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Marshall Leaves
With Hope for
Rio Conference
Truman Sees Party
Off, Tells Austin He
Will Come at Call
By Joseph A. Fox
Secretary of State Marshall
took off for the Inter-American
Defense Conference at Rio de
Janeiro today with an expres
sion of hope for the success of
the forthcoming deliberations
which was echoed by President
Truman, who was on hand for
the departure from National
Airport.
The conference of 21 nations
opens Friday and President Truman
is expected to be there for the
windup early in September. The
meeting was called to write a formal
military defense treaty for this
hemisphere.
“I will come whenever you tell me
it’s time,” President Truman told
Warren R. Austin, chief United
* States representative to the United
Nations and one of the American
delegation, as they walked to the
plane this morning.
In addition to Secretary Marshall
and Mr. Austin, the group leaving
here today included Chairman Van
denberg of the Senate Foreign Rela
tions Committee, and previously a
i c^icucuiauvc ui tins uuuiu-ry at in
temational conferences. Marshall S.
Carter, special assistant to Secre
tary Marshall, and Mrs. Marshall,
Mrs. Vandenbergxand Mrs. Austin.
Travelling in Sacred Cow.
Senator Connally, ranking mi
nority member of the Senate Foreign
Affairs Committee, and Representa
tive Bloom, ranking minority mem
ber of the House Foreign Affairs
Committee, other members of the
American delegation, left for Rio
earlier by ship.
The party leaving here today is
travelling in the original White
Hou^e plane the Sacred Cow, piloted
by Capt. Charles Mills.
The group will arrive in Rio to
morrow afternoon. It will stop for
fuel at Puerto Rico and Belem, Bra
zil.
The departure this morning Was
set for 9 o'clock, but there was some
delay while pictures were made and
the principals spoke for the sound
movies. The plane bearing the del
egates took off at 9:16.
Truman Talks te Vandenberg.
President Truman reached the
airport just before 9 o’clock and was
joined in his car by Senator Van
denberg with whom he talked for a
few moments until Secretary and
Mrs. Marshall drove up.
The President and the American
delegates with Brazilian Ambas
sador, Carlos Martins who came to
the airport, posed for photographs
and then the President and the
others took their places before a
microphone to talk informally for
the newsreel photographers.
It was while the group was walk
ing toward the microphone that Mr.
Austin told the President that his
arrival would be awaited eagerly
ana xne rresiaenx responaea wixn
the statement that he would come
at the proper time.
Date of the President's arrival in
Rio has not been definitely decided.
Marshall Expresses Confidence.
In his brief remark in which he
wished the, American representatives
a "happy landing in Brazil,” Mr.
Truman said "I know' you will have
a successful trip and a successful
conference.”
Referring to the fact that mem
bers of the group had previously
represented this Government in
world conferences, the President ex
pressed his happiness at having the
same men again cast in this role.
“We are going south with great
hopes and great confidence for what
I consider very important to the
world—solidarity in the Western
Hemisphere,” Secretary Marshall
said.
Senator Vandenberg said "we an
ticipate Rio will be a great success,”
and he voiced the hope that the con
ference would set an example for
the United Nations in showing “how
good neighbors can get along.”
Continuation of Mexico Parley.
“I agree with that,” President
Truman declared firmly.
Mr. Austin recalled that the Rio
conference is simply a continuation
of the Mexican City parley when the
Act of Chapultepec was drafted.
Ambassador Martins also expressed
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ly ths Associated Press
'NEW YORK. » Aug. 13 —Trygve
Lie, Secretary General of the United
Nations, left La Guardia Field early
today aboard a Pan American World
Airways clipper for Rio de Janeiro
to address the Inter-American Con
ference opening Friday in the Bra
zilian capital.
William Stoneman, his adviser,
accompanied Mr. Lie, who will at
tend the conference as a special ob
server for the United Nations and
give the keynote speech Friday.
They are due in Brazil tomorrow
morning.
Child Fearful
Of Thunder Dies
As Drums Roll
By the Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 13.—Two
year-old Nancy Lee Pollock, whose
mother said the child was deathly
afraid of “anything that sounded
like thunder." collapsed and died in
her crib as a drum end bugle band
practiced nearby. Detective Albert
Helvitsorr reported.
Mrs, Elba Pollock, who came from
„ her home in Stockton, Calif., to visit
a sister, said Nancy Lee awoke
screaming last pight and then fell
limp in her bed. The child was
rushed to the office of Dr. Hubert
Manazuk, but was dead en arrival
Uiere.
93 Degrees Predicted Today;
Little Relief Till Week End
Showers Promised for Some Areas
Suffering From Drought in Midwest
AVUipvlBVUlCO, ,
Degrees. Degrees.
Midnight _80 8 R.m. __.75
1 am...79 9 am. i.78
2 a.iti.78 10 a.m__82
3 am. _77 11 a.m. 85
4 a.m._77 Noon .88
5 am. .76 1:20 pm.92
6 a.m._.75 2 pm...91
7 a.m. _75
A 2-degree rise over yester
day’s temperature of 91 was in
prospect for Washington to day,
as promise of some crop-reviving
showers for parts of the North
ern Great Plains area came from
Weather Bureau officials.
The District forecaster, predicting
the temperature here would equal
the 93-degree record for the year,
registered on July 13, held little hope
for relief from the heat for at, least
two more days.
The prediction included scattered
thundershowers in the area, possi
bly in the District proper, but held
no promise they would break the
heat.
As the entire Washington area
sweltered, workers at the District
Paraguay Insurgents
Are Reported Fleeing
Positions at Asuncion
Loyalists Declare They
Are Pursuing Rebels
North From Capital
By the Associated Press
BUENOS AIRES, Aug. 13.—An
official Paraguayan source here
said rebel forces were fleeing
from their positions around
Asuncion today after suffering a
sharp defeat at the hands of
loyal Paraguayan troops in the
latest action of a flve-month-old
civil war.
This informant said the Loyal
ists were “tenaciously pursuing'’ the
retreating insurgents in the direc
tion of Piquete Cue and Villeta,
north of the capital. An earlier
official announcement last night
said a Loyalist relief column
pressing down from the north,
where the rebel capital of Concep
cion was captured July 31—had
reached a point only 12 miles from
Asuncion.
The official source here said the
message he received from Asuncion
last night reported that insurgent
forces around the threatened Loyal
ist capital had been “destroyed.”
He did not make plain, however,
whether the insurgent troops men
tioned constituted the entire rebel
force concentrated there or a part
of it.
IVeDCi Druuuc»M ncaru.
On the other hand, rebel sympa
thizers in the border city of Formosa
said they heard a broadcast rebel
communique last night which said
the insurgents “were fighting in the
center of Asuncion and advancing
steadily despite desperate govern
ment resistance.” They said the
communique stated that the fall of
Asuncion was only a “matter of
hours.”
Paraguayan refugees reaching
Argentina said that when they left
the government was preparing
Asuncion strongpoints .for a build
ing to building defense in the event
of a breakthrough by the rebels.
Relief of the Loyalist capital
would end a paraxodigal situation
which found the government of
President Higinio Morinigo faced
with defeat less than 10 days after
its troops conquered the rebel capi
tal, 125 miles to the north, In what
then appeared to be the victorious
climax of the 15th Paraguayan re
bellion in 12 years.
The explanation of the paradox
still is obscure and even military
experts would like to know exactly
what happened between the fall of
Concepcion July 31 and^August 7,
when rebel forces appeared at the
gates of Asuncion.
How Tide Was Reversed.
One Paraguayan military man
here said he thought this is about
what happened in that first week
in August:
Tho TnwoUcfc VtftH hppn nuchinir.
toward Concepcion ever since the
revolt began there March 7. Weeks
ago it became obvious to the rebel
leaders that they could not defend
Concepcion successfully. Conse
quently, they left their lines thinly
manned and sent their best men
filtering through the advancing
Loyalists.
The Loyalists had sent most of
their forces to the front; keeping
the remainder as a defense for
Asuncion, thus leaving the inter
vening country—which is heavily
wooded, mostly uninhabited and
sliced up by numerous streams—
practically denuded of manpower.
The infiltrating insurgents, there
fore, were able to make their way
to the outskirts of Asuncion almost
unnoticed. When the Loyalists
finally pushed into Concepcion they
found only a few hundred rebels
(See PARAGUAY7Page A-5?)
ouuuuig were t/Viu tiicy wuuiu uc;
released at 3 p.m.
While predicting showers for the
northern Great Plains area, the
Weather Bureau saw no general re
lief from the hot weather before the
week end.
Rainfall was moving eastward
from Montana and North Dakota
with fairly heavy showers probable
in Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin,
the Weather Bureau said.
Where the rainfall is sufficient to
break local drought conditions, tem
porary relief from the heat could
be expected, but these points
would be scattered, the Bureau
said, adding that most of the
showery area will not receive suffi
cient moisture to benefit deterior
ating crops.
The District forecaster, watching
the showers in Montana and North
Dakota, said he was not sure when
they would sreach the District.
The low temperature here this
morning was 74 degrees at 6:20 a.m.
The forecaster predicted continued
high humidity.
Continued high temperatures,
generally ranging from 90 degrees
upward, were forecast for most of
the Midwest, East and South today.
15% Pay Raise in '46
For Building Trades
Is Largest Since 1920
Increases in District
Averaged 9 Per Cent,
U..S. Report Reveals
ly the Associated Prese
Wages of union workers in the
auilding trades rose 15 per cent
in the last year, the largest jump
in a single 12-month period since
1620, the Bureau of Labor Sta
tistics reported today.
In Washington the increase for
inion building workers averaged 9
cer cent.
For the country as a whole the
ncrease amounted to about 25
cents an hour for nearly 500,000
workers in seven major construc
tion crafts. Working hours showed
little change during the year be
tween July 1, 1946 and July 1, 1947.
Most of the hourly wage in
creases cam4 after wage controls
were dropped November 9, 1946, the
jureau said. During the control
period from July, 1942, until that
late, however, pay scales increased
18 tier cent.
Total Gain* Listed.
The total rise from July, 1939, to
July, 1947, amounted to approxi
mately 49 per cent. During the
same eight years the consumers'
srice index (formerly the cost of
iving index) increased by 59 per
eent, and wholesale prices of build
ng materials soared 96 per cent
;he agency reported.
The bureau said plasterers and
plumbers, who received an 18.8 per
eent wage increase, scored the
largest gain from collective Bar
gaining last year in the 75 cities
eovered by the survey.
Bricklayers, with an estimated
average hourly rate of $2.37, are at |
[he top of the wage ladder, but
plasterers in N^w York city nego
;iated the highest rate—$3 per hour,
tt was a 75 per cent increase above
[he rate prevailing there on July 1,
1946.
1947 Estimates Given.
Preliminary estimates of increases
from 1946 and the rate ranges for
1947 follow:
Bricklayers, 15.2 per cent increase,
S1.75 to $2.75 in rate range; carpen
ters, 15.4 per cent, $1.40 to $2.50;
electricians, 12.6 per cent, $1.50 to
12.50; painters, 11.6 per cent, $1.25
to $2.15; plasterers, 17.6 per cent,
11.62 Vi to $3.00; plumbers, 18.8 per
eent, $1.75 to $2.81; building labor
ers. 15.9 per cent, 70 cents to $1.75.
These Dreliminarv figures were
given for wage increases in Wash-!
ington, listing, first, the percentage)
3f increase; second, the amount of
increase in the hourly rate, and.j
third, the present wage per hour;
Bricklayers, 11.8 per cent, 25
cents, $2.37%; carpenters, 6.5 per
cent, 12% cents, $2.05; electricians,
5.9 per cent, 12% cents, $2.25; paint
ers, 9.9 per cent, 17% cents, $1.95; j
plasterers; 12.5 per cent, 25 cents,,
$2.25; plumbers, 13.3 per cent, 25!
cents, $2.12%; building laborers.1
14.3 per cent, 15 cents, $1.20. I
Each of these categories was below
the average for 75 cities surveyed.
Late Bulletin
Curley Plea Rejected
Mayor James M. Curley of
Boston lost another bid for
early freedom today when Dis
trict Court Justice James M.
Proctor refused to reduce the
6-to-18-month sentence given
Curley on his mail fraud con
viction. The ailing Curley
went to Jail to begin hrs sen
tence on June 26.
Army Probing Crash of Fighter,
Death of Pilot Near Alexandria
FOUR KILLED as bomber and
training plane collide. Page A-3
Army officials today were investi
gating the crash of a P-51 Mustang
fighter plane 3 miles south of Alex-i
andria. and the death of its pilot,
Maj Frank W. Hess, 30, Palo Alto,
Calif., whose body and unopened
parachute were found about 2 miles
from the scene last night.
The flyer, whose body was taken
to Boiling Field, was en route from
Memphis, Tenn., to Andrews Weld,
with a man identified as a Capt.
Kramer, piloting another P-51.
According to Andrews Field au
thorities, the two planes apparently
ran into bad weather and were low
in gasoline as they approach^
Washington. The control tower at
National Airport was contacted by
radio by Capt. Kramer who said the
pilot of the other craft was going to
bail out.
The plane hit in a cornfield near
Duke street road, 100 yards from the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Har
low. It was demolished but did not
bum.
The pilot's body was found shortly
afterwards near the intersection of
Seminary road and Valley lane. A
passerby, A. J. Simpson of Fairfax
County, reported that the pilot’s
parachute “had failed to open com
pletely.”
One witness, Dick Fallon of Fair
lington. said he saw the plane ap
parently stall, then dive straight for
Probe of Prices
To Center on
'Conspiracies'
Drive Held Justified
By Complaints; CIO
Again Urges Parley
The food, clothing and housing
price investigation ordered by
Attorney General Clark was de
scribed today by Justice Depart
ment officials as a move, justified
by many complaints, to protect
the public and the majority of
businessmen from “conspiracies”
to push up or keep up costs in
those fields.
“It is not against the law to earn
money and make legitimate profits,”
Mr. Clark said. “We are simply
trying to ferret out violators of the
antitrust laws who illegally main
tain or increase prices.”
While Justice Department officials
were pushing their plans for the
investigation, the CIO renewed a
request that President Truman call
an industry-Government-labor con
ference to seek voluntary price re
ductions. And on Capitol Hill a
congressional critic called the At
torney General's program “fan
tastic.”
CIO Welcomes Probe.
The CIO, which yesterday asked
a special session of Congress to
deal with prices and a conference
as an alternative, welcome Mr.
Clark's announcement of his in
vestigation.
Emil Rieve, chairman of the CIO's
full employment committee, said,
however, that “many prices are set
by large monopolies and monopolies
do not necessarily fall under
criminal law and Mr. Clark's in
vestigation.”
“For example,' in the automobile
industry General Motors controls
probably 60 per cent of the business
and therefore is able to dictate
prices.”
Price Conference Asked.
For that reason, he said, CIO feels
the President should at once sum
mon a conference for voluntary
price cuts and Congress, immedi
ately on reconvening, should re-es
tablish price and rationing controls.
At the Justice Department,
spokesmen refused detailed com
ment on the investigation program
because “this is a time for action
instead of words.” They said the
department had no wish to get into
an argument with anybody or to
give the impression the investiga
tion was “out to smear any one.”
The investigation, they explained,
will be directed by Assistant Attor
ney General John P. Sonnett, chief
of the Antitrust Division, and con
ducted not only through headquar
ters here but through branch offices
in New York, Boston, Chicago, Den
ver, Seattle, San Francisco and Los
Angeles.
mu uivuivc, uiey sum, me
examination of complaints, prosecu
tion of cases, convictions in court,
and specific requests for jail
sentences.
“Consent decrees, fines, nolo con
tendere (no contest) pleas and so
forth have been tried and found in
effective," an official said. “The 93
United States district attorneys
throughout the country and • the
special prosecutors who will work on
these cases for the department have
been instructed to recommend to
judges that persons found guilty of
conspiracy to keep up or raise high
prices for housing, food and clothing
be given jail sentences.”
Department officials refused to
disclose what complaints may have
(See PRICES, Page-A^lT)
Motor Vessel Sinks
In Crash Off Seattle
BULLETIN
PORT ANGELES, Wash. <#).—
The motorship Diamond Knot
sank today near Crescent Bay,
west of here, while in tow of
two tugs.
By tht Associated Press
SEATTLE, Aug. 13.—The 10,681
ton freighter Penn Victory and the
coastal motorship Diamond Knot
collided early today in thick fog off
Vicoria, British Columbia, and the
Diamond Knot was rapidly filling
with water.
Three hours after the 1:10 a.m.
collision, which left a gaping hole
in the motorship, three of her holds
were flooded and her crew was talk
ing to lifeboats.
The vessels collided in the treach
erous Strait of Juan de Fuca.
The Penn Victory's bow still was
stuck fast in the side of the 5,525
ton Alaska-to-Seattle motorship.
Part of the Diamond Knot’s mast
head tackle was hooked over the
bow of the larger vessel, and the
contact was helping to keep her
afloat.
Capt. C. N. Goodwin of the Dia
mond Knot radioed the Coast Guard
here that he hoped salvage tugs
would arrive in time to pull his
vessel to Esquimau, a few miles
away. Her engine room still was
dry.
Capt. Goodwin said his No. 2 and
No. 3 holds were flooded and No. 1
had 10 feet of water.
The strait wras fairly calm ex
cept for ground swells. The two
ships were obscured by a heavy,
low-lying fog bank. -
There was no report of casualties
on either ship. The Penn Victory
normally carries a crew of 50.
The Diamond Knott was launched
here September 8, 1944, by the Con
solidated Steel Corp. as the first
in its series of long-range cargo
ships.
Her wartime mission was to carry
Army and Navy supplies into the
Pacific area. She and her sister
ships were designated AV-ls, with a
length of 326 feet, 50-foot beam
and 18-foot draft.
ABC Board Proposes
Change in Act to Ban
Drinking by Minors
Letter to Commissioners
Asks Amendment to
Reverse West Ruling
The Alcoholic Beverage Con
trol Board today recommended
to the District Commissioners
adoption of a new regulation
that would override the opinion
of Corporation Counsel Vernon
E. West that minors can obtain
liqufir in a place where drinks
are served if it is ordered andr
paid for by an adult.
The regulation proposed by
the ABC Board would prohibit
a licensee from allowing ‘‘consump
tion of beverages by a minor upon
the premises of the licensee.”
The board, in a letter tov the
Conunisioners, said it believes the
Commissioners have the power and
authority to promulgate the new
regulation under Section 7 of the
Alcoholic Beverage Control Act and
strongly recomended its adoption?
The new regulation recommended
is as follows:
"section 45a—it snail be unlaw
ful for any licensee to sell, serve,
deliver, give, or in any manner dis
pense, any alcoholic beverage with
the exception of light wine and beer
to any person under the age of 21,
or light wines or beer to any person
under the age of 18 years.
“b. It shall be unlawful for any
person upon any licensed premises
to sell, give, serve, or in any man
ner dispense any alcoholic beverage,
with the exception of light w'ines
and beer, to any person under the
age of 21 years old, or light w'ines
and beer to any person under the
age of 18 years.
"c. No licensee shall premit or
allow the consumption of beverages
with the exception of beer and light
wines to any person under the age
of 21 years, or beer and light wine
to any person under the age of 18
years, upon the premises for which
any class of license has been issued
by the Alcoholic Beverage Control
Board.
“d. Any person who falsely and
or knowingly misrepresents the age
of any minor for the purpose of
securing for such minor any bever
ages shall be guilty of a misde
meanor and be fined for each of
fense not more than-dollars and
in default of payment of such fine
shall be imprisoned not exceed
ing - days.’
All inree teases uismissea.
After Mrs. Agnes K. Mason, aj
member of the board who was re
called from vacation by Chairman
Alan W. Payne, arrived this morn
ing, the board immediately went
into executive session.
Its first business involved three
cases in which selling alcoholic bev
erages to minors was charged. All
three cases were dismissed by the
board.
One was the case against the
Mayflower Hotel which led to Mr.
West’s opinion. Another was against
the Lotus Restaurant, which was
charged with selling beer to a young
girl, and another was against Janet
and Emanuel Laios, 3 H street N.W.,
(See MINORS. Page A-6.)
Detroit Promised Gasoline
To Run City Vehicles
§y th« A»*ociat*d Press
DETROIT, Aug. 13.—Emergency
supplies of gasoline were reported
today tt> be promised the city of
Detroit, which must halt its munici
pal vehicles tomorrow unless more
fuel is obtained.
The City Council, in a special
meeting yesterday, was informed by
Rankin Peck, president of the Na
tional Congress of Petroleum Deal
ers, that extra rations would be
granted to keep the motor city’s
police cars, fire trucks and munici
pally operated buses running.
His statement came as Council
President George Edwards told sup
plier representatives “we either get
gas or we get around to taking
Spartan measures to meet the sit
uation.” 1
The “Spartan measures,” it was
indicated, might mean limited filling
stations to four hours’ operation
daily and seising unused fuel stocks.
At the request of Mayor Edward
J. Jeffries and Senators Vandenberg
and Ferguson, Attorney General
Clark in Washington ordered the
antitrust division of the Justice De
partment to investigate Detroit’s
gasoline problem to see if aw laws
have been violated. ■ -s
British Government, Industry
And Labor Plan Recovery Drive
Officials Meet Private Leaders to Discuss
Use of New, Extensive Economic Controls
By the Associated Press
LONDON, Aug. 13.—Govern
nent officials met with trade
Union leaders and industrialists
loday to make plans for combat
ting British economic ailments
with the newly voted and ex
tensive controls over labor, in
iustry and wealth.
The controls became law with
King George's assent after receiving
Inal preliminary approval from the
House of Lords this morning. The
‘crisis” bill empowers the Labor
government to muster all British
resources and guide labor into es
sential industries in efforts to
ichleve economic recovery.
The House of Commons voted 193
to 84 to adjourn until October 20,
Storekeeper's Skull
Fractured by Robber
Who Rifles Grocery
Early-Morning Customer
Finds Man Unconscious
On Floor Behind Counter
Louis H. Friedman, 55, owner
5f a District Grocery Store, was
slugged and critically injured
?arly today by a bandit in his
store at 53 D street S.E.
He is in Casualty Hospital with a
fractured skull.
Mr. Friedman was found slumped
behind a counter in the store by
Miss Helen McCrea, 19, of 116 D
street S.E., who entered the store
at about 8 a.m. to make a purchase.
She called Mr. Friedman's son,
Philip, 25, from the family's resi
lence above the store.
Cash Register Open.
The store's cash register was open
and young Friedman told police
ihat four or five $20 bills were miss
ing in addition to a wallet from his
father's pocket.
Police broadcast a lookout for a
suspect.
Police were told to watch for the
man in the vicinity of railroad
yards in the southeast section, be
lieving him to be a vagrant. The
robber may be carrying Mr. Fried
man's wallet which contained the
srocer’s driver's license amone other
identifying. papers, police said.
Mr. Friedman was in a dazed
condition and unable at first to tell
of the assault, according to Detec
tive Sergt. E. E. Scott of the homi
cide squad. Later, he told officers
he had been slugged by a man.
Awakened Daughter.
A daughter, Anne, told police that
her father usually opened the store
about 7:30 a.m. and that he had
returned to the family's quaiters
and awakened her about 7:20 a.m.
today.
Miss Friedman, who is a secre
tary at the Navy Department, pre
pared for work, but said she did
not hear any noise or calls from
the store. There were no signs of
a scuffle in the store, police sa'd.
Reds Fire on U. S. Sector
BERLIN. Aug. 13 (/Pi.—German
police notified American military
police early today that Russian sol
diers in a motorboat had fired on an
island in the Wannsee, inside the
American sector of Berlin. The
motorboat had vanished when an
American lake patrol arrived. A
liaison officer said the party might
have been out hunting ducks.
beating down Conservative and
Liberal attempts to shorten the
recess to September 16 in view of
the economic situation.
Anthony Eden, speaking for the
Conservatives, declared the $3,750,
000,000 American loan would be ex
hausted before the recess ends and
that the Labor regime had not told
Parliament what practical steps it
would take in dealing with the na
tion's plight.
Winston Churchill scheduled a 20
minute radio address for Saturday
night which was expected to be a
reply to Prime Minister Attlee's
speech of last Sunday appealing for
national co-operation. Mr. Churchill
will go on the air at 8:15 p.m. (4:15
p.m. EDT>. Conservative party
(See BRITAIN. Page A-5.)
Tropical Storm Center
Near Campache, Mexico
By th• Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 13.—The
center of a tropical storm in the
Gulf of Mexico was located at 9i
a.m.. Central Standard Time, about
120 miles west-northwest of Cam
pache, Mexico.
The Weather Bureau here said
the storm, which moved across the
Northern Yucatan Peninsula yes
terday from the Caribbean Sea into
the Gulf, is moving west or west
northward at 12 to 15 miles per
hour.
The strongest winds near the
center are about 50 miles per hour,
with squalls extending 200 miles to
the east and north of the center.
Defense Appointments
Are Due 'Pretty Soon*
President Truman will be ready
to name his top men for the new
national defense setup “pretty soon,"
Press Secretary Charles G. Ross said
today as he announced that Mr.
Truman would hold a news confer
ence at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow.
Asked if the President would make
his selections known at that time,
Mr. Ross said, “I don’t know yet,”
but he added that “it will all be
buttoned up pretty soon."
The President thus far has made
only one selection of key personnel
under the Army-Navy merger, hav
ing designated Secretary of the
Navy Forrestal to be Secretary of
Defense.
Approximately a dozen other ap
pointments are yet to be made, in
cluding Secretaries for Army, Navy
and Air Force.
The President had no calling list
today and Mr. Ross said he planned
to do some paper work.
Russians Are Reported
Shitting Reich Personnel
By the Associated Press
BERLIN, Aug. 13.—Die Neue Zei
tung, American military government
newspaper, said today a houseclean
ing of Russian occupation forces in
Germany was in progress, with
many Soviet military leaders slated
to be' replaced by civilians more
closely in touch with Moscow's cur
rent policies.
Under the changes, the paper
said, Gen. P. A. Kurochkin, deputy
Soviet commander-in-chief, will be
returned to Russia and V. Semjo
now, political adviser to Marshal
Vassily D. Sokolovsky, commander
in-chief, will lose his influence.
A new man is to take over the
work of “populariznig” Soviet poli
cies in the occupation zone, Neue
Zeitung said.
400-Pound Safe Stolen, Rifled
Second Time in Hyattsville
Thieves who apparently knew the
routine of Hyattsville town police
last night broke into a restaurant j
In the Queens Chapel shopping cen
ter, West Hyattsville, and stole a
iOO-pound safe containing approxi
mately (317 in cash and miscellane
ous papers.
The safe was recovered less than
two hours later on the side of Mont
gomery road at Beltsvi 11*. It was
spotted by a man who was en route
to work, according to police. The
door had been broken and the con
tents removed.'
It was the second theft of the same
safe from the Four Seas Seafood
Grill, 3010 Hamilton street, since the
restaurant opened last March 3.
Last night’s thieves entered the
jlaee in the same manner as before,
)y breaking in through a rear door.
^ woman resident of the Queens
Dhapel Manor subdivision behind
he restaurant reported a noise at
he establishment shortly after 3
i.m„ just 10 minutes after Hyatts
rtlle Policeman Charles Williams
nade his rounds of the area.
James D. Coates and Milton E.
Garrick, proprietors of the estab
ishment, said the same safe was
;aken April 25 and later recovered
n a stream, near Fort George G.
Meade. About $330 was stolen then,
;t was reported. The safe later was
repaired. I
British Loan
Revision Talks
Start Monday
$150,000,000 More
Withdrawn; Gold
Price Change Denied
•y th« Associated Press
Secretary of the Treasury
Snyder announced today that
discussions will start Monday
with British officials on easing
terms of the $3,750,000,000 Amer
ican loan to Britain.
Mr. Snyder told a news conference
that the National Advisory Council
on international monetary prob
lems, headed by himself, will con
duct the discussions on behalf of
this country.
The British delegation, which will
fly here this week end. will be
headed by Sir Wilfred Eady. special
assistant to Choncellor of the Ex
chequer Hugh Dalton.
Parley Strictly Limited.
Although no formal requests have
been made, it is understood that
England will ask concessions which
would permit her to conserve her
dwindling dollar supply by increas
ing imports from British dominions *
and decreasing imports from the
United States.
The present terms of the loan
agreement prohibit this.
Mr, Snyder emphasized it was
his understanding that the confer
ence would be strictly limited to the
British loan and would not. delve
into other aspects of the British
"dollar crisis’ or European aid.
He refused to comment on pros
pective changes, saying:
“I want to find out what the Brit
ish delegation has in mind before
making any statement.
"We are prepared to listen to any
thing they bring up. as long as it is
within the area of the Anglo-Ajner
ican loan agreement.”
Two Other Developments.
In two other developments on the
international economic scene:
1. Mr. Snyder scotched "persistent
rumors" in London’s financial dis
trict that the Treasury planned to
increase its price on gold from the
present $35 an ounce to $50. The
Secretary said there have been “no
plans and no discussions” of such a
move. An increase in the gold price
would assist European countries with
gold reserves to extend their pres
ent dollar credits.
2. The British withdrew another
$150,000,000 of their American loan,
leaving only $850,000,000 available.
At the recent rate of withdrawal.
Treasury officials estimated the loan
would be exhausted in October, in
stead of next June 30, as contem
plated.
*4_i j . .. -
ajcoiuco wic CAJICtlCU piupudtil to
increase British buying from her
dominions, advance reports indicate
the British delegation to the talks
here may seek a modification of the
loans terms which make the pound
freely convertable into dollars.
In the weeks since convertability
became effective, the flight of dol
lars from Britain’s dwindling sup
ply has increased.
The Treasury Secretary said he
could not guess how long the con
ferences will last. He plans to go
to London for the opening Septem
ber 10 of the annual meeting of
the Boards of Governors of the In
ternational Monetary Fund and the
International Bank for Reconstruc
tion and Development.
Advisory Council to Act.
The importance of the talks was
emphasized by the announcement
that the National Advisory Council
will speak for the United States.
Members of the Council include
Secretary of the Treasury Snyder,
Secretary of Commerce Harriman
and heads of the Federal Reserve
System and the Export-Import
Bank. In dealing with routine mat
ters aides act for them.
It was the National Advisory
Council which agreed last month
to relax one clause in the loan
agreement with the aim of permit
ting greater trade between the
United Kingdom and British terri
tories.
Britain has appealed for relaxa
tion of two specific clauses, seeking
to relieve the drain on her dwindling
store of dollars.
These clauses require Britain to
convert pounds into dollars on re
quest in current trade transactions,
and prevent Britain from reducing
her imports from the United States
in order to increase them from her
dominions and colonies.
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Automatic u. n. oeai
Claimed by Pakistan
By tH« Associated Press
LAKE SUCCESS, Aug. 13.-A rep- »
resentative of the provisional gov
ernment of Pakistan contended to
day that the Moslem-dominated
dominion in partitioned India should
automatically become a member of
the United Nations along with the
Dominion of India.
He said, however, that if Pak
istan’s view was incorrect, the new
dominion would take appropriate
action to fulfill an expressed desire
to join the U. N.
These views were stated in a let
ter received this morning from O. A.
Baig in Washington, who signed
himself as representative to the
United States from the Pakistan
provisional government, which be
comes a dominion Friday.
It was the first Pakistan reaction
to a U. N. legal department opinion,
approved yesterday by Secretary
General Trygve Lie, holding that
India’s U. N. membership would go
to the Hindu-majority dominion of
: India and that Pakistan could apply
for membership as a "new state.”
Assistant Secretary General Ivan
Kemo, head of the U. N. legal de
partment and author of the opin
ion on which Mr. Lie based his deci
sion, said he would reply to Mr. Baig
by letter today with a restatement
I of the opinion. ^k
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