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Evening star., 1946-05-14
Holland DESTROYING
Surplus Vegetables
By the Associoted Press

THE HAGUE, May 14.-Holland
starving year ago, has been ir
the anomalous position in recent
months of having to destroy large
quantities of vegetables. The situa.
ton may be alleviated by an ar
rangement to export surpluses to
Germany, announced by Food Min
lister S. F. Mansholt.
The GOOD and Agriculture Min
istry Fad conducted drive to in
crease vegetable crops in eXpecta-
ton of large foreign demands II
was found impossible for months
to arrange with the occupation au-
thot&ies for exports to Germany
and exports to Britain were below
expectations, partly because of 6
shortage of transport, the offlcia
Netherlands news agency said yes.
terday.
Under the Netherlands govern.
ment's program minimum price!
were paid to the growers of certain
vegetables and surpluses were de-
stroyed to maintain the price level
Now the government has sue.
ceeded in negotiating with the Brit.
ish authorities at Hamburg for pur.
chase of surpluses at minimum
prices. The difficulty in these nego'
tiations was that the Allied author.
tiles, seeking to keep the occupa.
ton budget down, were concentrat'
ing on purchase of high-calory
foods,
Evening star., 1946-05-14
Il $50 Jewish Refugees Debork
AT Huifu From Seized Vessel

by the destroyer Jarvis and two
gunboats.
Aboard the ship were 700 refugees
from Poland, $50 from Yugoslavia,
100 from Czechoslovakia, some 80
from Hungary and the remainder
from Romania. They were to be
quarantined a week at the Athlit
camp, Is miles south of Haifa, prior
to being distributed among the jew
ish settlements.
The refugees cheered and waved
when launch which the Associated
Press correspondent had chartered
drew alongside, but an episode a
few moments earlier showed their
wartime strains. An officer on the
escorting destroyer shouted instruc-
tions for the launch to approach
Then, when the launch pilot did not
hear the instructions, the destroyer
fired burst of ack-ack to the sky
to attract attention.
At the sound of gunfire the Smyrni
passengers on top the deckhouse
flattened themselves or crouched in
! terror.
The Smyrni left Constanta week
ago. Jewish Agency reports said the
British appealed to the Russian
Fleet to stop the ship but the
Soviets refused. Later an unsea-
sonal Mediterranean storm buffeted
the 2,000-ton vessel.
Agency Officials Go Aboard.
Armed British marines are aboard
Three officials of the Jewish Agency
boarded from a launch this morn
ing. They were headed by Eliaza
Dostrovsky, agency immigration
chieftain at Haifa.
The refugees presence in Palestine
will cause juggling of the issuance
of immigration certificates, although
the Jewish Agency spokesman said
it would not affect the sched-
uled landing Friday of the passen-
gers aboard the Fede and Fenice
who have been at La Spezia, Italy.
Badly in need of cleaning up and
obviously suffering from poor fare
aboard the Smyrni for a week. the
refugees-with some 200 babies
nevertheless appeared hopeful.
Evening star., 1946-05-14
State Rests Case
In Assault on Girl

The State today rested its case
against James Clarence Raymond
Washington, Is, and Willie Gray
Taylor, Is, both colored, of Hunts
vile, Md, charged with criminal
assault on a 19-year-old Seat Pleas
ant girl after Associate Judge
Charles c. Marbury and John D.
Grey, jr., ruled that a signed state
ment by Taylor was made freely
and voluntarily" and would be ad-
mitted as evidence.
The judges who are conducting
the trial at the Prince Georges
County Circuit Court at Upper
Marlboro also overruled a request
of attorneys for Taylor that charges
against him be dismissed because
of insufficient evidence presented
by States Attorney A. Gwynn Bowie
A 12-gauge shotgun and a %
caliber rifle which allegedly were
used by the assailants to cover theil
victims companion were found in
their homes and presented as evil
dence by County Detective Richard
A. Pearson.
Taylor later took the stand and
denied being present or having
knowledge of the attack.
In tears throughout a two-hour
questioning, the girl, who was ac-
costed by the assailants while she
and Donald Boyer, 20, former
coast guardsman, were seated In a
parked automobile near Huntsville
yesterday, identified the two youths
on trial as the ones who assaulted
her twice.
Evening star., 1946-05-14
Acheson Says World Faces
Five Years of Famine

NEW YORK, May IA (P).-Acting
Secretary of State Acheson declared
last night I'VE face five years of
famine, these are the dry and barren
statistics of catastrophe.
He told the biennial convention
of the Women's American Organiza-
ton for Rehabilitation Through
Training that today the question
that is overwhelming in it's implica-
tions is whether mankind can sur
vive, whether civilization can sur
vive."
Mr.. Acheson continued:
1.-The effects of prolonged hunger
in countries which suffer from con-
ditions left unstable by the course
of war, and the impact of a con-
tinuing food crisis on world eco
nomic system, still shuddering from
assaults upon it, are frightening to
contemplate.
"The .compulsions of mere survival
shape and guide much of our foreign
policy today"
Evening star., 1946-05-14
Texas Health Officer
Minimizes Reports
Of Disease Spread
BY the Associoted Press

AUSTIN, Tex, May IA State
health officer said today that the
reported spread of poliolike dis
ease in Texas had been exaggerated
and the present state of alarm sis
an example of what happens when
people get excited and rumors begin
to spread"
DR.. j. V. Irons, State Health De-
parment epidemiologist, said there
were only eight cases of infantile
paralysis in Bexar County and that
other cases had been incorrectly
diagnosed.
Miss Jean Delcher, 16. died last
night in a San Antonio hospital
polio ward, the fourth victim Of the
disease for BeXar County.
DR.. Irons, in a report to State
Health Officer George w. Cox, said
San Antonio's estimate of Is cases
in the county was too high and that
only eight true cases had been found.
In Corpus Christi, 300 State
Guardsmen mobilized on a voluntary
basis to block roads and keep nom
resident children and youths out of
the city and Nueces County, while
the polio-like sickness spread near
ly 500 miles from South Texas
to the Panhandle to strike three
more victims, one fatally.
Rockport, 80 miles from Corpus
Christi along the Gulf of Mexico,
also declared a quarantine, as did
Kleberg County, which is part of
the great King Ranch. Kleberg and
Nueces Counties adjoin.
The many military installations
in and near San Antonio closed
theaters and chapels and halted So
cial gatherings, as did the Corpus
Christi Naval Air Station.
Three persons were dead in San
Antonio. Amarillo reported one
death. Two Berger victims, one in
poor condition" we're brought to
Dallas. Five we're on Corpus Chris
It's list of victims.
Evening star., 1946-05-14
British Cardinal Visits
Capital, a., Sees Truman
Al White House

Bernard Cardinal Griffin. rank
ing English prelate, and British
Minister John Balfour visited Presi-
dent Truman at the White House
today as part of Cardinal Griffin S
one-day tour of Washington.
Cardinal Griffin told reporters
after he had called on the President
that they discussed the world food
situation and he added earnestly
that it is "a world situation" He
said it was one of which President
Truman 'is fully aware"
The cardinal met President Tru-
man when they received honorary
degrees at Fordham University Sat-
urday an dthe British prelate said
Mr.. Truman told him at the time
that if he came to Washington to
come to the White House and he
would see that he was shown over
the establishment.
Today, the cardinal said, the Pres
ident kept that promise.
First English Cardinal ever to
visit the United States and youngest
member of the College of Cardinals,
the British visitor arrived here last
night from Baltimore.
Earlier today, accompanied by the
apostolic delegate, Amleto Cicog-
mani. Cardinal Griffin visited Cath
olic University where he was greeted
by the Right Rev. Msgr. Patrick
j. Mccormick, rector. and the Right
Rev. Msgr. Edward B. Jordan, vice
rector. Cardinal Griffin saw the
Mullen Library and toured the uni
versity grounds. He also visited the
National Shrine of the Immaculate
Conception, escorted by the direc-
tor, the Rev. John j. Reilly. Later
today, he was scheduled to visit
the Capitol.
While in Baltimore the British
prelate paid his respects to the Most
Rev. Michael j. Curley, Archbishop
of Baltimore and Washington, and
visited the tomb of Cardinal Gibbons
in Baltimore Cathedral.
He leaves tomorrow morning by
plane for Chicago, where he will
visit Samuel Cardinal Stritch before
returning to the British Isles. A
press conference is scheduled for
3 pm. today at the Apostolic Delega-
tion.
Cardinal Griffin was appointed
Archbishop of Westminster, Eng
land, in 1943, to succeed the late
Arthur Cardinal Hinsley, and thus
became ranking prelate of Great
Britain. Aged A at appointment
he is one of the youngest men ever
chosen to head the Roman Catholic
hierarchy of England.
Evening star., 1946-05-14

action only to permit time for study
by Mr.. Smith.
A hot floor debate developed over
the issue yesterday, with indications
subcommittee jurisdiction was in
volved in the issue. Exasperated
when the Virginian insisted on OBJ
jecting to immediate action on the
Corrections Department bill, Mr.. He
bert declared the findings of his jail
investigating subcommittee had been
supported by still unpublished re-
port by the Federal Bureau of In
vestigation. Even now, he said, there
Is fear Of an imminent Jail break. n
When reporters later questioned him
about this, he said, Anything can
happen" under present circum-
stances.
Women Visit Condemned.
Earlier, he had told the House he
hadn't planned to reveal the fact,
but that investigation had disclosed
that women were permitted to 20
to the death cells" to see prisoners
confined there.
Mr.. Smith contended the creation
OF a separate department of cor
rections would have no relation to
the jail breaks. The question of
division of authority" he main
tained, was not involved, despite
all the noise about it," but rather
it was the negligence of two police
men assigned to help guard the
Jail at the time of the Joseph Med
ley-Earl Mcfarland escapes.
Mr.. Hebert then retorted that If
there was another Jail break at
may be because this legislation was
not passed"
Would Await Citizens Views.
Mr.. Smith later said there had
been organized protests against the
Hebert bill. When asked from
whom they came, he suggested
questioners talk to Representative
Stefan, Republican, of Nebraska
who had participated in yesterday s
debate.
Mr.. Stefan, who is ranking mi
nority member of the House Appro-
priations Subcommittee, in charge
of the District bill, said he had re-
ceived no protests against the
Hebert bill, but that he thought
action should be deferred until
citizens organizations could act on
the proposal. He said he was in
formed 13 organizations were now
making study of the Welfare
Board question under the guidance
of the Council of Social Agencies.
Il think we can afford to wait
Bit" he commented.
Evening star., 1946-05-14
DR.. Corning Will Address
ChiIdren's Museum Farley

DR.. Hobart M Corning, District
superintendent of schools, will ad-
dress the conference of the Chill
dren's Museum section of the Amer
lean Association of Museums at 10
am. Saturday in the Coolidge Audi
torium of the Library of Congress.
The association is holding it's con-
ference here Friday and Saturday.
Other events on the program in
clude panel discussion Saturday
morning on childrens museums
with DR.. Walter E. Hager, president
of Wilson Teachers College, leading.
A Mexican exhibit, designed to
interest children, will be on display
at the library at 1915 pm. Satur-
day. The exhibit, arranged by the
Pan American Society of New Eng
land, will be opened by Sonora de
Espinosa de los Monteros, wife of
the Mexican Ambassador, and her
daughter, Antonieta, 10.
Evening star., 1946-05-14
Bridge
Continued From First Page.)

sachusetts and Howell of Illinois,
Republicans.
Officials accompanying the sub
committee were Maj Gen. u. S.
Grant III, chairman of the National
Capital Park and Planning Com
mission; Capt. H. c. Whitehurst,
District director of highways; Col.
Kenneth E. Madsen, assistant Dis
trcit engineer commissioner; Irving
c. Root, superintendent of National
Capital Parks; Harry T. Thompson
assistant park superintendent; H
E. Hiltz, deputy public roads COM
missioner in charge of design; C. E
Swain, PRA district engineer; E
H. Holmes, chief of PRA's division
of highway transportation and re-
search, and F. P. Randolph, clerk OF
the subcommittee
Chairman Chapman said he did
not know whether his committee
would make additional tours before
giving final consideration to the
bridge bill. He said he planned a
number of informal committee
meetings in the near future to reach
a decision.
Voluminous testimony was taken
by the committee at hearings late
last year. Since that time the one
bridge versus twin bridges contro-
versy has continued under cover
with both sides making every effort
to have their views written into law.
Evening star., 1946-05-14
D. T.. Food Committee
To Seek Cash Instead
of Canned Goods

The Washington Food Conserva.
ton Committee will not sponsor the
collection Dreamed goods under the
Emergency food collection headed by
Secretary of Commerce Wallace, but
will accept cash contributions.
Raymond F. Garrity, chairman o1
the committee, disclosed this yes.
terday and said the arrangement
was "in complete agreement" with
the Wallace committee.
He said the District committee
was working on several methods tc
collect money to aid famine vic.
tins.
1--WE expect to meet with the Ex.
ecutive COMMITTEE (of the Wash.
ington Food Conservation Commit.
tee) this week and will decide which
one we will use in the District al
that time," Mr.. Garrity said.
Until an official program is de
termined, Mr.. Garrity suggested
that cash contributions be sent t,
committee headquarters, room 5O7
District Building. Checks should b,
made out to the Washington Foot
Conservation Committee.
He said the committee would con
tinue to press for voluntary conser
vation.
In summing up Mr. Garrity said
I'VE have come to the conclusion
that the community's contribution
would be greatest if we continue ou
food conservation program ant
asked residents to submit cash con
tributions, which have SO mucl
greater value than timed foods"
Funds will be turned over tt
UNRRA. Director General La Guar
dia has pointed out that UNRRf
will be able to buy canned good
and other foods wholesale and thu
get a better return than of house
holders purchased timed foods a
retail and turned them over for re
lief. Shipment of canned goods alst
adds to the outlay.
Evening star., 1946-05-14
Rev. R. 5. Harp Accepts
Call 70 Richmond Church

The Rev. Reno s. Harp, jr., rector
of Trinity Episcopal Church here
since 1885, has accepted a call to
st. Stephens Episcopal Church at
Richmond, it was learned today.
Mr.. Harp will succeed the late
Rev. Giles B. Palmer
A native Of Frederick, Md, Mr..
Harp is a graduate of Johns Hop
kins University and of Union Theo-
logical Seminary in New York. He
Is a member of the Executive Coun-
Gil Of the diocese. He was elected
deputy to the General Convention
at the Diocesan Convention held
this month at the Washington Ca
thedral and has served the depart
ments of missions and finance.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harp live at 7003
Piney Branch road NV. They have
a son, Reno S. Harp III.
Evening star., 1946-05-14
Peasant Party Suspended
By Polish Government
BY the Associated Press

WARSAW, May 14-The Ministry
of Public Security today said the
Polish Peasant Party had been sus-
pended in Wloszczowa snd Grojec
counties south of Warsaw for par
ticipation in terroristic activity in
NSz underground army bands.
The communique said numerous
arrests were made and large quanti-
ties Of arms were found. The raids
were said to be in accord with the
declaration of Premier Edward
Osubka -Morawski that Fascist and
anti-democratic groups within the
Peasant Party would be dissolved.
The Peasant Party is headed by
Stanislaw Mikolajczyk. present vice.
premier and former premier of the
Polish government in exile in Lon
don who has formally denied gov
ernment charges that there are NSZ
bands in his party.
Evening star., 1946-05-14
Iran
Continued From First Page,)

between the central government and
a delegation from Azerbaijan had
foundered on three major differ
enceS.
The Army announced that bat
talon of troops was moving through
Kazvin to Bandar Pahlevi on the
Caspian Sea and that an additional
so troop carriers bearing a total OF
750 men had streamed northWard
from Teheran during the morning
Gorgan also has been regarrisoned
Armored gendarmerie units have
moved along the Caspian coast north
of Pahlevi
A Kurdish chief here said his fol-
lowers, who recently withdrew their
support from Ghazi Mohammed' S
Independent" Kurdish republic, had
received 5000 rifles from the army
He said large supplies Of arms, am
munition and food" we're being
moved to the loyal Zolfaghari and
Afshar tribes within the borders OF
Azerbraijan.
From Meshed, holy city in far
Northeastern Iran, came reports OF
growing opposition to leftist organ
izations."
Azerbaijan Army Preparing.
The Azerbaijan Army also ap-
peared to be continuing its prepara-
tions for war. although Premier
Jafar Pishevari, after his return tt
Tabriz last night, denied foreign
news reports of proposed march or
Teheran. He expressed hope for 8
peaceful solution of differences with
the central government.
A traveller from Tabriz said the
Azerbaijan Army was "smartly at
tired in Russian uniforms" and was
staging field maneuvers. between
Maineh and Zenjan. Civilian mill
tary training classes were reported
conducted twice a week instead OF
once week, as formerly. Tabriz Is
the capital of Azerbaijan and was
one of the chief Russian admins
trative posts during the occupation
The traveller estimated that 24OO(
electives were in the Azerbaijar
Army. Estimates of the Centra
Iranian Army vary between 10000
and 10000.
Evening star., 1946-05-14
Franco Spain Giving
Refuge 10 De GreI|e,
Belgium Tells u. n.
By the Assoeioted Press

NEW YORK, May 14-The ques-
ton of war criminal extradition was
raised indirectly before the United
Nations Security Councils Subcom-
mittee on Spain today by Belgian
statement emphasizing that Franco
Spain has become a refuge for the
Belgian quisling, Leon De Grelle.
Meanwhile, Dr. Jose Giral, Premier
of the Spanish Republican govern
ment in exile, formally handed over
to the U. N. bulky, 350-page in
dictment charging that Franco
Spain was a menace to world peace.
In brief ceremony at the Hunter
College Office of Trygve Lie, U. S.
secretary general, DR.. Giral sub
mitted the lengthy charges he had
brought with him by plane from
Paris.
Now the documents are in the
hands of the United Nations and
it is up to that organization to
decide what is going to be done
about the Spanish case" DR.. Giral
told neWsmen after meeting Mr..
Lie.
Supports Poles Charges.
The Belgian complaint was filed
In support of Polish charges that
Spain is a hideaway for Nazi war
criminals and scientists engaged in
atomic research.
The Belgian government told the
subcommitte that Franco has re-
fused to hand over the former
Belgian Rexist party leader who
pursued a bemedaled politico- mill
tary career with Hitler's armies
of the east and west before his
escape by plane into Spain just
over year ago.
This refusal to eXtradite this
nortorious war criminal and COL
laborator has caused bad feeling
between Belgium and Spain," the
Belgians said in response to the
committees request to U. N. mem
bers for information on Spain. The
statement made no formal request,
however, that the U. N. support
Belgian extradition efforts.
Negotiations for De Grelle's eX-
tradition were said to be under
way last summer after Spanish
police had reported an attempt was
made to kidnap him, but the Belgian
government recently announced
further efforts had failed.
Sentenced in Absentia.
A Belgian court in December,
1914, was reported to have SEN
fenced him-in absentia-to be shot
for collaboration with the Nazis and
he is now being sought for trial be-
fore the Brussels high court of JUS
tice. De Grelle was decorated by
Hitler for leading German troops
on the eastern front, where he was
reported wounded in 1912, and he
was wearing the uniform of a Ger
man colonel when he crash landed
on Spanish beach May 8, 1945.
On the subject of alleged persecu-
ton and execution of Spanish Re-
publicans and others by the Franco
regime, the subcommittee an
nounced last night that it would
generally accept evidence from
Spanish underground sources sub
ject to the proof of the authenticity
OF each document"
Meanwhile, the Security Council
Committee of Experts disclosed it
had drafted rule allowing the Sc
curity Council to hold secret meet
jngs any time it desired
At news conference Dr.. Hanna
Saba of Egypt, chairman of the
Committee of Experts, said the group
had approved rule stating that
unless it decides otherwise, the
Security Council shall meet pub
licly."
Evening star., 1946-05-14
Raymond Papertroops
Adopt Dutch Boy

Raymond School Papertroopers
have been assigned a Dutch boy in
the Salvage-an-Orphan phase of
The Evening Star-PTA paper cam
paign.
The boy, 14-year-old Cornelis
Warmer, is the son of Dutch mu-
sician who lost his life as member
of the underground. The Raymond
Papertroopers have started CORE
spondence with Cornelis and are
sending photographs of Washington.
Cornelis, who is studying art, is
painting a picture which he will
send TO Raymond.
Among collections of half a ton
or more yesterday were: Congress
Heights, 3,484; Buchanan, 1000; Orr,
1900. Davis, 1888; Ketcham, TAOS;
Stanton, 2,479; Randle Highlands,
1856; Beers, 1890; w. B. Patterson,
1908; Van Ness. 1000; Jefferson,
3,201; Randall, 1908.
The schedule and leaders in Dis
trict Three which will be covered
tomorrow are as follows:
Evening star., 1946-05-14

tCOnIlllueQ TIOIIl F1TSJ fdRe.J
essential now" to prevent posi-
bilities of another Jail break.
District Committee Chairman Nc
MILAN, after a conference with Mr.
Hebert, was trying to bring about
agreement on the Hebert Correc-
tions Department bill. Since Mr.
Smith had protested to the House
he and other members had not seer
the Hebert hearings transcript, Mr.
Mcmillan arranged to send him a
copy.
Hot Debate Develops.
Chairman Mcmillan said he be-
lieved Mr.. Smith could be satisfied
as to the need for action on the
Hebert bill, leaving the long-range
reorganization question to await
hearings by a subcommittee headed
by Mr.. Smith.
Voicing belief that the Hebert
bill could have been pressed to a
passing vote yesterday. Chairman
Mcmillan said he had withdrawn
his unanimous consent request for