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Evening star., 1946-10-12
Hotel Strike
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many who make their permanent
residence in hotels.
One of these was Mr. Garraghy
the hotel management spokesman
who resides at the Wardman Park
Hotel, where Secretary of Labor
Schwellenbach and former Secre-
tary of Commerce Wallace also re-
side.
Mr.. McGarraghy admitted the
strike appeared effective from the
vantage point of his suite.
Provision was made for attending
the needs of i'll and disabled guests
until they could be moved.
Arrangement also was made with
AFL truck drivers to cross picket
lines for perishable foods that were
delivered to charitable organiza-
tions such as the Salvation Army.
All those guests not able to move
today were compelled to make theil
own beds. Most hotels maintained
q maid on each floor to dole ou1
fresh towels and linens, but there
was no guarantee how long this
would last.
Laundry Another Problem.
Nearly all hotels were doubtful
about laundry, for many Of them
have their own facilities. There also
was doubt whether outside laundry
truck drivers would cross the picket
lines.
The question of where to eat was
another one to plague the guests
But a survey last night OF eight
leading restaurants near some Of
the struck hotels disclosed no ter.
xif1c rush.
All tables were filled during tht
evening, with a few persons wait.
ing.
At a midnight mass meeting al
Evening star., 1946-10-12
Garfield, District Bar
Head, Will Appear as
Kent Case Witness

Austin F.. Canfieid, president OF
the District Bar Association, is ex-
pected to testify Monday in the
tangled $780, 1000 breach of promise
and SANDER suit Of Miss Margaret
Buchanan, a nurse, against Otis
Beall Kent, wealthy tax attorney.
Appearance of Mr.. Garfield in the
District Court case is an outgrowth
of his representing Miss Buchanan
for a period prior to filing Of the suit
Mr.. Canfield's wife, on crutches
because of a foot injury, testified
yesterday about a mysterious tele-
phone call from woman on Febru-
ary. IS, ss41, and a letter received
from the woman April %, 1941. The
call and the letter warned Mrs. Can
field about here husbands alleged
association with Miss Buchanan.
Both the call and letter were from
a person giving the name Allen.
Mrs. Frances M. Dolmage, testify
ing for Miss Buchanan, has said
she saw Mr.. Kent mail the letter to
Mrs. Garfield after asserting it had
been written by mysterious Lila
Allen"
In court, Mrs Dolmage has ad-
mitted only a vague knowledge of
Lila Allen" but has also admitted
that previously she had described
the Allen woman in detail to United
States Attorney Edward M. Curran.
Mr.. Garfield had turned the letter
over to Mr.. Curran whose inquiry
led to questioning of Mrs. Dolmage
and Mr.. Kent.
The case filed in September, 1941,
first came before jury last Tuesday
Mrs. Dolmage testified she was
employed by Mr.. Kent after he broke
with Miss Buchanan in 1910. Since
that time, Mrs. Dolmage served IA
months in Lorton Reformatory on
a perjury charge growing out oi
her testimony during her previous
trial on charges of stealing $50, ,00f
in jewels from Mr. Kent. She was
acquitted of the jewel theft charge
Evening star., 1946-10-12
Eccles Sees Sfeadyino
OF Real Estate Prices
BY the Assoeioted Press

Mariner S. Eccles, chairman of
the Federal Reserve Board, re-
ported cause for encouragement
yesterday in the recent stock mar
ket decline and in some leveling-
of Of real estate prices.
The downturn, he said, "encour-
ages hope that we may be able to
squeeze out the speculative fac
tors in the economy, correct the
distortions that exist in some lines
and maintain production and en-
ployment at high levels"
Mr.. Eccles set out a formula for
maintaining prosperity in a COM
prehensive, 3,000-word 'memoran-
dunn on the economic outlook. u
1t called for:
First, and most important" "
raising the amount Of output per
worker.
Second, avoiding "large-scale in
dustrial disputes and further gen.
eral wage increases"
Third, restraint on the part OF
business groups from further price
increases, or even that they lower
prices. and rely upon volume oper-
ations for profits"
But as things now stand, he
said, ithe war and postwar situa-
tions and the imitation which al
ready has occurred have created
distortions and Embellishments.
Sooner or later they will have to
be corrected"
Prices for some things, he re-
ported, have gone beyond the reach
Of too many people, and they,
therefore, cannot be maintained.
He named city and farm real es-
tate, construction and most farm
y,rofIfctsn as eYamnles
Evening star., 1946-10-12
Stepinoc Trial Disgrace,
Vatican Paper Declares

VATICAN CITY, Oct. IL CR.-
The Vatican City newspaper Los
servatore Romano said last night
that the trial of Archbishop Stepi-
nae was disgrace" and perse-
cution of the Catholic Church.
THE sentence does not admit oi
any appeal in Yugoslavia, said Os-
servatore, "but in the world the
code of legal procedure is otherwise
It is different before history. There
is the appeal to public opinion"
Declaring that "atheistic Com
munism in power reiterated the
words of Louiv XIV, I am the
state,'" Osservatore said the trial
was an example of "demagogic and
tyrannical politics" in which every
testimony is rendered superf1uous,
every denial useless"
THE trial against the Catholic
Church, against Msgr. Stepinac was
a trial against the Croatian father
land identified exclusively in the
overtl1rown regime. g AS Croa-
tia's believing sons did not adhere
to the past totalitarians, they op-
pose the new because both are
against Christian civilization"
Evening star., 1946-10-12
Yenon May Be New Goal
For Chionq. Peipinq Thinks

PEIPING, Oct. II dP,.-Neutral
observers wondered today whether
GeneraliSsimo Chang Kai shek
would carry out his threat to send
government troops against Yenan,
the Communist capital, to follow
up Gen. Flu Tso-yis quick capture
yesterday of the Reds big military
base, Kalgan.
Kalgan was captured just three
weeks to the day after Gen. Chiang's
forces opened their offensive against
that mountainous reooubt in Cha
har Province. Within a month,
government troops carried out two
parts of Gen. Chiang's threat to
capture the Reds three chief cities
Chengteh, capital of Jehol Province;
Kalgan and Yenan-if they did not
accept peace terms. Chengteh fell
early in the campaign.
If the generalissimo decides to
order an offensive against Yenan,
his troops will face the toughest
campaign of China's civil war.
Yenan is considered almost inac-
cessible in the rugged mountains
of ShenSi Province,
Evening star., 1946-10-12
n. Y. Truck Strike Forces
Inbound Express Embargo
BY the Associoted Press

NEW YORK, Oct. 12.-The truck
ing strike, now in rs second month,
yesterday led the Railway Express
Agency, Inc, to embargo all inbound
shipments to New York City with the
exception of perishable food and
medicine, the company announced.
A company spokesman said the
agency's terminals were congested
with merchandise undelivered be-
cause of the truck drivers walkout,
Earlier Joseph M. Adelizzi, chair
man of the Policy Committee for
truck owners, said he would submit
to the OPA evidence that a trucking
firm now operating under union
contract was overcharging up to 400
per cent in its rates.
The three striking teamster locals
have demanded that employers sign
contracts similar to terms of the
plan to which number of truckers
have agreed-increasing the weekly
wage $f.40, to $71.40, and reducing
the work week from A to 40 hours.
The unsigned operators have
asked the men to return to work
with 1212-cent-an-hour increase,
with the difference between that and
the 31-cent increase which the union
seeks to be determined by an arbi-
Era tor
Evening star., 1946-10-12
Beer Strike Continues;
Farley Fails 10 Bring
Agreement on Wages

The washington beer strike still
is on today with both union and
management negotiators reporting
no early settlement in sight.
A three-hour meeting yesterday
afternoon broke up with no agree
ment reached and no further meet
ing scheduled for the week end.
w. Cameron Burton, counsel for
the % distributors and the one
brewer involved, said the union
spokesmen had lowered their orig
inal wage demands.
I'VE are still long way apart, :"
Mr. Burton added.
Thomas A. Cation, business agent
of the striking Beer and Soda
Water Drivers and Helpers Local Ct,
AFL, said approximately 500 drivers
and brewery workers are out, in
Guiding those employed by 13 firms
in Alexandria.
The deadlock is over the wage
issue with both sides certain that
other points in dispute could be
ironed out quickly once wages for
the drivers are agreed on. The pres
ent wage for drivers is s25 a week
plus a seven-cent commission on
each case delivered.
The union originally asked that
this be increased to $35 week and
a 12-cent commission. The COM
panies have offered $50 week with
no commission increase.
Mr.. Caton said the union had
lowered its original demands CON
siderably" in the hope of reaching
an agreement.
To prevent spoilage OF $50, 900 bar
rels of beer now being processed at
the Heurich Brewing Co., the union
agreed yesterday to permit some
brewers to return to work there.
Distributors here for Miller High
Life beer and Carlin's Red Top ale
have agreed to a contract with the
union, according to Mr.. Cation, who
said adjustments would be made in
those contracts to have thems con-
form to any agreement reached with
the other firms.
| A check of restaurants showed
that most places selling beer expect
present supplies to last for 5 to 10
days.
Evening star., 1946-10-12
Man Enters Guilty Plea
In Assault on Hacker

Cyril G. Ivey, colored. 81, OF the
1900 block of Forty-seventh street
Sc, today pleaded guilty to a
charge of assault with intent to rob
before United States Commissions
Needham c. Turnage. Bond was
set at $500. Ivey was arrested
early yesterday after allegedly strik-
ing a cab driver with a blackjack
and attempting to rob him.
Alfred R. Smith, Is, colored. said
the man entered his cab at Thir-
teenth and U streets NV. and di-
rected him to drive to Forty sixth
and A streets Sc, where 1vey hit
the driver and fight ensued. Pvts
N. S. Coleman and K. T. Stein OF
the eleventh precinct arrived IN a
scout car before Ivey could escape
and made the arrest.
Evening star., 1946-10-12
|Notohes Couehtin Hotel Strike;
Pickets Let SchwelIenbuch Pass

brother, J. Vivian Truman, and his
cousin, Maj. Gen. Ralph E. Tru-
man.
Most of the scores of Senators and
Representatives who live in hotels
while in Washington were lucky
enough to be home.
But not so fortunate were Supreme
Court Justice Reed and Senator
Brewster of Maine, registered at the
MayfloWer.
Supreme Court Justice Murphy Is
listed at the Washington Hotel.
At the Shoreham the guest list
included Chief Justice Richard S.
Whaley of the United States Court
|of Claims and Maj. Gen. Valentim
Benicio da Silva and Pear Admiral
Octavio Figueiredo de Medeiros,
Brazilian members of the Inter
American Defense Board.
Evening star., 1946-10-12

MOSCOW, Oct. 12-Returning tc
Russia after five months absence
one is Immediately struck by the
startling difference in what people
are talking about abroad and what
they're discussing here.
In the United States it was a
Third World War, fear Of 1t and a
definite pessimism about the pros
poets of peace.
In Britain it was war and fear OF
war, but to a somewhat less extent
than in America.
In Sweden and Finland, while war
was not the uppermost topic for talk,
| it was still high on the list OF sub
jects for conversation.
In Russia there is little or no talk
about war, certainly no expressed
fear of it. The question of burning
interest at the moment is football.
The Russians I've talked to-and
they include of1cials-are startled
at these reports from abroad.
"Why a WARP" they ask with gen.
uine amazement.
"Well," I replied. people are talk
ing about it and there are many of
them who are actually afraid we'll
have one."
with whom?" they ask.
with Russia" I have told them.
''But why" they persist. why does
any one in the world think Russia
could possibly be interested in war.
Can't you see here all about you
there's no thought of war, no men
ton of it?"
Truthfully and factually one must
agree with his Russian friends-not
only is there no talk about war
there is great talk about peace,
about gigantic plans for the future,
about better living conditions, about
new jobs, about new clothes, apart
ments and furniture and prospects
of getting them-but above all about
football.
The Soviet Unions soccer football
teams are in the midst of their
annual play for the football cup Of
the U. S. S. r.
From $4,000 to $1,000 spectators
are turning out daily in Moscow's
Dynamo Stadium. The radio and
papers carry the details Of each
contest to every corner of this vast
country. There has never been the
interest in football that there is
today.
Exploring beyond this seasonal in
terest, one comes to these conclu-
sions:
There are no signs of war jitters
here. .s
There is every indication Of peace
and long-term plans for peace.
Evening star., 1946-10-12
Chou's Wife Complains
OF Passport Denial

SHANGHAI, Oct. IL P.-Ma-
dame Chou En-lai, wife of the No.
2 Chinese Communist, today sent a
letter to the International Assembly
of Women complaining that all OF
her efforts to obtain passport from
the government to attend its con-
ventions have failed.
She appealed for sympathy and
support and special attention to
China, where, she said, there is no
peace but civil war no democ-
racy but a dictatorship to suppress
the people"
Madame Chou appealed to the
American people to urge their gov
ernment to terminate "its under
mining policy" in China.
Evening star., 1946-10-12

! Russia is getting back on her fee'
after a terrible war-but slowly. fol
she was grievously hurt and hel
land, broad and long, contains 190,-
000, 900 people.
There Is more conviction that
there exists an organized effort tc
gang up by vote and declaration
against the U. S. S. r.
There is more confidence than ]
have ever seen before In Russia by
Russians-confidence in the gov
ernment and the men at its head.
There is an after-war soul-search-
ing, a self of national
life, wrongly interpreted in some
quarters abroad as an internal weak
ness. 1t is not this at all but the
fact that Russia now has more time
to look after things that it did not
have time for during the war.
MiDimizes Art Purge.
1t is ridiculous to interpret such
things as criticism Of collective
farms, music, drama, poetry, archi-
|tecture-in fact, all arts-as a purge,
for 1t is nothing of the sort.
Abroad I read and heard that
Leonid Utesov, Russian band lead
er. had been "purged." Only this
morning I saw where one of his
concerts will be broadcast over the
radio tonight.
Abroad read and heard that the
famous composer of popular songs
and himself a band leader. Sasha
Svasman, had been "purged." He
hasn't at all. He has been in the
south on vacation with a friend
of mine.
There is no anti-American or
anti-British feeling as such here.
There are articles of criticism in
the Russian press and radio about
the United States and Britain, but
I would be a very untruthful re-
porter if I did not say that there is
three to five times as much anti
Russian sentiment in the American
and British press and on the radio
as there is here against those two
countries.
I have heard no one here express
a desire for war with the United
States or Britain or both, which is
more than I can say of what heard
at home and in England.
! In winding up these first impress
sions of Russia after coming back
to the place where I have lived for
the last five years, my outstanding
conclusions are:
Abroad talk is about war; here 1t
is about peace.
The q. s. s. r. Is still one Of the
hottest subjects of conversation In
the world-and it is going to con-
tinue to be for q long, long time.
Evening star., 1946-10-12
Stepinoc Remains Head
OF YuqosIovio Church

ZAGREB, Yugoslavia, Oct. - (P1
Archbishop Stepinac, waiting to
begin sentence of 16 years al
forced labor, remains the head Of
the Roman Catholic church in
Yugoslavia. Bishop Joseph P
Hurley, regent of the apostolic nun.
ciature in Belgrade, said today.
The prelate, found guilty of col.
laboration with the puppet Croatiar
government during the war, was
considered in canon law to be "im-
peded." Bishop Hurley said that sc
far as he knew the holy see still
would consider the Archbishop the
head of the Yugoslav Catholics. Al
present the archbishopric is being
conducted by the senior auxiliary
bishop of the diocese, Bishop Sails
SalWeeS,
Evening star., 1946-10-12
Long Island 1rainmen
Accept Settlement;
Board Clears UNIV

A Presidential Emergency Board
reported today that Long Island
Railroad trainmen have agreed to
defer demand for operating rules
changes until next May, and in an
unusual explanation of the settle
ment of this dispute-absolved the
United Mine Workers of attempt
ing to foment trouble on the line,
which serves metropolitan New
York.
The trainmen were threatening
to strike on October "a to enforce
their demands which involved 220
rules. The agreement to postpone
the action conforms to a settlement
effective in May in the railroad in
dustry generally, to which the Long
Island workers were not a party.
Under an agreement reached in
May at the time of the brief national
rail strike, operating employees de-
ferred application for widespread
rules changes for a year.
In clearing the UNIV Of attempt
ing to cause trouble, the board which
was appointed by the President to
seek a settlement, said:
"An unfortunate incident of the
controversy was the impression held
by the carrier that the motives be-
hind this attempt were attributable
to promotional activities of the
United Mine Workers of America;
in substance, that it fomented the
controversy to demonstrate that by
its tactics it might be able to obtain
more for these employees than had
the Brotherhood of Railroad Train
men.
However, the indisputable cir
cumstances show that the grievance
Is of long standing, long before
District SO Of the UNIV had any
thing to do with the matter, and
that that organization was solicited
by these employees to come into the
picture in their behalf because of
their repeated Illustration through
the grievance being handled as an
incident of national movements,
concerned primarily with other mat
ters more important to the great
majority of trainmen."
Evening star., 1946-10-12

Many upper strata guests-legisla-
tors, cabinet members, Supreme
Court Justices and military leaders
were caught in the hotel strike
and subjected to the prospects OF
making their own beds.
At the Wardman Park, one Of the
10 struck hotels. the picket line
Withdrew yesterday to permit ad-
mittance of one of the notables-
Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach.
Also registered there were Chief
Justice Fred M. Vinson, former Sec
retary of Commerce Henry A. Wal
lace, Secretary of the Treasury Sny-
der, Rear Admiral C. E. Braine and
lit. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgeway.
The Statler listed among its guests
Countess Waldeck of Belgium and
Baroness Van Panhuges of Holland,
as we'll as President Truman's
Evening star., 1946-10-12
Chinese Peace Talks
Believed Doomed by
Capture Of kaIgan
BY the Assoeioied Press


NANKING, Oct. 12.-Govern-
ment capture of Kalgan. which
the Chinese Communists made
their No. 1 military citadel,
prompted many observers to
conclude today that China's
peace talks were definitely
doomed.
Communist sources conceded the
loss of Kalgan was a severe blow.
They promised that the fall of the
city would unity all Communists
and make them fight the govern
ment armies harder than ever.
The Communists had insisted
they would not return to the peace
table until the government called
off it's drive on Kalgan, city of
even greater strategic value than
their political capital at Yenan.
Gen. Chou Refuses Comment.
Gen. Chou En-lai, who walked out
on peace talks in Nanking when the
government loosed its multiple drive
on Kalgan, refused at Shanghai to
comment on the fall of the fortress.
Previously he had told General
issimo Chang Kai-shek through in
termediaries that If the government
captured Kalgan, China would be
split wide open and the responsible
ity would lie with the government.
In addition to it's position on the
important East-West Peiping-Sui-
yuan railway, the city was a hub for
highways leading both to Siberia
through Outer Mongolia and the
Communicated zone Of Northern
Manchuria.
The Ministry of National Defense
announced that Kalgan was cap
tured yesterday, few hours after
word was flashed from the front that
the first of Gen. Flu Tso-yi's troops
drove into the city from the west.
The main Communist defenses lay
to the southeast and this entry by
Kalgan's back door may have taken
the garrison by surprise, although it
was known that Gen Fus columns
were approaching.
Fled to Escape Trap.
The apparent ease with which the
government army took Kalgan in
dicated, however, that the Com
munists had withdrawn to escape
entrapment, taking to the hills that
surround the city.
The Communists moved into Kali
gan in August, 1915, shortly after
Japan surrendered. The city be-
came the major link between Com
munist zones in Manchuria and
Inner Mongolia.
Communist dispatches from Lini,
capital of the Reds liberated area"
in Shantung Province, said Govern
ment warplanes made two bombing
and strafing attacks on the city
Wednesday. There was some dam
age, but no casualties. the dispatches
added.
Evening star., 1946-10-12

The wedding reception planned
for Jean Browne Wallace. daughter
of the former Secretary OF Com
merce and Mrs. Wallace, will go on
as scheduled in the Wallace's Ward
man Park Hotel apartment this eve
ming despite the hotel strike.
A friend OF the Wallace's said
today that the problem Of OBJ
tanning food for the affair was
solved before the strick occurred.
It was prepared in the apartment BY
the family cook.
Earlier, 1t was believed the recep-
Evening star., 1946-10-12
Wallace Wedding Reception
To Be Held Despite Hotel 1ieup

ton would be prevented py the
strike. which has closed the hotel
kitchen and dining rooms.
The reception will follow the mar
rfage of Miss Wallace to Wallace
leslie Douglas of Washington at 4
pm. in st. Adams Church.
what the hundreds OF reception
guests would do about crossing the
hotel picket line, in view OF Mr..
Wallace's good standing IN labor
circles, was something nobody
cared to comment on.