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Truman Asks Congress Leaders
To Conference on Food Monday;
Cabinet Holds Special Meeting
Taft Receives Bid;
Talks on Phone
With Vandenberg
By Gould Lincoln
Star Staff Correspondent
SEATTLE, Sept. 24.—President
Truman has invited the congres
sional leaders, Republican anc
Democrat, to meet with him ir
Washington next Monday, Sena
tor Taft of Ohio told a prest
conference here today.
Senator Taft said the invitation
which had gone to his office ir
Washington 'by telephone from the
White House, had been relayed tc
him here by a seci'etary. He under
stood, he said, that the Presidenl
wanted to discuss the food situation
both foreign and domestic, probablj
in relation to the Marshall plan.
Senator Taft also said he supposed
the President would discuss the
question of a special session of Con
gress with the leaders.
Want All Available Facts.
“I talked over the telephone with
Senator Vandenberg 01 Michigan
in Grand Rapids, and he said he
had not received the invitation yet
but there was a call in for him from
Washington,” Senator Taft said.
He said he and Senator Vanden
berg had agreed that they wanted
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facts they could from the President.
The Ohio Senator, however, said
that after discussing the matter with
Senator Vandenberg, he saw no rea
son for cancelling his appointments
which cover some of the Western
States next week.
•‘I will be available by the follow
ing Monday, October 6,” Senator
Taft said. He added that if it, was
imperative he would, of course, re
turn sooner.
People Want to Be Shown.
He said that from what he had
learned during his Western trip:
“I think the attitude of the peo
ple is that they want to be shown
and that they also want to be help
I ful, in connection with-the Marshall
L plan and allied subjects.”
’ Senator Taft said he had been
^ I Invited to take part in a joint
debate on the question of who was
to blame for price increase with
Senator O’Mahoney, Democrat, of
Wyoming.
, "I replied that I would be avail
able a week from Monday, if that
was convenient,” Senator Taft said.
Grew Plea for 3 Japs
Rejected by Tribunal
By the Associoted Press
TOKYO, Sept. 24.—An affidavit by
former Ambassador Joseph C. Grew
giving his opinion that three Jap
anese defendants were innocent of
war crimes was rejected by the in
ternational tribunal in a stormy
session today.
T~\l trinrr tVso rlaKota rlof nvion
called the prosecution’s objection
‘‘an insult to the United States.”
The affidavit was introduced as
the defense opened its case for Baron
Kiichiro Hiranuma, former premier.
Mr. Grew had written of Hira
numa. former Premier Koki Hirota
and former Foreign Minister Mam
oru Shigemitsu:
“It is my strong belief that these
persons were fundamentally opposed
to many of the policies and actions
of other Japanese, especially the
policies and actions of the military
and naval extremists which ulti
mately led to war with the United
States and other members of the
United Nations.”
British Police Campaign
On Anti-Semitism Ordered
By the Associated Press
LONDON, Sept. 24.—The British
government, fearing a “very nasty
situation” might develop from anti
Semitism, has ordered a police
campaign against orators who de
nounce Jews, a government source
said today.
The informant said that under
the present government policy street
speakers who support Fascist ideol
ogies but do not denounce Jews
would not be molested.
rne government source said Home
Secretary Chuter Ede had instructed
police to take “fairly full notes’’ of
anti-Semitic street-corner speeches
and turn the notes over to Scot
land Yard’s legal division. He added
that the government would prose
cute such speakers on charges of
inciting to violence, whenever a case
can be made out.
The informant said the objective
of the order was “the protection of
the Jewish community and the pre
vention of disorder."
Aid Denied Child Bitten
By Snake to Test Faith
By th* Associated Press
HARLAN, Ky.. Sept. 24.—Twelve
year-old Dorothy Noland, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Noland of
Cawood, today was reported likely to
lose her hand or her life from effects
of a snakebite voluntarily received
by the child during a religious meet
ing at Cumberland, Ky.
Dr. S. L. Andleman, Harlan
County health officer, said the
child’s hand was in a gangrenous
condition and the parents had re
fused medical aid, certain that the
bite would be cured by faith.
Intervention of Sheriff James S.
Cawood, physicians and friends so
far have ben ineffectual in moving
the Nolands, he said.
Price Probe Asks Truman to Use
Powers to Curb Speculation
Congressional Investigators Charge Food
Is Being Held at Unjustifiable Level
By the Associated Press
NEW YORK, Sept. 24.—Presi
i dent Truman was urged today by
a congressional subcommittee to
j “use every means” to restrain
i speculation which it said “is
| supporting food prices at un
justifiable levels.”
Margin requirements on grain
I exchanges should be raised sub
stantially, the Eastern subcommit
tee investigating high prices told
the President in a telegram signed
by all of its members.
The manner an® timing of gov
ernmental food purchases should
oe studied to minimize their spec
ulative effects on prices, the com
mittee further advised.
“It is incredible that so large
operations in the necessities of life
should be permitted on such small
cash margins,” the telegram said
in criticising activities on the Na
tion’s major grain exchanges.
The text of the telegram sent
the President by Chairman Flan
ders and fellow committee mem
bers follows:
“It has become clear to the mem
bers of the Eastern subcommittee of
the Joint Committee on Prices that
grain and commodity speculation is
accentuating market fluctations in
stead of decreasing them, and that
presently it is supporting food prices
at unjustifiabls levels.
President Promised Support.
“We, therefore, urge that your ad
ministration use every means within
its power to restrain this dangerous
activity. In so doing you will have
full support.
“It is incredible that so large
operations in the necessities of life
should be permitted on such small
cash margins. These margins could
be greatly increased to the benefit
of consumers’ food prices, if spe
cial provision were made for normal
millers’ hedging operations.
“We also urge careful study of the
(See INVESTIGATION, Page A-6.)
Taft Is Given Worst
Heckling in Seattle
Since Tour Began
Senator Tnjures His Hand;
De Lacy, Former Member
Of House, Among Pickets
By a Staff Correspondent of The Star
SEATTLE, Sept. 24.—The Taft
baiters—among them the CIO,
Communists and fellow travel
ers—made a noisy spectacle
of themselves in their demon
strations today and yesterday
against the Ohio Senator, one
of the .sponsors of the Taft
Hartley labor law.
Beginning with a rowdy demon
stration at the railroad station, when
they hurled obscene as well as criti
cal epithets at Senator Taft as he
sat with Mrs. Taft in an open auto
mobile,> these baiters over-reached
themselves and were howled down
by Republican supporters of the
Senator at an open meeting in
Eagles Auditorium last night.
Planted nests of “booers” and
hecklers in the auditorium got no
where as Senator Taft blasted the
labor union opponents of the new
labor law, which he described as a
“bill of rights for union members,”
hated by some union leaders because
it clipped their domination of the
rank and file members.
Significant among the banners
! carried by the pickets as tney
paraded before the station and the
halls in which Senator Taft has
spoken here w&s the following:
“Millions for Greece but not one
cent for bacon.”
Former Representative Hugh de
Lacy, Democrat, who was decisively,
-defeated last November by Rep
' resentative Jones, Republican, in tne
Seattle district was with the pickets
at the station. Mr. De Lacy, charged
(with being a Communist in that
(campaign, is a former college pro
(fessor and shipyard worker. Also in
I the picketing group was William J.
(See TAFT, Page A-4.)
Grain, Commodity Prices
Drop on Chicago Markets
By the Associated Press
CHICAGO, Sept. 24—Grain prices1
broke sharply and hog prices and
butter and egg futures declined
moderately on Chicago exchanges
today.
On the Chicago Board of Trade
wheat fell as much as 9 cents a
bushel before steadying. After the
first hour, wheat was 4% to 5y2 cents
lower, with December at $2.65. Corn
was 2-2% lower, December, $2.13*4,
and oats, 1% to 1% lower, Decem
ber, $1.04%.
In Chicago hogs were steady to 25
lower, October egg futures down
nearly a cent a dozen to 54-54.40
cents, and November butter futures
were off as much as 1% cents at
71-71.25 cents a pound.
Europe Will Receive
Part of Nazis' Gold
Loot as Stopgap Aid
Lovett Announces Plan
To Turn Over Portion
Of 330-Million Store
By Garnett D. Horner
Undersecretary of State Lovett
today announced plans for help
ing to meet Europe’s critical
financial needs by beginning dis
tribution next month of part of
a $330,000,000 gold store looted
by the Nazis during the war.
Mr. Lovett said that the United
States, Britain and Prance have
agreed to turn over by October 15
about half of the "gold pot” to
European countries whose gold re
serves were looted by the Germans.
This, he said, might be of sub
stantial help to some countries like
France in easing them over a finan
cial crisis this fall, but would not
be enough to remove the need for
additional emergency aid from the
United States before the end of this
year.
No Estimate of Stop-Gap Aid.
Mr. Lovett refused to make pub
lic any estimate of the amount of
stop-gap assistance which it is
figured some European countries,
especially France and Italy, need
to avert an economic catastrophe
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term aid in rehabilitating European'
countries banding together to help
themselves can come into effect.
He told a news conference that
President Truman will comment “in
the near future” on the report from!
the 16-hation Paris Conference on
the Marshall plan, which listed re
quirements of more thap $19,000,
000,000 in American assistance over
the next four years.
Mr. Lovett said appropriate Gov
ernment facilities are “fully mobil
ized” to analyze the report, but
made clear that it will take some
time to determine what action this
country can take to meet the needs.
He said some of the participants
in the Paris Conference are being
invited to come to the United States
early in October to provide further
information on the makeup of the
report during its analysis here.
Agreement on Pooling.
The $330,000,000 “gold pot” figur
ing in the efforts to meet the emer
gency situation, includes about
$260,000,000 worth of gold looted
by the Nazis from other European
countries and recovered by United
States forces in Germany, plus
about $70,000,000 recovered from
countries to which it had been
transferred by the Nazis.
It was agreed two years ago that
all the recovered gold Should be
poled for redistribution among the
victimized countries on a pro rata
basis. An Anglo-French-American
Commission has been working in
Brussels for a year to determine
(Sge GOLD. Page A-6.)
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Movies, Radio, Comics Feeding
Children Crime Diet, Bar Hears
By the Associated Press
CLEVELAND, Sept. 24.—An
American Bar Association com
mittee chairman declared today
that the movies, radio and comic
strip syndicates feed children an
entertainment diet heavy with
crime and dashed with a fre
quent “seasoning of illicit sex
relations.”
While juvenile crime is on the in
crease, Arthur J. Freund of St.
Louis, chairman of a special com
mittee assigned to the problem
a year ago, said. “The surprising
circumstance is that the rate is not.
higher. ’
Mr. Freund’s report to the crimi
nal law section of the association’s
70th convention suggested the three
industries w'ere inviting Federal
regulation.
In movies, comics and on the
radio, the lawyer, the judge and the
process of law often are unfavorably
presented or treated with “gro
tesque” inaccuracy, the Missouri
lawyer reported.
Hits Lawyer Portrayals.
“Whereas the doctor is almost al
ways presented as a kindly, char
itable and capable professional per
son, the lawyer is usually portrayed
as cruel, selfish, tricky and un
ethical,” Mr. Freund asserted.
But this complaint is secondary,
he added, and the major concern is
the effect of movies, crime broad
casts and comics on impressionable
minds
He applauded the National Broad
casting Co. for its recent order
banning crime and mystery shows
until after children's usual bed
time.
James V. Bennett, Federal prisons
director, who presided at the meet
ing, voiced hope that other networks
would follow suit.
Mr. Freund criticized the movies
with particular emphasis, citing
(See BAR, Page A-6.)
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President Discusses
General Situation
With Advisers
By Joseph A. Fox
President Truman today sum
moned the cabinet to a special
meeting at 3 p.m. to discuss
what was officially described as
the “general food situation.”
It will be the President’s first
meeting with his cabinet since his
return from South America
Acting Press Secretary Eben Ayers
said Mr. Truman and his advisers
would discuss “food generally."
Asked if that would not also entail
a discussion of skyrocketing prices,
Mr. Ayers said “I don’t know vihat
they may go into.”
He said in response, to another
question that the statement on
.prices which the President plans to
issue this week would not be forth
coming tonight. Later, Secretary
of Agriculture Anderson told re
porters the statement probably will
be out tomorrow.
Will See Anderson Again. /
Mr. Truman in a letter to Repre
sentative O’Toole, Democrat, of New
York, said yesterday that he is
giving the matter of high prices
careful attention and hopes to
reach a decision “sometime soon”
as to what may be done to help
the situation. .
Before today’s cabinet meeting,
Mr. Truman saw Secretary Anderson
for the third consecutive day. He
also had an appointment with Dr.
Edwin G. Nourse, chairman of his
Council of Economic Advisers.
«Mr. Anderson is a member of the
special Cabinet Pood Committee,
along with Secretary of State Mar
shall and Secretary of Commerce
Harriman.
Gen. Marshall is calling his top
experts on Western Europe’s needs
back to the United States for an
intensified discussion of what this
country can do to help and when.
Decision Due Soon.
Mr. Truman has not indi
cated whether he plans to call Con
gress into special session to deal
with prices and European recovery,'
but he sent out word yesterday he
hopes to decide soon "on the best
manner of approach.”
In his letter to Representative
O’Toole, who, on September 8, urged
the President to summon Congress
into snecial session, Mr. Truman
wrote in reply that “I am giving it
every consideration and will reach a
decision, I hope, some time soon as
trv tVifl hoct mcmnor nf onnrftonVi ”
Mr. O’Toole interpreted this as
indicating a special session is practi
cally inevitable.”
Senator Connally, Democrat, of
Texas, commented, however, that he
is “not prepared to say whether a
special session of Congress to con
trol prices would be justified.” He
said he expected to confer with the
President about what he described
as the ‘‘very difficult and trouble
some problem” of controlling soar
ing prices.
Will Report on Parley.
Will L. Clayton, Undersecretary
of State for Economic Affairs, and
Lewis W. Douglas, American Ambas
sador to Great Britain, are due to
return next week to report on the
16-nation Paris Conference in which
they had a.direct hand.
Other officials who took part in
the final stages of the Marshall Plan
Conference on European recovery
already are back.
Myron C. Taylor, President Tru
man’s personal envoy to the Vatican,
arrived in New York today, pre
sumably with first-hand information
on the views of Pope Pius XIL He
said he would report to the Presi
dent next week.
Searches for Funds Fail.
The word of these travels Coincided
with these other devedopments:
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shall has been told by his top ad
visers that failure has met all
searches for funds which could be
used to meet Europe’s needs before!
Congress can act on a long-range
recovery program. The attitude of
these advisers is that it must be "a
special session or bust.” The in
formation presumably figured in
(See EUROPEAN, Page-A^T)
Two Killed in Collision
Of St. Lawrence Ships
By the Associated Press
IROQUOIS, Ontario;- Sept. 24.—
At least two men were killed and
a number were injured by a col
lision of the oil tanker Translake
and the carrier Milverton about a
mile down the St. Lawrence River
from Iroquois today.
The dead men. both member* of
the crew of the Milverton, were
2d Mate William Robertson of Tor
onto, Ontario, and 3d Engineer F.
Dobson of Montreal.
The Translake, holed, partly sank.
Two members of the crew of the
Milverton were reported to have
gained the shore on .the United
States side of the river by swimming.
A third man, suffering from severe
bums, was rushed to a doctor in
nearby Mbrrisburg. ,
Chief Constable Garnett Loucks
of Iroquois sounded a general alarm
siren as scon as the collision was
noticed and pratically every man in
this town of 1,140 persons took part
in rescue efforts.
Nine men, six in serious condition,
were brought to a hospital at
Ogdensburg, N. Y. Others were
brought to hospitals at Waddington
and Massena on the American side.
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Highway Department
To Cut Construction
Outlay by $35, C J
Higher Costs to Boost '49
Total Expenses $11,000
In District Funds
In sharp contrast to more
ambitious District agencies, the
Highway Department plans to
spend $35,000 less on new con
struction in tjie fiscal year 1949
than it is spending this year.
* Increased operating expenses,
however, will boost the total ap
propriation request a scant $11,000.
The estimated overall expenditure,
as announced today by Highway Di
rector H. C. Whitehurst, is $7,204,000
of District funds, as against $7,
193,000 for the current fiscal year,
ending next July 1. Of this amount,
$5,250,000 is for capital outlay. The
remaining $1,954,000 is for operating
expenses.
Out Two Major Projects.
Only* two new major construction
projects are contemplated. These
are the widening of Canfel road
«.w., irom Driage to roxau
road, and widening and straight
ening of Fourteenth street N.W. be
tween W and Harvard streets. Each
of these projects would cost $150,
000, wholly from District funds.
At the same time, the Federal
Government is asked to put up $2,
800,000 matching a similar District
appropriation request, for con
tinuing work on three large projects
already underway. These are the
twin highway bridges, the Dupont
Circle underpass and the elevated
extension of K street N.W. from
Rock Creek to Key bridge.
The. total estimated appropriation
in both Federal and District funds
thus is $10,004,000.
Capt. Whitehurst also asked for
$500,000 .in District- funds for more
work on the slowly progressing
South Capitol Street Bridge across
the Anacostia River.
Smaller Projects.
Smaller projects, for which the
Federal and District governments
would share costs under the budget
proposal, include:
1. A $50,000 start on a long-range
$900,000 project which eventually
will' bring Militray road N.W. from
Twenty-seventth street east to Mis
souri avenue, into the gigantic Fort
Drive highway belt around the Dis
trict.
2. Repaving of Forty-ninth street
N.E., between Sheriff road and East
ern avenue, a cost of $75,000.
3. Similar improvement of Weaver
street N.W., from Loughboro road
to MacArthur boulevard, at a cost of
$01 ,ouu.
• The most significant item in the
highway director’s budget proposal,
which ' clearly was responsive to
Budget Officer Walter L. Fowler’s
request for “realistic” estimates, ap
peared to the the Canal road pro
ject.
Provides Adequate Thoroughfare.
This proposed improvement would
open up an adequate thorougfare
connecting the K street skyway,
which is to terminate at Key Bridge,
with arterial highways, both exist
ing and planned, leading to the far
Northwest section of the city and
(See HIGHWAYS^Pag? A-4.)
WhattheRussians
AreSafmgofUs:
The Moscow radio, breadcasting
in Danish to Europe last week, said:
“The discovery of uranium in
Greenland is sure to be used •
a new argument in favor of in
corporating Greenland into the
United States’ so-called defense
sphere, and of continuing to
establish military bases on the
island without regard for the ex
isting treaty.
"The Americans want to inten
sify their importunte solicitude
for Denmark to protect her.
against the Communist danger.
The sovereignty of small nations
is an antiquated idea to the
American monopolists.
"The new American actions
have caused indignation among
the Danish public, and it is to be
expected that that section of the
Danish public, which has had
delusions about American expan
sionists’ good intentions, has
come to see that militarist cir
cles in the United States are aim
ing at subjugating the whole -of
Northern Europe.”
HouseGroup Hears Hanns Eisler
Branded" Karl Marx of Music"
Movie Composer Denies Communist Party Tie;
Thomas Refuses to Let Him Read Statement
By J. A. O'Leary
Harms Eisler, Hollywood com
poser, was called the “Karl Marx
of Communism in the musical
field’’ today by Robert E. Strip
ling, counsel of the House Com
mittee on Un-American Activi
ties, at the opening of an in-j
vestigating into conditions under
which the musician came to this
country.
During a long examination this
morning, Eisler denied he is a mem
ber of the Communist Party, al
though admitting he once applied
for membership in Germany many
years ago. He said his application
was accepted, but that he never was
a member in the real sense.
Hanns Eisler is a brother of Ger
hard Eisler, who has been labeled
one of the top Communist leaders in
the United States.
In a prepared statement, which
he was not permitted to read, Hanns
Eisler said that in the United States
he never has engaged in political
activity, but has devoted all of his
time to musical composition and
education.
Sumner Welles to Testify.
The House committee called the
hearings to find' out why he was
permitted to remain in the United
States after entering in 1940 on a
nonquota visa as a professor ol
music. Former Undersecretary of
State Sumner Welles and other
State Department officials are wait
ing to testify later.
Mr. Stripling said he would seek
to show that Hanns was instru
mental in organizing an interna
(See UN-AMERICAN, Page A-67T
Delano Says Inflation
Is in Full Swing, Asks
Aid of Nation’s Banks
Controller Urges Action
To Curtail 'Dangerous
Credit Practices'
By the Associated Press
Controller of the Currency
Preston Delano said today “we
are In the full swing of a postwar
inflation which is severe and
dangerous” and appealed to the
Nation’s banks to help put on
the brakes.
As supervisor of the national bank
ing system, Mr. Delano urged State
banking commissioners to discourage
“dangerous credit practices” by the;
9,500 institutions which they oversee.
He added:
“We can use our influence and all
our persuasive powers to prevent an
undue expansion of credit in those
fields which contribute heavily
toward a continuation of this infla
tion spiral in which we are caught
and which has woven its web
around us.”
Leggett Urges Tighter Credit.
Mr. Delano’s remarks were pre
pared for a convention of the Na
tional Association of Runervisors of
State Banks.
Thomas W. Leggett, president of
the association, also called for a
tightening of credit, asserting that
th<! “wild speculator and the under
capitalized promoter” will be wiped
out "when supply and demand come
nearer together, which they are sure
to do.”
Mr. Leggett, who is banking com-!
missioner of Arkansas, suggested in
his prepared address that State su
pervisors “insist on careful and con
servative. appraisals” of security
offered fer Joans and “emphasize
tfie importance of rapid repayment
of indebtedness during good times.”
Mr. Delano said inflation resulted
from a combination of internal and
international factors—the “tremen
dous increase in the volume of
money in this country,” shortages
of goods and the need to ship food
(See BANKING, Page”A-6.) '
Crops Increase
50 to 300 Pet. in
A-'Bombed Area
By th« Associated Press
TOKYO, Sept. 24.—Summer crops
in atom-bombed Nagasaki have
shown increases of from 50 to 300
per cent over the normal yield, Takeo
Furuno, Nagasaki prefectural agri
cultural expert, told Kyodo News
Agency today.
He said increased output, with
some freak developments, was noted
in all food plants except dry rice and
lentils, which had not matured.
The wheat crop, Furuno s*’\
was about twice normal and the cot
ton crop three times average. Sweet
potatoes planted at the end of May
were ready for harvesting at the end
of July, he explained.
Pumpkins, sugar beets, tomatoes,
eggplants and similar produce show
ed a 50 per cent increase over pre
vious production, the agriculturist
reported. He said some pumpkins
showed this development: The skin
developed into a leaf and then a bud
and finally became a second
pumpkin.
Furuno, who is conducting ex
periments in the center of the blast
zone just outside Nagasaki city, re
marked that “some radioactive ele
ments still remain in the earth.”
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Yugoslavs warned to nan
Ulfimafums to Americans
By th« Associated Press
The United States Government has
called on Yugoslavia to stop the “ex
ceedingly dangerous” practice of
issuing ultimatums to British and
American troops in th* Trieste area
"because it is "likely to precipitate
incidents leading to most serious
consequences.”
Undersecretary of State Lovett told
a news conference today that Ameri
can Ambassador Cavendish Cannon
had expressed this view in a protest
presented in Belgrade oh Monday.
The American note referred to re
cent “irresponsible Yugoslav actions”
when Marshal Tito’s troops de
manded “^Iterations” in the provi
sional boundary between the British
United States zone of the free terri
tory of Trieste and Yugoslavia.
Civic Groups Meeting in Schools
Warned on 'Creating Unrest'
Protests from racial organizations
over alleged anti-Negro statements
made last week at a meeting of the
Dahlgren Terrace Citizens’ Asocia
tion have drawn from the District
Recreation Board a reminder that
meetings in school buildings that
promote “unrest,” “acrimonious dis
cussion” or "teachings contrary to
our American institutions” are;
barred.
Milo P. Christiansen, District rec
reation superintendent, said today
he had sent the reminder to all civic
and citizens^ associations as the
result of a protest from the District
chapter of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People. -
The NAACP, in an open letter to
the Recreation Board, the Commis
sioners, the Board of Education, the
Committee on Un-American Activi
ties, the civil service commissioner,
the Federal Bureau of Investigation
and the press, protested a speech by
Arthur B. McNemey, president of
the Brookland-Dahlgren Terrace
Protective Association, at a Dahl
%
gren Terrace meeting last Wednes
day. ' "
Christiansen Sends Out Letter.
Mr. Christiansen said that sinct
his department regulates the com
munity use of school buildings, he
had sent out the following letter:
"In view of certain recent inci
dents, it appears desirable that the
attention of all organizations hold
ing permits for the use of school
buildings be called again to chaptei
6 of the rules and regulations of the
Recreation Board covering the com
munity use of school buildings and
grounds. A copy of these regula
tions is inclosed.
“Special attention is directed to
section 1, lines 3-5, providing: ‘Such
facilities shall not be used for sec
tarian purposes, for acts tending tc
create unrest and acrimonious dis
cussion in 'the community or for
teachings contrary to our American
institutions.’
“We would appreciate it if you
(See PROTEST, Page A-4.)
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U. S. Is Reported
Drafting Balkan
Peace Vigil Plan
Russia Leading Weak
Assembly Minority
After Vote Defeats
BULLETIN
LAKE SUCCESS Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt has
been selected by Secretary of
State Marshall, with indicated
White House approval, to take
a role in answering Andrei Y.
Vishinsky’s charges that there
is war - mongering in the
United States.
By the Associated Press
LAKE SUCCESS, Sept. 24.—
The United States delegation to
the Uniigd Nations Assembly to
day was reported working on a
nlan fnr a crucial
commission to help restore peace
in the Balkans under Assembly
authority.
Informed quarters said that was
one of the major issues studied by
Secretary of State Marshall with
other members of his delegation in
their daily forenoon conference in
New York City before today’s com
mittee sessions here.
The American delegation, it was
understood, did not complete tne
final draft of its Balkan resolution,
but was agreed on two main points:
1. Some sort of Assembly group
should be sent to the Balkans at
once to observe and report on de
velopments.
2. The Assembly must determine
which of the Balkan states are to
blame for fru continued disturb
ances.
Austin Heads Building Unit.
Meanwhile Warren R. Austin,
permanent American delegate to
! the U. N„ was unanimously elected
chairman of the new General As
sembly committee on planning and
financing the projected world peace
capital on Manhattan's East Side.
Finn Moe, permanent Norwegian
delegate to U. N., was named vice
chairman of the headquarters body
and Alexis Kyrou, permanent dele
i gate of Greece, was elected rap
porteur.
At its first meeting today the
committee received documents from
Secretary General Trygve Lie and
then adjourned until Friday.
The committee heard a brief re
port from Chief Architect Wallace
K. Harrison, who announced that
his staff would move into its new
building on the headquarters site
Sunday.
Russia In Weak Minority.
Battered and beaten by a majority
wnicn no veto coma diock, Russia
found herself today in a weak
minority position in her contest with
the United States for leadership
in the United Nations Assembly.
| A series of Assembly test votes
produced that result. Overwhelming
majorities crushed Soviet opposition
and placed firmly on the Assembly’s
agenda for this session the Ameri
can-sponsored issues of Greece, Ko
! rea and a new veto-free Security
! agency.
| Similarily, on an Argentine pro
posal supported by the United States
for revision of the Italian peace
treaty, the Assembly voted to put
the question on the agenda for fu
ture full consideration despite the
fact that Russia objected and Bri
tain and Prance took a hands-off
| attitude.
Votes Highly Significant.
Diplomatic authorities said the
meaning of the votes was highly im
portant for the rest of this session.
They predicted that Russia would
gain little support for her resolu
tion to condemn alleged "war-mon
gering” in the United States, but
that the United States would put
over easily its program for action
by the Assembly in the face of Rus
sian protests.
Barring some unexpected develop
ment, it appeared that the split in
1 the United Nations has gone about
as far as it can go for the time
. being. Still a matter of high
priority speculation among diplo
mats, however, is the possibility that
! after the United States wins its ex
pected Assembly victory the Rus
sians may refuse to co-operate
either with the projected new
security agency or the special Greek
bordej: agency which Gen. Marshall
has proposed.
The Assembly completed yester
day both the week-long general de
bate, which saw the lines of show
down between America and Russia
clearly drawn, and the approval of
the 61-item agenda covering the
subjects it will discuss and the de
cisions it may make the rest of this
session.
Sessions Move to Lake Success.
Today the scene of United Nations
J activity shifted from the Flushing
Meadows assembly auditorium in
j New York to the regular United
Nations working headquarters
further out on Long Island, at Lake
Success. Several committee meet
ings were scheduled there and the
Security Council scheduled a closed
meeting to make another stab at
| trying to agree on a governor for
! the new free territory of Trieste.
It was in connection with ap
I (See U. N., Page A-6.)
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Jap Trial Defendant
Hurled From Window
By Tortured Filipino
By the Associated Press
MANILA, Sept. 24.—A Japa
nese war crimes defendant was
thrown out of a courtroom win
dow today by an aged, white
haired Filipino who identified
| the defendant as 'the man who
ordered him tortured in 1944.
Japanese Capt. Shizuo Na
kano offered no resistance when
Teodorico Sarosario, former
Mayor of Dasmarinas, Cavite,
rushed across the courtroom
and attacked. Nakano survived
his trip through the window.
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