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Bermuda Lashed by Hurricane;
140-Mile Winds Near Center;
All Ships Warned to Flee Path
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Storm Now Pointed
At Virginia Capes
Likely to Recurve
By th« Associated Press
MIAMI, Fla., Sept. 13.—Hurri
cane winds approaching 140-:
mile-an-hour velocity swept the
British island of Bermuda in the i
Atlantic today.
The Weather Bureau's storm
warning service at Miami said the
center of the severe hurricane was
only 65 miles southwest of Bermuda
at 11:15 a m. The storm was mov
ing north-northwestward.
"Winds at Bermuda have reached
hurricane force and will continue
to increase until the storm passes,"
forecasters reported.
"The center is expected to pass
40 to 60 miles west of Bermuda
during the next few hours.”
Expected to Recurve.
Although pointed in the general
direction of the Virginia Capes, the
storm is expected to recurve to the
north and northeast before any ef
fects are felt on the United States
coast, the storm warning service
stated.
The hurricane for the next 12
hours will sweep the busy coastal
shipping lanes with dangerous winds
and wild seas. Ships were ■warned
to avoid or flee its path. The re
curving movement was expected to
begin tonight.
Bermuda had braced for the blow.
Most residents of Bermuda stayed
at home. Buses stopped. Bakeries,
meat markets and liquor stores
opened briefly to enable customers
to stock up and then closed their
doors.
rower Lines Blown Down.
First reports from Hamilton, as
hurricane wind gusts up to 100 miles
an hour struck, told of power lines
being blown down and streets strewn
with fallen tree limbs. Heavy rain
whirled about in the shrilling wind.
The island began riding out the
first of the hurricane in midmorn
ing. The sea was heavy, but the
Eastern Steamships liner Evange
line rode snug in the harbor.
By noon, debris blocked main high
ways, roads were flooded and tele
phone service failed. Power failure!
at the big King Edw'ard Memorial!
Hospital caused attendants to use!
oil lamps. An emergency generator
supplied the operating room.
Radio Stations Silent.
Radio stations were silent.
Officials said damage already was
heavier than the $400,000 loss from
a hurricane a year ago. The winds
were stronger than those of last
year.
Advisory Issued.
The storm warning service s
Miami advisory said:
The hurricane was centered at
11:15 a.m. near Latitude 31.7 north.
Longitude 65.5 west or about 65
miles southwest of Bermuda. It is
now moving north-northwestward
at about 16 miles per hour. Winds
at Bermuda have reached hurricane
force and will continue to increase
until Jhe storm passes.
"Highest winds near storm center
are estimated at 140 miles per hour
and hurricane force winds extend r
about 60 miles from the center, j
Gales extend outward 200 miles to:
the north and east. The center isj
expected to pass about 40 to 60 miles;
west of Bermuda during next lew
hours. (Hurricane velocity is 75
miles an hour.)
"North north-westward movement
is expected to continue for the next
12 hours after which it is expected
(o turn to the north or northeast.
"All precautions should be con
tinued in the path of this severe
hurricane."
Navy Force Departs.
A Navy task force, including a
22.000-ton aircraft carrier and 12
-hips which arrived Friday on ma
neuvers, left Bermuda yesterday.
Planes at the United States Air'
F'orce base on the island were or
dered to the United States.
The United States naval operating
base at Bermuda removed boats
from exposed areas and tied down
all loose lumber. The British naval
dockyard took similar precautions.
Man Collapses, Dies
At Highway Hearing
William A. Dennison. 60, of 3937
Fourth street SE.. collapsed and
died todav in the boardroom of the
l
District building a moment after he
had finished testifying at a high
way hearing.
Mr Dennison, who told District
officials he was manager of an
apartment next to his Fourth street
address, had opposed the proposed
closing of an alley in the rear of
the apartments.
He had just returned to his seat
from the witness chair when he
collapsed.
A rescue squad responded, but Mr.
Dennison was pronounced dead by
Dr. M. G. Alper of Emergency Hos
pital. The body was removed to
the Morgue.
The highway hearing included 15
small cases and was completed in
another rom, shortly after Mr. Den
nison's death.
Officials at St. Elizabeths Hospi
tal said Mr. Dennison was an as
sistant foreman of laborers there.
A lifelong resident of Washington,
he was a member of the Congress
Heights Baptist Church and the
Naval Lodge of Masons, his wife
(aid.
In additioin to his widow, he is
survived by a son. Albert, of the
Fourth street address; a daughter,
Mrs. Geneva Garrett, 5494 Second
avenue, Forestnlle, Md., and two
grandchildren.
l’P IN THE AIR AT THE CAPITOL—This picture ought to prove
you never can tell what a woman photographer will do next.
Miss Marion Carpenter, a free lance, climbed up the ladder today
to take a shot of Warren Denison, general superintendent of a
firm now engaged in cleaning and painting the Capitol dome,
as Mr. Denison stood on the headdress of “Freedom.” Another
photographer was on the ledge at foot of the ladder. The top
of the 19-foot bronze statue is exactly 287 feet 5,72 inches above
the base line of the Capitol’s east front. This photo was taken
from the East Plaza. —Star Staff Photo.
Bernadotte Orders
Israel to Let Arabs
Return to 3 Towns
U. N. Mediator Also Tells
Jews to Rebuild Homes
Smashed During Truce
By the Associated Press
RHODES. Sept. 13.—Count
Folke Bernadotte ordered Israel
today to readmit Arab refugees
to three villages and to rebuild
their shattered homes. He said
8,000 Arabs were driven out and
their homes smashed by the
Israeli Army in violation of the
truce.
The villages are Ein Ghazal, Ijzim
md Jaba. south of Haifa, along the
Haifa-Tel Aviv highway.
Count Bernadette, the United Na
ions’ Palestine mediator, reported
o the Security Council that Jewish
forces attacked the three villages
July 18 at the beginning of the
iecond truce. The Arabs were forced
:o evacuate after a seven-day land
md air attack. Later. he said, the
Jewish forces destroyed the villages
>f Ein Ghazal and Jaba.
Count Bernadotte said his in
vestigators found 8.000 former vil
agers in the Jenin area. They
placed the number of killed ahd
nissing at about 130. Count Berna
dotte said "Arab allegations con
.erning the number killed and cap
.ured are enormously exaggerated.”
Count Bernadotte said he had in
formed Moshe Shertok. the Israeli
Foreign Minister, that:
•'Arab inhabitants of these vil
lages, who were forced to evacuate
hem subsequent to the commence
ment of the second truce, must be
allowed to return forthwith to re
side there in peace.
"The provisional government of
Israeli shall do everything possible
to rehabilitate the Arab inhabi
tants of the three villages, restoring
at its own expense all houses dam
aged or destroyed during or after
the attack, on the understanding
that this ruling shall in no way
be considered a precedent. * * *”
Count Bernadotte asserted the
Jews “could not be excused by the
~(See PALESTINE, Page A-4.)
Hacker, 35, Dies in Room;
Sleeping Tablets Found ,
Police today were investigating
the death of a taxicab driver who
was found unconscious this morning
by a fellow-roomer at a boarding
house in the 400 block of Delafield
place N.W. .
The man, Silas P. Heflin, 35, was
pronounced dead by Dr. James J.
McGuire, who responded in a
Health Department ambulance.
According to Detective Sergt
George Cook of the Homicide Squad
a half-empty bottle of sleeping tab
lets was found near the body. Other
residents at the house were said to
have told police that Mr. Heflin had
been using the tablets for the last
two years. Some 50 boxes of similar
tablets were found in his room
police reported.
Coroner A. Magruder MacDonald
said an autopsy would be performed
today. He said an analysis of the
tablets also would be made.
Communist Attempt
To Seize Berlin Seen
Alter U. S. Election
Newspaper Says Reds
In German Capital Have
Determined on 'X-Day'
By the Associated Press
BERLIN, Sept. 13.—A liberal
democratic newspaper here said
today “X day” for achieving
Communist seizure of Berlin has ■
been fixed for some time after
the November presidential elec- j
tions in the United States.
The newspaper Montagsecho as
serted the Russians have given Ger
man Communists orders to step up
riotous demonstrations to seize con
trol of the city because Moscow j
'wants no four-power settlement of
the 80-dav-old blockade crisis.
A high* informed source in Mos
cow' said* last night resumption of
four-pow'er talks there on the Bir
lin crisis is “quite likely” this week.
The informant made this prediction
after the return to the Russian
capital of Francois Seydoux, po
litical and diplomatic adviser to
Lt. Gen. Joseph Pierre Koenig,
French military governor in Ger
many. Mr. Seydoux left Moscow i
August 31 for Berlin, taking im-j
portant documents to the three j
Western military governors.
Riots and strikes Seen.
Until' "X-day.” Montagsecho said,
the Communists aim to “seize every
opportunity to promote riots, strikes
and demonstrations” to worsen the
local political situation.
The newspaper asserted the Com
munist hope the weather will inter
fere with the British-American air
lift that has been supplying Western
Berlin and that the Russians have
promised "to interfere with the air
supply shuttle by increasing their
own plane maneuvers over Berlin.”
Montagsecho said the date for
Communist seizure of control had
been fixed at a meeting of leaders
of the Communist-dominated Social
ist Unity Party <SEDi during the
past week. These leaders, the paper
said, convened after receiving in
structions from Soviet occupation
; chiefs.
' Montagsecho claimed the Com
munist goal now is a full break with
I parliamentary government and a
"people's democracy” in favor of es
tablishing a "dictatorship of the
proletariat." It predicted that "SED
will systematically seek with all
means to provoke the population,
elected government and democratic
parties. The aim is to strain the
nerves of Berliners to the utmost."
The newspaper said "high Soviet
occupation officials at Karlshorst
headquarters have openly told lead
ing SED functionaries that Russians
| do not want any agreement over
Berlin or Germany and that is why
They have employed delaying and
blocking tactics in talks at Moscow
and in Berlin.”
It added that the date for seizure
of control of Berlin had been fixed
for after the United States elections,
(See BERLIN. Page A-3.)
India Invades
From All Sides
Of Hyderabad
Declared Purpose
Is to Restore Order
In Princely State
By th« Associated Press
NEW DELHI, Sept. 13.—Indian
troops invaded the princely state
of Hyderabad from all four sides
today. The declare^} purpose was
to restore order.
The Indian government's first
communique tonight reported "steady
progress in all sectors."
The dominion soldiers, spearhead
ed with tanks and armored cars and
covered with air support, advanced
swiftly, mostly against negligible op
position, a government statement in
dicated.
A Madras dispatch said Indian
forces striking from the east ad
vanced 40 miles to within possibly
60 miles of Hyderabad City, the stat®
capital.
Indian planes operated over
Hyderabad all day against what the
Indian communique said were mili
Hyderabad Requests
U. N. to Take Up Its
Case Wednesday
By the Associated Press
PARIS, Sept. 13.—The fight
ing in Hyderabad was brought
to the attention of the United
Nations Security Council today
by«request of the state govern
ment, which suggested that the
Council members meet here
Wednesday.
The communication, dated
yesterday, cited the intentions
of India to invade the princely
state in the attack now under
way.
Hyderabad also wants to lake
its dispute with India before the
International Court of Justice.
The United Nations has made
public a letter from Zahir
Ahmed, secretary to the Hy
derabad government in the
Department of External Affairs,
asking to join the .court.
tary objectives. A Bombay dispatch
said Indian planes made two minor
raids on airdromes at Warangai
and Bidar, two important Hydera
bad towns.
The communique said Indian
casualties were “slight" and that
opposing forces suffered "serious
casualties” in the Aurengabad sector
in Northwest Hydrabad, where nine
prisoners were taken.
Predominantly Hindu.
India asserted disorder is rife in
Hyderabad and that the fabulously
rich Nizam had refused to disband
private armies such as the Razakars.
The state and dominion have been
at odds for months because the
Nizam, Gen. H. E. Sir Mir Osman
Ali Kahn, a Moslem, has refused to
accede to India.
About four out of five of the
16,338.534 people of the rich state
are Hindus. India has demanded
a plebiscite to determine the future
of Hyderabad. The state is the
size of Minnesota and in South Cen
tral India and surrounded by Indian
territory.
The invasion was launched within
48 hours of the death of Mahomed
Ali Jinnah. the founder of Pakistan
and the main force in the partition
~<3ee~HYDERABAD, Page A-4.)
Navy Plane Is Missing
With 'Important' Persons
By the Associated Press
OTTAWA, Sept. 13 —A United
States naval plane carrying five
persons, two of them classed as
“very important,” is missing be
tween Churchill, Man, and The Pas,
| the United States Embassy said
today.
Four aboard were American mili
tary personnel and one British.
Names were withheld until kin can
be notified.
The plane left Churchill yester
Iday morning for Ottawa and has
I not reported since. The Embassy
said the plane, a two-engined Naval
Beacbcraft, normally was based at
Ottawa and used by the Naval
Attache.
The Canadian Air Force is hunt
ing the bleak, open country of
Northern Manitoba. Churchill is
the joint services winter experi
mental base where several hundred
Canadian and about 100 American
troops are based.
Candy Plant Toll Now 13
CHICAGO. Sept. 13 (#).—'The
| death toll in last week's explosion
at the E. J. Brach Candy Co. rostf
| to 13 today with the death of Sam
\ Spina, 32, of Chicago.
Nancy Choremi Gets 3-Month
Suspended Term in Vice Case
By the Associated Press
NEW YORK, Sept. 13.—Beautiful
Nancy Fletcher Choremi, daughter
| of a United States career diplomat,
] received a suspended three-month
j sentence today on her conviction in
I connection with vice charges.
Similar suspended sentences were
| imposed on two other women tried
with the shapely 27-year-old
! brunette.
The two other women were Made
leine Blavier, 33, a native of Bel
gium. and Margaret Starr, 30,
daughter of a retired minister.
Magistrate Arthur Markewich,
who pronounced sentence, safd all
three defendants were intelligent,
and added:
“I don't think they need to have
any one stand over them with a
horsewhip.
"The problem of prostitution is
not solved in a criminal court. It
is a social, economic and moral
problem."
The three were convicted on
charges brought by police who wire
tapped phone conversations between
the women and men.
Mrs. Choremi is the mother of a
5-.vear-old son. Her husband ar
rived recently from North Africa.
She was found guilty on a charge of
loitering in her East Side Manhat
tan apartment for the purpose of
committing an act df prostitution.
Mrs. Starr was convicted of offer
ing to obtain Miss Blavier for a Park
avenue businessman for an act of
prostitution and of aiding Miss
Blavier in committing an immoral
act.
Miss Blavier was convicted of loi
tering for the purpose of prostitution
and of three other charges.
Since their conviction, July 8, the
three have been free in $2,500 bail
each
*
Not Always Conducive to Sleep
School Bells Ring for 114,000;
White High Rejects Negroes
District, 2 Counties
Begin Terms With
Classes Jammed
(Pictures on Page B-l.)
School bells rang out today
for some 114,000 boys and girls
in Washington, Montgomery
County and Arlington County.
Registration figures were not;
available immediately, but expected j
enrollments were; District, 83,000; j
Montgomery County, 21,000, and
Arlington County, 10,000. In each
case, an increase in enrollment over
last September was anticipated.
With these openings today, all
public schools in the Washington
area will be in session. Schools in
Prince Georges and Fairfax Counties
and in Alexandria opened last week.
Also opening today were the six
schools operated by the Seventh-day
Adventist Church in the Metropoli
tan Area.
Accurate Estimate Delayed.
In the District, uncertainty as to
how many non-resident students
will return to school now that they
must pay tuition prevented an ac
curate prediction of enrollment.
School Superintendent Hobart M.
Corning said enrollment probably
will exceed last year's total, but said
he could not be more definite than
that.
He did say that some 4,000 more
elementary children were expected
to enroll than last year, however.!
Evidence that enrollment in the
kindergarten and first grades was
on the increase was apparent at the
Logan Elementary School, Third
and G streets N.E., where halls
were jammed with parents trying to
enroll their children.
Mrs. Catherine L. Pinkett, princi
pal, said that it looked as if enroll
ment would go up to more than 900
before the day was over. Last year
it was about 700. The school elim
inated part-time classes last year,
but a return to the part-time ap
peared inevitable, Mrs. Pinkett said.
1,200 on Part-Time Last Year.
Logan was one of 18 elementary
schools which found enrollment this
morning so large that part-time
classes must be set-up.
Eleven other colored grade schools
were forced to hold part-time classes
last year. School officials were ex
pecting those 11 to be on part
time again this year, but said not
too much of an increase in part
time classes was expected in the
colored schools “right away.” Last
year more than 1,200 boys and girls
were on part time.
By the time registration is com
pleted, however, this picture may
change.
Last year, five white elementary
schools were on part time- Stanton
Elementary School is planning to
hold part-time classes in the first
grades because of increasing en
rollment to bring this total to six
this year. More than 1,600 children
i See SCHOOLSTPage-A-3.)
Millions Homeless in China
NANKING, Sept. 13 (-P). — The
Government Information Service
today reported the civil war and
floods on the Yellow. Yangtze and
other rivers had 55.000,000 homeless
in China.
Group in Arlington
Denied Admission to
Washington-Lee
Nine Negro parents today
sought unsuccessfully to enroll
their children in Arlington's
white Washington-Lee High
School.
Claude M. Richmond, principal,
received the attorney for the dele
gation in his office. Mr. Richmond
said Virginia laws and the State
constitution require segregation.
The attorney, James B. Cobb,
colored, of Washington, left the
office in less than 10 minutes and
departed with the delegation of
mothers, who had remained outside
the front entrance.
Mr. Cobo said a new request will be
made in Federal Court in Alexan
dria, for a mandamus to compel Ar
lington school officials to furnish
Negro children facilities equal to
those for white. Mr. Cobb said he
was associated with Leon Ransom,
colored Washington attorney, in
the suit of Constance Carter, col
ored, who last year sought ad mis
(See SEGREGATION, Page A-5.)
Reece Asserts Dewey
Has Good Chance of
Carrying Tennessee
Governor Looks to Maine
For Election Trend as
State Goes to Polls *
SENATE CONTEST Is Feature of
Maine Election Today. Page A-5
RUNOFF FIGHT Due to Be Settled
in Texas. Page A-2
G. O. P. DESERTS Nation’s Farmers.
New Truman Theme. Page A-2
By J. A. O'Leary
Star Staff Correspondent
ALBANY, Sept. 13.—Gov. Dew
ey was told today he has a good
chance of carrying Tennessee by
Carroll Reece, the Republican
candidate for the Senate in that
State this year against Demo
cratic Representative Kefauver.
Tennessee leaves the Democratic
fold only when there is a national
landslide, or other unusual situa
tion, such as the two-way split that
caused Henry Wallace to start the
Progressive Party, while the deep
South started an independent
States’.Rights movement.
Mr. Reece, former chairman of
the Republican National Committee,
was asked if he expected any sup
port in the Senate race from Mayor
Crump, Democratic leader of Mem
phis.
“That question has neither been
asked nor answered in Tennessee,”
Mr. Reece replied with a smile.
Must Have Some Help.
He conceded a few minutes later,
however, that to carry Tennessee
the Republicans either must win
over some Democratic voters or
benefit from a stay-at-home trend
among Democrats on Election Day.
Representative Kefauver won the
Democratic senatorial nomination
bv defeating not only the incumbent,
Senator Stewart, but also the candi
date backed by Mr. Crump.
Mr. Reece charged in a news con
ference here today that Mr. Ke
fauver has been following "radical
ideologies.”
Meanwhile, Gov. Dewey turned
one eye toward Maine today to see
if the figures in that State's early
general election bear out advance
predictions of a Republican trend
this year.
Size of Vote Important.
The rockribbed Pine Tree State
never departed from its Republican
moorings, even at the height of
Franklin D. Roosevelt’s popularity.
But the Dewey camp is awaiting
with interest the size of the vote
this year, because the margin of
victory might be a straw in the
wind as to how the rest of the
country will vote in November.
The old saying, “As Maine goes,
so goes the Nation," lost its mean
ing in the Roosevelt era. For 16
years the Nation went one way and
Maine went the other. This year
the G. O. P. high command hopes
(See DEWEY, Page A-4.)
Federal Raises Urged
By Truman as NFFE
Meets in Milwaukee
Message to Convention
Also Asks Abolition of
'Hit-or-Miss' Promotions
By Joseph Young
Star Staff Correspondent
MILWAUKEE, Wis„ Sept. 13.—
A revision of the Federal Pay
Classification Act “all along the
line” and a drastic improvement
of the Government’s “hit-or
miss” promotion system was
urged today by President Tru
man in a message to the open
ing convention session of the
National Federation of Federal
Employes.
More than 600 delegates, the
largest number ever to attend an
NITE convention in the union's
31-year history, heard NFFE Presi
dent Luther C. Steward read Mr.
Truman’s message.
The President declared: “We must
provide a higher salary ceiling than
that which prevails at the present
time ($10,330 a year). In my judg
ment, the salary range for career
civil servants should be extended
to approximately $15,000. Then ad
justments should be made all along
the line, designed to make it pos
sible for all employes to receive fair
compensation in terms of the pres
ent-day purchasing power of the
dollar.
"Certainly none of us can be
satisfied with the system which we
now follow in fixing the compensa
tion of our salaried employes,” Mr.
Truman added. "I have urged Con
gress to modernize the Classifica
tion Act of 1923. I shall continue
to do so. It is a job that needs to
be done if the management of the
Government is to be carried for
ward on a sound basis.”
Turning to the Government's pro
motion system, the President was
sharply critical of the present
methods.
“This (the promotional system)
is still handled on too much of a
hit-or-miss basis,” Mr. Truman
asserted.
“We must not develop a system
which will result in delays in the
carrying forward of the Govern
ment's business. At the same time,
we must have a system which will
reduce to a minimum the possibility
of the desires of those who seek
i power for selfish purposes being the
controlling factor in making pro
motions. It is just as important for
us to promote persons on the basis
of merit as it is for us to recruit
them on that basis in the first in
stance.”
Mr. Truman once again took oc
casion to praise the contributions of
Federal employes during the past
few years in imprtfgM Government
operation. ]|jP^t
"Those who hive been associated
with the Government during both
(See NFFETPage A-3.)
7 New Cases of Polio
Bring Total to 134
Seven new cases of infantile
paralysis were reported to the Dis
trict Health Department over the
| week end bringing to 134 the num
ber of polio victims to be treated
in hospitals here this year.
Seventy-seven of the patients
have been residents of the District
land the other 57 were admitted
from nearby Maryland and Virginia.
At this time last year, only eight
District cases and six from out of
town were reported.
Six of the new victims reported
today are District residents. !
Admitted to Gallinger Hospital
were:
A 26-year-old man of the 1900
block of Jackson street N.E., a 17
year-old colored girl of the 100
block of Logan place N.W.. an 11
vear-old colored girl of the 1300
block of L street S.E. and a 10-year
old boy of the 4400 block of Quarles
street N.E.
The other new cases, all at Chil
dren’s Hospital, the Health Depart
ment said, include a 5-year-old girl
of the 4500 block of Blue Plains drive,
S.W., admitted last Wednesday: a
4-year-dd colored boy of the 1600 ,
block of V street N.W., admitted
Fridayf and a 17-year-old girl of
the 8900 block of Seneca lane, Be-;
thesda, admitted Friday. I
Mrs. Patterson's
Daughter Sues
To Break Will
Countess Gizycka Says
Editor Was Coerced;
Was of Unsound Mind
Countess Felicia Gizycka.
daughter of Mrs. Eleanor Medill
Patterson, owner and publisher
of the Washington Times-Herald,
today attacked her mother’s will
in a petition filed in District
Court. ,
The petition asserted that Mrs.
Patterson was not “of sound mind
and memory or in any respect ca
pable of making a will" at the time
she signed it.
The petition also charged Mrs.
Patterson's signature was obtained
"by the undue influence, duress and
coercion exercised upon her by some
j person or persons unknown to the
petitioner” and that such persons
also were guilty of "fraud and
deceit.”
Bequeathed Life Income.
Countess Gizycka. who was be
queathed most of Mrs. Patterson's
personal effects, a substantial
amount of real estate and a life
income of $25,000 a year, asked that
the will "may be refused probate
and that the decedent be decreed
to have died intestate."
If the petition was granted,
Countess Gizyka, as sole heir at
law, would receive the entire estate.
The bequests in the will, including
that which left the newspaper to
seven executives, would be voided.
The petition was signed by
Countess Gizycka, a resident of
New York, and was filed on her be
half by Randolph E. Paul and Lloyd
K. Garrison, who have offices there
and at 1614 I street N.W., and bjr
Harold A. Kertz, of the law firm
of Roberts & Mclnniss, with of
fices in the Transportation Building.
French Ministers Told
To Remain in Paris
By the Associated Press
PARIS, Sept. 13.—The new coali
tion French government, faced with
a growing economic crisis, has for
bidden its cabinet ministers to leave
Paris during the next two months.
The cabinet, formed Saturday
night by Radical Socialist (Conserv
ative) Henri Queuille, held an urg
ent meeting yesterday and sched
uled two more on economic prob
lems for tomorrow and Wednesday.
In addition Mr. Queuille ordered key
ministers dealing with economic af
fairs to draft measures today for
dealing with Increasing inflation
and to stabilize wages and prices.
These drafts will be approved by
the full cabinet before being sub
mitted to the National Assembly.
Meanwhile, Gen. Charles De
Gaulle told a crowd of his followers
at Cannes, on the Riviera, that
‘‘France finds itself In a state of
having its affairs conducted in an
Incapable manner." Gen. De Gaulle
is waging a campaign in the prov
inces for new national elections.
2 Finnish Editors Charged
After Zhdanov Speculations
By th« Associated Press
HELSINKI. Finland, Sept. 13.—
Two Finnish editors were arraigned
today on charges they published
articles casting suspicion on the
manner of Andrei A. Zhdanov’s
death.
They were charged, on orders
from President Juho K. Paasikivi,
with printing stories, under a Stock
holm dateline, speculating as to
whether Prime Minister Stalin
might have had a hand in the death
of Mr. Zhdanov, Politburo member
and Mr. Stalin's right-hand ' man,
who died in Moscow August 31.
(Official reports in Moscow at the
time said Zhdanov died of heart
trouble and allied ailments.)
The papers. Kesklsuomalainen
and Karjalana Maa, are both organs
of the Agrarian Party.
2 U. S. Jet Fighters Crash
In Germany, Third Missing
By th« Associated Press
FRANKFURT, Germany, Sept.
13.—Two American F-80 jet fighter
planes crashed today near Kauf
beuren while en route to England
to take part in “Battle of Britain**
Day Wednesday.
Another F-80 Jet is missing, the
United. States Air Force headquar
ters announced.
Pilots of both the crashed planes
were believed to have been killed.
The cause of the mishaps was un
determined.
All three planes had taken off
in a formation of eight from the
Fuerstenfeldbruck air base in
Bavaria. The other five were re
ported to have landed safely at
Manston. England.
Sunny, Near-90 Weather
Due Today, Tomorrow
The Weather Bureau predicted
temperatures near 90 degrees for
Washington today and tomorrow,
with a return to cooler weather In
prospect by Wednesday.
The forecast for today called for
continued sunshine. Tonight will be
clear, with a low of about 65 degrees,
and tomorrow will be partly cloudy,
with temperatures in the upper 80s,
the bureau said.
Yesterday’s high temperature was
86 degrees at 4:14 p.m. and the low
today was 63 at 7:43 a.m.
Bulletin
Kaiser-Frazer Sues Otis
DETROIT (*">.—Kaiser - Fraaer
Corp. filed a counterclaim in
Federal court today asking
$38,552,118 in damages from
Otis Jc Co., a Cleveland invest*
ment bouse.