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; Creedon Quits
i
( Housing Post;
Takes Atom Job
Expediter Leaving
Government to Head
Construction Project
By the Associated Press
Frank R. Creedon resigned to
' day- as national housing expe
diter.
In a letter of resignation, Mr.
Creedon advised President Truman
he was leaving the Government to
take charge of a large construction
program in connection with develop
ment of atomic energy. No details
were given.
1 While the letter did not disclose
the name of the firm which is un
dertaking the atomic project, asso
ciates <ff Mr. Creedon said they
understood it is thfe General Electric
Corp.
In making the letter public, the
White House announced that Tighe
E. Woods has been named acting
housing expediter. He has been a
deputy under Mr. Creedon.
Woods Served With OPA.
Mr. Woods, a native of Chicago
and a graduate of Notre Dame, en
tered Government service in 1942 as
OPA rent examiner jn the Chicago
regional office. Later he became
deputy nousing expediter tor rent
control.
Mr. Creedon, who Managed the
construction of the Oak Ridge
(Tenn.) atomic energy project,
wrote the President:
“I weighed carefully in my mind
winch would render the greater
public service, my present assign
ment or the help that I could con
tribute in expediting the atomic
energy program."
He said he had concluded he could
be more helpful in the latter field.
Truman Praises Work.
In a letter of reply, the President
accepted Mr. Creedon's resignation
“with reluctance" and told him "You
have served your country faithfully
and well.”
The correspondence disclosed that
Mr. Creedon first indicated to the
President several weeks ago that
he had received an offer from a
“large industrial firm" to take
charge of a huge construction pro
gram in connection with atomic
energy development.
Mr. Creedon became housing ex
pediter last December, succeeding
Wilson Wyatt.
In this office he passed on recom
mendations from local rent control
boards as to rent increases or con
tinued control of rents in their area.
Under Fire From Unions.
He has been under fire from some
labor unions because of his recent
approval of a 5 per cent rent in
crease in the Louisville area. Mr.
Creedon took the position that he
had no choice under the rent con
trol law except to approve an in
crease where there was “appropri
ate substantiation” of a local board's
I • finding that an increase was proper.
The unions contended he should
not have approved the composition
of the Louisville board or found
“appropriate substantiation” of its
findings. Members of the boards
are nominated by Governors, but
the nominations are subject to Mr.
Creedon's acceptance.
Mr. Creedon, 51, is a native of
Brockton, Mass., who studied engi
neering at Massachusetts Institute
of Technology. He served in World
War I and was a construction engi
neer with various private concerns
between the war's end and 1934
when he joined the Government in
the old Public Works Administra
tion.
During the last war he was in
the Army Engineers for three years.
He left the Army to direct con
struction of the Oak Ridge atomic
energy plant as a vice president of
Stone & Webster, a firm which held
the construction contract through a
subsidiary. .
Rail Brotherhoods Demand
30% Pay Raise Study Now
By lh» Asiociated Press
CHICAGO. Oct. 31. — Spokesmen
for five railroad brotherhoods whc
have been negotiating rules changes
with the Nation's railroads since
October 7, demanded today that the
railroads set aside those negotia
tions temporarily and give imme
diate consideration to demands for
8 30 per cent wage increase.
The brotherhoods, representing
about 350,000 engineers, firemen,
conductors, trainmen, switchmen
and yardmen, served their wage de
mands, including a $3-a-day min
imum increase, on the railroads
September 30. The demands in
cluded a provision that any in
creases granted be made retro
active to November 1. 1947.
Wallace Urges Pope
To Aid Palestine Peace
By th« Associated Press
ROME. Oct. 31.—Former Vic*
F esident Henry Wallace saw Pop*
Pius XII today and urged him
a member of Mr. Wallace’s parts
said after the audience, to use hi!
influence toward a solution of th*
Palestine problem.
Tire disclosure came from Lewi!
Frank, a correspondent of the Maga^
zine New Republic of which Mr
Wallace is editor, who accompanie*
Mr. Wallace and Michael Straight
New Republic publisher, to Caste
Gandolfo to see the Pontiff.
The audience was arranged b;
the office of President Truman’
representative to the Vatican.
It was Mr. Wallace’s first call ii
Italy, where he arrived yesterda;
“as a newspaperman” after a 12-da;
visit to Palestine. Later today h
is scheduled to see Giuseppe Sara
gat, moderate Socialist leader, aru
Premier Alcide de Gasperi.
Mr. Frank said there still was n<
reply to Mr. Wallace's request for ai
interview with Palmiro Togliatti
Communist leader, but that Mr
Wallace would see Pietro Nenni
head of the pro-Communist Social
1st Party, tomorrow.
I
Nourse Group Is Said to Deny
Inflation Threat in Foreign Aid
Council Report, Due
Tomorrow, May Ask
Federal Controls
By the Associated Press
The Council of Economic Ad- j
visers is reported to have noti-|
fled President Truman that thej
Marshall plan can promote,
rather than imperil, the stabil
ity of the United States economy.
The council will find—said one
official familiar with its study—
jthat a multi-billion-dollar, foreign
aid program need not worsen this!
country’s inflationary probiem if it!
Is accompanied by some regulatory
safeguards. \
The report, due for issuance to
morrow night, is the second of
three ordered by President Truman
to guide the administration's pro
posals for foreign assistance.
Its purpose is to determine the I
impact on United States economy,
of a program of Marshall plan pro- I
portions. In a sister report, Secre
tary of the Interior Krug last week
contended the country is able to;
support a “considerable” program |
1 See MARSHALL PLAN, Page A-5.) I
Marshall Plan May
Require Tax Rise,
Crawford Warns
The possibility of higher in
stead of lower taxes was held
put in both Republican and
Democratic quarters on Capitol
Hill today in discussions involv
ing American aid to Europe.
Representative Crawford, Repub
lican, of Michigan said the relief!
program confronts the country |
with the choice between higher taxes j
Dr greater inflation.
At the same time, Senator O'Ma
noney, Democrat, of Wyoming called!
for a new excess profits levy as one;
ipproach to the twin problem Con-;
;ress will confront next month of!
irnbing high prices at home while;
working out a multi-billion-dollar;
Suropean recovery program.
A Republican leadership decision
Dn whether to press a third tax re- j
iuction bill at the November 17 ses
sion was delayed, meanwhile, by the
llness of Chairman Knutson of the j
-louse Ways and Means Committee.!
Mr. Knutson had been scheduled
(See FOREIGN AID, Page A-5.)
Home-Delivered Milk
Rises 11c a Quart
In Nearby Virginia
D. C. Action Imminent;
Producers' Price Goes
To $6.06 Per 100 Pounds
The Virginia Milk Commission
today announced an increase of
1V2 cents a quart for home-de
livered milk in the Alexandria
Arlington area, effective tomor-'
row.
A similar increase is expected to
be ordered by Washington dairy
operators. They already are on rec
ord that any increase in the nearby
Virginia area will mean higher re
tail prices for Washington con
sumers.
One Washington dairy, Embassy,
said the retail price probably will
go up tomorrow.
The commission also ordered the
price of milk to producers supply
ing the two Virginia areas raised
to $6.06 a hundred pounds.
21-Cent Price Set.
As a result of this increase, the
commission said, home-delivered
milk will start selling tomorrow at
21 cents a quart. Milk sold in stores
will be 19 cents.
Prices of other grades of whole
sale milk were raised by the com
mission, but there will be no in-,
crease in cream prices.
The commission found the in-j
creases necessary as a result of
evidence presented at a public hear
ing in Alexandria October 17, which
showed sharp increases in feed, hay,
la nor and other items in production.
Consumer groups and individuals
lodged strong protests over the pro
posal at that time ana warned a
further increase w:ould cut down
consumption to the disadvantage of
both consumer and producer.
Effective First of Month.
Today’s action thus placed the
new price schedules into effect on
the first of the month. Many pro
ducers are paid for their milk on a
monthly basis.
The commission said it plans to
make another investigation of the
market in the early spring, and, if
conditions warrant a change, to re
duce prices at that time.
The milk commission said it would
request the extension division of
Virginia Polytechnic Institute* to
conduct a comprehensive survey of
the costs of producing milk in the
| Virginia milk shed supplying the
! Arlington-Alexandria market. It
j will urge that this survey be made
j at the earliest possible time.
Typhoon Rips 2 Cities
But By-passes Manila
By the Associated Press
MANILA, Oct, 31.—A typhoon
which swept across the Central
Philippines, leaving six dead and
(heavy damage in its wake, bypassed
Manilla to the south today and
headed toward the China Sea.
At 7 p.m. (6 a.m. EST) the Philip
pine Weather Bureau placed the ty
phoon 30 miles south of Manila and
(said it was moving west-northwest.
Typhoon signal No. 10, indicating
(imminent danger, remained hoisted
; in Manila, however.
The lashing gale heavily damaged
j two cities, sank one ship and beached
j three others.
Reports from Iloilo, Panay Island
said five persons were drowned when
| the motor launch Alfonso II sank
near the Gigantes Islands, off the
eastern coast of the island, Thurs
day.
! The first death was reported from
| Mindanao, where a woman passen
| ger drowned in the sinking of the
1270-ton Philippines freighter FS
| 277. Two other passengers and the
crew of 26 were rescued as the ship
j went down in Butuan Bay.
Second Payroll Robbery
In Boston Nets $29,000
0
By the Associated Press
I BOSTON, Oct. 31.—Four gunmen
i' escaped with a $29,000 payroll today
after holding up the paymaster oi
[ the American Sugar Co. in South
Boston.
Police reported the men fled in a
i new black sedan.
The quartet, using cloth sacks as
i masks, were armed with a sawed
r off shotgun and pistols and were
• clad in rough work clothes and
: welders’ helmets.
Investigation showed the registra
I tion plate on the robbers' car had
been stolen from an automobile in
II the Back Bay.
i The holdup came close on the
, heels of a $108,000 payroll robbery
. yesterday at the Sturtevant division
, j of the Westinghouse Electric Corp,
jin Hyde Park, and the two crimes
I bore considerable similarity.
K
Ex-Bookkeeper Tells
Of Forging $4,800 in
Checks on Sorority
Lost Most of Amount
In Gambling, Defendant
Says at Arraignment
A 48-year-old former book
keeper for a University of Mary
land sorority today told United!
States Commissioner Needham j
C. Turnage he had forged about
$4,800 worth of checks on the
sorority’s account and lost most
of it in gambling. —
The erstwhile Alpha Omicron Pi
employe, James Hilliard Kinsey,
made the statement when arraigned
before Commissioner Turnage on an
FBI charge of passing a $95 check
in interstate commerce, to which he
pleaded guilty.
He was ordered held for grand
jurv action and bond was fixed at
$1,500.
An FBI spokesman said investiga
tion of the case was continuing.
The well-dressed and scholarly
appearing defendant told Mr. Turn- j
age the forgeries had occurred since:
last July and involved the sorority’s j
account with the Prince Georges
Bank & Trust Co. of Hyattsville.
He added he later lost most of
it "on the horses and by gambling
on the dice at Jimmy La Fontaine’s."
Queried by Mr. Turnage on how he
Intended to plead, Kinsey said:
“There's no point in fighting this
thing now. I’ll admit I was a fool.”
Kinsey told the commissioner he
had been released from a Baltimore
jail early this year aftes serving six
months of a term for passing other
bad checks. He went to work for
the sorority in July. He was ar
rested yesterday by FBI agents on
the complaint of the Irving Liquor
Store, 1400 block of Irving street
N.W. •
He said he is a veteran of both
World Wars who had been “barely
able to eke out a living" on total
disability pension checks for serv
ice in the first w’ar. Kinsey added
he was drafted during the past war
and given a medical discharge after
serving seven months at Camp
Pickett, Va. He gave a local ad
dress in the 1300 block of Otis
nlnrp N W
Commodity Markets Probe
Near Conclusion,Clark Says
By th» Associated Press
Attorney General Clark said today
the Justice Department’s investiga
tion of speculation on commodity
exchanges will be concluded “in a
few days.”
He told reporters the inquiry has
centered around operations on the
Chicago, Kansas City and Minne
apolis exchanges.
These are all primarily grain
markets.
President Truman first announced
the inquiry at a news conference
recently in which he spoke out
j sharply against what' he said was
widespread gambling in grains and
fibers. He declared such gambling
contributed to high prices. < Pre
sumably, fibers meant cotton.)
j Mr. Clark said that if the inquiry
I discloses law violation the evidence
: will be presented to a grand jury,
j Otherwise, he said, he proposes to
bring any bad practices to the
attention of the public either
through a report to the President or
Congress.
DC-4 Wreckage Found
On Isle Off Alaska
By the Associated Press
KETCHIKAN. Alaska, Oct. 31.—
Wreckage of the Pan American
World Airways clipper that crashed
Sunday with 18 persons aboard was
sighted today on an Anrtette Island
mountainside.
Wesley Monsen, son of Phot Alf
M. Monsen of the crashed airliner,
said he flew over tho wreckage and
“apparently all had been killed in-v
stantly.”
He said there was no question
about the wrecked plane's identifi
cation. The plane was partially
burned. It carried 13 passengers
and a crew of five.
The plane crashed against 3,600
foot-high Tamgas Mountain, high
est point on the island off the
rugged and irregular southeastern
Alaska coast. It is 6 miles east of
the Annette Island Airfield. The.
crash was on the north side of the
mountain.
It was over the Annette field that
Pilot Monsen, a veteran of north
ern flying, made his last report by
radio Sunday. He said then that
extreme turbulence turned him back
from a scheduled landing on the
field.
Armed Services
To Keep 5 Billion
Worth of Surplus
Decision Only Shift
In Policy, Not New
'Strategic Situation'
By the Associated Press
The armed services have de
cided to hang on to some $5,000,
000,000 worth of goods they once
planned to dump into the war
surplus market.
This decision to increase “military
stock levels’’ was disclosed today by
War Assets Administrator Robert M.
Littlejohn, who also reported that
some goods already declared surplus
lave been withdrawn from public
iffering.
The withdrawals include clothing
jnd other supplies now being used
to relieve distress abroad and at
dome and to carry out this country’s
&400,000.000 Greek-Turkish aid pro
gram aimed at stemming Communist
advances into Southern Europe.
Only Policy Change.
At the Army Department it was
Mid the decision to keep more mate
del does not represent “a new stra
tegic situation,” but only a policy
change relating to stocks on hand.
Mr. Littlejohn, whose agency is
charged with selling or otherwise
disposing of goods declared surplus'
by various Government agencies,
used these words to explain why the
total volume now is expected to
teach only $29,500,000,000 instead
if $34,000,000,000.
“About $5,000,000,000 of this
amount * * * depended upon cer
tain military programs, such as uni
versal military training. But now
we have been informed that, because
of increased military stock levels
and the possible diversion of ma- j
teriel from the universal military j
training program to other military
purposes, the $5,000,000,000 will not j
be forthcoming.”
Because of the policy shift, Mr.
Littlejohn's report said, the total
disposal job will be nearly 90 per
"We foresee on June 30, 1948, an
inventory of approximately $3,100,- j
000,000, nearly three-fourths of
which will be real property," he
estimated.
Noting that goods worth $28,200,
000.000 already has been turned over
to WAA, Mr. Littlejohn said:
"The task ahead is primarily one
of disposing of inventories on hand.
These totaled $7,600,000,000 on Sep
tember 30."
The sales chief forecast “rapid
liquidation during the next six to
nine months” of the ramaining
consumer goods, industrial equip
ment aircraft and electronic equip
ment, but he foresaw a program of
“several years duration" to get all
the surplus Government-built war
plants into private hands.
“Increasingly larger portions of
available inventory consist of con
sumer and producer goods of poor
quality, special purpose machinery.;
and ‘hard-to-sell’ real properties,”!
the report said. ' !
A big cut in WAA’s payroll was j
shown. From the November. 1946,
peak of 58.800 employes the rolls
were scaled down to 34,600 by the
start of this month.
Separation Rate High.
j
“Since January the separation
rate for WAA has been about three
times that for the Federal Govern- j
ment as a w'hole,” Mr. Littlejohn
said.
"The resignation rate is double
that of the total Federal service
because of the uncertainty of con
tinued employment and the stated
short life of WAA.”
The poor quality of current sur- (
plus offerings is reflected in a de
cline in sales from $2,600,000,000 in
the second quarter of the year to!
$1,800,000,000 in the third quarter,
the report said.
“Under the surplus Army prop- j
erty program, WAA is co-operating
with the Army in supplying surplus
to needy peoples in occupied areas
of Europe and ' Asia. Substantial
withdrawals of used clothing al
ready have been made.
"Transfers of property under the
Greek-Turkish aid and disaster re
lief programs, both authorized by
Congress, are also being made by
WAA.” _
Late News
Bulletin
Quakers Win Peace Prize *j
OSLO, Norway (jP).—The’No
bel Peace Prize for 1947 has
been awarded to the London
Service Council and the Phila
delphia Service Committee of
the Society of Friends (Quak
ers), the Nobel Committee an
nounced todnight.
That's No Halloween Prank!
Committee Delays Identifying
68 More as Hollywood Reds
First Phase of Un-American Inquiry Closed;
Soviet Quest for Atom Data Revealed
The film industry will have to
wait until some time in the “near
future” to learn the identity of
68 more individuals classed by ,
the House Committee on Un
American Activities as Commu
nists or fellow travelers.
The committee rang down the
curtain on the “first phase’’ of its
inquiry into communism in the film
industry without fulfilling Chair
man Thomas’ promise to identify i
79 Hollywood “Communists.” Mr.j
Thomas announced earlier they j
would be named with their “com- j
plete records” of Communist affilia- j
tions.
“We have had before us 11 of these i
individuals,” Chairman Thomas an
nounced at the end of yesterday’s
session. "There are 68 to go!”
The committee has recommended
■ontempt citations on 10 film per
sonalities. <
But the committee did follow
through on its promise of sensa
ional disclosures.”
A former FBI agent, now a com
mittee investigator, testified late
yesterday that Soviet agents unsuc- 1
nessfully tried to obtain confidential j
information from Dr. Robert Op- i
penheimer. atomic physicist, when 1
me was working in the University of 1
California s radiation laboratory in ]
1942.
The investigator, Louis J. Russell,|v
“(See IJN-AMERICAN, Paige A-4.) :,
Sugar Price Lid Lifts
tonight, but Hoarding
Holds Quotations Firm
Some Quarters See
Actual World Surplus;
Whisky Import Curb Hit
JREDIT CONTROLS end tomorrow
night; easier buying terms seen.
Page A-17
Price controls on sugar end at
nidnight tonight, but an ex
acted drop in prices appears to
lave been forestalled by house
vives who started hoarding in
ear of a shortage.
No such shortage is in sight,
lowever, and Agriculture Depart
nent experts anticipate no price
ise at present. The Government
irovides a floor for prices by pur
chasing raw sugar and selling it to
eflners at a fixed price.
Other food developments include:
1. The National Association of
Ucoholic Beverage Importers an
grily attacked Charles Luckman,
Citizens’ Food Committee chair
nan, for proposing that Scotch
vhlsky imports be halted during
he domestic distillery shutdown.
2. Agriculture Department an
lounced its grain export allocations
or December, up 10 per cent over
he November figure, will bring the
ix - month total to 305,000,000
mshels compared to the goal for the
ull crop year of 570,000,000 bushels.
Sugar May Be Surplus.
In the sugar situation, some sugar
>rokers in New York were reported
>y the Associated Press as believing
i world surplus is in prospect for
948. They cite the expectation of
i huge Cuban crop, rapid restora
,ion of the war-damaged Philippine
ndustry and the recovery of Cen
tal European beet sugar areas. The
nternational Emergency Food
Council has before it an estimate
,hat next year’s world surplus maj
se 1,000,000 tons.
Other brokers, however, think de
nand will advance. They believe
;he Marshall plan will result ir
arge shipments to Europe because
3f sugar’s high caloric value. Thej
;ay 100,000 calories currently car
3e purchased cheaper in sugar thar
;n wheat.
The brokers told the Associateei
Press they had feared a price drop
(Then controls end tonight but that
hoarding, reported from' several
fities, was keeping supply closer tc
demand. Agriculture Departmenl
experts, however, say the supply i;
‘good.”
Linder wartime price controls anc
will be the last to be freed. Sugai
rationing and price control began ir
April. 1942. Rationing ended thu
spring.
Importers Hit Luckman.
The controversy over Scotch
whisky imports began on Wednesdaj
when Mr. Luckman, in answering s
question at a National Press Ciut
luncheon, said he had recommended
to the State Department that such
Imports be halted during the do
mestic whisky shut-down. The do
mestic distillers are known to have
brought the matter to Mr. Luck
man's attention.
In Chicago, Harry L. Lourie, vie«
president of the National Associa
tion of Alcoholic Beverage Import
(See FOOD, Page A-4.)
What the Russians
Are Saying of Us:
The Moscow radio, broadcasting ir
Korean, said:
“More than two years have
elapsed since the defeat of the
Japanese imperialistists but the
people of those countries which
have been occupied by the Japa
nese have not yet enjoyed any
of the benefits derived from the
common victory due to the inter
ference of the American monop
olists who are trying to take the
place of the Japanese colonists.
“The American monopolists are
endeavoring to restore the poten
tialities of Japan’s munitions in
dustry in order to turn Japan
into a springboard for their ex
pansion in Asia and the Far
East. According to this prograip,
Korea would become a subordi
nate country supplying raw ma
erials to capitalist monopolies
and a strategic base in the Asi
atic continent for capitalist and
monopolist expansion
Many Unions Ignore
Today's Deadline for
Non-Red Statements
Labor Board to Eject
All Cases Initiated by
„ Those Not Complying
By James Y. Newton
Many of the Nation's labor
unions, including four of the
argest, apparently were ignor
ng today’s deadline for com
Dliance with Taft-Hartley Act
urovisions for registration and
iling of non-Communist affi
lavits.
Unless the unions take at least
nitial steps to comply with the new
aw by midnight, the National Labor
Relations Board will throw out all
:ases initiated by the organizations
jvhich were pending August 22 when
nost sections of the act became ef
fective. The latest count showed
about 3,500 such cases still unde
cided, but many of those involve
anions which have complied with
the law.
There was a last-minute rush by
unions to get in ahead of the dead
line. There were, however, no fig
ures available indicating the per
centage of the estimated 60,000 in
ternationals and locals which al
ready had filed the necesary papers.
Miners Expected to Hold Out.
Big unions which were considered
certain holdouts include John L,
Lewis’ United Mine Workers and
three CIO unions, the United Steel
workers, United Auto Workers and
United Electrical Workers. The
combined membership of the four
organizations is more than 2.500,000
The United Mine Workers have
an estimated 200 old cases on the
NLRB docket which will be dis
missed by the board. Most of the
cases were initiated by District 50
the mine workers’ catch-all unit in
cluding workers of many differeni
industries.
Noncomplying unions have set out
to boycott the NLRB as a means ol
attacking the Taft-Hartley Act
Just how long they will be able tc
operate without board help is ques
tionable. The NLRB ruled two days
ago that a noncomplying union maj
< See LABOR, Page A-4.)
Entomologist Shot as Wife Gives
Him Pistol to Chase Prowler .
Shot in the chest by accident,
William Middleton. 53, senior en
tomologist of the Agriculture De
partment, was reported in serious
condition today at Arlington Hospi
tal.
Arlington police reported that he
was wounded by a .22-caliber bullet
when his wife handed him a pistol
as he prepared to investigate noises
presumably caused by a prowler.
The shooting occurred about ,3:30
a.m. at 1906 North Roosevelt street,
■ Arlington.
Hospital attendants said that
while Mr. Middleton had not lost
much blood, surgeons considered his
condition to be serious. Their search
to And the bullet wa^ continuing
seven hours after Mr. Middleton was
admitted to the hospital. It was
established, however, that it had
caused at least seven internal
wounds, a hospital spokesman said.
I
Mr. Middleton has been employee
by the Department of Agriculture
i continuously since 1909. Since 1931
he has had headquarters at Bloom
field and East Orange, N. J„ and is
! currently assistant division leader
for a Japanese beetle control project
A. S Hoyt, acting chief of ths
Bureau of Entomology and Quaran
I tine, said Mr. Middleton was en route
to Florida for a vacation and that he
had joined his wife at her place ol
residence in Arlington yesterday
Mrs. Middleton is employed at the
General Accounting Office in Wash
iington.
A native of Washington, Mr. Mid
dleton received both B. A. and M. A
degrees at George Washington Uni
versity, the former degree In 192£
| being awarded “with distinction.”
Mr. Hoyt described Mr. Middletor
as a highly valued employe of tht
Agriculture Department and as, ar
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Arlington Grand Jury:
Urges Seven Plans to
Aid Police Efficiency
Trial Board Is Asked; j
Force Is Absolved of
Gambling Collusion
i
Seven recommendations to <
boost the efficiency and morale 1
of the Arlington police depart
ment are contained in one of
two reports drafted by a county i
grand jury, it was learned today. 1
Chief among the proposals are es
tablishment of a police trial board
and appointment of a county di- 1
rector of public safety, with juris- 1
diction over fire and police depart- :
ments and related activities.
These disclosures were made by
Daniel A. Dugan, a member of the
Arlington County Board, who on
October 18 requested Circuit Judge
Walter T. McCarthy to have the
grand jury investigate alleged collu
sion between the Arlington police
and professional gamblers.
Force Is Absolved.
Such instructions were issued to
the grand jury when the October
term of Circuit Court was convened
last week, but after seven days of
study the jurors absolved the police
of suspicion in a report submitted'
yesterday. Mr. Dugan was one of
37 witnesses who appeared before
the jury.
The grand jury told Judge Mc
Carthy that it found “insufficient
evidence” to indicate any collusion
existed. The Police Department re
organization was proposed in a sep
arate report which Judge McCarthy
declined to accept for the court be
cause its findings went beyond the
scope of the jury’s authority.
The latter report, however, has
been turned over to County Man
ager A. T. Lundberg. who had not
made its contents public.
In addition to the safety director
and the trial board, the jurors rec
ommended that all police be care
(Km CUMnrTHh Pono A )
U.S. Aide Badly Beaten
By Purse Snatcher
| A 27-year-old State Department
i secretary was robbed and severely
| beaten last night while she was
walking in the 1800 block of P street
N.W., police reported today.
Miss Violet Brown, who works in
the Office of Intelligence and Re
search, tdfd police that she had
been working late at the State De
partment last night.
She left her office shortly after
1 a.m., Miss Brown said, and had
almost reached her apartment house
! at 1900 P street when a colored man
j approached her from behind.
She said the man grabbed her
purse containing about $100 and
then struck her on the head with a
length of pipe. Miss Brown said
she threw up her arm to protect
her head and the man hit her a
second time on the arm, knocking
her to the sidewalk.
Police said Miss Brown was saved
from further blows by the interven
tion of a Capital Transit motorman.
George W. Apperson, 735 New Jersey
avenue N.W., who saw the assault
and chased the man away.
Miss Brown was taken to Emer
; gency Hospital and treated for a
fractured left arm and head cuts.
Capital Transit
Employes Get
15-Cenf. Raise
Company to Discuss
Fare Increase Today
As Arbitrators Act
Forty-five hundred Capital *
Transit Co. employes were
granted a 15-cent-an-hour wage
increase plus an additional 5
cents in fringe benefits in an
arbitration board award an
nounced today. The decision
will yield the employes $500,000
in pay retroactive to July 1.
Tabulating the total cost at $2,
310,000 a year, company officials
said the increases leave no choice
but to effect economies and to in
crease revenues.
In addition to an estimated $1,
639,500 per year necessary to meet
the 15-cent wage increases, the com
pany figured it must expand a total
| of $670,000 for fringe payments such
| as vacations, sick leave and other
allowances. The fringe payments
will amount to about 5 cents addi
tional for each employe, the com
pany said.
Transit officials called meetings
this afternoon and Monday to de
termine what should be done about
asking for fare increases.
During the wage and hour hear
ings, J. E. Heberle, company vice
president, said Capital Transit would
be forced to ask 15-cents, or two
for-25-cent fares if the union
realized its full demands for a
35 per cent increase, costing $8,
000,000.
2-to-l Decision of Board.
Later he pointed to estimated
: deficits during the next year and
i said a fare increase would be needed
whether the Arbitration Board
ordered any wage increases at all.
The increases awarded late last
night in a 2-to-l decision amounted
to 12*4 per cent, the company said.
The award was signed by Dr. George
W. Taylor, public member and chair
man of the panel,» and O. David
Zimring, head of the Midwest Labor
Bureau, and the labor member.
Edmund L. Jones, Capital Transit
general counsel and company mem
ber, dissented and reserved the right
to set forth later the specific items
to which he objected.
intuiuc nciu tusuuiueiu.
E. D. Merrill, company president,
| said in a statement that “Capital
Transit does not have the in
come to meet the obligations im
posed on it by the award."
He said the amount of the award
is nine times the $246,000 net in
come of the company for the first
nine months of 1947.
“It completely wipes out the net
income and puts the company
deeper into the red than it was in
May, 1947, when the increase in
fare was granted by the Public
Utilities Commission after public
hearings,” Mr. Merrill explained,
j Most of the 40 union demands
jwere granted in.whole or in part,
the company said, adding that al
j most all of its own 40 requests
i were denied.
Retroactive Clause Hit.
j Company officials regard as an
especially hard blow the clause
making the wage increases retro
! active to July 1.
The back pay will necessitate a
| lump-sum payment of approximately
; $500,000, the company figures, which
will more than wipe out the benefits
| accruing from the higher fares ef
i fective since May 11.
It probably will be eight weeks
before the company can compute
(See TRANSIT, Page A-5.)
War Dead From Bermuda
Arrive in Brooklyn
By the Associated Press
NEW YORfC, Oct. 31.—The trans
port Stevens Victory made her Way
slowly through fog and rain to the
Army base in Brooklyn today with
1?7 American war dead from Fort
Bell Cemetery, St. David, Bermuda.
Military police stood at attention
as the ship pulled into the pier
where the transport Joseph V. Con
nolly is docked. The Connolly earlier
this week brought 6,251 war dead
from Europe and Newfoundland.
| The dead brought home by the
i Stevens Victory were men killed in
| air crashes, ship sinkings and accf
| dents in the area around Bermuda.
Most of them vere Navy casualties,
including a large group drowned
| when a Navy ship capsized near
Bermuda.
Sunday Reading . . .
During the war the Govern
ment looked askance at the
housewife who “loaded up” on
grocery staples she thought
| might become scarce. Now,
Staff Writer John A. Giles re
ports in the Sunday Editorial
Section, the Government itself
| is busy buying fcnd storing j
j away huge quantities of criti
cal and strategic materials,
j The whys and wherefores of
[ this stockpiling make inter
{ esting reading,
i For years the United States
j has struggled to get the rest of
j the world to do more trading;
I to cut the maze of restrictions
| impeding the flow of goods
| from one country to another.
Fifty or sixty nations get to
gether at Havana in a few
weeks to consider free enter
prise In foreign trade. Staff
Writer Garnet D. Horner, in
another Editorial Section ar
ticle,' takes a look at the pros
pects.
Many other stories on for
eign and domestic develop
ments, plus special pages and
columns on new books, society,
art, sports, amusements, music,
etc., supplement the usual
thorough and accurate news
content of
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