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The Nome nugget., 1955-12-23
Otto John Arrested By
West Germany on Charge
OF Suspected Treason

KARLSRUHE, Germany, Up -
DR.. Otto John was formally ar
eSted by West German authorities
today on charge of suspected
treason. The turn-coat former in
telligence chief had been under
voluntary detention since his
surprise return Dec II from
Communist East Germany.
Federal prosecutor Carl WEIGH
mann, who announced the arrest,
confirmed previous reports John
claimed he was unconscious when
ne was taken to East Berlin in
July, 1854. Weichmann said this
claims was unbelievable"
The prosecutor said federal in
vestigators will have to deter
mine whether John could be
charged with other offenses, par
tlcuarly whether he divulged state
secrets to the Communists. John
repeatedly has insisted he did not
disclose any such secrets during
prolonged questioning in East
Germany and Russia.
The Nome nugget., 1955-12-23
FIRE DESTROYS HISTORIC INN

SUDBURY, Mass, Rl-This his,
toric, centuries-old Wayside Inn,
immortalized by Poet Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow and re-
stored to its natural beauty by the
late Henry Ford, was DESTROYED
by flames early Thursday.
Two hours after the blaze broke
out in zero temperature, fire
official said 'the building is total
loss"
The blaze devoured the ram
The Nome nugget., 1955-12-23

Christmas Stockings at cavota's
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-06

known plant hormones. have
caused abnormal plant growth.
either increasing the growth rate
or causing distorted growth pat
terms. The function of the flow
.er hormone. however. appears
just the opposite-that Of keep
ing the plant tissue normal.
Much the same effect can be
produced. the Wisconsin expert
mentors found, with the animal
hormone cortisone and also with
"a synthetic alcohol. Not only
does it inihibit tumor growth
but it protects plants from at
least one well-known weed killer.
Extracts from at least II
species Of mushrooms have
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-06

SHOWN some potency IN inhibit-
ing growth Of animal cancers
1t was reported by Drs. E. H
Lucas and j. A. Stevens Of the
Sloan-Kettering Institute for
Cancer Research. New York.
Their findings refer specifically
only to implanted cancers in ex-
detrimental mice and might not
hold true for naturally occurring
malignant growths. The fact
remains, they pointed out. that
apparently q new family Of can
Ger inhibitors has been found,
The effective substance appears
Ito be chemically different for
each mushroom species. Much
depends, they found, on the way
I'm which the mushrooms are
grown.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-06
Indies Teu Crop

midas l954-55 tea crop Is
estimated at $50 million pounds
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-06

Mother--I let Ann. put the
silverware on the table. even
If she does mix it all up. be-
cause she likes to think she
is helping me.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-06

Mother-Beckie is a real
helper. I showed her just once
where to put the silver and see
how nicely she can set the
table.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-06
Keeps Growth Normal

The new substance Is described
as a "hormone," or chemical
regulator. similar in Its mode Of
action to secretions Of the pitui-
tary and adrenal glands In ami
mails. Most of the hitherto
The Arizona post., 1955-01-21
Anxiety In
Tunisia Grows

TUNIS (JTA)-Anxie e t y
among the Jewish population
increased this week following
reports received from a num-
Der of towns in TuniSia indi-
eating increased anti-Jewish
terrorist activities by Arab
youths in connection with
Moslem opposition to the
French administration.
In Tunis itself groups of
young Moslems attacked Jew
ish stores when the owners re-
fused to close them in a dem
onstration of sympathy with
the Moslem movement against
France. Some of the stores
were looted, but no one was
hurt.
The Arizona post., 1955-01-21
/. A. Court
To Decide
On Examination

WASHINGTON (JTA) -
Yugoslav efforts to extradite
Andrija Artukovic, Nazi COL
laborator charged with the
murder of Yugoslav Jews, are
now focused on the u. S. Dis
trict Court in Los Angeles to
which the case has been re-
turned following a series of
legal events eliminating in a
Supreme Court ruling favor
ing Yugoslavia's bid for ex-
tradition.
The case has now been re-
turned to the court of original
jurisdiction which must now
decide on a new question
raised by Artukovic. 1t is
whether his acts on behalf of
the Nazis and against the
Jews were of a political or
criminal character. The extra
dition treaty covers criminal
acts but not political offenses.
The Arizona post., 1955-01-21
Court Decisions
Aid Fight On
RucioI Bigofs

Laws and court decisions
barring determinations are
powerful factors in overcom-
ing prejudiced beliefs, as well
as discriminatory a ction S.
This view was expressed by
a number of speakers at a
three day conference on the
uses of law and legal action
in the work of combating big
otry. Will Maslow, director of
the Commission on Law and
Social Action of the American
Jewish Congress, told the con-
ference that law not only
tends to discourage certain
forms of conduct by max
ing it "unrespectable," but by
changing behavior, in time
also modifies attitudes.
The Arizona post., 1955-01-21
Ben Gurion
Outlines His
Future Plans

JERUSALEM (JTA)-For.
mer Premier Ben Gurion, who
is leading a campaign for a
two-party electoral system in
Israel, outlined his plans at
meetings in his Tel Aviv home
with leaders of the Agudah
Workers party and the Gener.
al Zionist members of the
cabinet.
In his meeting with the cab.
met ministers, Mr.. Ben Gu.
rion pressed for adoption of
the Mapai plan for an election
system based on regional rep.
resentation. The ministers
favor a system combining pro-
portional and regional repre-
sentation.
Mr.. Ben Gurion suggested
that the Mapai and the Gen
eral Zionists set up a bi-party
committee to discuss a salts
factory election system. In his
talks with the Agudah Labor
ties, he expressed the hope
that a new electoral system
would be in effect by the time
a third parliament is chosen.
The Arizona post., 1955-01-21
Students Form
Permanent Body

NEW YORK (JTA-A per.
manent Zionist student organ
ization on the college cam
puses of the u. S. and Canada
has been established under
the American Zionist Council.
The organization was formed
by several hundred students
from go colleges. The purpose
of the new organization is ito
interpret to the general com
munity, students and faculty,
the meaning and promise of
Zionism and the State of Is
rael; to encourage Jewish stu
dents in the study of, and par
ticipation in, all aspects of af-
firmative Jewish living"
The Arizona post., 1955-01-21
Scientist Protests
Act Restrictions

NEW YORK (JTA) - The
restrictions of the McCarran.
Walter immigration and Nat
uralization Act were termed
fantastic and grotesque" by
DR.. J. Robert Oppenheimer,
atomic scientist and director
of the Institute for Advanced
Study at Princeton, N. j. Op'
penheimer made the state.
ment in an interview with Ed.
ward Murrow.
In response to an expression
of opinion by Murrow to the
effect that if the present
immigration restrictions had
been in force before World
War II, neither Enrico Fermi
nor Leo Szilard, both of whom
played large roles in the de-
velopment of the a % m C
bomb would h ave been ad-
mitted, Oppenheimer replied,
Perhaps not even Einstein. "
"This is terrible" Open
heimer went on to say. ITO
meet the threat of espionage
just an enormous appara-
tus, surely not well designed,
for that"
The Arizona post., 1955-01-21
Prague JeWry
Lists 1908

MUNICH (JTA)-The num-
ber of Jews registered with
the ancient Prague Commun-
ity. which was $4,000 in 1899
and 6,100 after the end of the
Nazi occupation, is now down
to 1850 according to a report
received by Radio Free Eu.
rope here.
OF the Jews who managed
to remain in Prague through
out the NaZi holocaust, or who
had returned there, some 1000
were able to leave for other
countries in the first few post
war years. Then the newly es-
tablished Communist regime
put a virtual end to legal emi-
grafton.
In connection with the SLAM
sky trial, many Jews were ar
rested and it is believed that
more than 300 of them are still
in Jail. Subsequently, the resi-
dents of the old age home and
other Jewish individuals were
forcibly moved to the prov
inces. The inverted age struc-
ture, with it's heavy prepon-
derance of elderly people, ac-
counts for many deaths and
few births. Government en-
ployees shun identification
with Jewish life. Due to all
these reasons, the commune
tvs membership rolls listed
only 1858 names as of last
May, the report said.
When Julius Streicher, the
most vicious anti-Semite on
Hitler's staff in Germany, was
at the height of his activity he
had a library of more than
5000 volumes in Hebrew, Yid-
dish, and Judaica-books deal
ing with the Jewish people!
The Streicher library is now,
of all placeS-at Yeshiva uni
versity in New York, an ortho-
dox seminary.
The Arizona post., 1955-01-21
Proud of Religion

NEW YORK (JTA) - The
overwhelming majority of
outstanding personalities of
Jewish origin throughout the
world, in all fields of endeav-
or, are not only willing but
eager to be identified public
ly as Jews, according to a re-
port by Harry Schneiderman,
chairman of the editorial
board of the first who's Who
in World Jewry,"
The Arizona post., 1955-01-21

FOSt.
The story was told by 1t.
Col. Chain HerZog, former
Israel military attache in
Washington and elder son of
Israel's chief rabbi, on the oc-
casion of his appointment as
military commander of the
Jerusalem sector.
About two years ago, the
colonel said, he was the guest
of an admiral, one of the best
known high ranking officers
of the U. S. navy. In the course
of the reception the admiral
invited Col. Herzog for a
strictly private talk in a soil
tary room of the apartment
and warmly informed his
guest: 81 would like you to
know that am a Jew. You
are the first person, in the
course of 80 years of my serv-
ice with the u. S. navy, to
whom I now disclose my orr
The Arizona post., 1955-01-21

gin. I have decided to do so
after having seen you, dressed
in the beautiful Israeli army
uniform, in our Pentagon. l
felt then that you at least
should be aware of the truth. "
Another high ranking U. S.
army officer, Col. Herzog told
friends, disclosed that he is a
"meshumad," and that his
f amily were enthusiastic
"Chabad-C -Chassidim." The es-
tablishment of the State of Is
rael, the general added, has
deeply touched his Jewish
vein" and he is ready to sup
port the young Jewish state
with all his force.
The Arizona post., 1955-01-21
Ioq To Seek
Stronger Military

NEW YORK (JTA)-Iraqi
pleas for larger and more i'm
portant military ALLEGATIONS
will be renewed in view of her
decision to conclude a region
al security pact with Turkey.
The Arizona post., 1955-01-21
Some High Ranking Military
Leaders Keep Religion Secret

TEL AVIV-A provoking story that several topranking
United States military leaders secretly proud of their
Jewshness which they have publicly revealed
was recently disclosed Aviv according the National
Evening star., 1955-09-06
Unreconstructed Unionist
Protests Lee on Stomp
b the Associated Press

Use the Twelve Apostles as
subjects for new stamps, Assist
ant Postmaster General Albert
u. Robertson said today, and
somebody will object.
Asked about criticism Of the
new Robert z. Lee stamp. Mr..
Robertson said, mo stamp has
ever been brought out without
somebody objecting."
Even the inscription. "In God
We Trust" has met objections,
he said.
In contrast to criticism Of the
Lee stamp by a retired Kansas
judge as singing out "a rebel. a
turncoat, q perjurer and a trail
tor" Mr.. Robertson said the new
stamp has received favorable
reaction generally"
Lee is regarded as a great
American" he added.
WitnQtaWaA Urged
Hugh Means of Lawrence,
|Kans.. former district Judge and
Army officer. recently wrote the
Post Ofice Department urging
withdrawal Of the stamp to be
issued at Norfolk, Va, Septem-
|ber 81.
why. oh. why" Mr.. Means
demanded, docs the department
single out a rebel. q turncoat, a
Iperjurer and a traitor to share
an honor with patriotic men?"
What did Lee do to warrant
the honor? Name one good rea-
son and I'll be satisfied. I hope
and pray that you may be pa
triotic and courageous enough
to withdraw the Lee stamp"
But Mr.. Robertson said a great
many of the letters received by
the department concerning the
Lee stamp have been compliment
Itary and comparatively few have
been critical.
I'VE do not regard as signih-
cant receiving some critical let
Iters," he said. IF you put the
IL apostles on stamps some one
will object.
Take q look at the Hall of
Fame" Mr.. Robertson said. "You
will see some one who would
never occur to you and me to
lput there"
Mr.. Robertson said selection
of Lee was certainly not a mat
ter of running out of heroes. I"
I'VE have q long list Of 1890
Ior more applications on file, al
though some Of these are events
and not persons" he added.
Evening star., 1955-09-06
Honor Student Held
I'm Death of Father

BOSTON, Sept. 6 (P.-Police
Capt. Michael A. Clougherty said
17-year-old Arthur H. Martin,
an honor student at Boston
Latin School. admitted last
night that he stabbed his father
to death and lived alone in their
home with the body for five
weeks.
Mrs. Isabel Martin, 80, found
the body of her husband, Man.
uel, 81, last night on their bed
room floor. She had been away
on an extended vacation.
Capt. Clougherty. said the son
told detectives he stabbed his
father with a trench knife last
July % during an argument
over washing the kitchen floor
No charge was brought against
the boy Immediately.
Evening star., 1955-09-06
Boy Gets Artists Picture
Of President for $2.29

OKLAHOMA CITY, Sept. O.
Short Of finances but long on
enthusiasm, 7-year-old Bill
Stockwell, jr.. emptied his piggy
hank Of its $2.29 and inciosed
the money in a letter to q IA
nous Dutch artist.
Bill. who is a great Davy
Crockett follower. but still rates
President Eisenhower his No.
hero, asked Frank Debruin VAL
erius If he'd sell a portrait OF
the Chief Executive for the cash
The youngster had seen the
portrait in a newspaper picture
and wanted it for his room to
hang in an honored spot beside
his collection of spacemen and
Crockett pictures.
Last week. Bill received a long
red mailing tube and to his par
ent's amazement it contained
the canvas of Mr.. Eisenhower
with his big grin and a letter
from Mr.. Valerius. who is now
living in Toronto, Canada.
Mr.. Valerius. who has done
many portraits of Europe's roy
atty including a $4,000 COM
mission to paint the royal fam
lily of Holland, made a startling
confession.
Evening star., 1955-09-06

Selection Of q subject for a
new stamp is the responsibility
of the postmaster general.
"But a lot of us get into the
act" in considering new subjects
and making recommendations.
Mr.. Robertson said.
The new 30-cent Lee stamp is
one of a series of 18 coming
after the 1888 series honoring
Presidents.
Mr.. Robertson said he believes
the new Patrick Henry dollar
stamp to be issued in October
as another Of the series is very
appropriate" Patrick Henry has
never been used as a subject for
a stamp before, he said.
Less controversial is the most
recent addition to the new Sc
ries. a half-cent stamp with q
portrait Of Benjamin Franklin
which the department an
nounced yesterday for first-day
sale at the Washington Jubilee
Exhibition here October 20.
Evening star., 1955-09-06
BRITON LAVISHLY ENTERTAINS
FUTURE N-LAWS ON THEIR CASH

LONDON (F1-Herbert Brunton 28 sentenced to
three months in Jail yesterday for robbng his
mother and stepmother Of their life savings948 pounds
($26544O).
His fancee Gwen Berry, also 2s, declared she would
still marry him when he got out.
Mr. and Mrs James Warden testified they let Brunton
have key to their house while they went holiday to
Weymouth, He Joined them, sporting car
and entertained them lavishy.
When they got back to London, they discovered their
savings had vanished
1T was our money he spending all the time,"
said Mrs. Warden.
Police car worth $40 pounds ($456 and
102 pounds ($285 60) in cash.
Mrs. Warden told reporters she couldn't understand
Ovens decision to ahead with the marriage and added
"Brunton will darken our door again.
Evening star., 1955-09-06

"Bill. when I was an art stu.
dent in Holland ! vowed never tc
paint o canvas such as this" he
wrote. THAT huge grin, I mean
Our professors warned US WI
must never, never paint an adult
Laughing. The old masters were
waved before us as stern exam.
lples. So. to paint teeth. boy
that's treason!"
Mr.. Valerius went on to ex.
plain he weakened once in hi!
Icareer-and only once-because
the Eisenhower grin was so in.
fictitious and added:
II can just hear my old pro.
fessors weeping gently into theil
|palettes and declaiming mourn.
fully: Frank Valerius is q
naughty boy
II really hate to part with this
cheerful canvas. Bill. but
don't want to lose the commits
sion."
Bill thinks the picture is the
most wonderful thing that ever
happened to him. Everything is
just perfect. but he wouldn't
have objected if Mr.. Valerius had
painted a Davy Crockett COON
skin cap on the President.
Evening star., 1955-09-06
Overdue Balloon
Is Still Aloft, But
Begins to Settle

MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 8 Bs--
"A stratosphere research balloon
four days overdue in its descent
was obscured by clouds thii
morning when trackers attempt.
ed to draw q near bearing or
its position.
The big plastic bag, which car.
|ried mice and instruments on {
cosmic ray study. was last spotted
lat sunset yesterday over Lax
Superior, about 20 miles south
east Of Fort william, Canada.
o. C. Winzen. head OF . Min.
Ineapolis research farnl which
sent the balloon aloft In coop.
GRAFTON with Air Force research
Iers, said the sphere showed indi'
cations Of slowly settling q
earth.
Yesterday 1t dropped to about
10, 900 feet. The day before Il
didn't get any lower than 100. 0.00t
feet. Normal escape Of the bal.
looms helium gas should lover
Iit eventually. MIR. Winzen said
Mr.. Winzen said he has asked
the Air Force for Jet fighter plane
assistance when the balloon get
within reach. Yesterday ths
balloon was over the Air Forcs
firing range over Lake Superior
but it was too high.
The balloon was launched al
international Falls, Minr1.. las
Thursday.
Evening star., 1955-09-06

MOSCOW, Sept. 6 (R.-The
Soviet Communist Party news
paper Pravda says Vice Presi-
dent Nixon is lone Of the Amer
ican reactionaries' trying to re-
verse the trend established at
the summit conference in &C.
neva.
Pravda said yesterday Nixon's
speech August 20 to the Veterans
of Foreign Wars in Boston was
"permeated with a spirit OF in
tolerance and attacks against
the USSR, the tCommu-
nist) Peoples Republic of China
and the peoples democracies :"
The Pravda article was the
strongest attack on a United
States Government spokesman
in the Soviet press since the
July Big Four meeting induced
q more moderate tone in polit-
ical comment.
The blast against Nixon con-
trasted sharply with the Soviet
papers previous publication
without comment Of excerpts
from President Eisenhower's
Philadelphia speech in which he
said the United States would not
agree to perpetuation of the di-
vision of Europe as the price
Of the peace it seeks.
Peace Efforts
Pravda said the Soviet Union
has been making great efforts
since the summit meeting to
lessen international tension. II
cited the announced demobili-
zation Of $4,000 members of the
Soviet armed forces and sharing
oi atomic knowledge as ex-
amples.
The newspaper continued that
certain reactionary Americans
were trying to reverse tlie
Geneva trend despite the fact
President Eisenhower said il
was an historic meeting and
good work was done there"
1t added:
Nixon was not loath to give
currency again to fabrications oi
cold war proponents. who long
ago lost moral and politicaI
credit, such as the story about
a fantastic Iron Curtain Of
'barbed wire, mines and machine
guns with which the USSR anc
the peoples democracies al.
legedly have walled themselves
off or the legend about Com.
Evening star., 1955-09-06
Duvid Will Have Horse to Ride
When He Visits Gettysburg

The President told Mr.. Gainey
he was delighted with the gift
He added that he would love to
have a riding horse at the farm
especially for David. his 7-year-
old grandson.
David took up riding in q
big way during two weeks at a
Rocky Mountain boys camp and
a later five-day visit with his
grandfather at ranch near
Fraser, Colo, last month.
Mr.. Eisenhower doesn't ride
much himself because of a knee
injury he suffered playing foot
ball at West Point more than 40
i years ago.
Evening star., 1955-09-06
ny q sian CORRESPONDENT of The staI

BY q Stan Correspondent OF The Star
DENVER. Sept. 6. - That
promising young horseman.
Dwight David Eisenhower II.
Is going to have an Arabian filiy
to ride when he visits his grand
fathers farm near Gettysburg,
Pa.
Daniel Gainey, Owatonna,
Mimi, horse breeder. called on
President Eisenhower at the
Denver White House yesterday
to give the President picture OF
Galila, the black four-month-
old filly he is sending later to the
Eisenhower farm.
Evening star., 1955-09-06
Proydo Declares Nixon
Thworts Summit Trend

munist subversive activity and
espionage"
The two "fabrications" cited
by Pravda were among five road
blocks to world peace Nixon in
Boston said only the Soviet Lead
Iers could remove.
Nixon, arriving back in Wash
Iington after visiting Eisenhower
in Colorado, said he would not
comment on the Pravda criticism
Evening star., 1955-09-06

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Evening star., 1955-09-06

HUSBAND HELD-Green-
wood, Miss.-This is Mrs.
Roy Bryant, 81, who's huS-
band, with another man, is
being held for kidnapping
Emmett Louis Till, 14-year-
old Chicago Negro. They
are accused of abducting
the youth after he allegedly
wolf whistled" at Mrs.
Bryant. A bound and
weighted body, identified as
young Till's, was later re-
covered in the nearby Tai
lahatchie River. A grand
jury is investigating.-AP
Wirephoto.