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Cloudy, windy, high about 48. Colder
tonight, low near 32. Tomorrow fair with
moderate temperature. (Full report on
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An Associated Press Newspaper
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Truman Blasts Eisenhower Trip,
Doubts MacArthur Has Anything
New to Offer on Korean Solution
President Sees
No Good Purpose
In 3-Way Talk
By Joseph A. Fox
President Truman today de
nounced President-elect Eisen
hower’s trip to the Korean battle
front as a piece of demagoguery,
but said he hoped some good might
develop from it.
The President also assailed Gen.|
MacArthur and said the general
had given him misinformation on
MacArthur Statement Avoided Direct
Claim to Korean Solution. Page A-S
the situation in Korea when Mr.
Truman went to Wake Island in
the fall of 1950 to see the then
Far Eastern commander.
The President also insisted, at
a news conference this morning,
that he does not believe Gen.
MacArthur has anything new to
offer in the way of a Korean
solution despite the general’s
statement to the National As
sociation of Manufacturers in
New York Friday that there is a
workable plan to end the war.
Mr. Truman rejected a pro
posal by a Republican Senator
that he hold a White House con
ference with Gen. Eisenhower and
Gen. MacArthur.
The President, in a lengthy!
news conference colloquy, also!
1 everted back to the MacArthur
testimony at the famous Senate
hearing here early last year after ,
his ouster. 1
New Attack on MacArthur. ,
He criticized the five-star gen- 1
eral for failing to report to thei
White House before going toll
Capitol Hill. He declared that is i I
what any decent man would have 1
done. As he often did during the!’
presidential campaign, Mr. Tru
man reiterated that if Gen. Eisen- i
hower has any Korean solution 1
he should come tip with it at once.
The President’s biting news i
conference comment followed his
statements yesterday challenging, l
Gen MacArthur to make any,,
settlement plan he has “available
at once.” 1
Shortly after the President's!
statement, it was disclosed that!
Gen. Eisenhower, now on his way;
back from Korea, expects to meet!
Gen. MacArthur in New York for!
a discussion of the Korean prob-i
lem
The news conference discussion
was touched off when a reporter j
asked the President what he.
thought of a suggestion by Sen- .
ator Watkins, Republican, of ,
Utah, that Mr. Truman call Gen.,i
MacArthur and Gen. Eisenhower!,
to the White House for a review!
of the Korean issue.
Doubts Result of Meeting.
Bluntly, Mr. Truman said that
he didn’t see where any good pur- ■
pose could be served by such a
meeting. Gen MacArthur is wel
come to see him whenever he j
wishes, he continued. ij
Then the President snapped ,
that he made a 14.000-mile trip (
to see Gen. MacArthur—that was (
the trip to Wake Island —and that .
about all he got was a lot of mis- j
information. (
Under questioning as to what;
constituted the “misinformation,”;,
the President said the general told-,
him the Chinese Communists”
would not come into Korea and ’
that one division of the Regular !
Army could be relieved in Korea j
for dispatch to Germany to re-j,
lieve an occupation division there. ,
Gen. MacArthur said the war in;!
Korea was practically over, Mr.
Truman added.
For a moment, then, the ques
tioning turned to Gen. Eisen
hower’s trip and the President
was asked what he thought of
Gen. Eisenhower’s statement that;
there is “no panacea” for the
Korean problem.
Mr. Truman retorted that the
President-elect was only quoting
him.
Cites General’s Army Status.
The President had reference to
his frequent statements during
the campaign that the solution
lay in the Kremlin and not on
the battlefield.
When a reporter asked Mr.
Truman if he did not think it
was up to Gen. MacArthur to
make known to the White House
any settlement plan that he may
have in mind, the President em
phasized that it certainly is.
Continuing, he said that Gen.
MacArthur is still on active duty.
He had reference to the fact
that Gen. MacArthur, retaining
(See MacARTHUR, Page A-3.)
Chiang Weatherman
Censured for Letting
A Typhoon Get Lost
By th« Associated Press
TAIPEH, Formosa, Dec. 11.—
The Control Yuan watchdog
agency of the Chinese Nationalist;
government—today censured the!
weatherman, charging he lost a!
typhoon.
It declared Cheng Tze-chung;
failed to properly chart the course!
of a disastrous typhoon, so that
it struck Formosa November 14
without warning. The storm left
161 persons dead or missing. 392
injured, 9,720 houses destroyed
and 14,020 damaged.
Truman Soys W SB Vacancies
Will Be Filled by End of Week
Urges Extension of Controls; DiSalle
Considered as Successor to Putnam
By James Y. Newton
President Truman said today!
that he thought economic controls
should be extended and that he
lwill have new industry members;
of the Wage Stabilization Board!
by the end of the week.
Present wage and price controls
: will expire next April 30 unless
extended by the new Congress.
Mr. Truman told a news confer
ence he thought that wage and
price curbs would be needed be
yond that date.
The reference to new industry
members of the Wage Board was
made as a result of the mass
resignation of the six WSB rep
resentatives from business last!
Saturday. Since that time the;
United States Chamber of Com-;
merce and tne National Associa
tion of Manufacturers, the two
leading business organizations,
have come out for abandonment
of all controls. They have re
fused to go along with Mr. Tru
man’s planned reorganization of
WSB.
Plenty of Volunteers.
The President told his news
conference that not only would
new industry members of the
Wage Board be appointed beforej
the week is out, but he added 1
there were plenty of volunteers
for the job and good men, too.
Mr. Truman said also he would
name a uccessor to Economic
Stabilizer Roger L. Putnam, who
has submitted his resignation.
The President said Michael V.
Eisenhower Arrives
In Honolulu Today
For Further Talks
Then Will Fly Back Home
And See MacArthur
Next Week on War Plan
By the Associated Press
ABOARD U. S. S. HELENA, en
route to Hawaii, Dec. 11.—Rested
and relaxed, President-elect Ei
senhower arrives in Honolulu to
day (2 p.m. EST) for more of
the vital conferences that will
shape America’s policy in the
Far East.
Gen. Eisenhower will remain
until the week end, then fly to
Three Reported Eisenhower Choices Deny
Knowing of Appointments. Page A-3
his New York headquarters.
Shortly thereafter he will meet
with Gen. Douglas MacArthur to
discuss the latter’s implied plan \
for shortening the Korean war. j
That meeting probably will be <
held early next week, said a source
close to the President-elect. |
Gen. Eisenhower did not com- ,
ment on President Truman’s j
statement, “If any one has a j
reasonable plan for ending the
Korean fighting . . . that plan,
should be presented at once to ]
the President.” He did not name (
Gen. 'MacArthur, but his press
secretary. Roger Tubby, said there j
was no question that the general -
was meant. j
Messages Exchanged.
Last Friday Gen. MacArthur 1
hinted to the National Associa- ■
tion of Manufacturers he had a 1
new plan for solving the Korean
puzzle.
In a message exchange, Gen.
Eisenhower and Gen. MacArthur
agreed to meet to discuss it.
On hand to meet Gen. Eis
enhower at Pearl Harbor will
be Defense Secretary-designate
Charles E. Wilson, who will re
port on his military conferences
in Honolulu with Gen. Omar
Bradley, chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, and Admiral
Arthur W, Radford, Navy com
mander in the Pacific.
An earlier plan to have Mr ;
Wilson fly to the Helena by heli-i
copter was canceled.
A source close to the President- \
elect said no time or place had
been fixed for the meeting with;
Gen. MacArthur, but it probably 1
would be at Gen. Eisenhower’s ■
Commodore Hotel headquarters or
his Morningside Heights residence
in New York.
i No Post (or MacArthnr.
The source added that Gen.
Eisenhower would consult fre
quently with Gen. MacArthur. but
there are no plans to give him a
formal post in the new admin
istration.
James Hagerty, the President
elect’s press secretary, said it ts
iuncertain when Gen. Eisenhower!
• (will leave Honolulu. Earlier it had
[been announced he would leave
Saturday night, arriving in New
York Sunday night.
A source close to the President
elect said Gen. Eisenhower and his
l advisers are all pleased with the
; progress of the talks and the de
! velopment of a broad policy out-
I line for attacking the Korean war
situation.
W(\t ifef
DiSalle was being considered as
rjMr. Putnam’s successor,
i Mr. DiSalle. who resigned as
. price stabilizer last winter to run
; j unsuccessfully for the Senate
ijfrom Ohio, has been here for 10
I days taking a survey of stabilize-
Jtion needs for the White House.
, The United States Chamber of
Commerce has openly urged all
. businessmen to refuse posts on
; the WSB, and both the Chamber
and the NAM demanded that Mr.
Truman kill off both wage and
. price controls.
Reuther in Capital.
■ Walter Reuther, new president
of the CIO, arrived in town to try
- to put over the ClO’s new anti
: wage controls policy. The Na
tion’s other bigi organized labor
group, the AFL, so far is saying
i controls should be continued.
Mr. Truman has been insist
ing he should turn over a func
tioning stabilization program to
President-elect Eisenhower next
month.
The Wage Board has been
stymied in its work, with more
than 12,000 applications pending
for approval of wage increases.
The NAM’s call for ending all
controls was issued late yesterday
iby its new president, Charles R.
Sligh, jr., who said:
“The resignations of the chair
man and industry members of the
(wage) board underscore the fu-!
tility of any further continuation
of the whole wage-price stabili
zation fiasco.”
Collision Sinks Ship
In San Francisco Bay;
54 Persons Escape
Crash Occurs in Fog;
Only One Minor
Injury Reported
By the Associated Pren
• SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 11 .—The
l Norwegian combination freighter
• and passenger ship Fernstream
; sank inside San Francisco Bay
1 today shortly after colliding with
L the freighter Hawaiian Rancher,
1 but the Fernstream’s crew of 42
and 12 passengers escaped,
i The crash occurred just west
i of Alcatraz Island in a murky
fog and drizzle.
f The Hawaiian Rancher immedi-
I ately flashed an SOS and the
Coast Guard dispatched three
rescue boats to the scene.
Saved by Lifeboats.
1 The Coast Guard later reported;
1 that the Fernstream’s crew had
taken to the lifeboats when the
! ship began to go under.
The 12 passengers also escaped!
before the Fernstream sank, stern'
down, and disappeared in about!
1 100 feet of water. Not a trace of!
■ the ship showed above the bay.
The Coast Guard said that only
1 one minor injury was reported—a;
1 Fernstream crew member suffered!
! a wrist injury.
1 The collision occurred about 7:30!
; a.m (PST> the Coast Guard said.;
1 The Norwegian vessel sank at
8:06 a.m.
The tide was going out at the;
• time and the Coast Guard said the!
. sunken ship possibly might block
t the shipping channel.
i\ Capt. A. Kristensen commanded
the Fernstream, a 416-foot long
. ship of 4,980 gross tons.
Other Ship Escapes.
The Hawaiian Rancher had just
| crossed in under the Golden Gate
\ Bridge. She carried 8,000 tons of
| raw sugar from Hawaii, consigned
| to the California-Hawaiian Sugar
’ Co. refinery at Crockett, Calif.
’ The Fernstream had picked up
j cargo here and was heading out
1 for Manila, Hong Kong and Yoko
hama.
The Hawaiian Rancher escaped
vital damage and was able to
'lmove under her own power to
'Bethlehem shipyard, in South
:*San Francisco, for a survey.
Acheson, Other Officials
To Fly to NATO Talks
Secretary of State Acheson,
Secretary of the Treasury Snyder
and Mutual Security Director
Averell Harriman will leave by
air tomorrow for Paris to attend
a North Atlantic Council meeting
beginning Monday.
A State Department spokesman;
said they planned to leave at 1:30
p.m. from National Airport aboard!
President Truman's personal plane,
;the Independence.
De Gasperi Heads Council
ROME, Dec. 11 (A>).—Prime Min
ister Alcide de Gasperi today was
re-elected president of the ruling
Christian Democrat Party’s coun
cil. The re-election coincided with
the start of the 71-year-old De
Gasperi’s eight year as premier of
Italy.
Brownell to Fire
Any One Linked
With Scandal
Justice Department
Employes Doing Good
Job Will Be Kept
By Don Whitehead
Associated Press Staff Writer
ABOARD U. S. S. HELENA EN
ROUTE TO HAWAII. Dec. 11.—
An authoritative source disclosed
today that Attorney General-des
ignate Herbert Brownell has com
pleted plans for a giant house
j cleaning in the Justice Depart
ment.
Mr. Brownell, the informant
said, plans to fire any one whose
name has been even remotely
linked with Government scandal
and is determined to restore
prestige to every division of the
department.
Attorney General James P. Mc-
Granery has fired or accepted the
resignations of a number of key
officials recently.
Mr. Brownell’s first move after
taking office January 20, the
source said, will be to sweep out
of office virtually all those in the
policy-making level of the de
partment. The cleanout also will
affect attorneys in the Washing
ton offices, and United States dis
trict attorneys and United States
I marshals.
“If he finds a good career man
who has been doing a good job,
Brownell will keep him whether
he’s a Democrat or a Republican,”
the informant added.
Will Investigate Subversion.
Mr. Brownell was on# of Presi
dent-elect Eisenhower’s top politi
cal advisers in the presidential
campaign.
It is understood he will give
top priority to investigating cases
dealing with communism and
subversion.
Next on the list will be a whole
sale review of tax fraud cases
in which no action has been
taken.
He also will dig into pending
anti-trust cases.
Mr. Brownell has told friends
he intends to prosecute wherever
there is any evidence of fraud.
He is said to feel that the of
fice of Attorney General has been
permitted to sink in prestige and
he intends to restore it to a new
and higher level.
Civil Service Not Affected.
The Justice Department has
about 31,000 employes. Most of
them are civil service workers
who will not be affected by the
turnover.
Those who have done a good job
and have not been involved in
; scandal will be retained, one source
said.
Mr. Brownell has made only two
; appointments—William Rogers to
jbe his deputy and J. Edgar Hoover
|to continue as FBI chief. His next
imajor appointment will be a soli
citor general—the man who will
! handle appeals to the Supreme
Court.
No Changes in FBI.
No change whatever is antici
pated in the FBI. But it is said
personnel changes can be expected
'in such agencies as the Bureau of
Prisons, the Immigration Appeals
Board, the Parole Board, Alien
Property Office. Claims, Customs
and Administrative offices.
Changes can be expected, too,
in the department’s three main
(divisions Anti-trust, Criminal
'and Tax.
; Mr. Brownell will recommend
the appointment of some 100
I United States district attorneys
land as many United States mar
shals.
There are about 10 vacancies
in federal judgeships. It is Mr.
Brownell’s idea, it is said, to make
an effort to lift the prestige of
federal judgeships and remove
their appointments as far as pos
sible from politics. '
[ Mr. 4 Brownell is said to be
planning a conference soon with
Senator Williams, Republican of
Delaware, on tax fraud cases to
be prosecuted.
The Bottle Held Innocent Milk,
But Drinker Was Really Loaded
Don’t let this get back to the
youngsters, but a bottle of milk
brought the downfall of three men
early today.
Pvts. Paul Meyerhoffer and
Charles Mahoney were cruising in
their scout car at 1 am. today
when they spotted three men
looking in store windows in the
2000 block of Nichols avenue S.E.
As they watched, one of the
men pulled a container from his
! pocket. He lifted the container,
inclosed in a paper bag. to his lips
and drank:
All good policemen know
drinking alcoholic beverages on
the streets is contrary to the laws
of the District. They got out of
their scout car to question the
trio.
The bottle, they learned, eon
, I I r~jm EVEN TALK IKE
J ' 3 INTO CARRYING §f|
State Running Struck Bus Line,
But During Rush Hours Only
All Night Service Cut Out on Arnold System;
Virginia Motorists Add to Traffic Load Here
The Arnold bus lines, shut;
down by a surprise strike yester
day, rolled only on a rush-hour;
schedule today, with Virginia
State employes at the wheel.
An emergency schedule, estab
lished after State seizure of the
system yesterday, put only 38
buses on nearby Virginia routes
where normally 130 would be op
erating.
The buses will run from 6 to
10 a.m., and from 2 to 7 p.m.,
daily. No night service is pro
vided, nor will there be any Sun
day operation. Coming toward
Washington, they run only to
Rosslyn Circle and the Pentagon.
First shock to the public had
worn off slightly by this morn-,
ing, but it struck hard yester
day morning and again in the
afternoon when home - bound
thousands had to use other trans- 1
portation in a foggy, rainy rush
hour.
Traffic Increases Greatly.
The strike, pulling about 300
drivers, mechanics and mainten
ance men off their jobs in protest!
against what the union says is
company refusal to arbitrate, had
countless by-products.
Traffic, already swollen by down
town Christmas shoppers, boomed
to new proportions. Parking lots
were doing an even more bustling
business and taxis were getting
long runs into Virginia. Share
the-ride plans popped up on short
notice and motorists were stop
ping .to pick up ride-thumbers at
bus stops.
The strike—by members of Local
1079 of the AFL’s Amalgamated
Association of Street, Electric
Railway and Motor Coach Em
ployes—flared suddenly about 5
a.m. yesterday.
Wagea Are Basic Issue.
Union members had gone into
a 2 a.m. meeting to consider a
company wage offer. But it was
the union’s contention that the;
company refused to arbitrate
which actually motivated the
strike.
Basic issue in the dispute since
the old contract expired in late
November has been wages.
A spokesman for the company
admits is wary of arbitration.
He said it has been “harshly dealt
with” on two previous cases of
arbitration.
State seizure had been prepared
for some time ago when the dis
pute began and Gov. Battle acted
quickly when the strike came yes
, terday. But the emergency driv
, ers, who until 10 days ago had
' been training on the Arnold
routes, had returned to their
homes.
Strike Still in Deadlock.
Not a bus rolled aIL day yes
terday. Normally the. line carries
50.000 passengers daily.
The strike was still at an im
passe today. No new negotiation
meetings have been scheduled
thus far. union officials said.
The work stoppage was marked
by one minor disturbance last
night with arrest of a former bus
tained milk—unadulterated by
spirits.
The policemen were about to
leave when Minor Robinson, a
cab driver, of 4115 Sampson drive,
Silver Spring, Md., stopped his
taxi at the scene. He put the
finger on the three as the pas
sengers who had yoked and robbed
him three hours before.
In the pockets of one of the
, men, police found Mr. Robinson’s
i house keys, which had been taken
in the robbery in the 500 block
•of Oklahoma avenue N.E. Other
i loot in the robbery included three
i streetcar tpkens, a package of
! clgaretes and 11 cents.
The policemen took the three
to police headquarters for further
> questioning.
! driver on charges of being drunk
and for violation of the State
(picketing law.
The man, William David Mans
berry, 41, of route 1, Lorton, was
fined $25 and given a 30-day
suspended sentence when found
guilty on the picketing charge
by Arlington County Judge Hugh
Cregger today. The drunk charge!
was nolle prossed and Defense ;
Attorney William C. Nemeth im-!
mediately filed notice of appeal to!
Arlington County Circuit Court!
on the picketing count.
Six on Missing C-47
In Nevada-Utah Area
By the Associated Press
! RENO, Nev„ Dec. 11.—An Air
Force C-47 transport with a crew
of five and one passenger is miss
ling in the Nevada-Utah border
region, but the assistant com
i mander of Stead Air Force Base is
hopeful they made an emergency
(landing.
| “The plane is a tough old bird
and the crew is experienced,” said
Col. Dimitrious Stampados at
nearby Stead AFB. The C-47 is
the Air Force version of com
mercial airlines’ DC-3.
“I feel they’ve psobably put
down on some prairie and we’ll
Jnd them this morning.”
Air Force and Civil Air Patrol
.nanes begin a search at dawn for
the plane, which vanished in a
arief but blinding snowstorm on a.
flight from Peterson Field. Colo
rado Springs, to Reno. It was last
heard from at 1:30 p.m. (4:30 p.m.
EST) yesterday over Lucin, Utah,
just over the Nevada border. The
plane carried enough gas to stay
up until 10 p.m.
Eggs Dip 6 Cents a Dozen
In District Area Markets
Eggs were down 6 cents a dozen
in Washington area markets, food
( experts said today in surveying
1 the past week %
The drop was attributed to in
creased production credited to the
mild autumn. The holidays also
;! contribute to the purchase of
fewer eggs, particularly by hatch
, eries, the experts said, making
them more plentiful.
Grade A large eggs are now
selling at 62 cents a dozen, 6 cents
cheaper than last week, authori-
I ties said. Grade B large eggs are
( now 56 cents a dozen, also off 6
! cents a dozen from last week.
Food experts said that in the;
Washington area meats and vege-j
tables are about the same gen-!
erally in price as compared to
last week.
Queen Mary Goes Out
LONDON, Dec. 11 (JP). —Queen
Grandmother Mary ventured out-,
doors today for the first time since
she came down with a severe cold
in mid-October. It was a sun- 1
shiny day and the Queen, who is
85. went for a short ride in her
automobile.
Love and Peace United
NEW YORK, Dec. 11 UP).—
Samuel L. Love, a 50-year-old in
surance man of Springfield, N. J„
i and Thelma J. Peace, 31. a regis
tered nurse of Louisville, Ky., took
out a marriage license yesterday*
Bulletin
DeSpirito Suspended
MIAMI. Fla. (A*). — Jockey
Tony DeSpirito, who needed i
only 18 more winners to tie the
American record of 388 in a
year, today was suspended for
18 days, effective tomorrow, for
allowing his horse to interfere
i with another in yesterday’s
fourth race at Tropical Park.
(Earlier Story on Pago C-I.)
Extra Hour for Ads
Telephone ad-takers are on duty an
extra hour—to 10 p.m.—tomorrow night
for the convenience of classified adver
tisers. Order classified ads in The Sunday
Star before Saturday and help avoid a jam
of calls as the noon deadline approaches.
Phone Sterling 3-5000.
New York Markets. Page A-27.
Two Women on Staff!.
Os Congressman Die
In Wisconsin Crash
Both Worked in Office
Os Representative Hull,
Maintained Homes Here
Two women employes of Repre- !
sentative Merlin Hull, Republican. ;
of Wisconsin, were killed early to- '
!day when their car went out of :
: control on a road near Tomah, .
!Wis., and overturned, the Associ- '
iated Press reported.
| The women were:
I Mrs. William Sanderson. 40 of, 1
1 3500 Fourteenth street N.W.
Mrs. Russell Schofield, 33, of 2161
Second street N.E.
Mrs. Sanderson was administra
tive assistant to Representative
■Hull, a post she assumed on the
death of her husband six years
| ago. Mr. Sanderson, who had!
been with Representative Hull for;
,18 years, was also a director and
past president of the Wiscons:n
Farm Cooperative.
Mrs. Schofield had been here
Ifor about three years, working in
'Mr. Hull’s office.
Mrs. Sanderson was born and
reared in Menomonie. Wis. She
was the former Miss Elizabeth;
O'Connor.
Surviving her are two daugh-!
ters, Mrs. William Palmer of
3460-H New Mexico avenue N.W., j
and Mrs. J. D. Trickey, Portage,
Wis.; her mother, Mrs. Robert ,
Murphy, Beliot, Wis.; three sisters,
Mrs. Edward C. Gorsuch, 1227
South Taylor street. Arlington.
Va.; Mrs. Ellen Moe, Portage, and
Mrs. Don Pile. Beliot, and two
brothers, P. T. O’Connor, Chicago,
and E. A. O’Connor, Wabash, Ind.
Funeral services for Mrs. San
derson will be held at Portage
and burial will be in Weston, Wis.!
Times have not been set.
Mrs. Schofield was bom and
reared in Black River Falls. Wis.
She is survived by three children,
who live there with her mother.
Mrs. Harriet Noble, and two
brothers and a sister. The family
said she was divorced.
Nunan Enters Not Guilty
Plea in Income Tax Case j
By th» Associated Pr«»» {,
NEW YORK, Dec. 11 Joseph
D. Nunan, jr., 54. former United
States Commissioner of Internal
:Revenue, pleaded not guilty today,!
to an indictment charging he :
:evaded $91,086 in income taxes!
| from 1946 through 1950.
Judge Mortimer Byers in!
Brooklyn Federal Court set the i
1 trial for January 5, but said a 1
| postponement could be asked then
!if Mr. Nunan needs additional
! time. Meantime. Mr. Nunan is
free in $1,500 bail.
Mr. Nunan resigned as head of j
the Internal Revenue Bureau in ,
1947 and resumed private law ;
practice.
Barefoot Brothers, '
2 and 3, See City's
Nightlife in Rain
A pair of youngsters, described
by police as “full of life,” slipped
away from their father last night
and wandered around for about
an hour in the chill rain in their
ibare feet.
The father was busy with the
family chores while their mother
was in Gallinger Hospital, await
ing the birth of her third child.
Ronald Hardin, 2. and his
brother Richard, 3, apparently
slipped the latch on the door of
their home at 1308 Sixteenth
street N.W. about 10:30 p.m. and
went out into the world.
■ They were found, barefooted,
near Scott Circle N.W. Police
itook them to the Women's Bureau.
| After a little more romping, the
tow-headed youngsters were put
to bed. They had barely 1 alien /
asleep when the frantic father. (
Lester Hardin, called police to C
report his sons missing. 1
He came to headquarters and t
took them home. 'I
District Argues
'Real Reasons'
:
For Segregation
Constitution, Law
And History Cited
By Defense Counsel
By Robert K. Wolsh
The Supreme Court was told
today that the District govern
ment gladly “accepts the chal
lenge” to prove that the dual sys
tem of public schools here is justi
fied and legalized by history, stat
utory law and the Federal Consti
tution.
This was the opening statement
jof Assistant Corporation Counsel
Digest of Arguments Given to Court on
D C. School Segregation. Page A-5
Mother of Boy in Racial Suit Waits in
; Line in Court Corridor. Page A-S
j Milton D. Korman in defense of
the District's separate schools for
white and colored children,
j Mr. Korman promised the court
ithat he would relate the “real
(reasons” why the segregated sys
tem was set up. He declared it
was established during the Civil
War. after congressional abolition
of slavery in the District. It was
provided as a means of helping
the Negro, and “not to stamp him
with a badge of inferiority,” he
contended.
Before Mr. Korman began
! arguing in behalf of the dual
ischool system, the court requested
more information about congres
jsional appropriations for segre
gated schools in the District.
Davis Mentions Funds.
That point was mentioned yes
terday by John W. Davis in d*-
fending South Carolina's constitu
tional requirement for separation
of .the races in the schools. Mr.
Davis noted that Congress appro
priated funds separately for white
and colored schools here. Later
this was noted also in a question
raised by Chief Justice Vinson.
At the outset of today's resump
tion of hearings on the District
case. Justice Frankfurter as well
j as the Chief Justice asked some
jwhat similar questions of Attorney
James M. Nabrit, jr. Mr. Nabrit
is secretary of Howard University
and a law professor. He and At
torney George E. C. Hayes, a for
mer member of the Board of Edu
cation here, represent Negro chil
dren denied admission to the
white Sousa Junior High School in
, 1950.
Justice Frankfurter asked wheth
er, since enactment of the school
establishment laws in the 1860 s,
Congress ever received a specifi
cally proposed requirement that
lit make appropriations for a
segregated school system,
j Mr. Nabrit replied that segre
isation opponents contend that
‘Congress never specifically pro
vided for or compelled separate
schools here.
He conceded that Congress
makes separate appropriations,
and, in fact, specifies a salary
item for an assistant superin
tendent in charge of schools.
This, he contended, does not
imply that the segregated system
(is mandatory here. But, he added,
even if the early laws are inter
preted as setting up a compulsory
system, such laws violate the Con
stitution.
( Contends System Is Legal.
He maintained that, as a prac
tical matter he would not object
to salary payments for Negro
school officials. He nevertheless
contended that separate appro
priations do not have constitu
tional sanction because segrega
tion itself is unconstitutional and
[unlawful here.
I With an hour and 20 minutes
(left for the District issue, and
(two hours of oral argument sched
uled on a school segregation case
from Delaware, the tribunal late
today expected to take under ad
visement the five cases it has been
.hearing since early Tuesday after
noon.
| Decisions in the District, Vir
ginia, South Carolina, Kansas and
Delaware cases probably will not
come until near the end of the
term in June.
More Questions by Justices.
Debate on the Virginia and Dis
trict cases yesterday provided few
arguments not hitherto stated in
briefs or summarized elsewhere.
But it prompted the justices to
• ask many more questions than on
!the previous day.
Attorney Hayes and Nabrit did
not press any claim that school
(See SEGREGATION. Page A-5.)
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