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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-05-01
Former Federal Aide Refuses
To Answer Query on Reds
New York Writer
Won't Tuik About
Purty or Spy Ring
BY the Associated Press

Edward j. Fitzgerald of New
York, a former Government
economist, refused to tell Sen
ate Investigators today whether
he is now Communist or
whether he was a member Of a
Soviet spy ring here during
World War II.
A Federal employe for about
10 years, beginning in, 1886,
Fitzgerald said he now is a free
lance writer.
He testified he writes fiction
for confession magazines and
also has reviewed books in the
last two or three years for the
Saturday Review of Literature,
the New York Herald Tribune
and the New York Times.
The Senate Internal Security
subcommittee questioned Fitz-
gerald, a slight man with close
cropped grazing hair. in an in
vestigation of what it has de-
scribed as "the pattern of sub
versive infiltration of Govern
ment agencies"
Book Reviews Listed.
The committee said a letter
dated April 80, 1853, from the
book. review editor of the New
York Times reported that Fitz-
gerald has reviewed only six
books for that newspaper.
The books were described as
fiction of secondary impor-
tance."
The subcommittee also put
into the record a list of books
reviewed by Fitzgerald for the
Saturday Review of Literature
and the New York Herald
Tribune.
Benjamin Mandel, the sub
committees research director,
said the lists showed that Fitz-
gerald has reviewed about So
books for the Saturday Review
of Literature and about SO books
for the Herald Tribune.
When Fitzgerald was asked if
he presently is a member of the
Communist Party, he refused to
answer on the ground that to
do so might tend to incriminate
him.
FitZgerald's name was first
brought into the subcommittee
hearings last year. At that time,
j. G. Sourwine, subcommittee
counsel, listed Fitzgerald among
members of what he termed a
Communist spy ring headed by
Victor Perlo.
Questioned About Ring.
Fitzgerald was asked about
that today, and invoked his con-
stitutional protection against
possible standardization. He
was asked specifically whether
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-05-01
| lair Force Colonel
Testifies on Role in
Turkish Cash Deals

The trail of alleged faxed top
secret Air Force sletters and
black-market operations in Turk
ish currency lead to the Fair
fax Circuit Court today.
They were the subject of testi-
mony in a Government effort to
seize property of Kenneth E.
Robertson, "a, Air Force chief
warrant officer.
Col. Frank j. MacNess, of the
18th Air Force at Greenville,
S. c.. who had been air attache
at Ankara, Turkey, in 1949 and
1850, said he had never seen
letters concerning exchange
transactions in Turkish Ira.
Read From Transcript.
Special Assistant United
States Attorney William P.
WoollS read passages from a
transcript of questioning of
Robertson in Turkey. Robertson
is now in jail in Turkey.
Robertson was quoted as say
ing he typed the letters which
were actually prepared by Col.
MacNees. The Government con-
tends the letters, authorizing
exchange transactions, enabled
Robertson to make a profit of
$4,000.
Col. MacNees said he had not
prepared the letters nor had he
seen them before the start of
the investigation into the Rob-
erson case.
Quoted Colonel on Money.
Robertson was quoted as having
said that Col. MacNees had told
him there would be "a lot of
money to exchange" mention
ing 100000 and then $500, 900.
He said Col. MacNees had given
him $4,000 in lire and that be-
fore the colonel left Turkey he
gave him $4,000 in crumpled
bills, saying this was really
scraping the bottom of the
barrel.
Col. MacNees testified today
the only Turkish money he
turned over to Robertson for ex-
change was about $4,000 in lire
he had obtained from the sale
of his automobile and additional
small sums from the sale of
household goods. He said he re-
ceived a Treasury check for the
funds.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-05-01
Policemen on Beats
Capture 7 Robbery
Suspects Quickly

Foot patrolmen caught TIVE
robbery suspects in different
parts Of the city last night.
More patrolmen on beats ii
one solution to the city's crime
problem, Police Chief Robert v
Murray has long commended II
attempting to build up the force
One of the men arrested was
charged with robbery Of a cat
driver and he was caught after
what appeared to be a robbery
attempt on a second hacker. The
suspect was Paul II. Parker, %
of the 1900 block of Third street
N. E.
Waiting for Suspect.
He was grabbed by Police Pvt
Charles Gilmartin. who was wait
ing for him at the mouth of ar
alley in the 1900 block of Twelfth
street NV.
James c. Gore, I'LL Joliet
street NV, had told the police
man the man had asked him to
drive his cab into the alley.
When the fare got out. Mr.. Gore
said, and started around to the
drivers side, the hacker quickly
backed out of the alley.
Only a short time before, Ar
thur j. EIDE. 419 East Howell
avenue. Alexandria, another
hacker, had been robbed of $14
and a cheap cigarette lighter by
a man who got out of his cab at
Eleventh and o streets NV.
When Pvt. Gilmartin and Mr..
Gore appeared at the second pre-
cinct station with the suspect,
Mr.. EIDE was there making out
a complaint. He identified Par
ker. Police said money and Mr..
Ede's lighter were found on the
suspect.
Hold Youth in Yoking.
In the second case, Pvts. James
p. Kelpac and Billy Smith ar
rested an 18-year-old youth and
charged him with the yoke rob-
berry of Robert E. Trudel, 81, Of
1907 Eleventh street NV.
The situation didn't look quite
right to either of them when
fhev sovx, tho x,o,,tI ,-,1Y,,i,,o i,,to
an alley near Eleventh and M
streets NV. They grabbed him,
walked him back toward Twelfth
street, where they found the
complaining Mr.. Trudel. A stock
receipt and Sc had been taken
from him. he reported.
The suspect. Jimmy F. Beverly,
colored, of the 900 block of M
street NV, was charged with
robbery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-05-01
President Commends
Elks for Youth Work

President Eisenhower has COM
mended the Order of Elks for its
sound efforts on behalf of the
youth of America" in its estab-
lishment of May ! as Elks Ma
tional Youth Day.
Today has been set aside by
the Elks as a tribute to the
activities and achievements of
Americas Junior citizens"
Gen. Eisenhower went on to
say that this preparation of our
young citizens for society "vividly
and sharply contrasts with the
deadly RECOMMENDATION of COM
munism celebrated by others on
that day."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-05-01
Senator Smith to Seek
Reelection to Office
By the Associated Press

UY TIC SNSSuCTuIeu FTeSS
Senator Smith, Democrat of
North Carolina, said today he
will run for reelection.
Senator Smith won his seat in
the Senate in 1850 in a spirited
campaign in which he beat out
then Senator Frank P. Graham.
He is a member of the Senate
District Committee.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-05-01
Ends Cattle KiIIino

Chief Mukabela of Northern
Rhodesia has ended the Ba-Ila
tribes custom of killing 300 cat
tie on the death of a chief,
Lusaka reports.
Evening star., 1953-01-16
MoIuyu PIuns COLLEGES

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaga (P|.
The Malayan government is
planning the building of two
more colleges concerned prima-
rily with training teachers for
Chinese schools. Assistant Di-
rector of Education L. 1. Lewis,
says one of the colleges will be
built in Malacca and the other
in Johore. There is already one
such college in Panang. The
colleges are initially expected to
turn out 80 new teachers each
year.
Evening star., 1953-01-16

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Evening star., 1953-01-16
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20
Rome Police Beat OFT Students
Protesting Decision on Trieste

them off in army vans. The ar
rested demonstrators sang pro-
Italian Trieste songs as they
were driven away.
There were so many police in
the area that their jeeps and
trucks tied up traffic for blocks
Demonstrations in other parts
of the city also stalled the morn
ing rush hour.
Thousands of other students
staged demonstrations in front
of the American and British EN-
bassies but police kept them at
a distance and there was nc
~scufling.
Yugoslavs already have re-
acted violently on several oc-
casions to the latest Western
decisions on Trieste, with at
tacks on the American and
British diplomatic mission in
stallations and personnel in
Belgrade.
The Yugoslav demonstrations
have subsidized. but officials of
that independent Communist
country continued to voice their
determination to fight to the
bitter end the allied decision to
give Trieste to Italy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20
ey The Assoeicted Press

ROME. Oct. 20-Club swing
ing police beat back protesting
Italian students in front of the
Russian Embassy today as dem
onStrationS over the disputed
free territory of Trieste broke
out in various parts Of Rome
The students answered the po-
lice club attacks with sticks.
Many of the demonstrators were
bruised but no serious injuries
were reported.
Hundreds paraded elsewhere.
carrying Italian flags, angrily
shouting against Yugoslav Presi-
dent Tito's stand on Trieste and
demanding the strategic Adriatic
peninsula be returned to Italy.
Some of the demonstrators
marched past the Yugoslav Lee
CATION near the heart Of the city
but no violence was reported as
mobile riot police, armed with
Submachine guns guarded the
building.
First OutburSt in City.
It was the first demonstration
in Rome on the Trieste issue
since the United States and Brit
ain announced october 8 they
planned to pull out their 1000
occupation troops from Zone A
of the free territory. including
the port city Of Trieste, and turn
the area over to Italian admin
istration.
Huge placards read: "Tito
equals Russia" Tito leave Tri-
este" and Long live the Italian
army" And the students
shouted "Down with Tito" and
"Slavs out Of Trieste"
The demonstration in front of
the Russian Embassy apparently
was in protest against the Soviet
demand that the Security Coun-
Gil meet soon to appoint an in
ternational administration for
the area under permanent U. N.
supervision.
Both Italy and Yugoslavia
have denounced the Russian
move, but Italians believe such
a proposal favors YugoSlavia
more than their own country.
Ringleaders Seized.
Thousands Of t~een-agers and
university students milled
around the Russian Embassy.
Armed police grabbed the sus-
pected ringleaders and trundled
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20
Eden Sees Division
Of Trieste as Only
Practicable Solution
BY the Associated Press

et We ASSoeiote0 PteSS
LONDON, Oct. 20.-Foreigr
Secretary Anthony Eden sale
today the division of the troubled
Trieste free territory along thu
present zonal border seems tt
be the only practicable" methoc
of easing Italian Yugoslav ten.
Sions.
Mr.. Eden told the House O.
Commons that Britain strongly
deprecates the movement Of
troops by either Italy or Yugo.
Slavia.
This can only increase ten
sion and incite public opinion
he said. IF all concerned will
recall the overriding need for
unity between nations who
should be good neighbors, I be-
lieve that we may yet find means
Of bringing both parties to agree
to a settlement"
Hope for Soviet Acceptance.
Both Mr.. Eden and Prime Min
lister Churchill expressed hope
the Soviet Union will accept an
invitation to a proposed meeting
of four-power foreign ministers
November 8 in Lugano, Switzer-
land. Mr.. Eden said such a
meeting could make progress to-
ward a settlement of the German
and Austrian questions, and SO
contribute to a significant re-
duction in world tension"
Mr. Churchill said the Lugano
invitation involves no change in
our outlook" He added he still
hopes for an informal confer
ence of world leaders, as he pro-
posed in May, and continued:
"Our view remains that friend
ly, informal and personal talks
between the leading figures in
the countries mainly involved
might do good and could not
easily do harm"
Secretary Of State Dulles, here
last week end for conferences
repeatedly was cool toward the
idea of an Eisenhower Churchill
Malenkov meeting.
Mr.. Churchill SideStepped
Laborite attempts to get him to
say whether he was prepared to
journey alone to Moscow to talk
with Premier Malenkov.
Would Fly to Moscow.
Most British newspapers car
ried renewed reports today
attributed to unnamed diplo-
matte sources in Paris-that the
Prime Minister was determined
to try to arrange a direct ap-
proach to Malenkov even If he
has to go it alone.
The reports said If necessary
the doughty old statesman is
willing to fly to Moscow for
such a meeting. A British for
eign Office spokesman told news
men last night he had nothing
to say regarding these reports
In cold-shouldering the idea,
Mr.. Dulles was reported to have
argued during his visit here that
the Big Three should at least
await Russia's reply to their
formal invitation to a foreign
ministers conference at Lugano,
Switzerland, November 8 to dis
cuss German unity. Austrian in
dependence and European Sc
curity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20
Chinese in New Guinec

The Papua-New Guinea legis-
lative council has been asked to
define the status Of the 1000 to
5000 Chinese now living in New
Guinea.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20
CoImar Manor Bartender
Held on Charge Of Girl, Is

A Colmar Manor (Md.) bar
tender was bound to the Prince
Georges County grand jury with
out bond yesterday on charges of
assault with intent to rape and
carrying a concealed deadly
weapon.
Charles Vernon Walker, IS, of
the $500 block of Newark road,
Colmar Manor. was arrested last
Wednesday.
His accuser, a 16-year-old Col
mar Manor girl. testified he held
a hunting knife at her throat
and ordered her to undress.
Walker denied threatening her.
He testified he picked her up on
the street in Colmar Manor, and
she agreed to let him take her
home. He said he kissed her
and she fed, screaming.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20
CONTINUED From First Page.)

(ConClnue0 From First Page.)
that it will withhold American
financial aid to Israel until the
Jewish state abandons it's prof.
ect to divert the Jordan River
along the Syrian frontier for ir-
rigation.
The U. N. yesterday brought
out it's own plan for making use
of the Jordan waters-a 1921
million "TVA on the Jordan" to
provide irrigation and water
power to both Arabs and Israeli.
Plan by iva Experts.
The plan, drawn up by experts
Of the Tennessee Valley Author
ity, includes the building of
reservoirs, canals and hydro
electric power, the diversion of
one river and the draining of a
lake and its marsh area. There
were no indications where the
money would come for the work
which was estimated would take
10 to Is years. ,
Elsewhere in the international
organization, the U. N. Political
Committee turned down an
AEab-Asia demand that France
grant complete independence
within five years to it's North
African protectorate of Morocco.
The vote in the 60-nation body
was % to %. with nine Austen
tons. Britain and the United
States both opposed the resolu-
ton.
The committee did, however.
approve, 81 to Is, with nine alb
Stent1ons, an amended Bolivian
resolution urging that the rights
OF the Moroccan people to self
determination be respected.
Refugee Charge Made
The U. N. Social Committee
heard a Communist White Rus
sian charge that the United
States is keeping hundreds of
thousands of refugees from other
lands in forced labor under Gin
human conditions" The accu-
Satlon came during a debate in
the Donation. body on whether
to continue the Office of U. N.
high commissioner for refugees.
White Russian Delegate Mrs,
F. A. Novikova accused the COM
missioner, G. j. van Heuven
Goedhart of the Netherlands, of
gearing all his actions to pre-
vent repatriation of refugees -.
in compliance with directives of
the Anglo-American bloc"
The commissioner has the re-
sponsibility for protecting the
interests of some two million
refugees, mostly in Europe.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20
By Gornett D. Homer

American policy makers be-
lieve that negotiation of a nom
aggression pact with Russia in
the present state of world affairs
would be a dangerous fake,
snare and delusion for the West.
This is the basic attitude back
Of what has appeared to be
much double talk recently about
administration consideration of
the possibility of offering such
q pact to the Soviet.
Behind the doors where this
Governments policy is deter
mined, the thinking goes along
these lines:
/. For Moscow, a non-aggres-
sion pact would be just another
piece Of paper to be accepted,
rejected, made use of, or strapped
as tactics of the moment die
tated in carrying out basic
Soviet policy for trying to sub
jugate the free world.
False Assumptions Seen.
2. The argument advanced by
some that such a pact is needed
to ease Soviet fears of agrees
sive intentions by the West is
based on two false assumptions:
(a) That the Kremlin really
misunderstands the Vests genu-
Inc desire for peace; (b) That
pieces of paper mean anything
to Soviet leaders who base their
policies only on realistic con-
siderationS of power.
8. The signing of such a pact
by Russia would tend to lull the
people of the United States and
other free countries into a false
sense of security. leading to
pressure for letting down our
defenSes and scrapping the Euro
pean Army project, while the
Soviet built up it's atomic and
hydrogen bomb stockpile.
4. Any new non-aggression
pledge with Russia is superfluous
anyway, since Russia and the
United StateS-aS we'll as other
major Western powers-already
are signerS Of the United Nations
Charter which preScribes that
all members shall refrain from
the threat or use of force against
any other nation.
Fear misunderstanding.
President Eisenhower, Secre-
tary of State Dulles and other
administration spokesman can
not afford to come rightNout and
say they don't like the idea of
a new pact because a lot of peo-
pie would take that to mean the
administration does not want
peace with RuSSia-which it does
want.
They have to walk a diplo-
matte tightrope, trying to keep
a sensitive balance between
moves that would appear to
spurn peace with the Russians
and those that would tend to
lead the Western peoples on with
false hopes of peace.
Secretary of State Dulles went
as far as he thought he could
go toward knocking down the
non-aggreSSion pact idea in an
October 6 news conference when
he said talk of such a pact is
somewhat meaningless" be-
cause it would be difficult to add
much to the United Nations
Charter pledge.
Answer BeclOuds Facts.
Mr.. Dulles tried to shift at
tention to areas like Germany
where special action might pos
sibly be considered" in applica-
ton of u. N. Charter principles
to give the Soviet reinsurance
against a possible resurgence of
German aggression.
But he apparently felt he had
to answer yes when asked fatty
later in that conference whether
this Government was studying
a non-aggressive pact. His af-
firmative answer. naturally re-
ported prominently in news
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20
Simultaneous Cousins

HAGERSTOWN Ind, (P.-
Two sisters. who recently oc-
cupied the same room at the
hospital gave birth to a son and
a daughter 10 minutes apart.
Mrs. Joseph Longenecker, whose
husband was serving with the
army in Korea, became the
mother of a son, Jay Curtis,
while her sister, Mrs. James
Giggy, gave birth to a daughter,
Suzanne.