Weather Forecast
Mostly cloudy with a shower likely late
today, high near 80. Clearing tonight, low
near 45. Tomorrow mostly sunny and
cooler. (Full report on Page A-2.>
Midnight, 59 6 a.m. -.-60 11 a.m. —71
2 a.m. 59 8 a.m. _-_62 Noon-73
4 a.m._60 10 a.m. „-69 1 p.m._77
Guide for Readers
rage
Amusements _ B-16
Church News A-7-10
Classified A-ll-17
Comics _A-18-19
Editorial _A-6
Editorial Articles A-7
t SIC
Lost and Found A-3
Obituary _A-4
Radio -A-19 '
Real Estate- B-l-13
Society, Clubs-_A-4
Sports _ B-14-15
An Associated Press Newspaper
97th Year. No. 290. Phone ST. 5000
*★ WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1949—THIRTY-SIX PAGES.
City Home De’ivery. Daily and Sunday. $ 1.20 a Month, when 6 ST (lENTS
Sundays. SI .30 Nisnt Final Edition. $1.30 and S1.4U per Month. ^
Soviet Reprisals
Over Indictment
*
Of Amtorg Seen
Five Top Officers
Are Placed Under
$15,000 Bond
By the Associated Press
Indictment of Russia’s famed
Amtorg Trading Corp. and its top
officers as unregistered foreign
agents appears certain to set off
new tensions between the United
States and the Soviet Union.
The indictment was returned
by a Federal grand jury here and
announced by Attorney General
McGrath late yesterday. It
charged the corporation and six
officers with failure to register as
agents of a foreign power in ac
cordance with American law. The
maximum penalty is a $10,000 fine
and five years' imprisonment.
Washington officials promptly
began speculating on Soviet
reprisals. The Russian Embassy
was reported to have lodged a
formal protest with the State De
partment and a Moscow prop
aganda blast denouncing the in
dictment was expected almost im
mediately.
Held in $15,000 Bail.
Shortly after Mr. McGrath
made his announcement, five of
the Russians were arrested in New
York and taken before a United
States commissioner, who held
them under $15,000 bail each
pending a hearing Wednesday on
removal to Washington.
The six Amtorg officers named
in the indictment are:
Aleksei Vasilievich Zakharov,
president: Dmitri Ivanovich Ba
grov and Vasili Petrovich Rebrov,
vice president: Serguei Andree
vich Shevchenko, treasurer; Alek
sander Aleksandrovich Istchenko.
secretary, and Gennadi Nokalae
vich Ogloblin, former assistant
treasurer, now doing other work
for Amtorg.
All were taken into custody ex
cept Bagrov. The Justice Depart
ment said he is in Russia.
Attorney Isadore Needleman.
appearing for the Russians, told
the commissioner ”therp is no
question” the men will be on
hand for the Wednesday hearing.
But a Government attorney, Ed
ward E. Richey, argued success
fully that ‘T prefer $15,000 (bail!
to the counsel’s word.”
Amtorg Warned Repeatedly.
Mr. McGrath said in his an
nouncement that since October 1,
1946. Amtorg had collected “in
formation for and reported in
formation to” Russia and other
wise had acted at the orders of
the Russian government.
In the past three years, he as
serted, Amtorg was told repeatedly
to register under the Foreign
Agents Registration Act. The
State Department said it had sent
a note to the Soviet Embassy only
six weeks ago officially calling at
tention to Amtorg's failure to
register.
Mr. Needleman told the com
missioner in New York: “There is
no wilfulness here. We have been
discussing it with the Department
' of Justice for the past six months
and wrote only recently and then
this happened.”
The Russian Embassy report
edly made known its initial reac
tion to the State Department
during a severi-minute call which
the Charge d’Affaires, Vladimir I.
Bazykin, made on Undersecretary
of State Webb.
Mr. Bazykin strode out of Mr.
Webb’s office with a “No com
ment” to waiting reporters. But
American officials, while they
would make no statement on his
visit, strongly indicated that he
had filed a protest.
Amtorg Organized in 1924.
Amtorg is an American corpo
ration, chartered by New York
State, with headquarters in New
York City. It was initially or
ganized in 1924, 10 years before
the United States established
diplomatic relations with Commu
nist Russia. During that time it
was the only formal contact or
ganization with Russia in this
country.
Its importance decreased some
what after a Soviet Embassy
opened in Washington, but it has
remained the main channel for
trade between the United States
and Russia.
While its functions are sup
posed to be purely commercial,
there have been repeated charges
in Congress that Amtorg acted
as an espionage agency for Mos
cow.
Mr. McGrath’s statement made
i See AMTORG, Page A~37)
Truman Polishes UpTalk
For U. N. Aboard Yacht
By the Associated Press
President Truman was cruising
down the Potomac today and put
ting the final polish on a foreign
policy speech.
The presidential yacht Wil
liamsburg anchored last night at
Blackistone Inland in the lower
Potomac, ready to push off this
morning for the mouth of the
Patuxent River.
Mr. Truman’s party will return
to Washington tomorrow after
noon. The foreign policy speech
Is to be delivered Monday at the
laying of the corner stone of the
United Nations Building in New
York.
2 of 5 Breaking Arizona Jail
Are Slain, 2 Quickly Captured
At Least One of Pair
Killed by'Shots of
Crippled Watchman
By the Associated Press
PHOENIX. Ariz., Oct. 22.—Five
Arizona desperadoes smashed out
of the midtown, fifth-floor county
jail early today, and two fell dead
under a blast of gunfire before
| they could get out of the court
house.
At least one of the prisoners
was killed by a crippled night
watchman whom they had dis
turbed reading in a ground-floor
record room.
The watchman, Tom Stowe,
may have shot the second, but so
many sheriff’s deputies were fir
ing by that time that no one
could be sure who hit him.
Two of the jailbreakers were
captured on a stairway between
: the second and third floors. The
fifth. Jack L. Tatum, 26, crawled
out of a courtroom window and
got away.
A deputy sheriff was shot in the
mouth by one of the prisoners.
Killed were two Arizona prison
pals who were charged with mur
der not long after release from
the penitentiary. They were Ed
ward Corcoran, 33. and Edward
McEwen, 32. Both were awaiting
trial.
The search for Tatum turned
downtown Phoenix into a furor in
the early morning hours. Sheriff’s
deputies roped off tne courthouse
grounds to keep several hundred
spectators out of the range of pos
300 Priests Reported j
Held in Czechs' Drive
To Impose Church Law
Catholic Sources Declare
Unrest Has Been Created
In Some Communities
By the Associated Press
PRAGUE. Oct. 22. —Church
sources said today that Commu
nist-directed police raids of the,
last two weeks resulted in the.
arrest of dozens of Catholic"priests!
and caused unrest in some
Czechoslovak communities.
These sources estimated that;
more than 300 priests now are!
in jail, most of them for oppos-;
ing the government’s new’ church-!
control law which makes them
civil servants and gives the state;
control over all church appoint
ments and financial and admin
istrative affairs.
The police action against
priests, which was stepped up to
break resistance to the govern
ment’s church-control schemes
was separate from the widespread
roundups of small businessmen
which sent thousands of middle
class elements to prison and
forced labor camps.
South Budejovice Hard Hit.
Hardest hit in the police swoop
against priests, the church sources
said, were the district of Budejo
ivice and the city of Ceske Bude
jovice. in Southern Bohemia,
about 100 miles south of Prague.
There 9 vicars have been jailed,
along with about 40 priests. This
is about 10 per cent of the clergy
of this diocese.
The church sources also said
that the Bishop of Ceske Budejo
vice had been put under police
surveillance similar to that kept
on Archbishop Josef Beran of
Prague. Permanent, guards sur
round his residence and his auto
has been reported confiscated.
Unrest developed in the Bude
jovice diocese w'hen plainclothes
police attempted to arrest the
bishop’s secretary, a priest, in the
daytime. Catholics gathered in
front of the bishop’s palace and
prevented it. The police retreated
that time, but returned at night
and arrested the secretary.
Arrests of priests also were re
ported in various other Bohemian
and Moravian towns.
Fire in Parish House.
At Rockycany, west of Prague,
the Catholic administrator of the
parish of Straisce was sentenced
to two months in jail and fined
10,000 crowns ($200) for reading
a pastoral letter.
Subsequently a fire broke out
(See CZECH, Page A-3.)
Real Fall Weather Due
To Reach D. C. Tomorrow
Washington's misplaced spring
weather was due to bow out after
a high today of nearly 80 degrees.
Winds reaching 15 to 25 fniles
an hour were expected to usher
out the warm weather late to
day with a shower likely.
The Weather Bureau forecast
“more typical fall weather,’’ be
ginning tomorrow. By Monday
morning, the temperature was ex
pected to drop to the 40s.
The cool air is coming out of
I the West and hioving rapidly this
! way, according to the forecaster.
In Baltimore the Weather Bu
reau predicted snow flurries in
extreme Western Maryland about
Wednesday.
The forecaster here, however,
said there was no evidence to in
dicate Washington was likely to
get snow flurries, although he did
not bar the remote possibility that
the mercury might slide loWi
enough for a few flakes.
TOM STOWE.
Fned on fleeing desperadoes.
—AP Wirephoto.
sible gunfire. Fire trucks splashed
their searchlights over the build
ing and shadowy grounds. Road
blocks were thrown up through
out the city.
The prisoners staged their break
about 1:15 a.m. W. A. Millett,
jailer, said Tatum asked him for
aspirin. When he opened their
cell door, the prisoners jumped
him.
Leaving Mr. Millett locked in
the cell, the prisoners picked up
an automatic pistol in the jail
office and entered an elevator.
They got out on the second floor
See JAILBREAK, Page A-2.)~
U. N. Upholds Charges
That Soviet Satellites
Violate Human Rights
Assembly Asks Advisory
Opinion by International
Court on Treaty Clauses
BULLETIN
NEW YORK UP).—The United
Nations Assembly turned aside
bitter Soviet protests today and
in effect upheld Western charges
of violations of human rights
behind the iron curtain in Bul
garia, Hungary and Romania.
The Assembly voted, 47 to 5, to
express its grave concern over
the charges. It also asked the
International Court of Justice
for an advisory opinion on
whether the Soviet satellites are
obligated to carry out treaty
provisions for settling the long'
disputes. r
By the Associated Pres*
NEW YORK, Oct. 22.—Dmitri
Z. Manuilsky, Soviet Ukrainian
Foreign Minister, charged today
that fundamental human rights
are being violated every day in
the United States. »
He made his charge in the clos
ing stages of a heated human
rights debate in the United Na
tions General Assembly.
Manuilsky told , the Assembly
that Western charges against Bul
garia, Hungary and Romania were
“dirty slanders” and “flagrant
falsifications."
He attacked the United States
for being one of the countries to
press the charges, saying that it
was strange for such action to
come from a land where “lynch
law” and “Jim Crow” prevails and
where "fundamental human rights
are being violated every day.”
Manuilsky was the last listed
speaker.
Shawcross Hits Vishinsky.
White Russia’s foreign minister.
Kuzma Kisselev,, sought in vain
last night to be included in the
speaking list, to answer a blister
ing attack by Britain’s Sir Hartley
Shawcross on the Soviet bloc
leader, Russia’s ^Foreign Minister
Andrei Vishinsky. Kisselev was
expected to renew his fight to take
the floor today. J
The 59-nation 'Assembly in
plenary session hoped to reach a
♦ote on whether to cite Bulgaria,
(See U. N„ Page A-3.)
2 Women and Brother
Found Slain in Home
By the Associated Press
BERKELEY, Calif.,"Oct. 22.—
Two women were found bludg
eoned to death and their brother
shot and killed in their residence
here today.
Police breaking in at the in
sistence of neighbors, who became
worried after papers and milk
piled up on the porch for 11 days,
found dead:
"'Mrs. Mamie McKenzie, 70, for
meryhouse mother at Stern Hall,
women’s dormitory on the Univer
sity of California campus.
Miss Irene O’Neil, about 60,
Mrs. McKenzie’s sister.
Eugene O’Neil, 62, the women’s
brother and a retired Southern
Pacific locomotive engineer.
The bodies of the two women,
horribly beaten, were found in
their bedroom.
Mr. O’Neil, shot to death, was
lying in a laundry off the kitchen.
The gun which apparently killed
him was lying in the hallway near
the bedrooms.
Police were unable to determine
immediately whether he had shot
himself fatally and crawled away
from the gun or Whether he had
been murdered.
Steel Settlement
Collapses; Coal
Outlook Bleak
ICC Orders 25% Cut
In Passenger Trains
Powered by Steam
By James Y. Newton
Chances of an early settlement
of the three-week-old steel strike
dwindled today as a plan which
the Government hoped would end
the deadlock over pensions and
social insurance fell through.
The plan collapsed as the out
look for ending the five-week-old
soft coal strike appeared even
more bleak and as a fuel shortage
brought an Interstate Commerce
Commission order for a cut in
coal-burning passenger service.
At White Sulphur Springs, W.
Va„ Northern and Western coal
operators yesterday walked out
of negotiations with John L. Lewis’
United Mine Workers, saying that
to remain would be to "fool the
public.”
v uioacK tnmivt mesaay.
Dwindling coal supplies forced
the Interstate Commerce Commis
sion to order the 25 per cent re
duction in passenger trains pow
ered by steam locomotives, effec
tive Tuesday. The order applied
to lines with less than a 25-day
supply of coal, and the Association
of American Railroads estimated
that on October 1 one-third of
the Nation's carriers had less than
a 30-day supply on hand.
“An emergency exists requiring
immediate action in all sections
of the country," the ICC said.
"Resei’Ve stocks of railroad loco
motive coal have reached a dan
gerously low level and are further
decreasing.”
The New York Central Rail
road earlier had announced a de
cision to eliminate 89 steam-oper
ated passenger trains tSnight, af
fecting service in 11 States.
Details of the plan for ending
the steel strike were a closely
guarded secret, but it was under
stood to call for a slight compro
mise in the CIO United Steel
workers’ demand for company
financed pensions, one which
would have allowed the steel com
panies the opportunity to back
away from their flat rejection of
the union demand. The union, it
was said, balked at acceptance.
Ching Continues Talks.
President Truman was described
as still counting on a steel settle
ment to set the pace for ending
the coal walkout. Altogether about
1.000.000 workers are affected bv
the twin strikes.
Cyrus S. Ching, Federal media
tion chief, was continuing his
peace talks in New York with the
United States Steel Corp. The
conference began Wednesday.
The only sign of a break, and it
was a minor one, came from Blue
field, W. Va., where Southern
operators, representing about a
fifth of soft coal tonnage, reported
progress toward meeting Mr
Lewis’ demands for increased pay
ments into the UMW welfare and
retirement fund. The Southerners
scheduled another meeting with
the miners for Tuesday.
The larger group of operators
at White Sulphur said there was
no use continuing negotiations
They had offered to renew their
old contract with some changes
in their favor. Mr. Lewis had
offered a new .contract which
would increase coal production
costs from 30 to 35 cents a
ton.
Pressure Effort Charged.
Thomas Kennedy, UMW vice
president, said the operators had
walked out in an effort to pres
sure the Government into taking
over the dispute.
But there appeared to be no
inclination on the part of Mr.
Truman or his top advisers to be
pushed into action in the coal
strike.
Instead, the President was
represented as leaning entirely on
Mr. Ching’s efforts to bring United
States Steel into agreement with
Philip Murray, president of the
CIO and the striking steelworkers.
More than half of the steel
union’s million members already
are on strike. Their walkout be
gan October 1.
With the CIO convention be
ginning in Cleveland, October 31,
Mr. Murray was said to feel that
he must produce either a resound
ing victory or no settlement at all.
Man, 75,Found Dead in Yard
With Revolver in Hand
Henry Beck, 75, of 4535 Harri
son street N.W., was found dead
of a bullet wound in his lower
abdomen early today in the side
yard of his home, a .32-caliber
revolver still clutched in his hand.
Police said Mr. Beck had been
in ill health and worrying over an
impending operation.
The body was found about 5:45
a.m. by Homer Hall, 1530 North
Longfellow street, Arlington, a
route man for the Post.
Mr. Beck, a widower, lived with
his daughter, Miss Helen Beck,
who said she had looked into his
bedroom about 2 a.m. and found
him apparently asleep. He had
the revolver for many years, she
said.
He was pronounced dead by the
family physician. Dr. T. A. Wild
man.
PLENTY OF TOOLS
AND WOOD—-BUT
THE BOYS ARENT
CUTTIN' MUCH FOR
, TH'WINTER! /
> ... i.j ■ -
v V*»
2 Communist Forces
Racing for Junction
In South China Drive
• Red Troops Aiming to Pin
Notionalists Against
Indo-China Frontier
ly the Associated Pr#»*
HONG KONG, Oct. 22.—Two
Communist forces driving west
ward in South China raced to
night toward a linkup for an
assault on Kweilin.
Red Gen. Chen Keng's troops,
moving northwest along the West
River from Canton, raced to tie
; in with Gen. Lin Paio's Communist
■veterans who were driving on the
Kwangsi Province capital from
the nortiieast. Exact positions of
the two forces were not disclosed.
Their aim seemed to be the
pinning of Nationalist Gen. Pai
Chunghsi's armies against the
French Indo-China border in the
southwest corner of Kwangsi.
Pai s force of 200,000 men is the
best left to the Nationalists.
Commission Evacuated.
In the face of the advancing
Red Armies, the entire staff of,
the Joint Commission of Rural!
Reconstruction was evacuated!
from Kweilin, which is 250 air |
miles northwest of Canton. Thej
i organization went to Yungning
! (Nanning*, where the Kwangsi
provincial government already
had been transplanted.
(This dispatch referred to
Yungning as “present Nation
alist headquarters.” This might
indicate Kweilin’s threat al
ready was so serious that Pai
had moved his command base
to Yungning. It is deep in
Southwestern Kwangsi.)
Elsewhere in the Chinese civil
war:
The Communist news agency
claimed the capture of Tao Hua
Island only 3 miles south of Chu
Shan, Nationalist air and navy
blockade base in the Chushan ar
chipelago 100 miles-southeast of
Shanghai.
The Communists also an
nounced their troops had arrived
at Tihwa, capital of Sinkiang
Province in the far northwest. On
September 29. the Red radio an
(See CHINA, Page A-2.) !
London Women on Spree
Of Buying fo Beaf Taxes
Sy th« AsiociaUd Pr»si
LONDON, Oct. 22.—Housewives
went on a shopping spree again
toda£ after rumors spread that
the government will raise pur
chase taxes to fight inflation.
Stores in London's fashionable
West End reported the busiest
morning of the year.
There was no confirmation or
denial of the rumors. Prime Min
ister Attlee plans to announce
Monday a series of economy meas
ures necessitated by the nation’s
financial crisis. Details still are
top secret.
Earlier this week a buying rush
for clothing developed because of
rumors that clothing rationing,
abandoned last spring, would be
.restored. The government denied
that it had any such intention.
$500,000 in Cash
In 10 Suitcases
Pays for Hotel
By the Associated Press
NEWARK. N. J., Oct. 22.—A
follower of Father Divine today
took over affairs of the Hotel
Riviera, which was paid for with
$500,000 in cash lugged from Phil
adelphia in 10 suitcases.
The money was brought to the
Federal Trust Co. here by 10 Di-|
vine followers and it took 14 tell- '■
ers 3 hours and 35 minutes to;
count the money in $5, $10 and
$20 bills.
They carried the cash from
Philadelphia headquarters Thurs-i
day without guard or guns.
The follower handling opera
tions identified himself as “Ger
maine.” a retired engineer and
architect. He said smoking will
not be permitted. One tenant
who said he had paid a month’s;
rent in advance was told he could;
remain. When he asked Ger
maine if he could smoke, he was
asked: “You enjoy walking, don’t
you? Then you can do your smok
ing in the fresh air.”
George V. Allen Likely
Choice to Become U.S.
Envoy to Yugoslavia
Acheson Aide Directed to
Join Parley of Diplomats
In Soviet Bloc Countries
By the Associated Press
The United States is expected
to name Assistant Secretary of
State George V. Allen Ambassador
to Yugoslavia as part Of the West
ern campaign to stiffen Marshal
Tito's resistance to Moscow.
Informed diplomatic officials
said Mr. Allen is Secretary of
State Acheson's choice for the
key cold war post now held by the
ailing Cavendish Cannon.
Mr. Allen is a former Ambassa
dor to Iran. There he had two
years of first-hand experience in
a distrustful neighbor country of
Soviet Russia at a time when the
relations between Iran and Mos
cow were particularly critical.
He is now in Europe and has
just been directed by Mr. Acheson
to Join in a conference with
American envoys to SoViet-bloc
countries, opening Tuesday in
London.
Appointment Expected Soon.
President Truman is expected
to name him to the Belgrade post
shortly.
This would fit in with other
moves by the United States and
the other Western powers to en
courage Marshal Tito in his feud
with the Cominform.
The next such move may be a
decision by the United'States and
Britain to lift an existing ban on
the shipment of civilian aviation
equipment to Yugoslavia. Antici
pating a favorable decision, the
Yugoslav government already has
asked permission to buy equip
ment from an American airline.
Officials said the State, com
Tsee"YUGbSLAVIA, PageX^TT
New Congress Battles
Indicated on Judges'
Recess Appointments
Three Actively Opposed
By Senators; Six Given
Bench Assignments Here
New fights in the next session
of Congress over President Tru
man's nominations were foreshad
owed today by his recess appoint
ment of three Federal judges op
posed by individual Senators from
the States involved.
Carroll O. Switzer, whose nomi
nation as Federal judge for the
southern district of Iowa was
blocked in the last session by Sen
ator Gillette, Democrat, of Iowa,
was one of the controversial fig
ures given recess appointments
by the President late yesterday.
He also appointed M. Neil An
drews to take over as Federal
judge for the northern district of
Georgia and Willis W. Ritter for
Utah. Mr. Andrews has been op
posed by Senator Russell, Demo
crat, of Georgia and Mr. Ritter
by Senator Watkins, Republican,
of Utah.
23 Appointments Made.
In all the President announced
recess appointments for 23 men
he had nominated for Federal
judgeships but who were not con
firmed before Congress adjourned.
To hold their new jobs they will
have to be nominated again and
confirmed by the Senate after
Congress meets again in January.
The list of recess appointments
included six new judges here.
They are George T. Washington,
David L. Bazelon and Charles
Fahy for the United States Court
of Appeals, and Charles F. Mc
Laughlin, James R. Kirkland and
Mrs. Burnita Matthews as District
Court judges.
Also on the list was William
Henry Hastie. Governor of the
Virgin Islands and former dean oi
the Howard University Law School
here, to be a judge of the Third
Circuit Court of Appeals in Phila
delphia. He will be the first
(See JUDGES. Page A-2J
Chungking's Poor District
Hit by Fire; 3,000 Homeless
By the Associated Press
CHUNGKING. Oct. 22. —Fire
raged through Chungking’s poor
class Changpei district today, leav
ing more than 3,000 persons
homeless. No casualties were re
ported in the city’s fourth bad
blaze since 'September 2.
Two employes of a tobacco dry
ing ship, where the fire was be
lieved to have started, were ar
rested on charges of negligence.
Lack of fire-fighting apparatus
and the tardy arrival of flreboats
on the Chialiang River gave the
fire free rein. Only frepzied tear
ing down of buildings to create
fire lanes limited the flames. Some
217 homes were reported de
stroyed.
The Changpei district is across
the river from Chungking’s down
town area which was hard hit by
a fire September 4 which killed
1,700 persons.
It's Dollars to Doughnuts You're Confused, Tool
The troubles or the Dixie Donut
Shop cleric and a flim-flam artist
were related in Municipal Court
today.
The cleric. Miss Evelyn Glass,
307 Seventy-second place. Car
mody Hills, Md., said "the gentle
man’’ came into th6 shop at 606
Pennsylvania avenue S.E. yester
day and ordered a dozen dough
nuts which cost 40 cents.
She said he gave her a $20 bill
in payment and she gave him
$19.60 in change. Then' he gave
her a dime for two more dough
nuts which cost 9 cents and got a
penny change.
He then took a $5 bill and flve
$1 bills, placed them on the
counter, and asked her if she
would give him a $10 bill for
them- Miss Glass took a $10 bill
from the cash register and hand
ed it to the man. He took the
$10 bill, gathered up the $5 and
the five $1 bills and handed all
of them to the clerk and asked
that she give him a $20 bill. This
she did.
"I was so confused, I didn’t
know what I was doing,” she told
Judge Thomas D. Quinn.
At this point the manager of
the shop, Charles Vanderhuff,
came over and said the customer
was asking for too much change
and closed the register. The man
left, but a quick check of the
cash revealed that $10 was miss
ing.
"Was the cash register still
there?” Judge Quinn asked.
ronce were cauea ana arresiea
“the gentleman,” Harry Joseph
Livingston, 68, of Baltimore, in a
restaurant about four blocks away,
where he was getting change for a
$20 bill.
Livingston admitted doing the
clerk out of the $10 and told the
court she had been repaid.
Judge Quinn commented that
Livingston was first' arrested 49
years ago for a similar offense
and had been arrested innumer
able times since, the last time
following a card game in which
the other players were not satis
fied with the outcome. "I think
you wduld find out you can't get
away with it,” he declared.
He sentenced Livingston to 180
days in jail.
Two Legislators
Warn Johnson
Against Purge
Short and Sasscer
Oppose Vengeance
In Unity Dispute
Warning against any Pentagon
purges as a result of the armed
forces’ quarrels over unification
came from two House member*
today.
Representative Short, Republi
can, of Missouri said he intend*
to see to it that Secretary of
Defense Johnson sticks to per
sonal assurances that there will
be no reprisals over airing of Navy
grievances in the House Armed
Services Committee hearings that
wound up yesterday.
Representative Sasscer, Demo
crat, of Maryland asserted that
"we have got to be careful to keep
away from any elimination or
purges." He emphasized that th*
important thing “is to get th*
i armed services working as a
team."
Dismissals Reported Impending.
i 'The Short and Sasscer state
ments came in the wake of spread
ing reports that some heads may
roll in the Pentagon as an after
math of the heated congressional
hearings.
Those reports were given new
impetus yesterday when Secretary
Johnson said it was failure to sup
port unification which resulted in
the resignation of former Secre
tary of the Navy John L. Sullivan
—a statement w’hich Mr. Sullivan
promptly denied.
Navy officers appearing at tha
committee hearings have indicated
that their main quarrel is not
with the unification law itself, but
Iwith the way it is being carried
out. Nevertheless, there was
speculation that Mr. Johnson had
them in mind when he said ha
wanted no opponents of unifica
tion on his team.
“If they think they can get
unification by ruthlessly elimi
nating opposition, they’ve got an
other think coming,” Mr. Short
told reporters. “Everything can
be worked out all right if there it
not too much vindictiveness.”
j Broad Integration Proposed.
The hearings on defense strat
egy and the interservice disputa
came to a close on a “where-do
we-go-from-here?” note.
One result may be a broad inte
gration of the armed forces’ Re
serve training programs.
The “get-acquainted” program
could be initiated without legisla
tion and Mr. Johnson has indi
cated he favors it in principle.
In bringing the inquiry to a
close yesterday. Chairman Vin
son said the committee will not
draw up any specific recommenda
tions until Congress comes back
to work in January. But he em
phasized the committee is in
terested particularly in making
certain that present programs of
personnel exchange among tha
services for training be expanded.
Suggested by Durham.
| Chairman Vinson, Mr. Short and
; others on the committee had
| shown concern over Navy claims
that the Air Force would not let
Navy flyers familiarize themselves
with the B-36 intercontinental
I bomber and over Air Force state
i ments that they knew little about
I the Navy’s Banshee jet fighter
plane and weren’t particularly in
terested in it.
The proposal to extend some
measure of unification to the re
serves came from Representative
Durham, Democrat, of North
Carolina. He joined Mr. Vinson
in declaring the only way to make
unification work is to have all
services brought into intimate
contact with the problems of th»
others.
There’s no reason why the pres
ent limited interchange of per
sonnel shouldn’t be increased and
extended to the reserve units, Mr,
Durham said.
“Excellent” Says Johnson.
Mr. Johnson called it “an excel
lent suggestion.” He said it hadn't
occurred to him, inasmuch as the
cross-training program was in an
early stage. He promised to bring
it up at the next meeting of the
Defense Department’s Civilian
Components Policy Board.
In addition to the defense chief,
the committee heard yesterday
from former President Hoover
and Gen. George C. Marshall,
wartime Army Chief of Staff.
Both emphasized that economies
in service budgets are essential
and that all services must share
the cuts.
“Deserves Full Support.”
Mr. Johnson “deserves the full
support of this committee and the
country in his difficult task” of
trimming armed, force expendi
tures, Mr. Hoove* said.
He warned that the Nation's
(See SERVICE FIGHT, Page A-3.)
1 1 a
Listen to WMAL
Tonight for The Star's
Football Roundup
For today’s football head
lines and scores tune in The
Star’s Football Roundup broad
cast tonight over Station
WMAL at 8 o’clock direct from
The Star’s newsroom.
Please don’t phone The Star
for scores. Tune in The 8tar’s
Football Roundup for latest
results.