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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-05
Labor Building Guard
Euces TriuI After Fiqht

A jury trial yesterday was
scheduled for January 5 for
Rudyard Wallace, a guard at the
Labor Department Building, &C
cused Of simple assault and dis
orderly conduct.
Guard 1t. Joseph F. johnson.
jr., charged that Wallace struck
him with his fists during an ar
gument in the building. The
trial date was set by Municipal
Judge George .. Nelson.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-05
Psi Chi Banquet

: DR.. Leonard B. Carmichael.
administrative director Of the
Smithsonian Institution, will
speak at the annual banquet OF
the George Washington Univer-
sity Chapter of Psi Chi at $3.50
pm. today at the Kennedy
Warren Apartments, 1888 Con-
necticut avenue NV.
Evening star., 1954-05-22
New Social Security Measure
Is Nearly Ready for House
Roise in Wage Tax Bose to 81 200
And Other Increased Benefits Backed

cepted Gen. EiSenhower'S request
to extend social security cover
age to doctors. lawyers and other
professionals. to farm operators,
ministers, State and local gov
ernment employees and various
smaller groups.
If the bill becomes law, the
system, now covering. some 70
million workers and paying bene-
fits to six million persons, would
blanket almost the entire, work.
ing force Of the Nation.
The social security system pro-
vides monthly payments to work.
ers and their families on retire.
ment or to their survivors. Both
workers and their employees pay
special taxes into a trust fund
from which benefits are paid.
Although some parts of the
program are controversial, little
opposition to the overall bill is
expected in the House.
The new benefit structure
would boost the m in i m u m
monthly payment for a single
retired worker from \$25 to $50.
and the maximum from $85 to
$98.50. The minimum for a re-
tired worker and his wife-if she
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Evening star., 1954-05-22
Homemade Bomb ExpIodes
At Silver Spring Hot Shoppe

serted. Fragments of the can
were recovered by police.
The investigation of the bomb
ing was turned over to the De-
tective Bureau. Juveniles are
suspected.
The explosion brought four
policemen to the scene where
the blast and rolling smoke
caused considerable confusion in
the drive-in service area of the
restaurant.
The restaurant, located at
1880 Georgia avenue. has been
the scene of a number of ju-
venile incidents and near-riots
between rival school students
during the fall football season.
Evening star., 1954-05-22
MVD Agent Tells
How He Avoided
Murder Assignment

Tomorrow and Mondoy The Stor
will publish q two-port series Of or-
tieles telling the dromotie story Of
how Soviet secret police osent gave
himself up to his intended murder
victim.
Last September Nikoloi Khokhlov
wos given q routine ossisnment-to
kill Q Russion emisre in Germany.
For the job he was equipped with the
most modern assassination weapons
"A cigarette cOse thOt fired eyonide-
tipped bullets.
That night KhOkhIOv returned to
his apartment to inform his wife Of
the assignment. This is the END"
she said.
From thot hour Khokhlov knew he
wos trapped between his conscience
and the KremIin. How he decided to
Neseope to the West-first reporting
TO his intended murder wictim-is
described in The Stor beginning to-
morrow.
M. KhokhIov testified Yesterday
betb brs on open session Of the SEN
otej internal Security subcommittee.
A news story on his testimony op-
pfes en page Al.
Evening star., 1954-05-22

A homemade bomb was ex-
ploded early today at the Georgia
avenue Hot Shoppe restaurant
in Silver Spring just across the
District line, Montgomery County
police reported. No one was hurt.
Police said the bomb had been
placed beside an outside re-
frigerating unit and was set
of about 1910 am. Damage to
the unit was estimated at about
$100 and the unit was tempo
rarily disabled but was reported
back in working condition to-
day.
Police said the bomb consisted
Of o pint can Of black powder
into which Q fuse had been in
Evening star., 1954-05-22
BY the Asseeiatsd Press

President Eisenhower'S pro-
gram for q bigger and more lib
eral social security system was
almost ready today for House
consideration.
Members Of the House Ways
and Means Committee predicted
their group would approve the
legislation next week after a
couple of finishing touches. The
committee has been taking up
the Eisenhower program on an
item-by-item basis.
Late yesterday the committee
approved all of the Presidents
requests for high benefits, and
in a few cases added some of its
own.
It also approved-over the op-
position of most committee Re-
publicans-the Presidents plan
to raise from $500 to $4,000 the
maximum annual income on
which benefits are based and
taxes are levied.
That left only two substantial
items still to be acted on, A pro-
posal to extend coverage to farm
laborers. and a plan to give dis
abled workers full benefits.
The committee already has ac-
Evening star., 1954-05-22
Senate Rejects Amendment
To Lower Voting Age to 18
34-24 BoIIot Is Short Of Required
Two Thirds. Fight Led by Southerners

for military duty before they are
eligible for the draft.
Seven Democrats Joined 81
Republicans in supporting the
amendment. All of the opposi-
ton votes were cast on the
Democratic side. There were 81
Senators not voting, some Of
whom were paired.
After the proposal had been
defeated. Senator Russell took
what appeared to be an indirect
jab at the Supreme Court for
its recent decision outlawing
racial segregation in the schools.
The Georgia Senator said he was
grateful to the administration
for submitting the l0-year-old
voting plan as a constitutional
amendment because If 1t had
been presented as a bill and
passed by majority vote he be-
lieved the present Supreme
Court would have seen fit to
enforce it as q simple statute.
Evening star., 1954-05-22
BedII Indicted
In Ohio Hospital
Shortage Probe
Montgomery County
OfficioI Accepts
Warrant in Kentucky
Special Dispatch 10 The Stur

PORTSMOUTH. Ohio, May "a.
Montgomery County (MdJ
Manager Edward T. Beall has
been indicted on a charge of en-
bezzlement in connection with
$738.81 missing from Portsmouth
General Hospital in 1852 when
Mr.. Beall was city manager here
and acting director of the insti-
tuition.
He was indicted by the Scioto
County grand jury here. which
late yesterday wound up a three
day investigation of a State ex-
aminers' report that total Of
$2,458 was missing from the hos
pital.
The indictment was not made
public until today, however.
when Mr.. Beall accepted a war;
rant at a motel in Ashland, KY.
about 80 miles from here. Ohio
law prevents disclosure of grand
jury indictments until the de-
PENDANTS are in custody.
Sheriff Burl E. Justice Of
Scioto County went to Ashland
with warrant for Mr.. Beall's
arrest after he received a tele-
phone call late this morning
from Mrs. Beall. who had accom-
panied her husband here for the
investigation.
Went to Nearby Motel.
The sheriff said Mrs. Beall
told him they were in a hotel
coffee shop in Ashland and she
Evening star., 1954-05-22

would hold him until I ar
rived" When he got to ASH
land, he said. he met Mrs. Beall
at the coffee shop and she took
them to nearby motel, where
he found Mr.. Beall in a cabin.
1t was not Immediately known
whether Mr.. Beall would return
here with the sheriff or fight ex-
tradition.
The Sheriff had been looking
for Mr.. Beall since last night,
when he failed to return here to
the home of John C. Willis.
where he and Mrs. Beall had
been staying for the previous
three nights.
The indictment, one of % re-
turned by the grand jury, ac-
cuses Mr.. Beall of embezzling
the hospital receipts for Septem-
ber %, 1852. The receipts for
that day-totalling $738.81-
were never turned into the city
treasurer. the indie tme mt
charges. Mr.. Beall then was
serving as acting manager Of
the hospital while the city was
seeking a new manager.
Mr.. Beall is now on leave with
out pay from his Montgomery
County post.
Ex-Secretary Quizzed.
Mrs. Nadine Pierce, who was
Mr.. Beall's secretary when he
was in charge of Portsmouth
General Hospital. and Harvey
McCracken, present Office man.
ager at the hospital. were ques-
toned by the jurors yesterday
Their testimony followed lie
detector tests submitted to vol
Thursday by Mr.. Beall
and Mrs. Pierce at the State
Bureau of Criminal Investigation
and Identification at London.
Prosecutor William H. Harsha.
jr.. said he reported on the lie
detector tests to the grand Jurors.
but declined to make public what
Lorden technicians had told him.
Evening star., 1954-05-22
; Die and 26 Are Injured
In New Zealand Air Crash
BY the Assoeiatsd Press

AUCKLAND, New Zealand,
May 22.-Three children were
killed and 26 other persons re-
ceived minor injuries today in
the flaming crash of New Zea-
land National Airway airliner.
The twin-engine plane, arriv-
ing from ChriStchurch, limped
in a few feet over the sea in
obvious trouble. The DC-3 side
swiped a house, then swerved
into a clump of trees and burst
into flames. An elderly couple
living in the house narrowly
escaped injury when one wing
of the plane knitted into their
bedroom.
Bystanders pulled out the pas
sengers, many of whom were
suffering from minor burns. The
pilot, Capt. william Pettet, suf-
fered shock and burns.
Alex Corrigan, a survivor. said
81 put my heel through a win
dow. wriggled through and
called back to the women to
throw out the children, but they
didn't"
Evening star., 1954-05-22
Gas Station Here Robbed
Of S213 al Gunpoinf

! ADistrict service station opera
tor last night was robbed Of $213
by two men, one Of whom was
armed with a revolver.
Donald Allen, owner of a serv-
Ice station at 4027 Sixteenth
street NV, said two men en-
tered his station about 10:30 pm.
They forced him to lie on the
floor after taking the money from
his pockets then fed on foot.
Police broadcast q lookout for
two men between Is and 80 years
old. One was wearing a khaki
jacket and fatigue type hat, the
other blond -haired, was wearing
. light sports jacket and light
trousers.
Evening star., 1954-05-22
South Korea Offers
Plan at Geneva for
Reuniting Country
Red Rejection Viewed
As Sure Because of
Election Conditions
BY the Associoied Press

GENEVA, May 22.-South
Korea finally agreed today to
elections throughout the divided
Korean peninsula, but laid down
conditions which the Commu-
nists are sure to reject.
In a speech before the 49,
nation conference on Korean
peace, South Korean Foreign
Minister Pyun Yung-tai outlined
a 14-point plan for the unifica-
ton of his country and the Com
nist-controlled porth.
At least two OF the conditions
he set forth for the all-Korean
elections were expected to be Bit
terly opposed by the Commu-
niStS.
u. N. Supervision.
One of these was that any
elections must be carried out un-
der United Nations supervision
and that the U. N. must certify
the election results. The Com
munists have ruled out any U.
N. role in Korean peace plans.
Another is that all Chinese Com
munist troops must be with
drawn from North Korea at
least one month before the elec-
tions, but that some U. N. forces
should remain in Korea until a
unified government achieves ef-
fective control over the entire
peninsula.
Mr.. Pyun called for an agree
ment that "the integrity and in
dependence of the unified, in
dependent and democratic Korea
shall be guaranteed by the
United Nations"
Another provision of the South
Korean plan would assure con-
troll of the unified country by
the South Koreans. The plan
proposed that representation in
the all-Korean Legislature shall
be in direct proportion to the
population of the entire Korea. F"
The population of South Korea
at present is about 20 million
and that of North Korea 4 mil
lion.
Mr.. Pyun rejected the earlier
proposal of North Korean For
eign Minister Nam II calling for
Communist-style elections to be
carried out by an all-Korean
commission on which North and
South Korea would have equal
representation.
Reds Oppose U. N. Rule.
Red China's Chou En-lai pro-
posed creation of a neutral ma
tionS supervisory commission to
assist the all-Korean commission
on elections, but said the United
Nations must have no part in
any settlement because it was a
belligerent in Korea.
This was similar to Communist
proposals for Indo- China, which
were received coolly by the
Western powers.
Mr.. Chou also repeated Com
munist demands that all foreign
troops. including those of the
United Nations, must be with
drawn from Korea before any
elections could be held. This
condition clashed head-on with
that of Mr.. Pyun.
Mr.. Chou said the composition
of the proposed neutral nations
(See GENEVA, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1954-05-22

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plosion occurred Wednesday,
killing a civilian and q soldier
and injuring three other SOL
dierS.
The saboteurs fought a gun
battle with Federal troops, he
said, and then fed into the hills
near the Honduran border. The
arms shipment, moving to
Guatemala City from Puerto
BarrioS on the east coast, was
unharmed, he said.
U. S. Voices Concern.
CThe United States State
Department, voicing concern
over increasing Red influence
in Guatemala's leftist Govern
ment, notified other Latin
American countries last Mon
day that the Swedish ship
Alphelm was unloading a ship
ment of arms from Communist
Poland at Puerto Barrios.
Some Washington officials eSti-
mated the value of the arms at
$40 million. The State De-
partment said they were loaded
at Stettin, a former German
port now in Poland0
Mr.. Charnaud said he believed
Guatemalan political refugees
in neighboring Honduras took
part in the plot. The explosion.
at am, was about 2 miles
from the border.
The gang placed about 80 l.
pound charges, but only two
went off.
Called No Business of u. S.
The Foreign Ministry issued q
communique yesterday accusing
the United States Of spreading
malicious and unjustified" re-
ports about arms purchases from
the Communists.
The statement denied Guate-
mala had received any guns made
in Russia or Poland and added
that it was no concern of the
United States if it had.
The foreign ministry charged
that certain circles" in the
United States were encouraging
"rebellious Guatemalan exiles
who openly have been preparing
armed aggression against their
own country with an abundance
of money and arms whose origin
is perfectly well known"
In Washington, observers
pointed out that, although
Guatemala had denied receiving
arms made in Russia or Poland.
she had not denied getting them
from other Iron Curtain coun-
tries. Communist Czechoslovakia,
for instance, is a major arsenal
of Eastern Europe.
Evening star., 1954-05-22
Wondering About Trade?

Why did President Eisenhower have to give up
last week the hopeof relaxing foreign trade restrc
tions in this session of Congress?
The Star asked Veteran Reporter Joseph A. Fox
for the answer. He found it in narrow strip of land
on the Ohio-West Virginia border. Here, side by
side are two communities of which depends for
its life on tariff protection; the other, foreign
trade.
Mr.. Fox's revealing study of the human side OF
the trade story will show you what Congress really
is up against in tackng the trade problem Read it
starting tomorrow in
g)e Sunday Sfaf
Evening star., 1954-05-22
Byrd Demands Cole
Identity 'Profiteers'
In Housing Loans
critieizes U. S. offieioIs
As Being UnubIe to
Supply Cost Figures

Senator Byrd, Democrat, Of
Virginia. today called on Housing
Administrator Albert M. Cole to
identify publicly borrowers who
proflted on excessive" Govern
rnent-insured loans which are
now the basis for higher rentals
and prices"
AS chairman of the Joint
House Senate I, Committee on
Non Essential Federal Expendi-
lures. Senator Byrd also criti-
cized the Federal housing agen-
cies for being unable to furnish
the committee with figures on
the actual cost Of projects in
sured by the Government.
In a letter to Mr.. Cole, Sena-
tor Byrd wrote:
II am replying to that part
of your letter which admits
that the Federal Housing Ad-
ministration has not insured
loans on the basis of cost and,
In fact, has no records as to the
cost of the projects for which
it insured loans under its nu-
merous mortgage programs to-
falling SIG billion now outstand-
ing.
ITO me it is q shocking situa-
ton that what is supposed to be
a responsible agency Of the
Government Of the United States
should commit the faith and
credit of the people Of the Ma
ton to the insurance Of mort
gage loans totaling billions Of
dollars without even keeping a
record Of the cost Of the prop
critics."
Data From Revenue Office.
Senator Byrd said Mr.. Cole
admitted in his letter to the
Senator on May II that the
principal information he ) has
regarding the actual cost Of large
apartment projects insured by
the Government was obtained
from the Internal Revenue SefV-
ice. Mr.. Cole advised the SEN
ator he was precluded by law
from making that information
available.
Mr.. Cole also had stated in his
letter that information relating
to costs. profits and Irregular
tiles should be exposed to public
opinion. Mr.. Cole said he intends
to do that as quickly as 1t can
be done without either pref
udicing the prosecution Of
culpable individuals or subject
ing the innocent to unfair in
nuendos. This will include spe-
officially how and why loans
(See HOUSING. Page A-3)
Evening star., 1954-05-22
By J. A. oleory

menQaCl0n 10 lower Cne V0Clng
age to 18 by constitutional
amendment is in a pigeonhole
today for the remainder Of this
Congress.
It failed in the Senate yester-
day to muster the two-thirdS
Senate Roll Coll on Voting 10
Amendment. Pose A-3
required for constitutional
amendment, even though q ma
jority supported it. The vote was
"a to "a.
Similar resolutions have been
introduced In the House. but in
that branch, q Judiciary subcom-
mittee has not even held hear
ings, which means there will
hardly be time to bring it to a
vote again this year.
Southern Democrats led the
fight against the amendment.
based mainly on the States
Rights argument. It was the
second setback for the admin
istration in recent weeks.
Changes in the Taft-Hartley la
Dor law recommended by the
President were sent back to COM
mittee.
Russell Leads Opposition.
Although his own State is the
only one that has lowered the
voting age from 21 to 18, Senator
Russell of Georgia vigorously
denounced the effort to require
the other AZ States to make the
change.
Senator Russell said 36 of the
States have refused to adopt the
18-year voting age and that the
proposed change in the Consti-
tuition was an effort to force them
to do so. Il
Senate r Republican leader
Knowland led the fight for the
amendment and predicted that
a future Congress will submit it
to the States for ratification. r
Supporters Of the amendment
said it is difficult to sustain the
contention that 18-year -olds lack
the maturity to vote when they
are plotting jet airplanes and
fighting in foxholes for their
country.
Democrats for Plan.
Answering this argument, SEN
ator Russell said the 18-year
voting age would discriminate
against boys of II who volunteer
Evening star., 1954-05-22
Hamburg Troins crosh

HAMBURG, Germany, May ~
R.-Eighty-eight persons were
injured today when three SUBJ
way trains jammed with $500
passengers collided in a Ham,
burg station during the morning
rush hour. All were travelling
at low speed. and officials cred
tied this with having averted q
major disaster. A defective sig
nal was blamed.
Evening star., 1954-05-22
Action by U. n.
To Be Asked in
Southeast Asia
PIeo for Observers
: To Set Off Debute
In Organization
"a N
By Jones {. Roper

Pro-WeStern powers soon Will
ask the United Nations to send
observers to Southeast Asia,
diplomatic sources said today.
This could touch off a full
debate in the U. N. Security
Council and General Assembly
over the Communist threat to
Indo- China and the rest of
Southeast Asia.
Pressure for U. N. action came
from two quarters:
/. Thailand, with United
States backing, was reported
ready now to ask the u. N. to
send observers to Thailand so
they could report on any Red
invasion.
2. The Indo- Chinese states of
Laos and Cambodia. with French
backing, were reported eager to
request the presence of U. N.
obServers-the request to go out
as soon as the West becomes
convinced that the Geneva con-
ference can not persuade Com
muniStS now in Laos and Cam
bodia to withdraw.
Observers Would Report.
The U. N. observers would re-
port on the turmoil in the areas
to which they would be assigned.
If the u N. representatives
blamed international commu-
nism. this would be the moral
sanction" which Secretary of
States Dulles says is necessary
before the United States can
intervene in Southeast Asia.
Some sources reported that
Great Britain was ready to back
an appeal to U. N. A British
official, however, said U. N. de-
bate at Geneva could harm the
already tangled diplomatic
scene.
If Geneva fails, however, Great
Britain will have an open mind
on what the West should do.
Regardless of whether Thai
land or Laos and Cambodia spon-
sor the appeal to U. NJ. the first
request probably would 60 to
the U. N. Security Council. Rus
STA presumably would veto any
action.
Veto Might Not Prevail.
But the U. N. General Assem-
bly-or the U. N. Little Assem-
bly," which sits the year-round-
then could act by majority vote.
The assembly could send out
observers and receive reports
which would publicize any Com
mupist aggression. This is the
technique the Western powers
employed when Reds threatened
Greece.
American officials wanted i'm
mediate action. France was un-
derstood to favor an appeal the
instant Geneva begged down. The
British appeared to be moving
more slowly, but could be ex-
pected to go along with their
ma ior allies in a crisis.
French sympathy for an appeal
to U. N. marked switch in posi-
tion. In the past, France has op-
posed letting the Indo- Chinese
problem go to U. N. The French
didn't even want foreign troops
AS Communist victories have
piled up. however, the French
have asked for direct United
States help and now seem ready
to internationalize the war even
through the U. N.
Evening star., 1954-05-22
Mexican Governor Ousted

MEXICO CITY, May % (R.-
Gov. Alexandra Gomez Maganda
of the State of Guerrero was
ousted yesterday at the request
of President Ruiz Confines, who
charged the governor devoted
too little time to his public du-
ties. was absent too much from
the state, showed favoritism and
misconduct.
Evening star., 1954-05-22
Fireworks BIust Kills Four

RIO DE JANEIRO. Brazil.
May % @.-Four persons were
killed and IL gravely injured
yesterday by an explosion in a
secret fireworks factory. in the
suburb Of Caxias. The blast
was believed caused by a care
less smoker.