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Marshall Back
From Bogota tc
Handle 'Events'
Conference Expected
To Adjourn Next
Week as Planned
By Newbold Noyes, Jr.
Secretary of State Marshall
landed at National Airport at 9
a.m. today, returning from the
Inter-American Conference at
Bogota to deal with “important
events” here.
Gen. Marshall did not say whether
there was any particular problem
which had demanded his return.
However, Undersecretary of State
Lovett, on hand to greet him. said
it was merely the “accumulation” of
State Department business here
which called for the Secretary's
presence.
Gen. Marshall predicted the
Bogota conference probably would
adjourn on schedule»late next week.
Few More Meetings Needed. •
He said that when he left the
Colombian capital yesterday “it was
rather expected there would be a
few more meetings of the Steering
Committee and that the general
work would be completed by
Wednesday or Thursday morning.”
Two more days probably would
be needed to get the results of the
Western Hemisphere talks in shape
for signature, Gen. Marshall said.
He declined to comment when
asked by a reporter whether he felt
the world situation had been helped
as a result of the conference, which
he held together when a Commu
nist-abetted revolt in Bogota threat
ened to break it up.
“I was sorry to leave before the
completion of the conference,” Gen.
Marshall said, “but as a matter of
fact we had reached decisions on
most of the fundamental considera
tions. particularly as to the organic
pact.”
Martin Also Returns.
This pact is designed to transform
the pan-American system into a
regional organization under the
United Nations.
"There remains the problem of
economic considerations, but very
good progress has been made in
leaching decisions regarding many
of the issues involved,” the Secre
tary said. «
He praised the work of William
McChesney Martin, president of the
Export-Import Bank, who handled
the economic side of negotiations
for the American delegation and
who returned to the Capital with
Gen. Marshall.
Brig. Gen. Marshall S Carter,;
special assistant to the Secretary,
was another passenger in the C-54
Army Transport plane in which
Gen. Marshall traveled from the
Colombian capital with one stop
over, at Balboa, C. Z.
Armour Now Chairman.
Assistant Secretary’ of State Nor
man Armour has taken over the
chairmanship of the American del
egation in Bogota, Gen. Marshall
said.
Before leaving riot-scarred Bo
gota last night Gen. Marshall told
fellow' delegates at the conference
only that "important events demand
my return to Washington.”
Officials here expressed the view
that he was coming home not to
deal w’ith any particular crisis, but
to tackle problems which accumu
lated since he left March 28. These
include:
1. The drive within the United
Nations to secure a truce between
Jews and Arabs in Palestine, set up
a trusteeship government and pos
sibly send an international peace
keeping force, including American
troops, to the Holy Land. There is
some fear here this drive may not
succeed in time to prevent extensive
warfare in Palestine w'hen the Brit-;
ish give up their mandate May 15.
2. Decisions by the American
Government on how to give military i
support to the projected Western
European union. President Truman
told a news conference Thursday he
soon might have an announcement
on this major foreign policy de
velopment.
3. The continuing critical situa*
tion in Berlin, which still is the
worst trouble spot in relations be
tween the western nations and
Russia,
4. Possible Soviet reaction to the
Communist defeat in the Italian
elections.
When Gen. Marshall left for Bo
gota he said he would remain at
the conference until it ended. But
the meeting, originally scheduled to
last six years, was broken up by the
Bogota revolt.
Gen. Marshall remained ii^the
Colombian capital for the resump
tion of the conference, but authori
ties here said they saw no com
pelling reason for him to stay any
longer, now’ that the major work of
the delegates has been completed.
Woman, 76, Injured
While Fleeing Fire
Mrs. Nellie B. Duncan, 76v was
taken to Doctors Hospital suffering
from shock early today after a fire
In the living room of Justice James
W. Morris of District Court, her
neighbor at the Westchester Apart
ments, at Thirty-ninth street and
Cathedral avenue N.W.
Firemen said Mrs. Duncan, escap
ing from her smoky apartment,
apparently bumped against a wall
and cut her head. Friends on a
lower floor, coming up the fire stairs
to investigate the smoke, found her
on the stairs in a dazed condition,
firemen reported.
The fire, of undetermined origin,
broke out in the living room of Jus
tice Morris’ apartment shortly be
fore 3 a m. It was confined to the
living room, where it burned some
of the furniture and part of the
floor, according to firemen.
Responding on, the box alarm
were three engine companies, one
truck company, a battalion chief
and a fire Rescue Squad ambulance,
which later took Mrs. Duncan to
the hospital, Mrs. Duncan was
reported in fair condition.
Battle Rages as Jews Lash Out j
To Expand Gains Near Haifa
Hogana Grants Plea for Truce, but Resumes
Firing When Arabs Surrender Few Guns
By the Associated Press
JERUSALEM, April 24.—Jewish
fighters lashed out today at the
Arab village of Balad Esh Sheikh
in their drive to seize all ap
proaches to conquered Haifa.
The battle for the village 5 miles
southeast of Haifa on the road to
Nazareth raged most of the night.
At. dawn the Arabs asked Hagana,
the Jewish militia, for a truce, Brit
ish Army authorities said.
This was agreed on w’ith the
stipulation that the Arabs hand over
their arms to Hagana. Only 22
rifles were yielded by the Arabs
and the Jews refused them with
an ultimatum to renew the attack
unless all arms were surrendered.
The Arabs would not accept and
the Jews opened Are again. The
army interceded and negotiated a
cease fire order to permit British
personnel to evacuate women and
children from the village.
The Holy Land was mostly quiet
otherwise on the Jewish sabbath
following last night s Seder celebra
tion opening the week of Passover.
The army said that known Jewish
casualties in the attack by Hagana
on three Arab villages on the Jeru
salem-Tel Aviv highway yesterday
included 20 killed. The Jews at
tacked Beit Iksa, Biddu and Nebi
Samuel, west of Jerusalem. Vir
tually every house in Beit Iksa was
destroyed by Jewish sappers, but
the three villages remained in Arab
hands.
Jewish sources in Tel Aviv said'
British artillery shelled the Jewish
settlement of Mivtakhim in the1
southern Negeb. The shelling oc
curred when the Jews refused to
surrender the head of the settle
ment- to the British, who had;
searched the village for an Arab car.
the informants said.
Meanwhile. Sir Alan Gordon Cun
ningham, British high commission
er, said in a statement that the
Arabs had provoked the Jewish at
tack which resulted in capture of
Haifa.
Sir Alan cabled this statement to
London. Washington and all Arab
capitals last night in reply to Arab
assertions that the British aided the
Jews in overrunning the great port
city Wednesday and Thursday. He
also asked that it be conveyed to
Abdel Rahman Azzam Pasha, Arab
League secretary general in Cairo.
No Arab comment was available
immediately.
"The Jewish attack on Haifa was
in direct consequence of continuous
attacks by Arabs on Jews in Haifa,”
Sir Alan declared. "The Arabs in
Haifa were thus themselves re
sponsible for the outbreak despite
our repeated warnings. * * *
He said the British military com- j
<See PALESTINE, Page A-3.) !
U. N. Council Sets Up
Truce Commission
In New Palestine Move
Fourth Peace Effort
Makes No Provision
For Stopping Fighting
By the Associated Pres*
LAKE SUCCESS, April 24.—
The United Nations Security
Council established a three
country Palestine truce commis
sion last night but made no pro
vision to force the Arabs and
Jews to stop fighting.
The action was the Council's
fourth effort in two months to
bring peace to the Holy Land. Some
delegates doubted it would succeed
in view of the failure of pleas
and orders to the Arabs and Jew’s
March 5, April 1 and April 17.
The United States, France and
Belgium were named to the com
mission in a resolution proposed
by the United States and adopted
by the Council.
Washington Parley Urged.
This proposal was the latest in
a series made by the United States
since she dropped support of parti
tion of Palestine last February. The
U. N. Assembly, which recommend
ed partition last November 20, now
is in special session to consider an
American suggestion for an interim
trusteeship after the British give
up their mandate over the Holy
Land May 15.
Senators Tobey. Republican, of
New Hampshire; Chavez. Democrat,
of New Mexico, and Morse, Re
publican, of Oregon announced
plans last night for a "national
emergency conference" on Pales
tine and the Middle East in Wash
ington May 7-10.
Their Washington statement said
more than 100 Congress members,
labor and industrial leaders and
foreign experts would take up the
question of a "practical American
policy which is not based on make
shifts but on a creative solution." It
urged* "American-pattem democ
racy” in the Holy Land.
The U. N. plans call for peace
efforts to be carried on simulta
neously here and in Palestine.
Britain Invited to Join.
Consuls of the three countries in
Jerusalem were notified of the
Council decision and instructed to
start talks with Jews and Arabs.
On this end, the American dele
gation was hopeful of holding a ses
sion late today with delegates of
Belgium and France to prepare for
opening Lake Success discussions
with representatives of the Jew’ish
Agency and Palestine Arab higher
Committee.
As the mandatory power in Pales
tine, Britain will be invited to join
in the talks both here and in the
Holy Land.
The commission was approved by
an 8-to-0 vote and given only four
days to make a first report back to
■the Council. Russia, the Soviet Uk
raine and Colombili abstained on
; the ballot.
The Ukraine said the American
sponsored proposal wras a political
move to wreck partition and force
acceptance of interim trusteeship.
Russia's Andrei A. Gromyko told
the jCouncil the United States is
afraid of any resolution which might
normalize the situation in Pales
tine.
Communist Agitators
Are Jailed in Italy in
Wake of Elections
Armed Groups Reported
In Appenines; Venice
Arsenal Is Entered
By the Associated Press
ROME. April 24.—The govern
ment’s carabinieri are jailing
some alleged Communist agi
tators in both Northern and
Southern Italy in the wake of
last week's election, which the
Communist-led popular front
lost to the government Chris
tian Democrats.
At the same time Interior Min
ister Mario Scelba. head of the na-;
tion's police force, warned that Italy
must be vigilant against any pos
sible Communist violence, despite
the severe set-back to the Com- -
munists in the elections.
Communist Leader Palmiro Tog
liatti has promised his followers will
refrain from violence. Yesterday Vice
Premier Randolfo Pacciardi said a
Communist uprising is out of the
question.
But arrests are reported to have
been made in Modena in the north
and near foggia in the south. A dis
patch from Modena, Communist
stronghold, said police there had re
ceived word of armed formations in
the nearby Appenine Mountains.
Navy Arsenal Entered.
Two unidentified men broke into
a navy arsenal in Venice early to
day, scuffled with guards and fled
shouting, “sooner or later the
arsenal will blow up.”
A dispatch from Venice said they
entered the Sanguinetti barracks in
the San Pietro di Castello section
and were overheard by the son of
the commander, Giovanni Pingolaz,
who came down armed with a re
volver.
One of the men attacked Pingolaz
and succeeded in getting hold of his
| revolver. Sailors rushed to help
Pingolaz. The men broke pway and
escaped, crying their threat,
i Dispatches to Milan newspapers
said the intruders overcame Pingo
laz, tied him up and were trying to
get into the commander’s office
when the sailors came to his rescue.
In discussing the Communist
menace Mr. Scelba told a corre
spondent for the Swiss newspaper
Journal de Geneve:
•“'When you have in the Ifouse as
many Communists as we do <8,
i (See ITALYTPage-A-2.1
Schwellenbach Is III
In New York Hospital
By the Associated Press
NEW,YORK. April 24.—Secretary
| of Labor Schwellenbach is in Fort
1 Jay Regional Hospital, Governors
Island, under treatment for an
“upper respiratory infection.”
An Army spokesman said the Sec
retary is "doing as well as could be
expected.”
Mr. schwellenbach was removed
to the hospital with a temperature
when he.arrived in New York Wed
nesday aboard the Cristobal from
an unofficial trip to panama, the
Army said.
Brig. Gen. Wallace H. Graham.
President Truman's physician, vis
| ited the Secretary at the hospital
yesterday.
Council Finally Elects Mayor
After 1,321 Ballots, 35 Sessions
By th« Associated Press
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 24.— !
This university city of 111,000 had
a Mayor today after a wearying
marathon of 1,321 ballots taken at
S 35 meetings over a period of 15
1 weeks.
Tired members of the nine-man
i City Council elected Councillor
Michael J. Neville, 42-year-old law
; ver, last night, but only after
I Councilman Edward A. Crane had
run a good race.
Mr. Neville’s election came after
Mr. Crane admitted he had shot his
bolt on the 1,320th ballot and
switched his vote to give the victor
a 5-4 margin.
Coming into the 1,315th ballot,
Mr. Crane announced that if he
was not elected on the next five
votes he intended to forfeit his own
chances. He didn't get the major
; ity.
1 “It'i apparent,” Mr. Crane said,
.“after the last five laps I’ve shot
my bolt, so I now withdraw from
the running.”
On the next ballot he voted for
Mr. Neville.
Gov. Robert F. Bradford’s an
nouncement that he would name a
man to the post by Monday served
as sort of a persuader.
Under the city manager form pf
government, the Mayor is elected
by a simple majoriftr from among
council members.
During the long siege the council
men were split into three factions—
two sponsored by the Cambridge
Civic Association and the third an
independent group. The CCA group
was so divided it could not muster
a majority.
A city manager governs the muni
cipality, but the Mayor is exofflcio
chairman of the School Committee,
presides at council meetings and re
iceives $1,000 above hi* $4,000 coun
cil salary.
Forreslal Agrees
To UMT-Draft
Merger Plan
Calls for Permanent
Training Program 'as
Soon as Possible'
By the Associated Press
A compromise plan wrapping
up a limited universal military
training program with a tem
porary draft had the support of
Secretary of Defense Forrestal
today.
Faced with mounting congres
sional opposition to a separate UMT
program Mr. Forrestal yesterday
agreed to accept—temporarily—a
merger proposal advanced by mem
bers of the Senate Armed Services
Committee.
In a second major strategy switch
on defense plans. Mr. Forrestal said
in a letter to Chairman Gurney:
"I believe it will give us a maximum
military strength for a minimum of
cost.” But he added:
"I do not regard this proposal as
an adequate substitute for UMT.”
He asked that the compromise be
followed “as soon as possible” by a
permanent universal training pro
gram.
Three Proposals Offered.
The drive for abandonment of the
separate UMT plan broke out at
yesterday's closed session of the
Senate committee. Senator Bald
win. Republican, of Connecticut and
others asked:
1. That UMT trainees be taken
only for six months instead of the1
proposed six months’ basic training
plus six months’ special training
with one of the regular services.
2. That they be trained with other
recruits, including draftees. This,
they said, would (a) avoid setting
up separate camps and barracks
costing extra millions and (2) dis
pense with more thhn 93.000 officers
and men w’ho would be needed as
instructors.
3. That after six months the UMT
trainees be allowed to enlist in the
National Guard or some other Re
serve unit. This would enable them
to remain at home or in school
while completing training.
Mr. Forrestal did not agree to
these terms. He said the armed
services would supply their own!
ideas later.
Chairman Gurney said the plan
should allow the armed services and j
active reserve units "to fill their
ranks with trained men almost im
mediately.”
Second Revision of Program.
"But I still think we must have
a long-range UMT in order to cut
down the costs and size of large
regular forces in the future,” Sena
tor Gurney said.
Mr. Forrestal’s action marked the
second revision in the administra
tion's defense program. Earlier this
week he agreed to expand the Air
Force from 55 to 66 groups and
boost manpower ceilings by 61,000 to
a 1,795,000 total for the Army, Navy
and Air Force.
However, members of the House
Armed Services Committee predict
ed their group next week will ap
prove a draft bill raising the armed
forces to 2.006.000 men by the middle
of 1950—including 502.000 men for
a 70-group Air Force. The commit
tee will begin closed sessions on the
measure Tuesday.
And the Senate Appropriations
Committee will open hearings Mon
dav on a House-approved money
bill which would start the air arm
on its way toward 70-group strength.
Two Churchmen Heard.
A country preacher from Indiana,
E. Paul Weaver of Huntington
County, told the House committee
yesterday that American Legion i
leaders are pushing for a peacetime
draft without the support of their
own members.
He said the Legion had not polled
its membership on either draft or
UMT since 1919. John T. Taylor,
speaking for the Legion Thursday,
had indorsed the draft bill.
Another churchman, Charle F.
Boss of Chicago, executive secretary
of the Commission on World Peace
of the Methodist Church, opposed
! the draft bill._
Blaze Follows Blast
At Coast Refinery
By the Associated Press
EL SEGUNDO, Calif., April 24.—
The second explosion and fire in
less than five months imperiled
Standard Oil of California's giant
El Segundo refinery today.
It was listed as extinguished five
hours after a blast rocked much of
the harbor section at 3:30 a m., and
{sent a towering pillar of flames and
! smoke — visible 15 miles aw’ay —
mushrooming skyward.
‘‘It looked like hell below," an
I airline passenger reported as his
plane landed at Los Angeles Munic
ipal Airport, 2 miles away.
! Aside from minor burns to fire
men, the company said there were
no casualties. An investigation to
determine the cause was ordered.
Company officials said a fire, which
broke out 25 minutes before the
blast, permitted many workmen to
get safely away before a gasoline
| treating plant went up with an
j earthquake-like roar.
Winds fanned the flames, but a
half-dozen fire departments kept
them away from huge storage tanks
elsewhere on the sprawling refinery
property. Cause of a fire in the
same plant December 5 never has
been determined.
Argentine Seized as Spy
For U.S. Given Five Years
By the Associated Press
BUENOS AIRES, April 24.—A
German-born Argentine, accused of
divulging military secrets to a United
States Military attache, was sen
tenced yesterday to five years in
prison.
Eugenio Wittenberg, 58. a trans
j lator for the Argentine Army, was
convicted of obtaining information
on the strength and location of
j Army units and giving it to foreign
I diplomat*.”
Liner Lands 5 Flyers
Rescued From Rafis
After Crash at Sea
Navy Men Adrift 3 Hours;
Motors Failed 40 Miles
From Nantucket Lightship
By the Associated Press
NEW YORK# April 24.—Five
Navy flyers rescued from the icy
waters of the Atlantic last night
after they were forced to aban
don their medium bomber ar
rived here today on the United
States liner Washington.
The plane, a twin-engined Nep-1
tune, sank about 2 minutes after
they ditched it. The men spent
about 3 hours in rubber life rafts
about 40 miles off Nantucket Light
ship before the Washington rescued
them.
Except for being chilled from i
immersion in the water before they
clambered onto the rafts, the men
suffered no ill effects. The sea was
calm and after they had lashed the
two rafts together they said they
spent most, of the time ‘'joking'1
until rescuers arrived.
Returning From Bermuda.
The men, based at the Quonset
<R. I.) Naval Air Station, were re
turning from a routine navigational
flight to Bermuda when the plane’s
engines failed.
The pilot, Lt. Harvey H. Rouzer,
26, of Salisbury, N. C., gave orders
! to ditch the plane. He said it
hit the water with "not much of a!
i jolt and we were out in about 15 j
j seconds."
The rest of the crew were Ensign j
! Philip J. Fagan. 25, of Glen Cove,
|n. Y„ co-pilot; Ensign Sherman F.
Dudley, 25 of Madison, Wis., co
pilot and navigator; Aviation Chief
Machinists Mate Thomas F. Thurs
ton, 26. of Chester, Richmond, Va„
and Aviation Chief Radioman Wil
liam P. Delli-Gatti, 25, of Pitts
burgh.
The plane was ditched at about
6:37 p.m. <EST>. Two hours later;
>they spotted a ship’s lights and senti
up a flare. The flare was sighted j
by Navy planes in the area which
dropped additional flares to guide
the ship to the scene.
Climbed Up Jacob’s Ladder.
As the Washington reached the
men the ship was stopped and the
flyers paddled up to the side of the
ship and climbed up a Jacob's lad
der to a hatch.
"At about 8:30 p.m..” Lt. Rouzer
said, "we sighted the masthead
lights of a ship on the horizon
about 10 miles away. We waited
half an hour until it came nearer
<SeeRESCUE7Page A-2.)
Searchers Fail to Find
Sinking French Ship
By the Associated Press
j MIAMI, Fla., April 24—Army air
craft and Navy destroyers searched
j the area off Kingston. Jamica, where
the French ship St. Domingue was
I renorted today to be afire and be
ing abandoned, but no trace of the
I craft was found, Coast Guard head
quarters reported.
' Coast Guardsmen who organized
the rescue effort said "search is
continuing, but we are investi
gating the possibility of a hoax."
Radio messages purported to be
distress calls from the 3,159 ton
: French craft were intercepted over
an area reaching from California
to Florida.
The St. Domingue reported she
was afire 10 miles off Kingston. Dis
tress messages said that passen
gers and crew were abandoning
ship and the. vessel was sinking.
Long range rescue aircraft of the
Army’s Second Search and Rescue
Squadron, based in the Panama
Canal zone, and the Navy destroyers
Putnam and Keith sped to the
scene.
They reported no results from
i their search._
Truman Returns to Desk
After Overnight Cruise
President Truman returned to the
White House shortly before noon
todav after an overnight cruise on
ithe Williamsport in company with
Mrs. Truman and Miss Margaret
Truman.
j The yacht anchored off Quantico
last night.
The President went immediately
i to his desk on his return.
Stassen Supports Lilienthal
For Confirmation Despite Taft
Senator Expects Chamber Will Insist
On Recess Appointments to Commission
By the Associated Press
CLEVELAND, April 24.—Harold
E. Stassen disagreed today with
his Ohio primary rival, Senator
Taft, on confirming the new ap
pointment of David E. Lilienthal
as chairman of the Atomic En
ergy Commission.
“Unless there is some new evi
dence why Lilienthal should not be
confirmed.’’ Mr. Stassen told a news
conference, “this should be done."
Senator Taft said in a radio ap
pearance here last night he still op
posed MiT Lilienthal. He was one of
the leaders in the unsuccessful fight
against the original appointment in
1946. President Truman has nomin
ated Mr. Lilienthal for a new five
year term.
The Ohio Senator said it seemed
likely the Senate would insist on
recess appointments for the five
men named by the President this
week, including Mr. Lilienthal.
Many members of the Senate are
against the idea of carrying the ap
pointments over into a four-year
presidential term, he said.
Mr. Stassen said "I think it's the
wrong brand of politics to consider |
appointments on an entirely politi-1
cal basis. Mr. Lilienthal should be
judged solely on the basis of quali-j
fications and fitness."
He recalled that he had favored
the 1946 appointment.
Mr. Stassen is contesting Senator
Taft for 23 of the 53 delegates Ohio
will send to the Republican conven
tion. The primary is May 4, and
Mr. Stassen concludes his cam
paigning in the Buckeye State
today, except for a radio broadcast
on the eve of the voting. Senator
Taft will make another tour
through the State next week.
The former Minnesota Governor
said the questions asked him during
his tour of Ohio the past four days
reminded him of the campaigns in
Wisconsin and Nebraska, where he
won primary victories. He declined
(See TAFT, Page A-3.)
Foster Refuses
To Release FBI
File on Condon
(Earlier Story on Page B-6.)
By the Associated Press
William C. Foster,. Acting Secre
tary of Commerce, told the House
today that he cannot give it an FBI
loyalty report on Dr. Edward U.
Condon. He cited President Tru
man’s order directing that such re
ports be kept secret.
The House demanded the report
in a resolution adopted Thursday by,
a vote of 300 to 29.
A copy of the resolution was
' delivered to Mr. Foster yesterday.
! Today, the Commerce Department
made public a letter of reply which
f^r. Foster sent to John Andrews,
clerk of the House.
Mr. Foster wrote that he must
"respectfully decline” to turn over
the document and was referring the
whole matter to President Truman.
Nazi Hiding in Norway
Three Years Surrenders
By the Associated Press
OSLO. Norway, April 24.—A for
mer German soldier who hit for the
i hills when the Nazis in Norway sur
rendered three years ago has been
| caught.
The Trondheim newspaper Adres
seavisen said today a group of ski
ers in Central Norway's mountains
had found him, wearing furs, long
hair and an unkempt beard.
At first, the newspaper said, the
German pretended not to under
stand when the skiers spoke to him.
Then he explained he had fled
when the Germans surrendered.
For three years he had been liv
ing in a cave, fishing and hunting.
60-M.P.H. Chase Ends
Suddenly as Youth
Gives Up to Police
Driver Yields to Impulse
While Drawing Away
From Pursuing Auto
A teen-age youth led sixth pre
cinct police on a wild 65-mile-an
hour automobile chase early today
| before finally allowing his pursuers
j to overtake him.
The youth, Harry Hyman, 19. of
| 248 Hamilton street N.W., son of a
j Washington builder, gave up the
\ chase, police said, just as he seemed
to be pulling away from his pur
suers.
It all began when Pvts. Dozier
1 Eiland and George K. Brown, no
ticed-a car moving south in the 5800
block of Sixteenth street N.W., about
60 miles an hour.
The police car. a 1947 model,
swung around in pursuit of the
speeding car. a 1948 model of the
same make. This was the route. Pvt.
Eiland said, of the tortuous chase
that followed:
South on Sixteenth to Kennedy
1 stre t. east on Kennedy to Third
jstre , south on Third to Gallatin,
east on Gallatin to an alley, north
through the alley to Hamilton
street, east on Hamilton to New
Hampshire avenue, south on New
Hampshire to Gallatin, west on
Gallatin to Fourth street, and south
on Fourth to Shepherd street. 1
At times. Pvt. Eiland said, the two
cars were only yards apart. "But at
Fourth and Shepherd, he was a
good two blocks in front, and pick
ing up speed,” the officers said.
It was then that the youth's car
; (See-CHASE. Page A-2.»
Monk Fraser, Former Athlete,
Dies of Gunshot Wound Here
Starred in Sandlot
Games; Once Played
With New York Giants
Ralph E. (Monk) Fraser, 53,
well-known Washington sports
figure who once was an out
fielder with the New York
Giants, died early today of a
gunshot wound shortly after he
was found in the^atflroom of
his home, 1913 T place S.E., po
lice reported.
Mr. Fraser, manager of the Lucky
Strike Bowling Alleys here for sev
eral years,'•had been depressed over
I ill health for a long period, police
; said they were told.
Mr. Fraser was discovered shortly
before midnight by his wife, Mrs. Ida
Mae Fraser, on the floor of the
second-floor bathroom at their home,
police said.
She summoned a neighbor, Joseph
IV. Poe, 1911 T place S.E.. and a
Health Department ambulance was
summoned. . „
At that time, according to Mr.
Poe, It waa believed the wound In,
A
►
RALPH E. FRASER.
Mi". Fraser's head had been caused
by a fall in tne bathroom. Accord
ing to Mrs. Fraser, she had heard
no shot.
Mr. Fraser was taken imme
(See FRASER, Page A-3.)
U. S. Will Insist
Air Corridor,
Clay Declares
Entitled to German
Lane Under 4-Power
Agreement, He Says
By the Associated Press
BERLIN, April 24.—Gen. Lucius
D. Clay said today the United
States is entitled to unrestricted
use of the air corridor linking
Berlin with the western occupa
tion zones and intends to stand
on its rights.
This statement by the American
occupation commander came in the
wake of Russian Indications of an
intention to restrict air traffic of
the western Allies under proposed
new “safety regulations." The. cor
ridor is through soviet-occupied
territory.
Questioned about the proposed
Russian restrictionsj the American
military governor tdld a news con
ference:
“We will abide by the quadri
partite <four-power) agreements
which set up the air corridor and
we will continue the use of the
air corridor.”
He repeated the statement a sec
ond time for emphasis.
No Formal Soviet Proposals.
Gen. Clay would not discuss what
the American reaction would be
if the Russians attempted to Im
pose restrictions.
He said the four-power agree
ment on corridors prohibited forma
j tion flying and military maneuvers
and he averred this applied to
fighter escorts. However, he added:
’ When the time comes that you
have to use fighter escort I don’t
I think you'll worry about that very
much.”
The American commander said
the Russians had not yet made for
mal proposals for imposing air re
strictions. These have been official
ly recommended by the Soviet Air
Commission and published widely
in the German press in Berlin.
Little Hope for Solution.
Gen. Clay said also the Russians
had made no move to hold talks
they had proposed for clarifying
traffic restrictions which have halt
ed Allied rail, freight and passenger
service out of Berlin.
Newsmen asked if he thought a
reasonable solution could be reached
on this issue. He replied:
"Reasonable people can sit across
the table and develop a reasonable
solution, but I can't see much pros
pect on this.”
All-Jewish Army Camps
Mark Passover in Field
By the Associated Press
TFT. AVIV, Palestine, April 24.—
The feast of the Passover was cele
brated in the camps of an all
Hebrew army in the field last night
for the first time in almost 2,000
years.
Many of the camps taken over by
Hagana, the Jewish militia, were
established too hastily to provide for
Kosher food. But for the week-long
observation commemorating the ex
odus from Egypt, the ordinance of
the Passover will be observed: No
leavened bread will be served the
| soldiers, only matzoth.
Killy Hawk Plane's
Return Is Assured
The Wright brothers' Kitty Hawk
plane, first flown in 1903, definitely
will be returned to the United States
soon and will be exhibited in the
Smithsonian Institution, it was an
nounced jointly yesterday by the In
stitution, executors of the Orville
Wright estate and the Science Mu
seum of South Kensington, London.
The executors, Harold S. Miller
of Dayton, Ohio, and Harold W.
Steeper of Lawrence, Kans., said
last February the inventor’s papers
showed “definitely” it was his in
tention the plane should repose
eventually in the National Museum,
a unit of the Smithsonian. Yester
day’s statement, however, was the
first formal announcement ar
rangements had been made with the
English museum, where the plane
has been exhibited since 1928.
It was not indicated when or how
the plane would be shipped.
| Commercial airlines have offered
to bring it back as cargo, and a sug
gestion has been made it should be
! returned on an aircraft carrier.
Mr. Wright, who died January 30,
sent the plane to the London mu
seum as a result of a dispute with
the Smithsonian over credit for de
: signing the first flyable plane.
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Daylight Time
Begins Tomorrow
For 60 Millions
By the Associated Press
NEW YORK, April ?* —Some 60,
i000,000 of the Nations 115,000,000
! people will go on daylight saving
! time tomorrow. The switching hour
is 2 a.m. when conforming clocks
will be set forward 60 minutes.
Although “fast time" has won new
(converts this year, widespread ob
| servance will be pretty much limited
to the heavily populated Northeast
ern section of the country. As usual,
(rural areas in general will shun it.
(Until Congress completes ac
tion on legislation empowering
the Commissioners to order day
light saving time here, the Dis
trict will remain on standard
time.)
j Most railroads and airlines wi.l
continue to operate on standard
time.
Three radio networks, CBS, ABC
and MBS, will move their programs
ahead an hour.
NBC, however, will broadcast on
daylight time in the East. The pro- ,
grams will be recorded and then re
; transmitted from Chicago to stations
jin the Middle West and West where
summer time generally won't be ob
served.
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