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Bodenheim's up and down career
in which he last made headlines
two years ago when arrested for
sleeping in a subway. Bleary-
eyed and broke, he spent the
night in Jail. Friends finally put
up his $25 bond.
In the 1920s Mr.. Bodenheim
was a prominent figure in the
literary worlds of Chicago and
Greenwich Village.
He and Author Ben Hecht
helped to found the Chicago Lit
erary Times. an irreverent
chronicle of Chicago before the
depression. The two also were
members Of Chicago's old, cul-
tural mecca, the Dill Pickle Club.
Others who frequented the Dill
Pickle included PlayWrights
Charles Macarthur and Sher-
wood Anderson.
"Great Friend" of Hecht's.
In Beverly Hills, Calf, today,
Mr.. Hecht asked, Who would
want to kill Bodenheim?" And
added: Nobody would have any
reason to kill him that I could
understand"
1--WE had some great times"
Mr.. Hecht said. "Once Bodey
and I staged a debate in Chicago,
for 5000, on the subject: Are
people who attend literary lee
lures fools?' I looked solemnly
at the audience and said: I
rest my case Bodenheim looked
at me. and the audience, and he
said you win!'
"He was sensitive, and had a
deep love for the underdog. A
good friend is gone.
He called himself the 311th
ranking poet Of the U. S. A., be-
cause he said he had entered
5lU poetry contests ana never
won one"
Years after their Chicago days
Mr.. Hecht wrote a novel, Count
Bruga," on the hardships of an
eccentric poet. Many critics sup
posed it to be a portrayal of Mr..
Bodenheim.
Mr.. Bodenheim, born in Her.
manville, Miss. and not a re-
cipient of formal education, be-
came bitter critic of Ameri-
can civilization.
Acquitted of Charges.
His novel, "Replenishing Jes-
sica." caused a sensation in 1925.
Later it resulted in charges
against the author for publishing
an indecent work, but he was
acquitted on grounds that he had
received no royalties from the
books sale.
Among the novels he consid-
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Bodenheim
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els brought him a spectacular.
controversial career. BY 1885. he
was on the Skids, and led a
band of hungry writer's into re-
lief headquarters seeking money
for food and lodging.
Lately, he had taken to max
ing the round Of Greenwich Viii
lage bars, peddling manuscripts
of poems for so cents or a dollar.
Police said that Weinberg, the
man sought for questioning, was
one of the ne'er-do- wells with
whom Mr.. Bodenheim spent his
days.
The squalid room in which the
slain couple were found had been
rented three weeks ago in Vein
berg's name.
Police said Weinberg has a rec
ord Of 10 arrests, mostly for
vagrancy, in various commune
ties. His record dates back to
1947.
New York precincts were alert
ed to watch for .22-caliber rifle
or target pistol.
Mr.. Bodenheim's wife was
stabbed and beaten almost be-
yond recognition. Both were
fully clothed when found after
the rooming house proprietor
sawed off a paddock which had
been placed on their room door
from the outside.
On the dead novelist's chest
was a copy of the best seller,
THE Sea Around U.s." by Rachel
Carson. No weapon was found.
The Staying climaxed Mr..
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-08
Government Plans
To Rest lis Case
AGAINST BrambIeh

The Government today planned
to rest its salary "kickback" case
against Representative Ernest X.
Bramblett, Republican, of Cali
fOrnia.
Trial for the Californian in
the U. S. District Court for the
District Of Columbia began six
days ago. He is charged with
making false statements to the
Government about his Office
payroll.
Prosecutor William HitZ said
he intended to wind up his case
as soon as several legal techni-
calities involving the admission
of Government exhibits can be
ironed out with Judge Walter M
Bastian.
Through Justification Of pay
roll records, the Government
contends, Representative Bran
blett pocketed approximately
81, 900 that was supposed to have
gone to women employees during
1949 and part of 1850.
One Of the women. Mrs. Mar
garet Swanson, of Arlington. a
81, 700-a-year clerk, testified she
never did work for Bramblett.
The other. Mrs. Olga Harda-
way of Santa Barbara, Calf,
the wife Of Bramblett's former
campaign manager, said her
name was carried on Bramblett's
payroll for several months be-
fore she was aware Of the fact
The indictment against Rep
resentative Bramblett totals Is
counts. The maximum penalty
on each count is five-year jail
term plus a $4,000 fine.
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cred his best were "Blackguard,"
Crazy Man." Georgia May"
and Sixty Seconds" His verse
included "Minna and Myself"
Mr.. Bodenheim was first mar
ried in 1918 to Minna Schein,
the inspiration for "Mlnna and
Myself" They were divorced in
1888, and year later he married
Grace Fawcett Finan, a widow.
She died about three years ago.
Police said a copy of a Job
application found in the effects
of Mr.. Bodenheim's third wife
stated she graduated from the
University of Michigan, had been
a reporter for the Washington
ID. c. Daily News from 1910 to
1941: a comparison shopper for
Crowley-Milner of Detroit in
1941 and 1912; a researcher for
Newsweek Magazine from 1943
through 1915; and woman's
page editor of the Lansing
(MichD News from 1945 to 1947.
There is no such paper in Lam
sing. However. John R. Judd,
publisher of the Michigan Veter-
an RevieW-a community news
paper popularity known as the
South Lansing NewS-said : "a
Ruth Pagan wrote a few stories
for the paper while attending
night school, Mr.. Judd said she
was never regularly employed.
The Washington Daily News
said it had no record of a Ruth
Pagan having been on its pay
roll
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-08

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Ships
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Continued From First PageD
vessels from the Maritime Ad-
ministration.
A grand jury investigation of
the postwar ship deals was orig
inally ordered by former Attor-
ney General James P. McGran-
cry in late 1852.
However, because of the crowd
ed grand jury docket, the in
quiry did not actually go before
the jury until after the new Re-
publican administration came in.
The indictments grew out of
hearings by the Senate Investi-
cations Subcommittee in Febru-
airy and March, 1852, which car
ried on the work begun a year
before by another Senate group
Investigating the reconstruction
Finance Corp.
The investigations centered on
indications former Representa-
tive Casey and his associates
Melted 1928 million on an orig
inal investment of only $10l 900.
The subcommittee was par
ticularly interested in possible
tax evasion or tax avoidance de-
vices by which the group bought
tankers from the Government
and sold through their network
of corporations.
Led to NewbOld Morris
Subcommittee members esti-
mated the investors saved at least
$1.3 million in income taxes over
a flve-year period from the cor
porate organization and foreign
registry.
In tracing the sale of tankers
bought by the group. the in
vestigation led to the Office of
Newbold Morris. a New York at
torney appointed special assistant
United States Attorney in Feb
ruary. 1852, with the job of clean
ing up corruption in Government.
This ironical twist introduced
Mr.. Morris as a witness at the
hearings. and eventually led to
his dismissal in the cleanup JOB.
1t was brought out that Mr..
Morris firm handled the trans
fer of the ships from one firm
to another of which Mr.. Morris
was president. Mr.. Morris la
beled his appearance before the
committee as an effort to link
him with the Casey group, which
he roundly denounced. He said
he was unaware the ships con-
trolled by the company he head
ed had made more than 20
voyages carrying cargoes to Red
China.
Mr.. Casey served in the House
from 1885 through 1912.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-08
Labor
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Continued From First Page)
Hartley ban on the closed shop
so they could enter into pre-
hire" contracts with employers,
Mr.. Hartley said: Il fear the
authors of the presidential mes
sage have tried to slip one over"
These recommendations" he
continued, constitute a license
to organized labor in these in
dustries to completely monopolize
the labor supply"
Two other presidential sug-
geStions were attacked by Mr..
Hartley. These would compel
employers, as well as union
officers to sign affidavits dis
avowing communism. and change
the Taft Hartley definition of
"agent" so that unions would be
relieved of responsibility for acts
of individual members.
Mr.. Hartley approved of pro-
posals which would require
neither party to negotiate during
the life of collective bargaining
contract; extension of the right
of free speech to all phases of
labor management relations;
giving the States authority to
deal with so-called State emer-
gency disputes; extending dues
check-of authorization of union
members to the life of a contract,
instead of requiring renewals
each year.
Mr.. Hartley agreed with the
President that union welfare
funds should be studied. But he
said present fund operations
should be investigated thor
oughly, and Congress should
change the law so that nom
union workers in a plant could
also benefit from such funds.
He also agreed that a
Government conducted strike
vote should be required, but he
said the Presidents message on
that point was apparently de-
bberately ambiguous and wenow
find ourselves divided into two
camps" The Senate bill, presum-
ably the administration bill
would require the vote after a
strike was underway. Mr.. Hart
ley would provide pre-strike
votes.
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Big Four
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tContlnued From First PageO
Russia is ready to modify her
demands.
3. All International attempts
to bring about world disarma-
ment must be within the United
Nations. Mr.. Molotov had pro-
posed such a conference be held
outside the international organ
iZation, SO Red China could
attend.
In their first two weeks Of de-
bate. one in the West zone and
one in the East, the four minis
tiers have agreed on absolutely
nothing. No one in the Western
camp could say just how they
would stop the oratory long
enough to perhaps harvest some
small gains.
The West already had given
up Identification and peace
treaty for Germany as a hopeless
dream for years or even genera
tons.
Perhaps We can try again
every two years or So" said one
ranking Westerner.
Another remarked that Pietro
Nenni. leader of Italy's Com
munist-allied Socialists, had
said after visit to Stain that
the late Russian leader had told
him the world must get used to
living with a divided Germany
The Austrian government,
which unlike Germany is already
united, indicated it wants 48
hours notice before negotiations
on the independence pact so it
can send its delegates to Berlin
to dicker with the Big Four.
May Meet Again Secretly.
It was considered possible that
the four ministers, meeting today
with less than a score of aides
instead of the usual hundred,
might decide on another secret
meeting to discuss Germany
some more.
Today's meeting was the only
secret session scheduled, but
others were expected.
The four ministers were ex-
pected to issue only a brief COM
munique after the secret meet
ing. Though barred also from
the previous open" sessions, the
press has been told everything
said by everybody at briefings
held by each delegation.
One possibility was that the
private meeting might start the
ball rolling toward a freer East
West trade. Twice in the first
weeks sessions Mr.. Molotov re-
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ferred to the possibilities of cas-
ing world tension by increasing
trade. Yesterday top-ranking
Soviet officials greeted a British
trade delegation at a party in
Moscow.
Western sources were certain
this new gesture was timed TO
affect the Big Four talks.
Western Leaders Confer.
In preparation for today's ses-
sion. Mr.. Dulles and Mr.. Eden
and their top advisers dined to-
gether last night.
The highups Of the three
Western delegations conferred
earlier yesterday about the line
they would follow today with Mr..
Molotov.
Though 1t has brought Ger
man settlement no nearer. the
conference was reported last
night to have produced at least
one secondary result. Western in
formants said Mr.. Molotov's I'M
compromising stand had con-
WINGED Mr.. Eden he must urge
Prime Minister Churchill to drop
his pet plan for a face-to-face
meeting with Soviet Premier
Georgi Malenkov.
The Moscow press appeared
to be laying the groundwork to
blame the West in case the con-
ference ends without concrete
results. A dispatch today from
Berlin, published in Pravda. the
Communist Party newspaper,
said the Western delegations
were circulating statements as if
they already had prepared to
send their secretaries and per-
sonnet home at the end of the
coming week"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-08
7 Flee Prison Comp
In Both County, Va.

HOT SPRINGS, Va, Feb. B.
State and county police in large
numbers famed out in the vicin-
ity Of the Bath County village Of
Williamsburg today in what they
hoped was a tightening ring
around seven convicts who es-
capped last night from State Pris-
on Camp 90 near here.
The seven, all Negroes, cut their
way through the fence surround
ing the camp shortly before 8
pm. At least two were described
as dangerous" though police
could not say whether any were
armed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-08
Christgou Takes Post
AS Pension Director
By the Associoted Press

Victor Christgau, former COM
missioner of the Minnesota De-
partment of Employment Sc
curity, was sworn in today as
director of the Bureau of Old
Age and Survivors Insurance.
Mr.. Christgau, a former Rep
resentative, fills the job vacated
last summer by Oscar C. Pogge,
who resigned to enter private
business.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-08
Appetitus Hippo potun,i

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lot of satisfying, too But many folks,
beset by bills, have discovered-as you
may-that a personal loan from Hamilton
can consolidate debts and restore peace
of mind.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-08
Benson Drafting Plan
For Domestic Sale Of
All Surplus Butter
By Allen Orury

Secretary of Agriculture Ben
son said today he is very hope
full" Government-held surplus
butter can all be used domes-
tically. But, he added. he is not
yet ready to suggest a plan for
getting it into consumers hands.
Mr.. Benson, inaugurating a
series of weekly press confer
enceS, disclosed that the Com
modify Credit Corp. had on hand
$50 million pounds of butter,
about two months normal do
meStic consumption, as Of jan
uary q.
1t also held 270 million pounds
of cheddar cheese and 448 mill
lion pounds of dried milk solids.
Total acquisitions as of the same
date since April. 1852, he said.
totaled 401 million pounds of
butter, 314 million pounds of
Cheddar cheese and 687 million
pounds of non-fat dried milk
solids.
I'm very hopeful that all sur
plus butter can be consumed
domestically," the Secretary said.
1.-THE stocks are not large, but
we've got to move some before
long
Getting Plan Ready.
He said several plans are I'M
der consideration for moving the
butter into domestic markets,
and he hopes it may be possible
to announce a decision at the
same time he announces the new
support price for butter.
The Secretary emphasized that
while he favors the idea of using
surplus food to help pay part of
the cost of foreign bases aboard,
he is not in favor of any program
which would sell butter to foreign
consumers at a lower cost than 1t
Is sold to domestic consumers.
Mr.. Benson said the admin
istration will follow a hands-off
policy towards Congress on farm
legislation. He predicted this will
result in bipartisan support for
President Eisenhower program.
Generally speaking" he said,
II think we'll leave it up to Con-
greSs. Well give whatever help
We can. We're not going to use
high pressure methods on Con-
gress, I can assure you that.
Il feel very definitely that a
great majority of the Republican
members and many Democratic
members will support the Presi-
dents program as it has been
presented"
Reserve Acreage.
Mr.. Benson estimated that
about 20 million acres will be
diverted this year from wheat.
cotton and corn production. He
said the President is intensely
interested" in encouraging the
development of this land as
fertile reserve" to be used in
case Of war. The department
is encouraging experimental
paintings such as rubber,
legumes and drug-bearing plants
on the acreage.
The Secretary announced the
appointment of Clay H. Stack
house of Ohio as assistant
deputy administrator for pro-
duction adjustment in the Com
modify Sterilization Agency and
Howard j. Doggett of Montana
as director of the Northwest
area. Commodity Sterilization
Service.
On the coffee situation, Mr..
Benson had only one comment:
Now would be a good time
to push the consumption of
milk"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-08
Netherlands Official Due.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands,
Feb. 8 P).-The government
announced yesterday that De-
tense Minister Cornelis Stat
Will leave next week for Wash
ington for military talks with
President Eisenhower and De-
tense Secretary Wilson. He plans
to reach Washington February
Is and see Gen. Eisenhower Feb
ruary II.
Evening star., 1954-11-27
Bandit Seizes $4,000,
FIees New Orleans Bank
BY the Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS. Nov. 27.-A
stolen car was the chief lead
today to a well-dressed man who
robbed $14.50O from a bank here
and escaped into a racetrack
crowd.
Police theorized the car, re-
covered last night, may have
been used by the robber in his
getaway from the Fair Grounds
track, where 100 detectives and
FBI agents searched fruitlessly
for hours.
The tall bandit, wearing q
Homburg-type hat and a gray
suit, entered the Gentilly branch
of the Hibernia National Bank
just after noon yesterday.
He handed Mrs. Thelma Dan
iel, a teller, 81 note reading;
"This is a holdup. give me al
your large bills" and opened hi:
coat to show her q gun tuckeC
into his waist. Mrs. DAME
stuffed a bag with bills. Ths
thief grabbed 1t and ran to :
car he had parked in front d
the bank: but his way was
blocked and he then ran intt
the racetrack.
Police searched among tl1e
10000 fans. but could not fine
him.
Evening star., 1954-11-27
West Points S Stand
On China Debate Hif
BY the Associated Press

BOSTON, Nov. 27.-The New
England Forensic Conference
has recommended q national
college tournament debate be
transferred from West Point ur1-
less academy officials are willing
to allow debate on whether Red
China should be recognized Dip
lomatically.
Annapolis and West Point
superintendents have barred de-
bate of that question, scheduled
for April at West Point. Pres
ident Eisenhower said at a press
conference this week he would
be inclined to let the Cadets
and Midshipmen debate it.
Herbert James. Dartmouth
College forensic instructor and
president Of the New England
Forensic Conference, said:
"The New England Confer
ence wishes to go on record as
stating its support for the use
Of the national debate PROPOSE
ton recognition of Red China)
at the West Point national invi-
rational debate tournament.
"The conference protests
strongly against the use Of any
alternative proposition at that
tournament for this year. II
West Point is unable to use
the national proposition. then
we recommend that q national
tournament on the national
proposition be held elsewhere"
Evening star., 1954-11-27
Police Guests Find
IMoonshine' on
Menu, Seize Host

Police, after an unwilling invi-
tation to a "chitterling -and-p
tato-salad" party last night, i'm
mediately charged their host
with keeping and selling whisky
illegally.
It started when morals divi-
sion detectives arrested Willie
Brown, 35, colored. of the 1700
block of Fifth street NV, on
four bootlegging counts.
He was charged after a de-
tective said he sold him a half
pint of whisky at the gas station
he manages in the 1900 block
of Seventh street NV. In his
pocket, police said, was an invi-
tation which read:
Come one, come all-Novem-
ber 26 until -. Chitterling
and potato salad party at 25
Bates street NV" a. y
Detectives, one and all, went
to Bates street. One walked in
side, paid 81 and got a dish of
chitterling and some potato
salad. He also bought a half pint
of whisky, police said.
So his host. John Walker, 81.
colored, of the Bates street resi-
Ydence, was charged with keeping
and selling whisky Illegally.
Officers seized a quantity of
whisky but left the pan of chit
terling frying on the stove.
Evening star., 1954-11-27
Delayed Poison
Gives Red Spies
Real Incentive
" me NsSoeIoted FTbsS

TAIPEH, Formosa. Nov. 27.--
Frogmen sent out by the Chi
nese Reds to spy on the Nation
ahsts are forced to swallow de-
layed action poison pills as q
fatal warning not to desert, the
Nationalist Defense Ministry
claimed today.
The ministry said the pills
prove fatal unless certain secret
antidotes, available only IL the
underwater agents return to
their base, are administered
within "a hours.
A frogman captured on the
offshore island OF MatSu on
November 19 gave the Nation
alists this information. the min
istry claimed.
The prisoner said he would
die unless he returned to his
base and took the antidotes
awaiting him. And sure enough.
the ministry said, he died "a
hours after setting out on his
mission.
The Communists use frogmen
for sneak visits TO offshore is
lands where they try to kidnap
Nationalist soldiers for intelli-
gence-gathering purposes.
Evening star., 1954-11-27
Southern California
Fog-Bound 4th Day
BY m. A,.oeioisd Press

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 7.-For
the fourth successive day. South
ern California was in the grip
today of traffic-paralyzing, eye
smarting smog and fog that the
weather man says will continue
over the week end.
Indicative of the binding effect
Of the fog, which rolled 10 miles
inland from the Pacific. was q
traffic report Of 1.470 crashes
since the dense mist started last
Wednesday. Two deaths were
attributed directly to traffic.
Fog closed Los Angeles inter-
national and Long Beach air.
ports again last night. Lock-
heed Airport at inland Burbank
usually free Of fog, was closed
for an hour and then reopened.
Football games scheduled fol-
last night were postponed. AT
Long Beach. q rugby game be-
tween teams representing New
Zealand and Australia was halted
because the spectators couldn't
see what was going on.
Visibility In Los Angeles har-
Dor was three quarters Of q mile.
The fog slowed but did not stop
the movement Of ships. Fog
horns In the larbor at Santa
Monica had walled steadily for
46 hours.
Evening star., 1954-11-27
Soviet ENJOYS Visit
To De GauIIe Reported
-Ar wirephotos.
By the As.oeiotsd Press

PARIS, Nov. 27.-Paris news
papers said today Soviet Ambas-
sador Sergei Vinogradov has
called on Gen. Charles De Gaulle.
They speculated it was part Of
the Soviet effort to get a Big
Four conference before the Paris
pacts on West German rearma-
ment are ratified.
The papers reported Mr..
Vinogradov had called some time
last week in complete secrecy at
Gen. De Gaulle's home at Colon
bey-Lesdeux-Eglises, about rs
miles east of Paris.
The visit conceded with re-
ports of growing unhappiness
among some Of the former De
Gaullist Party members in the
National Assembly over voting
for the Paris pacts. They come
up for debate in mid December
Support of some of former De
Gaullists had been counted upon
as part of the vote needed to
assure ratification.
The papers surmised that the
conference had covered wide
range of subjects, especially in
view of the generals plan to
speak on December to outline
once more his views on French
foreign policy.