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James Roosevelt Says
Truman 'Deserves'
Nomination in 1948
, by th« A.uocia)M( Pr«>
NEW YORK, Sept. 6—James
Roosevelt, oldest son of the late
President, says that President Tru
man “deserves nomination in 1948.”
Speaking extemporaneously in
answering questions put to him by
newsmen on the “Meet the Press"
radio program last night, Mr. Roose
velt said President Truman has not
abandoned the policies of Franklin
D. Roosevelt, “particularly in do
mestic affairs.”
He declared that he had at one
time opposed the Truman doctrine
because he believed it "did not sig
nify sufficiently the desire of the
American people to lend support to
the United Nations.”
Mr. Roosevelt said, however, that
it would be impossible to say
whether President Truman was fol
lowing his father’s policies in the
international field because he could
not say what the late President's
policies would be in the present
complex situation.
Although Mr. Roosevelt declared
he would rather see Mr. Truman in
the White House, he said that Henry
Wallace was "a great thing for
America because of his frankness
and outspokenness.”
Mr. Roosevelt answered questions
by Roscoe Drummond of the Chris
tian Science Monitor, Warren Fran
cis of the Los Angeles Times,
Lawrence Spivak of the American
Mercury and Robert Humphries of
Newsweek Magazine.
AFL Chemical Union Plans
Qualified Law Compliance
By Associated Press
The Executive Board of the AFL
International Chemical Workers'
Union said today it will recommend
qualified compliance with the Taft
Hartley Act and a campaign for re
peal of the law.
The board announced it will offer
these recommendations Monday to
the international union’s fourth an
nual convention here. Compliance
will be proposed, the announcement
said, “except where and if it (the
act) abridges the right of contract,
freedom of the press, or freedom of
speech.”
The board said it will recommend
“all possible exertion on the part
of the membership of the interna
tional union to defeat any mem
bers of Congress who voted for the
act, when and if they run for re
election.’' It favors “every effort’’ to
repeal the law.
It will propose also an “intensive
campaign to restore the Conciliation
Service to the Department of Labor,
and to have adequate funds appro
priated for the Bureau of Labor sta
tistics, so that its work may be car
ried on as in the past.”
The board has been in session
since Thursday.
Shortening Prices Drop
With Some Other Staples,
By th« Associated Press
CHICAGO, Sept. 8—There was 8
little good news amid the high
priced gloom for consumers today.
Price reductions were announced ^
vegetable shortening items and
food commodities in primary mar
kets halted their violent upswing.
Procter & Gamble Co. announced
a 2-cent-a-pound reduction in the
wholesale price of its vegetable
shortening, Crisco, and Lever Bros,
knocked down the cost of its short
ening, Spry, 6 per cent.
A reduction of 5 cents a pound
was made in the wholesale price of
olemargarine by the Durkee Fa
mous Foods Division of Glidden Co.
Meanwhile, prices in commodity
futures markets were slightly lower.
In grains minor losses were recorded
at the opening of the Chicago Board
of Trade following Secretary of Ag
riculture Anderson’s announcement
to Europe last night that American
exports would be reduced this year.
Most other commodity markets
were closed today, but in New York
cottonseed oil futures opened slight
ly higher. Cotton was lower at New
York and New Orleans.
Socialists May Withdraw
From Hungarian Coalition
By th* Asnociatod Prass
BUDAPEST, Sept. 6.—Members of
the Social Democrat Party say the
national Executive Committee may
decide in a meeting Monday to
withdraw from the Communist
dominated coalition government.
They declared yesterday that this
might be the result of dissension
within the party over last Sunday’s
parliamentary election, in which
some Social Democrats accused the
Communists of vote fraud.
The coalition—Communists, Social
Democrats, Smallholders and Na
tional Peasants—won the election.
The Communists led in the balloting
ajith better than a fifth of the popu
lar vote.
i Some Social Democrats have de
nounced pro-Communists in their
party, led by Deputy Premier Arpad
Scakaslts. Mr. Szakasits yesterday
dfenied that he had been pulled out
of the post of party secretary-gen
eral.
"The Party Congress elected me.”
he*said, "and only the Party Con
gress can remove me. * * *”
•The Communists planned a "vic
tory demonstration” in Millenium
Square here today.
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Teamsters Will Submit
M-Hartley Affidavits
By tha Associated Prats
INDIANAPOLIS. Sept. 6—The
International Brotherhood of Team
sters, AFL, will submit affidavits
affirming that none of its officers or
Executive Board members are Com
munists, Daniel J. Tobin, interna
tional president, said last night.
iMr. Tobin said the affidavits
wfculd be submitted to the National
Labor Relations Board, in compli
ance with the Taft-Hartley Act.
Mr. Tobin said in a statement:
"The International Brotherhood
of teamsters was the first union ir
America to deny membership tc
Communists. This was done in ar
amendment to our constitutor
adopted in 1940. It has been rig
idly enforced.
‘"At our convention in San Fran
cisco last month it strengthened thb
section of the constitution to in
clude all other subversive elements
6$ far as the teamsters are con
cerned, there is no need for thii
•action of theVTaft-Hartley Act."
I
ATLANTIC CITY—BEAUTY PAGEANT WINNERS—Margaret
Marshall (left), Miss Canada, who won bathing-suit honors, and
Elaine Campbell, Miss Minnesota, talent winner, hold the cups
they were awarded last night in the preliminaries of the Miss
America pageant. —AP Wirephoto.
of the most essential measurements
in astronomy but in the past has
been subject to great individual
errors in judgment. The new de
vice not only replaces the human
eye but the photographic plate in
some of the most vital work of
astronomers.
A device for measuring the
brightness of stars in full daylight
was described by John S. Hall of
Amherst College. While it has
been possible in the past to see
stars in daylight through special
telescopic attachments, it has been
impossible to estimate their bright
ness. The new device, based on a
very sensitive photo-electric cell,
makes possible many hitherto im
possible astronomical observations
in daytime.
Indonesia
(Continued From First Page.)
intervention has not brought a solu
tion appreciably nearer.”
A meeting or tne six consuls nas
been called for tomorrow night by
United States Consul General Wal
ter A. Foote.
Mr. Foote reportedly has received
official confirmation that United
States Army officers will be sent
from Manila and Tokyo to provide
him with technical assistance in
supervising the cease fire.
Extra U. 8. Officers to Be Sent.
Informed sources said a sumber of
United States officers would be sent
so that smaller countries, such as
Belgium, without military men in
Asia could borrow personnel from
the United States. Britain, Australia,
China and France are expected to
send their own officers.
The Dutch communique said Re
publican guarrlUas operating behind
Dutch lines within theoretically oc
cupied areas were hindering “pacifi
cation” operations by throwing up
roadblocks, destroying bridges and
sniping at patrols.
A clash with 200 Indonesians was
reported in Central Java, 6 miles
north of Boemiajoe, in which the
Indonesians were said to have suf
fered heavy losses. Fighting also
was reported in West and East Java,
North and South Sumatra and on
Madoera.
A radio broadcast from Jogja
karta accused the Dutch of 994
truce violations during the first
month of the cease fire. The Dutch
had charged the Republicans with
800 violations over the same period.
Civil Service
(Continued From First Page.)
continued the need for releases no
longer exists.”
The veterans’ preference ruling
relates to guard, elevator operator,
messenger and custodial positions.
Extends Commission Control.
The new rule extends, in general,
the commission's control over non
competlve appointments to such jobs
by giving appointing agencies more
freedom in filling the positions by
promoting, demoting, transferring
and reassigning employes. Hie
commission explained this would al
low noncompetitive appointments of
nonpreference employes in certain
instances, but only if made within
the same organizational unit.
“A restricted position may not be
filled by the reinstatement of a non
veteran, or by the transfer of a non
veteran from outside the organiza
tional unit, if there is a veteran in
the employe of the unit who is
qualified and available for promo
tion, or if there are as many as
three qualified veterans outside the
unit who are known to be available,”
the commission stated.
The commission said that it con
ferred with veterans’ organization
representatives on the changes. It
declared the modifications would not
result in the use of noncompetitive
appointments to circumvent the re
quirement that competitive appoint
ments to those positions be limited
to veterans or widows or wives of
veterans.
Prairie Fire
fContinued From First Page.l
have burned. Some homes saved
by plowing around them to turn
up a protective strip of earth.
Scores of persons probably owed
their lives to members of the motor
patrol who raced ahead of the
fire, warning families to evacuate.
The fire started at two spots
several miles apart about 40 miles
east of Pierre. Sparks from a com
bine were blamed for one blaze,
a cigar for the other.
Fanned by a southwest wind, the
fire spread northward over a thinly
settled section from 20 to 35 miles
along a line 27 miles long.
Late in the day the wind shifted,
driving the flames bade toward
Holabird, Hartold and Highmore,
the three villages near where the
fire began. The villages have com
bined population of about 2,000.
The fact that the fire was return
ing over lands partially burned gave
weary fire fighters time to set up a
20-mile backfire along the United
States Highway 14 and halt the fire
before it re^hed the three teams.
KILLED IN CRASH—Mrs. Ruth
Watson, 29, of 3934 Madison
street, Hyattsville, who was
killed in an accident early to
day near Camp Springs, Md.
Accidents
(Continued From First Page.!
the crash was Nina Lea Adamson. 22,
daughter of Mrs. Watts, who was
reported in “poor” condition at the
Utah hospital.
Right Leg Fractured.
A 22-year-old pedestrian suf
fered a compound fracture of the
right leg last night when he was
struck by an automobile on No. 1
highway, a mile south of Pohick
Church, Virginia State police said.
He was taken to Alexandria Hos
pital by Mr. Hall's ambulance, from
Oocoquan.
Two Army captains were slightly
hurt early today when their car
left the highway and overturned
on the Lee-Jackson highway west
of Alexandria, Fairfax County po
lice said. The men, who were
treated at the Fort Belvoir hospital
and released, were Capt. G. F. Hav
iland and Capt. Samuel Tlnnell,
police said.
John S. Melia, 312 South Gar
field street, Arlington, escaped se
rious injury when his car appar
ently went out of control and left
the road at the Fairfax traffic
circle, county police said. Several
hours later, a car driven by Miss
Ruth Mary Fitzgerald, 24, of 2224
First street N.W., also left the road
and plunged into the middle of the
circle, Fairfax police said. Miss
Fitzgerald, police added, suffered
only slight bruises, but damage to
her car was estimated at $700.
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rienry
(Continued From First Page.'
tance traversed In a year by light
moving at about 180,000 miles a
second.
If such an object were much
! smaller, it probably would be con
sidered a planet, the astronomers
explained, since it would have no
light of its own. Jupiter, largest
of the sun’s planets, is only a hun
dredth the size of the sun.
Two Siamese-twin stars, revolving
around each other so close that
they are actually in physical con
tact. were reported by Dr. Olin J.
I Eggen of the University of Wiscon
! sin. The universe is filled with
double stars, each of which whirls
, around the other, but members of
! such pairs usually are many millions
of miles apart. The close proximity
of this pair was determined by Dr.
Eggen through study of the light
variations as one eclipsed the other.
Found in Northern Heavens.
This strange double star was
i found in the constellation of Boetes
in the northern heavens. It ap
1 parently constitutes, as did the
1 tiny star discovered by Dr. Alden,
part of a triple-st%r system, the
two stars not only whirling around
each other, but around a third and
I much larger celestial body separated
from them by about 4,000,000,000
miles.
i a remarsaoie new uuumucm u*
! which It is possible to “take the
pulse" of faint stars and which will
go far to bring about tlje mechani
zation of astronomy was reported
by Drs. William Blitzstein and L.
M. Levitt of the Flower Observatory,
j Philadelphia.
This is a “pulse counting photo
electric photometer” based on ex
; tremely delicate radio equipment
developed during the war. Light
from any luminous object, it was
’ explained, is emitted in minute
pulses, known as photons.
Set Up Electric Current.
From such a body as the sun,
countless billions of these would
fall on anybody exposed to its light
in a fraction of a second. With a
very faint star, however, very few
are able to get through. When
they fall on a very delicate photo
electric cell, they set up minute
I electric curents. In the device
described today, these currents are
amplified 1,000,000 times and as
many as 1.000,000 pulses ean be
counted in a second.
The device makes possible an ac
curate estimate of the brightnese
of a very f^nt star. This is one
Miss Canada Chosen
As Finalist for Title
Of Miss America
Sy lit* Astsciatad Pr«i
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Sept. 6.
—Miss America, 1047, will be crowned
tonight, concluding a five-day con
test with 54 lovely entries compet
ing for the title of moet beautiful
girl.
The preliminary contests ended
last night with Miss Canada, Mar
garet Marshall of Toronto, winning
the bathing suit division and Min
neapolis’ Elaine Mary Campbell,
Miss Minnesota, the talent contest.
Both these beauties, the former a
honey blond and the latter brown
haired, are expected to qualify for
the semifinal round of 15 today,
along with Wednesday and Thurs
day’s bathing suit and talent win
ners. The semifinalists’ names will
be announced tonight.
Five finalist will be selected from
this group, and from the final five
will come the winner of the Miss
America title and the (5,000 scholar
ship that goes with it. The balance
of (30,000 worth of scholarships is
to be split up among the semi
finalists.
The victories last night of Miss
Canada—first nonresident of the
United States to enter the contests
—and Miss Minnesota broke the vir
tual stranglehold which Southern
belles had held on first places in
the first two nights of bathing suit
and talent preliminaries.
Miss Marshall, the only blond to
win a preliminary contest, took
bathing suit honors with the follow
ing statistics: Five feet, six Inches,
weight 120 pounds, blue eyes and
35-lnch bust.
Miss Campbell won the talent
test by singing an aria from the
anil Tii14a4- »» A «a4a«
student for six years, she sobbed
when told of her victory and wa*
unable to speak for several minutes.
Washington Entrant Winner
In 'Mrs. America' Division
By th* Associated Prosi
FORT LEE, N. J„ Sept. 6 —Mrs.
Connie Spradlin Baliowe of Wash
ington and Mrs. Kay Kiefer of
South Ozone Park, Long Island, are
the regional winners in the Mrs.
America beauty contest.
Mrs. Baliowe, 21, of 1803 Blltmore
street N.W., was crowned Mrs. South
[•Atlantic States at Palisades Amuse
ment Park last night, and Mrs.
Kiefer, also 21, named Mrs. North
Atlantic States.
Both will compete in the national
finals of the contest for married
beauties next winter.
Potomac
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tion possess the strength and
stamina of the present generation?
"These are questions of local,
State and national importance.”
Dr. Seckinger pointed out that
studies already have Indicated
dietary deficiencies are widespread,
but that research into these de
ficiencies Jias lagged. Unless more
is known, he continued, the race
of men who have made America
a great power may deteriorate.
The ctly of Cumberland, Md., was
described yesterday as the "stum
bling block” in the way of a pollu
tion abatement program for the
Upper Potomac area.
Continuing talks begun last spring,
representatives of water control
agencies of West Virginia and Mary
land agreed that Cumberland must
make plans to clean up its pollu
non Delore a sausiacuny to-opcia
tive program between the two States
can be carried out.
Kenneth S. Watson, chief engineer
for the West Virginia Water Com
mission, said his State is ready to
push its pollution abatement pro
gram along the Upper Potomac
when Maryland is ready to act.
"So far,” he said, "we cannot ex
pect municipalities and Industry on
our side to become serious about
pollution when the big offenders are
on the Maryland side.’’
"Even so,” he continued, “we are
going ahead In some sections. Three
of our industries are making plana
for waste treatment plants.”
Members of the Maryland Water
Pollution Control Commission, head
ed by its chairman, Dr. Joseph Mc
Lain, gave assurance that the State
is ready to co-operate in the pro
gram. Commission members point
ed out, however, the Cumberland
problem rests with the State Health
Department.
Cumberland, the State’s second
largest city, dumps raw sewage Into
the Potomac. City representatives
have said in the past the city will
undertake to treat its sewage after
adequate flood - control measures
have been taken and the city has
the assurance of an adequate water
supply.
Maryland representatives said the
commission would take under ad
VJOeiUCilt 9U5KCOl>lUIU UJ UIC Tv COv
Virginia group. These call for a
definition of the problems within
the Upper Potomac area so that a
specific program can be drawn up.
Earlier yesterday, Lyman Carrier,
director of the Virginia Soil Con
servation Service, said two forces
are threatening to destroy civilisa
tion-war and the misuse of the
soil.
Mr. Carrier said the United States
now is 30,000,000 acres short of the
three and one-half acres of crop
land per person considered neces
sary to provide food and clothing.
Unless we stop the erosion that is
depleting our valuable soil resources,
he said, we will some day be in the
same position as India and China,
where millions of people never have
a square meal.
"During floods.” Mr. Carrier said,
"farm after farm may be seen pass
ing down the Potomac River. This
can be prevented by proper soil
practices. We have rivers in the
State that are now turning clear,
and we hope that some day the
Potomac will be among them.”
George Dean, Virginia forester,
told commission members that
maintaining forests in the Upjfcr
Potomac area would decrease the
dangers of flash floods. In addition,
he said, forest lands will absorb
water, providing a supply far springs
and wells farther down the basin.
Carnival Worker Gets
Five Years in Slaying
ly th« Prmt
BEAUMONT, Tex., Sept. 6 —
John Francis Tammany, carnival
worker arrested last month in Sul
livan, HI., after a 4-year-old girl
recognized his picture in a de
tective magazine, pleaded guilty to
murder without malice yesterday
and was sentenced to five years in
prison.
He was charged with murder in
the fatal beating of Eugene Weav
er, another carnival worker, here
a year ago. The charge was re
duced |(i motion of the State.
ODT'Charmed Circle,'
Young Says, as It Calls
His Freights Slow
By th# Aiteciattd Fr*(i
NEWPORT, R. I., Sept. 6 —
Robert R. Young, the railroad ex
ecutive, today answered an Office
of Defense Transportation criticism
of slow freight on his Chesapeake
Sc Ohio line by quoting what he
said was a congressional charge
that the Interstate Commerce
Commission is controlled by the
“charmed circle” that controls the
railroads of the South and West
“to the injury of every one.”
Mr. Young, chairman of th$
C. Sc O., linked the ODT and the
ICC by saying that membership in
both is held by ODT Director J.
Monroe Johnson who charged yes
terday that the C. Sc O. freight
speeds are less than the Western
roads which Mr. Young criticized
in newspaper advertisements.
Asserting in a statement that
“Mr. Johnson defends the roads
responsible for the shortage of box
cars * * • roads that operate on
time schedules identical to the
minute though they vary in dis
tance as much as 425 miles,” Mr.
Young continued:
"This is a strange position for
Mr. Johnson to take with a mem
ber of Congress when Mr. Johnson
is also a member of the Interstate
Commerce Commission. • * *
Charges “Voting Trust.”
“It is that commission, members
of which so long opposed the C. &
O. in the establishment of competi
tive bidding for railroad securities
and some members of which pub
licly and privately pooh-poohed
C. St O.’s many efforts to improve
the lot of the traveler and shipper
* * *•
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u»»o wuuiuoosuu Mini
Congress has charged with aiding
and abetting Wall Street and the
RFC in the Baltimore St Ohio and
other bankruptcy frauds which have
revived the odorous device of the
voting trust * * *.
Many members of Congress,” Mr.
Young continued, “have repeatedly
said that this commission does the
will of the charmed circle that con
trols the railroad of the South and
West for the alleged benefit of the
East, but to the injury of every one.”
Mr, Young described Col. John
son's statement as "a coal smoke
screen” and said that Col. Johnson
compared “haulers of ‘fast’ freight
with the coal-carrying C. St O., a
completely misleading comparison
* *
Claims Increase ef Fleet.
The C. Si O. chairman declared his
road "has increased its fleet of all
all kinds of cars 25 per cent when all
other roads have allowed their fleets
to dwindle 25 per cent” and added:!
“Our Rip Van Winkle ad attacks
deliberate freight slowdowns by
agreement on roads which are failing
to move foodstuffs and perishables.1
The C. Si O. is not party to any
such agreement. It is meeting every
demand of Its shippers and the min
ute it fails to, it will do something
about it.”
The ODT statement was made in
answer to the C. Si O.’s Rip Van
Winkle ads aimed at freight slow
ness due to “old line management”
and the ODT said that the Western
carriers which Mr. Young criticized
all maintained higher freight speeds
than the C. Si O. in the first half of
this year.
Statistics Offered.
a Pal Takn.
son wrote. Is 16 miles an hour, while
that of the C. ft O. is 15.3 miles.
Norfolk ft Western, a “coal haul
ing” road like the C. ft O., had an
average of 15.9 miles, CoL Johnson
said.
He gave these averages for West
ern roads:
Santa Fe, 19.8; Union Pacific,
19.9; Burlington, 16.6; Southern Pa
cific, 15.7, and Missouri Pacific, 18.1.
Memorandum Quoted.
Col. Johnson’s statement Included
an office memorandum prepared by
A. H. Gass, ODTs railroad traffic
expert, which said:
“The tenor of Mr. Young's plea
was to quit delaying cars by sending
them over the long circuitous route
and put them all onto the short
route and eliminate car shortage.
This ad made me curious with
respect to how the Chesapeake ft
Ohio would fare if Mr. Young had
his way. * * * I am rather surprsled
at some of the results.”
Mr. Gass then presented seven
analyses of freight routes on which
he said C. ft O. solicited business,
at rates even with competing lines,
although its connections were more
“circuitous.” For example, he said,
the "short route” from Washington
to Detroit is 565 miles, but freight
moving on C. ft O. between these
points was hauled 856 miles.
Col. Johnson said in making the
correspondence available that the
recognized delivery time on perish
able fast freight coining into Chicago
from California is “the sixth morning
after departure” and that the only
way in which one road could gain
a competitive advantage over an
other would be to “beat that time
by 24 hours.”
"And the fastest among them can’t
do that,” he asserted.
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A. Lynn McDowell Rifes
To Be Conducted Monday
Funeral services for A. Lynn Mc
Dowell, 58, vice president of the
Washington Petroleum Products,
Inc., and a District merchant mo6t
of his life, will
be held at 2 p.m.
Monday. Mr.
McDowell died
early yesterday
at his home, 4600
Thirty - sixth
street N.W.
The Rev. Dr.
Selwyn K. Cock
rell will officiate
at the services
at G a w 1 e r's
Chapel, 1756
Penns y 1 v a n i a
avenue N. W.
Burial will be
in Rock Creek **r. Meitoweii.
Cemetery.
Mr. McDowell was president of
McDowell Bro6„ Inc., gasoline
dealers.
Report of Tidal Wave
Called False Alarm
iy tKs Associated Press
MANILA, Sept 6.—The United
States Navy fleet weather station
said today that a report by a Royal
Air Force pilot that a huge tidal
wave was moving northeastward
between Luzon and Formosa “ap
parently was a false alarm.”
The station said a search of the
area by Navy weather reconnais
sance nlanes disclosed no sign of sn
ocean dist urbance.
3 Women Slugged in Holdups;
Robbery of 2 More Reported
Screams Frighten Off
Bandit Empty-Handed
At Shop in Northeast
Three women were slugged, but
not seriously injured, by holdup men
late yesterday, while two other
women also reported to police that
they had been robbed.
The screams of Miss Dora Lee
May, 32, frightened off one robber
empty-handed, police reported, but
not before he had bruised her face
and loosened a tooth. Miss May,
who lives at 1221 Oates street N.E.,
was alone in Page's Dress Shop,
1200 H street N.E., which she man
ages, when the bandit entered.
She said the man, described as 32
years old and colored, lured her to
the rear of the store on the pretext
of making a purchase when he
forced her into a dressing room.
Miss May told police she “screamed
her head off.’’ The bandit struck
her in the face and fled.
Miss May said the man missed a
considerable amount of money in
the cash register.
Less than an hour later, police
said, a man answering the same de
scription escaped with $27 in the
holdup of an Aristo Cleaners shop.
2122 Eighteenth street N.W.
An employe, Ruth Robinson, 2531
Benning road N.E., said the man
asked for laundry, but then put his
hand in his pocket as if carrying a
pistffl and demanded money. He
took the money and fled, she said.
The third woman victim, Mrs.
Anna Baker, 50, said a bandit struck
her on the head with his fist in
People’s Bakery, 810 Fourth street
S.W., before escaping w'ith $10.
Mrs. Baker’s husband, Tony, who
was in the back of the store, said he
heard his wife scream. He told po
lice he found her lying on the floor.
The bandit was gone, he said.
Three colored men beat a fourth
woman and knocked her down near
midnight last night and stole her
purse containing only 10 cents.
Virginia Jones, 2518 University
place N.W., told police the men
struck her as she walked in the 1400
block of Euclid street N.W.
Marguerita Riquier, an employe of
the French Embassy, reported theft
of two brooches which she said were
valued at $4,000. She told police she
discovered yesterday that a thief
had broken into her apartment, in
the 1700 block of R street N.W., to
steal the jewelry.
Jewish Children 'Shipped'
To Palestine, British Say
ky Hi« A»*ociot*d Pr««
LONDON. Sept. 6.—A Foreign
Office spokesman declared yesterday
that Jewish children were being
"shipped” to Palestine as Illegal im
migrants without their parents’ con
sent and that Britain was preparing
to take international steps to stop
the “inhuman” traffic.
He said parents in Hungary of 13
children of the Exodus 1947, now
awaiting disembarkation at Ham
burg, had declared their children
were shipped without their consent.
He said the parents had asked for
repatriation of their children.
The spokesman added that there
was reason to believe that as many
as 200 of the 700 children among
the 4,400 passengers of the immigra
tion ship Exodus may have been
embarked without the prior consent
of their parents. He said the organ
ization responsible for “this Inhuman
traffic in young children” was
Hasomeir Hagair, a Marxist Jewish
youth group.__
Jews
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get those concerned into the dis
embarkation area.
Correspondents and photograph
ers will be confined by the authori
ties to two inclosures to watch the
disembarkation.
Vaughan Berry, British regional
commissioner for Hamburg, will in
vite the Jews to come ashore peace
ably. His appeal will be relayed by
loudspeakers and translated into
several languages, including Ger
man and Yiddish.
If the appeal fails, Mr. Berry said,
he will “very reluctantly hand over
to the military commander, who
will take steps to enforce disem
barkation.”
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hurry this. The Jews will be given
plenty of time to make up their
minds what they want to do.”
“Minimum Force” to Be Used.
He said they would have the sit
uation explained to them while the
ships were traveling down the Elbe
as well as on arrival.
The minimum of force will be used
by the soldiers, who will be unarmed,
Mr. Berry said, but truncheons, lire
hoses and tear gas will be “on hand.”
If the landing is peaceable, the
first shipload of about 1,500 Jews
would be in their camps near Lue
beck by noon. But if there is re
sistance, the time table was planned
to get them housed before nightfall.
Stripped hospital trains, each
coach holding 80 passengers, will be
used to carry the Jews from the
quayside to the camps. A hot drink
and some food would be provided
on the train and a hot meal would
be ready one hour after arrival in
camp.
"Screening” of the immigrants by
British intelligence and representa
tives of the International Refugee
Organization would begin as soon as
possible, said Air Vice Marshal
Champion de Crespigny, who as re
gional commissioner of Schleswig
Holstein is responsible for the camps.
He said the immigrants would be
released progressively as “screen
ings” were completed until by the
end of two weeks the camps would
be empty, the Jews having been dis
persed according to their classifica
tion in the “screening.” Those of
German origin would be classed as
refugees and settled in the German
economy, receiving German ration
scales and liable to direction of
labor under German law.
Those IRO officials classed as dis
placed persons will come under IRO
care, be put in DP. camps and be
eligible in due course for migration
to various countries, including Pal
estine.
In addition to having to watch
the debarkation from enclosures,
correspondents will not be permit
ted to board the ships till all the
passengers are off, Mr. Berry told
them yesterday.
Cars Drop in Harbor
BALTIMORE, Sept. • OF-—There
was a sticky mess at the bottom of
the harbor opposite Clinton street
yesterday because two box cars
loaded with flour broke loose from
a switch engine, am ashed through!
the rail stops, careened across the]
street and dropped into 40 feet ofj
wate^. 1
DORA LEE MAY.
Star Staff Photo.
VFW
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measures were “immediate require
ments’’ and said they represented a
"preparation for peace.”
He told veterans that peace was
“just as vulnerable as any hill you
ever captured—unless it is vigorously
and constantly defended.”
Chairman Bridges of the Senate
Apprpcriations Committee, who ad
dressed the convention yesterday,
! said in an interview on national
i defense last night, that he would
| "strongly urge” in the next session
| of Congress that the Nation begin
Roving industrial plants under
i ground in order to protect them in
case of atomic attacks.
Backs Universal Training.
In his convention address. Senator
Bridges indorsed universal military
training, becoming the second Re
publican leader to do so within a
week.
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New
York announced his support at the
American Legion Convention in
U«w VftrL* last vraalr
In an interview later, Senator
Bridges said the "next great step
in our national defense” is to move
production plants underground.
He told reporters that "early in
the next session,” he would call in
new heads of the armed forces to
discuss the proposal. He said he
thought the underground strong
holds should be constructed at
Government expense and used both
for research and production.
Says Cost Will Be High.
"It's going to cost a lot of money,”
he added, "but I, for one, am will
ing to face it during the next ses
sion.”
Senator Bridges said he thought
the underground movement should
be started to protect industry,
rather thaii to speed immediate
production of a huge number of
airplanes—as officials have de
manded this week.
"Aeronautical developments are
coming so fast,” he declared, "that
planes would be obsolete almost be
fore they were produced. And a
strategic atom bomb attack could
virtually wipe out industry. It seems
like a better plan to safely store
our planes and give industry a place
where it could swing into production
without the fear of delay.”
More Strings to Aid Urged.
He added that he would lead a
delegation of 14 Senators to Europe
next month to see what is being
done with money the United States
has been pouring into foreign na
tions for. relief.
"I feel increasingly that there
must be more strings attached to
1.1 .1J fl U.
He said he thought the Marshall
Irian is "basically sound." but that
he wanted to see whether European
countries actually are using the
money to build up their own pro
ductive capacities.
Bonus Resolution Passed.
Meanwhile, the delegates co
operated yesterday to approve two
resolutions that would add billions
of dollars to veterans’ benefits—with
a Federal bonus for World War II
veterans, and a sizable pension for
their older comrades.
The bonus move asks Congress to
give veterans of the last war $3 for
every day served in this country and
$4 for every day of overseas military
service. The pension request would
give a lifetime grant of $90 a month
to every veteran at the age of 65.
A similar resolution was rejected by
the American Legion last week. A
report from the Employment Com
mittee that is almost assured of pas
sage next week demands tighter en
forcement of the Veterans’ Pref
erence Act for Federal Jobs.
One resolution approved by the
unit supports a bill introduced by
Chairman Rees of the House Civil
Service Committee, requiring that
[veterans pass Government Job ex
aminations before they can add free
points to their final score. Under
present law, disabled veterans get
10 points to their credit before be
ginning the tests. Nondisabled vet
erans get five free points.
The VFW also wants Congress to
make it unlawful for any group to
sponsor talks similar to those de
livered by former Vice President
: Henry A. Wallace during his Eu
' ropean tour early this year.
Speeches Called Insult.
In a resolution adopted yester
iday. the VFW said the speeches
i "against the foreign policy of thq
united states were an insun. 10
,the citizens of the United States."
Congress was asked to pass legis
lation that would allow action to be
taken in the Federal Courts against
“any organization directly or indi
rectly sponsoring, encouraging or
paying the expenses • * • of anyone
speaking in a foreign country in op
position to the foreign policy of the
United States."
In an address yesterday, Brig.
jGen. George Horkan, of the Quar
termaster Corps, told delegates the
first war dead from overseas will
arrive in this country for burial on
October 10. Docking at San Fran
cisco, a convoyed Liberty ship will
carry the bodies of 3,000 servicemen,
—Including victims of the Japanese
attack on Pearl Harbor.
Fifteen days later, Gen. Horkan
said, another ship will arrive at
New York, carrying a like number
of dead from temporary cemeteries
In the European area.
Miss Voelker Resigns Post
Mias Anna M. Voelker, director of
the Alexandria Visiting Nurse Serv
ice, has resigned her poet to become
director of the new Lehigh County,
Pa.. Public Health Nursing Service.
She has been with the Alexandria
(enriee since June, 1946.
O
Dr. Gannon Assails ;
Medical Services in
Schools as 'Disgrace'
The struggle of the Board of EdiK
cation to obtain sufficient Health
Department nurse* continued today
as Dr. James A. Gannon, physician
member of the board declared the
school medical services are "dis
gracefully inadequate.”
His remarks came after a report
earlier this week by Health Officer
George C. Ruhland on the nursing
and health service given the schools
by his department. Dr. Ruhland
said the schools would have 15 full
time nurses each day this coming
school year.
Health department statistics re
veal that the school system got the
equivalent of 8.68 nurses per school
day in 1946. For the first four
months of the last school year the
only public health nurses who could
be spared for school work were six
nurses assisting doctors in giving
diphtheria injections.
Early in the year, the Board of
Education asked the Health De
partment to report to them on the
health program for the public
schools. Dr. Ruhland’s report this
week gave this Information.
Dr. Gannon declared the health
program for the schools was a “dis
grace" and said that unless it im
proved he would urge the school
board to seek congressional action
transferring these services from the
Health Department to the board.
With an average of 15 nurses al
lotted to the schools each day, the
91,000 school children would receive
approximately 15 minutes of care
during the year, it was pointed out.
Public Subscribes $90
For Family's Water Bill
The Unangst family of 1113 South
Carolina avenue S.E., which has
been buying water from neighbors
this summer at 15 cents a bucket,
today was assured of a steady supply.
The water had been cut off be
cause of an unpaid water bill of
$62.14 left by a previous occupant.
John J. Unangst, head of the family,
suffered a fractured spine this sum
mer and could not pay.
The family’s plight was described
on a radio program today and $90
was raised,
Mrs. Unangst said she would pay
the bill Monday, but would also seek
legal advice as to whether she would
be justified in withholding the
money from future rent payments
until the $62.14 has been deducted.
According to Mrs. Unangst, the
water bill was accumulated before
her family rented the house In April.
The owner refuses to pay the water
bill, she said, because It was left
unpaid by a previous owner.
With no other source available,
the Unangsts had been forced to get
neighbors to haul them buckets of
water for their washing and cooking
needs.
1 L •_I M i A _
Aumguun ricim uwner
Fined $2,000 in Tax Case
»y th* Associated Fr*s«
RICHMOND, Va„ Sept. 6
Mrs. Mabel C. Ruskin. operator of
the Cumbo China Decorating Co. of
Abingdon, was convicted on a charge
of income tax evasion in Federal
District Court here yesterday and
lined $2,000 by Judge Sterling
Hutcheson.
A plea of nolo contendere was en
tered by Mrs. Ruskin through her
attorneys.
Mrs. Ruskin took the stand and
answered "no” when she was asked
if she knowingly intended to de
fraud the Government. She told the
court she put her "whole heart into
designing and people seemed to like
it.”
Before Mrs. Ruskin took the wit
ness stand, her counsel called sev
eral character witnesses to testify,
including State Senator W. N. NefI
and Washington County’s Common
wealth’s Attorney Robey C. Thomp
son.
The four-count indictment charges
that Mrs. Ruskin, in 1941, filed re
turns showing net income of $956.72
when her net Income was $13,416,30.
Varying sums were given in the
other counts which claim incorrect
returns for the three following
years.
Double Fall is Fatal
MERCED, Calif, d**.—Mariposa
County officers pieced together this
story of the fatal double fall of Ed
ward Scott, 62. He fell from a hay
wagon, fractured hla skull, but didn't
realize the gravity of his injury. So
he climbed back on the wagon—and
fell again, breaking his neck.
Weather Keport
District of Columbia — Rather
cloudy today and tonight with scat
tered thundershowers likely late
this afternoon and early tonight.
Highest about 80. Lowest tonight,
69. Tomorrow fair, warm and _ dry,
with highest in middle 80s.
Virginia — Rather cloudy with
showers and a few thunderstorms
this afternoon and early tonight.
Tomorrow fair, warm and dry, ex
cept a few afternoon thundershow
ers near the coast.
Maryland—Rather cloudy, show
ers and a few thunderstorms this
afternoon and early tonight. To
morrow, fair, warm and dry.
Wind velocity, 5 m.p.h.; direction,
east northeast.
District Medical Society ragweed
pollen count for 24 hours ending
9:30 am. September 6—78 grains per
cubic yard of air; Incomplete due
to rain.
River Report.
(From United Btetea Rntineeri l
Potomac River clear a*. Harperi Ferry
and at Great Falli; Shenandoah claar at
HarPera Ferry.
Hamidity.
Yeiterday— Pet. Today— Pet
Noon _88 Midnight-82
4 o m_87 S a m_84
8 p.m_71 10 a.m- - SO
Hirh and Lew far Lait 24 Bean.
High. 81< at 1:54 pm.
Low, 70. at 5:20 a m.
Record Tempecataree Thie Year.
Highaat, 88. on Auguit 14.
Loweit, 7. on February S.
Tide Table*.
(Purnlihed by United Statea Coaat and
utoaeuc ouitpj.;
Today. Tomorrow.
&Vh 'IMIS: *$2*
Low* III'I *6.53 pjn. 7:f$»J»!
n. s.. »{> nr.
Bun. today - — 6 41 7-31
Sun. tomorrow 6.42 7.30
Moon, today.. 10:48 p.m. 12:40 a.m.
Automobile Hehta muit be turned on
one-half hour after aunaet.
Preeipltatl.a.
Monthly precipitation in inchaa In tap
Capital (current month to date):
January1"_ “ Ij
jjjbnury - £§} “
A?/fl -— * 48 3 27 * 13 IS
April -444 37„ 1#M h
jStf,__ 6.86 4.13 10.94 '00
Auauat—1*1 401 1441 •?*
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