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; Pact Reported Near
: Netting Tito 30 Million
In Funds Held by U. S.
By the Associated Press
The United States and Yugo
slavia were reported near final
agreement today on a financial
deal which would net Marshal
Tito’s Government about $30,
000,000 in Yugoslav funds.
The extended negotiations over
this money accord may have been
one of the issues that set off the
Cominform blast Monday against
the Belgrade chief.
Washington officials, watching
Tito s defiance of the Communist
high command with obvious sur
prise and delight, kept mum on any
possible connection between the
financial deal and the Yugoslav
. Cominform scrap.
For several months the United
States Government has been 'seek
ing payment of about $20,000,000 in
claims for American property na
tionalized in Yugoslavia. Tito, on
the other hand, has been laying
claim to some $50,000,000 in Yugo
slav assets which the United States
froze in 1941 to keep out of Axis
hands.
The counterclaims have been
under negotiation, with Yugoslavia
at times using the talks as a basis
for bitter denunciation of the United
States.
About a month ago, however, the
Yugoslavs appeared anxious to
reach a reasonable settlement on
• the nationalized property. They
reportedly proposed a figure some
where near the $20,000,000 asked by
the United States.
The American Government, in
turn, appeared ready to unfreeze
the $50,000,000 in Yugoslav funds.
The reported financial deal evi
dently has not been directly In
fluenced by Tito’s sensational split
with Communist leaders.
But it does tie in with growing
speculation here that if he finds
himself in an impossible spot with
his Moscow allies he may turn ac
tively to the Western powers for
help
Yugoslavia
• Continued From First Page.) j
lie of Yugoslavia will keep backing j
all countries and all movements;
fighting for peace, who are against!
interfering in the internal affairs of
other countries and for respecting
their independence, and those who
are for peaceful co-operation based!
on the principles of the organiza
tion of the United Nations.”
8. “Moral and political help for!
the working people of Yugoslavia in
workers' movements, democratic i
movements and national liberation
movements, and to the people who
are struggling for liberty, democracy
and socialism.”
Interference fay Kremlin
Believed Issue in Split
LONDON. June 30 • /?>.—'The Brit
ish Foreign Office said today that;
Russia and Yugoslavia had split ]
over the "degree of interference ;
which can be exercised by the Krem
lin in Yugoslav policy.”
A spokesman said the view was
hased on reports from Sir Charles
Peake, Ambassador to Belgrade, and
Frank Dixon. Ambassador to Prague.
Peake is en route home.
Other responsible British officials
*aid Marshal Tito has become a
‘•rebel—but one still in the party.”
British diplomats spoke after study
ing the Cominform's condemnation
of Yugoslav Communist leaders and
the latters’ deflnant denial of
charges of being anti-Russian, flirt
ing with the Western powers and
departing from the Marx-Lenin
party line.
British sources said both Russia
and Yuogslavia "seem to be trying
to avoid an open break, but only ;
time can show whether they will be !
able to maintain the status quo.”
i
Link to Marshall Plan Seen.
These informants said it was con
sidered likely that Tito had sought
a free hand for dealing with the
Western powers to obtain vitally
needed machinery for reconstruc
tion, and had run into Soviet ob
jections.
While they said this may have
been only one of the reasons for the
Cominform’s rebuke, British officials
emphasized the likelihood that Tito
wras irritated by inability to obtain
some supplies under the Marshall
Plan. Communist nations spurned
the plan and in turn were denied
Its benefits.
Russian opposition to a Balkan
bloc, such as Yugoslavia projected,
appeared certain. Communist pre
mier Georgi Dimitrov of Bulgaria
proposed such a federation last Jan- j
uary. but on a larger scale, and he!
had Titos active support. Pravda.i
the official Communist newspaper in
Moscow, declared its opposition and
no more was heard openly until
today of such a scheme.
ivrcmnn .Move ."vwaned
Diplomatic observers looked for
the next move from the Kremlin.
Some professed belief that should
Tito get away with his refusal to
follow Cominform orders, leaders in
other restive satellite countries
might decide not to knuckle down.
Foreign ministries and diplomats,
looking for indications of where Yu
goslavia is headed pondered over 5,000
defiant words issued by the Yugoslav
Communist Party last night, angrily
rejecting Cominform condemnation'
of their leader and Premier. Marshal1
Tito.
They delved into rumors that i
Russian troops already are on the j
move toward Belgrade, the Yugo- \
Slav capital; that fighting already
is going on.
I.ies, Slander Charged
The Yugoslav Communist Party;
flatly accused the Russian-led Com- I
inform — Communist Information ■
Bureau—of lies and slander in its
blast Monday at Tito and other
Yugoslav leaders. It denounced the
Cominform charges as absurd and
used language unprecedentedly rough
for exchanges inside the Communist
family. It called on the party mem
bers to close ranks and exert greater
efforts to build up socialism in Yugo
slavia.
"Among the most serious slan
ders against Yugoslavia,” said the
Yugoslav party's reply, was that
charge of dealing with powers out
side the Soviet bloc. "Assertions!
that Yugoslav leaders are prepar
ing to make concessions to im-I
Many T rophiesOffered Winners
Of Model Air Show Events
Miss Patricia Harrigan, 2129 Rand place N.E., looks over
some of the trophies to be awarded in the National Capital
Model Air Show to be held at Andrews Air Force Base July 25.
The prizes shown here were donated by Northwest Airlines.
—Star Staff Photo.
By Horry Lever
An impressive list of trophies for
successful contestants in the third
annual National Capital Model Air
Show was released by officials today.
The show will be held July 25 at
Andrews Air Force Base, under
sponsorship of The Star, National
Airport Club, Veterans of Foreign
Wars and the Civil Air Patrol.
Trophies will be awarded to those
taking first, second and third hon
ors in each of the 18 scheduled
events. Many other trophies and
prizes will go to those who amass
tne most points in the meet or oth
erwise attain success.
Each event is being named after
the airline, aircraft company or
organization donating the prizes.
Sponsors and Events.
As of today the list of sponsors
and events is as follows:
Airport Transport Event. Gas
Free Flight Class A Senior; Air
Terminal Services Event, Gas Free
Flight Class B Senior; Colonial
Airlines Event, Gas Free Flight,
Classes C and D Senior Group;
Martin 202 Event. Gas Free Flight
Class A Junior, Trans-World Air
lines Event, Gas Free Flight
Class C and D Junior yet to be
sponsored, U-Control Line Class A
and B Senior; BranifT International
Airways Event, U-Control Class
C Senior, and American Airlines i
Event, U-Control Class D Senior.
The trophies to be awarded by
American Airlines take the place
of other prizes previously an
nounced by the company.
Also Fairchild Aviation Event,!
perialists—and now bargain with
them on the independence of Yugo
slavia—are completely fabricated.''
The statement was tempered only
by a declaration that “direct con
tact” is needed between the Com
munist Parties of Russia and Yugo
slavia to iron out the differences.
“Only in such a way,” said the
statement, “will there be a solution.
The Central Committee of the Com
munist Party of Yugoslavia needs
the help of Russia.”
But there was no sign of crying
•uncle.” The Yugoslav statement1
U-Control Line Class A and B
Junior; Northwest Airlines Event,
U-Control Line Class C Junior;
United Air Lines, U-Control Class
D Junior yet to be sponsored. Rub
ber Free Flight Junior yet to be
sponsored. Towline Junior; Corr’s
Hobby Shop Event, CO-2 Junior;
Veterans of Foreign Wars Air
Forces Post 8271 Event, Jet Control
Line, open; National Capital Wing,
Civil Air Patrol Event, Aerobatics,
open Aero Club of Washington,'
Scale Model open.
Other Prizes Offered. .
Other prizes include The Evening
Star Trophy, to the high point win
ner in the National Capital Area;
the VFW Trophy to the high point
meet champion in the senior group;
the National Airport Club Trophy
to the high point meet champion in
the junior group, and a trophy given
by the Air Show Association to the
contestant who travels furthest to
get to the meet.
Douglas Aircraft Corp., North
American Aviation, Consolidated
Vultee Corp. and many other air- ;
craft manufacturers are giving
model plane kits, motors and other
model supplies to contestants who
merit prizes. Those who place first. .
second or third also will receive
medals.
Also under consideration is an
award to the girl contestant who
scores the most points in the meet.
The show association added that
J. N. Harding and William Doolin
had contributed cash donations.
Entry blanks and associate mem
berships in the ' show association i
may be obtained at hobby shops i
in the District and vicinity. ji
picked up each charge made by the ,
Cominform, and denied every one. j
On top of that, the statement ac
cused the Cominform of making its ,
accusations without giving the ‘
Yugoslav Communists a chance to (
defend themselves.
"A historic injustice has been
done and this will be taken advan- (
tage of by imperialistic enemies for
propaganda and slander,” the state
ment said.
Later, the Yugoslav Communist!
Party released the text of a letter In
which it rejected an invitation to
Woman Who Claims
Father Is Consul
Must Stand Trial
By the Associated Press
NEW YORK, June 30.—A woman
who claims to be the daughter of a
career diplomat today lost her fight
to escape trial on police charges
that she ‘loitered for purposes of
prostitution” in a New York hotel
and in her East Side apartment.
New York Supreme Court Justice
Carroll G. Walter dismissed a writ
of habeas corpus which Mrs. Nancy
Fletcher Choremi, 27, had sought
10 prevent her trial in Magistrate’s
Court on a vagrancy charge.
"I hold that the magistrate has
jurisdiction to try this charge,” Jus
tice Walter ruled. “I hold that the
information charges a crime.”
Charges False Arrest.
Mrs. Choremi had been at liberty
under $500 bail until she was sur
rendered by her attorney yesterday
to bring the habeas corpus action.
Her counsel said he would attempt
to obtain bail today pending her
trial in Women's Court tomorrow.
Mrs. Choremi said her father is C.
Paul Fletcher, consul general at
Casablanca. She charged false ar
rest and that her “honor, reputa
tion and career are at stake.”
She said her husband, George,
is engaged in an export-import
business in Egypt.
In her affidavit, she reported the
following:
On May 17 several policemen
entered her apartment in the East
Sixties and "under the pretense
that they were checking the tele
phone for a faulty line connection.”
A week later, two policemen re
turned and said they had “bad
news.”
Calls Accusation “Ridiculous.”
“They stated they were arresting
your petitioner for prostitution, to
which your petitioner said it was
utterly impossible and ridiculous.”
Police refused to let her contact
her lawyer, she said, adding that she
was charged with vagrancy, al
though she "at no time committed
any crime.”
Police charged Mrs.' Choremi
• loitered" in a hotel room receiving
calls "to go and commit acts of
prostitution” in East Side apart
ments from Madeline Blavier, 32,
charged with operating a call house.
Miss Blavier "offered to secure on
various occasions" Mrs. Choremi and
two other women "for the purposes
of prostitution or lewd and indecent
acts,” police charged.
The other two, charged similarly
with Mrs. Choremi, were booked as
Helen Davis, 36, and Lillian Taylor,
21, a model. Another woman, Mar
garet Starr, 30, was charged, like
Miss Blavier, with operating a call
house.
attend the recent Cominform meet
ing in Romania at which the
charges were drawn up.
Austrian Red Chiefs Called
To Discuss Yugoslav Rift
VIENNA. June 30 (/P).—Austrian
Communist party chiefs announced
todav they will summon all Com
munists leaders in the country to a
closed meeting "SattiMay to discuss
the Yugoslav rift.
There are believed to be some dif
ferences of opinion inside the party
aS to what line to take.
The party newspaper volksstimme
commented this morning:
“The great successes in ^.he na
tional fight for liberation and re
construction of Yugoslavia have
gone to the heads of several leading
men.”
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BOETTIGER.
VAN H. SEAGRAVES.
—AP Wirephotos.
‘SISTIE* TO WED—The en
gagement of “Sistie” Boetti
ger, granddaughter of the late
President Roosevelt, to Mr.
Seagraves, 25. of Oregon City,
Oreg., tvas announced yes
terday by her mother. Mrs.
John Boettiger. in Phoenix,
Ariz. This picture of Sistie
was made in 1943, when she
was 16 years old. She and
her younger brother, Cur
tis (Buzziei took the sur
name Boettiger after their
mother’s divorce from Curtis
Dali, New York broker, and her
marriage to Mr. Boettiger, a
newspaperman.
Palestine
‘Continued From First Page.)
man, a marine grinned and shouted,
“You'll be sorry.”
’ Aside from the traditional salute,
! to the Union Jack, there was no!
British ceremony.
Gen. . MacMillan told newsmen,!
“I am most sad indeed.”
Among those present to bid him
farewell were American Consul;
Aubrey Lippincott and Vice Consul
Randolph Roberts.
Original plans called for final
evacuation August 1.
(In Cairo, Jamil Mardam Bey,
Syrian prime minister, told news
men yesterday that the Arab
governments have protested to
Britain against withdrawal of
her troops from Haifa ahead of
schedule. Mardam Bey said Arabs
consider this a violation of the
Palestinian truce.)
As British troops were brought
in from their army camps to the
dock area, tanks took up positolns
around the harbor district and a
.strict curfew was imposed on all
civilians.
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Kremlin Control of Satellites
Endangered by Tito's Revolt
By John M. Hightower
Associated Pros* Staff Writer
Marshal Tito’s revolt against
Moscow dictation endangers the
whole powerful system by which
the Kremlin runs the satellite
nations along its borders.
This is one of the most important
angles of the Yugoslav Communist
crisis which is under intense study
at the State Department. Other as
pects of top interest here include the
question of whether Prime Minister
Stalin and his associates are "losing
their touch” in the management of
international communism since such
a thing as this has never happened
before.
'One bet that seems fairly safe is
this: Mr. Stalin's old friend and
trusted adviser, Col. Gen. Andrei A.
Zhdanov, is being pressed to find
some way out of this crisis that will
avoid permanent harm to the Com
munist system. If he does not, it is
doubtful whether there will be a
doghouse in all Moscow lowly enough
to hold him.
Gen. Zhdanov is one of the rank
ing members of the all-powerful
Politburo, which is the main instru
ment of the Stalin dictatorship. He
was the Russian Communist Party
member in the Cominform meeting
at Prague, which initially de
nounced Tito and virtually read him
out of the international organiza
tion. Presumably this represented
Gen. Zhdanov's own policy.
At this point it js necessary to
put in a word about how the Soviet
control system operates. The Rus
sian government does not of itself
control the Yugoslav or any other
government. The Communist Party
does the controlling. The Com
munist Party is run by the central
committees of the party in the
Soviet Union. The Communist
leaders, such as Mr. Stalin, Gen.
Zhdanov and Foreign Minister Mol
otov, control these pieces of party
machinery. They also control the
Russian government.
In turn, the Communist group in
Moscow expects and in the past al
ways has gotten obedience from the
Communist groups in other coun
tries. This means that Moscow con
trols the policies in such nations as
Czechoslovakia and until recently
Yugoslavia, where the Communists
run the government.
Defiance of Moscow Goes On.
It is this system which has been
badly upset by the refusal of Tito
and others in control of the Yugo
slav Communist party to submit to
criticism, which means orders, from
the Soviet controlled Cominform.
Today's disclosure of the Yugoslav
party program, including the pro
posal for creation of a Balkan bloc
wiyr Albania and Bulgaria, carries
the defiance of Moscow a step fur
ther. *
By this action, despite his insist
ence that he is still a good Com
munist and a close friend of Russia,
Tito has challenged the very core
of Soviet Communist foreign policy.
That core is that through the Com
munist chain of command the Krem
lin must control each of the Eastern
European countries separately.
Several months ago, Bulgaria vet- 1
eran Communist leader, Georgi
Dimitrov spoke Vaguely about the
creation of a Balkan Dimitrox fol
lowed the usual pattern and ate his
words, whereupon he was forgiven.
Government Still Friendly.
Each successive statement which
apparently reflects Tito’s views
places him in the position of doing
anything other than that. He ap
pears determined to run his country
independently. At the same time,
diplomats here say he apparently
would very much like to remain
friendly with Russia although they
do not see how this is possible.
One of the curious aspects of the
row is that it is thus far solely be
tween the Communist Party in
Yugoslavia and the Comiform.
There is no evidence of any break
between the Russian and Yugo
slavian governments and both
sides may try to perserve this cover
of friendship.
There has been considerable spec
ulation here that the whole Yugo
slav maneuver might be phony;
might be a cooked-up Communist
come-bn either to draw out and
dramatize the hostility of the west
ern powers toward Russia or to
open up Yugoslavia as a country
through which Marshall Plan aid
could flow into the Russian orbit.
But top American diplomatic of
ficials do not believe this is true.
They say the threat to the Russian
system of control of the other
Eastern European countries is too
grave and to great.
Bill Proclaiming February 1
As 'Freedom Day' Signed
President Truman today signed
legislation establishing “National
Freedom Day” on February 1 and
a group of Negro leaders presented
him with a cartoon as a memento
of the occasion. Elder Solomon
Lightfoot Michaux, who headed the
delegation, told reporters that the
cartoon was titled "The Three
Emancipators’’ and showed “Jesus,
the emancipator from sin; Lincoln,
the emancipator from bondage, and
Truman, the ecancipator from so
cial injustice.”
Others with Elder Michaux were
Mis. Mary McLeod Bethune, presi
dent of the National Council of
Negro Women; the Rev. W. H. Jern
agin, president of National Sunday
School; J. E. Mitchell, editor of the
St. Louis Argus; Bishop Richard R.
Wright, jr„ of the African M. E.
Church, and Mrs. Harriet Lemon,
treasurer of the Citizens’ Southern
Bank & Trust Co.
National Freedom Day will com
memorate the enactment of the
13th amendment outlawing slavery.
Dr. Bouvier to Address
Franco-American Club
Dr. Andre Bouvier, a Swiss clergy
man now lecturing in this country,
will speak at 8:15 p.m. tomorrow
to the Foyer of the Franco-Amer
ican Club in the Parish hall of
St. John's Episcopal Church, at 819
Sixteenth street N.W. His subject
will be "A Voice From Switzer
land.”
J. D. Hardy, Retiring Postal
Official, to Join Time, Inc.
/
John D. Hardy, Deputy Second
Assistant Postmaster General who
retires at the close of business today,
will join Time, Inc., publishers of
Mr. Hardy
Time, me ana
Fortune, as a
consultant In
mail traffic, ac
cording to an
announeem e n i
of the publish
ing corporation.
Mr. Hardy was
in charge of
surface postal
transport. He is
a veteran of 48
years in the
Railway Mail
Service and
came to Wash
ington in 1939 as
its general superintendent. He was
appointed to the deputy post in
September, 1946.
He will be guest of honor at a
reception and banquet on July 9
at the Mayflower Hotel under au
spices of the Railway Mail Associa
tion and the National Council of
Officials, Railway Mail Service. He
will continue to live here. His home
is at 4707 Cooper lane N.W.
Thief Loofs Home, Drives
Away in Victim's Auto
A bold, thief early today entered
the living room where Edward Hall,
1003 Thirtieth street S.E., was sleep
ing, ransacked the premises and
drove off in Mr. Hall's car, after
taking the keys from a table beside
the bed.
Mrs. Hall, who was sleeping on
the porch, told police she was awak
ened by the barking of her bull
terrior about 5 a.m. She saw the
family car being driven away. When
she awakened her husband, they
discovered a foreign-made wrist
watch and the car keys had been
taken from the living room table,
which was 4 feet from where Mr.
Hall was sleeping. Mrs. Hall's
pocketbook, containing $50, was
missing from the dining room.
Entry to the house, police said,
was gained by cutting a screen door
in the basement. The thief ap
parently let himself out of the
kitchen door when he left. Total
loss was valued at $1,435.
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