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THf WIATHtR: “iT Sunny, rather windy and warmer today. Fair tonight, low 30. Mostly sunny and little change in temperature tomorrow. Temperatures Today Midnight 21 6 am.... 18 10 a.m....3> 2 am--. 20 8 am.... 20 ll am..—35 4 107th Year. No. 52. Phono ST. 3-5000 ** WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1959-32 PAGES Home Delivered: & 'AZ, SJB 5 CENTS Gun Factory Assured Work For 18 Months Navy Is Channeling S2O Million More Into Installation Bjr JOHN A. GILES Star Staff Writer , The Navy has promised to channel upward of S2O million in additional work into the Naval Gun Factory in the next year to keep it in business. The action, following stories in The Star calling attentiob to doubt over the future of Washington’s largest industrial plant, means that the present work force of some 5,800 per sons is assured employment for more than 18 months. If the factory satisfactorily completes the new work, key personnel have been told that can "look ahead to 1962" at least. Present work at the factory approximates SSO million an nually. The additional alloca tions of work are designed to bring the facility nearer to full capacity operations. Many Shops Idle Most of the money will be used to get the idle shops hum ming again. A far lesser portion of the first allocation will be used for engineering. The factory is expected to receive official release of the funds within the next week. Additional work to be allo cated the plant was outlined to top personnel at a special meeting. The work involves guidance systems for missiles and fire-control devices which are necessary for such opera tions. Several of the projects are highly classified. Factory personnel, along with business leaders and AFL CIO executives, have been con cerned with the future ot the 158-year-old installation which has a $36 million payroll. A House subcommittee went into the ouestion of lack of util ization of such facilities while the military spends billions duplicating them for private op erations. It was during those hearings that Representative Lankford. Democrat of Mary land, sharply questioned Assis tant Navy Secretary Fred A Bantz ’in detail as to the fac tory’s untilizatlon. The Secretary called the plant a "job shop” which he said was uneconomical. Practically Abandoned The hearings resulted from earlier disclosures in The Star of the practical abandonment of Indian Head (Md.) Naval Powder Factory which is now called the Naval Propellant Plant as the result. Indian Head has lust been awarded an additional $8 mil lion and upwards of 500 work ers have been rehired. A “Friends of the Naval Gun Factory” committee was formed by representatives of business, civic and labor organizations. The committee sought an ap pointment with Navy Secretary Gates in order to ask permis sion to make an independent survey of the Gun Factory. Russell M. Stephens, president of the American Federation of Technical Engineers and co chairman of the committee es timated the study would cost $30,000. The committee yesterday re ceived a reply from Mr. Bantz advising it could contact his aide for an appointment with him. Only a year ago the Navy Issued an order closing the Gun Factory. It later was rescinded. The Washington Board of Trade was told last July to ex pect a cutback in personnel to 5,100. It has been estimated that the present assigned work load would keep the factory operating for only 18 months. Rear Admiral T. V. Ahroon, assistant chief of the Bureau of Ordnance, told the special meeting of some 100 factory employes Thursday, that the new assignment would be “phased in” gradually over the next several months. FOR YOUR DREAM HOUSE SHOP THE STAR HOME and REAL ESTATE SECTION TODAY Today and every Saturday shop The Star for a wide variety of best real estate offerings by leading build ers.and brokers throughout the Washington area. For the home of your dreams, in the right loca tion, at a price you can afford to pay. SHOP THE STAR FIRST IEFORE YOU (UY (She Ibeniitn §taf y J V y WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION \^S AFL-CIO Leaders Balk At Hutcheson Action Council Seen Taking Calculated Risk In Failure to Crack Down on Him By LEE M. COHN Star Staff Writer SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Feb. 21.—AFL-CIO leaders are betting that labor’s political power can turn back the tide of repressive legislation expected to flow from the evasion of firm action against Maurice A. Hutcheson, president of the Carpenters Union. The labor federation’s Executive Council calculated the risk and then took a chance yesterday when it let Mr. Hutcheson get away with refusal to defend himself in person. The council received his letter denying wrong-doing, and again invited him to attend its next meeting. Backs Kennedy Bill Council members recognize that labor’s critics—like Sen ator Goldwater, Republican of Arizona, and Senator McClel lan. Democrat of Arkansas— will use this reluctance to discipline Mr. Hutcheson as an argument for tough union re form legislation. The con tention will be that labor needs Government prodding to clean up racketeering. But the council has enough confidence in labor’s congres sional strength to count on de feat of legislation that would put unions under strict Federal regulation. Political strategists note that the contingent of labor-backed members of Con gress increased greatly in the last election. The AFL-CIO backs a mod erate union reform bill spon- Jukebox Probe Hears Os Counterfeit Discs By the Associated Presa The Senate Rackets Commit tee today widened its investi gation of an alleged Chicago gangland plot involving cut rate counterfeit phonograph records. Chairman McClellan ordered men accused of the conspiracy brought in for questioning when the hearings resume Tuesday The story of the counterfeit ing bobbed up yesterday in tes timony that a combine of mob sters and corrupt labor union officials has run a SIOO,OOO a year shakedown racket against Chicago Jukebox operators, us ing terrorists to enforce de mands. His Business Ruined The committee has charged that jukebox racketeering in Chicago and New York is part of a Nation-wide conspir acy by underworld figures and some top labor union officials to dominate the coin machine industry. Ted Sipiora, charging that gangster - backed competition has ruined his Chicago record wholesaling business, swore that counterfeit records be Five Children, One 3 Weeks Old, Killed by Fire CRISFIELD, Md., Feb 21 (AP>.—Five children, including a three-week-old baby, were burned to death when fire leveled their home and two ad joining houses in this Chesa peake Bay waterfront town early today. The flames spread rapidly and the mother of the chil dren, Mrs. Lucy Miles, was unable to rescue any of the youngsters. The father, Charles Miles, was away. The Crisfield Fire Depart ment identified the dead as Mary Lucille Miles. 10; Diana Cullen Miles. 8; Charles Alonzo Miles 4: Ralph Gregory Miles. 2, and Orville Antonio Miles, the baby. Mrs. Miles received a minor cut on an arm when she leaped from an upstairs window. Firemen said the house was [completely engulfed in flames by the time they arrived. Cause of the fire was not determined immediately. 3 Robbers Seize S2OO, Liquor at Bargain House Three men held up the Bar gain House liquor store at 1313 Thirteenth street N.W. and es caped with about S2OO about 11 o’clock today, police said. Charles Shoock. 55. co-owner of the store who lives at 2222 Westview drive. Silver Spriag. Md„ told robbery squad de tectives one of the men held what appeared to be a toy plastic gun Sergts. Walter J. Connolly and James D. Kennedy reported that two of the men stepped behind the counter after order ing a fifth of whisky. After demanding that Mr. Shoock open the cash register, one of them scooped out the cash and the other grabbed the fifth and three more pints, they said. The men ran south on Thir teenth street. Police broadcast a description for three colored men of slight build. sored by Senator Kennedy. I Democrat of Massachusetts. At least until now, this measure has been conceded a much bet i ter chance for enactment than harsher proposals. Union leaders risked congres sional ire to prevent possibly , more serious repercussions in -1 side the federation. The Car -1 penters Union last fall gave Mr. Hutcheson the right to pull out of the AFL-CIO. If the 850,- 000-member Carpenters Union 1 walked out, other craft unions 1 probably would follow—perhaps joining a rival federation with ' the Teamsters Union at the , core. Could Act Later 1 Yesterday’s delaying action by ' the council, meeting in the J Caribe Hilton Hotel here, left room for correcting any mis calculation. If labor suffers in , Congress because of the Hutch eson case, the council could ’ crack down on him at the next session in May. The council set no deadline See LABOR, Page A-2 came part and parcel of these manipulations. He said this involved the making of low cost reproduc tions of recordings, and plac ing on them counterfeit labels to stamp them as the product of reputable recording firms. He said the counterfeiting was done in Cincinnati, Ohio, but that when one of those involved was caught the man was merely fined SSO in a Cook County (Chicago* court. Senator McClellan said an Ohio man whom he declined to name will be among the witnesses next week. The Sen ator said he hoped to wind up the Chicago phase of the in quiry with hearings Tuesday and Wednesday, then recess the hearings for 10 days or two weeks. Committee investigator Ar thur Kaplan placed the SIOO,- 000 cost tag on the Chicago jukebox racket. He testified this was the price jukebox operators were required to pay for labor peace, and for gang sters’ permission to have their machines undisturbed in tav erns, restaurants and other j locations. Threats. Pressures Used The committee also heard testimony that implied shooting threats and other pressures were used to try to force wide | use of singer Tommy Leonetti’s records in Chicago area juke ! boxes. Robert F. Kennedy, commit tee counsel, said young Leonetti acknowledged in an interview i that “this may have been going on—by underworld figures.” but 'that the singer said he didn’t know it at the time. Mr. Sipiora testified that about six or seven years ago, when Mr. Leonetti was “jusi coming up” in the singing world, he was visited by a John Ambrosia. He said he knew Mr. Ambrosia as Mr. Leonetti’s manager. Mr. Sipiora said that on an earlier occasion he had told both Mr. Leonetti and Mr. Am brosia he didn’t think Mr. Leo- See RACKETS, Page A-3 'Great Satellite Scare' Puts Britain in Swivet LONDON, Feb. 21 (API.— Britain was thoroughly per turbed today about “The Great Satellite Scare"—on TV. Questions are going to be asked in the House ol Com mons about the television pro gram last night which panicked many viewers. Investigations have begun into the program, which opened with a scene in which an un identified satellite hung over London. At that point a "news caster” said the Prime Minis ter and his cabinet would evac uate the capital. That shock opening-remin iscent of Orson Welles radio show in the United States in 1938 —sent many in this si aid old place into a flap Hundreds of telephone calls loaded switchboards at the BBC com mercial television office, news papers offices, Scotland Yard and district police offices Some • viewers said they fainted from fear. But many people were angry. Members of Parliament whose constitu ents were up in arms got doz ens of calls and demands for [action. U. S.-Mexico Ties Cemented By Presidents Eisenhower Back In D. C.; Cold Bars Georgia Stopover By the Aeeoctated Frees President Elsenhower re turned to freezing Washington, at 8:19 a.m. today after a two-day good neighbor visit with President Adolfo Lopez Mateos of Mexico in sunny Acapulco, Mexico. Mr. Eisenhower had hoped to stop off at Augusta, Ga., first for a week end of golf. But, after apparently receiv ing reports in mid-air that the Georgia weather was too cold, windy and wet for golf, he had his personal plane, Columbine HI, head for Wash ington. In 20-degree weather, he stepped down the ramp at the MATS Terminal and was greeted by Acting Secretary of State Herter. Mr Eisenhower wore a brown overcoat but no muffler. His face was ruddy in the cold morning air. Dam to Be Built His friendship visit with President Lopez Mateos was climaxed by an agreement that a SIOO million dam should be jointly built on the Rio Grande. The project—known as the Diablo Dam—has been in the talking stage for 10 years. Now Congress must appropriate funds and Mexico must figure out how to finance its share. The over-all impression of Mr. Eisenhower’s two-day good will visit was that relations be tween the two countries had been cemented as never before. A communique issued last night after five hours of talks between the two chief execu tives “reconfirmed that rela tions between Mexico and the United States are excellent and are characterized by a spirit of good neighborliness, mutual understanding and respect.” The communique said “The Acapulco meeting was a meet ing between friends. The two Presidents understood and ap preciated each other from the ! beginning. They are deter j mined to continue to collabo rate on matters of mutual con , cern through their governments and through international or ganizations.” Crowds Line Streets During their talks the Presi i dents ranged over a number of 1 issues affecting the two nations. : But both United States and Mexican observers felt the visit 1 has done much to do away with old resentments. Mr. Eisenhower set the key note for his talks with the Mexican President on his ar rival at Acapulco Airport Thursday morning when he told Mr Lopez Mateos: “We are ready to meet you half way —more than half way.” ! The thousands of Mexicans who turned out to welcome Mr. See EISENHOWER, Page A-3 i ; Doom Still Hangs Over Herbriggen HERBRIGGEN, Switzerland. Feb. 21 iAP).—The village of, Herbriggen has passed another day waiting for its doom under a million tons of rock and ice. The theratening slide on a steep slope high above the vil lage remained frozen. It did not seem to move any closer toward the edge of the precipice over the deserted village. Everyone hereabouts agreed it is just a matter of time before warmer temperatures bring the mass roaring down. Many of the MPs who say they will discuss the scare in Parliament are members of the Socialist Party, which stoutly opposed forming the commer cial Independent Television Au thority, ITA, in 1955. The pro gram was over the ITA and not the state-controlled BBC. ITA began trying to head off ; trouble. Apologies were sent out by the network and by the company which produced the offending play. “Before the Sun Goes Down.” The episode was called “a bad blunder” by an ITA spokesman. It was adver tised as a play. •'The dangers of this opening to the play were seen well in advance, and discussions took place, designed to make it quite certain that no viewer could possibly be in any doubt that it was Action and not reality,” ITA said. “Somewhere down the line there was a complete failure of communication with the result that the presentation fell Into the very trap the discussions were expressly meant to avoid.” Macmillan Welcomed Cordially to Moscow V jf * ■ .. A: M ,' .'/■ - Jr > JUr Jm 4 lIIS&wMPHF • I HIGH SPOT OF TITO'S VISIT Yugoslavia’s President Tito sits in approved camel-riding style during visit to Sudanese tribes at El Obeid, Sudan. A Hagana policeman leads the camel.—AP Wirephoto. Dulles Visited By Eisenhower Feels Well After X-Ray Treatment President Eisenhower visited | Secretary of State Dulles at ; Walter Reed Hospital again to day. It was Mr. Eisenhower’s third visit since Mr. Dulles was hos pitalized more than a week ago Hopes that Mr. Dulles will be! able to take part in foreign ! policymaking from his hospital bed grew, meanwhile, with re-! I ports his first radiation treat ments for abdominal cancer produced no serious ill effects. He received his first one minute X-ray treatment at 10:30 am. yesterday. The radiation therapy makes some patients extremely ill. Talk for Ten Minutes But by 5 p.m. yesterday Sec retary Dulles was on the phone calling Acting Secretary of State Christian Herter. | The Secretary wanted a “fill in,” State Department Press Officer Lincoln White told re porters later, on "a few matters in which the Secretary was . interested.” So far, Mr. Dulles' hand in the field of foreign affairs has been at his own initiative. 1 State Department officials want him to get as much rest as possible. Operated on Week Ago Secretary Dulles underwent an operation for hernia a week ago yesterday. Doctors then discovered a recurrence of the glandular cancer with ] which he was stricken in I November, 1956. ! The Secretary has spent the j last week recuperating from the hernia operation. The first radiation treatment for cancer was administered yesterday morning. They will be repeated daily except Sunday and will con tinue "for three to four weeks,” doctors said. So far as can be determined, the cancer has not spread beyond the abdomen, according to the doctors. STOCKS IN THE SPOTLIGHT NEW YORK <AP) —Following are the sales 'add 001, high. low. closing price and net change of the CO most active stocks for the week: Sales High Low Close Chg StdOtl NJ 3492 52V* SOts 52 >■« unc Am Mot 345* 34 V* lit ** .Juts—3S, Pru Trail '1136 23V* 33 V»— V ’enn Tex 2030 8»« 7V* BV* * V 3>ews Inc 2017 23V« 21 23 , /« + 2'«i Am Ca*R 1802 IOV4 »V. 10*4 -r I*4 ItudePk 1677 14N 12T* 13'.— Vs Ravomer 1598 24*» 20 V. 24tt *-4S Gen Mot 1492 48*. 45 V. 48*. * 2*. Avco Mfg 148!* 12*s 12 12V** S Alum Ltd 1402 30V* 29V* 30 +1 Mohasln 1226 17V* IS*. 17V** IS i Hupn Cp 116 6*4 5*2 8 + s Gen TAR 1155 58V* 51S 58V*+ 5S Textron 1152 23 22'. 23 4. S Rov Dutch 1151 45S 43V. 4!S_ a* Curtiss W 1088 :13V. 29V* 33V* + 3** Chrysler 1036 56V, 53»* 56** *3 1 Vulcan M 1034 I9'i 17V* 19V*+ 2 | ContC&S 1019 15V* 13V* 15V* + 2V» Danish Ex-Diplomat Gets 8 Years as Spy Blechingberg, Who Served Here, Gave Secrets to Polish Agent COPENHAGEN, Feb. 21 (AP).—Former top Danish diplo mat Einar Blechingberg today was sentenced to eight years in prison for spying on behalf of Polish intelligence in the first major espionage trial in Denmark’s history. Blechingberg, 63, admitted in court he had surrendered 11 documents from the files of the Danish Embassy in Bonn, West Germany, to a German-, ; speaking Polish agent he knew | only as “Baumgarten.” Danish security agents were sent to Bonn last May to ! question Blechingberg, then No. 3 man in the Danish Embassy there, after the embassy re ported state papers were missing. Following an investigation, Blechingberg was arrested and brought back to Copenhagen. Blechingberg was Danish legation counselor in Wash ington in 1940 and 1941. He was a top man in Denmark’s postwar trade negotiations with the Soviet Union and other Communist bloc coun tries He had also served in Po land, Iran, Switzerland and 'Mexico. The maximum sentence Blechingberg could have re iceived was 16 years in prison. Blechingberg said he had acted in desperation and panic after Baumgarten had threat ened for a year to create a scandal for the Danish ex ! diplomat's family. I i Space-Age Army Chow Is Out of This World By MICHAEL MOK t Star Staff Writer Want to know what's for chow in tomorrow’s Army? Instant pork chops, liquid chicken and a steak you can squirt like toothpaste, that’s what. These and other mess nail joys- -such as a combination corned beet and chicken din ner a iet pilot can drink through his face mask—teased '■ the palates and imaginations of the New York Quartermaster Association last night as its | members listened to Maj Gen Andrew T. McNamara of the Pentagon. Quartermaster Gen. McNa mara. who is in charge of feed ing. clothing and equipping the armed forces, also hinted that Gls of the future might not have to pull KP—at least not while they are on the front lines. A quick call to the Pentagon confirms this startling news The Army has developed a throw-away mess kit which doesn't have to be washed. And a highly placed spokes man also confirmed the exist ence of instant pork chops and ’ The former diplomat said he had borrowed almost sl,oo*. ! i from a Polish official while he 1 was in Warsaw and this was • held over his head. ’ The government prosecutor • said some of the documents ' were related to plans tor a joint Danish-German naval , command in the Baltic Sea and I to last year’s North Atlantic . Treaty Organization council meeting in Copenhagen wmch opened a few days after Blech i ingberg turned the documents : over to Baungarten. The Danish Foreign Ministry said that 4 of the 11 documents were classified but only 2 were considered potentiality danger ous to Denmark. Reuther Trip Set BERLIN. Feb. 21 (AP).—West Berlin's trade unions said today American labor leader Waltei P Reuthcr. AFL-CIO vice presi dent will participate in West Berlin’s May Day celebration i this year. the other foods the general de scribed. “Those instant pork chops are sort of dry, light and brittle ! until you soak them in water, and then they reconstitute themselves and taste just like the real thing,’’ the Pentagon man said. “The liquid chicken and corned beef end chicken mix ture will be put up in aluminum soueeze tubes, like toothpaste, so a jet pilot can drink them | through a tiny hole in his oxy- I gen mask without worrying about gravity flow,’’ the spokes man said. He refused to say if the i liquid beef or “squeeze-a-steak“ would taste like the liquid beef ;the Army has been serving on toast for years, but he did have the latest word on Gen McNamara’s throw-away mess gear, officially described as part ol “a veritable flood of logistical marvels. ’ The plates will be made ol stiff, coated, compartmentalized paper," the quartermaster man whispered. “You mean just like the paper plates kids take on Sun day school picnics?” he was |asked “Yes,” he replied. I REAL ESTATE SECTION Pages B-l to B-6 Khrushchev Greets Him At Airport MOSCOW. Feb. 21 (AP).— British Prime Minister Mac millan flew Into Moscow today with • smile, a gentle dig at his host and a fur hat that wowed the Russians. Premier Khrushchev wel comed him to the Soviet Un ion with a speech full of friendly sentiment and ex pressing hope for “a useful exchange of views.’’, Mr. Macmillan and his For eign Minister, Selwyn Lloyd, got a red carpet reception upon their arrival for talks they hope will ease world tensions. “I do not come to negotiate on particular subjects,” Mr. Macmillan said. “I do hope, however, that in our talks to gether we shall at least reach a better understanding of our points of view. “Perhaps in this way our visit may help to alleviate some of the cares that at present bring anxiety to the world.” He recalled that his previous visit to Russia was 30 years ago as an ordinary tourist. “I think.” he added “that I will see as many changes in the Soviet Union as there have been in England since the picture painted by Dickens." Sly Reference to Novels This was a slyly Inserted ref erence to the wide sale in the Soviet Union of novels by Charles Dickens which criticized social conditions in England in the last century. It was Mr. Mbcmillan’s way of pointing out no Russian should think Dick en’s stories reflect present day English life. At one point in his Vnukovo Airport reception Prime Min ister Macmillan walked over to Soviet spectators standing si lently in a roped off inelosure, and greeted them. They burst into applause. Off came Mr. Macmillan’s light gray fur hat In response. The crowd loved the hat. Ap plause turned into laughter. Mr. Macmillan grinned with pleasure and put his hat back on. Warns of “Muddle” Mr. Macmillan spoke at a Kremlin dinner and called on the Soviet Union and other great powers to avoid policies that might lead to war “by mis calculation or muddle.” The speech was released for publi cation in London. “In the state of tension of the so-called cold war which has existed now for over 10 years with only short or inter mittent thaws, the two blocs have been confronting each other with ever more terrible weapons of destruction,” he said. “I wish with all my heart See MACMILLAN, Page A-3 Physician Gives Gen. Marshall 50-50 Chance FORT BRAGG, N. C , Feb. 21 |( AP ). —Doctors reported a “better than even” chance to day that Gen. George C. Mar shall will survive the two strokes and pneumonia he has suffered in the last two months. “Unless he has another stroke, he has a better than 50-50 "chance of getting through this,” Col. Qeorge M. Powell, Army physician said. “Before, I didn’t feel that way.” The 78 - year -old general spent a restful night. “Each day like this naturally I am more satisfied with his con dition ” Col. Powell said. But the doctor warned that Gen. Marshall’s condition re mains serious. I - ■ i GIDEON BIBLES FOR TRAVELERS INSPIRATION from the Bible hoj been provided for countless thou sonos. The story of the Gideons it on Page A-9. "GROUND ZERO" is o ploy that grew without a script. An ac count of this unique production by a church group is on Page A-6. CHARACTERS everywhere about you con provide subjects for comic cortoons. A successful cartoonist tells you how to find them, on Page A-10. Guide for Readers Amusements 8-7 Music 8 8 Churches . A-6-9 Obituary .. B 16 Classified B-S-15 Real Estota 1-1-6 Comics A-H-15 Society ... All Crossword - A-14 Sports . A-12 13 Editorial A-4 TV-Rodio A 10 Hove The Star Delivered to Your Home Doily and Sundoy Dial STerling 3-5000