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WASHINGTON, D. C., OCTOBER 23, 1949—156 PAGES. ★
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U. S. Expected
To Take Firmer
Stand in Strikes
Gradual Worsening
Of Economic Picture
May Force Action
By James Y. Newton
Mounting unemployment and
gradual worsening of the eco
nomic picture generally may
force the Government to take
firmer measures late this week
to end the 23-day steel strike and
the older soft coal shutdown.
More than a million workers
already are unemployed because
of the twin strikes and there was
every sign that coal and steel
shortages soon will send the list
of jobless to much higher figures.
Cold weather would bring real
hardship to many localities where
coal supplies have dwindled to a
dangerously low level.
The Nation’s railroads are an
nouncing cancellation of hun
dreds of passenger trains in com
pliance with the Interstate Com
merce Commission’s order to re
duce coal-burning service 25 per
Steelworkers Ask
For Surplus Foods
To Feed Strikers
By the Associated Prees
GARY, Ind., Oct. 22.—CIO
United Steel Workers have
asked for Federal surplus
foodstuffs to feed strikers’
families.
Frank Blackwell. USW
welfare committee chairman,
said today the condition of
strikers’ families is not yet
"acute,” but added his com
mittee has been receiving re
quests for help in increasing
numbers.
He disclosed that the re
quest had been submitted to
the Surplus Commodities
agent for the State Welfare
Department. He said he un
derstood such foods as apples,
potatoes, butter, eggs and
clyese are available in Sur
plus Commodity warehouses
in Chicago.
cent, effective Tuesday. The or
der applies to railroads having
less than a 25-day supply of coal,
but nearly all of the carriers east
of the Mississippi fall in that cat
egory.
Little Effect on Service Here.
Train service into Washing
ton, however, apparently will be
affected little by the order. The
Baltimore & Ohio is discontinu
ing 23 trains, two of which op
erate between Brunswick, Md„
and Washington. The C. <fe O.
will cut service, but has not said
what it will be. Service on the
Pennsylvania and Southern into
this city will not be affected.
Over the country, the New York
Central Railroad appeared hardest
hit by the coal shortage. The
carrier, which already had discon
tinued 89 trains, announced that
it would have to suspend probably
100 more. Train service in the
West will not be reduced since
John L. Lewis’ United Mine
Workers are not on strike in mines
West of the Mississippi.
But the strike caused curtail
ment on a Canadian railroad. The
Canadian Pacific said it would
have to discontinue two trains on
the Buffalo-Toronto run begin
ning today. Three trains will con
tinue to make round trips daily.
Government’s Coarse Unknown.
Just what action the Govern
ment will use if the strikes con
(See LABOR, Page A-7.)
70 Degrees Due Today;
Tonight to Be Colder
The Weather Bureau predicted
more sunny weather today with
temperatures near the 70-degree
mark, but warned that a wave
of cold air should drop the mer
cury closer to normal fall weather
tomorrow.
Cool air which hit the city late
yesterday took the first step in
ushering out Washington’s spring
like weather, and that is expected
to be reinforced tonight by a
cold air mass moving eastward
from the Dakotas. The high tem
perature yesterday was 81, with
a low of 57.
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Classified Section
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Market Place
Every week The Sunday Star
classified ad section maintains
its outstanding leadership in
Washington.
For instance, last Sunday
The Star carried 3,052 more
individual classified ads than
the two other Washington
Sunday papers combined.
This vote of confidence comes
from people who know results
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they place a classified ad in
THE STAB. Phone Sterling
5000._
Radio Programs, Page C-8
Complete Index, Page A-2
Nearly 4,000,000 Are Idle
In U. S., Spot Survey Shows
Strikes Account for More Than Million
Of Figure and Are Due to Increase Total
By tht Associated Pros*
Nearly 4,000,000 persons are
idle across the country with in
dications that coal and steel
shortages will send this figure
soaring.
Only slightly more than a mil
lion of the idle are jobless because
of strikes, however. The bulk of
the others are drawing unemploy
ment compensation, looking for
work or are regarded as “perma
nent unemployables.’’
A spot 48-State survey by the
Associated Press indicated that
employment was generally high
the past week, but that the pic
ture probably will change swiftly.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics
reported that employment in in
dustrial and commercial lines had
reached a 1949 high of 43.488.000
just before the steel and coal
strikes began.
The employment figure in the
so-called norr-agricultural lines
had continued a brisk upward
pace noted earlier in the summer,
between mid-August and" mid
September there was an increase
of 464,000 in industrial and com
mercial jobs, the bureau reported.
The bureau said much of this
increase reflected the usual spurt
in manufacturing and trade and
the return of school workers after
summer vacation. However, there
was more than the usual seasonal
upturn in most branches of the
manufacturing industries, it said.
But many smaller firms, run
ning out of steel or coal, have
scheduled big cutbacks, some ef
fective during the coming week.
More railroad workers will join
the jobless ranks at midnight
Tuesday when passenger service
is cut on some coal burning roads
in compliance with an Interstate
Commerce Commission order. The
automobile inustry has an
nounce drastic curtailments for
next month. Steel fabricating
plants are nearing the end of the
line.
Secretary of Commerce Sawyer
has estimated that if the steel
strike runs to December 1, it will
force 5,000,000 workers into idle
ness and “seriously damage the
Nation’s economy.”
But even this gloomy estimate
falls far short of actual unem
ployment during the last depres
sion. A peak of around 14,000,000
unemployed was reached during
1933.
The survey indicated, however,
that the Nation is on the thres
hold of setting a new postwar
'See UNEMPLOYMENTrPsT A-ej j
Powerful Red Armies
Reported Massing
In Western China
Major Blows Expected
To Be Struck Against
Nationalist Strongholds
By the Associated Pr»»t
HONG SONG, Sunday, Oct. 23.
—Powerful Chinese Communist
armies today were reported
streaming westward for major
blows at the last Nationalist
| strongholds in Western and
Southwestern China.
Chinese press reports said the
second field army of Gen. Liu Po
cheng, conquerer of Nanking, was
moving up for an assault on Ssech
wan province, site of the refugee
capital of Chungking.
The accounts said Gen. Liu had
moved his field headquarters from
Nanking to an undisclosed point,
presumably to direct the opera*
tions.
The Communist forces of Gen.
Lin Piao still were thrusting
Southwestward in pursuit of the
200,000-man army of Gen. Pai
Chung-hsi, which is holed up in
Kwangsi, Southwestern CRinese
province.
Other Forces Moving.
As the Reds neared the Kwangsi
border, the press reported Gen.
Pai had moved his headquarters
from Kweilin, the provincial cap
ital, to Yungning (Nanning), with
in 100 miles of the Indo-China
border.
General Lin also was said to be
, sending a second strong force due
westward toward the border of
Kweichow province. The aim
here seems to be split the Nation
j alist forces, since Kweichow lies
I between Kwangsi and Chung
king’s Szechwan province.
It is expected that Gen. Peng
Teh-huai’s Communist armies in
northwest China will strike across
Szechwan’s northern border to
' ward Chungking. This drive would
! be synchronized with those of
j Liu’s and Lin’s forces farther
: south.
Nationalist Attacks Reported.
An official central news agency
dispatch from Formosa said Na
tionalist warplanes bombed and
strafed troops and vehicles around
Canton and carried out other at
tacks at Hengyang, far to the
north.
Nationalist reports from Chung
king, provisional capital, said
spearheads of Red Gen. Lin’s
army group were “dispersed” in
heavy fighting near Tungan, 90
miles northeast of Kweilin.
Pushing northwest out of Can
ton, Gen. Chen Keng’s Communist
forces were said by press dis
patches to be moving far north
(See CHINA, Page A-6.)
Band Planning to Kill
Government Officials
Smashed, Czechs Say
Group of Terrorists and
Spies Declared Aiding
Foreign Intelligence ^
♦ Sy th« Asiociated Pr«*
PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, Oct.
22. — Czechoslovakia’s Commu
nist-controlled government an
nounced tonight that it had
crushed a large band of “des
perate spies and terrorists’* who
sought to assassinate certain gov
ernment officials.
The official account declared
the group was in league with the
intelligence service of a foreign
power, which it did not name,
and had carried out a bombing
in the center of Prague last Aug
ust.
The arrested band was report
ed on trial at Louny, a small town
40 miles west of Prague.
It was the second Czechoslo
vak announcement within 24
hours reporting the cracking of
spy rings.
One V. S. Employe Expelled.
Yesterday the government an
nounced the arrest of ode em
ploye of the American Embassy
here and the expulsion of anoth
er on charges that they directed
operations for espionage, terror-;
ism and the smuggling of polit
ical refugees.
These announcements came
after three weeks of extensive
police roundups which had
thrown thousands of Czechoslo-j
vak citizens into jail or forced
labor camps and purged hundreds
of “political unreliables’’ from
their jobs.
Other developments were:
1. A secret treason trial ended
at Prague’s Pankrac Prison with
the sentencing of one defendant
to life imprisonment, and 36
others to lesser terms.
2. Roman Catholic sources re
ported dozens more priests ar
rested in the government’s cam
paign to break resistance to its
new church control law. which
goes into effect November 1.
Number Not Disclosed.
The official press agency's ac
count of the latest spy-terrorist
ring did not disclose just how
many persons were involved. But
it described them as desperate
men, including some dispossessed
former factory owners whose
properties had been confiscated by
the government for nationaliza
tion.
The ring was said to have been
headed by one Josef Horejfl, a
former factory owner officially de
scribed as also a “racketeer who
joined up with professional crimi
(See CZECH, Page A-5.)
Army, With Only 327 Horses
In U. S., Stops Show Activity
Old cavalrymen probably won’t
like it, but the Army has stopped
all participation in horse shows.
Down to its last 327 horses in
the United States, the Army De
partment last night notified the
National Horse Shows Association
that it could no longer participate
in public horse shows and other
equestrian activity principally be
cause suitable mounts are no
longer available. It added that
“horsemanship and related sub
jects have now been dropped from
the training programs of the
Army.”
The replacement of horses by
motorized equipment was started
several years before World War n
and by June 30, 1944, all horse
drawn field artillery units and
most cavalry units had been mo
torized. The last unit to turn over
its mounts was the 129th Cavalry
Squadron at Fort Riley, Kansas,
in December, 1944.
On July 1, 1948, the Army’s
horsebreeding program was trsns
ferred from the Quartermaster
Corps to the Agriculture Depart
ment and most of the thorough
breds and half-breds maintained
at remount stations have been
sold at public auction since. All of
the remaining animals will be sold
within the next two months.
Of the 327 horses retained by the
Army in this country, 20 are at
tached to the ceremonial com
pany at Fort Myer. Others are
used as draft animals, as mounts
for guards patrolling wide and
isolated areas at certain posts
and for other utilitarian purposes.
The constabulary in the American
zone of Germany has 400 horses.
The Army said that even if
suitable mounts were available,
drastic curtailments in military
personnel and the pressure of
other affairs “would not permit the
long and constant training needed
to qualify riders for entry into
public horse shows and exhibi
tions.”
Soviet Satellites
Violating Rights,
Assembly Finds
U. N. Votes to Request
International Court
For Advice on Pacts
By the Associated Press
NEW YORK, Oct. 22.—The
United Nations Assembly agreed
today with Western accusations
that three Russian satellites in
Eastern Europe are suppressing
human rights and freedoms. It
asked the International Court of
Justice for advice.
The Assembly vote was 47 to 5.
Over bitter Russian bloc objec
tions, the Assembly chose to ask
the international court for a rul
ing whether Bulgaria, Romania
and Hungary must comply with
peace treaties in settling the ques
tion.
The Cominform bloc fought to
keep the charges out of the United
Nations ever since the questions
first were raised after trials of
Josef Cardinal Mindszenty in
Budapest and of religious leaders
in Bulgaria early this year.
Ukrainian Makes Attaek.
But it lost after a last-minuate
attack today by the Soviet Ukraine
Foreign Minister, Dmitri Z. Man
uilsky. He said that human rights
violations were to be looked for
“in the Latin American countries,
in Australia, in the countries that
threaten the atom bomb war, and
in the countries that have lynch
law and Jim Crow.” He said hu
man rights are violated every day
in the United States.
He charged that the accusa
tions by the United States and
Britain against the three coun
tries he defended were “gross
fabrications and slanders."
Australia was another accuser.
Latin American nations, strongly
Catholic, gave powerful support
to the charges.
The Soviet Union, the Ukraine,
Poland, Czechoslovakia and White
Russia voted solidly against it.
Seven countries abstained on
the final vote. They were Israel,
Pakistan, India, Yugoslavia. Yem
en, Saudi Arabia and Afghanis
tan.
Yugoslavs Make Charges.
Yugoslavia, one-time Soviet
bloc member and now a bitter
enemy of the entire cominform
group, announced at the outset
that it would abstain because it
considered the three accused
countries guilty of other peace
treaty violations.
The secretary-general’s office
is expected to dispatch the As
sembly's decision to the Interna
tional Court at The Hague during
the coming week end. When the
court will take it up is indefinite.
But the adopted resolution also
insured that the question will be
kept alive on the program of the
fifth U. N. session in 1950 so that
a moral club hangs over the heads
of the accused nations, all of
whom have applied for member
ship in the U.N.
The resolution agreed that
human rights were being violated
in the three countries and said
this struck not only at the peace
treaties with those former enemy
countries but also at guarantees
of human rights and fundamental
freedoms insured in the U. N.
Charter. _
Ruling on Dispute Asked.
Framed in legal language, the
resolution asked the International
Court to rule whether the three
accused countries are involved in
a dispute over the human rights
provisions of the treaties.
If the court rules a dispute
exists, then it asks the court to
rule further whether they must
follow treaty provisions to settle
the dispute.
So far, the three countries have
denied the charges, have asserted
the peace treaties are not being
violated, and have refused to send
representatives to the O.N. to
answer the charges.
In all this, they have been
strenously defended by Russia’s
Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vt
shinsky and the Slav bloc spokes
men, who uphold the denials that
the satellites are violating any
treaties or guarantees.
Mr. Vishlnsky and others
(See U. N., Page A-3.)
Romulo Will Get '
Switch to Cut Off
Vishinsky Tirades
By the Associated Press
NEW YORK. Oct. 22.—All the
United Nations Assembly presi
dent will have to do now to shut
up a speaker is turn a switch.
Secretary General Trygve Lie
has instructed electricians to in
stall a master control on the pres
ident’s desk. This will cut off the
public address system and the
simultaneous translation equip
ment when a speaker refuses to
obey orders to stop.
This goes a step beyond Assem
bly President Carlos Romulo’s in
structions to the interpreters last
Thursday to stop interpreting aft
er he bangs his gavel.
Gen, Romulo’s order was made
when Soviet Foreign Minister An
drei Y. Vishinsky refused to obey
the chair’s ruling that his denun
ciation of the election of Yugo
slavia to the Security Council was
out of or4er.
^CrBEjoiiff wierofsrf^
i(WILLMOWCQML TO ORDER.
Chest Workers Will Canvass
18,000 Small Offices Here
Soliciting by Business II Unit Will Open
Week Leading to First Luncheon Report
More than 18.000 business and
professional offices having less
than 15 employes will be the ob
ject of concentrated solicitation
tomorrow by Community Chest
workers.
The extensive canvass will open
j the week leading to the first gen
eral report luncheon of the $3,
991,719 campaign to be held Mon
day, October 31, at the Washing
ton Hotel.
The Business II canvass, which
will include downtown offices and
most of the stores, shops and
other establishments in the out
lying areas will be supervised by
the following 10 area chairmen:
Richard K. Lyon, Area 0; Rob
; crt M. Balkam, Area 1; Maury
Young, Area 2; Ben Strouse, Area
3: C. Carney Smith, Area 4; Lee
Preston Clagett, Area 5; Morton
Gerber, Area 6; Salvind Olgar
Olson, Area 7; Arthur K. Jacobs,
Area 8, and John F. Donohoe,
Area 9.
In the Government Unit, two
agencies besides the Bureau of
Aeronautics, have exceeded their
goals. Chairman Maurice J. Tobin,
Secretary of Labor, announced.
They are the Administrative Office
of the United States Courts, Henry
P.„ Chandler, chairman, and the
Bureau of Prisons, Department of
Justice, James V. Bennett, chair
man.
Marine headquarters in Wash
ington reported that it has cohtri
buted more than 50 per cent over j
its campaign quota. The admin
istrative division, including the of
fices of the commandant and the
division of reserve, went over its
quota by 23 and 19 per eent res
pectively the first day of the drive.
The first luncheon is expected to
feature a surprise of city-wide in
(See CHEST, Page A-5.)
Coast Legislator Hits
Virginia Penal System;
Tuck Gives Name to FBI
U. S. Agency Asked List
Of Those Interceding for
Fugitive, Governor Soys
By the Associated Press
RICHMOND, Va.. Oct. 22.—Vir
ginia prisoners are treated “on an
animal basis” in the mistaken
notion that fear will breed obedi
ence, a touring Californian as
isemblyman said today. He said
Virginia had continuously tried to
make its prison system “a mon
ster.”
Vernon Kilpatrick, chairman of
the California legislature’s interim
committee on crime and correc
tion, added that a tour of the
State’s penal institutions led him
to hope that Gov. Warren of Cali
fornia “will not honor Gov. Tuck’s
request for the return of Lester
Tate, a Negro escapee now resid
ing in my assembly district in
California.”
Gov. Tuck had no direct com
ment on Mr. Kilpatrick’s allega
tions concerning treatment of pris
oners, but said that some time
ago the Federal Bureau of Inves
tigation had requested him to fur
nish names and addresses of those
interceding in behalf of Tate, and
that he had directed his office
several days ago to place Mr. Kil
patrick’s name on the list.
(Tate, also known as Albert L.
Gee, was convicted of attempted
robbery in Princess Anne County
circuit court in 1942 and sentenced
to ten years’ imprisonment. He
escaped from a State prison camp
in 1944 and fled to California,
where he has been living since.)
Mr. Kilpatrick said, in a state
ment to newspapers, that Virginia
has sought bo make its problems
of custody “a monster, if I may
judge by your armed guards in
uniform at your road camps, and
tear gun carriers in your prison,
your hobble-chains workers on the
highway and in your mountain
areas.
“A thousand men lay wrapped
nightly in chains in camps about
your state. Solitary with bare walls
and floors with only sheets and
a hand towel . . . prisoners may
be held thirty, sixty, ninety davs
yea, without limit, in cells without
windows and on diets not justi
fied in a Christian land.”
He recommended that the State
“build a system of trust and faith
and helpful friendliness to the
first repeater.”
Virginia’s legislature, Mr. Kil
patrick said, “should appoint a
committee from its own member
ship who will review the overall
program critically and with the
aid of nationally-known experts
and your own willing and able
(See PRISONS. Page A-5.>
Friends Insist Denfeld
Won't Step Out of His
Post Voluntarily
He cmd Other Admirals
May Be Fired, High
Pentagon Official Says
ADMIRAL BLANDY Says Navy
Will Abide Congress Decision in
Service Feud. Page A-6.
By John A. Giles
Friends of Admiral Louis E.
Denfeld said yesterday that he
has no intention of voluntarily
stepping out as Chief of Naval
Operations because of the bitter
defense controversies aired before
the House Armed Services Com
mittee. .
The admiral, who only recently
was renamed to the post for two
more years by President Truman,
was criticized by both Gen. Brad
ley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff, and Defense Secretary
Johnson in testimony before the
committee last week.
It was felt in some Pentagon
circles that Gen. Bradley’s sharp
statement, which came after Ad
miral Denfeld’s charges before the
same forum, had made impossible
a continuation of the present re
lationships in the Defense De
partment and particularly in the
Joint Chiefs organization. Ad
miral Denfeld is the Navy repre
sentative on that top-level group.
One high official at the Pen
tagon told an Associated Press
reporter that Admiral Denfeld and
perhaps some other officers may
(See SERVICE FLIGHT, Pg. A-6J
House Report Calls
Women's Congress
'Communist Hoax'
Un-American Probers
Say Organization Tries
To Mislead Gullible
The House Committee on Un
American Activities yesterday
stamped the Congress of American
Women "just another Communist
hoax” to mislead “gullible women.”
In a formal report, the com
mittee said the group’s chief pur
pose "is to act as part of a world
wide pressure mechanism among
women, in support of Soviet for
eign and domestic policy.”
The committee said It aims to
“ensnare idealistically minded but
politically gullible women ’
The committee said the Con
gress was officially launched on
March 8, 1946, In New York City
and claims chapters in Los .An
geles, Oakland, Chicago, Pitts
burgh, Detroit, Philadelphia,
Washington, New York and other
cities.
Called Highly Articulate.
The committee said the 1946
meeting at which the Congress
was organized elected these of
ficers:
President, Dr. Gene Weltflsh;
executive vice president, Muriel
Draper; treasurer, Helen Phil
lips; secretary, Josephine Timms;
recording secretary, Thyra Ed
wards; vice chairmen, Elinor
Gimbel, Mrs. Frederic March,
Charlotte Hawkins Brown, Mrs.
Vivian Carter Mason, Mrs. Gif
ford Pinchot, Ruth Young, Susan
B. Anthony II, Jeannette Turner,
and Dr. Beryl Parker.
‘‘The Congress of American
Women.” the committee declared,
“is composed primarily of a. hard
core of Communist Party mem
bers and a circle of close syjn
pathizers, and although it num
bers but a few thousand members
all told, it 'has been highly articu
late and energetic in its anti
American, pro-Soviet propagan
da. Hence it is all the more neces
sary that American women be
alerted to its true character and
aims.” I
Report Called "Nonsense.”
In New York last night, Dr.
Weltflsh called the committee re
port “nonsense, fantastic.” Dr.
Weltflsh said she is honorary
president of the congress after
serving three years as president.
“American women are not gul
lible,” she said. “They cannot be
misled. Neither is there a ‘hard
core of Communist Party mem
bers’ as the committee says.”
Dr. Weltflsh, an anthropologist
who lectures at Columbia Uni
versity, said the major purpose of
(See UN-AMERICAN, Page A-4.)
Michigan and L. S. U. Victories
Provide Major Grid Upsets
Mighty Michigan, Louisiana
State and Southern Methodist
University supplied the fireworks
for yesterday’s football schedule
that found surprises on many
fronts.
The twice - beaten Wolverines
(and expected to lose again) re
gained their power and upset
Minnesota, 14 to 7, before nearly
100,000 persons at Ann Arbor.
Louisiana State, in a major up
set, stopped Charley Justice and
North Carolina, 13 to 7, at Baton
Rouge.
Southern Methodist defeated
Kentucky, 20 to 7, to knock the
Kentuckians from the list of un
beaten and untied teams.
In another upset Iowa bowled
over Northwestern, 28-21; Illinois
took over first place in the Big
Ten by defeating Purdue, 19 to 0,
and Pittsburgh lost, it# first game
as Indiana won. 48 to 14.
The University of Maryland de
feated North Carolina State, 14
to 8. at Raleigh; Pennsylvania
sunk tne navy, 28-7; Army outzed
Columbia, 63 to 6; Virginia
crushed V. M. I„ 32-io 13; Cor
nell squeezed to a 14-to-12 vic
tory over Princeton; Harvard lost
its fifth in a row when Dartmouth
won, 27 to 13; Wake Forest
crushed William and Mary, 55 to
28; Duke plastered Virginia Tech,
55 to 7, and Arkansas defeated
Vanderbilt, 7 to 6.
Tulane, overwhelmed a week
ago by Notre Dame, was jittery
but managed to defeat Auburn,
l'4 to 6.
(Details in Sports Section.)
I Redskin-Eagle Game
On Radio and Video
The Washington Redskins
Philadelphia Eagles pro foot
ball game today in Philadel
phia will be broadcast over
WMAL and telecast over
WMAL-TV starting at 1:58
p.m.
French Premier
Gives Up.Efiort
To Form Cabinet
Resigns as Socialists
Refuse to Take Part
On His Conditions
By the Associated Press
PARIS, Sunday, Oct. 23—
Premier-designate Rene Mayer
resigned early today, prolonging
the political crisis which has left
Prance without a cabinet for 16
days.
Mr. Mayer had been premier
designate only two days. He was
unable to form a cabinet because
the Socialists were unwilling to
enter his government under the
conditions he outlined.
Mr. Mayer went to the Elysee
Palace to present his resignation
to President Vincent Auriol. He
remained with the president more
than an hour.
On emerging, he issued a state
ment in which he blamed the
Socialists for his failure. During
the time he was at the palace the
Socialists had issued a commun
ique disclaiming responsibility.
Mr. Mayer said: "I hope that
someone luckier that I have been
can bring a quick end to this
grave crisis.”
Talked Long With Socialists.
He gave up after a full day
and night of conferences, mostly
with the Socialists, in an effort
to end the stalemate.
Mr. Mayer had said he would
not serve without the Socialists.
But the Socialists demanded that
they get the Ministry of National
Defense and that Socialist Daniel
Mayer (no relation of Rene) be
named minister of labor.
These conditions were not ac
ceptable to the premier. He was
backed in this by his own party,
the moderate Radical Socialists.
; Mr. Mayer was confirmed as
| premier by the National Assembly
| Thursday by a vote of 341 to 183,
■after Socialist Jules Moch had
Tailed to hitch up a cabinet team.
iThe cabinet of Radical Socialist
I Henri Queuille resigned October
;6 in a deadlock over wage and
riice policies.
Next Move Up to Auriol.
The next move in solving the
16-day governmental crisis will be
up to Mr. Auriol. He will call in
various political leaders, then ask
someone to accept the premier
ship.
It is not known on whom the
mantle will fall. The three major
parties in a centrist coalition ari
the Socialists, Radical Socialists
and , the Popular Republican
(Movement (MRP), which is a
Catholic Party.
The Socialists had an unsuc
cessful try with Mr. Moch. MRP,
which had been responsible for
his failure by refusing to go along
with him, refused to accept the
premiership. Then it was given to
Mr. Mayer.
Some observers believe that Mr.
Auriol will again try to get MRP
to accept. Failing that, he might
make another effort to have Mr.
Queuille return to office. Mr.
Queuille refused such a tender
when the job was offered to Mr.
i Mayer.
Man Dies of Aufo Injuries;
57th Traffic Fatality
Washington's 57th traffic fa
tality of the year was recorded
last night with the death of a 51
year-old man at Gallinger Hospi
tal.
The victim was identified by
police as Charlie Saffold, whose
only known address is the Wait
ers’ Union local at 937 F street
N.W.
He died apparently from head
injuries after being' struck near
First and Pierce streets N.E. early
yesterday. The driver was listed
as Pete Chipouras, 46, of Glen
Qale, Md„ who, police said, will
appear for a hearing before a
coroner’s inquest.
Police said Mr. Saffold appar
ently was running in a crosswalk
at the intersection, and that Mr.
Chipouras was making a left turn
into Pierce street at the time of
the accident. It was the 41st
fatal accident of the year involv
ing a pedestrian, the same num
ber for this date last year. There
were 53 traffic fatalities in all
during the same period in 1948.
President Writes Lehman
He Is Confident of Election
By the Associated Press
NEW YORK. Oct. 22.—Presi
dent Truman has notified Her
bert H. Lehman that he has “not
the slightest doubt” the former
governor will be elected to the
Senate November 8.
The letter from Mr. Truman,
dated October 20, was released by
Mr. Lehman’s headquarters today.
It said the fight between Mr.
Lehman, the Democratic-Liberal
candidate, and Republican
Senator Dulles is being watched
throughout the Nation. The let
ter asserted that Mr. Lehman’s
services will be “of inestima’bto"
value” in the Senate.
Last month the President of
fered to speak in the former gov
ernor’s behalf but was advised by
Paul E. Fitzpat’>:k, Democratic
State chairman, that this would
not be necessary.