Evening star. [volume], May 14, 1951, Page A-7, Image 7

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St John's Company E Wins
Title of Best Drilled Cadets
Mrs. Frank Major, 116 South Aberdeen street, Arlington,
pins a medal on her son, Cadet Capt. Frank Major, jr., 17, for
leading Company E to victory in the 35th annual St. John’s
College competitive drill. Brother Edmund Clement, director of
the school, is in the center. —Star Staff Photo.
Company E was judged the best
drilled company yesterday at St.
John’s College 35th annual cadet
competition on the school grounds
Company E was commanded by
Capt. Frank Major, a senior at the
school. Capt. Major and his two
lieutenants, James Jordan and
Donald Nalley, received a gold
medal and members of his com
pany were presented military bars.
Golds medals were presented
also to Capt. Ricardo Romulo,
company A, for the most proficient
commissioned cadet in the manual
of the saber and to Sergt. James
Bayne for the best drilled cadet.
The second platoon of company
E, headed by Lt. Nalley, was judged
the best drilled patoon in the com
petition.
Freshman platoon 4, led by act
ing Sergt. Gordon Bloom, was
judged the best freshman platoon.
Military bars were awarded the
individual members.
The Society of the First Infan
try Division presented a saber to
the cadet colonel, Richard Dowell,
a senior, for being head of the
regimental staff of the cadet
corps.
i
Leonardtown Boxer
Is Killed Near Seoul;
D. C. Man Missing
A former amateur boxer from
Leonardtown, Md., was killed in
action April 11 near Seoul, the
Defense Department reported to
il. ... day.
He was Pvt. |
Henry A. Ben-!
nett, a member
of Headquar
t e r s Battery,!
15th Field Ar-!
tillery Bat
talion.
The Defense
Department al
so listed a Dis
trict man as
missing and the
Air Force son
of a Fort Meade
colonel as miss
mg m nignt. rnree District men
were reported wounded.
Pvt. Bennett was the son of
Mr. and Mrs. Henry D. Bennett,
who operate a farm near Leon
ardtown. He attended St. Marys
Academy and Margaret Brent
High School and was widely
known in Southern Maryland as
an amateur boxer.
Pic. Charles Gass, 23, who
turned down a chance \o go to
officers’ training school in 1946
because it was peace time and he
didn’t believe in war, is missing
in action in..Korea. He is the son
of Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Gass
of 3717 Livingston street N.W
Mr. Gass is owner of the Service
Pharmacy at Seventeenth and I
streets N.W.
Formerly Served in Alaska.
Pvt. Gass, a decoder and chief
of the message center of Head
quarters Company of the 19th
Infantry, 24th Division, \fras re
ported missing from a front-line
outpost April 18, his mother said.
He served as an Air Force decoder
in Alaska in 1946-47, Mrs. Gass
said, and was recalled to Army
duty as a reservist last October
while he was studying pharmacy
at George Washington University.
A graduate of Woodward Prep
here, Pvt. Gass enlisted in 1946.
His mother said he rejected an
opportunity to take officer train
ing then because he did not want
to serve in a peace-time Army
“He didn’t believe in war,” she
■aid.
An only child, Pvt. Gass went
to George Washington after his:
discharge from Alaska duty. When j
he was recalled in October, he
qualified again for OCS, accord
ing to Mrs. Gass. He arrived in
Tokyo last Christmas eve and
went to Korea the next day, she
said. The OCS papers didn’t
catch up with him until last
month at the Korean front.
Mrs. Gass said her son probably
would have returned to Japan to
accept the OCS training this time
but there were no decoders avail
able to replace him at the front
Lt. Kern Missing.
The Defense Department also
said Air Force 2nd Lt. Douglas
Kern, 24, son of Col. and Mrs.
Theodore Kern of Fort Meade, is
missing after flight May 5 over
Korea.
District soldiers reported wound
ed in action were Sergt. James E.
Harper, 21, of 520 Twenty-third
place N.E.; Pfc. Francis A. Leon
ard, 19, of 255 V street N.W., and
Pvt. Elwood Burnette of 1129
Sixth street N.W.
Sergt. Harper, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Ernest F. Harper, suffered a
shattered left wrist April 17 while
serving as a field medic with the
25th Division, his mother said. A
Mothers’ Day card from him yes
terday reported he is at the 279th
General Hospital in Osaka, Japan,
and .expects to have his third op
eration and skin graft soon.
He plans to study medicine after
his discharge, Mrs. Harper said
A graduate of Armstrong High
School in 1947, he plans to study
medicine after his discharge. Mrs
Harper said. His three-year en
Pvt. Bennett.
■ililSr
PTt. Barnette.
r* - f
Ffc. Leonard.
Pie. Gan. Serft. Harper.
Chinese Reds Report
2 Spy Rings Smashed
In Manchuria Raids
•y the Associated Press
HONG KONG, May 14. — The
Chinese Communists announced
today that raids in 23 Manchurian
cities, including Russian-occupied
Port Arthur, had smashed twc
“counter-revolutionary” spy rings
The Peiping radio said a num
ber of persons were arrested by
security police, but didn’t say how
many or when the raids took place.
The announcement was consid
ered of more than usual signifi
cance in this British crown colony.
Peiping has pictured Manchuria
as a stronghold of Communism
and cited the sprawling territory
as a shining example to areas “im
properly indoctrinated.”
Moreover, Manchuria has been
regarded generally as the part of
China most strongly under direct
Soviet control. Port Arthur, on
the tip of Liaotung Peninsula, is
rumored as possibly Russia’s
strongest military base in Asia
outside her own boundaries.
. Purge May Have Backfired.
The Red radio said the mass
arrests had alerted "the entire
populace” of Manchuria to the
danger of counter-revolutionary
infiltration.
Earlier, the Chinese Reds
dropped a hint that their great
purge of suspected Western sym
pathizers may have backfired.
An editorial in the May 1 editior
of the Peiping People’s Daily
which reached here yesterday
makes it evident that China’s “re
sist the United StateS-aid Korea
movement” is not going well. II
j urged that the movement be “car
ried out in ways different front
'those employed in the latter pari
of April.”
Observers here said it was sig
nificant that the newspaper chosi
“the latter part of April” for spe
cial note. In that bloody period
! by Red admission, more than 250,
i 000 Chinese saw almost 1,00(
“ counter revolutionaries” executec
at Canton, Nanking, Hangchov
and Shanghai. Thousands oi
others heard the executions de
scribed in broadcasts.
Mass Activities.
The editorial said that now “i
is necessary to diminish th<
amount of large-scale mass activ
ities and guard against convoca
tion of too many meetings.
This sounded like Communis
jargon for “public executions” an<
“public trials,” which the masse;
apparently have not found edify
ing.
Observers conceded, however
that it might also refer to thi
huge and tiresome parades ant
demonstrations staged almos
daily since the “resist the Unitet
States” movement began.
The editorial recommended ai
important change in the system o
“mass education.” Instead o
herding people to witness trial
and executions, it said, individua
groups should carry out “street
-to-street, lane-to-lane and door
to-door propaganda activities.”
listment in the Army was up las
December 1, she said, and he hope
to be out soon.
Pvt. Burnette Wounded.
Pvt. Burnette, son of Mr. an<
Mrs. James McAllister of 112!
Sixth street N.W., has been se
riously wounded in Korea, but hi
family does not know the exten
of his injuries.
Bom in Richmond, Va.. Septem
ber 3, 1933, Pvt. Burnette volun
teered for Army service at 17, en
listing last September. He trainei
at Camp Jackson, Ga„ and at Ft
Belvoir, Va., before going to Korei
in March. He is with an outfit o
Engineers.
In Washington, he was gradu
ated in January, 1950, from Terrel
Junior High School and then wen
to Phelps Vocational High Schoo
for a time until he entered thi
Army. He worked as a porter a
Peoples Drug Stores here.
Giant Switchboard Is in Action at GAO
■ #
A giant telephone switchboard
to expedite civilian defense calls—
said to be the largest non-military
board in the world—went into op
eration Saturday on the first floor
of the new General Accounting
Office building.
Sterling 5200 is the most fre
quently called civilian telephone
number in Washington and now
60 operators will endeavor to
crack the critical communications
bottleneck that has existed since
the Government stepped up its de
fense program. The switchboard
serves not only the National Pro
duction Authority and the De
fense Production Administration
on Sterling 5200, but also the GAO
on Executive 4621.
Custom-built and costing more
than $750,000, the board was read
ied for operation by the Chesa
peake & Potomac Telephone Co.
less than four months after it was
planned.
Neck-and-Neck Race._
In fact, officials said, it was a
race between the telephone com
pany and the Public Buildings
Service, which acted with equal
speed to provide sufficient space
in the unfinished GAO building to
house such a huge installation.
The new switchboard will require
60 operators in each shift and
from 12 to 20 on-the-spot “trouble
shooters” from the telephone com
pany at all times.
All this requires a lot of floor
space—about 6,000 square feet.
With its maze of wire and more
than 5 million separate soldered
connections, the switchboard on
its first day brought service to
3,000 stations. By September 1, as
more extensions are hooked up to
it, the number w'ill total 5.000.
While the board was being built,
the General Services Administra
tion added last-minute structural
changes in the GAO building,
which is located at Fourth and G
streets, occupying nearly the en
tire square. Original building
plans, made before the defense
1 program got under way, called for
only an ordinary sized communi
cations room.
The Pentagon switchboard, of
course, is the largest in Washing
ton but that is under military
control. The new civilian defense
board is next. Officials say it will!
outdo the Capitol board by a large;
margin. The General Services
board, itself, is one of the largest
in the city since it hooks in so;
many agencies with which GSA
must have daily communication.
Auxiliary Power System.
The mammoth installation in,
the GAO building is equipped
with an auxiliary power system ■
which will keep it in operation for -
at least three days should an
emergency cut off its normal
source of electricity. The board
contains 31 miles of cable and
wire.
When the board was shipped
to the building from the Western
Electric Company where it was
manufactured it weighed 120 tons
and required three freight cars
and then five trailer trucks to sup
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Top Government officials from
CGS, CAO, NPA. DPA, the Com
merce Department and telephone
company are making a tour of in
spection today. Among them are
Commissioner W. E. Reynolds of
of -the Public Buildings Service:
Administrator Manly Fleischmann
of the National Production Au
thority; Lindsay Warren, con
troller of the General Accounting
Office: William A. Miller, director
of Region 3 of GSA; J. R. B. Crig
ler, vice president and general
manager of the Chesapeake &
Potomac Telephone Co. and S. G.
Erricson, its general commercial
manager.
James H. Lewis (left), Region Three GSA Communications
Branch Chief, looks over the main distribution frame of the
world’s largest non-military switchboard with Charles Mehler, !
a telephone company trouble-shooter. The mammoth board j
will require 60 operators in each shift.
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