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'Rough Time' Forecast
In Berlin if Russians
Menace Allied Planes
By the Associated Press
BERLIN, Aug. 7.—An Ameri
can Air Force official said today
that “things are going to be
pretty rough around here” if the
Russians try to force down
American and British planes
flying supplies to blockaded
Berlin.
The official Soviet news agency
ANB hinted last night that Allied
planes could be forced down for
flying over unauthorized areas. It
charged British and American air
craft with 62 such violations be
tween July 31 and August 4.
The American official conceded
that "technically speaking” planes
which violated flight regulations
could be forced down.
"However,” he added, "once this
starts things are going to be pretty
rough around here. It would re
quire some pretty high level action
to say the least.”
Intentions Not Clear.
The Soviet agency claimed Amer
icans had provisions for forcing
down planes which departed from
prescribed routes over the American
occupation zone. They implied the
same could be applied over the
Soviet zone routes to Berlin.
The American official said it could
not be immediately determined
whether the Russians were "just
talking” or really intended forceful
action.
Not was it known whether the
statement distributed by ANB had
been forwarded to American and
British authorities as a formal let
ter of protest.
The Russians have made fre
quent allegations of flight rule
breaches since the gigantic night
and day air lift to supply Western
Berlin w'as instituted nearly two
months ago. Most of them have
been rejected as unfounded. Amer
ican authorities have expressed the
belief they were chiefly intended as
harassing tactics against the lift.
Western Allied authorities have
said the airlift will not only con
tinue as long as needed, but will be
doubled.
Currency Accord Reported.
On the diplomatic front, Russian
controlled newspapers carried on
their front pages a dispatch from
Washington claiming that Presi
dent Truman and Secretary of State
Marshall had “agreed in principle"
that the Western-sponsored currency
should be withdrawn from Berlin
and only Soviet-sponsored money
circulated throughout the city.
The dispatch, carried by ANB.
claimed that this information was
learned from “informed Washington
circles.”
It said the currency problem here
has to be negotiated by the four
Allied commanders in chief and
indicated that the issue was con
nected with discussion of the Berlin
crisis in Moscow'.
On the contrary the Western
powers are isuing more of their
•money here.
Blocked Funds Not Freed.
Western authorities said last
night that attempts to reach satis
factory arangements for the release
of blocked East-Mark accounts
.“have now been brought to nothing
because of the insistence of the
bank of issue (in the Soviet sector)
upon clearly unacceptable- condi
tions."
As a result, the three Western
powers autnorized loans in West
marks for Western sector firms
wnose East-marks have ben blocked
so they can pay wages.
The British said Thursday that
the Russians had released enough
funds for the city government to
meet its week-end payments. Last
night, however, it was reported that
the city had only been able to get
a small percentage of its estimated
needs.
ANB reported that the Russians
had protested to the British Thurs
day against "organized currency
speculation" in the British sector.
The agency said the Russians de
manded the immediate closing of
German-operated currency ex
change offices which recently were
opened in the Western sectors. ANB
described Berlin as “lying in the
Soviet zone and economically part
of it.”
West-mark Favored.
Last night's papers said one West
mark brought two marks, 40 pfen
nings of Soviet-sponsored currency,
while it required two marks, 70
pfennings of Russian money to buy
one West-mark.
The West-mark has been pegged
at 30 cents for the purpose of foreign
trade. The new Russian mark has
been given no set value, although
the Russians claim it should be ex
changed equally with the West
mark.
However, since the introduction of
the two currencies, the West-mark
has been favored in all sectors of
Berlin and has been exvhanged at
a premium, because of its sounder
basis.
Weather Report
District of Columbia—Sunny with
highest temperature near 84 degrees
this afternoon. Clear with lowest
temperature about 64 degrees to
night. Tomorrow, continued nice
weather.
Maryland and Virginia—Fair and
cool tonight and continuing tomor
row.
Wind velocity, 10 miles per hour; j
direction, west.
River Report.
'From United States Engineers.)
Potomac River muddy at Harpers:
Ferry and at Great Falls. Shenandoah
muddy at Harpeis Ferry.
Humidity.
Yesterday— Pet. Today— pet.
Noon __- 49 Midnight '6
4 p m-38 8 a m _83
8 p.m- 52 1 p m _48
High and Low for lesteraay.
High. T9, at 4:06 p.m.
Low. 6T. at 5:18 a m
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest. 95. on June 24.
Lowest 6. on January 26.
Tide Tables.
(Furnished by United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey.)
High
Low
High
Low
Today.
10:36 a m.
5:01 a m
11 09 p m.
5:29 p m.
Tomorrow
11 26 a m
5 54 a.m
11.58 p m
6:18 p.m.
The Sun and Moon.
Rises.
Sun. today _ 6:14
Sun. tomorrow _ 6 15
Moon, today 9.01 am.
Automobile lights must be
one-half hour after sunset.
Sets.
8:13
8:12
10:08 p m.
turned
on
Precipitation.
Monthly precipitation In Inches In
Capital (current month to date;:
the
Month
January _
February _
March __
tG5f ::::::::
June _
July _
August _
September_
October__
November _ —
December _r_
1848.
4.57
1.67
3.66
3.05
8.87
6.28
2.83
4 40
Ave
3.35
3.3?
3.75
3.27
3.70
4.13
4 71
4.01
3.24
2.84
2.37
3.32
Record
.83
6.84
8.84
9.13
10.69
10.94
10 63
14 41
17.45
6.81
8.69
7.56
’37
'84
'91
'89
’89
'00
’86
28
'34
'17
WOMAN FOREIGN MINISTER CHARGES ‘DOLLAR DIPLOMACY’—Ana Pauker (seated, center),
Romania’s Foreign Minister, was flanked by members of her delegation during Tuesday’s ses
sion of the Danube conference in Belgrade. She accused the United States yesterday of trying
to use “dollar diplomacy” to obtain a strong position in the Danubian basin. Other members of
her delegation are unidentified. —AP Wirephoto.
Congress
(Continued From First Page.)
undertake or be able to agree on so
elaborate a program on the eve of
a presidential election.
The President mentioned Federal
aid to education, broader social
security coverage, a higher mini
mum wage law, the civil rights pro
gram and more Federal appropria
tions for public power development.
The Republicans, having brought
the civil rights bill out of Senate
committees before they went home
in June, devoted one week of the
special session to a futile effort to
get action on one—the antipoll tax
measure.
After encountering the usual
Southern Democratic fiilibuster.
the GOP leaders, threw in the
sponge and announced plans to
tighten Senate rules against fili
bustering in January.
Housing Bill Highlights.
High lights of the housing bill as
it goes to the White House are:
1. Low and middle income fam
ilies would be allowed 95 per cent
insured mortgages on houses cost
ing $6,000 or less.
2. Construction loans would be
provided for builders of low-cost
homes, with an 80 per cent insured
mortgage for builders of 25 or more
units priced under $7,500 each.
3. Owner-occupied homes would
be eligible for more liberal loans,
such as a 90 per cent insured mort
gage for single-family units costing
up to $6,300 instead of the present
$5,400.
4. Large-scale rental projects
would be allowed 90 per cent in
sured mortgages. The $1,350 cost
limitation per room would be re
moved and a family unit afftanunfi'
of $8,100 substituted.
5. A minimum return of 234 per
cent a year on investment, plus 2
per cent for amortization, would be
guaranteed by the Government to
those making investments in con
struction of rental property for
lower and middle income groups.
6. Prefabricated housing manufac
turers would be allowed more lib
eral loans.
7. An additional $35,000,000 would
be provided for insuring loans for
home modernization and improve
ment.
8. A new division in the housing
and home finance agency would be
set up to work toward the standard
ization of building codes and meas
urements.
Yesterday’s housing battle in the
Senate was the climax of the ses
sion. The stage was set for it when
a group of New England Republi
cans rebelled against their leaders in
an effort to retain the public hous
ing subsidy features of the Taft
Ellender-Wagner bil.
The Senate had approved public
housing in April, and the New Eng
landers. led by Chairman Tobey of
the Banking Committee, resented
the action of House leaders in re
fusing to consider the Taft-Ellender
Wagner bill.
Taft Accepts Substitute.
They lost their fight, however,
when Senator Taft of Ohio, one of
the authors of the public housing
program, took the floor against his
own bill. Several other Republicans
who previously had voted for it
went along with Senator Taft on the
ground that they faced a practical
problem of taking half a loaf or
run the risk of getting no housing
bill at this session. Senator Taft
and his associates insisted they
were not abandoning the principle
of Federal financing for slum clear
ance, but only putting it off until
January.
Although 12 Republicans joined
administration Democrats in sup
port of public housing, their defec
tion was offset by 11 Democrats
who rallied behind the modified bill
of the Republican leadership.
Drunk-Driving
^Continued From First Page.i
largely was based. The alcoholic
content, as shown during the trial,
was .25 of 1 per cent, well above the
.15 of 1 per cent limit that, medical
authorities say, indicates a person
is under the influence of intoxicants.
Also dropped, on June 25. was the
case of Robert C. Moses, 38, of the
1200 block of New Hampshire avenue
N.-W. Mr. King said, although police
charged Mr. Moses with being
a drunken driver, it later developed
in a hearing that another man act
ually was behind the wheel when the
arrest was made.
Says Friendship Not Involved.
A charge against Thomas L.
Dabney. 37, of 6 Woodhaven boule
vard. Bethesda, Md., was dropped
last Tuesday because of low alcoholic
content of the urinalysis.
"There certainly was no friend
ship or bias in these cases.” Mr.
King declared. "My only interest is
to bring out the facts in all these
cases.
"I can only say again and again
that there is absolutely no truth to
any charge that this office plays
favorites to any one.”
Corporation Counsel Vernon West
yesterday sent Judge Raedy a letter
by special messenger, demanding
that she prove what he called a
"serious accusation.”
Judge Raedy has not been avail
able for comment on the letter. She
was not scheduled to be in court
today and telephone calls at her
home were unanswered.
Although, reporters tried through
out yesterday, she could not be
reached to say whether she had re
ceived or replied to Mr. West's letter.
Her office reported on at least 10
occasions that the judge was “too
busy'’ to see the press.
She reported for w'ork shortly
before 10 a.m. and left at 4:30 p.m.
yesterday after serving all day on
general assignment. Records of the
assignment commissioner showed
she actually handled only one case,
a landlord-tenant dispute, which
she settled in her chambers. Judge
Raedy did not appear in any court
room.
Many Heard Charge.
She made her favoritism charge
during a bench conference with
Prosecutor Philip Brophy and a de
fense lawyer last Thursday.
It was in a voice audible to many
in the jury branch courtroom that
Judge Raedy declared: "Your posi
tion is that you nol-prosse idrop a
case) for your friends and not for
others. I know what you are doing.”
Mr. Brophy, who later said he was
“dvmfounded” at the accusation,
asserted the judge did not mention
the specific case, or cases, to which
she was referring. He added that
he "assumed” it was the drunken
driving charge which he dropped
last Tuesday against Mr. Dabney.
Emphasizing that he "didn’t know
Mr. Dabney from Adam.” Mr. Bro
phy said he dropped the charge
solely because the alcoholic content
of the mans urinalysis was .12 of
1 per cent, insufficient to prove in
toxication, medical experts say.
Mr. Dabney, reached at his home
yesterday, said he is not acquainted
with any member of the corpora
tion counsel's staff. His attorney.
Harold Hawken, also denied he re
ceived any favored treatment from
rtbe office. .—
Reserve
i Continued From First Page.l
gle Federal Reserve to eliminate
time-consuming mobilization pro
cedures in case of an atomic war.
This proposal actually first came to
public attention as a result of a
magazine article by Maj. Gen. Harry
H. Vaughan, Army aide to the Presi
dent.
Guard Opposes Merger.
The politically powerful National
Guard Association, which numbers
1 among its members some of the
State governors and all the States’
adjutants general, has strenuously
opposed any merger moves. Maj.
Gen. Ellard A. Walsh, association
president, has charged the merger
plan is a “grab for power," and Maj.
Gen. Milton A. Reckord, Maryland
adjutant general and association
legislative director, has stated flatly
that the Guard "would not be amal
gamated.”
The National Guard is organized
by the States under the military
clause of the Constitution. Some of
ficials have pointed out, however,
.that it could be transferred by Con
gress under the so-called Army
clause, which states that the Legis
lative Branch shall have the power
to raise and support armies.
Proponents of federalization of
the Guard recommended during the
committee's hearings that the States
form some kind of home guards to
meet local emergency demands.
Inflation
(Continued From First Page.)
House approved an increase on
demand deposits by another 3 per
centage points and on time deposits
by 1 point The Senate committee
raised these figures to 5 and 2
points, respectively, although Pres
ident Truman had asked for raises
of 10 and 4 points. A compromise
between Senate and House figures
appears likely.
Differ on Time Limit.
The consumer credit provision,
also requested by President Truman,
would revive the war-time “Regula
tion W“ under Federal Reserve
Board administration. The House
gave the board authority to impose
the controls only until next March
15 but the Senate committee ex
tended the time until June 30. House
leaders were reported ready to ac
cept the Senate suggestion.
Technically, the bill was not be
fore the Senate committee since the
House had approved an old Senate
bill by substituting its own measure,
sponsored by Chairman Wolcott of
the House Banking Committee. The
committee actions will have to be
voted on by the Senate today.
After a caucus of Democratic
Senators this morning. Senator
Barkley of Kentucky said he would
offer an amendment to the Repub
lican bill all of the President's ex
cept the two points covered in
the bill.
He said the caucus agreed to seek
a record vote on the President’s
program although it was apparent
there is no chance of writing any
additional part of it into the Re
publican measure.
Senator Barkley said he could
make no statement on reports that
Truman would veto the Republican
sponsored measure when it reaches
the White House. He said also the
Democrats made no plans to fight
tonight's expected adjournment of
Congress.
One Change in Program.
The Kentucky Senator said he
has made one change in the Tru
man anti-inflation program. The
administration bill originally aet
the price level of last November 1
as its "rollback” goal, but Senator
Barkley amended this to make the
goal the level of prices on August 1
of this year.
He said his aim was to "keep
prices from going up further,” ex
plaining that it is difficult if not
impossible to roll back prices. He
pointed out the change does not
freeze prices at the August 1 level
but merely gives the President au
thority to set ceilings at their level.
The Republican bill, it appeared
today, will amount to granting Presi
dent Truman one full point of the
eight he requested—consumer credit
controls—and part of a second
bank reserve raises. All the rest—
price controls, rationing authority,
allocations powers, stronger rent
controls, stand-by wage controls and
regulations of commodity exchanges
—were swept into the waste basket
almost as fast as the President out
lined his program to Congress in
the joint session 12 days ago.
New Blast at Congress Seen.
Pinal passage of the bill will pose
something of a problem for the
President. There have been reports
he might veto the measure on the
grounds it is useless to control in
flation. On the other hand, if his
advisers consider the consumer
credit and bank reserve provisions
: sufficiently important, they may ask
him to sign it. In either case, Mr.
Truman may be expected to issue
another blast at the Republican
j controlled Congress for failure to
adopt his program.
Senator Fulbright, Democrat, of
Arkansas offered the oleomargarine
tax repeal measure as an amend
ment to the bill, but Republican
leaders indicated it will be thrown
out on the point of order that it is
not germane. ,
Senator Fulbright can appeal from
such a ruling, however, and force a
test vote on the measure, which
already has passed the House, but
has never come to a Senate floor
vote.
Conferences
(Continued From First Page.)
posals on the future of Germany"
j will lead to settlement of the Ber
lin crisis and create conditions for
a firm peace in all Europe.
(This may indicate the Soviets
are standing on their previous
proposal that any major power
talks on East-West differences
take in the problem of Germany
as a whole, without preliminary
conditions. The Western Allies
have called for lifting of the
Soviet blockade of Berlin as a
condition for talks.)
Victor Nekrasov, the Gazette's
special Berlin correspondent, wrote
the article at a time when repre
sentatives of the Soviet Union, the
United States, Britain and Fiance
weie negotiating the East-West
deadlock.
Basis for Solution.
“A favorable and real solution to
the ‘crisis’ created in Berlin,"' he
said, “as a result of the impermissi
ble one-sided action of the Western
powers is closely bound up with a
decision on the all-German problem
as a whole, in the spirit of Potsdam,
which found its further expression
in the Warsaw declaration and in
the answer of the Soviet Union to
notes of America, England and
France.'’
'The Warsaw declaration by
i the Soviet Union and seven other
Eastern European countries
urged a provisional all-German
government. The Western pow
ers have announced plans for
going ahead with a government
for Western Germany.
(The Soviet reply to British
French-American notes of pro
test on the Berlin situation said
i the Soviets would not object to
negotiating difference in Berlin,
but the talks must be without
preliminary conditions and must
concern the administration of all
Germany as a whole.)
The three Western envoys again
are awaiting instructions from their
home capitals on the latest of their
talks with Soviet Foreign Minister
Molotov. No more meetings are ex
pected today. Informed persons be
lieve the next get-together will be
tomorrow, Monday or perhaps even
later. One highly informed source
said last night there must be new
meetings before any final agree
ments materialize.
Up to mid-aftemoon there had
been no further meetings among
the three Western envoys, and
none had been scheduled.
105 Air Force Men Reach
England for Special Dufy
By Associated Press
SOUTHAMPTON, England, Aug.
7.—Five officers and 100 men of the
United States Army Air Force dis
embarked here yesterday for spe
cial dujy in Britain.
They were the first American Air
Force Men to come to Britain by
sea since the war. They left the
United States thinking they were
going to Bremerhaven, Germany,
but their transport, the General
Stuart Heintzelman, was diverted
to Southampton.
The men, under command of Capt.
Ira E. Bishop of Dyersburg, Tenn.,
are trained in administration and
supply of transport planes. They
will be stationed at a B-29 base at
Warrington, Lancashire.
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Crump Remains Silent
At Late Returns Add
To Tennessee Defeat
By Associated Press
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Aug. 7.—
E. H. Crump steadfastly refused
comment today as tallying of
final ballots made even more
complete his defeat in Thurs
day’s Tennessee primary elec
tions.
With 2,017 of approximately 2,300
precincts in, an unofficial count of
the heaviest primary vote in the
State’s history gave Gordon Brown
ing the gubernatorial nomination
by a vote of 214,465 to 160,142 for
Jim McCord, Crump-backed incum
bent.
With 2,024 precincts tallied, Rep
resentative Kefauver had won the
senatorial nomination wth 152.489
votes to 117,787 for Senator Stewart
and 78,596 for John Mitchell,
Crump-indorsed judge.
Set Back in Own County.
Mr. Crump’s defeat, his first in a
statewide campaign for 20 years,
was highlighted by the showing of
opposition candidates in the Mem
phis political leader’s own Shelby
County.
An unofficial count of all 126 pre
cincts in Shelby showed Mr. Ke
fauver with 27,855, Judge Mitchell
with 37,792 and Senator Stewart
with 2,640. Mr. Browning had 20,
591 to 48,437 for Gov. McCord.
In past elections, Crump support
usually has meant a solid block of
40,000 to 60,000 votes from Shelby.
In Washington the American
Federation of Labor's political arm
called the results of two races in
Tennessee “gratifying."
Hails Nominations.
A statement by Joseph D. Keenan,
director of Labor's League for Po
litical Education, hailed with pleas
ure the Democratic nomination of
Mr. Kafauver for Senator and the
Republican renomination of Rep.
Phillips of the 1st District.
Senator McKellar of Memphis,
beneficiary of many a whopping
majority from the Crump organiza
tion in years past, confined his com
meiu mj:
"Three good Democrats were de-|
feated.”
He apparently referred to Gov.
McCord, Judge Mitchell and his col
league, Senator Stewart.
Guardsmen Patrol Towns
As Violence Subsides
* By the Associated Press
BENTON, Tenn., Aug. 7.—Nation- ;
al Guardsmen patrolled three towns
today as Polk County awaited offi
cial tabulation of voting that ap
parently ended the reign of another
long-entrenched political organiza
tion in Southeast Tennessee.
Troopers were ordered into the
county by Gov. Jim McCord yes
terday. Violence, beginning Thurs
day on county General Election
Day, previously had left two report
ed dead and five wounded.
Col. Dwight D. McReynolds, com
mander of the 279th Infantry Bat
talion of the Tennessee National
Guard, reported at midnight that
the arrival of Guardsmen and a
detachment of 30 highway patrol
men apparently had halted the
strife.
Citizens Warned Off Streets.
Jeepe equipped with public address
systems last night advised citizens
here and in Ducktown and Copper
hill to stay off the streets unless they
had specific business abroad.
Col. McReynolds ordered hardware
stores to lock up all guns and am
; munition in the three cities yester
day. Highway patrol and Guard
troops rounded up weapons and a
small arsenal of guns, rifles and sev
i eral sticks of dynamite piled up at
| the County Jail here.
Eight arrests were made by the
; highway patrolmen last night. State
'Safety Commissioner Lynn Bomar
said. He said the persons arrested,
[were charged with carrying con
cealed weapons but added that he
would place murder charges against
! three of the prisoners today. He
said the charges would be made in
; connection with "killings within the
| county” but declined to elaborate.
Polk County, like neighboring
McMinn County two years ago, this
; year has seen a bi-partisan group
seek to end the lengthy control of a
' Democratic political organization.
Guard Called Two Tear* Ago.
Guardsmen were ordered into
McMinn County two years ago when
I a group of veterans stormed the
County Jail and recovered boxes
i held by members of Paul Contrell's
! organization.
H. E. Barclay, Copperhill chair
man of the Polk County Good Gov
| ernment League, claimed a sweep
\ ing victory over the Burch Biggs
: organization after an unofficial
counting of votes yesterday.
He said the league, which includes
many veterans, had swept all county
offices except three Justice of peace
positions.
The Biggs group had controlled
the county for 18 years and fre
quently co-operated with the Mem
phis organization of E. H. Crump.
Violence had threatened several
times as the two political groups
jockeyed for advantage during past
months. Ballot boxes were brought
here from outlying towns under
heavy guard.
The shooting, which no official
spokesman has said was connected
with the election, began on election
day. One man was killed and an
other critically wounded when they
were fired on from ambush near i
; here. The body of another man,
shot in the back, was found near;
Ducktown early yesterday. Four!
! other persons were reported wounded
| in election night firing.
Stolen Material
Builds 8-Room
House for $600
■y tb« Associated Press
CHICAGO, Aug. 7.—Arthur A |
Hlavin built himself an eight-room
house for about *600.
Then he told a Federal judge
how he did it. He pleaded guilty 1
to charges of stealing a little ofj
i this and that while he was in
! charge of the Great Lakes Naval
Training Station's reclamation yard.
He was a civilian storekeeper there
from 1943 to 1947.
Prosecutor Robert C. Eardley
said Hlavin admitted taking 233
different types of material—in
cluding nails, used lumber, hinges,
screws, fittings, conduit, tools, elec
trical equipment, etc. Mr. Eardley
said Hlavin's only cash outlay was
about *600 for lumber.
Judge Philip L. Sulivan set Sep
tember 34 for disposition and re
leased Hlavin on $500 bond yes
terday.
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BENTON, TENN.—MARTIAL LAW IN TENNESSEE—National Guardsmen are pictured as they
unloaded yesterday after being called out by Gov. Jim McCord to prevent further violence In
Polk County’s general election. —AP Wirephoto.
Delay in USES Ouster
At White House Aide's
Suggestion Is Studied
The dismissal of two District em
ployment service officials, ordered
by the Civil Service Commission
and delayed at the suggestion of a
White House representative. 1s be
ing studied for possible action early
next week.
United States Employment Serv
ice Director Robert C. Goodwin said
today he had further investigation
to make in the cases of John Nicro
and Joseph Pariseau. chief place
ment officers in the Washington of
fices of USES.
Their dismissal was ordered by the
Civil Service Commission after their
failure to pass examinations, ac
cording to Harry B. Mitchell, Civil
Service commissioner.
He and Director Goodwin said
they had been approached in the
matter by Donald S. Dawson, ad
ministrative assistant at the White
House.
Mr. Dawson said his intervention
in the case is “strictly routine—the
same action I take in any case
where employes say they aren't get
ting a fair deal. I merely asked
that further investigation be made.” i
He denied reports that he inter
vened at the request of the Mary-'
land-District AFL Trades Council,
to which both employment officials
belong. Mr. Nicro is a member of
the Tile Setters and Terrazzo Work
ers’ Union and Mr. Pariseau is a
member of the Marble Polishers'
Union.
Truman
(Continued From First Page.l
other conveyances for disabled vet
erans.
Hundreds May Have to Wait.
The White House explained that
the regular session of Congress ap
propriated $1,500,000 for cars for
disabled veterans to meet the needs
through last June 30. But the reg
ular session also extended the time
in which veterans could apply for
cars until next June 30, without
providing extra funds. The White
House said that unless the $5,000.
000 is voted by the special session
hundreds of disabled veterans will
have to wait until the next Con
gress acts before they can get their
cars.
It estimated that about 3,450
eligible veterans will apply for cars
during the current fiscal year, and
said all available funds were obli
gated by July 31.
1 The $10,000,000 appropriation asked
!for the Treasury is to establish the
Housing Investment Insurance Fund
in the Federal Housing Administra
tion to provide equity Investment
aids to encourage construction of
i rental housing, the White House
said. The additional funds requested
for the Housing and Home Finance
Agency are for administrative ex
penses in carrying out provisions of
:the pending housing legislation.
Work of Two Praised.
In urging repeal of the Interior
Department Appropriation Act pro
vision the President, it is said,
designed to effect removal of the
Commissioner of Reclamation and
one of his regional directors because
they are not profession! engineers.
He said the two men "have vigor
ously enforced the reclamation law
and the public power policy of the
Government, and who in so doing
have incurred the wrath of power
ful special interests. That they
should be arbitrarily legislated out
of office is diametrically opposed to
the principles on which this Gov
ernment is founded.”
Mr. Truman charged that the os
tensible reason for removing the
two officials has no validity. "The
positions which they occupy are
primarily administrative in char
acter and do not necessarily require
a professional background,” he said.
Greeks Try fo Cut Last Link
Of Guerrillas With Albania
By th« Associated Press
ATHENS. Aug. 7—The Greek
Army pressed forward today on
the northeastern flank of the
Grammos front in a drive to sever
i the Communist guerrillas' last
major supply line from Albania.
This line runs along the Aliak
mon River through Sliminitsa.
A general staff spokesman con
firmed an earlier report that Mar
kos Vafiades, rebel chieftain, has
moved his headquarters and most
of his "provisional government” to
Nikolitsa in Albania.
The spokesman estimated that
Vaflades still has from 8,000 to
10,000 guerrillas in the mountains.
He predicted that another six
weeks will be needed to clean them
out.
Press dispatches quoted a cap
tured rebel battalion captain as
saying the guerrillas abandoned
several hundred dead. He was
quoted as' saying about 2,000 guer
rillas were wounded In recent fight
ing in the Grammos area. Many
will die because of a lack of medi
cal supplies, he said.
Tsung Yao Kuei, Chinese military
observer with the United Nations
special commission on the Balkans,
was wounded yesterday by guerrilla
gunfire during a rebel counterattack
mi Greek army units in the Nes
torion area of Macedonia, near
Nikolert ,
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Young on Vacation
Joseph Young and the Fed
eral Spotlight are on vacation.
The column will be resumed
August 24. The Federal Spot
light radio program will re
sume on Sunday, August 29,
over WMAL at 3:15 p.m.
O'Donoghue Estate
Valued at $268,00(1
Former Justice Daniel W. O'Don
oghue of District Court, who died at
his home, 2303 California street
N.W., on June 29, left an estate
valued at more than *268,000, It was
shown today in a petition for pro
bate of his will filed at District
Court,
The former justice, who was 71,
retired from the District Court
bench in October, 1946.
Under terms of his will, the bulk
of the estate is to be placed in
trust for his widow, Mrs. Agatha
T. O'Donoghue, who is to receive
the Income from the trust for life.
Upon Mrs. ODonoghue's death,
the estate is to be divided equally
among Justice ODonoghue's two
sons and two daughters, who are:
Daniel W. O'Donoghue, jr., attor
ney. of 5046 Sedgwick street N.W.;
Paul T. O’Donoghue, 2303 Califor
nia street N.W.. an attorney with
the Justice Department: Mrs.
Eleanor O’Donoghue Nealon\ 2308
California street N.W., and Sister
Mary Virginia O’Donoghue of the
Sisters of Charity, Baltimore.
The will named the two sons and
Mrs. Nealon as executors and
trustees.
The petition listed real estate at
$110,790 and personal property at
$147,283.
Danube
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ping from moving down the river
since shortly after the war ended.
This has kept nearly 700 Danubian
vessels—mostly barges—empty and
idle in the American occupation
zones of Austria and Germany.
Mr. Cannon also declared that as
long as the United States occupies
part of Germany it will have a re
sponsibility to represent German
: interests in Danubian affairs.
“Let us not forget the direct in
terest of the United States, which
: occupies a riparian position on the
Danube,” he said. "The German
sector of the Danube and the Ger
man Danube fleet are inseparably
connected with the problems of this
river.
“A Danube convention cannot ig
nore this important sector of the
river. Until a sovereign German
government is established and is
granted full participation in a Dan
ube regime, the United States will be
responsible for representing German
riparian interests.”
Mr. Cannon quoted Soviet Deputy
Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinslcy
as rejecting a large part of the
American proposals not only for
Russia but for the other six Com
munist states represented at the
conference.
“If that is the firm position,” Mr.
Cannon said, “it would mean that
it is almost useless for the confer
ence to go through the motion of
committee discussions. 1 feel sure
that Mr. Vishinsky did not mean
Just that. I am indeed ready to go
into committee and I truly hope
that all of us will in fact be willing
to hear each other and to seek some
area of agreement.”
Yesterday Mr. Vishinsky had
asked the conference to brush aside
American proposals and concen
trate Instead on the Soviet plan. He
also rejected a British proposal that
the International Court at The
Hague be asked to determine the
present validity of previous Danube
agreements.
Food Prices Likely to Rise
More in Next Few Months
By Associated Press
Retail food prices are likely to go
still higher during the next few
months, the Agriculture Department
said yesterday.
Meats and other livestock prod
ucts will lead the advance.
A department report on the na
tional food situation said two fac
tors appear likely to push prices
higher: (1) Record consumer buy
ing power, and (2) a decline in the
output of meats and other livestock
I products.
Because of the rising prices and
relative scarcity of some items, the
amount of food consumed by the
average person during the re
mainder of the year is expected to
be slightly below levels of the past I
two years. Nevertheless, the amount
will be high compared with prewar
averages, when there was less buying.
power.
Army Questioning 10
In Illegal PX Sales
iy the Associated Press
FRANKFURT, Germany, Aug. 7.
—The United States Army an
nounced today 10 persons are being
questioned in connection with al
! leged illegal sales of “large quanti
ties” of Army post exchange supplies.
The announcement, following
earlier reports of what had been
described unofficially as a "huge
j black market scandal." said one per
I son was found in possession of more
than $30,000.
Missing Ecuadorian Youth
Cashed $19,000 in Checks
Guillermo Granja, 20-vear-old son
of a wealthy Ecuadorian importer,
who has been missing since June
28, had cashed checks totaling $19,*
000 here and in New York prior to
his disappearance, police disclosed
today.
The youth, described as being 5
feet, 5 inches tall, weighing 120
pounds, with blue eyes and black
wavy hair, was first reported miss
ing by Attorney Allen M. Jones,
with whom he was to have trans
acted business for his- father.
The police report said Granja had
cashed a check for 15,000 at the
Chase National Bank in New York
and one for *14,000 at the Riggs
National Bank here. The money,
Mr. Jones said, was to have been
used to purchase a vessel from the
Maritime Commission for the im
porter.
Ricardo Granja, the father, still
at his home in Guayaquill. Ecuador,
fears foul play, police said.
U.N.
'Continued From First Page.i
tween Eastern and Western Eu
rope.’’
Inter-American agreements—”Re
gional arrangements can never be
a substitute for world organization,
but if they are kept carefully with
in the framework of the United
Nations and subordinate to it, as
the Charter provides, they can play
a most important role in the grad
ual strengthening of the structure
of peace.”
In assessing the part played by
the U. N. in recent world develop
ments, Mr. Lie declared the serious
ness of the East-West conflict
might have been greater without
the restraining Influence of the
U. N.
"I believe,” he said, "that we
should start by recognizing that
the United Nations has become the
chief fore* that holds the world to
gether against all the conflicting
strains and stresses that are pulling
it apart.”
At another point, he said:
"I submit that all that has hap
pened during the past year has
shewn more conclusively than ever
that the road laid out by the United
Nations Charter is not only the
right road, but the only road now
available to a permanently peace
ful world.”
10r000 See Mormon Fete
Revived on Hill Cumorah
ly th« Associated Pros*
PALMYRA, N. Y„ Aug. 7.—The
Pageant story of the Mormon
Church's belief in pre-Columbian
Christianity in America was un
folded last night before a throng
of 10.000 at wooded Hill Cumorah.
A cast of 125 young Mormon mis
sionaries presented in five scenes
the story of the burial and redis
covery of the golden tablets which
Joseph Smith said he translated
into the Book of Mormon.
Hill Cumorah. the site of Smith's
purported discovery, lies four miles
south of Palmyra.
The pageant, last presented in
1941, Is directed by Dr. Harold I.
Hansen, professor of speech and
dramatics at Utah State College.
It will be repeated tnioght. The
sponsoring organization is the
Eastern States Mission of the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter
Day Saints.
GIs May Entertain Women
In Reich Bachelor Quarters
ly tti* A»«<iat*d Pr«i
FRANKFURT. Aug. 7.—American
soldiers in Germany henceforth may
entertain women in bachelor
' quarters.
A European command directive
today rescinded a previous ban in
force since January, 1947, with the
exception that guests of the oppo
site sex still cannot be entertained
in Army barracks.
The new directive said:
“Since military and civilian per
sonnel in the European command
are representative of the United
States, good taste and the require
ments of the mission place on all
personnel a responsibility to con
duct themselves in a manner re
flecting favor upon the United
States.
"Consequently, two or more guests
should be present when members of
the opposite sex are entertained.”
Stasjen to Support Ball
For Re-election to Senate
•y **»• frtu
ST. PAUL, Minn.. Aug. 7 — Former
Gov. Harold E. Stassen says he will
support Senator Ball .Republican,
of Minnesota, for re-election.
Senator Ball, originally appointed
to the Senate by Mr. Stassen. was
in the disfavor of some party lead;
ers four years ago when he refuser
to support Oov. Dewey's candidate
for the presidency against Presi
dent Roosevelt.
Mayor Hubert Humphrey of Min
es polls and James Shields, former
National Labor Relations Board re
gional director, are the Democrats
Farmer Labor candidates for the
Senate. Republican opponents of
Senator Ball are Leona re Irene
Busaman of St. Paul and Earl Millet
of Aitkin.