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B-36 Probe Adjourns
To Await Report on
Symington Evidence
By Robert K. Walsh
A Navy court of inquiry investi
gating the origin of a document
attacking the Air Force's B-36
program decided today to adjourn
until a House committee decides
whether to give it a report con
taining statements of Air Secre-j
tary Symington.
Refusal of Mr. Symington to
testify personally caused the
three-admiral court to announce
today that it "has gone as far as
It can with evidence available at
this time.”
The Symington refusal was
backed up by Secretary of the
Navy Matthews. In a directive to
the court. Secretary Matthews
said that “it would not best serve
the purposes for which the court
of inquiry was convened to require
the Secretary of (he Air Force to
appear before your court against
his will.”
After ordering the adjournment.
Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid,
president of the court, told re
porters the verbal tug-of-war
between the court and Mr. Sym
ington during the last three days
should not be regarded as "bick
ering.”
Conference Preceded Directive.
He also maintained that the j
directive by Secretary Matthews
"is not to be construed as a
slapping-down of this court.” He
disclosed that Mr. Matthews wrote
the directive after conferring with
the three admirals and with their
-full concurrence.”
Secretary Symington notified
Secretary Matthews late yesterday
he was unwilling to testify at
this time before the naval court
because he already has turned
over to the House Armed Services:
Committee most of the informa-j
tion he has on the B-36 contro
versy.
He explained this is contained
in an Air Force Office of Special
Investigation report to the com
mittee and that Chairman Vinson
has stated that the report will not
be released to the naval court
until the committee decides,
whether it should be given out. The
committee is to reconvene Oc
tober 5.
Another reason given by Secre
tary Symington for refusing to
appear before the court was that
auch an appearance might indi
cate he was “entering into an
inter-service controversy.”
The court has been trying to
determine whether any Navy em-!
ployes besides Cedric R. Worth, j
suspended civilian assistant to
Undersecretary of the Navy Kim
ball, prepared the memorandum!
-that spread rumors of faulty per
formance by the B-36 super;
bomber and fraud in its buying.
Mr. Worth has assumed full re
sponsibility for the memorandum
that set off the House committee
Investigation last month.
Adjournment Order Explained.
Admiral Kinkaid explained that
today’s adjournment order does
not mean that the court neces
sarily has completed its hearings
or that it is ready to make
recommendations to the Secretary
of the Navy. Because of the
existence of probably further
evidence in the report now held
by the Armed Services Commit
tee. he said, the nival court can
make no further move until it
knows definitely whether that
evidence will be made available.
The only information that the
court wants from Secretary Sym
ington, he said, is whether he can
shed any light on the origin of the
Worth document.
"The evidence is there in the
report of the Air Force OSI,” Ad
miral Kinkaid commented, “we
hope to get it, if we do get it,
there may be further proceedings.
If we don’t get it, we probably
will start preparing our report to
the Secretary of the Navy.”
Said He Knew Names.
As a witness last month before
the House committee, Mr.
Symington said he knew the
names of those involved in the
then mysterious memo.
The naval court wanted to
question him on that point. It
sent a request to his office late
Wednesday and wras informed he
had gone to New York, but would
“consider” any questions sub
mitted to him. On his return
early yesterday he wrote the court
that he would receive any ques
tions the court cared to send to
his office.
Admiral Kinkaid then declared
Mr. Symington’s "physical pres
enpe" was needed because evidence
at the inquiry might later be used
at a trial and because interested
parties such as Mr. Worth had a
right to cross-examine witnesses.
Forrestal Kept Diary.
The court’s judge advocate.
Capt. Sanford B. D. Wood, made
an appointment to see Secretary
Symington at 4 p.m. He arrived
«n the dot, had to wait 8 minutes,
was ushered into the Secretary’s
office, and came out 45 seconds
later. He explained he had been
handed a letter to take to Secre
tary Matthews. He conferred with
the Navy Secretary for half an
hour.
The Symington letter, contain
ing reasons for refusing to testify,
was given out by the Air Force
and Secretary Matthews sent his
directive to the court.
Congress in Brief
By the Associated Press
Senate:
Considers military pay bill.
Agriculture Subcommitte con
tinues inquiry into spread between
prices paid farmers and those
charged consumers.
Labor and Public Welfare Com
mittee considers legislation setting
up a Fair Employment Practices
Commission.
Bouse:
Adjourned until Monday.
Marriage of Gould Heiress 9 j
And Naval Officer Called Off
Mrs. Silvia Gould and Lt. Comdr. Ernest Hoefer. jr., shown
together recently at a New York night club. —AP Wirephoto.
Wedding guests were returning
home today after the scheduled
mairiage of Heiress Silvia Gould
to a Washington Naval officer was
called off, friends said, because of
the officer's determination to re
main in the service.
Lt. Comdr. Ernest Hoefer, jr„ of
3300 block of Connecticut avenue
N.W., was to have married the
socially prominent heiress to the
Jay Gould fortune at a ceremony
set for tomorrow at the Gould
family estate. Furlough Lodge
near Fleischmanns, New York.
Friends and relatives of the
couple had begun to assemble
when the heiress' mother, Mrs.
Kingdon Gould, announced that
plans for the wedding had been
cancelled By “mutual consent."
The announcement was made
through an attorney.
Comdr. Hoefer. a native of She
boygan, Wis., and a graduate of
the Naval Academy and Harvard
University, had rented an apart
ment on Connecticut avenue in
which he and his intended bride
planned to live, friends said. .He
has been attending a Naval school
here for the past year.
Friends of the couple were quot
ed as saying that Mrs. Gould had
asked Comdr. Hoefer to resign
from the Navy because she did
not want him to be sent into for
eign service. She was said to
have preferred that he enter busi
ness in New York.
Silva. Gould, twice married
previously, is a great-grand
daughter of Financier Jay Gould.
She is a grand niece of the
Duchess de Tallyrand and a cousin
of Lord Decies, an Irish peer.
Comdr. Hoefer’s best man was
to have been his brother, Ensign
Bruce R. Hoefer, U. S. N., of 3800
Porter street N.W. The matron
of honor was to have been Mrs.
Guy Martin of 3117 Woodley road
N.W., a sister of Mrs. Gould.
The couple had planned to
make their home in Washington
after a honeymoon in Bermuda.
Mrs. Gould has two children by
her first marriage to Charles Dab
ney Thompson. Her second hus
band was Robert Parker, jr., for
eign correspondent and wartime
OWI officer in the European
theater.
Apparently Dead Cells
In Bone Revived by
Chemical Process
Sy the Associated Press
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Sept.
23.—Bone cells which apparently
were dead have been brought back
to life, four chemists reported to
i i»i. j r-1 > t>*r> ji»i At,
day.
The bone cells were revived so
they could again act as they
should, they told the American
Chemical Society. The revived
cells were more powerful than be
fore in their ability to mineralize
This far-reachmg discovery
opens up a number of new possi
bilities. One is learning more
about how to produce good bones
and teeth in humans. Another is
better treatment of abnormal
bone formation, or control of ab
normal ossification or hardening
that sometimes occurs in muscles,
brain, arteries, kidneys and other
parts of the body.
Blood Regulates Composition.
Still a third is a new approach
to removing lead or harmful radio
active materials that might lodge
in human bones.
The new work was announced
by Sidney Nobel, Albert Sobel,
‘Albert Hanok and Alexander S.
Wplffe of the Jewish Hospital of
Brooklyn and Polytechnic Insti
tute of Brooklyn.
They had found, they said, that
the blood regulates the composi
tion of bones and teeth. But why
only bones and teeth mineralize
or harden was a mystery.
They discovered that some
chemicals destroy the ability of
bone cells to ossify. These include
salts of magnesium, copper,
strontium and ordinary table salt.
These salts would destroy the
mineralizing power of bone cells,
regardless of whether there was
a lot or no calcium present.
Calcium* is a main ingredient of
bones.
Killed Bone Cells.
Using bits of bone taken from
living animals, they apparently
killed the bone cells by treating
them with these salts.
Then, they said, they revived
the bone cells and restored their
ability to mineralize by treating
them with calcium chloride.
“This treatment was so effective
that the ossifying power of the
bone cell was about twice as great
as before its destruction,” the
chemists reported.
The bone cells can be revived
up to half a day after their ap
parent death, and possibly after a
full day, the chemists said. In
their tests they used bones from
animals suffering from rickets.
Arosemena Quits Hospital
BALTIMORE, Sept. 23 (JP).—
Carlos Julio Arosemena, Vice Pres
ident of Ecuador, was discharged
yesterday from Johns Hopkins
Hospital, where he had undergone
a series of checkups.
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Mrs. Brennan Claims
Son Shot Wooldridge
In Self-Defense
ty th« Atteciatcd Pr«M
DOVER, Del.. Sept. 23.—Mrs.
Inez Brennan testified today her
“lonely hearts" correspondent,
Wade N. Wooldridge, 67. was slain
in self-defense bj^ftpt^JC-year-old
son Robert.
Pale but calm, the 46-year-old
woman took the stand at the
second defense session of the!
trial. Her son is charged with
murder in the death of Mr, Wool- i
dridge County, Va., and she is
charged with being an accessory.
Mrs. Brennan flatly denied the
State charge that she ordered
Robert to kill Mr. Wooldridge.
Uninvited Guest.
Mr. Wopldridge, she testified,
came to her farm last October
10. unannounced and uninvited.
After dinner, she said, Mr. Wool
dridge went out to inspect the
farm and a few minutes later Mrs.!
Dolly Dean, a boarder, came ini
and told her:
“Bobby shot Mr. Wooldridge.”
“In a minute or so Bobby came'
in," MrCs. Brennan continued in
a calm voice.
“He told Dolly: ‘I had to do|
it. You know I had to do it. He!
pulled a knife on me.’
Brothers on Stand.
“I asked Bobby: ‘Why, oh why,
did you do it?’
“He just stood there crying and
didn’t answer me.”
Ro'bert’s brothers, George, 18,
and Raymond, 23, took the stand
yesterday to testify that articles j
previously identified as belonging
to Mr. Wooldridge actually be
longed to them.
George Brennan, first witness
called by Defense Attorney Ben
jamin R. Donolow, identified as
his a two-hand, cross-cut saw
which earlier had been identified
by Mrs. Bessie Ayers as having
belonged to Mr. Wooldridge. Mrs.
Ayers is a daughter of Mr. Wool
dridge.
George said he bought the saw
at a Philadelphia store in August,
1942, while living with his father
there. Later, when he went to
live with his mother, George said
he took the saw with him. He
added that he left it on the Bren
nan farm when he joined the
Army last February.
Raymond Brennan, who said he
lived with his mother, identified
as his a 12-gauge shotgun, also
listed by Mrs. Ayers as belonging
to her father. Raymond said he
bought it in Laurel Springs, N. J.
—where the Brennans formerly
lived—in 1947 for $10 and could
identify it positively because the
firing pin had been broken and
he had mended it.
George and Raymond are to
be tried on charges of being ac
cessories to the crime.
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Thompson Race Fate
To Be Decided Today
At Aeronautic Session
fty th« Associated Press
The fate of the World's classic
air race, the $40,000 Thompson
Trophy event, came up for deci
sion today in a meeting of sport
ing aviation leaders.
The question before the Na
tional Aeronautic Association’s
Contest Board was: Whether to
discontinue the free-for-all Labor
Day feature of the National Air
Races, or to move the event from
its traditional Cleveland site to
wide-open spaces where accidents
would not endanger the public.
The NAA is the American rep
resentative of the Federation
Aeronnautique Internationale,
the recognized body for inter
national flying records. In that
role NAA sanctions competitive
flying events, a step necessary to
have performances recorded with
the FAI.
Must Get CAA Consent.
However, the final decision ap
peared to rest more strongly with
| the Civil Aeronautics Administra
tion, Federal agency charged with
| enforcing Flying regulations re
specting public safety. CAA con
sent in the form of a waiver must
be obtained to fly racing ships at
low altitudes, and over courses
| laid out to minimize danger to
persons and property.
Free-for-all racing, open to
| planes of any size and power, be
came an issue of national interest
when Pilot Bill Odom crashed
jinto a Berea (Ohio) home on the
j fringe of the 15-mile course last
Labor Day. Mr. Odom was killed
and so were a mother and her in
fant son, trapped in the smashed
and burning house.
Mr. Odom had won fame by two
record-setting flights around the
world and one world distance rec
ord for light planes. He was a
newcomer to closed course or
pylon racing.
The sanction contract for the
National Air Races is held by the
Cleveland Air Foundation, with
six more years to go under the
agreement.
May Seek New Site.
There have been strong indica
tions from D. W. Rentzel. Civil
Aeronautics administrator, that
waivers will be refused in the fu
ture for unlimited class racing
over courses laid out in populated
areas.
Sport flying leaders also have
indicated that the Thompson race
and others of its class have out
grown areas such as Cleveland,
where a course cannot be laid out
without flying near homes.
There is a strong possibility that
some city in the Southwest where
suitable space for a course eould
be found will be the scene of the
next Thompson race, if another
one is held. Inquiries have been
received from Dallas and Houston,
Tex., and Oklahoma City, among
others.
Chosen to preside at today's
meeting was Roger Wolf Kahn,
no&d once a$.a band leader and
■later as frpilotfwho Is chief timer
at the National Air Races.
Cook Cleland Says His Profit
On 2 Races Was Only $1,100
CLEVELAND. Sept. 23 (£>).—A
“profit”fftonlv $1,100 was realized
by Cook^Cleland on the $27,350
which his two racing planes won
at the National Air Races this
year.
The pilot made this statement
last night in a talk before the
Cleveland Junior Chamber of
Commerce.
Cleland won the Thompson
Trophy race on Labor Day. His
other plane, piloted by Benjamin
W. McKillen, won the Tinnerman
Trophy race and was third in the
Thompson. McKillen is associated
with Cleland in the operation of
an airport at suburban Willoughby.
The heavy cost of owning and
operating a high-speed plane was
given as the cause of the low
profit. He said that in 1947, when
he won the Thompson for the first
time, he had a deficit of $100.
That year, two of his planes
finished and a third crashed.
Peron Senate Approves Bill
To Bar Attacks on Officials
By the Associated Press
BUENOS AIRES, Sept. 23.—
The Argentine Senate approved
new laws yesterday which provide
severe punishment for written
and spoken attacks on public of
ficials.
The bills already have passed
the Chamber of Deputies. Due to
slight amendments in the Senate
they will have to be sent back to
the lower house before becoming
law.
The Senators approved various
amendments to the penal code
which will limit freedom of the
press. All members of the upper
house are members of President
Juan D. Peron’s party.
Fines are provided for those
who “threaten to injure • * * or
offend the dignity” of public offi
cials because of the way they
conduct their offices. If the of
fended official is the President.
Vice President, a Congressman or
cabinet member, the penalty is
from six months to three years.
Editors are made responsible for
what they print.
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To Be Unveiled
In Atlanta Today
fty th« Associated Press
ATLANTA, Sept. 23.—'The statue
of Eugene Talmadge, elected
governor of Georgia four times,
will be unveiled here today.
The bronze and stone memorial
will be accepted by Gov. Herman
Talmadge Gene’s son.
Picnic tables have been set up
on the Capitol lawn for the 6,000
visitors expected for the unveiling
and speech-making.
The'monument will be unveiled
by Bobby and Eugene Talmadge,
Gene’s grandsons and Herman’s
sons.
The 22'2-foot memorial shows
the late governor standing in a
rumpled coat, left hand jammed
into his coat pocket and right
hand outstretched.
About 35,000 Georgians con
tributed to a fund to finance the
statue.
Fall Arrives With Forecast
Of Sunny Day Tomorrow
Summer officially ended early
today on a rather damp note but
the Weather Bureau promised
clearing weather by tonight, fol
lowed by a sunny and cool
day tomorrow.
The heavy rain which struck
Washington last night dumped
1.09 inches of rain on the city
—described by the .bureau as
‘considerable”.
Another brief but heavy thun
dershower struck the city around
11 o'clock this morning, but quickly
moved on. *
The forecast called for the skies
to clear by late afternoon and the
thermometer to rise to about 72
degrees. Tonight will be fair and
cooler with a low of 48 degrees
expected. Tomorrow will be mostly
sunny and cool.
Yesterday’s high was 81 degrees
recorded at 3:56 p.m. and the
low last night was 59 degrees at
2:58 a.m.
The official passing of summer
came 4 seconds after 5:06 o’clock
this morning when the sun
reached its most northerly point
and now is headed south agairf.
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'Continued From First Page',
of the Board of Traded and
Aneurin Bevan. Minister of Health.
Winston Churchill is expected
to lead the opposition Conserva
tives in a wide-ranging attack on
the government's whole financial
policy since it took office in 1945.
His lieutenants in the debate will
be Deputy Leader Anthony Eden,
Oliver Stanley and Oliver Lyttel
ton.
The government decision to
climax the debate with a demand
for a vote of confidence came as a
surprise to the British public.
The Conservatives already had
let it be known that th£y were not
going to .ask for a vote of censure.
; :Labor .members'oXJBtflianSfent
Vrtll meet Tti^)Af“mwrning, Be
fore the debate begins. Mr. Attlee
is expected to lay down the law to
the doubtful ones: Support the
government or get out of the
party.
The Jjabor government can call
gyenegfr: riMPW’JMriW* ■»
ween now and npxt Juljr. ^rhen
Its term of office expires*
Most informed gusses have been
that the Attlee cabinet will want
to wait until the impact of the
cheaper pound has been absorbed
by the public.
Sunday Reading . . .
Echoes of the steel dispute
are sure to be heard in future
contract negotiations in other
industries. In particular,
other unions will make a ma
jor issue of the noncontribu
tory pensfon plan. This out
look is explored by Raymond
P. Brandt in Sunday’s Edi
torial Section.
Sherman Minton, newest
Supreme Court appointee, was
known in the Senate as a
"rubber stamp for Roosevelt.”
A close look at some of his
court opinions since then
shows his New Deal views
have not worn off. Staff
Writer Robert K. Walsh ex
amines Judge Minton’s career
in another Editorial Section
article.
Highlighting The Sunday
Star Pictorial Magazine are
three pages of newly discov
ered photographs by the fa
mous Civil War photographer,
Mathew Brady. The plates,
found in a New York barn,
were wrapped in copies of The
Star dated 1874.
These and many other spe
cial features supplement the
usual thorough and accurate
news content of
&mt&ag Star
I The Federal Spotlight
Pay Legislation Passage Seen
Despite Coalition Opposition
By Joseph Young
Despite the fact that a new coalition bloc is forming among
some Republicans and Southern Democrats to water down or block
Federal pay legislation administration officials express confidence
the legislation program will be enacted into law this year.
A group of AFL employe leaders visited the White House yegter
aay ana were assurea congress
“definitely” will approve the
measures. Senate and House
Democratic leaders also feel the
legislation will
w i n approval
soon.
A coalition
group of some
R e p u b 1 i cans
and Southern
ers in the Sen
ate is planning
to introduce an
amendment to
the reclassifi
cation measure,
and perhaps to
;the top-bracket
pay bill, to lim
; it the amount
of raises to 20 per cent. This
would not affect rank-and-file
employes, who would get only
modest increases anyway, but it
would hit those in top-flight jobs.
The affect of this amendment
would be to lift the present
$10,330 pay ceiling to only $12,396,
instead of the proposed $15,000.
And, if applied to the top-bracket
pay bill, it would cut substantially
the amounts for the Government’s
highest officials.
An attempt also can be ex
pected to have the reclassification
bill recommitted to committee for
further revisions—a move that
would have the effect of killing
the legislation for this year.
All this will result in bitter de
bate when the Senate takes up the
legislation next week. While Sen
ate leaders say they are confident
the legislation will-be approved,
there is a possibility the large pay
increases proposed for the Govern
ment’s highest officials, will be
trimmed down a bit in some cases.
Democratic leaders expect rather
an easy time in the House next
week for the reclassification and
postal pay bills. House Speaker
Rayburn says the postal measure
will be acted on next Tuesday,
and the reclassification measure,
on Wednesday. -The House already
has approved the top-bracket pay
measure.
NOT RETROACTIVE — The
forthcoming Executive order to
blanket in war-service and tem
porary Federal employes who have
been with the Government since
before March 16, 1942, will not be
retroactive.
In other words, the ruling will
affect only those war-service em
ployes who are on the Government
payroll when the order is signed.
For example, if the order is signed
tomorrow it would not apply to
an employ who loses his job today.
Incidentally, the order will be
issued within the next few days.
The fact that the order would be
issued was first' disclosed in this
column several weeks ago.
* * * *
STENO SHORTAGE — Despite
the fact that the defense agencies
now are engaged in a reduction
in-force program, they still are in
the market for stenographers.
In fact, a top defense official
says: “We can use all we can get.
The stenographic shortage situ
ation facing us is acute.”
The turnover among steno
graphic personnel has been heavy,
and very few of the girjs who
worked for the Government dur
ing the war are still at their jobs.
What’s more, the Civil Service
Commission hasn’t been able to
attract girls to Washington to
work for the Government.
Consequently, the Army, Navy
and Air Force departments are
recruiting stenographers directly,
but without too much success. If
you can type and take dictation
at a moderate rate, apply directly
to the personnel offices of the
Army. Navy or Air Force depart
ments.
* * * *
CAPITAL ROUNDUP—The Dis
trict Federation of the National
Federation of Federal Employes
will participate with the special
committee that has been set up
in establishing the William Jump
Memorial Award, in honor of the
Agriculture Department’s late
budget officer. The award will be
given annually to the Government
employe chosen as the most out
standing of the year. . . . The
Society for Personnel Adminis
tration will meet at 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday in the Archives audi
torium to discuss “What Congress.
Top Management, Operating Offi
cials, Employes and the Public
Expect of Personnel Officers.”
Henry F. Hubbard, vice chair
man of the Federal Personnel
Council, will preside. . . . The
Senate Interstate and, For
eign Commerce Committee has
favorably reported the nomi
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to be Assistant Secretary of Com
merce. ... A Senate labor sub
committee has begun hearings on
the House-approved bill to in
crease the salaries of Veterans’
Administration medical employes.
. . . The Executive Committee of
the National Customs Service
Association has just concluded a
four-day meeting here. . . . Vance
A. Tribbett has been appointed
chief of the Bureau of Land Man
agement's forest protection branch.
'Be sure to listen in Sundays
at 11:15 a.m. over WMAL, The
Star station, for Joseph Young’s
broadcast version of the Federal
Spotlight, featuring additional
news and views of the Govern
ment service.)
Weather Report
District of Columbia—Clearing
and rather windy this afternoon,
highest about 72. Fair and cooler,
lowest near 48 tonight. Tomorrow
mostly sunny and cool.
Maryland — A few scattered
show-ers follow-ed by clearing this
afternoon. Fair and cooler, lowest
40 to 45 west portion and 50 to 55
east portion tonight. Tomorrow
fair and cool.
Wind velocity, 20 miles per
hour: direction, northwest.
D. C. Pollen Count
District Medical Society rag
weed pollen count for 24 hours
ended 9 a m. September 23. 10
grains per cubic yard of air, in
complete due to rain.
Five-Day Forecast for Washington
and Vicinity, September 23-28.
Temperature will average two
to four degrees below normal.
Rather cool tomorrow and Sun
day. Warmer Monday and Tues
day. Cooler likely Wednesday.
Showers around Tuesday totaling
one-third to one-half inch. The
normal temperature for Washing
ton: Maximum 75, minimum 55.
Ri»er Report.
(From U. S Engineers.)
Potomac River clear at Harpers Ferry
and at Great Tails; Shenandoah clear at
Harpers Ferry.
Humidity.
'Readings at Washington National Airport.)
Yesterday— Pet Today— Pet.
Noon 57 Midnight ... 94
4 p m.-44 8 am. ... 93
8 pm. - 92 1 p.m ... 64
High and Low for Yesterday.
High 81, at 3:56 pm.
Low. 59. at 6:46 a.m.
Record Temperature* This Tear.
Highest. 97. on August 11
Lowest. 21, on January 30.
Tide Tables.
Furnished by United States Coast and
Geodetic 8urvey i
... . Today Tomorrow.
High . .. 9:20 a.m. 10:07 a.m.
Lo» - 3:44 a.m. 4:33 a.m.
High - 9:47 p.m. 10:35 p.m.
Low - 4:02 P.m. 4:48 p.m.
The San and 51oon.
. , . Rises. Sets.
Sun. today 6:56 7:04
Sun. tomorrow 6:57 7:03
Moon, today_ 8:11a.m. ’7:40 p.m.
Automobile lights must be turned on
one-half hour after sunset.
Precipitation.
Monthly nrecipitation fn Inches In the
Capital (current month to date):
Month. 1949. Aver Record.
January _ 6.08 3.55 7.83 ’37
February - 2.68 8.37 6.84 '84
March _ 3.42 3.75 8.84 ’«1
April _ 1.94 3.27 9.13 ‘88
May - 6.33 3.70 10.69 §9
Juna -t.42 4.13 10.94 Oo
July - 4.22 4.71 10.63 ’86
August _ 4.09 4.01 14.41 ‘28
September _2.67 3.24. 17,45 .34
October - ... 2.84 8.81 ’37
November _ ... 2.87 8.89 ’89
December _ _ 3.32 7.56 Til
Temperatures in Various Cities,
High. Low High. Log;.
Albuquerque 87 64 Miami* 84 Si
Atlanta 81 66 Milwaukee 65 40
Atlantic City 75 59 New Orleans 79 87
Bismarck . . JO 34 New York 77 59
Boston ... 73 58 Norfolk 78 6.3
Buffalo_ 65 47 Oklahoma C. 84 55
Chicago . 65 42 Omaha ... 73 41
Cincinnati . TO 45 Phoenix 103 76
Detroit_ 88 44 Pittsburgh 67 47
El Paso . .. SO 66 P rtl nd. Me. 59 57
Galveston . 82 74 St. Louis 77 47
Harrisburg 62 53 Salt Lake C. 84 49
Indianapolis 71 43 San Antonio 91 65
Kansas City (9 48 Sail Fr'cisco 88 54
L s Angeles 100 87 Seattle __ 72 49
Louisville 77 47 Tampa 89 73
Some 4,600 gallons of gasoline
blazed when lightning struck a
United States dump at Hoersch
ing, Austria.
Big 4 Resume Effort
To Conclude Austrian
Independence Treaty
By tht Associated Press
NEW YORK, Sept. 23.—A new
§ig Four effort to write an Aus
trian independence treaty begin!
here today with diplomatic sources
expressing hope that the Russians
will scale down their demands on
Austria.
Deputy foreign ministers of the
United States, Russia. Britain and
Fiance meet at 11 a.m.
A change in Russian strategy
in the talks might have wide ram
ifications. Western spokesmen
have intimated that an agreement
on the Austrian treaty might tem
per their opposition to a meeting
soon of the Council of Foreign
Ministers on broader East-West
issues.
On the eve of the meeting,
there was a sudden shift in diplo
matic circles from the skepticism
expressed earlier this week.
Negotiations Lasted 3 Years.
State Department sources said
they believed Russia wants a set
tlement of the negotiations, which
have been dragged back and forth
between the deputies, the Council
of Foreign Ministers and a now
defunct Austrian treaty commis
sion for almost three years.
These sources pointed out that
the Foreign Ministers are at the
United Nations Assembly meeting
here and available for consultation
and that the deputies in the past
had made progress under similar
conditions.
British spokesmen adopted a
•wait and see” attitude, although
they, too, were hopeful that a set
tlement might be in sight. They
said there had been similar indi
cations of a softened Russian at
titude before earlier sessions of the
deputies, but that the indications
had not been borne out at the
meetings.
Nine Articles Still at Issue.
Only nine of the 59 articles in
the treaty still are listed as dis
puted. Of these, agreement hat
been reached on at least two, but
they are tied in with other dis
puted issues.
The chief stumbling block was
removed during lastt spring’s meet
ing of the foreign ministers in
Paris, when Russia gave up her
support of Yugoslav claims to a
slice of Southern Austria.
The toughest remaining issue Is
that of German war assets in the
Soviet Zone of Austria. The for
eign ministers last June reached
a broad agreement on that point
but the deputies were unable ,to
settle specific points before th’eir
talks broke up September 1 in
London.
. Under the Paris agreement, the
Russians were to get a lump-sum
payment of $150,000,000, certain
oil rights and the assets of the
Danube Shipping Co. in Easte n
Austria. In turn, they were to
give back to Austria industries
they had seized in their occupa
tion zone.
Demands Held Excessive.
Western spokesmen have termed
the Russians’ specific demands
excessive and declared they would
cripple the Austrian economy.
A source familiar with the
deputies' talks said last night he
thought these demands might now
be modified, possibly because the
Russians want to consolidate their
position in Eastern Europe and
cut the economic losses sustained
in their occupation of Austria.
The deputies will be meeting for
the 212th time. They began their
talks in January, 1947. The ses
sions were broken off several
times and the problem dumped in
the laps of the foreign ministers.
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