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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-09
Today
In
Congress

Coffee - A Senate Banking
subcommittee threatens to SUBJ
poena the names of big coffee
traders and spectators on the
New York Coffee Exchange UNI
less exchange officials and bro
kers supply them voluntarily.
The Senators are trying to find
out whether speculation is re-
sponsible for the high price of
coffee.
PrOsperity-A panel Of eco
nomic experts presents a gener-
ally optimistic picture of con-
sumner spending in 1854 to the
Senate-House Economic Com
mittee.
CCC-Senate and House agen-
daS both list a $68l million COM
promise measure for the Com
modify Credit Corp, mostly for
farm price support costs.
WetbackS - The AFL Sec
onds CLIO opposition to a pro-
posal before the House Agricul-
ture Committee, that would al
low recruiting of Mexicans for
work on American farm S
whether or not Mexico approves.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-09
High Court Blasts
Illegal Evidence, bui
Upho|ds Conviction
By Robert K. Welsh

State court use of illegally OBJ
tanned evidence may eventually
run into a complete legal knock
out. judging from the hardest
blow yet delivered by the Su-
preme Court.
In 5-4 split the tribunal yes
terday upheld the conviction of
a California gambler, who after
paying the Federal gambling tax,
was arrested on the basis of evil
dence obtained through a micro
phone planted in his home.
But the justices were unani-
nous in denouncing what sew
eral of them described as "al-
most incredible" methods used
by Long Beach Calf. police in
getting the evidence. Justice
Jackson, who wrote the majority
opinion. said he and Chief
Justice Warren believed the
record of the case should be
sent to Attorney General Brown
ell to determine whether the
mans civil rights were violated.
The Justice Department an
nounced later that Assistant At
torney General Warren Olney
III. has asked the FBI to make a
complete investigation.
Before receSsing until March
8. the Supreme Court also:
I. Refused to review the per-
jury conviction of William w.
Remington, 35-year-old former
Commerce Department econo-
mist. Remington is serving o
three-year term in Lewis
burg (Pa.) Federal Prison.
2. Ruled unanimously that
the State of Washington cannot
legally levy its business and oc-
cupation tax on the General
Electric Co. for operations at an
atomic energy plant at Rich
land. Wash.
3. Overturned a decision by a
three-judge Federal court in
Mississippi that the Republican
Party of Mississippi" a group
made up mostly of Negro Repub-
licans. must be registered along
with the predominently white
mississippi Republican Party"
Perry w. Howard. ST., Washing
ton attorney who is Republican
Ma tional Committeeman for
Mississippi, was one of the Re
publican Party of Mississippi"
leaders who brought the court
action.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-09
Three Industrial Home
Fuqitives Recaptured

Three teen-aged boys escaped
from the detention hall Of the
Industrial Home School yester-
day by kicking a hole in a plas-
ter wall. They were recaptured
last night at the home of one
Of the boys.
Police said the trio. two 49,
year-olds and a 14-year-old, en-
larged a small hole in the wall
by kicking at it, then crawled
through.
In another report police said
a 12-year-old colored boy being
held at the receiving home yes
terday admitted six bicycle
theftS which occurred during De-
cember. The youth said he took
the bikes for joy-riding and
then abandoned them.
A 13-year-old colored boy was
arrested yesterday and charged
with slashing the top Of q con-
vertible auto Sunday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-09
Bodenheim Ex-Wife
And Ben Hecht Help,
To Bury Slain Writer
sy The As.ee,o.sd Press

NEW. YORK. Feb. 9.-An old
friend and a former wife today
arranged for the burial Of Max
well Bodenheim. slain writer
who flouriShed as a poet and
novelist in the 1920s and then
floundered in drink and poverty.
Author Ben Hecht yesterday
offered to pay expenses for Mr..
Bodenheim's funeral.
The dead mans first wife,
Minna, last night arranged for
him to be buried in a family
plot at Cedar Park Cemetery,
near Oradell. N. j.
Funeral services will be held
at 2:15 pm. tomorrow at River
side Memorial Chapel here.
No one has claimed the body
of Mr.. Bodenheim's third wife.
the former Ruth Pagan, who
also was found slain.
Police Search Widens.
Meanwhile, New York police
pressed their hunt for the STAY
er or slayers and alerted cities
from here to Miami, Fla, to be
on the watch for Harold Vein
berg, IS.
A police bulletin yesterday said
Weinberg, a faSt-talker and an
apparent ne'er-do-well with a
police record as a vagrant and
thief, was wanted for question
ing in the double murder.
The bodies of the Bodenheims
were found Sunday in a $5-a-
week furnished room rented by
Weinberg, who had been wash
ing dishes in Greenwich Village
restaurants.
Weinberg, police indicated, ap-
parently had given the Boden-
helms a roof a few days ago to
spare them from sleeping in
Railways and Subways.
Yesterday a truck driver in
Charlottesville, Va. reported Civ
ing a lift to a man who gave
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-09
Objection Blocks
Senate Action Again
On D. E. Home Rule

The Senate again yesterday
deferred action on the Washing
ton home rule bill sponsored by
Chairman Case of the Senate
District Committee and 81 other
members of the Senate.
The measure was reached on
q call of the Senate's consent
calendar. but there was an OBJ
lection.
This was voiced by Senator
Gore, Democrat, of Tennessee,
his party's watch dog on the
consent calendar. He had notice
of objections by Senator Johns
ton, Democrat. of South Carolina.
The Senate twice, in recent
years, has approved Washington
home rule bills, which died in
the House. District Chairman
Case is waiting an appropriate
time when the bill for an elected
form of city government can be
brought up for argument and
action not dependent on unani-
nous consent.
The Senate yesterday also
passed over two other bills. One
would allow the Potomac Electric
Power Co. to build an overpaSs
over Kenilworth avenue NE. to
assure coal deliveries to its Ben
ming plant after Kenilworth ave-
nue. is converted into a limited
access highway.
Acting at the request of Chair
man Case, Senator Morse, indie
pendent, of Oregon, got unani-
NOUS consent to put action over
to the next call of the consent
calendar.
Senate action on bill to per-
nit the District to modernize it's
ancient corporation law again
was blocked by standing objec-
tons by Delaware Senators Will
liams. Republican, and Frear.
Democrat.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-09

Kaufman, president of the Fed
Grafton of Citizens Associations.
gave the city heads a rundown
on an alternate $4.5 million tax
increase proposal under study
by eight citizen groups.
The Commissioners $4.5 mil
lion increase proposal would
raise taxes on beer. liquor. per-
sonal income, cigarettes. insur-
ance companies, bus lines and
communications.
The alternate program studied
by the eight citizen groups would
raise taxes on individual income,
transient hotel rooms, banks,
building and loan associations,
corporations and unincorporated
businesses. None of the eight
groups is committed to this plan.
Meet Again Today.
Representatives of the eight
organizations were to meet at 2
pm. today in Mr.. Kaufmann's
Office to report on reactions of
each group.
One of them, the District
League of Women Voters, re-
affirmed support for the Com
missioner's original tax plan in
a statement today.
Mrs. John F. Latimer, league
president said her group had
carefully considered the original
tax plan. and noted that no fur
Their policy on tax matters could
be taken without discussion by
the entire membership. She
added, however, that the league
is opposed strongly to extension
OF the sales tax.
The possibility of sales tax ex-
tension, as well as increases in
real estate revenues. are among
those in which subcommittee
members have expressed interest
and asked for revenue estimates.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-09
Mrs. Luce Denies Plan
To Resign as Envoy
BY the Assoeiosed Press

ROME, Feb. 9.-Clare Boothe
Luce denied today that she plans
to resign as United States Am
bassador to Italy but said she
plans to return to the United
States in the late spring or sum-
mer to continue the vacation in
terrupted by the current Italian
political crisis.
Despite her emphatic state
ment. however, some friends of
the ambassador still believed
she might change her mind by
early fall.
Replying to new press reports
in the United States that she
was about to resign, Mrs. Luce
said in a written statement:
Every few weeks since my
arrival almost a year ago as am
bassador to Italy. reports have
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-09
Ice Cream Makers
Now Making Use
OF Atomic Enerqy
By the Associofed Press

Atomic energy is helping man
ufacturers control the amount
OF air in your ice cream.
This new peacetime use for
atomic energy, officials of the
Atomic Energy Commission said
in an interview today, is being
employed by a number of manu-
facturers because it is quicker
and more accurate than previous
methods.
Certain radioactive materials.
they said, are being used as
density gauges" to measure the
amount of air absorbed in the
ice cream during manufacture.
A radiation source is set up on
one side Of the ice cream pro-
duction line, and a detection
meter on the other side.
This radiation has no effect
on the ice cream" one Govern
ment scientist said. Its some
thing like getting an X-ray in
the dentists Office. The X-ray
doesn't hurt your teeth and it
doesn't hurt YOU"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-09
VWien Leigh Hurt in Fall

LONDON, Feb 8 (P.-ActresS
Vivien Leigh fell and broke her
left wrist five minutes after the
curtain went up last night on
her current hit play, THE Sleep
ing Prince" She played the
show through and then went to
hospital where x-rays showed
she had fractured two bones.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-09
Capitol Hill Farley to AndIyze
New Sources for.Works Funds

The District Commissioners
and a joint House-Senate sub
committee this afternoon were
to resume a search for the most
desirable tax increases to help
finance the city's $305 million
public works program.
The 2 pm. closed door session
is expected to bring a frank
! across-the-t table review of the
city'S entire tax structure.
The Commissioners proposals
to raise about $40 million in local
revenues, including $4.5 million
in local tax increases financed
through the general fund, al
ready have been studied by the
subcommittee. In addition. the
HouSe-Senate members will have
revenue estimates for a number
of alternative tax-boost posi-
bilities they have suggested.
Possibilities Reviewed.
All of these possibilities were
reviewed by city officials yester-
day at a meeting attended by
members of the Citizens Public
Works Committee. The citizens
group. headed by John A. Reilly.
Second National Bank president,
worked closely with the city
heads in mapping their original
tax plan. and strongly backed it.
Presumably. viewer, the
group also informally considered
alternative tax, increases. in the
event there must be some SUBJ
stitutions in the original plan.
Commissioner Samuel Spencer
declined to discuss details of
the meeting, explaining that it
was in preparation for the Cap
itol Hill session today.
At another District Building
meeting yesterday. Joseph A.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-09

his name as Weinberg. The driv-
er said his description fitted that
Of the Scar-faced dishwasher.
New York police surmised
that Weinberg. who was said to
have been seen here last on
Saturday night. about the time
the Bodenheims were slain. may
be heading for Florida.
There were reports that Vein
berg had shown some attention
toward the 35-year-old Mrs.
Bodenheim despite objections by
the 58-year-old poet.
Mr.. Bodenheim was shot in the
chest with a 90 caliber weapon.
His wife was stabbed repeatedly
in the back and was beaten be-
yond recognition.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-09
Safe Robbery Case
Deferred to Feb. 1o

Cases of two men charged
with HOUSEKEEPING in the $2.700
safe job at the National Asso-
citation of Real Estate Boards.
1897 K street NV, early Satur-
day were continued to February
10 after an appearance in Mu-
nicipal Court yesterday.
The men are James c. Bum
gardner, 80, of the 1000 block
of Kansas avenue NV. and
Donald E Agee. 26. of the 1900
block of Massachusetts avenue
Sc. Judge Andrew j: Howard.
jr.. set bond for the men at
$4,000 each.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-09

Charles H. GOren, Worlds Number One Bridge Player,
Says: I've been asked countless times-how do
teach bridge at my Schools? BaSicaly by letting you
play-hand after hand, under the guidance of the
bridge experts my highytrained staff. You learn
favorite openings and plays; you "kibitz" hands
played by more advanced players-you enjoy our
minded people, who realize the personal satisfaction
and the social Importance of playing bridge well.
Judging from the experiences Of hundreds of my
students I'm confident that you'll be amazed by your
progress after just few low cost lessons"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-09

appeared in the European and
American press saying I in
tended to resign-for reasons of
health or to take a State De-
partment job or a cabinet job
or another diplomatic post or
for another reason rumormong-
ers invent which then catches
the attention of the press.
Il expect these reports will
continue to appear with mo-
notonous regularity. They are
of course all false"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-09
Use for Toothposte Tubes

Caches Of empty gasoline tins
and empty toothpaste tubes have
been used successfully to meas
ure atomic explosions by Brit
aims Sir William Penney.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1954-09-22
Eisenhower Appeals to
Iron Curtain Countries
To Join in Peace Prayers

DENVER, R-President Eisen-
hover appealed Tuesday to the
people of Russia and other iron
curtain countries to join Ameri-
cans Wednesday in day of pray
err for world peace as 1.-The true
cure" for war-breeding tensions.
In a message beamed to the
Soviet Union and it's satellites
over the powerful radio facilities
of the Voice of America, the
President said:
MAY the world be ringed with
an act of faith so strong as to
annihilate the cruel, artificial bar
riers erected by little men be-
tween the people who seek peace
on earth through the divine
spirit"
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1954-09-22
Man Finds His World War
Hat Among Pageant Costumes

LAWRENCE, Kan, R = City
Clerk Harold Fisher was issued
uniform for his role in the "World
War L" scene of the Lawrence
Centennial Pageant.
The old style campaign hat fit
ted perfectly. Inside it Fisher
found the initials he placed in a
Army hat issued to him in 1918.
Fisher doesn't know how the
hat got into the costume depart
ment of the John B. Rogers Co.
that is staging the pageant, but
he is sure it is his old hat.
"The initials are exactly as I
put them there he said.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1954-09-22
Nationalist Planes Sink
5 Communist GunbOats
IN Goth Day of Raids

TAIPEH, Formosa, R-Nation-
alist warplanes today sank five
Communist gunboats in the Goth
straight day of raids on the Red
China coast, the defense ministry
reported.
1t was the biggest bag of gun
boats claimed since hostilities
broke out in the Amoy-Quemoy
area Sept. 3. A communicate said
one big motorized junk also was
destroyed and five other smaller
junks were damaged.
The air strike was made at Red
shipping concentrations in Chaun
chow Bay, 25 miles northeast of
Annoy. 1t was the second straight
day of air blows there. The Ma
tionalists said they set fire to a
big junk the day before.
AS the Nationalist published
their claims, the commander OF
the us. 7th Fleet arrived on For
moSa.
us. officials said the visit of
Vice Adm. Alfred M. Pride, whose
fleet is charged with protecting
Formosa from invasion, was rou-
tine.
They dismissed as unfounded
rumors that Pride flew to Que
moy, Nationalist outpost island
off the China coast, shortly after
his arrival. They also denied ru-
more that fleet of us. carriers,
cruisers and destroyers had sailed
past the north Formosan port of
Keeling in a show of strength.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1954-09-22
8 Parachute to Safety
From Air Force Plane;
Crash Starts Forest Fire

SAN BERNARDINO, Calf, R
One man died in the fiery crash
of an Air Force C-82 cargo plane
in the San Bernardino mountains
last night. Eight men parachuted
and were rescued.
Some of the survivors were not
located in the rugged mountains
until nearly IL hours after the
crash. Some had suffered bruises
and cuts but none was seriously
hurt.
The crash at dusk touched off
forest fire which blazed out of
control for several hours. Crew.
men told rescuers there was a fire
aboard the aircraft before the
crash.
Three survivors were located
last night and three more men
were picked up early today.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1954-09-22
Streamliner Flows Into
Loaded Gravel Truck

NATION, ILL.,, R-One per-
son was killed and % others were
injured Monday when New
York Central streamliner plowed
into a truck at a crossing and
went off the tracks.
The NYC's diesel powered
Southwestern Limited, bound for
New York with an estimated 95
passengers, struck the truck and
the second unit of its diesel engine
was rerailed. Nine cars following
it careened from the tracks.
Rescue crews attributed the
relatively small number of injur-
les to the fact that the derailed
cars did not splinter.
Killed in the collision was Cary
Bryant, "a, of NATION, driver of
the gravel-laden truck.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1954-09-22
9th Circuit Court Reverses
EmbeZZlement Conviction
Of Alaska Attorney

SAN FRANCISCO, lR = The
US. Ninth Circuit Court yester-
day reversed the conviction of an
Alaskan attorney who had been
sentenced to eight years imprison-
ment in Fairbanks on charges of
embezzling $3.50 from an estate
The attorney, C. P. Coughlan
was accused of converting the
money from the estate of Ray
mond Silba for his own use. He
was employed by the administra-
tor of the estate.
The court held that the prosecu-
ton did not prove the indictment
charge that the embezzlement
was made by person acting
under power Of attorney. The
court said:
1--WE think the offense charged
against Coughlan comes under
misdemeanor provisions and not
under the agent provision Great
ing a felony"
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1954-09-22
Is Civil Air Patrol Chaplains
Praise The Lord and Parachute
To Safety From Burning Plane

NEWHALL, Calf, R-Praying
as they parachuted in shirtsleeves,
Is chaplains landed safely min
utes before their disabled Air
Force Gas plane crashed and
burned Monday. The three crew.
men also bailed out successfully.
"You can be sure there was
plenty of praying going on" said
the Rev. LertiS r. Elicit of Lawn
dale, Calf, Church of Christ, who
is an Air Force reserve colonel.
"The Lord was with us in many
ways, even to the fact that the
fire in one engine was on the
right side of the plane and the
door through which we jumped
was on the left" said the Rev.
Bertil Won Norman Of the West
Hollywood Presbyterian Church.
The group of Civil Air Patrol
chaplains from Southern Califor-
MIA left Burbank in the Cas-,
bound for a regional CAP chap
lains' conference at Sacramento.
The chaplains and crew were
wearing back parachutes and had
been briefed before take-off but
none of the ministers had ever
jumped before.
Minutes after the departure,
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1954-09-22
Steamer Grounds, Sinks
Off Arctic Coast;
2O3 Survive, | Dies

OSLO, Norway, lR = A little
Norwegian coastal steamer ran
aground at full speed in the
Arctic waters of the Lofoten Is
lands before dawn today and =
after all but one Of the 203 per-
sons aboard had reached life
boats-shuddered and sank.
A strong blast, apparently a
boiler explosion, was heard by the
survivors as they roWed in the
darkness across a calm sea from
the stricken ship, the 1,920-ton
Nordstjernan to a nearby island.
The ship, which went down in
the Strait of Raftsund was carry
ing 1877 passengers and 46 crew
members. Most of the passengers
were sleeping in their cabins
when the shoals caved in the
hull. Awakened by the fire and
alarm signals, they streamed on
deck. There was no panic.
The cause of the grounding was
not ascertained, but the night was
very dark and currents in the
Strait may have forced the ship
off course.
The climate of the Lofoten Is
lands is mild, though they lie in
the North Sea entirely within the
Arctic Circle.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1954-09-22

smoke began trailing from the
Cas-. Vibration was felt in the
ship, then the right engine caught
fire. The pilot, Capt. Wilson sent
a MAY Day" distress call by
radio.
Then as the other two of the
crew, 1t. Earl w. Meredith and
Sgt. Lloyd Plew, carried the
pilots instructions to the chap
lains to bail out at about 5000
feet, the right engine fell away.
Rev. Won Norman, a CAP major,
was credited by his colleagues
with calm heroism as he helped
the chaplains adjust their 'chutes
and shepherded them out the
door, one by one. He was the last
chaplain to bail out. The crew
followed, with Capt. Wilson the
last to jump when the ship was
probably no more than 1000 feet
up just west of the Los Angeles
Police Rehabilitation Farm for
alcoholics at nearby Saugus.
The plane crashed and burned
on the farm, only rs feet from
where the nearest inmates were
working.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1954-09-22
Radioactive Rain Falls
On Northern Japan

TOKYO, R- Radioactive ram,
contaminated by recent Russian
a-bomb tests, fell Saturday in
northern Japan, the newspaper
Asahi said Tuesday. The radio
activity was far below the danger
level
The paper quoted Prof. Hiro-
nobu Watanabe of Nigata Univer-
sity as saying the rain showed
more radioactivity than any test
ed so far in northern Japan.
Russia announced last week
that it had completed new series
of A-bomb tests.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1954-09-22
As Passengers and S Crewmen
ALI Escape Uninjured From
Crash of 4-Engine Transport

STANSTED, England, R - A
four engine transport with As
British soldiers and crew of 5
aboard crashed and caught fire ON
takeoff today. Everyone scramble
ed out safely with only a second
or two to spare.
The aircraft was privately op-
Grated transport under charter to
the War Office. The troops were
enroute to the Suez Canal Zone.