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Evening star., 1953-05-24
Rosenbergs Given
New Chance 10 Sing
And |mp|icate Others
Atom Spies Get Slight
Hope Of Escaping
Death, if They Talk
By jones (. Roper

The Justice Department has
informed atom spies julius and
Ethel Rosenberg that it's still
not too late for them to "sing"
and perhaps save their lives.
A high department ofilcial. it
was disclosed last night, has vis-
tied the condemned prisoners in
the Sing Sing death house, where
they are awaiting a new date for
execution.
The official told the couple
that the United States still wants
more details about a Soviet es-
pionage ring that operated in
this country in 1914 and 1945.
Espionage confessions, the off,
cial said, always are considered
q factor when the Government
decides whether to grant clem-
ency.
No Promise Made.
The Government made no
promise. But the implication was
clear. Washington holds little
hope that the RoSenbergs will
involve anyone else. The Govern
ment repeatedly has pressed the
Rosenbergs to confess. Their 81
lence apparently was one reason
for a Federal judges giving them
the death sentence. and for
President Eisenhower's refusing
clemency February IL.
Since then, however, the Gov
ernment has renewed pressure to
get the RoSenbergs to confess in
the hope that they can save
their lives. Gen. Eisenhower has
authority to grant clemency at
any time before the husband
and-wife team is electrocuted.
In perhaps one of their final
legal maneuvers. defense attor-
neyS have asked the Supreme
Court to order a new trial for
the RoSenbergs. The court may
announce a decision on this plea
tomorrow. If the court refuses
to intervene, an early execution
date will be set.
The RoSenbergS, convicted in
March. 1851, originally were SEN
fenced to die two years ago this
week.
They were convicted Of slip
ling atom secrets from the Los
AlamoS laboratories to an espio-
mage ring involving DR.. Allan
Num-, Klaus Fuchs, Morton So
bell and David Greenglass.
Insist on Innocence.
Greenglass is a brother Of Mrs.
Rosenberg. He testified that Mrs.
Rosenberg recruited him into the
ring. The Government thinks
Mrs. Rosenberg recruited others,
too, and thus could put the finger
on Still-free spies.
The Rosenbergs have insisted
they are innocent. They say
GreenglaSs perjured himself in
order to escape punishment. Fed
eral Judge Irving kaufman SEN
fenced Greenglass to is years i'm
prisonment, making him eligible
for parole after serving five years.
Evening star., 1953-05-24
u. S. Officials Silent on Plans
On Eve of New Truce Talks
Americans Hope to Keep Reds Guessing
When Punmunjom Sessions Resume

| handed to the Reds as a now
or-never" proposition.
The idea seems to be that by
thus modifying our stand we
can at least make it more appeal
ing to our U. N. allies. if not to
the Red Chinese.
The fact is, however, that
American officials consider the
Indian resolution "too fuzzy" for
application without some modi-
fication. The United States ac-
cepted it in the General Assembly
reluctantly. The Communist ma
tions vigorously opposed it at the
time.
In the American view, of
course. the fundamental issue
on which there can be no COM
promising is this: No force or
coercion of any kind can be used
to compel prisoners in U. N.
hands to return to their home
lands. About $4,000 North
Korean prisoners and $4,000
Chinese are listed by the U. N.
command as saying they would
forcibly resist any effort to make
them return to Communist rule.
The General Assembly resolu-
tion stands by the principle in
(See TRUCE Page A-2l
Evening star., 1953-05-24
By Gornett D. Homer

American officials have been
keeping strictly silent about the
United Nations commands next
move in the Korean truce
negotiations. They do not want
the Communists to know exactly
what to expect when the truce
talks resume at Panmunjom,
tomorrow. This time, they would
like to prevent the Reds from
mapping out their reaction in
advance.
Behind the curtain of official
secrecy, it is understood, they
have been working out some
changes in the May 13 UN
proposal for handling the
prisoner-of-war repatriation is
sue that has deadlocked the
armistice negotiations for more
than a year.
These changes, according to
all indications, are aimed at
bringing the proposal-rejected
by the Communists and criticized
by some allied nations-more
into line with an Indian
sponsored resolution adopted by
the United Nations General
Assembly last December.
AN available information indi-
Gates that the new offer will be
Evening star., 1953-05-24
By Miriom Gutenberg

A woman in Prince Georges
County can have a criminal rec
ord or an unsavory reputation,
but as long as her home passes
health inspection, she can oper-
ate a foster home for up to
tlve children.
If by some slim chance a
report should reach the county
health office that the home was
no place for babies. the permit
might be held up or revoked,
but this would be sheer acci-
dent. In Prince Georges County,
there is no investigation Of the
character or morals Of a woman
who wants to operate a foster
home.
This was revealed in q Star
study Of the regulations-and
lack Of them-for the protection
of children placed in boarding
homes by parents and other rel
atives.
The situation in Prince Georges
County formed a sharp con-
trast with the District where
prospective foster mothers go
through a searching inveStiga-
ton of their suitability, motives
and experience and must have
character references from three
non-relatives.
In both the District and Prince
Georges County, If the foster
Evening star., 1953-05-24
Mexico's TaIIest Building
Has Fire on 41st Floor
By the Associated Press

MEXICO CITY. May 23.-The
41st floor of Mexico's tallest
building caught fire and threat
ened to set off chain Of fires
in the crowded downtown area
late today before f1remen checked
the blaze.
Twenty workers trapped in the
four floors above the 41st story
of the Latino Americana Build
ing were rescued by the firemen
who battled the flames in view
of thousands jamming the streets
and blocking traffic below.
The skyscraper glowed like q
giant torch in the fading day.
light. Sparks from it were
blamed for a second serious fire
four hours later in q drug store
IN q ground floor Of another
! building across the street.
Evening star., 1953-05-24
Soviet Plotting War in Europe
Before IS, House Group Told

spend their final days in some
Soviet labor camp. devising
means of cementing friendly re-
lations with the Kremlin. To this
type of person the committee
can offer little-certainly not
sympathy"
Col. Bukar told the committee
the Soviet target date for war
was disclosed to him as one of
5000 officers in training at a
Russian military school for con-
quest at Moscow between 1945
The witness, stating he fled to
the, United States a little more
than a year ago, told the Con-
gressmen RuSsia'S plan to over
whelm Western Europe was out
lined in a lecture by a Kremlin
foreign service expert named
Sverdlov.
Take Over DardanelIes.
He quoted Sverdlov as saying
Soviet intelligence had informa-
tion of Britain's plans to attack
the Soviet Union in 1855. And
he said Sverdlov asserted:
Therefore, we Russians must
take over the Dardanelles and
the Bosporus before 1855. We
shall close the Mediterranean
Sea, and so we will prevent the
British and the Americans from
having a throughway through
Suez to the Indian Ocean. We
shall not wait until they strike,
but comrades, officers, we shall
take over the Western Europe
before 1885"
Col. Bukar went on to tell how
the Russians taught him in 1946
before China fell to the Reds
that Nationalist China must be
taken first. and then Korea.
Evening star., 1953-05-24
BY the A,,oeiuiad Prasa

A former Czech army officer.
trained in Soviet military STRAIT
egy, has informed the House Un-
American Activities Committee
of purported Russian plans to
launch war in Europe before
1856"
The Russian decision to take
over Western Europe" the COM
mittee was told, is predicated on
Soviet suspicion that Britain is
preparing "a definite attack to
destroy the Soviet Union" in
1855.
Czech Partisan Fighter.
The testimony. given in a
secret committee session May 13
and IA, was made public yeSter-
day in an unusual volume en-
titled, Soviet Schedule for War,
1855"
The witness is identified as
Col. Jan Bukar-a name which
Chairman Velde said was as
sumed to hide his true identity
as a Czech partisan fighter
against the Germans in World
War II.
The year. 1855, is the same
year which former President
Truman and his top advisers
listed as the period of the great
est danger of attack from Rus
Sia.
President Eisenhower has
scoffed at this idea. disclaiming
any faith in what he called
magical formulas.
Attacking Mr.. Truman's de-
fense planning as a "crazy quilt"
program. Gen. Eisenhower told
reporters at a news conference
April 80 he did not believe any,
one could predict when, if ever,
another government would start
a global war.
Foresees Disapproval.
The House committee headed
by Representative Velde. Repub-
lican of Illinois. predicted in a
foreword to its hearing trans
cript that Col. Bukar's testimony
will be met by disapproval by
some in the United States and
elsewhere, who will seriously OBJ
ject to being interrupted from
the placidity they so undeser-
vingly enjoy.
These persons will be the
same who sought to rationalize
the Soviet actions in the block
ade of Berlin and aggression in
Korea. Some Of them, through
their fuzzy-minded concepts OF
international relations, viii never
be convinced; and might well
Evening star., 1953-05-24
Native Dancer
Wins by a Neck
In Preakness
jamie K. Defeated
After Brilliant Duel;
RoyoI Boy Gem Third
By ChorIes m. Egon
Sports Editor of The Stcv

BALTIMORE, May 23.-The
sure-thing bettors staged a bar
gain-counter rush at old Pimlico
this afternoon, then stood by
with their hearts in their mouths
while Native Dancer. the object
of their affections. battled it
out with Eddie Arcaro on jamie
K. and barely lasted to win the
77th PreakneSS stakes.
At the end of a stretch drive
scarcely less tingling than the
one in the Kentucky Derby three
weeks ago, Alfred G. Vanderbilt's s
big gray was only a neck in
front of Jim Norris game colt,
whose rider has been one Of The
Dancers few detractors.
Jamie K, a whimsical kind OF
horse whose owner is the head
of the International Boxing
Club, looked like the winner at
several points during the stretch
run. but he couldn't quite make
it. But the light bay son of the
little-known Crowfoot, q 1871
shot on one of the weirdest bet
ting days Pimlico has ever
known. was an easy second. six
lengths ahead of Eugene Con-
stantin's late-ranying Royal Bay
Gem.
Ram O'War Fourth.
Brace S. Campbell's Mary
land-owned Ram o'War also
made up some ground as he
finished fourth two lengths
further back. Then came the
tired early pacemakers, Dark
Star, Tahitian King and Cor
respondent. none within shout
ing distance of the two leaders
Backed down to l to 5 by the
crowd of 30,756, Native Dancer
ran the classic mile and three
sixteenths in 1:574s, nearly two
seconds slower than the track
record of 1:56, set by the Green
tree Stables Capot in winning
the 1949 Preakness. The gray
son of Polynesian certainly
didn't look like a $40 mutual
proposition as Eric 'Guerin failed
away at him to stave of Jamie K.
Besides his $2.40 win price,
The Dancer paid $2.20 to place
and the same State minimum
figure to show. jamie j., for all
his long odds in the straight
wagering, paid only $4.20 to
place, and both the Norris horse
and Royal Bay Gem returned
the minimum $2.2O to show.
Show Betting a Sideshow.
The show betting was a side
show in itself, but the Pimlico
officials can be numbered among
those who were not amused.
For the rush to Native Dancer
to run no worse than third-a
total of $281,576 was bet on the
gray out of a show pool of
1922. .493-caused a minus pool
of $46,012, an item that the track
had to take care of.
The jam around the $50 win
dows was terrific before the
Pfeakness and it resulted in sew
eral betting records. The $685.
639 bet across the board on the
race broke the previous all-time
one-race mark by more than
100000. The old high was
$492,312, set in the 1947 Freak
ness.
The rush for that sure-thing
10 cents on the dollar also
Continued on Page C-1, Col. 81
Evening star., 1953-05-24
Rees Seeking
Delay in Firing
.0fU.S.Workers
Says Agencies Rush
Luyoffs in Order to
Puy Gosh Leuve
BY Joseph Young


Chairman ReeS of the House
Civil Service Committee last
night called on Congress and
the administration to take
prompt action to prevent the
firing Of many career employees
by June 30.
In identical letters to Chair
man Taber of the House Ap-
preparations Committee. Budget
Director Joseph Dodge and Civil
Service Chairman Philip Young.
Mr.. Rees said many agencies
were sending out 30-day layo6
notices to career employees be-
cause of heavy annual leave
cash Indebtedness.
The Kansas Republican said
the agencies, which are faced
with observation-disclosures pro-
grams due to budget cuts, are
anxious to separate the en-
ployes by June 80 so they can
pay them the cash terminal
leave from this years unex-
pended leave funds.
Carryover Funds Urged.
Noting that the agencies are
fearful that Congress will not
provide adequate money for
terminal leave payments for the
fiscal year starting July /, Mr..
Rees urged that Congress allow
the bureau to carry over the un-
expended funds into next year.
In this way, he said. agencies
will not have the pressing reason
for firing career workers right
away and will be able to retain
them.
The text OF the letter. follows:
For some time I have been
concerned about the impact on
individuals in reductions-in-force
and have been trying to work out
procedures whereby most Of the
observation-disclosures can be taken
care of by normal attrition.
In checking with the various
Government departments, I find
that hundreds of pink slips are
being prepared, effective the end
of this, fiscal year. I have been
informed by a number of de-
partments, sufficient, I believe.
to indicate the situation is gen.
eral and that a major factor in
scheduling these terminations by
June 80 is the desire to pay lump
sum terminal leave out of this
fiscal years appropriations. I
deem this matter of sufficient
Importance for some of your top
staff to look into Immediately to
determine if arrangements can
be worked out whereby unex-
pended appropriations for this
fiscal year can be used next fiscal
year to pay lump sum terminal
leave payments for leave &C.
crued prior to June 80. 1883"
Reduction Through Attrition.
Mr.. Rees said in a separate
statement that. meanwhile, most
of the employment reductions
can be achieved through attri-
tion-by not filling vacancies.
The Kansan said the Civil Serv-
ice Commissions forthcoming
changes in the reduction-in-
force program providing for the
dismissal of temporary-i indefinite
employees and retention of career
workers in all RIFF programs.
also will aid career employees.
That's why it is imperative
that agencies be allowed to
carry over unexpended funds
into next year, so that career
employees can get a reprieve
while the program to protect
their job rights is being COM
pleted, Mr.. ReeS said.
Evening star., 1953-05-24
Sport Stars Coming
For Benefit Game

SPORT STARS coMiN6-Some Of
the countv's Ieodins stors in the
sport field have been invited to bs
luncheon guests Of President Eisen.
hover before the benefit Congress
sionoI Bell Come here June 5. Story
on Pose AS.
GUIDED MISSILES FOR WASH.
IN6ToN-The Army's plons for set
ting up guided missile botteries
Ground Washington and other key
cities ore discussed on Poss All.
Complete Index. Poee AZ
Rodio- TV, Prosroms. Poses E-4-5
Evening star., 1953-05-24
Bull Cores Trainer
ToDeath Before 1,5O(
Al Bethesda Rodeo
Wife and Children
Of Veteran Performer
Witness Tragedy

A Brahma bull yesterday
turned on the man who had
trained him for five years and
gored him to death before 1900
shocked spectators at a rodeo
near Bethesda.
Everett Daniel, 81, a veteran
rodeo performer, died of a
Evening star., 1953-05-24


until last winter "circumscribed'
the mission of the U. N. forces
on the war-town peninsula and
had "a definite and adverse ef-
feet on United States military
operations"
The interim" report scattered
the blame among virtually all
policymakers of the former Tru-
man administration for not pro-
viding necessary guidance for
military planners"
The report added that neither
CT (the supply branch) of the
Office Of the Army Chief of Staff
nor the Army Ordnance Corps
discharged its responsibilities in
q creditable fashion"
Red Plans 'MiscaIcuIxted.'
Former President Truman, the
State Department. former De-
tense Secretary Lovett. former
Army Secretary Pace. the Ma
tional Security Council and the
Joint Chiefs of Staff "miscalcu-
lated the aggressive designs of
International communism" the
Senators asserted.
Congress was abSolved Of any
share Of the blame.
The Defense Department and
the Army refused comment.
Secretary Of Defense Wilson has
asserted there now is SUFFICIENT
ammunition.
The four Senators-Chairman
Margaret Chase Smith of Maine.
Hendrickson of New Jersey and
Cooper of kentucky. Republi-
cans, and Byrd, Democrat, of
Virginja-Signed the report.
Kefauver Disagrees.
The nth member of the armed
services subcommittee, Senator
Kefauver. Democrat, of Ten
nesSee, disagreed strongly with
many Of the generalities and
with some of the conclusions"
and added with reference to loss
ef lives!
American families which have
suffered losses In Korea have
sustained grief enough, without
sustaining the added grief which
this type of statement brings,
when the statement is based, as
the committee acknowledges. on
conflicting testimony between
various Army generals"
The majority report recalled
testimony by Gen. j. Lawton
Collins, Army Chief or Staff, that
he wished Ito reaSsure the
mothers of soldiers in Korea
that their sons are not being
needleSsly exposed by a lack of
ammunition" and by former
Undersecretary Of the Army
Archibald Alexander that mo
casualties resulted as a result
of shortages Of ammunition in
the hands Of combat troops"
Mr.. Alexander added that all
witnesses, including Gen. James
A. Van Fleet, whose charge Of
shortages during the % months
of his command of the 9th Army
brought about the inquiry,
''agreed there never was a short
age in the hands of combat
troops to carry out the missions
assigned to them"
Quote Ridgway Message.
But the report also quoted a
telegram from Gen. Matthew
B. Ridgway, former Far East
commander and newly -designat-
ed Army Chief of Staff as
follows:
". Artillery has been and
remains the great killer of Com
muniStS. There is a direct
relation between the piles of
(See AMMUNITION, Page A-20
Evening star., 1953-05-24
Shell Shortage Wasted Lives
Of GIs, Senate Report Says;
Truman Policy Aides Blamed
Army Units Charged
With Failure to Meet
RESPONSIBILITIES
Bv John A, Giles

-Four Of i've members Of a
Senate Investigating subcommit-
tee concluded last night that
ammunition shortages in Korea
brought "a needless loss OF
American lives"
They also asserted that short
ages in certain critical rounds
Evening star., 1953-05-24

Eisenhower Sow Mock Attock in Korea.
Won Fleet kevsols. Pose A-3
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Pictures on Page Az.
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(See TRUCE, Page A-30
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(See DANIEL, Page A-2)
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(See CATTLE, Page A-20
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Continued on Page "A, Col. A.
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(see AMMUNITION, Page A-2)
Evening star., 1953-05-24

Mostly sunny tomorrow, less humid,
high in the middle 70s. Full report on
Page A-2O
Yesterdays Temperatures.
Noon ---76 6 pm. n II p.m.---70
2 p.m.---76 8 8pm.--74 Midnight 81
pm.-77 10 pm.---71 a.m.--65
Evening star., 1953-01-18
Macarthur
Continued From Page E-1.)

"because of its small size. can
reach many areas denied to
larger mobile units"
Both of these vehicles will
send video and audio signals
by microwave to the top of the
Capitol dome, where they will
be relayed to The two networks
originating stations. This setup
received a thorugh field test on
Thursday when WNBW used 1t
to get first TV pictures Of the
train wreck at Union Station
on the air.
Each network also is send
ing its top commentators to
Washington to add verbal in
formation to the pictorial re-
port on the Inauguration and
parade. NBC-TV will have
Morgan Beatty playing quar-
terback, with H. v. Kalten-
born on hand to analyze the
inaugural address and Dave
Garroway and host Of others
to cover the parade.
Sign Of the Times
Walter Cronkite. CBS-TV's
anchor man at the conven-
ventions, will do the same job
Inauguration day, with Ed
ward r. Murrow, Eric Seva-
reid and others doing the re-
porting. ABC-TV's staff of
commentators will range from
Howard Norton, 17-year-old
president of the American
Legion Boys Nation, to Walter
Winchell,, counsellor Of Presi-
dents, statesmen and large
and small nations which irk
him.
Radio will be very much
involved with the inaugural
coverage, too, though not SO
extensively as television. A
parade, after all, is pretty
Evening star., 1953-01-18
Music Programs of the Week

Steele" arr. George Copeland: Brahms'
lntermezzi, z Flat Major. Op. III;
sSi sarbai. Ii and ExcuTsions rlst Minor oD Mss Ms.
K. 377"; Coleman's "Pyrenees Leg
end" Miss Heers. Miss Lea.
FRIDAY.
FRIDAY MORNING MUSIC CLUB. Co.'S
mos, Club, Assembly Hall. 11:3O am;
Bach's Concerto for Two Pianos and
Ensemble. C Major" Dorothy Radde
Emery. Bernice MCDANIEL. pianists;
vlolins; CAROLYN Hopkins, viola; Eliz.
abeth Karrick, cello; Mendelssohn's
"Gruss" "Das erste Veilchen'; Schu-
mann's Standardization" ''Er
ists":, Benedick's Il Mourn as q
RHys gcstasy E"efxf Mdred p coSn
oMeae{Hers saite for @0 Two TSinss Pianos
Virginia Holland, Hugh oMeagher.
NAVY BAND. cwo Richard E. Towns
end, cOndusting; Depaytmental Audi, Il,
III" from Wagner's "Lohengrin"
Erichs' "Sarafan Overture" Moussorg--
sky's., Pictures at an Exhibition,
Air" from Bach.s Suite, & D Na1ie MAJOR;
NSi eieio SGsHSs Mar from aqs11tsn Poecsells Ms
Gioconda," Ben Mitchell Morris, tenor:
Coleridee-T e-Taylor's .'Bamboula:"
THE WUMMER, SAIDENBERG VALENT1
TRIO, flute, cello. harpsichord; IL
msnHs n5saH OF SGnfaeSf Tor sG cello and
Harpsichord," Lotti's Trio Sonata.
G Major; Loeillets "sonate q trois.
B Minor; c. P. E. Bach's Sonata.
Rameaus Pieces de clavecin en- con-
cert No. e" trio.
Evening star., 1953-01-18

WEDNESDAY.
NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA.
Bruno Walter; guest conductor; Con
Zine kleine Nachtmusik." Brahms
symphony No. 2. D Major"
THURSDAY.
NATIONAL SYMPHONY. Student Con-
esrt Dr. aoTarH Mitchell condH}e;t9r:
Tonssi'Gtion Vottes and Hal eisue Pm sach SUITE
from Tschaikowsky's Swan Lake;
aSufs nis Dance P"Ysnnf No Py1a5fs SaEs
FREEDoM SINGS Army Band concert,
Maj. Hugh Curry. conductor; Rose
gsmpton iud;}orin@ S9pran0 sol0lst; DepsEf &
%snsS. %e9ss Aaa1s45!a% H%sSisans sS D4 4brah%s'
gio,., Finale, from Handers The
Faithful Shepherd Suite" Sic; Parker
man Dance; K. 695. Nc. e. g.: Kaler,s $
"Divertimento for Band" Duggan' S
Eternal Life" Vol 10 sapete,"' from
MaseaEas Mss casssJla cmst sweet
FRANCIS Madeira, piano recital. Cor
eoran Gallery nts. OF Ast S3o Epdn Pom
Fra Frnancks Prelude, chorale. FSsue"::
Brahms "Intermezzo, Op. 118, No.
g.: "Capriceio, D Minor In,r. O. 11S'
M9 No. o." RhspfHdz sppsntnss Msaqf MVapiationRs 9R
on Mary Had Little Lamb in Styles
of Eight Composers"
"6A vioiinist sE"s JANE pans hhA f pianist s AIS
Club, $40 pm. "Danses du XVI
Evening star., 1953-01-18

much a visual event, to be
seen rather than heard or
heard about. NBC does have
plans for adding color to the
parade radio coverage by use
of such devices as parabolic
microphones. to pick up crowd.
marching and musical sounds.
It found. incidentally. that
it needed one more Of these
than were available and had
to put to work a museum piece.
This was an old parabolic
microphone in a display Of
historic radio equipment at
the NBC studios in New York.
It bears a 1923 date and may
have been retired after help
ing report President Hoover's
inaugural. Works fine now,
though.
IT'S just a sign of the
times" said an NBC radioman
with resignation when telling
about it. "Television gets a
brand-new Cadillac and we
get a 1928 microphone."