I Weather Forecast Mostlv sunny and warmer today, high in low 70s. Fair tonight, low near 52. Tomorrow sunny and cooler, high in 60s. (Full report on Page A-2.) Midnight _47 6 a.m-43 Noon -60 2 a.m_44 8 a.m_49 1 p.m-63 4 am.43 10 a.m- 54 2 p.m-64 Late New York Markets- Poge A-15. Guide for Readers Page. Amusements ...A-24 Comics .C-12-13 Editorial _A-8 Editorial Articles A-9 Finance _A-15 Lost and Found..A-3 Page. Obituary .A-10 Radio .C-13 Society, Clubs_B-3 Sports.C-l-4 Where to Go-P-7 Woman's Page^jC-S An Associated Press Newspaper 96th Year. No. 107. Phone NA. 5000. ★★★ WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 1948—SIXTY PAGES. Sunday"$1*30.' 'Ni*ht*nn« New York Democrats i Commend Truman and Hi! Wallace Hard State Committee's Action Viewed as Committing 98 Votes to President By the Associated Press NEW YORK, April 16.—The State Democratic Committee unanimously commended Presi dent Truman today in a resolu tion viewed as committing New York's 98 national convention votes to his candidacy. The resolution slapped hard at ' Henry Wallace for accepting Com munist support and praised the ; President for vhis veto of the Taft Hartley Act, his civil rights pro gram and his “far seeing vision'' in | sponsoring the European Recovery Program. The committee differed with the President on Palestine Policy, how ever. urging that partition of the Holy Land be effected without delay. But the Palestine section was considered to be very mild. Flynn Saw President. The resolution of commendation was presented bv Edward J. Flynn, former national chairman. Mr. Flynn and State Chairman Paul E. Fitzpatrick conferred with Mr. Tru man in the White House earlier this week and the President said at his press conference yesterday that they went away happy. Mr. Fitzpatrick said after today's meeting that the Flynn resolution would stand for itself and no fur ther comment would be made on whom the delegates will support at the national convention. Before the meeting there had j been speculation that Mr. Truman would not be mentioned because of opposition of some committee mem bers to the administration's stand on Palestine. The committee elected 16 dele ' gates-at-large to the Democratic 1 National Convention but no effort j was made to instruct them for Mr. i Truman. Each delegate-at-large has a half vote. The other 90 dele gates w'ere chosen at the recent primary. Language on Palestine. On the Palestine question, the res olution asserted: "We recognize that the only solu tion to the Palestinian problem is the establishment of a Jewish dem ocratic commonwealth within the Holy Land as contemplated by the partition program of the United Na tions General Assembly. We urge in the interest of justice and W'orld peace that the partition program be implemented without delay as the best solution of a critical problem.” All the committee's officers, headed I by Chairman Fitzpatrick, were re eiected. Senate Delays Action Pending Careful Look At 70-Group Air Force Draft Opponents Begin Presenting Case Before House Committee By J. A. O'Leary Senate leaders decided today to call time out for a careful look at the $3,198,100,000 money bill to start a 70-group Air Force, which zoomed through the House yesterday over Presi dent Truman's opposition. The House vote was 343 to 3, with only one Democrat and two American-Laborites voting "no.” The vote came a few hours after the President had taken a firm stand on the side of Defense Sec retary Forrestal for only $2,376,000, 000 at this time to develop a 55 group Air Force. The House vote was an over whelming victory for one of Mr. Forrestals subordinates, Secretary of Air Symington, who has con tinued to declare his belief in the need for a bigger Air Force, even since Mr. Forrestal's overall defense plans were submitted on the basis of 55 groups. Bridges Noncommittal. Chairman Bridges of the Senate Appropriations Committee was not ready today to commit himself, but described the issue as "highly con troversial” and promised his com mittee will look into all the facts. Chairman Gurhey of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said he sees no need for hasty action on the 70-air group fund. Senator ~iSee DEFENSE. Page~A-4.t Free Entry Is Urged For All News Writers At Editors' Convention I None Should Be Barred Except for Security, ASNE Official Says By Francis P. Douglas An officer of the American So ciety of Newspaper Editors j urged today free entrance into the United States of any news correspondent unless it consti tutes a real danger to our se curity. The speaker was Erwin D. Can ham, who returned yesterday from the United Nations Conference on Freedom of Information at Geneva. Mr. Canham, editor of the Christian Science Monitor, is first vice presi dent of the ASNE and will succeed to the presidency Saturday. He urged the society to adopt a j resolution supporting his stand for admission of any "bona fide, full i time news correspondent.” He said this would enable us to strive for world-wide freedom more effectively. Freedom at Home First Task. Mr. Canham, however, said that preservation of freedom here at home is still the editors' first task. "We have prevented efforts at encroachment in the last few months and weeks.” he said. "We must keep up the watch on the Pctomac .” Mr. Canham also proposed that the society co-operate with news papermen in Western Europe who are trying to organize an interna tional federation of associations of editors. He also urged co-opera tion with other American news paper organizations to study pro posals for an international insti tute of press and information. He said this would do internationally some of the things the American Press Institute does here. In his address, before the ASNE convention at the Hotel Statler. Mr. Canham said the atmosphere at the Geneva conference “was far more favorable to us than it has been at any other United Nations meeting since 1945.” Sees Victory in “Cold War.” | “We are winning the cold war,” he said. "Our long-range weapons, | which are based on a practical ap plication of the ideals of freedom, !are making solid and steady head ; way.” The convention today took up the program of accrediting schools of journalism which the organization jhas been studying. A panel dis j cussed this subject under chairman ship of Dwight Marvin. Troy (N. Y.l ! Record, chairman of the American Council on Education for Journal ism. ! Mr. Marvin said 520 schools at tempt to teach journalism and that questionnaires had been sent to 120 of these which give a bachelor of journalism degree. He said interest had been stimulated in the accredit ing program by a court decision which held that newspapermen were ! not recognized as members of a learned profession. Dr. Norval N. Luxon, dean of the ’ School of Journalism at Ohio State University, said 48 journalism ' (See EDITORS. Page A-2.» General Practitioner Scores 'Men at Top' i n Doctor Shortage By th« Associated Press CUMBERLAND, Md., April 16.— Dr. Richard J. Williams of Cumber land today blamed ‘‘men at the top" for the doctor shortage and.sharply criticized views expressed Wednes day by Dr. Charles S. Maxson. pres ident of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland. Dr. Williams told Dr. Maxson in a letter today that the shortage of general practitioners "is in part your fault.” Dr. Maxson had said in Baltimore that a public which finds it difficult to obtain physicians may lean toward socialized medicine, which most doctors oppose. He pointed out that doctors of today “take then week ends and their evenings. Some refuse to make any night visits and make it impossible to get a tele phone connection with them in the evening." Dr. Williams replied. “The few doctors of us here in Cumberland who do general medicine are work ing night and day. We often refuse calls because we are Just too exhausted to go.” He said the shortage of general practitioners had come about be cause "organized medicine encour ages young men to spend years spe cializing and they., on account of the high fees to be had thereby, are not hard to encourage.” Dr. Wil liams ts county physician for Alle gany County. the strongly-worded letter he went on: "I think it is high time Sthat the rank and file of the medi cal profession staged a grass-roots revolt against such incompetent leadership and ignorance of the facts which you display. "No man is fit to specialize in anything until he has had at least 10 years of general practice. That is a fact and you know it. Unless you men at the top very speedily mend your ways and stop trying to shift the responsibility on to the shoulders of the few of us who are doing general medicine, then the public will rise up and give us state medicine whether we like it or not.” I Assembly Opens With Plea for Holy Land Truce Immediate Cease-Fire Demanded by Brazil In Special Session By the Associated Press NEW YORK, April 16.—The second special Palestine session of the United Nations Assembly was opened today with a re newed appeal for a Jewish-Arab truce in the Holy Land. An immediate cease-fire was de manded by Joao Carlos Muniz of Brazil, who presided over the 57 nation Assembly in the absence of its Brazilian retiring president, Dr. Oswaldo Aranha. In a somber speech recognizing a possibility of U. N. failure to solve the Palestine problem, Mr. Muniz said: "Only the total suspension of hostilities can create the favorable atmosphere which will enable the Assembly to find a solution capable of conciliating the existing antag onism through a broad formula of co-operation." Truce Chance* Fading. The session opened in what Mr. Muniz called "a disheartening at mosphere" caused in part by th# fading chances for a Jewish-Arab acceptance of the truce formula now awaiting action in the Security Council. As the Assembly opened the flag* of the 57 nations were flying out side at half-staff in mourning for President Manuel A. Roxas of th* Philippines who died yesterday. The Assembly elected Dr. Jos* Arce of Argentina to serve as per manent president during the ex traordinary session, which is expect ed to last anywhere from two to eight weeks. The vote was: Arce, 31; T. F. Tsiang of China. 18, and Sir Carl Berendsen of New Zealand, 2. Liberia and Brazil received one vot* each as nations. Twenty-seven votes were needed for election. Four countries did not vote. Dr. Arce is Argentina's regular delegate to the Security Council. He immediately took the chair. Council Meets Tonight. The Security Council continued its labors on the truce problem a* Assembly delegations met at Flush ing Meadow Park. The Council meets at 9 o’clock i tonight at Lake Success to act on an [America-sponsored cease-fire pro gram which also called for a politi cal standstill in Palestine. ! Some delegates still believe th* [Council will adopt th# truce plan, | but the steadfast refusal of both Jews and Arabs to yield on vital 'issues raised serious doubts th* Council's order would halt the fight ing in Palestine. The special Assembly was called to reconsider the partition plan adopted at the regular Assembly session last November 29. No alter nate plan has yet been submitted for consideration, but the United States has announced it will press for a temporary U. N. trusteeship. The only formal document before the delegate as the session opened was a special report of the five member U. N. Palestine partition commission. This called on the As sembly to consider a number of urgent measures, Including sending troops to the Holy Land to restore order. Gromyko Ask* Delay. It had been expected the truce o.uestion would be disposed of ! yesterday by the Security Council, but Soviet Delegate Andrei A. Gromyko proposed a 24-hour post ponement to allow time to study a ' series of amendments suggested by j the Jewish agency. American Chief Delegate Warren R. Austin said all the Jewish pro 1 posals already had been considered [in the Council’s informal meeting* [ this week, but said he was willing to study them further, i Moshe Shertok, head of the Jewish Agency’s political department, told ! the Council the Jews could not agree to a halt in Jewish immigration to Palestine. He also declared that withdrawal of Arab bands from j other countries must be an essential condition to any truce. On the other hand, Faris #1 i Khoury of Syria and Mahmoud Fawzi Bey of Egypt, speaking for : the Arabs, refused to agree to either of these conditions. They expressed | willingness to accept the truce plan, | with reservations. Sunday Reading ... America's once- powerful chain of air and naval bases in the Caribbean and South Atlantic is now little more than a collection of rust thinned links. Stall Writer Jerry O’Leary, jr., who ob served this defense cordon at its wartime best, recently re visited the scene. He describes the deterioration of the chain in Sunday's Editorial Section. At the moment, Harold E. Stassen appears to be running harder and faster than any other entry in the Republican Presidential Stakes. On early form, as the handicappers say, he could take it all. Gould Lincoln, The Star's political analyst, examines Mr. Stassen’s chances in an other Editorial Section article. These and many other timely features, plus the colorful Pictorial Magazine, pages and columns on the new books, amusements, music, sports, art, society, chess, camera and dog notes, stamps, etc., supplement the usual thorough and accurate news content of