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Evening star., 1954-12-26

active material escapes from
the isotope laboratory of the
new building, special facilities
have been provided. Both the
hot lab," as the laboratory
is called, and the "hot vault"
a smaller room where the
radioactive material Is stored,
have lead-Hned doors. The
laboratory sink in which ex-
periments will be conducted
Is separated from the rest of
the room by a glass hood"
which looks like a window and
can be closed quickly. The air
in the hooded area Is drawn
of separately, and in case of
accident, everything-inside
the hooded area-can be
washed down the drain. The
laboratory has its own inde-
pendent drainage system.
instruments of the Geiger
counter type will be kept in
the laboratory at all times.
With them, scientists will not
only be able to tell the amount
of radioactivity in the room
itself but also will be able to
monitor all fluids leaving the
laboratory.
Like most hospitals, the
new Pathology Building has
staticproof floors. Anesthetic
gases, like chloroform and
ether, will be used during op-
erations on animals in expert
ments. The grounded floors
are designed to prevent sparks
that may collect on an ami
mails fur from starting fires.
The hazard Of falling down
steps is not peculiar to medical
research, but there are 162
steps from the sub sub-base-
ment, so feet below ground,
to the top floor Of the new
building. Since slippery steps
have accounted for their
share of accidents, a carbo-
rundum "non-shd" finish was
applied while the concrete
was still wet.
Evening star., 1954-12-26

Sealed from everything
around it.
The buildings construction
may save lives as well as a
vast store of military medical
knowledge If an A-bomb ever
falls on Washington, but
there Is always the happy
possibility that one will never
fall. Other safety features,
like the shower fixtures above
the entrances to many rooms,
were installed as protection
against the more certain
hazards of the medical re-
search world.
Some of the $50 scientists
and technicians scheduled to
move into the building on the
Walter Reed Hospital grounds
some time in January will be
handling radioactive material
much Of the time. Others will
be working in laboratories
where the nature of the work
makes fire a constant hazard.
The memory Of scientists
found burned to death just
outside laboratories prompted
doctors, who worked with
architects and engineers on
building plans, to ask for
"deluge showers" at every
laboratory door. Shower fix
lures have been installed, and
they operate in such a way
that even q stricken man
lying on the floor can start
water flowing from overhead.
Part Of the pathologists'
study of the behavior of dis
eases involves the use Of iSo-
topes. Among other things,
the radioactive material serves
as a tracer. Combining it
with some drug like aspirin
researchers can follow the
drug through an animals
system more readily. But
though isotopes are valuable
in the laboratory, they can be
deadly elsewhere.
To make sure that no radio
, 1954-06-04
Cdrib Commission
Asks Continuation Of
SeIf-Help Program

The Caribbean Commission
will request the United States
Foreign Operation Administra
ton to continue its aided self
help programme in the Carib-
bean and to assign two more
experts to the Commission for
this purpose. These new ex-
perts will continue the work
already begun in the area.
This request was agreed to
at the recent conference in Be
lie when it considered the
progress report made by the
two housing technicians al
ready attached to it.
It was apparent from this
report that the idea of aided
Continued on page ~
, 1954-06-04
French Government
Replaces General
Ndvdrre with Ely

The French Government has
announced the appointment Of
General Paul Ely, Chief Of
Staff, to replace General Ma
varre, present commander Of
French forces in Indo-C China.
General Ely recently visit
ed the United States to ask
for more aid for the forces in
Indo-C China. He also visited
the war theatre on a fact-find
ing mission since the fall Of
Dienbienphu.
As a result of his report the
French Government has de
cided to call up 10000 con-
scripts which will eventually
release regular troops for ser
vice in Indo-C China. Orders
have been issued to defend
what is known as the Red
River Delta agairGt the COM
Continued on page II
, 1954-06-04
sen. Butler ANSWERS HILL, HAYWOOD;
NOTES HIGH EXPENDITURES

In a letter made public last week, Senator Butler, Chair
man Of the Senate Committee on Interior and Insular At
fairs, answered Valdemar Hill and Hon. Herbert Haywood
in some detail The latter had written previously taken issue
issue with certain provisions Of the new Organic Act, con
tending that there was an. element of curtailment Of essential
, 1954-06-04

WASHINGTON, D.. Capt.
Nikolai E. Khokhlov, SO, a recent
Russian secret police agent is
shown as he testified before the
Senate Internal Security Subcom-
mittee on his activities as a paid
terrorist for the Kremlin. Khokh-
low surrendered to army authori-
ties in West Germany last Febru-
airy while on q Russian mission to
Kill Georgi s. Okolovich, a Rus.
sian resistance leader in West Ger
many and top official of the anti
communist organization.
, 1954-06-04


HAMPTON COMMIT
Among those receiving de-
grees during the 84th annual
commencement at Hampton
Institute May 81, were three
Virgin Islanders, Miss Ruth
Harrigan, Claire I. Todmann
of st. Croix and Ena E. Kean,
Of st. Thomas. Miss Harrigan
and Miss Kean were the reci-
pients Of B. S. degrees in edu-
cation, while Miss Todman re-
ceived the B. S. degree in bust
ness administration.
During the exercises John
Sengstacke, 1884 Hampton
graduate, was awaaded the
schools distinguished alumni
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medal for outstanding achieve
ment. In addition to being a
publisher and editor of the
Chicago Defender and presi-
dent of the Defender Publica-
tons, Mr.. Sengstacke holds
membership on many impor-
tant boards, including the
board Of directors Of the Vir-
gin Islands Corporation.
Commencement speaker was
DR.. Samuel M. Brownell, u.
S. Commissioner of Education,
and brother Of the Attorney
General.
Miss Harrigan is the daugh-
ter of Mrs. Mildred Harrigan
and the late Ludwig E. Harri-
gan, and was a graduate Of
the Christiansted High School.
Miss Todman, daughter OF
Milton Todman, well-known
citizen Of Frederiksted, was
an honor graduate and vail
dictorian sof her class of the
.Christiansted High School.
Mrs. Harrigan was among
the hundreds of spectators at
the Commencement Exercises.
, 1954-06-04

tending that there was an elen
freedoms.
Senator Buffers letter makes
two points. First, attention is
called to the tremendous
amounts of funds that have.
been expended here, and Sc
cond, that the new organic
Act is considerably more adj
vantageous than the first.
Said the Senator, Begin
ming with the purchase Of the
Virgin Islands from Denmark
in 1917, more than 80 million
dollars has been appropriated
out Of the Federal treasury for
~non-military expenditures in
the Islands"
Then reference was made to
Inst years appropriations. In
I'll, the mainland taxpayer
was contributing approx
mately six million dollars last
year to the government Of the
$4,000 Virgin islanders"
Praises Senate Bill S. 1878
In pointing to the advan-
tages Of the present bill be-
fore the Senate, Senator But
Ter said:
IN general, S. 1878 provides
the people Of the Virgin Is
lands with the opportunity to
attain a far greater degree Of
true self-government-the in
dependence that comes from
standing on ones own feet
and facing up to the response
bilities of American citizen
as well as demanding all Of
its privileges and rights, While
, 1954-06-04

dc not believe that the Con-
gress can solve the problems
Of the Virgin Islands merely
by the passage of another
law in Washington, l do be-
lieve that S. 1878 will be of
substantial help to the excel
lent Governor chosen by Pre-
sident Eisenhower, the Hon,
Archie A. Alexander. Enact
ment of S. 1878 or similar le-
gislation is necessary for the
Governor to do the job that
must be done in the Virgin Is
lands if the people are ever
to progress beyond the stage
Evening star., 1954-09-06
Thousands Watch
Atlantic City Fire
BY the A.soeiaisd Press

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., Sept.
6. - A lightning-fast general
alarm fire, clearly visible to tens
of thousands Of Labor Day visi-
tors, damaged II shops on the
famed broadwalk and the facade
of Steeplechase Pier yesterday.
The flames. famed by stiff
breezes off the Atlantic Ocean.
swept the fronts of seven shops
on one side of the broadwalk,
leaped across the wide wooden
promenade and damaged four
more on the pier.
Damage was estimated at
100000 to the stores and $25,-
600 to the broadwalk. The blaze
started shortly before 4 pm,
apparently under the broadwalk.
and was reported extinguished
within an hour. after a battle
by a small army of firemen from
here and nearby Ocean City.
One fireman was injured by
kying glass and treated at At
lantic City Hospital. None of
the many thousands Of onlook-
ers, who at times hindered police
and firemen in their quest for
vantage points, was reported
hurt.
It was the second general
alarm fire to hit the Atlantic
City area within a week, and
the second on the broadwalk in
little over a month. Total dam
age in the three fires was almost
81 million.
Evening star., 1954-09-06
Man Found Hanged
In Basement Of Home

A title company abstractor
was found dead this morning,
his body hanging by q rope from
the beam of the basement where
he lived at 1887 Western avenue
NE.
Beneath the victim, Maurice
E. Salisbury, so, was a chair
which apparently had been
kicked over.
The discovery was made at
tbs am. by Miss Vera C. Brun-
CART. 72, of 5l4 Nineteenth street
NV. Miss Brungart, a friend
of the family, had been looking
after Mr.. Salisbury since a six
week disqualification this sum-
mer for pneumonia and a heart
condition.
She told police Mr.. Salisbury
had been depressed since the
death of his wife last January.
Saturday a physician exam
ined Mr. Salisbury and advised
him not to return to his job
at the Realty Title Insurance
Co. for a while. Miss Brungart
said Mr.. Salisbury had never in
timated a threat on his own
life. but once had said there
was mo use going on" in his
condition.
Evening star., 1954-09-06
By Harry Lever
Star Stoff Correspondent

DAYTON. Ohio, Sept. 6.-I
had an experience yesterday
which should never happen to
any pilot.
Even though it was all in the
mind. the experience was so
overpowering. I was scared to
death.
Technically speaking, I was
KILLED" in an airplane crash, !"
but as anyone can see I'm still
very much alive. In fact, I never
even left the ground.
Flies in Simulator.
This experience occurred while
I simulated the plotting of a
Navy P-2-V Neptune twin-en-
gined bomber. The new flight
simulator shown at the National
Aircraft Show here was designed
and built by the Engineering
and Research Corp. of River
dale, Md.
It is so realistic in its actions
that at one point before the con-
clusion of the experiment,
Comdr. Sidney Benford, also
plotting, and I were seriously
thinking of "bailing out"
The real Neptune is big ty-
phoon hunter, so soon after our
simulated take-off we naturally
sought one of the big storms off
the California coast. We con-
veyed our intentions to Francis
Browne of 1908 Ivanhar street,
Silver Spring, Md, a test en-
gineer for ERGO, who acted as
towerman.
It wasn't long before we en-
Evening star., 1954-09-06
Nation 5 Death Toll
On Highways N3
And dMounting Slowly
~ he Axsocinied Press


The number OF deaths on the
Nations highways mounted
slowly as the last day Of the
three day Labor Day holiday
started.
But q Sunday night upswing
In fatalities caused the National
Safety Council to say, "Our pre-
diction of 800 dead will be aw-
fully. awfully close"
With more than so hours Of
the 78-hour holiday week end
past the death toll was: Traffic
243, drowning 40. miscellaneous
accidents 46-Total 338.
Average or 81 Deaths.
Ned II. Dearborn, president OF
the National Safety Council.
took little comfort from a COM
parison with an average of 81
fatalities every "a hours this
year up to. August / in highway
accidents. or with a test period S
figures.
An Associated Press survey of
similar 78-hour period (6 pm.
Friday to midnight Monday for
the nonholiday week end of Au-
gust 1923 listed 346 traffic
deaths. 43 drowned. 104 deaths
in a variety of accidents for a
total of 493.
Mr.. Dearborn pointed out.
"The upsWing in traffic deaths
Sunday is especially alarming
because this is the day in the
middle of the holiday. when the
tolls usually remain relatively
low. Unless the rate is checked
by careful driving, the toll may
even exceed our estimate when
the big rush of motorists return
ing home begins Monday"
Efforts Made to Cut Toll.
The mounting toll. although
still far short of the 1851 all
time record for Labor Day-46l
traffic and 658 from all acci-
dents-bucked special efforts by
many States and by President
Eisenhower.
The President. appalled, at the
National Safety Councils esti-
Evening star., 1954-09-06
Businessmen 5 Safari,
Back With Hunt trophies

Six members. Of q washington
businessrnen,s safari Iii Africa re-
turned here yesterday complete
with trophies of their trip.
They reported that i've: days
.of hunting In the Belgian Congo
netted four elephants. three buf-
falo. three hippos and q wart
hog.
Returning yesterday were Mark
Evans Of WTOP. Larry Jerman
of the Jerman Brothers Chrysler
Agency. William Rawley. presi-
dent Of the Rock Creek Ginger
Ale Co.: John w. Kluge. owner
|of Station WGAY; Raymond C,
Briggs, president of Briggs &
Co, and Malcolm Scates Of the
furniture company Of that
name.
Evening star., 1954-09-06
-AP wirephoto.

jet, the same model Maj. Arm
strong was flying when he
crashed.
In the only other major event
yesterday. Cd Lieut.. William j,
Knight Of Mansfield. Ohio, and
his radar observer, I'd Lieut.. Will
liam K. Sellers of Tulsa, Okla,
won the Allison Trophy in a TO-
000-foot altitude speed climb in
2 minutes 2 seconds.
They flew a Northrup F-89
Scorpion.
In the opening event Saturday
Capt. Edward w. Kenny. jr., of
Van Dyke. Mich. won the Ben
dix Trophy. He set a new speed
record of 616.208 m.p.h. in a
California to-Dayton flight in a
F-84-F Thunderstorm.
There were 101 1888 spectators
at the show yesterday. a record
for the two years the show has
been held here. Officials think
today's crowd may top that.
Evening star., 1954-09-06
FoFfox Acres Home
Is Dumuqed by Fire

The home of Don Frenzell on
Oak street, Fairfax Acres, near
Fairfax. Va. was badly dam
aged by fire Saturday while the
occupants were away.
The roof was partially de-
stroyed and one room and the
attic of the one-and-a-half-
story cinder block dwelling were
damaged. Firemen from Fair
fax and Vienna fought the blaze
nearly two hours and said they
suspected defective wiring.
A Fairfax fireman, Lenwood
Trammelle, %. . of sol South
Chestnut street. was overcome
by smoke.
Evening star., 1954-09-06
World Polio Conference
Gets Under Way in Rome
BY The Asseeioted Press

ROME, Sept. 6.-More than
800 scientists from Al nations
opened the third International
Poliomyelitis Conference here
today. Their purpose is to re-
port and study progress in the
worlds fight to wipe out one of
its most dreaded maladies.
After being greeted by Italian
officials at Rome's city hall, ses-
sions, under auspices of the In
ternational Poliomyelitis Con-
gress, opened at Rome's Univer-
sity. They will continue until
Friday, under the presidency of
Basil O'Connor, president of the
United States National Founda-
ton for Infantile Paralysis.
Evening star., 1954-09-06

mate, had appealed to the Ma
tion's drivers to drive carefully
and slowly and fool the ex-
perts."
In Michigan, Gov. G. Mennen
Williams had declared an enler-
gency and called out some 600
National GuardSmen. airplaneS
and helicopters to patrol the
highways. Wisconsin and Ten
nessee also had National Guards
men augmenting regular State
police patrols. Alabama's State
police planes dropped warning
leaflets urging caution on the
highways.
Michigan's Labor Day traffic
toll last year was 20 lives. So
far there have been IA lives lost
on Michigan's highways during
this years Labor Day week end.
Evening star., 1954-09-06
Air Show S Closing
Program Dedicated
To Crashed Flyer
tcontinued From First Page.)


since Friday and that his try for
the record will be in duplica-
ton :" of the previous effort.
Temperature at the time of the
air crash was estimated at
around 90 degrees. The high
temperature was believed to
create air conditions unfavorable
to high-speed flight.
The manner of the announce
ment and the successful try for
the record in advance Of the air
show led observers to believe
there might be a similar an
nouncement today in the
Thompson Trophy event.
That Is the last major event
on the show program.
New Record Reported.
There were reports, not con-
firmed by any official source,
that a new record already had
been set for the event-a 100
kilometer, closed course speed
run. But Maj. Lynch said "the
show will go on as scheduled"
Capt. Eugene P. Sonnenberg,
"a. of the Air Proving Ground
Command, Eglin Air Force Base
Fla, is scheduled as the lone
participant for the Thompson
Trophy. The old record for the
event was set here last year by
Brig. Gen. j. Stanley Holtenel
at 690.1 m.p.h. Gen. Holtenei
few a North American F-86-D
Sabrejet last year
Capt. Sonnenberg will fly {
North American F-86-H Sabre.
Evening star., 1954-09-06

Men go for 1t with gusto-this
corned beef from your Safeway.
It's top-quality beef---boned and
Just right for mild flavor.
Evening star., 1954-09-06
Baltimore Woman Dies
OF Heart Attack al Beach
speeioI pl,po,eh 70 me Star


LEONARDTOWN, Md, Sept.
GA 63-year-old woman died in
st. Mary's Hospital late Satur-
day soon after she was found
lying face down in shallow water
on a beach at Point Lookout
State police identified her as
Mary Catherine Phipps of 1921
Annapolis road. Baltimore.
DR.. p. j. Bean, st. Marys
County medical examiner. said
she died of a heart attack.
The woman. still breathing.
was found about 10 pm. by an
unidentified man who summoned
aid. She was taken to the hos
pital when attempts to revive
her failed,
Evening star., 1954-09-06
Reporter, Killed in Air Crash,
Almost Scared to Death, Too

countered storm conditions with
unusually severe turbulence, con-
veniently simulated by a gadget
which rocks the pilot seat un-
mercifully.
Artificially- created lightning
struck at the cabin, whose in
struments were dimmed. The
controls were extremely hard to
handle. We had penetrated the
eye of the typhoon.
Flip -Flops and Dead Engine.
Then things really began to
happen. Here they are, in order:
l. I lost control of the SIM
ulator. and the P2V promptly
tipped over almost on its back.
We righted it.
q. Our port engine caught
fire.
8. The starboard engine conked
out.
4. The lightning became blind
ing.
We got the fire out. managed
to restart the second engine and
headed out of the typhoon fast,
plotting a course for home base,
We asked for ceiling and visibil-
ity conditions. They were TOO
and 400 feet, respectively, so we
requested a ground control ap-
proach landing. Mr.. Browne
started to talk" us in.
But at 200 feet. on a perfect
approach, the unexpected hap
pened and we were killed"
The power hook-up from the
hangar to the simulator sudden
" was cut off, and we were
plunged into darkness.
The consensus was that the
Neptune just clunked right in, q
total wreck.
Evening star., 1954-09-06
Body Of Boy Sought
In River After Upset

iHarbor police dragged the Po-
tomac River near Theodore
Roosevelt Island today for the
body Of q New York boy who
disappeared when rented canoe
overturned In Georgetown Chan
mel.
Police said the youth. Walter
Williams, 16, colored, Of the
Bronx, was canoeing with a
friend. Howard Green, II. col
ored, of New York. The Green
boy swan to shore when the
boat upset and told police his
friend couldn't make 1t.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-05
The Passing Show
Pair Of Washington Wives
Give Broadway Coy Play
NEW YORK,
By Joy Cormody
tpromo Editor Of The Siur)


Mrs Jean Kerr used live Washington Mrs
Eleanor Brooke who still does have written of the
funniest plays King freshly opened here
at the Lyceun Theater
he best plays mind you Nevertheless one Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-05

If you never met Rita Moreno
beside a backyard swimming
pool out in Louisiana -on-the-
Pacific, you may not be avidly
interested, but she has made
quite sacrifice for "Jivaro."
She is slim and pertly pretty
lass, but you'd never know it
in the Ontario's new film. Miss
Moreno plays Brazilian Indian
girl and she looks it, smeared
with brown paint and smudges
of dirt. topped by a stringy wig,
engulfed in shapeless native
garment. It is about the most
dramatic aspect of the latest
William ne-William Thomas
moneymaker in Technicolor.
AS leading functionaries of the
triumph of commerce over art,
Hollywood's Dollar Bills are up
to their old tricks here. They
have Fernando Lamas, Richard
Denning. Robert Keith, Miss Mo-
reno and the Jivaro tribe of
head-shrinking Indians up a
Brazilian creek in this one. If it
is the Amazon. they are far up
it since it is barely wide enough
to accommodate 4amas' creaking
boat and a few alligators.
LamaS encounters Rhonda
Fleming one day when he is
down river. She Is bound for the
village where he runs a trading
post to join her flance Den-
ning). rubber plantation own
err, she thinks. Actually, he is a
lush who has gone native with
Miss Moreno as inspiration, but
Lamas brings her aboard any
how, showing there are no holes
in his head.
There is not much more you
need to know. Director Edward
Ludwig keeps things moving at
a fairly rapid clip and losses in
goodly amount OF romancing and
fist-f1ghting. H. M.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-05
w. Canada
Is Saved
ByA. Lodd

SASKATCHEWAN" Universal
International picture. produced by
Aaron Rosenberg directed by Raoul
Walsh, story and screenplay by Gil
Doud. At the Palace.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-05
Students to Present Show

Students of the Bethesda
Chevy Chase High School will
hold their annual talent "Ex-
travaganza" at 8 pm. Friday
and Saturday in the school.
Proceeds will help pay for land
scaping the front of the school
wind up in the guardhouse. But
don't you worry; he gets those
guns back to the Crees and you
know-who chaSes the Sioux back
to Montana or whatever.
An old hand at movie-making,
Director Raoul Walsh knows
how to make. effective use of
both action yarn and the splen-
dor of mountainous scenery. It
is not his fault if the script is
less. dramatic than the back
drop, the real Saskatchewan
thing filmed in Technicolor. He
keeps the noise level high and
he keeps looking over at Miss
Winters. so your attention
shouldn't flag.