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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-06
Size, 900 Stolen by Banker
Over IS Years, FBI Charges

Montgomery County line--ad-
mitted in q signed statement that
he had taken the money. in
amounts varying from 500 to
$4,000, almost from the time he
started work at the bank. in 1919.
as q clerk. Wolf today is vice
president and cashier.
Mr.. Abbaticchio said Wolf gave
the FBI a complete record Of
the thefts and said he took the
money for general daily living
expenses.
The bank is protected by Fed
eral insurance.
Wolf was quoted as saying he
concealed the shortage by ma
nlpulating bank records. The
shortage was discovered In a
routine inspection by Federal
bank examiners.
Wolf told the FBI he stopped
taking money two years ago. He
has. a wife and a 23-year-old
daughter.
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Red Cross Campaign
Continues Slightly
Ahead Of Last Year

The Red Cross fund drive to-
day continued to run per cent
ahead OF last years campaign,
with $210,181 in gifts and
pledges reported.
This is II per cent of the
Washington area goal Of 81, 463,-
500. Last year at this time, the
drive had reached Is per cent.
The report luncheon in the
Chamber Of Commerce Building
yesterday was dedicated to the
armed forces.
Maj. Gen. e. K. Wright, COM
mander Of the Military District
of Washington, told the volun-
teer workers they should not
worry about the military contrib
uting its fair share.
THE armed forces and the
American Red Cross have stood
side by side for many, many
years." he said. I'VE consider
them one of us; we always sup
port our own"
More Help Needed in Korea.
A message from Postmaster
General Summerfield. chairman
of the Government Division of
the drive, urged solicitors to
stress the Importance of Red
Cross work to soldiers "enforc-
ing an uneasy truce" in Korea.
They need more Red Cross help
now, he said. than they did when
they were occupied with shoot
ing war.
Yesterday, the second report
luncheon, marked the first time
the suburban areas had an
nounced their progress.
Divisions reporting:
Government. with $36.939. or
6 per cent of quota: business,
$73,287 or 10 per cent; residen-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-06
BY the Associated Press

LONDON, Mar. 6.-Hormone
treatments and three years of
plastic surgery are reported by
the Press Association to have
transformed a British World War
II fighter pilot into woman in
what may we'll be the most COM
plete change Of sex in the worlds
medical history
The British news agency said
last night it has documents to
prove Bob Cowell, IS, a former
Royal Air Force lieutenant and
father of two children, is now a
female.
It's account, the source of which
was not given, said Cowell--di-
vorced by his wife in 1852 on a
charge of desertion-is now liv-
ing somewhere on the CONT
nent" as Roberta Elizabeth
Relatives were reported caring
for their daughters, 10 and IL
Father Was Eisenhower Aide.
According to the Press Asso-
citation dispatch:
Cowell came from prominent
family. His father is Maj. Gen
Sir Ernest Cowell, an honorary
surgeon to the late King George
VI. During the World War II
African campaign. the elder Co
well was President Eisenhower's
director Of medical services.
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Scholarships 10 Send
$50 Youths 10 Europe

Three hundred fifty American
teen-agers will go to Europe
this summer on the seasons
program of American Field
Service International Scholar
ships, it was reported yesterday.
Stephen Galatti of New York,
director general Of the organi-
zation also told the international
conference at Dumbarton Oaks
he hopes sufficient funds will DO
available to bring 400 foreign
teen-agerS here in 1886.
Regional chairmen and dele.
gates of the group joined with
American Field Service ambu-
lance corps Of the World Wars
in the conference. About 100
persons attended.
Russell L. Riley. director Of
the International Educational
Exchange Service of the State
Department, called the program
a grass roots" type of under
taking.
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Sy the Assoeiossd Press

PHILADELPHIA, Mar. 6.The
vice president Of q suburban bank
is charged today with embezzling
$4,000. and the FBI says the
thefts date back almost IS years.
j. Harold Wolf, 81, was ar
rested last night on a warrant
charging he had "purloined and
distracted funds" of the Telford
National Bank land made false
entries in the banks records in
the amount of $4,000"
United States Commissioner
Henry P. Carr ordered Wolf held
in $4,000 bail for a further hear
ing Monday. Wolf was detained
in Moyamensing Prison over
night when advised that bail
could not be posted until today.
Ray ]. Abbaticchio. jr.. special
agent in charge Of the FBI Office
here, said Wolf-arrested at his
home in Telford, a borough of
$500 residents on the Bucks
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U.S. Contemplate
Studied in Wa|kout
OF Dock Workers
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK. Mar. 6.-National
Labor Relations Board officials
today studied a possible contempt
action against wildcat longshore
strikers, defying a Federal no.
walkout order.
The strikers. members of the
now independent international
Longshoremen'S AsSociatio n
QLAl, quit work yesterday and
quickly halted loading and I'M
loading operations at about half
Of the ports 159 piers.
LILA President William v. Brad
ley and other union officials said
they would try to get the strikers
back to work.
Latest Round in Fight.
The walkout is the latest phase
in the continuing struggle be-
tween the lila and the Ala
struggle that has brought num-
Der of brief work stoppages to
this port.
Some waterfront observers
sensed in this walkout the long
awaited showdown.
A dispute involving the LILA. on
the one hand, and the ALL In
ternational Brotherhood of Team
sters QBT) and the AFL Inter-
national Longshoremen's Asso-
citation (AFL-ILA). on the other,
resulted Thursday in the NLRB'S
going to Federal Court for an in
junction against lila strikes or
activities interfering with normal
waterfront loading activities.
Unauthorized Walkout.
lila officials called this dis
elimination and said the court
order should have covered the
AFL unions as we'll. The officials
said they had not authorized a
protest walkout, but yesterday
the lila lockers refused to work.
AS the walkout spread yester-
day to piers in Manhattan.
Brooklyn, Staten Island and New
Jersey, some so investigators
from the NLRB and the New
York-New Jersey Waterfront
Commission were reported seek
ing evidence for a possible con-
tempt action.
Among the ships affected by
the walkout yesterday was the
Cunard Lines Queen Elizabeth,
whose passengers carried most of
their own baggage aboard. Mail
was left on the pier.
Two big liners-the French
Liberte and the U. S. Lines
United States-sail today.
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Egyptians 10 Elect
Assembly in July
To Draft Constitution
BY the A.soeietsd Press

CAIRO. Egypt. Mar. 6.-Egyp-
tians are to elect a constituent
assembly in July. This step to-
ward restoring the Nile nations
parliamentary life was an
nounced by the reunited military
regime last night.
It promised also to end local
press censorship Immediately.
except for defense matters. and
to wipe out the martial law in
+stituted when King Farouk was
depoSed and exiled in 1852.
The 25O-member Constituent
Assembly. to draft constitution
and serve as an interim parlia-
ment. will be inaugurated July
%. the second anniversary of the
start of the bloodless coup that
dethroned Farouk.
Elder Statesmen Consulted.
These decisions were reached
by the 12-man revolutionary
council with two of Egypt's elder
statesmen. The elder statesmen
were ex-Premier Ally Maher. ap-
pointed months ago to head a
50-man committee to consider a
new constitution, and Abdel
Razak Sanhoury, president of the
Egyptian State Council (supreme
COURT.
Both President Mohamed Ma
guib. a major general. and
Premier Canal Abdel Nasser. a
lieutenant colonel-central fig
ures in the council shakeup last
week that stirred the nation
attended the meeting at Col.
Nasser's home in suburban He'll
opolis. They appeared on the
best Of terms.
Bowed to Pressure.
The premiership as we'll as the
presidency was Gen. Naguib's I'M
til young officers on the council
stripped him of his titles Feb
ruary Is and made Col. Nasser
Premier and acting President.
Two days later they bowed to
| pressure and restored Gen. Ma
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Order Permits Paper
To Fight Photo Ban

PITTSBURGH. Mar. s (P.-
United States District Judge
Wallace S. Gourley signed an
order yesterday permitting the
Pittsburgh Gazette to join
the court fight against a ban on
picture-taking in the Westmore-
land County Courthouse at
Greensburg. Pa.
The PoSt-Gazette will join the
Greensburg Tribune Review Pub
fishing Co. Monday in seeking a
permanent injunction against
the photo ruling handed down by
the County Court.
On a petition by the Green's
burg newspapers, Judge Gourley
last Tuesday issued a temporary
restraining order permitting pic
lures in the courthouse if the
subject gave written consent.
The United States Third Cir
cult Court of Appeals in Phila-
delphia refused Thursday to set
aside Judge Gourley'S order.
Judges Imposed Ban.
Three judges of Westmoreland
County imposed the ban on pic
ture-taking in the courthouse or
jail in connection with the cur
rent trial of John Wesley Wable.
accused phantom slayer" of the
Pennsylvania Turnpike.
Judge Edward G. Bauer, pre-
siding at the trial, said the for
NAL order was a restatement of
a long-standing policy of the
WeStmoreland County Court.
1--WE do not seek to sensation
alize any trial" said Post
Gazette Publisher Paul Block,
adding:
I'VE are intervening to protect
the important principle of free
dom Of the press, the right of
the people to know what goes on
in court, and the right Of the
defendant to public trial.
Every one in newspaper pub
fishing believes the judge has
the right to control what goes
on in the courtroom during the
trial.
But beyond that we feel there
should be no interference with
the efforts of the press to keep
the people informed"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-06
Comdr. Wilma Jackson
To Head Navy Nurses

Comdr. Wilma Leona Jackson,
a native Of Union, Ohio, has
been selected director of the
Navy Nurse Corps.
The commander, now on duty
at Portsmouth, Va. will succeed
Capt. Winnie Gibson, who will
retire May after "a years
service. Capt. Gibson lives at
COL Nineteenth street NV.
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tial. $2l,9l9, or 10 per cent;
city. $19769 or "a per cent.


city. S19769 or "a per cent.
Alexandria $10,675, or 80 pei
cent; Arlington, $1,9l8. or 4 pei
cent; Fairfax 1852. or per cent;
Montgomery, $2,172, or 4 pei
cent; Prince Georges, $2.861 or
| Z per cent and Prince William
SGT. or 2 per cent.
Tuesday the luncheon will be
held at 1890 pm. in the Cham
Der of Commerce. 1t will be
dedicated to public relations, ~
with executives of local news
papers as the honored guests.
Five different units of the
Navy went over their quota.
The Office of the Chief of
Bureau of Yards and Docks went
1915 per cent over its quota,
Others were:
Office of Chief Of Naval Re-
search. 100 per cent; Bureau of
Medicine and Surgery, 103 per
cent; ONCE Of Administrative
Assistant to the Secretary Of the
Navy. 104 per cent, and the
Office Of Assistant Secretary of
Defense for Applications En-
cheering. lot per cent.
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World Day Of Prayer
Services Attended
By Mrs. Eisenhower

Mrs. Eisenhower joined with
thousands Of District residents
yesterday in special World Day
of Prayer services.
The First Lady attended the
worship at Washington Cathe-
dral with her mother, Mrs. John
S. Doud, and Mrs. George Cor
don Moore, jr., her sister.
The service, without a sermon.
was devoted to readings from the
Scriptures by women of the fed
eration's, Department Of United
Church Women, hymn singing
and prayers. The prayers were
for people "in areas of strife"
for those lin areas of racial ten
sion" and for the United Nations.
1900 Attend Service.
More than 1000 other District
residents and visitors at the
Cathedral service uttered pray
ers for peace and the welfare OF
their fellowmen.
The service here was sponsored
by the Department OF United
Church Women of the Washing
ton Federation of Churches.
The department also spon-
sored an evening worship at
Hamline Methodist Church. Six
tenth and Allison streets NV.
Other Meetings Held.
Among the other World Day Of
Prayer meetings held yesterday
were those at Ascension Episco-
pal Church. Silver Spring, Md.
sponsored by the Silver Spring
Council of Churches, and at
the District Heights Md Pres
byterian Church. Cooperating
churches in the latter were the
Forest Memorial Methodist.
Parkway Baptist and the Dis
trict Heights Presbyterian.
Virginia churches holding
services included Clarendon
First Baptist. Mount Zion Bap-
fist and Falls Church Presby-
terrain.
The World Day of Prayer OBJ
servance was started in 1887.
Today lib foreign countries take
part in the worship, with the
churches following the same
service.
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guib. a popular idol, as their
flgurehead.
The liberalization Of policy
does not mean Egypt is to get a
democratic government as such
a term would be understood in
the United States. Observers view
the decisions as intended both to
reinforce the councils unity and
WOO public support.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-06
Slain Trucker Wife
=
Weeps on Stand IN
Pike Murder Trial
BY the Assoeiussd Press

GREENSBORO. Pa. Mar. g.
Mrs. Elizabeth q. Pitts, whose
husband was slain as he slept in
his parked truck on the Penn
sylvania Turnpike. cried on the
witness stand as she testified at
the murder trial of John Wesley
Wable.
Called by the State to ideh-
tify photographs Of her hus-
bands truck and describe events
prior to his death. Mrs. Pitts last
night buried her face in her
hands and wept as she finished
her testimony.
In the courtroom audience was
her 9-year-old daughter Joyce.
Mrs. Pitts said her husband,
Harry. SO. left their Bowling
Green, Va, home last July IS for
Norfolk. Va, to pick up some
autos which were to be delivered
to CoraopoliS, Pa.
Handyman on Trial.
Wable. 24-year-old handyman
from Ohiopyle. Pa, went on
trial Monday charged with kill
ing Mr.. Pitts July %.
He also Is accused of Staying
another truck driver. Lester B.
Woodward. 80. of Duncannon,
Pa, on the turnpike three days
earlier. He is scheduled to be
tried later in that case.
In his opening address to the
jury of seven men and five
women, Assistant District At
torney John K. Best demanded
death in the electric chair for
Wable. He said the State will
show Wable had the death gun
in his possession the night Mr..
Pitts was killed and that he was
on the turnpike that night.
Discovered Staying.
Among the first witnesses
called as the prosecution began
laying the groundwork Of its
case was Herbert L. Parr of near
Bowling Green. Va, a truck
driver and longtime friend of
Mr.. Pitts.
Mr.. Parr discovered the STAY
ing. He told the jury:
Il ran to the road and tagged
down a f1atbed truck and told
the driver There's a man dead.
get help I didn't go to the
other trailers because I was
afraid of what I'd find there"
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Navy Awards Contract

The Navy has awarded a con-
tract to build two destroyer
escorts to the Defoe Shipbuild-
ing Co., Bay City, Mich. for an
announced price of $13.972,418.
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and France quickly rejected the
idea.
On Friday, the four diplomats
turned to q discussion Of peace for
Austria, Item 3 on the three-part
agenda. But the Kremlin gave
every evidence that it will block
the long-pending treaty. The Reds
say they want to keep their troops
in Austria to prevent a new
anschluss with Germany. Also they
want to keep the Austrians paying
reparations at the present outra-
geous rate. They would be willing
to sign token treaty If their con-
ditions were met But the West
could not hand Moscow the propa-
ganda plum of credit for a peace
without getting genuine peace for
Austria.
The consensus among the CORE
spondents and diplomats in Berlin
was that the Soviet Union hadn't
changed much-not for the better,
at least-since the death of Josef
Stain. The kremlinS new leaders
still want world dominion in re-
turn for world peace. And the
Western world still thinks bowling
to Moscow is much too high a price
to pay, anxious as the West may be
to have an end to this cold war.
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The Republicans

Senator Wayne Morse, the
Oregon Independent who used to
be a Republican once himself,
growled that the G. o. P. attacks
were Just another example of the
big lie," and that the President
himself was party to the cam
paign. However, the Oregonian
said, the Democrats ought to stop
crying foul and take the truth
to the American people
Meanwhile, here and at the grass
roots, Republicans both in and out
of the Presidents executive fam
lily" were making clear their re-
action to their leaders admonition.
. He's absolutely right, said SEN
ator Mccarthy at Dallas, Tex. Then
the Wisconsin legislator went on
to explain the reason he supports
the President: "His record has
been so infinitely better than those
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Big Four

A FTER THREE weeks OF Big
n Four foreign ministers meet
ings in Berlin, the most significant
and probably least surprising out
come so far has been that Soviet
Foreign Minister Molotov has
splintered his spear on the shield
of Anglo French-AmericaE unity.
Mr.. Molotov rode out again last
week, armed with more loaded pro-
poSals on Identification" of Ger
many and security" for Europe
But the Western Big Three turned
them aside summarily. They did
not have to spend much time ex-
planning why. The Molotov pro-
poSalS were warmed-over versions
of previous schemes, and European
and American public opinion saw
through them about as quickly as
did the Western ministers them
selves.
The conferees spent Monday and
Thursday in secret sessions on
Item / of the agenda "a five
power conference including Red
China) without any known con-
elusive results. Tuesday and
Wednesday were devoted to Mr..
Molotov's proposals and the Big
Three's disposals relative to Item
No. 2 Germany and European
security.
Mr.. Molotov had only this to
suggest: NATO should be aban-
doned by the West in favor of
pan-European security system that
would exclude the United States.
without American help, of course,
Western Europe would be easy
prey for the Communists. Britain
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$4,000, an increase of 1893 1000 over
its estimate for the first week in
December. On the other hand,
BIS said unemployment increased
2 million between mid-December
and mid-January. ct issued no
estimate for total unemployment,
explaining that it deals only in
employment figuresD
The arrival at different totals
was laid to different survey meth
DDS by the two agencies. BIS
relies on payroll figures. The
Census Bureau uses a household
sampling system.
Slump Couses Concern
Regardless of the difference in
the people at-work estimates. the
business decline was sufficient to
cause concern to the administra-
ton. AS President Eisenhower told
reporters he thought it possible
for prophets of gloom" to brighten
the country into a recession, De-
troit and Toledo, two major in
duStrial centerS, were designated
distressed areas by the Labor De-
partment. "a distressed area" IS
one in which unemployment Is at
least per cent of it's potential
labor force, thus qualifying the
area for defense contracts to boost
employment)
The addition of Detroit and To-
ledo brought the total number Of
distressed areas to So as against
~ last November and 81 in Janu-
airy. 1858. They included So towns
or cities in 81 States and three in
Puerto Rico. All the continental
areas are east of the Mississippi
except Tacoma, Wash; Albuquer-
que, N. Mex, and Texarkana, Tex
Ark.
A bright spot in the economic
picture was that steel ingot and
casting production was slightly
better in January than in Deem
Der (7,960,000 tons against 1885,
1923 tons) but it still was we'll below
the January, 1858, output of 9.897,-
962 tons.
On the gloomier side was the
Commerce Department report that
estimated wholesale inventories on
January / were $500 million more
than on January /, 1858
Meanwhile, the Joint Congress
sional Committee on the Economic
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know the precise distinction be-
tween loyalty" on one hand and
suitability" or security" on the
other-raiSed another question:
What about the 1900?
Since October, a figure first
1856 and then 2,200) had been
kicking around Washington. It's
significance was that this number
Of persons supposedly had been
separated" from Government jobs
as doubtful characters Of one sort
or another under the Presidents
Executive Order 1045O of last April.
The Review of the Week last
Sunday recounted how this essen
TALLY meaningless figure had
muShroomed into a popular no
ton that 1900 Reds had been fired
since the Eisenhower administra-
ton came in
Meanwhile. a clamor was build
ing up for breakdown of the
1900 purpOrted "firingS," many of
which were not firings at all.
Week before last, President Eli
Senhower told a press conference
that his aides were studying the
question of whether it would be
possible to release anything
further.
On Friday, a meeting of Sc
curity officers at the Civil Service
Commission decided 1t would in
deed be possible to make break
down Of separations Whether the
breakdown will be released, how
ever remained a matter this week
end for the future to reveal.