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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-07
British " Arrives,
Has Own Mr.. Mugs
BY the Assoeioted Press

WINDSOR. England, Feb. g.
j. Frederick Muggeridge, Britain's
answer to Americas TV Chin
-panzee, j. Fred Mugs, made his
television debut here last night
in the arms of a Laborite mem
Der of Parliament.
Christopher Mayhem, former
minister in the Labor govern
ment, introduced him during a
debate on commercial television
filmed by an American broad
casting company. Said Mr.. May
heW:
u. Frederick Muggeridge has
every possible qualification for
commercial TV. His motives are
wholly mercenary, he has no
spark of ideals or principles
about him. His cultural level is
low enough to satisfy even a
government test"
The American TV chimp be-
came known overnight in Britain
last year after reports from the
United States that he had been
introduced during breaks in
broadcasting a telefilm of the
coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-07
Scouts Open Drive
In Prince GEORGES

The Prince Georges County
Boy Scout. District last night
launched a $i2,OOp-fund cam
paign to sustain the organization
during 1854.
The kickoff was timed to
coincide with the Boy Scout
week dinner sponsored by the
National Capital Area Council
at the National Guard Armory.
Enrolment In the l02 cub
packs. Scout troops and explorer
posts in Prince Georges County
during the past year increased
by 887 members to an all-time
high of 3.267.
The $4,000 fund is sought to
help defray the cost OF admin
istering the increasing member
ship in the county. A second
Scout executive is to be en-
ployed.
Prince Georges District Chair
man York Hollingsworth of Col
lege Park has appointed COM
mlttee chairmen to conduct the
fund campaign.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-07
Texas Court Bars
Union Shop for
Santa Fe Railroad
BY the Associated Press

AMARILLO. Tex, Feb. 6. -
District Judge E. C. Nelson ruled
today 1t would be unconstitu.
tional for the Santa Fe Railway
and Is incorporating unions to
enter into a union shop agree
ment.
He ruled in favor of IS Amar-
lilo employees of the Santa Fe
who sought a permanent in
junction barring the railroad
and Is unions from making such
an agreement. Judge Nelson said
his formal order will be entered
next week.
Effective Throughout System.
Attorneys for both sides said
the order will be effective
throughout the Santa Fe system.
The temporary injunction
which Judge Nelson said he will
make permanent names the
Atchison Topeka g. Santa Fe, the
Panhandle g. Santa Fe, and the
Gulf. Colorado g. Santa Fe,
which are the three lines COM
prising the Santa Fe system.
Only the latter two operate in
Texas. Executives of all three
lines testified in the State court
suit.
Opinion Outlined.
In a nine-page opinion, Judge
Nelson declared:
l. A union shop agreement
would deny to the 13 plaintiffs
rights guaranteed them under
the First, Fifth, Ninth, 10th and
18th Amendments to the Consti-
tuition.
2. The making and enforcing
of a union shop agreement such
as that proposed by the defen-
dants would violate an essential
and inherent right of man re-
CARELESS of any constitutional
provision.
3. -. Congress has no right
to enact legislation making union
membership a test of the right
to work for carrier engaged in
interstate commerce"
A union shop agreement re-
quires that an employe join the
union within a certain specified
time after employment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-07
Humphrey AssaiIs
SummerfieId Over
Postal Tube Dispute
BY the Associated Press

Senator Humphrey, Democrat
of Minnesota today accused Post
master General Summerfield of
deliberately sharing in an "un-
fair, partisan political attack
made against me by the Repub-
lican national committeeman
from Minnesota
Senator Humphrey said in a
statement he would ask the Sem
ate Post Office Committee to in
vestigate whether the Postmas-
ter General. who formerly was
Republican national chairman,
lis guilty of dereliction of his re-
sponsibility as a public office
holder"
The Senator's objections GEN.
tered on an editorial in a Cla-
rissa (Minn.) weekly newspaper
published by George Etzell,
G. o. P. national committeeman
for Minnesota.
1uDe service dispute.
The editorial dealt with sus-
pension of a contract for pneu-
matte tube service in the New
York post Office system. Mr..
Summerf1eld recently suspended
on economy grounds. the con-
tract he said had been made by
former Postmaster General Jesse
Donaldson after passage of a
bill Senator Humphrey intro
duced in 1850.
Mr.. Summerfield said the Hum
phrey bill had made the contract
possible. He contended the work
could be done by truck at a con-
siderable saving from the mil
lion dollars paid under the
contract.
But Senator Humphrey said
his bill merely provided for
amortiZing the cost of convert
ing the tube system to conform
with a change in electric current
supply.
He said the New York City
post Office has been served by
pneumatic tubes for Sc years on
contracts originally authorized
by. a Republican Congress, re-
stored by a Republican Congress
after once being suspended by
a Democratic administration
and repeatedly renewed by Re-
publican administrations"
Assails Editorial.
The Senator added he intro
duced the 1850 bill because he
was chairman of a Senate post
Office subcommittee and Con-
gress passed it unanimously.
Senator Humphrey called the
weekly newspaper editorial IAN
outrageous demonstration of ir-
responsible politics, with no at
tempt to confirm the facts" He
said the editorial suggested he
was involved in a major scandal.
The Senator charged the edi-
torlal and Mr.. Summerfield'
statement were deliberately
linked" He has received per-
from the Senate to make
a one-hour speech on the whole
at noon tomorrow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-07
Mrs: George Weiser,
Wife Of Episcopal
Rector, Dies

Mrs. George C. Weiser. 81, wife
of the rector of st. Michael's
Episcopal Church. Arlington.
died yesterday at the clinical
center of the National Institutes
of Health after a long illness.
She lived at 5118 North Fifteenth
street, Arlington.
The former Irene Anderson,
Mrs. Weiser was born in Wells,
MINI, and was graduated from
high school there. She took
nurse training at st. Luke'S Hos
pital in st. Paul. Mimi. and
afterwards was nurse there.
She lived in st. Paul, Iron
Mountain. Mich. and Fort Mad
ison, Iowa, where her husband
was rector. until coming to Ar
lington seven years ago.
Mrs. Weiser was active in
church activities and the Way
croft Woman's Club. Arlington.
Besides her husband. she is
survived by three sons. John c.,
Kent. Ohio; F. Robert, Char
lottesville, Va; ]. Thomas,
Arlington; daughter, Mrs.
James Peck. Willmar. Mimi; a
sister. Mrs. c. H. Longley. Little
Falls. Mimi; three brothers, DR..
S. H. Anderson, Kerrville, Tex:
DR., L. M. Anderson. Red Wing,
Mimi; A. j. Anderson. Wells,
Mimi. and four grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held
at 2 pm. Tuesday at ST. Mi
chael's Episcopal Church. Elev-
enth road and Ivanhoe street,
Arlington. Burial will be in
Window, MINI.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-07
) Teen-age Youths Hold,
Rob Alexandra Woman

Three teen-age boys last night
seized an Alexandria woman,
threw her to the ground and
robbed her of $38, Alexandria
police reported.
The victim, Mrs. Georgianna
Moss. los North Pitt street, told
police she was walking in the
100 block of South Lee street
when the boys knocked her to
the ground. She said two of the
boys held her down, with their
hands about her neck, while the
third took the money from her
wallet.
Alexandria police searched the
area, but found no trace of the
hoodlumS. Mrs. Moss was treated
at Alexandria Hospital for shock
and released.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-07
New York IndustriaIist
Falls Off Yacht, Vanishes

NASSAU, Bahamas, Feb. g.
Charles F. Hansell Of Crawford,
N. j., New York industrialist,
was washed overheard from his
yacht Capella and presumed lost,
the crew reported upon arrival
mere last night.
The Capella, a ketch, was reg
Este red in New York and sailed
thursday from Palm Beach.
Inc accident occurred as the
cra1t rounded Great Isaac light
a1ter crossing the Gul Stream.
"A lie ring was thrown to Mr..
hansen but he was not seen
again. A search plane was sent
out from Nassau today,
Mrs. Hansell and two sons are
In Nassau.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-07
Privote Duty Nurses
Ask SIS for 8 Hours

Members of the Private Duty
Section of the District Graduate
Nurses Association have pro-
posed that their present fee of
$12.75 for eight hours service be
increased to SIS.
The increase request will be
turned over to the Board Of Di-
rectors Of the Graduate Nurses
Association for approval. Some
$50 nurses in. the Private Duty
Section of the association were
recently polled on the increase.
The SIS rate for eight hours was
preferred, according to Mrs.
Helen l.. Maule, chairman of the
section.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-07
Isaac picheI, 81, Retired
Cincinnati Newspaperman


NEW YORK, Feb. 6.-Isaac
Pichel, 81, who spent a half
century in various capacities on
Cincinnati newspapers, died at
the home of a daughter here
today.
A native of Hendersonville,
KY, Mr.. Pichel joined the staff
of the Cincinnati Inquirer as a
reporter in 1894.
He later served as city editor
OF both the Inquirer and the
Times-Star and as managing
editor OF the Commercial Trib-
une, all in Cincinnati. He re-
tired from newspaper work in
1914.
He Is survived by two daugh-
tiers and four sons.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-07
Gen. StonisIov Bonoytis,
Red Army Surgeon
BY the Associated Press

MOSCOW. Feb. Cred Star.
official newspaper of the Soviet
Army. announced today the
death of Maj. Gen. Stanislav
Banaytis,. SIS, chief surgeon at
the front during World War II.
He had been decorated with
the Order of Lenin, top award
In the Soviet Union, and had
written more than 100 works on
surgery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-07
Girl, d, Dies Of Burns;
Stove Ienited CIothino
Speciol Dispotch 10 The Stor

CHARLES TOWN. w. Va.
Feb. 6.-Thelma Gene Talmer
4-year-old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Sewell B. Talmer, died in
Charles Town General Hospital
yesterday after she was acct
dentally burned at the Talmer
home near Mechanicstown.
Her clothes caught fire when
she tried to put paper in a
stove.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-07
D. {. Woman Doctor Hurt
In MARYLAND Accident

A Washington physician was
reported to be in serious condi-
ton after an automobile acct
dent on Route 4 near Waysons
Corner, Md, last night.
Maryland State Police identi-
fled the physician as DR.. Agnes
l. McNutt of 4130 Sixteenth
street NV. Police said the car
apparently spun off the road on
Route 4 outside of Waysons
Corner about 10 pm.
DR.. McNutt was taken to Ann
Arundel Hospital.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-07
CONSCIOUS LEADING Dish

ALGIERS. - The traditional
dish of North Africa and the
mainstay of the diet is cous-
cous. 1t consists of wheat pei
lets steamed for several hours.
1t is sold dry in packages like
breakfast food. Some persons
eat it like cereal, with milk and
sugar. Others pour meat and
vegetables over it before serving.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-07
F. P. OIds, Editorial
Writer in Milwaukee
BY the Assoeioted Pres,

MILWAUKEE,, Feb. 6.-F.
Perry OldS. an editorial writer
for the Milwaukee Journal for
70 years and a widely-known
authority on social welfare, died
today at Columbia Hospital after
q long illness.
Mr.. Olds. who was 81, suffered
from a heart ailment for several
years, but continued to work I'M
til January %. when his condi-
ton became worse.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-07
5000 al Armory Fete
Salute Boy Scouts
And Honor Leaders

More than 5000 persons last
night marked the beginning of
this areas observance of Boy
Scout Week at National Guard
Armory.
Scouting leaders from the Dis
trict and IA Maryland and Vir-
ginia counties attended a dinner
there sponsored by the National
Capital Area Council of the Boy
Scouts. Eleven area Scout lead
ers were presented with Silver
Beaver Awards for outstanding
work.
The gathering heard Actor
George Murphy praise Americas
44-year-old Scouting movement
as a builder of character and
good citizenship. Mr.. Murphy
deplored the emphasis which
education has put on the acqui-
sition of skills, rather than on
the development Of sound char
acter.
Joseph H. Freehill, 1854 Sus-
tanning Membership Campaign
chairman, told the gathering
that continued progress and ex-
pansion of scouting in the area
requires 100000 this year. He
pointed out that area Commu-
nifty Chests have been able to
take care of only slightly more
than half of scouting costs.
He said almost 10000 adults
are volunteering their services
to the area movement.
Leaders Are HOnored.
Those Boy Scout leaders hon
ored with Silver Beaver Awards
were:
Robert E. Bair, 1913 North
Greenbrier street. Arlington;
Howard 3. Blanchard, 1924 North
Fourth street, Arlington: James
A; Brooks, 200 Sixth street NE:
Niemann A. Brunk. Frederick,
Md; DR.. Robert Cavarlee, Fred
ericksburg. Va; H. Ray Heacock,
1924 Upton street NV.
Also, Joseph F. Robinson, 618
Aspen street NV; Butcher
Skagerberg. 400 Tyler place,
Alexandria; William P. Stone
braker, jr.. zoos Allison street,
Landover Hills; John C. White,
1900 Hawthorne lane, Falls
Church. and Charles A. Written,
9606 Sutherland road, Silver
Spring.
Among the guests Of honor
were Senator Sparkman. Demo-
crat, of Alabama; Representative
Hiestand, Republican, of Cali
fornia; Representative Merrill,
Republican. of Indiana; Repre-
sentative Thompson. Republican,
of Michigan; Col. M. A. Elkins.
commandant at Andrews Air
Force Base, and E. J. Reyes, ex-
ecutive director of the Commu-
nifty Chest Federation.
Daniel w. Bell, president of
the council, presided, and Will
liam Armstrong served as gen.
eral chairman.
To Observe Scout Sunday.
More than 1000 Catholic Cub
and Boy Scouts will observe Boy
Scout Sunday at 4 o'clock today
at st. Matthew's Cathedral.
The Most Rev. Patrick A.
O'Boyle. Archbishop OF Washing
ton. will confer honor awards on
122 Scouts. The Rev. w. Louis
Quinn of the Cathedral staff will
preach.
Tomorrow and Tuesday, 275
Cub Scouts and their den moth
ers will conduct Operation
Homburg" by visiting with top
Federal officials including Vice
President Nixon, members of
the Cabinet, the District Com
missioners, members of Congress.
and leading area clergymen.
Operation Homburg" is an
annual celebration conducted by
the council to gain new support
ers for the Scouting movement.
The first such observance was
held last year when President
honorary head of
the Scouts, was inaugurated. The
name is derived from the Presi- |
dents favorite hat style.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-07
TuIlie Evans, Editor

PITTSTON. Pa, Feb. 6 (P.-
Tallie Evans. 80, editor of the
Pittston Gazette for more than
40 years, died today in Pittston
Hospital.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-23
Hoover's Letter
Accompanying Note

The following letter from
Mr.. HooUer accompanied the
preceding statement:
On December Is. 1858, the
White House released a state
ment by the President request
ing that all enforcement off,
GERS. both Federal and State,
report all information relating
to violations of the Atomic
Energy Act to the nearest field
representative Of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation. A
copy Of the statement by the
President is attached. There
is also attached for your infor-
nation a description of atomic
devices and component parts,
the release of which has been
approved by the Atomic Energy
Commission, the National Sc
curity Council and. the Presi-
dent IN order that you may be
better able to recognize atomic
devices or parts Of atomic de-
vices which might come to your
attention.
The President and the Ma
tional Security Council have
designated certain Explosive
Ordnance Disposal Units oper-
ating under the classification
Of the Department of the Army
as having the responsibility for
diSarming any atomic weapon.
The disposal of disarmed fiS-
Sionable weapons and the dis
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-23
BY the Assoeioted Press

The Nations mobilization
chief says the Pentagon has
provided, for the first time, a
list of what 1t would need from
American industry to fight all
out war.
Arthur 8. Flemming, director
Of the Office Of Defense Mobili-
cation, told q House Appropria-
lions subcommittee in budget
testimony released today that
the information covers about 80
per cent of the multi-billion dol
lar expenditures for guns, tanks
and other equipment necessary
in total mobilization.
Testifying in February. Mfr.
Flemming said that during the
f1sca! year 1864 beginning last
July -. the ODM, for the first
time in the history of mobiliza-
ticn planning, has received from
the Department of Defense data
as to requirements In the event
Of all-out mobilization for 1000
major military" weapons.
Now, he added, the require
ments must be reviewed because
Of new look" revisions In mill
tary strategy.
Mr.. Flemming said the infor-
nation is needed so ODM can
survey American industry and
determine its capacity for manu-
featuring the required arms and
such contributing products as
steel.
He made these other points:
/. Wartime mobilization would
start with one-day freeze, then
move into tight governmental
control Of all major activities.
ODM, he said. is working on the
outlines Of proposals for wage
and price and other controls
that the President would submit
to Congress.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-23
Senate Republicans
Hold Revenue Farley

Republican Senator's met in
party conference today to
strengthen their lines against
further losses of revenue when
the excise tax reduction bill
reaches the floor tomorrow.
Chairman Millikin, of the
Republican conference, said no
votes were taken and no attempt
made to get a consensus. He
expressed the belief, however,
that the bill will be held to
the cuts already made by the
House and the Senate Finance
Committees.
These add up to 1858 million
and almost wipe out the $1,070.-
100000 derived from a one-year
extension of other taxes on
liquors, tobacco, automobiles and
gasoline.
Senator Millikin said he hopes
the Senate will pass the tax
bill by Friday to leave time for
conferences with the House be-
fore the rates go down auto
matically on April /.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-23
Extremely Heavy
Metals EMPLOYED

In order to help us in our
recognition Of these essential
components. we must learn
something about them. Fis-
sionable material is uranium
and/or plutonium. which are
extremely heavy metals weigh
ing half again as much as lead
Of the same size. Fifty pounds
of these heavy fashionable ma
terials would be approximately
i've inches in diameter, If in
the shape Of a sphere--about
the size of a softball. Since
both Of these metals can be
coated with other metals or
plastics and can be machined
into all sorts Of shapes. we
should be especially alert re-
garding any article that is
extremely heavy for its size.
Pieces which might be snug
gled would probably be Of a
size that could be carried On
the person.
The gun-barrel type device
will probably be made Of steel.
The diameter Of the bore of
such a gun barrel would prob
ably not be less than 2 inches
or more than 10 inches. With
such a range Of inner diam
eters for the bore, we may
expect the outer diameter of
the gun barrel to range from
about 5 inches as a minimum
to about IL inches as a maxi
mum. Both ends Of the bar
rel may be closed by breech
block-type devices so that the
bore Of the gun will not be
visible. It is possible, of
course. that the gun tube and
the two breech blocks may be
carried as three separate
pieces; in this case the inner
bore may be visible. The fis-
Sionable material for this gun
type weapon may be con-
cealed within, and usually at
the ends of, the gun barrel
or 1t may be carried in Sepa-
rate packages for later as
sembly within the barrel. We
may visualize the gun-type de-
vice then as one in which a
projectile Of fashionable mate
rial is fired down a gun barrel
into another plug of fashionable
material in the muzzle Of the
gun barrel. The length Of
the entire device need not
exceed about az feet.
The high explosives of i'm
ploSion will probably be in
specially fabricated shapes one
side of which will be a part
of a spherical surface. Most
high explosives are light tan
in color, have a soapy feel and
are half again as heavy as an
equal quantity of water.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-23
Material Needed
For 'ImpIosion'

In the second case we would
look for a device using high
explosive to squeeze fashionable
material. To explain how such
a device will work we must
understand what is meant by
"implosion." The significance
of the word explosion is ia
miliar to most people. I'M
plosion signifies a bursting
inwards as contrasted with the
bursting outwards of an ex-
plosion. In order to obtain an
implosion, however strange it
may seem, explosive material
is necessary. The scientists
who worked on the first atom
bomb needed an implosion in
order TO compress nuclear ma
terial enough to get an atomic
explosion" They solved their
problem by forming a large
sphere of explosive material.
In a hole in the center of this
sphere they placed the flSsion-
able material they wanted to
squeeze.
Then instead of using one
detonator to ignite the ex.
plosive sphere. they placed
many decorators around 1t.
These decorators we're con-
nected electrically in such a
way that they could be fired
simultaneously. If only one
detonator had been used. one
can easily understand that
the sphere, having been ig-
nited at only one point, would
have exploded in the ordinary
way that is, with the exploding
wave. which is another way Of
saying a faSt-burning wave,
burning through the sphere
from one side to the other.
However, with many detona-
tors igniting the sphere from
all sides, the fast-burning
wave is essentially spherical
in shape and burns inward
toward the center of the
sphere. When this fast-burn-
ing irnploding wave reaches
the sphere of fashionable ma
terial, this mass has no place
to be pushed except in upon
itself and is thus compressed.
We have now explained
very simply the basic ideas
which govern atomic bomb
design. Looking back at these
ideas. we note that two essen
tial features of the gun-type
device are the gun barrel itself
and fashionable material, and
two essential features of the
implosion type device are high
explosive charges that could
be used to build a sphere and