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Search Pushed
For Kidnaper of
District Woman
Suspect Vanishes
In Woods, Escapes
Shots Near Lorton
A state police manhunt was
being pressed near Lorton, Va.,
today for a blond young man
who reportedly was talked out of
assault and robbery after kidnap
ing a Washington woman and
forcing her escort out of a car.
The young woman, who be
lieved her assailant was carrying
a .45-caliber pistol, said she per
suaded him to leave her alone
after he carried her into the
woods and tried to molest her.
She said she even got him to
give back her escort’s wallet.
The kidnaper, who had been
drinking, finally broke down in
tears, she told police.
The woman is Miss Lois
Richoux, 23, of 3410 Oakwood;
terrace N.W. Her escort was
Fritz H. Wolf, 26. of 5912 Four-|
teenth street N.W.
Bloodhounds Put On Trail
They said the kidnaping began
as a kind-hearted attempt to help
a serviceman. It ended in a police
dragnet, with bloodhounds, near
Lorton Reformatory, after a re
formatory official fired two shots
over the head of a suspect.
Police were looking for a man
of 24, five feet five inches tall,
weighing about 140 pounds, with
long blond hair. Miss Richoux
said be had a tattoo on his left
arm. When he vanished into
the Lorton woods he was wearmg
a light-colored suit coat, a white
shirt without a tie and was bare
headed, she said.
Asked Ride to Bridge
Virginia State troopers said the
report went like this:
Miss Richoux and Mr. Wolf
were sitting in his car in front
of her home about 9 p.m. last
night.
The man came up to them,
showed what appeared to be an
armed services identification
card. He said he had to get back
to the Quantico Marine Base, but
had no transportation.
He asked the couple if they
would drive him “across the ,
Fourteenth Street Bridge.’’
They agreed and drove him .
almost to the reformatory before ;
he announced he had a pistol ‘
and told Mr. Wolf to stop the car. '
Police said Mr. Wolf told them
he “saw something that looked’,
like a gun.’’ Miss Richoux told i
them she had not seen a weapon.
Tries to Hide Key *
The stranger forced Mr. Wolf
out of the car. Mr. Wolf took
the key out of the ignition as
he stepped out. Police said Mr. !
Wolf told them the car started 1
to roll away, and he believed the
kidnaper had crossed the igni- !
tion wires, making the key un- 1
necessary. I
Mr. Wolf went back up the !
road to a house, from which he 1
called police.
Meanwhile, police said, the
car drifted down hill about 500 1
yards, then rolled into a ditch
about 50 yards from the house I
of W. T. Berrett.
The kidnaper carried her from 1
the car into the woods. Miss
Richoux told police, and at- ■
tempted to assault her. She l
“begged and pleaded,’’ police 1
said, and told him "she'd die
before she’d submit to him.” 1
Captor Starts to Cry j
He finally broke down and
began to cry, she said, then re
turned with her to the road.
He said, “I’ll get you if you <
tell the police.” l
Miss Richoux said she asked r
her captor to return the wallet,
which he had taken from Mr.
Wolf. He did so, with the money r
intact.
He then tried to hitchhike a c
ride. When a car slowed by them.
Miss Richoux screamed, and her ,
abductor fled into the woods.
“She came running to my
front door,” Mr. Berrett told l
The Star. “She was hysterical. '
I gave her a glass of water and
tried to calm her down. It was ,
10 minutes before she got so she I
could talk. When she told me
the story, I called police.”
State troopers, who by that
time had Mr. Wolf in their
station telling his side of the 1
story, came to the Berrett’s house 1
for Miss Richoux. 1
Police were dispatched to the 1
area to hunt the man. 1
_ , i
Arouses Reformatory Worker
At 10:30 p.m., they stopped at ,
the house of Capt. Hoke Smith ]
Hinson, chief training officer at
Lorton. He lives on the re- 1
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Green, Fugitive
5 Years, Gives Up
NEW YORK, Feb. 27 OP)._ 1
Gilbert Green, convicted Com
munist and a fugitive for five i
years, arrived at the Federal '
Courthouse today to surrender '
to the United States attorney. M
Convicted along with 10 other!*
Red leaders in 1949 on charges'!
of conspiracy to teach ann ad
vocate violent overthrow of the (
Government, he failed to appear 1
for sentencing on July 2, 1951. ,;i
Green last week notified the t
press that he would surrender ]
today. ,
His wife, Lillian, and three
children were at the courthouse i
entrance as the 49-year-old )
Green stepped from a taxi. They <
held a tearful reunion as a i
crowd of aoout 600 rersons l
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MARCIONETTE GOES ON TRlAL—Edward V. Mar
cionette smiles for photographers as he is led to the
Prince Georges Circuit Court for the opening of his
murder trial today. Behind him is Deputy Sheriff
C. R. Smith.—Star Staff Photo.
Jury Is Selected to Try
Marcionette in Slaying
Youth Accused of Stabbing Student
After Chase of His Stolen Auto
Edward V. Marcionette’s murder trial recessed for lunch
todsy when both sides agreed on four women and eight men
jurors.
Opening arguments were scheduled this afternoon.
The 17-year-old reform school runaway stands charged
with murdering Richard E. Gibson, 20, last November 11.
Mr. Gibson, a Leetonla, Ohio, student at the University of.
Maryland, was stabbed to death
after an auto chase of his stolen
car.
Marcionette, RFD 2, Briggs
Chaney road, in the Fairland
section of Silver Spring, has
been declared medically sane
and able to stand trial.
Death Penalty Sought
Blair H. Smith, Prince Georges
County State’s attorney, has
said he will demand the death
penalty.
Marcionette wore a dark-blue
suit, white shirt and sober tie.
When he wasn’t whispering with
his lawyer, A. Owynn Bowie, he
stared fixedly at the courtroom
floor.
Circuit Judges Charles C.
Marbury and John Raymond
Fletcher are hearing the case.
The special trial panel of 38
prospective jurors was exhausted
after 10 were seated in the jury
box.
Bailiffs then went into the
courthouse corridors and brought
passers-by in the court. One
more juror was accepted.
Bailliffs canvassed the halls
again and again before prose
cution and defense agreed on
the final Juror.
Appears Confident
Marcionette was smiling con
fidently as he was led to the
courtroom. He chatted with
newspaper photographers with no
visible signs of anxiety.
“Send me a couple of prints
of that shot, will you?” he asked
i photographer for The Star after
one picture was taken.
The photographer asked the
deputy sheriff what his name
Court Test Due on Use
Os Telephone Recordings
Federal Judge David A. Pine i
today dismissed three perjury i
counts against Warren L. Ste- I
phenson, former local Republi- I
can leader, and thereby cleared <
the way for a court test on the 1
admission of telephone record
ings in perjury trials. i
Mr. Stephenson, who was ex- I
ecutive secretary of the Eisen- i
hower inaugural committee, was
indicted in 1953 on charges of i
testifying falsely before a House (
Armed Services Committee. i
At a hearing he denied having 1
talked to Robert Q. Parsons, an 1
official of the Century Engineer- 1
ing Co. of Burbank, Calif., which .
was seeking a rocket-launcher
contract with the Navy.
Judge Pine ruled in 1955 that
the Government could not Intro
duce in evidence a recording of
a telephone conversation in
which Mr. Stephenson allegedly
offered to help get the contract
for a 4 per cent fee.
The Government carried the
case to the U. S. Court of Appeals
for the District of Columbia, but
that court refused to grant a
hearing on grounds that Judge
Pine’s ruling in pre-trial was not
a final decision.
The Government then obtained
another Indictment and Mr. Ste
phenson’s attorney, Nicholas J.
Chase, again today moved to
suppress the evidence. Judge;
Pine did so.
4 Thereupon the Government l .
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i was so he could be Identified in
the picture. Marcionette pro
-5 ceeded to make the introduction.,
I Young Gibson was stabbed to
s death last November 11 in a
! wooded area near the intersec
tion of University lane and New
Hampshire avenue after an au
tomobile chase in which the rtn
-5 dent attempted to retrieve his:
■ stolen car.
1 Police said the vicitm heard
his car being started outside his
! apartment and gave chase in an
• other car. The driver of the
1 stolen auto later Jumped out when
! Mr. Gibson caught up with him
1 and ran through a field.
Mr. Gibson ran after the flee
• ing man, but returned to the
• highway shortly afterward, mor
tally wounded.
| Caught in Hotel Room
1 Marcionette was apprehended
' in a Washington hotel room
later that night. Police said he
' admitted to them that he had
t killed Mr. Gibson and said that
: he wanted to die for the crime.
After an apparent suicide at
-5 tempt in the Upper Marlboro
• Jail. Marcionette was sent to
1 Spring Grove Mental Hospital
for extensive mental tests. There
|he was found sane and able to
stand trial.
Montgomery County police rec
ords show that Marcionette has
> a record of house-breakings and
>|auto thefts. At the time of the
stabbing he was being sought as
s a fugitive from the Maryland
I Training School.
Prince Georges County States
Attorney Blair H. Smith said
: yesterday two days have been set!
: aside for the trial.
asked for dismissal of the m-;
dictment, so as to make the ac
tion final and to get a hearing!
before the Court of Appeals.!
Over defense objections. Judge;
Pine granted the motion.
Since final action Is based,
upon suppression of evidence,
the Government will ask the ap
pellate court to deal expressly ;
with the question of whether!
the law bars the use of a re-;
corded conversation in a perjury ;
trial, when there is no "beep”!
signal and when one party to
the conversation has no knowl-l
edge of it.
Joan Crawford’s Story
Begins in Star Today
Jealous, domineering and ruthless, but full of 1
beauty, personality, charm and excitement.
That's Joan Crawford, whose "intimate story” j
begins in the Women’s Section of The Star today.
In this first installment, Joan Crawford tells i
how she feels about marriage—“the greatest love i
affair of all”—and what she was looking for in her 1
four marriages.
Also Joan Crawford reveals what happens on .
movie sets, as she answers the questions: "Do
actresses fall in love with their leading men?” i
This glamorous star’s story will be found on 1
Page B-5.
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Gronchi Party
Arrives Here
For 3-Day Visit
Italian President
Greeted at’Airport
By Nixon and Dulles
By MARY McGRORY
6iovannl Gronchi, the first
Italian President to visit Amer- 1
lea, arrived in Washington today ,
for a state visit.
Military honors at the Military
Air Transport Service Terminal
were paid to the Christian Demo
crat chief of state, who arrived
|at 1:05 p.m. He was accompanied,
iby Mrs. Gronchi, Italian Foreign
'Minister Gaetano Martino and
Mrs. Martino and other staff;
members.
Vice President Nixon and Mrs.
Nixon greeted the Gronchis. as
did Secretary of State and Mrs.
Dulles and Ambassador to Italy!
Clare Boothe Luce. i
From the Alport the 67-year
old Italian President, who was
elected to a 7-year term last May
by the Parliament, was driven in
a motorcade to the District Build
ing, there to be welcomed and
presented the keys to the city.
D. C. Welcome Ready
The District was ready with
! its traditional welcome,
j In front of the District Build-
I ing on Pennsylvania avenue,
twin aerial ladders formed the
welcome arch, decorated in
Italy's tri-color of red, white and
green. The District Commis
sioners proclaimed today “Presi
dent Giovanni Gronchi and
Signora Gronchi Day.”
An hour delay on the arrival
time was met with swift aplomb
by the Government, which had,
in a February 21 memorandum!
i asked that as many Government
'employes as possible be per
mitted to greet the distinguished
| visitors.
When the estimated time of
arrival at the District Building
i was revised from 1 p.m. to 2 pjn.,
[ the Civil Service Commission
asked all department and agency
heads to "exercise a reasonable
degree of administrative liber
ality in permitting employes to
remain out "past their normal
j lunch period.
White House Guests
The President and the Foreign
i Minister and their wives were ex
pected at the White House at
2:15 to be greeted by President
and Mrs. Eisenhower. The
Gronchis will have the rest of
the day to themselves at Blair
House
The next three days will be
taken up with a round of official
visits and briefings.
On Tuesday morning Mr.
, Gronchi will place a wreath on
the Tomb of the Unlyiown Sol
dier at Arlington Cemetery. At
10:30, he will call again on Mr.
Eisenhower and at 1 p.m, the
Gronchis will lunch with the
Eisenhowers.
The party will visit the Na
tional Gallery of Art at 3:30 p.m.
At 8 p.m. the Gronchis will be
guests of honor of the Nixons :
at a state dinner at the Pan
American Union.
On Wednesday. President 1
Gronchi will be visited by AFL- 1
CIO President George Meany at.
Blair House. He will visit the Ll-'
brary of Congress and the 8u- ;
premc Court, and at 12:15 will ,
call on Mr. Nixon at the Capitol. ■
At 12:30 p.m., he will address j
a joint session of Congress, and ’
later will be the luncheon guest j
of Speaker of the House pro tern
McCormack of Massachusetts
and Minority Leader Martin of
Massachusetts at the Capitol. I
Guests at Embassy
The Gronchis will be guests
of hondr at a reception given by
Ambassador Manilio Brosio at
| the Italian Embassy at 5 p.m.
iThe same evening, they will be
guests of honor at a state din- .
Iner given by Secretary and Mrs.
! Duljes.
■ On Thursday President Cronchi ,
'will visit Mount Vernon andj
Georgetown University and be
guest of honor at a luncheon at,
!the National Press Club. In the!
afternoon, he will visit the Pent
agon for an Air Force briefing
Iby Gen. Nathan F. Twining. At
1 5 p.m., he and Mrs. Gronchi will |
|be guests at a reception to be
given by the Women’s National
jPress Club at the Mayflower.
They will entertain In honor ,
of the Nixons at the Italian Em
jbassy Thursday night.
President Gronchi will leave
Washington Friday for Norfolk,
where he will inspect military 1
and naval installations. On Sat
urday. the party will arrive in 1
Ottawa.
Lobby 'lnnuendoes'
t t ’
May Be Probe Target
BULLETINS
Eight Crewmen Killed
In Bomber Crash
DAYTON, Ohio, <JP).— At
least eight airmen died today
in the crash of a four-engine
B-50 superfort on a farm 10
miles south of Dayton. The
; big plane exploded and burned
after crashing into the ground
1 between a barn and the farm
; home of Mrs. O. C. Hender-
I son. The flames from the ex- 1
plosion ignited the barn and
house. Both burned. No one
was in the farmhouse or barn
; at the time.
School Quits Tourney
George Washington High
School today withdrew from
the Washington-Lee Invita- j
tionai basketball tournament.
Principal Edgar G. Pruet said
that the primary consideration
in the decision was the phy
sical condition of the' GW j
squad.
(Earlier Story on Page A-14) I
Eisenhower
To See Press
Wednesday
By GARNETT D. HORNER
White House Press Secretary
James C. Hagerty said today
President Elsenhower “In all
probability” will hold a news
conference Wednesday.
But Mr. Hagerty refused to
say whether the expected Eisen
hower announcement of his sec
ond term intentions may come
at that time, or when it will
come.
Mr. Hagerty, at the same time,
refused to say whether the Pres
ident already has told any one
in Washington his decision about;
running again.
"I am not going to discuss any
of these things—and that does
not mean cither yes or no," Mr. 1
Hagerty said.
Noncommittal on Subject
He told newsmen In Thomas
ville, Ga., last week, while the
President was vacationing there,
that Mr. Elsenhower had not re
layed word of his decision to
any one in the Capital.
But today Mr. Hagerty was
noncommittal on anything per
taining to the President's second
term intentions or the timing
of his announcement.
He replied. "I wouldn't know”
to such questions as whether the
announcement would come Wed
nesday or before then.
As to whether he knows Mr.
Eisenhower's intentions. Mr.
Hagerty said: “If I did know,
I wouldn't tell you.”
The press secretary also said
he cannot announce yet the time
of the probable Wednesday presi
dential news conference.
Decision Believed Reached
Mr. Eisenhower is generally
believed to have reached his de
cision about running again dur
ing his 10-day hunting and golf
ing vacation on Secretary of the
Treasury Humphrey’s South
Georgia plantation.
The way he looked and acted
there last week indicated he was
well satisfied with the physical
tests through which he had put
himself in an effort to make up
his own mind whether his dam
aged heart could stand the
strain of another term in the
White House.
He had a report from his doc
tors that he had completely re
covered from his September 24
heart attack and should be able
to lead an active life in the pres
idency another 5 to 10 years
; But he has made clear that his
decision would be based more on
1 his own feelings than on what
his doctors said. That decision
still is a closely guarded secret.
Moore Resolution
Dangerous Alone,
Almond Says
! RICHMOND. Feb. 27 (/P).—At
torney General J. Lindsay Al- 1
mond said today the Moore res
olution by itself “would prove to 1
be a ready and dangerous weap
on In the hands of the opposi
tion.” j;
The resolution, by Speaker E.'
Blackburn Moore, would declare
a State policy for continued i
school segregation In 1956-7. j'
The attorney general’s com- 1
ment was contained in a letter '
to Senators Armistead Boothe !
of Alexandria and Ted Dalton of 1
Radford who had asked Mr. Al
mond's views on the resolution '
and segregation bills of their ’
own. i
"I cannot conceive how this l
resolution of itself, unaccom-'
panled by appropriate and prior
substantive legislation enact- 1
ments, can be used as a defense 1
or bear any proper relation to 1
such defense," said Mr. Almond.
The resolution also would de- '
lay implementation of the Gray I
program for avoiding compul- <
sory integration in Virginia’s <
rblic schools. l
Related Story on Page B-2) I
No Radical U. S. Switch
Seen in Foreign Policy
Dulles Will Seek Long-Range Aid
To Counter New Soviet Maneuvers
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
Associated Pres* Stall Writer %
The Eisenhower administration has decided that no radical
revision of American foreign policy is needed to meet the new
Soviet political and economic offensive,
i President Eisenhower and Secretary of State Dulles are
determined to concentrate instead on getting from Congress'
one new cold war weapon—authority to make long-range.
foreign aid pledges. It is by no
means certain yet, however, that
they will make an all-out fight
I for this.
These basic administration de
cisions have been disclosed in
a series of statements by Mr.
Dulles, the latest being a speech
in Philadelphia yesterday. In
it he conceded the Soviets are
winning "considerable popular
prestige’’ in the free countries of
Asia and Africa with their new
line.
Speaking at the Philadelphia
Bulletin Forum. Mr. Dulles said
this country's basic policy is to
try to hasten the day when Rus
sia will be governed by “men who
put the welfare of the Russian
people above world conquest.”
Stress on Trade
He described the “new-look'
Russian policy as emphasizing
“political co-operation with left
r wing Socialists, whom they for
’ merly detested” and putting
l heavy stress on trade and eco
-5 nomic assistance for less de
veloped countries.
Part of the answer to the new
' Soviet threat, he said, is for Con
’Red Leaders Re-elected;
Molotov, Malenkov Stay
■
MOSCOW, Feb. 27 (&).—Then
Central Committee of the Soviet!
‘communist Party today re- 1
elected the 11 members of its,
ruling presidium. Nikita S. <
. Khrushchev was re-elected first
! secretary. j
Defense Minister Georgi K ,
’ Zhukov. World War H hero, be- *
came a candidate i alternate;
, member of the ruling body,
which was known in Stalin's day
1 as the Politburo. | l
Thus the so-called collective j
leadership of the Soviet Union ]
remained unchanged at the close ,
of the 20th Congress «of the So
viet Communist Party. As first'
secretary, Mr. Khrushchev re-1
mains boss of the party, a posi- (
tion he assumed in 1953 when
Georgi Malenkov relinquished j
the job. The first secretary te ii
in a position to control the vast
party apparatus. throughout the ,
country.
First Woman Elected <
The party elected six alter
nate members of the presidium. c
an Increase of four over the pre- c
vious party presidium. Among f
them was the first woman ever
to serve on the ruling party I
body. A party secretariat of eight 1
members, headed by Mr. Khru- 1
shchev, also was elected.
Foreign Minister V. M. Molo- s
tov and Mr. Malenkov, recently r
under fire by other Kremlin big- c
wigs, retained their places on e
the presidium. The selection of f
Marshal Zhukov as an alternate
Indicated the growing influence 1
of the army in Soviet affairs e
These are the presidium mem- •
bers:
Mr. Khrushchev, first secre- 1
tary of the party and a deputy in 1
the Supreme Soviet (Parlia- T
ment i. He has been the dom- 1
inant personality in the party
Czech Note on Balloons
Isn't Specific, U. S. Says
By JAMES E. ROPER j
Czechoslovakia has sent the '
United States a note charging
that an American balloon caused
a fatal aircraft accident in;
j Czechoslovakia, the State De- *
!partment announced today. ’
The State Department spokes- (
man Lincoln White said the ,
note failed to specify the type ,
of balloon causing the accident. ,
Mr. White told reporters there ; 5
are two types of balloons—
"weather balloons” launched by ,
the United States Government ]
and "propaganda balloons” .
launched by private individuals ‘
organizations.
The State Department did not ;
disclose details of the note. It :
was presumed, however, that it :
referred to an accident of Jan
uary 8, in which 22 persons are [
said to have been killed.
Prague broadcasts have blamed 1
this accident on American bal- ■
loons carrying propaganda leaf- I
lets.
Czechoslovakia and other So- 1
vlet satellites have been protest- l
ing against American balloons t
ever since Moscow started the: I
campaign by charging that the|l
Uwted States was using the bal Ac
ijr'-o to carry cameras to tal^c
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gress to grant authority asked
by the administration to commit
about SIOO million a year for
several years towards long range
economic development projects
in Soviet target countries.
He said also that the Govern- j
ment needs about SIOO million,
more In new money this year;
than it obtained last year to help
counter the Russian campaign.
In calling anew for greater;
leeway in foreign spending, Mr.
Dulles asserted that without this
long-range authority sought by
the Eisenhower administration
"We take a risk which is quite;
unjustified having regard to the
small cost of avoiding it."
Wide Debate Expected
What Mr. Dulles called the
“notable shifts” in Soviet policy,'
his estimate of their meaning
and the reaction of his Demo
cratic critics assure a wide open
political debate on foreign pol
icy this election year.
Mr. Dulles' assertion Friday
that Moscow has changed tactics
because its old programs “have
Continued on Page A-6, CoL 1
isince the fall of 1953, when he
took over its leadership, while
Mr. Malenkov still was Premier.
Nikolai A. Bulganin, who suc
ceeded Mr. Malenkov as Premier
early in 1955.
Lazar M. Kaganovich, a first
Deputy Premier, Supreme So
viet deputy and head of a wages
and hours commission for So
viet industry.
Confessed Failure
Mr. Malenkov, former Premier
until he confessed failure at the
job and now a deputy premier,
Minister of Electric Power Sta
tions and a Supreme Soviet Dep
uty. His ministry cam! under
fire at the recent party Con
gress.
A. I. Mikoyan. a first deputy
Premier, Supreme Soviet deputy
and foreign trade expert.
Mr. Molotov, first deputy pre
mier, foreign minister, supreme
Soviet deputy. He confessed to
an error In ideology recently.
Mikhail G. Pervukhin, first
deputy premier, supreme Soviet
deputy and Mr. Malenkov's boss
as a leading Soviet industrialist
Maxim Z. Saburov. first deputy
premier, chairman of the State!
Planning Commission and a su
preme Soviet deputy.
K. Y. Voroshilov, a Soviet mar-;
shal and comrade of Stalin who
now is chairman of the presidium
of the Supreme Soviet and. in
effect, president, but without
presidential power.
M. A Suslov. first named to
the presidium last July, former
editor of Pravda and long a Cen- '
tral Committee member.
A. I. Kirichenko, named to 1
the presidium with Mr. Suslov ;i
In July. He came up from the :
Ukraine party organization—once'
Mr. Khrushchev’s—where he was
See SOVIET, Tage A-6
pictures of Soviet territory for
intelligence purposes.
The United States position is
that these balloons are intended
to gather weather data and that
any pictures of ground installa
tion that result are incidental
The United States has promised
to refrain from loosing balloons
which might drift over Soviet
territory, but has not answered
the latest Russian note on the
subject.
On February 18, the Soviets
said it ’’acknowledges'’ the
American offer to curb the
balloons but at the same time
offered to send captured bal-;
loons and attached equipment
to Washington, New York. Lon-j
don and Paris as an exhibit to
demonstrate “that the real
motives for their flight was
aerial photography of Soviets
territory.” <
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Paint Feeds Flames j
MARINE - ON - ST. CROIX, |J
Minn., Feb. 27 (/P).—Flames fed (
by highly inflammable paint, oil
and other materials swept the |
Northwest Plastics Co. boat works
here last night. C. C. Dailey,
icompany president,
damage at about $250,000. ;
Initial Task
Suggested by
Johnson
Senate Democratic Leader
Johnson of Texas said today he
hopes the first task of the new
bi-partisan lobby investigating
committe will be to run down
“innuendoes" about lobbying on
ithe natural gas bill.
He said he hopes the commit
tee will start out by following
through on the suggestion of
'Senator George, Democrat ot
Georgia, that any Senators who
Ifeel they were “over-lobbied
bring in any evidence they have
that w ill stand'tip.”
! Senator George made the sug
gestion last week as chairman of
;the temporary committee investi
gating the $2,500 campaign con
tribution which was offered to
and rejected by Senator Case,
Republican of South Dakota, by
a lawyer with the Superior Oil
Co. of California while the na
tural gas bill was pending.
Hearings May End Tomorrow
The George committee expect*
;o complete hearings tomorrow on
•he Case incident. Senator John
son pointed out that only two
.other Senators—Lehman. Demo
crat of New York and Young, Re
publican of North Dakota—have
come forward with any com
plaints since the George invita
tion.
Senator Johnson also indicated
today that he has not ruled out
ithe possibility that new election
control laws could include some
provision for reporting expendi
tures in primaries as well elec
tions.
Meanwhile, there was the pros
pect that a new elections bill
which would permit individual
senatorial candidates and their
backers to spend from SIOO,OOO
up to a maximum of $1,910,000
in their campaigns may be in
troduced in the Senate this week.
Senator Johnson told reporter*
he has “every reason to believa
1 we will have complete and whole
• hearted co-operation" from mem
bers of both parties in support of
the new bill.
Wants Action This Session
“We are going to insist that
; action be taken In this session
of Congress on a complete realis
tic measure encouraging tha
fullest public participation and
the fullest public review of all
elections. ' Senator Johnson said.
“The unrealistic limitations in
present statutes will be changed.
I have no doubt that a new,
modern elections bill will be
passed by Congress which will
put all contributions under the
scrutinizing eye of public opinion.
And it will carry the machinery
for its enforcement.’
He said he has talked to in
fluential House members and be
lieves they will support a bill
similar to that he is working
i out in co-operation with Senator
Knowland of California, the Sen
ate Republican leader.
In its present form the bill
would raise the present elections
law limitation of SIO,OOO personal
expenditures by a senatorial
candidate to 30 cents per vote
cast in the last previous elec
tion, with a minimum ceiling of
SIOO,OOO.
Maximum in New York
In New York State the max
imum on the former basis would
be $1,910,000. That would cover
all committee expenditures in
behalf of the candidate as well
as those he personally author
ized. In States where the 30-
cent-a-vote ratio added up to
a smaller amount, SIOO,OOO still
ieould be spent.
House members would be per-
See LOBBY. Page A-6
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AS HAT TONES
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kncw-it-olls reveal that French bread
! tones and all beiges are winning the
favor of the ladies os far as hats are
concerned. Eleni, Star fashion editor,
sires up the millinery situation on
Pogc 6-5.
DITS LIKE DOTS—WiII Stockdole
gets a radio test but finds that
Morse code "don’t sound like any
thing but o lot ot dots ond dits."
Mac Hymon's hero of "No Time for
Sergeants” plows through another
Army adventure in the latest install
ment on The Star's Feature Page,
B 15.
BE NOT HYPOCRITES-The com
mander in chief of the VFW, Timothy
J. Murphy, finds some fast during
Lent to impress their fellowmen, not
win the favor of God. He cites
Lent os a time for ’true personal
sacrifice” in "A Thought tor Today”
on Pago B-l.
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