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' 96th Year. No. 262.- phone STerling 5000 C„ SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1918-FORTY-FOUR PAGES. 5 CEKTS
Israel Acts to Capture Assassins
Of Bernadotte, Ordering Virtual
House Arrest for Jerusalem Jews
Bunche Puts Full
Blame for Killings
On Jewish State
BULLETIN
JERUSALEM i/P).—Responsi
bility for the killing of Count
Folke Bernadotte and his !
French aide is claimed by a
group signing itself "The
Fatherland Front” in Hebrew
notes slipped under the doors j
of consulates and Jewish liai- |
son offices last night.
By the Associated Press
The government of Israel acted,
today to ferret out the assassins j
of Count Folke Bernadotte,
United Nations Palestine medi
ator, and his French aide.
Dr. Ralph J. Bunche, acting U. N.
mediator, formally notified the new
Jewish state that it “must assume
full responsibility" for the slayings.
Foreign Minister Moshe Shertok ad
vised the U. N. that “Israel is adopt-,
ing the most vigorous and energetic
measures to bring the assassins to
justice and eradicate' evil" in Pal
estine.
The Israeli Army slapped a curfew
on Jerusalem's 90.000 Jews. Road
blocks were thrown up throughout
the Jewish section of the Holy City
and sound trucks admonished the
people to stay at home.
Military policemen were stationed
outside the American consulate and
others were ordered to accompany
and U. N. car in the city. The cur
few was the first ordered by the
Jpwish state since Israel proclaimed
herself a nation last May.
Breach ot truce c nargen.
Dr. Bunche sent a telegram to
Shertok, telling him the assassina
tion "constitutes a breach of truce
of the utmost gravity for which the
provisional government of Israeli
must assume full responsibility.”
Dr. Bunche said Mr. Shertok's
‘‘prejudicial and unfounded state
ments concerning truce supervision
which the Israeli official made at a
press conference September 16 "are
not the kind of statements which
would be calculated to discourage
reprehensible acts of this kind. ’
Eye witnesses of the shooting,
which occurred while a U. N. convoy
was moving through the Jewish
held Katamon district of Jerusalem,
said the act was done by "Jews
in Israeli Army uniforms.”
A Jewish liaison officer with
U N., who witnessed the assassina
tion of Count Bernadotte and
French Col. Andre Serrot. joined
police and American Consul General
John J. Macdonald in expressing
the belief the assailants were mem
bers of the Stern Gang, Jewish ex
tremists.
Three other persons in the car
with Count Bernadotte and Col
Serrot escaped injury. They were
Col. Frank Begley of New Haven.
Conn., and Comdr. William Cox of
Washington, both American observ
ers with U. N.. and Swedish Gen.
Aage Lundstroem, chief aide to
Count Bernadotte.
A meeting of the U. N. Security
Council is set for this afternoon to
consider the shooting.
Text of Telegram.
The text, of Dr. Bunche s telegram
to Israel follows:
“The murder in cold blood of
Count Bernadotte. United Nations
mediator for Palestine and of Col.
i Andre Pierrei Serrot in the Kata
mon Quarter of Jerusalem by Jewish
assailants is an outrage against the
international community and an un
speakable violation of elementary
morality.
“This tragic act occurred when
Count, Bernadotte, acting under the
authority of the United Nations, was
on an official tour of duty in Jeru
salem and in the presence of a liai
son officer assigned him by Jewish
authorities. His safety, therefore,
and that of his lieutenants under
ordinary rules of law and order, was
the responsibility of the provisional
government of Israel whose armed
forces and representatives control
and administer the area.
“This act constitutes a breach of
truce of the utmost gravity for
which the provisional government
of Israel must assume full responsi
bility.
In this connection I feel obliged
to record the view that prejudicial
and unfounded statements concern
i See BERN ADO TTE. Page A-3. >
New Terror Reported
In Red Zone of Reich
By the Associated Press
BERLIN. Sept. 18.—The Western
Berlin press said today that Com
munists were conducting a great
new wave of terror against non- i
Communists in the Soviet occupa- j
tion zone of Germany.
Socialist newspapers said promi-'
nent non-Communists were report-:
ed to have escaped to Western Ger-1
many in flight from what theyj
called “persecution by the Commu
nist dictatorship."
Among these were Friedrich
Schneider, a mpmber of the Thur
ingian provincial parliament rep
resenting the rightist Liberal Demo
cratic party, and the chief of Leip
zig's postal department. GustaL
Rothardt, a former Socialist.
In the eastern sector of Berlin
the Communists have been throw
ing out of public jobs hundreds of
non-Communist employes despite
protests by the elected city govern
ments. the accounts said.
The Socialist newspaper Telegraf
charged that this wave of dismis
sals w!as also followed by numerous
arrests and kirinapings “in which
the MVD (Soviet secret police» Is
employing the same tactics as the,
Nazj Gestapo."
I
Lie Places Palestine Question
Before Whole U. N. Membership
Shertok Pledges 'Vigorous and Energetic
Measures' to Bring Killers to Justice
By th« Associot«d Pres*
PARIS, Sept. 18.—Secretary
General Trygve Lie placed the
critical Palestine question be
fore the full membership of the
United Nations today.
Mr. Lie flew in from Norway and
found the U. N. in turmoil over the
assassination of Count Folke Berna
dotte, the U. N. mediator for Pales
tine.
He received a cable from the
■ Israeli government promising to
{stamp out the assassins.
The message, from Israeli For
eign Minister Moshe Shertok, said:
Outraged by the abominable
assassination of the United Nations
mediator, Count Bernadotte. and the
observer. Col. i Anton Pierre) Serrot
by desperadoes and outlaws who are
execrated by the entire people of
Israel and the Jewish community of
Jerusalem, the government of Israel
is adopting the most vigorous and
energetic measures to bring the
assassins to justice and eradicate
the evil."
Mr. Lie announced he placed the
Palestine situation on the agenda
of the 58-Nation Assembly conven
ing at the Palais de Chaillot Tues
day. This will have the effect of
bringing the assassination of Count
Bernadette before all the members
at the same time.
Mr. Lie expressed a “deep sense of
shock'’ over the mediator’s assassi
nation in Jerusalem.
“Thanks to his work, it has been
possible, up to now, to save many
thousands of lives." he said.
At the same time the secretary
general telegraphed the Count's
widow in Stockholm:
Please receive the very deepest
sympathy of my family and myself
in the tragic death of your fine
husband. We are all grateful to
him for the magnificent services
which he has performed on behalf
of the United Nations and are
heavily grieved that his contribu
tion to peace has cost him his life."
The United Nations went into
mourning for Count Bernadotte.
The Security Council meets this
afternoon to take up the assassina
(See U. N., Page A-2.1
Jews Silently Watch
Arrival in Haifa of
Bernadotfe's Body
Secretary Collapses in
Tears; Aide Who Escaped
Is Stricken by Grief
By the Associated Pres»
HAIFA. Palestine, Sept. IS.—
Somber Jewish crowds watched
silently as the bodies of assassi
nated Count Folke Bernadotte
and his French aide, Col. Andre
Pierre Serrot. arrived from Jeru
salem today in a procession of 20
United Nations automobiles.
A Swiss ambulance bearing the
bodies swung into a big hospital
courtyard. Count Bernadotte's
truce observers lined the wav. salut
ing. as the bodies were carried to a
laboratory for embalming.
Count Bernadotte's secretary, a
Swedish girl, collapsed in tears.
Aide Near Collapse.
Gen. Aage Lundstroem, his long
time comrade, seemed on the verge
of collapse. He, himself, missed
death by a hair's breadth when
Count Bernadotte fell on the field
where he labored for four months
for peace.
The bodies were lifted out gently.
The blue and gold colors of Sweden
| covered Count Bernadotte. His
broad-brimmed hat lay at his breast.
Col. Serrot's body was covered w'ith
the tricolor of France, topped by
his flying officer's cap.
Twenty-five U. N. truce observers
from American. Belgian and French
forces had lined the roadside at
Haifa limits and waited two hours
in the blazing sun for the funeral
ambulance to appear.
II. S. Consul Present.
At the head of the group was
Gen. Frank Stomer, U. S. A. 're
tired). French Col. Joseph Cardin
(retired), and Belgian Lt. Col. Mar
cel van Horen. The American con
sul Aubrey Lippincot. and the
French consul. Pierre Landv. both
stationed in Haifa, also were pres
ent.
The little gray figure of Swedish
Dr Paul Mohn stood at the head of
another group of mourners. He had
been one of Count Bernadotte’s
closest advisers in his tragic attempt
to work out a Palestine peace.
“It is unbelievable that a thing
like this should happen to a Swede
who was a great friend and benefac
tor of the Jews." Dr. Mohn said.
“It was Bernadotte who was in
strumental in rescuing thousands of
Jews from the Gestapo in Europe.
And he came here in a humanitarian
cause.’’
3 Western Envoys
Visit Molotov for
11th Conversation
American Air Lift to
Berlin Nears Record
As Planes Race Coal
By th« Associated Press
MOSCOW, Sept. 18.—The three
Western envoys met again today
with Soviet Foreign Minister
Molotov, the American' Embassy
announced.
It was the second time the repre
sentatives of the United States,
Britain and France had gone to the
Kremlin to see Mr. Molotov this
week and it was the 11th conversa
tion that the envoys have held with
him on the East-West differences
over Germany.
It was a dreary, rainy day in Mos
cow. The Moscow four-power nego
tiations now have been going on for
51 days and there is no result yet.
The three Western-diplomats last
saw Mr. Molotov September 14.
The meeting may be highly im
portant in the series of the talks
which have gone into their seventh
week in the Soviet capital. It was
reliably reported that one side is
expected to give what was described
as the answer to an important
question.
U. S. Approaches Record
In Air Lift to Berjin
BERLIN, Sept. IS OP).—The
Americans—racing coal Into Berlin
—neared a new air lift record today
as the Soviet blockade hit the three
month mark.
Concentration on the delivery of
coal was ordered as a demonstra
tion on the first anniversary of the
United States Air Force. It also
spelled an answer to Soviet threats
i See MOSCOW, Page A^tL) .
Sharp Fighting Reported
In Manchu City Suburbs
ly the Associated Presi
PEIPING. Sept. 18.—Sharp fight
ing was reported on the outskirts of
the Manchurian city of Ihsien today.
Communist forces had been shell
ing the town, 30 miles north of the
National base at Chinhsien, but late
reports said government troops had
captured or destroyed the Red ar
tillery.
Red forces, believed attempting to
isolate Chinhsien. which is being
used as an air lift base for Mukden,
have cut the railroad below Chin
hsien and the Great Wall.
Peiping reports today said the
Reds had captured the railroad town
of Peitaiho. which is near the fa
mous seaside resort of the same
name heavily patronized by Euro
peans living in Peiping, Tientsin
and other North China cities.
Dr. Bunche, Now U. N.'s Chief
In Palestine, Long at Howard U.
Narrow Escape From
Death Reported
At Lake Success
Dr. Ralph J. Bunche. who now'
speaks for the United Nations
in Palestine, is- the grandson of
an American slave and has been
on leave of absence from Howard
University here for one impor
tant Government job after an
other since 1941.
Dr. Bunche is a 44-year-old De
troit-born Washingtonian who at
tained one of the highest positions
ever occupied by a Negro in the
State Department before he was
made director of the United Na
tions Trusteeship Division soon after
its organization.
Since last December. Dr. Bunche
has been secretary of the United
Nations Palestine Commission and
as such was chief aide to Count
Foike Bernadotte. U. N. mediator
who was assassinated yesterday.
With Count Bernadotte’• death, |
DR. RALPH J. BUNCHE.
—AP Wirephoto.
Dr. Bunche took over as acting
mediator. It was announced in
Lake Success that he has been giv
(See BUNCHE, Page A-4.)
» t
Two B-29s Arrive
From Munich at
Air Force Show
Boiling Base Crowd
Witnesses Ending of
4,219-Mile Flight
Thousands of persons flocked
to Bolling Air Force Base today
to watch two B-29s drop down
from the skies at the end of a
nonstop flight from Germany to
mark Air Force Day.
The arrival of the big bombers at
the end of a 4.219-mile flight from a
base near Munich was a few min
utes before the scheduled hour of
noon. The two Super Fortresses
were part of a fleet of 50 thundering
into American cities from overseas
bases to demonstrate the extent of
air power today.
On one of the two planes was Star
Staff Reporter Harry Lever. He re
ported his plane had to avoid a hur
ricane en route back to Washington
via the Great Circle route on the
24-hour flight.
Andrews Base Show Today.
Today’s big Air Force show also
includes a display of military planes,
lighting and bombing techniques at
Andrews Air Force Base in nearby
Maryland. The Andrews show was
to continue until 7 p.m. while the
Bolling show was to conclude at
6 p.m.
The latest types of military air
craft and equipment are on display,
including jet fighters and bombers,
guided missiles, buzz bombs and
photo reconnaisance ships.
The Smithsonian Institution has
contributed the first Wright aircraft
engine and the first propeller to be
used in military aircraft, along with
other historical items which reflect
the development of aviation over a
period of 41 years.
A big attraction of the day was to
be mock "bombing” of Bolling. B-25
bombers were to make low passes
oyer the field, as Air National
Guard antiaircraft batteries from
the District area will send up heavy
"barrages” in front of the visitors.
paratroops to "invade.
But Bolling will not yet be "safe"
because paratroopers from the
famed 82d Airborne Division will
fill the "battle” area in an attempt
to complete the "invasion."
When the jet fighters and bomb
ers finish their performance, a
C-82 Packet was to pick up a 4,500
pound C-47 glider and tow it over
: the field to show this development.
m air evacuation w'ork.
A powerful Turbojet engine was to
be in operation before the audience,
its force highlighted when ping
pong balls, thrown into the engine's
path, are thrown into the sky.
The commercial airlines are
having many of their latest planes
open for inspection at the field, so
that the important application of
military aviation techniques to these
civilian craft can be seen. In time
of war, the commercial planes can
easily be converted.
Many Other Attractions.
Many other attractions, showing
; the duties of the Military Air Trans
port Service in connection with
weather forecasting and the work of
iu Air Rescue Service are sched
uled. The public also could see how
aircraft flies are scientifically ex-,
; anguished.
Brig. Gen. B. M. Hovey, who has
, worked with his staff to arrange
the show, was to welcome the crowd.
■ About 450 noncommissioned men
and officers are acting as guides, and
WAC military police also have been
, assigned.
| Some strange automotive equip
ment is being seen throughout the
day, running around Bolling Field.
One of these is a midget radio-con
Uioled jeep which doesn't need a
| driver. Another is a Rube Goldberg
?See AIR FORCE, Page A-2.)
Former Burma Minister
Hurt by Hurled Grenade
By tH« Associated Press
RANGOON, Burma, Sept. 18
Brig. U Tin Tut, former Burmese
' foreign minister, was gravely in
jured last night by a hand granade
| tossed into his motor car by a man
j who escaped.
! Tin Tut resigned from tHe cabinet
in July and became inspector-gen
eral of the Burmese auxiliary force,
which is helping combat a leftist
uprising.
Official reports said two of Tin
Tut’s bodyguards also were injured.
’ The assassination attempt took
place near the office of the New
Times of Burma, which is edited by
Tin Tut’s daughter, Daw Khin
Nyunt. The grenade was hurled as
jthe brigadier was leaving the New
Times building.
The hospital to which he was
taken reported today he was uncon
scious, with pulse recordings very
weak.
Johnston to Conclude
Russian Trip Today
By th* Associated Press
MOSCOW, Sept. 18.—Erjc John
1 ston winds up his agenda in the
Soviet Union today with a trip
through the Stalin automobile works.
Mr Johnston, president of the
Motion Picture Association of Amer
ica. has been conferring with Soviet
authorities here on the possibility
of Russia’s importing American
movies.
He is expected to leave by plane
for Berlin Monday.
International 'Air Lift'
Emil Ludwig, Noted Biographer, Dewey's Stand on Aid
Historian, Dies in Switzerland To Farmers May Stir
More Recent Works 4
Included Lives of
Roosevelt, Stalin
By th« Associated Pres*
ASCONA, Switzerland, Sept.
18.—Emil Ludwig, 67, world fa
mous biographer, playwright and
political essayist, died at his j
home here last night.
Among his more recent and best
known works were biographies of
Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1938 and
Joseph Stalin In 1942.
His "Life of Napoleon was adapted
by him for a motion picture in Hol
lywood in 1933.
Other biographies included Goethe.
Bismarck, Beethoven, Lincoln and
Kaiser Wilhelm. He also wrbte a
volume on the life of Christ.
Mr. Ludwig'was born in Breslau.
Germany, on January 25. 1881, but
became a voluntary exile in 1907. He
received Swiss citizenship.
He made no attempt to return to
Germany after the rise of Hitler.
Several of his books were burned by
the Nazis.
Mr. Ludwig began his career as
a dramatist and wrote nothing but
White House Silent
On New Call for FBI
Report on Dr. Condon
Thomas Group Promises
'Shocking' Data on Soviet
Spying in Atomic Field
Along with a promise to dis
close ‘‘a shocking chapter in
Communist espionage in the
atomic field,” the House Com
mittee on Un-American Activi
ties today stood by its demand
that President Truman release
an FBI report on Dr. Edward U.
Condon, director of the National
Bureau of Standards.
The committee declared this
‘•lengthy” report links Dr. Condon
with Soviet spy agents, including
Nathan Gregory Silvermaster, de
scribed by an earlier witness as
leader of a wartime espionage ring
of Government employes here.
The White House today made no
direct reply to this demand for the
report, said by the committee to be
“locked in the President Tuman’s
deck.” But the White House did
make public a letter in which the
President promised scientists to con
tinue his fight “to keep the subject
of atomic energy out of .’can
politics.”
Replies to Scientists.
Replying to eight scientists who
last w’eek wrote to him of their con
cern over adequate staffing of
atomic plants with scientists be
cause of “smearing methods” by the
House committee. Mr. Truman did
not mention the committee by
name. He referred, however, to
persons he said did not understand
the significance of atomic energy or
(See- PROBErPageA-4. >
Maryland Couple Missing;
Bullet-Riddled Car Found
By th« Associated Pros*
GLEN BURNIE, Md., Sept. 18.—A
search for a 25-year-old Glen Burnie
past office clerk and an 18-year-old
girl started today after the man's
car. a bullet hole in the right door,
was found abandoned near here.
He was to have gone to Washington
today where his father was to have
sailed in the President's Cup regatta.
Anne Arundel County police iden
tified the missing pair as Jqlin H.
Mahlan and Miss Mary C. Kline,
who also lives In Glen Burnie.
The parents of the couple said
they left the Kline home about «
o'clock, last night, saying they were
going for a short ride and would
return early.
M*. Mahlan's car was found this
morning on the old Annapolis road
near Lipins Confers.
Police said what appeared to be
human brain tissue was spattered on
I the back seat. A pair of women's
| shoes was found in the car and pine
needles were on the running board.
W
*
f - 1
EMIL LUDWIG.
plays, nearly all in verse, for 12
years. After his 30th birthday, he
took up psychological essays and
biographies.
As a boy he wrote a 10-page es
7See-LUDWIG, Page A-l > |
CIO Union Calls Off
Strike at Harvester
Plant in Illinois
Production Will Resume
Monday; Negotiations
To Be Reopened Later
By the Associated Press
EAST MOLINE, 111.. Sept, 18.—
A CIO union announced today it
had called off its nine-week
strike that erupted into violence
yesterday at the International
Harvester Co.
The workers voted at a meeting
late last night to return to work
in a body Monday morning. Arvid
Sheets, president of the striking
local of the United Farm Equipment
and Metal Workers of America, said.
Mr. Sheets added that the question
of job reclassifications, which led to
the walkout, would be negotiated
later.
The strike made some 3.000 pro
duction workers idle, although the
company repoited that some work
ers had returned the last few days.
The back-to-work vote followed by
only a few hours a clash between
' strike pickets and State and 4ty
policemen. The fighting developed
i yesterday morning after the union
! local threatened to shut the plant
: tight. Police charged some of the
I pickets threw rocks or stench bomb
; fluid on the cars of workers trying
| to enter the plant gates. Four were
; arrested on disorderly conduct
' charges.
Gerald Fielde, an international
official of the union, came to East
Moline from Chicago last night for
the meeting.
The question of disciplining sev
iSee"HARVESTER,"PageVT-2. >
Consumer Opposition
Farm Belt Seen Pleased
Over Nominee's Backing
Of Price Supports
By J. A. O'Leary
Star Staff Correspondent
ALBANY, §ppt. 18. —Gov
Thomas E. Dewey was on record
today as believing the “consumer
and the farmer have an equal
stake in sound Government
support of farm prices.”
This position, which may lead to
some controversy in urban areas,
where the cost of living is an im
portant campaign issue, was ex
pressed in a statement the Repub
lican nominee issued last night.
Gov. Dewey indorsed the new
farm law passed three months ago
!by the Eightieth Congress, calling
lit “the best guarantee to American
farmers of the Republican Party's
i interest" in their problems. His
statement came after he had con
ferred for several hour with Chair
man Hope of the House Agriculture
Committee and Acting Chairman
Aiken of the Senate Agriculture
Committee.
The Governor's statement un
doubtedly will be pleasing in the
farm belt, where he opens his cam
paign with a speech at Des Moines
Monday night. It remains to be
seen what reaction it will bring from
[ city folks.
Host to Farm tailors.
Gov. Dewey continued today to
devote his time to farm problems,
bv driving to his farm at Pawling.
N. Y., to act as host to more than 90
farm editors of newspapers and ra
dio stations. Representative Hope
and Senator Aiken went with him.
after being his guests at the execu
tive mansion here last night..
The new farm law puts off until
1950 a revision of parity price sup
port levels from 90 per cent to a
range of from 60 to 90 per cent.
Since the law was passed in June
estimates have indicated bumper
crops, which means that retention
during 1949 of price supports at the
level needed during the war to stim
ulate production may cost the Gov
ernment more money next year.
Gov. Dewey's statement was an
effective answer to a recent Demo
cratic charge that the Republicans
are out to wreck farm price sup
ports. But the Governor went be
yond his prepared text to tell a
news conference that the admin
istrations charge was "made out of
thin air.—an intentional fabrica
tion designed to deceive the pro
ducers of food in this country.”
Of course, the Democrats will find
(See DEWEYTPage A-2.V
J. Edgar Hoover Listed
As Still Seriously III
The condition of J. Edgar Hoover,
director of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, was reported un
changed today. He is in a serious,
but not critical, condition with
bronchial pneumonia, the FBI said.
Mr. Hoover, 53-year-old chief of
the O-men, has been confined to his
bed at home since Monday.
188 Sailboats Crowd Potomac
To Set Mark for Regatta Entries
(Picture on Page A-14.)
By Malcolm Lamborne, Jr.
A record-breaking fleet of 188
sailboats jammed the Potomac
River off Hains Point today in
the opening races of the Presi
dent's Cup Regatta sailing phase.
Officials said it was the largest
fleet of small boats ever assem
bled here or on Chesapeake Bay.
These winners emerged in the
opening race sailed under Ideal
small boat conditions:
Herbert Hild of City Island. N. Y.,
skippering Charybdis, star class.
Robert Orme of Washington, sail
ing Blue Water, Chesapeake 20s.
Owen Duffy. Chattanooga, Tenn..
at the helm of Mitty, snipe class.
Tom Kirkpatrick Sevema Park.
Md., boat Atlanta, national one de
sign.
Hild covered the 5-mile course in
the lead of 13 stars in 1:08.02.
Skippers of 14 olasses >re com
ps
V
puing for The Evening Star tro
phies in the regatta's three-race
series which ends tomorrow.
More than 160 craft, ranging from]
tiny moth class boats to the attrac-1
tive star class sloops, had reg-i
istered at the Washington Sailing,
Marina, just below National Air-;
port, two hours before starting
time.
The previous record for sailboats;
here was 167, established a year
ago.
A southwest breeze greeted the
boats as they started off by class
at five-minute intervals. The start
and finish of a two-lap triangular
course was set up abeam of the;
Coast Guard cutter Aurora, in com
mand of Lt. Warren H. Stafford
of Savannah. Ga. The Aurora is
serving as race official boat both
for this week end and next, when!
power events are scheduled.
The Weather Bureau promised the
breeze would pick up this afternoon.
(SeeREGATTA, Pag^A-2.J '
J
Truman Pauses
To Hit Congress
Anew in Illinois
'Give It to 'Em/ Say
Rock Island Hearers;
Iowa Farm Talk Today
BULLETIN
ABOARD PRESIDENTIAL
TRAIN—As President Truman
neared Dexter, Iowa, this aft
ernoon he was greeted by
good-sized turnouts at Iowa
City, Oxford, Grinnell and
Des Moines, Iowa. He contin
ued to pound at the “special
privilege" Eightieth Congress.
By Joseph A. Fox
Star Staff Correspondent
ABOARD PRESIDENTIAL
SPECIAL, Sept. 18.—President
Truman.'started swinging before
breakfast today as he carried
his figHMor another four years
in the White House into the
Middle West.
En route to Dexter, Iowa, for a
major speech this afternoon, the
President was greeted by a crowd
of 2,500 at a 6 o'clock stop at the
important rail center of Rock Is
land, 111. He drew frequent bursts
of applause and shouts of approba
tion as he opened his "whistle stop'*
campaign that is taking him to the
Pacific Coast with a continuation of
the slashing attack on the. "do
nothing Eightieth Congress" which
he also portrayed as antilabor.
"Give it to 'em—that's it," his
auditors shouted.
Declaring that the issue of the
November election is clear. Mr, Tru
man asserted that "it is the people
against the special interests." Hit
ting again at the "lobbies," he
charged has dictated to Congress,
the President listed them as “the
real estate lobby, the speculators’
lobby and the National Association
of Manufacturers lobby."
Assails GOP “Normalcy.
Declaring that they sought again
the “normalcy" of the 12 years after
World War I, when the Republicans
were in power. Mr. Truman said
that the GOP wants “to return to
that normalcy but we don't want to
go back. We want to go forward."
' “That's it." an enthusiastic hearer
shouted. Mr. Truman reviewed his
efforts to get price control and
other legislation, but fcxplained that
he had been blocked by the Con
gress which was elected in 1946 be
cause “only a minority of the voters
—one third,'' turned out.
Reiterating' his appeal for a big
vote In the fall, the President got
a final laugh when he said that if
the people didn’t vote they would
1 deserve whatever they got.
Paul Douglass, the Democratic
candidate for Senator from Illinois,
who had Joined the presidential
party aurlier. was introduced as the
"next, Senator from' Illinois’—he
is running against Senator Brooks,
Republican. Former Senator Guy
M. Gillette of Iowa, who is at
tempting a comeback, also joined
the presidential party for the trip
into his State, and he likewise got
a hand from Mr. Truman.
Plans Return trip.
The President plans to come back •
to this area again next month, with
a speech in Chicago scheduled for
October 25. Another large crowd
greeted him at Davenport, his first
Iowa stop.
Eyeing Iowa's 10 electoral votes—
as well as those of the rest of the
farm belt—Mr. Truman headed for
the little community of Dexter,
where he will speak at an event
that annually attracts thousands,
the national plowing match and soil
conservation field day in which local
interests join with the Agriculture
Department to foster better land
practices.
The President’s talk, at 2:05 p.m.
(Washington time), will be broad
cast. It is the second time he has
come into the farm country in re
cent months, the earlier "nonpolit
ical” tour in June bringing him to
Omaha, where arrangements went
askew and only 2,000 persons turned
out for a farm talk.
Expected to Repeat Attack.
The failure of Congress to enact
a long-range farm program, includ
ing a flexible price support plan,
has been one of the President’s
principal talking points in his war
on Republican control of Capitol
| Tsee TRUMAN Page A-4.)
Filipino Slasher Kills 1,
Hurls 8 in Honolulu
»y th« Auociotcd Prut
HONOLULU, Sept. 18—A wild
eyed Filipino slashed his way
through the crowded slum district
of Hell's Half Acre last night, kill
ing one youth and wounding eight
other persons.
The 27-year-old Navy yard worker,
Pedro Fernandez Sagun, went Ber
serk after complaining of pains in
his head. His neighbors said he
was "possessed of demons." Twice
last month, they said, he tried to
kill himself.
While looking at some photo
graphs with a friend, Silvestre Cas
tillo, 49, the Filipino suddenly
whipped out a knife and started
slashing. Castillo was stabbed in
the snouiaer.
Out into winding, jam-packed
Leleo lane, the slasher raced,
wielding his blade as people scram
bled for safety. Twelve-year-old
Hansley Mills fell with deep wounds
in his chest. HU two sUters, Be
atrice. 7, and Eleanor, 15, suffered
less severe cuts. Young Mills was
celebrating his birthday. He died
in the arms of hU mother, Mrs.
Lucy Mills.
People darted for doorways and
yards. Galvino Tabioe, 54, a pe
destrian, was not quick enough He
was cut severely and ,may die.
Four other persons'felt the knife
before three , policemen clubbed
Sagun with pistol butts and cap
tured him.
He was held in a hospital for ob
servation today. .