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8 Dairies, Officers
Indicted in Chicago
In Fixing of Prices
By the Associated Press
CHICAGO. July 31.—A Federal
grand Jury which spent 10 months
investigating food costs indicted
8 Chicago area daries and 13 of
their officers on price-fixing charges
yesterday.
The indictments are the fifth
batch to be voted against dairies
since the Justice Department
launched a Nation-wide drive a year
ago to break up alleged price-fixing
combinations in food, clothing and
housing.
One of three indictment^ returned
before Federal Judge John P.
Barnes charges the eight dairies
and nine of their officials engaged
in a seven-year conspiracy "to allo
cate among themselves the whole
sale fluid milk customers in the
Chicago area.”
Charging violation of the Sher
man anti-trust act, the indictment
lists county, State and Federal insti
tutions among the customers who
allegedly were conspired against in
the Chicago area. «
One of the officers indicted. O. O.
Smaha of the Borden Dairy Co.,
termed the charges in the Sherman
Act indictment “untrue and ridicu
lous.” He asserted the Borden Co.
records would clearly show "the
existence of a highly competitive |
situation.”
As to the charges of price dis
crimination, Mr. Smaha said: "It is
obvious to anyone that a customer j
who buys one hundred thousand ]
parts in a given period should be
charged less than one who buys
one thousand.”
Dairies named in the indictment
were the Bowman Dairy Co , Amer
ican Processing and Sales Co. < Haw
thorn-Mellody», Beloit Dairy Co.,
the Borden Co. Capitol Dairy Co.,I
Hunding Dairy’ Co., Meadowmoor
Dairies. Inc., and Western United
Dairy Co.
Individual defendants named,
were: William Boruszak. vice presi-!
dent and director of Western United;
Hyman I. Freed, chairman and di-l
rector of Capitol; H. H. Inglehart,;
sales manager and director of the |
Chicago milk division of Borden;,
Walter F Kettell, sales manager,;
central wholesale division, Bowman
Co.: O. N. Koenig, vice president and
director of the Chicago milk divi
sion of Borden; Francis H. Kull
man, jr., vice president and director
of Bowman; S. D. McGuire, presi
dent of Beloit; D Cameron Peck,
vice president and director of Bow
man. and O. O. Smaha. executive
vice president and director of the
Chicago milk division of Borden. ;
Congress
(Continued From First Page.)
Truman message will go over until
after election, including:
Long-range housing, a more lib
eral displaced persons bill. Federal
Bid to education and broader social
security coverage and revival of an
excess profits tax.
Both Speaker Martin and Chair
man Millikin of the Senate Finance
Committee attacked Mr. Truman's
taxation policies last night.
The Speaker asserted that if all
of the Truman program were carried :
out it would mean "doubling the |
income taxes—and that would sink'
America.” i
Senator Millikin said Mr. Truman
disregards the "people's demand for
further tax reduction" and has asked
for an excess profits levy on business
in peace-time.
The Colorado Senator said use
of the excess profits tax in peace
time has been condemned by such J
Democratic fiscal experts as former j
Treasury Secretary Fred M. Vinson, i
now Chief Justice; Senator George:
of Georgia, and the late Senator
Glass of Virginia.
"The sheer genius of President
Truman to bring himself into con
stant and untenable conflict with
the brainiest leaders of his party is
simply amazing," Senator Millikin
added.
When the Senate recessed at 5:30
p.m. yesterday afternoon, the South
ern Democrats were ready to go on
indefinitely, talking against the |
first of the civil rights bills—to
repeal the poll tax.
Senator Morse. Republican, of
Oregon, a strong supporter of the
civil rights program, took the floor
late yesterday to serve notice he is
ready to stay in continuous session
starting Monday to find out whether
it is possible to break the Southern
filibuster.
Twenty-one Democrats Vnite. i
- He charged the division in Demo
cratic ranks over civil rights is
blocking action, and asserted Presi
dent Truman should have tried to j
get agreement in his own party be-!
fore calling Congress back into ses
sion.
With 21 Southern Democrats
banded together to hold the floor j
against the poll tax repeal bill, how
ever, it is doubtful that the Repub
licans will be able to bring it to a
vote by the time anti-inflation legis
lation is ready.
Since the bill is not even tech
nically before the Senate yet, all
past rulings indicate cloture cannot j
be applied to shut off debate. Sen-;
ator Morse recognized this weakness;
in the rules last night, and called
on the Republicans to change its |
rules as soon as the new Congress
meets in January.
Southerners have indicated they
would not offer serious objections
to submitting the poll tax issue to
the States as a constitutional:
amenitment. but, thus far. Repub
licans have not taken to that al
ternative. Unless this course is:
agreed on, Republican leaders prob
ably wrill drop the poll tax fight
sometime next week.
The Civil Rights Congress issued
a statement last night, urging the
Senate to go into continuous session
to bring the poll tax repealer to a
vote.
Look Files Reply to Suit
Brought by Hedy Lamarr
By th« Associated Press
SANTA MONICA, Calif., July 31.
, —Look Magazine has filed an an
swer to a $200,000 damage suit
brought by Hedy Lamarr.
The actress claimed an article
In the publication indicated she
had had her nose altered by plastic
surgery, which, she said, is untrue.
Look's attorney said yesterday the!
magazine had had no intention of
disparaging Miss Lamarr's beauty
and that furthermore she had prior
knowledge of tto article.
HIGH AND DRY—The Canadian coastwise steamer Sardena
stuck her nose high in the air while her midsection was bedded
deep in a reef at False Bay, British Columbia. The 1,500-ton
vessel ended up in this position when she crashed into the reef
during a recent run. —AP Wirephoto from Paramount News.
Navy Blasts Battleship Nevada
Four Days to Sink Her at Sea
» By the Associoted Pres*
PEARL HARBOR. July 31—The
tough old battlewagon Nevada is
gone. The Navy finally sank her
yesterday after four-and-a-half
days of trying.
The 32-year-old ship had been
used twice in 1946 to see if an atomic
bomb could sink her at Bikini. It
couldn't.
This week they towed her out to
sea again. New and still secret
explosives were put aboard and
touched off. The Nevada's deck and
side plates buckled, three holes were
ripped in her sides, but she wouldn’t
go down.
Destroyers pecked at her. Rocket
firing planes blazed away. Planes
loosed radar-guided bat bombs,
which missed. The Nevada -still
rode the waves.
The great battleship Iowa turned
her 16-inch rifles on the veteran of
two world wars. A salvo smacked
her. The Nevada belched smoke and
defiance. Three cruisers scored hits
with no more luck.
At last they called up the torpedo
bombers. Several torpedoes hit the
Navada and she rolled with the
punch. Then came one which
smashed her amidships.
The Nevada could take no more.
She rolled over slowly and sank in
water 5 miles deep.
The battleship Iowa then moved
slowly over the spot where the
Nevada went down 66 miles south
west of Honolulu. The crew in dress
whites stood at attention as the
brief committal service was read.
The epitaph came from Admiral
Dewitt C. Ramsey, commander of
the Pacific Fleet, who watched from
a destroyer escort. Turning to a
reporter he said:
"She was a grand «ld ship.”
4 Naval Academy WAVES
Sworn by Regular Service
By the Associated Press
ANNAPOLIS, Md„ July 31.—
WAVES stationed at the Naval
Academy like Navy life 100 per cent.
All four enlisted WAVES here were
sworn into the Regular Navy yes
terday on the sixth anniversary of
the WAVES.
All stationed at the Naval Hos
pital, they are:
Hospitalman 1st class Grace R.
W’allace, Tulon, 111.; and Hospital
men 3rd class Joanne F. Bellassai,
Danville, Ga., Anna T. Morse, Ash
land. Mass., and Elaine K. Olsen,
Raymond, Me.
Lt. Marie B. Kelleher. Sandwich,
Mass., public information officer
and only WAVE officer on the post,
who made the announcement, said
she too has applied for a Regular
Navy commission.
Rent Control Aid
Planned for Veterans
A program to assist veterans and
their dependents in problems of
rent control will be submitted soon
to veterans' organizations for their
study and approval.
This was decided last night at a
meeting called by J. H. McVay,
chairman of the legislative com
mittee of the District Veterans of
Foreign Wars.
He invited to the session repre
sentatives of the VfW, American
Legion, Amvets, Army and Navy
Union, Catholic War Veterans, Dis
abled American Veterans. Irish War
Veterans and the Jewish War Vete
rans Col. Waldron E. Leonard re
presented the Veterans Service
Center, Fourteenth street and
Pennsylvania avenue N.W., where
the meeting was held.
Purpose of the meeting was to set
up a District Veterans’ Rent Con
trol Committee, with the forth
coming program especially designed
to assist persons living on pensions
in these categories:
Elderly veterans, elderly widows
of veterans, younger widows of vete
rans, with minor dependent child
ren. and young disabled veterans,
who are married, have dependent
children and who are going to
school.
Weather Report
District of Columbia—Consider
able cloudiness, warm and humid
with highest near 90 and chance of
a thundershower this afternoon.
Fair and cooler tonight, lowest
about 68. Tomorrow mostly sunny,
somewhat cooler and less humid.
Virginia—Considerable cloudiness,
warm and humid with scattered
thundershowers this afternoon and
in south and central portion early
tonight. Somewhat cooler north
portion tonight. Tomorrow fair, a
little cooler and less^humid.
Maryland — Considerable cloudi
ness with scattered showers and
thunderstorms this afternoon and
in southeast portion early tonight.
Somewhat cooler tonight, Tomor
row' fair, cooler south portion, and
less humid.
Wind velocity, 10 miles per hour;
direction, south.
River Report.
• From U. S. Engineers )
Potomac River clear at Harpers Ferry
and cloudy ai Great Falls; Shenandoah
clear at Harpers Ferry.
Humidity.
Yesterday— Pet. Today— ' Pet.
Noon FO Midnfchtt TP
4 p.m. _ ft? 8 a m. _ . *4
Sp.m, _ 63 10 a.m _ 07
High and Low for lesterftay.
High 93 at 5:45 p m.
Low. 74. at 6:54 a.m.
Highest. 95. on June 24.
Lowest. 5. on January 26.
Tide Table*.
(Furnished by United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey.)
Today Tomorrow
High 4:01am 5:01 a.m
Low _ _ . . . 11:32 a.m. 12:29 p.m.
High _ 4:23p.m. 5:27 pm
Low _ 11:20 p.m
The Sun and Moon.
Rises.
Sun. today _ 6:07
Sun. tomorrow _ 6:08
Moon, today _ 1:11a m
Automobile lights must be
one-hall hour alter sunset.
Precipitation.
Monthly precipitation in inches in the
Capital (current month to date):
Sets.
8:21
8:20
4:26 p.m.
turned on
Month 1948.
January _4.57
February_1.67
March
April _
May _
June _
July ..
August _
Septvnber_
October _
November _
December _
3.66
3 05
8 87
5.28
2 55
Ave.
3 55
3 37
3.75
3 27
3.70
4.13
4.71
4 01
3.24
2.84
2.37
3.32
Record
7.83
0.84
8.84
9.13
10.60
10.04
10.63
14.41
17.45
8.81
8 69
7.56
'37
•84
■91
•89
'80
•00
■86
■28
’34
37
•80
•01
Boys' Forum Warned
On 'Pressure Groups'
And Reds by Gearhart
Representative Gearhart, Repub
lican, of California warned a na
tional group of 90 high school boys
today against Communists and
"pressure groups" as menaces to
democracy.
He was one of three Republican
leaders who addressed the 90 high
school students from 45 States who
are spending a week in Washington,
under the auspices of the American
Legion, to study representative gov
ernment.
After an inspection of the Capitol
the students were addressed in the
caucus room of the House by Mr.
Gearhart, House Majority Leader
Halleck and Chairman Michener of
the House Judiciary Committee.
Leaders Answer Questions.
The three House leasers told the
group the functions of Congress.
They also answered questions from
the floor about the workings of
democracy.
Mr. Gearheart, the principal
speaker, warned the boys that they
must be vigilant always to guard
against "enemies within our gates.”
"We have always had these
enemies within our gates and you
boys will have to deal with them as
we have had to do in our day,” he
reminded them. He referred, he said,
to Communists and others who do
not believe in American institutions.
The high school boys, two from
each State, constitute the third
annual American Legion Boys'
Forum of National Government.
They were introduced at thd Cap
itol by R. Worth Shumaker, as
sistant director of the Legion's
National Americanism Commission.
Welcomed at American U.
Earlier they were welcomed by
Paul F. Douglass, president of
American University, as the boys
took up quarters on the university
campus.
The forum will be climaxed
next week w-ith a call on President
Truman and graduation exercises
at American University, where they
will be addressed by James F. O’Neil
national commander of the Legion.
'The boys average 17 years of age.
They will stage their own political
conventions, elect a boy.' president
and hold simulated -seSfeions of the
Senate and Supreme Court.
They will also be addressed by
Secretary of -State Marshall, Attor
ney General Clark, and others.
Stassen to Continue Active
Politically in Post at Penn
By th« Associated Press
ST. PAUL, Minn., July 31—Harold
E. Stassen has served notice that he
will be active politically as presi
dent of the; University of Pennsyl
vania.
In his first press conference since
the failure of his bid for the Re
publican presidential nomination,
Mr. Stassen said last night he would
“carry through in the campaign for
Gov. Dewey and Gov. Warren.” He
explained that the Pennsylvania
trustees "fully understood his posi
tion when he accepted their offer.
The former Minnesota Governor
went on to say he felt the appoint
ment held out the greatest oppor
tunity “to follow through on the
things I h9Ve been most interested
in for years,” He' mentioned "this
whole question of what affects the
future—freedom of men and the
steps that give the best hopes for
a lasting peace.”
Daughter of Jap Envoy
To Attend U. S. School
By the Associated Press
TOKYO, July 31.—Msusako Saito.
19, daughter of the late Ambassador
to the United States, Hiroei Saito,
is awaiting permission to go to school
in New York City.
Her father died in the United
States in 1939.
Miss Saito had been approved as
a special student at Manhattanville
College of the Sacred Heart, New
York City.
She is booked to leave on the
Army transport General Gordon on
August 7 if her clearance into the
United States has been established
by that time.
Criticism by Ecdes.
Bolsters Opposition to
Anti-InflationProgram
Criticism from within the ad
ministration gave added am
munition to congressional op
ponents of President Truman's
anti-inflation program today.
Marriner S. Eccles, member and
former chairman of the Federal
Reserve Board, told the Senate
Banking Committee late yesterday
that the President’s proposals to
halt rising prices are futile and
contradictory.
Asserting that the program as a
whole "certainly does not make
economic sense,” Mr. Eccles said
some parts of it would be helpful
while others, such as housihg pro
posals, would be inflationary.
Construction Costs Rise.
His testimony coincided with
these developments:
1. Government agencies estimated
that housing construction costs this
year will run $1,100,000,000 over es
timates made last November.
2. The Agriculture Department
reported that the level of farm
prices increased 2 per cent between
mid-June and mid-July, and said
the year’s peak in meat prices may
come late in the summer or early
fall.
3. The Federal Reserve Board re
ported that consumer credit in
creased $331,000,000 during June to
another record high of $14,149,000,
000.
Mr. Eccles, who was forced by
President Truman to resign as
chairman of the Federal Reserve
Board after a dispute with Treasury
Secretary Snyder last fall, said he
is not planning to quit his place as
a member of the board.
"This is no time to run out,” he
told a reporter.
Controls Lifted Too Soon.
He charged before the Senate
committee that the Administration
removed wartime controls on infla
tion too soon. He compared the
new Truman proposals to “trying to
put Humpty Dumpty together
again" and "trying to fill up a bath
tub with the stopper out.”
In sending to Congress yesterday;
the semiannual report of his Coun
cil of Economic Advisers, Mr. Tru
man urged a new enactment of laws
giving him authority to control
prices, wages and credit and carry)
out other parts of the anti-inflation,
program he submitted to the special
session on Tuseday.
Mr. Eccles singled out for vigorous
opposition the long-range housing
program urged by the President and
aheadv passed by the Senate, term
ing it “inflationary.”
Senator McCarthy, Republican,
of Wisconsin suggested that a ser
ious construction slump may result
this fall unless Government insur
ance of home building is extended
and expanded.
Deflation "Long Overdue."
“A deflation from inflated prices
is long overdue," Mr. Eccles asserted.
"If we get ft in October or Novem
ber the sooner the better.”
The estimate of Increasing hous
ing costs came, meanwhile, from
the Commerce and Labor Depart
ments. They raised their estimate
of the total housing outlay this:
vear from $6,000,000,000 to $7,100,
'030,000, explaining that the average
construction cost of houses is run
ning substantially higher than ex
pected.
"The purchasing power of the
construction dollar has declined
until the amount of work estimated
to cost $18,000,000,000 today could
have been done in 1939 for a round
$8,500,000,000,” the Labor Depart
ment said.
Mr. Eccles also testified that the
President's proposal for tightening
bank and consumer credit controls
would actually weaken the federal
Reserve unless applied also to banks
not belonging to the system. He
said the plan was "drawn by the
White House and not by the Fed
eral Reserve System."
Asked why he thought he had
been deposed as Federal Reserve
chairman, Mr. Eccles said: "I don't
know any more than any one else
does.” He added that he had worked
for the anti-inflation program the
administration had appeared to
want. “I was too assiduous,” he
continued, ‘‘too aggressive, and it is
no doubt true that I offended cer
tain groups that benefited from
inflation. I therefore became a po
litical liability.”
The Federal Reserve report on
consumer credit showed that total
installment credit was at a record
high of its own—$7,192,000,000 at the
start of July, with automobile in
stallment aredit making up $1,631,
000.000 of this.
The Agriculture Department said
the index of prices received by
farmers for their products in mid
July was 301 per cent of the 1909
14 period. This compared with 295
per cent a month earlier, 276 a year
ago and with a record of 307 last
January. The mid-July level of farm
prices, the department said, was 20
per cent above parity, compared with
18 per cent a month ago. The in
crease was led by advances in meat
animals, dairy and poultry products.
Meat supplies are expected to de
cline further during the weeks im
mediately ahead and to reach the
year’s lowest level in September.
"As meat supplies decrease,” the
department report said, "prices are
expected to increase further. De
mand for meat is stronger than a
year earlier because of higher wages
and other incomes."
The report held out little hope
for improvement in meat supplies
before late 1949.
Armed Services to Get
Unified Justice Code
The armed services will get a
unified code of military justice to
replace the now separate and dif
ferent Army and Navy systems.
Secretary of Defense Forrestal to
day named a committee on civilian
and military legal experts to draw
up a pew code for submission to
the next regular session,of Congress
in January.
The group is headed by Edmund
Morris Morgan, Harvard Law School
professor. Other members are Un
dersecretary of the Navy John Ken
ney, Assistant Secretary of the
Army Gordon Gray and Assistant
Secretary of Air Eugene M. Zuckert.
Congress made some changes in
the Army's legal code when it ap
proved the Selective Service Act.
But Chairman Gurney of the Sen
ate Armed Services Committee later
wrote Mr. Forrestal that a uni
form system was needed to try
members of the Army, Navy or Air
Force for violations of military law.
Univis Workers Defy
Governor, Press Plans
For Rally on Monday
fty fh« Associated Press
^ DAYTON, Ohio. July 31.—CIO
unionists, defying Gov. Thomas
J. Herbert to call out National
Guardsmen, today went ahead
with plans to stage another mass
meeting outside the Univis Lens;
Co. plant.
Gov. Herbert, making an on-the- |
scene attempt to Solve the violence
torn strike by CIO electrical work
ers, warned he would call out the
troops unless assured there would be
no demonstration. The plant nor
mally is closed week ends.
"I came here to assure there would
be peace in the plant area," Gov.
Herbert told union leaders. "What
it takes to do that will be there. I j
am giving you people an opportunity
to avoid meeting force. The respon
sibility is yours."
6,000 to 16,000 Outside Plant.
Street fighting broke but yester
day between pickets and nonstrikers
when the CIO council called the first
mass meeting to protest what it de
scribed as ‘‘police brutaiity.” More
than 120 police were on hand to
escort nonstrikers into the plant.
Officers broke up the melee with
tear gas. Estimates of the crowd
outside the plant ranged from 6,000
to 16.000.
It marked the fifth day in a row
that several hundred employes re
turned to work under police protec- 1
tion. The company was struck 87
days ago in a wage dispute.
The Montgomery CIO Council,
representing 30,000 unionists in this
area, last night asked ail second:
and third shift workers—including
those belonging to the AFL and
railroad brotherhoods—to attend an
"emergency mass meeting” Monday
morning across the street from the
Univis plant.
Refusal to Negotiate Charged.
George Moyer, council president,'
said the meeting was called "in pro
test of the refusal of M. H. Stanley J
• Univis president) to negotiate with
the Univis workers’ Shop Commit
tee of Local 768, UE-CIO, which
still is the legal bargaining agent
of the Univis lens workers.”
Univis workers voted last Friday
in a National Labor Relations Board
election against continuing the UE
as bargaining agent. Moyer said the
NLRB has not officially decertified
the local.
"Until the official certification of
decertification is received, the conn-'
cil is 100 per cent behind us.” Mr. j
Moyer said. He refused to “make;
any prediction beyond that state-i
n.ent.”
James Kraft, president of the
6,500-member electrical workers'
local at the Delco plant, and a
council member, went further. He
told reporters:
"If the strike Is settled by Mon
day, the meeting is off. If it is not
settled by Monday, we’ll be out there
in force and every day thereafter.
They don't scare us by saying what
they'll do. They have to do it.”
Since the plant reopened Monday,
22 pickets and one nonstriker have
been arrested and several pickets
injured in clashes with police.
Governor Arranges Parley.
Gov. Herbert yesterday got com
pany and union officials to agree to'
attend a conference Monday after
noon, although both the Governor
and company officials warned they
would not attend unless Monday
morning was "peaceful.” Gov. Her
bert promised to preside at the
conference.
Arthur L. uarneid, an interna
tional officer of the UE, and other
union leaders refused to give the
Governor a flat promise during their
meeting that demonstrations before
the plant would be stopped.
Gov. Herbert told the union rep
resentatives to "cut out that bunk
about spontaneous” when they pro
tested they could not control sym-1
pathizers.
Gov. Herbert, who only once be
fore has personally attempted to
solve a labor dispute—at the North
Electric Co. plant in Galion several
months ago, warned the union
leaders:
"I told the boys at Galion a few
months ago that I gave them a few
days to romp around. But the first
call I received from the sheriff, the
troops would be there. If I don’t
get mv assurance of no demonstra
tion Monday, I will act accordingly.
If you think you can raise your
selves over Dayton and the State of
Ohio, you're barking up the wrong
tree."
The last time troops were called!
out in a labor dispute was a decade
ago at Middletown. Gov. Martin
L. Davey ordered out the Guard in
the P. Lorillard Co. strike there.
Half Billion Spent on Roads
During First Half of r48
By th# Associated Pres*
State highway departments placed^
$568,091,000 in road work under con- i
tract during the first six months of
1948, the Public Roads Administra
tion said today.
Federal-aid projects involving
work on 10,439 miles of road ac
counted for $346,788,000 of the total,i
the Federal contribution amounting |
to $185,723,000.
Contracts awarded for work with
out Federal assistance totaled $221.
303,000 for improvements on 11,275
miles of road.
Among bridge construction jobs
for which contracts were awarded
by special toll authorities was the i
Delaware River Bridge, $11,401,000.
Highway construction contract
totals by States, with mileage, for
the first six months of 1948 included.
Maryland, $14,092,000. 207; Virginia,
$5,105,000. 99, and West Virginia,
$6,088,000, 772.
Capital Dog Training Club
To Present Four Trophies
The Capital Dog Training Cmb
tomorrow will present four trophies
to club members for outstanding
work in obedience-training of their
dogs during the 1947 training year.
Calvin Pierson, president, will di
rect the presentation at the group’s
training grounds in Bock Creek
Park at Military and Clover roads
N.W. at 6 o.m.
Many novice dogs who have suc
cessfully completed their first step
in the obedience-training work will
receive certificates of proficiency.
This hobby group holds training
classes every Sunday afternoon
Advanced training work aiso is of
fered by the club, including retriev
ing, high jumping and broad
jumping.
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locates the New York International Airport at Idlewild, Queens,
where President Truman was to lead dedication ceremonies to
day. Gov. Dewey also was to take part in the dedication.
—AP Wirephoto.
Girl Dead Beside Him,
Baltimore Man Found
Shot in ChesLifi Car
By the Associated Press
ABERDEEN, Md., July 31.—
His girl friend dead on the floor
beside him, a young Baltimore
man was found dangling from
his car with a bullet wound In
his chest early today, Aberdeen
police reported.
They identified the man as Dun
can Livingstone, jr., 25; the girl as
Shirley Will, 18.
Patrolman Emmett Tobin of the
Harford County police said that be
fore Livingstone lost consciousness
he muttered:
"To hell with her. I strangled
her.”
Dr. James Ramsay. Harford
County medical examiner, declared
the girl died of strangling.
Phoned He Had "Just Killed” Girl.
Police found Livingstone’s neck
tie alongside a .38 caliber revolver
on the car seat.
At Harford Memorial Hospital in
Havre De Grace, Livingstone was
placed in an oxygen tent. The
bullet had pierced one lung, doctors
said. *
Discovery of the couple by Aber
deen Patrolman Chester Roberts
followed by an hour and a half a
call to Baltimore County authori
ties by Livingstone’s father, an up
holsterer.
Corpl. Clarence Todd said the
elder Livingstone reported his son
had telephoned he had "Just killed”
his girl friend on Back River Neck
road in Essex.
The father said Livingstone and
Miss Will had gone together for two
years. Recently they broke a short
lived engagement, Corpl. Todd
quoted the father.
Was in Good Spirits.
When the two Livlngstones left
their upholstery shop, where young
Livingstone worked, the father said
his son was in good spirits.
’’So long, pop,* I’ll see you in the
morning,” Mr. Livingstone said his
son called.
Mr. Roberts reported hearing three
shots shortly before 2:30 a.m. Then
he saw a coupe swerve to the side
if the road.
Corpl. Todd said examination in
dicated Miss Will had been dead at
least an hour before the elder Liv
ingstone reported his son s call.
Idlewild
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nearly every type—assembled from
bases through the country—will
rendezvous over the Atlantic off the
lower New Jersey Coast.
As the dedication ceremony ends,
the giant air armada begins its
flight over the new airport. The
sky-borne parade—moving-at about
300 miles an hour—will last 35 min
utes.
Leading the massed formation
will be the air force's jet-propelled
P-80 Shooting Stars. Behind them,
will come a thundering array, rep
resenting the nation's newest and
best in fighters, bombers and other
aircraft.
Some of the planes will dip to as
low as 500 feet as they race past
the reviewing stands.
As a finale, a large flight of dive
bombers will peal off from a forma
tion high in the air, and dive at
targets placed befor* the reviewing
stand.
Planes From Distant Base*.
The planes—flown here from bases
as distant as Spokane, Wash—in
clude some never shown the public
before.
An Air Force B-36, the world’s
largest land-based bomber, arrived
at the airport yesterday from Cars
well Air Force base at Fort Worth,
Tex., to take part in the show.
Jet fighter planes of the British
RAF—the first jet planes to fly the
Atlantic—also flew in yesterday
from Langley Field, Va.
Among military aircraft here for
the show are Navy jet fighters, B-45
four-jet bombers, B-29 Super Forts,
their big brothers, the B-50s, and
the Navy’s AD-1 attack bombers.
The air exposition lasts through
August 8.
The airport, a 4.900 acre tract as
large as all of Manhattan Island
below Forty-second street, is the
world's largest. Designed principal
ly to handle international traffic,
it has already cost $70,000,000. The
Port of New York Authority, which
operates it on lease from the city,
expects the final cost to be $200,
000,000.
The tentative completion date is
1953. Its capacity will be 1,000
scheduled flights a day.
Truman Plant to Return
To Capital by Thursday
After going to New York today to
speak at the dedication of Idlewild
Airport this afternoon. President
Truman swings to the West to vote
in the Missouri primary Tuesday St
his home in Independence.
He expects to return to the Cap
ital Wednesday or Thursday, which
will give him the longest stay at
home since his mother died a year
ago.
The President's speech will be de
livered "off the cuff” at 3 pm. from
notes which were whipped into
shape last night on the yacht Wil
liamsburg. in which he has cruised,
the Potomac since late Thursday,
reading and resting.
Members of the White House stall
joined Mr. Truman on the Williams
burg here yesterday afternoon. The
vessel put back into the Navy Yard
again this morning.
The N0w York-Missouri trip will
be made on the presidential plane
Independence, which takes off from
National Airport at 1:15 p.m. Mr.
Truman plans to leave New York
at 4:05, make a brief stop here to
permit some members of his party
to debark, then resume the flight
to Kansas City, where arrival is
scheduled around 8 or 8:30 tonight.
The Independence will land at
Fairfax Airport, Kansas City, KansI,
and Mr. Truman will drive at once
to the family home in Independence,
where Mrs. Truman and Miss Mar
garet Truman have been since the
end of the Democratic National
Convention.
Other than casting his vote in the
primary which will nominate State
officers aryl members of the House
of Representatives, Mr. Truman has
no plans for the Missouri visit.
Only members of the President’s
personal staff are accompanying
him, but a press plane will carry
about 30 reporters and photog
raphers.
Berlin
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transports available for the air lift.
Russian-controlled newspapers in
the city virtually acknowledged to
day that Moscow is practicing po
litical blackmail with the blockade.
The National Zeitung predicted
that if the Western powers begin
negotiations with Moscow "the for
mula might well be: For the West
ern powers to withdraw their cur
rency from Berlin in exchange for
the restoration of transport.”
Meanwhile, the Russians offered
new bait to win over 2,075,000 Ger-:
mans of the blockaded Western!
sectors and thus extend Communist
control over the entire city.
This time the Communist-con
trolled German Economic Commis
sion of the Russian zone offered
raw materials and power to indus
tries in the Western sectors which
the blockade has crippled or forced
to shut down.
Maj. Gen. E. O. Herbert, British
commandant in Berlin, previously
had warned Berliners to beware of
such Communist overtures because
they "mean that Berlin wdlild be
caught up into a Communist dic
tatorship and exploited for the
Russians just as the Soviet zone
has been exploited.”
New Gesture to Berliners.
The Russians’ gesture of offering
work to Berlin’s jobless—at a price
—followed their offer to begin feed
ing the entire city starting tomor
rqw.
The catch is that Western Berlin
ers—now getting their full official
food ration through the air lift—
must register for ration cards in
the Russian sector of the city and
pay in Soviet-sponsored currency.
Germans in the Western sectors
have shown little interest in the
Soviet food offer.
The Russian controlled papers
carried numerous pictures today of
grains and potatoes reportedly ar
riving from the Soviet union and
Czechoslovakia.
A responsible officer said the
Americans will continue to fly in
; supplies, despite any Russian dec
laration barring flights in the cor
i ridors.
' ‘The only way they can stop us
is to shoot us down,” he said.
The latest hint that the Russians
might try to close the air corridors
to Berlin was printed yesterday in
the official Soviet newspaper Taeg
liche Rundschau.
The paper demanded “urgent
measures for the protection of Soviet
planes from possible catastrophies”
and charged that American and
British Aircraft are violating safety
rules with low level flights over the
Russian zone.
The three air corridors to the west
were agreed on in the four-power
Allied Control Council on November
30, 1945. The Council now is in
active. *
Possibly anticipating that their
supply fleet might need fighter
cover both the Americans and Brit
ish have enlarged their bases in
Western Germany to handle combat
planes. ,
Cotton Support Prices Set
At 28.79 Cents a Pound
ty th« Ai»ociat«l ftm
Farm prices of 1948 crop cotton
will be supported at an average rate
of 28.79 cents a pound for the base
grade of "»-inch middling cotton,
gross weight, the Agriculture De
partment announced yesterday. This
compared with 26.49 cents on the
1947' crop.
The new support rate is equivalent
to 30.74 cents a pound for 15/16
inch middling—the base grade used
by the cotton markets.
The new rate compares with an
average of 32.99 cents received by
fanners for cotton sold In mid-July.
The department is required by law
to support prices at not less than
92.5 per cent of the parity price
of cotton, which was reported to be
31.ft cents.
Loan rates will vary according
to location of cotton stored under
the price support program.
Loans will bear interest at the
rate of 3 per cent per year and will
mature July 31, 1949, but will be
callable on demand. Loans will be
available until May 1, 1949.
It
Full D. C. Bar to Pass
On Plea lor Immediate
Hearings After Arrest
A District Bar Association Com
mittee recommendation that ar
rested persona should get an im
mediate preliminary hearing at any
hour of the day or night will go
to the full membership of the asso
ciation, Lowry N. Coe, association
president, said today.
Mr. Coe explained that in cases
where a committee brings forth mi
nority as well as majority reports,
the recommendations must be pre
sented at membership meetings
The Civil Rights Committee, which
made the proposal for a Municipal
Court judge or United States Com
missioner to be available night and
day, seven days a week, split. 7 to 3,
on its report. The majority and
minority reports were published yes
terday in the August issue of the as
sociation's journal.
The majority proposed an amend
ment to the District Code "to elim
inate certain of the,abuses Involved
in the practice of the local police
of holding arrested persons ‘for in
vestigation’ for indefinite periods of
time without the placing of any for
mal charge against them."
Would Appear Forthwith.
This amendment would require a
policeman to take an arrested per
son "forthwith” before a Judge or
commissioner to whom the police
man would give his reasons for su
specting his prisoner of a crime.
The judge must permit the police
man to give his statement out of
hearing of the prisoner under this
proposal, but the suspect would have
to be told the crime for which he
was being held.
The judge could issue a warrant
charging the prisoner or order his
immediate release or continue tha
case for 24 hours, during which the
prisoner would be confined without
charge in a place other than a po
lice station.
The prisoner, under this proposal,
could not be held for more than 24
hours without being charged and
would be given an opportunity to
consult with his counsel or friends
and relatives.
Minority Reports.
One of the minority reports, sub
mitted by Claude A. Thompson,
contended that delay in taking a
prisoner before a committing mag
istrate “often is to protect the inno
cent.” He warned that the ma
jority proposal would "invite more
criminals to this city."
Another minority member. Hilary
W. Costello, described the proposal
as "clearly arbitrary, capricious and
impracticable.” He pointed out that
the code now requires police to
bring prisoners before a committing
magistrate “without unnecessary
delay.”
Mr. Costello charged that the
proposed amendment would have
the effect of temporarily suspending
the privilege of the writ of habeas
corpus, and would deprive persona
of their liberty without due process
of law.
Would Conflict With Rules.
John Wattawa, chairman of the
full committe, said he voted against
the proposed amendment because it
would be in direct conflict with the
Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure.
Mr. Wattawa contended that no
emergency existed to justify such an
abrupt change in long-standing po
lice methods.
“Accordingly,” he said, “the oc
casion seemed inappropriate for such
proposal, which because of its ac
companying criticisms of police
methods, could lend encouragement
to the lawless elements and thereby
still further lncrase the currnt heavy
burdens of the police and tfeA
heinous crime in our midst.’’
The committee also made r’'' c
the final reports of Hz cubcir.
lees on infringement of civil ri" is
by police, race relations and loyalty
investigations for Government em
ployes.
It unanimously adopted a report
declaring that the present proce
dure of giving physical examina
tions to women prisoners “is in
adequate to protect the civil rights
of such prisoners” and urged re
medial action.
Added Loyalty Study Urged.
On the loyalty Investigations, tho
subcommittee made no specific rec
ommendations but commented that
the "real dangers” inherent in the
lovalty program are the possibility
of estabHsing a policy of guilt by
| imputation or beliefs or guilt by
j association and the failure to af
, ford the suspected employe a
i chance to cross examine witnesses.
I The subcommittee, whose report
was unanimously approved by the
full committee, urged additional
study of the question.
In another action, the committee
voted 9 to 4 that removing the pres
ent restrictions of membership to
white persons was not a question
for the Civil Rights Committee to
I consider.
3 B-29s Plan Long Flight
After Idlewild Air Show
By the Associated Press
NEW YORK, July 31.—Three Air
Force B-29 Superforts leave on a
5,000-mile non-stop flight today at
the end of a military aerial demon
stration at New York’s International
Airport.
The long-range bombers art
scheduled to leave here at 6 p.m.
and fly nor»>stop to Los Angeles and
back, returning here at 4 pm. to
morrow.
The three planes are among a
group of 300 B-29s flown here for
the air show from the Carswell Air
Force Base at Fort Worth, Tex.
The Air Force says the non-stop
trip will be a routine cruise-control
flight, performed on approximately
8,000 gallons of gasoline loaded in
each plane.
Air Pirate Faces Trial
By British in Hong Kong
Sr *!>• AttMiatwl Frtt
HONO KONG, July 31—Won*
Yu, by his, own admission a rice
paddy farmer turned air pirate, will
be tried under the British flag.
(Hong Kong Is a British crown
colony.)
Sydney Dekantzow, operations
chief of Cathaway Pacific Airlines,
did not say what charges would bs
filed
Wong, In a written statement, ad
mitted he and three companions
tried to steal a plane while it was
in flight between Macao and Hong
Kong. HU companions, he said, got
excited and killed the pilot and co
pilot
The plane plunged Into the sea
four miles off Macao. Wong jumped
as It nit the water and was the only
survivor of its M occupants, nine of
them North Americans.
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