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Arabs Battle for All Jerusalem,
Open Drive Toward Tel Aviv;
U. N. Bans Force, Appeals Again
Israel's Army Tries
To Open Supply Road
To Besieged City
By the Associated Press
CARIO, May 29,—Arabs began
a battle for all of Jerusalem to
day with an attack on the mod
ern section and the Israeli army
reported Egyptian troops had
driven up the Palestine coast to
a point within 20 miles of Jaffa.
Tel Aviv's neighbor city.
The Egyptians, striking out from
Gaza, reached the vicinity of Isdud
village, two miles short of the bor
ders of the state of Israel, a Tel
Aviv communique said. This was
an advance of 10 miles from the
Egyptian position in midweek, when
King Farouk's troops were reported
meeting Jewish resistance. Indica
tions were that it had not yet run
into the main Jewbsh defense'line
guarding Tel Aviv and Jaffa.
Bitter fighting continued for the
Tel Aviv-Jerusalem road as the
Israelis tried to open a supply route
to the Holy City’s Jews, short of
water and food. The Arabs have
blockaded all four highways into
Jerusalem.
Jews Tell of Victories.
At the same time an Israeli com
munique announced victories on
Palestine's northern front. It said
Jewish troops after heavy fighting
occupied a Lebanese army camp
at Malikiya on the Palestine-Leba
nese border and occupied the town
of Malikiya and Kadesh. It added
that Jewish planes raided the Leb
anese villages of Eitarun. Bint Jabel
and Alama and said Israeli troops
moved into Eitarun and cleared it
of Arab forces. The communique
also said Jewish forces had at
tacked and destroyed two Syrian
border police stations despite strong
Arab resistance.
The French Consul General at
Jerusalem sent a telegram to the
United States saying Arabs fired
on his consulate with steel bullets
which penetrated sandbags.
A Tel Aviv dispatch said Egyptian
forces made a sudden march of
bout 10 miles up the coast from
Iajdal to Isdud, a village only 20
miles south of Jaffa, the Jewish
capital's twin city.
A Defense Ministry communique
issued here tonight said the Egyp
tian troops supported by aircraft
and artillery reached Isdud this
morning after overcoming strong
Jewish resistance.
The communique said one of two
Jewish planes which atttacked
Egyptian troops in Isdud was shot
down by anti-aircraft fire. The
second plane was hit and probably
oid not return to its base, the com
munique added.
Jewish Armored Cars in Clash.
Other Egyptian units clashed with
a Jewish armored car column in
Beerot Yitzhak, four miles south
east of Gaza, inflicting consider
ble damage on a number of the
chicles, the communique said.
It added that the main Egyp
ian air force attack today was
made on costal defenses in Tel Aviv
Isdud is only 2:. miles from the
limits of Israel as outlined by the
UN. partition plan, and probably
dose to w here real Jewish resistance
on the south might be encountered.
The village is in a five-mile wide
Arab coastal strip that is flanked
for 49 miles by Jewish assigned
territory.
The Jewish air force struck Jenin.
Nablus and Ramallah, three Arab
cities which form a triangle in con
tral Palestine, the Tel Aviv dispatch
said.
Field guns of King Abdullah's Le
gionnaires hammered Israeli posi
tion in modern Jerusalem where
89.000 to 90,000 Jews are under a
•ight siege, front line dispatches
aid.
Jewish troops are sandwiched be
ween Trans-Jordan Legionnaires
iterating from the newly won old
Vailed City and other Arab units
mging all of Jerusalem.
Fires swept the ancient Jewish
hetto in the Old City which Israeli
rmnants surrendered to the Arab
■ See PALESTINE. PaRe A-5.1 "
GM fo Hold Price Line
Despite Pay Increases
f>y the Associated Press
DETROIT. May 29 — General Mo
tors Corp. said today that it planned
no ‘'immediate" change in the list
prices of its automobiles as a result
of an 11-eent an hour wage increase
to its 225,000 employes.
"All elements of cost are being
studied in an effort to maintain this
policy,'’ C E. Wilson. GM presi
dent added.
It was the first indication from
the auto industry of the effect on
new-car prices ot a third round of
postwar wage increases.
However, Mr. Wilson's use of the
word "immediate" appeared to leave
the way open for price increases,
on new passenger car models, which i
most manufacturers plan to in
troduce before the end of the year.
The corporation gave the CIO
United Auto Workers an immediate
11-cent an hour increase. It said
this would add $75,000,000 to its
payrolls. It brought the hourly wage
rate average to about $161.
The GM formula calls for an ad
justment of wages up or down every t
three months for two years in line
with the cost of living. ..
Chrysler Corp. Friday granted the,
union a 13-cent wage increase to
end a 17-day strike of 75,000 work
ers. The cost of living pattern was
not followed in Chrysler's offer.
It brought the Chrysler average
wage to about $1.63 and the union
said it would cost the firm about
$23,700,000 more a year.
Chrysler did not say whether it
would increase prices as a result.
Radio Programs, Page C 8
Complete Index, Page A-2 j
*
TOO Jews Killed
In Walled City in
Jerusalem Siege
Mostly Soldiers, but
Few Non-Conibatants
Are Among Victims
<The following ppol dispatch
was received from news cor
respondents with the Jewish
forces in Jerusalem.)
By fh* Associated Pres*
JE^JSALEM. May 29.—A Jew
ish Agency spokesman said today
more than 100 Jews were killed
in the old Walled City of Jeru
salem since the British mandate
ended May 15.
Most of the victims were soldiers.!
A few were women, children and
ndneombataats who were killed by
shellfire, the spokesman said.
He added that some 140 others
who were wounded would be re
moved from the walled area today.!
The Jewish spokesman said about
350 prisoners of war were on their
way to Arab internment camps.*
Some 1.100 others, he added, were
evacuated as noncombatants.
Arab Legion artillery was shelling
Jerusalem intermittently today. The
crashing roar of the shells kept the
people inside their crowded air raid
shelters for the second straight
sabbath.
An Agency spokesman today ex
pressed grave apprehensions about
the fate of the remaining synagogues
and Jewish relics in the old city.
He acknowledged, however, that the
Arab Legion was behaving properly
as a regular army with character
istics ingrained in it by many years
of British training. The spokes
man said local Arab inhabitants
had set fire to the ancient Hurva
Synagogue.
Soviet Pact Violations
Released by Senators;
37 Instances Cited
State Department Report
Charges Red Terrorism
In Blocking Free Vote
RUSSIAN COMMANDER in Berlin
Refuses to Sit Next to American
at Kommandatura Session. A-2.
The Senate Foreign Relations
Committee yesterday released a
State Department list of 37 Rus
sian violations of agreements
with the United States and other
nations concerning Germany.
Austria. Eastern and South
eastern Europe, Korea and Man
churia.
The list was compiled when 31
Senators introduced a resolution re
questing detailed information on
specific violations referred to by
President Truman in his March 17
speech. The President declared one
nation has "persistently ignored and
violated" agreements which "would
have furnished a basis for a just
peace."
In making public the State De
partment data, the Senate commit
tee said no further action was neces
sary on the resolution.
"Scurrilous Propaganda" Charged.
Violations cited in the report apply
to agreements at the Potsdam, Yalta
and Moscow conferences and . to
others arrived at by Allied Control
Councils and other bodies.
The report charges that Russia
encouraged "scurrilous propaganda,"
especially against the United States,
instituted a system of '"suppression,
intimidation and terrorism." pre
vented free speech and unfettered
elections, improperly "appropriated"
reparations, acted independently in
Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania,
and obstructed efforts to treat Ger
many as a single economic unit.
Following is a partial text of the
agreements and charges of viola
tions against Russia involving Ger
many. Austria and Korea, the three
pricinpal areas of contention:
Involving Germany.
1. The finat delimitation of Ger
man-Polish frontier should await
the peace settlement. Violation:
USSR has repeatedly maintained
that the Oder-Neisse line constitutes
the definitive German-Polish fron
tier and has approved incorporation
~See RUSSIANS. Page A-9.< “
Kansas Delegates Pledged
To Truman After Wrangle
By the Associated Press
WICHITA. Kas.. Mav 29.—Kansas
Democrats gave President Truman
a pat on the back in an uproarious
convention today, but wrangled long
and loud before directing that the
States 16 National Convention
! votes be cast for his renomination.
The decision to instruct the dele
, gation for the President came after
I the convention's Resolutions Com
! mittee voted to indorse the Demo
cratic administration and the Chief
Executive, but decided 8-4 against
| instructing the delegation.
A 9-minute demonstration to
"draft Eisenhower" led to a proposal
to amend the resolution and instruct
the delegation for Gen. Eisenhower.
1 former Army Chief of Staff, a na
j tive son.
Pro-Truman forces then wanted
; to amend the Eisenhower proposal
and have the delegation instructed
I for the President.
A two-hour wrangle and parlia
mentary snarl followed.
Finally the convention chairman,
Harry H. Woodring. former governor
and one-time secretary of war, pro
ceeded with a roll call vote It
wound up 338‘3 to 192', in favor
^if instructing for the President. ,
♦ —
Sixth Plea Proposes
Four-Week Truce
To Seek Settlement
By tht Associated Press
LAKE SUCCESS, May 29.—The
Security Council called tonight
for a four -weeks cease-fire in
Palestine to make another United
Nations attempt at a peaceful
settlement.
It was the Council's sixth appeal
for an end to the Jewtsh-irab con
flict.
No final vote was taken on a
much-amended British resolution.
Alexandre Parodi. of France, chair
man for May, ruled the Council had
approved it on votes on each para
graph. No one challenged this rul
ing.
Earlier, the Council refused the
second time to accept Russian
American demands for force to
stop the fighting.
The vote on this strong course
was 5 to 0 with six abstentions.
Will Reconsider Whole Case.
The delegates decided that if thfc
Arabs or Jews do not agree to
its decision by 7 p.m., E.D.T., June
1. the Council will reconsider the
whole case with a view for action
along the lines asked by Russia and
the United States.
This raised the possibility of
action under Chapter VII of the
United Nations Charter, which Rus
sia and the United States unsuc
cessfully demanded.
Chapter VII would permit the
U. N. to apply sanctions, break
diplomatic or economic relations
with any aggressor, interrupt rail,
sea. air, postal, telegraphic, radio
or other means of communication
and, if those are not enough, finally
send a U. N. army, naval or air
force to maintain or restore peace
ana security.
The Arabs and Jews were ex
tremely cautious in their first re
action to the Council action.
Arab Acceptance Predicted. i
A spokesman for Israel, however,
did say that the Council .apparently1
is "choosing non-intervention rather
than collective security."
Fails El Khoury of Syria, Arab
delegate on the Security Council,
told newsmen: “I hope the Arabs
will accept and I think it is likely.”
The delegates approved a general
four-week embargo on arms to
Palestine and to .the seven Arab*
countries. Some delegates pointed
out this meant that Britain would
suspend for the four-weeks—if the
decision is accepted finally by Arabs
and Jews—The deliveries, of mili
tary material the British govern
ment is now making to Egypt,
Iraq and Trans-Jordan.
The United States, which already
has an embargo on arms shipments
to the Middle East, was expected
to abide by the Council decision al
so. The United States took a lead
ing part in getting the Council to
stop the shipment of arms to Arab
countries during the cease-fire. Bri
tain originally sugges.ed an em
bargo only on shipments into Pales
tine.
Approved l»y lO-to-0 Vote.
Bv its decision tonight, the Coun
cil'
1. Called for the governments
and authorities concerned to order,
a cessation of all acts of armed
force fbr a period of four weeks.
This was approved 10 to 0 with Co
lombia abstaining.
2. Called on all sides not to in
troduce fighting personnel or men
of military age, into Palestine,
Egypt. Lebanon, Syria, Trans
jordan, Iraq. Yemen and Saudi Ara
bia. The vote was 7 to 0, w ith Rus
sia, the Ukraine. Syria and Colom-;
bia abstaining. Russia had attack
ed that section particularly but
stood aside when the United States
amended it to include the seven
Arab states RS well as the new state
of Israel.
3. Called on all concerned not to
'See U. N., Page A-5.i
Airdrome Group Chief
Badly Hurt in Crash
fty the Associated Press
BANGOR, Me. May 29.—The crash
of a P-47 fighter plane in a field
neai Dow Base here today critically
injured Lt. Col. Dana E. Noel of Ak
ron. Ohio, the commanding officer
of the 14th Airborne Group.
The plane, witnesses said, had en
gine trouble. Col. Noel was trying
to land on a farm lot. f
The single-seater craft broke in
*wo. It did not burn.
Russell H. Peavey, who helped re
move Col. Noel from the cockpit, said
the pilot's head was injured.
15 Dead in Northwest Floods;
State of Emergency Declared
(Picture on Page A-13.)
By fh« Associated Press
Rising flood waters brought new
damage to the Pacific Northwest to
day prompting the Red Cross to
label the overflows—the worst in 54
years—a regional disaster
Fifteen deaths were attributed di
| rectly to the widespread, floods.
Washingtons Governor declared
an emergency existed as new rail
road washouts and more flooded
main highways were added to the
growing list of damage reports. Na
tional Guardsmen were called on to
aid in repairing dikes and to assist
refugees.
North Idaho's Panhandle and the
disaster-strewn Fraser River valley
of British Columbia were hit even
harder. The broad Columbia River
spread flood waters from Canada to
the sea, in both Washington and
Oregon. Thousands of persons were
driven from their homes.
At Portland, where one main city
bridge was closed to traffic and
main highways to the east cut by
flood water. Col. O E. Walsh, Army
district engineer, estimated cost of
^the flood in the Columbia River
Halleck Favors
Senate Plan to
Adjourn June 19
House Floor Leader ;
Expects Decisions on
Major Bills by Then
By J. A. O'Leary
House Republican Floor Leader
Halleck of Indiana yesterday in
dorsed the goal of Senate leaders
,to wind up this session of Con
gress on June 19.
Without attempting to list the meas
ures he thinks will get through in
the remaining three weeks, the
G.O.P floor managei expressed con
fidence the House will act by that
flate "on all the things we can afford
to do at this time."
As a big step in that direction,
he said, the House will make an ef
fort to pass this week, starting Tues
day. most of the remaining approp
riation bills.
Bottleneck Possible in Senate.
Republican leaders of both houses
. will get together Tuesday to com
pare notes and determine how many
of the important pending issues can
be disposed of before the Republ
ican National Convention opens in
Philadelphia June 21.
The legislative bottle-neck, if one
occurs, will be in the Senate, where
debate on all subjects is unlimited,
unless two-khirds are willing to in
ivoke the seldom-used cloture rule.
The House is in a position to regu
late debate on all important bills'
Chairman Millikin of the Senate
Finance Committee announced yes
terday four days of public hearings,
beginning Tuesday morning, on the
House-approved one-year extension
of the Reciprocal Trade Agreement
Act, which expires June 12.
Action on Draft Awaited.
This is only *>ne of half a dozen
major issues awaiting Senate action,
which may provoke extended debate.
Others are:
Revival of the draft, which leaders
hope to call up this week, following
a vote on how many displaced per
sons should be admitted to this
country.
The civil rights question, which
may be fought out on amendments
expected to be offered to the draft
bill.
The Vandenberg resolution, to put
the Senate on record in favor of
American participation in regional
defens? pacts as one of several ways j
to improve the outlook for peace
until the United Nations organiza
tion is made more effective.
Repeal of the oleo margarine tax,
passed by the House and recently!
reported from the Senate Finance
Committee.
Long-Range Farm Bill.
A long-range farm bill to replace
the support program which expires
in December. \
The proposed two-year extension
of the terms of the five present
members of the Atomic Energy
Commission, to avoid a fight over
confirming Chairman David E.
Lilienthal for five years.
Senate Republican leaders are
ready, according to reliable reports
yesterday, to bring out a one-year
extension of the Trade Agreement
Act. without the House provision to
give Congress a chance to nullify
Presidential tariff cuts.
The Senate GOP managers may
write into the bill, however, au
thority for the Federal Tariff Com
mission to fix standards for the
President's guidance in negotiating
future trade pacts, and they are
not yet in agreement on how bind
ing these standards should be.
McGrath Announces Resistance.
This question of how far the Tar
iff Commission should be allowed to
go in curbing the President's power
to reduce tariffs may become as con
troversial as the congressional-veto
issue it replaces.
Rhode Island Senator McGrath,
Chairman of the Democratic Na
i See CONGRESS. Page A-4.) j
2 Flying to Indianapolis
For Races Hurt in Crash
By Associated Press
GRAFTON. W. VA.. May 29—;
Two Pennsylvania men, on their
way to the Memorial Day races at
Indianapolis, were seriously injured
tonight when their two-seated plane
crashed into the side of a 500-foot
hill about 11 miles south of here.
They were identified at Grafton
City Hospital as Robert Brandt,
about 35. of Perkasic. Pa., and Ray
mond Grant, 32, of Quakertown, Pa.
State Trooper W. D. Sergent
quoted Grant as saying that they
had become lost in the fog on the
way to Indianapolis. They ran out
of gas and were trying to find a
place to land when the crash oc
curred.
! basin alone will be at least $30,000,
! 000. He said it might soar higher
if the flood waters continue to rise.
Other millions in damages were
renorted in British Columbia. The
Fraser River valley was described as
a desolate lakeland from which
hundreds of persons fled.
Vancouver, B. C., was cut oft from
rail conections with Eastern Canada
as both the Canadian National and
Canadian Pacific lines suffered
washouts.
The declaration of an emergency
in Washington State puts into effect
a State disaster relief plan for the
National Guard, the Red Cross and
other organizations. All National
Guard units are alerted, and they
are called as needed in emergency
areas. The Red Cross is supervis
ing active relief work for flood vic
i tims.
Gov. C. A. Robins proclaimed a
similar state in the 10 northern
counties of Idaho.
Heavy rains during the last two
nights have added to the menace
i of melting snow in the mountains.
Rapid melting of snow in 85 to 90
degree weather suited the heavy
, run-offs. I
EXPECTING
ANYONE
^ ELSE?i
Memorial Day 1948
Experts May Test White House
Structure in Truman's Absence
Possibility Seen That President May Live
At Blair House During Remodeling
By Nelson M. Shepord
Government engineers are ex
pecting to take advantage this
week of the absence of President
Truman and his family to begin
an extensive survey of the White
House to determine for Congress I
what interior structural changes
are needed to make the 150-year
old mansion safer.
“We are equally concerned over
the structural weakness of some of
the walls and the second-floor living
quarters of the President and his
family, as we are over the lack of
modern fire resistant facilities,” W.
E. Reynolds, commissioner of pub
lic buildings, said yesterday.
His concern for the safety of the
presidential family, prompted by
Mr. Truman’s admitted “nervous
ness” when footsteps cause vibra
tions of the floor in .his private
study, shocked Congress into ac
tion. It has voted $50,000 for the
Public Buildings Administration to
prepare plans and specifications for
Mundt Bill Denounced
By Wallace as 'Most
Subversive' Proposal
j
CIO Charges Measure
Threatens Unions and
Curtails Civil Rights
By the Associated Press
Henry A. Wallace denounced
the Mundt-Nixon anti-Commu
nism bill yesterday as "the most
subversive legislation ever to be
seriously sponsored In the United
States Congress.”
"We can t havfc peace with Rus
sia if we approach Russia with the
atom bomb in one hand and the
Mundt Bill in the other," the third
party presidential candidate de
clared.
The CIO last night voiced strong
opposition to the bill "because it
seriously threatens the existence of
bona fide labor unions and because
it substantially curtails civil rights
guaranteed to every American by
the Constitution.”
C’lO Letter to Wiley.
The opposition was contained in
a letter to Senate Judiciary Com
mittee Chairman Wiley, Republican,
of Wisconsin, and signed by Nathan
Cowan, CIO legislative director,
"We object to the Mundt Bill be
cause it violates the very freedom of
speech, press and assembly which it
purports to safeguard.” Mr. Cowan
declared. “Under this bill, organi
zations and individuals are pun
ished, restrained, and regimented
solely on the basis of political opin
ions rather than on the basis of
overt acts of disloyalty.”
The letter noted that the "CIO, of
course, holds no brief for Commu
nism or for the exponents of this
philosophy.”
Mr. Wallace and Norman Thomas.
Socialist candidate for President,
were the day's star witnesses be
fore the Senate committee.
Bill Called Dangerous.
They joined in saying the bill,
aimed at foreign-directed conspir
acies to overthrow the United States
Government, is a dangerous one—
but there they parted company.
The grey-haired socialist charged
that Mr. Wallace's third party is
"largely” controlled by Communists.
He added:
"Don't let me give the impression
that Henry Wallace is a Communist.
I suspect that the Communists have
secret sessions in which they rather
deplore some of Mr. Wallace's gre
gariousness. He is not a Communist.
He happens to be very useful to
them now.”
Mr. Wallace, wearing a double
breasted grey suit, white shirt and
red tie, attracted an overflow crowd.
Some members of the audience ap
plauded loudly when he appeared—
eight minutes late—and again when
Senators finished questioning him.
Draws Laughter.
At one point Mr. Wallace was
asked if his 3.000-word statement
was all his own work. He said he
spent all day yesterday on it: that
he had done more work wi his
l6ee MUNDT BILL, Page J-4.) 1
the necessary alterations and fire
proofing.
The White House isn't like an
ordinary household as far as repairs
are concerned. The President just
cannot pick up and go away to suit
the convenience of the PBA, Mr.
Reynolds said.
For that reason the business of
tearing up floors and boring into the
inside walls at the White House
must be carried on intermittently,
he said.
•The actual engineering survey,
which will be a thorough X-raying
of walls and floor*, isn't to be done
hurriedly. It should take all of this
calendar year to make the survey,
agree on recommendations and pre
pare the plans, Mr. Reynolds ex
plained.
All of which suggests that the
tenant who signs up for a new four
year lease on January 20 might just
be asked to move first into Blair
House across Pennsylvania avenue.
Engineers estimate it will require at
• See WHITE HOUSErPageA-13T
District Ought to Pay
Gallinger Staff Chief,
Senators Are Told
Johns Hopkins Director
Gives Views After Brief
Study of Organization
By Harold B. Rogers
Gallinger Hospital’s chief of
staff should be paid by the Dis
trict government instead of med
ical schools here as at present, j
an eminent medical authority
has told a Senate subcommittee.
The suggestion was made by Dr
Edwin L. Crosby, director of Johns
Hopkins Hospital as a result of a
brief study of the professional staff
system at Gallinger, and reports
from city institutions elsewhere.
Dr. Crosby outlined his views in
a two-page letter to Chairman
Dworshak of the Senate Appropria
tions subcommittee now handling
the city supply bill for 1949.
Also Urged by G. W. U.
The physician wrote he did "not
have the time to conduct a com
plete survey and study of the situa
tion." But he outlined briefly the
principles generally accepted as the
most practical for city institutions.
Most of this system for adminis
tration, with the exception of the
method of paying the chief of staff,
already is in effect at Gallinger,
District officials said.
The proposal for having the city
pay the salary of the chief of staff
already has been recommended by
officials of George Washington Uni
versity Medical School. It was in
dorsed last night by Dr. Alvin R.
~ < See GALLINGER, Page A-«.)
Taft Faction in Georgia
Certified for Convention
ty tha Associated Press
ATLANTA, May 29.—Georgia Re
publicans friendly to the presi
dential ambition of Senator Taft,
Republican, of Ohio, were certified
today as the State's legal delegates
to the Republican National Con
vention.
Secretary of State Ben Fortson.
a Democrat, ruled between two fac
tions disputing over Republican
Party control in Georgia for the
past four years.
Mr. Fortson sided with a group
led by Roy Foster of Wadley. A
rival faction led by W. R. Tucker
of Dawsonville also claimed to rep
resent the legal G. O. P. Mr.
Tucker s camp is reported largely
behind Gov. Dewey of New York
for President
Spokesmen for Mr. Tucker said
they would take their fight to the
national convention despite Mr.
Fortson s ruling. The State official s
decision is not binding on the party
convention.
A Georgia law, passed in 1946,
requires the Secretary of State to
certify legal delegates when two or
more groups claim the right to
represent the State atwa national
convention. W
A.
Truman to Decorate
Arlington Tomb in
Memorial Rites Today
Speech to Be Broadcast;
Cloudy Weather Seen
For Holiday; Rush Abates
President Truman will lay a
w'reath on the Tomb of the Un
known Soldier and address the’
Nation from the Arlington Cem
etery ampitheater in the princi
pal Memorial Day services today.
The President, by proclamation,
has called on everyone to unite in
an hour of prayer at 8 o'clock
(EST) tonight.
The Weather Bureau predicted
cloudy weather today, with the |
highest temperature in the lower
70's this afternoon, and said a clear
day was indicated for tomorrow.
While thousands are honoring
the war dead here, other thousands
will have traveled from the Capital
for three days of relaxation at their
home towns or resorts. Pilgrimages
will be made to other cemeteries.
The travel rush, which began Fri
day evening and swelled to a cres
cendo yesterday morning, tapered;
off last night. Union Station was
filled with typical holiday jams as
railroads hooked up extra sections.
Airline Travel Heavy.
All major airlines reported al
most capacity reservations over the
week end. Even with all planes in
service, the demand to some points
exceeded the available flying stock.
Bus lines, too. had all their spare
machines rolling. I
Sports attractions will draw mil
lions, with the annual 500 - mile
Indianapolis Speedway Automobilei
Race tomorrow highlighting the
activity.
For the 200,000 Federal employes
District workers, banks, school chil
dren. and most business and retail
establishment', the holiday will
carry over through tomorrow. The
District Library and all its branches
will be closed. The Library of Con
gress will be open from 2 to 10 p m.
With both the Senate and House
in recess until Tuesday, congres
sional activity will be virtually at a
standstill. Many members of Con
gress will fill speaking engagement'
over the country today and to
morrow.
Arlington Hit"* Open At 10.
Services at Arlington Cemetery,
focal point of the Nation's tributes
to its war heroes, will open at 10
a.m. when many patriotic organi
sations place wreaths at the
Unknown Soldier's resting place
From 11:30 a.m. until President
Truman and his party arrive at
11:45, the Marine Band will play.
A 21-gun salute will signal the
President's arrival.
Flanked by a color guard repre
senting all the services, and accom
I panied by ruffles and flourishes.
Mr Truman will place a wreath on
the tomb. After the playing of the
National Anthem, he will go to the
amphitheater for the program
proper, arranged by the G. A. R.
Memorial Day Corporation.
Mrs. Anna G. Hagerty of Atlan
tic City, national president of the
: American Gold Star Mothers, Inc.,
■will follow the President to lay a
Urge wreath of gold flowers on the
tomb. Approximately 400 Gold Star
Mothers will attend.
They will then leave for Atlantic
' See MEMORIAL DAY, Page A-4.)
Two Boys Hurt as Porch
Collapses With Party of 40
Two Washington boys were in
1 jured last night when the back porch
:ol a Capitol Heignts <Md » house
collapsed under the weight of about
40 boys, who were having a wiener
! roast.
Admitted to Casualty Hospital
were Alfred Flaherty, 15, of 1821
Kendall street N.E.. who suffered a
possible head injury and cuts on the
left knee, and Robert Fitzgerald, 16,
of 1601 Trinidad avenue N.E., cuts
on the back and legs.
The house, located at 427 Sixtieth
'.street, is owned by Mrs. Elizabeth
! Acree, who was host to the boys, all
of whom are from the Holy Name
Parish here.
Mrs. Acree said the youths had
| planned the roast in the yard but
| went in the house when it started
to rain. When the porch collapsed,
it pitched the boys to the ground
15 feet below, she said. ^
Few Indictments
Shown Prior to
Gambling Probe
Police Study Reveals
Jump From 32% to
93% Since Drive
Indictments jumped from a
monthly average of 32 per cent
of gambling cases submitted to
the grand jury to 93 per cent in
May, after United States Attor
ney George Morris Fay proposed
a special grand jury to Investi
gate gambling, a Police Depart
iment statistical report revealed
: last night.
The report was forwarded to the
Commissioners by Police Supt.
! Robert J. Barrett without comment.
Police officials, however, are known
jto have resented the failure of Mr.
Fay's office to prosecute and the
failure of grand juries to return in
dictments in many of the cases made
dyVolice before the current gam
bling probe got under way.
Tne timing of the report indicated
:the police want to get another side
of the gamblin’’' story before the
1 public in the light of Mr. Fay s de
scription of a $100,000,000-a-year
i gambling racket nere.
Peak Since Fay Took Office.
That description prompted autho
rization of the special grand jury
investigation late last month. Since
then, the police statistics show, the
regular grand jury has been doing
more indicting in gambling cases
than any grand jury since Mr. Fay
took, office.
It was not known whether yester
day's set of statistics was behind
Maj. Barrett's request to get be
fore the special grand jury.
It is probable, however, that the
parade of police officials called be
fore the grand jury—a parade which
has not included Maj. Barrett—has
done nothing to ease the obvious
tension between the man who
supervises police action on gambling
and the one responsible for prose
cuting gambling offenses.
Indictments Zero at One Point.
The statistics forwarded by Maj.
Barrett showed the grand jury in
dictment rate ranged from zero to
50 per cent during the months from
July. 1947, through March. 1948.
Then the indictment rate jumped
to 75 per cent in April and 93.75
per cent during the first 17 dayi
of May, according to the Barretl
tables.
Asked for an explanation of th*
sharp rise in the indictment rate,
Mr. Fay said:
“The grand jury has to have suffi
cient substantial evidence upon
which to indict. If it doesn't, it
has to ignore the cases or refer
proper cases to Municipal Court for
prosecution as misdemeanors.'’ *
He said he had not had “ a single
big case" of gambling since he took
office. Grand juries, he said, have
been taking the position that there’s
no point in indicting "the small
fry” as long as the big operators
escape prosecution.
In March, he said, hr went before
the grand jury which had been
sitting since January and had been
ignoring one case after another. He
said he told the grand jurors it was
just as important to prosecute the
small operators as the big ones.
Took Same Approach.
When the next grand jury began
sitting in April, he said, he took the
■same approach, this time accom
panied by Lt. Roy Blick. chief of
the police vice squad. Shortly after
wards, the special grand jury in
vestigation was approved by Chief
Justice Bolitha J. Laws of District
Court.
The statistical report also showed
that in 17 cases where Indictments
were returned or where the grand
jury referred the cases to Municipal
Court for prosecution the United
States Attorney's office did not pros
ecute.
Asked about these cases, marked
“nolled” or "no papers" in the police
report. Mr. Fay said he would re
view the facts in each case Tuesday.
Most Cases Are Numbers.
Most gambling cases here arise
from operations of the numbers
game. Those arrested usually are
charged with operating a lottery—
a felony—and possession of lottery
; slips—a misdemeanor, or less seri
ous offense.
When the grand jury ignores the
felony charge, the case often is
referred to Municipal Court for
action on the misdemeanor charge.
Maj. Barrett's figures show that,
of cases ignored by the grand jury,
from 50 to 100 per cent were sent to
Municipal Court during the period
July, 1947. to March, 1948. inclusive.
From April 1 to May 17, however,
none was referred, according to the
report, and all cases presented to
the grand jury either resulted in
indictments or were dropped com
pletely.
The 15 gambling case indictments
returned in the portion of May cov
iSee GAMBLINGTPage A-6 ■
Broughton Leading
Umstead in Carolina
By th« Associated Press
RALEIGH, N. C„ May 29—J. M.
Broughton, former Governor ot
North Carolina, forged well ahead
of W. B. Umstead, the incumbent,
for the senatorial nomination in
: today's Democratic primary,
Unofficial returns from 721 of
North Carolina's 1,952 precincts
gave Mr. Broughton, now a Raleigh
I attorney, 51,018 votes and Senator
Umstead 43.229.
State Treasurer Charles M Jnhn
i son, after a slow start, led W. Kerr
Scott by 43.009 to 39.649 on he
j basis of returns from 725 precincts.
Others in the gubernatorial race
who received scattering votes were:
R. Mayne Albright, Oscar Barker.
Oila Ray Boyd and W. F. 6:an
ley. sr. .
Democrats also voted for s-x *
the State's 12 House members ana
Republicans for one. Six Demo
crats had-no party opposition.
A runoff primary will be neia
June 26, if necessary g