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Evening star., 1954-01-06
Neighbors Say Theft Suspects
Were LikubIe Family CoupIe

James and Mamie Lands lived
in a three-room apartment, for
which they paid $73 a month,
with their sons, Kurt Monroe, 18
months, and Wayne, g..
A 17-inch television set stands
in one corner. The living room
floor last night was strewn with
Wayne's toys, including a big red
pedal car. The apartment is at
1929 Fifty-second avenue, Chapel
Oaks, Md.
A neighbor, who declined to
give her name, said she was visit
ing Mrs. Lands when police ar
rested Ter in the home about
noon. The neighbor stayed on,
taking care of the children and
canceling the job she was to go
to@at $50 pm.
The children were unaware
that anything had happened to
their parents.
AS she fed Kurt a glass of
milk, the neighbor said she had
known the couple about five
years and found them Just nor
NAL family people"
They weren't more concerned
with money than most folks" !"
she said.
There had been no evidence of
a sudden need for money or a
sudden surplus Of it recently,
she added.
Among the IL apartments in
the building, which is part Of
the Addison Chapel Apartments,
the dwellers expressed similar
views.
Il hope it isn't true. He's just
as nice as he can be-" said Mrs.
H. Patton, who lives on the sec
ond floor. Her husband said the
two couples swapped baby sitting
chores.
Mr.. Patton said both. Lands
and William Giles, also under
arrest. are veterans, Lands of
the Army and Giles of the Navy.
Both were good neighbors, he
said, with no loud partying or
squabbles.
Mrs. H. L. Mcdonald, who lives
across the hall from the Lands
home. said the couple moved in
2A years ago.
Evening star., 1954-01-06
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wanted for assault with intent to
kill, the bulletin said. None of
the missing $40 bills, many of
which still are unaccounted for
from the 5000 stolen, was found
on Nelson. Sergt. Pearson said
both Nelson and the other cousin
had bought cars over the week
end.
Nelson was taken from the
Hyattsville police station to
Secret Service headquarters for
additional questioning this
morning. Earlier he had been
arraigned for assault and battery
and held in $4,000 bond.
The second woman in the case,
suspected Of accompanying
Lands and Giles on a spending
spree, had not been charged, nor
had the other men arrested to-
day.
Additional $40 bills identified
from serial numbers as part of
the stolen money continued to
turn up. Four Of them were
found in a Brentwood store, and
another in a liquor store there.
Evening star., 1954-01-06

night that he must be at work
on time yesterday or he would
become "the No. / suspect" in
the theft
Lands was there. He also was
the No. / suspect.
Mr.. Baughman said the man
at first denied knowledge Of the
theft but gradually began max
ing admissions. The suspect
held out on some points, how
ever. He maintained that al
though he removed the money
from the truck, he carried none
of it from the engraving
headquarters on Fourteenth
street S. w.
Names Another for Idea.
According to his statement,
another man planted the idea
of the theft with him several
months ago. He gave the Secret
Service the name of a man who
does not work at the bureau. In
fact. Chief Baughman said. he
is confident the man does not
exist.
But Lands declared that after
thinking over the theft sugges-
ton a long time, he decided to
make the pitch on New Years
eve. That morning, the "other
man" came into the building on
some pretext and Landis said
he slipped him most of the loot.
He told the agents yesterday
where the rest-S32. .000-could
be found in the brown sack still
hidden in the bureau. This
proved true.
S95.O0O at Estate.
Mr.. Baughman said the re-
covered money was found as
follows:
/. In the metal tool box and
the gray socks. on the Phillips
estate. approximately SOS, 900.
Most Of this was new money,
still wrapped in neat packages.
Agents were careful not to touch
them until a check could be
: made for flngerprints. About
Evening star., 1954-01-06
BY the ASsocioted Press

MIDDLEBURG, Va, Jan. g.
Il knew what the right thing
WASH The truth is right"
Thus Irving Grant today ex-
planned his anguished decision in
the early-morning hours of yes
terday to call State police and
give the tip that led to the arrest
Of his daughter in the 100000
theft from the Bureau of En-
craving in Washington.
Mr.. Grant, As. a Negro chauf-
feur and butler on an estate near
here, was distraught and nervous
and said he feared for his life.
He said he had not slept since
the moment. about 9 o'clock
Monday night, when his daugh-
ter, her husband and another
man came to his house about so
miles southwest of Washington.
Tells of Loot Box.
Mr.. Grants story continued:
The men carried, in a metal
tool box, more than half of the
sl60,000.' his son-in-law, James
Rufus Lands. is accused of
whisking from the heavily
guarded Treasury bureau.
Lands and his associate. Will
liam Giles. tried to force Mr..
Grant to. bury the money for
them. They said they had
pulled a smoothly" and gave
Mr.. Grant $4,000. promising to
return and pick up the bulk of
the money "after it cools off a
little"
Mr.. Grant and his wife spent
a night of distress and worry
Seven hours later. he decided to
put the right" above his ties to
Evening star., 1954-01-06

Mrs. Giles refused to talk to
reporters. They also have two
sons. Skippy, 2. and Daryl, S.
Mrs. Frank A. Minor, who lives
directly above the Lands apart
ment, said she knew Mrs. Lands
only slightly. from hanging up
clothes in her company. She
described Mrs. Lands as a very
nice person.
Evening star., 1954-01-06

$1,000 Of this total was old cur
rency in bills of 81. SIS and $40
denominations. There also was
a heap of coins. ct was pre-
sumed that the old money was
obtained by changing the stolen
$50 notes.
2. The $32, 900 Of new money
at the Bureau of Engraving.
hidden under a platform truck.
3. Cash totaling $1,000 at the
Lands apartment.
This leaves $31,790 missing but
some of the bills nave begun
turning up at stores and banks
in the District. Mr.. Baughman
also said it is a possibility that
some of the stolen money was
sold to underworld characters
at a discount.
Wife Denies knowledge.
Mrs. Lands insisted she had
no knowledge of the theft. She
did admit accompanying her hus-
band and Giles to the farm.
Giles explained his part in the
big theft to reporters:
If you are poor. you are poor.
! was thinking of the future. I
was tired of seeing my ttwo)
kids hungry-by hungry I mean
in a sense of the word. can't
give them the things / want to
give them"
AS Grade 6 Government
worker. he has been earning
about S3,460 a year.
Mr. Baughman said a variety
OF additional charges may be
placed against the defendants.
On the one citing Lands for
theft, the maximum penalty is
five years or $4,000 fine or both.
Evening star., 1954-01-06
Fother-in-Low's Tip Broke
$3.50, 900 Engraving Theft

How an honest butler, torn be-
tween his conscience and possible
criminal involvement of his
daughter, gave the tip that broke
the 100000 Bureau of Engrav-
ing and Printing theft, was told
yesterday by Secret Service
agents.
It was the fathers telephoned
tip to Virginia State troopers
at 5 am. yesterday that broke
the case wide open and brought
about the three arrests within
q matter of hours.
The anguiShed father is Irving
Grant. so, upon whom sos, 900
Of hot" money was thrust in
a nocturnal drama at his Mid
dleburg (Va.) home Monday.
Secret Service Chief U. E.
Baughman said Mr.. Grants un-
willingness to hide the stolen
currency and accept a. $4,000
-"tip" led to the speedy arrest
of James Rufus Lands. his som
in-law: Mrs. Mamie Lands, his
own daughter, and William Giles,
friend of the couple.
AS one result of the unwel-
come role. Mrs. Grant, his wife,
suffered a serious heart attack
that night and a second one
today.
Baughman Tells Story.
Mr.. Baughman and other off,
cials told this chronological
story Of the whole case:
Last Thursday was a half
holiday for the Government be-
1cause it was New Years Eve.
Lands was one of five men in
his division of the engraving
Bureau who worked that day
storing new currency in a sec
-ond-f1oor vault.
AS a distributor checker he
pushes a platform truck-laden
with Federal Reserve notes-to
the door of the big vault. Some
time between 9 and IL am,
while undetected. he removed
two packages of $40 notes and
replaced them with two dummy
packages. These were similarly
wrapped bundles, containing
blank sheets of paper.
At a salary of $50 week he
handled millions upon millions
of dollars every day he worked.
Mr.. Baughman said Lands
broke open the two packages
somewhere in the building. He
stuffed Is smaller packets of
bills-a total of $32.O00-in
brown paper sack and hid this
beneath a platform truck in a
darkened corner of the fifth
floor.
$12S,OOO Into Pockets.
According to Mr.. Baughman,
Lands secreted the remaining
$128,000 in pockets that had
been sewn to the lining of his
suit coat tails. Then he strolled
casually from the building, un-
Evening star., 1954-01-06
Red Tide KiIIino Fish

PALMETTO. Fla. Jan. 6 (P.-
New outbreaks Of red tide have
killed thousands of fish. mostly
mullet. in rivers and bays along
the Florida West Coast from
Tampa to Little Marco, it was
reported today.
Evening star., 1954-01-06
NepoI King Going, Home

BOMBAY. Jan. 6 (P.-King
Tribhuvana Of Nepal arrived by
plane yesterday on his way home
after two months treatment for
heart trouble in Switzerland.
Evening star., 1954-01-06
Two Formoso Flyers Flee

TOKYO. Jan. 6 (P,-Peiping
radio today said two Chinese
airfnen from the Nationalist is
land Of Formosa fed into Red
China December 13 aboard Jet
training plane.
Evening star., 1954-07-03
Maud Lynch, Dallas Dry Era
Underworld Queen, Dies Broke

She wore diamonds worth
thousands Of collars land often
pawned them II she needed q
quick dollar for a down-and-out
pal. man or woman.
Veteran policemen remember
her In the '20s as . nimble-
fingered pickpocket who stole
from wealthy customers lured
into her big car by her apparent
afiluence and beauty.
She had q horror Of riding to
Jail In q patrol wagon. Maud
lodged it hundreds Of times by
simply surrendering at headquar-
ters to inquire il her male victim
had complained. Her scandal
shy victims rarely appeared
against her in court.
Once Maud discovered $400
she'd stolen from q West Texas
minister was his congregations
cash. She rushed to the police
station to return the money.
But not . dime OF it goes
back to . preacher like you.
coming TO Dallas to cavort with
women like mel" she boiled. she
gave the money to detectives and
warned them the red-faced
clergyman was not to be trusted
with church funds.
Evening star., 1954-07-03
Will Senate Back KnoWIond?
informal Poll Shows so Fovorng United Nations Secession
If Red China Enters American People Believed Behind Move

intended to show any hostility
to that international organiza-
ton.
America has been probably
the most ardent supporter Of
the y. N. In no other part
of the world are. there so
many organizations and pri-
vate groups roofing and prop
agandizing for that so-called
peace organization. This courl-
try has made more sacrifices
and efforts to maintain the
principles of that institution as
provided in the charter. The
100, 900 American casualties in
Korea and the SIS billion spent
In that campaign, compared to-.
negligible losses suffered by
our Western European allies,
bear witness to our honesty Of
purpose.
After a phony armistice was
signed in Korea and Moscow
and Peiping had ordered and
assisted the Wet Mini tore
new their aggression in Indo-
China, this country was still
willing to make further sac
rifices to curb aggression and
uphold the fundamental prin-
ciples Of the u. N.
It is France which opposed
bitterly the bringing Of the
Indo-C China aggression before
the U.N. lest the world gain
the impression that she was
losing control over her Asiatic
colonial empire. But after
things really turned sour, for
the French our Government
did everything in its power to
get as many 'peace loving"
countries as wished to join us
to stop the Communists in
their tracks. Secretary Dulles
was politely but firmly re-
buffed.
The suggestion Of our West
ern European friends to sup
plant the idealism provided in.
the U. N. charter by political
opportunism does not appeal to
the American supporters Of the
U. N. If we were to subscribe
to the point of view Of those
members Of the U. N. TO shut
Evening star., 1954-07-03
Fletcher Knebel-
Potomac Fever

The Senate okays Ike bill lowering taxes This administers
a Democrats used
in-whereas takes
Listening to House debate the farm you'd think
fellow lived polling booth dashed
Of ballot only long enough to get Government
loan on 1t.
Anti-Red forces form government in Guatemala.
That Guatemala the kind the world needs o-the
kind that ends the minute the shooting starts.
Senate Democratic johnson joins Republican Leader
Knowland threatening quit the United Nations We
be thankful Of thing problems be multiplying
but Secretaries of State.
A British airlner spots flying elyfsh" Of Labrador
Almost anywhere you go days. you're
liable to into Great Brtain's foreign policy.
defense headquarters plans move to the health
Creek Thefes this Is for
the recuperaon Of civil defense-or ichgans COP
Candidate Homer Ferguson
Senators call for "reapprasal" foreign policy
American foreign policy has always single goato
find out what American foreign policy is
Evening star., 1954-07-03

our eyes to the misdeeis OF the
Red Chinese and appease them
BY opening the doors Of tie
U. N. then that organization
must suffer the fate Of the
late League of Nations.
It Is said that during the
recent Washington talks with
Winston Churchill some Of the
British delegates were re-
minded that Red China still
stands branded as an aggres-
sor by the United Nations. The
reply was that the matter could
be easily taken care OF by re-
scinding that offensive" reso-
luton.
The United Nations. thanks
to the presence Of the Musco-
vites, their satellites and their
fellow travellers, such as india.
has been q disappointment to
most Americans. But few
voices have been raised In the
past demanding Americas
withdrawal from what obvi-
ously has become q futile de-
batting society serving prin-
cipally as a sounding board
for the Red propagandists.
But when the Western ma
tions and their friends in Asia
served us an unofficial notice
that they intended to ram
down our throatS Communist
China. which at this very mo-
ment continues to be an ag-
gressor, it was too much for
the Senate. which has an i'm
portant role In the conduct Of
our foreign affairs.
The Knowland and McCar-
ran proposal must not be con-
strued by any stretch Of imag-
nation as an empty gesture
or playing to the galleries.
It represents unquestionably
the feeling Of the vast majority
of the American people who
have put such high hopes on
the success Of the u. N. and
do not want it to go the way
Of the League Of Nations. If
the other nations wish to make
q farce OF the U. NJ, America
had better cease to be q part
ner to such a sinister farce.
Evening star., 1954-07-03
Lowell MeHett-
KnoWIond Would DESTROY U.N.
OId-Tiner Thinks Hes Out to Do for United Nations
What Lodge and Others Did for League Of Nations

telling in advance what he'll
do. He'll not only secede per-
sonally from the United Ma
tions,. but he'll devote his eff
forts to persuading the coun-
try to follow him. And that
isn't all. He'll resign the Re-
publican leadership of the
Senate. There's a threat to
make the Nation Shudder!
What will the Senate do with
out the leadership of the SEN
ator from Formosa?"
"You don't seem to take Mr..
Knowland very seriously"
We'll, he takes himself seri-
ously. enough for both Of us.
However. I can co-exist peace
fully with him, whether he can
with Eisenhower and Dulles or
not. I find it a little harder to
co-exiSt with the notion that
his friend Chang is the gov
ernment of China when the
whole world knows he Is not.
Likewise with the notion that
we have to love and approve
every government that's in the
United Nations. If that were
the case we should be getting
out, regardless of China. We
certainly have no love for the
Evening star., 1954-07-03

Russian government. And, as
a practical matter, China could
not do anything in the United
Nations that Russia can't do
for her now. That's thanks to
the one-power veto In the Sc
curity Council. for which we
are largely responsible. And
then there's another thing.
Unless we have another world
war and obliterate Red China.
I think we'd like to see China
become independent of Russia,
and yet we are doing every
thing we can to prevent that
from happening. Doesn't make
sense. does it,?
you're doing the talking"
"Then I'll tell you what I'm
really thinking. I'm thinking
Knowland is really out to do
for the United Nations what
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge
and the others did for the
League of Nations-bust it up.
With this country out Of 1t,
therell be no United Nations
and the one best hope we now
have Of achieving peaceful CO.
existence among the nations
Of the earth will go down the
bloody drain Of history"
Evening star., 1954-07-03
Rescuers Comb Ruins
OF Philippine Cities
For Quake Victims
By The Assoeio.ed Press

MANILA, July 81 Rescue
squads dug through the rubble of
two earthquake-wrecked cities
for dead and injured today as
lighter but sharp aftershocks
spread fresh terror through the
, central Philippines.
Broken communications made
It impossible to get an accurate
picture of casualties and prop
erty damage in the Southern
Luzon area where yesterdays
quake created havoc.
Latest reliable figures showed
IL known dead. 4 missing. "a
seriously injured and 100 treated
for minor injuries.
Earlier police reports said 20
were believed killed at the pro-
vincial capital of Sorsogon, a
city Of $4,000 which apparently
bore the brunt Of the shock.
The constabulary said eight
were known dead in Sorsogon
and four at Bacon. q seaport Of
$4,000 on the east coast which
also was wrecked.
More than 40 aftershocks were
recorded at Sorsogon Friday
night and Saturday morning.
Many of the injured reportedly
refused to enter the hospital and
were treated on the lawn.
Thousands of Filipinos slept in
the streets and. fields Friday
night for fear a new quake would
destroy their homes.
Evening star., 1954-07-03
Nest Of Whooping Crane
Sought in Remote Canada
BY The Associated Pres,

OTTAWA. July 8. The
whooping cranes greatest secret,
Its nesting place soon be
out.
Canada's resources department
yesterday announced that six OF
these almost extinct birds, in
cluding young. were sighted from
q helicopter in Wood Buffalo
National Park, astride the boun-
Diary Of Northern Alberta and
the Northwest Territories.
World population of the
whooping crane IS only a., and
wildlife experts have been try.
ing for years to md their nest-
ing grounds.
Observers know they winter in
Texas and journey to the Cana.
dian north. for summer nesting.
but even when they were fol-
lowed BY planes. the cranes got
away when reaching the north.
Evening star., 1954-07-03

called for immediate and conn
plete observance" Of the truce
order in q cable to Mai. Gen.
Vagn Bennike. chief Of staff Of
the q. Ms Palestine arnaistice
organization. 4
In Washington. the United
States called on the governments
of Jordan and Israel directly to
take immediate steps" to end
the shooting.
Evening star., 1954-07-03
Lowell WeIlett-

"When in the course Of hui
man events. it becomes neces-
sary for one people to dissolve
the political bands that have
connected them with an
other"
what are you doing, Old
Timer; tuning up for q Fourth
of July speech?"
Nope, just thinking how
Senator Knowland might have
written his declaration of in
dependence-his independence
OF the President and the Sec
retary of State and the Sem
ate and. above all. Of the
United Nations" =
@You mean his statement of
what he'll do when and If Red
China is admitted to the
United Nations?"
yes. Knowland believes
that a decent respect for the
opinion of mankind requires
that he should declare the
causes which impel him to the
separation. When, as and If, Of
course. Matter OF fact, he is
being fairer about 1t than
jefferson and the rest were
when they wrote their Decla-
ration Of independence. He's
Evening star., 1954-07-03
Two Get Jail Terms
In Robbery-Beutinq

Two men, who pleaded guilty
to charges of assault, larceny
and taking property without
right. were sentenced to one and
one-half years in jail yesterday
by Municipal Judge Milton S.
Kronheim. Jr.
Paul Richmond, "a, colored, Of
the 400 block Of Kenyon street
NV. and Ronald c. Gray. 81.
colored of the 400 block Of Irving
street NV. pleaded guilty to
beating and robbing Howard ".
Hutten. SO, of 1903 Forty-f first
place. Hyattsville, about a month
ago near Soldiers Home.
Evening star., 1954-07-03
Three Killed, Seven Hurt
As Tree Crushes Truck

CHATTANOOGA. Tenn, July
S.-A windstorm toppled q huge
oak tree across o truck loaded
with Is men yesterday, killing
three persons and injuring seven.
Clogs D. Lay was driving the
iva, truck In q windstorm near
Fort Oglethorpe. Ca. when the
accident occurred. He said:
''I,could see the trees alongside
the road bending in the wind.
but had no thought that there
was any danger. All Of q sudden
that big tree came crashing
across Us. through the canvas
covered section just back Of the
cab"
A power saw was used to help
cut through to the men. who had
been erecting q steel tower
nearby.
The tree was about 3 feet In
Evening star., 1954-07-03

termined not to surrender our
principles but to make them
prevail"
Mr.. Stevenson. on his way "a
an Alaska vacation. told a gath
ering Of Democrats that Mr..
Nixon has reversed himself Ia
statements about Indo- China.
Mr.. Stevenson criticized the
administrations platoon sys-
TEN" Of Secretaries or State,
wherein foreign policy is laid
down by Secretary Dulles, SEN
ate Majority Leader Knowland
and Mr.. Nixon.
An administration that can
not unite It's own party. on
essentials at least, can hardly
hope to unite and lead the free
world. |" he said.
Mr.. Stevenson cited the public
brawl" Of the Army Mccarthy
hearings as an example, saying
the Republican National Com-
mittee and Republican 'leader-
ship failed to support Army Sec
retary Stevens.
Democrats Praised.
He praised. on the other hand
the actions during the hearings
Of Democratic Committee Mem
bers Jackson Of washington
Symington Of Missouri and Me-
Clellan Of Arkansas.
The national situation" Mr..
Stevenson said, "is far too
perilous for us as Democrats to
derive any partisan satisfaction
or pleasure from it,"
The audience applauded when
Mr.. Stevenson spoke of his pos
sible candidacy again for Presi-
dent. Bowling to Colorado's Ma
tional Committeewoman Mar
garite Peyton Thompson. who in
ntroducing him had lauded Mr..
stevenson as q prospective
candidate in 1856. he said:
Il am not running for any,
thing right now. but the fact is.
! would hate to have you lose
your manuscript"