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McDowell Challenges
Clark to Prosecute in
'Theft' of Condon File
By Associated Pro**
A lawmaker challenged Attor
ney General Clark today to back
up with prosecution the cabinet
officer’s hint that a disputed
loyalty document had been
stolen.
The challenge came from Repre
sentative McDowell, Republican, of
Pennsylvania, acting chairman of
the House Committee, on Un
American Activities, who also
cracked back at Mr. Clark as
“foggy-minded.”
The Condon case thus flared Into
a new name-calflng phase tn the
Wake of House passage of a bill to
compel executive agencies to bare
their files to Congress.
fjt was an FBI report bearing on
the loyalty of Dr. Edward U. Con
dpn, head of the National Bureau
of Standards, that led the Un
American Activities Committee to
press for enactment of the so-called
“secrets" measure. • , ..
Fails to Get Full Text.
The committee had failed to pry
loose from the Commerce Depart
ment the full text of an FBI 'et
ter it had quoted in part in term
ing Dr. Condon one qf the weakest
links in this country’s atomic se
curity.
The scientist has insisted he is
absolutely reliable, and has been
backed up by both his former and
present bosses—Secretaries of Com
merce Harriman and Sawyer.
The committee claims it .once was
given permission to check the Con
don files, but that when Its investi
gator started copying the FBI letter,
tl)e Commerce Department stopped
him; hence only part of it was ob
tained.
; Mr. Clark discussed the Condon
tase at a National Press Club
luncheon yesterday. After saying
lie thinks he knows where the com
inittee got hold of the FBI letter,
Jhe Attorney General added:
“I never heard of somebody steal
ing something and then asking that
some one else produce It.”
Representative McDowell sug
gested that if Mr. Clark really
thinks some one stole the letter,
he ought to prosecute. Committee
members, he said, "would be the
first to agree to such action.”
The committee, he added, will not
permit stealing by any of its em
ployes.
The Attorney General defended
President Truman's attitude in re
fusing to give the committee the
Condon letter, now in the Presi
dent's possession. The Attorney
General said 11 other Presidents,
dating back to George Washington,
have rejected request* of Congress
for information.
The bill the House passed yester
day would compel every congres
sional^ created executive agency to
give congressional committees in
formation they believe they need.
Failure to produce could be pun
ished by a fine of $1,000 and a prison
sentence of one year.
The same penalties Wo^ld apply
to committee membeAr ana em
ployes who divulge information once
the committee declares it confiden
tial.
Any executive official who, on
leaving office, takes with him official
or State papers or files, could be
jailed for a year and ’fined $1,000.
T8e House passed the bill by a
vote of 219 to 142 after making
certain that newsmen could not be
penalized for writing about confi
dential information they pick up.
The Senate is not expected to
set on it for some time, if at all.
and Mr. Truman has said he will
veto it if it reaches him.
Mundt Bill
(Continued From First Page.)
prison and a $10,000 fine and would
lose their United States citizenship.
The effect of these provisions, said
Representative Nixon, Republican,
of California, one of the bill’s co
authors. would be to “outlaw the
Communist Party as a secret, con
spiratorial organization."
Requires List of Members.
Another provision requires the
Communist Party to register annual
ly with the Justice Department and
furnish a list of all its members.
Failure to register, or false registra
tion, would be punishable by from
two to five years in prison and a fine
of $2,000 to $5,000.
Communists fronts—groups affili
ated with the party—also would have
to register but they would not be
required to file membership lists.
Another section would deny pass
ports and non-elective government
jobs to Communists, require Com
munists to label writen and radio
propaganda as coming from a Com
munist source, and compel the party
to report where it gets its finances
and how it spends them.
As the House started debate, ex
pected to run through next Tues
day, members had before them a
letter from the CIO condemning the
bill as a threat to "the existenoe of
bona fide labor unions” and a men
ace to “civil rights guaranteed to
every American by the constitu
tion."
Mr. Thomas made his plea for the
bill in a statement drafted at a
hospital where he is recovering from
a recent illness. He arranged to
have it read to the House by Rep
resentative McDowell. Republican
of Pennsylvania, acting committee
chairman.
Called Soviet Fifth Column.
Mr. Thothas called the Communist
Party in the United States "nothing
more nor less than a fifth-column
arm of the Soviet Union” and said
the committee’s bill would provide
“a. fair yet . adeqaute defense”
against it.
“It is not a witch-hunter's mani
festo,” he added. "It is a sane and
effective approach to a problem
which is entirely new in the field
of legislation.”
Mr. Thomas said the bill’s ap
proval by his committee after long
study was the signal for the Com
munists to launch “one of their
greatest campaigns.”
Mr. Isacson, in his address pre
pared for delivery during the day,
insisted the bill is aimed “not
against the bugaboo of communism
but rather against the prospect
which is far more menacing in the
ejes of the ruling few—the prospect
of full and free democracy in Amer
ica."
Says It Violates Tradition.
"This bill is not the legislation of
a democracy against something
which menaces that democracy.” he
said. “Rather, this is legislation
against the founding traditions of
America — the traditions of free
speech, free thought, free worship,
free association and free movement.
*Tht underling significance and
*
The Federal Spdtlight
Poll of Opinion About Bosses - '
To Redden Some Official Faces
By Joseph Young
There are going to be some very red faces among Government
officials when the staff of the Senate Civil Service Committee re
leases its survey among rank-and-file employes who were asked
to express their opinions of their bosses.
The committee will release the report within the next few
weeks on a spot-check questionnaire'
that it asked a representative cross
section of Federal employes to fill
out. Here are a few of the interest
mg items tne
report will con
tain:
A large num
ber of employes
had nothing but
praise for their
employers, but
some of them
were quite caus
tic in their ap
praisal of their
bossea’ failures
as administra
tors and as "real
guys.”
S u r prisingly
enough, the ma
J«»b Tonne.
jority of employes were apparently
well satisfied with the much
maligned Federal efficiency rating
system. Most of those answering
the questionnaire said they thought
their efficiency rating marks were
correct.
The overwhelming majority of
employes favored Government em
ployes’ unions—which is a little
paradoxical, since the majority of
Federal workers do not belong to
unions. This, perhaps, is an indict
ment of the organizing methods of
Federal employes' unions, who ap
parently can obtain far larger mem
bership by an intensive organizing
drive.
* * * *
THERE’S 'A LIMIT—An over
worked official at the Commerce
Department’s office of International
trade has been forced to take some
work home every night to keep up
with the load. He even works at
home on Sunday.
This has been going on for some
weeks now and has proved extremely
annoying to his wife.
Last Sunday he was working at
home as usual when noise outside
attracted him to his window. A
crowd was gazing at his house.
The reason for their curiosity was
soon apparent: His wife had hung
up a sign on the outside of the
house which read:
"Commerce Department Annex.”
* * * *
AGRICULTURE—The bill ap
proved the other day by the Senate
Appropriations Committee would
permit the Agriculture Department
to hire between 200 and 300 em
ployes In its Research and Market
ing Administration.
A considerable number of these
jobs would involve economists, as
well as other types of positions.
Whether these new jobs will be
created depends on retention of the
Senate's version In House-Senate
conference.
Also, the Senate committee’s bill
would save several hundred jobs in
other Agriculture bureaus that
would have to be cut under the
House-passed measure.
* * * *
THAT’S DIFFERENT—The House
Appropriations Committee has been
busv this year chopping the budget
requests of the various Government
departments, but it’s a different
situation when the budget request is
nearer home. .
The committee was very generous
when it came to Congress’ own ap
propriations for the next year,
granting just about everything that
the House and Senate asked for.
Economy, it’s wonderful! Especial
ly when the other fellow practices
! itl
♦ * * *
JUSTICE—Its reported that As
sistant Attorney General John F.
Sonnett has gained the backing of
the New York City Bar Association
for the United States District Court
Federal judgshlp for the Southern
District of New York.
Mr. Sonnett is one of the best
liked and most capable officials in
the Justice Department and will
leave the department in a few days
to enter private law practice. But
friends say they believe he would
accept the judgeship, if it were
offered to him.
In indorsing Mr. Sonnett, the
New Yoyk bar group’s judiciary
committee rejected the candidacy
of Samuel H. Kaufman, Manhattan
attorney, who has the backing of
New York Democratic chieftains.
* * * *
CAPITAL ROUNDUP—The House
Appropriations Committee is to re
port out the Army and Navy and
Air Force Departments' 1949 appro
priations bills within the next few
weeks. The departments will be
given enough money to hire thou
sands of additional new employes.
. . . Mrs. Jennie K. Smith has been
appointed administrative assistant
to MaJ. Gen. Muir S. Fairchild,
the Air Force vice chief of staff.
Senator Millikin of Colorado, one
of the Republican leaders in the
Senate, has joined with his col
leagues in assuring Government
employes’ groups that Congress will
approve a Federal pay raise bill at
this session.
Additional news of Govern
ment affairs and personalities
make up Joseph Young's broad
cast version of the Federal Spot
light at 3:15 p.m. every Sunday
on WMAL, the Star station.
real purpose of the bill is an attempt
by the administrative bi-partisan
coalition to stifle the mounting crit
icisrrf its Wal^S(rgpt-Wes| Point
'poiirtter ~ • ' 5
Mr. Thomas and other supporters
of the measure predict the House
will pass it by a four-to-one margin.
Its prospect for passage in the Sen
ate are generally regarded as slim.
TweFighler Planes Explode
In Alaska; One Body Found
By th« Associated Press
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, May 14.—
Two Air Force fighter planes ex
ploded yesterday and crashed flam
ing into the waters of Knik Arm in
full view of hundreds of Anchorage
residents.
One bodv was found floating in
an oil slick on the water. The other
was not recovered immediately..
A second explosion in the water,
about three miles out from the main
section of Anchorage, was heard
through this city of 20,000 people.
Herb Rhodes of the Anchorage
Tmes, who witnessed the Crash,
said four P-51s were maneuvering
about four miles in the air. The two
peeled off, he said, and went into
an almost vertical dive.
At 5,000 feet, Rhodes said, the
ships were blasted apart by an ex
plosion and parts of wings and
fuselage rained earthward.
The planes were from Elmtadorf
Field here.
Fort Myer Dance Put Off
The spring dance of the Robert
E. Lee Chapter of the Reserve Of
ficers' Association, originally set for
tonight at Fort Myer, has been post
poned indefinitely due to the death
yesterday of Col. Jesse B. Matlack,
commanding officer, it was an
nounced today by C. E. Larson,
chapter publicity director.
Pimlico Entries
6y the Associated Press
FIRST RACE—Purse. *2,600: claiming;
4-yesr-olds end upward. 6 furlongs.
Grand Toy 11H Prank Hunter IIP
xBownun's Dale 111 Easter Mlo- 113
xxlnnercole 104 xGtno Gold 113
Burning Twig 118 xLucky Birthday log
xxEire . _ 111 Foneda- 113
Trout Lake _ 118 Sunlette - 110
Knights Hurry 111 Rakish Jane ._ 113
xRave On Red . 113 Golden Brown.. 113
SECOND RACK*-Purse. *2.500: claim
ing; 4-year-olds and ud; R furlongs.
xxPeroggtlve __ 100 xBrlarbroom— 114
Good Hunting. 118 xxKee Ho 111
xLoutey _111 xBrlght Bronie. 108
xLeprechaun_113 xxBoway- 111
aWoofle _118 xxPondshen_111
BayOrders . _ 11R Alemannla_ 116
aLady Loudoun 111 Javert- 118
Captain Dave . 118 Brest- 116
THIRD RACE—Purse. *3,000; maiden
3-year-olds; li’. miles. .
Discovert __ 115 Happy Victor . 1-0
Stalemate 120 xPrince Aumar 115
:M Derby Dav 113 Lenea --115
King Chatter. _ 120
FOURTH RACE—Purse. *2.500: claim
ing; 4-year-olds and upward; Its miles.
Sir Bogie . 118 xPatience -108
Brown Brush . 113 xKimberley-113
xlmsge of Love 108 Sir Carrol — 118
xEndtown - 108 xxProloe -111
xRelious . 113 xGremy -3 08
xxVerv Brave . 114 Sunawma- 113
Our P.isk ... 118 Tlraoti_118
Some Where_113
FIFTH RACE—Purse. *5.000: allow
ances: 4-year-olds and upward. It's miles.
Billy Bumps... 108 a Pilaster -121
Petee Dee _109 xButler .. .. 116
a Bahrameter - 109 xGlen Heather 111
a Pentagon Stable-H. L. Straus entry.
SIXTH RACE—The Preakness; purse.
*100.000 added; 1 3/16 miles
Bovard . ... 128 Better Self-126
Vulcans Porge - 128 Citation -126
SEVENTH RACE—Allowances: purse,
*4.500: 3-year-olds: 6 furlongs.
Brandy Punch. 119 xFantom V'ture 105
xSunelsie - 10o Wee Nip-105
Miss Pldgeon.. 102 Euuliun -- 110
Sulblt ... 122 Sweet Biscuit. 105
ng Midas — 119 Dutel -113
xCertified _ 105 War Dauber .. 107
EIGHTH RAC*—Purae. *3.600: claim
ing. 4-year-olds and upward: Hi miles.
xxLoyal . 112 a Sightseer . 122
xBlll Monahan 114 b Reigh Morse 111
Copy Boy _ 118 b Tattler .. . 114
Omaha Mike . 116 xJohnnie C. 114
xAlworth .117 exReno Untried 106
Impenetrable 119 a Our Birthday 122
l Old Faithful . 116 c Dustralser Ill
Our Merrick . 119
a P. Shenskl entry.
b J. T. Gibson and Nsncy S. Forbes en
try.
e 8. J. Cicero entry.
it pounds: xx 7 pounds apprentice al
lowance claimed.
Gen. Adler Advocates
Curbs on Communists
To Guard Freedoms
, By Hi* Associated Press
NEW YORK. Mar M.-^Maj OeH.
Julius Ochs Adler, vice president
and general manager of the New
York Times, professed “mounting
sympathy” yesterday for those per
sons demanding affirmative action
against the Communists in the
United States.
Addressing the closing session of
the four-day 17th annual conference
of the Chaplains Association of the
Army and Navy of the United States,
he presented arguments on the ques
tion of outlawing the Communist
Party in this country.
Gen. Adler, who discussed alter
natives to outlawing the party,
said:
“None of our freedom is absolute,
nor could it and long survive. Free
dom of the press does not Include
the right to print the libelous or
obscene.
Freedoms Restricted.
“All of our freedoms are restricted
at the point where their abuse
might imperil the rights, comfort
or safety of the community as a
whole. Why, then, should we ab
solve from restrictions a group
whose loyalty is not to this Nation
or its flag, whose demonstrated
creed is the extinction of freedom
wherever they get power?”
“Perhaps we should act toward
the Communist Party as we would
toward any other proved danger
which hinders us in our prepared
ness for peace.”
Maintaining that the word
"party” is not to be applied legiti
mately to American Communists,
Gen. Adler continued:
"No citadel of liberty is likely to
fall if we deprive the Communists
of the franchise we traditionally ac
cord to legitimate political parties.
On the contrary, perhaps our lib
erty would thereby become stronger
and more secure.”
Always Underground.
Replying to those who contend
that outlawing the Communists
would drive them underground, Gen.
Adler said they always have been
underground. He declared:
"Infiltration, conspiracy, sabotage,
organized turmoil and agitation all
mask under a hundred innocent
sounding names behind a thousand
unsuspected fronts.”
The association re-elected as
president the Rev. Robert J. White,
retired rear admiral and dean of the
Catholic University law school.
Congress in Brief
ly fht Auacia»*d Pr«i
Senate.
Votes on confirmation of Jess Lar
son as War Assets administrator, re
sumes consideration of $708,587,000
Army civil functions appropriation
bill.
Appropriations Committee hears
additional witnesses on European
Recovery Program.
Foreign Relations Subcommittee
considers international wheat agree
ment.
Republican Policy Committee dis
cusses legislative program at closed
session.
House.
Opens debate on bill to curb Com
munists.
Armed Services Committee hears
Secretary of the Navy Sullivan on
warship construction.
Banking Committee hears church
and school women on housing.
Foreign Affairs Committee ques
tions Columnist Dorothy Thompson
and others on United Nations char
ter.
Ways and Means Committee con
tinues tax revision studies.
p
New Civil Rights Fight
Due in Senate as One
Showdown Is Averted
By J. A. O'Leary
The Senate is clear of the civil
rights issue temporarily, but not
for long.
By a vote of 38 to 37. It sent
back to committee late yesterday
a bill which threatened to open
up a filibuster-battle over President
Truman’s whole civil rights pro
gram.
Within a week, however, the
problem will be back on the floor
in limited form on the draft bill,
and before the session ends next
month a full-scale showdown is
due on the anti-lynching bill.
The measure sidetracked yester
day by a one-vote margin was in
tended to give congressional ap
proval to a compact to be entered
into by IS Southern States for joint
operation of colleges. It had passed
the House, but Senate recommittal
virtually killed it for this year.
Recommittal Moved By Morse.
Senator Morse, Republican, of
Oregon, a leading advocate of civil
rights, wanted. assurance there
would be no racial discrimination in
the schools established under the
compact. He offered the recommit
tal motion and had announced that
if it failed he would offer the entire
civil rights program as amendments.
Such a move probably would
have brought on immediately the
Southern filibuster expected later
on the anti-lynching bill. That
would have tied up action on the
draft and important appropriation
bills.
Nearly all the Southerners voted
to keep the college-compact bill be
fore the Senate, however, prefer
ring to face the civil rights issue
now. As the roll call ended it
looked for a moment as though they
had succeeded. The vote stood at
37 to 36 against recommittal when
Senators Johnson, Democrat, of
Colorado, and Capper, Republican
of Kansas, arrived just jn time to
vote for recommittal, giving it a
one-vote margin.
Southerners to Take Offensive.
When the Senate takes up the
draft bill, the civil rights issue will
be presented in reverse. In that
instance the Southerners will take
the offensive by offering an amend
ment designed to make possible a
continuation of segregation in the
armed forces.
Senator Russell, Democrat, of
Georgia, plans to offer the amend
ment, under which each service
man would be entitled to certify in
writing whether he wanted to serve
in a unit composed entirely of
members of his own race.
Even if the Senate defeats the
amendment, as the Armed Services
Committee already has done, it will
consume time.
TTie Senate may spend two or
three days wrangling over how
much to spend on river, harbor and
flood control projects next year
before taking up the draft next
week.
The anti-lynching bill is not yet
out of the Judiciary Committee.
Senate Action Criticized *
By Six Southern Governors
ATLANTA, May 14 (JP). — Six
Southern Governors expressed dis
appointment or blamed "politics”
for the Senate move hi shelving a
bill to give approval to a Southern
plan for regional universities.
Governors Caldwell of Florida and
Thompson of Georgia blamed poli
tics.
Gov. Caldwell, chairman of the
Regional Council for Education,
said: "I am sorry to see better, high
er education for the South fall vic
time to politics.”
Gov. Thompson said the Senate's
action "smacks of politics. Most of
the States in the South are not
financially able to support higher
education in all specialized fields
and they need the co-operation of
other States in this endeavor.”
Gov. McCord of Tennessee said
he was disappointed, and hopes the
plan will be reconsidered.
Gov. Thurmond of South Caro
lina and Gov. Wright of Mississippi
also voiced disappointment, but
Gov. Tuck of Virginia said he be
lieves the Southern States can pass
uniform legislation to establish these
regional schools.
Weather Report
District of Columbia — Mostly
cloudy with a few showers likely.
Highest this afternoon about 70 de
grees. Partial clearing with lowest
tonight about 03. Tomorrow, mostly
sunny, with highest about 70.
Virginia—Pair southwest portion,
a few scattered showers east and
north portions this afternoon and
early tonight. Slightly cooler to
night. Tomorrow partly cloudy and
warmer in the afternoon.
Maryland—Scattered showers this
afternoon and early tonight. Some
what cooler tonight. Tomorrow
partly cloudy and warmer in the
afternoon.
Wind velocity, 7 miles per hour;
direction, south-southeast.
Five-Day Weather Forecast—May 14
Through May 18.
Northern Virginia and Maryland—
Temperature will average about two
degress above normal. Normal maxi
mum. 74; normal minimum, 54.
Somewhat warmer Saturday after
noon and Sunday with little change
Monday. Cooler Tuesday and Wed
nesday. Showers Tuesday and Wed
nesday. Total rainfall about one
half inch.
River Report.
(Prom Cm ted States Engineers.)
Potomac River muddy at Harpers Perry
and at Great Palls; Shenandoah muddy1
at Harpers Perry.
■amldity
Yesterday— Pet Todiy— Pet.
Noon _95 Midnight _95
4 p.m. _84 8 a m. _,_96
8 p m. _94 1:3U P.m. _08
Temperatures.
Yesterday’s high, 77. at 4:54 p.m.: low.
56, at 11:56 a m. Year's highest. 90. on
Mey 11: lowest, 5. on January 28. Nor
mal maximum this date. 74 degrees;
minimum. 63 degrees.
Tide Tables.
(Purnlahtd by United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey.)
Today. Tomorrow
High _12:56 p.m. 1:40 a.m.
Low _ 7:25 a.m. 8:36 a.m.
High _ .. - 1:58 pm.
Low _ . 8:13 p.m. 9:15 p.m.
Tbt Saw and Mean.
Rises. Sets.
Sun. todsy _ _ 5:56 8:13
Sun. tomorrow_ 5:55 8:14
Moon today.. 10:48 a.m. 1:19 a.m.
Automobile lights must ba turned on
one-half hour after aunaet.
Since May 1. 4.92 Inches: May normal.
3.70 inches: Msy record, 10.69 inches in
1889. Since January 1. 17.90 inchee, 15
inches more than normal.
Tcsaperaturaa in Variaws Cities.
Albueueraue 83 67 Miami ... 82 74
Atlanta 87 66 Milwaukee . 62 47
Atlantic City 67 49 New Orleans 86 69
Bismarck . 74 65 New York .. 58 47
Boston .. 55 44 Norfolk. 81 59
Buffalo_ 67 49 Oklah'a City 72 57
Chicago .. 57 44 Omaha_ 74 57
Cincinnati.. 64 51 Phoenix... 101 64
Detroit-SO 49 Pittsburgh- 70 52
XIPaso_ 88 65 Portland... 53 44
Oalvtston 86 73 St. Louis. . 64 48
Harrisburg . 64 50 SaltLakeC'y 79
Indianapolis 58 49 San Antonio 84 99
Kansas city 74 59 San Prane'o 48
iSUaSf: U 66 fSmSi:::: K ft
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Draft Action in House
Threatened by Dispute
Of Two Committees
•y th« Associated Press
A new tug-of-war between
the Rules and Armed ServicesJ
Committees threatened today to
stymie House action on draft
legislation.
As the clash developed the House
received President Truman’s request
for $2,434,441,000 more for the ex-{
panding defense program. Thisj
brings total defense estimates to j
more than 14 billions for the year
starting July 1.
Although Congress generally has
been going along with Mr. Truman’s
requests for military funds, it has
not approved his plans for increas
ing the manpower of the armed
forces by a temporary draft and
universal military training.
Both manpower plans are involved
in the House committees’ dispute.
The Armed Services Committee has
approved both a UMT and a draft
bill, but both measures have been
blocked by the Rules Committee.
Allen Asks Hearings.
Chairman Allen of the Rules
group set off the new clash in a
letter yesterday to Chairman
Andrews of the Armed Services
Committee.
Mr. Allen asked for hearings on
his draft substitute—a bill which
would offer bonuses to volunteers
instead of reviving selective service.
President Truman has said Mr.
Allen’s plan is the most asinine
proposition he has yet sedh.
Mr. Andrews could not be reached
immediately for comment on the
Allen letter.
The Rules chairman has set no
date for hearings on the draft
measure, although he said he would
not hold up action on it to get
consideration of his bill.
Before Mr. Allen made his request
public, Mr. Andrews told a reporter
he expected a draft bill hearing be
fore the Rules Committee next
week. Speaker Martin said the bill
probably will not reach the floor
until the week after that.
senate May ueiay vrait uenate.
Senate floor debate on a com
bined draft-voluntary training bill
probably also will be delayed by a
program announced today by the
Senate Republican Policy Com
mittee.
It calls for passage of flood con
trol and harbor improvement ap
propriations and the displaced per
sons bill next week before tackling
military manpower needs.
Chairman Taft said the Senate
policy group discussed at length the
details of the draft bill, including
the Southern move to preserve
segregation. The Ohio Senator said
no conclusions were reached and
further conferences will be held.
The extra funds asked by the
President bring to $3,199,441,000 the
total additional money requested for
defense since January. At that time
Mr. Truman estimated the armed
forces' budget needs at $11,000,000,
000.
How Money Would Be Spent.
This is how the new money would
be spent: $221,794,000 for the Air
Force to increase the number of
planes in active use to 10,297 first
and second line planes; $669,354,
000 for the Navy to increase per
sonnel and bring the fleet to active
peacetime strength; '$1,542,307,000 to
boost the Army’s year-end strength
from 560,000 to 790,000 officers and
enlisted men.
The additional request does not
include the $822,000,000 which Con
gress has approved to start building
a 70-group Air Force. That sum is
part of a $3,200,000,000 bill dipping
into the original defense estimate
ahead of schedule.
Mr. Truman did not mention the
70-group measure in his message
to Speaker Martin. He has not yet
acted on the bill, but la expected
to sign it shortly.
Academy to Hear Wilson
ANNAPOLIS, May 14 (/F).—Charles
E. Wilson, president of General
Electric Corp., will speak on "War
time Mobilization of Industry” at
the Naval Academy tonight.
Potomac Dragged After Finding
Of Escaped Prisoner's Clothes
Harbor police today were drag
ging the Potomac River In the
vicinity of the Souea Bridge after
the discovery of a man’s clothes
and a “suicide note" near the east
end of the bridge last night
Wiliam McBride, 939 M street
N.W., reported about 10:30 pm. that
he had found a man’s shirt, trou
sers, raincoat, keyring, knife and
billfold on the railing, together with
a lengthy note addressed to the
Metropolitan Police.
Identification papers in the bill
fold bore the name of Eugene Col
lier, 19, of the 400 block of Tenth
street S.W. Police questioned the
youth’s mother last night. They said
they w$re told her son was an es
Packing House
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their families with the only means
available. There is no need for the
National Guard. The union neither
desires nor will It institute violence
on the picket line, but we will not
stand idly by and see our strike
smashed, our union wrecked and
our working conditions set back a
100 years.’
Six carloads of office workers, pre
viously admitted daily, were turned
back at the main Cudahy gate this
morning when they attempted to
report for work. A force of 30
pickets was on duty at this point.
In addition to pickets thrown
across the gate entry, the union is
maintaining two watchhouses beside,
the road to the plant, 50 feet from
the entrance. Newspapermen and
photographers are among those
halted at these advance stations.
The Minneapolis Tribune reported
pickets seized the camera of one
of its photographers when he at
tempted to take a picture of their
line.
Six Treated at Plant.
H. W. Reister, Cudahy superin
tendent, said many of the raiders
carried clubs and lengths of pipe.
Dr. William J. Watson, Newport
physician called to the plant shortly
after the raid, said he had treated
six injured men in the company’s
administration building. He said
one of them was seriously hurt.
Sheriff Granquist said his depu
ties were concentrating efforts on
finding the remainder of the men
taken away by the raiders.
At 4 a m. the sheriff said five of
the missing men had made their
way back into the plant, one of
them an unidentified engineer,
badly hurt. The other four were
unharmed, the sheriff reported. All
refused to talk, he said.
The sheriff said plant workers had
recognized some of the raiding!
party members and that warrants
for those members would probably
be issued today.
Leonard Johnson, Minnesota labor
conciliator, and William Sampson,
his assistant, were allowed to enter
the plant toe make an inspection,
also at 4 a.m.
In Plant Half an Hour.
Sheriff Granquist, whose head
quarters are at Stillwater about 18
miles away, said the invaders had
left the property before he and a
deputy arrived here on a summons
from Mr. Reister.
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He said "damage was evident in
every department” of the plant.
Employes of Cudahy, along with
the Swift and Armour plants, mem
bers ot the CIO- Packing House
Workers, have been out since the
strike over ‘ wages began' March 16.
Union spokesmen at South St.
Paul, contacted shortly after the
raid, disclaimed any knowledge of
the incident.
Mr. Reister said the raiders broke
locks on feeding pens adjoining the
plant and freed the 200 hogs to roam
the countryside.
He said machinery had been
smashed , electric and telephone
wires torn out and the offices “left a
wreck” with desks and filing cases
and their contents spilled "almost
100 per cent.”
"It was complete mob rule for
about a half hour,” he said.
"The watchman never had a
chance. The invaders, split up into
groups, rushed the gates from all
sides and quickly overpowered them.
"Then, apparently working on a
schedule, the various groups again
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caped prisoner from the Occmuan
(Va.) workhouse. She was qfoted
as saying he had threatened stlcide
several times.
According to Occoquan authorities
a Eugene Collier arrived at the
workhouse April 1 to serve a 160-day
sentence for assault and several
traffic violations. They said he es
caped five days after his arrival.
Police, who refused to disclose the
contents of the note discovered with
the clothing, were investigating the
possibility that a “suicide” may have
been deliberately staged by the es
caped prisoner. They pointed out:
that the clothes were found near a!
street light, and that traffic is mod-!
erately heavy on the bridge during
the early evening.
split up to enter the various depart
ments and wreak the damage.”
The South St. Paul battle began
when officials ordered the pickets to
reduce their numbers to 10 between
curb lines and four on each side
walk. A court injunction issued yes
terday set this limit.
When the pickets did not comply.
Sheriff Norman Dieter, Chief of
Police Louis Fuller and some of their
men began to walk toward the
crowd. There were boos. Then
pickets and police began to shove
and fists flew. The officers retired.
Chief Fuller said he would not try
further to open the line when he
had so few men.
Later 200 men and women, identi
fying themselves as both union and
nonunion employes, called on Gov.
Youngdahl at the Capitol in St.
Paul. They said they wanted to
return to work and asked what he
intended to do about the violence.
The Governor said he .would not
permit violence to continue and that
he would throw “the full force of my
office behind efforts to help out this
situation.”
Farm
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that improvements still are needed.
Timber land is being depleted, he
said, and "we have not yet con
quered the flood menace on mo6t
of our rivers.” •
For strengthening the programs
to assure adequate consumption of
farm products, the President advo
cated continued research and im
proved marketing methods. He also
pointed out that important fafctors
in this connection are the recipro
cal trade agreements act and the
International wheat agreement
which is now before the Senate for
ratification. The trade agreements
act is having rough sledding.
The school lunch program also
has an important bearing on con
sumption, Mr. Truman pointed, out,
and he added: “I believe that we
should start now to develop a prac
tical program to use agricultural
surpluses to improve the diets of
low-income families and have it
ready on a standby basis in case
of need.”
Mr. Truman said, too, that efforts
should be made to improve living
standards in rural areas, specifying
that better health services and high
er housing standards are needed
along wtih better education and ex
Norman Thomas Says'
Marshall Committed ,
Bad Error on Russia '
By ttw Auodattd Prau
Norman Thomas said today
that Secretary of State Marshall
committed a "serious error in
policy” in the recent American
interchange of notes with Mos
cow.
Mr. Thomas, white-haired Social
ist Party nominee for President,
said “our State Department is
handing Communist propagandists
an unnecessary victory."
He told the House Foreign Affairs
Committee:
"It is very unconvincing and dis-'
appointing that a man capable of
Mr. Marsh aill's proposals for Euro
pean economic recovery should fall
back on technicalities for not taking
advantage of the opportunity Soviet
Foreign Minister Molotov has of
fered plainly, to state an Ameri- #
can program for peace.
‘The peoples of the world do not
follow Secretary Marshalls techni
cal explanations.”
Would Capitalize on Move. "
Mr. Thomas said Mr. Molotov s
recent note, replying to a note by
American Ambassador Walter Be
dell Smith, had placed Mr. Molotov
before the world "in a more reason
able and realistic light than for
many months."
He said the joy with which it was
welcomed was highly significant. Ha
added:
"We Americans owe it to ourselves
and to the world to capitalize on it,,
The way in which the Russin.i
action has been received by our
State Department may have some
excuse in the technical points Sec
retary Marshall has raised, but it is
nevertheless a serious error in pol-,
icy.”
Mr. Thomas appeared to testify
in support of a resolution by Repre
sentative Judd. Republican, of Min
nesota for President Truman to call
a conference to revise the United.
Nations Charter.
The purpose of such a conference
would be to eliminate the big power
veto in cases of aggression.
Marshall’s Arguments Assailed.
Gen. Marshall, supported by Mr.
Truman, has opposed the move. The
Secretary has said a showdown with
Moscow riiw might drive Russia out
of the U. N. and split the world into
two armed camps.
•‘There is no escaping the fact
that the limitation of veto power
is an absolute essential," Mr.
Thomas said.
‘‘There is no more dangerous fal
lacy than the notion that the U. N.
can serve the peace or pave the way
for ultimate democratic world gov
ernment if the veto power is con
tinued unchecked.
"The argument that an attempt
to improve the United Nations, if
unsuccessful, will destroy that body,'
is the worst condemnation of iti
usefulness that I have heard.”
Pleasant Plains Meeting
The Pleasant Plains Civic Associa
:icn will hold its final meeting of th*
season at 8 o’clock tonight at the
Monroe School, Columbia road be
;ween Georgia and Sherman ave
uues N.W.
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