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Truman Attends Rites
At Arlington for First
Returned War Dead
By George Kennedy
Their own families, the Presi
dent of the United States and
the high command of the Na
tion's defense forces paid honor
to 20 war dead brought back
from overseas today when their
bodies were committed to their
native soil in Arlington Ceme
tery.
They were the first of 6,000 from
overseas who will be buried there.
"The earth and the sea shall
give up their dead," said Maj. Gen.
Luther D. Miller, Army chief of
chaplains, in reading the Christian
hope of resurrection in the service.
He was followed by Catholic -and
Jewish chaplains.
The 20 graves were laid out in
two rows in a field below the tomb
of the Unknown Soldier, hitherto
unbroken for burial. The field is
bounded by the cemetery wall along
Arlington Ridge road at the Arling
ton Farms dormitories.
Families Sit Behind Coffins.
The dead were from the Pacific.
Among them were men who had
flown the first sorties against the
Japs, had waded into the beaches
under fire, died in the jungles or
had met death aboard ship when
kamikaze pilots had managed to
get through defense fire. The first
shipment of dead from Europe ar
rived in Npw York Sunday. The
bodies are still held at distributing
depots.
President Truman, cabinet mem-'
bers and commanding officers of the j
military services arrived promptly I
at 11 a.m., taking assigned positions j
in front of a sycamore tree, the i
only tree in the field.
The Army Band played "Nearer!
My God to Thee."
The families of the war dead were
already seated on benches behind;
the coffin in the long roped-ofif rec-j
tangle. Friends of the family stood
behind them and in back of the
ropes stood a crowd that grew to
several thousand before the cere
mony was over. It was a family
crowd, with children there, too. It
was a hushed crowd when the chap
lain started reading the service. No
amplifiers were used, and all strained
to hear.
Services Last 20 Minutes.
The Catholis service was read by
Capt. J. F. Hughes, deputy chief of
Navy chaplains, and Col. Patrick J.
Ryan, who has the same position in
the Army. Maj. Henry Tavel of the
Army read the Jewish service.
Formal services were brief, lasting
20 minutes. After the chaplains
concluded, three volleys were fired
and taps were sounded twice.
Mothers who, more than two years
ago, had received "missing in ac
tion" telegrams, followed by the
dread "killed in action" message,
broke down after the ceremonies
and wept unrestrainedly. Fathers
wept, too, and there was much weep
ing in the crowd outside the ropes.
Mrs. William R. Somsel of Primos,
Pa., knelt to examine the metal dog
tags wired to the front handle of
the bronze coffin. They were
stamped "Second Lt. William R.
somsei, jr.
Ashes of Jap PW In Box.
Another mother held in her arms ί
the flag which the guard of honor
had held over her son's coffin during
the ceremonies.
In the center of one row of coffins
was a cubicle wooden box. It con
tained a bronze urn with the ashes
of Aviation Machinist's Mate 3/C
Ronald Keith Hathaway, son of
Paul L. Hathaway, 3828 Τ street
N.W., of the Veterans' Administra
tion. Donald Hathaway was cap
tured by the Japanese and his body
was creinated after his death.
Two of the families had their own
pastors read services after the
scheduled ceremony. The Rev. Paul
Reaser of the Lutheran Church cf
the Atonement, North Capitol street
and Rhode Island avenue, read
services over Ensign Donald W.
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IN MEMORY OF ALL AMERICANS WHO DIED FOR THEIR
COUNTRY—President Truman, indicated by arrow, flanked by
high Government officials, stands at attention as flags are held
over each of 20 coffins of American war dead during ceremonies
today at Arlington Cemetery. The flags were held in this posi
tio'n while chaplains read the services, a volley was fired and
taps sounded. The flags were then folded and presented to the
next of kin of the servicemen, first of the Nation's war dead to
be returned from overseas for burial in Arlington.
—Star Staff Photo.
Augusterfer, 4422 New Hampshire
avenue.
Relatives Reluctant to Leave.
A Masonic service was held by a
dozen men for Tech. Sergt. Shelby
Lovet Cox, who lived at 6100 First
place N.W.
The families were reluctant to
leave the scene. The War Depart
ment plans to lower the coffins and
fill the graves this afternoon.
Standing beside the President dur
ing the ceremony were Secretary of
the Treasury Snyder, Secretary of j
Defense Porrestal, Secretary of the]
Army Royall, Secretary of the Navy
Sullivan and Secretary of Air Sym
ington. Behind them were Admiral
Leahy, the President's chief of staff ;
Gen. Eisenhower, the Army chief of
staff; Admiral Nimitz, chief of naval
operations; Gen. Vandegrift, who
commands the Marine, and Lt. Gen.
Lauris Norstad of the Air Force.
A security guard was mounted at
the gravesites at 10 a.m. as the
bodies made their last stop on the
long trip from the Pacific. Among
them were the remains of several
who fell at Pearl Harbor.
The 20 bodies were among more
than 3,000 bodies of war dead which
arrived at San Francisco October 14.
j Along with 300 others, they were sent
to the Philadelphia Quartermaster
Depot, which is the American Graves
Registration Service's distribution
center for the Mid-Atlantic area.
At the center all the caskets were
closely inspected to make certain
that no damage had occurred during
the long voyage and cross-country
trip.
'Waste Le»' Befogs
Public, Landon Says
By the Associated Press
GARNETT, Kans., Oct. 30.—Alf M. |
Landon criticized the administra
tion's approach to the world food
issue, declaring last night that "put
ting the emphasis on 'waste less'
befogs the public."
"The pill we must take," the 1936
Republican presidential candidate
said, "is eat less. The administra
tion, by sugar coating the same
pill, weakened its appeal to the
American people and its effective
ness."
Mr. Landon, speaking before a
[Federation of Women's Clubs meet
ing, said:
"Of all our political leaders, Sen
ator Robert A. Taft (Republican, of |
Ohio) is the only one that has had!
the courage to state the issue plain
ly, when he said the only way we
j could do the job confronting us
'was to 'eat less.'
"Senator Taft was suggesting the
way of sacrificial giving. His critics
actually were telling the American
people that the stuffed belly comes
first. They were telling us that we
could give our cake and eat it too.
"The timid administration's ap
proach, of course, means the same
thing as Taft's. But putting the
emphasis on 'waste less' befogs the
public."
CIO Says U.S. Ban on Reds
Shifted Meeting to Paris
I American regulations barring the
: entry of Communists into this coun
! try were cited by the CIO yesterday
las the cause for shifting an inter
national labor meeting from New
I York to Paris.
The CIO said its meeting withj
i representatives of the French Gen-1
i eral Confederation of Labor would j
: be transferred to the French capital J
I because of restrictions placed on two
jFrençh trade unionists.
It said the decision followed the
State Department's refusal to grant
! visas to Pierre Labrun and Henri
iReynaud on the ground that they
(are Communists.
i Later Attorney General Clark is
sued a waiver permitting Mr. Labrun
and Mr. Reynaud to enter the coun
try for the two days of the meeting,
October 28 and 29, with the under
standing that they stay in the New
York City area.
The two refused to accept the
visas on this basis.
The CIO committee members
"protest against this infringement
of individual liberty and of trade
union liberty" and scheduled the
meeting for Paris immediately fol
lowing the session of the executive
bureau of the World Federation of
Trade Unions at the end of No
vember.
The CIO and the Soviet trade
unions are members of the WFTU.
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British Labor Regime
Averts Defeat Twice
In Commons Voting
By the Associated Près*
LONDON, Oct. 30.—Britain's
Labor government averted de
feat by less than 30 votes on two
occasions in the House of Com
mons today—the narrowest mar
gins it has had since the party
ïame to power in August, 1945.
By a count of 184 to 160, the Labor
majority approved a hotly argued
motion to end debate on a contro
versial government proposal to abol
ish the slim basic gasoline ration
now allotted to British motorists.
The Conservative opposition greeted
the vote with shouts of "gag" and
'resign, resign."
A few moments later the House
defeated, 187 to 160, an opposition
motion to annul the government
srder wiping out the basic gasoline
ration.
The closeness of the votes was due
partly to Labor abstentions and the
lateness of the hour—the ballot
came in the early hours of the
morning after a night sitting—which
reduced the attendance generally.
The Labor Party has 394 seats and
mit vviio(<i lautbo ai/v·
These votes followed by only a
few hours Winston Churchill's
fourth unsuccessful effort to throw
the Labor Party out of office by
adverse parliamentary ballot. The
House defeated his attempt last
n.ight, 384 to 201. His previous at
tempts failed, 381 to 197. in 1945;
374 to 198 last April and 251 to 148
aft August.
The debate on the gasoline issue,
jn which an adverse vote might
lave put the government in a posi
ton where it would have been
forced to resign, developed a few
lours after messengers carried into
the House of Commons a petition
oearing more than 1,000,000 signa
tures protesting against abolition
m the gasoline ration.
Hugh Gaitskell, newly appointed
Minister of Fuel and Power, said
the decision to abolish the basic
ration was taken as "an essential
step in the balance of payments, to
save foreign currency in general
and dollars in particular." He said
It would mean a saving of £7,500,000
($30,000,000) in dollars.
Mr. Churchill immediately seized
on the issue and bounced to his
feet with the declaration that:
"These are very large questions
* * *. It would be very much better
to allow this discussion to go for
ward and allow opinion to develop.
[ really cannot feel that the state
ment of Mr. Gaitskell, however glib
and sweeping and logical it may
appear to be, is an answer to the
difficulties we have in this practical
question of how to meet the diffi
culties of our dollar situation."
Chuter Ede, deputy leader of the
House, said he saw no reason why
the debate should be continued and
offered his motion to end it.
Earlier, the House wound up two
days of debate on Mr. Churchill's
effort to expel the government by
rejecting the opposition leader's res
olution stating that Prime Minister
Attlee's cabinet lacked the "national
leadership, the administrative com
petence or the measures necessary
to meet" the nation's grinding eco
nomic troubles.
Mr. Attlee assured the House his
government had every intention of
carrying out its program of indus
trial nationalization and loosed a
scathing attack on Mr. Churchill's
demand Tuesday that Britain return
to a system >of free enterprise along
American lines.
"I never knew," the Prime Min
ister said, "a speech that ignored
more entirely the facts on the eco
nomic situation."
Criticizes Churchill. '
Laborite Sidney Silverman criti
cized Mr. Churchill for praising the
lifting of price controls in the United
States.
"Unless these controls are reim
posed in time, America is riding for
the biggest and most sensational
economic disaster in all history. 1
hope to God when it comes they
will not start throwing their atomic
bombs about the world."
Cries of "shame" and "withdraw'1
greeted this statement, and Mr. Sil
verman retorted:
"Well, it would be a great shame.
But if there comes again 15,000,000
unemployed in the United States, I
hope at any rate that this country
is not going to be dragged at the
heels of it and I hope it will be able
to insulate itself from it."
He said he would withdraw part
of his description of the United
States as a Nation of "shabby money
lenders," for which Mr. ChurchilJ
criticized him yesterday.
"At least," Mr. Silverman said,
"they are not shabby. They are
the only people in the world today
who can afford to buy good English
broadcloth."
Layoff of 1,000 Is Reported
By Distillery Union Official
By the Associated Press
BALTIMORE, Oct. 30— An official
of the Distillery, Rectifying and
Wine Workers' International, AFL
estimated today that an approxi
mate 1,000 workers had been laid
off here as a result of the 60-day
holiday in liquor distillation.
He said that another 1,000 have
found employment in the packaging
and shipping phases of the industry
Distillation was discontinued as ol
last Sunday in order to conserve
grain for European shipments.
The union spokesman stated thai
the effectiveness of the "holiday'
might be partially diminished by the
loss of "dry grain," a distillation by
product used as fodder.
13 New Cases of Polio
Reported in Virginia
By the Associated Press
RICHMOND, Oct. 30.—Virginia's
unseasonal outbreak of poliomye
litis, begun during September, con
tinued last week as 13 new cases
were reported to the State Health
Department.
The new cases raised this year's
State total to 155—a dozen above
the number reported during all oi
last year.
Four of the new cases in Wise
County, two in Henry County and
one each in the counties of Arling
ton, Loudoun, Lancaster and Bed
ford and the cities of Danville anc
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U. S. and Britain Protest
Red Seizure of Austrian Oil
By the Associated Press
LONDON, Oct. 30.—The United
States and Britain have protested
to Russia directly against Soviet
seizure of the rich Lobau oil fields
and installations in Austria.
A British Foreign Office spokes
man, confirming today reports that
the two countries had sent separate
notes of protest to Moscow, said they
followed two futile oral protests to
Russian authorities in Vienna,
ι The oil fields—perhaps the largest
! in Austria and jointly owned by
British and American capital
i through Austrian subsidiary com
panies—were taken over by the
Russians without warning as repara
tions six weeks ago.
The formal British-American pro
tests were regarded as designed to
get the case on record in advance
of the coming disucssions by the
Foreign Ministers' Council and its
deputies on the future of Austria
j and Germany.
Truman and De Gasperi
Talk on New Radio Link
By the Associated Press
ROME, Oct. 30.—President Tru
man and Premier Alcide de Gasperi
exchanged messages today over a
new radio link between Rome and
New York opened by Press Wire
less.
Both messages emphasized that
the new channel, especially foi
press usage, would "strengthen the
liberty of the press." It will also
Mr. de Gasperi said, "cement friend
ship' between the Italian republic
and your great federation of free
peoples." The American President
replied with his best wishes foi
"your country in my name and thai
of the American people."
CIO Union Dismisses
Officer for Not Filing
Non-Red Affidavit
By James Y. Newton.
The CIO Utility Workers'
Union today dismissed an officer
for refusing to sign a non-Com
munist affidavit as required by
the Taft-Hartley law.
The action was taken by the un
ion's Executive Board just before
the officers filed registration papers
and affidavits disavowing commun
ism at the Labor Department and
National Labor Relations Board,
making the union eligible to do
business under the new law.
Union officers announced that
James L. Daugherty, California
regional director, had been removed
as a member of the Executive Board
for refusing to file an affidavit. If
allowed to stand it would have
barred recourse to the NLRB for the
entire union. The organization's
constitution classifies board mem
bers as officers and the new labor
law requires all union office's to file
the non-Communist papers.
William J. Pachler, secretary
treasurer of the organization, said
the union also has a provision in
its constitution barring Communists
from membership.
TTft fViof whtla TWTr Tia liaV» Art.V
denies that he is a Communist, he
refused to file an affidavit to that
effect. At the union's convention
in Buffalo last week, such refusal by
an officer was declared to be a vio
lation of the constitution. The
union decided to comply with the
Taft-Hartley Act, although it bit
terly criticized provisions of the law.
Joseph Fischer, president of the
union, said Mr. Daugherty's status
as regional director for California
will be considered at a board meet
ing here next week. The meeting
also may consider filling the vacant
I post on the board.
Mr. Fischer also disclosed that
Allan S. Haywood, director of or
ganization for the CIO, had quit as
adviser to the union because of the
pressure of other duties. He said
Mr. Haywood's post probably will
not be filled.
Ban on Smoking on Job
At Ford Plants Rescinded
By the Associated Press
DETROIT, Oct. 30.—Another ves
tige of the regime of the late Henry
Ford will disappear November 15,
when office and plant employes of
the Ford Motor Co. will be permitted
to smoke on the job.
The founder of the industrial em
pire, who died last April, always
considered smoking a fire hazard
and time-wasting.
An announcement from the foun
der's grandson, President Henry
Ford II, said the smoking ban could
not be lifted immediately because
of the time required to "post signs
in dangerous zones, paint lines on
the floors outlining these zones, dis
tribute ash trays and receptacles."
Visitors to the company offices
have been permitted for several
months to smoke, but even top
ranking Ford executives have been
forbidden.
The youthful president smokes
cigarettes, but—so far, at least—not
in his office.
Two months ago another of the
elder Ford's rules was relaxed to
relieve most office and "white col
lar" employes from punching time
clocks.
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