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MANAGER OF G Of G
APPROVES EDITORIAL
Mr.. Canute Brodhurst, Editor
The st. Croix Avis
Christiansted, v. /.
Dear Mi. Brodhurst:

1 should like to take this op-
portunity to personally COM
mend you on your excellent
editorial Of February End, in
which you bring out the sug-
gestion that perhaps the peo-
pie of st Croix have been
waiting for others to "sing our
praises" as regards our tourist
attractions. In the light of pre-
sent tourist conditions on st.
Thomas as well as here in st.
Croix, your editorial should
help to lubricate the thinking
Of those Of us who have been
sitting -complacently by, wait
ing for some miracle to bring
the tourist to our shores.
Yours is a new approach to
the present problem of de-
creasing tourism on our Is
lands, and perhaps your edi-
torial will plant a bright new
seed in the minds Of those
who have been officially APP
pointed to promote and deve-
lop the tourist industry.
The Chamber Of Commerce,
on its limited funds, continual
" carries on a tourist pro-
gram in distributing bro
chur, answering inquiries, &
providing information and
direct services to tourists
who stop in the Chamber Of
flee for assistance. However,
the Chamber does not have
the funds or facilities for the.
important job Of national adj
vertising or direct contact
Evening star., 1954-11-21
LANCER Sets Hearing Tuesday
On Justice Role in Bias CHARGE
YoungdohI and Rover Invited to Appear
In Probe of Luttimore Cuse Affidavit

Senator LANCER, Republican, of
North Dakota, yesterday said he
was inviting Attorney General
Brownell. Federal Judge Luther
w. Youngdahl and United
States Attorney Leo A. Rover to
a public hearing Tuesday to in
vestigate 'the conduct of the
Department of Justice in fling
an affidavit of bias against the
judge.
Judge Youngdahl later told
reporters he had not yet received
the invitation and declined to
say whether he would accept.
Brownell Out of Touch.s
Mr.. Rover said he had been
invited by telephone to attend.
He said that in such cases, es-
pecially where a pending trial
is involved, it is customary to
"be guided by the department" ]"
He said he would ask the advice
of Deputy Attorney General
William Rogers tomorrow as to
whether to attend the hearing.
Mr.. Brownell, on a trip to
South America, was unavailable
for comment.
Judge Youngdahl had dis
missed part of a perjury indict-
ment against Owen baltimore,
Far East specialist accused of
Evening star., 1954-11-21
Pardon Our Blank
Look, Page ! Just
Got a Bit Pie-Eyed
By the Associated Press

GLENVILLE, w. Va, Nov.
20.-The weekly Glenviile Dem
ocrat went to press last week
with a front page bearing only
its masthead and an embarrassed
explanation to readers.
''It only happens once in a
lifetime, but it does happen, T"
the paper explained in a two
column box smack in the middle
of the page. I'VE had all the
paper made up and ready to 60
to press at 3 pm. Wednesday.
'En route from the make-up
stone to the press we pied the
whole front page. That means
that all the type, cuts, outlines,
heads, leads, slugs and so forth
fell into a jumbled mass.
"Well, that's all. Just a jum-
bled mass of slugs. We couldn't
put them together in less thar
a day, with the whole force
working, and then stories
wouldn't come out right.
$50 here we are with almost
a blank page one. Sorry. But
that's the story this week. The
BIG STORY in the Chenille
Democrat printing shop.
"We'll be back next week with
the regular edition."
The other seven pages of the
paper were intact.
Evening star., 1954-11-21
By Hector Mclean

Serious consideration is being
given in the District Government
to construct parking platforms Z
perhaps two or three stories high
over strategic intersections in
the city's highway system, The
Star learned yesterday.
The platforms would be located
at points where major ''radial''
highways-like North Capitol
street and New York avenue
cross the proposed inner belt
street network which is designed
to shunt traffic around the down
town area.
Thus, the platforms would be
additions to the Districts fringe
parking syStem--in which only
one lot (ground level has been
put into operation so far. Motor
lists could park and continue their
trips on foot. in buses or in taxi
cabs.
The platforms would be To-
Gated over intersections where
the District already has plans to
put In cloverleaf-type "inter-
Evening star., 1954-11-21
Terps Lace CIV,
1876; Ohio State
Takes Big 10 Title

Maryland kept its Orange
Bowl hopes alive with a con-
vincing 48-6 victory over George
Washington at College Park yes
terday and unbeaten Ohio State
clinched the Big Ten champion
ship by beating Michigan, 21-7
to become Southern California s
foe in the Rose Bowl January /
Arkansas dropped a TO de-
cision to Louisiana State, but
was assured the host spot in
the Cotton Bowl when Baylor
defeated Southern Methodist. 33-
81, to knock the Mustangs from
contention in the Southwest
Conference race.
Oklahoma rolled over Me-
braska, 55-7, but Nebraska will
represent the Big Seven in the
Orange Bowl. Colorado spilled
Kansas State, 1914, to assure
Nebraska second place in the
conference. Oklahoma played in
the Orange Bowl last January /
and is ineligible this year.
Duke remained in the running
with Maryland for the Atlantic
Coast Conference bid to the
Orange Bowl by walloping South
Carolina, 26-7.
|. North Carolina beat Virginia,
26-14.
"Details in Sports Section,)
Evening star., 1954-11-21
Civil War Veteran, 106,
Bags Deer Opening Day
By the Assoeiufed Press

EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE
Fla, Nov. 20.--William A. (Uncle
Bib Lundy, one of the three
surviving Confederate veterans
opened the deer season by bag
ging one of the first deer killed
on the big Eglin reservation.
The 106-year-old warrior shot
the six-point. 140-pounder neal
Auxiliary Field 3, and promised
"I'll be back next week and gel
another one"
Mr.. Lundy, an ardent hunter
most of his life, said the buck
iran right out in front of me
and hiked up his head in the
right position for me to paste
him right between his eyes"
He said shooting the animal
made him feel good, just like
I do after taking a good swig
of homemade skeeter juice"
Evening star., 1954-11-21
Woman Psyehiatrist.
Is Found Beaten. 10
Death on Car Floor
Prominent Philadelphia
Doctor, 81, Trussed Up
With Leather Cords
By the Associated Press

CHESTER, Pa, Nov. 20.-Dr.
Elinor Marjorie Langton, So. a
prominent Philadelphia psyehia-
trist. was found beaten to death
today on the floor Of her auto
mobile.
The car was parked on q quiet,
residential street in this city Of
$4,000, a few miles south of
Philadelphia.
Her skull had apparently been
fractured by the killers blows.
There were deep bruises on the
face and head. Her ankles and
wrists were bound with leather
cords. The upper part of her
clothing was disarranged.
DR.. Langton, who was unmar-
ried. was on the staff of the Vet
Grams Administration clinic in
Philadelphia. She lived at the
Drake Hotel there.
Parked Since Friday.
Residents here discovered the
Staying when they looked into a
car which had been parked along
the street since Friday night.
The body was lying On it's back
on top of an umbrella between
the front snd back seats, with
the head resting partly against
the seat and partly against a
rear door.
She was fully clad in a gray
dress and dark plaid cloth coat
but with the left shoe off the
foot. The shoe was found on
the floorboard in front of the
from: seat.
Robbery Motive Doubted.
Robbery presumably was not
the motive, for several pieces
of her personal jewelry were
scattered about in the car.
DR.. Vincent NJ. Diodati, head
Of the professional services di-
vision of the Veterans Admins
tration branch where DR.. Lang
ton worked, said the Staying vic
tim was chief of the mental hy-
giene clinic there for about three
years.
He described her as an tex
cellent psychiatrist-one of the
best in the city"
DR.. Diodati said he last saw
DR.. Langton on Friday after
noon at the Office. She was go
ing over a file of bringing
them up to date with notations.
A native of Shenandoah, in
the eastern Pennsylvania coal
regions, Dr.. Langton came from
a family widely known in medi-
cine. Her parents were the late
DR.. D. j. Langton and Isabel
Scanlon Langton. A brother, DR..
D. j. Langton, jr., died some
years ago, and a cousin, pr. Leo
Scanlon, is a surgeon at st.
Agnes Hospital in Philadelphia.
Evening star., 1954-11-21

swearing falsely that he was not
a sympathizer with communism
Mr.. Rover later obtained a
new Indictment against Latti-
more and then asked Judge
Youngdahl, former Republican
Governor of Minnesota, to dis
qualify himself.
Judge Youngdahl overruled this
request as "ScandalouS," and the
Justice Department later an
nounced there would be no ap-
peal.
This brought sharply worded
memo from Judge Youngdahl,
who said the Government should
not acknowledge the charge of
bias was without substance"
Mr.. Rover replied that the
Governments position '.has been
stated" in the affidavit of preju-
dice and ANY additional state
ment on my part would be in
appropriate"
Senator LANCER, chairman of
the Senate Judiciary Committee,
said he was acting at the request
of Senator Hennings, Democrat,
Of Missouri.
Senator LANCER appointed him
self, Senator Hennings and Sem
ator Wiley Republican, of Wis
consin as a. subcommittee to
handle the controversy.
Evening star., 1954-11-21
Hostess to the World:
Mrs. Perie Mesto

THE REAL sToRY--stor coIum.
mist Betty Beole begins todoy new
series Of articles on the fomeus
hostesses who dominate Woshinston's
official society. First in the series is
fobuIous perIe Mesto who tells all
obost herself. Pose D-l.
SIN IN cAMPs?-Porents ore wor-
red over stories Of systemotized sin
for 6ls throughout the nation. But
in the District, . Stor survey shows,
conditions ore os bright os anywhere
IN the United States. Pose CO.
TOYS FOR cHRIsTMAs-Porenss
notIeing mysterious improvement in
Youngsters behavior moy find the
answer and some ideo Of the rewords
Washington stores hove oyaiIoble in
Reporter John Sfepp's survey Of
chfistmos toys on Pose A-lo.
Complete Index. Poge Az
Rodio- -Tv Prosroms. Poees E-5-7
Evening star., 1954-11-21
Better Weather Promised
After Three Dismal DAYS

Better weather-not good, but
better-is in prospect today after
three days of clammy fog and
spraying rain.
The fog juggled commercial
airline schedules here until mid
morning yesterday but opera
tions had returned Utmost to
normal by afternoon. In New
York City, however, the gray
blanket caused cancellation or
diversion of more than 200 COM
mercial flights.
The Weather Bureaus forecast
calls for considerable cloudiness
today with a high of about 81,
and for fair tonight with a low
of 40 degrees.
Evening star., 1954-11-21
Elevated Parking Platforms Over c. intersections Studied

changes" which are designed to
eliminate stoplights and permit
a continuous flow Of traffic.
Small Land Acquisition.
Therefore, no new land ac-
QUESTION costs would be involved,
since the District will have to
buy land for the interchanges
anyway.
One exponent pointed out
that this type Of fringe parking
lot would require no special bus
service such as that to the city's
only existing lot at South Cap
itol street and Firth Sterling
avenue.
TT would intercept traffic
within easy reach Of downtown
and would be the kind Of q
haul which the transit company
could take In its stride,n he said,
pointing out that bus or street.
car lines already run past all
such locations.
The plan is to be studied in
connection with the proposed
timer belt" system By highway
Evening star., 1954-11-21

All sites for such structures
would be carefully chosen to
avoid any impairment of Wash
ington's famed scenic views.
Site Of '1nner Belt" Undecided.
Exact location of the proposed
inner belt" has not yet been
finally worked out. This is ex-
pected to be one result of the
DeLeuw and Gather study.
Roughly. the north leg of the
"inner belt will be in the neigh
borhood Of @, r and S streets.
Florida avenue is to be the
northwest leg. The eastern leg
may have two parts, one east of
the Capitol building at about
Eleventh street and one west Of
the Capitol along Fourth street.
The Southwest Freeway is to
serve as the south leg Of the
belt" or cloop" around WASH
ington's central business dis
trict, while the west leg is to
involve Rock Greek Parkway
and Twenty-f0urth or Twenty
nth streets.
Evening star., 1954-11-21

conSultants with whom the Dis
trict is now negotiating.
Details Of the contracts with
DeLeuw and Gather, Chicago en-
cheering firm, are still being
worked out, but will be signed
probably in q couple of weeks,
according to Douglas s. Brink
ley, Highway Department design
engineer The study, he said,
should be completed about six
months later.
Some sites where the parking
platforms might pe located are
at North Capitol street and Flor
ida avenue, New York avenue
and Florida avenue NE, and
over stretches Of the Southwest
Freeway, which viii run as q
depressed highway" alsng what
is now F street s. w.
AS proposed. the platforms
would be connected with up
and d-down ramps to all ap-
preaching streets (which are to
be considerably widened anyway
under the Districts current
highway program.
Evening star., 1954-11-21
3 Planes Eseorting
King FoisoI crush
BY the Associated Press

BEIRUT, Lebanon. Nov. 90
King Faisal II of Iraq arrived
safely today for a state visit in
Lebanon but three Iraqi escort
planes crashed about so miles
south of Damascus. Airport off,
cials in the Syrian capital said
two Of the pilots were killed and
another is missing.
Three other planes, including
the one carrying 19-year-old
King Faisal. continued to Beirut.
The King was met at the airport
by President Camille Glamour,
Premier Sami Solh and other
top Lebanese officials.
Evening star., 1954-11-21
MoIofov Makes Bid
To Delay Ratification
OF Arming Germany
Couples Offer to Defer
Security ToIks With
Wurnins to West
BY the Associated Press


MOSCOW, Nov. 2O.-Soviet
Foreign Minister v. M. Molotov
offered today to postpone the
RuSsian-proposed all-European
conference on collective security
if the Western powers hold up
ratification of the Paris agree
ments on rearming West Ger
many.
He coupled the offer with a
warning that the Soviet Union
and the 'peace-loving European
states would take counter
measures for their own security
if the West persists in bringing
West Germany into the Atlantic
defense alliance move which
he said poses the threat of a
new war"
Russia had set November 2s
as a date for the security confer
ence, which would include the
United States. Communist China
was invited as an observer.
(Recent events have ind1-
Gated the Soviet Union is
planning to set up an East
European security system as a
counter measure to the Vests
North Atlantic Treaty Organl-
zation.
british sources believe the
Soviets will hold the conference
in Moscow even If the Western
/ powers decline to attend. One
by one the Soviet satellite
states are agreeing to partici-
| pate. It is believed that Soviet
Marshals Georgi Zhukov, Vastly
SokolovSky and Konstantin
Rokossovsky, all World War
II heroes, are now working out
details of the new alliance.)
Replies at News Conference.
Replying to four questions
from a Pravda correspondent
Mr.. Molotov declared ratifica-
Ftion of the Paris agreements
will undermine existing posi-
bilities for settling outstanding
European problems and first OF
all the. German problem"
The questions and replies were
read to newsmen at a conference
presided over by Leonard Ilyi-
chev, chief of the press depart
ment Of the Foreign Ministry.
Mr.. Molotov said rejection OF
the Paris agreements by the
Western parliaments, scheduled
to act on them before March /,
would open the possibility OF
achieving accord on carrying
| out alderman free elections
with a secret ballot and safe
guarding the democratic rights
OF the population of all Ger
many
The foreign minister charged
that the United States, Britain
and France were doing every
thing in. their power to prevent
holding of the all-European Sc
curity conference which the
Soviet Union proposed on No
vember 13.
Instead, Mr.. Molotov claimed
(See MOSCOW, page AID
Evening star., 1954-11-21
Churchill College PIonned

LONDON, Nov. 90 PA col
lege in Israel is to be named for
Prime Minister Churchill The
British Committee for Technical
Development in Israel said he
has consented to use Of his name
by some institution in a uniyer-
| sity and technical training CEN
ter to, be built at q cost of almost
$40 million on Mt. Carmel. over
looking Haifa.
Evening star., 1954-11-21
Nine Lose Lives
In Two Virginia
Plane eCrashes
Five Texuns Killed
As Croft Hits Slope
Near Skyline Drive
Nine persons we're killed in two

Nine persons were killed in two
Virginia airplane crashes last
night, five of them when a twin
engine craft from Texas slammed
into the eastern slope Of the
Blue Ridge mountains just of
Skline Drive near Waynesboro.
The other four persons-one a
boy, IA, and the other a young
child-died when their single
engine plane crashed and burned
in low, fiat land about 400 yards
from the post Office at New
Ferry, just off State Route in
Halifax County near the North
Carolina line.
The dead, as identified by
State police were:
At Waynesboro-A. P. Los
kamp, William H. Griffith, Ar
thur N. Soper, jr., the pilot; Jo-
seph Rogers Kolodzie, all of Sim
ton, Texas, and D. w. Graham
of Midland, Texas.
At New Ferry-Zeb Gru5h
Little, %. of Lexington. N. c..
and Arnold H. Sloan, 80, OF
Winston-Salem, and Sloan's
children, Arnold N. jr., 8, and
John, 6.
En- Route to Baltimore.
The Civil Aeronautics Admin
istration said the Texas plane
which crashed OF Skyline Drive
was en- route to Baltimore after
a refueling stop in Atlanta.
The plane, a converted Navy
PV-1, ploughed down a slope
about six miles north of the in
tersection of u. s. $50 and the
Skyline Drive in Alhemarle
County on Calf Mountain about
5:45 pm.
Robert Roemer, a Roanoke
Times sportswriter, saw the crash
en- route to Roanoke from Char
lottesville, where he attended
the Virginia North Carolina
football game.
He said the sky Lit up to his
right "just like an atomic bomb"
Crashes in Dense Fog.
The CAA said in Washington
the plane belonged to the Plym-
outh Oil Co. of Sinton. Tex.
Mr.. Roemer said the plane
smacked on the crest of Calf
Mountain in dense fog and tore
wide path down the mountain,
strewing wreckage on either side.
The CAA tower at Lynchburg,
so miles directly southwest of the
crash site, said the pilot of the
doomed plane cancelled his in
strument fight plan at 5:26
pm. indicating he had salts
factory visual conditions to con-
tinue the flight.
Residents of the area near the
New Ferry accident reported
hearing an explosion about z
pm. the time which police say
the plane struck the ground.
The ~CAA said the craft had
not been in contact with any
of its stations in the area and
the. pilot apparently had not
filed a flight plan.
Evening star., 1954-11-21
.Ex-PoIiceChief
Kills Wife, Her
Himself
Bodies of Alexandria
Family Discovered in
Their FIoridu Home

1t. Col. John Samuel Arnold,
Sc, former police chief of Alex.
andria, shot his wife and moth.
er-in-law to death and then COM
mitted suicide in their st. Peters,
burg, Fla, home, discovery Of
their bodies revealed yesterday.
Edward P. Silk. acting coroner.
said the much-decorated combat
veteran of World War II appar-
entity went berserk. Col. Arnold
had been in i'll health in recent
years. his friends said.
The bodies, sprawled about the
home overlooking Tampa Bay,
were discovered after neighbors
heard the family dog, Cracker"
barking all Friday night and
called police.
Face Down on Floor.
The wife. Mary Ellen, 81, was
found face down on the bath
room floor. The body of Mrs.
Arnold's mother, Mrs. Annie E.
Nulls, "a, was found in her bed
room. Col. Arnold IS body was in
corridor between the living
room and bedroom.
Col. Arnold was named chief
of police in Alexandria in 1881
and served for nine years. quit
ting to re-enter the Army in
1910. After his wartime service
he again headed the police force
but remained only six months.
resigning in 1947. His second res
ignation followed dispute with
the city council.
The Arnolds, whose Alexan-
dria address was 706 Braxton
street, moved to st. Petersburg
shortly afterward. Friends said
the family was planning to re-
turn to Alexandria so Col. Arnold
could undergo treatment at
| Walter Reed Hospital.
Tragedy Reconstructed.
The shootings were said by st.
Petersburg Police 1t. Sidney s.
Hilliard to have occurred some-
time between II am. and 2 pm.
1 Friday. He reconstructed the
| tragedy as follows: COL. Arnold.
using an Italian-make pistol,
shot his mother-in-law first.
| then chased his wife into the
bathroom shooting her in the
head. He then fired a single bull
let into his head and slumped to
the hopr, the weapon lodging in
the crook of his arm.
Col. Arnold's wartime service
included service on the staff Of
Gen. George S. Patton, COM
mander of the United States
Third Army. He also served with
Che 7th Armored Division in
Europe.
k1L bIIc ClOSS VI I1lC wal llC WdS
commissioner of Como Province
in Italy and received the Bronze
Star medal for his Italian serv-
ice.
Col Arnold first entered the
Army as a bugler in World War
l. He helped organize Alexan-
dria's National Guard unit in
1927.
Wrote Here Recently.
William M. Glasgow, Alexan-
dria justice of the peace, said
Col. Arnold wrote him only two
weeks ago indicating he was in
good spirits. Mr.. Glasgow said :
the former police chief also
asked him to look for home for
his family.
Col. Arnold had been in fail.
ing health at least two years, and
spent many months in hospitals,
Mr.. Glasgow said. He suffered
from a nervous ailment, arthritis
and hardening of the arteries,
Mr.. Glasgow said.
Col. Arnold was born in In
diana and moved to Virginia as
tSee ARNOLD, Page AID
Evening star., 1954-11-21
MaferiaIism Called
Real Enemy Of U. 5.
By Catholic Bishops
Nation Must Renew
It's Christian Faith,
Conference Warns

The real enemy Of the United
States is atheistic materialisrn
and the Nation "must recover
and renew its Christian faith"
if it is to survive, the Roman
Catholic bishops of the country
said yesterday in their annual
statement.
This was issued at the close of
their annual meeting at Catholic
Text of Bishops Statement. Poee AS.
-------->-->------~---
University. 1t was signed in the
names of all the bishops by the
administrative board of the Ma
tional Catholic Welfare Confer
ence.
''The battle is joined" said the
bishops. IF our Nation is to
escape the fate of Poland and of
China, of Yugoslavia and of Hun
gary, and of so many others, If
we are to survive as a free Chris
tian Nation. then we must be
clear-eyed and we must be
strong. 1t is the blind and the
weak who fall into the pit.
Spiritual Vision Better.
"We need, first of all, to iden-
tify our enemy; to recognize it
for what it really is. Some see
the enemy only as a political
state or group of states, or merely
as an economic system. Spiritual
vision gives better intelligence of
the fact. The enemy is atheistic
materialism. Whether it be en-
trenched in the organs of a
foreign state, or in one of our
own domestic institutions, it is
atheistic materialism that seeks
to destroy us. That is the enemy. /"
The bishops declared: "The
true strength of a Christian
nation is in the power of God
which outweighs all force Of
arms"
But they asserted: "Unfortun-
ately, in recent times the drift
from God and from the spir-
itual view of life has seriously
weakened this country"
They urged a revival of faith.
I'VE in our day shall conquer
the new paganisnl, atheistic ma
tsee BISHOPS, Page A-7.)