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99th Year. No. 329._ WASHINGTON, D. C., NOVEMBER 25, 1951-180 PAGES ★ TEN CENTS.
Gen. Robinson Proposes Plan
For Reorganizing sD. C. With
Three Separate City Bureaus
Each Commissioner
Would Be Head of
Single Grouping
By Harriet Griffiths
An entirely new reorganization
plan for the District Government
will be presented to the Commis
sioners thi^ week by Engineer
Commissioner Bernard L. Robin
son.
Dividing city agencies generally
into three bureaus, each headed
by a Commissioner the plan grew
from studies begun last summer
by Gen. Robinson and his staff.
It would replace other reorgan
ization proposals which have been
considered, including one sub
mitted to the Commissioners last
April by Budget Officer Walter
L. Fowler, although it includes
some features of these
Would Correct Weaknesses.
Gen. Robinson said the major
features of the plan are designed
to correct fundamental weak
nesses in the existing municipal
structure. These features are:
"a. Integration into the muni
cipal government of all essential
activities.
b. Centralization of control
with clear delineation of au
thority and responsibility at all
levels.
c. Granting permanent authority
to the Board of Commissioners to
effect sound reorganization within
the government on a continuing
basis to meet changing condi
tions.”
Duties of Commissioners.
The plan contemplates a "true”;
commission form of government,
with the commissioners acting
individually as administrative
heads of departments, and at the
same time sitting as a board to!
determine basic policies for the
city.
The present "modified" com
mission form, the proposal points
out, divides a limited amount of
supervisory responsibility among
the three commissioners, but ad
ministrative control is centralized
in the board of commissioners.
Other reorganization proposals
would set up from 13 to 20 de
partments reporting to a single
individual official. \
Mr. Fowler’s plan calls for a
board of commissioners-manager
type government.' A council-man
ager form was proposed in the
Kefauver-Taft Bill, and a coun
cil-mayor form by the Klein Bill.
Assumes Status Will Continue, j
Gen. Robinson's plan goes on
the assumption that the District s
present status of rule by Congress
will continue, at least for the time
being.
The reorganization features have
been taken out of the compromise
home rule bill now pending be
fore the Senate. It calls for a
mayor appointed by the Presi
dent, an elected city council and
an elected non-voting District
delegate to the House.
The commission form of gov
ernment, which also is adapted
to cities having self-rule, best
meets the needs of the District.
Gen. Robinson's report concludes,
and stands up better under the
special conditions here than does
the manager form.
Extent of Powers Unspecified.
The extent of power which each
commissioner would have over
his particular bureau is not spe
cified, but would be determined
later. This decision would in
clude such procedures as whether
the city head in charge of the
Fire Department, for instance,
would appoint his own fire chief
or whether this would be a board
decision.
Gen. Robinson did not make
public what agencies would be
concentrated in each of the three
proposed bureaus. These details
first will be considered by the
Commissioners, he said.
He will recommend that the
Commissioners review the plan
and modify it as they wish. Then
it would be submitted to all de
partment heads, all Federal and
District agencies affected, mem
bers of Congress and to District
citizens for criticism and com
ment.
He will suggest a public hearing
preparatory to revision of the
plan for recommendation to the
President.
Under legislation passed by the
(See REORGANIZATION, A-4.)
Teen-Age Korea Series
Will Begin Tomorrow
Betty Betz, well-known columnist
who writes tor teen-ogerj, tells obout
her impressions of the fighting in
Korea in a series of 10 articles be
ginning tomor
row "in the Wo
man's Section of
The Star.
Miss Betz re
turned recent
ly from Ko
rea, where she
i n t e r y i e w ed
fighting men in
every branch of
the armed
forces. In her
series, she writes
about happen
ings she saw
end impressions
she gained. Her Miss Betz,
articles are of particular interest to
teen-agers. They will appear every
day except Saturday. Don't miss them.
Phone Sterling 5000 for home delivery
^f The Star.
Mrs. Rogers Calls On Truman
To Give Facts on Atrocity Story
Citing 'Botched Handling' of Charges,
She Says Explanation Is Due Parents
By John A. Giles
The "errors and contradictions”
of the Korea atrocity charges de
mand a complete statement of the
facts by President Truman, Re
presentative Edith Nourse Rogers
declared last night.
The_ Massachusetts Republican,
scoring what she called “botched
Korea Atrocities Flout Century's Efforts
to "Humanize" War. Page A-11
handling” of the reports by the!
Pentagon and Tokyo, added:
“The President owes the parents
of our servicemen a clear and un
mistakable statement of the facts
at the earliest possible moment.”
Her statement was prompted by
the disclosure Friday night that
Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway had
reported to the United Nations as
early as November 12 that his
headquarters was investigating re
ports that 8,000 American prison
ers had been killed by their Com
munist captors. The report had
been buried at U. N. headquarters
for a week.
On November 14, Col. James M.
USO Club Dedication
Could Spur Chest's
Drive to Completion
Ceremony at Belasco
Is Set for Wednesday;
Fund Needs $600,000
Washington's new USO club at
the Belasco Theater will be dedi
cated Wednesday.
Community Chest leaders—rais
ing funds for its support—hope
the event will help spur their drive |
to victory.
This will be the last week of
Red Feather solicitation. Chair
man Thornton W. Owen says vol
unteers will wind up their efforts
with a final report Friday
Another $600,000 is needed. Mr.
Owen has expressed confidence it
will be given, but success depends
on citizen response this week.
J $320,000 for USO.
The Belasco reopening ties in
with the drive because $320,000 of
the $4,050,000 Chest goal is ear
marked for the USO-United De
fense Fund. This fund will pay
for renovation and operation of
the theater.
Actual opening of the new club
to servicemen has been postponed,
because of construction delays,
until a week from tomorrow. It
was scheduled originally for
Wednesday night.
But at 3 p.m. Wednesday, a
group of prominent officials will
gather at the historic building—,
famed as the Stage Door Canteen
of World War II—for formal dedi
cation ceremonies. Assistant De
fense Secretary Anna M. Rosen
berg will speak, and national di
rectors of the USO will attend.
Variety of Facilities.
The new club, to be called USO
Lafayette Square, will provide;
servicemen with a variety of fa-:
cilities, including a snack bar, in
formation center, showers, locker
rooms, lounge, library and recrea
tion room. Volunteer hostesses
will help staff the club for dances.
As for the $600,000 still needed!
to help operate the club and!
scores of other area charities, Mr.
Owen said he thinks 42,000 more
donors could assure it. And they
should be available, he pointed
out. for that number gave last
year in addition to the 308,000
who already have repeated their
gifts this fall.
The drive already looks certain
to outstrip those of the last five
years, Mr. Owen said yesterday.
The present pledge total: $3,443,
173—85 per cent of the goal
Korea Veterans to Return
SAN DIEGO, Calif., Nov. 24 (/P).
—A total of 1,231 Marine and
Navy veterans of Korean fighting
are due to arrive here Tuesday
aboard the transport Lenawee, the
Marine Recruit Depot announced
today.
; Hanley had announced that 5.513
American captives had been
slaughtered.
Four days later the colonel's
announcement was confirmed y
Gen. Ridgeway but he gave no
number. Gen. Ridgway said “the
shocking brutality which has been
revealed should have been no sur
prise to the American people.” I
The Army Department appar
ently was unable to get further
clarification and the Defense De
partment stepped in to demand a
full and swift explanation.
Only four days ago, Gen. Ridg
way announced there was “con-;
siderable evidence" that 6,000
American captives had been put|
to death although the bodies of
only 365 had been recovered. Of
them, 254 were identified and their
next of kin formally notified.
“The appalling aspect of this
sequence of events is the fact that
the American people are under;
the impression that they are
being hoodwinked and deceived.”
declared .Mrs. Rogers.
She noted that latest casualty
(Continued on Page A-4, Col. 5.)j
Seats in State Senate
Recommended for
Alexandria, Fairfax
Plan Would Link Them
With Arlington in New
Congressional District
By the Associated Press
RICHMOND. Nov. 24.—A State
Senate seat for Alexandria and
another for Fairfax County and
Falls Church are proposed in rec
ommendations by the State Com
misson on Redistricting. The
three are now one district.
In addition, Alexandria and
Fairfax representation in the
House would be increased to two
delegates each. Arlington, with
the addition of Falls Church to its
district, would be allowed a third
delegate.
Also included in the recom
mendations is a proposal to re-,
move Arlington and Fairfax
Counties and the cities of Falls!
Church and Alexandria from the
8th Congressional district to form
a new 10th district.
Under this plan, the 8th District
would get Fredericksburg and
Spotsylvania County from the 1st
District and Williamsburg plus the
counties of Charles City, James
City and New Kent from the 3rd
District.
Changes Are Extensive.
The recommendations, which
would alter the make-up of'about
half the 115 House and Senate
districts of the Virginia General
Assembly, were aimed principally
at equalization of representation
in the Legislature.
Population growth and shifts,
as show'n in the 1950 census, posed
the problem for the commission, i
Based on Virginia's total popu
lation of 3,318.680—as shown in
the 1950 census—the ideal popu
lation for each of the 40 State
Senators would be 83.000. By the
same yardstick, each of the 100
House members would represent ‘
33,000 people.
Size of Districts.
The proposed Senate districts
varied between 135,449 for Arling
ton \o 59,425 for the Carroll-Floyd
Grayson district. The House dis
tricts between 49,278 for Fairfax j
and 21,147 for Loudoun.
In the suggested shuffle, the
city of Portsmouth would be split
off from Norfolk County and
South Norfolk and be given a
Senator of its own with Norfolk
County and Norfolk to retain the
present seat.
Another Senate shift proposed
by the all-Democratic Commis
sion of nine members is certain to
stir up the three Republicans in
the Senate. This is the change
that would trim the 21st Senate
District to two Counties—Frank
lin and Roanoke.
Republican Ted Dalton, re
elected earlier this month in the
face of an all-out Democratic
organization drive to unseat him,
would find his home of Radford,
along with Montgomery County
in the 21st, moved into the nearby
20th.
-!
42% of Women in Area Work
And Men Are Still in Minority
This isn’t calculated to suprise
any one, least of all Washington’s
women.
Women, says the Census Bu
reau, are more numerous among
the working population here than
in any of the Nation’s 57 largest
metropolitan areas.
Forty-two per cent of Washing
ton area females 14 years and
older are working, according ~to
the 1950 census.
But this didn’t upset anything
at all, for in 1940 the working
girl represented 41 per cent of all
the women here.
It will be interesting to those
feeling the penny pinch to know
t^at Washington area’s median
i family income—half the families
jin the area have more and half
{less—is tops at $4,130.
Eighty per cent of the men folk
hereabout are toiling, and that
isn’t high when one considers
that 34 other areas have as many
or more bringing home the bacon.
But it may be surprising, and
somewhat gratifying to Washing
ton’s fairer sex, to learn that only
10 areas among those surveyed
have more men per 100 females
than has Washington.
Washington’s percentage is 98.1
men for every 100 women. For
better results, try the Norfolk
j Portsmouth area which has 113.2
iOpn for every 100 wopaen. |
Probers to Air |
Tax Fraud Case
Of District Firm
New Mink Coat Story
Impends in Inquiry
Into Caudle's Affairs
By Cecil Holland
A tax fraud case involving a
Washington firm that never was!
prosecuted and another mink coat!
story—the second to beset Che j
scandal-hit administration — will
be aired this week by a House
Ways and Means subcommittee
investigating tax scandals.
Both matters involve Theron La
mar Caudle, former AssiSant At
Release of To* Files in Probe Undecided,
White House Soys. Poge A-4
torney General in charge of the
Justice Department's Tax Divi
sion.
Mr. Caudle, 47-year-old North
Carolinian, is scheduled to be the
; principal witness in the hearings
expected to last for a week. He
resigned recently at the request
of President Truman who said his
outside activitie. were inconsistent
with the position he held.
“Five or More” Case.
The case of the Washington
firm, it was learned, will be one
of "five or more” tax cases about
which Mr. Caudle will be ques
tioned when he is called as a wit
ness early in the hearings.
The subcommittee, headed by
Representative King, Democrat,
of California, plans to question
Mr. Caudle about his own activi
ties and income tax returns as
a part of an overall investigation
of the Justice Department’s
handling of tax fraud cases. Mr.
King has said the subcommittee
is interested in learning why sev
eral tax fraud causes recom
mended for prosecuition were
dropped “at higher levels.”
The Washington case was said
to involve a provisioning firm.
But the details of it and the
amount of tax involved were not
disclosed.
Questioned About Coat.
The House investigators also
said they would question Mr.
Caudle about reports that a New
jYork lawyer, who formerly prac
ticed in Washington, paid $900
on the purchase price of a $2,400
mink coat bought wholesale by
Mrs. Caudle two years ago.
Mr. Caudle, it was learned, was
asked about the mink coat when
he testified recently before the
subcommittee in a closed meeting
preliminary to the public hearings
starting at 10 a m. tomorrow.
An earlier mink story came out
during the Senate's RFC investi
gation, involving Mrs. E. Merle
Young, then a White House ste
nographer, and her husband, who
figured prominently in that in
quiry into whether political influ
ence played a part in the making
of multi-million dollar Govern
ment loans.
Refuse to Comment.
Neither Mr. Caudle nor Mrs.
Caudle would comment about the
new mink coat story when a call
was placed to their home at
2939 Newark street N.W. Mrs.
Caudle was questioned by the sub
committee in a closed session yes
terday afternoon.
Other developments in connec
tion with the subcommittee’s
spreading investigation of tax
scandalj included:
1. Internal Revenue Commis-;
sioner John B. Dunlap said he ex
pected to have an announcement
next week concerning the Revenue
Bureau’s investigation of reported
irregularities in the San Fran
cisco office which have resulted
in the suspension of James
G. Smyth, the presidentially
i appointed collector, and several of
ihis assistants. There were uncon
firmed reports that Mr. Smyth and
four of the six aides suspended
with him would be dismissed.
Announcements Expected.
2. Mr. Dunlap also indicated
there may be some official an
nouncements as a result of investi
gations of repotted irregularities
in the New York and Detroit of
fices of the bureau.
3. Senator Fulbright, Democrat,
of Arkansas, said the "top people
must be held responsible” in Gov
ernment agencies where wrong
doing crops up. He added that
putting collectors of revenue under
civil service, as Mr. Truman has
announced that he will ask Con
gress in January to do, might
help “but it would be no panacea.”
4. The King subcommittee ques
tioned Frank Nathan in closed ses
sions throughout yesterday about
his associations with Mr. Caudle!
in an oil lease speculation. Mr.
Nathan is expected to be one of
the principal witnesses during the
hearings involving Mr. Caudle.
Severe Pacific 'Quake
Recorded at Columbia
By th« Associated Press
NEW YORK, Nov. 24.—Colum
bia University’s seismograph re
corded a “severe earthquake in
the southwest comer of the Pa
cific" at 2:06 p.m. (EST) today,
officiate announced.
LONDON, Nov. 24. (£>).—'The
Seismological station at Dorking
tonight recorded what officials de
scribed as an earthquake ,of the
first magnitude ‘centered in South
America, poseibly Guatemala.” |
Pilgrim's Progress
Russia Warns Against Allies
Forming Middle East Command
Notes Given to Envoys in Moscow
Point to 'New Aggressive Designs'
ly the Associated Press
MOSCOW, Nov. 24 —The Soviet
government warned the United
States, Britain, France and Tur
key today against pursuing their;
plans for a Middle East military
command.
A note given to envoys of the
four nations by Acting Foreign
-------
Vishinsky Submits Dozen Amendments to
Arms Proposal. Page A-2
Minister Andrei Gromyko con
tended the proposed regional arm
of the North Atlantic alliance is
directed against both Russia and
the countries of the Middle East.
"The Soviet government cannot
ignore these new aggressive de
signs which are embodied in the
establishment of a Middle East
command in regions close to the
boundaries of the U. S. S. R.,” the
note said.
(The State Department said
tonight in Washington that the
note had been received here and
that the Russian charges against
the Middle East command plan
"are nonsense."
("The proposed Middle East
command is strictly defensive
NATO Leaders Seen
Agreeing Against
Korea Troop Shift
Initial Session in Rome
Also Reported Feeling
Global War Is Not Near
\ ly Associated Press
ROME, Nov. 24.—Allied foreign
ministers apparently have decided
against switching troops from the
Par East to the West even if a
Korean armistice is signed, diplo
matic sources said tonight.
These informants reported the
North Atlantic Treaty Organiza
tion’s council of ministers "s«ms
to have agreed’’ there is no chance
of moving the Korean-based for
ces to Europe in the absence of a
general settlement in Asia with
Red China and Russia.
The 12 NATO foreign ministers
studied potential flashpoints of the
international situation today. In
formants said they concluded a
global war will be avoided, at least
in the immediate future.
i
Acheson Reports on Korea.
They met in this first session
of the eighth conference of the
NATO council in the Foro Italico
—once known as the Mussolini
Forum — in suburban Rome.
The council heard reports from:
Secretary of State Dean Ache
son on the prospects of a Korean
armi^ice.
French Foreign Minister Robert
Schuman on the war against the
Communist-led national revolu
tion movement in Indo-China.
British Foreign Secretary An
thony Eden on the turmoil in the
Middle East, which is occupying
nearly 50,000 British troops.
The ministers were said to have
given consideration to the pos
sibility that, if a truce is signed,
the Chinese Reds themselves might
shift some of their armies from
Korea to the Indo-Chinese front.
Other Issues Come Dp.
Soviet diplomatic pressure on
Norway: the East-West struggle
for Germany; the Cominform
campaign against "black sheep”
Yugoslavia; Britain’s festering
quarrels with Egypt and Iran; the
prospects of peace—or further
war—in Korea; these were some
of the issues which drew minister
ial attention.
A report was presented by the
military committee saying the Al
lies will have 24 semiequipped
divisions standing guard in Eur
ope at the end of 1951, 40 battle
ready by the end of 1952.
in intention and will be fully in
accordance with the United Na
tions charter,” declared Pi ess
Officer Lincoln White.)
Mr. Gromyko warned Arab na
tions and Israel last week that
they would harm both their rela
tions with Russia and prospects
for peace in the Middle East if
they joined the command.
The new notes stated that pro
posals of the four powers to the
eight nations oL the Near and
Middle East provide for:
Subjugation of the armed forces
of those eight nations to the Mid
dle East command.
Garrisoning of foreign military
forces on the territory of the eight
nations.
The use by foreign forces of
military bases, communications
facilities, ports and installations.
Affiliation with the North At
lantic bloc.
The notes then declared that
the plans for the command are in
fact “an effort to draw nations
of the Middle and Near East into
military enterprises being carried
out by the aggressive Atlantic
bloc.”
Fierce Infantry Fight
Rages in Tie-in With
Cease-Fire Talks
Both Sides Struggle
For 'Little Gibraltar/
Key Peak in West
By the Associated Press
SEOUL. Korea. Sunday. Nov. 25.
—Allied infantrymen today grap
pled hand-to-hand with up to a
division of Chinese Reds in an
effort to keep their precarious
hold on two vital snow-swept
peaks in western Korea.
The battle xor “Little Gibraltar”
and another peak nearby was deep
in its second day and still “50-50”
in the words of an 8th Army
spokesman.
The ridge line dominates the
strategically important area 35
miles north of Seoul. It appeared
that staff officers at Panmunjom
would not be able to draw their
cease-fire line on the western
front until the battle is decided.
Fresh Troops Rushed Up.
A divisional briefing officer
called the battle “an obvious
tie-in” with the cease-fire talks.
He said the Chinese attack “was
apparently a part of the enemy
pattern to secure key terrain fea
tures and force the U. N. troops to
withdraw to a less desirable line.”
Both armies, realizing that they
were playing for keeps if an
armistice line is drawn within 30
(See KOREA, Page A-5.)
i
Mapping of Truce Line
Goes On as Soldiers
Battle to Change It
Red and Allied Officers
Up fo Five Miles Apart
In Fixing Point of Contact
BULLETIN
PANMUNJON, Korea. (IP).—
United Nations and Red staff
officers today settled on a line
of contact in Korea with 11
“minor differences” and refer
red their report to truce sub
committees. The subcommittees
scheduled an afternoon session.
ht. Ool. Howard S. Levie, brief
j ing officer, said the subcommit
i tees would try to settle the dif
, ferences before adjourning late
today.
ly As»eciot«<f Prtis
1 MUNSAN, Korea. Sunday. Nov.
25.—Map-charting Red and Al
lied officers still were up to 5 miles
apart today, on a Korean cease
fire line—while soldiers afield
fought fiercely to change it in
the west.
U. N. and Communist staff offi
cers met at Panmunjom to iron
out minor mapping differences in
the mountainous east and major
differences in the west.
Half of Fine Agreed On.
Once during Saturday’s session.
Red claims of a hill in the east
j promoted an Allied telephone call
to the front. Americans on the
'hill were.reported "highly insult
ed,k by the Red claim.
Other Red claims of positions
behind Allied outposts brought an
offer by the Allies to fly them
over the positions to look. The
Reds said no.
There was near agreement on
the eastern half of the 145-mile
front, an Allied spokesman said.
Until the line is fixed there can
be no further progress on an Al
lied proposal aimed at completing
the full signing of an armistice
within 30 days. The 30 days must
date from the time the full truce
committees approve the cease
fire line.
Holiday Trace Doubted.
An armistice by Christmas thus
seemed unlikely.
In the truce discussions, the
two sides have accepted the “line
of contact” as the basis for their
talks.
There are often big differences
in the contact lines. Allied infan
trymen may move out across a
wide no-man’s-land valley. Fi
nally. as they near the base of a
hill, the Reds open up with ma
chinegun fire and mortars. That is
the point _of contact—where the
shooting starts.
Communist soldiers might move
south across the same valley sev
eral miles before being fired on.
That would be the place indicated
by communist map makers as their
line of contact.
The two lines might be miles
apart.
Maryland and Vols Both Win;
Illinois Going to Rose Bowl
Maryland’s Sugar Bowl team put
the finishing touches on an un
defeated and untied football sea
son yesterday by swamping West
Virginia, 54-7.
Tennessee. Maryland's New
Year’s Day opponent and the Na
tion’s No. 1 team, won its ninth
straight, overwhelming Kentucky,
28-0. Kentucky already has ac
cepted a Cotton Bowl bid.
Illinois won the Rose Bowl trip
to play Stanford by squeaking
past Northwestern, 3-0, while
Stanford’s undefeated string was
ended by California, 20-7. In the
other big West Coast game, UCLA
defeated Southern California, 21-7.
In the Southwest Conference,
where the winner will play Ken
tucky in the Cotton Bowl, Texas
Christian defeated Rice, 22-6, to
break their first-place tie. Mylor,
4
still in the running, nosed out
Southern Methodist, 14-13.
Virginia trimmed William and
Mary, 46-0, to keep alive its hope
of going to the Orange Bowl, while
Princeton, as expected, won its
second straight Ivy League title
and its 22nd game in a row, beat
ing Dartmouth, 13-0. Yale and
Harvard played a 21-21 tie, and
another deadlock was marked up
by Notre Dame and Iowa, 20-20.
Other important scores:
Michigan State 45—Colorado 7
Penn 7..Cornell 0
Duke 1#-North Carolina 7
Pitt 13..-Penn State 7
Michigan 7-Ohio State 0
Oklahoma 27-Nebraska 0
Oregon State 14_Oregon 71
Columbia 29_Brown 14
Holy Cross 41_Temple 7
(Details in Sports Section) |
U. S. Says Reds
Attacked Plane
Over Open Sea
Complaint to U. N.
Denies Violation of
Siberian Frontier
By John M. Hightower
Associated Press Staff Writer
The United States charged yes
terday that a missing Navy Nep
tune bomber was “attacked with
out warning” by Soviet fighter
planes over the free international
waters of the Sea of Japan on
November 6. The plane with 10
men aboard is presumed to have
been shot down.
In making this formal accusa
tion in a report to the United
Nations, the United States re
jected as untrue, a Russian com
plaint that the American aircraft
had “violated the Soviet state
frontier” before it was approached
by two Russian fighter planes.
The Russians also alleged that
the American plane opened fire
first.
In the conflicting versions of
the affair made public yesterday,
about the only thing the United
States and Russia agreed on was
that apparently the incident had
.occurred in the general vicinity
| of Cape Ostrovnaya, about 80
| miles east of the big Soviet
Siberian port city of Vladivostok
and across the Sea of Japan from
the northern Japanese island.
Report Made to U. N.
State Department officials said
that there was supporting evi
dence for the American assertion
that the plane was attacked over
the open sea without having in
any way violated Russian terri
tory. But they refused to say what
this evidence was on the ground
that it was information classi
fied secret by the Defense De
partment. There was some specu
lation, however, that the plane's
position at the time of the attack
'had been tracked by radar, either
land of sea based,
i The official United States re
port on the incident was made not
to the Soviet government at
Moscow, which had filed on No
vember 7 a protest against the
alleged border violation, but to the
United Nations' Secretary General.
Trygve Lie, at the U. N. General
Assembly meeting in Paris.
The State Department explain
ed that this was the proper pro
cedure because the plane was op
erating as part of Gen. Matthew
B. Ridgway’s U. N. Korean com
mand. The United States has al
ready refused because of this fact
to accept the Russian protest notej
on any basis other than as a
matter of information.
Officials said no formal reply
will be made to the Russiau
charge. How or whether claims
may be made against the Spviets
because of the loss of the two
engine bomber and presumably
the lives of its 10 crewmen is a
question which the State Depart
ment professed to be unable to
answer yesterday.
U. S. Report Released.
The Soviet version of the aeriai
clash was set forth in Russia’s No
vember 7 note which the State
; Department made public Satur
day.
■ j The department, which had in
itially played down the importance
of the incident, also made avail
able here copies of the report filed
See PLANE, Page A-5 )
Youth on Bicycle Killed
When Struck by Truck
A 15-year-old Claggetsville
<Md.l youth last night was
crushed to death beneath the
wheels of a truck at nearby Da
mascus while riding home on his
bicycle, police reported.
He was Howard King, son of
jMr. and Mrs. Howard Haller King.
The boy was headed north on
Route 27. police said, when a truck
going in the same direction struck
him.
Police identified the driver as
Noah King, about 40, of Damas
cus. They said he told them the
lights of an approaching car
blinded him and he felt the truck
■ bump against something. He then
backed up and discovered the
body, he told police. Dr. James P.
Kerr of Damascus was summoned
and pronounced the boy dead.
Howard attended Damascus
High School. In addition to his
parent^, he is survived by two sis
ters and a brother.
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