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Forrestal to Present
Diplomas Tomorrow
To 106 at War College
Secretary of Defense Forrestal is
scheduled to speak and present di
plomas at 10 a.m. tomorrow to the
second class to graduate from the
War College. The exercises will be
held in the auditorium at Fort Les
ley J. McNair.
The class will have 106 graduates
15 of whom are officers from the De.
partment of State and the rest di
vided almost equally among officers
of the Army Navy and Air Force.
The War College is a joint edu
cational Institution operating under
the Joint Chiefs of Staff. It pre
pares selected personnel of the Armed
Forces and the State Department
for high-level policy, command and |
staff functions.
Those from the District on the
list of graduates are Ware Adams,
■Foreign Service Office, State De
partment: Col. Samuel R. Harris,
jr., Air Force: Capt. William W.
Kenner, Coast Guard, and Capt.
Victor D. Long. Navy.
Among the Maryland graduates
are Capt. William G. Beecher, war
time deputy director, Navy public
relations, Baltimore: Capt. William
Miller, Navy, Silver Spring: Capt.
William K. Romoser, Navy, Balti
more: Capt. Sherman R. Clark,
Navy, Annapolis: Col. W. Preston
Corderman, Signal Corps, Hagers
town; Lt. Col. William Quinn, In
fantry, Crisfield; and Col. Richard,
P. Ross, jr., Marine Corps. Fred
erick
Those from Virginia include Capt.
Bruce B. Adell. Navy, Arlington;
Capt. John H. Sides, Navy. Arling
ton; Col. Ralph M. Osborne. Field
Artillery. Newport News; Col. Mar
cus B. Stokes, jr.. Transportation
Corps. Richmond; Capt. William S.
Veeder, Navy, Greenwich, and Col.
Robert J. Wood, Coast Artillery,
Petersburg.
District Youth Killed
In Yosemite Cliff Fall
A 19-year-old Washington youth
was killed in a fall while mountain
climbing in Yosemite National Park
late Saturday, according to word
received by his
parents.
The youth, C.
Judson Groff,
was the son of
Chalmers F.
Groff, secretary
treasurer of the
Home Title in
surance Co., and
Mrs. Groff. 3802
Twenty - fourth
street N.E.
He had just
completed his
first year at,
George Wash
ington Univer
C. J. Groff.
suy ana was wonting ior me i%a- j
tional Park Service for the summer, i,
his mother said.
The accident occurred when he j
was climbing with Elliott L. Amidon,
19. of 1526 Irving street N.E. on ,
Capitan Cliff, park officials told the
parents. Young Amidon was unin
jured. they reported.
Mountain climbing was the vic
tim's favorite hobby, his mother
said. A Washington native, he was
a graduate of McKinley High School. '
Survivors, besides the parents, in- j
elude two sisters, Virginia, 20. and •
Diane, 4 months, and a grandmother, '
Mrs. Annie S. Groff. 5300 Kansas J
•venue N.W. J
Funeral arrangements are await
ing return of the body.
Britain Asks U.N. to Control■;
Haifa Port When Troops Go'
By »ha Associated Press ^
LONDON, June 21.—Britain has j
asked the United Nations to control -c
the port and military installations c
in Haifa between the time British
troops leave and the Palestine truce t
ends July 9.
The last British troops are due t
to leave Haifa in about 10 days. t
An authoritative source said c
Britain feels that the Jews would r
gain a military advantage—in vio-11
lation of truce terms—if Israel took
over the installations before the
truce ends.
Haifa is within the area awarded
the Jews under the United Nations
partition plan.
A government informant - said
Britain's request was made to Count
Folke Bornadotte, U. N. mediator.
Weather Report
Dictrict of Columbia—Mostly
sunny with highest temperature
about 84 this afternoon. Increasing
cloudiness tonight with lowest tern-'
perature about 66. Tomorrow warm
and humid with a few showers.
Virginia—Mostly cloudy tonight
with scattered showers west and
central portions. Warm and humid
tomorrow with scattered showers.
Maryland—Partly cloudy and
warmer tonight, scattered showers
west portion. Tomorrow warm and
humid with scattered showers.
Wind velocity, 10 miles per hour:
direction, south-southeast.
River Report
'From United State* Engineer* *
Potomac River cloudy at Harper* Ferry
and muddy at Great Fall*; Shenandoah
cloudy at Harpers Ferry.
Humidity. t
Yesterday— Per Today
Noon 82 Midnight
4 pm. . ?3 Sam
8 p m. 67 1:30 p m
High and Low for Yesrerday.
High. *4. at 6 20 r m. |
Low 64. at 5:40 a m.
Record Temperature* Thi» Year.
Highest, 90. on May 11
Lowest. 5, on January 26.
Tide Tables.
(Furnished by United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey.*
Today Tommorw.”
High 8:31 a m. 9.30 am
Lovr . _ 3:10am
High 0 -3 p m
Lew _ 3:5*.’p m
The Sun and Moon.
Rises.
Sun today 542
Sun. tomorrow . 5.42
Moon, today P ldp.m
Automobile lights must be
one-half hour after aunset.
Pet.
89
88
. 6<»
3:54 a m
10:03 p.m
4 35 p m
Sets
8 3?
8:3?
5:22 a m
turned
on
Precipitation.
Monthly precipitation in inches In
Capital (current month to date*:
Month. 1948. Aye.
January —-4.57
February -1.67
March _ 3 6?
April--3.05
May _8.87
June _4 84
July _ _
August --
September __
October __
November _ _
December __
the
3.55
3.37
3.75
3.27
4.73
4.01
3.24
2.84
2.37
3.32
Record
7.83 ’37
6.84 ’84
8 84 91
9.13 ’8»
'89
_*00
10.63 *86
14.41 *28
17.45 *34
8.81 *37
8.69 *89
7.56 ’01
3.70 10.64*
4 13 10.94
iemi»«*rature* in
High Lo*
AlbuQueroye 84 63
Atlanta 90 TC
Atlantic City 68 6o
Bismarck _ _ 58 nO
Boston ... - 80 ftp
Buffalo . _ _ - 7' >4
Chicago 7 6 6*’
Cincinnati- 80 Hi
Detroit _ 75 61
El Paso P-: hk
Galveston _ PC 7 7
Harrisburg 8o 60
Indianapolis 7 8 63
Kansas City 69 6
Los Angeles 78
60
Louisville
84 M
nrrans uun.
High Low
Miami .84 7b'
Milwaukee 7 1 54 i
New Orleans 94 16
New York 7 8 64
Norfolk . 78 Hi
Ok1* City Pn hh
Omaha 67 6 4
Phoenix 9P Ho;
Pittsburgh 7 7 58
P'tland. Me. 76 54
St. Louis 8<» 7i»!
Salt Lake C. 93 5.5
San Antonio PP ‘8
San Fran. _ 6 7 ft-?
Seattle_ *'Z 53
Tampa- 94 75
MONTGOMERY, ALA.—A NARROW ESCAPE—Billy Hughes, 16, pictured as he crawled from a
car in which he and a friend were sitting when a huge tree was blown across the car during
a thunderstorm Saturday. Both occupants were uninjured. —AP Wirephoto.
Inquiry Board to Hear
Lewis and Operators
After Talk With Ching
By the Atsocioted Press
President Truman’s fact-find
ing board, racing against a pos
sible coal strike deadline, con
ferred today with Conciliation
' Director Cyrus S'. Ching.
I The three-man board went over
! the background of the contract and
i pension dispute between Mine Union
Chief John L. Lewis and the soft
| coal operators just before hearings
were to be held with the two sides.
The present contract runs to July 1.
Mr. Ching tried to mediate the
deadlocked negotiations last week
but had to report to the White
House that he was unable to pla
cate Mr. Lewis or the mine owners.
Mr. Truman, accordingly, put the
Taft-Hartley Act emergency strike
machinery into motion by naming
the board of inquiry.
The board called Mr. Lewis and
the operators to a meeting at 2 p.m.,
for questioning.
Report Due Wednesday.
Mr. Lewis was away for the week
end and. therefore, did not receive
the board's te*egraphed invitation.
The board has a Wednesday dead
line for sending a report to the
White House. Once that report is in
President Truman's hands, the ad
ministration can seek a strike-ban
ning court order under the Taft
Hartley law's emergency procedure.
The miners will start a 10-day
vacation Saturday, but before they
are due to return to w'ork July 6,
the present contract expires. To
date no progress has been made to
ward a new' one.
But there is one chance for get
ting a new coal agreement before
the vacation starts.
District Court Justice T. Alan
Goldsborough has announced he
will rule tomorrow on major points
involved in the miners' welfare fund
legal tangle.
Lewis Has Charged “Stalling.”
All along the coal operators have
contended that Mr. Lewis’ plan for
$100 monthly pensions for miners
over 62 years of age are illegal and
too expensive.
Mr. Lewis counters that the mine
owners have "stalled” a full year
in paving pensions and other agreed
benefits from accumulating a 10
cent-a-ton royalty.
The money has piled up to a to
tal of $45,000,000.
Justice Goldsborough's ruling on
th£ complicated welfare fund ques
tion may clear the way to a quick
contract agreement even though
neither side has yet talked wage
terms.
Another Taft-Hartley Act Inquiry
quiry Board went into the welfare
fund argument last March during a
six-week strike. Mr. Lewis appeared
before that board only when so or
dered by a court.
The new fact-finding board is
composed of David L. Cole. Paterson,
N. J., attorney, who is chairman;
Wight Bakke of Yale University,
and Waldo Emanuel Fisher of the
University of Pennsylvania.
Charles Town Entries
FOR TUESDAY •
ly Associated Pres*
Clear and Slow
First Post. c PM. EDT
FIRST Race—Purse. $8uO; claiming.
.^-year-olds and up: h>2 furlongs
xSerurity G loC xCarolina Boy JOT
Bright And Early 11*’ Hagerstown Bov ] j •*
WVar Salvage ill Tile Plate I 1C
Grand Monarch lie xDiscretion . ]07
Beautiful Sun._ lo7 xOne O Four me
Kings Lamp 107 Buck's Dance lie
Clara s Boy 11C xDot Yak 107
SECOND RACE—Purse. $800: claiming
J-veer-olds and up. furlongs.
xWiid Knight I lfi Giadacres Mary 107
xBliu Foot 111 Boy Larkmead 11 rt
xCardlnal's Glee me Scuttlemate lid
Sweet Barbara 1 1 »> Up.iack 11°
xTody's Petee 10? xLamere _ JOC
Miss Brodwood. 11! xBUtz Dart ... 107
Teegy 11C Martha Grier . 107
THIRD RACE—Purse. SI.000; allow
ances: C^year-olds: about 4’? furlongs
Devilish Lwd
Sweep Clean
Frank's Moose
St. Paul
xDevil s U'5-45
Count Off
118
1 1 8
1 1C
1 1C
104
118
Sal's Gal
xOle Cranon
Wayfern
xLtst Sting .
Beacondre
a Edna Idyll
10P
104
i r:
104
10P
1 Oft
a Lady Lavender 100
a John Ridge-ley and W. R. Hoffman
entry.
FOURTH RACE—Pur.se. $1,000: claim
ing 3-year-olds and upward- 1miles
Perljames 111 xMoveable Type 111
Jeanavie ill Ranging 11 rt
The Fantom 1 I♦» xSecret Knight 111
xHorn Tooter 115 Outcoat ICO
Dark Cloud 110 xLittle Jaybo 111
rla rle Whig* 111 xOur Risk 111
Buckeye 11H xRonzar 111
FIFTH RACE—Purse. $1.C00;
ing 3-year-olds and upward,
d furlongs.
xLord Loudoun
Arc Blue
xRakish Jane
Foneda
Bidasweep
Grandma C
xRoyal Favor
10P Idle Gossip
1 1 4 Our Debenture
1 m Bugler
1 1 5 Pharant
1 14 xPigeon
1 1 K Run Bud Run
104 xHal Jordy
claim
about
1 Co
10P
1 1 4
10ft
SIXTH RACE —Purse. $1*00; allow
ances. 4-year-olds and up 1 ,V miles,
a xCasset U« Smart Start 11 ;t
xlnez M 111 Bonziah Semah 113
Miss Prime . ^ lid xHnnoured 108
xGallam lid Gal Royal . 11«
xWarSpy _ lid The Demander 1C2
Relief Flag 113 a Get Set 113
a Mrs. N. L. Brown and G. F Gooch
entry
SEVENTH RACE—Purse. $1,000: claim
ing: 0-yesr-olds and upward: 1,', miles
, Intelligentsia . Ill xThormond 111
xDetractor _111 Don of Reno . 106
! Floodgate . 1 Hi xRakish Boy 111
i xValdlna Ooblm 111 xWell Informed 111
Spalpeen . 116 Tropical Sun _ . Ill
xSergt. Davis . Ill Abaiser _ 101
: Quatredom 111 Herb B. 116
EIGHTH RACE—Purse. $1,000: claim
ing. 4-year-olds and upward P, miles.
x Apprentice allowance claimed.
xDoctors Mite. 10T xHarv Aethel. _ 115
Inmate -- 11C Silver Ace _ 112
xFoot Soldier . 107 xEceebee . 115
xBalbar _ 115 xRosedan _ 115
xSnnw storm 107 xFibrillatinn lot
Chillle Tana *112 Valiant Doi .115
xBaby Billy_11 xMkoh'a Pal.. 115
COAL FACT FINDER — E.
Wight Bakke, professor of
economics at Yale University,
is a member of the presiden
tial board of inquiry into the
coal dispute. The board is ]
meeting today.—AP Wirephoto. j
Archbishop O'Boyle
Receives Pallium
The sacred pallium of office was
conferred today on the Most Rev.
Patrick A. O'Boyle, Archbishop of
Washington, by a secret consistory
of 14 princes of the Catholic
Church meeting at Rome, tjje As
sociated Press reported.
The pallium, made of the wool of
two lambs, is a band worn on the
shoulders as a token that the
wearer possesses “'the fullness of
the episcopal office.”
Others receiving the pallium were
three patriarchs of the Eastern
Churcl) and bishops and archbish
ops named since the last consistory.
None .was present for the cere
monies and the palliums were pre- j
sented to their representatives.
Pope Pius XIX announced the new
bishops named since the last secret
consistory in March, 1947. Among
them were Msgrs. Raffalle Macario
and Pietro Severi, named suffragans
to the Rome suburban diocese of
Albano and Palestina. Their nom
ination as suffragans was a de
parture from the custom of naming
auxiliary bishops to the seven sub
urban dioceses of Rome, and was
believed to be a step by the Pope
in contemplated changes in the
Roman curia.
2 Cairo Explosions Kill 20,
Wound 41 in Jewish Sector
By th» Associoted Pr«*s
CAIRO. June 21.—Police today in
vestigated two explosions which
killed 20 persons and wounded 41 in
the Jewish quarter of Cairo's bazaar
district.
The blasts let loose early yesterday
some three minutes and 150 yards
apart. Five houses were destroyed
and about 20 damaged. Eighteen of
the dead were found in the debris.
Two died in hospitals.
Saleh Murtaga Bey, sub-chief of
public security, said last night he
believed the explosions were acci
dental. the result of faulty storage
of materials the Jews used to make
fireworks.
But he added, police still are ask
ing about five Moslems who lived in
a Jewish-owned house at the center:
of the first explosion and who have
not been located.
Soon after the disaster. 300 police
men encircled the quarter.
Murtaga Bey said they arrested
seven Jewish boys with two push
cart loads of unexploded gelignite,
neither of them fused.
They boys probably were taking
the explosive aways. he said, for'
fear it would blow up or wnuld be
found in their premises.
Cen. Hodge Flies to Tokyo
For Surprise Conference
By the As&ocioted Press
TOKYO, June 21.—Lt. Gen. John
R. Hodge, commander of American
occupation forces in South Korea,
arrived unexpectedly today for con-;
Terences with Far East 'command
officers. He described his visit as
routine.
However, the headquarters visitors
bureau said it learned of his trip
only a few minutes before Gen.
Hodge's plane landed.
In Seoul. Gen. Hodge's own in-j
formation office said it had noil
known of his departure. The trip
was Gen. Hodge's first to Japan'
since March. 1947. when he con
ferred with Gen. MacArthur.
The biggest problems in Korea
currently concern United States re
lations with the Russians, who oc
cupy the country north of the 38th
parallel. The Russians recently re
iterated a refusal to resume supply
ing power to South Korea from
northern hydroelectric plants.
Two Americans Released
TRIESTE. June 21 1The
Yugoslavs have liberated two Amer
ican privates absent without leave
since June 9. an Army communique
disclosed today. They were Saverio
C. Tremarki of Philadelphia and
John R. Wright of Johnsoh City.
Tenn. Their absence had not been
announced previously. The Army
said it had no further word about
the expected release of five other
soldiers take^ captive last week.
Farmers and Airports
Counting Losses After
High Winds and Hail
Farmers and air fields today were
counting their losses from the heavy
rain and hailstorm that damaged
nearly 150 aircraft in this area and
hit hard at Maryland tobacco and
grain crops over the week end.
The Weather Bureau recorded 2.18
inches of rain during Saturday
night's thunderstorm. The wind
reached a velocity of 46 miles an
hour, according to the Weather Bu
reau, although one private flying
field estimated 70 - mile - an - hour
gusts.
Hailstones, reported by the Weather
Bureau as one inch in diameter,
damaged planes at Bolling Field Air
Base, National Airport and a num
ber of private flying fields. Mary
land farmers reported seeing hail
stones as big as tennis balls.
Bolling Field alone reported 125
damaged A-26s. C-54s, C-47s, C-45s
and B-25s. Hail tore through the
fabric covering wing tips and tails.
75 Pet. of Planes Repaired.
All aircraft were grounded at
Bolling Field yesterday to check
on the condition of the planes while
emergency crews went to work.
A field spokesman said 75 per cent
of the planes have been repaired,
but others will be out of commission
for some time because materials are
not available at the field to replace
bent ailerons.
Plane "Rolled Up Like a Ball.”
The damaged planes at Bolling,
as at the other fields, were those
tied down on the field jnd not in
hangars. A spokesman explained
there was no room in the hangars
for the planes.
Congressional Airport Hit.
Hardest hit of the private fields
was Congressional Airport which
reported total wreckage of half a
dozen planes and damage to several
others, mostly because of high
winds.
The airport said one plane was
lifted to the top of a hanger, "rolled
up like a ball" and fell on the other
side. Another was torn from its
moorings and sailed backward over
other planes in the line before drop
ping on its nose.
National Airport reported dam
age to a dozen private planes and
Hybla Valley Airport said hail tore
holes in two planes.
An Associated Press survey of the
effects of the downpour in Mary
land indicated that the loss of crops
would total tens of thousands of
doilars.
Father Gets Warrant
Alter Son Is Struck
A warrant charging simple assault
was sworn out today by a Chevy
Chase <Md> father, accusing an
ather man of striking his son in an
argument over homemade racing
cars.
The action by was taken by Rich
ard G. Sinclair, 32. of 4021 Western
avenue, Chevy Chase, an account
analyst in the General Accounting
Office. It alleged that George H.
Mitchell, 51. of 15 East Irving street,
Chevy Chase, struck Ronald Sin
clair, 11, in the face with his fist
yesterday.
Mr. Mitchell is an attorney in the
Cnief Counsel Appeals Office of the
Internal Revenue Bureau and a for
mer assistant attorney general of
Kentucky.
Taken to Emergency Hospital by
his father, the Sinclair boy was
leleased after a stitch was taken
in a cut lip.
Mr. Sinclair said the incident be
gan when his son and Clifton
Mitchell, 9, traded homemade rac
ing cars. When the boys discussed
trading back there was an argu
ment. Learning of the dispute from
his son, Mr. Mitchell went to an
alley near 3616 Rittenhouse street
N.W. The Sinclair boy was struck,
his father said.
"My boy is not strong." Mr.
Mitchell said. "The neighborhood
kids constantly pick on him and it
w as just all I could stand.”
25 Towns Oppose Plan
To Drop Airmail 'Pickup'
Representatives of approximately
25 cities and towns in Pennsylvania,
Ohio and West Vireinla appeared
before Examiner Warren E. Baker
of the Civil Aeronautics Board
today to oppose the proposal of
All-American Aviation, Inc., to dis
continue airmail "pick-up" service
in those communities.
John C. Ruch, president of the
Chamber of Commerce of Clearfield,
W. Va.. stated the,proposal would
result in much slower mail service
for his area.
The hearing arose out of an order
by the CAB awarding certain pas
senger routes to Eastern Shore
communities to All-American Avia
tion provided that the company di
vorced itself of its airmail pick-up
service
Hamilton O. Hale, attorney for
All-American, stated that increased
costs made it necessary for the
company to discontinue its pick-up
service. The Post Office Department
is not opposed to its discontinuance,
he said.**
70,000 Greek Troops
Open Drive to Smash
Communist Rebels'
By th« Akftociat»d Press
ATHENS, June 21.—An esti
mated 70,000 Greek troops
slugged their way into the North
ern Pindus Mountains today in
an effort to smash the Commu
nist rebellion.
Six divisions, backed by planes
and artillery, jumped off last night
in the greatest offensive of the long
civil war. The operation, planned
and supervised by the Greek general
staff with American advisers in the
flevd. is aimed at wrecking the guer
rillas of Markos Vafiades in their
main stronghold.
The Greek 9th Division advanced
four miles into guerrilla territory
north of Konitsa today.
Official sources said no opposition
was encountered after the Jumpoff,
at 10 o’clock last night.
Griswold Makes Appeal.
Dwight P. Griswold, chief of the
American mission to aid Greece,
made a radio speech apepaling to
guerrillas to surrender.
“I hope and pray that Greeks
fighting against their own people
and country will surrender so this
bloodshed will end soon,” he said.
The speech was translated and
relayed in Greek. 'Mr. Griswold
said the military situation ol
Greece is ”vastly improved.” He
said it was unsatisfactory several
months ago.
Mr. Griswold said American mil
lions had brought about declining
prices in Greece, a balanced budget
and a stable currency. He said re
construction is going on in high
gear. He called for “more demo
cratic representative and economic
management of people's affairs in
tile provinces.’’
One Host to U. N. Group.
The Greek 9th Division is com
manded by Brig. Gen. Stylianos
Manidakis. The opposing rebel
leader is a '‘Capt.” Kikitsos. Undei
him is a man named Yannoulis,
. who was host to the first U. N
j Balkan Commission last year at
Kastanofiton, when it tried without
success to meet Vafiaaes.
The Greek 15th Division was re
ported fighting violently south of
Nestorion with heavily fortified
guerrilla units.
Seven thousand rebels—the Greek
army calls them bandits—are re
ported in a 1.000-mile-sciuare Gram
mos Mountain area along the Alban
ian border. Markos' headquarters
and the main guerrilla supply bases
are believed to be in this region,
which is dotted with mountain peaks,
some as high as 7,000 feet—probably
the roughest terrain in Gree.ce.
The army, in its offensive, is try
ing to sew up this rebel pocket on
three sides—on a line roughly south
from the Albanian border to Ioan
nina, from Ioannina east and north
to Grevena and from Grevena north
to Nestorion and the Albanian bor
der. The border itself forms the
top of the pocket.
Machine-Gun Posts Cleared Out.
Before the operation could start,
28 heavily fortified machine-gun
pasts north and west of Nestorion
had to be taken. One American
officer said the positions W'ere com
parable to anything he saw in Ger
many.
The army tried to blast them with
25-pound artillery shells and 250
p>ound aerial bombs. That proved
futile and infantrymen were sent
in and cleaned the position out with
bayonets. The army said guerrilla
casualties were heavy.
Two of the three squadrons in
the Greek air force are backing
the army's play and 100 pieces of
artillery, mastly American-made,
are pounding rebel positions on the
Mount Grammes approaches.
According to the best available
estimates, Markos has some seven
brigades and several independent
battalions under his command in
the fighting zone.
One authoritative source said the
rebels have only 12 to 16 pieces of
artillery in the area, plus a small
number of 20-millimeter antiaircraft
guns. American military authori
ties said the lineups appeared to
mean that Markos will be unable
to mount any serious counterattack.
His other alternative would be to
pull back into Albania.
Authoritative sources said the
Greek Army also used American
fire bombs in pulverizing the ma
chine-gun nests around Nestorion
A press dispatch from Kozane
said a message from Markos tc
Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia had
been intercepted in w’hich the
guerrilla leader was “pleading for
help." Army headquarters declined
to confirm or deny the report.
A correspondent for the Athens
newspaper Ethnos sent a story from
Larisa that three guerrilla bat
talions—a thousand men—had sur
rendered at the village of Mylia
between Grevena and Metsovon
There was no official confirmation
of this report, either.
Today's general staff communique
merely said fighting was continuing
scuth and west of Nestorion against
strong guerrilla positions.
Alabama Negro Loses
Appeal to High Court
By the Associated Pres*
The Supreme Court today ruled
against an Alabama Negro sen
tenced to death in the rape of a
14-year-old white girl.
It refused to order a State court
hearing on his assertion that a
"confession" was extorted from him
by force and violence.
The man. Samuel Taylor, was
convicted in Mobile County Circuit
Court November 19. 1946. On the
eve of his execution, scheduled for
September 19. 1947, he asked the
Alabama Supreme Court to permit
a hearing in the Circuit Court on
his new assertion regarding tne
"confession." The State Supreme
Court dismissed his request.
Justice Burton delivered the 5-3
decision. Justice Murphy dissented
and was joined by Justices Douglas
and Rutledge. Justice Black took
no part.
^Alabama sent photographs of
Taylor, taken in the nude immedi
ately after the confession, to "dis
close no indication of physical vio
lence or bodily injuries.”
Justice Murphy in dissenting said
that there is nothing to prevent
Taylor from going into Federal Dis
trict Court and beginning a habeas
corpus proceeding.
Justice Murphy advocated that
anv confession which is shown "to
be the product of mental or physical
coercion" should be declared void
“even though the confession is in
fact true and even though there is
adequate evidence otherwise to sus
tain thy< conviction.”
Young Laurel Couple
Killed as Motorcycle
Goes Out of Control
; rwo teen-age motorcyclists were
injured fatally last night a mile
north of Laurel, Md., when their
machine went out of control on No.
i 1 highway and threw them to the
; pavement.
They were:
I Miss Dorothy Fischer, 19, daughter:
I of Mrs. Blanche Mahan of Laurel,
and a graduate last week of the
Laurel High School
Charles Golliday 17, Jessups. Md„
a cashier in a Laurel market.
No Witnesses Found.
Miss Fischer was pronounced dead
on arrival at St. Agnes Hospital.
Baltimore, and young Golliday died
there early today. State police said
there were no known witnesses to
the acciden? which occurred about
9:30 o’clock as the couple was re
turning to Laurel from a ride.
Police believed the motorcycle
went out of control when the brakes
were applied.
The youth, who had known Mis»
Fischer for about a year, was driv
ing the motorcycle, and the girl
was riding tandem, according to
her brother. Louis Fischer. Mr.
Fischer works at the market where
young Golliday was-»emDloved.
She Was Telephone Operator.
Miss Fisher was a telephone oper
ator at the Laurel exchange and had
worked there part-time while at
tending school. She lived with her
mother at 28 Avondale avenue.
Also surviving Miss Fischer are her
father, Joseph Fischer, Baltimore;
a. sister, Mrs. Frafices Bean, Silver
Spring, and three half-sisters, Julia
Ellen, Della Marie and Hazel Lee
Mahan, Laurel.
Miss Fischer was a member <jf St.
Mary’s Catholic Church, Laurel.
P’uneral services have been sched
uled tentatively for Wednesday.
Young Golliday, who was born in
Winchester, Va., had lived in Jes
sups for the past four years. He
attended Elkridge High School until
1946, according to his father, George
W. Golliday. He was a member of
the Jessups Wesley Methodist
Church.
Also surviving are his mother, a
brother, George W. Golliday, jr.,
Jessups, and four sisters, Mrs. Pearl
Sedgwick and Mrs. Violet Du Vail.
Jessups; Mrs. Charlotte Brown,
Washington, and Mrs. Mary Put
man, Strasburg. Va.
Gen. Howell's Funeral
Will Be Held in Bristol
By the Associated Press
BRISTOL, Va.-Tenn., June 21.—
Funeral services for Gen. Julius F.
Howell, 102-year-old former com
mander-in-cheif of the United Con
federate Veterans, will be held at
4 pm. today at the Frst Baptist
Church. Graveside services will be
conducted by the Hackler-Wood
Post of the American Legion.
Gen. Howell died Saturday at his
home here after an illness of three
weeks. The former president of Vir
ginia Intermont College was known
as the last survivor of Longstreet’s
Corps of the Army of Northern Vir
ginia.
4 Men Held on Charge
Of Dynamiting Fish
Special Dispatch to The Star
i MARTINSBURG. W. Va.. June
21.—Pour North Mountain men have,
been held for the October grand jury,
in Berkeley County by Magistrate
King Larkin on a charge of dyna
miting for fish in a county stream.
; Berkeley County Game Protector W.
W. Parsons, who made the arrests
June 14, said the violations occurred
a week earlier.
Mr. Parsons said he had signed
admissions from the men that they
used dynamite in Tilhance Creek, a
tributary to Back Creek.
A recent survey showed that
less than three per cent of Uruguay
is forested.
Mrs. Alma F. Wells Dies;
Widow of Lawyer-lanker
Mrs. -Alma F. Wells, 38. widow of
C. A. M. Wells, lawyer, bank pres
ident and one-time treasurer of
Prince Georges County, died yes
terday at her home, 1852 Columbia
road N.W., after several months'
illness.
Mrs. Wells was a clerk in the
District recorder of deeds office and
had worked there since her hus
band's death in 1942. She was born
here, the daughter of Mrs. Alice
Georgia Pyles and the late Charles
Pyles.
Her husband was president of the
First National Bank of Southern
Maryland, the Citizens’ Bank of
Riverdale and the Bank of Bowie.
He was with the law firm of Wells,
Owens and Wells. His father, the
late Dr. Charles A. Wells, at one
time was mayor of Hyattsville.
Besides her mother, Mrs. Wells
is survived by a niece.
Funeral services will be held at
1 p.m. tomorrow at the Hines funeral
home. 2901 Fourteenth street N.W.
Burial will be in Fort Lincoln
Cemetery.
Requiem Mass Is Set
For James J. Breen
Requiem mass for James J. Breen,
58. stock control supervisor In the
Naval Gun Factory supply depart
ment, will be sung at 9 a.m. tomor
row at the Church of the Nativity.
Burial will be in Mount Olivet Cem
etery.
The mass will be celebrated by
Mr. Breen's cousin, the Rev. Joseph
Lane, pastor of St. Pauls Church,
Baltimore. Father Lane will be as
sisted by a nephew, the Rev. John
F. O'Connor.
Mr. Breen died Friday at Casualty
Hospital. His home was at 5729
Ninth street N.W.
Born in Ireland, he came here
when he was about 21 years old.
He first was a mail clerk at the Post
Office and, after holding several
other Government positions, began
work for the Navy in 1921 as a stock
man at Indian Head. Md., and since
February, 1922, had been at the
Naval Gun Factory. He received a
citation from the factory com
mandant for the production of ord
nance material.
He was a member of the Holy
Name Society of Nativity Church.
Survivors are his widow, Mrs. May
Howard Breen: a daughter. Miss
Patricia May Breen, both of the
Ninth street address; two nieces
and two nephews, all of Washing
ton; a sister. Mrs. Frank O'Keeffe,
and another brother, John, in Al
berta, Canada.
Speculators are reported to have
a strangle hold on India’s pepper
trade.
Church Merger Plan
Faces Council Action:
By Congregationalists
Sy the Associated Press
OBERLIN, Ohio, June 21.—A pro
posal to speed merger of the Congre
gational Christian Churches and tha
Evangelical and Reformed Church
was ready today for consideration
by the Congregationalists’ general
council.
The council is at the halfway
point in an eight-day biennial meet
ing of 2,000 delegates. Church
leaders worked out over the week
end a new compromise plan to sub
stitute for majority and minority
proposals made Saturday by the In
terchurch Relations and Christian
Unity Commission.
The new plan would accept the
Basis of Union which the two
churches have formulated in six
years of conferences as a guide for
organizing a United Church of
Christ with a membership of some
2,000.000.
The general synod and 33 of 34
local synods of the Evangelical and
Reformed Church already have ap
proved the merger as outlined in
the basis of union.
The Congregationalists also favor
the merger. However, a plebiscite
failed to produce among the mem
bership and individual churches a
'<5 per cent favorable majority. This
was suggested by the Interchurch
Commission to justify final action by
the general council.
The new proposal would attempt
to reach the commission goal of 75
percent approval by extending the
plebiscite to churches which did not
vote and repolling those which op
posed.
Mrs. Hayden Johnson
To Be Buried Today
Funeral services for Mrs. Jeanette
Gatewood Johnson, widow of Hay
den Johnson, former president of
the Board of Education and chancel
lor of Natonal University, were to
be held this afternoon at the Hines
funeral home, with burial in Oak
Hill Cemetery.
Mrs. Johnson died Friday at Oak
Retreat Sanitarium, 1801 Park road
N.W., after an illness Of two years.
Before she became ill, she lived at
2107 Nineteenth street N.W.
She was born in Kentucky and
lived in New York before she and
her husband came to Washington.
Mr. Johnson was president of the
Board of Education from 1932 to
1935 and was chancellor of National
University and dean of its Law’
School from 1931 until his death in
May, 1936.
Mrs. Johnson has no immediate
survivors.
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