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Tax Employes'
Income Returns
Under Scrutiny
Commissioner Dunlap
Tells House Group
Of Wide Inquiry
By Cecil Holland
John B. Dunlap. Commissioner
of Internal Revenue, said today
he has ordered a close examination
of the income tax returns for the
last three years of "everybody
working for the Bureau of Internal
Revenue from the Commissioner
on down.”
He disclosed this in testifying
as the first witness as a House:
Ways and Means investigating:
subcommittee began public hear
ings here on reports of widespread*
scandals in the bureau.
Mr. Dunlap, who has been com
missioner for only two months,
was questioned about a subcom
mittee proposal that each internal
revenue employe dealing with the |
public should be required to file!
a financial questionnaire covering1
his sources of income and similar
matters.
Fears Personnel Loss.
The commissioner said he be
lieves officials shoyld attempt to i
learn about the financial status of i
their employes, but in this con-j
nection he cited problems facing!
the bureau in obtaining qualified!
officials.
“I would hate to run the risk
of a lot of retirements at this
time of people who just wouldn’t
like the idea.” he said.
Mr. Dunlap emphasized, how
ever. that if the subcommittee de
sired circulation of the question
naire his office would be ‘TOO per
cent behind the idea.”
He added that he has been in
clined to rely on an examination!
of tax returns and pointed out)
that many bureau employes are!
highly qualified accountants. He!
added:
‘‘If they are inclined to be
crooked, you are going to get back
crooked answers.”
Cost Exceeds Returns.
Mr. Dunlap headed the bureau’s |
recently established tax fraud
squad dealing with the returns of )
racketeers and gamblers before he j
was named commissioner. Hej
told the subcommittee that 1,200!
cases involving gamblers andj
racketeers had been closed and!
that $13 million had been assessed
against the persons involved. But
he pointed out that the cost of j
this work would be about $15
million, adding that it was not a
productive field from a financial
standpoint ‘‘but very productive ;
for the good of the people of the'
United States.”
^e. said the shortage of per
sonnel in the bureau made it ]
necessary to pass over thousands
of returns which should be!
examined.
The subcommittee delayed any!
specific recommendation on the!
questionnaire proposal pending
further study and testimony from;
Secretary of the Treasury Snyder, j
Representative King, Democrat, of!
California, the subcommittee
chairman, said he had been in-1
formed that Mr. Snyder was op-|
posed to such a questionnaire.!
However, Mr. Dunlap said the Sec-!
retary is supporting it.
Blames Outside Activity.
Earlier in his testimony Mr.
Dunlap said that in cases of cor
ruption and impropriety among
collectors and employes of the
bureau outside business activity!
had been involved.
Representative King asked if
Mr. Dunlap believed collectors
should be prohibited from en-j
gaging in outside business activi
ties while holding office.
Mr. Dunlap replied he believed
the most important question con
cerned the propriety of the out-!
side business, and that if such!
activities should be prohibited the
bureau might be limited to men
who were not successful in the
business world.
I '
"If collectors were appointed J
for a definite period of time, I’d i
say definitely yes,” Mr. Dunlap!
explained. “If they were given I
different salaries, yes. But under
present circumstances, I’d 6ay no.” |
Representative King said in an
opening statement that reports of!
“corruption and inefficiency” have
shaken public confidence in the
bureau. He added that the initial
part of the hearings would deal
with the 64 collectors’ offices in
relation to the criticisms and re- 1
ports of improprieties that have
been leveled at the bureau in re
cent months.
The chairman added that a study
by the subcommittee’s staff had
indicated that the overwhelming
majority of cases of misconduct
(See INTERNAL REVENUE, A-4.)
Piek Back From Russia
BERLIN, Oct. 3 (JP).—Wilhelm
Piek, 74-year-old president of the
East German government, re
turned to Berlin today after a
month s holiday in the Soviet
Union.
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Storm Grows Into Hurricane,
Sweeps Seaward Off Hatteras
Tropical Gale Lashed Florida Yesterday;
Virginia and Carolina Coast Get Warnings
ly th« Associated Press
MIAMI, Fla., Oct. 3.—The trop
ical storm that swept across Flor
ida developed into a full hurri
cane in the Atlantic today, with
winds of 95 miles an hour near
the center.
Storm warnings were ordered
up from Cape Hatteras to the
Virginia capes and small craft on
the entire North Carolina coast
were told to remain in port.
Grady Norton, chief storm fore
caster'at the Miami Weather Bu
reau, said the tropical disturbance
"should pass east of Cape Hat
teras early tonight.”
Strong winds, possibly up to
gale force, were expected to lash
the coast, Mr. Norton said, but
the “hurricane force winds should
pass off shore.”
Aircraft located the hurricane’s
center about 200 miles south of
Cape Hatteras at 10:15 a m. (EST)
near latitude 32 north, longitude
76.2 west. .
The storm was moving north
eastward.
Mr. Norton said passage of
| the hurricane off the Carolina
! Coast might result in high tides
I dangerous to low areas on the
Iseacoast.
The storm swept across the
Florida peninsula from Fort Myers
to Vero Beach yesterday. It was
accompanied by torrential rains.
Damage along the lower East
Coast was confined to small craft,
awnings and shrubbery but in the
rich Lake Okeechobee farming
country an estimated 11,500 acres
of beans, tomatoes and young po
tatoes were flooded.
There were no deaths or in
juries anywhere in the storm's
path from the Gulf of Mexico to
the Atlantic Ocean, but crop dam
age was expected to be heavy, in
spots. Many highways were
flooded.
Okeechobee City, on the north-;
ern end of the big lake, reported
about 22 inches of rain that;
flooded an estimated 7,000 acres
of tomatoes.
Fort Myers, on the Gulf Coast,
had 10 inches of rain in 24 hours
and crop damage there was esti- j
mated at $100.000.
Accounts Show Boyle
Paid Party Henchman
When in Hire of RFC
$1,261 Disbursement
To Grotz Is Disclosed
By Senate Probers
By Robert K. Walsh
Democratic National Chairman
William M. Boyle’s bank accounts
show that he paid $1,261 in late
1949 to Turney Gratz, then an
RFC employe and now a Demo
cratic headquarters official, a Sen
ate subcommittee revealed today.
That disclosure, outlined by
Senator Nixon, Republican, of
California, came as the subcom
mittee heard Miss Janet Boone,
former American Lithofold Corp.
employe, testify that she made out
"commission” statements to Mr.
Boyle long after he ended his con
nection with that St. Louis con
cern.
The subcommittee temporarily
recessed its open hearings into
stories that Mr. Boyle received
$8,000 from Lithofold and helped
it get $565,000 in RFC loans in
1949. Mr. Boyle has sworn that
he received $1,250 as a legal re
tainer early in 1949 but that it
had nothing to do with the loans.
Tax Returns Examined.
The disclosure of Mr. Boyle’s
payments to Mr. Gratz resulted
from a staff examination of his
bank records and income tax re
turns. Senator Nixon explained
that the bank records show checks
paid to Mr. Gratz as follows: $400
on September 15, 1949; $500 on
December 31, 1949, and $361 on
tne latter date.
“In his 1949 income tax return,”
Senator Nixon said, "Mr. Boyle
shows a deduction in the amount
of $1,261, which represents the
total of the above payments. He
lists $500 of this amount under
the heading ‘fees for services and
reports.’ He lists $761 of this
amount under the heading ‘reim
bursements to employees, agents
and representatives.’ ”
Senator Nixon noted that Mr.
Boyle was national chairman at
that time and that Mr. Gratz was
an RFC employe at a salary of
$10,330 a year.
Subcommittee Chairman Hoey
announced that the staff will look
further into those payments and
might call Mr. Gratz as wrell as
Mr. Boyle to testify at some future
time.
More Than S2.000 Paid in Month.,
There also are indications in Mr.
Boyle’s bank statements that he
paid more than $2,000 to Mr.
Gratz in December, 1948, Senator
Nixon added. The subcommittee
staff has not yet been able to de
termine the nature of those pay
ments. At that time Mr. Boyle
(Continued on Page A-4, Col. 1.)
Koehler Gets New Post
President Truman today desig
nated John Theodore Koehler,
Assistant Secretary of the Navy,
to be chairman of the Renegotia
tions Board. Mr. Koehler will re
sign the Navy post. The board
deals with war contracts.
French Outposts Fall
As Indo-China Reds
■
Open Autumn Drive
Formosa Reports Mao
Will Send 80,000 Men
To Aid Viet-Minh Rebels
By th« Associated Press
SAIGON, Indo-China, Oct. 3.—
Communist-led Viet-Minh troops |
have opened a powerful fall offen
sive which drove French and Viet
nam forces out of a strategic out
post and smashed on to within
30 miles of Laichau.
(Chinese Nationalist govern
ment sources said the Chinese
Communists have completed
plans to intervene in the Indo
China civil war this fall, send
ing 80,000 troops to help the ,
Viet-Minh.)
French forces had to flee from
another—unidentified—outpost as
12 Viet-Minh battalions stabbed
into the remote northwest corner
of Indo-China.
Break West From Valley.
Communist leader Ho Chi Minh
threw two infantry columns into
the long - expected offensive
against the lightly held mountain
ous country which afforded the
French one of their two remaining
windows on the frontier of Com
munist China. The Viet-Minh
troops were breaking out of the
Red River Valley westward to
ward the area which lies 150 miles
nnffUnmrf Unnni
The first impact of the Commu
nist offensive drove the French
out of Binhlu, a tiny outpost which
shows up only on French maps.
It is 30 miles north of Laichau, an
important town in Tonkin prov
ince some 190 miles northwest of
Hanoi near the Nam Na River.
A French army communique
announced that French forces
also pulled out of an outpost 9
miles northeast of Nghialo, about
105 miles northwest of Hanoi and
just southwest of the Red River
valley. Nghialo is a town of 25,000
population.
Three Battalions Seize Outpost.
A French military spokesman
gave this picture:
A Viet -Minh column of three
battalions descended from the
frontier bastion of Laokay to seize
Binhlu. The Binhlu garrison with
drew to Laichau, capital of Thai, a
state in Tonkin. The town is de
fended by four battalions, includ
ing tough fighters from French
Morocco.
French patrols pushed back
from Laichau in probing thrusts
to test the'Communist strength.
Ninety miles to the southeast,
eight to 10 Communist battalions
were reported making a main
thrust against the Thai country
towns of Nghialo. Two defending
battalions at Nghialo, largest of
the Thai towns, have established
a defense line 9 miles north of it.
Although one of the town’s de
fense outposts was bowled over
in the first Viet-Minh attack
Saturday, French staff officers ex
pressed confidence that the out
(See INDO-CHINA, Page A-3.)
British Quit Abadan, Express
Their Humiliation Privately
By Fred Zusy
Associated Press Foreign Correspondent
ABADAN, Iran, Oct. 3.—The
British pulled out of Abadan today
to give Iran full possession «>f the
world’s greatest refinery.
The British cruiser Mauritius
with some 275 Anglo-Iranian Oil
Co. employes, sailed at the Sliatt
El-Arab river to Basra, Iraq, early
this afternoon. From Basra, the
evacuees are to be flown back to
Britain.
The Mauritius was accompanied
by five of the company’s sea-going
tugs.
Forty other company employes
left by plane this morning.
The British departure came af
ter a month of Iranian pressure.
It was a sad and solemn affair
The evacuees privately said this
was one of Britain’s most humili
ating moments. It was, indeed, in
contrast to the proud days when
the roar of the British lion made
the world take notice.
That was the way it was when
f
the British came to Iran in the
early years of this century.
Iran now lays claim to oil
riches which the country had
granted to Britain under a roy
alty agreement which was to have
lasted until 1993.'
There was no noticeable
changeover here today.
Since last June, when they first
appeared on the scene, Iranian
National Oil Co. officials have
been gradually taking over the
fields and refinery complexes step
by step.
They moved into some British
homes as more and more Anglo
Iranian employes left.
Today’s departure was orderly,
with only a few Iranian police
and soldiers on the streets.
Otherwise there was little ac
tivity in this oil town.
The refinery remained shut
down. Storage tanks are nearly
filled.
K. B. Ross, who ran the re
(See IRAN, Page A-3.)
9
Allied Planes
Pound Massed
Enemy Trucks
U. N. Artillery Opens
Heavy Barrage Along
West Korean Front
By the Associated Press
U. S. 8th ARMY HEADQUAR
TERS. Korea. Oct. 3.—A thunder
ous United Nations artillery bar
rage roared along the western
front today while war planes tried
to break up the biggest Red supply
effort since the last Communist
■ offensive.
Red troops who held A’^ed in
fantrymen to no gains yesterday
! pressed two battalion-sized prob
ing attacks of their own today.
Over Northern Korea 12 F-80
Shooting Stars, among America’s
| slowest jets, were credited with
probably destroying two Red
MIG-15s In a brief battle with a
dozen fast red-nosed jets. The
F-80s caught the Reds by surprise
as the MIGs flew to attack
another flight of American planes.
Censorship Tightened.
(A "partial blackout,” frequently
a sign of an impending offensive
by either the Reds or Allies, was
clamped on news from the war
fronts today.
(The tightened censorship was
announced by Tokyo headquarters
of Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway. su
preme U. N. commander. There
was no explanation.
(The partial blackout of news
was imposed until further notice.
(While there were indications of
a possible impending Red offen
sive, a broad United Nations drive
could not be ruled out. The news
blackout recalled a Red Chinese
broadcast Saturday asserting the
Allies were preparing to make
simultaneous amphibious landings
on both costs of North Korea. The
Allied command has not com
mented on this broadcast.)
4.355 Trucks Spotted.
The Far East Air Forces noted
significantly that pilots spotted 4,
355 Red trucks on the highways
Tuesday night — “the greatest
number in a single night since
the Communists' last abortive of
fensive” in mid-May.
Warships and night-raiding
planes concentrated op breaking
up this near record volume of sup
plies being rushed toward the
front. An Air Force communique
said Red trucks “suffered very
heavy losses.”
The Allied prtillery barrage on
the Western front was one of the
heaviest of the Korean war.
Gunfire reached to within 12
miles of Kaesong, site of disrupted
truce talks which the Reds broke
off 42 days ago.
Reds Blasted in Ridges.
Shells hit the Reds in ridges
running northeast from Korangpo.
The town is 12 miles east'of Kae
song just south of the 38th Paral
lel, and 28 miles northwest of
Seoul.
vviwuiomp picvciitcu turrc
spondents from pinpointing the
full extent of the artillery fire. ,
The barrage opened up Tuesday
night after a day in which the
Reds halted United Nations at- i
tacks in the West, recaptured a|
towering peak in the East, and
probed Allied positions in the
center.
They blanketed Red positions
about the time Communists usual
ly launch their night assaults.
The steady pounding continued
Wednesday.
A general headquarters com
munique from Tokyo reported an
estimated Red battalion, close to
1,000 men, launched a probing at
tack in the west-central sector
and was still attacking at dawn
Wednesday.
Reds Hold Off Assault.
Front-line dispatches reported
the Reds held off a three-pronged
Allied assault in this sector west
of Chorwon. U. N. tanks and
artillery supported the attack.
Allied infantrymen using flame
throwers moved in to scorch the
Chinese bunkers. Associated PreSs
Correspondent George McArthur
reported.
Another assault from the south
was stalled just below the crest.
Opposing infantrymen were with
in hand-grenade range of each
other, Mr. McArthur said.
On the fringe of the barrage
sector British Commonwealth
troops fought a series of sharp
hand-to-hand actions with Chi
nese
United States 8th Army head
(See KOREA, Page A-3.)
Casualties in Korea
Up 1,181 in Week
Announced American battle
casualties in the Korean war
reached 87,650 today, an increase
of 1,181 since last week.
The Defense Department’s week
ly summary based on notification
of next of kin through Friday,
showed 13,145 killed in action,
62,166 wounded, of whom 1,441
died, and 12,339 missing. Of the
missing, 148 were listed as having
died, bringing the total deaths to
14,734.
The Army reported 70,818 casu
alties, the Marine Corps 14,997,
the Navy 1,031 and the Air Force
804.
The Army listed 10,957 killed,
48,428 wounded of whom 1,107
died, and 11,443 missing. Of the
missing 117 were carried as dead.
The Marine Corps reported 1,804
killed, 12,907 wounded of whom
313 died, and 286 missing.
I
The Forrestal Diaries
The International Situation Steadily Worsens;
Defense Chief Visits Troubled Areas
7. Crisis With Yugoslavia |
<By mid-1946, less than a
year after the Pacific victory,
the international situation
was so a farming that Mr.
Forrestal, talking with Secre
tary of War Patterson, “told
him that I felt he should ask
for a meeting with the Joint
Chiefs of Staff and possibly
the Secretary of State to dis
cuss the situation in Europe.”
A meeting of the kind was in
fact called by the President
himself on June 11. It was
, ominous: “Russians have
been reducing their forces in
the Balkans but adding to
their forces in the North Ger
man plain. Qualitatively, a
substantial improvement in
the latter during recent weeks.
British and American forces
inadequate for resistance.”
Other Help Lacking.
(Nor was there much else, in
Turkey, France or Spain
(Spain, it was noted, had
about 600,000 men “used
mainly for garrison and re
pression") on which to rely.
In the event of crisis, Gen. ■
Eisenhower thought, Ameri
can troops in Germany would
withdraw, probably to Ham
burg, and he "thought that
they would be able to get
away without serious loss";
but Admiral Leahy, just back
from London, disagreed.
What, if anything, they de
cided, Mr. Forrestal did not
__i
u,
(Mr. Forrestal decided to
see for himself. He left
Washington by air on June
24, witnessed the atom bomb
test at Bikini on July 1 and
continued on around the
world. * In Tokyo he saw Gen.
Mac Arthur once more):
10 July, 1946.
TRIP—TOKYO.
(Gen. MacArthur) said he be
lieved nobody in Japan was
happier in his emancipation
than the Emperor. . . .
The Russians don’t want the
re-establishment of Japan as
an industrial nation, at least
until they can be sure that they
can control it. Japan. h» said,
must be regarded as the west
ern outpost of our defenses.
While the central government
in China might not be the best
in the world, and -while Chiang
Kai-shek might be all the
things he was accused of being,
nevertheless they were on our
side and they should be sup
ported. He thought that Mar
shall had somewhat oversim
plified the Chinese problem and
the possibility of a near-term
solution. ,
He greatly appreciated the
support he had had from Secre
tary Byrnes, but had a very dim
view of other people in the State
Department. ...
The two great ideas which he
said he believed America could
oppose to the crusade of com
munism were (a) the idea of
liberty and freedom and, <b)
the idea of Christianity. He
had just read the evening be
fore, he said, the account in the
New Testament of Gethsemane,
of the ordeal and agony of
Christ, and he felt he had never
been fully able to understand
why it was described in such
detail, but having witnessed the
agony and distress of the world
in recent years, he now felt that
it was there for us to learn a
lesson from: That Christ, even
though crucified, nevertheless
prevailed.
Byrnes Efforts Lauded.
He expressed great admira
tion for Secretary' of State
Byrnes’ handling of our rela
tions vis-a-vis Russia in the
past year. ... He was critical
and contemptuous of what he
called the left-wing writers in
the American press. They were,
he said, playing the game,
whether consciously or not. of
the Communists against the in
terest of their own country . . .
(Gen. Mac Arthur, Mr. For
restal felt, “is doing splendid
work in Japan.” He saw Gen.
Marshall in China, conclud
ing that Gen. Marshall was
“doing a splendid job and
working up to the limit of his
capacity.” Mr. Forrestal’s
impressions of India and Italy
were fleeting. In Germany he
heard Gen. Lucius D. Clay
expound his theory “that we
should be firm with Russia,
but should be very polite at
the same time.” In London
he heard from Averell Harri
man, then our Ambassador
there, that “all through the
British government there run
these two main notes: A pas
sionate desire for military
and diplomatic co-operation
with the United States, cou
pled with the fear of our
economic power. The British
are desperately afraid of an
other United States depres
sion.”
(Mr. Forrestal, of course,
saw and talked with many
, (See FORRESTAL, Page A-3.)
Third Banker Held
In Embezzlement
ly Iht Associated Press
NEW KENSINGTON, Pa., Oct.
3.—FBI agents have arrested a
third banker in this Western Penn
sylvania town on a charge of em
bezzlement.
The arrest was the second at the
First National Bank of New Kens
ington and the seventh in West
ern Pennsylvania and West Vir
ginia within a year.
It raises the total bank defal
cations to nearly $3 million.
The latest to be arrested in Otto
R. Grotefend, 51-year-old teller at
the First National Bank and an
employe there since 1933. He is
accused of embezzling $16,000.
Fred Hallford, special FBI agent
in charge of the Pittsburgh office,
said the arrest of Grotefend grew
out of the investigation of the
alleged embezzlment of $550,000
by William P. Smeltzei;, an assist
ant cashier at the same bank.
The FBI said Grotefend used
the bank’s money to play slot
machines.
King Still Gaining
LONDON, Oct. 3 King
George’s doctors reported today
his condition continues to improve
after a lung operation. A medi
cal bulletin said: “After another
good night the King's condition
shows further improvement.”
*
FBI Alarmed by Rising
Bank Embezzlements
By »h» Associated press
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover
today described as alarming the
recent series of bank embezzle
ments, running into several mil
lions of dollars.
Mr. Hoover said in a statement
that bank embezzlements for the
first eight months of 1951, involv
ing 533 cases, showed an 8.6 per
cent increase over the same period
of last year when 491 cases were
uncovered.
The report said that in em
bezzlement cases investigated by
the FBI there have been 115 con
victions and that 367 other prose
cutions are pending.
The FBI director said the public
can help by promptly checking
bank statements and reporting to
banking officials any irregularities
noted in the entry dates for de
posits and withdrawals.
Strong Quake Felt in Chile
ARICA, Chile. Oct. 3 (JP).—A
strong earth tremor was felt here
today. The inhabitants, in panic,
abandoned their homes. There
were no reports, however, of
casualties or damages, with the
exception of some cracked walls.
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...AND IN'52 WE
|]{ SHALL CAMPAIGN
' AGAINST CRIMp,
CORRUPTION AND
COMMUNISM!
BRAVO L-ajow
TELL US WHAT WE
ARE GOING TO
^CAMPAIGN FORl
Jessup Calls Charges
Mixture of'Falsehoods
And Distortions'
McCarthy's Accusations
Answered at Hearing in
42-Page Statement
By L. Edgar Prina
Ambassador at Large Philip C.
Jessup today vigorously denied he
is pro-Communist—a charge made
by Senator McCarthy, Republican,
of Wisconsin—and branded the
Senator's “alleged proof" a mix
ture of “barefaced falsehoods,
distortions and misrepresenta
tions.”
In a hearing before a Senate
Foreign Relations subcommittee,
which is considering his nomina
tion as a delegate to the United
Nations, Dr. Jessup read a 42
page statement designed to meet
each of Senator McCarthy’s
accusations.
Senator McCarthy in two days
of opposition testimony charged
that the Ambassador was affiliated
with these six subversive groups:
National Emergency Conference
for Democratic Rights, American
Russian Institute. Co-ordinating
Committee to Lift the Spanish
Embargo, China Aid Council,
American Law Students’ Associa
tion and the Institute of Pacific
Relations.
Denies Link to Four Groups.
Dr. Jessup’s answer today was
that he had never been affiliated
with the first four groups men
tioned: that the American Law
Students’ Assocaition, with which
he was affiliated, had never been
cited as a ffont, and that the
IPR, “in my judgment,” had not
show-n a Communist bias.
The IPR was cited-by the Cali
fornia Committee on Un-American
Activities as subversive, but neither
the Attorney General nor the
House Committee on Un-American
Activities has made such a finding.
At the outset, the Ambassador
made this statement to the Sena
tors:
“I will submit evidence that will
demonstrate to the committee that
I do not have, and have not had,
an unusual affinity for Communist
causes and that I have not been
a follower of the Communist
Party line.
“I will introduce evidence that
the Communists have attacked me
with a violence equal to that dis
played by the Senator from Wis
consin and with far* greater
justification.”
In connection witn cnarges dj
Senator McCarthy that he had
followed the Communist line in
his opposition to the sending of
arms to Great Britain in 1939,
Dr. Jessup said:
“The fact is. Mr. Chairman,
that prior to December 7, 1941, I
was an active member of the
America First Committee. That
committee . . . never deviated in
its uncompromising opposition to
any action by the United States
Government which did not adhere
to a strict hands-off policy,
whether it involved arms to
Britain, to France or to Timbuc
too.”
Pacific Institute Chief Topic.
The Ambassador also pointed
out that the Communist Party
line changed on this score with
Hitler’s attack on the Soviet Union
June 22, 1941, but that the
America First Committee contin
ued its non-intervention stand
(Continued on Page A-6, Col. 1.)
Truman Picks Gorrie
To Head Resources Board
President Truman today nomi-»
nated Jack Gorris to be chairman
of the National Security Resources
Board. He has been acting chair
man of the board since April, when
Stuart Symington went to the Re
construction Finance Corp.
Mr. Gorrie, a former newspaper
man from Seattle, Wash., once was
executive assistant to former Gov.
Mon C. Walgren, whose nomina
tion to head the NSRB two years
ago was blocked by the Senate
Armed Services Committee^
Robinson Gives
Dodgers 1 to 0
Lead in First
Newcombe Opposes
Maglie in Climax
Of Pennant Race
By Burton Hawkins
Star Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK, Oct. 3.—Threat
ening weather hovered over the
I final contest of the National
Derails of Yesterday's Playoff Game im
Sports Section.
| League’s frenzied pennant race
today as the New York Giants
and Brooklyn Dodgers clashed in
the third and deciding game of
a playoff series at the Polo
Grounds.
In the first inning the score was
Dodgers 1, Giants, 0.
FIRST INNING.
DODGERS—Maglie s first two
pitches to Furillo were wide of the
plate, but he then fanned the
Dodger batter. Reese walked.
Snider walked on four straight
I pitches. Robinson hit Maglie’s
■first pitch into left field for a
I single, scoring Reese, Snider stop
i ping at second. Larry Jansen was
warming up in the Giant bullpen.
A warm, muggy atmosphere
with a hint of rain failed to
dampen the spirit of. the thou
| sands who poured into the Giants’
■home park to witness the down
to-the-wire finish to determine
I which National League Club will
' battle the Newr York Yankees in
the World Series starting tomor
row.
Heavy clouds darkened the skies
■over the Polo Grounds and after
noon thundershowers were fore
least for the neighboring West
chester area but none over the
playing field.
(Today’s game is being
shown on television over WNBW
in Washington, and heard on
i radio over WWDC. WOL,
WEAM and WASH-FM.)
series r orgotten
The World Series was forgot m
for the moment, though, with
both the Giants and Dodgers pre
pared to go all-oiit in today *
game. Both clubs were starting
I top pitchers with Brooklyn using
big Don Newcombe, who carried
| a 20-9 record into the game. The
' Negro righthander had beaten the
|Giants five times in ^even starts.
The Giants countered with
: swarthy Sam Maglie. also a right
hander, who had a season record
of 23 wins andysix losses. He had
| won five of six previous starts
against the Dodgers this year.
The bookmakers strung along
with Maglie, installing the Giants
6-5 favorites to win the game and
their first pennant since 1937.
The Giants won the first game
of the playoff series, 3-1, at Eb
bets Field, but Brooklyn, bounded
back with a 10-0 conquest yester
iday at the Polo Grounds.
Walker Catching.
A1 (Rube) Walker, who went
behind the plate for Brooklyn
yesterday as a replacement for
injured Roy Campanella, was
named to catch Newcombe today.
Walker contributed three hits to
> the Giants’ attack yesterday, in
cluding a mighty home-run blast
over the right-field roof.
The gates at the Polo Grounds
! swung open at 10 a.m. A half
| hour later 3,000 bleacher and 35.
{000 unreserved seats were placed
ion sale. The crowd of 38,609 yes
| terday was a big disappointment
to officials of both clubs, but in
| dications were that today’s crowd
j would be the largest of the play
! off series. The clubs split the re
ceipts fifty-fifty, with players be
j ing paid only for three days' work.
The customers were late arriv
ing, however, and only a scatter
ing of fans sat in the center field
bleachers two hours after the
1 gates opened.
Night Sessions Seen
For Tax Bill Conferees
ly th« Associated Press
Tax bill conferees today face
the probability of night sessions
in a drive to reach final agree
ment on the multi-billion-dollar
measure by the middle of next
weeks
Representative Doughton, Dem
ocrat, of North Carolina, chair
man of the joint Senate-House
conference, said night meetings
would be resorted to if necessary
to speed a decision on points of
difference between the $7.2 bil
lion tax increase voted by the
House and the $5.4 billion Senate
version.
No decisions were reached at
the first exploratory session held
by the conference group yesterday
afternoon, and a second was
scheduled for today.
Featured Reading
Inside Today's Star
HERE'S ELIZABETH-Whot of this
charming princess, perhaps someday to
be Britain's sovereign, who soon will
visit Washington Alvin J. Steinkopf
gives an intimate glimpse of her in the
first of three articles on page A-10.
WHERE'S THE FIRE?—It seems every
motorist has a new alibi when he meets
the traffic cop—or so ha thinks. But
it's all old stuff to the cop, says Star
Reporter Jack Jonas in a bright feature
on page B-l.
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