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Evening star., 1953-10-24
By Dovid 6. Boreuther

People used to be considered
slightly crazy if it was said they
had bats in The belfry. Today
lots of people are crazy to have
bats in the attic-batts or
blankets of insulation. The rea-
son is these bats can add lot
of comfort to you and your
budget.
A trade association recently
called our attention to a survey
showing that insulation ranks
next to painting as the most
popular project among home
handymen.
Speaking Of the Do It Your
self market" say the mineral
wool man, there's new type
of home builder entering the field
in increasing numbers. He's the
home owner, who hires a contrac-
tor to do the heavy work, while
he does lot of the finishing and
fitting himself.
What kind of work does the
homeoWner do? One home build
ing publication made survey
to find out. Here's the surpris-
ing answer.
Some of the painting was
done by 1873 per cent-all of
the painting by 81 per cent
total 74.3 per cent.
Some of the insulation work
was done by 10.7 per cent-all
of it by 53.4 per cent-total 64.4
per cent"
X X
For your information, or con-
ISOLATION, other total figures ran
in this order:
Flooring, 5O.3 per cent: wood
work, 58.2 per cent: hardware.
57.3 per cent; framing, 81 per
cent; wiring, Sill per cent: roof
ing, 49.4 per cent; masonry. 1872
Evening star., 1953-10-24

sion estimates the figure will ap-
proach SIS billion in annual in
vestment by 1860.
1T is to the fast-growing class
of handyman householders that
this booklet on attics is directed.
While the booklet describes work
a home owner may do himself,
due recognition is also given to
the advisability of enlisting serv-
ices of skilled professionals for
! difficult phases of the project"
Evening star., 1953-10-24

ingly strong do-it-yourself trend
that has doomed sales of paints,
power tools and many other
items"
"The Department of Com
merce," he says, estimates
more than $3.5 billion will be
spent this year in residential
maintenance and repair. This
is about double the 1946 home
improvement outlay and our
company's market research divi-
Evening star., 1953-10-24

Directions: OHt Georgia Ave. to
Wheaton,, Nd, bear left on Viers
Mn Rd. ~ miles to Conn.
Ave. Estates, tGrS right TO fGrn.
ishsd model home. Or: Out
Georgia Ave. through WhsGfo.
10 Waller Rd., left on WELLER
Rd. to GoOdhiH Rd., 10 sample
koasR,
Evening star., 1953-10-24

KlTCHEN-
HOTPOINT DlsHWASHER
HOTPOINT GARBAGE DISPOSAL
HOTPOINT 40" ELECTRIC RANGE
HOTPOINT 81 REFRIGERATOR
With Cross-Top Freezing Compartment
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-01-31
-Four District Officials
Get Grade Elevations

Four District government Off
Gals yesterday were elevated to
the status Of salary super
grades.
The Civil Service Commission
approved pay boosts for the fol-
lowing: .. .....
Corporation Counsel Vernon E.
West, the governments top legal
officer, from GS-16 and a pay
rate starting at $4,000 to GS-17
and pay starting at $4,000. This
is the same category as the Dis
trict Commissioners themselves,
except that they start at the top
of the pay scale. $4,000.
Chief Assistant Corporation
Counsel Chester. Gray, a two
grade jump from GS-14, $1O,6OO
to GS-16, which starts at $12,-
900.
Highway Director John N.
Robertson and Director of Cor
rections Donald Clemmer, both
of whom were raised from the
$11 900 category of GS-15 to
the $4,000 of GS-16.
The "supergrade" status of Is
District officials was authorized
under the city's reorganization
plan tacitly approved by Con-
gress. Commissioner F.. Joseph
Donohue said the raises are in
order in view of the enlarged re-
sponsibilities now Shouldered by
a number of government off,
Gals due to reorganization.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-01-31
Ship Returns 10 Port
To LET 81 Rush 10 :.
Stricken Family
By the Asseeiaisd Press

NEW YORK, Jan. 31.-A mill.
tary transport vessel bound for
Europe turned around last night
40 miles off shore to enable an
Army sergeant from Arkansas
to return to his tragedy stricken
family.
The Military Sea Transport
Service ordered the vessel to
turn back so they could pick up
Sergt. Finnis F. Pummill Of New.
port, Ark. and speed him home
ward by plane from New York
this morning.
At Newport his daughter Bar.
bara was dead, the MSTS said,
and his wife was seriously ILL.,
Sergt. Pummill was aboard
the United States Naval Trans
port Eltinge, 40 miles out of New
York, when the MSTS learned
of the death Of his daughter
and the illness Of his wife.
On orders, the Eltinge reversed
its course and returned to Am.
brose Lightship which Is an.
chored at the outer entrance Of
New York harbor.
There an Army tug picked up
Sergt. Pummill and brought him
ashore. He will arrive home this
afternoon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-01-31
Reports
$4,000 Deficit

A $4,000 deficit in the opera
ton of Prince Georges General
Hospital during December was
reported yesterday to the Coun-
ty Commissioners.
The report, received at a
meeting at Upper Marlboro,
placed the total deficit for the
first half of the current fiscal
year at $55,523.
David A. MacNamee, assistant
superintendent and treasurer of
the county-owned hospital who
made the report, said Deem
ber's large loss was attributable
to a reduction in the patient
load because of the holiday sea-
son. .....
The county commissioners, in
the current budget, have an
item of nearly 100000 as a con-
tribution to, the hospital in an
ticipation of operating losses
during the fiscal year.
The County Volunteer Fire
mans Association reported that
two new units have been &C
cepted into the organization.
They were listed as Kentland
Volunteer Fire Department and
Beltsville Rescue Squad.
The commissioners awarded a
bid for approximately one mile
of corrugated drainage pipe to
the Lane-Penncarva Corrugated
Pipe Co., of Bealeton, Va. The
firms bid of 1854 was the low
est of four received.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-01-31
...- Controls
Continued From First Page.)

National Independent Unions,
headed by Don Mahon.
The PRESIDENT yesterday con-
ferred with Dave Beck, president
of the .AFL Transfers Union,
and representatives of the truck
ing industry, who asked him to
help them set up an Independent
Federal Motor Carriers Commits
sion. They are now subject to
the Interstate Commerce Com
mission.
Mr.. Beck later told reporters:
"The President is not in agree
ment with us. His position is
that he does not want to create
any new agencies"
Mr.. Beck complained the
truckers are not adequately rep
resented because none of the
members have trucking COM
pany experience.
Industry representatives were
Roy Fruehauf of Detroit, presi-
dent of the Fruehauf Trailer Co.
B. M. Seymour of New York.
president of the Associated
Transport Trucking Firm, and
Arthur D. Condor, Washington
attorney, who represents truck
ing interests.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-01-31
Three UNIV Organizers
Shot in Kentucky Ambush
By NE Assoeiutad Pros,

HAZARD. KY, Jan. 31.-Four
members of the United Mine
Workers - including three or
ganizers - were wounded from
ambush yesterday while return
ing from a union meeting at
Manchester.
State police said the assailant
fired upon two automobiles con-
tanning the unionists from
bushes at Buffalo Hill in Leslie
County, about nine miles west
Of Hyden. Two others in the
cars escaped injury"
At; Pikeville, Tom Raney, In
ternational Board member of
the UNIV. pointed out that yes
terday's ambush brought to six
the number of union organizers
shot since June "a, 1852.
Mr.. Raney said there have
been SO dynamitings of homes,
automobiles and stores since
June but that there were no ar
rests in connection with any of
the dynamitings.
! Still pending in Federal court
is 50 million damage suit filed
against coal operators and
county officials by the UNIV
which claimed a reign of terror
existed in the two counties.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-01-31
Smack
Continued From First Page.)

in joint statement yesterday
the operation was necessary for
tactical reasons" - They were
shown a secret report by Gen.
Van Fleet.
Reasons for Failure.
They added that the objective
OF capturing prisoners failed for
combat reasons which ARE not
unusual" Mr.. Short cited
failure of tanks to proceed far
enough and slowness of infantry
in advancing.
In Korea, Maj. Warren Phil
lips. who commanded the ground
assault in the operation, said
the congressional ire was "un-
called for and probably due to
a lack of civilian understanding
Of what we did"
OF approximately 220 Ameri-
cans in the attack, three were
killed in action and 81 wounded,
of whom So were sent back to
aid stations, the congressman
reported. None was missing in
action.
Invitations to Battle.
The attack was criticized on
the House floor because it was
witnessed by invited generals
and war correspondents who had
been provided with detailed
operational plans bound in a
cover with the .three-color in
sigma of the 7th Division.
The Saltonstall- Short state
ment quoted Gen. Van Fleet as
saying:
"This action was in no way
designed as a demonstration for
spectator benefit. but was in
tended to be a sound tactical
operation for the capture of pris-
oners."
Representative Hoffman, Re-
publican. of Michigan, who sug-
gested the operation might have
been a staged show to get more
military appropriations, declined
specific comment on the Salton-
stall-Short statement.
Representative Bray, Republi-
can, Of Indiana, another critic
of the attack, said if Gen. Van
Fleet was correct in the way he
reported the operation, there is
nothing against it," He added
that "the program and the pub
licity were ill-advised."
Mr.. Short said he thought
criticism of the attack had been
made prematurely and had done
"irreparable harm" by raising
new doubts about the Korean
campaign.
"This sort of thing always
leaves a scar" he added.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-01-31

if full-Scale raids could be made
on the Chinese mainland with
out losing United States protec-
ton in the event of counter
attacks on Formosa. $3.50
However, even if the guardian
feet were released, it would take
some time before sizeable sys-
tematic raids could be made on
the Communists. -.
Informed sources on Formosa
expressed belief that if the fleet
leaves, Mr.. Eisenhower should
warn the Chinese Reds against
any attempt to seize Formosa
and tell them the United States
would defend the island. They
also hope that the United States
would continue air patrols over
the Formosa Strait.
Some Democrats Doubtful.
Republicans in Congress gen.
orally applauded the proposed re-
versal of the Truman policy Of
sealing off Formosa, where Chi
ang is credited with having up
to 100000 men in uniform.
Democrats generally indicated
they will go along, although some
expressed miSgivingS.
Senator Morse, Independent,
Of Oregon attacked it vigorously,
asserting that if the move is
made it may go down in history
as "a sly tactic for encouraging
incidents that may start World
War III" Senator Morse bolted
the G. O. P. during the presi-
Dental campaign.
Senate Majority Leader Taft
said: 1T seems to me it will be
a step in the right direction and
about as long a step as we
should make at this time"
Senator Ferguson, Republican,
Of Michigan, a Foreign Relations
Committee member, said he had
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-01-31
Britain Is Aroused
AT Possible End Of
Formosa Blockade
BY. The Assoeiafsd Press

LONDON, Jan. 31.-PreSident
EiSenhower's reported plan to
end the United States Navy's
neutralizing blockade of Chang
Kai-Shek'S Chinese Nationalist
forces on Formosa aroused con-
Germ today in official British
quarters.
Informed sources stressed that
Britain expects to- be fully con-
suited about any basic change
of American policy in the Orient.
London newspapers of various
political compilations gave big
headlines to Washington dis
patches reporting Gen. EiSen-
hover may withdraw the United
States Seventh Fleet, which has
neutralized Gen. Chiang's troops
on their island stronghold and
prevented air and sea operations
against the China mainland.
Lord Beaverbrook's pro-em-
pire Daily Express carried this
banner:
Ike move alarms Britain.
Chang may get go-ahead to
raid China"
The conservative Daily Mail
said:
like may pull out Formosa
fleet to free Chang"
The diplomatic correspondent
Of the British Press Association
reported he understood unoffi-
cially that American British
consultations are now in prog
ress on major policy changes in
the Orient.
These include, he said, with
drawal of the 7th Fleet from
Formosan waters to permit the
Nationalist to raid the Chinese
Communist mainland and mod
ernization of the Chinese Ma
tionaliSt forces.
United States Secretary of
State John Foster Dulles, now
In Rome at the start of a 10
day whirlwind tour of seven Eu-
ropean capitals, will arrive in
London Tuesday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-01-31
Dulles
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Chief Harold E. StaSsen, who is
accompanying him, expect to
find harder going later along
their To-day tour of seven West
European capitals.
Mr.. Dulles and Mr.. Stassen
arrived here this morning aboard
President Eisenhower's personal
plane, and went at once into an
hour-long talk with United States
Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker
and Chauncey. Parker. head Of
the Mutual Security AdminiStra-
ton for Italy.
They then called on President
Luigi Einaudi. Afterward they
began conferences with the
Italian cabinet, closed-door talks
with Mr.. De Gasperi, and joint
conferences between Italian gov
eminent leaders and heads Of
the American missions in Rome.
Going to Paris Tomorrow.
They will leave tomorrow
morning for Paris, after dinner
and a long private talk tonight
with the Italian premier.
The EDO treaty to weld the
armies of Italy, France, West
Germany, the Netherlands, Bel
GUM and Luxembourg into a
joint one-uniform defense force
was signed eight months ago but
has not been ratified by any of
the participating countries.
Mr.. Dulles and Mr.. Stassen
will visit each of, these six ma
tions. plus Britain, on their fly
ing tour.
Mr.. Dulles said that he and
Mr.. StaSSen were making the
trip because President Eisenhow-
er wanted us to come here i'm
mediately to talk things over
with the heads of the Western
European governments"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-01-31
Severe Drought Scourges
10000 in South Tunisia
By the Asseeioted Press

TUNIS, Tunisia, Jan. 31-A
merciless drought securing the
southern half of this French
North African protectorate has
reduced a fifth of Tunisia's pop
ulation to abject misery.
Some 100000 nomads and
peasants are victims of the UNI
broken spell Of sunny. rainless
winter days. The stricken area
begins about 125 miles south of
TuniS. Worst conditions are
around Gafsa in the southwest.
Grazing lands around GASES
have become parched and 2 mil
lion sheep are stunned and
starving. Hay is being shipped
southwark, but needed quantities
can't be supplied.
Both men and animals are
suffering from unrelenting thirst.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-01-31
John |. Lewis Reelected
Mine Workers President
BY the Associated Press


John L. Lewis has been elected
to another four-year term as
president of the United Mine
Workers of America.
Union headquarters announced
yesterday that the 73-year-old
labor leader, president since 1920,
got 294,263 votes in the uncon-
tested election-largest vote for
the Office in the unions history.
Alo reelected were Thomas
Kennedy as union vice president
and John Owens as secretary
treasurer.
The election was held through
local union referendums. An es-
timated 100000 hard and soft
coal miners were eligible to vote.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-01-31
Fornosu
Continued From First Page0

naval operations, and replied,
NO"
Asked for his personal view,
about the withdrawal of the 7th
Fleet, Admiral Leahy replied:
Il can't express my opinion
about it because I don't know
what it's there for, but if any,
body wants to have the Chinese
Nationalists) help us settle the
problem on the China coast, it's
a bright idea. Just what they'd
have to do, I don't know. I don't
have enough information"
Admiral Leahy saw the Presi-
dent one day before Admiral
Arthur B. Radford, commander
in chief of the Pacific Fleet, re-
turns to Washington. The Navy
announced he is due tomorrow,
to remain for a week.
Chang Would Be On Own.
The general understanding in
Congress was that Gen. Eisen-
hover would make it clear that
Chang will be strictly on his
own in any hit-and-run raids he
may make against the mainland.
1t was not known what plans
the administration might have
for the United States fleet to
ward off possible Chinese Com
munist attacks against For
moSa.
The Nationalist leader has a
force of about 1000 trained
pilots on Formosa, but they out
number the planes of all types
he has available. And his Air
Force, such as it is, was designed
primarily for the defense of
the island with concentration on
fighters instead of bombers.
The United States has been
helping build up this force, as
we'll as other military branches,
with about $500 million worth
of direct military aid assigned
to Chang since the outbreak of
the Korean war.
The Nationalist have been
given some small coastal vessels,
but whether they have any war;
ships of the size necessary to
support even a commando foray
on the mainland remains a
military secret.
Nationalist Refuse Comment.
In Formosa. official Chinese
Nationalist quarters refused to
comment today on Gen. Eisen-
hower's reported decision.
From the Nationalist view
point, a release would be ideal
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-01-31
Dean Says There Is No Doubt
Russia Has A-Bon1b Supply

row hopes that the explosion was
not an actual test" 41t.
A special board of the Nations
foremost experts, the congress
sional trio said, was called in to
review the evaluation.
1.-THE board members and
there are no more technically
qualified individuals to be found
in the United States-were COM
pletely convinced that the So
VETS had tested a weapon de-
vice and so reported on Septem-
Der %, 1949. to the Joint (Con-
gressionaD Committee on Atomic
Energy" the statement added.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-01-31

always felt it was bad policy
to keep the Chinese Nationalist
frozen on Formosa."
Fulbright Raises Question.
Senator Fulbright. Democrat,
Of Arkansas. another Foreign
Relations member, observed that
if the Nations top military
leaders say the move is feasible
Il won't quarrel with the plan. /"
But what do we do if the Reds
try to invade Formosa?" he
asked.
Senator Gore, Democrat, of
Tennessee said he will be listen
ing to Gen. Eisenhower's state of
the union message with these
two questions in mind:
Il. Is this to be unilateral
action and if so how will it af-
feet our relations with other
members of the United Nations,
particularly India, Great Britain
and Australia?
20. What further military &C
ton would this portend?"
Senator Smith, Republican of
New Jersey, the Foreign Rela-
tons Subcommittee on the Far
East, said he doesn't believe the
order would open the way to-
ward any full scale war on the
Chinese mainland.
"1t may be one of the most
effective steps we could take in
the direction of settlement of
the Korean ISSUE" he said.
Representative Zablocki, DEM
ocrat, of Wisconsin. said he
would support the move "if it
is not going to mean that event.
ually we will have to employ our
military forces directly to help
them"
Democratic backing also came
from Representative Brooks of
Louisiana, a House Armed Serv-
ices Committee member.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-01-31
Man Killed, Wife Accused
As Knives End Argument

Words led to knives in a do
nestle argument yesterday, re-
sulting in the death of Willie
Montgomery, 43, and a murder
charge against his wife Kath-
crime, 26.
Police said the colored couple
fought it out in their room in
the 1000 block of Fourth street
NV. Stabbed in the chest,
Montgomery died In Freedmen's
Hospital. Mrs. Montgomery was
jailed after treatment for a
shoulder wound.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-01-31
rs Per Cent Increase
In Express Fees Asked
BY the Assoeiated Pres,

The Railway Express Agency
is seeking a new increase in vir-
tually all express charges, rough
~ averaging Is per cent.
The petition, filed with the
Interstate Commerce Commits
sion yesterday, made no esti-
mate of what the proposed in
creases would cost the general
public.
The company said the in
creaSes were urgently needed
to help wipe out a $40 million
operating deficit in 1852.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-01-31

Chairman Gordon Dean OF the
Atomic Energy Commission has
joined leaders of the Senate
House Atomic Committee in re-
jecting former President Tru-
mans suggestion that the Soviets
may not have a workable A
bomb.
Mr.. Dean stated fatty: There
is no doubt of the existence of
a supply of atomic weapons in
the U. S. S. R."
The chairman issued a brief
statement yesterday in reply, he
said, to questions from reporters.
Earlier, three leading men,
bers of the Congressional Atomic
Committee issued a joint state
ment. calling Mr.. Truman's
remarks on Monday highly un-
fortunate"
Reached at his home in indie
pendence, Mo-, Mr.. Truman said
he had no further comments on
the subject.
. The former President had said
in Kansas City there was some
doubt in his mind that the
Russians have "a supply of
atomic weapons"
Mr.. Deans statement said:
1.-THE following facts, among
those available to the United
States Government, can be re-
leased on this point:
"(A) The U. S. S. r. has pro-
duced fashionable materials in
quantity.
"CB) With fashionable mate
rails in hand, it is not difficult
technical job to make workable
atomic weapons.
"(C) The U. S. S. R. has ex-
ploded three atomic tombstone
in the late summer of 1949, two
in the fall of 1851.
"(D) On the basis of the above
facts, and other scientific and
technical evidence, there is no
doubt of the existence of a supply
of atomic weapons in the U. S.
S. r."
Truman Statement Hit.
Representative Durham, Dem
ocrat, of North Carolina retiring
chairman of the Atomic Com
mittee; Senator Hickenlooper
Republican, of Iowa former
chairman. and Representative
Cole, Republican, of New York
said the Truman statements
contradicted "indisputable evil
dence not only available today
but available in 1949."
Senator Hickenlooper noted
that Mr.. Truman himself had
announced three separate atomic
explosions in Russia during his
last three years in the White
House.
IF Mr.. Truman made such
ominous statements as President
for the purpose of frightening
the American people without be-
ing convinced that they were
factually correct, then it is rep
rehenSible. indeed" Senator
Hickenlooper said.
A Joint statement by Sena-
tor Hickenlooper, Mr.. Durham
and Mr.. Cole said intelligence
reports began to arrive in 194s
indicating that Russia hac
tested her first atomic bomb.
No Accident
even in the early phases Of
evaluation it was clear thai
in all probability the Soviet ex.
ploSion had been a weapon test
and not an accident" the state
ment said.
Nevertheless for q few days
! it was possible to entertain mar.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-01-31
Coal Output Doubled

PITTSBURGH. - Population
and industry of the United
States now requires about double
the amount Of coal that was
mined in 1900.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-01-31
FOUND.

BEAGLE HOUND, small, about VI. old;
believed to be thoroughbred; vic. 18th
st. NV. Me. S-156S after pms
DOG, small. black. short -liaired, female.
with white feet and white bib, wearing
red leather collar with silver studs:
vicinity Chain Bridge. EN-. 3-9137.
POMERANIAN, small. reddish brown, fe.
male: vic. 18th and Varnum SITS, NV.
THURSDAY. Phone Ia. e-9792.
TERRIER TYPE. female, white, / ear
Owner or good home. XII. 1885.
TERRIER TYPE, male, blk and white.
mos. old; vic. Rte. 1, Robert e, Lee
School, Owner call XII. 9-3959.s