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Special Courts to Try Trainees Proposed : By Military Chiefs By Robert K. Walsh A system of National Security Training Courts to replace court * martial procedure in trying youths ** serving in a universal military train ing program was proposed today by military chiefs before the Senate Armed Services Committee. The "code of conduct.” recom mended by the national military establishment in a tentative bill for UMT and selective service, fixes pen alties ranging from $500 to $2,000 in fines and imprisonment from six months to two years for trainees found guilty of violating the pro posed UMT code. In general, the provisions leave sentences to the discretion of the training courts, subject to action by reviewing authority. The bill states that no trainee subject to the code could be tried Or punished by a training court for any offense com mitted more than a year before arraignment. The code would not exempt trainees from prosecution in Federal and State courts for offenses against Federal and State law's. Two Forms of Punishment. The code sets up two forms of punishment: First, disciplinary pun ishment administered by the com manding officer unless the trainee demands a trial, and second, trial before a National Security Train ing Court. Such a court would consist of "five officers of the service to which the trainee is assigned for training.” A quorum of the court would require three members, one of whom would be a major or lieutenant commander or above. "The senior member of the court shall be the president,” the bill pro vides. "One member of the court, if practicable, shall be a lawyer and shall act as a law member of the court. * * * The court shall not in clude the accuser or the immediate commanding officer of the accused, or the investigating officer or a wit ness for the prosecution or defense.” The code lists the following penal ties that a court could impose: Admonition, reprimand, withholding of privileges for not to exceed three months, extra duty not exceeding three months, restriction to certain limits with or without extra duty, confinement with or without useful work not to exceed three months and forfeiture or withholding of one-half of the cash allowance per! month, not to exceed the period of | confinement. f Penalties for Offenses. The other sections the bill pro- j vides the following penalties for specific offenses: Desertion or attempted desertion, maximum fine of $2,000 or two years’ imprisonment or both; a similar penalty for advising or aiding deser tion; escape from confinement, maximum $1,000 fine or six months’ imprisonment or both. Striking or assaulting officers or other persons in authority, maxi mum fine of $2,000 or Imprisonment for one year or both; collective In subordination, a maximum fine' of $2,000 or one year imprisonment or both. Collective insubordination is de fined as “any concerted action in the nature of a strike, includtMf a sitdown or a slowdown strict' or walkout, picketing of boycott which tends to hinder or impede training." Failure to suppress collective in subordination, a maximum fine of $500 or six months imprisonment or both; willful destruction of prop erty, maximum fine of $500 or im prisonment for six months or both; a similar penalty for waste or un lawful disposal of property. Two-Thirds Vote on Verdicts. Among offenses over which the court would be given discretion to impose penalties are: Absence with out leave, disrespect and insubordi nation, release of a prisoner, drunken or disorderly conduct, drunkenness or sleeping on sentinel duty, carry- I ing concealed weapons without I proper authority, unauthorized dis-! charge of firearms, possession of in- ! toxicating liquor, indecent exposure j and embezzlement or stealing of money or property valued at less than $20. The bill provides that charges must be filed within 48 hours after the arrest of a trainee and that verdicts and sentences would require a two-thirds vote of the court. Re fusal of a witness to appear and testify would subject him to a pos sible $500 maximum fine or im prisonment up to six months. There is provision for dishonorable discharge but, in general, such a penalty would be imposed only on proof of two previous convictions for violation of the code, or if the court is satisfied that the trainee is incorrigible. A dishonorable dis charge, however, would not prevent the trainee from being reinducted on recommendation of the Secretary of the Army, Navy or Air Force. Defense (Continued Prom First Page.) 19 bills aimed at the dual goal of making the United States stronger In the air, both for military and peace-time purposes. Calls for 5-Year Program. One of the chief recommendations of this board calls for a succession of five-year programs of aircraft design and procurement, to replace the uresent system of year-to-year contracts and purchases. The board believes that by improving peace time aviation facilities, the country would be in a better position to expand military plane production in time of emergency. For the improvement of civilian aviation, the 19 bills of the Congres sional Policy Board, headed by Senator Brewster, Republican, of Maine, would: 1. Establish an air co-ordinating committee representing Govern ITS JI/ST 0000 TASTE...THAT* WILKINS/ knV it tern* ra ti/y m Wff --2-Z Wife Worrying, Reynolds Gives His Jinxed Plane to Bill Odom •y th« Associated Prtu HONOLULU, April 7. — Milton Reynolds today gave his jinxed ex ploration plane to his pilot, Bill ' Odom, with no strings attached, land added: “I'm like a small boy with air rifles. I get into mischief.” The Chicago millionaire thus ■summed up his recent escapade in I China. He fled Shanghai without | a passport after a fouled-up project" to seek the world’s highest moun tain. Behind he left irate Chinese and American scientists who were to have participated in the aerial expedition. "I’ve got a lot of ideas of things to do with planes," remarked Mr. Reynolds as he rode back to the city from the Honolulu airport. “But ments and agencies dealing with aviation. 2. Establish an Office of Civil Aviation in the Commerce Depart ment. 3. Create an independent director' of air safety. 4. Establish a domestic air parcel! post system and permit movement of first-class mail by air when the Postmaster General “finds it ex peditious.” 5. Regulate contract and charter air operations (only regularly sched uled air operations are now so con trolled). 6. Make the Maritime Commission responsible for "development of lighter-than-air rigid airships.” 7. Revise immigration laws to aid air travel. Berlin <Continued From First Page.) | tween Berlin and the western tones of Germany. 3. The Soviet-licensed Berliner Zeltung said if the Soviet military government accepts negotiations on traffic controls, "it is only to be welcomed in the interest of de creased tension" but that Soviet firmness on the fundamental ques tion remains unchanged. The newspaper described as "a bluff without success" the British and American threats Monday to use fighter escorts for transports over Berlin. The order was with drawn after the Russians assured the British and Americans there would be no interference with their planes in the future. A Russian investigation commis sion charged that the Berlin plane crash, in which the Soviet pilot and all 14 aboard the British plane were killed, occurred when the liner darted suddenly out of a cloud and hit the tail of the Russian Yak fighter. In London a British Foreign Office spokesman said "the facts as alleged by the Soviet government are com pletely at variance with such evi dence that we have amassed at the moment.” (The official Soviet news agen cy Tass, in dispatches to the Moscow press, implied the crash was over a Soviet airport.) CrUis Eased but Little. On,the surface.it appeared last night's dinner meeting between Field1 Marshal Viscount* Montgomery, chief of the British Imperial general staff, and top Soviet officials in Berlin accomplished little to ease the east west crisis. Lord Montgomery, on his return to London today*. skid only that his talk'with -Soviet Mar shal Vassily D. Sokolovsky was friendly. „ The Russians have not yet set a meeting date to talk over with the western powers their Berlin traffic restrictions. Military passenger trains of the western Allies between their zones and Berlin still are sus pended. Freight trains are moving across the Soviet zone with supplies for the western sectors of Berlin. Some 80.000 parcel post packages mailed in Berlin have backed up at the post office because the Russians reduced the number of railway mail cars provided for parcel post. Moscow radio's version of the Berlin plane crash tallied with the Russian investigation commission report. British Statement. The official British statement said: “Moscow radio has put out the story that the Britisn Viking air craft came out of a low cloud and collided with the Soviet fighter about to land. The official British view is that the true facts about the collision cannot be established until the enquiry has been com pleted. This much is know, however: “Visibility at the time of the collision was some five miles. When two miles from Gatow airfield the Viking was sighted from the air traffic control tower at Gatow air field. Also the Viking had flown from Hamburg down the corridor towards Berlin at a height of 1,500 feet with the clouds another 1,500 feet above it. The facts in them selves show that the Soviet story is palpably untrue." A representative of British Euro pean Airways, operators of the transport, denied the crash oc curred over a Soviet airport. One British official said it was al most impossible for the crash to have occurred over a Russian air port, although two Russian fields are very close to Britain s Gatow airfield. The British plane fell in the Russian zone; the Russian plane in the British zone of Berlin. Regulations Quoted The Russian commission asserted that under Control Council regula tions no allied plane is permitted to approach closer than 2 miles to the airport of another nation or the worry is pretty tough on my wife.” One of his ideals was a flight around the world—on which Mr. Odom piloted Mr. Reynolds last year for a record. Mr. Reynolds gave his pilot the converted Liberator bomber—which he said cost $125,000—a few minutes before the pilot took off for Chi cago via San Francisco. “The plane is yours. Bill,’’ the pen manufacturer said. “Any bills you run up after you reach Chicago are also yours." Mr. Reynolds said the expedition set him back $250,000. He said Mr. Odom plans to go into business with the plane—and the first enterprise probably will be flying, a group of Eastern business men to Africa to hunt lions. lower than 2,800 feet, without prior notification. The Russians also contended they were not informed of the flight. The Soviet report said the pilot of the Russian plane was circling over his airport at a height of about 1,409 feet and was about to land. “In this moment a British plane shot out of the clouds, over the Soviet airfield in a downward di rection,” the Russian report said. "The British plane hit the tail of the Soviet plane with its motors and destroyed the tall. The British plane burst into flames as a result of the collision, began to fall apart, plunged down out of control and burned out.” British sources quoted eyewit nesses at the time as saying the Russian plane was “frolicking” when the fatal crash occurred. Briton Calls on Germans To Aid Western Powers DUESSELDORF, Germany, April 7 (IP).—Gen. Sir Brian Robertson, British military governor, called on the German people today to side with the western democracies in the -war of nerves with the east. In a speech to the German Land tag (Parliament) of North Rhine Westphalia, he said: "Come forward determined to make the best of that large part of your country which is on the right side of the Iron Curtain.” He referred to the western occu pation zones, composed principally of British-American Bizonia. North Rhine-Westphalia is a British occu pation zone state and includes the industrially rich Ruhr region. Without mentioning Russia or communism by name, Gen. Robert son told the Germans it is less im portant to be a good party man than it is to be a good German. Truman Asks 65 Million Loan for U. N. Buildings President Truman today asked Congress to approve a $65,000,000 loan, without interest, to the United Nations to build permanent head quarters in New York City. A White House statement said the loan would be repaid over a period of 32 years in annual install ments from the regular budget of t^e .U. N, to which all its members contribute. Vj 1 \ l In asking congressional approval, the President said, “The construc tion of the permanent headquarters of the United Nations will be tangi;, ble evidence to t^ie world that the; United States is'supporting to trig full the institution to which thfe' peoples of all nations are looking as their best hope for freedom from the fear of war.” Congress in December, 1945, adopted the resolution Inviting the United Nations to establish its site in the United States. Subsequently, the U. N. General Assembly decided on New York as the site and accepted the offer of John D. Rockefeller, jr., and New York City of a free gift of land covering approximately six city blocks on the East River. Congress exempted the Rockefeller gift from Federal taxation and New York committed itself to the spending of about $20,000,000 for alterations in the surrounding streets and ap proaches. Freight Wreck a) Paoli Blocks Pennsy Main Line ■y th* As‘ociot*d Pr«« PAOLI, Pa., April 7.—Five freight cars were derailed today at Paoli station, blocking all four main-line tracks of the Pennsylvania Rail road. No one was injured. Six of the road's crack eastbound trains were rerouted on a high speed freight line to Trenton, N. J. Three Boys, Elected Junior City Heads, to Meet Commissioners ! Three “District Junior Commis sioners” will meet the senior ■Com missioners—John Russell Young and associates at 10 a.m, tomorrow in Commissioner Guy Masons' office. They will then be greeted by Fire Chief Clement Murphy and Supt. of Police Robert J. Barrett and will be taken on a tour of the two depart ments. With a platform of home rule, more Boys' clubs and a stoplight at Seventeenth street and Massachu setts avenue S.E., the three junior high school students yesterday were elected “District Junior Commis sioners” in the third annual mock election of the Boys’ Club of Wash ington. Balloting took place in the Eastern Branch Club, located at the irttersection where the stoplight is advocated. They are Robert Colbert, 14, of 3425 East Capitol street; Edward Blank, 14, of 436 Sixteenth street S.E., and Eddie Smallwood, 15, of 336 Fourteenth street N.W. Young Smallwood, who was re cently nominated Middle Atlantic Junior Citizenship winner, tomorrow will be given a wrist watch at a luncheon of the Junior Board of Commerce in the Burlington Hotel. Also in line with the observance of Boys’ Club Week, Kenneth New man, 17, of 1133 Twenty-fourth street N.W., a member of the Georgetown Branch, presented a gavel in behalf of the two local clubs to ty. Prank Gatewood, pres ident of the Advertising Club of Washington. The gavel was pre sented at a meeting of the club in the Annapolis Hotel. A pie eating contest with vise of the hands barred, preceded the junior commissioner elections yes terday. Winners in the midget, Junior and senior classes, respective ly, were: Martin Vermillion, 10, of 529 Eames place N.E.; Bradley Wim berley, 12, of 1030 D street N.E., and Raymond Schmidt, 17, of 254 Fif teenth street S.E. Top AFL Leader to Aid Exchange Strikers l)Mh« Associated Press NEW YORK, April 7.—A top AFL leader has been called in to direct the strike strategy of members of the United Financial Employes Union who left their jobs at the New York Stock and Curb Ex changes 10 days ago. A union spokesman said yesterday that Frank Fenton, AFL interna tional representative, would arrive in New York today "to actively direct the strike from here on in at the invitation of the union and by direc tion of AFL President William Green." Mr. Fenton aided the organizing drive of the financial workers when he was the AFL’s director of organization. There was no further spread of the strike yesterday. Both ex changes reported operations normal. However/a stock exchange spokes man reported a slow back-to-work movement by the strikers. There was no comment from the union. Despite the rain, picket^ continued their patrol before the exchanges* and the four brokerage firms to which the strike has spread. Meanwhile, the trial of 11 pickets .on disordeclji-conduct charges .high lighted oth|r styikf dp^blopljjfnts. •The pickets Were Identified byvpolice in court yesterday as membexA.of a group which took part In a lia-down demonstration in front of the stock exchange. A police lieutenant testified he had seen policemen with upraised clubs, but had seen none strike the demon strators. The defendants were identified as members of the AFL Seamen s Union who joined the financial workers on the picket lines. Mrs. Fleischman Guilty Of Contempt of Congress A District Court jury last night found Mrs. Ernestina G. Fleisch man, member of the Joint Anti Fascist Refugee Committee, guilty of contempt of Congress for failing to produce records in 1946 before the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Mrs. Fleischman was indicted with 16 other members of the anti-Fascist committee who were tried and con victed. She was out of this coun try, however, when the others were tried. Assistant United States Attorney Charles B. Murray prosecuted the case, and Justice Richmond B. Keech presided at the trial. Cardinal Gibboi Stolen From Arc By tho Associated Press BALTIMORE, April 7.—A quan tity of silverware, once the propterty of the late James Cardinal Gibbons, was stolen during the night from the home of Archbishop Francis P. Keough of the Baltimore diocese. Police said the hoihe of the Arch bishop, adjacent to the Cathedral, was thoroughly ransacked. He was not at home at the time. Msgr. Joseph M. Nelligan, chan cellor of the diocese, said the missing silver bore the late Cardi nal’s initials and his coat of arms. The silverware was presented by the Mayor and Council of Baltimore to Cardinal Gibbons in 1911 on the 25th anniversary of his installation as a cardinal. Coal I (Continued From First Page.) as a "forlorn gesture” toward set tling the strike. Hard Coal Walkout Spreads. Besides contending that Justice McGuire’s order abridges the con stitutional rights of the miners, the UMW petition stated that the order violated the Taft-Hartley Act and terms of the soft coal industry con tract. The contract contains a clause which states the miners will work when “able and willing.” A part of the Taft-Hartley Act states that nothing in the statute will be construed as compelling an individual to work against his will. Meanwhile, the sympathy walkout of anthracite miners spread in Eastern Pennsylvania today, bring ing the number of idle to at least 24,500—more than one-fourth of the hard coal miners. A Federal official revealed that the Government is considering ad vising the court that two of the major operators have failed to obey the bargaining part of the McGuire order. However, no definite de cision had been made on that point. The two are Benjamin F. Fairless, ’president of the United States Steel Corp., a large owner of soft coal mines, and George M. Humphrey, chairman of the Pittsburgh Consoli dation Coal Co., world’s largest com mercial producer of coal. Helped Negotiate Contract. The two were largely responsible for negotiating with Mr. Lewis the 1947 industry contraet which, pro vides for the UMW welfare and re tirement fund, use of which caused the present strike. Mr. Lewis said they “more than any one else are qualified to interpret the 1947 agree ment by reason of their personal participation.” The contract called for payment into the fund by the operators of 10 cents a ton on all coal produced. The fund now exceeds $32,000,000 (and has not been touched because of the dispute over its use. Pen sions and other benefits to the miners for disability, death, etc., were to be paid out of the fund. Mr. Fairless and Mr. Humphrey made it clear that neither in tended to attend the bargaining session requested by Mr., Lewis. They contend,that they,did not sign the 1947 agreement end are not regular negotiators for the coal industry. The regular industry representatives were ready to at *,y _WITH SAFETY for regular attractife earnings PLUS insured safety, open a savings account HERE NtigftWESTjiRN MVlittS&LOAfrASSN. 1337 G St. N.W. RE. 5262 Branch—Takoma Park ns'Silverware < hbishop's Home Msgr. Nelligan listed the missing articles as a water pitcher, an old fashioned water boiler, a soup tureen with cover, a dozen ice cream spoons and a dozen soup spoons. He said the value was,undetermined. . The burglary was discovered about 7 ajn. The Rev. George L. Hopkins, returning from celebrating mass, noticed a screen missing from a basement window. He notified Msgr. Nelligan, who discovered that desks had been opened and searched. Police found a board under a window which is 10 feet from the ground, and concluded the burglars climbed thfe board and entered the window. Archbishop Keough was in Wash ington last night to attend a series of meetings. tend, but this was not expected to satisfy Mr. Lewis. 'The question was whether Jus tice McGuire would be satisfied if the two big men are absent. It was known that the Justice Depart ment, in drawing up the restrain ing order, aimed the bargaining part jSt Mr. Fairless and Mr. Hum phrey as well as the other opera tors. That part of the order reads: “Those individual or interests, or their successors thereto, who have bargained in behalf of the said parties (operators and miners) in effecting past agreements and in settling past disputes.” Mr. Lewis and the operators ex changed carefully worded letters yesterday and last night. The mine owner representatives, bowing to the court order, asked Mr. Lewis to meet with them yesterday after noon. Previously they had offered to bargain if Mr. Lewis would send the miners back to work. Mr. Lewis flatly rejected yester day’s invitation, however, because Mr. Fairless and Mr. Humphrey were not to be there. But he countered with a suggestion that the operators "adjust your bargain ing representation” and attend the meeting this afternoon. Van Horn Asks Court Clarification. The operators retorted that Mr. Lewis was being “plainly evasive” of the court mandate. They told the UMW chief "it is not within your province or authority to choose the persons who represent the coal operators in collective bargaining.” They agreed to send the eight men who have been doing the talk ing in recent weeks, and waited to see what would happen. Mr. Lewis two weeks ago described the eight as “kept” agents of the real in dustrial leaders. He named six top persons in the coal world who he said could settle the pension dispute swiftly. They included Mr. Fairless and Mr. Humphrey. Ezra Van Horn, the operators’ trustee for the welfare fund, tried an&htf ; approach toward aettle-1 Riant df the pension deadlock. He asked district Court yesterday to rule that only employes of coal com panies which signed the 1947 agree ment co#d receive pensions. He previously had asked the court to appoint a neutral trustee. The number of workers Idle, due: directly or indirectly to the walkout, passed a half million today. About 60,000 transportation work ers, mainly railroaders, were jobless because there was no coal to move. Most of the other idle were steel j makers, scattered over a dozn States. Bands of roving pickets, riding automobiles, halted operations at non-union strip mines in three States. A half dozen such workings were shut down in Central West Virginia. Several strip operators sai4 they would resume work today, using armed guards if necessary. One truck driver said a picket told him there would be a “big day" If operators tried to mine coal. Other pickets closed two strip mines in Perry County, Ohio, and halted operations at a coal-loading ramp at Cumberland, Ky„ where a truck driver was beaten. Several truckloads of coal were dumped by pickets in West Virginia and Ohio. United States Steel Corp. and subsidiaries announced cutbacks in the Pittsburgh district, slashing steel operations In that area to i about 80 per cent of normal. Owner Held in Shooting Of 4 Alabama Miners TUSCALOOSA, Ala., April 7 VP). —Four miners were wounded by a shotgun blast yesterday at a non union mine, Chief Deputy Sheriff Leon Chism said. Mr. Chism quoted Joe W. Avery, 46, owner of the Avery mine, as say- i ing he fired a shotgun when a crowd! he estimated at 250 persons came! to his mine. The officer said Mr.! Avery told him the crowd was re- j ported planning to attempt to or ganize the mine on a union basis. At Birmingham William Mitch, United Mine Workers’ district pres ident, said he did not know any details of the shooting. He refused comment. Mr. Chism said a warrant charg ing assault with intent to murder was sworn out against Mr. Avery. The mine owner told seporters he made bond of $500 on the charge. D. C. Legion Presents Flag To Truman in Campaign The District Department of the American Legion has launched its "Fly Your Flag” campaign with presentation of an American flag to President Truman. During the drive until July 4, each of the Legion’s 59 posts in Washington will urge businessmen and private individuals to display flags on all patriotic occasions. Death Sentences of Mother And Two Sons Commuted By th* Associated Press AMERICUS. Ga., April 7.—Death sentences imposed on a 40-year old colored woman and her two teen-age sons for the slaying of a white sharecropper have been com muted to life imprisonment. Judge William M. 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