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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-31
Wind and Flour Mixture
axes Cake in Liars Club

BURLINGTON. Wis. Dec. 81
P).-Bagging the Burll. 4ton
Liars Club top award for 1855
was a breeze for a Westerner
and his story of big Montana
wind and a sack of flour.
Judges of the phony tale club,
long accustomed to big winds,
gave the nod, and temporary
possession of a diamond
studded, gold-pla ted medal" to
Claude 7. Yerkes of Kalispell,
Mont.
o. c. Hulett. the organiza-
tons founder and president,
says Mr.. Yerkes told about a
sheep herder who lived in q
small trailer house, and had his
provisions brought out by the
owner Of the sheep.
"On this particular occasion, "
Mr.. Yerkes said. "the provisions
included a l00-pound sack of
-four for which there was no
room In the trailer. so the herd
er drove a couple of stout nails
in the wall and hung the sack
Of flour on them, just outside
the trailer door. During the
night one of Montana's justly
famous winds swooped down on
him. Next morning the sheep
herder stepped out of his trailer
to find that the wind mad blown
away the sack and left the flour
hanging on the nails,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-31
Burglar Gets $2,000Loot
As Victim Sleeps Nearby

A $1,000 diamond studded
wrist watch and 81 900 in travel
.ers' checks we're stolen early to-
day by a burglar who ransacked
a bureau only inches from the
head of his sleeping victim, po-
lice reported.
Mrs. Katherine E. Mothers
head. 40, State Department
economic analyst who lives alone
in a 14-room house at 3746 Nc
Kinley street NV, told police
the travellers checks were to A.
nance Government mission on
which she is to leave Tuesday
to the Arab Israel area.
The watch and checks, along
with a second $32 wrist watch,
were the only missing items Mrs.
Mothershead had discovered this
morning.
But the burglar, she said, ap-
parently had wandered coolly
Throughout the house. rifiing
drawers and clothing while he
smoked ciga, cites. The latter
point, she said, was proved by
two snuffed-out cigarette butts
lin an ashtray near her bed.
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A Canadian won one of three
honorable mention awards fol
1855. Vernon Charnetski OF
Prelate, So rkatchewan, sent in
mis- whopper:
Recently friend of mine
asked me about the height OF
the big pool grain elevator in
our town. l told him l did, I
know low high it was. but
did know of a carpenter who
dropped his hammer while
working on the roof. When he
went down to get it. he found
tnat the handle had rotted of
while it was falling"
Conrad A johnson of Port
land. Ore, drew on his native
Kentucky for his honorable
tale.
He told OF returning to his
home State after being gone for
so years. u wanted to lay a
wreath on the graves Of my de-
parted relatives" Mr.. johnson
lied, but to my surprise, when
I got to the ceretery I saw moth
ing but holes where the graves
had been. I inquired from an
ancient relative if they had
moved the bodies. Nope he
said, They buried a revenooer
in that cemetery by mistake,
and they all got up and walked
off,"
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MOTHER, ~, TOSSEs
6 CHILDREN FROM
BLAZING HOUSE

BALE ST. PAUL. Que. up.
"A c2-year-old pregnant
woman yesterday saved six
children from a fire by
throwing them from a Sec
ond floor window into a
Snowbank.
The fire swept through a
gasoline station and the up
per stories of a building at
nearby st. Cassien DIES Caps,
about 70 miles northeast Of
Quebec City.
Several Of the children
were treated on the scene for
bruises They were thrown
rs feet into the snowbank by
Mrs. Gerard Bouchard.
Police said she led the
children to the window
through dense smoke. One
3-year-old child died in the
flames.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-31

Mrs. Motherslea who had
retired at 10 O'Clock last night
said she was awakened at about
1880 am. by "a horribly cool
h .eeZe."
Investigating. she found in
the hall outside her bedroom a
suitcase she had packed and left
in another room. Beside the
luggage were two cartons of
cigarettes she had packed in it.
In her downstairs kitchen
she said, she found a broken
door pane, through which the
burglar apparently mad reached
to unlatch the door. After call
ing police. Mrs. Mothershead
began her check.
The cigarette butts in her bed
room drew her attention first
to the bureau, where the watches
and travellers checks had been
stored.
In a front bedroom, she said
the burglar had unpacked q
number of boxes, then carefully
repacked them without taking
anything. From q closet in an
other room. clothes had beer
removed, then carefully rehung
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-31
Police Kill Youth
Fleeing Cor Crush

CHICAGO, Dec. 81 ga IT
Iyear-old youth, whose auto
crashed into q tree as he at.
tempted to elude police in sub.
urban Riverside, was shot anc
killed by police when he fec
from the crash today.
Fatally shot by Policeman
Donald Gossling was Dean
Young of suburban Oak Park
Mr.. Gossling said Young ran
into a woods and he fired two
warning shots before shooting
the fleeing youth.
Youngs com panion, John
Cedar. II. was seriously injured
in the crash.
Mr.. Gossling said he and his
partner, Theodore Jablonski, had
pursued the youths for about 2
miles at speeds up to 80 miles
an hour until Young apparently
lost control Of his car on the
winding road. He said they
started chasing the car after it
sped away from a food shop
where the policemen were in
vestigating a complaint of
providers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-31
Science Learns
More on Stars
Study of Distribution
Greatly Widened
BY THOMAS r.. HENRY
Star stan Correspondent

ATLANTA, Dec. 2l.--Man COR
the first time is beginning to see
the inside of the multi billion
star forest of which his earth is
an enthusiastically minute pat.
This is a major accomplish
ment Of the new raoIo astronomy
due 20 single radiation wave
length. 81 centimeters long
emitted by hydrogen. creation
mother element, betw zen the
stars.
The new look at creation was
reported before the American
Association for the Advancement
Iof Sciei.Ge here last night by DR.
Frank D. Fdmondson of the Uni
lversity Of Indiana. 1t is conn m
ing what was hitherto suspected
that the vast milky way galaxy
is a spiral like a coiled watch
spring almost identical with
many of the millions of othe-
galaxies Of similar size through
out space.
Studies in star distribution
with optical telescopes. DR.. Ec
mondson said. always has been
limited by inability to look
through the dense dust clouds
in parts of the n ky way. There
has been a general picture of a
fiattened disk of stars ard within
the last few years some progress
i, was madc in tracing spiral arms
in the neighborhood Of the sun.
Large Rotating System
Even though We are not able
to see all the milky way by
optical methods" Or. Edmonson
said, study of the motions Of
the stars in the suns neighbor-
hood has indicated that the
milky way is a very large rotat-
ing system. IT'S size has been
inferred essentially from the
Gun nature of star orbits in the
suns neighborhood. The diam
eter is about $4,000 light years
the distance covered in that
period by light moving at about
1876, 900 miles a second. and the
mass turns out to be about
200 billion times that of the sun. I"
But now the great dust cloud
curtains have essentially been
ripped away visible light cannot
get through them. They offer
almost no obstacle to the 81
centimeter radio waves. The
great galaxy. like a supernatural.
is Simultaneous disintegrating
and being born. Stars are be-
coming cold clinkers and new
stars are being created. largely
out of the interstellar hydrogen.
The chief concentration of this
is in the spiral arms of the
galaxy. Thus Il has made pos
See SCIENTISTS. Page AS
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$200, 900 FoIIs in Crote.
Docs Have Rich Diet

Ell CENTRIC. Calf, DEE. 81
R).-Dogs rolling in dough
solved the case of the missing
100000.
The money, in non-negotiable
checks, disappeared a week ago
while en- route from a bank here
to Los Angeles via air.
No clues were found immedi-
ately. Then a tracer was put
on other shipments on the plane.
The mystery was solved yester-
day with the disclosure that the
envelope Of checks had fallen
Into a crate containing dogs.
The pups chewed up the checks
and used the paper for bedding
Literally rolling in the dough.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-31

force. The Park Police here dou'
bled their traffic squads on al
roads under their jurisdiction
In the District. metropolitan
policemen working today's 4 pm
to midnirht shift were ordered
to stay or duty two hours longer
Those due to report at midnight
were ordered to come in an hour
earlier.
Numerous events OF interest to
the public were scheduled dur
ing the New Year week end.
Among the most popular was
the program for the Pageant OF
Peace at the Ellipse. The Ambas-
sailors of many foreign lands
planned to take part in exer-
cises at 2 pm. today, sending
New Year greetings to the world
The Chinese community will
participate in tonight'S exercises
at the Ellipse.
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/, dence, the VA said, that Mr.
Butcher had attended a summer
camp in 1850 and 1851 owned
and operated by the Socialist
Workers Party. There he is said
to h. e expressed a preference
for the Red" system of govern
lment. to have called people in
the United States Government
"cheaters and crooks who Cypress
the working people" to have ad-
Iyocated likes and to have urged
Ithe.Riolent overthrow OF the Gov
eminent.
4 Mr.. Rauh said that Mr.
XII her was being accused OF
making statements no more
harmful to the United States
war effort in Korea than some
made by President Eisenhower
the late Senator Taft and former
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey in cam
paign speeches.
;. Mr.. Rauh said the moral OF
the Va S position is: IF you're
a pensioner, don't exercise your
right OF free speech"
| airman Moss said, III
you're going to cal strikes dur
ing wartime, it's a prima facie
evidence that you are giving ai6
and assistance to the enemy"
Mr.. Butcher, under question
ing by his other attorney. John
: Silar, denied ever having made
: any of the statements. said he
had never, as charged by ar
unidentified informer. deflled the
American flag. and further tolc
: the board that the CAM wa:
: not owned and operated by the
, Socialist Workers Party.
Charge Not Amplified
The hearing board did not
further amply the charge in the
. letter Of your numerous &C
tivities," and Chairman Moss did
. not further uestion Mr.
Kutcher.
Chairman Moss disputed Mr.
Rauh's charge that the proceed
, ings constituted a treason trial"
Mr.. Silard told his client, You
are the first man in the United
States to be tried not before a
jury of your peers but before
civil servants"
| Chairman Moss insisted the
hearing was not treason trial,
despite Mr.. Rauh's emphasis
that the charges against Mr..
Kutcher were couched in the
language the Constitution uses
to define treason.
Mr. Butcher said he had never
advocated treason, sabotage. mu-
tiny or violent overthrow of the
Government. What he and his
party, which he said was mot
subversive," want, he said, is "a
socialist system with planned
production for use rather than
profit, the organization of la
Dor party. and the operation of
a labor government"
He called the Soviet state "a
degenerate workers state. that
is dictatorship" and said the
Communist Party has been very
hostile" to the Socialist Workers
Party. He said he thought China
and North Korea should choose
their own government without
/ See BUTCHER, Page Az
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Generally dry weather APP
peared in prospect for most
areas.
The Safety Council says the
traffic volume is not as heavy
over the New Year as al Christ
mas. Each year since the end OF
World War II the toll at Christ
mas has been higher than al
New Years.
1872 Weekend Deaths
The overall violent dea h toll
last weekend was 1872. including
500 traffic. 60 in fires and los
in the miscellaneous accident
class. The 500 figure represents
traffic deaths actually counted
during the holiday and is con-
sidered official for comparative
purposes. Delayed reports and
deaths from injuries suffered
during the 78-hour period in
creased the Christmas traffic toll
to at least 664.
There were 296 traffic deaths
during the two-day holiday OF
1886. Other violent deaths in
cluded n in fires and SO from
miscellaneous caI:ses.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-31

of Thanksgiving at Watch Nigh
wors ZIP and again tomorrow al
the regular Sunday church serv.
ices.
The historians may truthfully
record that 1855 left Washing
ton cold.
On this last day OF the year
the temperature was not expect
ed to rise as high as 40 degrees
desp: e sunny skies.
The Weather Bureau predicted
the temperature here would dip
to IS degrees tonight, and in the
suburbs to 20 degrees. Fair
weather is forecast at least
through tomorrow and probably
through Monday, the legal holi-
day for New Years.
The rather cold prediction
for Sunday contrasts with a
high of 81 degrees last January
i. The minimum on the 1885
New Years Day was 80.
Incidentally, the lowest tenn
perature this year was 10 de-
grees on February 8. The high
est. %, was recorded on July 20
and August 2.
Many residents Of Metropoli-
tan Washington were away for
New Year festivities elsewhere,
but there was q hustle wherever
people congregated and the gay
ETY. in evidence appeared GER
tain to carry through the three
day holiday week end.
There was no change, how
ever. in the Saturday midnight
curfew on the sale Of alcoholic
beverages in taverns and hotels.
The SOBER minded also hoped
for a good traffic safety record
in the District and on the high
ways of neighboring Virginia and
Maryland. An early holiday sur
vey showed several fatal acct
dents had occurred already in
the two States and patrolliny
policemen worked diligently TO
keep the situation under control.
State troopers were out in
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tTcllucIl1k dlu anu d. IStdIlCc "
an enemy of the United States
because of certain statements h
allegedly made during the Ko.
rean war, Mr.. kutcher wa &c
on being a member of the Social
ist Workers Party. a g CUP which
! is on the Attorney Generals sub
versive list.
He will stick to the part. a.
he has for the past IS years
although membership has al.
ready cost him his Government
job as a VA file clerk and now
threatens the 329 monthly pen
sion which is the sole support Of
himself, an ICED father who is 9
idiabetic amputee and his mother
The family now faces eviction
from a Newark housing develop.
ment because Of his views.
Mortar Cost Both Legs
/ Mr.. Butcher. who walks with
the aid OF two canes nd look!
much older than his 43 years
lost both legs as the result Of
mortar blast injuries sustained
during the Italian campaign o.
World War II. He was honor,
adv discharged from the service
He denied under oath that h,
ever advocated violent over
throw of the Government anc
said he is against violence as HI
considers 1t "senseless.
The hearing, which was helt
at Mr.. Kutcher's request, to g.
termine whether or not his pen
sion stopped on November 80 ant
resumed IN December "a shoult
be permanently restored, CAV,
the public a rare glimpse into W
hearing procedures. Mr.. Hutch
er's attorney. Joseph L. Rauh, jr,
who at the outset asked for ;
copy of the hearing rules. wa
I LOid tnere were none.
| Peyton H. Moss, acting chair.
man of the panel from tn,
Waivers and Forfeitures Commit
tee of the VA said, Il will max,
the rules as we go along"
Expressed Preference
Mr.. Moss. when asked by Mr.
Rauh for application of charge;
made in a letter sent by the w
to Mr., Butcher on December 10
said that the countries the vet.
eran had aided and assisted were
Communist China and NORTH
Korea.
The charges were based on eyi.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-31

Three deaths in fires and one
in another type of accident made
the current overall toll "a.
The National Safety Council
has es; 4mated that at the end OF
the long holiday week end-mid-
night Monday--407 persons will
have beer killed in motor We
Ii.icle accidents, That would be
IA record for the New Year pc
Iriod, SURPRISING the higl Of 407
set during the forr-day New
Year holiday at the end Of 1852
Tight Enforcement Set
Police were alerted for emer-
gency actor aimed at holding
down the traffic toll. Drastic
traffic law enforcement was or
iered by officials after the record
breaking holiday traffic toll OF
500 over the Christmas week end
Four tatcs-IllinoiS, Wiscon-
sin, Michigan and Arizona-or-
dered National Guard men to
help patrol highways. Planes
were being used in Illinois and
Louisiana to scout above high
ways. Extra police were ordered
on duty in many cities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-31
PHONE SERVICES
FOR TOMORROW

The Stors holiday telephone ser-
ices will observe the following operos-
ing hours New Ysor, ooy:
Classified Department, II s.m.-S
pm. classified eds moy be placed
IN person at the business counter in
The Stor lobby. $50 e.m.-S PM
Friday will remain ss the deodlins for
Sunday eds.
Circulation Department. J s,m.-l
pm.
Main Switchboard, J s.m.Il2 pm.
As usual, night service lines will be
placed in operation after the moin
switchboard is closed.
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FaureCabinet
Backs Down
Photo Bribery
= Charge Retructed

PARIS, Dec. 81 (P.-Bitter po-
.litical battling over charges OF
atrocities in Algeria Drought the
French election Campo ikn to a
heated close today. The voters
will pick a new National AS
sembly Monday.
Premier Edgar Faure late last
night condemned the murder
Gus act" of a French gel darme
who shot own an apparently
unarmed Algerian prisoner last
August. But his government
backed down on earlier charges
that a cameraman Cor an Amer
lean rrwsreel company had
brioed the yendarme to do the
shooting SO he could take the
pictures.
The Premier said the shooting
was contrary to all regulations
and all instructions for coping
with rebellious Nationalist ex-
tremists in Algeria. However,
he added that it was deplorable
that the incident should have
been used for what he called
last-mnute political exploitat ton.
Faure Pushes Probe
Mr. Faure said the incident
had not been brough: to official
attention earlier at the top gov
eminent level. Speaking at Dole
in his HON district near the
Swiss border. Mr.. Faure prom
Used he would pursue the matter
further Monday.
Pictures Of the shooting were
widely publicized for the irst
time in France Thursday in
L'Exprt $, Paris daily that is
supporting ex Premier Pierre
Mendes-France's bid for a majo
political comeback in the Mon
day voting. Mr.. Mendes-France,
fighting Mr.. Faure and the Pre-
mier's allies. has based his CAM
paign on the 14-month-old Ma
tionalist rebellion in Algeria.
The former premier says the Al
gerian strife must be halted by
an agreement such as he made
with the Tunisians or it may
turn into another defeat like
Indo- China.
Publication of the shooting
pictures produced the most dra-
matte development in the cleo
ton campaign. The Interior
Ministry charged Thursday that
q eorges Chassagne, "a, a
Frenchman and Algerian cor
respondent for United States
See PARIS, Page Az
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-31
Bulganin Says
H-BombDoesn'i
Out War
NucIeor Weapons
Are Deterrent, but
Not 1000, He Says

LONDON. Dec. 81 (P.-Soviet
p emier Bulganin today said
possession of hydrogen bombs by
both East and West is not 100
per cent deterrent against future
wars. He declared another sum-
NIT conference "can be fruitful. "
Replying to questions put to
MIN by Charles E. Shut, head of
the Washington Bureau of the
Telenews Agency, Mr.. Bulganin
said:
1T is wrong to assert that in
aSmuch as East and West pos
sess hydrogen weapons. the pos
sibility of a thermometer war
is automatically excluded"
Interview Broadcast
Mr.. Bulganin's interview with
Telenews was broadcast by the
Moscow radio. Te'enews. affili-
ated with Hearst Metrotone
News, furnishes newsreeI films to
television stations.
"Of course, the fact that under
present conditions atomic and
hydrogen weapons cannot be
used with impunity has some de-
terrent effect on those circles
which would like to unleash war.
using weapons of mass annihila-
ton" Mr.. Bulganin said.
1T is precisely from the midst
Of these circles that dangerous
assertions are being spread. al
leging that peace can be pre-
served by strengthening atomic
might and continuing the arms
drive"
Plugs Soviet Line
Mr.. Bulga hin, in his answers,
plugged hard for the current So
Wet line that Russia still ad-
heres to the spirit OF last sum-
mer's Big Four summit confer
ence in Geneva. The Russians
have accused the Western Big
Three on various occasions of
violating the spirit of Genevs
The West has countered that
the bitterly southwestern
speeches which Mr.. Bulganin and
Russian Communist Party Sec
rotary Nikita S. Khrushchev
made on their recent South
Asian tour violated the Geneva
spirit.
Asked about the prospects for
peace in 1856. Mr.. Bulganin said
in the interview that "interna-
tional cooperation and trust
are fully attainable ain in our
time"
After giving his views on war
and peace. the Soviet Premier
conveyed TO the American peo-
pie cordial greetings and best
New Years wishes"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-31

the car was going 104 miles an
hour the last time he saw the
Ispeedometer as they rounded a
slight curve 500 feet east Of
the Landover-Largo intersection
Iof highway 214 at Largo, Md. at
1880 am.
The Dead and Injured
The dead are:
F! Paul Donaldson, 10, Of 500
Livingston terrace Sc, 'front.'
seat passenger.
! Raphael C. Knott, 20. Of 742
Ridge road Sc, also in the front
seat.
/ The injured:
/ Rex Mcdonald, 10. Of 319
Anacostia road Sc, tie driver.
in critical condition at Prince
Georges General Hospital with
a skull fracture. multiple frac-
lures of the arms and legs, jaw
fracture and internal injuries.
Relatives said doctors have
given young Mcdonald only a
slight chance of recovery. He
was receiving blood transfu-
sions to-day and a brain special
list is being called in.
| He is an employe of Ca 1itol
Cadillac.
/ Roy Daniel, jr.. 10, OF 3704 Ri,
place Sc. owner of the auto
mobile; married and the father
of one child. He is in Prince
Georges Hos pital in satisfactory
condition.
Robert Mayhem, jr., 81. of 1919
Thirty first street Sc, also in
Prince Georges Hospital with
, head injuries. He is a painter:
is married and the father of q s.
montll-old daughter.
i Ernest S. Richardson 20, Of
/ 472 Burns street Sc. rib in
Juries. He was transferred to
Casualty Hospital.
! Car Runs Into Tree
The six Were returning TO
Washington from Woodland
Beach. Md. when the car, a 1855
Hudson. Sweryea off the right
side of the road, cut back across
to the left. skidded 100 feet and
crashed broadside into a tree.
!, The car was smashed in Ia 4,
police said. with the two sections
IL to Is feet on either side Of
the tree.
/ Pvts. S. o. Packet and A. NJ.
Criner of the Seat Pleasant
headquarters of Prince Georges
County police quoted one of the
victims as to the speed of the
car.
The scene is on a slight left
curve and upgrade a short dis
Itance from the traffic light at
the I,argo-Landover intersection
on Central avenue or Highway
214.
| A motorist headed toward
Annapolis CO ne upon the wreck.
returned to Largo and called for
nelp.
1t brought the Capitol Heights
and Bladensburg fire depart
ment rescue squads and equip
ment from Cottage City and
Kentland volunteer fire depart
ments.
| Young Knott, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Adrian D. Knott, was an
apprentice at a color press COM
pany and native of st. Marys
county, Md. He attended st.
Francis Xavier school, Kramer
Junior High and Anacostia
High schools He is survived by
his parents; three brothers,
Donald, Dennis and Gregory,
and three sisters. Patricia, Shir-
ley and Barbara.