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House Draft Bill Moves
Slowly Toward Floor;
Senators Deadlocked
By Robert K. Walsh
Draft bills in Congress were
still far from settled today. The
House Rules Committee, ques
tioning the need or urgency of
selective service, continued pub
lic hearings that may run into
next week. Senate supporters of
a draft-universal military train
ing measure tried in vain to And
a compromise with Southern
members on the racial segrega
tion issue.
Chairman Allen of the Rules
Committee indicated the draft bill
reported out by the Armed Services:
Committee wold be celared event-:
ually for floor debate. But he said:
several witnesses will be heard and
commented that "I don’t believe it
wiil make any difference whether
this bill is finished this week or
next.”
Hearings which began yesterday
morning were to be resumed this;
afternoon. Rules Committee mem-[
bers said they had further questions!
to ask of Chairman Andrews of the
Armed Services Committee. Sev- j
eral other members of the Armed
Services Committee are expected
to testify.
Senators In Controversy.
Mr. Andrews sponsored the bill
fixing armed forces' manpower ceil
ings at aproximately 2.006,000 and
providing for registration of men
18 through 30, with possible in
duction of those 19 through 25 for
two years’ service.
The sometimes bitter exchanges
that marked yesterday's Rules Com
mittee hearing were matched by a
less open> but more explosive con
troversy among Senators attempt
ing to arrange for Senate debate on
a draft-UMT bill next week.
Senator Russell, Democrat, cf
Georgia told reporters he would not
agree to a proposed compromise
whereby Secretaries of the Army,!
Navy and Air Force would decide
the racial status of units in which
draftees and trainees would serve.
Men Could Choose Units.
The Georgia Senator has intro
duced an amendment whereby a
man, drafted or enlisted under the
bill, would serve in a "unit of his
own race” if he so requested.
The bill, approved by the Senate
Armed Services Committee, now
states that “there shall be no dis
crimination against any person on
account of race or color” in the en
forcement of the proposed law.
The measure would require regis
tration of men 18 through 30, with
-those 19 through 25 subject to in
duction for two years’ service. About
161,000 of the 18-year-old group
would be called for one year train
ing and they could volunteer for
that period.
It was learned that Senator Lodge,
Republican, of Massachusetts plans
to introduce the substitute amend- j
ment giving the Army. Navy and
Air Force secretaries authority to
de^de racial status of units.
Unacceptable to Southerners.
This is unacceptable to the South- j
ern group, Senator Russell said, be
cause it does not give "freedom of
choice’’ to the individual. Moreover,
he said, President Truman has ad
vocated elimination of regregation
in the armed forces.
Other defense legislation develop
ments yesterday included House
Armed Services Committee approval
of a bill allowing the Navy to stop
work on 13 unfinished warships and
to start building a 65,000-ton air
craft carrier that would be the
world’s largest naval vessel.
The committee also approved a
bill, similar to one expected to re
ceive favorable action by the Senate
Armed Services Committee, per
mitting the Defense Department to
retain 200 surplus World War II
plants as a reserve. Most of those
plants were scheduled for disposal
by the War Assets Administration.
Child, Aged Man Hurt
In Street Accidents
A 19-month-old girl and a 92
year-old man were among the vic
tims of traffic accidents yesterday.
The child. Rita Helton, 4425 Mac
Arthur boulevard N.W., was taken
to Georgetown Hospital with head
Injuries after she was struck by an
automobile when she walked from
between parked cars on the boule
vard. police reported.
Police identified the driver of the
ear as Charles L. Huntington, 47,
of 20 Ingraham street N.W.
Henry E. Rottmer. 92, of 811 F
street N.E., refused treatment after
a backing truck hit him as he
crossed Eighth street near the P
street intersection, according to
police, who said he had bruises on
his knee and temple.
The driver. William F. Clarke, jr„
20, of 955 Fourteenth street S.E.,1
was charged with backing without
caution, police said.
Automatic dial telephone systems;
have just been installed in the Bel
gian Congo.
Stress on 25-35 Age Group
Traced to Disillusionment
By Thomas R. Henry
$ci*nct Editor of Th« Star
Life between 25 and 35 is a decade
of disillusion.
This was stressed before the
American Psychiatric Association,
meeting here today, by Dr. Edward
G. Billings of Denver. He asked
that physicians pay more attention
to the inevitable stresses of life
which are responsible for many of
the troubles of this age group.
In the first place, Dr. Billings
said, this is a time when one’s am
bitions are altered in the light of
reality, and this often is a severe
emotional strain. New ideals must
be formed to replace those of youth.
Secondly, he said, it is a time
when the biological rhythms of the
body are changing. The psycho
logical and the physical mesh to
gether in a pattern to which the
individual finds great difficulty in
adjusting. The result, he said, is
the appearance of many imaginary
ills, both mental and physical.
There are hundreds of unnecessary
operations which could be avoided
if doctors would study the psychic
reactions of the individual.
Heredity in Aging Studied.
In another paper Drs. Franz J.
Kallman and Gerhard Sander of
Columbia University said it is be
coming increasingly evident that
some of the basic secrets of life
are locked in old age and challenge
discovery.
The two psychiatrists have com
pleted a study of 801 pairs of twins
who are at least 60 years old to
determine the genetic and environ
mental influences at work in the
process of aging. They selected both
identical and nonidentical twins.
The influence of heredity on the
aging process was clearly apparent.
One pair, for example, who had been
separated for a long time, became
blind and deaf in the same month
and died within five days of each
other, just before their Mth birth
day.
The entire group of tains was
given identical psychological tests.
Identical twins showed much the
greatest tendency to score alike
throughout life, indicating that at
least some intellectual abilities de
pend on the potential present at the
beginning of life.
Govern Length of Life.
There were some unexpected find
ings in the study of birthrates. For
the twins as a whole, these did not
differ greatly from normal. Sterility,
however, occurred twice as often
among identical twins as among
nonidentical. This disharmony was
found especially common among
identical males.
Findings for longevity to date
were based on the histories of 68
pairs of twins, both members of
which have died of natural causes.
The difference in the time one
partner has outlived the other has
been almost double between non
identical and identical twins. This
indicates, the two psychiatrists re
ported, that hereditary factors large
ly determine the length of life and
that life cannot be expanded beyond
an individual's hereditary vital
capacity.
Network Agrees to Air
Truman Talk a Week Late
By th« Associated Press
LOS ANGELES, May 19.—The
Muiual-Don Lee Broadcasting Sys
tem last night agreed to carry a
week-old speech by President Tru
man. It will put a transcription
on the air at 10:30 p.m. tEST) Fri
day.
The network originally aald it
would net grant free time to politi
cal speeches. Mr. Truman'a talk
was delivered before the National
Young Democrats in Washington
last Friday.
Tne new decision, announced by
Lewis Al'en Weiss, vice president
and general manager of the net
work, followed complaints by James
Roosevelt, chairman of the Cali
fornia Democratic State Central
Committee, and Munroe Sweetland,
chairman of the Oregon Re-elect
Truman Committee.
The network covers California,
Oregon and Washington.
Mr. Roosevelt said granting of
time to Gov. Dewey of New York
and Harold E. Stassen, Republican
presidential candidates, for their
debate at Portland, Oreg., Monday
night and refusal to carry Mr. Tru
man's broadcast “is basis for a be
lief that you have one rule for
Republican candidates and another
for the Democratic President of the
United States.”
Weather Report
District of Columbia — Mostly
sunny with highest near 70 this
afternoon. Clear tonight with low
est about 48. Tomorrow sunny and
warmer in afternoon.
Wind velocity, 15 miles per hour;
direction, west.
Hirer Report.
(From United Slates Engineers.)
Potomac River, clear at Harpers Ferry
and cloudy at Great Falls. Shenandoah
clear at Harpers Ferry.
Humidity.
Yesterday. Pet Today— Fet.
Noon _45 Midnight_6*
4 p.m. _41 8 a m. _61
8 p m _ 6.'! 1:30 p.m. _41
Temperaturea.
Yesterday's high. 71. at 4:30 p.m : low.
54 at 4:15 a m. Year's highest. 90. on
Msy 11: lowest. 5, on January 76. Normal
maximum this date, 19 degrees, minimum.
65 degrees.
Tide Tables.
(Furnished by United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey.)
Today. Tomorrow.
High ... 6:u4 am. 6:58 am
Low 17:55 p.m. 1:09 a.m.
High 6:28 p m 7:34 p.m.
Low _ 1:48 p.m.
The San and Moon.
Rises Sets
Sun. today 5:57 a.m. 8:17 p.m.
Sun tomorrow 5:51 am. 8:18 p.m.
Moon, today 4:49 p.m. 4:00am.
Automobile lights must bt turned on
one-ball hour after sunset.
Precipitation.
Since May 1, 6 34 inches. May normal.
3.70 inches May record. I o ho Inches in
1889 Since January 1. 19.32 Inches. 3.46
inches more than normal.
Temperatures In Varleps Cities.
High Low High Low
Albuouerque 86 66 Miami 83 75
Atlanta 80 51 Milwaukee 57 41
Atlantic City 68 51 New Orleang 87 73
Bismarck _ 93 69 New York.. 88 50
Boston.,.. 68 48 Norfolk . 76 58
Buffalo . 68 38 Okie. City. 87 62
Chicago_ 58 40 Omaha_ 85 58
Clnclnntl.. 71 46 Phoenix . 94-54
Detroit_ 64 42 Pittsburgh 66 45
El Paso ... 92 69 P land, Me. 81 45
Dalveston 69 73 St. Louis 75
Harrisburg 64 33 Salt L. City 78 53
Indianapolis 12 45 San Antonio 92 6.s
Kansas City-81 62 S. Franclico 57 49
Los Angeles 67 5o Seattle_ 62 44!
Ln u 11 v:: r 16 50 Tampa 9 n 14
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E. Roy Routt, 61, Dies;
Horse Owner Rode at
Early D. C. Tracks
E. Roy Routt, 61, horse owner and
trainer who was a jockey in his
earlier days, died unexpectedly this
morning at his home. 11702 Georgia
avenue, Wheaton. Md.
Mr. Routt was
born In Culpep
er, Va., and
came to Wash
ington when he
was about 5
years old.
He rode his
first race at the
old Brightwood
track. He drove
to the track in a
sulky, friends
recalled today,
and broke the
track record
with a horse
named Billy
Mr. R««tt.
Dean. He often recalled tne day
he rode five winners in six races at
Leesburg. One of his mounts, Hurry
Up, won a three-quarter-mile flat
race, then took top money in a l'i
mile Jumping event.
Mr. Routt's first ride on a horse
was astride a thoroughbred owned
by Charles Willingham, a District
policeman. Then g stripling of 95
pounds. Mr. Routt used to exercise
the policeman's horses in the field
where Central High School now
stands.
He quit riding in 1907 to go Into
the hotel business. He worked at
the Old Virginia Hotel In George:
town and operated a gas station
before he went back to racing In
1939 as an owner and trainer of
horses running on nearby Maryland
and West Virginia race tracks.
Mr. Routt often recalled his
"greatest satisfaction” was in pick
ing up a horse that apparently was
through and making a winner of
him. One horse, Tumble Boy. which
Mr. Routt rescued from the pasture,
won $4,800 for him in one week.
Mr. Routt was the father of two
members of The Star's photographic
staff, Randolph J. Routt of Silver
Spring and Francis R. Routt of
Wheaton Hills, Md. He is sur
vived also by his widow, Mrs. Esther
Rae Routt; two other sons, Roy
Routt of Washington. Ramon Routt
of the home address, and two sisters,
Mrs. Herbert Murray and Mrs. Mat
tie Beall, both of Washington.
Funeral arrangements have not
been announced.
18,000 in Arlington X-Rayed
Nearly 18,000 persons have been
X-rayed in the Arlington chest
survey which has six weeks more to
run.
Rail Writ Hearing
Postponed to Clear
Way for New Talks
•y *h« Aiiodatad Pr»»i
A court fight scheduled today
in the railroad labor dispute has
been postponed until May 28 to
clear the track for renewed bar
gaining talks between the rail
companies and the engineers,
firemen and switchmen.
These talks, which started yes
terday, were to continue this morn
ing.
Tne government on May iu
averted a strike by the three unions.
It seized the railroads and got Jus
tice T. Alan Goldsborough of Dis
trict Court to issue a restraining
order against the walkout.
This order was to expire tonight,
and Justice Goldsborough had set
a hearing for today on a Justice
Department motion for an injunc
tion that would keep the unions at
work for a longer period.
Order Extended 10 Days.
But last night, at the Justice De
partment’s request, Justice Golds
borough cleared away those legali
ties in this way:
1. He extended the restraining or
der for 10 more days, until May 29,
at 7:45 p.m.
2. He postponed the injunction
hearing until the morning of Fri
day, May 28.
Justice Department lawyers said
they made the request because of
the renewed efforts to settle the lone
dispute over working rules and
wages.
A settlement would mean a quick
return of the railroads to their j
owners.
Neither the railroad spokesmen
nor the union chiefs would tell re
porters what went on ,at the bar
gaining sessions held in a hotel yes
terday.
It was indicated they were explor
ing the recommendations a White
House emergency board made on
March 27. The purpose is to see if
some arrangement can be worked
out that would be consistent with
the board’s report and at the same
time give the workers more bene
fits from changes in the working
rules.
Wages Now Minor Issue.
One such device that has been
talked about informally would be to
give a retroactive effect to some of
the rules changes proposed by the
board. That is, certain workers
might be given sums of money equal
to what they wo»ld have received
had the rules changes taken effect
sooner.
SomV of those changes would
bring added pay to crews on light
weight freight locomotives, to
“extra" men in yard service, and
so on.
As for wages, this was believed to
be no longer a vital issue.
The board proposed — and the
railroads agreed to pay—a general
wage raise of 154 cents an hour,
retroactive to last November 1.
This would be an average raise of
about 11 per cent for the 150,000
men involved. The unions de
manded a blanket raise of 30 per
cent, with more for the lower-paid
men, but later agreed to take 154
cents if rules changes were satis
factory.
Congress in Brief
am* »
iy th« At>ociat*d Prtit
Senate.
Continues debate on waterways
appropriations.
'Small Business Subcommittee
opens hearings on steel requirements
by small, independent businesses.
Agriculture Committee resumes
hearings on banks for farmers’ co
operatives.
Foreign Relations Committee con
siders Vandenberg United Nations
resolutions at closed session.
Judiciary Committee takes up
anti-lynching and tidelands bills at
closed session.
House.
Considers amendments to anti
communism bill.
Foreign Affairs Committee dis
cusses United Nations changes.
Andresen Committee investigates
commodity market transactions.
G. W. Class President
Wins Isaac Davis Award
Chester Byrns, president of the
senior class at George Washington
University, last night won the 100th
annual Isaac Davis public speaking
contest at Llsner Auditorium. Sec
ond place in the contest went to
Charles Matthews, while William
Rockwood took third honors.
AP Praised at Banquet
Marking Centennial at
White Sulphur Springs
•y tht Auociotod frtsi
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS. W.
Va., May 19.—Dr. Francis Pendle
ton Gaines said last night that “for
co-operation in the gathering of:
Intelligence and realization of op-j
portunity, no chapter in the his- i
tory of American enterprise is morej
Impressive than the story of the
first century of the Associated
Press.”
Dr. Gaines, president of Wash
ington and Lee University, spoke at
a banquet concluding a four-State
meeting of the organization cele
brating the AP's first 100 years.
Robert McLean, president of the
Philadelphia Bulletin and of the
AP, and Reiman (Pat) Morin, chief
Df the AP’s Washington bureau,
were speakers at a general session
In the afternoon. Attending were
members from West Virginia, Mary
land, Virginia, North Carolina and
the District of Columbia.
Committees Are Set Up.
Both the West Virginia group and
the Chesapeake Association,, em
bracing Maryland and the District
of Columbia, set up continuing study
committees for improvement of the
AP reports.
Virginia members named Ben B.
Johnston, managing editor of the
Richmond Times-Dispatch, State
chairman. He succeeded William C.
Barnes, publisher of the Martins
ville Bulletin.
Virginia’s Gov. Tuck told the news
men last night that Federal grants
in-aid to the States “are one of the
gravest threats which confront our
system of Government and our de
mocracy today.”
Reiterates His stand.
The Governor referred particularly
to Federal aid to education proposals
and the possibility that anti-segre
gation stipulations would be in
cluded.
"For my part,” he declared. "I
stand firmly on my statement of
April 6 when I said that if this
Federal plan of aid to education
becomes law, and If the so-called
civil rights' sanctions, proposed by
President Trumans Committee on
Civil Rights, also are invoked, Vir
ginia will not accept one farthing
of these funds while I am Governor
of the Commonwealth.
Gov. Tuck cited as an example of
Washington's “total disregard” of
;he fundamentals of States’ rights
;he recent shelving in Congress of
egislation that would permit South
?rn 8tates to enter* into compacts
to establish regional institutions of
higher learning.
Special Broadcast to Mark
100th Anniversary of AP
■y th* Associat'd Pross
NEW YORK, May 19.—The 100th
mniversary of the Associated Press
will be observed in a special pro
gram to be broadcast on the NBC
network at 2 p.m. next Sunday.
Alan J. Gould, AP executive edi
tor, will speak for the new co
jperative on the broadcast.
The program, titled “AP—100
Fears of News,” will include drama
tizations of the 10 biggest stories of
the century, as selected by AP
editors.
They are: The Gold Rush and
America's expansion Westward, the
Civil War, the Franco-Prussian War
ind the establishment of the Ger
man Empire, the Spanish-American
War, Marconi opens a century of
science, World War I, abdication of
Edwwrd VIII, World War n, Frank
lin D. Roosevelt and his era, and
atomic energy.
Three Unhurt as Plane
Noses Over at Bolling
Caught by a 20-m.p.h. wind as it
was turning to taxi off the runway,
a C-45 training plane nosed over
at Bolling Air Force base yesterday,
but none of its three crewmen was
injured.
Two officers attached to the Air
Department at the Pentagon were
completing a proficiency flight. They
were Capt. Kenneth Blackshaw,
3218 Ravenwood place, Alexandria,
pilot, and Lt. Loran B. Loridon, 2406
Sixteenth street north, Arlington,
co-pilot. With them was Master
Sergt. Tennyson Craft of the air
base.
Both propellers of the plane were
broken.
The Federal Spotlight
35-Hour Federal Work Week,
$1,000 Raise Asked byUPWA
(Continued from first rage.)
close of the biennial convention
here.
Known officially as the “Build the
Union Committee,” the group has
plans ior organ- ,
izing another
CIO Federal em
ployes' union.
Full details will j
b e announced I
within the next
few days, BUO |
leaders confide.
The BUO con
tends it can take
more than 5,000
UPWA members
with it. UPWA
officials ridicule
this figure, as
serting that BUC
doesn’t represent
more than 300 or
85.000 membership.
jMOh Yoanf.
400 of UPWA’s
No Hope of Upeet.
BUC leaders acknowledge that
they have no hope of upsetting the
leadership of UPWA President
Abram Flaxer and the rest of the
union’s officials. In fact, they say
they aren’t even going to try.
There is just one thing that would
prevent the BUC insurgents from
leaving UPWA. That is if the Fed
eral employes' branch of UPWA be
came a separate union.
But this doesn’t seem likely at
the moment. UPWA's leadership
has decided against the split, unless
it becomes absolutely necessary—
which means if the Keefe “Red”
rider becomes law. In that event,
the union’s Executive Board will
have the power to order the splitup.
BUC people at the convention,
however, say they don’t think they
can afford to wait to see what the
outcome will be. They say the
membership they represent has
wanted to bolt UPWA for some time
and that they have to take action
now.
ALMOST UNANIMOUS — The
convention gave UPWA’s leadership
an overwhelming vote of confidence
on policy matters when the union’s
official 1948 report was read yester
day. Only a handful of the nearly
500 delegates here voted against the
present leadership’s record during
the last few years. It presages the
easy election of Mr. Flaxer and all
of the union's other officers tomor
row.
RED RIDER — The Keefe Red
rider which would cause the firing
of all Government employes whose
union officials fall to sign non
Communist affidavits, again came ip
for a large share of the conven
tion's attention.
Delegate after delegate took the
floor to denounce the rider; but the
small group of BUC delegates con
tended that the failure of Mr.
Flaxer and other UPWA officials to
sign the affidavits “Jeopardizes” the
jobs of all UPWA members who
work for the Federal Government.
“All of our Federal jobs are in
jeopardy,” declared Delegate Steve
Bodisch of Wood, Wis., a Veterans’
Administration employe. “What is
the leadership going to do about it?”
Another delegate, Jean Clements,
of UPWA’s Labor Department local
in Washington, charged that
UPWA's left-wing leadership had
hampered the union’s growth.
She described as “vicious lies” the
charges made by UPWA's leadership
that the BUC is composed of “Red
baiters.” She said the group wants
the union to follow the official
policies set down by the national
CIO and its president, Philip
lVAUi i .
UPWA’S SIDE—The delegate*
listened politely enough to the BUC
people, but only a smattering of
them applauded.
In contrast, the convention wildly
cheered the speech of UPWA Vice
President Mort Puray, in which Mr.
Puray officially spoke for the union’s
leadership on its record for the last
two years.
Mr. Puray described the opposition
faction a* "ingrates,” and declared
they are “undermining” the welfare
of Government employes.
“They are trying to wreck the
union with lies and hate—by Red
baiting and disruption,” Mr. Puray
declared.
Mr. Puray said UPWA has “always
fought to better the working condi
tions and improve the welfare of
Government employes.'' He dig
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missed the other Federal unions in
the field as “company unions."
Mia Dorothy Bailey, president oi
UPWA Local 10 in Washington and
a member of the union’s Executive
Board, acknowledged that she
doesn’t always see eye to eye with
the leadership.
But, she said, the leadership
“represents the views of the mem
bership, and the UPWA is a real
rank-and-file union."
Miss Bailey said previous BUC
attempts to win local offices "have
been overwhelmingly defeated."
“The BUC people have come tc
me and said, ’you either will Join
with us or we will damn you as a
Red.’ and I say to them, ‘the hell
with you.’”
RESOLUTIONS — UPWA gets
down to the business of adopting
resolutions today.
Although the union is expected
to say that the third party move
ment. "has always proved to be a
good thing historically” and is a
welcome move now, it is not ex
pected to indorse officially the
candidacy of Henry Wallace.
Judging from the delegates’ ap
plause every time a speaker men
tions the name of Mr. Wallace,
there are more than enough votes
to support Mr. Wallace, if the in
dorsement were put to a vote. But
the fact that President Murray of
the CIO has warned CIO unions
against supporting Mr. Wallace,
and the fact that the Hatch Act
prevents Government employes
from actively participating in poli
tics, has caused UPWA officials to
discourage official indorsement of
Mr. Wallace
FITZGERALD SPEECH — The
convention yesterday afternoon en
thusiastically received the address
by Albert J. Fitzgerald, president
of the United Electric Workers’
Union (CIO) and chairman of the
Labor Committee for Wallace.
Mr. Fitzgerald charged the Gov
ernment is setting up a program
in “restrictive practices against
Federal employes’’ for big business
to follow. He asserted that the
Keefe rider and the loyalty pro
gram would not be confined to the
Government service, but would
spread to industry.
“The Government is the largest
single purchaser of industry's goods,
and what can be done to Federal
employes can also be done to other
workers,” he declared.
Mr. Fitagerald also denied the
Communists were instrumental in
promoting Mr. Wallace’s presi
dential candidacy.
“I had a lot to do with the Wal
lace movement, and I’ve never
been to a Communist meetinc v.«
my life," Mr. Fitzgerald declared.
Additional news of Govern
ment affairs and personalities
i 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.
Chinese Red Parley
Reported Bombed
ly *h« Associated Press
NANKING, May 19—The gov
ernment announced today that one
of its planes bombed a building iq
which Communist President Mao
Tze-tung and 200 other Red leaders
were conferring.
The announcement, by Lt. Gen.
Teng Wen-yi, said 80 were killed
or wounded by the bomb, dropped
at Fuping. in Western Hopeh Prov
ince, May 13.
In the past, several top Com
munist commanders, Including Gen.
Chen Yi, reported killed by national
airpower, usually reappeared.
Gen. Teng credited national in
telligence agents in West Hopeh
with the information on the bomb
ing, but made no attempt to iden
tify any op the casualties.
The announcement came as gov
erniment forces suffered a setback
in the rich Han River valley; lost
Linfen in Shansi province, and re
pulsed a red raid on a Peiping sub
urb.
Great stores of food and gasoline
fell to Communist forces when Red
Gen. Liu Po-cheng captured Laoho
kow, 200 miles northwest of the big
government base of Hankow. The
rich 'valley supplies much food to
central China.
Washington Violinist
Finalist in Auditions
Jesse James Tryon, Washington
violinist, is one of the two finalists
in the Nation-wide auditions tor
violinists conducted by the Asso
ciated Concert Bureau of New York,
it was announced yesterday.
Mr. Tryon, who lives at 4600 Hill
side road S.E., will receive either a
$500 or $250 prize, following an
appearance at Carnegie Hall.
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