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The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1954-02-25

Cpl. Ivan R. Young, Jr., whose
wife, Betty Young, lives at 319 West
Side Avenue, and whose parents re-
side on Route l, Boonsboro, is train
ing with the 44th Tank Battalion at
Camp Irwin, in CALIFORNIA; Mojave
Desert.
A part of the 82d Airborne Divi-
sion, the battalion recently arrived
at Camp Irwin from its home station
at Fort Bragg, N. C. With MAJ tanks
the unit holds maneuvers and gun
merry practice on the barren terrain
Of the Armored Combat Training
Center
A tank mechanic in Headquarters
and Service Company, Corporal
Young entertained the Army in 1913
and was formerly stationed in Ger
many.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1954-02-25

Marine Sgt Charles w. Thompson,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert E.
Thompson, 247 Winter Street, has re-
ported to Cherry Point, N. c., the
Marine Corps largest air station, for
tour of duty with the I'd Marine
Aircraft Wing
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1954-02-25

North Street High: The Badgers
and Badgerettes racked up a double
victory over the boys and girls
teams of Leesburg High on Friday
night, the boys winning 71-40 and the
girls coming out on top 31-14.
In the boys game, after close
first period which ended with the
score tied 1915, the Badgers took
complete charge. They led 25-19 at
the half and 50-27 at the beginning
of the final quarter.
Baltimore, the Badgers center, was
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1954-02-25

Kenneth L. Mason, electricians
mate third class, USN, son of Mr..
and Mrs. William Mason, 1925 Main
Avenue, is serving aboard the attack
cargo ship USS Libra, which arrived
in Oran, Algeria last month.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1954-02-25

Smithsburg High: The High School
Varsity Five took the measure of the
boys of Thurmont High on Monday
night by score of $3.50. Smithsburg
led all the way, taking 1911 lead
In the first period, increasing it to
24-19 at the half and 1926 as the
fourth period got under way. Hol-
loway was the top scorer with "a
followed by Schroyer with Is.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1954-02-25
Boy Scouts To Spearhead Sale Of Tickets
For Hagerstown Packets Opening Game

Gordon Hennng Scout Executive, Announces Details OF Plan
Tickets, Which Are Now On Sale May Also Be Purchased At
A Number OF Business Places At rs Cents Each
Evening star., 1954-11-27
By Dovid Barnett

Capt. Joseph L. O'Conner, a
regular Army ofdcer, spent 81
months as a prisoner Of war of
the Chinese Communists.
At hearings before the Senate
Judiciary subcommittee, Capt.
O'Connor gave some firsthand
reports of the Reds germ-war-
fare foolishness.
AS recorded in the testimony,
released by the committee this
week, Capt. O'Connor related:
81 was on a water-carrying
detail. One morning coming back
into the compound, we saw this
large mouse or small rat laying
in the street. So one Of the water
carriers said. Well, there is some
more irrefutable proof that we
have meteorological warfare
$50 we picked it up and we
decided we were going to take
it in to harass the 'Chinks' a
little bit with it and show them
this 'irrefutable proof
1--WE took this mouse into the
schoolhouse that we were using
as our quarters and had one Of
the men sew a little harness for
it, made a little homemade
parachute for the mouse, put a
patch on him-I don't know
whether we put sergeant's stripes
Evening star., 1954-11-27
Russia Seen Leading
U. 5. in Rocket Field
BY The Assoeissed Press

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 27.-A
Franklin Institute scientist says
that the Russian capture Of
German scientists and rocket in
stallations at the end Of World
War II may have given the Rus
slams a big jump on the United
States in the space travel field.
DR.. /. M. Levitt, director Of the
Institutes Fels planetarium. said
yesterday that at least 160 Ger
man rocket experts went to work
for the Russians after various
forms of persuasion.
DR.. Levitt. speaking to the
cadets of Valley Forge Military
Academy, said "The tremendous
store of semiskilled help which
assembled the W. rockets were
also available because these Ger
mans lived behind what is now
the Iron Curtain"
DR.. Levitt said the Russians
have increased the range Of the
W., its speed and also its thrust.
Evening star., 1954-11-27
By the Associated Press

CLEVELAND, Nov. 27.-Where
will the trail of blood spots
through the house of DR.. Sam
uel H. Sheppard lead the jury
trying him on a charge of WIFE
killing?
For two trial days the jury
has been following that trail of
more than 80 spots scattered
through the Bay Village house
where Mrs. Marilyn Sheppard,
81, died last July a, her head
punctured by a furious beating
with a weapon police said they
never found.
The jurors will take up the
trail again neutrality-suspicious.
for another two days-and will
hear at least one other expert
witness of the State, in addition
to Detective Henry Dombrowski,
who was on the stand all day
yesterday and most of Wednes-
day morning.
Miss Mary Cowan, At, a lab
oratory technologist in the cor
oner's office for nearly Is years,
is scheduled to lead the way
along the blood trail when Mr..
DombrowSki steps down.
So far Mr.. Dombrowski has
established that only one of the
more than 80 spots was human
blood. That was a spot no big
ger than the head of a tack-a
spot cut out of the third step
Evening star., 1954-11-27
George de Geofroy,
Grandson Of Banker

George de Geofroy. 70. grand
son of the founder of Riggs Ma
tional Bank and retired in
dustrial chemist, died yesterday
at his home in Greenwich, Conn.
Mr.. de Geofroy lived for many
years in Lausanne. Switzerland,
before moving to Greenwich six
years ago.
"A native Of Cannes, France, he
was the son of Louis de Geofroy,
former French minister to China
and Japan. and Catherine She'd
den Riggs, daughter Of George
washington Riggs, one OF the
founders Of the Riggs Bank.
Mr.. de Geofroy had visited
washington frequently over the
past go years and had been a
member of the Metropolitan Club
here since 1908. He also was
member Of the Chevy Chase
Club.
Durign World War I he served
with the French Purchasing
Commission.
He is survived by his widow,
Mrs. Marie de Geofroy, and five
sons. Louis. of Old Greenwich
Conn; Charles and Michel, Of
Lausanne, Switzerland, and
Henry and Bertrand. Of New
York City, and four grand.
children.
Evening star., 1954-11-27
Finding Rot in Chute Puzzled
Propuqundists Of Germ War

or corporal's stripes on him.
and took it out and hung it on
a tree along the path that they
Che Chinese) generally used.
"The guard looked at it, got
fairly close to it :. saw what
it was. backed away. He called
another guard. and I think they
got out the entire guard to look
at this thing. Then later they
sent word up to the camps head
quarters. and later a Chinese
medical man came down. got on
white gown, face mask, 4
skull cap. glsves and boots, a
bag, and some chopsticks, and
he got up and took that 'bac-
THEOLOGICAL warfare exhibit down
with the chopsticks, put 1t in
his bag and moved of.
II don't know, / hope our little
horseplay did not contribute to
the propaganda of the Chinese
by giving them some more bac-
THEOLOGICAL specimens"
North American Newspaper Allisnce)
Evening star., 1954-11-27
Cardinal Gueyara
Dies in Peru al II
BY the Asseeiatsd Press

LIMA, Peru, Nov. 27.-Juan
Gualberto Cardinal Guevara, r.,
archbishop of Lima and Roman
Catholic primate of Peru, died
yesterday after a long illness.
Coadjutor Archbishop Juan
Landazuri will replace him tenn
porarily and preside over the
coming National Eucharistic
Congress here.
Cardinal Guevara's death re-
duces the College of Cardinals
of the Roman Catholic Church
to 64. It's full strength is 10.
Cardinal Guevara was elevated
to the college in February, 1916,
but was too i'll at that time to
60 to Rome for the consistory
and received his cardinals ring
later. The following year, how
ever, he attended a eucharistic
congress IN BunalO. ~. Z.
Cardinal Guevara had suf-
fered from cancer for several
years but nevertheless had
worked daily in recent weeks
preparing for the Eucharistic
Congress. He was at his desk
only Thursday.
For many years he worked as
a journalist and was editor OF
the clerical newspaper Ell Deber
in Arequipa. Peru. He was cho-
sen Bishop of Trupillo in l940.
where he served until his elec-
ton to the College of Cardinals,
Funeral services will be con-
Quoted in the Metropolitan Ba-
silica Monday. Burial will be
In the basilica.
Evening star., 1954-11-27
Sheppard Jurors to Hear
More Testimony About Blood
ZAP wirephoto. :

from the bottom of the basement
steps at the Sheppard home.
The detective has admitted he
does not know how long that one
spot was on the step before he
cut it from the wood July %, or
how it got there. or whose blood
it was.
Miss Cowan. who did some
blood-typing experiments in the
case, may tighten somewhat the
States blood trail testimony by
Mr.. Dombrowski.
What Mr.. Dombrokski's testi-
mony in the flrst-degree murder
trial has implied thus far is
that the slayer of Marilyn Shep-
pard wandered about in nearly
all parts of the lake-front home,
dripping blood, and went to
places such as the basement and
garage, where a prowler or
burglar would not likely go.
The defendant has said a
strange, bushy- haired man killed
his wife and knocked him out
just outside the murder bed
room and then on the beach
back of the house. Injuries DR.,
Sheppard said he received will
be the subject of other testi-
mony scheduled for Monday. DR.
E. Richard Hexter, who examined
DR.. Sheppard on July 4, will
take the stand Monday before
Mr.. Dombrowski completes his
testimony, the prosecution said
Evening star., 1954-11-27
Mrs. Paul 6. Foster, AZ,
Retired Majors Wife

Mrs. Paul G. Foster, AZ, a
resident of the District area for
five years, died Wednesday at
the Walter Reed Hospital.
Mrs. Foster, who lived at 1912
Twenty third avenue, Hyatts-
vile, had been i'll for the past
five months. She was the wife
of retired Army Maj. Paul Foster,
The former Margaret Stone,
she was born in Danville, KY,
and graduated from Centre Col
lege there.
Surviving are her husband
her mother. Mrs. e. o. Stone OF
Kansas City: two sisters. Mrs
r. w. Thompson of Kansas City
and Mrs. G.. j. Barker of Davi-
son, Mich.
Funeral services will be held
at 1890 am. Monday at the
Pumphrey funeral home, S434
Georgia avenue, Silver Spring
Burial will be in Arlington Gem
etery.
Evening star., 1954-11-27
BE My Guest Eisenhower
Press Corps Hackers

President just kidded with them
about their shots.
Gen. Eisenhower gets up early
each day for a brief stint at
his Office above the golf pros
shop. He spends most of the re-
mainder of the day lounging,
chipping in practice shots. and
making his daily l8-hole round.
Bridge becomes his sport at
night.
The weather man has coop
Grated so far-with bright blue
skies and bracing temperatures
in the SOS. The forecast sug-
gested a possibility of rain to-
night or tomorrow, however.
The President planned to at
tend church services Sunday and
get in some golf Monday--if the
weather holds out-before flying
back to Washington later Mon
day.
Evening star., 1954-11-27
Bartender Is Found Guspinq
As Pants Prove His Undoinq'

Breath control is an art Bar
tender Joseph w. Wilkinson. 40,
should have practiced before he
undertook his nocturnal pursuits.
Had he mastered the practice,
he might not be i1i Jail today
awaiting action on a housebreak-
ing charge for allegedly trying
to make off with a strongbox
containing $40 in cash.
First Precinct Pvts. Robert
King and Robert Wissman said
it was Wilkinson's inability to
tone down his heavy painting
that led to his downfall several
blocks from the scene of the
break-in.
Pvts. King and Wissman said
they were checking doors in an
alley in the rear of the 900
block of D street NV, about 4
am. today when they saw Will
Evening star., 1954-11-27
BY the Associofsd Press

AUGUSTA, Ga, Nov. 27.-
It was more Of the same for
President Eisenhower today -
more relaxing around the Au-
gusta National Golf Clubhouse.
and more firing away down the
rolling green fairways.
The President appeared to be
a perfect picture Ct a golfer
enjoying his favorite sport. He
was in the third day of a long
Thanksgiving weekend vaca-
ton at the little White House
here.
Yesterday the Chief Executive
kibitzed while news reporters
and photographers teed off as
his guests on the famed $3.50
yard course. The unexpected
gallery had some of the newSmen
admittedly nervous, but the
Evening star., 1954-11-27
Trading Of Navy Equipment
By Sailors in Asia Reported

quiries, that pilfering from ships
has been a recurrent problem.
1t said some of this was done
with the connivance of mer-
chants and hawkers. who used
to board Navy ships in Eastern
ports to peddle their wares.
Last year the Far East Com
rnand allowed only a limited
number of established merchants
to board ships at Hong Kong.
This order was difficult to ad-
minister and a fiat prohibition
of an visits by merchants later
was put in effect.
The Navy said it received
reports in the past that natives
had traded narcotics for ship
equipment supplied by American
sailors on liberty. It said courses
of education against the evils
of narcotics were intensified
among crews going into Asiatic
ports and the problem continued
to receive the attention of naval
authorities.
Evening star., 1954-11-27
John H. Collier, 50;
Palm Beach Editor
By the Assoeiated Press

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla,
Nov. 27.-John H. Collier, SO,
night city editor of the Palm
Beach> Post and former editor
and publisher in Michigan and
Indiana, died in a hospital yes
terday after a heart attack.
Mr.. Collier suffered a severe
heart attack Wednesday night.
when he was taken to the hos
pital.
He was owner and publisher
of the South Bend Qnd.) Jour-
nal, a weekly, and came to Lake
Worth, Fla, in 1850 as editor
Of the Lake Worth Herald. Later
he was on the staff of the Lake
Worth Leader and from there
he joined the Palm Beach Post
Times in 1858.
Mr.. Collier served in World
War / and is survived by his
widow. Gail; two daughters. one
brother and one sister.
Funeral services will be Mon
day in Lake Worth and crema-
ton will follow.
Evening star., 1954-11-27
Delegates Of I Areas
Discuss lniegraiion
Al NAACP ParIey
sy m. A..osia,.d Pres,

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. IT.
Delegates from six States and
the District of Columbia today
were in the second session of q
two day regional conference
called by the National Associa-
ton for the Advancement of
Colored People to consider prob
lens arising out Of the Supreme
Courts school integration deci-
sion.
Those attending the meeting
are from Pennsylvania, Vir-
ginia, West Virginia, Maryland,
Delaware, New Jersey and the
Nations Capital.
Roy wilkins, administrator
for the NAACP, told the open
ing conference yesterday: I'VE
have called this regional meet
ing for the purpose Of consider
ing ways and means of aiding
orderly and prompt compliance
with the Supreme Court deci-
sion that racial segregation in
the public schools is now un-
constitutional" He added:
"The wide publicity Of the
very few instances of outright
resistance has tended to obscure
the fact that the vast majority
of the communities that an
nounced a desegregation plan
for this term have executed it
without incident and fanfare. !.
'It is significant that in ey-
cry reported instance of resist
ance, adults led the efforts, not
the students. 1t is significant.
too, that in the Nations most
prominent exhibit of resistance,
in Milford, Del. there is more
than q little evidence that an
outside organization took advan-
tage of a wavering school board
to whip up resistance sentiment. !"
In Milford, an attempt was
made to send Negro students
to the formerly all-white Mil
ford High School. A boycott
by white students followed and.
to avoid possible violence. the
Milford School Board called of
the segregation attempt for the
time being.
Evening star., 1954-11-27

kinson bent over a strongbox
lying on the ground.
AS they approached Wilkinson
fed. He outdistanced Pvt.
King. Meanwhile, Pvt. Wiss-
man had dropped out of the
chase to go back and get the
patrol wagon the two were using
for transportation.
Pvt. King. however, comman-
deered a taxicab and cruised the
neighborhood. He said he found
Wilkinson standing on the cor
ner of Eighth and F streets
NV, painting heavily.
Between gasps wilkinson, of
the 400 block Thirty-Seventh
street Sc, said he had had
enough of running. He admit
ted he had taken the strongbox
from the Rendezvous Bar at 409
Tenth street NV, police say.
Evening star., 1954-11-27
Deaths Reported
From D. C. Health Department.

Ruth Smith. 80, 1920 Fuller st. NV.
Edward Barron. rs, 230 Rhode Island
ave. ne.
Elizabeth Smith. rs. 1717 18th St. NV
Nicholas Grain, ~. 517 Kennedy st. NV.
Oscar Nelson, 50, Annandale, Va.
Ernestine Blanchette. SO, 719 Hamlin St
ne.
Nellie winterstein. Sc, 653 East Capitol
st.
Lewis jacques. 65, 3O55 M st. NV.
Lloyd Cambron. 81. 3e37 st. s,e.
George Mckee, 50. 1921 NJ st. NV.
Charles Cope, 81, Springfield, Va.
Wilbur Doyle, SO, Suitland. Md.
Glenn King, "a. 2411 Savannah st. Sc.
Eugene Morgan, SO, 311SA Dunbarton
ave. NV,
Joseph zabinski. SO, Landover, Md.
Mary Kelly, 46, Mt Rainier, Md
Harriet Carver, 40. AIS Shepherd st. NV
Infant Hackerman. washington.
Charles Atkins, "a, Sl0 c st. Sc.
Manic Garner. "A, 524 lt)thest:. ne.
James Nelson. 50. 513 9th st. s.w
Edward Robertson "a, 1925 10th ST.
Edna Allen, 3s. a5 send st. SIC.
Thelma Oliver, SO. $50 NJ st. NV.
William Butler % 1876 r ST. S,e.
Evening star., 1954-11-27
Kefauver Sees Party
Picking Stevenson
By the Assoeiaied Press

Senator Kefauver, Democrat
of Tennessee, says that "as Of
now it looks as though Adlai
Stevenson had the best chance"
of winning Jne Democratic pres
idential nomination in 1856.
MIR. Stevenson, former Cover
nor of Illinois, won the nomina-
tion two years ago after Kefau-
yer led in the early balloting at
the party convention:
While Senator Kefauver said
Mr.. Stevenson seems to have the
best chance of capturing the
nomination in 1856, he added in
an interview yesterday, that~it
isn't possible to- say what the
situation will be two years from
now. -
Senator Kefauver is not cam
didate for president in 1885, he
said, and has no plans to be
one. He added, however, that
II don't think one can ever say
with finality what may happen
in the future"
Evening star., 1954-11-27
Edwurd c. Pfeffer, 70

GREENWICH. Conn, Nov. 81
R.-Edward G. Pfeffer, 70, di-
rector Of Cluett. Peabody & Co..
Inc, shirt manufacturers, died
yesterday at his home here. A
native of New Orleans, he
Joined the firm in 1901 and in
1888 was elected vice president
in charge Of all sales. Sub
seouently he was elected to the
board.
Evening star., 1954-11-27

The Navy is investigating re-
ports that some American sailors
in Hong Kong and other Asiatic
ports have traded Navy equip
ment for curios. liquor. women
and possibly narcotics.
Special investigators were as
signed to Hong Kong three weeks
ago by the Far East Command.
This was disclosed by the Navy.
yesterday after an Associated
Press story from Hong Kong
reported equipment trading by
gullible or dishonest American
sailors.
The Navy said Admiral Robert
B. Carney, chief of naval op-
erations, this week warned all
commanders and officers in the
Western Pacific that they must
"comport themselves not only
with legality, but also with dig
nifty. discretion and good taste"
It added, in response to in
Evening star., 1954-11-27
Tourists Turn Shoppers

LANSING. Mich. (H.opera-
tors Oh some Of Michigan's tour
ist resorts have reported that
business is of from last year.
Robert J. Furlong, executive
secretary Of the State Tourist
Council, said the operators may
be feeling the competition Of
new resorts. He said tourists are
doing more shopping around
these days than they ever did be-
fore.
Evening star., 1954-11-27
Texas Insurance Firm
Denies FTC Charges
BY the Assoeiuied Press

The Reserve Life Insurance Co.
of Dallas, Tex. yesterday chal-
lenged jurisdiction of the Federal
Trade Commission to determine
whether the company's advertis-
ing is false and misleading.
The company, one of II health
and accident insurance COM
panies named in a FTC COM
plant in October, said it is not
engaged in commerce" as de-
fined by the Federal Trade Com
mission Act.
The company also denied that
it's advertising contains any false,
misleading or deceptive state
mentS.
Evening star., 1954-11-27
New Rules Benefit
Younger Artists for
Corcoran Exhibition

Younger artists will get their
chance to compete with estab-
lished painters, under a new
policy announced today for the
oath Biennial Exhibition of Con-
temporary American Oil Paint
ing of the Corcoran Galley of
Art.
Hermann w. Williams, jr., Cor
coran Gallery director, announ-
ced that next years exhibition,
scheduled to open March 13, 1855,
and run through May 8, will be
an entirely open competition.
with no invited" participants.
In earlier biennials, he ex-
planned, half of the approx
mately $50 paintings shown were
invited by the chairman of the
biennial jury. The remaining
entries were chosen from well
over 1000 paintings by a full
slate of jurors.
Enter on Same Footing.
Under the change in policy; all
paintings will have to pass before
the jury, and all artists. no mat
ter how prominent they are, will
enter on the same footing.
Mr.. Williams said the change
in policy is experimental. He
said he hopes it would have a
strong appeal to the younger
artists. In addition to being a
more democratic procedure, he
said, it is expected to produce
a more stimulating exhibition.
The jurors will be authorities
on contemporary art. Andrew
c. Ritchie, director of the De-
partment of Painting and Sculp-
ture at the Museum of Modern
Art, will be the chairman. Other
jurors will include James S.
Plaut, director of Boston'S In
stitute of Contemporary Art:
Philip r. Adams, director of the
Cincinnati Art Museum, and Mr..
Williams.
$4,000 in Cash Prizes.
The Corcoran biennial is one
Of the most important of the
large, recurring national exhibi-
tions that show the state of
contemporary painting through
out the country. William A.
Clark, the late Senator from
Montana, established special
endowment fund which provides
four cash prizes totaling $4,000.
To be eligible for these prizes
paintings must have been COM
pleted within the last two years.
The exhibition is open to all
artists living in the United States
or its territories. The paintings
must be original and not pre-
viously exhibited in Washington.
The two sessions of Judging
one in Washington and the
other in New York-will take
place in January.