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Hungary Credits Coalition Led
By Reds With 63% of Ballots;
Communist Allies Admit Fraud
___ ▼
Anti-Moscow Party
Is Second Highest
Among 10 Groups
By the Associated Press
BUDAPEST, Sept. 1. — The
Hungarian Foreign Office assert
ed late today that the Commu
nist party had polled 1.082,597 of
the total of 4.993,683 counted
votes—a result which even the
Communists’ allies said was
achieved by fraud. The returns
were said to be virtually com
plete.
The Information Ministry had
announced earlier that the Com
munists, plus the three parties in
the coalition which they dominate,
the Social Democrats, Smallholders
and National Peasants, had polled
63 per cent of the ballots cast yes
terday for a new Parliament.
Although an Information Min
istry spokesman had said at that
time no later vote totals would be
announced because “the people are
interested only in percentages.” the
Foreign Office did give the totals On
their face these figures bore out the
percentage of 63 for the coalition.
Larger Vote Cast.
ine roreign nice »«iu me
ocratic People's Party, an anti
communist group headed by Istvan
Bas^nkovics. a devout Catholic, was
second with 804950 votes. The
Smallholders, which rolled 57 per
cent of the votes in the last election,
was third with 757.0P2. followed by
the Democrat Party with 732.778
and the Hungarian Independent
Party with 718.193.
The announced vote was larger
than the 4.717.256 ballots cast in the
last election, when the Communists
were not in power.
The Information Ministry, on the
basis of 1.339.957 voles in the gov
ernment count, asserted that the
Communists polled 24 per cent; the
Social Democrats, 16; the Small
holders, 15, and the National Peas
ants, 8 per cent. The opposition
Democratic Peoples Party was cred
ited with 20 per cent.
Even the Communists’ allies, the
Social Democrats, accused the Com
munists of obtain.ng their vote by
fraud. Other opposition parlies
said the Communists, who controlled
virtually all trucks and other means
of travel, had cast between 500.000
and 1,000.000 "false votes." The
Communists replied in kind, accus
ing opposition parties of plural vot
ing.
Second Vote Since War.
It was the second Hungarian
election since the war. The Small
holder polled 57 per cent of the
last vote, but their regime was over
thrown in a Communist coup during
the summer. Even the most con
servative politicians had anticipated
a Communist victory yesterday and
many predicted a more rigid police
liquidation of opposition after the
election formality was over.
in some villages, there was talk
of civil war (even though the Rus
sian army still occupied much of
Hungary).
The Social Democrat Newspaper
Vilagossagh said guardedly that
party leaders met throughout the
night discussing “abuses in connec
tion with blue slips." which entitle
a person to vote in a place other
than his legal residence.
The Communist newspapei oza
badsag said that, except for "just
a few provocative incidents," the
elections were "entirely clean." The
article purported to quote the Rev.
Istvan Balogh, Catholic leader of
the independent Hungarian Demo
cratic Party, which was given 1.2
per cent of the last government
count, as asserting “we can have
no complaints whatsoever."
Minister of Justice Istan Ries,:
long-time pro-Communist member
of the Social Democrats, was re
ported to have resigned in protest
to conduct of the elections. Mem
bers of the Hungarian Independ
ence Party said they had been in
formed of his action by Social Dem
ocrats and that Mr. Ries had com
mented he could "no longer co
operate with such a crowd” as the
Communists. The Communists did
not comment.
The whole government is sup
posed to resign before September
in. wnen a new cabinet is to be
formed.
Abuse Declared Slight.
A Ministry of Information state
ment reported that "on the day of
the election, there were a few at
tempts to abuse in connection with
the voting. The police intervened
in each case and took necessary
steps."
L/Uillllluinci, aim -
leaders were reported reliaDiy to
have spent last night talking over
posts in the new government to be
made public September 10.
The election will decide the dis
tribution of seats in the Parliament
to meet September 15. Each party
v.oll get one seat for every 14.000
votes.
The Communist Party is led by
Deputy Premier Matyas Rakosi,
the Social Democrats by Deputy
Premier Arpad Szakasits and the
Hungarian Independence Party by
Zoltan Pfeiffer, one-time Small-,
holders leader. 4
Before the balloting, some ob
servers had pronounced the Com
(See HUNGARY, Page -A-3.)
Minnesota Windstorm
Kills Woman, Injures 6
By the Associated Press
LE CENTER, Minn.. Sept. 1.—
One woman was killed and six other
per. ons were injured, one critically,
when a windstorm struck farming
territory near here late yesterday.
Mrs. Irene Cummings, 25, was
killed when the wind leveled the
farm home of her father-in-law
Michael Cummings, near here. Her
daughter. Margaret Ann. was
critically injured when a piece of
flying timber struck her in the head.
i
U. S. Lend-Lease T anks Sent
By Mancheno to Quell Rebels
All Ecuador Put Under State of Siege
After Uprising Against New Regime
By the Associated Press
QUITO, Ecuador, Sept. 1.—
Army and constabulary officers
in four states were in revolt to
day against the week-old gov
ernment of Col. Carlos Man
cheno, who placed all Ecuador
under a state of siege and sent,
troops and tanks acquired
through United States lend-lease
to trouble spots.
The government asserted that
Dr. Mariano Suarez Veintimilla,'
conservative vice president of the:
ousted regime of President Jose i
Maria Velasco Ibarra, and Col.
Baquero Davila were leading the
revolt Dr. Veintimilla apparently j
had formed a cabinet with Col.
Davila as defense minister.
The government communique ac
knowledged that troops had rebelled I
Saturday mgnt at itiooamoa, mu
miles south of Quito, in Chimborazo
province, and in Guaranda, 20 miles
west of Riobamba in adjoining
Bolivar State.
The rebellion was reported joined
last night by the Garrisons in j
Latacunga and Ambato, capitals of!
the provinces of Cotopaxi and |
Tunsurahua.
Under the state of siege, publica
tion of news and radio broadcasts i
about the revolt were prohibited and
government handouts were the only
source of information. The decree
also prohibited moving vehicles j
without permission or the transit j
through cities of groups of more I
than three persons.
<A dispatch from Guayaquil
said the revolt spread to that
leading commercial city last i
(See ECUADOR, Page A-3.) j
Legion Elects O'Neil
As Commander, Voles
Ant!-R«i Program
Marsbcll Plan Indorsed
After Debrte Between
Stnssen and Malone
By George Beveridce
Star Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK, Sept. 1.—Mem
bers of the American Legion
scattered to their homes today
after electing James F. O'Neil,
49, of Manchester, N. H., as their!
new national commander and
adopting a resolution indorsing
outlawing of the Communist
Party as a political party at the
final session of the 29th annual
convention yesterday.
The Legion also adopted its Na-t
ticnal Defense Committee's report
urging thsi, atom secrets be with-;
held from "any nation, friendly or
otherwise,” and urging adoption of1
universal military training by a
special session of Congress.
Appointment of a Presidential ad
visory committee to organize civil
ian defense against atomic attack
was recommended.
Foreign policy came up again in
what amounted to a political debate
between two Republican leaders on
the Marshall plan for American
relief to nations impoverished by
wrar.
In the end the Legion stood
squarely behind the Marshall plan
and prepared for a bitter campaign
against communism which will in
clude pleas for revision of the Bill,
of Rights in the Constitution of the’
United States.
The winner of the debate was
Harold Stassen. Minnesota's liberal,
former governor, who is actively
campaigning for the 1948 Republi
can Presidential nomination. Oil
the short end was Senator Malone,:
of Nevada, who pleaded for Legion
support of a watered-dowm pro-'
gram of foreign help.
Both Republican leaders .spoke in j
surprise appearances as delegatesj
to the convention.
Minorities Report Defeated.
Senator Malone spoke in behalf
of a defeated minority report which
charged the administration's policy
is "siphoning American wealth into
European and Asiatic countries on
the theory that money alone will
stop Communism.”
The report went on to say that
"Congress does not know how to
(See LEGION, Page_A-6.7
Matron Drowns in lake
Where Grandchild Died
By the Associated Press
COLORADO SPRINGS. Colo..
Sept. 1.—Mrs. Ruth Sinclaire. 56.
prominent Colorado Springs society^
matron, was found drowned yester
day in the same lake on her estate
where her granddaughter drowned
recently. Deputy Sheriff Charles M.
Holland said.
Acting Coroner Harry Blunt said
the drowning appeared to have been
an accident and that there prob-'
ably would be no inquest.
Mr. Holland said Mrs. Sinclaire’s
body was found floating in the lake
by her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Mor
gan Sinclaire, mother of the drowned
grandchild. Jamie, 2.
Mr. Holland said Mrs. Sinclaire
was the divorced wife of Reginald
Sinclair, an oil man, who lives on
a ranch near Colorado Springs.
U. S. Traders Declare
Jap Exports Cosily
And of Poor Quality
Some Say They Can Buy
Cheaper in New York;
Allied Policy Blamed
By the Associated Press
TOKYO, Sept. 1.—Prices on
Japanese goods available for ex- j
port were posted today—and j
American traders wondered;
aloud whether the old days of
cheap Japanese goods were gone
forever.
The traders said two weeks in the
Japanese market had shown them
only inferior merchandise, little
stock ready for delivery and “impos
sibly high prices.”
*T can buy the stuff I want
cheaper in New York, and it's a lot
better than the Japanese are turn
ing out,” said one American.
Price Control Blamed.
Only 110 contracts have been an
nounced by the Japanese Board of
Trade—15 for foodstuffs, six for
chemicals, three for textiles and 86
for miscellaneous items such as
lunch boxes, toys, pottery and fish
knives.
A number of the traders asserted
that the situation could be laid to
Allied headquarters’ price control
and its foreign trade' experts.
Headquarters spokesmen agreed j
that prices were too high and qual-!
ity poor. They said Japan's cheap j
labor was gone, that the nation wasi
industrially inefficient and that it:
Pad failed to advance technologic
ally.
Small Quantities Available.
One trader said he could buy bet
ter gloves in New York for $5.25 a
dozen than those for which the
Japanese want $8 f.o.b. Japan. To
that price must be added .shipping,
insurance and customs duty.
He complained he could not bar
gain with the Japanese because
headquarters had set the price.
Traders cited high prices on elec-,
trie fans, clocks, lighters and food
stuffs and said that in many in
stances only very small quantities
were available. They described as
■ old fashioned” the Christmas tree
ornaments offered by the Japanese.
i---ri
What the Russians
Are Saying of Us:
The Moscow radio, broadcasting;
to Russia, said last week:
"United States claims for world
domination cannot, of course, be
reconciled with the preservation
of national sovereignty by other
countries. The liquidation, and if
rot, then at least the reduction
and restriction of their national
sovereignty, is not only the object
but also the condition for the
realization of the United States
expansionist policy, in the service
of which the political, military
and economic levers are put.
“In this respect the atomic
diplomacy unites the Baruch and
the Marshall plans, and reduces
free and independent countries to
the state of offices with no rights
at all, working with the all
powerful United States atomic
concern. It is a fact that the
business dealers of atomic di
plomacy would like to prohibit the
independent existence of sov
ereign states: this however, does
not depend on them."
Present 911,000 Temporary'
Workers 'Incredible' to Rees
By the Associated Press
Chairman Rees of the House Civil i
Service Committee said today it is j
"incredible" that 911,119 temporary
and war service employes still should;
be on the Federal payroll nearly two;
years after end of the war.
Mr. Rees said that despite a 15'
per cent cut in appropriations for
the fiscal year w-hich began July l.j
the number of civilian Government i
workers dropped "less than 2 per
cent” from June.
The number in July, Mr. Rees
added, was 2,088.980, compared with
2,129,566 in June and the war
time peak of 3.770.000 in June, 1945.
The Kansas Representatives
statement described as “poor man
agement” the "not substantial” June
to July drop in Federal employment,
adding:
"It is apparent the agencies are
a
relying upon their past success in
securing huge deficiency appropria
tions later in the fiscal year. The
fallacy of this procedure will be
demonstrated when the deficiency
requests are made."
(Deficiency appropriations are
those made late in the fiscal year
to cover expenses above those
provided for in regular appropri
ation tills. Except in a few in
stances, the Republican-domin
ated Eightieth Congress warned
Government agencies rgainst
running over the amounts allot
ted them.)
Saying that the number of war
service and temporary employes
still holding jobs represent 44 per
rent of the total, Mr. Rees declared:
‘The Executive branch is making
(See FEDERAL JOBS, Page A-3.) I
1
U. N. Fight Seen
Over Palestine
Division Report
Special Committee
Would Admit 150,000
Jews in Two Years
By the Associated Press
LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y.. Sept.
1.—A fight in the United Nations
General Assembly was in pros
pect today oyer a committee plan
to divide Palestine into Arab and
Jewish states and admit 150,000
Jewish immigrants in the next
two years.
The 11-nation U. N. Special Com
mittee on Palestine last night unan
imously recommended Holy Land
independence from Britain's 25
year-old mandate “at the earliest
practicable date.''
A seven-member majority urged
partition of Palestine into Arab and
Jewish nations and an international
city of Jerusalem and admission of
150,000 Jews into the Jewish terri
tory during the two-year transition
period.
A three-member minority called
for a federal Arab-Jewish state and
entry of Jews up to the “absorptive
capacity” of the Jewish portion dur
ing a transition period of up to
three years.
Allotment of Territory.
The majority would give the Jews
Eastern Galilee, the central coastal
plain, taking in Haifa, Jaffa and Tel
Aviv, and the Beersheba subdistrict,
including most of the Negeb—the
southern desert.
It would allot the Arabs Western
Galilee, the Samarian and Judean
hill country and the southern coast
from Isdud to the Egyptian fron
tier. Haifa and Jaffa ports would be
operated "in the common interest"
under" an economic union of the two
states. The minority division was
suiurvumi uiuuicm.
United Nations headquarters here |
made public a 3,000-word summary j
of the 50,000-word report, signed in
Geneva shortly before last midnight, j
The 55 nation General Assembly,!
which set up the committee in [
special session last May, will take up
the report when it meets in New
York September 16.
Arab spokesman promised that
the seven-state Arab League would
fight the report in the General As
sembly through its five United Na
tions members—Egypt, Iraq, Syria,
Lebanon and Saudi Arabia. One
Palestine Arab threatened forceful
resistance to any partition plan.
Jewish spokesmen made no com
ment.
Arabs Oppose Partition.
Both Jewish and Arab leaders
favor Palestine independence, but
only some of the Jews lean toward
partition. Arab politicans have been
solidly for an Arab Palestine.
Jews have demanded more. Jewish
immigration, Arabs none at all. The
British now limit this to 1,500 a
month. Under the committee ma
jority plan, it would be 150,000 in
two years—6,250 a month—for the
prescribed transition period and,
if this took longer than two years,!
60,000 a year after that.
In Jerusalem. Emile Ghoury of the j
Palestine Arab Higher Committee!
declared that no Arabs anyw'here
would accept partition.
“If Great Britain tries to force it."
he declared, “we will oppose it by
force."
In New York. Abdul Rahman Az- j
zam Pasha complained that the ma
jority schema would leave the Arabs;
no port nor other important town.
He said the report "does not solve
anything" and “I do not think the
assembly will take it."
Some committeemen themselves
declared in Geneva that they thought
the real battle was just beginning,
though the chairman, Justice Alfred
Emil Sandstroem of Sweden, pro
nounced himself “happy wdth the re
sults we have achieved."
The report, due by today, was
signed in a one-time League of Na-!
tions committee room. Just before
the signing, the 11 delegations had
approved the last typewritten pages j
rushed in by members of the com
mittee’s secretariat of 50.
In the majority were Canada.
Czechoslovakia. Guatemala, the;
Netherlands, Peru, Sweden andj
Uruguay: in the minority, India,
(See PALESTINE, Page~A^2j~~
London Man Is Killed
By AA Shell in Fire
By the Associated Pr-ss
LONDON. Sept. 1.—An anti-air
craft shell exploded in the center of
London’s main business district to
day and one man was killed.
The dead man, Charles Cameron.
50. had been burning rubbish in the
ruins of the blitzed John Lewis De
partment Store on Oxford street.
Fellow workmen said the shell ap
parently was thrown onto the fire
with a quantity of debris.
Newspapers said the shell was of
"an American type.” United States
forces occupied an adjoining build
ing during the war.
Italians See Agreement
On Troop Withdrawal
By the Associated Press
ROME. Sept. 1.—An Italian For
eign Ministry spokesman said today
an accord with the United States on
the withdrawal of American troops
90 days after the peace treaty be
comes effective would be signed in,
Rome this week.
He said the accord, similar to one
signed with Britain two months ago.
would define the facilities to be
granted the troops during the 90
days. The treaty will take effect
with deposit of the Big Four instru
ments of ratification at Paris.
No Late Edition
Today
The Star observes the Labor
Day holiday today by elim
inating the Night Final edition.
Regular subscribers to that
edition will receive the Home
edition.
A
Labor Day, 1947
Beville Out to Break
Own Closed-Course
Record in Air Race
Flies 384.6 M.P.H. to Win
Kendall Event for P-51 s;
Thompson Contest Today
By the Associated Pres*
CLEVELAND, Sept. 1.—Speed
fans looked for a new closed
course record at the National Air
Races today in the 12th running
of the Thompson Trophy classic.
The present mark of 384.6 miles j
an hour was set by Steve Beville of [
Hammond, Ind., yesterday in win
ning the Kendall Trophy, a special
event for P-51 Mustangs. He hopes
to better it in the $40,000 Thompson
race of 300 miles around the 15-mile
rectangular course.
Speculation on the prospect of a;
new Thompson mark to replace
last year’s 373 miles an hour win
ning place had plenty of support.
Beville, for example, placed only
ninth among qualifiers for the
Thompson, averaging 366.8 m.p.h. for
two laps. He bettered that by 18
miles an hour with $2,500 first prize
at stake in the Kendall.
$16,000 First Prize at Stake.
Eleven other pilots will be trying
to improve on their Qualifying
speeds with the $16,000 first prize
of the Thompson at stake.
Entries included Cook Cleland of
Cleveland, who qualified at 401.7
mph in one of the three F2G Cor-!
sairs he has entered. Another
Cleveland entry, flown by Richard
Becker of Cleveland, qualified at(
400.9 mph. Paul Penrose of North
Hollywood. Calif., flying the plane
which had set the previous closed
course record of 374 h.p.h. at Miami
in January, placed third among the
qualifiers with 390.9 m.p.h.
One factor against the new rec
ora is mar mu you a tuuioc v»hj
15 miles, compared with 30 miles
last year, and the flyers will turn
80 corners instead of 40 in covering
the same distance.
Another consideration is that last
year's leading qualifier averaged
409 m.h.p., but dropped to 373 in
winning the race. The same plane
with a different pilot, Jay Dem
ming of Niagara Falls, N. Y., aver
aged 386.8 m.p.h. in qualifying this
year.
Performances Outstanding.
Beville's spectacular win in a day
crowded with 10 races was only one
of yesterday's outstanding per
foimances.
Mrs. Ruth Johnson of Upland.
Calif., set a new high mark for the
Halle Trophy women's race with1
223.3 miles an hour, exceeding last
year's winning speed by 23 m.p.h
She won $2,500.
Tony Le Vier of La Canada, Calif
collected $4,660 by winning three:
races and placing fourth and fifth
in others. Four of his contests were
(See AIR RACES, Page A-2.)
Doris Duke to Marry
Dominican in Paris
PARIS. Sept. 1.—American heiress
Doris Duke and Porfirio Rubirosati
honorary Charge d’Affaires of the:
Dominican Republic in Paris, will
be married at the Dominican Con
sulate this afternoon, a Dominican
Consulate spokesman announced.
The tobacco heiress, now a fash
ion correspondent here for Harpers
Bazaar, formerly was married to
James H. R. Cromwell, one-time
United States Minister to Canada.
Mr. Rubirosa. about 40, tall and
handsome, formerly was married to
actress Danielle Darrieux and be
fore that to Flor de Oro Trujillo,
daughter of President Rafael Tru
jillo of the Dominican Republic.
Bulletin
Dodgers Defeat Phils
BROOKLYN, Sept. 1
The Nat onal League-leading
Brooklyn Dodgers defeated the
Philadelphia Phils. 5 to 0, in a
Labor Day morning game that
attracted so many customers
the police riot squad was
called out to handle the
throng trying to get tickets.
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British Unionists Willing
To Accept Rigid Control (
By the Associated Press
SOUTHPORT, England. Sept. 1.—
The General Council of the Trades j
Union Congress, representing 90 per i'
cent of Britain’s union workers,
hinted willingness today to accept
rigid direction of labor—a more
drastic regulation than so far re
quested by the Labor government.
The statement circulated by the
General Council at the opening of
the TUC’s 79th annual congress
warned of the "serious nature” of 1
Britain’s economic problems. j
Something more stringent than |
current government powers for lim-(
ited direction of labor may be nec- <
essary, the statement said.
The statement will be debated to
morrow after an address by Minis
ter of Labor George Isaacs.
The TUC, with a membership of
nearly 8,000,000, is influential in the
formation of government policy. j
G. W. Thomson, chairman of the
conference, said Britain's economy
must be put under direction of the
central government to make the na- j
tion self-supporting.
Weapons base Draws
Top Penalty of $1,000
Fine, Year in Prison ■■
i
Neilson Metes Limit
To Admitted Carrier s
Of Pistol in Belt I;
The maximum penalty of a 1
year in orison and a $1,000 fine;1
under the District's new weapons;'
law was imposed today by Mu-!
nicipal Judge George D. Neilson1;
on a man who admitted he had
a loaded and cocked .45 auto- ■
matic pistol stuck in his belt ,
when arrested yesterday.
Sentenced was Oscar Eugene
McDaniels, 26, colored, of the 1300 :
block of Riggs street N.W. Under
the sentence, he must serve an ad
ditional year if he fails to pay the
fine.
In his appearance before Judge :
Neilson. McDaniels also was held
under $1,000 bond for grand jury
action on a housebreaking charge in
volving the theft of the pistol and
$100 in cash August 20 from a home
in the 1300 block of Kenyon street
N.W.
McDaniels pleaded not guilty to
the latter charge. He told the judge
he was holding the stolen gun "for;
somebody else” when arrested by
Precinct Detective E. H. Sisson of j
No. 13 precinct.
GM to Recall 70,000
Idle in Steel Shortage
Sy tht Associated Press
DETROIT, Sept. 1.—General Mo
tors Corp. announced that approxi
mately 70.000 of its workers, made
idle last week because of a shortage
of flat rolled steel, would be recalled
to their jobs tomorrow.
The layoffs affected Chevrolet.
Pontiac and Fisher Body Division
plants. The company said that
some of the Fisher and Chevrolet
operations, employing 4,500 persons
in Flint, Mich.; Oakland. Calif., and
Bloomfield. N. J.. wil not be resumed
until September 8 because their
shutdowns did not oegin until last
Friday.
)octor Deplores Lack |]
3f Sex Law to Commit |
Offenders to Hospital ;
Gallinger Psychiatrist
Says Light Jail Terms t
Fail to Meet Need j
Many sexoffenders who should J
lave been sent to mental hospi- ,
als for indefinite periods have t
>een sent to jail for short terms
>r paid light fines because of the
larrowness of the District’s com- ,
nitment law, Dr. Joseph Gilbert,
:hief psychiatrist of Gallinger
Hospital, said today.
Dr. Gilbert said the only persons :
le could legally recommend for
lommitment under District laws
irere those suffering from uncontrol- ;
able impulses or major psychoses.
As a result, he said, he has exam
ned a “good many” sex offenders
ind reported them legally “of sound
nind” although he considered they
;hould have been committed to a
nental hospital as “potentially
langerous.’*
The United States Attorney is
low working on a perversion statute ,
vhich would include a section pro
dding commitment to a mental hos- ,
lital for “sex psychopaths.”
Offenses Are Repeated.
Dr. Gilbert said there is nothing '
n the law now which makes it pos
ible to recommend commitment for
hese offenders. Included among
hem are men who repeatedly as
:ault children or perform other in
lecent acts. i
“The sex psychopaths,” Dr. Gilbert ,
laid, “have never been in a category ,
vhere they could be committed. ,
Some of them should be committed. ,
rheir behavior is extremely unpre
dictable and in many cases ex- ;
xemely dangerous. Without ques
don, the pattern of their offenses is ;
epeated over and over again.
He cited the case of a youth sent i
0 jail for rape. Just before the;)
,'outh’s prison term was over, he
vas sent to Gallinger Hospital for
1 mental examination. Despite the
larrowness of the law, Dr. Gilbert
iried to get the youth committed
o a mental hospital. When he
failed, the youth was released. Wini
n'24 hours, the youth was arrested
igain on several new charges of
•ape.
Cites Lack of Commitments.
In another case. Dr. Gilbert said,
ne tried and failed to commit a
nan. Shortly afterward, the man
nasqueraded as a hospiAl orderly.
;nter«d the room of a small girl
oatient and attempted to attack
ner. After that. Dr. Gilbert suc
ceeded in getting the man com
mitted for alcoholic psychosis.
For the last two years, the law
das provided for certain types of
offenders to be sent to Gallinger
Hospital for 30 days for a mental:
examination before trial. Dr. Gil
bert pointed out that this is dis
cretionary with the judge and he
doesn’t see anywhere near all the
sex offenders who come into court.
Thirty days, he added, is hardly
time enough to do anything but
classify the man as legally of sound
or unsound mind. There is no legal
recognition that a man might be
legally of sound mind but medically
a sex deviate. There is not time at
all to determine whether a man
*See SEX LAW ."Page Adi.'
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Truman's Plane
Lands at Belem
On Rio Flight
Due in Brazilian
Capital at 2 P.M.,
Washington Time
(Pictures on Page A-3.J
By Joseph A. Fox
Star Staff Correspondent
BELEM, Brazil, Sept. 1,—Pres
ident Truman arrived here this
morning after little more than
four hours' flight from Trinidad.
His plane, the Independence, was
refueled here for the 1,500-mile
flight over jungles to Rio de
Janeiro.
The President was warmly greet
ed during his overnight stop at
Waller Field, Trinidad, on his way
to Rio for an historic appearance
tomorrow at the windup of the
Inter-American Defense Conference.
The speech Mr. Truman will de
liver just before the signing of the
defense pact is ready and figures to
be a m?.jor pronouncement. It will
be the third time the President has
addressed an international gather
ing, twice having gone before United
Nations’ meetings.
His 10-hour flight will take him to
tio de Janeiro at 2 o’clock tEBT)
his afternoon. The President
mded in Trinidad between tropical
ownpours at 4:50 p.m. yesterday,
even hours and 40 minutes from
Washington. Ic was the first flight in
de eagle-beaked Independence and
Ir. Truman inspected the plane and
aid he enjoyed its performance.
With a pressurized cabin it flew at
0,000 feet and the passengers got a
ood view of Puerto Rico en route,
he only land sighted after leaving
laps Hatteras. The Independence
inrfnr) of \X7olloi* & mnrinnn
wartime installation 27 miles from
’ort of Spain. American troops
nd the Trinidad colonial police
urned out to render honors as Mr.
human stepped from the plane
,'ith his wife and Margaret.
The rest of the party following
vas greeted by Gov. Sir John Shaw
nd Lady Shaw with American and
3ritish Army and Navy officers,
rhe President made introductions
ill around and then inspected the
;uard to the tune of the “Missouri
Waltz," played by a white-helmeted
ind jacketed police band. The Tru
mans then were driven to the Jungle
House, home of Col. A. J. Becker,
commanding nearby Fort Read,
where they were quartered.
Rio Halts Business
To Welcome Truman
RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept. 1 f/P).—
7io de Janeiro planned a big wel
come today for President Truman.
There was business as usual this
norning, but employes were promi
sed they could leave at noon to
vitness the United States Presi
lent's arrival in his big plane, the
independence. The plane is too
arge for the municipal Santos Du
nont Airport and will land at the
Military Airdrome of Ponta do Ga
eao across Guanabara Bay.
The President will come across the
>ay by yacht and be greeted at
he dock by Brazil's President Eurico
Daspar Dutra and an official re
ception party. From the dock, the
wo Presidents, with their wives,
vill travel through streets lined with
10,000 Brazilian soldiers to the
Jnited States Embassy where Pres
dent Truman will take up residence
intil Friday, after which he will
nove to La Ranjeiras Palace, the
•esidence for dignitaries visiting
3razil.
Tonight President Truman will
lay an official visit to President
Dutra at Catete Palace. That was
he only official item on today’s
calendar.
Tomorrow'. President Dutra will
call for Mr. Truman at the Embassy
and together they will motor to the
mountain resort at Petropolis, where
che United States President will
?peak to the Defense Conference’s
final session.
At noon he will be host to con
ference delegates at luncheon aboard
the battleship Missouri, now an
chored in Guanabara Bay. Later
in the afternoon he will be present
when the hemisphere defense treaty
is signed at Itamaraty Palace, home
of Brazil's foreign ministry.
Rio was colorfully decorated for
President Truman's arrival, with
huge red, white and blue posters
bearing the slogan “Hail. Truman,”
displayed in the downtown section.
U. S. Army Parades
Might in Germany
By the Associated Press
FRANKF’URT, Germany, Sept. 1.
—The United States Army staged its
greatest postwar display of military
night in occupied Germany today,
with thousands of armed soldiers
md more than 500 military vehicles
passing in Labor Day review before
Gen. Omar N. Bradley.
The review was staged at Grafen
wohr, a training center near Nuern
oerg, where the 26th Regimental
Combat Team and the 5th Con
stabulary Regiment have been
mdergoing intensive training as
nobile combat units.
Invited to watch the show were
;housands of German civilians—who
nave been seen to sneer openly at
previous puny parades by American
occupation forces.
For Gen. Bradley, chief of the
Veterans Administration who is
curing European installations in
preparation for a return to active
5rmy duty, it was his first good look
it the occupation army since 1945.
A 17-gun salute greeted the gen
ial who is expected to succeed Gen.
Eisenhower as United States Army
;hief of staff. Lt. Gen. Clarence R.
iuebner. deputy European com
mander, stood with Gen. Bradley on
;he reviewing stand.
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