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G. 0. P. Double-Cross
Of Nation's Farmers,
New Truman Charge
President Truman today was pol
ishing up another weapon for his
war on the Eightieth Congress—the
charge that the GOP had "double
crossed” the farmers.
Preparing for his second invasion
of the farm belt Saturday, when he
speaks at the national plowing con
test at Dexter, Iowa, the President's
new'est strategy seemingly was
tipped off last night when National
Chairman McGrath declared in a
statement that the Republicans had
hamstrung the price-support pro
gram by denying funds to the Com
modity Credit Corp. to increase its
storage facilities.
This meant, the Rhode Island
Senator said, that the CCC—which
buys farmers’ surplus crops or makes
loans on them to support prices—
would have to sell these crops about
as quickly as it got them.
Charges GOP Welshed.
"If the CCC has to flood the
market with crops, prices will be
forced down, together with price
supports, and many of the major
purposes of the support program
would be lost,” Senator McGrath
continued.
“Why did the Republican Con
gress slap farmers in the face this
way?" he asked. “The GOP welshed
on its parity promises under presure
from American grain interests—an
other of the special interests that
controlled the Republican reins dur
ing the ‘do nothing' Eightieth Con
gress.”
Along with this line of attack,
the President is expected also to take
Congress to task for failing to act
on the long-range agricultural pro
gram he urged unsuccessfully at
both the regular and special sessions.
Mr. Truman did some spade work
on his speaking program which will I
carry him to the Coast, in a week
end aboard the yacht Williamsburg.
He returned to the Capital late yes
terday.
May Speak in Arkansas.
The possibility that President
Truman might speak in Little Rock
developed today when he told a
group headed by former Gov. Carl
E. Bailey of Arkansas that he would
see if his schedule could be re
arranged to permit attendance at
the Arkansas livestock show, which
runs from October 4 to October 10.
The President's tentative plans
call for his return to Washington
October 1.
Accompanying Mr. Bailey to the
President's office were Secretary of
the Treasury Snyder and Leslie
Biffle, secretary to the Senate
minority, and Judge Bolon Turner,
of the United States Tax Court,
all natives of Arkansas.
Henry Wallace also got in the
farm act over the week end, when
Progressive Party headquarters
confer in Chicago with farm lead
ers tomorrow and Wednesday. He
speaks in Chicago tomorrow night.
Dewey’s Silence Hit.
In other developments. Postmas
ter General Donaldson went before
a Democratic outing in Providence,
R. I., to put in a plug for the Tru
man-Barkley ticket and Senator
Green of Rhode Island, who seeks
re-election, and the CIO news
gibed that the Republican labor
speech in Detroit Tuesday was left
to Harold E. Stassen "perhaps be
cause Dewey has little hope that
the Republicans will win any sub
stantial number of votes from union
members.”
The paper observed that “the
silent Mr. Dewey” has bfen “quiet
on a dozen major issues during the
past year or more." President Tru
man, it said, “went down the line”
in his Detroit Labor Day speech
“for the type of program indorsed
by the CIO.”
U. S. Firm Gets Patent Right
On British Jet Engine Steel
By th« Associated Press
Lebanon Steel Foundry of Leba
non, Pa., has acquired patent rights
for casting heat-resistant steel al
loys used in jet engines from Firth
Vickers Stainless Steels, Ltd., Shef
field. England.
William H. Worrilow, Lebanon
Steel president, announced the deal
in a statement issued yesterday. He
said the arrangement makes the
newest techniques of permanent
mold centrifugal casting available
tc American industry now engaged
m expanding for a $500,000,000 air
craft engine program.
Weather Report
District of Columbia—Sunny and
quite warm with high near 90 this
afternoon. Clear tonight with low
about 65. Tomorrow mostly sunny
with high about 88.
Maryland and Virginia—Fair to
night and tomorrow with not much
change in temperature.
Wind velocity. 3 miles per hour;
direction, northeast.
District Medical Society ragweed
nollen count for 24 hours ending
g nn„ September 13—30 grains per
cubic yard of air.
River Report.
<From United States Engineers ' _
Potomac River clear at Harpers Ferry
ud at Great Falls: Shenandoah clear at
Harpers Ferry
Humidity.
Yesterday. Pet Today— Pr'4
Noon - So.
4 p.m. 43 6 a .ip
i p.m 61 1:30 p.m. - 51
High and Low for Yesterday.
High. 66 at 4 14 p.m.
Low. 59. a* 6:56 am.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest, 99. on August *27.
Lowest. 5. on January 26.
Tide Tables.
(Furnished by United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey.)
Today. Tomorrow.;
High 5:01 am 6:01 p.m.
Low .. 12:10p.m. '
High 5:35 pm. 6:36 p.m.
Low _ _ 12:22 p.m. |
The Sub and Moon.
Rises. Sets
Sun. today -- 7:‘20
Sun tomorrow 6.46 „
Moon today 5:26 pm 1 50 a.m
™'Automobile lights muat be turned on
one-halt hour alter sunset.
precipitation.
Monthly precipitation in inches in the
Capital (current month to date):
Month. 1948. Ave Record, i
January -4.57 o.55 (.83 ,«•
Pebruary_1 6. 3.37 6.84 84
March 3.66 3.76 8.84 '91 !
torll _ 3 05 3.77 9.13 '891
April - 8g7 3.70 10.69 891
June-II—- 5.78 4.13 10.94 00
August"';:'—— »:oo 4.61 14:41 78
September —- 1-S» ^ £
- 2.37 8.69 89
December --- ... 3.32 7.56 01
Temperatures In Various Cities.
H L. H L
Aibubueroue 89 ^ «j &
h'AC'ly ?? IS SE ?&“* M
Chicago"- 8» «5 Omaha __ 88 59
Cincinnati - - 87 60 Phoenix ..104 . >.
KtroTt - 88 67 Pittsburgh 86 no I
Cl Pain “ 97 64 St. Louis 91
ftaineton 7 83 7 3 Salt Lake C. 86 '■<'
vferlaburg" 87 64 San Antonio 87 11
Indianapolis' 86 58 San Fr cisco «9 5"
Sunsas Sty 88 60 Seattle 75 56
Vau Angeles 93 . Tamp*.—— 89
feSSiSTu'e - 89 59
U. S. Strategy in Event of Attack
Outlined in Secret Report
ly tht Astocio(*d Pres*
How would the United States wage
the initial phase of a war if the
political-diplomatic argument with
Russia should give way to shooting
by the Soviet?
The military high command, head
ed by Defense Secretary Forrestal,
gave its answer to Secretary of State
Marshall in a super-secret meeting
at die Pentagon within recent days.
There was no official announcement
of what the American 'diplomatic
chief was told, other than that he
was given an accounting of the
United States military position.
What is that position with rela
tion to the reported military capa
bilities of Russia, her satellites
and the armed resources of those
European Nations that might oppose
a Russian march to the West? On
the basis cf available information,
the picture is something like this:
Soviet Russia, with a population
of more than 211,000,000. has a vast
reservoir of manpower for land
armies. Official estimates in Wash
ington indicate the current existence
of approximately 175 divisions of
Russian ground force and security
troops. These total 3,000,000 men
(2,600.000 regular army, the balance
the MVD security troops.) The last
report (and this was months ago)
was that 43 divisions of 588.400 men
were in the occupied areas, with
another 56 divisions of 1.114,000 In
Western Russia.
4 Million in Critical Areas.
Eight Soviet satellite states are
supposed to have a total of about
100 divisions of 1.121.600 men. That’s
a grand total of 4.121.600 men in 274
divisions deployed at or near the
point at which war conceivably
might start,
A little less than 100,000 United
States troop6 and only one combat
division face the Russians in Europe
—about 96.000 in the United States
zone of Germany. In addition there
are 5,000 in Trieste.
Back in the United States are
about 285.000 soldiers, only 54,000 of
them actual "mobile striking force”
troops who could be hurried to Eur
ope as support or replacements.
Other troops are pinned down to
occupation duty in Japan or Garri
sons at offshore posts of the
United States. The total Army
manpower of the United States with
its population of 145,000.000 is
about 579,000. Its goal by next June
is 837,000.
Britain Has 534,000 in Army.
Unofficial estimates place the
Army of the United Kingdom at
about 534,000 men. The population
reserve on which Britain could
draw is about 48.000.000. *< These
figures do not include the British
Commonwealth Nations outside the
Isles.)
The same unofficial estimates give
these ground troop figures for some
of the other Western European na
tions which might support a battle
against Soviet aggression: France,
500,000: Belgium, 60.000; The Neth
erlands 175.000: Norway, 15,000;
Denmaik. 24,000: Sweden, 57,500:
Greece. 165.000.
Looking on these comparisons of
land army power, there is one school
of military thought that contends:
it would be utterly unwise for thei
United States to allow itself to;
grapple with the massive weight of j
the Soviet armies in the first stage
of a war.
Delaying Action Is Strategy.
This theory was pointed up by the
recent three-day mock-war maneu
vers staged by some of the United
States forces in Germany. Maj.
Gen. Frank Milburn, commander of
Ha* 1st Infantry Division, summed
ff'tio this way:
“In the next way; if we get hopped
on. we will not have air and 'artil
lery superiority, ao every one must
go on the assumption that * • * we
must dig in. camouflage and fight
a delaying action.”
What then is the relative airpower
status?
Here the balance may be in favor
of the United States and its friends
—or may be not. The size and
capability of the United States Air
Force arid the Navy’s air arm are
pretty well known. But Russian
air power is guessed at, even in
some of the best military intelli
gence circles.
The figure most commonly men
tioned for Russia is a force of 14,000
planes. Fighters predominate, with
several hundred modern jets already
in operation. But the Russians re
portedly are building their own long
distance bomber fleet. Air Secre
tary Symington has estimated it
would be possible for the Russians
to build at least 1,000 big bombers,
copied after our B-29s. during this
year. *
2.000 B-29s in Reserve.
For its part, the United States Air
Force has about 800 B-29s in operat
i ing condition and between 1,500 and
j 2,000 in reserve. The total of fight
■ ers is not revealed, although it is
known that more than 1,000 of them
are high-speed jets, with a large
number of World War II standard
engined planes still in use or in re
serve.
The United States Navy has about
10,500 planes, many based on far
roaming carriers.
Since the balance of air power
may be equal or slightly In favor of
the United States, the indication is
that the outset of war would follow
somewhat the pattern of the open
ing years of World War II for the
United States—air attack while the
ground armies build up.
But in an air war aimed at
destruction df Russian economy and
in which bombers of the B-29 or
B-50 type are used to carry con
ventional or atomic bombs against
Russian cities, the United States;
must take into consideration the
unknown factor of the Russian jet
fighter force. How, big the force
and how fast its planes would be
of major concern to the compara
tively slow bombers.
Underseas Threat Stressed.
The Russian jet fighter fleet is:
understood to include the Yak 15,
believed to operate in the 500-mile
an-hour class; the Mikoyan. a new
design single-engined jet and the
more generally known Mig 7, prob
ably having some of the perform
ance and appearance of the German
ME 262 which appeared late in
World War II. The Russians are
believed to have hired or seized a
number of German jet designers.
At sea, the threat of Russia would
be undersea rather than on the
surface. With a surface fleet that
is considered relatively insignificant,
the Russians have turned their
major attention to submarines—
aided by late model German U
boats which they captured and sub
marine designing skill they kid
napped. Some authorities estimate
Russia has more ultra-modern sub
marines in operation now than the
German admiralty had at the peak
of its war effort. That number was
in the hundreds.
United states sea power stacks up
this way: About 280 combatant ships
in service, about 1.800 in the re
serve fleet—by far the greatest
naval force possessed by any power.
The United States fleet is heavy on
carriers; the Russian fleet has a
negligible number. And the Ameri
can Navy also is giving major at
tention to modernizing its own
sizeable force of submersibles.
Mass Tests Planned
To Find Best Ways
To Detect Cancer
The National Cancer Institute will
sponsor mass tryouts of tests used
to detect cancer in order to find
which are the most effective, insti
tute officials announced today.
Dr. J. R. Weller, director, said
the first step will be for public
health scientists and those at a co
operating medical school and hos
pital to determine "which of the
many reported diagnostic tests for
cancer are dependable and simple
enough for widespread use."
Tests that show promise in labora
tories first will be used on a small
group of patients who already have
been studied thoroughly. Then. Dr.
Weller said, the most promising will
be applied to "thousands of persons
with and without cancer."
The mass tryouts will be central
ized at the Public Health Service
center at Hot Springs, Ark., which
already has a well-developed cancer
detection unit.
"If every new cancer were diag
nosed early," Dr. Heller said, “mod
ern therapy could save about two
thirds of all cancer patients, or
twice the number saved now. Even
if the cause and cure were unex
pectedly found tomorrow, there
would still be need for effective
diagnostic tests”
Dr. Heller said the preliminary
steps will be carried out in con-t
junction with the University of
Washington at Seattle. After the
validity of certain tests are estab
lished more firmly, through use at
Hot Springs, similar studies may be
made in other areas, he said.
Advisory Group Meets
On VA Medical Care
A special 19-member Advisory
Committee to the Veterans’ Admin
istration opened a one-day meeting
here today to discuss problems of
medical care for former servicemen.
The group, headed by Dr. Charles
Mayo of Rochester’s Mayo Clinic,
meets every six months. Members,
representing the various specialty
fields of medicine, include Dr. A. C
Christie of Washington, consultant
on radiology, and Dr. Claude C
Coleman of the Medical School of
Virginia, consultant on neurological
surgery.
VA was represented in the discus
sion by Dr. Adrian Freer, acting
medical director. Dr. Paul B. Mag
nuson. medical chief of the agency,
is in Europe to attend several inter
national medical Conferences.
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Truck Owners to Sue
New York Strikers
Today for 3 Millions
ly th* Associated Press
NEW YORK, Sept. 13.—A $3,
000,000 damage suit will be filed
today in Federal Court against
a striking AFL Teamsters’ Union
local by New York City’s largest
truck operators, an employers’
spokesman has announced.
Joseph M. Adelizzi. spokesman for
the five biggest truck owner asso
ciations, said last night the Em-1
ployers' Labor Committee will sue
Local 807 of the AFL International
Brotherhood of Teamsters.
The suit will be based on allega
tions that the local has refused to |
bargain collectively with the truck j
owners and thus has violated thej
National Labor Relations Act.
Employ 78 Per Cent of Workers.
The five associations employ 70
per cent of Local 807’s 9.400 mem
bers, who walked out a week ago
last Wednesday in a contract dis
pute.
Mr. Adelizzi said the owner groups
also would bring action before the
National Labor Relations Board in
an effort to compel Local 807 to
bargain.
The NLRB already has under con
sideration charges of unfair labor
practices lodged against the union
last week by the employers under
the Taft-Hartiey Act. The employ
ers charged striking drivers coerced
and intimidated nonstriking truck
men.
Truck Owners Stand Firm.
The major truck owners are stand
ing firm against meeting Local 807's
compromise terms, including a wage
Increase of 17 Vi cents an hour and
a hospitalization plan paid for by
the employers. The major owners
voted Saturday night to reject the
17‘i-cent demand and to "stand
pat” on their offer of 15 cents.
Previous contracts, which expired
August 31, provided pay for a 40
hour week ranging from $53.90 for
helpers to $71.40 for trailer-truck
drivers. The union at first de
manded a pay increase of 50 cents
an hour in new contracts. It also
sought benefit fund provisions.
Mr. Adelizzi said last nigh{ he
expected 9.300 truckmen in New
York City and Northern New Jer
sey would return to work today
under 15-cent agreements. The 9,
100 belong to one New York City
local and three New Jersey locals,
and he said many of the members
have been off the job in what he
termed a sympathy walkout.
Franchot Tone to Share
In Father's $956,499 Estate
ly »h» Aisociotcd FVmi
NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y„ Sept. 13.
—Movie Actor Rranchot Tone; his
brother. F. Jerome Tone, jr„ and
his mother, Mrs. Gertrude F. Tone,
will share the net estate of $956,499
left by his father, the late Dr. Frank
J. Tone.
Dr. Tone, former president of the
Carborundum Co., died in 1944. The
decree settling the estate was signed
Saturday by Surrogate Judge John
S. Marsh.
The widow will receive one-third
of the estate in trust. The sons each
receive one-sixth outright plus the
receipts of a trust fund.
Woman Battles
Deer by Hanging
To Its Antlers
By tha Associated Brass
JARRETTOWN, Pa., Sept. 13.—A
22-year-old switchboard operator
saved herself from serious injury
by hanging on to the antlers of a
buck deer that had attacked her
while she was waiting for a bus on
a lonely road.
Theresa Rowe, who operates the
switchboard at the Huntingdon Val
ley Country Club, was standing
alone at a bus stop Saturday when
she saw the deer approach out of
a thick fog. lower its head and
charge her.
Grasping the animal's antlers,
the young woman held on for a
half hour, screaming for help. Her
cries finally were heard by Joseph
Weller, a farmhand, who ran to the
| scene with his employer, Russell
Megargee. The deer fled as the
men approached.
Miss Rowe, 105-pound daughter
of a golf instructor, was returned to
her home with a number of cuts and
: bruises.
Texas Parly Leaders
To Settle Stevenson,
Johnson Fight Today
By th« Asiociotcd Press
FORT WORTH, Tex., Sept. 13.—
The Texas Democratic Executive
Committee today faced the tough
task of deciding whether Lyndon B.
Johnson or Coke R. Stevenson re
ceived the most votes for United
States Senator in the August 28 run
off primary.
The usually routine job of adding
up the votes and certifying the
winner was complicated this time
by the narrow 162-vote margin given
Mr. Johnson in the last unofficial
tally and the charge by Mr. Steven-1
son that 202 votes from Jim Wells
County "were added to the poll list
several days after the polls closed.’’
All but one of these 202 votes
were for Mr. Johnson. Mr. Steven
son said. He told a press confer
ence he was prepared to offer the
committee proof that the returns
were not correct.
Suit Set for Trial.
While the Executive Committee
shouldered its vote-counting job,
lawyers for both Mr. Stevenson and
Mr. Johnson went to court in Alice,
Tex., where Mr. Johnson's suit to
bar a recount of Jim Wells County
votes was set for trial.
Mr. Johnson came here on the eve
of the crucial count declaring, "I
believe we received a majority, of
the votes cast on August 28 and I
believe the Executive Committee
will confirm this."
Interest in the Stevenson-John
son tussle took precedence over the
convention battle between pro
Truman Democrats and anti-Tru
man Democrats. That row be
came a sideshow for the moment
while most of the pre-convention
lobby talk centered on the possibility
of a floor fight Tuesday over the
Executive Committee’s report on
the vote count.
Mr. Johnson was asked at a press
conference whether he plans to
make such a fight if his victory
prediction fails to pan out.
"We have made no preparations
to fight it out anywhere,” Mr. John
son replied. “If I get the most votes
as tabulated by the committee, then
I want to be certified. If my op
ponent gets at least one more vote
than I do, then he should be cer
tified."
Mr. Stevenson said he was not
yet ready to say what he might do,
beyond appearing before the Execu
tive Committee. Asked for comment
on some contentions that the com
mittee has no power except to count
the votes as certified by county
Democratic chairmen, Mr. Steven
son said:
“The committee has the right to
go into anything that’s tainted with
fraud. I don’t agree with the argu
ment that the committee has no
authority to go into it.”
Strategy Undeveloped.
It appeared early today that the
final strategy in the fight for con
vention control by the loyalist or
pro-Truman faction, headed by
Robert W. Calvert, Executive Com
mittee chairman; Gov. Beauford H.
Jester and Floor Leader Byron
Skelton of Temple had not been
fully developed.
The Steering Committee met yes
terday. It was reliably Reported to
be at odds on several proposed
methods of trying to purge the con
vention and the presidential elec
tors named in May of any one who
favors the election of Gov. J. Strom
Thurmond of South Carolina as
President.
Minister, 86, Will Rejoin
Mills Bros. Circus Here
Troupers with Mills Bros. Three
Ring Circus will hold a reunion in
Washington tomorrow with their
86-year-old "sky pilot,” the Rev
■ Doc” Waddell, said to be the only
licensed minister traveling with the
big tops.
The circus, menagerie and horse
show, sponsored by the Cooley-Mc
Cullough Post, No. 22, American Le
gion, will stage performances at 2
p.m. and 8 p.m. tomorrow at the
show grounds near Benning Road
and Twenty-sixth street N.E.
The elderly Methodist minister
has been visiting his family at Co
lumbus, Ohio, to celebrate his birth
day, and will rejoin the show here.
the Legion po6t is sponsoring the
performances to raise money for its
hospital benefit fund.
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Wife Hurls 'No-Hitter' in Bar,
Then Strikes Out Before Judge
Mrs. Helen Haskell, 38, of 3513
Burns street S.E., tried out her
pitching arm in a Southeast tavern
last night, but it cost her 830 in
Municipal Court today.
She had gone to the Navy Yard
restaurant. 1100 Eighth street S.E.,
to demand that her husband.
Charles, return home. To enforce
her request, she created something
of an uproar by picking drinking
glasses from a nearby rack and
throwing them at nim.
Husband Charles ducked under a
table and Mrs. Haskell, after throw- j
ing 16 grasses and one beer bottle,!
scored no direct hits.
Judge Aubrey Pennell in District1
Court this morning, however, threw
three fast strikes, fining her *10
each on charges of being drunk,
disorderly conduct and destroying
private property. She admitted
each charge.
Gus Mamakos, proprietor of the
tavern, told the judge “people were
running all over the place' during
the bombardment and that there
was broken glass all over the floor.
Mrs. Haskell said she wanted to
pay for the glasses which Mr. Mam
akos said would cost her an addi
tional *3. The bedr bottle wasn't
mentioned.
Whethe'r Mr. Haskell went home
wasn’t reported, but he forfeited $5
on a disorderly conduct charge.
Crippled Girl, 14, Turned Over
To Red Authorities in Berlin
■y th« Auociatad Prm
BERLIN. Sept. 13.—A 14-year-old
crippled girl claimed by the Soviet
Union as a Soviet citizen has been
turned over to the Russian authori
ties on order of the United States
military commandant of Berlin. ,
A routine check today to inquire i
into the status of the case of Helena
Korlenko revealed she had been
transferred to the Russians from a
German hospital in the United
States sector of Berlin on Septem
ber 6. She is of Ukrainian parent
age.
The international refugee organi
zation said September 2, it had
asked the United States military
government to delay turning over
the girl to the Soviets pending an
investigation of the case.
Col. Frank Howley, Berlin mili
tary commandant who ordered the
girl released to the Soviets, said to
day that the IRO is not recognized
by the four-power government of
Berlin. He added that the girl was
turned over according to four-power
agreements that citizens of any of
the four powers must be returned
from any occupation sector on de
mand.
No Political Angles.
"There were no political angles
in this case, and, according to our
four-power agreements, there was
no Justification in holding her in
our sector," Col. Howley said.
He added that no announcement
\vas made of the decision to release
her to the Russians because "there
had been too much publicity about
the 'case already.”
The Korlenko case first came to
public attention when a Soviet
ambulance with a Russian doctor
appeared in the American sector
at a German hospital run by a
Catholic charity organization and
demanded her custody.
Investigation developed that the,
girl, crippled by infantile paralysis,!
had been in a German hospital in
the Soviet sector at the end of the
war. She had become separated*
from her parent and probably was
an orphan.
Because she was of the Roman
Catholic faith, a Catholic charity
organization took charge of her and
moved her to an American sector
german nursing home.
Believed Russian Subject.
Recently doctors decided an op
eration might overcome some of her
disabilities. German law provides
that if a minor has no known
parents the government must be
asked for perjnission before an op
eration can be performed.
Since she was presumed to be a
Russian subject, the hospital asked
Soviet authorities for permission to
perform the operation in a special
infantile paralysis hospital-In West
ern Berlin.
It was at this point the Soviets
demanded her custody as a Soviet
citizen.
This custody was at first refused
and the IRO undertook to locate
the girl's parents.
IRO headquarters In Bad K.Vi
sing en, American Zone of Germany,
said their records showed the in
vestigation had not been completed.
Since the child is now in Soviet
hands, it probably will be dropped.
Col. Howie? said he had been as
sured by Gen. Alexander Kotlkov,
Soviet Berlin Commander, that she
was receiving “adequate medical,
care.”
New Highway Section
Dedication Tonight
Formal dedication ceremonies of
the newly completed four-lane sec
tion of Eastern avenue between Lau
rel street in Takoma Park, Md., and
New Hampshire avenue N.E. will be
iheld tonight, sponsored by the Citi
zens’ Association of Takoma, D. C.
- The ceremonies will feature a pa
rade starting at 7:30 p.m. from
Third street and New Hampshire
avenue N.E., which will include an
tvuto caravan, the Washington Gas
Light Band and the Metropolitan
Police Band.
The new stretch of highway, which
has been open to traffic since early
summer, will be formally opened at
8 p.m. at ceremonies in the 6500
block of Eastern avenue' N.E. Among
the scheduled speakers are District
Commissioner Gordon R. Young.
Mayor John Post of Takoma Park
and W. C. Magathan, past president
of the citizens' association.
Charles H. Whitbeck, the present
president, will serve as master of
ceremonies and Dr. R. Paul Schear
rer of the Takoma Park Presbyte
rian Church will speak the invoca
tion.
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2 More Are Picked Up -
For Questioning in
Killing of Policeman
Two new suspects were picked up
by Alexandria police last night for
questioned in the death of Police
Pvt. Robert B. Harris, 33. a rookie
on the force who was shot early
Saturday. *
the latest suspects bring to 3#
the number of men questioned by
police. All but six have been re
leased.
Inspector Russell A. Hawes, chief
of detectives, admitted police do not
have a strong case as yet against
any of those being held. The entire
police department, of 75 men, has
been assigned to the case in an
attempt to solve the murder of tha
policeman who had been on the
force less than three weeks.
Suspect Carries Gun.
One of those picked up. Inspector
Hawes said, was Hudie Wrenn, 50,
colored, of Caroline County. Va . who
had a Japanese pistol and a 6-inch
dagger on his person. Wrenn was
picked up at King and Washington
streets within an hour after Pvt.
Harris was shot while making a
routine Inspection in the rear of
the Howard Johnson restaurant
about 2:45 a.m. Saturday.
Although the gun was not loaded,
police found ammunition in Wrenn's
pocket, but said an examination
showed the pistol had not been fired
recently. After questioning him in
the murder case, police charged
Wrenn with carrying concealed
weapons and the case was to go to
Police Court today.
The six being held prior to the
arrests of the two men last night
were being questioned becaus*
"they were the type capable of com
mitting the crime.'' Inspector Hawes
said, but there is no further evi
dence against them.
Contributions Received.
Meanwhile, several contribution*
have been received for the widow
and her 6-month-old son of Pvt.
Harris. The Alexandria radio sta
tioh broadcast spot announcements
for contributions for Mrs. Harris
and Inspector Hawes already has
received donations totaling *210.
Attempts will be made today to
co-ordinate all efforts into one bene
fit fund with civilians and a mem
ber of the police department serv
ing as trustees, he said. A number
of telephone calls have been re
ceived at police headquarters from
persons offering to help the slain
policeman's family.
Mrs. Harris left Saturday and the
policeman's body was sent Saturday
night to Yeatsviile, N. C., for fu
neral services.
Saudi Arbia formed a new Bureau
of Mines to exploit the country *
mineral wealth.
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