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Britain Decides to Quit Palestine
If U.N. Fails to Reach Settlement
Acceptable to Jews and Arabs
—•> ♦ ■— _
Colonial Secretary
Declares Stand to
Assembly Group
(Text of Statement on Page A-2.)
ly th« Associated Press
LAKE SUCCESS, Sept. 26—
Britain announced today thal
she had decided to end her 25
year mandate rule over Palestine
if the United Nations failed tc
find a settlement of the Holj
Land problem acceptable to both
Jews and Arabs.
Colonial Secretary Arthur Creed
Jones advised the General Assem
bly’s "55-nation Palestine Commit
tee, that the problem of enforcinj
any unpopular settlement woulc
have to be handled by the U. N
Itself—and not Britain.
Mr. Creech Jones also declarec
that Britain was ready to surrendei
her League of Nations mandate ovei
the strife-tom Holy Land regard
less of the nature of the Assembly’!
final decisions.
Questions Declared Separate.
A British spokesman made it cleai
that the question of terminating the
mandate and the question of with
drawing entirely from Palestine
were separate matters. He explainec
that Britain would be willing tc
continue in Palestine in a differenl
status after the mandate was endec
if Arab-Jewish agreement could be
reached. This could take the forrr
of a United Nations trusteeship ad
ministered by Britain in place ol
the mandate.
It was disclosed, meanwhile, thal
Secretary of State Marshall con
ferred this forenoon with Rabbi
Abba Hillel Silver, a leading spokes
man for the Jewish Agency Execu
tive for Palestine. Gen. Marshal]
already had met Arab spokesmen
and heard their views on the Pales
tine problem but the nature of theii
talks has not been disclosed.
Mr. Creech-Jones said his govern
ment had decided on an early with
drawal of British troops and the
British administration from Pales
tine if no settlement was reached.
This was seen as a virtual declara
tion that Britain would be ready tc
pull out on a fixed date, since there
appeared to be little chance of the
U. N. finding a solution acceptable
to both Jews and Arabs.
Committee Hears Chairman.
At the conclusion of the British
declaration, the committee heard
Justice Emil Sandstrom of Sweden,
chairman of the special United Na
tions Palestine Inquiry Committee
review the work the 11-nation body
did on its summery inquiry in the
Holy Land and Europe.
Dr. Herbert V. Evatt of Australia
chairman of the 55-nation Palestine
Committee, then invited representa
tives of the Jewish Agency for Pal
estine and the Arab Higher Com
mittee for Palestine to take places
at the table.
The Palestine Committee session
was adjourned at 12:56 a.m. after
arrangements were made to hear
the main Arab policy statement at
11 a.m. Monday and the Jewish
agency declaration Tuesday.
„ Not Committed to Report.
Mr. Creech Jones did not commit
Britain definitely to the report of
the Assembly’s committee of in
quiry, which recommended the Holy
Land's partition into Jewish and
Arab countries. He said, however:
“I cannot easily imagine circum
stances in which we should wish tc
prevent the application of a settle
ment recommended by the Assem
bly.”
The main problem, Mr. Creech
Jones said, was enforcement of the
Assembly's recommendations. He
said the U. N. itself must handle
this problem.
"His majesty’s government are not
themselves prepared to undertake
the task of imposing a policy in
Palestine by force of arms,” he con
tinued.
"Likewise, in considering any pro
posal to the effect that his majesty’s
government should participate with
others in the enforcement of a set
tlement, they must take into ac
count both the inherent justice of
the settlement and the extent to
which force would be required tc
give it effect.”
Gen. Bradley Returns
After Six Weeks in Europe
•y the Associated Press
Gen. Omar Bradley, regarded as
a possible successor to Gen. Eisen
hower as Army Chief of Staff, ar
rived at National Airport today from
a six weeks’ inspection of American
forces in Europe.
The veterans’ administrator was
granted leave by President Tru
man to make the trip, which took
him to Germany, Austria, Trieste
Italy, Luxembourg and England;
Officials at the Veterans Admin
istration said he will return to his
desk there tomorrow.
Hirshberg Navy Conviction
Set Aside by Federal Court
By th» Associated Press
NEW YORK. Sept, 26. —Federal
Judge Clarence G. Galston today
set aside the Navy court-martial
conviction of Chief Signalman Har
old C. Hirshberg of maltreating fel
low war prisoners in a Japanese
prison camp on the grounds that
the Navy lacked jurisdiction to try
him.
The judge sustained a defense
contention that Hirshberg was ac
cused by the Navy after he had re
ceived an honorable discharge and
re-enlisted.
f
Four British Constables Slain
In $180,000 Jerusalem Holdup
Fleeing Bandits Drop One Bag Containing
$420,000; Two Believed to Have Been Shot
By th« Associated Press
JERUSALEM, Sept. 26. — A
band of Hebrew-speaking gun
men killed four British con
stables in the busy streets of
I downtown Tel Aviv today dur
ing a daring armored car hold
up which netted the robbers
. $180,000.
They took $600,000 from the close
' ly guarded car outside Barclay’s
Bank, but dropped one bag of money
containing $420,000 during theii
getaway in a white jeep.
A Jewish policeman was wounded
in the gunfighting which accom
, panied the holdup and a bank offi
cial was smashed in the face by
members of the robber band.
Police officials said two of the
robber band were believed to have
been wounded.
The attack on the armored car,
which was loading two sacks of
money from Barclay’s Bank in
crowded Allenby Road, was preceded
by the bursting of a bomb against
the Palestinian Economic Corp,
building across the street. This ap
parently was intended to distract
attention from the holdup.
Witnesses said four men drove up
in a white jeep after the bomb ex
plosion and tossed a hand grenade
into the group of British constables
guarding the armored car. In the
grenading and exchange of shots
which followed three constables were
mortally wounded.
Witnesses said accomplices of the
robber band apparently were inside
the bank. They said there was an
unusually large number of persons
dressed as Arabs and some of these
were believed to have been members
of the band.
When these men tried to force
their way out of the bank, two con
stables barred the way and in the
ensuing gunfire one constable was
shpt dead and another badly wound
ed. The robbers seized the two sacks
of money, leaped into the jeep and
sped away.
Cache of Arab Arms
Discovered in Haifa
HAIFA, Sept. 26 (IP).—A series ol
early-morning explosions in an Aral
shop here led today to the dis
covery by police of a store of arms
and ammunition hidden in the
building.
Police said the cache was ths
first secret store of Arab arms to bs
uncovered since the Arab uprisings
of 1936-1939.
U. S, Asks Assembly
To Set Up Interim
Security Committee
Proposal,Modified, but
Dulles Refuses to Say
Conciliation Is Aim
By fh». Associated Prest
LAKE SUCCESS, Sept. 26.—
The United States today offi
cially asked the United Nations
to establish an interim commit
tee of the General Assembly in
a major step to overhaul the
United Nations peace machin
ery. The move already has been
bitterly attacked by Russia.
The American resolution, imple
menting the “Little Assembly” pro
posal put forward on the Assembly
floor last week by Secretary of State
Marshall, was handed to Secretary
General Trygve Lie and circulated
to the other 54 national delegates.
The move to extend United Na
tions means for handling disputes
will come up for debate in the 55
nation Political Committee, where
it follows the Greek case on the
Agenda.
In its final form, the American
proposal was modified to drop the
phrase calling it the committee for
“peace and security” and to elimi
nate any reference to recommenda
tions of the semi-permanent body
going to the veto-conscious Security
Pm lnoil
Thomas Hits 'Laxity'
By State Department
In Admitting Eisler
Committee Expected
To Recommend That
Composer Be Deported
By J. A. O'Leary
Chairman Thomas of the
House Committee on Un-Amer
ican Activities today charged the
State Department with laxity in
the admission of Hanns Eisler,
German composer, to the United
States, amid indications the
committee may decide to recom
mend deportation.
The committee closed three day!
of public hearings with an asser
tion by the chairman that, ever
though Eisler finally gained perma
| nent residence by action of an Im
migration Service board of appeal!
j in Washington, there was no ques
tion in his mind that the Stat«
; Department had been “lax” in let
I ting the composer into the country
several times originally.
Before calling an executive ses
sion for 2 p.m.. Mr. Thomas indi
cated to reporters that the com
mittee would consider recommend
ing deportation on the grounds thai
Eisler gave conflicting testimony al
Vishinsky’s Charges Noted.
John Foster Dulles, American del
egate who will debate the proposal,
told .newsmen that Andrei Y.
Vishinsky’s charges that the United
States was attempting to violate the
Charter and bypass the Security
Council had been noted. He refused
to say that the changes had been
made as a conciliatory move.
Mr. Dulles said Mr. Vishinsky's
criticism apparently was made with
out adequate reflection and he felt
that Russia soon^would realize that
its objections were without founda
tion. He added that the Soviet
arguments were based on false
assumptions and might change when
the situation appeared in its true
light.
Mr. Dulles said no conferences
had been held with the Russians on
the subject, and he had no facts
on a softening of the Russian at
titude. As to whether the Soviet
Union might boycott such a body,
Mr. Dulles said only that he had no
information.
The proposal would provide that
the interim Assembly be convened
within 15 days after the present ses
sion ends, and remain on duty here
until the Assembly reconvenes next
fall. The group would make recom
(See U. N„ Page A-2.»
tne time or his arrival and at the
current hearings as to whether he
had ever been affiliated with the
Communist Party.
Will Decide on Hearing Consul.
The committee also will decide
this afternoon whether to call as
a witness later Willys A. Myers,
the consular official at Mexicali on
the Mexican - California border,
who, it was testified today, finally
gave Hanns Eisler and his wife the
visa on which they gained perma
nent entry on September 20, 1940.
Tlie last witnesses were Joseph
Savoretti and Clarence R. Porter,
immigration officials. Their tesi
mony, in substance was:
When the Eislers crossed the
border in September, 1940, from
Mexicali, they were stopped in
Calexico, the California town on
the American side, by Immigration
officers.
The Calexico officers held a hear
ing and ruled the Eislers were not
entitled to admission, but the com
poser and his wife appealed to the
Immigration Board of Appeals here.
That board reversed the decision.
| Questioned on Political Views.
Committee Counsel Robert E
Stripling brought out that although
the Eislers were questioned at the
border about their political views
»the case finally was decided on the
question of whether Eisler was en
i (See UN-AMERICAN, Page A-2.)
Communist Reporters Admitted
To U. S. Solely to Cover U. N.
By th« Associated Press
Under a new policy, the United
States is admitting correspondents
for foreign Communist journals to
this country for the sole purpose of
reporting' activities of the United
Nations.
Immigration laws and Justice De
partment rulings bar Communists—
aside from officials and diplomats—
from unrestricted entry.
A State Department official stated
j the policy today in explaining why
f a passport visa was granted Pierre
Courtade, who writes for L'Human- j
i ite, Paris organ of the French Com
munist Party.
Mr. Courtade was admitted at the j
i request of the United Nations secre- j
I tariat, officials said. He was re- |
quired to pledge that he would con- [
fine his reporting to the United j
Nations General Assembly and re
turn to Paris when the U. N. Assem
bly session ends. There will be no
censorship of his dispatches.
Somewhat similar restrictions were
applied by Soviet Russia to all
I i
foreign correspondents during the
session in Moscow this year of the
Big Pour ministers, but officials here
asserted this had no bearing on the
American policy.
At the Justice Department, which
worked out the regulations, an offi
cial said the restrictions are “much
less severe” than were imposed in
Moscow.
Authority for the regulations, in
so far as they waive immigration
laws, was granted by Congress when
it approved the United Nations
agreement to have U. N. headquar
ters in New York.
The agreement provides that the
U. N. may vouch for persons who do
not have official status and who are
barred by United States immigration
laws if the U.N. wants them ad
mitted to testify or for other pur
poses.
Officials said the new policy has
10 actual application to Soviet
Russia as all Soviet citizens coming
X3 the United States, including
journalists who have visited this
See CORRESPONDENTS, Pg. A-5.)
I
Soviet Proposes
Removal of All
Troops in Korea
Urges Simultaneous
Withdrawal by U. S.7
Russia Early in '48
By the Associated Press
SEOUL, Korea, Sept. 26.—Si
multaneous withdrawal of Amer
ican and Russian occupation
forces from Korea at the begin
ning of 1948 was proposed today
by Col. Gen. T. F. Shtikov, chief
Russian delegate to the Joint
Commission on Korea.
The proposal, made at a commis
sion meeting called at Gen. Shtikov's
request, was regarded by some
Americans here as an attempt to
avoid consideration of the Korean
issue by the United Nations. The
United States has placed the issue
before the U. N.
American authorities here had no
immediate comment on the pro
posal.
U. S. Answer Awaited.
Shtikov said at the meeting,
“The Soviet delegation believes we
may give Koreans the opportunity
to form themselves the government
with the help and assistance of the
Allies, under the condition of with
drawal of American and Soviet
troops from Korea,
“The Soviet delegation declares
that if the American delegation
agrees with the proposal regarding
withdrawal of all foreign troops at
the beginning of 1948. then Soviet
troops will be ready to leave
Korea simultaneously with Ameri
can troops.”
“The Soviet delegation has no
nfhor nrnnneolc ” CU4iLA..
said, adding that it “is expecting
answers and proposals from the
American delegation.”
If the withdrawal should be ef
fected, the Russians would leave in
North Korea a Communist govern
ment backed up by an estimated
200,000 trained, armed soldiers. The
Americans would leave in South
Korea—barring an election before
withdrawal—a predominantly right
ist interim legislative assembly and
an estimated 50,000 policemen, con
stables and Coast Guardsmen.
Red Coup Suggested.
Some high-placed Americans here
immediately speculated that the
Russians thought North Korea Reds
were ready to attempt to install a
Communist government for all
Korea.
| In addressing the commission,
formed to provide a provisional
government for a unified Korea,
iGen. Shtikov declared that "the
Korean people can not be bought
by overseas riches"—a remark ob
viously aimed at American aid to
South Korea.
The Russians, Gen. Shtikov said,
had exerted every effort to create
“a single democratic government in
Korea,” but “the stand taken by the
American delegation has interfered
until now with the creation of this
government.”
Lt. Gen. John R, Hodge, com
: mander of American occupation
| troops in South Korea, and Maj.
Gen. Albert Brown, chief American
delegate to the commission, said
they had “no comment” on the Rus
sian proposal.
Mead Refuses to Be Aide
To Postmaster General
By the Associated.Press
BUFFALO, Sept. 26.—Former
Senator James M. Mead disclosed
today he had refused a proffered
appointment as Assistant Postmast
er General but said he would accept
the office of Postmaster General if
it were offered.
The Buffalo Democrat, in an in
terview, added however that he
“wouldn’t think of applying for a
position in which there is any ques
tion concerning the incumbent’s
health” and that “furthermore, Bob
Hannegan is an old friend of mine
and I hope he will fully recover
from his Illness.”
Keicn Drought Louses
Fresh Meat Surplus
By the Associated Press
FRANKFURT, Germany, Sept. 26.
—There was a temporary surplus
of fresh meat today In Western
Germany, where for many months
there has been an acute shortage.
The drought caused it.
Farmers who refused to send their
cattle to market for lightly valued
German marks during the summer
are now selling the animals in large
numbers because they cannot feed
them.
V/hattheRussians
Are Saying of Us:
The Moscow radio, broadcasting
in Japanese to Japan this week,
said:
"The Japanese reactionaries are
dreaming of a war of revenge
and are planning to take ad
vantage of any disunity among
the Allied nations on matters
concerning Japan. The Ameri
can monopolists also are not in
terested in establishing peace in
the Far East, but are hoping to
control the Japanese economy
and gain profits from the Far
East to satisfy their own selfish
greed. The American monop
olists, therefore, are not inter
ested in the welfare of the Jap
anese people nor of the other
peoples of the Far East.”
i
WHY, BOB f...
. HOW LONG HAS
Mi THIS BEEN
GOING ON?;
Policeman Ends Life Eight Day:
After Precinct Mate's Suicide
Taft Snakes Off Tag
Of Isolationism in
Foreign Policy Talk
Calls for Perfection of
United Nations With or
Without Soviet Russia
(Text of Senator Taft's Address
on Page A-4.)
By Gould Lincoln
Star Staff Correspondent
TACOMA, Wash., Sept. 26.
Senator Taft of Ohio has shaker
off the insignia of isolationisn
and on the question of foreigr
policy he stands today virtually
in the same ring with Senatoi
Vandenberg of Michigan, chair'
man of the Senate Foreign Rela
tions Committee.
In a speech delivered here las
night before the World Affairs Coun
cil he proclaimed a “Republicai
foreign policy” built around thi
United Nations—with or withou
Soviet Russia.
Indeed, Senator Taft propose*
that, if Russia continues its presen
policy of sabotaging the United Na
tions by use of the veto, the Unite*
States move to perfect a United Na
tions, exclusive of Russia, which wil
operate in a limited field.
Pickets representing the CIO an*
PAC, bearing the now familiar ban.
rers attacking Senator Taft and thi
Taft-Hartley labor law, formed i
line before the theater where thi
Ohioan spoke. Outside of a littli
] booing and singing the demonstra
tion was a auiet affair.
Point* to Hemisphere Example.
“We have perfected such an or
ganization with the Latin Americai
nations,” Senator Taft told thi
council, "which may serve as an ex
ample to the rest of the world.”
Senator Taft expressed a hope, how
ever, that in time there might bi
enough agreement with Russia t<
permit effective operation of thi
present United Nations in man]
fields.
"I have not believed,” he said
“that Russia intends, or desires f
conquest by force or arms of addi
tional territory to that occupiec
during the war, or felt that Russis
desires a fighting war, for the pres
ent at least.
“I do feel that Russia desires t<
make communism the accepted forn
of government, both in occupiec
territories and throughout the world
“I do not believe we should yielc
to Russia in any way in its plar
for spreading the communistii
philosophy.”
“Communism” he described as t
“curious form of aggression."
Hits Handling of Policies.
But while the Ohio Senator, ai
unannounced candidate for the Re
publican presidential nomination
placed himself squarely on recorc
for international co-operation, hi
denounced in bitter terms the han
dling of this country's foreign poli
cies during the last three years b]
the Roosevelt-Truman administra
tions.
“Outside the actual conduct of thi
jwar,” said Senator Taft, “we couk
i 'See TAFT. Page A-5J
Pvt Frederick Clair,
Okinawa Veteran,
Shoots Self at Home
Pvt. Frederick Clair, 34, of 15
M street N.W., a policeman and
former Marine who served 64
days on Okinawa, shot and killed
himself early today at his home.
He was the second fourth pre
cinct policeman to take his life
within eight days.
His death recalled that of his close
friend, Pvt. Oscar L. Fisher, 53, a
1 No. 4 precinct station desk clerk who
1 killed himself in his home Septem
' ber 18.
Police authorities disclosed today
. that an investigation is being made
. into all accounts handled at No. 4
station by Pvt. Fisher. He was in
. charge of records and contribution!
' of funds from the personnel for
, group hospitalization and several
, police associations. A preliminary
1 examination by the District auditor’s
office showed that accounts pertain
. ing to District money were in order
t police said.
Pvt. Clair, whose death was ruled
■
i OPA Pay Rises Led All
But War Department,
Civil Service Reports
'Superior Achievement'
Boosts by Agencies
Tabulated for Congress
By Joseph Young
Although It ended its activities
• with a skeleton staff, OPA led all
| other Government departments
and agencies, except one, during
the 1947 fiscal year in dishing
out salary increases to its em
’ ployes for “superior accomplish
ments,” it was disclosed today.
The OPA. which spent much of
Its time during this period in liqui
dating its activities, was topped in
salary awards only by the War De
i partment, which is the Govern
ment's largest employer. But the
IS OPA led the War Department as
, well as all others in. the number of
1 top-bracket wage raises.
These facts were disclosed by
: the Civil Service Commission in its
annual report to Congress on the
. new type of promotion system in
the Government authorized in the
Federal Pay Act of 1945. The act
authorizes Government bureaus to
i grant saalry raises ranging up to
$300 a year to employes for “su
, perior achievement.”
178 Raises by OPA.
The War Department, which em
ploys nearly 500,000 employes,
• granted 540 raises under this au
thorization. The OPA, which had
32,000 employes in July, 1946, but
ended its existence with only a
i handful of workers, gave 178 wage
1 boosts. In third place was the In
(See OPA, Page A-50
Six Oystermen, 3 Dredge Boats
Are Seized on Wicomico River
special LMsparcn to ine STar
LA PLATA, Md.. Sept. 25.—Six St.
Marys County oystermen were ar
rested and three alleged dredge
boats seized when Charles County
police, State troopers and Maryland
Tidewater Fisheries Commission in
spectors late yesterday made a raid
on the Wicomico River.
One or two other boats, police
said, slipped through the trap.
Four of the oystermen were
brought to the courthouse here
after two boats had been impounded
at Cobb Island. Police said one
boat and two men were taken to
Leonardtown by the patrol boat
Pocomoke.
The men brought here gave their
names as Perry Gibson, John F.
Oliver, Thomas E. Bailey and Paul
M. Bailey.
Reports of the raid were followed
by a joint statement from Charles
County’s Republican legislators that
“apparently something is seriously
lacking in Maryland enforcement
procedure.”
State Senator James B. Monroe and
e
*
ueiegaie k. v. tjooasey ana j.
Franklin Winkler said “it is difficult
to understand how easily dredgers
can consistently escape our patrol
boats when they can readily be
trapped by determined officers
operating in a pleasure craft.”
“There seems to be some question,”
the legislators said, "of the willing
neess of our enforcement officers to
arrest conservation law violators.”
Substitute Trial Magistrate Rich
ard H. Stubbs, who issued warrants
against the rivemen arrested yester
day, said all four brought here were
accused of dredging oysters while
operating a power boat on the
Charles County side of the Wicomi
co River.
St. Marys County oystermen are
baned by law from working on the
Charles County side of the Wicomico
and Charles County men are not
permitted to tong oysters on the St.
Marys County side. Dredging is
illegal anywhere in the Wicomico.
Another charge of oystering dur
lng closed season also was entered
(See OYSTERS. Page A-5.)
1
PVT. FREDERICK CLAIR.
a suicide by the coroner’s offic
was found shot through the rigl
temple in the living room <
his home shortly before 3 a.r
His service revolver lay nearby. E
was pronounced dead on arrival i
1 (See CLAIR, Page A-10.)
Truman Fight to Curt
Waste of All Foods
Wins Wide Support
Luckman Due Monday;
Is Confident That Public
Will Help in Campaign
BUTTER, EGGS, meat cheaper e
all levels. Page A
EXPORT-IMPORT loans to Europ
suggested. Page A
By Joseph A. Fox
Support came from variou
quarters today for Presiden
Truman’s “wasteless” food cam
paign to aid hungry Europe am
halt the price rise at home.
As plans shaped up for an earl;
meeting of the Citizens’ Food Com
mittee, which will direct the con
servation effort, Charles Luckmar
president of Lever Bros. Soa
Co. of Cambridge, Mass., who wil
head the new group, said he hai
“absolute confidence” that th
American people would co-operat
in the stop-gap arrangement an
nounced yesterday by Mr. Trumai
as a prelude to an overall progran
to deal with the crisis abroad.
Mr. Luckman will come to Wash
ington Monday, and his 26-membe
committee, which is to serve as a:
advisory committee, will assembl
Wednesday at the White House t
get its work started.
Maps Congress Action.
Mr. Truman is looking to th
committee to implement govern
mental studies which eventually wi
form the basis of the administro
tion’s relief blueprint to be laid be
fore Congress.
Taking another tack on the sam
problem, the President meets wit
congressional leaders Monday I
discuss possible lines of action i
the emergency which the Chi<
Executive pointed out yesterda
must be dealt with in advance <
any permanent arrangement, sue
as is contemplated under th
Marshall plan.
In advancing his food conserva
tion idea the President urged th
public to be more selective in foo
purchases—particularly meat—a po
icy which brought prompt approvi
of the American Meat Institute
which said “everybody can help” b
buying less fancy cuts. The insti
tute “heartily” indorsed the Pref
ident’s viewpoint.
Harry W. Zinsmaster, chairma
of the American Bakers’ Associa
tion, and a member of the Citizen
Pood Committee, said in Chicag
that the industry would “contina
and strengthen” its antiwaste effort
Asserting the American housewif
"now becomes a powerful force i
the world food situation,” Mr. Zins
master said that, with bread "s
plentiful and so low in cost,” th
housewife is "prone to waste it.”
Another committee member, Pai
S. Willis, president of Grocer
Manufacturers of America, Inc
another committee member, 3ai
the committee "should do much t
(See POOD. Page A-10.)
1
Speculations
, ' Will Ask Legislation
I Unless Exchanges
Control Prices
By the Associated Press
Senator Flanders, Republican,
i of Vermont said today that Con
1 gress will be asked to “apply
i controls” unless commodity ex
changes curb what he termed
“excessive speculation” in grains
and foods.
Senator Flanders, chairman of a
joint congressional subcommittee
Investigating high prices of food
and clothing, told a reporter he is
‘ satisfied that a bad situation exists
in the exchanges.”
Two weeks ago Senator Flandera
suggested that a 100 per cent margin
requirement be imposed on all trans
actions, saying “spectacular and un
precedent” fluctuations In grain
prices Indicate “speculative buying.”
He added then that grain prices
"are certainly out of control and
they should be under control.”
Caused Selling Wave.
Those remarks caused a selling
wave and price drop on the Chicago
grain market.
I think that so far as the price
of food is concerned that we will
- have to move back toward the com
„ modity exchanges and the farm
l ers,” Senator Flanders continued to
day. He added that recent inquiries
by his committee have failed to dis
close “evidence of profiteering by re
tailers, wholesalers or distributors In
food.”
The committee has just completed
two weeks of public hearings In
greater New York City, Boston,
Providence, R. I., and Manchester,
N. H.
vicars r armers or Profiteering.
“The farmers are not profiteering.
They are selling their products at
free market prices. If they should
sell them for less than these mar
ket prices, the speculators would get
the benefit.” Senator Flanders said.
Senator Flanders said Government
agencies do not have the power to
fix margins to control speculation
and that spokesmen for grain ex
I changes have indicated they “have
I no responsibility for controlling
I speculation.”
“If they don’t take that respon
sibility, then legislation wili have to
- be introduced ’to give the Govern
8> ment such control,’ ” Senator Flan
Lt ders said.
,f The Senator said it is “difficult to
1 distinguish between speculation and
e the volume of trading that is re
X quired to give an honest estimate
- of price. But the time comes when
that volume is excessive and is
against the public interest and
I ought to be controlled. In my
I opinion, that time now has been
reached.”
Cites Food Sent Abroad.
But Senator Flanders said “all
the blame” for soaring grain prices
"cannot be placed on speculators
alone.”
“We are sending much food
abroad. There is a definite rela
tionship between the food and feed
grains and when the feed grains are
short as the result of a small corn
crop then food grains become prof
itable as an animal feed,” he added.
1 Senator Flanders said he was
3 forced to come to Washington today
to "clean up some work” while the
2 subcommittee continues hearings in
Hartford, Conn., with Senator Bald
win. Republican, of Connecticut pre
siding. Senator Flanders will re
3 join the group for hearings next
t week in Philadelphia. Later hear
- Ings will be conducted as far south
l as Atlanta, Ga. Senator Flanders
heads an Eastern price study sub
r committee. Similar groups are to
. j cover the Midwest and Far Western
. j regions.
j Berlin Polio Toll Mounts
} BERLIN, Sept. 26 (/?).—'The toll
| of a prolonged Infantile paralysis
' epidemic mounted in Berlin today to
! 1,267 cases and 109 deaths. Of these,
' public health authorities recorded
1 40 cases and seven deaths in the last
1 24 hours.
[ Sunday Reading ...
Weighing the cheers against
3 the jeers, Political Writer
Gould Lincoln wires from the
e West that touring Senator
- Robert A. Taft is not only
1 carrying the fight to the Dem
- ocrats on behalf of the Re
' publican Party, but that the
Ohioan is making a strong
h j personal bid for the presiden
0 tial nomination in 1948. Mr.
n Lincoln analyzes the results
f of the Taft tour in a Sunday
y Editorial Section article.
,f In a companion piece, Labor
n Editor James Y. Newton gives
e a play-by-play account of the
. preliminary bouts that are
e leading to the main clash over
1 the Taft-Hartley Act — the
- principals, of course, being
tl organized labor and the Na
tional Labor Relations Board.
y An unsung naval hero, Vice
"I Admiral Jesse B. Oldendorf,
who achieved one of the mo6t
^ I daring and rarest of all
- maneuvers during a critical
i-j stage of the Pacific war, is
o! introduced in another Edi
el torial Section article by Staff
* j Writer John A. Giles.
These and many other for
] eign and domestic features,
’ plus special coverage of the
, new books, sports, amuse
ments, art, society, music,
l etc., round out the usual thor
v ough and accurate news con
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