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Evening star., 1955-03-05
Area Store Sales Climb
IS Per Cent in Week

Department store sales in the
Washington Metropolitan Area
last week rose Is per cent above
those of the previous week and
were 5 per cent higher than fig
ures for the comparable 1854
week. the Federal Reserve Bank
of Richmond reported yesterday.
Area sales in the four weeks
ended on February 26 were 3 per
cent behind those of a year
earlier but were 4 per cent better
for the year to date.
Excluding branch stores, sales
of downtown department stores
alone were 9 per cent above those
Of the previous week and 2 per
cent above totals of a year
earlier. Sales in the four weeks
ended on February 26 were down
5 per cent while those for the
year to date were l per cent
ahead of figures for a year ago.
Evening star., 1955-03-05

An 8-year-old Arlington girl
yesterday got letter from Pope
Plus XII.
1t was a reply to a letter sent
the Pope several weeks ago by
Karen Chambers, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert w. Cham
bers, GIT North Patrick Henry
drive. Arlington.
Karen had written to Dear
Pope Plus the Twelfth" to say
she and her third-grade class at
st. AIMS School were praying
daily for the pontiff's recovery
from his recent illness. She also
wrote that her pastors father
had died a few days before and
asked II the, Pope, in turn, would
pray for Elm,
Yesterdays reply, a printed
message from the Vatican secre-
tary of state. expressed "the
Evening star., 1955-03-05
U. 5. Requests Court
To Deny Ben Gold Appeal
By the Assoeioted Press

The Justice Department yes.
terday asked the United States
Court of Appeals here to affirm
the conviction of labor leader
Ben Gold on charges that he
filed a false non-Communist
affidavit with the National Labor
Relations Board in 1850.
The Government said in a
brief that Colds trial developed
"a wealth of evidence" that Gold
had INDUCED in a form of Com
munist double talk" when he
announced a resignation from
the party few days before filing
the affidavit.
Gold. until last fall president
of the Fur and Leather Workers
Union. was convicted in Federal
Court last April and given a one
to three-year sentence. The trial
jury found he made two false
statements to NLRB in denying
party membership and disclaim-
ing support of any organization
advocating forceful overthrow of
the United States Government.
Evening star., 1955-03-05
Three Sisters, Brother Die
In Storm-SwoIIen Creek
By the Associoted PRESS

BRANDENBURG, KY, Mar.
5.-Three sisters and a brother.
en- route from school to their
home, drowned yesterday in a
small creek swollen to a raging
torrent by hail and heavy rains.
Sheriff Allen Thompson said
the children-ranging in age
from seven to 13-had left a
school bus to walk the mile to
their home along a gravel road.
They apparently started run
ming when the storm struck and,
arriving at what usually is a
calm wet weather stream,
plunged into it without realizing
its depth and ferocity.
They we're identified as Vir-
ginia, 13; Margaret, II; Mary
Ruth, 9. and James, Z, children
of Mr.. and Mrs. Mike Hardesty.
The sheriff said hailstones in
this area covered the roads to
depths up to 6 inches.
Evening star., 1955-03-05
Censorship
Continued From First Page

son, jack is intensified and
heightened" by Mr.. Lindsay's
indecent" illustrations.
Actually, Mr.. De Grazia told
The Star. four or five copies of
the disputed edition are already
in this country. Somehow. prob
ably when the Post Office De-
partment was looking the. other
way, these have made their way
through the mails and rest in
rare book departments of some
four or five libraries.
Described AS a Classic.
The curator of the Hunting
ton Library in California, pos
SCISSOR of one of these copies,
wrote a letter in defense of the
25-year-old edition to Postoffice
Department Solicitor Abe Nc
Gregor Golf, saying the book
was "a classic" This had no
effect on the Postoffice, which
can move against publications it
considers "lewd' under the So
called Comstock Act of 1873. Its
author, Anthony Comstock, Mr..
De Grazia's brief points out,
called "a fanatic to whom every
thing was obscene that savored
of SEX"
"Lysistrata" is all about sex.
AristophaneS describes how it
can be used as a weapon for
peace. The war-weary women of
Athens and Sparta unite to swear
a mighty oath over a wine bowl
that they will withhold their
favors from their husbands un-
til the husbands lay down their
arms.
The women are instructed by
the militant "Lysistrata" to wear
their most transparent gowns to
use their most fetching cos
metics-to be alluring, in other
words, but unavailable until their
conditions are met. The play was
never banned in Boston, which
is traditionally very particular
about these things.
Said Mr.. DeGrazia In his brief:
"The limitless character of the
Postmaster Generals power is
well Illustrated by the fact that
he has chosen here. under the
guise of excluding 'obscenity,' to
suppress one Of the worlds oldest
and greatest comedies, Aristo-
phanes' Lysistrata.'
Evening star., 1955-03-05
singapore 10 Deport
z U. 5. Merchant Seamen
BY the Associoted Press

SINGAPORE, Mar. 5.-Two
American merchant seamen, who
disappeared after refusing to
board a ship scheduled to take
them back to the United States,
today faced deportation from
this British colony.
immigration officials said COR
derS of removal" were being pre-
pared against Bill Allison, 80, of
North Carolina, and Richard
Nelson, IS, of Chicago.
The two seamen arrived here
last week from Indonesia, where
they had been held in Jail for
three months on suspicion OF
glln-running. They vanished
yesterday after refusing to board
the 8,070-ton freighter Steel Ad-
miral on which they were booked
to return to the United States.
United States consular officials
failed to persuade the men to
leave. They declined to give any
reason for their refusal, except
that they were fed up" with
the treatment they got in Indo-
neSla and Singapore.
Evening star., 1955-03-05
..2Charged in Murder
OF ; Brothers, Sister
In Kentucky Home
BY the Assoeiafsd Press

MANCHESTER. KY, Mar. S.
Police today probed the Staying
Of three brothers and their sister,
ranging in age from 25 to 80,
who were shot one by one at
their cabin home in mountainous
eastern Clay County Thursday
Each was shot in the face and
left dead in sitting position.
Reuben Hibbard, 36. a brother
in-law of the victims, and Walter
Cupp, %. were arrested and
charged with the slayings.
Chris Smith, 10, returned to
his home on Little Goose Greek
yesterday and found the bodies
of his sons, Leonard. George and
Chester, and his daughter
Venice.
He said one son and the
daughter we're sitting upright at
a kitchen table, where a meal
had been prepared but left un-
touched. The others sons were
in a bedroom, one upright on
the beds edge and the other
slumped on a bench.
! Mr.. Smith told Sheriff Daniel
Davidson there was no sign of a
struggle.
Four shotgun shells were
found, indicating one weapon
had been used for all four slay-
ings.
Hibbard and Cupp were ar
rested after Troy Ernest Smith,
a younger brother of the victims,
reported the two men were at
the Smith home when he left
yesterday morning.
A State police detective said
there was evidence of consid-
erable drinking at the home.
Evening star., 1955-03-05

about the failure of the refugee
law to work.
II never expected to have to
prove my loyalty. 1 always took
it for granted that / have been
good citizen trying to do a
good job. 1 served in the Army
in World War l and helped I'M
pellitteri organize the anti-Com-
munist letter campaign to Italy"
Mr.. Corsi meanwhile has been
much heartened by the State
Departments defense and by
spontaneous Endorsements, some
of them, he says. from Mr.. WAL
ter's district in Pennsylvania
One letter forwarded to him by
Mr.. Dulles Office came from
Brooklyn. 1t was addressed to
"My Dear Mr.. Secretary" and
concluded: Personally, believe
that if some of our Congressman
were as against communism as
Edward Corsi we would have
nothing to worry about as far as
communism is concerned"
Evening star., 1955-03-05
Market
(Continued From First Page.)


tip from Mr.. Winchell two
months ago threw the American
Exchange into turmoil. ~.
Mr.. Mccormick said that Mr.
Winchell gave the tip on his pro-
gram January 9 and the follow
ing day, literally thousands of
orders flooded the exchange for
the stock in a Venezuelan oil
firm.
AS a result of the avalanche
of buying orders, Mr.. McCor-
mick said the stock-in the
Pantepec Oil Co.-rose two
points the Monday following
the Sunday Winchell telecast.
He said it closed at ga a share
in trading two days before the
Winchell program and opened
at 87s the following day. 1t
has not been selling that high
since and now is quoted at ST.
Winchell Defends Tips.
Mr.. Winchell, a newspaper
columnist and radio and TV
commentator. said in New York
no one has challenged the ac-
curacy of his report on the
company, and that some of the
country's more responsible news
papers have confirmed it.
Mr.. Winchell said he himself
has never had any direct or in
direct interest in stocks and
added in statement:
"A sound rule is investigate
before you invest. Don't buy
anything you aren't prepared
to hold for 20 years. That's why
buy United States Government
bonds exclusively"
Senator Fulbright told report
ers the committee hopes to learn
whether anybody made quick
money by buying Pantepec stock
before Mr.. Winchell's January
telecast and selling it the next
morning when the buying ava
lanche pushed the price up tenn
porarily.
Asked whether he planned to
call Mr.. Winchell as a witness
Senator Fulbright said mot at
present"
Evening star., 1955-03-05
Desperate Shot to Death
After 76-Hour Crime Spree

uty Sheriff Ed Phillips of nearby
Rock Springs, died of his wounds
at hospital there early today.
A bullet fired by Gray in a chase
through Green Rivers railroad
yards hit Mr.. Phillips in the
chest.
Frank Kulinski, Kemmerer
town marshal, was wounded
seriously after Gray disarmed
him and two companions at
Frontier. Wyo.. 81 miles north
west of here. In that same fight.
Albert Maffei, 35, Kemmerer
garage owner, was killed, and
Don Wagner, 35, also of Kem-
merer, was wounded slightly.
Robert Durrant, II, an Evans
ton, Wyo.. service station attend
ant held hostage in his car for
more than eight hours, was not
harmed.
The day-long manhunt began
when Mr.. Kulinski and his COM
panions gave chase to Gray's car
as they saw it leaving the scene
of a reported burglary.
Evening star., 1955-03-05

Low tonight 36-42 in extreme
north. ranging into the SOS in
the south. Colder tomorrow night.
Winds--Mostly northeast or
east l0-15 miles per hour to-
night, becoming north to north
west 1925 miles per hour to-
morrow afternoon.
Road Conditions (AAA).
New Jersey Turnpike: 35 mile
an-hour speed limits from exit
seven to 18.
Southern New England: New
Hampshire to Maine snow COW
cred. Slippery spots in Massa-
chusetts and Connecticut.
West via Pa. Turnpike: Freez-
Evening star., 1955-03-05

business and giving the county
a reputation for unsightliness
that may be a powerful deterrent
to prospective residents and new
industries"
Mr.. Owen informed the board:
I'VE will soon submit to you
plans for a cooperative Federal
State-county project aimed at
alleviating the present situation
and preventing its further spread.
This project should attract ma
tional attention as a case study
of what can be done about a
problem that is menacing every
growing community in the United
States.
Roads Bureau Interested.
Mr.. Owens remarks were pre-
sented to the board in a letter.
Commenting on the highway de-
velopment phase of the report,
he said his committee had been
given informal assurance by the
Federal Bureau of Public Roads
of its interest and support on
such a project"
Mr.. Owen told the board that
within a few days his committee
will present recommendations for
the first in a series of publica-
tions aimed at gaining publicity
and support for the report.
He said the report also will
deal with the possibility of et.
tablishing a municipal and cul-
tural center for Arlington. Other
phases will cover the county's
recreation and library programs.
Evening star., 1955-03-05
The Weather Here and Over the Nation

District and vicinity-Cloudy
and rather cold with occasional
rain or drizzle tonight and to-
morrow. Low tonight around 38.
Colder tomorrow night.
Maryland-Some fog. OCCASION
al rain or drizzle tonight and
tomorrow, except scattered show
ers or thunderstorms in extreme
southeastern portion. Low to-
night 35-42. Little change in
temperature tomorrow.
Virginia-Cloudy with occa-
sional rain or drizzle in north
and showers and scattered thun-
derstorms in south and central
portions tonight and tomorrow
Evening star., 1955-03-05
sy n. A.soeioisd Pres.

Secretary of the Treasury
Humphrey has refused to apollo
gize for saying Senator Douglas
democrat of Illinois) was erro-
neously "howling calamity" last
year.
Instead, he cited quotes to
back his assertion that Senator
Douglas had suggested the ma
ton was headed for depression.
At a tax hearing before the
Senate Finance Committee on
February %, Mr.. Humphrey
aroused Senator Douglas ire by
his arks about calamity
bowling. Senator Douglas said
he had spoken of a recession, but
never predicted a big depression.
He demanded an apology.
Instead, it was disclosed last
night, Secretary Humphrey has
sent a letter to Senator Byrd,
democrat of Virginia.. chair
man Of the Finance Committee
Mr.. Humphrey recalled that
Evening star., 1955-03-05
Sd Armored Division
ToBe Re- organized
Into Combat Group
By John A. Giles

Reorganization Of the Sd Ar
mored Division at Fort Knox, KY.
from a training outfit to a tacti-
cal combat outfit will start this
month.
The Army's announcement Of
this change today followed COM
pletion of one phase of tests Of
armored divisions under simu-
lated war conditions in Texas.
It indicated the department was
satisfied such outfits would fit
well into atomic warfare.
The conversion Of the division
will give the Army four tactical
armored divisions. The others
are the 1st and 4th at Fort Hood.
Tex, and the I'd, stationed in
Germany.
New Activity.
Concurrently with the reorgan-
ization of the Sd Armored Divi-
sion, the Army will establish an
Armored Replacement Training
Center at Fort Knox. A relatively
small activity, it will conduct ad-
vanced individual training for
requirements and provide spe-
cialist training.
The new tactical division will
train it's cadre until June 80,
after which it will receive addi-
tional personnel monthly through
September to bring it to full
strength of 14,500 officers and
enlisted men.
The Sd was first activated in
April, 1941. 1t landed in Nor
mandy shortly after D-Day,
helped exploit the ST. Lo break
through and preached the Sieg-
fried Line. Later it participated
In the Battle of the Bulge and
captured Cologne, Germany. 1t
was inactivated in Europe in
November, 1945, and re-activated
as a training unit two years later.
Armored Divisions Value.
Mai. Gen. James M. Gavin,
assistant Army Chief of Staff,
recently told reporters that ar
mored divisions do not pose the
problem of infantry divisions in
atomic warfare.
"It is a pretty good division to
fight either an atomic or nom
atomic war" he told reporters.
'It packages up pretty neatly be-
cause you have tanks, which are
going to be useful in an atomic
war"
The combat command phase
ST the tests have now been COM
pleted and armored divisional
maneuvers under simulated
atomic conditions will take place
In October under Gen. Gavin's
dirsotion. The 1st Armored Dr.
vision will be used in the tests,
Evening star., 1955-03-05
PetriIIo Urges U.N. Orchestra;
Finds President Warm to Idea

speak a universal language
known and appreciated by all"
he said.
Mr.. Petrillo proposed that the
orchestra should be made up of
musicians from the various u. N.
countries and tour the world.
Mr.. Petrillo also ;ett a memo
randum with the President urg-
ing elimination of the amuse-
ment tax, which he blamed for
unemployment of many musi-
clans by making it unecoromical
to operate some places Of erter-
tainment. But he said he got no
encouragement from Mr.. Eisen-
hover about this.
Evening star., 1955-03-05

James C. Petrillo. president of
the American Federation of Mu-
sicians. suggested to President
Eisenhower yesterday the for
nation of a United Nations or
chestra. He reported the Presi-
dent thought that was "a good
idea"
Mr.. Petrillo suggested a U. N.
orchestra would bring "the uni
versal language of music to this
multi-lingual but vital organi-
cation" Such an orchestra
would be the rallying point for
the diverse elements that COM
prise the U. N. for it alone would
Evening star., 1955-03-05
BY the Associated Press

GREEN RIVER, Wyo., Mar. s.
An officer defied threats to a
hostage mother and two chill
dren to end a killers 16-hour
crime spree with a charge from
a sawed-off shotgun last night.
w. G. Sherman, special agent
for the Union Pacific Railroad
fired through a window of the
embattled home to kill ex-con-
vict Melvin Henry Gray. 81.
Gray, who earlier killed one
man, wounded three others-one
fatally-and kidnapped a l7-yeal
old youth, took refuge in the
home of Mrs. Gus Kalivas after
a running gunfight through this
town of 3,187.
While the desperate menaced
Mrs. KalivaS and two children
officers encircling the house dis
tracted his attention. Mr.. Sher-
man Sneaked to a front window
and fired.
One of Gray's pursuers, Dep
Evening star., 1955-03-05
Corsii
Continued From First Page.

Continued From First PageD
Walter dispatched to Assistant
Secretary of State Thruston
Morton proof" of Mr.. Corsi's
membership in the American
Committee for the Protection of
the Foreign Born, an organiza-
ton cited as a Communist Front
by the Attorney General. :. This
was a photostat of pamphlet
on the Alien Registration Law
dated 1910 on which Mr.. Corsi's
name was listed with 60 others
as a member of the board of
directors of the organization.
I'm still insisting that I'm
not a member" says Mr.. Corsi.
Il never was asked to serve and
never accepted to serve on the
board of directors, never met
anybody on the committee and
as far as I know was never
member of the committee"
Even if it were true it doesn't
indicate anything except that I
might have been naive enough
to fall for an outfit like that. The
fact is. though. that I am not in
it. They used my name without
my knowledge"
The State Department sent a
letter to this effect to Mr.. Walter
yesterday.
"Just Keeps Harping"
About the Office workers, Mr..
Corsi said II was the industrial
commissioner of New York and
they had to deal with me. Maybe
they had a dinner and maybe
went to it, but how could I be
a member? He hasn't produced
anything on it. He just keeps
harping. on it,"
AS for the Conference on In
allenable Rights, he says, Maybe
accepted a dinner. We used
to get a raft of invitations in
New York all the time. I Just
have absolutely no recollection
Of it,"
Mr.. CorSi also takes serious
exception to Mr. Walters corol-
larry charge that he was "rammed
down Dulles throat by Dewey
and his crowd"
Mr.. Dulles asked him to come
and help out on the administra-
tion's faltering refugee-admis-
sion program last December, he
says.
I've known Mr.. Dulles for
years." said Mr.. Corsi indig-
nantly. His brother Allen and I
worked together on the Willkie
campaign in 1910. All Tom
Dewey had to do with my being
here was to congratulate me
and tell me it was a hard job
and a job that had to be done.
Worked Under Hoover.
Mr.. Corsi also invites MIR. WAL
ter's scrutiny of his record as
United States Commissioner of
immigration under Presidents
Hoover and Roosevelt during the
'30s.
Il didn't sell American down
the river" protests Mr.. Corsi.
Il wish he (Mr. Walter) could
have read what the Communists
said about me in the Daily
Worker when I was relief ad-
ministrator for the City OF New
York. :. They called me Fascist
all the time. wish he could see,
like I did in Europe, what capital
the Communists are making
Evening star., 1955-03-05
Long to Address Forum

DR.. Herman Long, director of
the department of race relations,
American Missionary Associa-
ton, Congregational Christian
Churches, will address the Ply
mouth Forum of Plymouth Con-
gregational Church at 6 pm.
tomorrow in the church, Seven
teenth and P streets NV,
Evening star., 1955-03-05
Benson in Nicaragua

MANAGUA, Nicaragua. Mar. S
(P).-United States Secretary of
Agriculture Benson called on
President Anastasio Somoza here
yesterday after his arrival from
Costa Rica. Today he will inspect
dairy farms and cotton planta-
tionS.
Evening star., 1955-03-05

ing rain and sleet, slippery in
spots.
River Report.
tFrom u S. Engineers,)
POTOMAC River cloudy at Harpers Ferry
at Harpers Ferry. N'o"N'
Evening star., 1955-03-05

Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest. 50, on March /.
Lowest 10 on February 8.
High f5. at 1880 pm.
Low. AZ. at 6:45 am.
Tide Tables
Furnished BY United States Coast nj
Evening star., 1955-03-05

~
Precipitation will tonight large part of the
southwestward to Texas The precipitation
will in snow northern sections
and also the Central Plains. will be colder
Plains States reaching cold proportions the Central
Plains States.
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The Sidney herald., 1955-07-21

good and well kept. But oh So
rugged and crooked. We really
roughed it while there.
Our son-in-law took his vaca-
ton so as to show us Alaska. We
took tent, sleeping bags, cooking
equipment, ice chest, fishing
tackle, etc. We visited the fishery
at Homer and the cannery: got
clans along Clam Gulch: and
crabs and fish at camps. My Job
was cleaning fish, Bailey was
fireman, Lucy was cook and Pete
was driver and fisherman. One of
our favoriteS was the little smells
When the tide comes in they can
be scooped up out of the water
by the hundreds and are they
ever good fried crisp over a camp
fire, or a nice big juicy sole fried
IN butter. They were all super.
We were real interested in the
old copper mines along the Cop
per river and the old Ghost Town
Of Chitina. This is really old Alas
ka of the Klondike days.
On the trip to Seward we visit
ed The Alaskan Museum of
alaska Nellie" who is 90 years
old. She has driven dogs into the
interior and shot bear and moose
and has many old relics. If YOU
visit Alaska be sure to include
her for al inspiring chat.
We saw a Polar bear hide taken
from a bear which a hunter had
just killed near Galena and it
measured 10 feet, 9 inches. 1t was
a beauty. The huge Zodiac bears
down on Kodiak Isle are the most
vicious and about the same size.
We visited Big Lake, a resort.
where we had some beautiful boat
rides. Moose and mountain sheep
and goats r very plentiful and
we saw them in great numbers.
A little about Anchorage, "The
Crossroads of the World", with a
population of $4,000. 1t has one of
tHe Inree largest alrportS in the
world along the beautiful lake
Spinard.
The Anchorage climate is won
derful, neither hot or cold. Their
coolest days in January are
around 80 below zero and their
average is Is above for the winter
season. I can tell you the sum-
mers r wonderful with an av-
erage of 81 above. With daylight
for 20 hours and twilight for the
other 4 hours, I was able to read
in a book every hour of the day
and night without a light.
We stopped over in Juneau on
our flight back to the States as
Juneau cannot be reached by car
or train, and we wanted to see
all of Alaska.
Alaska is in all reality, "The
of the Last Frontier" and
the Land of the Midnight Sun"
The valleys are lovely and mild
with the rugged snow caps sur