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Senators Reject
Industry-Wide
Bargaining Ban
Committee Votes,
7-6, Against Curb
In Labor Measure
By the Associated Press
The Senate Labor Committee
today rejected, 7 to 6, proposals
to write restrictions on industry
wide bargaining into general
labor legislation.
With this vote, Chairman Taft
said the committee now has tenta
tively reached decisions on all indi
vidual sections of its bill.
Senator Taft said the committee
will meet again Thursday to review
its decisions and vote on the bill as
a whole.
The committee also voted, 7 to 6,
to lump all labor legislation in a
single bill, as recommended by the
general conference of Republican
Senators. The minority wanted to
break up the omnibus bill into three
separate measures.
House Starts Debate On Bill.
Across the Capitol, the House
launched into debate on its separate
bill with Republicans proclaiming
and many Democrats agreeing that
it will pass overwhelmingly.
The House measure has an out
right ban on industry-wide bargain
ing. That is, it would forbid a
union from bargaining for a con
tract covering an entire industry
such as John L. Lewis’ coal miners
long have done for the coal in
dustry.
The provision rejected by the Sen
ate Committee simply would have
forbade national unions to dictate
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Coalition Again Prevails.
The same coalition of Democrats
and Republicans which had revised
the bill sharply over Senator Taft’s
objections again prevailed on this
issue. 4
Voting against such a provision
were Republican Senators Ives of
New York, Aiken of Vermont and
Morse of Oregon, and these Demo
crats: Thomas of Utah, Murray of
Montana, Pepper of Florida and Hill
of Alabama.
Favoring it were Senators Ellen
der. Democrat, of Louisiana, Senator
Taft and these other Republicans:
Ball of Minnesota. Smith of New
Jersey, Donnell of Missouri and Jen
ner of Indiana.’
Representative Cox, Democrat, of
Georgia predicted that 100 of the
187 House Democrats will support
the measure.
Representative Madden, Democrat,
of Indiana challenged that. A
Labor Committee opponent of the
new measure, he countered with
a forecast that Mr. Cox and the
Republican leadership will be "aston
ished” by the votes that will be lost
if ‘‘this labor-shackling legislation”
is not radically changed.
. Final Ballot Near.
Mr. Cox is one of the Southern
Democrats the GOP is counting on
to help roll up better than a 2-to-l
majority on the final ballot about
Friday.
Some of the major provisions of
the bill would:
1. Outlaw many types of strikes
and supply a formula for the Gov
ernment to combat those affecting
the welfare of the whole Nation.
2. Forbid in nearly all cases union
efforts to bargain with an entire in
dustry.
3. Ban the closed shoo but permit
the union shop. In a closed shop
the boss can hire only union mem
bers. In the union shop he can
hire anybody, but the new worker
has to join a union soon afterward.
4. Curb many union activities.
Allen Says B1.1 Keeps Pledge.
The House bill is the product of
months of work by its Labor Com
mittee and a Republican Party
pledge to do something about in
dustrial strife.
In a speech prepared for delivery
to the House, Chairman Allen of
the Rules Committee said the bill
redeems that promise.
"This, undoubtedly,” he said, “is
one of the most far-reaching and
one of the most imoortant bills
that any member of this Congress
will be asked to vote on.
"The bill was written as a bill of
rights for the laboring man; to pro
tect him from exploitation by em
ployers and from encroachments on
his individual rights by labor
unions.”
Six Hours' Debate Irgcd.
Mr. Allen recommended that the
House adopt a Rules Committpp
plan for six hours' debate on the
iSee LABOR, Page A-4J
Industry Normal Again
As Coal Mines Reopen
BUREAU OF MINES says 44 Cen
tralia victims could have saved
selves. Page A-19
By th# Associated Press
PITTSBURGH, April 15.—Coal
consuming industries swung back to
normal today and, aside from de
pleted coal stockpiles, most of them
found themselves little the worse for
the AFL-United Mine Workers’ two
week work stoppage.
One sufferer was the United States
Steel Corp. A spokesman said the
corporation's subsidiaries lost an es
timated 67,000 tons of pig iron pro
duction during the closedown. With
the return of the miners yesterday,
full-scale blast furnace operations
were resumed wherever they had
been suspended.
Coal-carrying railroads canceled
orders for further layoffs of em
ployes. The Norfolk & Western
Railway said normal coal movement
was in sight for the first time in
a fortnight.
Most of the country's 400.000 soft
coal miners were back at work yes
terday, and the number increased
today. For many these were the
first working days since April 1
when the miners began a week's
mourning for the 111 killed in the
Centralia, HI., pit blast.
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Democratic Leaders Discuss
Move to Repudiate Wallace
Resolution May Be Offered Tomorrow;
White House Taking No Official Notice
By J. A. O'Leary
Congress may be asked tomor
row to go on record as repudi
ating Henry A. Wallace’s attacks
on American foreign policy in
speeches outside of the country.
A group of prominent Democrats
conferred today on this method of
answering the former Vice Presi
dent, but decided to wait and see
what progress is made today on
the bill to extend $400,000,000 in
aid to Greece and Turkey to check
the spread of communism.
Earlier, the White House had
made clear that M. Wallace speaks
only as “a private citizen” in nis
attacks on American foreign policy
and that no “official notice” has
been taken of his speeches abroad.
Press Secretary Charles G. Ross
emphasized that when reporters
asked him today about the furore
raised in Congress by Mr. Wallace’s
assertions that the United States
is embarked on a course of “imper
ialism.”
Laier, however, Louis E. Starr,
commander in chief of the Veterans j
of Foreign Wars, told reporters after
a call on President Truman thatj
he “got the impression something!
is going to be done.” Mr. Starr i
said that in the talk with Mr. Tru
man he urged revocation of the
former Vice President’s passport.
This would force Mr. Wallace to
return home.
The Greek Turkey aid measure
has become the focal point of Mr.
Wallace’s speeches in England, and
most congressional leaders f$el
prompt passage of the bill by an
overwhelming vote would be the
most effective answer.
A resolution has been drawn up,
however, to have the Senate and
House by formal action condemn
Mr. Wallace for going abroad to
wage his campaign against a foreign
policy which is receiving bipartisan
support in Congress.
Senator McClellan, Democrat, of
Arkansas, who drafted the resolu
tion, pointed out today that what
Mr. Wallace is attacking is not
merely the viewpoint of President
Truman, but the policy of the Gov
ernment. And because it has de
veloped as a bipartisan policy, Sen
ator McClellan said it is fitting that
the Congress as a whole should
answer Mr. Wallace. *
The resolution he has in mind
would be a “concurrent” resolution
which does not go to the President
(See FOREIGN, Page A-5.)
Conciliator Hopeful
Phone Strikers Will
Accept Peace Plan
Union Policy Group Calls
Warren to Clarify Part of
Schwellenbach Formula
BULLETIN
Pressing for a quick accept
ance of his new formula for
settlement of the telephone
strike, Secretary of Labor
Schwellenbach is to go on the
radio tonight for a “report to
the public on the strike situa
tion. The Labor Department
announced he will broadcast
nationally over the American
Broadcasting Co. (WMALi at
9:30 and over the Mutual net
work at 10:15.
Hope for union acceptance of
Secretary of Labor Schwellen
bach’s proposal for ending the
Nation-wide telephone strike was
expressed this afternoon as the
National Federation of Tele
phone Workers’ Eclicy Commit
tee sent for Correiliation Chief
Edgar L. Warren a few hours
before the 5 p.m. deadline set
by Mr. Schwellenbach.
In New York, where American
Telephone & Telegraph Co. officials
are studying the Labor Secretary's
peace plan, a spokesman said there
was “no reason to suppose there
will not be” an answer to Mr.
Schwellenbach’s settlement pro
posal by the deadline time. There
was, uuwcvw, iiu iuuumuun ui com
pany sentiment on the Schwellen
bach formula.
With time running short, Mr.
Warren went before the Policy Com
mittee at the Statle^ Hotel “to
answer a few questions of inter
pretation” at the union's request.
“I am hopeful that Secretary
Schwellenbach's plan will be ac
cepted by both sides,” Mr. Warren
told reporters just before he was
closeted with the union leaders.
No Indication of Sentiment.
Policy Committee members said
they had instructions to reach a
decision before the 5 o’clock dead
line jftit gave no indication how the
wind was blowing in their study of
the arbitration proposal.
The Policy Committee represents
the 340,000 telephone workers who
walked out eight days ago. The
A. T. T. charts national policy for
the Bell system’s 20 operating com
panies throughout the United
States.
C. F. Craig, A. T. & T. vice
president, went to New York
early today for company conferences
immediately after Mr. Schwellenbach
announced his peace proposal at a
midnight meeting last night in the
Labor Department.
The plan calls for a five-man
arbitration board to decide the
money issued involved including the
union’s demand for a $12 a week
pay increase and settlement of four
other issues in two days of '“intense"
negotiations.
Strike Could End Thursday.
If this is done. Mr. Schwellen
bach declared, the strike could
well be ended by 5 p.m. Thursday
and the five-man arbitration board
could apply itself to the other major
differences balking settlement of the
strike.
If the Bell system and its idle
employes accept the plan, the Na
tion-wide shutdown will end Thurs
day. 10 davs after operators, plant
(See TELEPHONE, Page A-4.)
War Orphan, 6,
Sells First 1947
Poppy to Truman
Six-year-old. Saundra Fay Hall,
whose father, Arthur Alvin Hall,
was killed in the Battle of the Bulge,
today presented President Truman
| the first buddy poppy of the 1947
sale conducted by the Veterans of
Foreign Wars to raise relief work
funds.
The girl was accompanied to the
i White House by Louis E. Starr, VFW
commander in chief. Saundra came
to Washington from the VFW Na
tional Home for widows and orphans
of servicemen in Eaton Rapids,
Mich.
The poppies will go on sale gen
erally during the week preceding
Memorial Day. They are made by
| disabled ex-servicemen patients in
Government hospitals. Proceeds are
devoted to welfare and relief work
among needy veterans and their
families.
t 4
Nats Trail Red Sox,
2-0, in Fourth as
Season Is Launched
Pellagrini Hits Homer;
Di Maggio Scores on
Williams' Single
The Lineup.
WASHINGTON. BOSTON.
Grace, If Pellagrini. 3b
Lewis, rf Pesky, ss
Spence, c Di Maggio. cf
Vernon, lb Williams* If
Travis, 3b Doerr, “b
Priddy, :2b York, lb
Christman ss Mele. rf
Evans, c Wagner, c
Wynn, p Hughson. p
Umpires—Messrs. Summers, Rue and
and Papareila.
By Burton Hawkins
Star Staff Correspondent
BOSTON, April 15. — Clear,
sunny skies and a throng of
30,000 greeted the Washington
Nationals and Boston Red Sox
here today as they played their
first game of the American
League season*after Gov. Robert
F. Bradford of Massachusetts
tossed out the first ball.
The Red Sox were leading 2-0 at
the end of the fourth Inning.
William Harridge, president of the
American League, and Joe Cronin,
Boston manager, hoisted the 1946
American League pennant over Fen
way Park in pre-game ceremonies,
assisted by a detachment of First
Division marines in dress blues.
Early Wynn, husky right-hander,
was on the mound for the Nats,
while towering Tex Hughson was
pitching for the Red Sox. Hughson
defeated the Nats six straight times
last year and has a lifetime record
of 14 victories and three defeats
against Washington.
FIRST INNING.
WASHINGTON—Grace bounded
to York, who beat him to first base.
Lewis flied deep to Williams.
Spence grounded out to York.
BOSTON—Christman went into
short left field for Pellagrini's pop
fly. Pesky lined to Grace. Di Mag
gio's smash into left field bounded
past Grace for a double. Priddy
and Lewis permitted Williams’ foul
fly to fall safetly between them
near the right-field boxes and Wil
liams then singled to right, scoring
Di Maggio. Doerr doubled off the
left-field fence, but Williams was
out at the plate attempting to score,
Grace to Evans. One run.
SECOND INNING.
WASHINGTON — Vernon popped
to Pesky. Travis fanned. Hughson
tossed out Priddy.
BOSTON—Travis and Evans al
lowed York’s foul fly to drop safely
between them before Spence backed
against the center-field fence to take
York’s deep drive. Mele walked on
four pitches. Wagner popped to
| Christman. Hughson flied to Lewis.
THIRD INNING.
I WASHINGTON—Christman flied
to Di Maggio. Evans went but the
I same way. Wynn flied to Williams.
;No runs.
BOSTON—Evans dropped Pella
| grini's foul fly near. the first base
boxes but was not charged with an
error. Pellagrini then slammed a
home run over the center field
; fence. Pesky flied to Lewis. Travis
; threw out Di Maggio. Lewis mis
judged Williams' liner into a
double but Williams was out at
1 tempting to take third, Lewis to
Christman to Travis. One run.
FOURTH INNING.
WASHINGTON—Pesky threw out
i Grace. Lewis flied to Williams,
j Spence flied to Mele.
1 BOSTON—Travis threw out Doerr.
1 York flied to Spence. Mele singled
: off Christman’s glove. Wagner sin
: (yIaH fn riohf conHino ol a tn
third. Hughson fouled to Travis.
House Steering Group Vote
On Rent Boost Due Today
By th* Associated Press
The Republican high command
called for a decision by its House
Steering Committee today on a
proposed 10 per cent general in
crease in rent ceilings.
The House Banking Committee
voted for the across-the-board in
crease two weeks ago, 9 to 4.
Chairman Wolcott of the Banking
Committee asked Speaker Martin
to put the proposition to the GOF
steering group at 3 pm, and said
the outcome ‘becomes a matter ol
party policy.” He refused to pre
dict what the vote would be.
Mr. Wolcott contends that a per
centage increase “might create as
many hardships as it cures.” The
Banking Committee will vote tomor
row on a motion to reconsider its
previous action and Mr. Wolcott
said the majority would follow the
recommendation of the Steering
Committee.
Marshall Visits
Stalin as Talks
On Treaty Fail
Kremlin Conference
Follows Breakdown
On 40-Year Pact
BULLETIN
MOSCOW UP).—Secretary of
State Marshall went to the
Kremlin at 8 o’clock tonight
for a conference with Prime
Minister Stalin. Gen. Marshall
was accompanied by Ambassa
dor Walter Bedell Smith and
Charles Bohlen, American ex
pert on Russia and Gen. Mar
shall’s interpreter. The meet
ing followed a breakdown in
efforts of the Foreign Minis
ters’ Council tc$ reach agree
i ment on the proposed 40-year,
four-power treaty on German
disarmament.
By the Associated Press
MOSCOW, April 15.—Secretary
of State Marshall today rejected
as out of place Soviet Foreign
Minister Molotov’s proposal for
amending the American-pro
posed Big Four treaty for dis
arming Germany.
Gen. Marshall asked Mr. Molotov
whether he was willing to name
negotiators for the kind of treaty
the United States seeks.
Recalling that British Foreign
Secretary Bevin and French For
eign Minister Bidault had agreed
yesterday in principle to such a
pact and to naming negotiators for
it, Gen. Marshall told the Council
of Foreign Ministers:
“I should like to know whether
the Soviet delegation is willing to
refer this matter to plenipotenti
aries for negotiation on the basis
which the United States proposed.”
Treaty First Basic Step.
"Yesterday we discussed the
United States’ proposal for a four
power treaty to assure the continu
ing of disarmament and demilitari
zstion of Germany,” Gen. Marshall
said. “We have proposed that treaty
as a first step and a basic step. As
the first step it would dispel the
fear which is never a wise counselor.
As a bisic step it was simple and
limited to one concrete thing
namely, preventing the rearmament
of Germany.”
“There are many aspects to the
German settlement,” Gen. Marshall
said. “The four-power pact is not
intended to deal with all of these.
We have not so represented it. If
there are any illusions about this,
they are not of our own creation.
But a first and basic step should be
directed against one thing which
can be identified and'which is most
feared, namely, the military re
armament of Germany.
“It has been suggested that the
purpose of the four-power treaty
should be amended to deal with a
great mass of other subjects, such
as the permanent regime for the
Ruhr, the denazification of Ger
many, the democratization of Ger
many. the accomplishment of land
reforms, the collection of repara
tions, the elimination of cartels and
so forth.
“Have No Place in Treaty."
“All these matters must be dealt
| with by the control council in the
| ultimate peace settlement. To deal
with them in the four-power treaty
which we propose would be to alter
the scope and purpose of that treaty.
Such amendments have no place in
the kind of treaty proposed.
“Such provisions have no more
place in the proposed treaty than
in the series of bilateral treaties
against German aggression which
have been negotiated by the Soviet
Union, all of Which are simple and
none of which contain any such
provision as the Soviet Union now
proposes for the four-power treaty.
“The proposal, in our opinion,
would usui.f, for four of us, peace
treaty powers which belong to the
Allied Nations as a whole.
“Today I put the inquiry as to
whether the other three powers here
are prepared in principle, I repeat
in principle, to negotiate* quickly a
treaty of the character suggested by
the United States whereby the four
of us will undertake to keep Ger
many disarmed. That question, I
understand, has been answered in
the affirmative by France and the
United Kingdom. *1 should like to
know whether the Soviet Union
delegation is willing to refer this
matter to plenipotentiaries for ne
gotiation on the basis which the
; United States proposed."
Interested in Rome Report.
Gen. Marshall’s advisers were re
ported much interested in a diplo
matic report from Rome quoting
a Communist paper (said to be
LTJnita) to the effect that the Big
Four disarmament treaty would be
a bad thing because it would keep
the United States’ fingers in Euro
pean affairs for the next 40 or 50
years.
This has been called to Gen. Mar
(See MOSCOW, Page A-4.)
Nimitz Sends His Boat to Aid
In Hunt for 3 Lost Penguins
By George Kennedy
Admiral Nimitz, chief of naval
operations, sent his cabin cruiser
patroling the Anacostia River to
day in search of three penguins
who jumped ship in formal attire
on the return of Rear Admiral
Richard E. Byrd's Antarctic” expedi
tion, »
The admiral's boat was hailed
before noon on the Anacostia River
by a harbor police patrol boat. The
bluejackets on the Nimitz cruiser
reported they had seen no sign of
the missing penguins.
The police boat flushed three
ducks in the Anacostia at 9:50 a.m.
The ducks took off and flew south.
A sailor on the submarine Drum,
docked at the Naval Gun Factory,
said he had seen the three missing
penguins swimming new the op
posite shore of the Anacostia River
at 7 am. A motorist hailed the
A.
police boat to tell them he had seen
them not far from that location.
Sergt. Phillips Burton, in command
of the police boat, concluded both
had mistaken the three duck for the
penguins.
The police boat went down the
Potomac and circled Daingerfleld
Island below the National Airport.
None of the several persons on boats
and on shore whom they hailed had
seen penguins in the Potomac.
Seven of the penguins escaped yes
terday afternoon when their crate
broke as it was being lowered from
the expedition's flagship, the Mount
Olympus, to a truck on the dock at
the Naval Gun Factory.
Four were caught in one of the
most exciting pursuits since the
hunting of the Snark. The Navy,
administratively helpless in meeting
(See PENGUINS, Page A-5.)
'A Prophet Is Not Without Honor Save in His Own Country .. /
British Income Taxes Reduced
In Balanced 1947-8 Budget
Expenditures Equal Expected Income for
First Time in 10 Years, Commons Told
By the Associated Pres*
LONDON, April 15— Income
tax burdens were eased slightly
today by Chancellor of the Ex
chequer Hugh Dalton, who laid
before the House of Commons
the first balanced British budget
in 10 years.
He announced an Increase of
| nearly 50 per cent in import duties
{ on tobacco leaf, 80 per cent of which
| is imported from the United States.
Foreseeing a possible $992,000,000
surplus, Mr. Dalton announced in
come tax easements which he esti
mated would free about 750,000 per
sons from paying the tax.
He said earned income relief
would be raiased from one-eighth
to one-sixth and lifted from a max
imum of $600 to $1,000. The effect
of the concession was that single
men would pay no tax on earnings
below $10.40 a week and would not
begin to pay the tax at the full
standard rate until earnings ex
ceeded $22 a week. The lower rates
will be effective April 6.
Mr. Dalton also said income tax
reductions would be raised from
$200 to $240 for each child.
The chancellor rejected proposals
to tax pari-mutuel betting on horses,
dogs and football pools, asserting:
“The Labor Party stands for jus
tice and to tax these alone and let
the bookmaker go free would be
wrong.”
The tobacco tax increase will in
crease the price of a pack of 20 cigar
ettes from 48 cents to 68 cents. An
nouncing it, Mr. Dalton said:
“I break the news brutally to the
House. Our current consumption of
tobacco exceeds 250,000,000 pounds
weight a year and about 80 per cent
is imported from the United States.
To satisfy this insatiable demand, we
(See BfJDGET, Page A-5.)
D. C. Home Rule Bill
Approved, 6 to 1, by
Senate Committee
Revised McCarran Plan
To Be Delayed on Floor
For Study, Buck Says
By Don S. Warren
The Senate District Commit
tee, by a 6-to-l vote, today or
dered a favorable report on the
revised McCarran bill creating a
commission to draft a Home Rule
Charter for Washington.
The commission of 11 members
would prepare a proposed charter
and submit it to Congress within
a year. With approval of Congress
the charter would be submitted to
District residents in an official
referendum.
The commission would be di
rected to hold public hearings on
a proposed new municipal govern
mental organization.
Committee Chairman Buck said
he would place the bill and report
promptly before the Senate, but
would not seek action immediately.
He said he wants to give Senators
time to study the plan.
.* Johnston Opposes Measure.
Senator Johnston, Democrat, of
South Carolina, voted against the
measure. He said he would file a
minority report and predicted he
would have considerable support on
the Senate floor.
Voting with Chairman Buck to re
j port the bill favorably were Senators
i Capper of Kansas and Cooper of
Kentucky, Republicans, and Mc
Grath of Rhode Island, Holland of
' Florida and Umstead of North Caro
lina, Democrats.
; Senator Ball. Republican, of Min
nesota, head of the Home Rule sub
committee which recently reported
the bill favorably, could not attend
today’s full committee meeting, but
sent his proxy.
Principal changes in the original
McCarran bill were the addition of
! (See HOME RULE, Page A-4.)
Dr. Tiso, President
Of Nazi Slovakia,
Sentenced to Die
Special Court Delivers
Verdict on 111 Counts; *
Commutation Expected
By the Associated Press
BRATISLAVA, April 15.—Dr.
Josef Tiso, round-faced parish
priest who became President of
the Nazi puppet state of Slo
vakia during the war, was sen
tenced today to die on the gal
lows for crimes against the state.
The verdict was handed down by
a special national court which has
been in session here on the case
since DO cember 2.
Tiso, black-frocked and with his
hair close-cropped as throughout
the trial, silently heard the reading
of the sentence. ,
If the sentence Is carried • out
without commutation, the priest
probably will be hanged within the
next two or three days. National
court sentences are usually carried
out almost Immediately.
Commutation Is Expected.
Many persons speculated, how
ever, that President Eduard Benes
might commute the sentence at the
last minute to lifelong confinement
in some monastery.
Sentenced to death in absentia
was Dr. Ferdinand Durchansky,
Tiso's Foreign Minister.
Alexander Mach, Tiso 's Minister of
the Interior, was tried stmnltan pniic.
ly with the other two, but no sen
tence was pronounced In his case.
Dr. Tiso, who was known before
the war as a distinguished Roman
Catholic religious leader in a land
predominately Catholic, was charged
with 111 counts in a 213-page in
dictment. Any one of them could
have brought the death penalty.
The most serious offenses charged
were that Father Tiso asked for and
gladly accepted the “protection” of
Adolf Hitler; that under his admin
istration at least two Slovak divi
sions were sent to fight the Rus
sians; and that in July, 1944, as
vast Gennan armies were limping
back from the east, he used what
military force he still possessed to
oppose a Slovak revolution which
broke out.
Reported Decorated by Hitler.
He was reported by the Berlin
radio, in March, 1943, to have been
decorated by Hitler on the fourth
anniversary "of the independence
of the Slovak republic.” The award
given was described as the gold
Grand Cross of the Order of the
German Eagle, highest of the five
grades of the decoration for for
eigners.
On January 17,* 1944, the Vatican
radio, heard in London, said Father
Tiso had “retired” as a monsignor
of the church "owing to his political
activities.”
He was captured by American
forces in June, 1945, and turned
over to Czech authorities four
months later. Last June, a group
of Slovak Roman Catholic bishops
recommended that mercy be shown
(See TISO, Page A-5.)
*
Reynolds Speeding
Across Canada With
New Mark in Sight
Flyer Trying to Reach
New York by Tonight;
Stops Briefly at Adak
By the Associated Press
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, April
15.—Milton Reynolds, Chicago
manufacturer, sped toward Ed
monton, Alberta, and the Amer
ican mainland today on the
next-to-last leg of his record
breaking round-the-world flight.
The Bombshell plane took off
from Adak in the western Aleutians
at 4:24 a.m. PST (7:24 am. EST)
this morning after an unscheduled
stop.
Mr. Reynolds listed Calgary, Al
berta, and Great Palls, Mont., as
alternate stops.
Speed 308 Miles an Hour.
His flying time for the 15,210
miles from New York was 49 hours
13 minutes, an approximate speed
of 308 miles an hour. His elapsed
time was 62 hours 13 minutes from
his takeoff at 5:11 pm. EST Satur
day.
At Edmonton, the Department of
Transport’s air control office said
it had been informed the plane was
i expected to reach there about 12:54
p.m. (2:54 p.m. EST).
Anchorage reported light rain and
a moderate fog, with overcast at
1,200 feet at about the time the
Bombshell was due over the Alaska
coast on its Adak-Edmonton hop, a
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miles.
Mr. Reynolds said the plane turned
back after passing over Adak be
cause of heavy headwinds and be
cause the plane's fuel supply was
running low.
Reports Unfounded.
Previous reports that he had been
forced to turn back by “mechanical
difficulties” were unfounded, Mr.
Reynolds informed Frank Lamb, di
rector of the flight, in New York by
telephone.
Edmonton is a little more than
halfway along the 5,000-mile route
from Adak to New York. Mr.
Reynolds said he expected to make
the trip in approximately 8 hours.
The manufacturer told Mr. Lamb
he planned to be in New York “about
8 o’clock tonight.”
Northwest Airlines said the plane
landed at Adak at 1:25 a.m., PST
(4:25 a.m., EST), this morning, 9
hours and 2 minute after leaving
Tokyo.
The converted A-26 Douglas bomb
er must negotiate the remaining
5,000 miles to New York in 29 hours
1 minute to eclipse the present
global record of 91 hours 14 minutes
set by Howard Hughes in 1938.
With arrival in New York “by 3
o’clock tonight,” as hoped for by
Mr. Reynolds, he will have made
the trip in 74 hours, 49 minutes.
At Adak 53 Minutes Late.
At Elmciidorff Field here, Army
officials said mechanics had earlier
been advised to stand by to make
repairs of an undisclosed nature
to one of the plane’s landing wheels.
The plane carrying Mr. Reynolds
and ills companions, William Odom
of Roslyn, N. Y., and Flight Engi
neer Carroll Sallee of Dallas, passed
over Adak at 3.27 a.m. EST, 53 min
utes later than the estimated time
of arrival indicated in the flight
plan filed before taking off from
Japan. Less than an hour later the
plane lanaea ai auek.
Mr. Reynolds took off from Yokota
Army Airdrome In Japan at 9:24
a.m. today (7:24 p.m. Monday EST)
for the more than 3,000-mile flight
to Alaska, still confident he could
(See REYNOLDS, Page A-4.)
14th Street Car Trouble
Causes Half-Hour Tieup
Government workers who use the
Fourteenth street car line had a
legitimate excuse for being late to
day. They were waiting for a
streetcar (to get started again).
At 8:30 a.m. the Capital Transit
Co. developed power trouble in the
cable on Fourteenth street between
F and G streets N.W. Streetcars
had begun to back up for blocks
when dispatchers were notified by
radio car to divert cars at U street.
At the same time, the company
started buses running between the
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
and U street on Fourteenth street.
Truman Favors
Major Changes
In Neutrality Act
Wants Permission
To Embargo Arms to
Unfriendly Nations
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President Truman today pro
posed sweeping changes in this
country’s neutrality law to per
mit the Government to place
embargoes on shipments of arms
to unfriendly nations.
In a message to Congress, the
President said he must be free to
act “in accordance with our position
in the United Nations.”
Under section 12 of the Neutrality
Act, Mr. Truman pointed out, the
requirement of impartiality forces
the Secretary of State to “treat
aggressor and aggrieved, peacemaker
and troublemaker equally by grant
ing every application for the license
for the exportation of any arm, am
munition or implements of war un
less such action would be in viola
tion of a treaty.”
Inconsistency Pointed Out.
“Such a provision of law is no
longer consistent with this coun
try’s committments and require
ments," the President's message
said.
“We have committed ourselves to
international co-operation through
the United Nations.
“If this participation is to be fully
effective, this Government must
have control over traffic and weap
ons which will permit us to act in
accordance with our position in the
United Nations and will oHnnt.
able to changes in the international
situation.”
Mr. Truman added that since
weapons and implements of war
“are material weights in the bal
ances of peace or war,” this country
“should not be legally bound to be
indiscriminate in how they are
placed in the scales.
Legislation Proposed.
“If war should ever again become
imminent, it would be intolerable
to find ourselves in our present posi
tion of being bound by our own
legislation to give aid and support
to any power which might later
attack us.”
Along with his message, Mr. Tru
man submitted to Congress pro
posed legislation to give the Gov
ernment discretion in the adminis
tration of controls over licenses, not
only for arms but over other mate
rials designed for military use.
He said the proposed legislation
provides for export controls over (1)
articles especially designed for or
customarily used only in the manu
facture of arms, ammunition and
implements of war, and (2) articles
exported for use, directly or indi
rectly, by foreign military estab
lishment.
The bill would authorize super
vision of the exportation of arms,
ammunition, implements of war and
related commodities and the impor
tation of these articles. It also
would provide for registration of
manufacturers, exporters, importers
and dealers in munitions of war and
provide means for giving the Gov
ernment a more adequate check in
the international traffic in arms.
Discretion to Be Exercised.
The proposed legislation would
supersede section 12 of the Neu
trality Act of 1939, which set up a
National Munitions Control Board
under the Secretary of State, with
authority to register those engaged
in the munitions business.
This system, set up under section
12, Mr. Truman said, was conceived
during a period of neutrality “and
with the view to remaining out of
war.” Past neutrality legislation has
all been founded, he said, “on the
principle of impartiality toward all
those who would secure munitions
from us, regardless of their mo
tives.”
“The exercise of discretion neces
sarily requires a revision of the ad
ministration of the controls present
ly in operation,” Mr. Truman told
Congress, continuing:
“The new proposal diffdfs from
section 12 inasmuch as it permits
the issuance of various types of li
cense designed to take into account
under what circumstances and in
what quantities the export of the
articles covered by the proposed bill
should be subject to control,”
Under the present law, any one
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Warm, Sunny Weather Due
Today With Rain Tomorrow
Warm and sunny weather was
expected to return today to soothe
the dampened feeling of Washing
tonians and spring visitors. Yester
day’s rain had little effect on the
cherry blossoms, according to the
office of National Capital Parks,
and the blossoms are expected to re
main in full glory until Sunday,
barring high winds or heavy rain.
More rain is in sight for tomorrow,
the Weather Bureau said, but today
the temperature is likely to rise to
68 degrees and drop to 50 degrees
tonight.
Bulletin
M'Phail Pleads for Durocher
NEW YORK UP).—Larry Mac
Phail, president of the New
York Yankees, said today. he
had mailed a letter to Presi
dent Will Harridge of the
American League asking for
reconsideration by Commis
sioner A. B. Chandler of the
penalties assessed against Leo
Durocher, Brooklyn manager,
and Charley Dressen, Yankee
coach.
Liner Pulled Off Sandbar
LONDON UP). _ The British
Press Association said tonight
that tugs had pulled the mas
sive liner Queen Elizabeth off
the sandbar on which she had
been stuck outside Southamp
ton Harbor for 24 hours.
(Earlier story on Page A-3.)
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