250,000 Hungry
East Berliners Get
American Food
BERLIN, LM—More than 100,000
hungry* Eagt Germans swarmed
into West Berlin to pick up free
Western food Tuesday in a mass
demonstration of Communism’s
failure, to feed its own people.
They began lining up at dawn.
The crowds grew by the hour. By
midafternoon it looked as if the
turnout would exceed the 120,000
fed Monday when the relief pro
gram, backed by a 15 million dol
lar United States donation, began.
The 2 - day total approached the
250,000 mark.
West Berlin police were on the
alert against any Communist plot
to disturb the big humanitarian
undertaking. One suspected spy
and seven distributors of Red
propaganda wrere arrested Mon
day.
They came by the tens of thou
sands from far out in the Soviet
Zone. Many obviously got up in
the middle of the night and made
long train rides wdiich cost them
more than the 5 marks ($1.19)
worth of food they were given.
They came, they said, because
they couldn’t buy the food in their
Communist-run home food stores
with any amount of money. It
simply wasn’t there.
WILLOW TRAPPER DIES
ANCHORAGE, uD —Roland B.
Russell, 67, died Monday four
months after being brought to An
chorage from his cabin in Willow,
70 miles from here, for treatment
of frostbite and starvation. He
had been an Alaskan resident
since 1928. He lived in Juneau
and moved,’to Willow in 1941. His
mother, Mrs. Mary Russell of Ta
coma, survives.
li Couldn'l Happen—Bui II Did
ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., Iff) —
Maybe the wrong people are in
jail.
A woman left her purse con
taining $40 in the city jail while
participating in religious services
for the prisoners.
The prisoners turned the purse
over to police officers—with the
$40 still in it.
MONDAY SCORES
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Cincinnati <NL) 16, Chicago
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Hollywood 3, Los Angeles 1
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Truman Seeks Less Tax
On $600,000 He Will Be
Paid for His Memoirs
NEW YORK, Judge Samuel
I. Rosenman said Tuesday dis
cussions are under way with the
Internal Revenue Bureau to per
mit former President Truman to'
ease the tax bite on the maga
zine sale of his memoirs to Time,
Inc.
Rosenman would not confirm
that Truman will get $600,OO0 for
the sale, but said a report that
the tax plan had been turned
down was “incorrect.” A spokes
man for the Revenue Service said
in Washington there had beerf no
ruling on the tax plan.
Rosenman said the Internal
Revenue Bureau suggested some
technical revisions in the plan
which is designed to- spread pay
ments—and taxes—on the mem
oirs over six years.
‘This is a routine thing, many
authors have done this,” said
Rosenman, former White House
aide, who is handling legal de
tails of the Truman memoirs.
President Eisenhower was al
lowed to pay a 25 per cent capi
tal gains tax, rather than an in
come tax on a graduated scale, on
proceeds from his memoirs erf
World War II. The ruling saved
him almost $400,000 in taxes as
the book brought him a gross in
come of about one million dol
lars.
Truman could not be reached
immediately for comment.
U.S. Navy Participation In
Korean War Strange, For
It Had No Naval Actions
YOKOSUKA, Japan, UP) — U. S.
Navy headquarters^ said Tuesday
five U.S. Navy ships were sunk
and 82 others hit during the Kor
ean war.
Navy casualties totaled 337 Am
ericans killed and 1,585 wounded.
The headquarters summary
called the Korean naval fighting
a “strange war,” because of the
casualties suffered by naval craft
and personnel, “withbut partici
pating in a single naval engage
ment.”
It added.that “Never once did
a battle occur far from sight of
land.
“All action,” the headquarters
said, “took place with surface
ships moving within stone’s throw
of the coastline and slugging it
out with heavy Communist shore
batteries.
The naval craft sunk were four
minesweepers and one Navy tug.
Two battleships, the New Jer
sey and the Wisconsin, were hit
by Communist shore batteries.
The cruisers, Helena, Los An
geles, and St. Paul were hit twice
and the Rochester, Bremerton and
Manchester once.
Forty destroyers caught enemy
fire during the war.
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Chinese Glamor
Gal Fails Impress
American Marines
WESTERN FRONT, Korea, UP
—American Marines Tuesday got
their first look at the Red Dragon
Lady—the Communist siren with
a loudspeaker.
The Marines said she should
have stayed at home.
The Dragon Lady and a troupe
of Chinese entertainers came out
on a frontline outpost hill and
staged a show for the Marines a
few hundred yards away.
The Dragon Lady has been
making frontline broadcasts for
months. There may be more than
one Dragon Lady doing the same
thing along the front but the
Marines have been hearing her
regularly, singing Korean and
Chinese songs and making propa
ganda broadcasts.
She had never been seen by
Allied troops, so when she ap
peared this morning in the open,
broadcasting with a microphone
from a small hill, Marines dived
for telescopes and field glasses.
They saw a slight, moon-faced
girl dressed in a very faded
khaki uniform. She wore a slouch
cap pulled down over her long
straight black hair.
Her shoes were the regulation
canvas and rubber shoes worn by
ordinary soldiers. If she had any
glamor the Marines couldn’t see
it.
The Chinese put on an Oriental
road show for the Marines.
They said that now that an ar
mistice was signed and the fight
ing stopped they hoped the Am
ericans would go home soon.
Personally, one Marine said, he
thought it was a good idea.
CUMBERLAND, Md., UP— Mrs.
Madeline Hanans of nearby Wiley
Ford, W.V., was sentenced to 18
months in the Maryland Reform
atory yesterday for “beating,
kicking and twisting around’’ her
toddling grandchild on a Cumber
land street.
The grandmother, in her 40’s,
''had said she was trying to keep
the child awake.
HIPPOPOTAMI MENACE
FRENCH FLYING BOATS
LERE (Chad', French Africa OP)
—Hippopotami have developed in
to a major flying hazard in the
Chad, and ways and means are
new being sought to put an end
to it. The hippopotami live in the
lake of Lere, a vast shallow ex
panse of water used by the
“France-Hydro” air company for
flying boats, which fly cotton
to the coast, machines and drinks
to the Chad.
In the beginning, the pilets
made some low-altitude swoops
to chase the hippopotami away,
but the latter quickly learned that
the flying boats were perfectly
harmless and today they don’t
budge.
It has been decided to take the
beasts elsewhere. But how several
hundred hippopotami can be cap
tured and transferred, is not yet
known.
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3-Month-Old Baby Electrocuted
While Being Bathed In Sink
ANCHORAGE, iff,—Steven Ege
land, eight-month-old infant son
of Mr. and Mrs. John Egeland of
Anchorage, was electrocuted Mon
day while his mother was bathing
him in the kitchen sink.
Mrs. Egeland said she felt a
shock and the baby fell limp.
Firemen and doctors tried to re
vive him, but without success.
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