Evening star. [volume], May 29, 1948, Image 1

About Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972

Image provided by: Library of Congress, Washington, DC

                
I
Weather Forecast! Gu,da Pf°r Reade”
Cloudy, humid today with scattered showers Amusements ...B-18 Obituary .B-8 »
and high in upper 70s. Occasional rain to- Church News...A-6-8 Radio .B-17
night, low about 62. Tomorrow clear with Comics_B-16-17 Real Estate ...B-l-7
high in 70s. (Full report on Page A-2.) Editorial A-4 Society, Clubs....B-9
Midnight . 69 6 a.m_67 11 a.m.72 Editorial Articles.A-5 Sports.A-9
2 a.m.69 8 a.m.67 Noon..73 Laet and Found.-A-3 Where to Go_B-7 i
4 a.m_67 10 a.m_Tfc 1 p.m-74 L______
. ___ An Associated Press Newspaper
- —— .. i . City Home Dellrery, Dally and Sunday, $1.20 a Month, when S gf /^crivrrpQ
n/Ji-U -V XT 1 rn „ ... Sunday*. $1.30. Nliht final Edition, $1.30 and $1.40 per Month. ** VjXjIS X O
96th Year. No. 150. Phone NA. 5000. _ T
Arabs Attacking
In Jerusalem's
Modern Sector
Jews Trying to Break
Blockade of All Four
Highways Into City
By tH« Associated Press
CAIRO, May 29.—Arab troops
began an attack today in mod
ern Jerusalem. Jews, short of
water and food, tried desperately
to break a blockade of all four
highways entering the city.
Lgion guns pounded Jewish con
centrations in New Jerusalem as
raging fires swept the ancient Jew
ish ghetto in the Old City. There
Israeli remnants, with food and
ammunition gone, surrendered yes
terday after a five-month siege
topped off by an 11-day pounding
from the guns of King Abdullah's
Arab Legion.
Jews I'nder Siege.
Now the Jews in all Jerusalem
are under a throttling state cf siege
that can be ended only by the open
ing of supply routes to the Mediter
ranean coast.
“The battle for the defense of
New Jerusalem and for the libera
tion of the Old City continues,”
A Hagana (Jewish army) communi
que declared.
Thousands of Israelis and Arabs
were still locked in a battle west of
Jerusalem for the highway from
Tel Aviv which could supply the
Holy City's 80,000 Jews. The Arabs
threw armor, artillery, planes and
all the manpower they could spare
into Jhe fight. Tel Aviv reports said.
Jews fighting to break the Arab
ring around Jerusalem could see
smoke and flames belching from the
rubble-strewn Old City.
Latrun Battle urows..
To west in the Latrun area the
big battle grew hourly in intensity.
Thousands of both sides wrere com
mitted to the struggle for the life
line road which links Tel Aviv with
Jerusalem. Egyptian planes were
reported taking part in the fight.
Arab League headquarters here
gaid last night Egyptian and Iraq
planes attacked and scattered 10.
000 Jewish soldiers assembled yes
terday in the fight for the Bab el
Wad gorge east of Latrun. The
Tel Aviv-Jerusalem road winds
through the gorge.
Israelis have given no figures on
their forces in the Latrun fight,
which is being wage oft a 4-mile
front, 11 to 15 miles west of Jeru
salem.
The Arabs claimed to be contin
uing an attack in the southern sub
urb of Jerusalem-Baqaa, Talpiyot
and Katamon. The league said their
fall was expected. But Associated
Press Correspondent Carter L. Da
vidson reported yesterday that he
visited those suburbs and none had
been hit by anything for two days.
Tel Aviv Is Bombed.
The Jerusalem correspondent of
the Cairo newspaper Akhbar el Yom
said Trans-Jordan Legionnaires,
Egyptians and Iraqis, supported by
planes, opened an attack inside Je
rusalem against the Hagana forces
who are trying to break the Arab
siege. /
Tel Aviv dispatches said Arab
fighter bombers attacked the a 11 -
Jewish city at dusk last night.
Count Folke Bernadotte. the
United Nations mediator for Pales
tine, conferred here with Egyptian
Premier Nokrashy Pasha. He said
they discussed only the general sit
uation in Palestine and that he
found the Premier “very nice and
charming."
A Baghdad dispatch said Iraqi
Foreign Minister Nasrat Alfarsi left
for Amman to attend a conference
of the Arab League's political com
mittee considering the U. N. Security
Council's Palestine discussions.
Baghdad’s Christian churches tolled
their bells at the news of the sur
render of the Jews in Jerusalem's
Old City.
Israel Short of Oil.
An indication that Israel's war
machine needs oil was seen in a
report from Haifa that the govern
ment of Israel had offered to guar-'
antee the flow of oil products to
the Arab states, if they provide oil
for the Haifa refinery.
A British informant said the
Iraqi Petroleum Co. pipeline, which
supplied the refinery, could be
operated at once, if ?in agreement
could be reached.
A Jewish government representa
tive said he was prepared to supply
the labor to operate the refinery
and also to train Arabs for similar
work.
Before the Jewish-Arab war, oil
was piped to Haifa from the rich
Northern Iraqi oil fields.
List of Red Violations
Published by Senators
The Senate Foreign Relations';
Committee today made public a!
State Department list of 37 specific j
violations of agreements by Soviet}
Russia since the close of the war. j
Submitted in response to a reso-j
lution introduced by 31 Senators, the j
document takes up each major part
of the world separately, and pre
sents in parallel columns the agree
ments made by the Allied powers
during World War II and the in
stances in which this Government
contends the Russians have failed to
live up to the understandings.
The report, which Chairman Van- j
denberg will file with the Senate..
points out that all of the specific |
indictments have been disclosed ^at I
cue time or another. The value of
the document lies in tabulating all
of the cases.
Since publication of the list
achieves the objective sought in the
resolution, - the Foreign Relations
Committee is recommending that
further consideration of it be in
definitely postponed.
The violations listed by the State
Department are divided geograph
ically as follows:
In Germany. 10: Austria, 7; East
ern and Southeastern Europe, 13;
Korea, 4, and Manchuria, 3.
Holy Sepulchre Hit by Dud Shell
In Jerusalem Old City Battle
The Holy Sepulchre, which was struck by a dud mortar
shell Thursday in the battle of Jerusalem's Old City, is shown
above, with a priest praying inside the tiny, decorated entrance
to the tomb. —AP Photo.
»y the Associated Press
JERUSALEM, May 29—The
Holy Sepulchre was hit Thurs
day by a mortar shell which did
not explode, a Roman Catholic
priest living in the shine re
ported by telephone.
It was not known whether the
shell was from Jewish or Arab-held
territory. The missile crashed atop
St. Helena's Chapel, named for the
Byzantine queen mother who built
the first church over the sacred
place of Christ's burial and resur
rection.
The Sepulchre is in the old walled
city.
The dud mortar shell was the first
direct hit on the holiest shrine in
Christendom. Windows have been
shattered by bullets and a number
of artillery and mortar shells have
landed nearby in the past 12 days,
however.
Churchmen said two priests and
one monk have been killed. Several
bombs hit St. Xavier's Monastery
near the new gate and various other
churches were damaged.
Soviet Chief in Berlin
Refuses to Sit Next
To U. S. Colleague
Kommandatura Will Not
Last Long, Americans
Say After Bitter Tilt
By the Associated Press
BERLIN, May 29.—A bitter
15-hour meeting of the four
power body for governing Berlin
ended today with the Soviet
representative announcing he
would no longer sit next to his
American counterpart.
Maj. Gen. Alexander Kotikov.
Soviet commander of Berlin, said
he would no longer be seated next
lo Col. Frank Howdey, the American,
commander, at meetings of the.
Kommandatura. the four-power gov
erning body. A Soviet deputy will
be placed between them, Gen Koti- !
kov added.
Most Acrid of Meetings.
The meeting was the longest and
perhaps the most acrid in the history
of the Kommandatura. It caused
American officials to reiterate their
belief that the Allied Supervisory
Council for Berlin would soon cease
to function.
‘T don't think the Kommandatura
will last long now,” said one Amer
ican official. "There was .an obvious I
increased move by the Russians to
day to close it down."
Gen. Kotikov preceded h(s an
nouncement on seating with a long!
statement in which he accused the
Americans and British of "trying to
divide Berlin" as the major occupa
tion zones have been split.
Next Session June 11.
Maj. Gen. iC. O. Herbert, the Brit
ish representative, said at one point;
in the meeting. “I would like to;
warn the Soviet commandant that
,re is not the dictator of Berlin. He
is merely one of four commandants.";
Another session will be held
June 11.
The United States told Russia
yesterday 'hat it would lift its ban
in Soviet publications in the Ameri
;an zone if the Russians do like
wise for American publications in
the Sov;et zone.
Maj. Gen. George Hays, deputy;
American military governor, wrote
this in answer to Russian Lt. Gen.
M. Dratwins letter saying "Russia
hopes in the near future to correct;
the situation.” i
G.O.P. Moves to Keep
Truman From Filling
Any More Top Jobs
Senate Committee Heads
Reported Asked to Stop
Action on Nominations
ly tH* Assoeia*«d Prais
Republicans set up a barricade
today against confirmation of
any further major appointments
by President Truman.
With their eyes on the November
election, GOP leaders were reported
determined to keep all possible jobs
open to be filled by a Republican
President, if one is elected.
The Republican Policy Committee,
wa. said to have passed the word
quietly to Senate committee chair
men to hold up action on several
current appointees, including Frieda
B. Hennock of New York, first wom
an to be nominated to the Federal
Communications Commission.
Republicans already have agreed
to support a bill extending the terms
of David E. Lilienthal and his asso
ciates on the Atomic Energy Com
mission only until 1950. Mr. Tru
man asked a five-year appointment
for Chairman Lilienthal, with one
to-four-year terms for the other
four members.
nrannan Approved.
The Senate gave its approval yes
terday to the President's choice of
Charles P. Brannan of Colorado to
be Secretary of Agriculture. Repub
licans said they felt no cabinet ap
pointment should be held up.
But their reported ban probably
will mean no action on five pending
nominations—three for Government
agencies and two for the United
States Tax Court.
The three agency nominees are
Thomas C. Buchanan of Pennsyl
vania. to be a member of the Fed
eral Power Commission for the term
ending June 22, 1952; James Boyd
af Colorado to be director of the
Bureau of Mines and Richard B.
McEntire of Kansas, nominated yes
terday for a new' five-year term as
% member of the Securities and Ex
change Commission.
Tax Court Nominees.
The Tax Court nominees are Miss
Vlarlon J. Harron of California and
Byron B. Harlan of Ohio. Both
were reappointed by Mr. Truman
after some Republicans reportedly
suggested replacing them with GOP
party members.
Republican leaders also are ex
pected to hold up hundreds of post- j
master appointments, although
(See "APPOINTMENTS. Page A-3 >
Man, 70, Reports $4,000Theft
From Debris-Filled Bungalow
A 70-year-old colored bachelor
told police today an envelope con
taining*betwpen $4,000 and $5,000
had been taken from his ramshackle,
debris-filled bungalow at 1116 Forty
seventh place N.E.
John M. Hart, whose neighbors
say he is a well-to-do house builder,
reported that the money dissyjpeared
yesterdaj^while he was absent from
home, flie cash, he said, was to
have been used to purchase “some
General Motors stock" and to buy a
.iiiilriine’ lot.
The contractor, whose bungalow
and adjoining yard are filled with
old machines, discarded lumber and
auto parts, said he suspected a
"clairvoyant.”
“I went to this man some time
ago for my bad headaches." he said.
"He told me X was crossed up for
I sure and there was something in my
bed that made me feel bad.
"He wanted I'M to make me well.
I first gave him $60 and he later
came to my home for the rest. I
went in another room to get the
money and closed the door."
Mr. Hart said the thief w-ho used
a pass key to get into his house
yesterday didn’t disturb anything
else. He added:
it s a good tning i wasn t nome.
I would have killed whoever it was.
I keep three shotguns in the house
to keep burglars away.”
The contractor, who said neigh
bors thought he was wealthy because
"I don't drink whisky or run around
with women.” said his headaches
had been getting better after “treat
ment” by the clairvoyant.
“But today I have a worse one,”
he said ruefully.
First ot Chrysler
«s
Workers Return
As Strike Ends
Straight Increase
Of 13 Cents Betters
Formula at GM
By th* Associated Press
DETROIT, May 29.—The van
guard of 75,000 Chrysler workers
began trickling back into the
plants today, their 17-day strike
ended by a straight 13-cents-an
hour wage increase.
With their return, the second
major labor dispute in the automo
bile industry this year was written
off the books.
Chrysler's settlement with the
CIO United Auto Workers, an
nounced last night, bettered by 2
cents the raise given 225.000 strike
threatening General Motors em
ployes under a cost-of-living for
mula only three days earlier.
It provided less than half the
union’s original demand but more
than twice Chrysler's best previous
offer.
Contract Extended to 1950.
It also extended the company’s
contract, due to expire in 11 months,
until August, 1950. Either Chrysler
or the UAW can seek an adjustment ■
of wage rates once any time after!
June 15, 1949. Salaried employes,
some of them represented by the
UAW, were given an 8 per cent raise
with a floor of $20 a month.
There was no official explanation
as to why Chrysler settled for a
flat slim rather than the widely
heralded GM sliding scale. How
ever, a union customarily holds out
for a penny or two more than the
pattern for its members on strike.
Chrysler would not say whether it
plans to raise car prices to cover
its higher labor costs.
The agreement left only the Ford
Motor Co. of the industry's big
three yet to settle with the UAW
in the third postwar wage drive. It
apparently knocked a second prop
from under Ford's counterdemand
for a w'age cut.
Union Hails “Signal Victory.”
The auto union promptly hailed
the settlement as "a signal victory,
for all American workers in view
of the determination of industry as
a whole to fight against any wage
increases at all or, in some instances,
to fight for wage reductions while
prices continue to rise.”
Norman Matthews. UAW Chrysler
director, said the strike had “cracked
the solid opposition" of the auto,
steel and electrical industries to pay!
raises this year.
Despite the settlement, only a
handful ot employes were called
back to work today to prepare ma
chines for production. Chrysler said
assembly line operations could not
be resumed for more than a week.
Chrysler workers in 16 plants in
Michigan, Indiana and California,
left their jobs May 12 in a demand
for a 30-cent increase and several
non-wage benefits. On the eve of
the strike the union scaled down its
demand to 17 cents. Chrysler’s best
previous offer was 6 cents and that
was withdrawn after the union
turned it down.
30 Cents Demanded at Ford.
The wage demand at Ford also is
30 cents, 5 more than was asked
of General Motors. Negotiations
with Ford are slated to start within
three weeks.
Chrysler’s average hourly wage
was increased to $1.63, compared
with GM’s $1.61 under the new con
tract there. But a slight rise in the
cost of living could push GM’s aver
age past Chrysler's when the first
quarterly adjustment is made in
September.
Ford, in asking for a pay cut two
weeks ago, contended its rates were
higher than those at its two prin
cipal competitors. Both GM and
Chrysler disputed the claim.
One Disorder at Chrysler.
The Chrysler strike was marked
by only one major disorder. On May
17 State police were rushed into
suburban Highland Park to stop
fist fights on the picket line.
Union estimates placed the an
nual cost of the new Chrysler set
tlement at $23,700,000. The corpora
tion said the strikers lost $900,000
* day and it lost 5.000 cars and
trucks a day during the shutdown.
The agreement stipulates the set:
tlement must be ratified by the -
[anion’s rank and file members in
(See CHRYSLER, Page A-3.)
Chicago Fire Kills 6; !
Another Blaze Hurts 7
j i
•y »K# Assorkited frt%
CHICAGO. May 29—Six persons i
lied today in a roaring fire that;
spread with terrific speed through a :
:hree-story apartment building on I
:he Southwest Side. i
An undetermined number of per-!i
sons fled from the building located
it 2014 South California avenue. j |
Fire Marshal Anthony Mullaney ;]
said the blaze, of undetermined or- ,
igin, spread so quickly that rescuers
were able to save only one of seven ,
persons trapped on the second and ;
third floors.
Earlier seven persons were in- i
iured in another fire which dam- j
iged a three-story apartment build- (
ing at 2110 Kendall street, about a ]
mile south of the other blaze.
Four of the victims in the Cali
fornia avenue fire were identified
as Frank Duffek. 70, owner of the .
building: Mrs. Lyle Wilkins and her '
son John, 4, and Kiren Callaghan, h
(0.
The bodies of the two other vic
tims were believed to be those of
Albert Stuczynski and his wife Rose.
A police squad which discovered <
the blaze aroused most of the ten- 1
ants and carried one woman. Mrs. 1
Irma Keller, 48. from the building. 1
The lone person rescued from the 1
upper floors was Lyle Wilkins, hus- 1
band and father of two of the vic
tims. Overcome by smoke, he is in i
serious condition in St. Anthony’s 1
Hospital. j]
Damage was estimated at $15,000. a
X—J’HA
Holiday Crowds Begin Exodus
With Fair Week End Forecast
Railroads Add 50 Sections for Passengers
Takina Advantaae of Memorial Day Respite
If the Weather Bureau’s pre
dictions hold, Washington will
enjoy an ideal Memorial Day to
morrow and an equally pleasant
Monday.
The bureau expected scattered
showers today and tonight with a
change for the better tomorrow.
The prospects are for clearing skies,
less humidity and a high tempera
ture somewhere in the 70s.
These conditions suited the fancy
of thousands of persons who headed
away from the city by automobile,
train, airplane and bus. For them
it was a forerunner of the summer
time habit of dashing off to resorts
on week ends for a wholesale por
tion of sunshine and fresh air.
Travel agencies expected a heavy
business and were not disappointed.
Union Station officials said about 50
extra sections were necessary to
accommodate passengers talcing ad
vantage of the three-day 'respite
from work. Airlines and buses re
ported capacity loads coming and
going.
Motorists were warned by road
experts that more cars would be on
the highways than for any previous
Memorial Day. Traffic Director
George E. Keneipp added this word
of precaution:
“Highways and streets will be
crowded and motorists should re
sist the temptation to weave in and
out of line and should cut their
speed to conform with existing con
ditions.
“If you plan a long trip, don’t run
'See MEMORIAL DAyTPage A-3.)
More Thousands Flee
As Deaths Mount fo 15
In Northwest Floods
Property Loss in Millions;
Rivers May Remain High
For More Than Month
(Picture on Page A-3.)
By tht Associated Press
More thousands fled their en
dangered homes today in the
Pacific Northwest’s worst flood in
„. i
54 years.
The death toll mounted to 15 and
property damage soared into un
counted millions. Main rail and,
highway routes were disrupted and
more were threatened.
An officially declired state of!
emergency existed in Washington
snd Idaho. The militia was ordered!
put in British Columbia to aid the:
swelling numbers of refugees.
May Last a Month.
An ominous new note was the an
nouncement that the waters may
stay'above flood stage for more than
i month.
Travel was disrupted in. wide
sections of Western Canada and to
i lesser extent in Washington State.
The transcontinental main line of
:he Great Northern Railroad was
:ut by the Wenatchee River near
Cashmere. Traffic was being re
routed over other tracks.
Vancover, British Columbia, had
inly one rail link left with Eastern
Canada.
The main Columbia River high
way east of Portland was closed by
foods.
Many Evacuate Homes.
These were places where the
leaviest new evacution of homes
was taking place:
Vancouver. Wash —Fourteen hun
ired persons moved out of the Fruit
'alley housing project west of the
:ity.
Yakima, Wash.—Several hundred
amllies, many victims of panic, quit
heir homes. Breaks in dikes were
umored but all were minor and
luickly repaired.
Fraser Valley in British Colum
>ia—Hundreds of stranded were be
ng rescued by Navy ships, barges
md flood-rescue trains.
Bonners Ferry, Idaho—Business
listrict reported worst hit with water
! feet deep in the streets.
Thousands of workers struggled to
mild dykes to keep water out of
nany cities. Among these was the
itomic city of Richland, housing a
arge share of the permanent em
iloyes of the Hanford Atomic energy
>lant.
Juirino Orders Stort
n Philippine Loan Talk
By the Associated Press
MANILA. May 29—President
Juirino today wired instructions toj
oaquin M. Elizalde, Philippine Am
iassador in Washington, to begin
Inal negotiations for an *87.000.000
oan for hydroelectric power In the
stands.
Formal application for the money
rill be made to both the Export
mport Bank and the International <
tank for Reconstruction and De- j
elopment. i
Truman in Annapolis
For June Week Events,
Watches Boat Races
Ball Game on Program;
President Is Welcomed
With 2T-Gun Salute
By Joseph A. Fox
Star Staff Correspondent
ANNAPOLIS, May 29.—Presi
dent Truman turned sports ob
server today, sharing interests
between a Navy-Cornell boat
race and an Army-Navy baseball
game.
The occasion was June Week at
Annapolis, that traditional series of
athletic, social and scholastic events
dear to the hearts of midshipmen
and graduates alike.
Greeted by a 21-gun salute on his
arrival at 3 a.m., the President and
his party anchored off the academy
after an all-night cruise from Wash
ington on the Williamsburg.
Shortly after 9:30 a.m., Secretary
of the Navy Sullivan, Admiral Louis
E. Denfleld, chief of Naval opera
tions, and Rear Admiral J. L. Hol
loway, jr., academy superintendent,
boarded the yacht to welcome Mr.
Truman.
Watches Boat Races.
Then the entire party boarded a
small Navy boat to watch Naval
Academy s eight-man crew battle
the undefeated Red of Cornell over
a l3i-mile course.
Mr. Truman saw Navy’s third
varsity trim Cornell by four lengths
in the first of four races.
After a stormy outlook the sun
came out and the weather prospects
brightened for both the boat races
and the baseball game later.
The President was loosening his
left arm for real service at the
baseball game. Veteran of two first
pitches opening the big league sea
sons, he was to toss the first ball
of the service contest.
Mr. Truman planned to lunch in
the Williamsburg and come ashore
at 1:30 p.m., with Gov. Lane of
Maryland accompanying him.
Mr. Truman was to come along
side Phlox Landing at 1:20 p.m. to
receive full honors before proceeding
to Lawrence Field for the baseball
game.
After a reception at the Naval
Academy late today, Mr. Truman
will return to Washington aboard
the Williamsburg, anchoring tomor
(See TRUMAN, Page A^3T>
Men Minus Pants Given Robes
As They Flee Fire in Valet Shop
A fire in the Golden Star cleaning j
and pressing while-you-wait shop at j
1432 New York avenue N.W. drove
about 20 men out into the street
shortly before noon today—several
minus their trousers.
The establishment, which had a
similar fire last year, was prepared
for such an emergency, however.
K thoughtful attendant handed each
justomer a robe as he hurried out
the front door.
xne customers using tne vaiet
service were in the shop's new air
:onditioned booths on the third floor :
vhen a blaze started in the cleaning
oom in the second floor front. j s
'• t.4
Soldier, 19, Arrested
On Charge of Assault
On School Girl, 15
Beat Her While Walking
To Streetcar After Date,
She Tells Police
A 19-year-old military police
man was arrested here today,
j charged with assaulting a 15-1
year-old McKinley High School
girl.
j She was badly beaten in the at
tack, which police said took place
[between 2 and 3 a m. on the grounds
of the school.
The soldier is Pvt. John Joseph
Cook, stationed at Port McNair here.
Police first charged him with rape,
but the charge was changed to
carnal knowledge when he was
brought into Municipal Court this
morning. He was held without bond
by Judge Walter J. Casey. The case
w’as continued until June 18 because
the girl is in the hospital.
The girl, who lives with her family
in the 300 block of S street N.E.,
is in Gallinger Hospital. Her in
juries include multiple cuts and
facial bruised. Her condition is listed
as “serious.”
Had Date With Soldier.
According to Lt. Richard McCarty
of the Vice Squad, the girl told
police she had a “date” with Pvt.
Cook at her home and walked with
him when he left to take a streetcar
to his barracks. They decided, she
said, to pass through the McKinley
school grounds, at Second and T
streets N.E.
Police said the girl told them she
resisted the soldier's advances as
they passed through the school
grounds and that he then began
beating her with his fists.
Meanwhile Pvts. O. N. Neilson and
H. B. Gilbert, cruising in a police
scout car, responded to a radio call:
“Some one screaming in the school
grounds.”
Arriving at the scene, the police
men reported, they found Cook
standing near the girl, who was
lying semiconscious on the ground.
The officers said her clothing was
bloody and disarranged.
Claims He Called Police.
Cook appeared “dazed,” they said.
He was taken to headquarters, where
he claimed it was he who had sum- ■
moned them, askfng a "colored cab
driver” to call police. The police
switchboard reported, however, that
the call had come from “other
sources.”
Cook would not tell police whether
he had beaten the girl, Lt. McCarty
said, and “could not remember”
whether he had criminally assaulted
her. Hospital authorities said they
had not yet determined whether she
had been criminally assaulted.
Lt. McCarty quoted Cook as say
ing he had been drinking.
In seeking a continuance of the
case in Municipal Court this morn
Huks Reported Forming >
'Suicide' Assassin Units
•y th« AisecioUd Pros
MANILA, May 29—A provincial
governor declared today the Com
munist-tinged Hulcbalahaps are or
ganizing "suicide squads’’ to assassi
nate high Philippine officials.
The statement was made by Gov
Jose Lingad of Pampanga Province,!
where the armed peasants are ac
tive, in a speech at San Fernando.
He said 11 persons were killed by
the Huks in his province during the
recent truce.
___________________________________________ ; i
S. R. Hombrook, 4 West Melrose
street, Chevy Chase, Md„ said that
while waiting for the return of his
suit he heard the fire announced
?ver the public address system
usually used for exchange of in
formation about clothes. Mr. Horn
urook started for the street. • He got
:he first robe.
miuujci man imu just ms
:!othes back and was taking a
shower. He dressed without drying.
On the first floor several cus
omers were waiting for the repair
>f shoes. They ran out in their
toe king feet.
The fir* did not destroy any
:k>thes.
Wallace Assails
Anti-Red Bill as
Blow to Peace
Mundt Plan and Atom
Bar Soviet Accord,
He Tells Senators
By the Associated Press
Henry A. Wallace told Senators
today that “we can’t have peace
with Russia if we approach Rus
sia with the atom bomb in one
hand and the Mundt bill in the
other.”
Mr. Wallace referred to the
Mundt-Nixon anti-communism bill
already passed by the House by an
overwhelming vote.
Attacking the measure vigorously,
Mr. Wallace told the Senate Judi
ciary Committee it represents "a
declaration of war on the rights of
tree speech and free assembly in the
United States.”
Clad in a double-breasted gray
suit, dull red tie and white shirt, Mr.
Wallace arrived eight minutes late
to testify at the hearing. Putting
on gold-rimmed spectacles, he took
a half hour to read his 3.000-word
statement, in an almost nasal mono
tone.
Crowd Overflows Room.
A large crowd overflowed the room
and spilled out into corridors, cu
rious to see and hear the former
Vice President, who is & third-party
candidate for President. Except for
applause by some when Mr. Wal
lace entered and brief outbursts of
laughter, the audience was quiet.
Mr. Wallace made only minor
changes as he read his text. When
he finished the Senators put but
few questions to him.
He remarked that he is a believer
in “old-fashioned Americanism.” He
emphasized his opposition to the
law dealing with communism.
Then Mr. Wallace noted that
Associate Justice Douglas of the
Supreme Court has said there are
less than 100,000 Communists in the
country.
In answer to questions bv Chair
man Wiley, Mr. Wallace said the
Government now has ample laws
to deal with any subversive acts and
he hopes it never has laws that aim
at ideas or “thought control."
The third party presidential can
didate said that “as the. bill is
framed, its penalties can be visited
on every organization which espouses
the cause of world peace and prog
ress," and added:
“The Mundt bill would empower
the Attorney General to proscribe
our party and visit criminal penal
ties upon its members, in the,event
that it refused—as it most certainly
would—to register with him.”
Norman Thomas Testifies.
Shortly before Mr. Wallace tes
tified, Socialist Norman Thomas
told the committee that the “third
party" supporting Mr. Wallace for
President is controlled to a large
extent by Communists.
Mr. Thomas, presidential candi
date of the Socialists, also is op
posed to the Mundt-Nixon bill.
After he criticized the measure
already approved by the House, Mr.
Thomas was asked by Senator
Eastland, Democrat, of Mississippi:
"Do you think the third party
supporting Mr. Wallace is con
trolled by Communists?"
“Yes, it is to a large extent," Mr.
Thomas replied quickly, and then
said he had better explain this.
Mr. Thomas said Mr. Wallace is
not a Communist and the majority
of his enthusiastic supporters are
not, but the Wallace movement is
"influenced by well-trained and very
well-disciplined Communists."
Mr. i nomas also told senators
that the American Communist
Party and movement are under for
eign control from Russia.
Bill Called “Subversive.**
In his statement, Mr. Wallace in
sisted the Mundt bill extends far
beyond its aim to shackle the Com
munist Party.
Terming it "the most subversive
legislation ever to be seriously spon
sored in the United States Con
gress," Mr. Wallace declared:
"Here is a bill which purports to
guard against dictatorship. Yet it
makes the Attorney General * • •
a dictator over every organization
In the land. He is given virtually
unlimited power to brand and out
law the association of our people
ror the peaceful advocacy of com
mon objectives.”
The only precedent for such au
thority, Mr. Wallace said, is “the
power given to the Nazi Minister of
the Interior by the first laws passed
after Hitler's accession to power.”
Refers to Hitler Campaign.
He referred to Hitler’s campaign
igainst the Communists as a “lesson
hat the suppression of the consti
tutional rights of Communists is but
the prelude to an assault upon the
liberties of all the people.
"In Germany, communism was
(See MUNDT BILL. PagelTdU^
Helped Senators
Write Speeches,
Wallace Says
By the Associated Press
The question of who writes
peeches for whom brought a lively
■xchange today between Henry A.
Wallace and Chairman wuey oi me
Senate Judiciary Committee.
Mr. Wallace had Just finished
reading a 3.000-word statement op
posing the Mundt-Nixon anticom
munism bill.
"Have you personally prepared
this speech?” Senator Wiley asked.
“I spent all day yesterday on it,**
Mr. Wallace replied.
Senator Wiley said that didn't
answer the question.
The crowd roared as Mr. Wallace
countered by saying he had been
around the Senate four years as Vice
President and had done more work
on his speech than most Senator*
do on their.
“I've helped write speeches foe
Senators myself.” Mr. Wallace added,
“Are any of them here?” Senator
Wiley wanted to know.
“No,” Mr. Wallace said.
t