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u. S. Survivor Tells of Strofing
Before Big AirIiner Crashed

tinued on the way down--a glide
that took the crippled transport
close to Hainan.
May Have Used Incendiaries.
Some of the ammunition fired
by the attackers appeared to be
incendiaries. Mr.. Thatcher said
he got a "good smell" of cordite.
Several times on the way down
bullets splattered through the
fuSelage.
], Pilot Phillip Blown's handling
of the ship enabled the eight
survivors to escape. Mr.. Thatcher
said.
He said there was no panic
among the passengers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-24
Al Least Six Die
As Plane Hits Peak
By The A.soeia,.d Pres.

PIKEVLLE. Tenn, July "a.
A twin-engined plane being dem
onstrated to a prospective
buyer on q Michigan to Florida
trip crunched into 4 mountain
top southeast of here yesterday
killing at least six persons.
Tennessee Highway Patrolman
Lloyd Baker said at Chattanooga
early today that a seventh bill
fold had been found. indicating
another possible victim.
The plane was en- route from
Pontiac. Mich, to Tampa when
it came in low over the noun
tain, dropped an engine and then
crashed, throwing wreckage and
mangled bodies over an area al
most a mile across.
The pilot. Gordon Franklin
Wyrick, had picked up the in
terested buyer. Howard E. An
thony, and the other passengers
at Benton Harbor, Mich.
Besides Mr.. Anthony, who was
the president of the Heath Co.
manufacturer of electronics sup
plies and a bank director, and
Mrs. Wyrick, the other victims
included:
Morris William Durham. Law
renee, Mich. Mr.. Anthony's pri-
vate pilot.
Gordon Paxton, Benton Har-
Dor
Mr.. and Mrs. Laurel Brown
Lawrence.
A witness, who lives near the
crash scene. said she watched
the plane pass about 200 feet
over the house with a roar like
a bunch of jets flying over
She said she saw motor fall
from the plane and land nea,
her house.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-24
Gut in Supply Line
Hhwarts Mau Mau

NAIRoBI. Kenya, July "a
tNANA). - Operation Anvil"
the concerted British drive
against the Mau Mau, appar-
emily has broken the back of
the terrorist movement.
The "anvil" over which the
Mau Mau seems to have been
broken was first used In another
British-governed hot spot-Ma-
laya. AS in the campaign that
has crushed the Communist reb-
els in the Southeast Asian jun
gle country, the counterattack-
ing forces here cut the enemy's
supply lines.
In the Fort Hall section, the
real storm center, supplies were
locked up in q central Fort Hall
stronghold each night. Daily
rations only sufficient to cover
needs were issued to the local
population.
In the Thika area District
Commissioner p. E.. Walter
found that local residents had
been helping the terrorists. Once
again Anvil cut of supplies
and "a guard posts manned by
local Kikuyu natives were erect
ed. simultaneously the Kikuyus
were consolidated into villages,
none Of which has been success
fully. attacked. Half the 0,000
population of this area soon will
be housed in the village strong
holds,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-24
Runowoy Rhesus Recoptured;
Re-pete Rejoins Renegade Pete

A repeat performance yester-
day brought the capture Of Re
pete. second Of two Rhesus
monkeys that escaped last Fri
day from a laboratory at the
Bethesda Naval Medical Center.
The monkey was captured by
James C. Schiller, a Government
employee of 1918 Ferndale street.
Kensington.
Mr.. Schiller employed the
same method which spelled the
downfall Tuesday of Re-pete's
companion fugitive. Pete, Both
were captured in traps consisting
Of a tilted box on stick set over
q piece of bait.
''It was q five-minute job" Mr..
Schiller said. He added, how
ever, that the starvation diet on
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get q $40 boost.
Legislative and judicial work.
ers would receive q flat S per
cent pay increase.
Combined as part of the same
bin is d 5 per cent raise for
postal workers, with q 5000 min
innuni and q $40 maximum,
Chairman Carlson plans to
expedite the legislation BY at
taching the pay legislation to
one of the minor House-appro
civil service bills after 1t Is
cleared BY the Senate.
The Kansas Republican said
this would send the legislation
directly to House Senate confer
ence and eliminate the need for
direct House action.
Also. = Senator Carlson said he
would attach the fringe benefits
bill and the group life insurance
measure to another House-passed
civil service bill to expedite this
legislation as well.
The House Civil Service Com
mittee has approved an approx
mate S per cent increase for
classified employees, with a $3.50
minimum and no ceiling on the
maximum. 1t also has approved.
as separate bill, 5 per cent
increase for postal workers, with
5000 minimum and no maxi
mum limitation.
Neither bill has thus far been
granted "a rule by the House
Rules Committee.
BY combining classified and
postal pay raise legislation and
attaching it to a bill already
passed by the House. Senator
Carlson and his colleagues hope
to expedite action and obviate
the necessity of getting the
House Rule Committees APP
proval.
The classified pay raise would
benefit more than 100000 en-
ployes in the Washington area.
Besides Federal classified work.
ers, District government CLASH
fled employees and legislative and
judicial workers would be in
Guided. About 5000 postal work.
ers also would benefit in this
area. ....s- .s
The Senate committees pro-
visions dealing with postal pay
dealt a sharp blow to Postmaster
General SummerfieId's request
for postal salary Redistribution
authority.
The Senate bill, instead would
set up a nine member commits
sion to study the postal salary
Redistribution profile and
make recommendations to Con-
gress not later than next March.
The Speaker of the House would
select two members. and the Vice
President, two. The Postmaster
General also would be on the
commission, and the four other
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-24
GrisIy Details Recounfed
In Canada Murder Trial
By the Associated Press

PIERCE, Que. July 24.-The
chief provincial police investi-
gator in the murder trial of 40
year-old prospector Wilbert Cof-
fin yesterday recounted the
grisly details of his discovery
of the remains Of a slain Penn
sylvania hunter last summer.
Capt. j. Alphonse Matte tes-
titled he found the bear-gnawed
remains of Richard Lindsey, IT,
in three heaps In an isolated
Gaspe region. In one pile. he
said, was a sku1l, white sweat
shirt, wooden red and black
checkered shirt and green
shirt. Five feet away lay the
spine. Fourteen feet further on
was a pair Of boots with leg
bones protruding.
Coffin Is charged with the
murder Of young Lindsey, whose
body was found last July with
those of his father. Eugene. ~,
and Fred CLAIR. 90. a friend, all
Of Hollidaysburg, Pa.
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Mental Patient
Sought IN SIaYinooi
Grandmother Is
By ire Associated Press

HAMMONTON, N. j., July III.
An autopsy early today indi-
Gated that an elderly woman.
tentatively identified as the
grandmother Of an elemental
patient. was stabbed and shot to
death. u
Burlington County Coroner
Russell Stoddard said the victim,
believed to be Mrs. Ellen Al. Scott,
rs, suffered multiple wounds Of
the head and body. apparently
inflicted by .22-caliber bullets
and q German bayonet.
|. A .22-caliber rifle and q blood
fiecked bayonet were found in
the abandoned car Of her grand
son. Allen Bodine Scott, 20, who
has been missing since Sunday
when he was last seen driving of
with Mrs. Scott.
Search Pressed.
y. State police spurred their hunt
for the one-time mental patient
in this SparSely settled South
Jersey area and advised police in
Scott's old haunts IN New Jer-
sey. Florida and Mississippi to be
on the lookout for him. Us
Magistrate Russell e. Mont
gomery swore out a fugitive war
rant for Scott last night as au-
thorities all but identified the
old Woman's remains as those of
his grandmother.
Mrs. Elya Scott Dougherty,
daughter of Mrs. Scott and
mother of the missing man, was
scheduled to try to make posi-
tive Identification today.
On Tuesday Mrs. Dougherty
received a letter from her son
which State police described as
suicidal" It contained the SEN.
tence. This is the only way
out"
Relatives Home Guarded.
A 24-hour armed guard was
maintained at the Ocean city
home of wealthy yachtsman
Russell E. Cramer, president of
the Radio Condenser Co. of
Camden and a distant relative
! OF the fugitive.
A .22-caliber bullet was fired
into Mr.. Cramer's home Sunday
night, few hours after Scott
and his grandmother disap-
peared from her home in the
nearby community of Lower
Bank.
Cramer told police Scott has
been bounding him for money
for the past seven years and
once tried to kidnap his daugll-
ter Jeanne while she was a coed
at the University of Rochester,
N. Y.
Scott was confined in a
mental institution for about two
and half years after the Incl
dent.
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which residents of the area had
put the monkey had primed 1T
for a fast grab at the banana he
used for bait.
DR.. Seymour M. Stein said
the monkeys that had gone over
the hill were being used in an ex-
pertinent at the medical center,
and would return to their scien-
tific research jobs.
DR.. Stein said the animals,
which he earlier described as
probably the healthiest in cap
tivity, appeared in excellent
condition after their escapades.
Bob RaWlins, IL. of 4413 Saul
road, and Brook Andrews, II, of
$500 Saul road, who caught the
first escapee. were guests of DR..
Stein and his associates yester-
day at the medical center.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-24
BY the Associated Press

HONG KONG, July 24.--How
bullets from attacking fighter
planes ripped through the fuse
lage of British airliner just
before it crashed near the Chi
nese Red island of Hainan was
told tonight in a hospital bed in
terview by an American sur
vivor.
One Of eight survivors among
the airliner's IS occupants, Peter
Thatcher, ~, Of Stonington.
Conn.,, said he thought some
passengers were wounded by bull
lets and were dead before we
hit the water"
Mr.. Thatcher said it was
doubtful if the missing passen-
gers got out Of the plane after
it hit the China Sea. 1t sank
within a minute and a half.
Saw Half Dozen Strafing Runs.
He said he saw at least one
fighter make half q dozen strait
ing passes, some of them after
the bullets set the port engine
afire and the big airliner started
it's fatal plunge.
Mr.. Thatcher said the CO.
pilot, c. w. Carlton, told him
there were two attacking fight
ers. Mr.. Thatcher identified the
attacker he saw as a propeller
driven plane.
Mr.. Thatcher's account con-
tanned these details:
A civil employe of the United
States Army, he was on his way
home from the Far East. The
plan was flying outside Commu-
mist waters.
Suddenly a fighter plane made
strafing pass. On. the second
pass. the airliner's port engine
caught fire.
The airliner began to lose al
titude rapidly. The strafing con.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-24
The Weather Here and Over the Nation

District and vicinity Clear
and rather cool tonight with low
about IS. Tomorrow sunny and
continued pleasant.
Maryland and Virginia-Clear
and rather cool tonight with low
$3.50 in west and 1854 in east
portions. Tomorrow mostly sunny
with little change in tempera-
ture.
Wind-Northwest to north 10
Is miles per hour tonight and
tomorrow.
River Report.
From q. s. Engineers.1
Potomac River clear at Harpers Ferry
and slightly muddy ct Great Falls: Shen-
andoah clear at Harpers Ferry.
Humidity
tReadinss washington National AIRPORT }
Yesterday Pct To-day Pct.
Noon 40 Midnieht 49, 80
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Morningside Gets Bid

Morningside. Md. yesterday
was authorized to join 10 other
Prince Georges County towns on
the county police radio network.
The county commissioners also
authorized Morningside to oper-
ate a radio-equipped police car
through the dispatcher at the
county police headquarters in
Seat Pleasant.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-24
Appeals CourfUpseis
Wriikeeping 'Riifed'
EmpIoYe on Payroll

The U. S. Court Of Appeals for
the District of Columbia yester-
day paved the way for the Fed
eral Government to remove tenn
porarily from the payroll q
'.riffed" employe, despite the fact
he has an appeal before the Civil
Service Commission.
The action involves the case
of Jerome j. H. Toasted, O
$6.940-a-year analyst with the
Securities Exchange Commits
sion. who had been notified Of
dismissal during q reduction In
force caused by a budget cut.
Split Decision.
The court split 2 to / In its
order, which stayed the effec-
tiveness of a preliminary injunc-
ton granted by Federal Judge
Alexander Holtzoff in the u. S.
District Court for the District
of Columbia. Judge Holtzoff had
forbade the SEC to halt Mr..
Feasted's pay until final deter
mination Of his appeal by the
csc.
Assistant United States At
torney William Becker asked the
appellate court to set aside Judge
Holtzoff's ruling until the ruling
itself could be argued before the
appellate court and a final de-
termination made.
Prettyman Dissents
Yesterday the court granted
Mr.. Becker's request. Appellate
Judge John H. Danaher and Dis
trict Judge Charles F. McLaugh-
lin. sitting by designation. con-
Cured in the action. Appellate
Judge E. Barrett Prettyman dis
scented.
The majority did not go into
any details in the order staying
the injunction.
But Judge Prettyman, oppos-
ing the stay, declared the In
junction was just a means OF
preventing IAN interim admin
istrative action which might
destroy Feasted while he is pur-
suing the remedy appeal to
CSC the statute gives him."
The judge continued: "A Gov
eminent employee on q small SAL
airy may suffer irreparably by
payless months. 49,"
No Opinion on Suit.
The judge made 1t clear he
was not expressing an opinion
on the merits of Mr.. Feasted's
suit. which alleged he was fired
Illegally.
Perhaps" Judge Prettyman
wrote, "the complaint should be
dismissed =. but no such action
has been proposed or taken. The
complaint Is alive and pending.
That being so, the status quo
should be preserved"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-24
Super " Channel
Reported Developing
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK, July 24.-The
New York Times said today the
Army is developing a super
communications channel that
greatly outperforms the coaxial
cable for multiple television net
work operations. /"
In a dispatch from Fort Mon
mouth, N. j., the Times said the
new channel has reached high
degree of efficiency" Quoting
Army engineers and scientists,
it added that the channel al
ready transmits 80 programs at
one time and .the limit still
seems far away"
The newspaper said the new
channel is expected to be of
greatest use in the ultra high
frequencies which may be used
some day by several thousand
stations.
The superchannel is known as
/ q CLINE" the Times said, and,
was invented by DR.. Georg
Goubau. Unlike the coaxial
cable, which carries programs on
separate wires that make up the
cable. the G-wire carries all its
programs on one single strand.
the Times said.
Instead of travelling through
the wire, the waves are carried
on the outside of the G-wire, the
newspaper said. DR.. Goubau
was quoted as saying that many
programs may be thrown in to-
gether and sorted out again in
their respective destinations. =
The new channel is being de-
veloped at the Coles Signal Lab
oratory Of the United States
Signal Corps Development Gem
ter here.
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salary step
Of each grade.
and this in
crease would
apply to all
the within
steps Of the
graz e. EN-
ployes earn
ing 3.40O q
year or less
would get q
$170 increase.
and t hO S e.
making So. 800
annually or
=. :. ..l...,s Z, -. 4
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members would be selected by
President Eisenhower. OF the
four, two would be officials Of
postal employe unions. and two
would be from the Post Office
Department.
The postal phase Of the pay
legislation also would provide a
500 uniform allowance and BIZ
weekly pay periods for postal
workers. 1t would not provide
another 500 longevity increase
for postal employees, as is pro-
vided for in the House commit
tees bill.
listen to the Federal Spot
light radio program at Gas
o'clock tonight oper WMALJ
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-24
Doctors Refused to Aid
Boy. Red Paper Suys
BY fhe Assoeioted Prass

MOSCOW, July 24.-The So
Wet newspaper Medical Worker
complained yesterday that a q
year-old boy in Dnepropetrovsk,
Ukraine, died of appendicitis,
even though his mother called
on five doctors and rushed him
to two hospitals.
From all. the paper said. he
got refusals to treat him or in
correct diagnoses. The paper de-
manded action against persons
responsible.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-24
l4Mormons Imprisoned
In CzechosIovukio
BY the A..oelss.d Pres.

VIENNA, July IA court at
Brno, Czechoslovakia. recently
sentenced IA members of the
Mormon Church to prison terms
ranging from three to eight
years, the Free Europe Com
mittee announced today.
The Mormons were accused Of
having printed and distributed
illegal leaflets in Czechoslovakia,
the committee said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-24
Four Arlington Candidates

The filing deadline for candi-
dates in the Arlington County
Board election passed at mid
night without any surprise en-
tries. Four candidates are COM
peting for the one board seat to
be filled in the general election
November 2.
The candidates are Mrs. Leone
B. Buckholz, incumbent chair
man of the board: Ivan A
Booker, Daniel A. Dugan and
Brian Bell.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-24
Resort Area Forecast
(Sundoy)

Blue Ridge-FaiF and mod
crate with high 1880.
Il Upper Bay-Sunny and
moderate with high 80-85
and northwest winds 1915
miles per hour.
Lower Bay-Sunny and
moderate with high 80-85
and northerly winds Is miles.
per hour.
Rehoboth- Ocean City -
Sunny and moderate with
high 1896 and northwest
winds 10-15 miles per hour.
Virginia Beach - Sunny
and moderate with high 81
86 and northwest winds
1915 miles per hour.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-24
Sc Drown as Boots Sink

LAHORE. Pakistan. July "a
(Pl.-Fifty-six persons were re-
ported drowned today In the
sinking of two river boats in
Pakistan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-24
Gravel Pit Bottle

A feud over the proposed To-
cation of a gravel pit near
Temple Hills in Prince Georges
County is still raging.
In the latest development,
Chief John B. Gray, jr., of
Prince Georges Circuit Court has
been asked to block efforts of
the gravel pit site owners to
win an injunction against the
county commissioners. The pro-
posed Injunction would bar the
commissioners from enforcing
coming regulations, under which
they denied permission for the
gravel pit operation. Residents
OF the area also are fighting
against location Of the gravel
pit near them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-24
Lukes' Elevation Worries

DULUTH.-The elevations of
the Great Lakes varies from 6o2
feet for Lake Superior to 246
feet, for Lake Ontario. ii
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-24
Maryland
and
Virginia
News in Brief
Inspection Merger Urged
In Alexandria Survey
STAR Stan Photo

Consolidation Of three inspec-
ton departments into a single
Office of building and zoning
regulations is recommended for
Alexandria by team Of experts
making survey of the city's
government.
A report on the Offices 81
building inspections, plumbing
inspections and electrical inspec-
tons is the fifth of a series of
survey reports made public to-
day. It srecommends that these
three departments merge, and
suggests 81 other changes to i'm
prove efficiency and convenience
Tor the public in inspection
services.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-24
The Federal Spotlight
Committee Action Improves
Chances Of so Pay Raises

BY Joseph YOUNG

Federal raise chances appeared improved today follow
ing the Senate Civil Service Commuters classified
and postal pay raise legislation. aS#sse ##
The Senate unit yesterday approved an approximate
cent raise for Government classified employees with $170 mini
a maximum @-----
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Tunisiu Warfare Kills 155

TUNIS. Tunisia, July "a (P.-
French authorities said today
political murder and guerrilla
warfare in Tunisia have cost l55
lives in the past four months.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-24

The measure would provide q
5 per cent raise on the starting
Evening star., 1954-11-21

town is on an old Indian trail
that led from Detroit.
In New England, Washing
ton, Vt.,. is in the dairy farm
ing region at the headwaters
of the Connections and Wi
nooski Rivers-one flowing
east, the other west. Wash
ington, N. H., is a popular
summer resort surrounded by
% lakes and ponds. Connecti-
cuts Washington is a pictur-
esque hilltop village with a
museum which displays In
dian and Colonial articles.
Washington, Tex, was
where the Lone Star States
Declaration of Independence
was signed in the town black
smith shop. The community
Evening star., 1954-11-21

miles from Atlanta. In the
fertile Piedmont section, this
town still gives out Southern
charm with its fine old Co
lonial homes.
Another washington with
Civil War history is In Arkan-
saS, where the Confederate
State Capitol once was. Gen.
Albert Sidney Johnston, Con-
federate hero, was born in
Washington. KY, where the
parents Of Chief Justice Mar
shall are buried.
In Washington, Mich, they
have an annual Harvest
Homecoming" in September
when George and Martha
Washington ride again in an
old-fashioned carriage. The
Evening star., 1954-11-21

was the first capital of Texas
1.-The lace manufacturing
center of the nation" is what
citizens of Rhode Islands
Washington call their city.
The home of Gen. Nathaniel
Greene, second in command
to Gen. Washington during
the Revolution, is here.
The most familiar Wash
ington, next to our own, is
perhaps Washington, Va, in
Rappahannock County, with
its woman mayor and other
women civic leaders.
And there are other Wash
ingtonS, too. Scattere d
throughout the nation-each
with its own special claim to
fame.
Evening star., 1954-11-21

Fitted Zippered
Dressing Cose hond-
somely crofted OF
top : oroin cowhide
with nire useful
coco bolo fittings to
keep your troveling
man we'll orooned
initials orotis.
$1,000
Plus Toe Federal Tex
Evening star., 1954-11-21

Here's the onsWer 70
your pockino pro-
lection. Quort size
bottle ouord in green
Or red ploid nylon.
Corryino hondle
Ieother covered bot
TOM. Plostic jigeer
cup included.
$3.50
The frontiersman., 1954-07-29

ganizations interested in reduc- ing accidents on the farms in Am erica" said Ned H. Dearborn, president of the National Safety Council.
 "The 11th National Farm Safe ty Week will be a good test of this increased efficiency" MT. Dearborn said.
 T urgently request all farm residents to make every effort to develop safe work habits and skills, so that they may Farm to live-and live to farm,' " said the Presidential proclamation. T also request all persons and organiza- tions interested in farm life and welfare to join in the campaign to free as many homes as possible from the tragedies and losses caused by needless accidents"