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Taft Steps Out as Floor Leader
Os Senate for Rest of Session;
Hip Trouble Is Called Serious
Knowland Chosen
To Assume Duties;
He'll Stay on Job
By J. A. O'Leary
Senator Taft stepped down as
Republican floor leader for the
balance of this session of Con
gress.
His assistant, Jack Martin, an
nounced that doctors have ad
vised the Ohio Senator that the
hip ailment which has been
bothering him recently is "a se
rious one.” Mr. Martin issued
the following statement:
“Senator Taft returned to the
Senate today after a further con
sultation regarding his hip con
dition with leading doctors.
They have advised him that the
condition is a serious one, and
that while he can attend the
Senate and keep up with his
work there, he will have to take
a good deal of rest, and pursue a
course of treatment which will
prevent his being active as floor
leader during the balance of the
session.”
Knowland to Fill In.
Senator Taft, who was in the
Senate chamber today on
crutches, told reporters he would
appoint Senator Knowland of
California, to All in for him as
floor leader. He said he did not
think any action would be nec
essary by the Republican con
ference.
Senator Knowland. who is
chairman of the Senate G. O. P.
Policy Committee, has been act
ing majority leader.
According to the Senator, his
doctors told him it was impera
tive that he keep his weight off
the hip as much as possible while
undergoing treatments. He ex
plained that he will continue, to
attend sessions of the Senate,
but will be relieved of the neces
sity which falls on the floor
leader to remain in the chamber
for many hours at a time.
His decision to ease up on
Senate work followed another
consultation with two specialists
in New York last night.
The Senator said all the doc
tors have told him is that he is
suffering from a lesion.
He said that when he ques
tioned them further about the
nature of a lesion he got very
little information. He said it
was a bone impairment which
must be built up by treatment
and rest.
He Exonerates Golf.
With a smile, he said he felt
sure it is not the result of his
fondness for golf. __ He said he
first ntoiced the trouble in April,
before he went to Augusta, Ga.,
to visit President Eisenhower.
Senator Taft denied dispatches
from New York stating that he
had entered a hospital there two
days ago under the name of
Howard Roberts to avoid pub
licity.
It was iearned that some of
his medical advisers wanted him
to remain off his feet entirely
during the treatments and that
the decision to have him use
crutches was a compromise.
Some of his colleagues have sug
gested that he use a wheelchair
at the Capitol. ,
Mines Chief
Opposed by
Lewis Named
ty th* Associated Press
Tom Lyon of Salt Lake City,
Utah, was nominated by Presi
dent Eisenhower today to be
director of the Bureau of Mines
in the Interior Department.
Mr. Lyon, who is opposed by
John L. Lewis, president of the
United Mine Workers, was
named to succeed John J. Forbes.
Mr. Forbes has resigned as.
director but is staying on in the
bureau as head of its mine safety
program.
Mr. Lyon, 63 and a native of
Quincy, HI., graduated from the
Montana School of Mines in 1916
and has been geologist for the
Anaconda Copper and Interna
tional Smelting Cos.
In 1951 he was assistant chief
ot the copper branch. Defense
Minerals Administration, and he
is now head of the iron ore di
vision of the Defense Materials
Procurement Agency in the Gen
eral Services Administration.
In accepting Mr. Forbes’ res
ignation today, the President
wrote he was glad to know Mr.
Forbes is continuing his long
service with the bureau.
There was no immediate com
ment from Mr. Lewis on the for
mal appointment, but he had
protested it in advance in a let
ter to the White House on
April 20.
"Obviously Mr. Lyon, regard
less of his attainments as a ge
ologist, is incompetent for this
position, and in all equity and
common sense should not be ap
pointed,” Mr. Lewis wrote at
that time. _
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—AP Photo.
SENATOR TAFT
On visit to White House
last Thursday.
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Soviet to Send Envoy
To Austria, Restoring
Diplomatic Relations
Step Toward Ending
Occupation Burdens
Follows Control Easing
By th* Aisociated Pres* *
VIENNA,. June 10.—Russia
has decided to appoint an Am
bassador to Austria and te
establish full diplomatic relations
with this occupied country, it
was announced here today.
This new Soviet step toward
ending the burdens of Russian
occupation was disclosed by the
Austrian government, which said
it also would appoint a full
Ambassador to Moscow.
The announcement followed
Russian relaxation in the last
few days of a number of mili
tary and economic controls which
had been maintained by Soviet
occupation forces in Eastern
Austria since the end of the war.
The Russian action is no more,
however, than was taken by the
Western occupying powers some
tune ago.
The announcement disclosed
that Ivan I. Ilyivhev, appointed
new Soviet high commissioner to
Austria three days ago, would
also be Russian Ambassador to
Vienna. He will hold down both
posts in the same manner that
Llewellyn E. Thompson, jr., is
both American high commis
sioner and United States Am
bassador.
Austrian government sources
said that Norbert Bichoff, now
serving as Austrian “political
representative” in Moscow, prob
ably will be appointed the new
Austrian Ambassador.
Mrs. Roosevelt in Mine
FUKUOKA, Japan, June 10
W*). Japanese coal miners
working 2,700 feet underground
were visited by Mrs. Eleanor
Roosevelt today. Kyodo News
Agency said she was surprised to
see women working in the sub
terranean pits.
Remedy for Severe Burns
Found in Chop Suey Kitchen
By ttte Associated Brass • \
You’ve heard of “wonder drugs”
extracted from bread mold (pen
icillin) and from the bile of oxen
(cortisone). Now comes a new
medical product discovered, of all
places, in mung bean sprout juice
in a chop suey kitchen.
B-N-O tyrosinase is the name
approved by food and drug offi
cials for this new substance. It’s
still undergoing tests by the doc
tors, but several members of
Congress say there’s nothing like
it for the treatment of burns.
It’s a little unusual for a med
ical discovery to be touted by
Congressmen rather than dis
closed by learned writers for
scientific journals. But Repre
sentative Wickersham, Democrat,
of Oklahoma, who first called
his colleagues’ attention to it
several weeks ago, says B-N-G
tyrosinase is a highly unusual
drug. „
So -does Representative Mc-
Millan, Democrat, of South Car
olina, who said it’s been used on
his young son and “worked as a
magic.”
Here’s the 6tory, as the <^>n
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—AP Photo.
SENATOR KNOWLAND
To be Senate floor leader.
4
Police Set to Enforce
Integration Law in
District Restaurants
Hotel Dining Rooms
And Night Clubs Come
Under Court Decision
District Police today stood
ready to enforce immediately
the Supreme Court decision
which forbids restaurants and
bars to refuse to serve any well
behaved person, including those
who are colored.
Deputy Police Chief Howard
V. Covell late yesterday issued an
official order which instituted
enforcement of the high court
ruling as of 8 a.m., today. The
development was one of several
that followed the Supreme
Court’s decision of Monday up
holding the Act of June 26, 1873,
on the subject.
It also was disclosed late yes
terday, that, under an interpre
tation of the decision by Cor
poration Council Vernon E.
West, the “rediscovered” law ap
plies to hotel dining rooms and
night clubs as well.
Follow Up in Courts.
The police order said officers
who receive complaints of serv
ice being refused will summon
all parties in the case and wit
nesses to the Corporation Coun
sel’s Office in Municipal Court.
The officer will also attend the
hearing and follow the case
through the courts to its final
conclusion, the order stated. It
added:
“Commanding officers shall
instruct each member of their
command to exercise good judg
ment, tact and give fair treat
ment to all parties concerned
In any situation arising out of
the enforcement of this act. In
all cases, members of the force
shall at all times be impartial
in the enforcement of the pro
visions of this act.”
The order was issued at the
direction of Police Chief Robert
V. Murray. It followed a con
ference between Inspector Co
veil and Chester H. Gray, as
sistant corporation counsel.
Then Deputy Chief Coveil re
ported on the matter to Com
missioner Samuel Spencer.
Inspector Covell emphasized
that the police will deal only
with complaints and will not try
to enforce the act by watching
restaurants, taverns or hotels.
Not Licensed as Cases.
Mr. Gray said the decision
that the act applies to hotels
and night clubs also was reached
although such dining rooms are
not licensed as restaurants.
“They are, in fact, restau
(See RESTAURANTS, Page A-2.)
gressional Record gives it, of the
drug’s discovery:
One day in 1944 two men
named Zaremba were boiling
down scraps to make hog food
in a chop suey canning plant
they operated in Oak Lawn, HI.
A boiling vat exploded, scalding
nearly a dozen employes.
While waiting for ambulances,
fellow employes applied the only
liquid they could lay hands on—
mung bean sprout juice, extract
ed from a bushy annual legume
and much fancied by chop suey
eaters.
Doctors in Chicago hospitals
were astonnished to find no blis
tering, no pain and no shock
in any of the scalded patients.
So medical science took over
and extracted the healing sub
stance now known as B-N-G
tyrosinase from the mung bean
sprout juice.
One case cited by the Con
gressmen is. an Arlington, Va„
boy burned so badly his skin
came off with his T-shirt. One
application of the new drug and
he stopped crying, slept well that
night and wanted to go out play
ing the next day. 4
Quick Truce
Hope Is Pinned
On Switzerland
Chance Seen for
Nation to Accept
Armistice Role
By Garnett D. Horner
Chances for an early truce in
Korea appeared today to hinge
on the attitude of neutral Switz
erland.
The Swiss cabinet cast a pall of
gloom over the armistice pros
-2,000 Parade in Seoul Streets as Armis
tice Protests Erupt. Page A-3
pect yesterday when it announced
Switzerland would not serve on
a prisoner-of-war repatriation
commission unless South Korea
approved the proposed armistice
terms. This decision threatened
to stymie the armistice negotia
tions at a time when all other
obstacles seemed to have been
cleared away.
Today, however, there were
indications that the Swiss, yield
ing to heavy diplomatic pressure,
were reconsidering their position.
Optimism Voiced.
A spokesman for the Swiss
Legation here told The Star he
was “hopeful and optimistic”
about the possibility of reaching
an agreement which would
enable Switzerland to help over
see an armistice.
• “At this point, the Swiss have
neither really declined nor ac
cepted the invitation,” the
spokesman said. “We are asking
for information and clarifica
tion. The idea that we have
backed out and upset the apple
cart is not right.”
The Swiss attitude toward the
truce negotiations is “positive,
rather than negative,” this offi
cial said. Asked if that meant
Switzerland was more likely to
accept membership on the truce
commission than decline, he re
plied: “Yes.”
Earlier, the Swiss Minister,
Charles Bruggr *n. refused to
discuss his government’s posi
tion, emphasising the delicacy
of negotiations in progress with
the State Department. Last
night Mr. Bruggman handed a
note, described as “lengthy and
technical” to the State Depart
ment outlining the Swiss posi
tion.
Contents Not Revealed.
Contents of this note were not
made public. But it presumably
included these words in which
the Swiss Federal Council (cabi
net) announced its decision of
yesterday:
“The Federal Council has de
cided to advise the governments
which have charged Switzerland
with the task (of serving on the
POW commission) that Switzer
land could not accept this man
date unless it were received
from all parties to the Korean
conflict, including South Korea.”
Here is why this announce
ment boded so ill for the nego
tiations in progress at Panmun
jom:
An armistice could be signed
without advance South Korean
approval, but not without a pris
(See TRUCE, Page A-2.)
Bill on Treating Addicts
Is Sent to White House
A bill to provide compulsory
hospitalization of drug addicts
was on its way to the White
House today.
The House by unanimous con
sent approved minor language
changes made in the bill by the
Senate.
The measure, strongly urged
by The Star, would make hos
pital care for drug addicts com
pulsory, and would provide for
a follow-up program after hos
pitalization to insure against a
patient’s return to the drug
habit. '
The bill would become law in
the District six months after it
is signed by President Eisen
hower.
Police and health officials see
it as an- effective means of com
bating drug addiction here.
Measures are pending in the
House and Senate to provide for
acceptance of District drug ad
dicts at Federal hospitals in
Lexington, Ky., and Fort Worth,
Tex.
New Touch Added
To Weather News
By Pig in Traffic
You can’t believe everything
you see in the shimmering heat
waves over Washington pave
ments these days, but Policeman
R. L. Bradley did—and caught
a pig in traffic today.
The stray pig crashed out of
the top of a north-bound North
Carolina tractor-truck at Fourth
and I streets N.W., about noon
and invited premature demise
by .threading through traffic with
his oink turned on full blast.
Pvt. Bradley’s devotion to duty
took him into a nearby store to
borrow a rope, with which—and
the aid of ISO volunteers—he
finally cornered the pig in a
fenced yard and lassoed i£,
Talley Joins State Department
As Security Staff Consultant
1
Ex-Police Inspector
To Instruct Probers
In District Matters
Clarence Talley, retired Dis
trict police inspector, today
joined the State Department’s
security staff as a part-time con
sultant.
R. W. Scott McLeod, depart
ment security administrator,
said Mr. Talley’s work primarily
would be to instruct the depart
ment’s security aides on investi
gative techniques relating espe
cially to the District.
Mr. McLeod told reporters that
Mr. Talley’s “long and illustrious
career in the police service here”
has given him “a knowledge of
the District situation which is
not readily available to the de
partment.”
Mr. Talley was sworn into
office in Mr. McLeod’s office this
morning by Wesley S. Andress,
assistant chief of the division
of departmental personnel.
“I’ll do my best on anything to
which I may be assigned,” Mr.
Talley said.
It was uncertain how much
time Mr. Talley will be asked
to devote to the State Depart
ment work. Officials said he
Tax Probe Has New Problem:
Who Gets the Fur Coat Check?
By James E. Roper
A House subcommittee which
started out to investigate gifts
of fur coats today wound up
with a S3OO check in payment for
one.
The check—written by.Turner
L. Smith, late of the Justice De
partment—has been drifting
around for more than a year.
Nobody will cash it. Mr. Smith
wishes somebody would. Now it’s
the subcommittee’s problem.
This latest chapter about
Washington’s fur coat era was
disclosed before a House Judici
ary Subcommittee headed by
Representative Keating of New
York.
Secret testimony made public
today detailed how Mr. Smith—
while a Justice Department tax
official—arranged to buy a dyed
muskrat coat for his wife. He
made the deal through a since
dissolved law partnership of
three tax lawyers—Howard G.
Campbell of Arlington, Va.; I. T.
Cohen of Atlanta and Jacob
Landau of New York.
Mr. Landau got the fur whole
sale and had it delivered. He
used funds of the partnership to
pay for the coat—without the
other partners knowing about it.
That was at Christmas, 1948.
Soon afterwards, Mr. Smith in-
Bradley's Plane Finishes
Flight Here on 3 Engines
By ttm Associated Pross
Gen. Omar Bradley returned
today from England—his air
plane Hiring the last few hundred
miles with one of its four en
gines dead.
The chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, who will leave
his post this summer, had at
tended the coronation of Queen
Elizabeth as a member of the
American delegation.
The big Air Force transport
bringing Gen. Bradley home
made a routine landing despite
the dead No. 2 engine.
Gen. BratUrt grinned in an
swer to a -question about that
and said. “You don’t worry as
long as it is just one engine.”
The trouble developed after
the plane left Boston where the
party had made a brief J^op.
—Star Staff Photos.
CLARENCE TALLEY
Taking oath of office today.
would be paid about SSO a day
when actually emjfloyed.
Mr. Talley, a native of Fau
quier County, Virginia, has never
quite lost the paradoxical mix
ture of Southern gentleman and
Peck’s Bad Boy that made him
(See TALLEY. Page A-3.)
qtiired about the exact price
of the. coat, but could get
no answer. He sent a blank
check to Mr. Cohen and
asked Mr. Cohen to make out
the proper amount, payable to
Mr. Landau. Mr. Landau gen
erously said, “Forget it,” so Mr.
Cohen tore up the check—un
aware, he says, that money from
his own law firm had been used
to pay for the coat.
Mr. Smith let the matter ride
until February of last year, when
congressional investigators got
hot after Government officials
taking fur coats. Again, Mr.
Smith tried to pay for his wife’s
coat, sending a S3OO check to
Mr. Cohen.
Mr. Cohen asked Mr. Landau
what to do with the check. Mr.
Landau wouldn’t say.
So Mr. Cohen has kept the
check uncashed. When the Keat
ing subcommittee started inves
tigating, he happily gave it to
committee attorneys.
All the principals in the case
appeared before the subcommit
tee—and everybody except Mr.
Landau was indignant about
something.
Mr. Landau said he didn't re
number much about the case,
but would accept the story told
by the others.
Mr. Smith wanted somebody
to cash his check so people would
stop talking about the “free”
fur coat he got.
The subcommittee, suspicious
about the whole deal, quietly
stuck the S3OO check in its files.
An Adventure Story
To Top Them All
Starting Sunday The Star will publish in serial form
a condensation of the best-seller ANNAPURNA, by Maurice
Herzog.
This thrilling account of how a heroic nine-man
French expedition climbed the second-highest peak ever
ascended by man is a vivid ar\d moving adventure. The
painful five-week descent will remain one of the classic
examples of superb teamwork as the little band carried two
injured comrades over cliffs and through blinding blizzards
that pushed nerves and minds to outer limits.
Don’t miss this exciting adventure story starting Sunday
and appearing every day in The Star. Phone Sterling
3-5000 for home
Beginning Today:
~ Flight by MIG
How a Pole Fled the Reds
Page A-4
New York Markets. Pages A-11PI9
12 Pet. Pay Raise
For Police, Firemen
Gets Senate Approval
Bill Returns to House,
16 Pet. Backers May
Force It to Conference
By Don S. Warren
The Senate by unanimous con
sent today passed the compro
mise bill for a 12 per cent pay
raise for Washington police and
firemen.
It now goes back to the House
for acceptance or rejection of
Senate changes which reduce
the cost by about $650,000.
House sources indicated they
would insist on their own ver
sion, the so-called 16 per cent
pay raise, and the bill would go
to conference.
The Senate action required
only seven minutes and most of
this time was taken in the read
ing of Senate amendments and
a general discussion of why it
was desired to expedite action.
Unanimous Consent.
The bill was taken up out of
regular order by unanimous
consent after it was called
to the Senate’s attention by Sen
ator Beall, Republican, of Mary
land, sponsor of the pay bill in
the Senate, and District Com
mittee Chairman Case.
The bill as amended by the
Senate is 4 per cent higher than
the 8 per cent bill recommended
by the Federal Budget Bureau
and the District Commissioners,
and 4 per cent less than the
Kerns bill passed by the House
and backed by the police and
fire forces.
Under the Senate bill the
starting pay for rookie police
and firemen, now $3,410, would
be raised to $3,900. The House
bill would start them at $4,000.
More for Lower Ranks.
The biggest raises are in the
lower ranks, but increases are
carried up through the grades
to include a SSOO raise for police
and fire chiefs.
The bill also carries provision
for longevity, automatic pay
stepups of $l2O for each police
man and fireman for each five
years of continous service in any
one grade, 'with a maximum of
five such increases. The bill
also reduces from five to three
years the period required for a
rookie to advance from the first
to the highest grade of private.
The cost to the District under
the Senate bill is estimated at
$2.7 million as against the cost
of $3.3 million under the House
biU.
Radford Tours Battlefront
SEOUL, June 10 <JP). —Admiral
Arthur Radford, chairman-des
ignate of the United States joint
chiefs of staff, today began a
tour of the Korean battlefront.
He visited several American
Army divisions, the British Com
monwealth and South Korean
divisions, and the United States
Ist Marine Division.
Tornado's Toll
Climbs to 85 in
Massachusetts
800 Persons Injured
And 2,500 Homeless
In 11 Communities
By th* Associated Press
WORCESTER, Mass., June 10.
—National Guardsmen patroled
the rubble-filled streets of 11
Worcester County communities
today as searchers dug through
ruins left by a tornado which
took at least 85 lives, injured
800, made 2,500 homeless and
caused up to SSO million damage.
Authorities feared the death
toll might rise. Police said ruins
List of Tornado Dead in Worcester Area
of Massachusetts. Page A-3
Seorchers Fail to Find Infant Blown
From Mother's Arms. Page A-3
of 200 houses still remained to
be searched.
Frantic families visited morgues
and hospitals in search of miss
ing relatives and friends. In one
Worcester hospital there were
eight unidentified bodies.
Lasts 30 Minutes.
The worst tornado ever to visit
New England whirled In a twist
ing, destructive path through
Central Massachusetts late yes
terday. It spent its fury within
j 30 minutes.
Gov. Herter has declared tha
; stricken sections a disaster area.
In Washington, the Reconstruc
tion Finance Corp. declared
stricken sections are qualified
for special loan treatment.
A spokesman for insurance
companies said probably most
homes and automobiles were
covered by insurance, as most
fire insurance policies and bank
mortgage coverage include such
damage clauses.
About 400 of the injured were
either hospitalized or treated at
first aid stations. All sight-seers
were warned to keep away from
the devastated districts.
Volunteers Aid Victims.
More than 10,000 volunteers
from Massachusetts and other
New England States worked to
; aid the injured and homeless.
State highways, blocked over
night, were opened today in the
Worcester-Shrewsbury area. Re
pair crews of the Worcester Pub
lic Works Department discovered
several leaking gas mains and
gas workers were summoned to
fix them. •
At dawn, eyewitnesses said,
the smashed area resembled
pictures they had seen of the
damage caused by the atom
bomb on Japan in World War 11.
The crushing wind caught
many families in their homes as
they were sitting down to their
evening meal.
Others were killed in stores,
(See TORNADO. Page A-3 )
D. C. Woman First
In Queue to View
Coronation Robe
By th* Associated Preii
LONDON, June 10. Several
hundred people formed an early
morning queue today to get a
glimpse of Queen Elizabeth’s
purple coronation robe, and at
the very head of the line was an
American woman.
Leading all the rest was 75-
year-old Mrs. Wisler Dennis of
Washington, D. C., who planted
herself firmly at the doors of
St. James's Palace until the ex
hibition rooms there were opened.
“I just had to see that robe,”
said Mrs. Dennis.
Her husband, Lloyd, who
doesn’t believe in queues, stayed
in his room to read a book.
Red-Ruled Poland
Is a Lonely Place
FLIGHT FROM SOLITUDE—Ls.
Franciszek Jarecki, as a military
aviator, was one of the elite in Red
ruled postwar Poland, but he knew no
one he could trust. The 21-year-old
airman tells how loneliness ployed a
role in his decision to make his his
toric MIG flight to freedom. Read
the first of three articles on page
A-4.
FORTY-SEVEN KlDS—lt's a big
handful to keep happy, but Mrs. Anne
Loving of the Episcopal Home for
Children manages to do it. The story
of this worthwhile enterprise that
helps mend broken homes is told by
Betty Miles on page B-2.
CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY—A total
of 1,020 graduates received their
diplomas yesterday at C.U.'s 64th an
nual commencement exercises. The
Star lists their names and degrees on
poge A-17.
AIR SHOW VETERANS—Two ex
pert model plane contestants are
among the entrants in tha National
Capital Model Air Show to be held
Sunday at Andrews Air Force Base.
One, en 18-year-old, has been flying
models II years. Their story is toM
on poge A-6.
Guide for Readers
Amusements C-6-7 Last, Found . A-3
Classified- C-7-16 Obituary A-16
Comics A-34-35 Radio-TV A-32-33
Editorial A-14 Sports C-l-5
Edit'l Articles A-15 Woman's
Financial—A-18-19