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Daily Sitka sentinel and the arrowhead press., 1955-10-25
Gil Nettin!gs
by Gil Truitit

Having had crack at educa- tion during the past three years (including an IF" in Flu ropean History) the writer did learn that it ain't right to use the word ''ain'tn either as fig ure of speech or journalistic wise. But after listening to and watching old man Dizzy Dean on ltv. the writer doesn't think it would do the school teach ing profession too much injus- tlce with am occasional slip although this writer doesn't in tend to revolutionize or butch CT the English language through |. the media of this column.
 1 Along with hundreds of oth- CT fishermen, this corner sud- denly finds himself without that green stuff and in order to pass the long dreary months that lie ahead, has taken up the hazardous task of sport writ ing, profession regarded by many as next to the lowest class. So, in order to pass the time away while waiting to head back to the sticks deep in the heart of the Ozarks come January, this writer hopes to keep all Sitkans posted with the latest happenings on the local sport scene. Having al- ready blamed every one, includ ing the Republicans. for the most disasterous fishing sea- son in history, this corner must now settle down and start looking for a dish-washing job in order to eat while pounding the sports beat.
 Long an admirer of Vern Met ! calfe's column in the Independ ent, the writer hopes to pattern this space with the same down to-earth reporting as does our counterpart up there in the ! Capital City. This corner found cause for disagreement only once with MT. Metcalfe and since neither of us saw Sitka stomp Juneau in the finals of ] the 1854 Southeastern basket ball tournament, iboth added ] our two cents worth which really didn't amount to much.
 Liking neither the Yanks or Dodgers, the past World Series was rather a dull affair. It's a pity that both teams couldn't have come out losers. The Van kees should be near the top again next year as they are es- sentially young club and al- though the Dodgers need to re- ssxszzzs=ssg7gszsz "
Daily Sitka sentinel and the arrowhead press., 1955-10-25
Eisenhower

problem?" Burns said they as sured the president the pro- blem is gettinlg much study.
 He also reported that they got Bisenhower's go-ahead on a program for attacking what Burns called chronic" spotty unemployment in some indus trial communities
Evening star., 1955-03-05
Linden Civic Association
Asks New Access Road

A new access road for the WAL
ter Reed Hospital Annex at For
est Glen, designed to connect
with the proposed extension of
Sixteenth street past East West
highway. Silver Spring. has been
proposed by the Linden Civic
Association.
A resolution adopted by the as
sociation to that effect has been
forwarded to the Maryland-Na-
tional Capital Park and Planning
Commission, the State Roads
Commission, the Montgomery
County Council, the commandant
of Walter Reed Hospital. and
Mason Butcher, county director
of public works.
1t notes that the main access
to the annex now-Linden lane
has narrow right of way, poor
alignment Of houses on both
sides, and has to cross the Balti-
more & Ohio Railroads main
line to the west over a narrow
wooden bridge.
Evening star., 1955-03-05
More Education on VD
Urged for Young People

More education about venereal
disease. especially among young
people, was called for yesterday
by conference on VD. sponsored
by the District Health Depart
ment an dthe Social Hygiene So
ciety.
Schools. homes and churches
should provide more information
about the diseases and sex gen.
orally, it was agreed.
The group accepted a report by
Watson B. Miller. former mem
Der Of the Subversive Activities
Control Board. calling for sup
port of a bill now before the
Senate. which would make pre-
marital examinations for vene-
real disease mandatory.
Between 10000 and 10000
cases of syphilis and gonorrhea
are undiscovered in the District
DR.. Daniel L. Seckinger, director
of public health estimated. The
meeting was held in the audi
torium of the Health, Education
and Welfare Building.
Evening star., 1955-03-05
D. 6. Sends Out Greetings
Income Tax Forms to 10000

Some 10000 District income
taxpayers are about to receive
seasons greetings from their city
government-income tax return
forms for the year 1854.
Most of these were mailed yes
terday, the tax Office said, along
with forms for several other
taxes, such as those on corpora
tions, f1duciaries and partner
ships.
All must be filed by April IS.
the same day Federal income
taxes are now due.
Also, the tax Office warned,
1t has recently moved from the
District Building at Fourteenth
and E streets NV. to the Munich
pal Center Building at Fourth
street and Indiana avenue NV.
So, all who want help in fill
ing out their individual income
tax forms are advised to go to
Room 2036 Of the Municipal Gen.
ter Building.
AS an additional item. the tax
has some new features this year.
For one thing, rates are UP !
Evening star., 1955-03-05
Title for Sale, Baroness Finds No Buyer

published, 1888, his address was
Chicago.
One of the letters was from
a 10-year-old girl who likes to
read fairy tales. She wanted
to be a princess.
The flowers-yellow jonquilS
were brought by a Chicago
woman.
"She was from the old coun-
try" Mrs. Won Lamezan said,
land just wanted to talk"
The waltz. written in ink on
lined musical composition paper.
was sent in the mail by a Chicago
woman. 1t goes: .
Let us dance and Romance
To the baroness waltz
To the baroness waltz
To the baroness waltz
Days of yore here once more
To the baroness waltz
Et cetera.
Evening star., 1955-03-05
Matusow HEARINGS
Delayed Till Monday
By the Associated Press

The Senate Internal Security
subcommittee will delay until
Monday its resumption of public
hearings on the turnabout test
mony of Harvey Matusow.
Chairman Eastland said Herb
Tank and Albert E. Kahn will be
the witnesses. The Senator de-
Scribed Mr.. Tank as a "strong
arm bodyguard of Matusow. Mr..
Kahn is publisher of Matusow's
book False Witness"
Original plans had been to
hear the two today and hear
Mr.. and Mrs. John J. Edmiston
of Middletown, Ohio, on Monday.
Senator Eastland said the Ed
mistons may not be called at all.
They are former FBI informants
on Communist activities who
have given the subcommittee an
affidavit raising question about
Matusow's credibility as a wit
ness.
Senator Eastland announced
the subcommittee also will pause
in the Matusow hearings and
take testimony Tuesday launch
ing an inquiry into "use of the
narcotic trade by the Communist
conspiracy for its nefarious pur-
poses" in this country.
Evening star., 1955-03-05

newspaper Newsday said 1t
learned the designations of Mr..
Keating and Mr.. O'Mara were
forced by the Anti-Crime
Committee chairman. Spruille
Braden, because Of office
politics" unrelated to the wire-
tapping situation.
1t said a high committee
source reported that Mr.. Keating
and Mr.. O'Mara had tried to
unseat Mr.. Braden as chairman
and that he, in effect, fired them
in retaliation"
This source said. according to
Newsday, that some committee
members were provoked because
Mr.. Braden was active last fall
in the 40 Million Americans
Mobilizing for Justice" group
opposed to Senate censure Of
Senator Mccarthy, Republican.
of Wisconsin.
The source said Mr.. Braden.
a former Ambassador to Argen-
tina, learned only in the past
few days that Mr.. Heating and
Mr.. O'Mara had sparked the
move to oust him.
Braden Comments.
Questioned about this, Mr..
Brade ncommented:
1--WE never heard anything
about it. Nobody has given me
any indication like that"
Then he added:
"You can be sure they're not
going to get me out"
When Mr.. .Braden accepted
the designations he said he did
so with regret.
Evening star., 1955-03-05
Hawaii Counts 81 Million Loss
As Lava Rivers Near Sea

erty owners. The area is studded
with large earth cracks.
Kapoho, evacuated Monday,
will be cut off once the lava
streams pouring around it
plunge into the sea, about a mile
away.
The tiny village lost at least
five houses Thursday midnight
to the lava flow. Most homes
were not damaged but, isloated
by lava fields, they will be
worthless.
Lava flows take months and
sometimes years to cool. One
property owner said, You
couldn't bulldoze your way
through it in so years."
Much of the cane acreage
which provided a living for the
residents was under 10 feet of
lava.
Red Cross Director Robert
Spence said plans were being
made for the relocation of
Kapoho refugees to a new settle
ment. Nine hundred other re-
sidents of the 35-square-mile
Puma district already were help
ing the volcano victims.
Evening star., 1955-03-05
Bill
Reinfroduced After
Last Years Failure

Members of the House and
Senate District Committees have
introduced bill to establish a
family court for the District,
similar to one passed by the Sem
ate last July. but which failed
approval in the House.
The bill would give the new
court jurisdiction over all do
mestic relations cases. These now
go to the U. S. District Court
for the District of Columbia.
Spokesman for the Federal
courts here have said there must
be either an increase in the
number of Federal District Court
judges or adoption of the fam
lily court bill.
The bill was reintroduced yes
terday by Chairman Neely of the
Senate District Committee with
two minor amendments. dealing
mostly with adoption cases.
A similar bill has been REIN
troduced by Chairman Mcmillan
of the House District Committee.
Among other bills of interest
to the District introduced yes
terday were those:
To limit the number of taxi
cabs in Washington, sponsored
by Representative Klein, Demo-
crat, of New York.
To provide for planning a
District civic auditorium, SINH
lar to several bills pending in
the House. sponsored by Senator
Green, Democrat, Of Rhode
Island.
To authorize the so-called
Zeckendorf plan for redevelop-
ment of Southwest Washing
ton, similar to a bill already
pending in the House and spon-
sored in the Senate by Senator
Chavez, Democrat, of New
Mexico.
Evening star., 1955-03-05

She told a newsman yesterday
that most of the letter writer's
were people who had some in
terest but only modest means.
Some look good" she said.
'T'll have to write to them"
Mrs. Won Lamezan explains
that she does not have a simple
sale in mind. In return for an
unspecified sum of money, she
says. she will adopt a suitable
person who wants to share the
title now and inherit it after her
death.
She also says she came by the
title through marriage in 1926
in Chicago to Baron Franz Won
Lamezan, who died about five
years ago at his family's home
in Freiburg. Germany.
A Franz Lamezan Is listed in
a directory of German nobility
and at the time the book was
Evening star., 1955-03-05

sian capital. It closed down a
few days before her arrest.
She wrote many books, maga-
zine articles and newspaper
stories on the Soviet Union. In
1926 she lectured at several
American colleges. She said she
loved Russia and she defended
nearly every phase of the Com
munist regime.
The daughter of a Congrega-
tional minister, Miss Strong was
born in Friend, Nebr., on Novem-
ber IA. 1885. She was graduated
from Oberlin College at the age
of 19 and became a writer on a
Seattle labor paper.
In 1882, she married a Rus
sian official named Joel Shubin.
After her deportation, she told
newsmen that her husband had
died in 1912.
Evening star., 1955-03-05
Hyattsvi||e Man, 70,
Found Dead BY Kin

The body of a 7O-year-old
Hyattsville man who apparently
had been dead at least a week
was found yesterday by a
nephew who came to visit him.
Grover Cleveland Smith, whom
police identified as a retired
pressman for the Washington
Post and Times-Herald, was
found in bed at his home at
4004 Buchanan street. Neighbors
told police they had not seen
Mr.. Smith since February 10.
DR.. John T. Maloney, Prince
Georges County medical ex-
aminer. pronounced Mr.. Smith
dead after the body was found
by the nephew, John w. Davis,
of Accokeek.
Death was caused by a heart
condition, the medical examiners
report said. Mr.. Smith had suf-
fered from diabetes for the past
18 years.
A native of Montana, Mr..
Smith moved to the Washington
area at an early age. Many years
ago he worked for the Govern
ment Printing Office and later
was a pressman for The Star
from 1921 to 1929 and again in
1889. In the early 1920s, he
served a term as president of
the Newspaper Pressmen's Union
No. 6.
In later years he worked for
the old Washington Times Her.
aid, retiring soon after the Her.
aid merged with the Post last
March.
Besides his nephew, survivors
include a brother, Frank N.
Smith. of the Cherry Hill Trail
ercoach Park, College Park, and
a sister, Mrs. Albert c. Small,
of l701 Nineteenth street S.E.
Funeral arrangements have not
been completed.
Evening star., 1955-03-05
Judge Tells Attorney
To Reveal Source Of
Wiretap Raid Tip
BY the Assoeioted Press

NEW YORK, Mar. 5.-Wil-
liam j. Keating. resigned counsel
to the New York City Anti Crime
Committee, has been ordered by
a judge to tell a grand jury the
source of his information about
a raid that led to the current
wiretapping controversy.
Mr.. Keating declared, II
haven't changed my mind" about
refusing to tell, even after Gen
eral Sessions Judge Jonah J.
Goldstein ordered him to give
the Manhattan grand jury on
Monday the source of his in
formation about the February
II raid.
Probe Called "Stymied."
The judge issued the order
yesterday after Assistant District
Attorney Aloysius j. Melia told
him the jury would be "stymied"
in its investigation of the cir
cumstances of the raid unless
Mr.. Keating was forced to
answer.
Mr.. Keating, who was taken
before Judge Goldstein after re-
fusal to identify his informant,
replied that he had given the
police and District Attorney
Frank S. Hogan's Office sufficient
information to discover the facts.
The grand jury is investigating
a raid which police and telephone
company agents made on a wire
tapping center in a Manhattan
apartment. The first public
news of the raid came six days
later from Mr.. Keating and John
M. O'Mara, who has rendered his
resignation as executive director
of the privately financed anti
crime committee.
"Office Politics Seem"
Mr.. Keating has charged that
high police officials and tele-
phone company officials at
tempted to cover up the raid.
Police Commissioner Francis w.
H. ACems and the telephone
company have denied it.
At Garden City, N. Y. the
Evening star., 1955-03-05
Navy Eases Sub Net
Control at Tokyo Bay
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

TOKYO, Mar. 5.-The United
States Navy is removing part of
the anti-submarine nets guard
ing the entrance to Tokyo Bay,
near Yokosuka naval base.
Vice Admiral w. M. Callaghan,
Far East naval commander, said
the decision to enlarge the gate
opening in the nets was made
at the request of a delegation
Of Yokohama officials.
The Japanese said the nets
had caused costly delays to
ships.
The nets, installed In 1850,
have drawn many complaints
from Japanese shipping interests.
The present maximum opening
was 636 feet, enough to permit
one-way traffic, a Navy spokes-
man said. Under the change
the opening will be wide enough
to permit free shipping" he
added.
Evening star., 1955-03-05

PAHOA, Hawaii, Mar. 5.-Two
rivers of lava, fed by two half
mile-long assures and lava foun-
tainS belching 500 feet in the
air, moved closer to the sea to-
day, leaving behind an estimated
81 million damage.
Cane fields, timber and at least
nine homes were buried in lava.
A village of 10 homes was a
ghost town, virtually isolated by
the molten rivers.
The lava flows may reach the
sea today.
This sparsely settled Puma dis
trict of Eastern Hawaii is about
half the size of Manhattan. For
five days it has rocked and
cracked under the strains of
volcanic eruptions and earth
quakes. Four hundred of its
residents are homeless.
The lava streams cut a 2-mile-
swath across the rich cane land
for 4 miles.
Twenty square miles Of the
district, on the slopes of Kilauea,
is forbidden to all except civil
defense officials and a few prop
Evening star., 1955-03-05
by The Asseeieisd Press

CHICAGO. Mar. 81 The
American market for European
titles seems to be slow these
days.
Take the case of Lima Won
Lamezan, who has offered to sell
the title of baroness.
She ran a series of notices,
the first one nine days ago. in
the personal column of a news
paper.
There has been no sale thus
far. But she has received an
armload of letters. a copy of a
religious poem, a bouquet and a
song dedicated to her and en-
titled THE Baroness Waltz"
Mrs. Won Lamezan, a childless
widow, is 81 and lives in a time
weathered, stove-heated cottage
on Chicago's Northwest Side.
Evening star., 1955-03-05
Pennsy Rail Strike
Is AVerfed;; Southern
Carmen End Walkout

Passenger and freight service
was operating normally on the
Southern Railway System to-
day, as Federal intervention also
apparently headed of a strike
threat of 10000 CIO main
tenance men against the Penn
sylvania Railroad.
There was no connection be-
tween labor troubles on the two
eastern rail lines.
A week-long walkout Of more
than 1000 carmen on the South
ern ended officially yesterday at
a meeting of union and manage
ment officials.
1900 Laid OF.
The Pennsylvania strike threat,
scheduled for midnight Sunday,
grew out Of economy layoffs of
$4,000 workers.
Chairman Francis A. O'Neill
Of the National (Railwayl Medi-
alton Board announced last
night officials of the CIO Trans
port Workers Union had in
formed him by telephone they
were calling off the strike.
The union, Mr.. O'Neill said,
accepted a Mediation Board offer
to take a hand in settling the
dispute. He said a mediator
would go to Philadelphia today
or Monday to open conferences.
The transport union had
charged the layoffs had cut
railroad maintenance below the
safety point. Pennsylvania Off
cials denied this and contended
the layoffs were forced by a
recession in business" last year.
The Southern walkout began at
Spartanburg, S c., when four
carmen refused to sign on for
jobs and were taken out of serv-
ice pending an investigation
Their union walked out in protest
and other workers stayed away
honoring picket lines.
Main points affected were car
shops at Spartanburg and al
Spencer, N. c.
Began Thursday.
F. 8. Worthington, Southern's
general transportation superin-
tendent. said at Charlotte, N. C.
the first interruption in passen-
ger service occurred Thursday
night, when a number of trains
were cancelled. Included, he
said, were three trains operating
between Washington and Atlanta
and one between Washington
and Augusta, Ga.
Mr.. Worthington said four
Southern MISUNDERSTANDING
the crack Southerner and Cres-
cent Limited-remained in serv-
ice. however. During the "a
hour interruption they were
manned by management and
supervisory personnel, he said.
Mr.. Worthington said all
schedules were back to normal
today and that all men were
returned to work without dis
elimination"
Evening star., 1955-03-05
Exodus Of 100000
From D. {. in 7 Hours
Is Held Possible

Washington's main center
could be evacuated within two
hours after warning of an i'm
pending atomic attack, Civil De-
fense leaders estimated yesterday
Using 1850 census figures, they
estimated that includes 100000
persons around the center OF
daytime population" at Eleventh
and F streets NV. The areas
perimeter is miles from that
intersection.
An area with a 16-mile per-
imeter could be evacuated in AZ
hours, they said.
But basic points for a new
evacuation plan may be COM
pleted within two weeks, they
added. Recent disclosures of q
hydrogen explosions "fall-out'
changed the Civil Defense shelter
concepts, they said.
Peterson and Fondahl Testify.
Civil Defense Administrator
Val Peterson and Col. John E
Fondahl, Civil Defense director
for the District of Columbia. tes-
titled before a Senate Armed
Services subcommittee.
Chairman Kefauver said it ap-
pears Civil Defense hasn't even
made its plans, or recommended
a program, for defense against
the fall-out threat.
Col. Fondahl said that was
mot substantially correct" He
said his organization has consid-
cred plans for evacuating every
one inside the 16-mile perimeter
Mr.. Peterson said a shelter
program tor a city such as this
one is necessary because we
have no assurance that we
have two hours of warning, or
time enough to evacuate every
one"
$45 Million Shelter Cost.
Col. Fondahl estimated shell
ters for the 100000 in the pri-
mary area would cost $45 million
This would not include home
type shelters to accommodate
million persons outside Wash.
ington. ..
Mr.. Peterson said the Fedora
Civil Defense Administration still
believes persons living is mile.
from Washington or beyonc
should build shelters on theil
own, through Federal Housing
Administration loans.
Witnesses and Chairman Ke.
fauver discussed the frightening
prospects of Washington evac.
uees colliding with other thou.
sands fleeing south from Bati-
more. Col. Fondahl said con.
trolls would have to be imposed
on both cities traffic.
Evening star., 1955-03-05
U. N. Indicates Israel
Faces Condemnation
For GAIA Incident
by The Asseeiotsd Press

UNITED NATIONS. N. r,
Mar. 5.-The United Nations
Security Council has let Israel
know she faces strong condem-
nation unless she can produce
a better defense Of her role In
the bloody GAIA incident.
The 11-nation Council made
this clear yesterday as it held
an urgent session to consider
Mondays armed clash near GAIA,
Egypt. that killed 80 Egyptians
and 8 Israelis.
All the Council members, ex-
cept Russia which sat silent, in
dicated that on the basis of pre-
liminary reports they held Israel
responsible.
The Council agreed to q United
States proposal to hold up fur
ther debate on the explosive
issue until Maj. Gen. Edison L.
M. Burns, U. N. truce chief in
Palestine, gets here to make q
personal report on his investiga-
ton of the incident.
Calmness Is Urged.
Then. in a plea voiced through
its president, Selim Sarper of
Turkey. the Council urged both
sides to maintain calmness and
tranquility and abstain from the
use of force"
Egypt sought the urgent meet
ing this week, accusing Israel Of
violent and premeditated ag-
gression" against Egyptian forces
in violation of the 1949 Egypt
Israel armistice agreement.
Israel quickly countered,
charging Egypt with "continu-
GUS violations" of the 1949 pact
and various council resolutions.
She recalled armed attacks by
Egypt and accused the Cairo
government Of refusing to nego-
tiate a peace treaty.
In some 80 minutes, 10 of the
IL council members spoke I'D
to deplore the GAIA incident.
Many implicitly blamed Israel.
Six offered sympathy to Egypt
on loss Of life. None did so to
Israel.
u. S. Opposes Reprisal.
James j. Wadsworth of the
United States called the affair
'indefensible from any stand
point" He said the United States
opposed "any policy of reprisal."
ARMED force will not produce
peace negotiations" Mr.. Wads-
worth declared.
Henri Hoppenot of France
spoke of Onslaught by Israel
against Egypt" Fernand van
Langenhove of Belgium of flag
rant violation" of the armistice
and Sir Leslie Munro of New
Zealand of deliberate. planned
and disciplined" attack.
Shumsi Hsu of China said.
Violent and premeditated ag-
gresslon by one party :. cannot
be justified by mere continuous
violations of the other party"
An Israeli delegation spokes-
man. in a statement put out
later, said the strong speeches
prejudged the armistice commits
sion's ultimate finding. He also
said they tended to ignore the
background of the GAIA clash
Egyptian attacks and Egypt's
policy of belligerency against
Israel"
Evening star., 1955-03-05
Blind Man Won't Bluff

LANSING. Mich. (P).-Robert
D. Mahoney, blind since he was
Is, is confident he'll keep pace
with his colleagues in the Mich
lgan House of Representatives.
Friends will read to him. His dog
will lead him. He'll keep notes
in Braille. He has a wife who
also is blind, and six children,
none Of whom is blind.
Evening star., 1955-03-05

per cent in each bracket under
an act of Congress passed last
year to help pay for the Districts
l0-year, $305-million public works
program.
The new rates are 2la per cent
on the first $4,000 of taxable in
come, 3 per cent on the next
$4,000, 312 per cent on the fol-
lowing $4,000, and 4 per cent
on all taxable income over
$4,000.
Evening star., 1955-03-05
Newsprint Linen

HILLSBORO, Tex. R.-The
Hillsboro Evening Mirror gives
what paper is left of its news
print rolls to churches and clubs
for use as table covers at picnics
and banquets.