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Struggle Taking Place For Wallace Party Control, Tugwell Says ®y th# Associated Press BALTIMORE, Aug. 20.—The Bal timore Sun today said it had been told by a former Wallace-for-Presi dent leader that a “struggle” is tak ing place within the Progressive Party. It quoted Rexford Guy Tugwell, ex-Governor of Puerto Rico and chairman of the platform commit tee at the recent Progressive Party Convention in Philadelphia. "I hope its (the party’s) organiza tion and program will develop in a way that will permit those of us who are old-fashioned American progressives to go along with it,” he was quoted. The article, written by Washington Correspondent Howard Norton, said Mr. Tugwell expressed fear that ■’wrong people” might “get control” of the party. * Act Like Communists. Asked whether he referred to Communists, Mr. Tugwell was re ported to have replied: • I certainly don’t know whether they are Communists, but they act as though they are.” Mr. Tugwell said he had not de- i cided whether he would vote for Mr. Wallace in November, Mr. Norton wrote. Mr. Tugwell, quoted in a telephone interview from his Wilson, N. Y., home, said he is no longer “offi cially” connected with the Pro gressive Party and is not taking an active part in the campaign. “Big Row” at Convention. “But you were co-chairman of thej whole Wallace movement last; month • • Mr. Norton remarked ! He quoted Mr. Tugwell as re plying : “Oh. yes, but that was before the; convention.” ! “He tTugwell) said he didn't think It was any secret that ’we had a big row’ at Philadelphia, and that there is still a struggle going on between ’a certain group’ and •those of us who are simply pro gressives,' ” the Sun story said. __ 1 Berlin (Continued From First Page.! load of Russian troops preparing to withdraw after the raid. The soldiers saw him, and several left i the truck to give fchase. Mr. Bur-i roughs dodged into a crowd of Ger- j mans and scurried to the safety of1 the British sector. Soviet sector police, headed by Moscow - trained Paul Markgraf. have been seizing Western sector; police on sight since the split of the Berlin Police Department sev eral weeks ago. Markgraf has de clared his forces will not recognize sector boundaries in their opera-1 lions. Thus far the West has not struck back with any similar tactics. Col. Frank L. Howley, American commander in Berlin, described Markgarf's forces as criminals. De nouncing last night's raid at Pots damer Platz, he said Markgraf's forces had recently been expanded by 300 men imported from the sur rounding Soviet occupation zone. “The lawlessness indicated in yes terday’s activities in the Soviet sec tor is regrettable,” Col. Howley said, "but it is understandable that police in the Soviet sector are having difficulty maintaining law and order and maintaining the respect of the population in the face of the known criminal records of their leaders." Jeered on Withdrawal. The Russian zone police, riding in open trucks, were escorted in their raid today by Soviet army tommy gunners in American-made jeeps. There were jeers as they withdrew. Five minutes after they drove off, the square again was packed with a new group of black marketers and buyers. British forces converged on Pots damer Platz, where at least five Germans were injured late yesterday in a riot. Berliners yesterday stoned the Russian-controlled police, who responded with gunfire as they re treated. The American, Russian and British sectors of the blockaded city meet at the Potsdamer Platz. By the time five truckloads of British military police and soldiers arrived at the sector borders, the; Russians and their faction of the German police had corralled many Germans in the square. The arrested Germans were placed on trucks and hauled off to jail. There was no brush between Brit ish and Russian forces. The lieu tenant colonel commanding the Britons talked amiably with the Russian troop commander after the raid. Police Open Fire. The tension was greater last eve ning. Police opened fire when the crowd stoned them as they over- j stepped into the British and Ameri- j can parts of the square. Germans in the crowd yelled; "Communist pigs'’ at the police. It j was a question, however, whether I the shouters were sincere anti-1 Communists or just piqued black; marketers. Five hours after the smoke had cleared and the Soviet-sector police! had retreated, the black market! trade was going on as usual. Markgtaf said four of his po- j licemen were injured in the rioting.! He said his men fired 27 shots. \ Markgraf said the black market raids would continue. Soviet Flags Reported Burned. The incident yesterday was the! most serious since the Berlin police j force was split into two rival fac- j lions, one backed by the Russians I and the other by the Western Allies. The city was rife with uncon firmed rumors after the action died down. One German reported to Amer-! lean authorities that some demon-1 strators burned several Soviet flags in the shell of a ruined building. This could not be verified. Nor was there any confirmation of reports that there was one fatality in the skirmish. During the rioting British and American military police appeared on their sides of the square and Russian troops on their ground. They were not involved in the fight ing, however. In previous raids in the Pots damer Platz Russian soldiers or military police usually have been in volved. Western Diplomats Confer On Next Molotov Session MOSCOW. Aug. 20 OP.—Western power diplomatic envoys conferred this noon at the French Embassy. Their meeting -was believed to be preliminary to another important East-West conference at the Krem lin. American Ambassador Walter Be dell Smith and Frank Roberts, the ARRESTED IN BERLIN MELEE—This youth (center) was ar rested by a western Allied German policeman yesterday for allegedly stoning Russian-sponsored Berlin police in a melee that followed a raid on black market operators in Potsdamer Platz. —AP Wirephoto. (special British representative here, I conferred during the morning at the j American Embassy and then went to I the French Embassy to -see French Ambassador Yves Chataigneau. They were believed to be dis cussing what they would say to Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov at their next meeting with him con-; cerning the German situation. Their last conference, on Monday, was the longest of the six held to date, lasting three hours and 40; minutes. Informed observers be lieve they are getting down to bed rock and that the Western envoys soon may have another session with i Prime Minister Stalin. They saw him August 2. There are some Indications that the negotiations here are nearing a conclusion. None of the participants! has given any public hint as to how they are making out. The negotiations, aimed at thresh- j ing out East-West differences in i Berlin and perhaps in all of Ger-! many and Europe, began July 31. I Greenbelt (Continued From First Page.! artificial lake where fishing is per mitted, tennis courts, playgrounds, baseball field, and other recreational facilities — range up to $32.50 a month. 1 While intending to remove the income ceiling on tenant admis sions, PHA indicated there was no plan to scrap the “graded rent” sys tem under which rents are set oh the basis of the family income and family size. 1,500 On Waiting List. “The only qualification for ad missions in the future will be a place on the waiting list and vet eran status," a PHA spokesman said. At present, the development has a waiting list of about 1,500 names, it was said. In filing the new rent schedule with the rent control office for its action, a spokesman said, only a new set of maximum rents will be sought. “Maximum rents,” in the language governing operations of the Greenbelt development, are de fined as the highest rents chargeable to the highest-income families with the fewest children. Only a comparatively few people will be paying the maximum rents, the PHA spokesman explained. Percentage Figure Not Available. Owing to the system of graded rents, and to the numerous rent maxima based on differences in lo cation and size of dwellings, the present Greenbelt rent schedule is a difficult thing to explain in detail. Owing to this complexity, and to the factors involved in grading rents, PHA explained, no average percentage figure is available to indicate the rent rise contemplated above the present schedule. The only way to describe the rise, PHA said, would be to say that it is intended that maximum rents, as against actual graded rents payable, shall be comparable to those on similar privately-owned units. Maritime 'Continued Prom First Page.! week end work is 1 % times this or $2.62 Vi an hour. Under a Supreme Court decision of last June, work performed in j excess of 40 hours a week must be paid for at the rate of 1% times $2.62% or $3.93% an hour. NMU Official Predicts Long Fight Over Halls By the Associated Press NEW YORK. Aug. 20 — Extensive j court steps would be necessary for j the National Labor Relations Board! to enforce its ruling against thej CIO National Maritime Union’s | hiring halls on the Great Lakes, a union attorney says. Herman E. Cooper, newly appoint - ! ed general counsel of the NMU, said! yesterday the NLRB, in order to back up its ruling that union de mands for continuance of the hir-1 ing hall in the Lakes region are illegal, must take the following steps: NLRB members first must investi-1 gate to see whether the ruling is being obeyed, and then file an en ! forcement order in a Federal Court if they believe it isn’t. This would bring an appeal by the union to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals. If the board's decision was upheld there, the case would be taken to the Supreme Court. The whole process probably would take a year, Mr. Cooper said. Oak Hill _<Continued From First Page.! United States marshal in Alexan dria will be handed the order to carry out. The order directs the official to, take possession of the estate at 10 BRICK AND COAL IMMEDIATE DELIVERY • ALASKA • Cool & Brick Co. NA. 5885 CH. 7700 ^- d a.m. Monday and retain possession until 6 pm. the day of the sale, September 2. The property is to be maintained and kept “under sur veillance" of the marshal who was directed to open the premises for public inspection between the hours of 2 and 6 p.m., Eastern standard time, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thurs day, August 28 and September 1. Howard W. Smith, jr., of Alex andria and Edwin E. Garrett, Lees burg, are attorneys who were ap pointed by Judge Hutcheson as trus tees in the foreclosure action. The dates specified by the court for the estate to be open for inspection are the same as those previously ad vertised by the trustees, who also had set last Saturday, Monday and Tuesday as times the public could enter. Mr. Littleton, who lives alone in the 28-room mansion and cooks his own meals there, has been holding out against the sale in court fights lasting almost seven years. His wife died about 30 years ago. He has shown no signs of relenting since the recent order appointing the trustees and directing the sale, which is to settle liens held by David N. Rust, jr., and W. A. Metz ger. Mr. Garrett estimated the debts and court costs to be in excess of $200,000. The marshal, in taking possession, is authorized to obtain any assist ance necessary in carrying out the order. He is directed to prevent the owner or any one else from “interfering with the public inspection" of the estate and upon the occurence of any interference, intimidation or making of threats, the marshall is ; directed to bring Mr. Littleton be fore the court for further action. Draft (Continued From First Page.' tion or the possibility of "material | loss of effectiveness in such activity” are to be weighed in each instance. Dependents Defined. Family dependents as grounds for exemption include wives or children with whom a bonafide home rela tionship is maintained or kin as far removed as grandparents who might be subjected to “hardship and privation.” Divorced wives and illegitimate children are rated as dependents. The Class 4 registrants are those with previous service and sole sur viving son of a family which, lost one or more sons and daughters in the armed forces. Ordained ministers also are in this class. The regulations provide that Selective Service Boards must start mailing out classification question naires to single non-veteran draft registrants by September 7. Must Be Back in 10 Days. The questionnaires must be re-j turned in 10 days, and will be the basis for determination whether the registrant is to be deferred or in ducted. The questionnaires will go out in the order of birth dates—with the oldest first. Beginning September 30, the boards are to start mailing question naires to other registrants in the same fashion. Thereafter, the ques tionnaires will be mailed to each registrant as soon as he reaches 19. The 25-year-olds will be the first inducted. The Army expects to make its first call for about 15,000 men next week and have them in unitorm some time in November. May Appeal to Local Boards. Registrants desiring a change in classification have the right to ap pear before local boards, but must file written application for hearing within 10 days after receiving notice of classification. Appeals to special appeal boards and to the President also are pos sible. but a case may go to the President only from a State director or the director of selective service. A presidential appeal postpones in duction. The regulations are patterned after those of the wartime draft. Elephant Crop Guard To g\iard crops from elephants, a 20-mile electrified fence has been erected near Port Elizabeth, South Africa. New Yorkers Accused Of Attempt to Bribe Export License Office Two New York men today were under $2,500 bond each on a charge of bribery, following their arraign ment yesterday before United States Commissioner Cyril S. Lawrence here. The men, Orlando Lokpez, 27, and Louis Feldman, 41, were arrested Wednesday night by FBI agents near Forty-fifth and Van Ness streets N.W. Their case was con tinued to August 26. According to the FBI and a spokesman for the Office of Inter national Trade, Commerce Depart ment, Lokpez sought to bribe an official of the OIT with $2,000 to obtain an export license for several hundred tons of galvanized pipe to Venezuela. Bribe Offer Reported. The OIT spokesman said Lokpez previously had not been issued a license because he did not “appear to be a bona fide applicant.” Recently, it was said, when he ap plied again for a license, he was quoted as saying, “It would be worth a couple of thousand dollars for me to get the license.” The arrest was made, according to the spokesman, when Lokpez came with Feldman to the home of the official to pick up the license and turn over the $2,000. Feldman brought the money from New York, the spokesman said. Joint Inquiry Continues. Meanwhile, on Capitol Hill, two Senate committees are still pursuing a joint investigation of irregularities in the handling of export licenses. Raymond R. Dickey, chief counsel for the Senate Small Business Com mittee, said the probe is being con ducted jointly by a subcommittee of this group, and by the Ferguson subcommittee of this group, and by the Ferguson subcommittee of the Senate Expenditures Committee. Both units are working through their committee staffs on related problems of export licenses, it was explained. Already the Small Busi ness Committee has disclosed, the chief counsel said, that more than $1,000,000 worth of goods had been shipped abroad in excess of the legal quota. Inquires Into Quotas. The Small Business Committee Is probing the question of whether the Commerce Department's allowable quotas for export are “realistic’’ in view of the needs of domestic econ omy here. Furthermore, the com mittee wants to know how much goods are going out fraudulently, in excess of the legal quota. The Ferguson subcommittee, pri marily interested in the efficiency of governmental expenditures, already has aired the case of Wililam W. Remington, who headed a subcom mittee fixing policy on exports to Europe including Russia. Mr. Rem ington was charged by Miss Eliza beth T. Bentley, admitted former Russian spy, with being a contact ; through which she obtained infor mation for channelling to Russia. ! He has denied her charges. The joint investigation by the two committees now is in the hands of their staffs, Mr. Dickey explained, but will develop later into closed hearings. Public hearings are ex ■ pected. Leap • Continued Prom First Page.' Hillside, Md. Another son, Earl, 32. was killed in action in France. A witness to the leap, E. G. Her mann of 3443 Eads street N.E., said he was driving west on the Benning " ' .. We are still serving our famous FRIED CHICKEN and COUNTRY HAM DINNERS Sunday, 12:30 to 8 P.M. Mimslyn Hotel Luroy, Vo. WINS HIGHEST AWARD! Dr. Scholl's Foot Powder won the highest award—the confidence of millions, because it relieves tender, hot, perspiring feet and eases new or tight shoes so quickly, so gratefully. Try Dr. Scholl's Foot Powder. It’s really marvelous! / Special FIR FLOOR JOISTS Kiln Dry Reduced to 12% mois ture content. 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Mrs. Homiller said they had lived at the Fourteenth place address 32 years and recently had purchased a home in Capitol Heights, Md. Pay Raise Drive Launched As Phone Unions Confer •y the Associated Press A wage drive against the Bell Telephone System was launched offi cially today at a meeting of tele phone unions which claimed to represent 403,450 workers. The conference was sponsored jointly by the Communications Workers of America (CWA) which says its membership is 230,000, and the CIO’s Telephone Workers Or ganizing Committee, which says its membership is 100,000. Twelve smaller independent un ions whose members work for Bell system firms responded to the invi tation to collaborate in a Nation wide movement for a telephone wage raise. CWA and CIO spokesmen said it was the largest number of telephone workers that ever joined together in a wage drive. Prince Georges Schools Set New Pupil Rules Children entering Prince Georges County schools for the first time when classes open September 8 must have certificates for smallpox vaccinations and also diphtheria im munization, William S, Schmidt, assistant county school superintend ent, announced today. The new pupils also must be 6 years old before next January 1 to be eligible to enroll, Mfc Schmidt reported. They also must bring with them, on the first day, their birth certificates. Bandit Takes $40 * At Hotel; Case Linked To Drugstore Holdup A bandit answering the descrip tion of one who robbed the Peoples Drug Store at Eleventh and G streets N.W. of $2,000 early Monday made off with $40 early today after molding up a night clerk at the Belle vue Hotel, 15 E street N.W., police reported. Police said Vaiden B. Hogwood, 42, of 2701 Fourteenth street N.W., the night clerk, told them the holdup man appeared about 1:30 a.m. and inquired about a room. Then he announced, “This is a holdup.” It was not until after the intruder told the clerk to get the cash box that he displayed a gun, Mr. Hog-, wood was quoted as saying. When Mr. Hogwood placed the cash box in front of the bandit, the latter ordered him to remove a change compartment and then grabbed a sealed envelope containing the money, which belonged to a hotel guest, police said. The holdup man forced the clerk into a closet and left. Later, a guest returning to the hotel re ported he saV a man whose de scription fitted that of the bandit jump from the bushes in front of; the hotel and disappear in an alley,; according to the account. The man was described as about 25 years of age, 5 feet U inches tall, about 160 pounds in weight, with| black hair, and wearing a dark suit; and no hat. Mr. Hogwood noted in the in truder’s preliminary conversation the same polite demeanor which marked that of the bandit who fig ured in the Peoples Drug Store rob bery. 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Striking Jap Rail Men Threatened With Firing ly the Associated Press TOKYO, Aug. 20.—Transporta tion Minister Seiichi Okada today issued an ultimatum to 300 striking government railway workers on Hokkaido Island to return to work tomorrow or be discharged. Okada said the strikers, whom he accused of being led by Commu nists, had tied up 80,000 tons of freight and reduced train opera tions up to 15 per cent of normal. FOR A FULL NIGHTS SLEEP! NEW YORK NIGHT EXPRESS Standard Tima Lv. Washington .... 1.00 AM Ar. Jarsoy City Torm. 6.30 AM (Sleepers and Reclining Seat Coache* open at Union Station 9.30 PM. Lunch aerviee available after 10.00 PM. All car* may be occupied at Jeraey City Terminal until 7.50 AM.) For arrival time* at IS place* in New York and Brooklyn. Phone STerllag 8100 Bender Sayfe Democrats Have Lost Peace Twice By tt>« Associated Press BUFFALO, N. 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