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Evening star., 1955-02-13
Hearts Are Bigger
But Verse Is Worse

BE WHOSE VALENTlNE?-Fotu-
aoteIy. VoIentine's Doy comes but once
yeor, Stoff Writer Jock Jonos
notes in feature on the occasion.
The hearts ore bigger. but the verse
IS worse. he soys on pose AIS.
10 YEARS AFTER Two JIMA-on
February 10. l94s, the Marines mode
their bloodiest londing--on voleonie
Two Jimo. Robert 6. Ford was O
young officer in the Iondins force.
Today he is newspopermon in DOL
los. He tells the gripping story Of
Two on Pose All. y
HELPING HAND-eyen scientists
in ivory towers must cot. The need
for groceries con distroet the most
dedicoted The Washington Heort
Association stepped IN to relieve q
chemist here OF the distraction John
MeKelwoy tells about il in "7odoy 10
Medicine" on Pose A-2o.
Complete Index. Poee AZ
Rodio -TV Programs. Poses EST
Evening star., 1955-02-13
6. 0. P. Speaker Hits
Eisenhower Regime,
Suggests Third Party
Utuh Gov. Lee AssuiIs
Drift to Left; Mccarthy
Sees Formosu Retreat
By the A,socioted Press

CHICAGO, Feb. >12,-Repub-
lican Gov. J. Bracken Lee of
Utah declared today that the
Nation has gone farther to the
left" under the Eisenhower ad-
ministration than in any two
year period in history.
And he utilized a Lincoln Day
rally of conservative Republicans
to suggest that formation OF a
third major party may be nee
essary, as a last resort, to pre-
serve constitutional government.
Senator Mccarthy. Republican,
of Wisconsin, also criticized the
administration. saying 1t has
ordered a retreat" by its actions
in the Formosan situation.
Asks Party Action First.
Gov. Lee said both Republic
cans and good Democrats"
should try first to recapture their
parties. If that fails, he added,
candidates should be nominated
to run the kind of platform we
want"
Later, in an interview, Gov.
Lee said his remarks could cor
rectly be interpreted as a last
resort proposal for formation of
a third party.
He told reporter t h t
Americans who believe in this
constitutional American Govern
ment should do everything in
their power in their own parties
to obtain the nomination of
people" to represent such form
of government.
Failing in this in both par
ties" the Governor added. Il
say We should Immediately call
a third major political conven-
ton composed of people. who
believe in government by law
and not by men, and pick a full
slate.
people Entitled to Choice"
American people are entitled
to a choice and they certainly
haven't been given that oppor-
tunity recently"
Senator Mccarthy, the last of
seven speakers. said evacuation
of the Tachen Islands is mot a
victory" but rather means that
Chang Kai-shek's Chinese Ma
(See MIDWEST, Page Ala
Evening star., 1955-02-13
The Lost Strow?
By Joseph A. Fox
S,or Stuf+ Correspondent

BOSTON, Feb. 12.-President
Eisenhower's trade agreement
program, which last week got the
warm support of the powerful
House Ways and Means Commit
tee. is drawing frigid reception IN
New England, where the long
suffering textile industry regards
it as the last straw.
AS though things were not
tough enough already, because
of ruinous competition from the
South. harassed mill owners see
more disaster creeping up in the
new assault on trade barriers.
To them. it's like waiting for
the other shoe to drop. There is
fear for the economic future of
the six-State area from Connec-
ticut to the Canadian border.
Sees Industry Funeral.
Striding about his plainly fur
nished headquarters here. Will
liam F. Sullivan, president of the
National Association of Cotton
Manufacturers and the Northern
Textile Association, employs a
macabre figure of speech as ne
Evening star., 1955-02-13

Fires, one of them a four
alarmer in Washington, de-
stroyed an abandoned lumber
yard and rural home and
heavily damaged another house
in Colesville, Md. last night.
Most spectacular of the blazes
sent flames 100 feet high over
the flaming ruins of lumber
yard at GIG Rhode Island avenue
NE, formerly occupied by the
Pierce Lumber Co.
Traffic was tied up for blocks
along the avenue-a main line
highway to Baltimore. The fire
also tied up the Mount Rainier
Potomac Park street car line
which runs on Rhode Island
avenue.
Goes Up Like TipderbOx.
The unoccupied building went
up like a tinderboX in mass OF
flames, witnesses said, before the
first fire engines could reach it.
So great was the heat in the
early stages of the brief but in
tensive blaze. that f1remen man
ming the hoses had to stay more
than 100 feet from the building.
The roof of a small structure
about so feet from the fire was
ignited by the heat alone. fire.
men said. This secondary blaze
was quickly eXtinguished, how
ever.
Firemen first on the scene said
it was hard to say where the FIRE
started since the building was
burning all over"
A small quantity of acoustical
tile was stored in one section OF
the structure, but the depart
ment could not Immediately de-
termine whether any inflam-
mable material, such as the paste
Evening star., 1955-02-13
Steamer Springs Leak,
Asks Help OFF Hanoi
By the Assoeioisd Press

SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. H.
Globe Wireless reported today 1t
picked up an SOS from the Brit
ish steamer Thorncombe.
The message said: Require
immediate assistance. vessel
sprung leak. Engine room
flooded
The Thorncombe. a ship Of
only 179 tons. said she was an
chored off Diemdien, near Hanoi,
lndo-China.
Coast Guard records listed the
China Union Trading Co. az
owner of the Thorncombe.
Evening star., 1955-02-13
Man Freezes to Death
On Front Steps of Home
" the AsSoeioted Press

WHEELING, w. Va. Feb. II.
Steve Kondura. Sc. of subur-
ban Benwood. was found frozen
to death today on the front
steps of his home.
The Marshall County sherift'S
Office said it was believed his
body had been there all night,
when temperatures here dipped
to four degrees below zero.
Evening star., 1955-02-13
Star Want Ad Rents
Apartment First Day

When he recently wonted TO rent
an unfurnished apartment. Mr.. A. J.
placed on inexpensive won't cd in
the rental columns Of The Stor Clossi-
fied-Woshlnston's biggest classified
marketploce. Results we're quick.
He found q tenont the first doy his
od oppeored.
Yeor in ond yeor out, The Stot
produces The best yeor- round re-
suits Tor classified advertisers. Thots
why it publishes more classified ods
thon the other Washington news
papers combined.
II you wont to rent, hire, buy.
trode or sell, tell it to the lone-ss-
tobIIshed audience Of The Stor reod-
en. Phone Sterling 5000 and osk
Tor on ed-toker.
Evening star., 1955-02-13
Old Lumber Yard Destroyed
In Spectacular Fire in NE.
Flames Roze Upper Montgomery Home;
VFW Officials Residence Is Damaged

customarily used with such tile,
was also on the premises.
The initial alarm was turned
in at 5:45 pm. by Louis Rubino.
service manager of the Rinaldi
Coal Co., which has offices
across the street.
The building collapsed shortly
after 6 pm. according to w. B..
Baumann of the United Petro-
leum gasoline station just east
of the Baltimore & Ohio tracks.
The lumber company building
was the first structure west OF
the tracks on the north side OF
the avenue.
Within an hour. the building
was merely a smoking heap OF
rubble, with upright stanchions
Starkly etched against the sky.
One Fireman Hurt.
Fire Chief Millard Sutton, who
took command of operations on
the scene, said the cause was still
undetermined, but he raised the
possibility that it might have
been started by hoboes using the
abandoned building as shelter
from the freezing cold.
One fireman suffered hand
scratches and was treated at the
scene.
Rushed to the fire were II en-
gine companies. comprising 81
pieces of equipment, four truck
companies, a rescue squad and
an ambulance.
The abandoned lumber yard
was the scene of a spectacular
fire 80 years ago. At 1877 am.
April %. 1923, four alarms and
seven special alarms were pulled.
To add to the peril, several tank
cars loaded with gasoline were
left on a siding of the Baltimore
e. Ohio railroad tracks adjacent
to the storage yard. A special
locomotive was rushed at the
(See BLAZE, Page A-10)
Evening star., 1955-02-13
Probe ofFCC Methods Pledged
In Wake of Lamb Heorinqs

against applicants and for test
ing the reliability of witnesses.
Il just want to know if the
commission knows what it's get
ting into on this" he said. RE
newal of licenses is usually Just
an automatic thing. If compet-
ing people find out the FEC will
take anything no matter how
frivolous, the commission will
be doing nothing else"
The occasion for the inquiry,
the Senator said, will be provided
by the confirmation hearings on
G. c. McConnaughey as mem
ber of the FEC later this month.
He is serving as chairman un-
der a recess appointment made
by President Eisenhower last
fall.
To Resume Tomorrow.
The Lamb hearings will be re-
sumed tomorrow with Mrs. Nat
Wig again on the stand. Defense
Attorney Russell Morton Brown
on Friday offered to stipulate
with FEC Attorney Joseph Kitt-
ner that all of Mrs. Natvig's
testimony from beginning to end
was false. Mr.. Kittner refused
the offers He has permission
from FEC Examiner Herbert
Sharfman to attempt to re
habilitate" Mrs. Natvig as a wit
ness.
The FEC is looking into two
sets of complaints against Mr..
Lamb. One issue concerns al
legged Misrepresentation by Mr.,
Lamb in previous applications
relating to charges of Commu-
mist affiliations. The other re-
lates to statements made by Mr.
Lamb, who is also publisher OF
the Erie (Pa) Dispatch. in court
proceedings about bribery" on
the part of the FEC.
After 81 days of testimony and
10 witnesses, the Government
has not yet completed its Ease
on the first complaint. Mr.. Kilt
ner yesterday declined to predict
how much longer his side would
take.
Mr.. Lamb has categorically
denied all charges linking him
to Red organizations. He has
charged FEC Commissioner John
c. Doerfer with making a
plans for screening complaints
tSee LAMB, Page AT.
Evening star., 1955-02-13
By Mory McGrory

The investigative procedures
of the Federal Communications
Commission, which have been
spotlighted by the sensational
hearings on Edward Lamb. Ohio
publisher and radio-TV station
owner, will be examined by a
Senate committee later this
month.
A member of the Senate In
terstate and Foreign Commerce
Committee. who asked that his
name not be used, said yester-
day that several members are
planning to inquire into FCC's
handling of Mr.. Lambs applica-
tion for renewal of a radio-TV
license for an Erie (Pa.) station
The hearing on Mr.. Lambs
application, which have been
going on intermittently since
last September. have been
among the StormieSt in FEC
history. Mr.. Lamb, a peppery
little man, at one point called
an FEC lawyer "a rat" A Gov
ernment witness threatened to
kill" Mr.. Lambs lawyer with a
water pitcher. The proceedings
are currently stalled by the re-
cantation of Government wit
ness. Mrs. Marie Natvig, a ST.
year-old divorce from Florida.
Coercion Charged.
Last October. Mrs. Natvig, a
fluent, gray-haired little woman,
testified that in 1886. she was
introduced to Mr.. Lamb at a
Communist Party meeting as
"Comrade Lamb from Toledo,
who is doing such an excellent
job for the party" Last week.
Mrs. Natvig completely reversed
herself. saying. only an idiot
would put any credence in what
l said
Mrs. Natvig has charged that
she was coerced by Walter R.
Powell, jr., an FEC lawyer, into
giving her testimony against Mr.,
Lamb last fall. Mr.. Powell has
since left the commission.
Renewal Usually Automatic.
The Senator who discussed the
case with The Star said he plans
to find out if the FEC will take
anything in the way of evidence.
no matter how fragmentary or
irresponsible" He also said he
would inquire if the FEC has any
Evening star., 1955-02-13
Nixon Flies 10 Guatemala
After Visit 10 Mexico
BY the Axsoeicted Press

GUATEMALA, Feb. 12.-Vice
President Richard M. Nixon ar
rived here today. Guatemala is
the third stop on his Caribbean
good will tour.
Mr.. Nixon and his wife were
welcomed at the airport by the
president of the congress. Luis
Gonzalez, high Guatemalan
officials and cheering throngs.
There were signs he would urge
an immediate step-up in United
States economic aid program to
this little republic which ousted
the Communist-supported re-
gime of ex-president Jacobo Ar
benz Guzman in q revolution
last June. A
Evening star., 1955-02-13
Quick Approval
Likely for New
.Appointees
Mclaughlin Replaces
ComoIier; Hayes Goes
To Utilities Agency
By Hector Mclean

Early Senate confirmation was
indicated on Capitol Hill yester-
day for three District appoint-
ments by President Eisenhower.
One would promote Chairman
Robert E. Mclaughlin. 48. of the
District Public Utilities Commis-
sion to the city's Board of Com
mssioners, succeeding Renah r.
Camalier, whose term expires
June l
The second. replacing Mr.. Nc
Laughlin, would give the District
its highest level Negro official,
George E. C. Hayes. go, ex-school
board member and one of the two
Washington lawyers who were
victorious in the Supreme Court
case on racial segregation in the
District.
The third nomination was ths
reappointment of John A, Re-
mon. veteran Chesapeake & Po-
tomac Telephone Co. official, to
the Districts Redevelopment
Land Agency, of which Mr.. Re-
mon is chairman.
Beall Sees No Difficulty.
There had been no doubt Of
Mr.. Remon's reappointment. but
the other two nominations were
more of a surprise. Mr.. Nc
Laughlin's appointment. how
ever. was forecast by The Star
last Wednesday. The White
House said the appointments
we're announced more than three
months early to end speculation.
and to let the nominees get ac-
quainted with their jobs.
Senator Beall, Republican. Of
Maryland, ranking minority
member of the Senate District
Committee, who apparently had
been notified the appointments
were in the works, said he ex-
pected no difficulty in conflrma-
ton.
Commenting on the nomina-
ton of Mr.. Mclaughlin as .
District Commissioner and Of
Mr.. Hayes to succeed him on
the Public Utilities Commission,
Senator Beall said, Both are
outstanding, capable men, very
we'll qualified"
Senator Gore of Tennessee,
second ranking Democrat on the
Senate District Committee, said
that, based upon my limited
knowledge of the men nomi-
mated, l think the selections are
good"
Camalier Won't Resign.
Possibility of a quick change
of command in the District gov
ernment was Immediately spiked
by Commissioner alier.
Asked if he would resign and let
Mr.. Mclaughlin take over in the
near future, Mr.. Camalier said:
Il don't know why I should.
Right now I don't think so. If
that was expected. they could
have nominated someone a year
ago. 1 take it as an indication I
should continue to serve.
Il refused to resign before on
grounds I was appointed for
three years. and I'm going to
serve it. l take the position I'm
entitled and privileged to serve
the full term"
Mr.. Camalier was appointed
by President Truman to servs
with a fellow Democrat. F. Jo-
seph Donohue, who resigned
after President EisenhoWer's in
auguration.
Raising an issue, Mr.. Camalier
said he was sorry to see aban-
=
Evening star., 1955-02-13
New England Textile Industry
Sees Disaster in Trade Pocts
Mill Owners Agree on Lost Ditch Fight
To Block More Foreign Competition

talks about the troubles Of the
industry:
You're in a funeral parlor."
he tells a visitor.
This is one fight We just
can't lose" seconds Seabury
Stanton. rugged chief of the
famed old Hathaway Co.. of New
Bedford. He still sees hope for
New England's biggest business
unless Government policies knock
out the shaky props remaining
by giving foreign importers
easier access to home markets.
In nearby Lawrence. once the
wool and worsted capital, where
employment has dropped from
$4,000 to 1000 because of plant
liquidation and migration
Arthur Brown, CIO spokesman
for the area, looks from his
desk at rows of deserted factory
buildings and asks rhetorically:
DO the people in Washing
ton who talk about encouraging
trade to check communism
abroad ever stop to figure what
putting men and women out OF
their jobs could do toward
spreading communism in this
country?"
The story is the same every
where-Fall River, Woonsocket,
Lowell. Manchester - wherever
bread and butter depends on the
clatter of spindle and loom. And
while Nbooster organizations such
as the New England Council put
up a brave front and talk about
a new prosperity. the fact re-
mains that the fate of the region
today is bound up in textiles.
With things as they are, that's
a shaky reed.
Question of Costs.
Labor knows it.
The textile industry is SEN
sitive one. 1t is a business where
an eighth of cent a yard in
production cost may mean the
difference between getting or
losing a contract involving thou
sands of dollars. And workers
have come to realize that no pos
sible avenue of savings can be
overlooked by prudent manage
ment.
Increasingly-heavy work loads
are assumed without the inter-
minable discussion that used to
accompany every effort to effect
the operating changes made pos
sible by modern machinery. There
are other evidences. too, of new
spirit of cooperation in the pro-
duction lines.
The average textile worker
ordinarily pays little attention
to economics. but he can under
stand the drains of Southern
competition and has a natural
fear of weakened trade barri-
erS.
At Hathaway, where cartoon
posters keep the workers aware
of what more foreign competition
could mean, a union boss started
petition to let Congress know
how his membership felt.
The textile industry Of the
South, it should be added. is
making common cause with the
North in bucking tariff cuts.
There's nothing new about the
decline in New England textiles.
The industry has been drying up
since the 20s, when low wages,
nonunionization and tax con-
cessions began to lure cotton
southwark. Woolen and worsted
followed, and as synthetics
moved into the manufacturing
picture and started to cut in
on cotton goods production, the
same thing happened.
Today. the same people turn
out cotton and synthetics, and
synthetic blends are appearing
in woolen-worsted.
Statistics Will StartIe.
But while the story is old.
some of the statistics still are
startling.
New England textiles once en-
ployed 100000 men and women.
Today they support less than
(See TEXTILES, Page A-7)
Evening star., 1955-02-13
Flyer DisclOses How Reds
Treated American Captives

The American armen still held by Red China are now
at the center of fierce diplomatic struggle But what is
the yo-day fate of these United States servcemen
well as the other United Nations captured in Korea?
Canadian Squadron Leader A. R. Mackenzie gives the
precSe-and panfuanSwer to this question in his 12part
series, Il Was Prisoner of the Chinese Reds"
MacKenzies report is based harsh personal expe-
rience. For he himself of the u N captives-and
was held for many months in the Jail three Amer
pilots.
Read his story beginning tomorrow in
CIR Eurttttg Star
Evening star., 1955-02-13

tsee MIDWEST, Page Ala
Evening star., 1955-02-13

Hourly Temperatures.
Evening star., 1955-02-13

(See WEATHER, Page A-4.)
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(See TEXTILES, Page AID
Evening star., 1955-11-13
New Gerlnon Wehrmocht
Formally Begins at Bonn

BONN, Germany, NOV. II lA1s
West Germany today launched its
new Wehrmacht. putting men
into uniform for the Iirst time
IN more than 10 years. II called
TO the colors the first I0l for
the SOC. .000-strong force to be
built up BY 1859.
DisiIlusioned by the Russian
refusal at Geneva to relinite their
divided country. they buckled
down after I'VE years Of delays
Ito raising their contribution
to the Atlantic alliance. In a sim
pie ceremony Defense Minister
Theodor Blank handed Gallup
papers to the FIRST volunteers.
Al dozen were in uniform. There
was no band to play the nation
81 anthem. It was the complete
reverse Of the bugle-blowing
bonbast Of the Maxi era.
Mr.. Blank stood under q giant
replica Of the Iron Cross SYM
Dol Of German military power
as he pledged that the new
Wehrmacht would only be used
70 defend the peace and unity
cf Europe.
Lacking parade grounds ns yet,
the Ministry had to stage the
ceremony In . garage. The shah
hy walls were draped with the
black. red. gold national colors.
Notices ct the door warned dam
ger Of explosion. No Smoking. 7
Mr.. Blank handed the frst
Evening star., 1955-11-13
Musons Honor
CurI H. Cloudy

Carl II. Claudy, executive sec
retary Of the Masonic Service
Association Of the United States,
was honored by his fellow lodge
members Friday night lii the
Shoreham Hotel.
Mr.. CIaudy. past master of
Harmony Lodge II. past grand
master of the Masons Of the
District OF Columbia. and an
author and playwright. received
d Masonic apron engraved with
.'l1is extensive record of activ-
tties..
John d. Cunningham, assist
ant service association secretary.
received the apron from John
"a. Epaminonda, lodge II master,
Tor Mr.. Claudy. who Is Id.
Former District Commissioner
Renah CaTnalier, the guest speak
er. described some Of MFR. Clau-
dyss past activities.
Evening star., 1955-11-13

|cluded some time ago with Egypt
The equipment she intends tc
fsend along - for which thu
Egyptians already have paid
|include aircraft and two de.
|stroyers now being refitted.
Britain Is planning to supply
new armor to Jordan and Irao
both technically at war with
Israel.
The United States is still ready
to consider q new list of defen-
|sive armaments which Israel
claims she needs to Offset the
Red supplies flowing in to her
|bitterest Arab enemy - Egypt
The British and French are still
ready to sell some limited arms
supplies to Israel, too.
Mr.. Dulles, Mr.. Macmillan
and Mr.. De Margerie decided
today against sending any new
weapons to Middle Eastern
countries without first consult
ing each other. That. they be-
lieve, viii enable them more
effectively to live up to one part
of their 1850 declaration which
binds them to try to maintain
an even balance between Israel
and her Arab adversaries. The
Western three In 1850 pledged
to act both within and outside
the United Nations" against any
Middle Eastern aggressor nation.
It nov presumably is the Vests
intention to tell the Arabs and
the tllree-poWer declaration ilr-
doubtedly will be invoked against
any q aggressor who seriously
fiouts the United Nations ar
ulistice,
Evening star., 1955-11-13

Iin the government. but were
Iplugging for quick elections.
immediately before the vote
THE Premier told q Cabinet meet
ling he had no viii to continue
Iin Office il he was kept there only
Through the help OF the Com
lmunists. It seems unlikely Pres
|ident Rene Coty would permit
him to resign. however, before
he had been defeated on q vote.
Many Of the deputies admitted
that through today's vote they
were only delaying q decision
until next week. One Of the
reasons advanced was that a
crisis would be inopportune right
now. President Coty's wife died
early today. Mr.. coty sent word
the vote should 60 on as sched-
uled, despite the death, and said
he would be available for con-
situations with political leaders
Evening star., 1955-11-13

commission to uniformed 1t,
Gen. Adolf Helsinger. So. the
chief planner of the new force,
Gen. Heusinger pledged his COM
|mand would "work for peace and
our people duty is to be
obedient. loyal and comradely.' !
Also In gray-blue uniform was
1t. Gen. Hans Speidel, chief milf
tary representative Of West
Germany at Supreme Allied
Headquarters tSHAPE1 at Paris
There was little comment III
Bonn. The Socialist Party said
IL was mo day OF joy because
two armies In different uniforms
were being raised on the soil
of divided Germany.
The indifference of youth was
reflected in the recruiting figures
So far l73.0OO men have offered
to serve. About I42. 900 are LAST
war veterans. al over 30 years
old. Only 10000 are youngsters.
Evening star., 1955-11-13
Till Case to Be Topic
OF Rudio Discussion

The Americans All radio pro-
gram on Station WOOK at 1:30
pm. today win feature two
speakers On the Emmett Till
case and Its effects IN Mississippi.
They win be DR.. r. r.. M.
Howard. head Of Friendship
Hospital. Mount Bayou, Miss,
and Medgar Eyers, field secre-
|tary in Mississippi for the Ma
|tional Association for the Ad-
yancement Of colored People.
Others on the program win be
DR.. Edward C. Mazique and
Eugene Davidson. officers Of the
District branch of the NAACP.