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iSrabs Warn Partition
Of Palestine Would
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Shirlington Dedicates Flagpole
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' LAKE SUCCES8, Sept. 2.—The
JtJnited Nations was warned to
ilay that a partition of the Holy
X^and would “set Palestine and
$he Arab East on fire.”
» The warning sharply underlined a
Jwomised battle in the U. N. General
Assembly which convenes In New
York September 18.
Emile Ghoury of the Palestine
Arab Higher Committee declared in
Jerusalem that his organization had
“rejected” proposals by the U. N.
Special Committee to divide Pales
tine into Arab and Jewish states
and admit 150,000 Jewish immigrants
during the next two years.
I He said the Arabs “would use all
means at their disposal” to combat
the proposals and then released to
newsmen an Arab Higher Committee
Statement declaring that any at
tempt by the United Nations to carry
but the recommendations would re
jgult in violence.
Arab States to Resist.
• Mr. Ghoury had said earlier that
If Great Britain tried to force par
tition “we will oppose it by force.”
Arab spokesmen promised that the
teven-state Arab League would fight
the report in the General Assembly
through its five U. N. members—
Egypt, Iraq. Syria, Lebanon and
8audl Arabia.
Immediately after.the U. N. com
mittee announced its proposals, both
Arabs and Jews began drawing their
battle lines for the Assembly fight
which is expected to be the most
heated yet.
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way here from the Middle East. In
Zurich, Switzerland, leaders of the
World Zionist Organization were in
•onference mapping their strategy.
The reaction of Paris Bey El
Khouri of Syria, who speaks for the
Arab League in most United Na
tions affairs, was a swift rejection of
the committee plan. He declared
that partition and immigration was
“not acceptable at all.”
Jewish Reaction Favorable.
First Jewish reaction to the com
mittee report was mostly favorable.
A member of the general Zionist
Party in Switzerland where Jewish
leaders are attending the World
Zionist Congress said the U. N. com
mittee proposals were acceptable as
the basis for negotiation.
Although there was no official
British comment, some British
sources cast doubt on the feasibility
of tjae plan while others hinted
Britain might comply with the rec
ommendations.
The 11-nation U. N. Special Com
mittee ^ on Palestine unanimously
recommended Holy Land indepen
dence from Britain's 25-year-old'
mandate “at the earliest practicable1
date.”
A seven-member majority urged
partition of Palestine into Arab
and Jewish nations and an inter
national city of Jerusalem and ad
mission of 150,000 Jews into the
Jewish territory 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.
Encouraging Features.
For Jewish hopes, two features of
♦Vi* nptmmi nrnrvuflk worp pn
eouraging. For the first time an in
ternational commission has recom
mended establishment of a Jewish
state—an aim which has dominated
the Zionist fight. The committee
also recommended immigration of
Jews.
Under the majority recommenda
tions the Jews would be given East
ern Galilee, the central coastal
plain, taking in Haifa, Jaffa and
Tel Aviv, and the Beersheba sub
district, including most of the
Negreb—the southern desert.
It would allot the Arabs Western
Galilee, the Samarian and Judean
hUl country and the southern coast
from Isdud to the Egyptian frontier.
The ports of Haifa and Jaffa would
be operated "in the common inter
est" under an economic union of
the two states. The minority divi
sion was somewhat different.
Mrs. Golda Myerson, political
Weather Report
District of Columbia—Partly cloudy
with scattered showers likely early
this afternoon followed by clearing
and slightly cooler late this after
noon and tonight, Highest tem
perature about 86; lowest about 68.
Tomorrow sunny and dry with pleas
ant temperature.
Virginia—Pair and cooler tonight
preceded by scattered thunder
showers along the coast early to
night. Tomorrow mostly sunny and
ices humid.
Maryland—Clearing and cooler to
night. Tomorrow sunny and dry.
Wind Telocity, 8 miles per hour;
direction, northwest.
District Medical Society ragweed
rillen count for 24 hours ending
30 a.m. September 2—139 grains
per cubic yard of air—incomplete
due to rain.
Rlvae liMrt.
(Prom United States Inilneers.)
Potomac River clear at Harpers Perry
Sd at Odeat Palls: Shensndoah dear at
rPert Perry.
■amldity.
Yesterday— Pet. Today— Pet,
Noon B7 Midnight_88
4 pun. _ 58 8 a.m -w»
• p.m _81 1:30 p.m. -60
Hick and Low for last 24 Hoars.
High, 88. «t 2:44 P m
Low. 71. at 6:20 am.
Record Temperature* Tbia Tear.
Highest. 96. on August 14.
Lowest, 7, on February 6.
Tide Tables.
(Furnished by United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey.)
Today Tomorrow.
High -_9:63 a m. 10:28 a m
law 4:33 a.m. 5:09 a.m.
Efeh _10:18 pm. 10:54 pm
Low _4:46 p.m. 5:15 pm
The Ban and Mean.
Rises. Sets.
E today_ 6:88 7:37
tomorrow- 6:38 7:38
B, today.-- 6:56 p.m. 8:19 a.m.
Automobile lights must be turned on
•ne-half hour after sunset.
Freelpilatlan.
Monthly precipitation in Inches In tha
Capital (currant month to date):
Month. 1947 Average. Record.
monvo. _ $ lg 3.66 7.83 '37
.. _ 1.27 3.37 6.84 '84
_ 1.02 8.76 8.84 91
I__ 2.48 8.27 9.18 '89
__ 4.44 3.70 1989 '89
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-1_ 8 4 7 4.71 10 63 '86
_ 1.81 4.01 1441 '28
.0. 3.24 17 45 '34
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__ 232 7.58 '01
Temperatures In Varians Cities.
> Rich. Low. Hish Low
68 Miami ... 87 79
74 Milwaukee 81 61
74 New Orealna 96 74
49 New York. 78 70
65 Norfolk . 92 73
74 Okie. City 107 76
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Arden McCall, 3050 South Buchanan street, Arlington, holds
the flag which will be dedicated this afternoon in the Shirling
ton Community Center, Arlington, in ceremonies observing the
second anniversary of Japan’s surrender. M/Sergt. Kenneth
Childs, 2086 South Twelfth street, Arlington, holds his 10-month
old son, Kenneth, Jr., as they examine the colors.
—Photo by Charles Baptie Studio.
Residents of Parkfatrfax and
Fairlington helped dedicate a new
75-foot flagpole and flag at the
Shirlington Community Center, Ar
lington, today, in ceremonies com
memorating the second anniversary
of the signing of the Japanese sur
render terms.
A flag-raising ceremony was to be
held at 1 p.m. with color guards
representing all branches of the
armed forces participating.
Judge Hugh Reid of the Arlington
County Court was to preside. Others
expected to be present include Capt.
Lewis J. Bums, Jr., who will repre
sent Brig. Gen. C. B. Perenbaugh,
commander of the Military District
of Washington; Lt. Col. James C.
Magee, jr„ Marine Corps veteran of
the Okinawa campaign; Joe Cher
ner, president of the Shirlington
Community Center; Roy Wood,
senior vice commander of the John
Lyon Post, No. 3150, Veterans' of
chief of the Jewish Agency Execu
tive, said in Jerusalem that the Jews
wanted Western Galilee because of
its hilly terrain in contrast with the
flat lands in most of the Jewish
area and for strategic reasons. She
said it would afford a common fron
tier with Lebanon, which, she added,
was more than 50 per cent Christian
Arab.
She asserted that "given a better
division of Palestine, no Jew would
insist on including Jaffa in a Jewish
state.” That city, nearly all Arab,
would go to the Jewish state under
the partition plan.
End of Mandate Urged.
Meanwhile, the Arab Higher Com
mittee demanded an end of the Brit
ish mandate over Palestine, stop
page of all Jewish immigration and
the establishment of an independent
Arab Palestine.
It termed the partition proposal
contrary to Arab aspirations, the
United Nations charter and “all
principles of rights and justice.”
Both Jewish and Arab leaders
favor Palestine independence, but
only some of the Jews lean toward
partition. Arab politicians 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 the majority U. N. report were
Canada. Czechoslovakia, Guatemala,
the Netherlands, Peru, Sweden and
Uruguay; in the minority, India.
Iran and Yugoslavia. Australia
signed with neither group.
The majority recommended that
in the transition period Palestine be
administered under U. N. supervi
sion by Britain and “one or more”
other U. N. members, if desired.
Britain is already on record as re
fusing to administer the Holy Land
alone regardless of what decision
the U. N. makes. Sir Alexander
Cadogan, chief British delegate,
said during the U. N. special As
sembly session on Palestine that his
government refused to spend un
limited British pounds or lives in
inforcing a U. N. Palestine deci
sion. ,
Some sources believed in view of
thu statement and the committee’s
recommendations that Britain
might accept the plan and ask the
United States to join her in this
task.
Whether the United States would
agree to helping administer Pales
tine if called on was not known.
The United States has thus far not
made known Its position on Pales
tine.
It was recalled, however, that
President Truman is on record for
prompt admission of 100,000 Jews
to Palestine and for a Jewish state
in an "adequate area" of Palestine.
Economic Agreement Required.
The U. N. committee recom
mendation said that before the new
Arab and Jewish states are recog
nized they should be required to
sign a treaty of economic union
aimed at a customers union, com
mon currency and operation in
the common interest of railroads,
interstate highways, communica
tions and the ports of Haifa and
Jaffa.
The majority proposed that the
international city of Jerusalem, with
its environs, including Bethlehem
and other surrounding villages, be
under a governor, neither Jew nor
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■Holridge, retired, representing the
American Veterans’ Committee.
Music was to be furnished by the
Army Medical Center Band and the
"Star Spangled Banner” was to be
sung by Miss Connie Krueger.
In a district ceremony the Irish
War Veterans’ Ladies’ Auxiliary of
Post No. 17 will hold services at 7: SO
o'clock tonight at the Iwo Jima
statue on Constitution avenue across
from the Navy Department.
Mrs. Alice Schuler, 4106 Branch
avenue, Silver Spring, a Gold Star
Mother, whose son was killed in
action in the Pacific, will place a
wreath on the statue.
Joseph F. Murphy, junior vice
commander of the post, will head
the honor guard, an the Irish War
Veterans’ national bugler, William
A. Hickey, senior vice commander
of the post, will sound taps. Mrs.
Ruth Hickey is president of the
auxiliary. _
Arab, appointed by the U. N. Trus
teeship Council.
In Jerusalem, Mrs. Myerson said
that any Jewish state in the Holy
Land should include modem Jewish
areas of Jerusalem.
"Jerusalem and Palestine are
practically synonymous,” the poli
tical chief of the Jewish Agency
Executive said. "Jews and non
Jews have always thought of them
as one.”
"Extreme Urgency” Stressed.
Mrs. Myerson agreed that the old
walled city of Jerusalem with its
many Christian, Moslem and Jewish
holy places should be international
ized, as should other holy sites
throughout Palestine.
By the majority recommendations,
a joint board of three Jews, three'
Arabs and three foreigners would:
manage the economic union.
By the minority recommendations,:
the federal government would han-j
die immigration, national defense,
foreign relations and the like and
component Arab and Jewish states
local self - government, interstate
migration, right of residence and
other matters. Arab-Jewish repre
sentation would be equal in one
legislative chamber and proportional
in a second.
Both urged tl^t the General As
sembly undertake as a matter of
“extreme urgency” an international
arrangement to deal with the prob
lem of 250,QpO distressed European
Jews in displaced persons camps.
McCarran Improving;
May Quit Hospital Soon
ly tht AtMciaud Pros
RENO, Nev., Sept. 2—Senator
McCarran, Democrat, of Nevada
continued to show steady improve
ment today and may be able to
leave the hospital in two weeks, ac
cording to his physician.
Dr. A. L. Stadther said the 71
year-old Senator, who has been
hospitalized since suffering a heart
attack 10 days ago, may receive ad
ditional blood transfusions to com
bat an anemic condition, but that
he has passed the danger stage.
Wallace Reiterates
Third Party Threat;
Asks Labor Support
By fH« Associated Prtu
DETROIT, Sept. 2—While voic
ing a hope for a “progressive Demo
cratic Party," Henry A. Wallace
said at a huge CIO Labor Day rally
yesterday that “we shall build a new
party” if that aim is not achieved.
The former Vice President and
cabinet member told more than
50,000 persons that “if you do not
enter into premature compromises
with the reactionary elements of
the Democratic Party, I am cer
tain you can still be heard and felt
within the party.”
Then he asserted:
“If- you will organize the . neces
sary political machinery to discuss
issues and get out the vote in every
precinct, ward, and district in the
State, the elected delegates to the
State convention—who select your
delegates to the national conven
tion-will either heed your senti
ments or be required to accept re
sponsibility for the defeat of a
reactionary Democratic Party rather
than credit for the victory of a
progressive Democratic Party.
‘Tf you have such machinery and
are not heeded, you will still be in
a position to put a farmer-labor
party on the ballot that will as
sure all progressive voters a clear
cut choice in November, 1948.”
“If we don’t make the Democratic
Party into a party of peace and pros
perity,” he added, “we shall build a
npw nort.v "
Mr. Wallace also said that “pres
ent policies of the Congress and the
administration are guiding this
country toward depression and war.”
Mr. Wallace was in the vanguard
of marchers leading a parade of an
estimated 10,000 CIO members,
which followed an earlier AFL
parade and mass meeting at which
Senator William Langer, Republican,
of North Dakota, was principal
speaker.
Mr. Wallace said his principal in
terest was “in trying to make the
Democratic Party more liberal" and
added that “the liberal movement
in this country never will get any
where until there is unified labor in
the country.”
Sees Depression Begun.
Saying depression “has already
begun in some lines,” Mr. Wallace
asserted that he was “certain that
a politically aware labor movement
could control the next Congress and
prevent the Nation from finally ,
passing into a tailspin of 1932 pro
portions.”
Turning to international affairs,
Mr. Wallace said “half of the money
used on our ‘fight Russia’ program
could be used with wonderful results
here inside the United States to
lengthen and improve the lives of
our own people, while the other half
could be used to expand trade with
the devastated and backward areas
on a basis that would lead to peace
rather than to war.” /
He advocated an "American” for
eign policy “which doesn’t mean sup
port for the royalists In Greece and
thinly veiled hostility to Indonesians
struggling for freedom.”
At the AFL rally Senator Langer
called for more liberal leadership of
the Republican Party and said the
G. O. P. “has to be more like the
party of Abraham Lincoln or it will
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D. C. Man Saved at Beach
By Hyattsville Resident
A 31-year-old partner in a Wash
ington supply firm was rescued from
drowning at Virginia Beach yester
day when a liferaft on which he was
floating capsized.
Ernest T. Coury of the American
Janitor'Supply Co., 729 Ninth street
N.W., was saved from the ocean by
Arthur Pollack of Hyattsville, the
Associated Press reported.
Mr. Coury, a non-swimmer, was
given first aid by a naval officer
until firemen arrived with an in
halator. He was ordered to bed, but
was said to be better today.
Mr. Coury, who lives at 6914 New
Hampshire avenue, Takoma Park,
Md., was at Virginia Beach for the
Labor Day week end, his office said.
Three other persons also were
saved from drowning at the Virginia
resort over the holiday, the Asso
ciated Press reported, thus preserv
ing the record of no drownlngs there
Admiral Byrd's Condition
Is 'About the Same'
ly Atsociatvd Prill
BALTIMORE, Sept. 2—Physicians
at Johns Hopkins Hospital reported
today the condition of Rear Ad
miral Richard E. Byrd was "just
about the same” after stating ear
lier that he was making "extremely
satisfactory progress” toward re
covery.
The explorer entered the hospital
10 days ago for diagnosis and treat
ment. Hospital officials did not dis
close the nature of his illness, but
said it did not involve surgery.
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Langer Seeking Way
To Take Politics Out of
Choice of Postmasters
ly Km Aito<Hjt*d Fr*n \
Senator Langer, Republican, of
N. Dak., is trying to find "some way
to take politics out of all postmaster
appointments’’ as head of a special
$35,000 Senate investigation into the
patronage system.
The chairman of the Senate Civil
Service Committee told a reporter
yesterday the special Inquiry to date
shows that “many appointment* are
clearly against the intent of the law,
that Democrats have been nomi
nated regardless of grades in civil
service examinations, and that when
Republicans ranked first in these
tests new exams usually have been
requested.”
At the same time. Senator Langer
said, "very few" of 135 postmaster
nominations delayed by the special
Investigation ‘will require public
hearings."
Caused Sharp Fight.
"Most of them can be settled by
Investigation "will reequire public
a hearing,” he said.
The postmaster investigation
touched off one of the sharpest
Democratic-Republican fights dur
ing the recent session of Congress,
it was approved finally by a 44-35
rollcall vote that closely followed
party lines.
Senator Langer, with support of
the Republican majority on his com
mittee and Senate Republican
leaders, delayed Senate confirma
tion on more than 1,000 postmaster
nominations by President Truman
for months until the Senate agreed
to the Investigation and provided
$35,000 for it.
Senator Hayden, Democrat, of
Arizona, veteran Democrat who led
opposition to the postmaster probe,
said yesterday he would delay com
ment until Senator Langer has filed
his report, which is due before next
January 15.
Senator Hayden told the Senate
the postmaster investigation “would
be a perfect waste of time and public
money” and Senator Lucas, Demo
crat. of Illinois, said the "real rea
son” for the inquiry was to add 11
employes to the staff of the Langer
committee.
Answer la the Same.
Senator Langer said he wanted to
find out why “few if any Republi
cans” had been named to first,
second or third class postmaster
ships during the period 1933-47.
Democrats replied that the answer
was the same as why so few Demo
crats got to be postmasters when
Republicans were in control.
Under existing laws the Civil Serv
ice Commission hold examinations
for postmaster vacancies and lists
the three standing highest. Usually
the Post Office Department then con
sults the members of Congress from
the district where the vacancy exists,
or if he is not of the President’s
party, the Senator of the State or
national committeeman, before a
nomination goes from the White
House to the Senate.
President Wilson, a Democrat, lim
ited appointments to only the top
ranking man in examinations, but
President Harding reinstated the
“one of three” plan and other Presi
dents since then have followed this
system, except for a brief period
under President Franklin D. Roose
Congress Removed Limit.
In 1938, when Democrats were in
lontrol. Congress rerpoved the four
year limit on postmaster appoint
ment and Senator Langer and other
Republicans complain this "froae”
Democrats In the jobs for life.
Senator Langer said he has con
tacted three public hearings on post
master appointments at Oak Park'
and Benton, HI., and Marshall, Tex.
President Truman sent 1,285 post
master nominations to the Senate
during the recent session. Of these,
>35 were confirmed after the special
Inquiry was approved, 116 were with
Irawn by the White House, and 234
ivere not acted on when Congress
adjourned.
Senator Langer said that 99 of
;hese were delayed on personal re
luest of Senators rather than be
muse of the special Investigation,
formally an objection by a Senator
lelays any postmaster appointment
in his home State.
Joseph S. Baker, 66, Dies
NEW YORK, Sept. 2 (/FT—Joseph
3. Baker, 66, brother of Philip J.
Noel-Baker,* British secretary for
air, died Sunday of a heart ailment,
K retired executive of a mechanical
engineering firm in England, Mr.
Baker arrived with his wife two
months ago for a visit with relatives.
Hearing in Assault
Case Delayed Week
John F. Broslyn, 52, of the 500
block of Maryland avenue 8.W.. was
granted a week’s continuance by
Municipal Court Judge George D.
Neilson today in a case involving
charge of assault with a dangerous
weapon.
Judge Neilson set bond at tl.OOO
after Attorney Thomas Aheam
asked for a delay until next Mon
day.
Police said Broslyn pulled a gun
on Raymond H. Elliott, a cab driver,
of the first block of Fifth street
N.E., last night. Mr. Elliott told
police he observed Broslyn driving
a Tar and that he appeared to be
intoxicated.
Parking his cab, he persuaded
Broslyn to allow him to take over
operation of the automobile. While
on the way home, the man pulled a
gun and pointed it at Mr. Elliott,
the cab driver told police.
Mr. Elliott drove into a gasoline
station at Sixth street nad Mary
land avenue 8.W., and called police.
Broslyn was taken to the first pre
cinct and charged with assault
with a dangerous weapon and carry
ing a concealed weapon.
Police said the latter charge would
be taken up with the district at
torney’s office for consideration of
the grand jury.
70 Greek Guerrillas
Reported Slain in Clashes
ly tha Associated Prass
ATHENS; Sept. 2>-Presa dis
patches said today that 52 guerrillas
were killed in a clash between a
band of 250 insurgents and govern
ments troops on the heights of Ailid
about 7 miles from Serres in Eastern
Macedonia.
The dispatches said 18 guerrillas
were killed in another skirmish
north of Serres, as large-scale mop
ping-up operations continued.
A press report from Ioannina said
a guerrilla force of some 2,000
clashed with military units at Peris -
tcri in the region of Ioannina.
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DORIS DUKE WEDS DOMINICAN—Doris Duke, “richest girl in
the world,” and Porflrio Rubirosa, honorary charge d’affaires of
the Dominican Republic in France, stand in the Dominican
Consulate in Paris, where they were married yesterday by the
Dominican Consul General in a simple ceremony. The bride is
the former wife of James H. R. Cromwell.
—AP Wirephoto via Radio from Paris.
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Dominican Diplomat
fty th« A»tociat*d Pr*»*
PARIS, Sept. 2.—While the bride
groom puffed a cigarette. Doris
Duke, 34-year-old heiress to one of
America’s greatest fortunes, and
Porflrio Rubirosa, 39, an honorary
diplomat of the Dominican Re
public, were married last night In
the Dominican consulate.
Ten wedding guests and a much
greater number of reporters and
photogarphers witnessed the cere
mony, performed by the Dominican
Counsel General, Dr. Salvador E.
Paradas, who nervously revealed
that it was the first wedding he
had conducted. Miss Duke had
been married once previously and
Mr. Rubirosa twice.
The couple took their vows under
the Dominican civil law ceremony
in the second-floor consulate office
in order that they would be wed,
technically, on Dominican soil.
Miss Duke was married In 1935
to James H. R. Cromwell, whom
President Roosevelt appointed Am
bassador to Canada. They were
divorced In 1943. Mr. Rubirosa was
divorced last May from the screen
actress, Danielle Darrieux, and be
fore that was married to Plor de
Oro Trujillo, daughter of President
Rafael Trujillo of the Dominican
Republic.
Investment Bankers
Probed for Possible
Anti-Trust Violations
Justice Department Antitrust Di
vision officials said today they have
been "studying for some time” pos
sible monopolistic practices in in
vestment banking houses.
"But no decision has been made
about grand Jury investigation in
that field" they added. "At this
time we don’t know when, or if, suits
will be Med."
The department investigation, it
was explained, has been looking into
the possibility of antitrust law vio
lations by some of the larger invest
ment banking establishments in
floating securities Issues. If the
matter reaches the grand jury stage,
it probably would be handled in the
New York City jurisdiction, an offi
cial said.
Grand Juries Mark Time.
Meanwhile, District grand jury
consideration of Justice Department
antitrust matters was marking time
The Jury Investigating prices and
practices in the petroleum products
industry in tne District and nearDy
Maryland was in recess until next
Monday.
Another District grand Jury which
last week indicted the Washington
Real Estate Board and the National
Association of Real Estate Boards
on charges of conspiracy to restrain
trade by fixing realty brokers’ com
mission rates in- the District was
busy today with routine District
criminal cases. The two defendant
real estate associations will be ar
raigned Thursday in District Court.
Another phase in the Justice De
partment’s increased investigative
activity in the general housing,
clothing and food situation may de
velop soon, a department official
Indicated.
Attorneys to Enter Pies*.
"But it's unlikely that the District
grand Jury will be needed for an
other few days." he said.
Attorneys for the real estate
groups arranged with Victor H.
Kramer, special assistant to the At
torney General, to enter a plea for
their corporations at the prelimi
nary arraignment at 10 a.m. Thurs
day.
Roger J. Whiteford. representing
the national association, said it
would not be necessary for any of
ficer of either organisation to be
present. He said he and William E.
Leahy, representing the Washing
ton hoard will enter not eulltv
pleas for their respective defendant*
and ask leave to file amended pleas
or other motions later.
Two Killed, 20 Injured
In Pennsylvania Tornado
ly tha Associated Pross
BURGETTSTOWN, Pa., Sept. 2.—
A tornado roared through this
southwestern Pennsylvania town to
day, killing two elderly men, Injur
ing about 20 other persons and de
stroying at least 15 homes.
The twister caused damage es
timated unofficially at $100,000.
Telephone and electric sendee were
disrupted and scores were left home
less.
Killed were John J. Brenaeman,
75, and Theodore Vunka, 67. They
were fatally Injured when the one
room houses In which they lived
were blown down.
After striking near the men’s
homes the tornado Jumped 3 mile*
and hit a lumber yard and a ma
chine shop.
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