Weather Forecast Sunny and a little warmer with highest near 84 today. Clear tonight with lowest about 64. Tomorrow, fair and continued pleasant tem peratures. (Pull report on Page A-2.) Midnight ..65 6 a.m.61 11 a.m..78 2 a.m-65 8 a.m_63 Noon_74 4 a.m-65 10 a.m-70 1 p.m_76 Guide for Readers Page. Amusements —B-29 Church News, A-S-9 Comics.B-19-19 Editorial -.A-6 Editorial Articles, A-7 ItfBt and Pound. .A-3 Page. Obituary-A-19 Radio.B-19 Real Estate—B-l-1# Society, Clubs—B-ll Sports .A-ll Where to Go.—B-9 An Associated Press Newspaper 96th Year. No. 220. Phone STerling 5000 ★★ WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 1948—THIRTY-TWO PAGES. City Horn* Delivery, Daily end Sunday. $1.20 a Monts. When S Sunday*. $1.30. Wsfct Final Edition. IUC and $1.40 per Month -* 5 CENTS Action on Housing Completed, Congress Due to Quit Tonight After Inflation Curb Is Passed House Votes, 352-9, For Measure to Spur Private Building BULLETIN The House put through to day, without a rollcall, a defi ciency appropriation bill car rying $12,400,000 to finance the new housing program. It also carried an additional $5, 000,000 for purchasing auto mobiles for disabled veterans. By J. A. O'Leary The House today passed the Senate’s private enterprise hous ing bill overwhelmingly and sent it to President Truman, bring ing Congress close to adjourn ment tonight. The housing bill went through the House by a vote of 352 to 9, with 4 members voting "present.” Representative Monroney, Dem ocrat. of Oklahoma, told the House the bill will do "some good” and provide more housing, but it will not "reach doVn to the level where the need is greatest.” Chairman Wolcott of the House Banking Committee said of the bill: “It will encourage now an ac celerated production of low-cost homes “ * * and an expanded pro duction of rental housing units. It Apartment House Ban On Children Curbed In New Housing Bill The new housing bill con tains a clause to prevent apart ment houses from barring chil dren if the Government insures the mortgage on the property. It applies to mortgages in sured under section 608 of title 6 of the National Housing Act. and also stipulates that if the property changes hands while the Government insurance is in effect, the purchaser also must agree not to discriminate against tenants with children. will immediately liberalize home financing for veterans." Inflation, Fund Bills Remain. All that remains is the House approved inflation control bill, now before the Senate, and a last minute deficiency appropriation bill. The appropriation measure will carry funds to administer the new housing program and other items. With the Senate due to start vot ing at 4 o’clock on the House approved inflation bill, the law makers may be packing their bags for home by sundown, unless the Senate makes radical changes in the courbs on installment buying and bank credit. This is not likely. Although the Republicans won their hght in Doth houses against Federal subsidies for slum clear ance and low-cost public housing, the measure they sent to the Presi dent contains a variety of incentives for the private construction of more housing units at lower cost. • The controversial Federal sub sidies for slum clearance and low cost public housing went out of the bill in the Senate late yesterday, 48 to 36. The modified measure then passed without a roll call. The Senate convened at 11 o'clock to debate the House-approved infla tion controls on installment buying and bank credit. Short of Truman Demands. As soon as these two bills are through. Republican leaders will bring out an adjournment resolu tion, which will mean the end of this Congress, unless some unfor seen emergency should bring the two houses back again in the fall. Neither the housing nor the in flation bills go as far as President Truman asked the Republican lead ers to go when he called them back to Washington two weeks ago. The housing measure, however, is much more substantial than many ob servers thought it would be when the special session began. The $65,000,000 loan from the Government for erection of the new United Nations building in New York City is the only other measure President Truman will get out of the session if it ends tonight. For a while, it looked as though a more liberal displaced persons bill, and the international wheat agreement might get through, but the Senate side put both these questions on ice yesterday until January. Many Issues Listed. The President put in a plug for a wide variety of other perennial issues when he addressed the law makers on July 27, but it was a foregone conclusion they would not iSee CONGRESS, Page A-2.) Sister to Try to Reconvert Carry Davis to Citizenship By the Associated Press BALTIMORE, Aug. 7.—A Greek coal ship left today with Miss Vir ginia Davis, 25, as a passenger for France where she will try to con vince her brother, who gave up his American citizenship, to return to the United States. Garry Davis, 26, soft of Band Leader Meyer Davis, surrendered his citizenship in Paris May 26. He said he decided he could work bet ter for world peace as a “citizen of the world.” "I hope I can show him he can do as much good here as anywhere else for world union,” Miss Davis said. She reported she was acting in behalf of her family. Miss Davis was accompanied by Carleton Smith, a management con sultant. She plans to make a con cert tour of the British Isles and on the continent. Miss Davis opened and closed the recent Republican convention in Philadelphia by sing tog the national anthem. 6.0. P. Credit-Control Measure Slated for Vote by 4 P.M. House Acceptance Without Joint Conference Likely If No Major Changes Are Made By Chalmers M. Roberts The Republican anti-inflation | bill is headed for almost certain : Senate approval this afternoon, ! but only after a round of Demo cratic denunciations of the measure, which embodies only a fraction of President Truman’s proposals to cope with the high cost of living. Quick House acceptance of the Senate version appears likely, if no major changes are written into the House-approved measure on the Senate floor today. The House may accept the bill • without bothering to send it to a House-Senate con ference. The Senate agreed yesterday, after a listless debate on the meas ure had begun, to vote on the bill and all amendments not later than 4 p.m. today. By that time, the House is expected to be marking time waiting to give the bill final approval. The measure came from the House President Asks Funds For Housing Bill Needs And Cars for Veterans Seeks Congress Action To Save Jobs of Two Interior Officials President Truman today asked Congress to appropriate extra money to carry out provisions of the new housing bill passed by Congress and to provide auto mobiles for disabled veterans. He also urged that Congress re peal a provision in the current In terior Department appropriation act which has the effect of legis lating out of office Reclamation Commissioner Michael W. Strauss and Richard M. Boke, California regional director. Mr. Truman’s requests were an nounced by the White House as Congress rushed toward adjourn ment of the special session and the President isolated himself aboard the presidential yacht Williams burg on the Potomac. Spends Night on Yacht. The President went aboard the Williamsburg late yesterday to spend the night, accompanied only by Capt Robert I. Dennison, his Naval aide. The White House said today it was not known when he would return. To carry out provisions of the pending housing legislation passed by the Senate yesterday and sent to the House, the President sub mitted requests to Congress for: A supplemental appropriation of $10,000,000 for the Treasury Depart ment. A supplemental appropriation of $400,000 for the Housing and Home Finance Agency. Authorization of another $3,450, 000 for the Housing and Home Finance Agency. He asked an appropriation of $5,000,000 for the Veterans’ Admin istration to provide automobiles and • See TRUMAN, Page A-2.) Jap Railway Workers Strike Despite Ban By the Associated Press TOKYO. Aug. 7.—A small force of section hands on the government railway on Shikoku today became the first to defy the new “no-strike” order issued by the Japanese cabinet. The cabinet ordered an immediate investigation and threatened crim inal prosecution. Gen. MacArthur had suggested the order. The big test is expected later today with the expiration of a strike dead line set by big Government Com munications Workers Union. The union has said it will defy the gov ernment ban. The section workers struck “for an indefinite period" late yesterday in the area of Matsuyama, west coast city of Shikoku, smallest of the four Japanese home islands. Meanwhile, Paul L. Stanchfield, who resigned as deputy chief of Gen. MacArthur's labor section in protest to the no-strike order, pre dicted in a statement that Com munists could rally support from among government workers to launch “direct opposition to the occupation for the first time.” Mr. Stanchfield said he and his superior, James S. Killen of Falls Church, Va., resigned not because of the ban of strikes in esssential public works, but because the cab inet also deprived government work ers of the right to collective bargain ing. The cabinet order said only that the workers had no right to collective bargaining if negotia tions were backed by strikes. Chinese Dollar Sinks Again in Wild Market By the Associated Press SHANGHAI, Aug. 7.—China s wild money market broke loose again to day with the Chinese dollar dipping to a new low on the Peiping black market of 10,500,000 to *1 a mandatory increase in the gold reserve of banks. The latter two steps were designed to “tighten" credit and cut down on inflationary lending. The Senate Banking Committee voted yesterday, 8 to 2, to throw out the gold reserve1 requirement. Chairman Tobey called it a “fraud.” Senator Taft, Republican, of Ohio, in discussing the provision on the Senate floor, indicated he was not certain whether it should be in cluded. He said Senators should think about it overnight and take a vote today. A second House provision, the one granting the Federal Reserve Board permission to raise bank reserves requirements for member banks, was slightly liberalized. The (See INFLATION. Page A-2J Trygve Lie Appeals To Powers to Settle Dispute in Germany U. N. Secretary Assails U. S. and Soviet; War Stockpile Criticized By the Associated Press LAKE SUCCESS, Aug. 7.— Trygve Lie appealed to the big powers today to end their quar rel over Germany. The United Nations secretary general also called for urgent ac tion to stop what he called a race among the great powers to develop and stockpile lethal bacteriological and chemical weapons. In his third annual report to the General Assembly, Mr. Lie placed the German proble mat the top of a list of issues standing in the way of world peace. “Nothing would contribute more to the effectiveness of the United Nations,” he said, "than a settle ment of this problem.” Mr. Lie ranged over the entire field of political, economic and so cial problems before the U. N., painting a grim picture of strife and conflict between Russia and the Western powers. He spared neither the United States nor the Soviet Union in his analysis of the U. N.’s activities during the past year. Red Boycott Cited. He said the United States sup ported the Palestine partition plan but refused to use force to carry it out. Russia boycotted several U. N. bodies, including the Korean and Balkan Commissions, he said. "Both cases,” he said, "involve areas where the immediate interests of the two greatest powers have re acted sharply upon each other.” Then Mr. Lie said: "It would be a grave mistake to believe that most of the world has any intention of accepting any sin gle economic system, whether based on the Communist doctrine of the classless society or the most extreme American capitalist version of a free enterprise system. “It is equally unthinkable that any one nation or group of nations could establish and maintain in such a world a new empire resting on either economic power or mili tary might.” Mr. Lie made no specific recom mendations on the German problem beyond urging the big powers to re sume negotiations. He spoke of the future status of Germany as a whole and not merely of the Berlin crisis. Concerned Over Delays. He left it up to the interested powers to decide whether they would turn the German problem over to the U. N., but told them if they decided to do that he wanted it done "only in the spirit of a gen uine attempt to reach a settle ment.” Mr. Lie expressed grave concern over failure of the U. N. to make any progress on such vital problems as atomic control, reduction of arm aments and creation of an interna tional police force. He said the prolonged debate over atomic control has distracted at tention from other weapons of mass destruction such as bacteriological and chemical weapons. "Stocks of these weapons are un doubtedly piling up,” he said, and “new discoveries are constantly be ing made to render them more deadly,” but "not a single proposal has been made by any of the mem ber nations for preventing or con trolling their manufacture.” For this reason, Mr. Lie said, he intends to place this problem be fore the next session of the Assem bly which begins in Paris Septem ber 21. Praise for ERP. Mr. Lie had these things to say about other questions. European Recovery Program— “This program holds great promise for the restoration of Western Eu rope to economic and politic sta bility, but it can have lasting re sults only If present political divi sions are not permitted to block co ordinated action within Europe as a whole and an increase of trade be (See U. N„ Page A-2.) a I Snags Reported In Moscow Talk On Reich Issues Russians Declared Objecting to Some 3-Power Proposals ROUGH TIME' FORECAST in Ber-1 lin If Reds Menace Allied Planes, i Page A-2.1 By the Associated Press LONDON, Aug. 7.—An informed British diplomatic source said today the Western powers thus far have failed to agree with the Soviet Union on a broad basis for four-power talks on Ger-i many. The informant said that, while it is appafent some progress is being made in the Moscow negotiations, Russia has raised objections to “certain concrete proposals” made to Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov yesterday by representatives of the United States, Britain and France. The nature of the proposals re mained concealed by the blackout which shrouded the Kremlin con versations since they began nine days ago. New Instructions Likely. There still is no question of the talks having broken down, the in formant said. He expressed the opinion that Mr. Molotov—and possibly Prime Minister Stalin— will receive the Western emissaries again after the Westerners receive new instructions from their govern ments. a spoKesman lor the British Foreign Office said it is unlikely now that a four-power communique will be issued this week end on the talks. Some sort of announcement during the week end—possibly set ting the place, date and scope of a new four-power Foreign Ministers Council meeting, had been widely anticipated. Another British diplomatic source indicated the Western powers de livered to Mr. Molotov yesterday a tentative agenda for a Foreign Ministers’ Council discussion. He said Mr. Stalin had asked for a basic agenda. Only when the Western invoys see Mr. Stalin or Mr. Molotov again, it was said, will it be shown whether the East and West can profitably discuss German and other Euro pean problems at a Big Four con ference. The Foreign Office said a report on the Western diplomats meeting with Mr. Molotov has been received from Frank Roberts, special British en voy in Moscow. Foreign Secretary Bevin is studying it. Lewis W. Douglas, the American ambassador, called at the Foreign Office this morning to discuss the report with Sir William Strang, Mr. Bevin’s chief adviser on Germany. Concrete Proposals Seen. Diplomatic observers said they be lieved the western powers have de livered concrete proposals to the Kremlin concerning topics to be dis cussed at a projected Big Four meet mg. Representative of the restrained optimism here is the opinion of Vernon Bartlett, a member of Parliament, who wrote in the Lon don News Chronicle: "Previous interviews with Stalin, Molotov and Zorin (Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister) were exploratory and designed to discover whether there is any possible basis for an agreement between the East and West. “Yesterday’s interview was proof that the answer was judged to be an affirmative one. The second stage now beginning is the removal of obstacles to discussion.” Reds Indicqte Firm Stand On Previous Proposals MOSCOW, Aug 7 OP).—The Liter ary Gazette declared today that “only a realization of Soviet pro iSee CONFERENCE, Page A-2.) Split Widens in Italy's Red-Ruled Labor Group By the Associated Press ROME, Aug. 7.—The split in the Communist-dofhinated General Confederation of Labor widened today. A confederation communi que said the Executive Committee read dissenting Catholic labor lead ers out of the organization after a two-day session. The committee took similar action against the Christian Democrat members 11 days ago. The 7.000,000-member confedera tion began coming apart in July after the Executive Committee called a disastrous general strike following the attempted assassina tion of Communist leader Palmiro Togliatti. Christian Democratic members decided then, with Catholic work er’s support, to form an anti-Com munist nonpolitical union. They said the strike had violated the terms of labor’s unity pact. Hint of National Guard Merger With Reserve Goes Unexplained By John A. Giles An air of mystery today sur rounded a National Defense Establishment report which is said to contain the controversial recommendation that the Na tional Guard be removed from control of the States and placed exclusively under the Army. Under present iaw, the National; Guard does not come under Federal control until Congress formally de clares a national emergency. Secretary of Defense Forrestal yesterday suddenly recalled, and then late in the day re-instated the printed report of his Committee on Civilian Components, which has been making a nine-month study of the complicated National Guard-Reserve picture of the three services. Defense spokesmen said at the U. S. Relay Team Disqualified After Winning 400-Meter Race Olympic Officials Charge Faulty Exchange Of Baton, Give Victory to British BULLETIN OLYMPIC STADIUM, Wem bley England W.—The United States won the 1,000-meter relay by 50 yards today to achieve its 10th track and field championship of the Olympic Games. The Ameri can foursome of Art Hamden, Cliff Bourland, Roy Cochran and Mai Whitfield completed the distance in 3:10.4. France was second, Sweden third and Finland fourth in 3:24.8. (Other Olympic Stories on Sports Page.) By th« AiW!-1"1 " oi'ADIUM, Wem bley, England, Aug. 7.—The United States galloped away with the 400-meter relay champion ship in the Olympic track and field games today, but the Amer ican team was disqualified and Danube to Remain Cut If Austria Is Denied Voice, U. S. Warns Parley in Belgrade Votes To Make Proposed Soviet Plan Basis of Talks By the Associated Press BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Aug. 7.—The United States bluntly warned today that the Danube River will remain cut in two for traffic if Eastern Europe’s Com munist states deny Austria a seat on the Danube control board. Its position was laid down by American Ambassador Cavendish Cannon shortly before the Danubian Conference voted, 7 to 1, to make the proposed Soviet plan for a new Danube pact the basis for its dis cussion. Under the Soviet plan, control of the Danube would be vested exclu sively with the seven Communist dominated states of Eastern Europe. Limited to Amendments. Adoption of this working opera tion means that the United States, Britain and France can offer their terms for the pact only in the form of amendments to the Soviet draft. France voted against this pro cedure. The United States and Britain abstained from voting. Mr. Cannon, opening today’s ses sion, declared: "Let us be realistic about Austria. If the views of this important ri parian state are not taken into consideration in drafting the con vention and Austria doesn’t become a party of it. and does not imme diately become a member of the commission, the river will remain cut in two.” At present, the river is cut in two at Linz, Austria, where the Rus sians have blocked non-Soviet shlp (See DANUBE, Page A-2.) time they withdrew the 200-page report that it would be referred back to the committee for “clarification of certain recommendations.’’ The final decision to go ahead with the original release plans to make the report public next Wednesday was not explained. Wheather a politically explosive National Guard - Reserve merger recommendation — coming in an election year—was a prime factor in the on-again-off-again status of the report was not divulged. Such a proposal might well touch off a new States' rights battles, involving the defense organization and the 48 Governors. At hearings before the commit tee, the Reserve Officers’ Association proposed merger of the National Guard and Reserves—which far out number the Guardsmen—into a sin {Set RESERVE, Page A-2.) second-place Great Britain ad judged the winner. The American combination, an chored by fleet Mel Patton of South ern California, won the race easily, but after a long delay the judges announced that the United States was disqualified. Patton, the Olympic 200-meter champion, had finished nearly 10 yards ahead of Britain’s anchor man, Jack Archer, Barney Ewell, Lorenzo Wright and Harrison Dil lard made up the remainder of the American foursome. Amid cheers and boos, the an nouncer declared over the public ad dress system that the disqualifica tion was due to improper passing of the baton on the first exchange. Ewell, the former Penn State star who - t second in both the 100 4uo meter finaua, ran first for the United States and Wright, a broad jumper from Wayne Univer sity who was put on Jhe team as a substitute, took the second leg. tHllftrd, the otymplc 100-meter champion from Baldwin Wallace College, ran third with Patton, the 200-meter winner in the anchor (See JiEtiAV, Page A-10.) Only 3 of 21 Cases Of Drunken Driving Dropped, King Says Corporation Counsel's Files Opened on Heels of Judge Raedy's Charge The corporation counsel’s office in Municipal Court has dropped only 3 of 21 drunken driving charges which have been dis posed of in the past two months of Judge Ellen K. Raedy’s term in jury branch, it was learned today. On the heels of Judge Raedy’s charge last Thursday that his staff has been dropping drunken driving charges against personal friends, Assistant Corporation Coun sel Clark King opened his office’s files for scrutiny by a reporter from The Star. The records showed that 18 de fendants either pleaded guilty or were convicted by a jury since June 1, while two charges were dropped because of insufficient evidence. A check of official court records revealed that of these 18 persons sentenced by Judge Raedy, all but one received a $50 fine or 60 days in jail. One penalty called for a $100 fine or 30 days. Gives Reasons on Other Cases. Mr. King, who is senior prosecu tor for the District in Municipal Court, declared there was “sub stantial” reason for his office’s de clining to prosecute in the three cases involved. He said that, on June 18, the drunken driving charge against Joseph Collins, 23, of Alexandria, was dropped because two material witnesses were out of town and the urinalysis specimen was missing. The prosecutor pointed out that Mr. Collins’ original trial last Febru ary resulted in a hung jury and that, in the intervening months, the Health Department misplaced the specimen on which the case (See DRUNK DRIVING, Page A-2.> Yugoslav Rail Engineer To Die for Fatal Crash %y til* A«»ockit«d Prws BELGRADE; Yugoslavia, Aug. 7.— A Skoplje court today sentenced to death Peter Koshinovski, a railroad engineer, for a collision last month which killed 20 persons. It found that he fell asleep on the job. A switchmaster was convicted of allowing the sleeping engineer "to proceed through the station and to collide with another train.” He was sentenced to 15 years in prison. Soviet Ministries Merged MOSCOW, Aug. 7 (JP).—The Su preme Soviet news announced to day the merging of the Food Re serves Ministry with the reserves of materials ministry. The new min istry will be called the United Ministry of State Food and Mate rial Reserves. 3 Kansas-Bound B-29s From Reich Land After Nearly Making Goal One Down at Fort Riley, Second at Minneapolis, Third at Selfridge Field By W. H. Shipped, Jr. Star Staff Carraspandant 8ELFRIDGE FIELD, Mich., Aug. 7.—Three Super Fortresses that made nonstop stabs out of Germany for their hofhs base In Kansas needed only one small boost from the fickle winds on the Great Cricle route to have made it. As It was, the B-29 piloted by Capt. Walter L>. Abbott got so near home he could smell Ma’s apple pies when his fuel gauges indicated it was high time to come down. This he did yesterday near Fort Riley—only 40 miles short of his 5,160-mile goal. Qur Fort, flown by Capt. John H. Pulley, Jr., 27, of Jackson, Tenn., came in here yesterday also with very little fuel sloshing about in tank bottoms, while the Mighty Mouse, captained by Trino V. (Tom my) D1 Salvo of New Jersey, put in at Minneapolis in a similar condi tion. The B-29s of the 32nd Bomb Group normally based at the Smoky Hill Air Base at Salina, Kans., were making the first attempt to test the feasibility of a westward non-stop passage from South Germany to Middle Western sources of supply and maintenance while carrying full loads of men and equipment. Carry Maintenance Teams. In addition to 11-man flight crews, the ships carried their own ground-maintenance teams of seven or eight men along with regular armaments and fly-away kits of vital spare parts weighing a ton or more. The total weight load was enough to insure an audience of experts when the three homeward-bound bombers wheeled away from some 30 mates parked on the hardstands at Furstenfeldbruck, near Munich, and got in position for takeoff—they hoped. I was up front looking out the window of Capt. Pulley’s ship and it appeared for a few seconds he might run out of runway before he got his show on the road. I wasn't the only one aboard who thought that, but the boys were so eager to see the folks back at Smoky Hill after four months in Germany, “off and on,” that they were in no mood to split hairs over extra ounces. We rushed along on the deck out of Germany headed for the setting sun somewhere like an elevated express without visible means of support. The little master sergeant in charge of the gas ration, George Berliner, 23, of Scotts Bluff, Nebr., wasn’t wasting any fuel on altitude Just to spare German eardrums. Daylight Most of Way. The route was over Holland and along the east coast of England to cross Scotland near Prestwick. The Great Circle course then lay Just south of Iceland and Greenland and north of Goosebay, Labrador, across Northeast Canada and Hud son’s Bay. Daylight accompanied us almost all the way, first In the form of a sunset which had persisted for sev eral hours, and then as a glow on the horizon from the sun in the northern latitudes. The success of our operation depended largely on the fuel consumption charts and (See SUPERFORTS, Page A-3.) Colorado Munitions Dump Blows Up During Storm By tt» Awociatad Prau PUEBLO, Colo., Aug. 7.—A small ammunition dump exploded at the Pueblo Ordnance Depot last night. No deaths or Injuries were reported. A severe electrical storm In the vicinity at the time was believed to have touched off the blast. Col. Charles Keck, depot com mander, said the explosion oc curred In an open storage area which contained small-caliber am munition. No damage estimate was available. Fire broke out at the scene soon afterward but was quickly controlled by the depot’s fire-fighting equip ment before it reaches} numerous underground storage dumps. Red Spy Probers Admit Quizzing New York Man Alexander Koral Is Witness; Session Due Here Tomorrow Members of the House Un American Activities Subcommit tee revealed in New York today that they had questioned Alex ander Koral in the inquiry into alleged Communist spy rings operating in this country and the full committee was called to an extraordinary closed session here at 2 p.m. tomorrow to con sider the situation. Representative Nixon, Republi can, of California, announced the subcommittee had talked with Koral last night, as the group re convened its session this morning at the Federal Building in New York. The witness was identified only by name and as a New Yorker. Mr. Nixon refused comment when reporters asked if Koral is the "mys tery witness” who is supposed to Truman Nominates Blaisdell, Named in Remington Testimony By «ht Associated Press President Truman today nom nated Thomas C. Blaisdell, jr„ to be Assistant Secretary of Commerce. He is now serving under a recess appointment. Mr. Blaisdell has been in the news recently in connection with the Senate investigation of alleged Communist activities within the Government and Senator McClellan, Democrat, of Arkansas, a member of the investigating committee, said immediately he did not believe the Senate should act on the nomination until a pending case has been cleared up. He* referred to the case of William W. Remington, a Com merce Department employe who was given a job helping pass on what goods could be shipped to Russia. cr ick open the spy case. But an other member of the subcommittee, representative Hebert, Democrat, of Louisiana, said: “We have no mys tery witnesses. All witnesses are important. . Will Testify Monday. 1 Committee' members said only that Koral is a “New Yorker.” Mr. ; Nixon said the man would testify Monday at a public hearing before thC full committee here. The "mystery witness’’ was brought into the investigation yes terday by Representative Mundt. He said that a secret witness had been uncovered who would “crack the whole Soviet spy case wide open.” The ubcommlttee had been sent to New York to question the man. Mr. Nixon said the subcommittee planned to question at least three more witnesses today. He identified, them as Earl Browder, ousted national head of the Communist Party; Whittaker Chambers, senior editor of Time Magazine and avowed former Communist, and Victor Perlo. Former WPB Member. Perlo, a former member of the War Production Board, was named in Washington testimony last week as the leader of one of several espionage groups. The charge waa made by Mr. Chambers. Browder reached the Federal Building at 10:55 a.m. Before going before the subcommittee he told re porters, “see me afterward and I may tell you what’s on my mind.” Although refusing to disclose Koral’s connection with the New York phase of the investigation, Mr. Nixon said the new witness is “as important a witness as any questioned by the committee.” Acting Chairman Mundt said here he had called the executive session of the full committee for tomor row to plan the investigation pro : gram for next week. Replies Cryptic. At a press conference, Mr. Mundt made only cryptic replies to ques tions about the witnesses ques tioned in New York. He referred to Koral as “one of the people supposed to have figured in espion age.” He also said he believed Koral would deny having been a member of the Communist Party. Asked If (See SPIES, Page A-3.) Roof Chase Marks Drug Raid Netting 3 Three men were arrested in a nar cotics raid in Washington’s China town early today, one apprehended after a chase over the rooftops of eight buildings. A raiding squad led by Detective Sergt. William L. Taylor reported seizing opium valued at $200, an opium pipe and other equipment when they broke down the door of a third-floor room in the 500 block of Sixth street N.W. about 1:30 am. Three occupants of the room fled out a window to a ledge when the police appeared. Two were captured there, but a third man, Identified as Joe Lee. 52, of the Sixth street address, fled over the rooftops and was captured by Pvt. Joseph A. Gabrys, who had given chase. In the three-story-hlgh chase, Pvt. Gabrys followed Lee in a leap over a 3-foot areaway between buildings and finally cornered him behind a chimney on the roof of a building at Sixth and P streets N.W. The other two arrested men gave their names as Lee Yow Wing, 50, of the 1200 block of Eleventh street N.W., and George Louie, also 50, of the 800 block of H street N.W. All are charged with narcotics law violations. Lee was released on $1,500 bond and Wing and Louie on $1,000 bonds each. 4