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Evening star., 1946-04-20
BY Fronk l. White
FOREIGN Correspondent.

TOKYO, April 20.-Many former
Japanese Army officers are forming
groups, some on government-sub-
sidized farms, and secreting supplies
in the obvious hope of one day re-
gaining power.
This I learned from reliable
sources-Japanese, Allied nationals
and American occupation officials
during a careful investigation OF
more than two months.
American officials, rather than
looking on it with undue alarm, see
in the situation a naturally expected
one. In many instances, the identi-
ties and locations of the groups are
known. They are being watched.
ITO date there has been no evil
dence of any subversion on any ex-
tensive scale" said an authoritative
source at Gen. MacArthur's head
quarters.
Former Maj Robert D. Kirk OF
Houston, Tex, public safety officer
since separated and back in civilian
life in the United States as an at
torney, gave the information and the
contacts which started the survey.
Much of the evidence cannot be
Evening star., 1946-04-20
Harris Hull Granted
Divorce in Nevada

Harris B. Hull, former Washington
newspaperman and son of the late
Harry E. Hull, who was commits
sioner general of immigration and
Representative from Iowa, has been
granted a divorce on the ground of
cruelty, dispatch from Reno, New,
today disclosed.
Mrs. Bernice Stephens Hull of
Alexandria was named defendant
in the court papers. Mr. Hull spent
some time in the European theater
as an AAF colonel. He is under
stood to be on his way to the West
coast.
The Hulls, who were married here
May %, 1896, have one daughter,
Joan, 8.
Evening star., 1946-04-20
DeImarva Fruit Crop Cut
Over 90 Per Cent by Frost
BY the Associoied Press

SALISBURY. Md, April 90
Losses of up to 95 per cent in peach
and apple orchards of the Delmarva
Peninsula resulted from heavy
frost Thursday morning, a check OF
fruit growers has disclosed.
The survey showed that fruits in
the area between Wicomico and
Worcester Counties, Maryland, and
Bridgeville, Del, were seriously af-
fected by the low temperatures,
ranging from "a to q degrees.
Overall figures for estimated dam
ages were not available, but in many
cases orchardists said their losses
would run higher than 80 per cent
Former United States Senator
Townsend of Delaware, said his
,O0O-bushel peach crop was wiped
out and that about rs per cent OF
his apples were lost. Officials OF
the w. F. Allen Co., largest fruit
growers in the area, estimated a
loss of from 80 to 95 per cent OF
their crops.
In former years the fruit crops
Of this area have been valued as
high as 100000.
Evening star., 1946-04-20
Boy Receives Head Injuries
As He Darts Before Auto

John Ebel, 6, was being treated at
Georgetown Hospital today for head
injuries police said he received when
struck by an automobile yesterday
in front of his home at 57O8 Broad
Branch road NV.
According to police, the child ran
from between parked cars and was
hit by a car driven by Amen J. Hill
low, IS, of 3346 Stuyvesant street
NV.
Mrs. Deborah E. Dunn, Sc, of 623
I street NV. was struck by street.
car in the 600 block of Massachusetts
avenue NV. yesterday, police re-
ported, and was admitted to Cas-
ualty Hospital for treatment of head,
chest and internal injuries. The
streetcar operator was listed as
Thomas J. Wahlen of 4055 Grant
street NE,
Evening star., 1946-04-20
French Cabinet Faces
Crisis After Votinu
.Left's Constitution
BY the Associoted Pres.

PARIS, April 2O-The French
cablnet faced serious crisis today
following approval by the Constit-
uent Assembly last night of a new
Leftist-Sponsored constitution which
would establish a powerful one
chamber legislature.
The constitution for the Fourth
Republic was adopted by vote OF
500 to 249, over the objection OF
Rightest parties. including the
strong Popular Republican Move
ment lMRP and the Radical
Socialists. 1t will be submitted to
the electorate at a national ref
erendum May 5.
Observers said the Assemblv's ar
ton was almost certain to result in
bitter campaign over Frances
organic law, and might split the
coalition government at a cabinet
meeting next Wednesday. when
President Felix Gouin will ask his
ministers to indorse the constitution
Some sources predicted that such
a request might lead to the resigna-
ton of Foreign Minister Georges
Bidault and other Rightist members
OF the cabinet, now composed of
Communists, Socialists and men,
bers of MRP.
The Assembly, which was elected
last October for the specific Job of
drafting a constitution, approved
the final draft after a series of COM
promises had failed to please either
the Communist-Socialist bloc, which
supported the new document, or the
Rlshtists. Twenty-eight deputies
abstained from voting.
President Gouin, Socialist. took
the floor shortly before adjournment
and urged ratification of the con-
stitution.
Evening star., 1946-04-20

Speaker Sam Rayburn, Texas; Ma
jority Leader John Mccormack,
Massachusetts,; John M. Coffee,
Washington, and Mrs. Chase Going
Woodhouse, Connecticut.
While some of the more vocal ad-
ministration supporters are missing
from this harmony" slate, it in
cludes able Watchdogs. The lunatic
fringe is likewise missing from the
Southern side of the committee. If
this latter group can scare off a
Hannegan-inspired purge with their
counterpurge they will seek nothing
more drastic. Their principal aim
is to preserve their franchise as
party regulars at least until after
the primaries. Some of them face
trouble with a militant PAC in their
districts, but they are determined to
keep their party standing at least
outwardly pure.
Southern Liberals Aghast.
The Southern liberals are aghast
at the action of the Speaker and
Mr., Mccormack in accepting the
ive-weighted slate. They
are ready with their candidate for
national chairman should a demand
so up for Southerner-Gov. Ellis
Arnall of Georgia. Gov. Arnall
stands we'll with Mr.. Truman, who
offered him the post of Solicitor
General when Tom Clark took over
the Department of Justice.
Gov. Arnall is the man who took
his State away from red-gallused
Gene Talmadge, rammed through
repeal of the poll tax and is fight
ing winning battle for more equi-
table Southern freight rates through
the courts. He will soon be out of a
job, having lost his effort to repeal
the statutory ban against a Gov
ernor succeeding himself. However
like Harold Stassen, he is getting
ample pocket money from the pub
ilc's eagerness to hear him dis
course on the state of the Union
The two young liberals get $1,000
per lecture and have all the dates
they can fill.
Evening star., 1946-04-20
By THE HASKIN SERVICE,

Q. May an ex-serviceman join the
Veterans of Foreign Wars If he did
not go overseas during World War
II?-W. j. P.
A. A man is not eligible to join the
Veterans of Foreign Wars unless he
served overseas.
Q. How many dogs served with our
armed forces during World War II?
"A. L. NJ
A. Under the Army Dog Recruit
ing Program, over $4,000 dogs we're
donated to the Army between July,
1912, and August, 1945. Of this total,
lO,2O6 were trained and used for
active duty with the Army and
earlier in the program with the
Coast Guard and Marine Corps.
@. How deep is the foundation of
the Empire State Building in New
York?-S. E.
A. The foundation of the Empire
State Building extends about 40 feet
below the surface It is of massive
concrete construction, built to sup
port the large steel columns which
form the framework of the building.
@. Do women smoke more cigaret-
tes than men?-M. w.
A. According to a recent survey,
women smoke 68 per cent of all
cigarettes sold in the United States.
@. Why is it more difficult to fly
across the Atlantic Ocean from
Europe to the United States than in
the opposite direction?-P. L.
A. The east-West crossing is more
difficult because the prevailing winds
are from the west.
@. How many members of the
Army were court -martialed and
executed during the war period?
H. P.
A. According to statement made
by the Secretary of War in July,
l945, death sentences imposed by
military courts have been carried
out against 102 soldiers in the past
five years. Only one execution was
for military offense, that of desert
ing twice in the face of the enemy.
Forty-Seven were executed after
conviction on charges of murder, 43
on charges of criminal assault on
women ard II in cases where both
murder and criminal assault were
involved.
@. What was done with the Dec
laration of independence and the
Constitution when the British at
tackled the Capital in 1814?-N. AID.
A. Three Department OF State en-
ployes, John Graham, chief clerk,
Josiah King and Stephen Pleasan-
ton, saved these and other priceless
documents under orders from Presi-
dent Monroe. The documents were
stuffed into course linen sacks and
taken by wagon from Washington
via Georgetown and Chain Bridge
to Virginia, and stored in Edgar
Paterson's barn nearby From there
they were moved to the house of
the Rev. Mr.. Littlejohn in Leesburg
Evening star., 1946-04-20
Australia Winninu
Support on Plan for
u. n. Probe Of Spain
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK, April 20. - The
United Nations Security Council be-
gins its second month of delibera
tions next week with the prospect
that Russia's demand for dismissal
of the Iranian case will be rebuff &c
and that Franco Spain may be in.
vestigated by a Council subcommit-
tee.
The 1ranian issue comes up first
when the Council meets at 3 pm
Tuesday to review report from its
committee of experts on procedure
who told the Council they were split
8 to 3, over the Iranian case on lines
Identical with those around the
Council table.
Meanwhile, an Australian proposal
for appointment of a five-membel
subcommittee to conduct a four week
investigation of the Franco regime
inside Spain gained strength, with
Poland, author of the charges
against Spain, reported ready tc
back such an inquiry.
Three Dissenters.
Russia, Poland and France were
the minority dissenters in the ex-
perts' report, which ruled that the
Council had authority to keep the
Iranian case on its agenda as long
as it desired, although Iran has
withdrawn her complaint against
Russia.
Senators in private conference
with Secretary of State Byrnes in
Washington yesterday got the i'm
preston that Mr.. Byrnes and other
American policymakers believed the
U. N. secretary-general, Trygve Lie,
overstepped his authority in sug-
gesting early this week that the
Councils jurisdiction in any case
ceased with the withdrawal of the
complaint.
The American and British leader
ship against Russia's demand for
dropping the Iranian case has a
clear majority of Council votes to
keep the matter on the agenda
pending re-eXamination on May
of the status of Red Army evacua-
tions from Iran.
When Mr.. Lie, in an unsolicited
report last Tuesday, suggested that
the Council may well be" unable
legally to retain the Iranian case II
experts from the nations represent
ed on the Council were consulted
Their report now apparently will
have the effect of a majority recon-
mendation to the Council.
Conciliatory Turn.
The debate on Spain took a con.
ciliatory turn at the end of two
long sessions of debate when tht
Australian delegate, 1t. Col. w. R
Hodgson, proposed that the Counci
delegate a five-man subcommittee
to investigate and report back Ma,
II with the fullest possible docu.
mentation.
Col. Hodgson's proposal for a sub
committee to investigate is said tt
have the support of DR.. Oscar Lange
Polish delegate, who has the an
nounced backing thus far of Rus
sia, Mexico and France for a breal
with the Franco regime.
The United States and China re-
main uncommitted, but their dele
gates, Edward R. Stettinius, jr., ant
DR.. Quo Tai-chi, have stated thei
willingness for full inquiry. DR.
Pedro Leao Velloso of Brazil op
poses a break, but he believes tn,
Council should determine whethe
atomic research is being carried OF
in Spain. Britain and the Neither
lands, aligned with Brazil agains
concerted break, are represented
as ready to hear and see all tn,
evidence. The Egyptian chairman
DR.. Hafez Afifi Pasha, has not We
spoken on the Franco question.
Evening star., 1946-04-20
By Lorry Allen
Assoeloted Press Foreign Correspondent

STETTIN, April II Delayed -
The Poles in this once-great Ger
man Baltic seaport are working hard
to expel the city's 10000 remaining
Germans to Allied zones of occupa-
ton, and to speed reconstruction.
! Almost every day vessels arrive
from German ports bringing back
upward of 1000 Poles. Within 48
hours, the ships are headed back to
Germany carrying German repatri-
ates and their families.
There now are 10000 Poles in
Stettin (which the Poles have re-
named Szezecin), but population
of around 100000 is anticipated be-
fore the end of the year Poles say
all Germans will be cleared out by
the end of August. The city's pre-
war population was about 100000.
Repatriates Healthy.
Polish repatriates arriving here
appear mostly to be in good health,
and they carry with them as much
luggage as possible. Each ship dis
charges enormous quantities of per-
sonal luggage.
| British authorities handling the
transfer of Poles from various points
in Germany supply all repatriates
with food rations sufficient to last IL
days, although their transport may
require only 2.
Many of the repatriates are being
settled here and in surrounding
districts while others 60 into the
southwestern former Silesian terri
tories.
/ Germans leaving the crowded
port also are permitted to take all
they can carry and receive the same
food rations as the Poles.
While repatriation activity and
stream of shipments from the Unit
ed Nations Relief and Rehahilita-
ton Administration keep the
Polish part" of the port humming,
another strip on the western side of
the Oder to the north also is buzz
zing.
Area Allotted to Russians.
That is the AREAS an official
xplained-which has been allotted
to the Russians for Soviet ships
bringing in supplies for Red Army
troops in Poland and Germany
and to take back to Russia whatever
the Soviets want to send.
The strip, heavily guarded by So
; Wet troops, once contained impor-
tant electrical works and the former
German Stettiner oil works plant.
Industrial machinery from this Sec
tor reportedly has beent sent to
Russia
Stettin is one of the most heavily
garrisoned cities in Poland, scores
of big apartments are occupied by
Soviet officers and troops. One in
formant estimated there are 10000
, Russian troops here and upward OF
100000 men in all of Western
Pomerania.
Security in Stettin is none toe
good. 1t has its nightly series Of
sporadic shooting and robberies
much like other Polish cities.
Polish authorities estimate thai
the city is 35 per cent destroyed
Thus far reconstruction seems tt
S have been confined principally tt
t the erection of temporary bridge.
E over the Ober and keeping public
D utilities functioning.
i War Prisoners Used.
Russia and UNRRA have suppliee
. most Of the materials thus far uset
in Stettin
The Russians are using thousand.
of German prisoners of war on va.
2 - - ~
Evening star., 1946-04-20
Child's Tuunts Started
Frocos, ShowgirI Says
By the kssocioted Pres5

PHILADELPHIA, April 20.-Sally
Duber, %, red haired and shapely,
said children in the neighborhood
of her home were always yelling
names at her because she is show
girl and Il just couldn't take it
any more"
Brought into court, she was
charged with assault and battery
and mayhem on a 13-year- old girl.
Justice of the Peace Albion B.
Murray held her under $500 bail
because he said there was not
enough reason to justify the assault"
Mrs. Louise AtWell sWore out the
warrant, claiming her daughter,
Shirley, suffered a black eye. a
bruised nose and a bite on the
little finger.
Evening star., 1946-04-20

Will pOlltely request National Chalr-
man Robert E. Hannegan to meet
with the committee and explain
party purposes and plans, where
made and by whom.
They will ask for the roster of
headquarters employees from the
top level down. Their tongue-in-
cheek explanation of this maneuver
is their desire to find the weak links
that are apparently responsible for
the mistakes" disavowed by Mr..
Hannegan. Actus lily, of course, their
aim is to ferret out employees with
CIO-PAC or other liberal connec-
tions which are avowedly hostile to
the Southern coalition and all it rep
resents within the party.
The conservative plan to screen
the committee and purge it of as
sociations unpalatable to them rep
resents an unprecedented assertion
Of authority over the national board
of strategy. 1t has been the ira
ditional privilege of the President
Of the United States to name his
own national chairman and the
chairman's to choose his staff. In
the party out of power the State
politicos and not its members in
Congress select the national COM
mittee.
Truman "Unruff1ed."
President Truman processes to be
unruff1ed by the recent clashes on
Capitol Hill. He is describing. it to
his callers as a case of legislative
nerves which the Easter rest will
cure. Everybody in Washington, the
President has explained feelingly,
is suffering from strain and these
outbursts are nothing to be alarmed
about.
The liaison committee members
counted safe for such disciplinary
action as may seem fitting are Fritz
G. Lanham. Texas; Eugene E. Cox,
Georgia; Howard w. Smith, Vir-
ginia; Lyle H. Boren, Oklahoma;
James Domengeaux. Louisiana, and
Roger c. Slaughter, Missouri. De-
pendable protection of the admins
tration interests will res. with
Evening star., 1946-04-20
By the Associoted Press

CHICAGO, April 2o.-To former
Sergt. James Martin, "a, an invita-
ton from Gen. Eisenhower is a
command, so it's back to the Army
he left five months ago to resume
his job as chef for the chief of
staff.
After Martin received a telegram
from an aide of Gen. Eisenhower
telling him there was place wait
ing for him behind the cook stove
in the generals headquarters, he
made arrangements to leave his job
as chef at the Eastgate Hotel.
He also began studying up on
the private recipes gathered while
he cooked for Gen. Eisenhower
through England, France and Ger
Evening star., 1946-04-20

AC1QoCQ W 20 along.
Deserve to Be Named,
The nine deserve to be named.
They are Messrs. Baldwin, New
York; Garfield, New Jersey; Fulton
Pennsylvania. Kean, New Jersey;
Kunkel, Pennsylvania: La Toilette,
Indiana: Smith, Maine; Welch,
California, and Wolverton, New
Jersey.
The test came on an amendment
offered by Representative Wolcott,
Republican, of Michigan and in due
course adopted. This would direct
OPA to guarantee reasonable
profit to producer, professor, dis
tributor and retailer on every item
handled. If OPA had the funds to
employ staff many times as large
as it now has it would still be i'm
possible to do this job. The result
would be that producer, professor
distributor and retailer, each in
turn, would determine his own
reasonable" profit There would be
no price control whatever.
So far as the House is concerned,
therefore, price control is wrecked
and the mad Whirl of imitation can
begin. What the Senate will do
with the bill remains to be seen.
Early indications are that the
Senators may undo some of the
damage. Even the more conserva-
tive Republicans among them have
expressed serious misgivings over
the action of the House. They may
join in passing something less reck-
less and endeavor to obtain a COM
promise in conference.
1t may be that these Senators are
looking little farther ahead thar
their House brethren. Apart from
the fact that they really wouldn't
welcome the chaotic conditions
threatened by the House bill, they
may decide that the House leader
ship is not playing the wisest poll
tics. Agreeing that the first result
of upSettlng the national economy
might be the election of Repub-
lican Congress, they are not so sure
ti4oe tAlC 1lC<AG "Oulo NC lllt
election of a Republican President
two years later. In the past that
has happened, but this time a new
situation would have been created
Raw Politics of Battle.
This time it would be clear which
party had put the country into its
desperate fix. Under normal con-
ditionS it might be expected that the
voters would fail to look beyond the
President and that they would un-
loose their wrath on him. But the
House Republicans are proposing tc
set up conditions so abnormal that
even the dullest of voters would be
able to understand where the re-
sponsibility lies.
If that should prove to be the
case, the Senators may reason, the
Republicans will be out again before
they've got their seats warm.
That is the raw politics of the
present battle over OPA and price
control. How the Republican Sena-
tors decide to play it, how willing
they may be to take the same haz-
Evening star., 1946-04-20

ardous chance the House members
have taken, will be revealed in the
next few weeks. Meantime they
may hear from the voters.
Only last week DR.. Gallup did
one of his Nation wide samplings. He
found that 68 per cent of the Re-
publican voters favor retention of
effective price control, while only
% per cent are opposed.
Evening star., 1946-04-20
140 Million Perch Stocked

ANNAPOLIS, Md, April 20 (P).
Gov. O'Conor announced yesterday
that approximately 100000, 900 perch
fry had been stocked in State
waters. The fish were produced at
the Severn Run hatchery in Anne
Arundel County, as function of the
Maryland Department of Research
and Education.
Evening star., 1946-04-20
Dues Boost Voted Down

Members of the Silver Spring
Board of Trade have rejected pro-
posal to increase their annual dues
from s12 to $18. The increase was
to be used to provide Office space
and to employ full-time secretary.
James Mccain is president of the
group.
Evening star., 1946-04-20

\ II f III selves 10
make sure the
country is in a
desperate fix.
With the as
sistance of a
group Of South
ern Democrats,
out to damage
the administra-
ton in any way
possible, tn ey
have gone far
toward achiev-
Ing t h e n pur-
pose. Only nine
r e pu b lie a n
members have
Evening star., 1946-04-20
Bio Ten Mines Bunched

CHICAGO, April 20 (P).-1owa and
Illinois, by sweeping series finales
with Purdue and Chicago respec-
lively, today can tie Wisconsin for
the lead in the still infant Big Ten
baseball race.
Evening star., 1946-04-20
Doris Flees0n
PAC Called Target
Southern Democrats Seek to Purge
Committee. Liberals, SAYS Observer

The dove of roosng the congressional
strictly for the Easter holidays When the statesmen
their abors the battered bird will have seek quarters
Holding safe majority the 11man laison committee
at Wednesdays Southern Democrats
the offensive with their national Headquarters They
Evening star., 1946-04-20
LoayeN MeUen
On the Other Hand
Thinks Republican Senators May
Differ With House COLLEAGUES
L0ueW MeUetf

What the country has witnessed Washington during
past week has been politics in the political
regardless OF The if the
will be the of price control beginning
of disastrous imitation
Here seems to be the thinking behind the drive:
If the country in desperate Repuo-
Evening star., 1946-04-20
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licanS have reason to believe they
can elect enough new members to
take over the House of Represent
atives. Therefore they should exert