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Weather Forecast Rain, cloudy and mild today, high near 46. Cloudy and mild with rain tomorrow. (Pull report on Page A-2.) Hourly Temperature*. Noon 32 6 p.m 35 11 p.m._._35 2 p.m 35 8 p.m 34 Midnight 35 4 p.m 38 10 p.m —36 1 ajn —34 103 d Year. No. 37. Phone ST. 3-5000 ★★★ WASHINGTON, D. C., FEBRUARY, 6, 1955—176 PAGES. An Assorted Press Newspaper FIFTEEN CENTS 7th Fleet Sails to Help Withdraw FromTachen Sabrejets Shoot Down * American Orders Come After Plea By Nationalists By th« A»*ociot«d Pr*»s * TAIPEH, Formosa, Sunday. Feb. 6.—American and Nation alist Chinese fleets were putting to sea today to evacuate the Tachen islands 15 miles off Red China's coast following orders from President Eisenhower and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. Generalissimo Chiang issued orders to Gen. Liu Lien-yi, the 7th Fleet Worships on Guord Against Surprise Sub Attach. Page A-7 Dulles First Witness Tomorrow on Pact With Notionalists. Page A-7 i Map of For Eastern Trouble Spots. Pag* A-7 , Tachen garrison commander, to withdraw following receipt be fore dawn this morning of Pres ident Eisenhower’s order from Washington for the United States 7th Fleet to assist in the operation. Vice Admiral Alfred M. Pride. 7th Fleet commander, sailed on his flagship, the cruiser Helena, shortly after 9 a.m. today (7 p.m., Saturday, EST). He is believed to be in overall command. The evacuation, which may take as long as 15 days, will re move 15,000 of Chiang’s troops with their arms and equipment from the two Tachen islands 200 miles north of here. They are only 15 miles off the coast of Communist China. It also will take as many of the 15,000 civilians as want to go. Besides this it will remove a handful of troops and civilians from some of Chiang’s satellite holdings nearby, including the two Yushan islets 30 miles north east of the Tachens. Pishan Is land 32 miles southwest and pos sibly Nanchishan 80 miles south. While ships of Admiral Pride’s 7th Fleet and the Chinese Na tionalist navy were putting to sea today one by one. planes from land bases on Formosa, from at least five big American carriers in Formosan waters, end from Generalissimo Chiang’s own small air force began to fill the cloudy sky over Formosa Strait with fighter craft. Meanwhile, the Nationalist air force announced its dive bombers had pounded Yikiang shan Island heavily yesterday afternoon, causing “heavy losses to the enemy.” Yikiangshan is eight miles north of the Tachens. The Reds, who took it January 18 in an action that precipitated the present crisis, have mounted guns on Yikiangshan which can shell the upper Tachens during the evacuation if the Reds choose. U. 5. Silent on Defense Os Quemoy and Matsu By Robert K. Walsh Nationalist China yesterday asked for—an'd was promised— United States assistance in with drawing from the Tachens. The State Department said the United States 7th Fleet has been ordered to protect the re deployment of Nationalist mili tary units from the islands and the evacuation of civilians wish ing to leave. While the United States de clared its assistance would extend to “related positions and terri tories’’ held by Nationalist China and deemed essential to the se curity of Formosa, it did not say it. has guaranteed the defense of the Quemoy and Matsu Islands. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had sought some such guarantee In return for withdrawal from the Tachens, located about 200 miles north of Formosa. Quemoy and Matsu are near China main land areas where the Red Chi nese might build up forces for an attack on Formosa. Destination Not Indicated. The State Department an nouncement gave no indication whether the Nationalist forces would be redeployed to Formosa or stationed at in part on (See TACHENS, Page A-7.) A Chuckle for All In 'Soapy Waters' The grapefruit league isn’t open tor business yet, but “Soapy Waters" is ready to go. A new doily comic strip depicting Soapy's hilarious an tics storts tomorrow in The Star. You don't ha*e to be o boseball son to enjoy this boscboll comic, be couse Soapy is everybody's hero. You’ll get a chuckle a day os he rollicks his wey through the major leagues. His creator, George Stallings, is a man who knows boscboll from the inside through traveling the circuit with his father, Manager George Tweedy Stallings, whose Miracle Bos ton Braves won a World Scries. He knows his cortooning, too, from 18 years os an art director at the Walt Disney studio. Follow Soapy Waters’ ontics daily in The Stor, beginning tomorrow on the comic poge. s | Announcement on Tachens \ The text of the State Department’s announcement yester day on evacuation of the tachens: ~ The Government of the Republic of China has informed the United States Government that it will redeploy Its military 1 forces from the Tachens, a group of small islands 200 miles north of Formosa, to other positions. It has requested the aid of United States forces in protecting and assisting the redeploy ment of these military forces and the evacuation of such civilians as desire to leave those islands. The United States Government has given orders to the 7th Fleet and other United States forces to assist in this operation. The United States Government has further advised the Chi nese Government that with the object of securing and protecting Formosa, in consonance with the Congressional resolution ap proved January 29 1955, the United States Government will extend assistance to the Republic of China in defending such related positions and territories now in its hands as the United States deems to be essential to the defense of Formosa and the ! Pescadores. It is hoped that these steps will contribute to a cessation of communist attacks and to the restoration of peace and se ! curity in the West Pacific. Secret Moscow Talks Hinted In Efforts to Get Cease-Fire Russia Held Anxious to Curb Peiping; 'Unwritten' Formosa Truce May Be Goal By th« Associated Press j LONDON, Feb. s.—British dip i lomatic informants hinted i ! strongly tonight Russia has \ joined with Britain and India in secret efforts to get an “un written” cease-fire in the For- j mosa strait. ! The Soviets, admittedly fear- : ful of a major war, were under- j stood to be trying to stay Red | China’s triggers while at the ! same time maneuvering to get : them concessions in the For mosa dispute. Russia, Britain and India have exchanged views repeatedly j about Formosa both before and after Peiping turned down the U. N. invitation to talk peace. Tonight informants indicated Russia is ready to try to restrain Peiping while Britain and India impress upon the United States that a tight leash must also be retained on Chiang Kai-shek. Agree On Rights. Britain and India are in agree ment with Russia that the Chi nese Reds have legal rights to Chiang’s offshore islands—the | Quemoy, Matsu and Tachen 1 groups. But Britain believes j these islands should go to the ! Reds only as part of a cease-fire deal. | Britain and India argue that | Formosa and the Pescadores should remain in Chiang’s hands 1 and their ultimate future be de cided later around a conference | table. The hope here is that the | Russians in their anxiety to douse the Formosan powder keg | might accept this, so long as it ;is not spelled out on paper. But | Russia was understood tq be ! insisting on complete and im , mediate surrender by Chiang of | the offshore islands, j Both the British Foreign Of fice and Indian government offi cials here refused official com ; ment about their continuing ex i changes with Russia on Formosa. Secret Diplomacy. | Prime Minister Churchill’s j government now has turned to ; top secrecy diplomacy as the best available means of trying to i | ease tensions and forestall a big ; Far Eastern war. ! The British were shocked and angered by the outcome of West ern efforts in open diplomacy. Open maneuvering brought Red Premier Chou En-lai’s toughly worded refusal to talk about a Cosla Rica Retakes Town Held By Rebels By th* Associated Press ! SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, Feb. 5. —Airborne government troops today recaptured the jungle-in i closed town of Los Chiles In i northern Costa Rica from a small rebel group which occupied I it yesterday. \ The government announced I that its forces were in absolute : control of both the town and the airport, which are close to the ! Nicaraguan border, j (In Managua, Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza 1 charged that Costa Rican i I planes bombed Nicaraguan ! territory while taking action against rebels in Los Chiles. President Somoza said he had i instructed the Foreign Min ister to make another "ener ; getic representation” to the I | Costa Rican government, and to inform the Organization of ’ American States of the occur j rence. > First word of the action here ; did not say what happened to | Col. Guillermo Nunez, high ranking officer of the Costa Ri- j can air force. He and his com panions had been captured by the rebels at Los Chiles and his release demanded by the gov ernment in an ultimatum. The rebels, who had seized a radio station at Los Chiles, had threatened to hang Col. Nunez if thp government attempted to recapture the town. ' l iEhc Shmday Jlikf J WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION cease-fire with Nationalist China in the U. N. Security Council. Tonight Labor Party politi cians spread out into the meet ing halls of Britain with denun ciations of Chiang Kai-shek and of any ideas of defending his Formosa bastion. The same theme was voiced by moderates and Bevanite left wingers. Coty Begins Canvass Os Political Leaders to Find New Premier Fall of Mendes Cabinet Plunges France in Crisis; Western Allies Disturbed By tho Associated Press PARIS, Feb. 5. President Rene Coty today plunged into a series of talks with political leaders aimed at finding as quickly as possible a premier to replace Pierre Mendey-France. But Mr. Coty’s chances for a speedy replacement appeared dim. , France was thrust into an other cabinet crisis this morn- Mendes-Frone* Defeat Blomed on Personal Dislike. Page A-3 ing when the National Assem bly threw out the Mendes- France government by a 319 to 273 vote on a motion of con fidence on North African policy France’s Western allies, mindful of the fate of German rearma ment and other East-West issues in which French influence is felt, hoped for a new govern ment in short order, j But there were factors working ! against Mr. Coty in his efforts | to get France a new premier. Have Little in Common. [ The parties which united against Mr. Mendes-France have little else in common and it will be difficult for any nominee of theirs to command enough strength in Parliament. The de cision appears to rest in the of the Popular Republican Movement <MRP), the Independ ent Republicans, and the So cialists—that is, in the hands of the center-left, the center and the center-right. The President is expected to appeal to one of these three groups to propose a premier. Os these, the MRP and most (See PARIS, Page A-4.) 28 Freight Cars Are Derailed Near Lorton, Trains Delayed Twenty-eight ears of a Wash- | ington-bound freight train were derailed last night near Pohick Station, Va., blocking both main- | 1 line tracks of the Richmond, I I Fredericksburg and Potomac ; Railroad. As many as 100 trains may be i | delayed today on the main j north-south tracks. Railroad officials said the de- j railed cars made up the rear sec- i tion of the Diesel-drawn freight , of 111 cars, carrying perishable 1 ! goods. No one was injured. The accident ripped up rails j on botft of the double tracks and scattered freight cars along the right of way. Scene of the wreck is about 18 miles south of Washington, near Lorton, Va., and in a deep cut about 100 yards off the Shirley Highway. Some cars burst open, strew ing crates of perishable foods i along the tracks. The train had been carrying the food to New York and New England, i George Kidwell. an official of , Chiang Islands; 2 MIGs Six Other Planes Routed in Attack West of Korea By the Associated Press TOKYO, Sunday. Feb. 6. United States Sabrejet pilots, under orders to fire when fired on. shot down two “Russian-built MIG-15S” and sent six others \ j scurrying back to "Communist j I territory” in a clash over the Yellow Sea yesterday, the Air j Force reported. Whether the attackers were Russian or Chinese was not made U. S. Seeks Identity ot Attacking MIGs, Warns Reds Agoin. Page A-7 ; clear in a brief report on the air action, biggest since the Korean war, “over international waters west of Korea.” It was presumed here they were Chinese Reds. None of the Sabrejets, based at Osan, 40 miles south of Seoul, was lost, an Air Force spokesman said. The fight broke out, said the Far East Air Force announce ment, when a four-engine jet reconnaissance bomber, an RB -45, was attacked while under Sabre escort. Ordered to Shoot. The Air Force had stressed its “shoot back” orders and as- j signed escorting Sabres after j two Soviet MIGs shot down an , unescorted RB-29 off the east j coast of northern Japan last No vember 7 while it was on a map making mission. At the time there was some military criti cism because the commander of the plane failed to order the RB-29 gunners to shoot back. Last night’s Air Force an . nouncement gave this terse ac | count of how the Sabres com- | plied with orders; "They were escorting an R 8.45 .45 on a reconnaissance mission j over the Yellow Sea when the ! four-engine jet bomber was at ! tacked by four Russian-built I MIG-15s. At the same time, four I other MIGs attacked the escort ing jet fighters flying top cover, i "Pilots of the 4th wing re-1 i turned the attack and shot down two of the MIGs. The other six attackers then returned to Com munist territory.” Secrecy Clamp On. Back at Osan, after the Sabres | returned, the Air Force secluded ! the fliers from interviews and clamped a tight secrecy on fur ! ther details. The Air Force reference to the ! site of the fight as “over inter national waters” meant they j were outside the territorial lim its either of Korea or the Asiatic ; mainland. The Yellow Sea is bounded on the west and north by Red China. On the east is I Korea. <• Ever since the Korean armis- j tice, fast medium jet United States bombers, converted into ! reconnaissance planes and loaded ; with cameras and radar search ! equipment, have been flying patrols up Korean coasts outside , the three-mile limit. This was done because the armistice ■trims barred flights over North KoretPf itself for any check on what the Chinese and Korean Reds might be doing. The off-coast patrols keep j watch on any ship movements. The Air Force did not say at ■ first whether the Reds scored any hits on the Sabres yesterday or how many Sabres participated. Saturday's air fight was the latest in a series of at least six Red Chinese or Russian attacks on United States planes along the East Asian sky frontier the past few years. The Sabre pilots who bagged the two Migs yesterday were , moved from Japan back to the advance Korean bases at the 1 start of the present Formosa i i crisis. It was pointed out at . the time that Korea is closer | to Red China’s important region than Japan. I the railroad, said the tracks probably would not be cleared until late this afternoon. Wreck j ers were dispatched from Wash ington and Richmond yards to ; begin the cleanup job. The R. F. & P. is the only i main rail connecting link for through-traffic between Wash ington and Richmond. Officials said up to 100 trains a day use j the tracks, both northbound and ! southbound. [ Arrangements were being made last night to reroute trains over Southern Railway tracks to Oranße, Va„ thence over the Chesapeake & Ohio to Doswell, Va., to rejoin the R. F. & P. there. Cause of the accident was not immediately determined. There's a Moral to This HUTCHINSON, Kans., Feb. 5 i^P).—Monroe C. Tucker tossed a snowball so hard last night that he dislocated his shoulder and had to go to a hospital for over night treatment. Mr. Tucker is i 40 years old. Suspect, 63, Seized Minutes After Holdup Os Busy Restaurant 250 Patrons Dining At Time; 2 Employes Make Capture in Alley Two restaurant employes caught and disarmed a long sought bandit last night, min- I utes after they said he had robbed the crowded 823 Restaur ant. 823 Fifteenth street N.W., of S2OO. Police identified him as Charles Horton, 63, one of Washington’s Pictures on Pag* A-4. | “padlock bandits” of 14 years ago. Police said Horton had been sought since last November fol- I lowing a $3,695 stickup at the Bethesda Naval Hospital officers’ club and a $49 holdup of the Trans-World Airlines ticket of fice at 716 Fourteenth street N.W Restaurant employes said the j suspect came into the restaurant ! about 9 p.m., at a time when 250 persons were dining there. Threatening Note. He shoved a note at the man ager's son, Karl Miller, 30, who vtas tending the cashier's desk The note said; ”1 am an escaped convict and wanted for murder. I have notli -1 ing to lose. Don't try to make any alarm and you won’t get , hurt. Hand over the money.” j Mr. Miller said the bandit dis played part of a revolver in his topcoat pocket. The pistol later i was found to be loaded, police said. following the bandit’s instruc ■ tionsT'Mr. Miller stuffed between $250 and s3of3d*ty a bank bag and handed it to him* The bandit fled out the "rent ! door and up a long flight of stairs to street level. Joined by Chef. Meantime, the manager, Fred erick F. Miller, ran out the back door, where he was joined by the chef, Otto Nagel, 50, of 1632 Hobart street N.W. They spotted the bandit walk ing on I street. He pulled a gun from his pocket and warned: "Get away from me or I’ll ! shoot.” He began backing into an alley, but heard someone else coming ! the other way. As he turned toward the noise, Mr. Miller and Mr. Nagel leaped on him and subdued him. Pvt. J. E. Turner of the Traffic Division and Pvt. S. D. Alexan der, foot patrolman of the first precinct spotted the scuffle and took Horton into custody. Money Recovered. They recovered the money, i the pistol, and a short chain and padlock of the type used in pre : vious holdups to lock the doors on victims. Police said Horton is ohe of several "padlock” btmdits who operated here in 1940. They said he was released from Lorton Re formatory In 1952 after having served 12 years of a six-to-18- year sentence for a series of armed robberies here in 1940. Ladejinsky in Tokyo On Way to Viet Nam By the Aisocioted Pre«» TOKYO, Sunday. Feb. 6 Wolf Ladejinsky, whose ouster on security grounds from the United States Embassy staff here stirred widespread comment, ar rived back in Tokyo today en route to his new post in Viet Nam. The former agricultural at tache. one of the architects of ! Japan's occupation - sponsored land reform program, plans to ' be here about a week. It Seems to Happen Every Time! Job Promotions Add $300,000 To D.C. Salary Budget Needs Nearly 1,000 Employes Get Upgrading; Appropriation to Cover Boosts Urged By Hector McLean With the District pondering j new taxes to cover the cost of ] ; expected pay raises for its 20,000 j employes, a survey by The Star shows that nearly $300,000 has been added to the annual cost j of running the city during the j last year through job promo tions. Increasing cost of the District’s j : job "reallocations" program was j ! emphasized Friday by announce- j ment that five more top District j officials are being promoted to i Civil Service "super” pay grades. ; Yearly cost to the District of I these five cases of "upgrading” ; ; will be $4,100. ! Nearly 1,000 other such cases, j i however, are listed in the Dis- i trict’s proposed budget for the! fiscal year 1956, which starts : i next July 1. More Salary Funds Needed. In that document, Congress is told that job reallocations have been granted over the last! ; year which will cost the city j $288,635 in fiscal 1956. Friday’s announcement will raise that figure to $292,735. In addition, Congress is told j that the city’s various depart- j ments cannot absorb the added I cost in their present budgets and must be given the money to cover the higher salaries —or fire j workers whom the departments say they cannot do without. ] Under the reallocation pro- j gram, District officials say, ex perts from the recently estab lished personnel office compare jobs being done by District em ployes with the standards set up for such positions by the Civil Service Commission, j If the effort, difficulty and re sponsibility needed to do the job check with CSC standards, noth imrhappens. If the job is less dimlfi®N And demanding than CSC grade and 1 pay of the worker? tfcqp the job may be downgraded. Some em ployes have lost money this way, though usually not more than $25 or SSO a year. If, however, the job’s difficulty is such that it should be re warded with a higher pay and grade classification, the employe can be promoted to the proper grade and the pay that goes j with it. 1 Director Schuyler Lowe of the Department of General Admin istration said the CSC recom mends that all jobs should be checked periodically in a reallo cation survey to make sure that the duties have not changed + | enough to require reclassifi- j cation. The District’s reallocation pro- Riley Gets Back His SI,OOO Bill Via Underworld It's hardly a blow for honesty, but Howard Riley has his SI,OOO ! bill back. The big bill which Mr. Riley. 34, colored, of 1112 Sixth street N.W., dreamed of owning, saved ; to acquire and then lost, filtered : back to him yesterday from “the 1 people in the underworld,” po- j lice reported. j Mr. Riley reported his lost: ; wallet to second precinct police last week Later, an unnamed I informant approached Detective ; Tilmon B. O’Bryant with a tip that the bill might be returned if there was a reward involved. It seemed the bill’s possessors had tried In vain to spend it In several stores—and even to sell it for SSOO. j i Mr. Riley agreed to a reward. Yesterday, Detectives O'Bryant i and James D. Williams had the j I pleasure of returning Mr. Riley's 1 1 i dream to him. i You Sleep —but Why? Medical researchers have been trying to answer this one for years. Star Staff Writer John McKelway describes their dilemma—and related ones—on Page A-25. j gram has been running for about two years now, ever since estab lishment of an enlarged per | sonnel office under the overall reorganization of the city gov ernment. Many Employes L'ndergraded. j The costs of reallocation, Mr. ! Lowe said, “tend to be charged ' to reorganization,” of which he i has been the principal architect. | However, he insisted, “reallo ; cation should have been going |an all along. Time after time i we'd go through an office and ! find up to half of the employes I undergraded. A few jobs hadn’t j been reviewed since job grading j began in the 19205.” j The total annual cost, Mr. 1 Lowe estimated, may run as high as $500,000 to the District gov ; ernment for reallocations since \ 1952, But, he insisted. “I can’t see my way clear to tell them : to stop because equal pay for I (Continued on Page A-4, Col. 5.) Early House Hearing Sought on Move for Talk on Court Needs Rules Committee Head Agrees to Inquiry on Chief Justice Address By Miriam Ottenbcrg Representative Reed, Repub lican. of Illinois, said last night he will ask the House Rules Committee tomorrow for early hearings on proposals for an address to a joint session of Congress by the Chief Justice of the United States. Chairman Smith of the Rules Committee said, meanwhile, that if Mr. Reed wants hearings, they will be held soon. The Virginia legislator said he hadn’t gone into the question and would withhold an opinion until he had “heard the evidence.” Mr. Reed is the author of one of two solutions introduced on the House side for an address by the Chief Justice. His would provide only for addresses at the two regular sessions of the 84th Congress. The other House resolution, introduced by Representative Keating, Republican, of New York, would provide for periodic addresses on a permanent basis. Referring to an all-day hear ing held Friday by a Senate Judiciary subcommittee, Mr. j Reed said that “as long as the j Senate has taken the initiative, 1 we ought to be prepared.” That, he said, is why he will request early hearings. The resolutions Introduced on the Senate side one co-spon sored by Chairman Kilgore of the Senate Judiciary Committee and Senator Wiley of Wiscon sin, ranking Republican on the committee, and the other by Senator Butler, Republican, of Maryland—were referred to the Senate Judiciary Committee. The resolutions introduced in i the House were referred to the House Rules Committee. Mr. Reed is ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, (See COURTS, Page A-4.) j Peiping Shifts Envoys TOKYO, Sunday Feb. 6 UP). — Peiping Radio said last night that Red China’s new ambassa dor to the Soviet Union, Liu Hsiao, has arrived in Moscow to succeed Chang Wen-tein. The broadcast said Mr. Chang will be come deputy Foreign minister under Chou En-lai. Full Integration Os Montgomery Schools Urged Advisory Unit Backs Ending Segregation In Single Step The Montgomery County Ad visory Committee on Integration has drafted a report recommend ing that pupils be sent to schools nearest their homes, regardless of race, The Star learned yes terday. The report, as now drafted by a majority of the committee, urges a complete integration pro gram from the start, with no period of gradualism. The 19-member committee, created by the county Board of Education at the urging of the Maryland Department of Educa tion, plans to turn over its re port to the county School Board soon. 23 Counties Study Integration. All 23 counties of Maryland have been making studies of methods of complying with the Supreme Court decision which outlaws segregation in schools. Baltimore City integrated its school pupils starting last Sep tember, but the counties awaited implementing rulings by the Su preme Court. Thus the Montgomery County report is likely to be the first re port of its type in the State. It will set a precedent which will be scrutinized by school officials and boards in other counties. The report, as now written, makes these main points; When integration is put into effect, possibly next September, "pupils should be sent to the school nearest their holies.” Teachers, bus drivers and other school system employes should be integrated at the same time as the pupils. The integration program should be uniform throughout the county. No “up-county” or "down-county” policies should be adopted. 6Ci of Pupils Are Colored. In future improvement of schools, no consideration should be given to their “former” use. The report, estimates that about six per cent of the county'* 47,000 pupils are colored. Two county groups recently called for an early report from the advisory committee. They were the Montgomery County Parent - Teacher Association Council and the county chapter of the American Veterans Com mittee. The report indirectly answers their criticism by reviewing the history of the advisory group and claiming that a thorough ex ploration of the integration problem in the county could not have been accomplished in a shorter time. Furthermore, the report point* out that the secrecy pledge which members imposed upon themselves during the study period erroneously gave rise to the impression that no progress was being made toward prepara tion of recommendations. Minority Report Expected. Members refused to make in dividual statements to the press. They declined invitations to speak at any public gathering on the subject of integration, the report says. The report was scheduled to be turned over to the Board of Education following the last meeting of the advisory group, but was delayed at the insist ence of some members who op posed the all-out tenor of the policy statement. A minority report likely will be prepared and given to the Board of Education at the same time as the majority report. , The dissident members will urge a slower transition to com plete integration and will criti cize the appointment of five col ored members to the 19-member committee, it was learned. Jet Pilot Killed SAN ANTONIO. Tex., Feb. 5 (JP). —Second Lt. Julian R. Sheets, 21, Kelly Air Force Base pilot of a T-33 jet trainer, crashed to his death in an isolated field 12 miles west of San Antonio today. Lt. Sheets, whose home was in Indianapolis,'was returning from Kirtland Base, near Albuquerque, N. Mex. Cheaper by Dozen — Also More Confusing PARENTS OF TWELVE-Toke • peek with Stor Staff Wrifer Jock Jonos info she Munley home where the latest family addition has jusf arrived. Turn to Poge A-8. COEXISTENCE?—Former President Hoover proposes four tests to de termine whether Russia is sineer* in wonting peace. See Poge 7 of This Week Mogoiin* in The Star today. THE NATION’S FORESTS-Th.s it the 50th year of the United State* Forest Service ond today’s forest ranger has more than a spade, a horse and a strong bock to help him fight fires. The progress of the service is described on Poge A-19. Complete Index Page A-2 Radio-TV Programs, Pages