Defense Homes Corp.
Sells 144-Acre Tract
To Granik's Group
Defense Homes Corp. has ac
cepted a bid of $432,000 for a
144-acre tract of land on New
Hampshire avenue, extended, at
University lane, from a group of
Washington business and profes
sional men headed by Theodore
Granik, attorney and moderator
of the American Forum of the
Air.
That was announced today by
William A. Ziegler, DHC general
manager, who said the purchasers
had submitted plans for develop
ment of a rental housing project
to provide 2,000 veterans’ dwellings.
The tract, site of the Federal
Public Housing Authority's war
housing re-use demonstration early
this year, was purchased by DHC
in 1942 from the McCormick-Good
hart estate as a war housing site,
but was never developed. It is situ
ated in Montgomery and Prince
Georges County, Md.. about l\
miles from the District line.
The Granik group’s bid was the
highest of 12 submitted to DHC,
Mr. Ziegler said.
Also associated with the pur
chasers is Col. Julius I. Peyser,
chairman of the board of the Se
curity Savings & Commercial Bank,
who is a past commander of the
American Legion in the District.
In consideration of the bids of
fered, DHC said it would “give pref
erence to the prospective purchaser
offering the best plan of developing
the site immediately for moderate
cost housing for veterans, service
men and their families.’’
The terms also require the pur
chaser to agree to pay cash for the
the property at the time the sale is
closed.
Charles M. Goodman Associates
have been retained as architects and
construction engineers for develop
ment of the 2,000-home project.
Prior to announcement of ac
ceptance of the bid, another bidder,
the Veterans' Mutual Housing As
sociation, Inc., headed by L. B.
Wilson, a District Fire Department
captain, announced it would file an
injunction to prevent disposal of
the land.
Robert F. Sutphin, attorney for
the association, said the group had
filed a bid of $144,000 for the prop
erty.
When informed today of DHC's
announcement, Mr. Sutphin said i
the association would go ahead with
its plan to seek an injunction.
“We’re going to try to stop them
If we can,” he said.
Bolivia Mob Hangs 3,
Including President's
Would-Be Assassin
By Associated Press
LA PAZ, Bolivia, Sept. 28.—Three
military men, one a would-be assas
sin of Bolivia’s new President, were
hanged by an angry mob here yes-,
tjerdaoriir t$e first big cnjl^reafc of
violence since the July 21 revolution.'
A howling crowd estimated at
80,000 threw ropes over lampposts in.
the city plaza and strung up Luis
Oblitas Bustamante, former lieu-,
tenant; and two majors. 'Jose Esco
bar and Jorge Eguino, La Paz police
chiefs before President Gualberto
Villarroel was deposed and hanged
last summer.
The lynchers took Oblitas Busta
mente from police near the office of
President Monje Gutierrez, where he
had clubbed an aide with a pistol
butt and threatened to shoot the
President.
They broke into the city jail to
seize the majors, who were charged
with criminality under Villarroel
and were awaiting trial. Escobar,
was unconscious when hanged. Equi- j
no tried to speak to the crowd. The
rope broke with him and he was dis
patched with two bullets.
Oblitas Bustamente, witnesses j
said, knocked down Presidental At- j
tache Mario Pinedo with his pistol, j
opened the President’s office door
and saw Monje Gutierrez talking
with Public Works Minister Carlos
Munoz.
“I am going to be President,” they
heard him say.
“I am here by the will of the peo
ple,” said the President and opened
his coat. “You will have to kill me
first. Shoot and you can sit in that
chair. Shoot.”
Police seized the intruder before
he could act.
Texas Flood Sweeps
Toward Gulf
f By tha Anooated Pr«s»
SAN ANTONIO. Sept. 28—The
crest of the flash flood that left six
known dead, seven missing and
property damage in millions here
Thursday night and yesterday, swept
toward the Gulf of Mexico today.
The Weather Bureau warned low
land residents along the course of
the winding San Antonio River to
find higher ground. The floods
crest was expected to flatten as it
spread over the widening river
valley.
■- San Antonio faced a major clean
up and rehabilitation problem. Dr.
Dudley A. Reekie, city health di
rector urged residents of water
logged areas to take special sanitary
precautions.
Physical damage to buildings,
streets, household furnishings and
store stocks in San Antonio was va
riously estimated at from $1,000,000
to $8,000,000. Water poured into the
basements of many downtown busi
ness buildings.
poomed Gl Fugitive
founded in Capture
ty th» A.tociotad Pr.ii
* PARIS, Sept. 28.—Pvt. John D.
McClelland of Whitaker, Pa., was
5*ld under guard today in the dis
Ensary of the Paris detention bar
cks, wounded three times by mili
tary policemen who shot him as au
escaped Army prisoner.
; McClelland, convicted by court
martial of criminally attacking an
fl-year-old girl in Rheims and un
der sentence to hang, fled the deten
tion barracks September 9 while his
i£se was awaiting review. The escape
Wps his third since his arrest a year
4°.
JMPs watched Vincennes woods,
£st of Paris, on a tip from an uni
ftntifled French girl. They sighted
fim yesterday and fired. They said
ft had dropped his hands to his
(ftusers pocket, but a search showed
m had no gun.
I
PROPOSED NEW TEMPLE BAPTIST CHURCH—This building is to be erected at Sixteenth and
Juniper streets N.W. at a cost of $250,000. Construction will start as soon as materials are
available. A. H. Sonnerman is the architect. The building will be air conditioned and equipped
with intercommunicating system. Charles M. Medford is chairman of the Building Committee.
The 104th anniversary of the church, which is now located at Tenth and N streets N.W., will be
observed next Sunday.
Democrats Enlist Aid
Of Pepper, Wallace
In November Elections
By the Associated Press
The Democratic National Com
mittee today achieved at least a
pre-election armistice with Henry
A. Wallace and Senator Pepper of
Florida, the party's severest critics
| of administration foreign policy.
First the committee announced it
will handle arrangements for their
campaign speeches on behalf of the
! ticket in the November elections.
Then Representative Sparkman of
Alabama, chairman of the Commit
tee Speakers’ Bureau, predicted
President Truman will run in 1948
! and that both Mr. Wallace and
; Senator Pepper will support him.
Just one week ago Mr. Sparkman,
referring to Mr. Wallace and Sen
ator Pepper, had told a reporter:
“We don't want to send out any
one as a speaker who is going to cail
Secretary Byrnes a reactionary or
say he is all wet, or any one who
is going to urge independent voters
to stay home.”
Counting on Pepper Support.
But last night Chairman Robert
E. Hannegan of the National Com
mittee and Mr. Sparkman an
nounced jointly that they had dis
cussed the campaign with Senator
Pepper and that he will speak in
support of Democratic nominees in
various parts of the country.
“We are counting on him to be
very helpful,” and added “he agrees
with us that it is vital to the future
welfare of this country to return a
Democratic Congress on Novem
ber 5.”
Mr. Hannegan had said Thurs
day that the committee would in
vite Mr. Wallace to address Demo
cratic groups who wanted to hear
him.
Sponsorship is not Factor.
Committee officials said the ques
tion of whether Mr. Wallace and
Senator Pepper have official “spon
sorship” is not a factor. If a party
organization wants either to speak,
the committee will ask them to <
accept.
Mr. Sparkman's declaration that!
he believes President Truman will
seek re-election came later during a
radio interview.
“What about a Wallace-Pepperj
ticket?” he was asked.
“They have both said they are
against a third party," Mr. Spark
man answered. “I expect both of |
them backing the Democratic nomi- i
nee.”
Asked whether the party had |
suffered great harm from the Wal
lace-Pepper blasts against admin
istration foreign policy which led
to Mr. Wallace's dismissal from the
cabinet, Mr. Sparkman replied:
“I would rather that it had not
happened, but I don’t think it did
the party great harm.”
May Ignore Foreign Policy.
A Wallace aide said last night the’
former Commerce Secretary has
speaking dates October 21 and 22
in Michigan and probably also will
be heard in Pennsylvania, Wiscon
sin. Indiana and Minnesota under
auspices of the State Democratic
organizations. i
The aide expressed belief Mr.
Wallace will lay off further foreign
policy discussions until after the
Paris Peace Conference and stump
for the party as a whole on domestic
issue only.
Senator Pepper will speak tomor
row in Chicago. Later engagements
will be in Boston, New Haven,-At
lanta, Brooklyn, Michigan, Indiana
and Pennsylvania, the national
committee said.
Toma Mother' Flying
Home in Army Plane
By th* Associated Press
ALLENTOWN, Pa., Sept 28 —
“Coma Mother” Mrs. Rhoda Wenger
left in a DC-3 Army hospital plane
today for an 18-hour flight home
to San Francisco so she could stay
near her soldier husband.
The 22-year-old brunette, helpless
from a brain injury suffered in an
automobile accident 10 months ago,
was accompanied by her 4-months
old daughter Karen Beth and hus
band Leland.
Sergt. Wenger, also hurt in the
crash with her, is being transferred
from Walter Reed Hospital at Wash
ington, to Letterman General Hos
pital.
Poland Strips Anders
And 74 of Citizenship
By th« Associated Pr«s
RADOM, Poland. Sept. 68 —The
| government yesterday stripped Gen.
; Wladyslaw Anders, leader of the
1 Polish Corps, and 74 other Poles of
their citizenship.
A Foreign Ministry spokesman
said the order also deprived Gen.
Stanislaw Kopanski, now in London,
of his citizenship.
The government decree appar
ently was aimed at closing the door
to their homeland to all those
known definitely to have joined the
Polish Resettlement Corps in Great
Britain.
I
ANTONIO NOVARRO
FERNANDEZ.
Swindle
'’Continued From First Page t j
had arranged for him to obtain
Canadian citizenship.
Later the Washingtonian, accom
panied by an Eastern industrialist,
again met Fernandez in Montreal.
There was a conference in a hotel
room. Fernandez telephoned his,
“friend" the church official and
ostensibly discussed his charitable
contributions to the church and his
plans for Canadian citizenship. The
friendship with the church official
was entirely ficticious, the FBI said.
Pledged Stock as Collateral.
Fernandez represented to his
Washington victim he needed $75,000
to fulfill his promise of a contribu
tion to the church, and an addi
tional $75,000 to pay the person who
held in his possession the code book I
containing the names of the banks
where the safe deposit boxes were,!
and the names in which they were
held.
The Washingtonian agreed to lend
Fernandez $125,000, and raised the!
money by borrowing it from a Co- j
lumbia, S. C., bank, pledging as!
collateral 10,000 shares of stock car
ried in the name of his friend, the
industrialist. The loan fell due yes
terday, ironically the same day
Fernandez was apprehended in
Miami.
The Washingtonian went back to
Canada a third time and gave Fer
nandez a promisory note to sign.
A few days later Fernandez ap
peared in Washington, gave his
benefactor a 90-day note and also
produced the “code book.” The
book was a Bible. Fernandez ap
plied a hot iron to certain pages.
The heat made visible writing in
secret ink and there appeared the
names of banks and names of per
sons who presumably were those to
whom the safe deposit boxes had
been rented.
Money Was Handed Over.
Apparently the demonstration was
convincing. The Washingtonian
turned over the $125,000—in cash.
Last July 25 Fernandez went to
a bank at Toronto and deposited
$120,000 in United States currency
and received a letter of credit in
ttie United States. Subsequently,
he presented the letter to a large
New York bank, opened an account
and later withdrew $15,000.
However, in Canada where Fer-1
nandez's record was known, an in
vestigation had started which led
to his arrest. Officials of the bank
where Fernandez had deposited the
$120,000 checked and found the cur
rency to be genuine. However, the
Royal Canadian Mounted Police,
who apparently were called in for
the currency check, became sus
picious because of what they knew
of Fernandez and notified the FBI.
Traced to Caribbean Area.
He was traced to the Dominican
Republic and from there to Vene
zuela, where he was arrested on
September 18 as an undesirable
alien. He was expelled from the
country. He went to Curacao, in
the Dutch West Indies, where he
again was arrested and expelled by
being put aboard a nonstop plane
for Miami.
When he arrived in Miami the
FBI collared him.
A complaint was filed in New
York Wednesday charging Fernan
dez with violation of the National
Stolen Property Act and a warrant
was issued, Mr. Hoover said. The
New York bank was notified trans
fer of the funds still on deposit
would be a violation of the law.
Fernandez was interned in Cuba
during the World War as a sus
pected German agent, according to
the FBI. He served three years in
a United States Federal prison for
violation of the immigration laws
and later was sentenced to a 1-to
10-year term in California, the FBI
announced. He was deported to
Germany in 1929, came back in
1938, but voluntarily went to South
: America, the FBI said. He was ar
i ested in British Columbia in 1940
and was interned during the war,
according to Mr. Hoover.
Relics Sought in Blitz Ruins
American and Dutch students
are participating in a search of
blitzed Canterbury, England, sites
for Roman relics.
Reds Renew Demand
On Turkey to Join
In Straits Defense
By the Associated Press
MOSCOW, Sept. 28.—Russia re
newed her demands on Turkey to
day that both nations join in organ
izing a defense of the vital Darda
nelles gateway to the Mediterranean
without the aid of any outside pow
ers.
In disclosing a note replying to
Turkish rejjejction August 22 of
such a Soviet proposal, the Russian
j Foreign Ministry said:
“Despite the point of view ex
pressed by the Turkish note the
Soviet government maintains the
opinion that only by joint means
can Turkey and the Soviet Union
secure freedom of merchant naviga
tion and also security in the straits.
“Refusal by Turkey of joint de
fense of the straits with the Soviet
Union deprives the Black Sea pow
ers of the possibility of guarantee
i due the security of the region.”
I The Foreign Ministry disclosed
that Russia had asked Turkey to
enter into direct bilateral discussions
on the future control of the Darda
nelles.
Under the Soviet proposal, such
a two-power meeting would precede
any formal conference involving
other nations signatory to the pres
ent nine-power Montreux conven
tion under which the straits are
controlled.
Truman
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1 great emergency through which we
have just been."
Speaks at Mess Hall.
The President spoke in the mess
hall where he lunched with the
corps before a review that served
as the curtain-raiser for the game.
As "shining examples” of military
leaders, “doing peacetime jobs just
as important as their wartime jobs.”
the President cited Gen. George C.
Marshall, former Chief of Staff, now’
special envoy to China: Gen. Omar
Bradley, veterans’ administrator, and
Vice Admiral Ben Moreell, who
has just returned after operating
the coal mines for the Government.
“Give the country the best you
have, and no matter what they may
say about you for wearing a uniform
in the future, maintain that dignity
that goes with the leadership that
has made his country great,” he
concluded.
The “Sacred Cow.” carrying the
President and his party, landed at
Stewart Field at 9:10 a.m. and the
President drove in a motorcade
paced by New York State troopers
over 16 miles of rural roads to the
Army school.
Weather Is Excellent.
The l-hour-and-15-minute trip
from Washington was made under
excellent weather conditions, al
though it was overcast at the
! takeoff.
i Stew’art Field, terminus of the
i President's flight, is the basic and
advanced flying school for the Mili
i tary Academy.
; At the airfield the President was
i greeted by Maj. Gen. Maxwell Tay
! lor, academy superintendent, and
! his staff. Standing at attention was
*an honor guard, and, after the cus
tomary honors, including the 21-gun
salute, had been rendered, Mr. Tru
eman, accompanied by Gen. Taylor
i and Cadet Capt. John J. Lowry of
Casper, Wyo., inspected the guard.
On arrival at West Point the
: President, making his first visit, went
for a tour of inspection.
Receives Set of Dinner Plates.
As a souvenir of the trip, the Pres
ident received a set of 12 West Point
dinner plates at the review preceding
the game.
It was recalled today that the
President as a boy had hoped to
enter the Military Academy,*but poor
eyesight barred him.
The game today gave the Presi
dent an opportunity to see an Army
football team for the second year
in succession. He attended the
Army-Navy game in Philadelphia
last year.
The game was the season's opener
for Oklahoma. West Point started
its schedule last week with a 35-0
victory over Villanova, to continue
an unbroken string of victories
going back to 1943.
Reception Due After Game.
The Oklahoma team was accom
panied by Dr. George Cross, presi
dent of the university. Three mem
bers of the Oklahoma congressional
delegation likewise were listed—
Repsentatives Johnson and Boren,
Democrats, who were beaten in the
primaries earlier this year, and Rep
resentative Rizley, Republican.
After the game, the President will
hold a reception. He is due back
in Washington at 7:15 tonight.
With the President are his mili
tary and naval aides, Maj. Gen.
Harry H. Vaughan and Capt. James
H. Foskett; Admiral William D.
Leahy, chief of staff; Brig. Gen.
Wallace Graham, personal physi
cian. and Press Secretary Charles
G. Ross.
Reporters and photographers flew
here in>an accompanying plane.
4
Small Sees Shortage j
Of Employes, Suggests
Longer Work Week
By th« Associated Press
John D. Small, the civilian pro
duction administrator, says em
ployment of the Nation's work
force is “bumping the ceiling” j
and the only way to raise present
high production levels substan
tially will be a longer work week.
His monthly production report
showed August output of such goods 1
as radios, electric stoves, irons and!
vacuum cleaners running 40 to 65
per cent higher than in prewar years, j
Automobile production was up 10;
per cent from July, Mr. Small said, |
and the industry expects to produce I
at a monthly rate of 333,000 for Sep
! tember, October and November
1 against 312.000 a month in 1941.
Sees Manpower Shortage.
The Nation now has 58,000,000 em-1
t ployed and only 2,000,000 jobless, Mr.
I Small told a news conference yes
terday. adding:
“If things continue the way they
have been running the last few
months we are going to be very!
short of manpower by the end of ■
the year.”
He said he believed organized labor i
would agree to work longer hours if j
j compensated at overtime rates.
Mr. Small's production report said
j August residential construction |
: jumped 7 per cent compared with
J July and exceeded non-residential;
. building for the first time since
; October, 1941. Building material out
1 put went up 20 to 25 per cent.
Consumer Goods Figures.
“This record of achievement,” the
report added, “has probably never
been surpassed in the history of
building materials production over
a comparable period of time. In
deed, it compares most favorably
with the rates of production increase
in military programs of high ur
gency during the war.”
CPA cited these figures on output
of consumer goods:
Shoes—Up 17 per cent in August
above July, but production “will fall
again in September” due to the
sharp drop in cattle slaughter and
hide output.
Washing machines—August ship
ments were up 13 per cent over July,
totaling 212,000 units.
Refrigerators—Shipments in Au
jgust declined about 1 per cent to
I about 218,000 units.
Sewing Machines Show Drop.
Vacuum cleaners—An 11 per cent
increase in shipments in August
brought the total to 218,000, up from
197.000 in July.
Sewing machines—S h i p m e nt s
dropped, totaling 29,000 in August
as compared with 35,000 in July.
Radios—Shipments continued to
climb, totaling 1,700,000 in August
against 1,300,000 in July.
Gas stoves—168,825 in August,
127.000 in July.
Electric stoves—66,000 in August,
57.000 in July.
Electric irons—608.000 in August,
521.000 in July.
Passenger tires—5,800,000 in Au
gust, 4,900,000 in July.
Polish Counselor Applies
To Wed Englishwoman
Dr. Stefan Litauer, Minister
Counseler of the Polish Embassy,
yesterday applied for a license to
marry Mrs. Mary Frances Porritt,
40, of Dorset House, London.
The marriage is scheduled to take
place at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday in the
chambers of Judge Nathan Mar
gold in Municipal Court, Dr. Litauer
said.
In filing the application in Dis
trict Court yesterday, the 55-year
old diplomat said his first marriage
with the death of his wife. He gave
his legal residence as the Embassy',
2640 Sixteenth street N.W.
Mrs. Porritt, the application said,
was divorced.
Dr. Litauer was in the Polish dip
lomtaic service until 1929, when he
became a journalist. He was head
of the London Bureau of PAT, the
: Polish News Agency, until last No
i vember, when he was appointed
; Minister Counseler at the Embassy
here.
He said he and Mrs. Porritt met
during the war in London while she
was with the British Red Cross.
Power
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and that operators, when asked why
they had left their cars, said:
“We don’t want to get hurt.”
The spokesman added motormen
in all cases drove the cars into the
bams before abandoning them.
The AFL Central Labor Union,
with a membership of 175,000, which
had supported the Duquesne Light
workers in their battle against an
antistrike injunction, issued a state
ment saying “we now serve notice
I on them (the strikers) that the AFL
: will not tolerate any interference
I by them with any companies using
power with which we have agree
ments.”
The statement continued:
“We propose to • • * provide the
public with transportation facilities
so long as there is power. It is the
responsibility of our affiliates to man
transportation facilities required by
the AFL and CIO members and the
public to go to and come from work.”
AFL officials did not indicate what
steps they would take to restore in
terrupted bus and streetcar service.
Anthony J. Federoff, regional di
rector of the CIO, who also sup
ported the anti-injunction fight, said
the CIO hoped the conduct of
George L. Mueller, independent un
ion president, “will not embarrass
the legitimate labor movement, or
we will be compelled to divorce our
selve completely in supporting him.”
The union seeks a 20 per cent pay
raise, which would boost the average
base rate from $1.18 to $1.41; the
company offers 5 per cent.
Fewer people were on the streets.
Many shops and office buildings were
closed. Automobiles were more evi
dent.
Citizens still were getting electri
cal service in their homes but were
urged to be sparing of its use.
Housewives grew restive under con
tinued postponement of washings
and ironings. Some disregarded
pleas of the light company that no
appliances be used.
The average person was incon
venienced but not suffering physi
cally. Some were hurt financially.
About 70,000 clerical and production
workers among the >1,500,000 resi
dents in the 817-square-mile affected
area were idle. The work stoppage
caused at least $10,000,000 loss to
business, industry and payrolls.
Actor Dies Aboard Ship
NEW YORK, Sept. 28 (JF).—'The
United States Line said yesterday
that Charles Bruce Winston, 67,
British actor-designer, died of a
heart ailment while en route to the
United States on the ship John
Erickson.
k
Kidnaper of Woman |
In New Jersey Hunted!
Here and in 11 States
Special FBI agents have been
ordered on a night and day hunt
in an effort to apprehend the pistol
brandishing ex-convict said to have
kidnaped his former sweetheart from
her New Jersey home, but authori
ties here and in 11 States today ad
mitted they had no clues as to the
man's whereabouts.
FBI officials said tfiey had posi
tively identified the man as Chal
mers Laubaugh. 36, formerly of the
1100 block Tenth street N.W., on
parole from a District Court sen
tence of from one to four years for
violating the Mann Act.
Lookout Broadcast Here.
In a lookout broadcast today.
District police said Laubaugh was
believed to be driving an auto
mobile bearing Ohio tag E-282-D,
that he may be carrying knives in
addition to a gun, and was possibly
en route to Akron, Ohio, where his
parents reside.
The lookout gave a house in the
1400 block N street N.W.. as another
address where Laubaugh formerly
lived.
The officials said he forced Mrs.
Mary Pyle Kimmey, 26, from her
bed in her nome in Little Silver,
N. J., yesterday, slugged her hus
band. and fled with her toward
Washington.
According to the FBI, Mrs. Kim
mey, under the name of Mary Jess
Pyle, was convicted in District Court
last December on a charge of per
jury in connection with testimony
she save in Laubaugh's behalf at his
Mann Act trial. She received a
sentence of from one to three years
from Justice James M. Proctor, the
FBI said.
However, her attorney petitioned
for a new trial on grounds her testi
mony was not material and that cer
tain evidence was erroneously ad
mitted. The United States. Court of
Appeals for the District reversed the
conviction in June this year.
The FBI said Mrs. Kimmey ia now
out on bond pending final determin
natlon of her case, which awaits
disposition of a current move by the
Government to upset the appellate
court's ruling.
Mrs. Kimmey and her husband,
Sergt. Glenn F. Kimmey, who is
from Huntsville, Tex., were married
nine months ago following his re
jtum from two years’ service in Eu
rope. She is a former Government
(clerk here and at one time was a
waitress in a restaurant on Rhode
Island avenue in Brentwood, Md.
Laubaugh Convicted of Burglary.
Laubaugh was convicted in his
trial on a specific charge of forcing
a woman named as Shirley Estelle
Shelton into his car in Anderson,
:Ind., and bringing her to Washing
ton. Miss Shelton, the FBI said,
was also convicted last December
j on a charge of perjury arising from
her testimony at Laubaugh’s trial.
She received a sentence of one to
three years.
In addition to his Mann Act rec
ord, Laubaugh was convicted in 1928
at Youngstown, Ohio, and given
from 1 to 20 years in prison for
burglary and larceny, court records
showed.
According to the District Parole
Board, Laubaugh was paroled last
June 24 after serving part of his
one-to-four year sentence at Lorton
Reformatory. He was sentenced on
May 4, 1945. The man was sent
back to his parents’ home in Akron,
parole officials said, and reported
periodically to the District Court
parole officer there through Au
gust 4.
Pittsburgh
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I potential death, sickness, disease
and deprivation.
“In any event this situation was
not covered by the anti-injunction
act of 1937 and is outside its scope
and was not contemplated by the
legislature when it passed the act,”
she said.
Judge Walter P. Smart, also a
Democrat, issued a five-day tem
porary injunction, later extended 12
days, and the kickback was more
than labor circles could bear.
It depended on which side of the
party line you stood whether the
injunction had a chance of surviving
upper court scrutiny. Legal minds
all over the*area still are quoting the
Constitution. One, feeling the means
justified the end, read the Ninth
Amendment:
“The enumeration in the Constitu
tion of certain rights shall not be
construed to deny or disparage others
retained by the people.”
13th Amendment Cited.
The 13th Amendment, prohibiting
slavery and involuntary servitude
except as a punishment for crime,
was cited by an anti-injunction man.
Coming a minute before a proposed
September 9 walkout, the injunction
was characterized in some circles as
“dramatic political fakerv of the
midnight session.” Dodging con
troversies, Miss Alpern still lets the
court transcript speak for itself as
to her premises.
What chance the injunction would
stand against the Wagner Labor Re
lations Act, which defines the right
to strike and picket, is another
matter.
Fourteen years younger than the
56-year-old Mr. Lawrence, Mr.
Mueller felt his way up the ladder
from a bearing babbiter at Pitts
burgh Railways Co. in 1924. through
night high school classes, a B S in
electrical engineering at Carnegie
Tech and the presidency of the
Duquesne Union in 1939.
Quick to incur the wrath of the
established unions, he not always
has pleased co-leaders of his own
crowd. During a sitdown strike of
375 workers in 1944, he was the only
dissenter when eight general com
mitteemen voted to end the strike.
When the committee brought im
peachment proceedings against him,
he carried the fight to the member
ship and was absolved.
41 Formosans to Face
Trial for Gun Battle
By tho Associated Pross
TOKYO, Sept. 28.—The 8th Army
judge advocate today announced
41 Formosans will be arraigned
Monday before a military commis
sion on various charges based on a
July gun battle with police in which
several persons were killed and
others were wounded. The clash
was said to have developed from a
black market dispute.
Prosecutors are Maj. Dick Elliott,
Memphis, Tenn.; Robert Scott, Fort
Smith, Ark., and George T. Hagen,
Crookston, Minn.
T/5 Herbert L. Berman, Boston,
and Lin Ting-sheng, Chinese lawyer
in the 8th Army judge advocate’^
office, are defense counsel.
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Republican Named Mayor
Of Athens in Heavy Vote
By Associated Press
ATHENS, Tenn., Sept. 28.—With
little fanfare, this little East Ten-!
nessee town—scene of an election
night riot two months ago—has
elected a new Mayor.
A 58-year-old Republican new
comer to politics, Rhea Hammer, was
named Mayor on the basis of almost
complete returns from the heaviest
vote in the city’s history.
Mr. Hammer will replace Paul J.
Walker, who resigned early this
month after the turbulent August 1
election night battle between vet- \
erans and sheriff's deffhties over the
counting of ballots.
The former servicemen did not
participate formally in yesterday's
election, in which four aldermen and
six members of the School Board
also were chosen.
GOP Women Hear
Brewster Deride Rift
In Democratic Party
By Gretchen Smith
Star Staff Correspondent
PHILADELPHIA. Sept. 28.—Sen
ator Brewster, Republican, of Maine
told the Federation of Women’s Re
publican Clubs here today that the
Democratic donkey occupies the
“unfortunate position of a chame
leon on a kaleidoscope.”
“The Democratic Party in Con
gress is hopelessly divided and the
irreconcilable conflict within the
ranks is now evident,” he declared
at the closing session of the federa
tion's fourth biennial convention at'
the Bellevue Stratford Hotel.
A Republican victory in the con-j
gressional elections in November,
he said, would signify "support for
the bipartisan foreign policy of
Byrnes and Vandenberg.” He added
that "that way lies the best hope
of peace.”
Says Some Candidates Look Yellow.
Explaining his statement that
the Democratic ranks are divided,
he said, "Democratic candidates
represent all the hues of the rain
bow. At the extreme left are the I
red Peppers, at the extreme right'
are the believers in white su
premacy and in between are the
neutral hues who would be all things
to the various factions to whom
they would appeal.
“Right now,” he continued, “a lot
: of Democratic candidates look yel
low. Even Bob Hannegan, the re
I doubtable chairman, was left tem
jporarily speechless. Senator Mead
I is obliged to take Truman’s name
i out of his address for fear of of
j fending the Left Wing.”
Senator Brewster was one of sev
eral speakers in a forum discus
i sion, “Politics — Opportunity for
! Service.”
Other speakers included Repre
I sentative Brown of Ohio, Ralph E.
Becker, director of Young Amer
| ican Activities of the Republican
| National Committee; Miss Marion
i E. Martin, assistant chairman of the
j Republican National Committee;
'Representative Halleck of Indiana
; and Mrs. Charles W. Weis. jr„ na
tional committeewoman for New
j York.
Colored Women Represented.
! The majority of the approximately
500 delegates from 41 States at
tending the convention left late yes
terday for their homes.
Among the delegates were several
colored members of women’s Re
publican clubs, including one from
the District of Columbia, Mrs. Ida
S. Taylor, president of the Virginia
White Speel Woman's Republican
Club. Others were from California,
Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Massachu
setts, New York and Pennsylvania.
Mrs. Addison B. Green was elected
president of the federation, succeed
■ ing Mrs. W. Glenn Suthers of
1 Chicago.
Other new officers who will be in
stalled in January include Mrs. Ed
. ward N. Donnellan of Denver, Colo.,
first vice president; Mrs. Roy T.
Bishop of Portland, Oreg., second
vice president; Mrs. Walter McNab
of Schnectady, N. Y., third vice
president; Mrs. George R. La Made,
Williamsport, Pa., four vice presi
, dent; Mrs. Gladys P. Gordon, Cleve
land, secretary, and Mrs. Harold
jAchor, Anderson, Ind„ treasurer.
Train Kills Three Youths
Who Fell Asleep on Tracks
By th» Associated Press
HAMMOND, Ind.. Sept. 28.—Three
Hammond Technical High School
youths were killed early today by a
Nickle Plate freight train at Black
Oak. a community between Ham
mond and Gary, as they attempted
to escape the wheels of the oncoming
locomotive.
The dead are Melvin Altgilbers, 16,
of Black Oak; Charles Chick, 16, and
James Walker, 15, both of Hammond.
A fourth youth, James August
Blair, 16. of Hammond, managed to
get off the tracks, ran 2 miles to
his home where his mother notified
police.
Deputy Sheriff Arthur Thompson :
quoted Blair as saying the youths
had a "get together” at a Hammond
home last night and the three dead
boys each drank a bottle of beer.
The four started down the right
of way when Atgilbers became ill,
the officer continued. They sat on
the tracks and seeing an approaching
train, moved to safety.
Then they returned to the tracks1
and fell asleep, the deputy continued.
The rumbling of the freight train,
bound from Port Wayne to Chicago,
awakened them, the officer said.
Altgilbers pushed Blair from the
tracks, but he and Chick and Walker!
were unable to get out of the path I
of the locomotive, Mr. Thompson
said.
Ambassador
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return to Washington for the fall
term of court after the Interna
tional Military Tribunal delivers its
verdicts next week.
The justice, who served as chief
American prosecutor in the Nuern
berg trials, issued this statement:
“There is no basis for any specu
lation about my being appointed Am
bassador to London or any other
office, however ‘attractive. I have
no intention of deserting the duties
I assumed in going on the United
States Supreme Court for any other
public post.
“Secretary of State Byrnes, under j
whom I would be glad to serve if I
were to consider such a place at all, j
knows this and no responsible quar- i
ter will give the idea any considera
tion.’’
Mr. Jackson’s statement did not
mention the source of the specula
tion about his possible appointment
as successor to W. Averell Harriman,
who is leaving the London ambassa
dorship to become Secretary of
Commerce.
State Department Aide
Insists Latin Highway
Was Military Need
By Robert K. Walsh
A State Department spokesman to
day repudiated testimony of a former
War Department officer before the
Senate War Investigating Committee
that Army construction of the Inter
American Highway in 1942-43 was
deemed a political rather than mil
itary necessity.
John Cabot, former chief of the
Caribbean and Central American
Affairs Division, told the committee
that former Secretary of War Stim
son wrote the then Secretary of
State Cordell Hull in 1942 that the
War Department regarded the high
way as “an urgent military necessity."
Senator Ferguson, Republican, of
Michigan, however, read a 1942 letter
of Gen. Eisenhower stating that the
War Department approved construc
i tion for “Continental solidarity” and
not as a “present military necessity.”
General. Questioners Clash.
The Senator, declared this seemed
to uphold yesterday's testimony of
Maj. Gen. C. P. Gross, retired, for
mer chief of the Army Transporta
j tion Corps.
Today's hearing opened with a
clash between committee questioners
and Brig. Gen. Ruben E. Jenkins of
; the Plans ad Operations Division of
the War Department.
Gen. Jenkins declared the War
i Department today regarded the
! Inter-American Highway as a "mili
tary asset, but not essential to ade
quate national defense.”
Committee Counsel George Meader
described this as “trying to carry
I water on both shoulders."
Canal Inquiry Put Off.
Gen. Jenkins said that because of
its vulnerability, the road cannot be
considered adequate for primary
logistic support, but would increase
"flexibility” of the national defense
supply system and would be a mili
tary asset also by “promoting inter
ests of hemisphere solidarity.”
Because of the absence of Acting
Chairman Kilgore, the committee
postponed until Monday its further
inquiry into the wartime Canol oil
project in Canada and the question
ing of Admiral Ernest J. King. It
expects at that time to have a reply
from the Joint Chiefs of Staff to
its request that all Canol files be
made available without a label of
military secrecy.
77 Million Spent on Road.
The committee went ahead with
examination of State and War De
partment representatives to learn
what rights, if any, the United
States has obtained in the Inter
American Highway through Central
(America in return for its outlay of
: $77,000,000.
E. W. James of the Public Roads
| Administration told the committee
(yesterday the PRA already has spent
,$33,000,000 on the road through Cen
tral America and the Army $44,
000,000.
| Mr. James, chief of PRA’s inter
American regional office, estimated
jit would take $65,000,000 more to
! complete the strip from the south
ern border of Mexico to Panama
j City.
Gentleman’s Agreement.
Reports of a “gentlemen’s agree
ment” for construction of a loop
I road near the farm of the President
| of Nicaragua, and stories of pigs
[shod with leather because of rough
[spots in the Army built highway in
1 Guatemala enlivened the four-hour
j hearing yesterday afternoon.
Mr. James reported his office is
{going ahead now with a somewhat
[changed route as part of a much
! larger Pan-American Highway
[started in 1929. He estimated that
[a through road from the Mexican
[border to the Panama Canal will
[be open for traffic in three years
[ and completed with pavement in
[ five years.
Not “Military Necessity."
( Senator Ferguson drew from Gen.
\ Gross a statement that a main pur
i pose for wartime construction of
the Inter-American Highway be
; tween Mexico and Panama was to
(assure “solidarity” and co-operation
[from Central American govern
ments, especially in getting airfield
sites.
Gen. Gross added that, although
he did not consider the project a
military necessity, there had been
"a possibility of a real need develop
ing in the dark days of 1942.”
Credits Examined.
The committee went over In de
tail with Hawthorne Arey, general
counsel of the Export-Import Bank,
the credits which that agency gave
Mexico and other Central American
republics to assist them in paying
their one-third shares of the costs
of construction in their country.
Some of the testimony indicated
j the roads agency and the Army En
j gineers worked occasionally at cross
purposes if not in direct conflict on
i parts of the highway in 1942-3.
Maj. Gen. Eugene Revbold, retired,
former Chief of Engineers, and Col.
Edwin Kelton, retired, former pan
American highway director, blamed
adverse weather and equipment
transportation difficulties for fail
ure to complete the project and for
the great increase over original cost
estimates.
Third Estonian Vessel
Brings Refugees to Miami
By the Associated Pres*
MIAMI. Fla.. Sept. 28.—The third
boatload of Estonian refugees to
seek haven in the United States in
recent weeks was aground today
just off the Miami shoreline.
The boat—identical to the ones
used by the two previous groups—
contains 18 refugees, a spokesman
aboard told newsmen.
The craft anchored just outside
of quarantine last night and when
the tide went out was left high and
dry. The tide was expected to re
float it today and it will tie up be
hind the two others at the city
docks on Biscayne Bay.
Already 30 refugees, including 1
Finn and 29 Estonians, are living
in a city-owned warehouse while
immigration officials study their
cases.
None had visas. An appeal filed
by the first group is now before the
Imigration oBard of Review.
Telephone Workers Meef
Tuesday on Union Merger
The merger of local telephone
workers’ unions in a national tele
phone workers' union will be dis
cussed at a meeting at 8 p.m. Tues
day at Turner’s Arena.
Joseph A. Beirne, president of the
National Federation of Telephone
Workers, will be the principal
speaker. He explained that if the
merger plans go through the 4T
affiliates of the federation over the
Nation would become a compact na*»
tional organization.
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