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The 25-year-old Queen of the United Kingdom and the domin ions overseas reached London Airport at 4:15 p.m. (11:15 a.m. EST) after a flight from Nairobi, Kenya. It was exactly a wees since she left London, as Princess Elizabeth, to make a round-the world tour of five months. A plain oak coffin was being prepared for the body of her fa ther, King George VI. Funeral May Be February 18. The funeral may be held next week, but more probably on Mon day, February 18. The four-engined transport carrying the royal party set down after a 4,000-mile, one-stop flight. Prime Minister Winston Churchill headed the official delegation on hand to welcome the new Queen. The skies were gray. The royal family was repre sented by the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, aunt and uncle of the Queen. Another uncle, the Duke of Windsor, is sailing home from New York to attend the funeral. The scene at the airport was a cheerless one, in the gathering gloom of the early English twi light. The airport was ringed by scores of policemen sent to keep the arrival private. Prime Min ister Churchill had appealed to the public in advance to stay away from the airport and respect the Queen’s grief. Goes to Clarence House. Elizabeth stepped out of the plane at 4:33 p.m. It was ar ranged that she go to Clarence House, her residence as princess, and then to Buckingham Palace to tttke the oath to uphold the constitution, before the Privy Council. Tomorrow she will be formally proclaimed Queen — the first woman to rule Britain in 51 years. Six cars stood by at the airport; to take the royal party and its luggage to the heart of London. Policemen were posted along the ■ 15-mile route from the airport to Central London, to speed the motor convoy. Mr. Churchill bowed deeply and shook hands with the Queen as: she stepped from the plane, closely followed by her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh. Elizabeth wore a black hat and coat. The Duke, in a dark over coat, was hatless. Five minutes after they left the plane, the Queen and the Duke drove away toward London. Personally Thanks Crewmen. A thin line of spectators stand ing outside the airport saw the procession pull away. A group of soldiers snapped a salute at the royal car as it passed. The Queen unsmilingly waved back. Before leaving the airport, the Queen said she would like to see the crew of the airliner which flew her from Africa. They lined up on the concrete apron and in a low voice she thanked them all. Her face was pale and she was plainly under a strain. But her tears were unshed. As the royal car swept through the gates, the Duke solicitously bent forward and arranged the rug around the Queen’s feet. Their car was followed by one carrying the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester. hi cue Mica* uuiaiuc, men bared their heads and women, some in tears, waved their hand kerchiefs. As Mr. Churchill’s car left the field his chauffeur had to brake suddenly to avoid a collision with another automobile. Queen Mary Offers Comfort. Airfield workers said the new Queen, while talking briefly with Mr. Churchill, stood in almost the spot where her father waved good bye to her one week ago. Queen Mary, 83, was advised by telephone of the royal party’s re turn, and immediately drove to Clarence House to comfort her grieving granddaughter. At the Sandringham royal estate, where her father died peacefully in his sleep yesterday morning, silent, sorrowing car penters sawed, hammered and fitted the King’s coffin from a great oak tree, felled months ago, (Continued on Page A-5, Col. 1.) Two Star Want Ads Bring 166 Calls A "help men" classified ad in The Star last week for a meat market man ager drew 75 applicants. Another ad brought 91 calls and sold a wide variety of furniture for a woman who lives in the 2200 block of California street N.W. Results like these ere commonplace for Star advertisers. So phone Sterling 5000 and advertise in Washington's, No. 1 classified medium. Get your Sunday ads in early to help avoid a rush as the 2 p.m. Saturday deadline 1 approaches. 4 1 Kennan, Expert on Soviet Union, Is Named Envoy to Russia Admiral Kirk's Resignation Accepted; Successor Drafted Containment Policy President Truman today nom inated George P. Kennan. long time State Department expert on Russia and author of the policy of ’’containment” of Russian commu nism. to be Ambassador to the Soviet Union, succeeding Admiral Alan F. Kirk. The White House also an nounced that Admiral Kirk’s res ignation had been accepted, ef fective last night. Admiral Kirk’s prospective res ignation and the choice of Mr. Kennan as his successor were dis closed last December. In accepting Admiral Kirk’s resignation, the President ex pressed warm appreciation of his two-and-one-half-years’ service in Moscow and his earlier service in Belgium and Luxembourg. He said: “Your oustanding performance of duty in the difficult mission in which you have been engaged is truly representative of fother im portant assignments which you have undertaken during your long career in the service of our Gov ernment." The President announced last December 26 he was naming Mr. Kennan to be the Ambassador. Russia orally informed the White House he would be acceptable, even though he had been under attack by both the official Soviet newspapers Pravda and Radio Moscow. Pravda called him a supporter of anti-Soviet organizations and the Moscow radio had listed him as among “shady persons who are usually spies of long standing.” Mr. Kennan, 47, and a native of Milwaukee, is a veteran of a quarter century of diplomatic service, which has included three tours in Moscow. He became known generally when, under the pen name of “Mr. X,” he wrote an article in the magazine Foreign Affairs setting out in detail the United States policy of blocking Soviet aggressive expansionist pressure by containment of communism. Check Hoarding Cited At Laxity Inquiry in California Tax Office Incompetence Detailed As House Subcommittee Explores Further Leads By Cecil Holland Star Staff Corr«»pand«nt SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 7.— House investigators explored new leads in West Coast tax scandals today after receiving testimony adding up to a picture of amazing laxity and incompetency in the scandal-ridden Revenue Bureau’s Northern California office here. One of the highlights before the House Ways and Means subcom ox Bureau Shakeups Prove Merit Plan Is Best, Ramspeck Says. Page A-2 mittee was the revelation that one if the top men in the San Fran :isco office had taxpayers’ returns md uncashed checks totaling 531,400 in his desk and at home when he was suspended last Sep tember. H. H. Stikeleather, one of the bureau’s expert auditors now :hecking the office here, identified the official as John J. Boland, then the No. >3 man in the col lector’s office. He said some of the checks held iy Boland, now under indictment >n a fraud conspiracy charge, were fated as far back as 1944. He idded that a large carton of re turns and checks was left in an office after Boland was ousted and that he personally observed the ifficial bringing another batch nto the revenue building around :losing time. Thus far, Mr. Stikeleather tes tified, the Government has real ized $28,800 on the checks long leld by Boland. Others totaling nore than $2,000 were returned jy banks since the accounts were 10 longer in existence. Mr. Stikeleather testified that •eturns and checks totaling $3,000 were found in the office of Paul IT Doyle, former chief office ieputy. ne also saiu tu<u uuocivcu w*** •ants for taxes totaling $5 mil lion had been found piled in i desk drawer. Warrants are claims against taxpayers for noney due the Government. From William Frank of Seattle, one of the Bureau’s intelligence men, the subcommittee heard that James G. Smyth was named jollector in 1945 despite three ‘distinctly unfavorable” charac ter reports against him. Smyth, who is also under in lictment on the fraud conspiracy ;harge in connection with back lating tax returns, was Northern California manager for the Roose yelt-Truman campaign in 1948. “Who engineered his appoint ment?” asked Representative Cur tis, Republican, of Nebraska. “I do not know," Mr. Frank re plied. “I am just a special agent in the field.” Tells of Reports. Mr. Curtis asked the subcom mittee’s staff to try to ascertain who sponsored the appointment in Washington. Mr. Frank said unfavorable re sorts were made against Smyth when he was named a deputy col lector in 1935, again in 1941 when he was named to the defense bond staff on the West Coast, and for the third time when he was made collector. He said the reports con cerned the former collector’s "own income tax returns, his filing rec ord and his drinking." The agent, giving an evaluation of the office under Smyth, said ‘very little corruption" had been found. He blamed conditions on Smyth and a political clique of other top officials who “should never have been appointed in the first place.” 1 Shotgun Blasts Slay G. 0. P. Ward Official On Street in Chicago Hoodlum Element Blamed As Acting Committeeman Is Shot Down From Auto By th« Associated Press CHICAGO. Feb. 7.—A Repub lican ward official, described as a vigorous foe of the so-called hood lum element seeking domination of some of the city’s wards, was slain in gangland Style last night. Seven shotgun blasts, apparent ly fired By two gunmen from an automobile, felled Charles Gross, 56, acting Republican committee man of the 31st Ward. The ambush occurred in the Humboldt Park district, as Mr. Gross reached a darkened section of the street in front of a church near North and Kedzie avenues. Guardsmen Move Body. Mr. Gross, who lived a few blocks from the scene of the shooting, was shot down after he alighted from his car and walked towards North avenue. He was struck by 25 pellets, all of a large size, on the right side of his neck, on his right arm and on his face. Police found seven 12-gauge shotgun shells on the pavement. His body was found on the side walk by guardsmen at the Illinois National Guard’s northwest arm ory, across the street from where Mr. Gross was slain. Guardsmen carried him into the armory’s first-aid room, where he was pro nounced dead. Political spokesmen speculated openly that the slaying stemmed from a steadily strengthening hoodlum encroachment into the ward’s politics. They reported similar gangland invasions in sev eral of the city’s 50 wards. Candidate in Primary. Mr. Gross’ widow, Ethel, was quoted by police as saying, “I was afraid of this,” when told her husband had been slain. Police said she refused to say more but they said she apparently referred to recent trouble in the ward. Mr. Gross, owner of a soft drink company, took over as ward com mitteeman last June and was a candidate for election in the April 8 primary. His opponent, James ^fesi, expressed surprise when told of the killing. ‘‘We were good friends,” Mr. Mesi said. ‘‘This puts me in an awful spot.** New Comet Seen On Photographic Plate at Palomar' The National Geographic So ciety today announced discovery of a new comet, but there’ll be considerable eye strain if amateur astronomers try to find it. The short-tailed heavenly wan derer was discovered in the con stellation Virgo on a photographic plate exposed on Palomar Moun tain, Calif., the night of January 30. Stil unnamed, it is the fifth discovered in the last two years by the Geographic Society-Palo mar Observatory Sky Survey—a four-year project to explore the sky out to 350 million light years. The telescope was Palomar’s 48-inch Schmidt, operated by California Institute of Technology Astronomer Robert Harrington. Soviet Arms Designer Dead MOSCOW, Peb. 7 (JP).—A lead ing Soviet designer of light arms, Georgi Shpagin, is dead. His age listed at 55 but the date of death after a long illness was not given. His weapons became famous ini World War n. ' k Iranian Oil Talks k Be Renewed By World Bank Negotiating Group To Leave Saturday For Conferences By the Associated Press The World Bank announced to day renewal of negotiations with Iran in an effort to revive opera tions of that country’s oil industry. The bank said a new negotiating team will fly from Washington Saturday to “attempt to work out with the Iranian government a basis of agreement which might make possible definite proposals leading to a resumption of oil operations.” The bank has been holding dis cussions on the Iranian oil issue for several months, but ran into stumbling blocks early last month and recalled its mission to Iran. Technical Problems Scanned. Resumption of talks with the Iranian government follows a sur vey by bank officials of technical problems in resuming production in Iran’s huge oil fields. The fact that negotiations are being resumed after these tech nical studies Indicates the bank has renewed hopes of solving the Iranian oil crisis. me big oil fields have been virtually idle since the Iranian government took possession under a nationalization law last year. The fields formerly were owned and operated by a British firm, the Anglo-Iran Oil Co. Negotiations between Iran and tne British, with top American of ficials trying to mediate their dif ferences, brought nothing but deadlocks. Would Finance Operations. The World Bank reportedly is working on a plan under which the bank would finance renewel of operation* In the oil fields. Proceeds from the sale of oil would be divided between the Iranian government and the bank or a new corporation set up by the bank. The bank in turn would sell oil presumably to the Anglo Iran company and would set aside part of its income to reimburse the oil company. Iranian Premier Mossadegh on January 3 rejected any World Bank proposal for reviving oil operations unless his government was given complete control over operations. 25 Iranian Deaths Listed In Election Disturbances By tin Associated Press TEHERAN, Iran, Feb. 7.—Re ported deaths in Iranian national election demonstrations stood at 25 today. Police fired on an angry crowd at Khorramabad, killing three and wounding several. The fighting started when a crowd protesting election control arrangements re fused to disperse. Premier Mohammed Mossadegh’s Nationalist forces elected two more deputies to the new Majlis (lower house of Parliament) in the northwest part of Azerbaijan Province, on the Soviet border. Mr. Mossadegh’s people'' thus far have elected 10 of the 136 Majlis mem bership to none for the opposition. The National Front and its sup porters have won 12 more seats in Tehran but the counting here is not yet complete. Five Czechs Are Executed, 3 Gel Life as Spies for U.S. By the Associated Press • LONDON, Feb. 7. — Czechoslo vakia has executed five Czechs convicted of treason and espio nage on behalf of the United States, Moscow radio said early today. - The five were condemned to death last January 12 by a People's Court in Prague. They were Jan Hosek, Emanuel Rendl, Jaroslav Dvorak, Joself Liska and Peter Cizek. Three others got life terms. They are Frantisek Kroc, Robert Suenderhauf and Frantisek Dol inek. The executions were ordered after the Supreme Court rejected the defendants’ appeals. Churchill Address To Be Broadcast By Stations Here The address of Prime Min ister Winston Churchill on the death of King George VI will be broadcast here at 4 p.m. by Radio Stations WEAM, WWDC and WASH FM. A recording of the Prime Minister’s talk will be rebroadcast by Station WRC at 7 p.m. and by Station WMAL from 10:30 to 11 p.m. Station WEAM also will re- i broadcast the talk between 10:15 and 10:30 pjn. % Simkins' Former Girl Friend Questioned for Hour by Jury Witness Promises to Tell All on Gamblers Despite Threats Against Her Life By Howard L. Dutkin Mrs. Sarah (Dimples) Hall, reddish-haired former girl friend Df gambler Roger (Whitetop) Simkins today was questioned for almost an hour by the special District crime grand jury. Mrs. Hall, colored, who earlier had told reporters that she would :ormer Prince Georges Officials Call Judge Kirkland's Attack "Silly." Page A-23 tell all she. knew about gambling here, refused to comment on her testimony as she left the grajid jury room escorted by deputy United States marshals. A second colored woman, whe could not be identified, also testi fied but for a shorter period. To day marked the opening session oi the grand jury's probe into District i crime with emphasis on gambling and narcotics. Mrs. Hall, who is a barmaid ir a tavern at 16 G street N.W., tolc reporters she did not know tot much about current condition: since, she said, her friendship with Simkins ended six years ago. She told how she had received threats by telephone after testify ing before the Senate Crime In vestigating subcommittee Iasi month. She said she was told bj an anonymous caller that her lif< would not “be worth a nickle.” But, she declared, she intendet to co-operate with the jury ir every way because, she said, “I’m married and working and trying to live a clean life. I don’t hav< money to be cited for contempl or perjury.” Yesterday, United States Attor (See GRA'ND JURY, Page A-18. Transit Firm Agrees To Compromise on Maryland Service • Diverts B6 to Serve Hospital, Views Shift on Old Georgetown Road By William A. Millen Star Staff Correspondent BALTIMORE, Md., Feb. 7.—The Capital Transit Co., after pro testing indefinite postponement of the formal hearing on its request to curtail Maryland service, agreed to several compromises before the Maryland Public Service Commis sion today. The company agreed to: 1. Divert some Capital B-6 Cheverly bus line trips to give service to the Prince Georges bounty Hospital. The company planned to drop the H-6, H-8 bus ine, which now serves the hospital. 2. Study a proposal made by Commission Engineer Joseph Giar lina that the company divert some )f the trips of its subsidiary, the Montgomery Bus Line, so as to serve Old Georgtown road resi dents. The company wants to abolish the last two zones on the r-8 line from Old Georgetown road and Alta Vista road to Mont rose. To Go Over Schedules. 3. Go over with commission en gineers schedules of the T-6 and r-8 lines. A company spokesman said, however, the company thinks :t has a satisfactory schedule on these lines now. Capital Transit representatives left the conference after a 90 ninute session. Citizen, business md official representatives of Prince Georges and Montgomery Counties continued in informal session with commission spokes men. F. Gloyd Await, company coun sel, earlier filed with the com mission a letter of protest and exhibits, designed to show that the firm is losing money on its Maryland operations. Informal Hearing. About a month ago, the com mission set February 6 and 7 as the dates for resumption of the bearing, at which Prince Georges md Montgomery County objectors to the company’s proposed changes would be heard. Meanwhile, at the request of People’s Counsel Joseph Allen and Montgomery and Prince Georges County representatives, an in formal hearing, attempting to -each a satisfactory solution to the problem, got under way. Greek Wins Silver Star WITH U. S. 3D INFANTRY DIVISION, Korea, Feb. 7 ’(JP).— Lit. Col. Kyriakes J. Spiliopoulos, sommander of the Greek expedi tionary forces in Korea, has been iwarded the American Silver Star for gallantry in action. J Harvard Students Hit New Record in Two-Day Slapfest iy tho Associated Press CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 7.—/ couple of Harvard sophomores— not to be outdone by Russians— slapped themselves today intc what they claim is a new record Tired, if not slaphappy, Richard Mortimer and Oakleigh Thorn wound up a face-slapping mara thon that broke a 48-hour record reputedly held by two Russian students. Since 10 a.m. Tuesday they had been alternately slapping each other, not too hard, but neverthe less not too lightly, at 10-second intervals. And with reddened faces, not to speak of eyes, they went over the mark before an audience of cheer ing fellow students in their Lev erett House quarters today. They had done 48 hours and 10 seconds, bettering the Russian mark by that extra 10 seconds. A wager of $128 with other stu dents inspired the tapfest. 6-29 Loaded With Bombs Crashes West of Tokyo By the Associated Press TOKYO, Friday, Feb. 8.—An American B-29 crashed late yes terday night 5 miles north of Yokota airbase near Tokyo, the Air Force announced early today. The Japanese Kyodo news agency said the plane’s bomb load exploded, destroying 10 houses and killing one Japanese in the village of Kaneko, 40 miles west of the heart of Tokyo. There was no word on the fate of the crew. B-29s normally carry from 11 to 14 men. A blinding snow was falling at the time of the crash, 11:05 p.m. India Elects Mrs. Pandit, Ex-Envoy, to Parliament By Hm Associated Press NEW DELHI. India, Feb. 7.— Prime‘Minister Jawaharlal Nehru’s sister, Mrs. Vijayalakshmi Pandit has been elected overwhelmingly to the Indian Parliament, the government radio announced last night. Mrs. Pandit, who left her Wash ington post as India ^Ambassador to make the parliamentary race, was elected from Lucknow. As a candidate of the ruling Congress Party, she defeated H. Dayal of the Hindu communal “Jan Sangh” Party, 102,764 to 34,112. Japan Plans Trade Pacts TOKYO, Feb. 7 (JP) — Kyodo News Agency today said Japan plans to send a mission to Brazil later this month to sign a new trade agreement. Similar mis sions are expected to leave shortly for Mexico and Argentina. I lase Cites Traffic Toll In Support of Highway By-Passing District Bill Asks $36 Million; Group Told Early Action Is Needed to Cut Cost By Harold B. Rogers The rising tide of deaths and injuries from automobile accidents was cited today by Senator Case, Republican, of South Dakota in support of his proposal for a cir cumferential highway to bypass the District and connect the 1 Washington-Baltimore Parkway with the Shirley highway in Vir ■ ginia. The Senator laid his proposal before a Senate Public Works subcommittee as the group opened hearings on the $600 million Fed eral aid to highways bill. $36 Million Asked. The Case amendment to the big 1 road bill would authorize $36 mil lion for construction of a “pro tected. safe and suitable bypass and circumferential highway” in the area. It would extend in a westward loop from a point on the Washington-Baltimore Park way north of Washington to the Shirley highway below Alexandria. Senator Case also has pending j another amendment for use of Federal aid funds to build similar circumferential ' highways near cities of over 20/000 population. Senator Case presented his ar gument during the testimony of Thomas H. MacDonald, commis sioner of the Bureau of Public Roads, when the question of auto mobile accidents came up. Rising Costs Cited. Mr. MacDonald was the first witness following an opening statement on the big bill by Sena tor Chavez, Democrat, of New Mexico, Committee chairman. Senator Chavez emphasized the need for highway construction and repairs, explaining that because of rising costs of both materials and labor, he believed that the $600 million in his bill could well be raised to $800 million. The Senator said that highway systems were virtually defense plants and should be considered "essential war expenditures.” > Senator Case referred to Mr. MacDonald’s testimony to the effect there had been a “serious upturn” in the number of auto mobile accidents and deaths. Deaths Increasing. Figures in the MacDonald re port showed that automobile ac cident deaths rose from 28,076 in 1945 to 35,000 in 1950 and about 37.500 in 1951. Senator Case said that despite the Federal program of separation of grade crossings where many fatalities had occurred, the rise in traffic accidents and fatalities throughout the country showed that the largest general increase was due to traffic congestion. This showed the need, he said, for development of circumferential highways to increase safety. The Senate Public Works Com mittee has received approval in principle of the Case circumferen tion highway for Washington! from five Federal agencies. Sawyer Backs Plan. One of these, the Commerce De oartment, raised the question as to whether the cost of such a highway should be< divided, in stead of being met entirely by the Federal Government, as the Case bill provides. Secretary Sawyer said such a by-pass was “highly desirable and in the public interest, not only timely but long overdue.” Other agencies which approved the Case proposal with some mi nor suggestions included the Na tional Capital Park and Planning Commission, which said that "Federal financing is realistic and virtually imperative”; the General Services Administration, which approved the plan “whether in peacetime or for national de fense”; the Department of Justice, and the Secretary of Interior. Mr. MacDonald later told a re porter the Bureau of Public Roads is “very much in favor of the (See PARKWAY, Page A-18.) I Defense Officials Puf in Squeeze By Job Demands Wilson Holds Ground With Order to Put Work in Idle Areas By lh« Associated Press Defense mobilization officials were in a giant squeeze today, but they held their ground on a new order aimed at easing regional un employment. On one hand, there was pres sure from communities like Law rence, Mass., and Detroit. They wanted a bigger slice of defense business to put their machines and idle hands back to work. On the other was an angry cry from the South, raised at the pos sibility of losing some of its own defense business. In the middle was Charles E. Wilson, defense mobilizes Mr. Wilson put out an order Tuesday designed to channel some defense business into areas of critical un employment. New England Asks Aid. He did it after urgent cries for help from labor leaders like Wal ter Reuther, head of the United Auto Workers (CIO), who held a special “we want jobs” conven tion here January 13 with 600 auto workers. From New England came textile mill officials, labor leaders and city councilmen. Give us defense contracts, they said. The order set up a surplus man power committee. Its members haven’t been named. Its job: To investigate unemployment areas and defense facilities they have and report to Mr. Wilson. Mr. Wilson then will tell the Defense Department that “it is in the public interest to give pref erence to such areas in the place ment of contracts in accordance with the findings of the com mittee.” These contracts need not be made on a low-bid basis. They could be negotiated. Asked About Order. That’s the nub of the order. The joint Congressional Defense Production Committee* yesterday called Arthur S. Flemming. Mr. Wilson’s top manpower adviser, to ask him about the order. Southerners see in it a “life or death” proposition if it isn’t a4* ministered fairly. That’s what Senator Smith, Democrat, of North Carolina, said at yester day's hearing. Senator Maybank, Democrat, of South Carolina, committee chair man, said he was "not going to sit here and preside over the liquidation of the Southern textile industry.” A large part of the textile in dustry has moved from New Eng land to the south. Problems Historical. But in a letter to the commit tee, Mr. Wilson said the new policy “is not designed to cure all the economic ills of whole industries.” He said “it would appear that the textile and garment industries have historical problems which this policy cannot cure.” At yesterday’s hearing there was talk of changing the Defense Pro duction Act to outlaw the order. Senator Maybank suggested it. Representative Lanham, Demo crat. of Georgia said “I won’t vote to continue the Defense Produc tion Act” unless the order is can celed. However, Senator Maybank, whose committee is about to start work on extending the production act—the basic price and wage control law—said after the hear ing ended that he had great con fidence in Mr. Wilson and felt the order, if administered prop erly, might work out all right. Cost Is Studied. Officials believe that progress can be made with the new order in Detroit and other automotive centers like Flint, Mich., where modern production facilities and skilled labor are in supply. Mr. Flemming was repeatedly asked how much the new order might cost in more expensive con tracts. He said the order would ‘not necessarily put any addi tional cost on th« Government.” Any rise in prices—stemming from negotiated rather than low bid contracts—would have to be sffset by a drop in payment of jnemployment compensation, he said. Envoy to Offer Credentials MANILA, Feb. 7 (A5).—Admiral Raymond A. Spruance, new United 3tates Ambassador to the Philip pines, will present his credentials x>day to President Elpidio Quirlno. Featured Reading Inside Today's Star DETROIT DANGER SIGNALS— Stringent restrictions discouraging De troit's unemployed from applying far pub lie relief have created a situation "filled with danger." The Star's .labor reporter, James Y. Newton, reviews the situation in another story an the Nation's em ployment situation on page A-3. PLAZA FACE-LIFTING—Traffic en gineers have conceived another plan to ease the traffic turmoil at Union Sta tion plaxa. Staff Writer James G. Deane explains the plan on page A-l. INCOME TAXES—Associated Press Staff Writer James Marlow tells hus bands and wives how they can save money when they fill oat income tax re turns. His story is on page 1-6. END OF THE TIGHTROPE—Herbert A. Philbrick, undercover men for the FBI in the continuing campaign against communism, tells how his testimony lad to the conviction of Rad leaders in New York. His story is on page A-3. I