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Evening star., 1954-09-21

east Quebec) are going on unin-
terrupted."
Mr.. Goldstein charged that MIR.
Payette was the chief officer in
four Canadian firms which took
the American public for over SIS
million" in fraudulent oil stock
sales.
The New York official said the
investors were lured by claims
of fabulous" oil resources in the
Gaspe peninsula, but that the
millions invested went mainly to
further Mr.. Payette's private
ventures.
Named with Mr.. Payette and
the Gaspe company in the in
junction were the firms of Que
bee Oil Development. Ltd, Re-
gal Investments, It'd, and Con-
solidated Holdings. Ltd.
Other persons named were Sid
ned d Blue of Lachmont, N. Y,
Theodore j. Smutny and Milton
Epstein Of New York, Raymond
G. Buser of Paterson. N. j.. and
John Vanier, Lucienne Demers,
Armand G. Boisclair and Roland
Demers, all of Montreal.
Mr.. Vanier described the
charges as fantastic"
MIR. Blue in a telegram to MIR.
Goldstein said he was an in
vestor, not director of the
companies, and have not now
or ever participated in any
Evening star., 1954-09-21
Several Students Injured
By Storm al Wilson, N. c.
BY the Assoedsed Press

WILSON. N. c.. Sept. 2l.--Four
students were hospitalized with
injuries after q violent wind
storm demolished a vocational
building of the Darden Negro
High School here yesterday.
Several students were treated
at Woodard- Herring Hospital
for cuts and bruises suffered
when the brick veneer building
collapsed. OF the four hospital
lied. none was in serious condi-
tion.
The vocational building is
adjacent to the school proper
which was damaged. No students
there were reported injured.
The storm cut a path quar-
ter of mile wide through this
Eastern North Carolina tobacco
city Of $4,000, so miles east of
Raleigh.
Telephone and power lines in
portions of the city were down.
Housetops were blown away,
trees uprooted and cars DAM
aged.
Evening star., 1954-09-21

mains the same confident, i'm
perturhable person he has al
ways been.
Effective Team.
All Of the major Govern
ment employe organizations have
a large role in improving the
working conditions and benefits
of Federal workers. However. oh
servers are agreed that none has
done more for Government en-
ployes over the years than the
team of Steward and McNally.
Perhaps the secret of their sue
cess has been the quiet and un-
emotional way they go about
their detectives for Federal work.
ers, either on legislation or on
agency grievances and policy
matters.
However, when the time comes
to get tough, the team OF Stew
ard and McNally doesn't hesitate
to take OF its kid gloves. A
noticeable example was last
April at the Society for Person.
mel Administrations annual con-
ference at the Hotel Statler.
In a devastating speech IA
vored with biting humor Mr..
Steward proceeded to take the
administration apart for its
papa knows best" attitude re-
garding Federal employees and
for pursuing the numbers
game" in giving the public fig
ures on how many "subversives"
on the Federal payroll it had
removed.
President Eisenhower was the
main speaker on the program
that day, but Mr.. Steward stole
the show. Things like that have
been going on for the past SO
years.
Evening star., 1954-09-21
Officials Of Oil Firm
Named in Fraud Say
Charges Are False
BY the A..eeiotsd Pres.

MONTREAL, Sept. 2l.--Paul
Payette. accused by New York
Attorney General Nathaniel
Goldstein as the chief promoter
in an alleged $5 million oil stock
swindle. branded the charges
against him and his firms last
night as untrue and without
foundation"
Mr.. Payette, president Of Gaspe
Oil Ventures. Ltd. of Montreal,
said he had not received official
notification of a temporary in
junction issued by New York
State Supreme Court Justice
Edgar j. Nathan. jr., and for
bidding Mr.. Payette. eight alleged
associates and his four firms
from further securities dealings
In New York.
after we receive the court
papers and have a chance to con-
slider them. we will issue a de-
tailed statement, he said. Mean
while, development and oil drill
ing in the Gaspe area (of south
Evening star., 1954-09-21
Hearings on Loyalty
OF Mrs. Moss Due
To Wind Up Today
by the Asseeiotsd Press


Several witnesses, including q
former FBI informant on Com
munist activities, were heard
yesterday by a civil service hear-
ing board checking into the 10y
atty of Annie Lee Moss, a sus-
pended signal corps employe.
Mrs. Moss has been twice sus-
pended during Investigations Of
her loyalty. She has consistently
denied any Communist. connec-
tions or leanings.
Her lawyer, George E. C..
. Hayes, said he thought the cur
rent hearings could be ended
today. They are being held in
secret at Fort Lesley McNair.
Mrs. Mary Markward. who
used to- work inside the Com
munist Party for the FBI. was
among the witnesses called.
It was Mrs. Markward who
testified to the Senate Investi-
cations Subcommittee headed
by Senator Mccarthy, Repub-
lican. of Wisconsin, that she had
known an Annie Lee Moss as
a Communist. She said, how
ever. she could not identify her
by sight and Mrs. Moss denials
prompted Senator Symington.
Democrat, Of Missouri and others
to suggest it might be another
Annie Lee Moss that Mrs.
Markward knew.
The Army suspended Mrs.
Moss last February, reinstated
her in her $3,335-a-year job in
March, and then suspended her
again on August 4.
Evening star., 1954-09-21
The Weather Here and Over the Nation

per hour tonight and tomorrow.
Blue Ridge-Clearing, windy
and cooler.
5-Day Forecast for Washington
and vicinity, September 22-26.
Temperatures will be from
normal to 2 degrees below the
normal high of 76 and low of
SO. Cooler Wednesday and
Thursday, warmer Friday and
Saturday and cooler Sunday.
Showers likely again Friday or
Saturday for a total of l to 2
inches.
River Report.
(From u. s. Engineers)
Potomac River clear at Harpers Ferry
Evening star., 1954-09-21

District and vicinity-Showers
and scattered thunderstorms this
evening followed by clearing,
windy and cooler with low about
54. Tomorrow, fair and cool
with northwest winds 20-25 miles
per hour and high near 70.
Maryland and Virginia-Show-
ers and scattered thunderstorms
early tonight followed by clear
ing and cooler with low 50-55
in west and 54-58 in east por-
tions. Rather windy tonight.
Tomorrow, fair, windy and
cooler.
Wind-Northwest, 2O-30 miles
Evening star., 1954-09-21
Northern Japan Reports
Radioactive RuinfuII
BY tho Assoeiosed Pres,

Y
TOKYO, Sept. 2l.-Radioac-
tive rain. contaminated by re-
cent Russian A-bomb tests. fell
Saturday in northern Japan, the
newspaper Asahi said today. The
radioactivity was far below the
danger level.
The paper quoted Prof. Hiron-
obu Watanabe of Niigata Uni
versity as saying the rain showed
more radioactivity than any
tested so far in northern Japan.
Russia announced last week
that it had completed a new
series of A-bonnb tests.
Evening star., 1954-09-21


ated in part by Patrick J. Smith,
indianapolis attorney who rep
resented an indianapolis con-
tractor, Leslie Colvin.
Mr.. Smith said on the stand
that Mr.. Warner boasted to him,
as a means of removing Mr..
Smiths objections to the deal,
shat Senator Sparkman was
backing the FILA application.
put up by the j. L. Simmons Co.,
building contractors. A vice
president of the firm, c. w,
Schraeder, testified it was paid
$2,095.515 for construction.
Mr.. Smith quoted Mr.. Warner
as telling him Senator Spark
man was interested or was
backing them, I forget which
term he used' and said he told
Mr.. Warner that if Senator
Sparkman felt the deal was legal
he would be willing to take
another look at it.
Evening star., 1954-09-21

The Dallas in "a" group was
youthful, we'll organized and well
financed. But they were no
match for Mr.. Steward and Miss
McNally, who for SO years have
served as president and secre-
tary- y-treasurer Of the conserva-
tive NFFE. Through the force
of their personalities and their
political acumen they crushed
the opposition before it had a
chance to get started. Not only
were they reelected overwhelm-
ingly but their entire executive
council slate was elected. They
even succeeded in defeating the
one unfriendly member OF the
executive council.
That's not doing so bad for a
couple of timers.
Miss McNaily Says Thanks
It was a dramatic moment in
the large convention hall when
Miss, McNally concluded her
thank you" speech following
her reelection. For nearly SO
years, dating back when she
worked as a young girl in the
Bureau of Engraving and Print
ing, Miss McNally has devoted
her life to bettering the lives OF
her fellow employees In Govern
ment. A devout Catholic, Miss
McNally devotes much of her
time to her church and to many
private charities. Although she
never discusses these charities,
many of her associates say that
most of her salary goes for this
purpose.
In her impromptu speech, Miss
McNally conceded that her in
sistence on doing things accord
ing to the NFFE's constitution
has made her unpopular with
some of the unions members.
Some of her acid letters to union
local officers who want to do
things not according to Hoyle
are famous 2aa a
Il don't mindft things that are
said about me- Miss McNally
declared. II am going to tell you
one thing a delegate said. He
said. What is the matter with
her? She is an old maid.
well, will tell you that lots
of years ago ! wanted to do
something for other people. ]
wanted to do something for God.
/ decided / was going in a con-
vent and become a sister. The
priest of our parish said that
there we're so few women nova
days that were making them
selves felt in public life and that
/ had, as he put it, a fair for
that kind of thing and that was
what I should do.
DGUlCdVeU cars.
$50. I have dedicated my years
of service to the employees OF the
F ederal Government, and
through them to the Government
itself.
"Sure, I write lots Of letters
that some of you do not like to
get. The only thing you can do
about that can't do anything
about its to change your con-
stitution and rules, and then
will have to write that type let
ter. But must always say what
must be said and live with my
conscience.
II hope and I shall try to
please you during this coming
term. But hope most of all
that when ! am no longer on
this earth I may get from oui
Maker a tiny pat on the back
and that he will say I did well
for my country"
AS for Luther Steward, he re-
Evening star., 1954-09-21

swindle or fraud as alleged by
your release"
Mr.. Buser. a 73-year-old
financier and silk manager. said
he was director of Quebec Oil
Development Ltd. but had never
sold any stock in it and that
there was mo swindle in his
mind"
Mr.. Smutny. a director of
Gaspe Oil. said he had had
nothing to do with the sale or
promotion of any of its stock
and that he didn't believe ,Ir.
Goldstein's charges W
Evening star., 1954-09-21
by the Associated Press

ATLANTIC CITY. N. j., Sept.
2l.-Thomas 4. Murray, men,
Der of the Atomic Energy Com
mission, said today the mount
ing ferocity Of the H-bomb has
shrunk the number needed for
total world catastrophe"
To prove to the world that
such destruction is not the
United States goal. Mr.. Murray
urged a stepped-up effort by the
Federal Government to develop
practical electric power from the
atom and help power hungry
areas of the world.
He suggested a good location
for one of the first such plants
would be in Japan--"tlie only
land which has been engulfed
in the white flame of the atom. "
Such a project. Mr.. Murray said,
would demonstrate to a grim,
skeptical and divided world that
our interest in nuclear energy
is not confined to weapons"
Cites Little Progress.
Declaring that the United
States has made little progress
in the peacetime atomic field, as
compared to its advances in nu-
clear weapons, Mr.. Murray said
in an address prepared for the
annaul convention of the CIO
United Steelworkers:
IF the U.S.S.R. should win the
industrial power race. the price
tag for nuclear power reactors
will be high. So high indeed that
the purchaser will be forced to
relinquish his birthrights and
civil liberties in exchange for
nuclear atomic power.
This must not happen. What
a tragedy it would be If world
leadership In this field fell by
default into Soviet hands s
Mr.. Murray reeal He'd attehd-
ing the United States hrst
thermometer explosion Itch
had the code name Mike, in
the Pacific on November !. 1852.
It was that test. he said. which
hurled us into the hydogen
era" and enabled scientists to
estimate how many hydrogen
bombs it would take to scatter
Ito the four winds, In d mater
of seconds, the civilization 1t las
taken man centuries to put to-
gether."
Less Than Foreseen.
"Other versions and improve
ments of Mike have been de-
veloped and successfully tested" !"
he continued. Scientists now
Evening star., 1954-09-21
GreenbeIt Employees
Paw Raise Advanced

A five per cent cost-of living
pay raise for Greenbelt munich
pal employees was approved on
first reading last night by city
council.
The increase would be effec-
tive October / and cost the city
about $1,700 in the remaining
three months of this year.
An expenditure Of $500 for
half the cost of landscaping
highway approaches to the city
was approved,
Evening star., 1954-09-21

perhaps q DlC
wiser.
Mr.. Steward,
n, and Miss
McNally, So.
showed t h a t
they were still
in rare form
and far from
through. AS
n e d a z e d
Dallas in "a
Club" opposi-
tion grou p
member said:
+" w e never
k n e W W h a t
Evening star., 1954-09-21
Murray Urges u. S. to Advance
In Industrial Atomic Power

know that the number Of Mikes
needed for total world catastro-
phe is less than they calculated
in 1852. 4
"Only God knows how much
smaller this magic" numberWill
become in the next few years. :"
Mr.. Murray cautioned against
a national policy on peacetime
atomic power which he para
phrased this way" We could
have atomic electric power if we
wanted it; but, unlike the rest of
the world, we do not need it to-
day ;. its development can wait
for economic and financial forces
to move 1t ahead"
Mr.. Murray continued:
"That is a policy which must
be resisted. To permit such a
policy to prevail because of
budgetary or other limitations
would be inconsistent with all
that this Nation stands for. It
would play into the hands of the
Soviets."
Suggests japanese Plant.
Elaborating on his suggestion
that such plant should be built
with United States assistance in
Japan, Mr.. Murray said:
Nov. while the memory of
Hiroshima and Nagasaki remains
so vivid, construction of such a
power plant in q country like
Japan would be dramatic and
Christian gesture which could
lift all of us far above the recol-
lection Of the carnage of those
cities
"One of our reactors in Japan
would go very long way toward
nullifying what has been lost at
Dien Bien Phu and Geneva
While the masters of Soviet
Russia are stockpiling their
sMikeS of destruction. we must
continue to surpass them as in
deed NE are doing. But 81. we
must 10 the one without neglect
ing the other. 7.
Evening star., 1954-09-21
The Federal Spotlight
Steward McNoIIy Team Shows
Old Timers Still Can Fight
By Joseph Young

Younger delegates the National Fed
Grafton OF Federal employees Dallas painful
realization that couple Of old timers still capable
fight.
And dramatic fight 1t too
Those delegates who Luther Steward Gertrude
Evening star., 1954-09-21

NEW COMMANDMENT AM
napolis.-Capt. Robert T. S.
Keith has been assigned as
commandant Of midshipnlen
at the Naval Academy. His
last assignment was in COM
mand of the battleship Mis-
souri,. Capt. Keith and his
family live I'm Warrenton, va.
Evening star., 1954-09-21

they were too old, and therefore
unable to lead the NFFE any
longer. went home sadder, and
Evening star., 1954-09-21

Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest. f03. on July 81.
Lowest. 13, on January 90.
High and Low Of Last "a Hours.
High, 80. at $50 pm.
Low, 63, at 5:45 am.
Evening star., 1954-09-21

The Sun and Moon.
Rises. Sets.
Sun. today - 6:55 TOT
Sun, tomorrow f55 S:06
Moon, today ~ am. All pm.
Automobile lights must be turned on
| one-han hour after sunset.
Evening star., 1954-09-21

and at Great Falls; Shenandoah cloudy
at Harpers Ferry.
Evening star., 1954-09-21

"Other versions and improve
ments Of Mike have been de-
veloped and successfully tested. :"
he continued. Scientists now
Evening star., 1954-09-21
Partly Corroborated.

Mr.. Swans testimony that
Senator Sparkman's name fig-
ured in reports of influence for
granting the loan was corrobor-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-04
LO,UdDslxs or Chess

IF director Sidney Lumet and his
Il actress wife, Rita Gam, decide
to move out of their New York
apartment, the chances are thew
won't take their chessboard with
them. To do that they'd have to
pull up the floor
When the LumetS moved into the
apartment three years ago, the
first thing they installed was black
and-white- squared linoleum to fit
in with their living room decor.
Later, they realized they'd created
a huge built-in chessboard on
which they could play by crawling
around on the floor in their old
clothes.
Both like to play the game, and
only regret they haven't more time
for it. Rita'S film jobs keep her
busy, while her husband is kept on
the Jump directing the Tv program,
'You Are There" Consequently.
their full schedules leave little time
for cheSs-playing.
Mr.. Lumet has been playing chess
longer than his wife, so he is a
little better at it. The two met six
years ago when they were both
connected with the same New York
play.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-04

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Kotex sanitary belt. Made with soft-stretc
elastic - strong, lightweight Non-twis
ing, non-curling. Stays flat even aft.
many washings. Dries pronto! Why NJ
buy two belts -for a change?
Evening star., 1954-10-20

again skim across the water at
her hull speed" Of IL or l3
knots--13 or IA miles an hour
win have to be determined after
she Is raised and examined. Her
replacement cost is estimated at
between 1000 and 100000.
Salvage Work Delayed.
Salvage work on the Vamarie
is being delayed while the station
ship Reina Mercedes. a prize of
the .Spanish-America War. is
freed from the awkward position
she found herself in after the
hurricane. She was dragged from
her pier despite the pull Of eight
5,000-pound anchors. and now
rests at an angle to a wharf adj
jacent to her own.
Mr.. Makarof, who shared the
midshipmen's affection for the
graceful ketch, replied to Ad-
miral Boone's message Of condo
lence:
Such was the wish Of the Al
mighty. :"
Evening star., 1954-10-20
Tubmon Aide Urges Church
To Send Liberia More Help

e One of the colorful figures in
the. Liberian Presidents party,
Nathaniel v. Massaquoi, assist
ant secretary of public instruc-
ton, told the rector of Catholic
University yesterday the church
should spend more money and
missionary effort in Liberia.
The Most Rev. Bryan j. Nc
Entegart, the rector, sat next to
Mr.. Massaquoi. who wore over
his business suit a blue and
white African homespun robe
and a round leopard skin cap.
He is a prince of the Val
tribe, one of the inland Liberian
natives and himself a Catholic.
: Mr.. Massaquoi said although
the first Catholic missionaries
came to his country in 1882.
there is now only one native
Catholic priest there. Liberals
President William v. S. Tubman
is a Methodist and freedom of
religion prevails.
Mr.. Massaquoi looked the
rector in the eye and said it
would be helpful if more Cath
olic missionaries were sent to
Liberia and more money spent
by the church there.
He said about Is per cent of
Evening star., 1954-10-20
|Middies' Yacht Went Down
Fiqhting' in Storm, Donor Told

ing Vamarie, could not 60 along
because of their deeper draft and
insufficient clearance under the
new highway bridge.
The four vessels were the Va
marie, the cutter Highland Light,
the schooner Freedom and the
yawl Royono. They were left at
their customary moorings in the
Severn. several hundred yards
from shore.
Capt. Benjamin F. Field, jr.,
said it was impractical to take
the ships into basin, where
Highland Light and Freedom are
today, because they would have
been crushed against pilings
driven into the water.
Crews Of three men each were
assigned to the four vessels and
the motors were turned on. The
idea was to keep them headed
into the wind.
The other three ships held firm
but YAM" in some manner
still undetermined. broke loose
and headed for the Reina Mer-
cedes pier.
A tug was sent out to try to
hold her fast. AS both vessels
neared the pier, a line fouled
the propeller of the tug, render
ing her temporarily helpless.
Water surged over the pier
and the wind pressed the racer
between the tug and the pier.
The crew jumped to the pier.
Capt. Field and host of mid
shipmen grasped lines and tried
to hold VAN" against the
wharf.
But she had been too damaged
by the battering and sank.
Admiral Boone commended all
officers, enlisted men and civilian
personnel for their work in the
emergency. He said their efforts
undoubtedly prevented further
damage.
Whether Vamarie will ever
Evening star., 1954-10-20
BY q s.ar Stuff Correspondent

ANNAPOLIS, oct. "She
went down fighting In 76 knots
Of wind"
That was the Naval Academy's
message to the donor Of the
sleek, 72-foot racing yacht
Vamarie after Hurricane Hazel.
Hazel's fury ripped the ma
hogany. ocean-going ketch from
her mooring in the Severn River.
battered her against a tug that
had come to her aid. and finally
smashed her between the tug
and a pier, sending her to the
bottom.
A fun report on the loss-a
tragedy to midshipmen who were
proud Of her trim appearance
and her record--has been asked
by the academy superintendent,
Rear Admiral w. r. Boone.
"Saddened by Loss"
After "vam" sank, Admiral
Boone wired this message to
Vadim s. Makaroff, 62, a former
captain In the old Russian navy,
now Of New York, who gave her
to the Academy Is years ago:
"The United States Naval Acad-
emy regretfully confirms the loss
Of Vamarie, a yacht which has
been an inspiration and a sea-
mans challenge to the brigade
Of midshipmen these 18 years.
She went down fighting In 76
knots of wind. The superin-
tendent and the brigade are
saddened by her loss and desire
to express their thanks for her
long years of use which made
her a tradition that will live on. /"
Vamarie was built in Bremen,
Germany. and was brought to
the United States by steamer in
1884. Mr., Makaroff, an engineer
and son of a Russian admiral
who lost his life at Port Arthur
presented her to the Academy in
1886.
The name Vamarie is a COM
bination of the names of Vadim
and Marie Makaroff.
Racer Since 1894.
She had been an ocean racer
since 1884. when she took first
place in a Miami-to-N Nassau run
in 50-mile gale.
Alden (Hap) Hefler, associate
professor of foreign languages
at the academy, sailed her to
Bermuda this year but found
that newer ships can leave her
behind.
You can get more sail out Of
some of the Others" Prof. Heller
says. yam has too many over
laps"
She was a staysail ketch,
weighing about so tons and
carrying a crew of 13 to Is. The
masthead was 80 feet and Z
inches above the water line, and
that height is what got her into
difficulty during the hurricane.
Thursday afternoon and early
Friday, smaller ships were taken
up the Severn to inlets where
they would be safe from the
wind and waves.
But four of the snips. includ-