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Evening star., 1954-07-15
Teen Ayers Accused
OF Burning AirInan
With Cigarettes
By the A.soeioied Press

MONTGOMERY. Ala, July 15..
Police and Air Force author.
ities investigating a series of
attacks here on Yankee" mill
tary personnel charged four
teen-agers yesterday with burn
ing an airn1an with lighted
cigarettes.
The arrests followed a series
Of eight reported incidents since
June % in which Northern air.
men stationed at nearby Maxwell
and Gunter Air Force Bases have
clashed with teen-agers.
Glenn E. Hunter of Harbor
Beach, Mich, an airman from
Gunter, said he was held and
burned with cigarettes Saturday
after a group of teen-agers called
ham Yankee" during an argu-
ment over racial segregation.
Youths Admit Burning.
The four youths arrested yes
terday admitted thrusting burn
ing cigarettes against Mr..
Hunters arm, but said he urged
them to do it as a "test" of
courage.
Scars from cigarette burns also
were found on the arms of two of
the young civilians, police said.
The boys we're identified as
BENJAMIN C. Vann, 18; John
Lewis Cregler, 18; Bobby Towns
Pace, II, and John Cook, 18.
They were released in 500 bond
each pending hearing tomorrow
in Recorders Court on charges
Of assault and battery.
The Air Force identified two
Of the airmen attacked in other
incidents as Robert w. Flath, jr.,
of Glendale, N. Y, and Raymond
L. Riddle of Leavenworth, Wash.
Threatens to Invoke Curfew.
Police Commissioner Dave
Birmingham threatened to in
woke a 9 pm. curfew ordinance
for juveniles unless the attacks
are halted.
Police said between 20 and 80
teen-agers had been mustered by
telephone last week to a down.
town drugstore for a fight with
military personnel, but squad
cars arrived in time to halt the
battle royal.
Meanwhile, the Air Force an
nounced that all military per-
sonnel have been issued specific
instructions that no planned"
retaliation will be tolerated.
Evening star., 1954-07-15
Foirfox Hunter
Shoots AHigotor,
Proves His Story

Every one laughed when Paul
Mason said he saw 8 baby AlIi-
gator on the Willard estate, right
in downtown Fairfax, Va.
They aren't laughing any more.
He shot it.
Mr.. Mason is caretaker on the
fenced-in estate Of the late Col.
Joseph E. Willard, founder Of
Washington's Willard Hotel. The
estate is one block from the
county courthouse.
Mr.. Mason had been saying
he had seen an alligator several
times. Yesterday he produced
the carcass Of a 2O-inch four
legged creature which looks every
bit like a baby alligator.
He said he shot the creature
in q narshy area Of the estate
just to prove he wasn't seeing
things and also to stop his
friends from laughing.
Evening star., 1954-07-15

told the board the overpass sys-
tenn has been indorsed by Gen.
James A. Anderson. State high
way commissioner.
Evening star., 1954-07-15

Here ore the cool, crisp bIouses
you wont for voeotion wear.
Sleeveless and short-sleeve
styles IN loo96 nyIon ond
butcher. royons. Lovely prints
and posteIs. Sizes 81 to 5s.
An Three Stores
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-15
Bride, ~, Accuses
Co-Worker Of Attack

A 19-year-old bride of three
weeks told police she was
criminally attacked last night by
a fellow employe of a Wash
ington athletic goods store.
Medical examination confirmed
she had been assaulted, police
said.
The accused man, Kenneth
Jobes, 81, of Rockville, Md, was
arrested on a United States Com
missioner's warrant charging
rape, and was due for an extra
dition hearing there this after
noon.
The girl, married to soldier
now en- route to Korea, told po-
lice she accompanied number
of store employees to several res
taurants after work yesterday.
One couple. she said, left a
restaurant and when they failed
to return, she agreed to accom-
pany Jobes to look for them. In
stead, she told police. he drove
to the grounds of the Soldiers
Home, where the attack oc-
Cured.
Jobes took her back to the
restaurant. she said, where she
reported the assault. Police were
notified and JobeS was picked
I'D later.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-15
By Crosby S. Moves
Foreign Correspondent of The StaF

PARIS, July 15.-Surprise and
joy are the universal first re-
actions here to the agreement
reached between the Big Three
foreign ministers. These emo
lions are only slightly tempered
by the embarrassment of those
dopesters who predicted, on what
they believed to be best au-
thority, that it would not hap
pen.
The communique issued at the
end of the talks tells part of
the story and hints at the real
drama of the encounter between
Secretary of State Dulles, British
Foreign Secretary Eden and
French Premier Mendes-F France.
One sentence sums up Mr..
Dulles argument that the Unit
ed States should not become
more closely involved in the
Geneva conference or a settle
ment of the Indo- Chinese war.
The next sentence presents the
cot1nterarguments advanced by
Mr.. Eden and Mr.. Mendes-
France: !, That in the interest
of peace and freedom the United
States should radically raise the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-15
Agreement on Peace Terms
At Paris Conference Reported
U.S.. Would Guarantee Truce Line
By Southeast Asion Military Pact

level of its representation in
Geneva during the closing days.
And at the end comes the de-
cision between these two ap-
parently conflicting ideas I'm
dersecretary Walter Bedell Smith
will return to Geneva as quickly
as possible.
Diplomatic Phenomenon.
In short, what happened in
Paris was a rare phenomenon
in modern diplomacy. Three
men got together in friendly
argument and one of them
actually changed his mind. AS a
result, Secretary Dulles has
agreed to give the British and
French the support they have
been pleading for in the final
negotiations with the Commu-
nistS.
AS understood here the actual
agreement goes much further
than the sparse wording Of the
communique. In addition to
sending Gen. Smith to Geneva,
the allies are said to have
reached clear agreement on the
terms of an acceptable settle
ment in Tndo-C China. And II
(See MOVES. Page A-3.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-15
7U. 5. Soldiers Freed
ACzech Border After
Z Days in Captivity
BY the Associated Press

WAIDHAUS, Germany, July
15.-Seven American soldiers,
held in Communist Czechoslo-
vakia since American Independ-
ence Day. crossed the border to
freedom today at 1903 pm. T:08
EDIT after IL days in captivity.
The seven, six enlisted men
and a captain, were turned over
at this West German-C Czech bor-
der point where Associated Press
Correspondent William Oats was
freed more than a year ago. They
appeared to be in good condition
and reported "the food was
good" Army authorities said.
They were met by a detach-
ment from the United States I'd
Armored Cavalry, which is sta
toned along the East-West
frontier.
An Army spokesman said
earlier that latter a routine
interrogation, a news conference
will be held" probably Saturday.
The seven, members of the
816th Field Artillery Battalion,
are:
Capt. Jack M. Davis, the bat
talon surgeon, Raytown, Mo-;
Corpl. John F. Glasson, Oakdale,
Calf: Pfc. Jerry w. Griffith,
Springfield, Ohio; Pfc. George
Switzer, Milburn, Nebr.; Pfc.
Leonard D. Tennis, Alliance,
Ohio; Pvt. Richard j. Jumper
Boonville, Miss, and Pvt. Ross F.
McGinnis, Greensburg, Pa.
The seven were brought to the
border in a dusty Czech bus, and
as they climbed out some Of
them appeared red-eyed and
nervous but in good health.
Two of the men were carrying
the cameras they apparently
had taken with them on their
sightseeing trip to the border.
The Americans had driven to
the Czech border in q weapons
carrier truck July 4. Later.
patrols found the abandoned
Army vehicle near the border
on the German side.
In a protest note delivered
several days later, the Czech
authorities said the Americans
had penetrated deeply into
Czechoslovak territory. They
claimed the soldiers carried
cameras and took forbidden pic
lures.
The United States State De-
partment, in a sharp note. re-
piled that the men were "ab-
Quoted" and demanded their
immediate release.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-15
Thunderstorm Skaters Grip
OfHedt Wave Override Area
Mercury PIunees as Winds Fell Trees
And Power Lines; Rain EIotes Formers

that should last us for a week. /"
He said corn had been at a crit
ical stage and pasture land has
suffered heavily from heat and
drought.
Yesterdays 1O0-degree heat
broke the record for July II by
two degrees. The previous mark
was set in 1881.
Tt felled 10 or more area resi-
dents and was unoff1cially
blamed at at least two deaths;
suspected in q third.
Hospital Worker Dies.
The fatalities:
Steve Athey, So, of 3117 North
Twenty second street. Arlington,
a laundry room employee at Dis
trict General Hospital. He died
nine hours after he collapsed at
work.
Bernard Edwin Vint, Al, of
the Central Union Mission, 613
c street NV, who was found
dead in an alley behind the Po-
lice Traffic Division in the 500
block Of c street NV.
James Kennedy, 10, of II
South street, Fairfax County,
who died while playing in a
church playground in the Del
Ray section of Alexandria. The
boys father, Alfred Kennedy,
(See WEATHER. Page A-2)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-15

Scherer, Republican, of Ohio to
suggest that the testimony be re-
ferred to the Attorney General
for possible decentralization
procedure. Chairman Velde, Re-
publican, Of Illinois said the COM
mittee would take up the ques-
ton in executive session.
List of Witnesses.
The witnesses were:
l. Victor Fleischer, an auto me-
chanic who lives in the 1900
block of Mississippi avenue Sc,
and who testified that he worked
as a machinist in the Naval Gun
Factory here from 1910 to 1945.
2. Ray I. PinksOn, an cleo
trician living in the 1900 block
of Flanders avenue, Kensington,
Md, who said he worked in the
Norfolk Navy Yard from 1912 to
1945. He was the witness whose
decentralization was suggested
at the hearing.
3. Alexander Sherman of the
TOO block of Seventeenth street
NV, a public relations man who
said he is now operating con-
sultant" or promoter for a local
theater.
In questioning Mr.. Fleischer
the committee counsel Frank S.
Tavenner, jr., read from Mrs.
Markward's testimony about a
highly secret underground cell
of the Communist Party at the
Naval Gun Factory. Mrs. Mark
ward had seen Mr.. Fleischer as
member of this group which
she referred to as WIT.
Mr.. Fleischer refused to say
(See UN-AMERICAN Po A.S1
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-15
BrowneII Law Firm
Into Probe
Of Housing Scandals
Long Island Builder
Quizzed on Report He
Profited by S. Million
By Francis P. Douglas

The name of Attorney Cen
eral Brownell was brought into
the Senate investigation of
housing scandals today with the
Identification of a builders tax
attorney as a member Of Mr..
Brownell's former law firm in
New York.
The builder. Alfred Gross of
New York, testified about the
construction of Glen Oaks Viii
lage. an apartment project built
with Federal Housing Admins
tration-guaranteed mortgages at
Jamaica, Long Island. Questions
sought to elicit admissions from
Mr.. Gross that he and his family
had profited by Sc million.
AS the hearing got underway
today, the FILA fired Burton C.
Bovard. its general counsel who
refused to resign after investi-
cations were started into wind
fall profits from Government
backed housing construction.
Mr.. Bovard has been on
leave since May 7. Norman P.
Mason, acting FILA commissioner,
charged then Mr.. Bovard had
failed to carry out the func-
tons of his Office satisfactory"
Charges Publicity"
Also Senator Capehart, chair
man of the committee, said
today that Clyde L. Powell.
ousted assistant commissioner of
the Federal Housing Admins
tration, was 100 per cent look
ing for publicity" when he chal-
lenged the accuracy of an FBI
report on him.
The FBI statement purported
to be a record of Mr.. Powells
arrests on larceny, check forg-
ing and embezzlement. It had
been placed in the record of the
Banking Committees hearing
into housing scandals.
During questioning Of Mr..
Cross about the alleged Sc mil
lion profit, it developed that the
construction contract has re-
suited in tax litigation because
taxes were figured on long
term capital gain basis instead
of as income taxes. The result
would be less tax liability.
Consulted Tax Lawyer.
Mr.. Gross testified that before
acting on the tax matter a tax
attorney named Harry Rudick
was consulted. Senator May
bank, Democrat, of South Caro-
lima, asked if Mr.. Rudick was not
a member of the law firm Of
Lord, Day & Lord, "the firm Mr..
Brownell belonged to-"
Mr.. Gross said that was so,
but that Mr.. Rudick has been
advising for us for about 10
years." and had not been asso-
ciated with the law firm at the
beginning of that period.
William Simon, committee
counsel. told the committee that
in the case of one of six cor
porationS which erected the
Shirley Duke Apartments in
Alexandria, the income was
treated as capital gains under a
Government opinion approving
that step, but the opinion did not
(See HOUSING, Page A-3.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-15
Permanent Annuity Raise
Bill Advanced in House

The House Civil Service Com
mittee today approved the bill
to make permanent the tenn
porary annuity increase given
retired Government workers sew
eral years ago.
The annuity increase is due to
expire next June 80 unless Con-
gress makes it permanent.
There are now about $50, 900
retired Federal workers receiv-
ing pensions. about 5000 in. the
Washington area.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-15
Pentogon Is Still Awaiting
McCurthy's 1871 Names

Defense Department officials
said today they have never re-
ceived the list of 131 names of
alleged subversives in defense
plants which Senator Mccarthy
testified at the recent Army
Mccarthy investigation he had
in his possession.
During the hearing, Senator
Mccarthy said he would make
the list available to the Penta-
gon.
Fred Seaton, Assistant De-
Tense Secretary. told the Senate
Armed Services Committee to-
day he had requested the list
of Senator McCarthy's ONCE
several times in oral conversaA
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-15
3 From D. {. Area
Refuse 10 Answer
Questions on Reds
House Group Tries
To Quiz Trio Named
By FIJI informant

Three Washington area wit
nesses, including two wartime
Navy Yard employees, today re-
fused to tell the House Un-Amer-
lean Activities Committee about
their reported membership in
the Communist Party.
All three had been named by
an FBI informant, Mrs. Mary
Stalcup Markward, as party
members during her seven years
of spying on the party UP to the
spring of 1851.
The refusal of one of the wit
neSses prompted Representative
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-15
cIordy's Objection
TO Cameras Draws
Snoppier Reply

When Attorney Joseph
Forer asked for an end to
photographing his client at
today's session of the House
U MA m e rio a n Activities
Committee, Representative
Clardy, Republican, of
Michigan, objected.
eff anybody has any OBJ
lection, it ought to be me"
commented the Michigan
legislator. Photographers
always take my picture with
my mouth hanging OPEN"
"How else can they get
your picture?" retorted Rep
resentative Walter, Demo-
crat, of Pennsylvania.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-15

ton and once in a formal let
ter"
Mr.. Seaton and Defense Sec
rotary Wilson both said the list
had never been received.
Mr.. Wilson said I'VE don't feel
we need the list" But he con-
ceded ''there might be a few
names on the list that we don't
know about" and added that
he would cooperate" with Sen
ator Mccarthy if the list were
produced. !
The question of the Mccarthy
list of defense plant subversives
was raised by Senator Case.
Republican. of South Dakota
during q hearing on internal
security programs Of the milf
tary establishment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-15
Storm Sets Off Sirens,
Rousing Entire Town


TEANECK. N. j., July IS
Air raid sirens on all eight
schools burst into action at l1:48
o'clock last night during the
height of a wind and rain storm,
rousing the entire township.
So many persons flooded police
headquarters with phone calls
that police were unable to make
an outgoing call, so:
All of the 200 auxiliary police
turned out for what they thought
was q civil defense emergency.
The sirens, set OF by q short
circuit. were turned OF at 12:l1
an. today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-15
Here's a Solution
To Weekend Guests

THE GREAT iNDooRS-If friends
from the country mar your oir-condi.
toned city week ends, you'll oppre-
eiote the words Of odviee from AssO-
eioted Press Writer Hal Boyle. Poss
Az.
CONES THE EVoLuTlok-oe-
sisner PouIihe Trigere believes in
evolution, not revolution. How she
works and some Of her creations ore
discussed by EIeDi on pose B-4.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-15
Eclipse of Moon
Will Be Visible
In District Tonight

Washington area residents will
see a celestial display tonight
weather permitting.
Locally partial eclipse Of the
moon will be seen from moon
rise at 1925 pm. until 9:31 pm.
if the sky is clear. The eclipse
will be half over five minutes
before the moon rises here.
Maximum blackout when the
earth comes between the sun
and the moon will be 40 per cent
of the moons diameter, the
Naval Observatory reported.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-15
Pentagon Is Probing
302 Loyalty Risks,
Senate Group Told
Wilson Discloses Status
Of Program; 80 Fired
In Drive Since March !
By John A. Giles

The armed services reported
to Congress today that they now
are investigating 1872 security
cases involving questions of 10y
atty and that 80 such persons
have been dismissed from the
ranks since March !.
These statistics were given to
the Senate Armed Services Com
mittee in a hearing on the Sc
curity check program of the
Defense Department. The COM
mittee called for an interim re-
port on what is being done to
weed subversives out of the
armed forces.
1.-THE Department Of Defense
has the situation well in hand"
Secretary of Defense Wilson de-
clared.
He reported that during the
last four months the Pentagon
had reduced from 20 to Z, mostly
by discharges, the number of
cases of physicians and dentists
who refused to say whether they
are Communists after they had
been drafted.
individual Reports.
His general statement was
followed by individual reports
by the Army. Navy and Air Force.
The Army reported 237 pend
ing Investigations, the Air Force
SO and the Navy 81.
OF the dismissalS in the last
four months, 48 were in the
Army, % in the Navy and 8 in
the Air Force.
Since last March the Army has
opened 214 new cases, the Navy
% and the Air Force 26.
Heretofore the Pentagon has
kept such statistics in a secret
status.
But officials today gave a COM
plete rundown on the loyalty
check program which has been
the subject of much criticism on
Capitol Hill. Mr.. Wilson said
1901 persons were engaged in
such investigative work and that
some 2.5 million cases had been
reviewed since 1850.
But he made it clear that the
military did not intend to con-
duct any witch hunts nor did it
intend to be pushed into over
zealousness by publicity given
individual cases.
Calm, prudent fairness must
go hand in hand with our as
siduous efforts to carry out this
program lest through over
anxiety concerning an over-pub-
licized case or two we may ap-
proach hysteria and endangeI
the very foundations of our bull
wark against communism" the
secretary declared. Senators
congratulated him on that state
ment.
48 Dropped by Army.
Testifying for the Army. As
sistant Secretary Hugh M. Mil
ton II said that between March
81 and June 80 48 men were dis
charged from the service fol
security reasons. OF these, one
enlisted man not on active duty
was given a general discharge
which is neither honorable mol
dishonorable; six officers, OF
| whom one was on active duty
and i've not on active duty were
given ''other than honorable
discharges and Al enlisted men
were given undesirable dis
charges.
The Army official said that
the 20 cases of doctors serving
in an enlisted status who had
been denied commissions for
security reason, 18N were in the
Army. That number has now
been reduced to six, he said.
Two of the physicians, Mr..
Milton said. came in under the
regular draft and the Army de-
cided to keep them in nonsense
tive jobs.
| The Army. he said also has one
(See WILSON, Page A-3) 4
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-15

the 80s, a low of 81 tonight and
the low 80s with fair skies to-
morrow and probably Saturday.
The overture to heat relief
was about the usual Washington
pattern-winds up to SO miles
an hour which felled trees and
disrupted power. brilliant light
ming and a sharp temperature
drop. The mercury skidded from
100 degrees at 6 pm, to II
degrees after the storm passed.
At National Airport, the
Weather Bureaus radarscope,
covering a 100-mile radius, was
filled with thunderstorms and
rain.
Relief for Farmers.
1t was real relief to farmland.
Loudoun County Agricultural
Agent w. w. Turner described
it as real good soaker and one
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-15

A crashing thunderstorm,
bringing almost an inch of
sorely needed rain. broke UP a
100-degree heat wave and pulled
comfortable weather back to the
Washington area today.
BY comfortable. +" the Weather
Bureau means temperatures in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-15
Reds Lift Marriage Ban

BERLIN, July Is (P.-Soviet
authorities have lifted a nine
year-old ban and are now allow
ing Russians to marry Germans,
the anti Communist Information
Bureau West (IWEl reported
today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-15

Storms and Cool Air Bring Relief as
U. S. Deoths Reoeh 96. Page Az
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(See MOVES, Page A-3.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-15

(See WEATHER, Page A-2.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-15
Geneva Farley
Awaits Return
Of BedeII Smith
Chances for Accord,
!. Held improved BY
Renewed U. S. RoI9

GENEVA, July 15.-France
and Britain, elated by new sup
port from the United StateS,
today opened the showdown
phase of negotiations with the
Communists aimed at ending
the Indo-China war.
French Premier Pierre MendeS-
Wet Mini Troops Capture Two Posts os
Monsoon Hits Delto. Poee A
Reynoud Sees Fronee Isolated on De-
tense Problem. Pooe A
Poris Tolks improved Allied Unity on
Asio, Dulles Says on Arrival. Poee A-3
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-28
Liquor Store Owner
Wins License Fiqht

Lyman j. 'Minkoff. proprietor
of the Acme Liquor Supply Co.,
l400 North Capitol street. has
won his fight to operate a pack
age liquor store after a three
year battle with the Alcoholic
Beverage Control Board.
His license was revoked in
February, 1851, after he was in
dicted for neglecting to report
three large sales of liquor to a
North Carolina man. The indict-
ment, however, was dismissed In
District Court after he compro-
missed the case by paying 81, 0oo
to the Treasury Department.
The board ignored the dis
missal and after a hearing re-
voked his license. He then ap-
pealed to the District Court,
which ruled in favor of the ABC
Board, and then appealed to the
Court of Appeals. Every year
he made application for a license
but his request was refused. He
remained open on a court order
which expires tomorrow.
The ABC Board has accepted
his license fee for the last three
years and also accepted his ap-
plication for a renewal. How
ever, the license for 1854 will
not be issued until a hearing is
held by the board. which prob
ably will be February 8. He will
be closed from February until
the board issues his new license.