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Evening star., 1953-01-25
Tax Probers Begin
Alcohol And tobacco
Unit Inquiry Feb. z
By Cecil HoIIond

Representative Kean, Repub-
ncan, Of New Jersey announced
yesterday that House tax investi-
gators will open hearings Feb.
|ruary 2 on the Revenue Bureaus
Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Unit.
He said the hearings will be
extensive and promise disclosure
Of some pretty interesting mat
ters."
Mr.. Kean became chairman Of
the House Ways and Means sub
committee investigating tax.
scandals when the Republicans
organized the new Congress.
Hearings ON Two Cases.
He said the subcommittee also
is planning to hold hearings soon,
on two cases which are "quite
interesting" with indications of
Every strong Irregularities"
"These cases" Mr.. Kean added,
"point UP to some people for
merly in the bureau. They are
such interesting cases that we
decided they should be investi-
gated in public hearings"
Mr.. Kean did not disclose the
nature of the cases or the names
of former bureau officials said to
be involved.
To Ask for Fund.
The subcommittee which dis
closed sensational tax scandals
last year reorganized at a meet
ing Friday under the direction Of
Mr.. Kean. It decided to request
$100. 900 to carry on the investi-
CATION this year. This is half
the subcommittee budget last
year.
The hearings on the Alcohol
and Tobacco Tax Division will
be the subcommittee's first public
activity since the Republicans
organized the new Congress.
1.-THE hearings" said Mr.. Kean,
will cover the conduct in office
Of a number Of present and for
mer officials of the Bureau of In
ternal Revenue. We are par
ticularly interested at this time
in the handling and settlement
Of certain alcohol tax cases."
Mr.. Kean said the names Of
witnesses for the opening hear
ing will be announced later.
Five Accept Assignment.
Five,of the seven members who
served on the subcommittee last
year accepted assignment to the
reorganized unit.
In addition to Mr.. Kean they
are Representatives Curtis Of
Nebraska and Byrnes of Wiscon-
sin, Republicans, and Represen-
tatives King Of California, the
former chairman. and O'Brien Of
Illinois. Democrats.
New members are Representa-
tive Martin, Republican, Of Iowa,
and Representative Boggs. Dem
ocrat, of Louisiana.
Mr.. Kean said that he was
"very pleased" that Mr.. King
decided to continue with the
subcommittee as the ranking
Democratic member.
John Tobin will continue with
the subcommittee as chief coun-
Evening star., 1953-01-25
'B-47 JET Bomber
Tested in Attacks
Over 33 States
BY II. A.sesIo,.d Pres,

An airplane that has been
bombing" American cities from
coast to coast was identified last
night as q Boeing Bat Stratojet.
the first to undergo q very-long-
range flight test program.
Boeing Airplane Co., Seattle.
announced that the BAT, based
at Wichita. Kans., had made Al
simulated combat mission in 81
days, over 33 States.
Operated From wichita.
Cities attacked included Los
Angeles, San Francisco. Portland,
Seattle. Miami and New York,
but all takeoffs and landings
were at Wichita. Boeing said,
and 80 Of them involved aerial
refueling from q Boeing KC-97
Stratofreighter tanker.
Routine fuel transfers were
made without difficulty during
both day and night flights" the
company added in an announce
ment cleared by the Defense De-
partment.
Boeing said the six-jet medium
bomber few 217,8O5 miles, the
equivalent Of almost nine times
around the world, in reaching
the halfway point of a 1000
hour shakedown program.
First Flight Of Type.
Boeing said this was the first
time one Of the 6o0-miles-an-
hour bombers had been flown on
such a series Of long-range
flights. It added:
Prime purpose was to ac-
cumulate flight time on a single
BAT as quickly as possible :.
while operating techniques were
developed and the quality Of
equipment thoroughly proved"
The Air Force has announced
that two BAT wings are in
operation in the Strategic Air
Command.
Evening star., 1953-01-25
Widow. Tells Court
How Nazis Laughed
Before Killing 642
By the Assoeiqted Press

BORDEAUX, France, Jan. "a.
One of the widows Of Oradour-
Sur -Glane testified today that
the soldiers Of Hitler's IS Das
Reich Division were laughing
and in good humor before they
carried out the massacre of, 642
villagers on June 10, 1914.
The widow, who gave her tes-
timony between sobs and tears,
was Alta Demery. She lost two
sons, ages 13 and IL, and her
husband in the wartime destruc-
tion Of the little village in south
west France. By a miracle the
troops missed her home while
they were rounding up the
victims.
Was Warned Away.
Dressed in black and unable
to stand while taking the oath,
the petite widow said she heard
the soldiers beating around the
cornt1eld Of her home. They
were laughing, joking and shout
ing, she said. Her own life was
saved by German soldier sta
toned on the outskirts of the
village who shouted "go away or
you will be killed"
Twenty one soldiers Of the
third company, among them II
Frenchmen from the province
Of AlSace, are on trial before the
military tribunal here for the
massacre. Several of the Alsa-
tians claim they saved women
and children by turning them
away from the burning village.
Mrs. Demery recognized none of
them, nor do any of the defend
ents sitting on low wooden
benches in the front OF the
court. claim she was one of the
villagers they saved.
Appointment Fatal.
Earlier, a Limoges streetcar
conductor, Marcia Dauliat, told
the ironically tragic story Of a
streetcar employe who met his
death because he had an appoint
ment with his tailor. The tailor
was at Oradour.
Mr.. Dauliat, an outspoken
bluff man of IS. drew laughter
from the courtroom several times
with his violent gestures and out
bursts. The laughter drove pre-
siding Judge Marcel Mussy St:
Saens to fury.
"ImbecileS," he cried. "You
think you are in a movie theater?
If there is any more laughter
over the unfortunate events
which occurred at Oradour I will
clear the court"
Evening star., 1953-01-25
Civil Defense Worker
Wounded by Gunshot

Robert Ross, 7112 Chestnut
street NV, last night was
treated at Montgomery County
General Hospital for a gunshot
wound of the hand.
Mr.. Ross, an employe Of a Civil
Defense unit at Olney, Md, told
reporters that the shooting was
accidental but he said security
regulations forbade his discuss
ing the matter further.
Evening star., 1953-01-25
AZ to Use Fruit Flies in Study
Of High-AItitude Cosmic Rays

kinds Of mutation the powerful
cosmic radiation produces.
The containers with the flies
will be marked so that finders
can return them to the Air Force.
The balloons will be launched
from West Coast sites to drift
eastward across the country in
the prevailing winds.
In the past. studies Of fruit
f1ies have revealed some Of the
major secrets Of heredity and
genetics. They are much used
for such studies because they are
easy to care for and breed in the
laboratory, and the generations
follow each other swiftly.
Evening star., 1953-01-25
Leopold Parole Decision
Postponed Until Moy
BY The Asseeioied Press

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Jan. "a
A decision on the parole bid Of
Nathan Leopold, thrill-killer Of
the l920'S, has been postponed.
until sometime in May.
Victor I. Knoles, recently ap-
pointed chairman ofsthe Illinois
Pardon and Parole Board. said
tonight no decision in the Leo
pold parole bid would be forth
coming until then. He gave no
date, nor did he further explain
the reason for the prolonged
poStponement.
Evening star., 1953-01-25
Official Criticism
In Russia Turns
10 Law Profession
By Ire Assoelaisd Press

MOSCOW, Jan. "a. - The
whitening light Of ofncial criti-
cism turned in full glare today
on the Soviet law profession and
the judiciary.
The official newspaper LIVES
tia, which has lambasted other
professions in recent months, ac-
cused Russian lawyers Of follow
ing the path of bourgeois
ideology and named prominent
juriStS as culpritS.
Soviet juristS must energeti-
cally struggle with manifestations
of bourgeois theology in our
jurisprudence" Izvestia declared,
"and must not permit the pene-
tration Of alien ideas and theories
into legal literature"
Highest Legal Bodies.
Izvestia's blast centered mainly
on the August Institute Of Law
Of the U. S. S. r. Academy of
Sciences and the All Union IN
stitute Of Jurisprudence. These
are looked on as the two highest
legal bodies in the country.
Six members Of the organiza-
tions and a number Of associate
members were singled out for
particular attention.
"The monopoly position OF
such scholars" the paper said,
prevents the development of
criticism and SELF criticism and
impedes the normal growth OF
young cadres."
Other legal authorities also
We're brought under fire.
Authors Criticized.
e. Chernilovsky was denounced
for what was called his harm
work" entitled "the state of the
regime of the Chinese peoples
republic
Jacob Aizenstat was similarly
criticized for his treatise on the
Bulgarian government.
M. Strogovich, an associate
member Of the Academy Of Sci
ences, was chided for his text
book on criminal procedure;
Izvestia said it sounded like
direct praise Of bourgeois law"
Another associate member, N.
Arzhanov, was .castigated for
failing to produce one serious
scientific research work from
1045 to 1851.
The Ukrainian sugar industry
also came in for its share of Of
f1cial criticism today.
Industry officials were accused
Of failing to meet their quotas
and told fatty that things might
have been better If there had
been less pilfering and embezzle-
ment down the line.
Evening star., 1953-01-25
Pope Recovering

VATICAN CITY. Jan. a. QP).
Pope Plus XII continued his
recovery today from q slight at
tack Of influenza and. although
still confined to his apartment,
attended to most of his duties.
Evening star., 1953-01-25
Copru Price Is Hioh

The price Of copra in Manila,
the Philippines. recently has
been at the highest level since
the spring of 1851 and more
than double the April, 1852, low
point.
Evening star., 1953-01-25

Scout Wins Boxing Contest
A 14-year-old Boy Scout won
a Catford (England) cake-bak-.
ing contest in competition with
80 housewives.
Evening star., 1953-11-08
more notes of JOY -.

The Trir-o-Tree Shop, 4th Floor, with Ito
COY eornishinos for trees, packages, nronteIS,
doors.
The Christmas Toy Store, Washington and
Chevy Chose wide-eyed wondsrIonds.
Before long, S. Clous, too.
Music while you shop >. our dolly tsxcept
Wednesday, oroon concerts, l2:l5 to 90,
4:3o to 5:l5 at Washington and Chevy
Chase.
A place TO rest your wrops" and bundles
while you shop .. Check Room, Street
Balcony.
For refreshing interIudes Teo Room and
Fountoin Room, 7th Floor; Down Stoirs Store
Eountoin Room. And the Fountain Room
Of Chevy Chose.
Evening star., 1953-11-08
we simplify shopping

we simplify shopping
From the Downtown Parking Gorooe on 10th
Street, you can walk right into our North
Building. Parking is OF standard fees
The tunnel between North and Main Build
ings shelters you from weather and troffie.
At Chevy Chase and Alexandra, you'll find
free porkino lots most convenient.
BY telephone, you con shop at Woodward
6 Lothrop any hour Of the "a, any doy Of
the week ot Woodward 6 Lothrop. Just coll
District 7-53oo.
Or mail your gift orders to US.
Evening star., 1953-11-08
outside inside ). your gifts

outside j.. inside >. your gifts
Well pack them for you in oIistsnino white
boxes with bright red ribbon bows at
no odded charge This service OF wrapping
desks on all floors except lSt, Main Build
ing . on lst and End, North Building.
Foncy gift wrapping at nominal charge,
End Floor, both Main and North Buildings.
Gifts to be nonoeromnned should be ordered
early hondkerchiefs, linens. playing
cords, stationery.
lnitoIino JeweIry, silver and leather gifts
marks them "personoI." No odded charge.
Gosswore gifts con be personoizOd by our
toented copper wheel snoroVer.
In OVERSEAS PACKAGES tuck In Q
Boke Shop fruit coke and remember
to mail the package by November IS.
p. S. Coreoes Of treasures from oversees
ore here for you to give.
Evening star., 1953-11-08

we help you save time
Any Service Monoesr will elody tell you
whore 70 find items on your gift list He'll
Ooll Q Personol Shopper for you If you wish.
Information Desks were "born" to onswsr
your questions. Service Desks ore on every
"hoor TO ossist Y9u
Electric stoinNoys and express elevators
speed your shopping.
Remember your Shopping Plate you'll
save shopping time, make sure Of clear,
correct address.
So you can select PersonoIized Christmas
Cords more costly, our Engraving Room
odds an "onnex" on the End Floor
Stationery, too, hos on extra supply Of
festive wroppines on the End Floor.
Top foVorite "unwropped" gifts, you choose
fost our Gift Certificates.
The people's voice., 1953-09-25
MCKAY SANCTIONS "CUT" FOR
PRIVATE POWER MIDDLEMEN

Instead of guaranteeing electrical
deliveries to load centers by an eff
cient trunk line transmission system,
he talks about turning that over to
'other agencies, Ullman stated.
Boiling it all down, Mckay says in
effect that it is acceptable federal
policy to put private toll stations on
the highways of federally generated
power.
Ullman said he saw in McKay's
statements "a real indication" that
suggestions for increasing. Bonne-
vile Power rates were "utility-in-
spired."
"Give the Snake River to private
monopoly and watch the high Snake
Valley rates flow downstream to the
lower Columbia he stated. "Low
private dams can only exist if there
is high rate downstream power mar
ket. No system of cheap rates can be
maintained without full storage de-
velopment, integrated operation and
federal transmission.
mckay does not even lend a SYM
pathetic phrase to the fifth ingredient
direct sale of power to industry
which is the heart of the program for
regional economic development. His
policy statement coldly says there
will be no further direct industrial
sales of federal power.
"Were all the rest of the ingredi-
ents ignored, this alone would bring
the economic expansion in the Pa
cific Northwest to a standstill. This
alone would doom this great re-
gion to industrial impotence and the
status of continued colonial depend
ency. At the bidding of selfish and
short-sighted Eastern industrial and
financial monopolists Mckay bland
ly takes this pound of flesh out
of his native region. What can be
the motive behind such a drastic
limitation imposed on the economic
lifeline of this region?"
The people's voice., 1953-09-25
TRAINMEN'S UNION
ASSAELS MONOPOLY DAMS
as UNSATISFACTORY

WASHINGTON, D. C.-President
w. P. Kennedy of the Brotherhood
of Railroad Trainmen filed a protest
with the Federal Power Commission
against licensing Idaho Power monop-
oily dams in the Hells Canyon area
because they are inadequate and un-
satisfactory"
"The limited projects of the Idaho
Power Company should be rejected
as being inadequate and unsatisfact-
ory," Kennedy told the Commission.
"Such projects would be unable to
furnish water for irrigation or stor-
age for flood control. Neither would
there be any adequate provisions for
conservation and recreational pur-
poses.
"Citizens residing in the northwest
States are entitled to have the bene-
fits from full development of the po-
tential possibilities of power, irriga-
tion, flood control, conservation and
recreation as have been planned in
the proposed project of the multi-pur-
pose dam at Hells Canyon. The pro-
posed Hells Canyon dam, in addition
to the previously named benefits,
would serve the nation as a whole in
the program of national defense"
Kennedy concluded his protest with
the statement that "the proposed prof.
ects of the Idaho Power Company
do not and cannot meet the require
ments of being in the interest of the
public welfare"
The people's voice., 1953-09-25
FUCE RETIRES ALMOST
HALF MILLION WORTH
OF PREFERRED STOCK

Directors of Farmers Union Cen
tral Exchange recently authorized
General Manager E. A. Syftestad to
retire another $455,000 of preferred
stock owned by local co-operatives.
This was the second time in 1868 that
FUCE paid off $455,000 in preferred
stock earned by local co-operatives as
patronage refunds for 1914.
Over 500 locally-owned co-ops in
Montana, the Dakotas, Minnesota,
Wisconsin and Wyoming are partici-
pating in this latest stock retirement.
Since 1914, the Exchange has re-
tired over $2,700,O00 of stock, COW
ering the period of 1931-1944.
Since being organized more than a
score of years ago, FUCE has return
ed over $1,00O,000 to local co-opera-
The people's voice., 1953-09-25

KLAMATH FALLS, Ore.-Policies
resulting from Secretary of Interior
McKay's "desertion to selfish monop-
olists' 'and "sell-out of full resource
development by quislings" in the
ranks of conservation groups doom
the Northwest to industrial impo-
tence," Albert C. Ullman, chairman
of the Idaho-Oregon Hells Canyon
Association told delegates to the Ore
gon State CIO Convention.
Ullman said that McKay's policy
against direct sale of power to in
dustry "has put up the sign large
industries keep out of the Pacific
Northwest"
Mckay has said there will be a
drastic limitation on new power and
what there is will be allotted to pri-
vate utilities" Ullman declared. '"The
people of the Pacific Northwest
should rise up in righteous wrath at
this political and economic sell-out
of the region. There is no reason
and no logic behind this program of
austerity and economic hardship, eX-
cept the selfish reach of the long
hand of Eastern monopoly"
Ullman told the delegates North
west development in the past 20
years resulted from "a formula for
success with five ingredient"
including full multi-purpose de-
veIopment of the Columbia and
Snake rivers, maximum utilization
of the power potential, cheap pow
er rates, delivery of energy through
federal transmission lines, and di-
rect sale of power to industry.
In his recent policy statement Nc
Kay "openly and obviously ignores
the cornerstone of our formula
full, multi purpose development"
Ullman said. "Amid all his platitudes |
there is not one mention, not one
word of assurance that the Depart
ment of Interior will protect and
shield for future generations the great
river resources of our nation and re-
gion 1t is quite significant that Nc
Kay fails to say that he will oppose
private. dams when they are NOT in
accord with the best interests of the
natural resources of the area"
The people's voice., 1953-09-25

terms simply doesn't mean the eX-
postulations of politicians out of pow
er. What it means to the oil commits
sion is gas production "in violation
of ANY rule, regulation, or order of
the commission" Brother, that's COW
ering lot Of territory.
Or, as another example, the word
"firewall." I'm not quite clear on
what it means in oil circles, but,
for certain, it doesn't mean the
place E. B. "Hardrock" Coolidge
has in mind when he envisages Civ
ing all five members of the commits
sion "the business"
And, then, there's another lulu in
this tangled mass of verbiage which
the commission chooses to call Gen
eral Rules and Regulations Relating
to Oil and Gas" That's the rule re
garding deviation" (NOTE: Not
to be confused with term commonly
applied to all comrades who stray
from the party line, by the men in the
Under this rule sez the
"Unless otherwise or
dered by the commission upon hear
ing, all wells shall be so drilled that
the horizontal distance between the
bottom of the hole and the location
at the top of the hole shall be all
times at a practical minimum. Now
that one ranks with Cal Coolidge's
''When men are out of work, there
will be unemployment" Can you pic
5ure any oil man in his right mind
The people's voice., 1953-09-25

expanding the home market, but it
also means that the productive ca
pacity of U. S. industry is so enor-
nous that we must also have mass
markets abroad to keep our factories
and labor forces fully employed"
The delegates outlined an "all-out
legislative and political fight" against
the pending Butler bill which it said
would "destroy the free American
trade union movement"
They acted to approve a campaign
against the Butler bill, on which hear
ings will be held by a subcommittee
including Senators Butler of Mary
land, McCarran of Nevada, and
Welker of Idaho in November, af-
ter hearing Secretary-Treasurer M.
E. Travis say:
"'The labor movement-not lust
ne-Mill, but the AFL, the CIO, the
Railroad Brotherhoods and all the
rest-will be destroyed if this bill be-
comes law. The Butler bill would
change the form of government in
the United States"
The people's voice., 1953-09-25
C0-0PS HANDLE 1920 OF FERTILIZER, HELD UP
BY HELLS CANYON BATTLE

if they can be assured of ample low
cost electricity.
Nevertheless, Voorhis reports, CO.
ops are now distributing nearly 1870
of the plant food to the nations
farms. Latest figures show that so
co-ops operate 105 fertilizer plants.
A farm organization has discovered
potash deposits in New Mexico.
In 1851, $500 local and regional
co-ops handled $3.50 million worth of
fertilizer, Farm Credit Administra-
tion reports. DR.. Claud L. Scroggs,
FCA senior agricultural economist,
says co-ops led the industry in the
amount of food per ton.
Minnesota co-ops made 39% of
state fertilizer sales; New York, 349o;
and Michigan, 1870. Nationally, CO.
ops distributed 1870 of all fertilizer
in 1851.
Voorhis pointed out that co-ops will
make further strides as their research
with experiment stations and others
Last year Illinois GOODS
perfected granulation process that
retards caking.
The people's voice., 1953-09-25
By CAPITOL OBSERVER

When and if Dean Ford of the State
University's School of journalism
reads this story, he will probably be
Mortified. How oh how, no doubt the
dean will groan, could any, one so
completely disregard all the accepted
rules of objective writing in a single
story. But then, the Dean wasn't pres
ent at Tuesdays meeting of the Oil
Conservation Commission. Had he
been, and able journalist though he
is, he would probably have been as
confused as this correspondent, or
the Editor of THE VOICE who re-
tired from the meeting at the end
of the morning. session, completely
befogged, and screaming madly for
two, four or six aspirin.
By all this, | mean to say that,
unless person is we'll informed on
the Lingo" that is the highly tech
nical language of the oil industry, he
is wasting his time (and yours in
trying to give an understandable re-
port on such a meeting A few ex-
amples of definitions discussed by
the commission and those in attend
ance may suffice to illustrate what
Pm getting at:
A blowout" in oil jargon doesn't
mean what the local Legion post, the
printers union, or the Shriners pc
stage for their own enter
tainment or of others. What it does
mean, am not quite certain.
And, "illegal gas" in oil industry
The people's voice., 1953-09-25

CHICAGO -(CNS)- With fertili-
zer consumption rising, the nations
co-ops are looking to new processes,
Jerry Voorhis, executive director of
the Cooperative League, said here
September II.
One stumbling block, he said, is
Congress failure to authorize Hells
Canyon dam in the Pacific North
west. In few years, the dam would
supply low-cost power for coop phos-
phate production in Idaho.
Cooperative leaders thought they
were solving some problems for their
members several years ago when they
purchased the phosphate deposits,
Voorhis said. Delay on the dam has
held them up. Two co-ops with more
than 2 million farmer-members in
II midwestern and western states are
ready to invest $50 million in plants