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94th YEAR, Xo. 37,380 Phone NA. 5000. D. C., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1946—THIRTY PAGES. 5 CENTS
General Strike Call Threatened
If U. S. Attempts to Move Ships;
Truck Tieup Spreading Over East
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Seafarers Planning
To Ask Support of
All Labor Groups
By the Associated Press
AFL maritime leaders today
threatened to enlist the support
of all organized labor in their
strike against the Wage Stabili
zation Board's ‘ pay-cut” ruling
as mounting chaos spread
through the Nation's far-flung
transport system.
A general strike will be sought,
said Paul Hall, New York port agent
of the Seafarers’ International Un
ion. "If the Government 'finks'
• moves! any of our ships as it has
threatened to do.”
He referred to reports that Gov
ernment officials contemplated the
use of armed forces to move relief
cargoes and troopships immobilized
by the idleness of nearly a half
million seamen and water-front
workers.
The White House., apprised of Mr.
Hall’s statement, had 'no comment.”
"The whole thing is in the hands
of the Labor Department.” Press
Secretary Charles G. Ross told re
porters.
No Specific Plan Made.
One official in close touch with
the situation said there had been
discussions of what steps the Gov
ernment could take in the event of}
a prolonged strike, but that up to
now no specific plan had been j
drawn up.
UNRRA Director F. H. La Guardia
was in New York to appeal personal
ly to strike leaders to free 125 ships
with 250,000 tons of relief cargo for
Europe and Asia.
But Joseph P. Ryan, head of the
International Longshoremen's As-1
sociation, AFL. said the former New; I
York Mayor knew the futility of
such a move.
“La Guardia has had enough ac
quaintance with longshoremen not
to make such a request,” he said. )
The third day of the strike of \
90.000 members of the Seafarers and
the Sailors’ Union of the Pacific— \
joined by an estimated 400.000 allied
shipworkers, dock hands and CIO j
seamen—found confusion spreading
inland from the Nation's idle sea-;
ports.
me Association of American Rail
roads said between 15.000 and 20.000
loaded freight cars were tied up be
cause of the strike.
This added to the shortage of
rolling equipment desperately needed!
to move the grain harvest, already i
piling up on the ground in some j
Midwestern areas for want of freight i
cars.
Mr. Hall explained that an appeal !
for a general strike yvould be
made through various local central1
labor councils, should the Govern
ment attempt to move ships.
He said the seamen's strike now
was ‘TOO per cent effective in all
ports.” and added: “We are in fine
shape and prepared to strike from
here on in.”
“We believe its effectiveness is be
ginning to tell and a complete tieup
will win our demands,” Mr. Hall
said.
Pier Sheds Dark.
Pier sheds were dark behind
closed entrances and cargo booms
were fixed tight as thousands of
vessels and a half million men were
idle in the strike.
This was the picture as the strike
of members of the Sailors' Union
of the Pacific and the Seafarers
entered its third day «nd the sec
ond day of picketing:
Transocean passenger traffic was
suspended: import and export of
raw materials vital to the Nation's
mills and factories were halted:
more than 250,000 tons of relief
cargo for Europe and Asia were tied
up in 125 UNRRA ships.
Claim 2.500 Ships Laid I'p.
Officers of the two unions claimed
more than 2.500 ships lay in At-;
lantic. Pacific and Gulf ports with
out crews.
The chain of pickets was expected
to be extended even further today—
to all New York harbor tugboats
nanned by AFL crews.
Officials of the sailors’ union said
he picketing extension would halt
all harbor activity in New York ex
cept for a few railway barge tugs .
The tugboats were expected to cease
operation by 3 p.m.
The small vessels normally bripg
in an estimated 80 per cent of New
York City fuel and a half of its food
supplies.
During a tugboat strike last Feb
ruary, fuel oil and coal supplies
dwindled to virtual exhaustion,
fading Mayor William O'Dwyer to !
order the shutdown of the city's
usiness and amusement activities,
xcept for certain exempted enter
(See MARITIME. Page A-4.)
\rmy iransport uamaged
By Internal Explosion
•y tH* Aisocioted
BAD NAUHEIM, Germany, Sept..
7—Continental Base Section Head
quarters announced today that the
United States Army transport Ed
mund B. Alexander was damaged
by an “internal explosion" last
night 15 miles north of Bremer
haven. No casualties were reported.
The Alexander, which had brought
700 American military dependents
to Bremerhaven, was proceeding
without passengers from Bremer
haven to Naples via Southampton
when the explosion occurred just
opposite the Weser lightship near
Bremerhaven, the Base Section an
nouncement said.
The ship is "being towed to Bre-1
merhaven. where an investigation
will be made to determine the
cause of the accident and the ex
tent of the damage," it was an
nounced
The first official announcement
«!id not describe the nature of the,
explosion.
%
Painter Rescued From Flagpole
On F. Street as Hundreds Watch
William H. Lawson, speechless with relief a few seconds
after his rescue from the flagpole, clutches his safety belt as
the men who came to his rescue escort him to an ambulance.
—Star Staff Photo.
a 54-year-old painter dangled'
helplessly from the top of a flag
pole on the Kellogg Building, 160
feet above F street, for more1
than 15 minutes shortly before
noon today when the belt of his
trousers broke and his trousers
fell down. Firemen with an
aerial ladder finally rescued him.,
Hundreds of spectators watched
breathlessly from the street while
he man, William H. Lawson, 119
Massachusetts avenue N.W.. strug-j
gled at his lofty perch until help
came and firemen assisted him to
the ground.
Mr. Lawson's plight was first no
ticed by an unidentified person in
the Willard Hotel. Mr. Lawson had
been painting the flagpole on the
fifth-floor roof of the Willard Build
ing. ^
The painter was at the top of the;
slender pole, painting with all the!
assurance of his 25 years’ experience,1
when he felt his trousers belt give
<See FLAGPOLE, Page A-3. ~
Greek Protest Seen
On Plane's Downing
By Yugoslav Fire
Joint Inquiry Reported
Ordered Into Forcing
Of Craft to Land
By the Associated p **»
ATHENS, Sept. 7.—Political
circles said today the Greek gov
ernment certainly would lodge a
protest with Marshal Tito con
cerning a Greek military plane
Greek Pilot Downed
In Yugoslavia Once
Risked Life for Tito
By the Associoted Pres*
LONDON. Sept. 7.—An Ex
change Telegraph dispatch
from Athens today said Lt.
George Tangalakis, pilot of the j
Greek Spitfire shot down over j
Yugoslavia, risked his life for
Marshal Tito during the war
and holds the Yugoslav military
cross.
In 1944. Lt. Tangalakis flew
into Yugoslavia from Italy and
picked up Tito, who was in dan
ger, the dispatch said, and later
was wounded while attacking a
German convoy.
which the general staff and Air
Ministry reported forced down
in Yugoslavia yesterday by Yu
goslav antiaircraft fire.
Reports in Athens last night said
the pilot of the plane, w'hich
the general staff and Air Ministry
announcement was riddled with
antiaircraft fire, suffered no injuries,
• See GREECE, Page A-2.i
Italy Retains Tyrol
Under Austrian Pact
Settling Differences
Paris Conference Defers
Action on Proposal for
Human Rights Court
By the Associated Pres*
PARIS, Sept. 7.—Alcide de
Gasperi, Italian Premier, and
Dr. Carl Gruber, Austrian For- j
eign Minister ,announced that
they had signed an agreement
settling the differences between
their two countries over the
South Tyrol.
A conference commission of the
Peace Conference, meanwhile, de
ferred action on a proposal for a
court of human rights. Samuel!
Rieber, representing the United;
States, said the court plan should!
be considered by the United Na-1
tions instead of by the Peace
Conference.
The Romanian Political and Ter
ritorial Commission approved four
articles of the Romanian treaty
draft requiring registration of pre
war bilateral treaties involving the
Balkan country.
Under the Italo-Austrian agree
ment the South Tyrol remains Ital
ian, but regional autonomy will be
granted to German-speaking in
habitants of the Bolzano and Trento
provinces. German-speaking in
habitants of Italian South Tyrol;
will be granted complete equality |
of rights with Italians, including
education in their mother tongue, j
equality of their language in public
office and official documents, re-!
establishment of German family'
names forcibly Italianized by the |
Fascist regime, and equality of op
portunity to hold public office.
Decision to postpone action on;
the human rights court proposal!
(See CONFERENCE, Page A-3.) j
Nazi Accused of Blowing Up •
5 Cologne Bridges Captured
By rn« Aiiocioted rre**
HERFORD. Germany, Sept. 7.—
British headquarters announced to
day the arrest of J. Joseph Grohe,
former Reich commissioner for
Northern France and Belgium, and
"the mam person responsible for
blowing up all five Rhine bridges at
Cologne.”
Grohe. who had been sought by all
occupation powers since V-E day,
was found in bed by a British in
telligence officer August 21 at War
burg near the British-American
frontier. He was still wearing a
bandage to cover a head wound in
flicted when he attempted to take
his life four months after capitu
lation. $
Grohe, who was gauleiter at
Cologne and Aachen <Aix-la-Cha
pelie» in later days, was described
by British headquarters as the "last
remaining gauleiter who was at lib- j
erty.” I
i
±ne neauquai icrs aciuouiicririeni
described Grohe as in the "top flight
of Nazi officials and major war |
criminals.”
His whereabouts was traced after
"intensive interrogation'” of his sis
ter-in-law, officials said.
Headquarters declared that under
Grohe's rule many atrocities were
committed in Belgium and Northern
France. When the Allied advance
forced Grohe out of that area, he
organized the Volkstrum to fight
the Americans, the announcement
asserted.
"Failure of the Volkstrum to halt
American advance.1* did not prevent
him from personally ordering the
blowing up of all five Rhine bridges
at Cologne,” headquarters said.;
"One of these Grohe, with the
brutal disregard of human life
which so characterized his rule oi
occupied countries, ordered blown'
when hundreds of refugees were!
pouring westward across the Rhine.’’J
i
O'Dwyer Predicts
Milk Shortage
In New York
By the Associated Press
NEW YORK, Sept. 7.—Mayor
William O’Dwyer, emerging from
a conference on the trucking
strike now crippling the heart;
of the industrial East, today'
predicted a milk shortage and
cited figures to show the city’s
normal food intake was hard hit.
but postponed until Monday
plans for emergency food trans
portation.
Alter a ,30-minute conference with
city officials, truck operators and!
union officials, Mayor O'Dwyer said
another meeting would be held Mon
day to consider emergency food
handling methods.
"There will be some shortage of'
milk," Mayor O’Dwyer said. "I have',
been assured, however, that there j
will be sufficient milk for school
lunches and for hospitals. The sup-i
plv» will be 100 per cent there." j
It was announced at the close of I
the meeting that the city's in
take of food supplies had slumped |
below the normal level of 20.000 i
tons daily, but still was above a1
needed minimum of about 15,500 j
tons.
Mtanwhile, a number of New York!
industries, unable to get raw mate- j
rials or to deliver finished goods, j
threatened mass layoffs.
Pressure of the trucking strike
was pinching from Portland, Me., as
far South as Virginia and Maryland
and even some foods were affected,1
Prom Richmond, Va.. came a report1
that 350 men were off the job while!
approximately 300 were said to be j
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Drivers Could Make
$10,500 Per Year,
Truck Owners Say
By th« Associated Press
NEW YORK, Sept. 7.—Unions
and operators involved in a
strike of 15.000 New York truck
drivers were at odds today over j
the annual wage of the truck
ers, with estimates ranging .
from $2,000 to $7,000.
Joseph Adelizzi, chairman of
the Joint Wage Scale Commit
tee of two employer groups, said
some of the drivers made up to
$7,000 last year and that under
the union's original demands
before the strike they would
have received $10,500 during the
next year.
However. David Kaplan, chief
economist of the International
Brotherhood of Teamsters and
Chauffeurs, AFL, said a ma
jority of the men drew less than
$2,000. Mr. Kaplan said a few
drivers might have earned up
to $6,000, particularly during
the war when overtime work
was commonplace, but added
such cases were isolated.
m strike at Cumberland and Hagers
town, Md. • !
Emanuel Bjrr, president of the i
Edition Bookbinders of New' York, a i
trade association, said 5,000 em- i
ployes of 11 book manufacturers ]
will be laid off "in about two days.”
He said the book manufacturers are
running out of paper, cloth and
other materials. ■
Textile Trade Hit.
A spokesman for the cotton tex
tile trade declared that New York’s ’
gigantic garment industry was ex
aected to exhaust its supply of ma
terials early next week, resulting in
widespread shutdowns.
There are 30.000 members of the
teamsters off the job around New!
York and yesterday the strike wid
ened south in New Jersey to Tren- [
ton.
Negotiations for wage increases;
were under way in Baltimore follow-!
ing termination of a union contract!
there August 31, but so far there
has been no walkout.
A truck operator said telegrams
canceling orders for finished prod
ucts were "pouring into New York”
from points as far north as Port
land, and as far south as Baltimore.
Shippers who normally send their
producis into the New York area;,
from Philadelphia and other places!
were diverting shipments to other!
areas, he said.
i onimue lo Disagree.
The strike brought various store
shortages in the New York metro
politan area, including such items as
butter, eggs, milk and cigarettes.
Union and management spokes
men continued to disagree on possi
bilities for settlement of the strike.
The union prepared to vote tomor
row on a compromise plan submit
ted by Mayor O’Dwyer.
The mayor suggested an 18'i cent;
hourly wage increase, work week re
duction and improved vacation bene- *
fits. The union has asked a 30 per i
cent wage increase.
Joseph M. Adelizzi, operators’ 1
spokesman, said the union's accept
ance of the mayor’s plan would only '
■prolong the strike,” and added the
plan was ‘'dead.”
John E. Strong, president of local
807, predicted the membership would 1
accept the plan and that ”50 per ]
cent of the employers” would sign, i
"breaking the lockout." i
New York Truck Strike
Is Yet to Affect Capital
The trucking strike in the New
York area as yet has had no notice- .
able effect in the Washington area, ]
although representatives of both j
business and labor said today that, i
if the strike continues long enough, ]
its impact will be felt, particularly ,
in receipts of retail merchandise. ,
While spokesmen for the trucking ;
(See TRUCKERS, Page A-2.) i
I
Athens (T enn.) City G o vernment
Quits in Outbreak of Shooting
Alderman's Home Fired On; Mayor Says
Situation Is Out of Veterans' Hands
By the Associated Prest
ATHENS. Tenn., Sept. 7.—The
backwash from a flood of unrest
following the August 1 riot, in
which war veterans supported
their ballots with bullets, left
this city without a municipal
governing body today.
Mayor Paul Walker and the Board
)f Aldermen addressed a letter “To
Whom It May Concern" yesterday,
lied a copy with City Recorder Lee
Hoses and quit, saving they feared
tor the safety of themselves and
heir families
Their drastic action followed a
locturnal reign of terror against the
ildermen which was climaxed when
shots were fired from a night-prowl
ng car into the home of Alderman
Hugh Riggs.
Mr. Riggs said he and his wife, two
laughters, son-in-law and 6-year
old grandson were asleep in their
home when the fusillade awakened
them about 1:15 a m. Thursday.
Bullets, he said, ripped into the
hallway and through the kitchen
windows. The rounds which passed
through the kitchen, came to rest
in a wall outside his bedroom, Mr.
Riggs said.
The Mayor of this once peaceful
East Tennessee farming town of
7,000 described the gunfire at Mr.
Riggs’ home as ‘ the worst yet," add
ing that "most of the board members
have received threats, mostly anony
mous telephone calls and anonymous
letters.”
“It is pretty bad." Mayor Walker
said, "when a gun is emptied into
the house in which your family is
asleep.”
The Mayer declared the city ad
ministration was in no way con-;
iSee ATHENS. Page A-2.1
Dr. Cline N. Chipman,
Noted Anesthetist,
Found Hanged Here
Washington Physician
For 38 Years Had Been
In III Health Recently
Dr. Cline N. Chipman, 62.
Washington physician for 38
i'ears, was found dead in his
iome at 8:40 a m. today, hang
ng from a rope tied to the sec
jnd-floor banister, according to
police.
Detectives found a note in the
oom of a daughter, Miss Katherine
3hipman. but said it did not relate j
o the physician's death. The body |
vas discovered by a maid, Christine !
‘Jelson, according to police. The1
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DR. CLINE N. CHIPMAN.
—Harris & Ewing Photo.
innn-uu« tr « * u «^
nan home, 1420 Rhode Island ave
lue N.W., yesterday to spend the
iveek end In New York City with
ler sister, Mrs. Martha Carr.
Dr. Chipman's wife, Mrs. Mary H.
Shipman, who resides at Auburn
iale, Fla., was notified of her hus
band's death and made preparations
,o fly here immediately. Dr. Chip
nan also is survived by a son, Cabell,
bf Lakeland, Fla.
Body Found in Stairwell.
Police said Dr. Chipman was
ittired in a dressing gown and
naroon pajamas when his body was
dund hanging in the stairwell. A
(See HANGING, Page A-2.)
Cuban General Fights
Crime Wave in Havana
By the Associated Press
HAVANA, Cuba, Sept. 7.—Presi
lent Ramon Grau San Martin ap
bointed Gen. Abelardo Gomez, for
ner adjutant general of the army,
us Havana’s police chief today with
he announcement the appointment
vas due to a crime wave, including
he murder of a cabinet minister's
ion last night.
Luis Martinez Saenz, 16, son of
3enator Joaquin Martinez Saenz,
eader of the ABC party and min
ster without portfolio in President
jrrau’s cabinet, was shot to death
ast night while riding in his father’s
•fflcial automobile in Miramar, just
icross the Almendares River from
lavana. His slayers have not been
captured.
i
Dealers Say Ceilings
On Meat Have Little
Immediate Benefit
OPA Moves to Enforce
Compliance on Prices
Effective Tuesday
OPA announcement of new
ceiling prices on meat, effective'
Tuesday, found industry spokes
men here today declaring the
new quotations will be of little
immediate benefit to the con
sumer because of a threatened
District meat shortage within
another week.
The new retail ceilings—which
will average about 3 s* cents a pound
higher than those of June 30 when
OPA temporarily expired — also
found OPA officials already In
specting all markets to force prompt
compliance and fight any return of
the black market.
Price Administrator Paul Porter
returned today from Chicago with
promises from major packers that
they will “help make meat price con
trols work.”
He asked and received such assur
ances when he flew' to Chicago for
a two and a half hour closed
meeting yesterday. Packers’ repre
sentatives at the session W'ere
pledged to secrecy, but it was learned
that Mr. Porter sounded a “let’s let
bygones be bygones” note, the Asso
ciated Press reported.
Mr. Porter reportedly agreed to
try to correct what the packers de-’
dared were “unfair” tactics by lesser
OPA officials.
OPA officials carefully avoided say- j
ing just how much the overall de-1
crease in prices will be from the pres- j
ent “uncontrolled” meat prices, but j
they accepted Secretary of Agricul
ture Anderson's earlier estimate1
that pork at the livestock level!
would be about 30 percent lower
than current costs.
The new prices, however, still will
mean a total estimated increase of
$600,000,000 in annual meat bills of
the American consumer.
Some meats, including about 42
per cent of the pork and smaller
shares of lamb and mutton, will;
return to June 30 levels. But prime I
cuts of beef and other choice meats
will be as much as 18 cents a
pound higher. ,
The feeling of meat industry ,
spokesmen in Washington that a ,
shortage will soon develop here was
reflected to some extent in a radio i
(See MEAT, Page A-2.) ‘l
Soviet U. N. Delegates
Reported Seeking
Delay on Atom Report
Further Time to Study
Security Council's Digest
Sought by Gromyko
By th« Associated Press
NEW YORK, Sept. 7—An au
thoritative non-Russian source
said today that the Soviet dele
gation to the United Nations Se
curity Council had asked for
postponement of final action on
a scientific report to the Atomic
Energy Commission and also of
the Council’s draft report to the
General Assembly.
Soviet Delegate Andrei A. Gromvkr
was quoted by this source as saying
he had not had time to study th<
Council s digest, which was examinee
in a two-and-a-half-hour secrei
Council session yesterday.
The meeting adjourned with th<
suggestion that amendments shoult
be offered within the next severa
days so the general report could b<
whipped into final form. It wil
contain the Council's summation o
the unsettled Russian-Iranian an<
Spanish cases and the pending
Soviet-Ukraine complaint againsi
Greece.
In an informal meeting of tht
Scientific and Technical Committee
of the Atomic Energy Commission at
U. N. headquarters the Russian
member was reported to have asked
for a stay until Monday on the final
approval of its report.
No Objection Reported.
Although the Russian member,
Prof. S. P. Alexandrov, was reported
to have raised no objection to the
report drafted as the result of 18
meetings the scientists have held, he
was said to be waiting for final word
from Moscow'. A colleague with
whom he alternated in the discus
sions on the presumably noncontro
versial questions was reported to
have departed for Moscow in the last
several days.
Council delegations and the U. N.
secretariat were deeply concerned,
meantime, over the Russian demand
for postponement until November 11
of the General Assembly meeting
scheduled for September 23 in New
York and formally called for that
date by Secretary General Trygve
Lie in the face of Russian opposi
tion in Paris in the last week.
The secretariat hoped that the
meeting, for which painstaking and
irrevocable housing and other ar
rangements had been made, would
go on at the insistence of Secretary
of State Byrnes on his return to the
peace conference tomorrow.
Bevin Delays Acceptance.
It w'as noted likewise that British
Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin had
iSee U. N., Page A-2. i
Seven Are Killed in Crash
Of Cuban Transport Plane
•y tht Asiociattd Prt»
HAVANA, Sept. 7.—Seven persons,
including an American, were killed
ast night in a crash of a Cuban Ex
preso Aero Interamericano passen
ger plane on the outskirts of the
iow’n of Esperanza, about 6 miles
west of Santa Clara.
Dispatches said the two-engined
Ljodestar plane carrying four pas
;engers and three crewmen, crashed
nto a small house outside the town,
while attempting to make a forced
anding when it ran out of fuel.
The American, said to have been
i passenger and mechanic for the
tirline, was not identified immedi
itely.
Reports said the plane left Santa
Ilara for Havana but encountered
lari weather and returned.
Mitscher Passes Restless Night
After Appendicitis Operation
By tho Associated Press
VALETTA, Malta, Sept. 7.—Ad
miral Marc A. Mitscher, operated on
for appendicitis yesterday at Malta's
big naval hospital, passed a restless
night, but was resting somewhat
easier this morning, hospital au
thorities said today.
Admiral Mitscher, 59-year-old act
ing commander in chief of the
United States Atlantic Fleet, was
seized while conferring yesterday
with Admiral Sir Algernon Willis,
British Mediterranean naval com
mander in chief.
He and Vice Admiral Forrest P.
Sherman, deputy chief of United
States naval operations, had arrived
i
I earlier in the day from Naples for
! consultations.
No official announcement was
! made, but authoritative naval cir
cles here said the talks concerned
plans for a rendezvous of the Amer
ican force now visiting Greece and
the British Mediterranean fleet.
The famous British cruiser Ajax,
recently engaged in operations con
nected with diversion of illegal Jew
ish immigrants from Palestine to
Cyprus, weighed anchor today.
Usually reliable sources said the
Ajax would proceed to Trieste and j
stand by there for three weeks be-1
fore Joining the British fleet for j
maneuvers. 1
t
Indefinite Delay
In Third Atom
Test Ordered
Truman Holds Two
Explosions Permit
Proper Evaluation
President Truman today or
dered indefinite postponement
of the third atomic bomb test—
a deep underwater explosion
planned for Bikini early next
year.
A White House statement said the
I success of the earlier tests led the
Joint Chiefs of Staff to believe the
information to be gleaned from the
third would not justify it in “the
near future "
me text oi me statement, iouows;
“In view of the successful com
pletion of the first two atomic bomb
tests of Operation Crossroads and
the information derived therefrom,
the Joint Chiefs of Staff have con
cluded that the third explosion, test
C' should not be conducted in the
near future. The information ob
tained from tests 'A' and B' to
gether with the knowledge derived
from the original experimental test
in New Mexico and from study of
the results of the explosions in Hiro
shima and Nagasaki will enable our
scientific and military experts to
make a proper evaluation of the
effects of this weapon.
"The addition! information of
value expected to result from test
C' is such that the Joint Chiefs of
Staff do not feel that completion of
; this test in the near future is jus
tified.'’
“The Joint Chiefs of Staff are ex
tremely gratified by the conduct and
! results of the atomic bomb tests and
consider the entire operation an un
qualified success.
"The invaluable assistance of the
civilian scientific personnel and the
| interservice co-operation toward a
(common end were major factors in
(achieving this success.”
j Press Secretary Charles G. Ross.
| who first announced the postpone
ment, said that it was not to be
i interpreted as a cancellation.
! He said that Secretary of War
(Patterson and Secretary of the
(Navy Forrestal agreed to the post
ponement as did the President*
(commission to evaluate the Bikini
tests headed by Senator Hatch.
!Democrat, of New Mexico. Mr. Ross
(said the postponement w'ould save
(about $35,000,000.
The matter was discussed at yes
terday's cabinet meeting.
(Waitress Shot Dead
; ln Baltimore Club
By th* Associated Pros*
j BALTIMORE. Sept. 7—A 22
jvear-old waitress, crossing a night
j club floor with a handful of glasses,
t was shot and killed early today, and
a Honduran seaman who had knowm
her only five days was charged with
the slaying.
The waitress w’as identified as
Mrs. Venia Greene Gilley, native of
j Kentucky, who had been employed
; at the Oasis Club for about five
months. Police said she was the
mother of a three-year-old child.
! Jose R. Membreno. 24. identified
(as a sailor from Honduras, was ar
rainged before Magistrate Elmer J.
Hammer and held without bond for
hearing September 23.
Police Lt. Thomas J. Mooney said
several persons saw the shooting.
Mrs. Gilley was helping clear off
tables when Membreno shot her, Lt.
Mooney said.
James A. Orlove. co-owner of the
club, said Membreno tossed the gun
to him.
The sailor said the girl had broken
a date with him and on one occa
sion directed him to an address
which was not her home.
Police in Venezia Giulia
Alerted for Disturbances
By the Associated Press
TRIESTE. Sept. 7.—Military and
i civilian police were on the alert
| throughout disputed Venezia Giulia
today, fearful of possible new dis
turbances arising from illegal cele
brations of the third anniversary
of Italy's surrender September 8,
1943.
All petitions by pro-Yugoslav or
ganizations to hold mass demonstra
tions in Trieste or other towns of
Venezia Giulia have been rejected
by the Allied military government
and Col. Alfred C. Dowman, military
government chief, said any un
authorized demonstrations would be
stopped "to protect life and prop
erty.”
In Muggia. Italy. 10 miles south of
Trieste, 50 British and American
soldiers used clubs and cartridge
belts to break up an "unauthorized”
demonstration last night by 1.500
Yugoslav sympathizers celebrating
the anniversary. One American
soldier suffered a minor shoulder
injury in the fray.
All-Night Check by CAA
Fails to Locate Plane
By the Associated Press
CHICAGO, Sept. 7.—The Civil
Aeronautics Administration reported
today that, despite an all-night
check, it had been unable to locate
a two-engined plane reported miss
ing on a Detroit-Milwaukee flight.
The CAA said the last report on
the plane, a Cessna capable of carry
ing from six to eight passengers,
came at 3:40 p.m. <EST> yester
day. The CAA radio station at
Jackson, Mich., then reported the
ship 15 miles northeast of Jackson
and “trying to make it to Chicago.”
The CAA said a check of airports
in the Chicago area showed no
trace of the plane, which bore the
number NC 61812. The name of
the owner or the number of pas
sengers was not available here.
“It’s possible he landed for gas
and then went on,” the spokesman
said. "But we've been unable to
And any trace of the ship."
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