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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-02-20
Living Costs
Increase .1%
Prices of Food
Advance Here
BY JOHN A. GILES
Star staff Writer

Living costs in January ad-
vanced one-tenth of l per cent
compared with the two-tenths
rise in December, the Govern
ment announced today.
Lower prices for apparel,
house furnishings and trans-
portation did not quite Offset
increases in prices Of food,
medical and personal care and
recreation, the Bureau of Labor
Statistics said.
Food prices over the Nation
rose three-tenths of l per cent,
but in the Washington area
they advanced seven-tenths of
l per cent.
Bureau Commissioner Evan
Clague said that higher beef
prices were largely responsible
for the upturn. He said the
increase was not seasonal.
Marrow Stability"
However, he said the bureaus
index, established on a monthly
basis in 1910, showed the larg-
est period of narrow stability
in its hiStory-a period of nine
months"
He predicted the index would
be about the same in February,
depending on food prices.
Spendable earnings and buy
ing power of factory workers
were at record levels for the
month in January, although
they we're lower than the month
before, Mr.. Clague said at a
news conference. There is al
most always a decline in these
earnings in January because of
a seasonal cutback in hours of
work.
January spendable earnings
averaged $78.70 weekly for a
worker with three dependents
and $2l.20 for a worker with no
dependents, about $1.10 below
the December level.
There will be little or nc
change in workers wages be-
cause of escalator clauses ir
big contracts.
Mr.. Clague said that about
$4,000 workers in the aviation
industries would get a 1-cent-
an-hour increase, but that in
some other industries the eSca
lator clauses would bring about
wage decreases.
Nationally, housing costs
were unchanged on the whole
largely because lower house fur
nishing prices Offset seasonal
advances in prices of fuels
Rents were up one-tenth of
per cent and household opera
ton costs advanced two-tenths
Of ! per cent.
Transportation Costs
The survey showed that APP
parel prices dropped seven
tenths of l per cent, primarily
a result of seasonal reductions
for fall and winter clothes.
Transportation costs were 1
per cent lower as dealers SELL
ing prices for new cars declined
1.8 per cent, which more than
offset substantial increases in
rates for auto insurance.
In the separate survey of
Washington retail food prices.
the bureau said that the index
stood at $40 of / per cent
higher than a year ago but 81
per cent below its 1858 peak.
Meat, poultry and fish prices
averaged 1.9 per cent higher
over the month primarily be-
cause of increases of SO per
cent for poultry. 81 per cent
for beef and veal and II per
cent for pork. Prices for chuck
roast rose SO per cent while
round steak was up % per cent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-02-20
Seat on District Bench
Slated for Judge Walsh
BY PHIL THOMAS
Star STAFF Writer

The White House is expected
soon to announce the nomina-
ton of Chief Municipal Court
Judge Leonard P. Walsh as a
United States District Court
Judge here, The Star learned
today.
The selection will fill a va
cancy created last fall by the
death of Chief District Court
Judge Bolitha ]. Laws. The
nomination would have been
submitted to the Senate for
approval this week, except for
the absence of President Eisen-
hover who is on trip to Mex
leo, it is understood. 1t probably
will be sent to the Capitol next
week.
The Municipal Court jurist's
name was among nine candi-
dates submitted to the Justice
Department for preliminary
screening by the Districts Re-
publican Committee, which has
given Judge Walsh strong
backing.
Appointed in 1853
The 55-year-old Judge was
appointed as chief judge of
Municipal Court in 1858, Be-
fore that he was a practicing
attorney here and a one-time
president of the District Bar
Association.
He was born in Superior. Wis,
and took his pre-legal educa-
ton at the University of Min
neSota, where he was a star
football player. He received an
LII. B degree from National
University here in 1858, having
moved to Washington in 1929.
Before entering the practice
of law in 1886 ne was an assist
ant football coach at George
Washington University from
1929 to 1885.
Active in Washington civic
life, Judge Walsh is a former
president of the Touchdown
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-02-20
Beck GuiItyon ACCOUNTS
Of Income Tax Evosion
Convicted Of Dodsine S240,607 Levy;
Appeal Bond Hearing Set Today

TACOMA, Wash, Feb 20 (AP).-Convicted of cheating
his income tax 64yearod millionaire labor leader Dave
Beck spent time behind bars for the first time in his life
last night.
The former president of the huge Transfers Union was
found guilty all four counts of income tax evasion
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-02-20
RussianL Leader
Firm AWAITING
Macmillan
Khrushchev Acts
Like Poker Player
With Four Aces
BY CROSBY s. MOVES

Russian Premier Khrushchev is
behaving like a poker player
holding four aces. Those who
picture the Soviet leader as a
buffer anxious for negotiation
and compromise will find little
comfort in his latest statements
in Berlin.
Far from acting like a man
trying to crawl off of a dan
Russiuns Cool to Vests Plan fol-
ToIks Page AZ
gerous limb Premier Khru-
Shchev is now limiting more
broadly than ever at a new
Berlin blockade and stating
more openly than before the
risks that the West will run in
trying to relieve the city.
For the first time he has also
somewhat tentatively outlined
the legal argument which Rus
STA will adopt in case its pro-
posals for Berlin are rejected
Coming from Mr.. Khrushchev
the proposal for a separate
peace treaty between the Com
muniSt bloc and the East Ger
man government can hardly be
dismissed lightly. Said Mr.
KhruShchev:
IF a peace treaty is con-
cluded with the two German
states or with one of them
and the Soviet Union and a
number of countries which
fought Hitler's' Germany are
ready to sign such a treaty
the German Democratic Re-
public will acquire all the rights
and duties Of a sovereign state
These rights Twill be guaranteed
by international law.
Promises "RipOSte"
Consequently no encroach-
ment can be tolerated on the
territory of the German Dem
ocratic Republic at the center
of which lies Berlin. All
violation of the German Demo-
cratic Republic would be met
with a determined riposte
whether this violation took
place on the ground, on the wa
ter or in the air. >"
There are many, to be sure
who see in this kind of talk the
toughness of a professional
bargainer. Mr.. KhruShchev, il
is said, will never appear more
truculent and unyielding than
in the moment before he backs
down. And when it comes to
his threats to Berlin, it is
pointed out that Premier Khru-
shchev no more than President
Eisenhower has suggested that
the Communists will be the first
to start shooting.
There is a weakness to this
hopeful argument, however. II
is that while Mr.. Khrushchev is
certainly bargaining and pos
sibly bluffing. his attitude is
already reaping large dividends
In contrast to the desperate
See BERLIN, Page Ala
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-02-20

1950-53-and two counts of
filing false returns. He could
receive up to a five-year sem
tence and a $4,000 fine on
each count.
United States District Judge
George Boldt, who set SEN
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-02-20
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-02-20

Russiuns Cool to Vests Plan for
ToIks Poge AS
The Nome nugget., 1959-03-09
Basic Prices Surveyed,
 Compared With Seattle

COLLEGE, Alaska - Eleven Alaska cities are surveyed for 40 basic items and the total price for each basket" is compared with the Seattle price. The rundown, with Dec. 1858 price first, Sept. 1858 price next and Dec. 1857 price last, is as follows:
 Seattle, s1693, $17.40, S16.29; Ketchikan, $19.57, $19.9S, s19.78; Petersburg, $20.98, $21.77, mot available); Sitka, $21.19; $21.40, (not available); Juneau $20.89, $2045, $2014; Kodiak s21.87, $2195, $21.22; Seward $22.36, $21.89, $21.48; Anchorage $22.99, $2346, $21y87; Palmer $22.87, $23.07, $21,69; Fairbanks $25.81, $25.44, $25.2O; and Nome, $28.19, (other figures not available).
The Nome nugget., 1959-03-09
BRITISH UNWITTINGLY SPUR REELECTION OF DE VALERA

DUBLIN, Ireland, R - Thanks to the British, Ramon De Valera emerged over the weekend as an almost certain winner in the forth coming election to choose pres ident of the Irish Republic.
 A formal British protest against De Valera's order releasing 21 Irish Republican Army detainees from the prison camp at Curragh appears to have clinched victory in the June election for the TT year-old, nearly blind Prime Min iSter.
The Nome nugget., 1959-03-09
Monday. March g. 1859
SUCH A BUSINESS {!

EFFINGHAM, H., P- Sev- eral miles north of Greenup, H., Lolami Keller's car stopped running.
 No gas.
 Truck driver Carl Simpson of Kansas, Ill.,, picked up tn e stranded Keller and took him to a service station in Greenup.
 The service station operator rec ognized the now embarrassed Kel- Ter as a candidate for mayor of Effingham and his boss.
 That service station and some 49 others in a five-county area in southern Illinois are owned by Keller
The Nome nugget., 1959-03-09
LAW COVERING NUDISTS
 UNNECESSARY IN VERMONT

MONTPELIER, Vermont, R - An antinudist bill has been re- jected 122-1O3 by Vermont's House of Representatives. The only nu- dist colony in the state is at Mil ton near the Canadian border, with some 40 members.
 Chairman Ralph A. Foote of the Judiciary Committee said there are statutes on the states law books now to cover "indecency in matters of lewdness" and that the bill was unnecessary.
The Nome nugget., 1959-03-09

I was invited to look.
 There, on the north ridge of Big Diomede, three and a half miles away, I made out some sort of structure behind blocks of snow and on the top a small metal chimney. And to one side, a hu- man wearing something long and dark.
 Can Be Sure He's Watching
 "You can be sure," said Mike, Ines watching everything - when your plane arrived, what was unloaded. how many people got out and when it leaves. He must report all this to the main land, just like we do."
 There was more talk about Little Diomede and it's 20 families totaling 131 persons and how they live on the isolated outpost. Nor mally, the island has two white persons, a teacher and Catholic priest.
 Only the teacher, Warren Tiff fany, originally from Bellingham, Wash, was there during my visit. He said he didn't mind the iso- lation.
 Soon it was time to leave, be- fore the plane skis froze solid in the ice runway.
 Within 800 feet we were air borne. Down below, the whole village was out waving us off. On the other side, on Big Diomede, I didn't notice any Russians waving.
The Nome nugget., 1959-03-09
Diomede Outpost Surveyed By A-P
 Feature Writer In Visit To North

hospital, and me.
 The wind was sharp and the temperature 21 below as our plane skis bumped down on the rough ice. Villagers, who seldom have visitors in wintertime, quickly surrounded our plane.
 The whole military contingent of Little Diomede TIT 10 Eskimo members of the National Guard - followed me to the scholhouse for interviews.
 Had they seen the Russians lately?
 See Russians Almost Every Day
 "We see them almost every day when the weather is clear" said Sgt. Mike Okpealuk. Through our binoculars or telescope, we see their dog teams, supply planes landing behind the ridge, and their observation post which is near the north end of the ridge.
 '"They carry rifles or tommy guns. We carry only MI rifles They wear long dark coats and sometimes, looking through our binoculars, we can see them look ing at us through their binoculars"
 What was the last contact they had with the Russian Eskimos?
 Last winter. One night, before any of us Guardmen knew it, a man named Odoyuk walked over the ice from Big Diomede and sud- denly appeared in one of our houses. He said he wanted to see his relatives here. He said he wanted to trade, to get fish for ivory. He got some fish and promised to return with the ivory He never did"
 Mike explained several families on Little Diomede recognized the visitors as a cousin they used to see frequently.
 "Odoyuk said most of the natives on Big Diomede had been re- moved to the Siberian mainland about the time of the Korean war Only a few families remained. He said he, himself, had been taken to the mainland but was allowed to return to hunt. I don't believe it. I think he was sent over here as a spy"
 Nothing To Learn
 Did Odoyuk learn inything?
 There is nothing to learn. We have no military base here, just 10 National Guardmen acting as scouts. Our job is to watch the Russians and report all their movements back to the mainland by radio. There is our observation post"
 Mike was pointing to an old oil drum on which was mounted 20-power telescope in fixed po- sition. That is the sum of Little Diomede's observation post.
 The Guardmen held Odoyuk prisoner for a while, Mike said, then let him go on orders from the mainland
 As Mike was talking shout came from the observation post. We all raced out to the telescope.
The Nome nugget., 1959-03-09
By SAUL PETIT

LITTLE DIOMEDE ISLAND. LR - We were flying north toward Boring Strait
 There's American radar on that mountain" said Martin Olson, bush pilot, pointing toward the Alaskan Peninsula on our right. "You can be sure they see us."
 Then he pointed to the left, to a snowy blur on the northwestern horizon.
 That's the Siberian mainland You can be sure the Russians also are watching us on their radar."
 It was an odd, unreal picture: three men and an Eskimo boy in tiny single-engine plane being closely watched by the electronic eyes of the two giants of the cold war.
 But odder still was the sight that lay directly ahead, in the narrow neck of Boring Strait sep arating the mainlandS of the United States and Soviet Russia Rocky Diomedes
 Ahead Of us, in the middle of the Strait, we could see two rocky, snow-covered crags - the Diomede Islands, one American, the other Russian, only three miles apart and welded together by a frozen channel.
 Here is the one spot in the world where Russian and American ter ritories brush elbows. less than 5000 yards apart.
 On both islands are Eskimos, related to each other; Eskimos who used to visit back and forth but now remain apart - divided by a cold war they never made.
 Olson made one low pass be- tween the islands. On Little Dio- mede we could see a tiny cluster of about 20 clapboard and tar paper houses, a school and a church, all hugging the foot of a 1,600-foot mountain. The airport that awaited us was a strip of bu1npy ice near the shore, marked with oil drums.
 On Big Diomede, we saw an equally steep mountain. From the plane we could detect no build ings or signs of life. Olson said the Siberian Eskimos lived on the west, or hidden side of Big Diomede.
 Bringing Food and Cigarettes
 We had taken off that morning from Nome, 140 miles to the southeast. Olson carried food and cigarettes to Little Diomede. He also carried three passengers: Capt. Robert Steele, of the Nome contingent of the Alaska Ma tional Guard, which helps patrol the island; little Edgar Nyapana, 5-year-old Eskimo boy returning home after a month in a Nome
The Nome nugget., 1959-03-09
WEATHER FORECAST

Partly cloudy and continued cold with easterly winds 15-2O mph. Lowest temperature expect ed tonight -23 and the high to- morrow 0.
The Nome nugget., 1959-03-09

In 1888 the first operational ra- dar to be installed in a U. s. Navy ship was placed in the USS New York.
The Nome nugget., 1959-03-09
TRIPLETS TIMES THREE :.

NEW YORK, LR - Three times as many triplets 10 sets - have been born in New York City this year as in the same period most years, and the New York City Health Department says mo- body knows why.
The Nome nugget., 1959-03-09

Associated Press Newsfeatures Writer Saul Pett visited Little Diomede Island recently during a trip to Alaska. Following is a summary of his story0
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-04

HIP By Romonosky (Minosol
U-Hurley, Runge,
Tabacchi and Paparella. T-2.23.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-04
Pace Features
First Program
AT Rosecroft

Harness racing in this area
begins its 18th season tonight
with Rosecroft Raceway, Mary
lands pioneer track, offering a
Inine-race program featuring
another appearance by the in
credible veteran. The Engineer.
Post time each night Of the
24-night meeting will be 500,
with daily double windows clos
ing at $40.
Oficials, mindful Of the new
threat in night thoroughbred
racing at Shenandoah Downs
in West Virginia, still are con-
f1dent of approaching, If not
SURPRISING, last years attend
'ance and betting figures. Rose
croft led Maryland's harness
tracks with 149,529 customers
who bet $6.744,640.
The eighth race, a $4,000
Class A Pace, takes top spot
on tonight's card and cunning
for his fourth victory of the
season will be The Engineer.
the 9-year-old bargain base
lment find started six times at
Yonkers Raceway this spring
and added to his earnings each
time.
The veteran trainer-driver,
Ed Kelly, brings The Engineer
to Maryland with a 3-l-2 rec
ord for the season.
Mighty Tarr, 9-year-old geld
ing handled by Hal Story, and
a winner at Yonkers in 2:04.3,
I is the early second choice.
Also racing tonight will be
seven 3-year-olds who have
been nominated for the $35, 900
William E. Miller Memorial
Pace, feature Of the meet,
May IS.
Among these is Adios Ore
gon, Tommy Crank's promis-
ing charge who already has
two victories this year and goes
after a third in tonight's sew
enth race.
Others are Elwood Banks
Catch Up in the first race,
Jimmy Wingfield's T. D. Adios
and Dave Legum's Brown Star
in the fourth. Rosemary Frost
in the fifth. Bristol Hanover
in the seventh and Julia Frost
in the ninth.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-04
500 HITTER ufTs BRAVES
Aaron Is Good Bet
For Triple Crown
~ the Associated Pres

This may be the year In
which Hank Aaron joins the
list Of baseball's great right
handed hitters. alongside such
famous sluggers as Rogers
Hornsby. AL Simmons. Harry
Heilmann, Ed Delehanty. Sam
Crawford, Jimmy Foxx and
Hank Greenberg.
This may be going over
board on a fellow who's just
had five full seasons Of major
league warfare under his belt,
but fellows like Aaron come
only once in a couple Of dec
AIDES. Ask the Giants.
All the Milwaukee mauler
did yesterday against the Gil
ants was hit a single and two
home runs. He scored three
runs and drove in another
with a sacrifice fly as the
Braves won. ga. to regain first
place from San Francisco by
half a game.
Ties Mathews in HOmers
Aaron now is batting an
even 500 with 36 hits in 70
times at bat. Those figures.
however, don't tell the whole
story. He is tied with team
mate Ed Mathews for the
leagues home-run leadership
with eight; he leads in hits. is
third in runs scored with 10.
tied for third with eight dou-
bles. and tied for fifth with
20 runs batted in. His slug
ging percentage is an incredible
.972.
This pace makes Aaron a
good bet to capture the triple
crown-home runs, runs batted
in and batting percentage. He
has won all three titles but
never all of them in one year.
Cincinnati and Los Angeles
were in a virtual tie with the
Giants for second place follow
ing the split of their double
header. The Reds won the first
game. So, and the Dodgers
took the second, I'll.
Chicago maintained its 500
level, dividing a pair with
Philadelphia. The Cubs won
the opener, 4-3, and the Phil
lies triumphed in the nightcap,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-04
Derby Horses
Due al PimIicO
AsMeef Opens
BY JOSEPH b. KELLY
star Racing raitnr

BALTIMORE. May 4.-with
Tony Lee and Sword Dancer,
the one-two finishers In Satur-
days Kentucky Derby. headed
for a rematch In the SD Freak
ness. Pimlico opens It's i40th
race meeting today.
Surrounded by competition,
the 18th day spring session Is
expected to get of slowly but
will hit a high pitch Of excite
ment for the $l50.000-added
Preakness May 10. The Freak
ness purse Is the richest ever
offered for 3-year-olds.
Not only are Fred Turner
IRIS Tony Lee and Brook
meades' Sword Dancer counted
on as certain starters in the
mile-and-three-sixteent clas-
sic. but First Landing. the
Derby favorite who was third,
and Royal Orbit, who ran
fourth, also are listed as Freak
ness contenders.
Also expected from the Derby
field are the Elkcam Stable pair
of Open View and Atoll, Rico
Tesio and Festival King.
Mauler May Enter
Add to that impressive list
the name of Manassa Mauler,
upset winner of the Wood
Memorial. Trainer Frank Mar
tin indicated today Manassas
Mauler would be a supplement
tai entry. Deadline for supple
mentals is Wednesday at a
cost Of $4,000.
Maryland Jockey Club off,
cials could see 10 definite start
ers today, but the Preaknesc
lineup could expand to IL OF
more before the preliminary
maneuvering is over.
Royal Orbit, who races for
the Braunstein estate, was the
first to check into a Pimlico
barn after the Derby. He ar
rived last night after a flight
from Kentucky.
Sword Dancer was slated to
arrive today by air, and Tommy
Lee tomorrow. Plans called fol-
the colt to arrive at Baltimore's
Friendship Airport tomorrow
and be vanned to Pimlico.
Silver Spoon Heads West
First Landing is going to New
York before coming to Pimlico
and Atoll and Open View will
be given their Preakness prep
ping at Garden State.
Silver Spoon. fifth in the
Derby, is returning to Californis
See PIMLICO, Page A-2O