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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-01-22

ations Committee was able to report
the independent Offices supply bill
today as part of the total Federal
budget because it had obtained esti-
mates for these Offices two months
ago.
Bill Drawn After Study.
Chairman Cannon of the Appro-
priations Committee, said the COM
mittee had not brought out this
bill Overnight" but that it resulted
from two months of study and eX-
ecutive hearings by the Independent
Offices Subcommittee.
While the committee and Con-
gress did not have a complete budget
picture until yesterday, he added,
the committee weeks ago received
some of the departmental estimates
as they were approved by the
Budget Bureau. This procedure was
adopted, he said, because of the
necessity of expediting the many
appropriation bills which must be
given to the House at calendared
intervals.
Conceding that the cuts recon-
mended by the committee were not
large, the appropriations group
pointed out that 871a per cent of the
estimates considered were for the
Veterans Administration. The COM
mittee said it was assured by Gen
Omar N. Bradley, veterans admin
istrator, that these funds were ere
quired and necessary to do good
job of caring for the veterans"
Another substantial increase, the
CONTINUED on Page "A, Column y
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House Labor Group Approves
Modified Foct-Finding Measure
Votes 10 to 8 for Legislation Eliminating
Subpoena Power and Cooling off Period

on the new bill soon, but probably
not until next week.
He said the committee had put no
restrictions on him regarding what
rules should prevail during floor
action on the legislation.
Several committee members said
they had voted for the modified
version to insure a vote soon by the
House on some type of strike con-
troll legislation.
Along this line. Mr.. Randolph
asserted:
MY position is that was in favor
Of reporting legislation with the
principle of fact finding to the floor,
so the House might have the oppor-
tunity, through its individual men,
bership, to approve or disapprove
the request by the Chief Executive"
Mr.. Lands told newsmen I'VE owe
it to the people to take some action
to halt these strikes"
He added that ''it Is quite likely
that broader legislation" would be
offered in the House as an amend
ment to his measure.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-01-22
Patterson Reaches Berlin;
Welcomed by McNarney
BY the Associated Press,

os Lac hssocidteo freSS.
BERLIN, Jan. 22-Secretary of
War Patterson arrived in Berlin
today on his world tour. Gen, Jo-
seph T. McNarney, American COM
mander in Europe, and 1t. Gen.
Lucius Clay, deputy military gov
ernor, met him at the Tempelhof
Airdrome.
Before leaving Frankfurt, Mr.. Pat
terson today said the question as to
how long selective service should be
continued depended on the success
OF the Army's recruiting.
He told press conference he be-
lieved the burden" of occupying
enemy territory should be spread so
that a relatively small number of
men would not have to bear too
heavy a share.
I believe in sharing system of
replacements-spreading the burden
and not combining it to a few" he
said. THE time during which we
have to have selective service de-
ponds on recruits
Mr.. Patterson will also visit Nuern-
berg. He said he would return to
Frankfurt before leaving for Wash
lngton Thursday morning.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-01-22
New Agency Created
To Coordinate u. ).
Intelligence Activity
Authority to Consist
Of ; Department Heads
And Truman Appointee
By J. A. FOX.

President Truman today Gre
ated National Intelligence Au-
thority to develop and co-ordi-
nate all Federal foreign intelli-
gence activities as a measure Of
national security.
The new agency, a presidential
directive said, will be composed of
the Secretaries of State, War and
Navy and one other member to
be named by the President as his
personal representative.
Supplementing the work of the
authority will be central intelli-
gence group to be formed by other
representatives of the three agen-
cies concerned. This group will be
headed by director of central
intelligence. who also will be named
by the President and who will sit
in the National Intelligence Au-
thority as a nonvoting member.
Police Power Withheld.
Mr.. Humans directive specifies
that mo police, law enforcement,
or internal security functions shall
be exercised" under it's provisions.
The Observation-Disclosures to the
Secretaries of State, War and Navy
Set out four major functions of
the central intelligence director, but
specified that they should be per-
formed within the framework of
existing law and subject to the
direction and control of the Intelli-
gence Authority.
These functions are:
"(a) Accomplish the correlation
and evaluation of intelligence re-
lating to the national security, and
the appropriate dissemination with
in the Government of the resulting
strategic and national policy in
telligence. In so doing, full use shall
be made of the staff and facilities
of the intelligence agencies of your
departments.
"(b Plan for the coordination
of such of the activities of the in
telligence agencies of your depart
ments as relate to the national Sc
curity and recommend to the Ma
tional Intelligence Authority the
establishment of such overall pol
icies and detectives as will assure
the most effective accomplishment
of the national intelligence mission.
Existing Agencies to Continue.
go Perform, for the benefit of
said intelligence agencies, such
service of common concern as the
National Intelligence Authority de-
termines can be more efficiently
accomplished centrally.
"(d Perform such other functions
and duties related to intelligence af-
Ifecting the national security as the
President and the National Inteli-
gence Authority may from time to
time direct"
The directive specified that the
existing intelligence agencies of the
three departments would continue
ito collect, evaluate, correlate and
disseminate departmental intelli-
gence," but said this information
shall be freely available" to the di-
rector of central intelligence.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-01-22
| 76U. S.GirIs
| Saved by laps
| In Plane Crash
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
YOKOHAMA, Jan. 22.-Sharon
Rogers and her 16-girl orchestra
were rescued from the sea by jap
anese fishermen today after a trans
port plane crashed of the southern
tip of Kyushu Island while they
were returning to Japan from
Korea.
Every one was saved, but drum
mer suffered a fractured leg and
the others were bruised. The plane
struck the water about so feet from
an ammunition barge and sank
within 10 minutes.
THE GOODNESS of the pilot saved
us all from DEATH" said Miss Rogers,
whose dance band just concluded a
three-month tour of Korea and
Japan. 1t was returning to Yoko-
hama to board q ship for the United
States.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-01-22
|ShortChdrges
Army Has Made
Him Scapegoat
| War Department
| Is Accused of
Deceiving Public
By J. A. O'LEARY and
CARTER BROOKE JONES.

Maj. Gen. Walter C. Short,
retired, Army commander at
Hawaii when Pearl Harbor was
attacked, charged before the
congressional investigating CON-
mittee today that the War. De-
partment had made him "the
scapegoat for the disaster" and
had tried to deceive the public
by a false pretense" that his
Judgment alone prevented the
Army from defending the feet.
In the first public defense he has
been allowed to make, Gen. Short
thus struck back at those who
blamed him for lack of an adequate
defense on the Island on Oahu:
Due to the fact that the War
Department did not make available
to Hawaii the information in its
possession, the Army forces in Ha-
wall were unable to prevent the
terrific destruction caused by the
japanese attack"
Recovering From Pneumonia.
His voice enfeebled by sewers
illness, Gen. Short read his long
statement slowly and with some
difficulty. He explained he was
just recovering from pneumonia.
When Chairman Barley sug-
geSted it would be satisfactory if
the general had some one read his
statement, the retired officer said:
Il prefer to read it." He was in
civilian clothes. His face was drawn
from the illness that kept him IN
Walter Reed Hospital for several
weeks.
Gen. Short thanked the committee
for giving him, after four long
years" the opportunity to tell his
story of Pearl Harbor to the Amer
lean public. He added:
Il appeared before the Roberts
Commission, but was not permitted
to hear other witnesses, nor given
the privilege of cross-examination
I was not given the opportunity to
read the evidence taken before the
Roberts Commission until August,
1914.
Didn't Hear Witnesses.
Il appeared before the ARMY Pearl
Harbor Board, but again was not
permitted to hear other witnesses,
nor given the privilege of cross
examination. However, I was fur
nished copy of the hearings, ex-
cept for the part considered top
secret, and I was never permitted
to see that until this committee was
about to meet. Both boards took
testimony off the record which has
not been made available to me"
Like the officer who preceded him
on the witness stand, Rear Admiral
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-01-22
New Overseas Edition
Will Be Out Tomorrow

A new issue of The Stars
Overseas Edition will be ready
tomorrow. Free copies, with
envelopes for mailing, may be
obtained at The Stars BUSH
ness counter and the Victory
Bond booth in Lansburgh's
Department Store. p
The edition is strictly linn
tied. Please don't waste q
single copy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-01-22
Committee Proposes
4.9-Bi||ion Budget fol
Veterans Agency
House Appropriations
Group Submits First
Postwar Fund Bill

A $4,931,1 42,415 budget for the
Veterans Administration was
recommended by the House Ap-
propriations Committee today in
the first regular appropriation
bill received by Congress since
the end of the war.
The SIS, 1894, 1926 bill includes ap-
preparations for Independent agencies
for the fiscal year starting next July
l. In sending the measure to the
House floor for debate tomorrow the
committee cut the original budget
estimates by s46,730,216, but still
recommended 81 1929 1886, BOG more
than was provided in the current
fiscal year.
Although the Presidents 1947
budget was submitted to Congress
only yesterday, the House Appropri-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-01-22
Extra S644 900 Slated
For Civil Service Use
In Hirinq Veterans

An additional $644,0O over
the Civil Service Commissions
request in connection with its
veteran recruiting and place.
ment program was recommend
ed today by the House Appro-
priations Commute for the ex-
pressed purpose of placing
100000 ex-servicemen in Gov
eminent jobs during the 1947
fiscal year.
The committee expressed it
self as dissatisfied with the
commissions program to place
100000 veterans IN Federal jobs
during the next fiscal year, and
appropriated the extra money
so that 100000 more veterans
could secure Government po-
sitions.
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pictures on Page A-3.)

A group of irate wives of Serv-
icemen delayed Gen. Dwight
D. Eisenhower's appearance be-
fore a congressional committee
investigating rehabilitation to-
day by cornering the Chief of
Staff at the House Office Build
ing and subjecting him to a
barrage of questions about re-
lease of their husbands that
came tumbling too fast to be an
Swerable.
Admittedly 'emotionally upset"
by the experience, which took place
in the Office of Chairman May of
the House Military Affairs Com
mittee, Gen. Eisenhower, when
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-01-22
Girl Claiming She's Daughter
Of Hitler Held by British

the Reichchancellery as secretary,
that Hitler saw her every day and
treated her affectionately as his
daughter.
She was schooled, she said, in the
Adolf Hitler School in the Tempelhof
section of Berlin. She asserted that
when she was IA she was told by
Hitler in the presence of Hermann
Goering and Heinrich Himmler,
since suicide, that Hitler was her
father.
Hitler was wounded in 1915. Brit
ish intelligence found evidence that
after an operation for the wound in
1929 the German leader became i'm
potent.
The Tortensen girl said the asso-
citation between Hitler and her
mother was well known to high
ranking Germans.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-01-22
By the Associated Press.

HEREFORD, Germany, Jan. a.
British authorities are holding an
attractive 18-year-old girl, Gotelind
Tortensen, who asserts that Hitler
was her father.
During numerous interrogations
since her arrest in the Magdeburg
area, she has insisted that her
mother was a Swedish actress who
was Hitler's mistress in the late
1920's.
She said her mother and Hitler
met frequently in Vienna and that
her mother now is dead.
The girl is an ardent Nazi with
a violent hatred for Americans and
British. She is being held in an
interment camp near Paderborn as
. security suspect.
She asserts she was employed In
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-01-22
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The House Labor Committee
today approved, 10 to 8, a modi-
fled version of President Tru-
mans proposal for fact-finding
boards to handle major indus
trial disputes.
The vote came after the COM
mittee had rejected, Is to S, a mo-
ton to approve without change the
legislation asked by Mr.. Truman.
The measure accepted by the
group was drafted by Representative
Lands, Republican, of Indiana. 1t
would set up the fact-flnding boards,
but would not give them the power
to subpoena witnesses, books and
records. 1t also would eliminate a
section banning strikes for 80 days
while the boards deliberate.
Both the subpoena power and the
"cooling-off" period had been ,urged
by the President.
Acting Chairman Randolph told
he would seek a floor vote
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-01-22
Truman Receives
Supporter Stand
On Price Control
Tax Program Also
Backed; Congress Split
On Rest of Plan
By the Associated Press.

Congress seemed inclined to-
day to support some extension
of price controls and to keep
taxes at a high level, but the re-
mainder of President Truman's
domestic legislative program
provoked as much criticism as
praise.
Republicans spanked the criti-
cism, with Senator Bridges, Re-
publican, of New Hampshire, OBJ
serving to reporters that the Presi-
dents recounting of administration
aims ought to be labeled "a mes
sage on the sorry state of the
Union"
On the other hand Senator Mead,
Democrat, of New York, commented
that the Presidents economic pro-
posals are sound and necessary"
Not all comment, however, fol-
lowed party lines.
Among Is requests in his State
of the Union message yesterday
Mr.. Truman asked for full years
extension of price controls. The
reaction was mixed on this score
but most legislators who were asked
about it said they thought some
curbs must be retained to prevent
runaway imitation.
Senator Ball, Republican, of Min
neSota, suggested that sane
program be adopted under which
price increases of possibly pei
cent would be allowed to make ur
for some of the wage raises that
have been granted.
Wed better do that rather thar
sit on the lid so tight that we have
blowup," Senator Ball asserted.
Congressional fiscal experts ap-
peared pretty we'll agreed that Mr.
Truman's opposition would prevent
any substantial tax cuts this year
Chairman George of the Senate
Finance Committee said he figures
that even if reconversion and pro-
duction go ahead without too much
interruption from strikes, revenues
still may fall $1,000 900, 900 short Of
meeting a 10000 100000 outlay.
Mr.. Truman put the deficit gap al
81 BAT 100000 in his $35, 1856, 600, OOC
budget, figure that Senator La
Toilette, Progressive, of Wisconsin
said he thought might be pretty
close to the mark"
TN view of the message" Senate,
La Toilette told a reporter, there
does not seem much chance for q
substantial reduction in corporation
or individual income taxes"
Byrd Would Lower Debt Ceiling.
Noting that Mr.. Truman forecast
$1,000, 100000 drop in the nationa
debt during the next Is months
Senator Byrd, Democrat, of Virgins
announced plans to offer Legislation
to lower the legal debt ceiling from
$500, 600, 100000 to $275, 600, 900 900
The debt now stands at $278, 900 900,
900.
Senator Taft, Republican, of Ohio
took issue with the Presidents deb
reduction figures, terming then
misleading"
In statement, the Ohio lawmakel
| (See CONGRESS, Page A-5.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-01-22
Relief Clothing Reported
Diverted 10 Peron's Home
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BUENOS AIRES, Jan. 22.-Ricardo
Carbajal, a newspaperman, charged
formally before a federal court to-
day that $4,000 worth of clothing
obtained for distribution to the
needy had been delivered instead to
the residence of Col Juan Peron,
Labor party presidential candidate.
The 33-year-old journalist asked
the court to search Peron's res
idence for the clothing and prose-
cute those officials responsible for
what he termed malfeasance.
Carbajal told the court he believed
there was an intention to distribute
the clothing during Peron's second
campaign trip into the interior,
scheduled to start January Is.
The court has not yet acted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-01-22
Irdte Wives of Soldiers DeIoy
Eisenhower on Way to Hearing
General Admittedly 'EmotionoI|y Upset
By Demands for Release of Husbands

finally able to break through with
a word of his own, pointed out:
There are 100000 fathers in the
Army. If I take them out this
morning, in addition to the others
that are being let out, there would
be no Army"
Ten minutes late for his appoint
ment with the House Military Com
mittee, the general told the group
his unscheduled session with the
women was "emotionally upsetting,"
but that they had very fine case"
In bringing the committee up to
date on rehabilitation, Gen. Eisen-
hover disclosed that he was "se-
riously considering" cutting the
training of recruits to nine weeks to
speed their assignment as replace
ments for veterans overseas. He
(See MILITARY. Page Al
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-01-22
Late Bulletin
succession Study Voted

A proposal for a joint con-
gressional study of the ques-
ton of presidential succession
was approved unanimously
today by the Senate Elections
Committee. The Committees
action sent the resolution to
the Senate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-01-22
Russians Accuse u. ).
OF Stirring Koreans
Against Moscow Pact
American Army Command
Inspired Reoctionory
Protests, Toss Says
By the Associated Press,


MOSCOW, Jan. 22.-The official
Soviet news agency Tass today
accused the United States mill
tary command in Southern
Korea of inspiring "reactionary"
protests against the Moscow
Conference Of Foreign Ministers.
In a dispatch from Hello, Korea,
Tass assailed the "reactionary press
OF Southern Korea for allegedly car
rying on an anti-Soviet propaganda
campaign and for attacking the de-
cision of the United States, Russia
and Great Britain to set up a FIVE
year trusteeship in Korea.
The dispatch then said:
Here the behavior of the Amer
lean command in Southern Korea
astonishes one. 1t has assumed a
position Of inspiring reactionary
demonstrations against the decisions
Of the Moscow Conference OF For.
eign Ministers in which, as is known
the Government of the United States
participated"
kim Koo Regime Attacked.
The dispatch also attacked what
it called "the counterfeit govern
ment" of Kim Koo and DR.. Syng.
man Rhee, leaders of the unrecog-
nized provisional government set up
in exile, declaring that their activ-
ity is directed against hampering
the decisions of the Moscow confer
ence of Foreign Ministers on Korea
on starting a civil war inside the
country and on inf1aming hostility
toward the Soviet Union"
Kim Koo is President of the Ko-
rean provisional government.
Tass said that on January 7 in the
city Of Seoul representatives of the
Communist, Peoples National and
Democratic parties met to work out
q joint statement on the Moscow
decision, but that the "reactionary
leadership" of the Democratic party
later repudiated the statement.
These leaders, the dispatch said
declared the representatives VIII.
signed the statement had not beer
authorized by the Democratic part,
to do SO, and sought to make i
appear that the Democratic party
did not agree with the Moscow
agreement.
Patriots Detained"
"Not content with this" lass con
tinued, Korean reactionaries OF
January IL organized a protes
demonstration. At the demonstra
ton they DETAINED all honest Korean
patriots. They outspokenly callet
for the murder of the secretary O
the Communist party, PAX Hen Men
and the leader of the Peoples party
Yuo Uk Hong, and pictured tn
Soviet Union as a foe of the Korean
people, seeking with their slande
to stimulate hostility toward tn
Soviet U1ion.
"All the reactionary press O
Southern Korea is carrying on sim
liar propaganda from day to da
completely unpublished"
The dispatch concluded by makin
its reference to the behavior" of tn
United States military command.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-01-22
Argentine Announces
Plans to Join UNRRA
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Jan. 22.-Argentina said
today she was ready to join UNRRA
and had already contributed / per
cent of her national income in food
stuf1s and other goods to the relief
Of war ravaged countries.
Argentina is one of five United
Nations not in UNRRA.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-01-22
Kerr Is Made Baron;
Nav Succeed huIifux
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Jan. 22.-Sir Archibald
Clark Kerr, British Ambassador to
Moscow since 1912, has been made a
baron by King George vi, it was an
nounced today.
He has been mentioned as pos
|sible successor to Lord Halifax as
Ambassador to Washington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-01-22

Husband E. Kimmel, former Pacific
fleet commander, who finished
his testimony yesterday, Gen. Short
blamed Washington for failing to
send him the text or substance Of
intercepted Japanese messages
called "magic"-pointing to an out
break of war, some of them specifi-
cally to an attack on Hawaii. Gen.
Short thus summed up a docu-
mented statement he presented the
committee:
Il do not feel that I have been
treated fairly or with justice by the
War Department. was singled out
as an example, as the scapegoat for
the disaster. My relatively small
part in the transaction was not ex-
planned to the American people I'M
til this Joint Congressional Commit
tee forced the revelation of the
facts.
Il fully appreciate the desire of
the War Department to preserve
the secrecy of the source of the So
called magic but I am sure that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-01-22
Russians Print Column
On Trumun's MESSAGE

MOSCOW, JAN 22.-The Soviet
press devoted more than a column
today to President Truman's mes
sage to Congress yesterday, but re-
Trained from editorial comment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-01-22

(See UNO, Page AID
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-01-22

tSee MILITARY, Page A-4D
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-01-22
Weather Forecast

Cloudy and cold this afternoon; fair and
colder tonight, with lowest temperature about
IL. Tomorrow fair, slowly rising temperature.
Temperatures today-High, 49, at 1901 am;
low, 70, at pm. Yesterday-High, IS, at
pm; low, a. at 1901 am.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-01-22

(See CONGRESS, Page A-5)