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Evening star., 1946-01-28
Christian Social Union
Wins in Bal|oting for
Reich Rural Councils
BY the Associated Pr.ss.


FRANKFURT, Jan. 2s.-The
slightly right-of center Christian
Social Union emerged today as the
dominant party in rural areas of
the American occupation zone of
Germany on the basis of returns
from yesterdays zone-wide election.
More than 5000 900 Germans went
to the pools in the elections, limited
TO communities of less than 10000
persons, for rural council seats.
The slightly left-wing Social Dem
ocrats, who led in similar elections
a week ago Sunday in Greater Hesse
in communities Of less than 5000
persons, were runnersup yesterday
to the Social Union.
The two elections constituted the
first free voting in Germany in 13
years.
Results from $500 of 10000 local
communities In yesterdays balloting
showed, according to American mil
itary government tabulations:
Social Union, 100000 votes and
20,071 seats; Social Democrats, 723,-
l80 and 7,543; Communists, 109, 1868
and 506; Liberal Democrats. 81 1868
and 556; independent and other
candidates, 74S,373 and 23,403.
Largely Catholic Bavaria swung
the balance in favor of the Social
Union, which is an amalgamation of
Protestant and Catholic Interests
and n1iddle-of -the-road farmers.
Evening star., 1946-01-28
Marshall Visit
Gets tsChottyGi
A Second Lunch
the Associated Press.


CHUNGKING, Jan. pa talk
ative sergeant got a double meal
yesterday because Gen. George C.
Marshall turned up at the United
States Army's headquarters mess for
lunch.
Gen. Marshall, accompanied by
Col. Lloyd w. Goeppert, Hollywood
Calf, Chungking station command
ant, arrived without warning as most
Of the GIs were halfway through
their meal.
The general and the colonel sat
down casually at one of the tables
The soldiers stiffened in awe and
answered Gen. Marshall's casual re-
marks in monosyllables. Col. Goep-
pert whispered to mess officer to
bring around some one who might
not be so tongue-tied.
The mess officer promptly picked
Sergt. Robert Cressy of Utica, N. Y.
and seated him beside Gen. Mar
shall.
Sergt. Cressy already was nearly
finished at his own table, but non
chalantly started all over on a new
meal, chatting easily the while
What they talked about was not dis.
closed, but Gen. Marshall, who fin.
ished first, sat until Sergt. Cressy
was through eating.
Evening star., 1946-01-28
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the swan song of the government of
resigned Premier Ibrahim Hakimi
To Russia's fiat denial that she
had intervened in Iranian affairs.
the note declared that Russia-s re-
fusal to allow Trans troops to move
freely in their own country was
clearly breech of the tripartite
alliance of 1912 and the declaration
of Teheran, by which the Allied
cause undertook to respect the terri
torial integrity, sovereignty and po-
htical independence of Iran"
Greek Foreign Minister John
Sophianopoulis suggested that
Great Britain and Russia hold di-
rect talks tc settle the Soviet pro-
test to the United Nations that the
presehce of British troops in Greece
is endangering world security.
In a statement issued just before
returning to Greece. the Foreign
Minister said British forces "are COL
laborating with the Greek authori-
ties with view to the gradual res
toration of order and the securing
OF free expression of the peoples
will"
Snarl Over Trusteeships.
The United Nations Trusteeship
Committee decided today to name
subcommittee to take up the flood
OF suggestions on machinery for
making agreements on trust terri
tories.
In its fourth inconclusive debate
today the Committee of the General
Assembly became involved in op-
posing viewpoints on the definition
Evening star., 1946-01-28
HoIdup Man Linked
with Attack on Girl

A blond-haired, pug-nosed bandit,
who held up a drugstore at 237 G
street NV. at 1920 pm. yesterday,
may be the same man who beat an
l8-year-old Government worker with
a pistol while trying to attack her in
her home Saturday morning, police
said today.
With the information that the
man who held up Irving Sirota, 81,
the drugstore proprietor, wore no
overcoat, police now believe the two
shots fired by Marine Corpl William
R. Gibbons at the intruder who
broke into Jane Lartz's bedroom
may have taken effect. Police are
checking all dry cleaners shops and
laundries for brown overcoat,
stained with blood, on the theory the
Corpl. Gibbons shots might have
wounded the burglar.
Mr.. Sirota told police the bandit.
Evening star., 1946-01-28
Auto Workers
Continued From First Page. J

clared several times that the offer
still stands"
Another UAW plan to curtail Gen.
eral Motors production was put into
action today as workers in $50 tool
and-die shops in the Detroit area
stopped work on GIN parts.
The strategy had been announced
previously by union officials.
Ford andn JAW nE1egotiators were
to renew their discussions over con-
tract provisions other than wages
at Q pm. today and union spokes-
men, while scheduling no definite
sessions with Crysler, said they ex-
pected complete ratification of the
new contract by next Sunday.
The Ford increase will raise the
pay of 5000 workers from s1.19 to
sl.37 per hour, and 5000 Chrysler
employees will get wage boosts from
$1.14 to $l.321a.
Evening star., 1946-01-28

who carried blue-steel revolver,
was a white man, about 25, six feet
tall and weighed about 1855 pounds.
He wore light blue suit and was
hatless, the victim reported. Police
said the description tallies with that
OF the man who beat Miss Lartz.
The druggist said the man walked
into the store, hourished the gun
and said. This is a stickupr The
bandit scooped $40 from the cash
register and fed on foot.
Miss Lartz still bears marks of the
beating the housebreaker gave her
when she fought him in her bed
room at the home of her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. John Lartz, at 2o7
Quackenbos street NV.
Evening star., 1946-01-28
Filipinos Study PIons
For Military Academy
By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, Jan. 28.-Ten Ameri-
can Army officers, all Filipinos, are
visiting American colleges to study
the latest teaching methods in prep
aration for new national military
academy in the Philippines, Column
bia University announced yesterday.
Columbia said two offlcers-Capt.
Pedro Florcruz and 1t. Rafael Ileto,
both West Point graduates and vet
Grams of the Pacific war-were OBJ
serving undergraduate administra-
ton at its Liberal Arts College and
that others were making observa-
tions at West Point, Annapolis, the
Massachusetts, Institute of Tech
nology and the Coast Guard Acad-
emy at New London, Conn.
The new Philippine Academy will
replace the old one destroyed dur
ing air attacks in Baguio Province,
and may be erected on Bataan pen
lnsula, Columbia said.
Evening star., 1946-01-28
Commercial Aviation
Pact Reached by U. s,
Britain al Bermuda
BY the Associated Press.

by tne hSSOcldleu rFesS.
HAMILTON, Bermuda, Jan. 28.
Representatives of the United
States and Great Britain have
reached agreement here on a
new commercial aviation pact
and the principles of the accord
have been referred to London
and Washington for study and
approval.
The heads of the comforting dele
cations issued a joint statement an
nouncing the agreement but gave no
details. Sir Henry Self of the Brit
ish delegation and George Baker of
the American delegation said they
would meet the press later in the
day to discuss the accord.
A well-informed source said dis
puted points were settled about as
follows in the new agreement:
l. Rates to be fixed initially by
air line operators at a traffic confer
ence In New York in February and
later reviewed at regular intervals
by the American and British Gov
ernments. Rates would be based on
operating costs.
2. The number of trips to be flown
by each air line will be unlimited.
3. The right to carry passengers
along regular routes from one coun-
try to another also will be virtually
unlimited.
The formal announcement indi-
Gated the agreement had been
reached at committee level and the
delegates now must await instruc-
tions before giving conference ap-
proval. After that, the final draft
must be approved by the home gov
ernments before it can be signed.
Spokesman revised their estimates
of the date of adjournment to about
February 4
Evening star., 1946-01-28

of what constitutes state directly
concerned in a trusteeship agree
ment. Some delegates have con-
tended that only geographical
neighbors were directly concerned.
John Foster Dulles, the Ameri-
can delegate, said after the session
that the United States held firmly
to its view that no precise definition
should be made in advance. A
country which felt, after a trustee
ship accord had been made in a
particular case, that it should have
been represented could present its
view to the General Assembly, he
said, and if one-third of the As
sembly agreed the accord would
have to be renegotiated. The OBJ
jecting country then would be in
cluded in the new talks, Mr.. Dulles
said
Evening star., 1946-01-28
Rabbi Hits 'Poiiign:
With Jewish People
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON. Jan. 28.-Rabbi Kopul
Rosen pleaded with the British
American Committee on Palestine
today in the name of God, don't
play politics with the remnants of
the Jewish people"
There will be no peace in the
world unless you have an indivisi-
bllity of justice" he asserted. The
rabbi appeared as spokesman for
the Federation of Synagogues in
Great Britain
so long as we have no guarantee
that what happened in Europe dur
ing the last six years will not happen
again, then any United Nation Or
ganization must be a hollow sham
and mockery," he said. THE prob
lem of the Jewish people can only
be solved by their return to Israel"
MUNICH, Jan. % -[P,.-David Ben
Gurion, president of the Executive
Committee of the Jewish agency,
charged before the Congress of Lib
Grated Jews yesterday that the
British government was sending the
Royal Navy, paratroops and the
Raj to drown Jews in the sea, or
arrest them but not to Het them
return to their own country"
Ben Gurion- said the Jews would
continue to immigrate to Palestine
despite the British Navy, because
there is something stronger than
the British Navy, and that is the
Jews attachment for their home
land"
Evening star., 1946-01-28
Subsidies for Makers
OF Building Materials
Favored by Small

j. D. Small, civilian production
administrator, told the House Bank
ing: Committee today he would favor
Government subsidies to building
materials which manufacturers who
are unable to turn out items urgently
needed in the Nations housing
program.
AS a last resort" the Govern
ment could construct building ma
terial plants "aS we built aluminium
plants during the war" the official
declared after reading a statement
in which he warned that production
of building materials 'is not in
creasing fast enough"
Mr.. Small explained that Wilson
w. Wyatt, Government housing ex-
pediter named by President Truman
last week to also take over the
National Housing Agency, would
outline the administrations stand
on subsidies in testimony tomorrow
Take Over Unused War Plants.
The CPA chief said the Govern
ment might take over unused war
plants and turn out prefabricated
housing units to help ease the short
age of homes.
Mr.. Small disclosed that during
the To-day period ending last Thurs
day, the Federal Housing Admins
tration received requests for priori-
ties assistance on the construction of
25,890 units under the Governments
program to encourage home build
ing under $4,000 a unit.
IF this trend continues. it is 60
Ing to call for more building ma
terials than we now hope to pro-
duce in 1896" Mr. Small declared.
Lower Prices Preferred.
Reports show, he said, that the
majority of applicants prefer to
build homes well under the $4,000
limit. He added that it has been
his contention all along that this
figure was too high. He predicted
the average price would work out
around $500.
OF the total applications, AS per
cent came from six large cities
New York, Detroit, Washington,
baltimore, Los Angeles and San
Francisco Mr.. Small said.
The local office of FHA received
s76 requests for rental houses and
986 for construction of homes to be
owned by the applicants. Rental ap-
plications authorized through
Thursday here total 827 units and
those for sale. 81 units, Mr.. Small
reported.
Curtailment Urged.
Mr.. Small repeated an earlier
plea that public works projects,
whether Federal, State or municipal,
be deferred as long as possible in
order to allow that much more
building material for homes.
He also urged curtailment in con-
struction of night clubs and other
nonessential building.
'It may be hard and it may be
tough, but undue and unwarranted |
drain on scarce building materials |
for use in building nine clubs. luke |
joints and roadside stands, and on
deferable repairs on extensions to
existing buildings, might be con-
tTolled to a very Substantial de-
gree either through the building
permit system, if that is possible, |
or. by other local action" he r-tald
the committee.
THE committee is holding hear
ings on the Patman bill to set CELL
ing prices on new and used houses.
Evening star., 1946-01-28
Mead Presses Hunt
For Missing Yanks
BY the Associated Press.

bs tnS AsSOCiateu HreSS.
BUFFALO, N. Y, Jan. 28.-
Chairman Mead of the Senate Wal
Investigating Committee said last
night that searching teams of the
War Department and military
were joining in hunt for missing
American service personnel.
Senator Mead said the search
teams were "combing the war areas
forces of all Allied governments
of Europe and the Pacific for the
10000 ground force and air force
men listed as missing"
Declaring in statement that the
War and Navy Departments must
exhaust all possible means to elm
mate the word missing from every
case history" Senator Mead said
he had demanded that the search
be continued well beyond the de-
parture of our military forces from
both Europe and the Far East"
I'VE will not have finished our
mission until an accounting has
been made of each individual miss
ing serviceman," he asserted.
He said he had been informed by
Col. George F. Herbert, chief of the
War Departments casualty branch,
that practically all'' personnel
found in Jap prison camps had been
returned to their military units.
Evening star., 1946-01-28
RuiIroud President Dies

BOONE, Iowa, Jan. 28 GP).-C. H.
Crooks, II. president and general
manager of the Fort Dodge, Des
Moines and Southern Railroad Co..
died yesterday at his home after
a brief illness. He had been asso-
ciated with the company. which op-
crates only I'M Iowa. since 1907.
Evening star., 1946-01-28
Outbreaks by Farmers
Reported in MedcC : : s
By the Associated Press.

3! the Associated Press.
TAMPICO, Mexico. Jan. 2S.-Re-
ortS.of bloody disorders in sTaxnatius
pas State, resulting from agrarian
protests against state government
supported mayors, reached here to-
day without confirmation and with
few details.
At the mountain town OF Ahu-
mada, agrarians were reported to
have taken over the town hall after
3 clash in which two were killed
and two wounded, while at Jaumave
2 were reported killed and IL
wounded in political clashes
Evening star., 1946-01-28
Cote Operators to Hear
ID. c. Rot Control Plan

District Health Department Off
cials will discuss plans for Kidding
restaurants of rats at membership
meeting of the Washington Restau-
rant Association at $3.50 o'clock to-
night in the Washington Gas Light
Co. auditorium.
Scheduled to speak are DR.. George
c. Rutland, DR.. r. H. Ashworth and
1t. Col. William Carey.
Evening star., 1946-01-28
.ttlee Says British
Will See Atom Test
BY the Associnted Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Jan. 28.-Prime Min
lister Attlee told Commons today
that British observe :, would watch
the United States atom bomb tests
on warships in the Pacific in May
He said American authorities
were being consulted about the
British observers. Mr.. Attlee brushed
aside as "a different question alto
gether" the query OF a Conserva-
tive member who wanted to know
whether Britain has any rights
in the atomic bomb at all now"
Evening star., 1946-01-28
Freedom of Press
Backed by Hungary
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Jan. 28.-Istvan Ries.
Hungarian minister of justice, said
last night over the Budapest radio
that the Hungarian government
stands by the principle Of complete
freedom for the press"
Ries said he would submit to the
Hungarian Parliament next week a
bill for the protection of democracy.
Evening star., 1946-01-28
Gen. Arnold Is Guest of
Churchill at Luncheon
BY the Associated Press.


MIAMI BEACH, Fla. Jan. 28.-
Gen. Henry H. Arnold, retiring
chief of the Army Air Forces, who
Will retire from active duty early
next month, was luncheon guest of
Winston Churchill, former British
prime minister, at the Surf Club
yesterday.
Gen. Arnold is spending a few
days in Miami recuperating from
illness which forced him last week
to discontinue goodwill tour Of
South American republics.
Evening star., 1946-01-28
Greek, Indonesion Problems
Shorpened. Proydo Saws

MOSCOW, Jan. % lP.-The
Communist newspaper Pravda de-
clared yesterday that the Greek
and Indonesian problems have be-
come so sharp" that their consid-
GRAFTON and settlement by the
United Nations Security Council lis
a ripe and really important task"
Evening star., 1946-01-28
RCA 174-Cent Raise
Spurs Hope for End
OF Electrical Strike
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Jan. 28.-A possible
basis for settlement of the two-week-
old strike of 100000 CIO electrical
workers was projected today by an
nouncement that the Radio Corp. of
America and the union had agreed
on wage increase of 17h cents an
hour for 5000 workers at Camden,
N. j.
The agreement, announced here
yesterday by David Sarnoff, RCA
president, and James j. Matles, di-
rector of organization of the United
Electrical, Radio and Machine
Workers, was reached without a
strike and without Government in
tervention. Negotiations had been
in progress three months.
No Word Of Any Change.
Some labor circles suggested the
RCA Camden contract might pro-
vide basis for settling the Nation
wide dispute.
There was, however. no direct
word from other strike-bound major
electrical industries as to any
change in position concerning union
demands.
The Camden workers, employed
~f r,,l
meet at union headquarters there
at 4 pm. today to ratify the settle
ment, which also includes retro
active pay increases to October 7,
1945, and six paid holidays a year.
The new contract, effective until
October Z, 1916, carries a no-strike
provision.
Union employees at the Camden
plant originally sought a pay in
crease Of Is. cents. an hour-the
same amount demanded by, other
CIO members who struck January
Is at plants of General Electric,
Westinghouse and the Electrical Di-
vision of General Motors. ~,-@,7l-
Negotiations at Standstill.
General Electric offered increases
of 10 to Is cents an hour, General
Motors proposed 1872 cents and
Westinghouse said it would be agree
able to increasing the work week
from 40 to IS hours, with time and a
half pay for the last five hours.
Negotiations in the dispute have
been at Standstill since the walk
out, which generally halted the pro-
duction of appliances for home and
industrial use. Last week, Secre-
tary of Labor Schwellenbach chose
William H. Davis. former War Labor
Board chairman, and Arthur S.
Meyer, chairman of the State Me-
diation Board, to attempt TO bring
about settlement.
The Camden plant manufactures
radios, television sets, radar 'ap-
paratus, phonograpn and electronic
equipment.
Evening star., 1946-01-28
Eorliest Type Shoe

The sandal is the earliest type of
shoe known to mankind, with at
least 1000 years Of style history be-
hind 1t.
Evening star., 1946-01-28

chief of staff during the battles for
Bataan and Corregidor, told the
American Military Commission try
ing Homrna that he advised the
japanese commander to postpone
the surrender negotiations until
Wainwright made up his mind"
The witness testified that high
ranking officers from imperial head
quarters were frequent visitors to
Homma's headquarters and advised
Homma to take stern measures
against anti-Japanese elements in
the Philippines" Homma is charged
with responsibility for atrocities in
the Philippines.
Wachi said Col. Tsuji, Tokyo
staff officer, advised Homma not to
release Filipino prisoners but deal
harshly with them lest they become
heroes"
During Wachi's testimony. Homma
twisted his hands incessantly.
Sohie Katsura yesterday became
the first japanese war criminal to
begin serving his sentence in the
Philippines.
Katsura, civilian interpreter for
the Japanese army, was convicted
December "a, 1945, of torturing a
Filipino girl and was sentenced to
five years at hard labor.
Evening star., 1946-01-28
Wainwright Criticized
BY Homma Witness
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MANILA, Jan. 28.-A defense wit
ness for 1t. Gen. Masaharu Homma
testified today that Gen. Jonathan
wsif7wrighrs surrender hegocaa ations
in 1912 were received coldly by the
Japanese because ''the American
commander tried to deny he could
order troops in the Southern Phil
'ippMs& g Sapitu&bts-s
vroLaiY Stoss I s~E1 s~E11e.o,. :.
Evening star., 1946-04-04
U. 5. Flyers Land, Pick Up
Glider Above Arctic Circle

Army Air Forces flyers partici-
pated in the first glider landing and
pickup ever made above the Arctic
Circle this week during the Royal
Canadian Air Force and the Cana
dian Army's "Muskox" exercise, the
AAF announced last night.
Taking off from Norman Wells,
Northwest Territory advance base.
the aerial train made a fve-hour
flight to Coppermine, northernmost
settlement of North America. There
the supply-lade glider was released
from its tow plane and dropped on
the snow-covered ice of the Arctic
Ocean.
A supply base was established and
the glider then was snatched into
the air by the tow plane which had
circled overhead during the unload
ing. The return trip was made over
ice sheets, snow-capped mountains
and forests.
The glider pilot was 1st 1t. Rob-
ert A. Hopkins, 9th Troop Carrier
Command, Sturgis, Mich, and Flight
1t. E. w. Smith, RCAF, Quebec.
The tow plane was piloted by 1st
1t. M. G. Brewer, Charleston, Ark.
and Flight 1t. j. L. Wilson, RCAF
Ottawa
Evening star., 1946-04-04
Draft Extension Vital,
Brig. Gen. Young Tell,
Oldest Inhabitants

Extension of the Selective Service
Act is essential if the United States
Is to carry out its commitments
throughout the world, Brig. Gen.
Robert N. Young. commanding gen.
eral of the Military District of
Washington, told the Association of
Oldest Inhabitants last night.
Gen. Young backed the extension
of the draft law in answer to a
question as to whether it was neces-
sary to extend the act past May 81,
saying volunteer enlistments would
not fill the Armys needs.
A fourth generation Washing
tonian, Gen. Young spoke on the
exploits of the Sd Infantry Division,
to which he was attached. He was
commander of the division for six
weeks during its drive into Germany.
Gen. Young said nearly one-fifth
of all Congressional Medal of
Honor awards in the Army were
given to members of the Sd Division.
There were 10000 casualties in the
outfit during the war, he said. The
division participated in the cam
paigns in North Africa, Sicily, Italy,
France and Germany.
Gen. Young, who is IS, is a grad
uate of Mckinley Technical High
School and the University of Mary
land. He was a member of the
Washington High School Cadets
and spent four years in the ROTC
while IN college His father, Robert
H. Young, attended last nights
meeting at the Old Union Engine
House.
The association unanimously
passed resolution urging Senate
confirmation of Commissioner John
Russell Young for a third term.
The resolution declared that Mr..
Young had made a splendid rec
ord" and has displayed fine quail
tiles of citizenship"
John Clagett Proctor, acting
president, conducted the meeting.