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Evening star., 1953-09-17
Home Building Increases
Again After Brief Laq
BY the Associated Press

The Labor Department said
today a recent decline in home
building starts seems to have
abated."
There was a sizeable decline
in starts in July, but the Bureau
of Labor Statistics estimated
August starts at $4,000, only
1000 fewer than in July.
The bureau said starts so far
this year through August were
10000 units, about the same as
in the first eight months last
year.
The bureau said housing &C
tiVity was adversely affected
during July and August because
of construction workers strikes
in some areas.
Evening star., 1953-09-17

survived by a daughter, Katie
Ann, IT; a sister, Mrs. Dorothy
Hamilton, of Washington, and
his mother, Mrs. Lulu Brunstet-
ter, of Williamsport, Pa.
Mr.. Morse a Bachelor.
Mr.. Morse, also a veteran air
traveller, maintained an apart
ment here at 1910 Nineteenth
street NV, but was out of the
city much of the time as a rep
resentative of Howell & Co., man
agement engineers.
He had been conducting man.
agement surveys for Army ord
Evening star., 1953-09-17
Smith Of New Jersey
Amazed at Durkin's S
Charge on Taft Law
BY the Associoted Press

senator n. Alexander smith,
Republican, of New Jersey, said
today he was amazed" at the
assertion by former Secretary of
Labor Martin Durkin that the
Eisenhower administration broke
an agreement on Taft-Hartley
law revision.
i know perfectly we'll there
wasn't any agreement to break"
said Senator Smith, chairman
of the Senate Labor Committee
who has just returned from
Canadian vacation.
Senator Smith said prolonged
talks looking toward agreement
on revision bill continued right
up to the time Congress ad-
journed on August 3. RepreSen-
tatives of the Senate and House
Labor Committees and the
White House took part, he said.
Planned Further Talks.
But. he added in an interview.
the divergent views of labor and
management groups were not
fully resolved, and it was agreed
the parleys would be resumed
this fall with an eye to intro
duction of legislation in Jan
uary.
Mr.. Durkin did not contend
there had been full agreement
among all parties on proposed
revisionS to the labor relations
law-19 in number. He said at
st. Louis Tuesday he had dis
cussed them with President
Eisenhower and the President
agreed with me that the 10
amendments should not be with
held, that they should be sub
mitted to Congress"
A few days later, Mr.. Durkin
said. a White House staff mem
ber notified him the administra-
ton would not be able to go
along with the proposed amend
mentS.
Agreement Denied.
When he quit the cabinet a
week ago, Mr.. Durkin gave as
his reason what he called White
House failure to abide by an
agreement on the proposals.
Senator Smith said there
never was any agreement. He
said the 19 proposed amend
ments. news of which was pub
lished Gin The Starr few days
before Congress adjourned, were
never anything but a working
draft. 1t was his impression, he
added, that this particular draft
came from Mr.. Durkin'S depart
ment because it contained many
changes sought by unions.
The Senator said he still
hopes his committee will have a
bill embodying changes ready
when Congress comes back, and
that it can get floor action early
next year.
Likes DriScOll for Job.
eve are going ahead with our
conversations just as we had
planned" he said. 1T still is
my hope to get a meeting of
minds of both management and
labor on most of the changes.
Senator Smith said he thought
it would be unwise to pick Mr..
Durkin's successor from the
Evening star., 1953-09-17

the runway where Mr.. Churchill
boarded the waiting airliner, a
regularly scheduled British Euro
pean Airways passenger plane
for Nice. It left 20 minutes late.
Mrs. Churchill, who accom-
Evening star., 1953-09-17

panied her husband to the air.
port, remained behind. Among
Mr.. Churchilrs party of eight
were his daughter Mary and her
h b a n d. Capt. Christopher
Soames. a Conservative member
of parliament.
Evening star., 1953-09-17
Churchill Flies 10 Riviera
Without His Physician

LONDON. Sept. 17.-Prime
Minister Churchill took a plane
today for a French Riviera holi-
day and left his doctor behind
an indication the 78-year-old
statesman is feeling fit again.
Looking better than for some
time but without his usual cigar,
Mr.. Churchill was rushed to Lon
don Airport in a limousine five
minutes late.
The car drove straight onto
Evening star., 1953-09-17
nance arsenalS in Springfield,

nance arsenals in Springfield,
Mass, and Watervliet, N. Y.
A native of Alabama, he grad
uated from Bradley Polytechnic
Institute, Peoria, ILL.,, and at
tended Georgetown University
two years. He is survived by his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel F.
Morse, of Middlegrove, ILL.,, and
a twin brother, Finley F. Morse,
of Seattle, Wash.
Evening star., 1953-09-17
Investigation Begun
In Air Crash Fatal
To q Near Albany
Rx the Asseeiatsd Pros.

ALBANY, N. Y, Sept. IT,
Federal investigators start por-
ing over the twisted ruins Of an
American AirlineS Convair today
to find out what caused it to
clip two radio towers and crash,
killing all % persons aboard.
The twin-engined craft burst
into flames near here yesterday
morning as it crashed within a
few feet Of a trailer park, scorch-
ing the bodies of the IS pas
sengerS and three crew members.
Among those killed were two
passengers from Washington:
DR.. Byron c. Brunstetter and
Falls F. Morse.
Joseph Fluett, regional chief
investigator for the Civil Aero
nauticS Board, called a meeting
this morning to organize IAN
investigation Of structural parts
and the scene itself" that will
take about two weeks. Airline
officials and State police also
are investigating.
Some witnesses reported the
plane seemed to encounter en-
gine trouble az it circled Albany
Airport after its landing had
been delayed by a heavy ground
fog.
Fog Had Begun to Clear.
American Airlines said its
meteorologist found, just before
the crash, that the fog had
begun to clear and that the
ceiling over the airport was 500
feet. Minutes later the big 40
passenger Convair struck two of
three 365-foot towers at Albany'S
Station WPTR transmitter.
The plane fell a half mile
from the radio towers and 3h
miles from the airport control
tower. One witness said there
was fog at the ground level in
the trailer park.
A shred of wreckage clung to
one Of the radio towers, which
was damaged slightly, and part
OF the planes wing and part of
the tail were found on the
ground nearby.
The towers are clearly marked
on pilots charts of the area and
the airport operates a modern
electronic vectoring system to
give airmen the precise location
Of their planes.
Capt. Stentz at Controls.
Capt. James w. Stentz. of
Highland Park, Ill, 32-year old
veteran of 10 years service with
American, was at the controls
at the time of the crash, the
airline said. His co-pilot was
William j. Schanken of Chicago,
pilot of a B-24 bomber during
World War II. He joined the
airline in May.
The stewardess, Janice Thorn
quist of Chicago, was in her
third month of flying. She had
been telephone operator, book
keeper and receptionist in Du-
luth, MINI.
Sheds near the trailer camp
and trees nearby caught fire,
but no one on the ground was
hurt. Some of the trailers were
Scorched by the flames.
About a dozen bodies were
thrown from the wreck and the
rest were trapped inside. But
there was nothing the rescue
workers could do but sort out the
bodies and send them to an
emergency morgue at st. Peters
Hospital. Relatives began ar
ranging funerals for the victims.
Most of the passengers aboard
Flight 723. bound from Boston
to Chicago, were businessmen.
Heard Engine Cut Out.
John w. Rodd, a 23-year-old
ex-Navy pilot who lives near
the scene, reported he had heard
one of the Convair'S engines
cut out and then roar as
though the pilot had "gunned it,"
Mrs. Alphea Craig said heavy
fog or clouds" prevented her
from seeing the crash, 10 feet
Evening star., 1953-09-17
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Evening star., 1953-10-15

Sir William Penney, Britain's
chief atomic scientist-a mete-
geological party moved toward
the blast area to take balloon
observations.
An Australian Air Force jet
bomber flew over the area to
sample the air with special de-
vices fitted to the wingtips.
More than 100 British and
Australian scientists, in addi-
ton to technicians and news
men, witnessed the test.
There we're no American OBJ
servers, because United States
security laws bar foreign OBJ
servers from American atomic
tests, but two United States Su-
perfortress weather planes came
to Sydney last month to check
radioactive particles in the
atmosphere after the test. The
Australians said the radioactive
particles would reach United
States Pacific bases eventually;
the Air Force observers we're
merely speeding up their OBJ
Servations.
The test area is in a barren
wilderness 600 miles northwest
of Adelaide, =
Evening star., 1953-10-15

the political wisdom of the re-
manning Nazi leaders.
The Turks know that buSi-
ness and government are tied
closer in Great Britain than
in other Western nations.
They regarde the utterances
made at the meeting early in
October in London under the
Craftsmanship of Lord Elibank
as representing the real policy
OF the British government.
In the same vein, the "pri-
vate opinions" of some of the
commonwealth ambassadors at
Ankara regarding the admis-
sion of China to the u. N. are
accepted as meaningful. Only
a few days ago one of these
diplomats stated at a small
social gathering that this
matter will not be pressed by
the allies at present in order
not to embarraSS the Ameri-
can Government. But there is
a definite agreement between
London and the common
wealth to put this matter over
at the General Assembly meet
ing in September, 1854, "re-
gardless of what Washington
may say"
The matter-of-fact Turkish
leaders are equally surprised
to hear reports from Wash
ington about the tension and
the lessening of tension in
Europe" The cold war ten
sion which existed in Western
Europe three or four years
ago, when most of the gen.
eral staffs considered a Soviet
attack imminent, has now re-
ceded. The only real tension
which is painfully obvious to-
day is an internal one. par
ticularly in France and in
Italy. 1t has nothing to do
with the Far Eastern situa-
ton, the NATO or the United
States.
Gables from Washington
Evening star., 1953-10-15
Constantine Brown
Turks Aren't Fooled by Reds
They Have Taken the Korean Fighting Seriously;
Will Not Believe It's Over Till Treaty Is Written

ANKARA, Turkey CBy Air
MaiD In this advanced post
of defense against Soviet ag-
gression, there is sometimes
beWilderment and sometimes
concealed amusement at the
political and diplomatic re-
ports received from the West.
The Turks have taken the
Korean war seriously and
some of them believe that we
have not yet seen the end of
it. But all their leaders, re-
gardless of what political
party they may be members,
say calmly, "Inshalah" Gods
wild, and are determined to
play their part once more if
the Communists decide to re-
sumo hostilities.
Under these circumstances
it is not difficult to under
stand the puzzled looks and
somewhat caustic comments
of responsible Turkish leaders
when they read reports from
London that conservative
British industrialists praise
publicly the bravery of the
Chinese Communist troops"
and the brilliant achieve
ments of their great leader
and far-seeing statesman, Mao
Tse-tung."
In their simple way, the
Turks consider that a war is
not over until a peace treaty
has been signed. They also
feel that all nations which
have participated in the war
in Korea must consider them
selves at war with the Chinese
Communist forces until such
a peace agreement has been
reached.
The Turks wonder what
would have happened to re-
sponsible group of allied citi-
zens if in 1945. after We
Day, it had praised the brav-
cry of the German troops and
Evening star., 1953-10-15
Fletcher Knebel-
Potomac Fever

of the Democratic victory Wisconsin.
publican candidates have slogan: II like Ike s-and
Benson stler"
Republican politicians hope to the farm by
providing edible crop-theye tearing Agriculture Sece
tary Benson limb from limb.
The Democratic victory the Wisconsin congressional
proves the difficulty of the farm problem The farmers
can't trust the Repubcans-and nobody else afford the
Democrats
Mccarthy United States top secrets
up Germany. Well they're getting
they used to turn up in Russia.
employees who go
congressional committees and refuse to aknow could
find equal penalty for congressman who refuse to stop
Supreme told that baseball players
Slavery" Ugly in blue suits them while
they work the brong sunand third week they get
whipped by the Yankees.
Dewey the New York Legislature to ous 1t.
Wicks visited labor acketeer jail The next time
party Washington Dewey wishes they'd
Albany,
Evening star., 1953-10-15
G. @. P. Detection in Wisconsin
Democratic Victory in Ninth District Blamed on
Fact That Too Many Republicans Stayed Home
David Lawrence

The White House might well
be concerned about the defeat
experienced by the Repubii-
can nominee for Congress in
the 9th district in Wisconsin.
For. when only $1,000 Re
publicans go to the polls this
time, as compared with 81 900
who voted Republican in the
same district II months ago,
there is something to be eX-
planned. The late Senator Taft
used to say again and again
that when Republicans stay
at home in large numbers, it's
either because they don't care
which nominee wins or because
they are overconf1dent about
the outcome anyway.
There was, of course, much
disaffection over the farm is
sue, particularly the drop in
farm income which started
under the Truman administra-
ton but which operates against
the Republican Party because
it's in power today. To say,
however, that the farm queS-
tion is the only reason for the
defeat of the Republican nomi-
nee is to ignore the trend in
that same district heretofore.
The late Merlin Hull, who was
a La Toilette Republican, got
the benefit of both the radical
and conservative votes in the
Republican Party and in No
Vember, 1850, he got $4,000
Republican votes, while the
Democratic nominee got about
$4,000. This was an off-year
election-that is, there was no
presidential ticket in the field.
A comparison can also be
made with 1916, when Mr..
Hull got 10000 votes and had
virtually no opposition. Fewer
than 1000 votes were cast for
the other candidate, who was
a Socialist.
Evening star., 1953-10-15
Second-Guess Rights Reserved
More Experienced Nov, u. S. Seen as Giving Itself
A Chance to Be Coy About Further Aid to Spain

intense hostility of some Sec
tions of U. S. public opinion
which grow less only with diff
ficulty.
His capture of Washington
was indeed aided by Russia,
whose aggressive policies
turned all Western military
eyes Speculatively toward the
strategic real estate that might
be available to the anti-Com-
munist effort. What diplomats
delicately call realism" re-
placed theology as a guiding
light.
The Spanish agreements still
remain almost a classic of how
to win friends and influence
U. S. policy that politicians
might we'll study as cadets at
St. Cyr and West Point study
the campaigns of the Ameri-
can Civil War.
General Franco and his able
ambassador to the United
States, Senor Don Jose Felix
de Lequerica, leased the joint"
and quickly realized that the
Democratic President and
State Department were not 60
ing to help very much. They
concentrated on Congress and
the Pentagon, where = they
found several points of van
tage.
Their intense anti-commu-
nism, their fight for their state
religion, induced sympathy in
some quarters. Most impor-
tantly they shrewdly capital
lied upon the Republican ef-
fort, natural and proper in a
minority party, to find areas
of foreign policy susceptible
to attack. They also utilized
astutely the disaffection Of
Evening star., 1953-10-15
Lowell MeNett-

President EiSenhower'S
popularity was put to the test
Tuesday in two States-Penn-
Sylvania and Wisconsin. 1t
survived the test in PennSyl-
vania, but didn't do so we'll
In Wisconsin.
In Pennsylvania his friends
undertook to give him just
about the biggest birthday
party a man ever had and,
although statistics on similar
events are not available, they
seem to have succeeded. Thirty
thousand people gathered for
an elaborate county fair sort
of indoor and outdoor celebra-
ton at Hershey, Pa. Six thou
sand of them paid their way
into one of those $100-a-plate
dinners now becoming so COM
mon that you wonder where all
the money comes from. After
meeting all expenses. it is said,
the affair will add $400,000 to
the Republican campaign fund
for the congressional elections
next year.
The high point of the high
links came when the President
and Mrs. Eisenhower, riding
in an old-time Pennsylvania
Dutch two-wheeled buggy be-
hind placid dapple gray
farm horse, the President hold
ing the reins, drove into the
circus tent where the hundred
dollar diners waited TO greet
them. Fred Waring, who was
there with his "PennSyl-
vanians, acting as master of
ceremonies. led the assembly
in a chant, several times re-
peated, I'VE like Ike! We love
Mamie!" The President leaped
from the buggy. helped Mrs.
Eisenhower down and, from the
biggest birthday cake anybody
ever saw, cut himself a piece
or cake.
Not a thing occurred to mar
the felicity of the occasion.
No courier dashed up with the
nnx1Tc fV.nV11
The news from Wisconsin
might have dampened the
Evening star., 1953-10-15

announcing that prominent
American political leaders are
seriously talking about the
United States giving Russia a
security pact" guaranteeing
it against NATO aggression
and requiring in exchange q
security pact guaranteeing the
NATO against a Soviet ag-
gression sound like gobbledey-
cook.
THE Muscovites," said an
important member of the
Turkish cabinet, know that
four years after its creation
the NATO has not become yet
an effective defense organ1za-
ton capable Of withstanding
a Soviet assault. A guarantee
that it will not launch an at
tack against Red territory has
as much meaning as Western
Europe promising not to at
tack Mars"
"On the other hand" this
Turkish cabinet member added,
"has America not learned yet
that any promises or guaran-
tees the Kremlin might give
are not worth the paper they're
written on? The American
Government surely knows that
Malenkov is a renegade Mos
lem, the most treacherous
breed among human beings"
These vagaries of the West
have, however, no impact on
Turkey which is following a
sound policy of preparedness
against what many describe as
a hard-to-avoid showdown
with the MuScoviteS.
The counting by Europe to
which this country has been
subjected in the last few
months f1atters it's leaders.
They realize. however, that the
underlying reasons for MANY
kind attentions are to get
them to indorse the present
neutralist trends. And this
they will not do.
Evening star., 1953-10-15
ProjectiIe Warhead
Believed Used in
British Atomic Test
By the Associated Pres,

WOOMERA ROCKET RANGE,
Australia, Oct. 15.-Unofficial
observers speculated that Brit
aims second atom test weapon
set off earlier today in this South
Australian desert-was projec-
tile warhead.
A third British test is sched-
uled here soon.
There was as usual no official
word on the type of weapon ex-
ploded today. but observers based
their Warhead theory on the
comparative SmallneSs of the
devastated area and the fact
that the blast was officially de-
scribed as smaller than the one
Britain set off in her first atomic
test year ago.
Today's blast was the 43d
atomic explosion reported by
Western nations since the United
States set off the first one in
New Mexico eight years ago.
Forty-one of these have been by
the United States, including the
two atom bombs dropped on
Japan during World War II.
The Russians were believed to
have detonated five atomic ex-
plosions before a recent series of
tests that included an unspeci-
fed number Of blasts.
Call for Atom Ban.
A few hours after today's ex-
plosion, Australian political
leaders united in calling for an
international ban on the use of
atomic weapons. Prime Mini
ster Robert G. MenzieS told the
House Of Representatives that
Australia would do all in her
power to press for an effective
system of international control
and inspection of atomic energy.
Although comparatively small,
the blast was an aWeSome, ter
rlfying spectacle. A huge semi
spherical ball of fire glowed bril-
liantly for several seconds over
the target area as a giant brown
cloud mushroomed. up thousands
Evening star., 1953-10-15

festivities. The voters in a
largely rural district of that
State had spent the day elect
ing a Congressman to succeed
the late Representative Merlin
Hull, a Republican. And they
had elected a Democrat. It
made him the first Democrat
the district ever had elected
to Congress.
The defeated Republican, a
longtime member of the State
Legislature, conceding the re-
suit, made one of the most
remarkable statements ever
uttered under such circum-
stances. He said: "I have
stood four square behind Presi-
dent Eisenhower and I still
stand there. 1 fail to see how
a Democrat can help him, but
the people have expressed their
choice and I accept it. The
results show very clearly that
the farmer and the laboring
man do not like the present
administrations policies and
took this opportunity to express
their diSpleasures." :"
He was speaking the truth.
During the lively campaign,
which brought to the polls a
much bigger vote than the
Republicans had anticipated,
the Republican candidate had
made Eisenhower the issue"
In this he was following the
line Republican campaigners
have intended to take in next
years battle for control of
Congress.
On the very day of the Wis
consin disaster, Senator Ev-
erett Mckinley DirkSen. chair
man of the Republican Senate
Campaign Committee, was let
ting it be known that Gen.
Eisenhower and his admins
tration would be the issues in
1854. He revealed that he
was not worried regarding Re-
publican farmers or the farm
vote and that he based his
confidence on the intelligence
of the farmers and their ap-
proach to the-economic prob
lens of the country and of
Evening star., 1953-10-15
-Four Army Generals
Are Given Transfers
BY The Assoeioted Press

The Army has announced rou-
tine transfers. for four general
officers.
Maj. Gen, Charles L. Dasher,
jr., will leave command of the
oath Infantry Division in the Far
East later this month to become
deputy commanding general of
the 5th Army, with headquar-
ters at Chicago.
Maj. Gen. Arthur G. Trudeau
will return from command of the
7th Infantry Division in the Far
East, with a temporary assign
ment in the Office of the Chief
of Staff at Washington.
Brig. Gen. Edward j. O'Neill,
deputy chief of staff for admins
tration of the United States
Army in Europe, and Brig. Gen.
Andrew P. O'Meara, artillery
commander for the TX Corps in
Korea, have been transferred to
the office of assistant chief of