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Georgia Judge
Rules Thompson
Is Governor
Talmadge's Election
Declared Invalid in
Parole Record Case
By the Associated Press
McDonough, Ga., Feb. 7.—
Superior Judge Claude H. Porter
ruled today that Lt. Gov. M. E.
Thompson is Georgia’s Acting
Governor and that Herman Tal
madge’s election by the Legis
lature was invalid.
The decision, handed down at
Rome, Ga., ordered the State Pardon
and Parole Board to turn over rec
ords on budgetary matters to Mr.
Thompson. An appeal to the
Georgia Supreme Court was an
nounced quickly.
Meanwhile, in another State Court
here counsel for Mr. Talmadge lost
a motion to avoid trial of a suit
challenging his election as Governor
by the Legislature.
Showdown Trial Ordered.
Superior Judge Walter Hendrix
withheld an immediate ruling on
demurrers but ordered trial of tne
showdown litigation on the muddled
gubernatorial situation which is
headed for the Supreme Court.
Mr. Thompson, who claimed ex
ecutive authority on resignation of
Gov. Ellis Amall, is plaintiff. He
asks the court to enjoin Mr. Tal
madge from exercising the func
tions of Governor.
The unprecedented muddle, which
has confused Georgia with rival
Governors and rival administrative
officials, stems from the death of
Gov.-elect Eugene Talmadge, who
died 23 days before he would have
taken office for a fourth, non-c’on
secutive term as Governor.
Judge Henmax of the Pulton
<Atlanta) Circuit summoned the
litigants this morning. He was act
ing for the Flint Circuit judge, who
disqualified himself.
Another superior judge of the Ful
ton circuit, Judge Bond Almand,
yesterday gave a qualified ruling in
favor of a Talmadge appointee; but
specifically declared the governor
ship was not at issue.
Mandamus sustained.
The ruling sustained mandamus
proceedings brought by Talmadge
appointed Revenue Commissioner
Charles Redwine, seeking to compel
State Treasurer George B. Hamilton
to accept remittances of tax monies.
Mr. Hamilton had refused to do so
because he challenged Mr. Redwine’s
claim to office.
Judge Almand held that Mr .•Ham
ilton had no authority to question
title of the revenue commissioner,
and ruled he had no choice but to
accept checks tendered as payment
of tax collections to the State treas
ury. The court held, however, that
such acceptance would not consti
tute recognition of the revenue com
missioner’s title nor of the claims
of any person as Governor.
Longstreet Widow Hits
Georgia Primary Bill
ATLANTA, Feb. 7 (JP).—'The gray
haired widow of Confederate Gen.
James Longstreet attacked Geor
gia’s proposal to bar Negroes from
Democratic primaries yesterday as
a bill *‘to set up a dictatorship
under the guise of white suprem
acy.”
She minced no words in her at
tack on. the bill and Herman Tal
ma dge, who she said was in the
hands of “scheming politicians.”
Talmade is sponsoring the measure,
which has passed the House.
Mrs. Longstreet appealed to a
special Senate Judiciary Commit
tee to kill the measure in the name
of Georgia’s statesmen and heroes
of former years.
More Uranium Is Found
In Western Argentina
By the Associated Press
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, Feb.
7.—The Directorate of Mines re
ported today the discovery of
uranium in San Luis Province in
West Central Argentina.
Bulletins
Graziano Loses License
NEW YORK (&).—The State
Athletic Commission today
revoked the boxing license of
Rocky Graziano and ordered
his forthcoming title bout
with Champion Tony Zale
canceled for his failure to re
port a $100,000 bribe offer.
Commission Chairman Ed
ward Eagan read the decision
—tantamount to barring Gra
ziano for life from boxing in
New York rings—to Graziano
at the conclusion of a three
day hearing.
(Earlier Story on Page A-16.)
Hough Surrenders
Stanley P. Hough, indicted
real estate operator, surren
dered to the United States
marshal at Alexandria, Va.,
shortly after 1:30 p.m. today
to answer charges that he de
frauded veterans in building
contracts. He was released
immediately in $2,500 bond.
(Earlier Story on Page A-2.)
Warren Cool to Red Deal
Controller General Lindsay
Warren told the Senate Appro
priations Committee today he
will not approve a financial
deal for shipping $25,000,000 of
supplies to Russia unless Con
gress specifically authorizes.
Afterward, Chairman Bridges
told reporters a majority of
the committee members ap
peared to be “hostile” to a
State Department proposal to
clear the way for shipment of
• supplies originally contracted
for under lend-lease.
Earlier Story on Page A-9.)
Longer Bars Ruthless Firing
Of Civil Service Workers
Senator Cites Demoralization Already in
Evidence as Result of 'Senseless' Statements
Chairman Langer of the Sen
ate Civil Service Committee
charged in the Senate this after
nodh feat fee entire civil service
already has been, demoralized by
statements of some congres
sional leaders that 1,000,000
Government workers are going
to lose their jobs. He asserted
there is .not going to be “any
wholesale, indiscriminate firing.”
Senator Langer described state
ments concerning such dismissals as
“utterly senseless.” He called atten
tion to the program already under
way for a “scientific, graduated, con
tinued reduction” in the number of
Government employes and declared
members of Congress should cite
specific facts rather than indulge in
“loose talk” on this subject.
The Senator said that on four dif
ferent occasions a chairman of a
House Committee “emblazoned to
the world that 1,000,000 Civil Service
employes are going to lose their
jobs.”
Taber Predicted Big Cut.
He did not identify the House
member other than to say the mem
ber was not on the House Civil Serv
ice Committee. It was recalled that
Chairman Taber of the House Ap
propriations Committee recently pre
dicted that at least 1,000,000 Govern
ment workers would be dismissed.
“This gentleman,” Senator Langer
said, referring to the unidentified
House member, "has never desig
nated the departments from which
these civil service employes are go
ing to be taken."
“I do not say that it is a dema
gogic statement. I do not say that
it has been ussed for the purpose of
securing for him a lot of publicity,
as some civil service workers have
alleged. This man may be honest
and sincere in his vie\ s. But his
attitude has already resulted in the
demoralization of the entire civil
service.”
Says Workers Are Frightened.
Senator Langer said the state
ment has made such headway that
it now amounts to a “public cry.”
“But this public cry,” he went
on, “has frightened thousands of
good, loyal, honest, hard working
civil service employees so that they
I now fao! they are not even going
j to g'fet the security for themselves
j and their families that years and
j years of hard work have entitled
them to.
"From all over the country we
have been receiving telephone calls
and messages stating that various
departments are in danger of losing
some of their personnel. It is in
order that these men and women
may know that there is not going
to be any wholesale, indiscriminate
firing, but that as far as the Senate]
Civil Service Committee is con-i
cemed—and I believe as far as the]
I (See LANGER, Page A-4.)
Republican Leaders
Are Ready to Limit
Budget to 32 Billion
See Saving of 7 Billion;
Would Cut 550,000'
From U. S. Payroll
BULLETIN
Chairman Knutson of the
House Ways and Means Com
mittee today predicted his
committee will report out an
income tax reduction bill by
March 1 and said the “chances
are good" that it will be his
own measure for a 20 per cent
across-the-board cut. He added
that the committee voted to
day to begin hearings on
income tax legislation Feb
ruary 19.
By th« Associated Press
Republican congressional lead
;rs were said today to be near
agreement on a $32,000,000,000
top limit for next year’s budget
—a figure they contend would
leave $7,000,000,000 for tax cut
ting and debt payments.
The 20 per cent “across the board”
;ax reduction plan would cost $3,
>00,000,000.
Persons in a position to know said
Republican members of the Senate
House Budgetary Committee, meet
ing in secret session, arrived at the
$32,000,000,000 figure by listing a
possible cut of $2,000,000,000 in Pres
dent Truman’s $11,200,000,000 item
for national defense.
Mr. Truman proposed an over-all
audget of $37,500,000,000. He esti
mated revenues at $37,700,000,000.
However, Colin Stam, revenue expert
lor the joint committee, has esti
mated that these revenues will be
$200,000,000 higher.
Excise Tax Revenue Added.
To this, the Republicans have
idded the $1,100,000,000 in additional
revenue that will be available if the
Senate, like the House, approves
keeping the wartime excise tqxes on
luxuries after July 1.
Thus, by the Republican figuring,
revenues will total $39,000,000,000, a
$7,000,000,000 spread over outgo. If
this were split equally, it would take
care of the 20 per cent income tax
slash proposed by some party mem
bers and still leave $3,500,000,000 to
apply on the national debt.
It was emphasized that final
agreement is yet to be reached on
the proposed $2,000,000,000 slice in
defense appropriations. Some Re
publican members of the joint com
mittee were reported to have op
posed vigorously any trimming of
the Army-Navy outlay.
On the other hand, the secret
conferences brought testimony from
some experts that the defense ex
penditures might be trimmed as
much as 20 per cent without dam
aging the efficiency of either the
Army or the Navy.
550,000 Jobs Threatened.
Among other major cuts, the Re
publicans were said to have decided
tentatively that they can eliminate
more than 550,000 of the present 2,
300,000 Federal employes at an an
nual saving of $1,500,000,000.
They were said to have agreed
that $1,000,000,000 in public works
of all kinds, including roads, rural
electrification and various Interior
Department activities, could be
(See GOP, Page A-5.)
Marshall Expected to Air
Views on Policy Today
Secretary of State Marshall was
expected to air his views on a wide
range of foreign policy problems
today at his first news conference
since entering the cabinet.
Arrangements for the news con
ference attracted unusual interest.
State Department press officers pre
pared to handle possibly the largest
number of reporters ever to gather
for formal questioning of a Secre
tary of State.
The session was scheduled for
2:30 p.m., in the department’s large
and ornate fourth-floor conference
room. Previously newsmen have
been met in a smaller room next to
the Secretary’s office on the second
floor.
Gen. Marshall, who was sworn in
as Secretary of State January 21,
has refused until today to comment
on any specific foreign policy issues.
He insisted on an opportunity to get
acquainted with his job first.
Communist Inquiry
To Investigate Soviet
Spy Ring in Canada
Member of House Group
Declares Eisler Case Is
'Just the Beginning'
By the Associated Press
The House Committee on Un
American Activities took up the
trail of Communist spy activities
today after checking to the Jus
tice Department whether to de
port Communist Gerhard Eisler
or try him as a conspirator.
The committee urged prosecution
when it heard Eisler described by
various witnesses yesterday as the
top Communist in America and by
his own sister as a “dangerous
terrorist.”
“That is just the beginning,” a
committee member told a reporter
privately. "It is merely the first
chapter on Communist espionage
activities. Some of the succeeding
chapters will be linked closely to
operations of a Soviet spy ring in
Canada.”
Next Meeting on Monday.
This member said an American
on whom the committee has had its
eye was in Canada in June, 1944,
“and-we want to know why.”
It may be 10 days, though, before
the committee relates the additional
chapters in open hearings.
The group has no meeting sched
uled until Monday when it plans to
ask the House to adopt a resolution
formally citing Eisler for contempt.
Then it would be up to the Justice
Department to bring a contempt
case against him in court.
In a flaring session yesterday that
produced shouting, rav tempers and
flushed faces, Eisler firmly refused
to take an oath to tell the truth
without first making a preliminary
statement. The committee prompt
ly voted to cite him for contempt.
Security officers of the Immigra
tion Service bustled him off to Ellis
Island. His attorney, Carol King,
remained and handed around a
statement in which Eisler pro
claimed that he is neither a spy,
foreign agent nor boss of the Reds
in any country.
Five Charges Against Eisler.
But on the stiength of evidence
it dug up, and on the basis of what
witnesses said, the committee de
cided there is a case against Eisler
on five points:
(1) Conspiring to overthrow the
Government of the United States,
(2) perjury, (3) passport falsifica
tion, (4) income tax evasion, and
(5) contempt of Congress. \
A recommendation that these
charges be pressed was handed to
the Justice Department.
While the department has taken
preliminary steps toward deporting
Eisler, Representative Mundt, Re
publican, of South Dakota declared
it is of the “utmost importance from
the standpoint of national defense
that Eisler be detained in this coun
try.”
Reading at times from a report
of the royal commission on Russian
espionage in Canada, Mr. Mundt
said Eisler was linked with Samuel
Carr and Fred Rose, who were de
scribed in the report as two of the
(See UN-AMERICAN, Page A-2.)
Stassen and Taft
Clash on labor
Bills at Hearing
Ex-Governor Also
Hits Ball Plan to
Ban Closed Shop
By J. A. O'Leary
Two Republican presidential
possibilities—Harold E. Stassen
of Minnesota and Senator Taft
of Ohio—clashed before the Sen
ate Labor Committee today over
the best methods of improving
labor-management relations.
The former Minnesota Governor
also took issue with Senator Ball,
Republican, of Minnesota over the
closed shop, which the Senator is
proposing should be outlawed. Mr.
Stassen argued that management
and labor should be left free to bar
gain over the closed shop, the union
shop or the maintenance of mem
bership plan.
A large crowd filled the spacious
Senate caucus room in anticipation
of just such a debate between the
tall, broad-shouldered young Mid
westerner and Senators Ball and
Taft. Senator Ball came to the
Senate originally on an appoint
ment by the then Gov. Stassen to
fill a vacancy. Later Senator Ball
won election in his own right.
Taft Hits Strike Ballot.
After Mr. Stassen had laid stress
on the Minnesota system of having
all the workers in an industry take
a secret ballot before striking, Sen
ator Taft broke in to declare:
“I have no confidence that the
men are going to take any different
position from their leaders. I see
no objection to it (the secret strike
ballot), but as a solution of the
strike problem I think it is trivial.”
“I definitely disagree with you,"
Mr. Stassen replied, “and our ex
perience in Minnesota has been to
the contrary."
Earlier Senator Ball had inter
rupted Mr. Stassen’s defense of
keeping the closed or union shop
principle as a bargaining point, to
assert: “The closed shop today is
more a device for increasing the
power of the union ove'f the em
ployes, rather than its power over
the employer."
Stassen Secs Assumption.
Mr. Stassen replied that Senator
Ball was assuming that leadership
of the union would control the secret
ballot of the employes. He said he
does not agree with the Senator,
provided the process of voting on
strikes is put on a democratic basis.
The former Governor, who is
openly seeking his party’s presiden
tial nomination for 1948, suggested
to Senator Ball that banning the
closed shop might weaken labor’s
position generally and put it back
where he said it was between 1920
and 1929.
During the 2®’s, Mr. Stassen said,
the unions were not strong and the
hourly wage rate in this country
went down from 61 cents to 49 cents.
Even after the depression, he said,
it was slow in climbing back.
Senator Ball came back with the
argument that the conditions Mr.
Stassen described occurred before
the passage of the Wagner Act.
which protects the right of workers
to bargain collectively.
Asks About Situation Today.
The Minnesota Senator asked Mr.
Stassen whether he feels the em
ploye today would be afraid of his
employer, if left free to join or re
main out of a union, in view of the
protection contained in the Wag
ner Act.
Mr. Stassen stood by his opinion
that labor should be permitted to
obtain the closed or union shop by
bargaining with management.
After Republican Senators had
spent more than an hour exchanging
views with Mr. Stassen, Senator
Pepper, Democrat, of Florida, ob
served with a smile:
“Governor, I don’t want to do you
any disservice, but I want to compli
ment you on the fairness of your
statement."
Returning the smile, Mr. Stassen
replied:
“I see the Senator Is an astute
observer of national psychology.”
As the hearing adjourned Mr.
Stassen shook hands with Senator
Ball. Although Mr. Stassen, Senator
(See LABOR, Page A-4.)
Philadelphia Bulletin
Will Publish Sundays
By the Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 7.—The
Evening Bulletin, which a week ago
purchased the suspended Philadel
phia Record and Camden (N. J.)
Courier-Post, today announced in
a front-page notice it was publishing
its first Sunday edition February 9.
The notice stated the Sunday
Bulletin will carry 12 pages of com
ics plus many features previously
appearing in the Record.
The paper will sell for 12 cents.
The Sunday Record price was lb
cents.
Prisoner Outwits 2 Detectives,
Pushes One Into Pit and Flees
(Pictures on page a-*.)
There was no pot of gold at rain
bow’s end for two 12th precinct de
tectives last night.
Detectives J. G. Beach and John
A. Stewart were questioning Oliver
Lee Decatur, 44, housebreaking and
grand larceny suspect, arrested dur
ing the day.
Police said Decatur was being
questioned regarding the theft last
month of a metal box containing
$4,300 in cash and bonds from the
home of Harry de Francisco, res
taurant owner, 2832 Sixth street
NJS.
They said Decatur told them the
empty box had been discarded off
Sargent road near Chillum, Md.,
and offered to lead them to the spot.
The detectives agreed'to take him
there, hoping to recover the box
for use as evidence.
Arriving at the scene shortly after
10 pm., Decatur got out of the police
car with the policemen close behind.
He surveyed the terrain, appeared
somewnai uncertain wnere 10 iook,
then pointed some dls^nce ahead
and said, “I think it’s over there.”
Detective Beach went on ahead
toward an abandoned well to in
vestigate. Detective Stewart walked
behind Decatur, one hand on his
pistol and the other holding a flash
light. The two men came to the
edge of an old gravel pit, and
Decatur halted.
“Isn’t that the box down there?”
he asked, pointing into the pit.
Detective Stewart flashed his light
in the indicated direction, then sud
denly found himself tumbling down
the 35-foot embankment. Decatur
disappeared into the night.
Decitur had given the detective a
healthy shove, police said.
An intensive search by the two
detectives, in which 50 policemen
from the District, Prince Georges
County and nearby Brentwood later
joined, failed to disclose the fugi
tive’s hiding place. The location of
the “treasure chest” also remains a
mystery.
Arlington Man Leading Trek
300 Miles Into Antarctica
Marine Capt. Vernon Boyd to Establish Cache
Of Gasoline for Downed Expedition Planes
* By Thomas R. Henry
Star Staff Correspondent
WITH NAVY ANTARCTIC EX
PEDITION, Feb. 7.—Marine Capt.
Vernon Boyd, 2608 Lee highway,
Arlington, Va., is leading a 300
mile trek into the great glaciers
at the southern edge of the Ross
Ice Shelf to establish a gasoline
cache for expedition planes
which might be forced down in
that perilous region.
Seven men aboard two 16-ton
amphibian tractors equipped with
“snow shoes” fitted with extra long
and strong cleats are participating
in this vital (est of the practicability
of moving heavy equipment over ice
covered land toward the South Pole
Capt. Boyd expects the experiences
of the party to provide the basis for
designing better equipment.
While the scheduled travel time
of the expedition is only 60 hours,
the party departed with supplies for
three months if members should
become marooned. Gasoline, food
and equipment were piled aboard
four sleds which were drawn, two
each, by the tractors. The tractors
carried almost no weight except the
men who rode them.
The expedition’s destination lies
at about 82 degrees, south latitude,
southwest of the Rockefeller Moun
tains. This will involve finding some
way to circle the terrible “Valley of
Crevasses” lying mile after mile be
tween towering mountains and bait
ed with treacherous crevasses 1,000
and more feet deep. Men on foot or
with dog teams might be able to
pick their way through the valley.
But the journey obviously would
border on the impossible for heavy
tractors.
The two tractors were to move
about a quarter mile apart at a
maximum speed of about five miles
an hour. Members of the party took
2,000 red flags on bamboo poles to
(See HENRY, Page A-5.)
24 Will Be Appointed
For independent Study
Of Chest Operations
Committee to Represent
Business, Labor, Citizens
And Federal Personnel
A 24-member committee, rep
resenting a cross-section of
business, labor, Government and
the citizens, will make the forth
coming independent study of
Community Chest operations,
Chest President Lee D. Butler
announced today.
Mr. Butler told a press conference
the Chest Executive Committee be
lieved the study group should be
composed only of representatives of
large organizations with city-wide
membership to keep the group from
becoming too unwieldly.
Official invitations to the eight
groups included in the study will be
sent out today, Mr. Butler said.
Each group will be told that its
representatives should be selected
by its own governing board and that
the representatives should not be
members of any board of the Chest
or of its member agencies. Each
group will be asked to select three
representatives.
The announcement that an inde
pendent committee would be invited
to make a study of the Chest and its
operations was made last Sunday.
At that tune, specmc invitations
were issued to the Federation' of
Citizens’ Associations, Federation of
Businessmen’s Associations and
Washington Board of Trade to par
ticipate in the study. Later, other
organizations showed an interest in
joining in the study and the Execu
tive Committee met late yesterday
to. decide just how big the study
group should be and how it should
be selected.
In addition to the original three,
the Executive Committee decided to
include the Federation of Civic
Associations, the Washington. Cen
tral Labor Union, AFL; the Wash
ington Industrial Union Council,
CIO.; the Junior Board of Commerce
and the Council of Personnel Ad
ministration.
Mr. Butler explained that the
latter group was included because
of its familiarity with Government
personnel. Although the council is
composed of Government agency
personnel directors, he added, the
three representatives it selects will
not necessarily be personnel directors
but will be representative of all
Government personnel.
The restriction against any mem
ber of the study group also being
a member of a Chest Board, Mr.
Butler explained, was included to
emphasize that the study will be
free of any Chest influence.
Stressing the independence of
the committee, Mr. Butler said, the
committee yill organize itself, call
for any flies and ask any questions
of personnel it desires. No attempt,
he said, will be made to guide the
committee’s deliberations.
The group will be free to meet at
Chest headquarters if it wishes, Mr.
Butler said.
Once the names of the representa
(See CREST, Page A-5.) 1
U. S. Grand Jury Finds
No Basis for Criminal
Case Against Higgins
Nine-Month Inquiry of
Wartime Activities of
Bdat Builder Ends
By th« Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 7.—A
Federal grand jury has ended a
nine-month investigation into
the wartime activities of Andrew
J. Higgins, boat builder, with the
conclusion that “there is no basis
for criminal prosecution.”
Federal Judge Wayne G. Borah
today dismissed the grand jury
which was convened last May.
Mr. Higgins, whose wave-skim
ming landing craft carried men
ashore on every major American
beachhead of World War IT, said
the result of the inquiry was “not
a surprise” but was "most pleasing.”
No charges had ever been filed
against Mr. Higgins and no official
announcement had been made of
the grand jury investigation. It
came to light last August when a
special United States attorney from
the Justice Department War Frauds
Division was sworn in to supervise
the investigation.
Investigation- Completed.
The Justice Department an
nounced that the swearing in of
the specail attorney was “not to be
construed as a charge of criminal
misconduct” against Mr. Higgins.
United States Attorney Herbert
W. Christenberry announced the
grand jury’s dismissal today with
this statement:
“The grand jury which for some
months has been investigating al
leged violations of Federal statutes
(See HIGGINS, “Page A-4.)
Coal Crisis Will Half
Industry Power in 3
British Areas Monday
Hundreds of Ocean Ships
Tied Up After Fuel Is
Held for Domestic Use
By the Associated Press
LONDON, Feb. 7.—The gov
ernment announced today that
electricity would be cut off Mon
day from industries in the Lon
don, Birmingham and Man
chester areas of Britain, largely
because of an acute shortage of
coal aggravated by a 10-day cold
wave. _
Fuel Minister Emanuel Shinwell
also told the House of Commons that
domestic consumers could have no
electricity between 9 am. and noon,
and S and 4 p.m.
This was a drastic blow to the
production-for-export drive which
the government holds vital to Brit
ain’s recovery from the war. It
came just six weeks after the na
tion’s coal mines were taken under
public ownership. Mr. Shinwell said
he hoped the restrictions would last
no more than three or four days.
Hundreds of Ships Tied Up.
Hundreds of ocean-going ships
were tied up in British ports by a
government conservation order ear
marking the dangerously low coal
supplies for domestic consumption
only. Domestic gas rations- already
have been slashed.
Mr. Shinwell, blaming the unpre
cedented power blackout on the 10
day spell of Arctic weather, said he
could not have introduced foreign
labor into the coal mines without
risking a "serious industrial disturb
ance.”
Mine unions for a long time op
posed the use of Polish miners, most
of them members of the former Po
lish forces of Gen. Wladyslaw An
ders in Italy, and havt agreed only
recently to their employment while
insisting that the jobs of local
miners be safeguarded.
Labor Protest Is Voiced.
Mr. Shinwell spoke after An
thony Eden, former Conservative
foreign secretary, said the xountry
was faced with the greatest indus
trial crisis in 20 years. Raymond
Blackburn, from the government
side of the House, voiced LatSor pro
test against the government’s fuel
policy.
Mr. Eden accused the government
of lack of foresight. He said Mr.
Shinwell’s “failure to> introduce any
ordered plan” of conserving coal
sufficiently soon was responsible for
the electrical breakdown.
Moscow Is Experiencing
Worst Snow in Five Years
MOSCOW, Feb. 7, ^P).—Moscow
was experiencing today what prom
iesd to be its worst snow storm in
five years. Snow has fallen almost
without interruption for two days,
despite an abrupt rise in the tem
perature this morning.
Hundreds of special workers used
snowplows to clear the city’s broad
streets. City traffic continued, des
pite large snowdrifts, although buses
had difficulty in maintaining sched
ules. -
GSI Displays Pi^s at Hearing
As Proof of Bigger Slices
Pies and cakes were laid before a i
Senate Civil Service Subcommittee
today by Government Services, Inc.,;
to bolster claims by GSI that its por-:
tions were larger than those served |
in commercial restaurants.
The tempting exhibits were pre
sented by Mrs. Eleanor Whitemore,!
chief of the GSI Food Standards
Division.
Senator Johnston, Democrat, of:
South Carolina, acting chairman of
the subcommittee, eyed the food
with great interest. He said all
samples had been obtained yester
day from various establishments at;
about the same time.
Frank W. Hoover, general man
ager of GSI, told the committee the;
pies and cakes were brought in to
show the committee that to com- ;
pare prices of food in GSI and out
side restaurants was not fair.
His argument was in reply to
previous testimony which had con
tended that GSI cafeterias in Gov
ernment buildings have charged
prices higher than those in com
mercial establishments.
Pointing to a slice of cherry pie,
he contended it was a better buy at
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15 cents than a much smaller piece
selling for 1J cents in a commercial
restaurant.
He drew the same conclusion from
a comparison between a slice of
apple pie sold for 12 cent? and two
others from the outside, much
smaller, at 12 cents and 10 cents.
Similar claims for the larger sizes
of GSI servings were made from the
cake exhibit.
Before the exhibit was removed
from the committee room it was
noticed that some one, not a com
mittee member, had eaten about
half of the biggest piece of chocolate
cake.
Sausage served recently in the
GSI cafeterias came in for criticism.
George Reilly of the committee staff
drew from GSI employes the admis
sion that the sausage contained 50
per cent fat. Pierre J. Berard, GSI
food consultant, admitted the gen
erally accepted fat content was about
JO per cent. A. H. Clarke, chief of
the GSI supply section, said efforts
were being made to have the manu
facturers deliver sausage with a
lower fat percentage.
William T. Marcus, president of
(See CAFETERIAS, Page A-4.)
G. 0. P. Leaders
Back Trade Act
With Provisos
Vandenberg, Milliken
Urge Five Changes
In Administration
By Gould Lincoln
Chairman Vandenberg of the
Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee and Chairman Miilikin of
the Senate Finance Committee,
in a joint statement today, lined
up against any legislation at this
session that would threaten this
Nation’s reciprocal trade pro
gram, provided the President
adopts five recommendations for
procedure under the existing
Reciprocal Trade Agreements
Act. —
The State Department already has
given sypmathetic consideration to
these proposals.
Members of the House Ways and
Means Committee, however, have
been unsympathetic. They hold the
rrfhtter should be dealt with by
legislation and that the Vanden
berg-Millikin proposals do not go
far enough.
Proponents See Fears Allayed.
The proposals, which the two Sen
ators said "would afford improved
safeguards and would, without dam
age to legitimate reciprocal tradfe
negotiations, allay many of the
fears,” are as follows:
1. "The United States Tariff Com
mission to review all contemplated
tariff reductions and concessions in
all future trade agreements and to
make direct recommendations to the
President as to the point beyond
which reductions and concessions
can not be made without injury to
the domestic economy.
2. “Inclusion of the ‘escape clause’
in every trade agreement hereafter
entered into or renewed whereby the
United States, on the initiative of
the President, can withdraw or
modify any tariff reduction or con
cession if in practice it develops that
each such reduction or concession
has imperiled any affected domes
tic interest.
3. "The Tariff Commission to keep
closely and currently informed on
the operation of all our trade agree
ments and its own motion, or on the
request of the President, or of the
Congress, or of any agreed party, to
bold public hearings to determine
whether, in its opinion, any partic
ular escape clause should be invoked,
and to recommend direct to the
President, withdrawal or modifica
tion of any rate or concession which
imperils any affected domestic in
terest.
Publio Inspection Provided.
4. "Recommendations of Tariff
Commission to President for with
drawal or modification of rates
under operation of escape clause, to
gether with any dissenting opinions
of members, and nonconfldential
supporting data, to be open to publio
inspection.
o. jsmcient procedures ana pol
icies to assure that nations which do
not make available to us their own
tariff reductions and concessions to
other nations shall not receive gen
eralized benefits from us resulting
from the inclusion in our own trade
agreements of the unconditional
most favored nation clauses, except
at our option exercised in the public
interest.”
The attitude of the two Senate
chairmen, who deal particularly
with foreign affairs and with the
revenue laws, including the tariff,
is that any fundamental changes in
the present law should properly be
made next year—if any are needed
—when the Reciprocal Trade Act
must, be extended or allowed to die.
They hold that the President, by
executive order and under the au
thority of the existing law, can
follow out the recommendation*
which they have framed.
18 Invitations Cited.
They point out, moreover, that
under the Reciprocal Trade Act
which does not expire until June,
1948, the State Department has
invited 18 nations to bargain with
the United States in April for trade
agreements; that elaborate plans for
(See TRADE7Page A-47)
Duke of Westminster
Weds for Fourth Time
By the Associated Press
CHESTER, England, Peb. 7.—The
wealthy, thrice-divorced Duke of
Westminster, 67, was married in a
civil ceremony today to Miss Anne
Sullivan, 23, daughter of Brig. Gen.
E. L. Sullivan.
Trie Duke’s third wife divorced
him last December 13, charging
adultery. The suit was not de
fended.
Sunday Reading . . .
If the Truman cabinet seems
to have outgrown the habit of
airing its troubles in public
there must be a reason. In
Sunday’s Editorial Section
Raymond P. Brandt explains
how the administration’s inner
works are now oiled by three
presidential aides before hand
ing some of the major prob
lems to the Chief Executive.
On the other side of the
world Eddy Gilmore, the AP’s
chief Moscow correspondent,
tells what the average Russian
thinks about the shape of
things to come. His report,
also in the Sunday Editorial
Section, is rather cheerful.
Issue No. 2 of Washington’s
Pictorial Magazine, fatter and
more colorful than the old
gravure section, has an eye
pleasing cover of a pretty miss
and an orchid, with a variety
of interesting features inside.
. These and many more at- j
tractive diversions for tluM
reader will be found in
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