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Milford chronicle., 1955-08-12
Coal Deposits
Ready To Give
indians Power
BY MURRAY SINCLAIR
Ap Newsfeatures

TUCSON, Ariz.-The oldest coal
mining district in the United States
may soon be put into large-scale
production for the first time.
DR.. John Hack Of Harvard Uni
versity reported the ancestral Hopi
Indians of northern Arizona heat
ed their shelters with coal in 1900.
Now their large deposits may be
used to generate electrical pow
er.
The Harvard group decided pre-
historic Americans realized the
value of coal about the same time
as the English. The British used
ii to bring about the industrial
revolution. The Indians discarded
it in favor of wood and sheep dung.
Or. George A. Kiersch of the
University of Arizona is heading
a group of geologists and techni-
clans making an inventory of the
wide variety of mineral resources
of the Navajo and Hopi reserva-
tions. They are also trying to find
commercial uses for the materials.
Original estimates made 40 years
ago placed mineable coal on the
reservation at eight billion tons.
Kiersch said work done the past
couple of years has reduced this
Milford chronicle., 1955-08-12

estimate to something in excess of
two billion tons. 1t is a good, aver
age grade bituminous coal.
Plans for a power plant in the
reservation are now on the plan
ming boards.
Coal seams in the land of the
Hopi generally range from two to
eight feet in thickness. A few beds
II to 20 feet thick are known.
Most coal production in the u. S.
comes from seams three to six
feet thick.
Arizona isn't going to rival the
nations leading coal-producing
states. Seams of the eastern U. S.
extend for tens of miles. Reserva-
tion seams run for thousands of
feet only. Then the thickness mar
rows until they are only a few
inches wide.
Hopi coal mines seem to have
been abandoned after the Span
iards arrived. The newcomers
brought axes. This made it easier
to cut wood for fuel than dig
coal.
Milford chronicle., 1955-08-12
Safety Council Notes

Traffic signs are Signs of Life.
Know them and obey them"
Mr.. Clifford T. Foster. vice
president for public safety of the
Delaware Safety Council gave that
advice TO motorists today as he
urged them to support the Signs
of Life program of the Delaware
Safety Council and the National
Safety Council. This program is
designed to promote better know
ledge of traffic signs and signals
and to encourage strict obedience
to them.
Traffic sign locations are deter
mined by careful engineering
studies" Mr.. Foster said. When
ever you see one there's sound
reason for its presence, and it's
to your advantage to obey it.
Mr.. Foster emphasized that traf-
fic signs, signals and pavement
markings for both motorists and
pedestrians should be given the
same obedience accorded a traffic
officer.
He advised motorists to learn
the Signs of Life by shape so that
they may be recognized on sight.
Due to recent revisions in the
Manual on Uniform Traffic Control
Devices, he said, vacationing mo-
torists may see signs of un-
familiar shape and color. The man.
ual now recommends that the oc-
tagonal stop sign be red instead
of yellow. 1t also recommends the
use of Yield Right of Way sign,
triangular in shape and yellow
in color This brings the number
of basic sign shapes to six.
He listed them as follows:
1. EIGHT-SIDED, yellow or red.
This sign means STOP-one mes
sage, one requirement-neve any,
thing else.
2. DIAMOND, yellow. This sign
indicated danger ahead, carries
such messages as Slow, School,
Narrow Bridge, Men Working, or
the directional symbols describ-
ing curves, intersections, side
roads, etc. 1t means slow down,
stay alert
3. RECTANGULAR, white. Tells
of speed limits, 9iarks no passing
zones, gives other regulatory in
formation such as parking rules.
Obey its message.
A. TRIANGULAR, yellow This
sign is the Yield Right of Way. 1t
Milford chronicle., 1955-08-12

tells the motorist to defer to the
driver on the intersecting street.
However, he need not come to a
full stop except when necessary
to avoid traffic on the intersecting
street.
5. ROUND. yellow sign warns of
300 to 500 feet ahead This sign
calls for reduced speed and extra
caution, so the driver can make
sure no train is coming before
he drives across the tracks.
6. RAILROAD CROSS SSBU C X
marks the intersection of highway
and railway. Cross only when the
way is clear.
Milford chronicle., 1955-08-12
SHAME FOR SMOKERS

NEW YORK - up = Careless
smokers are getting the shame
technique along the Henry Hudson
Parkway. To cut down on fire.
which have ruined fencing and
grass plots bordering the parkway
red and white signs reading care
less smokers caused this destruc-
ton have been erected at obvi-
ously ravaged sections.
Milford chronicle., 1955-08-12
Helps You Overcome
FALSE teeth
looseness and Worry

ease because of loose, wobbly false
teeth. FASTzETH, an improved aka
line (non-acluD powder, sprinkled on
your plates holds them firmer SO they
feel more comfortable. Avoid embar-
Tassment caused by loose plates. Get
fASTEETH today at any drug counter.
Milford chronicle., 1955-08-12
Plumbing Supplies

DOVER PLUMBING SUPPLY CO.
Wholesale Distributors
PLUMBING AND HEATING
SUPPLIES
Holman Gas, OIL And EIectrfc
Water Heaters
Century Warm Air Heaters
And Oil burners
Kohler Enamelvare And Hot
Water Boilers
Kitchen Cabinets And Sinks
OIL TANKS 4 SEPTIC TANKS
Soil Pipe And Valve Fittings
Dupont Hwy. North of Dover
Phone 1889 Dover, Del.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-07
Driver Blocks Out,
Car Hits BUILDING

A Marine private's car went
out of control IN Bethesda
early today when he repeatedly
"blacked out" and tore down
three parking meters, hit a pow
er pole and crashed into a plate
glass window on Wisconsin ave-
nue..
Montgomery County police
Identified the driver as Pvt. VII
liam Leon Corder, 10, static ed
at Quantico, Va. He was takefi
by the Bethesda Chevy Chase
Rescue Squad to the Bethesda
Naval Medical Center with severe
head cuts.
Police said he hit two parking
meters and a power pole on the
east side of Wisconsin avenue
then Swerved across the dual
lane street, struck another park
ing meter and crashed into a
building, breaking the window
and damaging a support.
The damage to the parking
meters was estimated at $500
and $4,000 to the building at 1912
Wisconsin avenue.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-07
Hiroshima Baby Feared
First Genetic Atom Case

cent compared with the normal
80 per cent.
DR.. Seeichi Chashi, leading
Japanese pathologist. who has
charge of the case personally. ex-
planned that medical science has
not yet reached a point where
1T could be quickly determined
whether atomic diseases were
hereditary.
He admitted, however, that
baby Morimoto's condition and
symptoms could be explained
either by the fact she was born
with leukemia because the moth
|er had been exposed to radioac-
tive rays, or that the egg cell
in the mothers body had been
exposed to strong radioactivity
10 years ago and had since un-
Idergone such strong genetical
changes as to affect her first
born.
The Atomic Bomb Casualty
Commission is taking anxious
interest in the case, because its
Investigations have so far dis
covered no evidence of genetic
effects on the offspring of any
atomic victim. despite persistent
lrumors to the contrary.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-07
Ex-Tox Man Says Baking
At Whitewosh Cost Job
Former IRIS Inspection Chief Sues
Government for $26. 1923 in Buck Puy

lecting billions of sax dollars an
nualy.. He's still there"
4 Internal Revenue Commits
sioner Andrews. Deputy Commits.
sioner o. o. Gordon Delk. jr.
and the Justice Department hac
no comment.
The Civil Service Commission
said Mr.. Hoppe appealed to the
commission. csc said that be.
cause Mr.. Hoppe was not . vet
eran he was not automatically
entitled to a hearing on the
merits Of his firing.
Proper Procedures Asserted
csc said its only concern was
to determine whether proper
procedures had been followed BY
Internal Revenue in dismissine
Mr.. Hoppe. The Civil Service
ruled that proper procedures had
been followed. 1t said that il
was up to Mr.. Andrews to. deter
mine whether Mr.. Hoppe was full
filling his duties properly.
Mr.. Witsil said in his state
ment that the csc attitude
means that any non-veteran
employe can be fired on the basis
of improved charges as long as
procedure has been followed"
1T is inconceivable to me that
this would be the intent of Con-
gress." Mr.. Witsil said. ''Vindi-
cation of Mr.. Hoppe will I'M
doubtedly result in iron-clad pro-
See REVENUE, Page Al
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-07
Armed Teen Pair Sought
After Attack on Mother

A pair of Silver Spring teen.
ayers. a 17-year-old boy and q
13-year-old girl, armed with a
shotgun and a rifle. are being
sought along the Eastern sea-
board today.
The couple left Silver Spring
last night in the boys auto after
he had threatened the girl,
mother with the weapons. The
mother, a nurse, was knocked tc
the floor Of her living room BY
the boy before the couple fled
the home about $50 pm.
Detective 1t. william Whaler
of the Silver Spring Police Sta
ttion. declined to furnish names
tof the youngsters. The boy lives
in the 500 block Of Philadelphia
avenue and the girl in the 5000
block of Grove street.
F, 1t. Whalen said the girls
mother had disapproved of hei
daughter keeping company with
the boy. Late yesterday after
noon the woman went to the
home Of one of her daughters
girl friends and told her daugh.
ter to come home with her. The
daughter asked that she be al
lowed to telephone her ahoy
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-07
Soviet Jets Reported
Built in Czech Plants

VIENNA. Sept. 7 (P.-A
Prague newspaper says Czecho.
slovakia's aircraft factories have
been producing jet fighters anc
bombers for the Soviet Union
since before the Korean war.
The newspaper Prace pub
lished pictures of sleek MIG
type fighters and modern jei
bombers yesterday and described
them as the product of Soviet
designers and Czechoslovak
workmanship"
Our ultramodern factorie:
produced the planes which
struck fear into the hearts o.
the aggressors in Korea" thu
newspaper added.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-07
BY RICHARD HUGHES

TOKYO, Sept. z tNANA) -
The first suspected case of in
herited nuclear radiation has
been officially reported by the
Hiroshima Atomic Disease Treat
lment Council.
The victim is a 2-month-old
baby girl born to a 25-year-old
woman. Mrs. Setsuko Morimoto
The mother was exposed to the
effects of the Hiroshima atomic
bomb at a distance of about ]
mile from the bomb blast.
Mrs. Morimoto. then a Is
year-old schoolgirl, apparently
recovered completely from shock
and minor burns. But her first
baby has now suddenly devel-
loped the high fever, anemia and
other symptoms of leukemia IA
form of blood cancer) that have
previously been manifested only
by persons directly affected by
atomic radiation.
! The baby's liver and spleen are
swollen: the normal million
red corpuscle count is down tt
| / 900, 900; and hematin content
lis described as being only Is pei
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friend. who was to meet her. and
the mother agreed.
Shortly after the phone call
was made, the woman returned
to her home with her daughter
and found the 17-year-old boy
standing inside the door with
the two guns. one a 12-gauge
shotgun and the other a 80 cali.
bre rifle.
The boy pointed one of the
weapons at the woman and gave
the other weapon to the 13-yeal
old. The woman said she
reached for the telephone but
the boy ripped the phone wire
from the wall.
The woman then started tc
run for the door but her daugh-
ter grabbed her around the
waist and held her back. The
boy then knocked the mother tt
the floor and the teen-agers flee
the house.
1t. Whalen said a warrant
charging the boy with assault
with a deadly weapon viii prob.
ably be issued later today,s HI
said the girl is being sought al
Ia missing person and no charges
Iyet have been placed against her
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volver at me and ordered me to
get out.
THE Embassy man told me not
to get out unless I was dragged
out. I therefore refused to get
out but at one point I almost
decided to do so because the
soldier had cooked the revolver
and held 1t only a foot from my
head"
Crowd Gathers at Car
Mr.. Holt said that a crowd OF
about 200 persons gathered
around the car. A policeman
came up and. after looking at
the identification cards of Mr..
Holt and the Embassy man. said
they could go on. The police
man, Mr.. Holt continued, was
See HOLT, Page A-3
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-07
Threatened by Russian,
U.S.. Lowmoker DiscIoses
BY ROBERT X. WALSH

Representative Holt. Republic
can Of California, disclosed today
that . Russian Army officer
threatened to shoot him in an
unsuccessful attempt to make
him leave a United States EN-
bassy car in q Moscow suburb
last week.
The 28-year-old House menu
Der, a Marine Corps, veteran Of
World War II and Of, the Ko-
Irean War. said that the State
Department has ofiicially pro-
tested the incident.
Mr.. Holt, at a news confer
ence in his office, said he CO.
operated with the department by
saying nothing about the matter
publicly until today. He decided
to disclose it. he explained, be-
cause no answer has been re-
ceived from Soviet authorities.
! Mr.. Holt returned yesterday
from a 20-day visit to Russia
with Representative Rhodes, Re-
publican of Arizona. A member
lof the House Education and
Labor Committee, he made the
trip as an individual citizen.
Tried to Take Pictures
The incident in the Moscow
suburb occurred a week ago
today, he said, when he accom-
panied an embassy staff mem
Der and a Russian chauffeur in
an embassy car. stopped at a
school building on the outskirts
of Moscow. Mr.. Holt related
that he asked several women
school teachers for permission
to take pictures. When they re-
fused permission, he prepared to
leave but was accosted by a
Soviet Army lieutenant, he said.
THE Army lieutenant took the
identification card away from
the Embassy man who grabbed
1T back" Mr.. Holt said. But
the soldier would not let him get
back in the car. /, meanwhile
was in the back seat of the car
and the soldier pointed a re-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-07
BY JAMES e. ROPER

. Edgar E. Hoppe, former head
of the Inspection Office Of the
Internal Revenue Service, Is
suing the Government for $26.-
823 in back pay. charging he was
fired for refusing to whitewasf
"a new political appointee in the
Revenue Service. 80
Mr.. Hoppe was discharged Oc-
Itober 7, 1858, after nearly %
years with Internal Revenue.
After appeals to Internal Rev
Ienue Commissioner r. Coleman
Lawyers Settlement on Hopes Pa,
cloims. Page A.:
Andrews and the Civil Service
Commission failed to save his
job. Mr.. Hoppe filed suit in the
United States Court of Claims
seeking back pay at the rate OF
$l4.800 per year from the date
of his firing. This totalled $780,
1923 up to the time of filing suit
on August 10. but may swell to
$40, 1000 by the time the case is
settled.
The suit filed at the Court oil
Claims charged that the In
ternal Revenue Service failed to
conform to the law in firing Mr.
Hoppe without giving him the
mandatory 80 days notice of de-
ficiency and denied Mr.. Hoppe
his lawful rights to defend him
self.
'Banished for Whitewash"
John P. Witsil, attorney repre-.
senting Mr.. Hoppe, said in 9
statement:
why was Mr.. Hoppe dis.
missed? For doing his sworr
duty.
HE refused to whitewash &
critical, adverse report on a new
political appointee. And for hi
conscientious effort to fulfill hi
duty tof trust to the American
people, he was banished from tn
scene.
This appointee assumed on
of the highest ranking position
in the Internal Revenue Servic,
the agency charged with col
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-07
Finnish President
Will Visit Russia

HELSINKI. Finland, Sept. 7
R.-The Finnish government
has announced President JUNO
Paasikivi will fly to Moscow on
September Is for a state visit to
the Soviet Union.
Mr.. Paasikiyi, IS. was invited
by Marshal Klementi Voroshilov
chairman of the Presidium OF
the Supreme Soviet. He will be
accompanied by Premier Urho
Kekkonen and other top Finnish
officials.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-07
Britons to Visit Russia

LONDON. Sept. 7 P.-The
British government announced
last night that an official Brit
ish agricultural delegation will
visit Russia from September Is
ito October 9.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-07
Big Forest Fires
Rage in West
Uncontrolled Bloze
Neurs Coust Town

! SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. Z iP1
One of the worst forest fires
in Pacific Coast history ragged to.
day near the little Northern
California logging town Of Yreka
| Other mammoth fires racec
across tens Of thousands Of acre:
Los Angeles Feees Eighth poy Of 100.
Plus Heat. Pose A..
~--------------
Iof parched timber and brush
land elsewhere in California ane
neighboring Oregon.
klamath National Forest on
Gals alerted the $500 resident,
Iof Yreka to connect their garden
hoses and stand by when .
three day-old fire went out Of
control and Numbered through
IL miles of dense cumberland Il
within four smiles of town. BIZ
midnight 100000 acres wert
ablaze.
/ Fireflghters frankly said they
had no chance of checking the
fires onslaught.
No Immediate Danger
| However, Klamath Forest Su-
pervisor Russell Bowers said
lYreka. which is some 20 miles
south Of the Oregon border, ap-
Ipeared to be In no immediate
danger.
Yreka was southeast of the
blaze, and forest officials hoped
to keep the fire out of town as
long as the west wind did not
shift around to the north.
/ Huge clouds of smoke obscureC
the skies and a shower of deac
Icinders rained down on Yreka
ITownsfolk hauled out hoses ane
prepared to douse their roof
III burning embers began cascad-
ing from the laundering fire.
/ More than 1900 men battlet
the blaze and hundreds more
including 400 soldiers from tn,
Preside Of San Francisco, were
rushing to the scene.
| Develops Into Fire Storm
But Mr.. Bowers expressed
ipessimism about checking 1t
He said the blaze had developed
into fire storm, the worst o
all fire conditions. and thai
only two things would help
la change in weather conditions
or the fires running out of fuel
Forecasters predicted anothel
day of hot. windy weather.
:. A fire storm is a maximum Of
, burning conditions - extremel!
. low humidity, dry fuel and ad'
verse wnds-which the Fores
Service says it is powerless Il
combat.
!. An estimated 5000 men Tough
, other fires in California anC
Oregon.
!, In Oregon more than 210 sep.
Iarate fires blazed over nationa
forests. Lightning touched of
l25 new ones in the Fremou
National Forest in South Contra
Oregon.
4 The largest blackened approx
Iimately 10000 acres near Med
ford in Southwestern Oregon
destroyed five homes and forcet
families out of the Tolo district
One of the few notes of chez
came from Sequoia Nationa
Forest In East Central Califor
Inia, where flref1ghters reported
they had checked a 15,000-acrI
blaze which once threatened tn
famed Grant Grove Of gian
ISequoia trees. One of the trees
the Gen. Grant, is believed h
he the Oldest tree in the world
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-07
Two GLs Killed

SENDAI, Japan, Sept. 7 (P.--
Lightning killed two men of the
United States 5th Cavalry Regi-
ment on maneuvers and slightly
burned IA others near here last
might, the Army said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-07


Two Bridges Asked in Hishwoy Budget.
Poge A-l0
began releasing details of the
requests over a two-week period.
A public hearing on the requests
viii be held October 4 by the
District Commissioners before
they begin their traditional
slashing of the proposed budget
figures.
Although the figures are in
for serious cutting, they are the
newest forerunner of a heavy
tax increase program to be sent
to Congress in January.
For the second year in a row.
it appears, the proposed District
budget, which will go to the Hill
as part of President Eisenhower's
next annual budget message. will
be in the red.
Coupled With Taxes
Since District budgets are sup
posed to be balanced. it presum-
ably will be tied to the proposed
tax increase program which will
be designed to finance the extra
spending.
The record requests for the rs
cal year 1857 come on the heels
Of congressional approval of pay
raises effective during the cur
rent 1856 fiscal year-which will
put the District at least IS mil
lion in the redebefore June 80
unless covered by new revenue
increases next January.
Even on the basis of the pres
ent budget--and present revenues
the District is expected to be
more than SO million in the red
during fiscal 1857. How much of
an increase the Commissioners
will allow in spending for that
year undoubtedly will depend on
the size Of the tax program they
send to Congress.
OF the total request Of $2l2.-
915.275. the department heads
proposed to spend $56,190,553 for
construction and purchase of
land under a capital outlay
heading. The balance-$l56.-
724,722-would be for operating
expenses.
Capital Outlay Break Down
OF the capital outlay. $15.-I
428,000 would be financed out
of the highway fund; $8,714,424I
out Of the water fund; $3.50, 900
from the sanitary sewage works
fund, and s28.718,129 out of the
general fund, which finances all
other activities of the District.
including schools, health, police
and fire. except motor vehicle
parking.
Operating expense would be
divided this way:
General fund, $l41.232.14l;
highway fund. $8,003,575; water
fund. S5,251.1 1888; sanitary sewage
works fund, $1,744.338. and
motor vehicle parking fund,
$493,5i0.
Last year the department
heads asked for $3.50 million,
which was $23 million less than
requested this time. They got,
however, about $40 million less
than they wanted. Thus, the
new requests would represent a
$40 million increase over the APP
preparation for the present year.
Held to Bare Minimum"
With the Districts financial
crisis in mind. the Department Of
General Administration said its
requests for increases were held
to "a bare minimum.
1t warned. however. that eff
the Commissioners decide to al
low any substantial increases to
the operating departments it will
See d. C. BUDGET. Page AS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-07
ELEMENTARY PUPILS
ADJUSTED QUICKLY

LITTLE DIFFlcULTY-PupiIs in
Wushinston's elementary schools oe-
eepted inteerotion more costly thon
mony expected. jones 6. Deone,
The Stor's education reporter, tells
obout this aspect Of the first in
tesroted yeor in the second article Of
series on pose B-l.
ATKINSON sToRY-How Riehord
R. Atkinson. Wushinston's new presi-
dent Of the National Dor Association,
worked his way TO the top is told in
story on po9e Bill.
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Sl13 Million
SpendingAsked
ByCity Units
Budget Bureau Calls
Hearing October a
Before Making Cuts
BY HECTOR MCLEAN

Heads of District Government
departments have asked to spend
a record $213 million in the next
fiscal year which begins July /.
This was disclosed today by
the District Budget Office as it
Two Bridges Asked in Hishwoy Budget.
Pose A. 10
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WEATHER FORECAST

Fair and cooler tonight. low around 81.
Tomorrow fair, high near 70. Gull report
plus resort forecast on Page A-2)
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See REVENUE, Page A.;
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temperatures Todws
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GI-S13.10O

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noor; BEDROOMS and bath on
on excellent level lot.
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