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U. S. Note Firmly Opposes Reds
Sharing Dardanelles Defense;
Tito Upholds Attacks on Planes
Calculated Move by
Moscow for Rule in
Middle East Seen
(Text, of U. S. Note to Russia \
on Page A-6.)
By Garnett D. Horner
American officials regard Rus
sia’s demand on Turkey for a!
share in the defense of the Dar- i
danelles as a calculated move to
ward dominance over the whole:
Middle East, raising a serious!
threat to world peace.
This became known authoritatively
today as the State Department made'
public a note to Moscow firmly op- ;
posing the demand and insisting on1
a voice for this country in setting1
up future control of the strategic
waterway between the Mediterran
ean and the Black Sea.
The potentially explosive situa
tion. it was learned, was carefully;
considered by State, War and Navy
Department officials with President
Truman last week when it -vas de
cided to make the American position1
known with all the firmness possible
in the hope that this would deter
the Soviet from any action that
would precipitate serious trouble.
Note Contents Forecast.
Contents of the firm but polite
note to Russia, insisting that future
control of the Dardanelles "be
brought into appropriate relation
ship with the United Nations” and,
that Turkey remain “primarily re-!
sponsible” for defense of the Straits,'
were forecast in unofficial reports:
published yesterday.
More significant than the formal j
note itself is the grave manner in •
which top American officials talk!
privately of the matter as one of the j
most serious with which they have
heen confronted since the war. and
sav that there can be no backing
down from the position taken by this
Government—no Munich-like settle
ment.
Their attitude is based on a
searching analysis of the situation,
involving these main points:
1. Russia’s legitimate interests in
the Dardanelles can be met by re- j
vision of the Montreux Convention j
of 1936. governing their use, to as
mre freedom of passage through the j
straits to Soviet merchant vessels,
and warships at all times. The!
United States advocates such revi
< sion.
2. Russia's demand to join Turkey
in organizing “joint means of de- j
fense of the straits” assumed to in
volve establishment of Soviet bases
in the Dardanelles, goes beyond her
legitimate interests and must mean
she has something different in mind.
Forts Held Not Justified.
3. So far as defending the straits
is concerned, there is no military
justification for fortifications on
them since Russian planes operat
ing from Russian territory could
close them effectively to any enemy
—as the Germans closed them dur- |
ing the last war by occupying the
Aegean Islands.
4. No Turkish government de
pending on popular support could
survive if it granted bases to Rus
sia in the Dardanelles.
5. Therefore, fulfillment of the
Russian demands would mean crea
tion of a Soviet satellite govern
ment in Turkey.
6. Such Russian domination of
Turkey would mean Soviet domina
tion of the whole Near Eastern area,
putting Russia in position to ex
tend her sway into India and China
and seriously prejudicing American
inteiests.
7. The result would be the most.
complete division of the world into
Western and Eastern blocs, wreck- i
ing the United Nations:
Force Would Mean Trouble.
Such reasoning makes it clear to
the top American officials that, as
one said privately, any Russian at
tempt to oack up with force the
demands on Turkey would mean
“very grave trouble in the world,”
from which he could not imagine
the United States remaining aloof.
This possibility was fully reviewed
by the President and his State, War
and Navy chiefs at a White House
meeting last week. The American
position was set firmly then, and!
presumably it was decided to at
tempt to promote public understand -j
ing of the vital issues involved.
“We are not bargaining,” one of
ficial said “We are not bluffing..
We have taken an attitude to which i
we intend to stick. We want to
make that crystal clear to every-’
body.
"We do not intend to be shrilly
belligerent about it. We do intend
to be absolutely and unshakeably
firm.
As far-reaching as the Darda
nelles issue is in itself, American
officials link it in a broad pattern
with such things as Soviet-sup
ported Yugoslavia’s "outrageous ’ at
tacks on American transport planes,
indicating an aggresive attitude of
pushing in and keeping trouble
brewing on the part of Russia and
the Eastern European nations in
her orbit.
The increased tension from Trieste
to the Black Sea added significance
to a Navy announcement that two
of its top-ranking Admirals have
left for Europe on a “routine in
spection tour” that will include
Mediterranean areas. London re
ports had said they would visit
"troubled areas.”
Admiral Marc A. Mitscher, acting
1 See DARDANELLESrPage A-6.t
Moderate Earthquake
Is Felt in Manila
By th« AtsociaUd Pr«»s
MANILA, Aug, 21.—An earth
quake of moderate intensity shook
Manila today but more than an
hour later there were no reports of
Injuries or property damage.
The quake was felt sharply in
downtown Manila at 4:59 p. m. and
lasted for 20 seconds.
Byrnes in Parley
With Tito Aide
On All Issues
Kardelj Is Summoned
To Hotel for Talk
Of More Than Hour
By the Associated press
PARIS, Aug. 21.—Secretary of
State Byrnes had a frank talk on
all aspects of the Yugoslav sit
uation with Yugoslav Vice Prem
ier Edvard Kardelj yesterday, a
spokesman for the American
delegation said today.
The spokesman at Mr. Byrnes' of
fice made this statement:
"Mr. Byrnes yesterday sent for
Edvard Kardelj, vice president and
president of the Federal Control
Commission of Yugoslavia and
chairman of the Yugoslav delega
tion to the Paris Conference. Mr.
Kardelj came to the Hotel Meurice
at 5 p.m. Mr. Bwnes talked frankly
to Mr. Kardelj about the situation
in Yugoslavia. At this time, Mr.
Byrnes has nothing further to say."
The talk was said to have lasted
(See BYRNES, Page A-3. >
Equality for Albania
In Paris Is Demanded
By Prime Minister
Hoxha Declares Country
Will Never Consent to
Changes in Frontiers
By the Asiccioted Pr*ss
PARIS. Aug. 21.—Enver Hoxha,
Prime Minister of Albania, de
manded today that the Peace
Conference seat him as an equal
and asserted that his country
never would consent to any
changes in its borders ‘‘for those
frontiers are sacred.”
Many of his remarks were di
rected against Greece and its Prime
Minister Constantine Tsaldaris, also
a target of Soviet Russia.
Referring to Mr. Tsaldaris' men
tion of the Albanian Quisling Gov
ernment during the Italian occupa
tion, he asserted that all who re
mained had been killed and “those
war criminals who fled are in the
best hotels in Rome.”
He asked whether Mr. Tsaldaris
would consider France an aggressor
because Hitler had expected to wage
aggression from French territory.
It was from Albania, which Italy
had seized as a prelude to the last
war, that Mussolini attacked Greece.
Wants Amity With Greece.
Mr. Hoxha asserted that Albania!
would like to be friendly with the'
Greek people “but the Greek people
have no influence in their govern-'
ment.”
He demnaded that the peace
treaty “put an end to the aggres-1
sive, imperialistic policy of Italy.”;
Mr. Hoxha asserted that Italy
caused 3,000,000,000 gold francs dam
age in Albania and demanded “as
an absolute right, to be allowed to'
determine the amount and payment
of Italian reparations.”
The Albanian received a long burst
of applause, as did Alfonso R. W.
Diaz, spokesman for Mexico, who
spoke next.
The Mexican Ambassador to Paris
expressed his country’s hope that “a
just and equitable peace will be con
cluded” with Italy that “will permit
her to join with dignity in the con
cert of nations.”
As the speeches droned on. an i
informant in the Peace Conference \
secretariat said 250 “fundamental” j
amendments to the draft treaties!
and an undetermined number of
others had been presented by Peace
Conference members. An American
source said the United States had
proposed none; that its position was
already stated in the five treaty
drafts. The deadline for filing
amendments passed at midnight.
Reparations Claims Hit.
Bulgaria, one of the beaten Axis
satellites, issued a statement assert
ing that the claims of Greece, one
I of the Allied victors, to $708,000,000
! reparations were “fantastic and in
! contradiction” to the draft treaty’s
! declaration that Bulgaria would pay
partial” indemnities to Greece and
I Yugoslavia.
The Bulgars asserted that the
j amount of. railroad equipment, cat
‘ See CONFERENCE~Page A-5.)
Bullock Amok, Injures 15
ROMFORD, England, Aug. 21 UP).
A bullock ran amok in Romford
Market today. Fifteen women and
children were taken to a hospital.
McNarney and
On Spies; U. S.
By the Antedated Press
BERLIN. Aug. 21.—A code of
conduct for interzone handling
of straying individuals and es
pionage Suspects was established
today in a gentlemen’s agree
ment between commanders of
the American and Russian occu
pation zones of Germany.
Gen. Joseph T. McNarney, the
American commander, said the first
action under the new code was to
be the return to the Soviet zone to
day of a Russian woman NKVD
<secret police) agent caught oper
ating as an UNRRA employe in
American-occupied territory.
A list of her espionage activities
will go with her, he said.
Gen. McNarney also accused
UNRRA Director General Fiorello
H. La Guardia of making ,'com-j
Belgrade Ministry
Admits Downing of
Second U. S. Craft
(Text of Tito's Address, Page A-6.1
By tne Associated Press
BELGRADE, Aug. 21.—Marshal
Tito, in a speech published to- j
day, stoutly defended Yugo
slavia’s course in which two
American planes have been
brought down in 10 days, de-J
! dared the country intends to in-;
: sist on its sovereignty and i
shouted that Yugoslavia wanted!
peace “but not peace at any!
price.”
! Saying he had witnessed the1
downing of one of the unarmed:
American transport planes, Tito de- j
nied*the craft was lost in the clouds,
or was fired on after it landed. He!
admitted, however, that an Amer-j
jican plane had been forced to land.;
Previous eyewitnesses and official;
American accounts said the first
plane strayed over Yugoslav terri
tory from its course on a flight from
Vienna. Austria, to Udine. Italy,
August 9 and was forced to land
after Yugoslav fighter planes
wounded one of the passengers.
Although Tito mentioned witness
ing only one incident and did not
mention the date, he was believed
to have seen both. The second in
volved a C-47 brought down August
19 near Bled. Tito was in Bled on
that day.
Foreign Minister Sends Note.
The Yugoslav Foreign Ministry }n
a note acknowledged last night that
Yugoslav fighter planes attacked
the transport and sent it crashing,
probably with some fatal casualties.
American Ambassador Richard C.
Patterson will take up the matter
with Tito personally at the confer
ence tomorrow at the marshal's
summer palace in Bled. Yugoslavia
granted clearance for the Embassy’s
C-47 to fly to Bled. Mr. Patterson’s
party will include the American
Military Attache, Col. Richard Par
tridge.
The Embassy is pressing the Yu
goslav foreign office for permission
to send a graves registration rep
resentative to the scene of the sec
ond incident to search for bodies in
! the wreckage.
It also is seeking information con
cerning the two crew members who
parachuted from the blazing air
liner and for release of seven Amer
icans involved in the first incident,
who are now in the 13th day of their
internment at a Ljubljana Hotel.
There has been no information in
, the Yugoslav press concerning these
incidents except publication of Tito’s
i original protest note August 11 and
! today’s account of the marshal's
speech. Reaction in the Yugoslav
capital was negligible.
New Violations Charred.
Tito spoke before iron factory
workers yesterday at Jesenice near
i Bled. He charged that almost every
;day brought ‘‘incessant new viola
tions of our frontiers and territory."
“You know. I repeat," he said,
1 “that almost every day not only
civilian but military planes flew over
our territory, not single planes
alone, but even whole sa.uadrons.’*
The Premier charged that even
while peace negotiations were going
on, “we have come to realize that
j certain countries which during the
war of liberation marched together
j with us do not wish a peace of lib
eration but an imperialistic peace.”
The Foreign Ministry’s note to Mr.
Patterson brought from him the
bitter comment: “A year and a half
ago they welcomed our planes and
now they shoot them down.”
The Yugoslav note, which termed
, Monday s incident a "regrettable ac
cident.” made no reference to the
American transport plane downed
(See YUGOSLAV, Page~X3X~
Return to Normal Bread
Seen in Big Wheat Crop
A return to white bread of the
type consumed before the famine
relief program may be in the offing.
Secretary of Agriculture Ander
son said today the department
would give early consideration to
ending the 80 per cent flour extrac
tion order which has given the Na
tion darker bread for more than
five months. The previous extrac
tion rate was 72 per cent of wheat
kernel.
He told a press conference that
elimination of the order may come
as a result of a bumper wheat crop
now being harvested. In addition,
the amount of wheat being saved
by the high extraction rate is not
significant, Mr. Anderson said.
The Secretary indicated, how
ever, that this country may export
during the next year more than
the 250,000,000 bushels of wheat orig
inally earmarked fig overseas needs
from the new crop, *
Russians Agree!
to Return One
pletely baseless" allegations that
American occupation forces had de
liberately opposed humanitarian and
repatriation aims of UNRRA.
Commenting on published reports,
mentioned in connection with the
release of British Lt. Gen. Sir Fred
erick Morgan as chief of UNRRA's
displaced persons program In Ger
many, that UNRRA was being used
as an umbrella covering wide
spread activity of Russian secret
agents, Gen. McNamey said:
“We know of very few cases of
agents of any type who operated
under the cloak of UNRRA. Of
these only one has been positively
identified as an NKVD (Russian)
agent."
Gen. McNamey said he made the
agreement orally with his Russian
counterpart. Marshal Vassily Soko
(See SPIES, Page A-#.)
Delay of 12 Days
PlannedonMeat
Price Rollback
Final Decision Due
Late Today on Date
To Renew Ceilings
<Text of Price Decontrol Board's j
Rvlings on Page A-16./
_
By Malcolm Lamborne, Jr.
Rollback of retail ceiling prices
on most meats may be delayed
about 12 days, with the OPA
tentatively setting September 2
as the date for meat prices at or
close to June 30 levels, it was
learned today.
An OPA official told The Star the
Labor Day date was under consider
ation and that a final decision would
be reached late today after con
ferences of OPA and Agriculture
Department officials on last night's
action of the Price Decontrol Board
in returning livestock and its prod-:
ucts to ceilings.
One plan under consideration byj
OPA called for placing ceilings on
livestock Friday, with a time inter-;
val before they apply at the packer .'
wholesale and retail levels. This!
would allow various segments of the j
industry time to dispose of stocks
purchased at uncontrolled prices
since lapse of ceilings July 1.
Subsidies to Be Cut in January.
Housewives, in any event, could
look forward to lower prices on
beef, pork and veal, and possibily
lamb until January 10. At that
time, the board directed, subsidies
will be halved. This will provide a
more gradual transition to the
eventual removal of the entire sub
sidy by next April 1, the board
explained.
On the question of milk, butter,
cheese and other dairy products,
the consumers can expect no roll
back to June 30 prices. The board
ruled that these commodities shall
remain free of ceilings, but served
j notice on the dairy industry that
controls may be restored if prices
rise.
The board also ruled against re
storing ceilings on nearly all grains;
ordered price controls re-established
on soybeans and cottonseed prod
ucts, including salad and cooking
oils, and brought flaxseed and grain
products made from flaxseed back
to control.
'Unreasonable’ Price Increases,
In the case of commodities re
turned to ceilings, the board said it
i had found that prices had increased
•unreasonably” above June 30 ceil
ings, that supply was scarce and
that price regulation was ‘‘practi
cable, enforceable and in the public
interest.”
Chairman Roy L. Thompson said
the board had received reliable re
ports that livestock prices rose from
120 to 50 per cent after lapse of con
: trols and had learned of many cases
'in which wholesale prices doubled.
I He added; "It stands to reason that
; those high prices had to carry right
: through to the meat counter, and, of
course, without any price control,
i the butcher could add further to the
increases.”
Th* board pointed out that the
Government "has at hand adequate
techniques to enforce” meat and
livestock regulations, including
slaughter controls, the subsidy pro
gram and "over-riding” ceilings on
livestock. In addition, thfe board said
It had been Informed that Opa Is
prepared to enlarge its stafT and the
scope of its enforcement program.
Agree on Milk Shortage.
Board members were in agree
ment that milk and its products will
fall short of demand, at least until
the next flush season, beginning in
! the spring, and that regulation of
these products is enforceable and
practicable. But on the third stip
ulation set up by Congress—that it
must be found that prices have
risen unreasonably above June—the
board said it has failed to make
such a finding.
"The information received to date,
however, seems to evidence restraint
and to show that in general, prices
have been in the neighborhood of
the June 30 ceiling plus the subsidy,”
the board declared.
Conceding that the board was go
ing to “hear plenty of criticism” of
its decisions, Mr. Thompson, in a
radio broadcast last night, declared
that “the spirit in which the Nation
accepts these decisions of this board
will, in the weeks ahead, provide a
true test of the country’s willingness
and determination to protect itself
against the tragedy of inflation.”
All decisions of the board an
nounced last night were reached
unanimously, it was pointed out.
Major League Games
AMERICAN LEAGUE
At New York—First Game—
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New York... 000 123 13^—10 13 1
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Chandler
BatteriM—Rirner, MaHtbefrer f«th>,
Hollinrsworlh (8(h)
and B« bin ten, Niar:
r—. end Hayes;
larhos (9th).
At New York—Second Game—
Chicago_ _
New York... _
Marshall**”—Cbi***®’ N*» Verb,
At Boston—
St. Louis ... 10 | —
Boston _ 4 —
Batteries—Munrrief. Keren* (3d) and
Mancnao; Kerris* and Warner.
At Philadelphia—
Detroit_00 —
Philadelphia 10 —
. Batteries—Trnchi and Tebbetts: Mar
rhilden and Desautels.
Cleveland at Washington—8:30 PJVL
NATIONAL LEAGUE
At Chicago—
Philadelphia 000 000 0 —
Chicago . . . 000 M0 —
Batteries — Mnlcahy and Seniiniek;
Bauers and LiTlncsten. *
At Pittsburgh—
Brooklyn ... M —
Pittsburgh '.01 —
Batteries—Batten and Edwards) Heists
elmae and Lanes,
At Cincinnati
New York... 01 -
Cincinnati . 0 —
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Silence on Bribe Offer
Brings Reprimand for
WAA Regional Official
'
Compliance Chief Warns
All Employes to Report
Any Such Attempt
By Robert K. Walsh
A high-ranking official in one
of the War Assets Administra-:
tion’s regional offices has been!
‘ reprimanded” for failure to re
port that a prospective buyer of!
surplus goods offered him several j
thousand dollar* as a bribe,!
WAA officials said today.
Attempted bribery of WAA em-1
ployes by “unscrupulous business- j
men” has become a serious problem, j
Joseph F. Carroll, compliance di-!
rector, told regional and zone di
rectors at a meeting here last week.
He told of the regional official
who spurned the big bribe but ne
glected to report it. The briber
went to a lesser employe, gave him
>1,100, and in return “received his
pound of flesh, namely, surplus prop
erty.”
Mr. Carroll said the briber was
apprehended because another WAA
employe he approached told au
thorities. The compliance director
would not reveal the name of the
employes involved, the location of
the regional office or the briber, who1
“faces a long jail sentence today.”
Duty for Every Employe.
Mr. Carrolls speech to the re
gional and zone directors was off
the record but today he Said the
tenor of his remarks was that “every
WAA employe, no matter how high
up. has a special duty to report any
bribery attempts.”
He declared such prompt action
is the only way to “nip bribery in
the bud” and that an employe is a
"sap” if he neglects to report, for
his own protection and that of the
Government, any such bribery ac
tivities. An employe’s duty is not
done when he merely rejects a
proffered bribe. Mr. Carroll declared.
Reporting that instances of bribe
taking have been comparatively
rare in proportion to the number
of surplus property transactions.
Mr. Carroll disclosed that cases of
bribe-offering nevertheless are “as
suming the proportions of a serious
problem ”
“On the fringe of business,” he
told the directors, “there exists the
hit-and-run type of businessman
who is out to make an extra dollar!
in any manner that he can, whether I
it be honest or not, provided he can!
obtain some degree of safety or im
munity from reprisal.
“Collusion” Indictments.
“Tire type of unscrupulous busi-1
nessman frequently, or too fre-!
quently, propositions employes in
the War Assets Administration, of
fering them money or other val
uable considerations in return for
special favors in assisting him to j
acquire surplus property. Unless!
the offer Is reported the would-be j
briber blithely goes his way and he;
eventually does find some poor
sucker who will play ball with him.”
In the WAA’s quarterly report last
month, and more recently in testi
mony by Mr. Carroll last week be-:
fore the House committee investl- J
gating surplus property, the com
pliance director revealed that more
than 30 former employes have been
indicted and some investigations of
reported “collusion” are under way.
Not all of these involved bribery,
but bribery attempts have not been
stamped out, it was said today at
WAA headquarters.
Atmosphere in District
Full of Ragweed Pollen
Washington's air is full of rag
weed pollen grains, according to the
pollen counter atop the Weather
Bureau, with no rain in sight to
bring relief to hay fever sufferers.
There are 29 grains of pollen in
every cubic yard of District atmos
phere. an increase of 27 since Sun
day. The District Medical Society
installed the counter at the bureau
to keep victims informed of the
number of sneezes they can expect
from each inhalation.
A rainfall might disperse some of
the irritating pollen, officials said,
but the forecaster predicted only
cool, non-humid weather for today
and tomorrow. The temperature
will linger in the low 80 s today and
the humidity in the 60’s, which is
fine for those who are not allergic
to ragweed pollen.
Moderate, cloudy weather Is in
sight for tonight and tomorrow,
the forecaster said.
<OLBETYOUV
GET A NOTE FROM
THE AMERICAN
STATE DEPARTMENT
ABOUT THAT!! ,
Alexandria Grocer Fatally Shot
Standing at Bedroom Window
Wife Declares Early Morning Intruder Fired
Three Times Through Open Door
Nathan Rosenberg, 51, oper
ator of a grocery at Princess and
Henry streets, Alexandria, was
fatally shot early today by an
unidentified intruder as he was;
standing by the window in his i
upstairs bedroom.
The assailant ran downstairs a iter1
firing the shot and escaped. Mr.!
Rosenberg died en route to Alexan
dria Hospital. •
Mr. Rosenberg's wife. Mildred, told
police she was awakened about 3:30
a ,m. when her husband arose to go|
to the window and get some air.
1 As he stood there, some one came
up the stairs to the open bedroom
door, fired three shots at Mr. Rosen
berg and ran downstairs. Two of
the bullets struck the groceryman in
the back and leg. The third appar
USES Racial Poiicy
Reforms Are Pledged
By Schwellenbach
i Reply to Wallace Says
Segregation Practices
Are Unsatisfactory
By Joseph Young
Secretary of Labor Schwellen
ibach today acknowledged that
the racial segregation policy of
the Washington office of the
United States Employment Serv
ice is unsatisfactory and prom
ised that he will give the matter
ihi% personal attention in order
that a “satisfactory solution’’
! might be reached.
Mr. Schwellenbach made his po
sition known in a letter to Secre
tary of Commerce Wallace who had
charged in a letter to *iis fellow
cabinet members that discrimina
tion against colored persons existed
in the local USES office here. Mr.
Wallace's charges were exclusively
revealed in yesterday's Star.
Knew of Problem.
• In his reply, Mr. Schwellenbach
conceded that he had known “for
jsome time'’ of the problem, but
I said that the situation was a com
plicated one because the practices
of which Mf. Wallace complained
“have existed in the District office
for so many years.’’
Mr. Wallace charged that the Dis
trict office here maintains separate
application files for white and col
ored and requires that applicants
line up in different queues accord
ing to color when they are being
interviewed. The interviewers also
are segregated on a white and col
ored basis, Mr. Wallace complained.'
Schwellenbach's Reply.
In his reply, Mr. Schwellenbach;
said:
“Dear Henry: There has just come
to my desk thi* morning your let-;
ter of August 14 concerning the |
i < See USES SEGREGATION, Ad5.1 |
;ently was wild. Mrs. Rosenberg said:
| she could see only the back of the i
man as he ran away.
As Mr. Rosenberg collapsed, he
cried, “Call an ambulance,” his wife
said. Their 13-year-old son. Melvin,!
was asleep in an adjoining bedroom \
while a daughter, Barbara. 16, was!
away at camp.
Police said the man entered the
home by cutting a hole in the rear •
door and unlocking it.
Gordon Spinks, 38, of 911 Franklin
| street, Alexandria, an employe of the
city Water Department, said he was
filling a water wagon from a hydrant
across the street when he heard five
shots.
He said he ran across the street
and heard Mrs. Rosenberg scream,
j "A man just shot my husband.” He
l rsee SHOOTING, Page A-2.)
Baldwin, Marcantonio
And Powell Defeated
By New York GOP
Latter Two Win Places
On Democratic and ALP I
Tickets in November
By The Associated Pr«s
ALBANY, N. Y., Aug. 21.—Or
ganization candidates, including
10 of the 12 congressional in
cumbents who faced opposition,
i rolled to victory yesterday in
:New York^s primary election,
which demonstrated a resurg
ence of Republican effectiveness
;in sections of New York City.
Three New York City House
I members fought by the GOP organi
ization were defeated in bids for
S Republican nominations.- They were
[Representative Baldwin of the 17th
I (silk stocking! district, Represent
jative Marcantonio of the 18th and
i Representative Powell of the 22d.
Upstate, six incumbent Republi
can House members were success
ful in bids for renomination. An ex
ception was Representative Bennet
of Newburgh, who in one of the
more interesting races was defeated
by Mrs. Katharine St. George of
Tuxedo Park.
Almost complete returns in the
29th congressional district, where
Republican nomination is usually
tantamount to election, gave Mrs.
St. George, a distant cousin of the
late President Franklin D. Roosevelt,
12.407 and Representative Bennet
10,706.
Voting Is Light.
Despite fair, warm weather, the
voting was light. It was spirited only
in districts that had contests. Rep
resentative Baldwin, a member of
Congress since 1941, lost to State
Senator Frederick R Coudert, jr.,
in the silk stocking district by a 5
to-1 margin.
Complete returns gave Mr. Cou
(See PRIMARY, PageX^T)
Mother Wants Boy Kept in Jail
As 'Lesson' in Airplane Theft
The mother of John Marsh Hop
kins, 17-year-old air enthusiast, said
today she preferred that he remain
in Rockville (Md.) jail until action is
taken on charges that he stole and
wrecked an airplane.
"If he did anything while he was
out on bond, they would be sure to
put him in reform school,” said Mrs.
Katherine Hopkins, 2630 Adams
Mill road N.W. "If he remains in
jail, he may get a suspended sen
tence.”
Mother of five other children and
partly blind. Mrs. Hopkins $oid that
by remaining in jail and taking his
punishment now, her son might gain
a sense of responsibility.
“If Johnny got off to easy, he
would not get enough of a lesson
from this," she added. “He must
be made to realize he made a mis
take that he has to pay for.”
Mrs. Hopkins said she believed
that as long as the jail had no
detrimental effect on the boy’s
character, it was better for him to
pay his debt now and she would
make no effort to bail him out. She
expects to visit him in jail tomorow
for the first time since his arrest
last Sunday.
“Please don't misunderstand me.'’
she explained. "The only reason
I have not gone earlier is that I
feared too many sympathetic per
sons were calling oh Johnny. I don’t
(want him to get the idea he is a
hero.”
The FBI has a confession that
young Hopkins took a Stinson cabin
plane from Queens Chapel Airport
near Hyattsville, Md., early Friday
morning. The plane was damaged
badly when the boy tried to land it
in a field near Rockville. The boy
also faces charges of stealing a
parachute and a .22-caliber rifle.
This morning Capt. George H.
Maines of Flint, Mich., national di
rector of the Americanism Com
mission of the Army and Navy
Union, talked with young Hopkins
at the jail for 10 minutes. He went
on to Annapolis with the intention
of convincing authorities Hopkins
should be turned over to the union
for education and flying instruction.
Mrs. Hopkins said she was de
lighted at Capt. Maines' interest
and hoped arrangements could be
made to give her boy every advan
tage possible.
Cut of 104,400
In Government
Jobs Ordered
Budget Bureau Unable
To Estimate Number
Affected in District
Release of 104.400 Government
department employes within the
next three months was ordered
today by Budget Director James
E. Webb. The Budget Bureau
said there was no way of ascer
taining immediately how many
Federal employes in the District
would be affected
Heaviest hit will be the “white
collar” workers, whose group of
537,000 will be whittled by 49.000 or
9-> per cent at the November 1#
deadline.
The figures released were on a
national level and it would be up
to department and agency heads
to determine where the cuts would
be made, a Budget Bureau spokes
man said.
To Set New Job Ceilings.
He said the bureau was now pre
paring letters which, under the
director's new broad powers, wfll
set new' ceilings on personnel of the
various agencies. These new ceilings
probabiy will be announced within
the W'eek and then department
heads will determine where the
cuts will be made.
The fact that many dismissals
will be made outside Washington
and that there will be transfers of
some employes to expanding agencies
makes it impassible to accurately
estimate the effect on District em
ployes, it was said.
Mr. Webb said that by November
: 16. one of each 25 current employes
will be dropped from the payrolls,
reducing the total to 2,362,300.
Attributed to Normal Decline.
The retrenchment was attributed
to “normal decline in seasonal em
ployment” and the shift of ths
United States Employment Service
back to the States.
It was pointed out that in drawing
- up the new figures, the Budget
Bureau used "man hours” instead
of individuals as a basis. Two men
might be splitting an eight-hour
shift, equally and w'ould be classified
as one man in the etimates. it was
said.
Many of those released from one
! department would find work in other
j expanding units, such as the Veter
jans’ Administration, the Post Office
Department and the War Assets
Administration, the Budget Bureau
'added.
! Over-All Maximum Undercut.
In exercising for the first time his
authority to fix agency employment
ceilings, the director undercut the
over-all maximum allowances pro
vided by Congress.
For instance, for the quarter be
ginning October 1. Congress set a
1 maximum of 528575 white-collar
w’orkers, but the Budget Bureau cut
this to 520,300. This will be further
slashed to 487,600 at the November
16 deadline.
The w'hite-collar workers w'ho w’ill
bear the brunt of the dismissals are
stenographers, executives, scientists,
clerks, customs inspectors and the
like.
In granting these workers a 14
per cent pay increase earlier this
year, Congress insisted the $321,000 -
000 cost of the increases be absorbed
by reductions in force. It set out
specific instructions for quarterly
maximums as follows: October 1,
528,975; January 1. 1947, 501,771;
April 1. 1947. 474,567, and July 1,
J947. 444.363.
The total number of employes
other than white collar workers was
set at 2.394,900 for the quarter be
ginning October 1. with a reduction
td 2.362,300 scheduled for Novem
ber 16.
At the end of last June, the num-,
ber of Federal employes around the*
world stood at 2.686,000. Before the}
war the number was 887,500 and'
during the war it soared to above
3,000,000.
Pilot, Co-Pilot Die
In Charter Plane Crash
By the Associated P#es«
MOLINE. 111., Aug. 31.—The pilot
and co-pilot of a twin-engined char
tered airplane were killed in a
crash early today and 10 of the 23
passengers aboard were injured
slightly. None was hospitalised.
Two of the passengers aboard the
21-seat plane were babies in the
arms of their mother^.
Those killed were' Capt. James
Steen of Carol Gables. Fla., the pilot,
and Marvin Fox of Elmira. N. Y.,
the co-pilot.
The crash occurred a mile south
of the Moline airport while the
plane was attempting to make an
emergency landing because of en
gine trouble.
The ship was en route from New
York to San Francisco.
The two crew members were
thrown out of the plane. Pilot Steen
was instantly killed and Co-pilot Fox
died shortly after being taken to
Moline Public Hospital.
Two babies among the passengers
were unhurt.
A passenger said one of the plane s
two engines caught fire about 50
miles from Moline and that the pilot
shut it off and headed for the air
port. He circled the field three
times, the last time only a few feet
from the ground.
The plane was over the runway
on the last round and when the
pilot gunned the engine, a wing
dipped and struck the ground. The
impact split the Vane in half, hurl
ing some of the passengers to the
ground.
In New York City a spokesman,
for Trans Luxury Airlines, with
offices in the Hotel Lincoln, said the
plane was owned by International
Airlines of Chicago but had been
chartered to Trans Luxury which
was operating the ship with a Trans
Luxury crew. The spokesman added
that Trans Luxury had booked all
passengers on the plane.