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The Kremlin-ruled Cominform de nounced the Communist rulers of the Balkan country yesterday. Premier Marshal Tito, his where abouts still a mystery, was castigated by name and told in effect either to adhere to the party line or be replaced. Tanjug, the official Yugo slav news agency, said it expected a statement from Marshal Tito today. The Italian radio said martial law was declared in Yugoslavia, but a dispatch telephoned from Belgrade to Prague said this was emphatically denied in the Yugoslav capital. The Belgrade correspondent of the Associated Press said there was a story that martial law was de clared around Nis, near the Bul garian border, to allow police and soldiers to evacuate persons from a flood zone. The story could not be confirmed because of poor communi cations. (There was no indication in reports from the American Em bassy in Belgrade to the State Department today that there had been any change in Marshal Tito's status. So far as any one in Belgrade could tell, Tito was still in power, the department was informed. The Yugoslav government was functioning with no apparent changes in top per sonnel.) Statement Promised. Communist headquarters in Bel grade repeated a promise to issue a statement in response to the Comin form denunciation 'sometime this afternoon.” The Cominform had accused Tito and other Communist leaders of pursuing a hateful policy toward Russia, leaning toward the western powers, conducting a'"wrong” for eign and domestic policy and de parting from the Marxist -Leninist line. Belgrade dispatches yesterday said Tito was believed to be at his summer palace at Bled in the north. He usually spends June there. A high Yugoslav diplomat in Rome said Tito still is in power. The fact remained that weeks had elapsed since the strutting Marshal, once a general in Russia s Red Army, had appeared in the news. At Lake Success, Dr. Jan Papanek, former Czech U. N. delegate, ex pressed belief that Tito may be in grave personal danger, while high; American diplomatic officials in Washington expressed the opinion that the Yugoslav marshal and his; associates may already have been • taken care of.” By "taken care of.” they meant Tito may have been removed as head of Yugoslavia's government, or merely "immobilized” for the period of thinking and repentence—or liquidated. Lack Disciplinary Power. The Cominform blast came with suddenness and surprise yester dav from Prague. The opinion there was that the Cominform in effect has said to Tito: ' You have done wrong. Confess and do better, but we don't think you can." The comtnioim omcumuij k> vm.> a Communist Information Bureau without disciplinary power so far as is known. But since the Rus sians control the Cominform, it is evident they can force Tito out of the Cominform, out of the party and out of Yugoslavia if they choose. Communists in the past who have been chastised by Russia custom arily have denounced themselves, left the party in shame and given the reins to others. The denuncia tion of Tito and his lieutenants was criticism as heads of the Yugoslav Communist Party. But they also are heads of the government. French Communists said Tito's "heresy” had been an open secret among leaders of the party through out Europe for weeks. First Open Red Quarrel. The fact remained that it was the first open quarrel to erupt be hind the iron curtain among the bloc of Eastern European states i See YUGOSLAV. Page A~-37i President of Peru To Rule by Decree ly the Associated Crass LIMA. Peru, June 29.—President i Jose Luis Bustamante Rivero de clared last night that Peru is in a state of "acute national crisis." He said he will assume extraordinary powers to rule by decree. Speaking in a nationwide broad cast., he said political tension in Peru has become "dangerous" and said there are indications that • something violent and obscure is being hatched at the bottom of the political strata." The President said he would not convoke Congress for its customary annual session July 28 because of a decision by 21 independent Senators to boycott the session, as they did in 1947. thus causing an automatic parliamentary recess. This decision. President Busta mante said, creates a problem for the nation which cannot be solved by constitutional means. It means, in effect, that the country has no legislative branch of government. Therefore, he told the people, he la ready to assume extraordinary powers to issue such decrees and laws as are necessary. He also intends to take steps for formation of a modem political party to help solve the nation's problems. He promised continuation of a demo cratic way of life. Dead and Injured Put at 2,500 As Fukui Area Feels New Quake All Americans Escape Serious Injury; U. S. Relief Beginning to Reach Scene By tht Associated Press FUKUI, Japan, June 29.—The shattered Fukui area felt new earth tremors tonight. Military government officers estimated Monday’s earthquake casualties would mount to 2,500 dead and injured Japanese. 1 No new damage was reported. All Americans in the stricken area escaped serious injury, but a num ber were bruised and burned slightly. American relief reached the quake scene to aid the injured and home less. i John Carroll University in Cleveland said its seismograph had recorded another strong earthquake in the vicinity of yes terday’s destructive shocks. The new' tremors were recorded also at Fordham University in New York, i Military government officers said 200 children were crushed to death when a motion picture theater col lapsed In the first shock. Their bodies have been recovered. At a school 22 more children and 2 adults were reported crushed. Maj. Gen. Joseph W. Swing. United States Army 1st Corps commander, returned to Tokyo from Fukui and said he doubted the death list for the whole stricken area would ex ceed 300, but the total injured may eventually reach 5,000. He said there was no evidence of any tidal waves striking the shore from the Sea of Japan. The governor of Pukui prefecture estimated 3,155 were killed in the violent quake. <The Tokyo news paper Asahi gave the number of dead and injured in the prefecture as 16,000. It reported 300.000 home less.! Black marketeers set up stalls on the streets in the midst of the earth quake and fire damage. They offered: Three small rice balls for 50 yen ($1>, one water melon, 350 yen ($7); bottle of beer, iSee QUAKE, Page A-6.'i , U. S. Submits Proofs That Warship Did Not Shell Arab Positions Evidence Is Presented to League as It Confers in Cairo on U. N. Proposals By the Associated Press CAIRO. June 29.—The Arab League reported today that the American Naval Attache had given "his proofs" that an Amer ican warship could not have shelled Arab positions in Pales tine as Syria contends it did. The American rebuttal was re ported by Abdel Rahman Azzam Pasha, secretary general of the Arab League. Azzam Pasha made his statement after a conference with American Charge d'Affaires Jefferson Patter son and the Naval Attache, Capt. William R. Headden. Earlier in the day Muh.sen al Barazi. Syrian Interior Minister, said his government protested to Count Folke Bernadotte, United Nations peace-maker for Palestine, that an American ship on truce patrol for the mediator intervened in an Arab-Jewish battle at Al Barwa. This point is about 8 miles inland from the coast of Northern Palestine. Statement Promised. Azzam Pasha said Mr. Patterson supplied him with all information the American representative had gathered on the incident. The Amer ican Embassy said a thorough check was being made and that a state ment would be Issued tomorrow. A high Arab source said, mean while, that Arabs "will resume war while pursuing peace talks” if nego tiations toward a settlement in Pal estine are unfinished at the end of the month-long truce expiring July 9. The Arab informant, who refused to be quoted by name, said counter proposals asked for by Count Ber nadotte in submitting his peace proposals yesterday, may lead to ex tension of the talks beyond July 9. Arab nation representatives were in Cairo for League discussion of the Bernadotte proposals, and among them was Al Barazi. No Word of Protest Received. In Washington the State Depart ment said it had received no offi cial word of the Syrian protest. A department spokesman said Ameri can destroyers were in the Pales tine area only as observers of the U. N. truce. "The captains were under strict orders not to fire, not to search and not to board other vessels.” the spokesman said. Count Bernadottes Cairo repre sentative. J. Escarati, said he knew nothing about the warship incident. Syrian Premier Jamil Mardam Bey, who announced the league meeting from Damascus, said Count Bernadottes new peace proposals "will in no way modify our attitude of rejecting partition and a Jewish state in Palestine." The proposals also have been for warded to the Jews in Tel Aviv. Count Bernadotte said he asked both parties to refrain from sugges tions or publishing the proposals until he has received their replies. Jewish and Arab experts consulted w ith Count Bernadotte at his Rhodes headquarters, when he drew up the proposals. . Two Kings Meet. The Cairo newspaper A! Ahram ran a dispatch from Saudi Arabia last night that official talks on the Palestine problem between King Ibn Saud and King Abdullah of Trans-Jordan, began Sunday in Riyadh. The dispatch quoted Abdullah as saying that if Count Bernadotte* mediation fails, "the world will wit ness the result of the participation of Saudi Arabian forces in the Pales tine fighting.” In Haifa the British are speeding their evacuation. Yesterday they released 13 Jewish prisoners held as "dangerous” to Britain. Six of them had drawn death sentences, later commuted to life imprisonment, for taking part in an attack on rail shops during the British mandate. Bulletin Super Chief Derailed WINSLOW. Ariz. T.—The Santa Fe Railroad's luxury passenger train, the Super Chief, was derailed today in the W’inslow yards. Morris Richards, editor of the Wins low* Mail, said he was told sev eral were injured. He said all doctors in the city were sum moned. The Santa Fe said the engine and three cars over turned. NLRB Charges UMW Kept Miners in Shafts Until They Joined Denham Files Complaint Of Unfair Practice in 4 West Virginia Pits By the Associated Press Robert N. Denham, general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, issued a com plaint of unfair labor practice today against District 31 of John L. Lewis’ United Mine Workers of America. Mr. Denham charged that UMW members obstructed entrances of four West Virginia coal mines and refused to let non-union workers come up from underground until they signed UMW membership cards. The incident occurred during the six-week mine shutdown over the miners' pension dispute in March. The complaint is based on charges filed by four firms—Ruthbell Coal Co.. Hartman Coal Co., Borgman Coal Co. and George Kefover Coal Co. Issued at Pittsburgh. Mr. Denham announced the com plaint here. It was issued at Pitts burgh by Acting NLRB Regional Director Paul F. Shupp. The complaint charges the union forced the mines to shut down by closing up the exits and. permitted the nonunion workers to come up only if they signed UMW union membership applications. "As a condition of release from detention,” the complaint said, “the' employes were required to sign applications for membership in the union.” All four coal mines are in Preston! County, W. Va. A hearing on the (•complaint will be held before an NLRB trial examiner August 10 at; King wood. W. Va. Second NLRB Complaint. The UMW's District 31 also is accused in the complaint of violat ing the Taft-Hartley Labor Act at the four mines by conducting mass picketing and beating nonunion workers in seeking to compel them to cease work and join the union, This is the second NLRB com plaint pending against the UMW. The other was filed by the South ern Coal Producers' Association on charges that Mr. Lewis and the UMW failed to bargain with the Southern Association in the recent 1948 contract negotiations. Mr. Lewis eventually agreed to bargain with the Southern associa tion after the NLRB obtained a Fed eral Court injunction June 4 re quiring him to do so. A hearing before an NLRB trial examiner on the Southern associa tion's original failure-to-bargain complaint against the UMW Is set for July 12. The Southern group, headed by Joseph Moody, has reached agree ment with Mr. Lewis and with most other soft-coal operators last week signed a new one-vear contract giv ing miners a $l-a-dav wage increase and tw-ice as much money for the miners' welfare-pension fund. Truman to Help Dedicate Idlewild Airport July 31 President Truman will go to New York July 31 to speak at the dedica tion of the new Idlewild Airport. The airport will be dedicated as part of the observance of the 50th anniversary of the merging of the five boroughs into Greater New York City. The White House has not yet worked out details for the trip. Germans Draff Plea fo U. N. in Berlin's Crisis 'Ruthless Inhumanity' Charged by Britain In Soviet Blockade U. S. DISCOURAGING U. N. in tervention in Berlin crisis now. Page A-3. By Hit Associated Press BERLIN, June 29—Berlin’s city government drafted today an appeal for the United Nations to intervene in the food crisis caused by Russia's blockade of the city's land transport life lines. At the same time the Britisn military governor denounced the Soviet blockade as "ruthless inhu manity.” ’ Frau Louise Schroeder. Berlin’s Socialist Lord Mayor, said the city government had decided the United Nations was "the only institution to which Berlin can appeal in its present distress.” The city's Parliament is to meet late today to consider the appeal. Frau Schroeder said it would be communicated first to the chiefs of the four occupying armies and then transmitted to Lake Success through a neutral military mission, probably either Danish or Nor wegian. She said the note as drafted could "not be considered an affront to any of the occupying powers’ — meaning Russia. Secretary Gen eral Trygve Lie of the United Na tions was reported in Lake Suc cess last night to be studying whether to present the Berlin situ ation to the Security Council. Robertson Addresses Council. Gen. Sir Brian Robertson, the British military governor for Ger many. declared that if the Russian? persist in their blockade of Berlin it will “constitute an act of ruthless inhumanity unparalleled in the his tory of the world.” Speaking to the final plenary ses sion of the German zonal advisory council, Gen. Robertson declared: “The situation in Berlin is grave. And I use the word grave well know ing its meaning. It is grave not only for the people of Berlin, grave not only for the people of Germany—it is grave for the people of the world. "The people of the world will condemn unhesitatingly this effort to gain political advantage by an attempt to starve a helpless popu lation. "As to the morale of the German population of Berlin, it excites my heartfelt admiration. They 'will get every support—every support—that the Western powers can give them.” The zonal advisory council is be ing discontinued because of the forthcoming establishment of a semi-independent government in Western Germany. Gen. Robertson's strong language indicated that he probably had re ceived a rebuff from the Russians on his demand of last Saturday that they lift immediately their transport embargo on Berlin or take blame for starving 2.000.000 Ber liners of the western occupation sectors. inreai 10 reace seen. A resolution presented to Berlin City Parliament for adoption said the Soviet land blockade presents a "threat to International peace and security” which demands quick U. N. intervention. It said 2.000.000 Germans in the American. British and French sec tors were "doomed to physical ruin unless help comes quickly.” With the land and freight traffic still shut off the United States Air Force was conducting its biggest postwar operation, flying in emer gency supplies for a German popu lation now subsisting on one month's reserve stocks. The RAF joined the United States Air Force in bringing emergency supplies for blockaded Western Ber lin. Gen. Robertson conferred tonight with Gen. Lucius D. Clay, American commander, on the crisis. A terse announcement said they were dis cussing "the general situation." Blockade Pinches Russians. The Russians, meanwhile, acknowl edged that they are being pinched by their own blockade. The Soviet controlled press announced * that emergency imports of 36.000 tons if hard coal are being rushed in from Poland. These imports Rre designed to make up for the loss of Ruhr coal from Western Germany, which is cut off from Berlin by the Soviet clampdown on rail transport from the West. An announcement last midnight by the Russian-controlled German news agency that the Russians were relaxing their zonal border restric tions- to permit resumption of inter zonal travel by Germans remained (See GERMAN. Page A-3.1 Truman Signs Bill Providing Retirement Pay for Reserves fty th# Associated Pross President Truman today signed a bill providing retirement benefits for Reserve officers and men of the Army, Air Force and Navy. In a statement, the President said, "The way is now open to the de velopment of an ever-read.v Reserve as an integral part of the United S’tates armed forces." He added: “As Commander in Chief, I call upon the Regular services to work with the Reserves in full partner ship in maintaining a vigorous and effective national defense." For the first time. Reserves are given retirement credit for time spent in the Reserves. Heretofore, they have been entitled to such credit only if they had enough time on active duty or were disabled in active service. On reaching the age of 60, Re serves can retire if they have been i in the Reserve 20 years or longer Those now in must have been in ac tive service during World War I or World War II. Retired pay will be computed at 2'a per cent of base pay for the highest rank held, multiplied by the number of years on active duty, plus one half of 1 per cent of the same base pay multiplied by the number of years on inactive status. In no event, however, can the pen sion be greater than 75 per cent of the highest active duty pay drawn by the person receiving the pension. The law generally overhauls the Army and Air Force promotion and retirement systems. It provides for boards which will survey the records of individual officers and recommend retirement or dismissal for those not qualified for promotions. It also allows Regular Army offi cers and Army nurses to retire at the highest temporary rank held during World War II, and allows Regular Army enlisted men and warrant officers to retiri after 30 years’ service at their highest tem porary wartime rank. i IF YOU SDU.UKE OLD JOE. f NOW IS A GOOD TIME TO CAlil vhim lin t -vtitr ' Supplies! _ FOR. BERLIN,, HMvrnmfiiMimmml Studebaker Quits Federal Post; 'Can No Longer Afford' to Stay Has Served 14 Years As Commissioner Of Education The White House today an nounced the resignation of Dr. John W. Studebaker as commis sioner of education, effective July 15. < Dr. Studebaker. who has been in office 14 years, told President Tru man in his letter of resignation that “along with too many other men. the time has now come when I can no longer afford to remain in the Federal Government." His salary is $ 1(1.000 annually. In accepting the resignation. President Truman told him. "I re gret that you are compelled to resign for this reason, but I can fully understand the situation." The President also told the retir ing officer that in his years of serv ice “your office has made great contributions in the cause of edu cation. Not the least of these con tributions was its part in the train ing of some 14,000,000 men and women for war jobs. It was this program that broke the bottleneck caused by the lack of trained work ers and made possible the vast pro duction of planes, ships, tanks and guns which contributed so much to our victory.” DR. JOHN W. STUDEBAKER. Born in 1887 at McGregor, Iowa, Dr. Studebaker worked his way through Leander Clark College by laying brick and graduated in 1910 with an A. B. degree. He received his master’s degree at Columbia University.' Before becoming commissioner of education in 1934. Dr. Studebaker established a model school system in Des Moines, Iowa, where he was superintendent for 15 years. Soviet Friendship Unit Sues to Be Stricken Off 'Subversive' List National Council Names Clark and Loyalty Board Defendants in Case The National Council of Amer ican-Soviet Friendship, Inc., to day brought suit in District Court to have its name stricken from Attorney General Clark’s list of allegedly "subversive” or ganizations. The action by the National Coun cil, its Denver affiliated and six officers named as defendants the Attorney General, and the chair men and members of the Loyalty Review Board of the Civil Service Commission. The suit asked the court to order the board to stop publicizing and using the designation made under that the court order the Attorney General and the board to "release publicity a statement that the name of the National Council has been withdrawn” from the listing, first made in November. 1947. Judgment Also Asked.’ The Council ’ asked also for a judgment declaring the designation "unconstitutional and otherwise illegal.” The suit described the Council as a "non-profit membership corpora tion" organized in February, 1943, with the purpose of strengthening "friendly relations between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics by dis seminating to the American people educational material regarding the Soviet Union, by developing cultural relations between the peoples of the two nations, and by combatting anti-Soviet propaganda designed to disrupt friendly relations between the people of these nations and to divide the United Nations. ’ me uouncu oeciares it nas pro vided no basis for any designation as "totalitarian. Fascist, Communist or subversive, or as having adopted a policy of advocating or approving the commission of acts of force or violence to deny others their right under the Constitution of the United States, or as seeking to alter the form of Government of the United States by unconstitutional means.” the terms cited in the executive or der under which organizations may be designated. No Advance Notice. Today's action charged the Attor ney General's listing was made with out advance notice to the Council, without "appropriate” investigation and that it did not indicate under which category the Council was (See SOVIET-AMERICAN, P. A-3.) Truman Sees Press Thursday President Truman will hold a news conference at 10:30 am. Thursday. It will be his first with the press In several weeks. Daniel O'Donoghue, Retired Jurist, Dies At 71 at Home Here Served for 15 Years On Two Courts; Was Head Of District Bar in 1925 Former Justice Daniel W. O’Donoghue, 71, who served for 15 years as a jurist in District Court and the old District Su preme Court, died today at his home, 2303 California street N.W. Since his retirement from the District Court bench in October. 1946, he had been ill for some time. Born in Georgetown on October 15, 1876. Justice O'Donoghue was a practicing attorney here for 30 years before his appointment as an asso ciate justice of the old District Supreme Court in November, 1931, by President Hoover. He was presi dent of the District Bar Association in 1925. At the time of that appointment he also occupied the chair of equity and common jurisprudence and law pleading at Georgetown University Law School. He received six de gress from the university and was on its law school faculty from 1904 to 1931. Only six other Washington na tives prior to Justice O'Donoghue had been named to the District Su preme Court since its establishment more than 70 years before He had not been a candidate for a judicial post and never had held or sought public office. He was se lected by Pre.ddent Hoover because of a distinguished reputation as a practicing attorney and law scholar. He succeeded the late Justice Fred erick L. Siddons. When he retired two years ago he was succeeded by Justice Richmond B. Keech. Justice O'Donoghue was the son of a Georgetown merchant who came here in 1858 and was one of the first to answer President Lin coln's call for volunteers in the Civil War. After attending public schools, he entered Georgetown University and oegan an association that included awards of degrees ranging from bachelor of arts to doctor of philo sophy as w'ell as LL. B. and LL. M.. and honorary degree of doctor of laws in 1932. Defended Flather. He was admitted to the District Bar in 1900, a short time after ob taining his LL. B. For the next 30 years he maintained a general practice. One of his best known cases was in defense of William T. Flather, then vice president of the Riggs National Bank. Mr. Flather was Acquitted of perjury charges after a trial at which President Theodore Roosevelt was a character witness. One of the most famous cases at which he presided in District Court 1 involved Gaston B. Means, who was (See OTJONOGHUE, Page A-6.) Police Seek 3 Girls Seen Hurrying From Park After Slaying Barrett Says They May Know Something About Carol Bardwell's Death BULLETIN A handyman who has been questioned in connection with the slaying of Carol Bardwell in Rock Creek Park was re leased this afternoon, police announced. Police Supt. Robert J. Barrett issued a general lookout today for three girls he thinks may have knowledge of the Rock Creek Park murder of 11-year old Carol Bardwell, 1635 Webster street N.W. Maj. Barrett based the lookout on the information of a citizen that three girls were seen running out of the park at 6:40 p.m. Sunday. The informant said the girls emerged from a pathway at Seven teenth street and Colorado avenue N.W., about ldo yards from the wooded area where Carol's body was found at 7:50 p.m. Sunday. In a formal statement, Maj. Bar rett urged any citizen who might furnish additional information about the girls to contact the Police De partment. Two of Girls Described. In his statement Maj. Barrett described the girls as colored. One was about 17 years old, 5 feet 2 inches tall, buxom, very dark and having greased hair. She was wear ing a striped pinafore dress with shoulder straps. One of the stripes was a cream color. Another girl was described as 6 or 7 years old. amber color, wearing a faded blue dress with short slpeves ending about 3 inches below the shoulder and wearing sandals. No description of the third girl was furnished. Mrs. Helen Saccardi, 2730 Wiscon sin avenue N.W.. told police she saw the girls running near the comer of Seventeenth and Colorado. Her story, as relayed by her broth er-in-law. Clarence Saccardi, 23. of 4815 Seventeenth street N.W., was that the girls caught her attention because they were in such a hurry. Believed to Have Boarded Bus. One was quoted as saying: “Why did we come here, anyway?” and an other said they should hurry and catch a bus. They are believed to have caught a bus at Sixteenth and Decatur streets. The informant said she believed the girls were the same she had See SLAYING, Page A-6.) 95 Predicted Today; Showers Possible The Weather Bureau had heat, hope and solace for steamy Wash ington today. Heat was continuing with a pre : dieted high of 95 degrees before | night. The temperature at 1 pm. was 88 degrees and the humidity was 63 per cent. Hope sprang from a prediction of showers late this afternoon and evening and “not quite so hot to ; morrow." Solace was offered in the record. It was 101 degrees in Washington 24 years ago today. For the second consecutive day and the third time in the past week District government employes in buildings that are not air condi i tioned were excused at 3 p.m. Dis missal of Federal' workers was left to individual agency supervisors. ‘ i The city had a little respite early today with a sleep-inducing breeze in some areas, but the low tempera ture of 75 at 6:30 a.m. w>as still 3 degrees higher than at that time ! yesterday. As the mercury inched upward. 125 Weather Bureau employes sweated over data in the bureaus Division of Climatological and Hy drologic Services to determine the influence, if any, of various kinds of weather on business, industry and agriculture. No comment was made on the influence of the heat on the research workers. At least three cases of heat ex haustion were reported yesterday as the temperature reached 95 degrees —l degree under the record for the date. D. C. Prepared To Speed Draft, Guard Training District Units Expect One of Busiest Years In Reserve Program By Robert K. Walsh The District is in good shape to conduct the draft here with out loss of time or effort and can intensify immediate summer training of its National Guard at full manpower strength, offi cials said today. Unlike installations such as Fort Meade in Maryland, and Fort Bel voir and Camp Pickett in Virginia, the Military District of Washington expects no increases in manpower, facilities or equipment as a result of expansion of the Army and or ganized Reserve units during the coming fiscal year. But the District National Guard, announcing its summer schedule of training, anticipates one of its busiest peace time years. Col. Payton D. Nevitt, Adjutant General, said the 800 men who signed up within the last 10 days will be placed in units that have adequate officer strength and better than av erage training facilities. Moreover, the District Guard will not have to devote any of its energies to recruit- * ing work, he added. Draft System to Be Ready. The District Selective Service System will be ready to function long before the registration pro cedure starts sometime in August, and long before the first men are inducted soon after September 22. Detailed information about the number of draft boards and em ployes in the District is not yet available at District headquarters. Pinal determination, it was ex plained, must be made in many instances by national headquarters knd on the basis of manpower quotas and other plans not yet completely worked out by thf armed forces. Secretary of the Army Royall an nounced yesterday that drafting of men will begin soon after Septem ber 22 at a rate of about 30,000 a month until July 1, 1949. Practically all of the approxi mately 225,000 prospective draftees will serve in the Army for 21 months and some may be sent overseas after their eight weeks of basic instruction at one of eight training centers. Another 181,000 youths of 18 will be permitted to volunteer for i year of training, but cannot be sent out of the coun try'. About 110,000 of these will train in the Army. 300,000 Volunteers Expected. The Army expects to get 300,000 volunteers, in addition to the 18 year-olds, and the voluntary enlist ment rate will determine the num ber of men to be drafted, Secretary Royall explained. Six Army poets are to be re activated and 10 others will increase in size as the Army expanda from 542,000 to 790.000 men during the fiscal year beginning Thursday. Secretary Royall said plans call for building up 12 Army divisions to full combat strength, along with six National Guard divisions and sup porting elements also at full strength and readiness. The new draftees and recruits will get their basic training at eight main cerfters, four of which are already in operation. Camps Pick ett, Va.: Breckinridge. Ky.; Chaf fee. Ark., and Port Riley, Kans., are the new' centers. The others are Forts Ord. Calif.; Jackson, S. C.. Dix. N. J„ and Knox, Ky. Port Meade. Md., is among several installations to be expanded for training of smaller units and for other purposes. 'Virginia Camps to Expand. Camp Pickett and four other Vir ginia military centers will be used ! this fall under broadened Army and Marine Corps training programs. About 16,000 men of the new 17th Airborne Division will train at Camp Pickett, Blackstone, Va. An j other 6,000 men will be added to i the approximately 5,000 now at Port Belvoir in Fairfax County. Thanks to an Informal "standby" | organization established in May, 1947 at the suggestion of wartime District Selective Service Director William E, Leahy, the District has no difficulty finding sufficient ex perienced personnel. A considerably smaller number of boards will be [required here for the new draft. ! During the last war, more than : 1,000 members and employes of District draft boards registered about 203,700 men, of whom about 75,000 were inducted. Number Not Yet Estimated. Estimates on the number of men 18 through 25 who will register in Washington, and those 19 through. 25 who might be drafted, are not yet available. But the totals will be far short of the wartlma figures because the 1940 Selective Service Act required registration of men 18 through 45 and at one time drafted men up to 45. The "standby" association of sev eral hundred wartime district draft system workers Includes not only volunteer workers and chief clerks i See DRAFT, Page A-6.i V ke-THC STAR s, t/fteresw You Are! , q iteep in touch with the newa .and your favorite features while on vacation. Leave your subscription at the Business ■ Office Counter, Eleventh street and Pennsylvania Avenue N.W., or mail in your vacation address. Rates for Mailing. Dally* Sunday DaUr. Sunday. 1 month |1.50 * .90 9 M 1 week.. .46 .36 M Remittance may be made by check, cash, money order or stamps.