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Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1954-12-01
Denmark News

Gyldenda Of Copenhagen has
just published the Danish Com
poser's Carl Nelson's Letters"
The Danish grain harvest this
year was 100000 tons compared
with ABB 900 tons in 1853
The blind Danish singer and
organist, Enoch Larsen, aecomp-
anied by his blind wife, is having
a successful tour in Danish Am
erican communities and in Can
ada. Last week he was in San
Francisco and Solvang, Calf.
An exhibition of the best paint
ings and drawings by the late
Storm Petersen will be held in
Flensborg next Easter.
Dr.. William Vogt, author of
Road to Survival, is writing a
new book on the efforts made by
Denmark, Norway and Sweden to
keep population and resources in
approximate balance.
Bertel Thorvaldsen, famous Dan
ish sculptor (1768-1s44) placed in
trust an amount which has grown
to 100000 kroner. 1t is now being
freed and will pass to heirs, of
which most of them live in Italy
and three in the United States.
DR.. Joseph S. Roucek, chairman
of the departments of Sociology
and Political Science at the Uni
versity of Bridgeport, Conn.,, last
week sponsored a program of the
Sociology Colloguim in conjunc-
ton with Our Savior's Ev. Luth-
eran Church of Bridgeport, in
which students and faculty men,
bers participated.
Professor Niels Bohr of Den
mark and Ex-Governor Adlai Ste
venson are scheduled to address
the WeiZmann dinner at the Wal
dorf in New York on December 2.
A party of Danish Psychologists
excavating at the ancient Royal
seat at Lejre in Jutland have
come upon another house from the
Viking Age similar to that at
1relleborg on Zealand.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1954-12-01

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Evening star., 1954-02-18
Federal Action Is Inadequate
To Halt Slump, Congress Told
Present Extent Of Trade Recession
Being Underestimoted, Economist Soys

adviser to the Truman adminis-
tration. II would sugges, that
the net effect of the economic
report president Eisennower's
recent oAe to Congress-. is to
portray this situation as Opera
ton Little Switch whereas in
fact it will prove to he Opera
ton Big Switch.
DR.. Nourse. the first chairman
Of the Presidents Council Of
Economic Advisers. oroke with
the Truman administration in
1949 and generally is regarded
as a conservative.
Alvin H. Hansen, Harvard
economics professor, said the
Presidents program seemed to
be resigned to the fact that
there would be a contraction Of
national productivity this year.
He said the Federal Government
should be looking to the future
if it is to prevent "Spiraling de-
preston"
In order to maintain the
healthy economy. he continued,
the gross national product, the
value of all goods and services
produced, must be expanded
about SIS billion a year in order
to keep pace with population
growth.
The economic hearings were
concluded following a promise
from President Eisenhower that
if the employment situation over
the country doesn't improve in
(See ECONOMIC, Page A-6D
Evening star., 1954-02-18
Job|ess Pay Board
Urges Raise 10 $50
For 22-Week Period
Bill Drufted to Boost
Unemployment Fund
From S400 to $3.50 Peak

The District Unemployment
Compensation Board today urged
raising the weekly amount paid
to unemployed workers to a top
of $50. a so per cent increase.
The board also recommended
that the amounts be paid for as
long as % weeks, instead of the
maximum of 20 now in effect.
The two moves would increase
the top allowance for workers
out of a job to $500. 1t now
stands at S400.
The recommendations were in
cluded in a bill for Congress
drafted by the boards legal ex-
pertS. Details of the measure
were not disclosed. but the two
major provisions were outlined
in the boards annual report,
released today.
S55 Millions IN Reserve.
Raising the benefits has been
supported by labor groups. En-
ployer groups have sought to
have the rates they must pay for
unemployment compensation re-
duced.
Each organization has pointed
to the growing reserve fund held
by the board, which has built UP
gradually since the program
went into effect in 1896 The
latest figure. listed in the annual
report. shows reserve of $55.-
1858 as of December 81.
The reserve increased the last
fiscal year. for example, by S29
million. At the same time. 81 9
million was paid out in benefits.
Sharp Squirt in 1858.
The benefits increased sharp
ly. however, during the last six
months of 1858, so that the total
paid out for the calendar year
was $2.3 million.
The number of new claims
filed for jobless pay went up 30
per cent last year over 1852. The
biggest increase was for Novem-
ber-86 per cent-when 2,805
claims were filed. The largest
number was filed in December,
3,498. an increase of 62 per cent
over the previous December.
Last years $23 million in
benefits was paid to 1927 per-
sons for an average of 10.6 weeks
of unemployment.
THE program thus provided
support to family groups and to
the community economy during
what is considered to be a period
of normal attrition and turnover
in industry" the report stated.
Evening star., 1954-02-18
Virginia House Approves
Invitation 10 Stevenson
SpeeioI Dispoteh TO The Stor

RICHMOND, Va, Feb. 18.-
Adlai Stevenson, who lost Viz
ginia to Gen. Eisenhower in the
1852 election. would be invited
to address a joint session of the
General Assembly, under a reSo-
luton approved by the House of
Delegates today.
The measure was approved by
voice vote without opposition
and was sent to the Senate.
Although Senator Byrd, whose
Democratic organization is in
control of the Legislature, said
he could not support Gov,
Stevenson in 1852. the resolu-
ton today bore the signatures
of 81 of the 100 House members.
The resolution was initiated by
Delegate Ernest Robertson, of
Roanoke County, who. in short
speech on the floor, said there
is a very good chance we can
get this distinguished gentleman
to address U.S."
Among those who declined to
sign the resolution was Demo-
cratic Floor Leader Edmund T.
DeJarnette. who also was OBJ
served as not voting in the voice
vote.
Evening star., 1954-02-18
Thief Steals BARRIERS $4,000
And Life Dream of Retirement
Robbery Doshes Hopes Of Man, u;
For Return to His Native Chincoteoque

service at the Anacostia Bap-
tiSt Church last night. planning
to have another couple in for
coffee and pie when they re-
turned home.
AS they approached their
rented house at 1907 Fairlawn
avenue Sc. the house was ablaze
with lights. the porch light was
on. upstairs lights we're on and
the front door. glass smashed,
was open.
Despair clutching at his heart,
he went to an upstairs closet.
A gray metal strongbox-the
rest of his life in Chincoteague-
was gone from the shopping bag
in which it had been concealed.
1t contained about $4,000 in
cash and $4,000 in Savings
Bonds. some insurance policies
and bank book showing skimpy
deposits.
The thief had either worked
the combination lock on the
strongboX or broken it open, even
before leaving the house.
He left the insurance policies
In the living room.
Evening star., 1954-02-18
Republican Member
OF Commission Quit,
Over Manion FKinq
Mason AssoiIs Custer;
Action Adds Fuel to
Treaty Proposal Fight
Rv ~
BY J. A. O'Leoy

Representative Mason, Repub-
llcan, Of Illinois today resigned
in protest from President Eisen-
hower's Commission on Inter-
Governmental Relations, as the
firing of the groups chairman,
Clarence Manion, put new heat
in the Bricker amendment fight.
DR.. Manion announced yester-
day the administration had given
him his walking papers because
OF their differences over pro-
posed changes in the treaty.
making power. Mr.. Mason. in
quitting the Inter-Governmental
Commission today, blasted the
custer in these words:
Il have come to regard Dean
Manlon as one of the biggest
men in the country, man big
enough and capable enough to
be President of the United
States. For man of that caliber
to be fired from a position of
national Importance by a presi-
Dental assistant because of his
expressed convictions that we
need the Bricker amendment is
nothing short of a national
calamity. Such action smacks of
autocratic dictatorship"
In Helpless Condition.
Mr.. Mason added that the re-
moval of DR.. Manion left the
1nter-G over nmental Commits
sion, which is charged with
studying Federal-State relations,
in the same helpless condition
as a strong man would be with
his head suddenly severed from
his body.
Mr.. Mason. a veteran House
member, is high-ranking men,
Der Of the Ways and Means
Committee.
Almost simultaneously with
Mr.. Mason's announcement
came the following statement by
DR.. Manion:
1T is my earnest hope that
the members of the commission
will stand fast in the work thus
far SO nobly advanced and give
this work every possible mo-
mentum in the interests of the
preservation of constitutional
government.
II sincerely hope that none of
them will resign but on the con-
trary that they will continue to
work as hard as when had the
honor and privilege of working
with them. This same hope goes
for all members of our very ex-
cellent staff, the patriotic men,
bers of our citizen studies COM
mitteeS and the cooperating
State and citizens committees
that are working so hard for the
objectives of the commission in
every State of the Union.
my word to all of the people
Continued on Page A-4. Col. ~
Evening star., 1954-02-18
SchwobIe's Co-PIot Is Named
interested Party to Inquiry

Bley was now an interested party
and as such also was under in
vestigation with respect to the
circumstances of his confession.
Both officers were held cap
tive by the Reds for IA months.
Since their repatriation both
have made television broadcastS
explaining the torture they un-
derwent.
Mai. Bley. a native of Cabool.
Mo, flew more than 80 combat
missions in the South Pacific
in World War II. He holds the
Distinguished Flying Cross and
now is assigned to the Marine
Corps Air Station at Ell Toro.
Calf.
Col. Schwable yesterday as
serted he would sign another
confession under identical cir
cuioctances."
The statement was contained
in a letter he wrote to Gen.
Lemuel C. Shepherd, jr, Marine
Corps commandant, which was
introduced in evidence.
The 24-page document was
written by the 45-year-o -old Ar
lington aviator in response to a
letter from Gen. Shepherd
shortly after he was repatriated
last September.
Repudiates Confession.
Like a previously released tele-
vision broadcast by the colonel,
it vigorously repudiated the con-
fession.
MY decision was made not
upon whether should live or die.
but rather on whether I would
be of greater service to my coun-
try dead or returning. as I have,
to tell of these methods (by the
Communists to extort confess
SionS) and help expose by first
hand testimony one of the great
est hoaxes that any nation has
(See SCHWABLE, Page A-6.)
Evening star., 1954-02-18
Virginia House Rejects
Arlington Sales Tax
BY q stoff Correspondent Of The s.or

RICHMOND, Va, Feb. 18.-
All chances for enacting a local
sales tax law for Arlington ap-
parently we're killed in the House
of Delegates this afternoon when
the idea was turned down by
voice vote.
Less than an hour previously,
the State Senate had approved
an identical Arlington Sales Tax
bill. 35 to S.
The House. after debating an
hour on the bill of Delegate j
Maynard Magruder to give mis-
county of Arlington a referen-
dunn on the sales tax, refused to
advance the measure for final
action tomorrow.
The House action apparently
seals the fate of the Senate-ap-
prove dbill sponsored by Arling-
ton Senator Charles r. FenWick
Evening star., 1954-02-18
Boy Turns on Water;
Buby ScuIded, Dies

The District homicide squad
reported today that a 7-month-
old District Heights (Md.) boy
was pronounced dead on arrival
last night at Providence Hos
pital after being scalded when
his 2-year-old brother turned on
hot water in a bathtub.
The dead child. Wayne l.. Bow :
man OF 2511 Addison road, was
brought to the hospital by his
family, police said.
Evening star., 1954-02-18
New Tax Scale
For Works Plan
Gains Impetus
House D. c. Group
To Act Quickly on
Suggested Increases
By George Beveridee

Chairman Simpson of the
House District Committee today
pledged 100 per cent support"
to a Joint House. Senate SUBJ
committee proposal to finance
the Districts S305 million public
works program, and promised a
full committee meeting on it
at the earliest possible date.
The revenue bill. agreed upon
late yesterday by fiscal subcom-
mittees of the House and Sem
ate District Committees, would
increase the Federal payment by
SO million year, but more than
double the Commissioners pro-
posalS for local tax boosts.
1t calls for District taxpayers
to produce nearly SIS million
more a year in taxes, water and
sewer charges.
New taxes include a scent
raise in the present S2.15-per-
$100 assessed value real estate
tax, new per cent sales
tax on groceries, reduction of the
sales tax exemption on meals
from SIPS to SO cents and a
boost from 2 to 3 per cent in
the sales tax on hotel rooms.
Will Devote Full Day.
Mr. Simpson said he intro
duced the bill originally and I
will support the subcommittee
100 per cent"
He said he would call a full
committee session as soon as
Subcommittee Chairman O'Hara
is ready, and hoped the bill
could be reported in one day.
He said he also planned to de-
vote a full District day" on
the House floor to the bill. The
second and fourth Monday oil
each month are set aside for
District legislation.
District and subcommittee
staff officials met today to in
corporate the new taxes in the
bill They estimated the tech
nical work would take about q
week.
Since the bill is revenue
measure. it must originate in the
House Chairman Case of the
Senate District Committee. vino
also served on the joint subcom-
mittee. said he planned no ac-
ton until the House acts.
Highlights of Bill.
These are highlightS of the
bill. in the form that it will go
to the full House District Com
mittee for action:
l. Left intact the District
Commissioners proposals. for
financing projects through the
city's water, sewer and highway
funds. They call for tax raises
of about S5.5 million and Fed
eral loans of about S7l million.
2. Eliminated $40 million in
proposed interest-bearing Fed
eral loans for the general fund,
which finances such works prof.
ects as schools, welfare institu-
tions and hospitals.
3. Increased the Commission
ers' general fund tax increase
proposals from about S4.5 mill
lion a year to $9.4 million an
nually. This was done by adding
the four new taxes listed above,
eliminating additional taxes
proposed by the city heads on
telephone service and insurance
companies, and adjusting tax
Continued on Page At. Col. IL
Evening star., 1954-02-18
Senator Morse DiscIoses
Franked Envelope Theft

Senator Morse. Independent.
OF Oregon told the Senate today
that some one apparently had
stolen franked envelopes bear
ing his name and was using
them to send out material
exactly opposite to his own
views.
The Oregon Senator said he
had taken the matter up with
Post Office inspectors.
Senator Morse said he intends
Ito urge full prosecution in this
case"
Senator Morse told a reporter
he could not disclose what the
material was because he is CO.
operating with the postal in
veStlgatlOn.
Evening star., 1954-02-18
Picture on Pose AS

Picture on Poqe AS
ment on his native Eastern
Shore. Money was slow as a
youthful farmland and he
turned to barbering. He married,
had nine children. all now grown,
but still managed to save.
Twelve years ago he came to
Washington and opened a barber
shop with his son at 1904 Penn
Sylvania avenue Sc. Washing
ton, he reasoned. was where the
money was.
Retirement and a return to
Chincoteague was just around
the corner-until last night.
Mr.. Gault and his wife Carrie.
81. went to their regular church
Evening star., 1954-02-18

hearings with a general ap-
praisal of the Nations economic
outlook. Three experts were
called in for the final discus
SionS and the hearings ended
with considerably less hopeful
prospects for business than when
they began.
What has happened to pro-
duction in virtually every major
manufacturing industry since
last summer warrants the tech
nical label of recession said
Martin r. Gainsbrugh, chief
economist of the National In
dustrial Conference Board.
g. Were recovery to begin to-
morrow that label would still be
applied"
If I may resort to military
vernacular," said DR.. Edwin G.
Nourse, one-time chief economic
Evening star., 1954-02-18


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fight over enemy lines July 8.
1852. both repudiated the con-
fessions on their return home.
A court of inquiry composed of
three Marine major generals and
a Navy medical admiral has been
hearing testimony regarding the
circumstances of Col. Schwable's
confession for three days.
Bley Takes Stand.
Maj. Bley took the stand as a
witness and was questioned as
to the torture he underwent
while a prisoner of the Chinese
Communists.
I'VE were required to answer
and we evaded answering ques-
tions on varying military infor-
nation" he said. THE question
ing lasted until November when
was given a new interrogation.
After a few days of brain-wash-
ing procedure I had only one
more problem to clear up
Under questioning he said this
problem" concerned germ war
fare.
At that point the court. headed
by Maj. Gen. Henry D: Linscott,
commander of Camp Lejeune.
N. c., took recess. Later the
general announced that Mai.
Evening star., 1954-02-18
East Berlin Protest
Ordered by Reds
Brings Out 10000
RivuI March Slated
In West Zone; Police
Alert to Bor Riotinq

BERLIN, Feb. 18.-ClAe hun
dred and fifty thousand East
Berlin workers marched under
orders of their Communist
bosses today in a monster anti
West demonstration. A rival
silent march" of protest against
Russian tactics in the Big Four
conference is due to start a lit
tie later in West Berlin.
West zone police were on the
alert to prevent Red squads from
provoking rioting. .
The East Zone marchers car
ried banners proclaiming sup
port of Soviet Russia's propos-
ais at the Big Four conference
table and defiance of the West
tern stand. notably the Ameri-
can position.
Rally Staged Amid Snow.
The mammoth parade and
rally on SnoW-covered Unter den
Linden got under way an hour
after the foreign ministers of
Russia, France, the United
States and Great Britain sat
down to their final session.
No disturbances were reported.
Prime Minister Otto Grote-
wohl and other high ranking Of
ficials Of the Soviet puppet re-
gime headed the line Of march.
Among them was the East Ger
man deputy prime minister and
Communist party boss, Walter
Ulbrecht.
Contingents of school children
were in the columns. The rally
broke up after an hour and a
quarter.
Red MPs were stationed at
major intersections of the main
East Berlin street and patrolled
in jeeps out two miles to Stain
Alice. All regular traffic was
blocked hours before the big
East German march got under
way.
Communist union bosses herd
ed the workers from their jobs
to demonstrate their support"
of Soviet Russia. The demon
strators brought along Red
flags and big transparencies
bearing slogans in praise of
Soviet Foreign Minister v. M.
Molotov's peace proposals" at
the conference ending here to-
day and denouncing the Vests
European Defense Community as
a war treaty"
Must Make Up Work.
Before assembling at their
parade route, the workers had
to sign pledges to work nights
or Sundays to make up for lost
time today.
Meanwhile, West Berlin re-
luctantly gave permission for
more than 10000 anti -Commu-
mist trade unionists to stage a
rival protest against Mr.. Molo-
tov's refusal to unity Germany
by a free election.
Fearing Communist squads
would provoke a riot during the
Western march, police counter
manded union instructions to
have the demonstration pass by
the Allied Control Authority
building in the American sector
where the last session of the Big
-Four conference was being held
Instead the police ordered the
Western marchers to confine
themselves to the British sector
proceeding in the opposite direc-
ton from the AGA building.
Evening star., 1954-02-18
Recognize This?
It's Often Seen

WHAT IS IT?-How good is your
observation today? Test it on onother
Recognize This? photograph on poss
A-29.
SEAGolNG TRUCKS-A $50 mil
lion venture pending before the Inter
stote Commerce Commission would
houI troetor- -troilers looded with
freight in ships along the AtIontie
Coost. The story is on poee Aba.
TRADE OFFENSlVE-Writer Tom
Whitney tells todoy about the cur
rent foreign trode offensive Of the
Russions. jealous for yeors Of the in
ternotionoI economic power OF the
United Stotes. See poee Abb.
Evening star., 1954-02-18
Co-ordindted
Transit Plan
Urged for Area
Special Survey
Suggests Transport
Authority Here

A bundle OF literally dozens OF
recommendations to aid mass
transportation in the District
today was handed to the Public
Utilities Commission by its spe-
cial consultant.
The suggestions range from
establishment of a rapid transit
system to the formation of a
"co-ordinated transport author
ity" that would be empowered
to raise revenue bonds for financ-
ing highways. bridges, parking
and transit terminal facilities.
Leslie Williams. a Philadel-
phia consultant retained by the
commission. made the study.
Copies of the report, in no way
binding on the local regulatory
body. were made available today
to the Senate subcommittee in
vestigating mass transit in the
Washington area and to the Dis
trict Commissioners. Mr.. Will
liamS will testify before the SUBJ
committee tomorrow.
His suggested remedies also
include:
l. Shuttle bus service in the
downtown zone at a fat fare
Of. say. 10 cents per ride. Fringe
parking lots would be tied in
with this system.
2. Use of public park thorough
fares - presumably including
those Of Rock Greek Park-fol
bus service during rush hours
3. Reviewing the status ol
staggered employment hour.
with possible view to spreading
the "stagger" period between
and 10 am. for beginning the
work day.
4. More extensive parking ban:
in the downtown area, especially
on public transit streets. Strictel
enforcement of existing parking
and standing laws.
More One-Way Streets.
S. Establishing more one-way
streets. better croSs-town con-
nections with the so-called radia
streets, reducing duplication!
and overlapping" of existing
routes and removing removable
street traffic delays"
6. Speeding the conversion
from rail to bus operations
since buses are able to traveI
more rapidly.
7. Establishing tailor made
fares for regular. express and
special services"
8. Reorganization of the Pub
lie Utilities Commission TO in
clude transit co-ordinator" as
VIC SAICdPCoL, Au1ChCoO dAIS1 Illus
effective way to transit prog
resS in the Washington area"
8. Establishment Of an inde-
pendent Department of Traffic
and Transportation, separate
from the present Highway De-
partment and Vehicles and Traf-
fic Department, to handle
among other things. the facili-
tation of all vehicular and Pc
destrian traffic. with safety. or
all existing and future setreets
-. and other public ways" This
operation would cost about 81
million annually, in Mr.. Will
liams' estimate.
10. Formation of an inter-
i'm metropolitan transportation
study commission" charged with
formulating broad plans anc
(See TRANSIT, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1954-02-18
Red Pundus on Way to U. S.

CALCUTTA. India, Feb 18 (P).
Four rare red pandas from Tibet
are leaving here Saturday for
California. Noel Rosefelt Of
Avalon, Calf, representing a
California zoo, bought them for
$210 each.
Evening star., 1954-02-18
Big 4 Agrees on Korea Talks
And Chance Also for Peace in
|ndo- China If Pei ping Wishes
Dulles Tells of Step;
Session at Geneva
In April Reported
BULLETIN
BULLETIN

BERLIN (R.-Secretary of
State Dulles, in a closing
speech to the Berlin confer
ence, said tonight the Big
Four has reached an agree
ment for a Korean political
conference and, if Communist
China wants it, a chance of
restoring peace in Indo-China.
He also disclosed that I'VE have
agreed to pursue the four
power search for agreement on
reduction of armamentS as
recommended by the United
Nations"