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Wallace Campaigners
Meet in Chicago to Get
Report on Third Party
ly the Associated Press
CHICAGO, April 10.—Members of
a Wallace-for-President Committee
from across the Nation met today to
hear reports on the campaign being
made by Henry Wallace, third-party
presidential candidate.
Mr. Wallace and Senator Taylor,
Democrat, of Idaho, the third party’s
vice presidential candidate, are at
tending the conference to meet with
about 400 party leaders. The former
Vice President and Senator Taylor
will be the principal speakers to
night at a rally in Chicago Stadium.
Their addresses will be broadcast by
CBS at 10:30 p.m. (CST).
The Wallace leaders from 45 States
are to arrange a convention to nomi
nate Mr. Wallace and Senator Tay
lor and select a name for the third
party. The time and place for the
convention will be decided at a meet
ing tomorrow. Chicago and Phila
delphia were mentioned as possible
sites.
Formal organization of Wallace
parties for Illinois and Missouri is
scheduled during the conference
which ends Monday. Similar par
ties have been organized in 15 States.
Mr. Wallace already is on the ballot
in New York, California, New Jersey
and Pennsylvania.
Party Leader in Iowa Says
Wallace Will Speak There
DES MOINES, April 10 (£>>.—Fred
Stover, chairman of the Wallace
for-President Committee in Iowa,
said yesterday Henry Wallace will
carry out his plans for campaign
speeches in this, his former home
State.
Mr. Stover had said earlier in the
week that difficulty in arranging
auditoriums might cause the third
party presidential candidate to
cancel plans for a tour late this
month.
Mr. Stover said he had no informa
tion as to where or when the
speeches would be made.
However, a telegram received by
the Daily Iowan at Iowa City from
Mr. Wallace's Chicago headquarters
said:
"Due to the overwhelming demand
for Wallace's presence in such Iowa
centers as Iowa City, Cedar Rapids,
Cedar Palls and other cities Mr.
Wallace will appear as scheduled
despite any attempts to prevent the
freedom of assembly and free speech
which may be made by groups op
posed to Mr. Wallace’s trip in Iowa."
Wallace Supporter Refuses
To Resign Teaching Post
ly the Associated Press
EVANSVILLE, Ind., April 10.—Dr.
George Parker, a Wallace supporter,
yesterday refused to resign his
teaching job at Evansville College.
Lincoln B. Hale, college president,
promptly announced that Dr. Parker
will be forbidden to teach his classes
in religion and philosophy, and"'*
student mass meeting-voted down *
sympathy strike proposal.
Dr. Parker is chairman of the
Vandenbergh County' Citizens for
Wallace Committee and presided
Tuesday night at a rally at which
Henry A. Wallace spoke.
The Executive Committee of the
college’s Board of Trustees asked
for Dr. Parker's resignation. The
group did not mention his connec
tion with the Wallace Committee,
but cited him for "political activities
both on and off the campus."
Dr. Wilhelm Kuelz Dies;
German Political Leader
By the Associated Press
BERLIN, April 10.—Dr. Wilhelm
Kuelz, 73, chairman of the rightist
Liberal Democratic Party in the
Russian occupation zone, died of a
heart attack at his home here last
night.
He was a member of the old Ger
man Reichstag and in 1926 and 1927
served as minister of the Interior
under the Weimar Republic.
Mr. Kuelz, once lord mayor of
Dresden, was expelled for refusing!
to raise the Nazi flag in the city I
hall. . |
In the last year he lost control
of most of his party in Berlin when
it denounced him as a “stooge of
the Russians and Communists” and
broke away to form an independ
ent anti-Communist party.
Weather Report
District of Columbia—Sunny with
highest temperature in middle 50s.
Northwest winds about 15 miles this
afternoon. Clear tonight, with low
est about 40 in city and 34 in
suburbs. Tomorrow fair and
warmer.
Maryland and Virginia—Fair, not
quite so cool west portion. Little
change in temperature east portion
tonight. Tomorrow fair and
warmer.
Wind velocity, 10 miles per hour;
direction, northwest.
_ River Report.
(From United States Engineers.)
Polo mac River cloudy at Harpers Ferry
and slightly muddy at Great Falls;
Bnenandoah cloudy at Harperi Perry.
. . Humidity.
Yesterday— Pet. Today— Pet
Noon - 4n Midnight . _ _ 52
4 p m. - 36 8 a m __54
8 Pm. -44 1 p.m. _58
High and Lew Fer Yesterday.
High 85. *t 1 :30 a m.
Low. 41. at 31:69 p.m.
Record Temperatures This Tear.
Highest, 88. on March 21.
Lowest. 5. on January 28.
Tide Tablet.
(Furnlihed by United States Coast and'
Geodetic Survey.)
_ . Today. Tomorrow.!
High- 8:33 a.m. 9:opa.m.
.. 3:01a.m. 3:33 a.m. I
High - 8:56 pm. 9:33 p.m.'
low - 3:38 p.m. 4:15 p.m
The Sun and Moon.
_ . . Rises. Sets.
fun. today._ S:39 6:40
Sun. tomorrow_ 6:37 6:41
Moon, today 6:16 a m 8:03 p.m.
Automobile lights must be turned on1
one-half hour after sunset.
Precipitation.
Monthly precipitation in Inches in the’
.Capital (current month to date):
Month. 1948. ‘ . Record
January - 4.57 7.83 ’37
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July _
August _
September _
October _
November _
December __
Temperature* In V*r _
Albuouerque 73 50 Miami
Atlanta . 71 48 Milwaukee
Atlantic City 55 32 New Orleans
Bismarck.. 65 32 New York
Boston _ 54 30 Norfolk
Buffalo ... 39 23 Oklahoma C.
Chicago .. 49 39 Omaha .
Cincinnati. 58 35 Phoenix
Detroit -41 28 Pittsburgh
pl Paso- 84 58 P'rtl'nd. Me.
Galveston . 79 70 St Louis
Harrisburg 56 34 S. Lake C.
Indianapolis 51 35 San Antonio 90
Kansas C 69 53 S. Francisco 68
I os Angeles 74 55 Seattle_ 51
Louisville.. 69 40 Tampa . _ _ 90
Derree Day*.
"Degree daye," yesterday _ 12
Accumulate^ degree day*”_4.160
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CAMBRIDGE, MASS.—TRAPPED IN ELEVATOR SHAFT—Miss Ethel Copetas, 22, is shown being
comforted by a fireman yesterday as other firemen worked to free her left leg, pinned between
elevator and shaft in a factory where she worked. Miss Copetas was trapped for an hour.
, —AP Wirephoto.
Spectacular Action
By Russia Expected
Before Italian Election
By the Associated Press
j Some spectacular Russian act to
| influence Italy’s elections is expect
i ed by American officials after the
brusque western suggestion that
Russia make up her mind about
Trieste.
The United States, Britain and
Fi ance yesterday asked the U. S. S. R.
to take a stand—without further
delay—on their proposal to turn
the disputed city back to Italy.
Moscow has kept silent since the
plan was advanced unexpectedly
March 20 and quickly accepted by
Italian Premier de Gasperi’s anti
communist government.
With only eight days left before
the crucial election, the western
powers asked the Soviets to meet
in Paris early next month to work
out the Trieste transfer details. It
would mean revision of the Italian
peace treaty which went into effect
last September.
Spectacular Action Likely.
Moscow might hope to win Italian
votes for communism by accepting;
But some Soviet action more posi
tive and spectacular than falling in
step with the western powers is
considered far more likely by au
thorities here.
One such action could be « Rus
sian offer to give up the $300,000,000
in Italian reparations granted in
tire peace treaty. The other pow
ers renounced their reparations
claims when the pact was drafted.
Moscow has given no advance
hint if such stroke has been de
cided on. But in seeking to open
negotiations for a trade agreement
with Italy last week Russia insist
ed the reparations question be
taken up.
State Department officials said
the Italian peace treaty could be
revised by agreement of the Big
Four Allies—Including Russia—and
Italy.
Yugoslavia, q Soviet satellite, is
bitterly opposed to giving up the
share of the Trieste territory her
troops occupy, but presumably
would follow a Moscow order to fall
in line.
Lfvett Sends Note to Soviet.
WiRiout waiting for Russia's re
ply, Britain and the United States
are going ahead with plans to turn
back some administrative powers in
their joint occupation zone to the
local Italian population on Mon
day.
The State Department said the
action was in line with American
policies in the occupation zones of
Germany and elsewhere.
The American request for “an
early expression of the views of the
Soviet government” on the Trieste
proposal and the suggestion for the
Paris meeting were made in a note
which Undersecretary of State
Lovett sent to Soviet Ambassador
Alexander S. Panyushkin here late
yesterday. At the same time Mr.
Lovett sent a note to Italian Am
bassador Alberta Tarchiani propos
ing the Paris meeting and asking
for the Italian government's reac
tion to that idea.
The British and French sent
parallel notes.
For South Korea Vote
•y *h» Ai»ociot«j frill
SEOUL, April 10.—Nearly 8.000,000
South Koreans registered today for
an election May 10 as the first step
toward Korean independence.
The United Nations Commission
for Korea will observe the balloting,
it was hoped originally to conduct
nation-wide elections for a national
assembly, but the Russans blocked
the commission in the northern
occupation zone.
An election in South Korea—the
American occupation zone—was de
cided as the next best step toward
establishment of a government
which may eventually represent all
of Korea. Koreans haven’t been
independent for decades. Before and
during the war, they were under
the Japanese heel.
Today’s registration included all
but about 1,000,000 of the adults in
South Korea—most heavily pop
ulated section of this Asiatic nation
They will vote on candidates for
200 seats in the National Assembly,
which will form a government.
The Russian-sponsored Peoples'
Committee has called a session at
Pyongyang for next Wednesday,
clearly an effort to sabotage U. N.
plans in Korea, to discuss establish
ment of a "people's republic"—com
plete with hammer and sickle flag
and an army. Some political leaders
from South Korea are accepting an
invitation to attend.
WhattheRussians
Are Saying of Us
The Moscow radio, broadcasting
in German to Austria, said:
"Adroit holes-and-corner law
yers are practicing in Salzburg.
They are exploiting their connec
tions with the Americans and are
specializing in having cases re
ferred to United States courts
and having trials quashed by
means of large bribes to Amer
icans. An unofficial tariff is even
in existence for bribes for the
purpose of quashing trials.”
Communists
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would be a $10,000 fine and 10 years
iin jail.
The subcommittee report accused
the Justice Department of laxity
in using existing legal weapons
against communism, and com
mented:
“This apathy to, and coddling of,
the Communists in the United
States by the Department of Jus
tice is in great measure responsible
for the magnitude of the problem
with which we are faced today."
These are the key points of legis
lation to be recommended:
' 1. Expansion of the present Smith
Act, which prohibits advocacy of
the overthrow of the United States
Government by force and violence,
to make illegal the willful advocacy
of such overthrow by any means,
“for the purpose of subverting the
Interest of the United States to that
of a foreign Communist power.”
2. A requirement that officials of
Communist-front organizations reg
ister their groups with the Justice
Department, with provision for ad
ministrative hearings when such
groups fail to register voluntarily.
The organizations would have the
right to summon witnesses. The
subcommittee suggested that “this
provision constitutes a landmark, in
that it provides for the establish
ment of proper legal procedures
which will eventually replace the
ex parte findings under the present
loyalty order.”'
Batred From U. S. Jobs.
3. Spectflc denial of Government
jobs to Communist Party members
and provision of a penalty for Gov
ernment officials who employ persons
while “knowing or having reasonable
grounds to believe that they are
members of the Communist Party.”
4. Denial of passports to members
of the Communist Party.
5. Strengthening of laws requiring
registration of individuals and or
ganizations serving as agents of
foreign principals.
6. Tightened controls over aliens
through institution of strict reci
procity in the treatment of those
from Communist-dominated coun
tries, an annual registration and
authority for the Justice Depart
ment to keep deportable aliens in
custody pending deportation.
7. Stricter anti-espionage laws “to
cope with the new techniques and
strategy of the international Com
munist movement."
The principal new law to be pro
posed to the House after perfection
of wording by the committee
Wednesday will be based on a bill
introduced by Representative Mundt,
Republican, of South Dakota and
suggestions offered during subcom
mittee hearings, Mr. Nixon said.
■ Provides Fine, Jail Term.
The major provision, which the
subcommittee recommended, would
make subject to a *10.000 fine or 10
years in jail, or both, any person
"who is an active participant in
the management, direction or super
vision of any Communist organiza
tion.” as defined in the act, seeking
to "knowingly or wilfully (a) con
spire to subvert the interests of the
United States by aiding or abetting
the accomplishment of either the
immediate or ultimate objectives of
the world Communist movement, or
(b> conspire to disrupt trade, com
merce, or Government in the United
States with intent to further the
objectives of the world Communist |
movement, or <c) conspire with
agents or agencies of any totalitari- j
an foreign government or any totali
tarian political organization to de
stroy or overthrow any Government
in the United States with the ob
jective of establishing in its stead'
a Communist dictatorship.”
In other recommendations, the
subcommittee proposed a require
ment that writings and radio ut
terances of Communist-front lead
ers be identified as such and that'
the States investigate the need of
new laws to control Communists.
“The subcommittee has not at
tempted to recommend legislation
which will deal with so-called theo
retical Communists In the United
States,” the report concluded. "We
i are seeking, rather, to strike a body i
blow at the American cadre of the
Soviet-directed Communist conspir
acy. We believe that, if its crim
inal activities are prosecuted, its
false fronts exposed and its foreign
assistance and direction cut away,
the move*|jnt in the United States,
standing alone for what it is, will
be overwhelmingly defeated.
“We are willing to permit the
theories of communism and democ
racy to clash in the open market
place of political ideas in America,
but we insist that communism not
be allowed to have the unfair ad
vantage in this conflict of the un
restricted use of illegal means, the
cloak of secrecy and fraud and the
assistance and direction of a foreign
Communist dictatorship.”
Festival
(Continued From First Page.)
traffic from a 50-mile radius, al
though they said the cooler weath
er may discourage some.
Union Station and bus line offi
cials noted numbers of school par
ties among incoming visitors, but
said traffic this morning was not
unusually heavy for a festival week
end. At Union Station spokesmen
said no trains could be added be
cause of the coal situation.
Bus line officials reported “pretty
heavy traffic’’ yesterday and during
the night, and expected a pickup
later today.
Selection Made by Wheel.
The queen was chosen by a wheel
of chance spun by Miss Nancy
Anderson, daughter of the Secre
tary of Agriculture and last year’s
queen, at the Raleigh Hotel Thurs
day. ’
She is the daughter of Mrs. Louise
Sheldon. A sophomore in a Wil
mington high school, Queen Doris
came here especially for the cere
monies.
Tickets for several thousand re
served seats at the festival, at 60
cents and $1, are on sale at the in
formation center in the lobby of
The Star Building, Eleventh street
and Pennsylvania avenue N.W., and
at the ticket counter of the Fairway
Sports Shop, 1328 G street N.W.
Tickets may be bought also at
Hains Point today and tomorrow
before the program.
The Capital Transit Co. was to
begin loading special buses to the
scene of the festival at 11:40 a m.
from Fifteenth street behind the
Treasury building. Return buses
are scheduled also for those who
wish to avoid • parking difficulties.
Boat Ride to Hains Point.
The festival program has been
planned under sponsorship of the
Greater National Capital Commit
tee of the Washington Board of
Trade.
Traveling behind a police escort,
the queen and her court were to go
to the Inlet Bridge at the Tidal
Basin to embark about 1 p.m. for
the boat ride to the tip of Hains
Point. More than 100 vessels were
to be included in the royal flotilla.
A Sea Scout boat, a former Coast
Guard cutter, was to guard the
naval procession. Escorts from the
Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Air
Force were to meet the disembark
ing members of the court as they
arrived at the point shortly before
the festival.
Besides the princesses, the court
includes a number of joung women
from various embassies in native
costumes.
The Queen’s white gown is topped
by a red velvet "ermine” trimmed
robe.
A welcoming address by C. J.
Mack, general chairman of the fes
tival, and greetings from District
Commissioner Gordon R. Young
were to precede the coronation.
Two Red Cross mobile first aid
stations were planned for the fes
tival. A tent was to be set up in
front of the teahouse and a mobile
van stationed at a strategic location.
Two Red Cross ambulances from
the District chapter also were to be
on duty.
Woman Artist Dies at 83
WATERTOWN, N. Y„ April 10
Mrs. Catherine Otis Humes
Chamberlain, 83, who began paint
ing when she was 50 years old, died
yesterday. She was a member of
the League of American Pen
Women.
Hearings by House
On Defense Measure
To Begin Monday
By J. A. O'Leary
Bills to revive the draft and
expand air strength are due to
make headway in both House
and Senate committees next
week, with the backing of Re
publican leaders.
Although universal military train
ing also is being considered, its
chances of passing this year are
slim, in comparison to the temporary
resumption of the selective servlee
system.
The House Armed Services Com
mittee will begin open hearings
Monday morning on the new draft
measure, Chairman Andrews made
public late yesterday. Under it the
United States could raise an armed
force of 1,944,000 backed up by an
organized Reserve of 825,000. It
would give the Air Force the man
power needed for an expansion from
55 to 70 air groups strength.
Senate Session to Resume.
The Senate Armed Service Com
mittee will resume closed sessions
Monday to get more information
from Army officials before voting
later in the week on both the
draft and UMT proposals.
The House Appropriations Com
mittee hoped to have ready for
floor debate Wednesday a $725,
000,000 fund to permit an immediate
start on Air Force expansion.
The UMT bill won approval of
the House Armed Services Com
mittee last year, but the House
Rules Committee has shown no in
clination to give it clearance for
floor action. Neutral observers at
the Capitol believe opponents of
UMT will welcome temporary re
vival of the draft as an added
argument for putting off the uni
versal training program.
The 1,944,000 armed force auth
orized by the Andrews bill—to be
reached not later than July 1,1950—
would be 210,000 more than the
administration bill asked for and
about 214.000 more than the present
authorized strength.
The increase is accounted for
largely by plans to build the Air
Force up to 70 groups, and to allow
the Marine Corps 20,000 more men
than the administration bill con
templates.
Figures given the House Armed
Services Committee recently show
the present actual strength of the
Army. Navy, Marine and Air Force
is only 1,377,000. Thus, to reach
the quotas in the Andrews bill, 567,
000 men could be added to all uni
formed branches.
In back of this new regular armed
force of 1,944,000 would be the Na
tional Guard and various organized
reserves. The Andrews bill would
build up these units by exempting
from the new draft veterans of
World War .II who served more
than three months but less than a
year, if they join one of these re
serve forces.
Such exemptions would be grant
ed up to the following limits: In
the National Guard, 350,000; Organ
ized Reserve Corps of the Army and
Air Force, 175,000; Naval Reserve,
250,000 ,and Marine Corps Reserve,
50,000. This would produce a sec
ond line of defense of 829,000 men.
60-Dav Gap FropiSi®^.
In order to encourage voluntary
enlistments before any one is
drafted, the Andrews bill provides
that no one could be inducted for
60 days after it becomes law. ?•?
In order to begin inductions the
President would have to notify
Congress the quotas had not been
filled by volunteers and, in his
judgment, will not be filled. He
could not submit such notice sooner
than 50 days after the bill passes.
As predicted in advance, the An
drews bill limits the registration to
men from 18 through 30, with in
duction limited to those from 19
through 25.
In the case of doctors, dentists
and veterinarians, however, induc
tions could be made through the
44-year age bracket. The number
called would be at a fixed ratio to
the number of men in service.
Eisenhower
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presidential nomination, was ad
vised that he could not accept.
Gen. Eisenhower said this decision
was “positive and definite.”
More recently, dissident Demo
crats have been urging that Gen.
Eisenhower rather than President
Truman head the Democratic presi
dential ticket in November. Taking
cognizance of that situation a few
days ago, Maj. Gen. Floyd L. Parks,
head of the Army Press Service, said
that when Gen. Eisenhower dis
claimed any presidential ambitions
he was talking to Democrats as well
as Republicans.
Despite this latest disclaimer,
however, there have been some mem
bers of both parties who have re
fused to believe that Gen. Eisen
hower had had his final say.
Alf M. Landon, former Governor
of Kansas, who was another White
House visitor today, described his
call “as just a friendly visit.”
Mr. Landon, the Republican presi
dential nominee in 1936, said he
hasn't made up his mind yet whom
he will support for the presidential
nomination. He repeated his earlier
expressed view that the Philadelphia
convention will be a wide open affair.
Asked if he had “given up” on
Gen. Eisenhower as a possible nomi
nee, the former Governor said he
didn’t recollect that he had ever
voiced support, although he had
said that Kansas would favor her
native son.
Mr. Landon said he thought the
Republican presidential nomination
would turn on the world situation,
“which is so serious.” Expressing
the view that an “explosion” is pos
sible within perhaps 60 days, he said
that “different times call for dif
ferent men.”
Army Deserter, Now Con-Man,
And Mink-Coated Girl Sought
An Army deserter said by the FBI
to be living in style, touring the
country in a big car and accom
panied by a woman companion with
a full-length mink coat and a pedi
greed boxer dog, was sought today;
by Washington police.
The FBI said the man, William
Henry McLarty, 29, was wanted in
California and other points for im-1
personating gn Army officer and
passing bogus checks. He is believed >
to be somewhere in the East.
By wearing Army uniforms, Mc
Larty has been able to convince hisj
victims that he is in fact an officer,
moving from one post to another
and needing cash.
One such charge was lodged
against him May 15 in Los Angeles
and another January 8 in Sacra
mento. He also is wanted In Mo
bile. Ala.
His woman companion’s taste also
runs to long, black figured silk
dresses. The dog is an 8-month-old
golden brindle boxer named Tuffy.
McLarty has served time in Fed
eral penitentiaries for impersona
tion, illegally wearing an Army uni
form and violation of the National!
Stolen Property Act. He also is!
wanted for violating his conditional
release from prison.
McLarty was described as a Texan,
6 feet tall, weighing 180 pounds,
with hazel gray eyes, dark brown
hair and ruddy complexion.
The FBI said they were driving
either a green Cadillac or Packard
wdth^ Oolifomia license tag 8-K
Austin Demands Italy
Be Admitted to U. N.f
Raps Russian Vetoes
ly the Auociatod Prtu V
LAKE SUCCESS, April 10.—The
United States demanded today that
Italy be admitted to the United Na
tions immediately.
United States Delegate Warren I|.
Austin told the Security Council
that another Russian veto of the
application could be interpreted by
the world only as an expression of
the Soviet Union’s lack erf friend
ship for the Italian people.
The United States, Britain and
France jointly reopened the Italian
application in the Council, where
Russia twice vetoed it in 1947. The
move was timed with this month’s
Italian election, where the Com
munists are fighting for power.
Sees Grave Injustice Done.
Mr. Austin said a grave injustice
has been done to Italian people by
the Russian vetoes.
“We ask that they immediately be
granted their rightful position
among nations,” the American dele
gate added.
He assailed the Russian position
that Italy should be admitted only
along with Finland, Romania, Bul
garia and Hungary, other ex-enemy
states. The United States opposes
Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary.
Austin said:
"Surely there is no justice in pen
alizing a people who have proved
themselves to be qualified for mem
bership by coupling them with
states which by their own actions
have shown they are clearly dis
qualified.
Bargaining Called Debasing.
“This attempt at bargaining Is
surely beneath the dignity of this
council.
“If the same tactics are attempted,
and if this council should unfor
tunately fail to recommend Italy’s
admission * • * the world can
interpret the act in no other way
than as an expression by ,the Soviet
Union of a lack of friendship for the
people of Italy.”
Soviet vetoes also hung over the
heads of five other applying Na
tions previously blocked by Russia.
This left Burma as the only
applicant with any certainty of
winning Council indorsement.
The delegates were interested par
ticularly in Russia's action on Italy,
because of the possible effects a
Soviet veto might have on the
Communist showing in the Italian
national election April 18.
In addition to Italy, the coun
tries facing a Soviet veto were Fin
land, Austria, Eire, Portugal and
Trans-Jordan.
Berlin
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Atlantic flight. At present two
planes a week fly to Berlin and the
airline had planned to increase the
flight^ to four weekly starting next
month.
British and American officials said
the Russians have also refused to
renew permits authorizing their Sig
nal Corps crews to supervise and
maintain telephone and telegraph
lines to Berlin passing through the
Soviet zone.
The present permits expire April
15. The Russians said they will
take over supervision after that
date.
The Americans have maintained a
crew of five men at Weimar in the
Soviet zone to supervise and repair
•ables carrying all American tele
graph and telephone communica
tions with the American zone.
Meanwhile the Russians and Brit
ish took steps toward a two-power
investigation of the air crash over
Berlin which killed 15 persons last
Monday.
The Soviet-controlled German
news agency, ADN, said last night
Russian occupation authorities have
named a board to work with the
British in seeking the causes of
the accident.
A Soviet fighter plane and a
British transport aircraft collided
as the British plane was coming
in to land. Twelve Britons, two
Americans and the Russian fighter
pilot were killed.
Mild British Reply.
The new announcement followed
a mild British reply yesterday to
the Soviet military governor, who
had blamed the British for the ac
cident. In this note, the British
military governor, Gen. Sir Brian
Robertson, dropped an earlier de
mand for a four-power inquiry and
accepted a Russian suggestion for a
Soviet-British investigation.
Earlier, the British had blamed
the Soviet plane for causing the
accident and demanded assurances
the air corridor to the western zones
be free from molestation. They
threatened to provide their trans
ports with fighter escort.
Gen. Robertson’s reply, reportedly
dictated by the British Foreign Of
fice, made no mention again of
fighter escort. It said British air
craft have been instructed to ob
serve flight regulations strictly.
The bearer of the diplomatic note
was told the Russian military gov
ernor, Marshal Vassily D. Sokolov
sky, was out of town. Some thought
he may have been called to Moscow
for further instructions on dealing
with the tense relations in Berlin
between Russia and her Western al
lies.
Gen. Lucius D. Clay, American
military governor and April chair
man of the four-power Allied Con
trol Council, said yesterday he was
calling no Council meeting for to
day, the regular day. The Russians
walked out on the Council March
20 and It hasn't met since.
The Russians tightened up their
traffic control in the Russian area
of Berlin and for the first time last
night stopped a United States Army
freight truck leaving the city. The
vehicle was hauling household fur
niture for the American consulate
at Bremen.
The Russians insisted the cargo
carry the stamp of the Soviet gov
ernment in Berlin.
U. S. Halts Freight Trucks.
The American Military Govern
ment announced today no further
attempts will be made to move
freight by truck from Berlin to the
American zone.
Freight trains leaving Berlin have
been going back empty since Rus
sian traffic restrictions went in
effect April 1. Under the Russian
order all freight outward bound
through the Russian zone must be
cleared by the Russians.
A post office siding was Jammed
today with 94 carloads of parcel post
destined for the three western zones
of Germany. The mall could not
move until the Russians had ap
proved its passage through their
zone. The backlog has been building
up since the Russian travel order.
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hours. Five applicants gave the
political situation in Berlin as their
reason.
At Munich. Dr. Hans Ehard, min
ister president of Bavaria, urged
formation of a temporary govern
ment for Western Germany. He
said the only way all Germany
could be united now would be under
Russian domination.
"Since we don’t want German
unity at such a price, we must go
along with the western democracies,”
he said.
From Frankfurt came reports
Germans in increasing numbers are
pouring across the Russian zone
border into American occupation
territory.
The United States military gov
ernment said such illegal entry
increased 40 per cent during March.
The government said border police
in the state of Hesse had arrested
7,943 persons for this in March,
compared with 4,192 in February.
It estimated 3,000 had slipped
across and another 4,000 had been
turned back at the border.
In Hannover, the Central Com
mittee of the Social Democratic
Party issued a resolution denounc
ing Communist dictatorship. It
said:
"The Social Democratic Party is
not prepared to watch democratic
institutions misused to destroy
democracy.”
It declared the next goal of the
Cominform is Germany.
Gen. Clay Attends Rites
For Victim of Air Crash
BERLIN, April 10 UP).—Gen. Lu
cius D. Clay, United States com
mander in chief in Germany, head
ed a large official representation at
funeral services this morning for
Sergt. Pasquale Pintus of Powhatan
Point, Ohio, who was killed with 14
other persons in Monday's collision
of a British transport plane with
a Soviet fighter.
3 Youths He Befriended
Steal 1918 Veteran's Car
A World War I veteran who lives
at Soldiers’ Home reported his car,
shoes and $70 stolen early today in
Bethesda by three youths he had
befriended in a Laurel restaurant
! several hours earlier.
Bernard Beall, 53, struck up a
friendship with the three youths
and offered them a ride in his car,
police said. When they reached
Connecticut avenue and East-West
highway in Bethesda, however, the
three forced him out of the car,
took his shoes off, made him turn
over the money and drove off.
Mr. Beall said they shouted at
him as they pulled away that they
were headed for Philadelphia.
Police have broadcast a lookout
for the stolen car and the three
youths, who they believe are be
tween 17 and 20 years old. One was
described as wearing an Army field
jacket, a second was described as a
Latin type and the third was de
scribed as wearing a dark shirt and
glasses.
Coal
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conference in his office at 11 a.m.
In 13 minutes flat, Mr, Martin said,
they agreed on his suggestion that
Senator Bridges become the third
board member.
Hope for Agreement.
Mr. Martin said: "We hope that
when the trustees meet tomorrow
they will be able to reach agree
ment and the men will be able to
be back to work in 48 hours after
the committee goes to work.”
Mr. Lewis said he joined the
Speaker in that statement. The
UMT president said it is largely a
matter of getting started.
Mr. Martin said that he has been
greatly concerned over the pro
longed coal work stoppage.
“It was disrupting our economy,”
Mr. Martin said, "making it diffi
cult to go through with our pro
gram of preparedness and to go
through with our commitments to
foreign countries.
"It was disrupting our country
and the world. I thought I should
try if possible to bring about peace.”
Both Reported Agreeable.
He said he found both Mr. Lewis
and Mr. Van Horn "very willing to
do what is right for the country
and the world.”
By moving in as peacemaker, Mr.
Martin thus took the ball away from
the administration.
The maneuver thus could have
political significance should the Re
publican leader in Congress be able
to claim credit for settling a dispute
that has been giving the administra
tion headaches.
Mr. Martin has been mentioned
for the Republican presidential nom
ination, largely in dark-horse terms.
Before Mr. Martin’s surprise move
there had appeared little prospect,
of action toward agreement by the
miners and operators before a show
down court battle Monday.
Administration officials had based
their hope for ending the strike on
a court summons to Mr. Lewis and
the union to “show cause” Monday
why they should not be held in con
tempt and punished for failing to
comply with an order to end the
strike.
There was no immediate indica
tion of what effect today’s develop
ments might have on the court
issue.
The strike brought the layoff of
additional workers in industries de
pendent on coal.
FPC Asks Report on Supply.
The Federal Power Commission
asked coal-using power companies
to report their fuel stocks. The
agency also asked the companies
what steps they are taking to con
serve fuel. *
Coal-burning railroad freight and
passenger service already has been
cut 25 per cent. Yesterday the
Government ordered another 25 per
cent reduction, effective next Thurs
day.
The Pennsylvania Railroad an
nounced that as a result of the new
reduction order it would cl06e its
shops at Altoona, Pa., laying off
11,000 men. The railroad already
has furloughed 10,000 workers.
As a result of the service cut, the
Baltimore 8s Ohio announced its
number of idle workers would be
raised to 15,000.
The New York Central announced
cancellation of 116 trains in line
with the new order. NYC already
had suspended operation of 169
trains and laid off 7,000 workers.
llijm Other Worker* Idle.
The number of Idle, in addition
to the 400,000 soft coal miners, was
raised to 172,500 as the strike cut
deeper into the Nation's economy.
That figure includes 33,500 anthra
cite miners, striking in sympathy
with the soft coal miners.
From Detroit came word that the
coal strike was cutting into automo
bile production. .Output of cars
dropped 2,000 this week.
The rital steel industry also faced
a serious situation, with production
scheduled next week at slightly more
than two-thirds of normal, lowest:
since December, 1»4«, when another
coal strike was on. '
Capitol Hill Is Cool $
To Controls Despite
Inflation Warnings
New Inflation warnings from
the White House encountered
again today the usual opposition
to controls from the Republican
Congress.
President Truman’s Council of
Economic Advisers raised the alarm
in a quarterly review which served
notice that there is “strong reason*
why price increases may be looked
for in such items as rents and
meat.
In a "guns or butter” report, the
Council analyzed the impact on the
Nation’s economy of $6,000,000,000
foreign aid spending, the 27-day
old coal strike and a proposed $3,
000,000,000 outlay for defense, then
urged:
1. Administration power to say
how scarce products will be distrib
uted, plus indirect manpower con
trol of steer workers into vital in
dustries.
New Taxes Proposed.
2. New taxes to cover futur*
spending for military preparedness.
3. Enactment of ’’stand-by” price,
wage and ration authority, unsuc
cessfully urged by Mr. Truman since
last fall, as well as power to control
bank and consumer credit.
The reaction of Chairman Wol
cott of the House Banking Com
mittee, where most of such legis
lation would originate, was cold.
“It seems unnecessary,” he told
reporters, “to restore any controls
j until we see the impact on our
| economy of the military spending
and foreign aid.”
At the Commerce Department,
John C. Virden, in charge of
jthe voluntary industry agreements
[Which ration steel and other scarce
materials to essential users, offered
this statement:
| “I am confident that the Job of
meeting the needs of the European
Recovery Program can be accom
plished by voluntary methods—
barring, of course, protracted work
stoppages in basic industries or a
large military procurement pro
I gram.
“I believe that American industry
will respond favorr/’y to the chal
lenge.”
Hoffman of Same Opinion.
This agreed with the opinion
voiced yesterday by Paul G. Hoff
man. economic co-operation admin
istrator. that voluntary methods are
preferable to Federal controls. Some
“fringe” controls might prove neces
sary later, Mr. Hoffman said.
The Council of Economics Ad
visers, headed by Dr. Edwin G.
Nourse, called for a “systematic and
vigorous discipline” to meet the
pressures on the economy.
Restoring coal production, the
council said, is "our foremost dom
estic problem, since indefinite con
tinuation of the coal strike would
bring industrial paralysis."
Increasing national defense out
lays to as much as $15,000,000,000
“will not swamp our economy nor
require us to pass from free enter---,
prise to regimentation,” the report
stated. But world uncertainties may
require further military spending,
it added.
This need not wipe out America’s
hope, said the Council, that “larger
numbers of people would achieve
higher standards of living than had
been realized before.” But it said
such hopes must be postponed or
revised downward and added:
“It is our particular application
of the old alternative of guns or
butter.”
The Government economists noted
that the new demands hit most
heavily at industries where scarcities
already are most severe and per
sistent. And they urged setting up
“a system of allocations, priorities
and export and domestic use limita
tions.”
The Council said the United
States Employment Service should
be strengthened so as to steer idle
workers into plants where they will
be most useful. But all manpower
controls should be indirect, tha re
port said, and
“We should make sure that the
Selective Service Act and regula
tions are so drafted and adminis
tered as to give suitable deferment
to individuals and groups especially
needed in the defense program.”
Foreign aid and defense orders
should be placed in areas of com
parative labor plenty and efforts
should be made to "prevent labor
piracy," or the raiding of one in
dustry by another for workers, the
advisers said.
Hopes that the February break in
commodity markets meant a “top*
ping off” of the inflationary climb
have been dimmed by the new de
velopments, the council said.
It added that while this “has in*
duced a desirable degree of caution
in the business world • • • there is
certainly no assurance that the con*
sumer price index will go down, and
for such important items as meat
and rent, there is strong reason why
It may go up.
Slapping at the “imprudent re
duction in taxes,” the report said
this "increases the need and by no
means ends the opportunity for
helpful fiscal policies.” It added: “
“New taxes should be demanded
in proportion to (or even in antici
pation of) all subsequent increase^
of defense expenditures which are
not clearly offset by practicable re
ductions in other directions.”
The report was made public last
night after it had been discussed at
a cabinet session earlier.
Maine Opposition
To Truman Fades
By the Associated Press
AUGUSTA, Me., April 10.—Maine
Democrat* will, In their State chair
man’s opinion, be unanimous In
pledging 10 votes to President Tru-.
man's renomlnatlon today.
James A. McVicar of South Port
land reported that opposition t<J
instruction for the President
I “melted away” at last night’s Stata
convention session.
“We’ve got to go along with Presi
dent Truman all the way,” Mr. Mc
Vicar said.
In aU four of the late President
Roosevelt’s campaigns he won
pledged delegations from Maine.
Mr. McVicar had been one of c
group advocating that this year’s
delegation to Philadelphia be un
instructed. )
Another of the group, State Sen
ator Jean C. Boucher of Lewiston
was defeated for renomlnatlon to
the State committee last night.
His Androscoggin County delega
tion went on record in caucus as
favoring a pledged delegation.
Congress in Brief
Sy *h« Au»ei«t»«l ^r**4
Senate:
In reeees until Monday.
House: *
Adjourned until Monday.