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Weather Forecast
Mostly sunny tomorrow, less humid,
high in the middle 70s. (Full report on
Page A-2.)
Yesterday’s Temperatures.
Noon 76 6 p.m._. 77 11 p.m 70
2 p.m 76 8 p.m 74 Midnight 67
4 p.m 77 10 p.m 71 1a m 65
101st Year. No. 144.
Shell Shortage Wasted Lives
Os Gls, Senate Report Says;
Truman Policy Aides Blamed
Army Units Charged
With Failure to Meet
Responsibilities
By John A. Giles
Four of five members of a
(Senate Investigating subcommit*
tee concluded last night that
ammunition shortages in Korea
brought “a needless loss of
American lives.”
They also asserted that short
ages in certain critical rounds
EiscnlMwcr Saw Mock Attack in Korea,
Van Float Rcvaals. Page A-3
until last winter “circumscribed’
the mission of the U. N. forces
oh the war-town pennisula and
had “a definite and adverse ef
fect on United States military
operations.”
The “interim” report scattered
the blame among virtually all
policymakers of the former Tru
man administration for not pro
viding “necessary guidance for
military planners.”
The report added that neither
G-4 (the supply branch) of the
office of the Army Chief of Staff
nor the Army Ordnance Corps
“discharged its responsibilities in
a creditable fashion.”
Red Planp ‘Miscalculated.’
Former President Truman, the
State Department, former De
fense Secretary Lovett, former
Army Secretary Pace, the Na
tional Security Council and the
Joint Chiefs of Staff “miscalcu
lated the aggressive designs of
international communism,” the
Senators asserted.
Congress was absolved of any
•hare of the blame.
The Defense Department and
the Army refused comment.
Secretary of Defense Wilson has
asserted there now is sufficient
ammunition.
The four Senators—Chairman
Margaret Chase Smith of Maine.
Hendrickson of New Jersey and
Cooper of Kentucky, Republi
cans, and Byrd, Democrat, of
Virginia—signed the report.
Kefauver Disagrees.
The f|fth member of the armed
••rvioes subcommittee, Senator
Kefauver, Democrat, of Ten
nessee, disagreed strongly with
“many of the generalities and
with some of the conclusions”
and added with reference to loss
•t lives:
“American families which have
suffered losses in Korea have
Sustained grief enough, without
sustaining the added grief which
this type of statement brings,
when the statement is based, as
the committee acknowledges, on
conflicting testimony between
various Army generals.”
The majority report recalled
testimony by Gen. J. Lawton
Collins, Army Chief or Staff, that
he wished “to reassure the
mothers of soldiers in Korea
that their sons are not being
needlessly exposed by a lack of
ammunition” and by former
Undersecretary of the Army
Archibald Alexander that “no
casualties resulted as a result
of shortages of ammunition in
the hands of combat troops.”
Mr. Alexander added that all
Iritnesses, including Gen. James
A. Van Fleet, whose charge of
shortages during thte 22 months
of his command of the Bth Army
brought about the inquiry,
“agreed there never was a short
age in the hands of combat
troops to carry out the missions
assigned to them.”
Quote Ridgway Message.
But the report also quoted a
telegram from Gen. Matthew
B. Ridgway, former Far East
commander and newly-designat
ed Army Chief of Staff as
follows:
"... Artillery has been and
remains the great killer of Com
munists. . . . There is a direct
relation between the piles of
(See AMMUNITION. Page A-2.)
AF Sergeant Killed
As Car Overturns
An Air Fcrce sergeant was
killed yesterday after he lost
control of his car and it over
turned in Fort Dupont Park. It
was the District’s 25th traffic
death of the year.
T/Sergt. James E. Woodson.
Jr.. 40, stationed with the 1100th
Food Supply Squadron at Bolling
Air Force Base, was killed when
the car he was driving went off
the road on a curve, skidded
about 320 feet and overturned.
Park Police Lt. R. F. Selby
•aid the sergeant apparently was
speeding as he went off the road
going downhill on Fort Dupont
drive near the east side of the
park.
Lt. Selby said Sergt. Woodson
was alone. There were no wit
nesses to the accident. The car
tore away part of the cement
road curbing, skidded 140 feet
before it hit a direction sign
and then overturned and skidded
another 180 feet.
Park police said papers found
on Sergt. Woodson showed he
was from Covington. Va.
The District’s 1953 toll of 25
|g four more than for the same
period last year. The total num
ber of fatalities during 1952
was 61.
Phone ST. 3-5000
U. S. Officials Silent on Plans
On Eve of New Truce Talks
Americans Hope to Keep Reds Guessing
When Panmunjom Sessions Resume
By Garnett D. Horner
American officials have been
keeping strictly silent about the
United Nations command’s next
move in the Korean truce 1
negotiations. They do not want
the Communists to know exactly
what to expect when the truce
talks resume at Panmunjom,
tomorrow. This time, they would ;
like to prevent the Reds from ]
mapping out their reaction in :
advance. j
Behind the curtain of official :
secrecy, it is understood, they •
have been working out some i
changes in the May 13 UN
proposal for handling the ,
prisoner-of-war repatriation is- (
sue that has deadlocked the ,
armistice negotiations for more ,
than a year.
These changes, according to ]
all indications, are aimed at
bringing the proposal—rejected •
by the Communists and criticized j
by some allied nations—more (
into line with an Indian- :
sponsored resolution adopted by j
the United Nations General
Assembly last December. ;,
All available information indi- j
cates that the new offer will be 1
Bull Gores Trainer
To Death Before 1,500
At Bethesda Rodeo
Wife and Children
Os Veteran Performer
Witness Tragedy
A Brahma bull yesterday
turned on the man who had
trained him for five years and
gored him to death before 1,500
shocked spectators at a rodeo
near Bethesda.
Everett Daniel, 54, a veteran
rodeo performer, died of a
Pictures on Pago A-2.
crushed chest and internal
bleeding from a punctured lung
before rescue squad members
could get him to Suburban
Hospital.
His wife, Ruth, and their
three small children, one an 8-
year-old daughter, Linda C. who
had performed on a trick pony
minutes before, witnessed the
tragedy.
Animal Suddenly Charges.
The attack occurred as Mr.
Daniel, who was staying tem
porarily at the home of Radie
Evans, near Potomac, Md., was
attempting to have the 1,900-
pound bull place all four feet
on a two-foot square box. The
bull suddenly lowered his head
and struck his trainer in the
chest tossing him 12 feet into the
air.
The rodeo, sponsored by the
Rockville Kiwanis Club on the
Al-Marah farm of Mr. and Mrs.
Garvin E. Tankersly on River
road near Burdette road, will be
presented again at 2 p.m. today.
James Magee, of 718 Stone
street avenue, a printer for The
Star, said he was only a short
distance from the scene of the
attack.
Started Trick Again.
“The bull had three of his
feet on the box,” Mr. Magee said.
“As he was putting his right
rear foot on he slipped and
jumped to one side. Mr. Daniel
carefully led him around by a
small rope and started the trick
over again.
“Suddenly the bull lowered his
head and charged. He threw
Mr. Daniel about 12 feet in the
air, then he just pushed him
(See DANIEL, Page A-2.)
Bethesda Square Dance Halted
As Neighbors Protest 'Noise'
Between three and four thou
sand open-air square dancers
were forced to stop last night
when three nearby residents
threatened ’to swear out war
rants because of the musical
gayety at Western and Wiscon
sin avenues, Bethesda-
The gala costume festival was
cut amid thousands of boos just
before Haydn MacDougal’s Rock
Creek Promenaders struck up
the old favorite, “There’ll Be
a Hot Time in the Old Town To
night.”
The dance, staged by the Na
tional Capital Area Square Dance
Leaders’ Association, was the
highlight of the year for square
dancers of the District, nearby
Virginia and Maryland. Dozens
of school buses had transported
elementary and secondary school
children to the lot behind
Woodward Si Lothrop’s suburban
store.
The dance began at 8:30
o'clock. By 9 o’clock the Mont
gomery County Police substa
tion at Bethesda had received
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handed to the Reds as a “now
or-never” proposition.
The idea seems to be that by
thus modifying our stand we
can at least make it more appeal
ing to our U. N. allies, if not to
the Red Chinese.
The fact is, however, that
American officials consider the
Indian resolution “too fuzzy” for
application without some modi
fication. The United States ac
cepted it in the General Assembly
reluctantly. The Communist na
tions vigorously opposed it at the
time.
In the American view, of
course, the fundamental issue
on which there can be no com
promising is this: No force or
coercion of any kind can be used
to compel prisoners in U, N.
hands to return to their home
lands. About 34,000 North
Korean prisoners and 15,000
Chinese are listed by the U. N.
command as saying they would
forcibly resist any effort to make
them return to Communist rule.
The General Assembly resolu
tion stands by the principle in
(See TRUCE, Page A-3.)
Cattle From Mexico
Barred by U. S. After
Outbreak of Disease
Border Is Closed
To Imports, With All
Inspections Halted
By the Associated Press
EL. PASO. Tex., May 23.
The United States-Mexican
border was closed to importation
of Mexican cattle today, less
than nine months since it was
reopened, because of an outbreak
of dreaded foot and mouth dis
ease.
The Bureau of Animal Indus
try in Washington ordered bor
der inspectors to stop all inspec
tions ®nd ordered all Mexican
cattle turned back from the
border.
Secretary of Agriculture Ben
son announced in Washington
that the Mexican-United States
Commission for the Prevention
of Foot and Mouth Disease has
reported an outbreak of the dis
ease near the town of Gutierrez
Zamora in the state of Vera
Cruz.
Reported By Owner.
The Agriculture Department
said the outbreak is said to in
volve herds totalling between 450
and 500 animals.
The disease technically
known as aftosa—was reported
by the owner, the department
said.
Tests just completed, the de
partment added, show the dis
ease to be the type “A” foot and
mouth disease, the same type
prevalent in Mexico from De
cember 1946 until August 1951.
A spokesman for the depart
ment said “we are certain that
no infected animals came into
this country sipce the previous
embargo on Mexican cattle was
lifted last September.”
The department spokesman
said Mexican officials are co
operating 100 per cent.
Says Action Was Justified.
Dr. F. G. Hamilton, chief of
the Bureau of Animal Industry
office at El Paso, made the origi
nal announcement of the border
closing.
Dr. Hamilton said the out
break was of sufficient impor
tance to warrant closing of the
(See CATTLE, Page A-2.)
nearly 25 calls from residents
in t'*j area of River road and
Western avenue, less than a
half mile away.
The loud speaker system was
turned down to a minimum
by store officials. Montgomery
County Police Inspector James
C. McAuliffe declared.
At the dance, the final clos
ing announcement was made
at 10:05 o’clock. The crowd
screamed and booed. The lights
were turned out and the band
silenced.
“And it was an orderly dance,”
Inspector McAuliffe commented.
“They didn’t have a permit for
it, but the thing was perfectly
orderly.”
No sooner had the Inspector
returned to the police station
then he was greeted by 40 irate
dancers complete with cowboy
suits and western jeans.
“Why?” they shouted.
Police wouldn’t reveal the
names of the complainants.
They figured the 40 dancers
might complain in person to the
other complainants.
Native Dancer
Wins by a Neck
In Preakness
Jamie K. Defeated
After Brilliant Duel;
Royal Bay Gem Third
By Charles M. Egan
Sports Editor of Tho Star
BALTIMORE, May 23.—The
sure-thing bettors staged a bar
gain-counter rush at old Pimlico
this afternoon, then stood by
with their hearts in their mouths
while Native Dancer, the object
of their affections, battled it
out with Eddie Arcaro on Jamie
K. and barely lasted to win the
77th Preakness stakes.
At the end of a stretch drive
scarcely less tingling than the
one in the Kentucky Derby three
weeks ago, Alfred G. Vanderbilt’s
big gray was only a neck in
front of Jim Norris' game colt,
whose rider has been one of The
Dancer’s few detractors.
Jamie K., a whimsical kind of
a horse whose owner is the head
of the International Boxing
Club, looked like the winner at
several points during the stretch
run, but he couldn’t quite make
it. But the light bay son of the
little-known Crowfoot, a 16-1
shot on one of the weirdest bet
ting days Pimlico has ever
known, was an easy second, six
lengths ahead of Eugene Con
stantin’s late-rallying Royal Bay
Gem.
Ram o’War Fourth.
Br*ce S. Campbell’s Mary
land-owned Ram o’War also
made up some ground as he
finished fourth two lengths
further back. Then came the
tired early pacemakers, Dark
Star, Tahitian King and Cor
respondent, none within shout
ing distance of the two leaders.
Backed down to 1 to 5 by the
crowd of 30.756, Native Dancer
ran the classic mile and three
sixteenths in 1:57%, nearly two
seconds slower than the track
record of 1:56, set by the Green
tree Stable’s Capot in winning
the 1949 Preakness. The gray
son of Polynesian certainly
didn’t look like a $2.40 mutual
proposition as Eric Guerin flailed
away at him to stave oft Jamie K.
Besides his $2.40 win price,
The Dancer paid $2.20 to place
and the same State minimum
figure to show. Jamie J., for all
his long odds in the straight
wagering, paid only $4.20 to
place, and both the Norris horse
and Royal Bay Gem returned
the minimum $2.20 to show.
Show Bettinr a SideshoW.
The show betting was a side
show in itself, but the Pimlico
officials can be numbered among
those who were not amused.
For the rush to Native Dancer
to run no worse than third—a
total of $281,576 was bet on the
gray out of a show pool of
s322.493—caused a minus pool
of $46,012, an item that the track
had to take care of.
The jam around the SSO win
daws was terrific before the
Preakness and it resulted in sev
eral betting records. The $696,-
639 bet across the board on the
race broke the previous all-time
one-race mark by more than
$202,000. The old high was
$492,312, set in the 1947 Preak
ness.
The rush for that sure-thing
10 cents on the dollar also
(Continued on Page C-l, Col. 3.)
Two Top Jet Aces
Reach California;
Come Here Today
The Nation’s two top jet aces
of the Korean war are due to
arrive here at 11:35 a.m. today
at Washington National Airport
aboard a United Airlines plane.
The airmen, Capts. Joseph
McConnell, jr., 31, of Apple Val
ley, Calif., and Manuel (Pete)
Fernandez. 27, of Miami, Fla.,
left San Francisco at approxi
mately 10:30 p.m. last night.
They arrived there from Hono
lulu at 9 p.m. (E. D. T.)
Capt. McConnell has 16 MIGs
to his credit and Capt. Fernan
dez has bagged 14 of the Russian
jet fighters.
No official reason has been
given for the rush to get the
aces out of Korea and to Wash
ington, but Air Force orders call
for the two to Report here “at a
reasonable hour” today. The
unusual orders have led to spec
ulation they may be congratu
lated personally by President
Eisenhower—probably tomorrow.
Mexico's Tallest Building
Has Fire on 4tst Floor
By th« Associated Press
MEXICO CITY, May 23.—The
41st floor of Mexico’s tallest
building caught fire and threat
ened to set off a chain of fires
in the crowded downtown area
late today before firemen checked
the blaze.
Twenty workers trapped in the
four floors above the 41st story
of the Latino Americana Build
ing were rescued by the firemen
who battled the flames in view
of thousands jamming the streets
and blocking traffic below.
The skyscraper glowed like a
giant torch in the fading day
light. Sparks from it were
blamed for a second serious fire
four hours later in a drug store
in a ground floor of another
building across the street.
S(\ nffi- As/
X,
That Noise? . . . There's a Lot to Talk About After 17 Years.
Health Inspection Is Only Test
For Prince Georges Nurseries
Reputation of Foster Home Operator,
Care of Children Is No Barrier
By Miriam Ottenberg
A woman in Prince Georges
County can have a criminal rec
ord or an unsavory reputation,
but as long as her home passes
health inspection, she can oper
ate a foster home for up to
five children.
If by some slim chance a
report should reach the county
health office that the' home was
no place for babies, the permit
might be held up or revoked,
but this would be sheer acci
dent. In Prince Georges County,
there is no investigation of the
character or morals of a woman
who wants to operate a foster
home.
This was revealed in a Star
study of the regulations—and
lack of them—for the protection
of children placed in boarding
homes by parents and other rel
atives.
The situation in Prince Georges
County formed a sharp con
trast with the District where
prospective foster mothers go
through a searching investiga
tion of their suitability, motives
and experience and must have
character references from three
non-relatives.
In both the District and Prince
Georges County, if the foster
Soviet Plotting War in Europe
Before '55, House Group Told
By «K* Associated Brass
A former Czech army officer,
trained in Soviet military strat
egy, has informed the House Un-
American Activities Committee
of purported Russian plans to
launch war in Europe “before
1955.”
The Russian decision to “take
over Western Europe,” the com
mittee was told, is predicated on
Soviet suspicion that Britain is
preparing “a definite attack to
destroy the Soviet Union” in
1955.
Czech Partisan Fighter.
The testimony, given in a
secret committee session May 13
and 14, was made public yester
day in an unusual volume en
titled, “Soviet Schedule for War,
1955.”
The witness is identified as
Col. Jan Bukar—a name which
Chairman Velde said was as
sumed to hide his true identity
as a Czech partisan fighter
against the Germans in World
War H.
The year, 1955, is the same
year which former President
Truman and his top advisers
listed as the period of the great
est danger of attack from Rus
sia.
President Eisenhower has
scoffed at this idea, disclaiming
any faith in what he called
magical formulas.
Attacking Mr. Truman’s de
fense planning as a “crazy quilt”
program, Gen. Eisenhower told
reporters at a news conference
April 30 he did not believe any
one could predict when, if ever,
another government would start
a global war.
Foresees Disapproval.
The House committee headed
by Representative Velde. Repub
lican of Illinois, predicted in a
foreword to its hearing trans
cript that Col. Bukar’s testimony
“will be met by disapproval by
some in the United States and
elsewhere, who will seriously ob
ject to being interrupted from
the placidity they so undeser
vingly enjoy.
“These persons will be the
same who sought to rationalize
the Soviet actions in the block
ade of Berlin and aggression in
Korea. Some of them, through
their fuxay-minded concepts of
international relations, will never
be convinced; and might well
home is connected with a rec
ognized child-placing agency,
that agency does the social in
vestigation and closely supervises
the home and the children there
after.
In the District, the Health De
partment’s Bureau of Maternal
and Child Welfare investigates
the non-agency homes as the
first step in the screening proc
ess before a permit is recom
mended.
In the county, tHe only inves
tigation made of “independent”
foster hemes for up to four
children is the sanitary inspec
tion.
“The District,” said Montgom
ery Morrow, county sanitation
officer,” must have tough regu
lations because the parents are
flocking out here.”
Rejected Cases Get Permits.
Miss Adelia B. Heiney, super
visor of child care permit service
of the District Health Depart
ment’s Bureau of Maternal and
Child Welfare, told The Star:
“There have been cases we re
jected that we have noticed ad
vertising foster home care in
Prince Georges County.”
Since the newspapers do /lot
(Continued on Page; A-4, Col. 4.)
spend their final days in some
Soviet labor camp, devising
means of cementing friendly re
lations with the Kremlin. To this
type of person the committee
can offer little—certainly not
sympathy.”
Col. Bukar told the committee
the Soviet target date for war
was disclosed to him as one of
3,000 officers in training at a
Russian military school for con
quest at Moscow between 1945
The witness, stating he fled to
the United States a little more
than a year ago, told the Con
gressmen Russia’s plan to over
whelm Western Europe was out
lined in a lecture by a Kremlin
foreign service expert named
Sverdlov.
Take Over Dardanelles.
He quoted Sverdlov as saying
Soviet intelligence had informa
tion of Britain’s plans to attack
the Soviet Union in 1955. And
he said Sverdlov asserted:
“Therefore, we Russians must
take over the Dardanelles and
the Bosporus before 1955. We
shall close the Mediterranean
Sea, and so we will prevent the
British and the Americans from
having a throughway through
Suez to the Indian Ocean. We
shall not wait until they strike,
but comrades, officers, we shall
take over the Western Europe
before 1955.”
Col. Bukar went on to tell how
the Russians taught him in 1946
—before China fell to the Reds
—that Nationalist China must be
taken first, and then Korea.
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Rosenbergs Given
New Chance fo'Sing'
And Implicate Others
Atom Spies Get Slight
Hope of Escaping
Death, if They Talk
By James E. Roper
The Justice Department has
informed atom spies Julius and
Ethel Rosenberg that it’s still
not tod late for them to “sing”
—and perhaps save their lives.
A high department official, it
was disclosed last night, has vis
ited the condemned prisoners in
the Sing Sing death house, where
they are awaiting a new date for
execution.
The official told the couple
that the United States still wants
more details about a Soviet es
pionage ring that operated in
this country in 1944 and 1945.
Espionage confessions, the offi
cial said, always are considered
a factor when the Government
decides whether to grant clem
ency.
No Promise Made.
The Government made no
promise. But the implication was
clear. Washington holds little
hope that the Rosenbergs will
involve anyone else. The Govern
ment repeatedly has pressed the
Rosenbergs to confess. Their si
lence apparently was one reason
for a Federal judge’s giving them
the death sentence, and for
President Eisenhower’s refusing
clemency February 11.
Since then, however, the Gov
ernment has renewed pressure to
get the Rosenbergs to confess in
the hope that they can save
their lives. Gen. Eisenhower has
authority to grant clemency at
any time before the husband
and-wife team is electrocuted.
In perhaps one of their final
legal maneuvers, defense attor
neys have asked the Supreme
Court to order a new trial for!
the Rosenbergs. The court may
announce a decision on this plea |
tomorrow. If the court refuses
to intervene, an early execution
date will be set.
The Rosenbergs, convicted in I
March, 1951, originally were sen- !
tenced to die two years ago this
week.
They were convicted of slip
ping atom secrets from the Los
Alamos laboratories to an espio
nage ring involving Dr. Allan
Nunn, Klaus Fuchs, Morton So
bell and David Greenglass.
Insist on Innocence.
Greenglass is a brother of Mrs.
Rosenberg. He testified that Mrs.
Rosenberg recruited him into the
ring. The Government thinks
Mrs. Rosenberg recruited others,
too, and thus could put the finger
on still-free spies.
The Rosenbergs have insisted
they are innocent. They say
Greenglass perjured himself in
order to escape punishment. Fed
eral Judge Irving Kaufman sen
tenced Greenglass to 15 years im
prisonment, making him eligible
for parole after serving five years.
Rees Seeking
Delay in Firing
Os U.S. Workers
Says Agencies Rush
Layoffs in Order to
Pay Cash Leave
By Joseph Young
Chairman Rees of the House
Civil Service Committee last
night called on Congress and
the administration to take
prompt action to prevent the
firing of many career employes
by June 30.
In identical letters to Chair
man Taber of the House Ap
propriations Committee, Budget
Director Joseph Dodge and Civil
Service Chairman Philip Young.
Mr. Rees said many agencies
were sending out 30-day layoff
notices to career employes be
cause of heavy annual leavs
cash Indebtedness.
The Kansas Republican said
the agencies, which are faced
with reduction-in-force pro
grams due to budget cuts, are
anxious to separate the em
ployes by June 30 so they can
pay them the oash terminal
leave from this year’s unex
pended leave funds.
Carryover Funds Urged.
Noting that the agencies are
fearful that Congress will not
provide adequate money for
terminal leave payments for the
fiscal year starting July 1, Mr.
Rees urged that Congress allow
the bureau to carry over the un
expended funds into next year.
In this way. he said, agencies
will not have the pressing reason
for firing career workers right
away and will be able to retain
them. *■ v -
The text of the letter,follows:
“For some time I have been
concerned about the impact on
individuals in reductions-in-force
and have been trying to work out
procedures whereby most of the
reductions-in-force can be taken
care of by normal attrition.
“In checking with the various *
Government departments. I find
that hundreds of ‘pink slips’ are
being prepared, effective the end
of this, fiscal year. I have been
informed by a number of de
partments, sufficient, I believe,
to indicate the situation is gen
eral and that a major factor in
scheduling these terminations by
June 30 is the desire to pay lump
sum terminal leave out of this
fiscal year’s appropriations. I
deem this matter of sufficient
importance for some of your top
staff to look into immediately to
determine if arrangements can
be worked out whereby unex
pended appropriations for this
fiscal year can be used next fiscal
year to pay lump sum terminal
leave payments for leave ac
crued prior to June 30. 1953.”
Reduction Through Attrition.
Mr. Rees said in a separate
statement that, meanwhile, most
of the employment reductions
can be achieved through attri
tion—by not filling vacancies.
The Kansan said the Civil Serv
ice Commission’s forthcoming
changes in the reduction-in
force program providing for tho
dismissal of temporary-indefinite
employes and retention of career
workers in all RIF programs,
also will aid career employes.
That’s why lt is imperative
that agencies be allowed to
carry over unexpended funds
into next year, so that career
employes can get a reprieve
while the program to protect
their job rights is being com
pleted, Mr. Rees said.
Oslo-to-Tokyo Airliner
Touches Down at Thule
• By th« Attociated Pr.n
NEW YORK. May 23.—A giant
airliner carrying 40 passengere
from Oslo on the first commer
cial flight from Europe to Tokyo
via the North Polar region
touched down at Thule, Green
land. at 3:19 p.m. EDT today,
Scandinavian Airlines reported.
The Hjalmar Viking left Oslo’s
international airport at 10 a.m.
(5 a.m. EDT.)
Actual flying time for the full
7.553-mile trip is estimated at 33
hours. The plane will stop at
Anchorage, Alaska, for 16 hours
and make another stop at She
mya, in the Aleutian Islands. It
is scheduled to land in Tokyo
May 25.
The 40 passengers are relief
personnel for the Norwegian field
hospital in Korea.
A Scandinavian Airlines an
nouncement said this was ths
first time the Europe-Asia short
cut of the northwest passage had
been put to commercial use and
was made possible by the estab
lishment of United States air
bases in the Alaska area.
Sport Stars Coming
For Benefit Game
SPORT STARS COMING—Some of
the country's leading stars in tho
sport field hove been invited to bo
lunchaon guests of President Eisen
hower before the benefit Congres
sional Ball Gama hero June 5. Story
on Page A-6.
GUIDED MISSILES FOR WASH
INGTON—The Army's plans for set
ting up guided-missile batteries
around Washington and other key
cities are discussed on Pago A-17.
Complete Index, Page A-2
Radio-TV, Programs, Poges E-4-5