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Gen. Eisenhower Wires Pepper
His Final and Complete' Refusal
To Take Democratic Nomination
Arvey and O'Dwyer
Abandon Boom and
Will Back Truman
BULLETIN
CHICAGO (A5).—Jacob M. Ar- -
vey, Chicago Democratic lead
er, said today he and Mayor j
William O'Dwyer of New York (
are abandoning their Eisen
hower boom and ‘intend to
vote in the convention for the
nomination of President Tru
man.” j
By Gould Lincoln
Stor Stoff Correspondent
PHILADELPHIA, July 9 —Gen.
Eisenhower today sent a tele
gram to Senator Pepper of Flor
ida informing him that ‘‘I would
refuse to accept” the Democratic
presidential nomination.
Emphasizing that his refusal is
"final and complete,” the general
asked Senator Pepper not to place
his name in nomination at the
national convention opening here
Monday.
The Florida Senator said he
would comply reluctantly wirh the
general's wishes. He made public
the telegram, which was forwarded
here from his Washington office. It
follows:
"The public press reports that
you may be considering in spite of
my recent .statement the presenta
tion of my name to the Democratic
National Convention for nomination
to the office of the presidency.
Says It would r.mnarrass ah.
'If these reports are correct. I
respectfully but earnestly request
and urge that you drop such inten
’ tions because I assure you that to
carry it out would result in acute
embarrassment to all concerned as
well as confusion in the minds .of
many of our citizens.
My decision, which has twice
been made public, is based upon my
sincere conviction as to the best in
terests of our country. Under rm
condition will I be in the position
of repudiating or even seeming to >
»werve from the letter or spirit of
my prior announcements, f will
not violate my own conception of
my appropriate sphere of duty
"No matter under what terms,!
conditions or premises a proposal
might be couched. I would refuse
to accept the nomination. I keenly
realize that your reported state
ments not only do me high personal
honor but imply the greatest pos
sible confidence in me. I venture
to invoke the aid of that confidence
in asking you to accept my refusal
as final and complete, which it
mast emphatically is." (signed)
Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Talk of Stampede Evaporates.
In view of this flat statement by
Gen. Eisenhower, all talk of stam
peding the convention to him has
evaporated.
The only alternative of the anti
Truman Democrats appeared to be
Associate Justice Douglas of the
Supreme Court for a presidential
nomination.
Great doubt was expressed here,
however, even if Justice Douglas
were willing to accept the nomina
tion, it could be made.
Gen. Eisenhower's new rejection
was made public shortly after
Chairman McGrath of the Demo
cratic National Committee said he
believed neither the general's name
nor that of Justice Douglas would
be submitted for the presidential
nomination.
Senator McGrath said he had
reached the conclusion regarding
the Supreme Court Justice after
talking wth Justice Douglas’ friends.
He made the statements at a press
conference when asked to comment
on the presidential nomination to
be made at the Democratic conven
tion next week.
Resolution Expected to Imp.
Senator McGrath was asked what
would happen to the resolution
which Senator Johnston of South
Carolina proposed to lay before the
Democratic National Committee,
urging Mr. Truman to step aside
and call on Gen. Eisenhower to ac
cept a presidential nomination.
It will be referred to the Reso
lutions Committee of the National
Committee, under the rule," Sena
tor McGrath replied with a smile
He left the inference that it
would be pigeon-holed in that com
mittee and never come out.
The party chairman pointed out
that the present National Commit
tee has no business making recom
mendations to the coming National
(See DEMOCRATS7Page A-6.)
X-Rays Show No Fracture
In Wynn's Foot or Ankle
(Earlier Story on Page A-13.1
X-rays of Early Wynn's right foot
and ankle today disclosed no frac
ture and the Washington pitcher
will be able to hurl within a week,
according to George Lenta, the
Nats’ trainer.
Wynn was injured last night in
Boston when struck by a line drive
off the bat of Birdie Tebbetts, Red
Sox catcher, and was forced to
leave the game in the second inn
ing
"Wynn has a severely bruised
arch area but should be available
within a week," Lentz said.
BOSTON, July 9 </PI. — Eddie
gtanky, sparkplug second baseman
of the Boston Braves, has a broken
bone in his right ankle and prob
abiv will be out of the game six
xveeks, a club physician reported
today.
Stankey was injured in the game
with the Dodgers in Brooklyn last
night in a collision with Bruce Ed
wards as Stanky slid into third
base.
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Rail Passenger Rates in East
Increased Average of 17%
61 Roods Can Put Coach and Sleeping Car ^
Boosts Into Effect on Five Days' Notice
RAILROADS EXPECT new wage
demands; Jong dispute settled.
Page A-2
By the Associated Press
The Eastern railroads today
were granted a new increase in
passenger fares averaging 17 per
cent.
The new fares can be put into
effect by the railroads on five days’
notice to the public.
The raise was authorized by the
Interstate Commerce Commission
tor all of the railroads doing pas
senger business north of the Ohio
md Potomac Rivers and east of
the Mississippi.
Added to Previous Increase.
The ICC order sustained the
carrier's request for an advance of
20 per cent in basic passenger
coach fares and 14.3 per cent in
aasic fares in sleeping and parlor
cars.
The increases are in addition to
the general 10 per cent boost in
passenger fares granted by the com
mision throughout the country last
year.
The Eastern carriers recently ad
vised the ICC that' last year’s in
crease was insufficient to keep rev
enues abreast of rising operating
costs. *
The stock market reflected sur
prise at today’s announcement, with
rail stocks moving as much as a
point higher in active dealings.
Trading quieted later. Prominent in
the rally were New York Central,
Pennsylvania, Baltimore & Ohio,
Southern Pacific. Atlantic Coast
Line and the St. Paul.
Order Affects Six Carriers.
As a result of today’s action, the
basic one-way passenger coach fare
in the East will rise from 2.5 to 3
cents a mile and the basic sleeping
and parlor car rate will go up from
3.5 to 4 cents a mile.
The order provides for proportion
ate increases in round-trip fares.
The order affects 61 railroads.
Sixty of them received the full 20
and 14.3 per cent increases.
The New York. New Haven- &
Hartford Railroad was authorized
only to increase its basic coach fare
by 4 3 per cent, since that line pre
viously had received separate au
thority to advance its fares beyond
the 10 per cent general increase of
last year. Only a slight further
adjustment is required to make the
3-cent and 4-cent-a-mile rate effec
tive on that system.
’’’he increases do not affect com
muter fares, which are on a different
basis, and which were generally ad
vanced about 20 per cent in the East
last year.
The Eastern railroads estimated
that on the basis of travel so far
this year the increases will yield
(See FARES, Page A-6.'
Democrats Are Urged
To Seek Restoration
Of Price Controls Now
Henderson Tells Platform
Hearing That Inflation
Is 'G. 0. P.' Time Bomb
By J. k. O'Leary
Star Staff Correspondent
PHILADELPHIA, July 9.—The
Democratic Resolutions Commit
tee was asked today to pledge in
the party .platform immediate
action to restore price, alloca
tion, inventory and credit con
trols.
The plea was made by Leon Hen
derson, wartime OPA administrator,
who declared this must be done
"to prevent any further rise in
prices.”
"Inflation.” continued Mr. Hen
derson, a leader in Americans for
Democratic Action, "is, the time
bomb placed at the foundations of
our prosperity. Everyone know’s that
the bomb bears the stamp 'made by
the GOP.’ Unless this bomb is re
moved it will blow us into the worst
depression in our history."
End of Arms Embargo Urged.
The platform writers also were
asked by other witnesses:
1. To take a stand in favor of
lifting the arms embargo to enable
the new' Jewish State of Israeli to
defend itself.
2. Abandonment of the "Truman
Doctrine” in Greece as "contrary to
American traditions and mainten
ance of w'orld peace."
3. Indorsement of a “Federal
union of Democratic peoples of the
w orld ”
4. To adopt a plank favoring “the
abolishment of the forceable parti
tion of Ireland.”
Mr. Henderson, presenting his
statement on behalf of the ADA,
also indorsed -President Truman's
civil rights program—the toughest
problem confronting the platform
writers: the abolition of the poll tax
by Federal law: the establishment
of a fair employment practices act;
the punishment of lynching, and the
abolition of segregation in the Gov
ernment.
Calls for ERP Support.
He called for a platform support
ing the European Recovery Program
for at least four years with sufficient
funds, to carry it out in full.
Curbing the cost of living was
described by Mr. Henderson as one
of the major issues between the
Democratic and Republican parties.
(See PLATFORM. Page A-6.)
Soft Coal Up 85 Cents
In Wake of Pay. Boost
By the Associot«d Pr«$
PITTSBURGH. July 9—The $1
. per-day pay increase for United
Mine Workers caught up with the
public today to the tune of an 85
cents-per-ton boost in the retail
price of bituminous coal.
The Pittsburgh Coal Co. an
nounced the increase here. It fol
lows a 46-cent-per-ton increase in
the mine price of coal effective
July 1.
A spokesman said the 85 cents
covers the mine price increase,
higher trucking and yard expense,
salary increases, higher freight and
storage costs.
New prices include 4-inch lump
coal, $10.85 per ton: stoker coal.
$10.60, and nut slack, $8.60.
Red Envoy Leaves France
PARIS, July 9 iTPi.—The Russian
Embassy confirmed today that Alex
ander E. Bogomolov, Soviet Ambas
sador to France, left Wednesday for
Moscow. The Embassy said Mr.
| Boeomolov was going home "for per
sonal reasons" and had not been
called home for consultation* at
I the Kremlin.
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U. S. Still Attempting
To Stop Palestine's
War, Marshall Says
Secretary Blames Arabs
For Resumption of
Holy Land Fighting
By Garnett D. Horner
Secretary of State Marshall
said today that American policy
in Palestine is aimed at stop
ping the fighting there entirely
and getting the Jews and Arabs
to reach an agreement.
He told a news conference it is
deplbrable that hostilities between
the Arabs and Israelis appear to
be breaking out again, and said that
according to reports he has seen
so far the Arabs appear to be blame.
The United States in in continu
ous consultation with Great Brit
ain on the Palestine problem. Gen.
Marshall added. He emphasized,
however, that this Government is
dealing with the issue through the
United Nations Security Council
and will take no unilateral action.
Gen. Marshall announced that he
plans to attend the United Nations
General Assembly session in Paris
this fall.
Republicans Kepi Advised.
The Secretary said Republican
foreign policy leaders In Congress
are being kept advised about de
velopments in the Palestine situa
tion as well as all major foreign
policy affairs.
He told questioners that he had
no definite plans for conferring with
John Foster Dulles, foreign policy
adviser to Gov. Dewey, Republican
presidential nominee, but said he
imagined that he would see Mr.
Dulles after the latter returned from
a vacation in Canada.
Gen. Marshall said there was reg
ular consultation with Chairman
Vandenberg of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee and Chairman
Eaton of the House Foreign Affairs
Committee, and that he would keep
in touch with them on foreign policy
problems throughout the election
campaign.
Gen. Marshall avoided any ex
tended comment on the Berlin, crisis
or other pending issues aside from
the Palestine fighting. He refused
to say when a note sent to Moscow
earlier this week, understood to
demand immediate lifting of the
Russian land blockade of the west
ern sectors of Berlin, would be made
public.
Truce Extension Sought.
Asked about talks that were start
ed Tuesday with the Ambassadors
of the five Western European coun
tries which signed the Brussels pact
alliance recently. Gen. Marshall said
they were purely preliminary talks
and refused to disclose the nature
(See MARSHALL. Page A-6.)
War Is Resumed
On Two Fronts
In Palestine
Tel Aviv Is Bombed;
Egyptian-Held Towns
Taken, Israel Says
By the Associated Press
CAIRO. July 9.—Arabs and.
Jews again took up arms to set-'
tie the Palestine question today,
and fighting erupted in both the
northern and southern parts of
the Holy Land front.
Tel Aviv, the Jewish capital, was
bombed five hours after the end
of the four-week truce at 2 a.rn.
iEDTi. Haifa, Jewish-held port
city, had its first air-raid alarm
since the end of World War II.
A Jewish communique said
Israel’s troops counterattacked and
captured three Egyptian-held vil
lages near Majdal, 28 miles south
of Tel Aviv, but admitted loss of
two other villages to the Egyptians.
The communique said fighting con-i
tinued all last night after being
started by the Egyptians at dawn
yesterday, 24 hours before the end
of the truce.
Iraqi Planes Attack.
Haifa dispatches said Iraqi
troops and planes attacked a Jew
ish position in the arc north of
Jenin in Northern Palestine.
The Israeli army and air force;
attacked irregular Arab forces of
Fawzi Bey al Kaukji in the Nazareth
district. Haifa reports said, and
strong Syrian concentrations of men
and armor gathered for an expected
’major attack" in the Mishmar Hay
Yarden wedge near Lake Hula on
the Eastern Palestine border.
Haifa’s alert ended a few minutes
after it wras sounded. The sirens
sounded 45 minutes after Count
Folke Barnadotte, the U. N. media
tor, had left lor Rhodes. He had
stopped from a surprise last-minute
visit to Amman where he conferred
with King Abdullah of Trans
Jordan, in an effort to continue the
truce or at least eliminate the Holy ;
City of Jerusalem from the zone of
military operations.
The mediator said here he had
discussed with Abdullah the pros
pect of averting new fighting in
Jerusalem and demilitarizing the
city. He said he still w-as hopeful
i\ew irurf /»iso wiscussru.
Earlier, however, he had told
newsmen in Amman that he and
Abdullah had discussed "many
things, including prospects of an
other truce in Palestine.” Trans
jordan officials said the talks were
on the "possibilities of supplying
Jerusalem with water” and observers
in Amman believed the Visit was
concerned mainly with the Jerusa
lem situation.
Jerusalem experienced only a
slight increase in the harassing fire
which has been going on for two
days on both sides of No Man's
Land. Apparently both sides were
waiting for the Jerusalem situation
to be clarified.
A dispatch from the walled Old
City, held by the Arabs, quoted Lt.
Col. Abdullah Bey Tell as saying
that Arab Legion field guns were
ordered to refrain from opening up
on New Jerusalem unless the Jews
began mortaring the Old City.
New fighting had been reported
23 miles south of Tel Aviv even be
fore the truce ended, and in Cairo
an official said there was "no doubt
that the Egyptian army resumed
fighting this morning.”
To the south of Tel Aviv, the front
around Isdud was active during the
night, the Israeli high command
said, but apparently there was no
full-scale offensive under way as yet.
The Israeli army communique
said 30 Arab troops were killed and
many were wounded in that fight
ing. A government spokesman in
Tel Aviv said mast of the Arab
casualties were Sudanese troops
fighting with the Egyptians. He
said a Sudanese major was cap
tured carrying battle orders for an
Egyptian attack on the nights qf
Wednesday and Thursday, before
the ending of the truce.
The Egyptians captured the Jew
(See PALESTINE, Page A-4.)
Eichelberger to Quit Japan
YOKOHAMA, July 9 (/Pi.—Lt.
Gen. Robert L. Eichelberger com
mander of the United States 8th
Army, announced today he is leav
ing Japan August 4 for reassignment
in the United States prior to early
retirement. He is Gen. MacArthur’s
i chief assistant.
Story of B-29 'Arnold Special/
Interned by Reds, Comes to Light
By the Associated Press
WICHITA. Kans.. July 9 —This is
a Rip Van Winkle story from World
War II—how a B-29 and its Ameri
can crew were interned by the Rus
■ sians in 1944 and how the story was
• “hush-hush'’ until now.
The Super Portress, which made
a forced landing on Soviet soil No
1 vember 11, 1944, still is in the hands
■ of the Russians. And the whole1
thing might be one of those forgot
ten incidents of the war except for
one fact. ;
i The big bomber happened to be
the famous “General H. H. Arnold
Special," significant both for its
combat reoord against the Japanese
. and as a symbol of stepped-up war
time production at home.
The Super Port held a special
spot among the 1.644 B-29s pro
duced by the Wichita Division of
Boeing Airplane Co. Because on
that. Boeing has wanted to tell
the story ever since it heard about it.
They heard about it November 23,
just 12 days after "the Arnold" had
been interned.
But the next day all was "hush
hush.” Tire 20th Air Force asked
that the incident be kept secret.
Only now has this long withheld
information been realeased.
When the Super Fortress, veteran
of 11 missions and the first of the
giant planes to bomb a Japanese
target, came down on Russian soil
its crew, headed by Capt. Weston
H. Price of Longview, Wash., was
interned also.
First Lt. John E. Flanagan of New
York, co-pilot of ‘‘the Arnold,” told
of the last mission:
She took off from an advance base
“ (See B-29, Page A-4.)
i
Virginia Democrats Take a Walk
Three Americans Die
As Berlin Food Plane
Crashes in Germany
Ferrying Service Keeps Up
Tempo Despite Accident
And Bad Weather
BULLETIN,
BEfcMN (4’).—Aji^eqcan and
British officials br: a
fraud tonight th an
BERLIN, July 9.—Three Amer- j
icans were killed last night when
a United States Air Force plane
flying food to Soviet-blockaded
Berlin crashed near Frankfurt,
They were the first American
lives lost in the Allied lift to the
isolated city.
Despite the accident and bad
weather, the Western Allies kept
the momentum of the air ferrying
service going today.
In London, diplomatic officials
said last night that Britain, the
United States and France had de
cided to delay publication of their
notes demanding an end to the
blockade for at least 24 hours while
Russia thinks the matter over.
Earlier a Foreign Office spokesman
in the British capital had said that
in view of press leaks on the terms
of the three-power protests, the
notes might be published at once.
The plane which crashed was a
two-engined C-47. The crash oc
curred deep in the Taunus Moun
tains, 20 miles northwest of Frank
furt. The plane burned after plung
ing into the woods on a peak.
Three charred bodies were dug
from the wreckage. The victims
were two Air Force officers—the
pilot and copilot—and a civilian
passenger. Their names were with
held pending notification of rela
tives.
claim that repa
them to close the
road between Berl
west.
;ced
Sail-' i
the
By th* Associated Press •
Monday night a C-47 flying food
to Berlin crashed into a clump of
trees near Wiesbaden airfield, in
juring three crewmen.
Yesterday an American transport
plane on the Berlin run, reported
missing for a time, made an emer
gency landing 25 miles from Hof in
the American zone.
Up to last midnight the Soviet
ground blockade had forced the
Americans to fly more than 1,400
plane loads of food into Berlin,
The Russian Air Force informed
the British Royal Air Force today
that Soviet pilots are engaged in
“instrument flying practice” at
Brandenburg in the British air cor
ridor linking Berlin with the British
zone, British officials said.
The British have instructed RAF
pilots flying supplies into Berlin to
avoid the area, they said.
Russian training in instrument
flying is taking place at a major
Soviet airfield, three miles from
Brandenburg. British officials said
the Russians had given them
"proper warning.”
Pleasant Week End Due;
Humidity to Be Low
Generally pleasant weekend weath
er, but with the possibility of light
showers Sunday or Monday, was
forecast today by the Weather
Bureau.
At 2 p.m. today the temperature
►stood at 82 degrees and the fore
caster said it might go into the
mid 80s before dropping again this
evening. Last night's low temper
ature was 60 and tonight's, it was
said, will be in the lower 60s.
In spite of relatively high tem
peratures during the last two days.
Washington has had a distinct re
lief from the sweltering heat of
Monday. This was attributed to
unusually low humidity, which at
2 p.m. today was 34 per cent and
which the bureau said probably
would not rise appreciably later in
the day. It is due to drop some
more tonight.
A gradually rising thermometer is
forecast for the weekend with a
high on Sunday of around 90
I degrees.
m
Freak Blizzard Strikes j
Southwestern Germany
By the Associated Press
FRANKFURT, Germany, July 9.—
A summer rblizzard hit Southwest
ern Germany today. Temperatures
fell well below freezing over a wide
area.
Thirteen feet of snow piled up on
the 9,730-foot high Zugspitze, high
est peak in the Bavarian Alp.\where
normally no snow falls in July
Snow alsoo blanketed the famous
Black Forest, near the French bor
der.
U. S. Probing Charges
Some Stores Rely on
Courts in Credit Sales
Low-Income Groups
Pressed to Buy, Then
Sued, Agency Is Told
By Crosby Noyes
The Justice Department is in
vestigating: complaints that cer
tain Washington merchants are
extending credit to low-income
groups here and using tax-sup
ported courts as a collection
agency.
At the order of Attorney General
Clark, the„department is making a
preliminary survey of the situation
through its Civil Rights Division,
headed by A. Abbot Rosen.
It is understood the department is
investigating charges that certain
stores are extending credit to known
bad credit risks with the intention
of obtaining attachments on the
debtors’ salaries when they default
in payments.
Mr. Rosen's first move has been to
sound the courts and the United
States attorney's office oh the legal
aspects of the problem. Yesterday
a closed meeting was held be
tween department representatives
and Municipal Court judges.
The practice qf unrestrained credit
extension was brought to the At
torney General's attention, it was
said, by a memorandum sent him
last March by James Rowe, jr„
former assistant $o the Attorney
General, now a private attorney
here.
Mr. Rowe's memorandum charged
that certain stores "not only ex
tend credit far beyond the capacity
of these people to pay, but they re
sort to every kind of device first to
get these people to use credit and,
second, to overextend themselves.”
The memorandum, which called
the practice "a scandal," cited as an
example a colored woman employed
at one of these stores, who was
urged to run up bills far in excess
of her known capacity to pay. The
same credit was extended to her
minor son, who also overextended
(See CREDIT, Page A-6J
More Workers Join
Italian Strike Wave
By th« Associated Press
ROME. July 9 —Glass, ceramic and
saccharine workers halted work to
dav in the Italian General Confed
eration of Labor's series of short
strike* for higher wages.
The one-day strike is the latest in
the confederation's “calendar" of
demonstrations.
A Nation-wide strike of 20.000
petroleum workers for a new con
tract continued into its 10th day.
Interior Minister Mario Celba con
ferred with representatives of the
workers.
Eaton Asks D. C. Court
To Stop Public Probe
Of Kaiser-Frazer Case
Charges Nation-Wide
'Smear' of Banking Firm
In Financing Venture
By Associated Press
Cyrus Eaton, Cleveland finan
cier, asked District Court today
to forbid further public investi
gation of the Kaiser-Frazer stock
case by the Securities and Ex
change Commission.
The veteran banker accused the
SEC of conducting a “Nation-wide
smear” M Otis & Co., the banking
firm heAontrols.
The commission did this, the
banker charged, through "innuen
does of fraud” and by distributing
to the press “scandalous and de
famatory matter.”
An SEC spokesman said the com
mission had no comment at this
time.
On April 12. the SEC started t
public investigation of the collapse
of a $10,000,000 Kaiser-Frazer stock
issue.
»ai«* i oniraci i inrnro.
Otis & Co. of Cleveland Rnd the
First California Co of San Fran
cisco, on February 9 canceled a I
contract to sell to the public 900,000
shares of the motor company's
fctock.
Mr. Eaton's charges were con
tained in a brief filed in District
Court. The document, prepared by
Thurman Arnold, former Govern
ment attorney, replied to a petition
filed by the SEC on June 25 with
Justice T. Alan Goldsborough.
The SEC had asked the court to
compel two Cleveland lawyers to
tell the commission about work done
for Mr. Eaton in connection with
the stock offering which collapsed.
On June 25, Justice Goldsborough
^•rdered the two lawyers, Marvin C.
Harrison and Allan Hull, to appear
on July 8 and show why they should
not testify. On July 6, after an
argument by Mr. Arnold and SEC
Attorney Louis Loss, Justice Golds
borough postponed the lawyers’ ap
pearance date to July 19.
Had Refused to Testify.
i The lawyers had refused to testify
before the SEC on the ground that
it would violate the lawyer-client
1 relationship.
I In the June 25 petition, the SEC
said that evidence in the Kaiser
Frazer case established a “prima
facie showing” that Mr. Eaton had
talked with the two lawyers "in con
nection with the perpetration of a
fraud involving the filing of a col
lusive lawsuit.”
! Other Eaton lawyers testified dur
ing the public hearing that the suit
referred to by the SEC was the
j reason the bankers cancelled the
I stodk sale.
The suit was filed against Kaiser -
Frazer in Detroit on the morning of
Febuary 9, the day the stock deal
was to have been closed. It charged
that the new stock issue would im
pair the finances of Kaiser-Fraser.
It was filed by James F, Masterson.
a Philadelphia lawyer who owned
300 shares of the motor company’s
stock.
In support of its petition to the
court, the SEC filed an affidavit.
Eaton Accuses SEC.
Mr. Eaton's answer to both the
petition and the affidavit accused
the SEC of the following:
1. Distribution to the press of
(See EATON, Page A-47)
Democratic Convention
Next Monday, for the second time within a month, polit
ical history will be made in Philadelphia when the Demo
crats gather to select a presidential candidate.
The Evening Star and its associated radio and television
stations again will being the complete story to Washington
readers and audiences.
Goujd Lincoln, The Star’s political analyst, will head
The Star staff of reporters, which will include J. A. O’Leary,
Don S. Warren and Newbold Noyes, Jr. Columnists David
Lawrence, Lowell Mellett and Doris Fleeson will present their
interpretations. This coverage will be supplemented by the
Associated Press’ staff of 50 reporters and the service of
the North American Newspaper Alliance.
Television Station WMAL-TV will present frequent pro
grams from Convention Hall. Included will be a nightly
roundup by Star staff members and other correspondents
covering the convention. Elmer Davis will present a sum
mary each evening and there will be a panel discussion by
Doris Fleeson, Thomas L. Stokes and Ernest Lindley. God
win, Baukhage and Agronsky will be heard throughout each
day and evening cm WMAL and WMAL-FM.
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Baltimore Man
Admits He Killed
Carol Bardwell
Janitor Gives Police
I Detailed Description
Of Girl's Bicycle
A Baltimore janitor has con
fessed the Rock Creek Park
slaying of 11-year-old Carol
Bardwell, Police Supt. Robert J.
Barrett and Park Police Capt.
Mark H. Raspberry said tod*y.
They said the killer was Eugene
H. James. 31, colored, who last night
admitted also that he stabbed to
death Marsha Brill, 11, in Baltimore
last Tuesday, 10 days after tha
Bardwell girl s body was found near
Seventeenth street and Colorado
avenue N.W.
A Baltimore grand jury quickly
indicted James this morning for
murder in connection with the Brill
stabbing.
In a prepared statement, the
police officials said James ques
tioned in Baltimore had furnished
a detailed, oral account of his
movements the day Carol was
slain, had described the attack and
had given A detailed description of
Carol's bicycle.
The latter point was considered
important because “a complete de
scription of the bicycle was known
CAROL BARDWELL.
Slain girl with her bicycle,
in a family snapshot.
only to him and the police,” th*
statement said.
The bicycle was described as blue
and white with a basket of woven
wood.
Written Confession Sought.
Police said the same knife was
used to kill both girls. The death
weapon, a six-inch butcher knifo,
was foutid in Baltimore at a point
about six blocks from the murder
scene and was pointed out by Jamei
himself as he re-enacted the mur
der there.
A group of Washington detectives
elicited the confession from Jamea
in a four-hour examination .fol
lowing his admission of the Brill
killing, police said.
Washington police returned to
Baltimore today with the hope of
obtaining a more detailed, written
confession and returning James to
Washington so that he might re
construct the Bardwell case at the
scene.
James described accurately cer
tain aspects of the murder scene and
told in detail how he attacked
Carol, police said.
Crucifix Factor in Arrest.
It was learned one of the clues
leading to James’ arrest was a silver
crucifix and black beads he was
wearing when arrested. V.A woman
he was charged with raping and
robbing June 15 told police he was
wearing the beads when he attacked
her.
Police said he attended 6 ociock
mass at St. Ambrose Church In
i Baltimore the day of the Bardwell
murder. After mass he went home
1 and got his knife, he told them.
Came Here on Freight Train.
He left Baltimore by freight train
about 7:30 a.m. Sunday, June 27, he
said, and after arriving at the Penn
sylvania yards, walked to Pennsyl
vania avenue and then decided to
visit the Zoo.
He told police he watched the
animals for some time, and noted
white swans in the stream, then
walked through the park to a wood
ed section.
About 5 p.m. Carol rode along a
path abov t 100 yards from the cor
ner of Seventeenth street and Colo
rado avenue, and it was there that
the attack occurred.
James said he drew the knifa
from his waistband and slashed the
girl twice, once on each side of tha
neck. He described the type of cut*.
The coroner's autopsy report said
the girl's throat was cut once by a
thin, sharp Instrument. The re
port also said the girl was raped.
In their statement, police said
(See" SLAYING. Page A-4.)
Sixty Reported Killed s‘:
In Serbian Rail Crash
ly th« Astociated Pr»>
BELGRADE. Yugoslavia. July I —
Nearly 60 persons were reported
killed today in a train wreck in
Lower Serbia.
Officials here have not confirmed
the reports. The secretariat of thtf
Serbian Ministry of Communica
tions. while not denying there had
been a wreck, refused det,«tls.
Reliable informants both in Bel
grade and in Skoplje gave the stray
full credence. The general press
policy in Yugoslavia is not to pub
lish news of disasters.
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