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Evening star., 1953-04-21
U. 5. Throws Support
To Burma Against
Nationalist Guerri||as
BY the Assoeiated Press

NITED NATIONS, N. Y.
April 21.-The United States to-
day threw its support behind
Burma's demand that Chinese
Nationalist guerrillas get off its
soil, and said it was actively
working to bring this situation
about.
Chief United States Delegate
Henry Cabot Lodge, jr., told the
60-nation Political Committee
the United States was hard at
work on a three-point plan. II
would:
l. Require the active support
of the Chinese Nationalist gov
ernment to influence the 10000
guerrillas in Burma to give up.
2. Stop military operations be-
tween the Burmese army and
those guerrillas.
3. Disarm the Chinese and re-
move them to Formosa via Thai
land. Senator Lodge said Thai
land had agreed to this step.
Calls Troops Common Bandits.
The American representative
said the United States felt Bur-
ma had the right to demand the
removal of the Chinese, whom
he accused of "depredations'
against the Burmese people. He
said many of the guerrillas were
common bandits posing as
Chinese Nationalists" and that
the removal of the genuine guer-
rillaS would leave Burma able to
control the others.
Senator Lodge said the United
States took steps to mediate at
the request of the Burmese gov
ernment, which has no diplo-
matte relations with Chang Kai-
Shek's government on Formosa
But many Western and Asian
countries. following Britain's
lead, said they were willing to
accept the assurances of the For
mosa government that it had
no direct control over the men
Britain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb said
the conclusion was inescapable
however, that Chang Kai-shek' s
regime had been supplying equip
ment that made the guerrillas
a threat to Burma.
Appeal to Guerillas Urged.
He suggested that the Nation
alistS broadcast an appeal to
the guerrillas to lay down their
arms. He said this would show
the NationalistS' good faith.
The committee has before it
a Burmese demand that the
General Assembly ask the Sc
curity Council to condemn Ma
tionalist China as an aggresSor
and order the troops to lay down
their arms. Soviet Delegate
Georgi N. Zarubin backed Bur-
mas stand in debate yesterday.
Burma's friends in the Asian
Arab bloc shaped up a counter
resolution but decided to get
some country less closely con-
nected with Burma to introduce
IT.
Evening star., 1953-04-21


career employees would only
have reassignment or dumping
rights in their own bureau and
not throughout their entire de-
partment or agency.
Under such a program, career
employees could lose their jobs
while temporary indefinite work
ers in other divisions of a de-
partment or agency would keep
theirs. Since reaSSignment rights
are determined on veterans
preference and seniority factors
it would also react against vet
erans as well as career en-
ployeS. ,...
There's no doubt that bump
ings in Government reduction
in-force programs are a nuisance
and created a lot of administra-
tive headaches. But it appears
that the CSC should be able to
work out some kind of an inter-
agency vacancy transfer solu-
ton so that displaced career en-
ployeS can get some chance of
finding new Federal jobs. Mere
ly making it tougher for career
employees to find new employ
ment is not the answer.
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HOUSING BUREAUS - The
Housing and Home Finance
Agency and its Public Housing
Administration are both looking
to the Senate to restore some of
the sharp personnel slaShes made
by the House Appropriations
Committee.
There's not too much chance
that the House will vote more
funds, but there is hope that
the Senate will restore at least
part of the slashes. The HHFA
was cut As per cent in its per-
sonnel and operating expenses,
while the PHA took a 81 per
cent cut.
csc - Maxine MatSon, for
merly with the Federal Media
ton and Cancellation Service, has
been named secretary to Civil
Evening star., 1953-04-21

Service Commissioner George
Moore.
AGRICULTURE-Contrary to
a published report, the Agricul-
ture Departments motion pic
ture service is not being abol-
ished. The unit has enough
funds to continue in operation.
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BUDGET Chairman John
Taber of the House Apropria-
tions Committee will discuss
Congress and the Budget" at
$3.50 am. Wednesday, April 20,
at the opening session of the
spring conference of the Wash
ington Chapter of the Society
for Advancement of Manage
ment. The one-day meeting will
be held in the departmental au-
ditorium and will feature top
Government officials and mem
bers of Congress discussing man
agement and personnel problems.
Meanwhile, the society's Wash
ington chapter has elected
Francis r. Cawley as its presi-
dent. Mr.. Cawley, who resigned
recently as Commerce Depart
ment budget director to become
vice president of the Magazine
Publishers Association, Inc, had
long and outstanding career
in Government.
ARCHITECTS In reporting
the first part of the 1854 Inde-
pendent Offices bill, the House
Appropriations Com m it t e e
sharply curtailed funds for
architects in the Public Build
ings Service. The committee said
that outside architects should do
the work of designing Federal
buildings and it allowed enough
money for only a skeleton staff
of II employees in the design
division.
TREASURY-Raymond Davis
of Seattle has been appointed
an assistant to the Secretary of
the Treasury. Mr.. Davis, who is
an insurance executive, will as
siSt in the Treasury'S savings
bond program.
r y
POST OFFICE - Norma n
Abrams. vice president of the
Congoleum Nair Co. of New
York, has been named Assistant
Postmaster General. Mr.. Abrams
will be in charge of personnel
and management operations.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS of
Interior Mckay has submitted
a revised Bureau of Reclamation
budget to Congress of $177 $780,
900. which is $29,097, ,991 below
this years appropriations.
Evening star., 1953-04-21
By Cecil HolIond

Senator McCarran, Democrat,
of Nevada today accused a State
Department official of a lack of
candor" in testifying about the
number of persons in his Office
who have been dismissed as Sc
curity risks on morals grounds.
The charge was directed at w.
Park Armstrong during a Senate
Appropriations Committee hear
ing on the departments $780,
521,337 revised budget for the
fiscal year starting July /.
Senator McCarran became out
spokenly irked when Mr.. Arm
strong appeared unable to come
up Immediately with figures on
those fired from his Office after
testifying there have been some
diSmiSSalS. Mr.. Armstrong is a
special assistant handling con-
f1dential political intelligence
work for the department.
Tells of Two Discharges.
Under prodding questions by
Senators McCarran, Dirksen
Republican, of Illinois and Ell
lender, Democrat, of Louisiana
Mr.. Armstrong testified that two
persons have been discharged
within the last three weeks on
security grounds involvin 6
morals.
One of the persons, Mr.. Arm
strong said, had been with the
department for three or four
years, and the other for two or
three years. Their names were
not revealed.
Mr.. Armstrong insisted that he
would not necessarily be in
formed as to the reasons why
some of his employees were leav-
ing the department. This brought
a sharp retort from Senator Nc
Carran, who asked. why are you
trying to avoid answering?"
Lack of CandOr."
Then. bluntly, Senator Nc
Carran asked:
How many have been re-
moved for homosexuality?"
Mr.. Armstrong replied that he
did not know and that such in
formation should come from r
w. Scott Mcleod, the State De-
partment's security officer.
During the exchange Senator
McCarran said at one point:
MY impression is greatly af-
fected by the lack of candor and
Evening star., 1953-04-21
Invaders Take Third
OF Laos, Press On;
Capital in Danger
Bv lorry Allen

Associated Press Foreign Correspondent
HANOI. Indo- China, April 81.
The Communicated Wet Mimi
today drove to within 80 miles
of Laos royal capital city of
Luang Prabang as French and
Laotian forces waited for a
stand against the invader on q
broad plain.
One Wet Mini division which
stabbed into Laos from the east
along the coast of AMMAN
quickly moved into the little
town of Xiengkhouang after it
was evacuated by Franco-Lao-
tian troops and civilians.
Xiengkhouang. on Colonial
Route Seven, lies 80 miles south
east of Luang Prabang, ancient
traditional residence of the all
ing Laotian King, Sisavang
Wong.
Defenders on Plain.
Just 18 miles north and north
west, on the big Plain Des Jarres,
Franco-Laotian troops, firmly en-
trenched and supplied by air with
all available American supplied
weapons of war, waited for the
expected Wet Mini strike.
The enemy has already over
run almost one-third of Laos
10000 square miles without seri-
GUS opposition.
The Franco-Laotian forces
faced the possibility of a three
cornered assault. This could
come from Wet Mini forces
moving from Xiengkhouang,
from forces driving from the
north from Samneua, original
point of the invasion of Laos, or
from forces striking from North
western Wet Nam.
Rainy Season Near.
The Wet Mini seemed to be
trying to overrun as much of
Laos as possible before the
seasonal rains. Each of the three
divisions has covered about 100
miles thus far.
Rain is already falling in the
mountains of Northern and Gen.
trail Laos, but the season when
the general downpours come may
start anywhere from end of the
April to end of June.
The rains are hampering the
attempts of French pilots, flying
American-supplied fighters and
bombers. to plaster the advanc-
ing Wet Mimi columns.
Meanwhile, Wet Mini raiders
blew up several hundred tons of
munitions in big French depot
in Haiphong, in Northern Indo-
China, last night.
Evening star., 1953-04-21
Freedom Village
Continued From First Page)

were beginning. He recounted a
tale on cold-blooded brutality.
1--WE passed two jeep-loads of
Russian soldiers" he said.
"They stopped up on the road
and tried to get our guards
drunk so they would shoot us"
Corpl. Mullins said the Rus
slams were armed and in uni
form. He said he knew the Rus
slams wanted the guards to
shoot because they made mo-
tions."
Sergt. Mitchell said about 20
serious hospital cases were left
behind: Medical attention was
no good at all; very few guys
got any"
His story was confirmed by
Pvt. Louis Kerkstra of Byron
Center, Mich, who contracted
tuberculosis.
Some of the TB patients in
my hospital were in worse con-
dition than I was" he said.
1.-THE way I see it, they took me
because I was in a little better
shape and knew we would hit
the press first"
His statement tended to con-
firm a growing suspicion that
the first allied troops, at least,
are only showcase samples" OF
better Communist treatment.
Care of the prisoners varied
widely from place to place and
time to time.
Starvation Indicated.
"A Turkish lieutenant here
quoted a returned prisoner as
having said about 100 Americans
had died in prison camps in
North Korea in which he had
been. Third 1t. Ustun Ustund-
age, Turkish public information
officer, reported a fellow coun-
trymen had said not definitely
when asked if the Americans
had died from malnutrition.
Most of the Americans were
undernourished," he said. The
lieutenant quoted Private Devut
AGAR as having said he under
stood 100 Americans died in his
camp. 1t. Ustundage said pre-
sumably they were in bad condi-
ton from lack Of food, but they
could have died of wounds and
illness.
The lieutenant said when he
asked Pvt. AGAR what the Amer
leans had died of he reported,
Mainly the food was not SUM-
cient. if1,
Treatment Better Than Nazis'.
Pfc. Thor Rubin of Long
Beach. Calf, a Hungarian who
spent IA months in a Nazi prison
camp in World War II, said Red
treatment was better than the
NaziS gave him.
'The Chinese treated us much
bettef-I'm not communist. but
they did treat me better than the
Germans" he said.
Pfc. Rubin said that when the
Reds aked him If he wanted to
Evening star., 1953-04-21

go back to Hungary he would
tell them "yes-on occupation
duty"
Now suffering from stomach
trouble, he was captured from
the First Calvary Division in
late 1850. @ ....
Cpl. Pedro Herrera of Mama
dera, N. NJ, said he was bayon-
eted in the head by a prison
guard, but blamed the affair on
a misunderstanding caused by
the language barrier.
He was captured in November,
1850. On an eight-day march
north, he said, the wounded died
from lack Of medical treatment.
"The guards would take them
off and give them hot water
about all the medicine they
had" he went on.
He said that after the initial
stages. conditions in some of the
camps improved.
Sergt. Albert L. Howard of
Nashville, Tenn, and Corpl.
Harry Purvis of York. S. c..
agreed that more sick and
wounded remain in pris o n
camps.
II guess it's because of the
long ride they were too sick to
come" Corpl. Purvis said. Sergt.
Howard added: "The roads were
pretty rough and there were
quite a few holes in the roads.
They tried to repair them but
I guess they couldn't.
"It sure feels good to be back
with the good people again."
Evening star., 1953-04-21
The Weather Here and Over the Nation

Five-Day Forecast for Washing
ton and Vicinity, April 22-26.
Temperature will average near
or somewhat above normal.
Rapid warming trend beginning
tomorrow. Precipitation as rain
about Friday. totaling "a inch
or less. Washington normals
are 81 for the daily high and
~ for the lowest at night.
River Report.
From U. S. Engineers.)
Potomac River cloudy at Harpers Ferry
and clear at Great Falls; Shenandoah
c'crA' st Harpers Ferry.
Evening star., 1953-04-21
Mandatory Booking Urged

Delegate Whitworth, Republi-
can. of Allegany County. plans
to ask the Maryland Legislature
at its next session to approve a
bill that would prevent police
agencies from holding a man
without first entering his name
on the docket.
Mr.. Whitworth'S statement
apparently was result of police
detention of a 40-year-old man
believed to have been questioned
in connection with Cumberland's S
unsolved Staying Of Mrs. Odessa
Frances Meister. The man has
not been charged.
It was learned reliably that
the mans wife was not informed
he had been taken into custody
until about 48 hours after he
was placed under police guard
in the county infirmary.-AP.
Evening star., 1953-04-21
Eleven Bishops Condemn
Pressure in East Zone
By the Associoted PraSs

BERLIN, April 81. Eleven
Protestant bishops protested here
today that Communist pressure
against the church in East Ger
many threatens to become un-
bearable."
1t was the first open COM
plant by the church since the
Communists began their recent
wave of arresting pastors and
Protestant youth leaders.
The protest, issued in writing
at a special news conference.
came from Lutheran bishops
from all over Germany who rep
resent nearly 18 million church
members. Three of the IL are
from the Soviet zone.
They accused the Communists
of using illegal imprisonment to
try to drive church members
especially youths from their
faiths.
Evening star., 1953-04-21
Co!umnist Stokes
In Fair Condition

Thomas L. Stokes. 81, political
columnist, was reported in fair
condition today at Emergency
Hospital after spending a COM
Portable night. Mr.. Stokes coll
lapsed yesterday at the National
Press Club.
Affiliated with United Features
Syndicate, Mr.. Stokes is a coll
umnist for The Star and a num-
ber of other papers. He has won
the Pulitzer Prize and the Ray
mond Clapper Memorial Award
for his reporting.
Evening star., 1953-04-21
S4oO,OOO in Du Pont Stock
Given ; Southern Schools
BY the A.seeiated Press

LEXINGTON, Va, April 21.-
Mrs. Alfred I. Du Pont has con-
tributed additional gifts to
Washington and Lee University
and Hollins College.
She presented W&L with Du
Pont stock shares worth approx
imately $4,000 and Hollins
with $150.000 in shares. Another
$4,000 gift was made to the
University of the South.
In recent years, she has con-
tributed $4,000. shares to the
three colleges. DR.. Francis P.
Gaines. president of W6EL, esti-
mated A the stock value at So
milliol
Evening star., 1953-04-21
Pool Fees Raised

Nonresident users of the Gov
ernment-built swimming pool at
Greenbelt, Md, will have to pay
more for swimming this summer
than the taxpayers who keep it
going.
The nonresident adult fee set
by the City Council will be so
cents, an increase Of Is cents.
Children's admissions in each of
three age groups will be 10 cents
higher than last year for nom
residents.
The council was told that
hundreds of outsiders used the
pool last year, denying Green
belt residents easy access.
Evening star., 1953-04-21

ored, Of the 800 block of Fourth
street NE.
So Harrison was arrested too,
and also charged with petty
larceny.
Yesterday in court Swami
swore he didn't know the sack
Evening star., 1953-04-21
Spray Damage Award

The Virginia Court of Appeals
held that an insecticide manu-
facturer should warn of dan
gers under unusual circum-
stances to the vegetation being
sprayed. The decision reversed
an order of Albemarle County
Circuit Court.
Roy McClanahan and Oscar T.
Detamore were awarded $4,000
damages from California Sprya-
Chemical Corp. as a result Of de-
struction of the 1949 and 1850
apple crops of the Carriers Noun
tain Orchard, near Monticello,
Va.
Two justices dissented, warn
ing that the majority decision
was "apt to cause embarrass-
ment in the future. ."-AP.
Evening star., 1953-04-21
Grandmother, IS, q Pilot

PALM SPRINGS. Calf. April
81 (P).-Four generations of one
family went for a skyride yester-
day-with a great-grandmother
at the controls. She's Mrs. Zad-
die Bunker, who won her private
pilots license recently on her
65th birthday. She learned to
fly after taking over the Palm
Springs Airport a year ago.
Evening star., 1953-04-21
Maryland
=
and
Virginia
News in Brief
Falls Church Slate.
Describes PROGRAM

Five Falls Church candidates
running as independents for
City Council" in the June 9 elec-
ton made their first appearance
as a group at a meeting in George
Mason High School last night.
They were Herman L. Fink,
area representative for a steel
firm; Charles C. Seymour, drug
store manager; M. Eldon Colby,
chief underwater for Federal
Crop Insurance Corp; G.. G.
Hilliker. a State Department en-
ploye, and Samuel E. Kite. a real
estate man.
Mr.. Fink said the City Council
should establish policy land let
the city manager manage the
city. We do not need eight city
managers"
Evening star., 1953-04-21

District and vicinity-Fair. and
rather cold again tonight. lowest
about SO. Tomorrow, sunny and
warmer.
Maryland and Virginia-Fair
and rather cold again tonight,
low 1898, with scattered frost
in the interior. Tomorrow, sunny
and warmer.
Wind-MoStly westerly at 10
IS miles per hour tonight and
tomorrow.
Evening star., 1953-04-21
Internees Leuve Moscow

MOSCOW, April 81 P).-A
Royal Air Force transport plane
carrying six Britons and an Irish
priest. liberated after long in
ternment in North Korea. took
off here today for Berlin, en-
route to England,
Evening star., 1953-04-21

re0ucClOn In .
force pro-
grams.
csc officials
are more or
] e S indiher-
ent to the hui
man element
in t h e pro-
gram and the
inconsistent
cieS W h ic h
W ould result
from the pro-
posed change.
Un er the
A. N
Evening star., 1953-04-21

of potatoes Call so pounds Of it)
was on his shoulder and solemnly
declared that 1T fell there, I
guess"
Judge Almond K. Scott just
rubbed his chin and decided
Swami had better go to Gallinger
for mental observation.
Crosses Fingers.
And then Harrison took the
Evening star., 1953-04-21
The Federal Spotlight
The Federal Spotlight
Rights Of Career Employees
To DispIoce Others Face Curb
By Joseph Young

The Civil Service Commission strong
the dumping rights employees who lose
their jobs.
Thus instead helping displaced people
jobs the commission would it tougher for them
csc officials forthcoming action on the basis that
Evening star., 1953-04-21

The Sun and Moon.
Rises. Sets
Sun. today 5:24 $50
Noon, today 1851 am. 1909 am
Automobile lights must be turned on
one-haN hour after sunset.
Precipitation.
Monthly precipitation in inches in the
Capital (current month to date): =
Evening star., 1953-04-21

Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest. 7S. on April 10.
Lowest. %. on March z
High and Low Of Last "a Hours.
High. 40. at 2:20 pm. yesterday.
Low. 81, at 1850 am.
Evening star., 1953-04-21

Showers forecast for tonight along the western slopes
Of the Rockies North Dakota and the Southwest Desert region
Showers and expected in the Southern and
Central Plains States few light uries forecast
for the hy sections of Western Pennsylvania and Western
New York 1t is expected to be in New England Mid
die Atlantic States and central third Of the country
ZAP WirephotO
Evening star., 1953-04-21

and lend the red tape and con-
fusion that bumpings cause in
Evening star., 1953-04-21

q THE EVENING STAR
- Washington. D. c.
TUESDAY, April. 2k 1853
Evening star., 1953-04-21

Tide Tables.
FURNISHED by United States Coast ant
Gandafin
The Arizona post., 1953-05-01
Center Film Series

The Center is conducting a ser
les of four films pertaining to
those men about to enter the
armed services. They will be
shown every Tuesday night at
8 pm. Two have already been
shown, but on May II and May
10 the last two will be shown. All
interested persons are cordially
invited to attend.
Representing Tucson at the in
tra-center Table Tennis Tourna-
ment held between Phoenix and
Tucson were Aaron Ezrailson,
Bob FiShman, Harriet Goodman,
Alan Fineberg. Phoenix won by
an 81 score. Center members en-
tered in the Arizona State Table
Tennis Tourney were Harriet
Goodman, Bob Fishman, Aaron
EZrailson. These contestants were
sponsored by the Center.
The Arizona post., 1953-05-01
Here N There
By ELISE ROSENBLUM

and Bernie Silverberg, Sharlene
Sack and Mike Criss, Anita Rich
and Alan Lesson, Bernice Singer
and Lazar SunenShine, Carole
Glazman and Clyde Schachner,
Jackie Epstein and Aaron Ezrail-
son, Joan Tobias and Seymour
Goldstein, Sally Malinsky and
Murray Rogel, Marcia Sgutt and
Bob Schwartz, Judy Buchanan and
AL Spector, Golda Kessler and
Alan Nemiroff, Charlotte Flyer
and Steve Silverstein, Rita Gold
stein and Alan Huss.
Tucson High has really been
jumping to the tunes of "ShoW
Business" mister Tap-Toe" and
The Arizona post., 1953-05-01

Hi there everyone o.. . II this
column sounds a bit different it's
because I've got a little helper
sitting on my typewriter-a black
and white kitten with round blue
eyes who answers to the name of
Fuzzy" Look out, prospective
columnists! The gleam in this
baby's eye is truly journalistic!
But YOUR contributions should
be coming in any day now.
Pete Stone celebrated his nine
teenth birthday in an unexpected
ly pleasant manner. He was Civ
en- a surprise party at Su e
Schneck's home complete with
the currently popular "cat" talk
and dig the crazy guest list. 1t
included Carol Kansky and Al
Fineberg, Joan Smotkin an d
Frank Grossman, Roberta Scol-
nick and Gene Lederer, A n n
Greenberg and Ed Jones.
Maybe "twas just a garden in
the rain" but the BIG dance at
the VF'W boasted all the trim
Minis" including a floorshoW en-
ceed by Lew Horwitz. Among the
many couples who filled the room
dancing, eating and watching the
entertainment were Eleanor Kalb
and Harry Nadler, Reva Tietel-
baum and Lenny Scheff, Leona
Shapiro and Sgd Salmon, Marsha
Glickman and AL Fogel, Rita Wal
tuch and Morty Sadowsky, Cher
rill Alfou and Dick Keene, Diane
Rosenblatt and Barry Karlin,
Darlene Copalman and Irwin
Mordka, Regina Weiss and Jack
Singer, Judy Kuropatkin and
Paul KatZ.
She's sweet and she's sixteen,
so why shouldn't Arlene Singer
have a party at the Peacock Inn
to celebrate the fact? Complete
with food galore, dance music and
even lily pond to create atmo-
sphere, her many guests were be-
ing wholly truthful when they
thanked her and host Lloyd Ben
nett for a wonderful evening. We
saw Sara Handmaker and Dick
Stein, Judy Gawsner and Eddie
Allen, Bonnie Supowit and Mel
Arthur, Barbara Green and Dave
NoVick, Liz Solomon and Milt
Leibhaber, Bobbie Oppman and
Stan Ferber, Ruth NeVins and
Howard Jenefsky, Harriet Lee