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Evening star., 1946-04-14
Gardeners to Meet

General Cultural Improvement of
the Home Grounds" will be discussed
by DR.. Mark Shoemaker, University
OF Maryland faculty member, in an
illustrated talk before the Silver
Spring Garden Club at 8 pm. to-
morrow in Jessup Blair Community
House. The public Is invited.
Evening star., 1946-04-14
Pqnamu to Get Back
us. Defense Sites
BY the Assoeioied Press

PANAMA, April 13.-American
Ambassador Frank T. Hines said
today negotiations were concluded
with the Panama government for
return to Panama of defense sites
IN Bocas del Toro, Cerca Almirante
and Anachucuna. The sites for.
merly were used by American forces
rs air warning stations.
In accordance with the defense
sites agreement Of 1912, Gen. Hines
said. about 80 buildings In the areas
will become the property of the Re-
public Of Panama.
Evening star., 1946-04-14

Botkin, and Raj L. Hun, welfare
director. not Mr.. Gill.
A check of the ofacial record Of
Thursdays House investigation
hearing showed yesterday that The
Stars reporter had been in error
and that Inspector Barrett was cor
rect when he contended that what
he said was that he had brought the
matter to the attention of Mr.. Bot
kin and Mr.. HUFF, but not Mr.. Gill.
Evening star., 1946-04-14

Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest, .s3, on April 2.
Lowest. II, on January 2S.
Evening star., 1946-04-14
Mcfarland
Continued From First Page.)

house with Joseph D. Medley on
April 3 precipitated a Nation wide
man-hunt, waived extradition pro-
ceedings and agreed to return te
Washington.
Meanwhile, the Congressional
committee investigating the District
Jail will end public hearings tomor-
row and await results of separate
investigation being conducted by
the FBI before the final committee
report and recommendations are
made public at the end of the week
The recommendations are expected
to result in disclosures which will
involve a drastic shake-up of the
penal system here and a specific
program to correct conditions at the
Jail which led to the escape of nine
prisoners, including Medley and Nc
Farland, in the past five months.
May End Board Control,
Informed sources believe the COM
mittee will recommend legislation
divesting the Board of Public We'll
fare OF control of the Jail. The in
qu1ry board which ended hearings
Friday in the case of Howard b
Gill, suspended penal superintend-
ent, reported it will take about 10
days of deliberation before reaching
a verdict.
The hearing tomorrow will receive
the testimony of Mrs. Helen Mack
Identified as the person who turned
over to police letters smuggled out
OF the Jail which contained instruc-
ions TO a gang of safe-crackers
James V. Bennett, director of the
Federal Bureau of Prisons, will give
the committee his opinion on what
is wrong with the Districts penal
setup at closed committee sessions
Tuesday.
Mr.. Albert told The Star he sent
telegram to President Truman
shortly before $50 o'clock last night
asking for an opportunity to pre-
sent a plea for executive clemency.
He said the wire read:
Mr. President. I am writing you
as young CT attorney on behalf
OF another excl, Earl Mcfarland
1 represent this boy and I feel that
! have certain facts which. if pre-
'ented to you, might cause YOU to
commend clemency in this case.
II you can find time to hear me,
lform at once and I will come
} Washington"
Ennis Plans Appeal.
Attorney P. Bateman Ennis,
Washington lawyer, also is plan
ming an appeal for executive clem-
ency.
Mr.. Albert was retained by Mrs.
Emory because she said her brother
wasn't like this until he went to
war and they taught him to kill"
Il haven't got much money"
Mrs. Emory said last night, but
II it takes all of it, I'm going to
save my brother from the electric
chair"
In his telephone talk with The
Star last night, Mr.. Albert charac-
terizef Mcfarland as being mot
well" and said the tattoed, former
Marine has several times contra
dicted the story he first told, when
FBI agents recaptured him in
Knoxville Thursday, that he came
hark to TenpeSSaa to oct roopey
to go abroad and join the French
Foreign Legion.
"He told me he just wanted to
see Mrs. Emory and her children
before recapture," Mr.. Albert said
Mcfarland knew he was going to
be caught. He had no idea he
would remain free. He just wanted
to see his relatives. He hoped, too,
that 5f he had to be electrocuted
it could be done in his native
State instead of in Washington"
Evening star., 1946-09-09

Fire has just increased It's tea
ration from ! to Ia ounces a week.
Evening star., 1946-09-09
Two 1roopships Freed
After Going Aground
BY the Assoeioted Press

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. e.-The
Bardstown Victory, grounded for
several hours on one of the Farallon
Islands off the Golden Gate, radioed
early today that she was underway
to port.
The Coast Guard said the Victory
ship, loaded with LOO troops, mes
saged that her engine room was
partly flooded, but that she did not
need assistance.
The vessel, operated by the United
Fruit Co. and bound from Yokohama
to San Francisco ran aground in
heavy fog. The rocky Farallons are
about Is miles west of the entrance
TO the San Francisco harbor.
MIAMI, Fla, Sept. 9 GP).-Engine
trouble and stiff breeze caused the
grounding of the 3,8OO-ton Army
transport Bell Ringer 20 miles south
of here, Syvert Raunevand, captain
of the vessel, said today.
The transport, carrying only its
civilian crew of SO men, was en-
route from New York to New Or
leans. 1t went aground about 4
a m. yesterday and was freed when
a tugboat, the Willet of Key West,
Fla, towed it to deeper water 18
hours later.
Captain Raunevand said the
transport would, sail for New Or
leans as soon as a survey had been
made of the hull He said he be-
lleved no damage was done.
The transport will load Army
cargo and personnel in New Orleans
and sail to Yokohama.
Evening star., 1946-09-09
Attorneys Appointed
To Study U. 5. Courts
~ y. A.essisss.4, ,sss.,sa


CHICAGO. Sept. 9.-John G
Buchanan. Pittsburgh lawyer yester-
day was named head of Special
Committee Of the House of Dele
gates of the American Bar Associa-
non-to fnqnfa 1f1to. the 1nness OF
members of the Federal judiciary
and nominees to the Federal bench
He will represent the third judicial
circuit.
Other committee appointments
announced by the association are:
First circuit, Joseph N. WEIGH, Bos-
ton; second. jackson A. Dykman
Brooklyn: fourth. Douglas Mckay
Columbia, S. c.; fifth, Francis Inge
Mobile. Ala; sixth, j. P. Taggert
Cleveland, seventh, Richard Bent
lev, Chicago; eighth, Roy Willy
Sioux Falls, S. OAK; ninth, Love
Wright, Los Angeles, and tenth, A
w, Trice, Ada, Okla.
In authorizing creation OF the
Special Committee in July, the as
sociation directed that it consider
proposed nominees for the Fedora
bench and recommend to the as
ISOLATION such action as it NAV
deem to be advisable to promote
the appointment and confirming OF
competent and qualified candidates
and to oppose the nomination OF
confirmation of unfit candidates il
any such are under consideration.
The committee has no authority
TO select or propose nominations.
Evening star., 1946-09-09

Trans-Jordan, Egypt, Yemen, Syria,
Lebanon and Iraq.
The Palestine Arabs are not rep
resented. having refused to partici-
pate when the British declined to
accept the grand multi of Jerusalem
as head OF. the delegation, ..4 4.
Tomorrow Prime Minister Attlee
will address the first full session of
the conference, with Foreign Sec
retary Ernest Bevin-who has re-
turned from the Paris Peace Con-
ference for the occasion-in attend
ance
Evening star., 1946-09-09

sars are trying to help the bungling
bureaucrats in Washington break
the strike.
"A majority of the GNU leader
ship are members of the Communist
party If we needed help, there
are plenty of teamsters who have
asked us to call on them
A spokesman for the GNU. which
Saturday telegraphed President
Truman urging him to induce the
stabilization board to reverse its
decision and end the strike, pre-
dicted there would be no trouble
Mr.. Lewis message to Mr.. Lunde-
berg said:
The United Mine Workers of
America send greetings. We admire
the splendid courage and fighting
ability of the members of the Sailors
Union of the Pacific. Of course you
will win.
Several days ago I urged the
American Federation of Labor to
withdraw its representative from
that economic boars' nest that calls
itself Wage Sterilization Board
If you need money, advise me
(Signedp John L. Lewis
Mr. Lundeberg last week demand
ed that Robert j. Watt. AFL men,
ber of the WSB, be withdrawn. He
said William Green, AFL president,
had told him by telephone that Mr..
Watt might be withdrawn but Mr..
Green, in Washington. said Il did
not give out such a report"
Evening star., 1946-09-09
Forced Invitation: to Jews
To Attend PorIey Forecast

LONDON, Sept. 8 (P,.-An au-
thoritative source said today that
Great Britain might soon have to
invite the Jewish Agency to 'partici-
pate in the Palestine talks" on its
own statehood within an
adequate area''-to prevent a fail
ure of the London Holy Land con-
ference. .-->
Such an invitation would mean
abandonment by Great Britain of
her plan to use the Anglo American
experts liberalization plan as a
basis for discussions.
The informant added that the
British would not make such a move
before making every attempt to
persuade the more moderate, nom
agency Jews to attend the parley
which formally opens tomorrow.
An official spokesman said DR..
Herzog, one of Palestine's chief rab-
bis, was flown to London in a Brit
ish military plane and had seen
Colonial Secretary George H. Hall
Dispatches from Jerusalem, tell
ing of widespread overnight attacks
Evening star., 1946-09-09
School Board Threat
10 Resign Adds TO
Athens (Tenn.) Crisis
Dy the Assoeiotsd Press

ATHENS, Tenn, Sept 9-The
School Board OF this strife-torn
East Tennessee town, irked because
it cannot please all factions" dis
closed yesterday that it may follow
the lead of the Mayor and Aldermen
by resigning en- masse.
Mayor Paul Walker and the Alder
men quit Friday after fusillade of
shots was f1red into the home of
Alderman Hugh Riggs from a NOV
ing automobile. The Aldermen said
they had been threatened previously
in anonymous telephone calls.
Five weeks ago, bullets whistled
for six hours around the county jail
here as an excl coalition faction
used rifles. shotguns and, finally
dynamite blasts to rout partisans of
a long dominant McMinn County
political faction The gun fight was
for possession of ballot boxes in an
election dispute later decided In
favor of the war veterans and their
hackers.
Board Meeting Tonight.
Secretary Joe Wheeler Neil Of the
School Board said all members
planned to resign because we can't
please the many different factions
in our city" Chairman w. D. Sui
Inns added that designations Of the
will be considered at a
tonight.
Sheriff Knox Henry. who rode
into onice on the EXCL ticket, prom
ised the full power" Of his office to
check the latest outburst of vio-
lence. He said he was reasonably
sure" veterans were not responsible
for the f1areup.
Alderman Riggs told newsmen he
could put his finger on the party
responsible" for shooting up his
home He added, however, I'D
rather not name any one
Mayor Walker refused comment
on whether the aldermen might re-
turn to Office and resign singly to
permit remaining board members tc
elect successors. That plan was ad-
vanced Saturday to prevent city af-
fairs from falling into. chaos from
absence of an administration.
Sees Republican Influence.
Mr.. Neil said he believed the Re.
publicans are the ones behind thi
movement to get his board out O.
Office. Athens and McMinn Countr,
have had Democratic Office holder
for more than a decade.
The School Board met in executive
session last night after Mrs. Randall
Evans, president of the Parent
Teacher Associa ton at Inglesid,
elementary school, started a petition
to force the designations. Mrs. Evan
refused comment on the petition
other than to say it carried names O
several prominent persons.
Mr.. Neil said board members Wer,
considering the legality of electin
new board before they quit. Alb
sence OF a board, he said, woul,
make it impossible to pay 48 teacher
in four elementary schools. Higl
school pupils attend a county schoo
outside the city limits.
Evening star., 1946-09-09

on, the Palestine railway system,
Served to place a dampef on the
Conference. which already had re-
ceived severe jolt through refusal
Of Jewish representatives to partici-
pate. ~ a..
VI The united states Also was not.
represented; although the -feoera4l
ton plan put forward by the
British as possible solution was
developed by joint commission of
British and American experts.
Prior to the opening OF the talks
in Lancaster House the British Cabi-
net was summoned to discuss the
Palestine situation. The first session
Of the conference was to be devoted
to procedure and involved only the
conference secretariat and represen-
tatives of the Arab delegations
which have come from Saudi Arabia,
Evening star., 1946-09-09
Palestine
Continued From First Page)
was said to have been killed in the
tower explosion.

was said to have been killed in the
tower explosion.
British Soldier Slain.
The fatal wounding of a British
police corporal, who was shot in
Haifa.
Injury to several workmen'' when
a mine blew a streetcar from the
tracks.
An exchange of fire between a mil
itary patrol and armed men in the
edge of Jerusalem near the scene of
a railway blast
An attack by "a party of between
20 and Is men" on a freight train
halted by bomb explosion
British Royal Engineers reported
that temporary repairs to the dam
aged rails would be completed today.
State Of Seige.
The country was in a virtual state
of siege. The Jerusalem siren sound
ed an emergency call at 12:47 am.
and the all clear was still awaited
at noon. A strict curfeW was main
tained all night.
Rail officials reported tracks dam
aged near Bittir, near Rehoboth and
at four other places north of LYDIA
An unexploded bomb was discov-
cred at a rail bridge south of Haifa
after an explosion had damaged
nearby culvert A communique
said the bridge suffered little
damage
Jerusalem itself remained quiet
but handbills urging a campaign OF
nonco-operation with the Palestine
government were pasted on walls
and fences during the night.
At the Latrun detention camp
500 Jews began a 24-hour hunger
strike yesterday in protest against
their continyed detenAion, aEWenty
OF 1.-The 800-odd. -det tainAes. ato Rafafi
camp were informed yesterday that
they have been sentenced admins.
tratively to one year further de-
tention. None Of them has been
brought to trial
Evening star., 1946-09-09
By the Associoted Press

NEW YORK, Sept. 9.-Joseph
P. Ryan, president of the AFL
International Longshoremen's
Association, said today that long
shoremen would not load any
relief supplies for Yugoslavia
until proper action is taken
against those who were respon-
sible for shooting down our
planes in that country.
Mr.. Ryan asserted that even if
the strike of AFL seamen were to
end today, there still would be no
loading of any vessel with cargoes
bound for Yugoslavia.
F. H. La Guardia, UNRRA direc-
tor general, said yesterday that
Joseph Curran, president of the CIO
National Maritime Union, had
agreed to order his men to sail
UNRRA relief ships to any country
provided they were fully loaded
Mr.. La Guardia said there were
81 UNRRA ships now in the Ma
tons port, some of them partly
loaded 1t was not disclosed how
many were destined for Yugoslavia
lila members work the docks or
the East and Gulf coasts
!, Asked as he visited the lila offic,
what action he believed should b.
taken by this country, Mr. Ryar
said that was "up to the State De.
partment." &'
He added however, that the actor
should constitute sufficient punish
ment, Of those responsible for tn,
Evening star., 1946-09-09
Social security:Asenfs:
Open Virginia Meeting.
BY the Associated Press

NATURAL BRIDGE. Va. Sept. 8.
npfd bmce managerse 81 the Social
Security & administration from Vir-
ginia, Maryland, North Carolina
West Virginia and the District of
Columbia gathered here today for a
three-day conference at the Natural
Bridge Hotel
Speakers scheduled include d
Arthur j. Altmeyer, commissioner
of the Social Security Board, and
Miss Lavinia Engle of Washington
regional director of the Social Sc
curity Administration.
William L. Kincon. Washington
regional representative of the
Bureau Of old age and survivors in
surance. will preside.
Evening star., 1946-09-09
Education Board Due
To Act Wednesday
On School Hours Shift

The Board Of Education will 60
into the problem of hours for junior
and senior high school students
very thoroughly" and act within its
best judgment only after careful de-
Lawson j. Cantrell, as
sociate superintendent for white
junior high schools, said today in
the city-wide trafiic prob
lem that would arise from a change
in the school schedule.
The board is considering changing
the junior and senior high school
schedule to 9 a m. to 3 pm. the pre-
war hours. This was changed dur
ing the war to $50 to $3.50 to avoid
thousands OF students
on streetcars and buses during the
morning peak traffic hours.
Board of Education figures show
approximately 10000 white and 5000
colored high and vocational school
students now depend on streetcars
and buses for transportation to
school. The figures are slightly
lower for the number needing this
transportation in returning to their
homes.
Capital Transit Hampered.
With cars and buses already
crowded during the peak hours of
the morning the Capital Transit
Co. can do little to meet the situa-
ton if the School Board re-estab-
fishes the prewar schedule, according
to Edward Merrill, president Of the
transit company.
He said the company is not stated
sufficiently to assume the added bur-
den of students at this time and
added that he hoped the present
$50 to $50 schedule can be retained
I'VE appreciate and sympathize
with the problem of the transit COM
pany," Mr. Cantrell said. I'VE will
go into it very thoroughly and then
act according to our best judgment.
School Officials Want Change.
School officials favor the earlier
hours because it gives students more
daylight and sunshine after school
he added. The board is expected to
act on the problem Wednesday after
DR.. Hobart M. Corning, superinten-
dent of schools, returns from q short
Vacation.
School and transit company Of
ficials have been comforting on the
problem since early in the summer
At the Wednesday meeting the
board also is expected to act on the
nonresident student fee schedule
proposal to increase night school
teachers and officers salaries in ac-
cordance with the raise granted tc
teachers in the Federal Pay Act ano
J a proposal to name a new school fol
, the late Miss Flora Henley, pioneer
: in teacher retirement benefits.
Evening star., 1946-09-09
AFL Longshoremen to Quit
Loading YugosIov Shipments

crimes. to the satisfaction of the
citizens of this country"
Mr.. Ryans statement was the
first official sanction from the lila
for action taken by rank-and-fl
dock workers who last week stop
ped loading the Bartlesville Vic
tory here.
The ship was partially loaded
when the men. acting on their own,
refused to put aboard any more
Army and Red Cross supplies in
tended for Yugoslavia
Five American airmen were killed
when the plane in which they were
flying over Yugoslavia was shot
down last month.
loading of UNRRA ships for other
countries, Mr. Ryan said the de-
cision was out of his hands.
I'VE are giving the seamen's S
strike complete cooperation" he
told newsmen, "and no ship will be
loaded by my men while the Sea-
farers International Union (AFL>
and the Sailors Union of the Pacific
(AFL) are still on strike
Mr.. La Guardia would have tc
get Mr.. Ryan's men to load tn.
UNRRA ships before they could b.
taken to sea by Mr.. Curran's men
John Hawk, vice president of th'
seafarers. said later in press con
ference that if the NMU attempted
to move UNRRA cargoes well stol
them"
THE best thing La Guardia coult
do is to contact the WSB and hav,
them reverse their decision to ge
these ships moving" he added.
Evening star., 1946-09-09
Maritime
Continued From First Page

president Of the seararers. an
nounced that a special agreement
had been reached allowing the
French liner Athos II to be brought
TO shore today because OF a re-
ported food shortage aboard the
ship, which has 1900 passengers.
Sixty-eight Jewish orphans, VIC
tins Of German persecution in Eu-
rope, were taken of the Athos II
yesterday by an excursion boat.
Refuse to Dock Transport.
Aboard the transport Goethals, as
the Army docked it. was Mrs. Har-
riet Bouvia. q, OF Onawa, Iowa,
who was transferred at sea from the
Europe bound transport Willard
Holbrook last Friday when she be-
came seriously i'll with peritonitis
She had been on her way to join
her husband. Corpl Elmer E. Bouvia
who is stationed in Heidelberg
Germany.
: In Boston three CIO-manned
ships sailed over the week end, but
spokesmen for both unions ex-
, planned afterwards that this was due
: to a misunderstanding,
. CIO-affiliated tugboat men sale
they would not move any more ships
Wont Protect Food.
The Norfolk, Va, Strike Commit
tee said no AFL seamen will be al
lowed aboard strike bound vessels
= in Hampton Roads to maintain re-
frigeration plants to save perishable
. food.
1t has been estimated there Is
100000 worth of perishable stores
aboard struck vessels in Hampton
Roads.
. I'VE can't very well allow our mer
! to break our picket lines" the com.
. mittee declared. They had plenty
of warning that the strike was com
. ing and time enough to remove
. perishables."
. At Baltimore cattle supplies hav,
+. dropped OIL with the revived mea
. ceilings, but Union Stockyar,
+, ofIicials said the yards may b
4. crowded anyway-with horses TO
. Europe stranded by the strike
. At present there are S2l horse
, In the yards. all bought by the Agri
culture Department for European
. farm relief and scheduled to leav
Baltimore yesterday.
, Mr.. Lundeberg yesterday took ,
verbal crack at the Committee 70
Maritime Unity whose six CI(
unions have been supporting tn
Talkout.
Predicts GNU Trouble.
. Mr.. Lundeberg, talking to re
porters, predicted trouble if tn
GNU sends its own pickets to tn
docks tomorrow as promised.
. ."What they're trying to do
Sseak the strike" Mr.. Lundeber
declared. AL these GNU commil
Evening star., 1946-09-09
Dean of Trade Unions
In West Virqiniu Dies
By the Associoted Press

WHEELING, w. Va, Sept. ED
ward Sims, 81, dean of West Virginia
printers and described by union
leaders as the States oldest active
trade unionist. died yesterday in a
Wheeling hospital.
Evening star., 1946-09-09
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 Thoy pay tran sportation taxes on tho movo- mont of goods or persons and taxes on coan- municetion services. Thoy pay social security and unorp1 oynent insurance taxes.
 They pay stamp taxes, uso taxes, import taxes and misco1l onoous taxes on various commodities wherever other buino ssos pay thom.