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Evening star., 1953-04-22
Bandits Knife Man
On Street, Get S157

Three yoke bandits took $157
from a 41-year-old man early
today and sent him to a hospital
with head cuts.
In two other robberies. armed
men took a total Of $142 from
two filling stations.
The yoke victim was Eleazer
Sloley. colored. 2034 Seventeenth
street NV, who told police the
three men grabbed him from the
rear and took the money. which
he had rolled up in his shirt
pocket. He was treated at Freed
mems Hospital for head and eye
cuts.
Robert Miller. 43, Of 5ll6
Ninth street NV. an attendant
at Meyers service station. 2125
Fourteenth street NV, gave up
$92.57 to a youthful colored
gunman. Mr.. Miller was forced
into the mems room before the
bandit fled.
The second filling station VIC
tim was George Branson. night
manager of Curley's station at
2001 Bladensburg road NE. who
said he was robbed of $50 by a
man who flashed a .32-caliber
revolver at him.
Evening star., 1953-04-22

ceived by the Tennessee delega-
ton in Congress, their wives and
officers of the Tennessee State
Society.
Also in the receiving line will
be Mrs. Thomas Brandon of
Murfreesboro. Tenn, OAR State
regent, and Mrs. Ed Gupton of
Nashville. candidate for the post
of national chaplain general, and
former State regent.
Evening star., 1953-04-22
Sailors Taxes Exceed
Ships Operation Fund
Bv the Associated Press

NORFOLK, Va, April o.
The officers and men of the Navy
attack transport Deuel. paid
enough income taxes in 1852 to
cover the ships operating allot-
ment for 81 months, her COM
manding officer says.
withholding taxes aboard the
ship amounted to $63, 500, says
Capt. F. R. Putnam in an article
in the April issue of the Navy
Conservationist." He estimates
the annual allotment for opera
tons of the Deuel-eXclusive of
pay, fuel, water rations and 9TH
Ell items-at $4,000.
The Navy chief of informa-
ton says of the, article that this
puts Navy men "in the privileged
position of spending their own
tax money. With this privilege
should come an added reSpon-
sibility to see that such money is
spent wisely and with an abso-
lutte minimum of waste or mis-
use"
Evening star., 1953-04-22
OAR SideIiehts
334 Historic Spots and Graves
Marked by OAR During Year

The OAR marked 141 historic
spots during the last year, &C
cording to Mrs. Hugh L. Rus
sell. historian general. The re-
port also showed markers were
placed on 160 graves of Revo-
lutionary soldiers and 33 graves
of wives and daughters of Revo-
lutionary soldiers.
After % seasons, the OAR has
bought new coats for the outside
doormen in Constitution Hall.
Mrs. Charles Carroll Haig, chair
man of the Building and
Grounds Committee, reported
the halls biggest season this
year. Gross receipts for the
1898 season approxilnated
$4,000 she said. There were 160
events.
The lost and found desk at
Constitution Hall is doing the
usual rush business in handbags,
gloves and jewelry left behind by
busy Daughters, So far, this
years casualties have included a
railroad ticket to Chicago, mink
scarves, a $100 bill (found and
a long velvet evening coat with
an ermine collar (taken by mis-
take).
The Tennessee State Society
of Washington will honor Ten
nessee delegates to the 62d
Continental Congress with a tea
from 4 to 6 pm. today in the
Senate Caucus Room at the
Capitol. Delegates will be re-
Evening star., 1953-04-22

clothes were scarce during the
first Korean winter, Col. Dyek-
man said the Army fulfilled
every request from the Far East
for overcoats.
"Overcoats." he added, "were
one Of the few items we were
not short on"
Col. James M. Illig of the
Pentagon personnel Office denied
that the trenchcoat order was
rushed through on June %.
1916. in order to obligate $45
million which otherwise would
revert to the Treasury when the
fiscal year ended two days later.
Evening star., 1953-04-22
By the Assoeioted Press

Representative Riehlman, Re-
publican, of New York said today
Army officials reluctance to pro-
vide information for a congress
sional investigation had been
overcome by a direct protest to
Secretary of the Army Stevens.
But a. Pentagon spokesman
said that before the protest the
Army was on the way with the
data sought on a $45 million
trench coat purchase.
Mr.. Riehlman, chairman of
the House Government Opera
tions Subcommittee, said staff
officials were "snow-balled" for
three weeks in an attempt to
learn the details.
Witnesses and some files on
the 1916 contract were produced
yesterday, Mr.. Riehlman said,
after he wrote to Secretary Ste
vens that I'VE have encountered
considerable difficulty" in OBJ
tanning full data on the contract.
"RunarOund" Charged.
However, Melvin A. Dow of the
Pentagon legal office said the
Army had selected its witnesses
and prepared its testimony be-
fore Mr.. Riehlmans letter
reached Secretary Stevens.
Mr.. Riehlman sent Army Off
cials back for more information
to be presented at a later, ua-
scheduled committee session. He
said he had taken steps to con-
vince the Pentagon the sub
committee intends to get full
cooperation" m gfh
He told reporters PentagOn Of.
ficials gave his investigators a
"runaround" when they attempt
ed to find out why the Army Or
dered IL million trench coats
that later were declared unsuit-
able for combat service.
Maj. Gen. Herman Feldman,
retired. former Quartermaster
General, testified yesterday that
the coats were developed by the
Research and Development Board
and approved by both the Army
General staff and the Quarter
master Corps Technical Commit
tee.
The Army spent another mil
Evening star., 1953-04-22
. 100 Guests Escape Fire
In Kansas City Hotel
By the Associated Pres.

KANSAS CITY, April 22.-An
early morning fire badly dam
aged the Washington Hotel on
the edge of the downtown dis
trict today, driving an estimated
100 guests from their rooms.
No serious injuries were re-
ported.
"As far as I can find out,
everyone got out" Fire Director
Francis B. Wornall said.
Twenty-one fire companies
turned out for the fire which
burned for more than four
hours. Several persons we're
carried from the hotel by fire
men and volunteers.
Nate Silby. manager, said the
fire started on the fourth floor
in a washroom. The cause was
not known. -~ ~
Evening star., 1953-04-22
TeIevising Of Exhibits
Al Smithsonian Urqed

Chairman Case Of the Senate
District Committee today pro-
posed that the exhibits at the
Smithsonian Institution be dis
played to millions in q regular
television program, the cost Of
which would be covered by some
"dignif1ed sponsor.
He revealed he had written to
Leonard Carmichael. secretary
of the institution. urging de-
velopment of a sponsored pro-
gram. He said:
II realized, of course, that the
Government could not be in the
position of indorsing any par
ticular products. but I am sure
commercials could be handled
with dignity and decorum. Such
a program would be beneficial to
millions of people who cannot
come to Washington"
Evening star., 1953-04-22
OAR
Continued From First Page)

Continued From First PageO
some of the things within its
agencies with which they did not
agree.
Committee Is Abolished.
The Daughters spent a much
longer time in debate and came
up with a close vote on a reso-
luton to abolish its national
Girl Homemakers' Committee.
The move was carried by a vote
of 621 to SOB.
In other action, the delegates
passed a resolution urging the
House Committee on Un-Amer-
lean Activities to conduct a full
investigation "of movements for
entire or partial world govern
ment which attack the principle
of the form of government"
guaranteed under the Constitu-
ton and that which would de-
stroy the sovereignty Of the
United States"
In this resolution, the OAR
asked that such an investigation
include public hearings with
testimony from representatives
of organizations which work to
maintain. support and defend
the Constitution Of the United
States"
The OAR Congress unani-
mously passed a motion recon-
mending that the Communist
party be outlawed in the United
States as a political party with
ballot privileges.
The report of the OARS Ma
tional Defense Committee, sum-
married. last night by Mrs. Bruce
D. Reynolds, national chairman.
criticized. many U. N. activities
and suggested that the U. N.
should either oust Russia or
fold up.
The Daughters expressed
shock at the reading Of late
afternoon newspaper stories tell
ing of mistreatment of American
prisoners of war in Korea. 1--WE
should not forget this is a very
grim time" Mrs. Reynolds told
her audience.
Would Not Desert Korea.
"We would not desert Korea
and leave her helpless before
the Communist forces" Mrs.
Reynolds declared in the De-
fense Committee report. But
we do resent the armchair
strategists of the United Ma
tions. whose trade is vastly in
creased by this war, and Rus
sia, the instigator of this horrible
war, calling the signals"
The U. N, Mrs. Reynolds de-
clared, has caused unrest and dis
content by preaching equality Of
peoples centuries apart economi.
cally, culturally and militarily.
Evening star., 1953-04-22
Teacher Who Baked
Al Red Quiz Resigns
BY the Assoeiesed Press

BRONxVILLE, N. Y, April %.
"A Sarah Lawrence College
faculty member who refused to
answ-r questions before the SEN
ate Internal Security Subcom-
mittee has resigned, the college
announced today.
A second instructor questioned
by the subcommittee has been
cleared by the colleges Board of
Trustees, the announcement said.
The teacher who resigned is
Paul Aron. 81. Questioned be-
fore the subcommittee last
month, Aron denied present
membership in the Communist
Party. but refused to answer
questions on past membership
on the ground that the replies
might incriminate him.
Evening star., 1953-04-22
Tax Probers May Call
Senator Bridges in
Klein Case Again
By the Associated Presa

br fhe ASSociofeo PreN
Senator Bridges, Republican,
of New Hampshire, the Senate's
temporary President. may be in
vited to make a return appear
ance before House tax fraud in
vestigators.
This was reported today by
sources close to a House Ways
and Means investigating SUBJ
committee, which tomorrow re-
calls Henry w. Grunewald for
more questioning about a ST mil
lion tax case in which Senator
Bridges name has figured.
The 60-year-old Grunewald,
who says he's an old friend of
Senator Bridges, has said he dis
cussed the tax troubles of Hy-
man Harvey Klein, former Bal
timore liquor dealer. with high
tax officials in 1948.
Bridges 1852 Testimony.
Senator Bridges, in testimony
before the committee in March,
1852. said he conferred with
former Revenue Commissioner
George Schoeneman and others
about the possibility of lifting a
ST million tax assessment against
Klein's business assets.
Senator Bridges said in 1852
his conversations at the bureau
were solely in the interest of cor
recting a possible injustice
against taxpayer. He did not
know Klein and had never met
him, the Senator added.
He said it was "the story of
a typical congressional inquiry
which you and every member OF
Congress are requested to make
daily"
Senator Bridges denied that
Grunewald ever represented him
before revenue officials in the
case.
CdIlS III He.haSh.
When the case came up re-
Gently in the subcommittee S
hearings. Senator Bridges termed
1t the same old re-hash," and
said he would not comment
further.
An informed source, asking not
to be named, said that when the
committee hears Grunewald to-
morrow, it was probable that
members would face a decision
about inviting Senator Bridges
back for further testimony.
Grunewald, in testimony last
week, named Senator Bridges as
the person who introduced him
to Lowell Mayberry, a former
Boston attorney. who, Grunewald
said, hired him to make an in
vestigation for the United Mine
Workers.
Mr.. Mayberry was quizzed be-
hind closed doors yesterday, un-
der committee subpoena. Whether
he will be summoned in open
session has not been decided.
Grunewald testified yesterday
his knack for investigative work
earned him a $25, 1000 fee in 1949.
He said it was for investigations
and introductions" undertaken
for a New York attorney, Walter
Duke.
Tax Refund Approved.
The committee brought out
that shortly thereafter Mr.. Duke
won speedy handling of a $780,
900 tax refund sought by the
Consolidated Electric & Gas Co.
of New York. Grunewald said
there was no tax fixing or any,
thing like that"
Committee Counsel John To-
bin stated that after Grunewald
arranged an introduction for Mr..
Duke with Charles Oliphant,
then general counsel of the In
ternal Revenue Bureau. recon-
mendation was made for grant,
ing the tax refund-"unheard
of" speed in a case of that size,
| Mr.. TObin said,
Evening star., 1953-04-22
Trial frightened
By Anecdote of
Jury Duty Sermon
BY the Assoeioted Press

DALLAS, Tex. April %. A
prospective juror frightened
proceedings during a murder
trial yesterday when a defense
lawyer asked him if he knew
District Attorney Henry Wade.
Slightly" the venireman re-
piled. He spoke at my church
once, telling people they ought
to serve on jurieS."
WAS he ever invited back to
speak?" the attorney asked.
mo-" replied the prospective
Juror.
Evening star., 1953-04-22
House Group Charges Army
'Rundroundr on Overcoot Data

lion dollars to remove zippered
leggings and streamline the coats
for garrison wear, testimony
showed.
Col. Ivan j. Dyekman, chief
clothing officer, testified that
$4,000 of the trenchcoats and
parkas were sent to Korea and
there were no boys freezing for
want of overcoats."
Asked about reports that heavy
Evening star., 1953-12-06

at oxford and Liverpool Uni
verSities and had been q profess
sional pupil of Sir Alfred Drury.
He later did work at Bucking-
ham Palace and the Midland
Bank.
Worked With BOrglum.
After coming to this country
in 1918, he was associated with
Charles Cary Rumsey and Gut
zon Borglum. In the twenties
he prepared theater settings for
Joseph Urban and Flo Ziegfeld,
and engaged in free lance
portraiture.
After moving to Palm Beach,
Fla, in 1929 he became chief
sculptor for Addison Miner and
taught sculpture in the -Four
Arts School.
Mr.. Anderson came to Wash
ington in 1943 to work with the
Australian government. While
here he did a bronze Statuette
of Air Vice Marshal William
MacNeece Foster. He was COM
missioned to do some sculpture
for the SeSquicentennial Exhi-
bition and showed some of his
pieces at the Corcoran Gallery
Of Art.
Mr.. Anderson also was said
to have shown his work at the
Royal Academy, London, and
the National Academy in New
York.
Had Studio Here.
Mr.. Anderson maintained a
studio at 217 Randolph place
NE. in 1850. His last known
employment was at the Ken
wood Country Club where he
worked as an auditor.
Mr.. Anderson, who lived at
1859 P street NV, worshipped
at st. Thomas Episcopal Church
and Ascension and st. Agnes. He
had contributed poetry occas-
ionally to the News Letter Of
the St. Andrews Society.
Washington artists recall Mr..
Anderson as man who obvious
ly knew his profession, but who
kept very much to himself. Let
ters found after his death in
dicate that he was in contact
with British authorities to eS-
tablish his deceased wife'S
claims to a title of nobility.
Evening star., 1953-12-06
Gordon Stanley Barber,
Public BUILDINGS Official

Gordon Stanley Barber. IS, as
Sistant chief Of the construction
and repair division of the Public
Buildings Service. who died No
vember ~. at Washington Sani-
tarium, has been buried in Mil
waukee, Wis. He had lived at
1900 Madison street NV.
A registered architect in Wis
consin and Pennsylvania, he
formerly practiced in Superior
Wis, with his father and with
firms in Pittsburgh and New
York. He was chief of the plan
ming section of the Ordnance
Department in World War I.
In 1882, he was a construction
engineer in the Treasury Depart
ment's suervising architects of
flee. Later, he was assistant dis
trict engineer in Chicago and
San Francisco.
He was born in Winnipeg
Manitoba and attended Armour
Institute of Technology. He was
a Mason and a member Of the
Buildings Management Associa7
tion. !
Mr.. Barber is survived by a
sister in Milwaukee.
Evening star., 1953-12-06
Darn uf Uhanka

BELLUCCI. VINCENT UIMMY) A. We
wish to thank all of our kind friends,
neighbors. relatives and pallbearers for
their many acts of kindness. express
sions of sympathy. mass cards and for
late VINCENT (JINMY) A. BELLUCCI.
MOTHER. FATHER AND SISTER.
late JOHN A. Brown wishes to, thank
Rev. Charles w. Green, the deacon,
officers and members of Pilgrim
Baptist Church: also Mrs. virginia
jackson and Mrs. Major. other neigh
bors and friends for their expressions
of sympathy through flowers, cards and
kilograms. and kindnesseS to the family.
DEVOTED WIFE, ELSIE ]. BROWN,
AND FAMILY.
PARKER, HARRY N. We wish to ex-
press our heartfelt thanks and apprecla-
ton to our kind friends and neighbors
sages of sympathy and beautiful floral
tributes received during our recent be-
reavement and loss of q dear and de-
voted husband and father the late
f BESSIE r. Parker AND SONS.
MOORE, JAMES II. We wish to thank
the officiating minister. the American
for the beautiful floral tributes. cards.
telegrams, kind services. donations, use
of cars and other expressions OF SYM
pathy during our bereavement; r,v
WALTON. MARY NELSON. We wish to
for their kind expressions Of sympathy
during our bereavement.
LILLIAN T. SMITH. ELEANOR 3.
WEIGH
Evening star., 1953-12-06

sea commands, including COM
mander of cruiser division six OF
the Atlantic Fleet and operations
in the Pacific campaigns OF
World War II, much of his
work was as an ordnance spe-
cialiSt.
At the time of his death he
was deputy chief of the Bureau
of Ordnance.
He held the Silver Star and
the Distinguished Service Medal
He was given an honorary Ph.D
from the University of Rochester
He was a member Of the Chevy
Chase Club, Army and Navy Club
Army and Navy County Club anc
the United States Naval Insti-
tute.
Besides his widow, he is sur
vived by two daughters, Miss
Margaret Parsons, a student al
Vassar; Miss Clara Parsons, oi
the home address; his father
Harry r. Parsons, Fort Sumner
N. Mex; a sister, Mrs. r. B. Full
Ter, Albuquerque, N. Mex, and q
brother, Critchell Parsons, Dallas
Tex.
Funeral arrangements are be-
ing handled by the Robert
Pumphrey funeral home ir
Bethesda.
Evening star., 1953-12-06

A top authority on atomic war
fare, Admiral Parsons was a
pioneer in the development and
use of atomic weapons. He was
at the Los Alamos laboratory
when the worlds first A-bomb
was assembled and secretly
tested. AS Navy captain and
member of the Manhattan Dis
trict. secret wartime atom bomb
organization, he set the trigger
on the bomb dropped on Hiro-
shima in Japan on August 6,
1945.
Adjusted Bomb Trigger.
Huddled in the bomb bay of a
B-29 bound for the target, ham
pered by an oxygen mask and
fingers stiff from subzero cold,
Admiral Parsons made'the deli
cate, last-mlnute adjustment on
the bombs trigger.
A year later he was deputy
commander of the Bikini atomic
bomb tests, in charge of technical
matters. Then, in 1948, he served
in similar positions for the
weapons tests at Eniwetok atoll.
In addition to his atomic
weapon activities, he had partici-
pated in development of another
major weapon in World War II,
the proximity fuse.
He had served as the Navy'S
director of atomic energy, dep
uty chief of the armed forces
special weapons project and
member of the Military Liaison
Committee to the Atomic Energy
Commission. In 1949 he was ap-
pointed member of the weap-
onS system evaluation group of
the National Military Establish
ment's team for fitting strategy
to modern weapons.
Ordnance Specialist.
Born in Chicago, he was grad
uated from the Naval Academy
in 1922. He was made a rear
admiral in 1916. )
Although he had held various
Evening star., 1953-12-06
Admiral Parsons,
Who Set Atom Bomb
Trigger, Dies at 81

Rear Admiral William S. Par
sons, So, who set the bomb trig-
ger mechanism for the first
atomic bomb used in combat
died yesterday at Bethesda Ma
val Hospital. He lived at 6125
Thirty third street NV.
He had complained of not
feeling well during the week and
went to Bethesda for an elec-
trocardiograph yesterday. 1t had
just been completed and the ad-
miral was still on a hospital
table when he died Unexpectedly
His wife, Martha, was with him
at the time.
Evening star., 1953-12-06
Shipping Company
Doubles Its Services

CARACAS. - The Venezuelan
Navigation Co. has doubled its
shipping services between United
States and Canadian and vene-
zuelan ports.
The expansion has been made
possible principally by the addi-
ton Of six ships received by
Venezuela as the result Of her
withdrawal from the Grancolom-
biana merchant fleet. which in
cluded Venezuela. Ecuador and
Colombia.
Evening star., 1953-12-06
unuftItnn

LIGHT, JOSEPH You are respectfully
requested to attend the unveiling OF a
monument to the memory of our be
loved husband and father. the late
JOSEPH LIGHT, of blessed memory
which will take place on Sunday. De
cember 13, 1853. at 1890 pm. at the
Beth Sholom Cemetery. Capitol Heights
Md The family will meet at II 40
am. at 1896 Kennedy st. NV. Direc-
tions: Benning rd. ne. to Central ave.
continue on Central ave. to 5lst St,
right on 5lst st. to end of street. turn
THE JOSEPH LIGHT FAMILY. IL
SIEGEL, ESTHER. The unveiling OF a
stone to the memory of the late ESTHER
SIEGEL will be held on Sunday: De
Agudas Achim Cemetery. Alexandria,
Va Relatives and friends are invited
TO attend, THE FAMILY. 8
Evening star., 1953-12-06
With Regard to a
Card of Thanks

Very often q cord Of thonks in
The Stor meets q need which con
hordly be solved in any other way
Not only is it, O gracious expression
Of gratitude to those who hove sent
floral tributes, but also courteousIy
acknowledges the services and kind.
nesses Of the mony to whom q per
sonol note Of thonks connot we'll be
moiled. or whose nomes and ed
dresses ore not known. insertion Of
cord OF thonks may be arranged
by telephone to The Stor, ST. g. 5000
The Evening and Sunday Stor
Evening star., 1953-12-06
Jupun Buys Reds Rice

TOKYO PD.-Japan has con-
tracted to buy 10000 tons of
Chinese rice from Ceylon to re-
lieve a serious rice shortage.
Ceylon got the cereal from Com
munist China in exchange for
rubber,
Evening star., 1953-12-06

General Hos
pital Novem-
ber 20.
Mr.. Ander-
son was once
ass ocia t e d
p occasionally
with leading
B ritish and
A m ri c a n
architects and
Sculptors. The
British = born
sculptor, had
no known sur
vorS, and
Evening star., 1953-12-06
Memorial Services Are Held
For Sculptor Harry Anderson

Memorial services were held
yesterday at Ascension and st.
Agnes Church for Harry Foster
Anderson, sculptor, who died at