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Evening star., 1953-09-17
Boy Meets Girl and Wins Her
In Course of One Bus Ride

was only one vacant seat, and
they had to sit together. Ernest
bought the tickets.
For the first eight minutes Err
nest described his bungalow in
Rhodesia. He told her of his
mango trees, some male, some
female. Then the conversation
went a little deeper. Three min
utes later Ernest proposed. .Vicky
thought it over. Five minutes
from their destination she said,
Maybe" Three minutes out
she said: Eyes"
During the last minute they
fixed the date of the wedding,
and at Piccadilly Circus they got
off and bought the engagement
ring. On July % they were mar
ried.
Now they're continuing their
honeymoon at Victoria Falls.
Ernest said, as the train pulled
out: 81 didn't think / would
find the perfect woman, but I
have. Luckily for me, there was
a lot of traffic that day and the
bus made a slow trip"
Evening star., 1953-09-17
Siomese Twin Girls Separated
By Operation in New Orleans

on one twin Immediately. But
they were not sure about the
other twin. The point of opera
tion on her would be partially
closed, at least, the staff sur
geon said.
The surgeons split into two
teams of four each to finish the
work on each girl individually.
The operation went satisfac-
torily with no unexpected de-
velopments, the staff surgeon
reported.
The two-hour-a -55- minute
operation ended at 1920 pm.
(EDT) and the girls were placed
in separate cribs for the first
time.
If both girls survive, the sur
geons believe they will have
written a new page in medical
history. A spokesman at New
Orleans Foundation Hospital
said that never before have both
twins survived such an operation.
The surgeons separated the
lower intestinal tract that the
girls shared after dividing a fused
vertebrae that also joined them.
Hospital spokesmen said yes
terday the girls are bright,
alert and normal in every respect
except for the connection"
The girls were born in La
fayette Sanitarium July %.
The twins apparently have
separate functioning nervous
systems and independent spinal
cords, except junction in the
dural sac, the covering of the
spinal cord at the lower end.
They weighed II pounds. eight
ounces at birth and have gained
about three pounds since.
The mothers pregnancy was
normal, spokesmen said. Mr..
Mouton described the recovery
of his 33-year-old wife as "phe-
nomenal." She left the sani-
tarium after six days.
The Moutons have two other
children. Stella Rose, 8, and
Ashton, jr., 6.
Evening star., 1953-09-17
-Four Teachers Held
In Maryland as
School Bus Pdssers

Four teachers. including the
dean of women at the University
of Maryland, have been arrested
in the Prince Georges County
breakdown on motorists who fail
to stop for halted school buses.
Maryland law requires traffic
in both directions to halt while
children are getting on or off
school buses. There have. been
IL arrests so far.
Pvt. E. r. Gryszkiewicz of the
county police arrested the uni
verSity dean. Miss Adele Hagner
Stamp, So. He said she passed
a stopped bus at Twenty fifth
avenue and University lane in
Adelphi Park Tuesday. Her case
will be heard in HyattSville a
week from today.
The three other drivers were
listed as Angela M. Murphy, SO,
of 3640 Minnesota avenue Sc.
and Florence Grady, 1928 T
street Sc. teachers at Bradbury
Heights Elementary School in
Prince Georges, and Living
ston H. Chambers, Annapolis.
County Police Pvt. Thomas Ro-
cato said the two women passed
the same halted bus at Marlboro
pike and Benning road, in the
Hillside area.
Evening star., 1953-09-17
ChrysIer 10 Get Contract
For M-51 Tank Vehicles
BY the Assoeioted Press

DETROIT, Sept. 1.-THE
Army says Chrysler Corp. soon
will get a new $50 million de-
fense contract.
1t is for M-51 tank recovery
vehicles to be built at the De-
troit Arsenal in nearby Center
Line, where Chrysler is sched-
uled to complete an MAT tank
making contract around Novem-
ber l.
The plant currently employs
approximately 1000.
Brig. Gen. Carroll H. Deitrick,
commander of the Ordnance
Tank-Automotive Center here.
declined to estimate the number
of tank recovery vehicles to be
built for the Army or to say
how long it would take to fulfill
the contract.
Evening star., 1953-09-17
District 10 Employ
"a Women for Duty
AT School Crossings
Will Release Policemen
For Regular Duties;
Pay to Be $l.22 Hourly

The Commissioners will hire
"a women to go on the job Octo-
ber l as school crossing guards,
they said today.
This is the opening of a much
discussed plan to promote traffic
safety in school areas and to re-
lieve police from the extra duty
it entails for more urgent police
business.
The Commissioners said en-
ployment of the "a women will
constitute trial of the plan. They
will receive applications for the
jobs now.
Pays S1.22 Hourly.
The pay is 1922 an hour. This
hourly pay could reach $1.55
through regular raises.
Preference will be given to ap-
plicants with children in schools,
and to those who live near
schools to which they will be
assigned.
The guards will be supervised
by the Police Department, but
will not have arrest authority.
They will be authorized to re-
port the license number of mo-
torists who violate school zone
regulations.
25-46 Age Range.
Only physical qualification is
that they be at least S feet 2
inches, but not more than s feet
tall. They must be at least IS
but no more than 46 years old.
At least an eighth grade edu-
cation is needed. Duty hours
will be from 8 to 9:15 am, from
HAS am. to lis pm, and from
2:45 to 3:45 pm.
For the present, only women
will be hired. Schools to which
they will be assigned have not
been selected,
Evening star., 1953-09-17
to Wed Miss Kerr
At St. Matthews Sept. 20
Capitol Beauty, 2o,
Wearing Senator's
Diamond Ring

Senator Mccarthy, Republi-
can, of Wisconsin, and Miss Jean
Kerr, his former research as
sistant and frequent companion,
will be married at st. Matthew's
Cathedral here September 20.
Miss Kerr's mother, Mrs.
Elizabeth F. Kerr, formally an
nounced the engagement today.
In New York, where Senator
Mccarthy is conducting an in
vestigation of alleged Commu-
nists in the United Nations, he
declined to discuss the marriage
plans further.
II have nothing to add to the
announcement" he said.
The 29-year-old blue-eyed
brunette, considered one of the
beauties of Capitol Hill, acknowl-
edged she is wearing Senator
McCarthy's ring, a diamond.
Senator Mccarthy is a
Catholic and friends of Miss
Kerr said she became a men,
ber of the Catholic Church
quite some time ago." She was
reared in the Presbyterian faith.
She took her Catholic instruction
from Msgr. John K. Cartwright
at st. Matthews.
Miss Kerr'S name has been
linked romantically with that of
the 43-year-old bachelor Senator
since shortly after she went to
work in his Office in 1948. She
left his office last year and is
currently doing free-lance re-
search work.
Miss Kerr has been Senator
McCarthy's conf1dante and help
er in preparing material for
his various pamphlets, his
book, "McCarthyism," andr his
During the hearings last year
on Senator McCarthy's fitness
to retain his Senate seat, it was
brought out that Miss Kerr did
most of the research for the
controversial booklet on housing
which Senator Mccarthy sold to
the Lustron Corp. for $4,000.
With other members of Sen
ator McCarthy's staff, she was
active in the 1850 Maryland SEN
atorial campaign in which Sen
ator Butler, Republican, defeated
the veteran Senator Tydings,
Democrat. In the subsequent
Senate investigation of tactics
used in the campaign, she testi-
Evening star., 1953-09-17
By the Assoeiated Press

LAUSANNE, Switzerland, Sept.
1.-THE black Chevrolet sedan
in which missing British diplo-
mat Donald MacLean's wife dis
appeared last Friday from Gene
va was found today in Lau-
same garage.
The garageman said it was
brought in early Friday night by
a woman with three children
answering to the missing family'S
description and that the group
rushed across the street to the
railway station.
He said the woman told him
she would come back for the
car in about a week.
The disappearance of Chicago
born Mrs. Melinda MacLean, 81,
and her three small children was
revealed yesterday. Her husband
and another member of the Brit
ish Foreign Office staff, Guy Bur-
CESS, are generally believed in
the West to have fled behind the
Iron Curtain after they crossed
from England to France in May,
1851, and dropped from sight.
Had Been With Mother.
There has never been any Of
fetal confirmation, however, that
the two men had gone over to
the Communists.
Mrs. MacLean and her chill
dren-FerguS, g; Donald, 7, and
2-year-old Melinda, born three
weeks after her father disap-
peared - had been living in
Geneva with Mrs. MacLean's
mother, Mrs. Melinda Dunbar.
Mrs. Dunbar told police her
daughter left with the children
Friday to spend the week end
with friends in Montreux. When
they did not return on Monday,
Mrs. Dunbar notified police.
Montreux is IS miles east of
Geneva, at the opposite end of
Evening star., 1953-09-17

CAPE TOWN, Sept. II (NANA) =.
Marguerite CVicky) Nelson,
25, a &6 ($16.8O) a week London
secretary, stood at a bus stop
near her home in Cromwell road,
Earls Court. A sunburned young
stranger turned to her and said:
Excuse me, does this bus go to
Piccadilly?" They talked about
the weather, boarded the bus to-
gether.
BY the time they reached Pic
cadilly they were engaged.
Vicky is now Mrs. Ernest Da-
Wis. She and her faSt-working
husband arrived here by sea. on
their way to their new home in
Rhodesia. He is a 26-year-old
engineer on the Rhodesian rail-
ways.
Three and a half months ago,
Ernest, tired of being bachelor.
went to Britain to find a wife.
Two months ago he met Vicky at
the bus stop. Then fate and Gu
pid hastened to aid him.
When the bus arrived there
Evening star., 1953-09-17

fed on crutches. She had
broken her hip while on a vaca-
ton in Hawaii.
Miss Kerr is the daughter of
the late William P. Kerr, WASH
ington businessman. She is an
only child.
Born in Washington, she went
to Mckinley Technical High
School and attended George
Washington University before
transferring to Northwestern
University, from which she
graduated. In 1945, she was
voted the most beautiful girl at
CIV. She lives with her mother
at 1882 Twenty-fourth street NE.
Evening star., 1953-09-17
Enforcement Council
Acts 70 Investigate
D. {. Crime Situation
Proposes Survey of All
Aspects Of Juvenile
And Adult Delinquency
BY Miriom Ottenbero

The prospect of a concerted
attack on juvenile delinquency
here appeared surer today as
the new Council on Law En-
forcement moved into the
picture.
The councils executive COM
mittee decided at a conference
late yesterday to recommend
that the council investigate
both juvenile and adult crime
and punishment.
The steering group set up this
program to propose to the coun-
Gil, which is due to meet in
about 10 days:
1. That the council urge the
commissioners to act as the
sponsoring and co-ordinating
heads of a group representing
all agencies and individuals
dealing with prevention of Iu-
venile delinquency.
2. That the council name a
committee of it's own member
ship to study the arrest, prose-
cution and final determination
of all cases involving juveniles.
3. That the council name a
committee to study the appre-
henSion of adult offenders, their
prosecution and punishment in
felony cases.
4. That a similar study be
made of adult offenders in mis-
demeanor cases.
S. That the council consider
Congress for legislation
to include robbery among the
crimes Of violence that carry an
extra penalty, if the offender is
Spencer Attends.
Commissioner Samuel Spen-
Ger, who heads the Council on
Law Enforcement as well as the
Board of Commissioners, attend
ed yesterdays executive commit
tee session and obviously looked
with favor on the idea of a CO.
body directly under
the Commissioners to deal with
(See DELINQUENCY, Pig. A-12.)
Evening star., 1953-09-17
Presidential Citation
Given Koreans by U. S.
By the Associated Press

SEOUL, Sept. ia United
States presidential unit citation
was presented to the Korean
republics 9th Division today for
its heroic stand last July against
the last big Chinese push on the
east central front.
The citation, signed by Presi-
dent Eisenhower, was the first
American presidential unit cita-
tion to be given to the ROKs.
Evening star., 1953-09-17

Republican National Committee,
and meetings of the Republican
State chairmen of the Midwest
and Mountain States, the Re-
publicans hope to lay down an
anti-Democrat barrage of their
own and offset the pro-Demo-
cratic demonstrations here last
Monday and Tuesday. Both
the Republican women and the
Republican State chairmen have
full two-day programs begin
ming tomorrow.
Unlike the Democrats, the Re-
publicanS will not have with
them here the head of their
party. President Eisenhower.
However, the President is send
ing the women and the State
chairmen a message of greeting
and encouragement. 1t so hap
pens the Chief Executive will be
in Chicago for a few minutes
during the Republican meetings.
He is stopping only at the air.
port. however, to pick up his son,
Maj. John Einsenhower, and
other members of the family to
take them to Washington with
him. He expressed regret that a
full engagement program would
prevent his attending some of
the Republican meetings in per-
son.
To Pep Up Meeting.
But the G. o. P. clearly was
anxious to pep up the scheduled
proceedings. in an effort to
counter national publicity at
tanned by the Democrats in
their meeting here.
Both the Republican women
and the State chairmen had
enlisted prominent figures in the
(Sne CONFEP ENHE pouo Af0N
Evening star., 1953-09-17
Radar Test on Speeders
Finds $ Pct. Are Women
By the Assoeioted Pres,

NEW YORK, Sept. IA
safety researcher says a recent
radar speed check in New Eng
land shattered his belief that
women are generally slow and
cautious drivers.
William j. 10th, research as
sociate of New York UniverSity's
Center for Safety Education, said
yesterday he made a $4,000 mile
tour in Northeastern States
making radar speed studies.
Although some 70 per cent of
the Nations drivers are men,
Mr.. 10th said, his check dis
closed that So per cent of all
speeders in the area were women.
Evening star., 1953-09-17
Ootis Questioning
Wears Him Down

"EURoPE'S BEST PRlSoN"-Thot
wos the way the slim little mon with
pouehed eyes described AP Core
spondent WiIIiom N. Ootis' place Of
imprisonment during the long inteuo-
COTTON preceding his trioI. Another
chapter Of Mr. Ootis' dromotic story
is on pose "A.
WANTS TO QUIT "AcTING"-
It. Gov. Knight Of California soys he'll
run for Governor. He hos "octed"
Sc times for Gov. Worren while the
Governor hos been owoy from the
Stote. See Life in the U. S" Poee
A-l8.
Evening star., 1953-09-17
Grenude-Looded Truck
Explodes on HiqhwuY

INDIANAPOLIS, Sept, IT.
A truck loaded with hand gre
nades exploded today on a high
way bypass north of Indianap-
oils. There were no immediate
reports of injuries.
State police headquarters said
the ammunition truck caught fire
and the resulting blast ripped
down power lines in the area.
James H. overly, owner of an
electric company in Nora, Ind,
said the explosion occurred in
open country near Nora. II miles
from Indianapolis, and the only
damage appeared to be to the
power lines. He said he under
stood the truck caugh fire and
the driver parked it and ran.
Evening star., 1953-09-17
Turkish President Bayar
Due Here in January

The White House announced
today that President Bayar of
Turkey will come to Washington
for three-day visit January 81,
at the invitation of President
Eisenhower.
The invitation was extended to
the Turkish President today by
the new American Ambassador,
Avra Warren, as he presented his
credentials.
President Bayar accepted i'm
mediately.
Evening star., 1953-09-17
Scent Rate
.For0ut-of.Town
Mail Proposed
Would Increase Use
OfAirpIunes Without
Changing Local Cost
BY Robert K. WoIsh


A f1ve-cent postal rate for all
non-local first class letters. to
speed up mail delivery and get
$3.50 million in additional reve-
nue., may be recommended to
Congress by a Senate committee
advisory council.
Senator Carlson, Kansas Re-
publican, who is chairman of
the Senate Post Office Commit
tee and heads an advisory group
studying the Post Office Depart
ment, said today this is among
several major proposals receiv-
ing serious consideration.
Such a f1ve-cent rate would
replace the present three-cent
rate on all regular firSt-class
letters except those mailed 10
cally. The three-cent rate would
remain on local mail.
Could Speed Service.
The higher rate, Senator
Carlson explained, could lead to
greatly expedited service be-
cause air transportation would
be used for letters sent more
than 400 miles. The Senator
added that this arrangement
would, in effect, do away with
the present Scent rate for air
mail. He declared, however,
that it would help materially in
cutting down the Post Office De-
partment's annual deficit by
producing net revenue, of at
least $500 million even after q
$50 million operation cost.
Senator Carlson emphasized
that the Advisory Committee
has come to no decision on the
scent rate idea or the other
suggestions. He predicted that
postal rates will be increased to
next year. despite the pending
congressional election.
Opposes SummerfieId Plan.
The proposals being considered
by the Advisory Committee diff
fer substantially from those
made by Postmaster General
Summerfield last July to the
House Post Office Committee as
a means of raising an additional
$240 million a year. Senator
Carlson said today he opposes
MIR. Summerfield'S recommended
ton that f1rst-class mail postage
be increased from to 4 cents.
He indicated he believed tha
scent rate proposal might prove
more acceptable to the public
because it could result in a great
speedup in mail delivery.
Senator Carlson did not COM
ment directly on Mr.. Summer
fields recent announcement of
plans to send all f1rst-class mail
by air between few major cities
such as New York, Chicago and
Washington for an experimental
period.
Other Recommendations.
Other possible recommends
tlons which the advisory COM
mittee is examining and might
include in its report to Congress
in January are:
/. That the Post Office De-
partment be made an independ-
ent Government corporation.
This might be similar to the
setup in the Tennessee Valley
Authority and the Atomic Energy
Commission. 1t also might give
the Post Office Department the
authority to establish it's own
civil service system.
2. Some method if standardiz-
ing envelope sizes SO that the de-
partment would not have to han
die approximately 5000 types and
sizes every day.
3. Change existing laws so that
the department could obtain
freer competition in awarding
transportation contracts.
Senator Carlson said the ad-
viSory councils report undoubt-
edly would be made the subject
of public hearings by the Sem
ate committee early next year.
Evening star., 1953-09-17
Clark Will Aid
u. n. Prisoners
With Red Tdint
Rights Assured Any
Americans Fearing
To Be Repotrioted
BY the Associoted Press

MUNSAN, Sept. 17.-Gen.
Mark Clark today promised a
fair shake for thousands of allied
war prisoners held by the Com
munists who have refused to re-
turn home.
The United Nations Far East
commander pledged any Ameri-
cans who have refused repatria-
tion "our sympathy for the hard
ships they have suffered, our un-
derstanding of the pressures to
which they have been sub
jected :"
Gen. Clark offered any Ameri-
cans the legal rights and pro-
lection" guaranteed by United
States laws. A U. N. Command
spokesman said that being a
"progressive"-Red sympathizer
is not considered a crime in
the United States.
20 Americans Included.
The Communists say they hold
about 300 South Koreans and
more than 20 non-Koreans-
presumably most of these Ameri-
cans-who refuse repatriation.
Gen. Clark said in his state
ment that if he could communi-
cate with the men held by the
Reds. II would remind them of
the American tradition of free
dom-the freedom for which
they fought before their cap
ture."
Gen. Clark also vowed to pro-
tect the freedom of choice" of
nearly $4,000 Chinese and North
Koreans who renounced Com
munism while in Allied captiv-
ity.
As the statement was released.
1000 fiery, anti-Red Chinese
war prisoners being handed over
by the U. N. to Indian guards
near Panmunjom ripped off
their Identification tags and re-
fused to give their names to
the Indians.
May Demand Identity Cards.
The five-nation repatriation
commission, which will decide
the fate of all prisoners who re-
fuse to go back to their home
countries, called a special con-
ference.
An Indian spokesman said the
commission would consider re-
fusing further Allied deliveries
of prisoners without their iden-
tif1cation cards.
The prisoners apparently feared
Red interviewers might discover
their names and homes and take
reprisals against relatives.
Meanwhile, Brig. Gen. A. L.
Hamblen, chief of the U. N. c.
group which will talk with re-
luctant allied prisoners, said the
command feels both allied and
Red captives already have made
their choice"
Must Make Overt Act
The general told a news con-
ference at MunSan:
If the prisoner does nothing,
it is assumed that he wants to
stay under the control of the
country which now holds him" I"
He said a prisoner who changes
his mind and decides to return
must make some covert act" such
as an oral or written application
to be considered for repatriation.
They will be told their rights
as American citizens, Gen. Ham
blen said.
The 90-day explanation period
is set to begin about September
Is. Allied and Communist rep
resentatives will be allowed to
talk with their former soldiers
in an effort to ease their fears
and persuade them to return
home.
Evening star., 1953-09-17

Assembly and there can be no
new world climate" unless the
Communists contribute more to
it by changing their policies.
The United States, he declared,
stands ready to explore all pos
sible means to end tension and
bring world peace-befofe scien-
tif1c discoveries wipe life off the
surface of this planet"
Mr.. Dulles accused the Com
munists of dilatory tactics in
Korea since the armistice. And
he added:
I'VE are forced to doubt that
the Communist side really wants
to comply with the armistice and
face up to the problem of with
drawing their forces from Korea
and creating a united and inde-
pendent Korea"
Reds Withhold Applause.
Mr.. Dulles spoke for 81 min
uteS before a packed audience,
including top-ranking diplomats
from 80 nations. RusSia's An
drei Y. Vishinsky listened in
tently and took notes, but the
Soviet bloc delegates did not
join in the applause when the
Secretary of State concluded.
This was Mr.. Dulles major
policy statement, in behalf of
the United States, before the AS
sembly session which began
Tuesday. Mr.. Vishinsky will
present Russian views within
few days.
Mr.. Dulles mentioned Premier
Malenkov's recent statements
that the Communist and nom
Communist systems can co-exist
peacefully. He commented
"such expressions are welcome" :"
But he added mere words do
not >reassure us" in view of the
fact that "since 1899, 600 mil
lion people of some Is nations
have been brought into the So
Wet camp of relationships"
Harmony Urgently Needed.
Saying there never was time
when the need for harmony was
more urgent, Mr.. Dulles told the
Assembly:
THE United States will seek
to avoid any word or deed which
might needlessly aggravate the
present state of dangerous ten
sion"
THE United States is quite
prepared to explore ways to end
the present tension" he said.
"But what the United States does
cannot achieve the required goal
unless there is an equivalent re-
sponSe.
Occasions are now imminent
which permit, indeed require, the
Soviet leaders to show more au-
thentically their present inten-
tionS."
Charges "DilatOry Tactics.
Then Mr.. Dulles said:
IF the Soviet leaders are
honest, they must recognize
that. if there is to be a new
world climate, they must con-
tribute more to it than they
have yet contributed"
He accused the Soviet Union
specifically of "dilatory tactics"
in Korea and of sponsoring
rebel forces in Indo-China, as
we'll as failure to cooperate on
(See U. NJ, Page A-13)
Evening star., 1953-09-17
Korean Fund Approved

SEOUL, Sept. II (Pl.-The
U. N. Korean reconstruction
agency today approved creation
of a SIS million fund to loan
small businesses and mining
firms to help Korean business
men recoup wartime losses.