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Landlords File Pleas To Increase Rents in 5 Apartment Houses Rent increases of up to $15 per month for 492 apartment units have been requested by landlords of five large Washington houses, the Dis trict Rent Control Administration announced yesterday. William A. Richardson, rent ad ministration secretary, said it would be at least eight weeks before an investigation of the units coffld be completed by his office. The largest of the buildings in volved, he said, is owned by B. F. Saul at- 200 Rhode Island avenue N.E. It contains 166 units. Monthly increases from that would raise the rent on *the two-room-and-bath apartments from $41 to $47, and the rent on four-room units from $70 to $80.50 have been asked. Aaron S. Schwartzman has peti tioned for increases in three apart- i ment buildings. At 3220 Connecti-j cut avenue N.W., containing 98 units, he seeks an increase on three room units from $69.50 to $79.85 and on one-room, light housekeep-! ing units, from $35 to $40.25. For his 78-unit apartment house | at 2101 New Hampshire avenue N.W., Mr. Schwartzman seeks in- j creases from $39.50 to $44.90 on two-room apartments and from! S100 to $115 on five-room units. At 1451 Park road N.W., con taining 79 units, Mr. Schwartzman asks an increase from $40 to $48 on two-room units and from $65 to S73 for those with four rooms. The third owner, . Jefferson L. Ford, has filed for his 71-unit building at 2200 Nineteenth street N.W. asks authorization to raise rents on one-room unit* from $32.50 to $35.50 and from $80 to $88 on four-room units. Story of Lost A-Bomb Brings Denial by Navy By the Associated Press A statement by Rear Admiral Ellis Zacharias. retired, that a Navy ship carrying an atomic bomb sank without trace in the Pacific during the war had this terse official denial pinned to it today: ‘'No Navy ship carrying an atomic bomb ever disappeared.” The former Navy intelligence officer told a Mutual network radio audience Sunday that near the close of the war a vessel bearing an atomic bomb headed for the Island; of Tinian, but disappeared. A Mutual spokesman said Admiral} Zacharias had identified the ship} as a destroyer and had added that! the story was once released by the Navy, but was generally overlooked in the flurry over the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic explosions. The Navy put out the official denial of Admiral Zacharias' story late yesterday. One Navy officer suggested that the retired admiral may have been; thinking of the cruiser Indianapolis, wfiich was sunk by enemy action near the Philippines after previous- < ly carrying one—and possibly two' —disassembled atomic bombs to! Tinian. Those were the bombs later dropped on Japan. 99 Americans Invited 1 To Royal Garden Party ly the Associated Press LONDON, July 20.—Ninety-nine Americans have been invited to meet King George and Queen Eliza oeth at a garden party to be held at Buckingham Palace Thursday. Some of the Americans live per manently in England, but most of those on an invitation list released last night by the American Em oassy are visiting the country. ( It will be the second of the sea son's large garden parties at which . the royal coUple will entertain vis itors and persons who are not Brit ish subjects. The Embassy announced that one of the invitations was' issued to Col. and Mrs. Robert R. McCormick of ; Chicago. Col. McCormick/publisher of the Chicago Tribune, is on a fly ing visit to Europe. Invitations also were sent to Mrs. 1 Charles MacArthur (Helen Hayes) and her daughter Mary of New York, and Miss Antoinette March of Hollywood, daughter of Frederic March, the actor. Others on the guest list include ' Miss Rosemary Brooke, Lexington, Va.; Mrs. Julia Johnson Davis and Miss Josephine Johnson of Norfolk. 1 Va.; Mr. and Mrs. William Branch Porter and Miss Marie Carter of i Richmond. -I Togliatti in Conference With 2 Aides in Hospital By the Associated Press ROME, July 20.—Palmiro Togliat ti, gravely wounded by the bullets! of a would-be assassin, is well: enough to confer with his Com-\ munist Party lieutenants in a new drive against Catholic Premier Alcide de Gasperi. Luigi Longo and Pietro Secchia.j two of Togliatti's top aides, called' on him in the hospital yesterday,' the party newspaper L’Unita report-; ed. The doctors permitted them to stay only a short time, however. j A debate is pending in Parliament ; on a motion by the Leftist forces to; express no confidence in Mr. De Gasperi's government. The motion was entered soon after Antonio Pal-; lante, young Sicilian law student,! fired three bullets into the Com-' munist leader last week. L'Unita published a reply from' the Italian Communists to Prime Minister Stalin, who had expressed1 regret that Togliatti's fellow Com- \ munists had not protected him ade-, quately. The reply said: "Bitterness for the inadequate vigilance and protection of our leader is strongly felt by us and has deeply saddened us. Your words help us to learn from this unhappy experience the necessary lessons.” Canada Excludes Russia From Army Base Visit By the Associated Press OTTAWA, July 20.—The Canadian Army yesterday excluded Russia from a list of eight countries whose military attaches will visit the army training base at Valcartier. Quebec, this week. No mention of the omission was contained in a official statement, but the absence of the name of Lt. • Col. Nikolai N. Zerof, the Soviet military attache, was later ’con firmed by the army officials as ad hering to a policy announced in January. \ BACK AT OLD STAfND—Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey holds his grandson, Richard Layne, 3, as he talks with Justice Bennett Champ Clark of the United States Court of Appeals following the oath-taking ceremony yesterday. Gen. Hershey was sworn in as director of selective service under the new draft law. He held the same post in World War II. —AP Photo. Fare Raises Provoke Disorder in Mexico By the Associated Press PUEBLA. Mexico, July 20.— rhrongs of students and workers •formed through Puebla streets yes terday, overturning buses and (mashing the windows of the electric ight company. Police estimated the damage at 100,000 pesos ($40,000). The demonstration was set off by an increase in bus fares from 10 to 15 centavos (2 to 3 cents). Several thousand workers and students overturned five buses, one oelonging to each of five lines op srating here. The erowd then turned to the light company where pop bottles were hurled through the windows. Workers and customers dodged be-; bind counters as the bottles sailed j through the office. The company recently increased its electric rates an average of 15 per cent. Federal troops were called out j o break up the demonstration in front of the light company and to i srevent the mob from entering the ruilding. Women Urged to Employ tallof More Effectively By the Associated Press SENECA.FALLS. N. Y.. July 20.— ' V "greater and more effective use" j )f the ballot by women was asked oday at a mass meeting concluding j he centennial of the first Women’s j flights Convention. Miss Dorothy Kenyon, New York! ittorney and United States delegate j ,o the Commission on Status of Women of the United Nations, in a speech cited the need for “many! nore qualified women in all posts j >f Government.” Mrs. Emily Knight MacWilliams! >f Seneca Falls, general centennial :hairman, read a communication1, rom President Truman which! ermed the centennial “a notable! riilestone in history of American! tr ogress.” Miss Anna Lord Strauss, Wash ngton, D. C., chairman of the Na ional League of Women Voters and t great granddaughter of Mrs. Lu :retla Mott, one of the organizers >f the 1948 convention, also spoke. More than 800,000 commemora ive stamps marking ‘TOO Years of Progress of American Women— 1848-1948"—were sold here yester iay after first-day issue ceremonies >pening the centennial. The stamp pictures Mrs. Stanton,, Vfr.s. Mott and Carrie Chapman “att, who spent her life working for women's suffrage. ’etroleum Council Names Committee on Oil Policy By the Associated Press The National Petroleum Council: tamed a 25-man committee yester-j lay to draw up a national oil policy, j A year and a half ago the council •efused to take such action. It said j ,hen that a petroleum industry war louncil report on foreign and do-! nestic oil policy still represented the ndusthy’s view's. A. Jacobsen, president of Amerada Petroleum Corp., New York City, is: ihairman of the new committee.! The group was named at the request of Secretary of Interior Krug. The War Council report, which was presented last year as still rep resenting industry opinions, said there is a need for development of foreign sources of oil, but imports should not be allowed to endanger domestic development. Congress Should Include More Workers, Carey Says By tht Auociotid CHARLESTON, W. Va„ July 20.— Congress needs fewer lawyers and more laborers in its membership, James Carey, secretary-treasurer of the CIO, said last night. Mr. Carey said that “America de serves a better Congress than the present _*ne, and it is up to labor to see that it gets it.” He recommended report cards for members of Congress, similar to those issued to school children, which would tell them what labor thinks of their .records. He addressed the opening session of the eighth biennial session of the Federation of Glass. Ceramic & Sili ca Sand Workers (CIO', which will extend through the week. Repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act was urged by Joseph Froesch of Columbus, Ohio, international president of the union. About 100 delegates have come from locals in Ohio, Indiana, Illi nois, Michigan. Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania. Tennessee. Louisiana, Virginia and West Vir ginia. A Tito’s Party to Begin Congress Tomorrow By the Associated Press BELGRADE, Yugoslavia. July 20 ! —Yugslav Communists, who have fallen out with the Moscow-directed Cominform, begin their fifth party! congress tomorrow. (Communist parties of a num- * ber of European countries have turned down Yugoslav invita tions to the congress. They in clude Communists of Russia, Czechoslovakia. France, Italy, / Hungary and Bulgaria.) Premier Marshal Tito and his aides were blasted last month by the Cominform for departing from the Marxist-Leninist line. Belgrade is decked out with flags and red bunting in preparation for the Congress, but despite the festive atmosphere, most thoughts are fo cused on Tito’s recent Stand against the Russian and eight other Com munist Parties which have con demned him ideologically and po litically. _ TRIESTE. July 20 The split in the Trieste Communiist Party widened today with the announce ment that another committee had swung its support behind the Com inform. The Central Committee said It was backing the Executive Commit tee's support for the Cominform. It also condemned the pro-Slovene faction of the party for promoting the nationalistic interests of Yugo slavia. The party announced yesterday it will not attend the Yugoslav Com munist Party's fifth congress which begins tomorrow in Belgrade. Crews of B-29s Allowed To Leave Brifish Bases By th# Associated Press SCAMPTON, England, July 20^ Crews of 60 American Super For resses, were on an officially-tagged training mission, looked over Eng land's countryside from the ground today. Although the airmen have been granted permission to check out for he first time since their week end arrival, they’ll still be kept within a radius of about 35 miles of the RAF bases at Scampton, Wadding ton and Marham. Col. Stanley Wray, of Munieie, Ind., their commanding officer, said the time for beginning practice j missions has not been fixed. Broken Cable Cuts Off Disfricf Traffic Lighfs Traffic lights went out all over the city, snarling traffic for about five minutes this morning, when a fallen light control pedestal cut an electric cable. Police said an automobile ap parently rammed the pedestal at New Jersey avenue and E street N.W., but they had no trace of the motorist. The lights went out shortly after 10 am. when a short circuit resulted from Potomac Electric Power Co. workmen splicing the severed cable, according to George Butler, chief electrician at the District traffic shop. He explained that the wiring con trolling the lights is relayed through out 18 areas. «■* John Barrymore, Jr., Wants to Be Actor #y the Associated Press LOS ANGELES, July 20.—John Barrymore, Jr., 16-.vear-old son of the late matinee idol, arrived here late last night aboard an American Air Lines plane. Young Barrymore, who said he left New York yesterday, declared that as soon as he finishes his last year of high school he will try to break into the movies. ‘T've always dreamed of being a great actor as my father was,” he said. He said he had been visiting his mother, the former Dolores Costello, at Watertown, N. Y. The youth was reported missing for a time yester day after he left his mother’s home. Czech Charge of Plot Draws U. S. Protest By the Associated Pf«i PRAGUE, July 20.—The United States Embassy protested to Czecho slovakia yesterday over a Defense Ministry assertion Saturday accus ing Americans of complicity in a plot. The statement had said Ameri cans were parties to a conspiracy which resulted in the death of a Communist Party official and an attempt on the life of the Defense Minister. The Ministry said the I plot was formulated in the Ameri j can zone of Germany. Berlin Unemployment May Take Sharp Jump Due to Red Blockade By John P. Leacocos North American Newipapar Alliapc* BERLIN, July 20.—The Beilin crisis will grow worse before it gets better, according to Allied com manders in this beleaguered capital. They agree wryly that the Russians undoubtedly will give the vise an other twist before they decide sud denly to let go—amid great hosan nahs of self-praise at their own “moderation.” Right now the most pressing anx iety in the western sectors is the imminent prospect of sharply rising unemployment among the 2,200 000 Germans under Allied care. No work plus little food will need even less Communist sparking than usual to set off real trouble. Already there are nearly 100,000 jobless in the western sectors. This figure is attributed, first to the nor mal pre-blockade lack of work; sec ond, to the deflationary effects of currency reform: third, to the lay offs caused by the shutdown of pow er to factories. Latest, drastic slash in coal im ports, to a minimum of 1,780 tons a day, just enough to operate sewage, gas and water facilities, is expected to triple the jobless figure within a few weeks. Public Works Planned. Allied plans for a public works orogram, specifically the most super ficial of WPA-type made work, may take the sting out of unemployment for a certain number. However, the currency reforms fboth Allied and Russian) have made money tight as never before. Thus, mere relief subsidies—usually 50 per cent of ordinary wages—can not be enough to allow the Berliner to scrounge in the black market, as he used to, for. that extra sljce of bacon that made life bearable. He just doesn’t have that kin of money nowadays. The swift Allied arrangements in reply to the Russian blockade, topped by the unprecedented air lift, also is costing the Russians real money, it might be noted. When the Russians shut off the fresh milk supply to 6,300 German babies, they also stopped getting white flour in payment. In fact, the Americans are sitting on 2#J)00 tons of Russian-owned flour found in the American sector. Russians Lost rower. Again, when the Russians stopped power to the western areas, they also lost in return 0.85 kilos (a kilo is 2.2 pounds) of coal that the west gave for every kilowatt hour of power supplied. The United States had been supplying half of 250,000 kilowatts used for the elevated rail way. But no longer. The Russians have to foot the entire bill. But the Russians have several ways to skin the Allied-German cat. In their warehouses they have piled up more than 500,000 pieces of Ger man mail. Berlin is the traditional clearing house for commercial pay ments for all Germany. At one stroke the Russians now h£ve para lyzed all trade movement between the Allied and Soviet zones of Ger many, on which the most elemental German economic activity depended. Meanwhile, Russian propaganda never stops. The Soviet puppet press rubs it in that the Russians have the Allies over a barrel. They point out—and with truth—how humiliating it must be to be forced to fly into Berlin, and at a pretty penny, instead of walking in. The anti-Hitler Germans rage at the Russians but the rest are watchfully waiting or apathetic as usual even though the precision and might of the American air lift does evoke admiration. And time after time, the Russian-controlled press re peats: What can the Americans do about it? Nothing! Unless they criminally want to start another war. Red Tricks Continue. Neither do Russian tricks abate. The latest is to make false fire and police alarms froih the Soviet sector. Apparatus arrives from the western sectors. The Soviet-appointed safe ty official apologizes, says it was a “test call.” The Allies have stopped answering calls for fear that fire equipment or police cars will be con fiscated. “The technical difficulties” of the railroad ' have been proved non existent both by British air recon naissance and by military intelli gence. The repairs on the high way bridge over the Elbe River at Magdeburg consist of some torn-up planks which any Army engineers in the world could have repaired in 48 hours. The next* step forseen is check points within Berlin itself. Rus sian-spread rumors already hint it may be “necessary.” Germans liv ing in the western sectors but work ing in the Soviet sector will be thrown out of work. And that will bring everybody closer to the show* down. Geneva U. N. Group Meets On Slave Labor Survey By th« Associated Press GENEVA, July 20.—Plans for a survey of slave labor all over the world were discussed at the open ing of a United Nations group meeting yesterday. The seventh meeting of the U. N. Economic and Social Council talked about whether the survey and plans for doing away with slave labor should be erased from the pro gram. The survey was proposed by the American Federation of Labor. By implication it is directed against conditions in Communist-controlled countries. It was fought by the Red delegates, but the Western dele gates were for it. A second item about labor was proposed by the World Federation of Trade Unions. The federatior mentioned 11 nations which il claims infringe on the rights ol trade unions. It called on the Council to ask these countries tc modify their union policies. V Murray Contest Features Montana Primary Today By *h« Asiaciolxl Prm HELENA, Mont., July 20.—Mon tana voters go to the polls today in a primary election. At stake Vre the jobs of a Sen ator, two House members. State offi ces, 24 district judges, 28 State* Sena tors, a full House of 90 State Rep resentatives and local offices. Heaviest campaigning centered on senatorial and gubernatorial races. Dr. Harry J. McGregor, Great Falls, opposes Senator Murray for thei Democratic nomination. Wellington D. Rankin, Helena at-! torney who has tried for the Senate ! before, and Tom J. Davis. Butte attorney, campaigned for the Re publican nomination. Out to beat Republican Gov. Sam C. Ford, now serving his second1 term, are Mike Kuchera of Hardin and State Railroad Commissioner i Leonard C. Young, Helena.' Five campaigned for the Demo-1 cratic gubernatorial nomination, j One is former State Supreme fourt, Justice Leif Erickson, beaten by | Gov. Ford four years ago. Mr. j Erickson defeated former Senator Burton K. Wheeler in the primary j two years ago. Missing Hospital Patient Found at Cumberland Jack Notkin. 38, who left George, Washington Hospital Thursday just before he was to undergo a brain , operation, is being held by police in Cumberland, yMd.,, where he was ' found, according to the Missing Persons Bureau here. He could not remember how he got to Cumber land. Mr. Notkin of Pittsburgh was taken to the hospital Wednesday by I Johns-Monville Rock-Wool Insulation . For cooler summers. !. For warmer winters. feu con easily install hese Fell Thick Batts .ad save. ] j Lumber ■ Mill work -Building Material j m«— o**'d Bethesda, Md., phene WI. S622 | RIVIKDALE MD pho»c UN 6S6S | fiis mother. Mrs. Esther Buchau. He was said to have been in an acci dent some time agb and to have differed amnesia spells. The oper ation vis intended to help relieve, this condition. He was scheduled Uf be returned to the hospital some time today. - r »»'■ ■ THE COMPLETE PHOTO DEPARTMENT STORE PARK NEAR REAH ENTRANCE __ ' J ■* i '■#■ 6 t - i s «v YOU’VE WAITED A LONG TIME FOR THIS! ’ ’ GrosneFs Pre-Season Event of Fine Quality YEAR-’ROUND WEIGHT (W-COATS COVERT— All wool—Natural shade—but- $ ^ ton thru. Will sell this fall for $47.50_Now Ux • / J . .. • • JT 4 • DUOPLY- 2 PLY WORSTED CHEVIOTS f-rx WP in grey and tan herringbone tweed weaves Stl 1 / W with zip-in lining. Will sell this fall for $69.75 j V / j Now #/ V IMPORTED HARRIS TWEED with detachable wool lining—grey, tan and t brown. Will sell this fall for $69.75 _Now IMPORTED STONEHENGE * ENGLISH CHEVIOTS, TYRON, SCOTCH HAND WOVENS AND CROMBIE TWEEDS, (fun weight c^7 O ^7 r O’coats) Medium grey, dark grey and brown. ^ / V / l Will sell this fall for $115__Now ! S • ! IMPORTED CROMBIE CASH MERE, CAMEL HAIR AND WOOL AND ISAAC CARR’S DEWMOOR. Natural camel shade, Cam- ^7 bridge grey, cinnamon brown and blue. Will vWfcfci ' / i sell this fall for $125__.Now ^ \ • I * Save from 167c to 307c—Buy Now, Pay in November t 1 i-n Fall Weight Hard Finished WORSTED SUITS. 3 Special Groups at Reduced Prices! Were $47JO & $57JO Were $57 JO & $67JO $3975 .$4975 Were $67JO & $80j00 $5975 ’ , r- f • All-wool hard finish worsteds, sharkskins and two-ply twists. Single and double breased drape' and semi-conservative models. Solid colors, sharkskin weaves, chalk stripes; browns, greys and blues. Not all sizes in each lot. Tropical Worsted Suits Were $4*7.50 and $52.50 . . . NOW All wool—single and double- *7 f" breasted—greys, tans, plain ■ \ j 1 N shades and stripes. ' '* ^ Sport Coats—All-Wool Were $45.00 . . . NOW _ — — Orey, tan and blue—the S /U / K smart barley com and grid yr * f iron effects, herringbones and overplaids. Street and Sport SHOES STETSONS « Were $17.85 and $18.50 813.95 COBBLERS Were $11.95 and $12.95 *7.95 Sootch Grains, Calf skins, Reversed calfs, Moccasins, wingtips, street & sport. Not all sizes in every style, but all sizes in group. HATS y2 PRICE Dobbs and Ecuadorian Coconut straws ande/) r r\ Dobbs stiff straws/?/*) 0 tcere $5_NOW ^ v Panamas, open and£ 5 closed weave, icerev J , / Balibuntals, Leghorns^ *7 r c\ and Bankoks, were>? / . J U *15 —.—NOW # -i---T FURNISHINGS SHIRTS—White balooncloth, white on white and solid colors. Size? 14 to 17. , were 35 & S3 JO-NOW $3.45 3 for SIOjOO NECKWEAR— Geometries, stripes, bold patterns, ijeat patterns. were SJJO-NOW 95c 3 for 32.75 ) mostly silks, were 32.50-NOW $1.65 3 for 34.75 oil silks, were 33.50.NOW $2.45 2 for 34 JO oil silks, were 35 & 6.50-NOW $3.45 2 for 36.50 HOSE—Cottons, rayons, anklets and full lengths. Sizes IOV2 to 13. were 65c and 75c---NOW 49c 3 for 3US were 31.00.NOW 79c t 3 for 32.25 UNDERWEAR—Gripper shorts, Panel seats. were 31.00- _NOW 69c 3 for 32M HANDKERCHIEFS-soft white cotton. Corded borders, rolled edges. reere 50c-3 for $1.00 SLACKS—Rayons, in plain shades, natural tan, chocolate brown. 3SJ0.NOW $6.95 SWEATERS—All wool Pullover, plain colors and Argyles. Small, medium and large. were 33.95..NOW 52.45 SWIM TRUNKS AND PLAY SHORTS—Boxer and belted waist styles, plain shades and figured pat terns. Poplins and Gabardines. Sizes 30 to 40. were 33.50 & 3.95.NOW $L95 were 35 9 35.95-NOW $3.45 BASQUE SHIRTS—rine quality cotton, plain colors and stripes. Small, medium and large. were 3125.NOW 95c were 3130 to 135-NOW $1.15 were 3225 to 230.NOW $1.85 SPORT SHIRTS—Short sleeve and long sleeve, cottons and rayons. Plain colors and seasonal patterns. Small, mediurfi, large and extra large. were $3.95.NOW S2JJ5 were $5- _NOW $3.85 were 36.50 9 730-NOW $4.85 were t35 9io.oo-NOW $6.85 " ROBES—Cotton, Cotton and Ray on, Plain shades, stripes and bold motifs. were 3535.T-NOW $3.95 were 3735....-.-NOW $5.95 Use U Grosner Charge Account 30, 60 or 90 Day Accounts • Vs in 3 Choice Plan • Budget Accounts Arranged - 0 GROSNER OF 1325 F ST. • KUPPENHEIMER CLOTHES • DOBBS HATS • STETSON SHOES — -Saturdays During July and August*— .. . ■ i -i »i— A • w M