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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-20
Bakery Strike Closes
A. &P. Stores in C..
And Baltimore Areas
Picket Lines Honored;
Goods Cont Be Sent
To Other Outlets

A bakery strike in Baltimore
is causing the A. & P. grocery
chain to close temporarily all of
its stores in the Washington and
Baltimore areas after today.
Eighteen stores In the Wash
ington area and 20 in the Balti-
more area are affected.
The strike is against the A. &
P.'S own bakery, which occupies
space in a company warehouse.
A picket line surrounding the
bakery is being honored by other
union workers, so that merchan-
disc cannot be delieverd to the
store outlets.
Company officials declined to
comment on the strike situation.
w. C. Parsons, business repre-
sentative of Baltimore Local SO,
AFL Bakers Union, said the dis
pute involves wage increases.
The union originally asked a
30-cent an hour increase when
negotiations opened in Novem-
Der. The company countered
with an offer of 6 cents, he said.
Mr.. Parsons said the union
now is demanding an increase
of Is cents, while the A. g. P. is
Offering 71a cents.
Union spokesman were quoted
earlier as saying they would
picket stores. if necessary, I'M
less the contract dispute was
settled.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-20
DUR, Once of FEC, Attempts
ToAttock Ex-RedNun1ingWfe
Witness Sweurs She Knew Of Communist Plot
And Wooed High U. S., Officials in '40s
BY the Asseeiatsd Prs.s

NEW ORLEANS, Mar. 90
Clifford j. DUR of Montgomery,
Ala, a former Federal Com
munications Commissioner. tried
to attack ex-Communist Paul
Crouch today at a Senate sub
committee hearing on possible
Communist activities.
The attempt came after Crouch
testified that Mrs. Durr. sister
in-law Of Supreme Court Justice
Hugo Black. knew of a Commu-
mist conspiracy in this country.
Durr, who served on the FEC
from 1941 to 1948. said, as
Crouch left the witness stand:
HE can't talk that way about
my wife. I'll kill the -" He
was restrained by friends when
he tried to reach Crouch.
Crouch testified a spy ring OPP
Grated in this country before
World War II and that Mrs.
Durr had used her influence
among high Government officials
to try to foster communism.
Today's testimony by Crouch,
an admitted former Communist
from 1925 to 1912 who was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-20
Russia Protests 10 Holland
On u. 5. Military Base
BY the Associofed Press

LONDON, Mar. 2O.-The Rus
sian Ambassador in The Hague
today protested to the Dutch
government concerning "the es-
tablishment of a United States
military airbase in the Neither
lands" Moscow radio reported.
1.-The granting of military
bases to foreign states and the
stationing of foreign troops on
Netherlands territory can by no
means contribute to the i'm
provement Of the international
atmosphere and to relations be-
tween countries" the Soviet pro-
test note said.
The broadcast said Dutch For
elgn Minister A. V. Luns prom
ised his government would EEK
anime the Soviet governments
statement and give it's reply"
The note was handed to Mr..
LunS today by the Soviet Am
baSsador in The Hague, S. P.
Kirsanov.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-20
Order Your Sunday Star No,v

Only complete editions of The Sunday Star will be
placed on sale tomorrow. AS the demand will excess
of the supply be your copy of The Sunday
Star in advance.
1t would be possible of to increase the press run
OF The Sunday Star to meet anticipated demand But three
important feature sections of The Sunday STAR This Week.
Comics and The Star Observation-Disclosures only locally
edited Sunday Magazine-must ordered and printed
well in advance 1t is too late order for
this Sunday.
This is temporary situation and will be remedied
Immediately Rather than sell incomplete Sunday Stars
without This Week." Comics The Star Pictorial The
Sunday Stars tomorrow will limited to the num-
Der OF available copies Of the supplements.
For Regular Home Delivery of
THE EVENING and SUNDAY STAR
Phone Sterling $4,000
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-20
Dulles Reported Giving
R0ks Geneva Assurance
BY the As.oeiated Pres,

SEOUL, Mar. 20.-South Korea
Is at liberty to walk out on the
Korean political conference at
Geneva if the Communists use
the conference to try to under
mine the South Korean nation,
a highly placed source said to-
day.
American agreement to such
an action, he added, came in a
highly secret reply" from
United States Secretary of State
John Foster Dulles to a series of
questions raised by Foreign Min
lister Pyun Yung Tai.
The source said the reply was
delivered by Ambassador Ellis o.
Briggs, who said only that he
had talked with President Syng-
man Rhee and had delivered
United States assurances" about
the conference.
Washington sources said Mr..
Dulles had assured South Korea
that the United States will not
permit a sellout of South Korean
vital interests.
South Korea still has not an
nounced whether it will attend
the conference.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-20
400 Japanese Are Returned
After 9 Years in Red Prisons
Group Presumably Last Of Coptives
From World War II Coming Home

Former Navy Capt. Hideo
Hasegawa. "echelon commander
of the repatriates. disclosed that
81 japanese had chosen to re-
main behind at Nahodka, the
port of embarkation in Siberia.
Capt. Hasekawa said most of
those remaining had married
Russian women and had chill
dren. Some, he said, chose to
stay in Russia because they
feared punishment of return to
Japan.
Missing from the group was
Princeton educated Fumitaka
Butch Konoye. son of Prince
Fumimaro Konoye, Japan's pre-
Pearl Harbor Prime Minister who
committed suicide when Japan
surrendered.
The Soviet Union has admitted
holding another 1.O74 war crimi-
nails" including ex-Gen. Otozo
Yamada. commander in chief of
the kwantung army. The Jap
enese Foreign Office, however,
claims that the Russians have
not accounted for tens of thou
sands of other japanese civilians
and military personnel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-20
Bank Teller Jailed
In Embedding Case
BY the Associated Press

RICHMOND. Mar. 20. - A
Fredericksburg bank teller was
in a Richmond jail today await
ing Federal grand jury action
April 5 on charges of embezzling
money from the bank that was
considering promoting him.
Stanley B. Chewing, 25.
charged with embezzling $4,000
from the National Bank of Fred
ericksburg, waived preliminary
nearing in Fredericksburg yes
terday after he surrendered to
the FBI in Washington.
He was brought to the Rich
mond city jail after he was un-
able to make $4,000 bond.
Chewing had been missing
since March 8 when he walked
out Of the Fredericksburg bank
during a routine check of the
banks records by Federal bank
examiners.
Chewning's 27-year-old broth
er Carlton, who lives in WASH
ington said Stanley telephoned
MN about 11:15 am. yesterday
saying he wanted to surrender.
Carlton met Stanley in down.
town Washington and together
they went to the FBI field office
there.
Stanley had been employed by
the bank since he left high
school at Is.
Bank President M. Percy En-
brey described Stanley as zone
OF the incest boys you ever saw"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-20
By the Associated Press

MAIZURU. Japan. Mar. 90
Four hundred and twenty Jap
anese civilians and remnants Of
Japan's mighty Kwantung
army returned to their home
land today from nine years of
servitude in the Soviet Union.
The repatriates, aged pre-
maturely by hard prison life.
were greeted by overjoyed and
fearful relatives and friends in
this former Japanese naval port.
The japanese were either cap
tured or interned by the Rus
slams at the end of World War
II. This is the secondhand pre-
sumably the last-group to be
returned by the Russians under
the terms Of an agreement
reached last year between the
japanese and Soviet Red Cross
Societies.
Last December 811 Japanese
were returned by the Soviet
Union.
The Russians had announced
originally that 464 japanese
would come home in the second
group.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-20
Mcleod Finds Fewer
Risks Than Expected
BY the Associated Press

r. w. Scott Mcleod says his
Investigators have made security
checks on about one-fourth of
the State Departments 1000
sensitive" employees and that
so far fewer subversives have
been found than he had antici-
pated.
MIR. Mcleod, the departments
security officer, was questioned
by Democratic members of the
House Appropriations Commit
tee. The testimony given re-
Gently was made public yester-
day.
Representative Preston, DEM
ocrat. Of Georgia. asked Mr.. Nc
Leod II he had turned up fewer
or more people with subversive
tendencies than you expected to
find ;" Mr.. Mcleod replied:
81 think r found fewer"
Mr.. Mcleod reported, how
ever, that IS security cases have
been turned over to the FBI for
further attention. The Justice
Department said it hasn't prose-
cuted any cases yet under a
law that makes it a crime for a
Government employe to advo-
cate subversion or to join a sub
versive organization.
MIR. Mcleod said he expects
to complete security checks on
the remaining employees by
July /,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-20
Russia Puts Veesky
On Market AIonq
With Its Vodka
BY the Associated Press

MOSCOW. Mar. 2O.-This ma
ton of vodka drinkers is being
introduced to veesky.
The ministry of internal trade
has put on sale "a new type of
drink" called Sovetskoye veesky,
or Soviet whisky. distilled in the
Soviet Union. 1t is being
launched with an advertising
campaign telling how it is made
and how to drink it.
It costs 24la rubles for a half
liter Gust over a pint). The
ruble is rated officially at four
to the American dollar. You
deposit an extra ruble on the
bottle.
An American who bought a
bottle says:
Far as I'm concerned, would
stick with Scotch and bourbon.
This Soviet stuff is too sharp
for me. I don't want my hat
blown off,"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-20
Paris Father Throws
Daughter, a, to Death
By the Associated Press

PARIS. Mar. 20.-When his
wife refused to give up divorce
plans, young French truck
driver last night picked up their
4-year-old daughter and pitched
her through a window to the
street five stories below. Little
Yvonne Lemire died instantly.
An angry crowd of more than
$50 people later surrounded the
father, 24-year-old Henri Le-
mire, as he ran to a nearby cafe
and threatened to lynch him.
Squads of police arrived in
the Rue Jeanne dare, stopped
the mob and carted Lemire to
Jail.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-20
Wet Mini Dig In
200 Yards From
French Fortress
Defenders Keep Up
Bombing and Smelling
In Indo-Chinu Bottle
W the Assoe,otsd Pres,

HANOI. Indo-C China, Mar. 20.
The French bombed, strafed
and raked with artillery fire the
Wet Mimi rebel forces besieging
Diem Bien Phu today. Some
Communicated troops were dig
ging in only 200 yards from the
main barbed-wire barricades of
the fortress.
In the 120th day of siege, de-
Tending ground forces clashed in
minor skirmishes with rebel units
probing the defenses of the
northwest Indo-C Chinese strong
hold in the heart of the noun
famous Thai country which bor-
ders on Red China.
No Frontal Attack.
There were no screaming
frontal assaults by the enemy,
however, as marked the first
four days of this first major
open battle in the Seven-year
war against the forces of Mos
cow-trained Ho Chi Mini.
But Wet Mimi artillery con-
tinued to pour into the "a
square-mile French-held plain,
and the enemy carried out
elaborate digging-in operations
near the fortified area. This in
dicated they intended to try to
crush the French at Diem Bien
Phu for their first major mill
tary victory of the war.
The French said the rebels
relentleSsly shelled ambulance
planes coming into Diem Bien
Phu bearing Red Cross mark
ings making it more and more
difficult to evacuate the wounded
from the area. There was no
indication, however, how the
transport, helicopter and para
chute airlift which has supplied
the encircled fortress was far
ing.
Wet Mimi Ignore Pleas.
The Wet Mini turned deaf
ears on broadcast appeals from
the French for a brief cease
fire to permit the removal of
sick and wounded by plane.
After the first series of wild, all
most suicidal Wet Mini attacks
were repulsed early this week,
the French agreed to stop shoot
ing long enough to permit the
rebels to gather up their casual
ties. piled high by whitening fire
from within the fortress.
The French continued to eX-
press confidence they can repel
any assault the Wet Mini can
hurl at Diem Bien Phu. But
the enemy could continue the
siege Of the fortress for months
by digging in the surrounding
nils and avoiding further in
fantry frontal attacks.
French fighters and bombers
ranged over the area at will,
blasting away with half-ton
BOMBS. fire bombs, rockets and
machine-gun fire at the enemy
positions. Fierce artillery duels
also continued between the OPP
posing forces.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-20
President 0Ks
Huge Colorado
Basin Project
Controversial Power,
irrigation Plan to
Cost $3.50 Million
sy the Assseiessd Press

President Eisenhower today
approved recommendations for
development of the upper Colo
RADIO River Basin embracing
power and irrigation projects
estimated to cost 1890, 343. 900.
The President announced his
approval in a formal statement
saying the development-first
big multipurpose dam project to
receive his support-calls for
Sound financing"
He said that legislation is now
being drafted setting up a fund
for the entire project so it will
be constructed and paid for as a
''baSin program"
The House Interior subcom-
mittee studying this project will
vote on it early next week.
Two Major Dams.
The President included in his
recommendations two major
dams, Glen Canyon and Echo
Park, and authorization for IL
irrigation projectS-an estimated
to cost 1923, 056. 900.
In addition to the II irriga-
ton projects he approved. he
included the Eden project, pre-
viously authorized. estimated to
cost $7.287. 900.
He deferred, until additional
recommendations are received
from the Secretary Of Interior,
recommendations to carry out
the Navajo project, shiprock
division, in New Mexico at a
cost of $178.S25. 900.
The project would provide
power and irrigation affecting
Colorado. Utah. Wyoming. Arr
Eona and New Mexico.
House hearings on the project
developed strong opposition
from conservation groups last
January.
The most controversial feature
Is the proposed Echo Park Dam.
which would be built on the
Green River. q tributary Of the
Colorado, near the Colorado.
Utah border.
Strong Protest Made.
Witnesses for conservation
groups protested strongly at
House hearings in January that
the Echo Park Dam. together
with some other parts Of the
plan, would flood out portions of
Dinosaur National Monument
Park, destroying much Of the
areas scenic beauty.
A statement on this project
was promised later in the day
from the Interior Department.
The Echo Park Dam would
cost an estimated $176.4 million.
The Glen Canyon Dam, which
would be built about IS miles
upstream from Lees Ferry on
the Colorado River in Arizona,
would cost about $421.3 million.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-20
Spring Arrives! Thot Is
AT 1O:45 TONIGHT

Feels almost like spring today.
And it will be soon-at 10:45
o'clock tonight.
That's the time of the vernal
equinox, which means that spring
has come. The Weather Bureau
said it may have felt like spring
today. but that it is going to be
a chilly 80 tonight. and fair and
colder tomorrow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-20
Six-Yeor-OId Boy Dies
Of Poison Plant Spruy
BY the Assoeiated Press

HOOD RIVER. Greg. Mar. %.
Michael Ogden, 6. poisoned py
a plant spray solution which
spilled on his legs last Saturday,
died last night.
The poison. known as Tepp-
tetraethylpyroph - pene-
trated the skin and attacked his
respiratory system. For several
days volunteer firemen kept the
youth alive by pumping oxygen
into his lungs through q tube
inserted in his throat.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-20
Bill Raising Farm Price
Support Funds Stoned
By the Associated Press

President Eisenhower today
signed q bill providing an extra
SITS billion for farm price sup
ports this year.
The bill would increase to SIS
billion the borrowing power of
the Agriculture Departments
Commodity Credit Corp. This is
the agency which supports farm
prices and Senator Aiken. Re-
publican, of. Vermont said in Sen
ate debate on the bill that it
was down to its last $3.50 million.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-20
Mural Showing Slaves
Removed by Agency

CONTROVERSIAL MURAL - The
Quortermoster Generals office of the
Army found such q stir over O wall
poper murol showing on old slovey-
cotton moving scene on the Charles
ton. S. C., whorf thot it removed the
poper. Story and picture on Poge AZ.
CHURCH BUILT BY FAITH-More
foith thon money is going into the
construction Of the A. P. Shaw Meth
odist Church, which will repIoce a
building swept owoy by flood voters
Lost yeor. Reed the story Of this
struggling congregation, Poee All.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-20
Actor, SO, Plays Nightly

WARSAW, Poland. Mar. 20
R.-Ludwik Solski, Poland's
Oldest actor, is SO today, and he's
still appearing nightly at the
Slovak Theater in Krakow. He
made his first appearance on the
stage more than 80 years ago
and since then has had more
than $500 roles and produced
and directed many notable plays.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-20
Move 10 Give Rhee
Lifetime Job Launched
BY the Assoeiofed Press

= " IHH NSSocIufed ProSS
SEOUL, Mar. 20.-A move
ment to make Syngman Rhee
president Of the Republic of
Korea for life was reported in
the making today.
National Assembly sources
said about 20 AsSemblymen had
already agreed to support a
constitutional amendment giving
Mr.. Rhee a lifetime job.
The 78-year-old executives
second four-year term will end
in 1856.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-20
Philippines Program Set

MANILA, Mar. 20 (R.-
President Ramon Magsaysay
today announced an ambitious
81 billion. five-year program to
speed the Philippines economic
development.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-20


last night. The twin-engine
plane grazed the edge of a
wooded area as it plummeted
earthward and exploded. Wreck
age was strewn over a five-acre
area.
Names of IL Victims.
The Air Force this afternoon
released the names OIL of the
victims, including four from
Boiling Air Force Base. Still to
be released are names of five
Navy men, one Marine and one
Army man.
Those stationed at Boiling
were:
Airman &c Gerald A. Ball
dassaro of Willimansett, Mass.
Airman &c Paul H. Springer
Of Brooklyn.
Airman &c Robert M. Strauss
o fSouth Meridien, Conn.
Airman &c Joseph A. Valente
of South Portland, Me.
The pilot was identified as
Capt. Gene T. Coppedge of Pitts
burgh, KanS., stationed at Ard
more Air Force Base.
Other crew members, all sta
toned at Ardmore, were:
LIST Lt.-Henry T. johnson of
South Portland. Me.
LIST 1t. Roy C. Kemmerling of
Pine Grove, Pa.
I'd 1t. Richard L. Roloff OF
Iselin, N. j.
S/Sergt. Ernest v. Crabtree of
Ardmore. Okla.
Airman &c John G. Taylor Of
Adrian, Mich.
The eleventh victim was Air.
man Wayne F. Snodgrass of
Dayton. Ohio, stationed at Lime
stone Air Force Base.
Had Stopped at Boiling.
The crash occurred at 1929
pm, II minutes after the huge
plane took off from Boiling Air
Force Base, where it had stopped
to refuel.
The craft was attached to the
774th Troop Carrier Squadron
at Ardmore, Okla, and was on
a routine flight from Maxwell
Air Force Base, Ala, to Mitchell
Field. N. Y.
1t carried IL passengers and
six crewmen.
A detachment of sailors and
Marines from the Naval Acad-
envy at Annapolis guarded the
area as a group of investigators
from Andrews Air Force Base
looked for clues to the cause Of
the tragedy.
The crash occurred on the adj
jacent farms of Isaac Shepherd,
Joshua Paddy and Benjamin
Darnell, just off Route 2.
Parachutes Over Bodies.
Pieces of the plane, bodies and
parts of bodies lay under the
harsh glare of ambulance and
fire truck searchlightS during
the night. Red and white
striped parachutes, of the type
used for Identification in Arctic
had been spread over
some of the victims.
Bits of the plane lay half
buried in the mucky earth, sod
dened by a heavy rain. The
muddy ground hampered the
investigating team and f1remen
as their trucks and autos be-
came mired.
Flames had spread from the
wreckage to surrounding brush
and timber, but heavy
rain at the time and quick ar
rival of firemen from half a
dozen Southern Maryland COM
munibies prevented it from get
ting out of control.
The heavy motors landed 100
yards apart. A section from one
of the tailbooms hung in a tree.
1t appeared that the twin booms
had Straddled the tree and had
ripped apart.
A trail of blood 20 feet long
led from one of the bodies. Fire
men said apparently the victim
(See CRASH, Page A-3)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-20
Stocks in the Spotlight

NEW YORK, Mar. 10 H9.-Followine
are the sales tadd O0). high. low. closing
price and net change Of the 90 most
active stocks for the week:
Golna EIieEh Lon Nla.en
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-20
Flying Boxcar
Crash Killing
Is Is Probed
All Aboard FIuminq
Plane Die in Plunge
Near Shady Side

Air Force investigators today
probed through twisted wreckage
10 miles south of Annapolis, seek
ing clues to the cause of the
crash of a Clio Flying Boxcar
which took Is lives.
The huge craft crashed in
flames near Shady Side, Md.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-20

An Associated Press Newspaper
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-20
Names of IL Victims.

(See CRASH, Page A-3)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-20


last night. The twin-engine
plane grazed the edge of a
wooded area as it plummeted
earthward and exploded. Wreck
age was strewn over a five-acre
area.
Evening star., 1954-10-21
Maryland !
and
Virginia
News in Brief !
BroyhHl- Webb Debate
Wins Citizen Applause

Representative BroyhiH, Re-
publican. of Virginia, made 1t
clear again last night that he
seeks reelection on the basis Of
his own record and the achieve
ments Of the Eisenhower admin
iStration.
His opponent for the nearby
10th District seat, John C. Webb,
contended those records are cause
for electing Democrats this year.
Several times during the debate
last night at a meeting in Falls
Church, the two candidates drew
rousing applause from the audi
ence when they brought out spe-
cif1c points. A discussion on the
controversial Dixon Yates "con-
tract" is typical.
Mr.. Webb'S supporters backed
him when he answered charge
he didn't know" what he was
talking about on the subject.
The reason, he explained. .is
that the Eisenhower administers
tion has never seen fit to publish
the contract" Mry Broyhill drew
similar applause when he said he
had enough faith in the ,integ-
rity of the President of the United
States to believe he would not
support a contract unless it was
right.
Evening star., 1954-10-21

find the same thing in Washing
ton." he said.
He added that at social events
the white and colored students
do not mix except on q basis Of
community interests - athletics,
for example.
Betty Harris Of Anacostia said
integration is accepted without
comment in the New York school
as wonderful" and said she
thought the same attitude would
develop here lin due time"
every one there. = she said. sis
human being and respected as
such and not regarded as white
or ,colored."
Jack Linden, also Of Anacostia,
agreed with the others that in
tegration is no problem and
remarked that people aren't so
hard as some here"