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Reds Intensify
Radio Attacks in
Truce Deadlock
Peiping Station Says
Chinese Was Killed
In U. N. Ambush
ly the Associated Pr*»«
MUNSAN, Korea. Aug. 21.
Communist protests and anti-;
American propaganda were I
stepped up today as a joint Allied-!
Communist subcommittee held its
fifth session trying to break the
deadlock in Korean truce talks.
Red China’s Peiping radio said
tonight that the killing of a Chi
nese soldier in the Kaesong neu
tral zone “will rouse still greater
hatred of American imperialism
among Korean and Chinese peo
ples.”
The Reds formally charged the
Chinese was killed in an ambush
by United Nations troops. The
U. N. command denied this; said
it was probably the work of guer
rillas.
Today’s Peiping broadcast, quot
ing the official Hsinhua New China j
News Agency, said “he was mur-!
dered in American ambush.” i
Delegations Pore Over Maps.
The broadcast quoted Maj. Gen.
Hsieh Pang, a Chinese armistice
delegate and member of the j
joint subcommittee, as saying the
death of the soldier “will surely
harden Chinese volunteers’ de
termination to defend peace.”
Hours before the broadcast the
subcommittee—two Allies and two
Communists—met in Kaesong for:
two hours and four minutes.;
More than half that time they!
spent poring over a map trying to
agree on a military dividing line
for a cease-fire.
They scheduled another session
for 11 a.m. Wednesday (9 p.m.
today, EDT). They made no re
port on progress.
But the U. N. spokesman. Air
Force Brig. Gen. William P.
Nuckols, gave some indication
little progress was being made.
Gen. Nuckols said the Com
munists at the discussions were
“immune” to military logic, “ob
durate” in their politically colored
demands, “inscrutable” in present-!
ing them, and “adamant” to ad
justments.
Gen. Nuckols drew no distinc
tion between the attitude Red gen
erals displayed in full negotiation
sessions and in subcommittee
meetings.
U. N. Demands Assailed.
The U. N. spokesman made his
comment after Peiping radio said
yesterday that:
“If the American side still stub
bornly adheres to its unreasonable
demand of plunder, and reject*
the just and reasonable proposal
of our side, an agreement will be
impossible.’”
The broadcast was a detailed
analysis, in typical sharply-worded
Communist fashion, of U. N. de
mands for a buffer zone along the
present battle-line. The broad
cast said:
“All the 'military logic’ of the
American side cannot in the least
excuse the American* aggressive
policy nor can it in the least cover
up the arrogant, unreasonable and
utterly fantastic American de
mand to set up the military de
marcation line north of the 38th
Parallel deep into our positions
“Ordinary people will see lunacy
of this ‘logic.’”
■ The North Korean Pyongyang
broadcast repeated a charge it
(See TRUCE. Page A-6.)
South Korean Attacks
Make Little Headway
ly th* Associated Press
U. S. Bth ARMY HEADQUAR
TERS. Korea, Aug. 21.—South Ko
rean troops attacked strongly held
ridges north of Yanggu behind a
curtain of artillery fire today, but
made little headway.
Front line dispatches and official
announcements reported the |
South Koreans seized the ridge ofi
one hill but were swept off two
others by Red counterattacks.
Associated Press Correspondent
George A. McArthur reported
from the east-central front that!
battles raged throughout the day;
northeast and northwest of
Yanggu.
On the far eastern flank, Mr.
McArthur said, attacking South
Korean troops secured north
south ridgelines near Kansong ex
cept for one hill recaptured by a
Communist counterattack today.
Large numbers of Communist
troops were reported massing a
few miles north of the battleline
above Yanggu.
TOKYO, Aug. 21 (£>).—'The
North Korean Red radio said to
night an Allied warship was sunk
and two others damaged off the
East Korean port of Wonsan yes
terday.
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Peiping Sees War in Jap Treaty
Without Red China and Russia
Separate Peace Pact
'Decisive Factor/
Broadcast Says
ly th* Associated Pr.ss
TOKYO. Aug. 21.—The Peiping
radio today quoted a Shanghai
newspaper as saying that if Japan
signs a peace treaty without Red
China and Russia it will mean “a
declaration of war against these
two countries.”
The broadcast monitored here
carried at length an editorial from
|Ta Kung Pao. one of the Chinese
1 newspapers which the Reds took
lover when they seized Shanghai.!
“Legally,” the newspaper said,!
"after the conclusion of a sepa-i
rate peace, a state of war would
still exist between these two coun
tries and Japan.”
Red China has not been invited
to the Japanese peace treaty con
ference at San Francisco next
month. Russia will attend but 1
is not expected to sign.
“Whether Japan will sign a
separate peace treaty prepared by;
America or not will be a decisive
factor in Japan's fate,” the news-!
paper said.
“Now is a critical moment for
Japan, as America will soon hold
its so-called ‘peace conference
with Japan’ in San Francisco.
“We believe that the Japanese
people understand that a separate
peace treaty without (Commu-
Britain Offers Iranians
'Take It or Leave It'
Proposal in Oil Fight
Teheran Given Till Noon
Tomorrow to Accept Plan
To Settle Controversy
By th« Associated Press
TEHERAN, Iran. Aug. 21.—1
Britain’s delegate today offered
Iran a new proposal to settle the
grave British oil dispute and gave
the Iranians until noon tomorrow
to take it or leave It.
The new British move followed
Delegate Richard R. Stokes of the
previous British proposal revolving
about a 50-50 split of Iranian oil
products.
(In London, the Foreign Office,
confirming the new offer, an
nounced that Prime Minister
Attlee has summoned his cabi
net to discus* the oil negotia
tions.)
Mr. Stokes announced he had
offered compromise possibilities
which concern the retention of
British management at the Aba
dan refinery and the oil fields.
These had been rejected by Iran
ian Premier Mohammed Mossa
degh. Mr. Stokes then withdrew
Britain’s proposals and substi
tuted a new overall one. It in
cluded the problem of employ
ment of British personnel. If the
Teheran government rejects this,
Mr. Stokes probably will return
at once to London.
Hopes for Acceptance.
Mr. Stokes told reporters:
"All my efforts have been con
; centrated on obtaining a fair,
workmanlike solution. That I
believe to have failed, I regret to
say, and I can only hope the gov
ernment (of Iran) before noon
tomorrow will reconsider and ac
cept the abundance of help and
good will which, in the interest
of Iran, even at this late hour,
is still available. If not, there is
nothing left for me but to go
home.”
There seemed to be little hope
that a last-minute Iranian switch
would avert complete breakdown
of the talks. W. Averell Harri
man, President Truman's envoy,
who has been trying to mediate
the dispute, had no immediate
comment on the imminent failure
of his mission, but he has made it
clear he supports the British pro
posal.
Mr. Stokes told reporters the
breakdown came after Dr. Mossa
degh objected to any sort of Brit
ish supervision over the Abadan
refinery and oilfields, although he
said the Iranians were willing to
hire Britons on an individual basis.
Voices Opinion of Staff.
“I have kept in closest touch j
with the British staff and am
voicing their unanimous opinion;
in saying they will not remain toi
work in Iran if the Iranian gov-1
ernment insists on impossible]
working and management condi-!
tions,” Mr. Stokes said..
Anglo-Iranian's representative
at Abadan told reporters that by;
the end of this week the British
staff remaining at the refinery
will number about 550 and there
will be 230 in the oilfield areas.
Withdrawal of non-essential per
sonnel is still going on.
Wednesday is pay day for the
AIOC staff, including 28,000 Iran
ians in Abadan ana 16,122 in the
oilfields. Their pay, issued semi
monthly, costs AIOC about $92,000
a day, although there has been
no oil production recently.
Spanking Adage Fulfilled;
It Hurts Dad Worse
By th* Associated Brass
MISHAWAKA. Ind., Aug. 21.
"This is going to hurt me worse
than it hurts you,” said Ellsworth
B. Wilson as he started spanking
his 10-year-old son Ellsworth, jr„
for disobedience.
It did.
During the spanking yesterday
the 43-year-old father knocked
over a lamp and suffered a head
cut. He was treated in a Misha
waka hospital.
Young Ellsworth’s injuries were
not visible.
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WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1951—THIRTY-EIGHT PAGES.
Gromyko ahd Party
Reach Paris by Air
En Route to America
By the Associated Prep s
PARIS, Aug. 21.—Andrei
Gromyko, Soviet deputy for
eign minister, and other mem
bers of the Soviet delegation
to the San Francisco confer
ence on the Japanese peace
treaty, arrived in Paris by air.
They will embark for New
York on the Queen Elizabeth
tonight at Cherbourg.
nist) China and the Soviet Union
means a declaration of war!
against these two countries.” j
The newspaper then repeated!
the old Communist charge that!
the treaty would turn Japan into
a “colony,” with United States
military forces holding Japanese
bases.
“Every one can see,” the news-1
paper continued, “that Japan is
at the crossroads, one road lead
ing to war and destruction, the
other to peace and independence.”
It concluded with an “urgent!
appeal” to the Japanese people!
“to rise up and take the fate of
your country into your own!
hands.”
It called on the Japanese “not!
to let a small number of people;
sell out your nation, and to firmly
oppose a separate peace treaty.”!
Tropical Hurricane
Adds Power, Heads for
Mexican Oil Fields
Regains Force Over Gulf;
Stormy Seas May Reach
To Texas Coast Line
By tho Associated Press
MEXICO CITY, Aug. 21.—A re
fortified tropical hurricane with a
130-mile-an-hour wind wallop
stormed through the Southwest
Gulf of Mexico today toward the
Central Mexican coast and its oil
fields. Overnight it had regained
most of the force with which it
raked Jamaica last Friday and
took 155 lives.
Along Mexico’s tropical eastern
shore on the Gulf, Tampico and
Veracruz, the country’s two big
gest ports, took precautions.
But the hurricane—if it kept
its present course during the day
—was due to hit the mainland
about halfway between the ports
between 7 and 10 p.m. (EDT).
Both expected to be on the outer
fringes of the storm.
The Weather Bureau said the
full force was headed for the
Tuxpan-Nautla area.
Picks Up New Force.
Tuxpan is an oil port of about
13,000 population about 135 miles
up the coast from Veracruz. Naut
la is a small town on the coast be
tween Tuxpan and Veracruz.
The big blow swept across Ja
maica Friday, then hit the Yuca
tan Peninsula of Mexico yester
day. It lost force over the sparse
i ly settled land and headed across
Campeche Bay, in the Southwest
Gulf. The Mexican Weather Bu
reau said it picked up new force
last night.
Squalls and heavy seas may ex
tend to the lower Texas coast,
the Weather Bureau said in cau-
Itioning small craft to take cover
! until the fury of the storm has
passed.
The Weather Bureau has ad
vised ships in the southwest Gulf
of Mexico to remain in port until
all dangers have passed.
The storm developed hurricane
force six days ago on moving into
the Caribbean from the Atlantic
and since has traveled almost
2,300 miles along a west-north
westerly path.
Thatched Huts Leveled.
Lightly-built palm thatched
huts on Cozumel, an island off
the east coast of the peninsula,!
were blown down.
Merida, the capital of Yucatan!
of the northwestern tip of the pen
insula. reported high winds and
heavy rains but no great damage.
The Yucatan Peninsula is a 180-
mile thumb of land that sticks 200
miles up into the Gulf of Mexico
on the Central American goose
\ neck that divides North and South
America.
| —--
Fumes in Railway Tunnel Kill
Engineer, Affect 2 Trainmen
By th* Associated Press
CUMBERLAND, Md., Aug. 21.
An engineer on a slow-moving
Baltimore & Ohio freight train
was overcome by fumes in the
Knobley tunnel near Patterson
creek and died here last night.
Dr. H. V. Deming, Allegany
County deputy medical examiner,
pronounced, the engineer, Joseph
H. Gideon, of Brunswick, Md„
dead on arrival at Memorial Hos
pital.
Dr. Deming listed the cause of
death tentatively as carbon mo
noxide poisoning after an autopsy
this morning. A different view
was taken by the railroad’s medi
cal consultants, who said a heart
attack probably was the cause of
death.
Two other trainmen, Earl M.
Virts, brakeman, and Noel Wil
liams, fireman, both of Brunswick,
suffered from the fumes. They
were not hospitalized, however.
According to B. & O. officials,
the east-bound freight was travel
ing through the mile-long tunnel
at about 3 miles an hour.
The report to railroad head
quarters in Baltimore said Mr.
Gideon’s locomotive was 10 to 15
car lengths from the east^end
Red Propaganda
Beaten in Reich,
McCloy Reports
Big Drive Started in
Spring Has Flopped,
U. S. Chief Says
ly th* Associated Pross
FRANKFURT, Germany, Aug.
21. Communism’s big propa
ganda drive has flopped in West
Germany, United States High
Commissioner John J. McCloy said
today.
j The Reds opened their full
scale assault last spring, Mr. Mc
lU.I U. S. High Commission Lending $3,570,000
to German Papers. Page A-3
Cloy said in his quarterly report
to the State Department. They
tried to scare West Germans away
from joining Western defense and;
into a sell-out compromise with
the East.
Instead, Mr. McCloy reported,
German support for Western de
fense has increase, and the Com
munists’ chief propaganda agen-j
'cies have been thoroughly dis
credited, rejected and even out
lawed by an aroused West Ger
many.
Subversion Resisted.
“It has become increasingly
; difficult to peddle recognizable
'communist wares in Western Ger
many, Mr. McCloy concluded.
“West German determination to
uncover and resist Communist
subversion has matured appre
jdably. Even the basic play on
(fear of Soviet attack'has worn
thin with the excessive use and
growing Allied strength.”
Their militant, uniformed “Free
German Youth” (FDJ) spear
headed the Communists’ propa
ganda drive at its outset. They
staged mass demonstrations and
started riots in several cities.
Printed propaganda flooded West
Germany. Communist newspapers
became increasingly savage in
their attacks on the Western
| Allies.
But the West German govern
ment banned the FDJ and confis
cated tons of Red propaganda, j
and the Allies suspended most of
the Communist newspapers.
Then the Red propagandists i
tried to use persons and groups
not formally connected with com-!
munism, Mr. McCloy reported, i
"Even these voices, however,
soon became lost as the West 1
German population rallied to the
anti-Communist call,” he said.
Veteran Groups Infiltrated.
The Communists even infiltrat
ed groups of German war veter
ans and tried to get them to op
pose German participation in
Western military defense, Mr. Mc-
Cloy’s report said.
“However, several veterans' or
ganizations have already indi-;
cated their refusal of the Commu-:
nist line by expressing their will-!
ingness to support a West German
defense contribution on the basis
of equal partnership,” he added.
In spite of all the Communist
propaganda, Mr. McCloy conclud
ed. West German sentiment for
defense has grown until the ques
tion now is “not primarily wheth
er or not West Germany should
actively participate in its own de
fense. Rather, much of the de
bate centers on the manner and
conditions for such participation.”
Meanwhile, the Communist Party
has lost ground steadily in every
succeeding election.
Mr. McCloy conceded that the
recent election successes of the
Nazi-like Socialist Empire Party
discloses a “certain potential
danger from the extreme right.”
But he discounted the likelihood
of “any general advance of the
ultranationalist cause in the fore
seeable future.”
On the whole, he said. West
Germany is making "steady prog
ress in most fields.”
He noted a “remarkable im
provement.” economically, with
production one-third above 1936
levels and exports increasing
rapidly.
“Germany achieved a positive
over-all trade balance in April
and May for the first time since
‘the war,” he reported.
of the tunnel, when he suddenly
got down and sat down on the
ground beside the track.
Fireman Williams stopped the
120-car train. He and the brake
man helped the engineer back on
the locomotive, uncoupled it, and
ran it out of the tunnel.
Mr. Gideon revived, went to a
trackside telephone and called the
dispatcher in Cumberland. He re
ported he was ill and asked to be
relieved. The dispatcher asked
him if he could bring the loco
motive to Cumberland Mr. Gideon
said he could.
The crew started for Cumber
land on the locomotive, leaving
the cars in the tunnel. Eight
miles from Cumberland, Mr.
Gideon toppled off his seat, ap
parently dead.
The B. & O.’s two New York-St.
Louis limiteds are the only pas
senger trains which use the tun
nel and both have diesel locomo
tives.
Officials at the railroad’s main
office in Baltimore said they could
recall no similar case.
A Pennsylvania Railroad spokes
man here said no such incident
has occurred on that line for at
least 25 years.
t ■
Princess Margaret Reaches 27;
Scots Make It Festive Occasion
Family Birthday Party at Balmoral Castle
Is Quiet; King to Preside at Ball
By th* Associated Press
BALLATER, Scotland, Aug. 21.
Princess Margaret, vivacious
sweetheart of the British Empire,
came of age today. Her 21st birth
day was greeted by Britons every
where, but the celebration at
nearby Balmoral Castle was a
quiet family affair.
Tourists and local folk in this;
neighboring Scottish town made!
it a festive occasion as friends of
the royal family—including some!
who may be eligible'for Margaret’s;
hand—came to take part in the
birthday party.
Presents, telegrams and letters
showered on the Princess.
Grandmother Queen Mary
phoned from Sandringham, where
she is holidaying. Court circles
(reported her gift to the Princess
, was a diamond tiara.
King George and Queen Eliza
beth gave another pearl for a
matched string. Princess Mar
garet and Elizabeth each get a
pearl a year from their parents,
'j The King and Queen also gave
Chiang Regime Fires
Two Stationed Here,
Orders Them Home
Air Force's Deputy Chief
And Executive Assistant
Accused by Nationalists
By th« Associated Press
I TAIPEH, Formosa, Aug. 21.
. The Chinese Nationalist govern
■ ment fired two of its representa
-1 tives in the United States and
’ ordered them home immediately.
’ First, Generalissimo Chiang
’ Kai-shek suspended Lt. Gen. Mao
Pang-chu as deputy commander
.of the Chinese Nationalist air
. force and delegate to the United
r Nations Military Staff Committee.
1 Chiang in a mandate accused
1 Mao of “dereliction of duties and
[ disobedience of orders.” A gov
■ ernment spokesman said Mao had
. failed to account for $19,440,000
of funds to buy equipment for the
air force and to train its person
• nel
v Next, Air Force headquarters an
. nounced dismissal of Col. Hsiang
L Weih-suan, executive assistant to
i Mao, and ordered him home to
r face charges of dereliction of duty
‘ and suspicion of being a Commu
, nist agent.
May Face Extradition.
It was doubted here that either
would return voluntarily to For
mosa. Observers said it is more
likely they would seek to stay in
the United States, in which case 1
the government might try to ob
tain their extradition.
Gen. Mao, otherwise known as
Lt. Gen. P. T. Mow, had been
Nationalist air force representa
tive in Washington since the
spring of 1943.
Government spokesman, Shen;
Chang-huan, said Gen. Mao was
accused of:
1. Failure to give a clear ac
(See CHIANG. Page A-4.)
Researcher , 7, Tests
His Capacity for
Eating Ice Cream
By th* Atiociated Pratt
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 21.—How.
, much ice cream can a small boy
eat in one month?
' Given time, 7-year-old Charles
, Gibson will have an answer to
the question.
Charlie found a sack containing
$250, which had been dropped by
an employe of an ice cream com
pany. For turning it in, Charlie
will receive all the ice cream he
and his family can eat for a
month.
Wasting no time, Charlie ap
■ peared at the main office of the
■ company today and started col
lecting his reward. |
Margaret a pair of turquoise
bracelets and later this week they
will give a sporty green car.
! There were presents also from
two young men who are Margar- j
et’s particular friends and who
! are guests at the castle, 24-year
old William (Billy) Wallace, polo
playing stepson of American writ
er Herbert Agar, and the 27-year
old Earl of Dalkeith. Margaret
hasn’t told yet what the young
men chose for her.
! The day was a mixture of sun-:
shine and fleecy clouds. Shortly
before noon the princess and sev
eral guests went out on the moors
where the King and his party were
shooting grouse.
On the program of Margaret's
big day were a picnic, a late after
( noon tea and a house party, at
1 which the princess will wear the
white and gold evening gown on
which dressmakers worked six
months.
j There will be no booming of
guns throughout the empire, since
(See MARGARET, Page A-4.)
Nelson to Obey Court,
Appear at Grand Jury
Session Tomorrow
Hires Rover as Counsel;
Numbers Backer Said
To Be at Ritchie Farm
Charles E. Nelson, the Mary
land sportsman who failed to
appear at a Senate hearing after
admitting he is a numbers backer,!
will obey a court summons to
morrow by appearing here before:
a grand jury investigating inter
state gambling.
The wealthy horsebreeder is re
ported to have returned to his
farm at nearby Ritchie, Md.,
from an Atlantic City “fishing”;
trip, but is remaining in seclusion.!
Nelson was described at the!
Senate Crime Investigating Com
mittee hearing last week as the;
overlord of a numbers syndicate!
that grossed $5,000 a week. He
also was accused of attempting;
to bribe Prince Georges law en
forcement officials in order to
police protection,
i The grand jury investigation!
was launched by United States!
Attorney George Morris Fay as a!
result of disclosures during the
Senate probe. As the committee
ended public hearings. Acting
Chairman Kefauver suggested
that Nelson might be cited for
perjury.
Nelson Hires Rover as Counsel.
Although he had testified be
fore the committee earlier this
month. Nelson did not answer the
call for his return. The Sena
tors said they wanted to question
him about testimony taken dur
ing the interim.
Attorney Leo A. Rover, who
said he was retained yesterday to
! represent Nelson, conferred briefly
i today with Assistant United States
(Attorney John W. Fihelly and
: announced that his client will
appear tomorrow before the grand
jury.
“Mr. Nelson w’ill answer any
questions before the grand jury
that I think are proper,” said Mr.
Rover, "and he will stand on his
constitutional rights on any ques
tions that I think are not proper.”
Subpoenaed Through Employe.
Attorneys are not permitted to
accompany their clients into the
closed grand jury room, but wit
nesses who may become defend
ants in subsequent trials sometimes
leave the room for short confer
ences with the lawyers.
After visiting Mr. Fihelly today.
Mr. Rover conferred with United
States Marshal W. Bruce Matthews
and his chief deputy, Charles Ward. (
The attorney said arrangements!
were made to permit members of
the Nelson household staff to ac-!
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Stronger Drug Laws
Proposed by Barrett
To Curb Use Here
Police Chief Cites Lack
Os Enforcement Power
In Plea to City Heads
By Harriet Griffiths
Police Supt. Robert J. Barrett '
today recommended remedial leg-!
islation to permit the Police De
partment better to cope with vio
lations of the narcotics laws in
the District.
Maj. Barrett told the Commis
sioners there are many defici-i
encies in existing laws relating to
the sale, possession and use of
narcotic drugs in the District.
He listed these:
1. It is not possible to prosecute
addicts in whose possession are
found hypodermic syringes or
needles or other instruments
needed for administering habit
forming drugs.
2. Adjacent jurisdictions have,
laws which make certain drug of- i
senses felonies, while in the Dis-,
trict the same offenses are mis
demeanors.
Maryland Has Greater Penalty.
3. The Maryland Narctotic Drug
Act provides that conviction of a
inarcotic violation in any other
State, territory or district is suffi
cient to make such offense a
second violation when appre
hended in Maryland and there
fore subject to greater penalty!
ithan would apply in the District.
4. The Maryland act provides a
more stringent penalty for any
transactions in narcotic drugs
involving minors.
5. In some States it is a viola
tion for any person to use or be
administered any illicit narcotic
drug. This is not true in the Dis
trict. Such a law, if enacted for;
! the District would force addicts to
go to the so-called “joints” to have
!drugs administered to them, there
by permitting better surveillance
land enforcement.
District Problem Growing.
The major’s request came amid
growing evidence that the drug
traffic in Washington is not as
meager as police officials have
stated.
Last week Baltimore Judge Jos
!eph Sherbow tagged the District
as a major source of heroin supply
for Baltimore peddlers. The judge
told the Senate Crime Investigat
ing Committee that several ped
dlers appearing in his court had
'freely admitted they came to
(Washington to get dope.
! Maj. Barrett has announced a
! school, to open in the fall, to ac
quaint all police officers with en
forcemnet of narcotics laws. He
termed it an “all-out drive”
against narcotics peddling, and
said that all police officers would
join with the narcotics squad in
the enforcement of the drug laws.|
Several Seizures Made Recently.
Several large seizures of Illegal
drugs have been made here in the
past three months as well as many
arrests of addicts and peddlers.
The Police Chief said the points
he made to the Commissioners
were outlined “with a view to
pointing oirt the difficulty of prop
er enforcement without adequate
law to deal with the situation and
taking into consideration particu
larly the fact that adjacent states
provide more adequate penalties
and also have laws which permit
more efficient enforcement.”
Maj. Barrett cited sections from
Maryland and Pennsylvania laws
which he suggested would be help- !
ful to enforcement in the District. ;
The Commissioners handed the .
recommendations to Corporation '
Counsel Vernon E. West for study.
Late News
Bulletin
Full Defense Fund Asked
The Commissioners decided
today to ask the Benate to re
store the District Civil Defense
appropriation from the $234,000
approved by the House last week
to the full $870,000 asked by the
l city heads.
An Associated Press Newspaper
Truman Sees
Control Failure,
May Ask Change
Convinced New Law
Is Not Checking
Price Inflation
By Joseph A. Fox
President Truman is convinced
that the new price control law is
failing to check inflation and may
ask Congress for speedy revision,
it was announced at the White
House today.
The President, it was explained
by Press Secretary Joseph Short,
took up the matter with his na
tional advisory board on mobili
zation policy—made up of repre
sentatives of various segments of
j the economy—at their meeting to
day, asking the 17-member group
whether they believed a message
should be sent to Congress and
what it should contain.
In sighing the new measure re
luctantly on' July 31, the Presi
dent said that the inflation con
trol provisions “are gravely de
ficient” and added that he was
going to ask Congress for changes.
The control features, embodied
in the Defense Production Act,
only got through Congress after
a long battle, and were far short
of what Mr. Truman originally
had asked.
Will Consult Leaders.
He will consult with his leaders
before making another appeal for
action, Mr. Short said. Congress
is talking about quitting Octo
ber 1.
Mr. Truman, it was explained,
told the board today that “the
administration is trying to do the
best it can with the law as writ
ten,” but feels that a losing fight
is being waged against inflation.
At the time the law was passed.
Republican leaders declared that
jit would be a good law if hon
estly enforced.
Asked what the President had
in mind specifically as to de
fects in existing legislation, Mr.
Short was unable to elaborate,
but he said that he thought that
some of the officials concerned
with administering the law had
been concerned with its short
comings.
Early Decision Expected.
In the past few days Economic
Stabilizer Eric Johnson has said
• that the law is threatening to
k boost the cost of living by billions
• of dollars.
5 President Truman made it clear
. when he signed the measure that
he acted because there was no
..alternative, but he warned then
. ;that “this act will do great harm
. to our price and wage controls.”
The President indicated the
new move for a change in the law
at the regular session of the board,
which is headed by Defense
Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson, and
it was assumed that there will be
an early decision on whether a
message would go to the Hill.
Prices May Be Adjusted.
The Office of Price Stabilization
jhas announced it is permitting
canners and freezers of most vege
tables, fruits and juices to set
their own prices, while it con
tinues its effort to work out ceil
ings.
When the new cost formulas are
, announced the prices charged to
; Purchasers by the canners and
fieezers will be subject to adjust
. ment.
, OPS called its temporary plan
, an "adjustable” pricing policy
. Meanwhile the OPS granted it#
, third price boost in as many
months to the producers of ma
chine tools. Manufacturers now
will be allowed to increase their
; Pre-Korea prices by 12 per cent in
; fixing their new ceilings.
Partial Eclipse of Sun Due
r In East at Dawn on Sept. 1
ly th* Associated Pres*
A partial eclipse of the sun
j will be seen over a wide strip of
, Eastern part of the Nation at
dawn on September 1, the Naval
i Observatory said today.
In a belt about 100 miles wide,
. centered at Norfolk, Va., and run
> ning about 200 miles westward,
. the eclipse will be annular—that
[ is. the moon will pass directly in
I front of the sun. but it will leave
, a narrow ring of the sun's disk
visible.
In the District the sun will be
, half covered by the moon at sun
, rise, which will occur at 6:36 a.m.
, At 7 a.m., the eclipse will reach
its maximum, and at 9:07 it will
end.
A partial eclipse will be seen in
New York from 7:01 to 8:10. In
Kansas City 25 per cent of the
sun will be covered at sunrise and
the eclipse will be over at 8:04
am.
81 Leave West Point
WEST POINT, N. Y.. Aug. 21
(£*). —The last of the estimated 90
accused cadets are expected to
leave the Military Academy in the
next few days. Three more left
the Point yesterday, bringing to
81 the number thus far ousted for
cheating at examinations.
, Back of All the Talk ,
How Moral Are We?
Are the young people of America at
a moral low point in history? What's
bthind the basketball fixes, the teen
age use of narcotics, the West Point
scondal, the sex clubs?
Reiman Morin, special correspondent
for the Associated Press, was assigned
to find out. His informative report
will be given in a series of five article*
in The Ster. The first appears today
en page A-4. i