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Evening star., 1953-05-15
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Evening star., 1953-05-15
Hanna Says He Offered
Roads Rider for 7 Others
BY the Associoted Press

BALTIMORE. May 15.-Dele-
gate Hanna, Dem ocrat, of
Wicomico County. says he un-
derstands now that the two
lawmakers who urged him to
introduce a rider on the roads
improvement bill were more or
less connected with the con-
tractors"
Il can understand why they
did not want to put it in under
their own Names" the Eastern
Shore Democrat added.
Mr.. Hanna was commenting
yesterday on the $3.50 million,
12-year highway plan and the
amendment he offered to it. It
would exempt big trucks haul
ing loose cargo, like sand and
gravel, from provisions of the
States axle-load restrictions.
He became Official" sponsor
of the rider as a friendly ges-
ture" to his two colleagues, Mr..
Hanna said, but he would not
disclose their names.
1t was his understanding, he
added, that the amendment
would help expedite the roads
building program.
Evening star., 1953-05-15
Silver Spring Group
Fi|esPetition 10 Block
Higher Sanitary Rates

A petition to block the Wash
ington Suburban Sanitary Com
mission from levying and collect
ing its new and increased rates
was filed yesterday with the
Maryland Public Service Com
mission in Baltimore.
The petition-seven pages in
length-was filed by Willard A..
Morris, president of the Allied
Civic Group of Silver Springs.
Among Hottest Critics.
The Civic Group has been one
of the most bitter critics of the
sanitary commissions financial
policies and closed session delib-
erationS.
Mr.. Morris asked that the PSC
enjoin the commission from COL
lecting the new rates. The pc
tition also requests the PSC to
determine the reasonableness of
the sharply increased charges.
Filing of the petition came in
just under the 30-day deadline
for protests.
No Stand on Jurisdiction.
Meanwhile, it was learned from
Albert L. Deem, PSC executive
secretary, that the commission
still has no formal opinion on
whether it has jurisdiction over
the sanitary commission. The
opinion was requested a week
ago.
Mr.. Morris said today the
PSC was informed in a written
opinion in 1926 by the then AS
sistant States Attorney John H.
Rice, that it did have authority
over the sanitary group.
The PSC has received a large
number of protests from resi-
dents of the suburban Maryland
area. The Allied Civic complaint,
however, was the first formal
petition filed. 1t was prepared
by Attorneys H. r. and j. r.
Miller of Silver Spring.
Evening star., 1953-05-15

An Arlington (VaD man yes
terday donated more than $20,-
900 worth of merchandise to a
founding home here because he
likes children.
The merchandise will be sold
by the Washington Home for
Foundlings, 4510 Forty-Second
street NV, and the home will
receive the full proceeds. accord
ing to the donor, Aubrey Lee, 40,
of 1921 Columbia pike.
An indirect sequence of events
led to Mr.. Lees act of generosity.
Margaret Kennedy. New York
investment counselor, yesterday
made a broadcast over Station
WRC on the Gene Archer pro-
gram on how women might make
investments. She also is due to
give lecture on the subject in
Lisner Auditorium Tuesday at
8 pm, with the proceeds going
to the foundlings' home.
Evening star., 1953-05-15
BY SERGT. JOHN l. WATERS
As Told to John v. Homer

by Star Newspa COZ
Prison Camp No. at Pyokdong in beautiful place
on the Yau River Altogether guess mile
in the center of the valley, surrounded by ranges of
mountains 1t about 800 feet above the water level
When got there in April 1851, the camp had been
operating long few months before this the Chinese
called Death Valley in Death Valley but
understand that quite few of the fellows died there
Pyokdong was not marked POW camp and so when
our planes along about the December
bombed and strafed it They wiped half the town out
It happened that at the time of the bombing
1can soldiers were another hill in the vicinity
Evening star., 1953-05-15
Citizens Group Elects

Harlan A. WeStrell has been
elected president Of the Rock
Creek Forest Citizens ASsocia-
ton. Other new officers are
Leonard Gordon and w. Leroy
Neubrecht. vice presidents; Mrs.
Herman Tocker, secretary. and
Andres Moynelo, treasurer.
Evening star., 1953-05-15
Fuirfux Democratic RoIIy

A rally for John c. Webb, one
of four Democrats seeking NOM
ination to two seats in the Vir-
ginia House of Delegates from
Fairfax County, will be held this
evening in the Pen Daw Hotel,
south of Alexandria.
Evening star., 1953-05-15
Tax Collections Drop

RICHMOND. May IS (P.-
Federal gross tax collections in
Virginia amounted to $423, ,095.-
947 through April 80, 1858, COM
pared with 1929 .042,716 for the
first four months Of 1852.
Evening star., 1953-05-15
Reds Start Dishing Out Propaganda


Camp where they started giving us Communist
propaganda About daybreak they'd call the whole bunch
together to form the hillside Sometimes pretty
cold but when it raining would still assemble
there before ate
The Chinese instructors had books and all kinds of
muniSt literature to read After that squad discus
on with everybody divided into paoonS and squads They'd
want written report, like book report the subject.
Well, lot of didn't take down notes and didn't
listen to the instructors So when it time
down and they would find this out they would punish you.
Else you had to psychology and wiggle out.
We got more propaganda after breakfast They gave
Communist literature like the Daily Life of China
Shanghai News which printed in English We
read them then tore parts paper roll cigarettes
n-theyd give little bulk tobacco leaf tobacco from
time to time
They punished the prisoners first by making them
at attention for long time If you baked at that or gave
them kind of trouble they threw the hole but
never did quite make hole.
They had lot OF holes at Pyokdong and both
camps went to later. They cellars formerly
used to store turnps and potatoes things that They
were covered and usually very dark In fact understand
that IN some Of them you couldn't tell when it was
daylight outside Sometimes the guys left in there
week or 10 days And they got only about half
much chow usual.
Tonorrow: rooster. boat trip and Camp ).
Evening star., 1953-05-15
Fair at Bethesda School

The Green Acres School will
hold fair from II am. to 6
pm. tomorrow on the school
grounds, 11275 Rockville pike,
Bethesda, Md,
Evening star., 1953-05-15
Food Was Less and Flies Were Bad

Food about the was before only not near
much of it. because of many there get maybe
half tea coffee of barley corn whatever
it might be.
The flies and mosquitoes awfuly bad think that's
the reason why died. account of dysentery
and sanitation got dysentery myself.
was lucky because there American doctor in
camp captain who persuaded the two Chinese
let him help treat the patients This captain went out of his
to do everything he could for He would
to make potash kind of ash and give to
1t helped get the dysentery although lost lot
of weight
The Chinese doctors wouldn't give the captain any
cine but If he got the chance he would steal things like
aspirin and apo tablets and give them to who needed
them They caught him at this dismissed altogether
He wasn't allowed to associate They called him
and sent him back to another compound
everybody else
What kind of treatment he got from then on, don't
know. understand he's still alive and getting along good
now learned that from couple of officers repatrated
when
We didn't get out of the compound much only sick
call and to the road for rations things like that
Two three times week would out and get wood
rebrush-to cook chow with. Then they got letting us
swim in the river 1t had nice bottom you
could wade out maybe 40 so feet
Evening star., 1953-05-15
Propaganda Lessons Start
For Waters at YoIuConp

(This is the fourth in of stories by Serqt
John L. Waters his 20 months prisoner of the
Reds in Korea The Ueeran soldier oly District
man repdtrtated under the POW exchange plan,)
Evening star., 1953-05-15

WEST VIRGINIA HUDDLE-Sergt L. Waters chats with
Senator Neey Democrat of West Virginia Lafayette
Hotel The returned POW native Beckley was guest of
honor yesterday at luncheon given by the Virginia
State Society. Star STAFF Photo
know whether any killed Anyhow the Chinese
pulled all the prisoners Pyokdong morning and
took them to Death Valley.
Just before arrived they started this place up
camp again. That's when they brought the biggest part
the troops back in.
Many Died, and Were Buried on Hill
When got there guess there better than 1000
men in the camp. But when left in August only about
1000 were still there The died off right
on the hill across pond from
We were divided into companies. The sergeantS were
separated from the corporalS and the corpora
prvateS and right down. still corporal was
put in with the ergeantS Each company compound
ncoSed by barbedwre fences the side of the
hl with the officer prisoners up above The Turks
the British in other compounds all averaged
about the size of city block or less.
We stayed in regular Korean Shacks these at Camp
did have doors We were crowded IL and IA in ROOM In
fact not all of could lie down at the same
time. Some had to turn up their Sides
Some of the buildings had heat The didn't
happen to, but it was getting warmer then. midday
toward summer when was hot the temperature get
up to around 80 IS degrees But there good
In the Mountains.
Evening star., 1953-05-15

Tomorrow: rooster. G boat trip and Camp }.
Evening star., 1953-05-15

90 over again, would follow the
same procedure.
Commission Counsel Arthur c.
Keefer. named to speak for the
members, said the commission
ers themselves were required to
set the rates and he saw no
benefit to be gained from a pub
lie hearing,
George F. Nesbitt. Montgom- =
cry County Council president,
praised the commission for hav-
ing "belatedly done a wise thing
in getting outside consultants. "
Asked how much higher tax
bills residents of suburban Mary
land could stand, Mr.. VAIN
wright replied:
you are getting by with light
taxes" ...
The commissioners, although
the various fees and tax rates
already have been established,
said it was now preparing a
budget. Commissioner L. S. (Ted)
Ray said it would be the first
the commission ever had. Mr..
Keefer added he saw no reason
for holding public hearings on
proposed budgets.
Harry B. Shaw. commission
chief engineer, defended the
pattern of sewer and water line
extensions. He said he knew of
no political favoritism being in
volved in the extensions.
The commissioners disclosed
they recently had retained on a
fee basis public relations man
to write press releases Clarity
ing the rate increases. Mr.. Bell
amy said the commission was
considering hiring a full-time
| information officer.
Evening star., 1953-06-13
To-Day Race Meeting.
Opens satCumberIand
Speclol Dispofeh 10 The Sfnr

CUMBERLAND, Md, June 13.
-Maryland'S half-mile track
racing season opens here today
with a couple of dignitaries from
Pakistan among the guests. They
are M. Shoaib, steward of the
Karachi Race Club, and S. Am
jad Ali, ambassador r-at-large.
The Pakistan flag will be flown
In the inf1eld in their honor.
Maryland'S two United States
Senators, j. Glen Beall and John
M. Butler, also were expected to
attend the start of the To-day
meeting. Beall is president of
the Cumberland Fair Association,
sponsor of the meeting, and But
Ter will present the trophy to
the winning owner in the Clifton
w. White Handicap-the days
feature.
With the best of the sprinters
and half-milers in the Maryland,
Virginia and West Virginia area
available, Cumberland anticipates
a good meeting.
Jockey Mike Sorrentino and
Mrs. A. A. (Babe) Saportas are
back to defend the honors they
won here last year as leading
rider and trainer. Sorrentino
nosed out Don league for the
jockey award. while Mrs. Saports,
Queen of the Half -Milers, Z"
saddled IL winners.
Evening star., 1953-06-13
Minor Leagues
BY the Asseeiofsd Press

BY the ASSociofSd Press
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE.
Oakland. 5; Los Angeles, 4 90 innings).
Hollywood, Q; San Francisco. /.
sacramento. 5; San Diego. f..
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
Louisville 5-6: Columbus, Is (sec-
end game IL innings.
Kansas TIH'sn. City City e-llj Charleston IL.
INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE.
Rochester. 2; Springfield. /.
Other games postponed.
TEXAS LEAGUE.
Dallas, 3-12; Beaumont, o.,
Fort Worth, 8; Shreveport, o,
Houston, 8; Tulsa, 2.
Oklahoma City ct san Antonio, post
Doned.
SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION.
Atlanta, l3-s; Memphis. Is tsee-
chsttanoosa. 8; New orleans. s Go
Nashville. Q: Mobile. 8.
Birmingham. s; Little Rock, 2.
WESTERN LEAGUE.
Lincoln. 4-2: Omaha. al.
Denver, 12; Wichita, 5.
Oes Moines. 8: Sioux City, o.
Colorado Springs. 10; Pueblo, 8.
EASTERN LEAGUE.
Scranton, /; Reading, O.
Schenectady, s; Binehamton, B.
Albany. IL; Elmira, 2,
Wilkes-BarreS 8; Williamsport, I.
soUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE
Macon, Q; Columbia, /.
Augusta. z; Charleston. B..
|avannah, 9; Columbus, o.
Jacksonville, &; Montgomery, 3.
Evening star., 1953-06-13
BY the Assoeiaied Press

A radio-radar beacon device,
smaller than two match boxes,
will be manufactured in this
country for flyers to wear on
their life jackets.
The miniature transmitter-re-
ceiver includes batteries, micro
phone-loudspeaker and aerial
that extends to 81 inches. 1t
is designed to guide rescuing
planes to a survivor drifting in
the sea and let him communi-
cate with them when they come
close enough.
United States rights to man
ufacture the 3h-pound device,
called Sarah" have been &C
quired by Simmonds Aerocesso-
ries, Inc, Tarrytown, N. Y, from
Ultra Electric, Ltd, London.
The first sales have been made
to Grumman Aircraft, Beth
page, N. Y.
Grumman plans to use the
equipment in it's own flight test
ing program. Sarah also has
been demonstrated to the Air
Force and the Army Field Forces,
and the Navy has made tests at
it's Patuxent (Md) air center.
A f1ier adrift at sea, wearing
a Mae West life jacket to which
Sarah is attached, merely pulls
wire ring. Thereupon a cover
flies off, the yellow steel tape
aerial snaps open and the trans
mitter starts sending messages
Evening star., 1953-06-13
Pay Increases Granted
By Bendix Aviation
By the Assoeiotsd Press

DETROIT. June 13. Bendix
Aviation Corp. and CIO United
Auto Workers yesterday reached
contract agreements providing
increased benefits for more than
10000 workers at the company's
plants throughout the Nation.
Martin Gerber, director Of
Region Nine, UAW-CIO, said
the contracts follow the pattern
set in General Motors Corp.
negotiations. They provide an
increase in the annual wage i'm
provement from to 5 cents an
hour. They also provide for a
10-cent-an-hour increase for
skillful employees.
The agreement covers five
division. with the understanding
that it also applied to a sixth
plant in st. Joseph, Mich, and
the dix-Westinghouse plant
at Elyria, Ohio. Gerber said.
The five divisions covered are
those in Detroit; South Bend,
Ind; Teterboro, N. j.; Elmira.
N. Y. and North Hollywood,
Calf.
Evening star., 1953-06-13
OIdNomesF FMGof fSemifinoIs,
But New Ones Are on Woy

Spring, defeated Kay Fletcher,
Bethesda, 2 and /, and Ralph
Bogart won over Hank Robert
son. Prince Georges, 4 and 3.
Cullinane, who will compete
for st. Johns in the annual
Eastern interscholastic tourna-
ment starting Tuesday at Yale,
was somewhat chagrined.
II had him." he said. II
should've beaten him. I just
choked up"
So today it's Brownell against
Bogart, his insurance partner
and fellow club member from
Chevy Chase and Overton
against Volney Burnett. Burnett
is the only one who was not
in last years semifinals where
Brownell beat Bob Chandler and
Overton won over Bogart.
Brownell beat Overton for the
title.
In last years quarter finals,
Cullinane was q 6-and-5 victim
of Brownell, but it was a vastly
improved Cullinane that Brown
ell faced yesterday. Perky won
the second hole with a par, lost
the third to Brownell's par and
the fourth to his eagle. He won
the fifth, lost the sixth, then
Evening star., 1953-06-13
Story of Girls Death a Hoax,
Mother Admits, Goes to Jail
CuItist Refuses to
Tell Whereabouts
Of Daughter, IS
BY the Assoeioted Press

LOS ANGELES, June 49,
Search for 15-year -old Charlotte
Ury turned to the desert and
Santa Catalina Island today Al
her mother. admitting that hel
story Of the girl being dead was
a hoax, started q five-day jail
sentence.
Superior Judge William b
McKesson sentenced Mrs. Mary
Kendall Curtis, 80, for contempt
yesterday after demanding that
she tell him where the girl is
and whether she is alive or dead
The district attorney asked the
sheriff's Office in nearby River
side County to search for the
girl near a religious cult head
quarters at the desert commu-
nifty Of Twenty-Five Palms.
A Long Beach travel bureau
manager, c. M. Helmer. said he
was almost certain that Char
lotte was the girl who came to
his Office last Saturday and
asked about boat passage to Cat
alma. Police there checked ho-
tells, rooming houses and beaches,
but did not find her.
Mrs. Curtis, who calls herself
a missionary for q cult, was
jailed on suspicion of murder
after probation authorities re-
ceived letter from her saying
her daughter was better OF
dead. The body is on the desert,
but you'll never find it. ;"
Mrs. Curtis told repQters: II
Evening star., 1953-06-13
knights of Taste Dine Here
But Meal Is Far From Squ0re

The Chevaliers du Tastevin,
who make dining a ritual rather
than a fuel stop, savored every
bite and every sip of an early
summer lunch yesterday as
though it were the last meal.
Gathered around a 15- place
table in the Raleigh Hotels
Queen Elizabeth room, their very
manner bespoke adherence Of a
prelunch Martini, a between
course cigarette and condiments.
Room = t e m perature wine
opened two hours before lunch to
let the vintage breathe" was
coronation sherry and Chateau
de la Maltroye, AS.
There was poached cold breast
Of chicken and frogs legs flown
in from Louisiana by morning
plane; Italian prochutto (ham)
with melon slices.
The dessert, with iced reisling
was Mont Blanc, puree of glazed
chestnutS with whipped cream.
Evening star., 1953-06-13
Once Cent Gas Rise
Expected Monday in
Area ESQ Stations

On Monday, Washington area
motorists will pay about cent
more per gallon for their gaso-
line when they drive up to an
ESQ station.
This became known today after
j. Med. Price, jr., the company's
district manager. announced an
increase in wholesale prices for
motor gasolines of about 6/10
cent per gallon. Mr.. Price said
the increase will apply to Dela-
ware, Maryland, the District and
Alexandria and Arlington and
Fairfax Counties in Virginia.
Mr.. Price said it will be up to
the individual dealer to pass
along the increase to the con-
sumer. if he desires.
c. A. Newland, division man.
ager of the company, with head
quarters in Baltimore. explained
there has been no general re-
vision Of gasoline prices in this
area for almost three years. Since
mid-1950, he said, overall costs
have been increased by substan-
tial advances in wages and sala-
ries and higher prices paid for
materials used in construction
and maintenance. He also said
top quality gasolines in recent
weeks have been in tight supply
and there have been general ad-
vances in gasoline prices in the
primary market in the Gulf re-
gion.
A check with other gasoline
Suppliers in this area showed
no immediate orders to advance
prices. But some observed that
usually when one company in
creases its prices, the others soon
follow suit.
Evening star., 1953-06-13
Hi-Lo's S Forbes GOING
To New York After
Rosecroft Triumph

Hi-Lo's Forbes. who came
through with a promised record
breaking performance at Rose
croft last night, will be shipped
back to New York over the week
end to try for bigger overnight
purses at Roosevelt Raceway.
The sleek, black colt, owned
by Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Wagner
Of Landover Hills, Md, gave
some 10000 fans something to
remember him by in pacing q
mile in 2:012s in the featured
$4,000 Free-for-All Invitation
Pace, The race headlined the
closing program of Rosecroft's
successful 20-night meeting.
Maryland harness racing be-
gins the second lap of the season
Monday at Laurel Raceway,
where the $4,000 Washington
free-for-all trot headlines the
flrst program Of a 20-night meet
ing.
A quiet, well-mannered stall
lion, Hi-Lo's Forbes ran a per-
feet race under the able han
ding Of the veteran Henry
Clukey to beat Meadow Rice by
three-quarters Of a length, The
winner was q 9-to-10 favorite
and paid $3.50. $500 and $3.50
across. the board.
True Kitty tried to steal the
spotlight by winning the sixth
race in Rosecroft record time of
2:032s for a $24 mutuel. But
Forbes was equal to the occasion
and lived up to his press notices
by cutting two full seconds off
that time. He sped a mile in
world-record time of 1:5835 at
Roosevelt just a week ago today.
An accident involving two
dangerous challengers, Irish Hal
and Wilmington's Star, marred
last nights race and sent Bill
Fleming, Wilmington'S' driver,
to Casualty Hospital with a dis
located shoulder. A broken ring
in the bit caused the horse to
veer out at the paddock turn the
first time around and he took
Irish Hal with him.
Hi-Lo's Forbes took command
at that point and was never
headed, although Meadow Rice,
with Jimmy Arthur driving,
made a valiant effort to catch
him.
The crowd, which bet a near
record $65.122 on the feature,
showed a total of $405, ,76O
through the windows on the
eight races to give Rosecroft a
new record handle for the meet
ing of $6,935, ,687. This topped
last years figure Of $6,718,525.
Evening star., 1953-06-13
300 Taking Paf Today
In Boys Club Track Meet

Nearly 300 youngsters in 80
events are participating today in
the annual Metropolitan Police
Boys club track meet at Eastern
High School. Club No. 10 Is
defending champion in both the
junior and senior divisions.
The boys are divided into four
weight classes, 65-pound, 30
pound, 05-pound and 115-pound
and in two age divisions, junior
unlimited and senior. One of
the main events will be the 220-
yard medley relay in which all
four weight class divisions will
participate. ...
Robert v. Murray, chief Of
police, is expected to act as hon.
orary referee and 1t. Forrest l..
Binswanger, club director, will
supervise the meet.