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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-08
Home-Profection Course
Begun by Civil Defense

The District Office of Civil De-
Tense last night launched four
session course to train instruc-
tors for its home protection pro-
gram.
Enrolled in the course are
members of civic associations
and women'S clubs, who are to
go into every neighborhood in
the city to carry the program
to as many homes as possible.
Mrs. Ethel Sears Weller, CO.
ordinator of the program, said
the course is simple and brief
ut teaches only seven protective
measures, but they are enough,
if carried out in homes. to great
~ enhance the chances of sur
vival of a family in an enemy
attack" she said.
Last nights. opening lecture
for instructors was held at the
Departmental Auditorium. Sub
Sequent lectures are to be held
at 8 pm. on April IA, 81 and %
in the auditorium of the Board
of Trade Building, 1916 K street
NV.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-08
Two Brothers SouqhI
In Hiring Juveniles
For $1,000 Robbery

Police today were searching
for two brothers they said had
taken part in importing a pair
of Baltimore teen-agers for an
ambush-robbery here.
The deal was arranged, ac-
cording to police. through a third
Baltimore juvenile. who acted as
go-between. The pair received
$3.50 each and cab fare, police
said.
Already under arrest in con-
nection with the $4,000 robbery
were Warren Paul Briggs, 10,
two juveniles and a Washington
cab driver-accused by police of
taking an active part in the case.
When Briggs appeared today
before United States Commits
sioner, Cyril S. Lawrence. he was
held for grand jury action. Mr..
Lawrence set bond at $4,000.
The robbery victim, Richard
Salins, %. of 5701 Blair road
NE, told police two men jumped
from behind a hedge near his
home as he started for work
early in the morning of March 20.
Grab Box and Escape.
Mr.. Salins, who works with his
4 parents at a Union Terminal
Market produce stand. was car
rying more than $4,000 in a fish
ing tackle box. He swung the
box at his assailants, but the
handle broke. They grabbed the
box and escaped in a waiting
automobile.
Police got their first break on
the case when an anonymous
tipster called Detective Sergt.
Mark Gray to suggest that ION
that tin-can case, why don't you
check the PettaS brothers"
An investigation revealed that
the brothers had left town by
plane, rented an expensive apart
ment in New York and were on
a buying spree there.
Arrest warrants for the Pettas
brothers-Danny, "a, and George,
%, Of the 1400 block of Saratoga
avenue N.E.-were signed by
Commissioner Lawrence.
Leave Minutes Before.
New York City police were no.
tilted. but the two had checked
out of their apartment minutes
before the officers arrived, Sergt.
Gray said.
Arrested in Washington after
further investigation was Wilson
P. Privitera, q, cab driver of
the 4100 block of Livingston road
Sc, who is accused of driving
the getaway car and helping hire
the juveniles.
Sergt. Gray and Detective
Sergt. James Roche, also of the
Robbery Squad, followed the
arrest with trip to Baltimore,
where they picked up two juve-
nile suspects. The third was
arrested soon afterward by Bal
timore police.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-08
Psychiotrists Watch
Parents React to
Polio Vaccine Talk

Parents who attended
three meetings in Fairfax
County last night to hear
about the Salk polio vaccine
tests in which their children
are to participate also served
as part of the experiment.
PsychiatristS and other.
specialists from the National
Institutes of Health were
present to see how the par
ents reacted to the idea of
having their children in
noculated. At two of the
meetings, the psychiatrists
sat unidentified among the
audience. and they actually
conducted the third meeting
which was held at Centre
vile.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-08
Arlington Holds Dc. Man
On Narcotics CHARGE

A District man, charged with
fraudulent purchase of a mar
cotic. has been ordered held for
action of the Arlington grand
jury.
Detective Thomas Tracy said
James j. Pursell, 80, of the $500
block of Sixteenth street NV,
is accused of illegal purchase of
a medicine containing a mar
cotic. Pursell was arrested Feb
ruary q in his Washington
apartment and charged with
making the illegal purchase at
an Arlington drugstore by giving
a false address.
County Court Judge Hugh c.
Cregger conducted the prelim-
mary hearing yesterday and
ordered Pursell held for the
grand jury.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-08
Fine Will Cost Him $7OO-Not Penny Less

The United States Attorneys
Office, after failing to prove that
a 500 bill is actually 5000
bill. changed tactics in Munich
pal Court and admitted the Bu-
reau of Engraving and Printing
had the right idea in the first
place.
1t started yesterday when the
Government charged Cecil Nc
Pherson. 81, colored, of the 900
block of o street NV. with
petty larceny-that is stealing a
$780, bill.
Alfred Pasek, 40. who has a
meat store at 932 M street NV,
had reported to police that Nc
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-08
National Symphony
Plans First Opera,
Mozan's Cost

The National Symphony Or
chestra will take a fling at opera
next season.
A concert version of Mozart's
"Cosi Fan lutte" will be a high
light of the winter concert sched-
ule, the orchestra's management
announced today. Paul Galloway,
director of music at Washington
Cathedral, will conduct. The
soloists have not yet been
engaged.
"Cosi" will be the orchestra's
first venture into full-length
opera. The Mozart opera. one
of his most admired but least
known, recently enjoyed a highly
successful revival at the Metro
politan.
Mailer Symphony.
Gustav Mahler'S gigantic
Resurrection Symphony will
be another special feature of
next winters season.
Also announced today were a
number of soloists who will ap-
pear at the orchestra's subscrip-
ton concerts.
The "odd series" will include
appearances by Zinc Frances
catti, Leonard Bernstein, Vic
toria de los Angeles, Artur Ru-
binstein, Margaret Tolson, Wer-
ner Lywen and the Howard Uni
versity Choir.
Even Series.
The "even series" lists Dame
Myra Hess. Robert Casadesus,
Clifford Curzon, and a Joint ap-
pearance by Isaac Stern and
Gregor Piatgorsky. as we'll as the
Smith and Amherst College glee
clubs.
"Cosi Fan lutte" will be given
on the even series and also at a
Thursday matinee at Lisner
Auditorium. Mr.. Francescatti,
Dame Myra and Mr.. Curzon also
will appear at Lisner in addi-
ton to the evening engagements.
Conductor Howard Mitchell
has tentatively planned a per-
Torrance of "Carmina Burana'
by Carl Orff for the Howard
choir'S appearance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-08
Housewife, 80, Attacked
By Masked Man Here

A masked intruder choked and
raped a 38-year-old housewife in
the basement of her apartment
house last night, police reported.
1t. John L. Sullivan of the sex
squad said the man came into
the basement of the building in
the 1900 block of Twelfth street
NV. while the woman was hang
ing up her laundry.
He dragged her into a boiler
room, threw her to the floor and
ripped off her clothing. He then
grabbed her by the neck and
beat her head against the floor.
The woman lost consciousness.
When she came to, the man fed.
He was described as a colored
man about 6 feet tall. Police
said he wore a handkerchief
over the lower part of his face.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-08

AT that point. however. the
Government switched charges
dropping the petty larceny
charge and lodged a taking
property without right charge
against Mcpherson.
That was more like it for
Judge Scott.
When the case came up again
this morning the Judge found
Mcpherson guilty and sentenced
him to a 500 fine or 80 days
in Jail plus so days in Jail any,
way. That's 80 days in Jail un-
less Mcpherson can produce
$10o in fully evaluated money.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-08
FIaherty Goes 10 Board
In Step Toward Retirinq

Inspector jeremiah F. Fla
herty, "Mr. Homicide" today
went before the Policemen's and
Firemen's Retiring Board in the
last official step leading to the
end of his 32-year police career.
The board was to hear a re-
port from the Board of Police
and Fire Surgeons. which was
expected to approve retirement.
If today's board, made up of
a deputy police chief, a Fire De-
partment battalion chief and
members of the corporation
counsel's staff, acts as predicted,
Inspected Flaherty will retire
April 30.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-08

A. Some might have a sore arm
for a few hours.
@. My son had gamma glObulin
last year. Should he take the
vaccine?
A. Certainly. The immunity
effect of gamma globulip lasts
only a short time.
@. W.T. has been the Incl
dence o, 'olio among those chill
dren in .'ittsburgh who already
have received the vaccine?
A. None.
@. How about the vaccine'S
effect on kidney functions and
on RH factors? Is the child
briefly sensitive to polio after
receiving the shots? "a mother
read the questions from a news
paper account Of a Michigan
State Medical Society meeting.)
A. A year-long test has shown
no effect on kidneys. The method
of producing the vaccine makes
the RH factor dangers insig-
niflcant. according to the United
States Public Health Service.
There have been no signs Cf
sensitivity to polio after the vac
cine is administered.
@. Have dead virus ever been
used for any other type vaccine?
A. Yes. Smallpox, for instance.
@. Did Montgomery County
drop out on advice of Johns
Hopkins experts?
A. They said they couldn't get
the vaccine in time to complete
the tests before school ends this
year They have longer Easter
vacation than we do.
@. Can parents be present
when the shots are given?
A. It would be impractical to
have parents in the clinic rooms
as the shots are given, because
We plan to inoculate SO an hour.
The shots are given in the muscle
of the arm. I am sure principals
will be glad to have parents at
the school to wait for the chill
dren as they come out of the
room where the shots are given.
@. Should my child take the
test if he has had polio?
A. Yes. The vaccine is for all
three types of known polio.
@. Does the vaccine affect the
production of blood cells?
A. No. not at all.
@. Can an inOculated child
be a carrier and infect other
children in a household?
A. No, because only dead virus
are administered. and the dis
ease cannot be transmitted from
one body to another by dead
virus. The dead virus causes
anti-bodies, or immunities, to de-
velop in the body Of the person
who receives it.
Before the meeting closed, DR..
Kennedy treasured the parents
that the tests would be called of
if the slightest doubts arise about
the safety. He said he had the
authority to cancel the tests at
any time.
Forms for parents to sign au-
thorizing their children to par
ticipate are being distributed to
principals today and will be sent
to parents as soon as possible.
They are supposed to be returned
by April Is.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-08
City Luuds Gen. Wright
On Eve of Transfer

Maj. Gen. Edwin K. Wright,
commanding general of the mil
itary district of Washington who
is being transferred to command
the Sixth Infantry Division at
Fort Ord, Calf, was today pre-
sented with a certificate of merit
by the District commissioners.
At ceremony at the board
meeting the Commissioners ex-
pressed regret over his transfer
and appreciation for his many
contributions to the District.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-08

Pherson f1im-hammed him out
of a 500 bill a month ago.
But the prosecution did not
want to charge Mcpherson with
grand larceny-which starts at
$1,000 they changed the face
value of the bill, devaluating it
by one cent.
For hours a legal battle over
the matter ragged in Judge Ar
mond w. SCOTS court room yes
terday with the jurist finally
deciding that "it would be most
Illuminating to be illuminated"
about how you can go around
changing the face value of Gov
eminent money.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-08
OPPORTUNITY
Knocks Twice
IN NURSING

First, for high school graduates there
are almost unlimited opportunities
in Professional Nursing - higher
education wonderful preparation
for marriage "a proud career. Then,
for others, including older women.
there are highly rewarding oppor-
tunities in Practical Nursing - a
lifetime career with financial indie.
pendence. Nursing is the career with
a future. Whether you are l8 or so
there is a place in nursing for you.
For information write Nursing Careers
In core Of your local postmaster
Published as public service in co.
operation with The Advertising Council
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-08
Cancer Crusade Drive
Reaches u Pct Of Goal

Cancer Crusade Headquarters
announced today $60,925 has
been collected in the drive for
$278,000 to. carry on the three
fold program of research, educa-
ton and service.
Contributions to the District
Division of the American Cancer
Society so far have amounted to
% per cent of the goal. The
campaign lasts throughout this
month.
Clayton r. Sanders, advertis-
ing director of Peoples Drug
Stores, is chairman of the drive.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-08
Young Democrats Center

The Young Democratic Club of
Montgomery County will open an
information center" in the Mil
Ter Building, 200 Monroe street,
Rockville. on Saturday to answer
questions about the coming cleo
ton campaigns. An open house
will be held from 3 to S pm. to
mark the opening of the center.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-08
Did You Know Thot

Volunteers in the Red Cross Pro-
duetion Service sove the American
toxpoyers millions Of dollars by their
unseIfish contributions to ciyiIion and
military hospitoIs plus needy citizens?
In the District Red Cross Chapter
alone, l,204 volunteers contributed
1890 hours. They produced 65l ,26l
surgical dressings. 78o knitted and
1891 sewn garments.
Give as generously as the volun-
teers to your Red Cross Fund Com
poisn.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-08
Shifts Favor
Landlord in
Fifth District
Watkins Withdrows
From Democratic
Race for Congress
By Gene Goodwin

Power shifts in Maryland's 5th
Congressional District today left
Richard E.. Landlord of Annap-
oils as the man to beat in that
districts Democratic scramble
for the House of Representatives.
Landlord adherents were
heartened yesterday by with
drawal from the race of Robert
M. Watkins. chairman of the
Maryland National Capital Park
and Planning Commission.
And they were not disheart-
ened when Hyattsville Attorney
Walter l.. Green, shortly after
the Watkins Withdrawal. filed
his long promised candidacy for
the 5th District congressional
seat in the Democratic primary
June %.
Caps Byrd Leaders Campaign.
The Watkins announcement
climaxed a determined move by
leaders of DR.. H. c. Byrd's cam
paign for Governor to rally 5th
District Byrd support behind one
man for Congress.
That man now seems to be
Richard E. Landlord. 39-year-
old attorney and Anne Arundel
County member of The Mary
land House of Delegates. who
two years ago lost the race for
Congress to Representative
Small, Republican.
The Byrd people at first had
tried to get district agreement
on State Senator Louis L. Phipps
of Anne Arundel as their candi-
date for Congress. but leaders
from some of the other counties.
as we'll as several in Anne Arun-
del itself, would not go along.
Consequently, Mr.. Phipps an
nounced last week that he would
not try for the House this time.
but would run again for the
State Senate.
Byrd people feel strongly that
their 5th district congressional
candidate should be from Anne
Arundel County. or at least not
from Prince Georges. where DR..
Byrd has lived most of his life
as president of the University Of
Maryland.
MahOney Activity.
Backers of George P. Ma
honey's campaign for the Demo-
cratic nomination for Governor
are getting ready to upset some
applicant in Prince Georges
County. DR.. Byrd's backyard. -
Leaders of the Prince Georges
Mahoney group broke their long
silence today to disclose that
they:
/. Plan next week to open
headquarters in College Park.
just down the street from the
University of Maryland.
2. Are organizing a full slate
of candidates for local offices in
the Democratic primary June %.
Prince Georges has been con-
| Sidered one of the sure counties
for DR.. Byrd.
Millar AS Manager.
Norman Zipkin, West Hyatts-
vile builder, who led Mr. Ma
honey's Prince Georges cam
paign against former Represen-
tative SaSscer for the Demo-
cratic senatorial nomination in
1852, said William j. Millar, jr..
of College Park. will be Mahoney
campaign manager for the
county this election.
Mr.. Zipkln charged that the
Central Committee is ignoring
some Of the candidates recon-
mended to it last week by the
Council of Democratic Clubs. In
cluded among those candidates
receiving recommendations were
some Mahoney people and other
anti-organiZation leaders.
1.-THE Central Committee APP
parently hasn't awakened to the
fact they can't whip the Repub-
licans with a slate of has-beenS
and others with unclean rec
ordS," Mr.. Zipkin declared.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-08

FESTIVAL BEAUTIES-These
three Washington area girls
will be princesses on the court
of Queen Shenandoah XVII
at the Shenandoah Apple
Blossom Festival in Winches-
ter, Va, April 20 and 30. Miss
Quackenbush, 20, will repre-
sent George Washington Uni
versity; Miss Elliott, %, Amer
lean University, and Miss
BOpSt, 20, the University of
Maryland. (StOry on Page
AID
Evening star., 1954-09-21
u. S. H-Bombs Could Smash
Every Soviet City, Book Says
Mass Attack Would Be AnnihiIotion
Even With A-Bombs, Writers Assert

megatons-45 million tons of
INT.
"It seems doubtful" the book
says, that any people actually
could survive the shock of say
1000 obsolete 500-kiloton
bombs. 1t seems more than
probable that no people could
survive If one substitutes in the
equation the potential IS mega
tons Of the thermonuclear thy-
drogen) bomb. -.
ANY time in the year 1854
the United States Strategic Air
Command had the capability, II
the President Of the United
States issued such an order, to
rain down complete urban an
Inhalation on the Soviet Union
Within Year.
within another year after
1854 most Of the bombs ia such
Ea. raid would be not 500-kiloton
bombs but themonuclear bombs
of at least Is megatons' force.
One thousand. Soviet targets
wiped from the face of the earth
would leave littk else to hit
even in such a vast land"
The Shepley Blair book, an
abridgement of which appears
in the current U. s. News g.
World Report Magazine, says
atomic scientist ]. Robert Open
heimer actively opposed the
hydrogen bomb more than a
year after President Truman or
dered work on the superweapon
begun.
Evening star., 1954-09-21
Science Solves the Devils Bread Mystery

that morning and laid out his
new-baked loaves on the counter.
It started In the afternoon. A
man Of "a. healthy and strong
in the morning, was dead that
evening after hours OF convulsive
suffering during which he had
to be tied to his bed.
A mother had to be separated
from her 11-year-old son: Both
armed with kitchen knives were
trying to cut each others throats.
Mime. Martha Toulouse ran
like q madwoman TO throw her.
self in the Rhone River crying
that she was followed by q herd
of fantastic animals.
Mime. Rieu was caught by the
leg as she tried to jump out of
q window.
Three others attempted sui-
eide. Hailucinated- victims -
screaming about assassins. ghost
fires and prehistoric animals
were c6rted on lii aInbulances to
nearby hospitals Of Mines and
Evening star., 1954-09-21
Eisenhower Prayer for Peace
Is Beumed to Reds by Voice

we are therefore observing, with
an act of faith, a national day
of prayer. Throughout the
United States of America, what
ever our ancestry, whatever our
religious affiliation, we shall Of
fer simultaneously to the Al
mighty our personal prayers for
the devotion, wisdom and stam-
ina to work INCREASINGLY for a
just and lasting peace for all
mankind.
IT most earnestly hope that
men and women, boys and girls
all over the world will join us
on that day in that act of faith.
May the many millions of people
shut away from contact and
communion with peoples of the
Free World join their prayers
with ours.
May the world be ringed
with an act of faith so strong as
to annihilate the cruel, artificial
barriers erected by little men
between the peoples who seek
peace on earth through the
Divine Spirit"
Evening star., 1954-09-21
By Marie Therese Borreou
S..~;,t ,tr..,...~.,l.,s ,,S III. ss,r

POINT SAINT ESPRIT. France.
The mill of science grinds
slowly, but the result in the end
is reassuring. It is three years
now since horror and agonizing
death struck this little French
village. It is only today that the
book can be closed on the mys-
terry of the Devils Bread" which
made headlines throughout the
world and brought the village to
sudden. If unpleasant. promi-
nence as a center of morbid and
scientific interest.
While it lasted. the story had
all the ingredients Of classic
horror fiction.
August Is. 1851. started out as
just another fine summer day,
with q Mediterranean blue sky.
For Monsieur BRAND. the local
baker, there was no hint Of dis
aster as he opened up his shop
Evening star., 1954-09-21
By a Star siaff Correspondent

DENVER, Sept. 21.-President
Eisenhower today invited peoples
behind the Iron Cutain to join
Americans tomorrow in prayer
for "a just and lasting peace for
all mankind"
He issued the invitation in a
personal statement that the
Voice of America began broad
casting throughout the world at
Z am. today.
Tomorrow already has been
proclaimed a national day Of
prayer by the President, in ac-
cordance with an act Of Con-
gress. He will attend prayer
services at 8 am. in Chapel No.
/ on Lowry Air Force Base here,
near his summer White House
office. :
Text of his statement today
follows:
I'm common with religious
people everywhere, we in Amer
lea know that the true cure for
the tensions that threaten and
too often produce war lies not in
guns and bombs but in the spir-
its and minds of men. We are
firm in the belief that faith is
the mightiest force that man
has at his command.
"On September twenty-second
Evening star., 1954-09-21
By Cospor Names

Bishop-elect Jerome d. Han
nan was consecrated Bishop of
Scranton. Pa. today in an i'm
pressive, ime-hallowed rite at
the Shrine of the Immaculate
Conception on the Catholic Uni
versity campus.
When the traditional ceremony
was concluded Bishop Hannah
became the fifth Bishop Of
Scranton. He succeeds the late
Most Rev. William j. Hafey.
Bishop of Scranton from March
25, 1888. to May IL, 1854.
The conservation was the sixth
to be held in the shrine. the
first being that of the Rev. DR..
Gerald Shaughnessy of the
Marist College on September 19
1888. He became Bishop OF
Seattle. The most recent was
the conservation of the late
Right Rev. Patrick j. McCor-
mick, rector of Catholic Univer-
sity, on September 81. 1850, as
titular Bishop of Atenia.
Apostolic Delegate Consecrator
The Most Rev. Amleto Clio
vanni Cicognani, apostolic del
egate, consecrator of the two
bishops named above. acted in
that capacity today.
Co-conSecrators today were the
Evening star., 1954-09-21

Avignoll. In all, i've people died
and 200 were hospitalized within
the next week. Some wound up
In psychiatric clinics. wrapped in
StraitjacketS.
The village itself was turned
into q place Of collective hysteria
and superstitious fear. Police
moved in to help out the lar-
assed and worried local gend-
armes. Keeping order was enough
of q problem. Solving the mys-
terry and calming the panic was
another: There was no end to the
disturbing rumors.
Some said the village had been
chosen as a testing ground for
q secret meteorological weapon
to be used in the next war.
Others recalled the middle-age
days and the epideinics Of BURN
ing sickness that plagued entire
cities. Still others believed that
3 brigade Of devils had taken POI
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