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Milford chronicle., 1953-11-13
RODENHISER

JT., age years, son OF JOhn and
Vera ROdenhiser of Newark, pass
ed away Thursday afternoon, No
Vember 5. Funeral services were
held at the Berry Funeral Home,
Milford, on Monday afternoon at
1870 o'clock. Rev Robert Green of
Avenue Methodist Church, Milford,
Officiated. Interment was made in
Hillcrest Cemetery, Federalsburg.
Md. Besides his father and mothec.
he is survived by his grandparents,
Mrs. Nora Deem, Harrington and
Mrs. Elizabeth Murray, Wilmington.
WALLS
Mrs. Laura Jane Walls, age 68
years, widow of the late William
Walls, died very suddenly at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. Ida
EllingswOrth of near Milford, on
Friday, November 6. Funeral SER
vices were held from the Lofland
Funeral Home on Tuesday of this
week at 2 o'clock with the Rev.
Edwin Tull, pastor of the Church
of God, officiating. Interment was
made in Odd Fellows Cemtery, Mil
ford.
Mrs. Walls is survived by one
son, ROLAND Walls of Salisbury,
Md; one daughter, Mrs. Ida Ell
lingsworth; six grandchildren, one
elreat-grandchild, and four bro
theirs, John, George. Albert and
Edward Bennett, all of Milford.
WYATT
Harold c. Wyatt, Jr., seven
month-Old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Har-
old c. Wyatt, Sr., Of Bridgeville,
died in the NanticOke Memorial
Hospital, Seaford, on Tuesday, No
vember 10.
Funeral services will be held
from the Lofland Funeral Home in
Milford this afternoon at o'clock
with the Rev. DOnzel p. Wildey,
pastor of Calvary Methodist
Church, officiating. Interment in
Odd Fellows Cemetery, Milford.
Besides his parents he is survived
by one sister.
MASTEN
Hezekiah Masten, aged 81 years,
died Tuesday morning at his home
in FELTON,. He was in good health
until few days ago when he suf-
fered a stroke. He was a farmer
for Is years and later operated a
grocery and meat store in FELTON,
for several years. Surviving are
his wife, Elizabeth Masten, and
one brother, Burton Masten, Mil
ford. Funeral services will be held
at The Berry Funeral Home, Eel
ton, Delaware, Friday afternoon
at 2 o'clock with the Rev Carl
Hem, pastor of the Methodist
Church, officiating. Interment at
Hollywood Cemetery, Harrington.
MINNER
Byron Roland Minner, n, died
at his home at HOllandsville, near
FELTON,. last Wednesday afternoon.
He suffered a paralytic stroke
about Is months ago and had been
confined to his home ever since.
The son of the late Samuel H. and
Susanna Jarvis Minner, he was born
at Hollandsville, and had lived in
that vicinity all his life where he
was engaged in farming.
Funeral services were held at the
Boyer Funeral Home Sunday after
noon at o'clock.
Interment was in Hopkins Gene
terry, near FELTON,.
He is survived by a son, Earl S.
Minner, of FELTON,; a daughter, Mrs.
Clarice Elizabeth Smith, of Metu-
chen, n. j., a grandson, Byron
Minner Smith. of Akron, Ohio; four
sisters, Mrs. Bertha farrell, Of
FELTON,; Mrs. Adelia Hughes and
Mrs. Ida Hughes, of FELTON,, and
Mrs. Anna Moore, of Frederick; a
brother. Clifford Minner, of FELTON,,
and a half-sister, Mrs Mary Cooper,
of Harrington, and several nieCes
and nephews.
Milford chronicle., 1953-11-13
CHURCHES IN MILFORD
The Avenue Methodist
Church

GnUfCS1
Robert E. Green, Minister
Phone 1859
Eileen BlUnden, Director
chFisfian Education
Mrs. A. c. Davidson, DirsStor Of Music
Mrs. Harry Clark, organisf
Church Phone gill
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER Is
S:45 a. m, Church School. Wilson
SOckrider, General Superintendent.
A class for every age. Excellent
attendance last Sunday. Bring the
family this Sunday.
11:00 a. m, Divine Worship.
Beautiful Professional and Recess
siOnal by vested ChOirs. Mr.. Green's
sermon subject: Seeking The
Highway, Roger Dewey, tenor
sOlOist will sing Teach Me To Live"
by ROlfe. The Sanctuary Choir
Anthem will be: Grateful o Lord,
Am l." CaroROma. Children may
be left in the nursery during this
service. Nursery Hostesses: Miss
Pat Hawley and Mrs. William Berry.
Church HOstesses: Mrs. Garrett
Grier and Mrs. GLAND Gleason.
Church Going Families StayLonger
Together. See you in Church
Sunday.
$3.50 p. m, Methodist Youth
Fellowship. Worship leader Gloria
Jean Belts. Sound religious film
Gross Roads" will be shown. Young
people especially invited to attend.
1880 p. m. Chancel Choir.
Light The Lives OF The Members
of Your Family With Faith. Bring
them to worship this week.
Monday: $3.50 p. m, Roller
Skating ages Ali years.
1880 p. m.-9:00 p. m, Roller
Skating II years up.
Tuesday 500 p. M, w. S. c. S.
Circles, see announcements else
where in paper
Wednesday,: 1880 p. m. Sanctuary
Choir.
Thursday: 7:15 p. m, Bible Hour.
Continuation of the study "Jere-
miah, Prophet of the Hour" Good
Singing, Good Fellowship and WOr-
ship.
Friday: 700 p. m. Junior Depart
ment monthly party.
Milford chronicle., 1953-11-13

The temperature of birds is high
er than that of mammals.
Milford chronicle., 1953-11-13
WIN y.
First Buptisf Church
THE Lille White Church"
N. w. Second Street.

NV sittp Wtti9 StlstsN
N. w. Second Street
Rev. MerVin X. Ruth, Pastor
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER Is
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH ........
9:45 m, Bible School. Glasses
for all ages.
1900 a. m, Morning Worship.
$50 p. m, Youth Meeting.
1880 p. m, Evening Fellowship
Hour
Wednesday: 500 p. m, Prayer and
Bible Study Hour.
The public is cordially invited to
attend these services.
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Christ Church
(EPiseOPuD
Founded I7OA
Church Avenue and Third Street
Rev. Joseph S. Kinks, Rector
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER Is
Parish Loyalty Sunday
The Annual Every Member Canvass
1880 a. m.-Holy Communion.
9:45 a. m.-Church School.
11:00 a. m.-Kindergarten.
11:00 a. m.-MOrning Prayer
and sermon.
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First Independent Church
Marshall Street
Bishop c. G. Miller, Pastor
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER Is
Sunday School, 1000 A. M.
Pastoral Sermon, 1900 A. M.
Young Peoples Service, 700 P. M.
Missionary Service, Wednesday,
1880 P. M.
THE PUBLIC IS CORDIALLY
INVITED TO ATTEND THESE
SERVICES.
Evening star., 1953-08-16
By William J. Meyer

TALLY cooled The new City Post Office
in 1882 was the first Government build
ing here to have equipment for cooling
the entire building.
Now, SIS per cent of the space in Fed
eral buildings controlled by the Gov
ernment Services Administration is air
cooled. Its comforts are enjoyed by
about the same percentage of Federal
employees, or about 114,00O. A 75-degree
temperature and 5O-per-cent humid
ity are maintained.
In all, 81 buildings under GSA are
completely air cooled and 73 have par
tial installations But there are other
Federal buildings not under GSA-such
as the White House, the Capitol and
the House and Senate Office Buildings
which have air conditioning.
The systems are operated by elec-
tricity and they range from three to
many hundred horsepower in size.
Consequently, air conditioning is not
cheap. For example, the cost of cool
ing the Pentagon is about the same as
the buildings heating cost a year
approximately $3.50 900.
The total horsepower of all the Gov
ernment installations is 93,793 The
total for all other units herein thea
ters, stores, office buildings and the
like-iS 98,611.
These are the bigger systems which
use water. In addition, there are thou
sands of portable window coolers and
electric fans
It's the combined total of 1872, ,4O4
horsepower OF the water-using units
that brings the uncomfortable side of
air conditioning-if it has an uncom-
Portable side-into the picture Some
systems use the water once and flush
it into the drain. Others reuse the
Evening star., 1953-08-16
Air Conditioning Puts Big Load 0

TINE SIGN over the doorway said:
Il Air Conditioned" 1t was one of
those frosty-looking signs with long
icicleS hanging from each letter.
Inside, folks were talking and laugh
ing and slipping tall, cool drinks, oblivi-
Gus to the high temperature and
humidity outside. They took the air
conditioning for granted because, for
more than 20 years, it has become so
increasingly common that Washington
now has more of it per capita than
any other city in the Nation.
AS a matter of fact, it has become
so common that almost every one
enjoys its comforts at some time during
the day-even if only briehy-since
theaters, the bigger stores, most restau-
rants, many office buildings, workshops,
apartments and even private residences
now have cooling systems of some sort
It has become almost standard
equipment in new buildings and apart
mentS, and many old ones either have
installed it or have made the necessary
electrical and plumbing connections.
In a sense, air conditioning was de-
preston born when industry was
frantic for new ways of making money
Some one put across the logic that it
makes as much sense to keep cool in
summer as it does to keep warm in
winter
Consequently, the refrigeration
cycle" which had been used for 100
years to manufacture ice, was put to
work to keep people comfortable The
result was a gigantic new business.
Movies were the first to install the
systems as lure to customers in hot
weather, and from there the idea
spread like measles in a kindergarten.
AS far as the Government is con-
cerned, air conditioning came to
Washington in 1880 when the Depart
ment of Commerce Building was par
Evening star., 1953-09-27
Grim Waterfront War Looms

would further split the lila
and make 1t easy prey for the
AFL. He also knows that II
the lila can make a one-year
contract with the shipping as
Sociation it would help make
the union safe from AFL at
tack during the period. The
National Labor Relations
Board, which is called upon to,
settle representation contests
between unions. rarely con-
ducts elections while one of the
unions has a contract. The,
employers, naturally making
the most of Ryan's anxiety,
offered a pay increase Of z
cents an hour. And Ryan
abruptly dropped his demands
from so to 10 cents.
Even if a new contract is not !.
signed by Wednesday, Ryan.
most likely, will agree to ex-.
tension of the old agreement,
rather than chance a strike.
But the question is whether he
could keep in line the strike
happy lila people who also are
anxious to oust him.
If a strike develops, either as
a result of contract difficulties
or interunion fights, the Eisen-
Evening star., 1953-09-27

hover administration would be-
faced with it's first big strike
situation. The Government,
for obvious reasons, could not
permit New York and possibly
other big ports to be tied up
for long.
Shopeup's End Neor
The New York-New JERSEY
Waterfront Commission was
set up by the State Legislatures
and Congress to clean up the
waterfrontS. The new law
take effect December /. The
shapeup method of hiring pier
workers will be abolished and
all potential workers will be re-
quired to register. In that way.
the commission hopes to ferret
out criminal elements. But,
what if the stevedores refuse
to register? There must be
trained crews to service the
ships, Again, the best bet Is
that the New York-New Jersey
waterfronts won't be cleaned
up in any short time. A Fed
eral official here says that the
waterfront rackets run deep
and to high places. He said:
You know, in New York. you
never work out things by
agreement, you fix them"
Evening star., 1953-09-27
Review of the Week. Mystery of Beru Titoes Western World

was that no one was saying
or doing anything to put it
down. Any person in authority
in Washington could kill it in
moment by stating fatty that
the rumor had been checked
and found false. But no one
did. The Russians could
squelch it in no time nat by
the simple technique Of pro-
ducing Beria for a moment
perhaps in a car on the streets
of Moscow between Lubianka
and some other jail. Or they
could simply announce that
Beria's trial date had been set
and that the defendant would
be present. Maybe the Russians
were enjoying it, but they did
not even joke about 1t.
At any rate, no one did any
of these things. So the rumor
lived.
And in second-guesslng the
matter, the shocking fact came
to light that the Soviet govern
ment never had said that Beria
had been arrested in the first
Evening star., 1953-09-27

place. Almost every one had
assumed the fact of his arrest
but the Kremlin had not
said so. What the Kremlin said
was this:
Beria had been branded as
a traitor and an agent of i'm
perialiSm. Beria had been
stripped of all his rank and
prestige. Beria had been ex-
PEELED from the party. Beria
had been removed as First
Deputy Premier and Minister
Of Internal affairs. And
1T was decided also by the
presidium that the case OF
the criminal actions OF L. p.
BeriG should be turned over
to the supreme court Of the
U. S. S. r."
All these things, it is evi-
dent. could be done to a man
whether he was in Moscow,
Spain. or on the moon. This
was overlooked at the time by
most observers. Probably it
was not overlooked by intelli-
gence experts, which may be
the reason for the lack of sur
prise when the story broke.
Evening star., 1953-09-27

The miles Of docks and piers
that make up the waterfrontS
of the port Of New York have
witnessed a goodly portion OF
the crimes known to man.
There have been murder, arson,
assaults Of various types. black
mail, graft and theft by the
carload. Violence and rack
eteering were common on both
sides of the Hudson and East
Rivers.
Now it looks as If something
new may be added good
sized union waterfront war.
They are battening down the
matches up New York and New
Jersey way. preparing for a big
union power struggle to con-
troll the deStinies of the 10000
huskies who load. unload and
service the hundreds of ships
that use the port. All avail
able police Of New York and
Northern New Jersey have been
alerted for trouble. So has the
Coast Guard.
A real three-ring circus is iI1
the making. Most anything
can happen and probably will.
It is the result Of q two
Evening star., 1953-09-27
By jones Y. Newton

eteers and sharpSters Of every
stripe, thugs and gangsters of
the prohibition era school, poll
ticians.
The hands Of some manage
ment people were found far
from clean, but the chief in
strument used by the mobs to
control the water fronts was
the so-called union, lila. Thugs
and criminals inf1ltrated the
60-year-old AFL affiliate and
through the union ruled the
docks. The mobs handled the
hiring through a method
known as the "shapeup" in
which the stevedore crews
were rounded up on q day-to-
day basis.
AFL Moves In
A few days ago, the AFL ex-
PEELED the LILA after finding
the union had failed to COM
ply with a cleanup order. The
AFL authorized the chartering
of a new union to wean away
the ILA's $1,000 members in
the New York area and at
other ports on the Atlantic,
Gulf, the Great Lakes and the
Mississippi. It was the equiv
alent Of a declaration Of war.
The AFL set up a tlve-man
group to run the new union in
the flrst year. The salvage job
will be in the strong hands of
Dave Beck, president of the
million member TeamsterS'
Union, who was no Milquetoast
in establishing a union domain
in the Pacific Northwest, and
Paul Hall of the AFL Seafar-
erS' (Seamen) Union, a strong
man of the New York water
front.
Some lila locals and many
individual members have said
they would join the AFL, and
the Federation's appeal will be
addressed to the rank-and-f1le
StevedoreS. lila President Jo-
seph P. Ryan, harassed and
facing trial on a charge of
stealing union funds, says the
lila will keep most of its mem
bers. So does Anthony (Tough
Tony Anastasia, the Brooklyn
pier boss. whose nickname in
dicates his reputation around
New York. A number of the
locals in New York and else
where have sworn allegiance to
LILA. But it's too early to say
what will happen. Best bet is
the AFL in time will take over
most or all of the LILA, but at
great cost in blood and money
Late last week, the war was
on. The AFL moved 300 hulk
ing organizers in to crack New
York's toughest nut - the
Brooklyn satrapy of Tony
AnaStaSia. Tony complained
that the AFL men were over
burdened with "crowbars,
crank handles and ball bats"
as they moved in. He did not
specify the ornaments of his
side, but those familiar with
the situation suspect Tony's
men of being prepared. too.
There are signs Ryan is los
ing control of his union and
that could add to the chaos.
Ryan has been trying fran
tically to make a new work
contract with waterfront en-
ployers before the deadline
Wednesday. He fears a strike
Evening star., 1953-09-27

pronged effort of tie Ameri-
can Federation of Labor and
the newly established New
York-New Jersey Waterfront
Commission to clean up the
docks. On top of that, the
present contract between the
New York Shipping Associa-
ton and the international
Longshoremen's Association,
which the papers refer to as
racket" or crime ridden, :"
expires next Wednesday mid
night. That poses some threat
of a strike that would tie up
the Nations biggest port. but
not as much of a threat as
the interunion rivalries.
Long Walk on Short Pier
ut looks" said a waterfront
employer, in describing sue
cinctly the impending dock
troubles. like some Of the boys
will be taking a long walk on
"a short pier"
The main victims of the
years of crime on the New
York-New Jersey piers have
been the stolid-faced steve
dores. the owners of the ships
and their rich cargoes and the
general public. Those who Gre
ated and prof1ted from the
nauseating conditions are rack
Evening star., 1953-09-27
Continued From Page A-2s.,

Continued From Page A-29.)
man for Senator Joe McCar-
thy of Wisconsin said he, too.
had heard about Beria and
that the disgraced Red leader
was willing to talk-but only
to President Eisenhower, Vice
President Nixon or Senator
Mccarthy.
Then came Col. Ulius
Amoss. as Baltimore operator
who runs what has been in
congruously termed a private
international spy organiza-
tion," with word that when he
was in Europe last summer he
had heard about q man who
was supposed to be Beria.
Col! AmosS said he thought
there was a 80 per cent
chance" that Beria had es-
capped from Russia. That
about summed up what every
one knew already: Either he
had-or he hadn't.
There was one development
Of . negative sort that was Of
Evening star., 1953-09-27
IsHe Real?

AsSuming-and at present it
can be only an assumption
that some man passing him.
self of as Beria is at large in
Europe, is he the real Beria?
And, if so, can the identity of
this famous but little known
man be established beyond
doubt when and if he gets to
the United States?
The answer to the first QueS-
ton is not known. The an
swer to the second question is
yes. Probably there is no
Western official or journalist
who has had close personal
contact with Beria. or who
knows him well enough to say
whether the man is genuine
or phony.
But there are Russians in
the Western world who know
Beria well enough to ask the
man about private incidents
and establish identity that
way. One is Igor Bogolepov,
a former Red intelligence ex-
pert, whose whereabouts are
known to the administration.
Another, in all likelihood, is
Alexander Barmine, who
works for the Voice of Amer
lea. Still another. is Alexander
Orlov, formerly a high-ranking
Communist. A fourth possible
contact is Budu Svanidze.
nephew of Joseph Stain. who
writes in his book of his ac-
quaintance with Beria. Swan
idZe is believed to be in hiding
in South America, but in some
place known to American au-
thorities.
So it should not be hard to
tell whether the Beria-if
there is a Beria-is the real
one or a facsimile. The hard
part, If he is real and not yet
in American hands, would be
to latch on to him before Rus
sia's merciless hatchetmen do
to him what they did under
Beria's orders to Leon TrotSky
in 1910.
Evening star., 1953-09-27

paper named "ABC" published
what 1t badly labeled an un-
checked rumor that Beria and
some henchmen had para
chuted into the Don Quixote
region of Spain. American
agents. the paper said, had
arrived to talk to IBERIA"
Whether there was anything
to- this rumor was a question,
Just like everything else. The
San Diego Union sent a man
to find out. On the face of it,
it seemed strange that a fallen
kingpin of the greatest Com
munist dictatorship in Europe
should choose the jurisdiction
of the greatest anti-Com-
munist dictatorship as q place
to light. OF course. it might
be that Beria. who practically
invented the Red network.
knew that Communist agents
are scarce there, and that.
therefore, he would be safe in
Spain.
Perhaps the thing that gave
the rumor such persistence
Evening star., 1953-09-27

interest. It would not have
showed on the surface in any
event. but people close to the
intelligence sources of Wash
ington and to the embassies
here discerned no evidence of
a flap. Scraps of converse
tionS indicated that the rumor
had been known officially long
before it became known pub
licly.
Meanwhile, Senator Nc
Carthy held court for the press
and denied. just as graphically
as he could, that he knew any
thing about IBERIA" And
Vice President Nixon said in
New York that he had been
hearing the rumor for about
80 days. having received the
original tip from a source he
would not reveal. The source,
he did admit, was not Sen
ator McCarthy's committee.
Nor was it the San Diego
Union.
While all this was going on
in America, q Spanish news
Evening star., 1953-09-27
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Evening star., 1953-04-29
Looking to the Future

In this business of air transportation we must
always look to the future. Ideas that were
thought to be impossible yesterday may be
obsolete tomorrow. During the next ten years
we will make more technical progress than we
have in the past twenty-five.
Within ten years, for instance, possibly
sooner, many airlines will be using jet-powered
planes. We will then be able to fly between New
York and Miami in 2-2112 hours.
Evening star., 1953-04-29
Only the Beginning

twenty-five years ago are still with us today,
holding key positions. We are proud Of this
record
In the selection of our airliners, we spend
years in studying and testing the finest air.
craft available. Time and performance have
proven that our Super Consultations New
Type Consultations and Silver Falcons are the
most advanced and dependable airliners in the
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Dependable airlners and dependable per-
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To uphold this reputation, we have estab-
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buy. Our airplanes are periodically given COM
plete overhaul. Every single part is serviced in
minute detail to make the airplane even better
than new when it emerges from our shops,
ready for service.
Evening star., 1953-04-29

For local schedule operation, predict we
will be using helicopters, capable Of flying bet
ter than 200 mph.
The next big step-up in speeds after jets
will probably occur within the lifetime Of most
of us, when, God willing, we will fly on atomic
fuel, high above the stratosphere at speeds that
almost defy the imagination.
It is fact that one pound of atomic fuel
can power modern airliner for many thou
sands of miles. It seems fantastic, but those Of
us who can remember transportation at the
turn of the century and compare it to today's
jets know that it never pays to say 1T can't be
done"
am sure that whatever is in store for air
transportation, Eastern, as it has in the past,
will offer you the finest, the fastest and the
most dependable service that your money can
buy.
In closing, I'd like to extend to you per-
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