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Evening star., 1954-12-13
Safecrackers
Get $500,
Miss $4,000
Silver Spring Store
Looted; Yeggs Routed
At CoruI Hills Market

Safecrackers got away with
$500 and about $500 in mer-
chandise from a Silver Spring
drug store, but another attempt
on a Maryland store failed when
Christmas tree trimmers inter-
rupted a potential $4,000 job.
The weekend theft occurred
at the Rock Greek Drugs. 1909
Grubb road. Two Montgomery
County policemen, making a
routine check, found one safe
missing and another cracked in
the same store.
Privates Harold H. Robinson
and George E. Fusco said the
rear door had been forced.
Postal Safe Yields $1,000.
About $4,000 of the money
was in the safe taken from a
Post Office substation at the
store, which brought postal in
spectors in on the case.
The remaining $70O was car
ried away from a small cabinet
safe in the stores Office.
Several dozen bottles of per-
fume, some clocks. several flash
cameras and Is to so cartons
of cigarettes also disappeared in
the apparently leisurely burglary.
The missing safe was recov-
cred this morning in the 1900
block of w street NE. by a
District police scout car. It had
been pried open, as if by mex
perienced safe crackers, and the
contents removed, police said.
The safe was taken to police
headquarters here for further
study.
In Giant Food store in Coral
Hills. Md, the yeggs were not
so lucky. They were about to
burn their way into a safe con-
tanning $4,000 of the stores
Saturday receipts when store en-
ployes unexpectedly showed up.
Torch Left Behind.
Charles w. Miller, store man.
ager. said the employees were as
signed to put up Christmas deco
rations and the first of the group
arrived about 8:45 am. yester-
day.
The first employe to appear
waited for others with a key
to the door. giving the burglars
a chance to slip out the rear.
They left their tools behind. Po-
lice found heavy oxygen and
acetylene tanks. The side of
the safe and tip of the acetylene
torch were still too hot to hande
when police arrived.
The thieves broke into the
store through a 3-by-5 foot ven-
tilation louvre on the second
floor.
County police said the yeggs
operated exactly like safecrack-
ers at another Giant bookstore
in Oxon Hill, Md, on November
/, who burned away at safe
containing $21. 900 for four hours
without breaking it open.
Evening star., 1954-12-13
Star Publishes Most
Real Estate Won't Ads

During November you hod 6,244
more reol estote opportunities 10
select from in The stor Classified
compared to Woshinetcn's second
newspaper. During the some month
The Stor published more real estots
classified DDS thon the other Wosh-
inston newspapers combined.
u you want to buy house, farm
Or lot be sure to read todoy's offer
inss in The Stor Classified real estate
columns. They will probably include
just The place or ground spoee you
want.
On the other hond you may have
property you want to sell. For fost
results tell il to the long established
audience Of The Star reoders.
Just phone Sterling $500, ,ond ask
for an ad-toker.
Evening star., 1954-12-13
Dr.. Sheppard Denies
Writing Wife in 1850
Regarding Divorce
Says Letter Only Told
Of Date With Girl
In Los Angeles
By the Associated Press

CLEVELAND, Dec. 13.-Dr.
Samuel H. Sheppard calmly de-
MED under a pounding cross
examination today that he wrote
a letter to his wife in 1850 re-
garding divorce.
He said the letter simply in
formed her that he had taken
a girl to a dance.
The cross-examination began
early in the opening session of
the ninth week of DR.. Shep-
pard's trial. The State accuses
him Of beating his wife, Marilyn.
to death last July 4.
AS he closed the direct ex-
animation. DR.. Sheppard's law
yer, William j. Corrigan, asked
him dramatically:
Doctor, In your lifetime, have
you ever committed any sins?"
DR.. Sheppard hesitated a mo-
ment and then said:
Eyes, sir, ! have succumbed
to human frailities."
Recalls Events of 1850.
Opening the cross-Question-
ing, Prosecuting Attorney John
j. Mahon went swiftly to the
events of 1850 when DR.. Shep-
pard was finishing his intern
ship at a Los Angeles hospital.
His wife was in Cleveland at
the time, DR.. Sheppard said.
The accused man admitted he
wrote a letter to her at that time
He said he discussed it with a
classmate, DR.. Lester HoverSten
"And he advised you not to
send the letter, didn't he?" Mr.
Mahon asked.
That's my impression" Dr.
Sheppard replied.
The reason he advised you
was it was mentioned in that
letter about divorce?"
"No, sir, that's not correct"
Took Girl to Dance.
DR.. Sheppard said DIR. Hover
stem had a date for a hospital
dance but was unable to keep it,
DR.. Sheppard said he took the
girl to the dance himself. Later,
he said, he told his wife about
this in a letter and that DR.,
Hoversten advised him not to
send the letter.
"Dr. Hoversten said Marilyn
might get some wild ideas" DR.
Sheppard testified. II said I'd
rather have her hear about ii
from me than some one else
Mr.. Mahon then brought out
the fact that DR.. Sheppard had
talked with his father by tele-
phone shortly afterward.
did you talk with your father
about divorce?" he asked.
DIR. Sheppard said that was
not true.
"He didn't want me to bring
DR.. Hoversten back to Cleveland
with me-" DR.. Shepard said
SIR HnverSten waS aI1ite unset
about it.
"I said Marilyn and my
father possibly didn't under
stand the innocence of the situa-
ton. DR.. Hoversten wasn't try
ing to lead me astray."
In 1852. DR.. Hoversten did
join the staff in the Bay View
hospital operated by the Shep-
Continued on Page Az, Col. IL
Evening star., 1954-12-13
By Jack Jonas
Star Siuff Correspondent

BALTIMORE, Dec. ia
Government prosecutor charged
today that Washington gambler
Emmitt r. Warning had a sub
stantial interest in the numbers
racket and then drew a Christ
mas tree to show a Federal jury
how the numbers business op-
crates.
United States Attorney George
Cochran Doub said that War
ring listed gambling as his sole
source of income on his tax re-
turns for l94T, and computed
that income at $29,559. He
should have listed $l47.967. Mr..
Doub said.
Warning went on trial today
in United States District Court
for the District Of Maryland on
charges Of income tax evasion.
Traces Flow of Bets.
The prosecutor went into a de-
tailed analysis of the numbers
business, tracing the flow of bets
through writer's, pickup men,
runners and controllers to the
"backer"-who in this case was
Warning, he said.
"I have drawn this crude
Christmas tree" Mr.. Doub said,
ito show how the numbers busi-
ness operates"
The drawing showed pyramid
ing rows of X marks, and Mr..
Doub referred to Warnings
workers as ornaments on the
tree"
The trial got under way at
11:45 am. after a delay caused
by a motion for postponement.
based on stories about the case
in The Star and the Baltimore
Sun yesterday.
G. c. A. Anderson, one Of the
defense attorneys, said the ap-
pearance of the articles might
have prejudiced the prospective
jurors.
Mr.. Anderson said he felt
strongly about certain portions"
of The Star story.
Withdraws Motion.
He Withdrew the motion after
SO members of the panel Of AZ
said they had seen neither story.
and 8 said they had seen one
but had not read 1t. Only one
man, a Baltimore resident, said
he had both seen and read the
article in The Star.
In his opening statement, Mr..
Doub told of a visit by revenue
agents to Warnings safety de-
posit box in the Pennsylvania
avenue branch of the Hamilton
National Bank in Washington,
where they repeatedly found
| $3.50. 900. He said that was all
the box contained.
He emphasized that Warnings
business dealings were entirely
in cash and that this made it
difficult for the Government to
check on the veracity Of his tax
returns.
Mr.. Doub said that although
Warning kept a record of his
daily play and payoffs in a little
black book, the Government does
Evening star., 1954-12-13
Prosecutor Draws YuIe Tree
To Show Warning Bet Setup
Gamblers AT Income Put at STAT, ,967
While Return Listed Only $2o, $50

not deem this book a sufficient
record for tax purposes.
Mr.. Doub said the trial is
expected to take no more than
three or four days-unlike the
trial of another Washington
gambler. Sam Beard, on similar
charges. The Beard trial lasted
several weeks.
Warning, who lives at 5000
Macomb street NV. in WASH
ington, pleaded not guilty to the
charge November 8. after legal
maneuvers to have his trial
transferred to Washington failed.
The small, youthful-looking
gambler, who has Stunned the
limelight in preference for quiet
living at his home. is represented
by Mr.. Anderson and James
S. Morrow. jr., of Baltimore, and
Charles E. Ford, Washington
VI AGA Ao"JNks
U. S. Agent Witness.
There has been no intimation
from Mr.. Doub about whom he
will call as witnesses. 1t ap-
peared certain, however, that a
key witness for the Government
would be Samuel w. Ford, an
Internal Revenue agent who
took part in the early investiga-
ton of Warnings finances. Mr..
Ford was one of the principal
witnesses in the Beard case.
It was he who visited War
rings safety deposit box and
discovered the $250.000 in cash
there-240 bills Of $1,000 de-
nomination and one $4,000
billion July 8. 1948. That visit
led to the income tax evasion
charge.
Evening star., 1954-12-13
Phenix City Staying
Charged 10 Alabama
Attorney General
BY ths Assoe,atad Pres,

GALVESTON, Tex. Dec. 10.
--Alabama's attorney general,
Silas Garrett III, today was
served with a fugitive warrant
charging he killed Albert l..
Patterson. attorney general-elect
of Alabama.
Garrett is being treated for a
mental and physical condition
at a hospital here.
Galveston County Sheriff O.
E. Henson served the fugitive
warrant.
Jules Damiani, first assistant
Galveston County attorney. said
the warrant charged Garrett
"unlawfully and with malice
aforethought killed Albert l..
Patterson by shooting him with
a gum"
Too Sick to Be Moved.
Serving Of the warrant on
Garrett had been expected since
Saturday. It had to wait pend
ing the arrival from Alabama Of
a certified copy of the indict-
ment against him.
Doctors at the hospital where
Garrett is being treated have
said he is too sick to be moved.
Garrett is a central figure in
the notorious Phenix City tAla.)
cleanup.
Mr.. Patterson, who In his elec-
ton campaign crusaded against
vice, was slain last June 18.
Two other persons are under
arrest in connection with the
Staying. They are former chief
deputy sheriff. Albert Fuller. and
a suspended prosecuting attor-
ney, Arch Ferrell.
Garrett could not be contacted
to find out If he would waive
extradition to Alabama. His CAL
weston attorney, &. H. Thornton,
jr., also was unavailable for
comment.
In Sheriff's Custody.
Serving of the fugitive warrant
put Garrett technically in the
custody Of the sheriff here.
The fugitive warrant which
paved the way for serving of
the indictment was signed by
Bernard F. Sykes. Alabama as
sistant attorney general. It wss
returnable to Russell County,
Ala.
# Garrett refuses to waive ex-
tradiction. proceedings TO have
him extradited VIII have to be
Initiated in Alabama.
Evening star., 1954-12-13
IS, 900 TVS in Jopun

TOKYO. Dec. 13 tR.-Kyodo
News Service said today that
Japan, after two years of teie-
casting. now has $4,000 television
sets and that the number is in
creasing at the rate of $500 q
month. Tokyo. with 7.8 million
population has $4,000 sets.
Evening star., 1954-12-13
Outstanding Service
BY Two Policemen

oEf-DUTY cHAsE--A couple Of
holdup men foiled to ogt-roee two
determined policemen. The policemen
are two heroes in O series, For Out.
stondins Service" The Stor is running
on Police and Fire Department men.
Story and pictures on Poae e-l4.
Evening star., 1954-12-13
By John v. Homer

The Shah of Iran, Mohammad
Reza Shah Pahlavi, and his
pretty red-haired wife, EN-
press Soraya. arrived in Wash
ington today on an unofficial
visit that will last three days.
Flying from New York, their
Imperial Majesties went to the
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Background Story Of RoyoI Visitor
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White House shortly after noon
and were honored at a luncheon
given by President and Mrs. Ell
senhower.
The Shah and the Empress
few here in the Presidents lux
urious plane. the Columbine.
They were greeted at National
Airport by Vice President and
Mrs. Nixon with a warmth that
contrasted sharply with the cold,
raw and wet weather.
Despite the unofficial nature
of his visit. the Shah rated and
received the 21-gun salute re-
served for chiefs of state. He
stood at attention while a band
played the national anthems of
Iran and the United States, and
reviewed the ceremonial honor
guard stationed outside the
terminal of the Military Air
Transport Service.
In response to welcoming re-
marks by the Vice President
the Shah said he and Empress
Soraya looked forward with an
ticipation to their stay in the
United States and especially to
meeting your great President
and also the people Of America. >
The Iranian ruler referred to
Washington as "the capital of
this arsenal Of democracy" and
to the country as "your land Of
the free and the brave" He
said he is convinced the strong
ties between Iran and the
Evening star., 1954-12-13
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The Nome nugget., 1954-12-01
To Increase Outlay For Continental
 Defense System

WASHINGTON, R-The Penta- gon plans soon to increase it's spending for continental defense and guided missiles.
 Secretary of Defense Wilson in- cluded those items among several he said would call for heavier outlays in the 5-billion-dollar ex- penditure budget he forsees for the fiscal year beginning next July l. Total spending at that level would be about a half-bil- lion less than docketed for the current year.
 Wilson gave no details, but ex penditures this year for contin- ental defense-interceptor planes, anti-aircraft weapons and radar warning networks in the United States, Alaska and Canada - are expected to be about 600 million dollars.
 The Pentagon also will seek authority to build a fifth 60,000- ton supercarrier, Wilson said in answering questions at news conference yesterday. Three of the huge carriers are now under construction and a fourth has been authorized by Congress.
 In the discussion of supercar- riers, reporters asked Wilson's op- inion of an address by British Field Marshall Lord Montgomery this week in which he expressed the view that the day of the air craft carrier is approaching it's end"
 Wilson said of Montgomery's comment:
 "He is a very brave and bold man to come into another coun- try and give some advice"
The Nome nugget., 1954-12-01
Russia Seeks Bring China, IN. Korea Into JUN. Debate

UNITED NATIONS, NY, R - Russia sought today to bring Red China and Communist North Korea into the LIN. debate on Korea, but the United States wig orously opposed the move.
 The United States cited Red China's sentencing of 13 Ameri- cans as alleged spies as one req son why the Peiping regime should not be invited here.
 Poland declared that if the United States was really interest ed in settling the case of these men it ought to agree to have the Peiping representatives come here for discussions.
 US. delegate James J. Wads worth asserted the Chinese Con- munists and the North Koreans still were holding hundreds of persons who aided the JUN. cause and were continuing aggression.
 "The Chinese Communists have no right to sit at this table," he told the General Assembly's 60 nation Political Committee.
 Jacob Malik, who last week re- placed the late Andrei Vishinsky as chief Russian delegate, told the committee it would be impos- sible to expect any objective dis cussion of the Korean problem without the two Communist re- gimes being represented here.
 British minister of state An thony Nutting agreed with Wads- worth that the Red regimes should not be invited.
 He said they rejected the au- thority of the JUN. at the Geneva Conference on Korea last spring and for this reason it was hardly fitting to invite them.
The Nome nugget., 1954-12-01
TULSA DISCHARGES HER LOSING FOOTBALL COACH

TUSO, Okla., R-Head football coach Bernie Witucki and his four-man staff were paid in full and dismissed yesterday by the University of Tulsa which just completed its most dismal season in 69 years.
 Witucki's Swear contract-re- portedly calling for $10,500 an- nually-was due to expire after next season.
 Tulsa, a member of the Mis- souri Valley Conference, had won only three games of q played the past two years. It lost all II this past season.
The Nome nugget., 1954-12-01
Shipowners Warn That Labor Disputes Are Destroying Jobs

SAN FRANCISCO, R-Pacific Coast shipowners say they have made conflicting commitments to two unions locked in a dispute which has disrupted West Coast shipping for a month.
 J. Paul St. Sure, president of the Pacific Maritime Assn, in a letter to Harry Lundberg, secre- tary-treasurer of the AFL Sailors Union of the Pacific, said, "We have publicly admitted having given commitments covering cer- tain work of our member compan- ies to both members of your union and to the ILAU."
 St. Sure urged all parties to make a realistic reappraisal of the situation" to settle the basic issue which he termed "scope of work"
 Otherwise, he warned, "the jobs themselves will be destroyed, for American flag ships cannot con- tinue to take the economic beating they are now experiencing"
 PIMA, wrote St. Sure, is "solely concerned with finding a solution as distinguished from publicly fixing the blame" He asked that all parties "work out an immedi- ate solution that will settle once and for all who would do the disputed work"
The Nome nugget., 1954-12-01
Petitions with 1,OOO,816 Names Opposing Censure Are Sent to Senate

NEW YORK, LR - Bundles of petitions opposing censure of Sen. Mccarthy were shipped off to Washington by armored truck early today for delivery to the US. Senate.
 The petitions had been prepared by an organization known as "Ten Million Americans Mobilizing for Justice," which hired the truck to transport them to Washington.
 A spokesman for the anti-cen- sure organization said the peti- tions sent to Washington carried 1,000,816 signatures certified by an auditing firm. The names were signed to the petition in nation wide drive to collect 10 million signatures.
The Nome nugget., 1954-12-01
Richfield, Sth Large Oil Company, Applies For Kenai Oil Leases

ANCHORAGE, R - Richfield Oil Co.,, the eight major petroleum firm to indicate interest in Alaska exploration, has applied for leases on 9O,52O acres of Kenai Penin- sula land.
 The California company sent a check for $23,OOO covering the lease applications to the Anchor age Land Office.
 Officials said the area is in the central part of the Kenai Penin- sula, southwest of Anchorage.
 The Anchorage Times said there is a distinct possibility" some of the applications may have to be tossed out because of dupli- cations with earlier ones from other firms or individuals.
 Other firms represented in the territory are Standard Oil Co.,, Union Oil, Ohio Oil, Humboldt Oil, The Texas Co.,, Shell Oil and Phillips Petroleum.
 All have shown interest in the Kenai Peninsula, where more than a million acres have been classed Geographically favorable for oil exploration.
The Nome nugget., 1954-12-01
Solons Agree That Next Congress Will Extend Draft Act

WASHINGTON, R-Four sen ators agreed today that the next Congress will extend the Draft Act but differed over other parts of the Pentagon's new military manpoWer plans.
 Secretary of Defense Wilson outlined the program yesterday:
 It will call for a four-year ex- tension of the draft law, modi- fled form of universal military service that will provide for long and short term draftees, more pay for long service men and little change in the historic Reserve and National Guard setup.
 Wilson told a news conference that, while some details remain to be settled, President Eisen- hover will present the plan in his state of the union message to the new Congress in January.
 Chairman Saltonstall R-Mass) of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Sens. Stennis D-Miss) and Case (R-SD), agreed in sep arate interviews that Wilson will get sympathetic hearing when he takes his case before that group
 While concurring with the other three senators that the SelectiVe Service Law should be extended, Sen. Long D-La said he doubts Congress would okay what he de- scribed as a new version of the universal military training pro- gram Congress has turned down several times in recent years.
 Wilson stressed the intent of the new program would be to induce men to stay in uniform longer. He spoke in terms of a pay increase amounting to from 3 to 5 per cent, costing up to 600 million dollars year.
The Nome nugget., 1954-12-01
No ARC Funds Spent On Lost River Road

The Alaska Road Commission reported recently that it has not spent any of it's appropriated funds for an access road to the US. Tin Corp. mine on Seward Peninsula.
 A. F. Ghiglione, ARC director, released statement to that effect after a Senate-H House committee on defense production in Wash ington had referred to use of ARC funds on the road project.
The Nome nugget., 1954-12-01
Bartlett Urges CAB Maintain Present Service to Alaska

WASHINGTON, lR - Delegate Bartlett of Alaska has urged the Civil Aeronautics Board to main tain the present air service be- tween the United States and AL aska.
 In a letter to chairman Chan Gurney of the CAB Bartlett said reports have reached him that the board may be considering funda- mental changes in the existing States-Alaska air pattern.
 Bartlett's letter said the report reaching him was that the board would not renew the right of Alaska Airlines to serve Fair banks and that Northwest Air lines would not be recertificated to Anchorage.
 Bartlett said the report also is that the board would grant Pan American the Seattle Anchorage certificate and Northwest would be granted a route from Seattle to Cold Bay and on to the Orient.
 He also said he understood the plans calls for decertification of Pacific Northern from Portland Seattle to Anchorage (which in my judgment is in exact harmony with the realities"
The Nome nugget., 1954-12-01
Collie Dog, Last Gift From Father Killed In Alaska Crash, Stolen From Boy

MIDWEST City, Okla, LR = Teller" the collie dog of four year-old Jimmy Witt, was stolen yesterday and the youngster has been crying ever since.
 His mother explained why to- day. The dog was a Christmas present - the last one he'll ever receive from his daddy who died in an airplane crash.
 It. James Doyle Witt promised his son he'd get him a puppy for Christmas. But in August, 1852, Witt was killed when his F-95 jet crashed near Anchorage.
 Knowing about the promise to Jimmy, members of the lieuten- ants outfit clipped in money enough to buy the puppy. Jimmy awoke Christmas morning two years ago and found Heller" under his tree. A tag around his neck read: "To Jimmy from daddy"
 Mrs. Witt said someone appar- ently took the dog out of their fenced yard. His collar was found in the yard.
The Nome nugget., 1954-12-01
Chinese Representative Refuses To Accept New New US. Protest

GENEVA, Switzerland, R-U.S. consul general Franklin C. Gowen said Red Chinese representatives refused to accept a new protest couched in the strongest pos sible" terms - against Peipings imprisonment of 13 Americans as spies.
 Gowen sad he delivered the protest orally to Red Chinese con- sul general Chen Ping at Gen. eva hotel. Their meeting, which lasted an hour, followed Commun- ist rejection of similar protest delivered in Peiping by British diplomats acting on behalf of the United States.
 Gowen said the Red Chinese representatives took down his protest word for word and then said he could not accept it.