur on Poge AZ.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-02
Observation-Disclosures Attack
With BIudgeon on Cafe Owner

An Army Colonel, accused of
wearing a mask. and slugging an
Arlington restaurant owner in
the latter's own home, faced
charges of felonious assault
today.
Police identified the officer as
Col. Robert Eugene des IsletS,
5O-year-old widower. the chief of
program review, Analysis Divi-
sion, Office Of the controller of
the Army.
The complainant in the case
is Marcel O. Albert. SO. a native
of France and now the operator
of a Clarendon restaurant. He
is being treated at Arlington
Hospital for severe head injuries
and his condition today was re-
ported fair.
Bond Set at $1,000.
Col. DIES Islets, a husky, 6-foot
man with a shiny briefcase, ap-
peared in Arlington County Court
this morning to answer the
charges, but Judge Hugh Reid
continued the case until Feb
ruary is because of Mr.. Albert's
condition. The officer is under
a 81 900 bond.
Police said the restauranteur
gave them this account:
He closed his place of business
about 1915 pm. Saturday and
went to his home, 818 North
Edgewood street, Arlington. He
unlocked the door and stopped to
pick up some papers off the
floor. At that moment he was
struck across the head with a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-02

country stretching back to Rot
terdam on the other. At the end
OF the road, a small group of
men and women lean against the
wind and stare out over the
water. Two days ago, you had
driven over this road. linking
Holland to Belgium, over monot-
onous miles of neatly cultivated
fields. Now. III has completely
disappeared. The people are
watching for an amphibious YES
sci of the navy that has gone
out to rescue a farmer and his
family.
Trapped on Top Floor.
The roof of his home can be
made out in the midst of a grove
of trees couple of miles away.
A red-faced man tells you in a
matter-of-fact way that the
farmer is his father. He is "a
years old. He has been trapped
on the top floor of his home since
last night.
In the faces of the people look
ing out over the water, there is
shock and disbelief. No one here
has quite realized even yet ex-
actly what it is that has hap
pened to them. Not even the
war, with it's deliberate flooding
of vast land areas OF Holland,
brought such destruction. Reali-
zation came slowly in The Hague,
20 miles north of the food area.
People there this morning
talked about the wind, and no.
ticed the broken branches and
a few trees that have been blown
down. But winds are nothing
new in Holland, and generally
people went about their Sunday
routine as if nothing had hap
pened. By early afternoon the
radio was telling the story. Com
munication had been cut and
the dykes had crumbled on the
islands of Walcheren and Schou-
wen. at the mouth of the Scheld.
Three other serious breaks had
come to the south and east of
Rotterdam. So far, the reported
loss Of life had been small, but
rescue operations on the islands
were impossible because of heavy
seas. More than 1000 people
were believed to be clinging to
the dixie tops on Schouwen.
Signs of trouble can be seen
soon after leaving The Hague
on the road to the south. Truck
loads of volunteers are moving
south into the flood area.
Water in Rotterdam Streets.
BY the side of the road, squads
are filling Sandbags. There is
water in the streets of Rotter-
dam. Police wave the car around
an underpasS that has filled COM
pletely. South of the city, most
of the traffic is coming the other
way. You see people afoot and
on bicycles, carrying mattresses
and household belongings. A
man and two children head to-
ward the higher ground to the
north driving two cows before
them.
The radio keeps up it's steady
stream of bulletins. The Queer
has left The Hague on an inspec-
ton tour of the disaster area. The
Prime Minister is at Dordecht
overseeing the defenses against
the flood. The Ambassadors OF
Great Britain, Canada and the
United States have offered all the
resources of their governments
in the emergency.
But nothing that you see OF
hear prepares you for the mo-
ment when you come to the tor
Of the dixie and look over at the
scene on the other side. BEHIND
you is Holland, with its neal
fields, windmills and brave little
legends about boys with theil
fingers In the dixie. Ahead oil
you is the sea. And the sea il
moving in.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-02

places and covered a sixth OF
Holland with salt water, bring
ing the country's worst disaster
since the 18th century. The
death toll according to the best
available count, mounted to 464.
Britain counted 395 dead, 248
in floods, 1872 in the sinking of
the ferry Princess Victoria and
Is in the disappearance of a
British trawler.
Belgium had II drowningS.
All three countries mustered
every effort-army, navy, relief
workers of all kinds-to have
thousands threatened by death
or cold or disease and to aid mil
lions more whose homes were
destroyed. Property damage was
in the millions of dollars.
Thames Bursts Banks.
The Thames River burst its
banks at four new places today
under the pile-driving force OF
the afternoon high tides, spread
ing more desolation. Hospitals
at Kings Lynn and Tilsbury were
flooded in part and isolated.
Scores of bodies floated among
vast seas of debris on Britain's
beaten coasts. There were corpSes
on rooftops of abandoned homes.
One man padded to safety on a
table.
Canvey Island Is miles down
the Thames Estuary from Lon
don reported at least 100
drowned and 500 missing. Snow
began to fall there, adding to
the misery of the flood victims.
A fleet of small boats made
trip after trip into flooded Can
vey, called 'the island of death"
Families huddled on rooftops
awaiting rescue. They were
taken to nearby Benfleet, town
of 1900 that began to resemble
a war refugee center. Many
families were wiped out or
broken. Sobbing mothers search
ed for their children. Home
less children clutching toys scam
ned faces for sight of parents or
other kin.
Wind and Tide Join.
Meteorologists said a million
to one combination of wind and
tide caused the great storm.
Holes in the bikes in Holland
were so big ferry boats could be
driven through them-and one
was. Up to 1900 square miles
of land were flooded.
At Stellendam. in South Hol-
land, 70 persons were reported
dead, out of a population OF
1919.
Yesterdays 9O-mile winds were
reduced to % miles an hour to-
day, but temperatures around
zero added to the human misery.
Many crops of winter wheat were
damaged, along with thousands
of acres of rich soil.
Battle Of bikes On.
In Holland, where much Of
the country is under sea level,
some of it as much as 81 feet
below, all resources were mobil-
lied for the battle of the bikes.
These are made of clay. tree
branches, stone and asphalt.
They have kept back the North
Sea for centuries, permitting
the Dutch to grow rich crops in
the exposed bottomland and
build prosperous cities on sea
beds.
A United States Sd Air Force
spokesman said the known dead
in England included seven Amer
icans-two airmen, an airman'S
wife and four children - all
drowned at their homes in the
area of the United States bomber
base of Sculthorpe, near Hun
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-02

--~-------
Background Of District Issues Cited BY
President Today. Poee 81
President" to end segregation in
the District, in the Federal Gov
eminent and any remaining in
the Armed Forces:
2. Ask Congress to give "seri-
Gus attention" to proposals to
provide the District ian effective
voice in local self-government.
3. Recommend, meanwhile. an
immediate increase of two in
the number of District Commits
Sioners "to broaden representa-
ton of all elements of our popu-
lation."
Broad Program Outlined Briefly.
All this broad, sweeping re-
form was covered in only two
paragraphs in the speech. They
read:
Il purpose to use whatever au-
thority exists in the Office of the
President to end segregation in
the District of Columbia, includ-
ing the Federal Government and
any segregation in the Armed
Forces.
Here in the District of Column
bia serious attention should be
given to the proposal to develop
and authorize, through legisla-
ton, a system to provide an
effective voice in local self-gov-
eminent. While consideration Of
this proceeds, I recommend in
the meantime an immediate in
crease of two in the number
of District Commissioners to
broaden representation of all ele-
ments Of our population. This
will be first step toward insur-
ing that this Capital provide an
honored example to all commu-
mites of our Nation"
Bill Already Drafted.
The proposal to increase the
number of Commissioners al
ready is in bill form before the
Senate and House District Com
mittees, where subcommittee
may schedule hearings soon.
This plan was advanced by
Chairman Case of the Senate
District Committee to reduce the
work load on the existing three
man board and in the hope that
the expanded size of the board
(See DISTRICT, Page A-50
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-02

Picture on Pooe B-l.
puts the grounding in the role
of a weather prophet.
If he rouses out Of hiberna-
ton. comes out of his burrow
and sees his shadow. it means
six more weeks Of winter.
It may be the cold that chases
him back to sleep today.
The Weather Bureau called
for sunny and cold, with q high
of about "a degrees. increasing
cloudinesS tonight with q low Of