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 % t 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 (Continued Prom First Page.) 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. was in*ttf?flh3it'about^sffmtfhSr?* 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 Apparel for the M DiscriMENating 1 Smart Heads Stay Cool in “Malvern Club” For gentlemen who love their comfort i but insist on good styling even in si summer hat, the Dobbs "Malvern Club” it the ideal choice. For town or country, made of air-cool coconut weave, with colorful band. From our distinctive col lection of summer apparel, tt. Dobbs Straws, $6 to $35 I RING BUILDING Sterling 8810 af the triangle of Connecticut Avenue ot M Sts. Free Parking Facilities * 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 (Continued From First Page.) 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. 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